CNN's Chetry: 'Please Tell Me It's Not Lipstick Again'

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 On CNN's American Morning today, White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reported on Barack Obama's campaigning in Virginia.  Afterwards, anchor Kiran Chetry had a question:

CHETRY: All right. And Suzanne, what's on tap for the campaign today? And please tell me it's not lipstick again.

MALVEAUX: Let's hope not. He's going to be in Norfolk, Virginia. That is in southeast Virginia, and it's home to the world's largest Naval base. It's one of the most competitive areas that the Democrats and Republicans are fighting over. It's a critical piece of property, piece of land there with folks in Virginia, and they want those voters.

Regardless of your views of Obama's intent in his lipstick on a pig incident, there's no doubt that the episode has been illuminating.  The fumbling, bumbling manner in which the Democratic presidential candidate has mishandled this mini-crisis, knocking him off message and wasting valuable time even on Letterman's program trying to explain himself, must give even his most ardent supporters pause.  How articulate is he without his teleprompter?          

Kiran Chetry may be frustrated and want the lipstick affair to go away.  Then she and her sidekicks can focus on really important stories.  You know, like the one CNN's Jessica Yellin reported on during the same program this morning:

I'll tell you -- here's something you might not know about Sarah Palin. When she was pregnant with her fourth child, she had her baby shower at a shooting range.

Well, at least it's not about lipstick. 

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»→ Lipstick again

Palin needs to take this issue and tangent off of it with a comment about the pork experts, Obama and Biden, who never met a porker they didn't love, including the Bridge to Nowhere.

Rocky & Bullwinkle '08

pork experts

Maybe the MSM should send in 30 lawyers/investigators to examine Biden's son's lobbying activities.

the bridge to nowhere might not get her anywhere

Cool Arrow, now that everyone knows that Sarah Palin has lied about the "Thanks but no thanks" line that she used in, what is it now, 7 speeches, I don't think she's going to want to go there. Because regardless of whether she was for or against the Bridge to Nowhere, people don't like being lied to, and she has consistently lied about that.

Double NN...

You are a very funny guy. Thanks for the laugh, it's just what I needed before going to bed. BTW... You might want to check out the following link...

Great News - Palin Has Liberals Worried

 

 

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

Funny guy

You are a very funny guy.

Is that funny ha ha or funny strange?  Or both?

Everyone Knows

Everyone Knows

You crack me up.  "Everyone knows".

CNN said Sarah Palin cancelled the infamous "Bridge To Nowhere"!  Alaska Democrats also say she cancelled it!

Thank you for playing "Can we, or can we not, repeat something enough to fool people into believing it?".

 

»→ not really nickleby

That appropriation was returned to the Senate where it was considered for diversion to Katrina victims.  Obama and Biden both voted to deny these funds to New Orleans.  The money was then awarded, without restriction to Alaska.  As an appropriation to a State, that $233 million is somewhat dwarfed by Obama's pork equalling $900 million.

By all means, let's have that discussion. 

Rocky & Bullwinkle '08

the issue is honesty

hey cool arrow (and the cool cats who have responded to my post above), there was a question about where I got my info from. I got it from:

a) that pinko commie bastion, the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.co... (and note the line in there boys: "she did not return the federal money. She just allocated it elsewhere.")

b) that pinko commie bastion that NB staff have themselves used, FactCheck.org: http://www.factcheck... (look under "A Bridge too Far")

Those are just the sources that I thought you guys might take seriously, but I could also note that the Chicago Tribune has noted Palin's lies about the Bridge (hey Mr. Bates, isn't that your hometown newspaper that published you?); Mark Halperin of Time Magazine has said that her claim is outrageous; CBS notes it; ABC notes it and says that she said one thing to her Alaskan constituents and has been saying something else to the American people; Chris Matthews has a montage of her saying it in several speeches; Paul Begala notes her lies at HuffPo; the AP notes it; the Atlanta Journal-Constitution notes it.

Look, when I say that "everyone knows it" I mean that she's on record supporting the bridge--and now she's on record claiming that she didn't support the bridge. It's not like people are making stuff up--there's interviews, video, a paper trail. She's on record lying.

So now I really have to ask, what do you like about her so much that you're willing to overlook being lied to? I mean, she can't claim that mistakes were made, or now new evidence has come to light, or that she had to withhold evidence for reasons of security--she's lying purely so she can get elected.

