The Judicial Confirmation Network Council are not the only ones that are reminding us of Barack Obama's poor judgement of associates with their new ad...Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is reminding everyone too.

Republican vice presidential
candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists” because of an old association with a
former ’60s radical, stepping up an effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters. [...]
Palin’s reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the Vietnam War era. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, served on a charity board with Ayers several years ago and has denounced his radical views and activities.
[...]
The Republican campaign, falling behind Obama in polls, plans to make attacks on Obama’s character a centerpiece of candidate John McCain’s message in the final weeks of the presidential race.

Just when you thought Keith Olbermann couldn't go any lower, he plunges to new depths that seem almost unimaginable for someone pawning himself off as a journalist.

On Friday, the "Countdown" host actually told his viewers that National Review editor Rich Lowry's published opinion of Sarah Palin's performance during Thursday's debate "read like soft core porn."

MSNBC's leading on-air personality disgustingly concluded: "I don`t really care if you sat there last night during the debate and masturbated. But was it really necessary to tell America about it?"

What follows is a partial transcript of Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" segment (video embedded right, relevant section at 1:30, h/t NB reader Teresa Kroker):

Recently I got myself a new toy (ladies: while girls may outgrow the toy stage, boys NEVER do!!!) of late in the form of an iPhone.  The thing is now loaded with tons of music and custom-crafted ringtones derived from some of those songs.  It is truly a wonderful device.  But enough of that...

Anyways, I have noticed that various websites are configured to switch to an iPhone-friendly screen once you hit them with an iPhone.  For instance, I hit cbc.ca on the iPhone and the webpage presented to me was an iPhone-configured page found at http://www.cbc.ca/iphone.  This was merely the first website I ran across that has this feature; there are a few others I have run into. 

My question is, though I understand completely that NB and the MRC aren't exactly mints, is there a possibility of NB, or for that matter, the MRC (and its other affiliated websites), setting up webpages that are configured for the iPhone?  It might be pricey/tricky/both, but hey, anything to reach the maximum possible audience, right? 

Catching up with an item from a few days ago: Barry Sonnenfeld, a movie director (Men in Black) and now the Emmy-winning executive producer and director of ABC's dramady Pushing Daisies, predicted on Wednesday's Late Show that amongst the things he's “worried” President Bush will do before leaving office is “go out by pushing the button and destroying all life on Earth.” That was too much for David Letterman, hardly a Bush fan (in June he asked if Bush has “any humanity?”), who responded: “It's just a little bleaker than I would have hoped for -- the idea that he would actually detonate the planet in a moment of despair.”

Sonnenfeld, who speculated about Bush hiding bin Laden, also wondered why Americans wouldn't vote for the “really smart” Barack Obama over John McCain who “finished second to last in his graduating class in college” and Sarah Palin, who “went to five different colleges,” and so “I'm thinking maybe she's got other talents than intelligence.” 

With some mix of seriousness and humor you can judge yourself by watching the video clip (though how funny is it to joke about the President as some kind of religious zealot out to murder millions?), Sonnenfeld told Letterman he's “worried since it's October that George Bush will do one of three things: Either find bin Laden, who've they've had somewhere for eight months waiting to bring out” or “let's start a war with Iran. That's always a possibility.” Then:

And here's the third thing -- and I don't know much about the Bible and I'm not a big rapture guy -- but I believe George Bush is and what better way, if your polls are so bad, than to go out by pushing the button and destroying all life on Earth?

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This is really way too funny.

On Thursday evening, CNN's Soledad O'Brien ran a focus group at Ohio State University moments after Joe Biden and Sarah Palin finished their vice presidential debate (video embedded right).

As she asked attendees who they felt won, she used a stunning form a new arithmetic to conclude that Biden had "by a significant margin" (as noticed by Creative Minority Report, h/t NB reader Patrick Archbold):

Osborn Elliott, the top editor of Newsweek  from 1961 to 1976 and Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism from 1979 to 1986, passed away last Sunday at age 83 (Monday, September 29 Washington Post obituary). He was retired when the Media Research Center was founded in 1987, but he didn't hesitate in 1992 and 1995 to express his hostility to conservatives and he serves as a reminder that the Angry Left populated the highest levels of the mainstream news media long before the blogosphere gave them new venues.

