No matter how much someone may love Barack Obama, that love pales in comparison to the love he has for himself. He is, as he said, the one he has been waiting for.
No matter how much someone may love Barack Obama, that love pales in comparison to the love he has for himself. He is, as he said, the one he has been waiting for.
Take this week’s radio message to the nation — the one in which he talked about the successful end of combat operations in Iraq.
Oddly enough, he didn’t mention the name George Bush. Not once. He did, on the other hand, say “I” six times in five minutes and twenty-six seconds. But none of them came in a sentence that said, “I was wrong about the surge.”
And now let’s join the Democrats as they bid a fond farewell to majorities in the House and maybe the Senate.
And now let’s join the Democrats as they bid a fond farewell to majorities in the House and maybe the Senate.
Public Policy Polling has the news of the Democrats dwindling hopes in November:
In Florida Obama’s approval is 39% with 55% of voters disapproving of him. 88% of Republicans disapprove while just 73% of Democrats approve and independents go against him by a 52/36 margin. Only 78% of people who voted for him in 2008 like the job he’s doing while 93% who voted against him disapprove.
In Pennsylvania Obama’s approval is 40% with 55% of voters disapproving of him. 85% of Republicans disapprove while just 68% of Democrats approve and independents go against him by a 63/32 margin. Only 78% of people who voted for him in 2008 like the job he’s doing while 93% who voted against him disapprove, identical numbers to Florida on that count.
In Ohio Obama’s approval is 42% with 54% of voters disapproving of him. 94% of Republicans disapprove while only 79% of Democrats approve and independents go against him by a 58/33 margin. Only 76% of people who voted for him in 2008 approve while 91% who voted against him disapprove.
Obviously it’s a long way from 2012 but these swing state numbers for Obama are pretty brutal and underscore why Democrats could lose a whole lot of House seats this year in those states.
In the words of Ella Fitzgerald, “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.”
When the Democrats lose by historic margins in November, do you think we’ll be bombarded by broadcasts and articles saying, “Democrats must move to the right to survive” like we were told “Republicans must move to the left to survive” after the last election?
We don’t mean to get ahead of ourselves here, but we’re willing to run the risk.
When the Democrats lose by historic margins in November, do you think we’ll be bombarded by broadcasts and articles saying, “Democrats must move to the right to survive” like we were told “Republicans must move to the left to survive” after the last election?
If not, what do you think the media’s message will be?
It’s been a busy week here at IHateTheMedia.com and in all the excitement we may have missed the heartwarming scenes of President Obama greeting his closest living relative at his $50,000 a week beach house in Martha’s Vineyard.
President Obama's beloved Auntie Zeituni. Or James Brown. We're not sure which.
It’s been a busy week here at IHateTheMedia.com and in all the excitement we may have missed the heartwarming scenes of President Obama greeting his closest living relative at his $50,000 a week beach house in Martha’s Vineyard.
What’s that? Auntie Zeituni hasn’t been invited to Martha’s Vineyard from her home in nearby Boston? The poor old lady must be horribly disappointed, because we hear she bought a new bikini and everything.
Doesn’t the President want his daughters to know their closest living relative? Doesn’t the President want America’s First Lady to spend some quality time with the Obama family’s First Lady? Doesn’t the President want to remind the American people that his favorite auntie is the face of illegal aliens in America?
Why must late night comedians do the job that supposedly legitimate reporters won’t do? Jimmy Kimmel’s ace staff found an old video clip that answers the questions about Obama’s religious beliefs once and for all.
Why must late night comedians do the job that supposedly legitimate reporters won’t do? Jimmy Kimmel’s ace staff found an old video clip that answers the questions about Obama’s religious beliefs once and for all.
Chris Matthews completely loses control of his own show while he’s discussing the Ground Zero mosque with former New York Governor George Pataki and columnist Eugene Robinson. Pataki takes over.
Chris Matthews completely loses control of his own show while he’s discussing the Ground Zero mosque with former New York Governor George Pataki and columnist Eugene Robinson. Pataki takes over.
Hey, here’s a question for Chris Matthews. Why are you against people boycotting any company that builds the mosque? Can we assume you’re equally opposed to the leftists who boycott Glenn Beck’s advertisers.
