It’s Morning-After In America

I awoke this morning with a splitting headache.  As I staggered to the bathroom I blew past the mirror without a glance, fearful of the report.  I hadn’t felt this awful since I can’t remember when.  Though memory eluded me as to the details, I was certain that I had tied on the Mother of All Benders.  As I stared blearily into the commode bowl, I studied it disinterestedly for any and all evidence my stomach contents may have divulged as to just what the hell had happened the previous night.   

Nothing came to me but more questions.  Satisfied that no further gastric contributions could tell the tale, I rose from the bathroom floor, shrugged unconvincingly and hit the flusher.   What a perfect way to end unseemly encounters.  Flush them. 

I proceeded to weave an unsteady trail down the hallway in the general direction of a coffee pot.  My daughter had arisen before me and FOX News was already drifting in from the other room; Bill Hemmer recounting the latest on the decision to move the admitted 911 terrorists to NYC for trial. 

And then it struck me like a wet trout.  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, bush, Congress, george w. bush, health care
Posted Nov 20th 2009 at 2:02 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 26610266 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/11/20/its-morning-after-in-america/It%27s+Morning-After+In+America2009-11-20+22%3A02%3A55Gary+Graham

Fear, Children, & Video – Ingredients for Obama’s Weapon of Mass Persuasion

Fear is a powerful propaganda weapon. But couple fear with the innocence of childhood and you have a hair-triggered nuclear bomb of persuasion. One need only spend fifteen minutes watching the finalists of President Obama’s health reform video contest to experience its influence.

The Health Reform Video Challenge, launched by Obama’s Organizing for America in September, is a contest “to make the best 30-second ad showing why the President’s plan for reform is so critical.” The winning video, selected by a list of Hollywood elites and Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe, will be the basis for a new television ad that will air across the country delivering a clear message to viewers – children will die if health care reform is not passed. The secondary message is only one Defcon level lower on the fear-o-meter – the parents of sick or injured children will go bankrupt or lose their houses for even the simplest of injuries.

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Using children to pluck at the heartstrings of the electorate and further a political agenda is nothing new, but it shifts into the land of Disgustopia when our young are exploited to distort the truth or spread outright falsehoods. The winning video opens with a young boy stating, “A year from now I’ll break my leg and my parents will have to sell our house because we couldn’t afford health care.”

This statement is designed to instill broad fear and disseminate the idea that anyone, even a family faced with the common injury of a broken leg, is susceptible to being thrust from their homes as a consequence of being uninsured. The odds of needing to sell your home to pay for the cost of a broken leg are so remote that it borders on preposterous to use it as an example of why we need reform. House closing costs in almost every scenario would exceed the medical bill, yet this is the video that the President’s organization has selected to justify the need for reform. It’s much easier to sell health care reform if our system is so fractured that a broken leg can expel a family out from under the safety of their roof. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, health care, healthcare, hollywood, nancy pelosi
Posted Nov 19th 2009 at 5:01 am in Featured Story, Film, Politics | 26478675 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/11/19/fear-children-video-ingredients-for-obamas-nuclear-bomb-of-persuasion/Fear%2C+Children%2C+%26amp%3B+Video+-+Ingredients+for+Obama%27s+Weapon+of+Mass+Persuasion2009-11-19+13%3A01%3A33Patrick+Courrielche

Burt’s Eye View: Mother Nature and the Left

When Barack Obama was campaigning — not that he’s ever stopped — back in 2008, he made a number of promises.  As we all know, like a cad on the make, he was only trying to get us in the sack.  Once he had his way with us, he barely remembered our name, let alone his various vows.

Some of the things he swore to included keeping lobbyists out of his administration, providing five days for the public to review pending legislation and a bi-partisan approach to problem-solving.  Instead, lobbyists, particularly those representing unions, have freer access to the Oval Office than Michelle and the kids.  Not only is the public not given time to digest major legislation, neither are the legislators.  Early on, you may recall, Congress was given less than 24 hours to vote on an 1100-page, trillion dollar, so-called stimulus bill; more recently, when it came to health care, Obama was telling the sheep on Capitol Hill to vote even before an actual bill was written!

