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Shorter Robert Stacy McCain:
Here’s some more details on McCain’s principled defense of a poor beleaguered multinational conglomerate.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.
There’s a hilarious meme that’s making the rounds on Twitter right now, labeled #RejectedPalinTitles. Some of my favorites:
Hee…
“Big Dog” must be doing some really good drugs — he now thinks he is Strunk and White:
Joe Biden said our heroes were brought in in a clandestine fashion:
“These young men and women are heroes,” Vice President Biden said in 2004, when he was senator from Delaware. “The idea that they are essentially snuck back into the country under the cover of night so no one can see that their casket has arrived, I just think is wrong.” Examiner
Note to Biden, the past tense of sneak is sneaked.
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God forbid that any wingnut should ever check its facts.
The wingnuts lied — of course. The “spontaneous” town hall “protests” we saw in August were nothing of the sort: they were organized with the knowledge and coooperation of the highest levels of the Republican Party.
On the first day of August, a mob of 200 right-wing Texans stormed the parking lot of a Randalls grocery store in southwest Austin. They were united in a single goal: Disrupt the “office hours” that Rep. Lloyd Doggett, the district’s congressman, had scheduled for his constituents. The protesters targeted Doggett for his role in crafting the House’s bill to reform health care, brandishing signs that read “No Government Health Care” and “No Government Counselor in My Home!!!” But their anger seemed to encompass a universe of conservative fears: higher taxes, illegal immigration, socialism. The threat of violence was thinly veiled: One agitator held aloft a tombstone with the name Doggett. Screaming, “Just say no!” the mob chased Doggett through the parking lot to an aide’s car — roaring with approval as he fled the scene.Conservatives were quick to insist that the near-riot — the first of many town-hall mobs that would dominate the headlines in August — was completely spontaneous. The protesters didn’t show up “because of some organized group,” Rick Scott, the head of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, told reporters. “They’re mad about the stimulus bill, the bailout, the economy. Now they see that their health care is about to be taken over by the government.”
In fact, Scott’s own group had played an integral role in mobilizing the protesters. According to internal documents obtained by Rolling Stone, Conservatives for Patients’ Rights had been working closely for weeks as a “coalition partner” with three other right-wing groups in a plot to unleash irate mobs at town-hall meetings just like Doggett’s. Far from representing a spontaneous upwelling of populist rage, the protests were tightly orchestrated from the top down by corporate-funded front groups as well as top lobbyists for the health care industry. Call it the return of the Karl Rove playbook: The effort to mobilize the angriest fringe of the Republican base was guided by a conservative dream team that included the same GOP henchmen who Swift-boated John Kerry in 2004, smeared John McCain in 2000, wrote the script for Republican obstructionism on global warming, and harpooned the health care reform effort led by Hillary Clinton in 1993.
“The insurance industry is up to the same dirty tricks, using the same devious PR practices it has used for many years, to kill reform,” says Wendell Potter, who stepped down last year as chief of corporate communications for health insurance giant CIGNA. “I’m certain that people showing up at these town halls feel that they’re there on their own — but they don’t realize they’re being incited, ultimately, by the insurance industry and the other special interests.”
Behind the scenes, top Republicans — including House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Minority Leader John Boehner and the chairman of the GOP’s Senate steering committee, Jim DeMint — worked hand-in-glove with the organizers of the town brawls. Their goal was not only to block health care reform but to bankrupt President Obama’s political capital before he could move on to other key items on his agenda, including curbing climate change and expanding labor rights. As DeMint told an August teleconference of nearly 20,000 town-hall activists, “If we can stop him on this, the administration won’t be able to go on to cap and trade, card check and the other things they want to do.”
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(hat tip: Balloon Juice)
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.
Today is the one-year anniversary of Kender’s phony suicide note, which was quickly followed by a bleg (what’s a bleg?).
How’d that pathetic, transparent ploy work out for you, shitmonkey?
Remember: “One doesn’t rule anything in or out without some firm answers.”
(hat tip: Sadly, No!)
UPDATE 09/30/09 8:54 AM EDT: Instaputz asks some very, very serious and important questions about Dan Riehl, as does the Mahablog.
Leo Shishmanian is lying yet again. He’s picked up on the latest wingnut fauxtrage du jour: the fact that last February, schoolchildren in New Jersey sang a song in praise of President Obama.
It is not very far removed from the education of the Hitler Youth. No, I’m not comparing President Obama to Hitler…
Shishmanian’s bare-faced mendacity is astonishing. He claims not to be doing what anyone with eyes can see he is doing: comparing Obama to Hitler. Did he really think that his ham-handed disclaimer was going to fool anybody?
Try as I might, I can find no evidence that Shishmanian expressed the slightest dismay when schoolchildren sang in praise of George W. Bush:
At the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, children from the stricken Gulf Coast region serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency.
To the tune of Hey Look Me Over, about 100 young children from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang:
Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!
So, let’s compare Shishmanian’s reactions to these two events:
UPDATE 09/29/09 10:40 AM EDT: Gee, here’s a surprise… Amy Proctor is also shedding crocodile tears over this allegedly unprecendented “indoctrination”.
Wingnuts lie. That’s simply a fact of life. And sometimes they admit to it — as Glenn Beck has done:
With all the media attention over Glenn Beck’s “boiling frog’ stunt last week, I’m surprised that we’re the only ones who seem to have taken notice of Beck’s cavalier admission that he deliberately deceived his audience into thinking he had thrown a frog into boiling water. One day after the stunt, Beck revealed how he had edited pre-recorded video to make it appear that he had picked up a live frog before pretending to throw it into boiling water. He seemed to have no compunction about this flimflam on a news show nor about having lied to his audience when he swore that he thought the frog would jump out. Beck had told his viewers that the frog was a fake soon after the stunt but it wasn’t until the next day, in reaction to several bloggers accusing him of having actually killed the frog, that he detailed the particulars of his deceit. Had nobody questioned whether or not a frog had really been killed, we would likely never have known the lengths to which he had gone to fool his audience.
The usual bunch of right wing morons is having a great chortle over Beck’s stunt. Had they the slightest degree of self-awareness, they’d be asking themselves why they admire someone who has admitted to being a liar.
They don’t, of course… and that speaks volumes about them.
A number of wingnut bloggers, including Anne Leary at Backyard Conservative and Jim Hoft (the biggest Goddamn Fucking Liar™ on the Internet) at Gateway Pundit, are pushing the meme that the “Obama-as-Hitler” comparison is entirely the work of the fringe followers of eternal crackpot Lyndon LaRouche.
In a word: Nope. There are a plethora of documented examples of “mainstream” conservatives who gleefully push the “Obama-as-Hitler” meme. The claim that this is all the fault of the LaRocuhies is a lie, plain and simple.
Anne Leary claims that “It’s not us”. Sorry, Anne, but in many cases, it is the conservatives in this country that compare Obama to Hitler. In fact, you yourself are only too happy to compare Democrats to Nazis.
And as for Goddamn Fucking Liar™ Jim Hoft… well, this Gateway Pundit headline from March of this year pretty much blows his cry of innocence to hell and gone:
Obama’s Hitler Youth Will Not Be Allowed to Express Religious Beliefs
Trying to blame the meme on the LaRouchies merely highlights — once again — the essential mendacity of the wingnuts.
UPDATE 09/28/09 9:27 AM EDT: Here’s another example, from Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media:
There is a German word for what we are witnessing at the NEA and elsewhere in the Obama administration’s effort to push its agenda. It is Gleichschaltung.
So, tell me, wingnuts… is Pajamas Media now controlled by the LaRouchies?
(hat tip: Instaputz)
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