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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2012 107 Comments

Who asked a question. And the MSM is going wild on Twitter. Here's the offense: The "offender" was Neil Munro from The Daily Caller. Updates: NBC has now given reporter/heckler more coverage than Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal.— Dan Curry (@dancurry) June 15, 2012 Neil Munro is now #1 trend on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2012 25 Comments

Obama's speech from Afghanistan, standing in front of military vehicles at Bagram Air Base, was fairly predictable. Yet in this moment of spiking the football, Obama needed to remind us that we are not yet worthy as a nation (emphasis mine): Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, coast guardsmen...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2012 75 Comments

Please make more of these sort of arrogant and dismissive speeches. It helps motivate and bring out the base.  Our base: Update:  The Eagle has landed, er, pulled into the driveway, and this low blow on Rutherford B. Hayes has him agitated: The quote cited by Obama does exist...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 36 Comments

Speech starts at 9 p.m. Lock your arms around each other in a big circle and repeat while swaying back and forth: This is not happening, this is not happening, ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2012 27 Comments

My crop from one of the photos at 13 Photos Of Barack Obama At Disney That Will Probably Turn Up In Attack Ads: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2011 19 Comments

Brilliant.   Healer.  Reformer.  Magnanimous. Words routinely used to describe Barack Obama, all of which have no basis in history, as documented by Victor Davis Hanson: Barack Obama is a myth, our modern version of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. What we were told is true, never had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 07, 2011 18 Comments

I have posted numerous times before about Obama's penchant for creating false choices in his speeches, invariably some non-existent supposedly conservative position versus his position. This enables Obama to knock down the conservative straw man and make his own position seem reasonable by contrast.  He's a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 02, 2011 15 Comments

Never in the history of humankind has there been an act as provocative and worthy of a presidential smackdown as the passage by the Congress of a Concurrent Resolution affirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto: Whereas `In God We Trust' is the official motto...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2011 20 Comments

... teleprompter (language warning).  No really, they did: NBC12 has uncovered one of those stories that makes you think: "How in the world does that happen?!"  A truck filled with President Obama's podiums and audio equipment was stolen in Henrico just days before his visit to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 13, 2011 23 Comments

Via Media Bistro: FNC’s Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry got the first question at today’s joint news conference between Pres. Obama and Lee Myung-Bak, President of South Korea. Henry asked the president about the alleged Iranian terror plot, and used a quote from GOP presidential...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2011 15 Comments

A tale of two videos. It is not okay to sit silently when a single person in an audience shouts something: We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that says it’s okay for a stage full of political leaders -- one of whom could end up being...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 27, 2011 23 Comments

I've been meaning to post about Obama's speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, now famous for its "stop complainin" verbiage: "I expect all of you to march with me and press on.  Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 13 Comments

Obama gave a good speech today at the U.N. on the Israel-Palestinian conflict: President Barack Obama told a meeting  of the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday that Mideast peace “will  not come through statements and resolutions” by the world body, arguing against  a proposed resolution calling...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 09, 2011 40 Comments

Obama flubbed his history.  Via Ed Morrissey, Obama inaccurately called Abraham Lincoln the founder of the Republican Party: Not true! Doesn't Obama know history? So now the media will erupt for weeks on end about what an "idiot" and "fool" and "know-nothing" Obama is, just like it erupted over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 08, 2011 48 Comments

Advanced excerpts of the speech here. Reduced to one sentence: Been there, done that. Post speech update (full text here): What a horrendous event.  It truly was, a 40 minute attack on Republicans (sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly) with a series of straw man arguments.  This was a stump speech by someone...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 07, 2011 20 Comments

Love this move: Republicans have decided they're not going to give a  rebuttal to President Obama's jobs speech later this week, a decision House  Democratic Leader Nancy  Pelosi took as a high affront to the White  House. At least three GOP lawmakers also have announced  they're not going...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 05, 2011 42 Comments

Obama seems to think that just what this country needs is a big fight over which party is more patriotic. At least that's the fight Obama is picking in his speech today in Detroit and reportedly in his upcoming speech to Congress and budget battle: “We’re going to see if...

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