Ok, Stephen Fowler Is A Prick, Now Leave Him Alone

In case you've been living in a cave, some liberal, elitist prick turned reality TV star in San Francisco (of course!) by the name of Stephen Fowler has gained a lot of fame for all the wrong reasons:

It's safe to say Stephen Fowler probably wishes he never appeared on "Wife Swap."

Fowler's stint on the ABC reality show last month, in which he called a rural Missouri woman spending two weeks in his San Francisco home stupid and simple, has made him famous in the worst way.

His performance has inspired a Web site, StephenFowlerSucks.com, a Facebook group, "I Can not Stand Stephen Fowler from `Wife Swap,'" and public condemnation by his own wife, who on her blog urged him to get professional help.

What has generated such wrath is Fowler's condescending treatment of Gayla Long, a mother of four from rural Missouri whose family likes fast food and paintball. In wince-producing remarks, Fowler, who is British, wrote off middle America with such pronouncements as "Your two languages seem to be bad English and redneck."

Three weeks later, Fowler's "Wife Swap" antics are still a YouTube sensation, with at least 10 postings from the show's Jan. 30 episode displayed on the Web site, most with headings such as "ridiculous elitist" and "elitists gone wild."

Last week, Yahoo posted a clip of the show on its site under the heading "Husbands Behaving Badly." Each new posting or story generates thousands of views and hundreds of galled comments.

Fowler, an environmental entrepreneur who develops biofuels, apologized in a statement posted on his wife's blog for behaving "like a complete jerk" and said he has resigned from the boards of two nonprofit corporations for reflecting badly on the organizations.

Some news outlets have reported that Fowler says he has received death threats. Neither Fowler nor his wife, Renee Stephens, could be reached to confirm the reports.

"Wife Swap" is a social experiment of sorts in which wives from two very different families exchange lives for two weeks.

Some highlights from the "Wife Swap" show are posted below. I'm not condoning any of Fowler's actions, but I believe him when he says he was told to "ham it up" by the show producers. After all, this is TV and for any TV show to be successful they need ratings. Plus, why no fan fair for Long's husband, who apparently on the same show made it clear that he thinks a women's place is in the kitchen and proudly has a confederate flag hanging up in his house? Either way Fowler's apologized, so people should move on already. I mean, death threats?!? Some people need to get a life already.

Joe Biden: Doofus Part 2

Newsmax.com:

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that the Bush administration’s detention and interrogation policies “gave al-Qaida a powerful recruiting tool,” according to a report in the New York Times.

Biden made the statement while visiting the Central Intelligence Agency to swear in Leon E. Panetta as the agency’s new director.

At the venue, Biden noted that under the new leadership of President Barack Obama, the C.I.A. was now required to use only the same non-coercive interrogation methods as the military.

Biden added that the latest Obama executive orders “reverse the policies that in my view and the view of many in this agency caused America to fall short of its founding principles and which gave al-Qaida a powerful recruiting tool.”

Yeah, in other words, we should coddle the terrorists and not ever torture them because they're really nice people just trying go about their business peacefully like everybody else. Who cares about the safety of the American people? Al-Qaeda just needs to be talked too, sat down with, maybe for some brunch, tea and animal crackers so they can stop their evil ways: BLAME BUSH!!!

When the Impeach Joe Biden movement starts, I want in.

In Michelle Malkin's World Racism Just Doesn't Exist

It's one of the biggest problem's people have with Far-Right pundits: their defense of racial ignorance no matter how stupid or hate-filled the fuckery:

Al Sharpton and his race racketeers went ape over New York Post staffer Sean Delonas’s anti-stimulus editorial cartoon involving that famous crazed chimp. They picketed the News Corp. building, organized boycotts, targeted advertisers, floated a challenge to Rupert Murdoch’s FCC license — and now the New York Post has apologized.

Oops. Can I say “went ape” anymore? How about “going bananas?” Shall I refrain from asking the race demagogues to quit “monkeying around?” Do I erase “It’s a jungle out there” and “It’s a zoo” from my lexicon? How about “beastly?”

Just a few yelps from Sharpton and the professional protesters who see RAAAAACISM in every inkblot prompted the spunky tab (for whom I write and proudly so) to apologize to “those who were offended by the image.”

