ailes vs. huffington - who's inciting who?

Today on This Week, Arianna Huffington (owner of Huffigton Post) tried to confront Roger Ailes about Glenn Beck.

“Aren’t you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the American people?” Huffington asked him. “He did say one unfortunate thing, which he apologized for, but that happens in live television. So I don’t think it’s…I think if we start going around as the word police in this business, it will be…”

Then Huffington added:

"It’s not about the word police. It’s about something deeper. It’s about the fact that there is a tradition as the historian Richard Hofstadter said, in American politics, of the paranoid style. And the paranoid style is dangerous when there is real pain out there."

Ailes responded by citing HuffPo commenters.

“I agree with you,” he said. “I read something on your blog that said I looked like J. Edgar Hoover, I had a face like a fist, and I was essentially a malignant tumor…Then it really went nasty, and I thought, gee, maybe Arianna ought to cut this out.”

You really should watch this video here. It's long, but the look on her face is priceless.

Arianna responded to Ailes' comments: “That was not by anybody we approved of..”

Then, later, near the 11:40 mark, she said:

“Words matter. And words that are actually being used by people we hire are different than words that are being used by commenters on our site like you mentioned.”

Trouble is, the words Ailes is talking about are from this article:


What “Ailes” Cable News? Rupert Murdoch’s Evil Genius
Bill MannTV-Radio Critic,
Posted: January 12, 2010 01:28 PM

“But we haven’t heard nearly enough about the secretive, security-encircled Ailes, who’s arguably done more to spread fear and hatred in this country than anyone since Joe McCarthy.

J. Edgar Hoover lookalike Ailes, who has a face like a clenched fist, is a long-time TV veteran who once produced Mike Douglas’ inane chat show (the late George Carlin mentions Ailes’ unpleasant demeanor way back then in his recently released “Last Words”). Ailes has used cynical but well-worn TV tactics to pump up his cable carnival-attraction net’s ratings: fear and eye candy.”



Then there’s Fox’s sexy visuals. A look at Fox’s commentator/anchor lineups shows a predominance of attractive blondes (long called “newsbabes” in TV newsrooms), but these blondes, who cynically appeal to the network’s testosterone-poisoned male demo, are willing to be venal and nasty — e.g., Megyn Kelly, Gretchen Carlson, and disgraceful human oddity Ann Coulter.

“Unleashing the likes of sideshow attraction Glenn Beck, schoolyard bully Bill O’Reilly, and Gumby lookalike Sean Hannity on the airwaves is something traditional broadcasters would have never done – back in the days when the FCC actually yanked people’s licenses, that is.

So, while Fox News, as the Times story stresses, may be a financial success story, it’s also a malignant tumor on the body politic. For that you can thank Roger Ailes.”

Then, in an attempt to further this lie, they posted an article:


Roger Ailes On "This Week": Defends Glenn Beck, Insists Fox Is No Longer At War With Obama

Lamenting the “word police” tone of the questions being lobbed his way, Ailes would go on to note that he had been subject to some ridicule on the pages of the Huffington Post. The offending remark, a review of the site showed, came from an anonymous commenter and, unlike Beck, not by anyone on this news organization’s payroll.

oh.my.gawd! What a friggin lie. Either it was a lie or they are the worst investigators/researchers, evah!

(And did you notice all of the ugly personal attacks directed at the employees of FOX in Mann's article? I can tell you this - no one turned me off of Obama faster than his supporters did on Huffington Post.)

UPDATE: LOL! Good thing for screen caps! Now they have changed it to read:

"Lamenting the "word police" tone of the questions being lobbed his way, Ailes would go on to note that he had been subject to some ridicule on the pages of the Huffington Post. The offending remark did not come from anyone on the Huffington Post's payroll and, was on top of it, misquoted by Ailes."

Give me a friggin break! What happened to *words matter* Arianna? They don't matter as long as you aren't paying someone to write them, even though they are on your web site? And what is this crap, "was on top of it, miquotes by Ailes." Are they friggin KIDDING? He wasn't quoting the friggin article, he was retelling some phrases/words he had read on HuffPo. Good gawd....he *misquoted*...misquoted what? It sounds spot on to me.

What a joke.

the republicans are under beck's grandma's kitchen sink

Less mouth, more math: Obama's State of the Union is proof he needs to look at the numbers

mandation junction, what's your function?

Leftists bloggies are up to their usual Sarah Palin bashing after her use of the word *mandation* last night on Hannity. Seems a lot of people think she made it up and are, predictably, calling her an idiot.

But she didn't make it up. It is a commonly used word in the UK and Australia.

The conservative philosopher, Roger Scruton, wrote in A Dictionary of Political Thought :

Mandation is the relation between an office-holder and an electorate, by virtue of the promises of the former to the latter, under which he is obliged to fulfil those promises.

