Rivers continued, "BBC should be ashamed of themselves, and CNN should be ashamed of themselves, and everybody stop it already!" … The reporter then asked Rivers about Hamas using civilians as human shields, and Rivers retorted, "I don't care. … Hey, you ask Joan Rivers for her feelings on Hamas at the airport and you'll get a full helping of Joan Rivers…
Meanwhile, after close to two months of unreliable data caused first by computer problems in California and some other states, then the artificial influx of federal employees during the 17% Shutdown, the initial jobless claims finally seem to be a reliable indicator. … The acceleration in real GDP growth in the third quarter primarily reflected a deceleration in imports and accelerations in private inventory investment and in state and local government spending that were partly offset by decelerations in exports, in nonresidential fixed nvestment, and in PCE. … The increase in real GDP in the third quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE), private inventory investment, exports, residential fixed investment, nonresidential fixed investment, and state and local government spending that were partly offset by a negative contribution from federal government spending…
Every month that the economy fails to meet that level means more people unemployed or underemployed, and so far over the last two years, we have had only one month of private-sector growth at or above that level (March 2010). … The government is expected to report on Friday that nonfarm payrolls dropped 100,000 in August, the third straight month of job declines, while private sector employment increased only 41,000, according to a Reuters survey. … Unlike the estimate of total establishment employment to be released on Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), today's figure does not include the effects of federal hiring — and now firing — for the 2010 Census…
" This "anger" on Capitol Hill, especially by Democrats who have controlled this process, is at least in part a show for the constituents back home, who have wondered when Congress would stop looking for ways to spend money and control their lives (ie, health-care reform) and get the nation back to work. … President Obama's allies in the Congressional Black Caucus, exasperated by the administration's handling of the economy, unexpectedly blocked one his top priorities, using a legislative maneuver to postpone the approval of financial reform legislation by a key House committee. … Angry over the failure of the administration to slow unemployment and get real growth started in the US, Congress lashed out at Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner yesterday, with Democrats and Republicans demanding his resignation for poor oversight of the bailout funds in 2009…
https://hotair.com/archives/tina-korbe/2011/12/30/video-best-news-bloopers-of-2011/
I definitely enjoyed laughing at the expense of the folks in this video, but, if my first national TV appearance taught me anything, it's that, on live TV, anything can happen -- and, if you can't laugh about unexpected mistakes, what can you laugh at? … It's hard to say which one should be ranked No. 1, but my votes go to either (a) the supposedly sweet-tempered rottweiler that just loses it (at about 0:13) or (b) the news reporter who just can't seem to get a grip as she looks around an empty seating area with a terrified expression (at about 4:15). … In the spirit of ESPN's "Not Top 10" and other lists of not the best but worst moments of the year, I bring you this amusing collection of ironically awful moments in local news…
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2018/03/20/dear-uber-et-al-vehicles-need-human-drivers/
(It looks like it would have been physically impossible to stop the vehicle in that short span.) But the car's programming clearly wasn't anticipating a person diving out in front of it and a human being likely couldn't crank the wheel over in a split second to avoid her either. … Going by their description, the possibly homeless and confused woman was pushing a bicycle in a median strip when she suddenly veered out into traffic directly in front of the Uber vehicle which was going nearly 40 mph. … While it will take a while to sort this all out, initial findings indicate that the car probably wasn't at fault in this case and the test monitor probably wouldn't have been able to prevent the accident even if they'd been in complete control. (Fortune)…
https://hotair.com/archives/steveegg/2015/09/25/final-2nd-quarter-gdp-estimate-3-9/
August durable goods orders were weak, the September University of Michigan Consumer Index unexpectedly dipped below 90, and the September manufacturing indexes from both the Philadelphia Federal Reserve and Richmond Federal Reserve were unexpectedly in negative territory. … The acceleration in real GDP in the second quarter reflected an upturn in exports, an acceleration in PCE, a deceleration in imports, an upturn in state and local government spending, and an acceleration in nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by decelerations in private inventory investment and in federal government spending. … The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily reflected positive contributions from PCE, exports, nonresidential fixed investment, state and local government spending, and residential fixed investment…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/08/29/it-was-like-walking-into-hell/
Apparently the only voice we will hear, other than from archival video of the events, is Bush's, as the interviewer's questions have been removed from the video. … This clip gives the backstory to Bush's famous declaration from Ground Zero that the people who destroyed the towers would soon hear from an enraged United States of America. … Greg Hengler captured this emotional moment from the National Geographic special last night that featured George Bush giving his recollection of 9/11 and the days immediately afterward…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/05/19/ramirez-ditches-and-cliffs/
