Rachel Maddow shows an excellent piece about the consistency of Fox News use of the “Southern Strategy” in an attempt to scare white voters by depicting blacks (and in particular POTUS Barack Obama’s administration) as somehow being “out to get them.”

General McChrystal is relieved of command it’s fascinating…

Here is the amazing Rolling Stone article about the “Runaway General”

So, I’m basically live blogging the relief of command by General McChrystal.

I don’t think that any General, (non-founder) CEO or worker should ever be so central to a company or service that they can not be replaced.

It seems like an awful lot of mission “rah rah.” Nothing major.

This is hilarious, Obama should avoid trying to sound tough and definitely stick to calm, cool and reserved. Take a listen to this hilarious auto-tuned song based on the Matt Lauer “ass kick” interview.

Glenn Beck reaches a new low by attacking 11 year old Malia Obama — to make matters worse for Beck, this is after he had a little on air tea pity party with Sarah Palin. during the little discussion Palin complained about the “mainstream media,” which employs both herself and Mr. Beck and say that “families were off limits.”

Yet, it’s clear Beck like Limbaugh before him, are willing to attack Democrats families no matter how young, whenever convienent.

Hear Beck’s idiocy here.

One of the most annoying commentators on the right Republican, b/c he consistently engages in pseudo analytical analysis (I’ll give an example below), and worse makes ridiculous claims:

“However, I have doubts about President Barack Obama. I have been deeply concerned since March, 2008 that he lacked the proper perspective, experience, and temperament to be President. I hope and pray that my fears will ultimately be found to be incorrect, but they have only grown since his Inauguration. I also wish the Democrats in Congress had chosen their party leaders in Congress in a way that reflected the diversity of their caucus – which is undoubtedly the party’s greatest electoral strength – rather than dole out the leadership positions to the most senior, and most liberal members of the caucus.”

Jay Cost’s Biography as written by himself

Consider this for a few moments — if someone is so certain about “proper perspective, experience and temperament,” shouldn’t they do a better job of articulating what level of these three items they would find acceptable — if only to make it clear what their threshold would be. In my opinion, rather than simply say I disagree with the individual b/c I disagree with their world view and thus the choices they will make, folks like Jay Cost will create an arbitrary threshold — moving the goal posts based on their affinity for a candidate.

So, on to todays helping of B.S. by Mr. Jay Cost: Obama the Polarizer

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/05/obama_the_polarizer.html

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White House Correspondents’ Association dinner President Barack Obama killed – it, poking fun at the press, the cable media and even himself.  Obama even went after the notorious White House gate-crashers and former competitors John McCain and Sarah Palin.

The National Enquirer is at it again trying to expose politicians cheating on their wives, and this time attempting to catch President Barack Obama. The Enquirer has been right with both Tiger Woods and John Edwards: yet, people only tend to remember the “correct calls” and forget stories such as the National Enquirer’s story about Sarah Palin Lover

However, after reading through the actual story, you see a “huge nothing burger.” It’s a perfect example of how the media uses the presence of ‘some people say” to write a story based on very little evidence. In this case the Enquirer is relying on unnamed political operatives who are offering 1 million dollars cash money.

Lots of people and particularly politicians cheat, that’s believable.

So, in the meantime enjoy the wild ride.

Here is the money quote from the National Enquirer:

While Baker has insisted in the past that “nothing happened” between them, reports reveal that top anti-Obama operatives are offering more than $1 million to witnesses to reveal what they know about the alleged hush-hush affair.

Among those being offered money is a limo driver who says in 2004 that he took Vera to a secret hotel rendezvous in where Obama was staying.

[ Emphasis added National Enquirer]

Which of course says absolutely nothing about the context, given Obama and company have literally dozens of interviews with people who work in the administration.

And who can forget this guy, who had a sworn deposition from a limo driver who swore he was Obama’s gay lover: Larry Sinclair.

We’re looking forward to hearing more proof.

AllFacebook.com has a long post detailing the rise of a huge group on facebook.com calling for the death of President Obama.  The group is titled with the following statement :

“DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN”

I think that people should be free to do whatever they want within the guidelines of facebook.com’s rules. However, I’m thankful that people are actually foolish enough to create these comments with their own names. Take one gentleman who says:

Pxxl X Pxxxxw well if Obama was his own man…why does he let Pelosi and Reid run Amok?..was willing to give Obama a chance right up until the vote for the bailouts...he let Congress and Senate waste a year with healthcare that doesnt adress one aspect there is no REGULATION of prices and why NOT? because DEMS are the same as REPUBS…

[emphasis added] From Facebook Group

I hate to tell him, but George W. Bush, Republicans and Democrats passed the Bailouts in 2008, even John McCain and Sarah Palin agreed. Heck even Dick Cheney said the bailouts were needed.