1. Ada, that's a pretty darn convincing Cenk costume you got there.

bob at 8:33PM on Aug 7th 2008

2. So AC won't waste his time watching that show? Was that before or after several episodes? So is AC just a bit snarky talkig about a 14 year old and not condemning the media he works in or what?

Both AC and LL are "outed" now so that means he gets to go after the 14 yr. old and because the mother didn't go on his show to tell him he's an ass and boost his ratings, both he and anchor bitch get to whine about what she said? This is just "so" Cenk. A TMZ or Nat'l Enquirer moment maybe but the AC might need some publicity and found some by trashing a 14 yr. old? Bet Cenk sent Cooper a copy of that UToob video looking for a new job just in case Air Amerika folds from crap like this.

Dedmanrisn at 9:43PM on Aug 7th 2008

3. Wow. Big F-word use there.

Nice.

amy at 10:52PM on Aug 7th 2008

4. Andersen Cooper would be working in Starbucks if he wasn't Gloria Vanderbilts son. He should talk. His brother jumped out a window from their Manhattan apartment years ago. Wacko Family.

Dennis D at 11:02PM on Aug 7th 2008

5. Really a wacko window jumping family.

Back to the Political News

Obama the Muslim stories keep making Big News

In the wake of the ever growing belief Obama was and may still be a Muslim at heart, the LA Times did a story, published March,16, 2008.
Such a "Looney Paper"

Portions of that news story:
The Times report, published on March 16, 2008, revealed:

• A close boyhood friend of Obama, Zulfin Adi, said Barack "was a Muslim. He went to the mosque."

• Obama's first-grade teacher at a Catholic school, Israella Dharmawan, said: "Barry (Barack's nickname) was Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim because his father was Muslim."

• In the third grade, Obama transferred to a public school, where he was also registered as a Muslim. At the school, Muslim students attended weekly religion lessons about Islam.

Some of these details have been confirmed by Obama himself. In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Koran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."

Earlier this year, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs claimed: "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."

But the facts suggest that statement is not exactly true. It certainly is a growing belief among the broadbase american public that Obama was in fact a Muslim and did pratice the Muslim faith, which makes Hussein Obama web site a big lie.


Poll results released in mid-July by Newsweek magazine showed that 26 percent of respondents believe Obama was sworn in as a U.S. senator on a Koran, 26 percent believe he was raised as a Muslim, and 39 percent believe he attended an Islamic school as a child growing up in Indonesia.

While rebuffing reports of his ties to Islam, Obama has insisted there is “nothing wrong” with being a Muslim.

But any perceived link between Obama and Islam could be detrimental to his campaign, polls show.

A survey by Fox News/Opinion Dynamics conducted when Mitt Romney, a Mormon, was a Republican presidential candidate found that 32 percent of voters said they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who is Mormon — while 45 percent said they would be less likely to vote for a Muslim.

And a poll by the Pew Research Center disclosed that 35 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Muslims.

On top of the LA Times News article, was the recent news of an Obama staffer quiting because of his Radical Muslim connections.

The Arab-American and Muslim-American outreach coordinator for Barack Obama's campaign has resigned following disclosures about his past association with a radical Muslim cleric.

Mazen Asbahi, an associate with the Chicago law firm Schiff Hardin, quit on Monday, saying he did not want

Robert OKane at 11:51PM on Aug 7th 2008

6. I remember after Katrina when CNN assigned Cooper as a field reporter in New Orleans.

His intimacy of death was creepy. Every single time he reported he was wading around in water talking about the smell of decomposition & watching as they discovered another body. He loved snooping around a house that had been marked by authorities as having a corpse inside.

I still call him "Dr. Doom" to this day. The guy was obsessed with it...

Bobby at 12:23AM on Aug 8th 2008

7. AC would be a better choice than Cenk.

Clif-found your discharge papers yet?

Then you can answer my question I have been asking, what type of discharge did you get from the military after your fine enlisted stint in the military during the Viet War

robert okane at 2:42AM on Aug 8th 2008

8. Back to politics

Washington Post, a newspaper that is Liberal and a supporter of Obama, has been blasting Obama in it's editorials

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jim Geraghty at The Corner raises a good point. Is it possible that the Washington Post, recognizing Obama’s utter lack of principles, stubborness in the face of changing facts, and total lack of experience doing anything, will endorse McCain? There hasn’t been much hand holding, let alone kissing, by Washington Post editors and The Messiah this year.

On the townhall debates, they told Obama to man-up and do the debates like he said he would (remember “anywhere, anytime?”).

Then they called him “Foolish,” “Irrational,” and “Wrong” on Iraq.

Today, they ripped Obama a new one on his plans for handling the oil industry. They called him “Robin Hood” using “Gimmicks” that would “Sock it to consumers.” Well, after this lashing, the Post’s reporters are probably off the plane too.

On the windfall profits tax.

Mr. Obama’s proposal to take some of this money from Big Oil and distribute it, like Robin Hood, to hard-pressed American families doesn’t make economic sense. To be sure, Mr. Obama would not copy the tax enacted under President Jimmy Carter in 1980, which netted $40 billion before its repeal in 1988 while imposing huge administrative burdens — and retarding domestic oil production. Mr. Carter’s tax was levied per-barrel, so it directly increased the marginal cost of producing crude — and made figuring out which barrels to tax ridiculously complicated. Mr. Obama wants a surtax on net oil company profits above a “reasonable” level. The tax would be set high enough to raise $65 billion over the next five years, and the revenue would fund a one-shot tax rebate that Mr. Obama would like to give to families and individuals this year.

