UPDATE via PJ Gladnick of Newsbusters, NYTimes Jodi Kantor makes a bid for Presidential Love Bunny
As a Professor, Obama Held Pragmatic Views on CourtMany American presidents have been lawyers, but almost none have come to office with Barack Obama’s knowledge of the Supreme Court. Before he was 30, he was editing articles by eminent legal scholars on the court’s decisions. Later, as a law professor, he led students through landmark cases from Plessy v. Ferguson to Bush v. Gore.
As PJ points out, Obama was never a law professor; indeed, he never published any legal scholarship or any legal writings even during his turn as president of the Harvard Law Review.
I suppose the Legend of O must be serviced, even by a “reporter” such as teen-stalker Kantor. Real credibility there, Grey Lady!
Comment by Travis on 5/3 @ 4:17 pm #
Check out the AP story “Obamas take a walk, holding hands in the evening“.
Some real hard hitting journalism there.
Bring a barf bag!
Comment by Mr. Pink on 5/3 @ 4:26 pm #
No bias there huh.
Comment by Joe on 5/3 @ 4:38 pm #
The scary part is that cartoon is reality, not parody.
Trackback by PunditKix on 5/3 @ 4:41 pm #
Hail to the Chief cartoon…
Trackback from PunditKix.com…
Comment by The Monster on 5/3 @ 4:47 pm #
Long ago, I read an article in an entertainment mag about SCTV. They disclosed that the writers had tried to do a parody of a particular TV show (IIRC, it was Laverne & Shirley), but found that nothing they could write was as ridiculous as the original, so they scrapped the sketch.
We are now in the position of those writers. Iowahawk and the Onion are difficult to distinguish from the actual news. One of my co-bloggers has tried taking news stories about the Venezuelan regime, and changed “Chavez” to “Obama”, etc., (with a little note to that effect at the end) only to scare the crap out of our readers, because the stories are eerily similar to what the administration has actually done.
Comment by Travis on 5/3 @ 4:51 pm #
http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1169822
Obamas take a walk, holding hands in the evening
WASHINGTON — The first couple took full advantage of the cool spring night.
After a date night out on Saturday evening, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama decided to take a stroll when their motorcade arrived back at the White House.
So they began walking on the driveway of the White House South Lawn while holding hands. First they passed the West Wing, then their children’s swing set. They kept walking, swinging their hands together.
It gets worse!
Comment by hudson duster on 5/3 @ 5:32 pm #
IT’s best to look on the bright side; isn’t it fun to watch “the media elite” slowly cut their own throats and be too stupid to know it?
Comment by geoffb on 5/3 @ 5:40 pm #
As we pull back for a wider view we spy the 300 Journalists, as quiet as we have ever seen them when gathered in such numbers, surrounding the President, First Lady and their Secret Service contingent. Wave after wave of Journalists, silent, on “little cat feet”, striding as if in an honor guard, over the White House lawn.
Comment by urthshu on 5/3 @ 5:47 pm #
300 journalists, hmm? Gotta be some Sparta joke to work in there, somehow.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/3 @ 5:49 pm #
Travis, when that sort of thing was done between Bill and Hillary back in the ’90s, you could bet the farm that soon a story would be hitting papers about Bill getting his knob polished by some babe.
Has anyone seen Vera Baker around lately?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/3 @ 5:52 pm #
How could they be cutting their own throats? They’re setting themselves up to be MiniTru. They’re gonna be set for life.
Comment by serr8d on 5/3 @ 6:00 pm #
The media as we expect (and deserve) it to be is dead in this country. They are holding on for dear life, and becoming less and less credible as time passes.
Their time has passed. Mencken’s Ghost sobs..
Comment by Travis on 5/3 @ 6:05 pm #
Fascism is coming to America and will do so to the thunderous applause of adoring fans and a grovelling media. I am losing my faith in democracy. Perhaps it is the fact that a democratic state cannot survive without citizens willing to assume the responsibility for their own lives. Shallow and empty posturing is now seen as an art form, rewarded with power and wealth.
The cult of the strong man thrives, with its craving for a leader to assume mastery over them and bring unity to the nation. If that isn’t fascism then tell me what is? There is a yearning on the part of leftists for faith in something…indeed, anything it seems. Their faith is impervious to reason or logic and only the passage of time seems to shake some loose from leftist dogma.
I don’t think the good guys are gonna win this one!
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/3 @ 6:07 pm #
As Huey Long said, Travis, when fascism comes to America it’ll be called “anti-fascism.” QED.
Comment by Phil on 5/3 @ 6:07 pm #
Why are we taking these people seriously? Th
I mean, besides as a case study in how NOT to run a business.
