Tom Barrett Rumor

This is in response to the outlandish rumor about Scott Walker fathering and abandoning a child while at Marquette University.

The Leftists clearly are beyond desperate at this point, hitting an all-time low.

Even Graeme Zielinski isn't tweeting out this one, although I wouldn't be surprised if Mike Lowe reports it tonight.
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Have you heard this?

It's not fully substantiated but I'm going to pull a "Mike Lowe" and run with it anyway.

Apparently, when Tom Barrett was on Spring Break while attending UW, he went to Jamaica.

I heard he fathered a child.

Like Dan Bice, my sources will remain anonymous.

The story may be nothing. Then again, it may be a bombshell.

Here's a current photo of the alleged fruit of Barrett's Spring Break in the 70s:



I don't know.

I see a resemblance.

You decide.

I also heard the son Barrett abandoned is likely to be indicted soon.

I also heard that the son is living in a hut on less than a dollar a month.

Oh, wait. It's Obama's brother, George, who lives in a hut. That's a real story.

Candace Gingrich-Jones

Leftists seem to relish finding relatives of conservative candidates who support liberals.

Case in point: Candace Gingrich-Jones, gay half-sister of Newt Gingrich. She doesn't want Newt to be president. She's on Obama's team.

This is reminiscent of the Dems/media launching that 2010 "October surprise," giving massive coverage of Rebecca Kleefisch's gay uncle, Chris Pfauser, accusing his niece of being an extremist.

Find a relative in opposition to a conservative candidate and prop it up like a major, meaningful story.

From Reuters:

The gay half-sister of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich slammed his position on gay rights on Wednesday and said she will support President Barack Obama, a Democrat, in the 2012 election.

Candace Gingrich-Jones, a gay rights activist, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that she and her older half-brother, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, were "mutually respectful" but disagree on gay rights.

"He is definitely on the wrong side of history when it comes to those issues," Gingrich-Jones said.

She said she would "work really, really hard to make sure that President Obama is re-elected next year no matter who the Republican candidate is."

This stuff always seems to get so much attention.

Of course, Obama's half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, found "living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi" on less than one dollar a month, garners little attention from the mainstream media.

From an interview in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair:

No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month."

According to Italy's Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.

Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael.

He told the magazine: "I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist."

Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.

"If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed," he said.

Obama having a half-brother living in a hut in abject poverty is an embarrassment. So it's not discussed.

Obama, a member of the one percent, didn't pull his half-brother out of his misery. Supposedly, there was nothing revealing about that.

Newt Gingrich's gay half-sister's story, however, plays perfectly for the MSNBC, Reuters, lib media.

Candace Gingrich-Jones is an Obama supporter.

So what?

Ronald Reagan's two youngest children didn't support their dad's candidacy.

That, of course, also was considered significant.

The lib media will happily exploit relatives of conservative candidates in hopes of making them look bad. Even their own family members don't support them.

Big deal.

If the lib media want to run potentially embarrassing stories about the relatives of a politician, Obama's family provides a gold mine of material.

Candace doesn't agree with Newt.

STOP THE PRESSES!

Who cares?

John Conyers: Teabaggers' Rational Abilities Compromised

You would think by now that everyone even remotely aware of the Tea Party movement would know that the term "teabagger" is not a term of endearment to apply when referring to the protesters.

But it's still happening.

At this point, ignorance of the term's meaning is not an excuse.

Video.

JOHN CONYERS: But we're here now to understand the frustration of the teabaggers and the people that are angry, because many times when you're angry, your rational abilities are compromised. And you get mad at the wrong party or the wrong thing or whoever is the president.

...The facts are that many of the teabaggers that were hollering and being profane and screaming and using profanity-- Guess what? They are going to be beneficiaries, but they don't know it.

Conyers not only repeats the slur "teabaggers," but he goes beyond that in his attack on Tea Partiers.

Disgraceful.

Here's a few more examples of Leftists smearing their fellow Americans:

BILL MAHER: I thank the Teabaggers....

Any Teabaggers here tonight? They're the ones who got it passed. And I'm sure they're saying, 'What are you talking about, Bill? I was so against the health care bill I marched on Washington with tea bags hanging from my hat, dressed up in my Founding Fathers costume, with a picture of Hitler, you know, and Obama's face on him, and you know, screaming about his birth certificate.'

