Brutally Honest

Tapes the Obama loving media chooses to ignore

Professor Jacobson is chronicling the tales of the tapes:

Obama attended an anti-Israel conference with Rashid Khalidi.  The L.A. Times will not release the video.

Obama was caught on an open mic calling federal employees ”slugs.”  CBS News will not release the tape.

Obama was caught on an open mic promising the Russians to be more flexible if re-elected, and CBS describes the controversy as mere “presidential politics.”

An audio surfaced of Obama talking about how he loooooves redistribution, and Andrea Mitchell will not play it.

Where would this country be, where would this Presidential race be, with an objective media?  They have become nothing more than an extension of the Obama campaign.

But you people with brains already know this.

 

“There are good story lines here”

Story lines about endorsing Obamacare the networks ought to be weaving into their scripts... according to The New York Times:

Realizing that much of the battle will be in the public relations realm, the exchange has poured significant resources into a detailed marketing plan — developed not by state health bureaucrats but by the global marketing powerhouse Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, which has an initial $900,000 contract with the exchange. The Ogilvy plan includes ideas for reaching an uninsured population that speaks dozens of languages and is scattered through 11 media markets: advertising on coffee cup sleeves at community colleges to reach adult students, for example, and at professional soccer matches to reach young Hispanic men.

And Hollywood, an industry whose major players have been supportive of President Obama and his agenda, will be tapped. Plans are being discussed to pitch a reality television show about “the trials and tribulations of families living without medical coverage,” according to the Ogilvy plan. The exchange will also seek to have prime-time television shows, like “Modern Family,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and Univision telenovelas, weave the health care law into their plots.

“I’d like to see 10 of the major TV shows, or telenovelas, have people talking about ‘that health insurance thing,’ ” said Peter V. Lee, the exchange’s executive director. “There are good story lines here.”

Via Tim Graham at Newsbusters who asks the relevant and seemingly obvious question:

So where is their outrage at the idea that federal grants would promote ObamaCare advertising inside network TV entertainment programs?

It's becoming tougher to recognize the America I grew up in.

"I’m just trying to make sure..., no matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question"

That from a journalist, coordinating with other journalists, before yesterday's Mitt Romney press conference.

Of course, I use the word journalist in the traditional sense:

RightScoop has audio, here's the transcription:

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: …pointing out that the Republicans… *unintelligible* …Obama….

CBS REPORTER: That’s the question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: *unintelligible*

CBS REPORTER: Yeah that’s the question. I would just say do you regret your question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Your question? Your statement?

CBS REPORTER: I mean your statement. Not even the tone, because then he can go off on…

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And then if he does, if we can just follow up and say ‘but this morning your answer is continuing to sound…’ – *becomes unintelligble*

CBS REPORTER: You can’t say that..

**Later**

CBS REPORTER: I’m just trying to make sure that we’re just talking about, no matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you stand by your statement or regret your statement?

What media bias?

 

 

Jennifer Granholm - appealing to the Democratic WWF base

This is weird and freaky... but the weirdness and freakiness is trumped by the reaction of the delegates:

Note those holding Ford signs... oblivious apparently that Ford received not a dime from Barack Obama.

Chris Matthews removes all doubt

The man is a caricature, he's a joke, he's one of the biggest journalistic buffoons in the history of journalism.

I think at this point we can all say confidently that no one will ever unseat him.

I honestly don't believe that you can sink any lower than the depths the man has plumbed.

Are you ready to experience the worst of all asshattery?  Experience this:

Meet Charlie Crist, buffoon

The former Florida Governor, former Republican and now former thinking man, Charlie Crist, has endorsed President Obama:

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed President Obama for reelection on Sunday, writing in a Tampa Bay Times op-ed that the president is "the right leader for our state and the nation."

"I applaud and share his vision of a future built by a strong and confident middle class in an economy that gives us the opportunity to reap prosperity through hard work and personal responsibility," Crist writes. "It is a vision of the future proven right by our history."

Crist, a former Republican who served as governor from 2007 to 2011, switched his party affiliation to Independent during a failed U.S. Senate bid. Crist lost the 2010 race to Sen. Marco Rubio.

In Sunday's op-ed, Crist went after his former party, citing Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) "legitimate rape" comments as an example of right-wing extremism.

"As Republicans gather in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney, Americans can expect to hear tales of how President Obama has failed to work with their party or turn the economy around," Crist writes. "But an element of their party has pitched so far to the extreme right on issues important to women, immigrants, seniors and students that they've proven incapable of governing for the people. Look no further than the inclusion of the Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims." 

I think the following best represents the response we should all have to Crist's apparent stupidity.

I can't for the life of me understand anyone endorsing Obama and it's even harder to understand someone once associated with the GOP doing so.  

Crist's affiliation with the Republican Party should forever stand as an embarrassment and an indictment.

"Is this the way the Dems plan on telling the Big Lie in the lead-up to November?"

Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom is ranting about the untruths being told about Paul Ryan by Obama minions:

I was all set to point to the litany of flat-out falsehoods and misinformation DNC Chair Ms Wasserman Schultz and her unfortunate hair dished out to CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, but the truth is, why go further than simply highlighting this? When prompted to respond to what GOP voters supposedly like about VP choice Paul Ryan, Schultz unpacked her adjectives: “Well, what makes severely conservative extreme Republicans delighted makes seniors here in my home state of Florida” blah blah blah &tc.

Got that? Severely conservative extreme Republicans.

Is this the way the Dems plan on telling the Big Lie in the lead-up to November? For reals? Good lord.

If the American electorate buys this attempt to redefine reality — Ryan has worked on bipartisan plans with Dems who are still Dems and not the New Left radical Marxist pod people who’ve taken over the party –well, we were already done as a country, anyway. If they don’t, Obama will lose in a landslide, and his cast of revolting, cynical, “progressive” propagandroids — who have nothing but contempt for both their base and those who would dare oppose them — should not only be relegated to the dustbin of history, but...

He finishes with an R-rated suggestion... finish with him not necessarily to see what he's proposing but to see the video of the Schulz-O'Brien exchange... however, be warned... it's disgustingly filled with unchecked untruths so wait for digestion to set in if you've recently eaten.

60 Minutes edits out Ryan's admission that his mother is "a Medicare senior in Florida"

Hmm... now why would they do that?

BOB SCHIEFFER: You're going to have to see-- you're going to have to do a little selling.

PAUL RYAN:  My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida. Our point is we need to preserve their benefits, because government made promises to them that they've organized their retirements around. In order to make sure we can do that, you must reform it for those of us who are younger. And we think these reforms are good reforms, that have bipartisan origins. They started from the Clinton commission in the late '90s.

That, from the 60 Minutes transcript, didn't get aired.  Didn't fit the meme.

You know the meme right?

Paul Ryan tosses Grandmas from cliffs.

"Was I really as stupid as you 4 years ago?"

A simulated interview between an Obama supporter from 2008 and herself 4 years later.

Pretty funny.  Pretty revealing.  Pretty true.

Via CMR.

There must be some seriously sick people in Roanoke Virginia

Too sick hopefully to actually vote in November:

The pool report on President Obama's trip to Roanoke, Virginia says that more than 20 people fainted during the president's speech this evening.  

"TV viewers may have heard POTUS pointed out a couple of faintings during the rally in downtown Roanoke," writes the pool report. "In fact, fire officials say more than 20 people fell out during the course of the speech. There were waves of exclamation as one person after another swooned."

So given this administration's tendency for lies and manipulative manuevers, you can't help but ask.

Were these people fainting or feinting?

And were they paid to do either?

Crossposted at Wizbang.