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No one knows for sure if this “Miss me yet?” billboard is intended as an anti-Bush or anti-Obama statement… lots of chatter on the Internet today on this mysterious billboard in Minnesota.
A billboard featuring a picture of former President George W. Bush and the tagline ‘Miss me yet?’ left residents of Minnesota wondering what it meant and who paid to have it erected.
Speculation was rife on blogs on Monday and Tuesday as to whether the roadside sign was an indictment of President Obama’s performance so far or a reminder of Bush’s unpopularity.
Nobody has claimed the billboard, located on Interstate 35 near Wyoming, Minn., but the media flurry surrounding it is likely to dig up the purchaser sooner rather than later.
The picture of the billboard was widely circulated via e-mail forwards, and many dismissed it as a Photoshop job.
But, according to an eyewitness interviewed on National Public Radio, the billboard really exists and questions of its origin abound.
According to the National Public Radio blog, The Two-Way, there’s a billboard on I-35 in Wyoming, Minn., that shows a picture of former U.S. President George W. Bush and the question: “Miss me yet?”
At first, internet chatter labeled it as no more than an urban myth or Photoshop fake, but apparently Bob Collins at Minnesota Public Radio has seen it with his own eyes.
Who paid to put this billboard up remains a mystery. There’s no obvious claim of ownership scrawled anywhere on the sign.
National news outlets such as Fox News and MSNBC are knocking on Collins’ door asking for interviews about the billboard, but Collins says he doesn’t know any more than the rest of the Internet does at this point.
Internet chatter had led to speculation that it might be an urban myth — nothing more than clever digital trickery spreading via the Web.
But our friend Bob Collins at Minnesota Public Radio assures us he’s seen it with his own eyes:
There is a billboard along I-35 near Wyoming, Minn., with a huge photo of former president George W. Bush and this question: “Miss Me Yet?”
Now, the push is on to find out who paid to have it put up.
Bob says there’s no readily apparent claim of ownership on the billboard, so he’s heading back to the scene to see if he can find out who’s behind the message. He’s also got some local politicos looking into it. He’ll keep us posted.
I just heard Rush Limbaugh mention the George W. Bush ‘Miss me Yet’ billboard on his radio show. As I noted last night, the ‘Miss Me Yet’ billboard is along the I-35 in Minnes0ta and is quite legit. Who created the ‘Miss Me Yet’ billboard? Who put the cash up for the ‘Miss Me Yet’ billboard? Although we are sure now that the ‘Miss Me Yet’ billboard is legit, we still don’t know who payed for the ‘Miss Me Yet’ billboard. Bear with me readers, (I’m doing a little SEO with the ‘Miss Me Yet’ Billboard phrase). Miss me yet? Honk, Minnesota, if you do…
A thing of beauty… Pamela Geller of the wonderful Atlas Shrugs blog, is outnumbered by liberals on Joy Behar’s inane talk show who froth at the mouth to malign former governor Sarah Palin, but Geller still lands solid punches.
She takes on these liberal junkyard dogs with gusto, despite their attempts to shout her down, for the hypocritical left attacking Sarah Palin for a few palm notes, for discounting Barack Obama’s overuse of teleprompters as a bizarre crutch, and for not offering any arguments of substance against Palin, only disrespect and name-calling, as well as mocking the majority of American people. There is no civil discussion, all childish bullying from host Behar (who can barely put two thoughts together intelligently) and her left-wing guests.
It’s a heated exchange, with Ron Reagan Jr. and Geller really going tooth-and-nail in this loud panel battle.
Pamela, bravo!
A bit of bio background on “Little Ronnie” Reagan from Wikipedia, which should shed light on Geller’s unflinching comments about liberal/progressive Ron Junior not “knowing” (thus, not embracing or sharing) his father Pres. Reagan’s conservative views:
He is currently a political pundit for the cable television network MSNBC, and was a talk radio host and chief political analyst for KIRO radio in Seattle until his show was canceled on August 8, 2007. On September 8, 2008, The Ron Reagan Show made its debut as an Air America Media radio show; the program was a three hour daily show airing from 6–9 PM (ET) and was cancelled when Air America went bankrupt on January 21, 2010. He is notable for his liberal or progressive views, which contrast with the conservative views held by his father.
