Ace of Bigotry
As we’ve seen at CFLF and elsewhere, the question of who is Trig Palin’s mother is making the rounds. It’s a sensitive issue and I can see where some might be offended. Personally, I believe that Sarah Palin is the mother, but given all of the questionable and unconventional circumstances surrounding the situation, I think the enquiries were resonable.
Most on the Right, though, don’t think it’s reasonable. And in reply, some are more offensive and bigoted then we could ever try to be.
Over at Ace of Spades, Ace practically calls for a jihad on Andrew Sullivan for bringing the issue up. During his tirade, he proceeds to call the gay, HIV-positive Sullivan the “Taker of Milky Loads”, and accuses him of “suffering from AIDS-related dementia“. And that’s only in the first couple of paragraphs I bothered to read of Ace’s post — I neglected to indulge in the rest of that trash.
For any wingers who wonder why we accuse you of bigotry and racism, it’s because people like Ace are on your side. People like Ace who are usually careful with their rhetoric, but when they lose their temper, their true feelings of prejudice come out. He is an A-List, widely read rightwing blogger shining light on the real motives behind the Right’s crusades against homosexuals; and this can be translated to against minorities, etc. I don’t mean to make a blanket statement, but through people like Ace and his fanbase, we really see the culture war aspects displayed in Pat Buchanan’s 1992 GOP convention speech come to fruition. If you want people on the Left to trust you, it’s time that your party stopped making bigots like Ace popular.
Sphere: Related ContentIs Palin running for veep or tin horn dictator?
Even from from days as mayor of Wasilla, she has a history of firing officials on a whim. In this case, the Wasilla police chief supported her election opponent in 1996, so she fired him for “not fully supporting her efforts to govern”. Is that even legal? Palin even managed to fired Wasilla’s library director for the same reason, because we all know that running a library is so important to town government! Egads.
The more I read about Palin the more I think she has a power trip complex. Eight years of a presidency where good people are canned because they aren’t loyal enough to der leader is enough, we don’t need another Bush-type politician sitting a heartbeat away from the presidency. Simply put, Palin isn’t mature enough for the job.
[h/t: TPM]
Sphere: Related ContentShe’s a little corrupt, hmm?
Ladies and gentlemen, in a TV report from a couple weeks ago, here’s who McCain wants to be our next veep:
If Gov. Palin uses her office to settle petty family scores, how would she use the Vice Presidency?
[Hat tip: markg8]
Sphere: Related ContentYour mission, should you choose to accept it…
Wanting to get a feel for how Sarah Palin in viewed in Alaska, I just got off the phone with an Alaskan state worker who gave me some background information. I want to research these — however, I’m also moving this weekend, so I have an issue with time. And besides that, having multiple people dig up dirt on a politician is more productive than just one doing it.
Breaking news right now on Palin could be critical. Right now, McCain has effectively taken control of the news cycle right until next Friday — but Palin is still undefined. The Republicans are trying to define her, but if we can bring up questions about corruption and her integrity, it could dog the GOP convention. Placing the McCain campaign on the defensive during their week long infomercial would be dividends in November — wouldn’t it be cool if you played a role in that?
To give you a starting point, here’s what I know… Read more
Sphere: Related ContentYour (for now, very concise) Sarah Palin Reader
McCain panicked, and one makes bad decisions under duress:
By picking Palin, McCain revealed his desperation to make a splash to rival the genuine excitement generated by the Obama campaign. But desperation leads to poor decisions — and McCain’s Hail Mary, like most last second desperation moves, is destined to fail miserably. He’s smeared himself with the pungent mud of Alaska Republican corruption, while cutting the legs out from one of his most reliable attacks against Obama. And he’s presented Americans with the prospect of electing a dangerous neophyte to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, behind a man whose life expectancy is less than two presidential terms.
Be sure to read that whole Daily Kos post. Additionally… Read more
Sphere: Related ContentMcCain: Complete A**hole
So Mr. Normal American doesn’t know how many houses he owns. (Seriously.) And when Obama goes after McCain for not knowing even the most basic facts about his red blooded, certainly not elitist personal finances, what’s the McCain campaign’s response?
Does a guy who worries about the price of arugula … really want to have a debate about who’s in touch with regular Americans?
You know…
Sphere: Related ContentChecking your sources
The wingers are having an absolute bukkake fest over the latest national poll showing McCain ahead of Obama. But, of course, there are a couple things they fail to mention…
First and foremost, this is a Zogby poll. And Zogby sucks. This is the same polling company that said “The Election Is Kerry’s To Lose” in 2004; and more recently in 2008 they gave Obama a 13 percentage point lead over Clinton in New Hampshire on the day of the primary. It doesn’t surprise me that the right depends upon such companies to do a reliable job — these are the people who voted for and defended Bush no matter how much he f*cked up.
Second, Obama still leads in the average of national polls.
And third, national polls hardly matter anyway since we have an electoral college to elect our presidents. Pollster.com has an aggregate of state polls, and right now Obama has 264 electoral votes to McCain’s 191. Additionally, Pollster considers some states too close to count (83 electoral votes were given to neither candidate) — the swing states. But these swing states are experiencing growth in their ranks from states which are normally Republican strongholds. The Obama campaign has put Virginia, Montana, and North Dakota in play — that’s huge. McCain has not been able to make Democratic strongholds into swing states.
So for those that thought one poll from a lousy pollster changes everything, I’m sorry to disappoint you.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Devil went down to Georgia
I’m not going to pretend to have any insider knowledge of the Georgian/Russian conflict over South Ossetia, which is why I’ve stayed mum about the topic. Balloon Juice has a good rundown of events today, and the Newshoggers have been tracking the story for almost a week now. Between reading them, Wikipedia, and a random Power Line post that was informative though maybe delusional in that “Let’s kick former commie ass!” rightwing kind of way, I’m left with a few questions…
Sphere: Related ContentNewsweek hasn’t quite grasped the concept of viral video
Because if this video could be embedded in blog posts, I guarantee you that it would spread like wildfire.
