Los teléfonos celulares son caras. Muy caro. Pero ahora usted puede conseguir uno libre. Usted no pagará ni un centavo porque los contribuyentes estadounidenses pagarán por ello.
Los teléfonos celulares son caras. Muy caro. Pero ahora usted puede conseguir uno libre. Usted no pagará ni un centavo porque los contribuyentes estadounidenses pagarán por ello.
Diga “Gracias, Tío Sam.” O dicen “Estos gringos están locos.”
Lo que sea.
Safelink cell phones paid for by the overburdened, under-appreciated American Taxpayers.
Translation:
Cell phones are expensive. Very expensive. But now you can get one free. You won’t pay a cent because the American taxpayers will pay for it.
Say “Thanks, Uncle Sam.” Or as they say, “These gringos are crazy.”
Al Gore is a lot like Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog. He disappears every winter and reappears again when it’s nice and warm again and the snow is starting to melt.
Al Gore is a lot like Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog. He disappears every winter and reappears again when it’s nice and warm again and the snow is starting to melt.
Gore may wish he could do something else like Punxsutawney Phil – take this embarrassing 2009 prediction down a hole and bury it.
ENS-newswire.com has the details from a mere 13 months ago:
Snow and ice across the planet are melting much faster than anticipated, and the cryosphere – the Earth’s ice and snow cover – is very vulnerable to climate change, finds a new report presented today at the United Nations Climate Summit by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
Snow cover is diminishing, and glaciers from the Himalayas to the Alps are melting rapidly, with the greatest reductions in the Andes and the Rockies, the report shows.
The study was commissioned by Gore and Støre as they co-chaired the conference Melting Ice: Regional Dramas, Global Wake-Up Call on April 28 in the town of Tromsø in northern Norway. A group of the world’s most knowledgeable climate researchers produced the report, coordinated by the Norwegian Polar Institute.
Your choice is clear, ladies and gentlemen. You can believe Al Gore or you can believe your lyin’ eyes.
Uh-oh, Al. Record snowfall in New York.Uh-oh, Al. Record snowfall in Paris.Uh-oh, Al. Summer snowfall in Australia.Uh-oh, Al. Record snowfall in China.Uh-oh, Al. Record snowfall in the Sierra Nevadas.Uh-oh, Al. Record snowfall in Great Britain.
Katie Couric, CBS News’ pert and perky anchor came up with an idea: a muslim Cosby Show. We’ve come up with some great ideas for Muslim sitcoms.
Katie Couric, CBS News’ pert and perky anchor came up with an idea:
Don't miss the laughs on the Beverly Hadjis, Mondays at 9/8 Central on MSNBC
“Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show,” Couric said. “I know that sounds crazy, I know that sounds crazy. But The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don’t understand…” (see video)
Crazy, Katie? We think not. We think it’s gold. Pure, unadulterated, 24-carat comedy gold. And with that in mind, IHateTheMedia.com has come up with some great ideas for Muslim sitcoms. And we offer them to Hollywood absolutely free of charge.
All we ask is an Executive Producer credit. Is that too much to ask?
1. Everybody Hates Christian (Chris Rock stars as a Muslim teenager growing up in a poor Islamabad neighborhood)
2. Fatwa Knows Best (The Anwar family learns that their father, a Muslim cleric, has a fatwa for every problem)
The Fresh Prince of Beirut: Tuesdays at 9/8 Central on al-Jezeera TV
3. The Fresh Prince of Beirut (A poor, young Muslim mosque chanter moves in with a wealthy Lebanese family)
4. 3rd Iraq from the Sun (The misadventures of an alien family that attempts to fit into Baghad)