Ramirez has a terrific collection of his works: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, which covers the entire breadth of Ramirez' career, and it gives a fascinating look at political history. … " Instead of learning from the last twenty-five years of American economic expansion and lowering taxes and debt, Obama has taken the US sharply to the left -- with the expected results. … The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist shows what happened when Obama and his administration decided to take a sharp left turn instead of following a clearly-marked path to economic growth…
"So on a whole host of initiatives that I've put forward this year, some of which are beginning to bear fruit, the goal is not to win a popularity contest or to get an award -- even one as esteemed as the Nobel Peace Prize -- the goal is to advance American interests, make ourselves a continuing force for good in the world. … And, in fact, Obama -- who has not been known as a tireless advocate for American exceptionalism -- reminded the press that America has been a force for good, for justice, and for freedom for more than just the length of his presidency, emphasis mine … At his press conference in Oslo, Norway, with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, President Obama was asked by a local reporter about criticism that his pending Nobel Peace Prize is "premature" and how he can use the prize to "make some of your good intentions materialize?"…
New single-family home sales unexpectedly fell in July to set their slowest pace on record while prices were the lowest in more than 6-1/2 years, government data showed on Wednesday. … Sales of new single-family houses in July 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 276,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. … But otherwise, there is no other way to paint today's report from the Commerce Department on the 12% drop in new-home sales in July as anything other than disastrous…
Still, both Republicans and Democrats are likely to be sensitive about the treatment President Obama gets from the press; given this, the best the media can probably achieve on the watchdog question is equal levels of criticism from both sides. … According to the new poll, nearly half of Democrats (45%) say the media have done an excellent or good job as a watchdog of the Democratic Obama administration, compared with 29% of independents and 30% of Republicans. … The plurality of Americans (43%) say the news media's performance as watchdog under Obama is on par with how it did during previous administrations; however, by 31% to 21% the remainder tilt toward believing the media has done a worse, rather than better, job under Obama…
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2015/07/03/politinerds-rob-george-of-the-new-york-post/
(He wasn't the guy who wrote "Headless Body in Topless Bar" but he was there for it.) He's also had to balance a lot of competing ideological views in his time, along with making a go of it in the Big Apple. … He also discusses his rather unexpected journey from a family, liberal background to a conservative world view, starting when he worked for Newt Gingrich as a young man. … This week on Politinerds we talked with Robert George, editorial writer for the New York Post and a conservative/libertarian pundit, as well as a regular TV commentator on Fox, CNN, MSNBC and other outlets…
https://hotair.com/archives/bryan/2008/01/17/video-hil-force-one/
Except that even against Obama and Edwards, Hillary isn't the most experienced candidate in terms of years spent in elective office. … "We know you have choices when you fly, and so we are grateful that you chose the plane with the most experienced candidate." … "FAA regulations prohibit the use of any cell phones, BlackBerrys, or wireless devices that may be used to transmit a negative story about me…
Well, clearly the rollout of the website and people's ease of getting on to the website has been a bit of a struggle, and that needs to be fixed. … Even her fellow liberals are beginning to concede that the Obama administration really botched ObamaCare's opening, and now she's -- well, she's still clinging to that "too much traffic" talking point, actually, but only as a weak preface in finally admitting that yeah, there is really no excuse for glitchiness of this magnitude. … Last week, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz clumsily but determinedly stuck like glue to the White House's favored talking point about an unexpected avalanche of traffic being the root cause of the prohibitive number of "glitches" plaguing the federal online portal, even as more and more emerging evidence continues to point to underlying (and yet deliberate) architecture flaws and hasty programming decisions…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/11/28/classic-tems-duane-patterson/
We had unexpected technical issues that resulted in losing most of our viewers half-way through the show, and it didn't save right away, either. … Today, I'm re-running last week's Week in Review with Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. … I'm on semi-vacation this week, blogging from the ancestral Morrissey homes in Southern California, so I want to give folks a chance to see the Best of the Ed Morrissey Show…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/05/17/obamacare-a-boon-to-pro-life/
ObamaCare leaves states in charge of the exchanges, a way to appease federalists who objected to several encroachments on state sovereignty, but that gave pro-life activists an opportunity to pre-empt Democrats on the Hyde Amendment. … ObamaCare advocates have neatly created a technicality that will allow them to finally mandate federal subsidies for abortion whenever Congress fails to extend the Hyde Amendment, a rider that has been endorsed every year in the budget process to keep federal monies from paying for abortions. … "We don't consider elective abortion to be health care, so we don't think it's a bad thing for fewer private insurance companies to cover it," said Mary Harned, attorney for Americans United for Life, a national organization that wrote a model law for the states…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2011/08/04/weekly-initial-jobless-claims-at-400k/
