What is wrong with Rush Limbaugh?
… and at what point do rational people simply stop listening? Limbaugh’s latest race-based attack on the president on his Wednesday show managed to scrape the bottom of a barrel that most of us thought couldn’t get any emptier: he’s urging his Dittoheads not to give money to charities that are helping the devastated island of Haiti … because the earthquake disaster is really just an excuse for Barack Obama to benefit politically with black people. … oh, and he added, that’s light skinned AND dark skinned black people. The quote:
Yes, I think in the Haiti earthquake, ladies and gentlemen, in the words of Rahm Emanuel, we have another crisis simply too good to waste. This will play right into Obama’s hands — humanitarian, compassionate. They’ll use this to burnish their, shall we say, credibility with the black community in — the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.
It’s made to order for him. That’s why he couldn’t wait to get out there — could not wait to get out there.
And just to make sure he didn’t leave anyone’s ears not burning, Limbaugh added: “we’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.”
Watch:
Teabagger vs. Teabagger: Chicago tea group distances itself from hecklers
From Thinkprogress: word that a group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots, which encouraged its members to attend a town hall earlier in the month, is belatedly trying to distance itself from what it calls a “splinter group” responsible for heckling a woman whose daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild died because they didn’t have health insurance. The Tea Partiers’ website has been replaced by a message claiming they had nothing to do with the heckling, and don’t condone it. It reads in part:
Due to a high volume of hate mail regarding this tragic story, we feel
it necessary to clarify that the original Tax Day Tea Party of
Chicago has no organizational involvement in what happened on November 14th.
Furthermore, we feel this type of action is irresponsible, gross in nature
and completely uncalled for. While the Tax Day Tea Party of
Chicago certainly disagrees politically with
Dan and Midge Hough on the healthcare debate, we in
no way wish to act malicious towards the family and we
send our deepest sympathies to them for their loss.
They also helpfully link to the offending group — the Chicago Tea Patriots’ — contact page, basically encouraging the outraged to send their angry emails there. And it only took, what, a couple weeks to figure out that shouting down a woman over the death of her loved ones, including an unborn infant, was a bad thing. So far, no response from the insane Catherina Wojtowicz and her merry mobsters.
Stupid vs. Stupid: Palin fans boo her for quitting her book signing
Dear Sarah Palin fans in the Lower 48:
Please be informed that since quitting her job as governor of Alaska, Ms. Palin is now a full-time Facebook blogger and celebrity (think of her as a paler, even dimmer Kardashian, without the reality show … yet… or a pro-Carrie Prejean Perez Hilton.) As such, she has neither the time, nor the patience, to hang around the podunk, local book store in your dead-end, red state town, to sign copies of that goll-derned book her ghost writer put together, just so your snotty nosed kid can get an autograph. Thank you, and don’t forget: Vote Palin/Beck in 2012!
And the crowd goes rogue … Go here for angry winger comments. And note how the number of “Palienated”, dissed supporters grows from 100 to 200 to:
Greg VandenBoom I spent majority of my day at Border’s in Noblesville, Indiana waiting to get my book signed. After 8 hours in the cold and rain with my wife and 10 month old baby, I was shocked to watch Sarah get on a bus and leave without signing books for at least 400 people. Instead, we were given a sticker that had her signature printed on it! You lost quite a few supporters tonight! I know many planned to return their books, but the real disappointment was the realization that someone you supported and believed in didn’t follow through on the commitment they made.
Waa. Read more
News from the Republican Putsch
Now that Fox News has officially thrown Dede Scozzafava out of the Republican Party (why would they let her stay, after all, now that Rush Limbaugh has outed her for “bestiality,” saying she has “screwed every RINO in the country?” nice way to woo women voters, party boss!) … the next target for the teabagger jihadis is liekly to be our very own Miss Charlie Crist. Crist has already been declared tomorrow’s big loser by TPM (although I would argue that the two biggest losers are actually NRSC chairman John Cornyn, who has lost control of the base and thus become their chief target, and Michael Steele, who never had the respect of the wingers anyway. And throw in Newt Gingrich, too…) since either a Doug Hoffman win or a Doug Hoffman loss in New York will embolden the teabag brigade to attempt to Scozzafava every “RINO” they see — starting with Governor Crist. Read more
The lunatics OWN the asylum: Hoffman pledges his ’sacred honor’ to Glenn Beck
The New York 23 race just never gets old. Doug Hoffman, the third-party candidate who now has the official endorsement of the party his supporters are still trashing online, and whose candidate the teabaggers forced out of the race, is on record as having pledged his “sacred honor” to … wait for it … Glenn Beck and the 9/12 movement (America is good, America!!!) What? Not Rush Limbaugh??? Read more
Pouty wingers can’t understand why Dede won’t play on their team
Now this is rich. The jihadis at RedState, having spent the last several weeks skilleting Dede Scozzafava, the onetime Republican Congressional candidate from upstate New York, are now whingeing that she should respond to having been driven out of the race by outsiders who don’t actually vote in her district, by throwing her support behind the right wing Congressional carpetbagger who can’t vote in her district either because he doesn’t live there, but who is now the de facto Republican nominee. Seriously. This from Col. Von Erickson himself:
In New York 23, the liberal Dede Scozzafava drops out and instead of supporting the guy the GOP crawls on bended knee to, she endorses the Democrat.
