Showing posts with label MSM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MSM. Show all posts

Friday, January 01, 2010

The 2009 Fabulous 50 Blog Awards

We're kicking off the year with our first annual Fabulous Fifty Blog Awards, which recognizes the best of the new mainstream media. Without further ado, may I have the envelopes, please?

• The 'Book 'em, Danno' Award for Best Investigative Journalist goes to: Michelle Malkin.

• The 'Buh-Bye Gray Lady' Award for Best New Journalism Website goes to: Big Government.

• The 'Town Crier' Award for Superior News Gathering goes to Drudge Report.

• The 'Look Out Above!' Award for Best Up-and-Coming Mainstream Journalist goes to Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit.

• The Novak Award for Best Political Blogging goes to: The Corner.

• The 'Warp Speed' Award for Best Instant Analysis goes to Ed Morrissey of Hot Air.

• The 'Best Twitterer even before there was a Twitter' Award goes to: InstaPundit.

• The 'Thought-Leader' Award for Best Op-Ed Blog goes to: American Thinker.

• The 'Edward R. Murrow' Award for Best Mediawatching goes to: NewsBusters.

• The 'Murrow R. Edward' Award for Best Faux Mediawatching goes to: Media Matters.

• The 'Shining City on the Hill' Award for Best Speechwriter goes to: Doctor Zero.

• The 'Shake your Moneymaker' Award for Entrepreneurship goes to: John Hawkins.

• The 'WTF, ROTFLMAO' Award for Snark-laced Political Humor goes to: Ace of Spades.

• The 'Damn the Firewalls, Full Speed Ahead' Award for Best Information Warfare Campaign goes to The Jawa Report.

• The 'Glutes of Steel' Award for Mocking Andrew Sullivan goes to: IowaHawk.

• The 'YouTube This!' Award for Best Video Blogging goes to: Pajamas TV.

• The 'Media B***hslap' Award goes to Patterico's Pontifications.

• The 'We Really All Can Get Along' Award for Best Group Blogging goes to Power Line.

• The 'Can't Help But Laugh' Award for 'Progressive' Humor goes to Sadly, No!.

• The 'Linus Torvalds' Award for Best Custom Blogging Software goes to Charles Johnson of LGF.

• The 'Jim Rice' Award given to Most Promising New Investigative Journalist goes to Verum Serum.

• The 'Woman on a Mission' Award goes to Pamela Geller.

• The 'It's Awfully Hot Here In This Sauna' Award for Debunking the Religion of Warming goes to Watts Up With That.

• The 'If the Glove Don't Fit' Award for Best Legal Commentary goes to The Volokh Conspiracy.

• The 'Ernie Pyle' Award for Best War Correspondent goes to Michael Yon.

• The 'Jack-of-all-Insults' Award for Most Versatile Snarker goes to Jammie Wearing Fool.

• The 'TEABAGGERS vs. FISTERS: The Debate Is Over' Award for Funniest Headlines goes to People's Cube.

• The 'Gettin' Your Photoshop Freak On' Award for Illustration goes to: iOwnTheWorld.

• The 'We Don't Even Pretend to Play Nice' Award for openly plotting to overthrow the U.S. government goes to Hizb ut-Tahrir America.

• The 'Nine-Hour Nostradamus' Award for consistently being ahead of the story goes to: The Astute Bloggers.

• The 'Longshoreman' Award for Funniest Use of Cursewords goes to: DoublePlusUndead.

• The 'Imelda Obama' Award goes to Michelle's Mirror.

• The 'Bolton' Award for Best Middle East Analysis goes to Barry Rubin.

• The 'Speaking Truth to Power' Award for Best Middle East Reporting goes to MEMRI Blog.

• The 'Down, Boy!' Award for censoring its readers' vicious comments goes to The Huffington Post.

• The 'Pink Underwear' Award for Best Coverage of a Perverted Newsman goes to Olbermann Watch.

• The 'Salvador Dali' Award for Most Creative Blogging goes to SondraK.

• The 'Blog-Ring' Award for Best Group of Affiliated Blogs goes to The Watcher's Council:

  • Watcher of Weasels
  • The Glittering Eye
  • Rhymes With Right
  • J O S H U A P U N D I T
  • Soccer Dad
  • The COLOSSUS OF RHODEY
  • Bookworm Room
  • Wolf Howling
  • The Razor
  • The Provocateur
  • Mere Rhetoric
  • Right Truth
  • AMERICAN DIGEST

Congratulations to our winners and, as always, thank you for all you do -- and best wishes to you and all seven of our readers for a happy and healthy 2010!

