The Nation Outs Former CNN Host: Lou Dobbs American Hypocrite

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Hoist the pompous ass, Lou Dobbs, on his own pitard! The former CNN blowhard famous for ranting against our broken borders, illegal workers, and the employers that employ illegals stands accused in the court of public opinion of hiring illegal workers . . . not to nanny his little ones, or clean his home.  Lou Dobbs reportedly hired illegal aliens to look after his prize equistrian horses and hired a landscaping company to work on his Florida mansion.
 
The news of Dobb's blatant hypocrisy was first brought to light in an expose written for The Nation magazine.

Lou claims no knowledge of illegal workers working on his Florida and Connecticut estates . But seriously . . .  Lou looks out his front window and sees a bunch of hispanic mexican and guatemalan grooming the grounds of his very lush estate, or cleaning the barns for his prized horses, and he never asked himself if all these workers were here legally in the U.S.

Poor Lou called himself a victim of the left wing media (ha ha ha!). He didn't directly, or indirectly, ever employ an illegal worker. I didn't know, how could I know seemed to be the jist of his lame defence on his appearnce on "The Final Say with Dan O'Neil" on MSNBC.

I shake my head, I blow razzberries at the talking heads, and  I laugh at the arrogance of such a phony, self-righteous, and self promoting hypocrite.  He should have been in his own stable shovelling out the manure, instead of  foisting it out so shamelessly on a news audience that looked up to this schmuck.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Lou Dobbs. Methinks thou protests too much, Lou!

Boenher Plays Santa Claus for Tobacco Lobbyists

Characterizing GOP House Minorty Leader (and wannabe House Speaker), John Boehner, as "one of the especially sleazy figures in a capital seething with sleaze," New York Times columnist, Bob Herbert paints a pretty picture of Boehner's largesse towards fellow Republicans, a largesse that undoubtedly gained Boehner his current influence and position.


"I remember writing about that day back in the mid-’90s," Herbert recalls, "when this slick, chain-smoking, quintessential influence-peddler decided to play Santa Claus by handing out checks from tobacco lobbyists to fellow Congressional sleazes right on the floor of the House."

Is it just me, or does anyone else see the resemblance? Shifty eyes, weird complexion, cat-that-ate-the-canary grin?

"It was incredible," Herbert recalls, "even to some Republicans. The House was in session, and here was a congressman actually distributing money on the floor."

Checking with Boehner's office, his then-staffers unabashedly confirmed to Herbert that the checks the jolly Boehner was so merrily spreading around were, in fact, contributions "from tobacco P.A.C.’s.”

When Herbert asked the staffer why Boehner was so blatantly handing out checks from the tobacco lobbyists on the House floor (a practice that is now, belatedly, illegal), the staffer reportedly replied, "The floor is where the members meet with each other.”

Doh!!!

I can only shake my head. Yet, at the same time, I wonder if it were mandatory that all lobbyist checks be handed out live on C-Span, if Boehner's then practice would not go along way towards the ephemeral goal of "transparency" so blithely touted by Republicans and Democrats alike.

Obama Shows Comic Chops in Presidential Seal Fail

Say what you like about Obama, but whether you think he's a "transitional president" (as many chest-thumping Democrats still do), or that he's a Kenyan anti-colonialist, Manchurian-candidate (Newt Gingrich), the man has a sense of humour.

Check out his response (below) when the Presidential Seal falls off the podium.  What gets me is how he quickly figures out that some political intern hack behind the curtains is probably cringing.  As a former summer student in a blue-chip law firm, I've been a minion just waiting for the partner's shoe to drop, as was Obama, I presume. (Although you have to admit that he was pretty brash in picking up, and eventually marrying, his associate lawyer mentor, Michelle.)

I gotta say he's pretty quick on the uptake.  Must come from all those rickety podiums in rundown gymnasiums he used when he was, "palling around with terrorists" as . . . gasp. . .  a "community organizer"!


You have to respect the man's chops.  I'd give him a wry grin, and a sincere nod of approval for his comic timing. You can't make this stuff up!

Which Witch is Which? Ms. O'Donnell???

The latest in the unravelling yarn of Deleware senator want-to-be, Christine O'Donnell, is her commercial (below) where she declares, "I am not a witch.. . .  I'm You."



Let me get this straight.  She's not a witch.  She's me?  I'm her?  It begs the same old question: "Which witch is which?"

