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Times Square Tea Party Denounces Obama, Media, Imaginary Tax Rates, Etc.
They had another one of those Tea Party things this evening, this time right next to the Times Square subway station on Broadway. The anti-Obama pep rally occupied part of the street and part of the sidewalk and stretched from the subway entrance to the door of Ruby Tuesday's, which is to say two-thirds of a block; by our estimate it was about half as well-attended as the City Hall tea party in April, so we'd say there were between a thousand and 1,500 people there -- which we're sure enthusia
July 1, 2009In Rightbloggers' Fantasy Baseball, Obama Throws Treasonous Gay Pitch
At the All-Star Game, President Obama threw out the first pitch. Here's the video, which rightwingers say shows Obama getting booed; it sounds like a mix of cheers and booing to us, but you can judge for yourself -- that's what citizen journalism is all about. While the New York Post uncharacteristically reported that that Obama "hung one over the plate," rightbloggers let the world know that the President's pitch was treasonous and homosexual:
July 15, 2009Black NFL Players Accused of Anti-Black Video; Obama is Blamed
Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett and his brother, Seattle Seahawk Michael Bennett, made this "Black Olympics" video in which they "compete" at eating chicken and watermelon and drinking Kool-Aid. A battle rages in the press, with some like Jean-Jacques Taylor of the Dallas Morning News on their case for disrespecting the race. Even funnier is Right Pundits, which finds a way to blame it on Obama. "That is a painful part of our past that this president ought to be changing," they say, "but O
July 17, 2009Harry Reid Delays Health Care Till After Vacation, Leaving Henry Louis Gates to Heal Our Wounds
President Obama went to a lot of trouble last night to explain the concept behind his health care plan -- "So taxpayers are already putting this money into the kitty. The problem is they're not getting a good deal for the money they're spending," etc. -- and now Harry Reid says, whatever dude, see you in the fall. The Majority Leader says the Senate won't touch the thing till after summer recess, leaving Democrats hopping mad -- "Wondering if Harry Reid has a primary opponent - they deser
July 23, 2009Obama Takes "PO$H" Vacation in Taxachusetts While the People Suffer
"Despite growing unemployment numbers across the U.S.," the Post breathlessly announces, "the first family is planning to spend their summer vacation on a lavish East Coast getaway that could cost taxpayers up to $50,000 a week." And since the Obama's will be spending one week there, that comes out to $50,000 in possible, if unconfirmed, taxpayer expense. This comes about six months into his Presidency, which puts him on a pace to rack up 112 vacation days over two terms -- not much comp
July 24, 2009Medal of Freedom Recipients Announced, Include Tutu, Harvey Milk
President Obama has announced this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. The nation's highest civilian honor has gone in the past to folks like T.S. Eliot, Lucille Ball, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Mead, Jack Nicklaus, Mother Teresa, and Norman Podhoretz. As you may have guessed, Democrats and Republicans tend to reward their own, absent some moderating gestures (George Bush gave Medals to Henry Hyde and Donna Shalala). Obama's 16 honorees, expectedly, include a lot of bleeding h
July 30, 2009Rightbloggers Enraged by Medals to Evil President of Ireland, Homosexual, Breast Cancer Fighter, Etc.
President Obama's list of 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners came out yesterday, and rightbloggers have had some time to snarl over it. There is plenty there to exercise them. The list includes Harvey Milk (a homosexual!), Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow (an injun!), Rev. Joseph Lowery (a civil-rights pioneer-slash-race hustler!), Desmond Tutu (ditto!), etc. So we are grateful to those who spiced things up by focusing on the real outrage: the inclusion of former President of Ireland Mary Robins
July 31, 2009Birther of a Nation: Poll Finds Less Than Half of Republicans Think Obama Was Born in U.S.
Maybe you heard that top conservative magazine National Review dissed the birthers -- that is, the folks who believe Obama is not really President because he was born in Kenya or somewhere like it. But it's going to take more than that to bring this patriotic movement down! According to a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, only 42 percent of Republicans are sure Obama was born in the United States. 28 percent are sure he was born elsewhere; 30 "don't know." (We were at first shy about mentioning thi
July 31, 2009Birther or Not, Here They Come! Rightbloggers Work the Obama Birth Certificate Angle
As you may have heard, there is among certain people a controversy as whether Barack Obama was really born in the United States. They generally believe that Obama's certification of live birth and the confirmation of Hawaii's State Department of Health are either bogus or insufficient. When lawyer Philip J. Berg demanded better proof of Obama's citizenship before the November election, he had little evident support, but in these early months of the Obama Presidency some Republican politicians,
August 3, 2009Annals of the Liberal Media, Obama-Socialist-Joker Edition
Step 1: Design and copy a weird pop-culture-referent poster of Obama (but leave the usual Hitler and Muslim accusations out this time); Step 2: Put copies up in two locations. (You could do more, but why knock yourself out?) Step 3: Take pictures. Step 4: Disseminate via the usual channels (and via foolish commie stooges!). Announce this means Obama is a "laughingstock" and "this thing has got to have legs." Step 5: Profit!
