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Newsday is dawning over the Obama giving us the propaganda MO bravely introduces a hoola hoop while BO is cutting CEOs pay – I guess Newsday is earning the status of “News organization”
while free paper AM-NY is telling us who is going to pay for those salaries in the future
and the Daily News offers a bit of scadenfreude on the former candidate for head of Homeland Security – as well as Giuliani Police Commissioner
..And to those wondering about the war on Faux – remember OTV?
Complete with its own logo?
Teh One is continuing the mop flying tour, bringing his act to Wall Street where he is wagging his finger
even as he is collecting their money. Some old donors miss the mop session though
Part of the reason, several Democratic fund-raisers and executives said, is a fear of getting caught in the public rage over the perception that Wall Street titans profiting from their government bailout may use their winnings to give back to Washington in return
The IKEA in Glasgow door gets a possible Jesus (h/t The Confluence) – but maybe Gandalf . I clearly recognize the druid Getafix who was fixing Asterix’s power potions.
Over at WaPo, they are crying oppression again,
whilst hoping to outbreed us in the end
The culture war is up for grabs. The good news is that religious conservatives continue to breed like rabbits, while secular saboteurs have shut down: they’re too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids. Time, it seems, is on the side of the angels.
To think all this time I thought angels were asexual!
Over at CNN, they are fantasizing about girl fight again and mopping (there’s that word of the day again) over the results
Sixty-five percent say they have a favorable opinion of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and 64 percent say they view first lady Michelle Obama favorably. Both women rate higher than the six in 10 questioned who view Obama in a favorable light. Forty-five percent say they have a favorable opinion of Vice President Joe Biden, 5 points higher than the four in 10 who view Biden unfavorably.
“It’s not surprising that Clinton tops Barack Obama on the favorable ratings,” says Holland. “Secretaries of State don’t get blamed for economic problems or unpopular domestic policies, and they often don’t get the same share of the blame as the commander-in-Chief for international slip-ups either. But typically, the first lady gets even better favorable ratings than the Secretary of State, so the fact that Clinton’s numbers are slightly better than Michelle Obama’s is a bit surprising.“
And, back to the White House, a witch hunt has started for Fox News, because their opinions of their opinions are bad.
One can only wonder what did Axelrod and Roger Ailes agree at their last meeting as Paul Begala astutely notes how this is beneficial to both party by both boosting ratings and rallying koolaid base.
Such is the burning question in Bobotland – and they even found a poll to measure this from a site named “my future spouse dot com”. I also found it interesting that the questions must differ by gender…Anyway, after they get measured, B0bots rush to report the results – shame on you, 39 and 46%! I think Booman should take you out of the party. Yes, the discussion of the pathetic “it’s payback time” article still elicits cheers, but also the most ironic post to come from B0botland:
168. Okay, so…we should stay home in 2012 because we’re not welcome anymore?
Gee, who are the PUMAs now?
Maybe it’s better when one makes those choices for oneself then.
Outside of B0botland, former allies are not taking the future spouse test. In fact they are falling by the wayside in droves – and here’s a good collection of such fresh dissent.
The most surprising was seeing that MoDo was able to take her head out of Darcy’s behind long enough to pen a column that even has some facts they all carefully held from us last year
In Springfield, he compromised so much on a health care reform bill that in the end, it merely led to a study.
And I loved the Vaclav Havel story too:
Havel, the 73-year-old former Czech president, who didn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize despite leading the Czechs and the Slovaks from communism to democracy, turned the tables and asked Smale a question about Obama, the latest winner of the peace prize.
Was it true that the president had refused to meet the Dalai Lama on his visit to Washington?
to which he concluded:
“It is only a minor compromise,” he said. “But exactly with these minor compromises start the big and dangerous ones, the real problems.”
And besides, respectable people like Helen Thomas are put off by the war against Fox
White House ought to “stay out of these fights.”
