“Hey, Look Over Here” Politics
Marc Ambinder may not be concerned with spelling people’s names correctly, but he can, once in a while, make a cogent point about the topic at hand. He does so here with Stanley Kurtz’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about Barack Obama’s supposed scary and sinister connections to former Weatherman Underground leader Bill Ayers:
Americans Are Not Addicted to Oil; They’re Addicted to Cars
Another Think Progress gem (emphasis in original):
Hindrocket Wins the Spin Award
This is the best I’ve ever seen. On the charge that McCain is out of touch with ordinary Americans because he has so many homes he isn’t able to remember how many, John Hinderaker writes:
The truth is that McCain isn’t out of touch with “ordinary people” because he’s rich, he’s out of touch with his own domestic arrangements because he cares little about material things, and for many years has devoted his extraordinary energies not to enjoying his wife’s money, but to serving the American people. Given the number of nights he’s spent in hotels or on military bases over the last few years, it’s no wonder he hasn’t seen much of his wife’s condos.
No Charitable Explanations on the Right
See Update at the end of this post.
Yesterday, Ed Morrissey picked up on a news item about Sen. Obama cancelling a planned visit to wounded American soldiers at two U.S. military bases in Germany. Noting that military personnel at the base did not know why the visit had been cancelled, Ed came up with his own explanation… er, make that explanations, plural, via multiple updates:
Let me make sure I have this straight
Kathy has already touched upon the wingnut bukkake fest on Rep. Delahunt and I don’t want to be redundant, but one comment that RedState.com made about this affair really irks me:
This discourse — a member of Congress glad Al Qaeda has a face it can pursue — is beneath the dignity of the Congress and beneath the dignity of civil discourse in this country.
So we must be civil when talking about torture. Screw even highlighting just how uncivil torturing somebody is, we must make sure we’re prim and proper when discussing it.
Wingnuts Want Addington in the Witness Protection Program After Delahunt Joke
The right’s hypocrisy is on display again in its unhinged reaction to Rep. Delahunt’s attempt at humor on the House floor today:
If Karl Rove said something in the woods, would it make headlines?
Seriously. I understand his comments are ridiculous, but who gives a crap what Rove thinks about Obama? Or anything? He’s out of the White House, he’s not running the country anymore.
This, though, is my favorite part of the short article:
Piling On
As John and Jed pointed out earlier, John McCain’s “official campaign website” is apparently home to all sorts of hate filled vitriol the likes of which we have not seen since, well, yesterday.
More proof that monkeys can indeed type below the fold…
“Rule: Use a Cutout” UPDATED
Here’s yet another disgusting antisemitic page at the official Barack Obama campaign web site, by a group calling itself “Socialists for Obama.” This group of Jew-haters has apparently been at his site since April, and there are numerous comments from Obama supporters that are indistinguishable from the hate speech you’ll find at neo-Nazi sites: Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Socialists for Obama: How the jewish lobby works. [link has been removed - mb]
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An Ideology That Needs Hatred and Divisiveness To Survive
A.J. Sparxx at PoliPundit, Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom, and Michelle Malkin are consumed with rage, disgust, revulsion, and contempt at what Danielle Quinto, a 4th grade teacher in the Los Angeles area, is teaching her students. This woman who actually believes she is an educator is indoctrinating the innocent boys and girls in her class with radical ideas about immigrants and migrant workers, to wit:
How We Know the Terrorists Have Already Won
Damn it, I don’t even like donuts. But because I’m highly susceptible to suggestion, and I can’t get away from the stupid Rachael Ray story, I’m all of a sudden making emergency runs to the 7-Eleven to pick up Boston cream and chocolate eclairs. Just what me and my belly needed.
Americans Have Been Saved From Terrorist Scarves
Dunkin’ Donuts has decided to take the path of least resistance:
Right Wing Watch: Phony ‘National Day of Prayer’ Pushes Right-Wing Judges
How Republican Ideology is Killing America: Example 1 Heparin
Nearly three years ago my grandfather, a veteran of World War II, a man in his early 80’s, and a man whom at the time was apparently as healthy as an ox, suddenly found himself in suburban Detroit’s Beaumont hospital on the verge of death. What happened to him is not unlike what happens to many American’s of his age. One day he found out that he was not nearly as healthy as he and his doctors thought he was. An emergency quadruple bi-pass later and he has never quite recovered and now looks and acts as old his 86 years would seem.
Lazy Saturday Thought of the Day
A few years back, a book called “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” by Thomas Frank was published, to much critical acclaim on the left. In it, Frank walks his readers through the nuances of rural life and identity politics that cause non-metropolitan, working class voters in red states to keep voting for a party that bends them over and screws without lube or even a friendly reach-around. In other words, why the hell do these people keep voting Republican? Frank discussed cultural issues and scapegoating; how the Republicans’ method of hammering away on issues like immigration and abortion, promising to be hardline on them, kept red state voters red despite their quality of life being drastically reduced because of GOP policies.
And nobody had a problem with this, except for some morons over in right field. But they’re like Mikey in those Life cereal commercials: They hate everything. So pshaw.
Fast forward a few years, and Obama says this in the midst of a heated presidential contest: “So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” And suddenly it’s the end of the world.
What’s the big deal? Furthermore, when will this country move away from its soundbite culture and be able to participate in conversations like grown adults?
–Edited by Kathy
Hatelary
Hate being channeled by Hillary’s rabid supporters is one thing. While reprehensible, the national campaign still can’t be fingered since this invective has been spewed on websites independent of the campaign. But when the Hillary campaign starts promoting hate directly from an author on No Quarter, that’s different — and a lot worse.
And it’s one thing to have a No Quarter author link to and promote another hateful author, but when one of their own author’s is caught calling Michelle Obama a “blowjob queen” and a skank, that’s different — and a lot worse.
Over at Rumproast, Kevin K’s got the goods on No Quarter author Truthteller posting hated filled comments about Michelle Obama on different sites, and having one of his posts promoted by the Hillary campaign. It’s detailed and you should read the whole thing. And I suppose some will say that the particular post by Turthteller that the Hillary campaign linked to doesn’t have any overt hate in it, so what’s the problem? Well, if David Duke said something mundane and I linked to it, wouldn’t — nay, shouldn’t – you have a problem with that? Same thing here. If the source is this hateful then it discredits everything else they’ve said.
And let’s make sure we have “hateful” clearly defined here. Using profane language to express feelings of anger is simply that, but making misogynist comments about Obama’s wife, calling her a “blowjob queen” and a “skank” — that’s just hate, pure and simple.
When the Hillary campaign is promoting an article from an author like this, they’ve stepped over the line. They’ve become connected to No Quarter. And now the campaign has something we deserve an answer for.
Happy Freakin’ Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!!!1
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(See C&L for the 411.)