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TONIGHT: Defeat Obama Radiothon UPDATE: With Herman Cain, Too!
UPDATE: Raised $56,000 in 3 Hours!

Posted on | May 19, 2011 | 4 Comments

UPDATE 1 a.m. ET Friday: The phone lines were jammed throughout the three-hour broadcast, which raised $56,000. You can still contribute by visiting The Campaign to Defeat Obama Web Site.

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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN LIVE at KDWN.COM!

The Campaign to Defeat Obama will have a radiothon tonight 9 p.m.-midnight Eastern (6 p.m.-9 p.m. Pacific) with guests including Michelle Bachmann, Andrew Breitbart, Phyllis Schlafly, Rick Santorum and . . . well, me, among many more.

The program will be anchored at KDWN-AM in Las Vegas and livestreamed worldwide via KDWN.com. You can read more about this big event here. They’ve got a Facebook page and you can follow them on Twitter (@DefeatBarack). Here’s one of their latest TV ads:

The Campaign to Defeat Obama

UPDATE: Just found out that yesterday Herman Cain confirmed as a guest!

Category: Talk Radio, Tea Party

Congratulations and Condolences

Posted on | May 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

Congratulations to Todd and Sarah Palin whose 22-year-old son, Track, just married his high-school sweetheart, Britta Hanson.

And condolences to The Lonely Conservative, whose mother died yesterday. She asks that you remember the Troopathon.

Category: Sarah Palin, The Lonely Conservative

Will Folks: My Sacred Honor Compels Me to Claim That Nikki Haley (Whom I Once Shagged) Visited a Strip Club in 2009

Posted on | May 19, 2011 | 19 Comments

The Palmetto State’s most gallant Republican political consultant — the Deuce Bigalo of the Blogosphere™ — figured his reputation wasn’t quite sleazy enough:

On Wednesday evening – as part of a separate investigation into the nocturnal habits of S.C. First Gentleman Michael Haley – our founding editor received a call from an exotic dancer in Myrtle Beach, S.C. with some shocking information.
According to the woman – who declined to provide either her real name (or her “stage” name, for that matter) – she gave Michael Haley a lap dance during an August 2009 visit to the Masters Club in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Obviously that isn’t the “shocking information” we’re referring to – plenty of guys (and some very cool girls) go to strip clubs and get lap dances all the time. In fact, multiple sources have told FITS that Michael Haley is a regular guest (and frequent “VIP room” customer) at one particular Columbia, S.C. strip club – a story we’ve been tracking for several weeks.
But this phone call – which was originally placed to verify another report of Michael Haley’s alleged affinity for nude nightlife – quickly took a bizarre turn.
According to this dancer, Michael Haley wasn’t alone on this visit to the Master’s Club.
“She was with him, you know,” the dancer told us.
Wait … she? As in Nikki Haley – who was then a sitting state lawmaker as well as an announced candidate for governor?
“Yes. I danced for her,” the woman said. . . .

It goes on and on. What’s with this annoying third-person reference to “our founding editor”? Are we supposed to be surprised that Will Folks gets late-night calls from strippers? Are we supposed to be shocked that Will Folks alleges Nikki Haley to be involved in every manner of evil?

Will Folks is going to keep this up until his skull has an “inappropriate relationship” with somebody’s tire iron.

Category: South Carolina

Obama the Neocon?

Posted on | May 19, 2011 | 27 Comments

Max Boot’s take on the president’s big “Arab spring” speech:

As John [Podhoretz] and Jonathan [Tobin] have already noted, today’s speech at the State Department marks Barack Obama’s emergence as a full-fledged, born-again neocon firmly in the George W. Bush mold. . . .
Obama, like Bush, is a neocon because he has been mugged by events—in his case by the Arab Spring which has exposed the fragility of dictatorships that he once thought, in the fashion of his predecessor’s father, George H.W. Bush, he could make deals with.
Gone now is the apologetic tone of Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo, where he denied that America was “at war with Islam”; proclaimed, in light of Iraq, that “no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other”; and even tried to make amends for the U.S. role in the overthrow of the Mossadeq government in Iran in 1953.
Instead today at the State Department he spoke from a position of moral authority, telling Middle Eastern dictators that the U.S. will no longer tolerate a situation where “in too many countries, power has been concentrated in the hands of the few.” He even specifically repudiated the Realpolitik policy he had once favored, saying that “we have a stake not just in the stability of nations, but in the self-determination of individuals.” From now on, he announced, “it will be the policy of the United States to promote reform across the region, and to support transitions to democracy.”

