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Fox & Friends Crew Compare Obama Jobs Speech To ‘Late-Night Infomercial’

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The feedback President Obama’s much anticipated (and much preemptively maligned) jobs speech is raking in has been mostly predictably partisan, with some deviations, but lost in responses from Rep. Michele Bachmann and others seems to be the directness in comments from Fox & FriendsSteve Doocy this morning, who suggested the speech amounted to little more than an “infomercial.”

Doocy discussed the speech with co-hosts Alisyn Camerota and Brian Kilmeade, both who found significant flaws with the jobs plan itself. As for the speech, the rhetoric to the group seemed a bit heavy-handed. Playing a montage of the number of times the President demanded Congress pass the jobs bill as soon as possible, Doocy couldn’t help be reminded of “one of those guys in a late-night infomercial,” claiming the President said the statement “18 times.”

As for the substance, Kilmeade noted that it was actually gaining some mild support– but surely more than some expected– from Republican leadership, as House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor said the plan “merited consideration.” That said, both Kilmeade and Doocy seemed concerned about the funding for the bill. “The President is passing the buck when it comes to paying for it,” Doocy argued, suggesting that it should not be the Super Committee’s responsibility to find the money.

The conversation then somehow did a u-turn back to infomercials, where we find out Kilmeade is a “garden weasel” kind of guy, while Doocy can’t stop buying “that special ladder that can bend.” Hopefully the next jobs speech will include ample amounts of both.

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  • Roger_Fails

    Coming from three of the most clueless, talentless hacks on TV, I think their opinion isn’t worth a warm bucket of spit.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is an embarrassment to this Country and the oval office…..why did he have to waste all our tax money on a stupid campaign speech? What a flipping idiot!!

  • NellieDanica

    Duh, it’s Fox News. They are as predictable as a chubby guy choosing to eat steak over a salad. 

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    If the President had been sparse in his job proposals, these three would have derided him as being all talk and no proposal.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    How much money do you think Obama actually spent on the speech last night? All of it?

    Go back to grammar school and insist you be taught correctly.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, but Barry’s pitch will cost more than $19.95!!!!

  • Anonymous

    That’s outrageously outrageous! The President’s speech was nothing like a late night infomercial. For one thing, it was at 7:00. And there are many other reasons why it’s nothing like an infomercial which I’m sure will eventually come to me!

  • Anonymous

    Your sophomoric ridiculous opinion has been duly noted.

  • Anonymous

    Think Progress?

    LMAO

  • Anonymous

    Michael Moore is not the topic here.

  • Anonymous

    This from a brain challenged 2 year old.

  • Anonymous

    Absurd!  When informercial hosts lie, they get caught by the FTC and SEC.  When Obama lies, he just gets applauded.  Oh wait, no, Kevin Trudeau gets applauded and that crap on his informercials all the time.  Hmm… They may be onto something… This is a thinker.

  • Joseph Bernard

    Who gives a f*** what Steve Doocy thinks?

  • Anonymous

    Alisyn Camerota is a reporter who makes you wonder, and want to learn more. That’s real journalism…mmmm.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    Your highest level of education was probably being home-schooled. At least I went to a national private four-year university.

  • Anonymous

    Prison is not a private four-year university, dear!

  • Anonymous

    You obviously do!

    I think Steve struck a nerve!

  • ceeza

    It must be said again Steve Doocy is the worst…. I want to hear someone actually defend that joker .. I would be so upset if he was my dad.. seriously.. I can see the good in most people but that guy is just bizarre..

  • bccacher

    Republicans are the only embarrassment; Osama’s speech was bang on, drop the childish attitude, time to grow up.  Would you rather Bush back?  After all this is his mess.  Obama could sh*t gold and you uneducated good ol boys would still hate him, ya he’s black get over it.

  • insideguy

    As you guys know im a liberal but I have always been open minded and watched FOX news. I cannot anymore. Im sure they don’t care but its so biased at this point it is beyond the pale. MSNBC is just as bad, so I don’t watch that anymore either. Both these channels have contributed to the divide in this country and profit on it. 

  • richs

    What’s a national private four-year university?  If it belongs to the nation how can it be private?  If its a university how can it be four year?  Doesn’t it have any graduate divisions?  Maybe you misremembered where you went?  Are you another of the racist king’s alternate names?  He seem to also get confused when talking about what a university is.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, we did hear from Osama last night.

    Thanks for playing!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I’m sure Harvard and the other ivy league universities are eager to learn how to become “national” universities.

  • Anonymous

    But wait! If you pass this bill before midnight tonight, we’ll double your order! (Just pay seperate processing and handling of $450 billion)

  • Anonymous

    ITT Tech.

  • Anonymous

    And if you double your order, we will tell ya how you can get your order for free!

