European Member of Parliament Daniel Hannan appeared on the Glenn Beck Show last week and told the sad plight of European-style single payer healthcare.
You may recall Daniel Hannan, the European Member of Parliament who delivered a blistering (and hilarious) speech condemning British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a few months ago.
Hannan appeared on the Glenn Beck Show last week and told the sad plight of European-style single payer healthcare.
If you support ObamaCare, you need to hear what Hannan has to say.
If you don’t support ObamaCare, same instructions.
Some ObamaCare proponents in congress have shut down their town hall meetings. Some have run from their constituents. Others, like Georgia Democrat David Scott from Georgia, have gotten a little hot under the collar.
Democrats are testy these days. They just didn’t expect opposition to their hairbrained healthcare scheme and they don’t know how to handle it. They thought the lemmings would quietly and compliantly step off the cliff.
Wrong.
It’s been quite a week. Some ObamaCare proponents have shut down their town hall meetings. Some have run from their constituents. Others, like David Scott, the distinguished Democrat congressman from Georgia, have gotten a little hot under the collar.
One of his constituents, a physician, had the temerity to ask the Congressman about ObamaCare. The congressman responds by erupting in anger and accusing him of “hijacking” the town hall, despite the fact that attendees had been told that no subjects were off limits during this open question-and-answer session.
They’re disintegrating, folks. Falling apart at the seams.
It’s is a joy to watch.
Bill Clinton’s “triumphant” return from North Korea with two U.S. journalists was staged by a celebrity public-relations firm and bankrolled by entertainment mogul Steve Bing.
Bill Clinton’s “triumphant” return from North Korea with two U.S. journalists was staged by a celebrity public-relations firm.
Clinton’s mission to return Laura Ling and Euna Lee was bankrolled by entertainment mogul Steve Bing. The Hollywood gazillionaire donated his private Boeing 737 and then chipped in another $200,000 in fuel and other costs.
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A Brazilian environmental group wants you to save the rainforest by peeing in the shower. We see a problem. There’s another eco-wacko ad campaign that tries to convince people to save water by showering with a friend.
Of course. Absolutely. For sure. Why didn’t we think of that?
A Brazilian environmental group wants you to save the rainforest by peeing in the shower. Here’s the logic behind the strange request: If a person flushes the toilet just one less time per day it would save 1,157 gallons of water per year. Multiply that by however many Brazilians there are and you save a bunch of water.
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Dan Rather is out to save the rapidly-depleting stock of journalists, reporters, editors and empty-headed news anchors by asking for a media czar.
The sky may be falling and the earth may be boiling polar bear cubs at a rapid rate, but Dan Rather, a leading, but by no means only reason journalism is no longer respected, is out to save the rapidly-depleting stock of journalists, reporters, editors and empty-headed news anchors.
Rather, who spoke at the Aspen Institute, called for the Obama administration to create a “commission on public media.” The commission would, among other things, try to find new business models to help save media outlets because, if it’s one thing that the hundreds of years of the free enterprise system has shown us, it’s that people are incapable of creating a business model without the interference from a government commission.
Remember the Commission On 144-Character Micro-Blogging Messages that brought us Twitter?
“A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom,” Rather said in an interview. (A free and independent press that is overseen by a government commission?)
The commission might also be able to help forge documents, too, like military letters about presidents whose politics you don’t necessarily agree with.
If the commission is created, we would need another Czar, a Czar of All Media.
Let’s see. Where could we find a liberal, out-of-work journalist who left his career in disgrace and may need another shot at proving his worth before he’s rolled up like newspapers used to be and tossed away in the dustbin of media history?
Hmmm. Who could that be?
Source: Aspen Daily News
Mark Arbib, Australia’s Employment Minister, made the mistake of going on Sky News to hype the left wing government’s new “green job” initiative. Reporter David Speers goes after him like you wish American reporters would go after nonsense-spewing members of the Obama administration.
