Lou Dobbs for President?
Former CNN hate monger Lou Dobbs is actually considering running for President of the United States. Seriously, this is not a joke. The man who’s entire shtick seems to be built around hating brown people coming to the United States is actually considering a run for the presidency. He appeared on Fred Thompson’s radio show, and when asked if he would consider a run for President, he replied by saying, “yes is the answer.”
How exactly did the bar drop so low that a xenophobic cable news reader could actually consider running for the highest office in the land?
Looks like Balloon Boy’s father is in trouble with the law
Evidently orchestrating a hoax involving a Mylar weather balloon and your 6-year-old son is against the law. Go figure.
Richard Heene, father of Falcon Heene, the Fort Collins, Colorado boy made famous after it was believed he was ridding in an experimental helium balloon, according to Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden, will be charged in connection to the hoax. A hoax designed by Richard Heene in the hopes that the publicity would get him back on TV. The Heene family appeared on the ABC reality show Wife Swap. It’s this stupid show where women from two families “swap” places and then we the television viewers get to watch the high jinks that somehow always ensue.
It’s as though the families are working off a script or something.
The boy of course was not in the balloon, but instead was hiding in a box in the attic. The family later appeared on CNN and 6-year-old Falcon blurted out “we did this for a show.” Unfortunately for CNN, Wolf Blitzer was conducting the interview and he was too stupid to realize what young Falcon had just said.
Sheriff’s deputies and detectives were seen entering the Heene home early this morning to conduct a search of the home. Undoubtedly they found lots and lots of evidence that can be used against Heene. This guy appears to be too stupid to have gotten rid of anything that would point to his guilt.
The commerical CNN refused to show
Americans United for Change, a non-partisan group dedicated to various progressive issues, tried to book time on CNN for an ad critical of the health care industry, mainly Ed Hanway, CEO of the insurance company Cigna. CNN refused to run the ad. The reason? Not because the ad isn’t factually accurate, but because it “unnecessarily singles out an individual company and person”.
I guess it depends what CNN’s definition of “unnecessarily” is.
I’ve often wondered just how the mainstream news media was going to react when the pressure for health care reform intensified. They make a lot of money running commercials for big pharma. Watch the evening news on any of the three major networks and a majority of the commercials are for prescription drugs that we are all supposed to run out to our doctors for.
At least those of us with halfway decent health insurance.
If Chastity Bono is now a man, is (s)he still gay?
Chastity Bono, daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono and gay-rights activist has released a statement announcing that she is now a man. From CCN:
Chastity Bono, gay-rights activist and child of performer Cher and the late entertainer and politician Sonny Bono, is in the early stages of transitioning from a female to a male and will be known as Chaz, his spokesman said Thursday.
“Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity,” Howard Bragman said in a written statement.
“He is proud of his decision and grateful for the support and respect that has already been shown by his loved ones. It is Chaz’s hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his ‘coming out’ did nearly 20 years ago.”
So does this mean that Chaz is no longer gay? If he is a man who is attracted sexually to women, I don’t understand exactly how he can still be a gay-rights activist. Then again, I’m as straight as the day is long and I fully believe gay people should have all the same rights and privileges has heterosexual people.
I’ll be honest and admit I don’t understand the transgendered. I don’t understand how someone can be born a man and feel that they are really a woman. Or vise verse as in Chaz Bono’s case. Then again, I don’t understand the physics involved with a Black Hole or how people can enjoy the music of Jimmy Buffet.
Just because I don’t understand it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Donald Trump: ‘McCain will force OPEC to lower oil prices’
I was listening to CNN this morning and Donald Trump was on the phone saying that he supports John McCain for President. Not that I’m surprised. I’m sure that most mega-millionaires are supporting John McCain for President. After all, he wants to lower their taxes while Barack Obama wants to raise their taxes.
It turns out that not the reason The Donald is supporting McCain. Supposedly, it’s because he thinks McCain will go to OPEC and “make” them lower oil prices. He then offered up an analogy. He said that if he and somebody else owned similar stores and they got together and decided collectively how much to charge for certain items, they would end up in jail. The problem with that logic is that OPEC does not set the price of oil. They collectively decide how much oil they will produce.
Why doesn’t Donald Trump know this?
OPEC doesn’t set the price for oil. The world oil market does that. That’s one of the reasons allowing oil companies to drill off-shore wont effect the price of oil. OPEC would almost certainly decrease their oil production to match any increase in oil production here in the United States. The amount of available oil on the world market would remain the same. The oil companies would certainly make even more money then they make now, but the price we as consumers pay wont change.