Comment by Travis on 5/3 @ 6:14 pm #
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/3 @ 6:07 pm #
As Huey Long said, Travis, when fascism comes to America it’ll be called “anti-fascism.†QED.
It already is called that in Europe. Antifa
I am not sure if this website is serious, or a parody.
I cannot tell. I think its parody.
How do you reason with such invincible ignorance?
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/2008/02/ill-collect-paper-cups-off-ground-to.html
Comment by Techie on 5/3 @ 6:26 pm #
Behold the vaunted Fourth Estate! Marvel as they speak truth to power and afflict the comfortable!
Comment by B Moe on 5/3 @ 6:29 pm #
As well you should. This country was never intended to be a democracy. Democracies generally suck and don’t survive.
Comment by Travis on 5/3 @ 7:04 pm #
As well you should. This country was never intended to be a democracy. Democracies generally suck and don’t survive.
Nor it would seem, do Republics.
Comment by geoffb on 5/3 @ 7:27 pm #
If there is not already, there needs to be a principle formulated in the Press and Public Relations field, similar to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in Quantum Physics.
It is impossible to cover an event without the very coverage effecting the event covered. The more closely anything is covered the farther from reality both the coverage the thing covered veer.
Comment by SBP on 5/3 @ 7:31 pm #
Hey, Darleen: have you noticed that your Jodi Kantor link, which describes Jodi Kantor as a “whore” who can “suck multiple guys without coming up for air, is the third hit on Google for Jodi Kantor?
If you use words (e.g., “skank”, “stalker”, and “no-talent whore”) in conjunction with the text “Jodi Kantor”, pretty soon Google starts associating those words (e.g., “skank”, “stalker”, and “no-talent whore”) with “Jodi Kantor”.
That might be bad for Jodi Kantor, because I’m sure Jodi Kantor wouldn’t want anyone to think she was a skank, a stalker, or a no-talent whore. Which I’m sure she isn’t. Jodi Kantor, I mean. Sure, some might apply derogatory words (e.g., “skank”, “stalker”, and “no-talent whore”) toward Jodi Kantor, but I would never advocate doing that.
Comment by SBP on 5/3 @ 7:36 pm #
Oh, and this is the Jodi Kantor link I meant. The blog ate it.
You should avoid linking that Jodi Kantor blog post (which I’ve linked again just so you know which one to avoid). Otherwise Google is likely to move that site even closer to the top of its search listing for Jodi Kantor.
Imagine how Jodi Kantor must feel when she googles herself and sees “Jodi Kantor is a whore” right there on the front page.
Ask yourself if she (and anyone else searching for her) really deserves to see “Jodi Kantor is a whore” right at the top of the listing.
We all know the answer, don’t we?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/3 @ 7:39 pm #
Did Jodi grant His Unicorniness to full professor?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/3 @ 7:40 pm #
Dammit…”promote” not “grant”
I’m tired
Comment by Techie on 5/3 @ 7:43 pm #
You know, I was unaware that some theses were not public. Mine is available for checkout at my alma mater’s library. I’d love to take a gander at Obama’s one of these evenings.
Comment by Boeing on 5/3 @ 7:45 pm #
Travis,
Have faith, almost half the nation voted AGAINST Obama – even with the non-stop slobbering puppy dog press rooting and covering for him in every way possible. Obama has shot himself in both feet because he has made too many enemies on Wall Street and Main Street in the past 100 days.
Obama will ultimately destroy himself by way of the economy.
Comment by Darleen on 5/3 @ 7:50 pm #
Boeing
Haven’t you heard? Presidente Hugo Obama has declared that Wall Street will no longer play a dominant role in “our” economy.
Comment by Travis on 5/3 @ 7:56 pm #
Travis,
Have faith, almost half the nation voted AGAINST Obama – even with the non-stop slobbering puppy dog press rooting and covering for him in every way possible. Obama has shot himself in both feet because he has made too many enemies on Wall Street and Main Street in the past 100 days.
Obama will ultimately destroy himself by way of the economy.
There are not that many historical examples of nations returning to sanity. It tends to be a downhill slide into tyranny.
The problem is that Obama is a man of such slight accomplishments.
We cannot expect to be so lucky again. I don’t think the GOP can rise to the occasion for 2012 if Steele and his sidekicks are anything to go by. They are feckless and wholly unserious men who do not seem capable of leading anyone.
What sort of country will exist in 8 years with this man at the helm? What kind of standards regarding elections will be commonplace? We may have elections but will they actually decide anything? ACORN, Project Vote, and the DNC machine. We know what they consider ‘fair’. Ask the undead who overwhelmingly vote Democratic, or Joe the Plumber about fair.
