In the mother of all coinkidinks, CNN omitted the “psycho wanted to blow Dubya’s brains out, too” story that the AP stories run with!  As Confederate Yankee notes:

I can only speculate as to why the media would remove the threat against Bush in these accounts. Is it because it is harder to portray Obama as the victim when he isn’t the only one threatened, or just harder to sell the meme that the offender is probably a murderous racist when he threatens a white president as well?

Yeah, it’s a little harder to sell your “lookie, the man who doesn’t look like dollar presidents is a victim of a racist nutjob” schtick when said nutjob also threatens to do what the moonbats would have given him his own holiday for, i.e. murdering the white president.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

Here we go again.

Detroit’s oft-troubled mayor is in a legal bind.  Interesting story, especially when one attempts to find the party of this thug.  What’s that, you say?  You can’t find his party in the CNN article?  Don’t be silly, it’s right there…um…uh…

Nope…no liberal media bias!

Why on Earth would anyone think The One and his moonbatty old lady dislike America?  Oh, I dunno.  Maybe because he tells an Indiana seven-year-old girl things like this (answering why he wants to be president):

America is …, uh, is no longer, uh … what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.

Way to lift a kid’s spirits, Obamessiah.

Memo to McLame: add this to the campaign ad arsenal, pal.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is none of my (or anyone else’s) business.  But what gets taught to our school kids is most definitely my (and everyone else’s) business.  From (where else?) Californiastan, written by (where else?) San Fransicko’s own Democrat Assemblyman, Mark Leno:

A conservative group is warning parents about a bill under consideration in the California state Senate that requires public schools to have an official “Gay Day.”
 
AB 2567 requires Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to proclaim May 22 of each year as Harvey Milk Day, putting it on par with President’s Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
…
The bill designates May 22 “as having special significance in public school and educational institutions and encourages those entities to conduct suitable commemorative exercises on that date.” …

No word on whether the kids will have “suitable” festivities such as The Vaseline Olympics, Village People Karaoke, or a group reading and re-enactment of Heather Has Two Mommies.

The Obamaliar is at it again.  From the AP:

Democratic candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain on Tuesday for taking a page out of “the Cheney playbook” on energy, overlooking his own support of oil-friendly policies that the unpopular vice president helped to craft.

Vice President Dick Cheney, a former oilman, early in the Bush administration helped draft an energy policy that Obama asserted is biased in favor of tax breaks and favorable treatment for big oil. Obama’s remarks were an attempt to capitalize on Cheney’s unpopularity.

There’s just one problem:

However, Obama himself voted for a 2005 energy bill backed by Bush that included billions in subsidies for oil and natural gas production, a measure Cheney played a major role in developing. McCain opposed the bill on grounds it included billions in unnecessary tax breaks for the oil industry.

The Obama campaign has said the Illinois senator supported the legislation because it included huge investments in renewable energy.

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, said, “Barack Obama is opposed to offshore drilling and is also opposed to admitting that he voted for the same corporate giveaways for Big Oil that he’s campaigning against today.”

More:

A new Obama ad says Big Oil filled McCain’s campaign with $2 million in contributions and that he “wants to give them another $4 billion in tax breaks.”

That $4 billion consists mainly of potential revenue from a McCain proposal to lower corporate taxes on ALL American businesses.

The McCain campaign pointed out that the ad doesn’t mention Obama has taken some $400,000 from oil company executives.

If that ain’t the pot calling the kettle…oh, wait.  That would be racist of me to finish the cliché, wouldn’t it?

From Drudge:

SPEAKER OF THE FLOP: PELOSI SELLS 2,737 COPIES OF BOOK
Thu Aug 07 2008 08:11:48 ET

The most powerful woman in the history of American politics is suffering a humiliating defeat at the nation’s bookstores, sales figures show.

In her first week at market, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sold just 2,737 copies of her book KNOW YOUR POWER, according to NIELSEN BOOKSCAN.

The DOUBLEDAY release was launched with a full media push, featuring high profile interviews on TODAY, THE VIEW, THIS WEEK.

