Chris Matthews: Obama Guilty of Elitist Charge - Failed to Explain Economics

Chris Matthews takes a tough stance on Obama's failures, and it's a little jaw-dropping until he remembers how he earns his salary...oh yeah! I'm a Democrat shill...and remembers the current  administration talking points that voter's are unhappy because the president has not explained the complexities of his economic policy, and oh yes, Obama is an elitist, yes he is. See the video below.

Explaining Obama Economics

Matthews is confounded that Obama has not explained his progressive brand of economic, and says every Grad school student learns that a large deficit in a recession is necessary. Obama does not have a degree in economics, and perhaps he failed the undergraduate work. We wouldn't know. All his records are sealed. He has no life experience with economics. His economic policies, and the policies of his economic team, have flown in the face of sound fiscal policy. So what is there for Obama to "explain" without being laughed off the world stage.

Matthews is also disgruntled that Obama was so very patriotic during the 2008 elections, and he believed in America's exceptionalism...so very much, but then...there were the teleprompters, and Obama talked at us, not with us, and he didn't listen.

Precious few of the claims of Obama's campaign patriotism or the belief that America is exceptional were anywhere in the 2008 election. He was caught on camera not saluting the flag. Appalling. He wanted to redistribute our wealth. His father and his mentor were both communists. Showing just how out of touch with the framework of America, he thought America had 57 states, and he had visited them all. Oh, you say...he just misspoke? Surely he knew how many states in America? Apparently not. That's as absurd as saying he didn't know he should be saluting the flag.

 In a speech at the home of Harry Truman in the summer of 2008, he gave a speech to prove his patriotism, because so many believed there was so little. In that speech, I was not comforted that he spoke of his "growing awareness of our nation's imperfections" as a younger adult. Those of us who were honest knew Obama's fondness for Islam would tip the scales to less protection for Israel. Why does that matter? It matters because Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. If we cannot stand for true democracy around the world, how do we defend our own republic?

Maybe Matthews' is looking for a way to save his journalistic life as this train wreck descends from the heady heights Liberals think he ascended.

Chris Matthews - Obama is Guilty of Elitist Charge

Partial transcript:

MATTHEWS: When he was a campaigner, he did nothing but talk about what a great country this is, what an exceptional country this is because a guy like me an make it here and only in a country like this could I have made it. He was very patriotic, very inclusive and he was very interactive in an interesting way. Ever since he has been president he has been elitist and he has come with his teleprompter, and he has given his speech. He hasn't listened, he has talked at us, rather than with us...

MITCHELL: At least that's what he has projected.

MATTHEWS: No, he actually does bring the teleprompter with him and he actually does know what he wants to say.

MITCHELL: No I don't mean that. I mean...you don't think that he's interactive even thought he's had these townhall meetings, you don't think he's given the sense...of...

MATTHEWS: No and I think he hasn't explained himself. Lincoln had to explain the Civil War, darn it.  Roosevelt had to explain everything about the Great Depression. You have to take people along with you. I think he is guilty of that elitest charge. If you are going to spend a $1.6 Trillion deficit in one year you better explain to the American people why you did it. He never explained economics the way he was taught it. We were all taught in graduate school you had to run a big deficit during a grand recession. How about explaining that. Everybody didn't go to graduate school.

Others Talking:
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Ed Schultz 300000 on October 2 in DC: Ed Schultz March With Me

I wanted my title to be Ed Schultz does Glenn Beck, but decided that might be taken the wrong way. So what I am saying is, Schultz wants to emulate Beck and his Restoring Honor rally. Schultz say on October 2nd: "we'll get 300000 (he said 300 hundred grand) - meaning 300,000 to show up on the Mall. Will you march with me Pretty please!  See the video below.

Big Eddie Schultz

We'll show you Conservatives out there, when Big Eddie starts crankin' on something, we don't back down until it gets done...

There will be some old, some white people, at the October 2nd rally in Washington D. C, they just won't be angry, hateful or race baiting.

This guy is a mess.


Ed Schultz: Will You March With Me - Pretty Please! (video)
Cartoon borrowed from Bob McCarty Writes

Luke Russert Charlie Rangel: Luke Russert Asks Questions No One Else will Ask

In the video, the late Tim Russert's son, Luke, is a reporter for MSNBC. Luke shocked Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) by asking the questions no one else from MSNBC or any member of the mainstream propaganda squad.

