One of the many specifics proposed by President Obama in this year’s State of The Union Address was lowing the taxes on middle class workers. To pay for this, the president has proposed closing tax loopholes and increasing Capital Gains taxes on the top 1%. But over at Fox News, they are hearing a completely different thing as they willfully mislead their audience into believing that what the president proposed will raise their taxes.
Look at their onscreen graphic. It asks the audience if Obama’s tax plan amounts to “Raising Your Taxes?”
Or maybe Fox is right. Maybe the only people watching their network now is the top 1%
While President Obama gave his State of The Union Address last night, there was a line in his speech where he praised the fact that he is not running for office again. To this line, some Republicans in the chamber began applauding and laughing sarcastically, but Obama’s comeback to their excitement was priceless.
“I have no more campaigns to run,” Obama said. At this point the Republican applauds began, but Obama shot back, “I know because I won both of them.”
That response almost broke Twitter, as memes popped up all over the place demonstrating how the president clobbered the Republicans. In my view, this meme below was the best one yet!
The hug was real and it permeated through the chamber for all to see. And it was refreshing, considering the last midterm elections when spineless Democrats made a frantic dash away from the president and his successful policies. Heck, one of them did not even want to say if she voted for the man. But in last night’s State Of The Union Address, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg showed those spineless Democrats how it should be done.
It should be noted that those Democrats who ran away from the president lost their reelection. Apparently the voters turned their backs on those politicians after they turned their backs on the president.
“She is one of my favorite people,” Obama told The New Yorker in 2014, after the 81-year-old associate justice was rushed to the hospital with a blocked artery. Following her hospitalization, Ginsburg brushed aside suggestions that she step down from the bench while Obama is still in office. The president told the magazine at the time: “Life tenure means she gets to decide, not anybody else, when she chooses to go.”
It’s clear that the warm feelings are mutual between Ginsburg and Obama, who had a special bond even before he was elected president.
“When the Court had one of its occasional dinners for members of the Senate, Ginsburg asked that Obama be seated at her table,” wrote Supreme Court expert Jeffrey Toobin.
Ginsburg has served on the Supreme Court since 1993, when she was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton. Since then, she has become famous for her advocacy for women’s rights, perhaps most notably her blistering dissent in the Hobby Lobby case, and her strong opposition to the court’s Citizens United decision, which she said she wished she could overrule.
It is a great movie – Lone Survivor. I sat on the edge of my seat and watched in horror as the events unfold, this Navy Seal fighting for his life against a group of Taliban fighters and the tremendous obstacles he faced trying to stay alive. Out of the four Navy Seals who ventured out on this special mission, only one survived and he survived only because of the help of an Afghan villager.
The movie is based on true events. The lone survivor is a Navy Seal named Marcus Luttrell and the Afghan who helped save his life is Mohammad Gulab.
Mohammad Gulab’s ordeal began in 2005, when Marcus Luttrell and three fellow Navy SEALs were ambushed by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. A fierce fight left three dead and Luttrell, the only American survivor, with a broken back and several shrapnel wounds. Luttrell credits Gulab with saving his life, as the Afghan brought the wounded soldier into his home and protected him from the Taliban until US reinforcements arrived.
The scene was depicted in the 2013 movie “Lone Survivor.” Luttrell was also a friend of Chris Kyle, the subject of the new record-smashing movie “American Sniper,” and went through sniper training with him.
Yet although Gulab’s heroism has been depicted on the big screen, life has reportedly been hard for him since saving Luttrell. He has had to leave his hometown and hide from the Taliban, and at one point, he was reportedly attacked and shot in the leg.
Now he wants to come to America, where he believes he will be safer, but his lawyer tells FoxNews.com that bureaucracy is making the process difficult and slow. Gulab has said Luttrell offered to help him obtain a green card, but the relationship between the two men appears to have become strained while Gulab was visiting the US last year for the premiere of “Lone Survivor.” When contacted by FoxNews.com, Lutrell declined to comment on Gulab or his bid for asylum.
And once again, another killing, sanctioned and approved by the no-regulations-more-guns NRA and the foot soldiers of the NRA, Republican party.
The mother called 911 to say her 5-year-old boy shot his baby brother with a paintball gun.
But it wasn’t a paintball gun. It was a .22-caliber Magnum revolver. And the 9-month-old boy didn’t survive.
Authorities are trying to figure out what led to Monday’s shooting in Elmo, in the northwest corner of Missouri.
“At this point foul play is not suspected, and it appears at this time that the shooting was accidental,” the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office said.
Sheriff Darren White told CNN affiliate KCTV that the baby was in a playpen when his brother found the gun lying around a bed.
When emergency crews arrived, they found the infant had been shot in the head. The child was flown to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was pronounced dead, the station reported.
Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza went to the friendly confines of Fox News and had his friendly safety net cut from under him when he was called out by Megyn Kelly for attacking President Obama. Dinesh was supposed to be talking about the difference between Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King, but when he tried including the president in his dumb comparison, Kelly puts him in his place.
D’Souza: …how different a legacy it is from the current generation of race activists Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, but I would add Eric Holder and Barack Obama, who are cut from a completely different cloth have a completely different attitude toward the color-blind ideal, which they reject.
Kelly: How so, how do you put Al Sharpton in the same field as Barack Obama?
D’Souza: Well, they’re not the same, I mean Barack Obama is actually an odd example because although he’s the first African America president he actually hasn’t had the African-American experience. In fact he’s not descendent from slaves on either side of his family. His father…
Kelly: What do you mean he hasn’t had the African America experience, he has black skin and he grew up in America as a black man
D’Souza: Well, he grew up in Hawaii and then he spent..
Kelly: That’s America!
D’Souza: …a considerable time in Indonesia, He’s made multiple trips to Kenya..
Kelly: Oh Come on Dinesh! That does not deprive him of his experiences of a black man.
Finally, someone with enough kahunas to not only call out Fox News on their lies, but also enough kahunas to take the network to court!
In an appearance on CNN, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo explained that the lawsuit against Fox will happen.
“When we’re insulted, and when we’ve had an image, then I think we’ll have to sue, I think we’ll have to go to court, in order to have these words removed,” Hidalgo told Amanpour in an interview. “The image of Paris has been prejudiced, and the honor of Paris has been prejudiced.”
When asked to clarify which network she planned “to take to court and sue,” Hidalgo replied: “Fox News, that’s the name.”
Hidalgo’s remarks come after Fox News ran multiple reports describing areas of Paris (and England) that were governed by Sharia law and off-limits to non-Muslims. The network has since apologized for making “regrettable errors on air regarding the Muslim population in Europe—particularly with regard to England and France.”
“This applies especially to discussions of so-called ‘no-go zones,’ areas where non-Muslims allegedly aren’t allowed in, and police supposedly won’t go,” anchor Julie Banderas said in one on-air apology. “To be clear, there is no formal designation of these zones in either country, and no credible information to support the assertion there are specific areas in these countries that exclude individuals based solely on their religion.”
Republican presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee – a recent extreme critic of everything Beyoncé – obviously thought he was still on Fox News and anticipated soft questions when he went on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. But Jon, the koolest and realest man in news, had other things up his sleeve.
“She doesn’t have to be vulgar to set a trend,” Huckabee said on “The Daily Show,” echoing his remarks criticizing the President for letting his daughters listen to Beyoncé’s “mental poison.”
“Do you know any parent who has a daughter that says, ‘honey, if you make really good grades, some day when you’re 12 or 13 we’ll get you your own stripper pole?'” Huckabee asked. “Come on, Jon, we don’t do this in our culture.”
Stewart’s jaw dropped before he asked Huckabee to prepare himself for a special clip. The host cut to footage of Huckabee, plugging away on a bass, guitar backing Ted Nugent live on Fox in a performance of “Cat Scratch Fever.” The song contained such lyrics as “I make the pussy purr with the stroke of my hand.”
As “The Daily Show” audience roared, the ex-governor and former Fox host began talking about the song’s original release in 1978. He told an unconvinced Stewart that the song was an “adult song, geared for adults.”
Huckabee closed by urging the host to read his book.
Republicans, you are not doing a good job at tanking the economy. According to this new poll by the Washington Post, the president’s work on the economy is paying off, and Americans are giving Mr. Obama some much needed credit.
Per a Washington Post/ABC News poll released Monday, Obama’s approval rating is back at 50%, the highest recorded in that poll since spring of 2013, and a nine-point shift since December. 44% disapprove of Obama, ten points lower than in December, one of the few times in his second term he’s been above water.
The WaPo poll echoes those by PEW and Gallup that have also found Obama’s approval rating trending upward in the last two months.
The spike in his approval is largely attributed to steadily improving job numbers combined with plunging gas prices. (Some even wonder whether the decrease in gas prices might have saved the Democrats had it happened only a couple months ago.)
This is a very exciting day at America The Not So Beautiful as Mitt Romney has chosen this blog to formally announce that he will be running for President in 2016. He told me that he hopes the third time is the charm and that he has learned from his past errors. He wants to explain why he is running and point out what he could do better than President Obama if he is elected President of the United States. But I really don’t want to take up any more of his time so ladies and gentlemen here is Governor Mitt Romney!
