Stephen Colbert on Santorum’s blatant lies about the dangers of socialized medicine: “Rick Santorum always speaks, what feels like, the truth.” (kicks in @1:09)
People still think this guy isn’t a lunatic?
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Oh, what a ‘loverly’ time we are having in post-racial America. Except when the outrageous holy of holies of the American conservative movement elect to have their say, as happens often, most recently with right-wing oracles Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan.
It fell to Coulter, a successful author, columnist and Fox News contributor, to drive home the point that, notwithstanding what African Americans might think of the 14th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation, we remain the property of white America.
Thus Coulter proclaimed on the “Hannity” TV show on Monday, during her stout defense of black conservatives such as Herman Cain, “Our blacks are so much better than their blacks.”
That is to mean, presumably, that Cain and other black conservatives belong to Coulter and her ilk. Blacks who don’t think like Cain et al. are, under Coulter’s line of argument, the property of white liberals.
Either way, Coulter would apparently have those of us of color believe that it matters not what we think or where we stand on the political spectrum but that, when it comes to the relationship of blacks to white folks, we still are theirs.
Coulter also attempted to justify her taste in blacks. Appearing on Joy Behar’s CNN show the next day, Coulter bragged that her black conservatives are “more impressive.” Show better on the stump, I suppose.
Thanks, Ms. Coulter, for reminding us of our place in post-racial America.
"— Columnist COLBERT I. KING, in the Washington Post (via inothernews)
"My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander in chief."
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Excerpt from statement by MICHELE BACHMANN, in response to media coverage of reports that she suffers from “incapacitating” migraine headaches.
I predict that that statement will itself cause people headaches.
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"(Michele Bachmann’s) family has a farm and they take farm subsidies, which are the biggest scam in the God-damned country. They’re sucking on the government teat and screaming ‘Socialism!’ because we want to have a healthcare system that functions in this country, and pay less for it and get more healthcare benefits out of it, like other countries with socialized medicine. They’re grifters and scumags, the Bachmanns."
— DAN SAVAGE, on Real Time (via inothernews)
“The thing about this that I would emphasize is that slavery remains a problem for originalists. If America was born pure, then it cannot have had slavery. So if your vision is to return the US to the 1770s, you have to find a way to argue that slavery was not inherent in the Founding. And this is the best Bachmann can do. At least it gives her some answer to the question.
For her, America was born in freedom for all and Fundamentalist Christianity. It was born instead in the Enlightenment, slavery, the subjugation of women, and rebellion against the Crown. That is far too complicated a thought for Bachmann to absorb. It would require her to ask questions, even to doubt the immaculate conception of America.”
- Andrew Sullivan, with a seemingly obvious, yet pitch-perfect response to Michele Bachmann’s defense of her claim that the Founding Fathers “worked tirelessly to end slavery.” Watch her appearance on “Good Morning America” in the video above.
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“The financial disclosure report [Rep. Paul] Ryan filed with Congress last month and made public this week shows he and his wife, Janna, own stakes in four family companies that lease land in Texas and Oklahoma to the very energy companies that benefit from the tax subsidies in Ryan’s budget plan.
Ryan’s father-in-law, Daniel Little, who runs the companies, told Newsweek and The Daily Beast that the family companies are currently leasing the land for mining and drilling to energy giants such as Chesapeake Energy, Devon, and XTO Energy, a recently acquired subsidiary of ExxonMobil.
Some of these firms would be eligible for portions of the $45 billion in energy tax breaks and subsidies over 10 years protected in the Wisconsin lawmaker’s proposed budget.”
Exclusive: Ryan’s Shrewd Budget Payday
Always, always, always follow the money.
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“The financial disclosure report [Rep. Paul] Ryan filed with Congress last month and made public this week shows he and his wife, Janna, own stakes in four family companies that lease land in Texas and Oklahoma to the very energy companies that benefit from the tax subsidies in Ryan’s budget plan.
