1 OT: I am going by ferry and bus to Michael Grimm's headquarters on Staten Island.  Time to be the WAVE!  Even in New York!

2 The question many were asking before the election remains unanswered even now.  What characteristic, talent, ability, experience, accomplishment,or other factor in any way qualifies Obama to be president of the United States?

3 O/T:  Your daily O'Donnell facepalm.

Ugh.  I hate it when a candidate makes things harder than they have to be--this is a classic unforced error.  I still wonder what it says that she won the primary--if this was the winning candidate, how strong could Castle have actually been in the general...?

4 Mangled the coverage? What coverage? The "coverage" look more like excerpts from "Triumph of the Will" more than anything. They turned Joe the Plumber into JOO the plumber. Well, unless they can nationalize the inter-tubes and put talk radio out of business, the MFM is kaput in the eyes of most Americans.

5 No. They insisted the answer meant nothing, it was a crazy question to begin with, and then intensely vetted.... Joe the Plumber, who wasn't running for anything.

They did more then even that. They made up a false claim that he was related to Charles Keating and ran with it, and when a Democrat bureaucrat misused her position to dig up dirt on him they worked with her to spread it as far and wide as possible.

Anyone care to guess what would happen if a Republican bureaucrat tried to pull this trick?

6 The question many were asking before the election remains unanswered even now.  What characteristic, talent, ability, experience, accomplishment,or other factor in any way qualifies Obama to be president of the United States?

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 19, 2010 01:06 PM (xxgag)

I picked a good ghost writer for my "auto"biography.

7 Sorry to say, once the public figures out that the media have not vetted any of the Republican candidates this year, they will all sink in the polls and the Democrats will win everything.

8 The media impeached itself over its coverage of the 2008 election. Conservatives have known for decades that the mfm was the PR auxiliary of the Democrats. Independents who voted for Obama learned the hard way.

9 Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at October 19, 2010 01:06 PM (GBXon)

See the previous Kurtz post.  She's right (even if she's not terribly eloquent or savvy about expressing it).

So, how about instead of saying "Daily Facepalm!!!11!!eleventy!"  You go to people you know and explain to them why she's right?

10 Anyone who dared mention Barry's Marxist buddies, Bill Ayers, etc. were branded loons by the MFM.  I know within my husband's lib family, there were cries of "You can't prove it!  He barely knew Ayers!!  He only attended Wright's church a few times over twenty years!!111!!  And they truly believed then, and some still believe, he's the Second Coming.

O/T  Megyn Kelly just said from five to seven shots were fired at the upper floors of the Pentagon.  There should be security video.

11 Greg = honest cloud--lol.

12 Bullshit, Howard. Once Obama had to be President and actually do stuff, that's when he started flailing. Think back to previous administrations. Obama couldn't have surmounted any challenge. A Failure For All Our Times.

13 The MFLSM certainly had no problem bringing up the qualities that they felt made McCain's VP pick unqualified to be VP, but the most incompetent nincompoop ever to run for president was practically carried in on their shoulders despite the massive evidence that he would govern just as he has done.  For their role in this, I wish every member of the MFLSM a hellish life and that they ROT IN HELL when they have finally taken their last breaths.  

14 Ugh.  I hate it when a candidate makes things harder than they have to be--this is a classic unforced error.

Why? Because some idiot AP reporter summarizes what one candidate said and then gives the opposing candidate's exact quote in response? When do you ever see that? I'll tell you when. It's when the reporter is lying.

What you really should be wondering is why anyone in the media is working hard to discredit someone who absolutely cannot under any circumstances win. Hmmmmmm......

15
PREMISE : Howard Kurtz can't face the truth.

CONCLUSION : Greg likes cock.

16

Sorry to say, once the public figures out that the media have not vetted any of the Republican candidates this year, they will all sink in the polls and the Democrats will win everything.

Yeah.  We're waiting for the media to vet politicians. They always let the conservatives slide til the last minute.

17 but to utterly fail to vet him as a candidate.

Comparing Obama to Bush 43 - consider;

For Bush 43 the media;

Spent 8 years looking into his military service, and when they couldn't find anything of substance ran with forgeries, that they knew were forgeries, on the eve of the election.

Reprinted claims from a felon, who later killed himself, that Bush used cocaine, and greatly covered his years as an alcoholic.

Examined his role as a businessman in depth.

Considered in detail whether being Governor of one of the largest states was sufficiency preparation for the Presidency.

For Obama;

Actively opposed any analysis of Obama's associates: Wright, Ayers, etc

Actively opposed any investigation of Obama's admitted cocaine use and to when, or if, Obama had stopped being a drug addict.

Lauded Obama for his work as a community organizer but refused to analyze what his results were.

Actively opposed the question of whether he was qualified as a State Senator and community organizer for the office of the Presidency

18 You cannot report facts and suck on a messiah's penis at the same time. We have proof.

19 10 The irony is, of course she's right.  Any fool can read the First Amendment and tell it doesn't say what Coons implied it did.  The problem was it was a trap--you're inevitably fighting the opposing candidate, the moderator, and the press, and when you answer it exactly the way she did, being right ain't going to save you.

