Weiner (D-NY): Say, how’s about an ObamaCare waiver for my constituents in NYC?
Deranged Congressman Anthony Weiner, a man who is in serious need of anger management classes, tries to defend requesting a waiver from the very legislation for which he so passionately fought in 2009. Open mouth and insert foot, Congressman Schlong:
Rep. Anthony Weiner said Wednesday he was looking into how a health law waiver might work for New York City.
Weiner, who is likely to run for mayor of New York, said that because of the city’s special health care infrastructure, his office was looking into alternatives that might make more sense. Weiner is one of the health care law’s biggest supporters; during the debate leading up to reform, he was one of the last holdouts in Congress for the public option.
“The president said, ‘If you have better ideas that can accomplish the same thing, go for it,’” said Weiner. “I’m in the process now of trying to see if we can take [President Barack Obama] up on it in the city of New York, … and I’m taking a look at all of the money we spend in Medicaid and Medicare and maybe New York City can come up with a better plan.”
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The congressman was trying to debunk Republican “myths” about the health care law during a speech at the Center for American Progress. He used the waivers as way to describe how flexible the law actually is and how “this notion that the government is shoving the bill down people’s throats” is not true.“The administration needs to make this argument more forcefully,” he said. “A lot of people who got waivers were … people who are our friends.”
“Our friends”…you know, it really does pay to be an FOB (Friend Of Barack), doesn’t it. By logical extension, apparently the rest of America that resides outside of his district are enemies, right?
Typical liberal: Good enough for thee, but not for me!
Congressional moonbats want to impeach Obama?
Pass the popcorn! 
From Politico:
A hard-core group of liberal House Democrats is questioning the constitutionality of U.S. missile strikes against Libya, with one lawmaker raising the prospect of impeachment during a Democratic Caucus conference call on Saturday.
Reps. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Donna Edwards (Md.), Mike Capuano (Mass.), Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), Maxine Waters (Calif.), Rob Andrews (N.J.), Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas), Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.) “all strongly raised objections to the constitutionality of the president’s actions” during that call, said two Democratic lawmakers who took part.
Kucinich, who wanted to bring impeachment articles against both former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney over Iraq — only to be blocked by his own leadership — asked why the U.S. missile strikes aren’t impeachable offenses.
However, as Ed points out:
Traditionally, though, consultations with Congress have sufficed in the past. For instance, Congress didn’t specifically authorize Ronald Reagan to attack Libya in 1986 in Operation El Dorado Canyon, a retaliation for a terrorist bombing that killed American troops in Germany at a nightclub. Reagan consulted Congressional leadership before ordering the attack, an act of war by any definition. Presidents have conducted similar military actions without formal acts of Congress to authorize them, meaning it has a long precedent, even if it’s not necessarily a good idea. According to the report and Kucinich’s own objection, Obama did consult Congress before engaging in Operation Odyssey Dawn.
This will lead to nothing, of course, but I do enjoy some blue-on-blue action to start my week off right! 
Liberal blogger wonders: Why does the MSM ignore death threats against Wisconsin Republicans, and why does the rest of the left condone those threats?
I am about to break one of my own rules here by linking to the moonbat blog Huffington Post. I never link to the moonbat blogs, because they can generate their own traffic by trolling the dark, depraved cellars of mankind all by themselves. That said, this time merits an exception. Plus, it’s my blog, so I get to both make and break the rules here.
Undoubtedly, this guy will now be threatened for breaking Commandment #1 among the left: “Thou shalt not stray from the leftist plantation, either in philosophy or in conduct, lest ye be persecuted.” You must, must read the guy’s column! Here’s an excerpt:
Why isn’t the mainstream media talking about the death threats against Republican politicians in Wisconsin?
Try to set aside whatever biases or preconceptions you might have for a moment and ask yourself why death threats against politicians aren’t considered national news, especially in the wake of the all too fresh shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other bystanders. And there hasn’t just been one death threat, but a number of them.
[Examples here. Like I said, go read the column! - CL]
On the other hand, if you read conservative blogs or listen to conservative media, you know all about these threats because people like Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh and websites like Newsbusters and BigJournalism have not only been talking about the death threats for days now but they’ve been talking about the mainstream and liberal media ignoring the threats for days.