If you thought the United States was the only country that has to deal with green nonsense, think again.
Mark Arbib, Australia’s Employment Minister, made the mistake of going on Sky News to hype the left wing government’s new “green job” initiative. Reporter David Speers goes after him like you wish American reporters would go after nonsense-spewing members of the Obama administration.
The stuttering, stammering results are hilarious.
Speers: Does that mean that you are calling this a job or does that mean they’ll be remaining on the unemployment benefit?
Arbib: No, well, this is … yeah this is a work experience program.
Speers: Is it a job or is it a work experience program?
Arbib: A work experience program is a job. They’ll be actually working during this time.
Speers: When you say it’s a job, do they get sick leave? Do they get superannuation? How is it just not the same as the work for the dole scheme?
Arbib: Well, I don’t have all the details.
Speers: But you’re the minister.
Arbib: Well, I am, but I don’t have all the details today for you mate. But what I can tell you …
Speers: But it’s just been announced by the Prime Minister.
Arbib: 10,000 young people, 26 weeks’ training, plus work, day after day, it’s a great, great result.
Speers: But it is still being worked out.
Arbib: No, no, this scheme will be under way in January 2010, and obviously some of the detail will still have to be finalised, but …
Speers: Is one of those details whether it will be a job or work experience?
Arbib: Well, well … it’s a fine line but can I tell you it is work experience. Work experience is a job.
Surely, no one in the land down under is under the impression this makes sense.
Source: Andrew Bolt
Bill O’Reilly is the most pompous man on TV. This clip proves that he can sound completely authoritative even when he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.
We want to like O’Reilly. We really do. But he is the most pompous man on TV. This clip proves that he can sound completely authoritative even when he doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.
After sixteen weeks on the air, MSNBC’s EdShow is on life support. Instead of growing, its ratings have gone down. In fact, they’re lower than those of David Schuster, who was booted from the time slot to make room for Schultz.
Tuesday, April 7, the day after Ed Schultz’ premiere show, MSNBC officials tried to put a happy face on the sad results by saying that they were “pleased” with the initial ratings and that they expected the show to grow over time.
After sixteen weeks on the air, MSNBC’s EdShow is on life support. Instead of growing, its ratings have gone down. In fact, they’re lower than those of David Schuster, who was booted from the time slot to make room for Schultz.
| Program | Date | 25-54 Demo | Total Audience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schultz’ most recent | Mon, July 27 | 121,000 | 501,000 |
| Schultz’ premiere | Mon, Apr 6 | 247,000 | 725,000 |
| Schuster’s final | Fri, Apr 4 | 153,000 | 579,000 |
We’d say it’s time to let this thing die with dignity, but it’s impossible to use the words “Ed Schultz” and “dignity” in the same sentence.
Source: Nielsen Media Services via MediaBistro.com
CNN’s Lou Dobbs attacked MBSBC’s “tea-bagging queen” Rachel Maddow over the issue of Barck Obama’s birth certificate.
Lou Dobbs has been known to go nuclear on MSNBC hosts in the past. He once called Keith Olbermann “a whack job” and “a left-wing hack.” Tough to argue with that.
But now he’s gone too far in attacking Rachel Maddow. Here’s what he had to say about the ratings-challenged host:
“And tea-bagging queen Rachel Maddow over at MSNBC, she wanted another shot so apparently she twisted, she tried to twist my words. She ignored my statements on the issue. In other words, she was not being intellectually honest. Imagine that…She lied. I never said I’m a ‘birther.’ I’m not. I don’t know how many times I’ve said, ‘Barack Obama is a citizen of the United States. Why not release your birth certificate?’ What is the big deal with saying that?”
This is a complex issue and Lou Dobbs doesn’t have his facts straight. So please let us explain.
For the record, Lou, Rachel Maddow is not a tea-bagging queen. She is a lesbian. Anderson Cooper is a tea-bagging queen.
Glad we could help clear up the controversy.
