When they can’t attack the message…
…they attack the messenger.
This is all they’ve got (vid at link if you can stomach it):
That’s it. Not a single refutation of a single fact in the book. Bill Maher can’t bring himself to open it and read what’s in between the covers. Why? Because he and all of his enablers in Hollywood, D.C., and Manhattan are in a state of denial about Obama’s Culture of Corruption. They don’t want to hear it, see it, or smell it. Unlike many brave whistleblowers who worked in the Obama trenches and who have seen the light, the liberal elites don’t want to know the truth.
Maher sneers that Obama has only been in office six months.
Hey, Einstein: That. Is. The. Freaking. Point.
***
Here’s another pathetic attempt to “debunk” Culture of Corruption from the lavishly-funded operatives at Media Matters, who claim I “distorted” Liza Mundy’s biograpy of Michelle Obama because — gasp! — I didn’t mention in my book that Mrs. Obama’s father had multiple sclerosis.
The Media Matters crew tosses out various ad hominems and non sequiturs, but fails to refute my fundamental point: Michelle Robinson Obama was literally born into the Daley patronage machine and political corruptocracy. She worked for that machine, followed Daley legal counsel Valerie Jarrett to the University of Chicago Medical Center, saw her salary triple after her husband won his Senate seat, and brought Jarrett and other Daley intimates into the East Wing. The nutroots defend Mrs. O by citing her “cynicism” of machine politics.
Well, yes. She’s very good at expressing “cynicism” and disdain for the dance partners who brought her to power. It’s the Obama Way.
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Its the new left playbook michelle its “Attack attack Attack” just ask Sarah Palin.
We should stop plaing nice with people who have no scuples. They want to push the big lie and dont care if they get called on it.
Obama is either evil, or stupid, or both.
You should be proud Michelle you got under their skin. They control most of the media but they know the economy is killing Obama and that has them scared and scrambling
Hey go easy on Maher; maybe he can’t read.
Im sure he buys books to look at the pictures.
Bill Maher HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA I’ll bet he got his ass beat everyday from Kindergarten through 6-7th grade, whichever one he made it through.
Michelle I am SO GLAD you do what you do and how you do it. You are smarter and tougher than any Republican politician. You are THE #1 conservative political pundit and all around great human being.
CHEERS!
Good luck on The View.
It’ll be like having 3 Bill Maher’s.
Perhaps you meant “The Three Stooges”?
Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!
I’m half way through your book at this point. The footnotes validate your claims. Ignorant liberals hate hard facts.
The far left anti-Americans like Maher and the others will be coming at you full bore now. Who knows, maybe that bed-wetter K. Olbermann will declare you to be the worst person in the world again!
You know what they say. Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all. I’d say you need to send him a thank you letter for helping sell more of your books….
Michelle, I admire both your message and your courage. Thank you.
Bill “no talent” Maher
From host of a show called “Politically Incorrect” to a tool of censorship all in one life
What a legacy
I sure hope no one has any idea or hope that the leftist media will ever get to the facts of this thing and agree with Michelle or Beck, etc. They simply can’t. And they can’t not just because of their politics, they can’t because IF they did THEN they’d have to deal with how we on the right were correct during the campaign and how the leftist media acted in a way that was not only bias but down right incestual.
If the leftist media even came close to acknowledging what we on the right know to be true, they would then be self-incriminating. That will never happen. In order to avoid that self-incrimination they will do stuff that is so insane, so unreasonable, so illogical, that while they think they got away with something, the general public and shrinking market share very clearly indicates the leftist media got away with nothing.
I would say the media’s response to Culture of Corruption is right on track and exactly what should be expected.
I venture to say the only reading material Bill Maher has had in his dirty little paws since becoming of age was Playboy, and something tells me it wasn’t for the articles.
I caught this part of Maher’s show last night while channel flipping. Either it wasn’t funny…or I was too stoopid to understand his complex wit.
Maher’s limp-wristed rant (complete with a Rachel Maddow “fist pump”) did remind me that I really have to buy Michelle’s book!
little billy maher’s issue is any book that proves how corrupt this lame administration truly is. maher like all other idiot liberals prefers to keep his head firmly inserted where the sun doesn’t shine, his ultimate happy place.
