Video- The Paultards Are Back!!

Boy did I miss them. But, like their birther buddies, they still can't make music worth a shit.

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Video- Sunday Loon Watch: Rudy Giuliani keeps on saying the same thing over and over and over

Via Jed.

Obama aide fires back at Beck over Mao remarks

Snap.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- White House communications director Anita Dunn fired back at criticism from TV commentator Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao Tse-tung quote Beck took issue with was picked up from legendary GOP strategist Lee Atwater.

"The Mao quote is one I picked up from the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater from something I read in the late 1980s, so I hope I don't get my progressive friends mad at me," Dunn told CNN.

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On Thursday night's program, Beck showed exclusive video of Dunn discussing the communist leader, who was responsible for a cultural revolution in 1966 that included re-education camps and setting the army and students on witch hunts against his opponents.

How They REALLY Pick Nobel Laureates

By GottaLaff

Class! Please come to order! Wingnuts, gasbags, this is for you. Pay attention. Boss Limpdong, put down those pills and turn around! Glenn Blech? Put. Away. The Vicks. And listen up!

[W]hile Obama was indeed nominated less than two weeks after becoming President, the decision was made several months later. We won't know who nominated him, however, unless that person (or people -- thousands of nominators have been known to gather behind one candidate) comes forward. The committee keeps details of nominations secret for 50 years.

Children! Stop that snickering and for godsake, ClusterFoxers, give me that Obama witch doctor picture... now!

You are all hopeless. Sigh. Go here for the rest, it explains everything in detail. Geez, I need a drink. I'm leaving early. Class dismissed!

To All Teabaggers, You didn’t get mad when…

By GottaLaff

This is from an August post over at Progressive Nation. It still applies, and I'm sure you'll have plenty to add, because a lot has happened in the past month or so:

You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy com­pany offi­cials to dic­tate energy policy.

You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA oper­a­tive got outed.

You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn’t get mad when we ille­gally invaded a coun­try that posed no threat to us.

You didn’t get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and count­ing) on said ille­gal war.

You didn’t get mad when over 10 bil­lion dol­lars just dis­ap­peared in Iraq.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the Abu Grahib photos.

You didn’t get mad when you found out we were tor­tur­ing people.

You didn’t get mad when the gov­ern­ment was ille­gally wire­tap­ping Americans.

You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.

You didn’t get mad when you saw the hor­ri­ble con­di­tions at Wal­ter Reed.

You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city drown.

You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the tril­lion dol­lar mark.

You finally got mad when.. when… wait for it… when the gov­ern­ment decided that peo­ple in Amer­ica deserved the right to see a doc­tor if they are sick.

Very well done. Feel free to add your two cents.

'World Leader' to Obama: Explain Why 'They're Putting a Hitler Moustache On You'

I'm guessing this was in the vids I posted earlier, but if you don't have time to watch all the videos... Can you imagine how freaking stupid we look to other industrial countries? Bet President Obama didn't have an answer for him. Via Jake-

President Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner last night, discussing false claims made about the health care reform bill, told a little anecdote.

"I was up at the G20 -- just a little aside -- I was up at the G20, and some of you saw those big flags and all the world leaders come in and Michelle and I are shaking hands with them," the president said. "One of the leaders -- I won't mention who it was -- he comes up to me. We take the picture, we go behind.

"He says, 'Barack, explain to me this health care debate.'

"He says, 'We don't understand it. You're trying to make sure everybody has health care and they're putting a Hitler mustache on you -- I don't -- that doesn't make sense to me. Explain that to me.'"

"Holy George Bush" VIDEO: And they're worried about Obama indoctrination? Um....

By GottaLaff



Earlier today, Paddy posted this video (pleas go take a look), which got two thumbs down from Conservative film reviewers. Okay, more like 12 thumbs down and one prominent middle finger up. And they weren't film reviewers.

Thankfully, Glenn Greenwald had a little something to say about all that. Please go read his "Deleting the Bush Personality Cult from history". Here's a teeny out-of-context sample:

That's what "right-wing cocoon means" -- creating your own pleasant version of "reality" and eliminating anything unpleasant.

And don't forget to watch the above video.

Then explain to me what in the world these Rushpublic amnesiacs are ranting about.

UPDATE, "Laura Ingraham: Obama Will Be Indoctrinating Children Next Tuesday" speaks for itself:

Principal apologizes for showing 'leftist propaganda' 'I Pledge' video

I had to walk around the house a couple times after reading this, I'm so g-d'd angry. Please, someone with children, tell me what is so offense about this? I can understand someone not agreeing with stem cells research or whatever, but that's the speakers pledge, not one that is being thrust on the children, no?

A school principal has apologized for showing a video at an assembly that a politically conservative group leader is calling "radical, leftist propaganda."

