Adios, amigos. MSNBC’s Schultz and Maddow losing viewers

MSNBC executives must be sweating bullets. Last quarter was a for the also-ran lefty network, and last week was even worse.

Why is this man smiling? He must not have seen last week's ratings.
Why is this man smiling? He must not have seen last week's ratings.

MSNBC executives must be sweating bullets. Last quarter was a ratings disaster for the also-ran lefty network, and last week was even worse.

For the first time since her premiere last September, Rachel Maddow failed to top 1,000,000 viewers all five nights of the week.

And Ed Schultz. Poor Ed Schultz. After his disappointing premiere back in April, networks executives reassured worried advertisers that his ratings would grow. In reality, they’ve actually become more abysmal. Last week the bombastic buffoon’s total audience fell under 500,000 viewers three of the five nights.

Maddow has a bit of an excuse because Keith Olbermann wasn’t around as a lead-in to her show. But she’s been able to top that magic million mark during previous Olbermann absences.

Meanwhile, O’Reilly, Hannity and Beck have turned Fox News into the 1927 Yankees of cable news.

That sound you hear is the gnashing of teeth emanating from MSNBC’s executive suites.

Source: Nielsen Media Research via MediaBistro

Eat your heart out, Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama fanatical fans are apparently unfamiliar with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, First Lady of France, heiress, former model, and now, it turns out, an excellent singer.

You may find this hard to believe, but there are websites devoted (and we mean devoted) to Michelle Obama. They think she is the most glamorous, most beautiful, most intelligent and most stylish woman in the world. Seriously.

They are wrong.

Apparently, they are unfamiliar with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, First Lady of France, heiress, former model, and now, it turns out, an excellent singer. And as a bonus, she’s not built like an NFL linebacker.

Source: Ace of Spades

Comment of the Day
“Hollywood is a place where drugging and raping
a 13-year old girl is acceptable, but waterboarding
a murdering terrorist is unacceptable.”

Hollywood is a place where drugging and raping a 13-year old girl is acceptable, but waterboarding a murdering terrorist is unacceptable.

Bette Midler is afraid of Glenn Beck, very afraid

Actress, singer and political wacko Bette Midler calls Glenn Beck “terrifying” and says “he’s like an old school demagogue.”

Actress, singer and political wacko Bette Midler calls Glenn Beck “terrifying” and says “he’s like an old school demagogue.”

Why, the next thing that’ll happen, according to Midler is that Beck’s hate speech will set off the kind of civil unrest they had in Rwanda. Because radio hosts caused that, you know. Evil, conservative radio hosts. Probably raaaaaaacists.

The seduction of Olympia Snowe: A story of lust, power, and the lust for power

The New York Times is currently creating merriment with some disingenuous praise concerning Maine’s Republican Senator Olympia Snowe.

This does not appear to be a woman who has been seduced very often
This does not appear to be a woman who has been seduced very often

The New York Times is currently creating merriment with some the most disingenuous praise uttered since, “Gee, you don’t sweat much for a fat girl.”

We’re talking about the left’s wining and dining of Maine’s Republican Senator Olympia Snowe. As the Times remarks, “The significance of the Obama-Snowe relationship lies not in the prospect that the president will replicate it with many, or even any, other Republicans. To achieve his objectives, Ms. Snowe may be the only Republican he needs.”

For her part, Snowe seems quite enamored with the President and “… she offered a surprisingly robust endorsement of Mr. Obama’s skepticism about expanding government too much, his willingness to accommodate different views and his assertion that Washington must act now after decades of failure.”

The Times admitted that Mr. Obama and his team began cultivating Ms. Snowe even before he took office in January. “He’s always eliciting my views,” she said, “wondering, you know, what my concerns are.” How sweet.

Snowe also stated that “she has maintained traditional Republican principles over 30 years in Washington, while her party has moved past them to the right.”
Well, sure, if by traditional Republican principles you mean support for abortion and backing Obama on TARP funds and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Rest assured that the New York Times is like that creepy guy from high school. It will drop Snowe as soon as it gets what it wants from her.

Source: New York Times

– Written by Patrick Michael

Unfortunately, the wrong Obama is in charge of our foreign policy

President Obama may have said he’s not interested in victory when it comes to Iran, but there’s another Obama who knows how important it is to win.