Are you shaking your head in disbelief yet? Or are you busy reassuring your six-year old that there is no such things as witches.  Wait until next week when, courtesy to the mad woman of Delaware, you could find yourself having to explain masturbation to little kids who have (and should not necessarily have) any ideas of what you're talking about.

Which brings us back to Ms. O'Donnell.  Her whacked-out views on everything from sex (anti-gay, anti-choice and anti-masturbation), to stem cell research (Scientists have made mice, she claims "with fully functioning human brains.")


What can we expect next as Ms. O'Donnell plays defence to the clearly cracked things she said on Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect." Maher has kept good on his promise to release a new O'Donell clip every week, until Ms. O'Donnell agrees to a reprise appearance on his new show, "Real Time with Bill Maher."

Ms. O'Donnell agree to appear! You are slowly dying politically from the death of a thousand quips.

Ms. O'Donnell, in the latest release by Bill Maher, says that besides dabbling in witchcraft, she also dabbled in Buddhism, and even the Hare Krishna movement before adopting a strict, and it seems particularly exclusive, brand of Christianity.  "I couldn't join the Hare Krishna," Ms. O'Donnell proclaimed. "They are vegetarians, and as an Italian American, I like my meatballs."

Apparently Ms. O'Donnell obviously didn't dabble very deeply in so-called alternative religions, or she would have known there is a Buddhist stricture favoring vegetarianism. The first of five buddhist tenets (close in substance to the evils addressed in the Mosaic code) advise adherents to embrace vegetariaism in order to refrain from killing (including all sentient beings, all though the question of whether this stricuture applies to mutant mice with fully functioning human brains is not clear).  The other four tenets are to refrain from taking what is not yours, (itself,,perhaps, an impediment to higher office); to refrain from harsh or harmful speech, (another natural bar to politics it would seem); to refrain from sexual impropriety (where, perhaps Ms. O'Donnell gained her loathing of self pleasuring); and to refrain from taking mind-altering intoxicants.

One has to wonder what intoxicants Ms. O'Donnell is taking, or has taken, as she certainly is drunken with a lust (dare I say it) to be seen as a real, grownup, serious adlt politician.

Personally, I'm waiting for O'Donnell's spin campaign ad to show that she is not as whacked out on sexual issues as her anti-masturbation views imply..  I can just vision it.  Straightforwad and smiling, Ms. O'Donnell smiles her perky smile into the bedrooms of America declaring, "I'm not against masturbation. In fact,  I'm You."

Of course, that will only happen if poles (er, polls) all across Delaware show continuing signs of softening.  Clearly, if this happens, Ms. O'Donnell, will have at least enjoyed, one presumes, her two minutes of fame, or infamy.

I'm shaking my head over this clearly dysfunctional politician, although others may describe it as banging my head against the wall.  If only I could become truly dim in this manner, I, too, would seem to be fit for higher office.

Seriously? "The Donald" for President? Eeyikes!!!

Donald Trump for President??? Seriously? Surely we are all living in cloud-cuckoo-land.

Talk about dysfunctional politics.  Is this the death knell of all commonsense in the political discourse? What about the practicalities of a "Trump for President" campaign? How would "The Donald" select a vice-presidential candidate?  Are we to see the ultimate reality show? I can just see the V.P. being selected "Apprentice" style by voter call-ins. "Text 8667 for Sarah Palin, or 8668 for Justin Bieber."

(Of course, that may be a better method than the vetting process used by John McCain in the last presidential sweepstakes.  The old codger was willing to put anyone a heartbeat away from the presidency, if only he could win the ultimate political prize.  Unsurprising blind ambition, from a washout of a well-connected Naval Academy midshipman desperately trying to live up to the legacy of a father and grandfather who were both Navy Admirals.)

Reuters reports that Trump, declaring himself a Republican, dipped his toe into the wacky world of GOP politics in a whirlwind of Sunday morning interviews.  "For the first time in my life," he told Fox News, "I'm actually thinking about it (running for president)."  Lord, help us all!

Yeah, right . . . The ego-maniacal Trump just woke up one day last week and thought, "Hey! I could do that." Yet, again, with the current slate of potential GOP candidates, why not? At least "The Donald" doesn't claim to be able to see Russia from the top of Trump Towers. Yet, Trump also apparently left open the option that he would run as a Tea Party candidate.  Talk about a grassroots movement. . . .

