He’s laughing with another girl And playing with another heart. Placing high stakes, making hearts ache. He’s loved in seven languages. Diamond nights and ruby lights, high in the sky. Heaven help him, when he falls. (…) His eyes are like angels but his heart is cold. (…) No need to ask. He’s a smooth operator (…) Coast to coast, LA to Chicago » … Sade
Vous mentez! Joe Wilson (Représentant républicain de Caroline du sud, 10.09.09)
La famille Palin n’a nullement l’intention de booster l’audimat de David Letterman en apparaissant à son émission. De plus, il serait sage de garder Willow loin de David Letterman. Sarah Palin
Bill et Hillary Clinton ont aidés à descendre la boule de Times Square pour le réveillon. Mais c’était frigide. C’était froid, c’était glacial. Et c’est juste leur mariage, mesdames et messieurs. David Letterman
Il fait aussi très froid en banlieue. A Chappaqua, Bill et Hillary sont accidentellement entrés dans le même lit. C’est ce que j’appelle froid! David Letterman
J’aimerais m’excuser, en particulier auprès des deux filles impliquées, Bristol et Willow, et aussi au gouverneur et à sa famille et à toutes les personnes qui étaient scandalisées par cette blague. David Letterman
Oui, je l’ai fait. J’ai couché avec des femmes qui travaillaient sur cette émission. (…) J’ai eu peur pour moi, pour ma famille. Je me suis senti menacé par tout ça. (…) J’ai besoin de protéger ma famille et de me protéger. J’espère aussi protéger mon emploi. David Letterman
Je n’ai juste pas pensé aux conséquences de mes révélations. (…) Ma femme Regina a été terriblement blessée par mon comportement. Quand tu blesses quelqu’un, que t’en es le responsable, tu dois réparer les choses. David Letterman
La politique étrangère d’Obama est déjà un échec. Pourquoi le Président refuse-t-il de la reconsidérer ? (…) Pourquoi, lorsque le sang coule dans les rues iraniennes, Obama veut-il toujours apaiser les mollahs ? Pourquoi, alors que le Vénézuéla menace d’envahir le Honduras pour supporter Zelaya, Obama se tient-il du côté de Zelaya contre les démocrate honduriens ? Pourquoi, alors que les Palestiniens refusent toujours le droit à l’auto-détermination au peuple hébreu, veut-il priver 500 000 Israéliens de leur logement ? Pourquoi, alors que la Corée du Nord menace d’utiliser ses missiles balistiques contre les Etats-Unis, refuse-t-il d’autoriser l’USS John McCain à aborder le navire nord-coréen illégal que [les Américains] trace[nt] depuis deux semaines ? Pourquoi, alors que le gouvernement du Soudan continue d’assassiner des Darfuris, cette administration clame-t-elle que le génocide au Darfour est terminé? Caroline Glick
Externalisations des interrogatoires, mises sur écoute, Patriot Act, Guantanamo, baisses ou crédits d’impôts, plan santé à coût constant, transparence, premier président post-racial, départ des troupes d’Irak, rapport caché sur le nouveau centre nucléaire iranien …
A l’heure où, après avoir moqué tant d’autres et trompé sa compagne comme son équipe et son public pendant 23 ans (y compris en pleine campagne électorale l’an passé « comparé le maquillage de la colistière républicaine à celui d’une hôtesse de l’air salope » et imaginé sa fille « engrossée » par une star de baseball), un maitre manipulateur de foules est à son tour contraint de faire son « discours de Checkers » …
Pendant que, 9 mois après l’arrivée de l’auteur du hold up du siècle à la Maison Blanche, l’élimination au premier tour de la cité de Capone, Daley et qui-vous-savez pour les JO de 2016 (en faveur des 200 millions d’habitants d’un pays du Sud et 10e PIB mondial) est à présent attribuée à Bush …
Et que peut-être pour la première fois depuis 20 ans un président américain, premier à passer au David Letterman show en plein mandat (après ses 5 passages précédents), ne recevra pas le dalai lama …
Victor Davis Hanson rappelle la longue série de contre-vérités et de promesses non tenues à laquelle ressemble de plus en plus le mandat du plus célèbre disciple de Saul Alinsky de la planète …
Being Frank
Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
October 4, 2009
It Would Have Been Easier Just to Tell the Truth
Given the recent arrests of several jihadist plotters, we can be thankful that Obama did not, as once promised in various early manifestations, end renditions, wiretaps, intercepts, and the Patriot Act (« shoddy and dangerous »). So far he has not closed Gitmo; and it does not seem that he will do so within the promised year. Then 95 percent of the public was promised either no new taxes or a tax credit; that now seems quite impossible, given the vast new spending proposals and commensurate $2 trillion annual deficit. Given federal shortfalls, we have already seen massive new state income taxes and higher user taxes at the local level; and the crushing deficits will mean higher income or payroll taxes, or else a new value-added tax; the latter would raise taxes on everyone at rates heretofore unknown.
