Couldn’t Help But Comment ….. (091208, Morning)
I missed this until Moderate Mainstream brought it to my attention — What “The One” I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama – Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) said immediately before he dug his “lipstick on a pig” hole (”Except for economic policies, and tax policies, and energy policies, and health care policies, and education policies, and Karl Rove-style politics”) appears to have been lifted directly from a Tom Toles cartoon in the September 5 Washington Post. Either that, or fellow travelers in the fever swamp have remarkably identical thoughts at about the same time.
Among those who didn’t miss it: Warner Todd Huston at NewsBusters, Fox News (HT NRO’s Media Blog, Extreme Mortman …. and the Republican National Committee. Fox noted that “He did not acknowledge the origin of the quote the first time he used it and credited the cartoon only after the Post contacted the Obama campaign to ask about the first use.”
It could be that Obama is taking plagiarism lessons from an expert, one who happens to be his running mate.
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I’ll say it now, based on this (”Battle for Congress Suddenly Looks Competitive “), and intuition — A change in the party controlling Congress is not out of the question. That’s especially possible because the results are based on registered and not likely voters, and we have yet to see the full extent of the Obama crumble and its negative coattails. Of course, lots can happen, etc.
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NewsBusters commenter “allanf” coined a term I meant to get to.
The term and its definition are as follows:
Palintologist, n. A new species of digger that has recently emerged. These are Democratic Party diggers who have gone to snowy Alaska in an attempt to unearth dirt on Sarah Palin.
I suspect that the number of Palintologists on duty is inversely proportional to Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH’s electoral prospects — at least until money gets tight.
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Exit question: Does it seem like the news about oil’s drop to about $100 a barrel has been awfully muted?