August 3, 2009Health Care Horror Stories
As Obama struggles to promote his health care reform ideas against all odds, it's bringing to mind various nightmares I've experienced on the subject--particularly when I didn't have health care. As fate would have it, that was the one time I needed serious medical attention!
August 4, 2009Is Obama Not a Natural-Born Citizen?
The low-level debate keeps raging on as to whether President Obama was really born in Hawaii, or in Kenya, where the "birther" movement" of wacky cultists swear he actually derived. Well, it's not exactly raging on--it's actually sputtering out, with me giving it one last gasp of semi-credibility by even dissecting this conspiracy theory for medium-scale consumption.
August 6, 2009Senate Gives Cash for Clunkers $2 Billion; Clever Dealers Start Own Stimulus Plan
The House passed it last week, and now the Senate and Obama have signed on, so Cash for Clunkers (known to the gummint as CARS, or Car Allowance Rebate System), which ran out of its first billion dollars in funding in one week, has $2 billion. Interest in the program remains high, so that might not last too long. Meanwhile some enterprising car dealerships have united to create their own Automotive Stimulus Plan, which will allow shoppers whose current clunkers do not come in under the g
August 7, 2009Town Brawl! Rightbloggers Applaud Aggro Outbreaks at Health Care Meetings
As you may have heard, some of the town hall meetings held by public officials for debate on Obama's health care plans have become brawls. In St. Petersburg, protesters bellowed until Representative Kathy Castor left the meeting; in St. Louis, a health care reform proponent, Brian Matthews, said he was rushed by police and arrested (he was one of six); a health care reform opponent, Kenneth Gladney, said he was beaten by health care reform proponents. (Gladney is black, of which much has been
August 10, 2009Latest Anti-Health-Care Thing: Obama Will Either Kill or Have Sex With Old People
We're always grateful when Our Country Deserves Better sends us links to their upcoming TV ads (though we'd also appreciate it if they'd tell us on what stations, if any, they will be playing). In their latest we are told that under "Barack Obama's socialistic health care plan," "medical care will be rationed, even denied to the elderly" -- that is, seniors will be left to die on a hillside with Trig Palin. But the production values are all wrong -- they're too professional! You can't get the
August 10, 2009Obama Health Care Town Hall Not So Noisy as Previous Versions
We came in late on the Obama Health Care Town Hall Meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but from the way MSNBC had the sound engineered -- Obama and questioners loud, background sound low -- we expect we didn't miss much of the now-traditional yelling, if it occurred -- though we're sure YouTube will be full of enhanced video later. (Here's some CNN video from Taylor Marsh.) Interesting Presidential assertion: when asked about the health care plan members of Congress gets, he told the questi
August 11, 2009Rightbloggers Expose Evil Little Girl at Obama Town Hall
Rightblogger Michelle Malkin reveals to a shocked public that the little girl who asked Obama about the mean signs at yesterday's Health Care Town Hall is the daughter of Democratic activists. "Skreee," says Malkin, "Skreeeeeeee." Gateway Pundit shows pictures of the girl's mother wearing an Obama Inauguration t-shirt. "And here we thought Dear Leader was being so authentic and spontaneous at his town hall meeting today," he says, perhaps sarcastically. "Children are useful props for th
August 12, 2009Inside the Heads of Obama's Health Care Town-Hall Rowdies
August 18, 2009Rightbloggers Explain How Obama is Trying to Trick Veterans into Killing Themselves
A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that President Obama, in the middle of a contentious health-care debate, has a 57 percent approval rating. This sounds pretty good till you get to the spin: it's 12 points lower than it was in April. Hence, "Polls Show It's Time for Democrats to Drop Healthcare Reform" (U.S. News & World Reports); "Poll Finds Confidence in Obama Declines" (Bloomberg); "Obama: A One-Term President?" (CBS News). And that's from the liberal media, which the right
August 24, 2009Obama Golfs; Local Tabs Take Sides
President Obama remains on vacation, and local tabloids have hurried to us dispatches from his morning golf game on Martha's Vineyard. "OBAMA SHOWS OFF POOR GOLF SKILLS AT MARTHA'S VINEYARD," cries the Post. Apparently Obama scored a triple bogey on the second hole of a local course. Maybe the press presence was getting to him -- he had mildly complained of this during a golf game in Hawaii back in December, and reporters seem to be even further up his ass now. The Daily News, caddying for the
August 25, 2009Obama's Treasonous 9/11 New York Event Will Feature Gary Sinise
