Lickety-Split Links (111609, Morning)
What If ObamaCare Had a Rally and Nobody Showed Up?
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On Thursday, shortly after Lou Dobbs left CNN, the network finished fourth in the cable news race, both during the day and during prime-time, in the 25-54 demographic, behind its Headline News. Fox not only has a bigger overall audience among all viewers than its three “competitors” combined (this has been the case for some time, and by a pretty significant margin), but is also on the verge of consistently doing the same within the 25-54 demo.
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Dobbs told the Associated Press shortly after his CNN departure (HT TV Newser) that “I’m going to reach out to everyone with whom I’ve had a disagreement and see if there’s a way in which we can calmly and dispassionately discuss our differences and talk about solutions.”
I’m far from an across-the-board agreer with Lou Dobbs, but I’m confident that we could have such a discussion. Barring a seismic shift in the leftist mindset, Dobbs is sadly about to learn that there is no interest in dispassionate discussion in the radical open-borders crowd, or in solutions that don’t involve near-total capitulation to them.
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“Union and Whistleblower Complaint Documents SEIU Ballot Fraud” — This was in a union organization election in Fresno, CA.
But they and their ACORN buds would neeeeever “tamper with …. ballots,” “void the ballots,” or “engage in illegal threats,” during public elections. (/sarc)
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The most pathetic thing about President Obama’s bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito is still the bow itself. But a close runner-up is the desperate attempt to cast it as either a customary thing to do or some form of cultural sensitivity.
No, it was either ignorant supplication to an official of an ally, or petulant repudiation of our country’s position in the world. And it sure as bleep wasn’t “customary” (HT Hot Air — “46 Handshakes, One Bow”):
