Even if you've never really seen Glenn Beck in action, you will enjoy this parody, as Jon Stewart employs Beckesque illogic and style to make the argument that…. well, I'm not sure. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Broadcast News Redux
You know that scene from the movie Broadcast News where Holly Hunter learns that William Hurt's teary interview was actually fabricated, i.e., that he could cry on cue? Seems like there's a little but of that happening over at Fox News. From Howard Kurtz, via Kevin Drum, we learn about Glenn Beck's "on-air pyrotechnics": Some staffers say they have watched … Read More
Rush Says He’ll Leave U.S. If Health Care Passes
From Think Progress: CALLER: If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself? And the second part of that is, what would happen to the doctors, do they have to participate in the federal program, or could they opt out of it? […] LIMBAUGH: My guess in even in Canada and even in the UK, … Read More
Is There No End To Stupid Conservative Spin on Haiti?
Glenn Beck today, speaking of Obama: BECK: I also believe this is dividing the nation…to where the nation sees him react so rapidly on Haiti and yet he couldn’t react rapidly on Afghanistan. He couldn’t react rapidly on Ft. Hood. He couldn’t react rapidly on our own airplanes with an underwear bomber…it doesn’t make sense. […] Three different events and … Read More
Hume Says He Wasn’t Prosyletizing Last Weekend…or Now
Politico's Mike Calderone: Fox's Brit Hume has taken some heat since advising Tiger Woods yesterday [Sunday] to embrace Christianity as a way to cope with his problems, while knocking another religion in the process. "He's said to be a Buddhist," Hume said on Fox News Sunday. "I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by … Read More
When Tiger Woods Needs Brit Hume’s Advice…
The Tiger Woods story, as I've often said, isn't a news story. It certainly doesn't warrent a panel discussion on a Sunday morning "news" channel. And it certainly doesn't require commentary like that offered by Brit Hume, who said this weekend that Tiger Woods isn't going to be made whole until he rejects his religion and accepts the correct religion … Read More
Charles Johnson Makes It Official
The New York Times is supposedly writing a story on this, and I too have touched on it before. To wit, the slow transformation of Charles Johnson from prominent right-wing blogger into… well… something sane. Yesterday, he made it official in a post on his blog, Little Green Footballs, entitled Why I Parted Ways With The Right: 1. Support for … Read More
Symbolic Tea Party Protest Going Symbolically Wrong
So the tea partiers boarded the corporate-sponsored buses to come to Washington DC today to let their Congressmen know that they don't want socialism blah-blah-blah. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn, who fell out of the right wing crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down, was the one who called for the protest. She's not known for her truthfulness when … Read More
Mike Adams, UNC Professor and Townhall Blogger
SHORTER MIKE ADAMS: America's downfall is eminent, as evidenced by these emails I've written which reflect how much my students hate listening to my lectures.
Football Logic
Shorter every single rightwing website right now: Was civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers ever denied the right to purchase an NFL franchise? Hellz, no! So why can't Rush? Because of racism!!! Okay, not all are saying that. But you have some really over-the-top whines. This, by far, is the most WTF of them all: Earlier this evening, as most of … Read More
Now HERE’S An Honor That’s Undeserved…
No, I'm not talking about Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm talking about this: The Miss America Organization (MAO) announced today that Rush Limbaugh has been named as one of the national judges for the 2010 Miss America Pageant, which will be held at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, January 30 and broadcast live … Read More
Shorter Pat Buchanan
In "Is America Coming Apart?": It's terrible how divided and divisive America is today. I blame the non-Christians and funny-speaking foreigners.
Glenn Beck Rape/Murder Controversy Growing
Recently, I drew attention to the fact that some say that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, as well as the website: glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990. That site, which only began on September 1, has had a lot of visits. And among those interested are Glenn Beck's lawyers. By September 3, lawyers for Beck's media company, Mercury Radio Arts, … Read More
Pat Buchanan Goes Full Blown Nazi-Supporting Stupid
His latest — a pro-Nazi apologia entitled "Did Hitler Want War?": But if Hitler was out to conquer the world — Britain, Africa, the Middle East, the United States, Canada, South America, India, Asia, Australia — why did he spend three years building that hugely expensive Siegfried Line to protect Germany from France? Why did he start the war with no … Read More
A Pox On Both Houses?
Barney Frank took a protester to task after she refered to Obama's "Nazi" health care reform. He asked the woman "on what planet" does she live, and said that trying to have a serious discussion with her about health care would be like talking to a dining room table. Now, comes the tut-tut of the conservative media. How both sides … Read More