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I can see now why Joe Biden is such a media darling. He is the court jester who blurts out the truth without fear of repercursions because …he’s just Biden after all…
Just as Krugman is trying to prop Teh One to the Brits
I’m increasingly happy with him. I was unhappy; I think they could have gotten a bigger stimulus coming out the gate.
Biden spills the beans to Meet the Press
“Everyone guessed wrong at the time the estimate was made about what the state of the economy was at the moment this was passed.”
To me, besides canceling the now reformed Krugman, this sounds like Condi’s
“no one could have predicted that they’ll fly the planes into the buildings”
he even elaborated
“No one realized how bad the economy was. The projections, in fact, turned out to be worse. But we took the mainstream model as to what we thought — and everyone else thought — the unemployment rate would be.”
It’s a good thing it comes from Biden, l’enfant terrible of the administration. A few chuckles, then the press will resume their adoration. While people are stuck with the consequences of the mistakes.
Is this another first mistake? But who’s counting?
In other countries that is.
They are doing that now in Iran, they did it in 2004 in Servia, they even had a recount that reversed the results in Romania 2004…
For reasons easy to understand, our media doesn’t even bother covering the Iran unrest following the electoral coup
As the Iranian election aftermath unfolded in Tehran–thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest their anger at perceived electoral irregularities–an unexpected hashtag began to explode through the Twitterverse: “CNNFail.”
Even as Twitter became the best source for rapid fire news developments from the front lines of the riots in Tehran, a growing number of users of the microblogging service were incredulous at the near total lack of coverage of the story on CNN, a network that cut its teeth with on-the-spot reporting from the Middle East.
Here’s their silence captured in real time
Why would that be, I wonder? Could it be, because Teh One is also the beneficiary of a stolen election and declared he would ignore the unpleasantness in Iran as well?
The Obama administration is determined to press on with efforts to engage the Iranian government, senior officials said Saturday, despite misgivings about irregularities in the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Notice how they call them “irregularities” – like they did with Bush’s 2004 “victory” Anyway, the reactions as collected by NYT are THAT cynical
“The U.S. will have to worry about being perceived as pandering to a president whose legitimacy is in question. It clearly makes the notion of providing incentives quite unappetizing.”
Yup. Stolen elections aren’t quite what they used to be… Hey, anyone seen Jimmy Carter?
As for the photo in this post, or the banner of this blog – May 31 2008 in DC – never happened.
And don’t even try to post those photos on facebook – your account will be suspended right away. Without cause.
Let me start that since The Enquirer broke the Edwards story, I am willing to lend tabloids more credibility than the so called MSM.
Second, any rumor, self-perception of Obama being gay is relevant in light of his blatant anti-gays policies. Michelle’s efforts to deal with the fallout would be delicious in light of her “if you can’t run your house” comments
Plus one of the more “respectable” tabloids already did a cover on the Obama’s rocky marriage
So, here comes The Globe:
All you can get on line is this summary
FURIOUS Michelle Obama insists a new baby will silence – once and for all – a controversial writer who claims he had a gay fling with the President, insiders say. GLOBE brings you the exclusive word on the First Lady’s pregnancy shocker. It’s must reading for every American.
For the rest, you must get busy in line at the supermarket. I did and unlike other Globe fare on Obama , this one seemed to me a mix of credible and wild speculation. It’s probably because of the way I feel about Lary Sinclair – the only thing boosting his credibility is the intensity of the efforts to silence him up (turned up the cause for his arrest was bogus)
The Globe (which, let’s not forget, used to take on the Bushes as well) barely touches on Sinclair, dealing with the far more interesting aspect: Michelle’s reaction.
I have some trouble buying that Michelle’s team asked publishing houses to pass on Sinclair’s book as a personal favor to Michelle – but I am sure someone was designated to do it.
The pregnancy rumor is a bet that time will confirm or disprove but they say “they are trying” after all . I do believe Michelle as someone who would think another baby would quell gay rumors and establish Obama’s manliness.
