Cowards Behind the Gate

Baiting the trap:

I am throwing down my gauntlet at your quivering liberal feet. I hereby issue my challenge -- the Limbaugh Challenge: Listen to the show. Not for five minutes but for several hours: an hour a day for several days. Consider what he has to say -- the real policy material under the jokes and teasing bluster. Do what your intellectual keepers do not want you to do and keep an open mind. Ask yourself: What's he getting at? Why does he say the things he says? Why do so many people of goodwill -- like that nice Mr. Klavan -- agree with him?

They can't handle the truth.

Editor Ponders Death of Newspapers

A dead newspaper editor pondered the demise of the newspaper industry in an article over at Poynter Online and traces the death back to 1949. He's right in noting that most newspapers are boring, dull, monolithic and lazily reported. There's nothing pull-quotey in the article, and the writer misses the largest, hugest, biggest problem with newspapers and why they are, suddenly, epically, going out of business: leftist bias.

How he misses that and lays the blame at the feet of three innocuous fellows is a mystery to me, because once the blogosphere came along and began exposing the socialist/fascist/leftist agenda driving the mainstream media, people began not buying the product. Oddly, this caused most media outlets to double-down on the leftism, which only sped them more quickly to the grave as the doubters in the so-called middle began to realize that newspapers weren't fair, honest and neutral arbiters of information with multiple layers of fact-checking, but were, in fact, hard-wired into the extreme left and totally intent on creating an alternate reality in the minds of readers that would cause them to want to vote for Democrats.

I'm guessing the writer was a Democratic Party leftist, and like most such people, totally incapable of self-analysis or inquisitive thought about his own ideological beliefs.

The Morons Behind the Memes

The vast left-wing idiocracy that is JournoList, nicely boiled down to a nubbin:

Eh. Like many secret societies, it's really retarded and gay once you get a glimpse behind the black curtains.

Retarded and gay nicely describes list founder Ezra Klein, a self-lauded "east coast elitist," if I remember correctly. Yeah, that post is down the memory hole.

The Liar in Chief

Lies, damn lies, and Democrat Party "truths." The truth is Obama lied during the campaign about everything, and a deluded, lied-to American populace voted for "change. In the end, all that the average Joe is going to have left is spare change:

Barack Obama used to get very upset about federal budget deficits. Denouncing an "orgy of spending and enormous deficits," he turned to John McCain during their presidential debates last fall and said, "We have had, over the last eight years, the biggest increases in deficit spending and national debt in our history…Now we have a half-trillion deficit annually…and Sen. McCain voted for four out of five of those George Bush budgets."

That was then. Now, President Obama is asking lawmakers to vote for a budget with a deficit three times the size of the one that so disturbed candidate Obama just a few months ago. And Obama foresees, for years to come, deficits that dwarf those he felt so passionately about way, way back in 2008.

It's not your money. You didn't earn it; you don't deserve it. More at Ace.

Remembering the Fallen

Idiots:

With the Oakland Police Department mourning the violent deaths of four of its own, a group Wednesday staged a vigil for the man authorities say gunned down the fallen officers.

Dozens of loved ones and supporters gathered for the evening march, organized by International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, that took participants near a police substation within sight of the two locations where Lovelle Mixon allegedly shot the veteran officers. Mixon, 26, also was killed in the confrontation.

Because innocent "nice" people always do this:

Police said Hege and Dunakin were gunned down Saturday when the two motorcycle officers pulled over Mixon. In a manhunt that followed, Romans and Sakai died when the city's SWAT team stormed an apartment where Mixon was hiding.

Of course, maybe this guy lived in The Matrix...

The Secrecy of the Vice Presidency (Shh!)

I posted this in the comments of this post at Protein Wisdom:

Who takes this “reportage” seriously anymore? Not me:

“The veep, who showed a penchant for secrecy during eight years in the White House, has popped up in media interviews to defend the Bush-Cheney record while suggesting that the country is not as safe under President Obama.”

If Cheney showed a penchant for secrecy as VP, what the eff does that say about Biden? These assclowns in the media have no awareness of history. The vice president is supposed to be a place holder, a nobody, a man on the sidelines attending far-flung funerals of former heads-of-state. It’s hilarious to consider the notion that Cheney was some off-stage string-puller with nefarious intentions and unlimited powers (i.e., “Darth Vader”) and yet, now that he’s off the stage, he’s some sad sack has-been whose “low approval ratings” somehow discredit his opinions and are an embarrassment to the Republican Party.

When is someone going to tell the Republican Party that the news media is not their friend, is not neutral, and is not honest?

I have never understood Cheney Hatred, which is a sub-strain of Bush Derangement Syndrome, I guess. You get to hate two people for the price of one, maybe? I mean, c'mon, what Vice President shows a penchant for upstaging the boss, holding press conferences, and whatever else would constitute "openness" and not "secrecy?"

The mainstream news media is made up of morons, idiots and assholes. Oh, right, and a plenitude of fucktards.

