For Scott Baio, These Happy Days Are Not Your’s And Mine

Right winger Scott Baio, an actor of the former hit comedy television show Happy Days, took a cheap shot at first lady Michelle Obama and the backlash has been blistering.

Like many on the right wing, even as hundreds of thousands of Haitians are dying and suffering in the wake of a massive earthquake, Baio has been celebrating the U.S. Senate victory for Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts. While basking in the glow of Brown’s victory, and confident in their efforts they hope will result in the destruction of proposed health care legislation, Baio attempted to take a cheap shot at Michelle Obama.

Baio tweeted, about the first lady, “WOW He wakes up to this every morning,” and posted the below photo for the added shot:

Check out the Huffington Post article because it gets particularly interesting when Baio goes to a variation of the “I’m-not-racist-because-I-have-black-friends” handbook. Somewhat to Baio’s credit, however, he found a new (or perhaps rarely read) chapter, “I’m-not-racist-because-my-wife’s-best-friend-is-black.”

I’m not saying he’s a racist, now. In fact, I think he really is just the typical far-right kind of individual. Arguably, that might even be more disturbing than being a straight-up racist.

Also, from Huffington Post:

“I’m NOT racist for posting a pic of M.O. My WIFE’S BEST FRD IS BLACK,HELLO” he tweeted.

And: “Do I look like I’m racist? This is Renee’s BEST frd. STOP USING THE RACE CARD!!!” Here is a picture Baio tweeted of himself with said black person:

Baio next Tweeted a photo of him hugging his wife’s black female friend. Nice touch.

I do find it interesting how much time Scott Baio seems to be wasting defending himself from the charges of racism.

I also find it interesting that he accuses others of playing the race card before turning around and playing it himself by saying he is not racist because his wife’s best friend is black.

Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/21/scott-baio-tweets-michell_n_431214.html?fbwall

Tiger Woods’ Affair(s) Brings Out The Haters Who Were Waiting

The blood is in the water and the sharks are circling.

Tiger Woods has been getting hammered by more than just his wife, Elin, since his car accident and alleged affairs have been thrust into the media’s range.

Obviously, I don’t condone marital infidelity by Woods or anyone else – whether it was with one woman or it was with 15. And, the same holds true for women because, contrary to popular belief, women cheat just like men cheat. Still, if even a portion of what is being alleged about Tiger Woods is true then it does almost seem as though he had a whole separate life that a lot of people did not know about. But, should any of us really be shocked? No. Tiger Woods is a human beings and human beings do good things and human beings do bad things. The only ones who are shocked are those who put Tiger Woods on a pedestal (because they admired him so much or because they wanted to see him fall from it).

That said, one thing I have found interesting about the Woods’ mess is the reaction of some of Tiger’s fellow golfers who have turned the Professional Golf Association (PGA) into the Professional Haters Association (PHA). It’s amazing how Woods’ seemingly self-inflicted misery (which has damaged his reputation, but not irreparably) has opened the door to the closet haters to come out and bash the player (Tiger Woods).

I found this at Huffington Post which quotes Life & Style:

For the time being, Tiger Woods’ major sponsors — including Nike and Tag Heuer – haven’t dropped him. But things could change in the wake of a messy, public divorce. In fact, many of Tiger’s colleagues in the golf world have already made up their minds about the situation — and wasted no time badmouthing their former friend.  Jesper Parnevik, the Swedish golfer who introduced Elin, then his kids’ nanny, to Tiger, has said he regrets doing so. “We probably thought he was a better guy than he is,” Parnevik said.

Ben Crane, a PGA player, has even harsher words. “This is no surprise to anyone who knows Tiger,” Crane tells Life & Style. “He’s a phony and a fake and he can’t retain that squeaky-clean endorsement deal any longer.” Crane also believes Elin may have known about Tiger’s other women. ”She’s no fool,” Crane says, adding that perhaps Elin “turned a blind eye because of the money and the kids and the lifestyle he provides.”  

