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Written by Bob Parks on 18 March 2010

Over the past year, the media have served as cheerleaders for ObamaCare, praising the proposed legislation, while continuing slamming its critics. Here is just a sampling of some of the slanted coverage from the past 12 months.

Written by NewsBusters’ Kyle Drennen, edited by Bob

‘Meatless Day’ in Michigan? What We Really Need is an ‘Idiot Free Government Day’

Written by Doug Powers on 18 March 2010

Join me, won’t you please, in eating an extra helping of your favorite meat this Saturday in honor of the horribly misguided and economically-challenged Michigan governor:

LANSING, Michigan — A resolution proclaiming March 20 a “meatless” day is being called a “meat-headed” decision by the state’s top agriculture groups.

The resolution, sponsored by the Great American Meatout of Michigan, was endorsed by Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm and “encourages the residents of this state to choose not to eat meat.”

The resolution is critical of dairy and livestock foods, blaming them for sickening millions of Americans and says vegans and vegetarians are on the rise, with increased benefits of meat-free diets.

The meat packing company not far from where I sit is really going to appreciate this. Oh well, it’s not as if our unemployment rate is high and our economy is tanking or anything like that.

All I’ve got to say to this is, “From my cold, dead barbecue grill!”

Governor Granholm, take a look at the steak below, because on Saturday, that’s going to be merely the appetizer before the actual dinner-sized steak arrives:

Put “Meatless Day” up there on my list of “Governor Granholm’s Greatest Hits,” along with these:

–Granholm said she wanted to lure big business to Michigan, and then gave tax breaks to a hypocritical anti-capitalism, capitalist-pig filmmaker to shoot movies in the state that bash big business.

–Granholm offered millions of dollars in tax breaks to lure tech firms from Massachusetts to Michigan, and recently outsourced a state contract for tech work to a firm in… Massachusetts. Think about it and you’ll get almost as dizzy as the governor.

–My all time Granholm “let the idiocy shine” moment: A few years ago, Granholm had a petition on the State of Michigan’s website that she was asking state employees (and the rest of us dumb enough to do so) to sign. The petition demanded that the government get involved to reduce profits raked in by evil big oil companies. What Granholm didn’t mention was that the State of Michigan had well over $800 million of the state’s pension fund invested in Exxon-Mobile stock. Michigan’s illustrious bonehead-in-chief was in essence asking state employees to sign a petition to devalue their own pensions. Sheer genius.

Granholm is one of Barack Obama’s economic advisors.

It all makes sense now, doesn’t it?

Please pass the steaks and burgers.

Nobody Flashes: European Union to MODIFY English Language?

Written by Joyanna Adams on 18 March 2010

Nobody Flashes: Elites can change language with the flick of a pen? Fact or fiction?

This just in: from my friend in Kansas City...(note, remember in e-mails you never know what the truth is...or whether this is a joke or for real...BUT..since we are witnessing a new Napoleon named Obama basically trying to crown himself KING today..changing the best language in the world...English...into some kind of fubar...let's just say, I wouldn't put it passed any of the globalbots. As we all know, over here in America we are watching the UNELECTED European Union carefully....

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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

Ouch: Biden Joke About Un-Sexiness of Late Ted Kennedy Bombs

Written by Doug Powers on 18 March 2010

Some days even I feel bad for Joe Biden.

Plugs performed a set of attempted comedy last night at the Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner.

One of his “jokes” was this about the arrival of Scott Brown: “This guy’s got a tough job filling the shoes of the sexiest man in the Senate.”

::crickets::

Did somebody forget to tell Joe that the “sexiest man in the Senate,” revered by Biden and his colleagues on the left, died not long ago? Friars Club style roasts tend to be a lot funnier if the roastee is sitting there laughing along and wasn’t buried in the ground recently. Somebody forgot to teach Biden that in clown college.

Get it straight, Joe: Ted’s dead, and the Irish Prime Minister’s mother is alive. I think you got mixed up.

Check out Jesse Jackson’s reaction at the :39 second mark (video kicks in just after a Tiger Woods “joke” that also went nowhere). Priceless:

Biden could have easily saved the set by going back to his classic material that’s a proven winner: “Stand up, Chuck!”

