Oh out-of-context statements about Common is outrageous

But man, that Sean Hannity loved him some Ted Nugent threatening to kill Obama and Hillary Clinton...somehow it became Barack Obama's fault.


Fez Tip to Otoolefan via Twitter.

"Mommy, this fellow says he'd like to invite our Grandkids to Neverland"

"Oh, Ronnie let's send Michael or Maureen instead to make sure it is safe, before we send any of our real family."



Meanwhile, in FoxNews country

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Now I know why Pat Buchanan's been off MSNBC for a while

He was over in Germany as a character witness.

A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder Jews at a Nazi death camp in World War II.

I just hope Pat can make it back from defending an accessory to the mass murder of Jews in time to complain about the real crime of Common being invited to the White House.

He also hated Puppies and Tom Hanks' movies

I mean really, how dare he:

Bin Laden was determined to attack U.S. and not just New York, but small cities too (like Los Angeles -- really, that's what the article says -- the small hamlet of Los Angeles).

Caption Contest

Like you needed more evidence

That Ernest T. Bass, ESQ is a complete and utter bonehead, look no further than...

Here

followed by

Here



Nice job there Cracker Barrel Darrow.

You can take AP out of Ron Fournier, but you cannot take Fournier out of the AP

This AP political article about Newt Gingrich manages to write an article on Gingrich's strengths and weaknesses without mentioning he runs as a moral conservative who is hypocritical enough to have cheated on every wife he's ever had...and he's had three...all in the name of patriotism by the way.

Perhaps now is the time to quote the eminent Mr. Bogg:

According to the New York Times, Newt Gingrich’s secret Presidential campaign weapon is going to be his brittle trophy wife (not a first place trophy wife, more like “participant” trophy wife) Callista, who is just a nice midwestern Catholic girl who had the good taste and judgement to allow Newt bounce his sweaty balls off of her chin for six years while Newt was married to another woman.

The conservative plan for higher education

Is for the Koch Brothers to own those professors Andrew Breitbart cannot get fired.

Here's an idea

Let's encourage them to hold a convention -- a well publicized one, we'll even let FoxNews cover it -- where they argue over the nominees.

Replacing bin Laden, who founded al-Qaida more than two decades ago and masterminded 9/11, may be no easy task. Analysts say the choice will likely depend on how the terror organization views its goals and priorities in the post-bin Laden age.

Dammit, Janet

Oh boy, this would be fun if the mainstream media ever gives a good goddamn (don't hold your breath):

Huckabee has joked that he "answers" to "two Janets." One is his wife, Janet Huckabee. The other is Janet Porter, the onetime co-chair of Huckabee's Faith and Values Coalition. And Porter, the former governor has said, is his "prophetic voice." But that voice has said some weird things over the years: Porter has maintained that Obama represents an "inhumane, sick, and sinister evil," and she has warned that Democrats want to throw Christians in jail merely for practicing their faith. She's attributed Haiti's high poverty rate to the fact that the country is "dedicated to Satan," and she suggested that gay marriage caused Noah's Flood. And there's this: In a 2009 column for conservative news site WorldNetDaily, Porter asserted that President Barack Obama is a Soviet secret agent, groomed since birth to destroy the United States from within.

She sounds like Jerome Corsi's dream girl.

Can’t blame ‘em for trying

I believe this falls under the definition of quaint:

A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront of Arizona politics.

A group of lawyers from the Democratic stronghold of Tucson and surrounding Pima County have launched a petition drive seeking support for a November 2012 ballot question on whether the 48th state should be divided in two.

Considering what the rest of the state's politics are like, often appearing to be one-part Yosemite Sam and one-part George Wallace becoming one entire Joe Arpaio, I cannot say I blame them for wanting the hell out of the State, but it isn't going to happen.

Besides, they just want to be a new State, but stay in the union.

Unlike some States that maybe should have tried a bit harder 150 years ago to leave...

After initial objections, lawmakers in Tennessee are moving a new version (pdf) of the most expansive anti-Sharia bill yet...when a Muslim starts practicing Islam with partners or in a group, they are forming a “Sharia organization”

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Lies & The Lying Liars

File Under: You Can't Make This Stuff Up.