People are saying that she's a strong, ambitious woman, and I think that's good--I like ambition. Ambition gets stuff done. What I don't like--and what I think you guys have got to think about--is people who are willing to lie to get what they want.

Seriously, as a non-partisan moment: don't you want people you can trust in the White House? I'm not saying Obama and Biden are trustworthy, but Palin clearly isn't. A vote for Palin is a vote for dishonesty.

»→ Yes, this Woman

We've been saying "Yes, a black man, but not that man" [Sharpton, Jackson, Obama] and "Yes, a woman, but not that woman" [Hillary, Carol Mosely Braun]

Now we enthusiastically say "Yes, a woman, and that woman to be more specific.

Now the left has lost all its fire having kicked their best candidate (male or female) to the curb because the man they've chosen can't find common ground with her.

Even Joe Biden admits maybe Obama should've picked Hillary.

We make no apology for our exuberance that McCain listened when conservatives demanded either Jindal of Palin.  Maybe McCain could have ignored us and we would have voted for him anyway.  But he did listen, and for that we are significantly more hopeful for the future of conservatism.

If the Democrats' want to pigeonhole such that one isn't a woman unless her first allegiance is to abortion, we're believing women aren't the one trick fillies you guys make them out to be.

Try as you might, you can't convince us there's any hypocrisy in our supporting woman based on her accomplishments just because the Dems are looking for the right token to fill their slot.

"Just a minute sweetie" - Barack Obama.

  • We went thataway »→

Yes, this woman lies

Cool Arrow, the issue isn't whether Sarah Palin is a woman--the issue is: Is she a liar?

And the answer is yes, Sarah Palin lies.

»→ OK nicky

Then I suggest you take a drive across that bridge to nowhere and let us know when you get to the other side.

I'm pretty sure that bridge isn't there, but by all means. . . preferably a very fast car, trust in your faith. It's bound to be there.

  • We went thataway »→

The bottom line, nicky...

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

It is time

It is time
for Obama to show righteous indignation and anger for the lies and distortions perpetated on the American voter...Clinton was one thing but Mccain and his running mate and these ads are another thing entirely!!!

We need people to be reminded that mccain was part of the RTC Keating 5, That his 'WET START' resulted in the deaths of 100 on the USS Forrestal..That the 'maverick' that was has sold his soul to the right wing religious nuts like Dobson with his running mate choice! Then to be reminded that he has voted with Bush 90% of the time and we have a $403 Billion dollar debt as a result!

Then to be aware that his running mate has less econnomic experience than mccain, that she is in the pocket of Big Oil, that she is an earmark queen and the lower 48 have paid for her generousity to Alaskans, that she is excellent at sarcasm and does not care that she lies in the process.
The running mate is CHENEY IN A BEEHIVE AND LIPSTICK!!

More whiny Leftism

You should really learn to be more thankful and be less of a whiny ingrate.  If not for those Hyper Evil Big Oil Companies (or ANY successful enterprise, for that matter), you couldn't be the parasite that you are.  Who else would you have to steal from?   

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

Pure bread Troll

He is just copy and pasting this all over the place. 

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Obama's righteous indignation

It is time for Obama to show righteous indignation and anger for the lies and distortions perpetated on the American voter...

Yes, he should.  Of course, that means he'll drop out of the race.

Kiran Chetry was a big disappointment.

I bummed out when she went to CNN.It was like she went over to the darkside. We got them back by stealing Bill Hemmer.Pffttt.Big deal.I would love it if Fox stole Lou Dobbs from them.It would kill them.

I liked Rita Cosby too.She should have never went to MSNBC.She had a home at Fox. Look at her now.They pissed on her over there.I bet she regrets it.

 

Victory in Iraq.

Liberals suck.

McCain for Preznint. 

Rita

I liked Rita Cosby too.

What ever happened to her?  Guess she's yet another MSNBC success story.

Last I heard she was being

Last I heard she was being sued big time from the book she authored about Natalie Holloway...bribes with witnesses, outright lies...something like that...on and on I could go...by the way, if you followed her breathless reporting on Fox she was getting just as bad then, she got caught in another lie, I watched/listened to it live back then, can't remeber what it pertained to, but is was horrendous...I think it was the Scott Peterson case. 

I for one do not miss her one iota.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Ahhh....so what.