Thursday, December 31, 2009

You may have noticed all hell breaking loose around us

The end-times must be near.

Yes, that's Sarah Palin's Going Rogue nearing the pinnacle of the San Francisco Chronicle's local bestseller list.


Hat tip: John Galt.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Say a Prayer for Rush

Bob McCarty points us to this report from Hawaii's KITV:

Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV.

Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort... Limbaugh suffered from chest pains, sources said. Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen's Medical Center in serious condition.

Say a prayer tonight for the King of Talk Radio.


Calling Dr. Freud, or The AP

Dan from New York:

AP: Web posts suggest lonely, depressed terror suspect


Read the whole story. It's enough to make you cry. Too bad the unfortunate young man didn't contact me before he set himself alight and tried to become a martyr. I would have found him a nice girl, and if that didn't work, a nice shrink.


Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Thomas Friedman Has a Plan for Managing the Climate, the Economy and More!

Note: you will want to read this post and scroll down for the illustrations. Trust me on this one.

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the wit and wisdom of The New York Times' Thomas Friedman?

Thomas Friedman (35 points)

"Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.”

-— New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in a September 9 column, "Our One Party Democracy."

Tommy's the best the Times can muster -- and his recommendation is as follows:

Let's ignore thousands of years of brutal experience and the counsel of Polybius, Plato, Aristotle, Montesquieu, Locke, Jefferson, Adams and Madison, and follow instead the model of China's dictators.

Consider the latest news from inside the People's Republic of China:

On December 17, Wuhan City organized over 800 law enforcement officers to forcefully demolish nearly 40,000 square meters of illegal buildings that are near the Wuhan City to Huangshi City railway construction site. The phenomenon of local famers rushing to “grow houses” is very common.

Protesting the forceful demolition, a farmer woman was blocked out by hundreds Chengguan (city management) from her illegally built building.

...Experts pointed out that farmers “grow houses” are directly motivated by profits, however a deeper reason was because they fear for their lives after losing their land to the government project. In order to stop the root of the “growing houses” problem, the government should make efforts to find employment opportunities for the farmers and include them into the new city lives.


Well maybe that's just a fluke, because Thomas Friedman is oh-so-very knowledgeable about China's despots!

The case of Nail household is a common occurrence in China, however this incident is by far the most escalated conflict between residents and the government demolition team. Ms. Fan attempted to defend her house from the demolition squad by throwing home-made fire bombs…

Today, Ms. Fan’s house in Minghang district was to be forcefully demolished, Ms. Fan standing on the 3rd floor threw home-made fire bombs (at the demolition squad)... Upon seeing this news, I am pleased that after two decades of development, society has progressed. Sub-machine guns are replaced by high-pressured water gun. Then why would it lead to such brutal resistance? Because of the large-scaled building project of Hongqiao, Ms. Fan had an area 480 square meter home, but the government is only willing to offer the compensation of 670,000 yuan, which is 761 yuan per square meter of housing subsidies and 1,480 yuan for the compensation of the land.

When the city’s average commercial housing is measured by tens of thousands (per square meter), forced eviction’s price is still calculated with the hundreds, this is the reason why residents threw fire-bombs. That is, they were living in a 480 square meter home, you acquired their land for so called construction, that’s also business, your compensation for the family only is enough to buy a 40 square meters home, and then the demolitions team came. I think anyone who had weapons probably could not help themselves but to take them out in this situation.

But that kind of brutal repression must be an outlier sort of situation... because Thomas Friedman thinks tyrants are cool!

“Ten thousand girls go to Lingnan (South of the Five Ridges – the area covering Guangdong and Guangxi), millions of whoremasters go down to Dongguan”, this is an up and coming popular phrase and also depicts an image of how prosperous Dongguan is...

Prosperity is people’s first impression of Dongguan – in the past 30 years, Dongguan’s economy was developing at an unbelievably fast pace... As famous as its prosperity is the city’s sex industry...

Dongguan’s Tourism Bureau released data from the first half of this year showed that the city had a total of 96 hotels of various stars. In the past year, the financial crisis ruined Dongguan’s export-oriented economy. However in Houjie, this famous town in Dongguan, even in the middle of the night, there are young girls who are dressed sexily on the street. They wear short skirts, black stockings, high heels, carry a small handbag and hold a cigarette in their hands. Their faces are covered with heavy make-up, and they do not seem to mind the chilly night.

