The ex-SEIU chief and current DNC executive director Patrick Gasbag (my spelling could be off) is nothing if not magnanimous and gracious:
Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to express themselves in more creative and compelling ways:
Today's decision by the Supreme Court is a disgrace. This kind of madness is so far removed from America's founding that the Framers would be flabbergasted. They wrote the Constitution to prevent the rise of an autocratic, centralized federal government. Their aim was to protect the rights of the individual, above all. They carefully enumerated certain powers to the central government, leaving the remainder to the states and the people.
But a series of petty, temporary politicians -- more invested in their own feudal power grabs and self-aggrandizement -- violated their oaths of office, decade after decade.
We have no choice but to politically crush these miscreants and replace them with true Constitutional conservatives.
November is coming.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Ivy league Idiot Series, Episode 648: Princeton's economic embarrassment, Alan Blinder
Someone claiming to be a Princeton University professor of economics named Alan Blinder penned an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal ("Stimulus Isn't a Dirty Word"). Blinder's article is only noteworthy because of its record-breaking levels of dishonesty, partisan hackery, and rhetorical buffoonery all wrapped up into a nice little log by a so-called "professor".Consider these delightful lowlights:
Many Democrats also want to build and repair more roads, bridges, tunnels and the like—taking advantage of the rare combination of historically low government borrowing rates and historically high unemployment among construction workers.
Gee, Einstein: didn't we just deficit-spend a record-setting $5 or so trillion dollars -- thanks in great part to a so-called "Stimulus" program -- that was an utter and complete failure? What happened to all of that money? How about we get a detailed accounting of that disaster before we borrow more from generations yet unborn, Sparky?
Most Republicans reject that idea, too, even though the argument for more public capital is the same as the argument for more private capital—each promotes growth.
Actually, genius, the private sector produces goods and services. That's called productivity. See, what the government does is suck productivity out of the private sector to fund its ever-increasing bureaucracies that serve -- primarily -- to perpetuate themselves. Government never seems to get smaller, does it, Bucky? In good times and bad, government gets bigger. Does that sounds sustainable to you, Perfesser?
In the near term, we need modest stimulus, focused tightly on creating jobs. But that stimulus should be paired with a vastly larger dose of long-run deficit reduction—perhaps 10 to 20 times as large as the stimulus—over the 10-year budget window... Economically, this can be done; it's not even that hard. But if Republicans continue to reject even deals comprised of $10 of spending cuts for each $1 of tax increases, it's hard to see how we get there politically.
Say, Al, did the Republicans reject a budget that proposed $10 in spending cuts for each $1 of tax increases? Because I -- and the rest of the country -- must have missed that, what with all of the golf, vacations and suing states for enforcing voter ID and enforcing immigration laws. In fact, if memory serves, it's been over 1,200 days since the Democrat-controlled body of Congress actually passed a budget. So email me the link to that budget with the 10:1 budget cut ratio, would ya, Alvin?
The U.S. government can now borrow for five years at about 0.75% and for 10 years at about 1.7%. Both rates are far below expected inflation, making real interest rates sharply negative. Yet legions of skilled construction workers remain unemployed while we drive our cars over pothole-laden roads and creaky bridges. Does this make sense?
It sure does if: (a) you don't have a plan to ever pay back your debts, which the Democrats don't; (b) you've got a president who has already rung up more deficit spending than anyone in human history; (c) the Congressional Budget Office and the president's own advisers admit that the current borrowing trajectory is "unsustainable"; and (d) your sovereign debt got downgraded from AAA for the first time. Make sense, Aloysius?
...education is critical to American leadership in the world... Where things do get partisan is in choosing between working harder on traditional public schools versus relying on vouchers, charter schools and the like to provide competition. Here, the research is interesting. It suggests that, on average, charter schools perform neither better nor worse than public schools.
Well, Alston, on the very same editorial page the day before, there was a far more interesting, accurate and relevant article entitled "Why Charter Schools Work" by Deborah Kenny. Ms. Kenny, an author and founder of Harlem Village Academies, describes the two attributes that always drive parents with a choice to send their kids to charter schools: accountability and freedom of choice.In Washington, DC, for example -- where Democrats obliterated charter schools -- the district spends about $30,000 per student annually, or "about triple what the DC voucher program spends per pupil—and the voucher students have a much higher graduation rate."
Don't you believe in evolution, Alex? Don't you believe in the survival of the fittest? Are you a denier? Because only competition, only Darwinism, only free market principles advance society. But don't ask me, ask your ideological predecessors over in the Soviet Union who also demanded that the state run the entire educational system. Wait, you say there is no Soviet Union any longer?
We've experimented with moving the top rate up or down a few percentage points several times. Under President Clinton in 1993, we raised it to 39.6% from 36% and one of the greatest periods of prosperity in U.S. history followed. Then in 2001, under President George W. Bush, we cut the top rate to 35% from 39.6% and . . . well, you know what followed.
Well, Alton, given that President Clinton enjoyed these two tiny, inconsequential events -- the invention of the World-Wide Web and the Y2K IT spending bonanza -- it would seem to me that even an impeached, disbarred pervert who sold missile secrets to China for campaign donations would be able to preside over a booming economy. And, as for President Bush, I believe revenues to the government improved dramatically after the tax cuts and that it was a mortgage meltdown -- and nothing to do with tax rates -- that caused the economy to collapse.
And we all know who was behind the housing disaster, don't we, Alphonse?
