I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Obama’s enemies face tax scrutiny: Perhaps the best reason ever to vote Republican. They can’t even get away with covering up bungled hotel break-ins . . . there is no way they could get away with this.

The Nation: The Robin Hood Tax, A Powerful Antidote to Austerity: Yeah, also a powerful antidote to jobs and economic growth. But that doesn’t concern the kleptocrats. They don’t care about taxes trickling down to the middle class. Not so long as it means that someone is going to be on the hook to pay for their handouts.

Bill Maher unfamiliar with “Fast and Furious” Don’t worry Bill. All your bedfellows are more than familiar with the term. The former being the best way to describe your technique. And the latter most accurately describing their feelings about it.

“We are living in a modern-day depression.” Hey, don’t you mean “unexpectedly”, pal? “Government transfers to the personal sector now makes up nearly one-fifth of total household income,” says Gluskin Sheff’s chief economist David Rosenberg. “Even Lyndon Johnson, architect of the ‘Great Society’, would blush at that.” Unlike the 1930s, the bread-lines are virtual, all done with EBT cards now. But like the first one, this will end when the oppressive statist regime does.

NBC’s Today Show does it again. Remember how the Today Show edited George Zimmerman’s 911 call to make him sound like a racist? Causing riots and racial strife across the nation? Turns out they also edited their interview with Jerry Sandusky, to make him sound like he was stonewalling. The prosecutors didn’t know the tape was edited so they played it to the jury and now a convicted child molestor has grounds for appeal. Big sloppy thank yous (again) to the “journalists” of Today.

He had it where it counts.
Mr. Cash, I salute you.

Snagglepuss exiting Stage Right.
Or to the audiences’ (and reality’s) far, far, far freakin’ out Left.

What’s truly amusing is the brain trust waiting in the wings to take up the bath salts and spout drivel on national TV.

Poor babies got their toy broken
Seems like they got off easy in my opinion. I just can’t see how they could have thought that it wouldn’t have ended badly — stupider things have been done, but usually you’re supposed to say “hold my beer and watch *this*.”

Obama talks about his first date with Michelle (yes, it’s a campaign thing.) More answers to questions nobody asked while questions that people really want answers to (like Fast and Furious) hang fire. If he needs money this badly, maybe he should consider appearing on “Celebrity Bowling.” FYI: if you’re in need of an emetic, read the YouTube comments on the video.

Mayor Bloomberg has a message for America. Referring to gay marriage before joining Saturday’s gay pride parade, the mayor said, “The government should get out of your personal life.” Apparently he doesn’t have an irony bone in his body, because today he’s back at work outlawing large sodas and big servings of popcorn.

Obama tripped by Bush while heading onto stage (6/23/2012.) Seriously, we can expect a few laugh-filled years of gags about this from Saturday Night Dead et al, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z7KrkT-MTUM

Why “Fast and Furious” matters. “Hundreds of people died because of the operation, but no one takes responsibility.” Of course not, Bush never takes responsibility for these things.

Expert on pants creases says Obama’s assertion of executive privilege was a dumb move. “It’s funny – it hasn’t really registered with the country yet, what the government has done. When – if – it gets out: ‘Wait, they were sending guns to Mexico?’ — I think it’s such a thing that will startle people. I think it’s a clear winner for the Republicans.” By asserting executive privilege, Obama has drawn attention to what he is hoping everyone would ignore.

Have you heard about “The Obama phone”? No, it’s not a phone that plays Obama’s speeches repeatedly (at least, we don’t think it is.) Possibly, it’s an old free phone program that has been renamed to make people think Obama is responsible. We’re not sure, here’s the website if you wanna check it out: ObamaPhone.net.

UN conference calls for economic “contraction” to combat climate change. One of these geniuses noted that “because conservatives reject the notion global warming, ‘We don’t use the term climate change anymore. It’s sustainable development.’” Yep, folks don’t lose money at 3-card monte anymore, it’s now “random bus-station exterior performance art” or something. It’s the UN that needs to contract – and then disappear completely.

Many Americans Can’t Name Obama’s Religion: Including the President himself.

N.J. woman hit with ball sues Little League player. She was sitting at a picnic table near a fenced-in bullpen when the then 11-year-old catcher apparently overthrew his pitcher and hit her. The lawsuit alleges the catcher’s errant throw was “intentional and reckless.” Eleven-year-olds are not the most accurate throwers on the planet – the moral of the story would seem to be either keep well clear of kids throwing baseballs or else be ready to duck.

Don’t kid yourself, daily newspaper journalism cannot be replaced: Who is kidding themselves? Daily journalism was replaced a long time ago by the propaganda, creative editing, editorializing and the outright mendacity machine. But if this Pitts fellow is really serious in his belief that We the People cannot possibly do the job that these journolists have failed at then we sincerely hope this modern day Chairman Ludd will drop by the IHTM page on Craigslist. We’ve got a Laser Disc Player, Motorolla DynaTAC 800X, Swatch Watch, a can of Billy Beer and several copies of Peter Frampton’s “I’m in You” on eight track cassette that we’d just love to get rid of.

Jack Webb Schools Obama on Democracy: Just the facts man, just the facts.

Green “drivel”: The godfather of global warming lowers the boom on climate change hysteria. James Lovelock is in favor of hydraulic fracking and nat gas as an alternative to coal. He is not a believer in wind power (“The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant.”) or “sustainable development” (“…meaningless drivel”) or the concept of “settled science”: “One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything.”

BATH SALTS: Finally a drug that the kleptocrat Flea Baggers won’t abuse!

http://youtu.be/RMsgN2WF0-M

This Week in Poverty: Ms. Vasquez Goes to Washington and asks JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon. This question: “Despite making billions last year, why do you deny the people cleaning your buildings a living wage?” Well Ms. Vasquez the answer to that is simple. Your chosen profession requires a skill set that demands very little ability, intelligence, education or physical strength. And so as hard (and admirable and honest) a job as yours may be the potential supply of employees is just so great that the level of compensation must drop very low before no one is willing to underbid you for the position -a situation exacerbated by illegal aliens that increase that supply and drop the potential income even lower as they will often work for less than their citizen counterparts.

Obama Basks In Latino Politicians’ Love After His DREAM Moves: Apparently the crowd was very relieved that so many criminal aliens wouldn’t be sent back to their homes now that the Mexican drug lords are all better armed thanks to Big Barry and the Holder Company.

Bad news: Jon Stewart not exactly buying Obama’s executive-privilege claim. Stewart’s audience got more info on Fast and Furious in 2 minutes than most mainstream “news” consumers have in two years. Seriously, we had an intelligent well-informed person, a middle-aged PhD, ask us yesterday what FnF was all about. She had never heard of it before this week. Perhaps soon everyone will know. (video at the link.)

CNN: Moody’s downgrade of 15 banks a sign of a new recession. New recession… What happened to the Obama recovery? If you blinked recently, you probably missed it.