“They can only take you down. You can’t kill the messenger,
And I wonder, how much would Charles Blow score on the love test? About as much as he would on a test about W?
At the town hall in New Orleans, Obama appealed for patience. He said, “Change is hard, and big change is harder.” Is that the excuse? Now where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah. From George Bush.
Jusging from the wealth of criticism from unexpected places, maybe the loyalty check was called for. I wonder how many took it and didn’t report back – or reported a fake result? Not a poll anyone will take these days.
Most tabloids today are taking on the baloon boy hoax they helped spread before
with Obama cheerleader Daily News being especially vicious
But Murdoch’s NY Post has started sliming Bill Thompson (Bloomberg’s opponent) as the zillions of attack ads in our mailboxes and on the TV are not enough
More interestingly, Giuliani trots along Bloomberg in racist neighborhoods, making racist threats if we don’t elect his buddy
Mr. Giuliani did not mention Mr. Bloomberg’s Democratic challenger, William C. Thompson Jr., by name. But during the first of two campaign events alongside Mr. Bloomberg, he said that not long ago many parts of the city were gripped by “the fear of going out at night and walking the streets.”
That “not long ago” was before his term when we had a black mayor. Interestingly enough, no word from the Democratic party calling him on it. I suppose the race card only belongs now to a selected club.
After all, we now know that the famous race memo in Obama campaign had to have been completely controlled by the campaign. We know that because the campaign communications director Anita Dunn just boasted recently:
President Obama’s presidential campaign focused on “making” the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was “controlled,”
“”Very rarely did we communicate
through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control,”
yeah, the source is iffy – and they extend a statement made about the campaign to the White House – but what she said about the campaign is illuminating enough – and these are her words caught on video
update of October 20
And yet another hoax catches our media pants down
A CNBC anchor interrupted herself mid-sentence Monday morning to announce that the network had “breaking news,” then cut away to reporter Hampton Pearson, who read from the fake press release.
Oh, but I thought only Fox was not news…
In what I call some surreal turn of the tables, the man who negotiated our right to affordable medical care away, went to his B0bots to shake some more donations and had this to tell them:
“It’s a pretty mess you got me into, but I forgive you,” he told his California supporters.
“That’s how I feel about you. You’re all forgiven.”
All of them? Even the lefty fringe in their pajamas? He must want to please his insurers, pharma pretty much to feign such generosity. And, as he told Ed Rendell during the campaign, after all, it was the checks not the people he was interested in anyway. I suppose this would be an improvement over the “bitter” speech – or maybe the forgiveness is for those sins, he attributed us then. Who knows?
Although I have a sneaky feeling that it’s just B0bots giving them the big bucks in that audience who get the forgiveness…
In other absurd developments, the Nobel jusry tries to defend their blunder by asking – seriously:
“Who has done more for that (development of peace) than Barack Obama?”
Umm, let’s see: anyone who didn’t continue/escalate 2 wars, said Blackwater got a bum rap and generally viciously attacked anyone not voting for him? or as Reverend Billy says
The bombs will float and hesitate and change direction from computers in Florida and Missouri and the soldiers at the computers will know that Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And so they will be consumers of a war that is now being marketed as a product named Peace.
So – it has come to this. War has finally captured Peace.
But maybe even more absurdly is the jury’s projected use of the word “patronizing”:
Aagot Valle, a left-wing Norwegian politician who joined the Nobel panel this year, also dismissed suggestions that Obama was undeserving of the honor.
“Don’t you think that comments like that patronize Obama?
No, Aagot dear. Patronizing is according to dictionary.com:
displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner
and that’s exactly your attitude towards Iraqis and Afghani occupied by the US as well as whatever anti-war movement we got left after the great bait and switch. Them and the rest of the world which sees the reality. No one patronizes Obama. It’s actually Obama who patronizes his supporters, whether he calls them fringe, betrays them or he forgives them.
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