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Silky Pony: Give up your SUV’s, while I keep my big a$$ house

Seriously, dude, I really want to ignore you, but you just won’t let me, you magnificent ba$tard! From WLOS:

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.

The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.

Edwards says Americans should be asked to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He says he would ask them to give up SUVs.

You’ll have to forgive WLOS, a western NC news outfit, for not being ready for primetime. After all, they left out the rest of the article (helpfully finished by FNC):

He also said as president he would ask residents to conserve energy and said the U.S. needs to focus on being a leader in creating alternative energy. He said he wants a national cap on carbon dioxide emissions that is lowered each year.

“We are the worst polluter on the planet. We are 4 percent of the world’s population, we’re putting out 25 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas,” Edwards said. “America’s going to have to change.”

Edwards was asked during his appearance how he explained the contradiction of asking Americans to sacrifice while he’s living in a 28,000-square-foot (2,600-square-meter) mansion.

He said he came from nothing, worked hard all his life, has always supported workers and fought big corporations as a lawyer.

“I have no apologies whatsoever for what I’ve done with my life,” he said to loud cheers. “My entire life has been about the same cause, which is making sure wherever you come from, whatever your family is, whatever the color of your skin, you get a real chance to do something great in this country.”

So Silky is saying that he did “something great” (you know, suing businesses and doctors for his own personal enrichment? That’s really “something great”!) to get that energy hog he lives in, which I’m just sure doesn’t contribute a thing to that pollution level he bitches about. However, if you drive an SUV, you did “nothing great” with your life to earn enough to buy that SUV. Got that? Breck Girl = great, you = not so much. Thanks for clearing that up, you hypocritical well-coiffed shameless jerk.

UPDATE at 1:37 p.m. EST: Well, well, well. Lookie here. Obviously Silk’s not just a hypocrite when it comes to his carbon-slurping house…but he owns an SUV himself!

Edwards, happy to promote his energy-efficient Escape, also still owns a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica midsize SUV and a 1994 GMC truck, according to state vehicle registration records.

Campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said the Edwardses, who have two small children, use the Pacifica when they need more than two seat belts in the back, and the truck when they need to move furniture or haul something.

In other words, Johnny Boy only uses his gas hogs when he deems it necessary…as opposed to us peons, who use our gas hogs when we, um, don’t deem it necessary? Or as Hot Air quips: “Because a big Green candidate needs a big, fuel-slurping SUV. (Nobody else does, though.)”

August 29, 2007 Posted by | hypocrisy, John Edwards | 6 Comments

Another edition of “Guess Which Party Affiliation?”

A little compare and contrast from Protein Wisdom:

Former State Senator convicted of taking bribes in Tennessee Waltz sting

Unfortunately, he appears not to have been a (closeted? In denial?) gay Republican. Otherwise, his party affiliation may have found its way into the article. You know, eventually. From the Commercial Appeal:

His voice breaking and fighting to hold back tears, a contrite John Ford asked forgiveness Monday from his family, the public, and foremost, from the judge who holds his future in his hands.“I accept the jury’s verdict. And I take full, total and complete responsibility for my action,” the once powerful state senator said in a hushed yet direct voice.

Speaking from a podium 10 feet away, Ford looked directly into the face of U.S. District Judge J. Daniel Breen, who will issue a sentence this morning, and told of the pain, embarrassment and humiliation he’s endured since his 2005 indictment followed by his conviction in April on a single bribery count.

Unfortunately, the Commercial Appeal’s only coverage of the Sen Larry Craig story comes from the AP, which introduces the latest — Craig’s denial that he is gay — thus:

A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men’s room police sting, emphatically adding, “I am not gay. I have never been gay.”Craig, a third-term senator from Idaho, proclaimed his innocence as well as his sexuality less than an hour after Senate leaders from his own Republican Party called for an ethics committee review of his case.

“This is a serious matter,” they said in Washington in a written statement that offered neither support nor criticism of the conservative senator.

