Rasmussen poll: Harry Reid now losing to four Republicans, a Whig and a Druid

Businessman Danny Tarkanian now leads Reid 47% to 39%. Sue Lowden, ex-chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, holds a 45% to 39% lead on the Senate majority leader, while former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle earns 44% of the vote to Reid’s 40%.

OK, we made up the part about the Whig and the Druid. But since everyone who’s even thinking about getting into the Nevada senate race now outpolls Reid, we suspect a Whig and a Druid would also be favored over Reid.

Here’s how Rasmussen reports Reid’s imminent retirement:

Businessman Danny Tarkanian now leads Reid 47% to 39%. Sue Lowden, ex-chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, holds a 45% to 39% lead on the Senate majority leader, while former Assemblywoman Sharron Angle earns 44% of the vote to Reid’s 40%.

Nevada Lieutenant Governor Brian Krolicki, another Republican who is now reportedly considering entering the race, barely edges Reid 44% to 41%. A judge in December dismissed an indictment against Krolicki alleging that he mishandled money while serving as state treasurer. Krolicki charged that the indictment was politically motivated.

And now we bid a fond farewell to the soft spoken Reid with Roy Rogers’ and Dale Evans’ rendition of Happy Trails To You.

As Casey Kasem might have said on American Top 40, “This one’s goin’ out to Harry Reid in Las Vegas, Nevada.”

Source: Rasmussen Reports

The good news: Unemployment’s down to 9.7%.
The bad news: Not really

CNBC/MSNBC’s Erin Burnett gives a more realistic picture of that fabulous 9.7% unemployment number. And she’s hot, too, but that doesn’t effect our completely unbiased journalistic integrity. Much.

CNBC/MSNBC’s Erin Burnett gives a more realistic picture of that fabulous 9.7% unemployment number.

And she’s hot, too, but that doesn’t effect our completely unbiased journalistic integrity. Much.

Saudi Arabia rejects Pakistani diplomat because his name means “huge penis” in Arabic

This is the kind of story you can’t make up. Akbar Zeb is a Pakistani diplomat with a big problem. In Arabic, his Urdu name sounds more like the name of a porn star.

This is the kind of story you can’t make up. Akbar Zeb is a Pakistani diplomat with a big problem. In Arabic, his Urdu name sounds more like the name of a porn star.

That's "Ambassador Huge Penis" to you.

Fox News reports the flaccid details:

The Arabic transaltion of Akbar Zeb to “biggest d**k” has overwhelmed Saudi officials who have refused to allow his post there.

Zeb has run into this problem before when Pakistan tried to appoint him as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, where he was rejected for the same reason, according to Foreign Policy.

We must admit that we are surprised to learn that Akbar Zeb means “big prick.” We thought that’s what Rahm Emanuel meant.

Source: Fox News via Andrew Bolt

Oh, this Illinois election is going to be a really fun one to watch

Less than 24 hours after the Illinois primary, the National Republican Senate Committee released a commercial that connects Democratic Senatorial candidate Alexi Giannoulias to Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko, and Chicago mobsters.

Less than 24 hours after the Illinois primary, the National Republican Senate Committee released a commercial that connects Democratic Senatorial candidate Alexi Giannoulias to Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko, and Chicago mobsters.

Did they hire someone new at the NRSC? Or did one of the existing geniuses finally grow a set?

Source: Gateway Pundit

Minnesota mystery: Who paid for the George Bush “Miss me yet?” billboard?

There’s a billboard just outside the contradictorily-named town of Wyoming, Minnesota. It features a photo of a laughing George W. Bush and a headline that says, “Miss me yet?”

But who paid to have the billboard posted? That’s the question being asked in the Land of 10,000 Lakes today.

There’s a billboard just outside the contradictorily-named town of Wyoming, Minnesota. It features a photo of a laughing George W. Bush and a headline that says, “Miss me yet?”

But who paid to have the billboard posted? That’s the question being asked in the Land of 10,000 Lakes today.

Source: NPR

The Super Bowl commercial Google didn’t run, but should have

Here’s the manly man version of the Super Bowl commercial Google didn’t run, but should have.

We’re manly men here at IHateTheMedia.com and that Google Parisian love story Super Bowl commercial didn’t put any tears in our eyes. None at all. It was just a couple specs of dust, that’s all.