Ignoring the story of these threats is deeply, fundamentally wrong. It’s bad, biased journalism that will lead to no possible good outcome and progressives should be leading the charge against it.
Just before writing this article, I did a Google search and it’s stunning to find out that the right wing media really isn’t exaggerating — proven death threats against politicians are being ignored by the supposedly honest media. If you’ve never agreed with a single thing that Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly et al have said about anything, you can’t in any good conscience say that they don’t have a point here. Death threats are wrong and if a story like Wisconsin is national news for days, then so are death threats.
He then goes on to make the case against public sector unions’ ability to collectively bargain by quoting the golden calf of the left: FDR! Ouch! He outlines the “bile and invective” he got from the left for doing this, which leads him to wonder:
Is this really what liberalism has come to in 2011? (Welcome to Realityville, pal. Liberal population here: 1. You’re all alone, dude. – CL)
Since working with Breitbart, my position on political issues hasn’t changed but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I’m deeply disappointed by the virulent, lockstep attitude I see on the left. My experience in the last few months tells me what I would not have believed possible; on any number of issues (including Pigford, by the way) I’ve seen liberals act much nastier and with less factual honesty than the conservatives… and this includes on issues where I disagree with conservatives.
Burying the death threat story is a clear example of intellectual dishonesty and journalistic bias.
I doubt that he and I agree on very much of anything. However, he is 100% dead on with this. The MSM is a friggin’ joke for its embargo of these threats, and the left is losing what shards of credibility they have remaining (which, if recent elections are any indicator, is damning). Kudos to one liberal for having the stones to say “Guys, can’t we for once be intellectually honest?”, even if his brethren answer with a resounding ”Not a chance, pal!”
Leftists: “Take back America” is racist. Or something.
Notice something here:
But Obama, in his most candid moments, acknowledged that race was still a problem. In May 2010, he told guests at a private White House dinner that race was probably a key component in the rising opposition to his presidency from conservatives, especially right-wing activists in the anti-incumbent “Tea Party” movement that was then surging across the country. Many middle-class and working-class whites felt aggrieved and resentful that the federal government was helping other groups, including bankers, automakers, irresponsible people who had defaulted on their mortgages, and the poor, but wasn’t helping them nearly enough, he said. A guest suggested that when Tea Party activists said they wanted to “take back” their country, their real motivation was to stir up anger and anxiety at having a black president, and Obama didn’t dispute the idea. He agreed that there was a “subterranean agenda” in the anti-Obama movement—a racially biased one—that was unfortunate.
So if “take back America” is racist, then how’s about a convention of bigots on the left where Obama has spoken TWICE?
Busted.
Hypocrisy and bigotry: crunchy and good with ketchup.
Boxer walks into global “warming” trap
Babs Boxer (Moonbat-CA) came up for air long enough to stop ranting about the GOP’s assassination plot against Elmo and walk directly into the trap set by Senators Barrasso (R-WY) and Inhofe (R-OK). These two reminded Babs and everyone else about how B.O.’s own “science technology advisor” warned us about the impending Ice Age in the 1970′s.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee members sparred Wednesday over whether there existed a consensus in the 1970s that the earth was cooling.
During the hearing, Republican Sens. James Inhofe of Oklahoma and John Barrasso of Wyoming questioned the supposed need to enact policies to combat global warming by pointing to similar predictions in the 1970s of a global cooling phenomenon.
The exchange started with Barrasso addressing the committee’s witness, Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Jackson. “Forty years ago, the same scientists that are predicting the end of the world now from global warming were predicting the end of the world from global cooling,” said Barrasso. “So if we had committed the same amount of taxpayer resources and government manpower that the administration now wants us to commit to prevent global warming — if we’d done that prevent global cooling, we wouldn’t be the most prosperous nation on earth.”
He continued: “The fact is that the same doomsday predictions we were getting 40 years is the exact same thing this agency and this administration today. Only now…the problem is man-made global warming.”
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Still later, Inhofe got into the science debate by citing a 1971 study by Dr. John Holdren, who just so happens to be President Obama’s advisor on science technology. In that study Holdren wrote, “The effects of a new ice age on agriculture and the supportability of large human populations scarcely need elaboration here.” Holdren went on to write that the effects could “generate a tidal wave of proportions unprecedented in recorded history.”
A visibly satisfied Inhofe then turned to Boxer, and stated, “So even the president’s people are agreed with me, Madam Chairwoman!”
