Another Sad Installment in the Series: ‘Why the Hell Is Chris Matthews on TV?’
Posted on | October 23, 2012 | 18 Comments
Chris Matthews just said some crazyass shit on #MSNBC that’s gonna blow your mind when you see it. Got that clip, Media Research?
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
My usual habit after debates has been to switch to MSNBC and see what their reaction is. I know that the Fox News crew is always cheerleading for the GOP, so I find it more useful to gauge reaction at the liberal network, especially the wildly unstable barometer Chris Matthews.
As lurid comedy, the guy’s irresistible, and I simply can’t imagine any other reason why they keep paying this clown. Last night, however, Matthews unleashed a bizarre rant that genuinely shocked me:
“I think they hate Obama. They want him out of the White House more than they want to destroy al Qaeda. Their No. 1 enemy in the world right now, on the right, is their hatred, hatred for Obama. And we can go into that about the white working class in the South and looking at these numbers we’re getting the last couple days about racial hatred in many cases … this isn’t about being a better president, they want to get rid of this president.”
— Chris Matthews, Oct. 22, 2012
Look, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes and Lawrence O’Donnell are all strident left-wing fanatics, but I will nevertheless grant that they are also fundamentally serious people who care about facts. On the other hand, there is Chris Matthews, whose tortured emotionalism must be an embarrassment even to his ideological allies. He makes Ed Schultz seem a paragon of rationality by comparison.
Why do the executives at NBC insist on inflicting this laughable imbecile on their viewers — and paying him $5 million a year?
FINAL 2012 DEBATE: ‘FOREIGNERS’
Posted on | October 22, 2012 | 45 Comments
UPDATE 11:09 p.m. ET: Well, I’ve got to write something longer than 140 characters for the American Spectator tomorrow, so I’ll leave you with this:
BREAKING: Obama wins debate, according to Muslim Brotherhood focus group.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
Watching #MSNBC: Chris Matthews isn’t giddy. That means, Romney won.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
#MSNBC panel slamming Mitt, but not giddy about Obama. That means? … Congratulations, President-Elect Willard M. Romney!
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
A couple of hours until deadline. I need more coffee.
UPDATE 10:33 p.m. ET: Really, I don’t hate foreigners. I just hate listening to debates about foreigners.
Just gotta say, Mitt, if China is a “currency manipulator,” what the hell do you call Ben Bernanke?
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
President Solyndra now lecturing Mitt about “smart choices” that will help U.S. be “more competitive.” #Eyeroll #Debate
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
Obama: “I’ve got a different vision for America.” Translation: “Golf. Also, dead ambassadors and trillion-dollar deficits every year.”
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
Did Obama win this one? If you like Obama (and hate America), yeah, it was a walkover. I’m watching the MSNBC after-show, BTW.
UPDATE 10:12 p.m. ET: Forgive me for not doing more original blog content during this debate. My 19-year-old son got in a car wreck (he’s OK, and it wasn’t his fault), which meant my wife had to go to the hospital, so I had to fix my own chicken nuggets for dinner. Anyway, he’s more snark from my Twitter feed:
Is there a Nobel Prize for self-congratulatory smugness? Because I think we have a winner here.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
Shorter Obama: “America should be grateful that I was willing to accept this job. You people really don’t deserve a president this awesome.”
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
When I’m ambassador to Vanuatu, I’ll never have to fix my own chicken nuggets. Or blog presidential debates, for that matter.
UPDATE 9:52 p.m. ET: More snark:
OBAMA: “We have these things called ‘aircraft carriers'” — as if Mitt doesn’t know that!
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
Also, we have this thing called “Twitter,” where we can mock obnoxious blowhards.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
We’re somewhere near the halfway mark and, unless I’m mistaken, Obama’s losing the debate with his arrogant college-professor act, lecturing Americans as if we were a bunch of idiots.