President Obama may have said he’s not interested in victory when it comes to Iran, but there’s another Obama who knows how important it is to win.

“It’s a battle — we’re going to win — take no prisoners,” Michelle Obama told reporters.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t talking about Iran. She wasn’t talking about Afghanistan. She wasn’t even talking about the healthcare battle. No, Mrs O was talking about her efforts to win the 2016 Olympics for Chicago.

We say put the woman in charge of our foreign policy.

After all, who would you rather face in a street fight? The scrawny, smiling, appeasing Barack Obama or a hard-as-nails, looming linebacker like Michelle?

Source: Political Ticker

Obama’s top advisor says he’s narcissistic and may have a glass jaw

According to a new book called “The Battle for America 2008,”David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s official Yoda, confronted his young Skywalker with this statement:

obama self-loveAccording to a new book called “The Battle for America 2008,” David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s official Yoda, confronted his young Skywalker with this statement:

“At the risk of triggering the very reaction that concerns me, I don’t know if you are Muhammad Ali or Floyd Patterson when it comes to taking a punch. You care far too much what is written and said about you. You don’t relish combat when it becomes personal and nasty….”

Far as we can tell, the book has only sold three copies — one each to Kim Il-Jong, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Source: ABCnews.com

Madeline Albright’s firm breasts were the secret to her success (such as they were and such as it was)

We’re not sure which is worse – the fact that we’re typing these words or that a former Secretary of State actually said them. Alas, it is true. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks about her firm breasts with CNN anchor John Roberts.

We’re not sure which is worse – the fact that we’re typing these words or that a former Secretary of State actually said them. Alas, it is true. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks about her firm breasts with CNN anchor John Roberts.

At least we finally know why Clinton gave her the job.

Source: Gateway Pundit

Everything that’s wrong with the Obama administration summed up in two quick quotes

Everything that’s wrong with the Obama administration summed up in two quick quotes, one from the LA Times and one from HotAir.com.

“I’ve talked to the President once since I’ve been on a VTC.”
– General Stanley McChrystal
Source: CBS

“(SEIU president Andy) Stern estimates he visits the White House once a week.”
– Los Angeles Times
Source: Los Angeles Times

Source: HotAir.com

“And now, ladies and gentlemen, straight from a successful run in Hamburg’s Cavern Club, it’s the Burka Blues”

Don’t ask us to explain this video. It’s oddly hypnotic. It’s in Arabic, but it has German subtitles. It seems legit. But who the hell knows?

“It’s got a good beat and it’s easy to dance to.” Oh, wait. We just had a flashback to American Bandstand in 1959. Or maybe a flashforward to 2059. We’re not sure which.

Don’t ask us to explain this video. It’s oddly hypnotic. It’s in English, but it has German subtitles. It seems legit. But who the hell knows?

Source: TheBigFeed.com

Huffington Post calls Obama a chess master, but maybe he should start with Yahtzee.

According to the Huffington Post, President Obama is a chess master extraordinaire. No, really. That’s what they said.

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According to the Huffington Post, President Obama is a chess master extraordinaire. No, really. That’s what they said:

President Obama knew about the secret Iranian facility nine months ago. Before he began his strategy of engagement, he knew Iran was lying about its program. When he extended his hand in friendship, he knew Iran had built a secret factory to enrich uranium. Before he offered direct talks, he knew Iran was hiding a nuclear weapons breakout capability.

Each move was denounced as “weak” and “naïve” by the right. That talk looks foolish today. These were the moves of chess master, carefully positioning pieces on the board, laying a trap, and springing it at the opportune moment.

Well, actually, the moves still look weak and naive to us.

We’d say the Huffington Post has it slightly wrong. Obama looks more like the president of the high school chess club than a chess master. And Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks like one of the tough kids who’s about to give him a wedgie.

Source: HuffingtonPost.com

– Written by Patrick Michael

12 things you probably don’t know about the latest cable news ratings

The third quarter isn’t quite over on the calendar, but it’s over in the world of ratings. Fox may have a lot to celebrate, but everyone else is wondering what the hell hit them.