We would have paid big money to see this incident. Unfortunately, there’s no video of this one, just anonymous reports by eyewitnesses at MSNBC.
We would have paid big money to see this incident. Unfortunately, there’s no video of this one, just anonymous reports by eyewitnesses at MSNBC.
The New York Post has the feel good story of the week:
Ed Schultz demonstrating how he attempted to commit professional suicide
MSNBC talk show screamer Ed Schultz had a meltdown in the network’s 30 Rock newsroom, shouting at staff, “I’m going to torch this [bleep]ing place.”
The hot-tempered anchor of “The Ed Show” lost it during a phone call in the packed studio and slammed down the phone before exploding.
As astonished MSNBC staff members fell silent, Schultz glared around the room and yelled, “[Bleep]ers!”
A witness told us, “Ed was furious the network was running election-night promos and he wasn’t in them. He’d been arguing on the phone with marketing, then he slammed down the phone and exploded. It was like Mel Gibson had entered the newsroom.”
Fuming Schultz was immediately dragged in for a meeting with NBC News President Steve Capus and MSNBC President Phil Griffin following his Aug. 12 meltdown.
Our source added, “Schultz was told: ‘If you do that again, you are fired.’ He broke down crying.”
Sources say the hothead was pushed over the edge by MSNBC’s catering to bullying fellow anchor Keith Olbermann and its focus on golden girl Rachel Maddow.
Congratulations, Ed. It’s not easy to win the award for being the craziest person at MSNBC, but you’ve done it.
Dodge used a monkey in the to advertise its annual Tent Event. PETA complained, so Dodge re-cut the commercial to address the leftist lunatics’ concerns. And it was funnier than ever.
About two weeks ago, IHateTheMedia.com’s Administrator emailed a funny commercial over to IHTM’s Editor, who promptly ignored it. (For god’s sake, man, the guy sends me 50 emails a day. I can’t pay attention to all of them.)
Now, much to the Editor’s chagrin, he saw the same commercial over at The Big Feed and found out it really was hilarious.
That being said, the Editor would like to thank The Big Feed and apologize to the Administrator.
So enough with the thanks and the apologies. Here’s the story on the commercial: Dodge used a monkey in the to advertise its annual Tent Event. PETA complained, so Dodge re-cut the commercial to address the leftist lunatics’ concerns. Here’s the original version:
The Democrats seem to be getting beyond the denial stage. NBC’s über liberal Chuck Todd looked into the future on Tuesday’s Today show and actually said the words, “Democrats are in deep, deep trouble.”
The Democrats seem to be getting beyond the denial stage. NBC’s über liberal Chuck Todd looked into the future on Tuesday’s Today show and actually said the words, “Democrats are in deep, deep trouble.”
Todd said, “The Tea Party has provided an enthusiasm boost to the Republican Party.” Then he proved just how shaken he was by his own prediction by saying that Democrats still had “six weeks to turn this around” but also said that “if they don’t, they are headed for an historical defeat in November.”
You just need to relax and take a deep breath, Chuck. Your boys still have ten weeks to turn this electoral Armageddon around, not six. That should be plenty of time.
Think how proud you would be to have your child attend Barack Obama Elementary School. Why it’s almost enough to make you pack up and move the family to Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
Think how proud you would be to have your child attend Barack Obama Elementary School. Why it’s almost enough to make you pack up and move the family to Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
It’s not the first school named after the president, but it’s the first one right there in the Washington, D.C. area.
If the school reflected real life, its uniforms would be half black, half white. They wouldn’t have a football team, but they would have a golf team. The team name would be the Fighting Muslims. The students wouldn’t have to learn anything, because all the answers would be on the Teleprompter. They wouldn’t need their ABCs, but they would need their MSNBCs. Math classes would only deal in negative numbers.
Every time a president gets down in the polls during his first term, some pundit predicts that he won’t run for a second term. You may remember that Rush Limbaugh made the same prediction about Bill Clinton and it seemed just as reasonable then as it seems now.
Every time a president gets down in the polls during his first term, some pundit predicts that he won’t run for a second term. You may remember that Rush Limbaugh made the same prediction about Bill Clinton and it seemed just as reasonable then as it seems now.
Nevertheless, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto makes an interesting argument.
CBS hasn’t yet announced that Katie Couric is leaving the Evening News, but it doesn’t have to. They can let their ratings do the talking.