In the video BM makes fun of the supposed books written by right wing extremists, his view. I wonder if he’s looked at who the authors of the best selling books so far this year are? None other than “right wing extremists”, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and now our patriotic hostess Michelle Malkin. Where’s all the best sellers from the extreme left…on shelves in the dark, damp, basement of a library?
The leftist response is so typical.
Since they seldom have truth or compelling facts to buttress their arguments, they predictably resort to RIDICULE. It’s a transparent tactic taken directly from the lefties rules for radicals playbook.
The RIDICULE tactic is especially effective when your message is delivered by simple-minded “useful idiots” like Maher, Letterman, et. al., to an audience of immature, like-minded juveniles (regardless of chronological age”.
There is no “reasoning” with hyenas who don’t want to grow up.
Yep.
They are a clear example of the opposite worldview; and, sadly, but becoming increasingly clear, domestic enemies – or the closest thing to domestic enemies that I’ve seen in my lifetime.
Did anyone else read any of the sick posts at the Maher link?
Yep.
Sadly, the votes of those useful idiots and hyenas count the same as yours and mine.
That is, as I have said before, sadly, at the same time our country’s greatest strength, and its greatest weakness.
We are currently paying the price – a great price – for that weakness.
As one of my former Navy Flight Surgeons (Dr. Simon) would comment when he saw two having a heated discussion; “C-mon guys don’t hate the player-hate his game.”
For a newly commisoned LT (O-3) he was wise beyond his years. The point is to discuss the issue and not attack the guy personally. Unfortunately, attacking a person and not their position is the standard MO for liberals.
For evidence; I point to the posts of lgm and the trolls et al.
GSP
I consider the source and then I move on. There is nothing being uttered by these Marxists/Progressives I need to hear. It is all just drivel.
I wonder what Maher’s classy, sensitive liberal Halloween costume will be this year:
http://13gb.com/pictures/2111/
It is however fun Mac… to stir up them dang liberals on their own web sites though….
I have to admit Maher’s fake Ann Coulter book cracked me up.
Maher’s coherency is disappearing faster than his hair.
A person with the facts is never afraid to face criticism or debate (why Gore never debates AGW, by the way), which, as Michelle states, is why Maher had to put the book down nearly as fast as he picked it up: he can’t dispute the facts. And neither could his three “yes” men on the panel with him. Just descend into nervous laughter in front of an audience of liberals. Sprinkle with expletives and stir.
Too bad smarmy and sarcastic can never substitute for truth, right Bill?
Maher has to quickly descend to Saul Alinsky’s Rule #5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” And, of course, figuratively kill the messenger. This explains the other fictitious books he had to make up to try and diminish Michelle’s book.
He actually has the gall to complain about Obama being criticized after six months! Bush took it on the chin very early in the election, even from CBS, which now is Obama’s chief media rumpswab.
Maher is the most pathetic self proclaimed intellectual in the liberal quiver of blunt arrows. Someone should ask him how his last movie, “Religilous” did at the box office. LOL!
I am sure that Glenn Beck is laughing even louder at Maher, given that Beck’s popularity with America is orders of magnitude higher.
Try looking under “Flynt, Larry” and “Hefner, Hugh”.
Or just look in BM’s
atticliving room.“…given that Beck’s popularity with America is orders of magnitude higher.”
Guys like Olberman, Chris Matthews and Maher always act all so self important but when you look at their numbers, they are quite small little men with small little audiences.
Maher is a flaming ass idiot and like all leftists and liberals lacks the intellectual depth to generate anything other than vile, ruthless attacks.
I have to tell you, I had never heard or seen maher until I started getting on MM and HA. I only watch Fox news and I guess my tiny brain cells have missed a gob not seeing this person, NOT!
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Great dodge, there Billy boy.
Instead of ANY attempt at refuting a single statement in the (real) book, just IMPLY it’s a joke by spending lots of time and money making up really fake books.
Goebbels would be proud.
If I’m not mistaken ( I’m not) the only attack methods the entire Dem party has had since willy got his weenie caught out in the open is this, mean ugly baseless lies and deceit. Usually hateful anti-American rhetoric as well.
