A frequent subject of our Great Minds of the 21st Century segment is the always brilliant Joy Behar. Today she weighed in on her reason for opposing Mitt Romney for president.

Joy (addressing Elisabeth Hasselbeck): You were talking about Mitt Romney before—how you like him—let me ask you a question—he made a speech in front of the Ford Building the other day in Detroit—Ford Motors, you know that whole thing. Ford—Henry Ford—the original Ford where that museum is made after him was a big, big—and I hate to bring up his name—Hitler supporter. In Hitler’s house in Germany, there’s a picture of Henry Ford. And a lot of World War II …

Elisabeth: That means he’s a supporter of Hitler or that Hitler is a supporter of Ford?

Joy: Both. It was a mutual admiration society between Henry Ford and Hitler. Look it up. Just Google Henry Ford.

Now my question is shouldn’t Mitt Romney, who wants to be president, know that information before he stands in front of that building and gives a speech? What do you think?

That shows a certain amount of ignorance and I wouldn’t vote for him because of that. His people should have checked that out. I know about Henry Ford. Why doesn’t Mitt Romney know about it? Because he didn’t expect someone like me to check it out and say it on television.

Oh that’s such a shame! I know the Romney people were counting on Joy and her like-minded lefty friends for their support! Speaking of confused leftists, I wonder how Joy felt about John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy when they were running for president. I don’t know if either ever stood in front of a building named after someone who was admired by Hitler, although I do suspect either one if asked would have expressed admiration for Henry Ford and the company he founded. I do know that their father was a known Nazi sympathizer whose support for Hitler so embarrassed FDR that he recalled the former bootlegger from his position as ambassador to the Court of St. James (Great Britain). Joy seems to be suggesting that any connection to Hitler, even one as remote as the one she suggests, is so disqualifying that candidates have an obligation to perform punctillious investigations to ferret out even bizarre supposed connections like this one. (Using this test, even Kevin Bacon is probably connected to Hitler, but then, he’s connected to everyone, right?) If that’s true, then shouldn’t being the spawn of a Hitler sympathizer be disqualifying? What’s a closer connection–standing in front of a building named after the founder of a great American company, who may or may not have admired an evil dictator, or being the son of a man who suggested we live and let live where Hitler was concerned? What sort of pro-Nazi propaganda did the little tykes absorb around the dinner table? “Hitler’s not a bad guy. He represents the wave of the future. I don’t know why Churchill has his undies in a bundle. Pass the salt.”

What about driving a Ford? Joy, are the millions who choose to drive the cars made the company founded by an ostensible FOH (Friend of Hitler) also demonstrating their poor judgement and/or their endorsement of the whole Nazi program?

It’s hilarious to listen to imbeciles like this on television, but as entertained as I am, I do wonder how much influence empty-headed loudmouths like Joy have on the largely female audience at home. Perhaps it’s time to renew my call, first issued after Bill Clinton appeared to hawk his book on the Oprah’s show, to repeal the 19th amendment.

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As you no doubt know by now, Barack Hussein Obama aka He Who Walks on Water aka Dazzling Deception did not disappoint when he graced the Left coast with his presence the last couple of days. He walked away with a cool $1.3 million to use in his campaign to transform not only politics, but our country. In a way, isn’t this the perfect place for him? After all, we just found out that he wrote a “memoir,” the pretentiously titled Dreams of My Father, a Story of Race and Inheritance[/tag]—try to be a tad more self-important, why don’t you–which purported to describe the moving and life-changing learning experience he had working with the residents of Chicago housing project Altgeld Gardens, but he can’t even remember any of the names of the special people who supposedly changed his life. Are you kidding me? No, this isn’t exactly plagiarism, but Joe Biden has got to be asking “what’s this guy got that I haven’t got?” When Barack makes stuff up, it’s greeted with swoons instead of the skepticism and even disgust it deserves. When Joe tries to borrow a few words from some obscure British guy, it’s all that. You know the answer, Joe. It’s all about the white guilt. Everyone knows that but for that, this narcissistic, navel-gazing screed wouldn’t have been published in the first place. He’s a phony. Why not be the darling of the land of make believe?

Now Barry’s new best friend, David Geffen, has stuck a stick in the hornet’s nest by stating the obvious about the Clintons; that is, that they lie. Stop the presses! The man-god is above our “small” politics, so he had to send one of his puny operatives out to say:

“We aren’t going to get in the middle of a disagreement between the Clintons and someone who was once one of their biggest supporters. It is ironic that the Clintons had no problem with David Geffen when was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln bedroom.”

