MSM pouts, threatens to ban Palin footage despite newsworthiness
Look at the MSM, threatening to hold its breath and turn blue if it doesn’t get its way! From ABC News blog:
It was like a miniature mutiny. Reporters frustrated by weeks of limited access to Republican presidential nominee John McCain shouted questions at him during a photo opportunity event near Cleveland this morning.
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Reporters were being kept away from Palin’s meetings with world leaders. (Palin is scheduled to meet Afghan President Karzai and Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, among others.) Though the McCain campaign will allow a producer and camera crew to cover the event for the news networks, originally they only permitted a camera — with no editorial presence — inside the meetings. In protest of the McCain camp’s original edict to refuse to allow editorial presence in the room, the networks had voted to ban use of photographs/video of Palin’s meetings. …
The McCain camp gives in and allows a CNN reporter (not Fox News…process that, moonbats!) to tag along. It was not even worth the MSM’s temper tantrum. From the Washington Times:
According to the CNN producer who was let into Karzai’s hotel suite with the photographers just before noon, Karzai was talking about his son. Palin was nodding, and asked what his name is. Karzai replied his name was Mirwais and explained that it means light of the house.
The media were escorted out after about 40 seconds.
Campaign aides subsequently announced that reporters would be allowed to accompany photographers into the later sessions with Uribe and Kissinger.
The MSM wasn’t going to do their friggin’ jobs and report the news unless they got their way: 40 seconds of access. You try doing that at your job and see if you don’t get fired faster than Ted Kennedy wolfs down a gin-and-tonic.
Slu notices quite a difference in this lack of access and that of a certain Messiah running on the other side:
When Barack Obama had his magical mystery tour of Europe, he met with foreign leaders. Here’s an interesting nugget about those meetings from the NYTimes:
On his second visit to Israel, he sought to reassure voters of his capacity to serve on the international stage. The audience for the trip, despite a private series of dawn-to-dusk meetings, clearly was the American electorate as much as the foreign leaders.
Interesting contrast. They simply reported the meetings were private. No demand for access, no snarky blog posts about how long they were allowed into the meeting. No votes to ban coverage. When Obama met with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the meeting was private as well. The British press even wrote a story about the privacy of the meeting with Gordon Brown.
I must have missed the part where the media pouted and stamped their feet about being cut out of that meeting.
From Newsbusters:
…A review of media coverage from Obama’s behind-closed-doors chats with European heads of state, however, shows no such complaint by the media about a lack of access.
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Yet when Sen. Barack Obama went to Europe this summer and met with past and present foreign leaders, print media were similarly on the outside looking in. Obama met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former and current British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown (respectively), and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Nope…no liberal media bias!
CNN anchor: Hey, we’re actually tougher on Obama than Palin!
Great grab by Snapped Shot.
CNN is genuinely fair and balanced, says anchor Rick Sanchez. The proof?
Negative stories aired about B. Hussein Obama: 43
Negative stories aired about Sarah “Cooties” Palin: 22See? 43 is bigger than 22.
That settles it, right? Well, not exactly:
Obama has been campaigning for 19 months, during which those 43 stories were generated. Which makes for roughly (43 stories / 82 weeks) a half of a negative story per week.
Sarah Palin, as you’ll recall, was announced three weeks ago, which means she’s up to (22 stories / 3 weeks) 7.3 negative stories per week—Which rounds to roughly one negative story PER DAY.
Nope…no liberal media bias!
Greasy Joe Biden, history buff
Greasy Joe on the stock market crash of 1929:
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, “look, here’s what happened.”
That would have been a neat trick for FDR to have gotten on TV to calm the American public…considering that (a) FDR didn’t become president until March of 1933; and (b) televisions weren’t commercially available until nearly a decade after the stock market crash. Maybe he can save face and claim that he lifted the words off of Neil Kinnock.
Exit question #1: Is Biden trying to gaffe himself off of the ticket to open the door for Her Highness to get on the ticket?
Exit question #2: Anyone else having a flashback to Animal House where Bluto recalls the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor? He’s rolling, baby! 
UMass efforts to give college credit to Obama supporters squashed
Score a point for the good guys here. From Fox 59:
University of Massachusetts officials on Monday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Chaplain Kent Higgins told students in a Sept. 18 e-mail, “If you’re scared about the prospects for this election, you’re not alone. The most important way to make a difference in the outcome is to activate yourself. It would be just fine with (Republican candidate John) McCain if Obama supporters just think about helping, then sleep in and stay home between now and Election Day.”
