Cross-posted by MsUnderestimated.

This has to be what can only be deemed as rounds #2, 3, 4 & 5 of the WWF of the political world. Cynthia is trying so hard to keep her belt, but it’s getting harder and harder. However, I wasn’t sure Hank was going to make it. Was he coughing to disrupt the cutest little jihadist in Congress as she spewed her blather from the inside of the skull-tightening braids on her head? Or did her hot air scorch the air around them both so bad that he couldn’t breathe? Don’t know. Neither one impressed me very much, but even as his incompetence is so profoundly displayed, the “lesser of two evils” argument needs to be thrown out of the window this time.

I don’t live in that district, but what I wouldn’t give to live there for just one day next Tuesday in November to vote for the Republican – whomever he/she may be – to keep either of these less-than-brainiacs out of the Georgia Congress. That being said, Georgia’s 4th District is and always has been Democratically controlled. Given that, I hope that the voters of that district “get out the vote” next Tuesday for Hank Johnson. Hank doesn’t look like someone who would smack a police officer who was just doing his job on Capitol Hill.

For round #1, see my previous post here. These new rounds, however, are TKOs by the moderators of the debate. I’m not sure either opponent won this one.

“The fact of the matter is….” (watch the videos to understand that oft-used opening to McKinney’s statements – it was akin to “well, you know.. like, it was so, I mean, so, like, you know, we were the evil, like country, like you know?) Can I have a dollar for every time she said that? Aw, shucks… okay.

This was VERY painful to watch. However, it was not only painful, but it was also – again – entertaining on cell-slapper Cynthia’s part. She is the queen of the “non-answer” coalition, and her biggest claim to fame in this debate and others, and by her own admission, is that she is the “#1 biggest critic of the Bush Administration.” Okay, so that puts you where in your political standing? It makes you no greater or higher in prestige than Pelosi, Dean, Boxer, Reid, Kerry, Kennedy, Murtha, and on and on and on. What? Are you guys all going to get into a fight to determine the WWF champion of who is THE biggest Bush critic? I think that can be won by the lunatic left collectively; so, no, Cynthia, you do not deserve a special place at the table of the Democratic party.

The Georgia Columbus Ledger had an AP piece on today’s debate:

Johnson says he is not a Republican pawn and he started running his race before the “ABC” – “Anybody but Cynthia” – campaign began. He said that of the more than 1,400 individual contributions his campaign has received, most were donations of $100 or less. Johnson said his campaign has identified only three contributions from known Republicans.

“I can guarantee the public my allegiance is to the voters,” Johnson said.

The candidates for the 4th Congressional District squared off in a live hour-long debate aired on WSB-TV. It was the last televised debate before Tuesday’s runoff election.

In the July 18th primary, Johnson, an attorney and former DeKalb County Commissioner, came within 1,700 votes of McKinney to force a runoff.

During the debate, Johnson twice questioned McKinney about the March scuffle between the congresswoman and a Capitol Hill police officer, asking her to tell voters what really happened that day. McKinney said the grand jury had spoken on the issue and vindicated her.

“What is a woman to do when she is grabbed from behind?” McKinney asked. “The grand jury knows everything about that incident. Mr. Johnson wasn’t there and he doesn’t know anything.”

Johnson seized upon the Capitol Hill incident as an example of what he has called McKinney’s embarrassing leadership in office. While he has spent much of his campaign contrasting himself to McKinney’s outspoken, confrontational style, Johnson says he thinks voters believe he is the best candidate for the job and not just an alternative to the controversial Congresswoman.

“I think the ‘Anybody But Cynthia’ campaign has turned into the ‘We Love Hank’ campaign,” he quipped.

McKinney called herself the “Number One critic of the Bush administration” and urged voters to send her back to Washington.

“I stand in stark contrast to the Republican majority, and I’m proud of that,” McKinney said. “I promise to go to Washington and never be quiet.”

When questioned about the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and the need for an immediate cease-fire, McKinney said that every country has a right to self-defense, but that the U.S. should be doing more to encourage peace in the region and take more of a stand for human rights for Israeli and Lebanese civilians. Johnson said the U.S. should stand by Israel as its ally.

“It’s very difficult to call a cease-fire with a terrorist organization,” Johnson said.

To read the rest, and to watch the videos, go to MsUnderestimated’s original post.

Keith Olbermann has officially gone insane. On Thursday night’s edition of Countdown, he practically begged FOX News host Bill O’Reilly to say his name on television. Comedian Keith Olbermann did one of those lame “Factor Fiction” (emphasis his) segments last night, mocking Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera’s discussion on media “vampires”. Vampires, referring to the blood sucking media types like Keith Olbermann! The Olbersphere, a term coined by Robert Cox at Olbermann Watch, weighs in on Olbermann’s sad attempt to be funny.

