I removed the video because it was just more patronizing of perhaps the most disgusting human being in American Politics today. It contains nothing other than the standard convoluted financial doubletalk this, the ultimate Tea Bagger hides behind.
There is a serious media problem concerning Ron Paul. He lives down the road piece here in Dumbutt and I have been following his antics for most of 25 years now. I am not fooled by him as it seems so many many others are. Ron Paul for Dummies
Jon Stewart is one of many television pundits who fail to ask this lunatic the questions that clear up exactly who and what he is. Like what do you think of Medicare. Or Social Security? Or evolution? Or machine guns with free crank?
Ron Paul is a bigot, a racist, and above all a Christian Evangelical fundamentalist nutcake who makes Glenn Beck seem sane. Ron Paul decries the War on Religion.
With that said allow me to list the bad followed by the good. First a few direct Ron Paul quotes:
"I think it (evolution) is a theory and I do not accept it."
"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions."
"I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city [Washington DC] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
“We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people but black males."
"As it was written I would vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
Now let us briefly go over his policies.
Abolish affirmative action!
A Constitutional Amendment to allow states to force Christian prayer in public schools.
Give creationism and Intelligent Design equal footing in public schools science classes.
Repeal of Roe V Wade!
Against embryonic cell research.
Against ALL federal funds for the arts!
Advocate for parents who refuse medical help for their children.
Advocate of private, religious, home schooling and voucher systems over public education.
Abolish the Department of Education!
Abolish Medicare and Medicade!
Abolish Social Security!
Abolish the FED.
Abolish the IRS.
Abolish the EPA.
Deregulation of Banks.
Deregulation of Wall Street.
Opposes equal pay for women.
Opposes minimum wages.
Opposes gay adoptions.
Opposes criminalizing dog fighting.
Opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Supports a Constitution Amendment to remove the alien birthright clause.
Supports a 3000 mile Mexican border fence.
Supports the vigilante group The Minutemen.
Supports English Only education.
Supports "don't ask don't tell" policy in the military.
Legalization of hard drugs.
Enjoys an NRA triple A+++ rating.
But he does have some good points which allow him a free ride with television pundits of all stripes.
Legalization of Pot. Against the unfair War on Drugs! Against capital punishment. Against war in both Iraq and Afghanistan. And he don't like Neocons!
And the last five seem to trump the previous 35. And of course not to forget a quick look at his following...
California farmers have been suffering a great drought for sometime now. So they have joined Tea Bagger America with Sean Hannity to express their anger over big government intervention into their lives! OMG!
In this case their compliant concerns the half billion dollar (in 1935 money) big government reservoir they depend on for their very lives. Big government which turned their desert into farmland. But now they want the evil big government to drain the already lower than ever resevoir so they can water their nuts.
The problem of course concerns a series of logical steps about the food chain killing off endangered salmon and raising the salanity of the water to levels that will cause their nuts to not need subsequent salting by Morton.
As you can see by the video, Hannity and friends just do not have the intellectual capacity to understand cause and effect, or in fact much of anything at all. Thinking is cause for booing. And these people always make sure to vote! Which is the bottom line problem we have here in the United States of Duh. Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck are smarter than most voters. Which should scare the Hell out of you.
Comedian Christian Finnegan joins Countdown to talk about former Majority Leader Tom DeLay and his recent performance on Dancing With the Stars, which I am now
convinced pays exceptionally well. Partner Cheryl Burke deserves a medal of valor. Grab a peek at DeLay's practice session. Burke choreographed a staid and uncomplicated Tango where he needed do little more than meet up with her and walk in time with the music, with a few flourishes thrown in, while all eyes followed her until the dramatic grand finale, where in theory she would roll into him with momentum and he would catch her for a dramatic dip.
Ms Burke was gracious enough to ask if DeLay was okay while she remained perilously tipped toward the floor thanks to an unexpected improvisation by DeLay, who - in an effort to catch and dip her, was swooped along by her momentum..skating a bit, as she rolled in to dip low for the grand finale, leaving her very close to improvising one which might have included rolling across the floor seductively, assuming she didn't have a concussion. Grudgingly, to his credit...ah you know you want to watch it yourself!
In Literature Today, Christian Finnegan shares a few salient points about Sarah Palin's newly released Big Book. He ponders who will read it - and if any of them are named Sarah, and how fans might acquire it. For my part,I can think of many things to do with the ghost-written, 400 page tome, not the least of which is as a handy block for your tires when parking on a steep hill.