5. My Name Is Earl Qaeda (A lovable Muslim loser attempts to make amends to all the people he killed. Oops. Too late.)
6. Amos ‘n Abdul (Two Black Muslim friends experience Uncle Tomfoolery in Chicago’s inner city)
7. How I Beat Your Mother (A Muslim man tells his children how he subjugates his wife according to Sharia law)
8. The Really Big Bang Theory (Two Muslim nerds work on a nuclear weapon)
9. That 1370s Show (A wacky band of Muslim teenagers remind us what life was like in the 14th century)
10. Mork & Minaret (A stranger from an alien culture has misadventures in Tehran)
11. Gilligan’s Islam (An inept Muslim convert is stranded in a 13th century religion)
Fatima al-Fatima stars as sluttish fag hag Grace in Will & Grace, Fridays at 9/8 Central on MSNBC
12. Will and Grace (The show never actually airs because Will is hanged and Grace is stoned to death in the pilot)
13. Welcome Back Kafir (A Muslim convert returns to teach at his old madrassa)
14. Chico and Iran (A Mexican convert to Islam receives training from an Iranian bomb maker. Hijinx ensue)
15. Allah in the Family (A devout young Muslim man marries into a family of Christian bigots)
16. I Dream of Jihad (Fantasy-comedy in which a beautiful 2000-year old genie helps her Taliban master kill infidels by blinking her eyes and wrinkling her nose)
17. My Favorite Martyr (A would-be Muslim martyr makes friends with a naïve CNN reporter)
18. The Beverly Hadjis (A poor Muslim man discovers oil on his family goat farm and moves his family to Beverly Hills)
19. Bosom Bombers (Two single Muslim men disguise themselves as filthy, hook-nosed Jews to live in the one apartment they can afford)
Abu Abbas and Achmed the goat cruise the Mediterranean on The Love Goat, Saturdays at 8/7 Central on The Travel Channel
20. The Love Goat (Abu Abbas stars as Captain Mahmoud al-Stubing, captain of the Achille Lauro cruise ship. Achmed the goat co-stars)
21. Decapitated Housewives (A comedy-drama about a group of burqa-wearing neighbors on Wisteria Lane in Kabul)
22. Sharia Law & Order (Stole a loaf of bread? Cut off their hands. Went outside without your burqa? That’ll be forty strokes with a cane. Suicide bomber? You get 72 virgins)
23. Late Night with Conan the Barbarian (The comedy musings of America’s top Muslim late night comic)
24. Mary Tyler Moorish (A young, single Muslim woman moves to the big city and goes to work in the al Jazeera news department)
25. Arrested Developer (The zany adventures of the sleazy guy who wants to build the Ground Zero Mosque)
Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic says Obama’s not a big spending liberal and he didn’t really want to spend all that money. Translation: Who you gonna believe – me or your lyin’ eyes.
Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic says Obama’s not a big spending liberal and he didn’t really want to spend all that money.
Translation: Who you gonna believe – me or your lyin’ eyes.
IHateTheMedia.com correspondents around the country have come up with the Top Fifteen Reasons CNN anchor Martin Savidge is short of breath. in this clip.
What the hell is going on with CNN anchor Martin Savidge in this clip?
IHateTheMedia.com correspondents around the country have come up with the Top Fifteen Reasons CNN anchor Martin Savidge is short of breath.
Those little blue pills also cause shortness of breath!
WARNING! Man corsets can cause the vapors!
Cross dressing under your suit proves to be a bad idea when the lift and support begins to shrink and squeeze.
After “accidentally” locking himself in his dressing room, Martin later.
needed an X-Ray to locate the key.
In an unlucky twist of fate, Martin Savidge accidentally witnesses Joy Behar’s body waxing right before going on air.
Snow in Atlanta may signal end to easy climate change stories.
Guys in control room are showing video of Fox hotties again.
Momentarily stunned by suggestion that Taliban insurgents may be terrorists.
All mainstream anchors slip into panic attack on mention of the word “Christmas.”
Smoking blunts the night before at CNN Kwanzaa party.
George W. Bush ordered this asthma attack.
Maybe taking the stairs to the 32nd floor was, in retrospect, not a good idea.
New FCC air neutrality ruling restricts breaths of media.
Picked a horrible time to test out The Bro, a new undergarment for male anchors.
Fox News’ total viewers for the year exceeded MSNBC, HLN, and CNN combined. That dominance came primarily at the expense of CNN which lost 29% of its total viewership.