CNN’s Glen Beck thinks Grand Theft Auto IV is for children
What a wingnut. I’ll admit that the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise isn’t for me, but even I know it’s not intended for children. How do I know this?
Because I can read.
The game is for adults. It states so right on the game. It is labeled with the ESRB rating of MATURE. What does that mean? From the ESRB website:
Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.
The game is clearly not intended for kids. Why is Glen Beck saying that it is?
Not only does Beck rant against Grand Theft Auto IV, he delves into the topic of military history, focusing on how soldiers have been trained to fire their weapons over the years. He claims that during World War One, American solders couldn’t shoot the enemy because they weren’t killers. Killing another human being was not a natural act. They had to be trained to kill other human beings.
If Glen Beck actually believes that, I’ve got a couple local Civil War battlefields, Antietam and Gettysburg, that I’d like to show him.
Video games aren’t just for kids. Like any form of entertainment, some video games are intended for children. Grand Theft Auto IV is not one of those.
CNN’s Jim Acosta calls that a heckler?
Episcopal High School in northern Virgina held a mandatory political rally so presidential hopeful John McCain could be seen interacting with young people. Normally when he speaks to kids, it’s to tell them to get off his lawn.
During the ‘Question and Answer’ session, 16-year-old student Katelyn Halldorson asked a question. For this she is labeled by CNN’s Jim Acosta as a “heckler”.
CNN’s Jim Acosta is a raging douche. Instead of calling Katelyn Halldorson names, he ought to take notes. She clearly knows more about doing his job then he does.
Media Matters has a lot more about this “incident”.
Alan Greenspan’s neocon wife is smoking crack again
That’s the only way to explain what neo-con Andrea Mitchell is now saying about her neocon buddy Scooter Libby. That she is smoking crack and lots of it. She actually said on Chris Matthews’ Hardball that Libby should be pardoned by the President and that polls show a majority of Americans agree:
They’re going to try to really tamp this down and appeal to the polling which indicates that most people think, in fact, that he should be pardoned. Scooter Libby should be pardoned.
Like Bush has ever worried what most people think. Look Andrea, I’m going to now tell you something that Chris Matthews or Tim Russert will never say to your heavily worked on face.
Please put that glass pipe down.
CNN conducted a poll that showed nearly 70% of the American people are against the President pardoning Libby. Just what poll were you referring too? Your plastic surgeon asking you and your husband what you two think doesn’t count.
Bush is thinking of sending more troops to Iraq and Suzanne Somers’ mansion burned down
I was watching CNN this morning when I learned that there is yet again another fire raging forth in Malibu. So far, four mansions have been destroyed, including the home of Suzanne Somers.
Because of the Santa Ana winds and the geographical location of the hills surrounding Malibu, mansions along the beach in Malibu are constantly burning down. It’s not the first time a celebrity’s home was destroyed in Malibu and it wont be the last. I think it’s dumb to build a mansion someplace where so many of them have burned to the ground, but what do I know? It’s not like I was smart enough to invent the Thighmaster.
Watching CNN switch gears to the topic of sending more troops to Iraq made me realize that there is a parallel between the two stories. What does Bush sending more troops to Iraq have to do with Suzanne Somers and her home burning down?
Sending more troops to Iraq at this point would be like Suzanne Somers going out tomorrow and buying fire insurance .
For both, it’s too late. The time to send more troops to Iraq would have been at the time of the invasion. Before anarchy and chaos and upheaval were allowed to take root in Iraq. Before the looting and before the sectarian violence.
Now it’s simply too late.
If Suzanne Somers were ever going to buy fire insurance for her Malibu mansion, the time would have been before the fire destroyed her home. For her to now say that she is thinking of buying fire insurance would be ridiculous.
For George Bush to say now he is thinking of sending more troops to Iraq is equally ridiculous. Now it’s simply too late.
CNN insinuates that Senator Barack Obama is a terrorist
This is real classy on the part of CNN. I wonder how many times before the 2008 Presidential elections they and the rest of the mainstream corporate media will make gaffs like this. My guess is take the amount of times they played the Howard Dean yell in Iowa and multiply that by 100.
Barack Obama scares the mainstream corporate media. The enthusiasm, charisma, and excitement this man naturally generates is remarkable. People naturally gravitate towards him. In other words, he is the complete opposite of the mainstream corporate media’s favorite for the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
I wonder how long it will be until the mainstream corporate media starts referring to Sen. Barack Obama using his middle name.
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