Yes there were no similar protests over Bill Clinton's appearance at the Golden Globes.

I don't even know what to say anymore.

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Checking her bio, she says she's a Friars Club member, which I take to mean she tried to be a comedian but failed, so she just started going on TV as a "pundit."

She went on to declare most fat-asses are from the south.

What a charming woman. (We were all thinking it.)

She said this in defending Michael Bloomberg's nanny-state laws. Of course those were largely promulgated to take freedoms from overweight black people in NYC. Not a whole lot of Southern Republicans in NYC.

Meanwhile, other micropersons from the Party of Ideas and Reason are trying the same basic act.

Hannity apparently had a highlight reel of a show last night. Keith Ellison had an aneurysm last night.

"No, you are!" Echolalia is a sign of a degenerating brain, isn't it?

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Posted by: Ace at 10:47 AM | Comments (370)
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She's very angry about it.

Angry, and mystified. And culpable.

"No good answer." Extraordinary.

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Bob Woodward is calls it "a madness" he hasn't seen before.

"Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, 'Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget document?'" Woodward said.

"Or George W. Bush saying, 'You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need?'" Or even Bill Clinton saying, 'You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters,' ... because of some budget document?"

The Defense Department said in early February that it would not deploy the U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf, citing budget concerns relating to the looming cuts known as the sequester.

"Under the Constitution, the President is commander-in-chief and employs the force. And so we now have the President going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement. 'I canÂ’t do what I need to do to protect the country,'" Woodward said.

"ThatÂ’s a kind of madness that I haven't seen in a long time," he said.

Video at Newsbusters.

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From the Hollywood Reporter.

DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said Tuesday that layoffs already have begun and that 350 of the studioÂ’s 2,200 employees will have been let go by yearÂ’s end.

“These things are very, very difficult to do,” Katzenberg told The Hollywood Reporter. “I would say it’s the hardest thing I’ve had to do since we started DreamWorks. We’ve never had to lay anybody off. It was against our culture. But it’s the right thing for us today, and it makes DWA strong going forward.”

And then, of course, there's this:

Last August, DreamWorks Animation announced plans to develop a $3.1 billion cultural and entertainment district in Shanghai, in conjunction with a group of Chinese partners – complete with theaters, performance halls, restaurants, shops and an entertainment center decked out with a “Kung Fu Panda” theme. The projects has been billed rivaling New York’s Broadway and London’s West End.
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That source also said the potential forthcoming U.S. job losses could be linked to DreamWorks AnimationÂ’s growing developments in China.

Recognize the name Jeffery Katzenberg? He was Obama's largest bundler and he also personally donated $1 million (along with Steven Spielberg) to Obama's super PAC Priorities USA.

This would probably be a bigger story, but Mitt Romney Jeep Italians China something something.

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Happy Wednesday.

Since November, I've been saying that the GOP doesn't need to make major policy changes, rather it needs to make some communications changes. One of the things I've been suggesting is that GOP candidates should engage low-information voters by going to them rather than hoping that something will filter down to them from the more traditionally political channels of information that they don't, as a matter of course, pay attention to. These people are not reading National Review; they're not even reading the New York Times or watching CNN or the nightly network news broadcasts. Low information voters watch the Daily Show, they read US Weekly, they like Food Network, and they watch TMZ.

GOP candidates' first order of business in reaching low-information voters will not be policy arguments. It will be demonstrating that they are not actually the boogeymen that the Democrats make them out to be. Sen. Rubio's already got the right idea. He's been on the Daily Show twice. Now, he's giving excellent answers to TMZ about Tupac. First comes culture, then comes policy.

Of course, it's not just about reaching low-information voters. The candidates will have to do the more traditional song-and-dance, too. If Sens. Paul and Santorum want to make a real go at it, they need to get moving on this stuff.

S.E. Cupp is pulling out of CPAC over the exclusion of GOProud. It seems that once a year we do this dance, first when GOProud was a sponsor of CPAC 2010 and 2011, and then when GOProud was excluded from sponsorship -- or even purchasing a booth -- following the CPAC change of management in 2012. My own view on this is that GOProud should be allowed to attend; certainly if there's room for the Poker Player's Alliance and the John Birch Society, there's room for a relatively more conventionally conservative group like GOProud.

Other highlights of CPAC 2013's struggle to live up to its theme this year -- Building the Future of Conservatism -- include failing to invite the most popular Republican governor (and 2014 head of the Republican Governors Association) Chris Christie and failing to schedule a single program, seminar, or speech about fixing or replacing Obamacare, Medicare, or Medicaid. (It seems that the GOP, and not just conservatives, is giving up on that little project.)

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Take the Civic Literacy Exam

Sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies institute whoever they are. Be sure and read the questions carefully.

I got a 30 out of 33 which ain't bad but not as good as I expected. I blame society. And the French. 

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Unserious:

1. Sequestration cuts of $85 billion are impossibly painful, the equivalent of asking Uncle Sam to perform an appendectomy on himself with a nail file, but

2. ObamaCare adding $6.2 trillion to the deficit - nearly 75 times the size of the sequester - is no big deal...

I agree with Rush -- for the first time in my life, I'm ashamed of my country.

Or, at least, not proud. It's a country like any other, filled with the same sort of greedy, lazy, ill-educated fools as you can find anywhere.

Obama's creed always held that America wasn't an exceptional nation. To their great discredit, the country proved him ultimately right.

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Via Allah. Remember them, and call them out as liars when they claimed they voted "against" Hagel. They did not.

Alexander
Ayotte
Blunt
Burr
Chambliss
Coburn
Collins
Corker
Flake
Graham
Hatch
McCain
Murkowski
Sessions
Thune

Now that's the list of people who voted "Yes" on cloture (guaranteeing Hagel's confirmation) but then cast a covering, false vote on the nomination itself (a meaningless gesture made for political purposes).

Interestingly, some people voted the other way around -- voting "No" on cloture but then "Yes" on the nomination itself.

Among them? Rand Paul, who's attempting to both be a Mainstream Conservative and also play to his father's supporters with their, um... views on Israel.

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