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Video: Colossal jackass really sorry or something

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/09/15/video-colossal-jackass-really-sorry-or-something/

Posted: September 15, 2009

Someone on his management team must have seen it and taken the hint because the call was duly placed shortly thereafter and all is now right with the world. … So sorry that it didn't occur to him to call and apologize to her until she appeared on "The View" this morning and mentioned that, no indeed, she hadn't heard from him yet. … A palate cleanser from last night's Leno debut to tide you over while we wait for the atomic ACORN bomb to drop and the House floor vote on Joe Wilson's censure…

Next Right: Conservatives need more sites like Big Government — and Hot Air

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/10/01...s-need-more-sites-like-big-government-and-hot-air/

Posted: October 1, 2009

I've personally always thought of the site less as a blog and more as a news aggregator, where news junkies can go to get their fix during the day; that's how most big-traffic political sites tend to work, from Instapundit all the way on up to Drudge. … The continuing cultural divide between the Left and Right approach to online media is best illustrated by this: While organizations on the Right tend to hire a single blogger (generally from internal or junior political staff, rather than the blogosphere), organizations on the Left very often (a) hire successful bloggers and give them freedom, and/or (b) have very large staffs focused on muckraking, research and blogging. … The Left built new institutions and adapted their tactics to the new battlefield - guerilla warfare, as it were - while the Right is trying to port over the institutional cultures and tactics that they have built up over generations, regardless of the new battlefield…

Townhall voter to McCain: “I’m mad! I’m really mad!”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2008/10/09/townhall-voter-to-mccain-im-mad-im-really-mad/

Posted: October 9, 2008

Note his preface to those comments, though: "We've got to act together because all of us are Americans first. … I watched a bit from earlier in the townhall while cutting the clip and what McCain says here is true -- people were yelling about ACORN during every pause. … Fox cut away at the end right before the next questioner pressed McCain on Obama's associations…

Dilbert on sanctimony in bailouts

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/02/25/dilbert-on-sanctimony-in-bailouts/

Posted: February 25, 2009

However, before pillorying executives for private jet use (which does create jobs), perhaps our public servants should set the example first. … If taxpayers bail out firms, in Detroit, Wall Street, or anywhere else, then that aid should come with some strings attached on how the money gets spent. … Dilbert usually sticks to corporate America for its lampooning, but with the line blurring between business and politics like never before, Scott Adams wields a mighty pen in highlighting the ridiculous sanctimony of Senators and Representatives complaining about private-jet use in the private sector…

Chuck Todd on covering Van Jones: “Is that the best use of the time of the mainstream media?”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/09/15...the-best-use-of-the-time-of-the-mainstream-media/

Posted: September 15, 2009

Never mind that the whole point of the Van Jones story is that Barry O's czar fetish constitutes an end-around the typical constitutional process for confirming administration officials in positions of power. … Evidently the valuable time of the mainstream media is better spent coming up with stuff to air in lieu of covering the ACORN story and concocting ever new and more creative ways in which to dismiss criticisms of Obama as racist. … Via Breitbart, another great moment in gatekeeping from a guy who spent last week spin-doctoring Joe Wilson's outburst for the White House, replete with a heavy-handed racial narrative to explain southern antipathy to The One's agenda…

Myth vs Fact on bailout compromise

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/09/28/myth-vs-fact-on-bailout-compromise/

Posted: September 28, 2008

Requires the Secretary to develop regulations/guidelines necessary to prohibit or, in specific cases, manage any conflicts of interest with respect to contractors, advisors, and asset managers. … Fact: Further, Treasury is MANDATED to create an insurance program (Section 102) that protects the taxpayers and requires companies that wish to participate in this program to have some skin in the game by paying risk-based premiums. … Fact: Treasury is given multiple options to deal with the current economic crisis, including insurance, public/private auctions, loan guarantees, and direct support to financial institutions…

Audio: Steve Schmidt says McCain won’t go after Obama on Wright

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2008/10/13...schmidt-says-mccain-wont-go-after-obama-on-wright/

Posted: October 13, 2008

Skip ahead to 3:40 of the clip for that or listen from the beginning to hear Schmidt repeat McCain's exceedingly stupid line about Ayers being nothing more than a "washed-up old terrorist" whom we needn't concern ourselves with except to the extent that Obama might be lying about him. … To the extent that it hasn't been, they figure they can kill two birds with one stone by boosting Ayers's profile and leaving the electorate to connect the dots with Wright, Rezko, Pfleger, ACORN, the Chicago machine, and every other shady character that revolves around The One. … Like I said earlier, I think they're staying away from Wright because most of the impact of that story has already been priced into the polls…