With embarrassments like this teaching "economics", it's no wonder Princeton doesn't have the temerity to operate a business school.
Monday, June 25, 2012
The Arizona Immigration Decision: Surveying the Full Spectrum of Media Headline Spin
Here is a sampling of headlines from a variety of news sources which I've listed in order, from the most liberal spin to the most conservative. Check out the difference between Fox News and Fox News Latino.
High court strikes down key parts of Arizona immigration law: MSNBC
Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Provisions Of Arizona Immigration Law: Vermont Public Radio
High court limits state action on immigration: Boston Globe
US Supreme Court Rejects Much of Arizona Immigration Law: Voice of America
Supreme Court mostly rejects Arizona immigration law; gov says 'heart' remains: CNN
Arizona Immigration Law 'Heart' Struck Down by Supreme Court: Fox News Latino
High court splits its verdict on Arizona immigration law: Reuters
Ruling on immigration law has both sides claiming victory: USA Today
High court splits its verdict on Arizona immigration law: Chicago Tribune
U.S. Supreme Court issues split ruling on Arizona immigration law: Xinhua
Arizona Supreme Court decision: A mixed bag for Obama: CBS News
Supreme Court upholds key part of Arizona immigration law: ABC News
Arizona DREAM Act Coalition 'laments' upholding of SB 1070 provision: AZFamily
The immigration proclamation: President Obama may not ignore laws he dislikes: National Review
Jan Brewer: Arizona to enforce 'show me your papers' policy ASAP: Los Angeles Times
Supreme Court upholds part of strict Arizona immigration law: McClatchy News
Supreme Court upholds key plank of Arizona immigration law: Washington Times
* * * * * * * * *
I've been thinking about the list of plain, uncontestable affronts to the Constitution initiated by the current administration. Vintage media, for the most part, has ignored -- or worse, applauded -- these steps.
In truth, legacy media is cheerleading for lawlessness. Because if any Republican president had attempted even one of these crimes (and they are indeed crimes), we'd have read endless page one, above-the-fold coverage in The New York Times. We'd have seen months of breathless, opening-the-broadcast special reports -- with custom "Presidential Crisis" artwork and logos -- from the likes of Brian Williams and Diane Sawyer.
Which is why I would encourage you to never read or watch vintage media. It's time to put a stop to their idiocy.
Liberal
Supreme Court rejects most of Arizona immigration law: Salt Lake City TribuneHigh court strikes down key parts of Arizona immigration law: MSNBC
Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Provisions Of Arizona Immigration Law: Vermont Public Radio
High court limits state action on immigration: Boston Globe
US Supreme Court Rejects Much of Arizona Immigration Law: Voice of America
Supreme Court mostly rejects Arizona immigration law; gov says 'heart' remains: CNN
Arizona Immigration Law 'Heart' Struck Down by Supreme Court: Fox News Latino
Centrist
Court Splits on Arizona Law: Wall Street JournalHigh court splits its verdict on Arizona immigration law: Reuters
Ruling on immigration law has both sides claiming victory: USA Today
High court splits its verdict on Arizona immigration law: Chicago Tribune
U.S. Supreme Court issues split ruling on Arizona immigration law: Xinhua
Arizona Supreme Court decision: A mixed bag for Obama: CBS News
Conservative
Supreme Court reins in Arizona immigration law, but leaves key provision in place: Fox NewsSupreme Court upholds key part of Arizona immigration law: ABC News
Arizona DREAM Act Coalition 'laments' upholding of SB 1070 provision: AZFamily
The immigration proclamation: President Obama may not ignore laws he dislikes: National Review
Jan Brewer: Arizona to enforce 'show me your papers' policy ASAP: Los Angeles Times
Supreme Court upholds part of strict Arizona immigration law: McClatchy News
Supreme Court upholds key plank of Arizona immigration law: Washington Times
I've been thinking about the list of plain, uncontestable affronts to the Constitution initiated by the current administration. Vintage media, for the most part, has ignored -- or worse, applauded -- these steps.
In truth, legacy media is cheerleading for lawlessness. Because if any Republican president had attempted even one of these crimes (and they are indeed crimes), we'd have read endless page one, above-the-fold coverage in The New York Times. We'd have seen months of breathless, opening-the-broadcast special reports -- with custom "Presidential Crisis" artwork and logos -- from the likes of Brian Williams and Diane Sawyer.
Which is why I would encourage you to never read or watch vintage media. It's time to put a stop to their idiocy.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Guess Which Incident Legacy Media Is Outraged About?
Please select from what we'll call Incident A, in which an MSNBC host gleefully depicts Mitt Romney's bus exploding in a fireball of carnage; or Incident B, in which reporter Neil Munro interrupts President Obama's speech concerning his unconstitutional Executive Order implementing the DREAM Act.

If you guessed Incident A, then you must have just fallen off the turnip truck (and become a newly minted citizen, courtesy of Obama's Executive Order).
Because questioning the President regarding his outrageous, extra-Constitutional activities is racist, dont'cha know?

If you guessed Incident A, then you must have just fallen off the turnip truck (and become a newly minted citizen, courtesy of Obama's Executive Order).
Because questioning the President regarding his outrageous, extra-Constitutional activities is racist, dont'cha know?
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Real-time financial news, pulled straight from the social networks
Biff Spackle relays a report that he's added the third channel to the BadBlue.com social news network: BadBlue.com/money.

This follows Spackle's outstanding work with your favorite news portal (BadBlue.com/news) and technology hub (BadBlue.com/tech).