So far, as bi-partisanship is concerned, the Republicans have been banished to Washington’s equivalent of Siberia.  These days, bi-partisanship simply means that  David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel are in agreement.

There is one promise, however, that Obama has kept.  He vowed transparency, and anyone who can’t plainly see what the rock star and his left-wing groupies (Axelrod, Emanuel, Jeff Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunn) are up to is simply spending too much time watching “American Idol” and college football. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care, hollywood
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 8:22 am in Politics | 25558642 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/11/05/burts-eye-view-mother-nature-and-the-left/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Mother+Nature+and+the+Left2009-11-05+16%3A22%3A49Burt+Prelutsky

NewsBusted: How Big is the Health Care Bill?

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Tags: Bruce Jenner', Consumer Option, george w. bush, Gore Vidal, Health Care Bill
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All Trick no Treat(ment)

And for the other bad guys…

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Tags: Barrack Obama, big government, communism, Harry Reid, henry waxman
Posted Nov 1st 2009 at 12:44 pm in Art, Politics | 25605413 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/11/01/all-trick-no-treatment/All+Trick+no+Treat%28ment%292009-11-01+19%3A44%3A42Bosch+Fawstin

Larry David’s God-Given American Right to Be a Jerk

What in the world is wrong with people in the entertainment industry who come from humble beginnings, have a few years of real struggle and then with their uniqueness and by the grace of God (which you could interpret as luck), they make it big, as in rich and famous big. The chances of becoming as famous as Lindsay Lohan are 1 in 1,574,638 as tracked by E-Poll Market Research, but really, wouldn’t you rather be you?

Mr. David has been blessed beyond any struggling writer, producer, actor or stand-up comedian’s wildest dreams. His total cash receipts have still not been tallied since the funds continue to pour in from “Seinfeld,” but it’s accurate to say that with what he has earned to date, he could have paid for a lot of Nancy Pelosi’s botox.

Years after helping make television history, David jumped back into the small screen with the blessing of HBO and created “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which — in line with him marching to the beat of his own drum — is done unscripted. The show has a very solid following as it is in its seventh season, which is three television lifetimes these days. Great Larry, Mazal Tov. Isn’t America grand? Bet you would only have had the career of Heidi from the Hills if you lived in Cuba.  (more…)

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Tags: Curb Your Enthusiasm, hbo, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Larry David
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 11:44 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Politics, Religion | 255638287 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ekaris/2009/10/30/larry-davids-god-given-american-right-to-be-a-jerk/Larry+David%27s+God-Given+American+Right+to+Be+a+Jerk2009-10-30+18%3A44%3A14Ellen+Karis

PelosiCare: Liars, Luddites and Leprechauns

Nancy Pelosi, having renamed the Public Option, the ‘Consumer Option,’ triumphantly trotted out this morning the Hose version of the Health Care Reform Bill, now called The Affordable American Health Care Bill.   (“Affordable” – what does that mean, exactly?  Affordable to whom?)   But then Steny Hoyer proclaimed the process of crafting the bill the most open, transparent process he’s seen in over thirty years in Congress. (Really??)   And finally, the President followed up on Teleprompters to announce that finally we have a bill that will cover the 36 million uninsured, not cost the taxpayers anything extra, improve the quality of our health-care system, and bring down the costs of health care.  Speaker Pelosi assured us that this bill represents the principles of  “…opportunity, choice, competition, and innovation.”

How can you tell when they’re lying?    Their lips are moving.

They think you’re stupid.   It’s understandable that they should think that, because though they may on occasion listen to you, they never really hear you.  Hence, the only frame of reference for feedback on their incredibly absurd redistributive ideas, tax-and-spend proposals and unprecedented treasury-busting health care take-over bills…comes from their own constituents, the Democrats.  Whoops and hollers, cheers and laughter, nods, smiles, enthusiastic ‘yes-we-cans!’… as they serve up yet another heaping portion of socialist slop you’ll be expected to grab your ankles and pay for.  They think you’re stupid.

