http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/macacamoment/ en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:15:50 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416394/posts The bitterness toward the tea party movement continues to go on and on. Case in point - Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page, who on the Dec. 27 broadcast of "The McLaughlin Group," deemed it "The Most Defining Political Moment" of 2009, but refused to call it the "tea party." Instead, he granted the movement the preferred name by the left-leaning cable network MSNBC, the "teabaggers" and somehow devised the notion that the movement "asked for" the derogatory name. "The backlash movement known as the ‘teabaggers,' who kind of asked for that name and now they regret it," Page said. ...more... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416394/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:15:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413888/posts Al Franken, the Democrat from Minnesota who won election to the Senate after a successful career as a comic and author, has begun to show the sharp-tongued side of his personality by ripping into GOP staffers behind the scenes. Franken has worked diligently to keep a low public profile in Congress while focusing on wonky policy debates. But he has been unable to completely repress the fiery passion that made him a hero of the Democratic Party’s liberal base. Franken has teamed up with GOP colleagues to introduce a variety of legislation, something that may surprise fans who read his... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413888/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:10:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409084/posts New York Senator Chuck Schumer was reportedly waiting to take off on a flight from D.C. to New York Sunday when a flight attendant told him to turn his phone off. According to the Republican aide who was apparently sitting nearby and told the story to Politico, both Schumer and his seatmate – fellow New York Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand – kept talking on their phones regardless. Then the flight attendant came by again and told Schumer that everyone on the flight was waiting for him to turn off his phone. He asked to finish his conversation but was told... http://www.cbsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409084/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:33:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397620/posts President Barack Obama ... ... is slated to deliver a prime-time address on Tuesday night in which he'll lay out his plans for the American war in Afghanistan. The address before the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday night will not only be used to announce the immediate order to deploy roughly 30,000 more troops, but the administration will also use the occasion to convey how it intends to turn the fight over to the Kabul government, the New York Times reported. But the administration may also face an unforeseen enemy as it lays out its long-awaited... Morning Call http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397620/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387125/posts Politico: A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday. breitbart.tv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387125/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:08:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380220/posts YouTube: Fort Hood Tragedy -- Barack Obama Gives Odd "Shout-Out" Before He Comments on Massacre -- FOX News Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380220/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:28:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376721/posts Joe Biden's pretty happy with himself for avoiding any major gaffes recently. "You know, I'm sort of a gaffe-free zone right now, you know," he told CNN's Ed Henry in an interview airing today. Biden's been particularly careful to avoid verbal slips recently. After almost taking a shot at Dick Cheney in a recent interview with reporters, Biden caught himself and backtraked. "Yeah, yeah, I know. I can see the headline now," he said, according to a pool report. "I’m getting better, guys. I’m getting a little bit better, you know what I mean?" Biden's foot-in-mouth disease has caused Obama... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376721/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:51:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372066/posts A spokesman for Rep. Alan Grayson is defending the Florida Democrat’s use of the word “whore” to describe a female official at the Federal Reserve, pointing to a secondary dictionary definition to argue that Grayson meant only that the woman had sold her soul for financial gain. “The attack was on her professional career, not her personal life,” Grayson spokesman Todd Jurkowski wrote in an e-mail to POLITICO. “The second definition of ‘whore’ in the American Heritage Dictionary is 'A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.’ “I think a reasonable person could believe that a person who... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372066/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:31:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362553/posts Good. Lardball http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362553/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:32:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359936/posts Speaking to a respected Hispanic leader in KCK, Dennis Moore reportedly called decorated and disabled Marine Veteran and Congressional Opponent "White Trash" in a recent (recorded) telephone conversation. The KCK leader, who has formally supported the incumbent congressman, is supporting Daniel Gilyeat's candidacy for the Kansas 3rd District Congressional seat. Dennis Moore called the KCK man after hearing the Hispanic community leader's support had changed. Dennis Moore said he had $7 million for the campaign and could not believe the naturalized citizen was supporting "White Trash" over Moore. American Liberty Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359936/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:04:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352620/posts This morning, Whoopi Goldberg called during the show to clarify a statement she made about the recent controversy surrounding Roman Polanski. Goldberg had said, "It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape." Whoopi wanted to clarify the comment and make it clear that she was talking about the legal charge against Polanski at the time. msnbc.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352620/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352633/posts Robert Forrey regularly skewers city officials in Portsmouth while pontificating on their perceived sins on his River Vices blog. The self-styled government watchdog concedes that Mayor Jim Kalb is a favorite target, but he never expected the rant that landed in his in-box at 1:47 a.m. Sunday. The e-mail was from Kalb, who informed Forrey that he could drop by the mayor's office in the Ohio River city to pick up a public record he had requested. The mayor went on to write, asterisks and all: "I think that you're a worthless piece of s**t and I wouldn't p**s on... The Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352633/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:22:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351902/posts Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) mocked Republicans Wednesday who demanded he apologize for saying that they want people who get sick to "die quickly." "I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America," Grayson said on the House floor. The "holocaust," he said, was the 44,789 people who die each year in the United States each year because they don't have health insurance, citing a Harvard study. Republicans said Democratic leaders should force Grayson to apologize. “Alan Grayson not only refuses to apologize, he is doubling down on his despicable remarks... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351902/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:13:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330345/posts Obama adviser: Republicans are "a**holes" By Tony Romm - 09/02/09 09:59 AM ET A video in which White House green jobs adviser Van Jones calls Congressional Republicans (and himself) "a**holes" is quickly making the rounds on the Internet this morning. Jones made the off-the-cuff remark in February, during his lecture at a Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) event on the green economy. At the time, the Obama administration had not yet tapped Jones to serve as a special adviser on the White House's Council on Environmental Quality. The slip happened in response to a question about the Democratic Party's... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330345/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:52:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329678/posts Turns out Harry Reid was only joking when he told a media exec last week that he hoped the biggest paper in his state would “go out of business.” Over the weekend, Sherman Frederick, a columnist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, reported that Reid made the comment to another higher-up at the 175,000-circulation daily during a Chamber of Commerce event last Wednesday. “Such behavior cannot go unchallenged,” wrote Frederick, CEO of the paper’s parent company. After 24 hours of silence on the comment, a Reid spokesman got back to POLITICO on Monday to say it was all a misunderstanding blown... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329678/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:45:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2321405/posts By now, many of you have seen this video. Barack Obama claiming Washingtonians get too "wee-wee'd up" in August. (Video). Your first reaction probably was the same as mine. WTF are you talking about Barry? WTF do you mean? Well. The UN says the word is Nigerian. It means cannabis. Nice work pothead. Great example for our youth. Cannabis In Nigeria cannabis is known by various names including "pot", "igbo", "wee wee", "marijuana", "ganja" and "Morocco". The active ingredient in all of these is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The mode of consumption in Nigeria is by smoking the prepared leaves and flowering... The Big Feed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2321405/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:41:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2312967/posts Here is video of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today in the Congo letting her placid facade down for a moment and showing the Hillary we always knew was there. She thought she was being asked what her husband would think about an International Financial matter, but it turns out the translator was actually asking what President Obama thought. Pity the poor translator. Hillary flashed with anger and said, "You want to know what my husband thinks? My husband is not the Secretary of State." . . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2312967/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:20:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312732/posts The Air Force tracked online messaging service Twitter, video-sharing site YouTube and various blogs to assess the huge public backlash to the Air Force One flyover of the Statue of Liberty this spring, according to the documents. And while the attempts at damage control failed - "No positive spin is possible," one PowerPoint chart reads - the episode opens a window into the tactics for operating in a boundless digital news cycle. (snip) According to the Air Force One documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, a unit called the Combat Information Cell at Tyndall Air Force Base in... AP via PhysOrg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312732/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:27:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307819/posts WASHINGTON – The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance. AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307819/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:24:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306001/posts Click the link. Joe Biden Said That? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306001/posts#comment Sat, 1 Aug 2009 16:49:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304742/posts Four of the most powerful business leaders in America arrived at the White House one day last month for lunch with President Barack Obama, sitting down in his private dining room just steps from the Oval Office. But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House staffers collected credit card numbers for each executive, and carefully billed them for the cost of the meal with the president. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2304742/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:00:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300404/posts Shortly after the surprise phone call, Sergeant James M. Crowley told a fellow officer that President Obama expressed regret for jumping to conclusions and commenting that Cambridge police had "acted stupidly." The call pleased Crowley, according to the colleague, a veteran officer who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. Crowley told his fellow officer that he joked with the president. "Jimmy said, 'I'd be happy to come to the White House and sit down with you and Gates and have a beer,' " the veteran Cambridge officer said. "The president... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300404/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:39:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2300298/posts 0's ask everyone to "step back" from the moment, these a two people decide and yet be mindful of the fact that because of our history Afro-American are sensitive to these issues. He hopes this becomes a "teaching moment" for all us. Stop making accusation and be more reflective This is a distraction from more important issue of health care says 0. 0 says he yet should have commented on this issue: "Race is still a troubling aspect of our society" says 0. O says we wants to have a beer with Crowley and Gates in the WH. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2300298/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:39:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300345/posts Video of Obama honoring Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin on the 40th anniversary of man's first steps on the moon and how he remembered watching the splash down from Hawaii, but as one the the commentators stated how could that be when Barry Soetoro lived in Indonesia as a child from 1967 to 1971 and was enrolled in Muslim classes when Apollo 11 splashed down in in the Pacific on July 24, 1969? YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300345/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:34:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300300/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300300/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:40:58 GMT