And America saw that and said, 'What loons! We're going with the calm black man.' These idiots can't even spell 'go back to Kenya,' you know.

JIM McDERMOTT: On my way to work this morning, I saw a group of teabaggers. And I'm really happy that they'll be in Washington to witness Congress pass the historic health care bill tomorrow. When I got to the office, I did a little research on my own and found the website of a teabagger group called the 9/12 Project....

MARK KNOLLER: Obama's motorcade arrives at Capitol Hill. Boos and jeers passing tea bagger protests.

MIKE MALLOY: The latest from the crazy people in the tea bag movement is, uh, a story about, um, Virginia Thomas, she is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; and she's setting up a teabagger nonprofit group. Now this will be interesting because the teabaggers are essentially racist; and how are they're going to deal with a very dark Clarence Thomas and a very white Virginia Thomas setting up subdivision of their crazed tea bagger party; how they're going to deal with that will be great fun to watch.

...[Virginia's] in for a big surprise, when the inherently racist nature of the teabagger movement slams her in the face. She's a very, very, very, very, very white Omaha, Nebraska woman married to a very, very, very, very black South Georgia man. And when the pictures of the two of them together get out, you can almost hear the squealing right now from the real teabaggers.

ROGER EBERT: TeaBagger crowd: polite. The nutjobs who were bussed to Town Halls didn't get their way paid to Sarah [Palin]'s $100,000 speech.

JOHN KERRY: We also see how revved up the teabaggers are at the thought of hijacking health care reform and every chance we have at making progress in Washington.

BARNEY FRANK: I, like you, am skeptical. They haven't shown the willingness to stand up to this intense Right-wing pressure and the fear of losing to the teabaggers in primaries.

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL: The idea of a responsibility tax on these banks which have cost people jobs, homes. I think it's a test for the Teabaggers moving forward, too. Which side are they on? Are they on the side of the people as they claim?

CHUCK SCHUMER: Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy's term, and her opponent is a far-right teabagger Republican.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Every single teabagger in America is white.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: So who will lead the teabaggers? Will it be Rick Perry down in Texas? Will it be Michele Bachman out in Minnesota? Will it be Sarah Palin? You first Mark [McKinnon] it's your idea. The teabaggers are an interesting group to watch. They're not far right. They're probably center-right, in fact some centrists. But they're generally, I think, Republican voters. Right? Is that fair to say? They vote Republican?

SUZANNE MALVEAUX: Do we expect to see the kinds of big rallies and the kind of- some of the theatrics, the circus atmosphere that we saw the last go-round over the summer when you were talking about controversial policy... Teabaggers and all that other thing?

CANDY CROWLEY: And by way of marquee races, it's hard to beat the soap opera of New York's 23rd congressional district, where the Republican moderate dropped out over the weekend, leaving the race to a conservative, Doug Hoffman, the choice of many on the right, including Sarah Palin, former House leader Dick Armey and tea bag partiers.

DAVID SHUSTER: For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15, will be Tax Day, but... it's going to be Teabagging Day for the right wing, and they're going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals. They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending.

GWEN IFILL: So whether it's Jeremiah Wright or Henry Louis Gates, Jr., or what Jimmy Carter said about this, the Tea Baggers or whoever, it's always going to be with us?

PAUL KRUGMAN: But the teabaggers have come and gone, as have the cries of 'death panels' and the demonstrations by Medicare recipients demanding that the government stay out of health care.

BILL CLINTON: The reason the teabaggers are so inflamed is because we are winning.

MAXINE WATERS: I want journalists to be all over those rallies and the marches with the birthers and the teabaggers.

OBAMA: Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?

E.J. DIONNE: The conservative party in New York state put up a Right-wing candidate supported by the teabaggers.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: This hardcore part of the base is in a world unto its own right now. The Teabag Movement and the others are sort of driven by the idea that President Obama and the Democrats have a secret plan to impose socialism.

KEITH OLBERMANN: Well, the teabagging is all over, except for the cleanup.

...Congratulations, Pensacola teabaggers. You got spunked. And despite the hatred on display, a few of you actually violated the penal code. But teabagging is now petered out, taint what it used to be. And when you co-opt the next holiday, Fourth of July, try to adopt a holiday food that does not invite the double entendres like, you know, franks and beans.

KEITH OLBERMANN: I wanted to apologize for calling Senator-elect Scott Brown an 'irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea-bagging, supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.' I'm sorry, I left out the word 'sexist.'

