Rand Paul:
Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer.
We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...
Happy Friday.
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor.
"President Obama came out with approval of same-sex marriage. He said that over the years, he has ...
I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...
Finally.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...
Election roundup:
Indiana.
As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...
There are lies...and then there are lies.
My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...
From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this.
Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. Happy Friday.
"Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...
It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson.
Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...
Sullivan:
What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage?
A faggot.
Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...
And they claim that atheists are immoral?
The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...
It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden.
Romney, April 2007:
It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...
In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics.
We have been studying Washington politics and ...
Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play.
He has proposed his version of the Dream Act in which people who entered the country illegally as children will be ...
Beyond the rhetoric, the political BS, the lies - that is, the concerted effort by the right-wing noise machine to distort and misinform at every opportunity - is the very ...
It was never a matter of 'if'...only of 'when'.
Two constituencies that President Obama is holding onto about as strongly now as he did four years ago are voters under 30 ...
I'm not sure what one does with information of this sort but I thought it important you know. From Alex Pareene's new ebook, The Rude Guide To Mitt.
Every good Romney ...
Guess whose illustration made the May cover of a national magazine? Mine!
I'm quite sure there isn't much Stephen Moore/Newsmax and I share in common as far as politics goes but ...
Jesus (c. 30 CE):
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.
Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Catholic diocese of Peoria, Illinois (2012 ...
Shirley Sherrod, the fired and subsequently vindicated Department of Agriculture employee, said today she will sue the conservative blogger who posted doctored video on the Internet last week that made her appear racist.
The posted video resulted in Sherrod being fired by the Obama administration, which was followed by public apologies from President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for dismissing her without learning the whole story. Even Fox News Host Bill O’Reilly apologized when it became apparent that the video he aired on his show was incomplete and that Sherrod was telling a story of personal growth, not bigotry.
But Andrew Breitbart, the blogger who posted the spliced video of Sherrod in the first place, has remained unapologetic, despite the fact that the full video features Sherrod telling an NAACP meeting how she became a better person and overcame her biases.
My gut feeling tells me that this will lead to neither an apology nor a change in behavior from the Breitbarts of the right-wing blogosphere but I’m glad to see someone willing to say, “Enough!” and try to do something about it.
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This has to be stopped. I don’t see it as a right/left situation, meaning I doubt that any of us would sanction this kind of editing no matter who was doing it or for what side of an argument. We all know that it is WRONG. Breitebart is a vile man who cares only for himself and the power that he craves, no matter how he gets it. I would like to see breitbart used as a new term to discribe this kind of nefarious behavior and even more I would like to see a specific law by that name to cover anyone who intentionally does this kind of editing again.
I don’t see even a successful lawsuit doing much good in the long run. If she took Breitfart for everything he had, right wing donors would just set him back up in business again. It amuses me to think about what a bugaboo George Soros is for the right, when they’ve got money coming in from the Coors family, the Bradley Foundation, the Koch brothers, Richard Scaife and a host of others. Surely any or all of them will step in with new seed money for more smears.
This has to be stopped. I don’t see it as a right/left situation, meaning I doubt that any of us would sanction this kind of editing no matter who was doing it or for what side of an argument. We all know that it is WRONG. Breitebart is a vile man who cares only for himself and the power that he craves, no matter how he gets it. I would like to see breitbart used as a new term to discribe this kind of nefarious behavior and even more I would like to see a specific law by that name to cover anyone who intentionally does this kind of editing again.
Great job Shirley. This guy must be stopped, he and others like him. Perhaps a successful lawsuit will provide a wee bit of a deterrent
I don’t see even a successful lawsuit doing much good in the long run. If she took Breitfart for everything he had, right wing donors would just set him back up in business again. It amuses me to think about what a bugaboo George Soros is for the right, when they’ve got money coming in from the Coors family, the Bradley Foundation, the Koch brothers, Richard Scaife and a host of others. Surely any or all of them will step in with new seed money for more smears.