Ryan’s father-in-law, Daniel Little, who runs the companies, told Newsweek and The Daily Beast that the family companies are currently leasing the land for mining and drilling to energy giants such as Chesapeake Energy, Devon, and XTO Energy, a recently acquired subsidiary of ExxonMobil.
Some of these firms would be eligible for portions of the $45 billion in energy tax breaks and subsidies over 10 years protected in the Wisconsin lawmaker’s proposed budget.”
Always, always, always follow the money.
Did he right-wing social engineer this all by himself?
I tweeted a joke about Sarah Palin’s hasty book report of an answer about Paul Revere’s significance, because I am a human being and therefore could not resist, and I have gotten my share of pushback from her fans. “She was right,” they tell me, “Paul Revere did warn the…
Try 1 in 5 American women, dude.
Aaaaaand, that’s why you don’t get a television show anymore!
Front page, New York Post, Wednesday 5 January 2011.
Should people who work at the New York Post do up front pages like this, even if they are “journalists”?
Am I the only one who thinks this is an utter disgrace? Not Obama (everyone, especially, the president should wear flip flops on vacation), but that the New York Post reports essentially what Miriam down the street gossips to her friends about.
The problem is, Miriam knows what she’s doing is gossiping and doesn’t pretend like she’s a journalist.
Now don’t be too offended, Muslims. To be fair, regarding the 6% of morbidly obese Americans, Beck did also say to just ‘let them die.’
AH! Why is Glenn Beck still allowed to speak in public?
(Source: mediamatters.org)
“Unless you’ve never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten meat, save your condemnation.”
You’re right, Sarah, we’ll all just go fuck ourselves now.
The snotty quote was posted by Sarah Palin on (like all the great frontier women who’ve come before her) her Facebook page to respond to the criticism she knew and hoped would be coming after she hunted, killed and carved up a Caribou during a segment of her truly awful reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, broadcast on The-Now-Hilariously-Titled Learning Channel.
I eat meat, chicken and fish, have shoes and furniture made of leather, and PETA is not ever going to put me on the cover of their brochure and for these reasons Palin thinks it’s hypocritical of me to find what she did heart-stoppingly disgusting. I don’t think it is, and here’s why.
Like 95% of the people I know, I don’t have a visceral (look it up) problem eating meat or wearing a belt. But like absolutely everybody I know, I don’t relish the idea of torturing animals. I don’t enjoy the fact that they’re dead and I certainly don’t want to volunteer to be the one to kill them and if I were picked to be the one to kill them in some kind of Lottery-from-Hell, I wouldn’t do a little dance of joy while I was slicing the animal apart.
I’m able to make a distinction between you and me without feeling the least bit hypocritical. I don’t watch snuff films and you make them. You weren’t killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun. You enjoy killing animals. I can make the distinction between the two of us but I’ve tried and tried and for the life of me, I can’t make a distinction between what you get paid to do and what Michael Vick went to prison for doing. I’m able to make the distinction with no pangs of hypocrisy even though I get happy every time one of you faux-macho shitheads accidentally shoots another one of you in the face.
So I don’t think I will save my condemnation, you phony pioneer girl. (I’m in film and television, Cruella, and there was an insert close-up of your manicure while you were roughing it in God’s country. I know exactly how many feet off camera your hair and make-up trailer was.)
And you didn’t just do it for fun and you didn’t just do it for money. That was the first moose ever murdered for political gain. You knew there’d be a protest from PETA and you knew that would be an opportunity to hate on some people, you witless bully. What a uniter you’d be — bringing the right together with the far right.
(Let me be the first to say that I abused cocaine and was arrested for it in April 2001. I want to be the first to say it so that when Palin’s Army of Arrogant Assholes, bereft of any reasonable rebuttal, write it all over the internet tomorrow they will at best be the second.)
I eat meat, there are leather chairs in my office, Sarah Palin is deranged and The Learning Channel should be ashamed of itself.
via: wreckandsalvage
Yep.
9gag:
one word: mangina.
In the world I live in, I worry most about people who take themselves too seriously. This is one of the reasons I hate Bill O’Reilly. I’m sure you have many of your own.
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