Oh wait, I take it back. He’s not Mr. I-Deplore-The-Cynicism-of-Our-Negative-Politics after all. Here’s his shot at Hillary:

“It is also ironic that Senator Clinton lavished praise on Monday and is fully willing to accept today the support of South Carolina State Sen. Robert Ford, who said if Barack Obama were to win the nomination, he would drag down the rest of the Democratic Party because ’he’s black.’”

He is? The MSM is going to have to continue to debate that ad nauseum for another year.

Stay tuned. This will be fun.

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For once I agree with the 5th column media: Barack Hussein Obama is more authentic than the other members of the Rug Puller Party aka the September 10 Party aka—wait for it—yes, the Democrat Party. His alleged lack of guile is a complete pile of steaming manure, of course. His gift is the ability to appear to be speaking profundities full of substance when in fact he blathers on with vague generalities and platitudes that can’t withstand the most cursory scrutiny. Still, over the weekend, his mask slipped off when he said the war “should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and on which we’ve now spent $400 billion, and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”
”I was actually upset with myself when I said that, because I never use that term,” Obama said. Gee, I wonder how it slipped out this time from the articulate lips of Dazzling Deception. Actually, what Obama said in his statement of regret was also quite accurate. He never uses the term, but that doesn’t mean that he never has the thought. The simple fact of the matter is that Sen. Obama simply said what all the phony “we don’t support the war, but we support troops crowd” are always thinking.

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• Before the big televised event, C-SPAN was televising the “State of the Black Union” (very apropos, given that BHO is the Jed Clampett of white guilt and his wife proudly proclaimed embracing racism while a student at Princeton). One of the speakers used the phrase “dazzling deception.” Shouldn’t we add that—“Dazzling Deception” to our list of names for the man-god? (along with He Who Walks on Water, God’s Little Lamb, and 2nd Coming).

• It is reported that tomorrow when BHO and the Missus appear on “60 Minutes, she speaks to her widely-reported concerns for his safety.

Obama’s wife also addresses the race issue when asked by Kroft whether she fears for her husband’s life as a black candidate. “I don’t lose sleep over it because the realities are that… as a black man… Barack can get shot going to the gas station,” says Michelle Obama. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”

Wow, until I was enlightened by the brilliant Michelle, I didn’t realize that white people were immune from being shot, did you? And while I suppose she is technically right; that is, he could get shot going to the gas station, especially on the South Side of Chicago, aren’t the chances that if that were to happen, the perp would be another “black man?” Of course we know it couldn’t happen because guns are illegal within the city limits of Chicago.

• Here’s an interesting line from the speech:

But let us also understand that ultimate victory against our enemies will come only by rebuilding our alliances and exporting those ideals that bring hope and opportunity to millions around the globe.

Isn’t that exactly what the President is trying to do, Bonehead? You know establish democracy in a country where a brutal dictator slaughtered his own people and gave sanctuary to our terrorist enemies. How much “hope an opportunity” did those Iraqis have before they landed in their mass graves, or don’t you care?

• And how about this one:

Let’s be the generation that ends poverty in America. Every single person willing to work should be able to get job training that leads to a job, and earn a living wage that can pay the bills, and afford child care so their kids have a safe place to go when they work. Let’s do this.

Here we go. Open your wallet. Once again, another politician (think Clinton) who praises those who work hard and play by the rules, wants to punish those who do by putting a gun to their heads, confiscating their hard-earned money and throwing it down every social welfare rathole he can find.

• Or this:

I moved to Illinois over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college; I knew no one in Chicago, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for $13,000 a year. And I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea — that I might play a small part in building a better America.

Since when is it a glowing resume enhancer to be a paid troublemaker? The fact that this empty suit thinks being a “community organizer” is the best way to build a better America tells you everything you need to know. Any guy in a bad neighborhood who busts his butt to open a small business like a convenience store does more to help the “community” than some gasbag running around screaming about the need for more government programs.

Dazzling Deception is a complete media creation, more Jimmy Carter than Abe Lincoln, more Paris Hilton than John F. Kennedy (although JFK was known to enjoy the company of Paris Hiltons of his day). This speech was more of the same gauzy pap that appeals to the uninformed, the emotionally-driven and the just plain stupid.

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As I mentioned last night on the air, it was pretty much all Anna Nicole all the time on the cable networks last night, and the coverage continues, despite the fact that there are no answers to any of the questions they keep asking incessantly. How did she die? Who was there when she died? Who is the father of her 6-month old daughter? And what about that seedy Howard K. Stern guy? He’s got more bodies around him than the Clintons. Well, maybe not, but you get the idea. And speaking of Clinton, naturally many are making comparisons between Anna Nicole and Marilyn Monroe. If he were president today, it would be inescapable for the mind to wonder to the inevitable question: was he hitting the sheets with the 1990’s bombshell like his hero JFK? And where was his mutant, under-achieving half-brother Roger Clinton? Doing a Peter Lawford perhaps?

