Morning Intell:: October 22, 2009

• CHANGE DBKP CAN BELIEVE IN: Gallup: First-year quarterly drop in Obama’s approval rating one of the biggest in decades

  Allah: “Not much Hope but a whole lot of Change. ObamaCare plus stagnant unemployment plus dithering on Afghanistan makes for a magical brew indeed, my friends.”

  Protected by a lapdog media that hemorrhaged trust way before it began showing up on their balance sheets, most of America didn’t become acquainted with the “Change” that Obama meant until this summer.

  His continued slide in the polls reflect an electorate that is now better informed of his policies than they were prior to his taking office.
  MORE: Gallup: Obama’s drop in popularity is a record.

• CRAFTY: Rush should make CNN an offer it can’t refuse

  The following is incidental to the article’s point, but is also a great point that is missed elsewhere in the media.

  There’s a significant key to understanding the talk radio audience in this narrative. The right can listen to talk radio, as Wagler does and as I have done at various periods over nearly twenty years, (and have seen many dozens of others — and as millions do on a daily basis), while working at our jobs! We are multi-taskers, who are working, earning a living (and paying taxes) while we listen.

• JAY LENO:
  “Big news from the White House: Federal agents will no longer go after patients taking medical marijuana or their suppliers under new guidelines by Obama administration. President Obama figures he couldn’t appease the left by withdrawing from Iraq, closing Gitmo, or repealing “Don’t ask don’t tell.” And this way they will be too stoned to care.”

• NON-NEWS: Eric Boehlert, Liar.
  Ace thrashes away at Media Matters–which is somewhat of an unfair fight because MM is such an easy target. Beating up a press “watchdog” that is tripped up by even elementary fact-checking; it’s the equivalent of a fight between Godzilla and Barney.
  Media Matters is also handicapped by confusion about its mission: is it a watchdog, a lefty fund-raising apparatus, or an scattershot attack gun? MM ought to settle on one of the three or get a new raison d’etre, because it does none of the above particularly well.
  MORE: Kevin Jennings, NAMBLA: Media Matters WRONG on Kevin Jennings, NAMBLA; Media Matters: The Left’s Media Attack Watch Dog; and, Lou Dobbs Target of Leftie-Liberal Frenzied Media Attack.
  And that’s just in the last 60 days…

• MICKEY KAUS ATTEMPTS TO CLARIFY: What’s Your Beef With Fox, Mr. Dem-Basher? .
  Kaus has some good points about Fox and neutrality or lack of it. But he seems to be giving most of the other “news organizations” a pass–or at least, gives that appearance.

• THE RIELLE DEAL: JOHN EDWARDS PAYS FOR HIS MISTRESS RIELLE’s NEW HOME
  More about the candidate of the “Two Americas”:

  John Edwards is paying for his mistress and their love child to live in a gorgeous million- dollar home that’s a short distance from his family’s luxury mansion!

  The ENQUIRER has obtained world exclusive photos of Rielle Hunter – mother of the disgraced presidential candidate’s 20-month-old daughter Frances – at the stunning $1 million home in Wilmington, N.C.

  Remember the good old days when all Edwards had to do was mouth the words, “tabloid trash” and the rest of the media would spike a story that had names, dates and serial numbers? Maybe Obama should have tried calling Fox News “tabloid trash”? It worked for 10 months for Edwards.
  Maybe Edwards set up a foundation for unwed mothers? Well, one particular unwed mother, anyway…
  MORE: Over 140 DBKP stories on the John Edwards Love Child Scandal and the accompanying media blackout.

• MORE CORRUPTION from THE SCANDAL-O-MATIC MACHINE THAT IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Americrooks: The volunteerism scandal Hollywood won’t be broadcasting
  The tragedy is that national service is not necessarily a bad thing–unless it’s turned into the scam that it currently is. The Obama administration is turning into Jimmy Carter II–without the ethics.

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• THREE TAKES on the “GOOD MEDIA”: That would be the term for those news organizations that sit up and beg for the White House. Ace calls it the “head pat media”. We say, “Adversarial press, my ass”.
  * [Particularly good] Your Head-Pat Media At Work: Gloria Borger Goes in for Special Two-and-a-Half Hour Meeting With Obama, Types Up His Talking Points, Presents It As “Analysis”
  * [Snark-laced] White House Off-the-Record Press Briefing: Who Got Doggie Treats
  * [Quick and Dirty] White House E-Mails Mika Brezinksy Mid-Segment to “Correct” Her; Good Liberal Mika Immediately Makes the Correction and Begins Pushing the White House Line

• SAFE SCHOOLS ART? Figures. Pornographic Anti-Christian Harvard Art Show Funded By Obama’s Safe Schools Czar.
  For his next trick, Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings funds an art show that equates a Catholic bishop with a used condom!
  MORE: Kevin Jennings, Gay or Staight, Obama Safe School Czar Has Obligation to Clarify Henry Hay

• WEDNESDAY’S Daily scoreboard.
  We’re hoping that this isn’t like spoiling the plot of a movie, but:
  It was a Good Day.

• DO THE MATH: Seven Lies in One Minute, Forty-Seven Seconds.
  “Impressive. I didn’t think anyone could outdo Bill Clinton for rapid-fire fairy-tales, but I was wrong.”
  The Obama administration continues to rack up remarkable numbers.

• HOPE! Obama’s Stimulus Promises Result in Loss of 2.7 Million Jobs .
  NOW, that’s unemployment!
  Remember in 2008 when the media was dissing low 5% unemployment? It was another sign of those dark Bush years.

• FAILED LIBERAL IDEA #2207: Doofus Grayson Gets Punked
  “My Lord, is this guy the biggest tool in the Congress or what?”
  Whoa! Hold on there, not so fast! There’s some pretty stiff competition for that title.

• NEW PRODUCT! We Have Our Product!
  Wonder if they’ll do a stock offering?

by Mondo Frazier
image: DBKP file