This is just a sample of uses in UK and Australia:

10 Steps to Mandation -

Healthcare for the Uninsured: Is Mandation the Answer?

Often innovations are introduced into schools through mandation.

Costs too high for wider mandation of ABS.

Perhaps Palin is just well read...

seriously, it's time for an intervention

As if the image of Obama standing in an elementary school classroom, with TOTUS, wasn't bad enough, we now have this:


From The Corner:
Teleprompter Shot of the Day
[Rich Lowry]

Here's Obama dropping in for a chat with his middle-class task force. And people made fun of Reagan because of his notecards!

Seriously, it's got to stop. It is just too embarrassing. A meeting? A small gathering of people assigned to the middle class task force? And he needs TOTUS?

H/T Hot Air

These images and videos were from March. And this was back in June:

Please. It is time to cut the cord.

corporations will now be able to spend money to influence politics, like the daily show

Last night, Stewart and John Oliver did a skit about the Supreme Court's decision "to finally award corporations their long-denied rights".

Do you think Stewart appreciates the irony that he is expressing his opposition to the new Supreme Court ruling about Corporations and free speech, while sitting on his corporate owned national platform, from which he is able to project his own influence on politics?

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Supreme Corp
www.thedailyshow.com
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"Corporations will now be able to spend money to influence politics."

From what I understand, corporations feel they should be afforded the same rights as those granted corporations like GE owned msnbc, who are free to project their influence, daily.

And shows like The Daily Show.

obama: drop the scalpel, give me a hatchet!!

Well, what do you know...yet another instance of Obama adopting ideas he once mocked.



Obama will announce in Wednesday's State of the Union address that he's proposing to save $250 billion by freezing all nonsecurity federal discretionary spending for three years, according to two senior administration officials.

Great news: Noted deficit hawk to announce three-year freeze in discretionary spending ~ HotAir

Like I said over at Left Coast Rebel - I put more faith in the success of Bristol Palin's celibacy pledge.) Hey Oprah, why the cynicism? What about all that drivel about *The Secret*?)

“Instead of sensibly telling the American people, ‘I’m listening,’ the president is saying, ‘Listen up, people!’ “Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.”

Do you think he's listening, or just an idiot?

The Daily Show had a little fun last night, with Obama's recent setbacks and TOTUS dependency.

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Obama Speaks to a Sixth-Grade Classroom
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re-post: john edwards: the paris hilton of politics

Due to an old story re-emerging, with purported new details, I thought I would bring out one of my old posts.

According to Gawker, John Edwards Has a Sex Tape.

Sources have told us that, in the throes of their affair, John Edwards and Rielle Hunter made a sex tape that contains "several sex acts." And that his aide, Andrew Young found it on an unmarked DVD.

The tape, say both our sources, is explicit and reveals that Edwards "is physically very striking, in a certain area. Everyone who sees it says 'whoa'. She's behind the camera at first."

This was my post from June 29, 2009.

John Edwards, he's cute in an odd sort of way, spends a fortune on his hair, likes to primp in front of the camera, and has an infantile fixation of the phrase *you're hot*.

He got caught with his panties down, and now, god save us all, there is a sex tape.

Click here for the rest of the post.

tragedy and triumph - the best photos this year

From tragedy to triumph.



Of all the horrifying and moving images coming out of Haiti, this one of a little boy, rescued from beneath the rubble after 7 days, is my favorite. The look of raw joy on this little boys face is so wonderful, so incredibly moving and heartwarming. I love his little face.

I went searching for the photographer to give credit for the Haitian photo, and found this video. The little boy's name is Kiki.


Click here to donate to the Red Cross.

And then we have this:

From triumph to tragedy.


Getty Images Photo

Of all the images coming out of Washington, this one has to be the most hilarious and depressing. President Obama announced a proposed $1.3 billion investment in Race to the Top, a program to encourage innovation and excellence in education through competitive grants, at an event at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, VA.

And he brought TOTUS.

Apparently he didn't whip out TOTUS to shake hands with the sixth graders, but it seems Sec. of Education Arne Duncan did most of the talking. Afterwards, TOTUS made an appearance, to give a FIVE minute speech to the press. Five minutes. He can't speak for five minutes without TOTUS?

From JWF:

According to this link at Hot Air, the White House is claiming Obama spoke with the kiddies without a TelePrompter, amazingly enough, and this photo was him lecturing the media. Which begs the question: What's the difference between a bunch of sixth-graders and his adoring White House press corps?

Answer: Sixth-graders have more credibility.

So, to recap, Obama did speak to a group of sixth graders without TOTUS, however, the press was ushered out of the room. When he addressed the press, he performed with TOTUS.

H/T Left Coast Rebel for the TOTUS image

palin: tabloid-magazine cover girl who climbed out of her igloo

You have got to read this essay:

Why I Regret Voting For President Obama
By Jill Dorson

I am a registered Independent. I voted for Barack Obama. And for that, I am sorry.

