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Category: Liberals suck

  • Billboards anger DUmmies

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    I guess there’s some angst in Atlanta over who is posting billboards that oppose the President’s policies. The local news on channel 11 claims they “broke” the story of the billboards (although, I don’t know how writing a story about bill boards that are on public display counts as a story they “broke”) and now they’ve dug up the man behind the endeavor, Tommy Newberry.

    But, what they have trouble with is the picture of the president, not the message;

    1. That’s a hideous “likeness”of Obama.

    Bastards.

    12. I thought the same thing. It looks…NOTHING like President Obama.

    18. The nose struck me, reminds me of Nazi anti-Jewish caricatures.

    21. So, it should be obvious to everyone which one of these individuals is of the darker persuasion. Boehner!

    What does the “darker persuasion” have to with anything? And isn’t it racist to make a “darker persuasion”, the evil one? And last I checked, Congressman John Boehner is white, so WTH are you babbling about, ya dope.

    Because of their inability to accept the fact that some folks think that the President is wrong on policy, those who oppose him are racists;

    5. A veritable plethora of RW MFers seem to be rearing their ugly heads in psychopathic unison.

    9. How is Obama and the Democrats shattering the American Dream maybe the republican dream of not being able to cheat their way into taking over another election. But this administration is doing a hell of a lot better in one year for this country than bush and the republicans did in eight years. Stuff like this is what makes me angry. What in the hell is wrong with these people. I have never said this before but since all this crap appears mostly in the south I am saying this and damn it to hell they are a bunch of RACIST THROUGH AND THROUGH AND UPSET BECAUSE WE HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT. NOW…

    15. They’re not…these hatemongers want the bones of ronald raygun to rise and give them a taste of their glory days.

    In another discussion, the DUmmies are upset that Sarah Palin actually speaks out against the President, because they never did that during the Bush Administration;

    I wonder if that stupid woman knows she is talking traitorously about the Commander in Chief, her military son’s leader? Remember when we were called on the carpet for any negative comment about Bush, during a time of war? Bush was never, never so dismissed in such ugly commentary as is our President. I am truly sickened by Palin, Gingrich, Cheney and that lot in New Orleans. They are ignorant flame throwers who are not concerned about the welfare of this country.

    What a short memory they have. Here’s a reminder thanks to John Hawkins at Right Wing News.

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    Thanks to Claymore for DUmpster Diving for us.

  • Think we have it bad here?

    Do you think we have it bad here with anti-war point-headed pseudo-intellectuals? Well, look at Canada. Fifteen professors from the University of Regina have signed a letter which opposes a scholarship program for the children of soldiers who died in war. The letter reads, in part;

    This program, which waives tuition and course fees, and provides $1,000 per year to “dependents of Canadian Forces personnel deceased while serving with an active mission”, is a glorification of Canadian imperialism in Afghanistan and elsewhere. We do not want our university associated with the political impulse to unquestioning glorification of military action.

    In our view, support for “Project Hero” represents a dangerous cultural turn. It associates “heroism” with the act of military intervention. It erases the space for critical discussion of military policy and practices. In signing on to “Project Hero”, the university is implicated in the disturbing construction of the war in Afghanistan by Western military- and state-elites as the “good war” of our epoch.

    The self-indulgent pricks go on to whine about how ALL college students are having a difficult time paying for college – but I wonder how many of them would take a pay cut in order to help those students out? But, you know, I could see US eggheads taking the same stance if it meant they could get their stupid names on the news. It’s not about service and sacrifice, it’s about writing a stupid and selfish letter that makes your less dedicated students more enamored with you.

    These children made more sacrifices in their short lives than these bespectacled, long hairs will ever make. That’s probably why the teachers oppose a leg up for them.

    But take a look at the disciplines in which these blivet heads teach. No surprises and no hope.

  • Eugene Robinson: what Left-wing terrorism?

    Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson is the absolute King of Left Wing Adherence. Nearly every word that appears in his Pulitzer-Prized column is pre-chewed at the White House for easy consumption by the drooling morons who still read the Post. Today’s missive is equally digestible by the chirping heads;

    But for the most part, far-left violence in this country has gone the way of the leisure suit and the AMC Gremlin. An anti-globalization movement, including a few window-smashing anarchists, was gaining traction at one point, but it quickly diminished after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. An environmental group and an animal-rights group have been linked with incidents of arson. Beyond those particulars, it is hard to identify any kind of leftist threat.

