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

Saturday, August 25, 2012

THIS: "Obama is losing"

Those inside the twin echo chambers of the Beltway and Manhattan have no freaking clue how pissed off the American people are. But they're going to find out in November, as John Nolte explains.

It's 8:21 on a Saturday morning and according to this photo snapped by Sharon Broadie, this is the size of the crowd that showed up in Powell, Ohio, (just outside of Columbus) to see Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan:


Here's a look at the line to get in...


...and another look at the crowd from another source...


And a real jaw-dropper.


Meanwhile, President FailureTeleprompter is relegated to rationalizing his lack of turnout into a "deliberate" desire for smaller, more intimate crowds. Yeah, that sounds like the Mr. Greek Column we've all come to know and grow tired of.

Meanwhile, the media refuses to report on the size of either side's crowds.

Meanwhile, across the country, the documentary film "2016" has just opened wide on over 1,000 screens and in the heart of Hollywood's biggest season hit #3 at the box office.

Meanwhile, though their Media Palace Guards assure us this is not the case, the Obama campaign's increasingly desperate and shrill campaign is acting more and more like a campaign so far behind and so in fear of losing, they feel they have nothing to lose. From "felon" to "chains" to "Mitt killed my wife" to one bald-faced lie after another, President Obama has forsaken the dignity of the office and -- should he win a second term -- all hope of bringing the country together after the kind of scorched-earth campaign only the terrified wage.

Meanwhile, the media is behaving in a manner no less shrill and desperate than their Presidential Master. When the unemployment rate increases, the media tells us that's a good thing. When the economy shrinks from 4.1 to 1.5%, the media still call it "the recovery." When an idiot in Missouri says something stupid about rape and abortion, the media launches into a week-long narrative accusing Republicans of being soft on rape.

Meanwhile, Obama supports infanticide. Romney opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest and when the mother's life is at risk. Yesterday CNN released a poll showing 62% of the American people agree with Romney and only 32% with Obama... This morning the media was still painting Romney-Ryan as the out-of-touch extremists on this issue.

Meanwhile, yesterday, Mitt Romney made a birth certificate quip and within thirty-minutes those few words received more media attention (and phony outrage) than the record number of American casualties currently mounting in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, as the clock runs down and campaign days grow more and more precious, three days ago, the Obama campaign felt it was a good use of the Vice President to send him to the supposedly safe state of Minnesota...

There's more.

And even some in vintage media appear to be sick of the lies coming from an administration orchestrating a de facto suicide of the U.S. economy


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Democrat Rep. Gauthier stays in race: He says having sex with 17-year-old boy at interstate rest stop is a "private matter"

There's delusional and then there's delusional.

Minnesota’s Kerry Gauthier... a DFL representative, was apprehended at a highway rest stop having oral sex with a seventeen-year-old boy. Gauthier described the incident as a “private matter.”

Gauthier’s fellow Democrats are trying to show him the door; one of them referred to him publicly as a “child molester,” while Governor Mark Dayton said, “I believe he is unfit to serve beyond this term.” The Minneapolis Star Tribune, however, reports that Gauthier says he will run for re-election in November

Is there any possibility he could win in November? One wouldn’t think so, but his Duluth district is heavily Democratic. His campaign will reveal, perhaps, whether Democrats have any standards whatsoever.

John Hinderaker, author of the cited article, should know better.

The party that called a man who drove a woman into a pond and left her to drown "The Lion of the Senate"?

The party that has as its convention keynote speaker this year an impeached, disbarred ex-president who admitted to molesting an intern in the White House and who was accused of rape or molestation by at least three different women?

The party that sent a man to 16 terms in Congress despite the fact that a gay house of prostitution was being run out of his residence?

The party that let a Congressman stay in office even though he admitted to having a sexual relationship with a male, 17 year-old Congressional page?

Somehow I doubt it.

No, all of the media outrage must be reserved for a doofus who said something idiotic, not Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank or Gerry Studds, to name but a few.



Reuters unveils its Official Photograph of President Obama™

Sometimes snark is no substitute for reality.

President Obama in Cleveland, Ohio/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

Go ahead. Tell me this isn't teh awesome.



Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Which is more important: a jamoke from Missouri saying something stupid or skyrocketing food prices?