I'm not sorry for you. I'm sorry for me. Because I voted for Obama for me, not for you. I voted for hope and change and all the intangibles that Obama was peddling in the wake of the financial crisis, Sarah Palin, Sept. 11 and all the other ills that shook our country in the last decade. I wanted something new. Something different. What I got was, I suppose, exactly what I voted for - a spin doctor. And not a very good one at that.

Before John McCain unwittingly picked a tabloid-magazine cover girl for his running mate, I was leaning toward going Republican this time around. I did the second time Bush was on the ballot and I very nearly did the first time, too. But as soon as Palin climbed out of her igloo and onto the national scene, well, there was no turning back for me.

You see, I felt my choice was to risk McCain dropping dead and letting the world's most well-known hockey mom run this country, or to believe that Obama would surround himself with educated people and that he was smart enough to take their advice.

She was duped by *The One*, ignored all of the evidence that Obama was lacking in experience, but believed because he was a man, he would surround himself with smart people, and she just couldn't vote for *a cover girl who crawled out of an igloo*....?

Seven years later, I am ashamed to say that I was blinded by charisma. Obama was so convincing that I stopped caring about what he knew and started getting caught up in the euphoria. Imagine having a president who came from a broken home, who had money troubles, who did grass-roots community service? A young father. The first black president. It pains me to admit I got caught up in the hoopla.

Bamboozled by this empty suit, spin doctor con-man, and yet she has the nerve to insult and attack Palin's intelligence? If she wants to name call, and insult someone, she might want to look in the mirror.

It was clear after just 90 days what a mistake I'd made. My taxes have gone up and my quality of life has gone down. Hope has given way to disgust and I see now that change is simply a euphemism for "big government."

Like many others, my view is narrow. I vote for the candidate I think will be best for me. I often define myself as a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. But above all, I want to feel safe and I don't want to feel that I am being ripped off. I want a president who inspires me and cares about my contribution to the fabric of the country. I want a president with experience and savvy, a Commander in Chief who puts our country and its citizens first.

I only hope the Republicans can find him the next time around."

You can read the entire piece here.

Not only is she the newest member in Obamaniacs Anonymous, but she is a full on misogynistic sexist bigot suffering from Palin derangement syndrome. And the readers at Real Clear Politics didn't like it, one bit.

What I find most shocking though, are the comments. We have seen Obots in action before. We have seen Palin derangement syndrome before. But, I have never seen such a backlash before. You really have to read the entire essay, and the comments. There is nothing I could add that wasn't said in the comments. Here is just a small sample:

"Yeah, best not to vote for someone [Palin] who has a proven track record of balancing a budget, creating actual energy jobs, etc. Marxist community organizer with no apparent background is the "safe" bet. Take your @#$%& apology and get outta here fool!"

"So you voted for Obama because McCain picked Sarah Palin - bright! Did your libral mindset ever consider that Biden is an idiot and has been so for the past 50 years??? That Biden was one step away from the presidency? Noooooooo, you were so caught up in the SNL portrait of Palin that you were blinded by all the "great" accomplishments Obama had completed in his 150 days in the Senate. Total - none! Fools like you gave us Obama and I'm glad you're sorry but that doesn't resolve the fact that you and other far-left elitists have forever transformed this country the greatest experiment in freedom into a socialists mecca. Don't write anymore; you make me want to stop reading."

"You wrote: "I voted for the candidate who would be best for me."
Try changing your perspective next time and voting for the candidate who will be best for your children, your grandchildren and your country. That perspective might help you see more clearly. As for your Palin-phobia, those of us who aren't so hung up on having a Harvard intellectual in charge of our country realized that core values count a lot more than where you went to school or how supposedly intelligent you are. Do you think it's possible that Sarah Palin would have palled around with Bill Ayres, or gotten her religious instruction from the likes of Rev. Wright? Doesn't that matter? Apparently not, because you say you voted for the one who did. Grow up before you vote next time and try basing your decision on more than "what's best for me." And, if you're still befuddled, just sit the next one out."

"The writer is so enamored of the Ivy League crowd that she forgets these are the same Harvard and Yale crowd that have us 12 trillion in debt and have created complicated scheme to game the system and rape he middle class. Did she ever think we might be better off with a community college grad who can balance a checkbook?"

"If you are seeking forgiveness from those of us who voted with our head and not our heart -- who saw Obama for what he is, an empty suit, -- well sorry. I am too busy trying to keep my small business afloat to worry about your conscience."

"...as Palin climbed out of her igloo " A woman. A woman politician. A woman Governor. A woman who took on good ol' boys (corrupt good ol' boys), and FROM HER OWN PARTY no less - becomes a Vice Presidential Candidate - draws thousands to see her - "climbs out of her igloo". Jill, you're dripping all over. Quit while you're behind."

