When Comedy and Truth Collide ...

Once again the inimitable Jon Stewart lays it all on the line and blasts a hole of truth right through the mindless right-wing noise machine.

The key observation:

“She’s (Michelle Obama) got to [prove her patriotism]! She’s a Democrat. She must prove she loves America, as opposed to Republicans who everyone knooows love America. They just hate half the people living in it.”

Fucking brilliantly funny. More importantly - it's the godawful truth.

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Chris Matthews -vs- The Brides of Hitler - Lol!

Proper words fail me in trying to describe this. About all I can say is that it's two more wonderful specimens of your average right-wing GOP deep thinkers society.

It took every fiber of my living being to suppress the urge to reach through my pc monitor screen and strangle these stupid cows. God help us all if these twits have been reproducing.

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Home Grown FuckHeads - Redux

This is a picture of two of the assklowns that they arrested in the alleged Obama assassination plot near the Dem Convention in Denver.

Now, I'll admit, my ugly ass should be the last one to be calling someone else ugly, but I'd be willing to bet, that if you looked up the word fugly in the dictionary, you'd find these two guys pictures. It's pretty convincing visual proof that there's some very serious and scary right-wing inbreeding going on in those red states if you ask me.

BTW -- kind of odd that a Bush Justice Dept. official issues a statement that there was "no credible threat" to Obama when the investigation has only just begun. Yeah --- I always breathe a sigh of relief when a convicted felon, who's just admitted to police that he was planning to assassinate a Presidential candidate, is found with two high-powered scoped rifles, ammunition, sighting scopes, radios, a cellphone, a bulletproof vest, wigs, drugs and fake IDs in his possession. Yawn! Nothing to see here folks -- move it along -- show's over.

But there's no surprise in that either, it's coming from people who a month before 9/11 were handed a PDB (Presidential Daily Brief) from intelligence agencies with the seemingly innocuous title of "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US" and chucked it aside to continue babysitting Jr. while he was playing ranch-hand. When confronted about it later they stated that it was just "historical information based on old reporting. There was no new threat information." Hmmm -- wonder how that worked out?

Anyhow, excuse me now while I go and buff my tin-foil-hat to a nice gleaming shine.

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Of Double Standards and Media Hypocrisy

Lord almighty!! Can you imagine the media feeding frenzy and the phony, indignant right-wing howls of outrage if the headline on this Wall Street Journal article read this:

Obama's Pastor Sat on Troubled Bank's Board

Instead of this:

McCain's Son Sat on Troubled Bank's Board

Not only can I imagine it, I'd bet every penny to my name that this would be story #1 on all the cable news channels for the next several weeks, be dissected ad-nauseum by Rupert Murdoch's boot lickers on Fox, incorporated as an addendum in Jerome Corsi's swiftboat book on Obama, and be the cause of a great deal of premature ejaculation by right-wing bloggers as they manipulate the basic facts of the story line to fit their childish "destroy all libruls" agenda.

But, unfortunately, the headline referring to McCain's son is the actual headline. And far be it from me to make a judgement (I'm not because I don't know all the facts) on whether McCain Jr. committed any wrongdoing, don't sit there and dishonestly tell me that this article would be a ho-hum non-story if it involved ANYONE REMOTELY ASSOCIATED WITH the Senator from Illinois.



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So Many GOP Twerps, So Little Time . . .

I keep hammering on this theme because until these people are either ridiculed into oblivion or shamed into obscurity, they'll continue their selfish, mindless onslaught against everything just and decent -- basically anything that could make America an even greater country than it already is.

So here you go my conservative and Republican friends. Meet Jonathan Hoeinig. He represents your movement and your political party. His asinine face and his asinine views are the voice of you all -- and frankly you all deserve him.




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K.O. -- Countdown to Setting The Record Straight

For the most part network and cable news in America is a vast wasteland of pomposity, dishonesty and shameless corporate whoring and adds no redeeming social value to most American's lives whatsoever. Not to mention the fact that the media/press in this country has pretty much abdicated it's once purposeful role of being straightforward news gathering organizations acting as a check on the abuses and corruption of the powerful in our society. On the contrary, thanks to the likes of Rupert Murdoch and his revolting style of sensationalizing the news and aiming it to the lowest common-denominator readers and viewers, a presidential blow job gets more press attention than a president who lies his country into a disastrous, bloody war. Add to that the incestuous corporate/government entanglement factor and what ends up being lost is a media/press apparatus that is no longer a provider of vital information needed to keep citizens informed and supportive of productive public discourse. It's a propaganda apparatus not wholely unlike the old Soviet communist party news outlet Pravda.