Thank You Mike. I’m so glad that you allowed me this wonderful venue to announce my candidacy for President of these United States in the year 2016. I agree that America isn’t very beautiful under the leadership of Barack Obama. Now everyone already knows my faults. It’s already been spoken about ad nauseum in past election cycles. The fact that I was fully behind the Vietnam war, even marched in favor of it, but of course I did not serve my county. Instead I went to France, a wonderful country and expressed my love for my beautiful wife Ann. Everyone has seen those photos of myself on the beach in the south of France, where they have this wonderful little film festival called “The Cannes Film Festival”. I wrote in the sand “I Love Ann” with a big heart around it and paid someone 10 grand to photograph it from above. Yes, you have all seen that photo that was taken while our brave soldiers were dying for a great cause in Vietnam.
But we have already debated that photograph and I ask Americans to simply move on please. Just place that in your binders of thoughts and memories and please move on. I realize now that I should have been more discreet and just taken a photo of my young, taut body in a bubble bath. I mean I could have written Ann’s initials in the bubbly soap to show my love and undying affection for her. Yes, that would have sufficed, I understand now.
I know I took a very big hit with those comments at the social club. Where in front of millionaires I said that 47 percent thing. I said that 47 percent of Americans just want hand outs from the government and that Barack Obama would give them that. I have been thinking very much about that comment and I now realize I was wrong. It’s really only 45 percent. How insensitive of me to say that 47 percent are takers when it is really only 45 percent. I have learned from that mistake, and have met the two percent that convinced me they are workers not takers. So yes the number is most definitely 45 percent. I’m sorry that I offended two percent of America that didn’t deserve it. Truly sorry.
People feel, I’m sorry…..felt, that I was out of touch with most ordinary people. One reason I believe is that I only paid 13 percent tax while the middle class often pays 25-35 percent. Even though I believe that I’m still giving away much more money since I’m a multi-millionaire, I understand that it doesn’t look good. Especially since I only pay those taxes when I’m running for President. Otherwise I really don’t pay anything. Anyway I have decided that this is insensitive to the middle class and so I paid 14 percent this year. Believe me that extra one percent adds up to quite a bit of cash since I’m a multi-millionaire. I hope this proves that I’m a friend of the middle class and with that extra money leaving my accounts I do understand the hardships you feel on a daily basis. I really do. This should put aside any more questions or negative ads in regards to my taxes.
Now that I have put all of this silly business behind me I’d like to show you why I could do better than the current Democratic administration if you would so kindly elect me President. I had said in my previous campaign that the economy would be destroyed if Barack Obama was elected for another four years. Since that time gas prices have plummeted while the stock market has soared. Unemployment continues to decline month by month. While jobs are being created every month in the 150-200K range. This is all pretty much the opposite of what I said would happen throughout the campaign and debates. You have all done an admirable job of trying to prove me wrong and I believe I pushed you in that direction through my brilliant psychology that I learned in the best schools since the age of five. I vocalize negative comments and this motives you, it motivates you to do better, the wonderful American people. So, just imagine what we could do together if I were actually President! The possibilities are endless.
My words might have been wrong but my heart was in the right place. Speaking of heart I just need to remind everyone that I do love Ann. I just love Ann.
Some people think I’m running again because I have so much money that I don’t know what to do with it. This couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m running for many honorable reasons but the most honorable is to protect this country from terrorists and to retain our freedoms. Barack Obama didn’t have the money to solely distribute “The Interview” but I do. This would show the terrorists that we are strong and not weak. And unlike the President I have indeed ridden horses bare chested like Vladimir Putin. This shows manliness and strength and power. I have ridden Ann’s ponies bare chested, I love Ann, I do love Ann.
I believe I have made my points. I’m a true protector of the middle class. I now believe in simple bubble bath selfies over wasteful high angle helicopter shots. I think only 45 percent of this great country are takers. I now pay my 14 percent of taxes when I run for President. Yes the economy is incredibly strong but I can make it stronger with my ability to personally distribute any film that is censored or banned because of terrorism. This is the new Mitt Romney. Please vote for me in 2016 to be the next President of the United States.
But the election has passed and saying the word “flu” does not stir up the fear that many politicians need to win elections. Remember the dreaded ebola that “crossed our southern borders” with ISIS insurgents, the disease bound to wipe out America because Obama had no clue?
Yea, that ebola was the topic in the midterm elections as Republicans found their talking point of fear and hammered it home until the swept both the House and Senate, and now that they’re in power, the word ebola is just a faint memory.
Meanwhile, the flu has already killed 45 kids, 19 this week alone, but the Republican fear mongers are already in power, so dead kids mean nothing. And the disease, currently in 46 states according to the government’s weekly FluView surveillance report, goes unnoticed.
Republicans are already in power. Fearing people about the deadly flu would be pointless. We wait ’till the next election when their base needs a good scaring out to the polls to talk about the flu! Until then, carry on. Nothing to see here except young dead kids.
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