<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>The Hot Joints &#187; Election 2008</title> <atom:link href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/tag/election-2008/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com</link> <description>Conservative news and opinion</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:00:49 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><!-- google_ad_section_start --> <item><title>Video: A Thank You To Sarah Palin</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/24/video-a-thank-you-to-sarah-palin/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/24/video-a-thank-you-to-sarah-palin/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:51:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gov. palin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sarah palin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[thank you sarah palin]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5490</guid> <description><![CDATA[(hat tip Hot Air)]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bBoJDXW-ly0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bBoJDXW-ly0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p><p><em>(hat tip <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/24/video-thank-you-sarah-palin/" target="_blank">Hot Air</a>)</em></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/24/video-a-thank-you-to-sarah-palin/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>HuffPo Blogger: Why Can&#039;t Everyone Think Like Us?</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/07/huffpo-blogger-why-cant-everyone-think-like-us/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/07/huffpo-blogger-why-cant-everyone-think-like-us/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:51:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[evan handler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[far left hate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[far-left]]></category> <category><![CDATA[huffington post]]></category> <category><![CDATA[left wing bloggers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[liberal intolerance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liberals]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5331</guid> <description><![CDATA[As soon as I get on board with supporting our new president as any American should, I read something from the morons at the Huffington Post and that warm sense of patriotic bipartisanship washes away. My biggest beef with an Obama presidency is not so much with Obama himself, but the far-left pinkos he empowers [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>As soon as I get on board with supporting our new president as any American should, I read something from the morons at the Huffington Post and that warm sense of patriotic bipartisanship washes away.</p><p>My biggest beef with an Obama presidency is not so much with Obama himself, but the far-left pinkos he empowers &#8212; people like HuffPo blogger <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-handler/hi-my-name-is-evan-and-il_b_141650.html" target="_blank">Evan Handler</a>.</p><p>Here&#8217;s Evan&#8217;s take on the election:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>It&#8217;s good! It&#8217;s great! It&#8217;s all fantastic, and I&#8217;m thrilled! Really. I do mean it. But something seems to be escaping our attention amidst the exaltation. In spite of the wars, the lies, the torture, the stacking of the courts, and the rollbacks to civil liberties; in spite of the religious fundamentalism, the fanaticism, and the utter disdain toward the population that&#8217;s been expressed; in spite of the Katrina fiasco, the wire tapping, and the raping and pillaging of our economy for corporate gain (not to mention the ridiculousness and horrendous idiocy of the Republican campaign, including the Palin monstrosity) 56 million, 378 thousand, 316 Americans still voted for the other side. </em></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>To humanize that just a bit, that means that 56,378,316 individuals waited in line just as long as you did, and worked just as hard as anyone else, to try to make sure that Barack Obama would not become president of the United States. I don&#8217;t know about you, but that scares the shit out of me.</em></p><p>That is precisely the way the radical left looks at the world. They want a uniformity of thought which is why they try to silence any opposing viewpoints. They can&#8217;t understand why everyone doesn&#8217;t share their radical left-wing view of the world.</p><p>Evan goes on to write:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>&#8230;if you&#8217;ve got some money stashed away in these economically stormy days, if you&#8217;ve got some major purchases anywhere on your horizon, time them out for the first ninety days of the new administration. Need a washer/dryer or an automobile? Thinking of buying a new home? Want to get back into the stock market? Hold off &#8217;till after January 20th, and let the numbers show sudden economic improvement during the first three months of a new Democratic majority. Because <strong>I&#8217;ve got a sneaking suspicion that those 56,378,316 misguided souls aren&#8217;t the most sophisticated sailors on the sea.</strong></em></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>I&#8217;m not suggesting we&#8217;d be successfully addressing any of the serious issues that need to be sorted out. But I am thinking that, if they&#8217;re crass enough, and easily hoodwinked enough, to have voted Republican after the last eight years, we might as well do a little psychological manipulation of our own. We might not be able to win their hearts and minds, or erase whatever bigotry led them to vote as they did. But we should be able to outwit them. Let &#8216;em read a few positive economic headlines just as they&#8217;re fearing the wrath of God is about to drop down upon us. Let &#8216;em think that, even if the &#8220;Godless,&#8221; &#8220;unreal&#8221; Americans have prevailed, it might be good for their pocketbooks. And then, maybe then, they might climb aboard the Peace Train.</em></p><p>I wish Evan&#8217;s incredibly cynical and misguided views were some kind of anomaly, but they&#8217;re not. The idea that anyone who voted against Obama is either stupid, racist, or both is shared by a large segment of the left.</p><p>The &#8220;liberal&#8221; party that is supposed to be all about tolerance and acceptance is actually the least tolerant among us. If you don&#8217;t vote like them and think like them, they don&#8217;t wanna have anything to do with you.</p><p>Which is why I think many well intentioned Americans who voted for Obama are gonna live to regret that decision. The luntatics have been let out of the asylum.</p><p><em>-Chris Jones</em></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/07/huffpo-blogger-why-cant-everyone-think-like-us/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Video: Barack Obama&#039;s Victory Speech</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/05/video-barack-obamas-victory-speech/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/05/video-barack-obamas-victory-speech/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:02:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obama victory speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obama wins presidency]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5292</guid> <description><![CDATA[]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/27546437#27546437" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/05/video-barack-obamas-victory-speech/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE ONE</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/04/the-one/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/04/the-one/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:11:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obama elected]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obama president]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5287</guid> <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has been elected the 44th President of the United States]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/who-is-barack-obama.