Kanye West Still Apologizing For Interrupting That Pretty White Blonde Girl's Speech Last Year

So here we are a year later and Kanye West is still apologizing to Taylor Swift for pulling that stunt at the MTV VMA Awards in which interrupted her thank you speech. Reports say that West is so sorry (again) for stealing Swift's shine that he's even gone so far as to write her an apology song out of "honor", plus word has it that West and Swift may make a special appearance together at this year's VMA awards. Good grief, talk about having an OJ moment. No really. I mean, one can't help but wonder what would've happened if the circumstances were a little different and West had interrupted someone other than a young, white pretty blonde girl? Sure you could say that West might've known better than to interrupt a black woman up there receiving her first major MTV award, but surely if he had interrupted say Melanie Fiona instead of Taylor Swift, the outcry afterwards wouldn't have been the same. Anyway, now that West has apologized to Taylor again and again and again, will the lily-white, MTV-Left, who've ostracized Kanye from their community for almost a year now, accept him back in their good graces and let him go back to being the musical genius/sometime prick who occasionally makes brilliant observations about certain politicians on the Right (the kind that makes white liberals wet) again? Of course they will, it took him awhile but Kanye knows his place.

Sen. Lindsey Graham Calls Barack Obama "Tone Deaf"

Politico.com:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday called President Barack Obama "tone deaf" to the voices of the American people, slamming the president for putting forth the "most liberal agenda of modern times."


"The only way the president could possibly survive is [by coming] back to the middle," Graham said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "He's tone deaf — putting [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] on trial in New York City ... interjecting himself in the mosque debate, made no sense."


"He's tone deaf on terrorism issues and he's certainly tone deaf on the economy."


Graham accused Obama of running as a centrist but governing "from the left," acquiescing to the politics and agenda of the House. The senator added that if the elections "were held tomorrow," the GOP would make substantial gains.

Democrats Imply a Publisher Promoting Republican Books Could Be Illegal

Newsbusters.org:

Over at stopnetregulation.org, Seton Motley reports that if the Democrats can't ban books, they'll try to ban book promotion. Democrats are furious that the conservative Threshhold imprint of Simon & Schuster (a corporate cousin of CBS) published a book by three House Republicans titled "Young Guns," and included a promotional video: 

That was too much free speech for the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which lawyered up and sent the publishing house an ominous letter intimating it may be in violation of several campaign finance laws - claiming the video was an in-kind contribution to Republicans. This despite the fact that...

Corporations are permitted to make independent expenditures with no coordination with candidates...

Or the simple possibility that Simon & Schuster has printed tens of thousands of copies and would now like to, you know, sell them.

Liberal CNN Host: Fareed Zakaria: Al-Qaeda Not Really A Big Deal, Americans ‘Overreacted’ To 9/11

Mediaite.com:

Fareed Zakaria warns in Newsweek that Al-Qaeda was significantly more incompetent that Americans believed in the aftermath of 9/11, and the result is a “national-security state” that threatens civil liberties. Any other time of year, comments like this would be controversial at best, especially from the mild-mannered Zakaria. So close to the anniversary of the most painful event in recent American history, it borders on the callous.


In one of his final columns in Newsweek (Zakaria will be soon moving to Time), Zakaria questions whether the American government should have increased spending in national security after 9/11, since “Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat.” He notes that the US spends “more than the rest of the world spends put together” and that the Department of Homeland Security and it’s satellite organizations “produce 50,000 reports a year—136 a day!—which of course means few ever get read.” Imagine that– the United States spends more money on national security than other countries; given the open-endedness of his point, this means we should probably be shocked that the US is spending more money on national security than, say, Switzerland or Vanuatu.


He then tries to soften the edges around his argument by pointing out that, aside from that one time that they took down the World Trade Center and crashed a plane into the Pentagon, Al Qaeda is mostly a failure. “Today,” he writes, “Al Qaeda’s best hope is to find a troubled young man who has been radicalized over the Internet, and teach him to stuff his underwear with explosives.” He also highlights that he condemns Al Qaeda despite their incompetence (“I do not minimize Al Qaeda’s actions… I question its capabilities”) and rallies support from the texts of Founding Father– he quotes James Madison as saying, “of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded,” referring to the dangers of the War on Terror.

