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Loser actor George Clooney is hosting a telethon for Haiti on January 22. A worthwhile cause, but let's see if the following happen: we'll hear how magnificent the Teleprompter is andhow bad the U.S. (specifically G.W. Bush) ishow "climate change" and healthcare are part of the problemhow the Teleprompter is the only thing that can save the world. To top it off, this telethon is being held on the same day as the Right-to-Life March in Washington, DC -- and the tens of millions murdered by abortion far outnumber those killed by the earthquake. But you don't see any Hollywood...

Executives at Megalomaniac (MGM) Studios announced today that President Barack Hussein Obama will be cast in the role of "Rick Blaine" first played by Humphrey Bogart in the original 1941 film. An studio source speaking under conditions of anonymity advised that Obama was a natural for the part having, "way more cool points than Bogart." Moreover, Obama has already established his ability to read a script, and will fit in well with the largely muslim populace when shooting begins on location in Morocco later this year. The studio source admitted that initially there were some concerns that Obama's presidential duties...

The numbers are in for President Obama’s carpet-bombing of the Sunday TV talk shows. Obama drew fewer viewers than the shows normally draw His numbers (with last season’s averages in parenthesis):

What's next, Obama on Food Network cooking with Emeril? How 'bout Celebrity Jeopardy? The guy can't stop with the television thing...

Obama missed chance to set ‘Full Ginsburg’ record The "Full Ginsburg" refers to an appearance by one person on five major television Sunday morning interview shows on the same day. While Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer, William Ginsburg, was the first person to accomplish the task others have completed the 'Full Ginsburg'. By not including the Fox network, Obama missed the chance to set a new record. If the talker-in-chief had included Fox, the 'Full Ginsburg Plus One' would present a formidable challenge to any future president.

(Links will open in a new browser window.) For your convenience, here are links to the complete videos of all five of Obama's Sunday talk show blitz on September 20, 2009. When his appearance on Letterman is available, it will be posted here. If these links deteriorate over time, please post new working links on this thread. SHOW 1: CBS "Face the Nation" | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLZDTtvhm6sSHOW 2: NBC "Meet the Press" | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/#32935560 If that links doesn't work, it's on YouTube in 2 parts: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK67_M68wSo Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGU8QNcraU SHOW 3: ABC "This Week" | http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=8622797 If that links doesn't...

Joe Wilson were are you?A Mike's America presentation: Obama Interview with George Stephanopolous of ABC News, aired September 20, 2009. [VIDEO AT SITE] Notice the bizzard of bloviation designed to distract from the main point that forcing people to buy insurance or fining them for not doing so fits the definition of a tax! Even Bill Clinton couldn't lie that good!(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net

Obama makes Sunday talk show blitzBy Mark Silva WASHINGTON BUREAU - After months of pressing the American public and Congress to support sweeping changes to health care and health insurance, President Barack Obama on Sunday offered a humbling admission: His message is sometimes not "breaking through." "I think there have been times where I have said, 'I've got to step up my game in terms of talking to the American people about issues like health care,' " Obama said during an unprecedented spree of Sunday morning television news show appearances. Asked by an interviewer if he had lost control of...

... Obama: Now, we are going to have to find some additional sources of revenue for the other third or so of the health care plan. And I've provided a long list of approaches that would not have an impact on middle class Americans. They're not going to be forced to pay for this. Insurance companies, drug companies are gonna have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies from folks. Schieffer: But aren't they going to then pass it on to consumers? I mean that's what you know the Chamber of Commerce is saying. They're...

President Obama turned media critic during his Sunday show marathon, zinging television news during interviews on CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC for making stars out of people who are "rude." Obama wants bookers to reward "decency" and "civility" in public discourse. We'll see. Obama seemed determined to make this point because the president used remarkably similar language during his interviews with Sunday morning show hosts, deploring the state of discourse, especially on cable news shows.Obama, who also sat down with Univision, snubbed the outlet where many of his loudest critics have found a perch - Fox News. The interviews were...

President Obama took his health care message to Sunday morning TV today, appearing on five different networks. Host Guy Raz recaps the major points the president hit — again and again — in his interviews.

The Talk Shows Sunday, September 20th, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Bertha Lewis, chief executive officer of ACORN; Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.; Fred Smith, chairman and chief executive of FedEx Corp.; Steve Odland, chairman and chief executive of Office Depot Inc.; John Chambers, chairman and chief executive of Cisco.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): President Barack Obama; House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.FACE THE NATION (CBS): President Barack Obama.THIS WEEK (ABC): President Barack Obama.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): President Barack Obama; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,...

They say you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you. But the 44th President of the United States doesn't seem to be worried about that. President Barack Obama, still with no fear of being overexposed, made the rounds on five Sunday morning talk shows on Sept. 20 to make another attempt at winning the hearts and minds over on his vague health care proposal. According to Obama, it alleged he wasn't doing any "media-bashing," mention the three major cable news networks by name, saying they were the ones enabling the "rude" behavior that some of their on-air voices have decried...