As for Friedman's desire for a command-and-control approach to the climate "problem"? Yes, sir, that's a compelling proposition.

Hebei Province Shexian Tianjin Iron and steel plant (河北省涉县天津钢铁厂) is a heavily polluting company. Company scale is still growing, seriously affecting the lives of local residents. Thomas Friedman Approved!

Guiyu, Guangdong province, (广东省贵屿镇) rivers and reservoirs have been contaminated, the villager is washing in a seriously polluted pond. Thomas Friedman Approved!

In the Yellow Sea coastline, countless sewage pipes buried in the beach and even extending into the deep sea. Thomas Friedman Approved!

In Inner Mongolia there were 2 “black dragons” from the Lasengmiao Power Plant (内蒙古拉僧庙发电厂) covering the nearby villages. Thomas Friedman Approved!

Large amount of the industrial wastewater flowed to Yellow River from Inner Mongolia Lasengmiao Industrial District (内蒙古拉僧庙工业园区) every day. TFA!

Longmen town in Hanchen city, Shaanxi Province (陕西省韩城市龙门镇) has large-scaled industrial development. Environment is very seriously polluted there. TFA!

There are over 100 chemical plants in Jiangsu province coastal industry district. (江苏滨海头罾沿海化工园区) Some of them discharge wastewater into the ocean; some heavily contaminated sewage is stored in 5 “Sewage Temporary Pools”. During the 2 high tides in every month, the sewage then gets discharged into the ocean with the tides. TFA!

Anhui Province Cihu Chemical Industry District (安徽省慈湖化工园区) built a underground pipe to discharge wastewater into the Yangtze River. The wastewater sometimes is black, gray, dark red, or yellow, wastewater from different chemical factories has different colors. TFA!

Shanxi Province is the most polluted areas of China. It is also the province with the highest rate of birth defects. This loving farmer couple adopted 17 disabled children. TFA!

15-year-old boy from Tianshui, Gansu Province (甘肃天水), dropped out of the school after 2nd grade, followed his parents to Heilonggui (黑龙贵) Industrial District. He earns 16 yuan a day. TFA!

Inner Mongolia province Heilonggui (黑龙贵) Industrial District, the couple who worked at the Plaster Kiln and just got home. TFA!

Villagers from Kang village in Linfen City, Shanxi Province (山西省临汾市下康村) due to long-term consumption of the polluted water contaminated by industrial waste, there were 50 people who have cancer and cerebral thrombosis. 64-year-old Wang Baosheng got ill since 2003, he has fester all over his body so he cannot go to bed and lying face down on the edge of the bed each day. TFA!

Zhaozhuang village by the Hong River in Wugang City, Henan province (洪河边的河南省西平县张于庄村), Gao Wanshun’s (高万顺) wife died of cancer. Now he lives in poverty. TFA!

In Shanxi Province there are a lot of charitable nursing homes, to help disabled infants abandoned by their parents. TFA!

The oldest is 9, not going to school. The youngest is less than 2 years old. They lived in severely polluted area. They hands and faces were always dirty. TFA!

Every year, a lot of deficiency babies in Shanxi Province were abandoned. Kong Zhenlan (孔贞兰) in Qi town (祁县) who was making a living by recycling trash adopted 25 abandoned children. TFA!

Xuanwei (宣威) in Yunnan province is a cancer village. Every year there are more than 20 people die of cancer. 11-year-old student Xu Li (徐丽) is suffering from bone cancer.

I'm truly disappointed that Friedman only made second runner-up for Media Research Center's 2009 Audacity of Dopes Award (Most Insane Analysis of the Year Division).

The world is flat? No, Thomas Friedman's world-view is flat. And seriously f-ed up.


Is that a Hockey Stick in your graph, or you just happy to see me?

Legacy media has relentlessly marketed the incipient recovery, the end of the recession and the successful culmination of Democrat austerity measures. That last part was a joke. No better evidence of these campaigns are today's headlines highlighting "stable" housing prices:

WaPo: ...U.S. home prices were unchanged in October, according to the widely watched Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller indexes released on Tuesday, indicating stabilization in the hard-hit housing sector...

LAT: "On a month-to-month bases, we are certainly slowing down in terms of the numbers we had seen previously," said Michael D. Larson, a housing analyst with Weiss Research. But "the story remains the same: Housing is not in some huge epic rebound, but nor is it falling apart anymore -- stabilization is clear."

