HALF-FULL REPORT 06/12/09
David Letterman certainly settled one thing this week: that the terms "no-class pervert scumbag" and "liberal" are synonymous. Sarah Palin wrote a classy yet scathing response to his depraved jokes about her 14 year-old daughter, but she shouldn't have restrained her husband Todd from responding how he wanted. Like any father, he wanted to punch Letterman out. Todd wanted to issue a public statement saying something like:
"Mr. Letterman, you have insulted my daughter in the most grossly perverted way. I am on my way to New York as you read this to see you. We shall settle this man-to-man, with our fists. Prepare to defend yourself. If you choose not to fight, you will have declared to the world that you are the yellow-bellied coward I know you to be."Letterman would have soiled his metrosexual pink underwear. *** Yet liberals are not the only folks scared to death of Sarah Palin. So are the old bulls of the Republican Party Establishment - which is why they replaced her with Newt Gingrich at their annual Senate-House fundraising dinner Monday night (6/08).
THE LIBERAL’S DEPRAVED FEAR OF SARAH PALIN
Barack Hussein Obama is, by far, the most popular politician in America. And there is little doubt who is number two. The city of Auburn in upstate New York, population 28,574, held its first annual Founder's Day celebration June 6. The most famous of the city's fathers is William Seward, who as secretary of state purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. To commemorate the event, the city council invited the current governor of Alaska. The parade featuring Sarah Palin drew more than 20,000 people, according to press reports. The next day Ms. Palin traveled to Long Island to speak at a fund raiser for a charity which aids the developmentally disabled. Before that, she and her daughter, Willow, attended a New York Yankees game at the invitation of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The following night (6/08) on his national television show, David Letterman, being the cowardly pervert he is, told two unbelievably disgusting sexual jokes about 14 year-old Willow Palin. That many liberals found Mr. Letterman's remarks humorous speaks not only to their depravity, but to their fear.
POTEMKIN AMERICA
At dinner at the Cosmos Club here in DC last night, a dear friend of mine who is one of the finest men - and sharpest businessmen - I've ever known, held up a butter knife. "To make this - to make a bottle cap or the side panels of your washing machine, to make any product that requires metal stamping - you need the machine tools my company makes," he explained. "Thousands of businesses of all different kinds all over America are our customers. I'm in touch with all of them, and know how their companies are doing." He sighed. "Jack, that's why I know that our economy is in much, much worse shape than the media is letting on." I gave him a quizzical look. "It's so funny you would say that - because I'll be writing about just that this week. I'll call it Potemkin America." Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791) was a dashing 23 year-old officer in the Czar's Horse Guards, the elite cavalry unit of the Russian Army, when the Czar's wife donned a Horse Guard uniform and led them in a coup to seize the throne of Russia.
EUROPE FOR EUROPEANS
Last weekend's European Parliament and British local county council elections (6/04-07) were not only a victory for the right over the left. More significantly, they were indications of the growing rejection of the last 60 years of denationalized European history. They were, particularly, a sharp assertion by many indigenous Europeans that they will not put up with losing their culture to overly assertive Islamic immigrants in Europe. The latter point was made emphatically by the voters of Holland, Hungary, Finland, Britain, Austria, Denmark and Italy. But the loudest vox populi was heard in Britain.
AMERICAS FIRST MOSLEM PRESIDENT
During his White House years, William Jefferson Clinton -- someone Judge Sonia Sotomayor might call a "white male" -- was dubbed "America's first black president" by a black admirer. Applying the standard of identity politics and pandering to a special interest that earned Mr. Clinton that distinction, Barack Hussein Obama would have to be considered America's first Moslem president. This is not to say, necessarily, that Mr. Obama actually is a Moslem any more than Mr. Clinton actually is black. However - after his five months in office, and most especially after his just-concluded visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, a stunning conclusion seems increasingly plausible:
A CRIMINAL ROAD TO FISCAL RUIN
If you were in debt, would you be more or less likely to increase your liabilities if you knew someone else would pay them off? Many children can quickly figure out the answer to this question, but it seems to be a real stumper for members of the House Financial Services Committee, chaired Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat. They are considering having the federal government reinsure municipal bonds. Such fiscal madness likely would make even citizens of banana republics blush. The Feds are engaged in exactly the same behavior that got American International Group Inc. in trouble: insuring financial assets without having adequate resources to pay off all of the potential insurance claims. Such behavior can be viewed as criminally irresponsible.
RUSSIA’S POWER GRAB FROM THE GOBI DESERT TO THE BLACK SEA
St. Petersburg, Russia. The economic glitterati have descended on Russia's "second capital." President Dmitry Medvedev, vice premiers and ministers, CEOs of Intel, Nissan, Coca-Cola and other Forbes 500 companies, and oligarchs are rubbing shoulders with superstar pundits such as Thomas Friedman and Nuriel Rubini. All have flocked to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Russians are all smiles after the purchase of 2 percent of Facebook, and state-owned Sberbank's participation in acquisition of the General Motors Corp.'s German subsidiary Opel. The public discourse is all about diversification, innovation and coping with the global crisis. Mr. Medvedev says he wants innovation-based growth. But privately, many sotto voce discussions turn to the question: What is Russia's global strategy?
YOU SCARE ME
Dear President Obama, You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American. You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
CONTEMPTIBLE IN CAIRO
From an Israeli perspective, Mr. Obama's speech yesterday (6/04) in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and programmatically, Obama's speech was a renunciation of America's strategic alliance with Israel. Rhetorically, Obama's sugar coated the pathologies of the Islamic world - from the tyranny that characterizes its regimes, to the misogyny, xenophobia, Jew hatred, and general intolerance that characterizes its societies. In so doing he made clear that his idea of pressing the restart button with the Islamic world involves erasing the moral distinctions between the Islamic world and the free world. In contrast, Obama's perverse characterization of Israel - of the sources of its legitimacy and of its behavior - made clear that he shares the Arab world's view that there is something basically illegitimate about the Jewish state.
IMMATURE TEENAGERS ARE RUNNING WASHINGTON
A sign of immaturity - most often found in children and certain politicians - is being in denial or even unaware of the consequences of one's actions. The global political class has always suffered from an excess of immaturity, but every generation or so, political immaturity explodes like a star in its death throes and vaporizes everything in its vicinity. Current examples are all too numerous. We'll discuss three of the most explosively damaging.