Higgins added that an unnamed “sponsor” in the university’s history department would offer a two-credit independent study for students willing to canvass — identify supporters — or volunteer on behalf of the Democratic nominee.
University officials disavowed the effort after inquiries Monday by The Associated Press. They said it could run afoul of state ethics laws banning on-the-job political activity, as well as university policy.
“We do not engage in or sponsor partisan political activity,” (other than normal day-to-day propaganda inside of classrooms, that is. – Ed.) said Audrey Alstadt, chairwoman of the history department. “We certainly do not give academic credit for participation in partisan politics.”
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A spokesman for the Massachusetts Republican Party (you mean, there is one? – Ed.) criticized the effort.“We’re disappointed, but frankly not surprised, that the liberal academic elite have once again decided to promote one candidate over another,” said GOP spokesman Barney Keller. “Our tax dollars pay their salaries so they can teach our children how to make up their own minds, not to advance a partisan political agenda.”
Check out this laugher:
Higgins said he never intended for the program to be limited to supporters of Obama. Regardless of the opinions expressed in his e-mail, he said he would also have been open to those students who wanted to canvass for McCain.
“The idea was there just to see if we could help with folks who want to be active with any of the campaigns in New Hampshire,” he said during an interview with the AP. “We have to be bipartisan, multilateral.”
Yeah, I can see where the average Joe would read “It would be just fine with McCain if Obama supporters just think about helping, then sleep in and stay home between now and Election Day” and think “Wow, that sounds like an apolitical, bipartisan call to arms!” Poor form for a chaplain to lie, no?
If I didn’t know any better, I would swear that it appears as if universities are staffed with a bunch of leftist elitists who use their positions of power to indoctrinate, rather than educate, students!
Poll tells us the obvious
From Gallup:
The distrust expressed in the 2004 and 2008 election seasons likely reflects the perception that the media have become increasingly partisan. In fact, Gallup finds Republicans particularly critical of the mass media and of its 2008 presidential election coverage. But interestingly, concern about media bias has been fairly constant over the years. This year, 47% perceive the news media to be too liberal and 13% perceive them to be too conservative (What?? – Ed.), with only 36% seeing media coverage as “about right.”
What I wouldn’t give to smoke whatever that 13% is smoking!
Quote of the day
“I come from Arkansas, I get why she’s hot out there,” Clinton said.
I bet you do, Bubba…I bet you do!
Sick of politics?
I found myself actually reaching that threshold over the weekend. In light of the mind-numbing idiocy displayed by an MSM who is so deeply in bed with Obama that they could answer the question “Boxers or briefs?”, I found myself wondering “Just what in the world am I doing all this for?”
I mean, in the end, the winner of the election will be the one who God wants to be the winner. He has allowed some very good presidents (Washington, Lincoln, Reagan) and some very bad presidents (Hoover, Carter, Clinton) to run this country. I defer to His wisdom in those matters. Yes, I will do my part, but in the end, I am at peace with whomever He decides to install in the Oval Office.
At any rate, I’m doing a great deal of soul-searching right now. I’m wondering if there are things other than blogging that God would rather I be spending my extra time doing.
MSM pretty darned impressed with MSM
This one probably deserves a beverage alert. Quote:
The New York Times is regarded by some observers in America as a paragon of journalistic standards which keeps its news reporting and opinion comment strictly separate.
This is a commonly used journalistic practice whereby not a single person or source was used, but the columnist injected his/her opinion into a “factual” news story. I mean, seriously: “some observers“? Just who would these “observers” be? We aren’t told. Just trust them…they’re the “deciders” with “multiple layers of fact-checking”.
Nope…no liberal media bias!
MSM caught attributing racist comments to white voter
Is Jayson Blair now working for the St. Pete Times? From Digital Journal:
A quote attributed to Sandra Cichon, a private citizen, is spreading across the internet as a living example of White Racism. Did a reporter put words in this woman’s mouth?
An article in the St. Petersberg Times, quotes Cichon as having said, “I can’t imagine having a black president . . .”
