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Because you just know that Fox"News" is going to try and frame the G20 Summit their way.



This is something that conservatives are doing and have been doing for some time. I can recall the 2006 riots in Paris and how people like Hannity and OReilly devoted countless segments trying to link them and the liberal/progressive movement in America.

Here's my question for Varney - can you cite specifics on how Obama is allegedly demonizing business? I'm guessing by "business" he really means holding Wall Street accountable, but that's just a guess.

Grace Under Pressure

For those of us that voted for Obama, this is something that we should all be proud of.

According to accounts provided by White House officials and corroborated by European and other officials also in the room, Mr. Obama escorted both men, one at a time, to a corner of the room, to judge the dispute. How about replacing the word “recognize,” Mr. Obama suggested, with the word “note?” The result: “The era of banking secrecy is over,” the final communiqué said. “We note that the O.E.C.D. has today published a list of countries assessed by the Global Forum against the international standard for exchange of tax information.” Hong Kong and Macao did not appear on the list.

Rather than devolving into the "what if" line of thinking that the Right loves to use when attempting to address and issue too difficult for them to grasp, I will simply state that all this talk of Obama being nothing more than a rank amateur is a bit more laughable now.

Conservatives And Technology: Michelle Malkin And Hot Air Edition

Malkin and Allahpundit are REALLY trying to make as much hay out of any and everything that Obama does. They are even continuing the new talking-point that president Obama is insulting England by not following "gift protocol". Here's their lastest accusations:

Dohbama strikes again, disses U.K. Updated: Will the Queen re-gift the iPod?

Because, after all, nothing says “special relationship” like a gadget you can buy in every mall in the western world. What’d he get Prince Philip? An Xbox?
The inevitable punchline — almost as inevitable as the fact that Gordon Brown’s DVDs were the wrong format: She already owns one.

But here's something that neither of them seem to know. There are different types of iPods.

It appears that even Fox"News" reported that the Queen requested it. Oh, really?

BRET BAIER (host): Major, my wife tells me I'm not the best gift giver, but after President Obama gave Prime Minister Brown the set of DVDs that didn't work in Great Britain, we hear that he gave the queen an iPod?

MAJOR GARRETT (Fox News senior White House correspondent): Yes, a video iPod, which we are told by White House staff the queen requested. She has an audio iPod, but not a video iPod.

What's on it? A video of her 2007 trip to the United States -- meaning Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Plus, also, on the audio side of that iPod, composer Richard Rogers, some of his famous American hits. And it's signed. And we're told it went over pretty well with the queen. Bret.

BAIER: OK. I'll add it to my list. Major, thanks.

I suppose Malkin and Allah can't seem to grasp the difference between "audio" and "video". Then again, conservatives never were to keen on technology.

The Right's Sexual Abuse Problem

No, it's not about this

Now that the G20 is in full swing, the personalities at Fox"News" are ready to talk about the protesters rather than what world leaders are hoping to accomplish.

They’ve always been there. But now they’re coordinated by the internet, now they can talk to each other. It’s like child molesters, you know? I mean, child molesters have always been around but now they got a place to go and gather and do their evil deeds.

O'Reilly loves to create the aura around the internet that it is filled with nothing more than sex offenders and liberal bloggers. He's even gone so far as to say that the internet has a "liberal bias". As recently as last night, he had on one of his "pretty-conservative-girls" to talk about Joe Biden's daughters alleged cocaine use and how talk of that online was wildly different than discussion revolving around Bristol Palin.

-- I'll have more on that conversation later today --

Bill's gimmick is to equate what he does not - or refuses - to understand with something that most rational thinking people would consider downright vile. Unfortunately, the only people that are falling for O'Reilly's clap-trap are the ones that actually consider him a viable journalistic force.

But O'Reilly's not alone in tacking on the "sexual abuse" meme to news stories.

You don’t want to think if you get in bed with Uncle Sam he’s going to strip you naked, chain you to the bed, leave you there and then take nasty pictures of you and then put them on the Internet. Because that’s what’s been happening.

This all reminds me of a theory known as Godwin's Law

As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one