Eric Burns from mediamatters.org joins Countdown to discuss yet another non-issue just brought to the fore and manufactured by Faux. They're showing clips of school
children singing a song about the president from elementary schools, one in New Jersey, the other in No. Carolina, which constituted only one minute of a 26 minute program. Both programs took place in the same week seven months ago -
during Black History Month! Parents did not object, as the lyrics were sent home for their approval.They are hot now! They did not give their approval for their
children's faces to be used on "Fox News" particularly in this twisted manner.
Fox would have you believe this Chairman Mao - like "indoctrination" happens daily putting your children 'at risk,'and is far more insidious than the actual message, study hard and be nice to one another! Fox boldly lies that no interaction took place between President and Mrs. Bush. After viewing the grateful survivors
of Katrina singing with Mrs. Bush, it might have been better had they not brought that topic up at all. We would all do well to take Eric Burn's words to heart, and dismiss the idea that Fox is anything more or less than a right wing noise machine, with the clear and stated goal of making this president fail - whatever it takes.
Great news! Palin's memoir, written by ghost writer Lynn Vincent, editor of an evangelical magazine - which explains why she's had so much time for with speechifyin' will be out in time for holiday giving! Look for "Going Rogue in American Life,"
Radio host Shannyn Moore discusses the irony of Palin's use of the word "rogue" in the book title. While Palin still draws crowds and is a great money raiser for the party - and herself.
Many Alaskans still harbor less than warm and fuzzy feelings for the run-away governor. They have not forgotten that while governor, Palin ruined the lives of two men for being rogues. Palin excused firing former Safety Commissioner Walt
Monnegan as a "rogue." His sin was attempting to secure money for sexual assault victims, rather than paying for their own rape kits, in a state where they have the highest rape statistics per capita. Of course, there's the firing of her ex
brother-in-law Mike Wooten, whom she labled a rogue cop.He is still employed, but in a desk job.
Make sure you watch this video until the end to see public school children sing a far more hitlerian song to President George W and First Lady Laura Bush. A song not only adoringly politicizing them both, but about the success of how the President dealt with Katrina no less! Gosh...
Republicans are on a roll after so successfully demonizing and perhaps destroying ACORN - the African American community organization (codewords for uppity Negros) advocate for the poor. After all, the poor are the cause of poverty.ACORN, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles for Dummies
So now the Republicans and their gang of wingnuts at Fox News are going after the nations premier advocate for the arts - the NEA (this is the National Endowment for the Arts not to be confused with the other NEA, the National Education Association which Republicans hate even more]. After all, artists stopped doing only GOD after the Renaissance and teachers stopped doing GOD in public schools in the 60's, both groups have been nothing but trouble for Republicans ever since.
Remember that greatest of human rights violations in China in the Seventies called the Cultural Revolution? Remember who they put in dunce hats and paraded through the streets taking them to jail and re education camps? Teachers and artists... Hmmm....
Republicans want an immediate investigation of this song by 1st graders which took place to no complaints after President Obama's Inauguration as the first African American President. Republicans want to punish those who politicized our government schools! Of course as with so much Wingnut crap of late, this claim is absurdly Beckian in nature as the song and the lyrics were sent to the parents of the kids which all approved. So no one was forced to do anything by anyone... At all.
On the other hand, the very Republicans screeching for this investigation said investigating the Justice Department for politicizing our entire system of law, and investigating the CIA for torture which destroyed our reputation abroad, ARE WITCH HUNTS.
And of course the coup de grace of this video.
In 2004 Jon Stewart appeared on CNN Crossfire to decry the back and forth angst. The show was then hosted by Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson. After Stewart and Carlson went at each other for a time Carlson quipped, "I think you're more fun on your show." Jon Stewart closed the show, Tucker's careeer and subsequently Crossfire itself by replying, "You know what's interesting though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show."Transcript of the Carlson/Stewart Crossfire
Stewart on Tucker Carlson today, "That twit who has run out of 24 hour news outlets to appear on."
SNL spoofs a second speech using the images from the first to explain why his first speech to the U. N. was "so long and rambly" he has plenty of good reasons, and shares them all. C'mon, the man's body clock is out of whack and was kicked out of New Jersey, have a heart!
Here's a little video, just one of many that you're not likely to see on Fox "news" this week. Beck having been asked to attend "Glenn Beck Day" by Mayor Nichols received little love back 'home' but did motivate the small town city council into unprecidented speedy action! Never having awarded or lauded anyone from the city, they were not about to have Beck be the first, and drafted a resolution stating they did not recognize or support the mayor's delusion. Hence, the award ceremony was held behind closed and locked doors.