In a phone interview Saturday, Sandra Cichon of Spring Hill, Florida denied that she ever spoke with any pollster or reporter concerning Obama or about anything regarding race. Cichon was taken by surprise when phoned by this reporter, and she was not aware that she had been quoted in any newspaper.
The article does mention that Cichon was interviewed by a reporter at the polls in August during local county commission races. If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear the St. Pete Times just pulled a name out of their nether regions for their “article” and didn’t expect to get called on it.
The editor’s response? Predictable.
In a phone call to Times Political Editor, Adam Smith, who authored the article in question, Smith said that he had the utmost confidence in the reporter, John Frank. Smith said that Frank was the reporter who actually spoke with Cichon. Smith said it is understandable that Cichon wouldn’t want to admit over the phone to making that statement, but “polls all over are showing that people are not hesitant in stating that they won’t vote for a black person.”
Oh, I see: Cichon is too embarrassed to admit her bigotry over the telephone, but she had no reservations about popping off a racist remark to a reporter in person, face to face? Yeah, OK. Sure. Whatevs.
Nope…no liberal media bias!
Analysis: Celebrity lesbians and Palin Derangement Syndrome
Excellent column by Andrew Breitbart! The setup is a description of Palin Derangement Syndrome:
Palin Derangement Syndrome, a more irrational variant of the Bush contagion, doesn’t require sufferers to know anything about the subject of their hatred. Anonymous, unsourced rumors fuel the fire (book banning, speaking in tongues, creationism, etc.). Lovely family photos hacked from a personal e-mail account displayed on commercial Web sites push more buttons. Asterisks from Mrs. Palin’s biographical sketch – “moose hunter,” “small-town mayor,” “wife of champion snow machine racer” – cause excessive sweating and irregular heartbeats. She even fired a guy who Tased a 10-year-old. (Oh wait, she didn’t.)
What will happen when they find out she shops at Wal-Mart?
And now, mix in some unhinged Hollyweird muffmunchers:
Sandra Bernhard celebrated the 20th anniversary of her career-ending one-woman show, “Without You I’m Nothing,” warning that if Mrs. Palin were to go to Manhattan she’d be “gang-raped by [her] big black brothers.” The lipstick-on-a-pig lesbian also called Mrs. Palin a “bitch” and an “Uncle Woman.”
Joyless niche comedian Margaret Cho blogged, “She is evil,” fantasized about having hateful sex with Mrs. Palin and attacked a multitude of her supporters: “If you were truly Christians, you would let gays get married, and send them #$%ng presents from Bed Bath and Beyond!”
Everything-aholic Lindsay Lohan (“Mean Girls”) joined the Sapphic pile-on by issuing a joint diatribe with her putative partner, disc jockey Samantha Ronson: “Is our country so divided that the Republicans’ best hope is a narrow-minded, media-obsessed homophobe?”
Not since Rosie O’Donnell & Co. manhandled Elizabeth Hasselbeck weekdays on “The View” have liberals been so gleeful to watch a bitter lesbian tear down a confident and beautiful conservative Republican woman. Unresolved high school lust and angst at well-adjusted cheerleaders and popular prom queens should be left for medical professionals, not for midmorning television gabfests.
Heh. Anywho, the gay marriage thingy:
Yet none of these gilded-ghetto living haters point out that their savior, Mr. Obama, stands against gay marriage, too. Is that change Melissa Etheridge can believe in?
Like President Clinton, who supported regressive anti-gay-rights legislation such as “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the Defense of Marriage Act, Mr. Obama gets a massive pass from the activist gay left and their stenographers in the mainstream media.
The never-reported political reality is that both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama understand that key components of the Democratic Party – the black and Hispanic blocs – hold views that Brad Pitt would deem “homophobic.”
For these minority groups, and for many other religious Democrats, gay marriage is a nonstarter.
Yet liberal celebrities and activist journalists never hurl epithets at these coddled groups no matter how retrograde their ideas. President Bush correctly pegged this phenomenon as “the soft bigotry of lowered expectations.” Political correctness, the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media, ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.
Hypocrisy? Get outta here!
Clumsy on her lesbian training wheels (awesome line!
It’s also why few will know that the Alaska governor vetoed legislation that would have prevented gays from getting marriagelike benefits. It’s also why the media made Republicans Mark Foley and Larry Craig the butts (no pun intended? – Ed.) of jokes that would be considered homophobic if hurled at liberal Democrats.
