Sen. Barack Obama was on The View today, and prior to his appearance on the set, the women had a discussion about the significance of recent statements by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Elizabeth was especially offended by Wright’s most recent comments, as reported by a NewsDay blog:
“From the Wright-written eulogy for scholar Asa Hilliard in the Dec. 2007 edition of the Trumpet magazine: “(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him… The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.”
Then Whoopi chimes in after Elizabeth describes her disdain for these statements, and likens Rev. Write to the Pope! She said that like JFK’s problems with his spiritual leader, the Pope, Obama can’t be held responsible for HIS spiritual leader’s comments. What? Did JFK sit in the cathedral every week for 20 years at the Vatican? Don’t think so. And neither did Barbara Walters, who rightly points out that JFK’s issue was with his religion; not his spiritual mentor.
Then dumbass Joy gets in on it, and says she doesn’t understand all the fuss, and that all religions have said crazy things in the past that would be found offensive by somebody. Rev. Wright offended “somebody?” Are you kidding me? He offended EVERYBODY with his statements. And you’d think as an Italian, she might be offended at Wright’s “garlic nose” comments. Well, you’d be thinking incorrectly. She actually did not take offense to it, and found it oddly flattering. Again, what? I wonder what Joy’s opinion would be had a Republican, or say someone like McCain, been the one to have made that comment. Joy, since when is “looking down” someone’s nose not offensive? It means that person thinks they’re better than the other, so what is it you’re saying?
But then again, when you watch the interview with Barack on the couch later on, Joy acted like she’d probably reach over and stick her hand down his pants had the camera not been on. Shameful but not surprising, this painful fawning over the “Messiah.”
Tonight Bill O’Reilly’s Talking Points Memo dealt with the Rev. Wright controversy, and Fox News producer Grif Jenkins went to Jesse Jackson for a comment at the very liberal conference for “Take Back America”, and was virtually stonewalled by Jackson. After the half-hearted response to the interview, Grif was accosted by some unknown person, who by all appearances was linked to the Jackson camp, demanding to know what Fox News had to say.
Funny that JJ had to calm the baiter down by himself. You can watch the melt-down by JJ’s camp here.
Can you believe this? While people try to enter the Marine Recruitment Center in Berkeley, they are physically prevented from doing so. And when they ask the police for help? ‘Well, we’re just trying to remain neutral.’ MY ASS!
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Not only are they disallowing people from entering, but they’re trying to not let folks out. After much cajoling, you can hear a couple of the Pinkos yell “LET ‘EM OUT, BUT NOT IN!” What a bunch of pukes. And I’m personally embarrassed about the lack of action by the BPD. Shame on you all. You should all hide your badges in shame.
What a pinhead. Bill Maher takes on the subject of Barack Obama’s recent proclamation that he will not wear an American Flag lapel pin for whatever his reasons were.
Bill Maher not only berates those who would wear the Flag lapel pin, but continues on to deride Sean Hannity for what he calls “no-pin-gate,” and calls the flag pin nothing more than a brooch. Here’s a partial transcript:
…and then they cover to people like Sean Hannity, who reported on No-Pin-Gate, and then had to call a doctor because his fake outrage hard-on lasted longer than 72 hours.
Oh, yes, Halliburton, Bechtel and Blackwater come up in his rant, as well as Larry Craig, Mark Foley and others. Not to mention, he says, that ‘gay Republicans’ would still be obsessing about the ‘blow job’ Bill Clinton got. Has Maher no shame? Wait… that question needs no answer.
Well, last night’s Real Time was a bonanza of stupidity. The only shining light was Tucker Carlson, who surprisingly came out swinging for the Republicans. The guests were Joy Behar, Paul Krugman, and Tucker Carlson. But one of Bill’s special interviews was with former Mexican President, Vicente Fox. Bill prodded Fox, and often gave leading pre-answers to questions he posed to Fox. My good friend Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters, did a great job at transcribing the highlights of this shameful interview. Here’s a bit of Noel’s piece:
For those with a strong stomach, Maher began the interview with the following shameful question:
Maher: One party ruled Mexico for 71 years. And, for, I remember reading about this, for decades people were saying, “We want someone to come along and break that monopoly on power.” And you were finally the man who came along and did that. And that power, that party that was in power for all those years was very corrupt, and very inept. It was like having Bush Republicans in there for 71 years. Now is that, would that be a correct thumbnail telling of Mexican history, sir?
Amazing. Imagine how much hatred Maher must have for his own country’s president to ask such a question of a former world leader on national television.
Sadly, that was just the beginning of the Bush bashing, for later, Maher asked his guest the following:
Maher: I know you have very mixed feelings about President Bush. I know you are friendly with him because he came and visited you during his early days in office. That was a very gratifying thing for you. But that doesn’t really stack up against some of his giant boners like the Iraq war, does it? And, you’ve called him a “windshield cowboy.” What is that?
Incredible. So, now Maher was setting up Fox to himself make fun of our president. Sadly, Vicente did not take the highroad that a classier former head of state would:
FOX: Yes, you know, in that visit, I took him to see this beautiful stallion that I ride. And having rided all my life since I was too young, I noticed that he was a little bit trembling, a little bit afraid of touching the horse. I invited him to ride it, and he said, “No, no, no, security would not allow me to ride that horse.”
And then I paid a visit back here in Texas, and he invited me to go around his farm there, by the way, a very modest home he’s got there. And, he was driving this pickup, this beautiful pickup, and so I could notice that he knows how to drive a pickup, but he doesn’t know how to ride a horse.
Isn’t that special? Alas, there was more bashing in the following exchange:
Maher: I remember a couple of years ago at one of the correspondents’ dinners in Washington, his wife, Laura Bush, got up and told a story…
Fox: Great lady.
Maher: What?
Fox: Great lady.
Maher: Great lady? Well, sure, look who she’s standing next to.
What a swell guy, this Maher, eh? You can watch the interview here.
We had a local story today about a true American hero war veteran, who is a bus driver for the Gwinnett County Transit Authority. You see, he is going to be off on Monday for the Memorial Day Holiday. But this veteran, Gary Rolley, wanted to show his support and love for those who paid the ultimate price. So he wore his American Legion cap on his bus route today to honor those veterans who gave us our very freedoms. But wait…um….he got in a little bit of trouble. You see, his bosses didn’t like the hat, you know; not part of his regular “uniform.” Never mind the fact that during Christmas, Santa hats can be worn, and other times of the year, other hats can be worn. But not a cap paying homage to our veterans… Ohhhh, NOOO! Can’t have that now, can we?
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Gary said when he was told he had to remove his cap, he decided he was too sick to work. And when I saw the story, I gotta admit; I could understand what made him sick. Some government agencies obviously despise an overt display of patriotism.
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