VIDEO: Introducing the founder of "The Right Network"

By GottaLaff

(click on all images to enlarge)

Yesterday I posted about a brand spanking new network coming to you, courtesy of Comcast! (Yes, that would be the same Comcast that's trying to acquire NBC). This little endeavor is called The Wrong, er, Right Network!

I did a little digging with the help of Twitter pal JamieHarbor, and thought I'd introduce you to its founder, David "We need new program ideas" Jaget:

Here he is on Twitter:

Apparently, he's really into getting thousands of free Twitter followers... or he's oblivious to having been hacked.

Jaget mentions that he is proud to be Jewish in his Twitter bio, here at a rally in D.C. (at 1:59), and in the following video of his appearance in Lansing, Michigan. I'm not sure why he feels it necessary to emphasize that, but, well, he does:



And here he is in Wisconsin, once again, drumming up business for his new venture with Comcast, and using others to further his mission:



And finally, here's documentation of a rather modest donation to Rudy Giuliani:

It's comforting to know David, his BFF Kelsey Grammer, and Comcast are doing everything they can to "protect this country against Liberalism."

Time to switch your cable provider, if you haven't already.

UPDATE: Seems he may be a Las Vegas chiropractor who's trying to sell an $800,000 home. Or not. But if not, there are two David Jagets living in Vegas (his Facebook page references Las Vegas as his "current city"):

Dr. David Jaget and Laura Jaget have listed for sale a five-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at [xxxx xxxxxxxx Dr.] in Las Vegas for $799,900.

Dr. Jaget bought the property for $395,000 in Dec. 2000. The 3,315-square-foot house was built in 1995.

Frank Napoli of Prudential Americana Group Realtors is the listing agent for the property.

Dr. Jaget is a Las Vegas-based chiropractor and owner at Spinal Rehabilitation Center.

Mrs. Jaget is the co-owner of Spinal Rehabilitation Center.

Some digs:
Looks like they were going for the Voyeur club look.

UPDATE: Comcast denies any involvement.

VIDEO: Righties launching own network. Fox wasn't enough?

By GottaLaff

COMING THIS SUMMER to a Tee Vee Machine with bad reception near you!



Breitbart? In a promo that's supposed to draw viewers?

Kidding aside, Progressives need to do get their message out on a network of their own, as I opined the other day here and on Twitter. It's something many of us want, but nobody is funding yet, to our knowledge. Al Gore's Current TV is as close as we've come.

But this isn't just about news coverage, as you can see:

(click on image to enlarge)

Click on the link to see more promos of what they promise us will be wacky zany wingy Tee Vee antics.

UPDATE: Clarification, via Will Bunch:

Great stuff, but you should know there's some separation between "Comcast Corp." and Snider's "Comcast-Spectacor". That is, Comcast sunk a lot of money into Snider's Spectacor, but he has a lot of independence -- here in Philly we see the two as very separate. Comcast Corp. -- despicable as they are -- has more ties to Democrats than the GOP, actually -- Corp.'s No. 3 used to be Rendell's top aide.

So noted. Thank you, Will!

UPDATE: Comcast denies any involvement.

H/t: JamieHarbor

"You, my friend have been shmeklenized"

By GottaLaff

The Mudflats has a hilarious post up about a reader who claims that LipSchmutz McWTF punk'd everyone, because, see, "mandation" is a real word. How does the reader know? Well, pfft, because the word was defined in the ever-reliable Wiki Answers!

It's safe to say that McWTF's followers are just as well-read as she is:

In the wee hours of the morning, I got this little gem in the moderation queue from someone in or around Salem Oregon, who calls themselves “AKReport”

Submitted on 2010/01/28 at 1:02am
Sorry AKM, Palin just punked you. mandation is a word, moron.

mandation: “another form of involuntary servitude”

1 : a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one’s course of action or way of life
2 : a right by which something (as a piece of land) owned by one person is
subject to a specified use or enjoyment by another

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_mandation

Ohhh, my friend…

Anyone familiar with dictionaries, and wikis will know immediately why I got such a good chuckle over this one.