JANEANE GAROFALO: This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around that. And you know, you can tell these type of right wingers anything and they'll believe it, except the truth.

JANEANE GAROFALO: If there's any teabaggers here, welcome, and as always, white power.

ANA MARIE COX: Who wouldn't want to tea bag John McCain? This is all part of the midterm strategy. You know it's going to be teabagging 24/7 when it comes to the midterms.

RACHEL MADDOW: The GOP, in other words, is clearly in exile. But the conservative movement has found a reason to live, have found something about which they feel very positive about, something they are ready to rally around. I speak, of course, of teabagging.

...They don't want to teabag alone, if that's even possible. They want you to start teabagging, too.

ANDERSON COOPER: Teabagging. They've got teabagging.... It's hard to talk when you're teabagging.

Disgraceful.

Gwen Ifill claimed to use the term without knowing its meaning. She apologized. I've heard no apologies from any of the others.

Their silence speaks volumes.

Bill Maher and Jay Leno - September 28 (Video)

Bill Maher made his first appearance on The Jay Leno Show.



Maher was frequently Leno's guest on The Tonight Show, so I expected the same old, same old. Maher was true to form, as offensive as ever; but Leno was different.

Leno no longer pretends to be politically neutral. He is out as a Leftist.

Video here.

Before Maher got into the vitriol, Maher did a few "New Rules," a segment he does on his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher.

I thought this one was actually kind of funny.

BILL MAHER: New Rule: Critics must stop saying that Jay Leno's new show is too much like his old one. What did they think the new show was gonna be? Jay and Kevin Eubanks move to a small fishing village and solve mysteries?

After that, they went right into health care.

I'm still not used to the interview set, two chairs without the desk. Leno looks so uncomfortable. He fidgets. It's distracting.

Anyway, on health care, Leno left no doubt where he stands.

Transcript

JAY LENO: Well, you know, it's like I keep hearing this talk about death panels. People use the word "death panel." But, you know, we've had death panels...

BILL MAHER: That's Sarah Palin. Wait a second...

LENO: Yes. True.

MAHER: Sarah Palin is the one who brought up death panel... And you know what, Sarah Palin? I got news for you, honey. If we were gonna get rid of useless people, you would be the first to know.

(Cheers, applause)

Can Maher ever speak without saying something derogatory about Sarah Palin?

LENO: But let me ask you something... We have had death panels for years. They're called insurance companies.

MAHER: Right. Exactly.

LENO: But everybody knows, everybody knows someone who was told your grandmother's not getting this kidney because it was too expensive, or you're not in this plan.

MAHER: Right.

LENO: So, I know the death panels is a phony... it, it, it's just wordplay. But people act like this hasn't existed. Insurance companies have been turning down people for years and years.

MAHER: I'm glad to hear you say that, Jay...

LENO: Yeah.

MAHER: ...the exemplar of Middle America, because I think, you know, a lot of people don't... a lot people are fighting health care who need health care. If you voted for a guy who wouldn't give you health care as opposed to one who would, you should have your head examined, except you can't afford to have your head examined because you don't have health care.

LENO: See, this is where... See, to me, President Obama...

MAHER: Who?

LENO: President Obama... I mean, a great communicator, a man who's able to communicate his ideas good enough to get elected, I don't understand why they can't explain what this is. I heard a guy, legitimately, on the news saying, 'I don't want the government touching my Medicare.' Well, what do you think Medicare is?

(Laughter)

But I don't think most Americans even understand this, and I don't know whether the president's not explaining it properly, like the one payer option... What is, what is the phrase?

MAHER: Single payer.

LENO: Single payer.

MAHER: Right. Horrible, horrible. Because people when they hear single payer they think that's me. I'm the single... It's the government.

LENO: Right.

MAHER: You know, what they should have said is 'Medicare for all.'

LENO: Right.

It was really strange for Leno to do so much of the talking. Usually, Maher is basically doing a monologue and Leno just laughs and nods and feeds him questions.

It seemed like Leno was bent on "educating" his audience.

I think Leno's suggestion that the American people don't understand what Obama's health care overhaul is about is an insult.

When seniors express concern about the Obama government messing with their Medicare, that doesn't mean they don't understand it's a government program.

Leno is the confused one.

I really don't care for the lib version of Leno.

