Chris Christie Doesn't Apologize To You. You Apologize To Chris Christie...

The backstory:  At one of Chris Christie's town hall meetings, one William Brown - a 34 year old a law student at Rutgers-Camden (paging Sandra Fluke: we have a boyfriend for you!) - asked the governor a question regarding the potential merging of two different sate law schools. Christie couldn't get a word in edgewise, as Brown kept interrupting him and speaking over him.

Big mistake, says APP columnist Bob Ingle:

Christie, irked, said if Brown were going to be a lawyer he needed to change his behavior or would wind up in jail and punctuated the sentence with “idiot.” Officers escorted him from the room and on the way out Brown informed all he was a former Navy SEAL. I respect and admire those guys — and everyone who serves in uniform — but the people I have known in military special ops usually don’t say it to just anyone, let alone an audience. Conversely, Brown didn’t mention he ran for the Assembly on Jon Corzine’s ticket or for the Mount Laurel council.

Brown and others demanded an apology from Christie.

Let's dig deeper into that:

Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald (D-6), a prospective 2013 challenger to the governor, who demanded that Christie issue a personal apology.

“Unless Governor Christie is using his town hall meetings to audition for a spot on the Real Housewives of New Jersey, he should apologize immediately for his immature and nasty remarks," Greenwald said.... Governor Christie should personally apologize to Mr. Brown immediately.”

Christie's response:

"He acted like an idiot, he’s an idiot,” Christie told reporters. “I have no regret I allowed him to talk for two, two and a half minutes, and every time I tried to answer he interrupted.

“I lay the rules out in the beginning,” the governor said. “If you give it you’re going to get it back. I’m going to give it right back to you. The fact that he’s a Navy SEAL doesn’t give him the right to be a jerk. I honor his service. …But that does not give you a right to be an idiot."

“Don’t forget, this guy was a Democratic candidate for the Assembly in the 8th district,” he said.

"You want to punch me, I’m going to punch you back," Christie added. "He can cry his crocodile tears, but he came in there to accomplish something."


Seems like a no-brainer, right? Evil Republican Chris Christie versus a war veteran and the sainted Democratic establishment of New Jersey?

It was a no-brainer, and apologies were issued. But not by the governor. Politco thought it had a big story, but alas:

The ex-Navy SEAL that Gov. Chris Christie called an “idiot” last week has apologized for his behavior at the town hall meeting, saying he didn’t mean any disrespect to the New Jersey governor.

“I’m not too thrilled about being known as an idiot, or being known as a jerk. That’s not what I want to be known for. I don’t want to be known as that guy,” 34-year-old William Brown told a local New York Fox affiliate. “I apologize if I came across disrespectful to the governor

Here is the video, with the incident and the apology.  Note Mr. Brown's new haircut:

Law student talks about being called 'idiot' by governor: MyFoxNY.com

Final thoughts on the media's treatment of this incident, again from Bob Ingle:

Reading and watching the coverage of the original exchange was an exercise in how much bad media judgment exists. Fox did it right, but one cable network ran video that obviously was heavily edited to be anti-Christie and omitted the fact that Brown is a politician who ran for the Legislature as a Democrat, leading viewers to believe he was just another citizen in the audience.

It announced the video was edited by a viewer as if that disclaimer relieved the broadcasters in charge of the responsibility for what is aired. That’s like my saying this column was edited by readers — and therefore I am not responsible for misrepresentations or omissions or factually incorrect material.

What Mr. Ingle doesn't realize is that he is old-school, a throwback, a man with no specific political axes to grind save the desire to hold all of New Jersey's public servants to account for their actions. In other words, he's a journalist. Unlike the other 99% of his compatriots in the media...

One last note: Why do New Jersey voters, and Republicans nationwide, like the pugnacious governor?

“If you give it you’re going to get it back. I’m going to give it right back to you..."You want to punch me, I’m going to punch you back"

You want to beat the Obama machine in 2012? You better be able to do just that...