You mean there wasn’t consensus about global cooling in the late 1970′s, when the issue was featured prominently in various MSM outlets and on the front page of Time magazine? Huh. Could have sworn there was.
Watch this video clip and see how ol’ Babs (and her white knight Udall (D-NM)) beclowned themselves in front of the camera.
Quote of the day, “Babs Boxer cracks up on Senate floor” edition
Cali, you had a chance to kick this crazy wench to the curb last November, and you passed. She’s all yours, chumps.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that House Republicans want to strip government funding of PBS because they have a “vendetta against Elmo.”
Boxer made the comments during a floor speech where she made the case for her bill that would ensure that the president and lawmakers are not paid if a government shutdown occurs.
Boxer said that the cost of four hours of the Iraq war would be enough to keep PBS funded — and the popular fire-red children’s character on the air.
Boxer believes that the GOP has more than just a vendetta against Elmo. She added that Republicans hold a “vendetta against healthcare” and a “vendetta against clean energy.”
House Republicans last month passed a bill that would strip government funding for both National Public Radio and PBS.
Well, crap! There goes that coveted and potent kindergarten voting block.
Moonbats in mourning over Olbermann firing/abrupt resignation
Daily Caller has a bunch of hilarious tweets from the moonbatosphere. This one’ s my favorite:
Heh.
Breaking: Olbermann OUT at MSNBC!
No, this is not satire. It’s the real deal. Virtually no one saw this coming.
Hot Air has a great chronology, and I’d post some of it here, but they keep updating the story as more info becomes available.
Wow. Are both of his viewers gonna take this hard or what?
Memphis moonbat in Congress displays that new “civility” thingy Obama was talking about
Yeah, I’m thinking that maybe this isn’t what B.O. had in mind:
In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and compared rhetoric on the issue to the work of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
“They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,” Cohen said. “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing. And Congressman Cohen didn’t stop there.
“The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it–believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover,” Cohen said.
Don’t get me wrong, folks. I think this “new tone” and “civility” is a load of crap. These vermin spent the last 10 years making Bush to resemble Rosemary’s Baby, and the last two years ramming socialist and statist garbage down our throats. So as far as I’m concerned, they can peddle their “OK, NOW we want to be civil” garbage somewhere else.
That said, this is another example (and the examples are legion) of Dems saying one thing and acting in a contrary manner.
Oh, so NOW the left wants “civility”?
After a decade of violence, threats, and inciting rhetoric against the right? After the goodwill in the aftermath of 9/11 rapidly dissipated on their side? After having every one of their projection-based memes blow up in their faces? And now, they want to “restore civility”?
Funny how that works, huh?
FNC’s Cavuto rips Tingles over his “Chris Christie is fat” remark
References to leg tingles and hair dye? Oh yes, my friends!
Well played, Neil. Well played, indeed.
Media Matters: Fox News is equating “public option” with “government-run”! Can you believe that?
I don’t know how to break it to you morons at MM, but Merriam-Webster just called to say that “public” and “government-run” are one and the same. Sorry ’bout that.
Rumor has it that the Media Morons crowd will now protest equating “horse” with “equine” and “cow” with “bovine”. Then again, anything these imbeciles report is no more than “bovine feces”.
Well, at least the MSM doesn’t play rhetorical favorites. Oh, wait…
Portland mayor recognizes the main threat to his city: Islamophobes
A Somali-American Muslim decides to bomb Portland, OR, during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Said Muslim’s plot is foiled. Portland beefs up security…for Muslims, naturally. Details:
Patrols around mosques and other Islamic sites in Portland have been stepped up as Muslim leaders expressed fears of retribution, days after a Somali-American man was accused of trying to blow up a van full of explosives during the city’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
Portland Mayor Sam Adams said Sunday that he beefed up protection around mosques “and other facilities that might be vulnerable to knuckle-headed retribution” after hearing of the bomb plot.
Right. Because it was someone from an Islamophobe background, and not someone from a Muslim fanatic background, that tried to bomb his city…right?
If Islamofascism doesn’t destroy America, political correctness will. If you live in Portland, I advise you to get the hell out. Your mayor is more concerned about not offending people than he is about keeping his city’s residents safe.