I hope that Paris Hilton is paying attention.

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The Sun-Times reports on concerns by former Illinois mascots that State Senator Emil Jones will demand that the Chief by terminated with extreme prejudice immediately before they can grovel enough to the NCAA. To celebrate, I reprint this column.

‘Terrorists terrorize, they kill innocent civilians, while we organized and agitated. Terrorists destroy randomly, while our actions bore, we hoped, the precise stamp of a cut diamond. Terrorists intimidate, while we aimed only to educate.’
Bill Ayers from his memoir Fugitive Days

State President Emil Jones has had enough of the racism and stereotyping practiced by the trustees of the University of Illinois, who according to Mr. Jones have a lot in common with the segregationists of the last century. A couple of weeks ago, he learned just how bad things were after meeting with a couple dozen Birkenstock-wearing, narcissistic, self-righteous, mush-headed little twits who have spent so little time in class that they don’t realize that their time would be better spent in class than sprawled in the hall of a campus administration building bleating asinine demands. There is an irony at work in this Chief Illiniwek controversy. A vocal minority opposing the traditional mascot is asserting the rights of people who never asked for their help, in effect saying ‘even if you don’t think you are offended, you are, and we’re going to solve this problem that you don’t know you have.’ By gratuitously assuming to speak for them, they have taken living, breathing Native Americans and turned them into mascots for their politically correct cause.
One would hope that a responsible adult like Mr. Jones would have told them just that. Instead, he has adopted their harebrained ideas and their demands as his own. The really fabulous news for them is that Mr. Jones is not just another living, breathing illustration of old expression ‘empty barrels make the most noise,’ parroting half-witted, p.c. slogans and otherwise babbling incoherently about ‘injustice,’ ‘racism,’ and ‘imperialism.’ Mr. Jones has issued an ultimatum, and he is in a position to back it. Shape up, or face scrutiny of your funding. His initial threat was cryptic and mildly sinister, more befitting a blackmailer, hostage taker or juice loan enforcer than a statesman. He won’t say when, where, or how he will exact his retribution, merely that the university’s budget will be scrutinized. Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s terrific, and all too rare, for legislators to question the way our money gets spent. I’m just not sure Mr. Jones remembers that it is our money.
What could motivate one of our public servants to threaten to withhold precious resources from the holiest-of-holies, education? Aren’t politicians, especially democrats, always screaming about the inadequacy of education funding? Something horrific must be going on at U of I, like some students participating in segregated clubs that exclude people based on race, or even students being downgraded for disagreeing with their instructors’ ideology. As it turns out, all of that is going on, but that’s not what has Mr. Jones ready to bring the hammer down on the university. The great evil he fights wears a headdress and war paint. It is the mascot that the University of Illinois has had since 1926, Chief Illiniwek.
Some of you might be thinking that holding press conferences to whine and threaten isn’t the best way for the senate president to spend his time, thinking that perhaps there are more serious issues that demand his attention. While it is true that there are a lot of important matters demanding our officials’ attention, I agree with Mr. Jones that the legislature has an oversight obligation over publicly funded universities. I just think that the fact that another publicly funded Illinois university employs an admitted and still unrepentant terrorist is a more serious problem than a costumed college student dancing around at halftime at football games to the delight of the overwhelming majority of observers.
Last August the New York Times called Bill Ayers a “distinguished professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago.” Distinguished? I’m not sure about that, but he is on the payroll of the taxpayers of the State of Illinois. The newspaper of liberal record had written about Bill Ayers before. In probably the worst and most ironic case of bad timing in history, it printed a Valentine to Ayers and his partner in terrorism, now wife, Bernadine Dohrn on September 11, 2001. In the article, Ayers, brags about several bombs he set in public buildings, saying, “I don’t regret bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Five days later, in the Sunday magazine section, Ayers declares that America “is not a just and fair and decent place.”
Bill Ayers is a founding member of the Weather Underground, which is sometimes euphemistically called ‘a 60’s activist group,’ which conjures up images of peace marches, placards and bake sales. That sounds a lot better than what Ayers and his cohorts actually did, setting off bombs in government buildings, identity theft and robbery. All these acts are described in Mr. Ayers’ memoir Fugitive Days, a book that one reviewer called the ‘self-indulgent and morally clueless.’ Clearly Mr. Ayers clueless about what was wrong with his actions, nor can he understand how some of us believe that his philosophy that the ends justify the means is indistinguishable from that of the fine folks who brought us September 11. Listen to what Ayers told an audience last year in St. Louis:

What was interesting to me originally was that after Sept. 11th, there was a flood of calls asking me to comment on terrorist attacks. And I felt completely unable to discuss a group of right wing, religious thugs who have an Arab ideology and a goal that horrifies me. What’s so amusing and so horrifying and so real is an attorney general who’s a marginal character becomes a major leader, a vice president who’s slightly cracked but very intelligent takes over the reins of government, a defense secretary discredited on every level becomes the spokesperson on military policy… right-wing nuts like Wolfowitz suddenly see their global plans become realized. What’s also there is that we drill in Alaska, let’s destroy the rainforest, let’s not give educational credits to military children — it’s everything they ever wanted to do. It’s in that context that I found myself deluged with commentaries about life in the underground. And I don’t feel I share that space with these people I consider right-wing terrorists. I never considered myself a terrorist, so there’re the beginnings of a distinction right there.

There’s a real insightful analysis from a scholar. Knowing he’s on the faculty of one of our institutions of higher learning makes you proud to be an Illinois taxpayer, doesn’t it? Notice that in Ayers’ world, it’s the ‘goal’ that matters. I guess that’s why Ayers has never retracted that statement he made back during his Weatherman days, “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” This guy is teaching at UIC isn’t a bigger problem than a college mascot? What am I missing?
It is irresponsible for those entrusted with the education of our young to encourage them to adopt a groupthink, victim mentality so fashionable in left-wing circles and so incompatible with a free, multi-ethnic society. It is appalling that a legislator like Emil Jones prefers to focus on foolishness than to question why we are paying to give a terrorist a forum in Illinois classrooms.

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Jim Webb, who appeared on Fox News Sunday today, is a clueless idiot because even though he was in the Reagan administration, not only because he didn’t learn the foreign policy lessons of that great man, he didn’t learn the economic lessons.

Hillary Clinton is also a clueless idiot. Does she really think her ridiculous plan to defund the Iraqi troops, but not ours, wouldn’t be a disaster? What happened to her telling Diane Sawyer about how much she admired and wants to help the Iraqi women courageous enough to serve in government? Now she wants to defund their security forces?

Why are politicians such weasels? Aerobic instructor look-a-like Georgie Stephanopolis asked Sen. Chuck Hagel about Rush Limbaugh’s very accurate statement that if Hagel had been around on D-Day with the media we have today, we’d have to end the invasion. He deflected the question by saying “Rush has to make a living.” Responding to John McCain’s characterization of Hagel and Friends’ contemptible Enemy Encouragement Act of 2007 (their “no-confidence” resolution) as “intellectually dishonest,” Hagel said “I know you are, but what am I;” that is, McCain’s resolution, which supports the troops and the mission, is phony because it contains no specific consequences. Are you kidding me?!!! Please don’t insult our intelligence, Senator. You and your weasel friends are on the record as saying that the war is lost, it’s over, give it up, Mr. President, and yet you are more than willing to send more of our brave troops to fight in what you think is a misbegotten mission? How does that compare to McCain’s, which makes demands on the Iraqis, but supports the troops? Do us all a favor. Please shut up.

Two things I’d like to do: (1) send the editorial board of the New York Times to Gitmo and (2) grab Barack Hussein Obama by the ears (think LBJ and his basset hounds) and force him to sit and listen to me until I can talk some common sense into him

Hagel and the other defeatists say we need to “engage the neighbors” as in Iran and Syria, and that we need a “political accommodation” with all the warring parties. Does the same naievte that tells them that we can make nice with regimes that wish for our destruction and give civil rights to murderous, head chopping fanatics, make them think there’s any percentage in making nice with liberal democrats, as in being “bipartisan?”

Speaking of “bipartisanship,” isn’t that just code for “don’t talk about what we really want to do, because then no one will vote for us, so if you try to have a substantive discussion of public policy, we’ll say ‘stop bickering and help us focus on the solution,’” which of course is more socialism?

Don’t you love the way the President’s opponents just LOVE this new NIE that came out on Friday? Wasn’t an NIE the source of all the “lies” that lead up to the Iraq liberation? They love this NIE because they see it as evidence of how there’s no chance for victory, but aren’t reports by definition a retrospective snapshot of what a situation looked like in the past? And given that this report is a compilation of what several federal agencies say, in other words, the product of the unwieldy federal bureaucracy, doesn’t that mean it is based on information from several months ago?

