The American Spectator

CB| 12.11.09 @ 6:52AM

I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or puke....

Appleby| 12.11.09 @ 6:56AM

I am hoping that next November some of these people wake up and look at the people they are in bed with and wonder what in the world had happened.

Looking at the Bedfellows involved makes Tiger Woods look ascetic.....

Anthony| 12.11.09 @ 1:48PM

How true. But let's not forget leftist media wingnut numero uno, with schmered red lipstick, Helen Thomas', recent line; "This Thanksgiving, I'm giving thanks for a black president."
Baby, these folks ain't just twisted, they are Jonestown wannabes with Kool- aid water coolers in their kitchens.

Ret. Marine| 12.11.09 @ 7:19AM

"It has nothing to do with him being black" How much clearer could it have been said? Yeah, right now in the current state of affairs of the lame stream mental midgets the word kiss-ass has to be number #1 in the making of idiots who think like they do catagory.
This is what reporting has become? Never mind the Conservative movement has some legit reasons to consult the American public of what is to become of their beloved home land, we must contend also with the boobs of the airwaves and talking heads of the " oh look it's me, I'm so important" knuckleheads of false smiles, opinionated numbness of anything revelent.
Yesterday I was suprised to see an article written by my son, currently serving in Eastern theatre, on the front page of our local paper. I was suprised to notice he followed my advise of years ago in the methode of KISS, or keep it simple stupid. He wrote of factual, historical and open knowledge of a certain subject that all could relate to but, have never been there. Nothing opinionated, just facts.
Fact, this president has more in common with the presidency of FDR and Carter than he does with Lincoln or Regan. Fact, if the American population, as a whole, were as educated as say people like our founding fathers, they'd know and could have spotted this fraud comming down the rails long before the election. But, hey why let the facts get in the way, right!

rusino| 12.13.09 @ 4:53PM

"But, hey why let the facts get in the way, right?"

You should never bother a liberal with facts when they are dealing with their feelings!

The Bishop| 12.11.09 @ 7:35AM

If one takes the view that Ms. Kopechne's tragic and untimely death prevented Sen. Teddy from ever gaining possession of the Oval Office, then there may be room for some debate. However, that being said, I'm with MomoGoGo, I need anothter shower.

Etiquette Man| 12.11.09 @ 7:52AM

Quin is certainly right to go after the media, but this is his schtick. We're at Step 3 of Quin's formula, to wit:

Step 1. Tell conservatives to "calm down, take a breath, blah, blah, freakin' blah." (He did this in his last column.)

Step 2: Tell said (now pissed off) conservatives that they misunderstood him and need to "grow up/calm down/re-read his article" when in fact they understood him perfectly. Thusly does this chameleon change his stripes. (He did this in the comments section of his last article, as he does in virtually every "calm down, conservatives" article.)

Step 3: In order to keep readers from revolting, write a "red meat" piece that we will all agree with. (Like this one.)

Step 4: Repeat.

Get ready for another column about how we conservatives need to "calm down/take a breath/not get overconfident/yadda/yadda/yadda/blah/blah/freakin'/blah. "

It's coming.

Not Quin| 12.11.09 @ 7:58AM

As usual, Etiquette Man, you missed my point. In my last article, my interest was not in dispiriting conservatives in the least. I am encouraged by the grassroots groundswell, but also concerned that it could get out of hand.

Now, I write an article that you agree with, and you still criticize. I just can't win, can I?

Rather than come after me with your preconceived notions of what I am saying, why not try actually READING what I write and responding to it, rather than attacking a straw man of your own creation?

Etiquette Man| 12.11.09 @ 8:01AM

"Not Quin" is me, of course.

Just trying to save Quin the time and effort.

Since his replies to readers' comment seem to come from a macro he has programmed into this computer, they are fairly easy to predict.

I can't wait to see how close I got . . .

:-)

Quin| 12.11.09 @ 11:22AM

Why, Etiquette Man, howsoever did you figure me out? I thought I was being so devilishly clever the way I have been manipulating your emotions. But you caught me! Yes, that's exactly what I am doing, just for fun. It's all part of my devious plot for mind control. Now that you have figured me out, I feel so cheap, so tawdry. Can you ever forgive me/
Either that, or else you can read all my columns as coming from the exact same philosophical framework as each other, a framework that just happens to differ from yours by a small degree of tonality, and then ou can either agree or disagree with what I say without attacking my motives or my character. But because your own default macro seems to be permanently affixed to the "bile" setting, maybe that's too much for me to expect or ask.

a man over thirty| 12.11.09 @ 7:57AM

I have long honored Ms. Kopechne for the inarguable effect her unfortunate death had in thwarting the presidential ambitions of the Senate's "liberal lion." She single-handedly prevented an idiot/coward/hypocrite/dolt from gaining the presidency solely because it was "his turn."
What Ms. Lafsky wrote on the Huffington Post is a perfect example of the outrageous assumptions that underly liberal thinking.