CNN must be kicking themselves for letting Glenn Beck get away.
CNN must be kicking themselves for letting Glenn Beck get away.

The third quarter isn’t quite over on the calendar, but it’s over in the world of ratings. Fox has a lot to celebrate, but everyone else is wondering what the hell hit them. Here are a dozen things that may surprise you about the latest cable news ratings.

1. A perfect ten. All ten of the top ten shows are on Fox News, powered by the O’Reilly-Hannity-Beck troika.

2. Beck kicks butt. Glenn Beck increased the ratings for his time slot a remarkable 136% over the third quarter of 2008.

3. Lucky 13. During September, Fox had the top thirteen programs in cable news.

4. Dominance. The O’Reilly Factor has now been the top-rated cable news show for an unprecedented 106 consecutive months.

5. Better and better. Fox News is the only cable news network to post across the board year-over-year increases.

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President Obama now making up supportive quotes from imaginary friends

The same guy who made up enough incidents to write two autobiographies by the time he was forty, is now making up supportive quotes from imaginary friends.

And then Obama fantasized that Angela Merkel said, "Hey, big boy, lose the linebacker chick and meet me in my room."
And then Obama fantasized that Angela Merkel said, "Hey, big boy, lose the linebacker chick and meet me in my room."

The same guy who made up enough incidents to write two autobiographies by the time he was forty is now making up supportive quotes from imaginary friends.

ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports:

President Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner last night, discussing false claims made about the health care reform bill, told a little anecdote.

“I was up at the G20 — just a little aside — I was up at the G20, and some of you saw those big flags and all the world leaders come in and Michelle and I are shaking hands with them,” the president said. “One of the leaders — I won’t mention who it was — he comes up to me. We take the picture, we go behind.

“He says, ‘Barack, explain to me this health care debate.’

“He says, ‘We don’t understand it. You’re trying to make sure everybody has health care and they’re putting a Hitler mustache on you — I don’t — that doesn’t make sense to me. Explain that to me.'”

Asked who this was, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs would say only “a world leader.”

Yeah, sure. And a world famous super model once told us that IHateTheMedia.com is her favorite website. She says, “IHTM, why aren’t you as large as Drudge? That doesn’t make sense to me. Explain that to me.”

One story is as true as the other. Guaranteed.

Source: ABCnews.com

News flash: The New York Times is conservative

The fact that the New York Times is biased is hardly newsworthy. But Media Matters believes that the New York Times is biased to the right. No, really, to the right.

No matter how hard he thinks, George Bush can't remember any support from the New York Times
No matter how hard he thinks, George Bush can't remember any support from the New York Times

The fact that the New York Times is biased is hardly newsworthy. But Media Matters believes that the New York Times is biased to the right. No, really, to the right.

The article complains that Times public editor Clark Hoyt “…manages to get through an entire column about the possibility that the Times is biased in favor of liberals without ever once mentioning the paper’s coverage of the 2000 election or the run-up to the Iraq war, to pick just two of the most obvious counter-examples.”

We must be getting senile. We can’t remember the Times throwing its weight behind George Bush or leading the charge into Iraq. But it gets worse. The article continues:

“The suspicion of bias will never go away. These efforts to bend over backwards to appease the Right — people who will never be appeased — no matter how ridiculous their complaints, in which newspapers like the Times fret over the suspicion of bias regardless of the merits of the complaint, are exactly how the paper ends up handing a presidential election to George W. Bush — and then handing him his Iraq war on a platter.”

To repeat, Media Matters is talking about THE NEW YORK TIMES. Is there another paper named the New York Times that we don’t know about?

Source: MediaMatters.org

– Written by Patrick Michael

Good news for Roman Polanski: Whoopi Goldberg says he may be guilty of rape, but it wasn’t rape rape

“I know it wasn’t rape rape. It was something else, but I don’t believe it was rape rape … When we’re talking about what someone did, and what they were charged with, we have to say what it actually was, not what we think it was.”

“I know it wasn’t rape rape. It was something else, but I don’t believe it was rape rape … When we’re talking about what someone did, and what they were charged with, we have to say what it actually was, not what we think it was.”

In related news, we believe Whoopi is a moron, but not moron moron.

