Friday, May 16, 2008

I actually saw this yesterday when it aired on MSNBC. Say what you want about Chris Matthews (and I have), but his takedown of Los Angeles wingnut radio spewer Kevin James was a thing of beauty.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Bill O’Reilly completely loses his shit on the set of Inside Edition. This is classic stuff and sure to go viral. Lots of cussing, so careful at work.

UPDATE: YouTube has pulled the video, but Gawker has a copy online here.

Friday, May 09, 2008

I guess it’s not too hard to check them when they’re resting on your chin…

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

I was out walking around with my not-so-little bro who’s visiting from the left coast and returned to find Rumproast smeared with one of the best and weirdest cases of drive-by Obama Derangement Syndrome you’ll ever find in the blogosneer.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I honestly don’t know if Barack Obama’s takedown of Rev. Jeremiah Wright today was a good move or a bad one (exceedingly precious time will tell), but newly-minted Democrat John Cole put the whole media-fueled debacle in ass-kicking perspective:

As to Wright himself, well, I have my own thoughts. First and foremost, I guess I am no longer the delicate fainting flower that most other bloggers and media commenters are these days. I spent several years in the early days of this blog being all sorts of outraged about petty bullshit. I spent days calling Ted Rall an asshole (he still is, I think), days opining about what an asshole Michael Moore is, and so on. I got my panties all in a bunch about Ward Churchhill (also a dick), and stupid things Bill Maher may or may not have said, and so on.

And you know what? They may be assholes, or jerks, or whatever term you want to use, but they sure as hell didn’t run this economy into the ground. They aren’t responsible for turning a huge surplus into a several hundred billion dollar deficit. I have yet to read any memos from Barbra Streisand detailing how we should spy on American citizens.

And so it is with Jeremiah Wright. Is he a jerk? I don’t think there is any argument to be made that lately he hasn’t in fact been one big, giant, puckered asshole. His ego tour the past few days was all about him, but so what? I blame the media as much as I blame him. Is it an offensive notion that the government created aids? Absolutely, but I refuse to get all bent out of shape about it, because the government that tortures people and ran the Tuskegee experiment and wiretapped MLK for years opens itself up to crazy accusations like that.

Read it all. And if you happen to be in close proximity to Joe Scarborough or Larry Johnson, please rub their fucking noses in it.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

My wife and I had to rewind the DVR last night to make sure we heard this correctly. Ladies and gents, I present Patrick Buchanan, friend of the rabid anti-Obama Hillshills and an utterly massive dickhead:

Realism = Marxism. Sweet.  If I were Rachel Maddow I would have replied, “Fascist says what?”

MSNBC, please mothball this racist fuckknuckle before he calls Maddow what we all know he’s dying to.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Father Michael Pfleger bitch-slaps one of Bill O’Reilly’s goons:

(via Blue Girl, Red State)

Friday, April 18, 2008

Why? After seeing this and this it struck me that watching these two blithering nincompoops leading the blogojeer for Hillary against their dull-eyed, drooling wingnut mentors will be awfully entertaining to watch.  It’ll be the ultimate fucktard cage match. I’ve even come up with a name for it just in case it goes down: Sad Hacks Beyond Thunderdumb.

Or ... The End of the Blogosphere As We Know It.

Nothing can survive an onslaught of that much unrelenting dueling douchebaggery.

(Hat tip to douglas in comments)

MORE: Good christ, the LA Times‘ Andrew Malcolm is rolling out this bullshit, too:

This is one of those political moments that really needs few words.

We’ll no doubt hear much more about this incident in coming days.

I can think of those “few words,” Malcolm: “fuck” and “you.” No finger necessary.

UPDATE: Here’s another angle (and clearly the best to refute this goofiness) shot by Ustream.  If you watch the full-screen version and scroll to the 20:50 mark, you can clearly see that he was scratching his face with two fingers.  And, yes, I feel embarrassed to be human even to have to bother posting this.

UPDATE: Kyle from Comments from Left Field asks an important question…

You know, the blogosphere was at least partly intended to keep the media from being silly. Who will come along to do the same for us?

UPDATE: moreperfectunion posted screenshots from the Ustream video at MyHRC....

We can has the sanities now? 

Oops, guess not.

