NPR reporter Nina Totenberg used an appearance on “Inside Washington” to apologize for attending (gasp) ”a Christmas party.”
NPR reporter Nina Totenberg used an appearance on “Inside Washington” to apologize for attending (gasp) ”a Christmas party.”
“Well, these agencies,” she said, “including the Defense Department, don‘t know how much money they’ve got and for what. And I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually were really worried about this (their budgets).”
By the way, is it just us or is Mark Shields beginning to look exactly like Jabba the Hutt?
Well, this is unexpected news. The worrywarts at NASA now say that instead of killing us global warming could, in fact, save us from a cold, miserable death in the next ice age.
Well, this is unexpected news. The worrywarts at NASA now say that instead of killing us global warming could, in fact, save us from a cold, miserable death in the next ice age.
…According to scientists’ models of Earth’s orbit and orientation toward the Sun indicate that our world should be just beginning to enter a new period of cooling — perhaps the next ice age.
However, a new force for change has arisen: humans. After the industrial revolution, humans introduced increasing amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and changed the surface of the landscape to an extent great enough to influence climate on local and global scales. By driving up carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere (by about 30 percent), humans have increased its capacity to trap warmth near the surface.
So drive that gas guzzler. Turn the heat up in your house. Cancel your plans for that backyard windmill.
Then get a big, furry parka and rent yourself a cave near Palm Springs, baby. The Ice Age is coming.
H/T: Ace of Spades
Tell us we’re wrong. Tell us it’s not just a little creepy to hear Chris Matthews enthusing over Obama’s “cute, wonderful, boyish smile we all love.”
Want to hear something slightly disturbing? Something that sounds like it came from NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association?
Tell us we’re wrong. Tell us it’s not just a little creepy to hear Chris Matthews enthusing over Obama’s “cute, wonderful, boyish smile we all love.”
“You know, whatever you say, I want to talk about the subjective president, Gene, your reaction to this. Subjectively, in his heart, he’s a happy man this weekend. That smile, that cute smile we all love in that guy. That wonderful, boyish smile of his he gave us there after he made his little crack about the holiday spirit. I haven’t seen that in months.”
It may be December, but Spring is in the air. Chris is in love. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has been repealed and he is free to be himself.
Ugly, bitter and angry. Those words describe the battle between Hooters and NOW and, if we’re not mistaken, they also describe the women of NOW.
Ugly, bitter and angry. Those words describe the battle between Hooters and NOW and, if we’re not mistaken, they also describe the women of NOW.
SFGate.com has the details:
The National Organization for Women filed complaints against local Hooters restaurants Thursday, but not for exploiting its scantily clad waitresses by subjecting them to leering and groping customers.
The subject this time was Hooters’ catering to children.
The restaurants in San Francisco, San Bruno, Sacramento and Orange County are classified as “adult entertainment” establishments but also serve minors, NOW’s California chapter said in papers filed with police and prosecutors.
What’s more, the organization said, Hooters provides child menus, high chairs and booster seats, and sells T-shirts in children’s sizes that identify the wearer as a “Future Hooters Girl.”
Don’t you suspect that if Hooters didn’t provide child menus, high chairs and booster seats some other liberal organization would accuse them of discriminating against children?
The way we understand this story, NOW is only a proponent of choice if that choice involves aborting a baby. But if parents should make the mistake of actually having that child, the same organization will then deny them their choice of restaurants.
Is that correct?
Source: SFGate.com
The devastating losses in the November elections were obviously far harder on Nancy Pelosi than was previously thought. The poor woman has suffered a complete mental breakdown and has completely lost touch with reality.
The devastating losses in the November elections were obviously far harder on Nancy Pelosi than was previously thought. The poor woman has suffered a complete mental breakdown and has completely lost touch with reality.
The soon-to-be former Speaker stood on the floor of the House and said, “Obama was a job creator from day one.”
This, of course, is in complete contrast to reality, which shows that lowest unemployment rate of the Obama administration was on day one. It has done nothing but rise since then.
Bottom line: In the last two years we’ve lost nine million jobs and one mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lOqVWmI5I
H/T: Gateway Pundit
Here’s a very persuasive Ryan explaining why we needed to extend the Bush tax cuts and why he was willing to hold his nose and accept the compromise with the President Obama.