As you may have heard, President Obama wants to commemorate 9/11 this year with a "Day of Service and Remembrance" dedicated to good deeds, which rightbloggers and other lunatics have denounced as a "plan to desecrate 9/11" by making it "a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens" rather than a day of talking for the thousandth time about what one would do with Osama Bin Laden if he were standing right here. Well, plans were announced today for a "United We Serve" event at
August 27, 2009Video: Tea Party Peeps Do Anti-Obama Version of "New York, New York"
They had one of those Tea Parties in Ely, Nevada recently, and tea-partier laureate Lloyd Marcus, accompanied by some lady rebels in a kick-line, performed a version of "New York, New York" with some new lyrics. "Start spreading the news... we're taking back America/In 2010," he croons. "This socialist nightmare/must come to an end/Cause we're gonna vote them out/In 2010/I wanna wake up in an America where I can speak as I please..." Then he takes it to the bridge: "I wanna find my freedom res
September 1, 2009Outrage Du Jour! Obama Aide Called Republicans Assholes; Rightbloggers Rush to Prove Him Right
It has lately been revealed by Fox News that Obama environmental advisor Van Jones, who has been slammed as a Communist by conservatives and has of late been hounded by TV buffoon Glenn Beck, once told an audience in Berkeley that Republicans, or at least some of them, are assholes. "That's a technical, political science term," he added. His February accusation of assholishness was in response to a question about the trouble Democrats were having in getting legislation through Congress, where
September 2, 2009Outrage Du Jour! Utah Kids See Old Obama Video; Rightbloggers Cry Hitler
A teacher principal and PTA leaders at Eagle Bay Elementary School in Farmington, Utah showed students the "I Pledge" video created back in January by some celebrities (or, in the customary rightwing usage, "celebutards") like will.i.am and Demi Moore, with such fanciful oaths as "to smile more, to laugh more," "to always find the humor in everything," and "to never give anyone the finger when I'm driving again." The spin, as regular readers may have guessed already, is that Barack Obama is H
September 3, 2009After Obama's Hitler School Speech, Rightbloggers Go to "B" List of Complaints
In jurisdictions where it hasn't been blocked by patriotic intervention, President Obama's school speech is being viewed today. The President tells the no doubt enraptured kids that " if you quit on school -- you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country," so they should study hard and take inspiration from famous people who also studied hard. Students are also asked to wash their hands so they don't spread flu germs. Having denounced it in the run-up as fascism, Hitler
September 8, 2009Rightbloggers, Sarah Palin Celebrate Failure of Obama Hitler Health Care Speech
Congressman Joe Wilson's cry of "Lie!" at President Obama's health care speech had not stopped reverberating in the halls of Congress before rightbloggers declared it a failure. Scared Monkeys refutes Obama's claim that preventative care would save money. "Preventative medicine saves lives, it does not save money," they say. "In fact it cost more money. Preventative care means that you have to test and pay for all people, even one's who never end up developing any type of disease." Thus we spe
September 10, 2009Rightbloggers Remember 9/11 With Attacks on Obama, Other Terrorists
As we observe another 9/11 anniversary, rightbloggers identify the real villains of the day: President Obama, and various others of their fellow citizens. Many continue their assault on the national day of service and remembrance the President called for September 11, despite the involvement of Gary Sinise. "This is not a day for fighting climate change or changing light bulbs or hugging trees or cheerleading expansions of government national service programs," says Michelle Malkin. She observ
September 11, 2009Obama/Kanye "Jackass" Audio Leaks, Proving Our President Is...An Entirely Reasonable Man
It's no surprise that the inevitably leaked (and even more predictably TMZ-obtained) audio of President Obama calling Kanye West a "jackass"--off the record, to CNBC, which didn't keep ABC's Terry Moran from hearing about it and tweeting it, then deleting it and apologizing, much much too late--proves that it was in fact Obama who was the adult (as usual) in a room full of otherwise tittering children. From the way the quote ricocheted around the internet today, you might've thought our p
September 15, 2009Camille Paglia Provides Much-Needed Intellectual Cred for Birthers
And you thought birtherism was just for hillbillies and Republicans! David Weigel heard Camille Paglia on NPR yesterday, where the author of Sexual Personae and UArts professor told a no doubt astonished latte-drinking audience that "there are legitimate questions about the documentation of Obama's birth certificate. I'm sorry, I've been following this closely from the start." Indeed she has; we noticed her railing on the topic as far back as November ("simple questions about the certificate w
September 17, 2009Which Was The Grossest Public Display?