“I wrote the book in response to people asking me what it was like to go from housewife to House Speaker and for advice as to how young people, especially women, could balance family and career,” Pelosi told the WASHINGTON POST.

Pelosi’s sales debacle [#41 on the Non-Fiction Chart] is dramatically overshadowed by the first high profile anti-Obama book, OBAMA NATION, which debuts at #1 on both the BOOKSCAN and the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List, with 21,466 copies moved, industry insiders tell DRUDGE.

“The speaker was pre-occupied with house business last week,” a source close to Pelosi explained Thursday morning. “She has now turned her focus to promoting this extraordinary book… doing local signings and speeches. I think we’ll see an uptick.”

If, by “taking care of House business”, you mean “that whole ‘not being in town’ and ‘doing jack shiite’ thingy”, then yeah…”taking care of House business”!

That whole “message - messenger” thingy still gets to me.  From the Beeb:

Former US President Bill Clinton has said that improving health services is the main challenge to fighting HIV/Aids in Africa, not a lack of money.

In a BBC interview, Mr Clinton said his foundation had therefore been focusing more and more on cost-effective ways to improve national health systems.

He also said encouraging monogamy should be an important part of the fight against HIV/Aids.

Dude…did Bubba, of all people, preach the values of monogamy?  Surreal.

In the mold of Jeff Foxworthy, I give you The Corner.  A few of my favorites:

The tendency of Obama supporters to see racist impulses behind every criticism of their candidate has  evolved into absurdity. Now even the first  black president feels compelled to declare he’s not a racist. By this measure, nearly every American is at risk of being branded a racist at some point in the campaign. To assess whether you’re at risk just consult the list below ( apologies to Jeff Foxworthy ):

1.If you think Obama’s the most liberal member of the senate you…may be a racist.

 

2.If you object to Obama raising your payroll, capital gains and estate taxes you…may be a racist.

…
13. If you think the surge is working and that’s a good thing you…may be a racist.
…
17. If you’re appalled that Obama voted against  treating infants born after an abortion attempt  the same medically  as other infants born alive you…may be a racist.

18. If you were proud of your country even before Obama’s candidacy you…may be a racist.
…

24. If you don’t want the president to meet without precondition with the leaders of state sponsors of terror you…may be a racist.

 

25. If you don’t care how Hollywood or the European elite think you should vote you…may be a racist.

Heh.  Read the whole list.

Not content to letting its sister fishwrap, the NYT, go down in flames after running fact-free anti-McCain hit pieces that even drawn condemnation from the paper’s own ombudsman, the Washington comPost has decided that its own “multiple layers of fact-checkers” are competing for the Shoddy Trophy.  Details from Hot Air:

I didn’t take much notice of the Washington Post article on the front page today by Matthew Mosk regarding “unusual” donors to the John McCain campaign.  It didn’t find any wrongdoing, for one thing; it made an insinuation of wrongdoing by association that it didn’t back up with facts.  The Norman Hsu case, in contrast, built on odd donation patterns but didn’t get reported until actual wrongdoing was apparent, with Democratic bundler Hsu being a fugitive with a penchant for Ponzi schemes.

Then the comPost puts out a correction…which shoots their entire story straight to hell.  But get this: the comPost was put in its place by…a blogger!  Or, as the snoots in the MSM call us, “pajamas-clad yokels”.  I prefer “journalism’s janitors”, since we’re the ones who have to come in and clean up the mess that the MSM leaves behind.  Anywho:

This would not have come to light had it not been for Amanda Carpenter, who did what the Post’s layers of fact-checkers and editors apparently couldn’t be bothered to do: their jobs.  Amanda went to Open Secrets, a web site that makes public all contributions to political campaigns, and checked the names against the records.  Three out of the four never came up as McCain contributors at all.  I’d guess that it took Amanda about ten minutes at the outside to check this, ten minutes that the Post couldn’t bother to expend.