First, read Digby's "Drowning in BS".

You have to read [James B. Stewart's Blood Sport] for the full catalog of mistakes, errors of omission and downright lies in that hideous book. The idea that this guy is now rending his garments about Americans being a land of lies is pretty amazing. I guess he thinks he can "get away with it."

Rick Perlstein has coined a phrase "mendocracy" to describe how our elites have completely disavowed the very notion of honesty, even in fields like business and economics where one would assume that an agreement on the basic facts would be necessary to function. James B. Stewart is the walking proof of its existence.

And, as if on cue: Times Hires James B. Stewart, Financial Writer.

No mention of Blood Sport.

Uh, what?

The New York Times:



The guy playing Lincoln, played a rock & roll version of Andrew Jackson on Broadway.

Soon, he'll star in the sequel to this film, "Calvin Coolidge, Hobo Clubber".

I never watch the "Apprentice"

In any of its orangey-hued forms, so I note this juxtaposition only from what I've seen.

Trump: I'm Not Racist — One Of My 'Apprentice' Winners Is Black, Donald Trump wants to clarify that he's "the least racist person there is."

Meanwhile, last Sunday's episode seemed particular one-sided against "the Blacks", especially the ladies:

Three Black Women Booted from Celebrity Apprentice

But Trump wants you to know he doesn't have anything against "the blacks" or "the women", in fact, he thinks Beyonce has a great ass.

This will make someone very happy

Oh, bravo:

Pakistan may let U.S. investigators question the wives of Osama bin Laden, a U.S. official said, a decision that could begin to stabilize relations between the prickly allies that have been severely strained by the killing of the al Qaeda leader.

Jonah Goldberg has already emailed his questions to the CIA...

(1) How big was he...like a baby arm?
(2) Can you please convert centimeters into inches?

Bombs Away!

Is this not getting just a tad ridiculous?

NATO launched a number of missile strikes against targets in the Tripoli area on Tuesday that appeared to include Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's compound, witnesses said.

Libyan officials said four children were wounded, two of them seriously, by flying glass caused by blasts from NATO strikes in the Tripoli area overnight.

I have no problem decrying Gaddafi, in all his myriad spellings as a real bastard, but really, does it make the West look a lot better to keep trying to blow him up and get kids in the process? How many times have we tried to do this now all the way back to Reagan's raid in 1986?

In the Second World War, even when the heads of government included Hitler, Tojo and Stalin, this sort of targeting was not commonly practiced (highest profile Admiral Yamamoto, and he was in a real military uniform, not one he put together from a TJ Maxx catalog).

Yet in our more "civilized" era of smart bombs it has become de rigueur. But, when has it actually worked? We bombed Saddam in two wars, multiple times, and it did not work, we spent months leading up to Tora Bora imagining bin Laden cooped up in a Bond-villains cave-complex dropping MOABs and it did not work. How many predator drones have been aimed against "high-profile" targets successfully? Now we've made various efforts against Gaddafi, and accomplished what exactly? I suppose the argument is "it will help reduce civilian casualties", but really who can make that argument honestly when we have actually seen it in practice?

I know it is "easy" to drop bombs when you are so "militarily" superior, but is it very smart?

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Yep

I still prefer the University of Massachusetts video in all it's myriad forms:


(about 2:44 in)

Maybe she cared more than she let on

When Osama bin Laden, who carried a torch for her, was killed?

Whitney Houston In Out-Patient Rehab Program

Or not, just tossing it out there, like a right-wing blog would.

Wow, like a Freshman Nerds dorm computer

The contents may only somewhat overlap:

A law enforcement source tells CBS News that 2.7 terabytes of data were recovered from the laptops, computers, hard drives and other storage devices seized from the bin Laden compound. It's unclear whether all of the 2.7 terabytes are original files or if there are multiple copies of files.

Okay, let us make this simple...there are absolutely a lot of multiple copies.

Hmmm...

Interesting:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he hasn't decided whether to seek a heart transplant.

That's funny because I understand the Obama Administration found an anonymous and appropriately assholish donor just over a week ago and they're keeping it for him on ice.

Maybe they'll end up selling it to a Koch brother.