CNN wonders if Obama is overexposed.
Is the Pope Catholic? Does Reverend Wright hate America? Is Joe Biden a dope? Does a bear do what a bear generally does in the woods?
Panic is setting in as CNN’s poster boy plummets in the polls. So they ask one of those questions that has an obvious answer: Is Obama over-exposed?
NBC News anchor Brian Williams apparently had a longtime unrequited man crush on former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite.
If you think South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s love letters to his Argentine mistress were over the top, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet.
NBC News anchor Brian Williams apparently had a longtime unrequited man crush on former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite.
Williams begins this tale of the forbidden love between anchors for two competing networks by taking us back to his childhood home in upstate New York, where Mom Williams refused to serve up a hearty meal of Tater Tots and Tang until Cronkite had uttered the words, “And that’s the way it is….”
“And I announced my intention to my family, apparently, at the age of 8, that he was the man I wanted to be. And this was the profession I wanted,” Williams recalled wistfully. “And I have lived such a charmed life that I got the chance to explain that to Walter and tell him that and make it clear. And just was able to breathe the air he exhaled and know him a little bit, as friends.”
Excuse us for interrupting this touching moment, but we can’t help but picture the strange scene that would have played out between young Brian and the venerable Cronkite:
Walter: Hello, kid.
Brian: You had me when you said hello, Mr. Cronkite.
Walter: Can somebody get this kid out of the studio?
Brian: But I love you, Mr. Cronkite.
Walter: Anybody know who this kid is?
Brian: I’m you. And you’re everything I ever want to be.
Walter: Seriously. Get this little freak out of the studio.
Brian: I want to breath the air you exhale.
Walter: So that’s the way it is.
Brian: No, Mr. Cronkite. That’s the way it was. Today, July 22, 1967.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
Jon Stewart voted America’s most trusted newscaster. For god’s sake, man, even Jon Stewart wouldn’t call himself a “newscaster.” He’s a comedian, damn it.
Time Magazine conducted a poll. “Now that Walter Cronkite has passed away,” they asked, “who is America’s most trusted newscaster?” The results will undoubtedly depress the broadcast networks’ anchors:
7% Katie Couric
19% Charlie Gibson
29% Brian Williams
44% Jon Stewart
For god’s sake, man, even Jon Stewart wouldn’t call himself a “newscaster.” He’s a comedian, damn it. Based on that, the poll is flawed for not including Carrot Top and Andy Dick.
Katie Couric must have been suicidal after learning that 6 times as many Americans trust a comedian with the news than trust her.
Time provides a dandy little map across which you can scroll your cursor to see state-by-state results of the poll.
Hang in there, Katie. You got 65% of the vote in Iowa.
Source: Time Magazine
How can CNN attract advertisers now that it’s fallen into third place in the cable news ratings? Simple. Just ignore reality and announce that you’re still number one.
How can CNN attract advertisers now that it’s fallen into third place in the cable news ratings? Simple. Just ignore reality and announce that you’re still number one
The staggering news network is now airing a TV commercial in which it proudly boasts that it is “No. 1 with more viewers than Fox and MSNBC.”
In reality, Fox has been kicking CNN’s butt since early 2002 and had more viewers than CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined last quarter. Not just in prime time, but all day long. Hell, even sickly MSNBC topped CNN for the first time last quarter.
So how does CNN justify its demonstrably false claim?
Simple. They cherry picked an obscure statistic media buyers generally don’t accept — a cumulative number based on the total number of people who tuned into the network for six minutes or more per month.
Naturally, CNN chose not to reveal their alternate reality in the commercial.
Interesting to see that the news isn’t the only thing distorted on CNN. At least they’re consistent.
Source: LATimes.com
This four minute commercial could bring tears to your eyes.
American TV commercials are almost always 30-seconds long. And sometimes that’s just not enough time to weave a full, rich story.
