Category: News 2

news from around the globe

Somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do: Smartest President in history speaks at eighth grade level

How do Obamabots explain the fact that his State of the Union was written at eighth grade level. In fact, it only one State of the Union address in the last seventy-five years was written at a lower level.

The drumbeat has been constant since the day BarackObama first burst upon the national scene: This guy is smarter than the rest of us. He operates on a completely different intellectual plane than mere mortals. He’s brilliant, you’re not.

average-flesch-kincaid-grade-level.JPGSo how do Obamabots explain the fact that his State of the Union was written at eighth grade level. In fact, it only one State of the Union address in the last seventy-five years was written at a lower level.

University of Minnesota Smart Politics explains:

The Flesch-Kincaid test is designed to assess the readability level of written text, with a formula that translates the score to a U.S. grade level. Longer sentences and sentences utilizing words with more syllables produce higher scores. Shorter sentences and sentences incorporating more monosyllabic words yield lower scores.

But Tuesday evening’s address beat even that.

A Smart Politics analysis of 69 orally delivered State of the Union Addresses since the mid-1930s finds the text of Obama’s speech to have notched the second lowest score on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test recorded by a U.S. President.

A little advice, Mr President:

No reason to dumb it down. Alan Grayson isn’t in Congress anymore.

UPDATE: Just to do a reality check, we performed the same analysis on a
couple other pieces of writing.

Paul Ryan¹s response to the SOTU was written at the 10.08 grade level.

Michele Bachmann¹s Tea Party response was written at the 9.00 grade level.

The University of Minnesota¹s explanation (excerpted in this article) was written at the 9.24 grade level.

IHateTheMedia.com¹s portion of this story was written at an 8.12 grade level.

Of course, no one ever called us the Smartest Blog In History.

Source: University of Minnesota

Don Imus on Rachel Maddow, “She’s the worst kind of coward and gutless, sniveling worm”

Our advice: Don’t invite Don Imus and Rachel Maddow to the same dinner party. Or if you must, do yourself a favor and seat them at opposite ends of the table.

Our advice: Don’t invite Don Imus and Rachel Maddow to the same dinner party. Or if you must, do yourself a favor and seat them at opposite ends of the table.

Imus has a segment on his show called “Blonde On Blonde.” The blondes in question are Lis Wiehl and Imus’ wife Deirdre. (We tell you that because no one actually watches or listens to Imus unless its in clips like this one.) During the Wednesday morning Blonde On Blonde session, Imus went off on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow:

Having nothing to do with her politics, she is a gutless coward and I’ll tell you why. Because everybody knew what the situation was with Olbermann at MSNBC. We used to work there. Tom Bowman, who’s our producer, Elisha who’s one of our producers, they both worked with me at MSNBC. They left there to come with me, by the way, don’t look for any of Olbermann’s producers to go any place with him. However, so we all know people, we still know everybody who’s at MSNBC. So, everybody knew what was going on with Keith. Everybody knew what was going to happen to him. For this woman, who owed her job to him, she’s live there with Bill Maher, a lot of people watch that terribly influential program, not to offer a defense of Olbermann, in spite of what you think about Olbermann, is unconscionable.

It’s like when I got fired, Sean Hannity, who works for Fox, was defending me, and I didn’t think I should be defended, but that’s irrelevant. He works for Fox, he was defending me getting fired by MSNBC. Mike Francesca and Chris Russo nearly lost their jobs ’cause they worked for CBS, along with me, defended me on CBS. They told them to stop doing it, they refused. No, she’s awful. She’s the worst kind of coward and gutless, sniveling worm. Oh God, horrible.

Be nice, Don. Maddow is a fine young man who deserves praise, not scorn.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

Ratings for the State of the Union: The people speak by not watching

IHateTheMedia.com’s Administrator watched it, but the Editor watched a Simpsons rerun and the L.A. Lakers-Utah Jazz game. Turns out most people found something else to do while the President conducted his annual lie fest.

IHateTheMedia.com’s Administrator watched it, but the Editor watched a Simpsons rerun and the L.A. Lakers-Utah Jazz game.

The Editor wasn’t alone. Turns out most people found something else to do while the President conducted his annual lie fest.

obama-sad
The SOTU was on eleven different networks, but with a little work you could avoid it

Nielsen.com has the details:

On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 President Obama delivered his State of the Union address. The address was carried live from approximately 9:00 PM- 10:15 PM on 11 networks. The sum of the average audience for those networks was 42,789,947 viewers, with a combined household rating of 26.6. The networks carrying the address included ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, TEL, UNI, CNN, Centric, CNBC, FOXNC, and MSNBC. Viewership to last night’s address was down 18% from his address on February 24, 2009 and down 11% from his State of the Union address last year on January 27, 2010.

