Hopefully we haven't reached the point where the only way Speaker of the House John Boehner and President Obama communicate with one another is through Twitter...that being said we love this story from FoxNation.


President Obama held the first ever Presidential Twitter Town Hall Wednesday, answering questions from Americans on a range of topics. Speaker Boehner decided to take advantage of this opportunity...and all of a sudden in the middle of the town hall...the Twitter moderator tossed to a Boehner tweet that asked Obama "Where are the jobs?"

After chiding the Speaker on his lack of typing skills, President Obama went on to call the Speaker's question "skewed", but agreed that there has not been fast enough job growth. Obama blamed the economy on what he "inherited" and emphasized it took time for his economic policies to take effect. The President bemoaned that the few hundred thousand jobs created each month didn't seem like much because of the hole that they have to fill, saying "that's way too long for a lot of folks who are still out of work."

As a schoolboy, one of Red Skelton's teachers explained the words and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance to his class. As we enter our Independence Day weekend, we felt the video of Red's presentation was one everyone should see.

Cable news network MSNBC suspended political analyst Mark Halperin on Thursday, hours after he called President Obama a vulgar name on the network's "Morning Joe" show.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney complained to MSNBC, a unit of Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal, though he says he did not request Mr. Halperin's suspension. "It would be inappropriate to say that about any president of either party," said Mr. Carney, who once worked with Mr. Halperin at Time Warner Inc.'s Time magazine.

So apparently on MSNBC you can call a sitting president a "murderous" "fascist" even muse about putting the President on trial for war crimes, so long as that president is a Republican. But if you dare call a Democratic president a "d-ck," as MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin did it's grounds for indefinite suspension.

I want to be very clear that we believe calling any president the D-word is disrepsectful and fails to show the proper respect for the office.  That being said, it has to be asked where does it rank compared to essentially accusing a president of mass murder and war crimes?

Courtesy of Geoffrey Dickens, the following is a collection of quotes from MSNBC employees past (Keith Olbermann) and present (Chris Matthews, Ron Reagan Jr.) who had some particularly distasteful things to say about a then sitting President George W. Bush:

"Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century."

- Keith Olbermann on Bush commuting Lewis Libby's prison sentence, MSNBC's Countdown, July 2, 2007

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