Instead of, at worst, making a case that Delonas' cartoon was done in poor taste, Malkin goes out of her way to predictably deflect (Sharpton! Race-Baiter!), defend and make a complete ass out of herself by mocking any and all outrage (I mean why should any black person take issue with being compared to an ape? it's not like America doesn't have a history of that stuff).

But then this is the same woman who wrote a book defending Japanese internment, runs from her Filipino heritage and just the other day had no problem posing with a man carrying a sign equating Barack Obama with Adolf Hitler (tho' she's criticized past Bush=Hitler analogies made by the Left). But indeed, it's an issue with the fringe wings of both sides of the political aisle: at the end of the day they both look, sound and act alike.

Ann Coulter Ownes Joy Behar

This is like the Lakers going up against a WNBA team: no contest.

H/T: Ms. Underestimated

Meghan McCain Quote of the Day!

"The Obama administration understands that my generation spends most of its day on a laptop or a BlackBerry, and that using the Web is easy way to communicate their ideas to their constituents. Until the Republican Party joins the twenty-first century and learns how to use the Internet, its members will keep getting older and the youth of America will just keep logging on to the other side."

- Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, on her fight to get the GOP to be more tech savvy during her dad's campaign for President

Liberal Reporter Kathleen Parker Hearts Barack Obama

Geez, with this kind of fawning, Michelle O better watch her back:

Eh? The president was asking us how we wanted to proceed. For the record, this is very un-Bush. At several meetings with the former president, including a one-on-one interview aboard Air Force One, there was never any question about how we would proceed. Bush ran all shows. Either Obama hasn’t figured out yet that he’s the boss or, quite possibly, he doesn’t care. As a veteran White House correspondent suggested to me later, “Maybe he knows he can handle whatever we toss his way.”

I’ve written about the interview for my regular syndicated column, so I won’t belabor it here. Suffice to say, we focused on the stimulus bill that Obama signed Tuesday in Denver. As someone who has written both favorably and critically about the president, most recently focusing on his greenness and political inexperience, I was curious to gain whatever insights one can from a closer encounter.

What struck me most was his immense calm. I kept looking for fissures in the façade, some signal that the cool cat is a defense mechanism or some tactical ploy to deflect or defuse an opponent. Nary a crack. You may as well try to find the Dalai Lama’s Achilles heel. I suspect that if you cut Obama open, you’d find a little Buddha sitting inside, smiling.

Before a crowd of thousands, Obama the Orator is a performer. In a small room with a few journalists, he is a teacher, mindful that his students are trying to write down what he says. He speaks slowly. I took this as an act of consideration and thanked him for it. Even though we were promised a transcript—and though tape recorders cluttered the table—we were all still scribbling furiously. It is a habit of old reporters and, besides, one never knows.

Seems like the only thing she left out was whether or not she got a thrill up her leg while on Air Force One with The Messiah.

Maureen Dowd: Still Suffering From Huge BDS

Oh, the poor BDS sufferers on the Left. Our dear 43rd President hasn't made a peep since he left office a month ago and the typical loons on the Left just can't let him go:

There were clues in the last couple of years that W. and Condi were trying to sidle away from Cheney by using the forbidden strategy of diplomacy in dealing with Iran and North Korea, and by cutting loose Rummy.

As one official who worked closely with both W. and Cheney told The New York Daily News’s Tom DeFrank the last week of the administration: “It’s been a long, long time since I’ve heard the president say, ‘Run that by the vice president’s office.’ You used to hear that all the time.”

The clearest sign of disaffection we have is Bush’s refusal to pardon Scooter Libby, the man known as “Cheney’s Cheney,” despite Vice’s tense and emotional pleading. It was his final, too little, too late “You are not the boss of me” spurning of Dick Cheney.

It may seem pointless for W. to worry about his legacy at this juncture, but he clearly did not want to add a Marc Rich blot to all the other gigantic blots on the copybook.

Because their BDS never ceases to end, now the loons want to create this supposed discord between Cheney and Bush due to Cheney supposedly being pissed that the former President didn't grant a Scooter Libby a full pardon. But here's what the idiots refuse to acknowledge: President Bush stayed true to form in not pulling a Bill Clinton and exploiting his authority to pardon criminals. Liberals all predicted and were ready to gloat the day Bush pardoned Libby, but that day never happened and yet all the BDS-sufferers attacked the President anyway. Bush did enough for Libby in commuting his sentence and if Cheney really is still upset about his not pardoning Libby, he should get over it.