My point is that it was mishandled; she sounded ignorant.  If she had simply explained how his view was not only incorrect, but radical in its own right, that would have come out much better.

So yes, a facepalm, but for execution, not for viewpoint.

20 In 1944-45, when tax rates were higher than they are today, the United States was the world's #1 manufacturer.

21

What Kurtz says and the MFM claimed about Zero is irrelevant. He telegraphed his radical agenda with words, associates, and history loud enough for a deaf man to hear. Blaming the MFM for people, who are finally waking up from their willful blindness/ deafness is pointless. Many of his voters wanted to be deceived. They were mainlining hop'n'change from a syringe that looked like a grease gun. Zero's warts were so fucking big that only someone who had decided their love was blind could possibly miss it.Shit, Zero's election is the result of willful stupidity of the American people, not the MFM.

Kurtz should look in the mirror and stare down the face of a damn fool.

22

Ace, best post in months (and there have been some great ones in there). very well written and reasoned. sweet.

 

23 The candidate obviously played a role in creating his own myth, but it was the breathless media that sent expectations soaring into the stratosphere. Once Obama had to grapple with two wars, a crippled economy and reflexive Republican opposition, he had no place to go but down.

What a pile of shit. Obama has been a creation of the media since day 1 when they rolled him out at the convention. He has always been a phony with no experience, no knowledge, and the only claim to fame he had was that he was an articulate and clean black.

No. They insisted the answer meant nothing, it was a crazy question to begin with, and then intensely vetted.... Joe the Plumber, who wasn't running for anything.

Oh, don't forget the teams of people they sent to AK to paw through Palin's garbage. Nothing could have alerted the population to how scared they were of Palin more than the MFM attack as well as the outpouring of outrageous lies. There were, and still are , scared to death of her.

And for good cause.

24

Over on Drudge, Pelosi's face looks like it's make of wax, and melting.  Heh.

25 25:  ...it isn't...?

26 18-1, and actively opposed any investigation of his past. Schooling, financing, grades, acquaintances, work, whereabouts.

27 He only attended Wright's church a few times over twenty years!!111!!  And they truly believed then, and some still believe, he's the Second Coming.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

You probably already did this, but you can inform them that Obama has stated that he went to that church several times a month for over 20 years.

28

Here's a copy of the e-mail I just sent to the U.S. House Republican Conference:

We are getting mightily torqued off with the GOP on this compromise talk and would like you to convey same to the GOP leaders.

We will work to throw everyone of them out in the next election if Boehner, et al do not move to repeal Obamacare and pursue a rigorous conservative agenda, which includes investigative hearings on Obamacare.     I would highly recommend a conference call be set up with key leadership post hast so conservative new media can be reassured of the political vector the GOP will be taking.   We have been working our tails off out here in the field and are becoming terribly demoralized by certain GOP representatives' talk about "compromise" in response to the mainstream media's "GOP Bad" narrative.   We reach millions of readers a day through our network of blogs and believe me, while we have momentum, we need to be reassured by the GOP of the track we will be taking.   Sincerely,

29 Ace, best post of all . . . of today.

But, seriously, this has been my major peeve for the last 3 years.  No one but the magical Negro would have been allowed to proceed as far as he did.  Would a white freshman senator with as leftist a record as Obama have made any headway even in the Democrat primaries?!?  Would anyone else with no military, executive, or business experience have even been considered a serious candidate at all?  Would anyone else whose background, including the details of his parentage, was so opaque not have raised a hundred alarums?  Wouldn't the media normally have descended on these issues like a pack of hungry dogs?

The only people fooled by Obama were the ones who wanted to be fooled.

30

"I would certainly not say the media mangled the coverage of the 2008 elections."

As Francis Urquhart, the villainous protagonist of House of Cards, was fond of saying, "You might very well think so.  I couldn't possibly comment."

31
"... but the overheated hyperbole did him no favors."

Isn't "the overheated hyperbole" The Thing that got Big 0 elected?

Or is there some actual achievement in 0's record?

32 @20 - Okay, that's fair enough.  But, really, she's never been the most eloquent of our candidates.  At this point, we should just embrace that fact, be glad that's right on the substance, and defend her appropriately.

How many times did we have to defend Bush because he'd said something that came out stupid, but everyone knew what he meant?  Same issue here, though, in this case, voters in DE might actually be ignorant of the fact that the Constitution doesn't say anything about the Separation of Church and State.

33 runningrn, plus you get the bonus pic of San Fran Nan!

34 No. They insisted the answer meant nothing, it was a crazy question to begin with, and then intensely vetted.... Joe the Plumber, who wasn't running for anything.

This is why so many people donate ANONYMOUSLY. So they don't end up in a hit piece by the media. Or worse, the list of 'Enemies of the State.'

35

"Once Obama had to grapple with two wars, a crippled economy and reflexive Republican opposition, he had no place to go but down."

Wow.  Amazing.  So despite Obama's assurances and the MFM's reiteration of those assurances that he knew what he was getting into and had a sure-fire plan to deal with those problems, we all should have known that the job was waaaaaay too big for him?  (Some of us did know, but the MFM told us that we were all racist reactionaries.)

