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Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, 44th president of the United States — socialist, radical, and enemy of Americans who believe in the constitution. Here are hundreds of articles on this man.

Boohoo. New government website helps people who are sad and crying

But what if your depression is caused by the administration, not the economy?
But what if your depression is caused by the administration, not the economy?

Are you sad? Are your spirits lower than your bank balance? Are you as depressed as the economy? Fear not. It’s Obama to the rescue. Because as all good Americans know, there is nothing this 21st century Superman cannot do.

Our thanks to Drudge for breaking the news of this latest nanny state fiasco:

The U.S. government is set to offer an online emotional rescue kit!

“Getting Through Tough Economic Times” will launch Tuesday with a media push across all platforms.

The site is meant to help people identify health concerns related to financial worries.

The feds will warn of depression, suicidal thinking and other serious mental illnesses. It will raise warning flags for: Persistent sadness/crying; Excessive anxiety; Lack of sleep/constant fatigue; Excessive irritability/anger.

The only problem is trying to remember the government’s catchy URL:

samhsa.gov/economy

May we respectfully suggest some catchier, snappier, more memorable URLs?

How about ImMoreDepressedThanMyIRA.gov. Or My401KsNotOK.gov. Or CradleToGraveHappiness.gov. Or our personal favorite, NannyState.gov.

Feel free to use them, President Obama.

Source: DrudgeReport.com

Obama’s internet town hall quickly goes to pot

President Obama lit up the room. But this time it wasn't with his smile. (Photo credit: Lisa Jack)
President Obama lit up the room. But this time it wasn't with his smile. (Photo credit: Lisa Jack)
Last week’s high profile dipping of the presidential toe into cyberspace demonstrated the dangers of letting the people ask questions without the benefit of a teleprompter.

“There was one question that was voted on that ranked fairly high. That was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and job creation,” Obama chuckled. “I don’t know what this says about the online audience.” 



“This was a fairly popular question. We want to make sure it was answered. The answer is no, I don’t think that is a good strategy to grow our economy,” he said to a laughing East Room audience. 



More than 90,000 questions were submitted to the White House website. Forget energy, the economy, terror, and healthcare. Seven of the 10 questions receiving the most votes revolved around the legalizing pot.

As usual, President Obama blew smoke. But for once his audience appreciated it.

Source: Politico

President’s economic advisory board meets frequently. Or maybe not.

Member of the the Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board at a public meeting. (Photo credit: Barrett Anspach)
Member of the the Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board at a public meeting. (Photo credit: Barrett Anspach)
Lies. Deceptions. Intrigue. Skullduggery. Everything except sex.

This is another one of those stories the media would be all over if it involved a president named Bush instead of one named Obama.

Nearly two months after President Obama named a high-level panel to help solve the economic crisis, the group still hasn’t held a public meeting. The Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board initially said it would meet every few weeks. That was changed to monthly. And that was updated to four times a year.

Here’s how Politico.com reports it:

(C)omments from board members and Obama himself indicate that some members of the panel are meeting, in smaller gatherings that have not been announced or opened to the public. And that raises the question of whether an administration that prides itself on openness and transparency is in fact finding it more convenient to conduct public business in private. 



Now, the administration finds itself in a Catch-22: It does not want to say that the president’s economic panel, announced amid much fanfare, is not meeting during the worst economic crisis in generations. But if it is meeting, where’s the announcement, the agenda, the minutes? In short, where’s the sunshine?

Rest assured, we’ll follow up on this story tomorrow. Or next week. Or in late spring. Or whenever this group actually meets. Or doesn’t meet. Or whatever.

Source: Politico.com

Where’s Wald-O when he’s not in the White House?

President Obama daintily holding a beer as if he's at a tea party. Not to be confused with an anti-tax Tea Party.
President Obama daintily holding a beer as if he's at a tea party. Not to be confused with an anti-tax Tea Party.
While the rest of America is scrimping and saving and cutting back on unnecessary expenses, the Obamas are busily hitting the town as often as possible. In office just two months, the president and Mrs. O are already setting new records for socializing, wining and dining.