CBS hasn’t yet announced that Katie Couric is leaving the Evening News, but it doesn’t have to. They can let their ratings do the talking.
The network newscast ratings for last week are in and “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” tied its all-time low in total viewers with an average of 4.89 million tuning in during the five days.
The low was set last June, when ABC also hit its own low. (Ratings records date back to the 1991-’92 season.) Last week, NBC averaged 7.42 million total viewers and ABC averaged 6.51 million.
Erica Hill filled in on Tuesday and Harry Smith was in Wednesday. Couric anchored from New York Monday and from Afghanistan on Thursday and Friday.
Long gone are the days when news anchors went to war zones to improve their ratings. War zones are apparently safer than news rooms on the day the ratings come out.
Turns out a liberal advocacy group got its tits in a wringer because former Senator Alan Simpson accurately described the situation we find ourselves in with Social Security.
When did liberals pass the law that outlawed colorful language?
Turns out a liberal advocacy group got its tits in a wringer because former Senator Alan Simpson accurately described the situation we find ourselves in with Social Security.
CNN has the story of asinine advocacy:
Former Senator Alan Simpson is in trouble for telling the truth
An advocacy group is calling for the ouster of former Sen. Alan Simpson, the co-chairman of President Obama’s bipartisan debt commission, who described Social Security as a “milk cow with 310 million tits!” in an email.
Ashley Carson, executive director of the Older Women’s League, wrote in a blog post in April that Simpson is targeting Social Security to fix the deficit even though it “doesn’t contribute” to the country’s debt problem. She also accused Simpson of “disgusting ageism and sexism” in characterizing those who oppose cuts to benefits as “Gray Panthers” and “Pink Panthers.”
In his email to Carson, which was sent Monday night, Simpson said he is defending Social Security, not trying to undermine it, and referred her to information showing the program’s long-range shortfalls.
He went on: “I’ve made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know ’em too. It’s the same with any system in America. We’ve reached a point now where it’s like a milk cow with 310 million tits! Call when you get honest work!”
On Wednesday afternoon, Simpson released a letter to Carson apologizing. “I can see that my remarks have caused you anguish, and that was not my intention,” he wrote.
There’s only one thing worse than the advocacy group being upset by Simpson’s choice of words. And that’s the fact that Simpson chose to apologize.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for the 21 century’s answer to Jimmy Carter, along comes this poll from Rasmussen
Keep an eye on her, Barack, keep an eye on her
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for the 21 century’s answer to Jimmy Carter, along comes this poll from Rasmussen:
Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now regard President Obama’s political views as extreme. Forty-two percent (42%) place his views in the mainstream, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
By comparison, 51% see the views of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as mainstream. Thirty-five percent (35%) think Clinton’s views are extreme. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.
There you go, President Obama – your legacy. You’ll go down in history as the first person who ever made someone as liberal as Hillary Clinton look mainstream.
Warning: This lunatic’s vocabulary consists of one word. The f-word. What makes his crazed tirade even worse is the fact that its target is a Holocaust survivor who knows evil when he sees it.
Warning: This lunatic’s vocabulary consists of one word. The f-word.
What makes his crazed tirade even worse is the fact that its target is a Holocaust survivor who knows evil when he sees it.
Welcome to the friggin’ Middle Ages, my friends. Here’s the new Miss Muslim Moral Beauty 2010. Miss Congeniality was the contestant who didn’t blow up her competitors.
Welcome to the friggin’ Middle Ages, my friends. Here’s the new Miss Muslim Moral Beauty 2010.
Miss Congeniality was the contestant who didn’t blow up her competitors.
No, that can’t be right. People wanted ObamaCare. People needed ObamaCare. People demanded ObamaCare. Except in New Jersey, apparently, where only two people have signed up for it.
The guidos from Jersey Shore didn't sign up for ObamaCare
No, that can’t be right. People wanted ObamaCare. People needed ObamaCare. People demanded ObamaCare. Except in New Jersey, apparently, where only two people have signed up for it.
Fox New York has the story:
Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by federal health care reforms.
NJ Protect plans are available to those who have been without insurance for at least six months and submit evidence of pre-existing health conditions.