"You were not only blinded by a dishonest sales pitch but I think you need to step back from the mainstream media altogether because you apparently buy everything they tell you -- hook, line, and sinker. Try doing your own investigations. Have you ever actually looked at Sarah Palin's record in Alaska or how she actually ran for governor and performed in office. I presume you are believe her 80% plus approval rating (before being picked, she was the most popular governor in the country) was because all Alaskans are inbred morons who couldn't tell, like the Northeast media establishment, that she was an idiot. I also presume you can't name a single one of her accomplishments as governor. Maybe she's not Mensa material, but it's been my experience that anyone who dismisses her the way you did really knows nothing about her but propaganda. Go find and read the editorial "Misfire at Palin: Associated Press story offers skewed picture of gas line work" at the Anchorage Daily News, a paper that didn't endorse her, for a good indication of just how biased and dishonest the coverage from the Associated Press and other "news" organizations has been."

"Wow - great comments, people. Maybe she'll finally figure out that since she totally misjudged Obama, she also misjudged Sarah. Or maybe not."

"You started out with regret over voting for Obama and turned it into a hit piece on Palin. Unlike the president you and so many of my fellow citizens so foolishly voted for, Sarah Palin is a fiscal conservative much as you profess to be. Its a sad day when supposedly intelligent people allow MSNBC and the NY Times substitute for their own thought process."

'Not only wrong about Obama, but wrong wrong wrong about Sarah Palin--AND yet you still bash her with your liberal ignorance. I don't feel sorry for the likes of you--people who voted for the "Obamessiah" got exactly what they deserved...unfortunately, the rest of the country had to suffer for YOUR screwup as well!! Massachusetts is just the beginning. This is the year America gets back on the right path, the one the Founding Fathers created, and paid for with their lives, many of them."

"I agree on most every point except I did not vote for Obama. I looked beyond Palin as a pretty face and looked at her background in her own state as a fiscal conservative not comparing our social views. She gets us small business owners...Obama has no clue. You are right Obama and his advisors have nearly destroyed my small business and I knew the "empty suit" would do nothing for me as we were small enough to sacrifice. I know now for a FACT that he cares diddly squat about the fact that I'm now 10 years from social security and my business is nearly gone after propping it up for the last year with what was left of my savings and 401ks. I feel sorry for me too...that so many others like you bought his snake oil. Who will bail us out?"

"Ms. Dorson, you are myopic and uninformed at best. You completely dismissed a woman who walked in your shoes (small business owner) because you swallowed whole the tripe the media fed you about her. The media can make anybody into who they want them to be...see Tiger Woods. They know the truth and hide it until it's beneficial to them to make the big reveal...see John Edwards and Harry Reid. Every American should take the time to learn for themselves about the candidates, and not rely on the Evening News to spoon feed them their biased views. Listening to Obama's pre-presidential campaign speeches and reading his books would have opened your eyes to what was right in front of you. He is no friend to the Middle Class, he is no friend to Small Business, he is no friend to Liberty. He wants to redistribute the wealth and "fundamentally transform" America. And he told you so."

"Thank you for being honest and sharing your come to Jesus moment. Sadly your animus towards Sarah Palin overshadowed your confession of shear stupidity. Now may be the time to either get back into the sheep pen along with the rest of the intellectual flock or get some lessons on the independent thought process. Sadly for the rest of us you and your ilk voted for a little man in a big suit!"

"So you voted for Obama, yet Palin is the idiot? I hope your wail of self-pity is just a start and Obama ends up like carter. Everyone will be wondering how he got elected since nobody they know voted for him."

"'He is smart enough to seek counsel. I'm just outraged at the counsel he's seeking these days." Unfortunately, he's not that smart. How can you be outraged at the counsel he's seeking these days, when he spent his life in a church with a America hating pastor and was groomed and mentored by a terrorist. These are not new revelations, all of this was known before the election. Who did you think he was going to surround himself with, adults? On the other hand, Palin did have executive experience and REAL accomplishments, but you thought she was Tina Fey. You are QED proof that people who voted for this idiot are too stupid to be voting in public elections, stick with American Idol."

"Jill, you epitomize so much that has gone wrong with this country: you lack the ability to think and analyze. I'll bet you can really "feel" though. I'll bet that you consider yourself "educated" too. I'll never cease to be amazed by the number of people that could not see through the empty suit, con artist that is Obama. By the way, my children and grandchildren "thank" you for the damage you and your fellow fools have done to their future. Are you smart enough to realize how much you have damaged your own?"