The New York Times, unofficial mouthpiece of the Democratic party, reports on the first couple’s busy social life outside of the White House: “‘Everywhere you go, you’re wondering whether or not you’ll run into them,’ said Washington’s mayor, Adrian M. Fenty, who has lunched with the president and first lady.”

The Times breathlessly describes the president “sitting courtside recently alongside astonished fans at the Verizon Center as he cheered on the Chicago Bulls…” Then details how the Obamas visited the Kennedy Center (twice!), The Alvin Ailey dance troupe, and “a musical tribute to Senator Edward M. Kennedy.” (The Unsinkable Molly Brown, perhaps?)

The Obamas are also dining out as often as possible, at both upscale restaurants and greasy spoons: Equinox, Bobby Van’s Steakhouse, B. Smith’s, Georgia Brown’s, Ben’s Chili Bowl and Five Guys Burgers and Fries have all fed the prez.

Letitia Baldrige, former White House social secretary to Jackie O, said of the Obamas’ socializing, “It’s a great bank of good will in which they’re making deposits every day.”

Actually, what she meant to say is, “Banking crisis, schmanking crisis. Every day’s a party!”

Source: New York Times

Why we changed the office cat’s name to Obama

Obama, the annoying IHateTheMedia.com office cat
Obama, the annoying IHateTheMedia.com office cat

This is IHateTheMedia.com’s office cat.

He just showed up at the door one day a couple years ago and never left. To tell the truth, we’ve never been crazy about him, but he does catch an occasional mouse so we let him hang around. OK, maybe we even pet him once in a while.

His name used to be Ozzie, but we’ve changed it to Obama. It just seemed like the thing to do:

Just like Obama, he’s half black and half white.

Just like Obama, he talks incessantly.

Just like Obama, he has a sense of entitlement.

Just like Obama, he experimented with catnip in his youth.

Just like Obama, he gets by on appearance rather than accomplishment.

Just like Obama, he think’s its his world and everything should be done his way.

And just like Obama, we hope he’s gone in four years.

Financial crisis solved, so Senate moves on to football crisis

The United States Senate has moved seamlessly from pork to pigskins.
The United States Senate has moved seamlessly from pork to pigskins.

What? The financial crisis hasn’t been solved? Then why the hell is the senate talking wasting time on football?

Here’s how AP reports the latest complete waste of time and money coming out of the United States Senate:

Now senators are getting off the sidelines to examine antitrust issues involving the Bowl Champion Series.

The current system “leaves nearly half of all the teams in college football at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to qualifying for the millions of dollars paid out every year,” the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights said in a statement Wednesday announcing the hearings.

Under the BCS, some conferences get automatic bids to participate in series, while others do not.

Obama and some members of Congress favor a playoff-type system to determine the national champion. The BCS features a championship game between the two top teams in the BCS standings, based on two polls and six computer ratings.

For God’s sake, man. Who cares if Associated Press poll picks USC and the Coaches Poll picks LSU and the computers pick Texas. Don’t these people have better things to do?

We just checked with the sports book in Vegas. Odds are 7-1 that the United States Senate is filled with brain-addled morons. 3-1 its filled with corrupt rip-off artists. And 2-1 it’s filled with bloviating blockheads.

Associated Press

How Rahm Emanuel ripped you off for $320,000

rahm_emanuelHelp Wanted: Must be able to attend 6 meetings per year and overlook blatant fraud. $20,000 annual salary plus stock options. Total compensation in the $320,000 range over 14 months.

We never saw this help wanted ad, but apparently President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, did. He landed the plum gig, sat on the board of currupt Freddie Mac for 14 months and may have earned more than $320,000 for his meager efforts. Call 1-800-BIG-SCAM and ask for “Freddie.”