Etiquette Man| 12.11.09 @ 8:04AM

Well said and sadly true.

That poor woman did us all a greater service than she could ever have imagined by keeping that cretinous lout out of The White House.

Even so, I doubt that he could have been worse than the Bamster, though.

Scott Martin| 12.11.09 @ 1:24PM

If only Obama had his own Mary Jo, we could have been saved from our current disaster-in-chief.........

FREEDOMFIRST| 12.14.09 @ 3:58PM

Shades of LOVELY BONES.... MaryJo judging if her demise was worth it......oh yes, if your murder by that coward kept him out of the White House.....I thank you for it.
This, by far, is the worst quote of the year.

Larry C. Roberts, MD, MA| 12.11.09 @ 8:58AM

I doubt that Ted Kennedy is in any place or position to ask the late Mary Jo what she thinks about her martyrdom.

R. Dittmar| 12.11.09 @ 9:10AM

This is probably the first time I’ve been able to read the yearly Notable Quotables without getting even a little bit steamed about the left-wing sycophants in the media. It’s now become clear that Obama is a completely self-absorbed empty suit who is totally lacking in any sort of common sense. There is no question that he will fall embarrassingly flat on his face time and time again during the next three years. Also clear though is the fact that the MSM is totally committed to spending the entirety of those years giving the guy tongue baths. His embarrassments and failures now redound to them just as much as to him. The press used to slobber over Clinton and his shifty wife too, but at least they kept the two of them at arm’s length. At that time they were still possessed of a little tiny little kernel of common sense and knew that deep down they were a pair of grifters. Now that The One is in charge, that common sense is long gone.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.11.09 @ 9:51AM

Quin,
Making fun of the idiots is fun.......but what if they are not idiots at all?
For the life of me, I cannot shake my memory of the "press" in The Alan Drury Series "Preserve And Protect" brrrrrrrrr! chills.

Al Adab| 12.11.09 @ 10:44AM

Wasn't the anchorman in those books named "Frankly Unctious"? How prophetic Alan Drury was. Besides they were a lot of fun.

Modern "lame street media" to quote Palin, simply serves as a cheerleader for the Left and this President. All to our detriment. Is anyone doing a critique of policy and performance? They hatchet some and puff up others according to thier elite lights (Self annointed as Thomas Sowell would say) and our self -governing nation suffers.

Klabautermann| 12.11.09 @ 10:08AM

Many in the "mainstream" media are irrationally invested in Obama. As he declines, as he inevitably will, they will follow him because their credibility is at stake. They do not realize that the more they support him the more they damage their depleted store of credibility. As far as the humunculus Olbermann's description of Michelle Malkin as a "big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it." He did not mean that in a negative or hateful way. Liberals do not hate. However, some may misinterpret media's criticism of conservatives like Malkin. Their problem is that vast number of rational people will be able to judge for themselves. If a rational person sees Michelle Malkin and she does not come across as "big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it," who loses credibility? If the White House says the president did not bow and photos clearly show him bowing, who are people to believe?

J. Grindle| 12.11.09 @ 9:10PM

Klabautermann:

You say Liberals do not hate but you forget the words of fmr DNC Chm Howard Dean. How can you say that liberals don't hate when they openly insult and vilify anyone that doesn't agree with them. You have forgotten the way that Senator Joseph Lieberman had been treated by the Democrats. They ran a Dem against him and tried to force him out of his seat and committee positions during his reelection bid and when he ran as an independent and won, they tried to ingratiate themselves with him. With the repeated comments from Julianne Malveaux about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings saying that his wife should feed him lots of eggs and butter cause black men die from heart attacks and clogged arteries; how can this not smack of hate!

I am an American, I'm a Veteran, I'm conservative and I am black. for all these things I am hated by the left and even more so because of my ethnicity cause I'm not supposed to be a conservative but a social class victim and depending on the Government for my every want and need. If you want to continue your conciliatory view of Liberals not hating conservatives then do so at your own peril.
Threats do not cease unless they are recognized and stopped.

gepaza| 12.12.09 @ 7:41AM

J. Grindle, I think I would like to have known you over the years.

I am an American, I'm a Veteran, I'm conservative and I am a White Southerner. For all these things I am hated by the left and even more so because of my belief that black Americans should be held to the same accountability for their actions as any other citizen, and the failure to do so is the most insidious form of tyranny (through racism). That tyranny of the left is designed, I believe, to force you to live as a "social class victim and depending on the Government for my every want and need."

I do not know anything about Klabautermann, but I read the "Liberals not hating conservatives" as a sarcastic comment. There is no way that anyone can believe that Olbermann is not a hater to the core!

Bob| 12.11.09 @ 10:34AM

The Mary Jo comment was the worst.