On the other hand, here’s the manly man version of the commercial Google didn’t run, but should have.

Congratulations to the guys at Slate V who created it.

We’re not sure which Super Bowl commercial was best, but it’s clear which one was worst

The Census Bureau wasted $2.5 million tax dollars to run one thirty second commercial during the Super Bowl. We can only assume they wanted to run as many spots as Bud, but held back out of respect for the new austerity program the President talked about during his State of the Union Address.

The Census Bureau wasted $2.5 million tax dollars to run one thirty second commercial during the Super Bowl. We can only assume they wanted to run as many spots as Bud, but held back out of respect for the new austerity program the President talked about during his State of the Union Address.

As if pounding $2.5 million down a rat hole wasn’t bad enough, the commercial was easily the most remarkably dull, mind-numbingly unintelligible commercial of the day.

Your tax dollars at work.

If we’re not mistaken, Ms. Pelosi, the word you’re looking for is “negroes”

Nancy Pelosi discusses the events that followed the death of FDR and how black Americans…or whatever they were called in those days…lined the tracks to view the train carrying his body.

For our money, there’s nothing – absolutely nothing – more entertaining than watching Nancy Pelosi speak extemporaneously. The woman is fearless. No teleprompter. Not net. And usually no sense whatsoever.

Here she discusses the events that followed the death of FDR and how black Americans…or whatever they were called in those days…lined the tracks to view the train carrying his body.

Just imagine the howls of righteous indignation that would have emanated from the loony left had a Republican made this comment.

Nicely done, Madame Speaker, nicely done.

The Obama sticker in the rear window brings up
some deep thoughts

The Obama sticker in the rear window brings up some deep thoughts

  • The driver is obviously a Ted Kennedy fan as well.
  • It’s better to hit the brakes before you’re ass-deep in water and it’s better to freeze spending before your neck-deep in debt.
  • If you think about it, rust is a type of change.
  • Don’t try to drive while texting or holding Bo the Portuguese water dog in your lap.
  • When you’re on the precipice of an achievement, apply the brakes sooner.
  • Before criticizing Scott Brown for having a pickup, learn how to drive one.
  • Hope doesn’t float.
  • Liberals should never try to drive pickup trucks. (Or tanks. See Dukakis, Michael)
  • The unfortunate consequence of the audacity of hope running headlong into the bravado of stupidity.
  • Some people just can’t tell when they’re in over their head.
  • When drowning in debt, it’s best to stop spending.
  • More bailing out is pointless now.
  • Up debt creek without a paddle.

We are the change we’ve been waiting for. Hope we brought change for the bus.

Glenn Beck at his hilarious best: “I forgot Obama was black”

No wonder Glenn Beck’s ratings are so damn good. Here’s a clip from his radio show where he ad libs about Chris Matthews stupid “I forgot Obama was black” comment for nine hilarious minutes.

No wonder Glenn Beck’s ratings are so damn good. Here’s a clip from his radio show where he ad libs about Chris Matthews stupid “I forgot Obama was black” comment for nine hilarious minutes.

Noted global warming expert RFK, Jr. predicted that Washington, DC might never see snow again

The pathetically unprophetic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a column last year in which he bemoaned global warming and suggested that children of the future might never see snow again.

Record levels of global warming piled up in Washington, DC this weekend

The pathetically unprophetic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote a column last year in which he bemoaned global warming and suggested that children of the future might never see snow again.

As this weekend’s mammoth blizzard proves, RFK, Jr. is a highly-qualified global warming expert and fully prepared to serve on the IPCC (in case you didn’t recognize it, that’s what’s known in journalistic circles as sarcasm).

The Washington Examiner reports the chilling details:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.

In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today’s anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don’t own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.



In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington’s C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate.



Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy.

Throw another log on the fire, RFK, Jr., or all this global warming fantasy will freeze your ass off.

Source: Washington Examiner

Pro-abortion group says Tebow Super Bowl commercial “showed an undercurrent of violence against women”

The Women’s Media Center, which had objected to Focus on the Family advertising in the Super Bowl, said it was expecting a “benign” ad but not the humor. But the group’s president, Jehmu Greene, said the tackle showed an undercurrent of violence against women.

