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UPDATE: CBS News Freudian slip: “Bush resigns”

UPDATE (03/03/2008 – 6:30 P.M. EST):  They finally caught their Freudian slip and inserted the word “aide” after “Bush”.  Oh, well, the left and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) got to live in a fantasy world for most of the day.  Come to think of it, they live in a fantasy world 24×7, don’t they?

Quite a bit of wishful thinking on CBS News’ part, wouldn’t you say?  Here’s the screen cap (click on it to enlarge it), just in case they try to cover it up:

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I’m sure it’s just a harmless faux pas.  I’m also sure that Michelle Obama is a patriotic American who despises big government.  For those of you on the left, the prior two sentences were sarcasm.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

March 3, 2008 Posted by | media bias | 7 Comments

Dems vote to subsidize Hugo Chavez

Tax breaks for the “rich”?  Bad.  Tax breaks for a socialist dictator provoking a war with the U.S.?  Good.  From CNS News:

House Republicans criticized energy legislation passed late Wednesday, saying that it would raise taxes on the oil industry but give tax breaks to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the state-run oil company CITGO.

“Middle-class families and small businesses are feeling the squeeze from rising costs for gasoline, food, and other costs of living,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a statement. “Unfortunately, the Democrats’ ‘no energy’ bill will only make matters worse by raising taxes and setting the table for even higher prices at the pump.”

The House passed the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008 on a vote of 236 to 182. Senate Democratic leaders have indicated they would fast-track the bill to try to avoid a Republican filibuster.

“Congress just seems bound and determined to repeat the mistakes of the past, by increasing the tax burden on the oil industry,” Pete Sepp, vice president for communications at the conservative National Taxpayers Union, told Cybercast News Service.

“By claiming tax hikes will create jobs, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi is living in an economic fantasy world,” Sepp added.

“The only jobs tax increases create are government jobs. Worse are claims that energy prices will come down … how can raising an entire energy sector’s overhead make prices lower? Carter-nomics didn’t work when the windfall profit tax was imposed 30 years ago, and they won’t work now,” he said.  (Maybe today’s Dems will do like Jimmah did and tell us to “wear a sweater”? – Ed.)
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But Boehner said the “worst” parts of the bill are the provisions on foreign oil. “It actually carves out tax breaks for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez – courtesy of American taxpayers,” said Boehner. “This is unacceptable, and the Democratic leadership is irresponsible for bringing the bill to the House floor.” … 

See what happens when you let a bunch of economic illiterates hold the purse?

March 3, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, Hugo Chavez, oil, shameful, taxes | 5 Comments

Michelle Obama mocked for her class warfare rhetoric

When she’s not busy being ashamed of her country, Michelle Obama is telling our college kids about how life sucks and how they should not enter the private sector.  From Reason:

The Times piece details another series of ill-conceived, faux-populist remarks that might just play better with the voters:

We don’t need a world full of corporate attorneys and hedge-fund managers,” she told a crowd in a Baptist church in Cheraw, S.C., last month. “But see, that’s the only way you can pay back your educational debt!

“The life that I am talking about that most people are living has gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl. And this is through Republican and Democratic administrations. It doesn’t matter who was in the White House. . . . So if you want to pretend there was some point over the last couple of decades when your lives were easy, I wanna meet you!”

Her rhetoric is jarring given that the Obamas themselves are a stunning embodiment of the American dream. Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, the men’s basketball coach at Brown University, attended Princeton University. Barack and Michelle Obama both earned law degrees from Harvard, another of the nation’s most prestigious schools, and are facing the possibility of raising their two daughters in the White House.

The couple’s combined salaries were more than $430,000 in 2006, according to their tax return. In addition, Barack Obama earned $551,000 in book royalties. The family lives in a $1.6-million home in Chicago.