They attack anything and anyone who disagrees and they do it for-ever. The campaign ( in its third year) was nothing but frivolous attacks with the talking mouths on news show after news show taking up 75% of the ‘debate’. Plus they seem to have no end to their immoral and unethical ‘talking points’.
They have NO GOD,
only make-up idols & part-time gods like barry hussein obama.
The Obama camp and the Dems can NOT win an argument on facts. PERIOD.
We thank you Michelle for your amazingly difficult work to expose these hatemongers who are quite literally trying to “FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM AMERICA”.
Even evil like bill maher can’t joke their way thru the nonsense and some people will buy and read your book because of his irrational rant.
It also PROVES your book is dead on and very worth the read.
Facts. Anyone on the left, try arguing the FACTS.
We wait.
MM, thanks for doing what you do. It can not be easy. Stay safe!
The Left never needs facts. Just ask LGM.
Nope. In the Return to Publisher – Unsold bin.
Small uh, hands, too.
Olberman, Matthews and Maher. Talking heads, spewing and frothing at and about things of which they have absolutely no understanding.
Ms. Malkin is imminently worthy of our respect. If for no other reason that being judged by the company she keeps and seeing who her critics are and what, exactly, they have to say.
*Bill Maher, the poor man’s David Letterman; Can’t be bothered with either one if I’m looking for a laugh.
*Keep up the great work Michelle; We must stay focused on the facts, expose the left and their naked marxism, and then the real majority that is center right will win the day come 2010 and 2012.
“Small uh, hands, too.”
He, I resemble that remark.
Read the comments at the site where the Maher trashes Malkin link it. None of them attacks a point Malkin makes.
The left just can’t handle the truth. Lying, cheating and bullying are a poor substitute for facts. Mostly the left can’t admit that they were duped by a smooth talking BS artist. When the Obama ship goes down it will take the MSM and Hollywood with it. Notice what all these folks have in common? They are all heavily scripted, lest they forget how to talk.
M/M ~ Consider the source.
I’ve seen jr. hi boys w/ more common sense and better manners!
Keep up the good work. The truth is being HEARD!
One could argue those tactics go back even further, to the Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination hearings.
“The left just can’t handle the truth.”
I’m going to disagree with that. I think it is something different. I think it is “the end justifies the means”. If the “truth” furthers their goals, they love the truth. If the truth does not further their goals, they will do everything and anything to avoid the truth. Even very mean and spiteful things.
The issue with the left’s mindset is not that they can’t handle the truth. Its the amount of “truth” in truth doesn’t matter. Truth, as as all things in their world, is a tool to be used as they see fit to accomplish their goals.
Its all about “the end justifies the means” in their world.
That is why leftist or “progressives” end up being the ones who round people up and kill them. Why folks like Castro, Mao, Stalin, etc. are heroes. The left’s hereos are folks who have the common methodology of taking the end justifies the means to its extreme.
Mao didn’t kill millions of people, he cleansed the country you see.
Che’ what’s his name is not a terrorist brutal thug, he helped Castro cleanse Cuba….
On and on it goes.
Rabid animals are at their worst when backed into a corner.
Did she happen to mention what the he!! that had to do with anything? Did she point out the relevance to your subject matter! Talk about petty!
“Rabid animals are at their worst when backed into a corner.”
Yep and at this point I don’t think they are really in a corner yet. I think they see it coming however. It is going to get worse too as they really get backed into a corner.
He can’t read it because he can’t see around his nose.
“…he can’t see around his nose.”
Be careful there row….
Don’t argue with these people. They are so “brain-damaged” or so indoctrinated, they would believe it’s dark outside at 12 Noon, if Obama said so, and refuse to look out the window. These are the true useful idiots that totalitarians love to have around.
He say’s “America is a stupid Country”, I say pack your bags dillweed, you’re the the one that’s stupid. and a blowhard.
LOL. You can’t deny the guy has got a honker the size of North Dakota. He makes Jimmy Durante look like Mary Tyler Moore.BTW, trivia tidbit–MTM appeared on Durante’s TV show in the late 1950s as a Durante girl.I don’t know how I wandered into that subject
.
