“Linguistic experts have finally deciphered the exact meaning of the name Barack Obama – turns out it’s Kenyan for Jimmy Carter.”
Source: IOwnTheWorld.com
“Along with 50,000 other shivering fans we had to endure a scoreboard message from Robert Redford sponsored by the National Defense Resources Council demanding that we lower our standard of living to stop global warming.”
This brief item from Powerline is too funny to be ignored:
Last night I was at Yankee Stadium watching the Yanks exciting extra-inning playoff win. Along with 50,000 other shivering fans we had to endure a scoreboard message from Robert Redford sponsored by the National Defense Resources Council demanding that we lower our standard of living to stop global warming. The volume was turned on so loud that Redford’s voice could be heard above the howling wind and freezing rain of a mid- October evening in New York City.
As highly respected journalists, we feel compelled to correct one error in the story:
If we’re not mistaken, that howling sound was actually the death throes of the global warming scam.
Source: Powerline
In the world we live in, the one where we include Fox News among our news (sorry, Mr. Gibbs) sources, we would naturally think that much of the country is aware of the controversies of radicals in the Obama Administration.
In the world we live in, the one where we include Fox News among our news (sorry, Mr. Gibbs) sources, we would naturally think that much of the country is aware of the controversies of radicals in the Obama Administration. But, sadly, this is not the case. Reports of what should be huge news events, like the ACORN videos, Van Jones and Anita Dunn’s war on Fox are under-reported or not reported at all in much of the now-fringe media like ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and most newspapers.
For example, coverage of Anita Dunn’s praising of Mao ZeDong in an address to high school students was so unreported outside of Fox News that political insider, commentator and former counsel to Bill Clinton, Lanny Davis has never even heard of Dunn’s comments. The video from last night’s Hannity, shows Sean asking Davis what he thought of Mao being one of Dunn’s two philosophers she turns to most. Lanny smiled smugly and asked Hannity where he gets his information. In one of the better “gotcha” moments we’ve seen lately, Hannity then plays the video for him.
If political insider Lanny Davis had no idea of Dunn’s crush on the communist responsible for tens of millions of deaths just think how little the rest of the American citizenry knows.
A special note of thanks goes out to MediaMatters, who uploaded this video to Youtube, to go with an article not castigating Dunn, not making fun of Davis, but instead calling out Hannity for showing Davis a “cropped video.” The laughs never end, do they?
As world renowned promotional geniuses, we’d recommend that he offer a free pelvic exam with every car purchased. Or vice versa.
As world renowned promotional geniuses, we’d recommend that he offer a free pelvic exam with every car purchased. Or vice versa.
Source: MofoPolitics.com
Embarrassing. Turns out Democrat Steve Shannon, who’s running for Virginia Attorney General, doesn’t really know anything about the office for which he’s running.
Embarrassing. Turns out Democrat Steve Shannon, who’s running for Virginia Attorney General, doesn’t really know anything about the office for which he’s running.
Quick. Answer a question that wasn’t asked. Any question. Obfuscate. Dither. Change the subject. Even when the audience realizes exactly what you’re doing.
Then, just to make an uncomfortable situation even worse, have your staff harass pesky reporters who attempt to follow up on his answer. Or non-answer, as the case may be.
Vote for Steve. He’s the guy who doesn’t know anything about the office he’s running for.
Source: National Review
Joy Behar and her panel of so-called celebrities rip Glenn Beck a new one for daring to compare anything to the holocaust.
Joy Behar and her panel of so-called celebrities rip Glenn Beck a new one for daring to compare anything to the holocaust.
Behar was thinking, “Who does Beck think he is, Alan Grayson?”
Bonadune was thinking, “I wonder what Beck would look like in a dress.”
– Written by Patrick Michael
ABC’s Jake Tapper askes the White House’s Robert Gibbs about their calling Fox News “not a news organization.”
ABC’s Jake Tapper and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at this morning’s White House press conference:
Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –
(Crosstalk)
Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.
Tapper: But that’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are “not a news organization.” How are they any different from, say –
Gibbs: ABC –
Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?
Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight. Or 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” — why is that appropriate for the White House to say?
Gibbs: That’s our opinion.
If only Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly could be more like others on at those hours, like Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews. Now those are news programs!
