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Hilary Shelton, Senior Vice President for Advocacy for the NAACP, seems to have a little trouble with the truth. Especially when he’s discussing that raaaaacist Tea Party.
Hilary Shelton, Senior Vice President for Advocacy for the NAACP, seems to have a little trouble with the truth. Especially when he’s discussing that raaaaacist Tea Party.
On July 13, he said he’s never been to a Tea Party because he was “afraid to go”.
On July 16, he said he attended the ObamaCare Tea Party rally, you know, just to monitor things.
Liiiiiiiiiar.
H/T: Bluegrass Pundit
Sheila Jackson Lee has said some stupid things during her time in Congress, but she topped herself on Thursday when she said, “Today we have two Vietnams side-by-side.”
Sheila Jackson Lee has said some stupid things during her time in Congress, but she topped herself on Thursday when she said, “Today we have two Vietnams side-by-side.”
Lee was apparently preoccupied back in the 70s and didn’t hear the news that there is no more “North Vietnam” and no more “South Vietnam.”
And just wait until she hears about East Germany and West Germany.
The scene: Morning Joe on MSNBC. Guest Zbigniew Brzezinski describes the nation’s current state by using the same word that doomed Jimmy Carter’s administration: malaise.
The scene: Morning Joe on MSNBC. Guest Zbigniew Brzezinski describes the nation’s current state by using the same word that doomed Jimmy Carter’s administration: malaise.
Brzezinski: I think we’re now going through a phase in which there is a sense of pervasive malaise, which affects different groups in society in different ways. So people are dissatisfied; they’re slightly worried; they don’t see a good certain future for themselves or for the country, but in their own narrow sphere. There’s no grand mobilizing idea. And I have a sense that Obama, who started so well, and who really captivated people—he captivated me!—has not been able yet to generate some sort of organizing idea for an age which combines a malaise that’s pervasive and percolating, and complexity…
Buchanan: We need a new paradigm!
Brzezinski: And the President hasn’t articulated it.
Buchanan: No, he hasn’t.
Brzezinski: There goes any further invitation to the White House!
All is not lost, Zbig. White House invitations may be a thing of the past, but we’re betting you can still score an invitation to the Bristol Palin-Big Moron wedding.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
Rumors are swirling around Washington and New York about the identity of the mysterious Democrat “whale” who was seduced by Anna Chapman, the hot Russian spy.
Rumors are swirling around Washington and New York about the identity of the mysterious Democrat “whale” who was seduced by Anna Chapman, the hot Russian spy.
Here’s one possibility gleaned from a story in the Denver Post on January 30, 2009 about billionaire Ron Perelman and ex-wife Ellen Barkin:
Barkin, 54, pocketed $60 million from Perelman, 66, who slapped her with divorce papers in 2006, then booted her from his East 63rd Street mansion. But she quickly struck back. The “Sea of Love” actress auctioned off more than 100 jewels he’d lavished on her, netting an additional $20.3 million.
And when she bumped into Perelman at the Waverly Inn with new girlfriend Anna Chapman, Barkin threw a glass of water in his face and hissed at Chapman: “I feel sorry for you that you have to (bleep) him tonight.”
Well, Perelman definitely qualifies as a big Democrat donor and this story links him to an Anna Chapman. But if this was the Russian spy, what kind of secret information did she expect to get out of the leveraged buy-out king? His PIN number?
Is this the same Anna Chapman? Probably not. But as graduates of the MSNBC school of journalism, we thought there was no reason to let facts get in the way of a good story.
Source: Denver Post
We honestly do not understand the love affair between CNN and unfunny comedian Kathy Griffin. Here she gives CNN’s Dana Bash a good laugh by calling Scott Brown’s daughters prostitutes.
We honestly do not understand the love affair between CNN and unfunny comedian Kathy Griffin.
Any other so-called news network would have severed all ties to Griffin after her embarrassing New Year’s Eve outburst with Anderson Cooper.
But not America’s Most Trusted News Network. CNN continues to air the woman’s desperately unfunny comments.
And they wonder why no one watches.
Turns out former Republican senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson has taken to Twitter in a big way. If brevity is the soul of wit, Thompson is the king of the 140-character commentary.
Turns out former Republican senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson has taken to Twitter in a big way. If brevity is the soul of wit, Thompson is the king of the 140-character commentary.