Of course, it takes a special kind of journalistic prowess to omit and ignore the real story of the day.

Fannie Mae: Delinquencies Increase Sharply in October

Fannie Mae reported today that the rate of serious delinquencies - at least 90 days behind - for conventional loans in its single-family guarantee business increased to 4.98% in October, up from 4.72% in September - and up from 1.89% in October 2008.


Now that right there is whatcha call a real hockey stick.
...Just more evidence of the growing delinquency problem, although it is important to note these stats do include Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) loans in trial modifications (and the trial modification periods have been extended again).

What this really means is that the various central-planning efforts of the big government Democrats -- from Fannie Mae, to the FHA, to HAMP -- represent a stunning series of increasingly costly failures that our children and grandchildren will have to somehow pay off. With interest.

As for analysis, you need not wait for legacy media to catch up. In short, the biggest predictor of mortgage defaults is negative equity. The more underwater you are on your loan, the better chance you have of walking away from the home. The fact that more loans (even in HAMP) are going late indicates a deflationary housing spiral is still underway. Foreclosures hurt home values; lower valuations lead to more folks underwater; which leads to more foreclosures... ad infinitum.

And despite all of these many and varied failures, legacy media looks askance while helping to sell the same big government, Politburo-style plans to nationalize one-sixth of the economy. I can't wait for the Harvard Case Study on the death of the liberal media. At this rate, it could be ready by the fall semester of 2011.


Crack Pro Journalist Andrew Sullivan Writes Brilliant Missive on TMZ Hoax Then Clogs Toilet Trying to Flush Down Memory Hole

Sy Hersh was right! So says the scion of The Atlantic's stellar lineup of conspiracy-minded commentators not named McArdle. Upon spotting the TMZ photo purporting to show JFK cavorting with a boatload of beautiful, nekkid women, Sullivan lept into action.

Now, it turns out that it took the Inter-tubes about 15 minutes to determine the print was a Photoshop-special, with all the authenticity of a Ming Dynasty boom-box. But there was no stoppin' crack pro journalist Andi Sullivan!

His book, "The Dark Side Of Camelot", was one of his best: scenes of simply staggering sexual shenanigans, rampant abuse of power, close connections with the mafia, nepotism up the whazoo. And now we have some photographic evidence - courtesy of TMZ.com - of the Kennedy lifestyle, when feminism was still at bay and powerful rich men could fill their yachts with a variety of sexual objects. Take a look at this scene from the mid-1950s. And Tiger: you were born too late:


William Jacobson asks the salient question: What if Sarah Palin had done this?

Because, after all, Palin's "odd lies" represent a "cover-up" the depths of which only a man with Sullivan's pulse-pounding detective experience and vast network of like-minded pro journalists could plumb. Such as, what's up with Trig, dude?

If there's a journalistic award for self-inflicted tomdouchery, Sullivan's a lock.



Hat tips: Legal Insurrection, via Michelle Malkin.

Monday, December 28, 2009

May we have the envelope, please? Media Research Center announces its 2009 winners

The Media Research Center recently announced its prestigious 2009 winners of the Best Notable Quotables Awards. These represent "a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2009".

May we have the envelope, please?

I'll give away just one of the winners:

Melissa Lafsky

"Mary Jo [Kopechne] wasn’t a right-wing talking point or a negative campaign slogan....We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history....[One wonders what] Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded. Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.” -— Discover magazine deputy web editor Melissa Lafsky, who formerly worked on the New York Times’s Freakonomics blog, writing at the Huffington Post, August 27.


Thursday, December 24, 2009

Season's Greetings From MSNBC

I received these snappy-looking greeting cards from MSNBC yesterday.



Wednesday, December 23, 2009

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! MSNBC and Chris Matthews' Ratings Hit the Official 'Laughingstock' Level

Can't... breathe... laughing... too hard... pulled a belly muscle... oh, s***... must... catch... breath.

MSNBC poster- tingle-boy Chris Matthews -- host of Screwball on Screwball -- received some very bad news yesterday.

Very bad news.

At least in the 25-54 demographic... yesterday, his ratings were...

58,000.

Chris Matthews has been a mainstay of the MSNBC line-up for years, but December is shaping up to be one his worst months compared to the rest of the cable news landscape.

