NYT Expose on Sean Hannity!
October 10th, 2011 at 9:21 am by Cranky… nah, I’m just messing with you. Even more shocking and pleasantly surprising is the piece they actually did write.
Give them clicks – credit where credit’s due and all.
… nah, I’m just messing with you. Even more shocking and pleasantly surprising is the piece they actually did write.
Give them clicks – credit where credit’s due and all.


We’ll all be eating dog food soon, so might as well get used to it. This is why the corruptocrats who run our country exclude food and gas when they calculate the rate of inflation. They know that most Americans are too busy with their finger in their own pie watching Glee to be bothered with discerning the difference.
The catastrophe in Japan continues. You may have noticed a lack of urgent coverage here, and that’s for several reasons. First, unlike so many other really important bloggers, we don’t claim to be a news site. A more important reason is that, besides the fact that thousands of people have died and entire towns have been reduced to rubble, the details of the nuclear crisis are truly unknown. We can speculate all day long, but there are too many conflicting reports to jump/not jump off a bridge. What we can do is donate to relief efforts and pray for the victims, if you’re so inclined.
Needless to say, with a world economy already teetering on the brink, this was the last thing Japan, or anybody else, needed.
Gas prices continue to skyrocket. Even chubby-chasing President Clifford says that he is in support of some new drilling. He also wants us to start drilling for our own oil. (rim shot)
The country-club Republicans in congress continue to demonstrate their spinelessness as the Donks have made them their bitches on “spending cuts” yet again. There is no urgency from either party on spending cuts, which is yet another reason why we are doomed to an economic catastrophe.
There are a small minority of Republicans in the House and Senate who get it, but their GOP brothers and sisters are too gutless to do what needs to be done. We need more a lot more Governor Walkers and a lot fewer Senator Alexanders.
In other, far less important news, the upcoming NFL season is in doubt. Apparently being paid millions to play a game is equal to slavery in this day and age. I love pro football, but I’d be fine with letting these overpaid asses sit at home for a year while we watch some XFL-style scabs beat each other up on the RedZone.
Gotta go. Lunch is ready.
BREAKING! COOTUS is fi’n to fill out his brackets! My money is on the top seed.
MORE(ON) GOP COWARDS: 54 House Republicans are ready for prime time. The rest? Sucking eggs all day.
“I am convinced that a vote for the CR is a vote to not fight against ObamaCare,” Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann said in a statement encouraging other members to join her in opposition. “The time has come to take a stand.”
After the vote, Florida Rep. Allen West — a Tea Party-backed freshman member who voted against the measure — said he couldn’t support the bill in good faith.
“People have to be able to sleep with themselves. I know that I can look myself in the mirror and explain my vote very well to my constituents back in South Florida,” West said. “We have got to start making some of the hard choices and decisions. That’s adult leadership.”

Move over, Andrea Yates and Holly Ashcraft, the left has a new hero. It may be early in 2011, but it’s safe to say that Dr. Kermit Gosnell is the front-runner for NARAL’s Reproductive Rights Superstar of the Year.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell was also charged with murder in the death of a woman who suffered an overdose of painkillers while awaiting an abortion.
That last woman was just a late-late-late-late-late term abortion, so pay that no mind.
“Doctor” Gosnell represents a kind of evil that is very difficult to comprehend, yet, at its core, is shared by so many. As a doctor (obviously very well versed in the right to choose), surely he knew that the loving left has magically discovered in the Constitution the right to partially deliver the baby, then use the scissors, making it all “safe, legal and rare,” right?
Margaret Sanger is looking up and smiling at the good doctor, so proud that he is willing to continue the important genocidal work that she began so many years ago. I thought these were the kind of back-alley, coat-hanger clinics that would only exist after abortion was outlawed? This is all so confusing – and sickening.
At least two women died from the procedures, while scores more suffered perforated bowels, cervixes and uteruses, authorities said.
It was a butcher shop, not a medical clinic, but protecting the rights of women is dirty work and somebody has to do it.
If you have a strong stomach and want a window into what evil looks like, read the whole thing. Whether you do or you don’t, pray for this sick, soulless country.


