Abortion Provider Dr. George Tiller Assassinated

7:24 pm EST May 31st, 2009 | News | 59 Comments

Another apparent act of right wing terror.
Thanks religious right.
Thanks Bill O’Reilly.

A Late Entry For Funniest Quote Of The Week

8:07 pm EST May 29th, 2009 | Media | 84 Comments

Mark Tapscott, writing in the Washington Examiner, the free newspaper that litters the subway that has usurped the Washington Times as the premier wingnut newspaper.

These milestones remind that what we’ve seen “nuthin’ of so far during the Obama administration is the aggressive accountability journalism relentlessly aimed at the Bush administration during the eight years prior to the ascension of President Obama.

You remember that accountability?

When the press pushed Al Gore to concede?
When the press cheerleaded us into Iraq, putting Bush administration propaganda on A1 of the NY Times?
When the press gave millions of dollars in free air time to the Swift Boat liars?
When the NY Times delayed warrantless wiretapping stories until after the election?
When the press refused to provide any serious, probing scrutiny of the Bush policies that lead to the Great Recession and near-collapse of the global economy?

Yes, that accountability.

No Thumb On The Scale

5:35 pm EST May 29th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 123 Comments

Apparently the Israeli government is confused that we’re now going to be a broker between them and the Palestinians and not just in the mode of doing what Israel wants. Shocker.

According to many observers in Washington and Israel, the Israeli prime minister, looking for loopholes and hidden agreements that have often existed in the past with Washington, has been flummoxed by an unusually united line that has come not just from Obama White House and the secretary of state, but also from pro-Israel congressmen and women who have come through Israel for meetings with him over Memorial Day recess. To Netanyahu’s dismay, Obama doesn’t appear to have a hidden policy. It is what he said it was.

“This is a sea change for Netanyahu,” a former senior Clinton administration official who worked on Middle East issues said. The official said that the basis of the Obama White House’s resolve is the conviction that it is in the United States’ as well as Israel’s interest to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We have significant, existential threats that Israel faces from Iran and that the U.S. faces from this region. It is in our mutual interest to end this conflict, and to begin to build new regional alliances.”

Topic: Foreign Policy

How The Right Wing Stovepipe Operates

12:25 am EST May 29th, 2009 | Media | 48 Comments

1. Conservative blogs just make something up. It doesn’t have to be an actual thing, just a loose collection of words.

2. Other conservative blogs link to the original blog, egging it on by saying things like “someone ought to look into this” or “Hmmm” or “Odd”.

3. Conservative leaning newspapers and magazines then collect the brain droppings of the previous 2 groups and begin puffing out their chests wondering why the story is being suppressed, or why the NY Times is “sitting on this”.

4. Talk radio jumps in, bewildered that magazines and newspapers and the blogs are “all over this” and why the MSM is covering up.

5. Then a moron like Major Garrett completely mainstreams it via Fox News and asks a stupid question at the daily White House press briefing.

Thanks to the American voters we now have a #6.

6. Press secretary slaps down the stupid assertion, sensible people continue to run the government, the rest of us protected from the lunatics being anywhere near the levers of power.

I Love Conspiracy Theories

7:34 pm EST May 28th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 12 Comments

And in the world of conspiracy theories, there is none better than serial nut Alex Jones.

Topic: Humor

Lanny Davis Dumb Again

6:40 pm EST May 28th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 16 Comments

Remember Lanny Davis? He was the “Democrat” you could regularly count on during the Democratic primaries to say something amazingly stupid in defense of then-Senator Clinton. Well, Lanny’s back again, fretting over conservative nonsense on Judge Sotomayor’s controversy-free statement about bringing her background to the table in helping to make her decisions.

“She misspoke,” said Lanny Davis, a White House lawyer and spokesman for President Bill Clinton. “Every day that goes by that they don’t say she misspoke and she used the wrong words … they just feed it and give it life and give Rush [Limbaugh] and [Sean] Hannity more airtime unnecessarily.”

What Lanny, and also Chris Lehane who is also quoted in the piece, just doesn’t get is that the era of the Democratic party that jumped when the increasingly irrelevant noise machine says “jump” is over – it died in the wreckage of the Kerry and Clinton campaigns. Davis, and a few straggling liberals think that what is said on Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and talk radio actually matters to non-insane people.

It doesn’t.

Topic: Fox News Democrats

The Weekly Standard Looks Forward

4:35 pm EST May 28th, 2009 | News | 15 Comments

I’m telling you – Zombie Reagan 2012!

Anti Gay Marriage Nut Brenda Lee Escorted From Air Force 1 By Secret Service

4:26 pm EST May 28th, 2009 | News | 35 Comments

Nut.

The AP’s Christina Hoag reports that Brenda Lee, a reporter for the Georgia Informer, was dragged kicking and screaming from the press area near Air Force One at Los Angeles International airport (LAX) Thursday morning.

“Airport security officers carried the woman away by the feet and arms as she protested her removal,” Hoag writes.

Most Car Dealers Are Republicans

4:13 pm EST May 28th, 2009 | News | 15 Comments

This is a pretty simple data point but conservative blogs have yet again weaved that fact into a vast and wide conspiracy theory and then feign outrage when people laugh at them.

UPCOMING CONSPIRACY THEORY: Juge Sotomayor is an enemy agent of Mexico! Many of you might remember that they accused current L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of the same thing. Its like the right has something against hispanics or something.