If not for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.
CA government school punishes student for wearing American colors
Your tax dollars at work, Californiastan:
Students at Dos Palos High School protested Thursday — by wearing patriotic regalia to school — after a sophomore student was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting the American flag.
Officials at the Merced County school confirmed Thursday that Jake Shelly was forced to take off a red, white and blue tie-dyed American flag T-shirt on Tuesday. The shirt said nothing offensive, just: “United States of America, Washington, D.C.”
The school’s assistant principal issued Shelly a bright yellow T-shirt that read “DCV: Dress Code Violator” to wear for the rest of the day. He was given his shirt back after classes ended.
“It was really embarrassing and humiliating to have to wear that all day — and just for supporting your country,” his sister Kaycee Shelly said.
Kaycee Shelly told members of the media at lunchtime that her brother was overwhelmed and did not want to do any more interviews.
Earlier in the day, he was speaking with a local news station when an unidentified teacher walked up to him, ripped off the microphone clipped to his shirt and told him he was not allowed to talk to the media.
District officials said they apologized to the student, his family and the local American Legion on Wednesday — Constitution Day.
“In reviewing the dress code at the time, an administrator felt the shirt was in violation of that section of the dress code,” said Superintendent Brian Walker. “She asked him to remove it and he did.”
The assistant principal initially thought Shelly’s T-shirt violated a clause of the school dress code that does not allow “shirts/blouses that promote specific races, cultures, or ethnicities.”
School officials said they will now interpret that clause of the dress code — which was written at the beginning of this school year — differently. …
I’m guessing that the overzealous politically correct nimrod who punished the student will suffer no disciplinary actions whatsoever. Memo to moonbat administrators: America is not an ethnicity or a race!
Obama lies about Social Security plan
Obama lies…go figure. That’s about as newsworthy as “water is wet”, I know. Anywho, from Fact Check:
In Daytona Beach, Obama said that “if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would’ve had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week.” He referred to “elderly women” at risk of poverty, and said families would be scrambling to support “grandmothers and grandfathers.”
That’s not true. The plan proposed by President Bush and supported by McCain in 2005 would not have allowed anyone born before 1950 to invest any part of their Social Security taxes in private accounts. All current retirees would be covered by the same benefits they are now.
Obama would have been correct to say that many workers under age 58 would have had some portion of their Social Security benefits affected by the current market turmoil – if they had chosen to participate. And market drops would be a worry for those who retire in future decades. But current retirees would not have been affected.
Plus, as Fact Check notes, under Bush’s (not McCain’s) SS plan, only about 4% of a retiree’s SS contributions would have been invested in private accounts if the taxpayer so chose! Participation in the privatization plan would have been voluntary. The remaining 96% would have stayed in the low-risk and low-return current system.
The Obamaliar: Hope and change and yada-yada-yada…
Euros abandoning Kyoto?
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. From Eurabia:
Although the European Commission has said it wants to cut greenhouse gases by 20 percent by 2020, business leaders oppose the use of fines to oblige industry to reduce its emissions — especially in the current economic crisis.The cost to industry is estimated at some 44 billion euros per year between 2013 and 2020, with a tonne (1.1 US tons) of C02 costing 30 euros.
Business leaders have denounced the policy as a “tax” (probably because that’s exactly what it is! – Ed.), threatening to take their investments elsewhere and move their more polluting activities out of Europe.
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A number of European politicians are now speaking openly about diluting, or even abandoning the project.“This plan is garbage. It’s politically correct, but it won’t happen,” former Italian prime minister Giuliano Amato said at the end of August.
Renato Brunetta, Italy’s minister for innovation, has been equally blunt.
“If it happens, it would kill the economic upturn. No one needs to kill themselves,” said Brunetta, a trained economist.
I seem to recall a bunch of folks who, about a dozen years ago or so, foresaw the economic ruin that would result in subscribing to this destructive Kyoto Treaty. If I’m not mistaken, these folks were known affectionately in many circles as “economists”!
The Kyoto Treaty was nothing more than a mechanism to wreck the economy of the West, all under the guise of “climate protection”! Why else would India and China have been exempted from the treaty? The Euros are beginning to reap what they have sown, and many of them (at least in the business community) are beginning to realize their folly.