Olbermann Watch:

The infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann launched into another of his famous “dramatic readings” of the transcript, interspersing snarky, too-hip-for-my-shirt asides that had The Laughing Stagehand in convulsions. Then all of a sudden, it was over. It just stopped. Color us disappointed. Where was the “fiction” Olby promised to expose? What were the “lies” that Mr Bill spoke? Um, well, you see, there weren’t any. Those two promises from The Schmuck were—all together now—more Olbermann lies.

Greg Sheffield at Newsbusters quips:

On last night’s “Countdown,” Keith Olbermann wondered why he still hasn’t gotten Bill O’Reilly to mention his name.

The usually sycophantic TVNewser actually reports about the incident for once, without any of his pro-Keith rhetoric.

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(via Michelle Malkin)

These stills are from a BBC comedy called “Time Trumpet” (big hat tip – Steve J). The show features a satirical “Terrorism Awards” show with nominees including a “lone gunman” who shoots Tony Blair in the head as he sleeps with his wife; a 9/11-style video of terrorists crashing an airliner into the Houses of Parliament; and a Tel Aviv suicide bombing.

Hahaha. Real funny, right?

Steve Janke has more images.

Hot Air has a video clip of “The Terrorism Awards”.

Newsbusters details Rather’s reluctance to label Hezbollah, hellbent on destroying Israel, as a terrorist organization.

Bill O’Reilly: “But here’s the problem with American reportage. Some networks give moral equivalency to Hezbollah in the reporting of this war.”

Dan Rather: “I agree that that’s a problem.” O’Reilly: “Do you agree it happens?” Rather: “I agree it happens, and I agree it’s a problem, that, it’s a problem that those of us in journalism have been reluctant to address—I do not exclude myself from this criticism—reluctant to address that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization.” O’Reilly: “Right.” Rather: “It’s committed to the destruction of Israel. It isn’t committed to trying to just gain territory. It’s committed to its destruction.”

Dan Rather money quote, literally:

“It’s not by accident that our slogan in this country, written on our money, our buildings in Washington, united we stand.”

It’s fake, but acurate!

Allah at Hot Air has more.

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Wearing his trademark ‘Clinton Happens’ hat, radio talk show host Mark Levin, The Great One, appeared on Hannity & Colmes to face off the dynamic duo, Alan Colmes and loveable liberal Bill Beckel. Surprisingly, Levin and Beckel agreed on Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah. However, Alan Colmes attempted to champion Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter as ‘engaged’ in the conflict and George Bush as ‘disengaged’. Well, let’s just say Colmes got schooled:

ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Mark, let me ask you this: Israel certainly needs to defend itself, it certainly should defend it’s right to exist, but this administration has had nothing but disengagement. That has been their policy for the past six years. Clinton was engaged, Carter was engaged, Bush 41 was engaged with Lawrence Eagleburger. This administration, their policy has been disengagement. Isn’t—-

MARK LEVIN:—Excuse me, excuse me. Why are you excusing the enemy? Why are you excusing the terrorists?

COLMES: That’s not what I said—

LEVIN:—Excuse me! You’re blaming George Bush for Hezbollah killing Israels—

COLMES: I didn’t say that—

LEVIN:—EXCUSE ME! We have 140,000 American troops in Iraq, I would call that engagement [audience cheering], we have 20,000 American troops in Afghanistan, I would call that engagement.

Ouch.

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Olbermann Watch writes:

Now this is the Krazy Keith we know and love. Kick off the opening spiel with a classic Olbyism:

24 Iraqi citizens, including unarmed women and children, shot deliberately by US Marines.

That’s our Keith. None of those silly legalities like “alleged” or “accused”. Just declare guilt and prepare to pass sentence. KO later slips in that it’s a “preliminary conclusion”, which legally doesn’t even rise to the level of an indictment, but such fine points don’t carry much weight on The Hour of Spin.

Keith already convicting soldiers before they even stand trial. This coming from the same Keith Olbermann who claims Bill O’Reilly called US troops murderers. Hypocrite.

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Surrounded by press secretaries of previous administrations and his own Tony Snow, President Bush joked around with the White House press corps in the James Brady room, which will be closed while it undergoes renovation.

When questioned if he thought if Mel Gibson should be forgiven, the President questioned “is that Sam Donaldson”, continuing he called the ABC correspondent a “has been”.

THE PRESIDENT: Is that Sam Donaldson? (Laughter.) Forget it. You’re a has-been. We don’t have to answer has-been’s questions.

QUESTION: Ohhhhh!

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Cross-posted from Ms.Underestimated.

I know there are more significant things going on in the world right now, but I just couldn’t help reporting on this debate. Cell-phone slugger Cynthia McKinney on Monday was before the Atlanta Press Club debating her Democratic opponent, Hank Johnson, just prior to the upcoming elections here in Georgia. Remember, Cynthia was a “no show” at two other previous debates, of which she was to be part, so I was kind of shocked that she showed up this time. I guess she’d run out of excuses, so I settled in and prepared to be entertained.