Comment by bh on 5/3 @ 7:57 pm #
Darleen, that’s just breathtaking.
I’m glad he has figured out exactly what jobs people should be taking and exactly how large Wall Street should be. He must be one of the world’s greatest economists. Who knew?
While he’s at it, I hope he’s putting some of that awesome brain power into cold fusion and those Willy Wonka meals-in-a-pill. I’ve been waiting forever for those.
Comment by mcgruder on 5/3 @ 7:58 pm #
that Wall Street wont play the dominant role in the economy is probably a net positive, in all seriousness.
That it will be replaced by government is a net negative, big time. See: Rattner, Steve.
Comment by bh on 5/3 @ 7:58 pm #
I shudder to even think this, might he be even smarter than thor?
Comment by Boeing on 5/3 @ 8:10 pm #
Darleen,
Obama really has turned out to be a Chicago thug, although all those guys on Wall Street (who voted for Obama) should have known better; there was never gonna be a free lunch.
However, 10%-12% unemployment works against whoever is in the White House. Obama can promise all the unicorns he wants, but when he has to start raising taxes on the middle class to cover the debt, inflation, sky high fuel costs, cap and trade bs raising everyone’s electric bill, then the child President is done. Wall Street is going to declare a secret war on Obama and the voting public is going to wake up and see that they are still unemployed.
Comment by Travis on 5/3 @ 8:15 pm #
However, 10%-12% unemployment works against whoever is in the White House. Obama can promise all the unicorns he wants, but when he has to start raising taxes on the middle class to cover the debt, inflation, sky high fuel costs, cap and trade bs raising everyone’s electric bill, then the child President is done. Wall Street is going to declare a secret war on Obama and the voting public is going to wake up and see that they are still unemployed.
Tell that to the one term President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! Oh, wait. Didn’t he die in office?
Comment by serr8d on 5/3 @ 8:20 pm #
What’s wrong with you guys? Obama is a ‘good man‘. Just ask Arlen.
Comment by Boeing on 5/3 @ 8:26 pm #
I agree, the GOP REALLY needs to get it’s act together.
Remember how Sarah Palin told the MSM to go fuck themselves at the GOP convention?
That was 100% pure awesomeness. That’s what we need; someone who is not afraid.
Although, it’s a little sad when it is a woman who has the biggest set of cajones in a political party full of men.
Comment by SBP on 5/3 @ 8:27 pm #
You know, I was unaware that some theses were not public.
Yes, theses are supposed to be public. The only ones I’ve ever heard of at my institution that aren’t are the ones that have national security implications (e.g., crypto work), and there’s a lot of hollering about that.
I don’t know about undergrad theses, though. My undergrad school (and major) had a senior design project rather than a thesis.
Comment by Travis on 5/3 @ 8:29 pm #
Sarah Palin IS one of the few bright spots out there. I think she will be sidelined, but it would be nice to see her run.
Comment by bh on 5/3 @ 8:36 pm #
You know, regarding the Obama U of C gig, I was always under the impression that he got that job because the community was angry that the U of C bought real estate around the campus and used the U of C security to patrol those areas.
A lot of us had to walk east from the campus to get to the red line. And you were normally interning in the loop so you were wearing dress pants, tie, business attire. You looked like a target rather than your normal broke college kid, even though you were a broke college kid. The U of C bought the shopping complex mainly anchored by a Walgreens directly across from the red line stop.
So, a private police force was hassling innocent citizens! Community organizers did their mau-mauing, hired some people more reflective of the community to understand their viewpoint, and Obama got a gig at a prestigious law school with zero academic background.
Comment by bh on 5/3 @ 8:53 pm #
Re: the above, wasn’t red line, it was like the metra.
Red line was when I lived in Wrigleyville.
Comment by Boeing on 5/3 @ 8:55 pm #
Reagan is our secret weapon. After the malaise of Jimmy Carter, Reagan came along and showed America how great it was and could be.
Obama is just replaying the Carter malaise movie again with a slightly altered script.
There are still enough people left in this country who remember the difference between Carter and Reagan.
DO NOT GIVE UP ON THIS COUNTRY!
OK, I’ll stop the cheerleading…….for now.
Comment by bh on 5/3 @ 9:21 pm #
Okay, can anyone explain what’s happening in this thread, from comment 142 onwards?
Until shown otherwise, I’m considering it to be obvious Chechen terrorist chatter.
Comment by Darleen on 5/3 @ 9:36 pm #
Boeing
Carter was arrogant, but he was really (at the time) not much removed from his Christian, farmer roots. He was wildly unprepared to be President and he had some very different ideas on how to approach it..
but I don’t think Carter ever looked at the Presidency as a way to fundamentally change America from a capitalist/freemarket/property rights country into Social Democrat Europe … or as a stepping stone to President of the World.
