I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Latin Spring? Post-Chavez Venezuela most likely will be governed by chaos. “To Venezuela’s low-information voters, the crime and corruption were bearable because Chavez was seen as blameless, a man they could connect with as he spoke with them nonstop on television as he shoveled the government handouts.” But now the handouts are running out – there as well as here.

Belafonte’s advice to Obama: imprison opposition “like a Third World dictator.” Yep, forget that “power to the people” sh*t, the Left is all about totalitarian statism. Every once in a while, they’ll tell you that straight out. Day-O! Daylight come and Harry’s a Marxist crumb.

Pelosi addresses GOP’s lack of concern about Kwanzaa shopping. Fiscal cliff? What fiscal cliff? The important thing is whether the American people can shop for their Kwanzaa gifts and pay the credit card bills when they come due in January.

Loose cannon Rep. Jim Moran’s loose cannon son pleads guilty. Last time we saw this yahoo he was caught on tape encouraging voter fraud to help his father’s re-election. Now he’s admitted beating up his girlfriend. Sounds like a perfect Democrat congresscritter of the future, doesn’t he?

Electric car company Coda cuts staff. 15% staff cut, source claims only 100 cars sold since March, “It’s a real mess.” The DOE better hurry up and loan them $500 million so they can go bankrupt Obama style.

U.N. makes Mauritania vice president of Human Rights Council. Mauritania is the last country on Planet Earth where slavery is normal – an estimated 18 percent of the population live as slaves. Also, female genital mutilation is widely practiced, abandoning the Muslim faith generally results in execution, and homosexuality also carries the death penalty. Hey, who would know more about human rights than these people?

Union goon pretends to be a girl. They’ve identified two of the thugs who attacked conservatives yesterday in Lansing (including the guy who sucker punched Steven Crowder). One of the tough guys, Chris Opalewski of the IBEW, apparently likes to cross-dress in his spare time… not that there’s anything wrong with that. Electrical workers sometimes get their wires crossed, that’s all.

Berkshire Hathaway repurchases $1.2 billion worth of shares. So what do you do with the $1 billion in back taxes you owe? Well you buy your own shares back, all the while telling eveyone they should pay more taxes, that’s what. Eleventy!

Union “victory”: Chrysler reinstates 13 workers fired for drinking on the job. An arbitrator decided there was “insufficient conclusive evidence to uphold the dismissals.” They were fired two years ago after being filmed by a local TV station “drinking and smoking what the network suggested was a controlled substance before and during work.” Maybe if they had offered the arbitrator a toke… Nah.

Hey, let’s come up with another nutty idea and get some of that global warming grant money! We suspicion he got this idea from looking at a Christmas tree ornament with glitter on it.

Buffett Joins Soros in Effort to Raise Taxes on Estates: You might not be able to take it when you go. But apparently Buffet and Soros can.

Horrific footage shows ‘Syrian rebels’ forcing boy to behead captive with sword. Regardless if it was Assad’s people, Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas or the FSA terrorist organization the religion of peace strikes again.

Unions, police clash at Michigan Capitol – Steven Crowder assaulted by union protesters. Will Obama denounce this violence? What about the Krugmans and Hallops of the world?

Arch liberals at Google shelter $10 billion in tax-free Bermuda. Sure, Larry Page and Sergey Brin support Obama’s agenda – they’re loyal leftwing Democrats – but they want us to pay higher taxes, not themselves. They probably get together with Warren Buffet and laugh their butts off.

Benghazi security personnel were unarmed. They never managed to fire one bullet in defense during the attack. This is the Obama legacy: Benghazi guards unarmed, thousands of guns delivered to Mexican cartels.

Another administration official expresses admiration for communist China. This time it’s Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of the president’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness: “The one thing that actually works, state run communism a bit – may not be your cup of tea, but their government works.” IHTM interpretation: “Anybody who disagrees with the government disappears into a dungeon, which is real handy.”

Ancient Extinct Lizard Named After President Obama We would have guessed that Obamadon caused the mass dinosaur die-off because it overtaxed them and made them all sign up for Obamadoncare. When you can’t afford food and have to wait for death panels to decide your fate, the end result will be chillingly similar.

Novak Djokovic buys entire world supply of donkey cheese. The number one tennis player now has a monopoly on coagulated equine mammary fluid – at $576/pound – which he plans to feature in his “soon-to-open chain of restaurants.” Rumor has it there’s nothing better than ass cheese omelet with a cup of elephant poop coffee.

Peter Schiff: Majority Doesn’t “Have A Right To Steal My Money Just Because They Voted For It”: Peter Schiff is right, as usual. But as usual Schiff will be ignored and the Planner Barons (as Ayn Rand called them) will keep propping up their corrupt system through an ever increasing theft of our property and labor. Right until the very moment that they have spent it all.

Ghana president re-elected, a result opposition claims was ‘manipulated’: Perhaps this guy should have won the Obama way –that is to say by getting more votes than there are actual voters– because nobody ever questions the validity of that method.

Obama campaign to telemarket for taxes. “Aiming to bring public pressure on Republicans to back higher taxes for the rich in the ‘fiscal cliff’ fight, the Obama Biden campaign today began urging supporters to join a local, online phone bank to help the president blast the GOP.” If Obama-Biden were going to jump off a cliff, that would be an effort we’d get behind. This, not so much.

Democrats divided on how much to expand MediCal under healthcare reform law. This appears to be another post election payoff for those Democrat votes. California should soon be known as the ‘Off the Fiscal Cliff Bullet Train to Bankruptcy’ state. They seem to be in a hurry to become insolvent.

Bankrupt Obama-stimulus recipient A123 goes to the highest bidder: China. “…what we’ve essentially accomplished here is borrowing money from the Chinese, to build a company at a loss, to then sell it to the Chinese.” Well, now that the only buyer of Treasury bonds is the Fed, from now on we can print money to build a company at a loss to sell to the Chinese. Keen, er, Keynes!

Walmart Bails On Obamacare-Sticks Taxpayers With Employee Healthcare Costs: We are shocked to find that when Obama told us “”if you like your current insurance you will keep your current insurance” he was lying. But at least our health care costs are going to go down by three thousand percent, right?

Foodstamps Soar By Most In 16 Months: Over 1 Million Americans Enter Poverty In Last Two Months: For these people the financial cliff already came, and Barry pushed them over it.