The Morning Mix
September 22, 2011
Here’s The Morning Mix:
Tonite GOP Presidential Debate. 9pm Eastern. Brought to you from sunny Florida by Google and Fox News. Google was one of the larger donors to the Barack Obama campaign in ’08. Now executives there are thinking it’s better business to work both sides of the street! Look for a new candidate to take the stage, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, a Libertarian. The Florida GOP doesn’t want Johnson on the stage Thursday night, but FOX does. Johnson has appeared on Fox 18 times this year. Mitt Romney? Eight. Interesting.
Do you think First Lady Michelle Obama keeps a low, low profile? If she does make appearances, we seldom SEE or hear about them. Her popularity has fallen just as the President’s has, but this is unusual for First Ladies. The Washington Examiner reports that last Spring 
Mrs. Obama had a 62% favorability rating . By August that number dropped to 50%. Laura Bush on the other hand always had a popularity rating of 76%. Expensive vacations and being the Food Police take their toll.
Democrats aren’t biting. And that includes New York’s Senator Chuck Schumer who isn’t getting on board with President Obama’s new $447 billion Jobs For America plan and “off-setting” cuts of 1.5 trillion dollars. The Wall Street Journal says, “New York’s Chuck Schumer, of all unlikely partisans, has objections—notably to Mr. Obama’s plan to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire on taxpayers earning more than $200,000 (or $250,000 for married couples) : “$250,000 makes you really rich in Mississippi, but it doesn’t make you rich at all in New York, and there ought to be some kind of scale based on the cost of living on how much you pay.”
The White House deficit reduction plan scales back the military some 300-500,000 jobs. However, no cuts are included for the soldiers serving bravely in endless offices on the battlefield of Washington, D.C. Those jobs are 100% SECURE and supported by UNIONS.
At a Townhall meeting in Miami this week, presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a bit of a snafu again. the millionaire told his audience that he favors a tax policy that will help “those who have been hurt by the Obama economy.” “And that’s the middle class,” Romney continued. “It’s not those in the low end; it’s certainly not those in the very high end. It’s for the great middle class – the 80 to 90 percent of us in this country.” He didn’t mean it. Just overspoke…….
ESPN radio in Las Vegas REALLY went deaf this week, when it allowed former heavyweight and convicted rapist Mike Tyson insult and degrade Sarah Palin on the air. Repeatedly. Why is Tyson news ANYwhere? Ask Greta Van Sustren! She clobbered ESPN and Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller for promoting the story, but Greta gave Tyson a seat on her set just last April!
No campaign means no revenue for the major news networks. Ratings are down, and no one is buying campaign ads which filled the airwaves last Fall and the pockets of broadcasters. That is the main reason that we’re seeing so many televised debates. The live shows provide CNN, FOX, NBC and MSNBC something to promote, something to preview, something to debate, something to debate afterwards, and an EVENT to attract viewers…..
Finally, do you want to know how Al Gore pays his bills? One generous supporter is Apple, which pays Gore to sit on its Board of Directors. Al Gore let slip in a speech this week that the new Iphone V will be coming out in October! Customarily “directors” keep their mouths zipped on such things. This was the news all of the tech world was waiting to hear. Fitting that the CREATOR of the Internet would have the inside on the Iphone as well…….
Rick Perry is hustling to create headlines for tonite’s debate. His polling numbers in several states, including South Carolina, have sunk a bit. He has been leading Mitt Romney by 11 points up until this week. Now the margin is only 4. Perhaps that’s why Perry went on Sean Hannity last night and called Mitt Romney, “Obama Lite.” The Romney camp’s response? “It’s amusing to listen to Al Gore’s campaign chairman from Texas lecture Republicans on who they should nominate for president.”
If you have any 14-year old daughters in your household, Taylor Lautner’s first starring movie opens Friday night, “Abduction.” Buy tickets, feed the economy, and more importantly…you’ll be a hero!
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