By itself, it doesn't signify anything, as my analysis at the link shows, and as anyone could figure out from a simple reading of the series compared to employment levels over the last 15 years. … The four-week average dropped to the lowest point in more than three months, which gives a more reliable indicator of the trend -- although this series has been remarkably non-volatile for the last eighteen months. … The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending July 23 was 3,730,000, an increase of 10,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 3,720,000…
Donald Trump is on his way to Pittsburgh as the city reels from the worst case of anti-Semitic violence in the country's history. … We'll talk about the midterms, Trump's suggestion that he might end birthright citizenship with an EO, and getting an unexpected ending from Trump's reality-show campaign. … The show will be streamed on Hot Air's Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook…
Meanwhile, Bollinger sent around an e-mail after the event reiterating that "it should never be thought that merely to listen to ideas we deplore in any way implies our endorsement of those ideas, or the weakness of our resolve to resist those ideas, or our naiveté about the very real dangers inherent in such ideas. … Regardless, whether it's their apologists coming here or our critics going there, any acknowledgment of the mullahcracy's legitimacy is cringe-making. … He makes the point that Ahmadinejad would never allow an American critic of the regime to propagandize at an Iranian university…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2016/09/14/wow-cnn-poll-puts-trump-three-florida-five-ohio/
It's probably the case that if Trump really is strong enough to lead by five in Ohio, as two different polls today have showed today, and to lead in Florida, as three different surveys this month have indicated, he'll peel off another battleground somewhere and win. … And although the wide gap by education among whites that's emerged in most polling on this contest continues here (Clinton's support lands below 30 percent among those whites who do not have college degrees, while the race is closer among whites with degrees), Trump does hold an edge among whites with college degrees in both states; he's up 9 points among that group in Ohio and 8 points in Florida... … In both states, Trump's support increases as a result of the likely voter screen, among all registered voters, Clinton edges Trump 45% to 44% in Florida, and in Ohio, Trump tops Clinton 43% to 39% with Johnson at 12%…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2012/03/19/video-prometheus-trailer-2/
Or maybe that's the point -- to goose all the "Alien" fans with hints of a familiar form of terror and then throw them a curveball in the actual plot. … ", and the requisite scenes of astronauts probing alien goo, you're left wondering if something's going to burst through someone's chest in this one too. … That's not unexpected, as this flick was originally intended as a prequel to "Alien" that ended up going off on its own tangent, but between the guy convulsing on the table here, the voiceover of someone yelling "cut it off!…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/06/28/dalai-lama-sure-female-successor-okay-shes-hot/
I'm tempted to wonder if Trump will be reincarnated as his successor, but the subject of Trump is broached here and, well, it doesn't go well. … When asked what should happen to those who want to stay in their adopted countries, he replied: 'A limited number is OK. But the whole of Europe [will] eventually become Muslim country - impossible. … The 83-year-old said: 'European countries should take these refugees and give them education and training, and the aim is - return to their own land with certain skills.'…
You can still browse the site for expensive plans and compare expensive prices, and hey, maybe if you manage to put something in your cart, presumably the Obama administration can count you as an "enrollee. … The website problems come at a crucial time as the Covered California exchange tries to persuade more uninsured people to sign up ahead of a March 31 deadline. … Amid a big marketing push, California's enrollment website for Obamacare coverage has suffered an unexpected outage due to software glitches…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2010/02/25/inital-jobless-claims-rise/
Employers took 1,761 mass layoff actions in January that resulted in the separation of 182,261 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. … Since that's the case, one might have expected the number of jobless claims to increase, especially considering the severity of the storm and the inability of cities to clear the streets. … In addition, many state agencies in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions that process the claims were closed due to the storms and are now clearing out backlogs, a Labor Department analyst said…
Yikes. Years of economic-related setbacks aren't going to do much to energize the youths to flock (and I do mean flock -- you know, like sheep) to the polls to vote for the incumbent president, at least not to the record-smashing, game-changing degree that they turned up to vote for Obama in 2008. … It's frustrating, and I'm frustrated for them -- and it can't be any less frustrating for their parents, who are now diverting their financial resources away from savings and retirement and into supporting their adult children. … (Not that I think having a college degree entitles you to a job, and certainly no more or less than anyone else, but I do hear that back in the good ol' days, there was a solid market for such qualifications.) They're underemployed, they're working part-time, they're volunteering, or they don't have jobs at all…
