The Dazed And Confused Awards
Posted April 24th, 2008 by Da King
This is a short one, just a few quotes to show you how the other half thinks (or more accurately, DOESN'T think). Here are the winners for the week.
Winner of the Can't See The Forest For The Trees Award:
“Joblessness is growing. Millions of homes are sliding into foreclosure. The financial system continues to choke on the toxic leftovers of the mortgage crisis. The downward spiral of the economy is challenging a notion that has underpinned American economic policy for a quarter-century—the idea that prosperity springs from markets left free of government interference. The modern-day godfather of that credo was Milton Friedman…” —New York Times economics reporter Peter Goodman, forgetting that free markets are what created U.S. wealth to begin with.
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Winner of the No Sh*t Sherlock Cup:
“The problem is not that I met with Hamas in Syria, the problem is that Israel and the United States refuse to meet these people… So I told [Hamas] don’t wait for reciprocation, just do it unilaterally. This will bring a lot of credit to you around the world for doing a humane thing. They turned me down.” —Jimmy Carter, apparently unaware that the mission of Hamas is to destroy the state of Israel.
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Winner of the Pinko Pinhead Plaque:
“[J]ust when we were close to a national news media providing a general consensus on what the truth is, along comes the Internets [sic] that allows its users a choice on the kind of news it watches and the YouTube. My God, we’ve got to stop them.” —actor Tim Robbins. Don't quit your day job, comrade Tim.
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Winner of the Feel The Left Wing Lunatic Love Trophy:
"The Clinton campaign describes Hillary’s voters as older, white, and undereducated. Or as we called them in my neighborhood: white trash." — liberal radio host Randi Rhodes, talking about her fellow Democrats following the Pennsylvania primary. Maybe Barack Obama can speak to Mz. Rhodes about her bitterness, which is causing her antipathy towards those who aren't like her (the sane).
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Winner of the Just Lose, Baby Button:
"The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it. Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election." — New York Times editor, irritated that Hillary Clinton is still trying to become president instead of rolling over and dying to clear the way for Saint Barack of Obama's Hope And Change Traveling Vaudeville Show.
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And finally, I'd like to nominate Keith Olbermann for Dazed And Confused Man Of The Year, for absolutely every word he's spoken on that hack MessNBC pile of propaganda he calls a television show.
Thank you. That's all, folks.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:16 am
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April 24th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Indeed.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
It was the diligently-regulated (by the Securities and Exchange Commission) US equities market that made the United States the absolute best place to invest since the Great Depression. Hence, the "U.S. wealth".
It was the poorly-regulated sub-prime mortgage market that accentuated the housing problem to catastrophic proportions. Free of government interference, mortgage writers scammed the home owners and the bond buyers alike.
So much for your "Can't See The Forest For The Trees" thesis.
Tom's College of Regulatory Knowledge
April 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Dazed & Confused needs a Poster Child…
Jimmy Carter would be Perfect !!!
April 25th, 2008 at 8:32 am
I actually agree that some regulation of the financial industry is in order, but that hardly serves to, in the words of the NY Times alleged economist, "[challenge] a notion that has underpinned American economic policy for a quarter-century—the idea that prosperity springs from markets left free of government interference."
Prosperity most certainly DOES spring from markets left free of government interference. That's a truism. That's why they are called 'free markets' to begin with. It's pretty hard to have a sane capitalist system without them. Governmentally controlled markets are what fail (because they aren't free). This debate should have been settled by the outcome of the Cold War.
Every time there's a problem with any facet of our society, some liberal starts calling for Socialist policy. Wrong.
King's College of Objective Reality.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Friedman followers are freaks.
Carter has a righteous backbone and a brain. Compare that to spineless and brainless Bush, The Younger. Bush couldn't tie carter's shoes, for Christ's sake.
Randi Rhoades would find her counterpart in Rush Limbaugh…only Randi is funnier.
The NY Times editorial staff are the only reality based group, seemingly, left in Knee Pad Land. Because conservatives know Hillary will be a weaker candidate against McSame…they would disagree with anything that is obviously true.
Poster Child: Speaking of….Were you the one who was featured on those mental illness posters awhile back?
April 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I don't think Carter can tie Carter's shoes these days.
April 25th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Carter is old, in case you haven't noticed. Probably wears Velcro shoes.
April 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
He might wear velcro diapers.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Obama has won the endorsement of Hamas.
Do we want a President that was endorsed by a Terrorists?
April 26th, 2008 at 2:52 am
Obama… " I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction "
The Winds Have Shifted…
Pleaase Obama, Go Stand With The Muslims !!!
April 26th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Dear Da King,
Peter Goodman/NY Times comment was precisely in the context of "the regulation regimen of the mortgage market". Quit pretending otherwise. He was not calling for regulating every bit of the US economy, or as you like to call it "socialism"
Sheesh
April 26th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
George Bush, The Younger was endorsed by Osama Bin Laden last go around, so what's the point?
Hamas, I mean my goodness, doesn't vote in our general election. And the only reason Hamas would endorse Obama would be because he is not insane like Bush, the Younger and McSame.
And Political Winds is blowing in the wrong disinformation direction. What's the purpose Windy? Win at any cost? Hatred? That bitterness Obama 's been talking about?
Why not just let the opponents win or lose on their own merits? Why do you have to spread lies and be so deceitful in the midst of what started out to be a great democratic election. I mean, it's classless.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Winner of the "Destroy America and Destroy the Earth"
George W. Bush