Obama and C-SPAN on Drudge

That’s right he said 8x he wanted the health care debate to be on C-Span for everyone to see. And what are they doing? They are doing the exact opposite. Not only that Nancy Pelosi acted suprised about it.  Check her reaction out here.

A reporter reminded the San Francisco Democrat that in 2008, then-candidate Obama opined that all such negotiations be open to C-SPAN cameras.

There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail,” quipped Pelosi, who has no intention of making the deliberations public.

Sad.  That she thinks we’re all that stupid.

Why would you put an ornament on the White House Christmas Holiday (forgot we have to be politically correct too..)Tree that featured the communist leader Mao Zedung and a drag queen?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/23/white-house-christmas-decor-featuring-mao-zedong-comes/

I’m disgusted.

That’s right President Obama has the lowest number EVER of Cabinet Appointments that have actually worked an honest to God job.

There is so much news out there that I’d like to bring to your attention today.

1. Obama goes on with his indecision on the war to do nothing and hope it goes away. By telling commanders that none of the options presented to him work.

2. Lou Dobbs (one of the few independent and non-liberal voices at CNN) is leaving CNN to pursue other options.

3. Remember when they said they were not going to raise taxes on middle class? Yeah scratch that, they were only kidding.

4. Jobless claims lower than expected.  That’s the best spin they can do that Americans are still loosing jobs and unemployment is still growing even during the Christmas hiring season.

5. “Saved” 650,000 jobs.  647,500 jobs. Sprint to can 2500 employees because of low subscriber rates.  Here’s a nifty idea – don’t be asshats to your customers.  You could also see about allowing jail broken iphones on your systems (but that might take a technology shift).  But people with AT&T are jumping at the chance to leave the expensive contracts.

6. In happier, trying to get you to spend money news – Target is announcing an insane black friday sale with 32″ HDTV for 246 bucks and $3 toasters. Really it’s just a toaster that you can burn your dollars for heat since the government is printing them enough to be kindle for fire.

7. And talking about currency.  Apparently the world is running out of gold.  Expect the price of gold to continue to climb.

8. “Saved” 647,500 jobs.  647,420 jobs. Al Gore’s Current Media company is cutting 80 jobs. See even global warming couldn’t save ole’ Al.

9. Atlas Shrugged to come to the big screen? Who is John Galt? But seriously Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are the ones behind the picture? Wow.

10. And lastly Obama hates the jews.  Ok maybe not, but he’s standing more with anti-Israel than he is pro-Israel when it comes to the west-bank settlements.

Wow, this is what he really thinks about people who are anything by anti-government.  Tea-Party people stand for a return to our core values and beliefs of this country – back to the basic principles of the Constitution. From the New York Times.

Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens’s election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”

Name calling and trying to discredit your opposition.  He is doing the old game of ‘if you can’t win the argument change the subject and discredit the person.’ The real question is when is President Obama going to have honest talk – when is he going to keep to his promises that he made during the campaign about having a bill available for the people to read prior to it being voted on?  When is he going to answer the questions posed to him?

The Weekend Week’s End Wrap Up for October 18-24 is brought to you by completely true, nice and accurate reporting of actual events.

Sunday: A young boy took flight in his family’s experimental balloon. It was experimental in that it looked sort of like Jiffy Pop except it could fly and also may have been used to inspect tornadoes eventually because that is the kind of thing the Henne’s do for family time. The whole bit about flying popcorn, though, was the real reason the 6-year-old, 48lbs. Colorado boy hid inside of a basket attached to a 20ft mylar balloon. If the Henne family already looked familiar before they went on TV to report that their boy was making a major Wizard of Oz escape, it is because they have appeared twice already on the ever popular ABC docudrama “Wife Swap.” Falcon “Yes, his name is Falcon,” Henne was found in his attic, which is not, in fact, suspended from a Mylar balloon.

Monday: From Reuters and Fox News: “ Scientists claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world. In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan claim nature is trying to prevent the LHC from finding the elusive Higgs boson. Called the “God particle,” the theoretical boson could explain the origins of mass in the universe — if physicists can find the darn thing. The scientists say their math proves nature will “ripple backward through time” to stop the LHC before it can create the God particle, like a time traveller who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. “One could even almost say that we have a model for God,” Dr Nielsen says in an unpublished essay. “He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.” “While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus,” Dannis Overbye wrote in the New York Times. “In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus.” “It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr Nielsen told the New York Times. “

Tuesday: From the Associated Press, “MEXICO CITY – Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly ‘running out’ on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan elder insists. ‘I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.’ “ Clearly, this is meant to distract us Westerners from the real Mayan communications with Atlanteans and Martians in their plan to turn Jupiter into a new Sun and to move to Europa and Io, to save themselves from the asteroid impact, solar flares, magnetic pole shifts, super volcanoes, and John Cusack movies coming to destroy the world in the next three years.

