FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 

Why Voters Ignore Debates to Decide

           For years The Blower has been telling you those dumbed-down programs you see on TV are not “debates.” Last night’s CNN “Attack on the Republican Party” was a ratings bonanza, so you can’t say CNN wasn’t doing its part to debase the image of the Office of the Presidency during the Age of Obama.

          Hurley the Historian says no wonder Lincoln, Douglas, Kennedy, and Nixon were all spinning in their graves. And that’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose Roman poet Juvenal’s: “Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.”

            According to Wikipedia, “Bread and circuses” (or Bread and games) (from Latin: panem et circenses) is an ancient Roman metaphor for people choosing food and fun over freedom. It often appears in commentary that accuses people of giving up their civic duty and following whichever political leader offers to satisfy their decadent desires.

          That’s why all those Dumbed-Down, Self-Absorbed, Media-Influenced, Celebrity-Obsessed, Politically-Correct, Uninformed, Short-Attention-Span, Free-Stuff Grabbing, Low-Information Obama Supporters Who Put Obama In The White House—Twice, and get all of their information from our Obama Supporters in the Press, did not have to bother to tune in. 

Now Let’s Meet Today’s Guest Editor:

Why, it’s none other than Well-Known Master Debater Loquacious Tadwell, who says most people watched last night’s sounds bites on TV today so they didn’t have to spend three hours watching the “Not Really a Debate.”

Which is why The Blower is honored to choose the celebrated Headmaster Debater from the American Parliamentary Debate Association, teaching proper political debate procedures to serious students of debate for fun and profit, to be this week’s guest editor and choose three non-debatable items plus a non-debatable Quickie for today’s E-dition from our Current Cadre of Conservative Columnists and Contributors that you probably won’t see reported in your Morning Fishwrap.

CNN breaks ratings record with GOP debate
By Bradford Richardson at The Hill

CNN’s primetime GOP debate on Wednesday was the most-watched program in network history, according to CNN Money.

Nearly 23 million people tuned in to the three-hour debate, easily surpassing the network’s previous pinnacle of 16.8 million viewers, a broadcast of “Larry King Live” in 1993.

CNN’s most-watched presidential primary debate, in 2008, drew 8.3 million viewers.

CNN anticipated the ratings bonanza, selling ad spots during the debate at a rate more than 40 times their normal fare.

Donald Trump, who participated in the debate, took credit for the surplus and sent a letter to CNN President Jeff Zucker calling on him to donate proceeds from the debate to charity.

He attributed the increase in viewers to his presence on the debate stage.

The second debate was not as highly rated as the first one hosted by Fox News last  month, which drew 24 million viewers and was the most-watched cable news program in history.

CNN bested Fox News in early debate coverage with 6.3 million viewers, compared to Fox News’s 6.1 million.

CNN’s three-hour debate from hell
Marathon encounter tried the patience of candidates, operatives, and viewers.
By Hadas Gold

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — By the third hour of CNN’s GOP presidential debate, the candidates looked like long-distance runners fading in the final lap: A sweating Marco Rubio ran his hands through his hair, Chris Christie’s face turned red, a sagging Donald Trump grasped his lectern for support and, at times, seemed to crumple into his suit.

By the time moderator Jake Tapper asked each of the 11 participants to pick a Secret Service code name, a question meant to provoke bright responses but that fell flat, the combatants were out of gas and operatives were getting restless for the post-debate spin room.

The second GOP debate was, in the nearly unanimous opinion of the campaigns, both too long and too loosely governed.

“It was a little bit like a Charles Dickens story. It might’ve been good, but it would’ve been better if there had been an editor involved,”quipped Terry Sullivan, Rubio’s campaign manager.

Part of the blame went to Tapper, who had vowed before taking the stage as moderator for the first time on a presidential debate to host a “real” encounter — with the candidates actually talking to one another. He got that — and more.

The 11 candidates frequently talked over one another trying to get one last jab in. At some points, it seemed like Tapper was a teacher trying to control a class of overexcited third-graders.

CNN.com Turns to Iranians to Bash GOP Debate Participants
By Ken Shepherd |

Leave it to CNN to go to the streets of Tehran for commentary on the Republican presidential primary

“We showed Iranians photos of GOP candidates. They said this,” blared the headline on CNN.com this afternoon.

Clicking the link takes readers to a story by Frederick Pleitgen and Nick Thompson headlined “We showed Iranians photos of Republican candidates — here’s what they told us.” Pleitgen and Thompson filed their story from the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran and asked passersby what they thought of Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, and Ben Carson and, more particularly, their stances on the nuclear deal President Obama has reached with the theocratic regime.

I’ll just leave this there. You can read the full piece and watch the corresponding video here.

