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

Michael Moore: Obama’s Rise to Power Helps Fight Against Capitalism

Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” premieres at the Venice Film Festival today. Reuters has most of the details, the usual-usual from the 55-year old mega-millionaire. But buried below the usual-usual is the real story — a point of agreement with we right-wingers:

Amid the gloom, Moore detects the beginnings of a popular movement against unbridled capitalism, and believes President Barack Obama’s rise to power may bolster it.

Well, let’s hope Ted Kennedy’s enjoying his day on the slopes because Mr. Moore and I just found some common ground.

Here are the other bullet points. To save you time, the following words are not used together in describing the film: ”personal” and “responsibility” — “taxes” and “too high” — “Michael Moore” and “gave all his wealth to the federal government.”    (more…)

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Tags: Capitalism: A Love Story., michael moore, Obama, stimulus, Ted Kennedy
Posted Sep 6th 2009 at 8:45 am in Film, Politics | 218714241 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/06/michael-moore-film-portrays-obamas-rise-to-power-as-ally-against-capitalism/Michael+Moore%3A+Obama%27s+Rise+to+Power+Helps+Fight+Against+Capitalism2009-09-06+15%3A45%3A11John+Nolte

When the Universe Replaces God

I caught a live tribute to Ted Kennedy on TV the other day. Family, friends, and colleagues were praising him as a champion for universal social justice. 

I started thinking about how much I’ve been hearing the word “universal” lately.

“Universal” is the “it” word, as in universal health care or “The Universe will guide me,” or “Leave it to the Universe.” 

There was a different word for it back in the day, more imposing but less confusing: God. But God is not a trendy word anymore. God is not popular, just like the Republicans. You are guilty by association with both. Even C.G. Jung was annoyed by it (the not calling God a ‘God’ part, not the Republicans). 

There was also that video tribute by Ken Burns to Ted Kennedy’s legacy.  (more…)

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Tags: God, Ken Burns, Obama, Ted Kennedy, Universal Health Care
Posted Sep 4th 2009 at 6:54 am in Art, Politics | 21631091 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ykochar/2009/09/04/216310/When+the+Universe+Replaces+God2009-09-04+13%3A54%3A21Yervand+Kochar

‘NewsBusted’ 9/01/09 — Fake News from the Right

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Tags: Cap and Trade, chelsea handler, David Letterman, Douglas Brinkley, Fairness Doctrine
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 at 6:03 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Video | 2166302 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/newsbusters/2009/09/02/%e2%80%98newsbusted%e2%80%99-90109-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right-2/%E2%80%98NewsBusted%E2%80%99+9%2F01%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-09-03+01%3A03%3A40NewsBusters

Treasonous Teddy: Chappaquiddick Only the Beginning

As Gloucester in Henry VI beguiled like the mournful crocodile, so the political praises and tears for the late Democratic Senator from Taxachusets mouthed by his enemies have diminished and signaled the time for candor. Teddy Kennedy was a cheat, a proven liar, a shameless demagogue and a probable murderer. Those character traits were well known. But did you know he was a security risk dropped from the US Army intelligence school and a genuine traitor who offered Cold War US nuclear arms negotiation secrets to the Soviet Union if it would help the Democrats beat Ronald Reagan and further his own presidential ambitions?

That’s why my blood went to full boil a couple of days before he died when I glanced at the TV in a rural Bates motel — been staying in a lot of those lately — and saw Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz laud the youngest Camelotian as the greatest Senator and humanitarian of all time from the deck of Geraldo Rivera’s berthed yacht in Martha’s Vineyard. Dershowitz went on to tell the FOX mustachioed-one how he had rushed to Teddy’s aid with expert legal skills “in his hour of need” after Kennedy had left his date, Mary Jo Kopechne, to die in a Chappaquiddick Island tidal pond during the summer of 1969. Dershowitz’ considerable skills aside, the fact that full media attention was diverted from Kennedy by the coming Moon landing and walk to take place two days later probably helped the Kennedy fixers regroup and save his political hide. (more…)

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Tags: Alan Dershowitz, Andropov, Chappaquidick, cold war, Forbes
Posted Sep 2nd 2009 at 12:45 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 214574134 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dgifford/2009/09/02/moon-over-chappaquidick/Treasonous+Teddy%3A+Chappaquiddick+Only+the+Beginning2009-09-02+19%3A45%3A29Dan+Gifford

Lonewolf Diaries: Mourning Dead People Who Suck

When a toolbag dies… How are you supposed to handle it? Are you supposed to honor them? Post-mortem, does a pedophile become the “greatest musician of all time”? Does a killer become an “American Icon”? Does death in itself wipe the slate clean, exempting the deceased from all judgment?  Or are you supposed to view them just as you did in life (be it good or bad)?