PGA golfer Charles Warren agrees that it may have been more than love that attracted Elin to Tiger but that she should definitely leave him in light of what’s happened. “She was very young when Jesper introduced them,” Warren tells Life & Style. “She had stars in her eyes and maybe dollar signs too. But no, she should not stay with him. What kind of message would that send to her sister and mother and all the women out there? That your husband can be a bastard but as long as he makes the deal worthwhile, you’ll stay?”

For more on Tiger’s cheating, pick up the new issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now!

That represents some interesting stuff to me.

Some of these cats have been waiting on an opportunity like this one to get at Tiger Woods.

“… Squeaky-clean endorsement deal…” Crane said.

That is an interesting statement.

Crane, a PHA player, went to work on Woods with some scathing comments that frankly stinks of him having a lot of hate inside of him. Crane, running a clinic on player hating with these comments, sounds like a guy holding inner resentment toward Woods and waiting on something to happen so he could express his true feelings.

The mess is for Tiger and Elin to sort out, but it is interesting how it reveals the ugly side of some other people who see an opportunity to attack this couple – most likely out of suppressed jealousy.

Rep. Rob Andrews Calls Out Fox News For Bias … Anchor Whines

Rep. Rob Andrews, a Democrat from New Jersey, called out Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett and Fox News for its bias. Jarrett, following in that Fox News tradition, joined forces with Rep. Marsha Blackburn (a Republican from Tennessee) to essentially advance right-wing talking points and double team Andrews late in the segment as they shouted him down repeatedly as he attempted to make a point. Andrew called out the biased host as he mockingly asked for Fox News to adhere to its phony “fair and balanced” slogan.

Jarrett loses his composure and pouts like a kindergartener.

Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/fox-news-anchor-yells-at_n_333501.html

Sarah Palin Goes Overseas To Bash President Obama, America

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a former candidate for the vice presidency, has gone overseas to Hong Kong to attack our United States of America president, Barack Obama. But, Palin apparently repulsed some U.S. delegates so much that they walked out and commented, but refused to be identified so (apparently) as to not be linked to the new conservative hero. Palin turning people off is nothing new, but her going overseas to attack our president does speak to the kind of person she is and continues to become as the spotlight is attracted to her. It wasn’t that long ago that Americans who were criticizing a president were considered anti-American and thought of as being haters of America.

Here is an excerpt from the Huffington Post story:

HONG KONG — Former U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, emerged in Asia on Wednesday to share her views from “Main Street U.S.A.” with a group of high-flying global investors.

In her first trip to the region, the former Alaska governor addressed an annual conference of investors in Hong Kong in what was billed as a wide-ranging talk about governance, economics and U.S. and Asian affairs.

Two US delegates left early, according to AFP, with one saying “it was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer.” He declined to be identified.

“I’m going to call it like I see it and I will share with you candidly a view right from Main Street, Main Street U.S.A.,” Palin told a room full of asset managers and other finance professionals, according to a video of part of the speech obtained by The Associated Press. “And how perhaps my view of Main Street … how that affects you and your business.”

Palin spoke out against government intervention in the economy. “We got into this mess because of government interference in the first place,” Palin said, according to the Wall Street Journal. “We’re not interested in government fixes, we’re interested in freedom,” she added.

In what could be considered a paid attack, it seems Palin might have been paid for her speech to go to another area of the world to attack the President of the United States of America.

I wonder if conservatives will be attacking Palin for going over and using this platform to engage in partisan politics, attack the president and bring negativity to the U.S. before its worldwide neighbors.

Read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/palin-hong-kong-speech-im_n_295812.html

Check Out Henry Blodget’s Post About Glenn Beck At Huffington Post

Here is an excerpt of what Henry Blodget, as posted by Huffington Post, had to say about how Fox News should handle Glenn Beck for his stupid and irresponsible comments about President Obama:

It’s no surprise that advertisers are running for the hills after Glenn Beck’s idiotic remarks about President Obama. Fox should now take the appropriate step and fire him.