The trend is not the President’s friend. In 2009 drew 52,000,000 viewers and a 32.5 rating. In 2010 he rounded up 48,000,000 and a 29.8 rating. In 2011, it fell to 43,000,000 viewers and a 26.6 rating.

Unfortunately, the President’s ratings seem to be following the same trajectory as the economy.

Source: Nielsen.com

When liberals attack: Rachel Maddow unhappy that CNN aired Bachmann speech. Very unhappy.

Rachel Maddow loses it. She apoplectic that a good, reliable liberal network like CNN would violate MSNBC’s code of ethics and actually give time to an opposing point of view.

Rachel Maddow loses it. She apoplectic that a good, reliable liberal network like CNN would violate MSNBC’s code of ethics and actually give time to an opposing point of view.

This is classic: One network that no one watches is offended that another network that no one watches would air a speech that people might actually be interested in watching.

The Fairness Doctrine, liberal style.

Rand Paul responds to the SOTU, networks put hands over ears and say “blah, blah, blah” to block out the sound

The networks’ response to Rand Paul’s response to the State of the Union was just what you’d expect. They pretended it didn’t happen. Just plain ignored it. They shouldn’t have.

The networks’ response to Rand Paul’s response to the State of the Union was just what you’d expect. They pretended it didn’t happen. Just plain ignored it.

They shouldn’t have. And neither should you. Watch it for yourself. Paul wants to slam on the brakes before we accelerate over the edge of the cliff. Unlike most politicians, he doesn’t mince words about the perilous state in which we now find ourselves.

“The Democrats have a conundrum,” Rand said. “You see, they really do believe that government really is the answer to all our economic and social ills. Yet they’re becoming aware that a debt crisis looms and they have no way to finance their dreams of bigger government … We are sick and tired of hearing that a program is wanted and not how we are going to pay for it.”

And that’s just the opening.

Go, Paul, go.

Alec “Tax the Rich” Baldwin investigated for tax evasion

Alec Baldwin is on the list of elite New Yorker City dwellers targeted by a small army of city auditors in a tax evasion scam for claiming out-of-city properties as primary residences.

Will the real Alec Baldwin please stand up?

Is he the “Father of the Year” who called his twelve year old daughter a “rude, thoughtless little pig” for having the audacity to not be waiting by the phone when he took a valuable minute out of his uber-important time to call her?

Is he the closet-Muslim who fantasized about killing Republican Congressman Henry Hyde and his family by the traditional Sharia method of stoning?

This week the New York Daily News gave us an insight to the real Alec Baldwin when it broke the story that he’s on the list of elite New Yorker City dwellers targeted by a small army of city auditors in a tax evasion scam for claiming out-of-city properties as primary residences.

Baldwin’s Manhattan residency comes as a complete surprise to ihatethemedia.com. We thought he was living in Paris. We would have sworn he swore he’d move to France if W. got elected to a second term.

The IRS investigation comes one week after Baldwin appeared on Client #9’s show on CNN (at the one minute mark of the video below) and lectured Obama for extending the Bush tax cuts for millionaires. Baldwin boldly states “Over a million – you HAVE to pay more.”

Seems that at the heart of it, Baldwin’s just a typical liberal – he wants the rest of us to pay higher taxes, but as to his own money, he’s singing Pink Floyd – “Keep your hands off my stack.”

Baldwin also told Spitzer that hypocrisy defines the GOP. We suggest that if Mr. Baldwin truly seeks the definition of hypocrisy all he need do is look in the mirror. We’re sure his house has plenty of them.

– Written by Sonny Palermo

Hilarious: Idiot Illinois Democrat doesn’t have a clue which Republican he sat next to at SOTU

Prom night at the State of the Union was a complete sham. Republican sitting next to Democrat, each one adorned with a black and white ribbon instead of a corsage. The only thing missing was a rousing rendition of Kumbaya.

Prom night at the State of the Union was a complete sham. Republican sitting next to Democrat, each one adorned with a black and white ribbon instead of a corsage. The only thing missing was a rousing rendition of Kumbaya.

The fact that is was nonsense is clearly demonstrated in this interview on WLS Radio in Chicago. All the proof you could possibly need that it was an exercise in phony public relations, a farce concocted purely for public consumption is provided by idiot Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL).

How else can you explain that Davis doesn’t have the slightest clue who the person in the next seat was.

