Jon Stuart Leibowitz Kisses Hillary’s Ass

Newsbusters: Jon Stewart Compares Hillary, Obama to Ted Williams and DiMaggio

I’m so proud of my Jewish heritage, I try to conceal it!

Jon Stewart to Senator Clinton:

“You have done better than any woman in the history of this country running for the highest office of this land. (Applause.) Barack Obama has done the same for African-Americans. It’s almost whoever wins or loses, it’s almost like in 1941, this is a stupid analogy so bear with me. In 1941 Ted Williams hit .400. Nobody has done that since in baseball but that year he didn’t win the Most Valuable Player because Joe DiMaggio had a 56-game hitting streak. I feel like we as Americans are watching two historical figures battle it out. I don’t know if people will be able to appreciate that because it’s unfortunately one of you guys is going to have to yield to the other.”

You’re right. It was a stupid analogy, Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz.

Do you think Jon Stewart would be so kind and sweet if Hillary or Barack were a Republican?

Liberals had nothing good to say about Clarence Thomas; nothing good to say about Condi Rice; nothing good to say about Michael Steele or Lynn Swann.

Maybe it’s because all 4 of those people are conservative and black?

U.N. Acts on Iran

It’s hard to have much faith in the U.N. to sharpen a pencil, let alone act against a rogue Islamist state. The U.N.’s track record makes the Keystone Cops look brilliant.

NY Times: Security Council Adds Sanctions Against Iran By WARREN HOGE and ELAINE SCIOLINO

The resolution authorizes inspections of cargo to and from Iran that is suspected of carrying prohibited equipment, tightens the monitoring of Iranian financial institutions and extends travel bans and asset freezes against persons and companies involved in the nuclear program.

It adds 13 names to the existing list of 5 individuals and 12 companies subject to travel and asset restrictions. The new names include people with direct responsibility for building fast-spinning centrifuges that enrich uranium ore and a brigadier general engaged in “efforts to get around the sanctions” in the two earlier resolutions.

Obama’s Doubletalk on NAFTA

Telegraph: Barack Obama’s credibility called into question By Alex Spillius and Toby Harnden

Last week in a debate [Obama] said: “We should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage to ensure that we actually get labour and environmental standards that are enforced.”

But yesterday a memorandum written by Joseph DeMora, a Canadian consulate official in Chicago, about a meeting with Austan Goolsbee, Mr Obama’s economic adviser, suggested that he thought otherwise.

The memo said Mr Goolsbee “was frank in saying that the primary campaign has been necessarily domestically focused, particularly in the Midwest, and that much of the rhetoric that may be perceived to be protectionist is more reflective of political manoeuvring than policy”.

Mrs Clinton seized the opportunity to criticise a rival who has run a campaign based heavily on integrity and ending Washington double-speak.

She said that Mr Obama’s campaign gave the Canadians “the old wink-wink”.

“I don’t think [Mr Obama] should tell the people of Ohio one thing and then tell a foreign government something else behind closed doors,” she said.

I Await my Check from the Nigerian Minister of Finance

Omaha World-Herald: Omaha woman didn’t fall for e-mail scheme BY KEVIN COLE

Some Military Service is Better than Others

The selective appreciation that Gloria Steinem gives to those who served in the military.

Gloria Steinem, Then And Now by Ed Driscoll

Here’s Gloria Steinem on presidential candidate and Vietnam War vet Senator John Kerry, from Time Magazine, on March 28, 2004:

As a man who knows what war is like, he has tended to be more restrained in his willingness to wage it.

Here’s Steinem on the candidate in 2008 who is a Vietnam War vet and senator:

Steinem raised McCain’s Vietnam imprisonment as she sought to highlight an alleged gender-based media bias against Clinton.

“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years. [The media would ask], ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’” Steinem said, to laughter from the audience.

McCain was, in fact, a prisoner of war for around five and a half years, during which time he was tortured repeatedly. Referring to his time in captivity, Steinem said with bewilderment, “I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so.”

Steinem’s broader argument was that the media and the political world are too admiring of militarism in all its guises.

“I am so grateful that she [Clinton] hasn’t been trained to kill anybody. And she probably didn’t even play war games as a kid. It’s a great relief from Bush in his jump suit and from Kerry saluting.”

I hesitated to even post anything that comes out of the mouth of Steinem, a has-been from a (thankfully) old era riding on the laurels of her feminazi career, but this case was different. Steinem is less concerned with military service so much as WHO is doing the serving. And even then, her comparison is laughable.

Senator John McCain served “as a fighter pilot in Vietnam where he was shot down during a bombing mission in 1967. McCain landed in a lake with a broken leg and two broken arms, and spent 5 ½ years as a prisoner of war in the ‘Hanoi Hilton.’ Although he underwent severe beatings and torture, McCain refused an offer of early release ahead of soldiers captured earlier.”

Senator John “F” Kerry took his video camera and recorded his time in Vietnam. (You know, for posterity. And to further his political career.) He received Purple Hearts under dubious circumstances for injuries that were not serious. Then he returned home and defamed everyone with whom he served. (1)

An ideologue like Steinem has not become a house hold name by actually thinking about what she says before she says it, but for once it would be nice if those who speak publicly would get their facts straight before running their damn yap.

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(1) STATEMENT OF JOHN KERRY, VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR

Mr. Kerry: I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.

It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit, the emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam, but they did. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do.

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

We call this investigation the “Winter Soldier Investigation.” The term “Winter Soldier” is a play on words of Thomas Paine in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriot and summertime soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough.

You Don’t Say!

Reuters: Despite fences, immigrants still broach U.S. border By Tim Gaynor

News You Can Use

Market Watch: Don’t look to OPEC for relief at the pump

Cooling? Warming? Cooling? Warming?

Business & Media Institute: Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming By R. Warren Anderson

Enviro-euphemism at the New York Times

Newsbusters: NYTimes Term for Eco-Terrorists: ‘Anti-Sprawl Activists’ By Mark Finkelstein

Right. And al Qaeda is composed of “Anti-Western Activists,” illegal aliens are “undocumented workers,” the top abortion provider merely wants to help you “plan” your “parenthood,” and the local drug dealer is just an “unlicensed pharmacist.”

My ass.

God, Orwell was right.

Amy WINEhouse

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