Charlie Rangel

Congressman Rangel was charged for, as yet, unnamed offenses, that began with the list below from the Washington Post titled Sleazy Does It. Who knows how the House Ethics Committee might decide to lighten Charlie's burden:

* Unpaid taxes: Rangel admitted he neglected to pay taxes on $75,000 in rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic.

* Four rent-stabilized apartments: He leased the Harlem units, including one as an office — which is barred by state law.

* Undisclosed income: He failed to reveal to Congress more than $600,000 in assets and tens of thousands of dollars in income.

* Inappropriate fundraising: He wrote letters on official congressional stationery to solicit money to build the Rangel Center at CUNY.

* Pay-to-play: He preserved a tax shelter for an oil-drilling company, Nabors Industries, whose chief executive donated money to the Rangel Center.


* Breaking House rules: He stored his vintage Mercedes in the congressional garage.



Read more here.

As Mike Huckabee famously said: It's Easier to Defend Jeffrey Dahmer's Diet than Rangels Ethics.



Luke Russert and Charlie Rangel (video)
Related and Background:Charlie Rangel's Culture of Corruption

Bill O'Reilly Rachel Maddow: O'Reilly to Maddow: Fox Kicks Your Networks Butt Every Single Day

O'Reilly's show on Thursday night revolved around the Shirley Sherrod story. Some other networks had a few things to say to about Fox News and Shirley Sherrod. Maddow made some odd statements, including saying the ACORN story [remember the pimp and prostitute] was "fake," and she wrapped it up with "Fox does what Fox does" to which O'Reilly answered "which is kick your network's butt every single day." Sorry, the video embed is not working. Please view it here.

Linked by Si Vis Pacem (If you Seek Peace, Seek First Liberty) - Thanks Ran!

Michele Bachmann Dylan Ratigan: Someone Named Dylan Ratigan Doesn't Like Michele Bachmann or Her Tea Party Caucus

Someone named Dylan Ratigan doesn't like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn-6th), or her Tea Party Caucus or her talk of "fiscal responsibility."  I'm searching for info on Mr. Ratigan as I "word process." Oh, here it is...oh my, he's a TV host on MSNBC and has a little show titled the Dylan Ratigan Show. Let me see... he averaged 330,000 viewers a day in May 2010! No wonder he's such a snark. See the video below.

 Michele Bachmann

Putting "Fiscal Responsibility" in the face of a liberal is like holding up a cross in the face of a vampire. "Fiscal Responsibility" is death to a Liberal. Without mad spending you can't create voters.

More on Ratigan's embarrassing ratings below. In the video, the obviously frustrated Ratigan and friends say Bachmann is "full of crap...soooo full of crap, she might be the Queen of Crap," the talking heads opine. Ratigan quotes Congresswoman Bachmann saying the Tea Party Caucus will be "dedicated to promoting Tea Party ideals like "fiscal responsibility and limited government...

"...then again, says Ratigan, Republicans were nowhere in the mass extraction on Wall Street."

For starters, Ratigan obviously views a House Caucus as 'big government,' even though the Caucus members are dedicated to the ideals of small government. This Caucus will not create government programs. If anything, they will be working to repeal, rework and trash existing legislation.

Ratigan doesn't touch Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Democrat criminal "mass extractions" that will never be paid back to taxpayers - orchestrated by Democrat legislators, Senator Chris Dodd (D-, and Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mich) and Maxine Waters (D-CA) . Fannie and Freddie were nowhere in the Democrat financial reform bill.

A Yale economics professor, Robert J. Shiller, says taxpayers who do not even own a home are forced to support others struggling to stay in their homes. Astonishingly, Shiller thinks that Fannie and Freddie should be severely cut back:

"so that they're not helping middle-class homeowners, [but] they're helping poor people get into the housing market."

That's a fine example of academia ignoring everything known about economics. How about making Fannie and Freddie successful and then helping the less fortunate?

Shiller tells the truth, though, about the woes of the evil Democrat twins, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and why the government took them over:

...to avert possible massive losses for banks, money-market funds and, perhaps, most importantly, foreign institutions that purchased billions of Fannie and Freddie debt because of its implied government guarantee.

