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Category: Media

  • That speech last night

    No, I didn’t watch the president’s address last night. I saw enough of Jimmy Carter’s speeches to know what he’s going to say. You can read the whole text at the Wall Street Journal like I did this morning…I saw Jimmy Carter’s furrowed brow through the whole thing. Don’t believe me? Read through the “Malaise Speech” and tell me it doesn’t sound like Obama last night.

    But actually I wish everyone would stop criticizing his speeches – every time he gives a goofed up speech it only encourages him to give another and even though Chris Matthews and the gang didn’t like his speech last night, I’m sure the next will bring the tingles back with a vengeance.

    Below the jump is Obama making comments after the meeting with BP execs – it’s a live feed so you may just get a bunch of reporters standing around for a while;
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  • Bob Etheridge’s ill-considered behavior

    You’ve probably all seen the video of Congressman Bob Etheridge accosting two students who tried to interview him on the street;

    And you’ve probably already read his apology which he wasted no time in releasing. But have you read anything about his Republican opponent? John Hawkins tries to get an interview with Renee Elders but ends up with a written statement about Etheridge’s antics.

    And, of course, Etheridge’s behavior is the fault of Republicans. And the Washington Post is more worried about the identity of the students than they are about the behavior of a public official.

  • MSNBC’s “Rise of the New Right”

    The folks at Alex Jones’ Infowars claim to have the transcript of MSNBC’s latest propaganda piece set to air this next week starring twinkle-toes Chris Matthews. Here’s the propoganda for the propaganda from Newsbusters;

    If the show follows the leaked script, you can expect some really typical “Right as lunatics” stuff. Of course, Mark Potok starts off the program with his militia and hate groups scare mongering. The they follow with those icons of the mainstream right Oily Titz and Alex Jones. Then they try to tie all of that craziness (Oily Titz is a Birther and Alex Jones is a Truther) to Sarah Palin and Michelle Bach. Then they blame Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, and throw in some shots at Michelle Bachman, Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

    And then Matthews winds up with;

    WITH ALL THIS ANGER RAGING ON THE RIGHT, AND BECOMING MORE AND MORE RADICAL…WILL THE NEW RIGHT BE ABLE TO WIN ELECTIONS…OR WILL THEY SCARE OFF THE MAINSTREAM VOTERS? CERTAINLY, WE WILL KNOW MORE IN THE FALL AFTER THE 2010 MID TERM ELECTIONS.

    I dare Matthews to do a similar treatment of the Left – but then Glen Beck does one every night.

  • Blumenthal; Lying face to face

    !stCavRVN11B sent us a link this morning about an under-reported aspect of DICK Blumenthal’s lies about his service. A local newspaper, the New Britain Herald writes about one of Blumenthal’s subordinates in the CT Attorney General’s office, Richard Hine who has worked for Blumenthal for 20 years.

    “This has to do with integrity, has to do with qualifications for office and with a very personal conversation back in January or February, 1991,” he said. Surrounded by the mementos of his own life as a Marine, Hine said what Blumenthal did went against the code of being a Marine.

    Hine said Blumenthal first lied to him about his service record while attorney general as Hine was making preparations for service during Operation Desert Storm, the first Iraq War.

    According to Hine, Blumenthal expressed concern about his family should he be sent to Iraq and made sure he would be available to Hine’s family should they need him.

    “He then said that ‘you as a major would have it easier than I did as an enlisted man in Vietnam’,” Hine said, recalling that the conversation that happened in Blumenthal’s office on the seventh floor at 55 Elm St., Hartford. “I knew right there that he was lying.”

    “He was lying to me face to face,” he said, adding that he had heard similar remarks of service in Vietnam at least five times, at least half before September 11, 2001, and half after. “He didn’t misstate, he didn’t misspeak — he lied.”

    Emphasis is mine. And what does that even mean? How does DICK Blumenthal know how difficult Hines’ tour will be? Who talks like that? I could see Jon Soltz saying something like that, though, so I guess DICK Blumenthal is just like Jon Soltz only taller.

    Of course, now that Blumenthal is the defacto nominee of the Democrat Party in Connecticut for Chris Dodd’s Senate seat, the media will leave the little pud alone. I’m kinda hoping that we can get around the New York Time’s sudden silence on this story though.

  • Hezbollah lauds Helen Thomas

    The Iranian-backed, military wing in Lebanon, Hezbollah, which has rained thousands of rockets on Israel over the years released a message of support for Helen Thomas’ “go back where you came from” message to Israel last week;

    Respected American journalist Helen Thomas’s answer shows … a courageous, bold, honest and free opinion which expresses what people across the globe believe: that Israel is a racist state of murderers and thugs.

    Now, there’s a feather in your cap, Helen.

  • Helen Thomas retires

    Yesterday, Jimbo beat up on Helen Thomas pretty good. I guess she couldn’t stand the heat from Blackfive because she announced her retirement today (thanks to American Power blog for sending us the links).

    According to USAToday, she didn’t retire as much as she got fired;

    The controversy prompted Thomas to be dropped by her speaker’s bureau. She also agreed not to deliver a commencement speech at Walt Whitman High School in suburban Bethesda, Md., the Associated Press reports.

    I actually had a very decent conversation once with the hag…well, it was before Bush Derangement Syndrome ate her (gag) brain cells. Oh, and she’d just come from the eye doctor and had some of those mongo-shades that covered most (but not enough) of her face.

    Yeah, but it was time for the little troll to find a new bridge to haunt. Telling the Jews to go back to Poland and Germany is pretty hateful and thoughtless no matter how you look at it. I read on Democratic Underground where some numbnuts said she’d been misquoted – in a video? Of her (gag) face saying the words?

    Meanwhile over here on the Right, if we say the Mexicans should walk the same thirty feet they walked yesterday and go back to Mexico, we’re racists and xenophobes.

    Much more Helen Thomas news from the friendlier part of our sworn enemy Hot Air, Ed Morrissey.

    Who else can I piss off today?

  • R. Lee Ermey Is Not Dead

    So the last day or so I have gotten a lot of emails and Facebook messages about actor and Marine R. Lee Ermey dying suddenly in his home. This story is untrue and whoever started this rumor needs a beating. In fact I know just the guy to give it to them….

  • Reporting on the War Against Terror

    I’m sure you’ve read that Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a founding member of al Qaeda is reported to have been killed by a drone aircraft last month. Bill Roggio has confirmed it, so it must be true.

    Anyway, I was reading the Washington Times and the Washington Post‘s reporting of the incident and marveled at the subtle way they each support their presidents. You can tell much of the two newspapers’ information came from the Roggio posting.

    But guess which newspaper wrote which paragraph;

    The death of Yazid would represent one of the most significant blows against al-Qaeda since the CIA began a major escalation in the pace of drone strikes in 2008, which has been accelerated under President Obama.

    The United States, in cooperation with Pakistan, stepped up the pace of lethal drone strikes in August 2008 after President Bush signed an executive order giving the commander of Central Command more operational control to order the strikes in ungoverned spaces throughout southeast Asia and the Middle East.

    Both paragraphs are true, but it’s the information given or not presented that skews the readers’ opinions. I just thought it was an interesting study of Washington’s competing newspapers and the value of reading everything about a subject.

    I’ll stick with Bill Roggio, though.