He helped to organize a “Save Our Cities” rally in 1992 where he accused Republicans of having “savaged our urban schools, our housing, our health care, our social services,” denounced “Democrats who have collaborated in this butchery” and charged: “We hold accountable those who waste our billions on a military with no enemy to fight.” (Screen shot is from that Saturday, May 16, 1992 event.)

Three years later he equated “Reaganism” with “social Darwinism” as he castigated journalists for being too nice to Reagan: “By failing to...adequately expose the inane contradictions of supply-side theories, aka Reaganomics, I believe journalism deserves some of the blame for ills that now afflict us.”

Friday (10-03-08) I found my self in front of a TV..

Oprah was on, Some bankin guy was on, great information.

Suze Orman on now, Poor thing she is a twitchin,  talkin' bout   how no one follows the basic financial rules.

Both were blaming the GREEDY  Banks those' 0 down; loaners, mortgage sub-primers ,riff raff, et al.

Poor unsupecting public, SCREWED by  the UNREGULATED, GOP laced, Private sector.

ZERO mention of  the CRA's creating this TOXIC mess ?

Fearfull Oprah might be impacted by 

The  alphabet soup of law inforcement

After all she's ah billionaire, may own a bank or 2.

Oh look they are soo up to date, nasty snippitts too.

When was the last time (if ever) you reached for a bail bucket, and used it just once? Oh just one overflowing scoop, i'm done. 

Bail outs will continue until , this fluff gov. $ 12 trillion agency, goes POOF!

latest info 6-30-08 updated 10-02-08, no worries it's the gov.

 

 

 

 

UPDATE at end of post: the can has already been opened!

Without question, ABC's Jake Tapper is one of the few members of the mainstream media who's actually willing to publish less than favorable reports about Barack Obama.

In a "Political Punch" blog posting Saturday about new revelations involving indicted fundraiser Tony Rezko, Tapper deliciously summed up a Washington Post piece as claiming that "Sen. John McCain's campaign...is about to open up a can of whoop-ass on Obama with a focus on his personal associations." 

I kid you not (emphasis added, photo courtesy ABC):

Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin admitted Friday that she was annoyed during her interviews with CBS's Katie Couric because she felt the "Evening News" anchor missed a lot of opportunities to discuss issues "that Americans want to hear about."

Having taken a lot of criticism from Obama-loving media members about her performance during these interviews, Palin met with Fox News's Carl Cameron Friday to clear the air about why she appeared a tad ill at ease with Couric (video embedded right, relevant section at 2:25):

Update: Matthew Vadum responds to the questions that the Huffington Post refused to ask him.

Specifically, their "reporter" Seth Colter Walls in "Fox News, GOP Tag-Team Obama With Voter Fraud Smear." Let's begin the deconstruction.

Friday morning, I made a 7:45am appearance on the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends to discuss how nearly every media outlet is avoiding like the plague any coverage of Illinois Senator Barack Obama's long relationship with ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the serially criminal voter registration outfit.

So as to better explain why the press, who love Sen. Obama with the intensity of a thousand suns, would be steering clear of reporting on the connections, I cited briefly some basic factual information about Sen. Obama's dealings with ACORN. The media are sitting on this information because they know it would be very damaging to Sen. Obama and his Presidential campaign.

If a Bush-bashing, Republican-hating nincompoop like Alec Baldwin understands that Democrats are responsible for the current financial crisis, and is willing to say so on national television, why can't America's so-called "real" journalists?

Although it seems unlikely that Baldwin watches "The Factor," it is awfully coincidental that roughly 24 hours after Fox News's Bill O'Reilly tore Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) apart for his role in propping up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the typically inept Baldwin, appearing on HBO's "Real Time," not only pointed fingers at Frank for the current crisis, but also blamed former President Clinton and fellow Democrats.

Maybe more delicious, this came moments after comedian Garry Shandling blamed it all on -- wait for it -- George W. Bush (video embedded right, h/t American Thinker's Marc Sheppard):

After last week's upset heaven in college football -- or hell depending on what side you were on! -- what will the big upsets be today? How about my son's Huskers taking down Mizzou?

What other games should we be looking at?

Talk about upsets, could the top teams in both leagues get knocked out in the first round of the baseball playoffs? If the Angels and Cubbies are gone, who becomes the favorites to go to the World Series?