Video: Voter fraud investigation linked to Nunn choice for policy adviser

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2014/09/1...tigation-linked-to-nunn-choice-for-policy-adviser/

Posted: September 12, 2014

The policy director convenes a "kitchen cabinet" of individuals including Senator Nunn, Norman Underwood, Stacey Abrams, Andrea Young, Andrew Feiler, Charles Campbell, David Edwards, Gordon Giffin, Valeria MacPhail, and Rocky Rief on a weekly basis to provide the campaign with guidance on a variety of policy topics. … Third Sector Development is run by Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D), who has contributed to Nunn's campaign and was listed on an official campaign strategy document as a proposed member of a group of potential policy advisers. … WSB-TV reported this week that six counties in the state have complained to the Secretary of State about fraudulent voter registration applications coming from New Georgia Project, whose parent company Third Sector Development is run by current Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams…

TEMS: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson & the Week in Review

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/09/1...duane-generalissimo-patterson-the-week-in-review/

Posted: September 18, 2009

(And if the log-in prompt doesn't come up in the chat box below, use this link instead.) Jazz Shaw of The Moderate Voice and The Monster moderate the chat, and we have Troll Gun Trivia Contest running before the show, for those who get there early -- and are registered! … Duane and I will talk about the unfolding ACORN stories, the collapse of ObamaCare and Obama in the polling, the death of the racism meme, and the emerging consensus on cap-and-trade. … Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we'll take a look at the past week with Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show…

Fox News: Sources close to O’Keefe say it’s “not a case of wiretapping”

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2010/01/27...close-to-okeefe-say-its-not-a-case-of-wiretapping/

Posted: January 27, 2010

Exit quotation from Frum: "I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict: the James O'Keefe/Landrieu phone interference case will be resolved with a very stern talking to by a judge, no criminal record, and 100 hours of community service each for the four arrested young people." … You'll be pleased to know that ace reporter David Shuster is on his way to New Orleans to report on this story firsthand, although it's not clear why: On Twitter yesterday, he pronounced O'Keefe guilty and sentenced him to prison. … Breitbart is right: The affidavit didn't accuse the group of "wiretapping" but of "willfully and maliciously interfering" with a government phone system, which may mean something less sinister in practice (albeit possibly still in violation of the statute)…

Video: House Republicans remember Breitbart; Update: How Breitbart spent his last few hours

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2012/03/01/video-house-republicans-remember-breitbart/

Posted: March 1, 2012

His legacy has nothing to do with whether the Republican party picked up Anthony Weiner's congressional seat or whether ACORN has been able to renew its funding. … His public persona was of a guy who enjoyed a good bar brawl so much that he might throw a chair to start one; the private portraits are of someone who'd buy everyone rounds afterward and entertain them for hours. … He's one of the few people in media whom I regret not having met, partly because experiencing Hurricane Breitbart firsthand must have been a trip and partly because the blog friends we have in common obviously adored him…

Video: Greasy ACORN spokesman greasier than ever

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/09/14/video-greasy-acorn-spokesman-greasier-than-ever/

Posted: September 14, 2009

The opprobrium you're about to endure serves you right for doubting him. … Yes, the prostitution sting fooled a few low-level employees, but Fox has a vendetta and the applications never would have made it past senior management and, why, you're probably a racist for even questioning him to begin with. … The guy who wouldn't let John Fund get a word in edgewise during the campaign?…

TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Christopher & Howe

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/09/15/tems-andrew-malcolm-christopher-howe/

Posted: September 15, 2009

(And if the log-in prompt doesn't come up in the chat box below, use this link instead.) Jazz Shaw of The Moderate Voice and The Monster moderate the chat, and they have Troll Gun Trivia Contest running before the show, for those who get there early -- and are registered! … In the second half, Tommy Christopher and Caleb Howe return to debate ACORN, the 9/12 march, and much much more! … First, Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times' Top of the Ticket blog joins us to talk about politics and the media…

Time for a new lie: AARP has endorsed my health-care plan, says Obama

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/08/11...aarp-has-endorsed-my-health-care-plan-says-obama/

Posted: August 11, 2009

As you watch, try to get your mind around the fact that the biggest retiree lobbyist group in the country is formally undecided about a bill that's guaranteed not only to cut into its constituents' medical coverage but to force them to compete for doctors' time with 47 million new insured people. … Why, by finding magical "savings and efficiencies within the health care system," of course -- the same sort of savings and efficiencies, presumably, that make the post office run so well. … The country's largest advocacy group for Americans over 50 issued a statement after the event saying, "While the President was correct that AARP will not endorse a health care reform bill that would reduce Medicare benefits, indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate."…