A little decorum is in order, Mr. Murdoch. Please refrain from dancing on your competitors’ graves while the cameras are rolling.
A special message for CNN, MSNBC and HLN
BusinessInsider.com has details of the decimation:
The ratings are out for 2010.
Perhaps not surprisingly Fox News continued its march of dominance through the cablesphere, clocking its second-highest rated year ever in total viewers.
It was also the only news channel to hit the top 10 in cable networks, ranking fourth in Primetime behind USA, ESPN and TNT.
Want some context for that? Fox News’ total viewers for the year exceeded MSNBC, HLN, and CNN combined.
That dominance came primarily at the expense of CNN which lost 29% of its total viewership in 2010 and 34% of its prime time viewers. Yes, you read that right.
MSNBC, meanwhile stayed the course in total day total viewers – it was the only news channel not to drop in that category — but dropped 5% year over year in prime time total viewers and 9% in the prime time demo.
At MSNBC, Keith Olbermann is reportedly figuring out how to staunch the loss of viewers by consulting with the ghost of James Thurber. At CNN, Anderson Cooper knows he’s doomed because he’s starting 2011 by teaming up again with Kathy Griffin to host the annual New Year’s Eve broadcast. And on HLN … well, we really don’t know what’s going on there because like the rest of the American people, we don’t even know what channel they’re on.
You know what we need to make us love Muslims who love death more than life? A Muslim version of the Cosby Show, that’s what. Yup, that’s what CBS News anchorette Katie Couric says:
You know what we need to make us love Muslims who love death more than life? A Muslim version of the Cosby Show, that’s what. Yup, that’s what CBS News anchorette Katie Couric says:
I also think sort of the chasm, between, or the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year. Of course, a lot of noise was made about the Islamic Center, mosque, down near the World Trade Center, but I think there wasn’t enough sort of careful analysis and evaluation of where this bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, and how this seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims, which I think is so misdirected, and so wrong — and so disappointing. Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.
I know that sounds crazy, I know that sounds crazy. But The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don’t understand…
But wait, Katie. We thought the liberal position was that racial relations are still terrible in this evil, racist country.
Maybe what we really need is a Muslim version of Chico & The Man. And maybe a Muslim version of Charlie Chan.
Good lord, this woman is stupid. And this is what passes for intellectual discourse in 2011.
If we were giving out awards for the dumbest friggin’ question of 2010, CNN’s Alina Cho would have earned her nomination in the last week of the year.
If we were giving out awards for the dumbest friggin’ question of 2010, CNN’s Alina Cho would have earned her nomination in the last week of the year.
She interviewed Lorena Bobbitt, who wisely decided that the only way she’d ever get another date was to change her name to Lorena Gallo, in a Where Are They Now segment.
In the middle of the interview, Cho asked what may be the dumbest question ever:
“After all these years, are you finally able to laugh about it?”
Remarkably, the former Mrs Bobbitt says she is able to laugh about cutting off her husband’s penis. No word on whether John Wayne Bobbit is laughing yet.
Washington Post writer and JournoList refugee Ezra Klein showed up on MSNBC Thursday. He’s upset because Republicans want to (gasp) read the Constitution at the beginning of the new Congress. Oddly enough, he seems to think the document is obsolete
The same guy who told us in early 2010 that the 2000-page ObamaCare bill was as simple to understand as a Dick & Jane book now has trouble with a considerably shorter document – the Constitution.
Washington Post writer and JournoList refugee Ezra Klein showed up on MSNBC Thursday. He’s upset because Republicans want to (gasp) read the Constitution at the beginning of the new Congress. Oddly enough, he seems to think the document is obsolete.
To summarize his position, “Nobody can understand what it means because it’s over 100 years old.”
Let’s not come down too hard on Klein. He does seem to have a wee bit of trouble understanding anything that’s over 100 years old. Helen Thomas, for example, is almost as old as the Constitution and Klein could never understand that she was anti-Semitic.
Looks like MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is off his medications again. He’s erupted in a flurry of off-color tweets aimed at anyone who has the temerity to challenge his super superior intellect and/or support Fox News.