Following in the footsteps of President Obama, any problems you may encounter are Bush's fault. Or the fact that ATMs have replaced bank tellers.

This follows Spackle's outstanding work with your favorite news portal (BadBlue.com/news) and technology hub (BadBlue.com/tech).
Following in the footsteps of President Obama, any problems you may encounter are Bush's fault. Or the fact that ATMs have replaced bank tellers.
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
The View's Barbara Walters: Swapping Favors With a Genocidal Maniac for an Exclusive Interview
Craven and disgusting doesn't begin to describe it.
In short, Walters appeared to violate every journalistic canon just to secure an interview with a mass-murdering dictator.
Although CNN does seem to be an appropriate destination for Assad's pals, given its history with Eason Jordan and the like.
Hat tips: Mark Levin and CTV Photo (AP).
Barbara Walters acted as a 'adoptive mother' and 'careers adviser' to a glamorous former aide of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
...In a string of leaked emails between Sheherazad Jafaari and the celebrated broadcaster, Ms Walters, 82, promised to... help the 22-year-old secure a job on Piers Morgan's CNN show and win a place at Columbia University... Mrs Walters first began dealing with Ms Jaafari when ABC News was in talks to arrange the first and only televised interview for an American network with the Syrian leader.
...Ms Jafaari['s] father is Syria's U.S. ambassador... Ms Walters emailed Columbia Journalism School professor Richard Wald, former president of NBC News and vice president of ABC News, to sing Ms Jaafari's praises... 'She is brilliant, beautiful, speaks five languages. Anything you can do to help?' Ms Walters wrote at the end of January.
In short, Walters appeared to violate every journalistic canon just to secure an interview with a mass-murdering dictator.
Although CNN does seem to be an appropriate destination for Assad's pals, given its history with Eason Jordan and the like.
Hat tips: Mark Levin and CTV Photo (AP).
Friday, June 01, 2012
Another day, another leak of highly classified information designed to benefit Obama 2012: Details of the Stuxnet cyber-attack on Iran revealed
The Sophos Naked Security Blog summarizes another leak of highly classified information published by The New York Times, which -- coincidentally, I'm sure -- is spun to benefit President Obama's reelection campaign.
As usual, the Times tries to overly emphasize President Obama's involvement when, in fact, Bush 43 initiated the effort and reportedly had to beg his successor to continue the project.
To this day, Stuxnet remains the most amazing virtual ordnance in history.
Related:
• The Illustrated Guide to Stuxnet
• The 5 Most Amazing Details of the Stuxnet Cyberbomb
• Juxtaposed Iranian Headlines o' the Day
Hat tip: BadBlue.com/tech.
The report comes from David E. Sanger, the Chief Washington correspondent at The New York Times and author of the upcoming book "Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power"... Here is a quick summary of the claims made in the report:
Feeling threatened by the possibility that Iran would enrich uranium at a nuclear facility at Natanz that could be used to create weapons of mass destruction, US President George W Bush initiated a plan to seize control of computer systems at the plant.
The first part of the plan (dubbed "Olympic Games") was to embed spying code that would send back information about the computer systems' operations and draw up a blueprint of how the computers controlled centrifuges at the plant. After months of waiting for the information to be relayed, the National Security (NSA) and Israeli computer experts created a worm (Stuxnet) that would allow them to attack from within the plant.
According to the report, the USA felt compelled to involve Israel in the plan to prevent the country launching a pre-emptive military strike of their own against the nuclear facility... The USA secretly built a replica of Natanz's computer systems, including centrifuges handed over by Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi in 2003, to test their malware...
Tests were successful, and the worm's orders to slow down and speed up the centrifuge's delicate parts caused them to suffer damage. At one point, it's said that debris from a damaged centrifuge was laid across the conference table at the White House's Situation Room to demonstrate the malware's potential power.
With the malware deemed ready, it was introduced into the Natanz plant via infected USB memory sticks by spies and unwitting workers with physical access to computer systems... As centrifuges failed, Iranian workers would close down the systems looking for signs of sabotage - not realising that their computer systems were compromised.
Days before Barack Obama was inaugurated as US President, George Bush successfully urged him to continue the classified "Olympic Games" program...
The attacks on the nuclear plant's systems continued, but potential disaster struck in mid-2010, when it became clear that "an error in the code" had allowed Stuxnet to spread beyond Natanz's systems and infect computers in the outside world...
As usual, the Times tries to overly emphasize President Obama's involvement when, in fact, Bush 43 initiated the effort and reportedly had to beg his successor to continue the project.
To this day, Stuxnet remains the most amazing virtual ordnance in history.
Related:
• The Illustrated Guide to Stuxnet
• The 5 Most Amazing Details of the Stuxnet Cyberbomb
• Juxtaposed Iranian Headlines o' the Day
Hat tip: BadBlue.com/tech.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
The Two Charts President Obama Never Wanted You to See
When President Obama used a risible column by MarketWatch's Rex Nutting to claim to be a deficit hawk, even the Associated Press couldn't keep a straight face.
Of course, Obama, Nutting and the rest of the sycophants avoid the real comparison: actual deficits rung up by each president's policy choices (and those of Congress). In the case of President Obama's first two years in office, Democrat super-majorities in the House and the Senate helped him enact a virtual wish-list of Fabian socialism, from the Stimulus, to multiple attempts to fix the housing market, to "financial reform", to Obamacare.