I’ve known about Open Secrets for quite some time, which is odd, since according to the leftist elitists who work in the MSM newsrooms, I’m just some pajamas-clad yokel who doesn’t know a thing about real news.  If, by “real news”, they mean “shiite you can just make up without doing any kind of research that even pajamas-clad yokels know about”, then yeah…”real news”!

But hey, everyone makes mistakes, right?  I mean, it’s not like this guy Mosk has done this before.

Actually, it’s a lot like this guy Mosk has done this before.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

But hey, don’t be getting any funny ideas about The One being an elitist “rock star” who caters to Hollyweirdos or Euroweenies, m’kay?

Moonbat on Aisle 3, and he/she/it is a month late to the game.  As is this schmuck.  Dig in.

Seriously, how nuts does the hypersensitive Blathermann have to be in order to reflexively ban a a columnist who has routinely written some moonbattery-laced op-eds in the last five years or so?  From NRO:

According to Olbermann’s post on The Daily Kos (how perfectly appropriate), it seems Milbank notified Olbermann that after four years of appearing with him, Milbank accepted another television offer. Olbermann was apparently irate about a column by Milbank last week that created difficulty for Barack Obama, and therefore banned Milbank from his program. Olbermann alleges that Milbank took a comment by Obama out of context (readers can decide for themselves whether that is in fact a fair charge) and would not explain himself. And so Dana Milbank, who after four years of playing up to Olbermann deigned to write a single critical column on The Great Obama, was quickly censured. Such are the exacting journalistic standards of Olbermann, and, apparently, the network for which he works.

My sources say that both of Olbermann’s viewers are disappointed to see Milbank go.

After Juanny Mac’s ad last week comparing the undeserved celebrity coverage between Paris Hilton and The One, Ms. Hilton had a playful retort video.  Kudos to her for handling the McCain ad in a manner that conveys her sense of humor.  (Sidebar: I may possibly never compliment Ms. Hilton again, but I have to call this one like I see it.)

But double kudos for McCain’s handlers to comment on Hilton’s video ad thusly:

In the unkindest cut of all, McCain’s spokesperson Tucker Bounds tells TMZ that on the subject of energy, Paris is deeper than Barack. He says, “Sounds like Paris is taking the ‘All of the Above’ energy approach that John McCain has advocated — both alternatives and drilling. Perhaps the reality is that Paris has a more substantive energy plan than Barack Obama.”

Ouch!  No word on whether Ms. Hilton thinks that tire gauges are the key to solving America’s energy crisis.

Observing The One as being a skinny man apparently makes a person “racist”, English be damned.  From Slate:

When white people are invited to think about Obama’s physical appearance, the principal attribute they’re likely to dwell on is his dark skin. Consequently, any reference to Obama’s other physical attributes can’t help coming off as a coy walk around the barn. The sad fact is that any discussion of Obama’s physical appearance is going to remind white people of the physical characteristic that’s most on their minds.

So by observing that the Obamessiah is thin or that he has big ears, I am a racist?  Got it.  Thanks for the clarification.

Exit question: By logical extension, am I racist for noticing that Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton, and Twiggie are a little on the “über-slender” side?

Exit question #2: Is there anything that can’t be made into a race issue?

Recall the story of how the UN’s World Court tried to usurp American sovereignty and stop the execution of criminal alien Jose Medellin, despite the obvious fact that the World Court has no jurisdiction whatsoever.  Well, TX just gave a Texas-sized “kiss my rump!” to the Court by executing Medellin’s worthless hide yesterday.  Details:

Texas has executed Mexican-born condemned prisoner Jose Medellin for the rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago.

The state carried out the execution late Tuesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his request for a reprieve in a split vote.

The 33-year-old Medellin had claimed he was denied treaty-guaranteed help from the Mexican consulate when he was arrested.

Texas authorities say he never invoked his consular rights until four years after he was arrested. By then, he had been convicted and condemned for participating in the attack on 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman.

Memo to the UN: Don’t mess with Texas.

