Following in the footsteps of John "Abortionplex" Fleming, Glenn "Oligarhy" Beck has decided that the biggest tragedy of the attack on the Boston Marathon was President Obama's failure to explicitly use the word "terrorist."
"Our President yesterday wouldn't even come out and say that it was an act of terror," said Beck.
He then added "He had to have somebody make a statement after his statement. I found it reprehensible. I don't care who did it."
More reprehensible than exploiting a terrorist attack for petty political gain?
But this was not enough for Beck. He went on to accuse Obama of being someone who would eagerly capitalize on a terrorist attack just as Beck was doing.
"I don't care if it was the head of the Tea Party Patriots. If they did it, it was terror. Period. Because I have a feeling that if it was the Tea Party Patriots that did it, boy, he would, with glee, deem it terror."
With this sentence, Beck has delivered a stupid politics triple play. First, by trying to politicize a terrorist attack not even twenty-four hours after its occurrence. Second, by playing the language police; by attacking Obama for saying "attack" instead of "terrorist attack." And finally, by trying to reinvent Obama in his imagination as a petty, party-before-country lunatic.
"Labeling things 'workplace shootings' or 'workplace incidents' is not going to heal us," said Beck. But neither will twisting a national tragedy into an excuse to attack the President over a triviality.
Rep. Steve Stockman believes that giving guns to fetuses could completely change the abortion debate.
In a message posted to the congressman’s campaign Twitter account on Thursday night, Stockman wrote, “Our campaign bumper sticker: If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted.”
The image of a bumper sticker with the same message and the phrase “Vote Pro-Life!” was included with the tweet.
The 2016 presidential election is far off, but an early sign indicates that Republicans could face trouble if Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden becomes the Democratic nominee, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
A conservative friend sent this to me with the subject line, "Marist Poll: 2016 Early Line... The Republican Train Wreck!" and I knew I had to share it!
Glenn Beck created a bit of a sensation this past weekend when he tweeted a photo of the Devil from The History Channel's The Bible mini-series and noted tha...
For Republicans worried that creating a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants will simply create 11 million more Democratic voters, Donald Trump has a solution. Bring in more European immigrants.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington, D.C., on Friday, Trump warned that Republicans are on a “suicide mission” if they support immigration reform, claiming that every single illegal immigrant will end up voting Democratic.
“When it comes to immigration, you know that the 11 million illegals, even if given the right to vote — you know, you’re gonna have to do what’s right — but the fact is, 11 million people will be voting Democratic,” Trump said.
No matter how pro-active Republicans are on immigration reform, they’re not going to win the votes of former illegal immigrants. “That’s just the way it works, and you have to be very, very careful,” Trump warned.
“You could say … that you’re on a suicide mission. You’re just not going to get those votes,” Trump said.
Trump then immediately segued into calling for allowing more immigration to the United States from Europe....
The push to reform entitlement programs is at the heart of debates about the future of the US budget. Many Republicans want big changes as Medicare and Medicaid, in particular, consume a larger share of federal spending. Most Democrats merely want to ensure the programs' survival.
Entitlement programs include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (welfare). How much do you know about them?
Our guest is KATHRYN RUUD, founder of STOP POLARIZING TALK who stresses the power of language in manipulating our political discourse.
Kathryn is a linguist and scholar, and writes that "It was during a semester abroad in Germany in 1982 that my question about how good people can be motivated to do bad things, even horrific things, was answered. Language, polarizing language, was key. Causing injury, or even death, to members of a designated out-group can seem positive, even moral, if we allow our worldview to be formed by the language of propagandists and demagogues."
TALLAHASSEE — Two months after long lines plagued Florida on election day, Gov. Rick Scott says he wants to return to 14 days for early voting and limit the length of ballots.
The Atlantic Wire The Politics of the Platinum Coin New York Times (blog) I don't feel qualified to comment definitively on the technicality legality or constitutionality of the widely-bruited proposal that President Obama should respond to House...
Sean Hannity's radio show dabbled in the exact language that his Fox colleagues often criticize as central to the "war on Christmas" when an announcer wished his radio listeners: "Happy holidays from all of us at the Sean Hannity show." Fox News' annual trumped-up "war on Christmas" has largely depended on Fox figures taking offense when the word "holiday" replaces "Christmas" in seasonal greetings.
During a debate over Ohio’s budget on Tuesday afternoon, Republicans in the House tacked on an amendment that would prohibit health classes in public schools from including any instruction on “gateway sexual activity,”
In order to retake the House in 2014, the Democrats need to pick up a net 17 seats to retake the House. Allowing for the fact that the Democrats could lose a handful of their own seats, any realistic attempt at a House takeover requires identifying 25 races or so that can be flipped from red to blue. Here are the top 25 races the Democrats might target in approximate order.
Conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck warned viewers of his Internet channel Thursday night that a set of public education standards encouraging math and language development is actually a massive global conspiracy designed to help the Chinese and, somehow, Muslims, take over the United States.