Bruce Springsteen: Tax-Dodging 1%-er Calls For Murder Of New Jersey's Middle Class

Regular readers of this blog are no doubt well aware of my disdain, disregard, and disgust for Springsteen, all exacerbated by his inflated claim to be the musical voice of the great state of New Jersey.  I've already noted his moral clumsiness while doing the interview circuit to pimp his new album, but I've never listened to it.  PJ Media does the dirty work, and discovers a disc dripping in hate, filled with #OWS rhetoric, with calls for class warfare and outright murder

On the second track, which is called “Easy Money,” Springsteen sings:

There’s nothing to it mister, you won’t hear a sound
When your whole world comes tumbling down
And all them fat cats they just think it’s funny
I’m going on the town now looking for easy money
Whoa!

I got a Smith & Wesson .38
I got a hellfire burning and I got me a taste…

Growing more explicit, on “Jack of All Trades,” which is narrated by a laborer, perhaps an illegal immigrant, Springsteen sings:

The banker man grows fatter, the working man grows thin...

Now sometimes tomorrow comes soaked in treasure and blood…
So you use what you’ve got, and you learn to make do
You take the old, you make it new
If I had me a gun, I’d find the bastards and shoot ‘em on sight.


There is more in this vein, including songs that echo with gunshots...

One of the many, many ironies and idiocies here is the idea of man who ties himself so tightly to New Jersey is actually advocating the murder of a large amounts of residents of  the state. Nearly a quarter of the people killed on 9/11 were New Jersey residents, a number that should give you an indication of what percentage we  make up of the "Wall Street crowd". But many of these people aren't "fat cats" - I see them every day at the bus stop, and they are moms and dads making a living, leaving their ten-year old Hondas in the parking lot and a brown bag lunch behind for their kids as they go off to feed their family for another day.

Now Springsteen would likely say this $60-$160K crowd (that's middle-class in the nation's highest-taxed state) aren't the folks he's targeting, but tell that to the shooter who Bruce may inspire to spray their bus -which simply says "Wall Street", and doesn't list their incomes - with automatic weapon fire. Hey, "shoot 'em on sight", right Bruce?

And of course, don't bother asking Bruce who will pay for the myriad of New Jersey's social programs - the ones he so ardently supports - if he has all of the taxpayers in the highest bracket murdered.

But we do know one thing: Bruce Springsteen won't be paying for them. He's a tax-dodger, Jersey-style:

Through a trust, Bruce Springsteen owns more than 200 acres in Colts Neck. the taxes for his house and three acres are more than $138,000. But because of the farm tax break, the tax bill on a little more than 200 additional acres is less than $5,000. Town officials say he has horses and an organic farmer working some of the land. A lawyer for the trust had no comment.

A multi-millionaire rock star, living on his mansion in Rumson off the Navasink River (the site of many a Democratic fund-raiser) avoids paying his fair share of taxes  by claiming he's a farmer. Can you say "1%", you liberal douchebag?

And he's a real family man, too...well, other people's families, that is. And other men's wives:

Ann Kelly, 45, was a housewife living with her mortgage-broker husband and two children in a $600,000 home in a leafy New Jersey suburb.

But when the married Springsteen entered her life in 2005 -- showering her with concert tickets, serenading her during rehearsals and confessing she was on his mind while he toured -- the Jersey girl got lost in a "Tunnel of Love," court records alleged.

The relationship between Kelly and the "Born to Run" singer began with chitchats on the treadmills at a high-priced Red Bank, NJ, gym, but the pace quickened with lunch dates and eventually a full-on affair.

Accusations of an illicit tryst came to light after Ann's husband of 17 years, Arthur Kelly, 46, filed for divorce on March 27, 2009.

During the yearlong divorce proceeding, Arthur filed court papers alleging that Ann enjoyed a rendezvous with Springsteen while the husband was laid up in a hospital with heart trouble.

Workouts spilled into lunches at a nearby cafe, with Ann's two daughters sometimes tagging along. The children got to know Springsteen so well that they called him "Bruce," according to court records.

...in 2007 and 2008, unsigned Valentine's Day cards without stamps or postmarks showed up in the Kellys' mailbox in West Long Branch...

When Chris Christie was elected governor in 2009, Bruce Springsteen refused to play at his inauguration.  Christie, not missing a beat, hired a cover band to take his place.  Nobody missed him then.  And they won't in the future, when New Jersey turns away from the man who sung wistful songs about seeing the state's working people covered in their own blood...

Polling Madness: With A 51% Democratic Sample, Obama Can Only Get...50%??

