Rick Santelli Rant Just The Product Of Conservative PR?

10:07 pm EST February 28th, 2009 | Media | 63 Comments

Considering that Santelli is an alleged journalist for CNBC quite a few people might have some explaining to do.

What we discovered is that Santelli’s “rant” was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a “Chicago Tea Party” was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.”

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Marine 1 Blueprints Found On Iranian Computer

9:50 pm EST February 28th, 2009 | News | 2 Comments

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A company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks has discovered a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama’s helicopter, NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh reported Saturday.

Employees of Tiversa, a Cranberry Township, Pa.-based security company that specializes in peer-to-peer technology, reportedly found engineering and communications information about Marine One at an IP address in Tehran, Iran.

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A Bunch Of Crazy M.F.ers

7:25 pm EST February 28th, 2009 | News | 15 Comments

Do yourself a favor and check out the coverage of the last day of CPAC from Think Progress and Media Matters. I’ve gone to several of the Take Back America (now called America’s Future Now) events (and was a panelist at one), the progressive version of the CPAC conference, and while I might roll my eyes at some of the more colorful utopian members of the left, none of them are as insane as your average CPAC speaker or attendee. I’m not in the Karl Rove school of premature triumphalism, but as long as the conservative movement allows mental patients to be their intellectual and public faces, the longer our current era of progressive governance will continue.

To Rush, Ann, Huckaboom, Chuck Norris and the rest of you screwjobs on the behalf of everyone on the left side of the aisle I say: THANKS.

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In The Before Time, In The Long Long Ago

3:24 am EST February 28th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 19 Comments

Kids today don’t know what a video game arcade was.

This June will have been 15 years since I graduated from high school.

The first time I saw Mortal Kombat was in the video arcade at the Swap Shop Flea Market in Fort Lauderdale. I distinctly remember because I heard the machine yell “get over here” and this was in an era where games were just starting to seriously switch over to digitized voice and music from the beeps and pings of the Pong years. A ton of kids were crowded around the machine and instantly you became aware of two things this game had that others didn’t: 1) It had video images of real people, which was huge and 2) It had blood. Buckets of it. One punch would unleash a geyser of the red stuff.

So of course it was like manna to a teenaged boy. The game cost a whopping $0.50 to play, but it was soooooo worth it.

And now they don’t even know what an arcade is. Lord.

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Do You Remember?

1:43 am EST February 28th, 2009 | News | 14 Comments

I remember a time when conservatives thought protests were a waste of time and only idiots attended? Well now they’re shaking the very foundations of our society because some conservative wackadoos yelled some stuff.

Sigh.

(And I still maintain my disdain for protests that I had when liberals were doing them.)

UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds explains to us why we should disregard his previous line of b.s. for the new and improved crap:

But it’s much bigger news when 200 people with jobs who’ve never protested turn out, than when 20,000 of the usual suspects organized by ACORN or ANSWER march with preprinted signs.

That’s right, folks, the biased liberal media should pretend as if (generously estimated) 200 conservative crackpots do something and totally disregard 20,000+ liberals doing the same.

Yes, with brilliants like Rush, Sean, Ann, Glenn, and Newt how could they possibly go wrong?

 

The Future Of Conservatism

10:05 pm EST February 27th, 2009 | News | 20 Comments

We are going to have a lot of Democratic presidents.

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Them & Their Silly Tea Party

4:03 pm EST February 27th, 2009 | News | 50 Comments

The wingers are in town for CPAC this week and in the midst of all that crazy (joking about Chicago being nuked, for instance) they’re having their Rick Santelli inspired tea parties – which is just the latest version of the Joe The Plumber (who called for journalists to be shot today) brand of stupidity that the right substitutes for actual thinking. This moron here with a sign saying “Your Mortgage Is Not My Problem” does a brilliant job of summing up just why the conservative movement is now in the extreme minority in America.

Your neighbor’s mortgage is your problem. America is not a Katrina-style you’re on your own nation. That abandoned house down the street and the millions like it will become an incubator for crime and ruin, and then your house will lose value and our society will be the worse off for it.

It’s still amazing to me that these people who claim to be Christians conveniently skip over some relevant text:

And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

– Genesis 4:9

(By the way, remember when conservatives said liberals were stupid to protest things?)

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Bobby Jindal Made Up Katrina Story

3:16 pm EST February 27th, 2009 | Republicans | 25 Comments

The future of the Republican party looks a lot like its past.

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Official First Lady Michelle Obama Portrait Released

1:38 pm EST February 27th, 2009 | News | 26 Comments

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Watermelon Mayor Dean Grose Resigning

12:39 pm EST February 27th, 2009 | Republicans | 9 Comments

Dean Grose, the Republican mayor who sent around that picture of watermelon surrounding the White House has resigned in shame. Don’t let the door hit you.

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