July 31st Link Roundup
Stories we didn’t get a chance to post, but are worth reading:
Calling Obama ‘arrogant’ is racist (who knew?)
Birth Certificate For John Edwards Love Child
Congressman turns the tables on radical Islamic group
McCain ‘celebrity’ ad angers Hilton family
Cracks appear in media blackout of Edwards scandal
This is what an Olbermann fan sounds like
Fox News Murders the competition — As usual
Gutfeld guest co-hosting Fox & Friends Weekend
Secret session in Gitmo war crimes court
Iraq casualties lowest since invasion
Sen. Ted Stevens pleads not guilty
Medvedev tackles corruption in Russia (yeah right)
Bush orders intelligence overhaul
Luke Russert Joins NBC
Fishbowl D.C. is reporting that NBC has officially hired Tim Russert’s son Luke. Luke Russert will be a correspondent at large for NBC News. His first assignment will will be to cover the conventions and he’ll be focusing on youth issues. Since March of 2006, he has co-hosted the critically acclaimed sports radio talk show “60/20 Sports” with political pundit James Carville on XM Satellite Radio.
Karl Rove Launches Website
Karl Rove has finally launched a website. You can find his columns, Fox News appearances, election coverage, and even book him for an appearance.
Video: LAPD Chief Says Paparazzi Drama Down Since ‘Lindsay Has Gone Gay’
Kudos to the Chief for keeping it real.
Fairness Doctrine Talk — Again
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today that he’s joining with Nancy Pelosi to strongly support the reactivation of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” Hoyer says he’s interested in “ensuring the availability of fair and balanced information to the American public.”
That’s a pretty laughable statement coming from a left-winger. What he wants to ensure is that liberals control every facet of the media. Liberals can’t stand the fact that conservatives dominate talk radio even though liberals dominate network news, print news, and most of the Internet.
No one is preventing liberals from being on the radio. If they’re able to attract listeners they’re as welcome as anyone else on the air. The problem is that the vast majority of liberal radio shows fail, because they can’t get an audience and therefore can’t get advertisers. The market dictates who has a radio program and who doesn’t. Hoyer wants to force people to listen to left-wing radio even if they don’t want to, and it’s downright un-American.
Hoyer said it’s unlikely that anything relating to the Fairness Doctrine would reach the House floor this year.
There Is A Difference Between $400 Shoes And $400 Haircuts
Some left-wing bloggers are making a big deal out of John McCain being spotted wearing Ferragamo loafers which retail somewhere in the neighborhood of $500. The lefty blogs are actually trying to compare McCain’s $500 shoes to John Edwards’s $400 haircuts. Their argument is that if Edwards is out of touch with common folk because of his $400 haircuts, then so is McCain with his $500 shoes.
Nice try lefties, but that just doesn’t hold up. Quality footwear is absolutely essential and unlike a haircut, John McCain’s Ferragamo loafers can be worn for many years to come. An expensive pair of shoes is in fact a good investment that will pay for itself, especially when spending a lot of time walking as a candidate for President is sure to do.
A haircut is something most people get every 2-4 weeks. The frequency of haircuts alone make spending $400 on each one a horrible investment and shows a lack of discipline and good judgment. It would not be unreasonable for a woman to spend $400 on a haircut, because a lot more time and effort goes into cutting and styling a woman’s hair. Add to that the fact that Edwards’s haircuts aren’t even that good and you really start to see how ridiculous it is.
Of course John Edwards isn’t known for having discipline, good judgment, or even intelligent spending habits. Combine the $400 haircuts with the $15,000 he spends every month taking care of his skanky girlfriend and bastard child while his wife is at home with cancer, and it becomes quite clear that John Edwards is not only out of touch, but he’s an as*hole to boot.
July 30th Link Roundup
Stories we didn’t get a chance to post, but are worth reading:
Karl Rove held in contempt (terrifying I know)
Olbermann responds to Chris Wallace
Olbermann’s bobble-head journalism
Denver Post: Mitt Romney is a Mormon
Preacher arrested after body found
Bush talks human rights with China
New pill halts Alzheimer’s disease
Pakistani intelligence is helping the terrorists
Bush signs bill pledging billions to fight AIDS
Edwards Scandal Update: Mistress Being Paid $15,000 A Month
Yep, it’s time for another juicy update about “Mr. Poverty’s” scandal. I’m of course referring to the John Edwards scandal that the media is in denial about. New revelations are surfacing thanks to top notch investigating by The National Enquirer.
The latest news is that John Edwards has been secretly paying Rielle Hunter (the mistress) $15,000 a month as part hush money and part child support. To keep the payments hidden, Edwards has been funneling the money through a wealthy friend closely tied to his campaign. He’s also been funneling large amounts of cash to former campaign aide Andrew Young. Young is the guy who came forward and falsely claimed that he was the father of Rielle Hunter’s child.