Tyler Durden challenges us to "spot the similarity":


Why is this so troubling? As Monty Guild explains:

Drought, bad crop data, and rising grain prices around the globe have put food inflation on the front pages, raising alarm in many circles. Consumers are concerned, food producers are concerned, businesses are concerned, and governments are concerned. While food may not be a huge percentage of the daily budget for those in the developed world, it is in the lesser developed countries. Food inflation can erode the standard of living in the emerging economics rapidly and when food prices go up too much, governments fall.

Of course, the completely un-politicized (*cough* *wheeze*) Bureau of Labor Statistics insists that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) remains unchanged.

It should come as no surprise. They're also gaming the unemployment rate.

Shhh... no one tell vintage media. They've got water to carry.


Saturday, August 18, 2012

Proposal: Mitt Romney to release one tax return for each item on this list

So the Axelrod Jarrett Obama administration wants 10 more years of Mitt Romney's tax returns? I propose a simple trade: Mitt Romney will release one tax return in exchange for the release of the following documents by Barack Obama (in order):

1. His college transcripts.

2. His Illinois state senate schedule and meeting records.

3. The video of his speech praising PLO operative Rashid Khalidi at a banquest in 2003, which The Los Angeles Times possesses, but still refuses to release.

4. His complete medical records.

5. His client list while serving as an attorney for the firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Gallard.

6. His personal records from the Illinois state senate.

7. His Illinois state bar records and the status of his bar license.

8. His own and his mother's original passport application.

9. The death photos of Osama bin Laden.

Whenever the issue of tax returns is raised, the Romney-Ryan team ought to continually remind the media of how unvetted Obama actually is.


Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Big Lie: Jay Carney attacks Ryan Budget for "not balancing the budget fast enough"

Words. Escape. Me.

Steven Dennis of the magazine Roll Call -- which is not what you would call a hotbed of conservative thought -- was incredulous after White House spokes-hack Jay Carney offered that Paul Ryan's budget didn't attack deficit reduction quickly enough.


How much hubris is required to make this kind of assertion? As James Pethokoukis reminds us:

The Obama budget leaves us on a path to fiscal collapse. Once again, here is a stunning long-term budget chart — produced by the White House (PDF) — from Obama’s 2013 budget:


And here is a comparison of the two paths, the Ryan path and the Obama path:


This is yet another example of the Obama administration's craven use of "The Big Lie".

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

As for the above paragraph: it is left as an exercise for the reader to determine its origin and subject.


QOTD: Krauthammer nukes the case for Obama's reelection

Oh, my:

There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record, or you can run against his ideas.

The stewardship case is pretty straightforward: the worst recovery in U.S. history, 42 consecutive months of 8-plus percent unemployment, declining economic growth - all achieved at a price of another $5 trillion of accumulated debt.

The ideological case is also simple. Just play in toto (and therefore in context) Obama's Roanoke riff telling small business owners: "You didn't build that." Real credit for your success belongs not to you - you think you did well because of your smarts and sweat? he asked mockingly - but to government that built the infrastructure without which you would have nothing.

Play it. Then ask: Is that the governing philosophy you want for this nation?

For you drones reading along (moving your lips, I'm sure), that's a rhetorical question.


Hat tip: RJCHQ.

Gutsy Call: President avoids White House Press Corps for two months, finds time for sit-downs with People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight

Because -- aside from the unemployment crisis, the debt crisis, the Iranian nuclear crisis, the Euro crisis, the health care crisis, the inflation crisis, the housing crisis and the energy crisis -- there are no tough questions for President Obama to address.

ABC News’s Jake Tapper noticed an interesting trend with President Obama. He hasn’t been around to take any questions from the press lately. In fact, he has evaded the national press corps for more than two months. However, as Tapper noted on his blog today, Obama did have time to talk to ”reporters from People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight.” In addition, “during his three-day Iowa bus tour this week, for example, he conducted three interviews with local radio stations, including a sports talk radio show, and a roundtable discussion with columnists from three Iowa papers, in addition to sitting down with People and Entertainment Tonight. On July 12, he did an interview with Charlie Rose for CBS This Morning.”

