Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, July 3, 2012

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1. Italian Mike

   Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:06 PM

   @

   Laurence

   I think you just called me stupid but I am to stupid to know you did.

2. Italian Mike

   Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:11 PM

   @

   Laurence

   You don’t have much of a sense of humor do you Laurence. That is rhetorical. See, I know big words too. I hope I spelled it right.

3. AppleStinx

   Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:13 PM

   Coffee Steve wrote: “*New Egyptian TV station will feature feature women only veiled…”

   If it is tastefully done and leaves something to the imagination, I might take a peek.

4. Coffee Steve

   Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:15 PM

   LOL @ AppleStinx

5. lbsles

   Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:16 PM

   And all the dumbocrats here wonder why messBS is in the crapper…

   All we know is that while everyone else is celebrating, MSNBC is letting their resident Jeremiah Wright admirer, Melissa Harris Perry, say things like this, according to Mediaite:

   In what is sure to rankle the feathers of many conservatives, MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry took to her show Sunday to ponder the meaning of Independence Day, highlighting mostly the stains on American history. “It’s ours, all of it,” she said. “The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.”

   “Independence Day is more aspirational than actual,” she began her monologue. “We have longed defined the American Dream with commodities, a home of ones own, better education for the kids, family vacation and a car to the vacation in. And if we measure the dream by acquisitions, we’re in trouble. National unemployment remains above 8 percent. Wages have dropped, and the median net worth of American families plummeted by almost 40 percent.”[...]

   She continued on to explain that her favorite story for this Fourth of July is one of people who are “not technically free.” She described a group of 27 inmates who recently completed their GEDs at the jail on Rikers Island. “Despite being incarcerated, they hold fast to the optimistic belief that education, hard work and second chances are still the stuff of America. And that they have a right to take part in the dream.”

   “So on the Fourth of July,” Harris-Perry concluded, “I’m going to think of the Rikers Island graduates, and I’m going to wave a flag without hesitation — not because I’ve forgotten my nation’s many wrongs, but because I remember them. And I am nonetheless proud of my country, not for its perfection, because the alternative is too grim, the alternative is to give up on the dream of the nation founded in the belief, if not yet the practice that all are created, all deserve freedom, and all have the right to pursue happiness. Now, that is a dream worth celebrating — with fireworks.”

   Debunking Perry’s attempt to inject guilt into the national dialogue could take pages of prose, and quite frankly, we wonder if there is even a point, considering that her worldview appears to be influenced more by a quasi-religious faith in this country’s failings than by anything else. However, we are going to accept one part of her statement – that as of now, the American Dream is in danger of being more aspirational than actual. As to whose fault that recent development is, we doubt MSNBC has any interest in covering the subject”

   Watch the video of this fool.
   http://www.theblaze.com/stories/imperialism-and-genocide-the-4th-of-july-according-to-msnbc/

6. Coffee Steve

   Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:16 PM

   @Italian Mike

   I won my 8th gradespelling bee with this one
   “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”

7. lbsles

   Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:18 PM

   “‘African-Americans for Obama’ is divisive and despicable. There’s a standard we hold whites up to, and another that we hold blacks up to which is lower. Imagine the uproar if Romney started ‘Whites for Mitt.’” -Dr. Walter E. Williams

8. Jeff

   Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:18 PM

   @jim, I didn’t say you worked for the EPA, I said you shovel $hit, and rummage through trash cans.
   I’d cut you some slack, but your too dumb. It is not my problem that it is too hard for you to remember your own lies.
   Those fumes have damaged your already deranged brain.

   ————
   Speaking of losers like Jim,, maybe Hannity can pay for Zimmerman’s release so he can get another exclusive interview.

   Zimmerman Attorney Seeks Donations From People Who Also Would Have Shot Trayvon Martin

   Today, Florida Judge Kenneth Lester set a new bond of $1 million for George Zimmerman. Lester said that Zimmerman, whose bond was originally set at just $150,000, was “manipulating the system” and, but for GPS monitoring, “would have fled the United States with at least $130,000” that he failed to diclose to the court.
   http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/05/511620/zimmerman-attorney-seeks-donations-from-people-who-also-would-have-shot-trayvon-martin/

9. Italian Mike

   Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM

   @

   Coffee Steve

   LOL!!!!!

10. Jeff

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:22 PM

    Even Teaparty rag writers want another presidential candidate, great piece below!

    Wall Street Journal blasts Romney for “tax confusion”

    Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. (Credit: Getty Images/Win McNamee)
    (CBS News) Amid ongoing debates over the semantics of a measure in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act – and whether a fee some Americans will have to pay if they choose not to buy health insurance under the law qualifies as a “tax” or a “penalty” – Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is taking heat even from some conservative voices over his changing position on the matter.

    In an editorial in Thursday’s newspaper, the Wall Street Journal blasted what it cast as Romney’s “tax confusion” and accused him of “squandering an historic opportunity” to gain ground against Mr. Obama in the presidential race.

    “If Mitt Romney loses his run for the White House, a turning point will have been his decision Monday to absolve President Obama of raising taxes on the middle class,” reads the editorial in the conservative newspaper. “He is managing to turn the only possible silver lining in Chief Justice John Roberts’s ObamaCare salvage operation–that the mandate to buy insurance or pay a penalty is really a tax–into a second political defeat.”