In my humble opinion… None of the above. Death is not only a passing on, but a time for everyone else to truthfully reflect on one’s life. To skim through the unsavory parts (or in Kennedy/MJ’s case, skip entire chapters all together) is to do the world a disservice. How are the rest of us shmucks supposed to learn from past mistakes if we can’t even acknowledge them to begin with?

The fact that the media decided to smooch the Kennedys’ rears through the death of Ted is appalling. Not only was there no mention of the Chappaquiddick river “incident” or his character assassination of Clarence Thomas, but the coverage was carried out in a way that assumed everyone was in agreement with the man’s misguided agenda. (more…)

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Tags: Chappaquiddick, Clarence Thomas, death, mainstream media, Media bias
Posted Sep 1st 2009 at 5:59 pm in Celebrity News, Culture, Lone Wolf Diaries, Media Criticism, News | 216386131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/09/01/lonewolf-diaries-mourning-dead-people-who-suck/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+Mourning+Dead+People+Who+Suck2009-09-02+00%3A59%3A11Steven+Crowder

The Adventures of Bunky and Biggo

FADE IN:

Biggo slips quietly into the ornate den. Seagulls can be heard amidst the distant crash of waves. Three security men stand about the room, in attentive, professional bearing.  A silver-haired, bloated old man lies on the couch

Biggo enters the room and sits in a chair beside the couch.  He smiles at the man.

Biggo – “Bunky…so wonderful to see you.”

Bunky – “And so great to see you, sir.”

Biggo - “How are you feeling, my old friend?”

Bunky – “Never better.  Feel on top of the world.”

Biggo – “Your health is my only concern.”  (more…)

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Tags: Death Panels, end of life counseling, Obama, ObamaCare, Ted Kennedy
Posted Aug 31st 2009 at 5:03 am in Political Humor | 21323826 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/08/31/the-adventures-of-bunky-and-biggo/The+Adventures+of+Bunky+and+Biggo2009-08-31+12%3A03%3A04Gary+Graham

No Justice, No Rest in Peace

This week’s Washington Times column:

With the deaths of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Michael Jackson, the summer of ‘09 marked the merciful ends to Camelot and Neverland, iconic American fairy tales whose story lines should have come to merciful ends long ago when their charismatic protagonists took dark and irredeemable turns.

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain. But through the power of celebrity, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Jackson worked the media to twist truths. They manipulated their constituencies and fans to obscure their misdeeds. They played the faithful to confer this manufactured innocence on the rest of us. And, in the end, they placed themselves above the law.

My condolences go to the Kennedy and Jackson families, who should not be stained by the sins of their kin. But there is no time like the present to ensure that those masterfully produced, over-the-top, all-star televised funerals don’t serve to canonize talented and charismatic men who failed to own up to their public wrongs and who continued to flaunt the behaviors that got them into trouble.

The result was Mr. Kennedy needn’t do more than show up for work to atone for his calculated selfishness. Without apology or contrition, Mr. Kennedy crafted a public career in which he spent taxpayers’ money – certainly not his own – to make up for his unspeakable behavior. (more…)

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Tags: camelot, Chappaquiddick, Edward M. Kennedy, Elizabeth Kubler-Ros, healthcare
Posted Aug 30th 2009 at 6:19 pm in Celebrity News, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 214378122 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/08/30/no-justice-no-rest-in-peace/No+Justice%2C+No+Rest+in+Peace2009-08-31+01%3A19%3A36Andrew+Breitbart

Psych Job

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Tags: healthcare, Kennedy, Obama, ObamaCare, Ted Kennedy
Posted Aug 30th 2009 at 10:42 am in Art, Political Humor | 21410218 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cmuir/2009/08/30/psych-job/Psych+Job2009-08-30+17%3A42%3A50Chris+Muir

Yesterday the World Lost a Great Man

OBITUARY                           August 27, 2009                     Ned Rice

The whole world suffered a terrible loss yesterday with the passing from cancer of a great American icon who overcame unspeakable family tragedies and his own alcoholism to become a legendary advocate for justice.  Born to privilege in a large and wealthy Irish Catholic family, he attended elite prep schools, served in the military, and after a family member’s murder devoted the rest of his life to social causes and fighting injustice wherever he found it.  This larger-than-life character’s quick wit and compelling speaking style made him a friend to all who knew him – even those of different political beliefs-and helped advance the many causes he believed in so passionately.

May you rest in peace, Dominick Dunne.   

OTHER DEATHS YESTERDAY:  Ted Kennedy           

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Tags: 2009, August 27, Catholic, Dominick Dunne, obituary
Posted Aug 27th 2009 at 10:57 am in Entertainment, Political Humor, Politics | 212534160 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/nrice/2009/08/27/yesterday-the-world-lost-a-great-man/Yesterday+the+World+Lost+a+Great+Man2009-08-27+17%3A57%3A53Ned+Rice

Examining Leftist Thinking

The question that’s been preying on my mind is who is best suited to study those strange beings known as liberals.  It strikes me that they’d be fit subjects for psychiatrists, who might be in a position to figure out why they revere the people they do — people such as Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Al Gore and Ted Kennedy — men who haven’t a single notable accomplishment to their name, aside from either winning elections or eliminating them altogether.  Or perhaps it would be more appropriate for biologists to delve into the left-wing organism, and determine how it is possible that creatures without brains could have survived so long in an often hostile environment.

