**Written by Doug Powers To say that President Obama’s justifications to sell the “jobs bill” are overstated would be an understatement. Even members of his own party are on standby with belt sanders to smooth down the sharp exaggerations that are troubling their constituencies .

From News Busters: We couldn’t make this stuff up if we wanted to. Yesterday NPR blogger Frank James saw a parallel between President Obama’s rally cry to a supporter to help him pass his “jobs bill” with Jesus’s charge to the apostle Peter to “feed my sheep” (h/t Michael Ganoe): The realities of governing as opposed to [...]

From Human Events: A week after Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday celebration, comparisons between Presidents Obama and Reagan continue. The conversation began when Obama praised Reagan in a USA Today op-ed. He commended Reagan’s leadership, his confidence in and optimism for America, and his great ability to communicate his vision for the country. Reaganites like myself [...]

From Michelle Malkin: After Obama won the election in 2008, Time Magazine, noticing that “New Deal II: This Time It’s Personal” was about to be released nationally, rode the wave: What a difference two years, some horrendously expensive spending (sorry: “targeted investment”) shams and pork orgies accompanied by the inevitable high unemployment, a sputtering economy [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Yesterday, the New York Times, as a Christmas gift to those of us who enjoy laughing until pumpkin pie and egg nog shoots out our noses, published a piece about how President Obama has a natural penchant for humility: “I think it speaks volumes about the man’s temperament,” said Robert Dallek, the presidential [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Chris Matthews had lost the thrill for a while, but who knew that all it would take for him to haul his Obamagasm Splat-Mat™ out of mothballs would be for the president to compromise with Republicans? Obama’s regained that “cute, wonderful little boy smile we all love.” There’s nothing like heading into a [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Mr Obama’s appearance on the Discovery Channel programme is part of a White House effort to highlight the importance of science, maths and engineering as experts warn that low interest in these subjects among U.S. students could hurt the economy. It is one of several non-traditional appearances by the president, who joined an [...]

From Human Events: Viacom networks MTV, BET and CMT are giving an hour of free air time to President Obama less than three weeks before the midterm elections. The so-called “A Conversation with President Obama” will be live and commercial-free on six Viacom networks at 4 p.m. on Thursday. The networks will not give equal [...]

From NewsBusters.com: Uniquely among the broadcast network evening newscasts, the CBS Evening News on Wednesday informed its viewers that some ObamaCare regulations will result in some insurance companies refusing to sell new policies specifically for children whose parents otherwise might have wanted to purchase such policies. Faced with rules that would prevent the insurance industry [...]

From NewsBusters: Tuesday’s Washington Post offered this study tidbit: “President Obama received far more favorable coverage from Arab television networks than on American newscasts during the first 18 months of his term.” Academics Stephen Farnsworth, Robert Lichter, and and Roland Schatz found the coverage on five Arab networks (including al-Jazeera and al-Arabiyah) was 7.9 percent [...]

From NewsBusters: Give the guy a break, he deserves it. That was Katie Couric’s message a week ago in her Notebook blog entry about President Obama’s 49th birthday (emphasis mine): The job has aged him, as it did his predecessors. Dr. Michael Roizen at the Cleveland Clinic stated constant stress can age the Commander in Chief [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: During the unprecedented appearance he was hoping to appeal to so-called “soccer moms” who are being heavily courted by the Republican and answered questions on family life and even the misfortunes of the actress Lindsay Lohan. Critics have accused Mr Obama of demeaning the office of President by appearing on the sofa of [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization’s 100th anniversary celebration. However, the president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, the same day he will [...]

From News Busters: Chris Matthews made a delicious Freudian slip this weekend calling Barack Obama President Carter. In the first segment of the syndicated program bearing his name, Matthews and panel discussed what Democrats are going to have to do to win in the upcoming midterm elections. The consensus was that they can’t run on [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Now that they’re being shunned fairly regularly, at some point, will the majority of the mainstream media ever regret doing Obama’s bidding-by-not-digging and helping carry him into the White House on their shoulders? I didn’t think so: Holed up with seven other global leaders in the woods of Muskoka, Canada, President Barack Obama [...]

From NewsBuster.com: As NewsBusters previously reported, America’s media on Saturday had a collective hissy fit over BP CEO Tony Hayward having the nerve to participate in a yacht race on his day off. At the same time, no such outrage was expressed concerning President Obama and Vice President Biden going golfing. This double standard continued Sunday [...]

From NewsBusters.org: On Friday’s Need to Know on PBS, co-host Jon Meacham – also of Newsweek – devoted the show’s regular “In Perspective” segment to highlighting “anger” and “hate” felt by some conservatives toward President Barack Obama, and included examples of protesters and anger expressed toward liberals. He began the segment by raising the possibility [...]

From Examiner.com: In light of numbing revelations over the last several days concerning fraudulent statements on Barack Obama’s resume, this piece of information curiously comes to light.  The White House has instructed the ‘mainstream media’ not to report what they may discover. The White House directive was issued as part of a deal struck between [...]

From PrisonPlanet.com: Democratic proponents of the health care bill have attempted to portray anger being expressed by the majority of Americans who opposed the bill as some kind of vicious and deadly mass assault, casting themselves as poor victims of a bloodthirsty mob, when in reality the only real instances of violence have been carried [...]

From FoxNews.com: The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House. The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available [...]