 As one of the more outspoken, and frankly, nasty leftist commentators, Keith Obermann has been the target of many attacks from the right-wing blogosphere for years. However, recently with news that his ratings are severely dropping, (down 44% from last year), he's being attacked from all circles, including fellow lefties. The L.A. Times' Andrew Malcolm, Boston Herald's Margery Eagan, and The Daily Finance's Jeff Bercovici. Even Jon Stewart famously took a shot at Olbermann. Is it possible that maybe Keith Olbermann is not that nice a person, and even his fellow liberal media folks don't like him?
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Apologizes for Calling Liberal Activists "Retarded"
I really can't criticize Rahm for using language I might use while in the heat of a fight, but then again, he is in politics, and I am not. However, here's the portion of the story that really freaks me out: A White House official confirms that Emanuel made the remark and reports that Emanuel called Tim Shriver last week when the Journal story first appeared to apologize to the disabled community and the apology was accepted. Does the "disabled community" have their own spokesperson, or did he apologize to every disabled person in the country. If it was the latter, then I am impressed that he got each person to accept his apology. I had no idea Rahm had that much time on his hands...
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From Justice Kennedy's majority opinion. The law before us is an outright ban, backed by criminal sanctions. Section 441b makes it a felony for all corporations—including nonprofit advocacy corporations either to expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates or to broadcast electioneering communications within 30 days of a primary election and 60 days of a general election. Thus, the following acts would all be felonies under §441b: The Sierra Club runs an ad, within the crucial phase of 60 days before the general election, that exhorts the public to disapprove of a Congressman who favors logging in national forests; the National Rifle Association publishes a book urging the public to vote for the challenger because the incumbent U.S. Senator supports a handgun ban; and the American Civil Liberties Union creates a Web site telling the public to vote for a Presidential candidate in light of that candidate’s defense of free speech. These prohibitions are classic examples of censorship. For all the liberals yelling and screaming about how terrible this decision is... Let's assume that Sarah Palin is running for President in 2012... I suddenly "see the light" and rise to the challenge of stopping her. I decide to make a film about how evil Sarah Palin is and plead to people not to vote for her, but since I'm not wealthy enough, I form a corporation to raise the funds necessary to make this film. I then want to air this film on TV: 29 days before the primary election... Should I face criminal liability for those actions?
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Massachusetts elects a Republican to fill Teddy Kennedy's Senate seat.
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MSNBC host, Ed Schultz, brags about how he'd happily commit voter fraud to help the Democrat win tomorrow's Senate vote. The problem is that ACORN is ready to make it happen.
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How is is possible that a Republican could win Ted Kennedy's Senate seat? Well, with a candidate like Martha Coakley, it's almost a foregone conclusion that she's going to lose.
As Attorney General, she fought to keep an innocent man in prison.
She stood by and did nothing while one of her staffers physically assaulted a reporter on a public sidewalk.
She called Red Sox pitcher, Curt Schilling, a Yankee fan.
Perhaps, she should stop kissing hands and shaking babies on the campaign trail.
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Even Jon Stewart is starting to turn on Obama...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-7-2010/stealth-care-reform
It's interesting to notice the difference in the volume of audience laughter when he's making a joke about Obama vs. a joke about Bush in this clip.
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Meet Errol Southers, President Obama's nominee to head up the TSA. Southers was censured by the FBI for asking law enforcement personnel to conduct a background check on his ex-wife’s boyfriend. Now, the Washington Post reports, it appears he provided inaccurate testimony about the incident. Our country is in the very best of hands.
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Mayo Clinic to Stop Accepting Medicare. The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little. Another great indicator of what will happen as government gets more and more involved in the healthcare system.
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The PR exec who approved this needs to be sacked. Who rang the closing bell? Michael Douglas dressed as Gordon Gecko?
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Remember Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Libyan terrorist who killed 270 people when he blew up Pan Am Flight 103? Back in August, 2009, we were told he had terminal prostate cancer, and had 3 months live. Despite receiving a life sentence, Scotland released him and we was allowed to return to Libya to die with his family.
Well, it's been 5 months since he was given 3 months to live, and lo and behold, he's still among the living this Christmas season. Meanwhile, the families of his 270 victims, have another Christmas without their loved ones.
