LIVE AT FIVE – 02.02.12

What kind of bigoted hatemonger would dare to promote the stereotype that African-Americans enjoy dressing up in colorful clothing and engaging in outrageous dancing to simplistic songs with pulsating rhythms? That man’s name would be the late, great Don Cornelius:

Pamela Geller pays tribute to the entertainment impressario whose weekly TV program was the Fabulous Funkadelic School of Super-Smooth Moves where all the kids learned to dance back in the day.

R.I.P., Brother Don.

Category: Atlas Shrugs, Culture, Music, Racism, Video

California Broke, Blames Redmond, Threatens #Occupy Road Trip In The Name Of ‘Fairness’

Posted on | February 1, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

The state of California woke up in a gutter after a two-week bender, to discover that there isn’t enough room left on the plastic to make it to the end of the fiscal year.

“It’s not fair,” said California. “2011 really sucked, and so I partied a little bit over the MLK weekend. Is that really so wrong?

Oh, it’s February? No waaaay! How could all that time have been slipping, slipping, slipping. . .into the future? It’s that evil Bill Gates’ fault: I heard there was a Windows bug that, like, let’s some dude in Bulgaronia hack your computer’s clock, and stuff.

Killer idea, man–road trip! We can go #OccupyRedmond, and show that evil Bill Gates that we’re not putting up with his 1% software oppression.

It’s really not fair that those little computer dweebs who sat at their keyboards all day have managed to bogart all the money, anyway. They should be fair and share.”

Then Oregon said to California: “You know, there sure are a lot of Second Amendment fanatics with an amount of ammunition that some might consider excessive living in the woods here. Not to dissuade you, mind, but I just thought you might find the data point helpful as you consider your options.”

via Gateway Pundit

Category: California, Gateway Pundit, humor

‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran Can’t Differentiate Between Allen West And A Hyena; Thinks That Barack Obama Is The Lion King

Posted on | February 1, 2012 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

Must see video that I can’t embed. Hard to tell when on Tuesday this was shot, but the possibility of immediately after a hydraulic lunch comes to mind*:

“People like Mr. [Allen] West, and Governor Brewer and so on, particularly Mr. West, is not only not representative of the African-American community or of the Republican Party, let alone of the American public. So what he says really is of little or no consequence, but it’s unfortunate,” Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) said about Rep. Allen West telling liberal leaders to “get the hell” out of the country.
“He just seems clueless not that he has climbed abroad ship. He’s climbed this ladder of opportunity that was constructed by so many of his ancestors’ sweat, sacrifice, blood, you know they did everything they could for his generation to be successful. But now that he’s climbed abroad ship, instead of reaching down and steadying the ladder, he wants to push it off. ‘I’m up here. If you’re not with me, too bad.’ And President Obama, fortunately, is the kind of guy that says ‘I was very fortunate to get where I am and I’m going to spend my life trying to steady that ladder of opportunity by reducing college tuition and training our workers, trying to get a decent job for everybody. Making sure that while I’m African-American, it really doesn’t matter. What matters is my commitment to public service, my love for this country and I’m going to leave a constructive legacy,'” he said.
Moran says that Obama “doesn’t engage in this nonsense” and calls him our “Lion King” while comparing his Republican detractors to “hyenas.”

Update: now in moving pictures, courtesy of American Glob!

Patrick Murray for Congress

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via email from Patrick Murray.

*Didn’t realize that was a sailor idiom.

Category: Jim Moran, Patrick Murray

When A Conversation You’ve Had Comes Out Of A Different Mouth

Posted on | February 1, 2012 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

A lot of this sort of talk in the air of late:

“Then came 2011,” Rebecca says, and her mood clouds. “It felt like every time I turned around, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell were selling us out, hanging our Tea Party freshmen out to dry, and doing it for no apparent reason.”
She’s unsure why this is. “Are they idiots, or just the worst chess/poker players ever? Every time they have an opportunity to limit government, reduce taxes, etc. they blow it.”