Looks like MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is off his medications again. He’s erupted in a flurry of off-color tweets aimed at anyone who has the temerity to challenge his super superior intellect and/or support Fox News.
Richard Nixon once told the California press, “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” We enter 2011 praying that Keith Olbermann will be there for us to kick around all year long.
2010 was one wild, crazy roller coaster of a year. We’re glad to have it behind us. But we’re glad you spent part of it with us.
2010 was one wild, crazy roller coaster of a year. We’re glad to have it behind us. But we’re glad you spent part of it with us.
Obama, the annoying office cat, resolves to be less annoying in 2011
Of course, here at IHateTheMedia.com international headquarters we’ll ring in the new year in our traditional ways.
The Administrator and his gorgeous wife will go out dancing. They’ll see in the new year by crawling home far too late and wondering why they had so much to drink.
The Editor and his beautiful wife will stay home and watch the east coast television feed of the ball dropping in Times Square and be in curled up in bed asleep by 9:30 California time.
Obama, the official IHateTheMedia.com office cat, will celebrate with a can of Fancy Feast tuna and a little catnip.
On New Years Day, the Administrator will wish he hadn’t had quite so much fun, the Editor will wish he’d had a little more, and Obama will wish one of them would scratch him behind the ears.
Have a happy new year. And if you’re going to drink, follow the Administrator’s example and crawl home.
President Obama called the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles and thanked him for giving convicted felon Michael Vick a second chance. That pissed off Megyn Kelly.
President Obama called the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles and thanked him for giving convicted felon Michael Vick a second chance.
That pissed off Megyn Kelly. And she didn’t try to hide it when she spoke to a representative of the NAACP who attempted to defend Vick.
Love you, Megyn. (Please don’t get another restraining order. We promise to stay 100 yards away this time.)
The Argentinian version of Dancing With the Stars is called Bailando por un Sueño. Our schoolyard Spanish is a little rusty. We thought that translated to Dancing for a Dream. But after watching this clip, we can only come to the conclusion is that it actually means Dancing With The Porn Stars.
The Argentinian version of Dancing With the Stars is called Bailando por un Sueño. Our schoolyard Spanish is a little rusty. We thought that translated to Dancing for a Dream. But after watching this clip, we can only come to the conclusion is that it actually means Dancing With The Porn Stars.
Holy friggin’ moly. If this show played in the United States it would have to be on some adults only pay-per-view cable channel.
When the Editor found this clip he showed it to Mrs Editor, no prude, who watched it with her mouth agape, repeatedly saying, “Oh, my god.”
A particularly nice touch, we thought, was the series of excited yelps coming from the show’s voyeur … uhhh …. we mean announcer.
Watch. But be prepared to be shocked at what you see.
The bad news keeps coming for MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. The 2010 ratings data is starting to trickle in, and the news is not so great for the Countdown host.
There’s nothing that gets us in more of a schadenfreude-ish mood this time of year than finding out that things aren’t going well for Keith Olbermann. And this story has our schadenfreude meter pegged all the way to the right.
PoliticsUSA.com reports the bad news for Olbermann and the good news for us:
Keith Olbermann waves good-bye to some of his viewers
The bad news keeps coming for MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. The 2010 ratings data is starting to trickle in, and the news is not so great for the Countdown host. In a down year for cable news where all three networks registered a decline in viewers, Keith Olbermann lost 11% of his total audience, but what is most troubling is that among the coveted age 25-54 demographic Olbermann lost 25% of his audience.… Keith Olbermann’s total drop in viewership was 2% higher than MSNBC’s network average, (11% vs 9%). In contrast, Rachel Maddow lost less of her audience than MSNBC as a whole. Maddow only declined by 6% compared to the network’s 11%. Maddow’s total loss was almost half of her lead in Olbermann, (6% compared to 11%). Olbermann also lost a higher than network percentage of those viewers age 25-54. MSNBC lost 18%. Olbermann lost 25%. Maddow only lost 14%.