I’m going to introduce a new game I came up with where everyone gets to pick wingnut blogger counterparts for the online Hillshills.  I think it’s pretty clear at this point that SusanUnPC’s wingnut counterpart is Pamela at Atlas Shrugs (all that’s missing are the vlogs). Feel free to play along in the comments.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Faux-talk radio host and blogger Taylor Marsh (her site header proclaims she’s “the antidote to right-wing talk") is a member of the Blogads network and its invite-only ”Advertise Liberally” hive.  For the record, back when I ran my previous blog Catch.com I was a member of both Blogads and Advertise Liberally.

Here’s a simple description of how Blogads works: A potential advertiser creates an ad using the Blogads interface and chooses blogs they would like their ad to run on. Chosen blog owners then receive an email notifying them of the request for ad placement.  The blogger is then required to log-in to their Blogads admin panel, review the ad and either accept or reject it. This protects the blog owner from having an ad running on their site that they find objectionable or wouldn’t want their blog to be associated with. The Blogads member has total control of all ads that run on their site.

Now let’s look at the approved ad I saw running on Democrat Taylor Marsh’s blog early yesterday, displayed directly under the “Advertise Liberally” banner:

As of this writing (10:00 am ET) this ad is still running on Taylor’s blog today (full screenshot available on request).  Take a close look at the image of the book cover.  That’s a picture of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on the left doing the Nazi salute.  In case you don’t recognize the photo, it’s a cropped version of this one:

That’s Hitler on the right.  You may have heard about him.

The book cover also features a photo of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to the right of the shot of Mussolini. To the average person it looks like he’s smiling and waving.  When paired with the image of Mussolini it’s pretty clear what the implication is. That’s right: Barack Obama is a fascist.  Charming.

Now let’s look at where you go when you click the ad approved by Democrat Taylor Marsh and running prominently on her blog.  Here’s a description of the book Obama - the Postmodern Coup: The Making of a Manchurian Candidate, written by conspiracy-theory crackpot and self-published author (just like Taylor!) Webster Griffin Tarpley, that can be found after clicking on the ad:

The Making of a Manchurian Candidate… Barack Obama is a troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup by intelligence agencies using fake polls, mobs of adolescents, super-rich backers, and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power. Obama comes from the orbit of the Ford Foundation, and has never won an election in a real contest. His guru and controller is Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Trilateral Commission co-founder and mad Russia-hater. Zbig wants a showdown with Russia and China far more dangerous for the US than the Bush-Cheney Iraq quagmire. Obama’s economics are pure Skull & Bones/Chicago school austerity and sacrifice for American working families, to bail out the bankrupt Wall Street financiers who own him. Obama’s lemming legions and Kool-Aid cult candidacy hearken back to Italy in 1919-1922, and raise a spectre of postmodern fascism in America. No voter can afford to ignore the lessons contained in this book.

Here’s a “press release” for the book with additional, ahem, info.

I don’t think there’s really much to add.

Democrat Taylor Marsh chose to run this ad on her blog, directly under the “Advertise Liberally” banner. Taylor Marsh used to think it was a bad thing to imply that Democrats were fascists. Taylor Marsh should be ashamed of herself as should any Democratic/liberal/progressive blog who still blogrolls her. Taylor Marsh isn’t the antidote to right-wing talk anymore.  Taylor Marsh is the antithesis of left-wing talk.

MORE: If you’d like to ask the person who’s running the Advertise Liberally hive why someone who would run that offensive ad under the Advertise Liberally banner is allowed to remain on the roster when there are probably plenty of worthy liberal blogs*, who would never in a million years run an ad like that, waiting to be rolled into the network ("Advertise Liberally is currently not accepting any new members for the foreseeable future."), their contact info is available here.

* Please note: I have not requested reentry into the Advertise Liberally hive, just in case anyone thinks I’m angling to take Taylor’s spot.

MORE: Taylor Marsh would like people to email Air America and XM about getting her on the air.  I think Air America, in particular, should probably hear from you folks.

UPDATE (3:56 PM): Thanks to Oliver Willis for linking to this. DU has picked it up as well. If any bloggers on the Blogads network received and rejected this ad, I’d be interested in hearing from you in comments or via our tips email (link top left). As I type this Taylor has a writer for The New Republic sitting in her “home studio” with her for a piece they’re putting together on her. And, yes, the ad is still running on her blog. 