At some point one has to walk away from the political and enter the real world of every day events. But, that is the difference between central planning and free people. So, we're back to the old arguments. I'm firmly on the side of allowing my neighbor to cut his own grass on his own schedule (or not cut it) without the IRS, DEA, or EPA police hauling him off. This controll stuff is just too much!

Mattled| 12.11.09 @ 11:29AM

We need a plan to combat this garbage passing as news.

I like this line I heard last night---"Must Flee TV".

I know I have. No NBC----don't care---don't miss it. Ever.
Same with CBS
Same with ABC.

Buh-bye.

Oh--CNN too.

Read a poll backwards? Check.
Make up stories? Check.
Claim a radio talker made racially insensitive statements (He was actually reading a story by a WaPo lib--LOL)? Check.

They should just combine ABC, NBC, CBS and call it DNC.
Must Agree TV comrades!

Marcell| 12.11.09 @ 12:42PM

We need a plan to combat this garbage passing as news.

By Mattled

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You do have a plan, but it aint working. Ours is though; we are ahead of schedule.

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

How to Win in a Debate With a Repuglican

*** On September 22nd, 2009 BLACK CELL*** said:

Here's a test for Fighting Dems.

"What's wrong with the video that goes with this story?"

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.....ton/sto...

You don't have to answer that question, just make it look different by winning the debate in that video..

This is How it Should Look Next February:

1. The Dow at 10, 200 or more.

2. The Dems viewed as fighters for the middle class & small business.

3. The Republican Party seen as a Party that is controlled by crazies who are all over the map on issues; most of their ideals have been wrong, case in proof, the person they voted for, in many cases twice, in the past elections... BU$H.

4. The Democratic Party should be known as the party who are cleaning up the mess made at home & overseas created by Bu$h, The Dick Cheney, along with the Republican officails (The Crime Family) that helped marketed his ideals with their votes.

5. Have a sound message for Democrats who live in middle America with information that undermines the Right -Wing; The message also has to help gain political ground on the Repuglicans who dwell the common folks in Red States.

I haven't said & will not say it much becuase I am trying to K.O. The Right... "We have been whipping the Wrong-Wing every since the

Presidents State of the Union speech."

SUN TZU'S THE ART OF WAR

Translated from the Chinese
By LIONEL GILES, M.A. (1910)

16. While heading the profit of my counsel,
avail yourself also of any helpful circumstances
over and beyond the ordinary rules.

17. According as circumstances are favorable,
one should modify one's plans.

18. All warfare is based on deception.

19. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable;
when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we
are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away;
when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

The call for American passion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

With that said, this is a battle we Fighting Dems are looking forward to winning playing the REAL good guys version of Smash Mouth Football.

Here's to you Ol'Texican | 12.11.09 @ 12:48PM

Turn this up!!

=)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB4D-GbQ9A4

Marcell| 12.11.09 @ 1:11PM

Just a little calibration, before I go back to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9IoIY7ghY

celebration | 12.11.09 @ 1:12PM

=)

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.11.09 @ 1:20PM

Well heh!
I don't understand eubonics very well, but it seems that guy is one pissed off Negro suicidal maniac.

The only message I got there...is ... I dearly hope the black panthers or the SEIU show up at the NEXT national elections polling places. Heh.

Now we understand just how stupid they are. oops!

You want a race war? You really want a race war?
Are you sure you want a race war?

...Trust me...you do not want a race war.

There are too darned many fine black Christians who will give us fellow Christians a heads up.
Idiot.
Well folks, ante up. We gonna' have to spend money on a few new prisons.

Rhonda Welsch| 12.12.09 @ 4:29PM

Seems the argument against Conservatism has been best addressed by J.D.Pendry-Seargent Major,USMC,Retired - the media should be called be called : America's " AXIS of Idiots" as their collective stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important than our national security or the lives of innocent civillians and soldiers." I personally believe that they are as much or more guilty of terrorism than the Gitmo prisoners they have set free! The political correctness and mindless editorializing will most assuredly be responsible for the greatest bloodshed in our Nation's history if they do not wake up! The irony and sheer stupidity thet is exhibited by these so called "Journalists" is embarrassing to me when I read it because IO hat eto think that most people around the world read this and think that this is how Americans think! The editorial elitists are in no way capable of speak for us any longer. Where is Thomas Paine when you need him? What we really need is plain old "Common Sense".

Marcell| 12.11.09 @ 1:29PM

Hi Old Texican

I want you to promote that theory, so we can get more of this:

December 10, 2009: Beck - Not So Mellow Gold

http://www.thedailyshow.com/wa.....ellow-gold

... "Smile!!"

=)

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.11.09 @ 2:44PM

Hey Marcell...I thought you were french.
Sorry! My mistake.
Since you are a pithed off black person, I shall give you a pass...but...heh...no more money.
I won't follow any more stupid links to stupid rappers either. They are even dumber than you. heh.