Hmmm. I suppose people hear what they want to hear. Did Ed Morrissey hear the same speech?

Barack Obama showed up a half-hour late, and once again used the self-promoted White House occasion to say nothing specific, and nothing new.  Even in the most specific part of the speech, regarding the American position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Obama offered nothing new.  The entire speech could easily have been delivered by George W. Bush in its commendable but hardly inspirational cheering of democratization, which foundered on Obama’s decision to task Bashar Assad with leading democratic reform in Syria.

National Journal has the text of Obama’s speech. Here’s video:

UPDATE:John Tabin at The American Spectator:

President Obama’s speech on the Middle East represents a watershed in his shift from a destructive and delusional approach to the Middle East, marked by indifference to democracy promotion and solicitude toward tyrants, toward embracing a policy that looks a lot like George W. Bush’s Freedom Agenda.

So that’s three commenters who see Obama’s speech as a shift toward Bushism.

UPDATE II: “They told me if I voted for McCain we’d be getting a reluctant clone of Bush’s policies. And they were right!”

UPDATE III: Professor William Jacobson isn’t joining in the general jubilation over the alleged Bush-ification of Obama-ism.

UPDATE IV: Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch didn’t get any leg tingles, either. Now a Memeorandum thread.

UPDATE V: Ace calls the speech “a political document, pure and simple,” and I ask: Who expected anything else? He’s clearly in re-election mode now, and everything he says or does is calculated for political effect.

UPDATE VI: Allahpundit called this the headline of the day:

OBAMA IGNITES MIDDLE EAST POWDER KEG

Who knew the National Enquirer had a foreign-policy desk?

UPDATE VII: David Limbaugh asks, where’s the outrage? But the problem is that, according to various commentators, what Obama said about Israel returning to the 1967 borders is just a reiteration of longstanding U.S. policy. If Max Boot isn’t complaining . . .

UPDATE VIII: Welcome, Instapundit readers! President Obama’s remarks weren’t a big hit with Benjamin Netanyahu.

UPDATE IX: Max Boot’s sanguine initial assessment of Thursday’s speech is now giving way to more skeptical views from his Commentary colleagues, including John Podhoretz (“Did Obama Think He Was Giving a Pro-Israel Speech?“) and Omri Ceren (“Obama Abandons Decades of U.S.-Israeli Diplomacy“).


Category: Barack Obama, Israel

Schwarzenegger, Babies and Bathwater

Posted on | May 19, 2011 | 11 Comments

Image by Irony Curtain, IOwnTheWorld.com

“Arnold Schwarzenegger has disappointed all of those who put their faith in males, Republicans, politicians or all any combination of the above.”
— Red State Gal, Death by 10,000 Papercuts

That’s rather over-generalizing, isn’t it? Surely, somewhere in America, there must be at least one male Republican politician who hasn’t spawned love-children (yes, it’s plural) by paramours. And yet the innocent are being blamed for the Sperminator‘s sins.

Same thing with the Potluck blog post titled, “What is Wrong with Conservative Men of Late?” — Ben Stein is responsible for his own arguments. Don’t blame me. Read more

Category: California, Celebrities, Republicans, Scandal, Sex

Jonah Doubts the Cain Magic

Posted on | May 19, 2011 | 10 Comments

Jonah Goldberg got some blowback about a column on the 2012 campaign that didn’t mention Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain:

As for Herman Cain, I’m also catching a lot of grief for not discussing him. For the record, what I’ve seen of Cain I like. I certainly respect the guy, though I was less impressed with what I saw of his debate performance than Frank Luntz’s focus group was. And I am far from convinced he’s the right candidate at the right time.
I didn’t mention him, or Michele Bachmann (who, I’d predict, will do better than Cain in the primaries if she enters the race), because they didn’t fit directly into the thesis of the column, particularly given space constraints. I can tell from the comments and e-mail that Cain’s fans are already trying to make support for him into some kind of litmus test. I’m not buying any of that. But I look forward to seeing how he does in the weeks and months ahead.

So he doesn’t believe. Yet.

