Disgusted

I never thought I'd have this in common with Michelle Obama, but I'm not feeling so proud of my country this morning; the painful truth is that every member of Congress was elected by American voters. And now, with lots of assistance from our chosen representatives, we're committing societal suicide.

See Michelle Malkin for the eight most-wanted for selling out taxpayers. Namely:

• Mary Bono Mack (202) 225-5330
• Mike Castle (202) 225-4165
• Mark Kirk (202) 225-4385
• Leonard Lance (202) 225-5361
• Frank LoBiondo (202) 225-6572
• John McHugh (202) 225-4611
• Dave Reichert (202) 225-7761
• Chris Smith(NJ) (202) 225-3765

Take their names down in your little notebook and strike them off in 2010. I'm especially disgusted with Chris Smith and Mark Kirk. (*The above list was updated to link to contact information for each rep. Share your thoughts and feelings with them. Hat tip to NORC. **Updated again with phone numbers. H/T MM)

Thanks to all of the above (and many more) for delivering our property and liberty into the hands of Frank, Pelosi, Waxman and other assorted unconvicted felons. Free rein/reign over the American economy makes it that much easier for them to stuff their pockets with taxpayer dollars and bribes.

While we're at it, way to go, American voters, for electing such a cool president. In your addled celebrity-worship-warped minds, coolness is all. A culture that adores the famous for being famous because fame confers coolness is a sitting duck for the likes of Obama, whose image fits so perfectly into the template of contemporary cool. (And a tip of the hat to our msm, too, without whom none of this would be possible.)

How fitting that images of another great example of coolness, unconvicted child-molester/freakazoid Michael Jackson, should be everywhere right now. Only an ailing culture would fall all over itself for a performer who, at his peak (before the extreme self-mutilation), defined himself by his artificiality. It was evident in his dance moves, in his over-produced sound, and in the silly pseudo-uniforms he wore. Eventually artificiality bloomed into bizarre unnaturalness. A healthy culture would have averted its eyes from a man so overwhelmed with self-hatred. But we're suffering from cultural arrested development and have developed a taste for self-destruction. Get ready for multiple tell-all books from the inner circle (time to cash in!) that will curl your hair, and endless tributes that gloss over his pervitude.

While I'm being judgmental, this disgusted me, too: First lady Michelle Obama brought her two little girls (and her retinue, natch) to a Beyonce concert. The girls are eight and not quite eleven years old.

Beyonce told Vogue Magazine shortly after that Michelle Obama said she was a role model for her girls.
"She told me she was very happy that her girls have someone like me to look up to," Beyonce said then of Sasha and Malia. "And I'm like, 'Oh, my God.' You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that."

Hmm. Two thoughts: this isn't about Beyonce and how cool this is for her; and yes, it's pretty scary.

Using Beyonce as a role model for our daughters is beyond me. Her highly sexualized style of performing isn't the stuff I'd choose to nourish the minds and imaginations of my girls. I think Michelle is setting a lousy parenting example here. (I was going to link to some vintage Beyonce but I decided it constituted a near occasion of sin.)

Back to politics; our hopes now rest in the arms of that august body, the US Senate, under the leadership of Harry Reid and its various sterling members.

For some positive and constructive counsel, click here, cuz I got nuthin.

Linked by Michelle Malkin (buzzworthy)

Cross-posted in the Green Room.

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MSM have forfeited their right to cry foul (updated)

Dana Milbank comments on the prearranged question asked by HuffPo's Nico Pitney:

Pitney asked his question, as arranged. Reporters in the room looked at each other in amazement at the stagecraft they had just witnessed. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel looked at the first row of TV correspondents and grinned.

The reporters are "amazed" that Obama is rigging a question or two? After greasing the treads for their candidate by averting their gaze from potentially immense news stories, smearing his opponents, and spinning everything in his favor they're surprised when he doesn't play by what's left of their rules? Pleeze.

Still, the private agreement -- to call on a questioner under condition that he ask his question on a particular topic in a particular way -- is very close to what the left justifiably deplored when there were accusations (denied by the media) that the White House was pre-screening reporters and their questions before news conferences.

And Pitney was not the only "plant" at yesterday's [sic] news conference. Later, Obama passed over the usual suspects to call on Macarena Vidal of the Spanish-language E.F.E. news agency. The White House called Vidal in advance to see if she was coming and arranged for her to sit in a seat usually assigned to a financial trade publication. "Okay, Macarena Vidal," Obama called out, as the regulars adopted baffled expressions. She asked about Chile and Colombia. [emphasis added]

The irony is delicious. Did the media lapdogs really think that Obama would respect them in the morning? Even this bit of favoritism and flagrant violation of their vestigial integrity won't make honest men and women of them. They'll continue to put out for their Sugardaddy-in-Chief.

Related: Obama still giving peace a chance in Iran

Cross-posted in the Green Room.

*Wednesday morning updates:

See Ed Driscoll's Life In The Dinosaur Media.
Please read all of Caroline Glick's The Obama effect:

It is hard to think of an example in US history in which the media organs of the world's most important democracy so openly sacrificed the most basic responsibilities of news gatherers to act as shills for the chief executive.
[. . .]
THE MOST IMPORTANT repercussion of the US media's propagandistic reporting is that the American public is denied the ability to understand events as they unfold.

h/t: Andy McCarthy

*From Milbank's fleshed-out Wednesday morning column:

As if to compensate for the prepackaged Huffington Post question, Obama went quickly to Fox News for a predictably hostile question from Major Garrett. "In your opening remarks, sir, you said about Iran that you were appalled and outraged," Garrett said. "What took you so long?

