Misinformation…

Misinformation, or deliberately misleading the public with an agenda driven policy? You decide.

Nothing to see here, move along: “The fact that Obama is essentially replacing — and I’m going to use these terms loosely — but a more liberal judge with what will eventually probably be a liberal judge doesn’t really change things a lot, but if John McCain were the president of the United States today, this court would be changing in extreme ways, wouldn’t it?” –CNN anchor Rick Sanchez

Misdiagnosis: “They’re very comfortable, the core of the Republican Party, with their message of skepticism about government. … Cut taxes, shrink government. … But it doesn’t sell with, with people outside of their base demographic which are white males. There’s something about that message that turns off families, that turns off women, that turns off people who think that caring matters about other — I know that this sounds silly, but caring about other people.” –Newsweek’s Howard Fineman ++ “Can they get past the cacophony of Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich? These are sort of trollish figures. These aren’t the caring people, are they?” –MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in response

Stranger than fiction: “Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting President. And in a good way — not the way some of his predecessors were. He’s not flabberghastly…. His verbiage is a melting pot that’s always bubbling.” –Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales

From the sycophants: “Let me just say, I thought that in terms of mastery of the issues, we have rarely had a president who is as well briefed and speaks in as articulate a way as this president does.” –CNN political analyst David Gergen

Uh, no: “Everybody, including Republicans, would have to say that his first 100 days have been great.” –CBS News executive producer Rick Kaplan

Reporting the important stuff: “The first couple took full advantage of the cool spring night. After a date night out on Saturday evening, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama decided to take a stroll when their motorcade arrived back at the White House.” –Associated Press writer Christine Simmons

And then we have…

He Was Hoping to Remake the Whole Universe!: “Obama, on 100th Day, Says He Is ‘Remaking’ America” –Bloomberg ++ “President Obama ‘Humbled’ by Limits of Job” –USA Today

We All Have to Make Sacrifices: “First Lady Michelle Obama Steps Out in Lanvin Sneakers and They’re Only $540!” –Daily News (New York)

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: “Woman Steals Ambulance, Tears Up Grass Doing ‘Donuts’ in Millennium Park” –Chicago Sun-Times

News of the Tautological: “Flushing Government Stimulus Cash Down the Toilet?” –Associated Press

News You Can Use: “Airline Seats to Mexico Easy to Come By” –Associated Press

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Two Men Ordered to Stay Away From Britney Spears” –Reuters

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

Batting clean up…

Another misdiagnosis: “The Republican Party is in deep trouble. Americans do want to pay taxes for services. Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.” –former secretary of state Colin Powell

From the Clintonistas: “It’s their best issue that these tea baggers, they turned everybody off. There were a bunch of, like, 75-year-old cranky white guys mad at everything. It just couldn’t have been a better event for the Democratic Party. I hope they come back and tea bag some more. … I think that the Democrats are going to be smart enough to- when this recession is over and it will be over, to jump back on top of the spending issue like President Clinton did back in the ’90s. … Republicans shouldn’t be worried. They should be in agony. They should be throwing up. Republicans had better get a better policy on prescription drugs and quickly they’re going to need a lot more Prozac.” –CNN analyst James Carville

Europeanness envy: “I really hope that every citizen of the United States would imitate the rest of the world because they’re all for Obama. Every other country adores what happened, in our great country, to have him as president. … I love everything he’s done and everything he’s doing. I think we should give him all-out support for anything he wants to do. We should all help. He’s giving our country back to us.” –singer Tony Bennett

“Under Obama’s reasoning, the judge’s job isn’t to interpret the law: the judge should walk a mile in the appellant’s Birkenstocks.” –Human Events editor Jed Babbin

“It seems the Hog Producers have squealed a bit about their product getting a bad name so, according to the NY Times, it will no longer be called the Swine Flu. Henceforth it will be called Influenza A(H1N1). … I have a better idea for a new name. How about Montezuma’s Revenge?” –political analyst Rich Galen

“President Obama’s strongest talent is not his speechifying, which is frankly a bit of a snoozeroo. In Europe, he left ’em wanting less pretty much every time (headline from Britain’s Daily Telegraph: ‘Barack Obama Really Does Go On A Bit’). That uptilted chin combined with the left-right teleprompter neck swivel you can set your watch by makes him look like an emaciated Mussolini umpiring an endless rally of high lobs on Centre Court at Wimbledon. Each to his own, but I don’t think those who routinely hail him as the greatest orator since Socrates actually sit through many of his speeches.” –columnist Mark Steyn

“Segway’s inventor revealed plans to make a hybrid electric car powered by an engine which uses cow manure for fuel, and then use that engine to light Third World homes. Imagine generators that run on manure. Every time President Obama says he doesn’t want to run private industry a third of the planet could be electrocuted by the power surge.” –comedian Argus Hamilton

Jay Leno had to add hit two bits…

Sixty-nine-year-old Supreme Court Justice David Souter said he’s going to retire next month. Why’s he retiring? I mean, he’s a senior citizen. What’s he going to do? He’s going to sit around the house all day in his robe being judgmental, right? He might as well just stay on the job.

As a replacement for Judge Souter, they say President Obama is looking for a woman, and the rumor is Hillary Clinton is on the short list. Yeah. That’s got to be Bill’s worst nightmare, huh? A woman who can rule on the death penalty.

Well, as you know, Supreme Court judge is a job for life. There’s only one other job in Washington that’s a job for life. That’s on the Joe Biden Clarification and Apology Unit. And that’s 24/7. That’s very hectic.

In fact, just a day after saying he wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places like an aircraft or a subway because of the swine flu, Vice President Biden rode a train from Washington to Delaware. You know what that means? Not even Joe Biden listens to Joe Biden.

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