The President took time out from his busy schedule of magazine cover photo shoots and late night TV appearances on Tuesday and made his NCAA men’s basketball tournament picks for ESPN. And that didn’t sit well with Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.
“Somebody said that we’re not in President Obama’s Final Four,” Krzyzewski said, “and as much as I respect what he’s doing, really, the economy is something that he should focus on, probably more than the brackets.”
We say back off, Coach K. The more time this guy spends on basketball, the less time he’ll have to “stimulate” the economy.
If you ever doubted that Keith Olbermann is insane, get over it. This is, perhaps, his most crazed “Worst Person In the World” segment ever.
Unbeknownst to Olbermann, someone opened a Twitter account in his name and now has 13,000 followers. Keith does not like this. He does not like it at all. So he blustered. His eyes bugged out. He twitched. He fell just short of foaming at the mouth. And then he named Twitter the Worst Person In the World.
And then, of course, he blamed Fox News.
Had they not run out of time, Olbermann would have continued blaming Fox for World War IX, kim chee, the Jonas Brothers, and his own sexual dysfunctions.
From Cable News Network to Clinton News Network to Communist News Network. Hmmmm. Could this having something to do with the decline in ratings? CNN’s ratings are collapsing even faster than Tim Geithner’s reputation.
The original cable news network now rests in fourth place in primetime – dead last – in the fierce fight for the coveted 25-to-54 demographic. On one recent night, they fell to fifth, trailing even CNBC.
Here’s how Portfolio.com explains CNN’s sad tale:
Through March 17, CNN trailed not only Fox News and MSNBC but also its own sister network, Headline News, on nine out of 17 days. On one day, March 13, CNN even drew fewer 25-to-54 viewers than CNBC — the first time that’s happened since November 2007. And of the eight days it finished higher than fourth in the demo, five were either Saturdays or Sundays, typically the lowest rated nights for the news networks.
Asked about the trend, a CNN spokeswoman offered a statement that emphasized the network’s long-term ratings growth — while ignoring the even sharper gains made by Fox News and MSNBC.
Blahblahblah. Let us sum this up for you simply: The lefter they go, the laster they get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlYT2bseII In case you haven’t see it yet, President Obama channeled Joe Biden last night and said something offensive and stupid on the Tonight Show.
Seems Obama went bowling while on the campaign trail last summer and embarrassed himself by rolling a 37. He explained to Jay Leno that he’s been practicing on the White House bowling alley, but said his lack of success is “like Special Olympics or something.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0EcujFSn8 Next we have MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. He had seen an early NBC feed of the Tonight Show and was horribly dismayed by Obama’s remark. Not because it was offensive, but because it might damage the President. As Olbermann wailed mournfully to his guest “What do we do? What does he do about that?”
Of course, if President Bush had made the offensive comment, Olbermann would have known exactly what to do. No dithering. He would immediately have named Bush “Worst Person in the World.”
Finally, we’re proud to present a video that will show both President Obama and his apologist in chief exactly what bowling looks like in the Special Olympics. These kids are good, damn it.
Mrs. Editor of IHateTheMedia.com teaches autistic children. She wants to cordially invite President Obama to her school and so he can meet some of these kids and see the error of his ways.
She does not extend the same courtesy or invitation to Keith Olbermann.
It wasn’t an official strike, just a protest. But 100 or so members of the Screen Actors Guild picketed NBC’s Tonight Show in Burbank last night. And President Obama’s limo sped past them faster than Joe Biden putting his foot in his mouth.
Here’s how Variety explains it:
The protest was organized in hopes of bringing the issue of SAG’s contract stalemate to Obama’s attention. The Membership First faction of SAG has been urging members to vote down whatever deal’s sent out for ratification due to its perceived shortcomings in new media.
“I told the president’s office that there would be demonstrators outside NBC to alert him to the fact that many of our members won’t be able to make any living if this deal’s shoved down our throats,” said Scott Wilson, who organized the event.
SAG national board members Frances Fisher and Nancy Sinatra attended along with former board members Michael Bell and Susan Savage.
What a great story. It has Hollywood. It has unions. It has a floundering socialist president screwing Hollywood unions.
It has everything except someone to sympathize with.
Anchor Babe Courtney Friel of Fox News is the hottest woman on cable news. Here are a few photos of Courtney in her bikini.
Courtney Friel (sigh).