Meanwhile, the healthcare bill has gone from a public plan to a public-option plan to no one quite knows what, when, or if — other than if it’s passed, taxes will soar there too. No need to go into depth on the sensational promises of new transparency — not when the NEA is trying to run a ministry of correct art, a government website wants the addresses of « fishy » opponents, bills are not posted as promised, and town-hall dissidents are demonized as a Nazi-like mob and, by administration supporters, as racist.
On the foreign front, in Iraq we have seen not the Obama « combat brigades out by March 2008 » plan, but rather the Petraeus plan. And the grand talk of October reengagement with Iran was predicated, as we know now, on suppressing intelligence estimates of a second nuclear facility whose disclosure would have rendered inoperative the always suspect 2007 « no bomb » National Intelligence Estimate on Iran.
Bottom line? It would have been a lot simpler just to have told the truth, and now to adhere to the truth, rather than all this deceptive hope-and-change hocus-pocus.
Bush Is Still Doing It . . .
« Bush did it » is now apparently the reason we can’t close Guantanamo within a year. From the Washington Post:
[Gregory] Craig said Thursday that some of his early assumptions were based on miscalculations, in part because Bush administration officials and senior Republicans in Congress had spoken publicly about closing the facility. « I thought there was, in fact, and I may have been wrong, a broad consensus about the importance to our national security objectives to close Guantanamo and how keeping Guantanamo open actually did damage to our national security objectives, » he said.
I’m trying to follow the logic and timeline here: Bush faces bad/worse choices to stop another 9/11, opens Guantanamo. Most agree with the decision, including the likes of Eric Holder. Then as time passes, the terrorist threat here at home seems to wane as partisan politics wax. So Guantanamo suddenly becomes an issue to tar Bush as some sort of anti-civil liberties zealot. Under pressure, Bush agrees the facility has become an albatross, promises to close it, and begins slowly and gradually not to accept more detainees and to release a few. No matter — Obama energizes his campaign by claiming the fact that Guantanamo is still open is proof of a conservative anti-constitutional assault, and loudly and repeatedly promises to close it by January 2010. By September 2009, Obama sees that he can’t do that so rapidly without risking U.S. security, given the sort who are still in Guantanamo. Now, in explanation of this broken promise, his Guantanamo czar claims that Obama cannot fulfill his vow apparently because Bush (out of office for nine months) and Co. were not supportive enough of the wide Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, and the Democratic administration.
Surreal.
Voir aussi:
The new Monica Lewinski
Siobhan McAndrew
Reno Gazette Journal
October 4, 2009
Stephanie Birkitt will be linked with David Letterman for the rest of her life.
On Friday, Birkitt’s name was the top Google search after news that late night TV host Letterman slept with female staffers.
Letterman admitted he had affairs after going public with an alleged extortion attempt that is linked to Birkitt.
Robert Joe Halderman is accused of asking for $2 million in exchange for not going public with what Letterman himself has called « terrible things. »
Halderman is a producer for « 48 Hours » and at one time lived with and reportedly had a relationship with Birkitt, who is now 34 and first worked for Letterman in 1996 as a college intern.
Letterman told viewers on his show Thursday.
He said he was worried about his family’s safety and went to police after Halderman left a package of incriminating evidence including photos and copies of Birkitt’s diary at his home. Letterman talked and joked about the affairs without much detail or naming names. For Letterman this was probably a very uncomfortable segment to host.
Letterman also likely had a lot to explain to his wife, with whom he has a 20-year relationship and a 6-year-old son. But for Letterman there are benefits to being part of scandalous headlines.
Letterman is now the host everyone is talking about after weeks of having Jay Leno’s new gig dominate entertainment headlines. Ratings for Letterman’s show jumped more than 20 percent Thursday night.
Letterman won’t be fired for sleeping with subordinates. He won’t be demoted. This won’t ruin his career. He’ll go on to interview other famous people, to host award shows, to make millions.
Birkitt, who was in her 20s when she had a relationship with Letterman, 62, won’t have it so easy. While Birkitt was a consenting adult, she is the victim of an old man who should have known better.
Letterman knows mocking Monica Lewinski, an intern who had an improper relationship with President Bill Clinton, helped his career. Letterman joked when Lewinski turned 28, « It seemed like just yesterday she was crawling around on the floor in the Oval Office. »
Clinton quickly moved past cigars and the stained blue dress and is quoted for things other than his affair with Lewinski.
Lewinski will never be so lucky.
People are searching the Internet for pictures of Birkitt. Anything the media can find about her will likely become tabloid fodder.
Videos that Birkitt did while working for Letterman are getting thousand of hits online. Interviews from years ago where she praised Letterman as a great boss are water-cooler talk.
It won’t matter what Birkitt does with the rest of her life. If her name makes headlines, when she applies for jobs, when she dates — she will forever be linked to Letterman and this scandal.
Maybe Letterman will think twice the next time he makes fun of a young woman for sleeping with someone who is more than old enough to be her father.
It is not so funny when you realize she has to live with your mistake for the rest of her life.
Siobhan McAndrew is a Reno Gazette-Journal features writer and columnist and can be reached at smcandrew@rgj.com »>smcandrew@rgj.com.
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