Unless we’re mistaken, Paul Ryan has a big future. Of course, we’re not exactly Jeane Dixon, but that’s never stopped us from making predictions.
Here’s a very persuasive Ryan explaining why we needed to extend the Bush tax cuts and why he was willing to hold his nose and accept the compromise with the President Obama.
Four minutes of intelligent, persuasive public speaking, we might point out, without a Teleprompter.
The President is explaining to the dimwitted reporter that because of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, there’s a thousand years difference between the politics of the moment and what we can get done now.
As you near the speed of light, time slows down. So if you left earth and traveled through space for one year, you would return one year older than when you left, but a thousand years might have passed on earth. Or something like that.
We think that’s what the President was trying to explain with this question and answer:
Reporter: You’ve been telling the American people all along that you oppose extending the tax cuts for the wealthier Americans. You said that again today. But what you never said was that you oppose the tax cuts, but you’d be willing to go ahead and extend them for a couple years if the politics of the moment demand it.
So what I’m wondering is when you take a stand like you had, why should the American people believe that you’re going to stick with it? Why should the American people believe that you’re not going to flip flop?
Obama: Hold on a second, Ben. This isn’t the politics of the moment. This has to do with what can we get done right now.
See? The President is explaining to the dimwitted reporter that because of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, there’s a thousand years difference between the politics of the moment and what we can get done now.
You, much like the dimwitted reporter, may think that “now” and “of the moment” mean the same thing, but that’s only because your mind is not traveling at the speed of light like President Obama’s.
Class dismissed.
H/T: HotAir.com
Oddly enough, you get felt up when the TSA pats you down. Felt up like you were in the back seat of a 1965 Chevy Malibu in the back row at the drive-in theater. Felt up by some guy who now wants to be a union goon.
Oddly enough, you get felt up when the TSA pats you down. Felt up like you were in the back seat of a 1965 Chevy Malibu in the back row at the drive-in theater. Felt up by some guy who now wants to be a union goon. Felt up like you’re getting a happy ending massage except it’s the TSA agent who gets the happy ending. Felt up like you haven’t been felt up since your last prostate exam. Felt up in a way where “no” is supposed to mean “no,” but “no” is not an acceptable answer.
This pretty much explains it all:
Source: GraphJam.com
This week’s top ten Fred Thompson tweets do not disappoint. They are everything you’ve come to expect from the 21st Century’s answer to Will Rogers.
This week’s top ten Fred Thompson tweets do not disappoint. They are everything you’ve come to expect from the 21st Century’s answer to Will Rogers.
1. With unemployment being extended another 13 months, is it maybe time to just start calling it welfare?
2. Gibbs: no cigs for Obama since March. That’s about when Obamacare passed. Looks like he gave up one bad idea for another.
3. WI, OH reject govt hi-speed rail funds. Very good sign: federal government now having a hard time giving away free money.
4. Study: 25% of Gitmo releasees return to terrorism. Obama reportedly “troubled” by their 75% unemployment rate.
5. Dem Sen Menendez:talking to GOP on tax cuts like “negotiating w/ terrorists”. So… Obama won’t be attaching any pre-conditions?
6. Obama hands out 9 pardons, 4 for cocaine crimes. Figure next year’s list will probably all be people who didn’t buy health ins.
7. UN seeks global ban on incandescents. Answers question: “How many bureaucrats does it take to screw up a light bulb?”
8. Oops! Biden tells Kirk to place wrong hand on Bible during swearing in. Joe, you know the difference. Left is side you vote with
9. Survey: DC only #3 on smartest city list. Might’ve been #1 if they’d done the survey while Congress was still out of town.
10. Bulldozer driver in CO discovers ancient pit full of ice age fossils. Huh. Thought Dems’ Congressional leaders were still in DC.
Source: Fred Thompson
Harry Reid is afraid of losing power. Very afraid. So all of a sudden he’s doing battle against President Obama and those rascally Republicans who, apparently, have secretly joined forces to do battle against Captain Nevada and the Constitution.
Harry Reid is afraid of losing power. Very afraid. So all of a sudden he’s doing battle against President Obama and those rascally Republicans who, apparently, have secretly joined forces to do battle against Captain Nevada and the Constitution.