All the time we hear “conservatives can’t win the general” and “conservatives should play nice with moderates.” The record shows that the moderates cannot take losing and conservatives don’t win the general because the moderate GOP stabs them in the back.
If we are a team, it can’t just be the conservative players in trouble for not passing the ball.
Wait … you’re a team??? Didn’t your crowd just essentially read Ms. Scozzafava out of the Republican Party, after calling her a eugenicist who wants to wipe out minorities, implying that she’s a Marxist, and getting so hystrionic about her candidacy that even other Republicans started to think you were insane ? Doesn’t that, by definition, mean she’s no longer on your team?
Of course, the answer to that is ‘no,’ which is why Dede Scozzafava endorsed the Democrat, Bill Owens, today. Go team! Dede’s statement, in which she wisely focuses on those pesky local issues, after the jump. So go ahead … Read more
GOP Congressman: Obama an ‘enemy of humanity’
People for the American Way, which I presume will soon be labeled a communist beehive by Glenn Beck and the RedStaters, has a right wing watch site, which has been monitoring the kooky “How to Take Back America” / Phyllis Schlafly kookfest (which has featured lots of talk about Nazis, and plenty of other over-the-top Obama paranoia.) PFAW dispatched their latest findings to the Huffpo, which reports that not only did Arizona Congressman (and pre-litigious birther) Trent Franks reprise the demand that the president prove that he is a natural born citizen of the United States, he went on to say this:
“Obama’s first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers’ money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries,” said Frank. “Now, I got to tell you, if a president will do that, there’s almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn’t be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can’t do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity.” Read more
Another day, another bunch of racist Freepers
Another day at the office at the Free Republic. The headline:
Berlusconi Jokes About ‘Tanned’ Obamas
A clip:
Silvio Berlusconi this week further consolidated his already strong reputation for political tastelessness. At the gala dinner for the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh on Thursday, the Italian prime minister visibly irked President Barack Obama with his unabashed ‘va-va-va-voom’ hand gestures when he was introduced to Michelle Obama. Instead of directing a respectful glance into the first lady’s eyes, he first gave her gown a Via Veneto-style leer—and reaped an arms-length handshake from Mrs. Obama instead of the warm embrace she gave other leaders.
And a nice cross section of the replies …
To: libstripperIf he was “va-va-vooming” Michelle Obama, I would like to take up a collection to buy Signor Berlusconi an eye exam.
}:-)4
What to do with the ‘Should Obama be killed?’ Facebook pollster?
A sick poll asking whether President Obama should be killed (the choices were “Yes”, “No”, “Maybe,” and “If he cuts my health care…”) and the whole polling app, has been pulled by Facebook, and according to CBS, the user banished from Facebook. The Huffpo Political Carnival scored this screen grab:
But should Facebook also turn over the name of the poll creator to the Secret Service? It’s a tough call. The person who did it is likely not a dangerous nut; probably just your average Obama-hating teabagger, unleashed, as so many of them are, by the anonymity of the Internet to share something stupid with their pretend, online friends. But in an age where there really are armed nuts out there convening online, empowering themselves with the notion that they’re not alone after all — that other people hate “the government” and the president (or whoever) as much as they do, and with wingers arming themselves to the teeth out of an irrational fear that the black helicopters are coming, you really can’t be too careful. Read more
Glenn Beck can’t (or won’t) define ‘the white culture’, touches off mini right wing civil war
Katie Couric gave Glenn Beck an unedited, long-form interview, in which he tried to sound like your calm, reasonable cousin (whose time spent in the mental institution the family doesn’t talk about during family gatherings.) He got through most of the interview without cracking up, but Katie did manage to trip him up; or rather, an email questioner did. The question: “Glenn, what did you mean by President Obama ‘hates the white culture?’” Glenn did a lot of stumbling, and in the end, still failed to answer the question, “what exactly is ‘the white culture?’” Here’s the entire interview for your viewing pleasure (and when you get tired of hearing Beck try to adopt that soothing, next door neighbor tone with Katie, click here for a bit of the REAL Glenn Beck):
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