Mudflats had a lot to say, a must-read lot to say in fact, but finally responds with this:

You, my friend have been shmeklenized.

verb -Shmeklenize -d
1. To be revealed on a blog or social media website site as having made embarrassing and false accusations based upon knowledge obtained from a wiki.
2. To insult someone in a manner in which you, yourself are guilty.

syn. - sproinked, flubbugated, bloamed

My new favorite word: Shmeklenized. Although "sproinked" is right up there.

Now go read. You'll be glad you did.

VIDEO: Bachmann Invokes 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' (Note- They Lost)

By GottaLaff

Code Stupid:

At today's conservative "Code Red" rally against the health care bill, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) rallied the faithful with a fun historical and literacy reference: "It's the charge of the light brigade!"

The fun part here is that the Light Brigade lost that famous battle of the Crimean War -- they lost it badly, sustaining heavy numbers of deaths and injuries.

Charge! (and by that, I don't mean MasterCard or Visa, 'Chele)

Video- Tom DeLay Dances Texas Two-Step on Season Finale of Dancing With The Stars

Sometimes you just need a little Delay booty roll to get the day started.

Meet the 2010 opposition

By GottaLaff

I've posted most of the sheer garbage from this nutcase's site, but if you must, and if you're into further masochism, go here. He says is running against David Price (D-North Carolina).

It is truly mind-boggling that not only do racist lunatics like this exist, but that they actually represent like-minded zealots.

He references social engineering, which is ironic since he himself seems to be all kinds of "engineering" gone very wrong.

Allow me to use Hutchins' own words against him:

"The RACE CARD does NOT work, once the IDIOTS are EXPOSED."

Click on images to enlarge:

Remember the Alamo.

H/t: Mark Karlin at BuzzFlash

VIDEO- Why We Need Gun Laws: Caught On Camera, Wild Shootout At Bar

By GottaLaff

Jarring, to say the least:



Remember my post of the other day about a sting operation at gun shows? This is one reason we need to clamp down on the crazies:

From The AP: Police have released footage of a shootout that erupted inside a bar in Toledo, Ohio. They say no one was injured but they are now scouring the area for suspects -

Oh, and here's a little reassuring something for those in Arizona to sleep on:

Under the law, backed by the National Rifle Association, the 138,350 people with concealed-weapons permits in Arizona will be allowed to bring their guns into bars and restaurants that haven't posted signs banning them.

And let's not forget those good ol' gunslingers at presidential speeches and town hall meetings.

H/t: jasonblogz

VIDEO- Tea Party Express Guy: "This is AFRO-LENINISM! Coming to you on a silver platter! Barack Hussein Obama!"

By GottaLaff

Somethin's a-comin'! I don't know what, but... but... somethin'! It could be somethin' GREAT! Who the hell knows, man, 'cause I don't care! It doesn't matter!! Barack Hussein... He's... he's black! Gaaaaaaa!!! We're all gonna die!



How reassuring to witness adults-- these are adults, aren't they?-- who get so lathered up they can't see straight, yet insist upon spreading their unadulterated, seething, hateful spew on the Tee Vee Machine for children to watch while eating their Mac'N'Cheez din-dins.

But hey! Them Family Values, they sure 'nough do come through LOUD AND CLEAR!!

VIDEO: Former Reagan/Bush consultant equates teachers unions with Hitler Youth leaders

By GottaLaff

BuzzFlash found this one for me. Whoa::

The notion of government organized and funded community service volunteerism has no shortage of enemies on the right side of the political spectrum. [...] But no Republican politician can or would match the rhetoric Judith Reisman employs to denounce AmeriCorps programs.

Reisman, a former consultant for the Reagan and both Bush administrations says that government community service programs are not dissimilar than those employed in fascist or communist regimes to brainwash the young.

Old-timers naturally recall Communist, Fascist and Nazi youth brigades as severing children from their parent's religious traditions and beliefs.