MAHER: But the Democrats are horrible at that. That's to this day, they're not good. I mean, you mentioned death panel, they changed the phrase 'estate tax,' which is a great tax. I mean, you have to tax something. This is a tax on rich, dead people. These are the perfect people to tax.

(Laughter)

One, they don't have any need for money on account of that whole being dead thing.

(Laughter)

LENO: Right. But they're working on a plan to take it with you. I don't know if you know this stuff.

MAHER: Right. You know, what? There's going to be no incentive to croak? It's ridiculous. But, but you know, 'estate tax,' it effects like literally .2 percent of the people, people literally with estates, otherwise known as 'not you.' But the Republicans changed 'estate tax' to 'death tax.'

LENO: Right, so it sounds like...

MAHER: And people were like, 'Oh, death. That could happen to me.'

That's old material. I've heard Maher do his 'death tax' shtick before.

That class warfare stuff is crap.

Moreover, Dems are the masters at wordplay, not Republicans. Killing a baby is a 'choice.' People in the country ILLEGALLY are 'undocumented workers.' The list goes on and on.

LENO: Well, has President Obama been on TV too much lately? I mean, I...

MAHER: Well...

LENO: I saw him on Man vs. Wild just the other day. So, I think that's one too many.

MAHER: Yes, I mean, but he has to sell what he's selling. I mean, you know, this is the kind of country where you have to plug your stuff. I'm gonna plug some stuff here, right?

LENO: Right.

MAHER: I think, but yes, I think he's too concerned with being popular. That's, you know, I think presidents go through this in the first year of office. They want everybody to love them, and they have to learn the hard way not everybody can be into you. The Republicans are just not into you, dude.

LENO: It's like your dad. Your dad is not your friend. He's your dad.

MAHER: Exactly. And I see him do things that I know are not who Barack Obama really is. I don't think he's a guy who really eats that many hamburgers, but he's always trying to like show you he's a regular guy. He goes out to lunch with Joe Biden.

I must say this about George Bush: He had horrible ideas that hurt this country, like deregulation, and giving all the money to rich people, and preemptive war, but at least he didn't try to be popular. And that worked out pretty well.

(Laughter, applause)

LENO: Yeah, yeah.

MAHER: But he never felt the need to be seen having a hamburger. If he wanted a hamburger, he'd call up, he'd say, 'I'm the president. Get me a hamburger.' And the guy on the other end of the line would say, 'Sir, this is NORAD. Stop ordering burgers. It's the red phone." And he would hang up.

Again, old material.

George Bush is gone. That era is over. It's so boring when Maher and Leno keep yapping about Bush, so terribly unoriginal.

After the first part of the interview, Leno and Maher did the "Earn Your Plug" segment.

They read the actual e-mails of Mark Foley and Mark Sanford.

Maher said about Sanford's messages, "Those e-mails that he wrote, they gave women a boner."

Is that really appropriate on prime time TV?

Maher also stressed that the e-mails were from "Republicans, of course."

Video of "Earn your Plug."



Leno is not the exemplar of Middle America.

If he ever was, the prime time incarnation of Leno certainly is not.

George Obama: Book Deal

It's really no secret, but the lib media don't talk about it much.

George Hussein Onyango Obama, half brother of Barack Obama, lives in a hut in the town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.

From the Italian edition of Vanity Fair:

No-one knows who I am," he told the magazine, before claiming: "I live here on less than a dollar a month."

According to Italy's Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack is decorated with football posters of the Italian football giants AC Milan and Inter, as well as a calendar showing exotic beaches of the world.

Vanity Fair also noted that he had a front page newspaper picture of his famous brother - born of the same father as him, Barack Hussein Obama, but to a different mother, named only as Jael.

He told the magazine: "I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist."

Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.

"If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed," he said.

I'm surprised the compassionate Michelle Obama didn't suggest that they forgo their New York date night and send the tens of thousands of dollars saved to poor George. I guess a lot of the bill for that date was picked up by the taxpayers, but the part that came out of the Obamas' personal funds could have gone to George.

George could probably live like a king for a year for the price of the Obamas' dinner in Paris.

Obama believes in "spreading the wealth around" yet he didn't help his own brother.

That has always struck me as incredibly weird. I just don't get it.

No matter. George is making it on his own, thanks indirectly to his big brother.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Another Obama relative has a book deal.

