NewsBusted 161

By NB Staff | April 29, 2008 - 03:42 ET

Topics in this show: 15% of American adults admit they've driven under the influence of alcohol, Barack Obama's campaign blogger, Alicia Keyes on the rap conspiracy, "American Idol's" ratings start to drop, and Flavor Flav's new sitcom. Click "play" on the video to the right to watch.

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Vote while drunk

Friends don't let friends vote Democrat 

Classic in all its forms! Excellently done!

The humor works because existentialists never are required to make sense.

Novice

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."

Did anyone see Keith

Did anyone see Keith Olbermann try to insult Brent Baker and anyone who contributes to Newsbusters last night? OOOOOH we're SCARED!!!

hee hee!

Good times. I always look forward to watching these.

That Matthews graphic was

That Matthews graphic was the best...hilarious!

I loved it all...as usual, thanks for the morning laughter once again...enjoyed it much.

Jodi gets better and better...

Excellent job all!

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Yes the Matthews graphic was

Yes the Matthews graphic was good. I lol about it.

videos

I look forward to these videos also. The best humor always has a hint of truth in it. Who is the host? Is she a comedian...does she have other works?

 

 

  • "But this one goes to 11"

Lawyer's Party

 

 

 

 

 

 The Lawyers' Party

By Bruce Walker

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party.  Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton are lawyers.  Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers.
 John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a
lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth.  Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went
to law school (although Gore did not graduate.)  Every  Democrat vice
presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Benson, went to law
school.  Look at the Democrat Party in Congress:  the Majority Leader in
each house is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different.  President Bush and Vice President
Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen.  The leaders of the Republican
Revolution were not lawyers.  Newt Gingrich was a history professor;  Tom
Delay was an exterminator; and  Dick Armey was an economist.   House
Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer.  The
former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?  Gerald Ford, who
left office thirty-one years ago and who barely won the Republican
nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.
 The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work.  The
Democratic Party is made up of lawyers.  Democrats mock and scorn men who
create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who
immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.

 The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and
services that people want, as the enemies of America.  And so we have seen
the procession of official enemies in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party grow.
 Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?  Pharmaceutical companies, oil
companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large
retail businesses, bankers and anyone producing anything of value in our
nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of
lawyers.  Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients,
in this case the American people.  Lawyers seek to have new laws passed,
they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn
precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine.  But it is an awful
way to govern a great nation.  When politicians as lawyers begin to view
some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the
role of the legal system in our life becomes all consuming.   Some Americans
become "adverse parties" of our very government.  We are not all litigants
in some vast social class action suit.  We are citizens of a republic which
promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from
lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws, we are contorted by judicial decisions, we
are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once
private lives.  America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is
modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked.  When the most important
decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme
Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.  When lawyers
use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as
happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of
lawyers in America is too great.  When House Democrats sue America in order
to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to
use, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the  Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform
 or real hope in America.  Most Americans know that a republic in which
every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is
not what Washington intended in 1789.  Most Americans grasp that we cannot
fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders.  Most
Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining
moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our
nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and
business.  Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the
mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work.  Perhaps
Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only
make our problems worse.

 

 

 

Democrats are either Parasites or Parasite Enablers

Here's a Chesterton quote for you to ponder

Here's a Chesterton quote for you to ponder...."Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern."

And another: "If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite
politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence."

Possible solution to the main problem in America

http://www.citizenco...

CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS!!!

I just noticed that above

I just noticed that above NewsBusted caption to the right here it says Apr. 25....should it?

Just curious here more than anything...

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Some takes on NewsBusted

1. Jodie Miller is a fox. And a witty fox at that. Her timing is pretty good, delivery is solid.

2. The writing is better when it doesn't get too broad and narrows in on the political nature of what is funny about a political figure or event. Things like the "six more weeks of Hillary jokes" punchline don't resonate to me as well as more dead-on political insightfulness. Irony is the best weapon, hypocrisy is the best target.

3. Overall it is a clever little show and a good medium. At some point it could be expanded to Miller plus a good co-host. I suggest a minority just to put libs in a quandary about criticizing it.

 

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius