Born in the USA!

Really?  Next up, Hardball

Laughing out loud.  I usually can’t stand Chris… but this was alright.  As a proud American citizen who was not born here, I really couldn’t care less if President Obama was born outside of the country.  Wherever he was born, he still lived with his Grandparents in Hawaii and went to school there, then to Columbia University and Harvard Law School, then worked as a community organizer in Chicago and eventually became a state Senator in Illinois, etc…  So either way, WHO CARES!?!?  But, we should point out that there seems to be NO EVIDENCE that Barack Obama was NOT born in Hawaii (unless some sort of HUGE conspiracy was underway…)  I typed in “Barack Obama birth certificate” on Google images and got this:

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As you can see, that’s a whole bunch of hits leading to President Obama’s official birth certificate.  It looks like this:

obama-phony-birth-certificateYes… I suppose it could be photoshopped, but it has been verified by a number of sources… including the state of Hawaii.  Yet the nonsense continues, here is CNN debunking the accusations.  Oh, apparently Lou Dobbs didn’t get the message, even though they debunked it on his show a few nights before!!!

Come on Dobbs!  Even O’Reilly wouldn’t believe this crap… back in 2008!!

Here is how Robert Gibbs reacted in the press briefing:

Sigh.  Can we get back to important things?  Maybe… I don’t know… healthcare?

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Reporting from Berlin

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Der Reichstag (Parliament Building)

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Die Waschmaschine (Germany's White House, Berliner's call it a 'Laundry Machine' because it looks like one)

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Stewart, Colbert, and O’Reilly

If you haven’t seen these, here are some must-see Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert vs. Bill O’Reilly interviews.  We’ll start out with the one where Bill talks about the “stoned slackers” who watch the Daily Show:

And here’s Bill visiting the Daily Show:

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The Best of Glenn Beck

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Some of my friends have not watched these so I’ve compiled them here for all to see.  Enjoy!

First, here’s the one where he tells us about his “gut feeling” that Mexico is going to collapse.  Oh, yea, and then he cries:

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Why CNN is losing

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The New York Times published a piece yesterday about CNN’s recent woes as it has fallen behind MSNBC and Fox News in the cable news rankings.  The piece suggests that CNN’s less-biased middle-of-the-road approach seems to be losing out to MSNBC and Fox’s model of opinion-infused content.  The question seems to be, would CNN be more succesful if it sold the remaining pieces of its soul and joined the orgy of partisan programming that now fills the primetime slots at MSNBC and Fox?

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How Did Liberal Opposition Affect The Iraq War?

I apologize for not posting in so long.  The semester is winding down though, which means I will soon face the real world!  And until I get a job (would you like to hire me?) I should have some time to blog!

demo1aThis bloggingheads.tv clip focuses on a question I find fascinating. The question is “Did liberal opposition help or harm the Iraq war effort?” I think this is a critical question that the media has yet to address–and probably never will.  I think you can’t deny that the Liberal push to get out of Iraq (2006 elections–remember?) did in fact put a lot of pressure on the Pentagon, Iraqi forces, and Iraq’s government, and signaled to them that US forces may in fact be leaving Iraq in the near future.  Did this have a positive impact on our mission in Iraq?  The anti-war movement was of course matched with the Bush administration’s refusal to pull out any troops, which, when taking into account the relative success of the “surge” (which, of course, may be temporary–but for now has stabilized Iraq) was not necessarily a bad thing.  Could it be that the combination of extreme political pressure to get out, with an administration that refused to do so was exactly what was needed?  I wonder how we will look back on this chapter of the Iraq War.

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The View, Daschle, and “Green”

Fasten your seatbelts, I’m going to mention three completely seperate topics in one post.  I start with a challenge to you all.  For how long can you watch this clip of “The View” before you have to stop.

So my question to you is:  Why is this on TV?  I mean, Rush Limbaugh is an idiot but watching this blabber is pretty unbearable.  Unless, of course, you interpret it as comedy.

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