The part that I absolutely buy is the PR campaign to show Obama as a macho man
“with photo ops of the President playing basketball, throwing a football and practicing his golf”
Because, it’s a well known fact, gay men are unable to do any of those things, let alone all of them…
I notice bawling has been left out of the macho remake – maybe since a non-courted M0Do called him effeminate after his ridiculous attempt to appear blue collar for the Pennsylvania primaries (not to worry, a courted Dowd upgraded him to “Darcy” in due time)
There is one item in Michelle’s macho PR campaign which sounds like fun to watch:
She even ordered staffers to make sure barack wasn’t pictured alone with any man unless it was official business
OK, kids – believe the Globe or not – your choice. But have fun watching exaggerated reporting of the couple’s affections
or the macho sportsman, or the lack of another man in “non-official photos”. You may even have a shot game – every time these things occur.
To me, the self-hating homophobe with his wife desperately trying “to run her house” are providing me with some measure of schadenfreude..
After days and days of furor directed at the Letterman jokes, NOW finally decided it was time to say something.
And they said it well, to be sure, covering the kids aspect, the way Chelsea Clinton was treated, how political sides are no excuse for demeaning of women. They even said
Letterman also joked about what he called Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” — yet another example of how the media love to focus on a woman politician’s appearance, especially as it relates to her sexual appeal to men.
Which is wonderful – and very, very, very late.
Where were you when they were calling Hillary names? I only remember the post-portem
“NOW’s president, Kim Gandy, said her members would remain alert: “We’re going to keep watching because we think Michelle Obama will be the recipient of the same kind of attacks that Hillary was.”
Thank God you remained vigilent on Michelle while declaring Palin was not a woman
Gov. Palin may be the second woman vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket, but she is not the right woman.
So, you may imagine why Dave got a bit confused about all the mixed messages. Maybe he understood from you and all the other “feminists” that Palin was a dude, therefore offense-proof. Maybe he thought that now a days , that’s what a feminist looks like
and not them objects with skirts and slutty looks…
That being said, we hope that you’ll be able to stay awake long enough to see sexism and misogyny even when coming from Teh One.
I am still waiting for your reaction on his defense of the women’s right to wear a hijab?
Or the one about Obama not asking Sotomayor about her position on choice rights?
It would be nice if NOW could actually respond to events as they happen – not a week later – as in this case. (NOW, not later)
Still, your taking on Letterman was the bravest thing you did in a long, long time.
Let’s see you actually speaking truth to power next time, and maybe your credibility may start being restored.
Or better yet, as the Reclusive Leftist recommends, change their leadership
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Letterman responds to the Palin joke outrage: it was the older daughter I fantasized being raped, not the younger one. Now you’ll come on my show?
“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter, the 18-year-old girl, who is – her name is Bristol, that’s right, and so, then, now they’re upset with me…”
“These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter.
Except as, few noticed, as the 14 years old news was all over the internet, he made another joke about the daughter who visited NYC
Letterman followed up on the line Tuesday night, joking that “the toughest part of her visit was keeping [former New York Gov.] Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.”
Oops!
And on the subject of hatred and Freudian slips, it’s worth mentioning Obama’s mentor revealing his colors by identifying the generic fallback culprits: the Jews
Asked if he had spoken to the president, Wright said: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me.
and also:
Wright also said Obama should have sent a U.S. delegation to the World Conference on Racism held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, but that the president did not do so for fear of offending Jews and Israel.
“Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing (by) the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don’t want Barack talking like that because that’s anti-Israel,”
The good mentor needs to brush up on the meaning of “ethnic cleansing”
Update
Finally, NOW woke up from the contemplation of the male feminist in the White house and said something
The sexualization of girls and women in the media is reaching new lows these days — it is exploitative and has a negative effect on how all women and girls are perceived and how they view themselves. Letterman also joked about what he called Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” — yet another example of how the media love to focus on a woman politician’s appearance, especially as it relates to her sexual appeal to men.
Not bad, but when I recall them joining the wolves during the campaign, smacks of hypocrisy. just a bit. Still, nice they noticed.
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