Weekend at Barack’s Dead Mother’s

Written by Doug Powers on 18 March 2010

The macabre manner with which the Democrats are pitching Obamacare by figuratively lugging around dead people has been like watching “Weekend at Bernie’s” every day for a year. Every available corpse is shamelessly being dug up and thrown in front of America as “evidence” that we need a government takeover of health care.

To listen to Obama, Pelosi and Reid, you’d think that fully insured people never die, but now Obama is using his dead mother to pitch his health care takeover.

Obama’s full time job has gone from being president, to an undertaker:

In an email message to supporters, President Barack Obama used his dying mother’s experience with insurance companies as an example of why lawmakers should pass the health care reform plan in Congress.

“She died of cancer, and in the last six months of her life, I saw her on the phone in her hospital room arguing with insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well and spending time with her family,” Obama wrote in the email.

Yeah, the government should take over, because nobody has ever spent time arguing with the government about endless bureaucracy, rising costs and denied claims (government is the biggest denier of health claims, not private insurers).

Surprisingly, Obama didn’t say his mother was buried in an Obama t-shirt. I’m sure somebody’s working on that as we speak.

If Obama would like to have a debate about how many people have died because of a lack of health insurance vs. how many people have died due to over-grown, out-of-control governments wielding unchecked power, I’m game.

Obama: ‘Backroom Deals on Health Care Will Help Hawaii Recover From Earthquake’ — Wait, What?

Written by Doug Powers on 18 March 2010

President Obama was on Fox News stammering and trying to explain how health care bribes such as the “Louisiana Purchase“ help states in disaster recovery.

What states and what disasters? Well, for example, a deal like the “Louisana Purchase,” which was just a payoff to buy Sen. Landrieu’s vote, would have helped Hawaii recover from it’s devastating earthquake.

Wait, what earthquake in Hawaii? Gateway Pundit points out that in 1868 there was a major earthquake in Hawaii that killed 77 people, and in 1975 an earthquake in Hawaii killed two people.

Obama either has a long memory, or he intended to say the “earthquake in Haiti.” And if he was referring to Haiti, how and why would federal money intended for a state in the U.S. under the guise of America’s health care end up in a foreign country?

In his desperation to “sell” a health care plan nobody wants, Obama is turning to the government’s “Department of Information I Pulled Out My Ass” more and more.

In any case, here’s Obama saying something that would have had the mainstream media clamoring to mock him if Bush had said it. Personally I think the guy’s starting to come unwrapped:

Note: Hawaii is our 58th state, for those of you keeping score at home.

(h/t Breitbart)

Obama: ‘Backroom Deals on Health Care Will Help Hawaii Recover From Earthquake’ — Wait, What?

Written by Doug Powers on 18 March 2010

President Obama was on Fox News stammering and trying to explain how health care bribes such as the “Louisiana Purchase“ help states in disaster recovery.

Wait, what earthquake in Hawaii? Gateway Pundit points out that in 1868 there was a major earthquake in Hawaii that killed 77 people, and in 1975 an earthquake in Hawaii killed two people.

In his desperation to “sell” a health care plan nobody wants, Obama is turning to the government’s “Department of Information I Pulled Out My Ass” more and more.

In any case, here’s Obama saying something that would have had the mainstream media clamoring to mock him if Bush had said it. Personally I think the guy’s starting to come unwrapped:

Note: Hawaii is our 58th state, for those of you keeping score at home.

(h/t Breitbart)

Obama: ‘Backroom Deals on Health Care Will Help Hawaii Recover From Earthquake’ — Wait, What?

Written by Doug Powers on 18 March 2010

President Obama was on Fox News stammering and trying to explain how health care bribes such as the “Louisiana Purchase“ help states in disaster recovery.

Wait, what earthquake in Hawaii? Gateway Pundit points out that in 1868 there was a major earthquake in Hawaii that killed 77 people, and in 1975 an earthquake in Hawaii killed two people.

In his desperation to “sell” a health care plan nobody wants, Obama is turning to the government’s “Department of Information I Pulled Out My Ass” more and more.

In any case, here’s Obama saying something that would have had the mainstream media clamoring to mock him if Bush had said it. Personally I think the guy’s starting to come unwrapped:

Note: Hawaii is our 58th state, for those of you keeping score at home.

Also… while Fox News’ Bret Baier was pinning Obama to the ground and the president was spinning and fact-twisting like a clown on a balloon animal making binge, Joe Biden was calling Fox News the “Patron Saint of making things up.” Ironic.

(h/t Breitbart)