And I wasn’t disappointed.

Johnson was a complete robot – he never looked away from the questioning panel that I could see. However, McKinney looked several times like she wanted to smack Johnson (well, isn’t that her forte’?).

As animated as she was, she was the only entertainment here, and here are just a few of her most shining moments (satirical captions compliments of your humble blogger):

You got money from Republicans!

You accused me of what???

Well let me tell YOU something!

Oh, crap… I forgot the cameras were rolling!

She also did the typical non-answer of a key question – that question was whether or not she thought her encounter with the Capitol Hill police officer hurt her campaign, to which she responded “well, as a matter of fact, I was never charged with anything.” Yeah, right. And you wonder why the National Fraternal Order of Police, the State of Georgia FOP, local FOPs, and the Georgia Sheriff’s Association financially backed Johnson?

You can’t even tell the truth, Cynthia, yet all you do is speak about “truth to power.” What the hell does that mean? I’m STILL trying to get someone to tell me what that means! It’s a mantra that’s thrown around on the left, and it makes no sense to me. I believe in “power to TRUTH,” if you want to know my take on it.

Oh, and one of Johnson’s seemingly most egregious points of fact to McKinney was that Johnson has received campaign donations from Republicans! OH, THE HORROR! Yes, she even tells Hank that if he’s getting votes from Republicans, he might as well be a Republican. Whaaa??? Hank should have, if he’d have had the gonads, reminded Cynthia and the viewing audience that almost all of her campaign donations came from Muslims – and many of them on 9/11/01! And yes, in the end, she didn’t disappoint, as she gave us one of her most famous, idiotic, signature moral superiority arguments:

“Eisenhower reminds us that every dollar spent on war is a theft from the people, and I’ve brought more than $350M. Send me back to Washington so I can speak “truth to power’.”

Never mind the segue into this blather was very weak, and didn’t make sense. But this is Cynthia McKinney, after all. As Neal Boortz calls her, “the cutest little Jihadist in Congress.”

Oh, and by the way… I looked up her record on Congress.org, of which she so proudly boasts about her rating. And she has made some very powerful votes while in Congress. NOT! You want to know what her ranking is in the entire House? Try a whopping ranking of #408. The Congress.org site describes this ranking structure this way:

“Ranking in Chamber based on member’s 2005 Power Score. Formula based on position in Congress, actions taken to influence legislative agenda, and legislative successes.”

Remember, there are 435 members of the House, and Cynthia ranks #408. That’s #408 out of #435. What a RAVING success! She must have been bumped from #435 to #408 for that Tupac Amaru Shakur Open Records Act, HR4210. Yeah, right. By the way; the previous link to her Tupac action is courtesty of one of her biggest fanbase websites, ThugLifeArmy.

The last few minutes of the debate can sum up the whole thing. You can view that portion here.

Read the rest of the post at Ms.Underestimated, and watch additional video from Special Report.

Geoffrey Dickens at Newsbusters:

On last night’s Hardball, leftist and Pacifica radio talk show host Amy Goodman patted Chris Matthews on his back for his long held anti-war stance. Prior to a big anniversary celebration at Rockfeller Center, Goodman started to congratulate Matthews on MSNBC’s 10th year in business but then took the moment to slam its executives for firing Phil Donahue for his anti-war stance. Goodman roared: “they didn’t want him to be the face of this network, an anti-war face at a time when the other networks were waving the flag.” However when Matthews reminded Goodman that: “if being against the war was a problem here, I’d have been out of here about four years ago, ” the Democracy Now host quickly realized her error and made good by congratulating Matthews.

MSNBC hosts not having an anti-war stance? Obviously Donahue was the only show Goodman watched on MSNBC, because just about every host is against the War in Iraq and makes their opinion clear as day. Tucker Carlson, who hosts Tucker at 4pm and 6pm, said this about the War:

Carlson, on the Iraq war: “I think it’s a total nightmare and disaster, and I’m ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it. It’s something I’ll never do again. Never. I got convinced by a friend of mine who’s smarter than I am, and I shouldn’t have done that. No. I want things to work out, but I’m enraged by it, actually.”

Chris Matthews said this last night:

Matthews: “Well, if being against the war was a problem here, I’d have been out of here about four years ago, because I`ve been against this war from day one, and that didn’t cost me a job.”

Keith Olbermann, need I say more?

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Conservative columnist and blogger Debbie Schlussel appeared on FOX News’ Your World With Neil Cavuto Tuesday afternoon to discuss anti-Semitism in the United States. Schlussel touched on the Mel Gibson incident, however her point wasn’t that he said such things, but that the Hollywood community is even considering ‘letting’ him back in.

Schlussel, lives near Dearborn, MI, a largely Muslim populated area, writes about pro-Hezbollah protests and anti-Semitism that occur in the city.

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