Category: Awards

"The Obama I saw delivered an assured performance. He provided detailed answers to a range of questions without a teleprompter and without gaffes. The policies he defended ranged from the misguided to the abominable, and his pronouncements were frequently misleading and sometimes flatly dishonest. But they easily passed the political test — they were delivered with confidence and they sounded plausible or better. … [T]he communication skills he has displayed at his press conferences will help keep him afloat, whatever the New York Times thinks. This is not yet an administration in trouble and this president should not be underestimated," – Powerline's Paul Mirengoff.

"I heard some top of the hour news and it made me feel uncomfortable. It's about the flooding in Fargo, North Dakota brought on by the melting snowpack and the icepack. [Reading from news item] 'As the Red River threatens to overflow, they're filling in the dikes.' Isn't there a more appropriate word? Do we have to say, I mean, we don't have any dikes here. The 'dykes' are over there…They're filling in the dikes. Couldn't we change that to 'they're filling in the contingencies' or something?…We really need to change that word," – Rush Limbaugh.

"So now that the right is vanquished and thoroughly out of power, why doesn't it learn from its conquerors and employ similar tactics? The answer is obvious. The right, for the most part, embraces basic Judeo-Christian ideals and would not promote nor defend the propaganda techniques that were perfected in godless communist and socialist regimes. The current political and media environment crafted by supposedly idealistic Mr. Obama resembles Hugo Chavez's Venezuela more than John F. Kennedy's America," – Andrew Breitbart, Washington Times.

"With a president who is about as American as your average UN delegate from some bankrupt island country you've never heard of, it's hard to say how it works out," – Dan Riehl.

“I’m personally supportive of [marriage] equality for gay couples and I believe that it will happen over time…I think that more and more Americans are insistent that, at a minimum, gay couples should be treated with respect and when they see a political party trying to stigmatize a group of people who are hardworking, who play by the rules, who raise decent families, they’re troubled by it," – Steve Schmidt, former chief strategist for John McCain.

I have every reason to believe he is genuine. (Hat tip: Towleroad)

Megan has a good time:

It is the worst movie you will ever love.  It is a low-budget romantic drama filmed at massive expense by a writer-director whose script suggests the deft social observations of an autistic Objectivist with a severe injury to the right temporal-parietal junction of his brain. The dialogue is not merely wooden, but petrified.  And the actors seem to be reading it off cue cards located somewhere over the left shoulder of whomever they happen to be talking to.

The end result is a sort of anti-genius.

And have you seen Eastbound And Down? Some of the best sex-comedy scenes ever. Check it out on demand.

"The fundamental right of freedom of speech in this country applies to presidents as much as anyone. Obama is allowed as to say impolitic things as long as they don’t hurt the country. It also lent humanity to Mr. Obama, something rarely displayed by presidents in public and that certainly would not have been on display had he stuck with the canned responses he surely discussed with his White House handlers in advance. Most importantly, the President has real problems to address beside hurt feelings. The PC police need to relax and learn to take a joke," – The Washington Times.

In future, the president might avoid looking desperate enough to do Leno.