A well, meaning liberal finally wises up to why feeding the beast is a bad idea. Thus, after aiding and abetting O’Reilly in persuading people to kill abortion doctors, she now can no longer go on his show.
Look, if the guy was actually willing to allow other points of view to exist in his Shit Zone, you’d have a point. But he doesn’t, so I can’t see how that is a great idea at all. At least you woke up to it.
I love this article.
It also explains why people my age seem so damned enamored of the GOP because of the Reagan myth in spite of all the evil shit that party has done directly to us in terms of wars and debt and all-around social depravity.
Those Buchanan kids weren’t spanked enough as children.
Plus, their copies of Mein Kampf should have been burned. I don’t care that Hitler autographed them personally.
Bay Buchanan has the nerve to say that her employee (I think I recently said it was her brother Pat’s worker) is being lynched by the media.
Why would she use these words? Because the guy she hired – and keeps employing – was the asshat who assaulted a black woman and called her the N-word. You know, what in most places constitutes a borderline hate crime at best.
But being a conservative means that you’re the victim, regardless of the fact that you a) are the aggressor, b) probably have the power, and c) oh yeah, you COMMITTED A FUCKING CRIME!
And you wonder how these idiots get any votes in elections at all.
For some, like me, the Age of Obama is a little underwhelming of late. Gitmo is still in operation, Cheney isn’t in prison, racists can run amok speaking hate on TV and gays are second class citizens. The world still hates us and we’re still spying on our own people.
That said, things are changing, and here’s a big one that comes from our pals Down Under. Thanks to stem cells – yeah, “evil” stem cells – scientists there have restored sight to the blind.
Yeah, stem cells can help cure blindness.
Science!
So let the Talibangelicals go full Luddite and move into the national parks armed to the teeth. Let their ilk get sterile and die off. They aren’t part of our genetic future. We can clone them and send the clones in to kill their Primes for all I care.
Thanks to our president, we can now jump back into the stem cell gene pool and see what else we can cure. Cancer? Diabetes? Alzheimers? Republicanism?
Olbermann closed his show with a commentary to “quarantine” FOX News.
That I have a commercial conflict of interest here is obvious, so I’ll make the first symbolic contribution to this quarantine. One of my pleasures, obviously, is constantly criticizing him in that Ted Baxter voice. It is the idea of laughter as a social sanction against inflexible behavior. But this is no time for laughter. This is serious. Serious as death. Serious as George Tiller’s death. So as of this show’s end I will retire the name, the photograph and the caricature. The words may still be quoted in the future as developments dictate, but the goal here is to get this blindly irresponsible man and his ilk off the air. We are only in the television news business, a profession that is at times about two inches up from carnival barking. We must again separate it, television, from terrorism! And we must again make the world safe for people condemned by the Fox News Channel.
I have a couple problems here. One is obvious. How can you be “pro-life” while resorting to assassination as an argument tactic? And yes, some folks are justifiably calling it fundamentalist terrorism. So, really, how do you reconcile the belief system to the behavior?
More important to me, even in my current “spiritual without particular religion” phase, is the concept of holy ground. Sanctuary. Gangs respect it (for the most part). The Families swear by it. Even the KGB respected the tradition. Why don’t Talibangelicals? Last year, that one asshat shot up a church in Tennessee to kill some token Democrats. Now, a doctor gets shot in church.
Not *near* the church. Not pacing outside the church deciding whether or not he could enter. He was *in* church. As an usher in said church. An active participant in the worship of God.
But these so-called “compassionate conservatives” think it is okay to enter a church with a gun and assassinate someone. And why not? They want you to have guns in national parks. They want you to pack heat in school. Why WOULDN’T they agree to execution by the pipe organ?
These twits do not respect any opinions that aren’t on par with their own narrow minded view. Zealots. Racists. Bigots. Assassins. Terrorists.
When will someone tell these fools that this is not religion. It is only hate. It sure won’t be FauxNews. Here’s their opinions on these matters:
More on this filthbucket O’Reilly and his friends here, and here.
Another doctor dares to call this terrorism.
And Rethug Goon Randall Terry says we shouldn’t over-react in placing the blame where it belongs. Namely, with people like him.
So yeah, I’ll be more on the lookout for places that air FauxNews and to avoid giving them any business. If you want to air hate, you don’t need my money. Probably racists anyway.
Women legislators are a severe minority in the Republican Party. Enough to warrant special attention.
I mean, it’s pretty obvious why given their policies, but it is still quite alarming. You expect this stuff from a Third World nation, just not here. Hell, even Pakistan has had a female leader, but we have a party actively against the rights of women recently hold all the levers of power in the United States.
Case in point: in Rethug Texas, if you are a woman who is raped and work with the police to prosecute your assailant, they will charge you for your rape kit. The implied message is “rape is okay, don’t raise a stink”. A similar charge was exacted in Palin’s Alaska.
The point was really drove home recently when Rethug Hero (and Felon) G. Gordon Liddy launched a race and gender-based attack on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor which included the following statement:
“Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something.”
Stay classy GOP.
I read this article awhile back and was actually dumbfounded by the idea. Apparently, a substantial amount of conservatives think Stephen Colbert’s character is for real.
Granted, I have my issues with the show. I think it toes the line into even pretend angry bigoted too often and too close to be real. Also, it isn’t all that funny overall. That said, I’m still pretty convinced he’s play acting. Don’t take my word for it, here’s an interview Colbert recently did with the Los Angeles Times.
For more on the study, go here.
Apparently, girls who get pregnant and go to religious schools are more likely to get an abortion than their public school peers. So says the results of a study on the matter.
Gee, girls are forced into abortions because of the shame they are bludgeoned with by their narrow-minded zealot adult parents and teachers? I can’t imagine!
This is the danger of theocracy and hatred folks. I feel bad for the girls who think they have no real choices or even a voice in the argument.
Robert Reich weighs in on the topic of Rethug vitriol against Judge Sonia Sotomayor. They’ve gone to the standard plan of letting Limbaugh, O’Reilly et al speak the racist BS while the elected types go “aw shucks, them guys” and pretend to focus on issues.
So far, no one has really called them on it. Hell, Mitch McConnell doesn’t even pretend to speak out against the bigoted statements.
Ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. They’ve attacked her for “having feelings”, re: being a woman. As mentioned in another post, Traitor Liddy had some VERY chauvinistic things to say about her.
Aside from calling Spanish “illegal alien”, the GOP has also gone out of it’s way to label Sotomayor a racist. What is telling is that since they are damn near ALL saying it, doesn’t that kind of make them the racists? Or is calling her “Sonia from the block” not a racist statement.
Among the racist fearmongers are Liddy (see above link), Tom Tancredo, and Limbaugh and Beck and their ilk. Trust me, it isn’t hard to find links to this.
And while trying to pin a racist label on a federal judge, one of Tancredo’s aides (who also worked for Pat Buchanan) confessed to accosting an American-American woman on the street, karate chopping at her head and calling her the N-word. And he has not been fired from Tancredo’s employ.
Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.
But they aren’t the racists. Right.
Wait. Isn’t Sotomayor actually qualified for the job she’s up for?