Source: Political Punch
On the off chance that Wolf’s appearance hadn’t caused CNN enough humiliation, Soledad O’Brien took her turn with the dunce’s cap last week.
Last month Wolf Blitzer embarrassed himself, his friends, his family and anyone he’s ever met with his pathetic performance on Celebrity Jeopardy. On the off chance that Wolf’s appearance hadn’t caused CNN enough humiliation, Soledad O’Brien took her turn with the dunce’s cap last week.
As is now expected for CNN anchors, she finished in third place with $6,200. Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar finished second with $8,800. Actor Michael McKean finished first with $24,800.
The Jeopardy board has 30 questions. The Double Jeopardy board has another 30. And Final Jeopardy has one question. That’s a total of 61 questions. Soledad answered eight questions correctly and three questions incorrectly.
Unfortunately, one of the questions she missed was Final Jeopardy.
And the Final Jeopardy answer: “Trees with biblical names include the Joshua tree & the world’s oldest tree, a 4,700-year old pine named for him. Soledad’s incorrect question was “Who is Moses?” The correct answer, of course, was “Who was Methuselah?” Of course, it would be foolhardy to expect anyone at CNN to be familiar with the bible.
This Celebrity Jeopardy gig isn’t working out too well for CNN. Maybe they should try Celebrity Wheel of Fortune next time.
Juan Williams and Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former NFL player and long-time friend of that raaaaacist Rush Limbaugh put the entire Limbaugh-NFL fiasco in perspective.
Juan Williams and Reverend Ken Hutcherson, a former NFL player and long-time friend of that raaaaacist Rush Limbaugh put the entire Limbaugh-NFL fiasco in perspective.
One really interesting point of discussion is that Demaurice Smith, head of the NFL players union who denounced Rush, was a member of Obama’s transition team and formerly worked for Attorney General Eric Holder.
Make no mistake about it, Juan Williams is no one’s “house negro.” But he is Fox News’ house liberal.
We don’t want you to think we’re exaggerating this story. So watch the embedded video to the 2:15 mark. It’s un-friggin-believable.
We don’t want you to think we’re exaggerating this story. So watch the embedded video to the 2:15 mark. It’s un-friggin-believable.
Sure, it may show an Israeli soldier killing a sweet, smiling young Palestinian girl at point blank range, but what the heck. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says the controversial drama Ayrilik (“Separation”) will continue to air.
Davutoglu said the government really has nothing to do with the issue. No, no, no. It’s all up to the state run Turkish Radio and Television Corp, which airs the show.
“This is a matter to be evaluated entirely as part of their broadcast policies,” he said. “Turkey does not have censorship.”
Of course, this comes from a report from the state run Anotolia news agency in a story about the state run television network. But the state run Turkish government bears absolutely no state run responsibility.
Naturally.
Source: Haarretz.com
Who you gonna believe? The American media, which the White House admits it controls, or the independent, uncontrolled perspective of the foreign media?
“Why Joe is No Joke”
Source: Newsweek
“Joe Biden: the worrying rise of Barack Obama’s Mr. Wrong”
Source: Telegraph UK
Hmmmmm. Who you gonna believe? The American media, which the White House admits it controls, or the independent, uncontrolled perspective of the foreign media?
Watch this video and see if you can spot the person in this security video who needs to be deported.
Poor Nancy Pelosi. According the Greatest President In History, she’s been working hard. Really hard. “Nancy’s busy with her mop, cleaning up someone else’s mess,” he said. “And we don’t want someone sitting back saying, ‘You’re not holding the mop the right way.’”
Poor Nancy Pelosi. According the Greatest President In History, she’s been working hard. Really hard.
“Nancy’s busy with her mop, cleaning up someone else’s mess,” he said. “And we don’t want someone sitting back saying, ‘You’re not holding the mop the right way.’”
We’re not sure whose mess Nancy is cleaning up. After all, she’s represented her district in Congress for more than 20 years. You would think that the worst moppers ever – you know, the ones who don’t hold the mop right – would be able to clean up a substantial mess in 20 years.
Speaking to his critics Obama asked, “Why don’t you grab a mop? Why don’t you help clean up?”
The President’s critics are hoping that the major clean up starts next year, and rather than taking 20 years, that it’s pretty well completed by 2012.