Screaming out rude, self righteous remarks for a mass audience seems to be all the rage these days, especially when said comments are shrieked while someone else already has the floor. Just recently, we've had the following sore-losery emissions of terrible manners:
September 17, 2009Rightbloggers See Chicago's Olympics Snub as Obama's Foreign Policy Crisis -- Which They Cheer
Last week rightbloggers were outraged when President Obama struck a conciliatory tone in his address to the U.N. General Assembly. They didn't like that, nor did they like Obama's warm reception there, and predicted this love-fest would only encourage our adversaries, with dire consequences for the United States. Time will tell. But this week a different international organization to whom Obama applied rebuffed him and the United States. This rightbloggers celebrated as a triumph. We speak
October 5, 2009Obama Spotted in Barcelona
While New York is home to (arguably) complimentary culinary odes to Obama, like The Obama Flavor, Barcelona has somehow spawned the inexplicably awful Obama British Africa. Complete with leopard print and long-toothed tigers, the pub sits just off the restrained and lovely boulevard of Passeig de Gracia.
October 6, 2009Media Suddenly Becomes Aware of Anti-War Protesters
For a long while, unless you had close to millions of them at one time, the papers didn't like to notice anti-war protesters much. Who cares about dirty hippies anymore, anyway? And isn't that Cindy Sheehan pathetic? But the hippies are back in vogue now. "For Anti-War Protesters, the Cause Isn't Lost," says the Washington Post front-pager chronicling an anti-war protest in front of the White House in which 62 people were arrested on Monday, some wearing the sort of face paint, costumes
October 7, 2009Bill Ayers Jokes About Writing Obama's Book; Rightbloggers Become Punchline
We're not sure where all the birthers went, but we can tell you where they're going: some of the same folks who questioned whether Obama was really born in the U.S.A. and eligible to be President have started flocking to blogger Backyard Conservative's claim that famous radical Bill Ayers told her something that proved what rightwing conspiracy theorist Jack Cashill has been saying all along: that Ayers did write Dreams of my Father, a book supposedly written by Barack Hitler Obama, whom everyon
October 7, 2009Video: Roman Polanski/To Catch a Predator
Well, at least we can laugh about it. Celebrity-sex-with-minors fever continues with a French minister pressured to resign after someone noticed that in his 2005 memoir he talked about traveling the world in search of young boys to sodomize. And Politico reveals that celebs who stepped up for Polanski at some point donated $34,000 to Obama's campaign, putting the blame for this 1977 incident squarely where it belongs. h/t Urlesque.
October 8, 2009Obama Accepts Nobel Prize, Signaling End of Failed Presidency
President Obama, despite the urging of his mortal enemies, appears to have accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he is "both surprised and deeply humbled." Rush Limbaugh calls the award an "embarrassment," which surprises us, as we thought Limbaugh incapable of embarrassment. At National Review Daniel Pipes claims "the absurdity of the prize decision will harm Obama politically in the United States, contrasting his role as international celebrity with his record devoid of accomplishment
October 9, 2009Come Out, Barack!
That's the title of this video aimed at getting our Prez to come out as a gay man--I mean to come out as someone who promised gays the moon and instead seems to be just mooning us.
October 9, 2009Rightbloggers Defend America Against Dangerous Nobel Peace Prize
This week Time magazine had an interesting feature on the Obama Administration's alleged realization that it needed to strike back at "what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims..." You have to wonder what took them so long -- and whether such a counter-attack could possibly do any good. As we've shown here ceaselessly, the rightblogger wing of the anti-Obama offensive has been working since the Inauguration to publicize not only the President's failures, but also
October 12, 2009White House Attack on Fox: Everybody W(h)in(e)s?