Die Fledermaus| 12.11.09 @ 1:45PM

Hmmmm...wonder if we could convince all these idiot liberals that Obama would be the president for life if they'd just kill themselves.

Northern Rebel | 12.11.09 @ 2:47PM

I can't help but notice, rather than debate the issues with words, the socialists refer us to youtube websites that nobody cares about, and shows nobody watched.

Have they compared John Stewart's numbers to fox news lately?

Brian72| 12.11.09 @ 4:37PM

Interesting that you went through this entire media bias exercise without even mentioning once the brightest example that really drives these people to extreme foolery, and really exposes their true level or corruption.

I mean of course, Sarah Palin.

Really, what kind of review of media bias and hate of conservatives from the past year can be assembled without even one use of her name?

Outside of the fawning worship of Obama, Sarah Palin vs. the Lib Media is THE conservative media analysis story of the year, yet you chose not to even mention one example.

Don't get me wrong, the example you provided are worthy ones. The Michelle Malkin story is really revealing about Olberdouche's attitudes toward right leaning ladies. However, Sarah Palin gets that sort of treatment and worse every single day from that whole damn network, and all of it's twins around the dial. This is a really glaring, conspicuous absence. Bias by omission, perhaps?

You get an Incomplete on this essay.

Brian72| 12.11.09 @ 4:51PM

Given the mindless ferocity of liberal hatred focused on Palin, she can never expect the media to treat her with the reverential deference that Obama customarily receives from reporters. All she asks is that they stop "making stuff up," but even this seems too much to ask, causing her critics to accuse her of "whining."

Fortunately, she won't need any favors from CBS or CNN to reach thousands of Americans face-to-face in the coming weeks, as she embarks on a national book tour that is sure to attract massive crowds at every stop along the way. Palin announced the schedule, as she announces everything else, on her Facebook page, which has a readership larger than Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC audience.

Why do they hate her? Because Sarah Palin is guilty of a sin for which liberals can never forgive a Republican: She's more popular than they are. And everybody knows it.
.............................................................................

The above quote is from an article by Robert Stacy McCain, from this very website. linked below. I guess you decided to leave that Palin stuff to him, eh Quin?

That's alright. He did a good job so you don't have to write about "that woman".

WRJonas | 12.11.09 @ 5:12PM

Yeah. The Mary Jo comparison took the cake . Teddy's behavior and lack of compassion for his victim was the bottom of the liberal barrel.
The Lefts rush to save his worthless hide was a disgrace that stinks to this day.

Mr.Heifetz| 12.11.09 @ 6:19PM

The fawning drivel that comes from Chris Mathews and others of his ilk is matched only by the gushy stuff about mindless celebutards that may be found in the estimable and entirely responsible glossy tabloids at the supermarket checkout. Such writers and the subjects of their respective fascination can only be characterized as mindlessly prurient, hysterical, and generally dull.

Margie| 12.11.09 @ 6:57PM

The Lame Stream Media continues to worship at the altar of Obama.

It is sickening. I am disgusted. And I am so glad I haven't had a t.v. for several years. Otherwise I'd be even more sickened and more disgusted.

Good work MRC & Brent Bozell. (Always like seeing him (computer) and/or hearing him on radio.

*"Lame Stream Media" courtesy of Sarah Palin. :^)
p.s. Yes, I agree that the complete imbecile who made the Mary Jo comment is the worst.

Marcell| 12.11.09 @ 8:32PM

Hi Old Texican

Yeah, maybe I do wish that I was as dumb as many of those famous rap artist are, because their ignorance seem to be paying like it weighs, unlike conservatism.

The video made the point that I am not afraid of your parties fear tactics . As a matter of fact, I will help you promote your flawed attempts to create a story line for us.

Yeah, I want you to buy into the typical white supremacy rhetoric about an hypothetical race war that you anti-government repugs would certainly lose; we have chosen to use our government to defeat you.

I can care less about any of the racist; black & white. So, I am begging you Repugs to keep up the good work of being our useful idiots... Bigots on a national level.

I have been asking myself, "How the hell are the so called socialist beating them?" Because, you by into the repug media bull sh!t, & most American don't .

Most of your news is b.s., because it is riddled with misinformation & opinion.

Marcell| 12.11.09 @ 8:37PM

Keith Olbermann - How Fox News is inventing the news and manipulating the audience.

http://video.google.com/videop.....amp;hl=en#

Define conserva- Bla bla bla | 12.11.09 @ 8:49PM

Blaming the competition for exposing your con, instead of owning up to the facts.

Here is example:

Margie| 12.11.09 @ 6:57PM

The Lame Stream Media continues to worship at the altar of Obama.

It is sickening. I am disgusted. And I am so glad I haven't had a t.v. for several years. Otherwise I'd be even more sickened and more disgusted.