- Referencing the Constitution = murderous rightwing psychopath
- America’s junior colleges are now producing turbocharged rightwing psychopaths inspired by Marx, Bill Ayers and The Decemberists. Our nation’s John Birch Society dominated faculties must be stopped before someone else reads the Constitution without a license.
- Without any evidence that a suspect ever actually saw a webpage on a former Republican VP candidate’s PAC site, it is completely easy to connect-the-dots that the webpage is what caused him to go on a kill crazy rampage against a local Democrat candidate he supported.
- Anthropmorphic Rhetorical Warming caused by AM radio commentators and way-down-the-paycable dial, former political candidate reality shows are threatening our civic ozone layer and must be regulated by temperate leftwing bloggers who never raise their voices in anger or assign nefarious motives to their ideological opponents for political gain.
- Obama needed his Oklahoma City Bombing moment. Will using a dead 9 year old girl as a human shield to advance a national gun grab do or will Markos Moulitsas, Jane Hamsher and Charles Johnson activate their sleeper cells on an elementary school a la the Beslan Massacre.
- As the head Sheriff of Pima County, AZ, it is perfectly acceptable to wildly speculate about the motivations behind a killer, whose identity you do not know, to deflect attention from you failing at your job. When revealed what the motivations are – you do not have to apologize to the people you wrongfully accused. They were thinking it regardless of whether they acted on it. (ed. – Also applies to New York Times, New York Daily News, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC commentators).
- Sarah Palin is the Kevin Bacon of Tragedy. Everything that’s wrong in the world is her fault no matter how tangentially related.
Including this post.

Apparently there is some tension over in the far east related to one country shooting at another. Wars and rumors of wars, and what not.
As Sheila Jackson Lee notes, we need not worry about this, as “today we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace.” So, don’t get too worked up, and stuff.

If by “violent, racist teabagger” you mean “Pakistani” and by “Wal-Mart” you mean “plane bound for Dubai“. Dubai, of course, has a long history of extremist, anti-government rhetoric dating all the way back to their Confederate days during The Civil War up until their staunch opposition to Obamacare.

The entire leftwing media complex that’s been calling you a teabagging faggot for the past year or so is suddenly incensed that one stray voice in a crowd of thousands may have called an actual faggot “a faggot”:
A CNN producer overheard the word “faggot” yelled at Frank several times in the lobby of the Longworth building. Frank said he heard someone yell “homo” at him.
So you’re saying that calling someone a “faggot” is now a slur but when you use it it’s okay because you’re using a euphemism?
If that were true and these TEA Party protests were really just an excuse for people who a hate a black president to express themselves under the guise of anti-taxes / anti-socialist takeovers that would make it acceptable as well, correct?
When John Edwards was having his well-known affair, that the press dutifully covered-up, I used to always hear that no one had any video evidence to support the charges so he was innocent until we had video and audio to support such slanderous accusations. All accusations must be witnessed, notarized and apostilled. And then The National Enquirer did.
Take Clyburn’s well publicized claim from yesterday that a “chorus” of protesters were calling him a “nigger”.
I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit ins… And quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus.“
Yet now it’s Clyburn who is ordering hundreds of millions of people to the back of the bus while the government turns it’s hoses of slander in the mainstream press on protesters to accuse them of being racists and faggots. It’s tragic that we can measure how far we’ve come as a society in irony.
The real Faux News is on the Left. Here’s the video evidence of Clyburn walking by the protesters who he said were screaming nigger at him “in chorus” no less.
Expect Clyburn to hang a noose in the men’s room later today before running in front of the cameras to decry the acrid atmosphere in Washington caused by the protesters.
What that protest needs is everyone locking arms and singing “We Shall Overcome” to Mr. Clyburn.
Absent from the discussion on The Ugly Tone ™ of protests in Washington was any mention of Cindy Shitcan and Ralph Nader’s protesting of the victory in Iraq where they symbolically murdered Dick Cheney in the streets:
The protest drew a smaller crowd than the tens of thousands who marched in 2006 and 2007.
Protesters stopped at the offices of military contractor Halliburton — where they tore apart an effigy of former Vice President and Halliburton Chief Executive Dick Cheney — the Mortgage Bankers Association and The Washington Post offices.
When confronted with Obama’s continued War For Oil in Iraq, elevation of hostilities in Afghanistan, and love of killing civilians with drone attacks in Pakistan, fellow moonbats found him to have an acceptable amount of blood on his hands:
“He’s kept Guantanamo open, he’s continued to use indefinite detention,” Nader said. The only real difference, he said, is that “Obama’s speeches are better.”
Others were more conciliatory toward Obama. Shirley Allan of Silver Spring, Md., carried a sign that read, “President Obama We love you but we need to tell you! Your hands are getting bloody!! Stop it now.”
Allan thought it was going too far to call Obama a war criminal but said she is deeply disappointed that the conflicts are continuing.
“He has to know it’s unacceptable,” Allan said. “I am absolutely disappointed.”
Again, their condemnation is not so much selective as it is transparent in political convenience.
His hands are “getting bloody” from wars. If Shirley would kindly notice, his hands were already bloody from a lifetime of being wrist deep in dead babies.