Here’s how the Chicago Tribune describes his odd tenure at Freddie Mac:

Before its portfolio of bad loans helped trigger the current housing crisis, mortgage giant Freddie Mac was the focus of a major accounting scandal that led to a management shake-up, huge fines and scalding condemnation of passive directors by a top federal regulator.



One of those allegedly asleep-at-the-switch board members was Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel—now chief of staff to President Barack Obama—who made at least $320,000 for a 14-month stint at Freddie Mac that required little effort.



As gatekeeper to Obama, Emanuel now plays a critical role in addressing the nation’s mortgage woes and fulfilling the administration’s pledge to impose responsibility on the financial world.



Emanuel’s Freddie Mac involvement has been a prominent point on his political résumé, and his healthy payday from the firm has been no secret either. What is less known, however, is how little he apparently did for his money and how he benefited from the kind of cozy ties between Washington and Wall Street that have fueled the nation’s current economic mess.

The board met no more than six times a year. Unlike most fellow directors, Emanuel was not assigned to any of the board’s working committees, according to company proxy statements. Immediately upon joining the board, Emanuel and other new directors qualified for $380,000 in stock and options plus a $20,000 annual fee, records indicate.

We only need two words to describe the Democrats’ connection to the financial crisis: hanky and panky.

Source: Chicago Tribune

Rush’s ratings skyrocket. Thanks, President Obama!

Conservative talk radio is toasting with champagne, but lib talk radio is just plain toast.
Conservative talk radio is toasting with champagne, but lib talk radio is just plain toast.
The more President Obama and the Democrats talk about talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh, the higher his ratings go. And he’s taking all conservative talk radio along for a very exciting ride.

Radio insiders expected the ratings to show growth with a Democrat in the White House. But the actual numbers are exploding far beyond anyone’s expectations.

Brian Maloney’s Radio Equalizer is a great site if you’re interested in an insider’s view of talk radio. Here’s how he reports the most recent results in the nation’s top markets:

In New York City, WABC has experienced huge gains during Rush’s noon- 3pm timeslot: from 4.6 to 6.7 overall (12 and older) share, good for first place overall in the nation’s largest market. Rush’s Big Apple listenership is now estimated at 693,000.

In the second-largest market, Los Angeles, KFI-AM has surged into the number one position (all listeners 12 and older) from 9am to noon, with 618,000 listeners, a 4.6 to 6.0 audience share increase over three months and an even bigger males 35-64 (4.6 to 6.3) move, to take first place there as well.

Chicago, saw another huge move, with Rush affiliate WLS also taking first place during his timeslot (12 and older), from 5.2 share to 6.9 and a total local listenership of 396,700 in the third-largest market.

KSFO / San Francisco saw similar results, despite the extreme-left bent of the Bay Area: 4.7 to 6.0 share, now ranking second overall and with men aged 35-64. Total audience: 346,000.

In Dallas – Fort Worth, 4.8 to 6.4 men 35-64 and fourth overall (12+), 3.5 to 4.5. Cumulative audience: 250,000.

Houston’s results were truly blockbuster: 6.0 to 9.8 overall, ranking number one with a bullet and audience of 382,300. Men 35-64: number one again, from 8.6 to 12.2 over three months. Adults 25-54: first place, 4.6 to 8.7. Women 25-54: 3.7 to 8.3 again good for a top ranking.

DC’s WMAL also saw Rush-related growth: 4.1 to 6.7, good for third overall and an audience of 155,300. Men 35-64: number one with a staggering 6.4 to 13.4 move.

In Atlanta, Rush has helped WGST fend off an enormous competitor, WSB-AM, with a similar 4.0 to 6.2 upward move, good for fifth place overall and a total audience of 473,500. The results are better in the male 35-64 demographic, surging from 5.5 to 8.0 share.

Bucking Detroit’s recent Democratic voting trend, Rush’s performance on WJR-AM has been more significant than ever, moving into first place with a 5.8 to 9.6 jump. Men 35-64: number one and 11.6 share. Total audience: 253,000.