A memoir by George Obama, the president's half brother and a resident of Huruma, Kenya, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2010. George Obama, 27, shares the same father with his famous, older half sibling, although George and Barack Obama—20 years apart in age—did not grow up together and did not meet as children.

...Little is known about George Obama. The book, tentatively titled "Homeland" and to be written with author-journalist Damien Lewis, will tell of George Obama's fall into crime and poverty as a teenager and his eventual embrace of community organizing—a passion shared by the president—and of advocacy for the poor, an identification so strong that he chooses to live among them.

"Even had George Obama not been our President's half brother, his story is moving and inspirational," David Rosenthal, Simon & Schuster publisher and executive vice president, said in a statement Sunday. "It is an object lesson in survival, selflessness and courage."

Financial terms were not disclosed, but an official with knowledge of the negotiations said the deal was worth six figures. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the contract, spoke on condition of anonymity.

...Barack Obama has written a pair of million-selling books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father," in which he describes George Obama as "a handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze."

Of course, little is known about George Obama. If Barack doesn't want to talk about his half brother, the media don't pursue the story.

Of course, Obama having a half brother living in a hut in abject poverty is an embarrassment. So it's not discussed.

I don't know how Obama could sleep at night knowing that his sibling, the "handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze," was suffering like that.

I'm sure George's story is moving and inspirational, as "David Rosenthal, Simon & Schuster publisher and executive vice president" says.

That's especially the case since George has a very rich and powerful brother who didn't reach out to help him.

George as a community organizer who chooses to live among the poor is a very different spin than the one given by the original Vanity Fair article. It's one that's been pushed by Obama supporters and the Left-wing media.

This book deal is a win-win situation for the Obama brothers.

George will get at least six figures for his story. That's probably more than he ever thought he'd see in his lifetime.

And Obama will benefit by the propaganda piece that lets him off the hook for failing to assist his half brother.

Everyone is happy.

George Obama Arrested - Marijuana

George Hussein Onyango Obama, Barack Obama's half-brother, was arrested.

Yes, a sibling of the president of the United States has been arrested.

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- George Obama, the half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police on a charge of possession of marijuana, police said Saturday.

Inspector Augustine Mutembei, the officer in charge, said Obama was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis, known in Kenya as Bhang, and resisting arrest. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday, Mutembei said.

He is being held at Huruma police post in the capital of Nairobi.

Speaking from behind bars, Obama denied the allegations.

"They took me from my home," he said, "I don't know why they are charging me."

George Obama and the president barely know each other, though they have met. George Obama was one of the president's few close relatives who did not go to the inauguration in Washington last week.

In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama describes meeting George as a "painful affair." Barack Obama's trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known.

CNN reporter David McKenzie always bends over backwards to distance Obama from his brother George.

It's strange that McKenzie chose to refer to George as one of Obama's "close relatives." That was obviously a slip.

I don't understand why Obama hasn't acted on the "painful affair" of meeting family in Kenya.

Why hasn't he done something to help his half-brother?

Another question:

So why aren't the networks covering the fact that Barack Obama's half-brother George lives in a 6 by 10 foot hut in the slums of Kenya? It took a reporter for the Italian edition of Vanity Fair to locate George Obama. Obama noted that when he met his famous half-brother in 2006 “we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.” George Obama also told the magazine that “I live here on less than a dollar month,” and “if anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed.” Obama has done absolutely nothing to help his unfortunate half-brother.

Will Barack Obama do something now to help his half-brother?

George doesn't need the president of the United States to intervene on his behalf, but I think he does need a brother.

From The Dish Rag:

George Obama doesn’t know his brother well and he only had one joint on him. “He is not a drug peddler,” Police Chief Joshua Omokulongolo told the Associated Press. Well, that's good to know.

George is the youngest of Barack Obama’s father’s seven children. He was not among the new president's Kenyan relatives attending the recent D.C. inauguration. And media reports of George living in a shack and earning $1 day are said -- by him -- to be exaggerated.

“I’m proud of how I live,” he told AP in an interview last summer. The media “are tarnishing the family name.”

Yeah, well, the joint didn’t help much either.

There’s been no comment from the White House on this family matter.

No comment from the White House.

Will Matt Lauer ask Obama about the matter during the super-hyped Super Bowl pre-game interview?

No chance.

Obama is lucky he was never arrested on the same charge that landed his half-brother George behind bars. Pot is part of Barack's past. So is coke.