Source: ABC News
– Written by Patrick Michael
Last week’s Anita Dunn headline was “White House escalates war on Fox News.” This week’s Anita Dunn headline is “White House admits: We ‘control’ news media.” The latter certainly goes a long way toward explaining the former.
Last week’s Anita Dunn headline was “White House escalates war on Fox News.” This week’s Anita Dunn headline is “White House admits: We ‘control’ news media.” The latter certainly goes a long way toward explaining the former.
Here’s how World Net Daily reports the story:
Anita Dunn, the White House Communications Director who declared war on Fox News, inadvertently revealed the truth behind the effort to silence the network. She says the Obama administration “controls” the media.
President Obama’s presidential campaign focused on “making” the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was “controlled,” White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.
“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control,” said Dunn.
“One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters,” said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama’s chief campaign manager.
“We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it,” Dunn said.
Continued Dunn: “Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was. … Making the press cover what we were saying.”
Sure, Anita. Like you really had to twist the media’s arms to get positive coverage for Obama. And Fox, the only apparent voice of dissent in the country, must now be silenced because it cannot be controlled.
Is there still anyone out there who doesn’t find this administration frightening?
Source: World Net Daily
Source: Fox News
President Obama promised complete transparency in healthcare negotiations.
He said every session will be broadcast live on C-SPAN so the American public
can be completely informed.
President Obama promised complete transparency in healthcare negotiations. He said every session would be broadcast live on C-SPAN so the American public could be completely informed.
With that promise in mind, IHateTheMedia.com presents the above handy viewing schedule.
We assume The Most Honest President of the Most Transparent Administration in History would not lie to the country, so C-SPAN should be rolling their camera’s into Harry Reid’s office very soon.
If you’d like to hear the President’s actual promise, click Play on the video below.
A President’s in real trouble when he loses his base. And that’s the only way to interpret the fact that socialists are slip slidin’ away from their early enthusiasm for the Press Event President.
A President’s in real trouble when he loses his base. And that’s the only way to interpret the fact that socialists are slip slidin’ away from their early enthusiasm for the Press Event President.
Here’s how the World Socialist Web Site reports the end of the slobbering love affair:
The combined US troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have now reached a higher level than existed at any time under the presidency of George W. Bush. This surge past the record set by its predecessor marks another grim milestone in the Obama administration’s escalation of American militarism.
In addition to the 21,000 US soldiers and Marines that Obama ordered deployed to Afghanistan as part of the escalation he unveiled last March, another 13,000 “support” troops are being quietly sent to the country with no official announcement, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
This stealth buildup is a replay of the methods used by the Bush administration in its Iraq surge, when it announced the deployment of an additional 20,000 combat troops while saying nothing about the 8,000 support troops sent with them.
In neither case was the failure to declare the full number an oversight. Obama, like Bush before him, recognizes that the military interventions he oversees are deeply unpopular with the majority of the American people.
According to the troop numbers provided by the Post, there are now 65,000 US troops in Afghanistan, with another 124,000 still in Iraq, for a total of 189,000 American military personnel waging two colonial-style wars and occupations.
At the height of the Bush administration’s 2007 “surge” in Iraq, there were 26,000 US troops in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq, for a total of 186,000.
There is every indication that the policies being pursued by the Obama White House will send these numbers significantly higher.
That early aura of invincibility is slip slidin’ away, Barack, it’s slip slidin’ away. Which is our cheesy way of leading into the Paul Simon video embedded at the top of this story.
Source: World Socialist Web Site via Andrew Bolt
Huckleberry Chuck, legendary former Top 40 DJ, bon vivant and noted wit comments on the news.
Huckleberry Chuck, legendary former Top 40 DJ, bon vivant and noted wit comments on the news.
Whoever designed this program must have had too many brewskis at the 19th hole. It’s like Cash-for-Clunkers on steroids.
Whoever designed this program must have had too many brewskis at the 19th hole. It’s like Cash-for-Clunkers on steroids.
Let’s just let the Wall Street Journal report this one while we take a few practice swings:
The federal (tax) credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and when it is combined with similar incentive plans in many states the tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart. Even in states that don’t have their own tax rebate plans, the federal credit is generous enough to pay for half or even two-thirds of the average sticker price of a cart, which is typically in the range of $8,000 to $10,000. “The purchase of some models could be absolutely free,” Roger Gaddis of Ada Electric Cars in Oklahoma said earlier this year. “Is that about the coolest thing you’ve ever heard?”
