Showing posts with label Reading the Right. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading the Right. Show all posts
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tulsa Republican Fail: GOP Focus Group Repeats Nonsense
The Republican noise machine—fueled by Blowhard Radio and the shills at Fox News—is alive in well in T-town.
How do we know? It was in the Tulsa World on Sunday when the paper published details of a GOP focus group run by SoonerPoll.com. Newt Gingrich was the favorite of the 11 registered Republicans who participated in the study—but only a slight favorite (see post below).
But the "best" news from the focus group was their repetition of bogus Republican talking points. These include a Wingnut favorite, that President Obama is—wait for it—not a Christian.
Yes, Sooner fans, one of the Tulsa Republicans actually said, "We don't need a non-Christian like we have now." So, the logic goes, Obama must be a Muslim!
But wait, there's more! Former city council candidate David Bell claimed "there's not a dime's worth of difference" between Mitt Romney and President Obama.
Really? That would be news to Romney voters. (On the other hand, Romney did get Romneycare in Massachusetts, which has been a good thing.)
Another Tulsa Republican called for "statesmen, not politicians. We need someone who will do something for the country."
Come to think of it, we agree with that idea. Yes indeed. We have seen the Republican field (Rick Perry, anyone? Herman Cain? Michele Bachmann?) and we too want a statesman who will do something for the country.
That's why we are supporting President Obama.
How do we know? It was in the Tulsa World on Sunday when the paper published details of a GOP focus group run by SoonerPoll.com. Newt Gingrich was the favorite of the 11 registered Republicans who participated in the study—but only a slight favorite (see post below).
But the "best" news from the focus group was their repetition of bogus Republican talking points. These include a Wingnut favorite, that President Obama is—wait for it—not a Christian.
Yes, Sooner fans, one of the Tulsa Republicans actually said, "We don't need a non-Christian like we have now." So, the logic goes, Obama must be a Muslim!
But wait, there's more! Former city council candidate David Bell claimed "there's not a dime's worth of difference" between Mitt Romney and President Obama.
Really? That would be news to Romney voters. (On the other hand, Romney did get Romneycare in Massachusetts, which has been a good thing.)
Another Tulsa Republican called for "statesmen, not politicians. We need someone who will do something for the country."
Come to think of it, we agree with that idea. Yes indeed. We have seen the Republican field (Rick Perry, anyone? Herman Cain? Michele Bachmann?) and we too want a statesman who will do something for the country.
That's why we are supporting President Obama.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Head-spinning Wingnuttiness: Bachmann Goes Red; Praises the Communist Chinese Model
In case you missed it, check out the latest Wingnuttiness from our old Minnesota friend, Rep. Michele Bachmann, speaking at the most recent Republican debate.
Never one to think deeply about much of anything, Bachmann went off about the failures of LBJ's Great Society and the successes of—wait for it—Communist China. Holy eggroll!
Yes, Cowboy fans, the new Bachmann model for economic success is the repressive Chinese regime, an anti-democratic state that allows industry to abuse its workers (child labor, anyone?) and has nonexistent environmental protections (because who needs clean air or water?).
But don't take our for it. Read the words of the Great Bachmann herself:
Never one to think deeply about much of anything, Bachmann went off about the failures of LBJ's Great Society and the successes of—wait for it—Communist China. Holy eggroll!
Yes, Cowboy fans, the new Bachmann model for economic success is the repressive Chinese regime, an anti-democratic state that allows industry to abuse its workers (child labor, anyone?) and has nonexistent environmental protections (because who needs clean air or water?).
But don't take our for it. Read the words of the Great Bachmann herself:
The Great Society has not worked, and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situ — they save for their own retirement security. They don’t have pay FDIC. They don’t have the modern welfare state. And China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with The Great Society, and they’d be gone.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
GOP Overeach in Ohio: Polls Show Republican Agenda Failing with the Voters
The Republican Noise Machine has been blasting its anti-worker, anti-union message for many months now, but the voters aren't buying it.
At least, not in Ohio, where Gov. John Kasich is racking up negative poll numbers and appears to be headed for a political defeat in the upcoming vote on public employee union busting.
Here's a summary from one observer that tells the story in a nutshell:
At least, not in Ohio, where Gov. John Kasich is racking up negative poll numbers and appears to be headed for a political defeat in the upcoming vote on public employee union busting.
Here's a summary from one observer that tells the story in a nutshell:
A controversial law sharply curtailing collective-bargaining rights for Ohio’s public employees is sinking in the polls, raising Democratic hopes that the measure’s defeat could boost their prospects in the crucial swing state in 2012. The law’s diminishing poll numbers have coincided with a decline in the approval ratings of Republican Gov. John R. Kasich, the measure’s most visible proponent. The drop is coming as the law’s union-led opponents have waged an energetic campaign against a measure that they say represents an overreach by the state’s Republican political leaders.Hat tip to our friends at the Daily Kos.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Zing! Evangelicals Attack other Evangelicals
Our nomination for Quote of the Week, from an op-ed in the New York Times by evangelicals Karl Giberson and Randall Stephens.