It’s one thing to attack a president’s policies. It’s another to brand the president a racist and say that his decisions are motivated by a secret loathing of more than half the country:

This president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people … this guy is, I believe, a racist.This is the sort of rhetoric and attitude you might expect at a bigoted religious revival or KKK meeting. It’s not the rhetoric or attitude you expect from the host of a talk show broadcast by one of the world’s largest media companies.

I don’t know that I would necessarily say Beck should be fired, but his dangerous rhetoric has to be brought under some kind of control. It’s obvious that Fox News leans heavily to the right (politically speaking), but there has to be some standards of journalistic integrity adhered to on the network conservatives trust.

Right-Wing Nut Birthers Resort To Forged Birth Certificate To Attack President Obama

Some of these right-wing moronic birthers have really just taken a dive off the deep end.

In their efforts to attack President Obama, birthers are now attempting to use a forged birth certificate to try and assert that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. These extremists will go to any and all extremes to attack President Obama and try to portray our president as not being one of us. Boy, don’t you love those good Americans who will pull garbage like this for their own sinister purposes? I love the line in this article that talks about the weirdos who are so quick to doubt Obama’s authenticated birth certificate, but so quick to embrace a mysterious forged birth certificate that fits their obsessive agenda of lies and negativity.

From Huffington Post:

The latest development in the Obama “birther” conspiracy is the emergence of a “Kenyan birth certificate” for the president, put online by movement maven Orly Taitz.

Oddly, the same people who are so skeptical of Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate are willing to accept this new document despite many flaws, documented by the Washington Independent’s Dave Weigel and Markos Moulitsas.

The fact that these birthers are following the lead of a nut like Taitz, and agreeing with so much of she says as they nod continuously like mindless bobbleheads, proves the idiocy of their discredited agenda.

I am a little disappointed … I expected the fake birth certificate to come out sooner and with fewer errors.

Individuals who attempt to hide their hatred for President Obama rarely let the facts get in the way of a piss-poor lie that has spiraled out of control.

Republican Nuts Still Doubt President Obama’s Citizenship

Need more evidence of how nutty some on the far right of the political spectrum have become with their obsessive hatred of Barack Obama, our president?

Has any president in the history of the United States of America had his citizenship questioned as much as Barack Obama has – in spite of overwhelming evidence of his being born in Hawaii?

Huffington Post:

Less than half of Republicans believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America, a new public opinion poll finds.

Only 42 percent of Republican respondents in a Research 2000 survey, conducted for the liberal website Daily Kos, said they thought Obama was a natural born citizen; 28 percent said they did not believe Obama was born in the United States; 30 percent said they were not sure.

The responses, which were gathered after several prominent conservative media personalities fed suspicion that Obama was unconstitutionally holding office, show the extent to which the conspiracy has taken hold in the GOP.

That only a plurality of Republicans were willing to acknowledge the president was born in America is nothing short of astounding, considering the preponderance of evidence that confirms his Hawaiian birth.

This is so sad, but hardly a surprise. The far-right extremists have hijacked a once-great party and turned it into a crude caricature.

Check out the article’s later portion to see, from a geographical standpoint, where the birthers are most obsessed and extreme.

Huffington Post Right To Remove Nasty Comment Directed At Sarah Palin, But …

I never saw the original post that took a shot at Sarah Palin and her son, Trig. But, by all accounts it was nasty. I found this from the Web site Free Republic (which, of course, found a way to take a cheap shot at President Obama for no apparent reason other than to be stupid and political). Much as Sarah Palin might do, Free Republic had the moral high ground and blew it (in a fashion so moronic it is almost incomprehensible) by taking an irrational shot at President Obama (who has nothing to do with this):

The Huffington Post, an official arm of the Obama administration, published an article a few minutes ago on the resignation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin with the following headline: Palin Will Run in ’12 on More Retardation Platform

It just shows how much Republicans hate President Obama and how much they hated him when he was Sen. Obama running for president … back when they only knew a few things about him.