This kind of talk really rubs me the wrong way. Not only is it self-evidently bullsh#t when it implies that living standards for most people are imperiled (or that college-loan debt is crushing the poor young suckers graduating from the Ivies), it undercuts and ignores exactly the sort of steps that strivers everywhere can take to get ahead: get more education, work hard, etc. (No, really, she and her brother mystically appeared at Princeton.) Congrats on her success, but why can’t she talk about it more forthrightly? … 

Quips Coyote Blog:

I think it’s so cute when my fellow Princeton grads who pull down nearly a half million dollars a year complain about being put down by “the man.”

Blaming your student debt on the structure of the economy when you chose to go to the most expensive school in the country is a bit like trying to get sympathy for the size of the note on your Lamborghini. 

By the way, lost in all this is the fact that Princeton is one of the two schools in the country that now help students graduate debt-free.  In most cases, Princeton has replaced student loans with outright grants. Somehow she kind of forgot to mention that Princeton solved this problem years ago, without even a whiff of government intervention. 

That reminds me of an NBA strike in the 1990′s, when Patrick Ewing said about the efforts of millionaires to hold out for more money: “This is about feeding our families.”  Nice job of appealing to the common man, huh?  Shelly O has borrowed a page from the Ewing Public Speaking Faux Pas instruction manual.

March 3, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, hypocrisy, Obama | 4 Comments

Obama praises “no” vote that Rockefeller didn’t make!

Memo to Barry O:  take the Geico caveman’s advice and “Next time, maybe do a little research”!  From MyWay News:

… He said that Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a fellow Democrat from neighboring West Virginia, had read the intelligence estimate as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and had voted against the war resolution.

Rockefeller, who is now chairman of that committee, endorsed Obama on Friday and campaigned with him on Saturday.

Rockefeller called Obama “brilliant” and “well grounded” and prepared to take the reins as commander in chief. 

There’s just a slight problem with that, oh “brilliant” Osamabama:  Rockefeller voted “Yes” on the invasion of Iraq, lightweight!

March 3, 2008 Posted by | Iraq, Obama | 2 Comments

Ancient feminut and General Moonbat: McCain’s service no big whoop

I wish these moonbats would pick a talking point and stick to it!  Apparently, shooting a rice patty and getting shrapnel from it stuck in your #ss carries a lot more CinC street cred than being tortured by the Viet Cong for seven years.  From Allah:

Hey, remember four years ago how we needed a vet at the top of the ticket since only people who’d seen the horrors of war could appreciate the human cost of sending men into battle? Late-breaking caveat: Having seen the horrors of war isn’t quite as valuable experience-wise as picking out White House china patterns. Would a man who endorsed Waffles in 2004 explicitly on the basis of his military service really dare try this double standard vis-a-vis, of all people, John McCain? Believe it:

In the national security business, the question is, do you have — when you have served in uniform, do you really have the relevant experience for making the decisions at the top that have to be made? Everybody admires John McCain’s service as a fighter pilot, his courage as a prisoner of war. There’s no issue there. He’s a great man and an honorable man. But having served as a fighter pilot — and I know my experience as a company commander in Vietnam — that doesn’t prepare you to be commander-in-chief in terms of dealing with the national strategic issues that are involved. It may give you a feeling for what the troops are going through in the process, but it doesn’t give you the experience first hand of the national strategic issues.

If you look at what Hillary Clinton has done during her time as the First Lady of the United States, her travel to 80 countries, her representing the us abroad, plus her years in the Senate, I think she’s the most experienced and capable person in the race, not only for representing am abroad, but for dealing with the tough issues of national security.

Mind you, this is the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee he’s talking about. Consider it a Greenwaldian revision of the chickenhawk meme, one that’s been in the works ever since it dawned on the left that they wouldn’t have a vet at the top of the ticket this time while the GOP very well might: It’s not military service that’s important, it’s the right kind of military service. The Christmas in Cambodia kind. 

There’s more there that you MUST read, but I think you get the idea: in 1992 and 1996, military service was irrelevant; in 2004, it was indeed relevant; and now in 2008, it’s back to being irrelevant again.  Got it.  Thanks for the clarification.

March 3, 2008 Posted by | feminism, Hillary, hypocrisy, McCain | 3 Comments

Did man off himself due to insults on blogs?