    By contrast, there has been explosive growth among far-right, militia-type groups that identify themselves as white supremacists, “constitutionalists,” tax protesters and religious soldiers determined to kill people to uphold “Christian” values. Most of the groups that posed a real danger, as the Hutaree allegedly did, have been infiltrated and dismantled by authorities before they could do any damage. But we should never forget that the worst act of domestic terrorism ever committed in this country was authored by a member of the government-hating right wing: Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

    Yes, the Far Left political violence has somewhat dissipated since 9-11, with some notable exceptions Amy Bishop who shot up her peers in a meeting at her Alabama College, also an Obama acolyte, Andrew Stack who crashed his plane into an IRS office after leaving a suicide note referring to Marxism, the damage the protesters left in their wake in NYC this year and in Pittsburgh late last year. The planned terrorism at the RNC in 2008 that was disrupted by law enforcement.

    But that’s all penny-ante bullshit, right? In order for Robinson to find some real Right Wing terrorism, he has to reach back 15 years (which is before 9-11, too, Gene, since 1995 comes before 2001 in my calender) to Oklahoma. It serves two purposes, it raises the specter of the military-trained killer gone wild and it scares the straights away from anyone with a right-wing ideology.

    McVeigh was in my unit in Desert Storm, so if it’s the military that made him that way, I guess there’s a few thousand more of us out here who’ve managed somehow to avoid blowing up Federal Buildings with fertilizer bombs in a rental truck. I wonder how we beat the odds? Nothing McVeigh did that day had anything to do with his military service – no matter how much the militia crews wish that were true.

    Almost half of the country voted against Obama, yet a very minuscule number have managed to get themselves arrested for making a nuisance of themselves in public in regards to the President. Thousands gathered in Washington DC over the past few months and beyond some ill-conceived signage, they haven’t damaged one little bit of Federal property or injured one person.

    The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from one direction — the right, not the left. The vitriolic, anti-government hate speech that is spewed on talk radio every day — and, quite regularly, at Tea Party rallies — is calibrated not to inform but to incite.

    Not like Eugene Robinson’s daily fear-mongering for the idiot class that reads the Washington Post. The same idiot class which, in the comments section, said that John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, funded by wealthy New Yorker Republicans is further proof of Right Wing terrorism.

  • Confidence in how the war is fought

    Every week or so, dicksmith at VoteVets is fond of reminding us how many terrorists are being killed in Afghanistan under the current administration. Mostly he’s talking about dead terrorists resulting from the use of Joe Biden’s robot ninja zombies.

    dicksmith fails to mention the ways this administration is making us less safe. Ways like releasing terrorists back into the wild from Guantanamo;

    It marks the 34th time that a U.S. judge frees a Guantanamo terrorist since the Supreme Court ruled that detainees could challenge their incarceration in federal court. Slahi arrived at the military compound in 2002 and claims he was tortured, threatened with death, sleep deprived and moved around the base blindfolded.

    Slahi’s terrorist activities are extensive and detailed in the 9/11 Commission report, which explains how he recruited four of the September 2001 conspirators from the renowned Hamburg Germany cell. They include Mohammed Atta, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah, the suicide pilots of American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, and United Airlines Flight 93.

    Yeah, I know it’s a judge who released Slahi, but it’s the choice of the administration to try these animals in a court of law instead of just leaving them imprisoned. Is there any doubt that the world willbe less safe when Slahi is released? How much sense does it make to release him on technicalities of law?

    I’d love for dicksmith or Tony Camerino to explain how this makes us more safe and how closing Guantanamo makes even a little sense.

    Thanks to Mad Bear for the link.

  • Hastings: There Are No Rules Here … We Make Them Up As We Go Along

    Ponsdorf sent me this link when I got home last night about the charge that some of the folks at the Code Red rally yesterday called disparaging names at some Black Congressmen and Barney Franks. Like I told ponsdorf, do I think some of the people on the right would call names at Congressmen? Absolutely. Do I think that Rangel and Lewis would make this up? Definitely. So everyone will take what they want from this story. I just think it’s damn funny that no media cameras caught it.

