Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) told colleagues on the House floor on Tuesday that young boys and girls should take classes on traditional gender roles in a marriage because there are some things fathers do “maybe a little bit better” than mothers. > more ... (1 comments)
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Today’s case of omgareyouseriouslyfuckingkiddingme-youridiculousmediaassholes:
A number of readers have raised questions [ed: FAINT!] about the president’s statement that he goes skeet shooting “all the time”… In these suspicious times, they would like to see some evidence. But the White House has been oddly silent about the matter.
OMG! Questions have been raised! The White House is being SILENT!! Bring this man some smelling salts!
For those of you who haven’t seen the Standard Media Playbook, here’s what happens with bullshit like this:
- WaPo asshole shoots a quick inquiry into the White House on the earth-shatteringly-important question of whether Obama is lying about his skeet shooting claims – in the face of exactly ZERO evidence to suggest that.
- White House aides receive WaPo asshole’s stupid fucking inquiry and then proceed to laugh and pass it around to friends and loved ones to spur similar bouts of hilarity.
- While said White House aides are languidly enjoying themselves, WaPo asshole rushes out an OMGZ ALARMS! “Fact Check” article, which makes dark and insidious insinuations about those mean White House aides who are TOTALLY IGNORING MY SERIOUS INQUIRY, GUYS! SERIOUSLY!
- WaPo asshole’s fact check article predictably (MOAR DELICIOUS LINKS PLEASE!) stirs up the Right Wing Outrage Machine to Level 10 (,000,000!!), and wingnuts breathlessly bemoan how President O’Stalin McHitler is like totally plotting secret FEMA death camps under the code name “America Skeet Shoot” because Jesus.
- White House aides check the intertrons at some point and see WaPo asshole’s stupid fucking fact check. They then send him an email with a photo showing Obama skeet shooting (which, presumably, WaPo asshole could have found himself by searching said intertrons) with a subject line reading “Are you serious? Suck on this.”
- WaPo asshole posts the photo as an “update” to an article that remains titled: “The White House’s curious silence about Obama’s claim of skeet shooting”. Thus, the whole stupid fucking exercise will be enshrined in the Articles of Impeachment that Eric Cantor is drawing up as the 438,311th count of High Treason.
No wonder so many people choose to completely ignore politics and the media bullshit surrounding it.
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Oh how we love it when Sully has too much coffee and makes sweeping categorical statements that are wrong:
If there’s one thing we know about the American public right now it is that it is firmly in favor of no cuts on spending, no increases in taxation, and no raising of the debt ceiling limit.
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Anyone think this will generate more than a relatively minor chirp amongst our esteemed pundit class?
A new study [] by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation confirms [that] the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan would result in six out of ten seniors paying substantially more for the same Medicare benefits they receive today.
You have to love this little bit of “leaked” information about Romney’s “plan” for the upcoming debate:
Mitt Romney plans to turn himself into a one-man truth squad during the first presidential debate next week, casting President Barack Obama as someone who can’t be trusted to stick to the facts or keep his promises.Lol.
Sure, Democratic politicians lie all the time, they just don’t do it as much or as brazenly as modern GOP pols. For contrast, check out the WaPo’s fact check of Bill Clinton’s speech last night and then check out a fact check of Paul Ryan’s speech last week.
This election cycle yet again reminds me of how useless fact-checking really is. It’s simple:
- GOP pol spreads a lie; and people listen.
- Fancy fact-checker fact-checks; and none of the “low information voters” who matter pay attention.
- Success.
I was just pondering Blu-Ray to myself this evening and thought I’d open up the topic to comments. Does anyone find themselves using Blu-Ray discs very much? I definitely understand the improvement in the context of video games (e.g., Playstation 3) and increased storage available on-disc for backups. However, when it comes to movies and the presupposed displacement of DVDs, I really wonder if online content distribution is going to outpace Blu-Ray in the home theater space. Thoughts?
Hors D’oeuvres
Small Government GOP Proposal To Teach Kids That Bitches Belong In The Kitchen
Get those damn jack-booted government thugs out of our schools — sex education should be done by parents.Seriously, Just Shoot Me In The Head And Get It Over With
I really don’t understand why I even bother anymore:NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly: “I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it’s going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that.”
> more ... (2 comments)Lawd! Ah Thunk Up A Gud Thawt!
Bear witness to the bright young minds at Liberty University who are trying to make conservatism hep and happnin’ for the YouTube generation. They got real good idears, they do:Travis Korson… suggested framing marriage as an economic issue. “Gay marriage undermines that basic family unit,” he said, and that, in turn, hurts the economy.