Per my policy of not linking back to posts in the moonbatosphere, you’ll have to go find this on your own.  It’s at the Huffington Post, one of the most visited moonbat blogs around (along with the Kos Kooks, Dumb#sses Underground, and Think (yeah, right!) “Progress”).  But here’s the gist of it:

At best, this ad implies that those who plan to support Senator Obama are looking for a new savior or a replacement Messiah. But many are reading it even more darkly as an attempt to portray Obama as an anti-Christ figure.

Exit question: am I the only one who finds it odd that a bunch of mouthbreathing, spittle-launching atheists are allowing a blog post by a self-described Christian?  Normally, these vermin don’t have anything to do with Christianity, but hey, I guess if you can find a “Christian” who supports The One, then why not exploit it, right?

Dude…seriously?

Finally, I will call on businesses, government, and the American people to meet the goal of reducing our demand for electricity 15% by the end of the next decade. This is by far the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to reduce our energy consumption – and it will save us $130 billion on our energy bills. One report found that right here in Ohio, improvements in energy efficiency can help save homes and businesses $1.5 billion in energy costs by 2020.

The state of California has implemented such a successful efficiency strategy that while electricity consumption grew 60% in this country over the last three decades, it didn’t grow at all in California (If, by “not growing”, you mean “increases by 2% annually“, then yeah…”not growing”. - Ed.). There is no reason we can’t do the same thing all across America.

Why can’t we all be like California and have rolling blackouts that result in governors getting recalled?

Also, check this out:

First, we’ll commit ourselves to getting one million 150 mile-per-gallon plug-in hybrid cars on our roads within six years.

OK, I’ll bite: if we’re supposed to cut back on electricity, exactly what are we supposed to use to juice our plug-in hybrids?

Moron.

Hat tip to the encyclopedia of moonbats, Van Helsing’s Moonbattery, for pointing me to this piece by Howie Carr:

…But if you are wondering whether or not you are a moonbat, here are some of the most obvious traits:

You refer to the current national administration as the “Cheney-Bush regime.”

You’ve used the word “Halliburton” at least once in the last 10 minutes.

…

You take part in the weekly anti-war protests on the town post office with all the other grandmothers, or should I say the women who would be grandmothers if they hadn’t had so many abortions 30 years ago.

…

You believed the National Enquirer totally when they busted Rush Limbaugh.

You don’t believe a word of the National Enquirer now that it’s busting John Edwards.

Your car contains at least three of the following bumper stickers: “Redefeat Bush,” “1-20-09,” “We ARE a Family and We Vote,” “Kerry-Edwards,” “Free Mumia,” “9/11 Was an Inside Job” and “Got Hope?”

…

You scoff at people who believe in God, but just as fervently believe that there is a “scientific consensus” about global warming.

You’d never admit that the reason you don’t care about Obama’s plans to tax the middle class back to the Stone Age is because your dad down in New York put all your trust funds into tax-free municipal bonds.

…

You haven’t uttered the word “Christmas” since 1983, lest you offend someone.

Forget vegetarian, you’d like to be a vegan . . . except for that no-ice-cream thing. …

Those are the best ones, though there are more.  Good stuff! 

Except for that whole “self-detonation” and “death to Jews” thingy.  From CNN:

Our visit coincided with the events that commemorate each March 10, the date the Dalai Lama fled Tibet on horseback in 1959. He managed to evade the Chinese Communist forces, disguised as a soldier and escaping at night. The somber remembrance is a little like what the Palestinians do every year. They call it al-Nakba, or “catastrophe,” which marks 1948 when they lost much of their land as the state of Israel was founded.

Wow…just “wow”!

Democrats and their fuzzy math.  From Michelle Malkin:

“Michelle – check out Colorado Governor Bill Ritter’s oops this morning on the Mike Rosen show, hour two (www.850koa.com). When asked about rumors that he was on the list as a vice presidential candidate he remarked (not quoting) that his 18 months of gubernatorial experience were insufficient to be considered for vice president. When asked to compare this to [Obama's] 143 days of experience [in the Senate], he quickly changed the subject.”