It was … it was … you know, that Republican guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNrNxE6msDc

The ugly truth: Those friggin’ beautiful people are probably smarter than us, too

A study in England conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics found that attractive men and women generally have higher IQs. “Physical attractiveness is significantly positively associated with general intelligence.”

The Editor thinks this story is probably nonsense. The Administrator thinks it verifies what he’s always known in his heart.

The New York Daily News has the details:

pitt-jolie
Yeah, well, if they're so damn smart why did he star in "Sinbad" and why did she marry Billy Bob Thornton?

A study in England conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics found that attractive men and women generally have higher IQs. “Physical attractiveness is significantly positively associated with general intelligence,” said LSE lead researcher Satoshi Kanazawa, in the latest issue of the journal Intelligence.

The study indicated attractive men have IQs that are 13.6 points above the average, while beautiful women are 11.4 points higher than average.

Since intelligent men are more inclined to achieve more success, they are “more likely to marry beautiful women,” Kanazawa said. “Given that both intelligence and physical attractiveness are highly heritable, there should be a positive correlation between intelligence and physical attractiveness in the children’s generation.”

(Note: The remarkably handsome Administrator includes his photo with his comments, but the hideously disfigured Editor doesn’t.)

Source: New York Daily News

You need a scorecard: Pakistani Muslims kill other Pakistani Muslims because they’re the wrong kind of Pakistani Muslims

Another day, another opportunity for us to admit that we can’t keep track of who hates who in the madcap world of Muslims. It’s bad enough that the have all the damn oil, but they have a near monopoly on hate, too.

Another day, another opportunity for us to admit that we can’t keep track of who hates who in the madcap world of Muslims. It’s bad enough that the have all the damn oil, but they have a near monopoly on hate, too.

angry-muslim
"Scorecards! Get your scorecards! You can't tell the bombers without a scorecard!"

CNN does its best to keep score:

A suicide bombing that killed at least 13 people in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday targeted Shiite Muslims, a Sunni militant group’s spokesman told CNN in claiming responsibility for the attack….

Meanwhile, police in Karachi, another major Pakistani city, said one police officer was killed and five people were injured in an explosion. Authorities were investigating the cause.

The Muslim maniacs blow each other up on a daily basis. But here in the civilized world, we can’t even say the word bomb because it’s called violent rhetoric.

We’re not sure which culture is crazier.

Source: Jawa Report

Failing upward: Former Michigan Governor Granholm becomes paid contributor to “Meet the Press”

Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm – one of the worst governors in the history of governors – has landed a cushy teaching gig at UC Berkeley, scored a book deal, and signed on as a paid contributor on Meet The Press.

Once again, Rush Limbaugh said it best: “Failure is a resume enhancement for liberals.”

Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm – one of the worst governors in the history of governors – has proven Limbaugh’s Law to be correct. She’s landed a cushy teaching gig at UC Berkeley, scored a book deal, and signed on as a paid contributor on Meet The Press.

jennifer-granholm-and-husband
There's something very creepy, very Madame Tussaud-ish about this photo of Jennifer Granholm and her husband

WZZM13.com has the story of her failure with finesse:

Democrat Granholm, 51, also will be a paid contributor to NBC’s “Meet the Press.” …

“I’m very much looking forward to this new chapter in what has been and what will continue to be a very full life,” Granholm was quoted in the article.

She said she and her husband have a two-year appointment at the University of California-Berkeley – her undergraduate alma mater – and this spring will teach there at the Goldman School of Public Policy.

They will teach separate courses in the university’s schools of law, business and public policy.

Their book is planned for publication in September.

… Granholm told Politico.com the classes and her book will share the theme of Michigan as the state hardest hit by the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the lessons it holds.

Granholm left office with low approval ratings, but has said she did all she could to set Michigan on a path to diversify its auto-dependent economy.

She told Politico.com that those efforts are bearing fruit with a falling unemployment rate — from a peak of 14.7% down to 11.7% in December — although she added, “It’s not like things have been fixed.”

“It’s not like things have been fixed.” You may consider that the understatement of the year, but the geniuses at Bezerkeley think of it as that special brand of brilliance necessary to become a professor.

Source: WZZM13.com

H/T: Paden

Oprah tells Piers Morgan a big, fat lie (could she tell any other kind?)

Tim Conway, Jr on KFI/Los Angeles is one of our favorite talk radio hosts. Tim sent us this clip of sidekick Doug catching Oprah in a big, fat lie about Obama.

