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Three news anchors to follow Obama for overseas campaign tour: NONE follow McCain

From the Washington comPost:

The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama’s trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza.

Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play.

John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor.
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When McCain visited Britain, France and Israel in March and met with their leaders, no network anchors tagged along. NBC and ABC sent correspondents; CBS did not. None of the evening newscasts covered his trip to Canada last month. And McCain’s swing through Colombia and Mexico two weeks ago was barely covered, although NBC and ABC sent correspondents.

The upcoming Obama trip, by contrast, has already generated stories about how large his crowds will be and whether German authorities will allow him to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. “Europe Awaits Obama With Open Arms,” the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

July 17, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Obama | 8 Comments

World Court tries again to usurp American sovereignty

The World Court ruled in 2004 that the U.S. could not execute Mexican nationals who had been convicted in Texas (for gang-rape and murder of two teenage girls) and sentenced to die.

Anywho, the lame open-borders administration attempted to get Texas to abide by the overreaching World Court, and Texas told Bush to go to Hell.  The case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, whereby a 6-3 ruling in favor of common sense and national sovereignty was handed down.  SCOTUS said that the World Court had NO authority to intervene in the American legal system and that the president did NOT have the power to order Texas to abide by the World Court’s ruling.

Well, old habits die hard, because the World Court is trying to meddle again.  Details:

The World Court ordered the United States on Wednesday to do all it could to halt the imminent executions of five Mexicans until the court makes a final judgment in a dispute over suspects’ rights.

The row, which has strained relations between the neighbors, centers on the fact that the United States failed to inform 51 of its citizens sentenced to die in U.S. jails of their right to consular assistance.

One of the five Mexicans on death row, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas.

In 2004, the World Court ruled in favor of Mexico, finding the United States had violated international law, and ordered it to review the 51 cases to see whether the lack of consular assistance had prejudiced the outcome of their trials.

A year later, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered Texas to review Medellin’s case but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that Bush had no authority to do so, leading Texas to schedule Medellin’s execution for August.

“The court indicates that the United States of America shall take all measures necessary to ensure that five Mexican nationals are not executed pending its final judgment,” Judge Rosalyn Higgins said.

Mexico has asked the World Court or International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an interpretation of its 2004 ruling, given U.S. assertions that its federal states have a large degree of legal autonomy and it .cannot compel them to review the cases

Will the open-border amigos of Jorgé W. Bush in the administration pay attention to OUR court this time, or will they try to ignore OUR court to placate the UN’s court?

July 17, 2008 Posted by | big government, Mexico, United Nations | 4 Comments

Michelle Obama: Have you seen the price of earrings at Tiffany’s lately?

The title of this post comes from a snortworthy piece of snark from See-Dubya.

Not satisfied with watching her hubby hog the limelight with effete, elitist gaffes, Shelly O wants to get in on the action.  From the NYT blog, we see Shelly’s take on the stimulus checks:

“You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.

“Barack’s approach is that the short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good. And it may even feel good that first month when you get that check. And then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings.”

Naturally, the devoutly Obama NYT’s blogger dismissed it as a “botched joke”!  Those leftists sure are prone to that, aren’t they?

July 17, 2008 Posted by | media bias, Obama, shameful | 8 Comments

Reporter asks Bush to parrot Jimmah

The president had a news conference the other day to talk about oil, the economy, etc.  Moron reporter Mark Smith from the AP asks the following genius question:

Why have you not called on Americans to drive less and turn down their thermostats?

Bush’s response:

People are smart enough to figure out whether they should drive less…it’s presumptuous to do so…they can decide. Of course they should conserve…let them decide.

True enough.  But my response would have been one or more of the following:

  • Americans ARE driving less, you dolt. And in case you haven’t noticed, Einstein, it’s SUMMER! Ergo, people HAVE turned DOWN their thermostats so they won’t FRY! Who else has a genius question?
  • You aren’t, by chance, related to Jimmy Carter, are you?
  • Good point, Mark. I mean, my approval ratings are in the crapper, which makes you MSM guys giddier than Michelle Obama at a Whole Foods store during a “buy one arugula, get one free” sale. Yet you think Americans are going to listen to such a massively unpopular guy telling them the LAST thing they want to hear? Friggin’ brilliant, man.
  • Maybe you can take this opportunity to tell America, Mark, why it is that you liberals are all about bringing DOWN our standards of living instead of raising them? You want EVERYONE to be equally depressed? “Misery loves company”, I guess.
  • You were an abused child…weren’t you, Mark?

Any others?

July 17, 2008 Posted by | media bias, oil | 4 Comments

Iran and U.S. in nuclear talks

What a nice segue with the prior post!  Just as I finished castigating the left for its mindless groupthink, I read this article about how we’re talking to Iran about nukes and whatnot.  What better opportunity to show that righties (at the very least, this rightie) don’t simply parrot our leaders’ (and I use that word loosely) talking points?

I have to wonder: is Bush doing McLame any favors here?  We on the right (plus McCain) have been blasting and ridiculing Barry O for wanting to meet with Iran, which (among other things) grants them an air of legitimacy that they’re not due.  Juan McAmnesty has been running ads against the Obamessiah regarding this type of naivete.  So could someone please tell me how what the administration is doing differs from what that pathological liar from IL wants to do?

July 17, 2008 Posted by | Iran | 2 Comments

Moonbatosphere groupthink

Nice analysis by Baseball Crank:

If ever you wanted a perfect illustration of the difference between the coordinated, top-down nature of the activism of the online Left and the way normal people think and write, check out Jim Geraghty’s review of how they refer to John McCain:

The liberal blog The Carpetbagger Report uses the word “confused” in almost every post about McCain; same deal at ThinkProgress. At AmericaBlog, the words “McCain” and “confused” have appeared together 108 times. DailyKos.com, hundreds.

As Geraghty notes, this is an unsubtle effort to suggest by sheer repetition that the 71-year-old McCain is doddering and senile (based on little more than his age and the fact that, like most politicians, he is subject to occasional verbal stumbles while talking, and talking, and talking, and talking for hours on end every day), and it has also been repeatedly deployed by the Obama campaign itself, including both the nominee (the guy who thinks we have 57 states, thinks Afghans speak Arabic and once told a crowd that 10,000 people had died in a tornado in Kansas) and his surrogates (Joe Biden and John Kerry, neither of whom is exactly a stranger to confusion). There is not even the remotest chance that this is all a coincidence, coming from the sorts of folks who routinely practice Googlebombing and coordinate their message – or silence – with email groups covering multiple blogs; rather, it appears that the likes of ThinkProgress (two lies for the price of one!) and the Carpetbagger Report have put their very vocabularies in hock to the Obama campaign’s ‘message’ operation. …

As the Crank notes, we righties are certainly prone to hammer a common theme on a liberal politician.  However, my experience is that we generally avoid mindless mantras and chants (“Bush lied, people died” and other bumper sticker slogans) and instead opt to use the gourds that the Good Lord gave us.  More importantly, we don’t merely spout the party’s talking points and take them at face value: see “illegal immigration”, “campaign finance reform”, “federal prescription drug benefit”, etc.  That kind of critical thinking is completely absent from the left.

July 17, 2008 Posted by | McCain, moonbats | 1 Comment

   

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