This Week In Teh Crazy ·8·8·09·

… & Propagandee

Another jaw-dropper week in Teh Crazy as we hunker down for the August recess/hyperbolic frenzy of the continuing implosion of the Rethuglicans.  Read it and weep.  Or cling to your religion and guns.  Whatever blows your skirt up.  I have alcohol to consume.

Obama Targets Trig

Sarah or her teh crazy surrogate wrote:

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” —Sarah Palin

Death Panels.  We had to google’m, too. Here’s all we could find:

Yep, that be Barack devouring white folks like Sarah Palin.
Those are “his bureaucrats” peering down the death hole.

Yeah.  It does sound like a high school Facebook junkie rogue-rambling maverick having a sucrose overdose, but you should still get down on your knees and thank our “teh luord” for convincing her to resign her position of responsibility;  you know damned good and well that was a stroke of divine intervention.

Joan Walsh at Salon, shorter:

“Palin’s entire statement is so ignorant, so bollixed rhetorically and morally, it hurts to read it.”

See the horror here.

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Oh, yawn, Snap.

Oily Taint Orly Taitz’s Fake Birth Cert Gets Pwned

But MansBestFriend puts this in perspective for us:

All this is part of the master plan. You will soon all be food for Zordon’s cats.

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Of Birthers, Senators and Morons

by Hunter
Fri Aug 07, 2009 at 07:00:02 AM PDT

In the news: John Cornyn thinks fact checking is pretext for domestic espionage. Which he’s suddenly against. Chuck Grassley uses Ted Kennedy‘s medical condition as propaganda for his own false and nonsensical claims about “socialized medicine” killing old people — and this is who Max Baucus is “negotiating” with to bring us his version of health care.  Rush Limbaugh thinks Obama is like Hitler. Glenn Beck muses about poisoning Nancy Pelosi.

The birthers are going strong, and the teabaggers are trying to shut down healthcare reform by making town halls on the subject impossible. Dick Morris and John Bolton agree: we should have left those two journalists to rot in North Korea, because Clinton going there to secure their release made the U.S. look weak, and now other countries will steal our lunch money at recess.  And Lou Dobbs never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like, as long as it was about brown or black people, but after people got angry that he peddled false nonsense he says he’s now reflexively going to oppose Obama on everything.

It almost makes you want to cry.  Between Cornyn, Grassley, Limbaugh and Beck, between Dobbs and Morris and Bolton, between birthers and “socialized” medicine but keep-your-hands-off-my-Medicare, teh stupid is overwhelming. It’s become a tidal wave of stupid. It’s a giant Noah’s Ark of stupid, in which two examples of every kind of dumbassery known to man have been loaded up, to be set adrift on a sea of their own drool.  It’s the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” gameshow of stupid — loud, with big flashing lights, and on— every goddamn day of the week.  It’s the result of drinking conservative bong water and eating the paint chips flaking off Bill Buckley’s lead-encrusted casket.

I’d be afraid for the future of our country, but I know that if these people ever actually armed themselves and tried to take over, they’d all have accidentally shot themselves in the groin within the first ten minutes. Then they’d all limp to D.C. to hold a rally demanding free government health care for their self-inflicted crotch-related injuries.

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House GOPper Wets Himself At Town Hall

Jordan Fabian

The trend of controversial town halls contiuned on Friday when Rep. John Sullivan (R-Okla.) questioned the authenticity of President Barack Obama‘s birth certificate, and referred to a White House “enemies list” at a meeting in Tulsa.

“This is a scawey scawey scawey time in Washington,” he said.  “It’s a wewey, wewey, wewey fwightening time. I see Barack Obama is creating an enemies wist of people who oppose this misewable healf care plan.  And that fwightens me.  And you know I’m wewey afwaid when I can’t keep from wetting myself;  and no, it’s not the vodka tonics I had earlier.  But it’s very fwightening when this happens, and it’s because of Obama. And what is even more scawey, and even more fwightening, this guy can’t even show a long-form birf certificate.  I think we all ought to be prepared to fight that until fweedom wings.”