Tim Conway, Jr is one of our favorite talk radio hosts. If you’re in Southern California you can catch him on KFI/Los Angeles every Monday-Friday 7-10 p.m. If you’re anywhere else, you can listen on the internet.

Every Friday night Tim welcomes his former on-air partner, Doug Steckler, and lets him riff. Usually hilariously. OK, sorry, Doug. We meant always hilariously.

Tim sent us this clip of Doug catching Oprah in a big, fat lie about Obama.

[audio:steckler-on-oprah.mp3]

oprah-piers-morgan

Source: KFI640/Los Angeles

Good news: Genghis Khan hated people, but he loved him some environment

Here we thought Genghis Khan was a very bad man who raped and pillaged and cut of limbs and blew up bodies. But now all is forgiven because the it turns out ol’ Genghis was actually an environmentalist who saved the planet.

We’re confused and we don’t mind admitting it. Here we thought Genghis Khan was a very bad man who raped and pillaged and cut of limbs and blew up bodies. We thought he was the most evil man in history. For god’s sake, man, that’s why John Kerry compared U.S. troops in Vietnam to the Mongol madman, isn’t it?

But now all is forgiven because the it turns out ol’ Genghis was actually an environmentalist who saved the planet.

genghis
The Mongolian mad man was history's first mass murdering environmentalist

Mother Nature Network explains the new, kinder, gentler Genghis:

Genghis Khan’s Mongol invasion in the 13th and 14th centuries was so vast that it may have been the first instance in history of a single culture causing man-made climate change, according to new research out of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, reports Mongabay.com.

Unlike modern day climate change, however, the Mongol invasion actually cooled the planet, effectively scrubbing around 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

So how exactly did Genghis Khan, one of history’s cruelest conquerors, earn such a glowing environmental report card? The reality may be a bit difficult for today’s environmentalists to stomach, but Khan did it the same way he built his empire — with a high body count.

Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, about 22 percent of the world’s total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests.

In other words, one effect of Genghis Khan’s unrelenting invasion was widespread reforestation, and the re-growth of those forests meant that more carbon could be absorbed from the atmosphere.

Based on this theory, Hitler was just an environmentalist. Stalin, too. And that Mao, he was a damn saint.

Looks like John Wayne was right. Genghis Khan was a lover, not a fighter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsnWOyfMq4I

Source: MNN.com

State of the Union word cloud: “Debt” and “deficit” missing in action

In this State of the Union address word cloud, Obama said “America” a lot. He said “Americans” a lot. He said “government,” “people,” “years”, “new”, “jobs” and “make.” Funny thing, though. The words “debt” and “deficit” aren’t even in the top fifty.

President Obama said a lot of words last night. Oh, man, did he say a lot of words. It was almost as if the people who run Ben Bernanke’s printing presses wrote the speech.

As you can see in this word cloud of his State of the Union address, he said “America” a lot. He said “Americans” a lot. He said “government,” “people,” “years”, “new”, “jobs” and “make.”

Funny thing, though. The words “debt” and “deficit” aren’t even in the top fifty.

You might even say we had a deficit deficit.

state-of-union-word-cloud

Source: Zero Hedge via Economic Collapse.

20 white people who are darker than NAACP President Ben Jealous

Does color really matter any more when America’s first black president was white and its second black president is half white and the president of the NAACP is whiter than most white people and 50% of America’s white people apparently spend 50% their time in tanning salons trying to get darker?

Here’s a question for you. Does the National Association for the Advancement of Color People still serve any real purpose?

benjamin jealous NAACP
Ben Jealous, President of the NAALCP (National Association for the Advancement of Light Colored People)

Does color really matter any more when America’s first black president was white and its second black president is half white and the president of the NAACP is whiter than most white people and 50% of America’s white people apparently spend 50% their time in tanning salons trying to get darker?

Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, is as white as – you’ll pardon the expression – a sheet. He looks like he should be President of the National Association for the Advancement of Sort of Vaguely Colored People. Get thee to a tanning salon and don’t worry about Obama’s new 10% tanning tax, Ben, because your pasty pallor and lack of melanin must be wreaking havoc with your street cred.

On one hand, it looks like Benjamin could use a little more time in a tanning salon. And these celebrities, on the other hand,  look like they could use a little less. Because something just doesn’t compute when a bunch of white people are darker than the President of the NAACP.

1. Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Darker than Ben Jealous.

charlie-crist

2. Sometimes actor George Hamilton. Darker than Ben Jealous.

george-hamilton

3. Jersey Shore Guido “The Situation.” Darker than Ben Jealous.

the-situation

4. Speaker of the House John Boehner. Darker than Ben Jealous.

john-boehner

Continue reading “20 white people who are darker than NAACP President Ben Jealous”

MTV star defends new show’s sexual content: “It’s what teens are doing.” Are second graders next?