Wonder how the Post can be so sure Obama wouldn’t copy Carter’s plan. A surtax on net oil company profits above a “reasonable” level is classic liberal language, wherein reasonable is defined as whatever level Obama subjectively wants it to be. Forget the fact that higher taxes on oil companies are passed right back onto consumers in the form of higher prices at the pump. But the Post, bless their hearts, knows this too.

But to add a five-year tax increase on top of that to pay for a one-year gift to voters would, indeed, increase the cost of doing business. That cost would be passed along in forgone investment in new production, lower dividends for pension funds and other shareholders, and higher prices at the pump — thus socking it to the consumers whom the plan is supposed to help.

See, that’s called economics. It’s an elective in college that liberals skip in favor of the more popular “How to Light a Beer Bong in a Stiff Wind at a Spit-on-the-Soldiers Rally - 101.”

The Post also thinks Obama’s plan to use the Strategic Oil Reserve is misguided.

Modifying his previous opposition [a.k.a. Flip-flopping] to tapping the reserve, Mr. Obama would swap more-expensive light crude held there for cheaper heavy crude “with the goal of bringing down prices at the pump.” President Bill Clinton did such a swap in September 2000 — yes, just before another presidential election — and President Bush released oil in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. Both moves led to drops in the spot price of crude but not the sort of relief at the pump that Mr. Obama promises. Even if they had, any relief from Mr. Obama’s plan would be temporary while compromising a reserve intended to protect against disruptions in supply caused by wars, boycotts and the like.

Apparently it can also be used to protect against disruptions in Obama’s presidential aspirations.

It is unlikely the Post will endorse McCain, but at least the editorials will provide good fodder for anti-Obama ads.

Robert OKane at 6:34AM on Aug 9th 2008

9. WOW!! I haven't realized how amazingly cruel people can be... and I'm not talking about Anderson, he has a right to his opinion (we do live in America by the way). I am talking about the hurtful and downright nasty comment about suicide. Suicide is a very serious subject and it really shakes the core of anyone who is even remotely connected to the person who has committed suicide, much less the family of that person. Anderson did a really brave thing sharing his experience with the world. It is a shame that any person would have so little compassion and decency to say anything like "wacko window jumping family". Depression is a disease that can affect people of all walks of life, even ones with great families. Suicide is the worst outcome of that. It takes a little person to bring something like that up. Let me remind you that this all arose from a discussion of a show on E!. Not only that but if you really new about Anderson Cooper, you would know that he worked hard to get where he is. Please remember that what we put out into the world stays there. The nastiness and the bitterness of hateful remarks only hangs in the ether of the world that our children grow up in and they in turn will be formed by that nastiness and bitterness. So although Anderson could have been more tactful in stating concern for the Lohan girl, the suicide comment is totally, unquestionable, uncategorically uncalled for.

Kay at 2:40PM on Aug 8th 2008

10. It's come to this eh Chike? Tabloid topics? Desperation to get someone, anyone to notice your inane blog.

Chunksadouchebag at 9:01AM on Aug 8th 2008

11. You would think Anderson would want to avoid the topic of "personal life".

That said, I think he had a good point about the Lohan show. Poor Ali is made up to look like she is 30, and I hate to be rude, but the girl just does not have much talent. She is a pretty good singer, but not a powerhouse vocalist by any means. With the right material she could have a hit song, but her fame from the reality show is going to make that harder, not easier.

I think Dina Lohan did the show and signed the daughter up for the show to prove she is a "good mother" and to make some $ now that the Lindsay cash cow has run away to be a quiet lesbian (good for her!)

I just hope there is some money put away for Ali to get a college education and have a life after this show.

Kitty at 9:10AM on Aug 8th 2008

12. Of course you don't make fun of suicide. But, if you want to crack down on insanely irresponsible, nasty comments, start with the left. Anytime a conservative or a Christian passes from this world, there is all sorts of grave dancing in the wacky left-wing blogs.

And then we have the Prez being called Hitler, a terrorist, a mass murderer and late night talking heads "joke" about him being assassinated. In addition, a book and a movie about assassination come out, furthering the decay and degradation even more.

In politics "hate speech" seems to be the norm now and liberals have only themselves to blame for this horrific decline in civility.

Dave at 9:18AM on Aug 8th 2008

13. Bush and Cheny claim to be "Christian," both are liar's, anything but Christian. If people keep trying to make Obama "Muslim," please show me how Bush claiming to be Christian, has made him any better. The absolute worse President, since Nixon... Show me a true Christian and I will listen. These people are nothing but criminals. Something a True Christian is not.

Carolyn Bond at 10:48AM on Aug 8th 2008

14. I love AC, he is the world's foremost journalist. If you read his book, he tells how he got started, and it had nothing to do with his mother. And, how could you be so cruel to make fun of his brother's suicide? That is low. His coverage of Hurricane Katrina was the best, and his compassion for real people is evident.

Sarah at 12:32PM on Aug 8th 2008

15. . In addition, a book and a movie about assassination come out, furthering the decay and degradation even more.
-------------------------------------------

I've seen you make reference to that movie before, Dave. It is a BRITISH "docu-drama" titled, "Death of A President."

Unlike you, Dave. I have actually seen it. The movie has nothing to do with Governor bush himself and/or his policies. It is about the assassination of the president of the United States and that just happens to be George bush. The movie gives Governor bush far more respect than he deserves.

I know that doesn't fit with your, "I'm a conservative Christian and it hurts my feelings," attitude, but it is fact.

Maybe you should see it before you whine about it.

Captain Negative at 1:38PM on Aug 8th 2008