"I don't think that's accurate," Obama volleyed testily, calling his toughening statements on Iran "entirely consistent."

The host of "The Obama Show" dispatched with similar ease a challenge from CBS's Chip Reid, asking whether his hardening line on Iran was inspired by John McCain. "What do you think?" Obama replied with a big grin. That brought the house down. And the studio audience laughed again when ABC's Jake Tapper tried to get Obama to answer another reporter's question that he had dodged. "Are you the ombudsman for the White House press corps?" the president cracked.

Maybe he is, or should be; at least he's trying to hold Obama and his media-toadies accountable.

But wait, there's more hilarity:

The laughter had barely subsided when the host made another joke about Tapper's reference to Obama's "Spock-like language about the logic of the health-care plan."

"The reference to Spock, is that a crack on my ears?" the president asked.

And the crowd roared. They can't get enough of his lame stand-up material.

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Obama's "day of conversation about fatherhood"

From the Washington Post: Obama recruits "famous daddies dads" to "mentor" boys about fatherhood. I don't think he vetted the men as well as he might have. The Post's Dan Zak writes an amusing (decidedly not gushing) account of this "national day of conversation about fatherhood."

The students of Ballou Senior High School's automotive technology program can thank Barack Obama's absent father for their current predicament: getting rapped at by Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC. . . .

Mr. DMC couldn't seem to stop talking about what a great father rapper he is:

"I didn't come here to be a famous rap dude," says McDaniels, standing in front of a hydraulic brake demonstrator across from three busted-up cars on hydraulic lifts. "I didn't come here to be the king of rock. If [Run-DMC] didn't do what we did, there would be no hip-hop."

Let us give thanks.

"What I represent is purpose and destiny. . . . Don't let anyone tell you you can't do it. . . . I was like y'all, a school kid growing up in the 'hood. . . . And I became not just a rapper but one of the greatest ever to do it. And the reason it happened was because I took every opportunity."

"Put me on the stage with any rapper," he challenges the students. "I will defeat them and I won't curse at all."

Well, that's good to hear. Zak has some fun quoting Mr. DMC extensively:

". . . importance of being responsible . . . leaders of tomorrow . . . Jay-Z. . . I ain't talking about all the great rap records . . ."
More DMC: ". . . the showbiz aspect . . . iPods! . . . 3 percent of what pop culture is all about. . . .You ain't the king, I'm the king . . . "
DMC redux: ". . . what it's like to live in the 'hood . . . take advantage of every opportunity . . . I had a Cadillac gold chain . . . "

You have to feel sorry for the young men who had to sit through this nonsense. And to add insult to injury, Biden got in on the act:

At one point Vice President Joe Biden sits down with another group and talks at length about his sons. Some of the teenage fathers-in-training are drowning in sweat, and Biden talks so long his bald spot seems to burn purple in the sun.

Those poor kids. Zak's sympathies are with them. And he exposes a certain perverse logic in Mr. DMC's testimony:

Then he [DMC] says that if he hadn't been given up for adoption and cared for by a loving family in Hollis, Queens -- We're funky fresh from Hollis, Queens! -- there would be no Run-DMC and, hence, no hip-hop.
And it would follow that without Barack Hussein Obama the father, there would be no Barack Hussein Obama the son, and maybe without the father's absence, there would be no President Obama, and no White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which coordinated yesterday's events and will sponsor regional town halls on fatherhood in the future.

Thereby proving beyond a shadow of a doubt the absolute necessity of the involved father!

I'm thinking Mr. Zak is wishing he had his afternoon back.

Here's a related post from March when Michelle O recruited celebrities to mentor DC girls. Not to be mothers -- heck no. For role models she enlisted mostly actresses, singers, and a couple of star athletes. You see, what American children need today is more celebrity worship.

Don't miss the special edition of CBS Sunday Morning tomorrow: Barack Obama: American Dad. I don't remember any tributes to "W: the Father." The networks were too busy with "George Bush: American Satan" and "GWB: Evil monkey-man."

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The ultimate form of discrimination

Not unlike the "final solution," but here in America: aborting babies on the basis of sex.

William Jacobson: When A Woman's Right To Choose Results In Fewer Women - In The U.S.

A study reported in today's New York Times suggests that the practice of sex-selection, commonplace in Asia, continues in subsequent generations of immigrants to the United States:

The trend is buried deep in United States census data: seemingly minute deviations in the proportion of boys and girls born to Americans of Chinese, Indian and Korean descent.
In those families, if the first child was a girl, it was more likely that a second child would be a boy, according to recent studies of census data. If the first two children were girls, it was even more likely that a third child would be male.
Demographers say the statistical deviation among Asian-American families is significant, and they believe it reflects not only a preference for male children, but a growing tendency for these families to embrace sex-selection techniques, like in vitro fertilization and sperm sorting, or abortion.

Although the NY Times article does not distinguish among the prevalence of various sex selective methods (in vitro, sperm sorting, abortion), the study itself makes clear that sex-selective abortion is the most likely factor. . . .

One might imagine that feminists would be outraged by this, the ultimate act of discrimination against women. But one would be wrong. The theme of the 21st century is cultural and societal suicide: Feminists supporting the destruction of women, families and whole societies "planning" themselves out of existence, voters surrendering themselves to Big Brother, free societies bending over backwards to accommodate cultures who oppose basic human liberty, and so on.

Related story here about sex-selective abortions in Sweden.

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