As the entire Democratic Party has now been fully commandeered by the hard Left, I wrestle daily with the following quandary:  Are they evil?  Or merely dense?  (more…)

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Tags: abortion, Barack Obama, Congress, Global warming, health care
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 12:24 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 255142140 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/10/29/pelosicare-liars-luddites-and-leprechauns/PelosiCare%3A+Liars%2C+Luddites+and+Leprechauns2009-10-29+19%3A24%3A32Gary+Graham

Pork Flu: H1N1 Offers Harrowing Preview of ObamaCare

Long-time listener, first-time blogger…

Back in April, Vice President Biden uttered dire warnings about catching Swine Flu in subways and commercial airplanes.  Per the usual pattern, the White House quickly apologized for “Amtrak Joe’s” remarks.  But now, just a few months later, the President also has declared a national emergency.  The H1N1 is spreading, and instead of 120 million expected doses, only 11 million shipped last week. In a few weeks, the vaccine may become widely available, but it hasn’t yet.  Even the Obama children reportedly haven’t received the vaccine (although I hope they get immunized if that’s what their family decides).  

Balboa Park, The United States of America

Personally, I think the Swine Flu hysteria is a bit over-hyped.  But on the other hand, I’d rather not get sick if I can avoid it.  This year is particularly important for my family because my wife is pregnant with identical twins.  That type of pregnancy comes with risks already, and the H1N1 can be rough on expectant mothers.  So, after doing our research, we decided she would get immunized at the first opportunity, which was this past week.  In the process, we saw one possible future outcome of health care “reform” – rationing.  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, H1N1, health care, healthcare
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 10:19 am in Politics | 25435847 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bross/2009/10/29/pork-flu-h1n1-offers-harrowing-preview-of-obamacare/Pork+Flu%3A+H1N1+Offers+Harrowing+Preview+of+ObamaCare2009-10-29+17%3A19%3A41Brian+Ross

Lonewolf Diaries: Leftists Hate Your Right to Free Speech

I know, I know, at first glance, the title may seem like I’m blowing things out of proportion. After all, Fox News is an isolated incident, right? Wrong. This is just another leg in a multi-pronged approach from the Obama administration to stifle dissent. (I just used some big words — which is out of character, I know — but go with me on this one.) Am I the only one who sees this as a wind of attacks looking to ultimately culminate into a “Fairness Doctrine” storm?

1. “Those forwarding falsehoods against the health care bill” must be reported.
2. “’Racists’ must be silenced.”
3. “Opinion journalism masquerading as news” must not be given legitimacy, or equal access.
4. David Axelrod: “We won’t treat Fox News that way, and you ought not treat them that way.”

This was the administration’s equivalent to the schoolyard bully’s call for a “PILE ON!!” (more…)

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Tags: Axelrod, Barack Obama, dissent, Fox News, health care
Posted Oct 27th 2009 at 6:13 pm in Politics | 253942178 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/10/27/lonewolf-diaries-leftists-hate-your-right-to-free-speech/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Leftists+Hate+Your+Right+to+Free+Speech2009-10-28+01%3A13%3A10Steven+Crowder

The ‘Me Generation’: A Generation of Thieves

My generation – the “Me Generation” – and those like us have stolen every last penny from our parent’s savings accounts (Social Security).   We’ve used that money to make ourselves appear successful and to vote ourselves more and more things we claimed to be “entitled” to.

When that money ran out, those of us who followed the mantra we were taught in the Leftist run public schools, “If it feels good, do it,” simply stole our children’s money, mortgaging their future for our personal comforts.  We’ve borrowed so much against their account that the numbers now are written in trillions – with each child born burdened with tens of thousands of dollars in debt – money we spent on ourselves — the moment they enter the world.

Now, with no more to steal from our parents or our children, many of us are demanding that we receive deeply discounted health-care services.  It’s something, we argue that we’re entitled to (for no other reason than that we’ve graced the world with our presence. )

The problem is that, forcing insurance companies to write bad policies – to take in in premiums far less than what they’ll have to dole out for the aging Boomers’ growing medical conditions – is untenable.  In fact, it is exactly the same formula these same Leftists used to force banks to make bad loans because they felt that everyone of their generation was “entitled” to own a house.