McCain: I’ll “probably” hit Obama on Ayers tomorrow night

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2008/10/14...in-ill-probably-hit-obama-on-ayers-tomorrow-night/

Posted: October 14, 2008

But he's still repeating the line about Ayers being a "washed-up old terrorist," which suggests that if he does attack, it won't be in the context of a larger point about Obama's radical associations but a narrow point about his truthfulness on this subject. … To me, it sounds like he's simply saying he expects the subject to come up now that it's a topic of national discussion (sort of) and that, if it does, he'll happily follow through. … Politico's trying to make it sound like McCain feels his masculinity's been impugned and now he has no choice but to go after The One to defend his honor…

Conyers’s wife cops plea to federal bribery charges — as Conyers drops probe of ACORN

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/06/26...l-bribery-charges-as-conyers-drops-probe-of-acorn/

Posted: June 26, 2009

Travel back in time now to March 20th of this year, when John Conyers shocked the world by declaring at a committee hearing that it was time to investigate charges that Team Obama had slipped ACORN a list of its donors to be hit up for donations. … No resignation letter has been submitted by Conyers to Detroit City Council as of this morning, according to the council clerk's office, Council President Ken Cockrel Jr.'s office, and council's legal office. … Goodman, who represented the City Council in its fight to oust ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, said the city charter requires a council member to step down "the minute he or she is convicted of a felony…

House GOP rejects latest bailout proposal; Update: Pelosi wants deal in principle by tonight

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2008/09/27/house-gop-rejects-latest-bailout-proposal/

Posted: September 27, 2008

As I'm writing this, Bloomberg is hitting the wires with a report that progress has been made on a deal and that Reid and McConnell are optimistic it'll be struck tomorrow, with Bob Corker quoted as saying House GOP resistance is "thawing. … Nobel economics laureate Gary Becker is no alarmist, but this week he wrote on his blog, "I have reluctantly concluded that substantial intervention was justified to avoid a major short-term collapse of the financial system that could push the world economy in a major depression. … Too many ornaments on the left's Christmas tree, with the star on top being Chris Dodd's preposterous proposal to make sure ACORN gets a cut of the income from each distressed asset sold at a profit even if distressed assets in the aggregate are sold at a loss…

ObamaCare: The grassroots are always greener

https://hotair.com/archives/karl/2009/08/04/obamacare-the-grassroots-are-always-greener__trashed/

Posted: August 4, 2009

" The Washington Post noted in 2007 that "its most prominent tenants form an abbreviated who's who of well-funded allies of the Democratic Party....Big money from unions such as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, as well as the Internet-fueled MoveOn, has provided groups like those at 1825 K Street the wherewithal to mount huge campaigns." … From lefty blogs, the message goes directly to the Politico's Glenn Thrush, Keith Olbermann and CBS News -- though CBS conceded that the "turnouts also reflect the real fear over the increased taxes and government controls that are part of the health bills being considered in Congress." … Democratic Whip Dick Durbin to a raft of lefty blogs to discredit anti-ObamaCare critics and protesters as vicious mobs ginned up by "lobbyist-run groups" like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks (Josh Marshall gets bonus points for going all the way with the Nazi allusion)…

Video: Parents angry over Obama song at NJ elementary school

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2009/09/2...nts-angry-over-obama-song-at-nj-elementary-school/

Posted: September 25, 2009

They're certainly not learning a lesson about accountability, although they do seem to have adopted the ACORN strategy of blaming people for the video's release to the Internet rather than the fact that one of their teachers was indoctrinating kids into Obama-worship, quite literally considering the song, its lyrics, and its origins. … The administration in this community may need to go back to school themselves to learn a little common sense and strategy. … They also just happened to replace God with "Barack Hussein Obama" in saying that people are "equal in his sight," because that's exactly the phraseology one would expect from a roomful of kids of the "London Bridge is falling down" age…

The Ed Morrissey Show: Michelle Malkin, Rick Moran

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/10/09/the-ed-morrissey-show-michelle-malkin/

Posted: October 9, 2008

(And if the log-in prompt doesn't come up in the chat box below, use this link instead.) Jazz Shaw of The Moderate Voice moderates the chat, and he has his Troll Gun Trivia Contest running before the show, for those who get there early -- and are registered! … We'll talk about ACORN, William Ayers, and the bailout, in which I'll probably get fired ... so be sure to watch it happen! … Michelle Malkin joins me for the first half of the show today, and we'll have her on video -- which means the view will improve from Yours Truly…