UPDATE 9:40 p.m. ET: Some of my Twitter snark:
Just guessing that by “steady thoughtful leadership,” Obama meant, “Flying off to Vegas fundraisers.” Also, golf. Lots and lots of golf.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
President Michael Moore is still running a 2008 campaign, trashing Bush policy on Iraq.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
For some reason, we’re now talking about domestic policy. Which is OK with me, I was getting bored by all this “foreigners” jibberjabber.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 23, 2012
Why? Because I’m too lazy to write it twice, that’s why.
UPDATE 9:22 p.m. ET: Obama just boasted of his “steady, thoughtful leadership.” Ambassador Stevens could not be reached for comment.
UPDATE 9:18 p.m. ET: You see how hard Obama is straining to pretend that he’s an expert, and Mitt’s a clueless moron.
UPDATE 9:12 p.m. ET: Obama lays out the Howard Dean/Michael Moore/Roseanne Barr critique of Bush-era foreign policy. As if it were relevant.
UPDATE 9:10 p.m. ET: Mitt aims his words specifically at the “Muslim world” and “jihadists.” Specificity has been lacking lately, eh?
UPDATE 9:08 p.m. ET: Obama wants to “make friends around the world.” And … how’s that workin’ out for ya, buddy?
UPDATE 9:05 p.m. ET: First question: “What would you do about the crisis in Vanuatu?”
No, just kidding. It’s Libya, of course.
EXPECT FURTHER UPDATES . . .
* * * PREVIOUSLY (8:30 p.m. ET) * * *
Thank God, tonight’s debate is the last of this presidential campaign. Republicans endured 20 debates during the primary campaign, and we’re ready to stop debating and start stabbing out Chris Matthews’ eyeballs with sharp sticks voting.
So, yeah, I’ll be liveblogging, kinda, and also snarking it up on Twitter. I’m sure VodkaPundit will be drunkblogging. And our good friends at the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity will have a livestream at their Watchdog.Org site.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has highlights of Bob Schieffer’s most biased debate moments. I actually kind of like Schieffer, who is a liberal, but an old-fashioned kind of liberal, as opposed to these smart-alecky Ezra Klein types. The debate starts at 9 p.m. ET, and I’ll be watching the MSNBC post-debate show, because I’m still able to resist the stab-his-eyeballs-out urge toward Chris Matthews.
Just barely, though.
UPDATE II: Here’s the thing: I hate discussions of foreign policy.
Hate it. Because foreign policy is really simple, yet the intellectuals and “experts” get paid to pretend we need their advice. This is all just expert rent-seeking, you see.
There are two kinds of people in the world: Americans and foreigners. And there are three kinds of foreigners:
- Enemies who want to kill us;
- Allies who want to help us kill our enemies; and
- A bunch of irrelevant people who don’t really need a “policy.”
Simple, as I say, and once you’ve got the basics of who’s who figured out, everything else is obvious. Yet there are “specialists” with advanced degrees from prestigious universities who need jobs telling us what to think, and I get so tired of hearing these know-it-alls, I want to stab out their eyeballs with sharp sticks.
McKay Coppins, Concern Troll
Posted on | October 22, 2012 | 11 Comments
Every newsroom is a seething cauldron of frustrated ambition. It’s been that way forever, and is true everywhere.
Nobody goes into the news business with the goal of being the headline writer on the obituary page, but somebody’s got to do it, and the phenomenon of the “disgruntled staffer” is not really interesting unless the guy shows up for work one day with a high-powered rifle, four or five clips of ammo, and a grim determination to finally get his name on the front page.
It was in this light that I read McKay Coppins’s BuzzFeed article today about “disgruntled staffers” at Breitbart.com.
To make a long story short: So what?
There’s nothing in this article that was really news to me. I know nearly everyone at Breitbart.com, and like all of them — just for example, I was hanging out with Andrew at the 2007 YAF West Coast conference where he first met Alex Marlow — and if some of them don’t like other . . . again, so what?