Remember this when you plan to walk away from your home, and perhaps file bankruptcy. Don't blame Wall Street. Fannie and Freddie are what all the housing bankruptcies are about.
That's why some of your neighbors had to turn their homes over to the bank. The bank had to sell them for peanuts, and that's why your house is undervalued today. That's why you owe more on your mortgage than the house is worth in today's market.

Democrats are solely...solely to blame for the housing crisis. They bought votes and favorability with risky home loans, are still trying to buy votes today...and what they have done should be criminal. 

Before winding this up, Ratigan's show airs at 4 p.m. EDT. If 330,000 viewers are not embarassing enough, he averaged only 325,000 viewers in the preceding 6 months, and only 83,000 in the golden  demographic of 25-54 years old. The 83,000 most desirable demographic was down from 107,000 a year earlier. Check this out for a comparison of television success rates.

For the time slot, Ratigan comes in third behind first place Your World with Neil Cavuto. The headline for these statistics: Dylan Ratigan's Ratings Show a Loss for MSNBC.

So here's the thing about Dylan Ratigan and his cronies: he/they are terrified at the words "fiscal responsibility," and they are disturbed that Michele Bachmann insists on pounding home the importance of it.

Bachmann and the House Tea Party Caucus can promote fiscal responsibility while Ratigan tries to live-down his failures at MSNBC. Watch as Ratigan and his idiots, without a single fact about Michele Bachmann, stoop to kindergarten name calling. (Yes, I called Ratigan an "idiot," did some name calling myself, but I've offered-up the facts.)












Dylan Ratigan on Michele Bachmann (video)

Chris Matthews Republican Suicide Bombers Video

In this video, the conversation with Chris Matthews and his guest, Politico's Jim VandeHei,  is the whine that Republicans believe they have momentum, so will not help "The President" with any of his legislation. When I hear this, and I do, over and over, I find myself talking back to the screen. The point is, we agree with absolutely nothing coming out of this White House. Everything is radical, so why would we co-operate? After VanderHei drones on, Matthews breaks in and compares Republicans to suicide bombers...and says we "don't care who dies." See the video below.

Suicide Bombers

This comparison by Matthews of Conservatives to suicide bombers is puzzling. I thought all progressives had great empathy for the "plight of the Palestinians" and their valiant fight against the Jews, you know - a dedication to bringing justice to their people. The heartbreaking act of a noble mother strapping her young son into the explosives, leading him to the 72 virgins, and not caring who dies shows martyrdom is the last act of mercy for "the people."

Conservatives are interested in bringing justice to the people as well, and we plan to use our Constitution to do, just as the Palestinians use their Charters and Constitutions to send the suicide bombers forth - or at least they did until Israel erected the wall and cut them off.

I think understand Matthews now. He wasn't criticizing us. He was pointing out how heroic Republicans are for standing up for principle. You know, Chris, it's inconvenient but you really can't have it both ways.





Chris Matthews Compares Republicans to Suicide Bombers (video)

Newt Gingrich Tea Parties Militant Wing of Republican Party

Newt Gingrich has baldly said the Tea Parties will "end up a militant wing of the Republican party." If you weren't already done with Gingrich, now is the time to pitch this guy. Maybe he is promoting a new book with Kerry or Clinton (take your pick which one - either Hillary or Bill) - Tea Partiers Cling to Their Guns and Religion, or Tea Partiers Take Over Congress and Kick Our Butts Out, or....

Newt Gingrich

Gingrich was speaking in York, Pennsylvania to a crowd of about 1,000. About Tea Parties:

Gingrich said the movement is a "natural expression of frustration with Republicans and anger at Democrats," which is "more likely to end up as the militant wing of the Republican Party" than as an independent or third party." 

This is why Gingrich will never receive the endorsement Tea Parties, or Sarah Palin.

Gingrich said the idea of running for President was "sobering and daunting," saying he feels some responsibility to his grandchildren to help fix the mess the country is in." What? He doesn't recognize that the Tea Partiers feel that responsibility every bit as strongly as he does? He doesn't realize that Tea Partiers feel the danger as deeply as he? His "militant" comment is not the way to do it, for gosh sakes. Tea Partiers are likely to do all they can to keep the "occasionally Liberal" Gingrich out of the Oval Office, and deservedly so.

