We don’t really need to list all the lies this administration has told about the Gusher in the Gulf, do we?
We don’t really need to list all the lies this administration has told about the Gusher in the Gulf, do we?
Nah, we don’t have enough bandwidth.
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour talked to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday about President Obama’s less-than-impressive performance on the Gusher in the Gulf.
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour talked to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday about President Obama’s less-than-impressive performance on the Gusher in the Gulf.
“The American people will make their own judgments,” Barbour said. “…Like Napoleon said, ‘Never interfere with your enemy when he’s in the process of destroying himself.’”
He didn’t say the word “Waterloo”, but sure seemed to be implying it.
It seems like only yesterday that you were all filled with the warm afterglow of new love. But then he farted for the first time and “Hope and Change” suddenly turned to “What now?”
It seems like only yesterday that you were all filled with the warm afterglow of new love. But then he farted for the first time and “Hope and Change” suddenly turned to “What now?”
At least that’s how former Gulf Coast Obamaniacs seem to feel. Metaphorically speaking, that is.
The Associated Press has the heartbreaking details of a love affair gone bad:
The widening scope of the disaster deepened the anger and despair just as Obama arrived for his third visit to the stricken Gulf Coast.
On Obama’s trip to the Grand Isle on the Louisiana coast, his motorcade passed a building that had been adorned with his portrait reminiscent of posters of him during his presidential campaign. Instead of “hope” or “change,” the words “what now?” were on his forehead.
Potemkin villages. That’s what we need in this country. Potemkin villages where hope and change shine as brightly as ever and the peasants still love their President
Source: Associated Press via Forbes
Now hold on us a gol’ danged minute. We thought this President was cool, calm and collected. We thought he was a Harvard-educated intellectual, the smartest man who’s ever occupied the Oval Office. We thought he was going to resolve conflict by extending his hand in peace and listening to his adversaries.
Now hold on just a gol’ danged minute. We thought this President was cool, calm and collected. We thought he was a Harvard-educated intellectual, the smartest man who’s ever occupied the Oval Office. We thought he was going to resolve conflict by extending his hand in peace and listening to his adversaries.
Nah, that was last week before the polls started to slip. Now that he’s catching flak for his dazed and confused response to the Gusher in the Gulf, he’s turned tough guy. Kind of like that episode of Star Trek where Kirk turned gangster to deal with a planet run by gangsters.
“I was down there a month ago,” the Hard Ass in Chief said, “before most of these talkin’ heads were even paying attention to the gulf. A month ago I was meetin’ with fishermen down there, standin’ in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. and I don’t sit around just talkin’ to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”
An ass kickin’?
There’s nothing sadder than a Democrat tryin’ to sound like one of those average Americans. Remember John Kerry, that other noted intellectual, sayin’, “Can I get me a huntin’ license here?”
Don’t look now, Mr. President, but the polls are slippin’ again. And phony tough guy talk won’t solve your problem as easily as it solved Captain Kirk’s.
Stuff the hole with all the damn Justice Department attorneys descending on Louisiana. Start with Eric Holder.
Stuff the hole with all the damn Justice Department attorneys descending on Louisiana. Start with Eric Holder.
Breitbart.tv put together this great video compilation of the Obama ripping President Bush a new one for his administration’s “unconscionable ineptitude” in New Orleans following Katrina.
Just about the same time that oil from the Gusher in the Gulf began washing ashore on the pristine white sands of Pensacola, Florida, President Obama hosted a Paul McCartney concert at the White House on Wednesday night.
Do not mistake this for resting because, you know, the President assured us that he wouldn’t rest until that damn hole is plugged. In the President’s defense, listening to the pompous 70-year old former Beatle sing for two hours has definitely become more work than pleasure so we do not believe it qualifies as “rest” on Obama’s part.
Breitbart.tv put together this great video compilation of the Obama ripping President Bush a new one for his administration’s “unconscionable ineptitude” in New Orleans following Katrina.