Is there some rule that everybody in a news operation must like each other? Or that the staff writers must always agree with the editorial choices of management? If so, nobody ever told me about it, and I’ve been in the news business since 1986.
In other words, whatever your opinion of the internal quarrels of the Breitbart.com staff — who’s right or wrong, who’s good or bad — it’s really just the typical grumbling common to all news operations.
The same backstage rivalry goes on every day at Fox News or CNN or the Iowa Hog Farmers Gazette.
And what McKay Coppins has done is to exploit that for profit at BuzzFeed, playing “concern troll,” as if he admired Andrew Breitbart and shared Breitbart’s goals or ideals. He didn’t.
Finally, to my friends at Breitbart: If you don’t like your job or you don’t like your boss, you can always quit.
If you feel that your value to the organization is insufficiently appreciated, the smart thing to do is to offer your resignation and seek employment elsewhere. I’ve often reflected with amusement that, when I resigned from The Washington Times in 2008 — after they hired a guy from the Post to replace the retiring Wes Pruden — they were willing to let me walk away.
Since then, they’ve gone through three editors, massive layoffs, a disastrously expensive blunder of a Web site re-design and, when last I heard, were about to hire their fourth editor in as many years.
Me? I’m a correspondent for The American Spectator and run a blog that averages more than a quarter-million hits a month.
That may not seem like much, but it ain’t failure, and is much better than the misfortune of folks who got laid off in the staff-cutting bloodbaths that followed my departure from the Times.
Moral of the story: If you think the guys running the operation don’t know what they’re doing, get out while the getting’s good. Otherwise, shut up and do your job.
And don’t ever tell McKay Coppins jack shit, either way.
VIDEO: New Romney Campaign Ad Practically Calls Obama ‘SCOAMF’
Posted on | October 22, 2012 | 6 Comments
Via Sister Toldjah, the Best Romney Ad Yet:
Democrats: So Stupid They Can’t Spell Their Own Slogan!
The Democrat Graveyard Whistling Choir Ignores ‘Preference Cascade’ Scenario
Posted on | October 22, 2012 | 18 Comments
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Ed Driscoll points out that the “War on Women” hero/martyr Sandra Fluke drew a much smaller crowd than did the actual victims of the “War on Coal” in Grundy, Virginia.
As they say, the plural of “anecdote” is data, and these are just a couple of points on the scatter-chart which are beginning to form into a clear pattern that looks a lot like an Obama meltdown. Democrats don’t want to admit this, of course, and Nate Silver is a Democrat, which is the only plausible explanation for why the Magical Forecasting Model™ still gives 2-to-1 odds for Obama.
This creates a serious problem for Nate, who now has only 15 days to walk that back. If he were to shift one net point per day from now until Nov. 6, the Magical Forecasting Model™ would have it at Obama 52.6%-Romney47.4% on Election Day. Yet insofar as Silver’s predictions are a proxy for the popular vote, there is an increasing likelihood that the Magical Forecasting Model™ would have it bass-ackward: Romney now leads the RCP average, and is ahead by 2 points in the latest Battleground Poll, to say nothing of Romney’s 7-point lead in Gallup.
Something else: Look again at Real Clear Politics, and you notice that the last time a national poll showed Obama at 50% or better was a CNN poll taken Sept. 28-30.
When an incumbent president has been below 50 percent throughout October, on what factual basis does Nate Silver justify the persistent advantage for Obama in his Magical Forecasting Model™?
Even if you think Obama could still pull out a narrow win — and the cable news networks now seem to feel obligated to feature hourly showings of Electoral College map scenarios to that effect — the precise 67.6% chance offered by Nate Silver is absurd. So unless there is some game-changing event in Obama’s favor over the next two weeks, Silver’s probably going to be hard-pressed to shift the odds toward Romney quickly enough to be “right.”
Whistling past graveyards is not science, Nate, and the aroma of bovine excrement is not perfume.