Anchor Babe Courtney Friel of Fox News, the hottest of the Fox News Women Anchors, was interviewed recently by SoupCans. The anchor goddess answered the following question:
Soup: How did the gig with Fox News come about?
Friel: Well…I went on a date with Roger Ailes…OMG- I’m joking!! Actually, the process was pretty standard. My agent sent FOX a DVD which had 2 reels on it – entertainment and local news. Then I flew to NYC for an interview. Next I got an offer so I left LA and moved to the Big Apple! I’m in my third year at FNC already!
So does that mean she’s not going out with Roger Ailes? He hasn’t swept the most beautiful woman on television into his evil web of conservative conquests? Does it mean she’s available?
Maybe not. She also revealed in the interview that she’s married to some other TV guy blah-blah-blah. We really didn’t concentrate on that part of the interview.
Let’s make this clear right up front. We would leave our wives for Courtney. Is that so wrong?
Did you catch habitual liar Keith Olbermann on the Tonight Show the other night? We didn’t think so.
The only thing interesting about it – other than Jay Leno’s continued race to the left – was the moment when Keith and Jay confessed to the fact that they are embarrassed by the their employers.
It went like this:
LENO: Can I ask you a dumb question? It’s called American Insurance Group? Is that the name? OLB: I believe that’s it, yes. LENO: Is this even an American company? Or is this one of these phony things where you’re chopping down trees and you call yourself The Evergreen Preservation Society? OLB: It’s a brand name. LENO: Is it even American at all? OLB: It probably was at some point. But you know, when you go to initials, as you know, its usually a sign something’s changed. Just going by your initials you really don’t want to be identified as the company anymore.
What a bonehead. Would someone please point out to Olbermann that his employer is one of those companies that goes by initials instead of its full name.
And then would someone please point out to these two financial geniuses that it’s actually the American International Group, not the American Insurance Group.
Source: NBC (formerly the National Broadcasting Company)
Charles Rangel, D-NY, March 19, 2009 on CNBC Squawkbox
We sincerely hope you get to the bottom of what you did or didn’t do, Charlie. The American people are lucky to have a dedicateddependable deplorable public servant like you in Washington, DC.
"Have you...uh...seen my teleprompter, Dave...uh...Jay?"
President Obama is wearing out his welcome with America’s television networks. Especially at Fox, home of his harshest critics.
The economy is struggling, advertising sales are dropping, ratings are sagging, and all the networks lose revenue every time Obama interrupts their regular primetime programming. But none are impacted as severly as Fox.
Obama always requests primetime coverage on Tuesday, the one night of the week that does the most damage to Fox.
Fox “owns” Tuesday nights thanks to its two-hour American Idol programming block. Next week the network will be forced to shift its line-up, pushing each of the regular “Idol” broadcasts back a day.
“At a time when we’re struggling not only financially but to build audiences, this doesn’t help on either front,” one network executive said. “These repeated interruptions — and the rumor of even more to come — really make it difficult to build audience flow and loyalty. We will all lose one or two million dollars for this.”
“I believe in the president and his policies, and as broadcasters we have a responsibility to provide the airtime,” said another network insider. “But these frequent primetime requests are wreaking serious havoc with our schedule and our advertisers. Ratings are down everywhere and the airtime is costing us all significant dollars when we can least afford it.”
So much for the “stimulus” plan.
But let’s get to the more important issues. Adam Lambert. Did you love his version of “Ring of Fire?” Or did you hate it?
Representative Charlie Rangel (D-NY) didn’t know what he was getting into when he stepped in front of the CNBC cameras early this morning. Hosts Mark Haines and Erin Burnett invited the congressman on the show to discuss why he backs legislation to disallow the AIG bonuses.
First, Mark and Aaron jumped on Rangel about changing the compensation plan for a company in the middle of the game. But after Rangel was given a chance to defend his actions by claiming that AIG employees “violated the public trust” and “destroyed the economy,” the fireworks began as the conversation took a turn as Mark Haines went after him with a vengeance about his own alleged tax problems.
Haines turned the conversation with this: “With all due respect, congressman, when you talk about violating the public trust, you’ve had some tax issues of your own.” And that’s when the real fun and games started.
We love it. Some in the mainstream media are starting to grow a pair.
The results of a new poll conducted by ABC News, the BBC and Japan’s NHK must make editors and reporters around the nation take a big gulp and say, “Didn’t see that comin’.”
It shows big progress everywhere they looked. But you probably won’t read about it anywhere except an editorial in Monday’s Investor’s Business Daily.