Here are our ten favorites:
H/T: Los Angeles Times
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ truth didn’t sit well with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who sent out a new fundraising email.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs committed the cardinal sin of telling the truth when he admitted that the Democrats might lose control of the House come November.
That didn’t sit well with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who sent out a new fundraising email in which she said:
“Here is what will happen in November. Democrats will keep control of the House. Period.”
In response, the Republican National Committee sent out this clip from Animal House that perfectly describes what’s going on behind closed doors with the Democrats.
When did these guys get a sense of humor?
H/T: HotAir.com
D’oh. Mitch McConnell just destroyed any chance Republicans had to cut into the Democrat base.
D’oh. Mitch McConnell just destroyed any chance Republicans had to cut into the Democrat base:
“What Republicans are offering the American people is a pledge,” McConnell said, “a pledge to do everything in our power to restore government to a size and scope that leads to some semblance of competency. We’re not going to tell you that if you vote Republican, you’re going to wake up in your dream home with a brand new Corvette outside ready to take you to the best job in the world. You know why? Because government can’t deliver that promise.”
No dream home? No Corvette? No fabulous job for which we’re not qualified?
Apparently, McConnell is willing to cede the deadbeat vote to the Democrats.
Source: The Hill
James Carville, of all people, is fed up with the Obama administration. Sounding as if he’s channeling his inner Mary Matalin, Carville said, “The federal government let us down…they’re killing the economy here.
James Carville, of all people, is fed up with the Obama administration.
Sounding as if he’s channeling his inner Mary Matalin, Carville said, “The federal government let us down…they’re killing the economy here…the federal government is about to kill us with their levies and their regulatory taxes.”
So after spending what passes as the best years of his life getting the Democrat agenda shoved through, Mr. Carville is now seeing the whole picture from the “receiving end”.
One word of advice, James:
There are some petroleum-based products that might help with your current position. Oh, and welcome to the common citizenry.
Turns out John Holdren wrote a truly alarming 1970s college textbook, “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,” with discredited population alarmists Paul and Anne Ehrlich.
“You will be assimilated into the collective. Resistance is futile.”
There’s something wrong when the White House Science Czar sounds more like the Science Fiction Czar.
Turns out John Holdren wrote a truly alarming 1970s college textbook, “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,” with discredited population alarmists Paul and Anne Ehrlich.
World Net Daily has details of the text’s contents:
The authors argued that involuntary birth-control measures, including forced sterilization, may be necessary and morally acceptable under extreme conditions, such as widespread famine brought about by “climate change.”
They recommended the creation of a “planetary regime” created to act as an “international superagency for population, resources, and environment.”
“Such a Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as international implications exist,” they argued.
“Thus, the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and the oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans.”
Those are the words of your White House Science Czar, who is obviously a member of both the Democrat Party and the Borg. Not that there’s much difference.
Source: World Net Daily
Chris Matthews is completely incapable of comprehending how those racist voters in South Carolina can possibly support Indian-American Republican Nikki Haley while rejecting black-white Barack Obama.
Race is everything to the left. And that leaves poor, confused Chris Matthews completely incapable of comprehending how those racist voters in South Carolina can possibly support Indian-American Republican Nikki Haley while rejecting black-white Barack Obama.
“How do you figure your state out?” Matthews asked Rep. Bob Inglis. “It’s pretty conservative obviously. It’s Strom Thurmond country in many ways and, and it has people like DeMint pretty far over and then people like Lindsey Graham who are sort of regular conservatives. But then you nominated, your party has nominated an Indian-American woman, Nikki Haley. Obviously an attractive candidate, she knows how to present herself obviously, but what’s that about? Is that just an interesting little aspect? “It’s okay to be Indian-American but we got a problem with this black president?” What’s that about?”
That whirring sound you hear is Martin Luther King spinning in his grave.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
There’s absolutely nothing more fun than watching Democrats turn on Democrats.
There’s absolutely nothing more fun than watching Democrats turn on Democrats.
As NewsBusters.org so aptly put it:
Drudge has links up about the White House waving the white flag, having a “credibility crisis,” and hitting the panic button. This evening’s Ed Show gave another hot and salty taste of the Dem meltdown, as Ed ripped Harry Reid for calling Pres. Obama, in Schultz’s words, “a big wimp.” In a formal TV interview, Reid has accused PBO of being insufficiently “firm” and “forceful,” describing him as “a person who doesn’t like confrontation.”