The day wasn't a wash-out for the emotional Beck. His people had apparently arranged a rather hush-hush rally at Seattle's Safeco field, where scarcely a liberal was to be found outside the gates protesting, and all inside the stadium were cheering and booing at all of the appropriate moments. It's safe to say
Beck won't go "home" again, and this is the mayor's last term in office. I hope he received a lovely parting gift.
Joe Worzelbacher, the man, the legend, made famous as Joe the Plumber by the G.O.P. Though he later admitted he was neither a plumber nor a small business owner, as he'd claimed - simply to grab a slice of camera time with the candidates. Tonight's featured subject on the first Where Are They Now edition of G.O.P In Exile is brought to you by the Rachel Maddow Show.
As the G.O.P."everyman" you cannot begin to imagine the doors which have opened to him in less than a year - and slammed him in the behind, truly you cannot, but all represented the G.O.P. in some way, shape, or form! If this present spokesdude gig pans out, you'll see a lot more of him, which after all, does seem to be his goal. Kick back and enjoy the Rachel Maddow Show, Right-wing Comic Strip Voiceover Theater rendition of the Joe Worzelbacher-endorsed - " Microman U.S.A!"
I am sure the NAACP and every other African American organization knows they are next on this Republican hit list.
With this video showing Fox News, Chris Wallace and the Republican Party so gleefully - and wet your pants joyously - making superheros of these two nastyass wingnuts, I have to wonder if indeed that so profound are our differences that it is genetic.
The Nature of the Beast.
Even taking the obvious low road of racism out of this, what is left is a political ideology claiming the moral high ground because it not only could care less about the least of us, but actively blames them, tries to take away what little they have and goes this far out of their way to give them that extra kick in the mouth. Brings back the very words I founded this website on 15 years ago:
I suppose I can understand Republicans' selfish callous disregard for others, it's their pride in it that passes me by.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now was formed in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1970. Its charter was to push for free school lunches for poor grade school children, help Vietnam Veterans home from the war, and getting more emergency rooms available in the inner city. It is now funded primarily by half a million dues paying members and supports 1000 employees. Well it seems it is now 995 as a few of the dumbest were recently let go. Who could not smell that scam is beyond me. I guess the reasoning was be nice to eveyone, which has been the failure of Liberals for... For... about a million years...
ACORN is now the largest community organization in America. It is based in the inner cities of 40 states to help the poor deal with issues of housing, predatory credit, minimum wage, unemployment - and of course the reason behind all this - getting African Americans out to vote. It is responsible for getting 1.3 million new voters out in 2008. The words "community organizer" are Republican code for unsavory black people who cause white people trouble.
Barack Obama was a community organizer in Chicago and a law firm he worked for defended ACORN in a few cases.
Though voting fraud accusations against ACORN abound, they are for the most part propaganda games played by talk radio hosts. What few there have been do not matter a wit or a nit, were dealt with by ACORN itself and there have been no indictments or convictions.
Remember Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Turdblossom Karl Rove in trouble for politicizing the Dept of Justice? Well this was the issue, they were trying to depress the minority vote which ACORN was the leader in.
Enter the Pimp James O'Keefe. A mostly unemployed conservative activist who presently distributes Right-wing literature to college campuses. He made a name for himself at Rutgers University with a silly Lucky Charms lawsuit pretending that what the Irish suffer is no different that what African Americans suffer. A reach so far into such insane crap it absolutely is racism. It is what the guy is mostly about, kicking Negroes down...
Enter the Whore Hannah Giles a right-wing Florida preacher's daughter who spent the Summer training at the National Journalism Center which was also the training ground for Ann Coulter.
Enter conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart an especially angry Right-winger who writes for the conservative newspaper the Washington Times. Breitbart was about to kick off his new website blasting Hollywood Liberals - Big Hollywood - and O'Keefe appeared at his doorstep with these tapes, and here we are.
Other bit players in this the beyond the pale looneybin The Cato Institute, the almost as crazy Leadership Institute, Fox News, Fox News Sunday, Clash Church, Washington Times, Townhall.com and of course the standard gang of talk radio players Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Glenn Beck.
Sign seen on "outsider" Don Sly at today's Evergreen Freedom Foundation's "Take the Field with Glenn Beck" at Safeco Field. "Sure he's an idiot bigot, but he's our idiot bigot."