Hey Nigel, I think it’s going to be a little easier now for Russell to beat Murtha in 2010.
But, then again, this wouldn’t be the first time the Dependocrats have tried to elect a dead man.
UPDATE (Cranky) Yes, I know. I’m a bad person.


Massachusetts voters immediately vote to change state law (again) to allow newly-stuffed taxidermic Senator to run for his own Senate seat in special inanimate election. Anything for the Kennedys.
or…
Democrat party leaders scour inner-city Boston for a black community-organizer who can “talk good” to fill Senate seat.
or…
Leave your own insensitive headline to help out the Old Media.

Stuart Schwartz at the American Thinker has penned a scathing takedown of Peggy Noonan’s obsession with Sarah Palin. It is absolutely brilliant.
It’s brilliant because it’s beautifully written and spot on, but it is also brilliant because it nails the liberal country-club leadership of the GOP in the process. Noonan is one of the standard-bearers of the elitist, liberal, big-spending Republican party – the anti-Jim Demint, if you will. It cannot be denied, Peggy is skullcrushingly jealous of Sarah Palin, and simply can’t tolerate us rubes in flyover country, period.
Can’t you just visualize Peggy sitting down at her Mac laptop, sipping an $8 Starbucks latte, eyes filled with rage and disbelief that someone left the servants’ door open, allowing this weapon-wielding guttersnipe into the comfy, elitist confines of the GOP?
As we always say – and this time I really mean it – READ THE WHOLE THING.
Speaking of the elitists in the GOP, who want to keep liberal Republicans like Charlie Crist and John McCain in power, they will be none-too-pleased to know that actual conservative Pat Toomey has pulled into a tie with former-RINO Snarlin’ Arlen Sphincter in PA. Now if Marco Rubio can gain some traction in Florida, we can really get a GOP purge underway.

Liberal ex-journalist dispatched to the great beyond. Joe Jackson suspects foul play.
No disrespect intended, I didn’t even know he was still around.
B-Mac here: I usually don’t add on to a post but when it comes to Satan’s Anchorman, it’s worth noting that he did as much to secure defeat in Vietnam as anyone and the aftermath is still felt today whether you’re a sweatshop worker still toiling under that Soviet-backed communist regime, the bones littering the killing fields of Cambodia, or a Latin American strongman threatening to overthrow a democracy. The precedent stands when a US President sits on his hands.
The interview with NV Colonel Bui Tin from the Wall Street Journal in 1995:
Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi’s victory?
A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.
Q: Did the Politburo pay attention to these visits?
A: Keenly.
Q: Why?
A: Those people represented the conscience of America. The conscience of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning that power in our favor. America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win.
Of course, the “Conscience of America” is a direct reference to Walter Cronkite. Though they could win one battle they knew they could not win the war without the help of Cronkite. And boy, did they ever get it. He may have been wearing a suit on tv but he might has well have been dressed in a pair of black pajamas. Indeed, Walter Cronkite was the Original Pajamas Media.
It’s no wonder that whenever America faces an enemy - be they an entrenched Marxist dictatorship, a teetering rogue nation, or a pack of Islamofascist hyenas that they can never underestimate what an ally they have in the American media.
For every Cronkite dead, there’s a thousand aspiring J-school students clamoring or MSNBC anchors willing to throw a sympathetic hug on a terrorist or a dictator and spit in our country’s face.