  • Blackwolfrun2000

    ROTFLMAO!!!!!

  • Valkyrie101

    The Fox and Friends were cheering for America to go into default, that didn’t happen for them but perhaps they can block the jobs bill instead.

  • Valkyrie101

    The Fox and Friends were cheering for America to go into default, that didn’t happen for them but perhaps they can block the jobs bill instead.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, since FOX does have a vote in Congress.

    Rolls eyes.

  • Joseph Bernard

    Fox has a vote in turning half the country into a bunch of idiots.

  • Joseph Bernard

    Fox has a vote in turning half the country into a bunch of idiots.

  • Anonymous

    Since Fox News is obviously fair and balanced, I’m sure Mediaite is just ignoring all those nice things Fox & Friends had to say about Obama’s speech.

  • Anonymous

    “Osama” gave the same speech he always gives. And yes, I would rather have Bush back. Nearly half the country agreed in late 2009. I’m sure it’s closer to 60% by now.
    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Bush_closes_the_gap.html

  • Ritchie

    George Bush could start civil wars in not just two but ten Muslim countries. He would still be a hero at Fox News. Obama could give every American a job. He would still be an anti-American socialist at Fox News.

  • Anonymous

    ” Pass this bill that’s in my head .  NOW ! ”

    Trumka and Hoffa will fill in the details later for you sons of bitches .

  • Anonymous

    Dems are ignoring Obama and Reps are laughing at him .

  • StephenRichieKaren lol

    Now you are just getting lazy , spelling our name wrong like that . Sheeeesh .

  • ROTFLMAO

    Wrong!!
    Late night infomercials are a hell of a lot more interesting!
    And much more productive, I would add!!!
    That hood, Trumpka sure as hell added a lot of credibility sitting in there, did he not??
    Good Lord!!!!

  • Ritchie

    Since when did conservatives care about spending money? It was definitely not during the last decade when Bush refused to veto one spending bill turning Clinton’s surplus into a trillion dollar deficit giving us the worst decade of economic growth since the Great Depression. It took Fox News and the Republican Party a black Democrat to win the White House for conservatives to care about fiscal discipline.

  • Anonymous

    I’m a conservative but I find Fox and Friends is a little too unbalanced for my tastes (but is tame compared to how much the other networks carry the DNC water), but for you I suggest you consider ‘The Five’ and O’Reilly.   I’d worried The Five was just a fill-in show to hold the slot after Beck left, but its a good and growing show in its own right.  O’Reilly is great because opposing points of view are given good airtime, but The Five takes it a step further by not having one persons opinion (O’Reilly) be the dominate view, instead it has 1 liberal and 4 conservatives or pseudo conservatives.  They divide the airtime up pretty well and Beckel as the lone liberal gets plenty of input on any topic at the expense of some of the others having more time.  Kymberly Guilfoyle isn’t bad to watch/listen to either…

  • Norbit

    That is such a false equivalency.

    While a number of FOX shows and hosts proffer a more conservative perspective, they’re definitively more civil and less vitriolic than their MSNBC counterparts.

    Here’s an exercise for anyone interested in the truth.
    Wait for the next political controversey, and then tape the morning and evening opinion shows on both stations.

    You’ll find a level of enmity at MSNBC toward conservatives that doesn’t exist toward liberals, at FOX.
    Oh, and MSNBC ascribes pernicious intent to Republican motives;  while FOX actually exposes the same in liberals.
                                                                                                            

  • Roger_Fails

    And coming from you, that’s the equivalent of being slapped down by the equally brainless Fox & Friends.

  • Anonymous

    Man up, America! The rest of us need to help those people who listen aimlessly to talking heads. What really needs to happen is the schedule these talking heads for the routine “Rectal Encephaloectomy” as they have not raised their heads above the FOX-hole!

  • Lizton

    Uncle Roger will give the three Fox clowns a pat on the back.

  • cdnhawk

    Wow…you need to get your hearing checked….or maybe you just aren’t that smart

  • Valkyrie101

    Surely you are not stoned (sorry, I couldn’t resist. pretty funny, huh?). Fox News/Ruppert is the main mover and shaker probably in the whole world. Ask the British. But look at America.

  • Darladoon

    if you actually check the link, stonepark, you’ll find something very amusing:  bush taking credit for bin laden’s death.  

    “The reality, of course, is that Bush’s attempts to capture or kill bin Laden were huge failures. While it’s been well documented that the Bush administration missed an opportunity to get bin Laden in Tora Bora in 2001, Bush himself subsequently stated publicly that he wasn’t spending much time thinking about getting him. “I truly am not that concerned about him. I am deeply concerned about Iraq,” Bush said in 2002, “I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you.” Bush told reporters in 2006 that hunting the al Qaeda leader was “not a top priority use of American resources.”
    And in 2005, Bush shut down the CIA’s unit dedicated to finding bin Laden in order to shift resources to Iraq. “The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants,” the New York Times reported in 2006, adding that resources “had been redirected from the hunt for Mr. bin Laden to the search for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed last month in Iraq.” 

