Barry Manilow - Barely Man Enough

When I started writing this blog if I had been told that someday I would write about Barry Manilow I would have laughed out loud, yet here I am writing about Barry Manilow. Any white guy who grew up in the '70s with sisters is well aware of the sappy stylings of Mr. Manilow and surely like myself, they also hope that they never hear the strains of "Mandy", ever again. My sisters do not watch the View (that I know of) but surely somebody's sisters are watching because Mr. Manilow has been on the View twice and he would have appeared again this morning except that Manilow refused to appear on stage with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the View's lone conservative. That is just utterly pathetic. Do you think that Mr. Manilow believes that conservatives also cut themselves off from others due to political beliefs? That would really make for a lonely life here in Chicago and frankly, the rest of America.

Michelle Malkin has a great post on the kerfuffle and she has linked to Mr. Manilow's recent political donations, max contributions to: Ewards, Obama, Clinton, Biden and get this, a max contribution to Ron Paul last summer. Bipartisan indeed!

Hat Tip: Dean Barnett at the Hugh Hewitt Townhall blog, check out the video Dean linked to in that post!

Update: Many Thanks to the wonderful Dr. Sanity for inclusion in her Carnival of Insanities again this week.

Rosie O’Donnell: Bush Built the Grassy Knoll

New York City, March 30 - Rosie O’Donnell, a host on ABCs the View continued to make controversial comments about President Bush on her television show today saying that the Bush family was involved in building the infamous “Grassy Knoll” in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza. O’Donnell further stated that a Bush family entity named BushCo had done the design and later the landscaping work in Dealey Plaza that resulted in the Grassy Knoll. “I’m not saying that Bush killed Kennedy” O’Donnell said, “but just look at the history, his fingerprints are all over it.” O’Donnell went on to say that the current President can be seen in the background of the McGruder Film walking behind a lawnmower while cutting the grass on the knoll just seconds before a sniper’s bullets took the life of President John F. Kennedy. O’Donnell went on to explain that BushCo was formed in order to give young George and his brother Jeb a little spending money and to keep them out of trouble (“fat chance” the former comedian said). According to O’Donnell BushCo was later transformed into Halliburton, the giant oil field services firm.

A White House spokesperson refused to comment but did ask off the record “have they let that poor lady out of Bellevue again?” A spokesman for Halliburton had no idea who Rosie O’Donnell is but had a good laugh at her expense anyway. The spokesman said that Halliburton was formed in Ardmore, Oklahoma in 1919 and was listed on the NYSE in 1948. The spokesman reiterated that Halliburton has nothing to do with the Bush family or any entity named BushCo. The spokesman also said that although Halliburton was headquartered in Dallas at the time of the shooting, Halliburton had nothing to do with any construction in Dealey Plaza; he even wondered if the plaza’s contour is a natural feature and added “we’re an oil field services company not some landscaper.”

Warning: The above is Satire. I hope.

Thanks again to Dr. Sanity for inclusion in her Carnival of Insanities.