Bloodthirsty Liberal

I’ll spare you the messy details, but I’ve fantasized about Sarah Palin’s palm, too.

But the MSM is positively perverse on the subject. Get your own fantasies, you creepy bunch of sickos!

Which you know they have. Andrea Mitchell lowers herself into a hot bubble bath. She closes her eyes and lets out a deep breath. Thoughts, impure thoughts, spill into her imagination. They involve basketballs and microphones, whipped cream and arugula. She wakes with a start as Alan Greenspan steps in opposite her.

I’d share Chris Matthews’ fantasies, but I’d be shut down by the FCC before the thrill got halfway up his leg.

But while you’re obsessing compulsively over a five-point outline Sarah wrote on her soft, white, gentle, perfect palm, you pervs, you missed a much, much bigger embarrassment:

The president can’t even talk to sixth graders without a pair of teleprompters and a Secret Service agent ready to take a bugger for the president.

“I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. I do not like green eggs and ham.”

I swear, when he tells his fat tubs of goo daughters a bedtime story, he must have a team of writers and a prompter at ha…

What’s that, you say, too mean?

Don’t talk to me. Talk to them:

“We went to our pediatrician all the time,” [Michelle] Obama said. “I thought my kids were perfect — they are and always will be — but he [the doctor] warned that he was concerned that something was getting off balance.”

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“But we often simply don’t realize that those kids are our kids, and our kids could be in danger of becoming obese. We always think that only happens to someone else’s kid — and I was in that position.”

I won’t name which pretty little girl in question, out of respect for her privacy. But then, I don’t have to:

President Obama is also guilty of talking about his daughters’ weight. In an interview with Parents magazine in November 2008, the president said, “A couple of years ago — you’d never know it by looking at her now — Malia was getting a little chubby.”

You take that back, sir!

Just what all girls need: the commander in chief and leader of the free world—and his lady—opining on the BMI of all girls everywhere. Whoever wrote that on the teleprompter should be taken out and shot.

Is there a contrast to be made between Palin’s attitude toward her Down’s Syndrome son (”he’s perfect”) and Obama’s cute daughter (”she’s chubby”)?

Let me not run through the roster of dishonest statements (February’s a short month!).

Let me add just one more:

How Many Press Conferences Has Bush Held?
By Patrick on Nov 10, 2008 12:50 PM

An interesting exchange during today’s White House press briefing:

Q [C]ould you tell us the total number of press conferences held by President Bush?

MS. PERINO: I couldn’t tell you. …

Q The New York Times reported, “Mr. Obama has indicated he will hold a news conference once a month, but nothing has been set.” Does the President, as an upcoming private citizen, hope that his successor will try to emulate FDR in the number of his press conferences?

MS. PERINO: I don’t think the President will be providing any advice as to how many press conferences he has.

He might suggest that the new president keep his word:

Six months ago, network executives were complaining that the White House was costing them tens of millions of dollars by pressing them to carry presidential news conferences in prime time.

Problem solved: President Obama hasn’t held a full-scale news conference since July. Instead, he answered a dozen people’s questions last week on YouTube, most of them easily finessed and — extra bonus! — no annoying follow-ups of the kind posed by real, live journalists.

How about holding a press conference during All My Children or General Hospital? Why does the Messiah (heavenly chorus: ah-h-h-h!!) have to commandeer prime time for every utterance? I recall press conferences for previous presidents being held in daylight.

For comparison’s sake:

In the 21 months since his second inaugural, Bush has already held 15 solo press conferences. Last year, 2005, he held nine – more than double the number he averaged each of his first four years. In 2006, he’s already held six – including one in each of the last five months. At this rate his second term would not only easily surpass his first-term total but equal it in two years.

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“Like most of his recent predecessors, President Bush does news conferences when it suits his purposes, not those of the press,” said Knoller. “It’s a myth to think that he’s in any way scared of the press or our questions. And he has shown increasingly that he enjoys the intellectual give and take - and needling reporters about their style, clothing or questioning.”

“To the extent there have been more regular press conferences in recent months, you can credit the calendar. The midterm elections loom large and he has much at stake.

So, maybe we’ll get more Barack Obama, after all.

Oy.