LSD in the drinking water. That’s the only reasonable explanation for the reaction of the Woman’s Media Center to Tim and Pam Tebow’s Super Bowl commercial.

The Associated Press reports the lunacy:

The Women’s Media Center, which had objected to Focus on the Family advertising in the Super Bowl, said it was expecting a “benign” ad but not the humor. But the group’s president, Jehmu Greene, said the tackle showed an undercurrent of violence against women.

“I think they’re attempting to use humor as another tactic of hiding their message and fooling the American people,” she said.

We’ve watched the commercial about a dozen times trying to find some of that violence. We even went through it frame-by-frame thinking that maybe they had hidden some of that subliminal advertising stuff in the commercial. We’re sad to report that we were unable to find any violence against women noted by the Women’s Media Center.

Of course, were not highly-trained observers like the folks at the Women’s Media Center.

But we still think Pam Tebow’s kind of hot.

Source: Associated Press via Breitbart

Tebow commercial runs during Super Bowl: So what was all the controversy about?

Now that we’ve seen the “controversial” Tim Tebow pro-life Super Bowl commercial, we’re not sure what the pro-abortion people were so upset about.

Now that we’ve seen the “controversial” Tim Tebow pro-life Super Bowl commercial, we’re not sure what the pro-abortion people were so upset about.

There was no mention of abortion. No mention of the fact that Pam Tebow risked her life by giving birth to Tim. In fact, the message was vague at best.

Pam Tebow: I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn’t make it into this world. I remember so many times when I almost lost him. It was so hard. Well he’s all grown up now, and I still worry about his health. Everybody treats him like he’s different, but to me, he’s just my baby. He’s my Timmy, and I love him.

Tim Tebow: Thanks, mom. Love you, too.

Our bottom line: Pam Tebow’s kind of hot, isn’t she?

Tom Tancredo: Barack Hussein Obama only elected because voters aren’t required to pass a literacy test

Tom Tancredo’s back. The former Republican rep from Colorado raised the hackles of the left when he spoke at the National Tea Party Convention this week.

Tom Tancredo’s back. The former Republican rep from Colorado raised the hackles of the left when he spoke at the National Tea Party Convention this week.

Tancredo: “Mostly because I think we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in the country, people who could not even spell the word, “vote,” or say it in English, put a committed, socialist ideologue in the White House. The name is Barack Hussein Obama.”

Of course, the left is howling that Tancredo’s comment is raaaaaacist because it evokes images of literacy tests in the old South. And, of course, any criticism of Barack Hussein Obama is raaaaaacist.

But to us it brings up images people swooning at campaign rallies and saying that Obama was going to pay their bills.

If not illiterate, completely irredeemably ignorant.

Ego-bama praises campaign worker who wanted to be buried in an Obama T-shirt

Oh, my, Obama. The Narcissist-in-Chief spoke at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser the other night and told the tragic tale of a campaign worker who died from breast cancer.

Oh, my, Obama. The Narcissist-in-Chief spoke at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser the other night and told the tragic tale of a campaign worker who died from breast cancer:

I got a letter — I got a note today from one of my staff — they forwarded it to me — from a woman in St. Louis who had been part of our campaign, very active, who had passed away from breast cancer. She didn’t have insurance. She couldn’t afford it, so she had put off having the kind of exams that she needed. And she had fought a tough battle for four years. All through the campaign she was fighting it, but finally she succumbed to it. And she insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.

A touching story made all the more touching by the fact that Obama uses the woman’s death to praise his own inspirational leadership. It’s that kind of nervous, awkward laughter that comes from an audience that isn’t quite sure what kind of response is appropriate.

To see the comment, go straight to the 8:25 mark of the embedded video. Notice that the crowd reacts to the story by laughing despite the fact that Obama seems completely serious.

We’re not even sure we buy the story. Who was the woman? What was her name? What was her story? Tell us about her. The World’s Greatest Orator should know that stories are much more effective when they’re personalized with authentic details.

As it was told, Obama’s story sounds about as convincing as Joe Biden’s attempt to review Avatar.

Bottom line: The campaign worker should consider herself lucky. She died and got buried in a T-shirt. The rest of us lived and get buried in debt.