Um, what? (4 comments)And Just How Do We Feel About Cory Booker?
The Guardian has a brutal, though not really all that unfair, take on the soon-to-be-senator. I must admit that Booker inspires a lot of ambivalence in me. He’s an impressive person in many ways, and obviously we know all about the minuses. I doubt he’d be a Lieberman-esque embarrassment, and his voting record would most likely not > more ... (2 comments)Republicans now making with the man-brains, for crying out loud. From Lawmaker Says Man’s Brain More Concerned About Costs on PoliticalWire:Maine State Rep. Ken Fredette (R) declared that he and most of his Republican colleagues oppose accepting federal funds to expand health care coverage because the genders think differently. > more ... (1 comments)
Certain quarters keep spoutin’ the same ol’ song. From GOP congressman: Rate of pregnancies from rape is ‘very low’:“Before, when my friends on the left side of the aisle here tried to make rape and incest the subject — because, you know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low,” [Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)] said. > more ... (0 comments)
Quote of the Day: All We Have To Do Is Convince Our Customers They're Wrong
Here’s an Xbox rep addressing the controversy over Microsoft’s decision to require an internet connection for its new Xbox One console and hobble used game sales:“This is a big change, consumers don’t always love change, and there’s a lot of education we have to provide to make sure that people understand.” > more ... (5 comments)
I Know You Are, But What Am I?
From ‘Proud wacko bird’ Ted Cruz calls Obama biggest obstacle to immigration reform on Yahoo News:
As the immigration debate begins before the full Senate for the first time, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has become one of the most vocal opponents to the current bill. But Cruz says the true obstacle to immigration reform is not him, but President Obama. > more ... (2 comments)
From I Am So Fucking Over This Already by John Cole onna BJ, in re: the citizenry of these United States acting all surprised at getting what they voted for, state-surveillance-regime-wise:And for the record, Obama is not the villain here, he’s just dealing with the laws as they were passed, and it looks like they did everything correctly and followed the letter of the law. > more ... (0 comments)
“Republicans care just as deeply about the environment as Democrats but we also care about jobs,” he added. “We want common sense regulations to be balanced with economic growth and jobs.” — Rand Paul
Um, yeah, how’s that working out? I guess not so well. 5 out of the 10 most polluted states are deep-red > more ... (1 comments)Quote of the Week: Darkies Ain't Gonna Vote Right Anyways
“I’m going to be real honest with you, the Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they’re going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.” – Texas Tea Party Jackwad
Also too, remember the past:At the close of the Civil War … some three-quarters of a million of Negroes, the mass of them densely ignorant > more ... (4 comments)
Lost Bottles From The Post Cellar
I was rooting around in the dusty Post Cellar and wanted to offer up some delicious vintages of years past.
From 2-Year-Old Boy In Texas Dead After Shooting Himself In The Face on TPM:Correction: This post originally gave the wrong caliber for the the weapon involved. It was a 9 mm handgun.
But everything else in the story was accurate, I guess. > more ... (0 comments)If I Had Some Ham, I'd Make a Ham and Cheese Sandwich...
…if I had some cheese. Via AB, the Slog quotes WA State Representative (R-Kalama) and apparently Zen Master Ed Orcutt‘s latest email-koan:The bridge would indeed be standing today had the truck’s load NOT rammed the super structure of the [I-5/Skagit River] bridge. In fact, 11 of the 12 sections of the bridge are still standing.
> more ... (0 comments)I'm Thinking There's Something Symbolic About That Volcano What Is Erupting There
So the Michelle Bachmann lustbuch has already been making the rounds — Jezebel, Wonkette, Balloon-Juice — but I couldn’t resist quoting the blurb on the e-book’s own cover graphic:He touched the void inside her, pollinating her pink flower like a master bee.
> more ... (3 comments)Saw this headline in the RSS reader, with no additional information:
And my immediate thought was Louie Gohmert, then I second-guessed myself and said it was Steve Stockman. Shoulda trusted my instincts! Also acceptable guesses: Steve “Esteban” King, Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul. (2 comments)Lawmaker Says Woman Should Carry Brain Dead Fetus to Term
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), makin’ with the insightful diagnosis of current events y’all, via TPM:“The President’s speech today will be viewed by terrorists as a victory,” said Chambliss, who recently golfed with the president, in a statement. > more ... (1 comments)
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