Anyway, here’s something of what we’ve been missing:

In practice, no single news organization can cover the ground of a 45-minute Q&A with newspapers, wire services, magazines, television, radio and bloggers, seen live on the air.

“What’s lost is the ability to get beyond talking points,” says Michael Shear, a White House reporter for The Post. “This is a president and White House that know how to be very scripted and very on message. . . . Frankly, we make our living studying and following details of these issues so we can zero our questions in on where the real tension lies in a particular issue.”

Obama has talked to correspondents at occasional press “avails” overseas. While he has taken as many as a half-dozen or more questions, that figure has been shrinking, and if a foreign leader is present, the American side may get just one or two chances.

Todd says that while he and other network correspondents have been granted short interviews abroad, there is no time for wide-ranging questions on, say, Iran or the Middle East. “All these pre-set interviews, they try to attach them to a specific topic,” he says.

Maybe they can put the press conferences on C-SPAN!

This is not a joke.

Repeat: this is not a joke:

NBC served up a mountain of controversy Thursday after a cafeteria menu offered fried chicken, collard greens, black-eyed peas and cornbread in honor of Black History Month.

But the African-American chef who planned the menu said she had been trying to cook the menu for years in honor of the month and doesn’t understand why everyone was so upset.

“All I wanted to do was make a meal that everyone would enjoy, and that I eat myself,” chef Leslie Calhoun told the New York Post.
The fallout over the menu was prompted by a Tweet from Ahmir Thompson, aka ‘Questlove,’ the drummer for Jimmy Fallon’s house band the Roots. He posted a picture of the menu on Twitter next to the words, “Hmm HR?”

The picture sparked a flurry of anger and claims the menu was racist, which led to NBC nixing the cafeteria special.

“The sign in the NBCU cafeteria has been removed. We apologize for anyone who was offended by it,” tweeted NBC vice president of communications Kevin Goldman.

How about apologizing to all the people looking forward to some fine eating? I would stand in line to sample that menu every day for the entire month of February. Now, I’m hungry.

You might not have noticed, given all the prime time addresses and the “exclusive” interviews, but there’s one forum President Obama avoids like the plague:

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Thursday defended the number of formal press conferences, or lack thereof, held by President Obama in recent months.

CNN White House correspondent Dan Lothian asked Gibbs why Obama has been unavailable for questioning by the White House press corps over the past six months.

“He has taken questions at different press avails from a whole host of reporters,” said Gibbs. “We’ve done a countless number of interviews, more interviews in the first year than any other president in recent memory. He enjoys the format, we just haven’t done one in a while.”

The president last held a prime time news conference on July 22, 2009.

And you all remember what happened then:

“Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly….”

I don’t know if that was the day Scott Brown decided to run, but it was the day that he stood a pretty good chance of winning (at least winning the endorsement of the Cambridge Police Department, despite Martha Coakley’s husband being a former member of the force).

I just think Obama takes one look at Jake Tapper and Major Garrett and sees David Gregory and Sam Donaldson. And he says to himself, “[bleep] that [bleep], after what they do to Gibbsy, no way I’m going up there without my teleprompter.”

I’m so glad we don’t have an idiot like Sarah Palin as our Vice President, and instead are represented by this intellectual Saturn rocket:

Biden predicted that “Avatar” would won win “Best Picture,” although he had a little trouble remembering the film’s title.

BIDEN: And I think one of the odds-on favorites, Jill didn’t do with me, is this new program that I looked at and I wish I was seeing it in 3-D and you sit there and you watch this science fiction thing unfold in front of you.

MS. MITCHELL: “Avatar?”

BIDEN: “Avatar.” The magic of it is kind of overwhelming.

Evidently so much so, he couldn’t recall the title of “this new program”, the “science fiction thing”. Who had to break it to him that it was science fiction?

Sarah Palin can’t recall the magazines she reads (a bad moment I grant), and Katie Couric tears her a new one. Biden can barely coherently describe a movie he’s just seen—check that, not coherently at all—and Andrea Mitchell (I’m so old, I remember her as a brunette) feeds him the answer. Effing media whores. (Oops! Did that slip out? This is the only blog that needs a ten second delay.)