Or, how Tennessee continues to show the rest of the country how to do it. The only problem is that 37 other states have already made restaurant carry legal, so, technically we’re not cutting edge, but at least we’re a little freer (is that a word?).
The Senate voted 21-9 against the veto on Thursday, a day after the House voted 69-27. Fifty votes in the House and 17 in the Senate were needed to turn back the veto.
Before the governor’s veto, the measure was to take effect June 1, but will now be effective in 40 days, which is July 14.
The marks the first time the legislature has overridden one of Bredesen’s vetos.
The law will allow those with state-issued handgun carry permits to bring their weapons into restaurants or bars that serve alcohol, unless the business posts a sign banning guns. Under the law, handgun owners could not legally drink alcohol while carrying a weapon.
Right on cue, the Tennessean (or as BMac calls it, “Pravda on the Cumberland”) had their hysterical local restaurant owners ready to foam at the mouth.
“I will definitely be putting up a sign that says no guns,” Clift said. “I will not serve anyone who brings a gun into my bar. I don’t know what someone would need with a gun in my bar. The last thing I need is a drunk in my bar with a gun.
“I know the bill says that a person can’t be drinking with a gun, but what if they had been drinking in the parking lot before they came in or at home before they came here? I’m not sure how you can control it exactly? We don’t have fistfights at Cabana, but I’d rather have fists flying than bullets.”
Sounds like Cliff is encouraging folks to engage in fisticuffs at his place of business. You heard him, boys!
The best non-quote is a restaurant owner who is so distraught that he couldn’t even put together a sentence.
When told that the veto had been overturned on the gun bill, he was so taken aback by the news he said he could not comment.
All Ben had to do was mutter “uuuuhhhh…. ummmmm……. uuuuuuh….” like President Hussein sans teleprompter and he would undoubtedly be heralded a genius. Use this article to guide where you spend your ever shrinking dining dollar.
Way back before the veto, I sent the beloved Governor a note and urged him to sign the legislation. He declined to do so, but was kind enough to (1) let me know why and (2) call me friend.
Time to Fisk the Governor.
Thank you for contacting me about gun-related bills which have been considered by the General Assembly this year.
I think he means that.
If you ever listen to leftists speak – particularly President Hussein – they always say “let me be clear”. My response is, who is stopping you from being clear? Who is obfuscating your message? You have the entire media machine amplifying your message, liberals, and you still have to say this? Tedious.
In other words, “I believe in your right to own a gun, but leave it locked up at home, unloaded and make sure there’s a trigger lock in there too…” Heaven forbid we be allowed to take it places where they may be needed, though the occasion may be rare. Just to reinforce how much he loves guns (and how much he is just like me), he provides some history.
Or as Nashville’s own Barney Fife says, “see what happened in all them saloooons in old westerns when people would just start a-shootin’?”
The law explicitly states that the carrier is prohibited from drinking. You do care about the rule of law, don’t you? Well, we’ll all make an exception for the groups of illegals who come to do your yardwork, but aside from that, you do care about the law, right?
As other bills reach my desk-including legislation related to guns in parks, loaded firearms in automobiles, and others-I intend to review them carefully with both the Constitutional rights of gun owners and the safety of the general public in mind. Please be assured that your views are, and will remain, important to me on these issues and others related to state government.
Warmest regards,
Phil Bredesen
He needs to know my views so that he may locate me and send his press ghoul Lydia Lenker to my house to interrogate me for being one of Napolitano’s right-wing terrorists.
Fisking… the last refuge of the uninspired blogger. But still, suck on that, Tennessee elites, and by all means, put up your “firearms prohibited” signs sooner rather than later so that we will know where not to spend what’s left of our disposable income.