"That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak," said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. … During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman. … The left will use it as a Larger Truth about the NRA; the media will use it to find some racial subtext that isn't actually there; and righteous conservative bloggers will use it to gently suggest that perhaps Huck isn't VP material…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/05/07/a-taste-of-war-on-the-voice-mail/
Fortunately for Phillips, the RPGs didn't find their targets that day, and he will come home next week at the end of his deployment. … "The tape cuts off with 'incoming R-P-G!' so we started calling him and finally got a hold of him and found out that he was ok and that they survived," Petee said. … The Petee family found a three-minute voice mail from their son Steven Phillips, a specialist stationed in Afghanistan, but all they heard was gunfire and Phillips' shouts for more ammo, at least until the hair-raising end…
In their dream world, their preferred reaction to this windfall is to heap billions of dollars worth of taxes onto oil and gas companies (consumers -- this means you!) to pay for their most fantastical stimulus-driven whims -- and (mind-blowingly regressive) higher energy prices on fossil fuels is just an added bonus! … It includes a lot more of the stimulus-spending-as-growth utter crapola we've been dealing with for the past five years, and to really demonstrate just how bass-ackwards his and the Democrats' brand of economic thinking really is, we need look no further than what his would-be budget would inflict on one of the few bright spots in his otherwise weaksauce economy. … The White House dropped President Obama's FY2015 budget readout yesterday, and as the NYT rather aptly titled it, it amounted to little more than a "populist wish list" that doesn't even try to look serious about addressing our runaway entitlement spending or ballooning national debt…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/12/11/video-frankens-pathos/
Just as Franken did with his execrable campaign ad exploiting the parents of a dead soldier to blame Norm Coleman for a vote that took place prior to his election to the Senate, Franken sought out voters for maximum jerking of tears. … Despite a ruling from the board and a concurring legal opinion from the state's Attorney General that the board only has the authority to recount ballots accepted on Election Day, Franken tries turning on the tears in order to push them into an extralegal mission … Take a look at the latest effort from Al Franken to wheedle the Canvassing Board into exceeding its legal mandate and involve itself in the county decisions on absentee ballots…
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2016/09/07/denied-request-cake-didnt-involve-gay-wedding/
None of this addresses the question of whether or not a private business should be able to refuse service when they wish (and they should), but under the current rules of engagement it seems like they wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they held the line and refused to deliver the cake. … My guess - particularly when you take the description of the employee's reaction into account - is that the family ran into a liberal at the store who really hates Trump and refused to decorate the cake as the customer wished. … We've seen plenty of court cases involving wedding cakes for gay marriage ceremonies and the courts seem to be holding that neither the rights of free speech or religious freedom apply and protect the baker…
We have yet to start seeing the impact of reduced access to physicians, some of whom will opt out entirely to remodel their business on a small, membership-based clientele. … Levitt estimates that after subsidies are applied, about half will pay less in premiums while half will pay more, but that doesn't take into account the escalating deductibles on the new plans. … Obamacare forces them to drop many of their plans that don't meet the law's 10 minimum standards, including maternity care, emergency visits, mental health treatment and even pediatric dental care…
" And the court has said that properly delegated discretion must come with "an intelligible principle" and must "clearly delineate" a policy that limits the discretion. … The Supreme Court has said: "That Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the president is a principle universally recognized as vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of government ordained by the Constitution. … " In fact, your time's better spent reading George Will's op-ed on whether TARP is unconstitutional insofar as it represents a grant of discretion from Congress to the President so sweeping and ill-defined as to violate separation of powers…
In O'Donnel's blog posts and recent comedy routines she has opened up about her tumultuous year on The View, saying in one video on her site that she may never speak to Hasselbeck again... … "Truthfully, I think a friend is someone who you have positive communications with, so I don't know if I would define us as friends right now," Hasselbeck, 30, tells Access Hollywood in an interview scheduled to air Tuesday. … While Elisabeth Hasselbeck has long-maintained she and former View cohost Rosie O'Donnell are close – she now says she's unsure if she can call O'Donnell a friend…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2008/10/07/mccain-ad-hypo/
That's not exactly breaking news, and some of the same sources this ad quotes have also accused McCain of the same thing. … It takes a potentially blockbuster topic -- the Obama Truth Squad fiasco -- and turns it into a "politcians lie" accusation. … KMOV TV ANCHOR (VIDEO): Obama's presidential campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad…