And speaking of Katie Couric:

The CBS anchor, now 53, is facing a huge pay cut in her unprecedented $15 million-a-year salary.

More importantly, her bosses at CBS have not yet said whether they want to keep her — at any price.

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The network’s “Evening News” was in third place when she came over from the “Today” show in 2006 — and it has not budged.

CBS News reportedly laid off 150 people on Monday — including, for the first time, staffers at “60 Minutes.” (A spokesman for the network said the number of layoffs was “a fraction” of that but declined to say how many.)

No matter, the idea of paying Couric eight figures to anchor a news show that is in last place does not sit well in the upper echelons of CBS News.

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Couric herself tells Harper’s Bazaar in an upcoming issue that she sometimes dreams that she’s still in school and “I’m forced to take an exam about things I know nothing about.”

In the words of Bard of Hibbing, Minnesota, “How does it fe-e-e-l?” Bitch. (Sorry, bleep that out, would you?)

My timing could be better (it’s hard to follow anti-Semitism and the Holocaust with comedy), but I hope you’ll forgive me.

Enjoy:

David Brooks, has spun back and forth on President Obama so many times and so violently, he’s had to lie down with vertigo.

But he is the Rock of Gibraltar compared to Christopher Buckley.

10/10/08:

Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance.

Or would they? But let’s get that part out of the way. The only reason my vote would be of any interest to anyone is that my last name happens to be Buckley—a name I inherited. So in the event anyone notices or cares, the headline will be: “William F. Buckley’s Son Says He Is Pro-Obama.” I know, I know: It lacks the throw-weight of “Ron Reagan Jr. to Address Democratic Convention,” but it’ll have to do.

1/25/10:

A year ago, I inspired the nation to have the audacity to hope that I would change the political culture in Washington. Now, a year later, it turns out I’m another hack politician—from Chicago, where, believe you me, we know a thing or two about hack politics.

I was going to set a new standard. Now I’m just a complicit bystander as Harry bribes, among others, a senator from Nebraska who wants his state to get a free pass on Medicare—in return for his vote on a health-care reform bill that would make the Founders weep, or throw up. Or both.

What a difference a year makes. But I’m pleased to report that before I came up here tonight, I was able to sign a contract with my publisher for a new book. I’m going to call it The Audacity of Oops.

Shouldn’t Buckley be the author of a book with that title? Especially when…

1/28/10:

Tonight Mr. Obama proved—once again—that he hears the American music and can play it like a maestro. As well as Ronald Reagan. Both presidents had—have—have music in their souls. The other people in the room where I watched the speech were in tears by the end—the kind that stream down the face. I managed to hold those back. But I could not hold back my admiration at the performance, in particular of Mr. Obama’s deep humanity, as evinced by his profound, almost Lincolnesque humor. Oh dear, are tears streaming down my face, one way or the other?

He proved himself capable, too, of drama, as when he (figuratively) pointed a finger at the Supremes, sitting in their courtly robes directly in front of him, hands demurely folded, and accused them (in my opinion, unjustly, to say nothing of injudiciously) of allowing “foreign enemies” to influence our elections. I had been under the impression that it was called “free speech.” But never mind. It was an electrifying moment. Thank you, Mr. President.

An electrifying evening, all in all. Well done. And yes, God bless the United States of America.

Please.

Somebody hand me a barf bag.

I’m all for forgiving people when they’re wrong. As I’ve pointed out many times, I have a quarter-century of straight-line Democratic Party votes to atone for.

But don’t you kind of have to acknowledge that maybe you’re, I don’t know, full of s**t? Who could possibly take this clown seriously ever again?

What makes Rush and Sarah Palin so popular is that they don’t feel they have to apologize for espousing conservative beliefs. Same thing makes them so unpopular, of course. Maybe the likes of Buckley and Brooks get invited to more of Sally Quinn’s dinner parties, but Rush and Sarah (and I) know that we’d rather stay home with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s than have to work so hard to be liked.

The New York Times? Are you kidding me? USA Today? Is that supposed to be funny?