Give Reuters credit for trying, in light of polls put out by the New York Times and the Washington Post - hardly conservative bastions - that showed Obama's approval rating at a sliver over 40%.  Hey, someone's got to allow their reputation to take (another) hit for the team, right?

For the first time since early July, more Americans approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing than disapprove, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll that shows his approval rating now at 50 percent.

The poll, taken March 8-11 on the heels of reports that 227,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in February, indicates that Obama’s rating has risen by 2 percentage points during the past month.

Just what Democrats had expected, what with the Republicans waging a war on women, shredding themselves with partisan infighting, and just being on the wrong side of every issue that's important to the American people.

And then you get to the part when you see the sample skew...

The Reuters/Ipsos telephone poll of 1,084 adults included 554 respondents who identified themselves as Democrats, 421 as Republicans, and 109 as independents. The total respondents included 937 registered voters.

So that's 51% Democrats, 38% Republican, after an election where the two parties were split 35%/35% in terms of voter turnout.  And the best Obama could pull down was...a measly 50% approval? In a poll that included unregistered voters (over 10% of  the total), who tend to respond overly Democratic in these types of surveys?

So he can barely hold his own party together, and is not picking up a single Republican or Independent voter. In a poll tilted wildly in his favor. Which means that the Times and WaPo surveys - which have the president as low as 41% and no higher than 46%, respectively - are closer to reality, albiet also likely leaning left.

And this is the guy the media tell us is inevitable in 2012.

Pollsters and politicians think we are, well -

“The first lesson you learn as a pollster is that people are stupid,” said Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm...

- but based on the polling date above - even the crooked ones - looks like the problem they have with us is that we are nut stupid enough.

We'll see.

Israeli Children Huddle In Bomb Shelters While Palestinian Kids Skip To School

What the media won't tell you, because narrative maintenance is more important than truth:

Even as every school in southern Israel was closed for four days, keeping tens of thousands of students home, children in the Gaza Strip continued going to school as usual.

The preferred narrative, of course, is that Israel uses “indiscriminate and excessive force” against Palestinian civilians. But it turns out real live Palestinians know better: They know Israel actually makes great efforts to avoid hitting civilian targets, and therefore, it’s perfectly safe to send their children to school. In contrast, Israelis can’t safely send their children to school, because Palestinian terrorists really do use indiscriminate force, making a school full of children an invitation to a mass-casualty incident. Indeed, a rocket hit an (empty) school in Beersheba on Sunday, and rockets have also struck (empty) schools during previous rounds.

Not exactly a "bottle rocket":  This is what that Palestinians are shooting at Jewish schools...Grads:

Each 2.87-metre (9 ft 5 in) rocket is..armed with high explosive/fragmentation, incendiary, or chemical warheads can be fired 20 kilometres (12 mi). Newer high explosive and cargo (used to deliver anti-personnel or antitank mines) rockets have a range of 30 kilometres (19 mi) and more. Warheads weigh around 20 kilograms (44 lb), depending on the type.

The beloved Palestinians bombs school, actually hoping and praying to kill innocent children. The Israelis, on the other hand, will allow the guilty to go free rather than risk shedding the blood of the blameless. And yet the Israelis are painted as the bad guys. Does the international community want a world full of Gazas?

Asked why Palestinians support the rocket fire despite knowing Israel will retaliate, a Palestinian “friend” told Haaretz reporter Amira Hass: “The mission of the rockets is not to liberate Palestine or win the battle, but to hurt, to cause the Israelis suffering.”.

The price for finishing off the Jews may be high, if this is the type of behavior that is rewarded. But it is, from the UN to Barack Hussein Obama to a world-wide media that won't publicize and inconvenient truth, lest it dampen the the globe's insatiable appetite for Jewish blood...

New Jersey Just Lovin' Their Chris Christie As Poll Numbers Skyrocket

Who would have thought a fat loud-mouthed Republican would become the darling of "Blue Jersey"?

Republican Governor Chris Christie, entering the second half of his first term, remains at record- high approval ratings among New Jersey voters as he presses lawmakers for a 10 percent income-tax cut, a survey shows.

