Anyone who closely listened to President Obama’s speech yesterday afternoon heard something strangely similar to President Bush.
The Daily Show picked up on it, and had a lot of fun at the President’s expense:
Will Obama’s followers call for his head like that did President Bush’s?
Can we begin the impeachment trials for Lord Obama now? His first full day in office, President Obama has stopped all trials at Guantanamo Bay until May 20, 2009. Has he ever heard of due process? He wants to hold them until he can figure out what his little leftist brain wants to do with them: give ‘em big hugs and let them go, or just let them go.
Day One: Common Sense 0, President Obama 1
Lets begin…
Jake Tapper has the story and video that shows President-elect Obama lied when he said he’s had no contact with the governor of Illinois!
“I think anyone who knows me knows I’m a different Democrat. I’m from Alaska. I’m a believer, a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment, a supporter of drilling in ANWR. Alaskans are very liberal [in their belief that] government should not interfere in their personal life,” he said.
“I’m definitely different from a New York Democrat — you can bank on that,” he said in response to a question from the New York Times.
Today were going to focus on the good, the bad and the ugly from CNN’s Journalism department.
The ugly - CNN’s Rick Sanchez is an idiot. He has this minute piece on President Bush getting snubbed at the G8 Summit, he just hosted. Watch the video first:
I know its extreme, but Sanchez should be fired for this report. If not fired, he should be forced into coffee duty for the other real reporters. Two points:
1) The president wasn’t snubbed. Look at the video, you can see President Bush didn’t extend his hand to anyone either. President Bush is hosting this event, and he had just greeted these same leaders moments before (video here).
2) Sanchez says President Bush is the “bully everyone used to like or pretend to like.” He then commits the number one journalistic crime by making an accusation and then attributing it as, “some people say.” He says, “just to be clear, these not my words.” He tries to back paddle is way out of the mess he just made of himself by saying, “I checked, I googled Bush and Bully together, you ready, 2,500,000 hits.”
Ed Morrissey googled “Sanchez and idiot” and it returned over 500,000 hits. Case closed.
UPDATE – 11/21/08 – CNN CORRECTS SANCHEZ STORY – CNN – SNUB THAT WASN’T
Today were going to focus on the good, the bad and the ugly from CNN’s Journalism department.
The bad - I’m not sure if this is fake or not. Because of that, it’s just bad. However, if this really did air, then it’s very, very ugly.
Today were going to focus on the good, the bad and the ugly from CNN’s Journalism department.
The Good – CNN’s Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston show us, the newly elected Democrats in congress are already being taught to kiss the hands that feed them.
“New Congress members meet big-money donors
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Before being sworn in or casting their first votes, some newly elected members of Congress were introduced Wednesday to another hallmark of life on Capitol Hill — the big-ticket reception for big-money donors…
The following are the 22 Democrats newly elected to Congress and one Democratic candidate honored at Wednesday’s reception. (It is unknown whether all of the honorees attended the reception.)
John Adler (New Jersey, 3rd District)
Bobby Bright (Alabama, 2nd District)
Paul Carmouche (Louisiana, 4th District. Facing Dec. 6 election vs. Republican nominee)
Kathy Dahlkemper (Pennsylvania, 3rd District)
Alan Grayson (Florida, 8th District)
Parker Griffith (Alabama, 5th District)
Martin Heinrich (New Mexico, 1st District)
Jim Himes (Connecticut, 4th District)
Ann Kirkpatrick (Arizona, 1st District)
Larry Kissell (North Carolina, 8th District)
Suzanne Kosmas (Florida, 24th District)
Frank Kratovil (Maryland, 1st District)
Ben Ray Lujan (New Mexico, 3rd District)
Betsy Markey (Colorado, 4th District)
Eric Massa (New York, 29th District)
Walt Minnick (Idaho, 1st District)
Glenn Nye (Virginia, 2nd District)
Tom Perriello (Virginia, 5th District)
Gary Peters (Michigan, 9th District)
Chellie Pingree (Maine, 1st District)
Mark Schauer (Michigan, 7th District)
Kurt Schrader (Oregon, 5th District)
Harry Teague (New Mexico, 2nd District)
From How Obama Got Elected:
On November 4th, 2008 millions of Americans were shocked that a man of Barack Obama’s limited experience, extreme liberal positions and radical political alliances could be elected President of the United States. For many of these Americans, the explanation was rather simple… the news media, completely enamored with Obama, simply refused to do their job.