"How interesting that Ms. Dorson disparages Governor Sarah Palin as nothing more than a "cover girl" while bemoaning the loss of the very things Gov. Palin provided for her home state of Alaska - lower taxes, higher employment, small-business friendly environment, etc. Ms. Dorson reminds me of many other liberals who, even when they realize they have been sold a bottle of snake oil, don't blame it on the snake oil salesman but on the other "fools" who didn't fall for his scam. I wonder, given Gov. Palin's remarkable good looks and Ms. Dorson's obvious bitterness toward the Governor, if there isn't a liberal amount of jealousy involved in Dorson's whining diatribe also."

""But above all, I want to feel safe and I don't want to feel that I am being ripped off. I want a president who inspires me and cares about my contribution to the fabric of the country. I want a president with experience and savvy, a Commander in Chief who puts our country and its citizens first." Too bad you didn't use this as your criteria when you voted for Obama."

"For someone stupid enough to vote for Barack Obama, who now realizes how stupid they were, you can't help but call Sarah Palin stupid? Who did she vote for? So, at least in this one area, she was smarter than you..."

""I want a president with experience and savvy, a Commander in Chief who puts our country and its citizens first." That, Ms. Dorson, is and was a more accurate description of Sarah Palin than it was or ever will be of Barack Obama."

"I hope these comments have shown Jill Dorsen what a misogynist she is. Women are the worst when it comes to other women, especially those who seek out male approval like Dorsen does in this article. The sad thing is that she isn't even smart enough to realize that men don't do this. When one of us gets into trouble, the wagons circle. It's how we preserve power and why women won't have much of it for a long, long time."

"Tsk, tsk. Smart enough to think Obama might surround himself with capable people, but not smart enough to think Palin might surround herself with capable people...discrimination or envy?"

And it just keeps going from there. I was stunned. 550+ comments defending Palin and attacking or criticizing Obama. And I couldn't find one Obamabot in the bunch (do you think they have been reassigned to Ellie Light duty?).

We saw a major shift in MA last week, in large party due to the momentum of the tea parties. That momentum grew in part because of the repeated, continuous attacks from the Liberal media - their pompous childish *teabagger* name calling, and dismissive attitudes. It looks to me like the constant Palin bashing has caused a major backlash as well.

I must say, I was quite pleased to see the writer called out repeatedly for her sexism, and bigotry. (There were a few comments that made me wince, but frankly, after an essay like that....).

(By the way, I am reading Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, and am really enjoying it.)

Memorandum has lots more!

olbermann: i have been unhinged lately, sorry

Well, good for him. He stepped away from the ledge. Now, let's hope he stays grounded...I wonder how long it will last?

olbermann - as the unhinged turn

OK, so remember my post about Keith Olbermann and his vile attack on Scott Brown, in my post what's your favorite cream pie? banana?


(Talk about SORE LOSER!)

Anyway, I have had an ongoing rebuttal over at mediaite, who covered Keith's temper tantrums. My first commments were similar to what I posted on my blog, pointing out Keith's own comments suggesting that Hillary Clinton should be taken into a room, one that she never comes out of again.

Next, Olby tried to play a little trick on his 20 viewers and pretended that he was going to apologize. He's so sneaky! What he really did was apologize for not attacking Brown enough! He forgot sexist.



He then calls on people to "disprove it, because he hasn't".

I started with this: "Brown told reporters this morning that he didn’t hear the remark, that it was “inappropriate” and that he would have “said something” had he heard it."

But, I couldn't let it go... I followed up with this:

Nice try on olbermann’s part, but it isn’t up to anyone to prove the negative lies spewed by Olby. It is his job to back up his smears, with fact.

For instance, if I, *hypothetically* wanted to stoop to Olby’s level, and say:

Keith Olbermann is a race baiting, sexist, limp dicked, fat ass hypocrite, stalker who sucks in bed and tries to date porn stars, promotes violent suggestions against women, and is such a loser he actually told someone to go kill them self.

it would be up to me to support my statements.

So… it is up to Keith to support his statement about Brown. Cecelia already pointed out his hypocrisy with homophobe, unless of course Olby is willing to call Obama and Hillary homophobes as well.

(I have a lot more back up to support the statment, I just ran out of linking room…)

On the third night, Keith then actually tried to prove his ugly smears. (I wonder if he saw my post? haha)



Well, of course I had to take the challenge. (Click here to read my comment with supporting links. I don't feel like relinking it all over again. haha)

Irresponsible – FAIL. Yea, better to sugar quote it, and not confront the high school students directly about the ugly attacks on his daughter, and family. please!

Brown was reading their own words – how is that irresponsible? he was calling them out, and reprimanding them for their ugly attacks on him and his family, and did so in a small setting. This example is extremely weak. “…the “F” word was used in reference to his eldest daughter, Ayla. “Another said I should be dead,” Brown said.”

The only thing I would have done differently was call their parents, to have them there while he read the vile things their children wrote on their Facebook pages, so they would know first hand what kind of hooligans they are raising.

Brown also pointed out that the word appears in “Catcher in the Rye,” which is required reading for the students.