36 Spot on ace.

37 It's interesting that Kurtz lapses into this sort of Freudian slip where he laments the press' having done Obama a bad turn -- that is, he proceeds (unknown even to himself, I'd bet) from the premise that the press was supposed to prop up Obama

This assertion is thin, Ace.  I just don't see the premise that the press was supposed to prop up Obama.

But, then again, of course they were, because they're all God-less commies and douchebags, so what else is to be expected?  Were they going to support Teh Fred, or Mittens, or the Chillbilly?  Who were they supposed to get behind?  An American?

How do we hold these fucknozzles and clownpunchers to account for their blatant fucknozzling and clownpunching?

38
Didn't Orca start the whole "He is The One we have been waiting for" mantra?

That cow can't leave the airwaves soon enough.  And she just gave free round trip air fare to Jon Stewart's clapping seal audience to attend his "Insanity" rally in DC.

39 Over on Drudge, Pelosi's face looks like it's make of wax, and melting.

Alternate comment: There's a picture of Pelosi on Drudge.

40

 In 1944-45, when tax rates were higher than they are today, the United States was the world's #1 manufacturer.

First rate talking point.

You think we may have gotten to Number One by blasting the living shit out of any who might have otherwise competed for that title? Christ you lefties are ignorant. Go fuck yourself.

41 And she just gave free round trip air fare to Jon Stewart's clapping seal audience to attend his "Insanity" rally in DC.

Do they have to pay income tax on it like they do when she gives them cars or vacations?

42

As Francis Urquhart, the villainous protagonist of House of Cards, was fond of saying, "You might very well think so.  I couldn't possibly comment."

I knew I liked you, stuiec. I loved that series. Did you watch Porterhouse Blue? I liked that, too.

43 Charleston WV Daily Mail endorses John Raese:  http://tinyurl.com/2g8trmh

44 You cannot report facts and suck on a messiah's penis at the same time. We have proof.

Posted by: dagny at October 19, 2010 01:15 PM (N1fth)

It's even harder when you're also giving the Senate Majority Leader a hand job and diddling the historic first Madame Speaker at the same time as you're sucking off Teh Won.  So I guess we should cut the MFM some slack.

45 The more important failure of the press wasn't to claim he could do all these amazing things -- okay, that's bad, I grant him -- but to utterly fail to vet him as a candidate. That would be the logical conclusion were we discussing rational people. However in the view of libtards there was nothing to vet. He was a black liberal with hard left views over whom favored liberal groups swooned. That was qualification enough. Everything, everything about libtards and lefties is a Potemkin village. They really think the shiny-shiny is all you need to rule. Ordering people to serve, obey, deliver, toil, that's the simple stuff. Being a lightworker who makes your loins greasy and damp? Now that's stuff of liberal wet dreams. They never intended to vet Barry as if he were actually going to, you know... WORK. His whole life was the portrait a lazy shitstain outside of fluffing the troops, and they were perfectly fine with that.

46 In 1944-45, when tax rates were higher than they are today, the United States was the world's #1 manufacturer.

Posted by: john Ryan at October 19, 2010 01:15 PM (Snu7z)

Hmm, I wonder if the fact that between us, the Germans, British, Japanese and Russians that we destroyed the rest of the worlds manufacturing capability had anything to do with that?

47

Da chickenszzzzz..are-a comin' home to roost-a

Summarizing the big poll dump the NRCC just provided the Washington Post:

FL-8: Daniel Webster (R) 46, Alan Grayson* (D) 30 PA 3: Mike Kelly (R) 56, Kathy Dahlkemper* (D) 39 OH-15: Steve Stivers (R) 51, Mary Jo Kilroy* (D) 39 WA-3: Jaime Herrera (R) 51, Denny Heck (D) 38 NY-20: Chris Gibson (R) 48, Scott Murphy* (D) 45 MA-10: Jeff Perry (R) 44, Bill Keating (D) 42 IL-17: Bobby Schilling (R) 44, Phil Hare* (D) 41 PA-10: Tom Marino (R) 44, Chris Carney* (D) 37 VA-9: Morgan Griffith (R) 44, Rick Boucher* (D) 44 OR-5: Scott Bruun (R) 44, Kurt Schrader (D) 42 OH-6: Bill Johnson (R) 40, Charlie Wilson* (D) 40

48 I hate leftist radials. Especially that French prick, Michelin.

And all of this after the MFM promised us a Goodyear that would make everyone Goodrich. We should cut off their nuts.

49 The pic of Barry, squatting on the Gulf beach, pondering a little tar ball, ought to be burned into the retinas of the lemmings who voted for this nobody. 

And who could ever forget "corpseman"?  MFM?

50 I knew I liked you, stuiec. I loved that series. Did you watch Porterhouse Blue? I liked that, too.

Posted by: Senator Soothsayer (R-AoS) at October 19, 2010 01:25 PM (gM4zK)

No  - but if I can find it somewhere, I will.

We recently bought the DVDs of Sleepers, a BBC miniseries about two deep-cover Russian sleeper agents dealing with the end of the Cold War (and the KGB's effort to tie up its loose ends).