Back to the topic.

Here is what Free Republic captured before writer Erik Sean Nelson’s nasty post was rightly removed.

In Sarah Palin’s resignation announcement she complained about the treatment of her son Trig who always teaches her life lessons. She said that the “world needs more Trigs, not fewer.” That’s a presidential campaign promise we can all get behind. She will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people. To me, it’s kinda like saying the world needs more cancer patients because they teach us such personal lessons.

Her first act as President: To introduce a Pre-K lunch buffet that includes lead paint chips. Sort of a Large HEAD-START Program.

She will then encourage women to hold off on pregnancies until their 40′s just to mix up some chromosomes.

She now is in favor of abortion only in case of diploid birth.

Her policies will increase jobs because Wal-Mart is building new stores each day and someone has to be the greeter.

This will lead to smaller government because fewer Americans will have the cognitive ability to hold a government job.

Look, she says she’s resigning as governor because people are making attacks on her and Trig. If she ever did become president, all Osama bin Laden would have to do to defeat the United States is Photoshop a picture of Trig and she’d surrender the country that night. As she said, “That’s not politics as usual.” It isn’t. Politicians don’t usually quit for so stupid of reasons.

Clearly, this is reprehensible and well out of bounds and I think reasonable people have a right to be outraged. It never ceases to amaze me the shots that people take at other people without thinking about what they’re doing. News Hounds, however, correctly points out that Bill O’Reilly, America’s Daddy, unleashed on Huffington Post while remaining silent about hate on Fox Nation (which operates right under his nose).

The writer did sort of make an attempt to apologize, but it’s a day late and a dollar short (as the saying goes):

I wrote a piece making fun of the fact that a Trig Palin joke was given as the reason that Sarah Palin left office. I wrote jokes that were offensive but my intent was for them to be ironic and therefore not offensive. I was wrong. Within ten minutes of my post I received some emails from the loved ones of the retarded and I saw that my piece was hurtful. Therefore, I removed the post right after receiving the first 2 emails.

I removed it immediately because I saw that it did not come across as I intended. I apologize to all of those who were offended.

This is not a particularly moving apology.

Unfortunately for Nelson, the damage was done and you can’t unring the bell … not when the mess is this extensive.

Puzzling Post From Victoria Jackson On Big Hollywood

When Victoria Jackson speaks I am reminded of an exchange between characters played by Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan in the movie Rush Hour 2:

DETECTIVE LEE: “Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?”

DETECTIVE CARTER: “Don’t nobody understand the words that are comin outta your mouth man.”

With that established, here is what Huffington Post cited from Jackson’s bizarre rant on Big Hollywood:

I woke up in the middle of the night and realized the trick.

You see, evil doesn’t just show up. It disguises itself as something nice; so you’ll let it in. It tricks you. [...]

Social Security and Medicare are broke. Baby boomers, like me, are getting old and will soon be asking for it. Socialized medicine makes people die. You stand in a long, long line with a breast lump, clogged artery, or sharp pencil stuck in your eye, and someone like the DMV person, who can’t speak English, has chewing gum, an attitiude [sic], really long fake nails that curl up at the end, and is talking on a cell phone, enjoying their power trip moment, is finally face to face with you. They mumble something incoherent about paperwork. You die. One less person in line for Social Security and Medicare!

Obama legally kills babies and now he can legally kill Grandmas!

