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Obama/Gates/Crowley Make MADD Angry

Guys, I don't think that is juice they are drinking.

  • The Delaware chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is not mad, but they are very disappointed in Barack Obama, Skip Gates, and James Crowley for consuming “adult” beverages. (We won’t name them, for fear of scarring the children). (WDEL)
  • The new owners of the Waco Tribune-Herald hope that by printing “In God we trust” on the front of every edition they will be rewarded for deciding that now would be an excellent time to get into the print media business. (Citydesk)
  • Thomas Jefferson™ is a registered trademark of the Associated Press, but his words can be reprinted… for a price. (Laboratorium via Hit & Run)
  • Every time Robert Gibbs says, “the President will not increase taxes on the middle class,” someone from your professional media asks, “But will he increase taxes on the middle class?” And that is why no one is buying their newspapers anymore. (CNN)

8/3/09 4:59 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

How Dare President Obama Want People to Have Healthcare!

  • Two Florida Republicans will not stand for this Nobama character and his dastardly plan to maybe give some poors healthcare. (Orlando Sentinel)
  • The stimulus has improved our economy from “horribly sucking” to “regular sucking.” Hooray! (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
  • Your USPS has to close some post offices thanks to those durned kids and their “emails” and “twitters” and such. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  • Given the choice between throwing out some old books or buying a new house, now-retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter chose to buy a new house since his old one couldn’t support the weight of all of his books. (Concord Monitor)
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr. sent flowers and a love letter he wrote while drunk on White House beers to the woman who called 911 on him. (Boston Globe)

8/1/09 6:17 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , ,

Quote of the Day

When he’s not arresting you, Sergeant Crowley is a really likable guy.

– Henry Louis Gates, Jr., after sitting down with Sergeant James Crowley, President Obama, and Vice President Biden for a couple beers last night.

7/31/09 1:37 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , ,

Friendly “Beer Summit” Maybe Not So Friendly After All

The big story of today, obviously, is tonight’s Obama/Gates/Crowley “beer summit” to sort out racial differences. According to most of today’s reports, it sounded like the three guys were just gonna kick back, have a couple brews, and maybe talk baseball. But Sergeant Crowley seems to have different expectations for tonight’s meeting:

A union official and attorney will accompany Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley to tomorrow’s “beer summit” with President Obama and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Crowley will be joined at the White House by Dennis O’Connor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, and Alan McDonald, the attorney for the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, the Cambridge Police Patrol Officers Association and the Massachusetts Municipal Police Coalition.

What does Sgt. Crowley expect to happen tonight that he feels the need to bring in the big guns?

7/30/09 1:00 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , ,

Now You Know Why That Burger Tasted Kinda Dirty

Just a friendly suggestion.

  • Ew. More than half of foodworkers surveyed admitted to the FDA that they don’t wash their hands before handling food. I wonder how we all got the swine flu? (Quad City Times via CityDesk)
  • Hillary Clinton was poor (like the rest of us) after losing to Barack Obama, but now she has millions of dollars again! (NY Daily News)
  • Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Fake VA) also says that the southerners are ruining the GOP. Wonder if David Vitter will teach him about values too? (Political Wire)
  • While there may be some debate over whether Sgt. James Crowley acted racistly when he arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Boston cop and National Guard commander who called Gates a “jungle monkey” is definitely racist. (ABC News)
  • According to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), it is racist for Democrats to nominate a minority to the Supreme Court and then point out that most Republicans voted against her. (TPMDC)

7/30/09 10:55 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Barack Obama’s Racial Tolerance Drinking Game

When do I get to have a beer with him?
Well, the day we have all been waiting for is finally here, the First Annual White House Racial Understanding Beer Pong Tournament! (Yes, annual. You didn’t think racism could be solved that easily, did you?) Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sergeant James Crowley will join President Obama to knock back a couple brews and then end racism forever… or at least until the next racist wingnut email is published.

Good luck, gentlemen!