The state will receive $141 million in federal subsidies to cover claims that exceed the premiums paid by the beneficiaries.
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey spokesman Tom Vincz expects more people will enroll in the coming weeks.
He expects more people to enroll? No, he’s praying that people sign up for this fiscal fiasco.
The definition of fiasco is when everyone who signed up in the entire state can join the Fox reporter in the phone booth as he calls in his story.
Don’t ask John Brennan, Obama’s counter terrorism czar, about any of the radical positions he may have taken in the past. He’s a bit touchy about the subject.
Note to reporters: Don’t ask John Brennan, Obama’s counter terrorism czar, about any of the radical positions he may have taken in the past. He’s a bit touchy about the subject.
Case in point: Brennan paid a visit to the Washington Times and they had the nerve, the temerity, the balls to ask him about his comment that a 20% recidivism rate among Gitmo detainees wasn’t too shabby and about his comment that “jihad was a legitimate tenet of Islam.”
Brennan’s response to the legitimate questions was to jump up and flee the Times’ office.
The Washington Times reports:
Mr. Brennan had visited the Washington Times Editorial Board on June 24 as a result of a June 11 Washington Times editorial he objected to. It did not take long for the White House counter-terrorism adviser to lose his temper with our editorial board’s questions regarding what he previously said about individuals who become terrorists.
Mr. Brennan cut the meeting short and stormed out of our offices thereafter following a question posed by senior editorial writer Jim Robbins. Referring to a quote Mr. Brennan said in May, calling jihad a “legitimate tenet of Islam,” Mr. Robbins looked to discuss the concept of jihad further with the Obama administration adviser.
Just one question: If our counter terrorism czar can’t handle some newspaper reporters, how’s he going to handle those pesky terrorists?
This clip will probably be on every website in the world the day of the speech, so we thought we might just beat everyone to the punch and remind you what Senator Obama said about President Bush’s troop surge.
The President is giving another of his droning addresses to the nation on August 31 to celebrate the end of combat in Iraq blah-blah-blah. You know, the speech where he’ll talk about his contributions and neglect to mention Bush or the success of the troop surge or the fact that we still have combat troops in Iraq, but we’re calling them by a different name.
This clip will probably be on every website in the world the day of the speech, so we thought we might just beat everyone to the punch and remind you what Senator Obama said about President Bush’s troop surge.
Add liberal New York Times columnist (pardon our redundancy) Thomas Friedman to the list of those who think President Obama is Muslim. At least that’s our takeaway from his latest column.
Add liberal New York Times columnist (pardon our redundancy) Thomas Friedman to the list of those who think President Obama is Muslim. At least that’s our takeaway from his latest column.
The New York Times Thomas Friedman in the middle of having a deep thought
Speaking of South Africa’s whites, Mandela adds, “We have to surprise them with restraint and generosity.”
I love that line: “We have to surprise them.” I was watching the movie on an airplane and scribbled that line down on my napkin because it summarizes what is missing today in so many places: leaders who surprise us by rising above their histories, their constituencies, their pollsters, their circumstances–and just do the right things for their countries.
According to Friedman’s theory, Islam needs “a very special leader” who can lead “a political surge by Arabs and Muslims to heal intracommunal divides.” So far, so good. But this is where Friedman’s theory goes off the tracks. Seriously off the tracks.
It would be great if President Obama surprised everyone and gave another speech in Cairo–or Baghdad–saying that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BrDsH0ECHASay what? Is Friedman suggesting that he thinks Obama can become Islam’s “very special leader”? Doesn’t that say, by definition, that Obama is Muslim? And isn’t that the kind of thing Friedman would normally accuse conservatives of saying?
Let’s just consider ourselves lucky that the airline didn’t show this cartoon before the movie or Friedman may have proposed that Mickey Mouse become Islam’s special leader.
Sean Penn’s out of town filming his latest movie, so Hollywood had a left wing lunacy vacuum that needed to be filled. And Brad Pitt decided he was the guy for the job.
Anyone who starred in a movie as bad as "Troy" should be very careful about calling for the death penalty
Sean Penn’s out of town filming his latest movie, so Hollywood had a left wing lunacy vacuum that needed to be filled. And Brad Pitt decided he was the guy for the job.