Dad and I were speculating on the reasons:

Boehner and McConnell share half a testicle between them–unlikely.
The 2010 election was merely a restraining order; they just haven’t got enough horsepower to go beyond delaying actions–maybe.
They’re a brace of Ruling Class Overlords trying to surf the Tea Party energy without, you know, listening–likely.
The situation with the debt is so far down the Greece-ie slope that they can’t get their minds around altertatives–plausible.
Whatever those two jokers are doing, they are doing an utterly suck-tacular job of communicating the strategy to the American people–ding ding ding!!!

via Daily Pundit

Category: Republicans, Tea Party

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Sic Transit Jacksonville Airport

Posted on | February 1, 2012 | 4 Comments

JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Fla.
Dan Balz drifted out of the Champions sports bar adjacent to the Tampa Marriott last night just as I was heading in to order a cheeseburger.

“Whaddya think?” I said.

“Good night for Romney,” he said.

And that was really all that could be said. There was no drama, no suspense, no surprise in Tuesday’s result, and yet I had to deliver a column about this tedious Florida primary for The American Spectator.

We were standing there discussing this when a man recognized Balz. “Hey, you look familiar,” the guy said. “Where do I know you from?”

Dan Balz, Washington Post, semi-famous, because he occasionally shows up on TV shows talking about politics. Whereas, by contrast, I’m kind of an obscure cult figure, known by a comparative handful of right-wing political junkies on the Internet. Less notorious than Charles Manson, but perhaps slightly better known than whoever plays center field for the Houston Astros, unless you’re from Houston or a baseball fan.

There was no time to think about such stuff last night. I got my burger and a Corona and went out to the patio of the Marriott — next to the canal, underneath the palms in the warm Florida breeze — to finish my column. There was very little in the way of Final Wisdom:

Mitt Romney scored an impressive victory in Tuesday’s Florida primary, winning by such a decisive margin that the networks called the race as soon as the polls closed. And his choice of this city as the site of his celebration was not accidental.
‘When we gather back here seven months from now here in Tampa for our convention, we will be a united party with a winning ticket for America,” the former Massachusetts governor said in his victory speech at the Convention Center downtown. Saying that Democrats believed the tough fight for the GOP nomination would leave Republicans “divided and weak,” Romney said, “A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us.”
Romney’s appeals to party unity surely rang hollow to supporters of Newt Gingrich, who was on the receiving end of a weeklong barrage of attack ads from Romney’s campaign and the Florida winner’s so-called “super PAC,” Restore Our Future. Between the two entities, Team Romney spent something like $17 million on TV and radio ads in Florida, compared to about $5 million spent by Gingrich and the pro-Gingrich “super PAC,” Winning Our Future. The vast majority of the ads by both camps were of the attack variety, and media analyst Ken Goldstein pronounced it “the most negative campaign ever.” . . .

Read the whole thing. There is lots more I could say about this trip, but they’ve just called final boarding and, as usual, there simply isn’t enough time to do what I would like to do. Because I’m still “Not Good Enough for BlogCon.” And probably never will be.

Category: Fear and Loathing in the Sunshine State

LIVE AT FIVE – 02.01.12

Posted on | February 1, 2012 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
Romney Takes Florida Primary

Mitt Romney and wife Ann celebrate his win in the Florida GOP primary

Romney 46%, Gingrich 32%, Santorum 13%, Paul 7%
Gingrich undaunted; says “people power will beat money power”
Santorum looks beyond Florida to next week’s caucuses and primaries
Ron Paul sets sights on Nevada caucuses

Israel To Deport South Sudanese
Refugees protected status expired when new nation formed

Arab, Western Nations Push For UN Action On Syria
Russians obdurate in blocking action; PRC, India diffident