Hey, turn down that conservative talk radio show for a second. Hear that dull thud? That’s the sound of lib talk radio hosts pounding their heads against the wall.

Source: Radio Equalizer

Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary wipes out terrorism. It’s now a “man-caused disaster.”

A Janet Napolitano man-caused disaster
A Janet Napolitano man-caused disaster. Photo:WallyG

Two months in office and President Obama has already wiped out terrorism. Who knew it would be this easy?

You see, the President’s Homeland Security Secretary thinks the word terrorism isn’t very nice, that it represents those darned old-fashioned “politics of fear.” So she wiped out terrorism with a stroke of her pen…or her tongue.

Don’t get us wrong. Janet Napolitano didn’t do anything that will save any lives or make us any safer or stop any of the bad guys. She just eliminated it from her vocabulary and renamed it a “man-caused disaster.”

Here’s what she told the German magazine Der Spiegel:

Der Spiegel: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word “terrorism.” Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?

Napolitano: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word “terrorism,” I referred to “man-caused” disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.

Seriously. So from now on, it’s not terrorism. It’s a man-caused disaster. So we assume they’re not terrorists anymore, either, but man-caused disaster makers…or doers…causers…or whatever.

Somebody out there help us here. Is this more of that change we can believe in?

Source: NewsBusters, Der Spiegel

It’s ObamaMan, strange visitor from another planet

obama_vs_osama1Obama worship has officially entered the realm of the bizarre.

Now the cover of a comic book called Savage Dragon features an illustration of Obama punching out Osama. (We assume that’s Savage Dragon in the background).

Wikipedia.com says, “The Dragon is a large, finned, green-skinned humanoid whose powers include super-strength and an advanced healing factor. He is also an amnesiac: his earliest memory is awakening in a burning field in Chicago, Illinois. Thus, for most of the series, the origins of his powers and appearance are a mystery to readers. At the beginning of the series, he becomes a police officer and battles the mutant criminal “superfreaks” that terrorize Chicago.”

Superfreaks who terrorize Chicago? Cool. They’re probably named Blagoman, RezkoMan and ACORNMan.

You can own one of these special edition Obama vs Osama comics for yourself. There’s one for sale on eBay/Italy right now.

Simon Cowell prefers American Idol to American Idolatry

President Obama’s star-studded Hollywood tour didn’t quite go as planned. First, he insulted the Special Olympics on the Tonight Show. Then Simon Cowell turned him down for dinner.

That’s right. The acerbic American Idol judge told Jay Leno he was just too darn busy to get together with the president.

“He wanted to have dinner,” Cowell said, “and our diaries didn’t quite match. He wanted to do eight, I was free at nine. We just didn’t quite connect. But I told him any time I’m in Washington.”

We’d love to hear Cowell review the President’s recent teleprompter performance.

“It was,” he’d probably say “a little karaoke-ish.”

Source: Breitbart.tv

We’re all screwed, government to buy condoms from China

Outsourced Chinese condom. Mao Tse-Dong brand, we assume.
Outsourced Chinese condom. Mao Tse-Dong brand, we assume.

So much for American jobs. So much for stimulus. Well, wait a minute, maybe we shouldn’t refer to “stimulus” in this story.

McClatchy reports:

In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China.

The switch comes despite implied assurances over the years that the agency would continue to buy American whenever possible.

“Of course, we considered how many U.S. jobs would be affected by this move,” said a USAID official who spoke on the condition that he would not be named. But he said the reasons for the change included lower prices (2 cents versus more than 5 cents for U.S.-made condoms) and the fact that Congress dropped “buy American language” in a recent appropriations bill.

So the Obama administration is doing exactly what they condemn American business for doing – outsourcing to cheaper foreign companies.

First they import cheap condoms, then they increase spending on abortions. Now it all makes sense.

Source: McClatchy

Steve Kroft asks Obama if he’s punch drunk, but avoids question he should have asked.

