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Michelle Malkin: Turkeys of the Year
After gathering around the Thanksgiving table, bowing our heads in prayer and feasting on the holiday bird, it’s only fitting to take a moment to fete the unforgettable turkeys of 2009.
» 1. The stimulus. In February, I wrote that if the trillion-dollar stimulus plan were a Thanksgiving dinner entree, it would be a Turbaconducken — the heart attack-inducing dish of roasted chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey, all wrapped in endless slabs of bacon. And so it has come to pass. After the Democratic majority larded up the massive spending package with earmarks and bribes, President Barack Obama declared it pork-free and has stubbornly touted its job-creation benefits for out-of-work Americans.
Reality check? The Washington Examiner reports that more than 10 percent of the jobs the Obama administration claimed were “created or saved” by the stimulus are doubtful or imaginary. ABC News uncovered countless examples of bogus congressional districts listed as stimulus beneficiaries by the Obama stimulus-tracking Web site, Recovery.gov. The money has been lavished on shady beauty schools in New Hampshire, prison inmates in Texas and wind companies in Spain and China. Just last week, a California audit found that the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation overstated the number of jobs saved by federal stimulus dollars by upward of 13,000.
While this Generational Theft Act continues to soak up our tax dollars and add to our children’s and grandchildren’s debt, the Democratic majority is in the government kitchen cooking up a second stimulus turkey to provide federal infrastructure money to public-sector unions. Gobble, gobble.
» 2. President O-bow-ma. The candidate who pledged to restore America’s standing in the world couldn’t figure out how to stay standing in front of world leaders. In April, he crouched before Saudi King Abdullah. This month, he provoked global derision when he broke protocol and performed a spineless blunder in front of the Japanese emperor.
The kowtower-in-chief’s body language reflected the administration’s broader foreign policy prostrations — including scrapping missile defense in the Czech Republic and Poland, canceling a meeting with the Dalai Lama to appease China, sitting on its hands this summer during the Iranian election protests, and unveiling the 9/11 show trials in New York City that will provide a circus platform for jihadis and international Bush-haters.
The left complained that President George W. Bush was too much of a cowboy on the global stage. It’s better than having a waterboy.
» 3. Green jobs czar Van Jones. This deep-fried turkey was recruited by Team Obama’s Chicago consigliere Valerie Jarrett, who boasted about recruiting the Marxist rabble-rouser from Oakland. He openly crusaded to free Philadelphia death row cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, bashed capitalism with radical revolutionary rhetoric and signed a 9/11 conspiracy petition that he meekly disavowed in a botched attempt to save his job. Jones is now at the Center for American Progress, run by Obama transition official and Democratic operative John Podesta.
The other turkey in the story, Jarrett, escaped unscathed and went on to push the Obamas into their failed crony campaign for the 2016 Olympics bid in Copenhagen — a taxpayer-funded, hubris-infused debacle that ties with Jones for third-biggest turkey of the year. Rio got the Games. America got a closer look at the pay-for-play patrons, power brokers and developers in the Windy City who have put an indelible Chicago stamp on the Potomac.
» 4. The New York Times. Scooped by Fox News, conservative blogs and talk radio on the exploding ACORN scandal, the paper whitewashed its own role in covering up the community organizing racket’s financial shenanigans last fall when it cut off a reporter’s investigation a few weeks before Election Day.
Jill Abramson, the Times’ managing editor for news, acknowledged that her staff was “slow off the mark” and blamed “insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.” They assigned a new “opinion media monitor” to track the competition, but refused to identify the watchdog for fear that he or she would get too many mean, intrusive e-mails and phone calls.
More recently, the paper’s Web site demonstrated that its real motto is “All the inconvenient news that’s fit to suppress.” The Times’ lead environmental blogger, Andrew Revkin, haughtily refused to reprint damning e-mails leaked by a hacker in the burgeoning “ClimateGate” scandal. The documents reveal a long trail of manipulated data, but Revkin balked at the ill-gotten trove. The blabbermouths at The Times had no problem exposing national security secrets to undermine Bush. But shed light on scientific hoaxes that undermine Al Gore? Unethical!
» 5. Tea Party bashers. Millions of ordinary, peaceful Americans joined the Tea Party movement to revolt against big government, backroom deals and the Beltway culture of corruption. For their exercise of free speech and free assembly, they were smeared nationwide. Hollywood has-been Janeane Garofalo called them “racist, backward motherf***ers.” SEIU labor thug Dennis Rivera accused them of “terrorist tactics.” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper used a vulgar sexual epithet to describe them. Team Obama’s astroturfers declared all-out war on them.
For refusing to sit down and shut up in the face of such unhinged bigotry, and for exposing the foulness of the political fowl, I have two words for them: Thank you.
— Michelle Malkin is author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild. Click here for more information. She can be contacted at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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» on 11.29.09 @ 08:54 PM
1. Glenn Beck
2. Sarah Palin
3. The do nothing GOP
4. Michelle Malkin’s commentaries
5. The TeaBag Parties
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» on 11.30.09 @ 04:54 AM
How cute!