Amidst this cable and network news wasteland though is at least one sliver of hope. Someone who isn't afraid to look Americans in the eye and tell it like it is. A digital-age Edward R. Murrow who stares down the wasteland establishment and their bullying on-air lackeys and pretty much tells them in his own sweet, colloquial way to GO FUCK THEMSELVES!

That person is MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. And thank the gods that be that he has a nightly show on cable tv - Countdown with Keith Olbermann. With all the right wing dreck on the people's airwaves like Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Fox News, yadda, yadda, yadda --- Olbermann is a breath of fresh air in that dark, dank, putridly odoriferous dungeon of media whoredom commonly referred to as cable news.

Here's a sample of his splendid work:




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Why Do Right-Wingers Hate America and Democracy?

On the heels of my "Home-Grown Fuckheads" post comes this lovely news item from yesterday :

Gunman Kills Top Arkansas Democrat (evil librul) Arkansas Democratic Chairman Bill Gwatney Shot Three Times In Party Headquarters.

Gee -- where have we heard this story before?

The Anthrax attacks in 2001 targeted then Democratic leaders (evil libruls) Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy and mainstream (evil librul) news outlets. Coincidence?

A gunman opens fire in a Unitarian Universalist (more evil libruls) church, while children are singing in a choir, killing and wounding several parishioners. Right-wing, liberal bashing reading materials from hate-mongers Michael Savage, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly are later found in the killer's home.

A 2005 U.S. News & World Report article documented approximately (60) right-wing terror plots that had been foiled over the 10 year span since the right-wing bombing in Oklahoma City in 1995 which killed 168 innocent men, women and children. Many of these plots were designed to cause mass human carnage on the scale of the Oklahoma City killings.


Here are some well known (except by those who choose to turn a blind eye and ear) and well documented quotes from right-wing heros and mainstream media stars:

"I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus -- living fossils -- so we will never forget what these people stood for." (Rush Limbaugh)

Or

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building." (Ann Coulter)

Or

"I'll tell you who should be tortured and killed at Guantanamo -- every filthy Democrat in the U.S. Congress." (Sean Hannity)

Or

"To fight only the al-Qaeda scum is to miss the terrorist network operating within our own borders ... Who are these traitors? Every rotten radical left-winger in this country, that's who." (Michael Savage)

Of course you need not be a Rhodes Scholar to figure out that the word "kill" along with references to the words/phrases -- "living fossils", "New York Times", "filthy Democrats", "terrorist network ... within our borders", "traitors" -- in these quotes -- are all right-wing code for EVIL LIBRULS.

Gee Inspector Gadget, do you think there's any possible link to the aforementioned murderous events and the instigative, hateful statements on the public airwaves by the right-wing media stars and the subsequent, gleeful promulgation of those murderous statements across the internet and blogosphere by their brain-dead followers?? Hmmmm??

Which leads me to an all-too obvious question.

Can anyone show me the equivalent of a mainstream liberal television or radio pundit, with the stature and following, of a Michael Savage or Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh making similar death threats against conservatives? Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, doot-doo-doot-doo-doot-dee-doo (Jeopardy them music plays). Ok. Times up. You can't do it. Hasn't happened. Oh sure you can find similarly vile threatening screeds on obscure internet blogs but nobody reads them - and for good reason. Whereas the words of the Limbaughs, the Coulters, the Savages, the Hannitys, the O'Reillys, the Becks, the Boortzes, ....ad infinitum.... can be found every hour of every day and at any time on just about every radio, cable television and newspaper outlet in this country. And make no bones about it -- these people do represent the mainstream Conservative movement in this country. For if they are not spokespeople for the Conservatives, then where's the public condemnation and repudiation of their hateful statements by the leaders of conservatism? Yeah right -- I rest my case.

And that folks, plainly speaking, is why I will not shut my mouth about these people and will continue to demonize them. For demons, logically observing, are quite deserving of being demonized.

