The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Friday, August 17, 2007
Edwards pet Hedge Fund linked to Katrina foreclosures
Photoshop shamelessly pilfered from Ace (and George)--but it was too good to pass up.
You have got to love the irony of the fact that the Breck Girl announced his campaign in a New Orleans back yard-maybe it was one of the ones that his hedge fund foreclosed on (hell, the whole neighborhood would probably fit into his garage...). And how big of the ambulance chaser to say he will divest in this investment. What an example for us all...
Ace puts it very succinctly, as always (Emphasis is mine):
There are two Americas -- and John Edwards is fighting as hard as he can to keep it that way. Gotta keep the riff-raff down, you know.
God Bless 'im.Democratic presidential contender John Edwards has investing ties to subprime lenders who are foreclosing on victims of Katrina, according to a report published Friday.
The Wall Street Journal said there are 34 homes in New Orleans that face foreclosure from the subprime unit of Fortress Investment Group. Edwards has about $16 million in Fortress (Charts), a hedge fund and private equity manager, the newspaper said.
Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina, has been a vocal critic of subprime lenders and told the Journal that he would assist homeowners in New Orleans who face foreclosure from businesses linked to Fortress or who have already lost their homes. ...
I hope Edwards stays in the race until the bitter end--his glaring hypocrisy is the gift that keeps on giving.
Labels: 2008 Presidential Race, Hypocrisy, John Edwards
Saturday, August 11, 2007
America's Worst Nightmare....
Friday, August 03, 2007
The "Breck Girl" says he gave Murdoch's $800K to "charity"
The narcissistic prima-donna plaintiff's attorney turned Democrat Presidential candidate had some real whoppers yesterday:
John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul's companies.The Edwards campaign said the multimillionaire trial lawyer would not return the hefty payout from Murdoch for the book titled "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives."
The campaign didn't respond to a question from The Post about whether it was hypocritical for Edwards to take money from News Corp. while calling for other candidates not to.
In addition to a $500,000 advance from HarperCollins, which is owned by News Corp., Edwards also was cut a check for $300,000 for expenses.
Edwards claimed $333,334 in royalties from last year's release of the book, according to media accounts. The campaign said last night that those funds were part of the advance.
He says he gave that amount to charity, which would also provide tax benefits for Edwards. "We're more than happy to give even more of Murdoch's money to Habitat for Humanity and other good causes," spokesman Eric Schultz told The Post yesterday.
He declined to show proof, however, that Edwards had donated the $500,000 advance or $300,000 expense checks to charity.
Labels: 2008 Presidential Race, John Edwards, Nutroots
Monday, June 11, 2007
Greatest Generation ... NOT
Cartoon by Cox and Forkum (click to enlarge)
From New York Sun: Peace Corps Part of Edwards Terror Plan
Labels: 2008 Presidential Race, America War Support, John Edwards, The Long War
Friday, June 08, 2007
Edwards Path to victory in the War on Global Islamist Jihad: send in the Peace Corps
This man is running for President of the United States. If that doesn't terrify you to your very core, what will?
If it weren't so sad--and frightening, it might be funny... but alas, it isn't. What it does more than anything is make me angry that our media, culture, politicians, and "educators" have let things get this far gone where people actually buy this kind of mindless BS from a wealthy, ambulance-chasing shyster like Edwards:
Pathetic.
If it weren't so sad--and frightening, it might be funny... but alas, it isn't. What it does more than anything is make me angry that our media, culture, politicians, and "educators" have let things get this far gone where people actually buy this kind of mindless BS from a wealthy, ambulance-chasing shyster like Edwards:
The plan Mr. Edwards presented yesterday — which he dubbed "A Strategy to Shut Down Terrorists and Stop Terrorism Before It Starts" — calls for a 10,000-person "Marshall Corps" to deal with issues ranging from worldwide poverty and economic development to clean drinking water and micro-lending. He said investing in those areas would shore up weak nations and help ensure that terrorism does not take root there. That, he said, would allow the country to stop potential terrorists before they even join the ranks.Ground control to Major John: Bin Laden is a millionaire. Zawahiri is a medical doctor. This is not about poverty and freaking social programs; it is about religious fascism: And. you. just. don't. get. it.
Pathetic.
Labels: Islamic Fascism, John Edwards, Nutroots, Terrorism, The Left
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Dummy on Board
Cartoon by Michael Ramirez (click to enlarge)
Labels: Bush Derangement Syndrome, Iran, John Edwards, Nutroots, The Left
Thursday, May 24, 2007
On Second Thought... Take it ALL
John Edwards Gets Oh So Pretty
Classic video here of John Edwards getting ready for an appearence--with musical accompaniment! A great find by Ragnar Danneskjold.
Another triumph for the "man of the people".
Another triumph for the "man of the people".
Labels: 2008 Presidential Race, John Edwards
Romney hits back hard at John Edwards
The pandering of John Edwards to the MoveOn left has become truly pathetic; yesterday's "bumper sticker" comment was par for the course for this intellectually vacant candidate, but one thing it did accomplish is engendering another excellent moment for Mitt Romney's campaign. Watch the video here.
Labels: 2008 Presidential Race, Defeatocrats, John Edwards, Mitt Romney
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Edwards promises to "look into" WTC 7 Collapse
This is too good.
Meanwhile, for those who are not too far gone, here is a dose of reality.
Meanwhile, for those who are not too far gone, here is a dose of reality.
