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What planet does Anita Dunn live on, anyway?

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:42:00 +0000

Further underscoring her extremism and warped perspective (in case anybody has missed either point up to now), White House Communications Director and Mao-admirer Anita Dunn not only has renewed her ongoing tirade against Fox News, but actually has made the incredible claim that MSNBC isn't biased!

Does this lady even take herself seriously?

Dunn will be stepping down from her position at the Obama White House at the end of this month. This may be the best thing that has happened to the Administration for a long time; she's an even bigger chronic embarrassment to the President than Joe Biden.

HT: Real Clear Politics

Meanwhile, in Havana...

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +0000

The Grand Old Man of Western Hemisphere totalitarianism, Fidel Castro, continues to gush about how wonderful Barack Obama is and what a great job he's doing.

HT: Drudge

Obama demeans himself- and us

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:17:00 +0000

If you recall, President Obama pulled this demeaning stunt once before, when he humbled himself before the King of Saudi Arabia.

From the point of view of protocol, the President of the United States is the equal of kings and emperors. From the point of view of geopolitical reality, even now Mr. Obama is the single most powerful man on earth, and heads the most powerful nation on earth. It's not simply a faux pas for him to bow before another head of state. It's a demeaning of his own position, and of our country.

The diplomatic ineptitude of this administration is massive. But this goes beyond ineptitude- especially since it's happened before. Somebody really needs to talk to this guy- who, coming up on a year after he took office, is still not ready for prime time.

I mean, don't they have a protocol officer at the White House anymore?

HT: Drudge

Let me make one thing perfectly clear...

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:05:00 +0000

Mao-loving Obama aide Anita Dunn has let the cat out of the bag.

No, it's not a matter of excessive, er... enthusiasm on the part of his loyal staff. Nor is it something that just sorta happened. We're talking a deliberate policy decision here.

The Administration's Nixonian war on Fox News was personally approved by Barack Obama.

A vocabulary lesson for the Left

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:02:00 +0000

Back when President Obama committed his "bittergate" gaffe during the last campaign, it was widely pointed to as just another sign of liberal elitism. It's fascinating that many on the cultural Left actually tried to turn elitism into a good thing. Completely ignoring the dictionary definition of the word, it tried to confuse the meaning of "elitist" and "elite," and claiming that we should all strive to be elitists! Apparently this attempt at revisionist lexicography was first undertaken when Hillary Clinton used the term to refer to certain of Mr. Obama's supporters during the campaign for the Democratic nomination. It persists among supporters of Mr. Obama's healthcare initiatives.

The word elite, of course, indicates excellence; the word elitist, snobbery. The distinction was apparently lost on the authors of those particular sites, and on others who imitated their attempt to redefine a pejorative as a compliment on their own blogs and websites. Dictionary.com defines "elitist" thus:

e⋅lit⋅ism [i-lee-tiz-uhm, ey-lee-]
–noun
1.
practice of or belief in rule by an elite.
2.
consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group.
Origin: 1950–55; elite + -ism Related forms:
e⋅lit⋅ist, noun, adjective

Well, here is an article by Mike Rosen of the Denver Post correcting their mistake, and pointing out that while liberals may be elitists, they aren't necessarily elite.

HT: Real Clear Politics

An interview with Carrie Prejean

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:49:00 +0000

Here's an interview with former Miss California Carrie Prejean- the author of a new book- on her ongoing battle with the forces of hate, religious bigotry and political correctness.

Prejean is the woman who blew her chance to be Miss USA- she finished as First Runner-Up- because she truthfully answered a question about how she felt about gay "marriage," a question which ignored the longstanding pagent tradition of avoiding politically charged subjects. Her answer reflected her religious beliefs. She's been slandered, libeled, and villified in every corner of the rabid cultural Left for expressing a belief about which the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions agree: that marriage was instituted by the Creator as an institution involving members of two different sexes, and not only one.

Ms. Prejean lost her title as Miss California due to a "sex tape" she had made for a former boyfriend in the belief that he would be the only one who would see it. She admits that it was a mistake and says that it is something of which she "is not proud." Nobody with an ounce of objectivity doubts, of course, that Ms. Prejean's unpopular views on gay "marriage" made politically correct pagent officials anything but delighted at the opportunty to dump her.

GOP edges ahead in Gallup congressional poll

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:18:00 +0000

Gallup has joined Rasmussen in putting the GOP in the lead in the 2010 generic congressional race.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:21:00 +0000

Today- the eleventh day of the eleventh month- we in the United States and in many of her historic allies honor those who have served in the military and fought for our freedom.

From the embattled farmers of Lexington and Concord to the citizen soldiers who fight the forces of chaos and darkness at this very moment in Iraq and Afghanistan, these people had risked and often laid down their lives so that we back home could enjoy the freedoms we so often take for granted.

But freedom, as the saying goes, isn't free. Those who serve would rather be with their families back home. And those who have given life or limb remind us to treasure the liberty we so often take in stride.

From the bottom of my heart, ladies and gentlemen... thank you for mine.

Virginia, NJ elect GOP governors!

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:59:00 +0000

My former home- Virginia- has returned to its senses and elected a Republican governor, as has New Jersey!

"Ich bin beschäftigt"

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:34:00 +0000

Germany is the latest country President Obama seems intent on alienating.

