Responsible Elite In ‘A Face In The Crowd’
by Smitty At the suggestion of Ladd Ehlinger, I took in A Face in the Crowd, a 1957 Kazan flick that is well worth your time. ‘Lonesome’ Rhodes goes from nowhere to national stardom. Andy Griffith is powerful as an Icarian pop culture icon. The documentary on the DVD includes a couple of interesting quotes […]
House Calls Obama’s Bluff, Passes Payroll Tax Cut Extension He Promised to Veto
However it turns out, score this a win for Boehner: Defying a veto threat from President Obama, the House on Tuesday passed a bill extending a cut in Social Security payroll taxes for 160 million Americans for another year. But the Democratic majority in the Senate vowed to reject the measure because of objections to […]
Why Does Obama Hate Jews?
Well, Republican Jews, anyway:
Conflation
by Smitty Daily Pundit keys in on a sentence from Stacy’s post: He loves to talk about infrastructure — “investments in road and bridges” — as if that was the majority of the what he’s spending money on, when in fact, infrastructure projects were less than 5% of the stimulus bill. It’s like me sprinkling […]
Barack Obama’s ’60 Minutes’ Interview Has Me Screaming at My TV Again
Today on Morning Joe, they were playing clips of Steve Kroft’s 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, and I literally started screaming. There is only so much of this bulls–t I can endure without talking back to my TV: OBAMA: If I can’t get Republicans to move, partly because they’ve made a political, strategic decision […]
‘Resist We Much!’ MSNBC’s Bogus Populist Al Sharpton Living Large
Liberal scam artist is a member of the 1 percent: The Rev. Al Sharpton’s nonprofit paid him nearly $242,000 — even as it carried $1.6 million in debt, according to documents obtained by The Post. In all, the controversial activist and his empire, including the National Action Network and two for-profit companies, were $5.3 million […]
#OccupyDC Provides Shenanigans At U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Christmas Party, Patrick Murray Non-Plussed
by Smitty Keith Olbermann lives! The story picks up at 5:13 into the clip. #Occupy protesters (the ‘99%’) laid on the ground and covered themselves in a red carpet for the people leaving the Christmas party (the ‘1%’) to walk all over: In attendance was retired Army Colonel Patrick Murray, who sent the following email: […]
So Elena Kagan Has About The Same Notion Of Integrity As Eric Holder
by Smitty CNSNews reports: Internal Justice Department email communications made just days before the House of Representatives passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act show that then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan was brought into the loop as DOJ began preparing to respond to an anticipated legal complaint that Mark Levin and the Landmark Legal Foundation […]
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