Fox's Malkin on Nobel: "World apology tour" has "paid huge dividends," "ultimate act of global affirmative action"
October 09, 2009 3:33 pm ET
From the October 9 edition of Fox News Radio's Brian & The Judge:
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Stop the clock! The wingnuts did a good job of keeping their racism under the radar for most of the Olympics babbling, but poor little Anchor Baby Michelle just couldn't hold it in any longer.
Michelle has wealthy, connected family (or spouse, I forget what her situation is), she 's a non-caucasian woman , probably would be in demand if she had any skills as a journalist.
But she's relegated herself to Fox, Townhall, and Chico and the Man, or Brian & the Judge, or whichever clowns will give her a mic for a few seconds. She must be very angry. I thnk she should have refused to accept her college degree,and should refuse to accept her GOP paychecks, if she has any humility.
He got the NPP and the cutoff date was in February so they gave it to him in the second week of his term.
The world showed us how they despise him with the loss of the Olympics for Chicago.
The world fawns over him by giving him the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is that uncomfortable feeling when trying to hold two conflicting beliefs simultaneously?
I can't seem to remember what it's called.
I'd have to guess that he knew he had the Nobel locked up, and suggested that the IOC give Rio the games, in the interest of international relations. That, and making Rush, Malkin, and all of the other fruitcakes spin around in circles, deserves some sort of prize.
But then again, just watching the neocons heads explode... well it makes me think he earned it. :>
Doncha just LOVE it when an Anchor Baby rips on Affirmative Actions??
That is, she's an affirmative action pundit.
Like you said, the right wing loves to put them on parade as examples of their "diversity", but they don't seem to realize that that argument is undercut by the fact that there are so few of them {I just named most of them in the above paragraph.}
Additionally, again I have to chuckle whenever I hear one of them rail against affirmative action . . . especially when so many of them got to where they are thanks to AA -- *cough* Clarence Thomas *cough*. . .
Case in point: Dinesh D'Souza served in the Reagan White House as a policy advisor in 1987 -- when he was 26 years old, not a US citizen, and had no previous policy experience.
Somebody lie to me and tell me AA played NO part in him getting that gig . . .
Not only to show their diversity, but to comfort the audience who are more comforted having a dark skinned person tell them they're not racist, instead of just having the same old white bigots assuring them they're not racist. It seems to be more convincing to them.
Right, Col.
As much as they find it reassuring whenever Sean Insanity gives rehab for Repub racists {Dog Chapman, Hal Turner, Andy Martin, etc.}, they have to be even more comforted whenever Jesse Lee Peterson tells them how the white man in this country can't get an even break . . .
When was the last time you were outside the US and/or asked a foreigner what they thought about Obama?
What's wrong with the world community recognizing an American president? I seem to remember Bush giving the Medal of Freedom to George Tenet (who said selling the war would be a slam dunk) and Tommy Franks (who agreed to the occupation of Iraq on Bush/Rumsfeld terms following the firing of the other 2 generals who opposed the occupation plan).
Were they deserving?
Some of the wingnuts seem to think sites like this are an internets political version of Penthouse Forum, where they can make up arousing tales of Republican prowess that are completely at odds with reality.
Whatever turns 'em on, I guess. :0)
Different folks, different perceptions.
looking at new figures released last week by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and the Italian Compagnia di San Paolo in their annual Transatlantic Trends survey. Graphs comparing the approval ratings of presidents George W. Bush in 2008 and Barack Obama in 2009 evoke the trajectory of a pogo stick: BAM! 12 percent for Bush in Germany. BOING! 92 percent for Obama.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/european-union/090913/obama-bounce-europe
Wingnut math, and all.
or did she actually get out into the country?
As i have also been to Germany, England, Belgium, Spain just to name a few. Was there before and after our election.
Guess what they did not like us much and i was embarrassed a lot before ding dong left,,,, now guess what they still have a few issues but mainly its just the residue of the last laughing stock.
President Barack Obama has made significant strides toward repairing America’s strained relationship with Europe, according to an annual transatlantic survey.
Among Europeans, 41 percent — double the number in 2008 — believe that transatlantic ties have improved over the past year and 31 percent of Americans believe the same, triple the amount from one year ago.
Seventy-seven percent of Europeans supported Obama’s handling of foreign policy, a stark contrast to European perceptions of President George W. Bush’s approach. In 2008, just 19 percent approved of Bush’s handling of international affairs. During the Bush years, disagreements over the Iraq War resulted in record-low European public opinion toward America.
“The Obama bounce is huge,” said Zsolt Nyiri, director of the Transatlantic Trends survey.
The poll, co-commissioned by the German Marshall Fund and conducted by the firm TNS Opinion from June 9 to July 1, interviewed more than 13,000 people from a dozen European countries, including France, Great Britain, Germany, Romania and Turkey.
The American president’s approval rating jumped 80 percentage points in Germany, 77 points in France, 70 in Portugal, and 64 in Italy over Bush’s ratings–the largest gains in the survey’s eight-year run.
“Obama was very popular in western Europe even as a presidential candidate,” said Nyiri. “On his trips to Berlin and London, he was seen as a rock star.”
Poll: U.S.-Europe ties improve - 9/9/09...
Actually, he has one -- a cadillac, that is.
Not pink, though:
Seriously. None of them saw this coming. They simply did a few edits on the Olympic stuff they wrote for if Chicago would have won.
"Honesty and humility have not marked the past 8 months [of Obama's Presidency]"
and
"This world apology tour has paid huge dividends.. [for Obama]"
1. He goes around apologizing and admitting mistakes, and
2. He's so arrogant and thinks he's the Messiah !
The wingnuts have just quit trying to make sense anymore.
Basically, it was: first, the wingnuts said, "he's tried to do too much [end the war, pass healthcare, stimulate the economy, etc.] in just 9 months" . . .
Now, they're saying, "he hasn't done enough in 9 months [wars still going, healthcare not passed, unemployment still high, etc.] to deserve a Nobel Prize" . . .
Well, you can't have it both ways, wingnuts -- either he's done too little or he's done too much, take your pick . . .
Their analysis of everything as "This is bad for/ a failure by Obama" has become as predictable as the religious fanatics explanation of everything, good or bad, as "God's will"or His "mysterious ways", and their ease in explaining "logically" the reason behind any number of different, even opposite, outcomes.
They will be bashing Obama for not being the radical communist they portray him as... and will start promising that they will bring the radical change he promised.