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Waaaaah! Who’s really ‘unfunny?’ Conservatives or Comedy Central?

Last night, conservatives once again owned Twitter. This time, instead of sabotaging an AstroTurf attempt by the Obama campaign to attack Romney, (as conservatives have been doing this week like it was their job and they are up for a promotion…and a bonus) their target was Gonzalo Cordova.

He drew conservatives’ ire when he wrote a piece titled “Conservative Hashtag Games are Ruining Twitter” for Comedy Central’s blog Indecision.
In the article he says that he doesn’t have a problem “with these hashtag games politically. I have a problem with these hashtag games comedically.”

Cordova then provides a few examples of what he thinks are unfunny tweets and proceeds to analyze exactly why they are “unfunny.” How…humorous…of him…

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Voter ID Card

Obama campaign desperate to expose loopholes in Voter ID laws.

The Obama re-election team is launching a weekend effort to instruct citizen’s ways in which they can bypass the new Voter ID laws that have been passed in several swing states.

When interviewed by reporters, Obama campaign strategist Michael Blake expressed concern over the laws designed to reduce the number of illegal voters, saying: “Over the past century, we expanded this fundamental right, making sure no one’s race, gender or economic status is ever used to deny this fundamental right”

He was very blunt when describing the individuals they deemed responsible for creating this issue, suggesting Republicans were “taking us backward, not forward.”

It has been speculated that the Voter ID laws will have the most impact on groups that generally vote Democratic, including young adults and persons of minorities.

By /// May 19, 2012
Barack Obama nose in the air

Super PAC ad mocks Obama for adding himself to 13 presidential biographies

A new Super PAC ad sponsored by Karl Rove’s American Crossroads pokes fun at  President Obama for adding himself to the biographies of 13 presidents from Calvin Coolidge, to Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan on the White House website.

“America has seen its share of great presidents with their share of accomplishments, but did you know that Barack Obama is so great he has been added to the biographies of 13 presidents,” the distinguished English-sounding narrator says accompanied to the tune of the 1970s-vintage PBS program “Masterpiece Theatre”.

Among the great accomplishments the ad says he has made since his inauguration include becoming the “Undisputed debt king”. At the same time, Obama is shown on video suggesting his administration’s foreign-policy accomplishments are only surpassed by those of Lyndon Johnson, FDR and Abraham Lincoln.

Not to be outdone, a clip of Obama suggests Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is the greatest treasury secretary since Alexander Hamilton.

By /// May 19, 2012
Elizabeth Warren

Did Elizabeth Warren plagiarize another book?

The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic  Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 Pow Wow Chow cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey.

Two of the possibly plagiarized recipes, said in the “Pow Wow Chow”  cookbook to have been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe, are described in a New York Times News Service story as originating at Le Pavilion, a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan. The dishes were said to be particular favorites of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter.

Read more at Big Government.

By /// May 19, 2012
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Romney sorting through VP applications

By beginning the process early, the Romney camp hopes to avoid the mistake of John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, when that campaign found itself unprepared for the onslaught of public attention that greeted Sarah Palin.

But, when asked directly by The Hill, three of the top candidates on the shortlist — Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) — declined to comment on the process.

Read more at The Hill.

By /// May 19, 2012
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Police: Occupiers nabbed at NATO protest planned to blow up Obama campaign HQ

Three Occupiers protesting the NATO summit in Chicago were arrested Friday on terror charges.

According to authorities, the three men planned to attack the Obama campaign headquarters, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home, while firebombing police stations and squad cars to divert attention from the main targets.

This marks the second major Occupy-related terror plot in a month. The last being a plot by members of Occupy Cleveland to blow up a bridge in the area.

By /// May 19, 2012
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Obama higher ed ad doesn’t square with reality for today’s college students

President Obama’s election campaign released a new ad this morning describing how higher education transformed his life.

His ad implies that the president’s policies have made college more affordable for the middle class because of increased federal spending.

Obama has seen his approval among college-age voters decline since they voted for him in 2008 by a nearly 30-percent margin, and this could be an effort by his campaign to re-energize young voters to vote for him again in November.

By /// May 19, 2012
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Sean Penn expresses a low view of women in profanity-laced speech in France

Actor Sean Penn let his low view of women show in a profanity-laced speech at the “Haiti: Carnival In Cannes” gala in Cannes, France Friday night.

‘Tell the man next to you, I’m not going to f**k you tonight unless you pay the f**k up,” the controversial actor and left-wing activist said, essentially urging women to get their male dates to make more donations, so they could have sex with him.

The vodka-induced speech included several expletives referencing women using the promise of sex to entice their male dates to donate more money to Haiti.

By /// May 19, 2012
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NOW Falls Short in Limbaugh Protest

The National Organization for Women (NOW) was missing in action in their attempt to protest Rush Limbaugh during his radio program on Friday.

NOW is still clinging to the fallout from the Rush Limbaugh—Sandra Fluke debacle in order to desperately score political points and continue the Republican ‘War on Women’ narrative.

Just six protesters showed up a block away from a Washington, D.C. affiliate of the Rush Limbaugh Program, at WMAL.  According to NOW’s website, the protest at the radio station was part of the “Enough Rush” campaign.

By /// May 18, 2012
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Biden ‘doesn’t blame’ voters for supporting inmate

Vice President Biden said he doesn’t blame West Virginia voters for voting for Texas inmate Keith Judd in the Democratic primary instead of President Obama.

After a local reporter from WTOV-TV, asked Biden about the embarassing vote, Biden answered that voters have “been through hell” with heavy unemployment and a loss in jobs from the “God-awful recession.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner

By /// May 18, 2012
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Obama’s literary agent says he was ‘born in Kenya’. How did the mainstream media miss this?

Whatever you think of Breitbart.com’s punishing vetting process, it has exposed just how little work the mainstream media did in investigating candidate Obama back in 2008. Not all of Team Breitbart’s revelations have been election-deciders, but they have often been stuff that a simple Google would have uncovered. If they revealed tomorrow that he’d had his own cross-dressing-themed sitcom on primetime TV in the 1980s, I wouldn’t be surprised.

The latest find is a fascinating inversion of the birther conspiracy. Breitbart.com has discovered that in 1991 Barack Obama’s literary agent (who also represented New Kids on the Block) published a booklet that included a biography of the future President. The audience was “business colleagues” in the publishing industry and it was designed to promote Obama’s anticipated first book (later abandoned) called Journeys in Black and White. Here’s how it describes the author’s origins.

Read more at Telegraph

By /// May 18, 2012