President Obama appeared on “60 Minutes” last night and giggled like an inebriated schoolgirl throughout a discussion of the perilous condition of the world’s economy.

It was so odd, so distracting, so bizarre, that Steve Kroft finally asked what may be the the most unusual question ever asked a sitting President.

“You’re sitting here,” Kroft said, “and you’re, you’re laughing. You’re laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money.’ How do you deal with — I mean, explain. Are you punch drunk?”

That’s what Kroft asked. But we suspect that what he really wondered was, “How many days were you in office before you realized you were way in over your head?”

Source: 60 Minutes

Latest diplomatic gaffe: Obama doesn’t know who the French president is

Napoleon Sarkozy. Or Nicholas Bonaparte. Or some French leader. (Photo credit: azrainman)
Napoleon Sarkozy. Or Nicholas Bonaparte. Or some French leader. (Photo credit: azrainman)
Imagine the outrage in the media if George Bush had mistakenly written a diplomatic letter to the former leader of an ally instead of its current leader. Sadly, but not so surprisingly, that’s exactly what President Obama just did.

The online version of leading French newspaper Le Figaro says President Obama sent a letter to French Jacques Chirac saying that he wants to “work with him” over the next four years.

Oops! Chirac isn’t president of France anymore. Nicolas Sarkozy was elected to that office in May 2007.

Obama’s letter said, “I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world.”

Coming just a few days after Obama insulted British Prime Minster Gordon Brown, this is apparently part of a undisclosed plan by Obama to alienate NATO members one-by-one.

In other diplomatic news, President Obama has also sent letters to Russian Czar Nicholas II, English Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck.

Source: Le Figaro

Another rough weekend in the headlines for President Obama

Ouch. It’s getting rough out there. The fawning press seems to be doing less fawning and a little more…uh..reporting. Yeah, that’s a good word. Reporting.

• Orlando ‘Tea Party’ rally draws thousands

• CITI, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chiefs Criticize Limits on Bonuses

• Alarm over US moves for punitive taxes

• Venezuela’s Chavez calls Obama ‘ignoramus’

• Biden pokes fun at his boss during Gridiron

• Dollar Posts Largest Weekly Drop Since 1985

• Senator Gregg: Obama Budget Will Bankrupt USA

• Resistance grows to Obama’s bigger government; mistrust of central control

• Obama Administration Regroups After Rough Couple of Weeks

• Geithner on ‘Shaky Grounds’

• Obama Insults Special Olympics

• AIG Scandal May Be Last Straw for Chris Dodd’s Career

• Iran’s Supreme Leader Dismisses Obama Overtures

• Senator Shelby Losing Confidence in Geithner

Bush said “nu-cu-lar,” Obama says “de-fib-ulator,” we say, “Hah!”

George Washington couldn't tell a lie. He didn't need a defibulator.
George Washington couldn't tell a lie. He didn't need a de-fib-ulator.
According to the media we hate, George Bush was a moron for saying, “Nu-cu-lar” (despite the fact that he captained a nu-cu-lar submarine, Jimmy Carter said it the same way).

We’re still waiting to hear how stupid Barack Obama is for mispronouncing “defibrillator” on the Tonight Show. Guess the story was simply lost in the flood of mainstream reportage of the President’s “Special Olympics” quip.

Oddly enough, we had to go all the way to Tim Blair’s blog (“the second funniest blog on the internet”) in Australia to read the about this slip-up.

Here’s Obama’s Tonight Show appearance again. Start paying attention at about the 1:50 mark. He says it just at the 2:00 mark.

Defibrillator – the definitive treatment for the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.
– Wikipedia

Defibulator – the definitive treatment necessary to translate the lies told by any Democrat discussing the bail-out bill. Or bills. Or damn near anything else.
– IHateTheMedia.com

Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph

Ronald Reagan speaks to the ’64 Republican convention

Thanks to the folks at MofoPolitics.com for reminding us of that moment in history when Ronald Reagan was thrust upon the national stage.