  • Darladoon

    the doocy and kilmeade tag team is one of the most legendary journalistic duos
    in the history of american journalism.   their hard-hitting analyses never cease to
    make me weep in envy at these guys.  i smell Pulitzer!!!!!

  • Valkyrie101

    Come on, there is nothing wrong with less civil more vitriolic, as long as there is also more civil less vitriolic also going on. People can choose what they prefer. As for Fox/MSNBC, they are two sides of the same coin.

  • Anonymous

    wow.  how impressive you are.

  • Anonymous

    Fox & Friends Crew Compare Obama Jobs Speech To ‘Late-Night Infomercial’

    I must disagree slightly…Obungles is more like a used car salesman.

  • Anonymous

    so what are you watching now?

  • Anonymous

    is she the one in the hooker heels?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Fox & Friends Crew Compare Obama Jobs Speech To ‘Late-Night Infomercial’? We didn’t need Fox so say it. It was pretty obvious to many.

    “Pass this Bill, now!” well, what’s in it? “Pass it first, then you’ll see what’s in it.” But, wouldn’t that be rather sneaky? “This is how we roll. Haven’t you heard of Obamacare?”.

  • Glutton

    Think about me shaving your mom.

  • Republicans are Liars

    You’re just an idiot. You know why the chinese are doing so good. They all move towards the same goal. We used to be a country that moved together in one direction. That was back when there wasn’t 100′s of different media outlets splintering the country and an internet that gives indiots like you Eddie a place to spew your venom. When idiots like you sit around and bad mouth a quality program, instead of getting behind a program that will solve our problems or at least put us on the right track. Your cynicism and millions more like you has  caused our problems. So keep listening to your idiot leaders, Beck Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reily… These people are paid to keep idiots llike you stirred up. The more they get you riled up the more you tune in and the more they can sell their advertising for big $$$. You are a modern day rube. Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh and O’Reily are shills for rich people to keep you down. If you don’t believe it, then you are a true moron. Back the President and his plan. If you don’t nothing is going to change. It is up to you and the rest of the conservative morons to STF up call your congressman and tell him to vote for the plan, RIGHT AWAY.  (BTW Eddie… with all the sincerity I can muster, without malice in my heart, I really wish you would go f%*# yourself.)

  • Maxirjp179

    See even liberals get confused  as to what his name is..Osama, Obama, Obeezy, By the way when Bush ws president and we had 5% unemployment the deems said it was the end of days and we couldn’t not sustain such high unemployment..

  • Glutton

    Your mom looks better shaved.

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    Presidential addresses to Congress are often dramatic moments. This one felt like a sideshow. Usually, the press gallery is standing room only; this time only 26 of 90 seats were claimed by the deadline. Usually, some members arrive in the chamber hours early to score a center-aisle seat; 90 minutes before Thursday’s speech, only one Democrat was so situated.

  • caconservative

    Are you suggesting Obimbo killed Osama with a military put in place by Bush? I think the pertinent word here is MILITARY, don’t you? Let’s give the credit to those that actually did it! 

  • Glutton

    And I struck a nerve with your mom. Could you guess where?

  • Obeezy

    Please stop with the surplus bull.. there was no surplus. And most conservatives and republicans thought Bush spent way too much.. See with us its about the country not the person leading the party.. Obama could tell you to drink bathwater and eats crayons and ya’ll would follow him

  • Darladoon

    yeah, the guy who ADMITTED he “wasn’t that concerned about him”…….and failed to capture
    him multiple times is the one who deserves credit……lol

  • caconservative

    It wasn’t only money Obimbo spend foolishly, he took up TV air time to feed his narcissistic ego. He told us nothing that we didn’t already know. He has, as usual, waited our time!

  • Richie

    Did a host of an MSNBC show ever call the president a racist or claim that he’s not American? I don’t remember this.

  • caconservative

    If it was bang-on, what has he been doing for nearly three years? What the hell does his race have to with it, or, is it the justification you and the rest of the race-baitters use to cover up for his lack of competence? He’s been in office nearly three years!! How the hell long does it take to implement the obvious?!!  

  • ROTFLMAO

    AWWWWWWWWW !!!
    By Golly, that’ll fix em!!!!

  • caconservative

    I saw a picture of Carter the other day with a quote saying, “miss me yet”! Succinct, and to the point!

  • caconservative

    Didn’t middle America correct that by throwing a huge number of the skunks out? If anything, we didn’t throw enough out, or pay strong enough attention to who we were voting for to replace them!