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

I’m sending these next two numbers out to every fucking moron who thinks Obama can’t beat McCain in the general election. Wake up!

[second video via Balloon Juice]

RELATED: From TPM…

Today’s Gallup tracking poll gives Barack Obama an 11-point lead over Hillary Clinton, his widest margin ever in Gallup’s polling. [...] The poll was conducted entirely after the “small town” controversy first erupted, a further indication that the whole flap has yet to actually harm Obama’s poll numbers.

Someone put alegre on a suicide watch.

FLASHBACK: I thought I overplayed my hand a bit with this post from January, but who knows. If he takes Pennsylvania after this overblown “bitter” brouhaha, I think my boomerang candidate label might be perfectly valid.

Monday, April 14, 2008

McCain: “Show daddy you love him.”
Lieberdog: ”Arf. Arf.”
McCain: “Thatta boy.  Here’s a biscuit”

What an asshole.

Betty Cracker takes a look at back-from-the-dead “Reagan Democrats” and, once again, she nails it. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again ... bookmark Betty now.

Chris Matthews this weekend on The Chris Matthews Show (about 4:15 in):

Okay, let’s talk turkey here.  Everybody likes John McCain because he makes mistakes.  That’s why we like him. He says things like, “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,” like he’s the Beach Boys and then he says things like, well, what, recently, what, a hundred years of military presence and then spends weeks trying to explain what that means, how limited that statement was.

Chris loves McCain because he makes mistakes. Obama and Clinton, not so much.

Watching Matthews and Kelly O’Donnell openly admit that they’re fully aware of how many mistakes St. Maverick makes but that’s okay because he’s just a non-stop straight-talking machine is really one of the saddest and most pathetic things I’ve ever witnessed on one of these Sunday yap fests.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Troubling news from The New York Times:

Senator John McCain has long made his decades of experience in foreign policy and national security the centerpiece of his political identity, and suggests he would bring to the White House a fully formed view of the world.

But now one component of the fractious Republican Party foreign policy establishment — the so-called pragmatists, some of whom have come to view the Iraq war or its execution as a mistake — is expressing concern that Mr. McCain might be coming under increased influence from a competing camp, the neoconservatives, whose thinking dominated President Bush’s first term and played a pivotal role in building the case for war.

The concerns have emerged in the weeks since Mr. McCain became his party’s presumptive nominee and began more formally assembling a list of foreign policy advisers. Among those on the list are several prominent neoconservatives, including Robert Kagan, an author who helped write much of the foreign policy speech that Mr. McCain delivered in Los Angeles on March 26, in which he described himself as “a realistic idealist.” Others include the security analyst Max Boot and a former United Nations ambassador, John R. Bolton.

Prominent members of the pragmatist group, often called realists, say they are also wary of the McCain campaign’s chief foreign policy aide, Randy Scheunemann, who was a foreign policy adviser to former Senators Trent Lott and Bob Dole and who has longtime ties to neoconservatives. In 2002, Mr. Scheunemann was a founder of the hawkish Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and was an enthusiastic supporter of the Iraqi exile and Pentagon favorite, Ahmad Chalabi.

The next time you see or hear a Clinton or Obama supporter say they will vote for McCain if their candidate doesn’t get the nomination, please rub their out-of-joint noses in those four paragraphs.

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Taylor Marsh during her make-believe radio show yesterday (4/8/08):

This is the thing my husband has been dreaming about ... is hate sites and hate diaries all dedicated to taking me down, because I am a fabulist, that I’m good at PR.  Of course I’m good at PR. Hello?! Where did Rush Limbaugh come from?  Where did Sean Hannity come from? You know, I really find this amusing.

Hey, what a coincidence, so do I.

From Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry:
fab·u·list
Pronunciation:  \ˈfa-byə-list\
Function:  noun
Date:  1593

1 : a creator or writer of fables
2 : liar
— fabulist or fab·u·lis·tic

I’ll leave the comment about her husband and the references to Limbaugh and Hannity up to your own interpretations.

*cough* hack *cough*

Oops, sorry, slight cold.

UPDATE: Due to the not-so-subtle legal (and thoroughly hypocritical) threats Taylor directed at John Brown, we’ve made a few changes to two posts that featured glam shots of Marsh.  You can view the changes here and here.