Category Archives: Media Criticism

IMAO’s New Book

Frank J. has a new book out on Kindle (and probably other e-readers). He explains why he wrote it:

I wanted a challenge, so I wrote Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything. Back in 2008 when the hope-and-change movement was at its pinnacle, this was the book Obama’s supporters assumed would be written about him. Yet I’m the only one who has attempted it. Why? People knew in their hearts Obama would be the greatest president ever — how could someone with a slogan like “Yes We Can!” be anything less? — but it’s been hard for the common man to see that greatness in the reality of the Obama presidency. So in my book, I will take you by the hand and show you how Obama has fulfilled his promise to be a transformational president, greater than all who came before him and probably all who will come after him. And if you still don’t see Obama as the greatest president ever, you can rest assured that’s not because Obama failed in some way but is instead because you’re stupid or something. Which is why we’re lucky Obama is president and you’re not.

Also, if you don’t have a Kindle, you can buy one here (though I’ll bet Amazon will be giving them away within a year or three). Buy through those links, and it helps pay the bills for this joint.

What Was The Basis For The Court Order?

So I read this AP piece twice, which if one is to believe the headline, was all about the restraining order against the city to prevent them from removing the Obamaville in Zuccotti Park, and nowhere in it could I find out what the basis was for the order. Well, I guess the reason that it isn’t mentioned is that there isn’t one, and the leftist loon former-ACLU-lawyer judge who signed it has been tossed off the case.

[Update a couple minutes later]

The top ten eviction tweets.

[Update a while later]

The cities coordinated the crackdown. And I’m sure this is just a coincidence: “…this succession of police raids started after President Obama left the US for an extended tour of the Pacific Rim.”

Did I Get Results?

Remember this post about the headline on Ken Chang’s story about the ISS flight? Well, the story’s been republished with a different headline. Note the fine print at the bottom: “A version of this article appeared in print on November 13, 2011, on page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: NASA Hitches a Ride on a Russian Craft, and Begins a New Dependent Phase.”

[Update a while later]

What? They changed it back to the original headline? I didn’t get a screen shot, but I swear (as Clark’s link says) when I first saw it this morning, the headline was “NASA and Russia Begin New Chapter in Space.”

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah

Iowahawk is off to Camp Obama:

We are saving
This whole nation
With some squad car
Defecation
We went marching
in Zucotti
And got applauded by the Nazi Party

There’s a raping
Every day now
Some are straight and
Some are gay now
Latest outbreak
Dysentery
In the food tent over by the Ben & Jerry’s

As he says, with apologies to Allan Sherman.