Something tells me Maher smells corruption anywhere he goes…
“You can’t deny the guy has got a honker the size of North Dakota.”
Yes but we’re the ones who focus on the facts not on appearances…..
“Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are….”
When will these sad, venomous little liberals learn that the more they demonize conservative authors, the more successful are the book sales?
Quite true.
Maybe they just got more bold and open about their hate, immoral behavior and ignorance after the clinton
body countadmin.Maher is too infantile to actually READ a book.
I dare say the strategy when facing an opponent who on the basis of facts has a winning argument that instead of losing in order to attempt to win one attacks the opponent and not the facts is WAY older than the Robert Bork hearing……
Rev. 12:10 “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night”
And the haven’t even pulled out the “Oriental!” trump card yet!
Actually, I think Bill Maher waving that book and smirking could bump sales up another 10%. It is, after all, free advertising.
Mrs. Malkin is oriental? No way…..
I hope he wasn’t waving an autographed copy. That would really upset me.
Oh,snap!
As the old PSA’s say, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Bill has apparently wasted his on unbridled hubris.
Those who think they know everything are the ones most desperately in need of an education.
It is the Left’s playbook, but it’s anything but new. They’ve been pulling that stunt for close to 40 years.
“a mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
Anyone remember the old joke about Michael Jackson becoming the spokes person for the American Negro College Fund? His motto was “A mind, a terrible thing to baste.”
You know the old saying – when the flak is heaviest, you’re over the target.
I’m currently plowing through the Biden chapter. Bill Maher doesn’t know what he’s missing, and in this case, it more than hurts him.
Reminds me of the motto at the nuclear power plant I retired from after 30 years, “waste is a terrible thing to mind”.
Just kidding…..
I know we aren’t supposed to talk about this, but sneak at look at the latest on:
http://www.wnd.com
and see what you think………
Can we have “Noted Oriental rocks!” bumper stickers?
By God Michelle….you are one pretty woman.
Oh, and great book too
Anyone read Maher’s book of a few years back, “When You ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden”???
Don’t worry; nobody did. Perfectly good trees gave their lives to be turned into paper for his turgid and tendentious book, only to be turned back into pulp after it cluttered up the remainder tables.
And THAT’s what helping to fuel Maher’s rage against MM, who sits on an explosive bestseller.
For an entertaining example of schadenfreud a successful author feels for a failed rival read :
“The Book of My enemy has been Remaindered”
‘The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered’
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy’s much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles
One passes down reflecting on life’s vanities,
Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews
Lavished to no avail upon one’s enemy’s book –
For behold, here is that book
Among these ranks and banks of duds,
These ponderous and seeminly irreducible cairns
Of complete stiffs.
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I rejoice.
It has gone with bowed head like a defeated legion
Beneath the yoke.
What avail him now his awards and prizes,
The praise expended upon his meticulous technique,
His individual new voice?
Knocked into the middle of next week
His brainchild now consorts with the bad buys
The sinker, clinkers, dogs and dregs,
The Edsels of the world of moveable type,
The bummers that no amount of hype could shift,
The unbudgeable turkeys.
Yea, his slim volume with its understated wrapper
Bathes in the blare of the brightly jacketed Hitler’s War Machine,
His unmistakably individual new voice
Shares the same scrapyart with a forlorn skyscraper
Of The Kung-Fu Cookbook,
His honesty, proclaimed by himself and believed by others,
His renowned abhorrence of all posturing and pretense,
Is there with Pertwee’s Promenades and Pierrots–
One Hundred Years of Seaside Entertainment,
And (oh, this above all) his sensibility,
His sensibility and its hair-like filaments,
His delicate, quivering sensibility is now as one
With Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs,
A volume graced by the descriptive rubric
“My boobs will give everyone hours of fun”.
Soon now a book of mine could be remaindered also,
Though not to the monumental extent
In which the chastisement of remaindering has been meted out
To the book of my enemy,
Since in the case of my own book it will be due
To a miscalculated print run, a marketing error–
Nothing to do with merit.
But just supposing that such an event should hold
Some slight element of sadness, it will be offset
By the memory of this sweet moment.
Chill the champagne and polish the crystal goblets!