Not everyone, including the city government in Beck's alleged home town of Mount Vernon, WA will lay even that tongue-in-cheek claim to him. After Mayor Nichols
inexplicably invited Beck to "Glenn Beck Day" and to receive a key to the city, the City Council passed a resolution saying "Mount Vernon City Council is in no way sponsoring the mayor's event on Sept. 26, 2009, and is not connected to the
Glenn Beck event in any manner.
For fun during his speech far from Mount Vernon at Safeco Field, he was cheered for stating that winning the W.O.T. was more important than health care reform. To top things off, a far right version of kumbaya was sung. While large photos of
President Obama and Democratic Gov.Christine Gregoire were projected, the crowd had a good boo and hiss session. Imagine! They claim Beck is "too polarizing a figure." Mount Vernon City Government decries any connection to home boy Glenn Beck!
One of Moorestown New Jersey's finest, Robert Melia has been cleared on all counts, despite the video images he and his girlfriend Heather Lewis had taken of his acts with baby calves, leaving one to wonder about Judge Morely's chain of
thought which led to a dismissal."I'm not saying it's OK," Morely said. "This is a legal question for me. It's not a questions of morals. It's not a question of hygiene. It's not a question of how people should conduct themselves." Say whaaa?
I hope a judge with less nebulous thought processes is weilding the gavel when Melia and Heather Lewis face much higher stakes. This time it will not involve barnyard animals,but three girls whom Lewis and Melia had...shall we say a
most inappropriate relationship with for five years!
Saturday Night Live was inspired by President Obama's one week media blitz to spread the health care message, answer questions, and clear away persistent myths which follow it.
Apparently SNL couldn't help but wonder what would happen if the President went beyond, nay way beyond NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and Univision. There's an entire cable world awaiting! As you can see, they included many wild and wacky programs, including a surly vampire on "the CW" and stopped short of the Bass Fishing Channel and Home Shopping...which may not have been wise, they have a lot of
viewers - I hear. Join them now as the surrogate Commander in Chief decides which shows to include with the help of an aide, who feels FOX news with Glenn Beck would be a mistake to ignore.
The original title of this video was What has Sarah Palin learned in a year? From all appearances, she's learned that speechifyin' pays much better than governing or fancy pageant walkin ever could. When you're speaking in her league, you're paid whether the derrieres stay in the seats or not, those are some valuable lessons.
She's learned some other very important tidbits as well. One cannot help but applaud her Facebook entry today which rails against anti-Semitism, as witnessed at the U.N. General Assembly. It's a pity she didn't and is not capable of having written it, but it's no secret that a team of writers now make important Facebook entries. We may well witness the first political campaign conducted without a face to face interview, if she can maintain her Facebook audience. Live interviews haven't worked out well for her in the past after all. This point is
painfully demonstrated than in the short video clip presented where Palin was recently asked about her novice answer early in the previous campaign, when she made the infamous Putin comment. Given an opportunity to clear the air and
defend herself, her response was along the lines of, " It's funny that a comment like that was kinda made to .. uh you know." It's time to applaud the faceless Facebook writers.
Shannyn Moore of Huffington joins Countdown and makes some salient observations as to the protection afforded Palin on Facebook, as well as how out of sync her euphemistic speech writer's comments today were with Palin supporters who draw Hitler moustaches and worse on our President. Moore suggests we remember Palin's pals Dick Cheney and William Kristol, and is extremely aware of just how diabolically well Facebook could work for Palin!
Gosh, I buy like a pallet of Peeps after Easter to put in our doggie treat drawer. I had no idea I was serving communion to my less than thin Jewish Golden Retriever. I suppose I should be serving him wine with that.
The argument is not that race is a factor in the Republican Hate-Obama campaign, but how much of a factor. I suppose to be fair I must include Libertarians in that. Republican and Libertarian Hate-Obama campaign.
As a Southerner I can assure you that race is the driving force not only in Jimmy Carter's Georgia experience, but here in Dumbutt, Texas as well. The only people who will deny that reality are those who suffer the racism themselves or those who understand the political backlash unleashed by pointing that finger.
Since coming to terms with this when the Clintons not only failed in their try at reforming health care 15 years ago, but because of trying also lost 42 seats in congress giving the nation over to the likes of Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey (the power behind the Tea Baggers) and Dancing Fool Tom DeLay. [Oh and Trent Lott, who lost his Senate seniority for his blatant racial swill that we would have been a lot better off had we never integrated the South.] The United States is the only civilized nation without any national health care plan BECAUSE the majority of Americans do not want their precious tax money going to people less white than they are. Again in red:
The United States is the only civilized nation without any national health care plan BECAUSE the majority of Americans do not want their precious tax money going to people less white than they are.