Reagan became more politically active once his father left the White House in 1989. In contrast to the former president, the younger Reagan’s views were decidedly liberal. In a 2009 Vanity Fair interview, Reagan said that he did not speak out politically during his father’s term because the press “never cared about my opinions as such, only as they related to him [the president],” adding that he did not want to create the impression that he and his father were on bad terms because of political differences.
…Reagan later wrote an essay titled “The Case Against George W. Bush by Ron Reagan” for Esquire. He was quoted as saying that he voted for Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
On October 31, 2008, Reagan officially endorsed then-Illinois Senator Barack Obama for President in the 2008 presidential election.
Junior proudly stands for everything Senior abhorred and fought against — socialism, welfare entitlements, big government, loss of freedoms — during his entire political career… so Geller calling Ron Jr. out on “knowing” his father is more than justified.
Pamela Geller Defends Sarah Palin on Joy Behar Show | February 8, 2010
National columnist and founder of the popular blog Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller, appeared on ‘The View’s’ Joy Behar’s new show on Monday to discuss Sarah Palin. As expected, the Behar take on Palin is, as usual, disrespectful and vitriolic.
It is interesting that Leftwing Hollywood types such as Behar will quickly harp on Palin’s ‘prompt-words’ written on her hand while totally ignoring Barack Obama’s constant reliance on the teleprompter, even when addressing elementary school children.
For going on 36 hours now, following Palin’s address and question-and-answer session at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, the leftwing media have gone on a feeding frenzy about Palin’s palm-notes.
The great Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs destroyed Ron Reagan Jr., Joy Behar and her other hateful liberal guest on the Behar Show last night. Geller gave Ron Jr. the spanking he never had, but needed. You can tell she got under that naughty boy’s skin. He looked like he was going to cry.
Comment from Gateway Pundit reader Merle:
Pamela’s point about the attacks on Palin only galvanizing the conservative base was spot on! How dare those libs speak so contemptuously about Palin and millions of Americans. Joy should keep talking. We hear her disdain and mockery, and it is pointed at the people who make America work. Joy’s words will come back and bite her. Pamela Geller is a great spokesman for America. Pamela is like Palin in that she is NOT afraid.
And a reader comment from las at Atlas Shrugs:
Pamela, you are a special mensch… thank you.
You are totally awesome. Walking into a vipers den and holding your own. Thank you for not giving one inch. And thank you for being one of the very very few with a voice to walk into the miasmic fog that defines mainstream media and thank you for vaporizing the heavy effluent molecules of the so-called Progressive (ha!… there’s a misnomer) Left. These people are just so incapable of stepping out of the echo chamber of their collective idiocy.
And as for little Ronny Reagan… I’ve seen that dweeb scream at his opponents numerous times, “you don’t know my father, I knew my father, you’ve never even met him… blah blah blah”. The guy is clueless… he has no idea that he is fair game in the struggle for ideas. President Reagan had ideas… little Ronnie… not so. NO! Ronnie… you don’t know your father… you’ve seen everything about the man, but learned nothing. Yes you ARE an embarrassment to your father’s legacy, and YES and you father would be greatly ashamed.
Pamela, thank you… we need more strong men and women like you.
Joy Behar referenced Palin’s Thanksgiving 2008 MSNBC interview, with a turkey being slaughtered behind Palin during the news interview, as “proof” of the woman’s lack of intelligence. This interview had followed Palin’s pardoning of a turkey.
Hmm… the interview was conducted by MSNBC, one of the most liberal news stations in the nation that has gone nutsy-cuckoo overboard with its lack of journalistic integrity to discredit and mock Palin constantly since her VP nomination. The reporter asking the questions of Palin had full view of the turkey being slaughtered (unlike Palin), and either didn’t think it was a big deal since they WERE at a turkey farm, or didn’t notice the slaughter happening behind Palin, or saw what was happening and suddenly thought it would be so maliciously funny to not change the cameraman’s angle, letting viewers see the turkey’s slaughter, so as to make Palin look like a sadist. Yeah, because Palin doesn’t have eyes in the back of her head, I blame the MSNBC reporter and/or the cameraman, if anyone is to be blamed at all. Newsflash… turkeys die at Thanksgiving. And Palin saved one of them (but leftists were outraged that they saw one being killed behind her and blame her for it… buncha wooses).