There’s a new show on MTV called “Skins” that features 15-year olds having sex. Outraged critics call it child porn, but one of its young stars defends the program by saying, “It’s what teens are doing.”

There’s a new show on MTV called “Skins” that features 15-year olds having sex. Outraged critics call it child porn, but one of its young stars defends the program by saying, “It’s what teens are doing.”

The Hollywood Reporter lives up to its name and reports:

sofia-black-delia
Would it be too harsh if we said Sofia Black-D'elia is a moron?

Skins star Sofia Black-D’elia – who plays a lesbian teen on the MTV series – is defending the controversial content.

“It’s pushing the boundaries for teen drama because I think Skins goes where other shows are afraid to,” she said on the HDNet show ‘Naughty But Nice With Rob’ this week.

… Black-D’elia says, “It’s what teens are doing. It’s the way teenagers believe, I think, especially you know in certain situations when you come from home lives where your parents don’t really support you or really listen to you. That’s what most of these kids are going through. And so, um, the drugs and the sex, they’re vices, and that’s what teenagers have.”

Sofia, honey, we’re not quite sure how to break this to you, but lots of improper things happen in life, but that doesn’t mean they need to be glorified. Is there an age limit to what gets shown on television or is “It’s what they’re doing” the only determining factor?

This story from CBS San Francisco might even make Black-D’elia think twice:

A teacher at Oakland’s Markham Elementary School has been suspended indefinitely after school officials said a pair of second-graders performed sex acts on each other in class – with the teacher present.

“I think everyone is taken aback over this shocking incident,” Troy Flint, the spokesman for the Oakland Unified School District, told CBS 5. “Of course, it is hard to understand how that could have occurred.”

… In one case, several students apparently took off their clothes and were naked in the classroom. In the second incident, a boy and girl reportedly engaged in oral sex in front of their classmates.

Would Ms. Black-D’elia be opposed to a show that featured second grade sex? Probably not. Because, like, you know, it’s what second graders are doing.

We’re pretty sure she’d say it shouldn’t be on MTV because Nickelodeon would do a far better job of reaching the target demographic.

Source: Hollywood Reporter, CBS San Francisco

Reassuring news: Obama never talked to half a dozen members of his cabinet

John Heilemann of New York magazine tells Andrea Mitchell that his investigation uncovered the truly remarkable fact that President Obama never spoke to six members of his cabinet during his first two years in office. Not once.

Why speak to mere cabinet members when you have czars out the wazoo?

John Heilemann of New York magazine tells Andrea Mitchell that his investigation uncovered the truly remarkable fact that President Obama never spoke to six members of his cabinet during his first two years in office. Not once.

Not a single “Hey, how are the wife and kids.” Not one “How ’bout those wacky Iranians.” Nary a “Hey, got any ideas on the economy?”

If we had to make a wild guess, we’d say Secretary of Defense was one of the cabinet members Obama hasn’t spoken to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHCALJsTOtc

Liberal legal looniness: Judge frees drug dealer because jail term would conflict with his sex change surgery

You cannot make this stuff up. A British transsexual drug dealer has avoided a lengthy jail sentence because the loony liberal judge didn’t want to interfere with the convicted felon’s upcoming sex change surgery.

You cannot make this stuff up. A British transsexual drug dealer has avoided a lengthy jail sentence because the loony liberal judge didn’t want to interfere with the convicted felon’s upcoming sex change surgery.

The Christian Institute has the details:

ian-morris
British drug dealer Jean Morris (née Ian Morris) is a free woman (née man)

A transsexual drug dealer has escaped a jail sentence after a judge ruled it would ruin his chances of completing a sex change.

Ian Morris, 41, who changed his name to Jean in 2009, is due to start Government-funded hormone treatment next week.

He was on trial after police intercepted nearly 2kg of the hallucinogenic drug ketamine which was sent to his flat.

Mr Morris’s lawyers pleaded with Judge Mark Horton to spare him a jail term because of his sex change operation and asserted that he would find it “difficult” in a male prison.

The judge agreed and suspended Mr Morris’s eleven month sentence at Bristol Crown Court.

Since his sex change is still in progress, wouldn’t it have made more sense to sentence Morris to a half-way house?

Call us Solomon.

