It’s far too soon to say who’ll win Nevada’s U.S. Senate race — with 15 days to go, the polls show Harry Reid and Sharron Angle just about tied — but a few weeks from now, we may look back at Angle’s appearance at Rancho High School as the turning point. It was her remarks at the school that helped make abundantly clear just how far gone the extremist candidate really is.
Consider these remarks Angle made during her appearance.
“So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. [Note: it’s the Hispanic Student Union. The whole room is Hispanic teenagers.] What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.”
As Jon Ralston noted, no one’s ever called Angle, who is not Asian, the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly. She seems to have made this up.
She’s like Stephen Colbert, she doesn’t “see race” I guess. I have no idea how to explain Sharron Angle except that crazy lady is crazy.
And now we have Blake Farenthold, who likes duckie pajamas and pole dancers. Well, maybe the woman in the picture isn’t a poll dancer, but she sure looks like one to me (not that I’ve seen any in recent memory).
The picture comes from a pajama party at a local bar in May 2009, and quickly made its way from the source — thecrushgirls.com — to a publication called We The People and from there to the DCCC and Ortiz himself.
Tony Martinez, marketing director for CrushGirls confirms to TPM that the image is not photoshopped (though a larger version includes a man in a bathrobe, and a woman wearing a Santa hat).
According to its website,
TheCrushGirls.com is an online news magazine that has become Corpus Christi’s #1 Source for Entertainment News averaging nearly 16,000 monthly visitors with over 3,000+ subscribers to our weekly email newsletter. The mission of the website (now in its 5th year) is to promote a positive attitude towards Corpus Christi by providing one comprehensive source of information for all the events & activities in the area. In addition, our popular spokespersons, the Crush GirlsTM, are ambassadors to the community and actively contribute as volunteers for nonprofit/charitable activities and events.
Farenthold, like Iott, was considered a contender, one of the NRCC’s candidates in their expanded field of play. Something tells me that they won’t be playing with this rubber ducky for much longer.
Gee, so many to chose from today. We have Ken Buck, the teabag candidate for Senate in CO who Unstable Isotope wrote about in the Open Thread today (he has some women issues, especially with women who have been raped).
We have Celia Cohen, who Liberal Geek excoriated for her hit piece on Chip Flowers.
“What Cantor did is exactly the illustration of why people are disgusted with politicians,” Iott said. “He made comments and took a position that was good for him at the time, regardless of whether it was good for anyone else or good for the voters.”
My partner worked with re-enactors in Illinois at the Naper Settlement. Granted, this was a Civil War reenactment, but c’mon, doesn’t this guy understand that there’s a huge difference between acting as Johnny Reb and Johan von Nazi? And he dressed up as part of the SS? Which part of “this is really in poor taste” doesn’t Iott understand? I wonder if this group Iott plays dress-up with re-enacts guarding death camps.
And this is supposed to make it OK to act like an SS officer:
Iott also contended that “this particular unit was one that was never charged with war crimes,” though Cooper pointed out that one member was recently charged with the murder of 58 Jews. Iott replied: “The war on the eastern front was extremely brutal on both sides. Nobody was lily-white, that’s for sure. Horrible things that happened on both sides.”
So it was about saving the homeland from Communism. I can think of better ways to do this. Why don’t they re-enact the fall of the Berlin Wall, or re-enact the Berlin Airlift? How about re-enacting Amb. Adlai Stevenson’s famous speech at the UN during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Guess listening to Wagner doesn’t go well with these scenarios.
Herr Oberfurher Rich Iott (von kartoffel kopf), du bist unsere Arschloch Hut bis heute.
This election season has given us a lot of crazy candidates who probably would never had a chance to win. America has gone bonkers. Rich Iott, the Tea Party-backed GOP candidate for U.S. House of Represetatives in Ohio’s 9th district has to take some kind of nutter prize. He has an unusual hobby:
The Atlantic’s Josh Green reports that millionaire businessman Rich Iott, the Republican nominee challenging Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) in Ohio’s Ninth District, has an unusual hobby: He likes to pretend he’s a Nazi.
Iott, a tea party-backed candidate, spent time fighting another battle before he hit the campaign trail against Kaptur as a member of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, a group of Ohio World War II reenactors.