51 In the world of spin, the truth always comes out through slips and cracks, often in a strangely resonant and succinct statement like Obama's "bitter clingers" line and even more often in nonverbal behavior, a la Al Gore's famous sighs in his debate with Bush. Obama's response to Joe the Plumber was the seminal moment in the campaign and was the beginning of the end to this man (Obama). Everything that matters about him is rolled into that one brief moment: that he's a socialist, that he operates out of a protective bubble (which got pierced for one moment), that he has thugs who will do his bidding. I still believe that there's a story to be told about who contacted who in Ohio. Like Nixon, it was a plumber (or plumbers) who brought the man down.

52 This is why so many people donate ANONYMOUSLY. So they don't end up in a hit piece by the media. Or worse, the list of 'Enemies of the State.'


Yes, or enemies of the queer nation--as Prop. 8 supporters found out.

53 But, seriously, this has been my major peeve for the last 3 years.  No one but the magical Negro would have been allowed to proceed as far as he did.  Would a white freshman senator with as leftist a record as Obama have made any headway even in the Democrat primaries?!? 

The only people fooled by Obama were the ones who wanted to be fooled.

Posted by: Drinky Crow at October 19, 2010 01:19 PM (mAm+G)

Oh sure, look at John Kerry. They go to bat for leftists no matter what.

What made Obama magical was that he totally disarmed the Clinton attack machine and checkmated Hillary because of the race card. The Press will do its thing for any Dem candidate.

I will say that there was a significant amount of wish fulfillment in the sufferers from Bush fatigue who crossed over to join the skittles and unicorn parade.

54

Someday, historians will castigate the Supreme Court, for NOT taking the case of whether someone born a dual citizen, is a Natural Born Citizen, PRE ELECTION... because of the fear of Riots...

This could have all been avoided...

 

55 #44 Do they have to pay income tax on it?

I'm sure if they do, they'll whine and cry like little bitches.

56 I guess I shouldn't be surprised at these liberal MFMer's when they do their little instrospective "are we being fair?" pieces, but I am.  Anybody who is paying attention knows that they are deep in the bag for the dems.  I guess they just write these things for the daft and obtuse.

57

I just saw an extract over at JWF about Barney's girlfriend... I mean hooker and the Sean Bielat kerfluffle. 

Franks spokesman mentioned that the guy was an amateur photog who would continue to hit the stump with Barney.

Oh, how true!

58

Let's also not forget that the media spun the campaign to more of a Palin vs. Obama race than McCain / Palin vs. Obama / Biden.

WAS PALIN QUALIFIED TO BE ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY?  Because, really, look at John McCain.  He's old.  Faltering.  Could keel at any moment.  Any.  Moment.  I mean, she's only been governor...

VS.

Of course Obama is qualified to be President!  His awesomeness actually comes from his lack of insidery taint of years and years of political experience!  He'll be awesome because he's out-of-the-box!

My guess was that, once Palin was named running-mate, it would put a monkeywrench into the MSM's coverage.  She brought the 500-pound gorilla into the room with regards to Obama's qualifications, as compared to her's.  Yet, while her qualifications were scrutinized, ridiculed, and mocked, Obama's equivalent lack remained ignored, avoided, flung deep over the boundary into Racistville.

59

 In 1944-45, when tax rates were higher than they are today, the United States was the world's #1 manufacturer.

First rate talking point.

You think we may have gotten to Number One by blasting the living shit out of any who might have otherwise competed for that title? Christ you lefties are ignorant. Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: spongeworthy at October 19, 2010 01:24 PM (rplL3)

Does that mean they want us to produce thirty thousand tanks, fifty thousand warplanes, and three dozen aircraft carriers?

60 I hate leftist radials. Especially that French prick, Michelin.

And all of this after the MFM promised us a Goodyear that would make everyone Goodrich. We should cut off their nuts.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 19, 2010 01:27 PM (eQtPf)

Radials don't have nuts, you big lug.  That last part of your joke left me flat.

61 Howard Kurtz, indulging in what Soviet Marxists called "self-criticism."

62 Hilarious article from the Onion:
According to recent media reports, Democrats stand to lose as many as 8,000 congressional seats and more than 917 gubernatorial races in November's midterm elections. "Republicans are poised to pick up 1,500 seats in Ohio alone, and could wind up with a 23,576-to-12 majority in the Senate," Beltway observer Isaac Hundt said Wednesday, noting the GOP's advantage is likely to increase by Election Day given that its candidates are outspending their opponents by some $900 trillion. "With Democratic disapproval ratings in the quadruple digits, it's a foregone conclusion that Republicans will not only retake Congress, but hold it for the next 20,000 to 25,000 years." Experts also predicted the one-sided election results would cause Barack Obama to die on the spot, at which point the nation's leading conservative talk-radio host would be sworn in as president of the United States forever.

63 Ace goes high and right, bitch-slapping Howie Kurtz in two posts in one day?

Either Ace ran out of cigarettes/Valu-Rite/Hobo blood/All-of-the-above this morning for breakfast, or his hemorrhoids are acting up again.

64 Yeah.  Kurtz's main problem is that, although he's a decent writer, he's an incompetent hack.  I mean, seriously.  His job is to find press bias.  Which is like finding a needle in a gargantuan stack of needles.  Think about why he was given that job.

65

In 1944-45, when tax rates were higher than they are today, the United States was the world's #1 manufacturer.