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am glad.
Clive James
On target….most flack
Jake
I see revolution on the horizon. And woe be to those who are complacent with the government we have.
Ain’t no way in the world I’m clicking on that vid.Maher is just about the dumbest POS on the air.
If he has any complaints aboit the book,all I can say is(in the words of our lovely hostess)”Boo-Freaking-Hoo.”
I don’t think whoever wrote the tripe at Media Matters understands the concept of hypocricy.The point is -if MO is so cynical of “machine politics”,then she should not be practicing them.
I think we ought to complain to the network and Mahr’s show.Maybe they could be persuaded to have her on the show. It would be fun to see his expression as Michele entered the set.
Good grief, Charlie Brown! It’s just painful to watch adults like Maher acting like insolent children. I was liberal once; ALL of my school teachers were like that, so it rubbed off on me. Then I reached high school age and began questioning what I had always heard from my
educatorsindoctrinators. Too bad libbies like Garofalo, Maher, et al never learned how to think for themselves.I’ve never had any desire to watch Maher to begin with.
Trash-talking Michelle adds nothing to an already non-existent appeal.
I won’t waste a single present moment going to that video link.
“Devoid alike of amusement or edification.”
– Edward Gibbon, writing Bill Maher’s career obituary in the 18th Century
Bill Maher and Dave Letterman-Two peas in a pod Both think they are “intellectuals” . Both think they are funny.They are neither
YECCHHHHHH
You’re forgetting Keith Douchebag, maybe?
Whoever had the intestinal fortitude to actually watch that puke maher has my profound respect. He has the type of face and demeanor that makes me want to bury my fist in his face. Puke personified.
I was channel surfing one day and came across Billy and Florence Henderson on some cooking show. I stopped to watch, curious, and then saw him grab Florence, swing her around so she was bent over the kitchen counter, and then start humping her. Totally bizarre.
To be fair, that was just one of their criticisms. Their main argument seems to be that you quoted from a biography in order to criticize Michelle, but failed to mention the argument of that biography:
I don’t necessarily agree with that criticism (why should you need to adopt the same argument as another biography?) However, you did mis-characterize it in your post.
People still listen to that clown? Wow.
Well, whatever. I’m proud to be one of the many, who will put the book at the #1 slot. Now, if only I can get an autograph!
I can watch the video. It is the same old crap. You can watch this jerk or Olbermann and it is like watching the same program over and over again. The left wing hate sites blow the whistle and these two jump over the gate barking.
” made her and her family “extremely cynical about politics and politicians” until they met “Barack [Obama],
Can you explain that “until”, bluesoc?
How, exactly, is Barack different from Chicago pols?
Could it be that they were cynical until they met a pol who could help advance them?
I am “askin’”, as I haven’t read either book.
Of course he will not read it, the left are too weak to consider anything outside their own box.
Nothing wrong with free advertising.
I thought he was right on. It wasn’t a personal attack against MM. It simply was making fun of judging the Obama administration after only a few weeks (it takes time from when the writing is finished until the book is published).
ya right, he simply showed us how biased and ignorant he is. stupid leftie.
lmao
Just standard SOP for the Left. Attack the messenger and not the facts. Consider it a badge of honer. Keep up the good work.
On August 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm, Bruce said:
I have tried. It only takes a few minutes to slowly go insane.
So, are you saying there was no corruption present in the people she is writing about prior to Jan 20th 2009?
As politicians like to say: “The Obama Administration hit the ground running”……with pre-existing corruption very quickly incorporated into every facet of Obama’s Chicago mobster administration.
lgm said:
Of course you would think he was right on — lol — being a Liberal Stooge, that immediately absolves you from any analysis of the books content, just attck the author.
Bill Maher is a slug. Gives “white trash” a whole new meaning. However, and I can’t believe I am going to say this…I laughed at some of his fake book titles. They really were rather clever. Of course, that is the difference between the right wingers and the left. We can laugh at ourselves…they just get angry.
I will be taping the view and will skip over everything but Michelle’s section. Anything more than that would ruin my
dayerweekum…life.Perhaps next time you could write a pop up book so Maher and Garafolo could keep up.