Quinnipiac has Obama up 5 points in Ohio, but Quinnipiac is the same outfit that had Obama up 10 points in Ohio — an absolute absurdity — a month ago. Even stipulating the bogusness of Quinnipiac’s D+9 sample, however, Mitt has gained 5 points in Ohio according to them, while the Democrat polling firm, PPP, shows Romney gaining four points since their previous Ohio survey.
If Romney has gained either 5 points in a month (Quinnipiac) or 4 points in a week (PPP) in what everyone acknowledges to be the most crucial swing state, exactly how the hell does Nate Silver justify his Charlie Sheen pose? #Winning!
Here’s something else for you, Nate: Why does the Battleground poll (which you consider reputable) now show the exact same margin, 49-47 as the Rasmussen poll, which you consider so unreliable? Is it possible that Rasmussen’s methodology is actually providing a more accurate measurement of public opinion than your Magical Forecasting Model™ had hitherto acknowledged?
Tonight’s debate is about foreign policy. When CBS News (not exactly a right-wing outfit) is all over the bungle in Benghazi, and the president’s spokeswoman is compelled to deny that the death of a U.S. ambassador is a policy failure, excuse me for suspecting that tonight won’t be an easy win for Obama. Yeah, maybe the talking heads on MSNBC will score it a “win” for President Gutsy Call, but what about those patriotic red-blooded American swing voters in Ohio? Probably not so much.
The dots are beginning to form a pattern, as I say, and the Graveyard Whistling Choir can ignore the pattern only at peril of their credibility. Is there a phrase for this? I think we know:
Public-opinion polls are lagging indicators in politics. By the time a shift in the trend becomes clear from poll data, the causes of the shift are days or weeks in the past. It is therefore unwise to extrapolate the current trend forward or to begin thinking of polls as supernatural prophecies that predict future events.
With all those caveats in mind, however, Mitt Romney enters the final two weeks of the presidential campaign looking very much like the next president of the United States, and it is not merely poll data that creates this impression. President Obama’s own campaign has begun to emit clear signals that the incumbent’s re-election prospects are dwindling, and anecdotal evidence of strong Republican momentum is not hard to find these days. We cannot predict what will happen in tonight’s third and final presidential debate (9 p.m. ET at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida), but it is a fairly safe guess it won’t have the game-changing impact of the first debate on Oct. 3, one of two apparent pivot points that triggered Obama’s downward slide. While the impact of Romney’s one-sided victory over a listless Obama in Denver has been universally acknowledged, it would be wrong to overlook the political effect of the other pivot point, the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
The Benghazi attack appears to have started slowly sapping Obama’s support in late September. . . .
Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator. And please pay close attention to the last three words.
RECENTLY:
- Oct. 20: My Beer vs. Nate Silver’s Two Beers
- Oct. 19: Nate Silver Asks: Whose Shark Is This, and Why Do I Feel a Need to Jump It?
- Oct. 18: GALLUP: ROMNEY 52, OBAMA 45 — Let the Great 2012 Liberal Freak-Out Begin!
- Oct. 15: Did You Say ‘Preference Cascade’?
- Oct. 14: ‘Media Credibility Day Is Coming’
- Oct. 11: Benghazi Breakdown: Team Obama, Liberals Now in Full Freak-Out Mode
- Oct. 9: Expect the Unexpected: Why Liberals Suddenly Melted Down After the Debate
- Oct. 8: Liberals Beginning to Realize They’ve Overestimated Obama’s Popularity?
