This is a hilarious response to Keith Olbermann’s recent accusations of racism against the Tea Party. The video looks at all of Olbermann’s guests in the last 10 episodes of his show and finds a shocking lack of anything resembling diversity.
Red Eye fans will especially like this. Watch it and you’ll know why. Key word: Lotion.
I say you’d never know it because there are no protests. There’s no screeching and howling about how Bush Obama is shredding the US Constitution. There’s no full page ads from Move On in the New York Times. There’s no noise about it at all. Isn’t that interesting?
You’d almost think that all those protests of the Patriot Act really had nothing to do with the legislation at all. One might even get the impression that all the noise in the past was just an excuse to bash Bush. How else can anyone explain this?
After a wave of news about attempted domestic terror attacks, Democrats facing a tough election year quietly voted this week to extend the Patriot Act legislation that many of them had decried under former President George W. Bush.
The House passed a one-year reauthorization of the Patriot Act Thursday night 315-97, just a day after the Senate moved the bill on a late-evening unanimous voice vote.
With the law facing a sunset date of Feb. 28, the Senate opted to vote for the extension of three crucial provisions of the act rather than opening debate on a revised bipartisan plan passed by the Judiciary Committee in October that would have imposed stricter privacy safeguards.
“In the end, it became non-controversial,” Senate Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told POLITICO. “[There was] the growing concern about increase on the pace of attacks on the homeland… and frankly, I think the Patriot [Act] got a bad name under the Bush Administration.”
You think?
In related news, Satan appeared on planet Earth today and credited himself with the founding of Christianity.
I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.
I spent — I’ve been there 17 times now. I go about every two months — three months. I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society. It’s impressed me. I’ve been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.
Biden and Obama opposed every single aspect of the Iraq War.
Biden and Obama opposed and criticized the Iraq surge.
Biden and Obama farmed every political talking point they could find to oppose the Bush Administration on Iraq.
Biden and Obama continue to bash their predecessors every chance they get.
And now they want to take credit for the success in Iraq???
Oh, but wait!
Sarah Palin has something written on her hand!!!!
Obama and his supporters on the left still don’t get it. They seem to have no idea that a majority of Americans just don’t like their policy agenda.
That’s why we end up with stupid articles from the Huffington Post about how America has become “ungovernable.”
Bill Clinton had two years on “offense,” when he tried to push an ambitious domestic agenda, followed by six years on “defense,” after his party lost control of Congress in 1994. Barack Obama, despite his determined posture in his State of the Union address, seems to have gotten just one year on “offense,” now that Scott Brown’s Senate win has Democrats running scared. When a 59-41 Senate majority plus a substantial edge in the House is deemed too slender a margin on which to enact a relatively centrist health reform, we may as well ask it out loud: has America become ungovernable?
We also get venom from people like TIME’s Joe Klein who blames all of Obama’s failures on the American people, who are just a bunch of dumb horses, too stupid to be led to water.
Absolutely amazing poll results from CNN today about the $787 stimulus package: nearly three out of four Americans think the money has been wasted. On second thought, they may be right: it’s been wasted on them.
David Harsanyi posted an excellent article yesterday at Reason.com which pointed out two things.
1. Government needs more checks and balances, not less.
2. The American left is full of shit.
Observe his awesome awesomeness…
If you’ve been paying attention to the left-wing punditry these days, you may be under the impression that the nation’s institutions are on the verge of collapse. Or that the rule of law is unraveling. Or maybe that this once-great nation is crippled and nearly beyond repair.
You know why? Because the 40 percent (or so) political minority has far too much influence in Washington. Don’t you know? This minority, egged on by a howling mob of nitwits, is holding progress hostage using its revolting politics and parliamentary trickery.
Leading the charge to fix this dire problem is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who advocates abolishing the Senate filibuster to make way for direct democracy’s magic.
It had better be quick. The populace is fickle. Jacob Weisberg of Slate believes that Americans are crybabies who don’t know what’s good for ‘em, causing “political paralysis.” Even President Barack Obama, after his agenda had come to a halt, claimed democracy is a “messy” process—as if that were a bad thing.
Imagine that we were living in an America where Republicans had control of the executive and legislative branches of government. Rich Lowry of National Review pens a piece saying that America has become “ungovernable.” Sean Hannity of FOX News devotes an entire program to the subject of “ending the Senate filibuster.”
Would the Paul Krugmans, Joe Kleins and Huffington Posters of America be nodding along in unison then?
Somehow, I doubt it.
Compare and contrast these two news stories from today.
Obama Urges Setting Aside “Petty Politics”
President Obama declared today that “a sense of purpose that transcends petty politics” must be forged by Democrats and Republicans to create more jobs, reduce the deficit and find at least some common ground on health care.
“We can’t afford grandstanding at the expense of actually getting something done,” Mr. Obama said as he made a surprise appearance at the daily White House briefing for the media only hours after he convened his first monthly bipartisan meeting he called for in the State of the Union address.
Robert Gibbs Scrawls Notes on Hand, Mocking Sarah Palin
Following President Obama’s surprise appearance at the White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs garnered laughter from the press corps by holding up his hand to reveal that he had written notes on his palm in black marker.
Gibbs’ move was a jab at Sarah Palin, who was shown to have written notes on her hand at a speech at the Tea Party convention Saturday after making an implicit criticism of the president for using a TelePrompTer.
Gibbs quipped that he had made the notes in case he and his family are snowed in by the storm approaching Washington. He said the words written on his hands included “eggs” and “milk” and that he had written “bread” but crossed it out.
Yeah. No more petty politics. Right.
Today on “This Week” guests Roger Ailes, the CEO of FOX News and Arianna Huffington had an interesting exchange where Huffinton tried to suggest to Ailes that FOX spreads misinformation and paranoia. The reply given by Ailes is excellent.
Here’s the video:
How ridiculous of Arianna to sit there and suggest that FOX promotes paranoia, meanness and misinformation. Has she never read her own publication? Did she miss these gems?
04/14/09 – Homeland Security Warns of Right Wing Extremism
08/16/09 – Another Blow to White American Lunatics (You know, like the people of Massachusetts)
01/14/10 – America is to Blame for the Suffering in Haiti
10/21/08 – The Strange, Strange Story of the Gay Fascists
07/03/09 – Palin Will Run in 2012 on ‘More Retardation’ Platform
And then there’s this list of notable moments caught by the Media Research Center. Enjoy!
Can someone please explain this to me?
Democrats last week: Scott Brown is a reincarnation of George W. Bush. An evil Republican who hates rape victims…
President Obama yesterday: I’m just like Scott Brown. In fact, we were elected for the same reasons.
Funny thing, that.
As she does nothing while one of her hired goons roughs up a news reporter.
The reporter on the ground is John McCormack of the Weekly Standard. He tried to ask Coakley a question and got knocked to the ground by hired goon, Michael Meehan an Obama appointee who was sent to rescue Coakley’s sucky campaign.
Coakley is the chief law enforcement officer of the State of Massachusetts. If she won’t defend a man who is assaulted by one of her people right in front of her face, do you think she gives a rat’s ass about you?
Because, you know, you have to have priorities. When you’re the UN Envoy to Haiti, the Democrat’s strangle hold on American politics is certainly more important than half a million dead or injured earthquake victims.
President Bill Clinton will again encourage voters to support Martha Coakley for U.S. Senate with an exciting day of events! Join President Clinton, Senator John Kerry, and Congressman Jim McGovern on Friday, January 15 to kick off the final weekend before Election Day!
President Clinton will be joined by Senator John Kerry for a rally at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel! The rally will take place on Friday, January 15, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom.