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5288" title="who-is-barack-obama" src="http://www.thehotjoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/who-is-barack-obama.jpg" alt="who is barack obama THE ONE" width="344" height="437" /></a></p><p>Barack Obama has been <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081105/D948HOD04.html" target="_blank">elected</a> the 44th President of the United States</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/04/the-one/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Video: Unrepentant Terrorist Shows Up To Vote</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/04/video-unrepentant-terrorist-shows-up-to-vote/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/04/video-unrepentant-terrorist-shows-up-to-vote/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:43:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bill Ayres]]></category> <category><![CDATA[chicago terrorist voting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[terrorist ayres votes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Weather Underground]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5283</guid> <description><![CDATA[Only in America could an as*hole like that still be allowed to vote.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4s-j4R_SDnQ&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4s-j4R_SDnQ&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p><p>Only in America could an as*hole like that still be allowed to vote.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/04/video-unrepentant-terrorist-shows-up-to-vote/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Obama Body Language Leak: Gives McCain Middle Digit</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/03/obama-body-language-leak-gives-mccain-middle-digit/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/03/obama-body-language-leak-gives-mccain-middle-digit/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:54:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[body language]]></category> <category><![CDATA[body language leak]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obama middle finger]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obama middle finger mccain]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5254</guid> <description><![CDATA[For the second time this campaign season, Barack Obama the otherwise flawless campaigner has allowed his non-verbal body language to leak out again on camera. For the second time in 2 years, he&#8217;s given the finger to his opponent. First he subconsciously extended the middle digit to Hillary Clinton while talking about her, then did [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>For the second time this campaign season, Barack Obama the otherwise flawless campaigner has allowed his non-verbal body language to leak out again on camera. For the second time in 2 years, he&#8217;s given the finger to his opponent. First he subconsciously extended the middle digit to Hillary Clinton while talking about her, then did the same thing to John McCain today.</p><p>This is what happens when you&#8217;re saying congratulations on the outside, but saying f*ck you on the inside.</p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XBMdWxcFXQg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XBMdWxcFXQg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p><p>Remember this&#8230;</p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zhkq11UExcw&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zhkq11UExcw&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/11/03/obama-body-language-leak-gives-mccain-middle-digit/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Don&#039;t Be Fooled &#8212; This Election Is Not Over</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/31/dont-be-fooled-this-election-is-not-over/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/31/dont-be-fooled-this-election-is-not-over/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:34:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[demoralizing republicans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fake polls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[liberal media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obama insiders]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obama propaganda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5239</guid> <description><![CDATA[I have suspected for some time that the liberal media was trying to demoralize republicans by creating the narrative that the race is over &#8212; and John McCain should just throw in the towel. A couple of articles I read this morning from alleged Obama insiders pretty well confirms my suspicions and then some. Read [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/vote_6_.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5241" title="vote_6_" src="http://www.thehotjoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/vote_6_-300x298.jpg" alt="vote 6  300x298 Don&#039;t Be Fooled    This Election Is Not Over" width="300" height="298" /></a></p><p>I have suspected for some time that the liberal media was trying to demoralize republicans by creating the narrative that the race is over &#8212; and John McCain should just throw in the towel.</p><p>A couple of articles I read this morning from alleged Obama insiders pretty well confirms my suspicions and then some.</p><p>Read all about it <a href="http://www.redstate.com/diaries/anonymous_14/2008/oct/30/what-you-were-never-intended-to-know-in-this/" target="_blank">HERE</a> and <a href="http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/three-things-the-obamedia-will-do-to-depress-republican-turnout-and-help-obama/" target="_blank">HERE</a> &#8212; then go vote.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/31/dont-be-fooled-this-election-is-not-over/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Absentee Voters In Israel Choosing McCain By 3-to-1 Margin</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/30/absentee-voters-in-israel-choosing-mccain-by-3-to-1/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/30/absentee-voters-in-israel-choosing-mccain-by-3-to-1/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:56:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jewish americans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jewish vote]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jews for mccain]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5235</guid> <description><![CDATA[A new survey released today of Americans living in Israel found they&#8217;re voting for McCain over Obama by a 3-to-1 margin. A survey of Americans in the Holy Land released Thursday found that absentee voters supported Republican John McCain over Barack Obama by a three-to-one margin. The survey interviewed 817 Americans who have cast absentee ballots [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/american_jews.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5236" title="american_jews" src="http://www.thehotjoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/american_jews.jpg" alt="american jews Absentee Voters In Israel Choosing McCain By 3 to 1 Margin" width="261" height="225" /></a></p><p>A new survey <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/30/news/ML-Israel-McCain.php" target="_blank">released today</a> of Americans living in Israel found they&#8217;re voting for McCain over Obama by a 3-to-1 margin.