I already addressed the shout out about the daughters being single. In the words of his daughter, “mellow out…It just surprises me that people can be so negative.” If you want to talk about irresponsible, check out HuffPo: Meanwhile, HuffPo and some of the lefty gossip sites are posting a Facebook pic of her and her sister in bikinis posing with their dad — taken at her grandmother’s birthday party, according to Ayla Brown (from Hot Air)

If Olby thinks that one meeting at a school with high school children can define someone as irresponsible, then I am curious to what he thinks about Obama telling high school students about his drug and alcohol use in high school. He did not urge them to abstain from drugs or explain the difficulty of kicking addictions. And he left some with this conclusion: “There might be people that do drink or do experimental drugs and they may think that they are not going to get very far in life, but obviously Sen. Obama has gotten pretty far in life.” Or that, as a candidate, he laughingly admitted he inhaled, frequently, because that was the point. Does that send the right signal to kids?

Homophobic – Extremely weak. Regarding his comments about whether it was normal for two women to have a baby, Brown quickly apologized and said he chose his words poorly. (I suppose one could get into the debate about what constitutes normal – since it is biologically impossible, thus, not *normal* for two women to produce a child.) He also commented that his view is the same as President Obama, both anti-gay-marriage and pro-civil-unions. He believes it is up to the states to decide, and considering 45 states ban gay marriage, Olby would have to label almost the entire country homophobic to support this accusation. Also, the Obama supporters in CA that voted for Prop 8. I support gay marriage, and have many discussions with people about the topic. Most of those who do not support gay marriage, that I have found, do so because of religious beliefs. To attack them for their religious beliefs, I suppose one could say they are guilty of religious bigotry?

Racist – FAIL. This one is total bull, as we discussed in a previous thread. In an attemt to defend Bristol Palin as a young mother, Brown brought in Obama’s mother as a young mother as well. This site, Olby, and many others used intentionally edited video to try to smear him, and mislead people on the conversation. He had every reason to not know personally whether Stanley Ann was married or not, based on prior comments by Michelle, and Barack, Rev. Wright, and everyone in the media. For Olby to say this was about race is just another one of his stupid a** race cards. Obama’s mother was white – so for Olby to try and even make this about race is beyond stupid. It sounds to me like Olby is the one bordering on racism, for even trying to make that point: Obama is black, Brown assumes he was born out of wedlock until proven otherwise. Why did Olby’s mind even go there? Sounds like he is the ones with certain stereotypes floating around in his head.

Reactionary – this is just plain stupid.

Ex Nude Model – Hmmm, does someone posing once for a photo define them as a career model? As someone who actually used to model, I never ever have defined myself as a model…. This is a huuuuuuuge stretch. Also, considering we can’t see certain body parts, one has to wonder if he truly is, in fact completely nude, or if he is wearing something over his parts – like most people do in those situations. Brown did pose for a photo that shows him in the buff – but I would hardly define him as an ex-nude model. Olby can have this point, because, well, frankly, we get a photo of a hunk, and the Democrats have this.

Sexist – FAIL.

Tea-bagging – FAIL. Teabagging is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth or on or around the face (including the top of the head) of another person, often in a repeated in-and-out motion as in irrumatio. The practice resembles dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea.

Supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees – FAIL.

I think the most shocking thing about this video is the sheer lack of proof Olby, an actual “news anchor”, offers to support his smears. I did better than this, in an afternoon, sitting in Italy, on my couch. He has access to staff, video libraries, people to interview, etc. and this is IT? This is ALL he can come up with?

If I were Brown, I would totally sue him.

Olbermann is making the claim that a single incident or statement, even taken out of context, defines the whole of a person for their entire life. If that were true, than I guess the statement I hypothetically proposed about Olby is, in fact, who he really is.

Better luck next time, Olby. But, thanks for playing.

Anyhoo, the whole reason for bringing you up to speed is this video from Jon Stewart.



Except for the last minute butt kissing, (Keith's intelligent???) this video is brilliantly hilarious. He highlights how utterly ridiculous Olbermann truly is.

It's funny to read other blogs about this too. You can find more on memorandum.

zuckerman: obama's done everything wrong

Oh look! Another Obama supporter who didn't pay attention to the real candidate Obama, and is now mad as hell.



All the signs were there. People like me tried to point them out. Some people just didn't want to listen. They believed the hype. Now they are paying the price.



Hey, you wanted him, you got him, Jack. All the proof was there, ya'll just chose to ignore it.



He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For
~Paul Krugman

But I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.

Should have listened to your doubts, Krugman!

If you try to be everything to everyone you'll be nothing to no one...

jeninfer lopez really bums me out

Just what the HELL did Sarah Palin ever do to deserve to be called a bitch by Jennifer Lopez?