The golf-cart boom has followed an IRS ruling that golf carts qualify for the electric-car credit as long as they are also road worthy. These qualifying golf carts are essentially the same as normal golf carts save for adding some safety features, such as side and rearview mirrors and three-point seat belts. They typically can go 15 to 25 miles per hour.
In South Carolina, sales of these carts have been soaring as dealerships alert customers to Uncle Sam’s giveaway. “The Golf Cart Man” in the Villages of Lady Lake, Florida is running a banner online ad that declares: “GET A FREE GOLF CART. Or make $2,000 doing absolutely nothing!”
Golf Cart Man is referring to his offer in which you can buy the cart for $8,000, get a $5,300 tax credit off your 2009 income tax, lease it back for $100 a month for 27 months, at which point Golf Cart Man will buy back the cart for $2,000. “This means you own a free Golf Cart or made $2,000 cash doing absolutely nothing!!!” You can’t blame a guy for exploiting loopholes that Congress offers.
This is obviously the Obama administration’s attempt to reach across the aisle to the rich country club Republicans.
Pardon us, but this story makes us want to go whack a few balls.
Source: Wall Street Journal
“President Obama is scheduled to throw out the first ball at the World Series – and immediately afterward accept the Cy Young Award.”
“President Obama is scheduled to throw out the first ball at the World Series – and immediately afterward accept the Cy Young Award.”
– Dave Williams, KABC Radio, Los Angeles
Source: LARadio.com
In keeping with the socialist tone of the times, and in the tradition of those overblown, overly dramatic anthems of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites, here’s America’s new national anthem.
In keeping with the socialist tone of the times, and in the tradition of those overblown, overly dramatic anthems of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites, here’s America’s new national anthem, titled Obamaland über alles.
It comes from the twisted mind of Glenn Beck.
Damn, we love this guy.
ObamaCare end-of-life counselor reveals the truth for senior citizens in this movie clip.
Italy’s bribery strategy proved more creative than the typical French strategy of retreat and surrender, but considerably more deadly.
Italy’s bribery strategy proved more creative than the typical French strategy of retreat and surrender, but considerably more deadly.
The Australian reports via Andrew Bolt:
TEN French soldiers killed in Afghanistan failed to realise the risks in the area because Italian officials had secretly paid the Taliban to desist from violence.
The Italian secret service had been paying tens of thousands of dollars to Taliban commanders and local warlords to keep the Sarobi area near Kabul quiet in the months before French forces moved in.
The French had been in charge of the area for just a month when the 10 soldiers were killed in an insurgent ambush in August 2008, in one of the biggest single losses of life for NATO forces in Afghanistan.
“Sacre bleu, Henri, pour me another glass of that insouciant ’93 chardonnay. This Afghanistan duty is a lot easier than I…(BANG)…”
Source: Andrew Bolt
Cuban punk rocker (who knew?) Gorki Águila is not a fan of Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution.
Cuban punk rocker (who knew?) Gorki Águila is not a fan of Fidel Castro’s revolution.
“Communism is a failure. A total failure,” he says. “Please, leftists of the world-improve your capitalism. Don’t choose communism!”
Águila, who still lives in Cuba, wears homemade anti-Castro t-shirts, frequently denounces the Raoul and Fidel, and leads what may be Cuba’s only political punk band, Porno Para Ricardo. He is often arrested and charged with “social dangerousness.”
Cuban officials granted Águila a rare visa to travel abroad, hoping that he’ll travel overseas and stay there.
Source: Reason.com
Kanye West does it again, interrupts Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. What’s with this guy?
Source: The Big Feed
Glenn Beck absolutely nails the Obamaniacs over at MSNBC. Sure, he’s histrionic, but he’s also hilarious. And the final score, Glenn Beck 3, MSNBC 0.
Glenn Beck absolutely nails the Obamaniacs over at MSNBC. Sure, he’s histrionic, but he’s also hilarious. And the final score, Glenn Beck 3, MSNBC 0.
Source: Bluegrass Pundit
