“What were you thinking letting those two stay in our barn?”
“The woman’s pregnant — she’s going to have the baby any time now. What’s the harm?”
“Why doesn’t she go to a hospital then?”
“She can’t — the governor signed a law preventing people from other lands from using our hospitals.”
“Well, I still think you made a mistake. Why don’t they stay at a hotel or something?”
The Sleaze and Cheese That Please
Laughable: Rumor is Rudy Giuliani, now married to ex-mistress Judi Nathan, has got his roving eye ogling again, seeking a henpecked married man’s solace from his smothering, haranguing wife. (Judi KNOWS Rudy only too well — look at how they met and how he divorced former wife Donna Hanover.) Could an ample-figured New Hampshire patriotress be the object of his affections, and will our steely Big Media reporters who have noticed the heat mention his new flame in print? (P.S.: Pinching a woman half your age solidly on the fanny is not seen as a mere sign of affection, even for an aging Prince of the City.) Will there be more public cell phone calls in the future as Dame Judith of the Hamptons checks up on her leering Poppa Bear? (more…)
Media Note: Word is Rachel Maddow getting her own hour on MSNBC is nearly a done deal. With snarky twerp Tucker Carlson set to get the heave-ho in mid-January, his time slot will be wide open. Maddow’s co-host isn’t settled yet, mainly due to a rumored war in the exec suites over how far to go — liberals and other progressives will get a chuckle out of this: The contretemps is supposedly over whether to go full-out far-left wing with the Maddow show or just Olbermann strong progressive. (more…)
So here’s a quick recap, so much to dig into If I got paid I could not cover it all:
1) Hillary is sinking. This is not the most important story of the week, but I guess it has the most interest. What a surprise. A candidate turns her back on the activist base of her party to appeal to people that will never vote for her. You know why Hillary? Because your name is Clinton and THEY HATE YOU. Just look at what Steve Adubato had to say on MSNBC:
In order to get the spending bill passed, the fence will now not be double, this so GW can get his money for Iraq. I’m sure he’s smiling – and the charge is being led by Kay Bailey Hutchison, a republican!
See article below.
Spending bill shrinks border fence
- The Washington Times
Congress last night passed a giant new spending bill that undermines current plans for a U.S.-Mexico border fence, allowing the Homeland Security Department to build a single-tier barrier rather than the two-tier version that has worked in California.
The spending bill, written by Democrats and passed 253-154 with mostly their votes, surrenders to President Bush’s budget demands, meeting his spending limit with a $515 billion bill to fund most of the federal government and setting up votes to pay for the Iraq war. But Democrats reached his goal in part by slashing his defense and foreign-aid priorities to pay for added domestic spending.
– If you caught Mitt Romney’s wincing performance on Meet the Depressed Sunday, Dec. 16th, then you already know — the Mormon-with-one-M ‘Bidnessman’ with his ‘two-part answers’ is the Republican John Kerry and politically DOA; the only thing missing on Timmy Russert’s throw-down was a shovel and gas mask. The mental Mitt-jit didn’t just flip-flop, he rolled in circles like a roulette wheel of hypocrisy; whatever slot the ball happened to land in this time around was the winner, whether it be abortion rights, stem cell research, gun control or what have you. A rough sample of Romney rant: Doctors should be subject to maybe, possibly losing their license to practice medicine if caught doing abortions — from a guy who thinks it’s murder? Stem cell research? Let me be as opaquely clear as I can — if I talk long enough perhaps they’ll find a cure and it’ll all just go away. Guns? I was agin ‘em before I decided to run for president and signed up for my lifetime membership in the NRA. By the way, did I remind you I really hate Hillary? (more…)
– How the Big Media Does It, Language Lesson Part 984 in a Long Series: Listen closely to the BM newscasts — Bush is always “turning up the heat” or “strongly challenging Congress” on Iraq War spending bills; the Dem majority is always trying to “bring the president to the negotiating table” or “find a way out without looking weak on terrorism,” even though a majority of Americans are against Junior and his war. “Keeping the heat on,” “strength” and “challenge” versus “negotiating” and “weak on terrorism” — loaded language, and it’s straight out of Frank Luntz’s propaganda playbook. Of course, the softly-recumbent, non-combative styles of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid don’t help either.
