This was a townhall meeting conducted by a Republican congressman from South Carolina, Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC), who opposes Obama's general plan for health care reform, so you would think there wouldn't be anything to protest from the teabaggers. But nope — he went after the moron's sacred cow: Glenn Beck. The crowd revolted when Inglis told people to “turn … Read More
The Decibel Level Goes To Eleven
I'll let Krugman start us off, and I'll chime in: There’s a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled “Freedom of Speech,” depicting an idealized American town meeting. The painting, part of a series illustrating F.D.R.’s “Four Freedoms,” shows an ordinary citizen expressing an unpopular opinion. His neighbors obviously don’t like what he’s saying, but they’re letting him speak his mind. That’s … Read More
IOKIYAR: Nazi References
Five years ago, Moveon.org invited people to post their own homemade ads for the 2004 presidential campaign and submit them anonymously. Some unknown person, out of over 1,500 submissions, put together an ad comparing Bush to Hitler, and put it on the MoveOn.org site without the group's knowledge. MoveOn pulled the submission. But it was too late. The conservatives had a … Read More
Rightwing Mobs Turn Violent
Roll Call: Rep. Gerry Connolly (Va.), president of the freshman Democratic class, warned that right-wing groups are taking things to "a dangerous level" by manufacturing anger based on false information. "When you look at the fervor of some of these people who are all being whipped up by the right-wing talking heads on Fox, to me, you're crossing a line," … Read More
My Fake Real Kenyan Birth Certificate
Now leave me alone….
DNC Strikes Back Against The GOP’s Mob Tactics
Actually, I thought this ad could have been more forceful…. … but it is nice to see some pushback.
Blue America
An analysis of Gallup Poll Daily tracking data from the first six months of 2009 was released to day, on the subject of political party affiliation. The accompanying map shows each state's relative party strength in the first half of 2009, which primarily covers the time since Barack Obama took office as president. States in which one of the parties … Read More
Sarah and Todd Palin To Get Divorced?
Normally, I wouldn't take notice of an "exclusive breaking" story reporter by a blogger, but The Immoral Minority, and Alaskan blog did beat out the regular media by first reporting that Palin was McCain's VP pick, and it did beat out the regular miedia by first reporting that Palin was resigning. So the guy, who works as an assistant teacher … Read More
Dionne’s Advice To The GOP LIkely To Be Ignored
Noting that only 28% of Americans have a favorable image of the Republican Party, E.J. Dionne Jr. has a good column today. The GOP would be in better shape, he writes, if it wasn't "defined by extremist voices who have faced little push-back from its leaders." After recognizing the "birthers," the right-wing race-baiting, the insistence that health care reform will lead … Read More
The Latest Tactics Of The Tea Party Movement: Be Disruptive and Lie
From Think Progress: The lobbyist-run groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, which orchestrated the anti-Obama tea parties earlier this year, are now pursuing an aggressive strategy to create an image of mass public opposition to health care and clean energy reform. A leaked memo from Bob MacGuffie, a volunteer with the FreedomWorks website Tea Party Patriots, details how members should … Read More
The REAL Obama Birth Certificate Surfaces
Dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz is one of those charlatans who has a lawsuit filed against President Obama alleging he's a foreign-born Muslim ferner who is a Muslim not born in the United States of Merica, and a socialist to boot. She filed papers last Friday which included the alleged "real" Obama birth certificate, showing conclusively that he was born in Kenya. She … Read More
Birtherism: Don’t Call It “Fringe”
A whopping 58 percent of Republicans either think Barack Obama wasn't born in the US (28 percent) or aren't sure (30 percent). A mere 42 percent think he was. That means a majority of Republicans polled either don't know about — or don't believe the seemingly incontrovertible evidence Obama's camp has presented over and over and over that he was … Read More
Playing The Racist Card
Seems it was only six months ago when conservative columnists and pundits were all predicting the same thing, i.e., "If we start criticizing Obama, we're going to be attacked for being 'racist'. You just watch.". Six months later, and who is calling who "racist"? According to many conservatives, Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, is a "racist". According … Read More
More Shatner Readings of Palin
This time, he recites the "free verse" of Palin's tweets: