America Needs Me

This news was a better pick-me-up than the industrial coffee I make every morning:

New York Times Profits Drop 82%.

Gosh, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of showered-up hippies. The Times advertising revenue seems to have taken a free fall into that same void from which Maureen Dowd draws her columns.

Just thought I would point out that this is the publication which continually supports the Congressional leadership whose approval ratings are in single digits now.

There’s your first cup of coincidence for the day.

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Steve Capus, leader of what has become the clown college formerly known as NBC News is defending his network’s groupie-like following of St. Obama’s overseas trip. Capus stopped just short of saying that he has issued knee pads to the sycophants he employs but did manage to get to one kernel of truth when he stated that NBC viewers “don’t mind” if Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann anchor election coverage.

True, the average NBC viewer is generally an Obama staffer who is somewhat to the left of Hugo Chavez so the network probably won’t be getting any complaint letters from the faithful. They keep Joe Scarborough around as the token Republican (”Sometimes we let him eat with us…”). NBC ceased being a responsible news organization long ago and has become nothing more than niche mouthpiece for the far left. Anyone who worked for Hillary Clinton in the last year can attest to the fact that NBC’s Obama fawning isn’t merely a product of right-wing imaginations.

Rather than issue a reasoned defense of employing Olbermann in the news division, Capus decided to trot out the ghost of Edward R. Murrow. Murrow’s relevance to the situation? Olbermann likes to spank it to photos of the legendary journalist. Beyond that, nothing.

Matthews has been embarrassing with his man-crush displays of emotion over Obama in the past six months. He’s cried, he’s gushed and he’s actually frothed once or twice. He’s done everything but put on a mini-skirt and try to flirt his way back stage at an Obama rally.

Olbermann, of course, is a classic lefty journalist who believes that First Amendment rights are only for him and those who agree with him. He’s been working through some sort of tantrum over Fox News that never seems to end (and probably won’t, given Olbermann’s “prison bitch” status when it comes to ratings vs. O’Reilly and the gang). When not leaning into the camera with body language reminiscent of a drunk at a bar and whining about all things Rupert Murdoch, he’s predictably on his knees at the altar of Obama.

And NBC is comfortable with these two covering an historic election.

Years from now we’ll all look back on this and say, “NB-who?”

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Those of you who spent the weekend doing something worthwhile may have missed the news about Al Gore sneaking into the Netroots Nation conference for a little spreading of some Nobel-sanctioned b.s. Prince Albert was his usual “We’re all gonna die next week!” self which, naturally, had the loony lefties rockin’ the short bus with songs of praise for the bloviating former resident of reality.

Gore appears to be branching off in a new direction, this time as a fantasy author with a tale of an abrupt transition to carbon-free electricity generation that’s affordable.

Gore’s non-political status now gives him the ability to say whatever he wants to the progressive hoardes and have it go unchecked. If he had told the Netroot gathering that flying reindeer were wrecking the ozone and only a magic dust made from distilled unicorn pee would save us they’d all be blogging about the need for Santa to be stopped immediately. Were you to point out the problems with using a mythical creature to rectify the situation they’d simply begin to bark “Nobel Laureate!” like so many trained Sea World seals.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens ponders just “why Mr. Gore remains believable.”

Stephens’ piece is full of facts pulled from the real world to counter the outlandish claims Gore likes to pull from his ass. Whenever Gore’s hysterical proclamations are viewed this way it’s hard to imagine why the man hasn’t been placed under a doctor’s care.

Stephens brilliantly concludes that “maybe he is believed simply because people want something in which to believe.”

Wait, was the article about Barack Obama? I better go back and check…

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…so I can make sure I have something to crap all over the New York Times when I’m busy. The Official Publication of the Democratic National Committee has proven once again that it remains the undisputed leader in media bias.

The rejection of McCain’s response to an Obama piece is over the top even for this lefty rag. One would think that an opinon page being overseen by a former Clinton administration lackey would at least want to give a tiny appearance of objectivity during a presidential campaign. In the real America that would be the case. The Times, however, doesn’t exist in the real America. It functions in its own little world of far left nonsense and an almost sexual desire for a socialist new world order to be imposed upon the United States.

David Shipley, the op-ed leftist overlord at Pravda the Times  probably fancies himself as fair-minded simply because he doesn’t spit on Republicans should he happen to encounter any in Manhattan.

The Times exists in a bubble world whose only other inhabitants are the decaying dinosaurs known as network evening newscasts. The paper has always functioned as an idea pimp for the evening news. That all are fading in relevance at the same time in not a fluke. Unfortunately, they all had such overwhelming influence for so many decades that the fade is a very slow one.