You know, sort of like the “unconscionable ineptitude” his administration is now showing in the Gulf.
Jon Stewart came back to work rested and reinvigorated after a two-week vacation. His first order of business? Rip President Obama a new one for his hazy, unfocused response to the Gusher in the Gulf.
Jon Stewart came back to work rested and reinvigorated after a two-week vacation. His first order of business? Rip President Obama a new one for his hazy, unfocused response to the Gusher in the Gulf.
Stewart’s team cleverly cut together (a) footage of Obama swearing that he wouldn’t rest until the damn hole was plugged, and (b) footage of him doing nothing but resting.
The result is a powerful, yet hilarious demonstration that Obama’s words and actions are rarely in sync.
Warning: As usual, fainthearted viewers may find Stewart’s language objectionable.
Pundits have been wondering what Barack Obama and Bill Clinton talked about at their private lunch last week. Well, wonder no more. IHateTheMedia.com’s microphones were there to record the private tête-à-tête.
Pundits have been wondering what Barack Obama and Bill Clinton talked about at their private lunch last week. Well, wonder no more. IHateTheMedia.com’s microphones were there to record the private tête-à-tête.
Clinton: Here’s what you gotta do, Barack.
Obama: I’m taking notes.
Clinton: Visit a beach in Louisiana.
Obama: Good idea. It’s been a while since America’s seen my sculpted pecs.
Clinton: Cool down, big fella. We’re going for the concerned leader shot. I want you to squat in the sand.
Obama: Squat?
Clinton: In the sand. Then get a faraway look on your face that says, “It’s me against the world.”
Obama: Then what?
Clinton: Then you reach down and pick up a little something out of the sand.
Obama: Like what?
Clinton: Well, I picked up rocks in Normandy in ’94. The press ate it up. But since this is an oil spill photo op, pick up something oily.
Obama: How about one of those little oil balls?
Clinton: (laughing) Ha, ha, ha. Oil Balls. That’s what Monica called me.
Obama: You’re sure this will work, Bill?
Clinton: Trust me. The press eats this stuff up. (Aside) I can’t believe Hillary lost to this guy.
Federal officials are hoping film director James Cameron can help them come up with ideas on how to stop the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Well, there you have it. Get those so-called oil experts out of the way and let the real geniuses take over.
This story is the perfect union of Washington, DC idiots and Hollywood morons. And that puts it right square in the middle of IHateTheMedia.com’s sweet spot.
The Associated Press reports the Titanic news:
Federal officials are hoping film director James Cameron can help them come up with ideas on how to stop the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The “Avatar” and “Titanic” director was among a group of scientists and other experts who met Tuesday with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies for a brainstorming session on stopping the massive oil leak.
The Canadian-born Cameron is considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. “Avatar” and “Titanic” are the two highest-grossing films of all time.
Well, there you have it. Get those so-called oil experts out of the way and let the real geniuses take over.
In other news, President Obama has decided to hire Wall Street director Oliver Stone to help out with financial reform and Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino to help out with gun control legislation.
Everything you know and love, Congressman? What about your wife? Your kids? Your country? The Saints? Gumbo? Bourbon Street at 3 a.m.? Beignets and coffee? And let’s not forget Mary Landrieu’s special back rubs?
Lips quivering like a little girl, Louisiana Congressman Charlie Melancon said, “Everything that I know and love is at risk.”
Everything you know and love, Congressman? What about your wife? Your kids? Your country? The Saints? Gumbo? Bourbon Street at 3 a.m.? Beignets and coffee? And let’s not forget Mary Landrieu’s special back rubs?
Now we’re talking, girly man.
Barack Obama: “I grew up in Hawaii, where the ocean is sacred.” He was, we assume, referring to his childhood worship of Kanaloa, the Hawaiian god of the ocean.
Please prepare our places in the Bloggers Hall of Fame, because we’ve managed to squeeze two stories out of a single presidential sound bite.
“When I woke up this morning and I’m shaving, and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she says — did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?” he said, recounting how often he thinks of the spill, adding, “I grew up in Hawaii, where the ocean is sacred.”