Sharron Angle Tells CNN: 'I'll Be A Mainstream Senator'

CNN.com:

Nevada Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle just might be the Tea Party's biggest gamble yet. A staunch conservative with a history of making bold and sometimes controversial comments, Angle insists she's been taken out of context in her campaign to oust Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and told CNN in a rare interview, "I'll be a mainstream Senator."


A grandmother of 10 children who secured the backing of Tea Party leaders on her way to winning the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, Angle has been both praised and criticized for her views.

In past remarks during the campaign, Angle has said Social Security and Medicare should be phased out. She's also advocated the elimination of the Departments of Education and Energy, the EPA, and the IRS.


Angle established herself as an ardent conservative during her six-year tenure in the Nevada State Assembly. "Sharron Angle was the Tea Party before the Tea Party existed," Nevada political journalist Jon Ralston said of the Republican, adding she was a "far right" candidate.

While Angle's controversial stances have bolstered her standing with the Tea Party, they have provided fodder for Democrats, who perceive the 60-year-old Tea Party candidate a threat to one of Washington's most prominent Democrats.

Guess someone in her camp finally advised on getting more out there and move to the center a little bit. Sharron Angle doesn't have to apologize for being a conservative, but she does need to realize that sticking with the far-Right is a no-win.

Narcissist Barack Obama Assails GOP, Makes Jobs No. 1 Priority Almost 2 Years Into Office

YahooNews.com:

A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that will exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.


GOP leaders instantly assailed Obama's proposal, and many Democrats will likely be reluctant to approve additional spending and higher federal deficits just weeks before elections that will determine control of Congress.

That left the plan with low odds of becoming law this year. Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, cautioned, "If we are going to get anything done, Republican cooperation, which has been all but non-existent recently, will be necessary."

Administration officials said that even if the program somehow won quick congressional approval, it would not produce jobs until sometime next year. That means the proposal's only pre-election impact may whether voters interpret it as a serious effort by the White House to boost the economy and create jobs.

The nerve of this guy. Everybody but Barry's idiot liberal base warned him about going full throttle on ObamaCare instead of making the economy his No. 1 priority, but he did listen? Of course not. No, he wanted to fill "liberal lion" Ted Kennedy's legacy (or 'change' it when you include Chappaquiddick). He thought his stimulus package was a sure thing (it wasn't, any wonder he's trying to get a 2nd one passed before November). He thought Americans would forever stay mesmerized by "hope and change" to the point that they'd forget the need to put food on their tables, yet that hasn't happened either. And now Barry's desperate, blaming everything on a political party that hasn't been in charge of either chamber of Congress in almost 4 years. Unbelievable.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 9/6/10

Author Leaving Home Next To Palin's, Vanity Fair Writer Admits Mistake In Palin Story

Pope Monitoring Iranian Woman Sentenced To Stoning Death

Conservative Surrender On Same-sex Marriage?

Millions Of Children Won't Be Getting On Buses This Fall

The Looming Obama Depression

Alleged 'Muslim Anger' Over Ground Zero Mosque Protests Is A Fabrication

American Academy of Pediatrics Says Media Portrayal of Sex ‘Unhealthy'

Cynthia Tucker: Voter Anger Is About Racism - 'Fear of a White Minority'

Gregory To Plouffe: Do You Have Any Proof Hillary Won’t Run For President In 2012?

Majority Of Iraqis Oppose Obama Withdrawal

John McCain: Obama Administration Ignoring Border Threat

Monica Crowley Smacks Down Eleanor Clift Over Racism in the Tea Party

Newsbusters.org:

Conservative radio host Monica Crowley on Friday smacked down Newsweek's Eleanor Clift over racism in the Tea Party.


In the second segment of "The McLaughlin Group," the host addressed July's controversial resolution by the NAACP condemning so-called racist elements within the Tea Party.


Liberals Clift and Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune predictably supported the NAACP while bashing the conservative organization.


Crowley with the support of Pat Buchanan defended the Tea Party while calling the NAACP irrelevant.


