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at the same time it’s going into the toilet:

NEW YORK, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Moody’s Investors Service said on Thursday it may cut its ratings on New York Times Co[.] into junk territory, citing concerns about continuing revenue declines and risks associated with refinancing its debt.

The New York Times posted a quarterly loss from continuing operations on Thursday and said advertising revenue at its news media group dropped 16 percent for the quarter. […]

Newspaper advertising market conditions are likely to remain challenging in 2009 and continuing revenue declines will make it difficult for the company to bring its credit metrics in line with its investment grade rating, Moody’s said in a statement.

Yeah, but come on! The Grey Lady? She’s too big to fail.

But, what a glorious day that would be.

Obama’s on the TV right now, actually fielding questions about Biden’s suggestion that it is Obama’s inexperience itself that will invite challenges “generated” to test his mettle. And Obama refuses to answer for it. Biden’s given to “rhetorical flourishes”? No, he’s saying that you are a disaster waiting to happen, Barry. Your own Vice President doubts your ability to deal decisively with the international forces at work against us.

You need to be able to address that concern without your usual bullshit and dodging, liar. Of course, the garbage in the so-called “press” aren’t going to make you answer for anything, but History will.

I just found myself watching a couple minutes of Anderson Cooper on CNN —and he’s simply appalling. Are he and his fellow Obama fluffers even capable of shame at this point? To routinely do everything one can to minimize Obama’s liabilities while simultaneously questioning anything to do with Sarah Palin or her boss is simply advocacy. Do you understand what that word means, hippies? It means that Cooper and Campbell Brown and the meretricious David Gergen and all the other wretched whores on Ted Turner’s old TV station are paid spokespeople for the Obama campaign. They speak out on his behalf while trying to tear down the Republicans. What’s the great scandal tonight? Palin’s and her daughters’ travel expenses? Their wardrobe and make-up budgets? Jesus Christ! Where’s a story about Obama’s support for infanticide? How about a story on his corrupt land deal with Rezko? What does Obama think of Biden’s warnings that we will be deliberately tested by our enemies because of Obama’s inexperience? How many different ways does the Unqualified Liar have of lying about his alliance with and sympathy for the notorious founder of ther Weather Underground, Bill Ayers? He’s lying about that —but nobody cares because the people who occupy the cable news-space are his fucking followers!

If John McCain wins this thing, the era of Big Media is done. That’s a definite KIA. Big Media may be done even if Obama wins because only then will the American public begin to see how many different lies these sorry bastards told us for the sake of their ideological messiah.

No more of your dishonorable nonsense, CNN. You’re done in my household.

Many of us who are opposed to Barack Obama —because of the enormous lies he tells about himself, as well as the extreme Leftism hidden in his story— are too slow to surrender to reality. We cannot yet accept that the America we live in is ready to hand the keys over to a narcissistic socialist in the White House and the most liberal Congress in 35 years. The disconnect may be attributed to a quaint adherence to the old standards of patriotism and, indeed, politics. When else, after all, have we made a cultural interloper of this degree our President? I don’t refer to his racial identity —although that’s certainly there— but to his foreignness. He doesn’t have a claim on this culture that I would recognize as American. Instead, he is a harbinger of the Post-American Man —the Citizen of the World who, on nothing but the power of celebrity and diabolism, went before the German throngs and debased what we are. Yes: debased. He reduced what this Republic is to a mistake that needs to be apologized for. So I do not trust his motives and I do not like his supporters, who strike me as woefully ignorant and emotional little feelers. They do not have any reason to support this man but for their emotional reaction to him. They are taking him on faith. What else do they have, though? Some evidence of his worth such as, you know, an achievement? Ask a hundred of his followers and not two of them together could tell you a single fucking thing he’s achieved that would warrant his elevation to the Presidency.

Anyway, we supporters of McCain and Palin are on our own little fools’ errands in trying to persuade the public of the dangers of this New Socialism. I have —and will have, be sure— no regrets for my own part in criticizing Obama, but it’s still poignant to read the people I depend on for my information trying so hard to break a story or pursue a new line of investigation in these last, though interminable, weeks. They want so much for what they write to matter, but it does not. What Obama draws on now is not the rational considerations of informed voters, but the raucous and fanatic emotionalism of the new idolatry —an anti-Bush and anti-Right movement determined to replace what it despises. You will not reach into those little rodental heads and convince them of anything: The One must be made the Change We Need.

What Obama is —as a man and as a patriot— is somehow irrelevant now. The icon got ahead of his reality. These are the days for dreaming. Not American Dreaming, of course; that would be too provincial. These are the days, rather, for illusions and fantasies and all the thoughts of absolution we will enjoy once we do to ourselves what must be done. Now the abnegating! Now the denigrating!

The knowing comes later. The realization must come, but last.

If John McCain would simply describe Barack Obama as a socialist, wouldn’t that almost compel a public discussion of what that word means? I don’t think some people know what’s involved. “Spreading the wealth around” may sound like a great idea to a teenager who’s working for minimum-wage, but to the 40 year-old businessperson who hired this kid to stock the shelves, it’s worrisome to consider that taxes and employee-related costs are going up. As they say, poor people never gave anybody a job —unless you count jobs created by the social necessity of cleaning up after these same people’s mistakes. At that sort of job creation, the social, intellectual, and economic underclasses excel.

