Month: May 2012

Chivalry is not dead in the Massachusetts Senate race. Nor are the attempts to bury the tale of Fauxcohantas.

At a press conference where Governor Deval Patrick was announcing his support for Marxist fake Indian and breast-feeding pioneer Elizabeth Warren, a reporter was asking a question about Lie-awatha’s alleged “Cherokee heritage” when Patrick not only stepped in, but used the powers of his office to declare it a subject nobody cares about:

At the event, Gov. Patrick stepped in and responded to a question about Warren’s ancestry from FOX 25’s Sharman Sacchetti.

In part, Gov. Patrick replied, “On behalf of the people of the Commonwealth, we don’t care about that subject.”

Well, in that case, let’s move on. Nothing says “nobody really cares about this subject” more than a politician saying “nobody really cares about this subject.” You know what that means… cue Drebin:

Video of the heroic Governor throwing himself on a reporter’s grenade in order to save “Dances With Identity Fraud” comes to us from Fox Boston by way of Jim Geraghty:

This is the political equivalent of recognizing Michael Moore for his tireless efforts to promote fitness:

Birds of a feather:

President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to Dolores Huerta, an 82-year-old labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union.

Huerta is also an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.

DSA describes itself as “the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.”

Huerta has claimed, “Republicans hate Latinos,” and has spoken fondly of Hugo Chavez’s despotic regime in Venezuela.

Not that you would be, but if you’re still in doubt about Huerta’s socialist street cred, Hilda Solis really likes her too.

No, that’s not what he was talking about. He would have been correct in that context.

From Politico:

In an exchange at the end of this week’s White House West Wing Week video, Obama jokingly refers to himself as the “twoosh master” after crafting a perfect 140-character tweet.

Obama became the first sitting president to hold a Twitter question and answer session Thursday after a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa.

During the session, he responded to a question from @jwarner180 on alternative energy sources using each of Twitter’s 140 allowed characters, which he’s told in the video is called a “twoosh,” or “Twitter swoosh.”

Here’s the question followed by Obama’s “Twoosh”:

.@jwarner180 bio fuels, wind , solarall getting cheaper each year & oil getting more expensive. Why we need all-of-the-above strategy. -bo

— The White House (@whitehouse) May 24, 2012

What’s “cheaper” about dumping billions of taxpayer dollars into “green” shams that go bankrupt?

Speaking of that, today is the two year anniversary of Obama’s Solyndra speech. Twoosh!

2012: The year Obama is finally getting vetted to at least some degree. I think even the some of the MSM might be starting to understand there’s a good chance Obama will be swept from office soon and so they’re not as troubled by possible repercussions for telling the truth about him.

Think of this as a real-life version of a sequel to Fast Times at Ridgemont High in which Jeff Spicoli ends up getting elected President of the United States:

In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke “in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.”

He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere.

Now a soon-to-be published biography by David Maraniss entitled “Barack Obama: The Story” gives more detail on Obama’s pot-smoking days, complete with testimonials from young Barry Obama’s high school buddies, a group that went by the name “the Choom Gang.” Choom was slang for smoking marijuana.

Maraniss portrays the teenage Obama as not just a pot smoker, but a pot-smoking innovator.

“As a member of the Choom Gang,” Maraniss writes, “Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends.”

The first Obama-inspired trend: “Total Absorption” or “TA”.

“TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled,” explains Maraniss. Here’s how it worked: If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, “you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.”

As one of Obama’s old high school buddies tells Maraniss: “Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated.”

Another Obama innovation: “Roof Hits.”

“When they were chooming in a car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.”

This part is no surprise: Obama had a penchant for taking it upon himself to redistribute the dope:

Maraniss also says Obama was known for his “Interceptions”: “When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!,’ and took an extra hit.”

I liked him better when the only thing he was intercepting was weed. Now it’s trillions of dollars.