Obama’s “last news conference was at the G20 in June, when he answered six questions from three reporters on the European debt crisis, the conflict in Syria, and the notion of politics stopping at the water’s edge. The White House press corps has not formally been given the opportunity to ask questions of the president on U.S. soil since his appearance in the Briefing Room on June 8 (when he said “the private sector is doing fine.)”

That would be a good enough reason for the folks in Team Obama to advise their boss to wimp out on the press, but it’s even more embarrassing when Mitt Romney has been able to appear on CBS twice this week, while Obama seeks to mediscare the senior citizens of Iowa. Tapper noted that, “asked if the president will be holding a full-blown White House press conference any time soon, Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday, ‘I don’t have any scheduling announcements to make about that.’”

Of course not. Given the president's daunting schedule of golf, fundraising, pickup basketball, fundraising, softball interviews, and fundraising, there's simply no time left for the White House Press Corps. Or leadership, for that matter.


Hat tip: Jammie Wearing Fool.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

During blistering CNN interview, Wasserman Schultz reduced to "humina humina humina" responses in nasally Yenta voice

Writing at Townhall, Guy Benson offers Wolf Blitzer sincere praise for his verbal dissection of DNC Embarrassment Debbie Wasserman Schultz:

Let me say this right up front: Congratulations to Wolf Blitzer for being a relentless, responsible journalist. If you value the truth, this interview is a pleasure to watch. If you have even an ounce of human compassion for the in-over-her-head target of Blitzer's inquisition, it's positively brutal...

She stubbornly rejects the (correct) premise that the Romney/Ryan Medicare reform plan exempts everyone over the age of 54, and plays fast and loose with numbers -- conflating 55 and 65 on several occasions. When she is brow-beaten into finally acknowledging -- if not admitting -- the truth around the 3:45 mark, she quickly realizes her "mistake" and reverts back into denialism...

When Blitzer asks her to specify exactly how current or soon-to-be seniors would be impacted by the GOP plan, she cannot. Because they're not.

The Left is intellectually bankrupt on the very subject they claim will allow them to crush Mitt Romney in November. They despise the bipartisan solution Republicans have offered, but they have no alternative of their own.

Dear Democrats, Medicare is slated to go bankrupt in 2024. You say it's wrong for future seniors to be denied Medicare as it currently exists. Okay, what's your plan, guys?

We know that your actions have already cut Medicare by $700 Billion to pay for part of Obamacare. We also know that Obamacare establishes a government panel to ration care for the elderly. And yet the 2024 deadline is still coming. Again, what's your plan, Democrats? Mr. President? Anyone? I confronted Wasserman Schutlz on this very question last summer, and she gave an incoherent and inaccurate response.

...A debt crisis is on the near horizon. Entitlement programs are going under. Twenty-three million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have given up home. GDP growth is slowing. The president and his allies have no plans, so they're forced to invent smears and argue against positions that their opponents don't hold.

That's why the Democrats' new mantra is "Forward", Guy. Looking back at their track record ain't exactly pretty.


Hat tip: Jim Geraghty.

Monday, August 13, 2012

What If CBS Had A Conservative Bias For Paul Ryan? [Looking Spoon]

The Looking Spoon posed the hypothetical question, above:

If you didn't hear about what 60 Minutes did to edit their interview with Paul Ryan get the story here.


Suffice it to say that any world in which vintage media promoted American values exists only in a science fiction writer's imagination.



Saturday, August 11, 2012

Best Reactions to the Ryan Pick

• CNN's Candy Crowley -- if that is her real name -- claims some Republicans are saying picking Ryan is "some sort of ticket death wish."

To whom is she referring? Best I can figure, it's sometimes-Democrat, sometimes-Republican Donald "Attention Whore" Trump whose impact on the race will be exactly... nil. Trump is the P.T. Barnum of politics and for CNN to treat his comments with a scintilla of seriousness is representative of the horrific ratings disaster that is the CNN network.

• Oh, and some twit you've never heard of -- Ryan Lizza at The New Yorker -- says that Ryan is (wait for it...) light on experience? As opposed to President Training Wheels, the All-Cook-County Community Organizer? Or Vice President Hair-Plugs-For-Men, who likewise has spent his entire career on the public dole? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA AHA AHHAHAHAHHAHAHA AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA HA AH AHHA HAHAH AHA HAH AHHAAHHAH!!! OUCH. OWWWW. I think I just wrenched my clavicle.