Check out these numbers:
85% of Iraqis said their neighborhood security was “good,” up from 62% a year ago and 43% in August of 2007.
Those who support democracy jumped to 64% from just 43% in 2007.
58% feel “very good” or “quite good” about the state of affairs in Iraq. That’s up from just 22% in 2007.
When asked what their main concerns are, war, security and terrorism took a backseat to jobs and prices.
“In short, it sounds like we not only won the war, but the peace as well,” IBD concluded. “And for those who cast a skeptical eye on the idea that any Islamic country could ever be democratized, it turns out the former President Bush is winning that debate too.”
Some results IBD didn’t mention:
96% of Iraqis think John Kerry is a pompous liar. 98% think Harry Reid is a pathetic liar. And 100% of Iraqis think John Murtha is a big, fat liar.
Tough to imagine anything more moronic than MTV nor anything more oxymoronic than the term “Arabic MTV.”
Walk down the street in any Arab capital and you’ll see burkah-covered women. Yet turn on the TV in any Arab living room and you’ll find a dozen music video channels filled with bared flesh.
Enter Ahmed Abu Haiba, the founder of 4Shbab TV, which calls itself “Islam’s own MTV.”
The idea behind 4Shbab is simple, he says. Mainstream music videos are “lewd” and do not represent the Arab world’s cultural values. He says they are haram, or forbidden and sinful in Islam.
4Shbab TV is Abu Haiba’s attempt to put young people back on the right path, he says, in a way that is fun and entertaining. Music videos from around the world – not just “Islamic videos,” but anything that’s positive, he says – air alongside call-in shows and contests like “Who wants to be an Islamic pop star?”
“Ask people in the street and they will tell you that these channels are something strange in our culture,” he says. “They smash our identity and confuse people, especially the younger generation. They give them a misunderstanding about their own lives.
Arabic MTV. We can’t wait to see Madonna in a burkah singing “Like 72 Virgins.” al-Vis Presley singing “Jailhouse Rocket Grenade Launcher.” And purple caftan-clad Prince with his rendition of “Party Like It’s 1399.”
What does it say about the media when we get more truth from cartoons than from the news?
The sickness that is called moral relativism keeps the politically correct media from coming out and saying what’s pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain: Scientology is a crock.
It’s a wacky religion concocted by a science fiction writer with too much time on his hands. It’s one of the biggest scams in history. Right up there with the “stimulus” package.
Here’s a great mash-up of L. Ron Hubbard and a South Park episode. It combines the denials of a Scientology spokesman with South Park’s animated version of L. Ron Hubbard’s actual spoken words.
We don’t know which is funnier – Hubbard’s words, South Park’s animation or John Travolta’s pilot uniform. But that’s another story.
We have to go now. We have a call from Xenu on line two.
Glenn Beck ratings at Fox News is the big story in cable news this week. He has leapfrogged Sean Hannity to #2. What was CNN thinking when the let this guy get away?
The biggest news in cable news this week is the remarkable rise of Glenn Beck at Fox.
His Friday night special drew huge numbers and leapfrogged his show above long-time #2 Sean Hannity. What was CNN thinking when the let this guy get away?
As for the rest of the cable news pack, some were up a little, some were down a little. And Larry King continues to be CNN’s last man standing.
The accompanying chart looks at the top 10 cable TV news shows for March 13, 2009.
One cog in American Idol’s production machine says the show is completely fixed and that producers have already chosen the final four competitors.
According to an unnamed female production staffer, Danny Gokey, Lil Rounds, Adam Lambert and Alexis Grace will be seen in the finals. She insists she’s not speculating. “Those are the people,” she said.
But that’s where the agreement ends. Judges and producers reportedly can’t agree who the final two should be.
“Adam Lambert and Lil Rounds are better singers and musicians than Gokey and Grace, but they’re too much like past winners and ‘A’ successes,” the woman said. “Adam’s too close in style and sound to Chris Daughtry, while Lil Rounds is a dead ringer for Fantasia. Even their background stories are similar!”
“The producers really want it to be Danny or Alexis,” she added. “They think they’re very commercially viable, have a good image and a great story.”
We knew this thing was fixed a couple years ago when Sanjaya didn’t win. C’mon, that guy was a major talent.
A tip of the cap to Bernie Madoff, who made off with billions and was a major Democrat contributor
Remember Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist who spread money around as if it were peanut butter and Washington, DC were a slice of white bread?