Vilks has faced numerous death threats over the controversial cartoon, but said in March he has built his own defense system, including a "homemade" safe room and a barbed-wire sculpture that could electrocute potential intruders. … Funny thing, though: Not only wasn't he intimidated, he practically dared the mujahedeen to come and get him, letting CNN cameras film his home and even booby-trapping the place in case the soldiers of Allah paid him an unexpected visit. Quote … A few years ago he decided to draw Mohammed as a pooch and has been dodging killers ever since, from garden variety Islamist nuts like "Jihad Jane" all the way up to the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq…
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2008/07/17/quote-of-the-day-317/
But to McCain, his encounter with Bush that day was more evidence of the shallow intellect and dangerous self-regard possessed by the man to whom he had lost an acrimonious contest two years earlier. … He was a Republican, and a hawk, and exactly one year later he would enthusiastically support the decision to topple the Iraqi regime by force. … In March 2002, he and two other Senators were at the White House, briefing Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Adviser, about their recent meetings with European allies when Bush unexpectedly stuck his head in the door…
Political observers had largely predicted that Democrats' contested presidential race would spur more Democrats to vote Tuesday, while the essentially settled Republican race would keep Republicans at home, opening the door for Atty. Gen. … Voting data specialist Paul Mitchell said he expected people to avoid the polls in California on Tuesday because of the Associated Press' Monday announcement that Hillary Clinton had secured enough support to become the presumptive nominee. … I saw a series of puzzling news flash items coming over the transom last night, all of which carried one version or another of the theme that Hillary Clinton had "secured the Democratic nomination" by finally getting enough delegates locked up to seal the deal…
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2018/06/04/female-comics-agree-sam-bee-call-women-c-word/
Feinstein seems to be saying that the idea women aren't tough enough to stand up to being called the c-word or, in the case of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, being made fun of for their physical appearance is insulting. … morning show on Comedy Central's SiriusXM channel — along with her friend and fellow stand-up Rachel Feinstein, are about to perform as part of "Amy Schumer and Friends" on the enormous Civic Center Plaza in this city. … I'll clean up the worst of it here with redactions, but I'll just warn you in advance that if you click through you're going to be treated to a lot of language which is not only unsafe for work but for most of civil society…
Trump will be helped by the fact that manufacturing has lost jobs three of the last four months, and is still two million jobs down from 2006 levels despite the recovery. … Hillary Clinton has to run as the continuity candidate to Barack Obama's policies, especially on the economy, as Democrats have long made the brilliance of Obama's recovery an article of faith. … Tim Kaine tried to play the "greatest job creation ever" card in the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday, but Donald Trump should have the financial acumen to dissect that argument -- assuming he prepares for it…
https://hotair.com/archives/tina-korbe/2012/01/12/gop-hopefuls-really-want-that-tebow-endorsement/
Would a Tebow endorsement of Rick Perry, for example, enable the Texas governor to leapfrog Romney, Gingrich and Santorum to win South Carolina? … "I think you have to have so much trust in who you support, just from product endorsements to endorsing a candidate," Tebow said, "because if that person or company does something [bad], it reflects on you." … Apparently, they weren't just talking for the sake of talking; a number of the candidates have explicitly asked Tebow for his endorsement, the quarterback told the Associated Press Sunday…
John Spratt once claimed in 2006 that a failure to produce a complete budget was a disqualification for control of Congress, but four years later his party couldn't even produce a budget resolution in a chamber they controlled by 77 seats. … Grijalva, who called for an economic boycott of his own state amid a housing crisis and record unemployment, has also been hit by outside spending right after an automated poll unexpectedly showed him in a dead heat with his GOP opponent. … Hinchey attracted unflattering attention this weekend after a videotaped confrontation with a reporter at the same time American Crossroads and other GOP groups are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into ads in his district…
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2017/12/21/apple-slow-old-iphones-benefit/
Despite the battery being the reason that Apple is slowing the phones, Poole adds, "This fix will also cause users to think, 'My phone is slow so I should replace it' not, 'My phone is slow so I should replace its battery. … Explaining how Apple's approach could feed suspicions of "planned obsolescence," John Poole, founder of Geekbench parent Primate Labs, writes, "users may believe that the slow down is due to [central processing unit] performance, instead of battery performance." … Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge or as they age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components…
https://hotair.com/archives/ian/2007/04/11/video-john-edwards-forgives-imus-obama-wants-him-fired/
My head aches at the thought of what the media's going to do with this and the Duke dismissal dropping on the same day. … Barry Obama told David Gregory that MSNBC "shouldn't be carrying" the kind of "hateful" remarks Imus uttered the other day. … John Edwards told CBS 2 in New York that he forgives the fluffy-headed host, but he is unsure if he'll appear on the shock jock's show in the future…
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