Children at Eagle Bay Elementary School in Farmington were shown a short video called "I pledge" on Aug. 28. The video opens with an image of President Barack Obama and part of a speech in which he says, "Let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other." The video then features celebrities making pledges about how they will help the president and the world -- and that's where some say the problem lies.

Many pledges, such as supporting local food banks, smiling more, and caring for the elderly are noncontroversial. But other pledges, such as "to never give anyone the finger when I'm driving again," "to sell my obnoxious car and buy a hybrid" and to advance stem cell research cross the line, some say.

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Gayle Ruzicka, president of conservative Utah Eagle Forum, said the video was blatantly political. She said other offensive pledges included, "I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama," "I pledge allegiance to the funk, to the united funk of funkadelica,**" and pledges to not use plastic grocery bags and not flush the toilet after urinating.

** The only one of these pledges that this leftist lefty libtard smelly hugger of trees hippie has actually taken.

Video- Pastor Wants Obama To Die Of Brain Cancer: "Like Ted Kennedy"

They're all certifiable and should be locked up.

"In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition"

By GottaLaff

Good article by Rick Perlstein. Here are a few excerpts:

Liberals are right to be vigilant about manufactured outrage, and particularly about how the mainstream media can too easily become that outrage's entry into the political debate. For the tactic represented by those fake Nixon letters was a long-term success. Conservatives have become adept at playing the media for suckers, getting inside the heads of editors and reporters, haunting them with the thought that maybe they are out-of-touch cosmopolitans and that their duty as tribunes of the people's voices means they should treat Obama's creation of "death panels" as just another justiciable political claim. If 1963 were 2009, the woman who assaulted Adlai Stevenson would be getting time on cable news to explain herself. That, not the paranoia itself, makes our present moment uniquely disturbing.

It used to be different. You never heard the late Walter Cronkite taking time on the evening news to "debunk" claims that a proposed mental health clinic in Alaska is actually a dumping ground for right-wing critics of the president's program, or giving the people who made those claims time to explain themselves on the air. The media didn't adjudicate the ever-present underbrush of American paranoia as a set of "conservative claims" to weigh, horse-race-style, against liberal claims. Back then, a more confident media unequivocally labeled the civic outrage represented by such discourse as "extremist" -- out of bounds.

The tree of crazy is an ever-present aspect of America's flora. Only now, it's being watered by misguided he-said-she-said reporting and taking over the forest. Latest word is that the enlightened and mild provision in the draft legislation to help elderly people who want living wills -- the one hysterics turned into the "death panel" canard -- is losing favor, according to the Wall Street Journal, because of "complaints over the provision."

Good thing our leaders weren't so cowardly in 1964, or we would never have passed a civil rights bill -- because of complaints over the provisions in it that would enslave whites.

I long for the good old days when news reporting was, well, news reporting.

Amen

After hearing that admittedly old, but still absofucking batshit crazy man from the Specter town hall just now on Rattigan's show, may I add a triple amen.

Barack Obama stripped millions of Americans of their right to not have a black President.

Video- Townhalls Gone Wild — THE COMMERCIAL

Via Jed.

Video- Sunday Loon Watch: Malkin touts teaparty “counter-insurgency,” blames unemployment on laziness

Via Jed.

Video- Malkin: Beware of Evil Liberal AARP, They Want to Take Away Grandma's Healthcare

Truly a piece of work. Her book is number one on Amazon. Thanks to FDL for vid.

Audio- Mike Castle's Birther Harrasser Revealed As "Crazy Eileen"

Oh my, the Queen of the Birthers is a generic nutcase, she's not even a specialist! It's pretty bad when you're so far out there that the Winger radio shows ban you... Headline taken in full because it was so succinct.

Video- Wingers Coulter, Buchanan and Frum: Palin, "Bigger" Than Obama, or Quitter?

Even the wingers can't decide. I like the way Frum compared her to Michael Jackson.

(CBS) Is Sarah Palin still a star, or a fading quitter? What does the future hold for her?

If a three-way discussion among Republican pundits on "The Early Show Saturday Edition" is any indication, more of the same -- she'll remain as controversial and passion-provoking rod as ever.

Author and right-wing firebrand Ann Coulter, GOP strategist Bay Buchanan, and NewMajority.com founder and former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum had at it over the question of whether Palin could be a viable presidential candidate at some point.

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Buchanan said Palin's quitting will tarnish her severely, Coulter claimed Palin is still so big she's even a bigger story than President Obama, and Frum cited the very discussion they were having as proof of how divisive Palin is, even in her own party.

Video- Fox News' Dr. Marc Siegel on rationing care: "[I]n a way it's a form of eugenics"

This is their new rallying cry, that the President's health care will lead to "euthanasia" of the elderly. John takes it down hard, plus the comments are worth the read on a rough morning. Via Media Matters.

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Video- Hannity advances Obama birth certificate conspiracies