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Texas governor Rick Perry’s recent decision to mandate that every girl entering the 6th grade be vaccinated against certain strains of the HPV virus illustrates the conundrum that often confronts our friends on the left, especially those who manage to trick the voters into electing them. No one is fooled by their recent attempts to “reach out” to the pro-life community without antagonizing their NARAL masters by talking about useless ways to reduce the number of abortions by distributing more condoms in public schools and providing middle school students with copies of the Kama Sutra. They are all for anything that encourages “sexual expression” and “tolerance for alternative lifestyles,” including abortion on demand for 13 year olds with ZERO parental involvement, the afore-mentioned condom distribution schemes, and “marriage” for any group of mammalian lifeforms (eventually they’ll include reptile-mammal relationships—baby steps, people).

Given their embrace of the libertine, and their distaste for those pesky legislatures, who usually refuse to enact their agenda, you’d think they’d love Gov. Perry’s bold decision to unilaterally empower these 11-year old women. I take him at his word that he was acting on behalf of the health and welfare of the citizens of Texas, but that’s me, not someone who spends her nearly every waking moment thinking of ways to confiscate everyone else’s hard-earned cash and who made her political bones bashing drug companies. Consider this backstory:

“Merck is bankrolling efforts to pass state laws across the country mandating Gardasil for girls as young as 11 or 12. It doubled its lobbying budget in Texas and has funneled money through Women in Government, an advocacy group made up of female state legislators around the country.

Perry has several ties to Merck and Women in Government. One of the drug company’s three lobbyists in Texas is Mike Toomey, Perry’s former chief of staff. His current chief of staff’s mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi, is a state director for Women in Government.

Perry also received $6,000 from Merck’s political action committee during his re-election campaign.

Texas allows parents to opt out of inoculations by filing an affidavit objecting to the vaccine on religious or philosophical reasons. Even with such provisions, however, conservative groups say such requirements interfere with parents’ rights to make medical decisions for their children.

The federal government approved Gardasil in June, and a government advisory panel has recommended that all girls get the shots at 11 and 12, before they are likely to be sexually active.

The New Jersey-based drug company could generate billions in sales if Gardasil — at $360 for the three-shot regimen — were made mandatory across the country. Most insurance companies now cover the vaccine, which has been shown to have no serious side effects.

Merck spokeswoman Janet Skidmore would not say how much the company is spending on lobbyists or how much it has donated to Women in Government. Susan Crosby, the group’s president, also declined to specify how much the drug company gave.”

I don’t find these contributions or the cooperation of Women in Government in Merck’s efforts at all sinister. It’s transparent, and corporate citizens have the right to petition the government for policies they think are desirable, at least until democrats take over all branches of government, but I doubt the Left shares that point of view.

Then there’s the whole anti-vaccination movement led largely by junk science devotee/jet-setting environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. In addition, to pouring tons of smog into the air from the tailpipe of his private plan, his contribution to public health is convincing dimwits not to vaccinate their spawn, thereby turning them into walking infectious Petri dishes to be unleashed on unsuspecting communities.

To summarize the schizophrenia of the nutty left:

It is dangerous and wrong children to be vaccinated against diseases that can be transmitted by being in the same room with someone who is infected, such as measles, unless the children are African, in which case it is not only necessary that they be vaccinated, but that the United States pay for it, unless the child is Islamic, in which case it might be horribly ethnocentric to impose Western values on him; however

It is essential, even liberating, that she be vaccinated against diseases that she can contract only by allowing herself to be used like a Kleenex by the first horny guy who comes along.

So, Hillary, where do you come on this one?

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When the Gavin Newsome scandal, which some are calling “Vice a Roni” broke, I couldn’t help but notice that the woman involved was not only the wife of the mayor’s friend, but also his employee. The first one’s got to be a violation of one of those man laws I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot about on Sunday. I thought the second one was a violation of the second-most sacrosanct laws in the history of jurisprudence to feminists (the first being Roe w. Wade and its progeny—hey, that’s an ironic phrase, no?); that is, the laws against sexual harassment, enacted to redress the hideous propensity of lecherous male bosses to take advantage of powerless women in the workplace. Have you heard ANYONE mention that not only was the mayor betraying a male friend, which doesn’t matter because he was, after all, just a man, but also committing de facto sexual harassment. Remember, on Planet Feminist, it matters not that the woman may have “consented.” Somehow, the female involved, while eligible for combat duty in Fallujah, has the same capacity to consent to sex as a 12 year old. So why am I reading stories about the mayor’s “movie star good looks” instead of hearing about him being dragged up on charges?

Maybe after she gets done vacuuming up the carpet, the new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi could look into this one. She’s from that general vicinity, after all.

Just wondering …

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