“I’ve been one who does believe in our Constitution, separation of powers. And one of the issues that I have fought (for) is to make sure the White House doesn’t continually take from us our power. Everyone should understand this earmark issue is simply that – a way for the Executive branch of government to steal power we’ve been granted in our Constitution. We have a Constitutional duty to do Congressionally-directed spending. And I don’t want to gie up that responsibility. I can’t understand why some of the more conservative members here want to give up their power. I don’t understand that.”
Absolutely true. If there’s one thing Harry doesn’t understand, it’s giving up power.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc7ji91NLU4
H/T: Breitbart.tv
Got an extra $275 lying around the house? Then here’s the perfect gift for the Michelle Obama lover in your life – a First Lady figurine.
Got an extra $275 lying around the house? Then here’s the perfect gift for the Michelle Obama lover in your life – a First Lady figurine.
Here’s how CollectorsHub.com describes this must-have item:
The Michelle Obama First Lady Edition figurine, hand-signed by Thomas Blackshear is a pre-paid item. Your credit card will be charged today.
• Personally hand-signed by Thomas Blackshear
• Limited to 3000 world-wide
• Includes 2010 dated commemorative plaque to exhibit with the President and Michelle Obama figurines
• Includes brass plaque with First Lady Michelle Obama name and engraved Blackshear signatureThomas Blackshear portrays First Lady Michelle Obama with the beauty and confidence she naturally possesses. The perfect companion to display with the President Obama figurine, this true likeness captures Michelle’s graceful poise and strong demeanor.
That President Obama figurine is now available on eBay for as little as $191. Much like the President himself, the figurine’s value is going down as time goes on.
Source: CollectorsHub.com
A new time-lapse video released by the White House reveals the sheer scale of the operation to erect the official Christmas Tree of the First Family with hundreds of workers visible as the Douglas fir begins to take shape.
One tree, four days, hundreds of workers.
Instead of thinking of this as a symbol of the White House’s disconnect with what’s happening in America, think of it as President Obama’s attempt to single handedly solve the unemployment problem.
The Daily Mail UK has the story of excess:
He may have suffered a blow after being forced to compromise with the Republican party over tax cuts but President Obama has not let the setback affect his Christmas.
A new time-lapse video released by the White House reveals the sheer scale of the operation to erect the official Christmas Tree of the First Family with hundreds of workers visible as the Douglas fir begins to take shape.
It took the small army of workers four-and-a-half days to decorate the eighteen-and-a-half feet high Douglas Fir, which will be the centerpiece of the Obama’s second Christmas in the White House, ironically coined, “Simple Gifts” by the First Lady.
By the way, is it still called the White House Christmas tree? Or has that been changed to Holiday tree?
Here’s that time-lapse video.
Source: Daily Mail UK
Mayoral challenger James Meeks came under fire Thursday for suggesting that only African-Americans should be eligible for city contracts set aside for minorities and women.
Minority is no longer a statistical concept. It’s no longer a racial concept. Unless, of course, you’re a member of a certain race.
The Chicago Sun-Times explains:
Mayoral challenger James Meeks came under fire Thursday for suggesting that only African-Americans should be eligible for city contracts set aside for minorities and women.
… “The word ‘minority’ from our standpoint should mean African-American. I don’t think women, Asians and Hispanics should be able to use that title,” he said. “That’s why our numbers cannot improve — because we use women, Asians and Hispanics who are not people of color, who are not people who have been discriminated against.”
Jesse Jackson immediately thought to himself, “Crap. What didn’t I think of that one.”
These people put the pig in Pigford.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Scarborough pointed out the bias at his network, MSNBC, and even offered a particular example. MSNBC hosts and guests are eager to associate judges with which president appointed them if it involves a Republican and a decision with which they disagree.
We’re baffled by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. Every time we’re ready to write him off as hopeless, he surprises us.
Like this little gem reported by DailyCaller.com:
Scarborough pointed out the bias at his network, MSNBC, and even offered a particular example. As Scarborough pointed out, MSNBC hosts and guests are always eager to associate judges with which president appointed them – but only if it involves a Republican and a decision with which they disagree.
“I’m just curious, and it was our staff that did it this time – I’m always curious when there is a controversial issue, and [Jon] Meacham, you know this is true, that mainstream media doesn’t like – they always will say ‘a George W. Bush-appointee,’ ‘a Reagan appointee,’” Scarborough said. “It would be legitimate, and you Jon, you know this it to be true when a Democrat does something unpopular, they never say ‘a Clinton appointee.’ Never, never. Why is that, Jon?”