There’s only one publication to turn to when you want unvarnished truth (and the latest on Brad and Angelina’s sex life—which is the same thing, really):

No sooner than John Edwards admits paternity to the world, and jets off to Haiti presumably for penance to aid the victims of disaster with no cameras (Hello, CBS - what ARE you doing here?) then he gets into a row with baby mamma Rielle Hunter over the health care of their daughter Frances Quinn.

Historically, (look it up) John Edwards was a huge proponent for health care coverage for all Americans when he was running for president.

But the disgraced former candidate recently balked at paying a $5,000 dental bill for his love child daughter, who is uninsured, say sources.

Edwards’ mistress Rielle Hunter took their daughter Frances - who turns 2 in February - to a dental specialist in Charlotte, N.C., in late December because the child had developed tooth decay.

“Rielle can’t believe that she had to have her lawyers fight with John’s attorneys to get this taken care of,” said the source.

“Frances is doing fine now, but Rielle is still fuming mad that their daughter has no insurance and that she had to beg John to foot the dental bill.”

Edwards made health care a big part of his campaign when he was running for the White House, before The ENQUIRER exposed his extramarital affair.

Take your typical WaPo dispatch or NYT monotone, and see if it matches that lively writing style. You can’t make it past the first sentence.

In other news:

Nicole Richie has gone on a crusade - a health crusade!

She’s vowed to boost the health of two of her closest friends - actress Mischa Barton and celeb stylist Rachel Zoe.

The health-conscious reality star - who has overcome her own eating disorder and drug problems - is encouraging pudgy Mischa, 24, to lose weight and Rachel to add 15 much-needed pounds.

Finally! Health care, terrorism, the economy—and not one word spoken in the nation’s village square about what’s happened to Mischa Barton!

I ask you:

I’m not a nutritionist like Nicole Ritchie, but weight doesn’t seem to be her biggest problem. How about a little positive reinforcement, Nikki? She looks like she could use it.

PS: Let’s try that experiment.

NYT:

Advocates of more aggressive steps to address the national debt failed Tuesday in their effort to create a bipartisan commission to press for tax increases and spending cuts, but President Obama now plans to establish a similar panel by executive order in his State of the Union address on Wednesday.

The proposal for a commission died when its supporters could not muster enough votes in the Senate to push it ahead, reflecting unwillingness among many Republicans to back any move toward tax increases and objections among Democrats to the prospect of deep spending cuts in Medicare and Medicaid.

Okay, it could be worse, I guess.

Like this:

When President Obama appears before Congress and the nation on Wednesday night to deliver his State of the Union speech, his goals will be to reset his agenda, assure his demoralized party that he has not given up on key priorities and try to convince a skeptical public that he can still change Washington.

After which, he will walk across the Potomac (or will he merely part its waters? tune in to find out!) and heal the wounded at Walter Read.

Next time the media turns to Levi Johnston for the inside poop on the Palin family, they might want to remember what his primary occupation is: deadbeat dad.

Sarah Palin’s oldest daughter, Bristol, is seeking child support from Levi Johnston, the father of her 1-year-old son. A court document says she is providing nearly all of the care for the baby, Tripp, and is seeking $1,750 a month. She says Mr. Johnston has paid only $4,400 in more than a year. His lawyer, Rex Butler, says that his client wanted to give money for the baby’s care on several occasions, requesting that Ms. Palin bring Tripp with her, but that she was a no-show.

Let’s hear a little more about that:

Attorney Rex Butler tells TMZ, Levi has told Bristol on several occasions he wanted her to come to his house to pick up checks for Tripp’s support. Butler says Levi also told her “it would be nice” if she brought Tripp along when she picked up the checks, because Levi wanted to spend time with his son. Butler says on each occasion Bristol was a no-show.

Butler says Bristol is partly to blame for the fact that she hasn’t gotten the support she wants. Butler tells TMZ on one occasion Levi was prepared to hand over $3,000 … but Bristol never showed.

As for why Levi didn’t just put the check in the mail … Butler says, “Why should he have to do that. He’s not dangerous to her.”

As we first reported, Bristol filed legal docs late Thursday asking for $1,750 a month in child support from Levi, claiming he’s only paid $4,400 since Tripp was born. Levi’s manager says the Playgirl model has forked over more than $10K.

Now, I’m still happily married (knock on wood!), so I’d have to ask the divorced parents among our readership if this is how it’s supposed to work.

