Intertubes Roundup: Lies, etc. November 23 2009
(1) Commonwealth Foundation blogs that one of those caught up in the global warming email scandal is a Penn State climatologist. (Go State!)
Jimmie Bise calls out the New York Times for hypocritically discovering some lofty ethical standard that would deems these illegally obtained emails as something short of “all the news that’s fit to print”. Because perpetrating a politically charged scientific lie then conspiring to cover it up isn’t particularly newsworthy, or something.
Bise also took note of the Three Mile Island news and says Obama’s just one beer-swilling redneck brother away from being the second coming of Jimmy Carter.
(2) Speaking of lies, Newsweek’s editor Evan Thomas (yes, the Obama=god Evan Thomas) has knowingly drunk the Obamacare Kool-Aid and likes it.
Newsbusters quotes Thomas (bold added):
Charles [Krauthammer] is right. This bill is a fiscal fraud. I’d still vote for it, because I think it’s a good thing to extend benefits and start down the road to universal and — because of the health insurance. But we have to be — if we were honest about it, we would say that we have not dealt with the money piece of it, with the cost thing, that we’re going to have to deal with. We’re going to kick that down the road and have to deal with it later.
Obamacare was never about the money, it’s about “getting ‘it’ done”. (Why hasn’t anybody challenged the absurd growth projections the Dems cite?)
(3) Andy Harris is polling well in the upcoming MD Congressional rematch against Kratovil. Maybe the Gilchrest crew can keep their noses out of it this time.
(4) PAGOP’s Gleason is talking tough against Altmire and Holden. I say show me the candidates!
(5) Curt Schroder picked up some notable endorsements from his legislative peers.
(6) Florida — As if we needed any further reason to prefer Rubio to Crist, Crist has gone all “Huckabee” on us and denigrated his conservative critics as “angry”:
“It’s hard to be more conservative than I am on issues – though there are different ways stylistically to communicate that – I’m pro-life, I’m pro-gun, I’m pro-family, and I”m anti tax. I don’t know what else you’re supposed to be, except maybe angry too,”
In other news, those redneck rubes in the panhandle are totally cool with a Hispanic candidate so long as he’s conservative. Funny, that.
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