According to their website, the Wikings strive to “salute” the “idealists” from occupied northern Europe who saw the Third Reich as “the protector of personal freedom and their very way of life” and signed up to fight for the Wermacht and “gave their lives for their loved ones and a basic desire to be free.”
You know who else liked to dress as a Nazi? Hitler.
There really is nothing I can say about today’s winner. You just need to watch the video and listen to him and you’ll understand why he wins hands-down.
Jim DeMint is proud of being the leader of the Tea Party wing of the U.S. Senate. He endorsed Christine O’Donnell for U.S. Senate over Mike Castle. Jim DeMint and fellow crazy conservative Tom Coburn have placed a hold on selling land near the Smithsonian for a women’s history museum. His reasoning?
And, as the New York Times’s Gail Collins revealed Sunday, the redundancy argument completely dries out under scrutiny. When asked what entities the new museum would duplicate, Coburn suggested that quilters and cowgirls were sufficient to tell the entire story of American women:
The office sent me a list of the entities in question. They include the Quilters Hall of Fame in Indiana, the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Texas and the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens in Washington.
There also were a number of homes of famous women and some fine small collections of exhibits about a particular locality or subject. But, really, Senator Coburn’s list pretty much proved the point that this country really needs one great museum that can chart the whole, big amazing story.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) attempted to convince pastors that economic issues are moral issues at the Greater Freedom Rally at a church in Spartanburg, South Carolina yesterday, imploring them to help conservatives retake Congress in November.
In addition to reiterating anti-choice talking points on abortion and backing “traditional marriage,” according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the senator went further and “said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who’s sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn’t be in the classroom.”
I think these science article I’ve been reading are right – Neanderthals are not extinct. Actually, a Neaderthal might be more desirable than Jim DeMint.
A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating “palace of pleasure” and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.
Apparently O’Keefe is involved in some kind of music video. He’s promoting a right-leaning band and CNN was covering the story. O’Keefe requested the CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau meet him in person to discuss the story. The plan was to lure her onto a boat and hit on her, while recording the interaction.
Santa told Boudreau that O’Keefe planned to “punk” her by getting on a boat where hidden cameras were set up. Boudreau said she would not get on the boat and asked Santa why O’Keefe wanted her there.
“Izzy told me that James was going to be dressed up and have strawberries and champagne on the boat, and he was going to hit on me the whole time,” Boudreau said.
A short time later, O’Keefe emerged from a boat docked behind the house. In that brief conversation, Boudreau told O’Keefe that he did not have permission to record her, and reminded him that the meeting was solely to discuss the upcoming music video shoot, and he had never mentioned that he wanted to tape their meeting.
Why a boat? I assume so she couldn’t leave easily. I have no idea why they thought this would embarrass CNN. Wouldn’t they have video of Boudreau looking really uncomfortable and trying to leave?
Here’s how he explained the plan to his co-plotters.
According to the document, O’Keefe was to record a video of the following script before Boudreau arrived: “My name is James. I work in video activism and journalism. I’ve been approached by CNN for an interview where I know what their angle is: they want to portray me and my friends as crazies, as non-journalists, as unprofessional and likely as homophobes, racists or bigots of some sort….
“Instead, I’ve decided to have a little fun. Instead of giving her a serious interview, I’m going to punk CNN. Abbie has been trying to seduce me to use me, in order to spin a lie about me. So, I’m going to seduce her, on camera, to use her for a video. This bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who comes on at five will get a taste of her own medicine, she’ll get seduced on camera and you’ll get to see the awkwardness and the aftermath.
“Please sit back and enjoy the show.” Boudreau, who has won multiple awards for her investigative reporting, called the comments “ridiculous.”
This sounds really sinister. What exactly was O’Keefe going to do with Boudreau once they got her on the boat?
You know… two years ago this behavior would have seem odd (and shocking) to me. Now it’s what I’m coming to expect from the GOP. Oh no! I’m becoming desensitized to crazy!
