Tribble: one who tweets on twitter at #Hewitt during the Hugh Hewitt radio show which is on the Salem radio network. This name was so dubbed by the man himself, Hugh Hewitt.
I have to admit it. As these administration scandals of Benghazi and the IRS [as of now] are going before the congress, I am one conservative Republican who thought the GOP members would do there usual bad questioning [or making bad rhetoric] at the hearings and blow the moment. That has how it has played like in the past so many times. The GOP party has usually ended up looking like the stupid party, with congressman and senators making rambling, boring statements and putting the country to sleep instead of awakening the country to what is going on by using quick incisive questioning and relevant rants.
Chairman Darrell, Issa, R-CA
Chairman Dave Camp, R-MI
I can say that no more. In chairman Darrell Issa's House Oversight
committee and chairman Dave Camp's House Ways and Means committee there
was some outstanding questioning by almost all of the GOP congressmen on
the committee.
An example of a few of the members who did some good questioning on the GOP side from the two committees investigating the IRS scandal were Rep Jim Jordan-OH, Rep Jason Chaffetz-UT, Rep Trey Gowdy-SC, Rep Paul Ryan-WI, and Rep Kevin Brady-TX.
Congressman Trey Gowdy, R-SC
This questioning of former IRS Chairman Shulman and statements from congressman Trey Gowdy who represents the 4th district of South Carolina will make you stand up and cheer. It might even give you goose bumps, for someone who is actually representing us, the people, in a professional no-holds-barred way.
President George Washington:"There
is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily."
President Thomas Jefferson: "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
President Abraham Lincoln: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
President Franklin Roosevelt: "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself."
President Harry S. Truman:"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy: "Ask not, what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
President Ronald Wilson Reagan:"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
President George W. Bush: "I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you, and the people that knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
President Barack Hussein Obama: "Uh, I read it in the newspaper."
On this last Sunday's news shows, I saw the usual suspects of liberal Obama sycophant journalist pretenders-David Gregory on NBC, George Stephanopolous on ABC and Candy Crowley on CNN, doing their usual bad jobs as journalists and great job as Obama spokesmen. I don't include Chris Wallace on the Fox News Channel as he usually does a pretty good job of being a fair journalist. He did another good job on last Sunday.
There was one show with a host who greatly surprised me. Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer. Bob Schieffer just didn't do a good job as a journalist, he did a fantastic job. That was maybe the best job done by a journalist on the mainstream media as I have seen since the late great Tim Russert of Meet the Press. White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer was being questioned by Bob Schieffer and what a great job of fair, inquiring questioning Schieffer did. He actually was trying to find answers to questions on the scandals enveloping the White House.
The other liberal Sunday pundits should take note. This is how
journalism is supposed to be. As I have had many posts criticizing the
Sunday pundits, when I see a job as good as the one I saw from Bob
Schieffer, I must also be fair to point that out.
Bravo, Mr. Schieffer
for a professional job well done!
In one memorable line, Shieffer asked Pfeiffer: "I mean this as no disrespect to you, but why are you here today and not the chief of staff?"
Check out this great line of questioning by journalist Bob Schieffer:
Bob Shieffer ends the show with this great commentary of dumb and dumber in Washington D.C.:
This article in the Tales was first posted in July of 2011. I usually hate when people say I told you so, but look at how prescient the Tales was in this article from almost two years ago. What was said in this article [which had nothing to do with the scandals going on today with this administration] applies more accurately today than at that time. President Obama and his spokesmen are using as a recurring "Seargant Schultz" of Hogan's Heroes alibi theme of "I know nothing" on all of these scandals. The commander in chief, according to his spokesmen's own testimony, was out of the loop in all of these scandals: "Fast and Furious", "Benghazi", "IRS", and "AP reporters". On Sunday Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said astonishingly "it's an "irrelevant fact" where the
president physically was during the Benghazi terror attack on September
11, 2012." That led to this headline on the Drudge Report.
It is truly amazing that President Obama and his administration are touting the president's incompetence and irrelevance as good things because that proves he could have had nothing to do with the scandals. I don't think it gives Americans much comfort when the president spokesmen imply that President Obama is not corrupt, he's just incompetent. Whether president Obama is corrupt or incompetent [or maybe both] one thing I think we can say for sure. President Obama has truly become Mister Irrelevant.
