The DaleyGator

Hmmm, he says she can win the general election, excet of course, for the Media!

Hot Air poses a great question imagine if the media reacted to Obama’s frequent gaffes as they did to Dan Quayle’s “potatoegate”?

The video is at Hot Air go watch it and try not to slap your computer monitor. Olbermann is a delusional fool, and this video shows him trying desperately to escape his own moronic words. Perhaps Olbmermann MIGHT consider that everyone thought he was slurring the troops because, A. HE WAS! and B. Because people like him have done it over and again.

Olby finally loses his mind

The major point they are trying to make, and it is an asinine one, is that since McCain never actually saw ground combat in Vietnam, he does not grasp why we need to leave Iraq ASAP!

In these skirmishes, McCain is the outlier. Among his fellow combat veterans in the Senate, past and present, he is the only one who has continued to champion the war in Iraq; by contrast, Kerry, Webb and Hagel have emerged in the years since the invasion as unsparing critics of American involvement there. (In a new book, Hagel, who voiced deep concerns about Iraq even as he voted for the war resolution in 2002, predicts that the war will turn out to be “the most dangerous and costly foreign-policy debacle in our nation’s history.”) This divide among old allies may be the inevitable result of a protracted war that has cleaved plenty of American households and friendships. But it may also be that the war is revealing underlying fractures among the Senate’s Vietnam coalition.There is a feeling among some of McCain’s fellow veterans that his break with them on Iraq can be traced, at least partly, to his markedly different experience in Vietnam. McCain’s comrades in the Senate will not talk about this publicly. They are wary of seeming to denigrate McCain’s service, marked by his legendary endurance in a Hanoi prison camp, when in fact they remain, to this day, in awe of it. And yet in private discussions with friends and colleagues, some of them have pointed out that McCain, who was shot down and captured in 1967, spent the worst and most costly years of the war sealed away, both from the rice paddies of Indochina and from the outside world. During those years, McCain did not share the disillusioning and morally jarring experiences of soldiers like Kerry, Webb and Hagel, who found themselves unable to recognize their enemy in the confusion of the jungle; he never underwent the conversion that caused Kerry, for one, to toss away some of his war decorations during a protest at the Capitol. Whatever anger McCain felt remained focused on his captors, not on his own superiors back in Washington. Despicable! The media and Democrats  are absolutely obssessed with resurrecting Vietnam.

Man, they just canot stand good news can they? Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has the details

Capitulationmania!

 Followers of rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces to enter all of Baghdad’s Sadr City and to arrest anyone found with heavy weapons in a surprising capitulation that seemed likely to be hailed as a major victory for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.In return, Sadr’s Mahdi Army supporters won the Iraqi government’s agreement not to arrest Mahdi Army members without warrants, unless they were in possession of “medium and heavy weaponry.”

Penguins in a video about global warming? Fine, but this a story about climate change damaging the NORTH Pole. Penguins only live at the SOUTH Pole. Of course, to be fair, maybe MSNBC wants not bring up the South Pole, where ice is expanding.

Smackdown for Howlin’ Howie

Good grief! Note how this talking mushroom declares that “our viewers want to move on” Like he knows anything. Anyway watch the video and ponder this question. Will CNN become the MNN? The Messiah News Network

Oh good grief! Here comes the media, riding to Obama’s rescue

Wright’s rise to national prominence is not his work alone; he’s received plenty of help along the way.

Obama’s opponents in the media have done their best to make Jeremiah Wright a household name. And before this contest is over, Wright is going to be Willie Hortonized — that is, converted into an ever-present threat to white America.

By October, if Hillary Clinton’s Democratic rival is still in the race, look for a campaign ad with a menacing mug shot of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright holding a bomb and standing next to a smiling Barack Obama.

The buzz word? Context my fiends, context.

This is truly sickening two CNN airheads swooning over this racist. Making excuses for him, good grief! Of course when the media saves a place at the table for Rev. Al “Pimp My Hair” Sharpton, and Je$$e Jack$on is anyone surprised they look away from the truth about Wright?

Of course Martin a CNN contributor, as a history of spinning Wright’s hate speech

As to the caims of taking the Wright 9-11 sermon “out of context”? Please help yourself read the whole thing!

After you digest the Wright speech, and the CNN spin check out Protein Wisdom and Hot Air for more.

Only four days after the story broke

The top White House terrorism expert thinks some gains are being made in the worldwide public relations battle against al-Qaeda, as the administration and its overseas allies press efforts to show that Osama bin Laden’s network is killing Muslim civilians rather than defending its interests.“More and more Muslim and Arab populations — [including] clerics and scholars — are questioning the value of al-Qaeda’s program,” Juan Carlos Zarate, deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism, said Wednesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Michelle Malkin has the video on her site. I, like Michelle am befuddled by McCain on this issue. He demanded the North Carolina GOP pull its ad on the issue, yet now he says it will be an issue after Obama says he thinks it is a legitimate issue?

This boils down to political strategy folks. McCain is trying to avoid being accused of the “R” word. So he is gambling that if Obama says Rev. Wright is an issue, then McCain will be allowed to bring it up without the accusations of racism from the media and Democrats.

Of course, the media and Democrats will still bring it up no matter what Obama or McCain say about it.

All the news that is fit to get scooped on! Hats off to Hot Air!

A week ago, I noted that the Sunnis that had left Nouri al-Maliki’s government last year in a huff had decided to return. A week later, the New York Times has reported on it, making it true. The Tawafiq has recognized the efforts of Baghdad to release low-level detainees and disarm the Shi’ite militias, two of their major complaints, although the Times just can’t seem to get over the Basra-defeat meme that has been so obviously disproven

Think the LA Times Slimes is trying to paint McCain as either a man stealing money and avoiding his fair taxation and as an old, infirmed man incapable of carrying out his duties if elected?

Yes, that is pretty much what I got from reading this hit piece too. Sons of Bitches!

Sen. John McCain has long said he is in robust health and is strong enough to hike the Grand Canyon, but he also is receiving what his staff Monday termed a “disability pension” from the Navy.
When McCain released his tax return for 2007 on Friday, he separately disclosed that he received a pension of $58,358 that was not listed as income on his return.
On Monday, McCain’s staff identified the retirement benefit as a “disability pension” and said that McCain “was retired as disabled because of his limited body movements due to injuries as a POW.”
McCain campaign strategist Mark Salter said Monday night that McCain was technically disabled. “Tortured for his country — that is how he acquired his disability,” Salter said.Certain types of military and veterans pensions are either partially or completely tax-exempt, depending on the seriousness of the disability. In McCain’s case, the exemption is 100%.If McCain had to pay taxes on the full amount of the pension, it would have increased his tax bill by about $18,000 based on the percentage of his income he paid to the federal government.

The fact that he is legally designated with a disability pension may raise further questions.
“It is a legitimate question to ask about the commander in chief: Is he fit to serve,” said Robert Schriebman, a senior Pentagon tax advisor and tax attorney who recently retired as a judge advocate for a unit of the California National Guard.
If McCain can hike across the Grand Canyon, then why should he be getting disability payments from the government that are tax-exempt, Schriebman asked.

You stay classless LA Times!

TEST TUBE MEAT???? Say it ain’t so!

The organization said it would announce plans on Monday for a $1 million prize to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.”The idea of getting the next Chicken McNugget out of a test tube is not new. For several years, scientists have worked to develop technologies to grow tissue cultures that could be consumed like meat without the expense of land or feed and the disease potential of real meat. An international symposium on the topic was held this month in Norway. The tissue, once grown, could be shaped and given texture with the kinds of additives and structural agents that are now used to give products like soy burgers a more meaty texture.

Yes, we all have tempers! If you find a person without a temper, then they are dead! Of all the lame, idiotic, inane, and childish angles to push, the media has found the bottom of the pot, AGAIN!

John McCain cupped a fist and began pumping it, up and down, along the side of his body. It was a gesture familiar to a participant in the closed-door meeting of the Senate committee who hoped that it merely signaled, as it sometimes had in the past, McCain’s mounting frustration with one of his colleagues. But when McCain leaned toward Charles E. Grassley and slowly said, “My friend . . .” it seemed clear that ugliness was looming: While the plural “my friends” was usually a warm salutation from McCain, “my friend” was often a prelude to his most caustic attacks. Grassley, an Iowa Republican with a reputation as an unwavering legislator, calmly held his ground. McCain became angrier, his fist pumping even faster.