When I lived in Buffalo, Carl Paladino was I name that I saw everywhere. He’s a wealthy developer in the region. Paladino is running for the GOP nomination for the governor of New York (he’s taking on Rick Lazio in the primary) and he’s a complete nutter:
Back in April, emails from Paladino surfaced in which he forwarded bestiality videos and tons of racist jokes. He fired back, saying, in short, that he’s not racist and he doesn’t enjoy watching horses have sex with women. But whatever, the past is the past, right? Since then he’s been laying down his platform, and taking on issues the Tea Party loves to hate, like welfare. Besides reducing the state’s budget by 20 percent and cutting taxes, Paladino has a solution for people on welfare: relocate them to prison dormitories. Paladino spoke to the AP:
Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we’ll teach people how to earn their check. We’ll teach them personal hygiene … the personal things they don’t get when they come from dysfunctional homes.”
You have to teach them basic things – taking care of themselves, physical fitness. In their dysfunctional environment, they never learned these things.”
Paladino cites the positives of moving poor people into prison dorms — they have access to “basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities.” What’s not to like about that? And Paladino has the type of street cred the average Tea Party Joe is looking for. He’s a wealthy real estate developer and is opposed to Muslims building things in America.
I’m sure he’s got even better ideas. What about debtor’s prison and indentured servitude? I don’t think those have been tried in a while.
I find this new “libertarian” Republican party a bit confusing. They still want to control uteruses and they want government intervention in where religious centers are built (if they’re the “wrong” religion). Now Paladino also wants a massive government internment of poor people because they need to play basketball and learn hygiene.
A bunch of wingnut blogs got together to nominate the 25 worst Americans in history. Enjoy the delusion.
Well, that’s enough about the rules — without further ado, the worst figures in American history are as follows (with the number of votes following each selection)…
23) Saul Alinsky (7)
23) Bill Clinton (7)
23) Hillary Clinton (7)
19) Michael Moore (7)
19) George Soros (8)
19) Alger Hiss (8)
19) Al Sharpton (8)
13) Al Gore (9)
13) Noam Chomsky (9)
13) Richard Nixon (9)
13) Jane Fonda (9)
13) Harry Reid (9)
13) Nancy Pelosi (9)
11) John Wilkes Booth (10)
11) Margaret Sanger (10)
9) Aldrich Ames (11)
9) Timothy McVeigh (11)
7) Ted Kennedy (14)
7) Lyndon Johnson (14)
5) Benedict Arnold (17)
5) Woodrow Wilson (17)
4) The Rosenbergs (19)
3) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (21)
2) Barack Obama (23)
1) Jimmy Carter (25)
According to wingnuts, there are 8 people worse than Tim McVeigh! Where’s Al Capone or Ted Bundy? Obviously they’re not as evil as Bill or Hillary Clinton.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger is not someone I pay much attention to. I know she made some news years back with some anti-gay comments. All I know about her is that she gives right wing advice to people which usually involves women just shutting up and putting out. Honestly, I haven’t paid that much attention to her. Well, she’s caught everyone’s notice now.
Here’s audio of Schlessenger’s original rant, which happened during a discussion with a black female caller who thought her white husband’s friends were racist (the most shocking moment of which included Schlessenger saying angrily, “Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO and listen to a black comic, and all you hear is nigger, nigger, nigger. I don’t get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it’s a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it’s affectionate.”
Right, Dr. Laura. Because some comedians use the word on HBO for shock value that means it’s o.k. to use. Of course, Dr. Laura’s advice is that the woman is just supposed to suck it up and take it. The worse part of the rant comes here in Part 2, where she really goes to town.
After a break, the caller said she was appalled by Schlessinger’s use of the word.
“Oh, then I guess you don’t watch HBO or listen to any black comedians,” she said. “My dear, the point I am trying to make…we’ve got a black man as president and we’ve got more complaining about racism than ever. I think that’s hilarious.”
Schlessinger and the caller then got into an exchange about the use of the word:
CALLER: Is it OK to say that word? Is it ever OK to say that word?
DR. LAURA: It depends how it’s said. Black guys talking to each other seem to think it’s ok.
CALLER: But you’re not black, they’re not black, my husband is white.
DR. LAURA: Oh, I see, so a word is restricted to race. Got it. Can’t do much about that.
CALLER: I can’t believe someone like you is on the radio spewing out the n***** word, and I hope everybody heard it.
DR. LAURA: I didn’t spew out the n***** word!
CALLER: You said “n*****, n*****, n*****” and I hope everybody heard it.
DR. LAURA: Yes they did, and I’ll say it again: n*****, n*****, n***** is what you hear on HBO.
