AP fact-check blasts Obama spending claims. “Who’s buying the notion that Barack Obama is a fiscal conservative who’s engineered the slowest spending growth since Calvin Coolidge? Not the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, who gave the argument three Pinocchios in a fact-check yesterday, and not the Associated Press, either.” A lie so big not even the WaPo and the AP will buy it. Awesome.

Meet The Weiner Truthers. “A group of liberal bloggers believe that Anthony Weiner was blackmailed by Andrew Breitbart into a false confession, and are carrying out a lonely Twitter crusade to spread their theory — in spite of the fact that Weiner himself has never claimed this to be the case.” And you probably thought this was another story about the stuff they put in frankfurters.

30 North Korean officials involved in South talks die ‘in traffic accidents’. “North Korea has a habit of executing bureaucrats who are perceived to have failed the regime, even though they are often merely carrying out the orders of higher-ranking officials or members of the ruling family.” Umm, and what would’ve happened to them if they didn’t carry out those orders? Talk about a Catch-22.

The EEOC: Protecting the public from the dangers of attractive people. This time around their targeting a coffee shop. We’re not sure why. Of course we here at I Hate the Media are committed feminists. Which is why we are combating misogyny by including this video. Because no man could watch it and come away with anything remotely close to hate for women.

Priest removed from ministry due to sex abuse allegations now works for TSA. From the article,iTeam has learned that a Catholic priest who was removed from the ministry over sex abuse allegations now holds a sensitive security post at Philadelphia International Airport. We look forward to the day when none of these guys will be able to hold sensitive posts.

Buffett Says Free News Unsustainable: So not only does Buffet want to control your access to the news, he wants to charge you for the privilege of his being able to control it.

Maraniss book: Obama was accomplished pot enthusiast in high school and college. So much so, Barry acknowledged “Ray the dealer” in his high school year book (see below.) Awesome. FYI: we’ve known a few habitual pot smokers over the years and one thing they seem to have in common is that they were all lazier than an unemployed mattress tester.

Tim McGraw giving away 25 free homes to veterans. In this day and age good news like this is a rarity. Here’s someone who not only talks the talk, they walk the walk. A big IHTM salute to Tim McGraw!

Has Debbie Wasserman Schultz worn out her welcome with Obama? “…while Obama has been able to count on Schultz to carry his political water, he has become increasingly irritated by her polemic behavior, which only served to galvanize Republicans and cost them precious support among independents.” Huh? Sounds like a case of the pot calling the kettle “polemic.” Barry has cost himself more indy support than anyone. Just sayin’.

Half of Detroit’s streetlights may go out as city shrinks. “Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights.” Turning out the lights in Detroit in case the last person to leave forgets to do it.

Bill Clinton Poses With Porn Stars. Uh oh! Déjà vu! The one to the right has a blue dress on. Anyone know if he asked the maître d’ for a cigar?

New York City elementary school makes learning Arabic a MANDATORY requirement for students. Step one in the brainwashing of America by Muslims?

Unabomber updates Harvard University alumni book. “Kaczynski graduated in 1962 and is locked up in the federal Supermax prison in Colorado… In an alumni directory, he lists his occupation as ‘prisoner’ and says his awards are ‘Eight life sentences, issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1998.'” Wonder if he checked off the “Native American” box, too.

The Growth Canard in Europe. “The problem with Greece, Spain, Italy, and so forth is not that they lack fiscal stimulus (more government spending), but that stealing from the public till is their principal occupation.” “The southern Europeans want a nanny state, but they don’t want to pay taxes. They want Germany to pay their taxes for them.” Just call them the blue men of Europe.

INFORMAL (UNDERGROUND) ECONOMY AS PERCENTAGE OF GDP

ABC eulogizes the President that wasn’t. “The 2004 version of Barack Obama, who captured the nation with a dazzling speech about unity and went on to win the presidency on a message of hope, died on Monday. He was 8 years old.” Barry the magic unicorn may be dead but the insipid fantasies of gullible journ0lists go on.

Bill Clinton’s glamorous fundraiser called “worst party ever” by angry guests. The worst party ever for the worst Party ever.

Hawaii verifies Obama birth records to Arizona. No mention of what this verification is. Ala Nancy Pelosi, we bet we’ll have to elect Obama before we get to see it.

In Europe, time for Plan B, only there’s no plan, and no time. Apparently the Greeks as well as the Eurozone are making contingency plans for a Greek Euro exit although they’re still all denying it will ever happen. “This crisis was ultimately going to resolve itself in one of two ways: the Continent was either going to form a United States of Europe, or the euro experiment was going to fail. It appears to be going in the latter direction.” Eurogeddon.

Did Obama get worse grades than Bush? New evidence reveals his college class got lower SAT scores than Dubya. Ah yes, the smartest President…ever, which is why his school transcripts are labeled Top Secret.

Pro-Abortion Americans at Record-Low 41%: Opinion polls are nice and all but some things should be well beyond the authority of any electorate. Like the right to be born.

Colombia prostitution scandal sparks investigation of U.S. DEA: This is the DEA, reach for the sky and spread ’em!

Mark Steyn endorses IHateTheMedia.com. Mark Steyn, our favorite Rush Limbaugh fill-in host, said this is a new screed about John Edwards, “Oh, and while we’re at it, I loathe the American media, whose peculiarly contemptible combination of partisanship, snobbery, and self-neutering of any basic journalistic instinct might easily have led (were it not for the candidacy of Barack Obama) to this preening metrosexual slug’s becoming president of the United States.” In other words, I hate the media, you hate the media, Mark Steyn hates the media.

Obama Is Getting Humiliated In The Kentucky Primary, 40 Percent Of Democrats Voted For ‘Uncommitted’. First he gets beat by a convicted felon and now by uncommitted. Who next? None of the above? West Virginia and Kentucky must be raaaaaacissssst.

Maybe the greatest American hero of all time dies. Meet Eugene Polley, who invented the TV remote control back in 1955. He died of natural causes on Sunday, at age 96. Here’s to you, Eugene. All men salute you, and especially those of us who like to watch two NFL games at the same time.

Senate Dems back increase in air travel fee to close funding shortfall at TSA: Hey, they might as well charge us out the ass since their hands are going to be probing in the general vicinity anyway.