Hitler did this. He killed the weak, the sick, the old, and babies and races/religions he didn’t like. Hitler also controlled the media. (Where’s the public debate between scientists on “Climate Change/Global Warming?”) Hitler had the VW bug invented as the state car. What will O’s nationalized car be? So… kill off the weak. That’s the plan. Tax the workers to death. Erase the middle class. Sounds like the evil governments we studied in high school long ago. The evil governments were : kings, oligarchies, facist [sic], socialist, and communist. Now it’s called the Obama Administration. Sounds like candy or a rock band.

You see, evil doesn’t just show up. It disguises itself as something nice; so you’ll let it in. It tricks you. [...]

Social Security and Medicare are broke. Baby boomers, like me, are getting old and will soon be asking for it. Socialized medicine makes people die.You stand in a long, long line with a breast lump, clogged artery, or sharp pencil stuck in your eye, and someone like the DMV person, who can’t speak English, has chewing gum, an attitiude [sic], really long fake nails that curl up at the end, and is talking on a cell phone, enjoying their power trip moment, is finally face to face with you. They mumble something incoherent about paperwork. You die. One less person in line for Social Security and Medicare!

Obama legally kills babies and now he can legally kill Grandmas!

Hitler did this. He killed the weak, the sick, the old, and babies and races/religions he didn’t like. Hitler also controlled the media. (Where’s the public debate between scientists on “Climate Change/Global Warming?”) Hitler had the VW bug invented as the state car. What will O’s nationalized car be? So… kill off the weak. That’s the plan. Tax the workers to death. Erase the middle class. Sounds like the evil governments we studied in high school long ago. The evil governments were : kings, oligarchies, facist [sic], socialist, and communist. Now it’s called the Obama Administration. Sounds like candy or a rock band.

Did she really right this? Was this a joke? How dark and morbid is that rant from Jackson?

If not, Victoria Jackson has gone nuts. This is too laughable and nutty to even attack, but not too laughable to point out. It would take way too much time to smash every irrational statement in her writing.

Jackson states ”Obama legally kills babies and now he can legally kill Grandmas!”

Jackson is a less stable and more irrational version of Sarah Palin.

Let Planters know Victoria Jackson may be the perfect spouse for Mr. Peanut to give up bachelor status. They’re both nutty.

Reliable Sources Confrontation Was Pretty Lame

I can imagine Howard Kurtz, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources, was pretty excited about the prospect of an on-air confrontation (primarily between Washington Post writer Dana Milbank and Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney … with the highly-conservative TownHall commentator Amanda Carpenter present to eagerly assist Milbank with a double team Pitney). Sunday was the day that Reliable Sources turned into a cable news television version of MTV’s The Real World. It did not work well for television as it just sounded like two guys who didn’t like each other arguing about something that is little more than a nontroversy. Back to Nico Pitney. Personally, I commend this man for his work to build sources in Iran and his work to try and understand the conflict in Iran from those who were on the ground in a country in such historic turmoil following a disputed presidential election. Instead of us applauding Pitney for his work to build sources, grind out information and present it to people, he gets bashed by a right winger who probably can’t stand Huffington Post (Amanda Carpenter) and a mainstream media, big newspaper snob (Dana Milbank) who probably (perhaps out of some sort of jealousy) enjoyed taking such a shot at Pitney and (as probably an added bonus) President Obama’s White House to try and portray both in the most negative light possible.

Yeah, I wonder if Kurtz knew what Carpenter, Milbank and Pitney were going to discuss when they came onto the program?

Is it reliable when you know two people are going to double team one person on a show that is supposed to be about (among other things) fairness, balance, objectivity and accountability in the media?

OK, Milbank and and Pitney had a lively exchange (the video is below) that became rather heated (more so than you would expect for Reliable Sources).

After the confrontation heated up, Milbank left Pitney with this thoughtful nugget from inside his head (according to Pitney):

The only thing that surprised me was when Dana turned to me after our initial sparring and called me a “dick” in a whispered tone (the specific phrase was, I believe, “You’re such a dick”). Howie Kurtz wrote on Twitter that he didn’t hear it, which is understandable — he was doing the lead-in for the next part of the segment on the ABC White House special. But it happened (I urge Howie to watch the video of the panel during the ABC intro) and it was frankly pretty odd.