H/T: Moonbattery

Yeah, right: Democrat Congressman explains that ObamaCare will reduce bureaucracy

George Miller is a Democrat Congressman from California. He’s a lunatic lib. Such a lunatic, in fact, that he claims ObamaCare will reduce bureaucracy and that if those rascally Republicans repeal this magical bill, we’ll all be buried in red tape.

George Miller is a Democrat Congressman from California. He’s a lunatic lib. Such a lunatic, in fact, that he claims ObamaCare will reduce bureaucracy and that if those rascally Republicans repeal this magical bill, we’ll all be buried in red tape.

Miller is pretty damned agitated about it, too. One might even say pissed off.

“You want to talk about bureaucracy, ladies and gentlemen. And that’s why this legislation is growing in popularity because small businesses see, senior citizens see, parents with children under 26, they see a chance to liberate themselves from the most arbitrary, the most capricious, the most bureaucratic system in our entire free economy.

And that’s the insurance companies. Everybody has been run around the block by their insurance companies. It’s something they all share. It’s almost the problems they share with their cable company. Not quite. But it’s not as dramatic here because this is life and death. This is the security of your family. This is whether or not you can change jobs. This is whether or not your children will be protected. This is whether or not your parents will be able to afford their prescription drug because that’s what this legislation enables and gives the freedom to American families to have.

Repeal and we go back into the clutches, the clutches of these bureaucrats spread across the world in the insurance company.”

Miller is so far to the left that he’s actually proud of this speech on the floor of the House. So proud that he actually posted video of his nonsensical diatribe on his Congressional website.

We just can’t figure out which liberal catastrophe we prefer: Being buried in the red tape Miller warns us about or being swallowed up by the rising oceans that Al Gore warms us about.

One’s about as plausible as the other.

Hundreds of mobsters arrested, charged with having very odd nicknames

The most interesting thing about the big Mafia arrest story is the oddball collection of nicknames associated with the hoods.

Federal, state and local agents swooped in late last week and arrested more than 100 suspected mobsters from New York City to Italy. Officials said it was the largest operation against the mob in the FBI’s history.

But the most interesting thing about the story is the oddball collection of nicknames associated with the hoods. Such as:

ben-bernanke
Bennie "Big Bucks" Bernanke hasn't been arrested yet

• “The Vet” 

• “Mousey”
• “Little John” 

• “Beach” 

• “Tony Bagels” 

• “Johnny Bandana” 

• “Hootie” 

• “Meatball” 

• “Burger” 

• “Vinny Carwash” 

• “Junior Lollipops” 

• “Pooch” 

• “Johnny Cash” 

• “Fat Dennis”, “Little Dennis” and “The Beard” 

• “Baby Shacks”, “The Old Man” and “The Professor” 

• “Baby Fat Larry” and “BFL” 

• “Mush” 

• “Jimmy Gooch” 

• “Benji”, “The Claw” and “The Fang” 

• “Cheeks”, “Anthony Firehawk”, “Anthony Nighthawk”, “Nighthawk” and “Firehawk” 

• “Lumpy”, “Fatty” and “Fats”

From now on you will please address the Editor as “Johnny Keyboard” and the Administrator as “Vinnie Six-Pack.” (It’s a reference to his abs. Really. Has nothing to do with his drinking habits.)

What we really need are nicknames for the mobsters in Washington. Nicknames like Janet “Open Border” Napolitano? Barack “Kid Kenya” Obama? Al “Funny Girl” Franken? Ben “Big Bucks” Bernanke?

Got any other suggestions?

Source: ABC News

Chris Matthews claims he knows when he’s making an ass of himself

Off the top of our heads, we’d say every Monday through Friday, 7:00-8:00 p.m. EST on MSNBC. Mr. Matthews, as you might expect, has a slightly different take on the whole thing.

Off the top of our heads, we’d say every Monday through Friday, 7:00-8:00 p.m. EST on MSNBC. Mr. Matthews, as you might expect, has a slightly different take on the whole thing.

On his Friday broadcast of “Hardball,” Matthews boasted to MSNBC contributor Richard Wolffe and Salon.com’s Joan Walsh they, especially himself, are capable of knowing when to say when as it pertains to making dumb remarks – which he claimed made him unlike Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann.
“We have superegos,” Matthews said. “We have that thing that Freud says, ‘Slow down, stop it – you’re making an ass of yourself.’ These people who are running this country don’t have that thing. Michele Bachmann just goes right to the top. She just runs for president without any pretense of having the material to run with.”

The only question remaining is whether or not Chris realized he was making an ass of himself with that comment.

Freud aside, we somehow doubt it.