Tea Parties Galore ... Except in the Daily Rag

The Tea Party movement, ignored by the mainstream media:

But the real reason the major media aren't interested in these protests is that they don't agree with them. In the final analysis, these affairs are really taking issue with the political party they helped elect without hiding bias in the last election.

That's why a small scrum of Acorn-financed wackos on a bus tour to intimidate AIG execs last weekend made the news while the tea parties didn't.

But unlike the staged, sparsely attended Acorn event, the tea parties are national, growing and indicative of a shift of public sentiment.

This is why the local daily newspaper - or, rather, the major-city-based daily newspapers - are going out of business. They don't report the news, they proselytize leftist memes as news, and the average Internet-capable citizen (or talk radio listener) knows they aren't being informed, but preached to.

Environmentlists: Eff the Poor

On the verge of modernity, the environmentalists of the world want to shove India back into the cesspool of poverty:

Indeed, debate over the Nano points up an achingly similar question that has long plagued richer, car-centric countries in the West: How soon until governments develop truly effective multimodal urban public transportation systems?

First off, "governments" develop nothing. Second, who the hell do these well-off Western elites think they are telling a nation of poor people who are trapped to sub-par transportation systems that they can't join the modern world because of CO2 emissions (harmless) and the strain on their transportation infrastructure?

Fucking environmentalists. They won't lead by example, that's for sure.

The Beginning of the End

It's official: the honeymoon is over. Send in the clowns.

Oh, right, the clowns are running the show:

“You're sitting here. And you're— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asked at one point.

“Are you punch-drunk?” Kroft said.

“No, no. There's gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama said, with a laugh.

If only any of it were actually funny.

Mainstream Media Continues to Die Slow Death

Robert Stacy McCain chronicles the ongoing demise of the dead tree media, then disassembles some clueless college hack who has the idiotic "insight" that blogs are killing off the newspaper industry. Best part:

Has it ever crossed your mind that if newspapers are declining and blogs are growing, then the practicioners of failure ought not take a lecturing tone with the practicioners of success?

Newspapers are failing, of course, because the leftist propaganda and skewed worldview presented by so-self-called neutral arbiters of facts and information have been outed as leftist propagandists who skew the worldview in favor of a certain agenda, and most people in the country are not on board with that agenda.

Die, mainstream media, die!

Faster, please.

The Bait and Switch

Instapundit has a couple of links the the latest in the AIG bonus "scandal." This bogus Democrat Party demagoguery should wake the citizens of this country up to the realization that the left is filled with lying scumbag socialist politicians who will stop at nothing to advance their causes, including authorizing the payment of bonuses to private citizens for the sheer intent of later demonizing the recipients of those Congressionally-approved bonuses.

This is shameful. In a just world, these politicians would not only be voted out of office, they'd be run out of their hometowns or tarred-and-feathered. The question is whether the citizens of the republic will wake up to this outrage.

Th-th-th-that's All Folks!

The beginning of the end: the Seattle Post-Intelligencer finds it's way into the ash heap of history. Good riddance. Coming soon, the rest of the industry, starting with (oh please oh please) the now bankrupt Phinqy.

Hell Has Frozen Over

I don't know what it means when Maureen Dowd of the NYT excoriates a liberal Democrat like fascist President Barry O!, but it must mean something:

Barack Obama even needs a teleprompter to get mad.

On St. Patrick’s Day, the president spoke a bit of Gaelic, dyed the White House fountains green and talked about his distant relatives in the tiny Irish town of Moneygall, aptly named since money and gall are the two topics now consuming him.

I'm guessing that, pretty soon, B. Hussein O! is going to have to lose the teleprompter and expose himself as a stammering douchebag incapable of extemporaneous speaking, since even Dowd is in on the joke. And, once that happens, I have a feeling the ship of state that is Mr. Hussein O! is going to flounder, break apart, and sink beneath the waves of public contempt.

The Morons Who Govern Us

In Illinois, the new governor is a bit confused about socialism and capitalism:

Quin says, "There will be some that will have a higher tax burden—but it’ll be based on the principle that all of us in a democracy can believe in; ability to pay. My philosophy is to cut taxes on as many people as possible in Illinois."

"Ability to pay?" Where have we heard that before? Oh, yeah:

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need (or needs) is a slogan popularized by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program.^[1] The phrase summarizes the principles that, under a communist system, every person should contribute to society to the best of his ability and consume from society in proportion to his needs, regardless of how much he has contributed. In the Marxist view, such an arrangement will be made possible by the abundance of goods and services that a developed communist society will produce; the idea is that there will be enough to satisfy everyone's needs.

Clearly, we need a new class of politicians. But, more than that, we need a new class of voters. Nobody in this country seems to realize what kind of country this country is, and is supposed to be. We keep getting moronic half-twits trying to socialize the damn system, and none of these incompetent douchebags seems to have the history lessons learned: socialism under any guise always fails. It can't be done. Won't work. Can't work. It's impossible.

But that this fool Quin thinks "democracy" is founded on this illiberal principle is amazing. He's an elected politician in the United States of America and he doesn't have a clue about the system he's involved in. And, apparently, neither does anybody else in Illinois.