He was, we assume, referring to his childhood worship of Kanaloa, the Hawaiian god of the ocean.
So relax. It looks like Michelle won’t have to be fitted for a burkah after all. But look for the President to show up to his next press conference in an Aquaman costume.
The amazing thing is that it’s taken 16 months and numerous unresolved crises for MSNBC host and presidential sycophant Chris Matthews to get over the thrill that goes up his leg whenever he hears Obama speak.
Pardon our Sudanese but, “No shit, Sherlock. Where’d you get your first clue?”
The amazing thing is that it’s taken 16 months and numerous unresolved crises for MSNBC host and presidential sycophant Chris Matthews to get over the thrill that goes up his leg whenever he hears Obama speak.
He’s an empty suit, Chris, an empty suit.
“Countrywide” Chris Dodd was discussing the Gulf oil spill with Don Imus. As soon as Dodd tried to defend Obama by uttering the words “The last eight years…”, Imus went ballistic. It went downhill from there.
“Countrywide” Chris Dodd was discussing the Gulf oil spill with Don Imus. As soon as Dodd tried to defend Obama by uttering the words “The last eight years…”, Imus went ballistic.
It went downhill from there.
By the way, we just read the other day that said Imus is now a syndication success story and is carried on more stations than ever. That may be true, but if the show were really successful, wouldn’t it be able to book far better guests than corrupt lame duck senators?
David Gergen, appearing with Anderson Cooper on CNN, said, “If our government had fought WWII like the way we’re fighting the oil spill, there’s a good chance many of us would be speaking German today.”
David Gergen, appearing with Anderson Cooper on CNN, said, “If our government had fought WWII like the way we’re fighting the oil spill, there’s a good chance many of us would be speaking German today.”
Amazingly, historian Douglas Brinkley doesn’t disagree.
Seig heil, Ubermeister Obama.
The Commander-in-Chief was said to be angry at British Petroleum’s continued dithering and quoted by unnamed White House insiders as saying, “Plug the damn hole.” So now that BP has followed his instructions and plugged that hole, maybe the President could plug a few others.
In a leak aimed at creating the perception that President Obama is one tough mother hombre and almost as obvious as the leak in the Gulf, the Commander-in-Chief was said to be angry at British Petroleum’s continued dithering and quoted by unnamed White House insiders as saying, “Plug the damn hole.”
So now that BP has followed his instructions and plugged that hole, maybe the President could plug a few others.
“Plug the damn hole.”
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We really don’t care about this story. We just enjoyed using the words “drilling” and “porn” in the same headline. Thank you for indulging us. We also liked using “staff” and “porn in the same story.
We really don’t care about this story. We just enjoyed using the words “drilling” and “porn” in the same headline. Thank you for indulging us.
Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators and the industry.
In at least one case, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work, according to the report by the acting inspector general of the Interior Department.
The report cites a variety of violations of federal regulations and ethics rules at the agency’s Louisiana office. Previous inspector general investigations have focused on inappropriate behavior by the royalty-collection staff in the agency’s Denver office.
We also liked using “staff” and “porn” in the same story.
Source: Associated Press
Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration’s response to the spill has been “lackadaisical” and that Obama was “naive” to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.
The latest Rasmussen poll shows Obama with just 44% approval. Democrat strategist James Carville appears to be part of the remaining 56%. He had some very harsh things to say about Obama’s Katrina.
The Huffington Post reports the Louisiana lowdown:
Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration’s response to the spill has been “lackadaisical” and that Obama was “naive” to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.
“I think they actually believe that BP has some kind of a good motivation here,” he said. “They’re naive! BP is trying to save money, save everything they can… They won’t tell us anything, and oddly enough, the government seems to be going along with it! Somebody has got to, like shake them and say, ‘These people don’t wish you well! They’re going to take you down!'”
For once, we understood every word Carville said. But we somehow doubt that anyone in the White House understood it.