 .by the way, if you followed her breathless reporting on Fox she was getting just as bad then, she got caught in another lie,

 

She was sexy.And besides...if they can put up with Geraldo they could have put up with her.

 

Victory in Iraq.

Liberals suck.

McCain for Preznint. 

Kiran - say it ain't so!

KC - I enjoyed watching you onFox and I thought it was a loss for Fox when you jumped to CNN.

But, as a recent mother, you should know predjudice when you see it. Your cynical statement about the 'lipstick' gaffe shows that you side with those who would object to even you just because you were a woman.

I find it amazing the lack of tolerance exibited by the 'self-annointed tolerant' liberals. You can object to a person's point of view without resorting to name-calling and character assassinations.

www.ArmchairEnergist...

Ms. Chetry DO your job

Ms. Chetry, as you do not like lipstick when your candidate demeans women and you do not notice that your candidate Obama said there was the smell of death on old people in his "fish stinks from the head down" which is a Dukakis slap at Ronald Reagan,

Why not in your 7 figure salary do your job woman!

I will make it really easy for you in posting something you can read, plagiarize and look like someone at CNN who not like on FOX had to hike her skirt to pantyland to cross her legs to the top.

Hmmm Ms. Chetry, does your candidate's explanation mean you are the lipstick on the pig of CNN?

rhetorical

http://lamecherry.bl...

thee Obama of the Company he keeps

In
reviewing the volumes which have been composed and shared concerning
Barack Hussein Obama, I have been inspired to write more than anyone,
reveal more than anyone, provide more material that is Pulitzer and
Nobel worthy and in noting all of that, I conclude that Barack Obama is
like a bad tooth, the more one chews on it, the more you want it gone
and you would will to God someone would just pull it out Novocaine or
not.

The danger of Barack Obama is not in his Marxism, his bi
sexuality, his terrorist friends, his being a 10 year old boy
attempting to usurp the United States Constitution to have his finger
on nuclear buttons, but the real danger is Barack Obama is the most
detestable of creatures in he has no idea who God is, has searched for
Him in philosophy, cemented his answers in theology and mixed it all
into a comfortable secular package which reads as: "I think therefore I
am not going to think as the world is flat, but if I imagine it is
round then it will work I think".

The above pictured individuals are the people Barack Obama chose as his mentors and influences.
Nietzchse
of "God is dead" fame is like all European minds in taking Greek
traditional philosophy, voiding it of their morals and God, and,
instead coming up with, "There is no Truth" in their bastardizing the
Socratic method questioning to find moral answers.
Nietzchse finds no morals and is who Obama was moulded by.

Teddy
Kennedy, is not so much an influence, but a means to an end for Barack
Obama. He tried on the Teddy skin to adorn himself with the look of a
Kennedy for his royal Camelot to con the white folks into thinking free
at last is born and the black folks that the messiah will reside around
the round table at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Frank Marshall
Davis is Obama's own Uncle Frank mentor. We know Uncle Frank loved
psychologically beating up on Obama's Grandfather humiliating his
intelligence. We know he broke this child down to isolate him making
him completely alone in the world. We know Uncle Frank was a sexual
predator on white married women, on children if the offer presented
itself and his idea of sex was degrading both sexes in being urinated
on, rape fantasy, bondage and creating a religion out of sexing white
women.
We know Uncle Frank wrote as much on sexual predation in his
autobiographies as he did in his hatred of things Christian and
American.

William Ayers was Obama's Chicago mentor who is an
intelligence asset of the globalists. He used three controls in his
"Manson Family" recruitment of intellectual domination, narcotics and
sex to keep and gain control of victims.
Ayers would have a black
room mate savagely rape a Jewish girl and attempt to have his brother
do the same and Ayers would have his girlfriend later build a bomb
which blew herself up while he was off being a revolutionary, or a
person of change we can believe in.
Ayers is the white face of Frank Marshall Davis.

Saul
Alinsky would write the book Obama would study in Rules for Radicals,
or a Community Organizers Revolutionary training manual to con people
into your revolution by first asking them what they wanted and then
convincing them you want that too, so your means justifies lying to
them in the ends.

Karl Marx needs not that great of
introduction, except he was funded by the Rothschild banking cartel to
come up with a new secular convert manifesto which would allow the
elitists of Europe a "religion" in which to manage people very cheaply,
gain control of governments to rape those nations of their resources
while keeping all the poor poor and the globalists forever in "elected"
power.

