Left-wing protesters have occupied Wall St for about two weeks. There have been 1,000+ arrests, shutting down of bridges, an assault on a police officer, calls for violence by liberal celebrities such as Roseanne and Michael Moore and Van Jones….and other leftists like Russell Simmons and Susan Sarandon have lent their support. The very small band of radicals have cost NYC revenue and reputation. I’ve yet to see a critical report from the MSN on these protesters, despite their ridiculously unintelligent socialist manifesto, violent language and behavior and general lack of bathing.
Consider the fact that the MSN called the Tea Party violent racist rubes and did everything it could to marginalize and smear the limited government movement…yet I don’t recall a single arrest or act of civil disobedience among the thousands of Tea Parties across the country over the last several years. The MSN devoted resources into investigating Tea Party sugar daddies but have shown no interest in who’s funding Occupy Wall St…who want to radically transform the economic and social pillars of this country. The MSN, always looking to expose any hypocrisy in the Tea Party movement, hasn’t even noticed that the Occupy Wall St folks are decrying corporate greed while munching on Dunkin Donuts, sipping Starbucks lattes, and tweeting on iPhones. This is a case study in media bias.
So peaceful and organized! So much different than those unruly, violent Tea Party mobsters…
Today, Obama declared open class warfare upon evil millionaires and billionaires. But let’s see what we get for squeezing the successful a little bit more:
Maybe the guy should just keep quiet!
February 24, 2009 – Obama delivers joint session address on economy
Approval – 65%
Unemployment rate – 8.2%
March 2009: payrolls lose 796,000 jobs
September 9, 2009 – Obama delivers joint session address on health care
Approval – 51%
Unemployment rate – 9.8%
October 2009: payrolls lose 221,000 jobs
January 27, 2010 – Obama delivers SOTU
Approval – 48%
Unemployment rate – 9.7%
February 2010: payrolls lose 35,000 jobs
January 25, 2011 – Obama delivers SOTU
Approval - 50%
Unemployment rate – 9.0%
February 2011: payrolls add 235,000 jobs
September 8, 2011 – Obama delivers jobs plan
Approval – 42%
Unemployment rate – 9.1%
Aug 18 – Obama leaves for vacation
Aug 19 – plays golf
Aug 19 – Regional and state unemployment report shows 28 states and the District of Columbia registered unemployment rate increases in July
Aug 20 – Visits home of Harvard Law Race and Justice Professor Charles Ogletree in Oak Bluffs.
Aug 20 - Explosions and gunfire rattle Tripoli after days of battlefield defeats leave Gaddafi’s government and troops besieged in the capital.
Aug 21 – In the Morning, Obama, Goes to beach with his family followed by 9 holes at Vineyard Golf Club. After gold he attends a reception at Comcast CEO Brian Roberts home followed by dinner at Valerie Jarrett’s home where he holds a press conference on Libya with National Security Team
Aug 21 – Rebel fighters enter Tripoli with little resistance.
Aug 22 –Obama issues a quick statement on Libya on tape. Afterwards he plays basketball and calls Warren Buffet.
Aug 23 – 5.8 magnitude earthquake strikes east coast rattling D.C.
Aug 23 – Goes on bike ride and to the beach with his family. Earthquake occurs while he is golfing
Aug 24 – CBO releases report saying unemployment will stay above 8% until 2014
Aug 24 –Obama golfs at Mink Meadows Golf Club for the 4th time in 5 full days in Martha’s Vineyard
Aug 25 – The forecast for Hurricane Irene took a turn for the worse, with the Category 3 storm now expected to track farther inland along the East Coast than before
Aug 25 –With his family, Obama makes another visit to a private beach in Edgartown, Mass.
Aug 25 – Qaddafi in a new audio message, called on Libyans to destroy the rebels – there are also reports he is surrounded by rebels
The ratings are in! And it is not a pretty picture at Al Gore’s Current TV. What they surely had predicted to be a ratings landslide is nothing more than the adding a few people to an already hopeless enterprise. Sure, Olbermann has ten times the ratings than what Current used to get at 8:00pm. BUT let’s consider that they used to have a little over ten thousand people watching. That’s right. 10,000. Again, 10,000.
By those standards, Olbermann has exploded onto the scene there. But talk about being the tallest midget… He is competing with shows there that literally have more people working on them than watching them.
There are bigger problems at Current, however. It would be one thing if Olbie was continuing to build, but alas, it is exactly the opposite. As politics heated up, and it looked like financial Armageddon, people flocked to the news channels to see the latest in the debt ceiling debate. Everywhere that is except for Olbermann’s channel. His ratings continued to fall.
On Monday, his lefty competition over at MSNBC - Larry O’Donnell, somehow snookered almost a million to tune into his show. The latest ratings for Olbermann showed that he has almost ten times LESS viewers. That’s right, despite all the hype from his media friends and his own obnoxious bluster, he does not even come close to matching his replacement. Forget about Fox News. Neither if them even register a blip next to The O’Reilly Factor.