Source: Huffington Post
As might be expected, we get a different perspective on the Gulf oil gusher from the foreign media than from the American media. Far different. And, we’d like to think, far more honest.
As might be expected, we get a different perspective on the Gulf oil gusher from the foreign media than from the American media. Far different. And, we’d like to think, far more honest.
Dominic Lawson comments in the Independent UK:
Barack Obama’s media advisers were quite distressed when the President travelled down to the Louisiana coastline last week to make his first on-the-spot statement about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Their distress was caused by what they didn’t discover, rather than what they did. Despite their frantic requests, no photogenic dying oil-covered birds could be found to form a backdrop for the Presidential tirade as he weighed into BP.
The same fact – the oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon rig has not (yet) hit the coastline itself – presumably explains why the incident has not been big on the television news, for all the alarm and even hysteria that has been expressed. On a visual medium there is little enduring interest to be had in footage of oil floating on water – even if it is a lot of oil on a lot of water.
Where are the dead birds? Where are the dead turtles? Where are the dead dolphins? And most important, where is the bounce in the polls?
Source: Independent UK
You can always count on CNN and Rick Sanchez to provide high tech graphics that tell the real story. In this screen cap, Mr. Sanchez shows how the oil leak will screw the Gulf Coast.
You can always count on CNN and Rick Sanchez to provide high tech graphics that tell the real story. In this screen cap, Mr. Sanchez shows how the oil leak will screw the Gulf Coast.
One might say the graphic is a bit too graphic.
H/T: Mediaite
The President went to the Gulf Coast and let his remarkable compassion flow like oil from a busted well head. It was warm. It was caring. And it was completely phony.
The President went to the Gulf Coast and let his remarkable compassion flow like oil from a busted well head. It was warm. It was caring. And it was completely phony.
The LA Times Top of the Ticket blog reports the details:
A Louisiana trip was laid on for Sunday. The advance teams were redeployed and their short prep time showed with the president having to drive instead of helicopter from New Orleans to a Delta Coast Guard briefing and then, as he spoke to reporters outdoors, be drenched in a downpour. Guard briefing and then, as he spoke to reporters outdoors, be drenched in a downpour.
The president was also seen taking off for a disaster scene tour in a chopper. But winds were such and the threat of fog possible that the president only saw the ordinary Louisiana coast.
After all that travel, logistics and talk, he never spotted one drop of oil.
The good news for him is twofold: He was seen caring about the incident. And he wasn’t seen looking uselessly out a plane window as Bush was.Aides were quick to describe how useful the tour was for Obama to see something for himself. He did get out the main message-quote about BP being responsible for every dime, even though there’s a $75 million limit on a causative party’s costs.
Local officials were quoted as appreciative of his presence which, truth be told, did absolutely nothing to stop the oil, advance the recovery or mitigate any damage beyond that potentially to the president’s image if he hadn’t gone.
Obviously, this trip wasn’t planned because the President is concerned about the oil spill spreading. It was planned because he’s concerned about the discontent of the voters spreading.
Source: Top of the Ticket
Mississippi Congressman Gene Taylor boarded a small airplane for a flight around the Gulf of Mexico and from an altitude of 1000 feet viewed the ominous oil slick that is threatening much of his district.
Mississippi Congressman Gene Taylor boarded a small airplane for a flight around the Gulf of Mexico and from an altitude of 1000 feet viewed the ominous oil slick that is threatening much of his district.
To the best of our knowledge, Taylor has no particular expertise in chemical engineering, fluid dynamics nor dairy farming. Yet that didn’t stop him from making some “interesting” comments upon touchdown.
The Sun Herald reports on the Democrat’s brilliance:
Taylor told a group of reporters waiting at Atlantic Aviation he was less concerned about the spill after witnessing its movement firsthand.
“This isn’t Katrina. It’s not Armageddon,” Taylor said. “A lot of people are scared and I don’t think they should be.”
He described the spill as a light, rainbow sheen with patches that look like chocolate milk.
