Santelli

A reader sent me a wonderful exchange between a pro-Obama "intellectual" and a citizen who questioned him all along - which I am formatting - to make it anonymous - for Saturday.
As a placeholder I post the "rant heard round the world":

Though now seen by everyone - I have a few notes:
1. It is delightful and somewhat inspiring to see a professional lambaste El Presidente with such passion. This type of rant makes me happy to be American. And no, I don't agree with all of it. But after the uniform Obama Adoration Complex Media Assault we endured for all of 2008 I love seeing this guy pop off.
2. Santelli's statement that the bit of Exchange floor he's standing in is a "cross section of America" is absurd. I did not see one non white face on the clip - or a woman, or a laborer, or...or..or...

It seems Obama is making things worse - but lets be honest - Wall Street is awash with culpability here. I am not a socialist, or a libertarian or an unreconstructed capitalist. (Greed is not good.) I am an FDR liberal. The government must take action. Sadly, the action Obama's Democrats are taking is about paying off constituencies, rewarding criminal enterprises like Freddie and Fannie, and punishing good behavior.

Regardless, whoever loudly points out that the Emperor is naked right now is fine by me.

Finally, a pointed little paragraph from from Fred Barnes:
Obama, the market killer. The Dow fell 332.13 points on inauguration day, 381.99 points on the day Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced step two in the bank bailout, and 297.91 points when the president signed the stimulus bill three days ago. Financial markets are a bet on the future. The market's view is that an Obamanomics-driven economy looks grim.

I wish thoughtful liberals were circling the wagons now. But I'll take what I can get.

Strap yourselves in.

Lunch Break

Housing Thud: Sector turns south as housing plan falls flat

More thud: An expert says the economy will be in a far deeper hole when the stimulus starts working, Plus watch the clip for the meaning of new phrase "TARP stooges".

Mailman Kerry: Hamas sends snail mail missive to President Sunshine.

Very, unbelievably, important information: The sordid lives of fruit.

And Also: I Thought Obama Would Get Me Laid adds contact line so you can submit your own I Thought Obama Would disappointments.

Music: A fav from the the late 80s. Wicked Game, Chris Isaac. FYI- the video is very sexual. Don't watch if you..uh...don't want to...

Comedy: "Hurt Feelings" Loving the kiwis on HBO.

Lunch Break

Photo is of downtown Los Angeles and the snowy San Gabriel mountains.

Quote: I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury. So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.

David Mamet on HBO star Jeremy Piven leaving his Broadway revival of " Speed the Plow.


F.Y.I.: Piven's role on Entourage is based on real life Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, brother of real life incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.


Bubble Heads:What throws me about pieces like this: Who saw the housing bubble coming? is that the answer so simple: Anyone with a lick of common sense.

One of the reasons I even give loopy conspiracy theories at least a mental try out is - believe it or not - faith in people. Example: I do not believe Alan Greenspan is this stupid: ...Greenspan continued to deny the possibility of a housing bubble...he said that any comparison between the housing market and a stock market bubble was "rather a large stretch." No it wasn't. At all. It was obvious. So Greenspan either is that stupid, or he was a willing player in the game of inflating the economy recklessly until 2008....

We was robbed! A.P. makes case for USC being A.P. national champs.

Music: Ave Maria on Classical Guitar.

Sychophants, Democracy and You

I spent a lot of time joking around on this blog. "Obama Scriptures" etc - because if you lose your sense of humor - you have lost it all as far as I am concerned. But this next sentence is deadly serious: The American Media is doing real and lasting damage to the American republic by refusing to report on Senator Obama in a balanced manner and they should be held to account.

We have already seen what the overwhelmingly pro Obama and sexist media did to the best candidate during the primaries. The same unwillingness or inability to objectively question and report on Obama in a balanced manner is still occurring.
The lack of an independent press is as dangerous to a free country as voter fraud. CNN and MSNBC are the biggest culprits. Newsweek is an Obama rag at this point. Time is barely better. The New York Times continues its descent - most notably by refusing to publish John McCain's response to an Obama piece they did publish.
This is not Stalinist control of the media. It is simpler. The delusion Obama promotes among the "educated" class in America fits perfectly into the World view of many of those who call themselves "journalists." No one is stopping investigations by Time or Newsweek into William Ayres or Rezko or the Alice Palmer affair or a thousand other questionable parts of Obama's past. It is not being done because the journalists and their bosses don't want it done. They like him. Fine. This does not excuse journalistic malfeasance. The media is shameful. It has been for a while. But we are not talking about Natalie Holloway or Paris Hilton or O.J. These examples of media over indulgence did not affect all of us. The media kid glove treatment of Obama matters. We have every right to know what he has or has not done. Who he has associated himself with. Frankly, we have every right to look into his wife's past as well.

His idiotic trip overseas is over. In the U.S. it is called a success by our media.

Please note the foreign press IS investigating Obama. From the London Evening Standard: Barack Obama's broken promise to African village.

This article fits nicely with the Youtube below - Obama's broken promises to the indigent in his own district. Any sane person can see a pattern. Add the broken promises on FISA, public financing, and his backtrack on his own constituents regarding Exelon and nuclear power (Warning: link to Huffington!!!) and many others and what emerges is a self serving dilettante - not the man the media adores. It is testimony to how far the American media has sunk that blogs should be pointing this out - not the New York Times.