Matthews had his worst week in 2009 last week in the A25-54 demographic for his 5pmET live airing, averaging 88,000 viewers, according to Nielsen data. The previous week, he had his 2nd worst week, averaging 99,000.

I don't pull those kinds of numbers, myself. I get that in a full day, which is an apples-to-orange comparison, because really my numbers are 10-20,000 people coming back multiple times.

But a larger blogger? 58,000 is a lot of hits in an hour, no doubt. But... I think there are bloggers that can put those numbers up from time to time.

Yep. As I documented in Sitemeters of the Rich and Famous, the top bloggers (think Glenn Reynolds, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, etc.) can easily top Matthews' figure.

MSNBC must be so... proud. Not only is it getting lower ratings than the major bloggers -- weather radar and sonograms are more popular now.


Saturday, December 19, 2009

'What Would You Do?'

ABC serves a dual role in its position as 'stalwart member of the legacy media'. It enjoys: (a) torturing random citizens while (b) promoting socialized medicine. Its efforts are best exemplified by a recurring feature called 'What Would You Do?'

A recent show asks "Would You Help a Sick Stranger Get Meds?":

As more than 47 million Americans struggle without insurance and more than a third of the country not able to fill prescriptions because of the cost, ABC News wondered if anyone would come to their aid.

So, "What Would You Do?" rigged a local pharmacy in Morristown, N.J., with hidden cameras and microphones to determine if a nation divided on public health would intervene in private care to help a stranger in need.

Actors were hired to portray a very real health dilemma -- acting as customers who couldn't afford their medications...

Never mind that American taxpayers already pay for Medicaid, SCHIP, Medicare Parts-Whatever, and heaven knows what else... never mind all that! ABC is compelled to run infomercials for Reidcare!

As an aside, I thought of my own episode of "What would you do?":

Comment away with your answers.

Hot or Not! (Part Deux)

As we did yesterday, please rate on a scale of 1 to 10:

Fractions are not permitted.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Top 20 Mark Levin Quips


20. Yello? Yello? Yello?
19. Get off the phone, you big dope!
18. Wiener nation.
17. "Thank me!"
16. Mark gargles or "Levin-itizes" a caller.
15. "Women's underwear" (Keith Olbermann's undergarment of choice).
14. FReeper or MarkLevinFan.com mentions.
13. Mentions Beck (surreptitiously) and other back-benchers.
12. Lactose intolerance; free government cheese giveaways.
11. It's [time] Under God!
10. New York Slimes or Washington Compost reference.
9. "Yes, I said it!"
8. "Kumbaya" with the Levin lyrics.
7. Meet the Depressed.
6. "God Bless Us!"
5. Mary Landfill, Harry 'The Body Odor' Reid, Nancy 'Stretch' Pelosi
4. "I will sue their asses."
3. A RuPaul supporter gets clipped.
2. Barack Milhaus Nobama.
1. "I'm calling a Levin Surge!"
"Take my word for it, I am gorgeous!"



Hat tip: Fudd Fan.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Sitemeters of the Rich and Famous (and those of the Poor and Unstable)

For those unfamiliar with the ins and outs of blogging (by the way, we call you people "non-losers"), Sitemeter is a service frequently employed to count visitors and provide other useful stats. In fact, some bloggers and sites choose to leave their Sitemeters public. In the interest of providing some transparency into site traffic for some of the blogs I link to, the table below includes the most recent daily traffic scores (daily unique visitors, averaged over the last week) as well as links to the Sitemeter display panels themselves.

94 Tax Man
119Ruby Slippers
192Wolf Howling
228Virtuous Republic
371Snapped Shot
467Exurban League
583New Zeal
1,189Double Plus Undead
1,327Parkway Rest Stop
1,394BlogProf
1,973Olbermann Watch
2,100Sister Toldjah
2,354Patriot Room
2,564Jules Crittenden
2,980American Power
3,052Radio Equalizer
3,293Stop the ACLU
4,100Ed Driscoll
4,457Moe Lane
4,615Doug Ross
4,693Flopping Aces
4,735Legal Insurrection
4,866Maggie's Farm
6,262R.S. McCain
8,443Don Surber
8,791Pat Dollard
9,634Patterico
10,175Dan Riehl
11,181Jammie Wearing Fool
22,390Jawa Report
63,205Gateway Pundit
95,935Ace of Spades
127,259Watts Up With That
216,100Michelle Malkin
428,871InstaPundit
697,347Hot Air

I have no idea whether anyone else finds this interesting, but seeing how successful the big blogs are -- my guess is substantially higher than most newspapers -- we may have to redefine the term 'mainstream media' soon.