With McLaughlin surprisingly taking Crowley and Buchanan's side, sparks flew in an oftentimes heated discussion (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):

Laura Ingraham And Greg Gutfeld Mock Richard Engel’s Saddam ‘Moderation’ Remark

Mediaite.com:

On Today last week, NBC’s Richard Engel argued that, before the US invasion of Iraq, leader Saddam Hussein was on the road to “moderation,” and that his relationships with Eastern Europe, especially, were improving. Needless to say, on Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor, Laura Ingraham and Greg Gutfeld had a field day with the idea that Hussein was a moderate.



Ingraham opened the segment suggesting Engel thought “Saddam was on the verge of having his own reality show” before the Bush administration’s decision to invade. For Gutfeld, the logic behind Engel’s comments hinged upon what the meaning of “moderation” is. “What does he mean by ‘moderate’?” he asked. “Was he talking about his alcohol intake?… Or was he only going to gas half as many Kurds, or tell his sons that they could only rape women every other weekend?”

“He was clearly going green,” Ingraham mocked, and later blamed the commentary on NBC in general: “When NBC is involved, all bets are off.” Gutfeld didn’t understand exactly why Engel was talking about this anyway: “You’ve got a war that you won; enjoy it!” But Ingraham did see the point: “We’re supposed to be America on our knees begging for mercy all the time, you don’t understand that… get used to it.” “I am, believe me, I’m married,” he retorted.

Feminists Angry At Taylor Swift . . . For Speaking About Love And Appealing To Millions

NewsRealBlog.com:

There is no limit to the amount of control that feminazis want to have over our lives. If women do not adhere to the unbelievably strict rules set down for us by the fascist feminist Left, then they are labeled anti-feminist and anti-woman. The latest example of the femisogynist litmus test is Taylor Swift, denounced as unfeminist… for writing about true love and having a wholesome image. The nerve!


Taylor Swift isn’t even 21 yet, and she’s already a force to be reckoned with. She became a superstar in 2006 at the age of sixteen, and today she’s sold over 10 million albums and appeared in several major motion pictures. She’s written her own music and said that most of her songs are autobiographical. She not only sings, but she also plays guitar and has produced much of her own music. Does any of this matter? Nope! Her latest song, Mine, has the femisogynists up in arms.


This song is rife with freaky-deaky, weirdo language that frames Swift as someone perpetually under the ownership, or at least care, of a male authority. The lyrics describe her as not a woman, but as a “careless man’s careful daughter” that her new boyfriend has “made a rebel of.” This is problematic to me, in the sense that it implies a transfer of her ownership from one man to another. I think it’s weird in this song that she doesn’t seem to have any sense of her own identity away from the love interest, or her father. I do, however, give her props for the use of the line “we got bills to pay.” Though grammatically incorrect, it implies that Taylor will be helping to pay the bills though some means of gainful employment. Let’s go back in time 50 years so that I can congratulate her on being progressive!


The other thing I found noteworthy was how Taylor was dealing with the transition from teen star to general entertainer. As much as she infantilizes herself, Swift is distinctly more adult here as compared to her previous videos. She’s got bills to pay! She has children! Usually when you see “teen” stars (she’s 20) make the transition from adolescence, they do it via the sexy route, à la Britney, LiLo, and Miley. This video is unique in the sense that Taylor Swift appears to be trying to age herself into a more matronly, albeit still conventionally attractive, role. It’s not often that we are encouraged to make an association between young pop starlets and motherhood….


Aside from completely misconstruing the lyrics, why does it matter what Taylor Swift writes about? Here is a self-made woman, someone who has built a career for herself, and done it in a classy, age-appropriate manner. For most rational, normal people, Taylor Swift is considered a role model. But it’s not good enough for the feminazis. Heaven forbid someone writes songs about their own feelings without consulting the fascist feminists about whether or not it’s considered Feminist Approved.






Feministing also jumped on the anti-Taylor Swift bandwagon, because Taylor Swift — a woman — is somehow “sexist.” And the reason that she is sexist is because a few femisogynists decided that the message of her music is somehow bad. Traditional love and romance is considered the most sexist thing ever when it comes to these enlightened beings. (After all, why should a woman be in a traditional, loving, respectful relationship?) When you consider that, as stated before, most of Swift’s songs are autobiographical, as in, based on her own experiences in relationships, it’s even more ridiculous. The feminazis claim that the issue is that music should speak to people, but obviously her music does speak to people, or she wouldn’t be selling millions and millions of albums. The issue here isn’t that women and girls don’t empathize with Taylor Swift’s lyrics, it’s that the feminazis want to decide what kind of relationships are sexist and not sexist.