According to The Enquirer, the baby’s name is Frances Quinn Hunter and she was born at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
As I’ve pointed out many, many, times it’s totally outrageous and corrupt that the media (with the exception of Fox News) is continuing to ignore this story. Even Wikipedia (that bastion of truth and honesty) has locked John Edward’s profile to keep any hint of this scandal off his profile.
The media blackout of this story is fast becoming a bigger scandal than the scandal itself. Had this not been a far-left hack like Edwards but a Republican it would be one of the biggest stories of 2008. Substitute Mitt Romney for John Edwards and it would have been in Wikipedia first and on the front page of the NY Times next.
The media’s continued double standard and hypocrisy on this story is breathtaking. John Edwards is a possible V.P. or Attorney General pick for Barack Obama, but a sex scandal/love child/cover-up while his wife is at home with cancer is not news? You’ve gotta be f*cking kidding me.
Obama’s Hubris Problem
According to The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, Barack Obama’s biggest challenger this election season is his own hubris. Milbank details the way Obama has been swaggering around Washington as if he’s already the President.
Barack Obama has long been his party’s presumptive nominee. Now he’s becoming its presumptuous nominee.
Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president’s) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.
Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual president’s. Traffic was shut down for him as he zoomed about town in a long, presidential-style motorcade, while the public and most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities, which included a fundraiser at the Mayflower where donors paid $10,000 or more to have photos taken with him. His schedule for the day, announced Monday night, would have made Dick Cheney envious…
In the latest issue of the New Republic, Gabriel Sherman found reporters complaining that Obama’s campaign was “acting like the Prom Queen” and being more secretive than Bush. The magazine quoted the New York Times’ Adam Nagourney’s reaction to the Obama campaign’s memo attacking one of his stories: “I’ve never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others.” Then came Obama’s overseas trip and the campaign’s selection of which news organizations could come aboard. Among those excluded: the New Yorker magazine, which had just published a satirical cover about Obama that offended the campaign.
Even Bush hasn’t tried that. But then again, Obama has been outdoing the president in ruffles and flourishes lately. As Bush held quiet signing ceremonies in the White House yesterday morning, Obama was involved in a more visible display of executive authority a block away, when he met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani at the Willard. A full block of F Street was shut down for the prime minister and the would-be president, and some 40 security and motorcade vehicles filled the street.
Later, Obama’s aides issued an official-sounding statement, borrowing the language of White House communiques: “I had a productive and wide-ranging discussion. . . . I look forward to working with the democratically elected government of Pakistan.”
It had been a long day of acting presidential, but Obama wasn’t done. After a few hours huddling with advisers over his vice presidential choice, Obama made his way to the pep rally on the Hill. Moments after he entered the meeting with lawmakers, there was an extended cheer, followed by another, and another.
“I think this can be an incredible election,” Obama said later. “I look forward to collaborating with everybody here to win the election.”
Win the election? Didn’t he do that already?
Keep in mind that Dana Milbank is no moderate. He’s one of Keith Olbermann’s left-wing shills, so it’s pretty interesting that he would write a piece like this.
Video: Olbermann Continues To Lie About McClellan ‘Talking Points’
Scott McClellan acknowledged on The Radio Factor yesterday that he never fed Bill O’Reilly White House talking points and apologized for lying to Chris Matthews about it. Numerous commentators have weighed-in even on far-left NBC and acknowledged it’s unlikely that O’Reilly would take talking points from anyone.
None of this had any impact of course on MSNBC’s chief clown Keith Olbermann. According to Olbermann, O’Reilly has merely convinced himself that he received no talking points, but in reality he has. Olby’s yes-man for the segment was far-left hack and race hustler Eugene Robinson.
No matter what facts are presented to Olbermann, he simply disregards them and invents his own.
The 50 Most Beautiful People On Capital Hill
The Hill has released its annual ‘50 Most Beautiful People On Capital Hill’ list for 2008, and not surprisingly the best looking people on the list are all Republicans.
Click HERE to see the list
Democrats Attack Sen. Tom Coburn For Free Baby Deliveries
Democrats are trying to get the ethics committee to censure Senator Tom Coburn in retaliation for his hard line against spending. What great breach of ethics is Coburn committing? The crime of traveling from Washington back to his home state of Oklahoma every weekend to deliver babies for free.
Sen. Coburn is also Dr. Coburn and has maintained his medical practice while serving as a U.S. Senator. He accepts no payment for his medical services, and spends tens of thousands of dollars out of his own pocket for medical malpractice insurance and other expenses.
Coburn believes in being a “citizen legislator” and plans to return to his practice full-time in 2016 at the end of his second term.
This should be a good fight, I can’t wait to watch Democrats demonize Coburn for giving free health care to his constituents.
As Michelle points out, If Coburn were giving away free abortions backs home you wouldn’t hear a peep out of Democrats.
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