LIVE AT FIVE: 10.22.12
Posted on | October 22, 2012 | 9 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Former Senator, Presidential Candidate George McGovern Dies, 90
WW2 vet became anti-war candidate in 1972; was crushed by Nixon, carrying only Massachusetts and DC. Remembered for changing Democratic convention rules to reduce party bosses’ power, work with Bob Dole on global hunger issue. Died in hospice after long illness
Swing State Poll: Women Give Romney The Edge In Swing States
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows Romney leading in twelve battleground states
Overnight Fighting In Beirut Pits Shiites Against Sunnis
Fighting sparked by Friday’s car-bomb assassination of anti-Syrian intelligence officer Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan
POLITICS
Candidates To Debate Foreign Policy Tonight
Lynn University plays host to the third presidential debate; Iran and Libya sure to be major discussion points
Paul Ryan Tells Iowa Rally Victory “Within Our Grasp”
Absent Rep. Jackson Surfaces, Asks Supporters For Patience
Scott Brown Tells Volunteers Don’t Relax Yet
Romney Campaign Says Obama’s Out Of Ideas
The Real “War On Women” Is Being Waged By Obamacare
Polls Show McCaskill Leading Akin In Missouri
Administration’s Excuses For Benghazi Attack Not Holding Up
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Drops Despite Mideast Tensions: NYMEX $90.52, Brent $110.78
Japan Exports Fall 10% On Strong Yen, Trouble With PRC
Report Says News Corp Looking at Chicago Tribune, LA Times
Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Reserves Larger Than Expected?
Euro Halts Slide; Loonie Skids To Two-Year Low
Yahoo! CEO’s Comeback Plan Focuses On Technology, Not Media
Expired Farm Bill Costs Dairy Farmers Money
AMD Bundles Marquee PC Games With Its Radeon Video Cards
“Haunts” Kickstarter Failure Highlights Shortcomings Of Crowdfunding
Best Buy Prices AT&T Nokia, HTC WinPhones At $149, $99 For Pre-Orders
Microsoft Readies Office 365 University Bundle For Q1 2013 Release
“Bioshock Infinite: Beast Of America” Trailer Released
XBox 360 Hits 70 Million Sales Worldwide
SPORTS
Giants Pound Cardinals 6-1 To Force Game 7 In NLCS
Carpenter doesn’t cut it for Cards
Patriots Escape Defeat By Jets In OT
BCS Provides A Different Kind Of Political Football
Steelers Turn Up D To Beat Bengals
John Farrell Gets His Dream Job In Boston
Raiders Rally To Beat Jags In OT
NHL Cancels More Games, Players Get Some Relief From Escrow Checks
Giants Land Final Blow In Thriller Against Redskins
Lynx Succumb To Fever, Fail To Repeat As WNBA Champs
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
It’s A Boy! Adele Reportedly Gives Birth Friday
Second child for partner Simon Konecki; the singer’s first
Lindsay’s Entire Management Team Behind Dad’s Intervention?
SNL Parodies Brad Pitt’s Chanel Ad
Jennifer Esposito On Leave From “Blue Bloods”, Slams CBS for “Shameful Behavior”
“Gossip Girl” Cast Says Goodbye
Christina Aguilera Gets Plump $3 Million Offer From “BIG” Women Dating Site
All Other Crises Having Been Solved, President Obama Gives Jay-Z Parenting Advice
Stephen Colbert Gets Cameo In “The Hobbit”
FOREIGNERS
Brazilian Newspapers Give “Freeloader” Google News The Boot
Fidel Castro Attacks “Lies” About His Health
Thousands Of Lebanese Mourn General Killed In Car Bomb Attack
ROK Bans Civic Group’s Attempt To Send Anti-Nork Leaflets Via Balloons
Car Bomb Kills 10 In Christian Quarter Of Damascus
US, Iran Deny Plans For Nuke Talks
Pope Canonizes Seven Saints, Including Kateri Tekakwitha
Spain’s Popular Party Holds Galicia; Nationalist Parties Gain In Basque Country
Israel Enforces Gaza Blockade Against Activist Ship
BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: Is It Still an October Surprise If We Already Know What It Is?
Legal Insurrection: Remembering McGovern
NRO Corner: Obama, Media Preparing To Slam Romney For Flip-Flops On PRC?
Ed Morrissey: Romney, Obama Tied In new NBC/WSJ Poll
Breitbart: UN Warns Americans Not To Elect Mitt Romney
Jawa Report: Best Endorsement For Mitt Romney
Weasel Zippers: Obama Holds Conference Call With Black Ministers, Including Jeremiah Wright, About Getting Out The Black Vote
Lonely Conservative: Did The Administration Just Recognize Iran’s Right To Nukes?