Anything else on your sports mind?

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: will the just-passed bailout bill avert the looming financial meltdown?

I hate being so serious on a Saturday, but Friday's stock market reaction to the bailout passing the House did not evoke confidence. Those that are watching the credit markets know that there just is no major lending going on right now between financial institutions as no one seems to trust claims made by either borrowers or lenders.

On Friday, Gov. Schwarzenegger asked the Fed for $7 billion because California can't borrow the funds it needs to meet its obligations until state personal income and property taxes begin to flow in. This likely will start being a problem in other states as well as counties, cities, towns, and municipalities across the fruited plain.

With this in mind, is the bailout a bandaid on a severed artery, and things are going to get much worse before they get better? Is this all spiraling into a total, global financial meltdown leading to a massive depression? Is there anything that can be done? And, for the libertarians that have been saying that government should do nothing to assist these financial institutions, should all states, cities, towns, municipalities, and companies that rely on short-term financing to manage their accounts payable be also allowed to go bankrupt due to the malfeasance and stupidity of those responsible for this financial meltdown? If inaction is desirable to teach Wall Street a lesson, what is being taught to all the entities and individuals that have played by the rules and done absolutely nothing wrong but are going to suffer as a result of the actions of a few?

News junkies from all over are puzzled by the strange reversals of fortune in the bidding war between Wells Fargo and CitiBank for control of Wachovia, but this mess gets a lot simpler as soon as you realize that it isn't about banks.

It's about lawyers.

The legal tabloid abovethelaw.com has the inside story: Sleep-deprived M&A lawyers at Sullivan and Cromwell were out-merged and out-acquired by insomniac crankheads at Skadden Arps.

A little background about the corporate culture at Skadden Arps is all it takes to connect these dots, but it's also important to remember that the concept of sleep deprivation has a special meaning at Sullivan and Cromwell.

With 2000 lawyers to feed, Skadden Arps would sue a woodpile on the chance there was a billable snake in it.

Skadden Arps would sue a disposable cellphone on the chance there was a billable minute left on it.

Skadden Arps would sue the teeming loins of Grandma Skadden for only producing 2000 lawyers, under the "be fruitful and multiply" injunction of Natural Law.

If that isn't quite egg we spot on Kathleen Parker's face, perhaps it's the product seen at the right . . . 

Last week, Parker became, overnight, liberals' favorite non-liberal pundit for her column calling on Sarah Palin to step down from the GOP ticket. She described Palin's interview performances as painful, cringe-inducing, and filled with "BS." Concluding that Palin is "clearly out of her league," Parker suggested Palin announce she was quitting to spend more time with her newborn.

Parker is back with her post-debate column in today's Washington Post. The very headline, "Sarah Palin's Bridge to Somewhere," is a tacit admission that Palin has a political future.  "What did they do with the other Sarah Palin?" is Parker's opening line.  It sounds almost like a complaint, as if Parker is dismayed to have the Palin that made the author famous pulled out from under her.

One of CNN's citizen reporters on their new iReport service caused a bit of panic for Apple's stock prices this week when one of those reports featured a false claim that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack. With rumors swirling the stock price fell until official news from Apple quashing the rumor calmed investors' fears.

Perfectly encapsulating the coastal left's blind derision of Sarah Palin as an inexperienced “beginner” and thus unqualified, when the very same smart aleck cheap shots about her could be directed at the man with whom they have fallen in love, Barack Obama, David Letterman on Friday night asked guest Brian Williams if the nation can risk “a beginner in the passenger seat” (what about in the driver's seat?) and, in a sexist cheap shot, imitated Palin adjusting her hair during a 9/11 crisis as he impersonated her voice: “How's my hair?” That led an uncomfortable Williams to lean back and sigh, prompting Letterman to acknowledge “that's unfair. I'm sorry.”

Letterman, however spent the first half of Friday's Late Show before Williams came out and most of his time with Williams ridiculing Palin, and McCain for choosing her. Though the NBC Nightly News anchor Williams tried to separate himself from the remarks, and made some gentle counter-points as he preferred to joke about how he's the only one of the three anchors yet to get an interview with Palin, Williams never made the obvious point that much of Letterman's upset over Palin's inexperience could be directed to the top of the competing ticket. Or certainly could have been when he emerged last year as a candidate, but was not.

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