The real comparison, then, is appropriately illustrated as follows.
As for the Left's claims that President George W. Bush "lied us into wasting an unfathomable amount of money on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan", let's ignore for the moment the so-called lies (we know that both military actions had overwhelming support from both parties). But let's ignore that duplicity for the moment.
In the last decade, how much federal spending actually went to national defense?
Iraq and Afghanistan represent a pittance, a rounding error, for this federal leviathan.
And yet another Democrat myth gets obliterated like the propaganda it is. One day these clowns might actually get something right, though that would require kicking the Marxist-Progressive Fifth Column out of the party.
Of course, Obama, Nutting and the rest of the sycophants avoid the real comparison: actual deficits rung up by each president's policy choices (and those of Congress). In the case of President Obama's first two years in office, Democrat super-majorities in the House and the Senate helped him enact a virtual wish-list of Fabian socialism, from the Stimulus, to multiple attempts to fix the housing market, to "financial reform", to Obamacare.
The real comparison, then, is appropriately illustrated as follows.
Over the past 50 years, 10 U.S. presidents have made annual budget requests to Congress, projecting deficits both big and small. But no other president compares to Barack Obama when it comes to the size and scale of the current budget deficit facing the United States.
The country is facing an 8.3 percent estimated average national deficit of a two-term Obama administration — the biggest of the past 50 years.
As for the Left's claims that President George W. Bush "lied us into wasting an unfathomable amount of money on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan", let's ignore for the moment the so-called lies (we know that both military actions had overwhelming support from both parties). But let's ignore that duplicity for the moment.
In the last decade, how much federal spending actually went to national defense?
A striking chart showing that, over the last decade, 65 percent of federal expenditures went to pay for entitlement commitments, not wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, defense, or national security:
"About 65 percent of federal expenditures over the last ten years have gone towards entitlements," Paul Miller writes. "By comparison, about 15 percent has gone towards national defense, excluding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq has cost three percent, and only about one percent has gone towards the war in Afghanistan (including the cost of ongoing military operations and all reconstruction and stabilization assistance combined), according to my analysis of figures from OMB."
In other words, Miller says, "Afghanistan is the second-cheapest major war in U.S. history as a percentage of GDP, according to the Congressional Research Service."
Iraq and Afghanistan represent a pittance, a rounding error, for this federal leviathan.
And yet another Democrat myth gets obliterated like the propaganda it is. One day these clowns might actually get something right, though that would require kicking the Marxist-Progressive Fifth Column out of the party.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Exclusive photo unearthed: Barack Obama with his 'Choom Gang' in the high school parking lot!
Oh, my: even the Associated Press mocks Obama's deficit hawk claims
When you're running a Democrat campaign and you've lost the Associated Press in one of their so-called 'fact checks', you know you've got big, big troubles. Someone in the Axelrod household woke up extra-cranky this morning.
That's not even counting the catastrophic deficits Obama rang up.
The only people who believed Obama's claim to be a deficit hawk -- after signing the Stimulus bill and driving more deficit spending than all previous presidents combined -- are either morons or just not paying attention. In the former case, we're talking about the hard-core members of the Democrat base anyhow. There's nothing that can sway the stupid, except maybe Flowers for Algernon-style medication and electroshock therapy.
Kinda like the lady who had her mortgage and car loans paid off by President Obama after the 2008 election.
Related: The Five Charts You Must Show Every Undecided Voter You Know.
FACT CHECK: Obama off on thrifty spending claim
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press
...The problem with [Obama's] rosy claim is that the Wall Street bailout is part of the calculation. The bailout ballooned the 2009 budget just before Obama took office, making Obama's 2010 results look smaller in comparison. And as almost $150 billion of the bailout was paid back during Obama's watch, the analysis counted them as government spending cuts.
It also assumes Obama had less of a role setting the budget for 2009 than he really did.
Obama rests his claim on an analysis by MarketWatch, a financial information and news service owned by Dow Jones & Co. The analysis simply looks at the year-to-year topline spending number for the government but doesn't account for distortions baked into the figures by the Wall Street bailout and government takeover of the mortgage lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
...Taken together, TARP and the takeover of Fannie and Freddie combine to give Obama an undeserved $317 billion swing in the 2010 figures and the resulting 1.8 percent cut from 2009. A fairer reading is an almost 8 percent increase.
...There's also the question of how to treat the 2009 fiscal year, which actually began Oct. 1, 2008, almost four months before Obama took office. Typically, the remaining eight months get counted as part of the prior president's spending since the incoming president usually doesn't change it much until the following October. The MarketWatch analysis assigned 2009 to former President George W. Bush, though it gave Obama responsibility that year for a $140 million chunk of the 2009 stimulus bill.
But Obama's role in 2009 spending was much bigger than that. For starters, he signed nine spending bills funding every Cabinet agency except Defense, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security. While the numbers don't jibe exactly, Obama bears the chief responsibility for an 11 percent, $59 billion increase in non-defense spending in 2009. Then there's a 9 percent, $109 billion increase in combined defense and non-defense appropriated outlays in 2010, a year for which Obama is wholly responsible.
...If one assumes that TARP and the takeover of Fannie and Freddie by the government as one-time budgetary anomalies and remove them from calculations - an approach taken by Holtz-Eakin - you get the following picture:
-A 9.7 percent increase in 2009, much of which is attributable to Obama.
