
2008 was a busy year for Time magazine. They worked hard each month to figure out a way to put Obama on as many of their covers as possible. Judging from this compilation I'd say they really outdid themselves!
The Democrats' master plan of total government control has finally been realized after decades of preparation through near-total control of the media and educational institutions.


The man was described as having long blond hair, possibly in a ponytail, and wearing a plaid shirt. He may still have some yellow paint on him.
KTRK-TV Houston, TX, January 20, 2009


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's inauguration generated an unprecedented 35,000 stories in the world's major newspapers, television and radio broadcasts over the past day -- about 35 times more than the last presidential swearing-in -- a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
Reuters, January 21, 2009
On Monday's Good Morning America, co-host Robin Roberts chose to tout only Democratic politicians in a piece honoring the civil rights movement and those "warriors" who made Barack Obama's election as president possible. Not a single Republican was mentioned or featured in the segment. Roberts began by announcing, "And on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we thought it would be appropriate to look back at all the warriors, black and white, who made this moment where we are today possible."
All the warriors? The piece went on to feature clips from eight Democratic politicians: Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Barbara Jordan and Barack Obama, in addition to a number of non-political civil rights pioneers. Republican Abraham Lincoln went unmentioned, so did New York Governor Thomas Dewey who signed one of the nation's earliest civil rights laws in 1944 and President Ronald Reagan who made Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday in 1983.
The piece also ignored the inconvenient fact that a higher percentage of Congressional Republicans voted for the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act than did Democrats. Another point left unmentioned was the heroic effort by the conservative GOP minority leader in the Senate, Everett Dirksen, in supporting that legislation...
Media Research Center, January 20, 2009
The rest of the networks, however, did not see the Bush address as news fit to broadcast. At 6:40 p.m. EST, MSNBC was in the middle of "Hardball," with host Chris Matthews and guests batting around the meaning of Obama's swearing-in. CNN was carrying live ongoing coverage of the final moments of the inaugural parade, with the Obamas beaming from the White House reviewing stand.
Scott Collins, Los Angeles Times, January 20, 2009




The cultists are descending on Washington DC this weekend to sit out in the freezing cold and watch the most expensive inauguration ever (currently at $110 million). The blogosphere is on fire with glee. Here's Matt Cutts, head of Web Spam at Google, standing outside o "The Inaugural Store" at Dulles International Airport:
UPDATE (1/19 2:45 PM EST): The cost is now up to $170 million.