The media felt it was their patriotic duty to expose the recipients of his largess, especially since most of them were Republicans.
Have you seen any headlines announcing that Bernie Madoff, the perpetrator of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, was a huge Democrat donor? Well, he was. Here’s how OpenSecrets.org reports it:
In total, he and his wife, Ruth, have given $238,200 to federal candidates, parties and committees since 1991, with Democrats getting 88 percent of that. Overall, Madoff and other individuals at his company, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, gave $372,100 in campaign contributions since 1991, with 89 percent to Democrats. The firm spent $590,000 on lobbying in the last 11 years, all but $10,000 of it with the lobbying firm of Lent, Scrivner & Roth.
The media demanded that Republican politicians return Abramoff’s donations and his money wasn’t even stolen. When will they begin demanding that Democrat politicians return Madoff’s stolen money?
It says a lot about the current political environment that this guy would confess to being a crook, but keep quiet about being a Democrat.
Cincinnati has long been nicknamed “Porkopolis” because of its long association with the pork industry. So it’s a particularly poetic twist of fate that Porkopolis should be the scene of a huge Tea Party tax protest this Sunday.
Thousands of latter day tax rebels showed up in the city’s Fountain Square for the Cincinnati Tea Party, a grass-roots effort protesting Washington’s recent record setting spend-a-thon. But did the mainstream media notice?
“Unless you frequent conservative websites,” NewsBusters noted, “you’d have no idea that such events were being staged.”
In fact, over 150 Tea Parties have been brewing across the country, despite being virtually ignored by major news outlets (with the notable exception of Fox News and CNN).
Instapundit reader Ed Steiner attended the Cincinnati rally and provided a firsthand account of media bias in action:
One of the local TV stations—WCPO—did a hatchet job on the Tea Party…The station did a 30-second scan of the Square and then did its own internal Fairness Doctrine by highlighting the few Obama supporter signs and doing an interview with the local Dem Party chief.
Here’s a philosophical question: If an event occurs but the news media don’t cover it, does it make an impact? Or put another way, if the news media report something but no one listens (Air America anyone?), does it have an influence?
Don’t touch that browser! Stay tuned for more Tea Parties come April 15.
Three Muslim men have brutally attacked a Christian minister in London because they didn’t like his gospel television show.
“If you go back to the studio,” they threatened, “we’ll break your legs.”
The Reverend Noble Samuel said, “(The first man) started slapping my face and punching my neck. He was trying to smash my head on the steering wheel. Then he grabbed my cross and pulled it off and it fell on the floor. He was swearing. The other two men came from the car and took my laptop and Bible.”
“They were having an argument with me,” he stated. “They were very aggressive in saying they did not agree with me. I said those are your views and these are my views.”
“I am frightened and depressed,” he added. “My show is not confrontational.”
And that’s the difference between these Muslim goons and us. We don’t like America’s Next Top Model, but we’d never attack Tyra Banks. We’re pretty sure she could kick our butts.
The economy has dealt a vicious blow to one of Matt Lauer’s coolest perks.
No more gallivanting around the world during the Today Show’s annual “Where in the World Is Matt Lauer?” promotion. It’s been axed by producers who say the extravagant trip sent the wrong message in today’s tough economy.
The new plan calls for Lauer to spend five days trudging around “affordable” vacation spots in the United States.
If the Today Show really wants to save money, here’s another idea: Have Lauer stay right in New York and broadcast directly from his home.
Instead of lounging on the beach in the Seychelle Islands, he can lounge on his couch. Instead of dining at fine restaurants in Paris, he can eating pork and beans out of the can while standing at the kitchen sink. Instead of sleeping in five star hotels, he can catnap in a La-Z-Boy recliner in his den. Instead of interviewing exotic foreigners, he can interview his illegal Guatamalan housekeeper.
"Change is coming! Hope is coming! Run for your life!"
NBC and ABC on Tuesday marked President Obama’s first 50 days in office this week. Sadly, they celebrated it.
“The President’s first seven weeks have been a whirlwind with often dramatic movement in all directions, on all fronts,” NBC’s Brian Williams intoned.
“Seven weeks ago,”ABC’s Jake Tapper commented, “just minutes after taking the oath of office, President Obama formally nominated his cabinet. He’s been a whirling dervish of activity ever since.”