Obama approaches the American Presidency as if it were merely a stepping stone to something bigger. He has never stopped campaigning and that includes marginalizing non-syphocants, punishing enemies, rewarding supporters (ie UAW now owner of Chrysler) and tightening control over any venue that might oppose him.
Comment by Travis on 5/3 @ 9:40 pm #
BH
Today even experienced user involuntarily experiences light vertigo from the abundance of contemporary goods or of services, so they are diverse.
Translated at http://uk.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt
I think its an auction or something.
Comment by geoffb on 5/3 @ 9:40 pm #
Do you mean from 24-25 on? not 142
Comment by bh on 5/3 @ 9:47 pm #
On my browser it goes from normal comments 1-24, unrecognizable characters from 25-41, then Cyrillic from 142 onwards.
From 25 onwards, the comments have ru (Russia) in the urls. Figured it was spam, but why spam in Cyrillic into the comments on an English site?
Comment by SBP on 5/3 @ 10:04 pm #
why spam in Cyrillic into the comments on an English site?
The comments aren’t aimed at us. They’re aimed at Google’s indexing robot.
More links to their site from other sites = higher Google page rank.
Comment by bh on 5/3 @ 10:05 pm #
Thanks, SBP.
Comment by geoffb on 5/3 @ 10:56 pm #
There is some weird stuff in there besides the usual spam. Such as this, Book 05C of Acts of Apostles in Azerbaijan Caucasus Turkish in Arabic Script
Comment by Barack Obama on 5/3 @ 11:04 pm #
Chechen terrorist chatter/google gaming/Voynich Manuscript?
Comment by bh on 5/3 @ 11:05 pm #
Sockpuppet.
Comment by Boeing on 5/4 @ 12:32 am #
Darleen,
I wasn’t trying to minimize Obama’s radical agenda, the guy is the most left-wing President in this country’s history, and he scares the crap out of me. I guess what I was getting at is the results between Carter and Obama are similar in the fact that the economy is in the toilet.
America is different from other countries in the sense that we have been a superpower after WWII and many people in this country will not sit by while it is completely dismantled.
I believe that there are powerful people behind the scenes that we will never know about who are at this moment planning on making things difficult for Obama (in a financial and policy sense) I don’t think Dick Cheney and like minded people are just going to roll over let Obama turn us into a banana republic.
People in this country have tasted the good life that comes with capitalism ( or pseudo-capitalism in our case).
The vast majority of people are middle class with a fairly decent lifestyle. I don’t think they will willingly give it up to become Mexico or France, or Spain for that matter. Have you seen the unemployment rate in Spain? Holy crap! I don’t think the majority of Americans want that for their future.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/4 @ 4:45 am #
“Comment by urthshu on 5/3 @ 5:47 pm #
300 journalists, hmm? Gotta be some Sparta joke to work in there, somehow.”
300 reactionary leftist journalists?
“Brokeback Mount Olympus”
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/4 @ 7:21 am #
Mine, too. Last I checked, they’re available on line back quite a number of years.
I don’t think mine is, though, thank goodness. I’d be embarrassed by the revelation I couldn’t get VOIP to work. The only defense I have is that the computer I was given to work with was a ‘286.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/4 @ 7:24 am #
They will if they’re told it’s good for them. They will if they never hear the alternative in any context but it being slimed.
Comment by geoffb on 5/4 @ 9:04 am #
Back in the early 70’s there was installed at my place the result of a “Senior Design Project” which had been bought, built and I now had to keep running. My usual 8 to 9 hour shifts went to 12 to 13 in order to keep an amazing kludge, that we little people in the field were not allowed to have documentation for, running. Good thing I was much younger and unmarried back then.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 5/4 @ 9:32 am #
“he never published any legal scholarship”
Good catch, Darleen. He truly is the Potemkin President.
The Office of Editor of the Harvard Law Review is customarily the start of a career of legal scholarship, not an end in itself – Barakabama was elected to that position due to pigmentation, as opposed to the former practice of comparing grade points, and now we are hammered with his supposed brilliance.
Come to think of it, we’ve never seen his SATs, or LSATs, have we? The former can be used to extrapolate a reliable I.Q. Score for SATs taken before “recentering” of the late 1990s, you see.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 5/4 @ 4:57 pm #
Every law professor and lecturer leads his students through the casebook. It would be more impressive if he actually wrote a casebook, alone or in collaboration.
In other words, he is to be praised for doing his job according to the course description. And simple competency is to be praised as if it was as scarce as a hen’s tooth.