    But if anyone is wondering why the hate was pouring out on the Hill yesterday, they only need to watch this video of Alcee Hastings telling us how him and the Democrats will just make up stuff to get healthcare through Congress.

    Added: As far as John Lewis’ claims, here’s a video of him walking by the protesters who were supposed to be calling him names (found at Dana’s Show). Yeah, I don’t hear it;

    And Think Progress is trying to scare the leftists because of a sign that threatens gun violence.
    Code Red Gun Threat

  • The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

    Howell Raines is the disgraced former editor of the New York Times who was forced resigned due to his involvement in the Jayson Blair scandal. He was responsible for the “diversity above all” atmosphere that inhabited the newsroom at the Times that allowed Jayson Blair to be continually promoted despite his shoddy reporting. Raines also quite clearly failed to do his job as an editor and failed to pick up on the fact that Blair was embellishing most of his stories.

    But despite his obviously failings as an editor and his role in creating one of the biggest journalistic scandals in recent history, Raines still thinks that he comment with authority on the state of media in America today. In a column in the Washington Post, Raines goes after Fox News for its coverage of the healthcare issue. Here is the opening paragrah:

    One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?

    I think a better question would be who hasn’t tried to blow the whistle on Fox News? The only point to MSNBC’s existence (which ironically evolved from a network Roger Ailes founded) seems to be to bash Fox News. Not to mention the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and just about every other major newspaper in the country runs a hit piece on Fox or one of its anchors on a pretty much a weekly basis. Oh and if you want to talk about propaganda campaigns, why not talk about the slobbering love affair that was the mainstream media’s relationship with the Obama campaign in 2008?

    The American people and most of our great modern presidents have been demanding major reforms to the health-care system since the administration of Teddy Roosevelt. The elections of 1948, 1960, 1964, 2000 and 2008 confirm the point, with majorities voting for candidates supporting such change. Yet congressional Republicans have managed effective campaigns against health-care changes favored variously by Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Clinton. Now Fox News has given the party of Lincoln a free ride with its repetition of the unexamined claim that today’s Republican leadership really does want to overhaul health care — if only the effort could conform to Mitch McConnell’s ideas on portability and tort reform.

    Healthcare was not the dominant issue in all those elections and those presidents weren’t elected simply to reform healthcare. Anybody with any sense of American political history in the 20th Century would know that. Nice try changing history Raines.

    My great fear, however, is that some journalists of my generation who once prided themselves on blowing whistles and afflicting the comfortable have also been intimidated by Fox’s financial power and expanding audience, as well as Ailes’s proven willingness to dismantle the reputation of anyone who crosses him. (Remember his ridiculing of one early anchor, Paula Zahn, as being inferior to a “dead raccoon” in ratings potential when she dared defect to CNN?) It’s as if we have surrendered the sword of verifiable reportage and bought the idea that only “elites” are interested in information free of partisan poppycock.

    Having watched Paula Zahn’s show on both CNN and Fox, I can say that is definitely a proven fact that a dead racoon is more interesting and could garner better ratings.

    As for Fox’s campaign against the Obama administration, perhaps the only traditional network star to put Ailes on the spot, at least a little, has been his friend, the venerable Barbara Walters, who was hosting ABC’s Sunday morning talk show. More accurately, she allowed another guest, Arianna Huffington, to belabor Ailes recently about his biased coverage of Obama. Ailes countered that he should be judged as a producer of ratings rather than a journalist — audience is his only yardstick. While true as far as it goes, this hair-splitting defense purports to absolve Ailes of responsibility for creating a news department whose raison d’etre is to dictate the outcome of our nation’s political discourse.

    Raines conveniently fails to mention that Huffington is an unabashed liberal who runs a left-wing news website whose “raison d’etre is to dictate the outcome of our nation’s political discourse”. Naturally she is going to attack someone who she views as competition. Not to mention that Walters is also a frequent guest on Fox, especially on O’Reilly’s show.

    I also have no doubt that Ailes is in the ratings business before the political business. If left-wingers like Olbermann and Maddow could pull the ratings they would be on Fox. But instead they are stuck getting their asses beat by their competitors on Fox because their shows suck.