Overall, we’d have to say she wins.

Source: Washington Examiner

America sick of Olbermann schtick: His ratings are down 44% since last year

Remember a year or so ago when Keith Olbermann bragged about his ratings on the air? Don’t expect to see a replay of that show anytime soon.

Keith Olbermann's audience is abandoning him like he's a baby girl in China

Remember a year or so ago when Keith Olbermann bragged about his ratings on the air? Don’t expect to see a replay of that show anytime soon.

Daily Finance reports the details:

Keith Olbermann was already a renowned sportscaster when he rose to prominence as a political commentator. This was during the Bush Administration, when the left was badly in need of a forceful voice to rally around. Such was his popularity that MSNBC reoriented its entire primetime lineup around it.

But now the Democrats control Congress and the White House, and there are creeping indications that the world may not have quite as much need of — or patience for — Olbermann and his shtick as it once did.

Ratings for Olbermann’s Countdown have been soft recently, and the 8 p.m. shows on CNN and HLN have narrowed the gap. In the important demographic of adults 25 to 54 — the group advertisers are looking to reach — Countdown was down 44% year-over-year in January. It averaged 268,000 viewers in that demo, only 3,000 more than Nancy Grace’s show on HLN, and 12,000 more than CNN’s Campbell Brown. Fox News’s O’Reilly Factor dominated the hour with 964,000 viewers age 25 to 54, and was the only cable news show in the time period to increase its audience, by 55%.

Olbermann can console himself with the fact that he still has highest ratings at MSNBC. Of course, that’s kind of like bragging that you’re the tallest Munchkin.

Source: Daily Finance

Global warming update: Hypocrite Prince Charles calls opponents liars

Prince Charles isn’t quite the global warming hypocrite Al Gore is. But he’s working on it. The un-peripatetic prince traveled to Manchester to give a global warming speech aboard the Royal Train, pulled across the British countryside by a pollution-spewing, coal-fired steam locomotive.

Prince Charles isn’t quite the global warming hypocrite Al Gore is. But he’s working on it.

The un-peripatetic prince traveled to Manchester to give a global warming speech aboard the Royal Train, pulled across the British countryside by a pollution-spewing, coal-fired steam locomotive.

Rather than bore you with the details, here are a few quotes ClimateGate.com pulled from the story:

“I have watched with growing dismay and alarm the glee with which the sceptics have leapt upon the recent news stories that question the science that climate change is man-made and suggesting it is nothing more than a myth.”

“Well, if it is but a myth, and the global scientific community is involved in some sort of conspiracy, why is it then that around the globe sea levels are more than six inches higher than they were 100 years ago?”

“This isn’t an opinion – it is a fact.”

“And, ladies and gentlemen please be in no doubt that the evidence of long-term and potentially irreversible changes to our world is utterly overwhelming.”

“But I trust we do all know that these wonderful innovations [steam engines] carried with them a long-term cost that nobody at the time could possibly have foreseen.”

“I don’t know about you, ladies and gentlemen, but I happen to mind very much about the sort of world in which my children and grandchildren – and yours – will be living.”

“For all of them, I believe we have a great responsibility to do the right thing by them and so I, for one, am not prepared to play some sort of Russian roulette with their futures.”

Charles has had a busy year saving the world. He was busted in early 2009 for chartering multiple private jets to fly his entourage to the Amazon for one of his hypocritical global warming lectures. And a few weeks ago he upped the ante by once again chartering private jets fly to the Copenhagen Global Warming Circus & Freak Show.

Prince Charles, King of Hypocrites. Whoever invented the phrase “royal pain in the ass” must have been thinking of this guy.

Source: Daily Express UK via ClimateGate.com

The Year’s Best Headline (so far)

We know it’s just the second week of February, but it’s going to be tough to beat this one from Seattle Weekly.

“Gay, Mentally Challenged Biracial Male Cheerleader Claims Discrimination”

We know it’s just the second week of February, but it’s going to be tough to beat this one from Seattle Weekly.

Source:Seattle Weekly

Audi Superbowl commercial seems oddly prophetic

This is Audi’s commercial from today’s Super Bowl. Laugh all you want, but the Green Police are coming. You know it. We know it. Everyone knows it.