And who got us into this mess?
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» on 11.30.09 @ 08:10 AM
I could add several names to Local’s list. How about Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dick Cheney, etc, etc.
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» on 11.30.09 @ 08:51 AM
Thanks Michelle for keeping us informed. Keep it up and don’t hold back.
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» on 11.30.09 @ 11:33 AM
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Right back at you, Michelle Malkin wins Turkey of the Year
1. Michelle Malkin,
2. Mike Huckabee
3. Glenn Beck Tied with Sarah Palin
4. Fox News
5 TeaBaggers
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» on 11.30.09 @ 02:22 PM
Saddens me to suggest that Noozhawk’s biggest “turkey of the year” is Malkin’s always
angry, generally misinformed, always ideological, frequently distorted, hate-filled
column.
No problem with her expressing herself. Clearly she represents are large sub-set of
Americana. How else did the Bush-Cheney-Rove team get re-elected to a 2nd term?
And it’s valuable to try to see how Malkin-ites perceive the world, even if it’s usually through a lens, darkly.
But sometimes she seems so totally self-unaware. That’s probably why she didn’t
make her own “turkey of the year” list.
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» on 11.30.09 @ 04:38 PM
And yet every liberal post here is nothing but dopy rants without one wit (or any wits for that matter) of substantive argument. You all must be freaking lawyers. No one argues more about nothing than that profession.
Malkin makes great points on her 5 turkeys. The last one on the Tea Baggers is lacking, though. There is no greater evidence for the utter moral degradation of the left than their intellectual narcissism induced hatred for the common folks. Calling Tea Party attendees “teabaggers” is an insult to regular folks who just wanted their congressman to hear what they had to say. To do this is the height of stupidity, chicanery, indecency and lacks civility. But if liberals had brains, morals, manners or civility then they wouldn’t be liberals anymore. Of course I wouldn’t have them to make fun of either.
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» on 12.01.09 @ 10:43 AM
There are a couple of things I don’t understand about liberals. Foremost is that their ideas are the only right ideas and everyone else is just plain wrong. For being so supposedly open-minded, that seems pretty narrow-minded. Next, I wonder about their complaining about conservatives complaining about Obama. When the last administration screwed up, the libs were (and remain) really loud and ugly in their complaining. Apparently, though, since it’s now their guy in office, loud and ugly complaining is unfair and mean and the playground saying, you-can-give-it-but-you-can’t-take-it, comes to mind. Then, there’s the finger pointing at the last administration when they want to comment but don’t have a substantive response. I read an interesting comment a year or so back throwing out the idea that if 9/11 and everything that happened afterward were Bush’s fault with no pointing back at the previous administration, then the same should be applied to Obama and everything that happens after 09-11-09 should be Obama’s fault with no pointing back at the previous administration. That’s the kind of thinking that should appeal to libs because it’s fair and nice. And we all know how fair and nice libs are.
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» on 12.01.09 @ 05:56 PM
Hall of Fame Turkey of the decade nominees must include Bush , Cheney , Rumsfeld & Tommy Franks. Perhaps AN50 & Tomahawkdeb missed the recently released Senate Foreign Relations committee report citing specifics about letting Bin Laden escape from Bora Bora when we had him cornered . Only the most naive or misinformed would believe there isn’t more to that story . You righties have been most generous in providing Americans with turkeys at the top levels .
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» on 12.01.09 @ 10:30 PM
Willie we take care of our own rascals. The GOP lost in 2006 because the conservatives abandoned the party out of disgust for over spending and mismanaging the war. The GOP did not get it. So they were punished again in 2008. I know it’s hard to see your own faults sometimes, especially when others are constantly reminding you of them, but try. No one is going to fix the sad state of the democrat party but its own members. Now get busy!
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» on 12.02.09 @ 11:34 AM
Gee Wally, there you go proving my point. Keep pointing the finger at the last administration instead of dealing with today’s issues. This administration has plenty of problems of its own that need to be dealt with before we all lose the shirts off our backs. Spending your energy complaining about the previous administration does nothing to cure today’s problems. We need to get off this partisan train, admit that this administration is as fallible as any other administration (they’re only politicians after all and politicians are all the same) and demand that POTUS and his cronies live up to the promises of change. I hope this administration is successful, because if he gets it right, we all win. So, let’s spend our energy on improving things today instead of complaining about things which happened in the past and can’t be changed.
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» on 12.02.09 @ 04:36 PM
Yes Deb , I’m sure you think we should stop looking back at the last administration . I would think that way too if I had been so foolish as to have voted them into office . Maybe when we finally get past some of these problems they created , then a more fair evaluation can be made of the current administration .
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» on 12.03.09 @ 09:08 AM
Gee Wally - You shouldnt’ make assumptions. I didn’t vote for the past administration and I didn’t vote for this administration. Oops!
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» on 12.03.09 @ 03:44 PM
Sorry , not buyin it .
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» on 12.03.09 @ 08:31 PM
Gee Wally - Are you such a foolish partisan that you don’t notice there’s always a third choice on the ballot?
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