  • Anonymous

    America was not going to default. You bought the lie and you embraced the nonexistant crisis.

  • caconservative

    The vast Fox viewing audience, maybe?

  • Anonymous

    Many conservatives were upset that Bush didn’t veto those spending bills sent to him by the Democratic controlled congress in the latter part of his presidency. Spending got out of hand on Bush’s watch, and then Obama drove the country off a cliff.

  • insideguy

     At times I have liked Bill O but as the election nears it appears as if he has turned up the rhetoric against Obama.  He has gone head to head with conservatives who want to raise taxes and his arguments have been illogical. The Five is the worst. They are four against one. And the one is a fat over the hill drug addict liberal. They didn’t put this guy on by chance. He is a tool in their game. Put two good looking conservative women on a bomb throwing wall street guy, and a late night comedian and gang up on the fat guy who looks like he cant wait to get out of his chair to eat his next dozen donuts. Again Bill O is not the worst but in all honesty anyone who has dick morris on his program on a regular basis must  have a problem. Dick is useless and contributes nothing. At least at times Bill O has been fair but watch as this election gets closer he will become just like everyone else on FOX.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, it’s amazing how many people are caught in permanent drooling freakout mode due to the existance of a Cable News channel. You should ask Murdoch for an apology.

  • caconservative

    Don’t stop watching “BS-MSNBC”, it’s the best comedy show on TV!

  • TruDat

    Hey, he could have been promoting the ‘Lie Master’.

  • insideguy

    Norbit with all due respect I think you are delusional. The level of enmity is at least as bad. I just cant watch a constant narrative on either channel with little or very little intellectual debate. In reality we have better and more informative debates on this blog than they do on these so called news channels.

  • TruDat

    They always do; there’s nothing dumber than a liberal.

  • Richie

    During the 2000′s Fox News became the War on Terror network. It made them a fortune promoting Bush’s wars. No longer is War on Terror sprayed across the screen of every program. Fox News became the Hate Everything Obama Network in 2009. It’s made them a fortune among the angry white people who adored George Bush and war. You are right. Fox News is Republican party propaganda meant to keep viewers full of passion for war or against Obama now. 

  • Anonymous

    You must pass this bill now! Our operators are standing by…

  • caconservative

    You may be on to something. If two non-political Fox employees can see through Obimbo, Pulitzer isn’t out of the question.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t matter if it’s FOX, or MSNBC, or CNN, or CBS – all the ladies wear hooker heels. Oh, everyone except Rachel Maddow. Hummm. 

  • Anonymous

    Judging by Mooch’s reaction:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14pSEwEbck

    No one’s buying Obama’s snake oil. Maybe a 10 day luxury vacation to Ibiza will cheer her up.

  • Valkyrie101

    That bill wasn’t anything like Obama wanted. I mean you can call it Obamacare if you want. To get around the republicans stated goal of opposing everything that Obama suggests, he needs the American people to support him by giving him a Congress he can work with. That debt ceiling spectacle was over the top, and those who tried to default our nation must be kicked out.

  • insideguy

    Actually as we speak im watching the US open and trying to enjoy my day off.:) But as far as news ill watch some cnn or bbc. I know cnn leans left but what the hey compared to FOX or MSNBC they are fair and balanced.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    Though he recorded it before the speech, so the comparison isn’t about content and more about timing, but I thought Colbert’s “repackaging” of the speech as an infomercial was funnier.

    (Skip ahead to the 4:30 mark for the infomercial reference.)

  • insideguy

     And these damn commie socialist from europe keep beating our USA tennis players ugggg lol. Must be that national healthcare they have over there:)

  • Anonymous

    Wow, it sounds like you are the one spewing all the vemon. So much anger. Take a chill pill.

  • Anonymous

    Are teleprompters included if you enter the secret code and pay shipping and handling?

  • Anonymous

    Unrelated indeed and irrelevant. Why would we care if Bush wants more credit? We got today to worry about.

  • bhodie

    Fox and Morons do more harm to this country, and wish for its failure than any show on televsion…It just amazes me that the goons on this show never have anything positive to say, they are the most depressing people on TV…

  • Valkyrie101

    I am certain that you would have not like the deficits during WW2. Somehow, with all that debt, we made it out into unprecedented growth. So why the doomsday outlook now?  We are just one or two brilliant ideas away from prosperity.

  • Onairwithdrtom

    Let’s be honest… fox or not, this is exactly spot on–an infomercial.
    16 times pass the bill…without reading it? I know , we need to pass the bill w/o reading it to find out what is in the bill…..Groundhog’s day anyone?

  • Anonymous

    AP did a fact check on his speech last night. They found no less than 4 statements he made that are not true. The 2 worst ones are this bill is NOT paid for and it will absolutely add to our national debt.http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=WLC2m17PW­Ls

  • ceeza

    you.are.so.not.funny.it’s.sad.