The Obamatons are becoming ever more explicit in their grand schemes for the post-Republican, post-American paradise of Obama’s socialist state. They are beginning to bully and cheat in broad daylight. They are, like the terrorists they sympathize and associate with, becoming emboldened. And to what end? To disincentivize work? To undermine the bases of competition and self-worth? To suppress political dissent for the sake of the “common good”? Well, there’s one for you and nineteen for me. Think that’s fanciful? Did you ever think you would see the economic events of the past six weeks? Neither did I.

Say, kids! Remember in the last week or so before the Election of 2006 when the greatest goddamned scandal in the history of Western Civilization broke open? No? You don’t remember the gay Congressman Mark Foley texting and flirting with some 16 and 17 year-old male House pages he knew? How could you have forgotten those epochal moments in the History of Man? Surely it’s not because Big Media didn’t emphasize it to you because, basically, that’s all they fucking did.

And why did the so-called Fourth Estate decide to make Mark Foley into History’s Greatest Monster? Because they are in the employ of the Democratic Party. Don’t even fucking think to argue the point because you are pre-wrong. Got it? Big Media shapes public opinion for its own meretricious, hourly-rated ends —and it is the patriotic duty of real Americans everywhere to constantly remind themselves that the networks who air the evening news are nothing but the propaganda organs of the Democratic Party.

Oh, and so the guy who defeated History’s Greatest Monster in the election two years ago? He’s a Democrat who cheated on his wife with multiple partners and did a lot of other shady and unethical shit to keep that fact hidden. This man —Tim Mahoney— has possibly broken the law in this regard and has certainly violated the public trust. The same public —the very same constituency— thats trust Foley violated. Yet are we subjected to a wall-to-wall examination of this lurid scandal? Of course not: the man is a Democrat and, thus, exempt from the outrageous Big Media treatment that drove the man he replaced from office for being nothing more than a perv.

If there is any justice in the world, the American public may yet have the time to fully appreciate what wretched whores the Big Media are for the Democratic Party.

UPDATE: In looking through my old posts, I am astonished to find that the Greatest Scandal in All of Human History was actually a staple of the “news” for at least a month before the Election of 2006. Good God! The man never even got lucky! What the fuck were the networks even talking about? It’s all disgusting nonsense.

I think it’s time for the goddamned “press” in this country to put two and two together and start asking some tough questions about the rampant voter fraud being committed by Barack Obama’s friends in ACORN. Do the major broadcast networks and papers not see a problem with what’s going on? There have been hundreds and then thousands of fraudulently registered non-voters found on the rolls in at least a half-dozen battleround states. When is goddamned Katie Couric going to cock her head like the curious dog she is and ask Barry Obamachrist about his extensive and long-term alliance with these fucking frauds? When he was a “community organizer,” he used to train these lying shake-down artists for God’s sake! When is that going to get a fraction of the attention from the kool-aid drinkers at the Assholiated Press that Governor Palin’s HR decisions get? Where are the packs of wolves running down the facts about Obama in Chicago? They’re not there. They’re off in fucking Alaska asking about how many bonfires Palin set at the Wasilla Public Library!

If the sacks of shit who call the tune on the front pages of the morning papers and on the evening news broadcasts ever decide to question why Barack Obama coordinates his campaign’s efforts with hard Left organizations like ACORN, we may yet be able to save our Republic from the creeping anti-Americanism of these Neo-communist liars. So, get to it! Put down your pom-poms and start asking some goddamned questions about this guy.

UPDATE: Go check out this and other amazing posts at Sweetness & Light. Obama’s totally lying about his work with ACORN.

CNN’s insistence on using these instant-reaction focus groups with the little joysticks or dials or whatever is just crap. If that’s how we are to judge our candidates —like Pavolvian dogs responding to a hundred little bells— then the Republic falls.

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs was on FNC just now hiding behind the New York Times’ skirts on the question of whether Obama and Bill Ayers knew each other. What the hell, dude? You’re his spokesman! You have to rely on what some party hack reporters at Pinchy’s puto says? That means that Obama has instructed you to answer the question by referencing a newspaper. That’s about as weaselly as it gets. Seriously. That’s pathetic. Couldn’t he have told you —oh. Now I get it. Obama’s a liar.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Among the many bizarre and inexplicable things Joe Biden said in last night’s debate, I nominate his brief history of modern Lebanon as the shiningest example:

When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, “Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.”

Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.

Has Biden gone mad? I ask this sincerely. Does he have some sort of organic brain disorder that would compel him to make such demonstrably untrue claims? Unbelievable. Read Michael J. Totten’s incredulous response:

What on Earth is he talking about? The United States and France may have kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon in an alternate universe, but nothing even remotely like that ever happened in this one.

Nobody – nobody – has ever kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Not the United States. Not France. Not Israel. And not the Lebanese. Nobody.

Joe Biden has literally no idea what he’s talking about.

Moreover, I have never once heard anything about Obama calling for NATO intervention in Lebanon. When did such a thing happen? When the Second Lebanon War broke out in the summer of 2006, was Obama really calling for NATO to keep the peace in Lebanon? Call me crazy, but I think that’s utter nonsense.

Needless to say, Big Media is far too busy fellating Obamachrist to question Biden’s hallucinatory account. Equally needless to add, although I must, is that such claims, had they been made by Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin, would have drawn derisive howls from such miserable fluffers as David Gergen and Anderson Cooper and the other Leftist craphounds at CNN. Did the anti-American reporter Michael Ware manage to raise an eyebrow at the news that we evicted Hizballah from Lebanon? Doubt it.

In a just world, Biden’s remarks would be regarded as even weirder than Gerald Ford’s claim in his 1976 debate with Carter that there was no Soviet domination of Poland.

But this isn’t a just world.