Wednesday: As we all know from the Twitter Trending Topics side bar, Kanye West (RIP) died in a tragic death when his platinum diamond-studded Escalade careened off the side of the road into a cornfield because he and his driver were both stricken with simultaneous heart attacks. Desperate to exit the vehicle in the hopes that a news camera might be waiting outside to capture his final, remarkable and world-changing words, Mr. West lashed so violently that he caused the entire truck to flip on to its side and burst in to flames. Witnesses claimed to see the image of Kanye West as an angel, a la his mural featured on MTV Cribs, in the rising smoke.

Thursday: I don’t know if I read this article correctly, but it appears that a University of Yorkshire study found that copper and/or magnetic bracelets are totally useful in giving the wearer a general feeling of lightness. Or it cured arthritis, but only in wrists and probably not really in knees, though a lot of people wearing the bracelets said their knees felt better because they KNEW the bracelets made theirs knees feel better. No one in the study felt strongly enough about the bracelets to discontinue their arthritis medication, but they said they took the pills mostly for the placebo effect.

Friday: Mole day! Which, according to both Wikipedia and my 10^th grade chemistry teacher, is “an unofficial holiday celebrated among chemists in North America on October 23, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM[1], making the date 6:02 10/23 in the American style of writing dates. The time and date are derived from the Avogadro constant, which is approximately 6.02×1023, defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a mole, one of the seven base SI units.” Which is pretty cool and also the most useful information in this wrap up.

Saturday: Obama does not want to shut down Fox news. He does, however, want to shut down our comment war regarding his wanting to shut down Fox news because WetWired.org is currently getting more attention than the actual Fox news website, which really cuts down on the attention being given to his fake media war to distract everyone from the fact that he is a Reptoid. He told me so in his weekly email he sends me to keep me up to date on the AGENDA and also how the last Dan Brown novel ended.

That’s right.  Because they don’t like what’s being said on Fox News.

“What I think is fair to say about Fox — and certainly it’s the way we view it — is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party,” said Anita Dunn, White House communications director, on CNN. “They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.”

The problem of course is that the White House fails to see the difference between the news stories throughout the day and the Opinion stories of people like Glenn Beck, O’Reily, Hannity.  These are commentators, they are not news people – they are paid for their opinions.

In recent weeks, the White House has begun using its government blog to directly attack what it called “Fox lies.” David Gergen, who has worked for President Bill Clinton and three Republican presidents, questioned the propriety of the White House declaring war on a news organization.

I like to draw the correlation between the White House (Obama) and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela (who I might add had a great time with Obama at the Americas summit.).

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez threatened to close down an opposition-sided news network, saying the defiant Globovision channel’s days on the airwaves will be numbered if its directors don’t stand down.

Chavez on Thursday urged executives at Globovision “to reflect” upon the TV channel’s tough anti-government stance — or else the station “won’t be on the airwaves much longer.”

Wow, so a TV station that reports the news whom the President says is “anti-government” he’s trying to silence.  Obama of course hasn’t personally said anything like this.  Yet… but really his people have.  Seriously what type of person did we elect to office?

Updated Monday 10-19-09:

Over the weekend Obama’s staff continued attacks against Fox news:

The White House is calling on other news organizations to isolate and alienate Fox News as it sends out top advisers to rail against the cable channel as a Republican Party mouthpiece.

But several top White House officials have taken aim at Fox News since communications director Anita Dunn branded Fox “opinion journalism masquerading as news” in an interview last Sunday.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN on Sunday that President Obama does not want “the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox.”

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is “not a news organization.”

“Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way,” Axelrod counseled ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “We’re not going to treat them that way.”

Asked Monday about another Axelrod claim that Fox News is just trying to make money, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that while all media companies fall under that description, “I would say sometimes programming can be tilted toward accentuating those profits.”

A couple things to note.  One – The ratings and polls speak for themselves  Fox is the most balanced news organization out there.  Two – Fox News beats all other organizations in the ratings day in and day out. Three – since when did making money not be a common factor on ALL news organizations? And when did making money become a bad thing?

Update: 10-22-09:

From politico.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs singled out specific shows on the Fox News network for criticism …

… Tuesday morning, continuing a public feud between the White House and the cable network that gained new momentum over the weekend.