The governor has the state “headed in the right direction,” say 51 percent in a survey released today, a 10- year high, according to Peter Woolley, the Fairleigh Dickinson PublicMind poll director. Christie’s job performance won approval from 54 percent of the registered voters questioned, up from 53 percent in January and matching a record in September

“He probably should hold up a champagne glass and make a toast -- these are really good numbers,” Woolley said by telephone. “It’s really amazing when you consider that these sustained approval ratings have been through dramatic budget times, cuts at all levels and in a state where Republicans hold a distinct minority.”

Note that he's running on a tax cut for everybody - including the "notorious 1%" - and voters in this so-called solidly Democratic state still have his back. Maybe President Class Warfare could take some notes? Nah. He's the smartest guy in the room. He's got nothing to learn from anybody, especially Chris Christie. Valerie Jarrett told him so...

Well, Obama will still most likely take Jersey in November.  Voters will seek to assuage their consciousnesses for voting Christie.  But one wonders if Christie has coat-tails, or is simply respected by state voters for the unique persona/politician he is.

We'll find out.  State Senator Joe Kyrillos is running against incumbent Democrat Senator Bob Menendez (D-La Raza) in November as well.  Kyrillos is an excellent representative (mine) and a solid, common-sense economic conservative.  Christie's already campaigning for him, raising $600K for Joe just the other day  (putting him close to $7M behind the paid-for, embarrassing, and  totally reprehensible Menendez).  Christie was outspent 3-1 by Corzine and still won, but Menendez is going to run a campaign based on division by color, by nationality, and by gender.

Let's hope our governor - the former undefeated federal prosecutor - can win his case before the people of New Jersey on this important battle as well.

Think Obama's Poll Numbers Suck Now? Just Wait Until Memorial Day...

...that's assuming, of course, that much of  the president's recent slide in the polls is actually due to concern about higher gasoline prices, and his concurrent desire to do little more than tilt at windmills.  Literally.  Of course, it could be because he's on the wrong side of the contraceptive issue, as well as the Iran issue, or that people are getting a bit tired of his hypocrisy and divide and conquer ethos...but let's humor the MSM, and stick to gas prices.

Jim Geraghty write a column - complete with charts! - that should make Mr. President soil his panties:

Adjusted for Inflation, Gas Prices Look Even Worse

While the peak [gas prices] in the summer of 2008 was $4.27, the March 12 average of $3.83 surpasses everything else before it – from the beginning of the chart in 1920 (when only a small fraction of Americans owned cars!) and through the Great Depression and through the 1973 oil crisis and through the late 1970s and 1980s, the Persian Gulf War, and after 9/11. Note that every other spike in prices tends to coincide with economic hard times.

In other words, adjusted for inflation, today’s gas prices – in March! — are worse than during every preceding gas price spike, except the peak of summer in 2008. So what will the peak price be this summer?

In March 2008, the national average was $3.20 per gallon. By June it was $4.08


What will it be this June? I say 38.

Oh, sorry. I was talking about Obama's approval rating. The price of gas will be stratospheric, crippling the economy just as we head into convention season. And I will bet my last dollar that private citizen Obama, whoring it up on the $500K speaking circuit, will brag about raising gas prices to record levels, and tout it as one of the finest accomplishments of his term in office.

Bet on it.  And remember where you heard it first...

Hillary Clinton's Sick Moral Equivalence Is No "Fluke"...

...and no, for a change, it's not about equating Palestinian terrorists with the Israeli schoolchildren they murder.  This time it's a bit more laughable, but equally insulting to the intelligence:

 Hillary Clinton: US 'extremists' targeting women

At the Women in the World Summit held in New York City on Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced "extremists" for purposely trying to "control women," specifically in the United States...

"Yes, it is hard to believe that even here at home, we have to stand up for women’s rights and reject efforts to marginalize any one of us, because America needs to set an example for the entire world."

Clinton specifically mentioned Georgetown contraception activist Sandra Fluke while praising women "who are assuming the risks that come with sticking your neck out, whether you are a democracy activist in Burma or a Georgetown law student in the United States."

Nothing like marginalizing and dehumanizing your opposition to promote civil discourse. Thanks to permissions received from feminist Gloria Steinem, I can now point out that Hillary Clinton is using the same tactics on conservatives that Josef Goebbels used on Jews.  Hate much, Hillary?