AND THREE BEST ONE LINERS FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Donald Trump’s qualifications to be president: “Mr. Trump, we don’t need an apprentice in the White House. We have one right now.”

Carly Fiorina on the Planned Parenthood videos: “I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes, watch a fully-formed fetus on the table with a heart beating and legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.'”

And Donald Trump on his Secret Service nickname: “Humble.”Today’s Liberal Liar Award

Goes to Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson who actually said those thousands of Syrian refugees eventually bound for the U.S. will be screened “carefully” to ensure that none of them are terrorists. Johnson offered no clarity on how quickly the vetting of the 10,000 refugees from the war-torn country that the U.S. plans to accept during the coming year will be done.

Stories We’re Working On

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE GUY: “Yeah, We Probably Shouldn’t Have Give the Award to Obama”
HILLARY: Still No Debates
DRAFT BIDEN OFFICIAL: “I Am 100% That Joe Is In”
DEMOCRATS Endorse #BlackLiesMatters
WHITE HOUSE Push For Immigrants to Become Citizens — Before Election
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CEO tells Congress “We Save Lives.
BOEHNER AND MCCONNELL Ready to Cave

Whistleblower Web Poll

          This week, here’s how the first 17,648 Whistleblower Readers Poll respondents said people waiting for the Autumnal Equinox in Cincinnati next Monday:
(A) Watching The Reds Fight The Brewers For Last Place: 2%
(B) Seeing what Happens When the Bungals play a real team: 1%
(C) Doing the “Gay Chicken Dance” at home: 1%
(D) Wondering if this is the weekend we set our clocks back: 96%

Note: Everything we write doesn’t have to be so damn cynical and mean-spirited, it’s just so much more fun that way!

Weekly Whistleblower Limerick Contest

Cheers for Beers

This week, everybody who wonders how they can call it Oktoberfest if it’s in September, faxed an entry to the Whistleblower Limerick Contest.

The winner is Floyd Schnitzelflogger from Florence, KY, who likes Oktoberfest on Mainstrasse in Covington better, because at the one in Downtown Cincinnati this weekend, not as many girls will show you their breasts.

Floyd won his own Porto-let, a chicken to dance with, and a copy of this year’s “Girls Gone Wild” tape made at the Mainstrasse Village Pub. His winning entry is:

It’s Time Once Again For Oktoberfest?”
And its timing is really a mess
Always in September
Is what you gotta remember
Although it is called OCTOBERfest.

A Dishonorable Mention from our Good Friend Bobby Leach
It’s time once again for Oktoberfest
That excuse to chug suds and keep abreast
Of all things mammarian. So let’s squeeze some jugs
As we give lots of hugs,
And chicken-dance with those of ample chest.

Jeff Ruby writes
It’s time once again for Oktoberfest
When you can wear lederhosen undt ein leather vest
You can guzzle the suds,
In your fake German duds,
But remember to avoid that sobriety test.

“TaxKiller Tom” Brinkman writes
It’s time once again for Oktoberfest
Mit lager undt chicken dances, it was the best!
Ve know der Queen City is Kraut,
But isn’t this beer fest worn out?
Gott in Himmel! Can’t they give it a rest?

Rick “The BatBoy” Robinson writes
It’s time once again for Oktoberfest
A festival that beats all the rest
There’s Krauts in short pants
And the rubber chicken dance
They’d love you to come as their guest!

And here’s a dishonorable mention from Ben Dover and Phil McKrevis:
At Oktoberfest you’re allowed to drink beer,
And dress up in real German gear.
You can wear lederhosen
And Birkenstocks to put your toes in,
But if you bend over, you better cover your rear.

And this Five-stanza Limerick from the Anderson Laureate (who now knows why his poetic license is being revoked):
It’s time once again for Oktoberfest
Mit sauerkraut, brats and the rest.
Cherman guys in short pants
Doing the lederhosen chicken dance
Believe me, I don’t want to be a pest.

But why don’t we have an event
Where money on beer is not spent.
There’s whiskey and wine
And tequila so fine
And on those we can spend every cent.

Now as far as my limericks are concerned
Some people’s dislike I’ve earned
I try to be nice
But take my advice
Be careful, ’cause a poet can get burned.

By some I am loved, by others I’m hated
To a moron I’m occasionally equated
But my poems are my art
Even though I’m not very smart
I just want my poetic license reinstated.

So I’ll say “Auf wiedersehn,” my friends
This is where my limerick ends
Enjoy Oktoberfest
My critique is in jest
I’ve been there in my lederhosen Depends.

The first line of next week’s limerick is:
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Obama White House’s New Ambassador of Gayness From Outer Space— Star Trek’s George Takei Leads ‘Gay Chicken Dance’ at Oktoberfest 2013

(Sent in Gay Chicken Dancers at Cincinnati City Hall)

 

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