Lib talker Bill Press also hit Harry, but at the same time effectively agreed with Reid’s critique, saying that Obama had been too nice to Republicans and that “nobody in this town is afraid of Pres. Obama.” Schultz, meanwhile, accused Reid of being a weak leader.
If he keeps this up, Ed Schultz may finally pick up a few viewers.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
According to the Los Angeles Times, not exactly a bastion of conservative viewpoints, the Obama administration is not doing well with it’s crazy freakin’ liberal base.
According to the Los Angeles Times, not exactly a bastion of conservative viewpoints, the Obama administration is not doing well with it’s crazy freakin’ liberal base.
The Times explains:
“When he ran for president, Barack Obama attacked the George W. Bush administration for putting political concerns ahead of science on such issues as climate change and public health. And during his first weeks in the White House, President Obama ordered his advisors to develop rules to “guarantee scientific integrity throughout the executive branch.”
Many government scientists hailed the president’s pronouncement. But a year and a half later, no such rules have been issued. Now scientists charge that the Obama administration is not doing enough to reverse a culture that they contend allowed officials to interfere with their work and limit their ability to speak out.”
So basically, liberals are saying that despite all the “hopey changey” campaign rhetoric, the reality is that Obama is just as guilty of choosing politics over science as the Bush administration was ever accused of being. In fact, the article goes on to say:
“We are getting complaints from government scientists now at the same rate we were during the Bush administration,” said Jeffrey Ruch, an activist lawyer who heads an organization representing scientific whistle-blowers.
But interviews with several scientists – most of whom requested anonymity because they feared retaliation in their jobs – as well as reviews of e-mails provided by Ruch and others show a wide range of complaints during the Obama presidency.
What a bunch of cry babies these scientists are. Of course, the Greatest President in the History of the World will fulfill his promises just as soon as he:
Then, scientists – after the great and powerful Obama squeezes in one last round of golf – he will no doubt focus his laser-like Presidential vision on your petty little problems.
Source: Los Angeles Times
If you were baffled by the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation, let us clear it up for you. Or to be more accurate, let the Party’s fan page from President Obama’s official campaign website clear it up for you.
In case you counted yourself among those who were baffled by the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation, let us clear it up for you. Or to be more accurate, let the Party’s fan page from President Obama’s official campaign website clear it up for you.
Make no mistake about it, the New Black Panther Party is part of Obama’s team. Is. Was. Always has been.
Note that in the right hand column, under Friends, it says “O.” Apparently, this screen cap was taken before Eric Holder had a chance to sign up.
H/T: Weasel Zippers
Now that the government is done studying male Vietnamese prostitutes, drunken Chinese hookers and the sex lives of truck drivers, they’ve decided it’s time to move on to drug addicts.
Now that the government is done studying male Vietnamese prostitutes, drunken Chinese hookers and the sex lives of truck drivers, they’ve decided it’s time to move on to drug addicts.
CNSnews.com has the addictive details:
The U.S. government has spent $410,625 to study the effects of teaching Chinese meditation to cocaine addicts.
“Our clinical experience and pilot studies suggest that Integrative Meditation from Chinese medicine may help clients engage in treatment, reduce cravings/withdrawal symptoms, and increase treatment retention, which appear missed by a typical behavior therapy,” says the official description of the project published by the National Institutes of Health.
What they should really be studying is the idiotic spending in Washington, DC. That’s something that seems to be really addictive.
Source: CNSNews.com
Barack Obama and the Democrat party are using millions of your tax dollars to put up road signs praising themselves just before the midterm elections. Oh, sure, the signs are disguised as government neutral, but make no mistake, they are campaign posters.
Barack Obama and the Democrat party are using millions of your tax dollars to put up road signs praising themselves just before the midterm elections. Oh, sure, the signs are disguised as government neutral, but make no mistake, they are campaign posters.
It’s egregious enough that even ABC News felt compelled to report the story:
As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting “The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and reminding passers-by that the program is “Putting America Back to Work.”
On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there’s a 10′ x 11′ road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov.
However, there’s another number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That’s how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign – announcing that the project is “Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and is “Putting America Back to Work.” The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project.