-------

Check this out:

Fox News Edits Criticism of McCain Out of Daily Show Clip?

http://video.google.com/videop.....1476472630

... 1 ...2| 12.11.09 @ 8:57PM

"Faux we are coming after you. "

Video Fox News Lies I of III - Fox, News, Iraq, War, Hannity

http://video.google.com/videop.....2360464135

...3 ...4

& your blind faith whores (Repug base).

Here's to you Ol Texican | 12.11.09 @ 9:02PM

Fox Attacks: Black America

http://video.google.com/videop.....3526214529

The Repug media is a joke| 12.11.09 @ 9:12PM

Glenn Beck Admits That He Is A Racist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

Ps. Most liars can't remember all their lies.

More usefull idiots | 12.11.09 @ 9:18PM

Teabaggers Exposed: Meet The Anti-Obama Group!

(These People Have No Idea What They Are Protesting Against)

http://vodpod.com/watch/222969.....ng-against

Misters of Misinformation | 12.11.09 @ 9:55PM

Dear Ol Texican

What ever happened to being a well informed conservative?

I wonder if you people have ever realized the role that you are playing in helping dumb down our society by putting your blind faith in the conservative media lies; you are indulging in the worse form of narcissism with you support for them.

Remembering what happened to Baghdad Bob & all of his lies.

I call him Baghdad Ru$h because the Repug hardly ever tells the truth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s27Oq5ot0ZI

Marcell| 12.11.09 @ 10:25PM

Margie| 12.11.09 @ 6:57PM

The Lame Stream Media continues to worship at the altar of Obama.

It is sickening. I am disgusted. And I am so glad I haven't had a t.v. for several years. Otherwise I'd be even more sickened and more disgusted.

Good work MRC & Brent Bozell. (Always like seeing him (computer) and/or hearing him on radio.

-------------

This is your self made conservative prison.

http://www.veoh.com/browse/vid.....08aja2QaWG

JoshINHB| 12.13.09 @ 5:39PM

Dude,

Put the bong down. And climb out of your gramma's basement.

Mondo Frazier| 12.11.09 @ 10:42PM

Only good manners curtailed the urge to hurl when reading these quotes.

stmichrick| 12.11.09 @ 10:59PM

There's a programming opportunity for FNC here; 'Amerika's Funniest Liberal Media Videos' !
- a weekly half hour of clips, featuring regular Matthews and Olbermann segments, but leading with the weeks' 'serious journalists' bubbling over with deferrance to Obama and hatred of Rush.

Margie| 12.12.09 @ 7:38PM

Good idea. But with commercials for Pepto- Bismal in between.

Yosemeti Sam| 12.12.09 @ 1:21AM

Suggestion:

To counter the Pavlovian instincts of the LMSM to bite and rabid the minds of ignorant Americans vis a vis Americas' true crucible-fashioned history:

Link to website on how to buy striped paint per LMSM tutorials.

Whence, reassurance that it comes in all colors!

When it don't work out - the color schemes -
progressive dupes will know for sure that the LMSM is not on the up and up.

That ought to fix the LMSM good - in the veracity
department. The party will be over!

LOL.

Dear ol Texican| 12.12.09 @ 3:57AM

You wouldn't believe that I ran into the most powerful people in the world on the internet, back in 2005. They don't talk much, but they sure seem(ed) to listen & put in work.

I was just thinking about it...???

What I have witnessed within these last 5 years.

I, personally, feel like have helped make the untied states a better place for all. There has also been some great men & women ( Progressives & Liberals) who have been blowing me away with how they make it happen..." It is amazing." I believe the people that have been following many of my leads, as I theirs, are on the same level as Martin Luther King, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, & all the other mythical & down right pioneers, who made this country great for all of God's children, including Ol Texican as well.

I can remember, back in 2005, saying that, "I can beat Karl the Marx Rove," when everyone was saying that he was untouchable." Defeating the Bu$h Crime Family was an amazing victory. It started with using the news to bust up the repugnant lies. I basically did the same thing that I am doing on conservative sites, because I love debating conservatives, & they, the Fighting Dems, love watching me redefine conservatism in all sorts of entertaining ways; it seems to inspire the politicos.

Beating Hillary was also amazing. We whipped on her team so good that she ended up going over to Faux News fishing for white voters, like repugs, & it didn't work... I also enjoyed watching them trying to misinterpret the political playing field like you repugs as well.

I believe that it is our destiny to be at this moment, facing the toughest repugs America has to offer. Believe me, we are still fighting the Crime Family faction of the Bu$h Crime Family. You can tell by their rhetoric.

We are going to clean up the Republican Party. Please help us free your political party from the Right-wing frauds like Beck & Limbaugh.

Beck - Not So Mellow Gold
Glenn Beck drives up the price of gold by fanning the flames of fear, but not because he's a paid spokesman.