This is going to be fun.
Almost could not ask for a better primary season. Though I know if you are reading this, you will not be voting in the Repugnitant primaries, but I will start with them. I will run all the major candidates on both sides. Sorry Tom Trencadero fans I know he is running, I know he is a racist and said Miami is not part of the USA. I kind of agree with him on that, but I would not know the guy if he came up and punched me in the face. So, if a political animal like me does not know him, what chance does he have? Hey Tom, save your money buddy, just some friendly advice.
So I would like to start with the King, Rudolf Giuliani, but before I get to him, you just have to read this post by Murray Wass in thehufingtonpost.com. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html
This is really explosive but also very sensitive, if you or anybody you know has been a victim of a vicious crime you may not want to read it or protect them from it. I am in that situation and I know there is one person that I know should not read this.
But OK, back to the fun, Il Duche Rudolfo, many people know him as the hero of NYC and it’s understandable as that is the way he is portrayed constantly in our media. I have to admit this image has some merit. (more…)
With a hat tip to Jeff Foxworthy, it’s time to play:You Might Be a Neocon If…… you believe Bush and Cheney are moral men with your best interests at heart…. you believe Bush’s press secretary Dana Perino (or any Bush press secretary in the past) is actually telling you the unvarnished truth…. you don’t want to pay a dime for national health care, yet expect a taxpayer-funded emergency room to treat you immediately after you’ve had an accident… you think Bush is right even when he’s proven wrong, again and again. (more…)
http://www.kfsm.com/Global/story.asp?S=7477614A few days ago, several Acambaro restaurants in Northwest Arkansas were raided as part of an investigation of their harboring and employing of illegal immigrants. While this was not particularly shocking, what surprised me was that the four owners of the business were also arrested as illegal immigrants.While I am not familiar with all of the permits and things needed to open a restaurant, I am sure that there must be some step in the process that requires identification. Maybe they had false documents, but I would think that someone, somewhere, would have asked for a birth certificate or some form of paperwork verifying legal residency.When someone circumvents the system, they possibly block those who are here legally from attaining the American dream. Who knows whether some of the other Mexican restaurants in the area that have closed are ones run by legal immigrants that were forced out of business by the Acambaro restaurants?While I feel that immigrants should be free to open any business they choose in our country, I believe that only those who are here legally should do so. Anything else is a mockery of the dream that has sustained immigrants for many years in the past and for years to come.
Roger Ailes and Fox News Notwithstanding, Giuliani Was Running On Ego and Fumes; Sunday’s MTP Performance Finished Him Off
“‘Sometimes you look back on some of these choices and you made the wrong one,’ he [Giuliani] said [of Kerik in 2004]. ‘In this case, he turned out to be the right one.’”
– Michael Powell, “Giuliani missed Kerik warning signs,” The New York Times, Nov. 3, 2007.
“So Mr. Giuliani … once again said that he had made ‘a mistake in not checking him [Kerik] out more carefully.’”
– Michael Cooper and William K. Rashbaum, “Kerik’s Case Dogs Giuliani,” The New York Times, Nov. 9, 2007.
There was Rudy, fencing with Big Russ’ Boy Timmy on Meet the Press Dec. 9th, exuding all the desperation of the accused killer pleading to the judge that, although he’s ‘made a few mistakes’ in his life, he’s not guilty of that double murder, even if his bloody prints are on the weapon and the prosecution has video tape proof.
“One-tenth … run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don’t know what the hell’s going on.”
– Jake Simmons, an American industrialist.“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
– John Maynard Keynes“In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.”