The Daily Mail UK reports the hilarious highlights:
The Hollywood actor said he would consider the death penalty for those to blame for the ruptured well that gushed millions of gallons of oil into the ocean.
He was speaking in a documentary due to be screened in the US tomorrow tonight.
Asked about the people responsible for the crisis, the ‘Inglourious Basterds’ star said: ‘I was never for the death penalty before – I am willing to look at it again.’
Mr Pitt, 46, has spearheaded the ‘Make it Right’ project to build 150 affordable and sustainable homes in one of the areas of New Orleans that was worst hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
His efforts in the region are featured in the new film by director Spike Lee marking the fifth anniversary of the hurricane devastation.
The documentary, called ‘If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise’, was supposed to end on a positive note with the New Orleans American Football team winning the Super Bowl.
Seven people (including Lee and Pitt’s mothers) will pay to see this laughfest.
Mitch McConnel’s words, “take him at his word,” sent Chris Matthews over the edge on Monday’s Hardball. He apparently got his hands on a birther decoder ring, because he informed his viewers that the words “take him at his word,” when translated, provide a “Pitch perfect dog whistle to the haters.”
Why? Why would you take Barack Obama at his word when he’s lied about everything – and we mean everything – since the day he took office. Even before.
Republican Senate Minority Leader MitchMcConnell appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press. MSNBC’s increasingly-wacky Chris Matthews accused McConnell of using super secret code language to send messages to birthers when he said, “The President says he’s a Christian. I take him at his word.”
The words “take him at his word” sent Matthews over the edge on Monday’s Hardball. He apparently got his hands on a birther decoder ring, because he informed his viewers that the words “take him at his word,” when translated, provide a “Pitch perfect dog whistle to the haters.”
And Matthews was just getting warmed up. He then came up with a grand conspiracy McConnell, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Rev. Franklin Graham to scare the bejeebers out of voters with a “message of fear.” They’re the ringleaders of “The right wing’s attempt to de-Americanize the President.”
Is it just us or is the left starting to sound increasingly desperate?
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 85% of U.S. voters say they are now following news stories about the mosque planned near Ground Zero. That’s a 34-point jump from a month ago when only 51% said they were following the story.
The Ground Zero mosque: What's not to love?
We have a friend who’s a real estate developer. He always “runs the numbers” to see if a project makes sense. We’re pretty sure he’s never had to factor in any poll numbers.
Rasmussen reports the negative news for the Ground Zero mosque:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 85% of U.S. voters say they are now following news stories about the mosque planned near Ground Zero. That’s a 34-point jump from a month ago when only 51% said they were following the story.
The new finding includes 58% who are following the story very closely, up from 22% in mid-July.
Now 62% oppose the building of a mosque near where the World Trade Center stood in Lower Manhattan, compared to 54% in the previous survey. Twenty-five percent (25%) favor allowing the mosque to go ahead, and 13% more are not sure.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of the Political Class, however, favor building the mosque near Ground Zero. Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Mainstream voters are opposed.
Just one more issue on which the people differ from the political class. Just one more reason November is going to be fun.
We used to be vehemently opposed to the Ground Zero mosque. Then Charlie Rangel used his unparalleled powers of persuasion to change our minds.
Charlie Rangel, the independent voice of reason
We used to be vehemently opposed to the Ground Zero mosque. Then Charlie Rangel used his unparalleled powers of persuasion to change our minds.
Embattled Congressman Charlie Rangel came out in support of the Ground Zero mosque yesterday, saying people “should be cooperative.”
Rangel said the issue is not political.
“It’s so painful that Republicans and Democrats are using religion as a political tool,” Rangel said. “The Constitution is clear,” the pol said at a charity event in Harlem.
Translation: “Maybe if I act like some kind of independent voice of reason, everyone will forget that I’m the most corrupt Congressman in the last 30 years.”
Everyone at those upper East side cocktail parties thinks a mosque at Ground Zero is just a dandy idea, so that must mean everyone supports it.
Covers like this demonstrate just how out of touch the Eastern media elite is with the rest of America.
Everyone at those upper East side cocktail parties thinks a mosque at Ground Zero is just a dandy idea, so that must mean everyone supports it.
What’s that? Polls show that more than 60% of all Americans are against it? Piffle. Those are just the little people beyond the Hudson. And their opinions don’t count.