WAY TO GO JIMMY! Freaking idiot!

Well, no, REALLY?

Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned.

A former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the meetings described them Thursday to the AP to confirm details first reported by ABC News on Wednesday. The intelligence official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the issue.

Between 2002 and 2003, the Justice Department issued several memos from its Office of Legal Counsel that justified using the interrogation tactics, including ones that critics call torture.

“If you looked at the timing of the meetings and the memos you’d see a correlation,” the former intelligence official said. Those who attended the dozens of meetings agreed that “there’d need to be a legal opinion on the legality of these tactics” before using them on al-Qaida detainees, the former official said.

The meetings were held in the White House Situation Room in the years immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks. Attending the sessions were Cheney, then-Bush aides Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Wow! The AP likely will soon confirm that the sky is blue, temperatures drop in Winter, and they might even break the story of where babies come from?

GOOD GRIEF! Do these people actually even believe their own BS? Of course not! Their intent is to A) smear anyone who dares to disagree with their Leftist ideology, and B) in the case of the race baiter Olbermann is interviewing, to embitter Blacks and make sure racism is seen as alive so they can get DONATIONS! I guess it beats making an honest living.

I wonder if Mr. Sensitivity recalls THIS?

As if  anyone paying attention needs to be told the obvious

Ever since John McCain said at a town hall meeting in January that he could see U.S. troops staying in Iraq for a hundred years, the Democrats have been trying to use the quote to paint the Arizona senator as a dangerous warmonger. And lately, Barack Obama in particular has stepped up his attacks on McCain’s “100 years” notion.

But in doing so, Obama is seriously misleading voters—if not outright lying to them—about exactly what McCain said. And some in the press are failing to call him on it.

Here’s McCain’s full quote, in context, from back in January:

Questioner: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for fifty years…McCain: Maybe a hundred. Make it one hundred. We’ve been in South Korea, we’ve been in Japan for sixty years. We’ve been in South Korea for fifty years or so. That’d be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. Then it’s fine with me. I would hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.

It’s clear from this that McCain isn’t saying he’d support continuing the war for one hundred years, only that it might be necessary to keep troops there that long. That’s a very different thing. As he says, we’ve had troops in South Korea for over fifty years, but few people think that means we’re still fighting the Korean War.

Nevertheless, back in February, Obama said: “We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another hundred years.”

The mainstream medis is not telling voters this of course, they have to back their Messiah you know.

Of course, if Americans paid attention they would know Obama is playing with the truth here, but, then again if they were paying attention, Obama would have been out of the race long ago.

Update! Washington Compost gets it!

Perhaps the media’s dire predictions of the Iraqi collapse are too much too soon?

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered Sunday to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government halts raids against his followers and releases prisoners held without charge.

The offer was contained in a nine-point statement issued by his headquarters in Najaf.

An Iraqi government spokesman welcomed al-Sadr’s order, saying it was “positive and responsive.”

Here is what al-Sadr said

“Because of the religious responsibility, and to stop Iraqi blood being shed, and to maintain the unity of Iraq and to put an end to this sedition that the occupiers and their followers want to spread among the Iraqi people, we call for an end to armed appearances in Basra and all other provinces,” al-Sadr’s statement said.

“Anyone carrying a weapon and targeting government institutions will not be one of us,” the statement said.

Now, compare this news to what CNN was reporting Friday. Or the NY Slimes this morning.

The media just could not wait to report doom could they?

H/T Hot Air

A news flash for Abrams here. Americans can vote for anyone, and for any reason they want. It is THEIR vote.

Abrams acts like a child throwing a tantrum in this video. Is he naive enough to think this is the first time voters of a party have done this? Or is he just angry that Republicans are doing it?

H/T Perfunction, Hot Air

A closing question why didn’t Abrams pitch a fit over this?

SHEESH! 

In the pre-Internet world of TV and newspapers, public comment wasn’t a problem. Broadcast news didn’t have any — aside from the weekly guest spot, usually some hapless civic association president reading from a prompter and staring terrified into the camera. Papers had their letters pages, but allowed only enough space for a few dozen a week, and they were generally written with care and were easy to prune for taste and diction.

Things were nicely under control.

Spoken like a true free-speech-loving-Liberal! The first step towards censoring objectionable Conservative speech!