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Invasion of the Pod-People . . .

Holy Fuck -- and I mean that in the entire literal sense.

This congresswoman Michele Bachmann is from my home state of Minnesota I'm ashamed to say. To put it bluntly, what she is stating here is - fuck the planet, Christ died on the cross 2000 years ago for your sins and if you don't believe in him too fucking bad for you and the rest of humanity - you're all gonna die soon anyway so you better get your heathen asses saved real quick!

I've been one of many stating for years (to anyone who dares listen) that the group of people formerly known as the Republican party of Eisenhower and Barry Goldwater, along with their entirely honorable and pure conservative ideology, has been sideswiped and run over by this speeding bus filled with zombified, bible-thumping, raving lunatic, body snatchers who see politics and political power solely as a means to hasten their depraved end-time religio-fantasies. These modern-day Republicans in Lamb clothing do not give a rat's ass about politics, much less this country's future. They have no desire or intent to govern in order to better the predicament of their fellow Americans and America or lead the way in the world to help ease the burdens of human despair. On the contrary -- they want to see as much human suffering and social chaos as is possible because it fits quite neatly in with their macabre world view that cataclysmic occurrences and apocalyptic humanitarian disasters are necessary planetary events, and by proxy, clarion calls for their Lord and Saviour Jesus H. Christ to return from the dead and carry them up into the clouds to assist him with his rule over the remainder of earth's minions for eternity. Why an all-powerful, omnipotent cloud being needs millions of pint-sized helpers to perform his heavenly chores escapes my logic, but these people are not known for questioning the questionable or thinking for themselves for fear of sowing doubt amongst their well-trained, obedient flock.

Michele Bachmann is batshit insane to be sure. And if she and her kind were an innocuous and powerless, fringe element of our society (kinda like Celine Dion fans) I wouldn't lose sleep over them at night. But truth be told, there are a whole helluva lot of them and their destructive influence extends into every facet of American society and government. People take them and their pernicious movement lightly -- oblivious to the danger of doing so.

It's too bad that the honest Christians in America are in the minority. Their selfless good deeds and charity, their adherence to Jesus Christ's true teachings, and their abhorrence with mixing church and state affairs offer a dishearteningly faint glimmer of hope for a better future and a democracy that serves all equally.



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Home-Grown FuckHeads

What scares me most about an Obama victory in November is not the childish right-wing, pants-wetting fears that Obama is a closet Muslim who will take the Presidential oath of office with his hand on the Koran, and, who wants to eliminate christianity (a noble thought to be true, but let's get real), convert us all to Allah lovers and, force our women to wear burkas, our men to wear keffiyehs and our children to enroll in madrassas.]

When? -- When will the people of this country fucking grow up??

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No -- nor am I frightened by the irrational wingnut shrieking about how Obama is the brown-skinned reincarnation of Karl Marx who plans to turn America into a huge socialist, hippie commune, force everyone to wear bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye t-shirts, have weekly, communal Kumbaya sing-a-longs and will replace the Department of Defense with a new cabinet position - the Department of Peace & Terrorist Appeasement.

And I absolutely break out into uproarious laughter every time I read some imbecilic right-wing screed claiming that if Obama is elected he's going to throw our borders wide open to hordes of illegal immigrants from all over the world (but especially them thar goldurn beaners), confiscate all of our guns, destroy our military (as if Bush hasn't done a good enough job of doing that himself), nationalize all our major industries, and turn the executive branch of our government over to the U.N.

No -- I must admit -- I am not afraid of a single one of those asinine, demented, and juvenile fears coming to pass if this country is fortunate enough to see Barack Obama elected President. These things do not register so much as a faint blip on my worry radar. And to put it bluntly -- the right wing and their piss-ant followers have never had much of an affinity for this thing normal people call reality.

However, what does scare the shit out of me if Obama is elected is exactly what's in this news article here --- some immature, hate-filled, ignorant gun goon, with delusions of Aryan martyrdom, acting out his premature-ejaculation fantasy of appeasing the KKK and Hitler gods by giving Obama the grassy-knoll treatment.

You want to see anarchy and real bad times come to this country? Well -- the violent elimination of a popularly elected President would be a pretty good catalyst for bringing that about dontcha think?