Update: Ugh, nevermind. Your Obama has already ruined everything with his highly controversial decision to let everyone drink whatever beer they felt like. Fine, except he has chosen to drink Bud Light, a beer owned by our greatest enemy (Belgium), and now racism will continue forever.

7/30/09 8:28 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , ,

Nation Anxiously Awaits Obama’s Beer Choice

Forget healthcare, forget the economy. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley are coming to have a beer with the president and this is important political news:

Does the president choose a lager for Thursday’s gathering? A porter? Maybe a wheat beer? Does he pick something light to help the men with the Washington, D.C., summer heat?

Whatever the president picks, it is likely to be closely watched and could even help propel a lesser-known beer into the mainstream.

Yes, brewers, your product could be the Official Beer of Hope and Change, when President Obama holds his big meeting to end racism forever!

But lest you think this particular piece of investigative journalism is purely speculative, here are some expert opinions from ABC political pundits:

“In the summertime people want something maybe just a little bit lighter, more refreshing. They’re not going to go for a heavier stout or nut brown,” said Steen Sawyer, general manager of John Harvard’s Brew House a few steps away from Harvard’s campus in Cambridge.

Donna Brazile, an ABC News political consultant, suggested Boston-brewed Sam Adams. The beer is sold everywhere from police bars to academic haunts.

“Honestly, I am a wine drinker and find common ground with beer could be tough,” Brazile added. “Who knows, the two might decide to have ice tea. It’s hot outside.”

Ice tea? Ice tea?!? What kind of socialist is this “Donna Brazile” lady, anyway? Or maybe she’s talking about getting some m’fing ice tea, in the interest of race relations.

If you’d like to read more of this 4-page journalistic spectacle, you can do it yourself.

7/28/09 9:08 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , ,

Showing that Gandhi Guy Who’s Boss

With our F-22s, we'll show that Ghandi guy who's boss!

  • Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is very disappointed that Congress cut funding for the F-22 because how else will defend ourselves against India, our most dangerous enemy? (True/Slant)
  • Why is Rahm Emanuel so racist against Maytag men, our nation’s most loveable washing machine repair professionals? (CNN Political Ticker)
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he would have a beer with Barack Obama and Sgt. James Crowley. Hooray, racism is over again! (The Root)
  • Texas Tech faculty are not pleased with the schools’s decision to hire distinguished legal scholar Alberto Gonzales to teach the children about how awesome waterboarding is. (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)
  • Charles Lincoln, the birther attorney who didn’t get his law degree from the Internet, was actually disbarred five years ago. (Orange County Weekly/Washington Independent)

7/25/09 3:28 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Just Who Does This Obama Guy Think He Is, the President?

Oh, so we're getting taxpayer-funded portraits now, are we?

  • President Obama called Cambridge PD Sgt. James Crowley to invite him down to the White House for a couple beers, and then Crowley will arrest him for disorderly conduct. (MSNBC First Read)
  • Isn’t it weird how this whole “birther” thing never came up during the presidential race? Oh wait, that’s be cause the McCain Campaign investigated the rumors but found no evidence that Obama was not an American citizen. (Washington Independent)
  • Whaaat, the Twitter is blocked in the White House? Why does the Obama administration hate those Iranian protestors (who we all stopped caring about weeks ago) so much? (Think Progress)
  • Oh, here is some more stimulus spending for you. This time it’s for “education,” another one of Nobama’s socialist plots. (CNN Political Ticker)
  • Your highly respected Washington Post reports that President Obama will attend “some kind of public function” in August in support of Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor. Journalism! (WaPo Virginia Politics)

7/24/09 3:51 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Even More Quote of the Day

Today’s just very quotable.

I have to say I am surprised by the controversy surrounding my statement, because I think it was a pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don’t need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who’s in his own home.

– President Barack Obama, responding to the controversy created by his earlier statement that the police officer who arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr. “acted stupidly.”

7/23/09 5:06 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , ,

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