“I believe that you are… then going to be co-ruled by a thugocracy of this part of the world, and I think it’s going to be, at least in our case, I think it’s going to be China,” Beck said as he randomly placed colored dots on a chalkboard with a drawing of a world map. “China will be the balance of our power. They will use Muslam– Islam, as the real enforcers that they will then help us, and whoever is in power will be ruled by an American. But uh, it will be a technocrat that will answer to China, and they will stomp things out and use Islam as much as they have to to get rid of anybody who’s, uh, standing up, I think.”
It’s all going to happen, Beck said, thanks to a devious indoctrination program operating in America today, by which he means the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCS). “We are, unfortunately, in the end, going to be a third-world state,” Beck insisted. “And that’s why I think Common Core is here. Because it will train us to be a serf state. It will train us and it will keep us in order, to answer to the Chinese or whoever it is.”
On Tuesday, Gawker published George W. Bush's private email address and encouraged readers to "wish George W. Bush a Happy Iraq War Day." They stated that readers should email him and "let him know that you're thinking of him today."
According to the project lead at Harvard — as well as the study itself and the federal funding therein — the conservative hyperbole forgets all about gay men...
Glenn Beck is a lot like a toddler: if you don’t hear from him for a while, you can only assume that he is getting into some mischief.
Since his departure from Fox News a couple of years ago, Beck has largely kept out of the public eye. Recently, however, he seems to be back with another hare-brained scheme straight out of a Looney Tunes cartoon. Last month he was in the news because he wants to start a walled, Libertarian, heavily armed city – named Independence. This new (and mildly hilarious) video released yesterday shows his latest venture. And boy, this is some straight up Daffy Duck shit.
Glenn now plans to hold some sort of science fair. In Utah. With giant robots walking amongst the crowd. And it has something to do with (I’m paraphrasing here) “America being the one true nation on earth forever always” or some other nationalistic xenophobic wankage, because Glenn is batshit crazy and has a case of the turn of the last century mad scientist thing going on. First, his own town. Now, his own science fair. The next thing on the mad scientist’s list is either sharks with lazer beams or a mountain with his face.
You have to – at least on some level – be in awe of the fact that this guy started out as a morning radio DJ back in the late 80s. Now he’s a gun-toting multimillionaire building death-towns and 30ft tall robots. His life story is straight out of a book. A shitty book, sure, but a book nonetheless.
Ten bucks says the robots turn on him once they become self-aware.
Some mornings my son, now a father, woke up in such a tizzy that he wanted to bicker about everything. I fondly recall the morning he wanted to argue about whether or not he should zip up his jeans.
Watching the House vote this morning, it occurred to me that managing the debt ceiling is a lot like zipping: they both amount to finishing the job.
My son decided zipping his jeans was a good idea when I showed him how his pants would fall down if he didn’t. Just like the time to work through the “to-zip-or-not-to zip” question was before my kindergartner left the bedroom, it seems to me the time to discuss the debt ceiling is EVERY TIME we approve a budget.
What we do now is metaphorically wait until we find our jeans around our ankles, and then try to put the blame for our public embarrassment on someone else.
Tea With the Mad Hatter: Musings on Politics, The Tea Party, and America's Rampant Electile Dysfunction: Michael Charney, Michael Stafford: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
"If you are fed up with our dysfunctional political system, the two parties which control it and with media shrillness and banality you will like Michael Charney's clever essays on our 'Electile Dysfunction." This book will make you smile, make you think, and it might just make you even angrier about the sorry state of American politics. We need more voices like Michael Charney's calling for change."
--Linda Killian, author of The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents
By Alan with comments January 9, 2013 20:59. Glenn Beck, is again attempting to reinvent himself. Apparently, the evangelist thing didn't work out. Beck has declared his plan to launch a “global Libertarian news network.” Andrew Kirell at ...
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Introducing a new wrinkle into the already fraught fiscal cliff showdown, a consortium of billionaires today warned that if their taxes are raised they will no longer have enough money to buy politicians.
The group, led by casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, commissioned a new study showing that the cost of an average politician has soared exponentially over the past decade.
While the American family has seen increases in the cost of food, health care and education, Mr. Adelson says, “those costs don’t compare with the cost of buying a politician, which has gone through the roof.”
The casino billionaire points to his group’s study, which puts the cost of purchasing an average House member at two million dollars and an average senator at several times that.
“And let’s say you buy a senator like Jim DeMint and he decides to quit,” Mr. Adelson says. “Good luck trying to get your money back.”
The Vegas magnate complains that the media has ignored billionaires’ essential role in giving jobs to politicians who would otherwise have difficulty finding “honest work of any kind.”
“Billionaires are providing employment for a group of seriously incompetent and marginal people,” Mr. Adelson says. “You raise taxes on us, and who’s going to create those jobs? I really don’t think people have thought this through.”
Adding insult to injury for America’s billionaires, he says, “the simple dream of someday owning a President is slipping out of reach.”
“People think a billion dollars buys you a President, but they’re wrong,” he says. “It barely gets you a lemon like Mitt Romney.”
[KEEP TONGUE FIRMLY IN CHEEK, OF COURSE... -MC]
Via Diane Owens
With her tenure as Secretary of State coming to an end, Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be a figure of nearly limitless possibility, but her next few years could ultimately be defined by her plans for the 2016 election...
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