H/T Left Coast Liberal

This totally bums me out because I (used to) love her music and films. This is such a cheap, easy, tacky baseless attack.

Shame on her. Well, I won't be spending money on her anymore.

headline shocker of the year: edwards admits fathering love child

Edwards Admits Fathering Love Child, Reportedly Separates From Wife FOXNews.com

"Former presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted fathering his former campaign videographer's child."

Wow, I am shocked. I had no idea. You mean, the baby isn't Andrew Young's child? Wowzers, this has to be the biggest surprise revelation, evah.

Former presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted fathering his former campaign videographer's child.

In a statement released to NBC News, Edwards said, "I am Quinn’s father. ... It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me."

Friends of the family said that Edwards and wife, Elizabeth, have separated, NBC reported. [did he get tired of waiting for her to die, or did Elizabeth kick him out?]

The admission comes after months [months? try years!] of denials from Edwards that he fathered former mistress Rielle Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn. The revelation also comes a week before his former campaign aide, Andrew Young, is set to appear in an ABC News interview saying he posed as the father when the scandal first broke as a favor to Edwards. [nothing like coming clean, right when you are about to be busted...]

The two-time presidential candidate also admitted to providing financial support to the child and said in the statement that he has "reached an agreement with her mother to continue providing support in the future."

"To all those I have disappointed and hurt these words will never be enough, but I am truly sorry," Edwards said.

Young's interview is scheduled to air on ABC next Friday, but may be pushed forward.

OK, people have affairs, for all kinds of reasons. There might even have been things going on in their marriage, besides her illness. But come on. This jerk has been lying for 3 or 4 years. He ran for President! He paid someone off to cover his own ass, someone with his own family! He made plans to marry Hunter, as soon as his wife died. He lied over and over and over again. And he denied his own child!

He is scum. I still think his supporters should sue for their campaign donations to be refunded. He is a fraud.

usa! usa! usa!

There have been so many tragic and miraculous stories coming out of Haiti. So many reasons to shed tears, but for some reason, this one really got to me.



The way the L.A. County urban search and rescue team saved her life, protected her dignity, and the way the crowd appreciated their efforts.

With the criticism from some countries, it's nice to know that the rescue workers are being recognized for their dangerous and heroic efforts.

what's your favorite cream pie? banana?

This video is hilarious.

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And on another note, we have a very disturbing video from Olbermann (well, honestly, what videos of him aren't disturbing?) but this one is particularly disgusting. Not only does he perpetuate the smears started by the left, he creates his own slanderous lies.



This is especially rich coming from Olbermann, a man who actually envisioned a scenario in which someone went into a room with Hillary Clinton, and she never comes out again.

“Right. Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.”



I will be mortified if people do not demand Olbermann be fired for his comments on Brown. Anyone who tolerates his flat out slanderous lies is deranged.

In fact, I think the employees at msnbc should demand he be fired. This tarnishes the reputation and credibility of EVERYONE at msnbc for tolerating this slander.

Not only is Obly insulting Brown, he is insulting everyone who supports him.

They need to do themselves a favor – salvage their weakening reputation – and demand Obermann be fired. This has to be the ugliest comment I have ever heard by someone on tv. This is damaging to anyone associated with MSNBC.

Apparently Morning Joe isn't too impressed with Olby either.



And since we are on the subject of Morning Joe, check out this video of Mika tellin' it like it is:



H/T Mediaite and hotair for the videos.

curling iron gate: yet ANOTHER last minute attempt to smear brown!

Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, Alan Combs, Americablog and more are trying a last ditch effort to bring Scott Brown down. Click on the link to read all the hysterical headlines.

What is no surprise is they are using a :09 second video, intentionally edited to appear damaging. The short clip makes it look like Scott Brown is agreeing to stick a curling iron up *Marcia* Coakley's butt. Yea, cuz that would happen...

This is the video everyone is posting:


However, when you see a longer video of the event, (from crooks and liars) you can see that Scott Brown was interrupted, during his speech. After the shouting, clapping and noise, he continued with his speech. He was thrown off by the remarks, and paused, but there is no proof that he heard what was acually said, or that it even registered. He said he did not hear the comment.

I typed out everything I could hear:

"...we can communicate, and solve problems...the problems now, enemy combatants, rather have us as tax payers...to lawyer them up to take the fifth...to find out..."

[lots of boo's SUICIDE, clapping cheering, inaudible noise, Curling iron up her butt!!]

"So, so, We can do this. We can do this. I want to thank you all for coming, so please do not take anything for granted. Phone calls, emails, get your friends and families out, their friends and familes out, get them out, we can make a difference."



So, Scott Brown was saying *we can do this* in reference to WINNING, if everyone called, emailed, and got their family and friends out to the polls. NOT we can stick a curling iron up *Marcia's* butt. Good gawd. This is a new low.

If you are wondering why someone would yell out that gross comment, about a curling iron, it has to do with a case Coakley was in charge of.