The story continues:
In this clip, the hot Fox host Megyn Kelly slaps around left-wing pundit Kirsten Powers in a one-sided discussion of the Black Panther voter intimidation case.
Apparently, network TV is such a powerful drug that some people – left wing mouthpiece Kirsten Powers, to be specific – will do it even if they know absolutely nothing about the subject to be discussed and know that the result of their appearance will be complete personal humiliation.
In this clip, the hot Fox host slaps around left-wing pundit Kirsten Powers in a one-sided discussion of the Black Panther voter intimidation case.
Ace called it “the greatest ten minutes of television, ever”, but that’s an exaggeration. It’s only 9:55.
The entire clip is worth watching, but the real action starts at about the 2:40 mark.
Where did Rupert Murdoch find this lovely Megyn Kelly creature? We do not believe she is other this earth.
Times have changed and now the IPCC wants scientists to avoid the press as if they have some horrible global warming-caused disease.
Remember the good ol’ days when climate scientists were encouraged to spread the word about global warming?
You know, back before ClimateGate and news about the glaciers not melting and the coral not bleaching and the sea levels not rising and the rain forests not disappearing. Ahhh, those were the days.
But times have changed and now the IPCC wants scientists to avoid the press as if they have some horrible global warming-caused disease.
The New York Times has the story:
The 831 researchers who will contribute to the next round of assessments of climate science and policy options by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been sent a letter admonishing them to “keep a distance from the media” and send any press inquiries about the work of their author groups to supervisors.
On Friday, one recipient of the letter, Edward R. Carr, an associate professor of geography at the University of South Carolina who will work on the assessment of climate impacts and adaptation options, complained about the letter in a post on his blog under the heading “ Apparently we have learned nothing….”
He warned that the panel appears stuck in a “bunker mentality” that will do little to build its credibility after a trying year of attacks by foes of restrictions on greenhouse gases and skeptics of climate science. In an e-mail message alerting me to Carr’s post, Mickey Glantz, a University of Colorado specialist in climate impacts in poor regions who has been an author on previous panel reports, said he agreed with Carr, adding: “I think the I.P.C.C. is on the wrong path.”
Polar bears are also being encouraged to avoid the media, lest children find out they really aren’t dying out.
Source: New York Times
Well, whatever you do, don’t blame Obama’s plunging poll numbers on his failed policies. Blame spoiled, idiot Americans like lib talker Bill Press does.
Well, whatever you do, don’t blame Obama’s plunging poll numbers on his failed policies. Blame spoiled, idiot Americans like lib talker Bill Press does.
Press: I think this says more about the American people than it does about President Obama. I think it just shows once again that the American people are spoiled. Basically, spoiled– as a people, we are too critical. We are quick to rush to judgment, we are too negative, we are too impatient. Especially impatient. We want it all solved yesterday, and if you don’t, I don’t care who you are — get out of the way. And again, basically spoiled. To the point where it makes me wonder if it’s even possible to govern today. I gotta tell you, I don’t think Abraham Lincoln — who certainly didn’t get everything right the first time — could govern today. I’m not sure Franklin Roosevelt could govern today, the way we are again. Just about like spoiled children. And it’s Americans, and it’s the media, and if we don’t get instant gratification, then screw you is basically our attitude.
Press is right. Americans are too damn spoiled to know what’s good for themselves. That’s why it’s good that socialists like Press and Obama are willing to make those decisions for them.
H/T: Radio Equalizer
Juan Williams sees Obama’s dropping poll numbers as a repudiation of Republicans.
Uh-oh. A new ABC/Washington Post poll says that 57% of American adults answered “Some” or “None” when asked how much confidence they had that Barack Obama would make the right decisions for the nation’s future.
Now that might sound bad to us. It might even sound bad to you. But that Juan Williams, he’s a glass half full kind of guy. He sees this poll as a repudiation of Republicans, too.
A brave British soldier, Luke Reeson, who was shot in the face by the Taliban spat out the bullet – then walked nearly two miles for treatment before being rushed home for an emergency operation.
As we sit here in our underwear every morning with a mug of hot joe in one hand and Obama the office cat purring at our feet, it’s absolutely impossible for us to comprehend what it takes to be a soldier in Afghanistan.
The Daily Mail UK tells a tale of incredible toughness:
A brave British soldier who was shot in the face by the Taliban spat out the bullet – then walked nearly two miles for treatment before being rushed home for an emergency operation.