The writers, both associated with Eastern Nazarene College, go after the "simplistic theology" and "stubborn anti-intellectualism" of popular fundamentalism, the kind embraced by most of the Republican presidential candidates.
The opening lines:
The writers, both associated with Eastern Nazarene College, go after the "simplistic theology" and "stubborn anti-intellectualism" of popular fundamentalism, the kind embraced by most of the Republican presidential candidates.
The opening lines:
And remember: These guys are evangelicals.The Republican presidential filed has become a showcase of evangelical anti-intellectualism. Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann deny that climate change is real and caused by humans. Mr. Perry and Mrs. Bachmann dismiss evolution as unproven.***The rejection of science seems to be part of a politically monolithic red-state fundamentalism, textbook evidence of an unyielding ignorance on the part of the religious.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Gays Cause Tornadoes! So Says Perry's Florida Co-Chair
It's always the danged gays. They're always messin' things up for the rest of us.
This time it's tornadoes. Of course it is.
Why the co-chair of the Perry campaign in the Great State of Florida has said so her very own self—and she ain't kiddin'.
For all we know, these gay sinners (are there any other kind?) are causin' earthquakes and hordes of locusts too. Oklahoma's own Guardian of All Things Right and Proper, Rep. Sally Kern, would be proud. We're bettin' she is.
The link is here.
This time it's tornadoes. Of course it is.
Why the co-chair of the Perry campaign in the Great State of Florida has said so her very own self—and she ain't kiddin'.
For all we know, these gay sinners (are there any other kind?) are causin' earthquakes and hordes of locusts too. Oklahoma's own Guardian of All Things Right and Proper, Rep. Sally Kern, would be proud. We're bettin' she is.
The link is here.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
South Carolina Governor Makes Up Drug Test Data
The Republican war on the poor has few limits, which means it's just dandy to make things up when it suits your political purpose.
Thus our GOP pal Nikki Haley of South Carolina blundered into a set of fake statistics to make a point about rampant drug use among South Carolina's unemployed.
"The problem was so unbelievable, Haley said last month, that at the Savannah River nuclear site, '[of] everybody they interviewed, half of them failed a drug test,'” the website Think Progress reported.
Well, no. Haley's figures were bogus, as the governor has now admitted.
This is all-too-typical Republican behavior, namely, "My mind's made up. Don't confuse me with the facts."
For the True Believers, ideology trumps factual evidence every time. The full story is here.
Thus our GOP pal Nikki Haley of South Carolina blundered into a set of fake statistics to make a point about rampant drug use among South Carolina's unemployed.
"The problem was so unbelievable, Haley said last month, that at the Savannah River nuclear site, '[of] everybody they interviewed, half of them failed a drug test,'” the website Think Progress reported.
Well, no. Haley's figures were bogus, as the governor has now admitted.
This is all-too-typical Republican behavior, namely, "My mind's made up. Don't confuse me with the facts."
For the True Believers, ideology trumps factual evidence every time. The full story is here.
This is true: Wingnuts go after offensive ice cream
We shoulda seen it coming. Now ice cream—or its name, at least—is dirty. Filthy. Vulgar.
It's the end of civilization as we know it.
Yes, Sooner fans, the good and decent folks on the Far Right are highly offended by the new Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, "Schweddy Balls."
You may remember that "Schweddy Balls" was a pretty funny Saturday Night Live sketch some years ago. The skit featured a Mr. Schweddy (played by Alec Baldwin) and his special holiday baked goods, Schweddy Balls.
Ah, but there's no humor on the Right. These Guardians of All Things Good and Pure are wagging their fingers at Ben & Jerry's and all those vulgar American ice cream eaters who would stoop so low as to buy this product.
Read all about the controversy here.
It's the end of civilization as we know it.
Yes, Sooner fans, the good and decent folks on the Far Right are highly offended by the new Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor, "Schweddy Balls."
You may remember that "Schweddy Balls" was a pretty funny Saturday Night Live sketch some years ago. The skit featured a Mr. Schweddy (played by Alec Baldwin) and his special holiday baked goods, Schweddy Balls.
Ah, but there's no humor on the Right. These Guardians of All Things Good and Pure are wagging their fingers at Ben & Jerry's and all those vulgar American ice cream eaters who would stoop so low as to buy this product.
Read all about the controversy here.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Birthermania Lives! Thanks to WorldNetDaily's Conpiracy Theory, Airman Flakes Out
You just can't stamp out a good (read: nutty) conspiracy theory.
For the True Believers, no amount of evidence or facts is ever enough. They are always right, of course, and all the other conspirators and their so-called evidence are always wrong.
Thus we have the sad spectacle of an Air Force staff sergeant buying the "birther" conspiracy that Barack Obama isn't really president because, you know, he was born in Kenya and is a Muslim and a Marxist and all that. Same ole, same ole.
How does he know? Why it was on the Internet, of course, always a totally reliable source of The Truth. Oh, and there's WorldNetDaily, home of a number of whacked out conspiracy theories, including "birtherism."
The link, with the sergeant's video, is here.