He's too busy to go to Berlin for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

HT: Real Clear Politics

NYT notices that Iowa is souring on Obama

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:28:00 +0000

The New York Times- the Democratic Campaign Pamphlet of Record- has noticed that here in Iowa, where The One got his first big boost with his caucus victory over Hillary Clinton, people are starting to have second thoughts about President Obama.

HT: Drudge

Hilarious

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:19:00 +0000

It's a positive review, but I can't help but chuckle at the Chicago Tribune's attempt to make 'V,' which premiers tonight on ABC, into an anti-Obama parable.

Hello! It's a remake!

HT: Drudge

A deficit in leadership?

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:12:00 +0000

Back in 1960, an inexperienced and frankly unqualified playboy senator was opposed by an extremely talkative former Minneapolis mayor, an old line wheeler and dealer of a Senate Majority Leader, and a twice-defeated political dilettante from Illinois for the Democratic presidential nomination. We might well have wondered where all the great American leaders had gone.

Except that from the viewpoint of 2009, a choice between John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Adlai E. Stevenson doesn't look all that bad.

David Gergen thinks we have a deficit in leadership these days- that Americans just aren't producing potential presidents like we have in the past. I think he's wrong. Granted, we have a deficit in leadership in the White House right now. But I suspect that every generation wonders why the leaders who will look like giants to future generations don't measure up to those of the past.

HT: Real Clear Politics

Obama alienates France

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:58:00 +0000

French President Nicholas Sarkozy came to office as a vocal pro-American. But the incredible ineptitude of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy has needlessly alienated him, and caused him to recalculate his posture in the world.

HT: Drudge

Feeling blue over the demise of the purple Obama?

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:07:00 +0000

Tom Bevan has an interesting article over at Real Clear Politics on the contrast between the president Barack Obama said he'd be, and the president he's actually turned out to be.

Even more interesting is the number of Obamaphiles who- against all the evidence- continue to crow that their man is somehow trying to "bring us together."

'Immature and thin-skinned'

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:54:00 +0000

The San Diego Union Tribune has editorialized that the Obama administration's Alinskyite war on Fox News brands it as "immature and thin-skinned."

HT: Real Clear Politics

Olbermann busted!

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Meanwhile, Ann Coulter has busted Keith Olbermann for using a phonied-up version of Bush 41's "Willie Horton ad" to support his scurrilous claim that it was racist.

The actual ad never mentioned Horton's race, and never showed his picture. Moreover, all the "criminals" in the ad were white. But Olbermann used an altered version of the ad containing a picture of Horton to make his argument about how terribly racist conservatives are.

HT: Drudge

On the other hand....

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:35:00 +0000

...no sooner has POTUS given the word chutzpah a new definition by claiming that Republicans "do what they're told" and Democrats "think for themselves" than his press secretary threatens to go him one better.

Mr. Gibbs calls President Obama's indecisiveness about Afghanistan "his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform," while claiming that Dick Cheney failed our men and women in uniform by not being "focused" on Afghanistan during the previous administration!

I think it was Goebbels who said that the more outrageous the lie, the more people will believe it. Certainly that principle seems to be animating the administration these last couple of days!

Democrats do what!?

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:28:00 +0000

Hey. Listen for yourself. If I hadn't heard it with my own ears...

There is a marvelous Yiddish word- chutzpah- which is classically defined as that quality exhibited by a man who murders both of his parents and then pleads for mercy on the ground that he's an orphan. For any Democrat to make the claim for the members of his or her party that the president makes in this clip gives the word a whole new definition!

HT: Drudge

Seven months after the stimulus...

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:55:00 +0000

...49 of the 50 states have actually lost jobs.

HT: Drudge

The lies of Michael Moore

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:25:00 +0000

The pattern of dishonesty in Michael Moore's "documentaries" isn't nearly as well known as should be. It's amazing, for example, how few people realize that the wonderful health care system he attempted to pass off as available to everyday Cubans in Sicko is in fact available only to foreigners and members of the Cuban Communist party.

Dan Gifford provides an opportunity for you to educate yourself regarding Moore's habit of fictionalizing the truth.

Time is running out for Obama and his media posse

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:57:00 +0000

Steve Huntley of the Chicago Sun-Times has figured out that the Obama administration and its acolytes in the media can only blame George W. Bush for its own shortcomings for so long- and that the excuses are already wearing thin.

Rich Lowry of the National Review makes pretty much the same point.

HT: Drudge,
Real Clear Politics

Jews banned from Comen Breast Cancer Conference

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:58:00 +0000

The Susan G. Comen Breast Cancer Conference is about to convene in Alexandria, Egypt.

No Jews are allowed.

Israeli doctors were told on short notice that their registrations had been canceled.

Cancer is a terrible disease. So is religious bigotry. The Comen Foundation- an American group- should insist that the restriction be removed, or else cancel the conference.

HT: Flo Johnson

Britt Hume chimes in

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:32:00 +0000

Krauthammer strikes back

noreply@blogger.com (John Brian Faber) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:58:00 +0000

Charles Krauthammer answers the Administration's attacks on Fox News- and White House Communications Director Anita Dunn's statement that she was joking when she called Mao one of her favorite political philosophers.