In her WorldNetDaily column she has special animus for gay tolerance groups like the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, and for the American Library Association and National Education Association. [...]

Reisman, a former producer for Captain Kangaroo, is founder of the Institute for Media Education fighting what she considers fraudulent sex scientists, sex education and the power and effect of images and the monopoly media to alter human behavior. She says the special emphasis of her work has been and continues to be the negative influence of these change agents upon children and society. Her primary target is the groundbreaking sex research of Dr. Alfred Kinsey which she believes promulgated “a growing and proselytizing international academic pedophile movement”.

She served as a consultant for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education for the Reagan and both Bush administrations. She also claims that she was awarded a grant by the Justice Department to serve as the “principal investigator of an $800,000 grant to investigate Kinsey's role in child sexual abuse and the link to children appearing in mainstream pornography, Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler.”

Go here for more.

VIDEO: "I want to be part of the RNC team!"

By GottaLaff

This is actually a little too embarrassing for my usual snark infested jabs. No, this one jumped the snark all on its own:

The RNC is hiring, and in their job application form, they have this field:

You may create a clip on YouTube of why you want to work at the RNC and cut/paste the URL in the box provided.

Since it's YouTube, these uploaded videos are very much public. I'm hoping this guy gets a job. Failing that, "Libby Liberal" ("interviewing" him) is pretty awesome too.

Will Laura Ingraham mock this guy's weight, too?

VIDEO: Palin filmmaker John Ziegler's meltdown: "You are a sackless lying piece of crap... you have no balls."

By GottaLaff

Every time this gasbag gets in front of a camera, he spews even more gag-inducing bibble-babble, if that's even possible. Here's a thought: Try helping yourself for a change, John. You might start by staying out of camera range for more than 24 hours, a bad habit you and your pal Limelight Palin share.

Wasn't proving himself to be the worst blind date ever on national television embarrassing enough for him? I guess not, considering the obliviously weak arguments in his own defense.

Speaking of oblivious, this wannabe Spielberg once again shows himself to have zero awareness of how video cameras actually record what you say and do, and how those recordings get recycled on the Internets for all to see.

Look! Here's one of those recordings now!

AUDIO-- President Obama: "This @#$%!'s getting way too complicated for me." Yes, it's really him.

By GottaLaff

Strong language alert (Real Legal Alien, are you paying attention?):

If you don't want to hear President Obama roll out curse words that make Chris Rock's vocabulary look like that of a pre-school teacher, then skip this post. The president usually chooses his words so carefully, but not here, not in this post. Because they're not his words.

He's merely imitating an old school mate. I swear (pun intended):

In his bestselling autobiography, Dreams From My Father, President Obama introduces us to his high school friend, “Ray,” who, like him, is bi-racial. Who, also like him, is casting about to find his place in the world. But, who, unlike him, has a potty mouth that would make a sailor blush.

Best of all? When reading the audiobook version of his bio, Obama does impressions of Ray’s manner of speech. Swear words and all.

The article allows us to imagine what Obama might like to say if he were to talk super-duper, extra crunchy tough, and juxtaposes the audio below with lead-ins like:

Sure, it’s a complicated bill. But all these revisions and amendments and cuts and counterproposals and compromises? Ridiculous. Enough’s enough.

It’s time for the Prez to say it plain:

Go read, and listen to, the rest, in context, here. Meanwhile, I'll provide a few more bonus potty-mouthed little audio clips for those who are fascinated by words like these coming out of the mouth of a man who is otherwise so incredibly well-spoken. Make sure your kids are out of the room. Some of this is pretty strong stuff:




H/t

No Joke: Rush Limbaugh Speaking At CPAC 2009

By GottaLaff

"Wow" doesn't even begin to say it. I think I just did a comedic spit-take:

Rush Limbaugh will be the closing speaker at the major Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) gathering later this month, according to a message distributed to CPAC supporters, further bringing the brash conservative radio host into the forefront of Republican leadership.

