September 2009

Susie Madrak:

‘ACORN’ Is Wingnut Code for The ‘N’ Word.

(It’s actually the quote of several days ago, but I only just came across it. Mea culpa.)

How can you tell when Cao is lying? It puts up a new post at its blog.

I wouldn’t have believed a year ago that things like raising the communist Chinese flag alongside Old Glory at the Capitol… or using the white house lawn as an Islamic prayer rug would have been possible.

Cao manages a twofer here: two lies in one sentence. Cao had earlier posted about the Chinese flag flying in Washington — now the lizard bitch has mutated the story into a claim that the Chinese flag flew “alongside Old Glory at the Capitol”. That simply did not happen; Cao is lying. The Chinese flag was flown on the Ellipse, a public area.

Cao also claims that the Muslim gathering was “using the white house lawn as an Islamic prayer rug”. Nope. The prayers occurred at the Capitol building. Cao knows this, since it linked to several news stories that mentioned the Capitol as the prayer site.

Lying is central, even essential, to the wingnut’s mindset. Cao lies constantly, and it seems to find no contradiction with the “Christian faith” it so often defends.

Shorter Rude News:

Bill Sparkman’s family doesn’t deserve the highly politicized trauma that is taking place right now. So when we immediately politicize Sparkman’s death by using it as an excuse to make wild-ass claims about what “leftists” are doing, please ignore our hypocrisy.

(More on Sparkman’s death here.)

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.

There simply aren’t enough liars on staff at the group wingnut blog Flopping Aces, so they have to recruit more liars from the ranks of their readers. They’ve found a usefully idiotic liar in the person of one Leo Shishmanian, who has jumped upon the “CZARS BAD!” bandwagon so beloved of the wingnuts.

All of these czars have been appointed without congressional confirmation or direct involvement in the process.

Ummmm… nope:

The Senate’s list of confirmed civilian “Executive Nominations” includes the following administration officials listed by [Fox News] as “Obama’s czars”:

• R. Gil Kerlikowske, confirmed as the Director of National Drug Control Policy on May 7; listed by Fox as the “drug” czar;
• Dennis Blair, confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence on January 28; listed as the “intelligence” czar.
• Cass Sunstein, confirmed as the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget on September 10; listed by Fox as the “regulatory” czar.
• John Holdren, confirmed as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy on March 19; listed by Fox as the “science” czar.
• Herbert Allison, confirmed as the Department of the Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability on June 19; listed by Fox as the “TARP” czar.
• Ashton Carter, confirmed as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics on April 23; listed by Fox

as the “weapons” czar.
• Aneesh Chopra, confirmed as an associate director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy on May 21 and also named Chief Technology Officer of the United States by President Obama; listed by Fox as the “technology” czar.
• David J. Hayes, confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Interior on May 20 and appointed by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as “lead official for Interior and the Obama Administration in coordinating the federal response to California water supply” on June 28; listed by Fox as “California water” czar.

Shishmanian claims to be a trial attorney. I do hope he is more truthful in the courtroom than he is in his political writings.

Shorter Big Dog:

• 40% of Americans don’t pay any taxes! Oh, wait, yes they do, but that’s inconvenient for the purposes of my incoherent rant, so just ignore that fact.

  ‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.

Oh, the humanity! What terrible, brain-melting horror has lizard bitch Cao uncovered now?

Obama flies the Communist Chinese Flag over Washington D.C. alongside Old Glory

These are sad, sad, times.

In Cao’s fantasy world, Obama controls the flying of every single flag anywhere in Washington D.C. In the real world, of course, thousands of flags are flown over Washington by any number of people — and most of them are not Barack Obama.

Even Fox News understands the difference between fantasy and reality better than Cao does… and that’s saying something.

Demonstrations by foreign groups on the Ellipse or in Lafayette Park, in front of the White House, are not uncommon. But foreign flags are only flown on the White House grounds or on Pennsylvania Avenue to mark “state” or “official” visits of the countries’ leaders.

Under those guidelines, the Chinese flag has flown on White House grounds before, in April of 2006, when President Hu Jintao visited then President George W. Bush.

Also, oops…

President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Laura Bush and Hu’s wife, Liu Yongqing, wave from the South Portico balcony after the South Lawn Arrival Ceremony at the White House, Thursday, April 20, 2006.

And again, oops…

Chinese President Hu Jintao delivers a speech during a ceremony held by his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush to welcome his state visit on the White House South Lawn in Washington April 20.

Remember, kids… when it comes to finding fun on the Internet, whackadoo wingnuts like Cao are your best entertainment value.

Jon Perr:

Turning to Sarah Palin to explain the international economy and the role of government is like asking a dog why it likes to lick its rear end.

Shorter “Stogie”:

• Victory! I have found a way to avoid ever again reading any comment on my site that disagrees with my fantasy world! Now I can lie to my readers in peace.

  ‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.

Gee, here’s a surprise… Ogre is lying again:

Michelle Obama says that women are too stupid and incompetent to arrange checkups for themselves because they’re women and not men. Therefore, her solution is that government needs to take care of family illnesses, arrange checkups, and monitor follow-up care.

Later, in a comment, he compounds his lie:

In order to get more people to support her, she says that women, specifically, are not capable of making appointments.

The Bloomberg article that Ogre links to does not state that Michelle Obama said anything of the sort. You can read through it with fine-tooth comb in hand, and you will not find the slightest crumb of evidence that Michelle Obama said that “women, specifically, are not capable of making appointments”. Same goes for the full transcript of her remarks, which Ogre was careful not to link to. Ogre simply pulled this claim out of his lying ass.

It’s hard to say which is less surprising: that Ogre is stupid enough to tell this sort of transparent lie, or that he has such contempt for his readers that he’ll feed them such unmitigated crap.

Shorter Paul Mitchell:

• Ah dint never lissen to them teechurs wen Ah wuz in skool anyhoo, so’s thas how I knose thet teechurs kaint teech nuthin nohow noway.

  ‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.