NC House Democrat who already lost finally gets around to conceding
Bob Etheridge, aka Congressman “Hoower You?”, thought he could assault a college kid AND ignore his constituents and get re-elected in the middle of the big red tsunami of 2010. He was wrong.
Well, he finally conceded today. Al Gore just called to say that Etheridge is quitting way too soon!
Olbermann donated maximum to three Dem campaigns, gets suspended
UPDATES BELOW.
Moonbats, both of MSNBC’s viewers (pardon the redundancy) hardest hit. Excerpt:
MSNBC president Phil Griffin released the following statement Friday following the news that Keith Olbermann had donated to three Democratic candidates this election cycle:
“I became aware of Keith’s political contributions late last night. Mindful of NBC News policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay.”
Olberdouche wasn’t a Dan Rather (though he was easy to fool with fake stuff like Rather), or a Charles Gibson or one of those guys who at least pretend to be unbiased. Olbermouth’s job wasn’t to be objective. I don’t think that’s what MSNBC (Moonbats, Socialists, and Nut Bars’ Channel) hired him for was objectivity. I’m kinda with Jonah Goldberg on this one:
So Olbermann gave money to some Democratic candidates. Ostensibly the rules against this are intended to prevent journalists from giving the appearance of bias. Whether or not such rules make sense for actual reporters, such rules are silly for someone like Olbermann. Does anybody, and I mean anybody, suddenly trust Olbermann’s opinion less because of this news? I’m waiting. Does anyone think he’s less biased? More biased? Un-biased?
That said, I’m loving the rich, chocolatey goodness of come-uppance that Blabbermann just received. Savor the flavor, friends!
UPDATE (11/8/2010 – 08:43 AM EST): Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Dude was off the air for two shows, not even a day per donation. Time will tell if this little publicity stunt paid off for the scarcely watched network.
Clueless liberal “leadership” marches on
Some Dem Congresscritters: Say, Nan, would you mind not being the face of our party in Congress?
NYT: You know, Pelosi may not exactly be the best fit for Dem House leader. Wait…the New York Friggin’ Times?
Pelosi: I’m running to be House Minority Leader. It was the messaging, not me, that caused so many Republicans to run commercials against…um, me.
James Clyburn (D-SC): San Fran Nan is a wonderful leader, and she’s just like cowbell: you can never have enough!
GOP: Clyburn is right, we are stoked that Pe-loco will still be the face of the party!
President Kick#ss: The reason we lost is because I didn’t speak nearly slowly enough for you American morons to figure out how awesome me, Nan, and the Dem Gang truly have been. My bad.
Moonbat blog: Dems lost the red, purple, and some blue districts for not being leftist enough. Right, because the independents who voted en masse for Republicans did so because they were mad at Pe-lousy and Company for not pushing their statist agenda, and the only logical solution to implement a leftist agenda is to…vote for the conservative opponent?
Obama: I had no idea that ObamaCare would be so poorly received, to the point of costing my side the House, several governor’s races, and nearly 700 state legislative races. If only there had been multiple polls, town halls, ringing phones, massive protests, a Tea Party resistance movement, or any other indicators…
Where are the moonbats?
During the last two election cycles, “Chris” and other cowardly moonbats laid off their bongs long enough to drop by and leave vile and useless comments, bragging that their side won. As luck would have it, I haven’t heard from these same pansies today. Funny, that.
OK, I did hear from one, which is one more than I was expecting. Have a ball!
Just…try and relax!
Liberal morons: Sarah Palin is an idiot for mentioning the year of the Boston Tea Party at…a Tea Party rally
Sarah Palin addressed a Tea Party rally in NV and mentioned that they needed to vote on November 2, and that they couldn’t “party like it’s 1773” quite yet. The leftosphere was atwitter, giggling like school girls (or Barney Frank) at a Justin Bieber concert. The lefto-meme: She’s so stupid that she didn’t know she was three years off!
There’s just one problem, rocket surgeons: 1773 was the year of the Boston Tea Party. Tea Party…Boston Tea Party…get it? Google is your friend. As “Otis, my man!” Day from Animal House might sing about the left: “Don’t know much bout history.”
It wasn’t just the moonbats who stepped in it, either. “Respected” lefties like Gwen Ifill even snarked on it. While many of them realized that they were the ones who looked like the morons, and others (like Gwen) tried to pretend that they weren’t implying what we know they were, yet other leftist boobs are continuing to ride that Titanic meme all the way into the icy cold depths of beclownery.