Community organizers pray to Obama.
Not for Obama, but to Obama.

“Hear our cry, Obama! Deliver us, Obama.” Pardon the expression, but good lord almighty. Now community organizers are praying to Obama.

“Hear our cry, Obama! Deliver us, Obama.” Pardon the expression, but good lord almighty.

Now community organizers are praying to Obama. The Gamaliel Foundation goes way back with Barack Obama and helped organize his early work in Chicago’s poor neighborhoods.

Suddenly, the video clips of school kids singing the President’s praises seem almost innocent by comparison.

Hmmmmm. Did ACORN steal the election for Al Franken?

Shame on us. We’ve been thinking that the election of Al Franken proved that the people of Minnesota need massive psychiatric intervention. But maybe not if the Minneapolis Star-Tribune is to be believed.

Senator Al Franken (D-ACORN)
Senator Al Franken (D-ACORN)

Shame on us. We’ve been thinking that the election of Al Franken proved that the people of Minnesota need massive psychiatric intervention. But maybe not if the Minneapolis Star-Tribune is to be believed:

…ACORN does have a special place in its heart for at least one prominent Minnesota politician. Last year, it showered praise on Al Franken, endorsing his run for the U.S. Senate. Franken returned the esteem: “I’m thrilled and honored to receive this endorsement,” he gushed in a press release. He added that he was “more motivated than ever to work with ACORN.”

Fact is, ACORN may deserve the credit and the blame for Franken’s election. The scandal-plagued group claims it registered 75% of Minnesota’s 43,000 new voters. Since Franken’s margin of victory was a mere 312 votes, it seems reasonable to assume that ACORN’s dubious new voters were enough to swing the election in the Democrat’s direction.

Of course, Minnesota’s Democrat Secretary of State Mark Ritchie scoffs at that assertion and says there’s nothing to worry about because Minnesota’s voter verification system guarantees the integrity of the election. But you have to take that with a grain of salt because ACORN also endorsed Ritchie and helped get him elected.

Ritchie’s probably more motivated than ever to work with ACORN, too.

Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Drug-addled Courtney Love makes goo-goo eyes at power-addled Hugo Chavez

Love may be grand, but washed-up, drugged-up rocker Courtney Love is so far from grand that she can’t even see it off in the distance.

Strangers in the night, exchanging glances, wondering in the night, what were the chances
Strangers in the night, exchanging glances, wondering in the night, what were the chances

Love may be grand, but washed-up, drugged-up rocker Courtney Love is so far from grand that she can’t even see it off in the distance.

Here’s how the New York Daily News reports this bizarre story:

Courtney Love is still floating on the charm offensive that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched at Wednesday’s screening of Oliver Stone’s new documentary, “South of the Border.” The singer, who came dressed to thrill in a short zipper-front skirt, says she noticed the twice-divorced Chavez checking her out during a Q&A afterward.

“It was the third wink that sold me,” Mrs. Kurt Cobain told us. “He’s a sexy dawg. He invited me to visit his country and I’d like to go. I’ll rock Caracas!”

You may scoff, but we think his odd-couple coupling could work out. Seriously. Courtney and Hugo have so much in common. For example:

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Newsweek speaks the unspeakable: Obama is an empty suit

Howard Fineman: The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube.

Linguists and liberal Democrats have just discovered that "Barack" is the Swahili word for "empty suit."
Linguists and liberal Democrats have just discovered that "Barack" is the Swahili word for "empty suit."

Howard Fineman takes to the pages of Newsweek to say the words Obamaniacs do not want to hear, especially not from another lib:

 Barack Obama is an empty suit.

The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words “I” and “my.” (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.) Obama is a historic figure, but that is the beginning, not the end, of the story.
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Evil, greedy conservative Rush Limbaugh donates $500,000 to hearing clinic

It’s not something his liberal critics want to talk about, but Rush Limbaugh is a very generous man. He just donated $500,000 to the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles.

Rush is lighter by 80 pounds and half a million dollars
Rush is lighter by 80 pounds and half a million dollars

It’s not something his liberal critics want to talk about, but Rush Limbaugh is a very generous man. He just donated $500,000 to the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles.

