Limbaugh Slams Arizona Pep Rally And Slobbering Fox News All-Stars

Rush Limbaugh Rips Fox News Panel For 'Slobbering' Over Obama Speech, Panel Responds (VIDEO)
A new feud has broken out between Rush Limbaugh and the so-called "All Star Panel" on Fox News' "Special Report" over the panel's praise for President Obama's Speech at the memorial for the Arizona Shooting Victims. Speaking on his Radio Show Thursday, Limbaugh slammed the panel, which, on the night of the speech, had consisted of Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer and Chris Wallace, for their positive comments. "They were slobbering over it for the predictable reasons," he said. "It was smart, it...

Limbaugh Vs Krauthammer: Low Road Vs High
Rush Limbaugh’s reaction to the Arizona tragedy has been nothing short of embarrassing, and not worthy of the Talk Radio host with the largest audience in that medium. Limbaugh railed against the Fox News “All Stars”, Chris Wallace, Brit Hume and Charles Krauthammer for “slobbering” over President Obama’s Arizona Speech, going so far as to derisively call it a “pep rally.” Either Limbaugh really believes the drivel he’s been emitting since th...

Rush: Obama Speech Was Pep Rally
Mediaite reports: Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves and wasn’t so eager to echo the overwhelming praise of President Obama’s memorial Speech last night. Not only was he shocked by the “pep rally” tone of the crowd (something that also troubled CBS’ Mark Knoller during today’s Press Conference with Robert Gibbs), but he also had some complaints about what was said, the timing of the ceremony and the media reaction to it. Limbaugh first doubted the wisdom of having Depar

Bogus Christianists
Yes, I have paid attention to the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), the Murder of six other people, and the attempted political Assassination by the Leftist media of Former Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) in these past few days. Yes, I'm up to my ears in taking care of my great-aunt--an invalid since her accident on September 24th of last year.  Yes, I am grateful to the awesome King Shamus for keeping my blog alive from that time until now. But what I want to know...

Even Fox News panel praises President Obama's Arizona speech (Video)
By now the political leanings of every major news network have become fairly well defined.  One can expect MSNBC to usually praise a Speech President Obama, unless he offers up one of his rebukes to the Liberal Base.  Fox News will almost surely have some harsh criticism for the President.  And CNN can be expected to bring out a little bit of both viewpoints.  One knows the President hit a "homerun" when all three can agree on a positive review of an Obama address.  Such...

Obama temporarily lifts ban on religious expression
Administration officials stunned the Tuscon Memorial crowd and television audience last night by talking about God. Although the auditorium crowd was instructed to applaud everything, television viewers were shocked when Janet Napolitano began reading from The Bible. “I expected Security Guards to take her away” remarked Lou Roberts, who watched the program from his favorite sports bar in Atlanta, Ga. Tension continued to fill the air as Attorney General Eric Ho...

United We Stand
My e-mail was buzzing last night about Krauthammer vs. Limbaugh. Wednesday night’s Speech in Tucson was the best of Obama’s presidency.  Fit between an odd invocation and hooting and hollering, he was — as is appropriate to a president — presidential and focused on many powerful images, and lives. But there were also things to criticize about Obama’s speech, and Rush did. Perhaps because he went on too long, the president’s view of America came through.&n...;

Colby Hall Hires Guy Who Wants To Bone Sarah Palin To Diagram Sentences For Mediaite
Thin-skinned future Bieber biographer Colby Hall saw an opportunity to do something more important with his Mediaite doodlepage than their usual “Anderson Cooper: Hot or Not?” polls so he decided to get someone with an extensive background in textual analysis, narrative, and Rhetoric to contrast and compare President Obama’s Tucson Speech with Sarah Palin’s Borscht Belt video comedy short and tell us what the hell they were talking about. After striking out at the blood...

Beck, Palin, and Limbaugh: The Three Stooges of "Peaceful" Revolution
Sarah Palin's Surveyor Map of 2010 Midterm Elections by SarahPAC | Fair use: The image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value. The Palin camp swears that they weren't meant to be target symbols. They were meant to be surveyor symbols, they claim. But, look what Sarah twittered on March 23, 2010, just one week before the maps went public. "Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" Pls see m...

Open Thread: Reaction to Last Night's Tucson Memorial
Last night's memorial for the Victims of Saturday's Tucson massacre was moving, if strange at times. Below the fold are some reactions to the event. Mark Tapscott has a fantastic post on the bizarre Pantheistic religious ceremony at the outset, which honored "Mother Earth" and "Father Sky." Strikingly absent were any Judeo-Christian clergymen. Tapscott ponders the strange - and seeminly hypocritical - concern for "Separation of Church and State" that was for...

Only Niggling Complaints From Fox News Panel About Obamas Tucson Memorial Speech
You know President Obama’s Tucson Memorial Speech had to be pretty darned great if the Fox News panel assembled to critique it - a panel that did not include a single Democrat or liberal - found only its length to criticize. Of course, they took some jabs at Democrats and - shades of Paul Wellstone’s memorial - of the not-somber-enough tone. But the panel blamed the audience, not Obama. The panel consisted of Brit Hume, Chris Wallace and Charles Krauthammer. It p...

Pawlenty praises Obama's speech
At the National Press Club today, Tim Pawlenty talked about Barack Obama's Speech last night on the Arizona shootings. "The President -- the leader of our nation, at this moment -- needs to make sure and convey empathy and condolences, expressing the sentiment and emotions of the country. And from what I can see, from those excerpts, he did a fine job." That differed from Rush Limbaugh, who hit the Speech via hitting a Fox panel of critics (Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer, and Chris Wallace). "...

