ALL SHAM, NO WOW: ABC: Obama Hasn’t Kept Promise to Make Donation to ISIS Victim’s Foundation.

CHASER: “Who Is He To Confront Me?” – Philippines President Unloads On “Son Of A Bitch” Barack Obama.

HANGOVER: Xi Jinping outplays US as Barack Obama makes last official tour of Asia.

POOR BARACK. WE’VE LET HIM DOWN AGAIN. In Laos, Obama Repeatedly Calls Americans ‘Lazy.’

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Dr Drew’s show [on CNN spinoff channel Headline News] is canceled after he speculated about Hillary Clinton’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘concerning’ health

—The London Daily Mail today.

Chaser: “CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, whom President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly asked to take an administration post as Surgeon General and top health policy adviser, last year thought it noteworthy that the release of John McCain’s medical records ignored the Senator’s ‘mental health,’ any ‘mention of post-traumatic stress disorder’ or of ‘substance abuse.’”

—NewsBusters, January 7th, 2009.

Related: Nets Skeptical of McCain Health in 2008, Worried About Mental Fitness.

GREAT MOMENTS IN OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM: NYT Looking To Hire A “Climate Change Editor” To Make Global Warming Story “More Appealing.”

Flashback: Industry house organ Editor & Publisher demanded in 2007, “Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers.”

A decade later, it’s safe to say that there are few, if any issues left, that the DNC-MSM covers “objectively,” though they get curiously tense when actually called on their myriad biases.

Related: New York Times Seeking ‘Gender Editor:’ “America’s ’Paper of Record,’ which recently lamented mankind humankind’s discovery of fire because of its role in creating the patriarchy, is advertising for a new editor to cover ‘gender issues.’” Heh, indeed.™

JUST NBC THE CASUAL RACISM: Did NBC News slip some racism into this love letter to Obama date movie? NBC’s “review” (gee, did you think Obama’s favorite network was going to trash cinematic hagioraphy about him?) contains this curious passage:

The film is not a revealing exposé or a glimpse into the president’s dark side. Despite some digs at Barack’s ego and allusions to a past proclivity for dating white women exclusively, Tanne’s years of research presented hims [sic] with a largely flattering, admirable portrait of these now iconic figures.

As David Rutz of the Washington Free Beacon asks in a pair of tweets, “According to MSNBC, Obama’s ‘dark side’ in his youth included that he dated white women. Seriously though, isn’t this kind of a racist, backwards thing to write?”

Well, it’s certainly on par with CNN acquainting blacks with felons last week:

Related exit question: What About the Alt-Left?

OF COURSE SHE DID: Clinton Turned Away High-Level Chinese Defector to Assist Beijing Leaders.

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Judge gives State until after election to release some Clinton docs.

COUGH, COUGH: Julian Assange: ‘We Have Released Thousands of Emails Where Clinton Herself Has Used a ‘C’ in Brackets’

SHOCK: BILL CLINTON DECLARES HILLARY A RACIST:

“That message, I’ll give you America great again — If you’re a white southerner, you know exactly what it means,” Clinton said.

The former president indicated that Trump’s campaign slogan signaled that he would make white people more culturally [dominant] over other races in the country.

“What it means is I’ll give you the economy you had 50 years ago* and I’ll move you back up the social totem pole and other people down,” Clinton said.

Huh – so all those leftists saying that Bill and Hillary were crypto-racists in 2008 we’re right! Not least of which considering that, as John Hinderaker of Power Line notes, “In 2008, Bill Clinton himself promised that Hillary would…wait for it…make America great again! You can’t make this stuff up.”

1-1 Roughriders play Jackson tonight.  They'll lose by 4-5 TDs.  It'll be ugly

Buckeye's st Tulane Green Wave. Some nice uni's there.   A seven TD win.  My current top 4?  Alabama. tOSU.  Clemson.  NOT Oklahoma (because tOSU will beat them IN Norman next week, by 6.  FSU.

And my Saints will lose to da Raiduhs! but not by much

MORE LIES EXPOSED AND INCOMPETENCE REVEALED: The Federalist examines Hillary’s FBI interview.

HILLARY CLINTON’S TERRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD WEEK: More evidence emerges, proving Clinton is incompetent, Ashe Schow writes.

Huh, you spelled corrupt wrong.

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIALIZES: Time to take the car keys away from Granny Clinton. “It’s pertinent to ask whether Clinton was just playing dumb during her FBI interview, given that she was potentially facing criminal charges. But maybe she really was that badly out of her league in the job to which President Obama appointed her. And now she is asking voters for promotion even higher?”

Well, to be fair, she’s had a head injury.

USA TODAY COLUMN: ‘Crooked Hillary’ nickname isn’t going away: The new FBI information suggests Clinton is either criminal, criminally incompetent or both.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Massachusetts Will Tax Uber to Subsidize Taxi Industry. That’s Absurd.

But the question remains: Why are blue state governments so hostile to emerging industries patronized by (and provide jobs to) technologically savvy young people?

IN BILL DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK, THIS ISN’T EVEN A SURPRISE: Central Park Drinking Fountain Doubles As Dog Bidet.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: A Reminder For Clueless Jerks: Don’t Drive Slow In the Left Lane. Though InstaPundit readers, who aren’t clueless jerks, will mostly use it by passing it on to people who need it. . . .

DNC CHAIR ON WIKILEAKS: WE’RE ‘VICTIMS OF A CYBER CRIME LED BY THUGS’ [VIDEO].

Who exposed that in reality, we’re a criminal organization masquerading as a political party, as Michael Walsh would say.

Besides, I’m old enough to remember when the left positively loved it when sensitive political secrets were leaked. Not to mention as Daniel Flynn wrote last month, “Democrats liked secret-stealing Russians so much better when they called themselves Communists.”

JUSTICE: Ohio raises alcohol limit for beer this week.

Maybe we’ve been too hard on Governor John Kasich, who signed the bill into law last spring.

I bitched about this a few months ago.  Seems to be getting more play.  The Cato Insitute dedicated and entire seminar to it back in August.  NO. WAY. Tens of millions of dollars disguised as ‘consumer relief’ are going to liberal political groups.

YEAH, I DON’T TRUST THEM: Homeland Security eyes special declaration to take charge of elections. Jeh Johnson considers this a bug: “There’s no one federal election system. There are some 9,000 jurisdictions involved in the election process.”

Given how federal cyber-security has gone, I consider it a feature. We really need to strengthen electoral security, but giving it over to the feds creates a single point of failure, a major source of distrust, and a temptation to misbehavior. If you want to make Trump’s claim that the election is being rigged seem prophetic instead of crazy, just go ahead with this.

WHEN EVERYONE IS HITLER, NO ONE IS HITLER: Frank Bruni: Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump.

WHY ISN’T IT ‘THE ECONOMY, STUPID’ THIS TIME AROUND?

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the quarterly growth numbers for 1992, in chained 2009 dollars, were 4.8%, 4.5%, 3.9% and 4.1%. That’s right–the growth that Bill Clinton derided as the “worst economy since the Great Depression” was around four times what we are now seeing under Barack Obama. And Hillary Clinton promises to continue Obama’s anti-growth policies.

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“I would have thought that the economy would be at the center of the presidential campaign. Instead we’re hearing about which candidate is more racist. It’s crazy. It’s sad.”

Read the whole thing.

IF YOU’RE MYSTIFIED ABOUT WHY INEQUALITY STARTED GROWING IN THE EARLY 1970S, you might want to note that that was when the so-called “regulatory explosion” took place, with the creation of the EPA, OSHA, etc. That’s also when the “golden quarter-century” of innovation came to an end. Coincidence?