• The Leftist scumbags on Twitter erupted with their usual death-wishes:

@RobbyReyn: The bad news is Paul Ryan might be vp. The good news is that Paul Ryan is mortal and can die
@NatiRabinowitz: According to his family medical history Paul Ryan will die of a heart attack in 11 years.
@JMFlorio: Paul Ryan is the biggest f***ing toolbag on the planet. He can suffocate and die like he wants everyone who can’t afford insurance
@CarolineVGray: Morbid math pattern suggest Paul Ryan will die of a heart attack at 53. All heart attacks. Great grandfather 59. Grandfather 57. Father 55.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Suffice it to say that the "tolerant Left" is a misnomer of epic proportions.

• The Dissociative Press does its usual water-carrying for Democrats with its pathetic propaganda piece entitled "Romney stumbles in running mate announcement". It informs us in large typeface, that Mitt Romney accidentally introduced Paul Ryan as "the next president of the United States". And it conveniently fails to mention that candidate Obama made precisely the same mistake.

• As for those worried about Florida and seniors? They're a tad smarter than Democrats give them credit for: Ryan's favorability rating is 39-to-25, and an astounding 52-to-29 among... seniors.

I support Romney-Ryan 2012: America's Comeback Team.



Monday, August 06, 2012

The Real Poll Numbers: Don't Believe Vintage Media's Lies

Dick Morris does the heavy lifting that the Democrat-infested vintage media can't be trusted with.

The media is trying to create a sense of momentum and of inevitability about the Obama candidacy. One benighted Newsweek reporter even speculated about a possible Democratic landslide.

On Friday, I saw the real numbers. These state-by-state polls, taken by an organization I trust (after forty years of polling) show the real story. The tally is based on more than 600 likely voter interviews in each swing state within the past eight days.

The trend line is distinctly pro-Romney. Of the thirteen states studied, he improved or Obama slipped in nine states while the reverse happened in only four. To read the media, one would think that Romney had a terrible month. In fact, the exact reverse is true.

Romney is currently leading in every state McCain carried plus: Indiana, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, and Colorado. If he carries these states, he'll have 228 electoral votes of the 270 he needs to win.

To win the election, Romney would then have to carry Florida where he trails by two points, and either Virginia (behind by two) or Ohio where he's down by only one.

If he carries all three of these states and also wins all the others where Obama is now at 50% or less - Iowa, New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey -- he will get 351 electoral votes, a landslide about equal to Obama's 363 vote tally in 2008.

The strong probability is that Romney does, in fact, carry Florida, Ohio, and Virginia and a share of the other states where Obama is below 50% of the vote.

So don't believe the garbage being put out by the media. The attempt to portray Romney as not catching on and as dropping in the polls is ludicrous. It is, at best, the product of incompetent polling and, at worst, the result of deliberate media bias. But Romney is winning and expanding his lead each week. That's the real story.

The ludicrous Taegan Goddard hardest hit.


Related: That's a bold strategy, Cotton: Obama campaign appears to have spotted Mitt Romney the state of Indiana.

Sunday, August 05, 2012

EXCLUSIVE PHOTO Must Credit @directorblue: Alleged Harry Reid Pederasty Victim Comes Forward!

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - With rumors of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's pederasty flying fast and furious, at least one reported victim has come forward.

At their request, we are protecting the victim's identity. However, the victim did visit our offices in Las Vegas to offer details of Reid's alleged crimes.


"Reid promised to take me to his own 'amusement park' and that we would get to ride on a really awesome new ride called 'The Sphincter'.

"Of course, we didn't really go to an amusement park and I later found out there isn't any ride called 'The Sphincter'.

* * * * * * * * *
Only one question remains: when will Senator Reid address these disgusting allegations?


That's a bold strategy, Cotton: Obama campaign appears to have spotted Mitt Romney the state of Indiana

David "Red Diaper Baby" Axelrod hardest hit:

Four years ago, President Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Indiana. He looks unlikely to repeat that feat.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds challenger Mitt Romney picking up 51% of the vote while the president earns just 35%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and 11% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The Indiana survey of 400 Likely Voters was conducted July 31-August 1, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.

Aside from Rasmussen, I don't trust any of these polls that show Obama leading Romney.

