I just love right wingnuts. They give us so much to laugh at. In case you missed it, Rachel Ray has had her ad for Dunkin Donuts yanked because the scarf she was wearing looks a lot like a keffiyeh, that scarf you always used to see Yassir Arafat wearing. Looking at the photo, I don’t think it is, though I think it was probably inspired by one. It’s just not bulky enough around the neck. It looks like silk rather than coarse cotton. Take it from me. I own one, and they are bulky when worn like this. Or at all, which I never wore it and can’t even remember where i put it.
Not that I would expect a single neocon blogdroid to have ever examined the real thing. Like, up close. In person. Touching it with their hands. OH, NOEZ! COOTIES!!!
It’s much better to post from a position of ignorance. That way you don’t have to be held back by facts. You can make up the whole thing. It’s kind of like fiction, since you have complete control of the ‘facts’, since you are making them up as you go along. Well, it’s not exactly like fiction. It is fiction, pure and simple.
Fiction designed to stir up hate against all Arabs, not just millions of Palestinians who wear the scarf every day and have no idea that dumbass Americans like Malkin and commenters to her blog think they are making a political statement by doing so.
Can I get my site promoted for free by neocon crackpots if I wear my keffiyeh?
3,000,000+ votes not counted in 2004, far more than the margin of victory. That’s 3,000,000 votes challenged, votes by voters who were on lists compiled by Karl Rove’s office. Nine times as many were minorities as whites.
As Yogi Berra said, “It’s amazing what you can see when you look. But they didn’t have to look very hard, as the emails were accidentally sent to the wrong address.
Now here’s one about the theft of the 2000 election:
So Hillary has been using this Bobby Kennedy assassination hypothesis as an excuse to stay in the race since March, though she has only used the A word a couple of times. But it turns out that her comment about her husband being in the race until mid-June was a bunch of baloney. Here’s the smoking gun:
OK, so why did she lie? Is there something about high public office, or merely the ambition for high public office, that makes normal people into pathological liars? Or does it mostly attract pathological liars in the first place?
Hillary is going to stay in the race until the last superdelegate is pledged, regardless of the cost to the party and the country. If she won’t pull the plug, it’s time for the superdelegates to do it for her. Stop pussyfooting around, stop with this stupid grandstanding. Commit. KTHXBAI
Out pimping his book intended to set the record straight, former Bush Administration Under Secretary of State stopped in on one of the few serious media outlets for political discussion—The Daily Show on Comedy Central—and got asked the hard questions that should have been asked within the Administration sometime before this country decided to start a war. Seriously, the buck should stop with every former Administration hack who is now attempting to rewrite history as a disinterested party with no responsibility regarding what took place then and what is going on now.
I suspect that Stewart was probably the first interviewer who actually read the entire book. Certainly authors don’t expect to get grilled by interviewers who are trying to hide the fact that the notes they have in front of them were written by a staffer who may have only skimmed sections of the book.
Watch the two part video and see if you don’t agree with me that Jon Stewart would make the best Vice President we can possibly have in the Obama administration.
This is too choice. It just doesn’t work to try to bring down the level of discourse in order to shout down the more intelligent and well-thought-out arguments of your opponents. Kevin James, a conservative radio host, was on Hardball to defend President Bush’s comments that anyone who talks with the enemy is in essence a Nazi appeaser.
He must be a smart guy. They say he used to be a federal prosecutor, but you’d never know it from this clip. He forgot to read the history of which he was speaking. Since he didn’t appear to have any knowledge about what it was that Neville Chamberlain did that made him go down in history as an “appeaser”, instead of letting it go, Matthews called him on it. Twenty-eight times he had the opportunity to explain what he was talking about.
I’m laughing too hard…
A commenter to Jonathan Kay’s Blog entry on the subject felt that not only the net effect of the incident but the intended effect was to lower the standard of discourse. That Matthews knew James was not a moving target when he invited him onto the show, demonstrated by the fact that the opening question to him was, “Why are you screaming?” That Matthews and his other guest should have taken this as an opportunity to educate listeners to James on the actual history of the topic.
But Kevin James is a big boy. If he wants to play with the big boys, he needs to know his stuff. He was more than willing to shout the same stuff over and over again, and I’m sure if he was interviewing a liberal nemesis who didn’t know what he or she was talking about, he’d proceed to belittle and humiliate them about it.
It’s not really like shooting fish in a barrel. After all, the fish didn’t volunteer to be in a barrel, and they didn’t volunteer to be fish. It’s more like showing up at an ironman competition having forgotten that you needed to train. Or even forgetting to bring your bicycle and running shoes.
“Conservatives” a/k/a neocon crackpot talking heads are having an impact on thought in this country, all right. But the impact they are having is entertaining the rest of us while giving conservatism a bad name, without any help from outsiders. Thanks for making it harder for Americans to take “conservatives” like John McCain seriously, Kevin. Obama supporters thank you.
I posted previously about how George Bush had a reporter ask him whether he’d given up golf because of the war, and he’d said “yes”, that he didn’t want mothers of dead soldiers and marines to see him playing a game. He neglected to add that giving up golf coincided with the same knee injury that made him also give up running, while he was seen playing golf months after the August 2003 incident that supposedly triggered his action. Now, video proof that he is lying.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, especially if they watch Faux News a lot. But you can’t fool all the people, especially since most of them are a lot smarter than you are, George.
I understand that it’s tough being George Bush. Here he started us a glorious war for the honor of himself, his legacy, the Republican Party, and of course, God. And they’ve picked it away to nothing. Had to give up the religious crusade, the few Iraqis who welcomed us as “liberators” got murdered as collaborators. Now everybody’s saying that his series of excuses to invade Iraq in the first place were nothing but lies, and all those people died for nothing.
Don’t they understand how he has made sacrifices, too? Why, he gave up golf so mothers of dead soldiers and Marines wouldn’t see him playing while the war raged on. Well okay, he gave it up after they told him he ought to stop being seen having a blast when others were hurting. Well yeah, it happened right after that knee injury that caused him to also stop running. And the fact he was photographed golfing long after the event that supposedly caused him to give it up is just a little memory loss.
How fortuitous that a reporter happened to ask him outright if he had given up golf because of the war. Um, can you spell “PLANT”?
What to do about that pesky war, what to do, what to do? Shall we keep it going for generations, as Hillary and McCain have suggested? Can we “save” the world, and if we do, will there be anything left, especially of our own economy?
It’s always something. Gotta score those points, gotta edge in on the territory of the next male over. Take a clue from the video. Enraged males may charge.
It’s much better to post from a position of ignorance. That way you don’t have to be held back by facts. You can make up the whole thing. It’s kind of like fiction, since you have complete control of the ‘facts’, since you are making them up as you go along. Well, it’s not exactly like fiction. It is fiction, pure and simple.