Wow.  If I thought about taking myself out due to something negative I read about me on this (or other) blogs, I’d have been dead a long time ago.  If every person in the blogosphere I insulted wound up checking themselves out of the gene pool because of something I wrote, I’d be a cyber serial killer.  Fortunately (or, for you moonbats, unfortunately), I don’t give enough of a wet fart on a dry January Monday what people outside of my circle of friends and family think about me…and I’m guessing the reverse is true, too.

This, however, is a story with a sad ending.  From the NY Post:

No one seems to know why Paul Tilley, the 40-year-old creative chief of ad agency DDB Chicago, jumped to his death from the window of the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago on Friday.

But that hasn’t stopped a barrage of finger pointing on several advertising blogs at the center of a controversy about what role, if any, they played in Tilley’s suicide.

Most of the anger appears to be directed at two sites – Agency Spy and Adscam – that subjected Tilley to scrutiny leading up to his death. Both bloggers defended their coverage yesterday.

“I see in the comments of this post that many will point fingers at this blog for Mr. Tilley’s death. That is unacceptable,” Agency Spy wrote in a posting.

The defense was in response to readers who blamed the public scrutiny and “snarky” comments for driving Tilley over the edge or – at least – contributing to the pressure-cooker atmosphere in the ad industry.   (Death by “snark”? – Ed.)

One commentator wrote on AgencySpy: “Trust me… as someone who’s known Paul for over 20 years… he heard and felt all those comments and whispers.”

The controversy reached the upper echelons of the ad agency world, when Nina DiSesa, the chairman of McCann Erickson New York, jumped in to complain about the blogs.

“These hateful advertising blogs seem to be written by people who are bitter about the business,” DiSesa wrote on AgenCySpy.

Although AgencySpy doesn’t disclose its blogger, George Parker, a veteran ad executive, writes AdScam.

“I suggest anyone who still feels pissed off at me and Agency Spy should contact DDB Chicago,” Parker wrote on his blog yesterday. “They know why he committed suicide. And it didn’t have anything to do with what he read on a blog.”

Both blogs drew on internal memos Tilley had sent around the agency to critique his management style, with one calling him “demoralizing” and suggesting he take lessons in motivational speaking.

Tilley, who is survived by his wife and two children, fell from the Fairmont Hotel next door to DDB. Colleagues said he gave no signs of being depressed, although he took a couple of personal days on Thursday and Friday.

Rick Carpenter, the CEO of DDB Chicago, said Tilley’s job was secure and he seemed happy after a big client presentation went well on Wednesday.

I’m not just saying this because I run a blog, but this has to be said: I cannot and will not assume responsibility for someone else’s mental instability.

A friend of mine in the early 1990′s was dating a girl who wanted to get married (despite the fact that they had only been dating for a couple of months!).  He rejected the idea, then decided to stop dating her.  She got a little “Fatal Attraction” on him, driving by his work (he worked the graveyard shift, but she didn’t), calling his house (and hanging up…this was before caller ID) in the middle of the night when he wasn’t working, etc.  She finally got a hold of him and threatened to kill herself if he didn’t take her back.  He was upset at first, but then he finally realized that her being a nutbar was not his fault.  He told her that while he didn’t want her to do it, he couldn’t stop her and her death would be in vain, since he had moved on from her anyway.  She didn’t do it, just to “spite” him.

A different friend of mine left her addict husband, who drove down to the parking lot of the church where they got married, and he blew his brains out.  She suffered intense guilt and depression from that, but eventually, she recovered and remarried and is now happy with life.  He, however, is still dead.

The point is this: disturbed people cannnot hold anyone “emotionally hostage” by killing themselves in the hopes of inflicting guilt-ridden anguish on others.  Yes, it sometimes does work, but only temporarily.  Ultimately, the guilt and anguish goes away…and the disturbed is still dead.  Why give anyone that kind of emotional power over you?

These blogs that were unkind to Tilley were not responsible for his death, as he clearly had issues that went way beyond the blogosphere.

March 3, 2008 Posted by | non-political | Leave a Comment

   

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