The Money Hole: The Onion Predicts Where Stimulus Package Will Lead Us

In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

Sharpton's Right On This One: New York Post Cartoon Is Clearly Racist

I'm no Al Sharpton fan and I'm always careful about going there, but this right here is some racist bullshit:

The Rev. Al Sharpton says a New York Post cartoon that appears to link President Obama to a violent chimpanzee is "troubling at best."

The cartoon in Wednesday's Post by Sean Delonas shows a dead chimp and two police officers, one with a smoking gun.

The caption reads, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

The cartoon refers to Travis the chimp, who was shot to death by police in Stamford, Conn., on Monday after it mauled a friend of its owner.

It links the chimp to Obama, who signed his administration's economic stimulus plan on Tuesday.

Sharpton called the cartoon offensive and divisive.

The Post had no immediate comment.

I'll say it again, there way too many reasons for conservatives to criticize Barack Obama and his uber-liberal policies without mentioning his race. To go there is just stupid and ignorant and I don't want anything to do with those on the Right who choose to do so. Not only do you come off looking like a fool when talk about BO's race, but you just open door to the Leftist plantation's exploitation of the race card. And in this case it's certainly warranted. I'm sure the usual suspects in the conservative punditry will deflect and scream "Tawana Brawley! Tawana Brawley!", but whatever, because this isn't about Sharpton, it's about calling it as you see it like any fair-minded person would. And apparently, this isn't the first time this cartoonist pulled some racist imagery.

Schwarzenegger Has California On The Brink Of Collapse

NYTimes.com:

The state of California — its deficits ballooning, its lawmakers intransigent and its governor apparently bereft of allies or influence — appears headed off the fiscal rails.

Since the fall, when lawmakers began trying to attack the gaps in the $143 billion budget that their earlier plan had not addressed, the state has fallen into deeper financial straits, with more bad news coming daily from Sacramento. The state, nearly out of cash, has laid off scores of workers and put hundreds more on unpaid furloughs. It has stopped paying counties and issuing income tax refunds and halted thousands of infrastructure projects.

The Schwarzenegger administration sent out notices on Tuesday that 20,000 state jobs were being eliminated. Ten-thousand of those workers would be assigned to new jobs, said Matt David, the communications director Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and 10,000 people would be laid off. The notices were sent by United States mail, but the actual process of laying people off takes about six months, Mr. David said.

In addition, the state, citing a lack of money, shut down 276 highway, prison and other infrastructure programs that had been exempted from an earlier halting of projects because of budget problems.

Of course, the immediate reaction from the Left is to pin this mess on the GOP, but as the rest of us recall it was the people of California who recently got together and ousted an inept Democrat governor, that in turn led to the special election of RINO Schwarzenegger. Whatever the case, it's never a good look to be pointing fingers when people are about to lose their jobs. These pols need to come up with some sort of solution to this mess, after all that's what they're elected for.

Hypocrite Nancy Pelosi To Meet With Pope Benedict

Newsmax.com:

Visiting US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI during her weeklong visit to Italy, a Vatican official said Monday.

The meeting will take place on Wednesday, the official told AFP, saying it would likely occur after the pope's weekly general audience.

Pelosi, who describes herself as an "ardent" Catholic while advocating reproductive rights, will be the highest-ranking US official to see the pope since President Barack Obama took office last month.

The new Democratic administration is at odds with the Vatican over abortion, stemcell research and other bioethical issues.

Senior Vatican officials slammed Obama's rapid overturning of a ban on US government funding for family planning groups around the world that carry out or facilitate abortions.

Here's hoping the Pope calls out our idiot Speaker of the House (and Catholic) on her contradictions regarding Catholic faith that includes supporting abortion, "independent woman's rights" (i.e. women who choose to have kids without a dad) and gay marriage. Benedict has certainly shown, during his short term, an ability to call it like he sees it. Let's hope he gives Nancy P. a stern lecture or two for being an unabashed hypocrite when it comes to her religion.

Lying Scum Bill Clinton Says He Would've Solved Economic Crisis

This really cracks me up:

Clinton added that had he and his economics team been in office the last eight years, the economy would not have tanked.

Asked his perspective on how the country fell into such economic hard times, Clinton responded in an NBC "Today" show interview by asking rhetorically: "Did any of them seriously believe that if I had been president and my economic team had been in place the last eight years, that this would be taking place."