But besides the obvious ham-fisted attempt to toss liberal red meat to the lioness (and the men who exploit them) at the Summit, Madame Secretary offers up another offense.  If you didn't catch it, Mark Steyn did:

I wonder if Mrs. Clinton gave a moment’s thought to how revoltingly insulting that comparison is to “democracy activists in Burma.” On the one hand, Zin Mar Aung, who spent eleven years in jail for writing a letter. On the other, one of the eternal children of American entitlement, attending an elite law school whose graduates proceed smoothly to jobs with a starting salary of $160,000 yet demanding the government pick up the tab for her birth control — which, even if one accepts her absurd figure of $3,000, amounts to less than the first week’s salary of that first job...

The fact that Hillary can equates these two women speaks volumes about her moral calculus. As well as that of the half-wits, dim-wits, nit-wits, and horny guys looking for a free "ride" that applauded her perverse equivalence.

But thankfully, it's a small group. Anyone else notice that on what was supposed to be a "horrible week for Republicans". Obama's poll numbers have dipped to new lows? The media wails that poor Baracky can't help it, he doesn't control gas prices (only Republican presidents do), but gas prices have been high for a while now. What else happened last week that was rather newsworthy? Oh, that. No longer newsworthy, apparently.  Interesting.

You know, I have heard a lot of commentators suggest - nay, urge - Barack Obama to dump Joe Biden this fall and enlist Hillary Clinton as his new running mate. She's a woman, she's "moderate", she will unite the party...

You know - as a Republican - I think that's a good idea. Much like Sandra Fluke, I don't think the American people will find Hillary as appealing as the media believes they will.

Bring it.

The Houston Astros Get To Wear Their Gun...

This is when you know you have lost the argument:

After initially being told by MLB they had to holster the pistols, the Houston Astros announced on Friday that their Colt .45 throwbacks will include an image of the namesake firearm. New Astros owner Jim Crane credits fans for loudly voicing their opposition to the senseless showing of political correctness. Indeed, it was that outcry that forced the league to let the team make its own decision...

Their logo and name from 1962-64, before the Houston franchise renamed themselves after their indoor stadium:

Shit...bring back the Washington Bullets!

And keep your hands off of the Rockford Young Guns! (douchebag columnist alert)

Is Barack Obama Really....Nedward Flanders Sr.? (The "Freaky Beatnik")

Barack Hussein Obama speaking on the ever-rising price of gasoline:

After 39 straight days of increases, prices fell nearly a penny from Tuesday to Thursday and held steady on Friday at $3.758 per gallon for the national average. The lull won’t last long, and gas is still nearly 50 cents higher than it was at the beginning of the year...

“I’m going to keep doing everything I can to help you save money on gas, both right now and in the future,” Obama said...


Really?

The news wires are reporting that President Obama actively lobbied Senate Democrats to defeat the Keystone pipeline yesterday. The effect of blocking the Keystone XL Pipeline is to defer 700,000 barrels of oil per day....the president’s policy of choking off oil production under federal leases will prevent another 1 million barrels of oil per day this year, and even more next year.

Obama will soon be personally responsible for preventing some 2 million barrels per day of possible North American crude oil production from reaching the American economy...

Which brings us to Hurricane Neddy, a Simpsons episode where we see how Ned Flanders became...Ned Flanders. Apparently, his bizarre behavior is primarily a result of radical left-wing parents - parents who knew they had a wild, uncontrollable son, but whose ideology forbid them to do anything about it:

Dr. Foster: Would you please tell your son to stop?
Ned’s Dad: We can’t do it, man! That’s discipline! That’s like tellin’ Gene Krupa not to go banging “boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom boom bam ba ba ba ba, da boo boo tss!”

Ned’s Dad: We don’t believe in rules, like, we gave them up when we started livin’ like freaky beatniks!
Dr. Foster: You don’t believe in rules, yet you want to control Ned’s anger?
Ned’s Mom: Yeah. You gotta help us, Doc. We’ve tried nothin’ and we’re all out of ideas.


So is Barack....

And so it goes when you elect a freaky beatnik to be president of the United States...

There's Today's New York Times Headlines, And Then There Is Reality...

