Of Coins, Medals, Neutral Evidence, Hanukkah and Latex Gloves

MS, you know, you can mention Kevin Jennings, you know, the guy who apparently thinks (and acts on that thought) that it’s appropriate for public schools to hand out “fisting kits” and who thinks that kids should be reading about underaged kids engaging in adult-child sexual relations (remember, this bozo had encouraged a kid to do that too). He’s also the school safety czar in the Obama Administration.
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Now that may be the target of snark to you, but this is a legitimate issue. Remember all that Dem outrage about Foley–but now the school safety czar is basically someone who’s cool with Foley’s attempted predations.
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Jennings’ proclivities have been public knowledge for awhile. He serves at the pleasure of the president. It’s perfectly legit for Breitbart to bring that up. Or do you disagree?

As much as I’d like to engage with MS’ navel lint…

Email from Jane Hamsher at FDL:

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“Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., has just decided not to nominate Woods for the Congressional Medal of Honor.”
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I ask again, does not Time have an editor or two they could lend Michael? I’m not sure his career can survive much more, even in the corporate press.

Michael, you are the John Tesh of reporting.

Oh give it a rest, patriotic one, whimsical posts are not the end of the world. Lighten up, Francis.

That was for valor in the face of enemy fire. (A Nike nine iron to his chops.)

But you’re right. How Time keeps this clown on staff is beyond me.

Maybe Hatch can pen another song, this one to cheer up the tens of millions of folks with no health insurance.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Michael, re: Sanford / article, was that photo of him addressing reporters taken at the airport before he boarded his flight to Buenos Aires? Did the following phone call take place after Sanford took off?
ring ring
Jenny Sanford: Hello?
John Edwards: Hey Jen, it’s John. Mark’s flight just took off. Are you free for dinner?
Jenny: sigh Sure, what the hell… I’ve still got it, you know. What does he see in that woman?
John: I know you’ve got it. Well, there are two kinds of Americans: those who appreciate what they have and those who don’t. You still have that white cotton dress with the straw hat?
Jenny: …why yes, how did you remember?
John: Wear it tonight. I’ll fly in and pick you up in two hours. I know a fabulous hotel restaurant in LA.
Jenny: I’ll be waiting. kisses

…but can Michael play the piano like Tesh?

spob, shep was commenting on Michael’s usual lack of reportorial vigor.
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Woods wasn’t being nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor. For god’s sake, spob, a patriot like you should realize that’s an award given for military gallantry.
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Woods was going to be given a Congressional Gold Medal, a ceremonial award.
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Apparently, you are as ignorant and lazy as Scherer.

How did/does each of these men handle their infidelity?:

Bill Clinton:

indeed. fixed.

Jeezus, Scherer, how do you keep your job?

No, but I bet Tesh would make a better White House correspondent.

Really a congressional medal of honor? Seriously? Tiger is a civilian and the congressional medal of honor is awarded to members of the military. Its just called medal of honor. The highest congressional award is a congressional gold medal and its one of the highest civilian awards in the United States.

Everyone knows that.
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Well, except for Scherer and spob, apparently.

Well, MS is in good company–Barack Obama, when he was yukking it up right after the Fort Hood massacre made the same mistake. That slip went pretty much unnoticed by the MSM. Funny how when Obama does it, you guys are cool, but when MS does it, he’s a lazy hack. Gimme a break.

Disregard my comment. Luckily someone does research and actually reads what they are posting about.

But, spob, a great patriot like you didn’t know the difference? Are you a phony patriot? Hell, you might be a Nazi!

I was just commenting on the tone of your comment. That’s all.
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Isn’t it Paul Volcker?

Michael-Might want to add in that the congressman had been recommending Tiger for an award since 2000. Long before the women start poping out the woodwork every hour.

He only corrected it after he got called on it. He probably didn’t know the difference. Just like our resident uber patriot, spob.

D- (only saving grace is that many people still respect him)

David Vitter: D
John Ensign: F
Mark Sanford: F
Mr. Wide Stance: D
John Edwards: F– (that’s F minus minus)
Tigger: F
David Letterman: B- (key: he got in front of the story)

Yeah-I know. I wasn’t referring to Michael doing his homework that’s for sure.

Bill Clinton: give lots of gifts – dresses, pearls, you name it – and keep the missus at the other end of the house where she can’t hear you. If caught, just say she’s doing the laundry.

…sorry, nfl, I thought you wanted details. I’d rate Tiger an A+ …he had that many women? Ensign and Sanford had only one a piece, slackers.

Guys, someone makes a slip on a freaking blog, and you’re calling for his head. Gimme a break. Personally, I didn’t read it carefully enough for the error to register.

Hey, shouldn’t this guy be included in the latest sexual misadventures report? Apparently, another kinky, repressed, white Christian conservative gone terribly awry during S&M sex…

Former (Missouri) Republican Speaker Rod Jetton apparently established the safe word “green ballons” to stop intercourse with the woman he’s charged with assaulting, according to the probable cause statement released by the Scott County Circuit Court Monday.
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McDermott reports that Jetton and the woman agreed on a safe word of “green ballons” to use as a stop word during intercourse.

“(The woman) recalls Jetton hitting her on the face very hard. She then remembers waking up, lying on the floor and Jetton was choking her.”

The guy got turned on by being violent with women. At least Vitter only wanted to be diapered and treated like a baby.

absolutely–only a sicko proceeds against consent . . . .
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if the allegations are true, he belongs in jail.

You get that break every time someone deigns you with a reply. Now for all the marbles, tell us how “yukking it up” differs from online publishing. I’ll expect your slobbering, Obama-hating, objectively stupid reply after you’ve had time to consult the brain trust in outer wingnuttostan. Take your time.

So guys, since St. Obama made the same mistake as MS, where’s your outrage. Come on guys.

sw, it was a prepared speech, and the yukking it up (shout-outs etc) happened right after Obama was informed of the murder of some 13 American servicemen or support people at Ft. Hood.

Spob-Nobody is calling for Michael’s head. We tried that years ago and the efforts went no where. I think every one is still amazed that Michael is still around.
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Actually, its not your responsibility to ensure what Michael posts about is accurate information. He is the reporter not you.

Well spob, credit where credit due. Your slobbering, Obama-hating, objectively stupid reply was really…quick.

spob, Obama slipped up. He even stumbled over the words.
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Scherer is a reporter. His very job is to ascertain and report the facts. In the old days, your first job as a reporter was writing obituaries. Because if you got a fact wrong in an obit, your editors heard about it, loudly, from the family of the deceased.
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Scherer has shown time and time again that he is a lazy waste who’d rather talk about trivia and who-said-what-about-whom than do any actual reporting.
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And he even had the gall to suggest that Obama was going after the White House press corps for being more concerned with the gamesmanship of D.C. than the actual policies and issues that affect Americans’ lives.
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And who is Exhibit A for exactly what Obama was talking about in terms of trivializing events and news?
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None other than Michael Scherer. He’s a poor excuse for a reporter.

Decon, I only hope you caught the exchange between Sacredh and I on the last thread

…about Palin, that is.

And I suppose you’re perfect too . . . .
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Whatever.

Believe me, spob, if I was as crappy at my job as Scherer is at his, I wouldn’t have any clients and I’d be out of business.

I’m guessing that writing is not a big part of your job, or it’s writing that doesn’t require the use of the subjunctive mood. “If I was”? Dude, ya gotta do better than that.
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And by the way, where’s the outrage for MS pimping Breitbart’s “Kevin Jennings is a perv” crusade? I think it’s a big deal, of course, but you guys cannot be happy he’s giving the attacks on Jennings any oxygen.

spob, the reason nothing is going to happen with Jennings is because this garbage has already been debunked.
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Andrew Breitbart got his ass handed to him yesterday on ACORN. He doctored the famed videotapes and ACORN was found to have no institutional problems other than having a couple of stupid employees.

