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Glenn Beck’s increasing lunacy is having an effect — major advertisers are deserting his show. NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — In what is shaping up to be one of the more effective boycott campaigns in years, advertisers are abandoning the “Glenn Beck” show on Fox News following the host’s incendiary ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Obama, Hitler, Eugenics, Whacked Out, Weeping
Possibly the craziest episode yet of the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour. Begins with the above-mentioned extended Hitlerfest, segues into a claim that he’s really not saying Obama is Hitler trying to build a master race through eugenics (really! I’m not!), which turns into a full-fledged weeping breakdown complete with pouty ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Obama, Hitler, Eugenics, Whacked Out, Weeping
This is the same group that did the MSNBC “tigers” spoof, and OK, they take a couple of shots at President Bush, but who cares, it’s teh funny. I’m pretty sure Bush would laugh at it. [Video]
According to the Associated Press, “The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.”
Charles Krauthammer on Maliki’s Vote for Obama. Obama, reflecting the mainstream Democratic view, simply wants to get out of Iraq as soon as possible. Two years ago, it was because the war was lost. Now, we are told, it is to save Afghanistan. The reasons change, but the conclusion ...
Here’s Christopher Hitchens on this miserable election, interviewed by Rich Lowry and Michelle Cottle. [Video temporarily removed] (Hat tip: Primetime Politics.)
LGF, Christopher Hitchens, Election 2008, Obama, Clinton, McCain
Reuters is getting tired of the bickering and squabbling over small issues: Obama, McCain bicker over troop levels in Iraq. GREAT FALLS, Montana (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama squabbled with Republican John McCain on Friday over the number of U.S. troops in Iraq in the latest disagreement between the ...
Military, McCain, Obama, Election 2008, Iraq War, Media Bias, Reuters, LGF
Barack Obama wants to sit down and have tea and discuss the issues (using his amazing diplo-fu) with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It’s all about hope! and change! and waffles! I hope they have plenty of extra syrup if/when they meet, because here’s the mini-Hitler himself, explaining that “the Hidden Imam manages ...
LGF, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Obama, Barack Obama, Election 2008, Diplomacy, hidden imam, Militant Islam
Another thread to discuss the deeper meanings of Hillary Clinton’s Pennsylvania primary win...
The polls have closed in Pennsylvania, and by all accounts there was a record turnout for this Democratic primary. Here’s an open thread to discuss what may end up being Hillary’s Last Stand... UPDATE at 4/22/08 6:39:03 pm: It’s too soon to count Hillary out. She’s apparently won in Pennsylvania. ...
Yep, this about sums it up; the party of whining complainers: Clinton, Obama complain about complaining. Obama’s complaining that ABC wasn’t nice to him, Clinton’s complaining that the media are in the tank for Obama, and the lefty blogosphere is complaining about everything. As usual.
Since ABC News is doing that charmingly antiquated 3-hour delay thing with their west coast broadcast of tonight’s Obama-Clinton snoozefest, here’s another open thread so the California lizards don’t feel left out...
Barack Obama’s memorable statement on the anti-gravity properties of pain opens our next painful, bitter debate thread...
The Dems’ debate is being webcast live at ABC 6 in Philly: 6abc.com: Debate Analyzer and Pennsylvania’s Undecided Voters’ Demographics 4/16/08. ABC News is going old school and putting the circus on a three hour time delay for the west coast. UPDATE at 4/16/08 5:18:11 pm: Registration is open for ...
Zombie has a decent quality audio file of Barack Obama’s “gun-toting Bible-thumping hicks” statement: Obama’s “bitter small-town Americans” speech at Getty fundraiser: good, clear audio file now available here! It isn’t getting a lot of attention, but also note that Obama was putting down small-town Americans in front of an ...
Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, gave a eulogy yesterday and reiterated his crazy, hateful views, and his support for Louis Farrakhan, to thundering applause: Rev. Wright fires back. And get a load of how the Chicago Sun-Times minimizes Wright’s hate speech. The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., former ...
LGF, Election, Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Hate Speech, Racism
After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously. MUNCIE, Ind. - Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who “cling to guns or religion” were ill chosen, as he tried ...
Obama’s latest misstep is recounted by Politico’s Ben Smith: Obama on small-town PA: Clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia. You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them...And ...
Here’s Zombie’s new report on Barack Obama’s visit to the upper crust of San Francisco: Obama Visits Billionaires Row.
Primetime Politics has video of Christopher Hitchens vs. Andrew Sullivan on the Tim Russert show: Sullivan and Hitchens on Tim Russert.
LGF, Christopher Hitchens, Andrew Sullivan, Obama, Wright, Election
Christopher Hitchens is on Tim Russert’s show with Andrew Sullivan. I hadn’t seen Sullivan in a while and never read his blog any more, so it’s a tiny surprise to see how completely he’s transformed himself. Not a shred of the post-9/11 Sullivan remains; all that’s left is a rhetoric-spewing ...
Barack Obama has picked up another celebrity endorsement—Shaban AbdelRaheem, the Egyptian pop singer whose best-known hit song is titled, “I Hate Israel:” Anti-Israel egyptian singer makes Obama song.
Here’s Victor Davis Hanson’s piece on Barack Obama’s seriously inept handling of the Rev. Wright scandal: The Obama Crash and Burn. The latest polls reflecting Obama’s near-collapse should serve as a morality tale of John Edwards’s two Americas — the political obtuseness of the intellectual elite juxtaposed to the ...
LGF, VDH, Victor Davis Hanson, Election, Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Here’s another thread, since the first one has nearly a thousand comments already, for the Trinity United Church of Christ webcast, supposedly featuring Jeremiah Wright although he hasn’t shown up yet, with a live web feed here: Trinity United Church of Christ. UPDATE at 3/23/08 6:18:27 pm: Curiously, the good ...
Election 2008, LGF, Obama, Wright, UCC, Racism, Hate Speech