“It occurs to me having just watched this,” Mofo said, “that Barack Obama isn’t regarded as so charismatic and articulate because he is so charismatic and so articulate, but because he is so charismatic and so articulate in comparison to those politicians he has had the good fortune to run against.”

No fancy production values. No special effects. No overpaid speech writers. Just Ronald Reagan being Ronald Reagan.

Source: MofoPolitics.com

Duke coach says Obama should worry about economy, not basketball

The President took time out from his busy schedule of magazine cover photo shoots and late night TV appearances on Tuesday and made his NCAA men’s basketball tournament picks for ESPN. And that didn’t sit well with Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.

“Somebody said that we’re not in President Obama’s Final Four,” Krzyzewski said, “and as much as I respect what he’s doing, really, the economy is something that he should focus on, probably more than the brackets.”

We say back off, Coach K. The more time this guy spends on basketball, the less time he’ll have to “stimulate” the economy.

Obama resolution causes racial dispute in Georgia

Georgia House Republicans?
Georgia House Republicans?

Black lawmakers pitched a hissy fit and stormed out of the Georgia House on Friday claiming that white Republicans’ decision to delay a resolution honoring President Barack Obama had racist overtones. (Gasp)

They say it’s an intentional snub to the nation’s first black president. “It drips with racism,” Democrat Representative Al Williams said. “I call it just like it is.”

Republicans simply objected to the over-the-top wording that declared Obama to be a man of “unimpeachable reputation for integrity.”

“All we’ve requested is minor changes to the language,” Representative Austin Scott. But Democrats are resisting the revisions.

House Majority Leader Jerry Keen asked to “get this language recrafted.”

“Two or three words can be changed and this matter can be voted on,” another Republican said.

Please. Can’t we all just get along? We’d like to offer our services as peacemakers and wordsmiths in this dispute.

We suggest they simply re-word the resolution to declare that “President Obama is a man with an unimpeachable reputation for integrity except for that Tony Rezko thing and that socialist thing and maybe a few other insignificant items too minor to really get into here.”

That would satisfy everyone, wouldn’t it?

Source: NewsMax, Associated Press

Three videos, three ways to look at Obama’s “Special Olympics” comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlYT2bseII In case you haven’t see it yet, President Obama channeled Joe Biden last night and said something offensive and stupid on the Tonight Show.

Seems Obama went bowling while on the campaign trail last summer and embarrassed himself by rolling a 37. He explained to Jay Leno that he’s been practicing on the White House bowling alley, but said his lack of success is “like Special Olympics or something.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0EcujFSn8 Next we have MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. He had seen an early NBC feed of the Tonight Show and was horribly dismayed by Obama’s remark. Not because it was offensive, but because it might damage the President. As Olbermann wailed mournfully to his guest “What do we do? What does he do about that?”

Of course, if President Bush had made the offensive comment, Olbermann would have known exactly what to do. No dithering. He would immediately have named Bush “Worst Person in the World.”

Finally, we’re proud to present a video that will show both President Obama and his apologist in chief exactly what bowling looks like in the Special Olympics. These kids are good, damn it.

Mrs. Editor of IHateTheMedia.com teaches autistic children. She wants to cordially invite President Obama to her school and so he can meet some of these kids and see the error of his ways.

She does not extend the same courtesy or invitation to Keith Olbermann.

Top 10 gaffes by Barack Obama and Joe Biden. All on video.

No matter what the American press keeps telling us, the foreign press is growing less enchanted with Camelot every day. Especially the British press. And even more especially the Telegraph.

This administration is setting a torrid pace for screw-ups and misstatements and just plain dumb comments. It’s only been 60 days. Of course, we expected that when we got Joe Biden, but no one expected the greatest orator in history to foul up so often.

The Telegraph has compiled a list of the Top 10 gaffes by Obama and Biden.

Far as we can tell, the tough part must have been limiting the list to ten.

Above is the Telegraph’s choice as Number 10. To see the rest of the list, click here. Prepare to laugh.

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