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"CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave, The Post has learned." NY Post CNN wanted Lou out

When even the conservative NY Post is reporting that it was worth $8 million for CNN to get rid of Lou Dobbs you know it must be true!  Dobbs who with his rabid bigotry, populist xenophobia single handedly destroyed the reputation of CNN as a credible news source.

Dobbs had become an ugly vile version of Fox News' Glenn Beck but lacking Becks' otherworldly humor, silly insanity and pitiful likability. 

This is all especially satisfying for me as because for past two years I have been emailing CNN, snail mailing CNN, boycotting CNN and writing articles about Lou Dobbs calling for CNN to move his ugly ass over to Fox News where he belongs. Lou Dobbs - Shithead of the Year 2008

This is a very well done kick in the pants to the KIND OF PEOPLE who would deny gay partners such basic human rights as hospital visitation, submitting obits, controlling a funeral, burial etc.

These KIND OF PEOPLE who pretend that Christianity is an off shoot of American Right-wing politics based upon Ayn Rand (an atheist no less) free market purism, Wall Street and Banker greed, the evil of taxation,   selfishness, intolerance, bigotry, violence, hatred and wholesale ignorance.

Colbert does not go as far as I did the other day calling this religion what it is, but he comes as close as one can on television.  Mayoral Candidate Annise Parker suffers Houston's Republican Christian Bigotry  

The best line in this video clip is the ending. The same line I shouted not a few times - to no one listening - 10 years ago during the Republican Impeachment of Bill Clinton.

"Geraldo Rivera is now the voice of reason in America!"

The well deserved and long over due slam on Nancy Grace is not only about the media deciding who is guilty or innocent, but that she has no peer in causing Americans to buy truck loads of guns and ammo, helping to  jack up punishments, build more prisons, offer less parole and probation, put more people into death chambers and increase the sales of adult diapers for her audience to shit their pants in fear of everyone everywhere.

Also a slam on the general media for this same process of making Law & Order entertainment rather than the serious business it is.

I am certainly no smarter than anyone else outside Texas, but when I saw the water disappearing from that beach before the Indian Ocean Tsunami I knew what was coming BACK. Same thing when I saw that silver balloon blowing across the prairie. It was just a larg Mylar Valentines Day Balloon which in no possible way could it carry a 50 pound kid. Come on, we need a bit of critical thought rather than just blind acceptance of what these people are saying. Because remember, everything they do and say is to sell Twinkies, Trucks and lots and lots of beer for your brain.

The Rudy Giuliani clips here say much about Republican politics of the day. The hypocrisy of the GOP that no matter what Obama - or any Democrat does - it is going to be wrong and evil no matter they would do the same thing.

Bringing Muslim Hijackers to NY justice was just fine with Rudy 3 years ago, what changed? The Republicans got tossed out of Washington to be replaced by not only a bunch of Socialists who want everyone to have affordable health care, but their inarticulate white good ole boy was replaced by an uppity multi-cultural Constitutional Law professor! Republicans do not like smart people, like the song goes; Smart people, smart people, Smart people got no business to live.

Down here in Dumbutt the Tea Baggers are far more popular than they are in the rest of the nation. Even our Governor Rick Perry joined their ranks calling for succession from the Union from the steps of the Alamo!

Tea Baggers around the state have registered fro the upcoming GOP primaries wanting to oust at least five (so far) Republican US Congressman, some who have an American Conservative Union score of 96%!

The ACU is the gold standard for rating Right-wing Snitwits in America. A score of 96% is not good enough for these Beckian Tea Baggers whose battle cry is "Limited Government and back to Religious Values!"

That part about "Limited Government" and their inarticulate screeching about The Constitution is their disagreement with the concept of taxation - with or without representation.

Sure they like having free boat ramps for their bass boats, but their hard earned money going to anyone less white than they are is what this is mostly about.

Also keep in mind when the Republicans spent $1 trillion dollars (unfunded) on that bad war in Iraq that gained us not a thing but 5000 dead American kids, THESE KIND OF PEOPLE went to Support our Troop War rallies. When $1 trillion  (funded) MAY go to keep millions of Americans from losing their homes to medical debt, and giving tens of millions more basic health care, THESE KIND OF PEOPLE will not have any of it! It is not only fascism, Nazism, Marxism, Communism, Socialism but it is now worse than the Holocaust!

When I was little I remember we had THESE KIND OF PEOPLE running around too. Though we heard about them mostly from their billboards or from comedians and singers it was the same, then they were called the John Birch Society. And round and round it goes...