I find the entire issue odd and stinking of partisanship and snobbishness. Pitney asked a better question and probably did more research than some of the snobs who are trying to throw him under the bus. You know, I suspect many people who watched that segment, and got a feel for Milbank, would hardly be surprised to hear him say something along those lines.

I’ll end with some impressions of the Sunday-morning confrontation:

Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nico-pitney/debating-the-iran-questio_b_222001.html

Crooks and Liars (this entry, among other things, debunks a claim of alleged favoritism for Pitney in terms of his positioning in the room):

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/reliable-sources-dana-milbank-gets-h-0

Hullabaloo:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/pitney-vs-milbank-by-digby-just-to-put.html

Huffington Post Question Story Being Blown Out Of Proportion

Many reporters on the left, and some reporters from the so-called mainstream media, are throwing a it about a question that the Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney was allowed to ask President Obama during a White House press conference. This is another one of those manufactured controversies from individuals on the right wing and from individuals from the mainstream media overcome by a powerful sense of jealousy.

Here is the exchange during the press conference:

OBAMA: Since we’re on Iran, I know Nico Pitney is here from the Huffington Post.

QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President.

OBAMA: Nico, I know that you and all across the Internet, we’ve been seeing a lot of reports coming directly out of Iran. I know that there may actually be questions from people in Iran who are communicating through the Internet. Do you have a question?

QUESTION: Yes, I did, but I wanted to use this opportunity to ask you a question directly from an Iranian. We solicited questions on tonight from people who are still courageous enough to be communicating online. And one of them wanted to ask you this: Under which conditions would you accept the election of Ahmadinejad? And if you do accept it without any significant changes in the conditions there, isn’t that a betrayal of — of what the demonstrators there are working to achieve?

OBAMA: Well, look, we didn’t have international observers on the ground. We can’t say definitively what exactly happened at polling places throughout the country.

What we know is that a sizable percentage of the Iranian people themselves, spanning Iranian society, consider this election illegitimate. It’s not an isolated instance, a little grumbling here or there. There is significant questions about the legitimacy of the election.

And so, ultimately, the most important thing for the Iranian government to consider is legitimacy in the eyes of its own people, not in the eyes of the United States.

And that’s why I’ve been very clear, ultimately, this is up to the Iranian people to decide who their leadership is going to be and the structure of their government.

What we can do is to say, unequivocally, that there are sets of international norms and principles about violence, about dealing with the peaceful dissent, that — that spans cultures, spans borders.

And what we’ve been seeing over the Internet and what we’ve been seeing in news reports violates those norms and violates those principles.

I think it is not too late for the Iranian government to recognize that — that there is a peaceful path that will lead to stability and legitimacy and prosperity for the Iranian people. We hope they take it.

The White House apparently was following that Nico Pitney was communicating with individuals inside of Iran as that country’s turmoil was all over the media. White House spokesman Bill Burton came out with a response: “We did reach out to (Nico) prior to press conference to tell him that we had been paying attention to what he had been doing on Iran and there was a chance that he’d be called on.”

This is a totally overblown story spun out of very little. There is no evidence that the president knew what the question was going to be (even if he had an idea what the subject matter might be). I could care less if he wanted to take a question about the situation in Iran from a reporter that the White House felt was in contact with people on the ground in Iran.

Pitney asked a question that was a hell of a lot better than others I’ve heard asked at presidential news conferences.

Think Progress:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/23/nicos-question/

POLITICO:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0609/Obama_calls_on_HuffPost_for_Iran_question.html?showall

Is Shep Smith In Trouble At Fox News?