  • Darladoon

    oxymoron of the day:  ”non-political fox employees”

  • Anonymous

    Greg Gutfeld said it best last night on Red Eye.

    While watching Obama last night, I couldn’t find the right words to describe the surreal way in which Obama was over-dramatizing his words, trying to seem way too sincere while at the same time reading those words off of a teleprompter. It was just a really weird thing to observe.

    Last night, Red Eye host Gutfeld noticed something weird about Obama’s speech too and the word he came up with to describe it is “contrived”:

    contrived [kənˈtraɪvd]
    adjobviously planned, artificial, or lacking in spontaneity; forced; unnatural

    Of course, over at MessNBC, “Resist we Much” had something crawl up his leg during the infomercial.

  • Anonymous

    Every penny he spent was a waste……I find it pathetic that you are more concern with grammatical misconceptions than the stupidity of our incompetent community organizer!!

  • Onairwithdrtom

    Nice try Valkyrie… Pelosi told the American public we must pass the bill to find out what is in the bill. Last night, 16 times, I heard pass the bill now…really? Without reading it. I’ll pass..an infomercial is a compliment.

  • Anonymous

    If Obamacare wasn’t anything like what Obama wanted, why did he sign it? He did sign it, and now he owns it.

  • Anonymous

    Before you comment any further on Obama’s speech being “bang on”, you should take a few hours to check out all of the editorials and reactions by economists from a wide range (left and right) of sources. There were very few that might be called praise. The public’s reaction was much better, but when they read the analysis of the speech I expect that will drop. When they discover that this is 2009 repackaged and tweaked, many will change their mind.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, what was the purpose is asking for a joint session, for the purpose of making a speech to announce that in a few weeks, you’re going to have a plan, that must be passed right now, with money that’ll require a tax hike on everyone who actually pay taxes, in order to create temporary jobs for people who wouldn’t go to work for another couple of years anyway because of environmental laws?

  • Anonymous

    Your name is very appropriate.

    I struck a nerve!

  • Anonymous

    He struck a nerve in the racist RAL!!!

  • Anonymous

    So far, Obama and his advisors are not looking very brilliant.

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    UNIONS PAYOFF WE MUCH!!

  • Anonymous

    I think he meant that because he is black and stupid and shits gold he should get a free pass.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is back at the feeding trough asking for more money he can spend…hundreds of billions in more money.

  • Richie

    I just love how Fox News and the GOP want to believe that those last two years of Bush’s administration when the Democrats controlled the House is the cause for Bush’s disastrous economic policies. LMAO.

  • Anonymous

    LMAO.. That’s gota hurt.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Dragon, what Bush said was true!

    hahaha

  • Anonymous

    The urgency to pass the bill that he claimed shouldn’t be “controversial” was all political grand standing. The Democrats will use the Republicans resistance to it as political ammunition to call them “obstructionists” in order to gain votes in 2012.
    This “more of the same” speech was all calculated to maintain and gain power and very little about concern for the unemployed. Basically, it was a campaign speech, but Obama doesn’t know much else.
    Is it legal to give a campaign speech this way?

  • Norbit

    I can’t say extemporaneously, but I’d bet my house that Olbermann, Matthews or Shultz did, because I’ve heard much worse!

  • Norbit

    I can’t say extemporaneously, but I’d bet my house that Olbermann, Matthews or Shultz did, because I’ve heard much worse!

  • Anonymous

    lol, good points.  Poor Bob doesn’t represent himself well with hacking up a lung whenever the camera is off him, but he is a well spoken and experienced liberal political operative.  They ought to consider getting him some liberal backup, and make it 3 to 2.  I’m afraid I’d stop watching if it were 2 (conservative) to 3 (liberal) since then it’d almost be like the other channels where it’d usually be 0 to 5 liberal but on occasion is 1 to 4…   Dick Morris is most of the time just a commercial for DickMorris.com, I always watch these shows on enough of a DVR delay that I can fast forward BS segments, for no spin the segments with certain guests elicit nothing but spin, at least from the guest.

  • Norbit

    Well, I do check out and sometimes file genuine links or info from some of the posters here.

  • Anonymous

    “i smell Pulitzer!!!!!”

    No, that was your egg salad.

  • Anonymous

    Heck of an economic plan Barry- DOW down 325!

  • Anonymous

    WWII is a great example.  We spent money we didn’t have and got away with it (was actually a great deal for us) because Europe was desperate for goods and so destroyed that even after the war they needed our ‘stuff’.  If we had sat WWII out and weren’t the supplier of goods to those countries we wouldn’t have grown to be the dominant super power, or at least wouldnt’ have dominated in the same way.

  • Anonymous

    What other chance does he have at getting reelected?