Can you just roll up whenever you feel like it and drop off a check when you have the money? Or even worse, force the recipient of child support to come and get the check? Is that how it works? And you have a right to demand to see the very child for which you are currently not paying?

Not a bad deal.

I read that Bristol is also looking to get sole custody of Tripp. Whatever she does, she’d better do it through the court. Something tells me that one way or another Levi’s going to end up in jail.

You’ve read Aggie’s screed analysis of the spending freeze (see next post).

Here’s mine:

Under mounting pressure to rein in mammoth budget deficits, President Obama will propose in his State of the Union address a three-year freeze on federal funding that is not related to national security, a concession to public concern about government spending that could dramatically curtail Obama’s legislative ambitions.

For pete’s sake, is that what they’re teaching in journalism school these days? This is the Washington-freakin’-Post! Give me National Enquirer and John Edwards’ John Thomas over this tripe any day.

It’s also a lie, as dishonest as it is illiterate:

The freeze would take effect in October and limit the overall budget for agencies other than the military, veterans affairs, homeland security and certain international programs to $447 billion a year for the remainder of Obama’s first term….

What “international programs”? What is an international program? American Idol, I guess, because of Simon Cowell.

Anyway…

The spending freeze would affect only about one-eighth of the nation’s $3.5 trillion budget, the bulk of which is devoted to entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which are responsible for much of the future increase in spending. It would not restrain funding for the $787 billion economic stimulus package Obama pushed through Congress early last year, nor would it apply to a new bill aimed at creating jobs, which Democrats have identified as their top priority in the run-up to November’s congressional elections.

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It is also unlikely to affect the approximately $900 billion health-care bill, which has been on life-support since the Massachusetts vote. In an interview with ABC News on Monday, Obama vowed to press ahead with health care and other first-year agenda items, even it means jeopardizing his reelection chances in 2012.

So we’re going to freeze spending (except on national security and all entitlements) after we spend at least another two trillion dollars?

That’s his “freeze”? And he expects us to take him seriously?

Just one more bleeding chunk of this reportorial rump roast:

Obama’s commitment to cutting deficits will be an important theme of his address to Congress, administration officials said, and will be fully detailed in the budget he is due to submit to lawmakers early next week. Administration officials have declined to say specifically how the president plans to reduce deficits projected to add more than $9 trillion to the national debt during the next decade. But he has endorsed several measures aimed at meeting that goal, including the adoption of stringent pay-as-you-go budget rules that would bar lawmakers from passing programs that increase deficits and the creation of a bipartisan commission to work toward a balanced budget.

“But he has endorsed several measures aimed at meeting that goal…”

That’s the problem!!!! He’s said everything on every side of every issue!! How can the president who’s taken budget deficits into warp drive where no debt has gone before fix his mouth to say he wants to adopt a pay-as-you-go approach?

And then blame lawmakers!

Does he try to double-talk Michelle this way? I doubt it. She’d use those incredibly toned arms of hers to box those incredibly large ears of his.

All I can say is I hope Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel has something good on opposite the SoTU speech. I’d rather watch Mike Rowe wallow in pig crap than President Obama in bull crap.

(See, Aggie, that’s how you do reasoned, logical analysis.)

PS: Note that the Senate ain’t buying into his new populist act:

The Senate has rejected a plan backed by President Barack Obama to create a bipartisan task force to tackle the deficit this year.

The special deficit panel would have attempted to produce a plan combining tax cuts and spending curbs that would have been voted on after the midterm elections. But the plan garnered just 53 votes in the 100-member Senate, not enough because 60 votes were required. Anti-tax Republicans joined with Democrats wary of being railroaded into cutting Social Security and Medicare to reject the idea.

Obama endorsed the idea after being pressed by moderate Democrats. The proposal was an amendment to a $1.9 trillion hike in the government’s ability to borrow to finance its operations.

If this were really about tax cuts and spending curbs, do you think “anti-tax Republicans” would oppose it? Me neither.

Just heard a caller to Mark Steyn sitting in for Rush suggest that congressmen need not shout “You lie!” at the president’s borscht-belt material, just laugh.

“We need to reign in out of control spending…”

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!