It’s sort of like saying “left wing MSNBC host.” We always say that. Except when Scarborough surprises us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS3MPDXmRyk
H/T: DailyCaller.com
Bernie Sanders uses terms like “fairness” and “for the children” while he seeks to children with trillions more in debt. At the same time, he seeks to punish those whom have the audacity to create jobs that diminish dependence on government.
Bernie Sanders is a socialist from Vermont. What is so special about that, you might ask? Nothing. But, unlike all but one other person from Vermont, Bernie is also a United States Senator. This makes his whole existence as an authoritarian all the more troubling to you, us and everybody else in the country.
Bernie, you see, has the power to steal from some citizens, give those ill-gotten gains to other citizens and then collect votes for being the middleman. And that’s exactly what Sanders has been up to this week.
Sanders is good at what he does. He’s been at it a long time and has mastered the one thing necessary to sustain this sort of scam – the art of double speak.
For that reason Sanders uses terminology like “fairness” and “for the children” while he seeks to saddle those children with trillions more in debt. At the same time, he seeks to punish those whom have the audacity to create jobs that diminish dependence on government.
Make no mistake, Bernie Sanders has no love for working families. As a socialist there is no greater obstacle to his goals than a strong middle class. Unless maybe it’s a strong upper class.
Here’s Bernie asking the rich “when is enough enough?” Mayhaps he should ask the same question of public sector unions instead.
By the way, this video is from CSPAN-2. CSPAN is awesome. It is like ESPN for smart people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0SH0a4V5yg
– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com
Which CBS executive hired Scottish comedian Craig Ferguson to host the Late, Late Show? Whoever it was deserves a raise, because it was an inspired choice.
Which CBS executive hired Scottish comedian Craig Ferguson to host the Late, Late Show? Whoever it was deserves a raise, because it was an inspired choice.
MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe was Ferguson’s guest on Wednesday night and tried to explain why he was against any extension of the Bush tax cuts. The following conversation ensued:
Ferguson: You’re a Democrat, aren’t you?
(Audience laughter)
Wolffe: I am a journalist.
Ferguson: A journalist?
(Audience laughter)
Ferguson: Much the same thing, isn’t it?
(Audience laughter)
Not only was Ferguson’s delivery and timing absolutely perfect, but so was Wolffe’s muted acceptance of the truth. He sat there in stunned silence with a silly grin on his face. Right next to the egg on his face.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
In an effort to relate to the little people who are out of work, Michelle Obama wore a second-hand dress to a Washington Christmas party. What’s that? The second-hand dress cost her 2500 smackers? Holy crap!
In an effort to relate to the little people who are out of work, Michelle Obama wore a second-hand dress to a Washington Christmas party. What’s that? The second-hand dress cost her 2500 smackers? Holy crap!
The New York Post has details of the horrifying haute couture:
Michelle Obama is once again setting the style world abuzz — wearing a thrift-store dress to the “Christmas in Washington” concert, which was taped Sunday and airs on TNT tonight.
The “couture” black-lace overlay frock, featuring a high, square neckline and a full skirt was plucked from New York Vintage in Chelsea.
The secondhand 1950s piece — believed to be the first vintage dress worn by a first lady to a public event — was made by American designer Norman Norelli, who died in 1972 and was among the most influential designers of his time.
The store’s owners would not say how much the first lady paid for the dress, but prices for vintage clothing have risen dramatically as quality pieces have become wildly popular among celebrities and on the red carpet. One estimate for this hand-me-down was $2,500.
$2500 for a second-hand dress. That’s nearly eight times that average annual income in Kenya, a country chosen entirely at random for comparison purposes only.
Michelle Antoinette really is the perfect nickname for this woman, isn’t it?
Source: New York Post
Today’s headlines on CNN: Bombs found in house … students protest tuition hikes … Jeff Daniels has diarrhea … and CNN wonders why its ratings are in the dumper.
Today’s headlines on CNN: Bombs found in house … students protest tuition hikes … Jeff Daniels has diarrhea … and CNN wonders why its ratings are in the dumper.