Labels: 9/11 Truthers, Bush Derangement Syndrome, John Edwards, Nutroots
Sunday, March 04, 2007
An Inconvenient Plane
Day by Day Sunday Comics by Chris Muir (click to enlarge)
Labels: Al Gore, Cartoons, Global Warming Hysteria, John Edwards
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Steyn on: Edwards' Monstrosity and the Media's War against the Good Guys
In the words of the venerable Mark Steyn: "There are two Americas, and neither has the square footage of John Edwards' new house."
Exactly: all 29,000 Sqare Feet of it! Shoot, I am just glad Edwards announced his candidacy in the backyard of that Katrina-ravaged low-income New Orleans home, where the common folk can feel some solidarity with this modern day Baron. I just hope he dusted off his shoes before he walked back into the "big house". Check out Steyn's laser-targeted wit about this wonderful case of cognitive dissonance at NRO's The Corner.
But the previous are just the hors d'ouvres; Steyn penned this gem for Western Standard, a Canadian magazine--he begins the piece:
In Tom Stoppard’s play Night And Day, the African dictator Mageeba explains his views on freedom of the press:
“Do you know what I mean by a relatively free press, Mr. Wagner?”
“Not exactly, sir, no,” says the Fleet Street hack.
“I mean,” says Mageeba, “a free press which is edited by one of my relatives.”
Here in the citadels of western civilization, we have a slightly different problem: our relatively free press is a press edited by relativists.
Item: Six imams returning from a big conference of imams were removed from a plane at Minneapolis Airport after other passengers grew concerned about loud cries of “Allah akbar!”, the imams reseating themselves in the same configuration as the 9/11 hijackers and demanding seat-belt extenders, even though none was of sufficient girth to need them. Aside from Fox, America’s national media showed little interest in the story. But nor, oddly, did the local media. After complaints, the managing editor of The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Anders Gyllenhaal, replied to at least one reader: “I don’t think the paper dropped this story, but I do think it had run its course… I think this is one of those stories that runs for a couple of days, then subsides.”
Well, the reason he thinks this is one of those stories that runs for a couple of days is because he chose to run it only for a couple of days. Had it been something more consequential – like, say, fictitious stories about guards at Gitmo desecrating the Koran – he would have run it into the ground.
Item: The Associated Press reported that six Iraqis were burned alive in a mosque. Their source for the story was Iraqi police captain Jamil Hussein. The US military denies the incident took place. So does Iraq’s Ministry of the Interior, which says that there is no-one in the Iraqi police called “Jamil Hussein”. Which is odd, given that the Associated Press has quoted him dozens of times. Since they know him so well, why don’t they just produce him at a press conference? Instead, apart from some swipes at bloggers, the AP’s execs have refused to address the controversy. Thousands of American newspapers have run stories relying on the testimony of a man who does not appear to exist. And what all those stories have in common is that they paint post-Saddam Iraq as a disaster.
And the snowball just gathers up steam from there; check out the whole article.
Exactly: all 29,000 Sqare Feet of it! Shoot, I am just glad Edwards announced his candidacy in the backyard of that Katrina-ravaged low-income New Orleans home, where the common folk can feel some solidarity with this modern day Baron. I just hope he dusted off his shoes before he walked back into the "big house". Check out Steyn's laser-targeted wit about this wonderful case of cognitive dissonance at NRO's The Corner.
But the previous are just the hors d'ouvres; Steyn penned this gem for Western Standard, a Canadian magazine--he begins the piece:
In Tom Stoppard’s play Night And Day, the African dictator Mageeba explains his views on freedom of the press:
“Do you know what I mean by a relatively free press, Mr. Wagner?”
“Not exactly, sir, no,” says the Fleet Street hack.
“I mean,” says Mageeba, “a free press which is edited by one of my relatives.”
Here in the citadels of western civilization, we have a slightly different problem: our relatively free press is a press edited by relativists.
Item: Six imams returning from a big conference of imams were removed from a plane at Minneapolis Airport after other passengers grew concerned about loud cries of “Allah akbar!”, the imams reseating themselves in the same configuration as the 9/11 hijackers and demanding seat-belt extenders, even though none was of sufficient girth to need them. Aside from Fox, America’s national media showed little interest in the story. But nor, oddly, did the local media. After complaints, the managing editor of The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Anders Gyllenhaal, replied to at least one reader: “I don’t think the paper dropped this story, but I do think it had run its course… I think this is one of those stories that runs for a couple of days, then subsides.”
Well, the reason he thinks this is one of those stories that runs for a couple of days is because he chose to run it only for a couple of days. Had it been something more consequential – like, say, fictitious stories about guards at Gitmo desecrating the Koran – he would have run it into the ground.
Item: The Associated Press reported that six Iraqis were burned alive in a mosque. Their source for the story was Iraqi police captain Jamil Hussein. The US military denies the incident took place. So does Iraq’s Ministry of the Interior, which says that there is no-one in the Iraqi police called “Jamil Hussein”. Which is odd, given that the Associated Press has quoted him dozens of times. Since they know him so well, why don’t they just produce him at a press conference? Instead, apart from some swipes at bloggers, the AP’s execs have refused to address the controversy. Thousands of American newspapers have run stories relying on the testimony of a man who does not appear to exist. And what all those stories have in common is that they paint post-Saddam Iraq as a disaster.
And the snowball just gathers up steam from there; check out the whole article.
Labels: Democrat, John Edwards, Mark Steyn, Media Bias, Media War