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    Give him a break hes busy giving Uncle Onyango some “backdoor” http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/9/house-chairman-obama-uncles-got-backdoor-amnesty/

  • bccacher

    Well said,  I can’t believe that someone could spew the hateful bullshit like this guy ED without being paid to do it.  He is an IDIOT for sure!

  • Anonymous

    Default was never going to happen and anyone with an ounce of sense knew that. Why are we still arguing about that? It was all political leveraging and both sides were using it.

  • Anonymous

    It’ll go back up in two weeks when Obama figures out how to pay for it.

  • Anonymous

    I should think Obama would consider Trumpka a mill stone around his neck, but maybe Trumpka has him by the short hairs.
    Did you see that Longshoremen are helping out Obama’s campaign by taking security guards hostage? 

  • Anonymous

    Bomb Japan and Germany back to the stone age again? That seemed to help but may be frowned upon in this day and age.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, if any republicans had even an oz of brain, they would have figured out that the investors see the same old republican “NO” stance regarding anything to get JOBS to people.  If they think they will win the white house – they undersestimate the people who are without jobs and their vote.  Watching these assholes laugh about the unemployed is a real sad day for America.,  These people aren’t Americans -they are Republicans first.  Yes, a real sad day.

  • Anonymous

    I wasn’t sure about The Five at first, but it’s grown on me. I, too, would like to see one of the cons replaced with a lib. I like the spirited debate, and a 3/2 ratio would ramp things up a bit. I’d like to see Juan Williams as a regular.

  • Anonymous

    I do realize it is above your intellect, but the Medicare bill that was signed in 1965 isn’t exactly the same as it was then either.  It takes some changes along the way that improve the bill.  However, it also takes two political parties that are grown up enough and put their country and the needs of the people before their own ideology and religious needs.  Unfortunately, the republicans – not just in congress, but on the TV shows and on these boards do not care about their country or fellow Americans.

    It is a very sad day for America.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, that was all over the Seattle news yesterday and involved multiple ports. More union thuggery. How do they think this kind of thing advances their cause?

  • insideguy

    Id go for that. Juan would at least put up a fight and not be dropping his pencil to get a look up Kimberlys skirt.

  • Valkyrie101

    Listen to your self. I went ahead and said you could call it “Obamacare”, and now you want to say it is his bill. Is he a legislator? He signed a compromise because he is the great compromiser II.

  • Anonymous

    OK.

  • Valkyrie101

    Dude, like everybody else, Obama wanted a system like Canada or England, or Germany, Japan, and many other countries with objectively better overall care to their entire populations, than ours. That was quickly found to be impossible, and he became responsible for “death panels” in short order.

  • Anonymous

    If Obama really cared about the country he should have concentrated on jobs-jobs-jobs the first year in office, not cramming a very bad “health insurance reform” bill down our throats. He said the economy couldn’t recover until Obamacare passed. Well it passed, and the economy is in the toilet. When he did look at jobs he pushed for “shovel ready projects”, then later laughed about those jobs not being so “shovel ready”.

  • Anonymous

    “Fox & Friends Crew Compare Obama Jobs Speech To ‘Late-Night Infomercial’”

    Yeah, ASSUMING that the infomercial is just a funny parody of an infomercial.

    Pass the Bill, Pass The Bill Now, Pass The Bill, Pass The Bill Now, Pass The Bill….
    Oh, and BTW, THERE IS NO (NONE, NADA, ZIP, ZERO, ZILCH) actual bill anywhere in existence – all there is the idiotic-box teleprompter words !!!!!!!!

    OBOZO has become of joke of a joke – and that will be great for America. NOBODY will ever vote for somebody that is near universally considered a FOOL – and that is OBOZO now.  ONE TERM ONLY is guaranteed!

  • Valkyrie101

    By not raising the debt ceiling, you risk much without being certain, at least, of the effect that would have. Am I right on that? (With possibilities ranging from armageddon, to extremely bad). Why would you do that? Just for fun? The world is unstable enough without such theatrics. And many tens of thousands were hurt by it, with tens of millions more being horrified. That was a tea party assault on the world economy and only Obama’s negotiating skills, and a push back in the polls against the tea party, averted a disaster.

  • Valkyrie101

    See my reply to nonelite above. These crazy republicans.

  • Valkyrie101

    No, I do not think so. You can apply for a home schooling license, though.

  • Valkyrie101

    Rope a dope.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, if he didn’t like the bill, he could have sent it back. He could have refused to sign it. But he invested too much time and too much political capital so he signed into law a very bad bill. I don’t call that a “great compromise”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7H4ZUHCYNRP7LWGPXVKKO767LI Jeff

    Same old crap, different day.  Yes Obama sounds like an infomercial, always has always will.  