Gwen Beck| 12.12.09 @ 3:59AM

Glenn Beck drives up the price of gold by fanning the flames of fear, but not because he's a paid spokesm

http://www.thedailyshow.com/wa.....ellow-gold

To Dummycrat| 12.13.09 @ 4:09PM

Pretty funny, Beck - who makes millions on his TV contract, books (first in history to have a #1 on four different NYT lists) , tours, etc. is responsible for driving up the price of gold (horror!). And not Obama and the Democrats, who are now printing so much money so fast to pay off their cronies that they actually have to raise the debt ceiling by over 1 TRILLION dollars. Good understanding of macro economics, and typical of your ilk.

Lavaux| 12.12.09 @ 4:23AM

It's a tossup between Friedmann and Lafsky because they demonstrate their common belief - the progressive belief - that human life and liberty are disposable should they get in the way of progress. If they ever made me supreme dictator, my first official act would be to line them both up against a wall, blindfolded, and have them explain to me and my firing squad why their lives matter more than progress.

tpitman| 12.12.09 @ 7:31AM

This was originally written as a response to the original article on Mary Jo as posted at HuffPo . . . needless to say they refused to post it.
"Surely you jest. I'm sure Mary Jo was thinking just what a wonderful man Kennedy was and the good things in store for the nation with him as a Senator as she took her last breath. Other than by his own testimony, he made no effort to get help, nor did any of his friends or family. Had he at least stopped by one of the houses along his way to request help, he'd have been given the benefit of the doubt, but he shows up in court wearing a prop and is given the minimum sentence that could be mustered. He gets an "annulment" from his wife of over a decade, then proceeds to live the life of the wastrel he was bred to be. The "civility" he's so frequently enrobed in by his peers must have been at the cleaners the day he took the podium on the Senate floor to tear Robert Bork apart. And at the end, he sends Obama to the Pope to beg God for a reprieve of his human failings, with a note that, in spite of the fact that he's always been the champion of abortion, he'll make sure there's a provision in the health care bill that Catholics OF faith would be excused from participating in a procedure that's anathema to the Catholic church. How nice of him. Lastly to speak of his great sacrifice of the presidency, as though it was an entitlement through royal lineage, is absurd, but I suppose not to those who saw anything Kennedy as being above the rest. He was a cheat, a drunk, and an unremarkable soldier. Everything he had was handed to him, and his societal position was achieved through no effort or accomplishment other than that of his corrupt father "gettin' lucky" one night with Rose.
I'd have been more charitable in my opinion of him if, following the accident at Chappaquiddick, he'd left the Senate to QUIETLY find some mission through which he could work to help bring about the values he's so often heralded as having. Instead he hung on to his privilege and position like grim death, which, ironically, is the one thing he's been unable to cheat."

bluecollarbytes| 12.12.09 @ 8:28AM

I was enthralled as well at the sight of a U.S. president and his Mrs getting on a jet plane, headed to far away lands so he could sup with mysterious powerful leaders of other strange peoples. Oh yes...he also has a mind and it works. I haven't read descriptions of his eating and toiletry habits yet but I'm sure it would reveal a guy who has both. Don't ask me why, it's just one of those things I know.

sherlock| 12.12.09 @ 10:28AM

How can you publish a list of media paens to Barack Obama and leave out NPR's Dan Schorr? Only a few weeks ago Dan clarified the true meaning of Obama's trip to Asia for us: it showed that he was getting serious about the unemployment situation. Yes, that was on NPR, not the Onion.

Hayek| 12.12.09 @ 10:38AM

All leftists are equally ridiculous, but the Lafsky remarks about Ms. Kopechne are particularly egregious, even for that bunch.

Oldefarte| 12.12.09 @ 11:06AM

Of all mentioned, the worst [IMO] are Olbermann [his being an aging momma-boy with possible a wig/fake hair, according to Coulterlends to his vile putridness] and Matthews [apparently a disguised (maybe not] homosexual resembling a MSM Chaz Hilton wannabe that is likewise repulsive]. All of these people obviously have MANDINGO completely memorized. As to THE POLITICAL MESSIAH'S saintlyness, please recall that the sports/golf MSM have previously had similar TINGLES UP AND DOWN THEIR APPENDAGES over THE GOLF MESSIAH; and look at the factual realism that is now facing these elitest MORONS!!!!!!!!!!

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.12.09 @ 12:21PM

Ladies and gentlemen,

I cannot express my delight well enough. I don't have the words.
When these little twits throw stuff at me, each of you get a deeper and deeper understanding of how confused they truly are.
Each of you begin to understand that they have no clue about what happens if they actually get their fantasies come true, and we productive citizens are successfully harnessed like mules to do their plowing for them.
When, like the stubborn mules we are, we sit down in our harnesses.....they literally starve.