But the Boomers have a plan! (more…)

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Tags: baby boomers, Barack Obama, bush, Congress, deficit
Posted Oct 27th 2009 at 5:03 am in Politics | 251118114 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/esayet/2009/10/27/the-me-generation-a-generation-of-thieves/The+%27Me+Generation%27%3A+A+Generation+of+Thieves2009-10-27+12%3A03%3A10Evan+Sayet

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

Trailer: ‘Pelosi On Elm Street: The Nightmare Continues’

I’ve got to be honest, this flick has me excited. I usually don’t get worked up over horror movie trailers, but the preview for this one alone chilled me to the bone. Step aside “Paranormal Activity”… There’s a new horror villain in town.

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Posted Oct 22nd 2009 at 6:21 pm in Political Humor, Video | 25117032 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/10/22/trailer-pelosi-on-elm-street-the-nightmare-continues/Trailer%3A+%27Pelosi+On+Elm+Street%3A+The+Nightmare+Continues%272009-10-23+01%3A21%3A22Steven+Crowder

Burt’s Eye View: Questions Even Glenn Beck Hasn’t Asked

I have a few questions on my mind and, judging by the questions asked by the likes of George Stephanopoulos, David Letterman and the mainstream media, if I don’t ask them, there’s a very good chance that nobody else will. 

First off, I’d like to know why the 535 members of Congress have to congregate in Washington, D.C.  As Dick Morris and Eileen McGann made perfectly clear in “Fleeced,” they don’t do very much in the nation’s capitol that they couldn’t do just as well or just as badly if they stayed home in their bathrobes.  Half the time, the sessions are devoted to naming post offices and other equally earth-shattering events.  (more…)

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Tags: arlen spector, Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer, Barney Frank, Charles Schumer
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 at 4:46 pm in Politics | 24845034 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/10/22/burts-eye-view-questions-even-glenn-beck-hasnt-asked/Burt%27s+Eye+View%3A+Questions+Even+Glenn+Beck+Hasn%27t+Asked2009-10-22+23%3A46%3A09Burt+Prelutsky

Debating Leftists is Like Debating Charles Manson

Keith Olbermann’s recent hour-long commentary was quite revealing.  Like Michael Moore’s “capitalism hasn’t done anything for me” comment, the outpouring of support and sympathy for serial pedophile and admitted rapist Roman Polanski, and President Obama’s shenanigans at the U.N. and G-20, it drove home a simple, powerful point…

These people don’t know what they are talking about.

They do not know their kiesters from a hole in the ground.  They are a few fries short of a happy meal and a few cards short of a full deck.  Their phasers are permanently set on “clueless.”

Once you come to this realization, as many of us have, you are forced to approach their ideas and spokespeople from a position of reality.  Not from some sanctimonious position of civility and “debate.” (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Charles Manson, Congress, health care, michael moore
Posted Oct 12th 2009 at 5:04 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 242858329 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/10/12/debating-leftists-is-like-debating-charles-manson/Debating+Leftists+is+Like+Debating+Charles+Manson2009-10-12+12%3A04%3A58Leigh+Scott

Hopefully ObamaCare Will ‘Die Quickly’

Representative Joe Wilson shouts in the House Chamber to President Obama during a speech on Health Care Reform, “You lie,” and is forced to apologize to the President directly and compelled to apologize in the House where the incident occurred.  He chooses only to apologize to the President.  This did not make him many friends in the Democratic Caucus.  They could not bully him into a formal apology in the Chamber.  What happens next, the Democrat House votes to rebuke him in a meaningless resolution.  Of course, the vote is along party lines.

A few weeks later, Representative Alay Grayson of Florida, who also happens to be a Democrat, says while debating health hare reform on the House Floor:

“If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly. That’s right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.”  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, health care, healthcare, nancy pelosi
Posted Oct 11th 2009 at 5:43 pm in Politics | 24231463 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/10/11/die-quickly/Hopefully+ObamaCare+Will+%27Die+Quickly%272009-10-12+00%3A43%3A24Frank+DeMartini

Health Care Analogies

It is good that the President has ceased attempting to sell his public option health care initiative on the strength of a comparison to the United States Postal Service. Americans will not soon be convinced of the economic viability of an expansion of public healthcare when it is compared to an entity on track to lose $7 billion this year. This past summer the Government accountability office put the postal service on its high risk list because of its “increasingly shaky financial footing,” and in the spring Post Master General John Potter asked Congress for permission to cut delivery service back to 5 days per week and close 700 offices nation wide. This is not the sort of talk that inspires confidence that a government takeover of the healthcare industry is the answer to our fiscal tribulations.