It could be getting dire over at Current. The Bloated One has lost almost half of the audience he started with only a few weeks ago. He has dropped almost 100,000 of the meager, 200,000 people who came in originally. Or, I should say, they dropped him.
A year from now (assuming he is still coming to work), I wonder what storyline the media will telling? If his ratings don’t improve or at least stop from sliding into oblivion, what will his enablers (like Brian Stelter at the NY Times) be saying? Where will they lay the blame? Will they be making excuses? OR will they just conveniently forget about him entirely?
Now onto something else that peeked our interest… From my good friend, Todd Greenberg:
The Fashion of Keith Olbermann
If you’ve been watching CURRENT this past month (I know nobody in the world is) you’ll have seen that the paunchy and middle-aged Olbermannn has been experimenting with a new look lately. It’s not surprising. In the past he’s tried wearing Ashley Banfield’s glasses in his MSNBC days. We’ve all seen his hoody/trench coat combo at Yankee stadium. But recently he surprised many with his no jacket and vest look.
There have been two styles of vests that he’s tried out so far. The black vest and the grayish/brown vest. Let’s run down whether or not he’s been able to pull off these looks as a distinguished anchor in the vein of Edward R. Murrow (Is he really still pushing that?)
As you can see from the black vest he’s trying to say I’m still a businessman but I can be casual. What he is really saying is “Welcome to Ruth’s Chris, I’m Keith what can I start you off with.” He looks like the waiter from Romano’s Macaroni Grill who gives you a smart ass response when you ask for a new napkin. Or as my friend says a blackjack dealer at an Indian casino. It doesn’t play.
The vest was kind of flashy as well. Kind of reminded me of Scott Hall at Wrestlemania 18 (A little bad guy pro-wrestler-ish). Is this what we can expect from the next episodes of COUNTDOWN? Vest number 2, Keith is trying to say I’m distinguished, classy and here for you to respect me.
What he really says is “I’m Paula Poundstone from the 1980’s and let me tell you funny jokes that don’t allude to my sexual confusion.” Really Keith? You ’re going to go back to the 1980’s on this one. I got an idea, why don’t you roll up your jacket sleeves and grow the mustache back.
Keith… It’s time to face reality. You’re not cool and you never will be. Stop trying to be hip and dress like everyone else.
By Todd Greenberg
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. We are almost six months into CNN’s primetime experiments and it’s becoming painfully clear that no one at the cable news pioneer’s headquarters know what they’re doing.
Sure we put up with Larry King wasting important air time by spending an hour interviewing low level celebrities about nothing… he was Larry King. The man has been in the business since the dawn of time. When the fist living thing trudged out of the cesspool of life he was waiting to interview it. Or if you don’t believe in evolution he was there with a scroll when Jesus came out of his Easter tomb.
We tolerated King in his later years. He was a broadcast legend.
Piers Morgan is British. Nothing wrong with that, but that’s all that Piers has been able to showcase to us. And his interview style isn’t anything special.
Maybe in Britain, the lords spit out their tea and crumpets when he asked a question that was both ribauld and terse, but this is America… where three “JACKASS” movies ruled the box office. This is America where “ass” and “balls” are part of the everyday lexicon. This is AMERICA… where sex and violence is artistic, and no one is shocked by anything anyone says anymore. There’s only three unwritten rules that the majority of Americans primarily agree upon… don’t be racist, leave the kids out of it, and don’t mess with our troops. That’s it.
So why should I want an hour of Sir Piers interview the effeminate kid from GLEE and why does he deserve an hour? Why should I watch an hour with Paris Hilton when she hasn’t been front page entertainment news since 2006? Who the hell cares if Nick Cannon is married to Mariah Carey?
Did I really need a British guy to ask George Clooney the same question 342 hot tabloid TV babes have asked him? He’s not going to get married Piers! He cares about the Sudan… DUH!
Then in the 8pm slot, they revamped a show that should have never been put out in the first place. You drop the old blonde woman. That’s a start. You keep the boring former Governor who paid a young hot woman to have sex with him. Beyond what I just typed… the guy is ridiculously boring. Then… then… here’s the kicker… you add panels.
Whoa! Panels? Really? CNN should get an award for unoriginality because you have to work pretty hard to continuously do the same thing over and over again. The network has a minimum 2 panels on every show.
In the end, the 8pm show like the 9pm is nothing special. They’re not competing with anybody. They’re competing with their day-time shows, and I am truly bored. So bored that I change the channel and ask myself why Elliot Spitzer’s wife didn’t pay someone to be interesting to her (wink). Or if England really is that uptight - a modern version of Gosford Park.
Way to to lower the bar CNN.
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When President Obama, The New York Times, MSNBC, Sheriff Dupnik and many, many others called for a change in the tone of political discourse, who knew it was actually a call to ramp up the violent imagery, thuggery, and now, even vile threats?
The Wisconsin protests have been chock full of comparisons of Republicans to the worst elements in history, threats to reporters and counter-protesters, mean-spirited rantings, and police-defying stormings of government buildings. Now, we get actual, specific threats to lawmakers and their families. Congratulations liberals! You’ve really shown you can step it up from Palin’s “targeted” congressional districts!