Let me repeat that. They may literally starve to death.
They are nothing more than parasites on our society, and if they got their way, they would starve the very "mules" that sustain their non-productive little lives.
Fortunately for America, they are a small lunatic fringe. It is simply beyond them to ever understand the complex, fragile, economic infrastructure upon which they rest their weary little heads.

It is simply beyond them to even imagine the "Mule" truck driver not delivering their food on time, or the mule farmer refusing to plant a crop for a year.
In their wildest imaginings, they cannot picture what their world would be like if the “mules”in the oil fields simply closed the valves, and the mules in the coal mines parked their equipment....for even a month.
As I sat quietly last evening I found myself weighing and balancing government power versus the power of we who know how to do all the things that the twits do not:
. ...planting...harvesting...engineering...building...wiring...practicing medicine ...delivering ...milling ... etc. ad finitum.

Do they really believe we will do all these things we know how to do… at the point of a gun?

For many years in our country, small groups practicing civil disobedience have caused some serious “inconveniences” across the country.

The twits still do not understand that we "mules" will, sooner than later, run out of patience. We won’t even have to indulge in civil disobedience on any large scale. We will only have to take a month’s vacation with our feet up…and watch the lights, (uh electricity), go out coast to coast, while we watch the food-store shelves gradually empty.

So, in the final analysis, if the twits got their fondest wishes, they would be the twits ground under the consequences first…and worst…by their own best buddies in the gubmint.

As I cast my final thoughts into the future last evening, I realized once again that next November, (2010), if the communists manage to rig the elections, or indeed somehow make them irrelevant, then DECEMBER is the very best month to put our feet up, or to use an earlier metaphor…simply sit down in our harnesses for a month…with a long cold winter on the way.

You know…I slept very well.

Bart Fargo| 12.12.09 @ 3:48PM

Sure hope Teddy becomes a great senator! Mary Jo's last thoughts as she was abandoned and left to drown.

I suppose all blacks who were lynched in the democrat south should be grateful that Robert Sheets Byrd became a great senator as well.

Steve| 12.12.09 @ 4:44PM

It seems a real distortion of reality to idolize a politician for passing legislation which merely takes the taxpayer's money and gives it to those who don't have any (keeping a little for themselves in the processs; but that's another story). That's what thousands of liberal politicians have done. Where's the heroics in that? That is not to say that poor people should not have the opportunity to earn the money they need to live and grow. But, having a government official take it from one citizen and give it to another is certainly no reason to think of said government official as anything more significant than - repeat - a government official taking money from one citizen and giving to another. Now, if said official/person were to earn the money themselves through their own honest labor, then give it to the poor, then that would be a life to be honored. I think the Newsbusters Thanksgiving comedy clip sums it up best - conservatives give thanks to God for His blessings, while liberals give thanks to [whatever their 'god' du jour is] for giving them others people's stuff! (my rendition might not be exact, but the humorous message is the same). In any case, if we can't find a way to laugh at the liberal's fantasy world, then it would be just too depressing to contemplate the tough fight we have ahead of us. But, nevertheless, fight we must. America (and her founding principles) are too big to [let] fail!

cindy graham| 12.12.09 @ 5:42PM

If you can stomach watching Chris Matthews every day, he will reward you with something choice. The problem is, I would put him in same category as Roseanne and Lily.

Sam H| 12.12.09 @ 9:43PM

Marcell,

Back to work? You are, therefore, familiar with the concept of having a job?

I beg you, again, to please honor us with your impression of Marceau.

J. D. Lindskog| 12.13.09 @ 1:51PM

Can you say, 'JUNK JOURNALISM'.

To The Texican's ( Repugs)| 12.13.09 @ 4:03PM

You have a choice.

You can chose to support the corruption & be condemned along with your corrupter, or you can choose the gift of forgiveness.

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Jeremiah 29:11 (New International Version)

11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Bishop Charles Edward Blake: LET IT GO!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPFzmdXM0U0

1-bean@sbcglobal.net| 12.13.09 @ 8:58PM

How dare you take the Lord's name in vain?

I shall give you another scripture: "...To whom much is given...much is required."

This country with all her scabs, can still be worthy of her "much is given".

Fist though, we gotta, get the lying communists out of power...one way or another.
Get over it.

Marcell| 12.14.09 @ 12:44AM

1-bean@sbcglobal.net's Conserva-bla

Fist though, we gotta, get the lying communists out of power...one way or another.

Get over it.

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.

~Mark Twain

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If Faux News were on trial in this blog non of you could be fair enough to sit on a jury.

With God & all the virtues of truth on my side, how can I fail?

Faux News represents the worse form of journalism there is whiten the U.S..

Repug Hosesty Check| 12.14.09 @ 12:52AM

It seems a real distortion of reality to idolize a politician for passing legislation which merely takes the taxpayer's money and gives it to those who don't have any (keeping a little for themselves in the processs; but that's another story). That's what thousands of liberal politicians have done. Where's the heroics.