My suspicion is that we will see the return of "The Bradley Effect" come November, as the most racially divisive president and attorney general in history are pink-slipped.


Hat tip: BadBlue.

Crikeys: Former Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Demands the President Release His College Transcripts

This morning on State of the Union, former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs took a surprising stand and issued a demand that his old boss release his college records.

Gibbs' exact statement: "Put [them] out... Candy, have you ever, have you ever seen anybody go to such great lengths to not put something out? When you generally don't put something out, isn't it because you're generally hiding something?

This may not be a precise transcript of Gibbs' comments because my dogs were barking during the show. But I'm pretty sure Robert Gibbs just insisted that Barack Obama reveal how he was admitted to top-notch, Ivy League schools despite his self-admitted drug abuse in high school. And Gibbs went on to ask that Obama's campaign reveal the president's grades.

Thank you, Robert Gibbs: the American people deserve to know. End the hiding, Mr. President.


Thursday, August 02, 2012

Checkmate: Idiot Abuser of Innocent Chick-Fil-A Employee Has Suddenly "Left the Company"

Vintage media didn't bother covering Chick-Fil-A Apprecation Day... or the bizarre Leftist who taped himself verbally abusing an innocent employee of the restaurant chain.

Turns out that the self-made YouTube star is no longer affiliated with his employer:

TUCSON, AZ--(Marketwire - Aug 2, 2012) - The following is a statement from Vante:

Vante regrets the unfortunate events that transpired yesterday in Tucson between our former CFO/Treasurer Adam Smith and an employee at Chick-fil-A. Effective immediately, Mr. Smith is no longer an employee of our company.

The actions of Mr. Smith do not reflect our corporate values in any manner. Vante is an equal opportunity company with a diverse workforce, which holds diverse opinions. We respect the right of our employees and all Americans to hold and express their personal opinions, however, we also expect our company officers to behave in a manner commensurate with their position and in a respectful fashion that conveys these values of civility with others.

We hope that the general population does not hold Mr. Smith's actions against Vante and its employees.

I, for one, applaud Vante for its stand against fascism.

Nice Deb has more.


Hat tip: The invaluable BadBlue News Service.

When will Harry Reid come clean about his alleged pederasty?

Instapundit highlights the Senate Majority Leader who insists that his recitation of unfounded, anonymously sourced rumors is entirely legitimate ("I don’t think the burden should be on me"):

And I don’t think the burden should be on me to resolve those Harry Reid pederasty rumors, either. But when there’s this much Harry Reid pederasty buzz on the Internet, I think Sen. Reid owes the public an explanation.


Ace drily observes, "It's not Harry Reid's burden to prove the thing he just made up, you see. It's Romney's burden to disprove the thing Reid just made up. Meanwhile, millions of parents in DC and Nevada send their sons to school every day without knowing whether Harry Reid is, or is not, a pederast."

I, for one, encourage Senator Reid to take a polygraph exam so we can get to the bottom of these sickening allegations.


Hat tip: JTT.

Monday, July 30, 2012

Funniest Newsweek Cover EVAH!

Everything old is new again. In this case, the ludicrous Newsweek Magazine, slipping ever leftward, attempts to replay its failed 1988 tactic of positioning George H. W. Bush as a wimp. Never mind that Bush 41 was an accomplished fighter-bomber pilot during World War II and nearly perished during a mission over Chichi Jima after being shot down (two of his mates died in the crash and many of his fellow pilots were captured by the Japanese and tortured to death).

So the wimp meme didn't work out too well for Newsweek in '88.


Which is why the geniuses are trying the same game-plan again, having failed to raise credible questions about Romney's leadership, ethics, business acumen, or executive experience.

It's especially hilarious, coming as it does on the heels of the Obama administration's latest embarrassment: a new book by Richard Miniter reveals that Action Obama canceled the Bin Laden 'kill' raid three times at the urging of... Valerie Jarrett.

Which leads me to create this cover:


The Looking Spoon suitably dispenses with Newsweek using a host of real wimp covers. Here's a small sampling:


Don't miss the entire collection.

Suffice it to say that Newsweek is now a cheap imitation of The Onion.

And I wonder if that movie about the Bin Laden hit will show Jarrett calling the shots for Mr. Obama.


Hat tip: Reaganite Republican.