Nanny-state eurowhore Jacqui Smith is selectively banning foreigners who don’t come to her country from coming to her country because:
“If people have so clearly overstepped the mark in terms of the way not just that they are talking but the sort of attitudes that they are expressing to the extent that we think that this is likely to cause or have the potential to cause violence or inter-community tension in this country, then actually I think the right thing is not to let them into the country in the first place. Not to open the stable door then try to close it later,” Ms Smith said.
“It’s a privilege to come to this country. There are certain behaviours that mean you forfeit that privilege.”
Thus spracketh the Mammy-State Moses as she came down from Mt. Self-Righteous to deliver her stone tablets. Among her Who’s Who of Who Can’t Visit her dying country in the hospice of it’s history is a luminary cast of klansmen, skinhead murderers, terrorist preachers and radio talk-show personality Michael Savage.
Don’t get me wrong. Savage can infrequently be entertaining when on his medication and not stoked by the audience to discuss the climatological impact of woodburning fireplaces but lumping him in with murderers is a bit much, love.
After all, we don’t have to look too far back in the past to find that the privilege of coming to Britain isn’t so bloody hot in the first place:
‘HE is the coward for mocking victims of friendly fire’: Families of dead soldiers react with fury to Muslim hate preacher’s taunts
By and
Last updated at 9:46 AM on 12th March 2009
The families of soldiers killed by friendly fire in Iraq have reacted with fury after a firebrand preacher taunted them over the deaths of their loved ones.
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The preacher, the right-hand man to cleric of hate Omar Bakri, went on to attack the ‘vile’ parade. He said the soldiers were ‘terrorists’, comparing them to Nazi troops who ‘cannot be excused for simply carrying out their duty’.
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Choudary, 32, posted the comments on a website run by the Islam For The UK group.
He has close links with Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah, the radical Islamist group believed to be behind the application to Bedfordshire Police for permission to stage the protest. ASWJ was founded in 2005 and took in members of Al-Muhajiroun when the Luton-based group formerly led by Bakri was outlawed.
He said: ‘Pathetic and cowardly British soldiers pompously marched through Luton to demonstrate their skill at murdering and torturing thousands of innocent Muslim men, women and children over a 24-month period.
He added: ‘Non-Muslims in Britain must appreciate that the actions of the British soldiers must be condemned unreservedly; they are not heroes but closer to cowards who cannot fight, as their uncanny knack for death by “friendly fire” illustrates.
‘They are terrorists, and cannot be excused for simply “carrying out their duty”, which incidentally (and vividly) was also used by Nazi soldiers in Germany to justify their notorious and bloody campaigns in the early 20th century.’
Yes. Do lecture the world about your standards for civil behavior while you coddle the Islamic scum suckling at the state teat while they piss on your dead in open public.
Radio personality who most people in Britain would have never heard of? Banned. Radical Islamics who spit and mock your returning soldiers for cleaning up their native countries get a check in the mail courtesy of the British taxpayer. Better yet, let them work at your airports handling the luggage.
Allow me to save everyone some time and voluntarily ban myself from going to England. I hate visiting nursing homes much less ones for Western Civilization. The only thing worse is visiting daycare. In this case, we find Ms. Smith gladly cheering the British Intifada’s baby steps while teaching them to sing “London Bridge Is Falling Down”.

Latin American cultural outreach.

The gutless cowards who are now in charge of our government are lunatics. How else do you account for their maniacal fits of inappropriate laughter? Gallows humor, I guess.
I have a feeling Capt. Phillips’ family isn’t laughing right now. But when you have the big, bad U.S. military sitting there handcuffed (even moreso than they were under the PC Bush regime), what do the pirates (Somali muslims) have to fear?
Nothing, with these douchebags giving the orders to do nothing. As Drew so aptly put it over at Ace’s place, Obama. He’s Jimmy Carter without the muscular foreign policy.

There are quite a few reasons to highlight the story of Biden’s daughter’s alleged flakefest instead of playing this magnanimous “I wouldn’t want it done to me and my kids” card being trotted out by The Chivalrous Knights of the Center Right. And I’m reposting my comment from another site but we all have our reasons.
First, let me second Dan Riehl’s observations here. The scolding Miss Manners of Centrism have gotten our asses handed to us the last two election cycles.
A. That luxury has not been afforded to the Bush twins over alcohol when they weren’t 21. Mary Cheney’s gayness being brought up during the VP debates. They put Pattie Davis in Playboy to piss off Daddy didn’t they? Andrew Sullivan’s conspiratorial stalker-lite snoopings around Bristol Palin’s nether regions and attacking a baby of all things. Etc., etc.
B. Joe Biden is a big Drug Warrior. That’s a terrific CATO podcast link to Timothy Lynch’s comments about Biden’s selection. Now’s the time to even out that crack vs. coke sentencing disparity. Otherwise, we’ll think that white people getting caught doing cocaine is no big deal but black people doing cocaine in crack form gets them sent up the river. Take one for the team, Ashley. Dad’s Team. Dad’s team kicks your door in at night. Shoots first and asks questions maybe.
C. She’s 27 years old. How long do you get to be a kid in this country? The tape is evidently of her joking that the lines aren’t big enough and from within the year. Sorry, but when Dad’s running for the big job and you’re out tooting it up like the whistle on the Chattanooga Choo-Choo you’ve got to know these no longer youthful indiscretions are going to bite you and Dad in the ass.
D. In light of the President’s plan to continue raiding pot dispensaries and the increasing drug violence along the Mexican border, Hillary Clinton is in Mexico this week condemning Americans for doing the drugs that have the cartels holding daily bullet festivals. Coincidentally the same kinds of drugs her Brother tries to sell pardons for and Brother-In-Law has been convicted of. Drugs her husband admitting doing and not inhaling. Drugs the current President engaged in freely. Drugs the last President did before Jesus became the ultimate high.
Let’s clean our own houses first, eh?
It’s a story whether you want it to be or not. When did Pajamas Media get to be the filter that tells us what we are and aren’t allowed to talk about. You can reason. You implore. But the only one who gives orders is Boss.
Biden’s helped write the laws that have sent millions to jail. If he can’t stop his own daughter then how the hell are we?
Dad’s running around thanking Spain for all of their help in Iraq. Spain hates us. They cut and ran so fast I was afraid that their mothers were going to switch them to safety scissors lest they trip and land on them. Maybe he should get drug tested too.
Maybe they should all get drug tested. If it’s good enough for our welfare recipientson government assistance, it’s good enough for our welfare recipients in Congress who just voted themselves another fat raise while millions are getting laid off.
Breitbart’s Conservative Manifesto:
The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and other left-leaning sites benefit from the right’s belief that there are rules and decorum in political debate and civic engagement. Of course, every now and then, a curious right-winger will go in and engage in discussion at a left-wing site, but rarely under purely disingenuous and mass coordinated means.
David Brock, John Podesta, am I missing something?
As a prolific consumer of online content, I value nothing more than the sincere expression of opinion that differs from mine. Sometimes I am even moved or swayed from my dogma. But that was not the type of communication that got Mr. Obama elected.
The American right is in a heap of trouble in a media age that doesn’t shun the goons and liars that have poisoned the political process and won the American presidency by breaking the rules of fair play. It is time to fight back, but it won’t be easy. The enemy is willing to do and say anything in order to win.
And our side simply is not. Even when we are completely in the right and have non-nefarious motives for doing so.