Enjoy the irony, friends, of this moment: a woman whom the left mocks as a dullard just made ALL of them look like the fools! Schooled by the Sarahcuda!
Dem Congressman from IL says that massive debt and deficit is a “myth”
Just to recap: Man-made global “warming” is a verifiable fact, but $13+ trillion in debt is a right-wing myth. Got it. Thanks for the clarification, dude:
In case you don’t recognize Hare, he’s the tool that told us during the passage of ObamaCare that he didn’t care what the Constitution had to say about what he was and wasn’t allowed to legislate.
Phil Hare is channeling his inner Chip Diller:
CNN fires Rick Sanchez after anti-Semitic rant
If vehicular homicide wasn’t a reason to keep Teddy K out of the Senate for 40+ years, then it isn’t a reason for CNN to keep Sanchez off of their payroll. But an anti-Semitic moonbat rant? Yep, that’ll do it:
CNN has fired anchor Rick Sanchez following a radio rant Thursday night where he called Jon Stewart a “bigot,” blamed CNN brass for discrimination against him and insinuated that the media industry is controlled by Jews.
You must go read the excerpts! Awesomely delicious!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer jackwagon.
Batsh#t crazy Alan Grayson (D-FL) compares GOP opponent to Taliban, gets scolded by…nutjobs at MSNBC?
The thrill has left even Matthews’ leg for Grayson for this bit of jack@ssery. Both of MSNBC’s viewers were appalled at Grayson’s tactics. Video clip here, and I would embed it, but it’s too much douchebaggery for me to stomach.
His opponent is Dan Webster, whose fundraising after Grayson’s Godwin-violating ad has gone through the roof. Thanks, Congressman Moonbat!
Vulnerable ND Dem runs new ad embracing…Bush?
House member Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) is in deep trouble this year, and he knows it. He’s resorted to the lowest possible tactic that the left can stomach: touting his vote with Der Fuhrer Bu$hitler McRummyburton on the prescription drug benefit. Details:
We’ve seen plenty of Democrats in tight races trying to distance themselves from President Obama. But one Democrat, North Dakota’s Rep. Earl Pomeroy, is taking this a step farther by actually embracing President George W. Bush.
Pomeroy is locked in what’s shaping up to be the toughest contest of his 17-year House career. He faces GOP state Rep. Rick Berg.
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In his latest ad, Pomeroy goes a step further, highlighting his support for the Bush prescription drug plan which he says Berg would “roll back.”The ad opens with a bill signing featuring President Bush while a woman’s voice says, “When George Bush proposed a Medicare prescription drug plan, Earl Pomeroy voted yes, putting seniors before party.. Rick Berg would roll back prescription drug coverage.”
BTW, the link’s URL is “http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/09/vulnerable-dem-rep-embraces-obama-in-latest-ad.html”. Way to use those “multiple layers of fact-checkers”, ABC!
DNC unleashes secret weapon against GOP in a stunning “September surprise”
My worst fears have come true. Yes, even worse than keeping the DE Senate seat blue. I hope you’re sitting down, because this is so dispiriting to conservatives everywhere!
Two days ago, DNC chief Tim Kaine promised “something that will excite Democrats across the country”. And boy, did they indeed! Here it is:
Their super-duper red-tsunami-killing secret weapon is…a logo!
And not just any logo, mind you, but a powder-blue sissyfied logo with a rehashed slogan. Hold. Me. Back.
Heck, why even show up at the polls, folks? They’ve peed in our coffee mugs yet again, stunning us with such an unforeseen and dazzling display of brilliance from which we cannot recover. Undoubtedly, Pansy #ss Logo will get their stoner base off the couch and their welfare brood mares out of their babydaddy’s beds and into the voting booth on Nov. 2 like nothing else will! Crap…punked again.
I think Allah nails this one here, far better than any of my snark above:
I figured the “major announcement” would have something to do with their online organization, but how could anyone not have guessed that it would involve a logo? Better “branding” and salesmanship are always, always their solutions to their political problems; the policies themselves are brilliant, so how could anything except poor “messaging” explain a decline in the polls? Consider this an absurd yet perfectly foreseeable extension of that logic. GOP tsunami coming in November? Time to go nuclear, then: New logo.