By Steve| 12.12.09 @ 4:44PM
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Republicans lead "pork" spending lists: report
Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON
Wed Apr 2, 2008 3:52pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress, trying to appear frugal with taxpayer dollars this election year, found on Wednesday that some in their own ranks topped a list of "pork" spenders in a watchdog group's analysis of government waste.

BARACK OBAMA | BONDS

The annual survey by Citizens Against Government Waste claims that 11,610 special-interest projects were stuffed into spending bills approved by the Democratic-led Congress last year at a $17.2 billion cost to taxpayers.

But according to the survey, it was individual Republicans who pushed the most "pork" last year. In addition, the three House of Representative Republicans who sponsored legislation calling for a moratorium on such spending all engaged in the practice, the report said. They are Jack Kingston of Georgia, Zach Wamp of Tennessee and Frank Wolf of Virginia.

For months, House Republican Leader John Boehner has been leading a crusade against such projects, known as "earmarks," which routinely benefit lawmakers' hometown districts.

Boehner, of Ohio, has called for suspending "pork" spending this year and has criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, for not yet agreeing to do so.

On Tuesday, House Republicans tried and failed to advance their earmark moratorium. Last month, the Senate overwhelmingly rejected a similar proposal.

House Republicans have attacked Democratic Rep. John Murtha for delivering a pile of special-interest funds to his western Pennsylvania district.

But according to the report, two House Republicans bested Murtha: Roger Wicker of Mississippi, who recently became a U.S. senator, and Rep. Bill Young of Florida. The two scored $176.3 million and $169.5 million in earmarks respectively, beating Murtha's $159.1 million.

'BRIDGE TO NOWHERE'

In the Senate, the top three spenders were Republicans, who together scored about $1.8 billion in home-state projects. Those senators are Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Richard Shelby of Alabama and Ted Stevens of Alaska, who was roundly criticized a few years back for winning approval of a "bridge to nowhere," and has been reported to be the target of a federal corruption probe.

All the top spenders are members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees, which dole out federal dollars.

Opponents of the special-interest projects argue that they do not receive adequate oversight by Congress and often are inserted into legislation at the last minute.

Many lawmakers who back earmarks say they help deliver jobs and public works projects to hometowns. They also point out that the funds represent less than 1 percent of federal spending and that reforming other parts of the budget would be more meaningful.

Suspected earmark abuse has led to some reforms, including making the spending more open to public and congressional scrutiny.

Among the "pork" outlined in the watchdog group's latest report:

--$123,050 secured by Sen. Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, for a Mother's Day shrine;

--$3 million by House Majority Whip James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, for The First Tee, which aims to promote the game of golf among young people. The money was inserted into a military spending bill;

--$188,000 by Maine's Republican senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and Democratic Rep. Thomas Allen to help the Lobster Institute, which the report said is working on a "Lobster Cam" and developing lobster dog biscuits.

As for the three U.S. senators running for president: Republican John McCain had no earmarks last year, while Democrats Hillary Clinton delivered 281 projects to her home state of New York, costing $296.2 million, and Barack Obama had 53 projects totaling $97.4 million.

(Editing by Vicki Allen)

BARACK OBAMABONDS

Marcell| 12.14.09 @ 12:57AM

I am going to use this blog as an example of how you conservatives are truly unethical people who fake like you are honest Christians.

You worship your bigotry more than you appreciate honesty.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.14.09 @ 9:42AM

Hi Twit,
You must be running out of ideas. I'll just utilize the magic of the scroll button from now on.
Heh.

Albert Frevele| 12.14.09 @ 9:43AM

How do these people keep a job? This is not journalism, by any measure. Chris Matthews could be the modern Josef Goebbels, if he were that intelligent. Goebbels knew he was lying. Matthews? I doubt he is actually aware of much of anything beyond counting his toes. These people keep their jobs despite obvious incompetence simply because Americans watch their programs and read their screeds. If no one watched them, they would be fired for non-performance. But the same people who watch these goons also voted for President Bozo, and despite his falling poll numbers, President Bozo is still popular and still wins mock election polls. This is the most frightening (implied) aspect of this article, that the American People are fat, dumb, and happy with all this. The real winner of the bad journalism "competition" is the imbecilic American viewer who economically keeps these buffoons afloat.

Marcell| 12.14.09 @ 9:52AM

Albert Frevele were are your examples of Mathew's lies?

I have made my case, now make yours.

Tony in Central PA| 12.14.09 @ 1:54PM

Its ironic that despite the proliferation of news sources on TV and the internet, there's less actual news than there was 30 years ago. Reporters now don't know how to investigate or report. I don't think most of the people mentioned in Bozell's column are intellectually capable of providing a definition of objective journalism. Ugh !

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