The two Obama daughters attend Sidwell Friends School, and if you mosey on over to the school website today, you'll see that the upper and middle schools have the following for school lunch today: Asian Mushroom SoupOriental Noodle SaladClassic Spinach SaladTeriyaki Marinated Chicken StripsSzechuan Tofu & VeggiesGarlic Roasted EdamameVegetable Fried RiceFortune Cookies [Emphasis mine] OMGF! To the Outrage-mobile, conservatives! That's … Read More
More Lies At Patterico
Aaron Worthing again, making things up as he goes along, writes: And the founders clearly always contemplated corporations and similar business organizations having an outsized say in the political process. Whaaaa?!? This is demonstrably untrue. First, let’s state the obvious. In the Constitution, it says “We the people…”, not “We the corporations…”. The founding fathers never addressed corporations in the … Read More
When Right Wing Media Spin Meets Reality
The conservative Daily Caller, yesterday, continuing its ongoing demonization of Occupy Wall Street protesters: It took a huge media push to convince people the Tea Party was dangerous, but the huge media push to convince them OWS isn’t dangerous has failed. Occupiers are really nice until you get to know them. And again, the Daily Caller, earlier today: Here’s a live feed … Read More
Don’t Know Much About History
Bill O'Reilly decided to write a history book. Specifically, a book about Lincoln's assassination called “Killing Lincoln,” which O’Reilly co-authored with Martin Dugard. It's #2 on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list, right behind the monstor biography of Steve Jobs. How bad is this book? Historians are panning it. Why? Because it has the one thing that history books should never have: … Read More
Shorter Aaron Worthing
The depraved idiot tries to make a deep point, but just spittles on his face: The First Amendment doesn't prevent people from making sexual threats in the workplace, and it shouldn't. UPDATE: Worthing responds in the comments. I stand by my "shorter" representation of what he was saying, and of course, I have provided the links so that readers can … Read More
That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
Seems some right-wingers have an axe to grind with Elizabeth Warren, running to unseat Scott Brown as Massachusetts Senator. Their complaint? She's rich. Elizabeth Warren may have embraced the Occupy Wall Street movement and the “99 percent” crowd, but public records reveal the liberal firebrand belongs to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. Her financial well-being will likely hand conservatives … Read More
Pig (and Stupid Lawyer) Of The Day
Aaron Worthing (who purports to be a lawyer) at Patterico's Pontifications, on the subject of Herman Cain: Or did he do the full quid pro quo (“something for something”) and say, “sleep with me or you are fired/won’t get that promotion, etc.?” Now I want to be careful to say that we are not nearly there, yet, but if that … Read More
Harsh But True <> “Ad Hominem”
In a brilliant piece yesterday, Paul Krugman gives voice to a phenomenon that I, too have noticed lately, to wit, that rightwing commentators, pundits and bloggers (Patterico's Pontifications, I'm looking at you!) can't tell the difference between a valid, albiet brutializing, policy argument, and an "ad hominem" argument where you just call someone a name. Paul, you have the floor: … Read More
Fox News Makes Stuff Up, Part 294
Fox News says: President Obama has declared Aug. 26 — which marks the 91st anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote — to be "Women's Equality Day." Wrong. Congress decided that August 26th is Women’s Equality Day. In 1971. Obama is merely following in the path of past presidents. UPDATE: Oh dear. The ankle-biter over at Patterico … Read More
Shorter Patterico Bigot: “Real Racism Is When Blacks Don’t Attack Obama”
Seriously, this is the kind of bile you get from the right these days. Here's the background: During a sometimes-raucous session of what’s being called the “For the People” Jobs Initiative tour, a key member of the Congressional Black Caucus told an audience in Detroit Tuesday that the CBC doesn’t put pressure on President Obama because he is loved by … Read More
Patterico Guest Blogger Shows His Ass And Can’t Understand Why He Can’t Get People Interested
COMMENTS CLOSED: The ankle-biters seem to think that repeating the same fallacious argument over and over again amounts to moving the ball forward in some way, and I don't have the time or inclination to respond to the same bad arguments five or six times. (This will be viewed as a "victory" by the ankle-biters, but rest assured, it's merely … Read More
My Sarah Palin E-mails
They’re releasing 24,000 emails from the time when Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska. And because that’s a lot of emails to sift through, many news organizations have been asking people to sign up, and help them sift through them quickly to find the fun stuff. Which I did. The emails are being released, but my batch hasn’t come in … Read More
CNN Fail (Yes, Another Birth Certificate Related Story)
Saw this on the online CNN site today. The story is self-explanatory from the headline, but note the caption… It reads: "Ivaless Sinclair says husband David Sinclair, who died in 2003, never mentioned his connection to President Obama" Well, no. Who even heard of Obama in 2003? He wasn't even a U.S. Senator then.
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
Glenn Beck to leave Fox News. Well, "transition off" it… some time this year. Next stop…. oblivion. It's not terribly surprising. His ratings have plummeted in the past few months. He was a victim to his own success. The problem for Beck was, he had to constatntly top himself. And to do that, he had to get crazier and crazier, … Read More
Is America Waking Up?
Suddenly, the majority of Americans realize that Fox News isn't a reliable source: In the space of one year, Fox News has lost its perch as the most trusted TV news network in the US and is now average at best, a new survey has found. A poll gauging public trust in TV news has found that PBS is the most … Read More