Presser disappoints

As I'm sitting here tapping away at the keyboard, way past deadline - and hoping my editor isn't going to flay me alive - I happened to tune into President Obama's maiden press conference and I sincerely wished I hadn't. It was perhaps the most dishonest display I've seen, well, since Obama last said something.

This "presser" was nothing more than a stump speech punctuated by meaningless, softball questions asked by his fawning press core - and what a disgrace to journalism they are. He was allowed to meander his way through double-talk and BS and no one batted an eyelid - if they could keep their eyes open during the mogadon bore-fest. When the liveliest member of the press core is Medusa herself, Helen Thomas - who, as Bill O'Reilly amusingly quipped, that if someone poured salt on her she would dissolve - you have a big problem.

But, let's talk taxes here. So far it's difficult to know, as Dennis Miller beautifully pointed out last week on Fox, that former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich "appears to be the only guy Barack Obama has met in the last five years of his life who has paid his taxes."

Now, while that is funny, it also seems to be a sadly self-fulfilling prophecy. Sure, Tom Daschle fell on his own sword, after a little tipping from the New York Times, but somehow Tim Geithner is still going to take charge of the Treasury despite his tax "problems."

Why both of these chumps aren't being hammered by the IRS is beyond me. If you, I or anyone of us ordinary folk "forgets" to pay any kind of tax, you can be sure you'll receive that friendly bludgeon at your front door and a comfy prison cell to spend some time in. It's a "one law for them" system and all of us will just have to deal.

President Obama also came up with this zinger at the National Prayer Breakfast a few days back: "There is no God who condones taking the life of an innocent human being, this much we know." Oh really?

Maybe he should be reminded of the fact that he recently signed the reversal of the Mexico City Policy that so generously "donates" American tax payer dollars to fund abortion overseas. Also, just in case it slipped his mind, he's about to do the same with the utterly revolting Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) which will basically turn the USA into a 50-state abortion mill.

But then, I guess it will make Hollywood zombie Ashley Judd happy that babies, instead of wolves, are being murdered. I feel a warm and fuzzy coming on. Speaking of zombies…

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is a class act. No, really. Last night on her show, she gave a short "speech" about how she backed all the people that are fighting the good fight against "corrupt" CEOs and so called "Fat Cats." Ms. Maddow is a hypocrite par excellence. Who does she think she works for? Greenpeace? This bright spark works for MSNBC who are owned by? General Electric!

Yes, that pinnacle of left-wing thought and debate works for one of the biggest companies in the United States yet complains about the very system that is making her rich beyond her wildest dreams. It's all very well to stand there and hold a clenched fist up, act like Amy "Bin" Goodman, go home to a swanky NYC apartment and still claim to be street credible by supporting, not reporting mind you, random acts of evermore pointless demonstration.

I think Maddow should at least be honest - although she couldn't about almost landing a job with Fox News a while back - and admit she's a champagne socialist. But, if she did that, Keith Olbermann would have to fire her, since he seems to be making all the editorial decisions at MSNBC these days, and she may end up on the next series of "Rock of Love."