Somebody screwed up at CNN. We assume some video editor was watching Dumb & Dumber instead of paying attention to what he was supposed to be doing. The result? A disgusting scene from the raunchy comedy showed up in the middle of a CNN story about, well, we’re not really sure what it was about because, after all, it was CNN and we weren’t paying attention, either.
It can happen. We have a friend who had a brief brush with notoriety back in the late 60s when he was a videotape editor at a TV station in Southern California. Late one night he made the mistake of hitting the wrong button while watching porn at work, sending a graphic scene out over the air.
The bad news? He got fired. The good news? He became famous when Johnny Carson mentioned it in his opening monologue a few nights later.
H/T: Mediaite
Professional journalists have been put on notice: Illegal immigrants are no longer to be called illegal immigrants. Because, we assume, accurate reporting has now taken a back seat to political correctness.
Professional journalists have been put on notice: Illegal immigrants are no longer to be called illegal immigrants. Because, we assume, accurate reporting has now taken a back seat to political correctness.
The Culture & Media Institute reports:
The Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ)’s Diversity Committee has announced that it will be launching a year-long campaign to educate journalists about the hurtfulness of phrases like “illegal immigrant,” which is the term currently preferred by the influential AP Stylebook.
The label “remains offensive to Latinos, and especially Mexicans, and to the fundamentals of American jurisprudence,” wrote Leo E. Laurence, a member of the SPJ Diversity Committee and the editor the San Diego News Service.
Although the article doesn’t say what the new preferred term should be, we assume it will be “undocumented Democrat.”
Please note that we have never used the term “illegal immigrant” here at IHateTheMedia.com. We prefer the term “illegal alien” because the term “illegal immigrant” is too friggin’ wishy washy for us.
In related news, IHateTheMedia.com announced today that it has founded a new group called The Society for Unprofessional Journalists & Bloggers Who Work In Their Underwear. It will have no Diversity Committee, but it will meet every Friday afternoon to drink beer and make fun of the priggish political correctness of the Society of Professional Journalists.
H/T: Moonbattery.com
America’s hottest incoming Governor, South Carolina’s Nikki Haley, guested with Sean Hannity Tuesday night and told the Fox host about her confrontation with President Obama in a governors’ meeting a couple weeks ago.
America’s hottest incoming Governor, South Carolina’s Nikki Haley, guested with Sean Hannity Tuesday night and told the Fox host about her confrontation with President Obama in a governors’ meeting a couple weeks ago.
She told Obama that she has a simple solution if he won’t honor the federal government’s nuclear energy agreements:
The people of South Carolina want their money back.”
Chris Christie in a skirt. A really slim, really good-looking Chris Christie in a skirt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23PPK0kXcpo
H/T: Gateway Pundit
We’re pretty confident that U.N. corruptocrats will fly home from Cancún and produce a stack of reports thick enough to kill off every tree in Bavaria, but all you really need to know can be found in the following four quotes.
We’re pretty confident that U.N. corruptocrats will fly home from Cancún and produce a stack of reports thick enough to kill off every tree in Bavaria, but all you really need to know can be found in the following four quotes.
Ben Webster in The Times UK:
The climate change conference in Cancún has ended with failure to set a target date for the reduction of carbon emissions. The Mexican hosts persuaded 192 out of 193 countries to accept the “Cancún agreement” by the simple trick of aiming for the lowest common denominator — the agreement was secured by deferring decisions on all of the most contentious issues.
Nitin Sethi in The Economic Times of India:
Under the new Cancun deal, each country will be allowed to offer whatever it wishes to pledge for emission reductions on its own volition. There shall be no cumulative target to reach. No one shall ask if the individual targets are collectively adequate or not. The new regime will only check if the pledges have been acted upon or not. Rich countries, including the US, will offer emission reduction targets and others, such as India, will offer their mitigation actions as part of a new deal which can be said to be defined by the bottoms up approach. Under the agreement India will get off easy. Because it let others off easy as well.
Walter Russell Mead in The American Interest:
That is the big news out of Cancun; the green agenda has fallen into a UN black hole and for now at least it cannot get out. The “success” of Cancun is a best case scenario from the skeptic’s point of view. The cost of funding endless UN gabfests in exotic tourist locations (next up: South Africa in 2012) is trivial compared to the cost of any serious efforts to deal with carbon emissions on the scale current scientific theory suggests would be needed. Bureaucrats will dance, journalists will spin and carbon will spew, and the greens will be unable to escape this dysfunctional UN process for years and maybe decades to come.