The issue here is not about Taylor Swift. It’s about the monster that these feminazis have turned feminism into. Equality has gone completely out the window. It’s just like how pro-abortion advocates call themselves “pro-choice”. It isn’t about women deciding what choices to make for themselves. Taylor Swift, for example, is a successful, independent, wealthy woman who has accomplished so much at an incredibly young age. But because certain women who have hijacked the term feminist don’t like what she sings about, she’s automatically labeled as sexist and anti-feminist. Wouldn’t equality mean that a woman could choose to write whatever kind of music she wanted to write about… and that women could choose to listen to whatever kind of music they like? Feminism is not about a litmus test for how a woman lives her life, and it isn’t a list of rules. Feminism is about equality… something that the women who claim to be fighting for women’s right threw out the window a long time ago.

White House Aides Warned Michelle Obama About Spain Vacation

WashingtonExaminer.com:

The New York Times reports First Lady Michelle Obama's aides cautioned against her going on the early August European vacation in which she stayed at a 5-star resort in Spain and mingled with royalty. The lavish trip, the aides reportedly argued, could result in harm to her image. "Aides say privately that they warned her there would be a cost to the trip, but she overruled them, insisting it was a rare chance to spend time with Sasha and with a friend whose father had died," the paper reports. "But the intensity of the uproar -- including accusations that she was a 'modern-day Marie Antoinette' -- caught the White House and Mrs. Obama off guard."

The trip resulted in the first extended negative press of the First Lady's time in the White House. Critics questioned why Mrs. Obama chose to go to a glitzy, high-priced resort at a time when unemployment is high and many Americans are suffering economically.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll taken during the trip showed that just 50 percent of those surveyed had a positive impression of Mrs. Obama -- down from 64 percent in April 2009 and 55 percent earlier this year.

New Leftist Spin: TIME Magazine Says Rising Unemployment Rate Is 'Good News'

They'll say anything to protect The One:

The following headline appeared at Time.com shortly after the release of Friday's jobs report:

What's Good About Rising Unemployment

What should jump out at the eagle-eyed reader is that headline didn't end with a question mark.

Time senior writer Stephen Gandel was actually making the case that the rising unemployment rate was good news.

Watch just how far a liberal media member is willing to go today to make economic data look favorable for the Party currently in power, and imagine the unlikelihood of such a thing happening if a Republican was in the White House:

The unemployment rate, probably the most famous of economic gauges, may actually be a very bad indicator of how healthy the economy is. [...]

The unemployment rate peaked in late 2009 at just above 10% and has been mostly falling ever since. But the hiring numbers, or less firing numbers, have only been improving recently. So what was going on? The unemployment rate tracks not just how many people have jobs, but how many people are looking for jobs. And, up until August, the number of people looking for jobs was dropping rapidly.

Bristol Palin On Jay Leno, Gets Back At Levi Johnston: "He Needs To Get His GED"

Mediaite.com:

Celebrity mom Bristol Palin is beginning the media tour for her upcoming appearance on Dancing with the Stars, and last night it landed her on the couch of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. Leno went easy the younger Palin, giving her space to dance, laugh, and take a few jabs at her ex Levi Johnston.


Despite being a veteran of the show, though with mom Sarah in tow, she seemed a bit timid this time around at the beginning, explaining how she got onto Dancing with the Stars in the first place (a text message she received at the dermatologist’s office she works at) and awkwardly answering high school questions like “Did you go to prom?” (answer: “No, I was pregnant.”).


And then Leno gave her space to talk Levi, and suddenly she became both much more comfortable on the hot seat and delightfully, almost scathingly witty. Sure, the audience laughed when she said she wasn’t heartbroken, and she still seemed a bit dismayed when she described the pre-fame Levi as “a hard-working Alaskan man,” but when it came to his run for mayor of Wasilla, she had some important civic questions about his ability to run. “Well, he needs to move to Wasilla,” she answered, “and he needs a GED.”

