“Fox News”: English for “Globovision”

On the heels of Obama going all Chavez on Fox,  Media Matters has declared war.

Ok, bring it on. Fox can always use free advertising. These idiots actually believe that people despise the current leftist regime because Fox “lies” about it. On the contrary, they despise it because they can see what it is, and Fox is the only network not trying to cover up for it.

Can I vomit now?

Little black cherubs singing for health care reform on CNN.

“Stonegate”

I’m sorry, but Breitbart’s site is flushing a lot of its newly-won credibility down the tubes with this one.

OK, “Bite me, Jew boy” is on the face of it an ethnic slur. So would be an email saying “Bite me, nigga” sent from Kanye West to Barack Obama.

We’ve known about the racism of the Left for a long time. This is mighty trivial stuff, and it’s only intense hatred of the MSM that had them bring it out at all. Give it a rest, boys; there are bigger fish to fry.

Shooting-war sitrep: Owosso MI

A pro-life protester was gunned down in a drive-by shooting.

Mlive/Flint Journal helpfully publishes the victim’s entire legal history, as if to say “He deserved it”. Out of the 18 items, 7 were dismissed or not prosecuted, and only 3 were actual moral crimes. And the most recent was 2003. They also have to let us know that he lived in “a modular home park”, which is I suppose better than calling him “trailer trash” outright.

The same perp (who is in custody) earlier killed a gravel pit owner (for unknown motives.)

UPDATE 3:04: Perp is 33, a trucker, lives in an apartment building, may have driven for the gravel pit owner.  This may have been a rather non-ideological crime: guy was mad at Fuoss and killed him, then saw Pouillon, felt irritated and figured “after the first, the rest are free.”  That’s just a guess; we’ll see.

UPDATE 3:48:

The Shiawassee County Prosecutor’s office has charged Harlan J. Drake, 33, of Owosso with two counts of first-degree, premeditated murder in Friday’s slaying of an anti-abortion activist in Owosso and an Owosso Towship gravel pit owner.

County Prosecutor Randy Colbry said Drake also had plans to kill an Owosso realtor but was arrested before he could carry out his alleged plan….Colbry said Drake had grudges against all three men.

Sounds like a personal thing, not an ideological one.

UPDATE 10PM: So much for that thought:

Harlan Drake has told police that he was “offended” by Pouillon’s anti-abortion messages.

And he’s a fat slob…and a CCW holder…and married, at least for now.

UPDATE 9/16: And he was on anti-depressants … maybe the real culprit here.

Consumer Reports narcs on shower head

In the words of the old labor song, “Whose side are you on?”

In its latest issue (Oct. 2009, released this past Friday), Consumer Reports states that the British-made Hudson Reed Theme Thermostatic Shower Panel had a forceful spray that “seemed too good to be true—or legal.”  Environmental Protection Agency regulations limit shower head water flow to no more than 2.5 gallons per minute.  Consumer Reports acknowledges that many shower fixtures get around this rule by using several shower heads, but the magazine decided to report the new single-head fixture to authorities, anyway.  (In its words, “We’ve contacted EPA….”)

Consider this a review of a consumer support publication that has gone badly awry, and act accordingly.

Losing friends

Even the pet cartoonist of the Bourgeois Marxist Tabloid Press is turning against Obama.

NPR listener: we’ve all been smart since 1/20/09

Coupla nights ago, National Propaganda Radio had a little piece about the end of the Mayan calendar. It was pretty fluffy, but then, if the networks aren’t doing real news, why should NPR? Yesterday, they read a letter complaining about it as giving air time to New Age superstition. It ended, “I thought we’d left that behind on January…” and I thought “…1st, 2000″, which was the last time we had Apocalypse Fever. But no, it was “January 20th”. Evidently the advent of The One has ushered in a new age of rationality and science. Yeah, sure…

I didn’t much mind the story…I haven’t been listening to NPR much as they are so far in-the-tank for Obamacare that they’re drowning. As for the Mayan calendar, my grandfather’s people were/are Community of Christ (formerly Reorganized Latter Day Saints), and it would be an amusing vindication of sorts if it turned out to be a leftover bit of prophecy from Nephite times. Mostly, though, I think, “My datebook ends on January 31, 2010!~ We’re all gonna DIE!!!!”

The One endorses Fox News

…as the only network actually doing their jobs.

“It’s very hard for me to swallow that one,” Obama told CNBC when asked whether he thinks the media is too easy on him. “First of all, I’ve got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration.”

The interviewer quickly assumed Obama was referring to Fox News, a suggestion the president didn’t disagree with.

“Well, that’s a pretty big megaphone,” he said. “And you’d be hard-pressed, if you watched the entire day, to find a positive story about me on that front.”

There’s something disconcertingly Chavezian about that statement.

Ravenna Record-Courier imitates the Sacramento Bee

There was a little firestorm in Netland yesterday when the Sacramento Bee editorial page decided to slam their customers because they didn’t vote Tuesday in the way that the SacBee thought they should. Worse, the Bee took their editorial offline and replaced it with a much milder one, with an excuse for the first one  that no one is buying. It would appear that nobody was steering that puppy when it crashed into the iceberg.

But hey, out here in Portage County O-HI-O, we’re just as trendy as those Californicators, yes sir! And our journalists are just as professional. Of course, when they sneak out of the office for some afternoon delight, it’s usually heterosexual, but our soybean farmers are doing their best to change that. Our voters turned down a public health levy for the 31st time, in the face of the eevul scary swine flu, and that was just too much for the R-C, whose readers are masochists who just love being slammed by the hometown paper. They must, as nobody has complained yet about a 2 week old editorial. Either that, or nobody read the thing; I didn’t until just now.  Being manly Midwesterners, the editorial staff probably won’t pull a SacBee on us; we stick by our words out here, even words like “cheapskate”.

Lizzie was a 14 year old girl once

…so she knows exactly what she’s talking about:

The White House Press Corps has revealed a profound truth about themselves: they’re a bunch of 14 year old girls. If they don’t like you, they will be absolute savages to you. But if they like you, you’re cool and they all want to be, they all want to invite you for a sleepover.

If they love you, they collect your bare-chested pictures they draw hearts around your name and sigh that you are the best, the smartest, the coolest, the funniest, the most elegant, the most brilliant, the handsomest and best-dressed, most charming evah, evah, evah, and have fantasies that you’ll take them on a dream date! They share minutiae about you; what you like and dislike. And when you break promises to them, they either ignore it or they make excuses for it.