spob, the Breitbart nonsense (which, of course, half-assed “reporter” Michael Scherer links to without ascertaining the facts) has already been thoroughly debunked, just like in October when the homophobes on the right went after Jennings with more debunked crap.
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Click this to read about that pinhead Breitbart’s latest lies:
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Link
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Michael, happy to help you do your job again, you lazy, good-for-nothing twit…

“Click this to read about that pinhead Breitbart’s latest lies:”
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I think the point is, no rational, intelligent person should have to. He’s a known partisan hack with zero credibility. So no, I don’t need to read Media Matters’ debunking to know that no member of the Obama administration “thinks (and acts on that thought) that it’s appropriate for public schools to hand out “fisting kits” and who thinks that kids should be reading about underaged kids engaging in adult-child sexual relations.”
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Only a shallow, wasted mind would bother reading (or linking) Brietbart in the first place, no less take his partisan drivel serious.

Only three more years and then Tiger could receive a Congressional Medal of Honour as by then President Palin would add Sweden to the axis of evil for giving Obama a Nobel prize.

The Scandinavians would argue that clubbing small black objects is their cultural right. This says much about Tiger. Were he considered to have a large black object, he would have been harpooned instead

So Tiger is up to nine now? Someone needs to ask him, which does he prefer? The front nine or the back nine?

“A U.S. congressman is dropping his effort to honor Tiger Woods with a Congressional Gold Medal. .. The medal is the highest award Congress has to honor civilians for achievements and contributions to society.”

A Stink Most Foul!

Why?
1) Is some one saying that Tiger has no achievements and that he has made no contributions to society? Why did we think that he had made significant contributions a month ago and where have the contributions evaporate to?

2) We strip the runners of their medals if they take performance enhancing drugs. Surely the competitors he defeated don’t think that Tiger thus enhanced his golf play unfairly, do they? [The gold-digging ladies look human ...]

3) If BHO (who recently ramped up the blood-letting and slaughter of mostly innocent civilians in the America’s coliseum named Afghanistan and Pakistan) can get a Nobel peace prize (PEACE!), then why can’t Tiger get this medal? if Kissinger and Begin can get the Nobel peace prize (what PEACE!) why can’t we just go with the flow and give Tiger the damm bling bling?

4) For how long have we, and the congressman, watched and enjoyed the game of tennis? Well, Tiger is just one among the greats that make the game exciting!

5) Didn’t that congressman watch tennis when a tennis great Martina Navratilova played?
The congressman and those pious evangelical wingnuts did not complain too loudly when Billie Jean King was awarded the Medal of Freedom recently. How would they rate Tiger’s transgressions to Billie King? Didn’t any of them watch and enjoy tennis when Martina Navratilova played?

6) Maybe Tiger committed a sin that no good American commits. Yet some of USA’s eminent presidents are, so to speak, guilty of it. Yet we are told that it is a sin committed by more that half the married men in USA – and that 4 out of every ten married American women care to admit having committed the sin

(with most having connected with their, eh, partners (in sin) at work. Now you now why we want those women in the Middle East to embrace shrill feminism and get a job – It is a sure way to steadily unravel their strong social/family fabric.).

Yeah, we have more adulterers (and even more fornicators) in USA than we have them same-sex people.

So, why would our democratic congress, our gracious POTUS and the fair-minded patriotic Americans discriminate between Tiger’s and B J King’s lifestyles?

[Not paid for by any "Medal for Tiger" pressure group]

yawn…

Let’s see…

1. So? I don’t travel that frequently.
2. So? I’m not Jewish and not a Republican.
3. Interesting.
4. Right-wing smear has been debunked (again)…Scherer fails to mention that.
5. So? I don’t expect to read anything about Tiger Woods in a political blog…plus, nice factual error ya got there…
6. So? We had our jollies when their infidelities occurred. It’s only relevant if they begin braying about the sanctity of marriage.

Did any of you actually watch that video of Hatch? I think I’m scarred for life and will be singing that damn song for the rest of the day.

….Eight days of Hanukkah…
….Eight daaaays…

So, why were you watching?

Will you watch if/when he sings about Kwanzaa?
[No worry: He probably wouldn't sing it - not even for the sake of one America the Beautiful ..]