Good for her.

Alan Grayson: Glenn Beck Fans Wore "Sheets Over Their Heads"

OrlandoSentinel.com:

Since his election two years ago, Orlando Democrat U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson’s fame has multiplied exponentially with every inflammatory remark.


Every time he says something like the Republicans’ health care plan is to “die quickly” or that Dick Cheney is a vampire who should “STFU,” he becomes a bigger hero to liberals and a bigger target of conservatives. Now there’s another addition to the list of Grayson’s greatest hits.


During an appearance on the progressive talk-radio “Stephanie Miller Show” on Thursday — part of a regular segment called “Face the Grayson” — the congressman likened those who attended Glenn Beck’s rally last week at the Lincoln Memorial to Ku Klux Klan members.


Miller: “The Glenn Beck thing — is that going to have an effect in November? To me, they were, I’m sorry, mostly old, white … mostly McCain-Palin leftovers, weren’t they? These aren’t new voters, these are people that have always voted Republican.”


Grayson: “These are people who were wearing sheets over their heads 25 years ago.”


The congressman also repeated one of his recent favorites: “You only have three friends in life: God, your mama, and the Democratic Party.”

I know that Stephanie Miller is a staunch liberal (and ironically a FOX News contributor), but for her to laugh at this idiot's remark comparing Beck fans to the KKK without realizing how much his sheer stupidity hurts the "progressive cause" is pretty sad. Alan Grayson appeals to dumb liberals who like to scream and shake their fists, that's it. Alan Grayson is a dishonest scaremonger and an all-around scumbag. Comparing your political opponents fans to the KKK is so disgusting and beyond the pale that it leaves you with little wonder why this country is so fed up with the Left.

Fewer Young Voters Identify As Democrats

NYTimes.com:

The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama.

Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties: far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds now identify themselves as Democrats compared with 2008. 

“Is the recession, which is hitting young people very hard, doing lasting or permanent damage to what looked like a good Democratic advantage with this age group?” asked Scott Keeter, the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan group. “The jury is still out.” 

How and whether millions of college students vote will help determine if Republicans win enough seats to retake the House or Senate, overturning the balance of power on Capitol Hill, and with it, Mr. Obama’s agenda. If students tune out and stay home it will also carry a profound message for American society about a generation that seemed so ready, so recently, to grab national politics by the lapels and shake. 

Not appealing to young voters? Isn't that what the Obama Era was supposed to be all about?

Clinton Fan Releases First Hillary 2012 Ad

FOXNews.com:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insists she's not running for president
in 2012, but that hasn't stopped one of her supporters from rolling out a wishful ad.


William DeJean, a Chicago dentist, says he spent $3,000 to create the first "Hillary 2012" ad, and another $2,000 to begin airing it in New Orleans on Wednesday.


DeJean said the ad will also air in Washington, New York and Los Angeles in the next few days. He said he hopes the ad will give Clinton an incentive to run.


"In my opinion, we need the Clintons back in the White House to fix this country," he told FoxNews.com. "I don't think we're going in the right direction. I don't like this administration. I think they're ruining the Democratic Party."


"My ad is expressing what everyone is thinking," he added.


The ad is a 30-second ode of pure adulation, with a portrait
of Clinton rotating to symphonic music.


"She has more experience working in and with the White House than most living presidents," the caption reads. "She is one of the most admired women in our nation's history. Let's make sure the president we should have elected in 2008 will be on the ballot in 2012."


The ad ends by urging viewers to start now, and it displays a slogan: "Where there's a Hill, there's a way."

And so it begins.

Confirmed: Pretty Much Everyone Offended By Vanity Fair Hit Piece On Sarah Palin

Hotair.com:

So here’s where we’re at. Yesterday the piece dropped, and immediately even left-leaning reporters like Ben Smith and Dave Weigel started challenging it. Today Smith came back with another reason to question its accuracy; meanwhile, lefty feminists (including KP, whose criticism of Vanity Fair almost but not quite atones for her recent “Republicans are racist” op-ed) are unloading on VF for attacking Palin over alleged behavior that’s par for the course for male politicians. And now, as a coup de grace, here’s renowned Palin-hater Shannyn Moore telling Weigel that she’s filled with heart-ache at what a supposedly unethical hack the VF author has turned out to be.