This is yet another example of ridiculousness, using an out of context snipit to smear someone, as I tried to demonstrate in my earlier post: obama: you’d better check under the hood!

obama: you’d better check under the hood!

Is President Obama insinuating that Scott Brown is a klansman?

"You better look under the hood?"*

It sure sounds like coded language for calling Scott Brown a member of the klan...

For him to go after Brown using "under the hood" and stating , "I don’t know him" as he did last night, it's an insult. And I tell you, as an American, constantly accused of racism for not supporting Obama, I find his words and his tone to be very depressing.

“A cross-section of voters are alarmed at the tenor of some of these statements. It’s very unfortunate that the president would make a statement like that."

"Regrettably, they have resorted to distasteful and condescending language that appeals to our fears rather than our hopes. I sincerely hope that they'll turn away from such reactionary, disparaging rhetoric."

Perhaps this is why they are getting deperate, and using such coded, hostile language:

“Martha Coakley and Barack Obama held a rally today in Boston. They couldn’t fill the hall. . . . It holds 3,000 and frankly only 2,000 to 2,500 showed up.” H/T Instapundit



Meanwhile, on the other side of town:

“It’s an absolute mob scene. The police have closed off the streets. It’s mind blowing. The hall is already full, and it holds 3,000 people. There may be another 1,000 people outside.” via the Corner.



You know they are in trouble when they blame Bush, predict a loss, and don't even know their candidate's name. Marcia, Marcia, MARCIA!



(*see what can happen when you provide only a snipit of a video, and distort the meaning behind innocent comments?)

desperation: dems attempt to smear scott brown with chuckle

The democrats are getting desperate regarding the MA race between Coakley and Scott Brown. The latest (weak) attempt to smear Scott Brown comes to us via Blue Mass Group, with this story:

BMG Exclusive: Scott Brown thought maybe Obama was born out of wedlock



"Wow. Just to reiterate, in case you can't see the video: in response to the statement that Obama's mother was married when she gave birth, Scott says, "well, I don't know about that." Then he chuckles. "Uh huh huh."

They then try to link Brown to *gasp* "fringey" birthers and conspiracy theorists in attempt to smear him.

"Did Brown know about any of this stuff? Did he take it seriously? Is that why, when someone else says that Obama's mother was married when she gave birth to him, Brown says "I don't know about that"? And if not, then what?"

heartbreak.

obama angers group of right wing radical racists with typo

Kid on President Obama: "It's kind of like he's paying people to be rude to people in his own country." (Source: WSYR) RACIST!
H/T Real Clear Politics

The Obama administration really has a problem with clerical errors and typos. We have seen this kind of sloppy work since the cut and paste job they did in the primary with the promise to protect Oregon's Great Lakes and Obama pledging to Oregon he will care for their 1.1M (Pennsylvanian) veterans. And of course, the typos in their State Dinner Menu...another typo involving Oregon. (Did he win that state? How?) They have even misspelled the names of world leaders here, and here. Even fashionistas from Vogue! The horror!

Although, I guess you can't expect too much from an administration that can't even spell the President's name correctly. (Or a member of a political party that can't spell the name of the states they want to represent.)

The Obama Administration really should be more careful, especially when communicating with America's *schoochildren*.

As the saying goes - the fish rots from the head down. "When the system fails, it is my responsibility," Obama said. W.H. security review: Misspelled name meant State didn't know he had visa.

'a time to be heard: content of character'

Glenn Beck continues his discussion on race with an examination of Sen. Reid's comments about Barack Obama

devastating earthquake in haiti

This is so awful.

Following a devastating earthquake that leveled buildings in Port-au-Prince Haitians crowd the streets in shock, some trying to rescue those trapped in the rubble. This video contains graphic images.



Haiti Earthquake Aftermath: How to Help

let's play, *can you imagine if a republican would have said this!?*

"...his encouragement of Obama was unequivocal. He was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a "light-skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one," as he said privately. Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama's race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination."

stewart agrees: obama done broke some promises

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As more in the media turn...


H/T Hot Air

"A CNN commentator cheerleading Republican victory in the midterms? Jack Cafferty calling Barack Obama a liar on national TV? Are cats and dogs raining from the sky today?" ~ Ed Morrisey

most transparent president, evah!

"While I enthusiastically support health care reform, it is not reform to push more costs onto states that are already struggling while other states get sweetheart deals," Schwarzenegger said today in his State of the State address.

"Health care reform, which started as noble and needed legislation, has become a trough of bribes, deals and loopholes."





H/T Theo Spark and Deceiver.



Click here to view video of Gibbsy getting testy...note the comment, "Do you know how many stories msnbc has done on this" as an excuse for the WH's lack of transparency. Apparently msnbc is a working partner of the WH? Memorandum has much more on this here.