Busted: bloggers catch Obama’s PR firm in smear ads
Just as bloggers did the job of the MSM in 2004 with the forged memos fiasco that cost Dan Rather his career and legacy, bloggers are once again involved in uncovering a scandal, this one going all the way towards the top of the Obama campaign.
Ace has been covering the story, as has Michelle Malkin. These filthy liars have been caught red-handed, and I’m positive the MSM will jump all over this story with the same vigor that Barney Frank flips open a Penthouse magazine. That is to say, none at all.
In a nutshell:
While not conclusive, evidence suggests a link to the Barack Obama campaign. Namely:
* Evidence suggests that a YouTube video with false claims about Palin was uploaded and promoted by members of a professional PR firm.
* The family that runs the PR firm has extensive ties to the Democratic Party, the netroots, and are staunch Obama supporters.
* Evidence suggests that the firm engaged in a concerted effort to distribute the video in such a way that it would appear to have gone viral on its own. Yet this effort took place on company time.
* Evidence suggests that these distribution efforts included actions by at least one employee of the firm who is unconnected with the family running the company.
* The voice-over artist used in this supposedly amateur video is a professional.
* This same voice-over artist has worked extensively with David Axelrod’s firm, which has a history of engaging in phony grassroots efforts, otherwise known as “astroturfing.”
* David Axelrod is Barack Obama’s chief media strategist.
* The same voice-over artist has worked directly for the Barack Obama campaign.
This suggests that false rumors and outright lies about Sarah Palin and John McCain being spread on the internet are being orchestrated by political partisans and are not an organic grassroots phenomenon led by the left wing fringe.
It’s not a new tactic for candidates to get their lackeys to do work so dirty that the candidates can’t soil their hands with it. “Hey, I can’t be responsible for some overzealous supporters, and I rise above this by rejecting their efforts!” Both parties have been doing it for quite some time. But to the degree that the Obama campaign has done this, currying favor with the moonbatosphere to virally peddle their lies and smears, is something that I personally have not witnessed before now.
Only time will tell if this turns into anything. Knowing the complicity of the MSM, I’m not holding my breath.
Obama’s hypocrisy on lobbyists
Just in case you need more proof…
Quote of the day, “Hollywood pedophile” edition
From Woody Allen:
US filmmaker Woody Allen, best known for such comedy classics as “Annie Hall,” says it will be no laughing matter if Barack Obama fails to win the race for the White House.
“It would be a disgrace and a humiliation if Barack Obama does not win,” he told Spanish journalists at the ongoing 56th San Sebastian film festival, where his latest film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” is being screened.
Yeah, because losing an election is much more “disgraceful” and “humiliating” than, say, molesting your seven-year-old adopted daughter and taking naked photos (and then subsequently screwing and marrying) of your wife’s adopted daughter. Pervert.
Obama the “Christian”
Obama is such a devout Christian that he…um…mocks the Bible.
His words, folks, not Jeremiah Wright’s words.
comPost’s Kurtz disputes McCain’s ad based on “bad information”…which, um, was published in comPost!
Ya gotta hand it to Howie Kurtz of the Washington comPost. He’s so knee-deep in the tank fot The One that he’s disputing the ad McCain put out about Obambi’s close ties to failed Fannie Mae exec Frank Raines. Says Howie:
The Ad: Obama has no background in economics. Who advises him? The Post says it’s Franklin Raines, for “advice on mortgage and housing policy.” Shocking. Under Raines, Fannie Mae committed “extensive financial fraud.” Raines made millions. Fannie Mae collapsed. Taxpayers? Stuck with the bill. Barack Obama. Bad advice. Bad instincts. Not ready to lead.
Analysis: This John McCain ad is based on a disputed premise.
There’s no dispute that Obama has no background in economics — but then, neither does McCain, which makes this an odd charge for the Arizona senator to hurl.
Fannie Mae did collapse, requiring a government takeover, and Raines, its former chairman, paid $25 million in April to settle a case brought by federal authorities investigating his role in the agency’s accounting problems. But he has never been a close adviser to Obama.
Yeah, really…where on Earth would McCain get such a crazy idea? Oh, I dunno…maybe from Howie’s own friggin’ employer?