On the NYT homepage, the top two stories showing up within the "Campaign 2012"coverage:

It's all falling apart for the Republicans!  Or maybe it isn't!  Because somewhere, far, far away from the New York Times, in a place called "reality", we get this:

This "shock poll" was done by a fairly unknown polling company called... Rasmussen:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19

Romney leads President Obama by five points in a hypothetical 2012 matchup. Today's numbers show Romney at 48%, Obama at 43%. That’s Romney’s largest lead since December.

If Santorum is the Republican nominee, he is up by one point over the president, 46% to 45%.

That must be because of the "disenchantment" all those "centrist GOP" women have with Santorum.  Otherwise he'd be holding an 5 point lead over Obama instead of a mere 1-point lead.

And why the "shock"? And to whom, besides the staff at the NYT? And do they even believe the crap they are producing, or are they just throwing red meat to their base of Upper West Side liberals? Or is it just plain old propaganda, something out of the bad old days of the Soviet Union, where Pravda headlines declared "Nation applauds Party's decision to cut milk rations in half!"

The motivation is almost meaningless anyway, it's really about how laughable the end result of the MSM process is. Part and parcel of what Glenn Reynolds predicted last week:

All I know is that even if Obama ends up losing every state, the press coverage will make him sound invincible right up until it happens, “unexpectedly.”


So when the media tells you Obama is inevitable and invincible in 2012, re-read what Rasmussen is saying:

Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's job performance. Fifty-four percent (54%) at least somewhat disapprove

Welcome to reality, bitches...

Sandra Fluke: Last Licks...

....because now that the Democrats and the media realize this manufactured controversy is backfiring on them, the story is about to disappear - say, by Tuesday, latest.

Mark Steyn has a piece up on NRO, and the title alone is worth its weight in bandwidth:  The Fluke Charade: Why should we have to fund a middle-aged schoolgirl’s sex life?

Sarcasm is the sharpest weapon:

She’s a couple of years younger than Mozart was at the time he croaked, but, if the Dems are to be believed, the plucky little Grade 24 schoolgirl has already made an even greater contribution to humanity...The brave middle-aged schoolgirl had the courage to stand up in public and demand that someone else pay for her sex life.

Steyn comments further in a blog post:

The President made a great show of telephoning poor Sandra, as the father of young girls himself (technically, Sasha and Malia are young enough to be Miss Fluke’s daughters, but, given her lethargic progress through the education system, it’s not inconceivable they could end up sitting alongside her in class in a few years)...

From sainted martyr to scorned slut in less than ten days. New record, mayhaps. And a warning for the next person, male or female, who decides to be a hand puppet for the liberal's penny agit-prop theater..

Obama's Documentary: A Sequel To "A Burns For All Seasons"?

And while the president does not have his own "Senor Spielbergo" to direct, he does have Davis Guggenheim, who - were he two dimensional - would be a personality ringer for Waylon Smithers.

Piers Morgan interviews; and even he is a bit incredulous:

Piers Morgan: "Most documentary makers balance these movies with the negative as well as the positive. What are the negatives in your movie about Barack Obama?

Davis Guggenheim: "Well, I mean the negative for me was, there were too many accomplishments. I had 17 minutes to put them all in there."

Piers Morgan: "Oh, come off it! You can't say that with a straight face. Come on."

Davis Guggenheim: "I'm looking at you right now with a straight face."

Piers Morgan: "The only negativity about Barack Obama is there are too many positives?"

Davis Guggenheim: "That was the negative -- excuse me, that was the negative for me."

Piers Morgan: "But where do you find fault in him, personally?"

Davis Guggenheim: "I -- you know, I don't. I don't, frankly."

Piers Morgan: "He's a perfect human being?"

Davis Guggenheim: "Well, no. but I'm really quite in awe of him, as a leader, and the choices he's made."


Kyle Smith at the New York Post reviews the trailer:

“How do we understand this president, and his time in office?” asks Hanks at the outset. Tell us, Tom, tell us! “Do we look at the day’s headlines, or do we remember what we, as a country, have been through?”

Whoa, is Hanks ordering us to pay no attention to those pesky newspapers? Stupid is as stupid does.

Hanks continues, amid Very Seriously Dramatic black and white photos of Obama, “His advisers would ask, ‘Where to begin? Which urgent need would he put first?’ ” Um, filling out his March Madness bracket, naturally...