No Quarter: has Obama Just Shot Himself In The Foot On Iran?
Power Line: Iranian Mullahs Panic At Prospect Of Romney Victory
Weasel Zippers: Even Michael Bloomberg Thinks Liz Warren Is A Radical Socialist
New York Post: Obama Campaign Accepted Illegal Foreign Web Donations, May Be Hiding More
Gateway Pundit: Obama Campaign Reduced To A Tarp On A Car
Ace of Spades: Sandra Fluke Draws Massive Crowd To Reno Rally (Okay, It Was Ten People)
MORE THAN 5,000 ATTEND RALLY FOR COAL IN GRUNDY, VIRGINIA
Posted on | October 21, 2012 | 35 Comments
You remember Grundy, Virginia, the Appalachian town whose airport expansion was stalled by federal regulators because of the Obama administration’s “War on Coal.” The photo above shows part of the crowd that attended today’s pro-coal rally in Grundy, and was sent to me by Debra McCown, who reports that the sheriff’s department estimated the crowd as at least 5,500 — in a town whose population is only 1,100.
One early report from the Bluefield (W.Va.) Daily Telegraph said: “The traffic was backed up from Poplar Gap Park to U.S. 460 in Grundy, Va., and backed up to Haysi, Va., in the other direction.”
UPDATE: To understand how deeply the “War on Coal” hits Appalachia, read Matt Vespa’s account at the Hot Air Green Room:
The issue has stoked anger against the Obama administration amongst voters in these areas. In the Williamson Daily News, a local paper circulated in Kentucky and West Virginia, staff writer Julia Roberts Goad wrote on October 13 about how United for Coal, “a citizens group created to support the coal mining industry” has declared that “our government has decided to commit ‘Regional Genocide’ against our people …”
UPDATE II: Mitt Romney’s son Matt spoke at the rally in Grundy, as did Susan Allen, wife of Virginia Senate candidate George Allen. The Allen campaign issued this press release:
Susan Allen Rallies Virginians in Coal Country
Grundy, VA – Today, Susan Allen rallied Southwest Virginians at the Rally in Support of American Coal Jobs, joining Matt Romney and Congressman Morgan Griffith in standing strong for the people and jobs behind Virginia’s coal. The event was hosted by the Eastern Coal Council, Friends of Coal, FACES of Coal and other coal industry leaders in Buchanan County.
In Grundy’s Poplar Park, thousands of coal miners, concerned families, residents, business leaders and local officials gathered to rally in support of Virginia coal. They feel that their voices are being ignored as Washington’s harmful regulatory policies are causing coal plants and mines to shut down, costing the region thousands of coal-related jobs. Susan Allen gave a speech sharing George Allen’s commitment to Southwest Virginia and using our American energy resources from our coalfields to our coast.
“Coal plays such a vital role for families and jobs in Southwest Virginia,” said Susan Allen. “Virginia is blessed with such abundant energy resources like coal and the natural gas and oil off our shore. With these resources, the ability to create new jobs and make electricity more affordable is right at our fingertips. As George and I have listened to Southwest Virginians, their number one concern has been the war on coal that has cost many of their family members and neighbors their jobs and livelihoods. Skyrocketing electricity prices have taken a toll on families and have forced many small businesses to close their doors despite years of hard work. On November 6th, Southwest Virginians have an opportunity to make their voices heard by sending George Allen to the U.S. Senate to fight for Virginia jobs and stand up for coal. George will work hard from day one to unleash our American energy resources from our coalfields to our coasts for Virginia jobs and more affordable energy to lead the way towards America’s Comeback!”
On Monday, Susan Allen will visit the American Mine Research facility in Rocky Gap to listen to their concerns about the effects of Washington’s harmful energy policies on Virginia families and jobs.