I don’t give a rip what you said about me – though it was so completely wrong, and put me in such a completely inaccurate and unfavorable light people are mad on my behalf.

Fine thanks for Alaskan hospitality. I have extended the Alaska Spirit to dozens of journalists and visitors, and I will continue to do so. It’s on YOU, not me, as you are the only one who has broken agreements with sources you promised complete anonymity.

I’m sure you’re thrilled to be on TV now. Just know, like Sarah, Alaskans paid a price for it. Specifically, a 79-year old woman, with failing health, who spoke to you under anonymity who hopes her adult children will speak to her again.

Not enough to move the skepticism meter? Well, Conservatives4Palin talked to another source alleged by VF to have left Palin’s team on bad terms who now insists it’s not true, and Peter Hamby at CNN tweets, “I was w/ Palin for entire VP bid. never got a hint that she ‘lashed out at the slightest provocation’”. All of which brings me to a question: If, like Vanity Fair, you’re in the business of churning out occasional hit pieces on Palin to take her down and/or convince your readers that she’s every bit the demon they believe she is, wouldn’t you want to make extra, extra sure that the details are perfectly accurate? You know her supporters will allege media bias; the only counterargument is to present an airtight factual case. As it is, they’ve managed to turn this into Exhibit A in her argument for just how lame the “lamestream media” is. Amazing.

Unemployment Rises To 9.6%, 54,000 Jobs Lost In August

BizJournals.com:

The U.S. lost 54,000 jobs in August, the effect of jobs lost at the end of the U.S. Census period, according to a Friday report from the Department of Labor.


While the private sector did add 67,000 jobs in August, government employment losses resulted in a stagnant unemployment rate of 9.6 percent.


The number of unemployed in the United States remains at 14.9 million.


The latest employment data for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area is from July. The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics said the number of jobs in D-FW grew by 31,300 that month.

Ann Coulter And Laura Ingraham Discuss “Save The Whale, Abort The Baby” Environmentalists

Mediaite.com:

Ann Coulter and O’Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham made some really good points tonight while discussing Discovery Channel hostage taker James Jay Lee. Coulter said that we can’t generalize fans of Al Gore just because one of them went crazy while Ingraham admonished Liberals for generalizing Conservatives whenever another tragedy happens and the shoe’s on the other foot. Of course, these good points were slightly muddied by all the comments around them about how all environmentalists want a world without humans and love earthworms more than people and so on and so forth.


Yes, one couldn’t really be blamed for getting slightly mixed messages while watching the segment. In fact, sometimes the mixed messages seemed to come side by side like in these comments from Coulter that make a hard left turn about half way through:


“I mean, there are going to be nuts who are fans of all sorts of things out there. That church killer down in Tennessee was citing Bernie Goldberg’s book. The Craigslist killer was a fan of mine. So I don’t think you can jump quickly, the way liberals always do, to this guy was a fan of a particular political point of view and then he killed someone. But, in this case, well, there are two points to be made. One is, over all, the political violence is heavily committed by Liberals. White Liberals I might add. And, secondly, the environmentalist nuts, this is their end goal. Not just the ones who pull out the guns. It is the elimination of humans.”

David Letterman Again Bashes Obama's Vacations

Damn, when an unabashed supporter like Letterman starts to get fed up you know you got it bad:

David Letterman for at least the second time in eight days mocked Barack Obama for spending so much time on R&R.


During his "Late Show" opening monologue, the host quipped, "The President's been busy, he redecorated the Oval Office and then he took another two week vacation."


Moments later, Letterman talked about Obama's address to the nation the previous day before presenting a video of the speech.

BBC Had "Massive Bias To Left:" Says Director General

Breitbart.com:

The director general of the BBC admitted Thursday that his organisation had been guilty of a "massive bias to the left" but said "a completely different generation" of journalists now works at the broadcaster.


Mark Thompson told the right-of-centre Spectator magazine that there was an institutional bias when he joined the organisation, reinforcing the findings of a 2007 internal report which concluded that greater efforts were required to avoid liberal bias.