I’ve transcribed the relevant parts of the exchanges, in which Ritter first downplays the rumors that Obama is considering him…

Rosen: “Why don’t you think you’d be a good choice?”

Ritter: “Well, just because, I think there are a lot of things that he has to take into consideration. I’ve been governor for 18 months. My experience before that was as a district attorney. I loved being a district attorney…but I don’t think that’s what Barack Obama’s looking for in a vice president. I’ve been governor for 18 months. It’s been a great experience. But it’s just 18 months…Obama has to think about experience…levels of experience…”

[Ritter then discusses other VP possibilities...Tim Kaine, Evan Bayh...praises their experience, foreign policy creds...Joe Biden/chair of Senate Foreign Relations committee..."Any of those three would make sense to me"...Kathleen Sibelius is a great woman...]

…and then during Q&A, Ritter fields an excellent question:

Caller Richard from Windsor: “Governor, you said 18 months’ experience wasn’t enough experience as governor to be the vice president. Would you want to contrast that with the 143 days’ experience Obama as senator before he decided he had enough experience to be president.”

Ritter: All I can tell ya is I am a fan of Barack Obama’s. Met him in 2004 during his campaign for Senate…You meet him and discover there’s something very different about him. That’s all I’ll say.

Heh!  Looks like someone is in dire need of a cranialanalectomy!

Details here.

Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

From China:

The two men who killed 16 policemen in the Kashgar massacre were today identified as members of an ethic group engaged in a shadowy insurgency in China’s north-western Xinjiang region.

The attackers, aged 28 and 33, were overcome and arrested at the scene and have been confirmed as Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic people, who make up the majority of Xinjiang’s 20 million population.

Although the official media did not spell it out there appears to be little doubt that they were members of the insurgency seeking to break Xinjiang away from China and establish an independent Islamic state of “East Turkistan”. …

That’s odd.  I mean, the Chinese aren’t even in Iraq, and if I’m not mistaken, the left has been saying for years that Islamic terrorist attacks on Spain and Britain and other allies were a result of being in Iraq.  Why, if I didn’t know any better, I’d swear this is just yet another act of violence in the name of the religion of perpetual outrage!

“Good enough for me, but not for thee”…eh, San Fran Nan?

If, as the NYT and the rest of the Obama sycophants out there assert, it is racist to associate The One with white women Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, then will someone please instruct the Obama campaign to stop running racist smear ads against their own candidate?

I love it!

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Heh.

If, by “animal rights”, you mean “the right of one species of animals, i.e. Homo sapiens, to be torched alive in their own homes and killing them and their evil spawn (aka children)”, then yeah…”animal rights”!  From Santa Cruz, Californiastan:

Firebombs were intentionally set on a porch and in a car belonging to two UC Santa Cruz researchers in separate incidents early Saturday in what police have classified as acts of domestic terrorism.

Police are calling one of the bombings an attempted homicide.

In one incident, a faculty member’s home on Village Circle off High Street was intentionally firebombed at about 5:40 a.m., according to police. The residence belongs to a well-known UCSC molecular biologist who works with mice. He was one of 13 researchers listed in threatening animal rights pamphlets found Tuesday in a downtown coffee shop.

In the second incident at about the same time, a Volvo station wagon parked in a faculty member’s driveway on Dickens Way on campus also was firebombed, police said.

The family was home at the time of the firebombing and the victims, including two young children, escaped on a fire ladder from a second-story window, according to police. One family member suffered injuries during the escape and had to be hospitalized briefly, police said. That bombing is being considered an attempted homicide because the family was home, police said.
…
Fliers identifying 13 UCSC scientists, some of whom use mice, fruit flies and other nonprimate creatures in their research, were discovered at a downtown coffee shop Tuesday. The fliers say, “Animal abusers everywhere beware; we know where you live; we know where you work; we will never back down until you end your abuse.” The names, home addresses, home phone numbers and photos of researchers were published on the fliers.