If you don’t believe that liberalism is a serious malady, consider that Paul Krugman of the New York Times, when addressing Sonia Sotomayor’s remark about an Hispanic woman being better qualified than a white man to be a judge, said that she was merely being entertaining.  Even if Mr. Krugman is, as his comment suggests, more easily entertained than a backward three-year-old, I have a feeling that he wasn’t nearly as forgiving when Trent Lott, on the occasion of Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday in 2002, said it was a shame that the old Dixiecrat hadn’t been elected president in 1948. (more…)

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Tags: 57 states, Afghanistan, Al Gore, Barack Hussein Obama, Barney Frank
Posted Jun 11th 2009 at 5:03 am in Politics | 15668213 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/06/11/notes-from-the-liberal-front/Examining+Leftist+Thinking2009-06-11+12%3A03%3A57Burt+Prelutsky

The Goode, the Bad and the New York Times

A new television animation show will be debuting tonight on ABC, and it has the potential to be really “Goode.”

“The Goode Family” is the story of a politically correct family of environmental zealots and there are two reasons I will give this show a chance. First of all, it is created by Mike Judge. While I did not take part in the “Beavis and Butthead” craze, I was an avid fan of “King of the Hill.”

I’m still disappointed that Hank Hill and his friends are leaving after 13 seasons. In the history of television, there will never be a character as cool and incomprehensible as Boomhauer. Grandpa Cotton was also a feisty one. (more…)

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Tags: "The Goode Family", Beavis and Butthead, Jayson Blair, King of the Hill, Mike Judge
Posted May 27th 2009 at 2:40 pm in Entertainment, Politics | 1442223 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/egolub/2009/05/27/the-goode-the-bad-and-the-ugly/The+Goode%2C+the+Bad+and+the+New+York+Times2009-05-27+21%3A40%3A15Eric+Golub

A 12-Step Liberal Recovery Program

Most 12-step programs start out by requiring that people understand that they’re powerless over their addiction and that only by turning their lives over to a Power greater than themselves can they be restored to sanity.  Far be it for me to suggest that I am that Power, but clearly someone has to step in and try to rescue these poor liberal souls.  Even the most harebrained among them deserves that much.

First, though, they have to acknowledge that Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, Dick Durbin, Charles Rangel, Harry Reid and Charles Schumer, are not moderates, but, rather, leftists with a Socialist agenda.  Furthermore, they must recognize that the New York Times, the Washington Post, the L.A. Times, CNN, the three major networks, the news magazines and the New Yorker, are not objective in their reporting of political events, and neither are Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher, in their commentary.  If these entities and individuals are not on the payroll of the DNC, they certainly should be.  They certainly put in longer hours than Howard Dean. (more…)

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Tags: "under God", 10 Commandments, 12-step programs, abc, ACLU
Posted Mar 6th 2009 at 2:42 pm in Media Criticism, Political Humor, Politics | 7413869 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/03/06/a-12-step-liberal-recovery-program/A+12-Step+Liberal+Recovery+Program2009-03-06+22%3A42%3A04Burt+Prelutsky

Cracking the Obama Code: Don Quixote vs. the Windmill Owners

Four hundred years ago, Miguel Cervantes described an archetypal delirious fruitcake who wanted to change the world by turning the clock back to the idealized Utopian times that never really existed. Imagine what Cervantes would write today about the futility of his satirical effort, if he were to learn that four centuries later, a whole movement would arise that emulated his loony character and elected one of their kind as the leader of the free world.

Some conservative commentators are demonstratively wishing President Obama well. My heart admires their good intentions, but as I watched Obama’s inauguration on TV, my mind couldn’t help but ponder the possible consequences thereof. As someone coming from another country (ex-USSR) I don’t participate in racial debates nor do I want to. Being post-racial is fine by me. So let’s accept Obama’s post-racial premise, leave the issue of melanin content aside, and judge the man solely by the content of his agenda. And the more I look at Obama’s agenda the more I realize that wishing him well is like wishing luck to Don Quixote in wrecking the windmill that feeds me and my family. (more…)

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Tags: Air America, capitalism, Cervantes, change, Don Quxote
Posted Jan 28th 2009 at 10:48 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 3317470 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/redsquare/2009/01/28/cracking-the-obama-code-don-quixote-vs-the-windmill-owners/Cracking+the+Obama+Code%3A+Don+Quixote+vs.+the+Windmill+Owners2009-01-28+18%3A48%3A31Oleg+Atbashian