It’s not 100% perfection, but it’s damn close.

From someone handled Cashncarry in the forum over at Denninger’s place.
That’s the mental image I get.
Clutch cargo quote.

It’s national tea party day, and like T-Man, I have to work so that I can pay taxes to provide more handouts for the Obamabots.
However, I have it on good authority that some Buffet regulars are heading down to Nashville for the Nashville Tea Party. Hopefully they will report back later in the day. If you’re in the middle Tennessee area, get down to Legislative Plaza around Noon to protest the Feds’ attempt to bankrupt the country and control our lives through confiscatory taxation and environmental restrictions on our daily lives. Or, if not, find one in your area.
T-Man’s contribution to Tea Party day is definitely worth a read. It’s “How to Explain Conservatism to Your Squishy Liberal Friends: Individualism ‘R’ Us” by P.J. O’Rourke. My Tea Party Contribution today is to steal T-Man’s Tea Party contribution. It’s blog redistribution. Read and share with your uneducated friends. They need someone besides Katie Couric and Oprah to explain Conservatism in clear and simple terms.
Under collectivism, powers of determination rest with the entire citizenry instead of with the specific citizens. Individual decision-making is replaced by the political process. Suddenly, the system that elected the prom queen at your high school is in c harge of your whole life. Besides, individuals are smarter than groups, as anybody who is a member of a committee or of a large Irish family after six in the evening can tell you. The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is th e difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team.


Snoopy, victim of friendly fire
Fresh off of criticizing Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, Urkel Christ struck back at last night’s press conference as if to say, “Hey, I’ve got a fatso radio blowhard of my own” by giving a prime lame duck blind in the press shooting gallery to obese Air America ginger Ed Schultz. Schultz, when not assaulting women at the bar, then berated a writer at Politico for having the Obamanian audacity to question whether he is the renewable windbag that’s going to get us off foreign oil.
Liberal radio host Ed Schultz kicked off his show today by addressing a Politico item from last night.
“I end up with a front row seat in the first prime-time press conference, and all of a sudden it’s all over the blogosphere,” Schultz said.
Schultz called Politico’s Jonathan Martin a “punk” and a “nitwit” for asking if it was an assigned seat.
“I have earned that seat,” the veteran radio host said on the air.
Schultz claimed that conservative hosts had access to the Oval Office during the Bush years, and that wasn’t noted by the press. However, I think it’s safe to say that if McCain were elected, and Limbaugh had a spot right up front, the media would call attention to it.
By seating him in the front row, taking a question from the Huffington Post, and calling on Helen Thomas, Schultz said it’s evident that the White House is “listening outside the mainstream media.”
No kidding. He earned that seat and he’s got the dirty kneecaps to prove it.
But Urkel giving left wing loons preferential treatment is really a dog bites man story. Schultz, on the other, is more like a man shoots dog story.
Sorry if the truth hurts, Ed. Don’t shoot the messenger. Or the dog for that matter. I’d like to say no animals were injured in the production of this post.
But I can’t.