-A 7.8 percent increase in 2010, followed by slower spending growth over 2011-13. Much of the slower growth reflects the influence of Republicans retaking control of the House and their budget and debt deal last summer with Obama. All told, government spending now appears to be growing at an annual rate of roughly 3 percent over the 2010-2013 period, rather than the 0.4 percent claimed by Obama and the MarketWatch analysis.
That's not even counting the catastrophic deficits Obama rang up.
The only people who believed Obama's claim to be a deficit hawk -- after signing the Stimulus bill and driving more deficit spending than all previous presidents combined -- are either morons or just not paying attention. In the former case, we're talking about the hard-core members of the Democrat base anyhow. There's nothing that can sway the stupid, except maybe Flowers for Algernon-style medication and electroshock therapy.
Kinda like the lady who had her mortgage and car loans paid off by President Obama after the 2008 election.
Related: The Five Charts You Must Show Every Undecided Voter You Know.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Sweet: Obama thanked his drug dealer in his high school yearbook
Curiously, I haven't heard a word about this on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, or PMSNBC.
Say, did you hear about the time Mitt Romney gave a kid a wedgie in junior high?
It has been well known for years that President Obama was an avid user of cocaine and marijuana in both his high school and college years. However, the rabbit hole appears to be much deeper than previously thought.
Over the last few days, Mr. Obama's "rules" for taking drugs has been widely publicized. The fact that President Obama took so many drugs that he needed specific guidelines should speak for itself.
Additionally, and possibly most shocking, we have learned that in his high school year book, Mr. Obama thanked his drug dealer by name... The dealer's name was Ray. You can see a picture of the high school yearbook below:
So what happened to Ray, you might ask. Why has he not spoken up about this incident? Well, "Many years later they learned that he had been killed with a ball-peen hammer by a scorned gay lover."
Say, did you hear about the time Mitt Romney gave a kid a wedgie in junior high?
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Old Media Is Bleeding Out Right Before Our Eyes
Old media is literally committing suicide in front of our very eyes. In its desperate rush to see Barack Obama reelected, they are ignoring bigger and bigger stories. People have the Internet. They read The Drudge Report. They listen to talk radio. They read blogs. And in spite of all of these different access points, old media is ignoring blockbuster story after blockbuster story.
Consider the following panoply of stories -- from the last few days alone -- courtesy of the national treasure known as NewsBusters.
Fury over the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts’ continued refusal to report the lawsuits Catholic entities have filed against the Obama administration has spread beyond the Media Research Center watchdog group and Catholic leaders to nine additional Christian leaders equally concerned about this decision to deliberately not report national news...
...Anchor Charlie Rose pointed out in his introduction to Reid's report that there was "new information this morning on an alleged security leak by the Obama administration... "Sources tell CBS News the White House put the movie on the fast track, aggressively looking for ways to help."
That's just over the last few days. My conclusion?
Buh-bye, old media. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Note: if you missed headlines from your favorite news source, you can use the BadBlue news service database to get an up-to-date list sorted by popularity or date. Here's an example for NewBusters: http://badblue.bitnamiapp.com/d.php?did=newsbusters.org.
Consider the following panoply of stories -- from the last few days alone -- courtesy of the national treasure known as NewsBusters.
Outrage Over 72 Hours Of Network Silence On Catholic Lawsuit Spreads
Fury over the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts’ continued refusal to report the lawsuits Catholic entities have filed against the Obama administration has spread beyond the Media Research Center watchdog group and Catholic leaders to nine additional Christian leaders equally concerned about this decision to deliberately not report national news...Networks Censor News of Massive Democratic Protest Vote Against Obama
42 percent of Democratic primary voters in Kentucky on Tuesday chose "uncommited" over Barack Obama. In Arkansas, a Tennessee attorney finished with 41 percent of the vote. ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today and CBS This Morning all skipped the embarrassing story, despite the fact that CBS and NBC covered the far less interesting Republican primary... During the month of May, Obama suffered through a series of humiliating protest votes in Democratic primaries. On May 8th, the incumbent President nearly lost the West Virginia primary to a convicted felon. Yet, except for a single mention at 4am on May 9th, the networks have buried Obama's bad news.ABC, NBC Punt on Alleged Obama Administration Leak of Classified Information to Hollywood
CBS This Morning stood out as the only Big Three network morning show on Thursday to cover [an] allegation that the Obama administration gave a movie director and writer "special access to government officials involved in the commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden," as reported by Reuters on Wednesday. ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today ignored the story....Anchor Charlie Rose pointed out in his introduction to Reid's report that there was "new information this morning on an alleged security leak by the Obama administration... "Sources tell CBS News the White House put the movie on the fast track, aggressively looking for ways to help."
Was Rev. Wright Offered Hush Money? Nobody In The Media Cares
When the New York Times warned it had been handed a “super PAC” memo suggesting someone, somewhere might plot to make a “hardline attack on Obama” with Wright sermon soundbites, MSNBC expressed outrage hour after hour. But scandalized liberal journalists had no appetite for a different behind-the-scenes Reverend Wright narrative. In Ed Klein’s new book “The Amateur,” he interviewed Rev. Wright on tape for three hours. The most shocking revelation: suggestions that Friends of Barack were trying to suggest Wright take some “hush money” to shut up for the rest of the 2008 campaign. Media interest? Pretty much zero.That's just over the last few days. My conclusion?
Buh-bye, old media. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Note: if you missed headlines from your favorite news source, you can use the BadBlue news service database to get an up-to-date list sorted by popularity or date. Here's an example for NewBusters: http://badblue.bitnamiapp.com/d.php?did=newsbusters.org.