    Romney clarifies health care mandate position
    After last week’s landmark Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama’s health care law, Romney broke with Republicans and sided instead with the Obama administration, insisting that the fee is a “penalty” rather than a tax. The former Massachusetts governor passed a similar health care law during his gubernatorial tenure, which included an individual mandate analogous to the one under scrutiny in the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act. If Romney were to concede that Mr. Obama’s law included a tax on the middle class, it could be inferred that he too had taxed his constituents while Massachusetts governor.

    Republicans, however, were eager to capitalize on the notion that Mr. Obama’s health care law equated to a tax on the middle class.

    “Why make such an unforced error?” asks the WSJ. “Because it fits with Mr. Romney’s fear of being labeled a flip-flopper, as if that is worse than confusing voters about the tax and health-care issues. Mr. Romney favored the individual mandate as part of his reform in Massachusetts, and as we’ve said from the beginning of his candidacy his failure to admit that mistake makes him less able to carry the anti-ObamaCare case to voters.”

    On Wednesday, amid discontent from the GOP over his stated position on the issue, Romney attempted to clarify his position in an interview with CBS News’ Jan Crawford.

    “The Supreme Court is the highest court in the nation, and it said that it’s a tax, so it’s a tax,” Mr. Romney told Crawford on Wednesday. “They have spoken. There’s no way around that.”

    Romney also argued in the interview that on the state level, such a mandate still qualifies as a penalty, not a tax – which theoretically would shield him from the same criticism Republicans are now lobbing at the president.

    “The chief justice, in his opinion, made it very clear that at the state level, states have the power to put in place mandates,” he said. “They don’t need to require them to be called taxes in order for them to be constitutional. And as a result, Massachusetts’ mandate was a mandate, was a penalty, was described that way by the legislature and by me. And so it stays as it was.”

    According to the Journal, Romney’s shift in position only exacerbated the notion that his campaign is “confused” and “politically dumb.”

    “For the sake of not abandoning his faulty health-care legacy in Massachusetts, Mr. Romney is jeopardizing his chance at becoming President,” the editorial reads. “Perhaps Mr. Romney is slowly figuring this out, because in a July 4 interview he stated himself that the penalty now is a ‘tax’ after all. But he offered no elaboration, and so the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb.”

    Romney, the article argues, is “squandering” his opportunity to use the U.S. economy against Mr. Obama.

    “This latest mistake is of a piece with the campaign’s insular staff and strategy that are slowly squandering an historic opportunity,” it says. “Mr. Obama is being hurt by an economic recovery that is weakening for the third time in three years. But Mr. Romney hasn’t been able to take advantage, and if anything he is losing ground.”

11. Italian Mike

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:28 PM

    @

    Jeff

    I love those words TAX with OBAMA or OBAMA with TAX. It’s one of those things that sounds great both ways.

12. Coffee Steve

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:34 PM

    I’m cursed, it’s raining 2 doors down, has been for 10 minutes and thats as close as its gettin it appears

13. Jeff

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:35 PM

    Italian mike

    Did your taxes go up under President Obama??? If so you are the only American that has….

14. Suikostinger

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:36 PM

    Just look at Lbsles and Laurances’ posts to see why I said yesterday that this “forum” is transforming into something worse than 4chan.

15. Ratboy

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:39 PM

    @ Jeff
    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:22 PM
    Even Teaparty rag writers want another presidential candidate, great piece below!

    So lets disect this a little – Now according to Jeff the WSJ is a Teaparty paper but……it has been around forever and the teaparty is about 3 years old

    And in this “great piece” no where does it say thay want a new candidate instead they want him to step u to the plate more.

    I now think I understand a little more why Jeff posts some of the things he does……………

16. Coffee Steve

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM

    @Jeff

    My wife’s taxes went up, she uses the tanning bed, and soon the Over the Counter Drug tax goes into effect, Not to mention the first bill President Obama signed into law was the cig tax, and I think poor and Middle Class people smoke still? And should we list the 21 new taxes in the bill that has or will go into effect?

17. Jeff

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:44 PM

    For those who want sick people w/o insurance to just go away and die, (GOP &teaparty) this news might make you a little mad.
    —————-
    Huge Jump In Obamacare Popularity Among Independents After SCOTUS Ruling

    Obamacare is more popular than ever among independent voters, jumping a huge 11 points in the days after the Supreme Court Ruling.

    A new Reuters/Ipsos poll, taken June 28 – 30 of 991 Americans, finds 38% approval with independents, up from only 27% just days prior to the ruling. Overall, 48% of registered voters now approve of Obamacare, and opposition among those who do not favor the health care law dropped by five percentage points, to 52%.

18. Coffee Steve

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM

    Heres just 10 of them

    Individual Mandate Excise Tax(Jan 2014):
    Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans
    Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax
    Medicine Cabinet Tax
    HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike
    Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka“Special Needs Kids Tax”
    Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers
    Tax on Indoor Tanning Services($2.7 billion/July 1, 2010): New 10 percent excise tax on Americans using indoor tanning salons
    Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D
    Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals

19. Coffee Steve

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:49 PM

    I was wrong it rained for 10 seconds

20. Coffee Steve

    Posted July 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM

    We’re out for ice cream, I’m getting “Toffee” of Course

    BBL…