A look at President Obama's speech in Tucson, with reaction from cable pundits
Back to the Speech. When the President talked about Gabby opening her eyes and young Christina Green's youthful outlook on public service, it was quite moving. It was a great speech -- his best since he became President -- and I hope it does some healing in Arizona and makes people start behaving differently. They know who they are, but I'm not confident that it will have the desired effect we'd wish. I think the constant cheering by the audience was a way to work out their grief and sadness and...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day and environmental justice
Attorney General Eric Holder spoke today about environmental justice at an EPA program commemorating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here are some quotes from text the Department of Justice put out: "Nearly half a century ago, it had become clear to Dr. King and his supporters that integrating our schools and public spaces, securing Voting Rights, and advancing the Civil Rights Act did not solve a series of other problems. People of Color still suffered, unequally, from...

Limbaugh: Obamas speech was poll-driven pep rally
Glenn Beck and his colleagues on Fox News may have been complimentary of President Obama’s Speech last night, but Rush Limbaugh sure wasn’t. He criticized the timing of the memorial service on Wednesday, four days after the Tucson shootings, saying it should have happened sooner. “The reason they waited as long as they did is they were waiting for polling data,” he said. “If they polling data had been different, the Speech would have been different.” CBS rel...

Arizona governor asks residents to pray for victims
TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:49pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer asked Arizonans on Tuesday to pray for the Victims of a Tucson Shooting Spree that killed six people and wounded 14. Devoting most of her annual State of the State Speech to the rampage, Brewer called it "something dark and ugly", according to a transcript of the Speech released by her office. Among those injured in the shooting on Saturday were Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who investig...

Homeland Security Axes Bush-Era 'Virtual Fence' Project
ABC News' Jason Ryan reports: The Department of Homeland Security today officially scrapped a Bush-era program designed to use radar technology to detect Illegal Immigrants crossing the border, according to a DHS official and a congressional source. The project, called "Virtual Fence," was rolled out under the Bush administration in 2006 with much fanfare about how technology could help secure the border. Illegal immigrants crossing the border would be detected by a radar and pi...

Gillibrand Heads To Tucson With President
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office said she has boarded Air Force One with President Obama this afternoon to travel to Tucson, Ariz., to attend tonight’s memorial service for the Victims of Saturday’s shootings. According to the White House pool report, Gillibrand was joined on the trip by some House colleagues, the First Lady, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Homeland Security Security Janet Napolitano, the former Arizona Governor, and Democ...

Tucson service shows what liberals really mean by 'separation of church and state'
Despite the wholly inappropriate and distracting pep rally sound track, there were some moving moments in last night's memorial service at the University of Arizona for the Victims of Saturday's Safeway massacre in Tucson. But one thing that ought not be allowed to pass by without comment was how the event illustrated as no other public commemoration in recent memory what is really meant when the doctrine of "Separation of Church and State" is invoked by proponents of liberal multiculturalist co...

President Obama at Tucson memorial service
About 45 minutes into the service, following remembrances by Gov. Brewer, former Governor and current DHS Secretary Napolitano, and Attorney General Holder, President Obama is introduced by UA President Robert N. Shelton. The text of his remarks as prepared are available below the fold. President Obama is expected to speak for just under twenty minutes. Update: President Obama's begins: To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the Students of this university...

Bizarre Tucson Memorial
Humor me while I throw in my two cents. Perhaps it was the raucous whopping. Perhaps it was the Opening Ceremony with the Chief blessing all above, below, here, there, everywhere. Maybe it was the Holder and Napolitano reading the scriptures. No one of the cloth this time to invoke the spiritual. Janet shouting out “hello Tucson, hello Arizona” didn’t awaken my empathy, but perhaps it was her reading of Isaiah. “Make straight in the dessert a highway” that came to m...

President Obama official schedule and guidance, Jan. 12, 2011. Tucson Memorial Service
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Later in the morning, the President will meet with Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon to discuss U.S. support for Lebanon's Sovereignty, independence, and stability, the ongoing work of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and other regional issues. Lebanon is an important partner in U.S. efforts to promote peace, stability, and justice in the Middle East. The President an...

The First State Approved Megachurch Service
That's essentially how The PJ Tatler describes last night's memorial in Tucson: Last night we may have witnessed the 21st Century's first spiritual gathering in which our political leaders become High Priests too. There were no Jewish rabbis or Catholic and Christian clergy who represented the faiths of those who actually died or were terribly maimed. Instead, the University of Arizona offered up Secular political leaders to serve as our spiritual leaders. They were the ones who were there to s...

Right now: President Obama headed to hospital where Rep Giffords is in the ICU
Here is the White House pool report (from Arizona). Note also there is the list of people who met President Obama on the tarmac in Arizona. News: We are heading to University Medical Center to see Rep Giffords, husband and several other Victims still in the Hospital . Pool will hold outside. Flotus and potus walked down steps and each spoke for a few moments with each of several greeters (names below). Flotus was first, followed by potus, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, Justice Kennedy, Nancy Pel...

O Pleaze. No More Tragedies for Profit of Politicians.
Will he stand with the America that wants an end to the invasions and occupations of foreign lands. Operations preferably referred to by the Administration and those who buy the Administration's line as, "wars?" Will he stand with the poor? The Brown skinned? The Elderly who needs a raise in their cost of living? The sick who need Health Insurance? Obama's words to me sound like profiteering in the midst of tragedy. Profiteering aided by the entire tone of the media in the midst of this traged...