We need Gingrich's brain, which learches Left, and reaches across the aisle, all too often, out of the Oval Office and working out of the RNC. When Gingrich is good, he is really good, but when he is bad, he is exceptionally bad. Remember, this is the man that wants to put your medical records online.

Weasel Zippers speculates that Newt is pandering for a job on MSNBC. Media Matters, Huffington Post, Think Progress and Democrat Underground are loving the Gingrich accusations.

Gingrich Dunks on Obama: Norah O'Donnell Dunks on Gingrich and Misses the Shot

MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell believes all Blacks are good athletes - even though Obama has proven for two years in a row that he can't get a baseball over homeplate - in fact, he can't get it there in a most embarassing way. O'Donnell quoted Newt Gingrich speaking at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference saying:

"shooting three-point shots may be clever, but it doesn't put anybody to work." 

A wide-eyed O'Donnell says Newt is open to criticism - because all black people are good athletes. What??? Listen to her panel, and watch her face.

But I’m not sure what he means by this particular soundbite and I think it’s open to some criticism because it suggests that the President is an athlete and some people may suggest, you  know, because all black people are good athletes. I mean that’s what it sort of sounds like to me.

After the panel guffawed at her, O'Donnell continued:

Well, what's this suggestion about him playing basketball? That he's not doing his job?"

While the panel continued to laugh it off, Pat Buchanan suggested watching Obama at the bowling alley was further proof that the President is not an athlete, Jonathan Capehart from the Washington Post sided with Norah and said his "eyebrow arched as well." More conversation concluded that the comment was a "typical Newt Gingrich cheap shot."
Read it all at NewsBusters.


Norah O'Donnell on Newt Gingrich's Racism (video)  Obama's Three Point Shot (video)

Mike Pence: Time for this Administration to Stop Bullying Israel

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) said he didn't believe he would live to see the day that the U.S. criticized Israel for building in Jerusalem, their Capital. "It's time for this administration to stop bullying Israel," he said. And joining in the criticism was Dylan Ratigan, another MSNBC radical, saying Israel is building housing "in an area that Palestinians want as their capital in a proposed state; these developments are seen as a direct provocation to Palestine."  Palestinians have a better chance of their hell freezing over than Israel giving up Jerusalem. See the video below.

Mike Pence

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the U.S. Obama refused the customary photo-op - for the second time since Obama mounted the Oval Office. This ungracious, insolent and calculating behavior by this racist president will not serve him well.

The Muslim mindset is that you abuse, and intimidate, demean and denigrate your enemy, and you make the humiliation as public as possible. That's why Muslim women are stoned and flogged in public. It's why Islam hangs gays and Westerners from cranes and bridges and leaves them for the buzzards. Obama has tried to verbally flog Israel, but Mr. Netanyahu will only go so far. He has reached his limit and his demeanor showed it. Enough is enough. Israel has always done what it must do, and won't take a crap sandwich from the bowing and fawning Obama.

Obama bows to Saudia Arabia

I am embarrassed for Hillary Clinton, who whined that Israel is "exposing daylight between Israel and the U.S. - daylight that others in the area want to expose," she said. Without blinking or thinking our position should always be that there is no daylight between the U.S. and Israel, the only Democracy in the Middle East...our only ally in the Middle East, the only country in the Middle East with civil rights, non-existent in Islamic lands.

Israel is home to some 1+ million Muslims, with voting rights and seats in the Knesset. Arabic along with Hebrew is an official language in Israel. More than 300,000 Arab children attend Israeli schools. There are hundreds of Arab schools on Israeli soil. Arabs are free to live anywhere in Israel they choose - by law. Arabs enjoy all the freedoms of the Israeli people, but never have to prove their loyalty by serving in Israel's military. In general, Arabs living in Israel appreciate what the country offers and quality of life is far better in this civilized nation than in Palestine.

There will be no Palestinian state. Palestine will never willingly share any land in the Middle East with Jews, although Israel would, and does, share land with Palestine. The differences between the two peoples are vast. Israel is a nation that builds and grows, produces, educates and contributes. Palestine only produces, but their  product does nothing for mankind. They produce terror, and tunnels to move their terror. They produce hate in their people and then turn the hate into terror. Palestine has never built anything that wasn't paid for with terrorist funding, or by charitable gifts from around the world.

It is far beyond time to think about the lands that should have been Israel's, that are not Israel's and move forward. Let Palestine take what Israel gives them, and they'll get far more than deserved.