On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed extensively right after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. These voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience. The rather shocking video below seeks to provide some insight into which information broke through the news media clutter and which did not.
Zogby called 512 Obama Voters between 11/13/08-11/15/08 with a margin of error of +/- 4.4 points
And yet…..
A member of the Obama faithful had a wondeful idea:
“I just paid under $2.00 for gas. This would be a perfect time to Increase the gas tax a dollar. We need the money and we need to encourage alternative fuel use and public transportation. I call on congress to increase the gas tax a dollar next year and use that money for alternative energy research and infrastructure improvements. If Americans have shown their willingness to pay $4 a gallon for gasoline. It is important we don’t lose the gains of the last year in fuel efficiency and alternative vehicles due to low gas prices. Higher gas tax would also allow the government to spend on infrastructure creating more jobs.It’s a win win.”
Don’t forget, it was President-elect Obama who said high gas prices are good for America. He doesn’t mind high gas prices.
Radley Balko, from Reason.com had an intretsting article:
“My policy disagreements with Obama aside, last night was of course a historic chapter in America’s long and sordid history of race relations. Unfortunately, another civil rights issue — gay marriage — went down to sweeping defeat. In California, the Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage actually failed among white voters, 51-49. It was the 70 percent support from black voters that put the measure over the top.”
Seven out of ten black voters supported prop 8. However, liberals are angry as hell at the Mormon Church and calling for boycotts of Mormon owned businesses. Their displaced anger is pretty funny.
Limbaugh added:
“If you look at Florida’s ban on gay marriage would have passed among white voters 60-40, but in Florida, black voters approved a ban on gay marriage by a vote of 71 to 29. So black voters in Florida discriminated against gays and lesbians, and black voters in California discriminated against gays and lesbians. In Arizona, the exit polling data not yet complete, but they banned gay marriage in Arizona, 56% of the vote, 55% from white and Latino voters. “So it seems likely that blacks were more enthusiastic about banning gay marriage than other ethnicities in that state, too.” Well, Obama said he was against gay marriage, but there was a caveat, he then added he doesn’t think tampering with the Constitution for things like civil rights is a good idea, or some such thing. He just hedged his bets. He said one thing and then said another.
But here’s the irony. Ladies and gentlemen, this is why I am your host. The irony in helping achieve one civil rights milestone leads to the defeat of another. I’m not laughing about it, but still. Last night’s historic black turnout helped perpetuate state sanctioned discrimination against gay couples that want to marry. What? Snerdley? I didn’t say state-sanctioned discrimination. It’s what happened. It’s not wrong terminology, it’s what the hell happened out there. Don’t you find it ironic that on the night one great civil rights achievement took place that very achievement led to the defeat of another?
The wacky morning show, Bob and Mark from 106.5 in Alaska scored the first post election interview with… Piper Palin.
President Piper? “That’d be awesome!”
Exit polling showed the mere fact Barack Obama was black played a huge role in his victory. Byron York reports:
“The exit polls suggest that race was a factor in a lot of voters’ decisions — and that, on balance, it worked to Barack Obama’s advantage. In Ohio, for example, six percent of voters said that race was the most important factor in their decision. Among them, Obama won 59-40. Another 13 percent said race was an important factor in their vote, and Obama won among them, 52-46. So nearly one in five voters said race was an important part of their decision, and more of them voted for Obama than McCain.”
Millions of black and white voters choose Barack Obama simply because he was a black man. This goes against everything Martin Luther King dreamed.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
America did not judge the content of Obama’s character, because if they did, they would have found a man who voted against saving a babies life after a failed abortion attempt. They would have found a man who sat in a church and listened to his hate filled pastor and mentor spew vile rhetoric. They would found man who started his career in the home of an american terrorist, who bombed the pentagon and wished he could have done more.
I’m sure Martin Luther King looked down from heaven with saddness when Barack Obama was elected. It may seem like we’ve come so far as a nation, but really we just did the the complete reverse of Dr. King’s dream.
The victories last night were almost unnoticeable. However, there were a handful:
Senate
House of Representatives
Ballot Measures
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