News Idiots Expose Their Own Secret Conspiracy

That vast left-wing conspiracy at work:

For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList.

And these are exactly the same morons who wring their hands over the decline and fall of the news industry. Idiots. It's as if they just don't get it, and, yet, they do:

“I’m very lazy about writing when I’m not getting paid,” Alterman said. “So if I take the trouble to write something in any detail on the list, I tend to cannibalize it. It doesn’t surprise me when I see things on the list on people’s blogs.”

The dots, they need connecting. Only, Alterman isn't anywhere near bright enough to do so. He's lazy about writing when he's not getting paid, is he? I wonder if that translates over to doctors and nurses under a nationalized health care system?

The only thing you know for sure after reading this article is that everyone is lying.

The Morons that "Rule" Us

They're idiots, and idiots keep voting them into power:

The cigarette tax is a great example of Big Government hypocrisy on Big Tobacco. They claim to want to penalize smokers for the health-care costs they create through their nicotine addiction, but the funds will go primarily to health-care costs to non-smokers: children. In reality, they needed a big new revenue stream to pay for another giveaway, and decided to get it from smokers.

Nor is that the only hypocrisy. Most nanny-staters claim that they’re acting in benefit of smokers by increasing taxes, as that will provide further incentive for them to quit using the product. However, if people actually did stop smoking, it would bankrupt government, which needs a large smoking tax base to provide billions in cash on state and federal levels. If we propose the reverse — if we outlawed tobacco rather than taxed it — would Congress eliminate S-CHIP? Of course not. They’d just look for something else to tax.

In the end, the morons who vote for these chumps end up footing the bill. And, the rest of us, too.

The "Reality Based Community"

(W)hat the Democrats don’t want to reveal in all of this is that they don’t need the GOP to pass any of their legislation. They own the government. It’s theirs. Success and failure is all theirs to hold. This is the goal that they’ve spent most of the last eight years trying to reach. And now that they have?

They’re scared.

Alec Baldwin on Tax Policy

Mike at Cold Fury: "Is there anything in the whole world more supremely despicable than a limousine liberal? If there is, don’t tell me; things are sickening enough as it is."

Click to find out why.

He's Just Not Into (the) US

The proof that our president is a complete and total idiot presiding over an administration of unthinking dunces:

British prime minister Gordon Brown thought long and hard about what gift to bring on his visit to the White House last week. Barack Obama is the first African-American president, so the prime minister gave him an ornamental desk-pen holder hewn from the timbers of one of the Royal Navy’s anti-slaving ships of the 19th century, HMS Gannet. Even more appropriate, in 1909 the Gannet was renamed HMS President.

The president’s guest also presented him with the framed commission for HMS Resolute, the lost British ship retrieved from the Arctic and returned by America to London, and whose timbers were used for a thank-you gift Queen Victoria sent to Rutherford Hayes: the handsome desk that now sits in the Oval Office.

And, just to round things out, as a little stocking stuffer, Gordon Brown gave President Obama a first edition of Sir Martin Gilbert’s seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill.

In return, America’s head of state gave the prime minister 25 DVDs of “classic American movies.”

These morons can't get gifting right, and they want to run the US health care system. And, this article doesn't even mention the idiotic "gifts" Michelle O! gave the Brown's boys. And, no state dinner, no dual presser, nothing. Tell me again why you morons voted for these clowns. Hope? Change? Complete and total societal collapse married to a global depression?

Meet the New Morons

Well, they're not new, they're just in charge, now:

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe as secretary of state when she mispronounced her EU counterparts' names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe's.

Clinton has set herself a grueling pace on visits to Egypt, Israel and Brussels soon after touring the Far East, attending dozens of meetings and giving speech after speech, with little time worked into her schedule for sleep.

Tiredness appeared to show Friday when she answered questions in front of 500 young Europeans at the European Parliament, where she was the highest-ranking U.S. visitor since the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1985.

A veteran politician, Clinton compared the complex European political environment to that of the two-party U.S. system, before adding:

"I have never understood multiparty democracy.

"It is hard enough with two parties to come to any resolution, and I say this very respectfully, because I feel the same way about our own democracy, which has been around a lot longer than European democracy."

The remark provoked much headshaking in the parliament of a bloc that likes to trace back its democratic tradition thousands of years to the days of classical Greece.

I thought the American electorate voted in a team of super-geniuses who knew everything, not idiotic nitwit incompetent pinheads who don't know anything.

Or, maybe it's just that Hillary is a super-fucktard:

GENEVA—After promising to “push the reset button” on relations with Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to present Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a light-hearted gift at their talks here Friday night to symbolize the Obama administration’s desire for a new beginning in the relationship.

It didn’t quite work out as she planned.

She handed him a palm-sized box wrapped with a bow. Lavrov opened it and pulled out the gift—a red plastic button on a black base with a Russian word “peregruzka” printed on top.

“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” Clinton said as reporters, allowed in to observe the first few minutes of the meeting, watched.

“You got it wrong,” Lavrov said, to Clinton’s clear surprise. Instead of "reset," he said the word on the box meant “overcharge.”

You know, I'm not so sure it's not the right word.