This is Audi’s commercial from today’s Super Bowl. Laugh all you want, but the Green Police are coming. You know it. We know it. Everyone knows it.

Delusional Keith Olbermann defends his rapidly eroding ratings

The delusional Keith Olbermann seems outraged – absolutely outraged – that several media outlets said his program is in danger of being cancelled due to low ratings.

The delusional Keith Olbermann seems outraged – absolutely outraged – that several media outlets said his program is in danger of being canceled due to low ratings.

He refuted the vile rumor that his ratings are spiraling downward at an ever-increasing rate.

“First the small picture on how conservatives come to believe the crazy, nonsensical, totally fact-free things they believe,” Olbermann said. “How they transform discernible, provable lies into their wishful thinking version of the truth.” He then insisted that stories of his plummeting ratings are a figment of conservatives’ imaginations and even bragged that the program’s audience has grown.

Just one problem. OIbermann is flat-out lying. His ratings are going down. Big time. For example, here’s a comparison of Thursday, February 5 of this year and Thursday, February 4 of last year.

Of course, we know critics will say, “Well, sure, but one night doesn’t prove anything.” To which we say, “Shut the hell up, morons. These numbers are pretty damn indicative of the overall trends.”

Network/Host                   2-5-2009         2-4-2010
Fox, O’Reilly                        3,839,000          4,176,000
CNN, Brown                         1,497,000            585,000
MSNBC, Olbermann              1,475,000            917,000
HLN, Grace                          1,285,000            967,000

Bottom line: Olbermann’s audience is rapidly dwindling away, no matter how he chooses to spin it otherwise.

As the chart shows, a year ago his total audience often approached 1,500,000 viewers (on Thursday, February 5, 2009 it was 1,475,000). This year it usually comes in under 1,000,000 total viewers (on Thursday, February 4, 2010 it was a mere 917,000).

Obviously, the same math used by the President to explain how ObamaCare won’t grow the deficit is being used by Olbermann to explain how his ratings are growing instead of shrinking. And we suspect the same math is also being used to explain the number of jobs created or saved and maybe even how the world is heating instead of cooling.

Aha! It’s Lib Math. It all makes sense now.

Source: Nielsen Media Research via MediaBistro.com

Miss Alaska says, “No, I can’t see Russia from my house.” Also can’t see stupidity of her statement.

OK. OK. We know Miss Alaska didn’t write that line. Nor did poor Miss Whatever who was sent out to say she hadn’t slept with Tiger Woods. Some idiot Hollywoodish writer is responsible.

OK. OK. We know Miss Alaska didn’t write that line. Nor did poor Miss Whatever who was sent out to say she hadn’t slept with Tiger Woods. Some idiot Hollywoodish writer is responsible.

But for god’s sake, folks, can you imagine the howls of liberal protest if Rush Limbaugh had made a political statement from his place on the judging panel?

“It’s for the children” has fallen on hard times, replaced by “It’s for the environment.”

The children really don’t need our help as much these days anyway, now that they’re all being adopted by Madonna and Angelina Jolie. So it’s only fair that the rest of us should adopt the environment as our cause. No matter how expensive and stupid it may be.

The children really don’t need our help as much these days anyway, now that they’re all being adopted by Madonna and Angelina Jolie.

So it’s only fair that the rest of us should adopt the environment as our cause. No matter how expensive and stupid it may be.

Source: Planet Gore

Obama administration selects new theme song: “Hey, Big Spender”

FDR had “Happy Days Are Here Again” and Bill Clinton had “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.” Now Barack Obama has followed in those liberal icons’ footsteps by choosing a brand spankin’ new theme song for his administration.

FDR had “Happy Days Are Here Again” and Bill Clinton had “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.” Now Barack Obama has followed in those liberal icons’ footsteps by choosing a brand spankin’ new theme song for his administration.

“Hey, Big Spender” was a natural after the President submitted his new budget.

Obama unveils 2011 budget with $3.83T in spending
Source: Associated Press

Taxes on high-income earners would rise by nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years, under the budget plan put forward by President Barack Obama Monday.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Obama Sends Congress $3.8 Trillion Budget, Soaring Deficits Projected
Source: Fox News

Backdoor taxes to hit middle class
Source: Reuters

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