It is quite difficult to take seriously any company that employs Frank Rich as a thinker. The terrifying thing is that many people still do. Lefty elites have spent years substituting the Op-Ed page of the Times for original thought even as they claim conservatives can’t go to the bathroom without checking in with talk radio.

So, for now, I’m going to have to look for a large bird…

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Nah, probably too many amateur druggies there for Keith to be caught with.

It makes sense when you look at it from a more deranged perspective (that’s why you have me). The Man Package loses out in a game of “One of these things is not like the other” with tight shorts and a bicycle seat. The answer? ‘Roid up and shrink those bad boys down for the sake of sport and you’re ready to pump your way up the Pyrenees!

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THIS should clear up why we can’t really make nice and use the “Hug First” approach to international relations with terrorists favored by St. Obama and the Sycophantic Soldiers of Delirium.

Hezbollah gave a hero’s welcome to a child killer who was swapped for the remains of Israeli captives.

You can look at this one from every angle and find it’s completely lacking in gray area.  As I have said before, sometimes the bad guys really are bad. It is this fundamental inability of the American Left to grasp that point which makes them completely unfit to be in charge of anything at the moment. In the Daily Kos world, President Bush and the builders of SUVs are to be reviled and spit upon but Hezbollah just needs a good chatting up so we can understand it better.

I understand perfectly.

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Sensitive little things, these Obama folk. While preparing their man to be leader of the free world they found the time to get their panties in a wad about a cartoon.

They have all the money and momentum in the world over there at Team Obama. What they seem to be lacking is an understanding of satire, a little perspective and some ‘nads. (Maybe they can call Hillary and see if they can borrow a pair.)

Apparently unaware of the rich history of satirical political cartoons in the United States, Obama’s apostles were practically ready to rescind all First Amendment rights for the New Yorker this morning. They quickly recovered and remembered that they wanted to save that plan for conservative talk radio after they get elected (Fairness Doctrine, anyone?).

Here’s some information about the nature of political cartoons for any Obies who can stop weeping and gnashing their teeth long enough to learn about actual stuff. That, however, is a tough one for people who have spent the last year living on a fluffy ideological cloud of perpetual ass-kissing.

They’re probably all just acting out because they’re afraid of Michelle’s reaction…

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After flailing about for what seemed like eternity for something catchy, the McCain campaign has come up with this gem of an ad:

Love

It’s a cool, measured multi-pronged attack on everything from 60’s radicalism to the cotton-candy fluffiness of Obama’s rhetoric. Patrick Ruffini says that what makes it work is its storytelling and he’s right. It’s not quite Reagan’s “Morning In America” but it’s the best ad we’ve seen from anyone on the GOP side in a long time. The phrase about voting for a better life is the first real sign of a pulse from the McCain braintrust in recent weeks and its working better than my coffee at waking me up today.

Let’s hope they can continue to get the message out that sometimes it’s just better to have the big people in charge.

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Further crystallization of the real choices in all of the national elections next November:

Iran Tests Long-Range Missiles

and

Terrorists Attack U.S. Consulate In Turkey

These are the kinds of things that happen here in a little place we like to call Reality. Unfortunately, Reality hasn’t had any visitors from the Democratic party in over twenty years. But, hey, Obama sounds so cool when he talks about bird flu and puppies and stuff…

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Seeking to undo any gains that Hillary Clinton might have made for women in politics, Barbara Boxer has decided to open her mouth again. This time Babbling Babs is accusing the White House of a cover up regarding an EPA study about greenhouse gas emissions. It’s the classic Washington tale of a romance between a Democrat who is all hyperbole and no perspective and her devotion to a government regulatory agency which seeks to justify its own existence.

Boxer did the only thing the Democrats seem to be good at any more and held a grandstanding press conference with a disgruntled former EPA official who resigned under protest when he wasn’t allowed to pick first in kickball or something. The official offered this terrifying assessment of the report that is allegedly being covered up: ”greenhouse gases may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public welfare,” (italics mine). Well, let’s all soil ourselves at the panic button right away, then.

Government regulatory agency reports generally have three objuecitves:

1) Justify the agency’s existence.

2) Increase the agency’s budget

and

3) Find some sort of crisis that calls for an immediate expansion of said agency’s regulatory reach.

Over at the EPA the phrase “greenhouse gas” is like political Viagra and gets everyone standing at attention. The problem, as usual, is the reality of whether we nasty humans are the biggest greenhouse gas offenders or not. That requires the type of objective analysis to which most envirodorks seem allergic.

Of course, there is nothing so pleasing to a modern Democrat as the sight of a regulatory agency growing like it’s on steroids. That’s why Sen. Boxer is determined to let the EPA run amok. Nevermind that it can’t regulate the cow farts, just let it get on with the business of crippling industry! Hey, maybe we can take the regulation-induced California energy crisis nationwide!

I have to go worry about real things now…

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