Here’s a four-minute long Thai TV commercial that’s uses every single second to tell one of the most heartwarming, inspirational stories you’ve ever seen.
If we weren’t so damn manly here at IHateTheMedia.com, it would have brought tears to our eyes.
Source: Presurfer.com
Beer isn’t just a beverage in Australia. It’s a golden elixir. The lifeblood of the nation. The liquid that makes life worth living. So you’d expect the Aussies to make great beer commercials.
Beer isn’t just a beverage in Australia. It’s a golden elixir. The lifeblood of the nation. The liquid that makes life worth living. So you’d expect the Aussies to make great beer commercials.
This one is vaguely reminiscent of the Bud Light’s True Men of Genius campaign, but much bigger, much wackier, much funnier.
That being said, we don’t understand some of the Aussie slang in the commercial, but guessing makes it even funnier.
Perhaps some of our Aussie readers could explain the meaning of “The Azzas,” “Blokes Punching above their weight” (we think that one might mean, “Guys with women they don’t deserve”), “Meat Tray Winners” and “Cashed Up Bogans.”
Enjoy.
Source: Andrew Bolt
Jack Cafferty said Alec Baldwin wasn’t qualified to run for office because he hadn’t gone to Harvard like Al Franken. Baldwin responded and it was great.
CNN’s Jack Cafferty has done the impossible. He made us agree with something Alec Baldwin said.
Cafferty said Baldwin wasn’t qualified to run for office because he hadn’t gone to Harvard like Al Franken. Baldwin responded at HuffingtonPost.com:
I would like to make a deal with Cafferty. Jack, you don’t tell people that a career in the performing arts disqualifies them from seeking elected office, and I won’t say publicly that your being convicted of leaving the scene of an accident in which you struck a cyclist and then ran two red lights while you were pursued by the police and were subsequently ordered to serve 70 hours of community service back in May of 2003 disqualifies you from posing as a “Man of the People” on a major cable news network.
Fair enough?
Can’t help but agree with Baldwin on this one. But in our defense, we don’t feel good about it.
Source: HuffingtonPost.com
At a time when the Iranian thugocracy has clamped down on foreign reporters, CNN still managed to get some great quotes from unnamed pro-democracy protesters. Unfortunately for CNN, the sharp-eyed folks at BNO News figured out why they were unnamed – the quotes were actually tweets that had been posted by an anonymous Iranian Twitterer called PersianKiwi.
Which will vanish from CNN sooner – its last viewer or its last remaining shred of credibility? It’s a race down to the wire.
At a time when the Iranian thugocracy has clamped down on foreign reporters, CNN still managed to get some great quotes from unnamed pro-democracy protesters. Unfortunately for CNN, the sharp-eyed folks at BNO News figured out why they were unnamed – the quotes were actually tweets that had been posted by an anonymous Iranian Twitterer called PersianKiwi.
Here are PersianKiwi’s original tweets posted in the morning hours of June 24:
they were waiting for us – they all have guns and riot uniforms – it was like a mouse trap – ppl being shot like animals #Iranelection 6:53 AM Jun 24th from web
I see many ppl with broken arms/legs/heads – blood everywhere – pepper gas like war – #Iranelection 6:35 AM Jun 24th from web
Later in the day, CNN.com posted the following story:
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Security forces wielding clubs and firing weapons beat back hundreds of would-be demonstrators who had flocked to a square in the capital on Wednesday to continue protests against an election they have denounced as fraudulent, witnesses told CNN.
“They were waiting for us,” one source said. “They all have guns and riot uniforms. It was like a mouse trap.”
“I see many people with broken arms, legs, heads – blood everywhere – pepper gas like war,” the source said.
Similar unnamed “sources” tell us that Ashton Kutcher is heading for the store to buy some cheese and crackers. But we’re not putting in a story.
Uh-oh. Looks like we just did.