The gift was given in memory of Antonio De la Cruz, M.D., who passed away recently as a result of complications from lymphoma.

Dr. De la Cruz and another House Clinic physician diagnosed Limbaugh with auto-immune inner ear disease (AIED) and eventually performed cochlear implant surgery to restore his hearing.

“Dr. De la Cruz literally saved my career and got me my life back with that surgery,” Limbaugh said. “I wouldn’t have been able to continue my career. For a month before I had the implant surgery, I did my show totally deaf.”

This donation, of course, is on top of the hundreds of thousands of dollars the king of talk gives to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society each year.

So in the end, it turns out that Limbaugh may be deaf, but his critics are the ones who refuse to hear the truth.

Source: Los Angeles Times

New New York Times motto: Better late than never

For generations, the New York Times motto was “All the news that’s fit to print.” Things have changed. The Times official ombudsman commented on the paper’s cluelessness on the ACORN scandal and other recent stories.

The New York Times has a new motto <i>and</i> a new mascot
The New York Times has a new motto and a new mascot

For generations, the New York Times motto was “All the news that’s fit to print.” Things have changed.

The Times official ombudsman waddled in over the weekend (when most people don’t pay much attention to news) to comment on the paper’s cluelessness on the ACORN scandal and other recent stories thoroughly covered by Fox News and talk radio, but ignored the The Gray Lady.

In a mea culpa entitled, “Tuning In Too Late,” Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt admits, “The Times stood still.” What he should’ve said was that the paper stood still in its best ostrich imitation. Either that or its head was stuck deep where the sun never shines. And it wasn’t the first time.

Hoyt understatedly noted of the Times:

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Oops. Democrats confirm that you’ll be fined up to $25,000 if you don’t buy ObamaCare insurance

Senator John Ensign read the ObamaCare bill, it requires every American to buy insurance, calls for a $1900 penalty for anyone who doesn’t buy insurance, and then calls for a hefty fine on anyone who doesn’t pay the penalty. Violators could be charged could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty.

John Ensign asked the question and most Americans aren't going to like the answer
John Ensign asked the question and most Americans aren't going to like the answer

This is one of those things that’s so simple we wonder why no one thought of it before.

Democrats deny it, but the way Nevada’s Republican Senator John Ensign read the ObamaCare bill, it requires every American to buy insurance, calls for a $1900 penalty for anyone who doesn’t buy insurance, and then calls for a hefty fine on anyone who doesn’t pay the penalty.

So Ensign solved the disagreement simply by asking Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold to confirm his interpretation. Barthold responded with a handwritten note that said:

“Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty.”

It’s a good thing that budget cuts are forcing states to release prisoners early, because they’re going to need the empty cells to house all the ObamaCare debtors.

Source: Politico.com

Confirmed: Barack Obama is the Stepford President

President Obama has exactly the same smile in every shot. In fact, the man seems frozen in time. Like a mind-numbed robot. Like a cardboard cut-out. Like something from Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Like a Stepford wife.

This is just plain weird. There’s no other way to describe it.

All the other presidents, prime ministers, tin horn dictators, petty tyrants and grand poobahs wanted their photos taken with President Obama at the U.N. 130 of them lined up at a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

President Obama has exactly the same smile in every shot. In fact, the man seems frozen in time. Like a mind-numbed robot. Like a cardboard cut-out. Like something from Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Like a Stepford wife. Like…well…you get the idea.

There’s something incredibly eerie about it.

H/T: HotAir.com

Even Jon Stewart wants to know why no one’s reporting the Democrats’ latest fundraising scandal

Who’s Hassan Nemazee? Merely the latest Democrat fundraiser to go down in flames. He’s accused of embezzling $300,000,000. And yet Joe Biden said, “Had I my way, I would be referring to him as Ambassador Nemazee.”


Van Jones is ancient history. And the ACORN videos are so last week. Let’s move on to the latest Democrat scandal.

Who’s Hassan Nemazee? Merely the latest Democrat fundraiser to go down in flames. He’s accused of embezzling $300,000,000. And yet Joe Biden said, “Had I my way, I would be referring to him as Ambassador Nemazee.”

Much like if we had our way, we would be referring to Joe as former Vice President Biden.

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