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Obama: Fox News is killing me in KY

When he’s not whining like a female dog about his old lady’s moonbattery being examined, Barry O likes to spend his spare time blaming his electile dysfunction on that scourge of liberal existence, Fox News.  From McClatchy:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, facing a likely defeat in next Tuesday’s primary election, won’t travel to Kentucky before the voting, but said he hopes to have much more time to win over Kentucky voters before the November general election.

He also blamed Fox News for disseminating “rumors” about him and said that that and e-mails filled with misinformation that have been “systematically” dispersed have hurt him in Kentucky.
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“What it says is that I’m not very well known in that part of the country,” Obama said. “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known — not only because of her time in the White House with her husband — but also coming from a nearby state of Arkansas.”
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“Part of it is because there have been these e-mails that have been sent out very systematically, presumably by various political opponents, although I don’t know who,” he said. “And there are a lot of voters who get their news from Fox News. Fox has been pumping up rumors about my religious beliefs or my patriotism or what have you since the beginning of the campaign.” …

A ”nearby state of Arkansas”?  I don’t know how to break this to you, Magellan, but Illinois is a helluva lot closer to KY than AR is.  I now understand why he mentioned 57 states: his knowledge of American geography sucks!

What a puss!  Could he be losing in KY because they DO know about him and don’t like him much?  Why, no…it MUST be that bogeyman of Rupert Murdoch’s that is brainwashing the rubes of Kentucky! There’s no other explanation as to why ANYONE would reject the Obamessiah!

May 20, 2008 Posted by | Fox News, Obama | 6 Comments

Americans think Obama will lose Iraq war

The Rasmussen poll results show that half of Americans think we’ll win in Iraq if McCain is elected, while only one in five think we’ll win if the Obamessiah gets elected.

But I’ve got a depressing question: How many Americans actually want to win in Iraq?  They know that we won’t if Obama gets elected, but do they care?  According to the poll, men want to win while women just want to yank out the troops, consequences be damned.

May 20, 2008 Posted by | defeatism, Iraq, McCain, Obama, polls | 3 Comments

MSM yawns over L.A. government school child sexual abuse

As Newsbusters points out, the national MSM was all over the pedophile Catholic priest stories like Obama on an argula quiche from Whole Foods.  But when a core leftie ally does the same thing?  “These things happen.”

A major child sex abuse scandal has erupted in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Where’s the national media?

  • Steve Thomas Rooney faces 13 felony sex-related counts, including charges that he had unlawful sex with two female students, ages 13 and 14, during the time he was an assistant principal at a middle school. And here’s the kicker: In August 2007 LAUSD assigned Rooney to his job even though it knew that police had investigated him about an alleged sexual relationship with a student at his previous job at a high school. The former high school girl has since testified that Rooney impregnated her. (LAT coverage)
  • KNX 1070 Newsradio has reported “21 teachers and administrators have been yanked from schools in the past year because of allegations of inappropriate sexual contact with kids.” Most of the cases happened since only January of this year.
  • Two LAUSD administrators face criminal charges for failing to report suspected child abuse by a substitute teacher. Yet LAUSD has sent the pair back to work at school! (LAT)
  • During interviews, LAUSD Superintendent David Brewer has often come across utterly uninformed on the scandal. (Listen to this must-hear KNX audio.)
  • When LAUSD Deputy Superintendent Ramon Cortines was questioned over the phone about the scandal by KNX reporter Charles Feldman, Cortines became agitated and hung up on Feldman. (Hear the audio.) In discussing the scandal with KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, Cortines defiantly responded, “This is not out of the ordinary for school districts all over the nation. These things happen.“

“These things happen”?!? Hold on. LAUSD has been through this before. In 1986, an LAUSD teacher was sentenced to 44 years in prison on 30 counts that he molested 13 students at 68th Street Elementary in South Los Angeles. Even after years of complaints about the teacher, officials had failed to report the suspected molestations to Los Angeles police. In 1990, the District paid a multi-million dollar lawsuit as a result of the case. …

NB goes on to explain how just the Boston Globe alone ran almost 1,000 stories about the Catholic church scandal over the last six years. As NB also suggests, imagine the level of outrage if some higher-up in the Catholic church shrugged off the raping of kids with “these things happen”.  The MSM would get angrier than Michelle Obama at a singing of the national anthem.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

May 20, 2008 Posted by | California, media bias, public education | 3 Comments

Are spouses “fair game” in campaigns?

This piggybacks on my post yesterday about how the hypocritical Obama doesn’t think spouses’ campaign trail comments are “fair game” in a campaign.  Well, spouses named “Obama”, anyway.  My favorite leftie commenter jen (one “n”, lower-case “j”) asked sarcastically (she knows how to tug on my heart strings, no?  ;) ) if McCain’s wife’s doings were also fair.  I argued in the affirmative.