In the four years since he stepped down as Fannie Mae’s chief executive under the shadow of a $6.3 billion accounting scandal, Franklin D. Raines has been quietly constructing a new life for himself. He has shaved eight points off his golf handicap, taken a corner office in Steve Case’s D.C. conglomeration of finance, entertainment and health-care companies and more recently, taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters. (From July 15, 2008 – Ed.)
In the current crisis, their biggest backers have been Democrats such as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (Mass.). Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae. (From August 27, 2008 – Ed.)
Maybe Kurtz is telling us that the content contained within the pages of his newspaper isn’t worth the paper on which it is printed. That might be one of the first times I can ever recall an MSM’er telling us that his own media source employer’s not credible.
Nope…no liberal media bias!
Obama lies about Fannie/Freddie connections
McCain launches a new ad that accurately connects former Fannie Mae exec Frank Raines to the Obama campaign. Obama retorts that McCain’s making stuff up and smearing him, asserting that Raines has never advised him in any capacity at any time.
There’s just one problem with that: Obama is, as usual, lying through his arugula-eating teeth. Observe the following two excerpts from the Washington comPost:
In the four years since he stepped down as Fannie Mae’s chief executive under the shadow of a $6.3 billion accounting scandal, Franklin D. Raines has been quietly constructing a new life for himself. He has shaved eight points off his golf handicap, taken a corner office in Steve Case’s D.C. conglomeration of finance, entertainment and health-care companies and more recently, taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters. (From July 15, 2008 – Ed.)
In the current crisis, their biggest backers have been Democrats such as Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (Mass.). Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae. (From August 27, 2008 – Ed.)
Funny how the Obamessiah has never challenged the veracity of these stories in the comPost, but now that McCain is running commercials that simply restate the comPost stories, suddenly McCain’s lying.
Either the comPost is wrong and McCain is simply repeating bad information, or the Obamaliar is playing fast and loose with the truth yet again. Call me crazy, but I’m leaning towards the latter. Either way, though, McCain can’t be lying.
Financial crisis proves that Democrats are idiots
In addition to Reid’s comments that they don’t know what to do, this nugget illustrates their absurdity:
The Democratic-controlled Congress, acknowledging that it isn’t equipped to lead the way to a solution for the financial crisis and can’t agree on a path to follow, is likely to just get out of the way.
Lawmakers say they are unlikely to take action before, or to delay, their planned adjournments — Sept. 26 for the House of Representatives, a week later for the Senate. While they haven’t ruled out returning after the Nov. 4 elections, they would rather wait until next year unless Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who are leading efforts to contain the crisis, call for help.
One reason, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday, is that “no one knows what to do” at the moment. …
Another crisis, another Democrat vacation.
So the Bush administration’s policies are supposedly responsible for the financial sector mess we see right now, correct? OK, then the Democrat response is to…ask for help from the administration? In other words, criticize the administration for its actions, then demand that the “inept” administration do what you admittedly have no idea what to do. Hypocritical, no?
By the way, when McCain says that Obama puts himself first and his country second, he’s 100% correct. What a sad sack of anti-American crap!
Night and Day, “Obama’s commissions” edition
The One in April:
Among the presidential campaigners, Sen. Barack Obama, speaking at New York’s Cooper Union late last month, blamed corporate lobbyists for carrying deregulation too far and he pledged regulatory reform, but nothing more specific than the creation of a financial oversight commission.
The One yesterday:
Today, Senator Obama said: “Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book: you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem. But here’s the thing: this isn’t 9-11. We know how we got into this mess. What we need now is leadership that gets us out.”
That Wall Street Commission was such a good idea that even John McCain decided to embrace the idea…at which point, the idea stopped being a good one. But hey, this Obama guy is gonna be the “uniter” and “reach across the aisle” for “bipartisan” efforts to find real solutions, right?
As Beckwith notes:
Perhaps the person who ghost writes his teleprompter can first do a Google search on the senator’s behalf to see whether he had opined on prior occasions on the matter of commissions. It took me about 40 minutes to track all these down.
For a campaign that seems to get awfully giddy at McCain’s lack of Internet experience, they sure do have a way of getting their tails kicked by Google searches, huh?
More on Obama’s Fannie Mae corruption
Story and video clip at Gateway Pundit:
In 2005– Senator John McCain partnered with three other Senate Republicans to reform the government’s involvement in lending, after an attempt by the Bush administration died in Congress two years earlier.