Yes;  it is fucking scary in Washington now, because elected lizard brains like Sullivan are speaking up and making it damned clear they aren’t fit to lead a parade of puppies around their own backyard.  In June, Rep. Sullivan wasn’t attending sessions in Congress;  he was too busy attending rehab sessions at the Betty Ford Clinic.  He checked himself in because of his addiction to alcohol.

Sullivan was first arrested when he was 20 for public intoxication.  Well actually, it started a bit earlier than that;  the congressman was first arrested at 17 on a misdemeanor assault charge for fighting; um, with an off-duty Tulsa cop…  oh— and there was another arrest at 18, for trespassing and loitering.  In 1992, Sullivan was again taken into custody over an unpaid speeding ticket; but he said that didn’t count because he wasn’t put in a cell.

Even though his arrest record became an issue in his 2004 Congressional race, he still won by double digits.
Stay classy, Okies.

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Lou Dobbs Serves Up Some Hypocrisy Casserole

Warning: This is two and a half minutes you will never get back.

“President Obama will take full responsibility for what happens here. You heard his voice in Virginia. This is a — I mean, he’s fanning the flames of a mob. He’s not a president trying to bring some sort of sensibility and order to a public debate.” —Lou Dobbs

Glenn Beck Poisons Nancy Pelosi

Washington, DC – Today, Media Matters for America called for Fox News to immediately fire Glenn Beck after he talked about “put[ting] poison” in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s wine. As Media Matters noted, Beck warned his viewers on August 3 that “[i]f anyone thinks that it would be a good idea to turn violent, think again,” adding that “[i]f you ever hear someone thinking about or talking about turning violent, it is your patriotic duty to stop them.”

“Glenn Beck talking about poisoning the speaker of the House is just the latest in a series of actions, statements, and stunts that have no place on a credible news network,” said Eric Burns, president of Media Matters. “Beck himself said that it is our ‘patriotic duty’ to stop someone who talks about turning violent. Doesn’t he deserve to be held to this same standard?”

Burns further stated: “Fox News cannot have it both ways, dialing up the hate and then pretending it’s all a joke,” adding, “Like all networks, Fox must be held responsible for what is said on air. And they’ve ducked accountability for Glenn Beck’s violent rhetoric and incessant fearmongering for far too long.”

Media Matters today released the video, “When Is Enough Enough?” featuring clips of Beck’s racially charged, violent rhetoric.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL5tjGK-x-g[/youtube]

BACKGROUND

On the August 6 edition of Glenn Beck, during a conversation with a woman wearing a mask of Pelosi, Beck stated [emphasis added]:

BECK: So, Speaker Pelosi, I just wanted to — you gonna drink your wine? Are you blind? Do those eyes not work? There you — I want you to drink it now. Drink it. Drink it. Drink it.

I really just wanted to thank you for having me over here to wine country. You know, to be invited, I thought I had to be a major Democratic donor or a longtime friend of yours, which I’m not.

By the way, I put poison in your — no, I — I look forward to all the policy discussions that we’re supposed to have — you know, on health care, energy reform, and the economy.

Hey, is that Sean Penn over there? I know it cost me more than $30,000 to get in here, but hey. Hey, I think I see Ed Markey, the author of cap and trade, right over there.

This came days after Beck warned his viewers that it was their “patriotic duty” to “stop” anyone who is “thinking about or talking about turning violent.”

Other Beckisms:
As Media Matters has repeatedly documented, Beck has a history of violent rhetoric and fearmongering:

Beck: Obama has “exposed himself as a guy” with “a deep seated hatred for white people”

Beck imitates Obama pouring gasoline on “average American”; says: “President Obama, why don’t you just set us on fire? … We didn’t vote to lose the Republic…”

Beck portrays Obama, Democrats as vampires “going after the blood of our businesses,” suggests “driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers…”

Beck denies responsibility for Pittsburgh shooting, adds that Obama “will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun…”

And the vomitus maximus: Beck calls Obama a racist.

In case you’re not already nauseous,
there is always a banquet of the past week’s BLOVIATOR at:
http://mediamatters.org/limbaughwire

Bon appétit.