  • Valkyrie101

    Presidents would love a line item veto, but since they do not have that power, all presidents must routinely sign bills they are not completely thrilled with.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is more like the undiagnosed venerial desease, but with a twist. Instead of just keeps on giving, he just keeps on taking and taking while leaving everyone he comes in contact with sick as a dog.

  • Anonymous

    Is there ever a point where you’ll admit the debt ceiling is just too damn high? 20 trillion? 50 trillion? 100 gazillion?

  • Anonymous

    Come on, Valk. If Bush or any other Republican president signed a bill into law that you didn’t like, you wouldn’t give that president the benefit you obviously give Obama. I would also venture to say that you would like Obama to have the line item veto, and you would HATE any republican president to have it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Is the American Jobs Act going to be his bill or someone else’s?
    Civics 101: The first step in the legislative process is the introduction of a bill to Congress. Anyone can write it, but only members of Congress can actually introduce legislation. Some important bills are traditionally introduced at the request of the President, such as Obamacare. During the legislative process, however, the initial bill can undergo changes in both houses of congress.

    Problem is, Dear Leader doesn’t know how to write a bill, so he make speeches, turn it over to Nancy Pelosi, wait 10 days until she has a real bill, then The Empty Suit shows up again claiming HE has a bill.

    In the mean time, The Emperor goes around the country reading a script from his teleprompter.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    So, what is/was in the Obamacare bill that would make our system “like Canada or England, or Germany, Japan, and many other countries with objectively better overall care”?

  • dono

    well by the end of the Bush term, before Obama started the unemployment rate was at 9%.  That and turning a record surplus into a record deficit and you can pretty much sum up President Bush’s term as one of the worst in terms of economic decline in the history of our country.

    Not 100% his fault by any means but those are the facts…

  • Anonymous

     Obama gives a speech on a Thursday night, by Friday morning the AP does a fact check and find he made no less that 4 statements that are not true. The 2 worst ones are that his bill is NOT paid for and it most certainly will add to America debt. Then the stock market has one of its biggest single day plunges in history. The Democrats should all resign for the good of America.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLC2m17PWLs

  • Fudge441

    That’s okay. The F & F crew have been compared to baboons flinging feces.

  • Valkyrie101

    Well perhaps Obama should have a lobbyist write the bill.

  • Valkyrie101

    Time for that ritolin treatment. So called “Obamacare” has very little in common with the successful health care systems that the leading nations have. All such notions were quickly dashed by republicans who announced that they were not going to accept Obama’s election as a mandate to implement the things he campaigned on. However, there are a few benefits in Obamacare to make it better than nothing, and a small crack in a conservative wall that prohibits any change that does not profit a donor.

  • Valkyrie101

    We began to go in debt when we decided to both wage war, AND dramaticly lower taxes at the same time. You are fixated completely, that is, completely, on spending cuts without even considering the importance of likewise raising revenue. Of course the corporate bosses, who are personally pocketing tens of millions (25 top 100 CEOs earned more than their companies paid in taxes), do not favor giving up even a portion of the windfall they make (through cutting the US worker out of the picture).

  • Valkyrie101

    Thomas Jefferson would not agree.

  • Anonymous

    I’m conservative and I must admit,you’re right. Gretchen’s fine while the other two….not so much!

  • Anonymous

    Get a LIFE!

  • Anonymous

    …..JOIN MACOMBMANN and go back to your TEAPOT. 

  • Anonymous

    Don’t pass it, and see what HAPPENS.  You CLOWNS just don’t know anything about Politics! 

  • Anonymous

    Liberal doesn’t mean now what it did when Jefferson used it. What he meant is now called a Classical Liberal. I know, I am one. And these New Coke people are pissing me off. Tom wouldn’t like ‘em at all either.

  • Anonymous

    You are blaming the drop in the stock market on OBAMA?  You better take a look at whats happening in
    Europe and the World Market before trying to place blame!

  • Anonymous

    RESIST WE MUCH!!

  • Anonymous

    Or maybe Bill Ayers could write it!

  • Anonymous

    So, you don’t care that Obama told you a pack of lies? See, this is why we have a problem.

  • Valkyrie101

    Hey, why not, he’s a college professor.

  • Anonymous

    No, you would like to put me in a little box to fit your narrative, but you can’t. I’m not against raising revenue. I’m against raising tax RATES, but I’m all for closing loopholes. For instance, 100% of my salary is subject to social security tax. My boss only pays on the first $106,800 of her salary. I think 100% of her salary should also be subject to the tax. In fact, they could lower the rate (normally 6.4% and now 4.2%) to say 2%, eliminate the $106,800 ceiling, and generate MORE revenue. Also, I don’t think people with multiple houses should be able to deduct mortgage interest on more than their primary home (and maybe one recreational property). If they can afford 3,4, 5 homes or more, they can afford to give up that tax deduction. I’m all for a cleaner tax code where rates are lowered and loopholes are eliminated. Our tax code is insane.

