Because Politicians & Journalists Can't Always Just Have It Their Way

Double Whopper Reserved For Biden/Clinton Level	Whopper Reserved For Really Big Lies	Whopper Jr. For Intentional White Lies	Cheeseburger For Ignorance Or Stupidity

"So I get tired of being called a 'middle class Joe'..." Vice President Joe Biden, Ohio, May 17, 2012 This Whopper is a beauty. How does Joe Biden, a man who owns a $2 million plus mansion, call himself a "middle class Joe, as if he somehow has been one of us at any time in the past four decades. Joe Biden has been on the public payroll for four decades and in the antithesis of everything public service is meant to be, Joe Biden became a very wealthy man serving in public office. Now, a majority U.S. Senators are millionaires. Fifty four of the current 100 are worth a million dollars and four more are worth $900,000. But they all made their fortunes in the private sector. Joe Biden made his as a Senator. Joe Biden calling himself a middle class Joe, while getting rich on the taxpayer's dime is just an insult to all of our intelligence.

"Under President Obama, Julia is enrolled in Head Start" "The Life Of Julia," barackobama.com/life-of-julia May 3, 2012 The first of many lies, distortions and half truths contained within this website. Obama makes it sound as though without him, there would be no Head Start. Of course there would be. The program has enjoyed wide bipartisan support since its inception in 1964. President Reagan expanded it in 1981 and the program was last reauthorized under President Bush in 2007. Obama has had very little to do with Head Start. Of course, in Obama's Orwellian world, all that is good and decent comes from Obama. Not really, but that is the theme of The Obama Chronicles. The creation of an alternative reality where Barack Obama's socialist policies have created a fairer and more prosperous American. Unfortunately they could not find a real person who has lived that vision, so they had to make one up. It's a great fictional story. Have a Whopper while watching.

"(Ann Romney)...has actually never worked a day in her life" Hilary Rosen "Democratic Strategist", CNN April 11, 2012 Ann Romney actually chose to be a stay-at-home mom and raised five kids. For Rosen, who is raising twins adopted with her same sex partner, to suggest that's not work is beyond stupid. It's beyond mean. And the comment sent Democrats scurrying for cover. To make it worse, Rosen went back on TV today and doubled down on her comments, drawing more outrage from the right and squeals of horror from the left. Finally she issued an apology late this afternoon. The Obama campaign knows that the only reason they're even afloat in this race is because of Obama's advantage with women voters. Once that's gone, Obama has no hope. By the way, raising five kids is tough enough when you're healthy. Try doing it while battling breast cancer and multiple sclerosis. Then come and tell me Ann Romney's never worked in her life. Hilary Rosen...Whopper for you.

"It's your money, or your life" Senator Dick Durbin, Washington, D.C. April 2, 2012 This was Durbin's response to the tornado outbreak in Dallas last week, claiming we needed to make the investment in hybric and electric cars so as to reduce the global warming that causes these storms. How big a fool does Durbin think we are? There are people Durbin's age who remember the historic Great Outbreak of 1974, when climatologists feared a new Ice Age was coming. Tornadoes happen in swarms in this country every year. This one happened to go through a major U.S. city. And it will happen again long after the hysteria over the phony science of global warming dies away. Hopefully Mr. Durbin will finish his Whopper by then and get back to the important issues facing the Senate.

"I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not (overturn a law) passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress," President Barack Obama, Washington, D.C. April 2, 2012 Strong majority? Let's get serious. The bill barely managed to squeak through the House of Representatives. To get sixty votes in the Senate, several Senators had to be outright bribed. Then after it passed, the public outrage was so great that most of the bribes had to be stricken by companion legislation. So here we have a clear lie. We also have a stunning irrelevancy. It would not matter if the Affordable Care Act was passed by unanimous voice vote without debate. If it's unconstitutional, it's unconstitutional. A bill doesn't gain constitutional status based upon the size of the majority it won. For making a statement both deceitful and irrevlevant, the President earns yet another Double Whopper.

“We have two percent of the world's oil reserves” President Barack Obama, Multiple Late March Speeches This is another classic Obama "lie of omission." The United States has 2% of the world's reserves only if you limit the discussion to those areas where oil is being recovered. But the amount of oil the U.S. can recover using current technology is more than ten time greater than what the president claims. And if you include shale oil, tar sands and resources recoverable by fracking and other new technologies, the president is wrong by a factor of sixty. And that's before you figure in Canadian tar sands and oil from Mexico. There is enough oil under North America and off its coasts to make the United States energy independent for two hundred years. If only we can get Obama out of the way so he can enjoy this Double Whopper.