Wisconsin’s State Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating several death threats against a number of lawmakers in response to the legislature’s move to strip employees of many collective bargaining rights. Among the threats the Justice Department is investigating is one that was emailed to Republican Senators Wednesday night. Newsradio 620 WTMJ has obtained that email. The following is an excerpt:
Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die…
We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leave it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent. This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won’t tell you all of them because that’s just no fun. Since we know that you are not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decidedto make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it’snecessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you…
Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!
This, of course, is hardly the first bit of menacing done by these unruly thugs who had been occupying the WI Capitol for weeks. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane…
And this classic compilation on these animals should be watched by everyone in the media:
This is just a sampling of the new, more civil tone taken by the left in wake of the Giffords shooting.
Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for all the evidence of violent Tea Party rhetoric…
Politico reports:
In the middle of his tirade against House Republicans’ “mean-spirited” budget bill on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Senate Majority Leader lamented that the GOP’s proposed budget cuts would eliminate the annual “cowboy poetry festival” in his home state of Nevada… For the record, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is in Elko, Nev., next January. The 28th annual festival, a “week-long celebration of life in the rural West, featuring the contemporary and traditional arts of western ranching culture,” is expected to draw thousands of people, according to the festival’s website.
My good friend Todd Greenberg has some experience with cowboy poetry:
They used to bring cowboy poets to our schools in Arizona. I can’t believe this is federally funded stuff. Don’t get me wrong… cowboy poetry can be cool, I guess, and it’s good work if you can get it, but last thing I wanted to do in H.S. was get dragged to the amphitheater to watch four old guys dressed like cowboys and dramatically read poetry like it was down home Summerstock/Shakespeare and tell us about campfire life.
I only remember one poem, it was called “Damn ol’ Dog.” If it didn’t have damn in it no one would have cared.
The two hours I lost that day (and they did if from 6th grade to
12th) could have been summed up by listening to Thin Lizzy’s “Cowboy Song” or screening “High Noon.” If they really wanted to do kids a favor they should have given everyone DVD’s of “For A Few Dollars More.” That movie taught me more about life and the Old West than anything else up to that point in college when I first saw it. Things would have been different if I saw that in H.S.
Todd, once again, thank you for your helpful life experience.
Once again we turn our good friend Todd Greenberg for a review of CNN’s latest attempt to rise from the ashes:
It’s been over a week and a half since CNN debuted its new 9p.m. talent Piers Morgan to replace legendary broadcaster, serial spouse, and resident ‘Crypt Keeper’ Larry King.
I wanted to review it last week but felt I needed to give the show a chance by watching a few more episodes. What I found in the end was that the more episodes I watched the more I realized I was just watching a CNN endorsed ‘US Weekly’ TV show.
Morgan was supposed to let Americans see how a real Englishman interviews. We were supposed to get David Frost, a flashy, affable, interviewer who asked tough no nonsense questions… ‘Frost/Nixon’ type interviews… instead we got Dick Van Dyke from the Mary Poppins movie. An inauthentic star fucker who kisses ass and asks questions that everyone else has already asked.
Here’s a sample of his questioning…
Let’s talk about your penis size Howard Stern?
Well Mr. Morgan, if you had listened to Stern’s radio show at all you would know the man practically talks about his penis size every day and has done so for the past 20 years.
George Clooney why won’t you get married?
I think Clooney has officially answered that question over 8,000 times and 1,000 of those times were by Barbara Walters.
Tell me about your shopping habits Kim Kardashian?
As much as I love Kim Kardashian’s ‘rockin’ bod,’especially her world famous rear end, I have to say if I really was interested in how many purses she buys a day I’d drop acid and watch her show on E!.
My question is… this is what Piers Morgan gives us? I mean, I once watched Larry King ask Kid Rock about why he calls himself the “American Bad-Ass” and that seems hard hitting compared to what Morgan is giving us.
He blew the Ricky Gervais interview and there was no buzz from it. the Oprah interview was embarrassing. This week he had Rudy Giulianni and Joel Osteen, am I watching ‘Hannity’?
He has given us no news from his show. The fact that he pre-tapes these interviews days in advance makes his show irrelevant and predictable.
As for CNN, they should have known better. We could have easily gotten the same type of interview from a Ryan Seacrest-type but instead they go across the pond and get us an Englishman because in their heads, Brit’s tell it like it is. And all us stupid Americans know is that Brits are either smart or starship captains.
Well let me inform CNN what they should have learned from Christine Amanpour and ABC News… American’s do that as well. In fact there’s an American on another channel who is way ahead of everyone else.
I have nothing against a British man or woman hosting an American news show. As long as its not a 7 day cricket match or soccer, I have no problem or bias against Euro culture. But I am not fooled that they’re tougher or smarter because they speak with an accent.
Piers Morgan needs to live up to expectations, or CNN needs to let him loose. That’s the only way they can even dream of being competitive.
Todd Greenberg Strikes Again!