    The conclusion:

    As for Fox News, lots of people who know better are keeping quiet about what to call it. Its news operation can, in fact, be called many things, but reporters of my generation, with memories and keyboards, dare not call it journalism.

    So what would the fuck would you call journalism Mr. Raines? Continually promoting a reporter who obviously was fabricating many of his stories simply because he was black? Compromising sensitive national security programs while you keep quiet about your own reporters being kidnapped in Afghanistan? Displaying an incredible amount of bias towards conservative and Republican political figures? If thats your version of journalism, than I guess the New York Times is the most pure journalistic institution in the country.

    The fact that the Washington Post would print trash like this written by a hack like Raines says a lot about the state of “America’s old-school news organizations”. They are in their death-throes, but they refuse to admit it.

  • Maryland shoots self in foot

    I know I’ve written about this before, but it bears repeating. In today’s Wall Street Journal, the editorial board warns Illinois governor, Pat Quinn, against raising taxes with a piece entitled Maryland’s Mobile Millionaires.

    Thanks in part to its soak-the-rich theology, Maryland still has a $2 billion deficit and Montgomery County is $760 million in the red. Governor Martin O’Malley’s office tells us he wants the higher rates to expire “as scheduled at the end of 2010.” But there are bills in both chambers of the legislature to extend the surcharge. The state’s best hope is that politicians in other states are as self-destructive as those in Annapolis.

    According to the Wall Street Journal, 2300 millionaires fled Maryland between 2007 and 2008 when Governor O’Malley hiked taxes on millionaires from 4.75% to 9.3%. Now, I’m no millionaire, but my new job is a stone’s throw from Maryland, so I could choose either Maryland or West Virginia for my new home. I chose West Virginia and my income tax withholding tumbled $1800/year. Since I’m not a millionaire, to me that’s a lot of money. I could go on about the savings that resulted from my choice to move to West Virginia, but you probably wouldn’t believe it.

    So if thousands of millionaires left, how many non-millionaires left, I wonder, and how much additional income taxes went with them?. Did I mention that the Republican governor, Robert Erlich left O’Malley almost a billion dollar surplus in 2007 and by the end of the year O’Malley was raising taxes? So when will liberals learn about tax hikes?

  • Massa gropes us all

    Before you read this, go read David Bellavia’s five issues with Massa. It’s a masterpiece and one of the reasons I’m considering canonizing Bellavia.

    TSO sends us a link from the Washington Post about Eric Massa, the victim of “Old Guy” hate crimes perpetrated by his staffer. The last three paragraphs of the Washington Post article;

    After more than two decades in the Navy, during which he reached the rank of commander, Massa moved to Upstate New York to work for the manufacturing company Corning. In his official biography, he says he was laid off from his job because, “due to unfair free trade agreements, the company could not afford to keep those jobs in America.”

    Massa then became a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee. He says in his biography that he was an early critic of the Bush administration’s strategy for invading Iraq and that he was “forced out” of his Armed Services job for “standing up against the failed pre-war planning.” Congressional salary data on file at the Web site Legistorm shows that Massa was employed by the committee for eight months in 2003.

    Previously a Republican, Massa switched parties after leaving the House payroll and went on to work for the 2004 presidential campaign of retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, for whom Massa had worked when Clark was supreme allied commander of NATO.

    Yeah, Corning is probably the fairest employer in New York State – they’ve resisted moving the company and outsourcing during the last thirty years of brutal oppression of the last three New York Administrations. They’ve bore every burden and paid any price to keep the New York business in New York State. Well, for everyone except Massa, apparently. And, oh, those free trade agreements – all Clinton Administration, boy-o.

    Then he was forced out of the House Armed Service Committee after eight months of being an abrasive turd. I wonder what “pre-war planning” went on in the House Armed Services Committee. Seems to me that was done at the Pentagon – or maybe in the deep recesses of the psyche contained in Massa’s fat head.

    But he found a home with Wesley Clark – probably reliving the staff tickle fights they used to have during the Kosovo operation. Clark paid him back with Vote Vets endorsements in 2006 and 2008.

    And now Massa resigns and it’s someone else’s fault just like every other job he hasn’t been able to hold. Like I said the other day, I hope his poor wife slaps the dog shit out of him morning before breakfast – and I hope he carries his useless ass back to South Carolina where he belongs.