Category: Election 2012, Herman Cain

NY-26 Update: Jane Corwin Ad

Posted on | May 19, 2011 | 8 Comments

Responding to Democrat attacks, the GOP is really trying to blur the Medicare/Social Security issue:

The most effective part of this ad is Corwin’s appearance at the end. She just seems nice, doesn’t she?

Dave Weigel is up in the district covering the campaign, and has a report on Wednesday’s debate between Corwin and Democrat Kathy Hochul. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports that Hochul kept hammering on the Paul Ryan budget plan — Democrats want the NY-26 special election to be a negative referendum on that — while Corwin described Hochul as a “career politician.”

UPDATE: Robert Costa at National Review emphasizes the national implications of NY-26:

Corwin also finds herself in the middle of a proxy war between national Republicans and Democrats over Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget. Corwin backs Ryan’s effort; Hochul has tethered her hopes to demonizing Ryan’s Medicare reforms, which she claims would harm seniors.
Democrats, sensing disarray in a deep-red district, would love to pick up the seat, mere weeks after Ryan and his House GOP colleagues promoted the budget at town-hall meetings. Republicans, fearful of that spin, are performing triage, sending organizers and volunteers to Corwin headquarters.
“Democrats are going to try to make the 2012 House elections a referendum on ‘Paul Ryan’s plan to end Medicare,’ which all but a small handful of Republicans voted for,” says Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. “NY-26 has too many complicating factors for this to fairly be considered a referendum on Ryan, but inevitably that is how many will interpret the election.”

Read the whole thing. At the end, Costa touches on the problem with David Bellavia, who was passed over for the GOP nomination and is now supporting Crazy Jack Davis. Bellavia’s situation and the problems of the New York Republican Party deserve more attention than I can give it here, but it would be an awful outcome if it results in handing Nancy Pelosi a chance to claim victory over Paul Ryan.

Let’s make a few things clear: This isn’t NY-23. Jane Corwin is not Dede Scozzafava; Corwin is ranked the second-most conservative member of the New York Assembly, based on her voting record. And furthermore, Jack Davis is no Doug Hoffman. Davis is a protectionist who ran three times for Congress as a Democrat.

The Tea Party Express, FreedomWorks and other major conservative organizations are backing Corwin.

JANE CORWIN FOR U.S. CONGRESS

PREVIOUSLY:

Category: Congress, Dave Weigel, Election, New York

Strauss-Kahn Resigns

Posted on | May 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn submitted his resignation last night, “with infinite sadness.” It’s hard to beat “infinite,” but the sadness might get worse if Strauss-Kahn’s accuser turns out to be HIV-positive.

Joseph A. Harriss, Paris correspondent for The American Spectator, raises an interesting question about Strauss-Kahn:

Strauss-Kahn’s personal Götterdämmerung on Saturday came with stunning swiftness. On Friday he had checked into the upscale Sofitel in the Times Square area, staying in a $3,000 a night suite with foyer, conference room, living room, marble bathroom and bedroom. It was a lavish layout for a personal trip whose purpose is still unclear; an embarrassed IMF stated firmly that he was not on official business.
He was due in Berlin on Sunday to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel, followed by two days of meetings in Brussels to work on Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. He could easily have taken a flight from Washington’s Dulles airport without going through New York. Oddly, when police pulled him off an Air France flight Saturday afternoon just two minutes before it left the gate, the plane was headed not to Berlin, but to Paris.

Indeed, if Strauss-Kahn was en route from D.C. to Berlin, why the extra stops in New York and Paris?

UPDATE: The New York Times:

Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s extramarital affairs have long been considered an open secret. But the legal charges against him — which include attempted rape, forced oral sex and an effort to sequester another person against her will — are of an entirely different magnitude, even in France and elsewhere in continental Europe.

Raping the hotel maid: Wrong even in France! Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

In France, meanwhile, it seems that the initial round of America-bashing over the notion that a presumably great man like Strauss-Kahn could get arrested over a maid (sacre bleu!) has given way to a little more honesty.  Both National Journal and Time Magazine report today that Strauss-Kahn’s reputation as a womanizer glossed over a well-known cruel streak that didn’t exist with other mainstream French politicians.

Here’s a video report from EuroNews:

More commentary at Memeorandum.

UPDATE II: Strauss-Kahn hired hookers from Manhattan madam? Yeah, maybe that explains the New York detour.

Category: Crime, New York
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