Hurrying on from health care, mainly because 53 percent of Americans oppose it and the rest think it’s unconstitutional anyway, the movie passes along some news: Did you hear Obama got bin Laden? Not the SEALs, not the vast US intelligence apparatus, not 10 years of painstaking waterboard-assisted sleuthing — no. Obama did it. By sitting in a conference room in Washington and uttering two syllables: “OK.”

 Mr. Burns tried the same thing once...





...and he produced "A Burns For All Seasons". Scene by scene description below; tell me if it sounds much different than what Barack Obama is about to put out:

The first scene opens with Mr. Burns atop a horse wearing a sombrero, rounds of machine gun ammunition draped across his chest. "Simple villagers," he says to a group of people, "I promise you I will close plants in America and bring work here!" ...

The next scene features Mr. Burns saying, "Remember, Elliot, I'll be
right here," on one knee to a child. The tip of his finger lights up
briefly; he then enters a spaceship, its door spiraling closed, which
takes off into the crimson sky. The audience murmurs angrily among themselves, "Pure egotism! Self-indulgent tripe," and the like. "I don't care what they say," vows Burns, "I'm going to win this festival!"

The next scene shows a Roman centurion on a horse leading a group of shackled prisoners across the desert. The last prisoner, who bears a striking resemblance to Charlton Heston, collapses from exhaustion. A shadow appears over him: a man kneels in front of him, strokes his hair, and hands him a bottle of spring water. "Drink up, Judah Ben Hur,"exhorts Mr. Burns. Ben Hur does so, then looks up gratefully and says, "You truly are the king of kings." A heavenly light shines down upon Burns, and he says "Excellent." The movie ends.

And what was the reaction to this piece of "self-indulgent tripe"?

Burns: Smithers...are they booing me?
Smithers: Uh, no, they're saying "Boo-urns! Boo-urns!"
Burns (turning to audience): Are you saying "boo" or "Boo-urns"?
Audience: Boo! Boo!
Hans Moleman: I was saying "Boo-urns"...

Beware, Baracky....the American people will forgive many things, but...a bad movie? A bigger career-killer than health care reform...

"Apparently, not all his crooked friends have been paid off..."

...that's Don Surber, reacting to this:

Another week, another car talk. Barack Obama stopped by a North Carolina truck factory on Wednesday to announce $1bn in tax credits and grants for alternative-energy cars and trucks. It was Obama’s third speech on cars and fuel in an election battleground state in three weeks.


And in a very, very related story from - gulp! - Consumer Reports:

Bad Karma: Our Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid breaks down

Our Fisker Karma cost us $107,850. It is super sleek, high-tech—and now it’s broken...We have owned our car for just a few days; it has less than 200 miles on its odometer.

...the dashboard flashed a message and sounded a “bing“ showing a major fault. Our technician got the car off the track and put it into Park to go through the owner’s manual to interpret the warning. At that point, the transmission went into Neutral and wouldn’t engage any gear through its electronic shifter except Park and Neutral.

We let the car sit for about an hour and restarted it. We could now engage Drive and the same error message disappeared. After moving it only a few feet the error message reappeared and when we tried to engage Reverse the transmission went straight to Park and again no motion gear could be engaged.

We buy about 80 cars a year and this is the first time in memory that we have had a car that is undriveable before it has finished our check-in process.

We encountered other problems with a Karma press car that visited the track for a few hours, and we have heard of problems at press events. In addition, we see that some owners are experiencing a variety of issues, as evidenced by forums such as FiskerBuzz.com.


Barack Obama invested $529 million dollars of your money into Fisker Automotive - a California based company with an Al Gore venture capital firm connection - as part of his "green initiative", or whatever he calls his redistribution scheme these days. But here's the punch line: These high-tech, 1%-er green Edsel's are actually built...in Finland:

Why Finland?

Here is the answer provided by Fisker Automotive company founder Henri Fisker. “There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle,” he told ABC News “They don’t exist here.”

So why would Barack Obama invest so much American money into a product that can't even be built here - or apparently, built at all?

Maybe there really is a sucker born every minute.

Or perhaps, for a more likely answer, you might want to glance again at the title of this post...