A Mecca of sorts for conservatives, CPAC is a forum for political aspirants and activists to make their case to the party faithful. [...]

That Limbaugh would keynote the affair is a telling indication of just how lacking the GOP is for actual elected leadership.

Lacking? How about bankrupt? Desperate? Devoid of? Nonexistent?

VIDEO-- Dick Armey to Joan Walsh on Hardball:" I'm so damn glad that you could never be my wife..."

By GottaLaff

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

On Hardball just now, Joan Walsh and Dick Armey were discussing Phil Gingrey's apology to Rush Limbaugh. True to form, Dick Armey acted like a total Dick... Armey (at about 9:45) to Ms. Walsh:

"I'm so damn glad that you could never be my wife, 'cause I surely wouldn't have to listen to that prattle from you every day."

In the next segment, New York Time's Bob Herbert wasted no time in saying that Dick owed Joan Walsh and Hardball's viewers an apology.

Then, during the segue into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Tweety again commented about the inappropriate nature of Big Dick's insensitivity.

And we thought Rush Limbaugh was bad.

VIDEO gag alert: House conservatives say Bush was a "knowing lion" who "walked among us"

By GottaLaff

And thus was the sinkhole of a being named George Bush, whose wisenheimer wisdom doth still touch us the way a cattle prod doth evoke agonized mooage; whose erudition was equal to none but that of Carrot Top; and whose repugnance still reverberates as doth that solitary brain wave in Sarah Palin's vacuous skull...

Reps. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Mike Pence (R-IN), and Steve King (R-IA) last Thursday:

– FRANKS: “President Bush often had to walk like a knowing lion — like a knowing lion, Mr. Speaker, through the chattering of hyenas. … [I]f those critics do not devour themselves in the meantime, Mr. Speaker, they may face the bared teeth of an enemy that will make us all wish the lion still walked among us.”

– PENCE: “I truly believe that this nation owes a debt of gratitude to George W. Bush.”

– KING: “I’m here to say thank you to President Bush for the things that he has done when he’s had his steady hand on the till of leadership, and especially with our national defense.”

At one point, Franks began to tear up when talking about how Bush made the country “brighter” and “more hopeful” for his children. Throughout the 40 minutes, they also compared Bush to Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill.

Let us bow our heads and pray...

Yes, pray, you heareth me correctly; this atheist is resorting to prayer so that we never, ever again haveth another president as loathsome as the wretched George W. Bush. Let that message be echoed from this moment on, so that our children and our children's children can add this particular "knowing lion" to the extinct species list.

Amen.

Three Days

By GottaLaff

Three days.

Obama Signs Order To Close Guantanamo... Shutters CIA 'Black Site' Prisons... Forbids Torture Of Detainees... Lifts Abortion 'Gag-Rule'... Freezes Proposals On Easing Emissions... Revives Freedom Of Information Act...

We've gone from an eternity of destruction to three days of eye-popping accomplishments.

Crystal clear

By GottaLaff

You want transparency in government? Here are some of the very transparencies you may be looking for, from President Obama's new site, change.gov:

Among the ideas listed on the site:

• Centralize Ethics and Lobbying Information for Voters: Obama and Biden will create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable and downloadable format.
  
  
• Require Independent Monitoring of Lobbying Laws and Ethics Rules: Obama and Biden will use the power of the presidency to fight for an independent watchdog agency to oversee the investigation of congressional ethics violations so that the public can be assured that ethics complaints will be investigated.

• Create a Public "Contracts and Influence" Database: As president, Obama will create a "contracts and influence" database that will disclose how much federal contractors spend on lobbying, and what contracts they are getting and how well they complete them.
  
  
• Expose Special Interest Tax Breaks to Public Scrutiny: Obama and Biden will ensure that any tax breaks for corporate recipients — or tax earmarks — are also publicly available on the Internet in an easily searchable format.
  
  
• Sunlight Before Signing: Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House Web site for five days.
  