Democrats blocked the reform.In 2005– Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus met with Fannie Mae for a “family” event. In 2005 Democrats also blocked reform of Fannie Mae:
[video clip here]
This was before Fannie Mae started filling the pockets of Barack Obama with political donations.
The junior Illinois senator collected more money from Fannie Mae than any other Washington politician except Senator Dodd in the last decade.
Obama was able to accomplish this feat in just 3 years.This video shows Fannie Mae CEO talking to members of the Congressional Black Caucus:
The Democrats have been taking PAYOFFS from Fannie and Freddie and have looked the other way FOR DECADES!
They’ve blocked reform.Now there’s NEW VIDEO of the CEO of Fannie Mae in 2005 explaining the “FAMILY” connection with Democrats and specifically Barack Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus. It looks like Michelle Obama was at the event, too.
This was before Barack Obama started collecting tens of thousands from the failed lender.
Team Mac needs to run with this full speed and pronto!
AP: Palin’s hacked e-mail accounts raise questions…about Palin?
Oh. My. (insert politically correct deity here). I may have just seen the epitome of Obamania in the MSM! From Robert S. McCain (no relation):
How much farther into the tank for Obama can the Associated Press possibly get?
The disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts . . .
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? These hackers commit a federal felony and the AP says it “raises questions” about Palin?
Nope…no liberal media bias!
By the way, notice how the left gets madder than Barney Frank at a Walgreens store that ran out of KY jelly when they think Bu$hitler McRummyburton may be eavesdropping on Al Qaeda’s phone calls…but this stunt doesn’t bother them in the slightest bit?
Reid admits the obvious: I’m an economic illiterate
When Harry Reid isn’t suffering from fits of hypochondria about coal and oil “making us sick”, he spends his time screwing up the U.S. Senate and admitting his economic illiteracy to the world. From ABC News blog:
ABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf reports from Capitol Hill: Don’t look for any legislation in the near future to address the financial crisis.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, asked today what new regulatory actions Congress can take, said, bluntly, “No one knows what to do. We are in new territory here. This is a different game. We’re not here playing soccer, basketball or football, this is a new game and we’re going to have to figure out how to do it.”
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And he seemed to forget how he voted on a now-controversial bill that largely de-regulated the financial services industry in 1999. It was written by Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, who has since retired and is a McCain economic adviser. And Democrats, including Reid, opposed the bill when it first passed the Senate with 54 votes.
But they voted for an updated version of the bill in December of 1999 and President Clinton signed it. Reid and all but 7 Democrats in office at the time voted for the version of the bill that ultimately became law even though he said he opposed the bill when he spoke on the Senate floor today. Regardless, Reid said the de-regulation is less important than the current administration not enforcing remaining law.
He opposed the bill that, um, he voted for? Man, that’s a neat trick!
Reid says “no one knows what to do”, yet McCain is the economic ignoramus?
Shameless Franken attack ad totally whiffs
A swing…and a miss. Allah has the details and the video clips, but in a nutshell, this new attack ad in MN has a couple who lost their son in Iraq wanting to know why Norm Coleman sent their son off to die?
Does it even matter to these sickos (who, by the way, supposedly don’t like to use the dead as political props) that the authorization for war in Iraq was passed in 2002…before Norm Coleman entered the friggin’ Senate? Does it even matter to these shameless liberals that Chuck the Schmuck Schumer, who helped fund and assemble this ad, did vote for the authorization for war?
Coleman has quite the retort himself, though. Keep up the pressure, Norm.
“Objectivist” moonbat: Trig Palin should have been aborted
Notice how so-called “pro-choicers” claim to be for a woman’s right to choose whether or not she has an abortion, yet when the woman chooses not to abort, she gets criticized by these sick freaks? Add this schmuck to the mix (from Newsbusters):
In stunningly self-centered, cruel fashion, Nicholas Provenzo, writer for the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism suggests that Sarah Palin’s decision to give birth to a child with Down Syndrome, is a financial burden that others are forced to suffer with.
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The full first paragraph of the piece which is circulating amidst the blogosphere reads (emphasis mine):
Like many, I am troubled by the implications of Alaska governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s decision to knowingly give birth to a child disabled with Down syndrome. Given that Palin’s decision is being celebrated in some quarters, it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome (or by extension, any unborn fetus)—a freedom that anti-abortion advocates seek to deny.