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>A survey of Americans in the Holy Land released Thursday found that absentee voters supported Republican John McCain over Barack Obama by a three-to-one margin.</em></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>The survey interviewed 817 Americans who have cast absentee ballots for next week&#8217;s presidential election. It was conducted by Vote from Israel, a nonpartisan group that has encouraged Americans to vote.</em></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>An estimated 40,000 Americans living in Israel are expected to vote.</em></p><p>This doesn&#8217;t shock me at all. American Jews living in America foolishly support democrats while American Jews who actually live in the Holy Land tend to support Republicans.</p><p>The reason the Hollywood Jews support left-wingers is because they&#8217;ve never actually spent anytime in Israel and aren&#8217;t particularly religious. They use their Jewish heritage as simply a career booster in the entertainment world. However, Jews who actually face down radical Islam in Israel on a daily basis and watch their fellow countrymen murdered in rocket attacks know better than to vote for a democrat.</p><p>It&#8217;s easy to be an anti-war Hollywood Jew when rockets aren&#8217;t coming through your roof, and people aren&#8217;t blowing themselves up at the local coffee shop.</p><p>I have a Jewish friend I was talking to about this just yesterday. He&#8217;s rich, he&#8217;s Jewish, and he&#8217;s supporting Barack Obama. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever &#8212; except that he&#8217;s never been to Israel.</p><p>The truth is that Israel has never had a better friend than George W. Bush. President Bush is the most pro-Israel president in American history. Likewise, John McCain has a long record of being a stalwart supporter of Israel.</p><p>Barack &#8216;The One&#8217; Obama on the other hand began &#8220;supporting&#8221; Israel once he decided to run for President. Prior to that, he spent his time with commie pinkos, and Palestinian activists who hate Israel as much as they hate America.</p><p>I don&#8217;t like to say such divisive things &#8212; but in this case it happens to be true.</p><p><em>-Chris Jones</em></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/30/absentee-voters-in-israel-choosing-mccain-by-3-to-1/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Election 2008: The Ant &amp; The Grasshopper</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/29/election-2008-the-ant-the-grasshopper/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/29/election-2008-the-ant-the-grasshopper/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:20:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ant and grasshopper]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fable]]></category> <category><![CDATA[funny story]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[liberal vs conservative]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Socialism]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5228</guid> <description><![CDATA[A fellow blogger emailed me this today: The Ant &#38; The Grasshopper Two different versions &#8212; Two different morals OLD VERSION: The ant works hard  in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>A fellow blogger emailed me this today:</p><p><strong><em>The Ant &amp; The Grasshopper</em></strong></p><p><em>Two different versions &#8212; Two different morals</em></p><p>OLD VERSION:</p><p>The ant works hard  in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter</p><p>The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.</p><p>The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out  in the cold</p><p>MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for  yourself<br /> &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p><p>MODERN VERSION:</p><p>The  ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter</p><p>The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away</p><p>Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.</p><p>CBS, NBC, PBS,  CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.  America  is stunned by the sharp contrast.</p><p>How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?</p><p>Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, &#8216;It&#8217;s Not Easy Being Green&#8217;</p><p>Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant&#8217;s house where the news stations  film the group singing, &#8216;We shall overcome.&#8217; Jesse then has the group  kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper&#8217;s sake.</p><p>Nancy Pelosi &amp; John Kerry exclaim in an interview  with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the  grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.</p><p>Finally,  President Obama approves the EEOC draft from the Economic Equity &amp; Anti-Grasshopper Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.</p><p>The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.</p><p>Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed, from a list of single-parent welfare recipients   when he was in office.<br /> The ant loses the case.</p><p>The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant&#8217;s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant&#8217;s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn&#8217;t maintain it.<br /> The ant has disappeared in the snow  .</p><p>The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.</p><p>MORAL OF THE  STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/29/election-2008-the-ant-the-grasshopper/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Video: Another TV Station Banned For Asking Biden Tough Questions</title><link>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/27/video-another-tv-station-banned-for-asking-biden-tough-questions/</link> <comments>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/27/video-another-tv-station-banned-for-asking-biden-tough-questions/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:56:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Chris Jones</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[biden interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[marxism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[media asking questions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[obama socialist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tough questions]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thehotjoints.com/?p=5200</guid> <description><![CDATA[Two more news anchors decided to ask Joe Biden some tough questions this election season. Predictably, the Obama camp is outraged. Down goes another TV station. Click here to see the first &#8220;outrageous&#8221; interview.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7ZT1y1io4vA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;fs=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7ZT1y1io4vA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;fs=1" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p><p>Two more news anchors decided to ask Joe Biden some tough questions this election season. Predictably, the Obama camp is outraged. Down goes another TV station.</p><p>Click <a href="http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/25/video-the-greatest-joe-biden-interview-ever/" target="_blank">here</a> to see the first &#8220;outrageous&#8221; interview.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/10/27/video-another-tv-station-banned-for-asking-biden-tough-questions/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <!-- google_ad_section_end --></channel> </rss>
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