Redefining Greed
And who else but an oil company to do such?
Exxon Mobil reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest quarterly profit ever by any U.S. corporation, but the results fell well short of Wall Street expectations and shares fell in premarket trading.
Well, at least those high gas prices we’ve seen lately are now explained. But Exxon’s shares dropped in price after they recorded the biggest quarterly profit ever? The mind reels. Of the stock traders and Exxon, I’m not sure which side is the lesser evil.
Sphere: Related ContentAction Jackson keeps it classy
Apparently, “nuts” wasn’t the only n-word he mentioned while mic’ed. Oh and Jesse, what the hell are you doing on FoxNews?
What the hell are we talking about?
Taking a step back to get a broad view of the economy… If not for government intervention, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae would have failed. The anti-government free marketeers of the financial world should take note of this, because without government intervention the failure of these two mortgage lenders could have caused a consumer run on banks that would have prompted the next Great Depression. Lest we think that this crisis hasn’t effected the markets: Dow has dipped below 11,000 points today (and it’s only 11:00am — it could dip further by the end of the day). As of this minute, this graph tells me that the Dow Jones Index right now is at the same level as when Bush took office in 2001. In other words: any financial growth experienced during the Bush administration is gone.
In financial news from another industry, GM will be cutting most of its assets. Also, inflation is growing as fast as it has in nearly three decades.
All of this is huge news. Huge. How else would you define the near collapses of our financial system and automobile industry at the same time? Yet when I goto Memeorandum to see what bloggers are talking about, when I search the page for “GM” and “mac” I find nothing. Searching for “mae” finds a couple things, including this stupid piece by doughy pantload wondering how the GOP can use the collapse of Fannie Mae to their political advantage. (Nothing like seeing conservative policies fail during a conservative administration and watching them still pathetically try to blame us.) Other than that, all bloggers are talking about is the presidential race. The top item at Meme right now is what O’Hanlon thinks about Obama. Who the hell is O’Hanlon and will we care about his thoughts a week from now? Don’t bother answering that — it was a rhetorical query.
Do any of us feel ashamed about this?
Sphere: Related ContentMcCain [hearts] Iran
That’s what I gather when I read that McCain’s head foreign policy guru is connected with an individual know for leaking secrets to Iran:
Scheunemann was a core participant in the lobbying, plotting and organized campaigns of deception that led America to war in Iraq. He was a close collaborator with Ahmad Chalabi through the 1990s. [...]
…US intelligence later found evidence that Chalabi, in addition to foisting a bunch of bogus intelligence and lying informers on the US and pocketing a lot of US taxpayer dollars, had provided highly classified US intelligence to Iran. Scheunemann worked closely with Chalabi for years in his efforts to get the US into war with Iraq. He was also a go-between between Chalabi and McCain.
Could you even imagine the reaction from the right if Obama employed someone with connections to an individual who’s basically an Iranian intelligence agent? They would scream so loudly that he’s the commie antichrist his campaign would tank. But when McCain does it, a controversy is not even hinted at. Indeed, the media hasn’t even touched this bombshell, and the only reason I can think of for their ignorance is that McCain’s wang must taste like a lollipop.
Sphere: Related ContentHow to be on the “Far Left”, from the paper of record
According to the New York Times, an American is on the “far left” if they are angry over Obama’s support for the FISA bill. Or, in other words, if an American is vocal about defending their civil liberties, that puts them in the fringes of politics — the outcasts wandering around the hinterlands, forgotten and ignored because of their extreme views.
Nice.
Why don’t we see extreme activities which receive Republican support as being considered “far right”? Why isn’t the anti-immigration group the Minutemen ever considered far right? How come wanting to destroy social security isn’t from the far right? How come wanting to enforce religion by law (for example, by making gay marriage illegal) isn’t on the far right? How come using tax cuts to distribute more wealth to the greedy isn’t coming from the far right? I could go on — and I’m sure you could, too. Suffice to say, in today’s political discourse “far right” is defined as either God Hates Fags or Adolf Hitler; yet the “far left” consists of activists who dare to defend the Constitution.
Insert some witty cliche about the “liberal media” here. When this is the starting point defined by the mainstream, no wonder political discourse in this country is a joke.
Sphere: Related ContentGroup of Obscurity
I’m trying to read news coming out of the G8 conference in Japan this week because, well, what the leaders of the US, Germany, Japan, Russia, France, England, Canada, and Italy agree upon should be important news, right? I’m not so sure, though. The Group of Eight nations is setup as a meeting of the world’s economic powerhouses — but wouldn’t a meeting of economic powerhouses have to include China and India in order to get anything done? For an example from the latest conference, the G8 “pledges to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050“. Which sounds great before you remember that: A) such a pledge will cause the political right of our country to flip out; and B) China and India are soon to be the two largest emitters of greenhouse gasses. I’m pretty sure we all see how this pledge could work out: Republicans say that it would ruin our economy by giving China an unfair competitive advantage.
So what’s the point of having a conference where such proclamations are made when all of the nations it effects aren’t at the negotiating table? Why even have a G8 conference at this time?
Sphere: Related ContentMalkin keeps it classy
She called Obama’s campaign the “Jive Talk Express” not only on her blog, but as a title for her nationally syndicated column. So much for the post-racial campaign.
h/t raw story
Sphere: Related ContentBecause those Bush tax cuts have already worked wonders!
That’s the argument which John “I was against Bush’s tax cuts before I had to shamelessly pander to the right to become President” McCain offers against any economic plan Obama sets forth:
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