Source: DailyCaller.com

Master of Subtlety: Donald Trump says Chinese cheat and lie, think we’re stupid and toy with Obama

Our keen analytical skills allow us to read between the lines and interpret what Donald Trump is saying in ways that lesser analysts cannot. We’re not sure he likes the Chinese.

Our keen analytical skills allow us to read between the lines and interpret what Donald Trump is saying in ways that lesser analysts cannot. We’re not sure he likes the Chinese.

Here are a few of The Donald’s subtle thoughts:

“He’s toying with Obama and he doesn’t respect him. I have many Chinese friends and they cannot believe what they’re getting away with. He’s just playing with Obama.”

“These are not our friends. They’re looking to destroy our country.”

“They’re having a big beautiful dinner right now in Washington. I don’t believe in holding dinners for the enemy. I don’t believe in holding dinners for people that take advantage of you and laugh at you and your stupidity behind your backs.

C’mon, Don, stop being so wishy washy. Tell us what you really think.

Win $100 trillion from IHateTheMedia.com

To celebrate our second anniversary, IHateTheMedia.com is giving one lucky person $100 trillion. This is absolutely legit.

And the winner is …

We had a lot of funny entries. Of course, some of you do not understand the concept of “10 words or less,” but that’s a different issue.

Naturally, the Administrator and the Editor could not agree on a winner. Our first thought was to determine the winner using the progressive Democrat method and waiting to see who offered us the most money. But in the end, we took our four favorites and put them in Obama the office cat’s dish and had Mrs. Editor pick one at random.

3rd runner-up: Sidney Harmon and his almost winning entry was “I’d buy Newsweek. Twice.”

2nd runner-up: Road Warrior and his nearly winning entry was “I’d share it with Obama’s brother. Obama won’t help him.”

1st runner up: who will serve as the winner if for any reason the winner is unable to fulfill his duties, is Machogwapo and his entry was “I will get my 150 million USD inheritance from Nigeria.”

And the winner of a brand new, uncirculated $100 trillion Zimbabwean note is: Neo Bonbon. His winning entry was, “Used as a bookmark in Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father.'”

Just our luck. If we’re not mistaken Neo BonBon lives in Costa Rica and the cost of damn postage will be more than the value of the $100 trillion.

To celebrate our second anniversary, IHateTheMedia.com is giving one lucky person $100 trillion.

This is absolutely legit. To enter just leave a comment at the bottom of this story telling us – IN TEN WORDS OR LESS – what you’d do with this crisp, new, authentic $100 trillion bill if you win it. We’ll pick the answer we like best. The judges decision is final. Deadline for entries is midnight PST, Friday, January 27, 1011 2011. Blah, blah, blah.

zimbabwe-100-trillion-dollar-note
You can win $100 trillion in authentic, spendable currency from IHateTheMedia.com

In interest of full disclosure, we suppose we should reveal that it’s $100 trillion in authentic, official Zimbabwean currency and worth only about two bucks in American money.

Consider this $100 trillion bill a brutal object lesson in what can happen if our government turns on the printing presses in an attempt to inflate its way out of the economic problems its own policies have caused.

Hyperinflation is an uncontrollable genie that must never be allowed out of the bottle. It didn’t work for Germany’s Weimar Republic. It didn’t work for Argentina. It didn’t work for Brazil. It didn’t work for Zimbabwe. It’s never worked for any country and it won’t work for us. Instead of solving problems, it causes the rapid disintegration of an economy and, potentially, an entire society.

FDR said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” President Obama’s mantra is, “Zimbabwe today, America tomorrow.”

But follow Roosevelt and fear not. If you’re the winner of our giveaway, at least you’ll have $100 trillion to buy yourself a cup of coffee down at Starbuck’s.

Here are a couple videos that may just scare the hell out of you while you’re waiting to find out if you’re the winner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOQAy9-ee-Y

And here’s a chart that shows what’s already happened to the American dollar before hyperinflation has even begun. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

inflation-us-dollar

Deadline for entries is midnight PST, Friday, January 27, 1011. Limit one entry per person.

Founder of Greenpeace condemns the evils of…are you ready?…Greenpeace

Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace and author of a new book titled “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout” is the newest global warming heretic.

Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace and author of a new book titled “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout” is the newest global warming heretic.

He doesn’t have too many nice things to say about the radical organization he left behind.

Source: Fox Nation

Hypocrite Elton John tired of being treated like “second-class citizen” in United States

Last time we checked, Elton John was still British. So let’s just set aside the fact that he couldn’t possibly be a second-class citizen in the United States because he’s not a citizen to begin with.