In February, masked demonstrators rattled the front door of another UCSC researcher, whose husband chased the intruders away while the researcher protected her children in the back of the Westside home. … 

Who needs cures for diseases?  We’ll just have the “animal rights” nutjobs kill off dying people.  I mean, “a rat is a cat is a dog is a boy”, right?

Barry O: Yeah, remember when I said I’d debate Juanny Mac “any time, any place“?  Um, I didn’t really mean “any place”, m’kay?  I mean, since then, I’ve been a nonstop gaffe-o-meter, so I’ve decided to “redeploy” the English language and change the meaning of “any time, any place”.  After all, I’m The One, so I can do that.

From Politico:

Barack Obama’s campaign released a letter this afternoon from campaign manager David Plouffe to the Commission on Presidential Debates only agreeing to the traditional three sanctioned fall debates and single vice presidential forum.

“Due to the late date of the two parties’ nominating conventions, and the relatively short period between the end of the conventions and the first proposed debate, it is likely that the four commission debates will be the sole series of debates in the fall campaign,” Plouffe writes.

McCain’s reply?

“We understand it might be beneath a worldwide celebrity of Barack Obama’s magnitude to appear at town hall meetings alongside John McCain and directly answer questions from the American people, but we hope he’ll reconsider,” said Brian Roges, a McCain spokesman.

Heh.

Despite his handlers’ assertions to the contrary (as well as those of his sycophants at the NYT), the Obamaliar finally fessed up that he, in fact, playing the race card.  But hey, just because he says that McCain is going to try and make people fear The One because he’s black doesn’t mean that he thinks McCain is a racist, right?

Obama on August 1, 2008, in FL:

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama said today he would be willing to open Florida’s coast for more oil drilling if it meant winning approval for broad energy changes.

“My interest is in making sure we’ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices,” Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.

Obama on July 30, 2008, in MO:

Now the latest scheme is well, we’re going to drill offshore. Now, I want to be absolutely clear to everybody about this. If I thought that I could provide you some immediate relief on gas prices by drilling off the shores of California and New Jersey, I - I … I understand how desperate folks are. I met a guy who couldn’t go on a job search that lost his job, couldn’t go on a job search because of the high price of gas. Just couldn’t fill up his tank. I met a teacher in South Dakota who loved her job as a teacher on an Indian reservation, she had to quit because the drive was too far, it was taking up too much of her paycheck. I know how bad people are hurting. So If I thought that by drilling offshore, we could solve our problem, I’d do it.

Checking the polls causes a “change in mind we can believe in”, doesn’t it?  That whole “judgment” thingy, I guess, drastically changes in a whopping two day window!.

This is an Awesomely McAwesome double with Awesome cheese, extra Awesome sauce, and an extra-large Awesome Soda!  From the NYO:

Where The New York Times sees an editorial scolding, the McCain campaign sees an opportunity.

At issue is an editorial, which appeared yesterday on The Times blog “The Board,” accusing the McCain campaign of “starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama that Republican operatives ran against Harold Ford.”

McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb just sent out this statement, attacking The Times as hysterically pro-Obama:

“If the shareholders of the New York Times ever wonder why the paper’s ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking, they need look no further than the hysterical reaction of the paper’s editors to any slight, real or imagined, against their preferred candidate. This campaign has never engaged in ‘racially tinged attacks,’ and the Obama campaign conceded as much yesterday in a statement clarifying that “Barack Obama in no way believes that the McCain campaign is using race as an issue.”

That the Times made this allegation in a blog post rather than running it on the editorial page indicates that they either knew the charge was bogus or they didn’t have the nerve to make their case in full view of the public. But in their new role as bloggers, the paper’s editors seem to have all the intelligence and reason of the average Daily Kos diarist sitting at home in his mother’s basement and ranting into the ether between games of dungeons and dragons. They also have about as much care for the facts–the “board” has already been forced to append a correction.”

Man, if dude would do stuff like that more often, it would be easier to get more than lukewarm to his campaign.  Spanking the NYT and moonbats all in one sitting is some dee-lish red meat!