Source: Gawker via MediaBistro.com
Fox News is racking up the highest ratings in its 13-year history. The overall ratings at Rupert Murdoch’s network have shot up a remarkable 33% among Total Viewers and up 44% in the Adults 25-54 demographic in the last year. In primetime (Monday-Friday) the network’s dominance is even more shocking. It’s up 35% in Total Viewers and up 54% in younger viewers.
Fox News is racking up the highest ratings in its 13-year history.
The overall ratings at Rupert Murdoch’s network have shot up a remarkable 33% among Total Viewers and up 44% in the Adults 25-54 demographic in the last year. In primetime (Monday-Friday) the network’s dominance is even more shocking. It’s up 35% in Total Viewers and up 54% in younger viewers.
MSNBC and CNN have all but ceded primetime to Fox News, which racks up more total viewers and more younger viewers than the two runner up cable news networks combined.
You probably won’t find the following list taped on the refrigerator in the employee lounge at either MSNBC or CNN. It shows that Fox News has all ten of the most watched programs on cable news:
| Time | Program | Total Viewers |
| 8pm | O’Reilly Factor | 3,188,000 |
| 9pm | Hannity | 2,341,000 |
| 5pm | Glen Beck | 2,053,000 |
| 10pm | On the Record | 1,950,000 |
| 6pm | Special Report | 1,889,000 |
| 7pm | Fox Report | 1,757,000 |
| 11pm | O’Reilly Factor | 1,579,000 |
| 9am | America’s Newsroom | 1,399,000 |
| 4pm | Your World | 1,389,000 |
| 3pm | Studio B | 1,169,000 |
MSNBC and CNN to both hitched their wagon to Obama’s horse. The horse has gone lame.
Source: MediaBistro.com
Fox News Steve Doocy points out, no, she hasn’t actually read the car and trade energy bill. Damn conservative media, why can’t they just play nice like the liberal media?
Energy Czar Carol Browner should be on Dancing With the Stars. Because this woman can dance around a question like nobody’s business. Fox News’ Steve Doocy asks her if she’s actually read the Cap-and-Trade energy bill and she starts with a mean paso doble, segues into a tango, and finishes off with a creditable tap dance.
But as Doocy points out, no, she hasn’t actually read the bill. Damn conservative media being unfair again.
Source: HotAir.com
Just when we were ready to write off Morgan Freeman as a Hollywood wacko for having with his step granddaughter, we run across this video. It shows Freeman telling an absolutely incredulous Mike Wallace why he’s against Black History Month.
Damn it. Just when we were ready to write off Morgan Freeman as a Hollywood wacko for having an affair with his step granddaughter, we run across this video. It shows Freeman telling an absolutely incredulous Mike Wallace why he’s against Black History Month.
Mike Wallace: Black history month you find ridiculous. Why?
Morgan Freeman: You’re going to relegate my history to a month?
Mike Wallace: Oh, c’mon.
Morgan Freeman: What do you do with yours? Which month is white history month? Well, c’mon, tell me.
Mike Wallace: I’m Jewish.
Morgan Freeman: OK, which month is Jewish history month?
Mike Wallace: There isn’t one.
Morgan Freeman: Oh, oh. Why not? Do you want one?
Mike Wallace:No.
Morgan Freeman: No, I don’t either. I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.
Mike Wallace: How we gonna get rid of racism until…
Morgan Freeman: Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man. And I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.
He made so much sense that 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace is left damn near speechless.
And for that alone, Freeman is working his way back into our good graces.
Here’s a clip of a moderate Hamas-produced children’s TV show in which Farfur, Mickey Mouse’s merry Muslim twin, is murdered by an evil Jew over a land dispute.
Jimmy Carter says Hamas should be taken off our terrorist list. They’re the moderates, he insists.
Here’s a clip of a moderate Hamas-produced children’s TV show in which Farfur, Mickey Mouse’s merry Muslim twin, is murdered by an evil Jew over a land dispute.
Might the Obama administration use this clip as evidence that Hamas is still a terrorist organization?