Exactly. “Judge us by our accomplishments? Nah, instead, check out our new logo!”
Well, if there’s any silver lining for the left, it’s this: Considering their failed philosophy is based on stuff that will fit on a t-shirt or bumper sticker, this superwickedawesome logo will serve a purpose after all!
Right-wing nutjob gunman holds hostages at Discovery Channel
And by “right-wing”, I’m obviously meaning “pinko moonbat environut”. Story here. Fortunately, Mr. Lee is in stable condition…he’s assumed room temperature.
The leftosphere is telling us not to link this loon to their side, that he was just a lone wolf and was in no way representative of liberals in general, even the moonbat variety of liberals. You know what? They’re correct. I do not, in any way, link Lee with your garden variety liberal. But (you knew there was a “but” coming, right?)…
Let this serve as a “teachable moment” to you leftards out there the next time you jump to conclusions about some nutbar’s political leanings the next time he/she goes off the deep end. Remember the NYC cabbie stabbie? Since that psycho asked the cabbie if he was Muslim and then attacked upon learning he was a Muslim, every left-winger and journalist (pardon the redundancy) naturally yet without evidence concluded that the assailant was a right-winger. Come to find out, he was a left-wing activist. Oopsies!
But will the left learn their lesson? I doubt it. They’re pretty stupid, and they’re highly irrational and emotional, devoid of logic or reasoning.
Anywho, the left jumps to conclusions about the ideological leanings of kooks who commit acts of violence, but now that there’s clear evidence that this guy was an environut, they want us to suspend judgment and to refrain from associating him with them? OK. Fine. It’s only fair. So we can expect the next time some wacko kills an abortion doctor, the left will return the courtesy that we are extending now and will not try to link said wacko to normal conservatives…right? Right?
By the way, here’s a true “LOL!” quote, because I literally laughed out loud when I read Ace’s note on this:
On his Yuku forum Lee lamented the fact that Al Gore wasn’t involved in his ’08 protest of Discovery:
There was a suggestion made today at the protest who said that if Al Gore were there, he could have drawn thousands of people and exerted the pressure needed to make this work if he wanted to. Not a bad idea at all. But most of people in his class won’t do stuff like that to a specific company, which confuses me. Can you imagine what a draw it COULD have been if I had his name in just ONE ad? Now, there would have been the crucial difference. But, it’s too late to go back and try to contact Gore (not that I would make in within one foot of him).
Ace weighs in:
Lee regretted not thinking to invite Al Gore to one of his protests.
Probably better that he didn’t. It would have snowed.
Union thugs at SEIU not too good at spelling
There’s an expression that says “There is no ‘I’ in ‘team’!” Apparently, there’s no “I” in “American”, either:
The irony? These guys were holding a Beck counter-rally with Dept. of Education employees!
Yoonyuns iz dum!
Left wing journalist accuses arsonist who firebombed MO Democrat’s office of being Tea Party activist, then says Tea Party can’t “take a joke”
A writer for a St. Louis alternative newsweekly tells The Daily Caller he does not regret speculating in a story that the suspect of an attempted arson of a Democratic congressman’s campaign office was a Tea Party activist.It turns out that the suspect in this week’s firebombing of Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan’s campaign office in St. Louis was actually a liberal blogger and former paid campaign worker for Carnahan’s campaign.
“As to the legions of Tea Party adherents who are calling for my head: No, I have no regrets. I was having fun — at their expense,” River Front Times reporter Chad Garrison said in an email.
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Outrage with Garrison comes from this paragraph in an article he penned about the incident. “Given what we know of him — 50, white, angry — he certainly fits the demographics of a Tea Party member.”Garrison said his report was a “joke” and was not meant literally. He pointed to another section of the same story where he wrote: “On second thought, maybe he’s not a Tea Party member. Firebombing your opponent’s office seems a little too, um, sane for that group.”
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On Thursday, Garrison said, “you’d have to be quite the literalist to believe I was actually accusing anyone of a crime. Then again, it’s becoming ever clearer that these are people who can’t take a joke and who have no emotion other than blind outrage and indignation.”
I have never been accused of being “humor-impaired”, but I don’t think I get the joke here. I’m missing the punchline or something.
OK, let me try a joke in the mold of this Garrison fellow:
A Republican and a Democrat walk into a bar the day after the 2010 midterm elections. The Republican asks the Democrat, “Say, how does my backside taste?” The Democrat says, “F### you!”