Of course, it's kind of hard for me to blame this guy entirely. He's only 22 years old and I'll go out on a limb and guess that he was probably raised in a strict, fundamentalist-religious, conservative household who's parents home-schooled him, and who was fed a steady, daily diet of hate-filled radio and tv programming from Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Bill O'Reilly, and the rest of that sickening cesspool of fascist dreck.

But fear is all the GOP and the conservatives have any more. They have no ideas, no vision, no heart and no spirituality in their ideology or their politics. They remind me of spoiled brat children who throw tantrums when they can't have things their way. They're vindictive and selfish and would sell this country down the river in a heartbeat if it increased their financial bottom line or upped the value of their stock
dividends.

Here's to faith --- not the divisive, negative kind, but faith in humanity -- faith that we can do what's right in the world, reject Bush-world secrecy, lies, and criminality --- embrace truth. And all you fucking assholes who think i'm a John Lennon Dreamer ---- fuck you --- your view of the world is 45 X negative than mine is.... I got faith that your kind will be soon be extinct -- and the planet will be better off.


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Anthrax Killer Found!!! . . . Dead!

Gee -- so the anthrax killer who terrified the nation for several months after 9/11 turns out to be a U.S. Army scientist from a U.S. Government lab in Maryland. I think the Bush administration has finally found their long sought weapons of mass destruction and lo and behold they were right there in Washington D.C.'s own back yard.

If anyone's memory fails, in 2001 - just a few weeks after Sept. 11th, letters containing anthrax were sent to Democratic Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy and several mainstream media outlets. 22 people were infected and 5 died from their exposure to the highly toxic substance. Subsequently, the anthrax attacks were used as another, in a long list of false jusitifications, by the Bush administration to bully Congress and the American people into supporting their premeditated and pre-9/11 plans to topple their former business partner Saddam Hussein and invade Iraq. Bush himself slyly referred to Iraq plotting to develop anthrax in his 2002 State of the Union address, knowing full well that the terror associated with the attacks was fresh in American memories.

Eventually the inept Bush administration identified a biowarfare defense specialist at Ft. Detrick Maryland named Dr. Stephen Hatfill as their primary suspect in the anthrax mailings. That 5 year bumbling investigation of Hatfill resulted in a June 27, 2008 exoneration of Hatfill by the U.S. government and a payout in the amount of $5.8 million U.S. taxpayer dollars to him.

And now, just a month after the Hatfill exoneration we get news that another military scientist on the government payroll, Bruce E. Ivins was the "real" culprit behind the deadly anthrax mailings. And true to form, as it is with anything involving the Bush regime, turns out Dr. Ivins suspiciously and suddenly died on Tuesday of this week after ingesting "massive" amounts of Tylenol with Codeine. Ivins' colleagues state that he had only recently been informed of his pending prosecution in the infamous anthrax attacks. The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute where Ivins was employed issued a statement about his death oddly with no mention of suicide.

So in the end folks, turns out we'll likely never know the absolute truth about the "other" 2001 terrorist attack on our soil. I'm sure the Bushies are saddened to hear of the unfortunate and untimely passing of Dr. Ivins. No doubt they yearned to know the truth of his actions and motives in the matter and above all wanted justice to be served . . . . and if you believe that, I've got a big, beautiful fucking bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

Sources (click link):

August 1, 2008 L.A. Times report on Bruce E. Ivins death

Gleen Greenwald analysis of media's role in tying anthrax scare to Iraq

Wikipedia entry on history/timeline of 2001 anthrax attacks

Wikipedia entry on Dr. Stephen Hatfill



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GOP = Gutter Old Politics

There you have it folks. This is what the Republican party has to offer as answers to the critical problems facing this country and it's citizens. A childish taunting aimed at their opponent which addresses not a single substantive issue that the American people are currently dealing with or will be dealing with in the coming years.

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I've really, really been trying hard not to go postal on John McCain out of the past respect I've had for him, but it finally seems that he and his advisers have made a conscious decision to take the low road in this Presidential campaign and subscribe to the Karl Rove/Swiftboat liar's method of political campaigning. As far as I'm concerned this means all bets are off.

But is it any wonder? Wherever Barack Obama goes, domestically or internationally, hopeful people gather in the thousands to hear what this articulate, intelligent and visionary man has to say on the issues of the day.