Nah. They’re more likely to be sued by Disney for copyright infringement.
Update: See our later article, Welcome to “How Will He Die?” the Hamas mascot death watch guessing game.
Source: Tim Blair/Daily Telegraph
CBS Harry Smith’s lie was so outrageous that even President Obama felt compelled to correct it. In fact, Obama actually laughs at the absurdity of Harry Smith’s comments.
It’s not unusual for the media to lie about President Obama’s predecessor. What’s unusual is that Harry Smith’s lie was so outrageous that even President Obama felt compelled to correct it. In fact, Obama actually laughs at the absurdity of Harry Smith’s comments.
Liberal media bias at it’s finest.
It seems that Huffington Post reporter Nico Pitney and the Obama team has preplanned the question and answer on Iran at today’s Press Conference.
The self-described “most transparent administration in history” took another step toward self-immolation at the President’s press conference today.
Just moments before the press conference began, Huffington Post reporter Nico Pitney was personally escorted from the nether regions of the White House Press Room by deputy press secretary Josh Earnest. Pitney was awarded a prime spot just inside the barricade.
Miraculously, President Obama not only singled out Pitney for a question, but seemed to know exactly what the question would be, setting off alarms for all the other reporters present.
“Nico, I know you and all across the Internet, we’ve been seeing a lot of reports coming out of Iran,” Obama said. “I know there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?”
Pitney pretended to ignore Obama’s introduction and asked his question as if the President hadn’t tipped it: “I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian.”
Of course, Chris Matthews will say this just proves that the president has added clairvoyance to his other remarkable talents he has exhibited as The Greatest President In the Universe.
Source: RealClearPolitics.com
Lydia Guevara, the smokin’ hot granddaughter of murderous Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara will appear semi-nude in a new PETA ad campaign.
Lydia Guevara, the smokin’ hot granddaughter of murderous Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara will appear semi-nude in a new PETA ad campaign.
She’ll be seen wearing camouflage pants, a red beret, and bandoliers filled with baby carrots.
The campaign will be launched in October in Argentina, where Che Guevara was born, then spread around the globe faster than a virulent strain of swine flu.
“It very much evokes the tag line of the ad, which is ‘Join the vegetarian revolution,'” said PETA spokesman Michael McGraw. “It’s an homage of sorts to her late grandfather.”
Apparently, McGraw knows a lot more about baby carrots than he does about history. Any honest homage to Che Guevera should include the rotting, stinking corpses of his innocent victims.
But that wouldn’t look nearly as good on a poster as his semi-nude granddaughter, would it?
Source: AP
Todd Palin step aside, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” is kicking David Letterman’s ass, with dominant wins in every important demographic, plus a victory in total viewers.
Todd Palin needs to get in line, because David Letterman’s ass is currently being kicked by Conan O’Brien.
Here’s how NBC brags about it:
“The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” has delivered a convincing victory in its second week on the air, with dominant wins in every important demographic – adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 – plus a victory in total viewers.
Conan won the week over all cable and broadcast entertainment competition, beating his closest rival, CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman,” by a 79 percent margin in adult 18-49 viewers, despite the controversy involving Gov. Sarah Palin that has boosted interest in “Late Show,” and a lineup of prominent “Late Show” guests last week that included Howard Stern and Julia Roberts. The 79 percent advantage is “Tonight’s” most dominant win over a full week of “Late Show” originals, excluding Conan’s premiere week, in five years (since the week of the “Friends” finale, May 3-7, 2004).
Conan’s lead last week soared to 177 percent in the younger half of the target 18-49 demographic, adults 18-34 (1.040 million adults 18-34 vs. 376,000). In men 18-34, the margin was 245 percent (545,000 vs. 158,000). The median age of Conan’s audience last week was 45.7, 11 years younger than Letterman’s 56.7
Say good night, Dave.
Source: TVByTheNumbers.com
