Week-end Wrap-up: What you might have missed last week.
The week is over; here is what you might have missed, with commentary from the left and right.
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Arlen Specter forgets which team he is on?
Last week in an interview with the New York Times, new democrat Specter says:
“There’s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.”
This is very interesting because most people think it was a gaffe, and even Specter himself admitted, “I misspoke”. The problem with the gaffe explanation is Specter’s off-the-cuff remarks clearly show that he really does think Coleman should be seated, and not just because that’s who he supports, but because it would be “justice”. It highlights the fact that this argument should not be a case of who you support; it’s a case of who got the most votes. If someone looks at the facts and thinks Coleman should be seated, that shouldn’t change simply because the person changes parties. It demonstrates a serious problem with our current political system, specifically how politicians tend to blindly support their own, rather than forming independent opinions, for fear of party retribution.
Commentary from the right: HotAir
Commentary from the left: Huffington Post
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Where is the political lampooning of President Obama?
The Media Begins to notice:
Lots of people, including myself, have been wondering for some time why there has been so little political lampooning of Barack Obama or his administration by the “usual suspects” in late night or political comedy shows. Surely there has been no lack of material, with everything from $350,000 photo-terrorism to teleprompter reliance. Last week the Washington Times addresses this trend in a great article, here.
First White House Correspondent Dinner: Sykes roasts… Rush?
Over the weekend, the comedic treatment was made even more obvious by Wanda Sykes in Obama’s first White House Correspondents Dinner. Traditionally, this is an event for a comedian to lampoon the current administration, and some will remember Stephen Colbert’s no-holds-barred roasting of Bush last year. (If you don’t remember, feel free to review with NewsBuster’s list of some of the strongest jokes, here.)
Syke’s jokes speak for themselves, and the entire routine clearly focuses on Obama’s opponents rather than Obama. Check out this short video for the personal attack on Rush, and then tell me we don’t have a problem with bias.
HotAir echo’s Jim Treacher’s sentiments from Twitter:
“Nothing better than smug lefties saying I have no sense of humor over a joke they’d be SCREECHING about if it targeted one of their own.”
Commentary from the right: Newsbusters
Commentary from the left: Huffington Post
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Hannity: Obama’s newest problem? He likes spicy mustard.
In this week’s most ridiculous news story, Hannity actually makes a big deal about how Obama likes his burger. I hate to say it, but this is why the left hates Hannity, and in this case, I think they have a point. This kind of nit-picking has no place in politics. A must watch:
I happen to love spicy mustard, so I know exactly what Obama was saying. (plain yellow is so… bland) In general, to criticize someone for their condiment choices doesn’t make any sense, but to do so on national TV demonstrates an extreme lack of common sense, earning Hannity’s hard hitting report the Common Sense Loss of the Week award.
Commentary from the right: HotAir
Commentary from the left: Huffington Post
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Nancy Pelosi is (re)accused of lying about knowledge of Waterboarding.
Multiple major media outlets reported last week that Nancy Pelosi knew more about waterboarding than she let on. This obviously contradicts her current statements, making her… well, a liar.
Commentary from the right: Michelle Malkin
Commentary from the left: DailyKos
Common Sense Take: This whole waterboarding witch-hunt shouldn’t be a left vs right issue, nor should it be about prosecuting people in leadership (including Pelosi) who made tough decisions in good faith. Forget about the relative and difficult to define term “torture”. This is simply a case of drawing the line on what is considered acceptable tactics of persuasion and what is considered non-acceptable tactics of persuasion. My conscience tells me waterboarding is acceptable, simply because if someone is willing to subject themselves to something to prove a point, it must not be seriously damaging. (Code Pink waterboards their members regularly and multiple journalists have subjected themselves to it over the past few years) I don’t see anyone protesting any of the Al-qaeda’s torture techniques found in their captured how-to guide back in 2007, here.
I don’t think anyone, anywhere would be willing to take a blowtorch to the skin or be suspended from the ceiling and electrocuted, no matter how upset they were about the torture techniques which are actually being used on people captured by Al-qaeda.
Bottom line: If people willingly subject themselves to waterboarding, its can’t be THAT bad. Code Pink kills their entire point just by doing it in the first place.
Top 5 Al-qaeda Torture Techniques I am waiting to see protested right next to waterboarding:
5. The Head Vice.
4. The hot clothing iron to the skin.
3. Drilling through the hand.
2. Eye Removal.
1. Dragging victim behind a car.
Of course, how could the extreme left care about what Al-qaeda does to our troops, when they are so busy making sure Al-qaeda prisoners have the most comfortable stay possible at Hotel Obama?
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Quick Headlines
More acorn voter registration fraud:
On Monday, officials in Nevada charged ACORN with voter registration fraud. The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article on the implications of all these allegations: here.
Glenn Beck had an ACORN spokesman on his show for an interview, in which the spokesman offers up some of the most inane arguments ever presented in defense of an organization: here.
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The Air Force One Drama finally concludes (we hope):
Last week, the Obama administration accepted the resignation of the staffer who authorized the photo-op, and they finally released the $357,000 photo. Here it is, in all of its expensive glory.
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More Attacks on Pro-family advocate, Miss California:
Miss California was subjected to new character attacks this past week, now with a scandalous photo released from her modeling days. Over at HotAir, Allahpundit says:
“and yet NBC, the network that aired photos and video of the Virginia Tech killer glorifying himself, has decided that the pic’s simply too hot for the Peacock to handle. A cynic might wonder if they want viewers to imagine that it’s worse than it is. Good thing I’m not a cynic.”
Too scandalous for NBC? Decide for yourself: here.
Even Huffpo analyst Earl Hutchinson says “Miss California is right to scream foul”, saying the pictures are part of an attempt to smear her character. Bravo Huffington Post, bravo.
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And that’s the Week-end Wrap-up
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