“...this could be the beginning of the end for the man behind the golden microphone.” Ed Schultz, MS-NBC Commentator, March 3, 2012 Amazing that this man among anyone would attempt to forecast the fate of the great Rush Limbaugh. While we have roundly criticized Mr. Limbaugh for what he said, it should be noted that Schultz said precisely the same thing about Fox News and radio personality Laura Ingraham just ten months ago. The difference is the Limbaugh made a bad mistake. For Ed Schultz, this kind of language is standard operating proceedure. Schultz, by the way was suspended by MS-NBC for one week without pay for his disgraceful behavior. Limbaugh meanwhile will roll on, this being little more than a speed bump in his amazing career. Schultz meanwhile struggles to find an audience for his unique brand of hatred. For ignorance and stupidity, Schultz gets a cheeseburger.

Americans “overwhelmingly support” provisions of Obamacare-Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL-20), February 23, 2012-MSNBC Wasserman-Schultz made this amazing statement in the face of two polls just read to her by fellow left wingnuts at the cable hate channel. In fact, in poll after poll after poll, solid majorities of Americans want Obama Care repealed in full and right now. There is no sympathy generated for it by many of the destructive elements that Wasserman-Schultz cites, such as allowing "adult-children" to remain on parents' policies and closing the donut hole in Part D that the private sector had already closed. Perhaps in Ms. Wasserman-Schultz' fantasy world, Double Whoppers aren't fattening. She's just earned one.

“So unless Republicans are willing to work with Democrats in the Senate, Harry Reid is not going to be able to get a budget passed.” Jack Lew, White House Chief Of Staff, February 12, 2012-CNN State Of The Union This statement came right after Lew cited the need for 60 votes to pass a budget in the Senate. Lew, having been Budget Director To two presidents, should know better. You only need a simple majority to pass a budget. Startlingly, Lew made that claim twice within a few hours of each other. Lew was desperately attempting to deflect blame for the Senate's failure to pass a budget outline for more than 1,000 days. The truth is that Democrats could pass a budget by simple majority vote with no Republican support. They simply don't want to take a tough vote. To cover Democratic Senators, while they cover themselves, Mr. Lew told a Whopper.

“'Romney Care' Is Obama Care” Rick Santorum, January 30, 2012 Lone Tree, CO Only problem with that statement is that Romney Care is not Obama Care, nor vice versa, as we explained at length on Tuesday on our Front Page. Romney Care is constitutional, Obama Care is not. There is not an obligation to buy insurance in Romney Care, there is an absolute requirement in Obama Care. Romney Care was drafted in a bipartisan manner in the sunlight. Obama Care was written behind a locked door. Romney Care did not raise any taxes. Obama Care did. If you don't like Romney Care, there's 49 other states to live in. There is no escaping Obama Care. And for Sen. Santorum, there's no escaping his Whopper.

“(Newt Gingrich is..) the suicide bomber of the Republican Party” Bill Press, January 13, 2012 CNN Politics Nation Had Press made this comment six months ago, when Gingrich was at his low nadir, he might have escaped this with a cheeseburger. But Gingrich rode to the top of the polls based on what he's most famous for, his innate debate skills, a rapier like wit directed against the president and the media, and that non stop ideas machine running 24/7 in his head. Press' ignorance and his willingness to ignore the fact that Gingrich as of today is still viable earns an upgrade to Whopper status.

“When Congress refuses to act..., I have an obligation as President to do what I can without them.” President Barack Obama, January 5, 2012 Columbus, OH The president is back at the burger bar for his third straight serving. There is in fact very little a president can constitutionally do without Congress, including appoint officials to offices by which law requires the advice and consent of the Senate. His condescending rationale for what he did, claiming the mantle of defender of the middle class, makes it even more appalling. You don't defend the middle class by using the Constitution for a napkin while eating the Double Whopper you've earned for that comment. You defend them by living up to the oath you botched three years ago on inarguration day.

“I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln, just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history.” President Barack Obama, December 18, 2011 To 60 Minutes Is this guy kidding me? You would think listening to this that in his first term, he passed major education reform, a prescription drug benefit that's cheaper than estimated, cut taxes twice, liberated fifty million people, captured Saddaam Hussein, reformed our national security and restored prosperity after a sharp recession threatened. Actually, it was President Bush who did all that. Obama sat on the sidelines while Congress fumbled its way through a health care bill that is falling apart, a financial reform bill that is also rotting and ruinous escalatoins in spending. But somehow he thinks that puts him on a level just below FDR, Johnson and Lincoln. We have but two words for him. Double Whopper.

"We've been spending the last three years cleaning it (Bush's mess) up." President Barack Obama, December 8, 2011 To WREG-TV Memphis Again Obama attempts to perpetrate an alternate reality that he descended into Washington and found this mess. Perhaps he'd like us to forget he spent his entire life as a community organizer agitating for the policies that caused the mess. Or that he was a Senator for four years and took part in a filibuster of legislation that would have prevented the "mess?" I wonder if perhaps he really wasn't in DC for those four years, if he would deign to reimburse the tax payers for the four years of Senate salary and benefits that were paid to him? Finally, I can't say I think much of his "cleaning" efforts. Double Whopper for lying about both the cleanup, and for denying his own role in creating the mess.