For some reason, neither network mentioned Obama’s many failed nominations, his dithering over the the “stimulus” bill, Wall Street’s negative reaction every time he opens his mouth, his foreign policy gaffes, his the race toward socialism and destruction of capitalism, his aura of negativity, nor the astounding increase in debt he’s proposed.
Instead, the networks lovingly referred to the President as a “whirlwind” and a “whirling dervish of activity.”
In middle America, they don’t call it a whirling dervish. They call a hurricane. And they race down to their storm cellars until it’s safe to come out again.
Remember the movie “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?” Indy found an ancient artifact that had been lost for thousands of years.
Well, slap a snappy fedora on the president and call him Indiana Obama, because he’s discovered socialist Saul Alinsky’s long-lost 13th Rule for Radicals. It is “Create successes that cannot be measured or disproved.”
Presidents used to say, “My plan will create X jobs?” Our new president says, “My plan will create or save X jobs.”
Every time he says it, the compliant media nod enthusiastically, scribble down that day’s number, and hope like hell reporters are among the ones that are saved.
For God’s sake, people, would someone please ask this guy how to measure this new statistical category he’s invented called “Jobs Saved.”
Thanks to this magical new “Jobs Saved” category, Obama can make up any number he damn well pleases. Even if jobs don’t budge an inch in the next four years, he’ll happily announce, “Due to our policies, we have saved 4 million jobs.”
To complete the analogy, Indiana Jones was afraid of snakes. So are we. Especially when they’re in the White House.
Poor Donald Trump can’t catch a break. If his current run of luck continues, “poor” may be the most appropriate to describe the real estate mogul and TV personality.
According to the Huffington Post, the second episode of Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice” drew an audience 21% smaller than its season premiere episode.
That was about 25% less than ABC-TV’s anemic two hour programming block of “Desperate Housewives” and Brothers and Sisters,” which was also down 19%.
At this rate, it won’t be long until The Donald is spotting eating risotto served up by Michelle Obama.
Ahhh, the beauty of Sharia Law. Coming soon to a country near you!
For some mysterious reason, this story’s barely made a blip in the news. Guess the American media’s just been too darn busy gushing over Michelle Obama’s arms.
A 75-year-old Saudi Arabian widow has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for “mingling” with two young men who were not close relatives. One was her late husband’s nephew and the other was his business partner. Ah, the beauty of Islamic Sharia law.
One can’t help but notice the media’s striking lack of concern for women outside the United States. It’s rare to hear more than a whisper of protest from any print or broadcast media.
And the big name women’s organizations? Silent as Marcelle Marceau despite the fact that they’re always the first to say, “It’s one world. We’re one family of people. We’re all brothers and sisters.” Yet when confronted with horrible abuse in Muslim nations, the typical response is, “We must understand. We must not be so quick to criticize, because its their culture.”
Perhaps those 40 lashes would have been applied better to someone else. Send your nominations to IHateTheMedia.com.
Muslims in America simply want to become good Americans. They just want picnics, beer bellies, and mortgages they can’t afford, like the rest of us. At least that’s what the media tells us.
Luckily, not-so-peaceful jihadists can’t keep their mouths shut. Stick a camera in front of one of these guys and he feels compelled to blab the truth. Apparently, a camera to jihadist is like sodium pentothal to a liar.
The attached video is from a Chicago-based TV show called Underground Railroad. They guest, Dr. Amir Ali, seems rather happy (eager, in fact) to announce that Islam and sharia law are coming to the good ol’ USA and that we’re destined to become an Islamic country.
Here’s another quote from Dr. Ali from the MarkedManner.com blog: “When Hitler reluctantly started to implement his ‘final solution’ in dealing with German Jews…whatever else he was, he was no dummy! What did he know about which we are as yet blissfully unaware?”
In the words of Joe Biden, “Gimme a f$#&kin’ break.”
You never know what’s going to come out of Joe Biden’s mouth. But we’ll bet you didn’t expect this.
Biden was at Union Station yesterday, bragging up Obama’s $1.3 billion “investment” in train stations and rail lines. The error-prone vice president was apparently unaware of a near-by microphone. When one of his former Senate colleagues called him “Mr. Vice President,” Biden replied with what is reportedly one of his favorite phrases:
Remember back in 2004 when Dick Cheney looked Senator Patrick Leahy straight in the eye and said, “Go f#$% yourself?” The libs got all weak in the knees, broke out in cold sweats, and swore they were absolutely horrified that Cheney had violated their virgin ears with such vile language.
Our reaction at the time? “Gimme a f*&$#ing break.”