Double Whammy: Investors Business Daily Pimp-Slaps Rex Nutting's Pravda-Style Propaganda Piece at MarketWatch
Yesterday, James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute delivered a major-league rhetorical beat-down to some Obama drone named Rex Nutting. MarketWatch had somehow allowed Nutting to publish one of the more preposterous press releases from David Axelrod ever seen on a business news site.
The gist of the story is this. Obama is running from his spending record, using manipulated statistics to assign his block-buster "shovel-ready" Stimulus package to... wait for it... George W. Bush. Did Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and George W. Bush pass the Stimulus package? Obamacare? Cash-for-Clunkers? Green energy scams like Solyndra, First Solar, Solar Trust, etc.? So the Obama campaign is busy churning out propaganda that disavows all the work he took credit for in 2009 and Nutting simply regurgitates it, like a good little Marxist.
No human being in world history has deficit-spent like Barack Obama. And everyone knows it, including Rex "Leni Riefenstahl" Nutting.
Today, it's Investor's Business Daily's turn to pimp-slap Nutting. One simple chart is all it takes.
IBD goes on to point out that, aside from the Stimulus scam and the litany of crap Obama pushed through a compliant Congress, TARP and GSE spending were incorrectly accounted for in Nutting's analysis. In other words, Nutting made giant mistakes, small mistakes, and everything in between.
MarketWatch had better, eh, watch itself. If it continues publishing trash like Nutting's excrement, it will become about as relevant as Daily Kos.
The gist of the story is this. Obama is running from his spending record, using manipulated statistics to assign his block-buster "shovel-ready" Stimulus package to... wait for it... George W. Bush. Did Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and George W. Bush pass the Stimulus package? Obamacare? Cash-for-Clunkers? Green energy scams like Solyndra, First Solar, Solar Trust, etc.? So the Obama campaign is busy churning out propaganda that disavows all the work he took credit for in 2009 and Nutting simply regurgitates it, like a good little Marxist.
No human being in world history has deficit-spent like Barack Obama. And everyone knows it, including Rex "Leni Riefenstahl" Nutting.
Today, it's Investor's Business Daily's turn to pimp-slap Nutting. One simple chart is all it takes.
You wouldn't think that, after adding $5 trillion to the U.S.' debt, President Obama would seriously claim he's a fiscal hawk. But thanks to a misleading article on CBS' MarketWatch site, that's just what he's doing.
'Since I've been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years," Obama said on Wednesday. "Think about that."
Obama didn't turn to his own Office of Management and Budget to support this fact, or even the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
Instead, he went to a CBS MarketWatch column by Rex Nutting, which claims spending under Obama has risen by an average of just 1.4%.
"Federal spending," he wrote, "is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s."
Nutting even posted a chart to "prove" his case, which appears to show average annual spending hikes under Obama coming in well under that of his predecessors.
Not surprisingly, this "fact" lit up the left-wing blogosphere, with the White House quickly parading the article to dismiss GOP attacks.
There's just one problem. Nutting had it wrong... In fact, he made two significant mistakes that have the effect of hiding Obama's huge spending spree, mistakes that even Nutting's conservative critics missed...
IBD goes on to point out that, aside from the Stimulus scam and the litany of crap Obama pushed through a compliant Congress, TARP and GSE spending were incorrectly accounted for in Nutting's analysis. In other words, Nutting made giant mistakes, small mistakes, and everything in between.
MarketWatch had better, eh, watch itself. If it continues publishing trash like Nutting's excrement, it will become about as relevant as Daily Kos.
I swear these are real testimonials...
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It's the real-time news site that old media doesn't want you to see. Like me, you probably want to tell old media to shove it. That's what BadBlue is all about.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Obama MarketWatch Propagandist Rex Nutting Gets B****-Slapped By James Pethokoukis
The old adage needs an upgrade. There's lies. There's damn lies. And then there's Rex Nutting.
What a lying sack of s***.
Gee, last time I checked, Nutter -- if that is your real name -- George W. Bush wasn't the guy who jammed the Stimulus package through Congress, which was tacked onto the 2009 budget.
Da-yam, Rex: you gonna put some ice on that?
Until Barack Obama took office in 2009, the United States had never spent more than 23.5% of GDP, with the exception of the World War II years of 1942-1946. Here’s the Obama spending record:
• 25.2% of GDP in 2009
• 24.1% of GDP in 2010
• 24.1% of GDP in 2011
• 24.3% (estimates by the White House ) in 2012
What’s more, if Obama wins another term, spending—according to his own budget—would never drop below 22.3% of GDP. If that forecast is right, average spending during Obama’s eight years in office would average 23.6% of GDP. That’s higher than any single previous non-war year.
Yet financial columnist Rex Nutting of MarketWatch tries to portray the president as being downright stingy in a piece entitled, stunningly, “Obama spending binge never happened”:
Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree. As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.” Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true. Government spending under Obama, including his signature stimulus bill, is rising at a 1.4% annualized pace — slower than at any time in nearly 60 years.
And here’s the chart summarizing Nutting’s argument:
As the chart indicates, Nutting arrives at that 1.4% number by assigning 2009—when spending surged nearly 20%—to
George W. Bush...
What a lying sack of s***.
Gee, last time I checked, Nutter -- if that is your real name -- George W. Bush wasn't the guy who jammed the Stimulus package through Congress, which was tacked onto the 2009 budget.
