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Oct

20

Mr. Holland’s Dopus: Richard Dreyfuss Says He Had to Think Like Hitler to Portray Dick Cheney

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Richard Dreyfuss is old-school Hollywood libtard, and he’s still at it.

Watching Joy Behar and Richard Dreyfuss while trying to figure out which of them is dumber is a monumental task, but maybe you’ll have better luck than I did. I concluded that it was a tie:

Behar got so incensed with Bill O’Reilly saying that Muslims killed thousands on 9/11 that she walked out of the interview, but when Dreyfuss compared Cheney to a madman who murdered millions, she just sat there and nodded her vacuous head in agreement. Hardly surprising.

(h/t The Blaze by way of ZIP)

Oct

20

Joe Biden Wants Kids to Know the President is Really Cool

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“He’s really cool” was unfortunately all the information necessary to sell enough voters on Obama in 2008, but I’m not sure this even works on as many kids as it used to. VP Biden is still trying nonetheless:

Vice-President Joe Biden repeatedly told a group of 3rd-grade students that Barack Obama was “really cool,” during a surprise visit to an after-school program in California, NBC News reported.

Most of the children at Taft Community School in Redwood City wanted to know all about Obama and his wife Michelle and one asked if the president would also be making an appearance, the station said.

“Barack Obama is really cool. No, he’s not coming today, but he’s really cool,” Biden replied, according to NBC News.

How cool? This cool:

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He’s $3 trillion worth of new debt in under 24 months cool!

He’s “10% unemployment and 14.8 million people out of work and I’m gonna go on a comedy show to laugh about how great I’m doing” cool!

He’s “mom jeans” cool!

He’s “throws like a girl” cool!

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Super-cool Obama would have spoken to the kids himself, but it just takes too long to set up for a school speech these days:

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Oct

19

Olbermann’s Closet Trouser-Tent for Conservative Women Bigger Than Ever

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He’s called Michelle Malkin a “mashed up bag of meat with lipstick.” He’s called Sarah Palin a “tool” (and worse) and he’s called Michele Bachmann “unstable” (and worse). Oh, and he’s also ironically said that Scott Brown hates women. Heh. But I digress.

WorldNetDaily asked Michele Bachmann what eight people she’d like to sit down to dinner with. Bachmann answered Reagan, Washington, Adam (the first man), the apostle Paul, Bach, Jesus, Ann Coulter and Mark Levin.

Pissed at the exclusion of his name from the list and reminded that he wouldn’t be worthy of being a busboy at this particular dinner, Olbermann was prompted to give Bachmann yet another “Worst Person in the World” honor.

Part of Olbermann’s comment by way of Story Balloon:

“Reagan would turn back into a democrat. Washington would read her his farewell address warning against forming political parties. Adam would reconsider celibacy. Paul would announce he had gone blind again. Bach would try to play the harpsichord loud enough to drown her out. Coulter would question Jesus’s sexuality. Levin would run out of the check and Jesus would shout, ‘get these out of here. Do not make the House of Representatives the House of Morons.’ And then turn over the table.” – Keith Olbermann

I think the only one going blind from his misogynistic, seemingly Jurgens-fueled fixation on attractive conservative women is Keith Olbermann, but hey, what happens in his dressing room stays in his dressing room as far as I’m concerned.

Keith having to pretend that conservative women as a general rule are as physically repulsive as the plurality of high-profile liberal women just isn’t effective, either as comedy or to score a political point.

And what’s with the “Mark Levin would skip out on the check” thing? Wow… if a conservative had thrown out that stereotype about a liberal Jew you’d never hear the end of it.

Here’s the video if your stomach is strong:

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Sheesh, if Michele Bachmann would turn Adam celibate, he’d probably try and cut his nuts off with an apple core if he were stuck with any of the the women on Keith Olbermann’s side of the argument.

Meanwhile, Keith’s fellow leftists continue to call Sarah Palin stupid, which in this instance is doing nothing but proving what morons Keith’s fellow leftists are.

Oct

19

Jimmy McMillan Steals NY Gubernatorial Debate

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This video is probably reaching viral status as I write this, so pardon me if you’ve already seen it, but I’ll feel derelict in my blogging duties if I don’t post Jimmy McMillan of New York’s “Rent is Too Damn High” party at yesterday’s New York gubernatorial debate.

I’m a fan of quirky candidates no matter what their party affiliation — and Jimmy McMillan certainly has earned a spot on that mantle alongside Basil Marceaux, Alvin Greene and Chief Wana Dubie — so without further adieu, here you go:

Every election year these kind of guys seem a little less crazy, don’t they?

Gawker has some of his finest moments:

On the deficit: “It’s like a cancer. It will heal itself.”

On negative campaigning: “As a karate expert, I will not talk about anyone up here.”

On gay marriage: “The Rent Is 2 Damn High Party feels if you want to marry a shoe, I’ll marry you.”

On… Jesus, I have no clue what prompted this one: “We plan to bulldoze some of those mountains in Upstate to make New York an independent state. I want my own cable company; I want my own telephone company.”

On the rent: Too damn high.

Jimmy’s website, which, judging from the loading speed is hosted by Geocities circa 1995, is here.