Vladamir Lenin, the great initiator of the Rothschild
governmental system which took the Russian mobs, united them under a
revolution of change so instead of serfs they were termed comrades and
instead of butchered royalty they had Lenin and Stalin to exploit them
for their worship as the masses starved.

Jeremiah Wright, the
final cog in this society of bastardized religions which preached South
American Marxism in the form that isolated blacks much like the Jews
have been isolated into being programed that the entire world is
against them, where only the black savior of a black liberation war
over other races will deem them the master race.

In noting the above:

I
detest philosophers and I loathe theologians. A philosopher is a
bastardized religious secularism too cowardly to deal with God and
theologians are cowards hiding in religion bastardized to secularism
dealing not with God, but their own failings.

In noting the above, this is what the Obama of the company he keeps means.

It
might surprise people that Vladamir Lenin in his early life actually
thought about becoming a Christian Pastor. It might shock people that
numbers of the most horrific people on the planet have a common form in
mixing a religious foundation with a secular philosophy.

Have
conversion on the road to Damascus, and God produces St. Paul, thee
most brilliant Spiritual Theological mind ever produced whose entire
concern is a Kingdom of God which benefits millions of people as it
frees them from their base personality to aspire to grow to become the
complete people they were intended to be in Divine Plan.
Apostles of
this become George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt as
American Secularists they are under God's morality working within a
system of self governance of stability in a Republican form of
government of majority rule, but the rights of the minority preserved.

Have
a conversion in prison like Malcolm X who is another Obama philosopher
fitting the above who influenced Barack and you find Elijah Muhammed of
Black Islam is corrupt and Elijah shoots you dead as there is only one
leader and the rest are socialist followers.

Have a conversion
in Saudi Arabia and an aspiring young boy named Osama moulded in the
virtue of Saladin is transformed into a revolutionary attempting to
overthrow the Middle East.

Have a conversion in an Egyptian
prison and an intellectual Dr. Zawahiri takes his Muslim Brotherhood
from Wahhabist fascism into the realm of Marxist Islam, turns bin Laden
against a superpower as proxy of Russian Bolshevism and you have
international terrorism.

Have a conversion in Iran under a
Marxist Khomeini and a young revolutionary is born named Larijani who
is heir apparent to the Persian Islamcommunist Caliph, but adds in
Immanuel Kant where "all" are now born with the German philosophy like
Nitzchse, but this bastardized religion has an absolute which is
installing a world Isalamocommunist state, that is their duty and when
in their duty these Persians must have other Muslims butchered in Iraq,
vaporized in Damascus to murdering millions by nuclear terrorism in New
York, London, Tel Aviv and Paris, it is all "moral", because when one
has an absolute, does their duty, it makes it all moral.

Do you understand now how dangerous the convert to Obamanism is to not only America, but the entire world?

If not, then let the explanation reveal the true character of events.

The last book which Barack Obama stated he read was an account of Abraham Lincoln by Marxist "historian" Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Goodwin
featured on PBS and other programs is a known plagiarist in her Kennedy
book literally having 1/3rd of "her book" stolen from another author
just like another chosen Obama associate in Joe Biden committing
intellectual theft.

Reviews on Goodwin's book on Lincoln were
typically good, but as in all reviewers they missed her key ingredients
which impressionable 46 year olds at the time would cling to in their
juvenile minds sodden with the above fornicators of thought who Obama
has coupled with.

Goodwin's focus was on Lincoln needing to
arise above the group he had chosen, almost as a messiah, and this is
the Lincoln which Goodwin provided for Barack Obama:

Lincoln was
not a saint in Goodwin's analogy. He was a liar who used political
maneuvering to advance his cause and when criticized would be
intolerant of others.

Deloris Kearns Goodwin's typical leftist
ramblings has taken a gifted gentleman in a human leader and turned him
into a messiah who was according to her, lying to get what he wanted
and was smearing people.

Now who does that sound like, but a man
who announced in Springfield, Illinois all his messianic visions and
has since gone on a rampage of defaming, slandering and smearing Sarah
Palin and numerous others, including the sodomite Lawrence Sinclair
making him a political prisoner.