Here is another way Nutting could have framed the spending issue:
The Obama spending record looks a little different now, yes?
Da-yam, Rex: you gonna put some ice on that?
Monday, May 21, 2012
Oh, my: someone at the Washington Post just received a very special call on the Red Phone
I'm guessing that the Red Phone was first installed by FDR to ensure that Democrat talking points were effectively echoed by the hacks at 1150 15th St. NW. Which makes this particular report all the more anomalous and disturbing.
According to the president's own Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percentage of eligible Americans engaged in the labor force has dropped continuously since he took office.
As I've said time and time again, there is no recovery. There is only an ongoing malaise, courtesy of record deficit spending, currency devaluation, public sector union payoffs, crony capitalism, rampant fraud, and out-of-control bureaucracies like the EPA, NLRB, HHS, and Interior Department.
But November is coming.
Someone at the Washington Post will surely have received a phone call from the White House today to have a conversation with Josh Hicks, who compares and contrasts the economic records of George Bush and Barack H. Obama (I added the H because it’s raaaaacist): Obama’s remarks on worst job growth: Did he end it or should he own it?. Josh spends quite a bit of time going through numbers and such, and finally concludes:
There’s no doubt that Bush owns an unimpressive record on job creation. But Obama comes in either last, second-to-last or in the bottom half among presidents since the Great Depression, depending on which way you look at the numbers.
The president said that policies from 2000 through 2008 produced the “most sluggish job growth we’ve ever seen.” Perhaps so, but the worst numbers on record occurred under his watch.
Obama chose a poor metric for measuring past administrations. To make his point with jobs data, he has to point to his own numbers and completely disavow much of them, or else ignore public-sector losses. We came close to thinking this was worth Three Pinocchios, but ultimately decided he was not necessarily including his record in the statement. Still, it’s a very fine line. The president should be much more careful about making such a sweeping claim.
According to the president's own Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percentage of eligible Americans engaged in the labor force has dropped continuously since he took office.
As I've said time and time again, there is no recovery. There is only an ongoing malaise, courtesy of record deficit spending, currency devaluation, public sector union payoffs, crony capitalism, rampant fraud, and out-of-control bureaucracies like the EPA, NLRB, HHS, and Interior Department.
But November is coming.
Holy Moley: Democrat-Media Meme Obliterated as Trayvon Martin Fight Club Video Emerges [Stop-Action Photos]
I'm not sure who first located this revealing video. However, American Power links to Blazing Cat Fur (which has the LiveLeak video that was posted after YouTube pulled its version down) that links to Pat Dollard that links to Last Refuge.
The latter site offers significant evidence that the observer in the striped shirt and white ball-cap is Trayvon Martin. First, here are some stop-action photos of the fight between two unnamed combatants. In the video, Trayvon's name is called out about five seconds in.
And, in this particular instance, an MMA-style knee to the face ends the battle. At which point, the observer identified as Trayvon rushes out to congratulate the victor.
All of this makes it appear Trayvon could have had some practice beating on "white Hispanics" (the new racial group that our beloved Democrat-Media complex invented to prejudge George Zimmerman).
But aside from the blunt-smoking, the fight clubs and the White Hispanic-head-bashing, I'm betting Trayvon was just as angelic as the Democrat-Media portrayal implied.
The latter site offers significant evidence that the observer in the striped shirt and white ball-cap is Trayvon Martin. First, here are some stop-action photos of the fight between two unnamed combatants. In the video, Trayvon's name is called out about five seconds in.
And, in this particular instance, an MMA-style knee to the face ends the battle. At which point, the observer identified as Trayvon rushes out to congratulate the victor.
All of this makes it appear Trayvon could have had some practice beating on "white Hispanics" (the new racial group that our beloved Democrat-Media complex invented to prejudge George Zimmerman).
But aside from the blunt-smoking, the fight clubs and the White Hispanic-head-bashing, I'm betting Trayvon was just as angelic as the Democrat-Media portrayal implied.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Barack Obama's biographical brief edited repeatedly over 17 years, but Kenyan birthplace changed just weeks after his presidential run announced
The biography provided by Barack Obama to his literary agent specified his birthplace as "Kenya". And, over the course of 17 years, despite multiple revisions by Obama, the Kenyan birthplace remained a fundamental part of the bio on the agent's website.I've used the Wayback Archive to explore the exact transformations of Obama's biography on his agent's site (click on any of the thumbnails to zoom to a readable size).
On June 27, 1998, the website read: "BARACK OBAMA was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book is DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE."
The Obama entry remained unmodified (e.g., June 6, 2002) until sometime around December 9, 2004, when it was modified to read: "BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, is a New York Times bestseller."
On February 10, 2007, Senator Barack Obama formally announced his candidacy for the Presidency.
On April 3, 2007, the website read: "BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller."
Sometime between April 3rd and April 21st, a member of the Obama campaign staff (or Obama himself) noticed the discrepancy in birthplace that would presumably disqualify the Senator from office.
On April 21, 2007, the website read: "BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Hawaii to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller."
On June 14, 2007, the website read: "BARACK OBAMA, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is currently campaigning to become the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee. He was born in Hawaii to a father who was raised in a small village in Kenya and a mother who grew up in small-town Kansas. Barack's father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University before moving to Chicago, where he became a community organizer. He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long-time New York Times bestseller."
Old media's feeble handling of this issue -- parroting the laughable assertion that clerical errors caused Obama's birthplace to be incorrectly listed, when former clients and the agency's policy itself states that authors provide the biographical briefs -- is pathetic.