I’ll wait for you to pick your jaw up off the floor.
Aborting a child with a disability is not only, according to Dr. Mengele here, a “moral” choice, but a “moral” imperative! For you parents out there with special needs kids, you apparently missed the boat on this one. As Rusty Weiss puts it:
Morally justifiable reasons for killing a baby? There is no justifiable reason for taking any child’s life, and to call it a moral obligation to society is undeniably one of the more disgusting things to be written by a human being, about another human being.
In fact, advocating the abortion of a child based on the potential of that child having a disease or imperfection of some kind raises echoes of Nazi Germany’s quest for an Aryan race.
Wow. The existence of such a despicable, vile cretin makes me question my opposition to abortion in at least one case!
Google backtracks on anti-abortion ads
Want to have scrape out that parasite in your womb known in some crazy circles as a “child”? Want to advertise a service to that end? We here at Google are more than happy to accommodate you!
Want to rebut the abortion lobby? Drop dead…no pun intended.
That’s been the attitude by the “do no evil” company…until yesterday. From the Times Online:
Christian and other religious groups opposed to abortion were allowed to advertise on Google for the first time from today, after the search engine capitulated in the face of a legal challenge.
Google had banned pro-life religious groups from buying adverts against search terms such as “abortion” and “abortion help” but was forced to abandon its policy after it was accused of breaching equalities legislation.
The challenge was brought by the Christian Institute, a cross-denominational pressure group, who said that Google’s change of heart was an acknowledgement of the rights of everybody to hold an opinion on the subject.
Mike Judge from the Christian Institute said: “Google were taking adverts from pro-abortion groups, and our view is that was a free speech issue. What we want to do is set out the acts in a pretty factual and pretty sensible way”.
Google had been taken to court by the Christian Institute earlier in the year, arguing that its policy was in breach of the Equalities Act of 2006. Initially, Google said it would fight in the courts, but changed its mind over the summer. Its new policy applies globally. …
We’ll see just how serious Google is about this. Until then, feel free to use Goodsearch, where every time you search for something, your selected charity gets money.
Pelosi: We don’t need to drill for fossil fuels; instead, we need natural gas
Michelle Malkin exposes Pe-loco’s need to enroll in an elementary school-level earth science class:
Nancy Pelosi’s mouth emits a lot of natural gas, but she has no idea about how the other kind is produced.
Conn Carroll at Heritage teaches her a lesson:
The day before the Democratic National Convention Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) went on Meet the Press and told Tom Brokaw:
I’m, I’m, I’m investing in something I believe in. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels. … These investments in wind, in solar and biofuels and focus on natural gas, these are the real alternatives.
As we pointed out at the time, natural gas is not an alternative to fossil fuels … it is a fossil fuel. And as the “Energy Kids Page” of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) explains, it is a fossil fuel that needs to be drilled for.
One would hope that Pelosi had studied up on the issue since then, but her comments after the House passed a bill codifying the ban on most of the Outer Continental Shelf shows she still does not. Pelosi told The Washington Post: “We’re not trying to give incentives to drill, we’re giving incentives to invest in renewables and natural gas that will take us where we need to go.”
Again, where does Pelosi think natural gas comes from? If the government is “giving incentives” to natural gas, it is giving incentives to drill. That is how we get natural gas.
And to think that Madam Botox is second in line to the presidency!
McCain part of the blame for Fannie/Freddie/AIG collapses?
That’s what The One of Supremely Thin Skin and his disciples on the left and in the MSM (pardon the redundancy) charge. There’s just one small problem: it’s not true.
In short, Mac was putting on the full-court press in February of 2006 for passage of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005. He foresaw the impending credit crisis and warned that not passing the bill could have consequences that bear a remarkable resemblance to the ones we’re seeing today! In a nutshell: he accurately predicted what would happen.
Did Democrats listen to him? Nope. Chris Dodd, the ranking committee member and beneficiary of Countrywide’s “ultra-generous” loans, killed the bill in committee. Two executives who benefited from falsification of financial records became advisers to Obama, and Obama took hundreds of thousands of bucks from lobbyists specifically mentioned by McCain. So tell me again: exactly who has the proper judgment here?
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