Meeting with reporters in his office for an off-camera question-and-answer session, Gibbs parried questions about the White House’s harsh criticism of the cable news network, leveled on several Sunday shows by officials including White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser David Axelrod.

Asked if it was fair for the White House to label Fox an illegitimate news organization, Gibbs replied: “We render opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness of their coverage.”

When a reporter pressed further, asking Gibbs to explain more specifically how Fox differed from ABC, MSNBC or Univision, the president’s spokesman pointed to two shows in particular as sources of concern.

“You and I should watch sometime around 9 tonight or 5 this afternoon,” Gibbs said, alluding to the 5 p.m. show hosted by Glenn Beck and the 9 p.m. program anchored by Sean Hannity.

Right, so at the times that political commentators are on TV.  They are not news reporters they are commentors on the TV at that time.

Related:
Isolation over engagement (Michelle Malkin)
Who is behind Obama’s War on Fox News
Obama controls Television Set
Anita Dunn talks about her love of Chairman Mao
Article on Dunn
Fair and Balanced on Wetwired?
Obama calls Tea Party People Tea-Bag Anti-Government

(Ann Coulter is the queen bee. Thanks for the link love!)

(Okay, I admit I really, REALLY wanted to type that title.)

The President of the United States has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

I’m not even going to pontificate on this one- it’s wide open to y’all for comments, etc.

Out.

During the campaign, Candidate Barack Obama proposed protections for Net Neutrality. The idea is simple- Telecom companies should not discriminate on data passing through its systems based on the type of data or program processing the data. It’s an idea that has been fought by the big telecoms, much to the chagrin of free speech and internet advocates.

Well, it turns out he wasn’t kidding.

This is something I take seriously. Health Care is a major debate, and deservedly so. However, of great importance as well is the idea that the consumer should be protected from agendas that aren’t necessarily in the public’s best interests. Telecom companies often push against Net Neutrality because of the potential strain on their communications backbones, but more importantly by discriminating against some of these programs they cannot equally promote their own offerings.

Now, I’m not against making a buck. My history on this site is one of pro-capitalism. However, I am also a believer in free speech and consumers’ rights.

Net Neutrality is simple to me- as long as what I’m downloading isn’t illegal (ie. child pron, etc. ) I don’t think the ISP I use should have any say whatsoever in what programs I use or what I download. I’m paying for the service, and I expect to receive that service.

If the Obama Administration comes through with this, then he’s got a pass in my mind- not on everything, but on some things. I still have major issues on several of his proposals, but this is one I wholeheartedly get behind.

Out.

First lets discuss several things.

1. I agree its not proper decorum to yell out “you lie” to the president during an address.

2. This is not the first time this has happened.  The democrats have had similar outbursts and “booos” when Bush addressed them.

3.  Obama stated that we’re not giving illegals health care but was Joe right when he said that Obama was lying?  Check out section 246 addresses ‘Affordability Credits’.

Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.

But this allows for “don’t ask, don’t tell” type of medicine as there are contradictory bills that say hospitals are supposed to offer care regardless.

That’s right, they have released the dispatchers tape as well as the 911 tape in which the woman states she is unaware of what race they could be and even states that they might live there but they forced the door open.

More information here.

Looking to “move forward” from the controversial arrest of a black Harvard professor, Cambridge city officials announced Monday that they would release the tapes of the 911 call and radio dispatches affiliated with the incident.

The city that become ground zero for a national debate about race and law enforcement following the arrest will also form a committee to examine “lessons” from the incident, Cambridge City Manager Robert Healy announced at a news conference.

“I am committed to making sure that our city is not defined by that day,” he said. “Today is the day to move forward. … The city has taken significant steps toward that end.”

After the news conference, city officials distributed copies of the tapes to members of the media.

Right. Let’s move past this?  First lets have Gates and Obama appologise to the Police officer, the Cambridge Police Department, all police forces in the country, and the US people for making a big deal out of this when it is not.

This is great, Peter Schiff talking about how the Chinese are lending us money that they know we can’t pay back.

Today ABC is getting exclusive time to interview him at the White House, including a 2 hour staged town hall style meeting where people are, if they see fit, able to ask the tough dissenting questions about our healthcare.  I wonder if someone will ask that question about why our President has stated it would be 1 trillion dollars to fund it but the Congressional Budget Office is showing it’s more like 2 trillion.

Is it just me or does anyone else feel a bit strange with the fact that we don’t have any other media outlets, especially ones that don’t faun all over our President?  I knew the propoganda machine was good but wow, this is a whole new ballpark.