As I've demonstrated here, Obama's bio was carefully edited over the course of 17 years to reflect his various accomplishments.
It was only a few months after his presidential candidacy was announced that his Kenyan "birthplace" became Hawaiian to confirm his eligibility for office. Obama remains a client to this day, which helps explain the literary agent's willingness to instantly offer an explanation for the discrepancy.
Only a Kool-aid-swilling hack or a Democrat-media drone -- but I repeat myself -- would buy into the literary agent's lame excuse.
Top 10 Liberal Logic De-Motivational Posters
Hand-selected by Biff Spackle from the magnificent Liberal Logic 101:
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Hat tips: The Looking Spoon and Right Wing News.
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Hat tips: The Looking Spoon and Right Wing News.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Is Taegan Goddard's "Political Wire" the Dumbest Political Site on the Web? One Thing's For Sure: It Has the Dumbest Commenters
Someone named "Taegan Goddard" -- if that is his real name -- runs a so-called news site named "PoliticalWire." Just so you're aware if you happen to vist: PoliticalWire is the news equivalent of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: it's guaranteed to repetitively spew DNC talking points while attracting a certain -- how can I say this politely? -- clientele of low intellectual capacity. The shallow end of the gene pool, if you will.
The latest example of the site's drone-like insipidity is this delightful missive, entitled "Is GOP Trying to Sabotage the Economy?" [sic]
Genius. So the greatest deficit spender in world history, whose own budgets have been repudiated by the nail-biting, bipartisan margin of 610 to nothing, and who had super-majorities in Congress for two years, blames the GOP for his epic failures?
• He jammed through the world's biggest "Stimulus" bill, roughly $800 billion that is now built into the baseline budget, because of Democrats' three-year failure to pass a budget.
• Using every political maneuver imaginable, he shoved Obamacare down the American people's throats -- a 2,700 page bill that not one person read before it was voted on.
• In an unsurprising turn of events, he slammed a "Financial Reform" bill into place -- thousands of pages of additional legislation that no one read -- that left the lynchpins of the financial crisis (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) unreformed.
• He presided over such egregious deficit spending that the U.S. lost its AAA credit rating for the first time.
• His EPA and Department of the Interior have repeatedly attempted to crush America's energy production: found in contempt of court for its illegal Gulf drilling ban, repudiated in federal court for exceeding its authority by revoking properly issued mining permits and killing the Keystone XL pipeline just for starters.
• He tacitly endorsed illegal immigration by issuing executive orders to implement a de facto DREAM Act and sued states for enforcing federal immigration law.
• Through his National Labor Relations Board, he's repeatedly intimidated large manufacturers like Boeing.
• He's wasted tens of billions on phony "green energy" companies like Solyndra that -- just coincidentally, I'm sure -- never failed to have ties to his campaign's biggest contributors.
Those items are just the tip of the iceberg.
But all of these failures -- Soviet-style, central planning on steroids -- are the Republicans' fault. Or at least Bush's.
With embarrassing drivel like this, I'm guessing Taegan Goddard and his collective commenting crew couldn't harness enough intellectual firepower to spark a stogie.
Topmost image: People's Cube.
The latest example of the site's drone-like insipidity is this delightful missive, entitled "Is GOP Trying to Sabotage the Economy?" [sic]
Associated Press: "Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama's re-election chances? Some top Democrats say yes, pointing to GOP stances on the debt limit and other issues that they claim are causing unnecessary economic anxiety and retarding growth."
Regardless of whether the suspicions are right, "there's evidence that unceasing partisan gridlock and the prospect of big tax increases and spending cuts in January are causing some companies to postpone expansions."
Genius. So the greatest deficit spender in world history, whose own budgets have been repudiated by the nail-biting, bipartisan margin of 610 to nothing, and who had super-majorities in Congress for two years, blames the GOP for his epic failures?
• He jammed through the world's biggest "Stimulus" bill, roughly $800 billion that is now built into the baseline budget, because of Democrats' three-year failure to pass a budget.• Using every political maneuver imaginable, he shoved Obamacare down the American people's throats -- a 2,700 page bill that not one person read before it was voted on.
• In an unsurprising turn of events, he slammed a "Financial Reform" bill into place -- thousands of pages of additional legislation that no one read -- that left the lynchpins of the financial crisis (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) unreformed.
• He presided over such egregious deficit spending that the U.S. lost its AAA credit rating for the first time.
• His EPA and Department of the Interior have repeatedly attempted to crush America's energy production: found in contempt of court for its illegal Gulf drilling ban, repudiated in federal court for exceeding its authority by revoking properly issued mining permits and killing the Keystone XL pipeline just for starters.
• He tacitly endorsed illegal immigration by issuing executive orders to implement a de facto DREAM Act and sued states for enforcing federal immigration law.
• Through his National Labor Relations Board, he's repeatedly intimidated large manufacturers like Boeing.
• He's wasted tens of billions on phony "green energy" companies like Solyndra that -- just coincidentally, I'm sure -- never failed to have ties to his campaign's biggest contributors.
Those items are just the tip of the iceberg.
But all of these failures -- Soviet-style, central planning on steroids -- are the Republicans' fault. Or at least Bush's.
With embarrassing drivel like this, I'm guessing Taegan Goddard and his collective commenting crew couldn't harness enough intellectual firepower to spark a stogie.
Topmost image: People's Cube.
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