Last time we checked, Elton John was still British. So let’s just set aside the fact that he couldn’t possibly be a second-class citizen in the United States because he’s not a citizen to begin with.

Nevertheless, the washed-up rock and roll star is pissy – very pissy indeed – about California’s gay marriage ban.

elton-john-baby
Based on the Editor's friend's story, we assume Elton John turned sullen and silent as soon as this photo was shot

The Associated Press has the details:

The outspoken British piano man, who became a parent to a baby boy on Christmas Day with partner David Furnish, added that “as I get older, I get more angry about it.”

“In this country, we need more dialogue,” he said during an interview Friday. “We don’t need any more stone throwing. We don’t need any more vitriol. We need people to say, ‘OK. I’m straight. You’re gay. Let’s get along. I’m Republican. You’re Democratic. Let’s work together.’ I’m sick and tired of people being hateful to each other in this country.”

John disappointed some gay rights activists after California’s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage passed in 2008 when he said he had no desire to get married and was satisfied with his civil partnership in England.

He sang a different tune Wednesday when he praised the effort to overturn Proposition 8 and promised to do everything he could to support it, even though he is British.

A story from the Editor regarding Elton John’s devotion to equality:

I have a very good friend who is a muckeymuck executive with a major foreign corporation. One day I visited him in his office and noticed that he had a photo of himself with Elton John on his wall. Elton had one arm around my friend, the other arm around his wife, and a big smile on his face.

“Cool,” I said, “What’s Elton John like?”

He said his company had hired John to perform at a major corporate meeting. Part of the deal was that he would pose for photos with the executives and their wives after performing.

So after the show, which my friend said was terrific, the executives and their wives lined up to have their photos taken with John. According to my friend, John stood there sullenly and refused to speak to any of the executives as they had their photos taken. One by one, he robotically put an arm around each of them, flashed a big, phony smile for the instant each photo was taken, and then returned to his sullen, silent self. He chose to ignore the people who had just paid him a hefty fee to perform for an hour.

I think that if you asked my friend, he’d say Elton John treated him like a second class citizen.

Source: Associated Press

Awwwww: WikiLeaks weasel unhappy with the way he’s being treated in jail

Bradley Manning, the turncoat U.S. Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, is unhappy with his jailers. Poor baby doesn’t like his pillow and wants his MTV, so his attorney has officially complained that Manning is being mistreated.

Bradley Manning, the turncoat U.S. Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, is unhappy with his jailers. Poor baby doesn’t like his pillow and wants his MTV, so his attorney has officially complained that Manning is being mistreated.

CNN.com has the details:

free-bradley
That's what we'd tell the other prisoners. "Help yourself to some free Bradley."

His lawyer, David Coombs, formally objected to Manning’s treatment, filing an Article 138 complaint Wednesday, according to a posting on the lawyer’s blog. Manning has been in solitary confinement and for part of this week was again placed on suicide watch by the Quantico brig commander, according to his lawyers.

“He was stripped of all clothing with the exception of his underwear. His prescription eyeglasses were taken away from him,” Coombs wrote in the blog entry. “He was forced to sit in essential blindness with the exception of the times that he was reading or given limited television privileges. During those times, his glasses were returned to him.”

… Manning is confined to his cell 23 hours a day with no pillow, sheets or personal items, according to Coombs.

His only exercise, according to his lawyer, is when he is taken to an empty room and allowed to walk. When he sleeps he must strip to his underwear and surrender his clothing to the guards.

Hard as this may be for you to believe, the military dismisses Coombs’ complaints and says they’re much ado about nothing:

Quantico public affairs officer Lt. Brian Villiard said under military rules he could not confirm whether the complaint had been received. He said all the conditions of Manning’s confinement are in line with his maximum custody status and to prevent Manning from harming himself.

“He is not being treated any differently than anyone else in maximum custody,” Villiard said. “We’re not treating him any differently than anyone who could pose a risk to life, property or national security.”

In December, a Pentagon spokesman said that even under the restrictive conditions, Manning is allowed to converse with other prisoners, receive visitors and exercise for an hour a day. In addition, Manning has pillows and sheets made from a material that cannot be torn into strips, according to Villiard.

We realize that the purpose of waterboarding is to coerce secrets out of a prisoner, but in the case of Manning we’d say the waterboarding should be applied retroactively for all the secrets he’s already spilled.

Be glad we’re not your jailers, Bradley.

Source: CNN.com

I HATE THE MEDIA ™
Verified by MonsterInsights