Anywho, the Examiner has a column on why nominees’ spouses are “fair game” in campaigns, and it pretty much echoes what I said yesterday, but it elaborates.  From the Examiner:

Both Barack Obama and John McCain must accept that spouses of presidential candidates are legitimate subjects of public discussion. Protecting a spouse from intrusion into his or her private life is understandable, but a candidate is wholly mistaken to suggest his wife’s statements on the campaign trail about why he should be elected aren’t fair game for criticism, or when he contends his wife’s sources of income should be of no concern to voters. Obama is guilty of the former, McCain of the latter.

…It is unfair to voters for the Obamas to demand that she be allowed to use fighting words without being subject to, yes, a fight.

…As for McCain, he and wife Cindy refuse to release her tax returns. She has a legal right to keep them private, but legality isn’t at issue here. What is at issue is John McCain’s willingness to be subject to credible transparency and accountability.

Even if a husband and wife officially segregate their incomes, family money is fungible. That is why it has become standard practice for presidential candidates to release their tax returns — so the public can decide for itself if any income sources look fishy. It should it be expected of spouses to do the same.

Mrs. McCain is estimated to be worth as much as $100 million. Just as it was absurd for John Kerry to say his wife’s views or vast fortune should be immune from examination, or for Hillary Clinton not to report her husband’s tens of millions in post-presidency “earnings,” so, too, is it nonsensical for McCain to say his wife’s money is none of the public’s business.

McCain has made a career of railing against the allegedly corrupting influence of money in politics. That fact doesn’t give him a “Get out of Jail Free” card on the issue.

Agreed.  My fellow righties get bent that the MSM wants Cindy Mac’s tax returns released, and while I can easily understand her desire for privacy (and my righties’ annoyance at the MSM agenda), I agree with the Examiner: it is a legit issue to wonder whether any source of her income could derive from a source that could ever cause a conflict of interest while she’s First Lady (if she ever gets to be).

If jen’s allegations that Cindy Mac was a drug abuser and thief are true, then we deserve to know about that, too.  But the left needs to understand: like Anne Heche, this thing goes both ways!

May 20, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, McCain, Obama | 7 Comments

Obama: Iran was a threat, before it wasn’t, before it was

Dude’s trying to out-Kerry Kerry.  Barry O last year:

Obama said global leaders must do whatever it takes to stop Iran from enriching uranium and acquiring nuclear weapons. He called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “reckless, irresponsible and inattentive” to the day-to-day needs of the Iranian people.

The Iranian “regime is a threat to all of us,” Obama said.

Osamabama a few days ago:

Barack Obama gave an interesting description of Iran and the threat it poses to the United States and our national interests at an appearance in Oregon last night. “They don’t pose a serious threat to us in the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us,” Obama told a cheering audience, explaining why he doesn’t think we need to worry about “tiny” countries like Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and Iran. Obama also displays a weird sense of history when he suggests that the Berlin Wall fell because we engaged Mikhail Gorbachev…

Part of the Obamessiah’s reasoning as to why Iran isn’t much of a threat to us is that they spend “1/100th” of what we spend on defense.  As Ace points out:

By stating that Iran isn’t a threat because they spend much less on defense than the US, Obama displays a complete ignorance of how asymmetric warfare operates. The AQ “defense budget” for pulling off 9/11, was by comparison to the US, essentially zero.

Anywho, Obambi yesterday:

“The Soviet Union had the ability to destroy the world several times over, had satellites spanning the globe, had huge masses of conventional military power, all directed at destroying us,” he said. “So, I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave. …

“Iran is a grave threat. It has an illicit nuclear program. It supports terrorism across the region and militias in Iraq. It threatens Israel’s existence. It denies the Holocaust,” he said.

Dude, pick a story and stick with it, will ya?  You’re freaking out your supporters right now.

The dumb#ss may think that Iran isn’t a grave threat to the U.S., but it’s clear that Obama is.

May 20, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, Iran, Obama | 3 Comments

BBC pushing Mugabe talking points as fact

The admittedly leftist biased BBC is running interference for Zimbabwe socialist dictator Robert Mugabe while Mugabe is in the midst of stealing another election.  The party opposing Mugabe’s 150,000% inflation and 85% unemployment policies is accusing Mugabe of trying to assassinate their leader before June’s run-off.  The Beeb’s headline?

“Zimbabwe scoffs at plot fantasy“!

The same BBC that refuses to use the word “terrorist” to describe Islamic terrorists (and on the rare occasion it does use the word, it puts the word terrorist in quotes to show a dispute of the word’s usage) has no qualms about using the word “fantasy” without the quotes to convey a sense of fact on Mugabe’s allegations.

I would use my usual tagline “Nope…no liberal media bias!”, but since the Beeb is open about its bias, I guess I don’t need the tagline.

May 20, 2008 Posted by | Beeb, headlines, media bias, Mugabe | 1 Comment

   

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