President Obama’s appearance on The Tonight Show this week received a great deal of attention by all of the network news departments. With the exception of Fox News, the lead story was that President Obama was the first sitting President to appear on a late night talk show. They all reported he was pushing his economic plan with CNN categorizing his performance as “Charming”. Then, as a secondary story, they commented the President committed a ‘gaffe’ when he compared his bowling ability to “Special Olympics”. Much to the President’s credit, he called Timothy Shriver, Chairman of Special Olympics, and apologized for his comment – and this was even before the show aired on NBC. All in all, his gaffe should not have been a major news story – the President is human, and he screwed up, immediately recognized what he did was wrong, and took corrective action. Kudos to the President.
But, Fox News brought up an interesting point – what if the same situation occurred and it had been President George W. Bush instead of the liberal left’s darling, President Obama? One could only imagine the outrage. Liberal Democrats would have been forming lynch mobs. The Liberal Press at CNN, MSKGB, and the big three would have been painting President Bush as an insensitive, uncaring, ignorant, evil rich person. No amount of apology on his part would have been sufficient to compensate for his transgression. So this is the real story about the Special Olympics gaffe, not that is was made, but that it is just another shining example of the continuing “Free Pass” liberals receive in the media – with the exception of Fox News, which was bold enough to point this out.

Eat The Rich

Are you mad about the bonuses AIG executives received?? Ya, me too. But who is really to blame for this situation? Well, you can thank the LIBERAL DEMOCRATS who run Congress. In their smoky back rooms they wrote the loophole in the stimulus bill which ENSURED the bonuses could be paid. The fact they placed the loophole in the legislation is proof these self proclaimed “heroes of the working man” knew these bonuses would be paid long before now.
So how did the LIBERAL DEMOCRATS deal with the political fallout? Well, they relied on the oldest scheme in their playbook – Blame the Evil Rich People. The sole purpose of their false “outrage” at AIG this week was to deflect attention from their incompetence and stupidity. Simply put, they fanned the flames of class warfare to cover up their screw up. The two biggest masters of deflection were Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, with Dodd on CNN claiming he knew nothing about the bonus loophole one day and explaining he had a hand in it the next. Frank, in his arrogant grilling of AIG CEO Edward Liddy, pressed for the names of those who received bonus. When Liddy explained he didn’t want to turn over the names due to the threats AIG execs had received, even providing correspondence where someone threatened to use piano wire to strangle the spouses and children of AIG execs to death, Frank pressed on stating he would subpoena the names anyway. It seems like Frank cares more about his political career than the lives of innocent women and children.
So you can either buy into the liberal propaganda, or hold the incompetent Congress responsible.

Don't Worry - Be Happy!!!

Right in tune with the 1988 Bobby McFerrin song, our fearless President told us yesterday not to worry about the stock market, in fact, he himself doesn’t pay much attention to the “Ups” and “Downs” of the market. That makes me wonder if he actually believes there have been some “Ups” in the market recently. If there were, perhaps my 401K would not have lost more than 50 percent of its value. How comforting to hear that the President isn’t concerned that most of us who played by the rules, worked hard at our jobs, and paid our taxes (unlike his cabinet members) are losing all of our savings – watching the continued downward march of stock values. But then, he probably wants all of us to not care about our retirement savings disappearing so we become totally dependent on the Socialist government he and his liberal comrades seem hell bent to establish.