It is bad that the President, demonstrating what can only be described as intellectual density, has chosen instead to compare his public option to our system of state colleges and universities. This is particularly ironic given the fact that the cost of higher education has been skyrocketing for years and has in fact outpaced that of healthcare. Even more ironic is that according to the College Board’s annual tuition survey, the rate of growth of the price of public 4 year colleges has been faster than at private 4 year colleges; a trend that has persisted for 3 decades. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, health care, healthcare, nancy pelosi
Posted Sep 28th 2009 at 1:04 pm in Politics | 23687044 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2009/09/28/health-care-analogies/Health+Care+Analogies2009-09-28+20%3A04%3A04Joseph+C.+Phillips

It’s the Saul Alinsky Comedy Show!

“The only way to upset the power structure in your communities is to goad them, confuse them, irritate them and, most of all, make them live by their own rules. If you make them live by their own rules, you destroy them. And never forget that ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. Comedy is our friend. Throw the kitchen sink at them!” – from Saul Alinksy’s “Rules for Radical Comedians.”

Alinsky

I never really had any insight into the pure comic genius of Saul Alinsky until I saw his new age Method followers display their considerable chops on the national stage. James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, the Master’s ostentatious and envelope-pushing Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner-like proteges, whose hilarious ACORN skits also showed brilliant flashes of the late great Allen Funt. The Mysterious Mister X, the L.A. street comic who “Alinskyed” Faris Alkhateeb’s boredom-fueled Obama Joker art into an urban poster as devilishly humorous as Hannibal Lecter, also made as big a national splash as a 300-pound chub doing a cannonball into a crowded public kiddie pool. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Andrew Brietbart, anti-war, Barack Obama, big government
Posted Sep 25th 2009 at 6:41 am in Political Humor | 22877837 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/09/25/its-the-saul-alinsky-comedy-show/It%27s+the+Saul+Alinsky+Comedy+Show%212009-09-25+13%3A41%3A50John+T.+Simpson

Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: Obama’s Recycled Speech

President Obama has shown his commitment to the green movement by giving a speech which contained 100% recycled material. Here’s the deal, if you call a big special meeting and invite all the press, a bunch of Senators and Congressman… if you make Ms. Nancy fly her Gulfstream off to get a new pantsuit and a Botox shot or two and ask 300 million Americans to tune in, you should say something we haven’t heard before.

There was a lot of leftover campaign rhetoric about bringing us together. The old “I’m bipartisan as long as you are willing to agree with what I want,” was in there. We got a shot of McCain smiling haplessly like he did when he suspended his campaign to go to Washington and get the financial crisis straightened out. President Obama hit all the talking points about what is and isn’t in a piece of legislation that really isn’t even written yet. Hey, who doesn’t like a little magic? At the end there was even a little recycled Kennedy too. (more…)

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Tags: Charles Rangel, James Wilson, Joint Session Speech, nancy pelosi, Obama
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 9:36 am in Politics | 22228650 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/09/23/stand-up-notes-from-flyover-country-obamas-recycled-speech/Stand+Up+Notes+from+Flyover+Country%3A+Obama%27s+Recycled+Speech2009-09-23+16%3A36%3A12Jeffrey+Jena

FOUND: Bush White House NEA Conference Call Transcript

[ed - Rush transcript! Leaked NEA conference call from my mom, proving the Bush Administration did it too]

TRANSCRIPT OF
CONFERENCE CALL OF THE
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
21-Jan-2007

MR. SMIRNOV:  Hello everybodies! Who we gots on the phones here?

MR. KIETH:  Toby Keith. Built Ford Tough.