One could say, it is a good
thing that the last book Obama read was not Moby Dick or he would be
chasing the great white whale around the ocean with a harpoon, the only
problem is that Moby Dick is one of Obama's past favorite reads and he
has been running around like Capt. Ahab with a harpoon attempting to
spear the white United States of America as his obsession of what is
the example of all that is wrong with the world.
Why on this ocean
do you think Barack Obama's main plans involve stealing money from
Americans and giving it to poor dictators around the world and stealing
money from corporations who employ working people and giving that money
to non working people?

America is his Moby Dick just like this
Frankenstein's monster of assembled intellect was breathed to life by
Doris Kearns Goodwin.

There are vast influences and mixes in
this. Obama chooses Christian Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr, who just so
happens to be another philosopher who was the "christian" link joining
the converted old Jewish communists to a new conservatism to President
George Bush in just wars being the first strike doctrine of the United
States.
Niebuhr embraced Marxist thought in the American capitalist
system would pass away and as the world is an evil place and God's
Kingdom is not here, America must send out armies to destroy evil.
Niebuhr is one of Obama's favorite philosophers in his confession to the New York Times.

Doris
Kearns Goodwin implanted that as Lincoln, Obama can convert his enemies
to serve him and Niebuhr mixed in the impression that Obama can be for
and against war all at the same time as he decides what is a just war.

Ali
Larijani in his hybrid Islamocommunism which is being injected into a
billion Muslims of being Islam, fascism, secularism, philosophy is the
only person on the world stage who is creating his own hybrid
revolution like Barack Obama.

Except for a smattering of forms
of Christianity which have been bastardized now too in Obama's, "Onward
black christian soldiers marching off to war," Larijani mirrors Obama
on German philosophers, Marxism, Islam, allying oneself to political
dynasty, intellectualism, intelligence asset surrounded by some really
nasty psyops experts in using sex, narcotics and domination.....and
they both love the nuclear bomb as an ultimate solution to problems.

This
conversation is about what is a good decision for America and Barack
Obama by this flitting about and taking bits of programming from
different thought processes not being adept enough to keep them
separated makes him a very bad decision for any nation.

Separately potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur are wonderful for preserving food, cooking food and medicines.
Together though they make gun powder and explode at the slightest spark.

Barack
Obama is exactly this way in combining philosophy, religion and
government which are wonderful alone as it exercises the mind, gives
people a moral compass and in self government produces a peaceful
nation.
Combine them though and the world finds an absolute in
Barack Obama to there is no good or evil, but only his judgment to
create the world in his own duty, taking from those who have earned and
giving to those who will not work, under the mandate of the duty of the
messiah that his will be done in a changed government moral by his
dictates but immoral as it is, not by the people, of the people or for
the people........

But by Barack Obama, about Barack Obama and only for who Barack Obama deems as his people.

agtG 331

 

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All orchestrated by Obama Team to take away lipstick meme...

Face it, one of the most effective moments from Sarah Palin's acceptance speech was the Pit Bulls and Lipstick comment.

The Obama Team orchestrated this whole thing to take that imagery away.  Unfortunately, Team McCain took the bait and over-reacted. 

The Cult of Personality

I guess I have to ask you now: you clearly worship Obama in an obsequious way.  So, since it seems you have images of Obama on every wall of your home, what size are they: 8X10 or 11X16?  

Face it, your God made a massive gaffe.  And tons of little ones.

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

Word to the MSM...

No one is listening to you anymore.  You are preaching to the choir.  The only people that tune you in are those who will be voting for Obama anyway.

You have lost the trust of independents.  Fools.  Glorious glorious fools. 

IDEAS

Maybe this is because, like you, they cannot dare bring up the whole notion of IDEAS. 

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

Ideas, Unsane

Haven't you heard?  The Obama campaign is based on fresh, new ideas.

HOPE and CHANGE

I forgot. HOPE and CHANGE are GREAT ideas!!!

"Lacking for wealth, and feeling bereft, I voted for change, now that's all I have left."  - from a B.C comic strip read in 1994 

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

Chetry has changed

Chetry, always a liberal, yes, but was better than most in the mainstream media of trying to be fair. It seems she has no interest in being fair anymore. I've seen her over the past several weeks on American Morning, and she's really changed her tactics in a big way. Whatever it takes to get noticed, and whatever it takes to get your man elected. Too bad she's been reduced to this.