As Freud said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” And as schadenfreude said, “Sometimes a horse’s ass is just a horse’s ass.”
Liberal Chris Matthews has jumped the liberal reservation again. He’s had a moment of clarity and now says he doesn’t trust Democrats to control illegal immigration.
Liberal Chris Matthews has jumped the liberal reservation again. He’s had a moment of clarity and now says he doesn’t trust Democrats to control illegal immigration.
Mediaite reports:
Declaring he doesn’t trust either party on the immigration issue, Matthews stated “Republicans are BS’ing the country” about any plan to deport all illegal immigrants out of the country, and much more surprisingly, he next targeted Democrats. Calling the Democrats “weak,” Matthews said Democrats won’t say “how they will stop illegal immigration . . . I don’t even think they want to stop it . . . they like it.” Watch out because no one is safe from Matthews, especially not Senator Harry Reid who also gets a special mention as someone who is not serious about doing anything about the illegal immigration problem.
Welcome to our world, Chris. We know you won’t stay long, but it’s always nice to have you visit.
A prediction: Sooner or later, Matthews will make one too many of these un-liberal comments and Olbermann will turn on him.
How can you explain Van Jones’ public admission that environmentalists just make all this crap up?
The left says Republicans are the ones who live in the past. Yet they seem to be blithely unaware of developments like cell phone video cameras and YouTube.
How else can you explain Van Jones’ public admission that environmentalists just make all this crap up?
OK, well, there is one other possibility: Van Jones is the second dumbest man alive. (Don’t worry, Van, as long as Joe Biden is still with us you’ll never be the dumbest man alive.)
The Barney Frank Squadron shows you how it’s done. Or how it will will be done in the future. Because things are going to be different in this man’s army from now on.
The Barney Frank Squadron shows you how it’s done. Or how it will will be done in the future. Because things are going to be different in this man’s army from now on.
Combat boots are out. Knee-high suede Tory Burch Connell Boots are in.
Let’s take a quick look back at that special time of year when environmentalists gather together to celebrate the birth of Christ Mother Gaia.
Let’s take a quick look back at that special time of year when environmentalists gather together to celebrate the birth of Christ Mother Gaia.
And who can forget the classic, "Hark the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn green"
The Australian takes a jab at the depressing details of the Gaian gala:
“So as you sit at home in front of a pot plant decorated with energy-saving light bulbs, unpacking second-hand solar-powered battery chargers from recycled newspaper wrappings, just before having a modest vegetarian organic dinner, you will surely feel the very warm inner glow of a morally superior Christmas deep inside you.”
Everybody sing along now:
I’m dreaming of a green Christmas,
I wish it didn’t start to snow.
Now my solar power’s
Been out for hours
And so my Christmas lights won’t glow
I’m dreaming of a green Christmas.
My turbines blades are standing still.
And I’m starting to feel the chill,
So of green I think I’ve had my fill.
Now let’s turn to page 98 of the Van Jones Hymnal. Please join us in singing “Rudolph the Red Knows Rain, Dear.”
Former U.S. President George W Bush’s memoir has sold an astonishing two million copies since it was released in early November – and it’s not even in paperback yet.
But … but … but … how could this be? Bill Clinton is the most beloved former President ever and George Bush is despised. Bill Clinton is articulate and George Bush is an ignorant buffoon.
Decision Points is not only a best seller, it's a better seller than Bill Clinton's memoirs
The Daily Mail reports a rude reality injected into this left wing fantasy:
Former U.S. President George W Bush’s memoir has sold an astonishing two million copies since it was released in early November – and it’s not even in paperback yet.
‘Decision Points’, published both in hardcover and e-book form, is flying off the shelves, the Crown Publishing Group says.
By contrast, former president Bill Clinton’s memoir, ‘My Life’, has logged sales of 2.2million copies since it was first published in 2004.
A spokesman for Crown called the performance remarkable.
He claimed he could not think of any other hardcover nonfiction books in 2010 that had sold even one million copies, much less two.
Why has this book sold so many copies? Well, for once the Democrats are right. It’s Bush’s fault.