"The most potent theme that the (Democratic) party has to offer is the issue of fairness. " Julian Zeilzer, Princeton History Professor Fairness? How? By creating more than five trillion in debt in a single presidential term? By passing a stimulus entirely funded with debt our children will bear the crushing weight of? By destroying a net two million jobs? By doubling the price of gasoline? All this debate is being stirred by Democrats desperate effort to keep alive a tax holiday that everyone agreed should only last one year, a year ago. We accepted this as a one year deal, now Democrats want to risk the long term solvency of Social Security to score political points today. That's not fair to our seniors. Nor is it fair to our children. Ronald Reagan maybe said it best. "Democratic policies are more fair. They make everybody miserable." A Whopper for Mr. Zeilzer

"In April of 2009 ... the Democrats were in control and the congressional (approval) rating was 40 percent. Do you remember that?" Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Ah...no. In fact, even liberal Politifact went and checked the RCP averages and found average approval for Congress in April, 2009 was about 32%. Four polls of Congress' approval found ratings between 26% and 38%. And that was the high point of her stewardship of the 111th Congress. Within six months, with the health care debate in full swing, popular approval fell into the twenties. By April of 2010, approval was routinely in the teens. Astonishingly, Politifact rated Pelosi's statement as "Half True." Mathematics are not flexible, no matter how hard liberals with they might be. The fact is that Mrs. Pelosi went on Jon Stewart's show and told a full Whopper.

"He's (Biden) done everything he's been asked to do and done it well. This veep's a keeper" Margaret Carlson, Journalist The statement almost speaks for itself. Joe Biden, who's gaffes and bombast require a full time damage control czar at the White House has in fact botched everything he's touched as vice president. His stewardship of the stimulus package has led to the disasterous Solyndra and Fisker loans. He's overseen the loss of nearly two million jobs. And he's been a full time embarrassment to his nation. More astonishingly is that Carlson takes whacks at Dick Cheney, America's most powerful and effective vice president, and even whacks at Dan Quayle, who history now shows performed his duties competently and professionally during his four year tenure. For her foolish and ill considered defense of Joe Biden...our first Double Whopper award to Ms. Carlson

"Not a single banker...(there was) not one arrest of any of those people who brought down the economy in 2008" Michael Moore, Fictional Documentary Producer There's a reason for that, most of them did not commit any crimes. Moore's comment was made in protest of several Occupy Wall Street demonstators being arrested. But all of them did commit crimes. That seems to be lost on Mr. Moore. Furthermore, the economy in 2008 was brought down by failure to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two institutions propping up the billions in bad loans that secular socialists had been agitating for over decades, including Mr. Moore. But I don't see Michael Moore offering to turn himself in. Our judgement is to give him a full Whopper.

"Barack Obama has the lowest approval rating of any president in modern history" Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN-6) Sorry Michele, but that's not even close to being true. In fact, every president since JFK has seen his approval ratings wallow deep in the thirties at some point except for Barack Obama. While his ratings are certainly not anything to be proud of (ranging between 40% and 44% in the more reliable polls), they are certainly aren't where Mrs. Bachmann seems to fanatsize about them being. For the lady from Minnesota, a Whopper Jr. for this one.

"...it takes a sturdy hostility to science to bash the experts giving us all fair warning ," Froma Harrop, Providence Journal Froma Harrop wrote this article today, reposted on Real Clear Politics. She's discussing "climate change." Ms. Harrop, previously exposed in this blog as a useless idiot, proves once again that journalists should be required to demonstrate some degree of knowledge about a subject before being allowed to write about it. Harrop continues to flagrantly ignore the fact that most of the data supporting human induced climate change has been fradulently altered. A Whopper for Froma...

"I'll put it this way, you don't deserve to keep all of it..." Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9), September 14, 2011 Evidently the uber-liberal from Illinois has no fear of violating taboos, such as never revealing the true intentions of the left. She claims we all owe something to pay for police and fire and such. But there's no way she can justify taking money from my paycheck to give away to a dying solar panel company in a futile gesture of poltical correctness. A cheeseburger for stupidity.

"Pass this bill, and put these people to work" President Barack Obama, September 9, 2011 We'd love to give the president a Whopper for this one, for we know the ideas he proposes would not create jobs anyway. His first stimulus bill thirty months ago proved that. The problem is, there's not yet any actual bill to pass. White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett promises Obama will write a bill. But for now, all we can ask is "Where's the beef?!?"

"This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money," Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA-14) This rather vicious attack on the patriotism and motivations of Tea Partiers has often and incorrctly been attributed to Vice President Biden. But it was actually the far left gentlemen from Pennsylvania who made the infamous comparison of patriotic average Americans to terrorists who would seek to kill patriotic average Americans. Mr. Doyle has earned his Whopper.