  
• Shine Light on Earmarks and Pork Barrel Spending: Obama's Transparency and Integrity in Earmarks Act will shed light on all earmarks by disclosing the name of the legislator who asked for each earmark, along with a written justification, 72 hours before they can be approved by the full Senate.

I've died and gone to heaven.

Rogue Barbie wouldn't go on stage with GOP Senator Sununu

By GottaLaff

Forget reaching across the aisle, Wardrobe Barbie won't even reach across the stage:

Another reporter asked if he [Steve Schmidt] was happy with "the pick of Palin." He ducked the question. Schmidt was trying, not very hard, to hide his true feelings. He had been compelled to personally take over Palin's debate prep when she seemed unwilling to engage in the drudge work of learning the issues. McCain's advisers had been frustrated when Palin refused to talk to donors because she found it corrupting, and they were furious when they heard rumors that Todd Palin was calling around to Alaska bigwigs telling them to hold their powder until 2012. The day of the third debate, Palin refused to go onstage with New Hampshire GOP Sen. John Sununu and Jeb Bradley, a New Hampshire congressman running for the Senate, because they were pro-choice and because Bradley opposed drilling in Alaska. The McCain campaign ordered her onstage at the next campaign stop, but she refused to acknowledge the two Republican candidates standing behind her. McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin (perhaps once a week when they were not traveling together, estimated one adviser). Aides kept him in the dark about Palin's spending on clothes because they were sure he'd be offended. In his concession speech, McCain praised Palin, but the body language between them onstage was not particularly friendly. (Palin had asked to speak; Schmidt vetoed the request.)

I'm loving this next one:

The ad attacking Obama's former pastor was slick, with much better production values than the crude Reverend Wright videos running on the Internet. But it was too little, too late. When a NEWSWEEK reporter e-mailed a top Obama adviser for reaction, a reply came back reading simply: ZZZZZ.

Gramm-pa McCain has the worst judgment imaginable. The right candidate won.

Understatement.

UPDATE: The denials begin.

9,300 miles, 22 hours and $5,000 for one vote: “Apathy doesn’t work in a democracy.”

By GottaLaff

Tears:

For nearly a month, she and her husband had been waiting for their New York State absentee ballots to arrive in India, where she has been working since the summer. A week ago, they realized that even if the ballots arrived before the election — a proposition that was growing more dubious by the minute — they had almost no chance of getting them back in time to be counted.

They had already called the American Consulate, to no avail, and had looked into hiring a round-trip courier service.

“We had a long talk about it,” Ms. Scott-Ker said. “We could go on holiday to a beach somewhere. Or we could come back here and vote. It was a long talk. We decided it was important to stand up and be counted.

“We bought the tickets that Friday, the 24th.”

On Tuesday evening, she and her husband caught a flight from Bangalore to New Delhi, about 1,100 miles. The next leg of the journey, 7,500 miles, took them to Chicago. By 5:30 on Wednesday morning, they had cleared immigration and customs at O’Hare International Airport, and flew the last 700 miles to La Guardia. Their journey of 9,300 miles had taken 22 hours.

It is possible for a traveler to go farther in one direction on earth — but not much. When all their expenses are counted, their trip will have cost them about $5,000, Ms. Scott-Ker said.

My hero.

Her determination is clear. Even so, was it really necessary to go to all that trouble to cast votes in New York State, where most polls give the Democratic ticket a lead of 30 percent or more?

“Then you’re relying on other people to do your job,” she said. “Apathy doesn’t work in a democracy.”

Three more days.

Gramm-pa McCain Buses in 4,000 Kids for Ohio Rally

By GottaLaff

Class if you don't go to that rally, you will be counted as truant! Now get! On! That! Bus!

Consider it a field trip:

[A]lmost the entire crowd of 6,000 was forced to be there.

From NBC’s Adam Aigner:

A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses.

There’s really no better way to create the illusion of enthusiasm for a candidate than by enlisting the support of children who presumably face punishment for skipping school if they don’t attend.

I wonder if there will be a pop quiz about what Gramm-pa said? I'm betting half of those kids dozed off.