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Fannie and Freddie CEOs to get up to $6M in pay. The two chief executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could get paid as much as $6 million for 2009, despite the companies' dismal performances this year which cost taxpayers more than $100 billion.
Fannie's CEO, Michael Williams, and Freddie CEO Charles "Ed" Haldeman Jr. each will receive $900,000 in salary, $3.1 million in deferred payments next year and another $2 million if they meet certain performance goals, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The pay packages were approved by the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates Fannie and Freddie. Isn't great that we as U.S. citizens have our own government in charge of taking our money and giving to those in charge of losing our money. Our country is truly in the best of hands.
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Reid and Pelosi to hold closed door meetings to decide final health care bill.
Remember when Obama promised that open negotiations would be aired on C-SPAN?
More of that change we can believe in...
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My friend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) escapade52 raised some questions about my earlier post regarding the Obama administration changing the recommendations saying that women under 50 do not need mammogram screenings.
The fact is that prior to 1997, the general medical consensus was that women under 50 did not need mammogram screening. Then, in March 1997, the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute issued new guidelines recommending women aged 40-49 to receive annual mammograms. That study changed how the medical community treated breast cancer screening, and was effective at educational outreach to convince women of the importance of getting early breast cancer screening, since early detection is the best way to save a woman's life.
And now the government is changing its tune? Many in the medical community are loudly and openly criticizing the Obama administration for this move; including the American Cancer Society and The American College of Radiology. Otis W. Brawley, M.D., Chief Medical Officer for the American Cancer Society, stated, “With its new recommendations, the USPSTF is essentially telling women that mammography at age 40 to 49 saves lives; just not enough of them.
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The American College of Radiology (ACR) issued a statement saying that the USPSTF mammography recommendations will result in countless unnecessary breast cancer deaths each year. Even Teresa Heinz-Kerry, the wife of 2004 Democratic Presidential Nominee, Sen. John Kerry is blasting the Obama administration. The basis of the criticism is clear: that government has an interest in seeing less women get mammograms in order to save money on the cost of mammograms. Whether or not you agree with the criticism, the main argument still exists that, political pressure should have no place in healthcare policy. This is yet one more reason why increased government control of healthcare is scary.
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There is not much in which I agree with lefty activist Jane Hamsher. (I once had 15 seconds of blog fame", when I wrote about her racist "blackface" attack on Joe Lieberman.) Nevertheless, she has joined forces with right-wing anti-tax activist Grover Norquist in demanding the resignation of White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, and an investigation into the billions of dollars of fraud at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
This is definitely one combined political effort I can get behind.
To Obama's credit, The president is becoming very successful at bringing the right and left together. Unfortunately, they are combining their efforts against the Obama administration.
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Earlier this month, the Obama administration, sent out a notice recommending that women under the age of 50 not get mammogram breast cancer screenings. With a straight face, the government officials said it was a health related issue, and had nothing to do with lowering government health care costs... Yeah right... It should be noted that states are beginning to follow this rationing plan. California will stop paying for low-income women under the age of 50 to get mammograms.
To their credit, many womens' groups immediately opposed the new Obama regulations. Of course, had President Bush put forth such regulations, I can only wonder how loud the outcry would be of Bush being accused of "killing" women. I give some credit to HuffPo blogger Amy Siskind to speak out against women being used as a bargaining chip in healthcare funding negotiations.
While Siskind and other womens' groups have a point in arguing over gender issues, they are missing a much more important point. This is what happens when government gains more power over the economy and scarcity of healthcare resources. By controlling these resources, the government will need to ration healthcare more and more. When government imposes rations and restrictions on resources, they do so with the power of law and force. While, there are many problems with the current healthcare system, at least people have some freedom to choose where they get their healthcare and insurance. However, as government takes more and more control, we lose more and more of our freedoms, and as such we will see more and more cases of rationing, and the lowering of our quality of healthcare.
Hope and Change, indeed...
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Ok... what Sen. Tom Coburn said on the floor of the Senate was stupid, and he should apologize for it. However, the way the left is harping on it is just so hypocritical.
Whenever Rep. Alan Grayson or Howard Dean go off the rails and say something offensive, instead of outrage, they are praised by the left for speaking "truth to power."
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I don't think Brittany Murphy's strategy of getting an Academy Award is going to work out as well as it did for Heath Ledger...
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