MR. SMIRNOV:  Hokay, buddy!

MRS. BURGE:  Beverly Burge, Ocelot, Iowa. I do scrapbooking.

OAK RIDGE BOYS:  Howdy! We’re the Oak Ridge Boys!

MR. SMIRNOV:  Alrights, Branson in da house!

MR. HANEY:  Lester Haney, Sepulpa, Oklahoma.

MR. SMIRNOV:  Hey everybodies, I don’ts know if you see Lester Haney’s work, but he does some of the most beautiful chainsaw stump sculptures Yakov ever sees. (more…)

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Tags: Dick Cheney, george w. bush, Lee Greenwood, Lester Haney, nancy pelosi
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 2:09 pm in Art, Political Humor, Politics | 23154242 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dburge/2009/09/21/found-bush-white-house-nea-conference-call-transcript/FOUND%3A+Bush+White+House+NEA+Conference+Call+Transcript2009-09-21+21%3A09%3A27Iowahawk

A Winning 2010 Issue: I’m Not Paying For That

Even the Democrats finally have admitted that Republicans may pick up 25-30 seats in the 2010 Congressional elections. People are angry. We need a creative way of harnessing that anger and giving the voters a weapon to fight the Left’s agenda for the rest of the President’s term.

Obama won in 2008 with 53% of the vote. The President felt he had a mandate to enact his legislative programs. But a lot of those independents and moderates who voted for him are having buyer’s remorse. It is clear that the President is far to the left of the average American. The Van Jones episode should make that obvious. It is not that Van Jones slipped through the vetting process and no one knew his true views. Van Jones represents the views of the administration. Van Jones is Obama. They just didn’t want the average American voter to find out about it.

The President also tried to hide his real agenda in health care-the government single payer system. But it didn’t work. According to Rasmussen, ObamaCare, is opposed by 53% of the people. Only 43% support it.  However with old fashioned arm twisting, an unpopular bill like ObamaCare can still pass a Democrat Congress. According to Rasmussen, 57% of the people would like to replace this Congress! But that doesn’t matter to ideologues on the Left. They want their agenda passed even if the public is against it. Once a bill is enacted, it is difficult to dismantle the structure. There must be a remedy for this.  (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, IRS, nancy pelosi, Obama, ObamaCare
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Van Jones: Out of the Commie Closet — Who’s Next?

I may be the only Jeffersonian Republican to admit this, but former Obama adviser Van Jones should be congratulated. Van Jones has done a great, amazing service for millions of Americans. Van Jones is a hero.

In addition to having a really cool name, Van Jones has done what many are unable, or refuse to do.  He has stepped out of the ideological closet and broadcast to the world the truth; he is a Communist. A loud and proud Marxist hell bent on “transforming” America into a worker’s paradise.

It saddens me that others do not feel comfortable enough to follow in this brave man’s footsteps.  I watch with sadness, and a sense of embarrassment as Jones’ ideological kin hide behind labels like “progressive” and “liberal.”  It’s 2009 people, for how long will our Communist brothers and sisters have to live in the shadows?

It is an important moment in the lives of homosexuals when they “come out” to their friends and family. It is met with a sense of relief, regardless of the consequences and reactions of their loved ones. I can only imagine the sadness, the self-loathing, and injustice felt by all the Trotskyites out there who don’t feel comfortable to share the truth with the rest of us. (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, nancy pelosi, ObamaCare, President Obama, racism
Posted Sep 9th 2009 at 11:52 am in Politics | 21933089 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/lscott/2009/09/09/van-jones-out-of-the-commie-closet-whos-next/Van+Jones%3A+Out+of+the+Commie+Closet+--+Who%27s+Next%3F2009-09-09+18%3A52%3A46Leigh+Scott

Why Can’t Conservatives Sign On to ObamaCare?

It is now the dog days of summer and Congress is about to go back to work.  The Groundswell by the Democrats during the month of August was a complete failure.  President Obama’s approval numbers are on a steady downward slide.  And yet, the Democrats insist on passing this Obamanation that is more commonly known as HR 3200. 