Explain the relationship.  How are these cause and effect?  Cite specific evidence directly related to mid-40's tax rate and productivity, not just generic fluff.

You have one hour.

And....go.

66 34:  When you know a candidate has a flaw, you don't just hang it out there, you work to minimize it.  Was there nobody available to help coach her on these things?  Nobody could have volunteered to spend time polishing the rough edges a tad?  Seriously, this is what ticks me off most--folks have been willing to discuss her shortcomings in public at length, but lift a finger to help overcome them?  Nowhere to be seen.

Supporting a candidate isn't just about money and words.  Sometimes there are other services to be rendered, often far more useful ones.  Bah...

67

WAS PALIN QUALIFIED TO BE ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY?  Because, really, look at John McCain.  He's old.  Faltering.  Could keel at any moment.  Any.  Moment.  I mean, she's only been governor...

Hey, Barry picked me.  Just in case you didn't know, it was the best decision of his campaign.  My brain is bigger than my head.

68 The biggest media blunder, in my view, was the walk-on-water coverage that Obama drew in 2007 and 2008... he had no place to go but down. Mask fully off. It was a blunder because the MFM let Barry down. Kurtz's dentist probably wonders how all those Presidential dingleberries got stuck in Howard's teeth.

69

"Once Obama had to grapple with two wars, a crippled economy and reflexive Republican opposition, he had no place to go but down."

This means that all of the unexpected stuff every week was really expected and the MFM knew all along that it was going to happen because they are so smart but they were just reporting that it was unexpected because...

they are so stupid?

70 Does that mean they want us to produce thirty thousand tanks, fifty thousand warplanes, and three dozen aircraft carriers?

I'm down with that. DoD contracts are the only industry that can't bring in foreign workers instead of hiring Americans.

71 Um, yeah, the MFM's walk on water treatment did Barry no good at all... except, you know, make him electable.

72 Hey, Barry picked me.  Just in case you didn't know, it was the best decision of his campaign.

It was.  You're better assassination insurance than even Dick Cheney.

73 The MFM were just a bunch of Obama fanboys.  The pages of their publications were the albums where they kept the Tiger Beat interviews and pictures.  Their websites were tributes to the awesomeness of Teh One. 

Joe the Plumber found out about the wrath of the fanboys when he dared to question their idol.  They performed a colonoscopy on him and didn't even offer him any anesthetic.

74 OK, my blood pressure is going down now.

75 The MFM were just a bunch of Obama fanboys.  The pages of their publications were the albums where they kept the Tiger Beat interviews and pictures.  Their websites were tributes to the awesomeness of Teh One. 

Joe the Plumber found out about the wrath of the fanboys when he dared to question their idol.  They performed a colonoscopy on him and didn't even offer him any anesthetic.

Posted by: Steve L. at October 19, 2010 01:37 PM (Gkhxf)

Don't insult fanboys. They know everything there is to know about the latest teen heartthrob.

76 Posted by: Oldcat at October 19, 2010 01:31 PM (z1N6a)

Ooooh!  Can we please?

We could sell them to Israel.  Wouldn't that be fun?

@71 - Eh, maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong.  I suspect more of the former than the latter, but other than doing something about it ourselves, what good does griping about it do, besides depress turnout?

The thing is, COD has made her campaign about being up-front with her beliefs, honest almost to (or perhaps beyond) the point of sanity, etc.  If she suddenly changed into some suave politician, I think she'd start seeming fake- and that really would put a knife in her campaign.

77 Um, yeah, the MFM's walk on water treatment did Barry no good at all... except, you know, make him electable. And we could do with fewer so-called conservative commentators (I'm glaring at you, Medved) parroting the ridiculous MFM prejudice that Barry is, despite everything he's done, a brilliant and intelligent man. Even our allies joined in on selling this fraudulent notion. Thanks, John McCain, for telling us we had nothing to fear from an Obastard presidency.

78

What made Obama magical was that he totally disarmed the Clinton attack machine and checkmated Hillary because of the race card. The Press will do its thing for any Dem candidate.

I will say that there was a significant amount of wish fulfillment in the sufferers from Bush fatigue who crossed over to join the skittles and unicorn parade.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 19, 2010 01:29 PM (z1N6a)

Here's the thing: a lot of Democrats were deathly afraid of Hillary getting the nomination.  They were sure that Bill's baggage would cost her a chunk of the vote in the general election.  However, they couldn't stand in the way of the election of the historic First Woman President.

So along came Obama, and suddenly they had the perfect out: sorry, Hillary, but we're going to go for the historic First Black President this time around.

Then McCain picked Palin, so it became imperative to pick apart the historic First Woman Vice-President narrative.  Hence, they had to paint Palin as unqualified and unready, which of course meant ignoring the fact that Obama was less qualified and less ready than she.

79 64 Guys, that's already a tired subthread.  Spare us all the retread jokes, you may think it's a blowout, but frankly?  Rotate in some new material for balance...

80 Their blunder was that they didn't get net neutrality and the fairness doctrine passed before Barry got elected.

81 I can't figure out why Howard Kurtz has a job..I do not think he has any particular insight or views that are in any way special. In fact I find him plodding and boring. What exactly does he do?