Note: In the original post it was commenter Eurobird who correctly pointed out that he wishedObama was truly irrelevant because all of the damage he knew he could do to this country. It is Eurobird who was prescient in that comment. Hopefully, this time Obama will truly become so irrelevant that he is stymied from doing any more damage to this country and unable to stop a dismantling of Obamacare. We can only pray. _______________________________________________________________________________ The original "Mister Irrelevant" post unedited [unlike Susan Rice's talking points] from the Tales July 29, 2011 edition:
In the National Football League draft, they have established this tradition of calling the last man chosen in the draft as Mr. Irrelevant. They make a big deal out of it. They give Mister Irrelevant gifts and fifteen minutes of fame. I think we have seen develop in politics a man who soon may be known as Mr. Irrelevant. Yes, the sure winner of the political Mister Irrelevant: President Obama. In this 'raising the debt ceiling debate' president Obama has been pushed to the side. First by House Speaker Boehner, after the president changed the goal posts as they were trying to come up with a deal. Then by Senate majority leader Reid, after being frustrated with no real input of a plan from president Obama. The president has given speeches and many press conferences, but no plan to solve the problem. He has lost even his reliable sycophant press corps, as the cry from them is: "Where's the president's plan?" Charles Krauthammer, I think reinforces the moniker I have deemed for this president, when he said on Bret Baier's Special Report tonight: "With the Republicans just passing the Boehner bill, the real loser is president Obama. He has been marginalized. He is now left alone in the back offices of the West Wing......tweeting." So, Mister President, while I deem you Mr. Irrelevant, you will be given the gifts you deserve for being named this honor. You do not, of course, need those 15 minutes of fame as you have been given far too many already. You will be given a stress free future after we vote you out of office in 2012. Also, you will be given an opportunity to play golf, every weekend. Oh, wait a second....never mind. President Obama is Mister Irrelevant! The real incredible shrinking man.
On this Sunday, I hope beautiful wherever you live, Tales would like to introduce some beautiful music to brighten up the day- Mendelssohn's slow movement from his second piano concerto. Mendelssohn was a child prodigy on violin and piano so, unlike Chopin, he not only wrote brilliant music for the piano but was also great at orchestration.
You will notice how great Mendelssohn is at orchestration by listening to how beautiful the tutti opening is of this slow movement before the piano even enters.
Mendelssohn, in his second piano concerto, did not have a break between the first and second movements but rather a "bridge" to connect the two movements. This video starts at the beginning of the second movement without that bridge.
Please turn up the volume and make this a beautiful Sunday with some beautiful music by Mendelssohn.
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto #2 in D minor, movement 2, Adagio [molto sostenuto]:
Congratulations to Maestro Hans Graf as he completes his grand tenure as the music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. And his grand tenure will be completed in grand style with his conducting the popular second symphony of Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection Symphony. This lengthy 5 movement symphony contains a choral in the final movement [a la Beethoven's 9th symphony].
Hans Graf is very familiar and lover of Mahler's music and is the perfect maestro for his resurrection symphony. Mrs. B and I are really looking forward to this symphony and showing our love and appreciation of Hans Graf and his tenure in Houston by giving him a rousing ovation. Sheralyn and I always love going to Jones Hall to hear our Houston Symphony-tonight, though, will be a special one. This will be like going to an epic movie.
Maestro Hans Graf
As this is a lengthy 90 minute symphony, this will be the single piece on the concert program. Because this will be Hans Graf's taking the baton for the last time as the music director, I am sure there will be some video in tribute of Maestro Graf before he enters to rousing cheers.
Mahler's Resurrection Symphony begins with a movement marked Allegro Maestoso that is filled with drama. It contains a funeral march. The slow second movement marked Andante moderato represents a remembrance of the joyful times of the deceased. The third movement is a scherzo containing references to Jewish folk music. The fourth movement is a song, sung by an Alto which leads to the very long final movement with chorus. "The final movement opens with a long introduction, beginning with the 'cry of despair'." "The development section is what Mahler calls the 'march of the dead'." The chorus comes in a little past the halfway of the movement. This dramatic piece ends in a powerful, triumphant climax.
Maestro Hans Graf will be going out in grand style indeed conducting this epic symphony.
Once again Tales would like to congratulate Maestro Graf and wish him all the best in the future.
Please turn up the volume to hear the ending of the final movement of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony.
Gustav Mahler: Symphony #2 in C minor, finale of movement 5, Im Tempo Des Scherzos:
