Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Obnoxious Windbag of the Day

During last Thursday's "The O'Reilly Factor" on FOX News, O'Reilly was embroiled in a heated discussion with Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) regarding some of the content on the extremely popular liberal blog, the Daily Kos (http://www.dailykos.com/). Of course, this content is considered by O'Reilly and other individuals on the right to be highly inappropriate. In fact, O'Reilly has gone so far as to describe the Daily Kos as a "hate enterprise", comparing the web site to the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party. However, when Dodd confronted O'Reilly on comments he delivered during a November 8, 2005 broadcast of "The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly" after voters in San Francisco approved a measure to prohibit military recruiting at public high schools and colleges, O'Reilly screamed at Dodd: "No, you're wrong. I didn't say it here. You don't know what the hell I said."

Actually...the following is a transcript of O'Reilly's rantings from that 2005 radio broadcast:

"You know, if I'm the President of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead.' And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, 'Look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'"

Monday, August 6, 2007

Why Media in the United States Absolutely Sucks

Following a July 31st interview with Vice President Dick Cheney on CNN's "Larry King Live", King spoke with a guest panel consisting of Wolf Blitzer (anchor of CNN's "The Situation Room"), Suzanne Malveau (CNN's Washington correspondent), Bob Woodward (author and managing editor of "The Washington Post") and author Stephen Hayes. During the interview, Cheney attempted to justify his recent claims that the Office of the Vice President is not part of the executive branch by stating "My paycheck actually comes from the Senate". During the post-interview discussion, Wolf declared "I didn't know that. I learned something. I didn't know that he actually gets his paycheck from the legislative branch of the government, from the U.S. Senate."

Oh, Wolf, Wolf, Wolf! Just recently (June 25th, to be exact) on his very own "The Situation Room", Blitzer was discussing the executive vs. legislative branch controversy with Ed Henry, CNN's White House Correspondent. On that show, footage of Dana Perino, Deputy White House Press Secretary, was shown:

"I think for the past two centuries the Senate has provided payment to the Vice President for his duties as a member of the government."

Are you kidding me? Am I to believe that Blitzer, an educated individual, completely forgot about an extremely important topic he discussed five weeks prior? Blitzer is only 59 years old so he should not be experiencing senility at this point. Therefore, the only excuse is that he is a card carrying member of a group of morons.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Statistics of the Day

"The Hill", a Congressional newspaper with the largest circulation of any Capitol Hill publication, reported the results of their recent survey which show that at least 76 U.S. Senators have visited Iraq since the Iraq War began. 38 of those individuals have traveled to Iraq in the last 12 months but unfortunately 18 Senators have not visited Iraq at all. There are some other interesting findings from the survey:

1. With ten visits, Jack Reed (D-RI) has visited Iraq during the last four years more than any other U.S. Senator, Democrat or Republican. John Warner (R-VA) has the second highest amount with nine.
2. Carl Levin (D-MI) and James Inhofe (R-OK) have both traveled to Iraq on eight separate occasions. However, Inhofe was recently quoted as mistakenly (but not surprisingly) claiming that he has visited Iraq more than any other Senator. Obviously that is not the case but the truth has never mattered to Inhofe in the past.
3. Joseph Biden (D-DE) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are next on the list with seven visits to the area.
4. Of the 76 Senators who have traveled to Iraq, 44 are Republicans, 31 are Democrats and 1 is Independent.
5. With the remaining 24 Senators who have not visited Iraq (or would not comment), 18 are Democrats, 5 are Republicans and 1 is Independent.