Here the Mike Pence video, and I really appreciate his sentiments. Someone must say it. I have several links below on Obama and Israel. They are worth a read.



Rep. Mike Pence: It's Time for this Administration to Stop Bullying Israel (center)

Others Talking about Obama and Israel:

Bare Naked Islam showing a "good old boy" hug from Obama for Palestinian Abbas, a warm two-handed handshake for Muammar Gaddafi, and shoulder slaps for Hugo Chavez. A picture is worth a thousand words. An absent pic - the same, worth a thousand words.

Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs - no press, no photos

Debbie at Right Truth -  Dear Israel...the majority of American citizens support you

Tracy Walters Blog - No photos and day on Capitol Hill with Kerry and Schumer - enough is enough!

Mike Pence MSNBC Video: Republican Health Care Bill - Mike Pence Video

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) makes the points, aaaaaggggggain, how health care reform can happen without giving the government dictatorial control of our health.

As I watch this video, MSNBC occasionally flips a tag line: "Dems call GOP Bill too little too late." Republican bills have been around from the beginning of the process - meaning the beginning of the Time of Obama. Democrats have refused to even consider them.

House Republican alternative health care bill (summary HERE). Excerpts of the transcript below video.

Please turn the page »

Mike Pence Dr. Nancy: Dr. Nancy Snyderman Corrected by Mike Pence

Rep. Mike Pence, in an interview with MSNBC's Dr. Nancy, said Speaker Pelosi released PelosiCare today - a plan that has now grown from 1,000 pages to 1,900 pages and contains the word "shall" 3,425 times. Dr. Nancy Snyderman asked Pence why Americans cannot have the same "federal plan" that members of Congress enjoys, and "why is there a firewall around your plan?" Pence corrected her, gently, saying there is no government option in the health care Congress receives, and it is not a government plan. See video below.

Dr. Nancy Snyderman

That's the thing. Liberal commentators don't have a clue how the world works.

About that the word "shall," it's a mandate - someone "shall" do something. There is nothing optional about "shall."

Mike Pence said this bill is a "freight train of higher taxes, mandates and bureaucracy." Several times, Pence said Americans should have health care they can purchase across state lines, which would, like the plans covering Congress, bring down the cost of health care. We all know that our health care costs would be dramatically reduced once competition is a part of the process.








Rep. Mike Pence and Dr. Nancy Snyderman

Rachel Maddow Frank Schaeffer: Right Wing Call for Violence

Rachel Maddow and Frank Schaeffer ignore their own loaded guns: See video below and see if you can spot the hypocrisy:

Rachel Maddow

"Legitimate debate? Coded messages? Dog whistles? White middle-age American males, who have had a kind of a middle-age collapse, misinformed, right-wing white people, not terribly bright people...raise their holy hands in horror...the election broke their brain...hate mongers leaving a loaded gun on the table. Not just a question of bad journalists, bad Americans..."

Bush is the disease, Death is the cure Bush the only dope worth shooting Hitler/Poland = Bush/Iraq Jail Bush Kill terrorists, bomb their houses, kill Bush, bomb his house Christian Terrorist Pigs I'm here to kill Bush. Shoot me. Israel plus Bush = Hitler Stop Bush Terrorism

The filmmaker, Paul Williams, says:

This video has everything to do with demonstrating media bias and nothing to do with supporting Bush.

 Liberal Media Hypocrisy Test (video)  Thanks to Always on Watch via Casting Pearls Before Swine

John Zeigler on Sarah Palin: Contessa Brewer Airhead

John Zeigler is a radio host in Los Angeles. He was asked to interview with MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, another official MSNBC, airhead about his interview with Sarah Palin. Zeigler was more than too much for the Contessa. She eventually cut his mic. The issue was Zeigler's interview with Palin about David Letterman's gutter comments about Palin and her oldest daughter, Bristol. What did Dave have to say? Something about Sarah dressing like a slutty flight attendant and about Bristol, well...no need to go there. Watch this. It's priceless:

John Zeigler - Contessa Brewer (video)

John Zeigler interview with Sarah Palin

Chris Matthews: Unfettered Arrogance

Watch this. Remember their arrogance. Vote for McCain

Video: Gingrich Levels MSNBC - Olbermann Tries to Recover

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