The fun police never take a holiday – even in Palinland.
It wasn’t the weather. It wasn’t angry neighbors bearing shovels and pick axes.
It turns out Snowzilla’s biggest foe — the one who felled the controversial but much-loved giant — was a notice-bearing city code enforcement officer.
That’s right, Snowzilla was abated.
The locals don’t have much in the way of Christmas spirit, so they went to the little totalitarians at City Hall and had the massive snowman beheaded permanently.
When the notices went up, Snowzilla still didn’t have a full torso or head.
“The kids had spent hours and hours of work on it,” Billy Powers said on Sunday.
City officials involved in the cease-and-desist order could not be reached for comment on Sunday.
But on Dec. 11, the city notified the Airport Heights community council about its decision to abate Snowzilla, telling council members that the two-story snowman caused increased traffic to the point of endangerment and that the structure itself was unsafe.
The city also asked council members to watch out for continued construction and to consider weighing in on Snowzilla at an upcoming, council members said.
Who’da thunk Alaska would go all nanny-statey on us? What a shame.
h/t Tanya B.

In fact, it’s summed up nicely by this ad sent to me by a co-worker.
The blessed UAW thugs will not be denied. Especially when their candidate’s dictatorship starts in January. I won’t give up hope, though.

What, too soon?
Give it up for Corker. Perhaps he learned his lesson from his last bailout mistake. Then again, it could simply be a case of temporary sanity.
Richard Shelby speaks. “We all in America will benefit from competition. There’s no reason for Big 3 not to be competitive…Bailouts just don’t generally work. I fear this is just a down payment on more next year. I vote no.”
Stabenow whining about demands for union concessions. Babs Mikulski calls for order, bleats that Stabenow is not being heard. Get out the Kleenex. They both seem on the verge of tears. Stabenow concedes the “votes are not there.”
The Senate GOP needs to get used to using these tactics over the next two years at least. Will they have the stones? It’s a shame they had to use it with their party’s own big-government liberal Republican President.
More from John Hawkins.

President Junior and his Congressional brothers-in-arms are trying to ram-rod the auto-industry bailout (you knew it was coming) down your throat. Again they’re taking a dump in your mouth and telling you it’s a chocolate sundae.
A handful of GOP Senators are showing some stones, though. Richard Shelby calls it a “bridge loan to nowhere”. Sweet.
SHELBY: Oh, absolutely not. I think this is a bridge loan to nowhere. This is a down payment on many billions to come. This is not something that happened overnight. This is 30 years in the making. These companies basically are — have failed, are failing. They probably need, according to some people, about 60 percent of the management to go, and about 40 percent downsize of the workers. They’ve got to compete. They can’t compete today. And the question is, will they be able to compete tomorrow?
WALLACE: Are you and other Republicans prepared to filibuster this bill?
SHELBY: Well, I would — I think we need to debate it. And that’s what filibuster is about. And this week would be a good time to do it. I hope that we will be able to have an extended debate on it. We’ll see what happens.
The Feds have worked hard to make sure the Big 3 can’t compete. From absurd CAFE and environmental standards to sucking up to the unions, which have produced a bunch of overpriced and entitlement class factory workers who make $60/hour for taking out the damn trash.
The “Big 3″ need to demonstrate that they can compete – something they haven’t done for decades. There is a damn good reason the Toyotas, Nissans and VWs of the world are opening plants in the South – quality non-union labor at market prices in right-to-work states works every stinking time.
Instead of laying back and taking it while Washington rapes you with another bailout, let your Senators know that you don’t appreciate them or the way they continue to piss away your kids’ financial future. It’s time for the small-government Conservatives in the GOP to stand up and be counted.
UPDATE: Unlike McShame’s Gang of 14, we now have a Gang of 5 conservatives ready to fight. Coburn, Vitter, DeMint, Ensign, Shelby. If these are your Senators, call them and thank them.

I realize that, with the dickballs in charge of the Federal Government and the Federal Reserve, there is no common sense left, but at least Fred still brings it now and again.
h/t the lovely Melissa