McCain on the other hand seems content to rest on his laurels as a Vietnam POW, his 25 years sucking at the public teat in Congress, his phalanx of advisers culled from the ranks of the failed Bush administration and his incestuous relationship with the sycophantic, incompetent whores that commonly refer to themselves as the Washington Press Corp. When McCain does stray from his clubby political and media insider constituencies, and ventures into public venues, they're almost always small, pre-screened, pre-scripted events, not unlike the way Bush and Cheney manipulate their public appearances. Of the few public speaking engagements I've seen McCain appear at, the brief camera scans of the miniscule crowds basically show a bunch of pot-bellied, bearded middle-aged NRA nuts, random pairings of Larry Craig and Barbara Bush clones, a smattering of suit and tie stockbroker types, and of course, the token 1 or 2 brown-skinned individuals who I'm beginning to believe are simply some guys they found standing in the local unemployment line and paid a few hundred bucks to show up and pretend to be McCain supporters.

I've listened to 5 of Barack Obama's major speeches and 3 of McCain's speeches. The only way I can describe it is --- the difference is like getting a totally awesome lap dance from the smokingest-hottest stripper in the all nudie bar (Obama's speeches) or accidentally seeing your neighbor's 90 year old grandma undressing thru her bedroom window (McCain's speeches). Part of a President's job is to be an inspirational cheerleader for the country. The only thing McCain inspires me to do when I hear him speak is to pour another shot of God's nectar (Cabo Wabo tequila) and leisurely scroll thru the split-screen cable t.v. guide looking for re-runs of Spongebob episodes.

The media however is doing some heavy water carrying for McCain. He's gotten very minimal coverage on his never-ending series of verbal gaffes, his plethora of policy flip-flops, his failure to release his military records and his and his wife's tax records, his sucking up to the insane fundamentalist religious crowd and his horrendously wrong support of George W. Bush's and Dick Cheney's disastrous Iraq war. In the mainstream media's eyes, McCain is the mythical straight-talking, party bucking, Maverick war hero and to them his shit smells like a bouquet of freshly picked premium roses. It's quite pathetic to watch and as a result I am making a deliberate and conscious effort to avoid any mainstream news outlets during this Presidential election season. I saw what the corporate propagandists did to Gore and Kerry during their Presidential candidacies and it's proof enough to me that they cannot be trusted one iota to give the American people the truth about what's really going on in this country.

Anyhow, since McCain and his cynical pack of Rovian strategists don't appear to have any intention of running a clean election and giving the American people an honest, fair look at their policies and would rather sling mud at Obama while treating the media jackoffs to free barbeque cookouts and donuts, then the best thing people like me can do is to educate the ignorant dumbed-down masses, even though the majority are perfectly happy being ignorant and dumb and believe people like me are elite, latte-drinking, Volvo driving, communist, terrorist appeasers. It's a dirty, thankless job, but somebody has to do it.


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Let Freedom Ring!

Happy 4th of July! I was ruminating last nite about how differently progressives and conservatives view the ideals of democracy and freedom. And I put together a little list of things I believe would constitute how a modern-day, Bush loving conservative would celebrate our nation's most revered holiday. And here it is:

Run over a baby seal with your hummer. (kudos to Atrios)

Waterboard the neighbor kid who you caught swiping your newspaper.

Shoot your hunting buddy in the face with a shotgun -- then hide the beers and lie to the cops.

Mow half your lawn and declare "Mission Accomplished."

Watch FOX News non-stop until your eye-balls ooze blood and your brain shrivels to the size of a raisin.

Go to church, pray for God's wrath against the evil "libruls", then go out and continue to destroy the world.

Watch a George W. Bush speech and tell everyone you understood everything he said.

Visit a famed conservative place of interest -- like Larry Craig's men's room stall at the Minneapolis airport.

Read the Aug. 2001 Presidential Daily Brief titled "Bin-Laden Determined to Strike in US", then go on vacation.

And last but not least,

Ilegally spy on your neighbors, and when you are caught claim you were defending your trailer court from hordes of marauding arab terrorists.

I'll close with a little quote from one of my favorite American radical philosophers and a true patriot:

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
Thomas Paine
US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809)

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