Ronald Bailey in Reason Online:
The United Nation’s climate change conference here in Cancun came to an end at around 4 a.m. this morning. It would be cynical to call it a bribe, but the Cancun agreements were largely reached because the rich countries continued their vague promises to hand over $100 billion in climate aid annually to poor countries beginning in 2020.
Game. Set. Match. Let’s go sit in the shade and have a beer.
Or for those of you in Europe or the Midwest and eastern United States, stay inside, put another log on the fire, fix yourself a nice hot cocoa, then sit back and watch the snow fall.
H/T: Andrew Bolt
Now that Keith Olbermann has compared Obama to the Nazis, he’s decided that those comparisons are verboten.
We’ve been racking our brain and we just can’t recall President Obama complaining when his left wing cohorts called George Bush a Nazi. But now, now that Keith Olbermann has compared Obama to the Nazis, he’s decided that those comparisons are verboten.
Politico.com has the tale of Obama’s displeasure:
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs advised the liberal commenter Keith Olbermann on Monday to refrain from using comparisons to Nazi Germany after the MSNBC host likened President Obama’s deal on tax cuts to Nazi appeasement.
“Whenever you compare anything to what the Nazis did, if you ever get to that point in your speech, stop, because nothing does, and hopefully, God willing, nothing ever will,” Gibbs told reporters.
Asked if Obama heard Olbermann’s “special comment,” Gibbs replied, “I doubt the president heard that.”
Olbermann was reportedly devastated by the news that the President doesn’t tune in to catch his nightly therapy session.
“The President doesn’t watch my show? But I went to an Ivy League-ish school. I read James Thurber on the air every Friday. I was once fired by Rupert Murdoch. I say ‘good night and good luck’ at the end of my show just like Edward R. Murrow. The only conclusion I can draw from this unwarranted rejection is that Obama really is a Nazi.”
Source: Politico.com
We voted for John McCain, but had to hold our noses while we did it. Now McCain is starting to act like someone we might have voted for with a little more enthusiasm.
We voted for John McCain, but had to hold our noses while we did it. Now McCain is starting to act like someone we might have voted for with a little more enthusiasm.
The Arizona RINO is promising to stop the vote on the Democrat budget by reading the entire document – the entire 1,924-page-page, $1.1 trillion, 6,600earmark-laden document – aloud on the floor of the Senate.
Let us be the first to say it:
McCain 2012.
(Nah, relax. We’re just kidding, but we do appreciate the Senator’s efforts to stop the Democrats from inflicting this abomination on the American people.)
H/T: Moonbattery.com
Congratulations to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They’ve united the American people in one thing – their complete disdain for Congress.
Congratulations to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They’ve united the American people in one thing – their complete disdain for Congress.
Gallup.com has the devastating details:
Americans’ assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job. The 83% disapproval rating is also the worst Gallup has measured in more than 30 years of tracking congressional job performance.
The prior low approval rating for Congress was 14% in July 2008 when the United States was dealing with record-high gas prices and the economy was in recession.
Congratulations to Harry and Nancy. They say that records were made to be broken, so it’s nice to see that you guys were able to beat your own previous low. But we think you’re just getting started. If you can just cram this Omnibus Spending Bill through Congress, we have a feeling you can set another new record next month.
Source: Gallup.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tried to hide his bail address from the public in an astonishing move for the man responsible for leaking thousands of diplomatic secrets.
This is not just your ordinary, run of the mill hypocrisy. No, this is world class hypocrisy on a scale rarely seen.
The Daily Mail UK has the story:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tried to hide his bail address from the public in an astonishing move for the man responsible for leaking thousands of diplomatic secrets.
Assange’s lawyers argued that the location – a 10-bedroom stately home – should not be disclosed on grounds of privacy during yesterday’s hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
But the move was dismissed by District Judge Howard Riddle, who ruled not to reveal the address would conflict with Assange’s commitment to open justice.
The judge insisted the address – Captain Vaughan Smith’s Ellingham Hall on the Norfolk/Suffolk border – was read out in open court as usual.
Poetic justice.
Source: Daily Mail UK