82 In 1944-45, when tax rates were higher than they are today, the United States was the world's #1 manufacturer.

We were the #1 manufacturer at a time when we didn't have OSHA or the EPA either, dipshit. 

83 We all know new mothers and fathers who just can't control themselves about their new baby. They tell everyone theirs is the cutest, healthiest, smartest baby that ever was born, and we smile and let them babble on. It's cute, because we know it's harmless. They're new parents, and they're allowed to be excited and over-the-top. There will be plenty of people not emotionally involved who'll be able to evaluate the child properly as he progresses through life. The press wants us to give us absolution for their "overenthusiasm" during Obama's campaign, the way we would for a proud first-time father. But the father of a newborn doesn't have any responsibility except to his own little family. He's allowed to be silly because his silliness doesn't matter. But the press DOES matter, and they refuse to accept the fact that their importance requires them not to give in to their enthusiasms and emotions. Is it cute when a CEO angles and maneuvres to get his own offspring a choice position in the company? Do we excuse him because he's "carried away" with his enthusiasm? Is it forgivable when he steadily leaks information and advice to hobble competitors for the job and give it to his own kid instead? No, it's not. If he's so emotionally involved in the matter, good and fair business would demand he remove himself altogether from the decision-making. What the press did wasn't like saying "Oh. my little pumpkin is so smart! He could say 'cat' when he was 2 months old!" It was like writing a resume claiming you have a Ph.D. when you only have a B.A. It was a lie, and not just a random lie - a carefully crafted one to accomplish the purpose desired.

84 Do they have to pay income tax on it like they do when she gives them cars or vacations?


That depends on whether they're treated as prizes (taxable) or gifts (not taxable).

85

 a brilliant and intelligent man. Even our allies joined in on selling this fraudulent notion. Thanks, John McCain, for telling us we had nothing to fear from an Obastard presidency.

Remember how he was a "great speaker"? um, er, ah, teleprompter, er, um, ah,uh, corpseman, er um

86 #21 Comrade Ryan is sadly mistaken about wartime production. The perfect Workers' States' tractor production went up 1,000% in 1944-45 alone--unrivalled anywhere in the capitalist world--even if it was from one tractor to producing ten. Turn yourself in, comrade, to your local commissar for reporting false information against the state.

87 #80 OK, my blood pressure is going down now.

Whoa.  Buy futures in orange jumpsuits.  *beings to feel slightly giddy*

88 The worst was this arrogant, shoulder-dusting, feet-wiping, finger-scratching, sexist, un-American POS saying he could fix America's problems with hope and change. When asked what that meant, voters were told by the media, on behalf of the Obama campaign, to "trust us." If that was insufficient reason to vote for Obama, then you were called racist and evil. Then there was the seal for the office of president elect, something heretofore unheard of in American politics. Obama acted like he was such hot shit, and he still does while he runs the country into the ground, because he is a pathological narcissist and those who supported his election were gullible fools.

89

In 1944-45, when tax rates were higher than they are today, the United States was the world's #1 manufacturer.

Explain the relationship.  How are these cause and effect?  Cite specific evidence directly related to mid-40's tax rate and productivity, not just generic fluff.

You have one hour.

And....go.

Posted by: reason at October 19, 2010 01:33 PM (kZVsz)

Do not use more than one blue book.  Draw a diagonal line across the first page of your blue book.  Show all your work.

90

No. They insisted the answer meant nothing, it was a crazy question to begin with, and then intensely vetted.... Joe the Plumber, who wasn't running for anything.

Within two days we found out he wasn't a licensed plumber (as if this means he wasn't a plumber at all), had liens against him, was divorced (wink-wink, we know what that means), etc.

Ace you forgot his biggest sin of all.  His first name wasn't actually Joe!!!1!11!!

91 So along came Obama, and suddenly they had the perfect out: sorry, Hillary, but we're going to go for the historic First Black President this time around Yep, part of the libtard pecking order. Skin color and genitalia are their obsessions. Black trumps woman. Black trumps nearly everything in libtard minds; gays, Hispanics, the handicapped. The ideal leftard candidate would be a black overweight lesbian with HIV in a wheelchair.

92 Don't forget that Joe wasn't even his real name!!! It was his middle name.  That was very important. Not a plumber! Not yet wealthy! Not named Joe!

When people started to notice that perhaps Obama was running both to the right and the left, I believe it was John Harwood of MSNBC/NYT who saved the day by naming Obama's secret sauce "pragmatism".

93 What made Obama magical was that he totally disarmed the Clinton attack machine and checkmated Hillary because of the race card.

I think that that is right and I further think that we have an opportunity.  The left has always sought the great magical spokesperson candidate who is immune to criticism for whatever reason.  You may recall that Ditch Witch Cindy Sheehan was endowed with "unimpeachable moral authority" by the media to criticize Bush becuase her son was killed.  It turned out that hers was not the only son killed and that most surviving family members did not agree with her but only she had unimpeachable moral authority.  Then there were the 9/11 widows who were a far left bunch not representative of survivors but they also could not be criticized right up until Ann Coulter criticized them.  Now we have the Magic Negro and his magical race card.  That too is failing.  Where can the left go after Obama gets bitch slapped on 11/2 for immunity from criticism?  I think that they have scraped as deep into the bottom of the barrel as they can go.  They may have to actually address issues.