  • Fudge441

    We’ve come a long way. F&F is the first retarded trio with a morning gig.

  • Anonymous

    Please list the “lies” and back them up with FACTS and then we can discuss it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1348434457 Ali Vonal

    Faux Snews reminds me of an infomercial. They are loud, obnoxious, dumbed down, low taste and they are certainly selling something. So, brah-ha-ha! 

  • Fudge441

    Looks like Douchie’s underwear might be bunching up.

  • Anonymous

    RIGHT ON Valkyrie101.  Every Citizen in this Country has seen what is going on in todays Politics, and its frightening.  The GOP has made it clear in no uncertain terms from day one, that this President gets no bi-partisanship from them. O’Connell said his only job is to see to it that OBAMA is a one-term President!  And I will go out on a limb by saying this;  As an African/American we know Prejudice when we see it and when we hear it, and we have been watching it for 2- and a half years. The Tea -Party gave
    the main stream Republicans a SHIELD to hide behind.  All RACISTS are not in the TEA-PARTY!

  • Anonymous

    They were being too kind…I would have said a “car sales” commercial….repeat, repeat and repeat.

  • Anonymous

    They were being too kind…I would have said a “car sales” commercial….repeat, repeat and repeat.

  • Anonymous

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/09/steyn-on-pass-this-bill-refrain-you-cant-pass-a-teleprompter-its-not-in-the-u-s-constitution/
    “Apparently President Barack Obama’s speechwriters thought repeating the phrase “pass this bill” over and over again would magically resonate with members of Congress. The president used the line 17 times in his Thursday night address.”"Did he overdo it?”"On Friday’s “Rush Limbaugh Show,” fill-in host Mark Steyn said that catchphrase was more reminiscent of an infomercial than a presidential proclamation.”“His great catchphrase is, ‘Pass this bill. Pass this bill now,’ which Mr. [Bo] Snerdly said reminded him of Billy Mays,” Steyn said. “He was the pitchman for what was it again? Yeah, OxyClean. ‘Pass this bill! If you call to pass this bill in the next 15 minutes, we will throw in a free Ginsu [knife] so you can slash your wrists if this speech hasn’t wrapped up in the next 25 minutes. Call 1-800-American-Jobs-Act-Now and you can pass this bill. Pass this bill, pass this bill now, pass this bill now, pass this bill now.’””Despite Obama’s pleas to “pass this bill,” there is no bill. Steyn says this presents a problem.”Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/09/steyn-on-pass-this-bill-refrain-you-cant-pass-a-teleprompter-its-not-in-the-u-s-constitution/#ixzz1XVY4PElK

  • Anonymous

    Who was that car salesman in California who would ride an elephant, etc?

  • Anonymous

    What have you got against baboons?

  • Valkyrie101

    Donald Trump has been in debt most of his life, or all of his life, by the standard you hold our country to. Nobody pays cash. Nobody. Its just Fox, and the chickens; a hyped up scare by Fox to round up the chickens.

  • Valkyrie101

    Donald Trump has been in debt most of his life, or all of his life, by the standard you hold our country to. Nobody pays cash. Nobody. Its just Fox, and the chickens; a hyped up scare by Fox to round up the chickens.

  • Valkyrie101

    Yea, in reply to your comment below, the crazed supply siders implemented their theory by lowering taxes, especially on the top bracket, to 60 year lows. That was supposed to produce a trickle down effect. It did not happen. Instead, the corporations moved the jobs overseas.

  • Anonymous

    An Obama speech is always the Same – Same Sh”t, Different Day, that is all!

  • Anonymous

    I sincerely hope that’s true, Valkyrie.  I’m finding it hard not to be cynical.

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s much more complicated, as well.

  • Anonymous

    The president has’nt been recently arrested or overdosed on cocaine.  Perceptorll, with my middle-aged eyes I misread your name as Perceptoril, which sounds vaguely pharmaceutical.

  • Anonymous

    I watch CNN, PBS, and BBC America.  I’ll peek in on Fox on special occasions.  These days I take it all with a grain of salt.  I agree, MSNBC obviously has an agenda–as does FOX.

  • Djbynum02

    Their statement proves that Fox and Friends reporters are full of shit.

    Dan

  • Djbynum02

    Their statement proves that Fox and Friends reporters are full of shit.

    Dan

  • Anonymous

    They got it right…Boehner and Cantor are just more polite.  It’s Obama’s plan that ain’t worth a bucket of spit.

  • Anonymous

    Everyone knows if it were not for the programs  Bush and Cheney put into place, Bin Laden would never have been caught.  We can all thank the Bush Administration for the safety we’ve enjoyed the past 10 years.

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