The "Religious Values" part of this is about denying gay couples not only the use of the word "marriage", but also giving gay couple the same  rights the Tea Bagger couples enjoy. And of course as they scream about the intrusive government they want the government to deny women their right to choose to have abortion. That's the kind of logic that comes with blind faith. 

The third rail - a generic reference to the underling cause of things - is more than obvious when you go to one of these Tea Bag rallies, read their signs, listen to their speakers and talk with a few of the fat ugly old white people sitting around wolfing down Hostess products. And of course the farting.

Here it is, the bottom line in this Tea Party Madness.

Tea Baggers are madass angry that the 8 happy years they enjoyed having a slow witted, inarticulate, God Fearing,  Good ole White Boy in George W Bush has been usurped by an articulate uppity Multi-cultural Constitutional Law Professor! OMG! A SMART PERSON! Smart people are not popular in Texas unless they can prove they own and use more than four guns. [Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson just released that information as she is running behind Rick Perry.]

Down here these Tea Baggers are sure to cause some pain for the GOP come the 2010 elections. Their entrance into the tight race for Governor down here between Perry and Hutchinson could very well force a very nasty run off. Perhaps next year at this time the Governors Mansion will be fixed with Democratic Candidate Kinky Friedman living in it.  GOP’s latest foes hail from Tea Party

You think you have issues with these crazy Beckian Tea Baggers running amok in your parks and town halls? You have it easy, here in Texas that crazyass Glenn Beck watching Tea Bagger is our Governor! And he is ahead in his run against conservative Republican Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

Not long ago we had another very VERY popular Governor of the same mold named George W. Bush. Big Guns Small Minds, Visit Texas!

This Sunday's Houston Chronicle editorial board weighs in on the intolerance at play by Houston's local Republican Christian Bigots. THESE KIND OF PEOPLE are very good at finding, supporting and promoting the intolerance, bigotry and exclusion they find in Christianity while they are very poor at finding the love, compassion and inclusion Christianity is based upon. It is what THESE KIND OF PEOPLE do and what THESE KIND OF PEOPLE are. Mayoral Candidate Annise Parker suffers Houston's Republican Christian Bigotry  

Do the right thing - It’s time to disavow the politics of discrimination and bigotry
HOUSTON CHRONICLE - Nov. 14, 2009,

A band of socially conservative activists and ministers has injected intolerance into Houston's mayoral election. As reported Saturday by the Chronicle's Bradley Olson, the group plans to discourage voters from supporting City Controller Annise Parker in the Dec. 12 runoff because she is a lesbian, and because they're worried about a “gay takeover” of City Hall.

Dave Welch, executive director of the Houston Area Pastor Council, told Olson, “The bottom line is that we didn't pick the battle, she did when she made her agenda and sexual preference a central part of her campaign.”

That's a lie.

While Parker has never made a secret of her sexuality, the campaign debate and agenda to date have been wholly defined by the issues facing the city and the comparative qualifications and experience of the candidates.

Parker's opponent, former City Attorney Gene Locke, has stated that he favors overturning a city charter amendment that bars Houston from extending benefits to the domestic partners of city employees, a bolder stance than that taken by Parker.

But Locke has also been courting the support of Dr. Steven Hotze, a conservative power broker and apparently one of the prime movers behind the effort to smear Parker. Hotze was the man behind the 1985 Straight Slate, a roster of City Council candidates he recruited to run on an anti-gay platform. (They all lost.)

According to a Hotze mouthpiece, he's thinking about stirring up his distasteful stew with a mailing inspired by Parker's sexuality.

Houston deserves better. Our city has a well-earned reputation for tolerance and openness. We don't need inflammatory appeals to folks' worst instincts.

We've been here before. In 1997 a small-minded ballot initiative would have ended the city's affirmative action program that helped minority and women contractors. Mayor Bob Lanier went on the air in an ad that bluntly stated his opposition to a proposal that would “turn back the clock to the days when guys who look like me got all the city's business.”

Lanier couldn't have been more clear: Discrimination is just not right.

It was a powerful moment of leadership. The referendum went down to defeat, and news outlets around the country marveled that a “wealthy white developer” had taken the lead on affirmative action.

It's time for another such moment of leadership.

Saturday afternoon, Gene Locke issued a statement rejecting “the style of campaigning that was the subject of an article in the Houston Chronicle.” He urged the people of Houston to choose a new mayor based on the issues and avoid being “swayed by divisive rhetoric.”

The rhetoric of people like Steven Hotze and Dave Welch carries a high cost. Their support should not be purchased at the price of bigotry.