AP's Andrew Taylor Invents Brand-New Phrase!

While laying down covering fire for the Democrats' Cloward-Piven-esque efforts to destroy the full faith and credit of the U.S. currency, Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press invents a brand new term.

The $1.1 trillion measure combines much of the year's unfinished budget work... into a 1,000-plus-page spending bill that would give the Education Department, the State Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and others increases far exceeding inflation.

The 60-34 vote met the minimum threshold to end the GOP filibuster. A final vote was set for Sunday afternoon to send the measure to President Barack Obama.

The measure combines $447 billion in operating budgets with about $650 billion in mandatory payments for federal benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. It wraps together six individual spending bills and also contains more than 5,000 back-home projects...

"Back-home projects"?

"Back-home projects"?

Would those be the billions in wasteful spending that used to be called "earmarks"?

The very same projects that candidate Barack Obama promised to scrutinize, stating "...we need earmark reform... when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."?

But there isn't enough money to defend the homeland against illegal aliens who are arrested for criminal activity, so Congress is slashing spending on that program.

California and other financially strapped states will lose tens of millions of federal dollars that they spend to jail illegal immigrants charged with crimes, under Congress' latest spending bill...

...Overall, spending for the program would fall from $400 million to $330 million for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP, which President Barack Obama had targeted for elimination. It's a formula grant program that provides aid to states and localities for correctional officer salary costs incurred for jailing criminal undocumented immigrants.

To be clear: Congress is able to devote billions of taxpayer funds for 5,000 of their pork-filled earmark projects but can't locate $70 million for a program that has bipartisan support in the states most affected by gang and other criminal activities conducted by illegal aliens. It may be trite to say that innocent people will assuredly die because of this ill-considered decision; but it's also spot-on.

These irresponsible Democrats are useless, sixties-retread radicals; and they need to be thrown out of office in 2010. They have clearly violated their oaths of office -- and the first duty of all elected officials -- to defend and uphold the Constitution.


Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Breitbart tears Media Matters a new.... well, you know...


'Fistgate' is the term being bandied about for the truly disgusting revelations around Barack Obama's Safe Schools Czar.

In recent weeks, Kevin Jennings has been repeatedly linked to supporters of NAMBLA as well as a wide variety of shockingly explicit educational material aimed at schoolkids.

As usual, the "criminal front group known as Media Matters" (in the words of attorney Mark Levin and which I believe is the phrase they prefer), stepped up to the plate to defend Jennings against the well-deserved attacks.

Andrew Breitbart -- creator of BigGovernment -- unleashed a devastating Twitter attack best captured in the following string of tweets.

John Podesta, as puppetmaster of left, will you get your hands around FistGate & get to bottom of it: http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex @mmfa

EARACHE (Eric) BOEHLERT? You don’t find something stinky about this Obama Safe Sex Czar ‘Fisting for Teens’ story? http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex @mmfa

Perils of Not Vetting Prez, MCLVII: Creates SafeSchoolCzar & Appoints Fella Fixed on Teaching Fisting to Minors: http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex

MEDIAMUTTERS & EARACHE BOEHLERT are just brown with envy that we keep getting scoop after scoop! http://tinyurl.com/y8t8yvk @mmfa

MEDIAMUTTERS: Lets co-join our exploratory bodies & get 2 bottom of 'Fist4Teens' so we can get behind this mess. http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex

I added:

@andrewbreitbart The onus is on @mmfa to perform a deep-dive into this enema of the state.

@andrewbreitbart I sphinc that the efforts of @mmfa are not in vein and that they will plug these holes

I can't help but giggle.


Barbara Walters in High-Def


With all due respect, seeing Barbara Walters in high-def is kinda like watching a parchment origami being made.

It occurs to me that this is why the media and the state are so tightly bound at the hip.

There's no freaking turnover. These people never -- never! -- leave their jobs.

Robert Byrd is, by my calculations, 117 years old and still serving in the Senate.

Mike Wallace is only 115 and has the complexion of a gravel driveway slathered in orange paint.

Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers have served in the House since the Continental Congress first convened. They may, in fact, have formaldehyde circulating in their veins.

In other words, the problem with the government and the government-run media is the recidivism. We need term limits for all of these losers. Give some fresh blood a chance, for heaven's sake.