Of course, we hope that the estimations of the esteemed Mr. Taylor are correct and that much of the worry is unfounded.
But if he has any doubt about how important it is to be prepared for the worst in the face of an impending disaster, perhaps he should consult with Ray Nagin. You know, that other southern politician with something really stupid to say about chocolate.
Source: SunHerald.com
There’s a famous ad campaign for Rolling Stone Magazine that compared “reality” to “perception.” Remember that when you compare the perception and reality of the Obama administration’s reaction to the Gulf oil blow out.
There’s a famous ad campaign for Rolling Stone Magazine that compared “reality” to “perception.” Remember that when you compare the perception and reality of the Obama administration’s reaction to the Gulf oil blow out.
Here’s the New York Times (yes, believe it or not, the New York Times) damning the President and his cohorts:
…it takes the administration more than a week to really get moving.
The timetable is damning. The blowout occurred on April 20. In short order, fire broke out on the rig, taking 11 lives, the rig collapsed and oil began leaking at a rate of 40,000 gallons a day. BP tried but failed to plug the well. Even so, BP appears to have remained confident that it could handle the situation with private resources (as did the administration) until Wednesday night, when, at a hastily called news conference, the Coast Guard quintupled its estimate of the leak to 5,000 barrels, or more than 200,000 gallons a day.
Only then did the administration move into high gear.
That’s reality. But the perception the Obama administration would like you to have is somewhat different:
…that’s why the federal government has launched and coordinated an all-hands-on-deck, relentless response to this crisis from day one.
– President Obama, May 2nd
And if that “Day One” phrase was good enough for the President, it’s good enough for the rest of his administration, damn it:
We had DOD resources there from day one. This was a situation that was treated as a possible catastrophic failure from, from day one…And so the physical response on the ground has been, from, from day one, as if this could be a catastrophic failure.
– Janet Napolitano, Meet the Press, May 2nd
And if Day One is good enough to say once, it’s good enough to say twice:
You could call it an oversight. Or you could call it selective editing. Or you could stop kidding yourself and call it blatant bias.
You could call it an oversight. Or you could call it selective editing. Or you could stop kidding yourself and call it blatant bias.
The Wall Street Journal explains the details:
Grist.org, a global warmist Web site, has a piece on a poll asking Americans whether they favor more offshore oil drilling. A majority of all respondents say yes, as do a majority of almost all demographic subgroups: Republicans, independents, Democrats, people over 65, people 30 to 65, whites, blacks, men and women. The only groups among which more drilling has only minority support are Hispanics and those under 30.
Here’s how Grist headlines the story: “Offshore Drilling Most Popular Among Republicans, Elderly, White, and Wealthy.”
The headline is technically accurate. But to be more precise, they should have added, “And least popular among editors of global warming websites.”
Source: Grist via WSJ Best of the Web Today
A barrel of crude oil has spilled or seeped into the sea at offshore Platform Holly two miles off Santa Barbara. One barrel.
This is a story actually considered newsworthy by the Associated Press:
Barrel of crude oil spills into sea off Santa Barbara
A barrel of crude oil has spilled or seeped into the sea at offshore Platform Holly two miles off Santa Barbara.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Cory Mendenhall says the guard’s Los Angeles-Long Beach sector received a National Response Center report of a spill at the Venoco-operated platform before dawn Monday.
The cause hasn’t been disclosed.
Clean Seas has been contracted for clean up. The Coast Guard says containment booms are keeping the oil from spreading and clean up has begun. Venoco vice president Michael Edwards says the platform is shut down and natural seepage may be to blame. Edwards says 150 barrels of crude seeps in the area each day.
To repeat, one barrel spilled. Not one million barrels. Not one hundred thousand barrels. One barrel. One lonely barrel. And it may not have spilled at all. It may have seeped. Because up to 150 barrels seep naturally into the area every day.
But it made a damn fine headline. And we thank you for your hard-hitting reportage, Associated Press.
Source: Associated Press via SanLuisObsipo.com