Lance Corporal Luke Reeson, 22, was on patrol in Nad-e-Ali in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan when the insurgent’s bullet hit his Osprey body armour.
But the bullet ricocheted off , smashing into his lower cheek and back out through his mouth.
Despite the bullet shattering his jaw, Lance Corporal Reeson from Torquay in Devon, managed to walk three kilometres with his injury to get medical aid.
The soldier, who was shot in May while serving with the 1 Duke of Lancashire Regiment, Somme Company, has now returned to active duty in Afghanistan.
Lance Corporal Reeson, we salute you, you tough son of a bitch.
Source: Daily Mail UK
Just when the latest Rasmussen poll showed Harry Reid climbing within three points of his Republican opponent, the doddering old Democrat went out and said something guaranteed to send his poll numbers in the opposite direction.
Just when the latest Rasmussen poll showed Harry Reid climbing within three points of his Republican opponent, the doddering old Democrat went out and said something guaranteed to send his poll numbers in the opposite direction.
Believe it or not, he told KLAS-TV reporter Nathan Baca that no illegal aliens are working in Nevada’s construction industry.
Baca: Why didn’t you allow for a vote?
Reid: That’s the reason we need to do comprehensive immigration reform. We cannot do it piecemeal.
Baca: You go to the unemployment office, though, and there’s many US citizens who are unemployed construction workers and they don’t have specific jobs because, right now, some of those construction companies find it easier to hire undocumented workers.
Reid: I think that any information you have in that regard is absolutely without foundation
Baca: We told Senator Reid of a Pew Hispanic Center study showing 17% of all construction workers are here illegally.
Reid: That may be someplace, but it’s not here in Nevada.
Baca: But their latest 2009 numbers show that Nevada is the state with the highest percentage of unauthorized immigrants in the labor force.
Amazing, isn’t it, that someone who opposes the Second Amendment was so quick to pull out a gun and shoot himself in the foot.
We just have one question for Harry: If there are no illegals working in Nevada’s construction industry, how do you explain those lunch wagons pulling up at construction sites while playing La Cucaracha?
Whoopi Goldberg, usually the first person to cry racism and the last person we’d ever expect to defend Gibson, did exactly that.
As you’ve surely heard, Mel Gibson stuck his big, fat Aussie foot in his mouth again when he said that the mother of his latest child dressed like a tramp and that her choice of clothing would cause her to get “raped by a gang of niggers.”
Whoopi Goldberg, usually the first person to cry racism and the last person we’d ever expect to defend Gibson, did exactly that.
We’re speechless.
Too bad Mel wasn’t.
Mort Zuckerman, self-made billionaire, owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, is at it again. Now he’s confirmed the close link between the President and the Liberal Media by admitting to Neil Cavuto that he helped write one of Obama’s speeches.
Mort Zuckerman, self-made billionaire, owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, is at it again. Now he’s confirmed the close link between the President and the Liberal Media by admitting to Neil Cavuto that he helped write one of Obama’s speeches.
File this in the “Surprised, But Not Surprised” folder.
Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) got into a heated dispute with an attendee who suggested he was not telling the truth about the Democrats’ healthcare reform legislation.
You know what’s going to make the next few months so damn much fun? The fact that Democrats can be expected to erupt more regularly than Mount Pinatubo.
The Hill has the details of the majority party’s latest town hall travesty:
Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) got into a heated dispute with an attendee who suggested he was not telling the truth about the Democrats’ healthcare reform legislation.
In a video that was posted online Sunday, the female audience member can be heard interrupting Rodriguez, urging him to “tell the truth” about he Congressional Budget Office analysis of the sweeping legislation.
“Don’t accuse me of not saying the truth,” Rodriguez replied.
A voice from the crowd can be heard saying, “Excuse me, that’s not appropriate,” but it is not clear the same person who started the exchange said it.
“It’s not appropriate to also determine [inaudible],” Rodriguez fired back, slamming a rolled up stack of papers he was holding onto a nearby table. “I’m not going to take any [inaudible]. If you want a dialogue in a civil manner, don’t say that I’m not saying the truth.”
That’s right, Ms. Voter Lady, don’t say this guy’s not telling the truth. Think it, but don’t you dare say it.
Source: The Hill