UPDATE III: Debra McCown has now filed her report of the Grundy rally and it’s got the quote of the day year millenium:
“The only promise Obama kept was to kill coal,” said Jerry Shortt, a coal miner from Richlands who was laid off temporarily right after Labor Day — and learned Friday that for him, along with 189 other employees at the mine where he worked, the layoff would be permanent.
“You see all these people? I bet you a quarter of them’s laid off,” he said. “I know a lot of people that did [vote for Obama] that are not going to next time. Hope turned into damnation.”
Please the whole thing at The American Spectator.
UPDATE IV: The Lonely Conservative:
Who knows, maybe Obama’s hoping that his “green jobs” strategy won’t produce any more bankruptcies or layoffs before the election, so those green workers will vote his way. I don’t think that will work. I think he miscalculated the backlash from coal workers, who all live in the swing states he so desperately needs to win reelection. Maybe he thought that expanding the welfare state would be enough to win these hard workers over, and just doesn’t understand the culture of work most of us live by.
Rule 5 Sunday: Pulchritudinous Power Hour
Posted on | October 21, 2012 | 12 Comments
— compiled by Wombat-socho
If you don’t know about the possible Bad End to perusing the links in this post where you shouldn’t ought to, no disclaimer I can ever write will help you.
Laughing Conservative leads off this week with Sophie Monk, followed by Grumpy Old Man with Lyndsy Fonseca, the Pegu Blog with Rule 5 Booze Marketing, and Fishersvilel Mike with Kellie Pickler taking it all off for a cause – but not the way you think. Eye of Polyphemus has the ever-popular Kaley Cuoco, Randy’s Roundtable takes a break with Daniela Lopes, and Blessed Blasphemy debuts with Leeann Tweeden. Meanwhile, the Rio Norte Line discovers Micro Bikini Analysis, and First Street Journal continues their examination of military women with the Marine Corps.
EBL returns after a break with some Rule 5 pumpkin carving, Kate Upton in Vogue, some vintage Grace Kelly, and a post on the Yankee’s failure in the ALCS, focusing on what A-Rod was chasing instead of fastballs.
El Opinador Compulsivo sorted through his Opiladies for us and wound up with an unintentionally international collection for our edification. From Israel, Bar Paly; from Japan, Sora Aoi; Linda Palacio from Colombia; our own Miss Mosh in red latex, and Katerina Hartlova from the Czech Republic. Also, a memorial to the late Sylvia Kristel and a black & white gallery.
Soylent Green starts with an apology, followed by Monday Motivationer Ala Russe, Tuesday Titillation Dina, Overnighty Pammie Lee, Humpday Hawt Lacy Spice, Lindsey Lee, AM Angela, Evening Awesome Dakota Rae, Corsetcare: Lingering Lingerie, Raquel, and Saturday Snooch In Cinerama.
I somehow managed to overlook the links from A View From The Beach last week, so this week you get a double dose. Leftovers from last week include Emily Rose, School Daze, Stacey Dash, Raccoon Eyes, Italian Fountains, Sex In (Italian) Advertising, and a Great Pair Of Knockers. This week’s menu includes Catrinel Menghia, Uncle Obama!, Lara Logan’s speech to the BCA, Maria Maria, Had Enough Football Yet?, and Heather’s search for deeper penetration.
Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Adrianna Costa, his vintage babe is Andrea King, and there’s also some Sex In Advertising, 49er Cheerleaders, and their brunette friend.Dustbury offers Christine Baranski and Sushmita Sen, The Camp of the Saints has Amanda Averill and the Rule 5 News, and Three Beers Later has Miranda Lambert and the Pistol Annies.
The DaleyGator’s Daley Babes this week include Katheryn Winnick, Kelita Smith, Vanessa Arias, Mami Nagaoka, random hotties, Elisandra Tomacheski, and Monica Raymund with a Rule 5 roundup.
Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday will be due in the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox by Saturday, October 27.