Oct

19

Counter-Productive Democrat of the Day: Saying Climate Change Doesn’t Exist is Like Denying the Existence of Santa Claus

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Once in a while the opposition provides a rebuttal to their own argument within their argument. This is one of those occasions:

“Climate change – to deny it exists, to just put your head in the sand and, ‘oh no, it doesn’t exist, what are you talking about,’ is about like standing on the floor of Macy’s during the month of December and claiming Santa Claus doesn’t exist. Come on, get real.”

It’s also like saying the Easter Bunny doesn’t exist. Get with it, climate deniers!

(h/t WZ)

Santa Gore image from FreakingNews.com

Oct

18

Obama Insisted Mythbusters Re-Try Busting a Myth?

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You might have heard by now that President Obama will be appearing on Mythbusters — because obviously it’s been concluded that his problem is not enough exposure.

Unfortunately, the Mythbusters won’t be busting the “stimulus is working” or “only Republicans get donations from foreign PACs” myths.

From the New York Times:

In an episode of “Mythbusters” on the Discovery Channel to be shown on Dec. 8, President Obama will help determine whether the Greek scientist Archimedes really set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun.

Legend has it that during the Siege of Syracuse, circa 214 B.C., Archimedes destroyed the enemy ships with fire, the result of a “heat ray” involving a series of mirrors set up on the coast. But the question has long remained: Did it really happen that way?

The thing is, the Mythbusters have already tried this — but it sounds as if The King was displeased with the results the first time:

“Mythbusters” has already tried to test this myth. In 2006, with the help of some students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the show declared the myth “busted” because it took far too long for any reflected light to ignite a fire on a distant ship.

But apparently, Mr. Obama wants them to try again.

Hey, why not — it’s not like he’s got anything better to do.

This time though, Obama’s loaning the Mythbusters some of his own equipment to help prove that Archimedes could have used reflected sunlight to set fire to ships.

Here’s a clip from the episode:

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Oct

18

Harry Reid: ‘Obama is Like a Trapped Chilean Miner’

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This might surprise you, but I agree with Harry Ried that Obama is like a trapped miner — both are in dangerously over their heads and begging for cigarettes:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has compared President Barack Obama to a trapped Chilean miner.

In a speech to supporters in Las Vegas on Sunday night, Reid said that when Obama replaced George W. Bush in the White House he found himself in a “hole so deep that he couldn’t see the outside world.

“It was like the Chilean miners, but he, being the man he is, rolled up his sleeves and said ‘I am going to get us out of this hole,’” Reid said at an “Early Vote GOTV” event.

It’s worth noting for Harry that the leader in saving the Chilean miners was a conservative.

From Spuddser in comments: “I guess that would be an apt comparison if the Chilean miners had all grabbed their shovels and started digging downward to get out of the hole.”

In the meantime, preparations are underway in Chile to permanently seal the mine, but there’s just one more thing to do:

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Oct

18

Obama Courts the Left-Wing Jedi Vote in Ohio — Update: Slurpee Out, Latte In

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Is resorting to Star Wars analogies a sign of desperation? I’d have to vote “yes”:

President Obama, with a coarse voice, warned a crowd in Ohio: “They’re fighting back. The empire is striking back. To win this election, they are plowing tens of millions of dollars into front groups. They are running misleading negative ads all across the country.”

Obama closed by saying to his crowd, “may the farce be with you.”

Republicans have gone from being Slurpee-sippers to Darth Vader and the Empire.

I think Obama has planted a spy among the GOP though:

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Update: Evidentally “Slurpees” wasn’t working either, so Obama has now upgraded the GOP to latte:

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They probably figured “Slurpee” makes the GOP sound too working class.

Oct

17

NY Times: Man Yells ‘Allahu Akbar’ While Murdering People at Ft. Hood, Motive Unknown

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Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people during his rampage at Ft. Hood, and he yelled “Allahu Akbar” during the shootings. He’s been linked to radical Imam Anwar al-Awlaki. Al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn praised Hasan as a “pioneer, a trailblazer and a role-model.”

And yet the New York Times has no idea what might have been Hasan’s motive:

A parade of prosecution witnesses — many of them still struggling with their wounds — provided a gripping, almost cinematic account of the attack in which 13 people died and dozens were wounded.

Yet the gunman and his motive remain an enigma. And there were few clues about what sort of defense Major Hasan, a 40-year-old Army psychiatrist, would mount in the face of such overwhelming evidence.
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Over three days, more than two dozen witnesses at the hearing described how Major Hasan shouted “Allahu akbar!” and then opened fire with a laser-guided handgun at a crowd of soldiers as they waited to see medical staff members before deployment. He gunned down one man who tried to hit him with a chair and chased another soldier out of the building to shoot him, witnesses said.

Wow… the Times is as clueless and “weapons grade ignorant” as Behar and Goldberg.

Oct

16

Sarah Takes a Jab at Queen Michelle

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This kind of thing will get the left off their hinges even more — if such a thing is possible. It’s bad enough that Sarah Palin dares criticize The Won, but now she’s denigrating the Queen:

“You know, when I hear people say, or had said during the campaign that they’ve never been proud of America, haven’t they met anybody in uniform yet?”

Yes, Sarah, she has met people in uniform. And no, I don’t think it does much for her level of pride in America as it existed before her husband tried (and continues to try) to turn it into a socialist unicorn ranch in fantasy land that his wife can finally be proud of:

Ouch! I can see pissed off Obamabots, Hope & Change Kool Aid guzzlers and PDS sufferers from my house!

Here’s the progressive tripe from 2008 Palin is apparently referring to:

(h/t Weasel Zippers by way of HAP)