"In the BBC I joined 30 years ago, there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people's personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left," Thompson said.


"The organisation did struggle then with impartiality. And journalistically, staff were quite mystified by the early years of Thatcher."Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC," he added.


The 2007 report criticised the organisation?s slow response to the rise of Euroscepticism and immigration concerns, which it said were considered "'off limits? in terms of a liberal-minded comfort zone."

Obama Justice Department Lawyers Sue Arizona Sheriff In Civil Rights Probe

CNN.com:

Justice Department civil rights lawyers filed suit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona on Thursday after talks collapsed on a deal to provide federal investigators with documents they requested.


The suit, filed in federal court in Phoenix, Arizona, claims the Maricopa County sheriff has failed to cooperate with the investigation into alleged discrimination against Hispanics by Arpaio's law enforcement officials.


The Justice Department expressed dismay at the sheriff's office's "refusal to cooperate with the investigation."


"The actions of the sheriff's office are unprecedented," said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, chief of the Civil Rights Division. "It is unfortunate that the (Justice) Department was forced to resort to litigation to gain access to public documents and facilities."


The federal action became virtually certain after the sheriff's office last Friday rejected the government's demands in an open letter posted on the county's website.


In the letter, Arpaio's attorney, Robert Driscoll, wrote that the Justice Department's "current position that it is entitled to any document it wants, to access any facility it wishes, and to interview any witness it wants, without limitation ... is simply unreasonable."


At a news conference Thursday Arpaio struck a defiant tone.


"It's rather disgusting saying we don't cooperate when we are," the sheriff insisted. "A year and a half they've been investigating me on alleged racial profiling on the streets. They can't get the proof so now they're suing me, just for documents."

Barry's radically leftwing administration is on the side of illegal immigrants instead of our brave police officers, still wondering why Barry gets more and more unpopular with each passing day?

Bill O’Reilly’s Culture Warriors Talk Muslims, Jews, And Strippers

Mediaite.com:

Hey, remember that meme from the past few weeks that Conservatives and Fox News were stoking anti-Muslim sentiment by harping on that whole Mosque thing? Well, don’t worry about it! That’s right, Bill O’Reilly’s Culture Warriors were on the case to explain how that whole thing was completely overblown because, guess what? Americans hate Jews more! Yay!


Yes, O’Reilly brought out a 2008 study from the FBI that showed that, at the time, way more hate crimes were committed against Jews than Muslims. While those are certainly fascinating figures, especially considering, as O’Reilly pointed out, Antisemitism is usually considered more of a European problem, it really has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation at hand. Seriously, if people are worrying that anti-Muslim crimes are going to happen in the future because of talk that’s happening now, why would it help to show that, two years ago, Americans beat up a lot of Jews? Seriously, that’s one of the most bizarre arguments I’ve ever seen.


Fortunately, Tamara Holder was on hand to point out that recent figures show an uptick in anti-Muslim crimes. Of course, O’Reilly and Gretchen Carlson quickly reminded her that those figures were from CAIR which is made up of a bunch of “Arabs.” Yep, Muslims have nothing to worry about.


And then, to help make this one of the best Culture Warriors segments ever, Carlson and Holder went on to defend strippers’ right to protest outside of churches. Man, this was an awesome segment.

Ohio Wants George W. Bush Back

MarketWatch.com:

Two years can make a world of difference in politics. In 2008, the swing state of Ohio helped elect President Barack Obama over John McCain by giving the Democrat 52% of the vote to 47% for his Republican rival. In a new poll, however, Obama would lose 50% to 42% to … former President George W. Bush! See poll question and results.

Yep, the very same George Bush who ended his presidency with one of the lowest ratings ever for an outgoing president. See what two years out of the public limelight can do.

The survey of 425 likely voters, conducted by Public Policy Polling, shows Democrats continuing to lose ground against Republicans in Ohio. Democratic Gov. Tom Strickland, for example, now trails Republican John Kasich 50% to 40% among likely voters in the gubernatorial race.

Just three months earlier, Kasich led by just 43%-41% in a PPP survey of registered voters. (Likely voters are considered a more accurate gauge).