This morning Diane Sawyer got an exculsive interview with the President.

DIANE SAWYER: Do you still expect to get health care by the end of the year?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yes.

SAWYER: Absolutely?

OBAMA: Absolutely.

SAWYER: If you don’t, is it over for four years?

OBAMA: We’re going get it done. So, I won’t engage in hypotheticals in which we don’t. And the reason its going get done is because the American People understand it has to get done…..

Wow, really is that the toughest questions you got for him? Seriously? What happened to real journalism?  Then there is this gem in her questions:

SAWYER: Ninety-five percent– you said today. See, I’m shameless on asking the human interest questions. But–

OBAMA: Yeah, I– well, I– this is– a favorite for every reporter. So, the– you know, I– I’ve answered it as often as I can. I’m sure I will continue to answer it.

SAWYER: But is there a time of day that’s the hardest?

OBAMA: Diane–

SAWYER: Most people find–

OBAMA: –you know, I think– I’ve answered that one.

SAWYER: I think people wonder– at the end of the day, should we all be assuming personal responsibility in a different way. And should there, in fact, be some cost to all of us if we don’t take care of ourselves. Or this new, “We’re all in this together.” We’re–

OBAMA: I think everybody does have responsibilities. And– I think that you’re seeing most employers– who provide health insurance starting to think about how can they ramp up wellness– programs for their employees. One of the things that Michelle and I working diligently on is how can we– engage– kids to start– healthy habits. And– you know, and– I think everybody understands that– perfection is not the goal. But moving in the right direction is.

SAWYER: Thank you so much.

Yes.. thanks for that.. really.

The Week End Week’s End Wrap Up for April 26 thru May 2 is brought to you by Wednesday. How and why is it Wednesday? Where did my weekend go?

Sunday: Barbie is back like Rihanna. She left Ken for Blaine on Valentine’s Day three years ago, and now, to officially commemorate her midlife crisis (she’s 50, by the way) the new Totally Stylin’ Barbie comes with a sheet of glittery tattoo stickers. They’re pretty harmless, butterflies and rainbows and whatnot, but parents are up in arms about what this might teach their children. Namely, that their 50 year old mother probably has a tattoo of a butterfly.

Monday: Brangelina’s former bodyguard Mickey Brett is about to release a ghost written tell-all about his A-list ex-employers. All of Hollywood is in a panic, claiming that, “if this kind of thing can happen with Brad and Angie, it can happen to anyone.” Yes it can, and it’s usually called Chelsea Lately.

Tuesday: Dinosaurs were apparently so bad-ass that they actually survived the legendary catastrophic asteroid impact in New Mexico for about half a million more years. I mean, in the end they still all starved to death and our rat-like ancestors took the fuck over, but still. Bad-ass.

Wednesday: Men caused this: “The disputed election between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and challenger Prime Minister Raila Odinga led to violence that killed more than 1,000 people and left more than 600,000 homeless.” So women did this: “Thousands of Kenyan women vowed Wednesday to begin a weeklong sex strike to protest their country’s bickering leadership, which they say threatens to revive the bloody chaos that convulsed the African country.” It worked 2420 years ago, it might just work now. Aristophanes would be proud.

Thursday: “With growing concern over the H1N1 influenza A virus, or swine flu, the Egyptian government on Thursday ordered the slaughter of all of the nation’s pigs. No cases of the virus have been confirmed in Egypt. And for the Coptic Christian families who make up the majority of Egypt’s pig farmers, the slaughter threatens their livelihood.”

Friday: Heavy rains in the red-soiled area of Lake Victoria caused reddened water to wash downstream into Cairo, staining much of the upper Nile Delta the color of blood. The turbulent waters disturbed a toxic algal bloom, which poisoned much of the fish native to the river. Agitated by the conditions, frogs of the area took to the land, allowing mosquito and biting fly larvae in the water to hatch, causing clouds of the insects to swarm the people and livestock. Many of the mosquitoes carried the filariasis virus, causing inflamed boils. The bizarre storm over Lake Victoria headed south, blocking out the sun for most of the day and producing golf ball sized hail. With the upcoming harvest likely to coincide with the locust migration, many fear the lack of grains, and now consumable livestock, will cause many children to starve to death.

Saturday: First, Fire Side Chats over YouTube, and now the White House is on Twitter and Facebook! It’s mostly updates on the economy and swine flu, but still, how very web 2.0 of you. Best line, from White House new media director Macon Phillips, ”President Barack Obama has a separate Facebook profile that will continue to be maintained by the Democratic National Committee.” Can we accept his friend request? Yes we can.