Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Facebook Comment to Folks in the News

Like millions of other Americans I have been caught up in the Facebook/social networking craze. I believe that Facebook is like a near-death experience except your life passes before your eyes one friend request at a time. I have  been trying to “friend” a lot of people in the news, without much success. There’s been no acceptance of my friend requests from President Obama, Dede Scozzafava, Jeremiah Wright and a host of others. So in order to reach them with some timely advice I am posting some comments here. If you are on their Facebook friend list maybe you could pass them along. 

@ Dede Scozzafava – When you try to stand in the middle of the road you get run over. Thanks for showing where you stand when the heat was on. Go stand in the “has-been” line behind Arlen Specter.

@ Barack Obama - Mr. President, if the trip to Dover wasn’t a photo-op or political why take a photographer along? (more…)

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Tags: David Axelrod, Dede Scozzafava, facebook, Fred Thompson, Jeremiah Wright
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 6:05 pm in Celebrity News, Political Humor, Religion | 25766259 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/11/04/stand-up-notes-from-flyover-country-facebook-comment-to-folks-in-the-news/Stand+Up+Notes+From+Flyover+Country%3A+Facebook+Comment+to+Folks+in+the+News2009-11-05+02%3A05%3A08Jeffrey+Jena

Burnt Offering: Artists Must Unite to Protect Free Speech

So I wake up groggy and after getting my morning green tea –- yeah, I seem to be going through that phase — coffee doesn’t go well with global warming. Anyway, I start the computer and begin my ritual of clearing out emails; a daunting but necessary task where depending on my time and interest I sometimes randomly open something to read.  

If your mailbox is like mine you receive an overwhelming amount of political stuff and reading it all can be a time-suck of enormous proportions. Let’s face it, if you don’t derive your living from this stuff, no matter how much of a concerned citizen you may be, there comes a point where you have to say, “Ah, is this paying my mortgage?” That’s reality biting you in the ass and so the knee-jerk reaction is to press delete and move on to something that may add a few more dollars to your already crumbling retirement fund. But, and I stress BUT, like the” pusher man” (remember that song, G** D**** the Pusher Man?) who you cannot seem to get away from, the sheer volume of political noise coming at you can’t be ignored and after just one peek … aaahhh your fix takes hold.   (more…)

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Tags: David Axelrod, Fox News, Free Speech, MSNBC, nancy pelosi
Posted Oct 26th 2009 at 2:28 pm in Art, Culture, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 25301063 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rdavi/2009/10/26/burnt-offering-artists-must-unite-to-protect-free-speech/Burnt+Offering%3A+Artists+Must+Unite+to+Protect+Free+Speech2009-10-26+21%3A28%3A31Robert+Davi

George W. Bush-by-Proxy Syndrome

This week’s Washington Times column:

There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred leveled at former President George W. Bush.

His birth into a wealthy and politically connected family is where a lot of the animus starts. His rejection of his Connecticut roots and adoption of a rugged Texan persona naturally riled his birth-constituency. His disjointed speaking style also alienated many others – especially those who covered him in the Northeastern media. Naturally, some of his initiatives were controversial. His allies say he didn’t do enough.

But all presidents make mistakes, pursue unpopular ideas, possess off-putting personality traits and don’t do enough to appeal to their core supporters. Something far more insidious was at work in the hatred of our most recent former president.

Now that Mr. Bush is quietly going about his retirement, this strain of rage – the GWB43 virus – has spread like wildfire, finding unsuspecting targets, each granting us greater perspective into what not long ago seemed like a mysterious phenomenon isolated only on our 43rd president.

The first person to catch the virus was Sarah Palin, whose family also was infected, including, unforgivably, her children.

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Tags: David Axelrod, GWB43 virus, joe the plumber, Mormons, Obama
Posted Aug 16th 2009 at 5:40 pm in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 206006172 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/08/16/george-w-bush-by-proxy-syndrome/George+W.+Bush-by-Proxy+Syndrome2009-08-17+00%3A40%3A36Andrew+Breitbart

G.I. JObama

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Tags: AARP, abc, ACORN, AFSCME, CNN
Posted Aug 9th 2009 at 11:33 am in Media Criticism, News, Political Humor, Politics | 20294625 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cmuir/2009/08/09/gi-jobama/G.I.+JObama2009-08-09+18%3A33%3A29Chris+Muir

It’s All Relative: The Obama/HuffPo Connection Tightens

Whatever happened to good old-fashioned American know-how, pulling yourself up from the bootstraps, proving to the world you have the mettle to succeed on your own raw talent? If you’re Paris Hilton or, say, the Huffington Post — none of those good ol’ values amount to a hill of beans! The Huffington Post, the website famous for slapping left-wing bias on mainstream news, recently hired Ethan Axelrod — you may have heard of his dad, David Axelrod: the celebrated image-maker of the Obama campaign. Given the Huffington Post is all snuggles with the Obama Administration, the news might come as no surprise.

Lefty-types are always making room for their own, so long as you have a famous last name or a privileged pedigree. For a bunch that loves to push for “universalizing” and “leveling the playing field,” they sure are elitist! This is the world where Anderson Cooper, scion of Gloria Vanderbilt, is handed the keys to CNN. Al Gore’s daughter Kristin nabs a dream job writing for Matt Groening’s “Futurama” straight out of college. Oh sure, it helped that Poppa Gore agreed to guest star twice (but only if his young daughter could direct). Gore went on to appear as a disembodied head (yes, the show ‘jumped the shark’). Is Huffington Post banking on access to daddy Axelrod’s head, too? ‘Wink, wink,’ welcome aboard Ethan… (more…)

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Tags: "Futurama", 2012, Al Gore, Anderson Cooper, Arianna Huffington
Posted Aug 2nd 2009 at 7:03 am in Culture, Featured Story, News, Politics | 195002120 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jmeath/2009/08/02/sometimes-talent-is-relative/It%27s+All+Relative%3A+The+Obama%2FHuffPo+Connection+Tightens2009-08-02+14%3A03%3A08Jason+Killian+Meath

David Axelrod, Rasputin of the Magic Kingdom

Senior Obama advisor David Axelrod made the news recently with his comment on NPR’s ‘The Hot Seat’, when he offhandedly remarked that ‘Miss California’ was one of three names considered for President Obama’s new dog, Bo. The remark was met with uproarious laughter by NPR’s Regressive live audience. Then again, the intellectual retards of the Left will laugh at most anything that grossly insults anyone to the right of Stalin, like second graders instinctively laughing at farts.

President Obama — David Axelrod

You know. Like Wanda Sykes, Sandra Bernhard and the Teabag-loving MSM.

As to Mr. Axelrod’s crude and lame attempt at insulting humor that should be beneath the dignity of any presidential advisor, I can only conclude that he made that derogatory comment about Carrie Prejean because Miss California shares his boss’s negative attitude  toward gay marriage. (more…)

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Tags: ACLU, Anthony Romero, assassination chic, Barack Obama, Carrie Prejean
Posted May 21st 2009 at 8:10 am in Politics | 137038One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/05/21/david-axelrod-rasputin-of-the-magic-kingdom/David+Axelrod%2C+Rasputin+of+the+Magic+Kingdom2009-05-21+15%3A10%3A30John+T.+Simpson