Following President Obama’s May 5 visit to Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Rush Limbaugh Show guest host Mark Steyn criticized Obama as an elitist because he ordered a burger with “spicy mustard” or “Dijon mustard.” Hannity claimed that Obama ordered a “fancy burger” with a “very special condiment,” while Steyn asserted Obama is trying “to enlighten us” through his order. Ingraham asked of Obama: “What kind of man orders a cheeseburger without ketchup but Dijon mustard? … The guy orders a cheeseburger without ketchup? What is that?” In their discussions of Obama’s burger order, Hannity, Ingraham, and Steyn all referenced a Grey Poupon commercial featuring actors portraying wealthy British men expressing desire for the mustard. [ MORE ]
Dijon Derangement Syndrome: Conservative media attack Obama for burger order
Limbaugh fill-in Steyn on Obama using Dijon mustard: “John Kerry couldn’t get away with that stuff but he makes it seem like just like a regular thing to do”
While cable news outlets and major newspapers continue to use euphemisms such as “harsh interrogation tactics” to describe the Bush administration’s approach to intelligence gathering, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) used a more succinct term Thursday: “torture.” — [ Read More ]
From MediaMatters: More Fox figures pick up tenuous claim that harsh interrogations thwarted L.A. plot
Neil Cavuto, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Catherine Herridge joined other Fox News figures in advancing Marc Thiessen’s claim that the use of harsh interrogations techniques on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed “stopped an attack on the Library Tower.” But the Bush administration has said that the attack was thwarted more than a year before Mohammed was captured. [ READ MORE ]
Osama Bin O’Reilly joked: “I think we’ll [waterboard Henican] tomorrow during the Beck segment”
Conservative media claim prosecution of Bush administration officials will turn U.S. into “banana republic”
Conservative media figures are comparing possible prosecutions of Bush administration officials for their roles in authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques to circumstances in a “banana republic,” in “Third World … dictatorships,” or “some little Latin American country that’s run by … the latest junta.” [ READ MORE ]
RUSH LIMBAUGH Fill-in Steyn’s road to green economy: Living in mud huts and women beating laundry on rocks by the river — [ READ MORE ]
There was always going to be a point of revolt and panic for a core group of Americans who believe that Obama simply cannot be president — because he’s black or liberal or young or relatively new. This is that point. As the polls suggest a strong victory, the Hannity-Limbaugh-Steyn-O’Reilly base are going into shock and extreme rage. McCain and Palin have decided to stoke this rage, to foment it, to encourage paranoid notions that somehow Obama is a “secret” terrorist or Islamist or foreigner. These are base emotions in both sense of the word.
Roswell Beacon is a Georgia (A Bastion of ‘Southern’ Racism) based magazine — The Message is very clear!
But they are also very very dangerous. This is a moment of maximal physical danger for the young Democratic nominee. And McCain is playing with fire. If he really wants to put country first, he will attack Obama on his policies — not on these inflammatory, personal, creepy grounds. This is getting close to the atmosphere stoked by the Israeli far right before the assassination of Rabin.
For God’s sake, McCain, stop it. For once in this campaign, put your country first.
Meanwhile Jerome Corsi, freshly deported from Kenya, where he went to promote his Smear-Book, The Obama Nation — is dipping his fingers up his butt-hole once again.
Report from Media Matters:
On Bill Cunningham’s radio show, Corsi touted dubious “documents” he claims will “prove” Obama “made a pact” with Raila Odinga — Kenya’s Prime Minister.
Jerome Corsi claimed on Bill Cunningham’s radio show that he “came out of Kenya” with “documents” proving that Sen. Barack Obama “made a pact with this radical leftist politician Raila Odinga who is perfectly happy to expand Islamic Sharia law in Kenya and have tribal violence to get power.”
But the only “documents” Corsi has thus far provided — purported emails listing the contact in his Senate office to work with Odinga — do not establish that Obama “made a pact” with Odinga, and they “appear not to have been written by a native English speaker,” as Politico’s Ben Smith noted.
In an October 10 post on his Politico blog, Ben Smith wrote of the emails Corsi purportedly obtained in Kenya:
After a bit of a lull, the viral emails and general nuttiness is cresting again, and my favorite “scoop” of the day is Jerome Corsi’s WorldNetDaily report on secret emails between Obama — personally — and a Kenyan political leader.
A small glitch: These emails, [pictured] above, appear not to have been written by a native English speaker, unless ‘I will kindly wish…‘ is a phrase I’m just unfamiliar with. They have the unmistakable flavor of solicitations from dying African princes, who need only your bank account details to make you wealthy beyond measure.
At least the Bush National Guard documents were written in the right language.
If anything happens to Barack Obama, both of you will be held responsible.
I doubt if the justice system, which is badly tilted against BLACKS, would be of any help. I do not need to elaborate, because it is common knowledge.
One more time — If anything were to happen to Barack Obama, it will be the DUTY of every single Black man and woman to seek appropriate and commensurate retribution.
You are lighting a fire you will never be able to extinguish! This time it may not be just a simple riot by a few knuckle-heads. It will be another CIVIL WAR!
We all remember too well — the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, which took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, California. Robert F. Kennedy was killed during celebrations of his successful campaign in the Californian primary elections while seeking the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Your Town-Hall HATERS, may be angry, very angry, ….. but DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE FURY SIMMERING WITHIN EVERY BLACK MAN AND WOMAN IN THIS COUNTRY — While you (McCain) and Palin are stroking the racism wired into the ANIMALS you call your BASE.