For the True Believers, no amount of evidence or facts is ever enough. They are always right, of course, and all the other conspirators and their so-called evidence are always wrong.
Thus we have the sad spectacle of an Air Force staff sergeant buying the "birther" conspiracy that Barack Obama isn't really president because, you know, he was born in Kenya and is a Muslim and a Marxist and all that. Same ole, same ole.
How does he know? Why it was on the Internet, of course, always a totally reliable source of The Truth. Oh, and there's WorldNetDaily, home of a number of whacked out conspiracy theories, including "birtherism."
The link, with the sergeant's video, is here.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
More Silliness from the Wingnut Crowd: Tulsa Writer Believes Everything He Wants to Hear
Oklahoma will never run out of gullible wingnuts willing to believe anything that suits their fancy.
Who needs facts or evidence or logic? Why bother with boring details like that when you have The Truth on you side?
We're speaking of a recent letter to the Tulsa World that proclaims the treason—or something like it—of President Barack Obama.
Here, for your political enlightenment and reading pleasure, are some of the gems in this epistle:
And he did travel to Russia at one time, which means he must have become a Marxist.
For the wingnuts, of course, all this is just further evidence of Obama's anti-Americanism. Didn't he spend some time in Indonesia as a child? Yes! Aren't Columbia and Harvard elitist ultra-liberal anti-American institutions that indoctrinate America's youth into "foreign" ideas like peace and love? Yes!
Case closed. Well, if you still believe that was Elvis you saw at church.
Who needs facts or evidence or logic? Why bother with boring details like that when you have The Truth on you side?
We're speaking of a recent letter to the Tulsa World that proclaims the treason—or something like it—of President Barack Obama.
Here, for your political enlightenment and reading pleasure, are some of the gems in this epistle:
It has become increasingly obvious that President Obama does not have a valid U.S. birth certificate and is a foreign national who hates America, our military and our way of life.Wow! Full-bore birthism, without a hint of actual evidence. A couple of questions come to mind: "Increasingly obvious" to whom? That would seem to be a smaller and smaller minority, even among right-wing voters. Where is the evidence for "hating" the military? Oh that's right—no need for silly evidence.
It is also apparent that his ascent to the presidency was orchestrated by the left knowing that he was not eligible under the U.S. Constitution.Of course—it's the all-powerful (but secret) left in action, the same socialist-communist-Marxist gang that has already brought down major capitalist corporations like Wal-Mart and Google and Citibank and Exxon and…. Oh wait, these companies seems to be doing okay.
He was groomed for this in Russia in the 1980s to make a push for [a] global Marxist society…Sure, and we saw Elvis singing in the choir at First Baptist last Sunday. Or is Obama (not Frank Sinatra) the real Manchurian Candidate? But seriously, Obama was born and raised in Hawaii, educated at Columbia University and Harvard Law School and then settled in Chicago.
And he did travel to Russia at one time, which means he must have become a Marxist.
For the wingnuts, of course, all this is just further evidence of Obama's anti-Americanism. Didn't he spend some time in Indonesia as a child? Yes! Aren't Columbia and Harvard elitist ultra-liberal anti-American institutions that indoctrinate America's youth into "foreign" ideas like peace and love? Yes!
Case closed. Well, if you still believe that was Elvis you saw at church.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Rumor Central: More Wingnut Myths about Obama
The zany world of right-wing propaganda and bogus knowldege is alive and well out there on the Interwebs, apparently immune to all efforts to stop it with actual facts.
We're speaking (again) of viral emails that condemn President Obama for his outlandish statements and socialistic, communistic and vegetarian views.
Why to hear the hate-mongers tell it, Obama is in league with Hitler, Stalin and Fidel Castro—not to mention the Islamic terrorists—to bring the country to its knees.
Heavens! What's a true-blue patriot supposed to do?
We suggest this simple solution for saving the nation: Listen with a healthy dose of skepticism toward all forms of Internet rumors, talk radio and Fox News.
As it happens, the Conservative True Believers out there keep getting it wrong, as the latest round of Internet nonsense has shown.
PolitiFact checked the record. Read the latest debunking report here.
We're speaking (again) of viral emails that condemn President Obama for his outlandish statements and socialistic, communistic and vegetarian views.
Why to hear the hate-mongers tell it, Obama is in league with Hitler, Stalin and Fidel Castro—not to mention the Islamic terrorists—to bring the country to its knees.
Heavens! What's a true-blue patriot supposed to do?
We suggest this simple solution for saving the nation: Listen with a healthy dose of skepticism toward all forms of Internet rumors, talk radio and Fox News.
As it happens, the Conservative True Believers out there keep getting it wrong, as the latest round of Internet nonsense has shown.
PolitiFact checked the record. Read the latest debunking report here.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Limbaugh's Ratings Slipping Away
Talk Radio's biggest blowhard is losing some of his steam. That's right, Sooner fans, Rush Limbaugh's ratings have been slipping.
Read the story and check the numbers here: Are we done with Rush Limbaugh yet?
Read the story and check the numbers here: Are we done with Rush Limbaugh yet?
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