He said he thought Obama's White House handled the stimulus issue relatively well, "given the fact they had to do it in a hurry."

Yeah, President Bush hasn't left office for a month yet and Slick Willie's already takes swipes at him. No surprise there. But the idea that Clinton thinks if he were in office the last eight years we wouldn't be in this mess is ludicrous.

Bubba seems to forget that any economic growth during his administration was mostly due to Ronald Reagan, not him. It was Reagan who marginalized tax cut rates years earlier, which led to a technology boom that produced the likes of Bill Gates and Jerry Yang (Yahoo). All Clinton did was raise taxes during his two terms and any legislation (like Welfare) that he signed to stimulate the economy were drafted and pushed through by a GOP-Controlled Congress. Thanks to Monica, et al, his impeachment, tax hikes on social security as well as income, the last recession actually started in 2000, under Bill Clinton. In other words, Bubba's flat-out lying and he knows it.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 2/16/09

Illinois Republicans Want Perjury Probe On Roland Burris

MSNBC Is In Big Trouble Without Bush To Bash

Socialist Hugo Chavez Wins Referendum To Eliminate Term Limits In Venezuela

Young Woman Booted From Basketball Team For Being Straight

Lincoln In Lavender: CBS Runs One-Sided Gay Myth About 16th President

Lawsuit Filed After Professor Calls Student 'Fascist Bastard' For Expressing Christian Beliefs

13-Year-Old Boy Demands DNA Test After Two Other Boys Claim Paternity

Obama Ready To Lift Ban On Stem-Cell Research

Kirk Cameron's Christian Movie Continues To Be A Big Indie Hit

'Climate Scientist' Ratches Up Global Warming Alarmism In Face Of Record Cold Weather

Ex-Convict Kwame Kilpatrick Lands New Job, 6-Figure Salary

Freep.com:

In this terrible economy, it's good to know one man was able to find work.

Of course, the fact that Kwame Kilpatrick got the job a week after he left jail, in a field in which he has no experience, at a six-figure wage, doesn't make people happy.

And the fact that his new employer, Compuware, laid off 250 people the same week it hired him, doesn't make people happy.

And the fact that Kilpatrick, Detroit's former mayor, has been proven a liar, cost his city millions of dollars, was convicted of felony perjury, and has a sense of entitlement that would shame Cleopatra, doesn't make people happy.

And let's be clear -- it shouldn't. This guy does not deserve "a break." This guy does not deserve the front of the line. This guy is lucky he did only 99 days behind bars, he owes this city $1 million, and at the very least, he should endure the same cold splash that tens of thousands of his former constituents are enduring these days -- unemployed and doing without.

This stinks to high heaven. Here we are in a huge economic downturn and this guy, who proved to be nothing but scum as a mayor, spits in all our faces by landing a sweetheart deal mere days after he got out the joint. Compuware should be ashamed of themselves. And is it worth even mentioning that if Kilpatrick was a disgraced former Republican politician, what would be the reaction to this news from the liberal press? Not to mention Al Sharpton and all his minions would be in Dallas right now making noise and protesting till kingdom come.

Betsy McCaughey Reminds Us Why Keith Olbermann's An Ass

Newsbusters.com:

A health policy expert who Keith Olbermann eviscerated during Thursday's "Countdown" (video embedded below the fold) has officially challenged the disgraceful MSNBC personality to a debate concerning provisions in the soon to be enacted stimulus plan.In a press release issued Friday, Betsy McCaughey stated:

If Keith Olbermann of MSNBC could defend the health provisions slipped into the stimulus bill on their merits, he wouldn't be resorting to personal attacks on me. Olbermann calls me a shill funded by the drug industry (2-12-2009). That's not true...If Keith Olbermann has the courage, I invite him to debate me on his program...Mr. Olbermann, do you have the backbone (and the facts) to debate me?

It's funny that with all the attacks liberals are hurling at Rush Limbaugh (if he's so "insignificant", why even pay attention to him?), the most popular pundit serving the Left's interests would be the likes of Olbermann--who by the way, for all his over-the-top bias and projections, can barely garner half of Bill O'Reilly's ratings. Of course, Olbermann won't take on McCaughey's challenge because KO relies too much on lies, smears and Media Matters for his cesspool of a show. But yeah, he's still the best they got--any wonder why more and more Dems are pushing for the Fairness Doctrine?