Shepard Smith, on Fox News’ Studio B show, admitted that the much-criticized Department of Homeland Security report (the one Republicans whined about because it discussed the potential for terrorist activities from right-wing extremists). The report has come back into focus with the heinous and cowardly assassination of Dr. George Tiller while he was in church (by an anti-abortion extremist) and this latest act of murder at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. by a white supremacist named James W. Von Brunn, a man who has a track record of violence, racism, hatred of Jews and other forms of hate that seems a mile long. Conservatives unfairly blasted DHS Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and did so unmercifully. Now, the report on far-right extremism was not without some flaws, but the main thrust of it was spot on (warning of violence and extremism from far-right nuts). The report did not single out Republicans. It singled out far-right extremists. If Republicans want to align themselves with those nuts then that is their bad choice.

SMITH: It was a warning to us all, and it appears now they were right.

Check out the video of Smith’s segment. He was very courageous to go against the norm at Fox News.

You have to wonder if Smith will get in trouble for deviating from the hardcore right-wing talking points everyone on Fox News is supposed to parrot.

Media Matters:

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906100041

Huffington Post (Jason Linkins discusses the issue and related issues):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/10/shepard-smith-says-his-em_n_214013.html

Talking Points Memo:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/james_von_brunn_a_profile.php?ref=fpa

Meeting Of The Minds Between Sean Hannity And Sarah Palin Produces Little

Notorious right-wing hater Sean Hannity and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, those two noted intellectual giants, had a meeting of the minds and left much to be desired.

HANNITY: You know but it goes back – It does go back a little to the campaign. I mean, ‘spread the wealth, patriotic duty…’

PALIN: Kind of a ‘we told ya so’.

HANNITY: Well, is that how you feel?

PALIN: That’s how I feel! … And this many months into the new administration, quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seeing those actions to rein in spending, slow down the growth of government. Instead Sean it is the complete opposite. It’s expanding at such a large degree that if Americans aren’t paying attention, unfortunately our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize.

HANNITY: Socialism?

PALIN: Well, that is where we are headed. That is where we have to be blunt enough and candid enough and honest enough with Americans to let them know that if we keep going down these roads… nationalizing many of our services, our projects, our businesses, yes that is where we would head.

Truly, it’s a shame Hannity and Palin have so little faith in the strength of the American people and so little trust of the foundation on which the United States of America is built. This country was around long before them and will be around long after all of us are gone.

I wonder if that lack of faith in the United States qualifies as anti-American.

Why do people like Hannity and Palin continue to attack America?

I think the American people are pleased that Gov. Sarah Palin is not vice president – a heartbeat away from running this country. How might Gov. Palin be qualified to pick a U.S. Supreme Court justice when she had difficulty even naming U.S. Supreme Court cases?

Think Progress:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/08/palin-on-obama-administration-we-told-ya-so/

Oliver Willis:

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/06/08/the-moron-sarah-palin-rears-her-head-again/

Attacks On Nancy Pelosi Should Prove Bill O’Reilly’s Bias

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is being attacked for her looks by nuts on the far right of the political spectrum. Conservative Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has been quick to come to the rescue of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin when she has been attacked for just about anything (looks, policy, family or whatever). Check out some of these nasty attacksmade about Speaker Pelosi by some nutty individuals on the far right of the political spectrum. Yeah, well I am sure O’Reilly will be all over this (JUST KIDDING).

Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/18/conservative-pundits-reso_n_204907.html

Begala: Bush/Cheney Administration Did Not Keep Us Safe

Paul Begala, writing for Huffington Post, debunks a lot of the garbage we’ve been hearing from former Vice President Dick Cheney on his Save My Legacy tour.

Here is an excerpt:

If 3,000 Americans had been killed on your watch, in an attack that could have been prevented, perhaps you’d be a little hesitant to accuse anyone else of endangering America. And if you had advocated torture, and the torture produced false information that you used to mislead America into an unwise, unjust and unwarranted war, you might be a tad sheepish about defending the use of torture.

Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/mr-cheney-you-did-not-kee_b_203013.html