POLITICS
Court Rules DC Occupods Must Obey Camping Regulations

Judge also requires 24 hours’ notice of eviction from Park Service

CBO Says Keeping Existing Laws Would Erode Deficit

Bonamici Defeats Cornilles To Keep Oregon Seat For Democrats

TSA Under Scrutiny As Complaints And Expense Mount

11 Oakland Occupods Ordered To Avoid City Hall Plaza

Obama Hopes To Ride Auto Bailout To Re-Election

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
IRS Cracks Down On Fraud As Tax Season Begins
Wall Street Ends Strong January On Flat Note
Amazon Tanks After Earnings
Housing Prices Continue Long Slide
Germany Insists On EU Oversight For Greece
Nonprofit To Help Megaupload Users Retrieve Legal Files
Petition Tells Apple “Ethical” iPhone 5 Wanted
Neil Young Wants Digital Music To Die

SPORTS
Peyton Manning: I Have No Plans To Retire

Indianapolis Colts QB Peyton Manning

Rehab progressing well; will talk to Colts about returning after the Super Bowl

Illinois Edges #10 Michigan State 42-41

Knicks Stop Skid With 113-86 Mauling Of Pistons

Pens Rally For 5-4 Shootout Win Over Leafs

Imran Khan Calls For Resumption Of Indo-Pak Cricket

Astros Sign Former Nationals Starter Livan Hernandez To Minor League Deal

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Simon Cowell: I’m Not Done With Paula Abdul

Paula and Simon last season on "X Factor"

Effusive thanks from Cowell to all three departing judges; looking forward to working with Paula again

11 Thoroughly Modern Actresses

Trace Cyrus Not Rushing Down The Aisle

Stephen Arnell Is Green Arrow In CW’s “Arrow”

Raven Symone To Star In “Sister Act” On Broadway

Duke & Duchess Of Cambridge Get Four-Legged Friend

Adam Sandler To Star In Movie Version of Hasbro’s “Candy Land” Game

FOREIGNERS
Pakistan Rejects Taliban Support Allegations
PRC Workers Seized In Egypt Freed
Egyptian Protesters Claim Muslim Brotherhood In Cahoots With Ruling Military
Argentina Protests British Naval Exercises Off Falklands
French Court To Review Genocide Bill
Netanyahu Declares Victory In Likud Primary
PRC Blames Tibetan Separatists For Violence In Sichuan

BLOGS & STUFF
Gateway Pundit: Palin Says Romney’s $17 Million In Ads Bought “Some False Narrative” In Florida
Flopping Aces: The Most Negative Primary Campaign in History
K-Lo: Taking Back The Pink – Komen Ends Partnership With Planned Parenthood
Doug Ross: Six Charts From the CBO That Spell Trouble For The U.S.
Pat Dollard: CBO Predicts Unemployment Over 9% In 2013
Marginal Revolution: David Brooks On The New Charles Murray Book
Pirate’s Cove: Democrat Report Clears Democrats From “Fast & Furious” Fallout
Weasel Zippers: Darrell Issa Threatens To Hold AG Holder In Contempt Over Fast & Furious; Contends DOJ Actively Engaged In Coverup
Moe Lane: More Shakeups In Florida House Races
American Glob: California to Run Out Of Cash In March
Jawa Report: Iran May Plan More Attacks On U.S. Soil

SOTD: Jackson, Mississippi

Category: Live at Five

Dana Loesch And Rick Santorum? Tea And A Scone, In My Humble

Posted on | January 31, 2012 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Keep listening. It’s boilerplate for the first five minutes, after which the exchange picks up significantly.

via Insty

Category: Dana Loesch, Rick Santorum

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LIVE AT FIVE – 02.02.12

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California Broke, Blames Redmond, Threatens #Occupy Road Trip In The Name Of ‘Fairness’

‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran Can’t Differentiate Between Allen West And A Hyena; Thinks That Barack Obama Is The Lion King

Patrick Murray for Congress

When A Conversation You’ve Had Comes Out Of A Different Mouth

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Sic Transit Jacksonville Airport

LIVE AT FIVE – 02.01.12

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