For those who happily and hungrily devour their turkey dinners at Thanksgiving and are foolishly naive in thinking turkeys aren’t killed to produce said Thanksgiving dinners, well, you really need to grow up.
Here’s the infamous turkey video from 2008… if you’re weak-stomached, you may not want to watch it. Behar is mocking and blaming Palin for this more than a year after it happened, which tells me the left-wing media is running scared.
MSNBC Interview with Sarah Palin, Thanksgiving 2008
The unexpected death of Rep. John Murtha has Democrat Party in a tailspin over his open House seat
Dubbed “King of Pork,” Democrat Rep. John Murtha’s unexpected death yesterday has Democrats on Capitol Hill in a panic over potentially losing another seat to Republicans in a special election in Pennsylvania.
The election of Republican Scott Brown in Democrat-heavy Massachusetts in January wasn’t lost on them.
The Democratic party faces another election test after the death yesterday of John Murtha, a congressman dubbed by his colleagues the “king of pork”.
Murtha, aged 77, had been in the House of Representatives since being elected to his Pennsylvania district in 1974.
The fear in the party is that Republicans will notch up another victory when a special election is held, probably May.
The Democrats have been panicking since losing Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans last month.
Murtha’s nickname referred to so-called pork barrel politics – bringing government spending to bear in a representative’s own district.
His death came on a day that saw Barack Obama’s poll ratings fall further. A Marist poll found that only 44% of voters surveyed approved of his job performance, down 2% on December. More alarming for Democratic strategists, 57% of independents disapprove of his performance.
Murtha’s death will have a neglible impact on the arithmetic of the House, where the Democrats have an overwhelming majority, unlike in the Senate. But another defeat in the spring would add to the sense of panic among Democrats in the run-up to the Congressional mid-term elections in November.
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Murtha, as chairman of the House defence appropriations sub-committee, added ‘earmarks’, special spending projects to help his district, to defence bills, hence the King of Pork.
Democrats are mourning the personal loss of their colleague Rep. John Murtha, but his death today at age 77 is doubly troubling for the party that will have to defend his seat in an upcoming special election.
Immediately following the news of his death, election analysts rated the race as competitive for the GOP.
While Murtha has held the seat since 1974 with few re-election scares, the Johnstown-area district outside of Pittsburgh has right-leaning roots, and a special election contest will be targeted by House Republicans. With Murtha’s death, Democrats now control the House by a 256-178 margin.
In the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) won the district by a narrow 1,000 vote margin against President Barack Obama. It was the only district in the nation, however, that voted Democratic in the 2004 presidential race that was carried by McCain four years later.
Rep. John Murtha’s (D-Pa.) untimely death Monday makes the political map even more daunting for House Democrats, who will have to defend another highly competitive seat in what is shaping up to be a hostile election year.
His passing means there will be a special election held during the spring to fill the remainder of his term. Once the congressman’s vacancy is declared, Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) has 10 days to call the special election date, which can be held no later than 60 days from his declaration.
The most likely special election date, according to Democratic sources, is May 18, the same date as the regularly-scheduled Pennsylvania primary election. Holding the special election along with the primaries would save Pennsylvania, already struggling to balance its budget, a significant amount of money.
There will be no special primary to nominate candidates. Instead, county party leaders from Murtha’s western Pennsylvania-based 12th District will each select the nominees at a convention, and the winners will then square off in the special election.
The Cook Political Report changed its rating of the now-vacant seat to “toss-up” status Monday evening, making it the 50th Democratic-held House seat rated in its most competitive groupings.
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Murtha, famous for his success at delivering federal dollars to his economically struggling district, held a near-stranglehold on the seat since first capturing it in 1974. The longest-serving congressman in Pennsylvania history, Murtha won 58 percent of the vote despite facing a well-funded Republican challenger in his last campaign.