The President has just announced that he will try a more formal sell to Congress on September 9th.  Will this work more than the last press conference in which he appeared to have no idea what he was trying to sell?  Will it be more successful than his appeal to religious leaders last week?  Or, will this be the final death knell in the partisan attempt at Health Care Reform?  Only time will tell. 

However, the tide has definitely turned against the Democrats.  More than 50% of the country on the whole and in some parts of the electorate, way more than 50% are against the current bill and its companion bills both in the House and Senate.  Why?  Because Republicans and even moderate Democrats cannot stomach what is contained in them. 

My last article was about the need for bipartisanship and debate in Congress.  I still feel that way but I do not see it happening.  In fact, both sides are digging their heels in and getting ready for the tug of war.  At this point, it is not about whose solution is better, it seems to be about which side will win.  (more…)

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Tags: abortion, Barack Obama, Congress, healthcare, nancy pelosi
Posted Sep 6th 2009 at 6:42 am in Featured Story, Politics | 217102102 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/fdemartini/2009/09/06/why-can%e2%80%99t-conservative-sign-onto-the-democrat%e2%80%99s-plan/Why+Can%E2%80%99t+Conservatives+Sign+On+to+ObamaCare%3F2009-09-06+13%3A42%3A40Frank+DeMartini

Daily Gut: The Real Opposition Party

So President Obama is addressing a joint session of Congress next Wednesday, and you know it`s going to be important stuff!

Oh wait – it`s health care.

For a moment I thought maybe we`d hear something about the economy (in shambles), the war on terror (remember that?), the progress in Iraq (still there?), the challenges in Afghanistan (nothing from MoveOn.org on that one).

But no – it`s health care. And that`s because, with that single issue, President Obama stepped in it big time. And the White House isn`t sure who to blame. But they`re still blaming, anyway.

So, just for fun, let`s review the folks currently on the bad side of the White House: (more…)

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Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, healthcare, nancy pelosi, Obama
Posted Sep 3rd 2009 at 12:29 pm in Daily Gut, Featured Story | 217602161 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/03/daily-gut-the-real-opposition-party/Daily+Gut%3A+The+Real+Opposition+Party2009-09-03+19%3A29%3A25Greg+Gutfeld

Jon Voight at Hannity’s Freedom Concert: ‘If we let Obama have his way, he will ruin America’

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Tags: 2010 Census, ACORN, Harry Reid, healthcare, Jon Voight
Posted Aug 24th 2009 at 7:32 pm in Celebrity News, News, Politics, Video | 21093854 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/24/jon-voight-at-hannitys-freedom-concert-%e2%80%98if-we-let-obama-have-his-way-he-will-ruin-america%e2%80%99/Jon+Voight+at+Hannity%27s+Freedom+Concert%3A+%E2%80%98If+we+let+Obama+have+his+way%2C+he+will+ruin+America%E2%80%992009-08-25+02%3A32%3A10Big+Hollywood

Boycotting the Boycotters

This week’s Washington Times column:

John Mackey – the founder, CEO and marketing genius behind Whole Foods – finds himself in an organic, unsustainable mess with his carefully cultivated affluent, liberal customer base after penning an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal titled, “The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare.”

For starters, Mr. Mackey opens with a line from known-liberal-allergen Margaret Thatcher that features the dreaded “S” word: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Then he goes on to provide eight sensible free-market solutions gleaned from his company’s well-regarded employee health care program.

Mr. Mackey, a free-market libertarian, is now at the mercy of an unforgiving grass-roots mob intent on destroying his company. More than 25,000 people have signed on to a Whole Foods boycott on Facebook.

“Whole Foods has built its brand with the dollars of deceived progressives,” the online petition reads. “Let them know your money will no longer go to support Whole Foods’ anti-union, anti-health insurance reform, right-wing activities.”