A cynical person might ask how much Rupert Murdoch is paying the White House. This weekend Communications Director Anita Dunn told CNN "Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party," that the network is "undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House," and that when Obama goes on the network (which he has no plans to do) he is doing so to "to debate the opposition." Fox News continues to play the conflict up on i
October 13, 2009Obama Outrage Du Jour: Won't Meet With Hippies in San Francisco
Fresh from disgusting the nation with his so-called "Nobel 'Peace' Prize," President Obama's latest outrage is that he will not meet with hippies in San Francisco, but will instead meet with rich people at a Democratic fundraiser there. "Hiding from the leftists in San Francisco," says Michelle Malkin. "Obama to avoid the rabble on S.F. visit," says the San Francisco Chronicle. "Obama to Hide from Liberals in San Francisco," says New York magazine. "Obama fears Code Pink," says Don Surber, and
October 15, 2009Annie Leibovitz Photo of First Family Released, with Restrictions
The White House has released this official family portrait of new Hitler President Obama and his family, taken by famous near-bankrupt Annie Leibovitz. They caution that "the photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House." We expect someone will draw little toothbrush mustaches on them, or b
October 23, 2009Fake But Accurate: Obama "Thesis" Proves His Treason Even After It's Debunked
Much has been written in recent days about the White House's War on Fox News, in which Administration officials have called the Republican-friendly network "the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party" and such like, excluded it from the President's media tours, and even tried unsuccessfully to remove it from pool interviews of other officials. This cold-shouldering is generally seen as a mistake even by reporters presumed sympathetic to the Administration. We've had s
October 26, 2009We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?
October 27, 2009Major Obama Birther Suit Thrown Out
Top birther Orly Taitz has had her request to remove President Obama from office because he's from Kenya denied. Dave Weigel provides the decision. It is full of lovely passages in which we may imagine U.S. District Judge David Carter using the studiously patient tone with which David Letterman used to speak to Pee Wee Herman back in the day, such as, "Plaintiffs appear to assume that should the Court receive a document from Kenya, the Court would give credence to this document over the
October 29, 2009After Two Losses, Liberal Media Declares Obama Doomed
Republicans won two governors' races, which is characterized by the press (customarily known as the liberal media) as a "sweep." "GOP sweeps gov races," says Politico. "Christie win completes GOP gubernatorial sweep," says CNN. "McDonnell Leads GOP Sweep," says the Roanoke Times. "GOP Sweep," says the Associated Press, the Houston Chronicle, The (SC) State, the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Wilmar (MN) West Central Tribune, et alia. TV economist Larry Kudlow talk
November 4, 2009Obama's Encounter With a Pop Diva
President Obama loves to reference Lady Gaga to show how hip he is. I'm hearing that the other day, after he made a speech about the importance of the hate crimes legislation he signed, the Prez was greeted by '80s singer and LGBT supporter Cyndi Lauper, who told him, "It's about time!"
November 4, 2009Rightbloggers Denounce Liberal Media's Defense of the Fort Hood Massacre
On Thursday Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot up Fort Hood, killing 12. Though a soldier for 12 years, Hasan apparently demonstrated, out loud, loyalty and affection for global jihad. It's appropriate to ask what such a person was doing in the U.S. Army. Rightbloggers saw a bigger problem, though: the liberal media. Though they got nearly all of their information about Hasan from such sources, they yet accused them of trying to cover up his Muslim roots, and even of excusing his massacre.
November 9, 2009Rightbloggers Play Miss Manners with Obama's Treasonous Japanese Bow
Ever wonder why rightbloggers don't ever just say the hell with it? Week after week we unfailingly find them locked in the highest of dudgeons, raging about such inanities as old Sesame Street episodes or a non-existent suppressed Obama "thesis." Wouldn't you expect them to occasionally look at the more piddling of these outrages as they come over the transom and decide it just isn't worth their effort and self-embarrassment? Being the optimistic sort, we held out hope till recent
November 16, 2009Aggregating the Aggregators
Today's hot hot stories, brought to you by the blurb jockeys at America's sexiest news sources! Huffington Post: The 18 Biggest lies of Palin's book. Some Hemingway filly is topless. Levi Johnston's hairy armpit. Teabagger party turns violent. Jessica Alba pats herself on the back. Costco stops carrying Coca Cola? 'Couples Retreat' poster in UK removes black couple. The Daily Beast:
November 18, 2009This Week in Conservatism: Obama/ACORN Stole Election, Lou Dobbs for Prez, Etc.
To review, here's what the American conservative movement is up to these days: • A Public Policy Polling survey showed by that most Republicans believe ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama. Only 27 percent of them believe Obama won it fair and square, and opposed to 62 percent of Americans. • Several prominent Christians, including former Nixon aide Charles Colson and nine Catholic archbishops, stated in a "Manhattan Declaration" that they "will not comply with any edict that p
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