94 I can't figure out why Howard Kurtz has a job He wasn't any good arousing actors, so he went to politics.

95 85 64 Guys, that's already a tired subthread.  Spare us all the retread jokes, you may think it's a blowout, but frankly?  Rotate in some new material for balance...

Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at October 19, 2010 01:40 PM (GBXon)

<Caster, Camber, Toe . . . you big Zerk fitting.  

96 They didn't just willfully overlook his policy negatives; they ignored his personal ones as well.  The surreptitious smoking, the laziness of voting present or not voting at all, the lack of any tangible accomplishment, and the shear deficit of experience.  So, now we are in 2 wars and a depression (oops I said it) with a President who starts his day at 10:30, surrounds himself with advisors of little note or personal power, and plays a lot of golf.  I think the media deserves a nice golf clap.

97 Buck in Colorado is down to +1 from +2 since yesterday.  It looks like, regrettably, the wave is receding.

98

Does that mean they want us to produce thirty thousand tanks, fifty thousand warplanes, and three dozen aircraft carriers?

Posted by: Oldcat at October 19, 2010 01:31 PM (z1N6a)

It's not enough to produce them.  You also have to use them to destroy the productive capacity of the other nations of the world.  Then you can enjoy a monopoly on production and even otherwise ruinous rates of taxation won't put everyone out of work.

99

Oprah paying the way is the only means of getting people there.

Even free rides on the SEIU Expressline didn't get as many as desired to the 10/3 rally.

100 Paul A. Rahe summed it up best in this little gem a while back: "The Democrats are getting what they asked for. In 2004, they tried a trick. If we nominate a man who won the Purple Heart in Vietnam, they thought, we will win. Never mind that John Kerry disgraced himself in the aftermath of his service in Vietnam, making unjust charges against his brothers-in-arms and resolutely thereafter refusing to apologize to those whom he had slandered. Never mind that he had no executive experience. Never mind that, as a US Senator, he was -- to say the least -- undistinguished. They wanted to win; and they gave not a thought to what sort of President he might be. In 2008, the Democrats did the same thing. They had on their hands an inexperienced, recently minted US Senator from Illinois who was -- as Joe Biden put it in a candid remark that typifies his propensity for speaking his mind without first thinking about the consequences -- 'the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.' Never mind, they thought, Obama's long-standing connections with William Ayers, the unrepentant mastermind of a domestic terrorist bombing campaign in the 1970s. Never mind Obama's close association with the racist demagogue Jeremiah Wright. Never mind his lack of executive experience, his unfamiliarity with the private sector, and his ignorance of the ways of Washington. With the help of the pliable press, he could be sold -- and Americans would congratulate themselves on their lack of racial prejudice if they voted for him." http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/025045.php

101 Barry is even making us look bad.

102 In 1944-45, when tax rates were higher than they are today, the United States was the world's #1 manufacturer.

We also had no competition from the Third World, the USSR was out of the game, and Europe, China and Japan were destroyed.

103 Radials don't have nuts, you big lug.  That last part of your joke left me flat.
Don't tread on me. I was tired when I typed that comment.

104 I'll take "AoSHQ sockpuppets" for $200, Alex.

105

"Then McCain picked Palin, so it became imperative to pick apart the historic First Woman Vice-President narrative.  Hence, they had to paint Palin as unqualified and unready, which of course meant ignoring the fact that Obama was less qualified and less ready than she."

But he gave a campaign speech to the Germans!  He had way more foreign-policy experience than that hick with the funny bew-bew-yewbetcha! accent.

106 Radials don't have nuts, you big lug.  That last part of your joke left me flat.
Don't tread on me. I was tired when I typed that comment.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 19, 2010 01:48 PM (eQtPf)

So your inflated sense of your funniness stems from fatigue and not the pressure to be clever?

107 Stu - I think you've got a bead on the problem.  Before he blows, you may want to take a low profile...

108 Perfect, Ace.  Thank you.  I just had read the Kurtz piece and then came here.  My head was smoldering, and your take on it all blew fresh air into the coals and made the flames spring.

Still, what will it take for the MFM to really "get" this guy, and start to write truthful pieces with all the full-throatedness used when he was being raised up and carried, as if the messiah into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday?

109 So I should get the shaft because of some stupid puns? Spare me your sermons.

110 Still, what will it take for the MFM to really "get" this guy, and start to write truthful pieces with all the full-throatedness used when he was being raised up and carried, as if the messiah into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday?

Posted by: Boris Yeltsin at October 19, 2010 01:55 PM (4sQwu)

When they have a different presidential nominee they think can win.

111 Don't get me started on Palin v. Obama!  And the worst of it was that it was Obama himself, in a CNN interview just a day or two after her announcement, who started the "Palin is not qualified" meme.  He had the audacity of dope to question her experience as the elected mayor of a small town in Alaska, never mentioning her experience on the Alaska energy commission or as governor.  What a jackass.

112 109 Radials don't have nuts, you big lug.  That last part of your joke left me flat.
Don't tread on me. I was tired when I typed that comment.