[Crosstalk]
DR. LAURA: Why don’t you let me finish a sentence? Don’t take things out of context. Don’t NAACP me, leave them in context.
“If you’re that hypersensitive about color and don’t have a sense of humor, don’t marry outside of your race,” Schlessinger said after hanging up with the caller.
Did you hear that? Stop being so sensitive! Obviously it’s your problem if your husband won’t stand up for you.
You gotta love that other people do it defense! Plus, she totally went Michael Richards on that caller. But I guess Dr. Laura had a change of heart because she is sorry she got caughtyou’re offended.
She apologized the next day, opening her show with an apology.
“Yesterday, I did the wrong thing,” she said. “I didn’t intend to hurt people, but I did. And that makes it the wrong thing to have done. I was attempting to make a philosophical point, and I articulated the “n” word all the way out – more than one time. And that was wrong. I’ll say it again – that was wrong.”
Schlessinger said she “was so upset [she] could not finish the show.”
“I pulled myself off the air at the end of the hour,” she said. “I had to finish the hour, because 20 minutes of dead air doesn’t work. I am very sorry. And it just won’t happen again.”
See, it was terrible. Dr. Laura was so upset she almost couldn’t blabber on for 20 whole minutes. You can rest assured that she won’t almost be so upset to talk ever again.
The group to which Maes was referring, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, is an association with more than 1,200 communities as members, half of which are in the United States. Denver became a member in 1992.
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“This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms,” Maes said in comments that were first reported Wednesday by the Denver Post.
Maes’ campaign said the candidate was illustrating the “larger picture of what this organization represents” and its “extreme” views on global warming.
Nate Strauch told The Associated Press that Maes was trying to say that the biking initiative is a “gateway program” being pushed by ECLEI on cities that eventually lead to extreme measures, such as the promotion of abortions and population control.
Encouraging people to bike to work is a slippery slope that will lead to abortions. I’m glad Dan Maes is here to warn us of this danger. Maes knows this sounds crazy, but he’s unafraid to tell you the truth.
Maes said he thought promoting more bicycling was pretty harmless at first, but he realized later “that’s exactly the attitude they want you to have.”
“It’s all part of this population control mentality that we as humans are the disease,” Strauch said, adding: “He never said that biking is inherently wrong.”
So this morning we already tripped down memory lane with Crazy Eileen and Delaware Liberal ‘s concern trolling from last year. Well, some conservatives are starting to see the light (why did it take this long?). From Balloon Juice, it’s another conservative self-reflection “It’s getting to be embarrassing to be a conservative.”
These days, however, the most prominent so-called conservatives are increasingly fit only to be cast for the next Dumb and Dumber sequel. They’re dumb and crazy.
Heehee. Can’t disagree with that one.
Let’s tick off ten things that make this conservative embarrassed by the modern conservative movement:
1. A poorly educated ex-sportwriter who served half of one term of an minor state governorship is prominently featured as a — if not the — leading prospect for the GOP’s 2012 Presidential nomination.
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4. As Doug also observed, “The GOP controlled Congress from 1994 to 2006: Combine neocon warfare spending with entitlements, farm subsidies, education, water projects and you end up with a GOP welfare/warfare state driving the federal spending machine.” Indeed, “when the GOP took control of Congress in 1994, and the White House in 2000, the desire to use the levers of power to create “compassionate conservatism” won our over any semblance of fiscal conservatism. Instead of tax cuts and spending cuts, we got tax cuts along with a trillion dollar entitlement program, a massive expansion of the Federal Government’s role in education, and two wars. That’s not fiscal conservatism it is, as others have said, fiscal insanity.” Yet, today’s GOP still has not articulated a message of real fiscal conservatism.
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6. The anti-science and anti-intellectualism that pervade the movement.
7. Trying to pretend Afghanistan is Obama’s war.
8. Birthers.
9. Nativists.
10. The substitution of mouth-foaming, spittle-blasting, rabble-rousing talk radio for reasoned debate. Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, and Hugh Hewitt are not exactly putting on Firing Line.
I’d like to see more than obscure bloggers, former Reagan officials and retiring/defeated Republicans call out Republicans on this. It’s a start though. Who will be the first credible voice in Republican circles to voice these sentiments? Who has the necessary trust from the movement to do it?