Reuters describes the thrice-married real estate mogul (and reality TV star) as "a larger-than-life figure in the United States, whose company operates a string of resorts and casinos."

What the heck, with Republicans, Democrats and the financial gurus of the Obama administration all handling the casino-operators at Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan etc., with kid gloves, why not elect a president with experience running a casino?

I can only shake my head, and stifle an expression somewhere between mirthful laughter and a groan.

GOP Candidate: Scientists Clone "Mice with Fully-Functioning Human Brains"

At what point does dysfunctional politics cross the line and become a parody of the real thing?

Perhaps, we reached that point last week when comedian Bill Maher effectively blackmailed Delaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell, by threatening to release old clips of O'Donnell advocating any number of whacked out positions on his 90's show "Politically Incorrect" until she agrees to a reprise visit to his current HBO show, "Real Time with Bill Maher".

Last week, to underlie his threat, Maher released a clip of O'Donnell - who comes off as a "born-again" Roman Catholic, advocating the contentious positions espoused by the most radically-right wing Christian evangelists in the Bible Belt (imagine Jerry Falwell in lipstick and heels) - vociferously warning against the influence of Satanism, and admitting that she herself had dabbled in witchcraft.

And that isn't even the weirdest of her too-public dysfunctional campaigns for a better America.  In 1996, she waged a campaign on MTV against masturbation.  Against masturbation??? You can only shake your head. . . . Statistically speaking, masturbation is far more American than singing the Stars and Stripes, or even eating apple pie.

This week Bill Maher following through on his campaign of political blackmail. Maher treated us to a clip of Ms. O'Donnell disputing evolution, calling the theory underpinning all of modern biology, "a myth,." Her argument? If evolution isn't a myth, "why aren't monkeys still evolving into human beings?"

Seriously, folks. . . How can you believe in witchcraft and call evolution a "myth?"

Pre-empting Maher,online muckrakers Talking Points Memo compiled their own video of Ms. O'Donnell's finest, dysfunctional moments, including a bizarre claim that scientists have cloned "mice with fully-functioning human brains."



Marshall McLuhan was right, Ms. O'Donnell clearly makes the point that the medium has become the message in this era of dysfunctional politics, and that she will say anything to get herself in the public eye. All of this would be relatively harmless, although still humorous, of course, if the perennially perky Ms.O'Donnell hadn't blazed a path for whacked-out media mavens that actually have a chance of getting elected to high office.

Check out the infamous clip of Sarah Palin receiving a blessing against withcraft (seriously, witchcraft) at her Wasilla, Alaska church. Lord, help us all. . . .

Watching Obama like Watching a Motorcycle Racer Caught in a Speed Wobble

Watching the way President Obama's White House handlers - and, indeed, the President himself - are attempting to come to simultaneous terms with the GOP's outright refusal to play ball with him, and with progressive Democratics increasingly turning away from him in disillusionment; it is like watching a motorcycle racer caught in a speed wobble: You have to half turn away, close one eye, and grimace, because he may not be able to regain control of a powerful machine that could very well end up spread all over the track.


Will a "speed wobble" put him out of the race?




Or, will he be nimble enough able to overcome a "disastrous" race in November?




It's breathtaking to see how a president elected with such a groundswell of high hopes could have wasted that goodwill so quickly!

In a review of Bob Woodward's recently released first book on the Obama administration, Obama's War, the United Kingdom's respected Telegraph newspaper, notes that President Obama "has even lost Shepard Fairey, the man who created the iconic red and blue 'Hope' poster of Obama's visage." Those who elected Obama feel cheated, the graphic artist said this week. "They wanted somebody who was going to fight against the status quo and I don't think that Obama has done that."

To paraphrase Winston Churchill: "Never have so many, turned on so few, so quickly."

 
All this in the same week when the self-promoted "brains" of the Republican Party, Newt "the Newt" Gingrich, crawled out from under his rotted log to whip the Tea Partiers and Birthers into a lather with some cock-and-bull "theory" that the only way to understand Obama is to understand that Obama's supposed ideological view is that of an anti-colonial Kenyan tribal leader of the 1950's.

. . . . Say what, Lewis?

I can only shake my head, with a dread in veins turned cold by four short words: Sarah Palin in '012! . . . .  . . . . . Now . . . If that doesn't make your skin crawl . . . . its on too tight!

. . . . And motorcycle and rider wobble . . .he slides . . . . Can he pick himself up and get back in the race? . .




. . . You Bet'cha!   ;-)