Get it? “How does my backside taste?” A retort with an invitation to self-fornicate? How funny is that?
As the first commenter points out at the blog, the MSM and the left (pardon the redundancy) is 0-for-5 in pushing the “Tea Party is violent” meme. Let’s recap, shall we?
1. Swarms of angry white Tea Party activists descended on Capitol Hill and called a group of black Democrat Congressmen the “N” word. Problem is, there is NO evidence that this occurred. Andrew Breitbart offered a $100k reward if anyone could produce any video/audio evidence that it really happened, and thus far, Breitbart’s wallet has not gotten $100k lighter.
2. The Times Square Bomber was supposed to have been a Tea Party activist, mad at the passage of ObamaCare. Turns out it was another bloodthirsty camelhumping Islamofascist. Who knew, right?
3. Last week’s cabbie stabber was supposed to be some right-wing intolerant Islamophobe nutbar. Turns out that guy was a liberal activist. Ouch.
4. The nutbar who flew his plane into the Austin, TX, IRS building was allegedly a Tea Party type. Turns out that guy was a communist, i.e. a left-winger.
5. The above story, in Missouri.
You would think that as hard as the MSM tries its level best to accuse the Tea Party types of being rabid racists and violent whack-a-doodles, they could find at least ONE case where it’s true. I mean, at least ONE? Try as they might, though, they can’t do it.
Left-wing (though formerly respectable) blog Slate goes all “Dewey defeats Truman”
Yesterday was Primary Day in a few states, Alaska being one of them. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the incumbent RINO from cherry-red Alaska, drew a primary opponent in Tea Party fave Joe Miller. Sarah Palin endorsed Miller, which naturally caused the left to wig out and want Murkowski to win. Hilarity ensues.
On Tuesday, in her home state, Sarah Palin’s favorite will probably get trounced. Joe Miller is widely expected to lose by a large margin to incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary—an embarrassing defeat for the former governor, who has endorsed Miller, but also to Miller’s other major backer, the Tea Party Express.
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Unfortunately for him, not even Chuck Norris in his most bad-ass role—which is, of course, Chuck Norris in real life—could rescue the Miller campaign. Always a long shot, Miller lags behind Murkowski, the heir to one of Alaska’s political dynasties, by double digits.
If, “lags behind by double digits”, you mean “looks like he’s going to win”, then yeah…Miller “lags behind by double digits”! As of this posting, Miller is up 51% – 49% with 98% of the precincts reporting (link here). He should win, but if he does lose a squeaker, Slate’s meme about Miller getting creamed goes down faster than Monica Lewinsky in her presidential kneepads.
Crow: the other white meat.
Quote of the day, “Hewitt zings obscure liberal talk radio hostess” edition
Hugh Hewitt went on CNN’s Larry King Live (hosted by Obama shill Tavis Smiley), along with liberal talk radio hostess Stephanie Miller (and two other people I don’t know), to talk about Shelly O’s lavish European vacation (among other topics). During Hewitt’s turn to talk, he referenced how Dems are going to get swamped this November. Miller thought she would “show up” Hewitt by threatening to replay his prediction after the 2010 midterm election on her radio show for all of her listeners to hear (and to laugh about, assuming the Dems don’t lose as badly as anticipated). Hilarity ensues:
“Good, no one will hear it!” Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnng! I love it…though I assume both of her listeners didn’t!
Pudgy MSNBC moonbat host mocks Gov. Christie for his weight
Ed Schultz isn’t exactly svelte himself, but he undoubtedly amused both of his viewers as he mocked NJ Gov. Chris Christie’s weight in an entire segment. Considering that Christie pokes fun at himself when it comes to his weight, it’s safe to say that, like everything else Schultz and MSNBC tries, this falls flat, too.
Hey, Ed: Step away from the Krispie Kremes before you taunt someone over their weight, m’kay? Besides, your boy Michael Moore might not find your diatribe very amusing. Just sayin’.
KY Dem Senate candidate swears…at church picnic
Maybe cursing offends you, and maybe it doesn’t. But I think we can all agree that it’s probably not going to rank very highly on the “brilliant ideas” scale to drop an “SOB” at a Kentucky church picnic while trolling for votes, no?
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