– David Korten
It was right there on the grainy video aired on PBS’ “Now” Nov. 23rd, a bunch of good ol’ white Oil Boys up in Alaska snickering like bullies at recess at their successful bribery of the state’s politicians to get their way. The head of this fetid crew was Bill Allen of VECO Corp., who even went so far as to have ballcaps printed up with “CBC” on the back to pass out to his pet lawmakers, a little private joke between them as “CBC” stood for “Corrupt Bastards Club.” If you want to see what the heads of corporations, much of our national media, and many in Congress really think of democracy and the ‘peasantry’ they rule — the 80 percent of the US population they habitually deceive and cheat — watch the video, it says it all; it is the blubbery sneering “I own you!” face of greed and abusive power, the secular evil that is destroying America from the inside out.
Also: Next at MSNBC?
– Tired of the ‘First in the Nation’ Primary Madness?
New Hampshire is a poorly-cut Wonder-bread-white wedge of a state, the narrow part facing north, with most of it’s tiny population (about 1.3 million compared to 2.8 million in the city of Chicago alone) accumulated in the plump southern end. So what gives little NH the right to arrogate to its puny self ‘first in the nation’ primary status? And why does pork-fed Corn King Iowa (population 2.8 million) and their ‘caucuses’ have such inordinate influence on our electoral process? Iowa’s largest city is Des Moines, with a mostly white population of about 173,000. Stacking this up next to large cities on the order of Chicago, Detroit (1 million), Indianapolis (774,000), Columbus, Ohio (654,000), Milwaukee (590,000), St. Louis (590,000), or Minneapolis/St. Paul (500,000), it shows they aren’t even representative of most Midwestern states. (In fact, the combined population of the cities listed is greater than the combined state population of NH and Iowa.) (more…)
Her Influence Nearly Gone, She’s Still Out There Slipping Further Into Inconsequence as Reality Proves Her Wrong — Even to Many Conservatives
“Facts are stupid things.”
– Ronald Reagan, at the Republican National Convention in 1988.
On Dec. 3, 2007, C-SPAN aired a speech Ann Coulter gave at the National Press Club in Washington on Nov. 28th, sponsored by the neocon Young America’s Foundation and it’s Orwellian adjunct, something called the National Journalism Center, which has as much a relationship to real journalism as Ann’s Christianity has to the principles expressed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. The NJC is very proud that Coulter herself went through their program twenty years ago — which gives you a good idea of its journalistic worth — and invited her to address its 30th anniversary dinner.
Appearing a tad raccoonish in her heavy black eye make-up, Coulter’s negligible grasp of fact and logic has now exited stage right completely, leaving her resembling nothing so much as a piece of smirking Swiss cheese framed by long blonde hair, shakily babbling with intermittent coherence into a microphone. (more…)
As Mike Huckabee rises in the polls, an inevitable process of vetting him for conservative credentials is under way in which people who know nothing of Arkansas or of the circumstances of his governorship weigh in knowingly about his record.
As his political consultant in the early ’90s and as one who has been following Arkansas politics for 30 years, let me clue you in: Mike Huckabee is a fiscal conservative.
A recent column by Bob Novak excoriated Huckabee for a “47 percent increase in state tax burden.” But during Huckabee’s years in office, total state tax burden — all 50 states combined — rose by twice as much: 98 percent, increasing from $743 billion in 1993 to $1.47 trillion in 2005.
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The Tattlesnake — CNN Through the Ages Edition
What if the cable news channel had been around earlier in history?
The Roman Empire, circa 33 A.D.:
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, I’m Wolfus Blitzus and this is CNN! Breaking news in Judea, where our army has tried and executed a Jewish religious zealot who challenged the authority of our forces of liberation there.”
WB: “We’ll take you now to Candius Crolius, embedded with our troops in Jerusalem…”
CC: “Wolfus, I am standing near a hill outside of Judea’s capital city, where a dangerous terrorist has just been executed and a palpable sigh of relief has gone up among our peacekeeping forces here. This man, Yeshua bar Joseph, was a threat to peace and order that a crowd of his countrymen released a convicted murderer rather than let him go free.”
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