Here’s a simple, but brilliant theory that if true would be far more damaging to Barack Obama than the theory that he was born in Kenya.
This is good. This is really good. This is one of those things you hear for the first time and say, “Of course. That has to be the answer.”
Suddenly the missing birth certificate all makes sense
We’re not birthers. Sure, we joke around about it, but we think Barack Obama was probably born in Hawaii. Far as we’re concerned, it makes no sense that some grand conspiracy to put him in the White House was put in motion on the day he was born in Kenya.
So if he was born in Hawaii, why doesn’t he release his original birth certificate? Even liberal lunatic Chris Matthews recently said, “Just release the damn thing, Mr. President, and shut up these birthers.”
A caller on Tim Conway, Jr’s radio show on KFI/Los Angeles Tuesday night suggested a simple, but brilliant theory that if true would be far more damaging to Barack Obama than the theory that he was born in Kenya. It goes like this:
Interracial marriage was still frowned upon even in racially-mixed Hawaii back in 1961 when Barack Obama was born.
So the reason – the simple, logical reason – that Obama won’t reveal his original birth certificate is because he is listed as white on that document. Perhaps it was his mother who checked the “White” box on the form. Or maybe the attending physician looked at the new baby, looked at his mother and said, “Baby mama white. Baby must be white” and entered that information.
This is a good one, isn’t it? It’s simple, logical and it explains Obama’s reticence to release the original birth certificate. After all, being officially designated as white would be the most devastating thing that could possibly happen to his political career. The only reason he got elected President is because, as Joe Biden said, “He’s a clean, good-looking, articulate black man.” (Don’t blame us, blame Joe.) The moment he’s seen as white, BAM!, he loses his cachet, his point of difference, his raison d’être in the sun, so to speak.
When Conway’s listener explained this theory, Mrs Editor and I looked at each other and laughed out loud and agreed that it makes so much sense that it may well be true.
By the way, you can catch Tim Conway’s show on the internet or if you’re in Southern California on KFI 640 7 -10 p.m. Monday through Friday.”
The rules of political correctness as expressed at Penn State are exacting and explicit: You cannot make fun of, or imply that you’re making fun of any race, religion, ethnic group, sexual orientation, relative inability to drive a car, etc. Except, of course, if you’re a white power fanatic who praises Muslims who kill Jews.
America’s system of higher education is awash with political correctness, a stifling philosophy that stymies all types of political discourse.
Penn State's vaunted rules of political correctness do not apply to Muslim extremist songwriters
The rules of political correctness as expressed at Penn State are exacting and explicit: You cannot make fun of, or imply that you’re making fun of any race, religion, ethnic group, sexual orientation, relative inability to drive a car, etc.
Except, of course, if you’re a white power fanatic who praises Muslims who kill Jews.
Then it’s ok.
Big Peace reports that one Penn State student, named Emerson Bogolly, who apparently studies in the wildly challenging Letters, Arts and Sciences department, wrote this little ditty about killing Jews entitled “When the Jew’s Blood Reds My Knife” and posted it on a radical Muslim website:
When the Jew’s blood reds my knife
Then my life is free from strife
Hiding behind rocks and trees
I’ll find them with greatest ease
Make them get down on their knees
Slaughter them despite their pleas
Throw them in the ovens hot
Soap and lampshades sold and bought
Made of the Jews that we shot
Mercy’s something I have not
With the bomb and machinegun
Blast at them and watch them run
We will have a lot of fun
Shoot and kill Jews one by one
The chorus is: We hate Jews, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. (OK. we made that part up.)
Young Emerson has also written ditties praising Osama bin Laden and other Muslim fanatics who specialize in killing, maiming, and harming Jews.
If he had expressed the same venom about any other race or religion, he would be packing up his Penn State sweatshirts, life-sized Joe Paterno cardboard cutout, and authentic SS uniform and heading out of the confines of Happy Valley. But since threatening Jews seems to be a core tenant of the Muslim faith, he’ll probably be tucked safely behind the protection of academic freedom for oppressed peoples.