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Tags: facebook, healthcare, John Mackey, Margaret Thatcher, nancy pelosi
Posted Aug 23rd 2009 at 7:56 pm in Culture, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 210222185 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/08/23/boycotting-the-boycotters/Boycotting+the+Boycotters2009-08-24+02%3A56%3A46Andrew+Breitbart

A United States Marine Goes to a Town Hall Meeting

Join the Big Hollywood pool… (more…)

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Tags: David Hedrick, nancy pelosi, ObamaCare, town hall, U.S. Marine
Posted Aug 22nd 2009 at 4:17 pm in Politics | 210106286 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/22/a-united-states-marine-goes-to-a-town-hall-meeting/A+United+States+Marine+Goes+to+a+Town+Hall+Meeting2009-08-22+23%3A17%3A18Big+Hollywood

Tío Chano vs GI Joe

Last Friday I got back from a hike and saw that my Uncle Luciano (we’ve always called him “Tío Chano”) had taken the car. He left me a note saying that he was going to go see “an Army movie.”

Somehow, I knew he was going to be disappointed.

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Tags: Arkansas, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Blue Dog Democrats, Charlie Melancon
Posted Aug 14th 2009 at 12:02 pm in Political Humor, Reviews, Uncategorized, Video | 20494642 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jlima/2009/08/14/tio-chano-vs-gi-joe/T%C3%ADo+Chano+vs+GI+Joe2009-08-14+19%3A02%3A06Joe+Lima

Daily Gut: Protesting the Protesters

Speaking truth to power was supposed to be heroic – like yelling at your parents over their lapses in recycling.

But then something funny happened: people started speaking truth to power to people who speak truth to power. And now the man who once inspired, starts to perspire. The king of cool begins to lose his. And the side that normally champions freedom of speech, is asking America to pipe down.

Check out our nation’s high school paper, USA Today, where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called the town hall protesters un-American. How odd that in a different context, with different protesters, these disruptions would be seen as brave.

But it’s not brave at all, according to the media. That’s because, for once, the media is not on the protesting side. Instead, the media is the “power” that’s being spoken to – and that confuses them. And so they mock. (more…)

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Tags: "Battle in Seattle", "Lords of Revolution", Baader Meinhof, Black Panthers, Community Organizer
Posted Aug 10th 2009 at 2:05 pm in Daily Gut, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 203422141 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/08/10/daily-gut-protesting-the-protesters/Daily+Gut%3A+Protesting+the+Protesters2009-08-10+21%3A05%3A12Greg+Gutfeld

Fishy

I’m doing standup in Denver. Shelley is driving me from radio to radio to TV as I do the monkey dance at each station promoting the show, selling tickets. I don’t like this part of the job. I must answer the same 10 questions about Saturday Night Live and try to explain where I’ve been for the last fifteen years. All the DJ’s want are some juicy stories about celebrities. I don’t really have that many. I’m booked at two political talk stations, a rock station, a country station, and two local TV shows.  I guess that’s my demographic! Everyone! I ask Shelley why I’m booked on the political stations. She shrugs, “Well, we didn’t really know…isn’t that what you are doing now?” The first stop I’m told is a “just right of center” show, so I feel free to share my newest shocking information that the White House is asking us to “snitch’” on our friends and family. To report anything “fishy.” This news is so abhorrent to me that I could barely sleep the night before. I immediately emailed Andrew Breitbart to see if it was true. He said yes. I searched the hotel computer web to see if the big shots, the smart people have gotten on this. They were just starting to fight back. The news was so new. Well, at least this administration is entertaining…in a bad way. I’m watching a horror movie every day.

As I share the shocking information that our Freedom of Speech is being attacked, the radio host across from me, his face, it looks like he just ate a lemon. It’s all scrunched up like…he hates me. He abruptly cuts me off and ends my interview. I’m stupefied at the reaction of people who “just can’t handle the truth.” My driver Shelley is a liberal. She doesn’t say anything. As we get in the car I try to apologize, “Well, he asked me why I was a new political activist.  I guess I should just tell jokes.” I mean I have been hired basically to sell tickets to a bar where people will spend lots of money on alcohol. And, I do need to make some money. My husband is a cop. (more…)

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Tags: "Unhappily Ever After", Andrew Breitbart, Beer Summit, Cornyn, Cornyn and Sekulow's letters
Posted Aug 10th 2009 at 12:25 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 203378144 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/08/10/fishy/Fishy2009-08-10+19%3A25%3A11Victoria+Jackson