Guys, you're leaving a skidmark on a road paved with Bridgestone, on a radial  route towards Yokohama.

113 Nice stuff, Ace.  Kurtz should let you ghost-write for him when he's on vacay.

114

It's not enough to produce them.  You also have to use them to destroy the productive capacity of the other nations of the world.  Then you can enjoy a monopoly on production and even otherwise ruinous rates of taxation won't put everyone out of work.

Posted by: stuiec at October 19, 2010 01:46 PM (7AOgy)

No need for us to do that to outproduce them. The ruining we did with bombing was pretty marginal in terms of cutting production. German inefficiency in plant and design, and unwillingness to use female labor kept them back, and we are just so much larger then they were as well.

115 the elected mayor of a small town in Alaska, never mentioning her experience on the Alaska energy commission or as governor

The mayor of Wasilly, I think it was.

116 And like you're a real stud, Arbalest.

117

Can you guys imagine Ace ghost-writing for Howard Kurtz?  Jeez, that'd be funny.  Ace, why not ghost-write for Kurtz here?  On a regular basis.  Seems like the kind of stunt Benjamin Franklin would pull.

The premise would be "the things Kurtz should have said this week."

118 Did Kurtz punt and become a blogger?

119 Sorry, guys. I spoke out of turn especially to Arbalest and stuiec.

120 ... he proceeds (unknown even to himself, I'd bet) from the premise that the press was supposed to prop up Obama, ...

They were, because, like it or not, the pernicious truth about affirmative action is that any member of a minority that benefits from it is seen as being incapable of having gotten anywhere absent the soft bigotry of low expectations being in play.

121

Instead of vetting the man voluntarily seeking the most powerful office in all the world, ...

Thankfully, events vindicated the media for this oversight. Obama was right about everything, as evidenced by the thing with the Chilean mine.

122 andy, we all feel a little exhausted. i'm sure it will blow over .

123 I think it's even worse than what Ace was saying.  They simultaneously allowed him to telegraph messages to his Radical Lefty base and keep them at a fever pitch while delivering a contradictory moderate message to appeal to the political center. 

You'll notice that one of the MSM's "gotcha" questions this cycle is to demand that the GOP candidate identify specific entitlements cuts they'd make in order to provide opponents with attack ad material.  Do you even remember a single question aimed at Golden Urkel demanding that level of specificity regarding his future policies?  I seem to remember him answering all questions with some Hope and Change bullshit which our media watchdogs always seemed to find satisfactory.

124 Poor old Howard.  He does not accept the idea that  Obama is fully able to fuck it up all by his little pointy headed self without any help or assistance from the press.

125 OMG!  I just read most of Michael Gerson's piece "Obama the Snob" in todays WaPo.

Will this continue?  Will it swell up?  Will we start seeing stuff like this plastered all throughout the MFM pages?

Are the stupid libtards losing a little of that KoolAid glow, and coming around?

126 In addition to lib-media malfeasance, there are conservatives who have shied away from confronting the truth about Barry. One otherwise sensible conservative rejected the notion that BHO is a "transformation liberal" even after BHO vowed to "fundamentally transform" the country; and then ridiculed the idea that BHO was not well qualified to be president because after all he won the election!

A coupla days ago, Andrew Ferguson published a weird piece ridiculing those who call BHO a socialist. His argument, boiled down, is:
People called Bill Clinton a radical and a socialist, but he triangulated after the midterms, and now people think he was not so radical. Therefore, Obama is not a socialist. QED.

Andy defeats his own "argument" by referring to a strange new respect for Clinton: the reason for it is that Obama makes him look moderate by comparison!

127 Enough time has passed for reflection as your post shows, and we have the JournOlist manipulation too calling for anyone to be labeled a racist to help Obama. So can we all be sure to add how AMERICA PROVES AGAIN IT IS NOT RACIST to every mention. Please give Americans their due. Because even the hint of racism turns us away, but false charges are fueling the Tea Party to freedom of these charlatans.

128 Meant to say "transformational liberal."

129
And by this:
Andy defeats his own "argument" by referring to a strange new respect for Clinton: the reason for it is that Obama makes him look moderate by comparison!
I meant that Andy apparently doesn't understand why Clinton is looking better from the vantage point of the Obama era. It's relative.

More fundamentally, he overlooks how Dems keep moving the stake of "centrist" in a leftward direction. Then it's considered "extreme" to want the center to be where it was before.

130 I look for the MSM to begin plugging the idea that a Republican majority in the House will make him a much better president and insure   his reelection by forcing him to, I don't know, do stuff differently and better. When this doesn't work, it will show the world they really, really are obstructionists.

131 Kurtz is not dim, not confused; instead he is a coward and a liar. He knows the truth, he just won't say it.

132 Keeeeerist, you are one miserable douchebag. You and your miscreant peanut gallery never cease to amuse me, with your bitching about the dreaded liberal media and how evul The One is. You people are so full of crap I'm amazed you can sit upright.

133 Kurtz would claim he's merely being descriptive and not prescriptive; I think he'd be wrong in claiming that. When we're not being careful we give away what we really believe.

Oh, man!

That's what I come here for!