Obamacare hase never been popular, with support peaking at just 48 percent in November 2009. Today it’s slipped to 43 percent, numerically its lowest in ABC/Post polling.
President Obama promised Democrats that ObamaCare was the magic elixir that would make them invulnerable in last November’s elections. He said the bill would become even more popular as people learned what was in it.
President Obama practices showing compassion with his version of the patented Bill Clinton Lip Bite™
A ABC/Washington Post poll has some very bad news for the President:
Coinciding with a federal judge’s ruling invalidating a key element of the health care reform law, an ABC News/Washington Post poll finds support for the landmark legislation at a new low – but division on what to do about it.
The law’s never been popular, with support peaking at just 48 percent in November 2009. Today it’s slipped to 43 percent, numerically its lowest in ABC/Post polling. (It was about the same, 44 percent, a year ago.) Fifty-two percent are opposed, and that 9-point gap in favor of opposition is its largest on record since the latest debate over health care reform began in earnest in summer 2009.
More also continue to “strongly” oppose the law than to strongly support it, 37 percent to 22 percent.
Nancy Pelosi said, “We had to pass the bill to find out what was in it.”
Unfortunately, what they found was that the American people don’t like it.
How far we’ve come since that Obama speech that drew 200,000 Germans who mistakenly thought JFK had been reborn in this fakir. Just two short years later he has become an object of derision.
How far we’ve come since that Obama speech that drew 200,000 Germans who mistakenly thought JFK had been reborn in this fakir. Just two short years later he has become an object of derision.
Barack Obama, the biggest loser of 2010, and an unidentified friend
Der Spiegel Online has the details:
“Barack Obama was the biggest loser of 2010. He allowed the angry Tea Party movement to grow powerful, he did not pass any decent laws despite his majority in Congress and he was aloof, elitist and indecisive. He had to accept a formidable, yet entirely understandable, defeat in the midterm elections as a result. No one expected much from Obama, at least not during the rest of this year.”
“Now, just days before Christmas, Congress has ratified the New START disarmament treaty with Russia. … Will Obama build on this victory? Is it Obama’s breakthrough as a president? Will it mark his comeback as a reformer? … Is a new era of cooperation beginning?”
“The opposite is much more probable, namely that the disarmament treaty will be Obama’s last significant achievement for a long time. In January, the new Congress will convene. The new representatives who won in the midterm elections will come to Washington, including those Tea Party activists who have little interest in making compromises with Obama. With them, Congress will move to the right …. Possibly the only reason why so many Republicans voted for Obama’s law was because they themselves fear the new era and see few chances of passing sensible, bipartisan laws in the new Congress.”
If President Obama had any grasp on reality, he’d make that “L” shape with his thumb and forefinger and hold it up in front of his forehead.
Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?
That pathetic sound you hear is Keith Olbermann whimpering over in the corner. The New York Times has undoubtedly devastated the left wing lunatic by naming someone else as this generation’s Edward R. Murrow.
Keith Olbermann is Edward R. Murrow. Just ask him.
We don’t want to get in the middle of this little spat, so we’ll just let the Times explain its own bizarre designation:
Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause?
And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?
… Though the scale of the impact of Mr. Stewart’s telecast on public policy may not measure up to the roles that Mr. Murrow and Mr. Cronkite played, Mr. Thompson said, the comparison is legitimate because the law almost surely would not have moved forward without him. “He so pithily articulated the argument that once it was made, it was really hard to do anything else,” Mr. Thompson said.
How dare they? Why, this is an insult to Olbermann, MSNBC’s self-styled heir to the Murrow legend. Look for him to demand satisfaction. A duel at sunrise, perhaps. The Times’ choice of weapons.
In lieu of a duel, we certainly expect the Times to be named Worst Person in the World. And they deserve that title.
After all, does Jon Stewart sign off his show by saying, “Good night and good luck” like Murrow did? No. Does Jon Stewart remind his viewers that he is the heir to Murrow’s courage and tenacity? No. Is Jon Stewart a pompous ass with no viewers? Oh, wait. That’s an entirely different subject.