Tom Jenson, director of the poll, wrote in a blog that “There’s not much doubt things are getting worse for Democrats … and they were already pretty bad.”

Victory For Tea Party, Sarah Palin As Lisa Murkowski Concedes Defeat To Joe Miller

YahooNews.com:

Backed by the Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin, a little-known conservative lawyer from Alaska became the latest newcomer to the national political stage to take down an incumbent in 2010.


In arguably the biggest political upset of the year, Joe Miller claimed the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate when incumbent GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded Tuesday evening. Murkowski gave up after failing to gain much ground in an count of outstanding absentee ballots.

Miller will be the favorite in November in strongly Republican Alaska against Democrat Scott McAdams, the mayor of Sitka.

The MSM would love it if Sarah Palin just went away from good. They keep telling us about what a danger she is to democracy, healthcare, women, blacks, babies, unicorn's, you name it. They mock and attempt to discredit her at every turn just because her politics disagrees with theirs. Yet, she's still here, making a difference, swaying the American public, proving them all wrong and not only can they not stop her, they can't even contain her. Expect them to step up the hate.

Glenn Beck Destroys NAACP President's Malicious Suggestion of Racism Regarding Beck Rally Attendees

Newsbusters.org:

On Saturday, NewsBusters sister site Eyeblast.tv sent contributing editor Joe Schoffstall to see what exactly Al Sharpton’s protest rally was all about. While there, he was able to get an interview with NAACP President Ben Jealous regarding his thoughts on Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally. 

Jealous claimed that those at Restoring Honor wouldn’t applaud Dr. King's historic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech.


Beck aired that Eyeblast video and promptly destroyed Jealous's argument by playing clips of the crowd enthusiastically cheering mentions of the late civil rights leader.

On MSNBC, An Incensed Rachel Maddow Howls Over Obama's Kind Words for George W. Bush

Newsbusters.org:

President Barack Obama's decision to include, in his Tuesday night address from the Oval Office on the end to the “combat mission” in Iraq, a sentence respectful toward former President George W. Bush, appalled MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.


Anchor Keith Olbermann recited Obama's graciousness toward Bush (“It's well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset, yet no one could doubt President Bush's support for our troops or his love of country and commitment to our security”) and then, obviously speaking for himself and the entire MSNBC team, proposed: “There are people who would support President Obama who would howl at hearing that said aloud more than once.” Maddow indeed howled, launching into an indignant rant:

To have in this speech, as combat operations are ending, to have...the President not only not addressing the circumstances in which we went to war, but these kind words for President Bush, describing his “commitment to our security” despite the recklessness with which President Bush discarded that national security in favor of this war of choice, which only diminished our security, and is responsible, probably, for the Afghanistan war still going on today, for the deaths of people who have died in Afghanistan after the time after which that war would have ended had we not gone to Iraq -- not to mention all of the people who died in Iraq.

“They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.” - Robert Gibbs

Texas Appeals Court Overrules Activist Liberal Judge On "Gay Divorce"

Good for the people of Texas who have made it clear that they don't want gay marriage (or in this case divorce) anywhere near their great state:

Gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled that a Dallas district court judge didn't have the authority to hear a divorce case involving two Dallas men who married in Massachusetts in 2006. Republican state Attorney General Greg Abbott's office had appealed after Judge Tena Callahan, a Democrat, said she did have jurisdiction and dismissed the state's attempt to intervene.

"Today's court of appeals decision overruled the district court's improper ruling, confirmed the constitutionality of Texas' traditional definition of marriage and correctly found that Texas courts lack the legal authority to grant divorces to same-sex couples," said Abbott spokesman Jerry Strickland.

Callahan also had ruled Texas couldn't limit marriage to a man and a woman, but the appeals court said the state's same-sex marriage ban was constitutional.

"A person does not and cannot seek a divorce without simultaneously asserting the existence and validity of a lawful marriage," Justice Kerry P. Fitzgerald wrote on behalf of three Republican appeals court justices. 

"Texas law, as embodied in our constitution and statutes, requires that a valid marriage must be a union of one man and one woman, and only when a union comprises one man and one woman can there be a divorce under Texas law."

The appeals court ordered the case be sent back to Callahan, who must vacate her order.