I have been knocking my head against the wall on that for 15 years now, and finally just today Stephen Colbert brought this to the attention of the world.
This weeks Republican talking point by Republican leaders Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck - among others on AM radio and Fox News - is that a public option in health care is nothing more than reparations for Negroes - the lost 40 acres and a mule. There you have it! The proof in the pudding. The warning to White Americans that all BIG GOVERNMENT is just a giveaway to the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, the Black Panthers, the Cripps, the Bloods and ACORN.
So now that it is out in the open, the real reason for not having any real health care reform will not help in changing anything. Knowing the truth will not cause the truth to be voiced - because like gun control - it will only mean more votes for more Republican and Democrats losing the House, the Senate and the next presidential election to the Party of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin.
What I keep coming back to with this issue is how this guy is little different than 95% of those who hold public office other than having his phone tapped.
Gold: Glenn Beck: In a Constitutional mood, he opines that in the good old days of the Founding Dads, it really meant something to be an immigrant! Leafing through the Constitution, he finds that it was important enough to place a tax duty of ten dollars per new citizen, a lot by the standards of the day. Sadly, he chooses to demonstrate the point with a section of the Constitution relating to "immigrants" who...shall we say, had no say?
Silver: Chuck Norris: Could they be grooming this shining beacon of the Far Right for 2012? They've done stranger things, as we've all seen. Norris has a few suggestions about showing your patriotism via your flag while using your'Ab Flex' of course. His first commandment; Chuck Norris says, "Take down your heathen modern American flag!" It gets better from here, honestly...depending upon your definition of "better" of course. In the course of a year, tea stained replacements will show the world where your sympathies lie!
Bronze: Mrs. Hannity's boy Sean won the award today. It came 'A day late and dollar short' according to The Department of the Interior...closer to three months actually. Hannity had a righteous rant going too.He'd worked himself into a froth against that so and so Administration, and radical environmentalists, is there any other kind? It turns out that all's well that ends well for Hannity and the Delta Smelt, even if he didn't know it was over.
You won't read why ACORN made a lot of enemies. They've been fighting low-paying companies, helping workers unionize, warning of predatory lending, and brought the scandal and thievery of "payday loan" companies to light after many years of preying on the very people who had no choice but to pay exhorbitant rates for a payday loan.
Rachel is joined for a surprising and revealing interview with Occidental College Politics Professor Peter Dreier, author of a study on how and why the myths about ACORN were manufactured, and why the mainstream media has brought us nothing but unfair myths with no fact-checking. If they had done even a minimum of checking, they'd have known that non-partisan ACORN is not guilty of voter fraud, but had turned the few false names in as required by law. Karl Rove became interested
because most who registered in poorer areas were Democrats. They were only encouraged to register, not prodded in one political direction or the other. Enter super lobbyist Richard Berman. On "60 Minutes" he admitted to making good money thanks to Karl Rove and the right wing, giving a glimpse of their methods. More scandal ensues, you'll be surprised and amazed at who is involved, as well as the
underhanded methods one can employ with enough money, even if the former president did name you Turdblossom.
And of course the coup de grace of this video. 
With this video showing Fox News, Chris Wallace and the Republican Party so gleefully - and wet your pants joyously - making superheros of these two nastyass wingnuts, I have to wonder if indeed that so profound are our differences that it is genetic. 
Enter the Pimp James O'Keefe. A mostly unemployed conservative activist who presently distributes Right-wing literature to college campuses. He made a name for himself at Rutgers University with a silly Lucky Charms lawsuit pretending that what the Irish suffer is no different that what African Americans suffer. A reach so far into such insane crap it absolutely is racism. It is what the guy is mostly about, kicking Negroes down... 
Sign seen on "outsider" Don Sly at today's Evergreen Freedom Foundation's "Take the Field with Glenn Beck" at Safeco Field. "Sure he's an idiot bigot, but he's our idiot bigot."
One of Moorestown New Jersey's finest, Robert Melia has been cleared on all counts, despite the video images he and his girlfriend Heather Lewis had taken of his acts with baby calves, leaving one to wonder about Judge Morely's chain of
thought which led to a dismissal."I'm not saying it's OK," Morely said. "This is a legal question for me. It's not a questions of morals. It's not a question of hygiene. It's not a question of how people should conduct themselves." Say whaaa?
I have been knocking my head against the wall on that for 15 years now, and finally just today Stephen Colbert brought this to the attention of the world. 
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