A bit of compare and contrast. For what it’s worth.

Which is probably not much. After all, a teensy little discrepancy in standards for what prompts mention of party affiliation in stories of government corruption is not really all that important. I mean, it’s not like we’ve noticed a trend or anything, right?

Besides, Ford was just taking bribes and making threats to shoot people. Whereas Larry Craig? — he brushed his gay foot up against some cop hoping for a little bit of porcelain seat lovin.

Burn him, I say.

And of course, Newsbusters shows a similar little nugget:

In its continuing coverage of Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID), the Associated Press now reports:

A government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against Idaho Sen. Larry Craig Tuesday after Craig said he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from complaints of lewd conduct in a men’s room.
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Senate ethics committee seeking an investigation into whether Craig violated Senate rules by engaging in disorderly conduct.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) may qualify to be described as a government watchdog group. What the Associated Press should have told its readers is that CREW is an extraordinarily partisan watchdog group.

According to its Web site, CREW has initiated lawsuits or lodged complaints against Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA), Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL), Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA), and House minority leader John Boehner (R-OH).

Moreover, CREW has launched Federal Election Commission complaints against the campaign committees of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), and former speaker of the House Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL).

Oh, and then there’s CREW’s complaint against Rep. Duncan Hunter’s (R-CA) leadership PAC. And, of course, CREW has sued the Bush administration.

Even the Associated Press should be able to recognize a pattern here. It owes it to readers to clarify that this watchdog group only watches one side.

Just like PW and NB show, it’s not like this “Oops, I forgot to list the party affiliation of the perp and he just so happens to be a Democrat” incident hasn’t happened before. Nope…no liberal media bias!

August 29, 2007 Posted by | Larry Craig, media bias | 2 Comments

It depends on the meaning of the word “poor”

Our own government can get Clintonesque with words, too. From Neal Boortz:

Today the Census Bureau will release its annual report on poverty in America. Let’s take a quick glance at the people who are classified as “poor” in this country, thanks to an article by the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector:

  • 46 percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
     
  • 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
     
  • Only six percent of poor households are overcrowded; two thirds have more than two rooms per person.
     
  • The typical poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
     
  • Nearly three quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
     
  • 97 percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
     
  • 78 percent have a VCR or DVD player.
     
  • 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
     
  • 89 percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.

In other words … it’s all a fraud. Aren’t you surprised?

Also, consider this: you can have a massive amount of wealth and still be “living in poverty”! How? Simple.

Let’s say you have invested in yourself wisely over the years. You got a good education, you lived within your means, didn’t have kids prematurely, didn’t do drugs, made sound money moves and investments, etc. By age X, you amassed a few million bucks and decided to retire early. Your beachside house and luxury cars are paid in full, you have no debt, and you no longer pull a paycheck or have any income (except for some modest investment income to pay for food, utilities, property taxes, etc.). According to the feds, you live in poverty because you no longer have income!

I’d say it’s time to change how they calculate “poverty”, whatsay?

August 29, 2007 Posted by | big government, economic ignorance | 3 Comments

Ringing endorsement: Fidel luvs Hilldawg/Barry O, misses Jimmah & Bubba

From al-Reuters:

Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.

Clinton leads Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the November 2008 election, and Castro said they would make a winning combination.

“The word today (from whom? – Ed.) is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate,” he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba’s Communist Party newspaper, Granma.

Who’s your buddy, Fidel?

Castro said former President Bill Clinton was “really kind” when he bumped into him and the two men shook hands at a U.N. summit meeting in 2000. He also praised Clinton for sending elite police to “rescue” shipwrecked Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives in 2000 to end an international custody battle.
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He said his favorite U.S. president since 1959 was Jimmy Carter, another Democrat, because he was not an “accomplice” to efforts to violently overthrow the Cuban government.

The commie dictator just loves him some Democrats, doesn’t he?

August 29, 2007 Posted by | Bill Clinton, Carter, Castro, Hillary, Obama | 2 Comments

   

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