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OMG he’s taking away our guns!!

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shortformblog: Recently, President Obama was quoted as saying, in response to a question as to whether or not he has ever shot a gun, “Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time.” So as to allay the controversy and curiosity the comment drew, the White House has released an image of the president skeet-shooting. So, there you go internet.

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It’s funny because rightwingnutjobs will feel that he’s taking something away from them by being photographed shooting a gun. He’s doing something they think only they can do.

But the President is merely illustrating what Jon Stewart pointed out this week: “Since when does the ability to fire a weapon become a badge of honor? A patriotic achievement? All you need is a finger.”

So maybe he actually is taking something away from them : )

Anarchism is not conservatism: how the rightwing fringe is destroying the GOP

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This week, 151 House Republicans voted to allow income taxes to increase on all Americans if taxes increased for the most wealthy. Only 85 Republican members voted to reinstate tax cuts for 98 percent of us.

John Podhoretz discusses the Republican Party’s biggest problem — the congressional members who represent rightwing fringe voters and the chaos they all seem to crave:

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

But in the realm of philosophy, “conservatism” from Thomas Hobbes onward is a worldview dedicated to order and tradition and the proposition that disorder is dangerous and deadly.

Thus, it is the opposite of “conservative” to embrace chaos instead of order. It is the opposite of “conservative” to embrace crisis rather than accept unpleasant realities.

And yet, over the past week, that is exactly what many conservatives have done. They have violated fundamental conservative precepts.

[...] you’d think, from the conduct and rhetoric of many conservatives in the House and outside the House and Senate, that Boehner and McConnell had “caved” willingly.

No, they caved because they had no choice.

What they did was what leaders do — or rather, what leaders of those who are in a losing position do. The best they could.

The problem is that conservatives seem to think there were other choices, other ways, other possibilities — when all those choices, ways and possibilities had been exhausted.

And so many of them are literally embracing chaos. Though they oppose raising taxes, by voting against the tax bill on Tuesday night they effectively voted to raise taxes on 98 percent of Americans.

[...] This is how people who are more comfortable on the margins than in the middle of things behave. This is cannibalism, not political combat. This is unreason, not reason. This is temper, not temperament.

This is anarchism, not conservatism.

Before we weep with John Boehner over the GOP’s anarchist fringe and what looks like a Republican Party civil war, let’s remember that the mainstream Republican leadership catered to / kissed the ass of these people for two years. They did so in hopes of making Obama a “one-term president.” That plan didn’t work, at all, and now the mainstream is stuck with these clowns for at least another two years, if not longer. But the worst part is, so are we.

Have you heard the one about NJ unions kicking out non-union Sandy volunteers…?

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Another rightwing extremist fringe lie. Because Unions are Evil™ (in the alternate, extremist RWNJ universe).

The truth:

Non-union utility crews from out of state can work in N.J., power companies say: “We take crews as they become available,” said Ron Morano, a spokesman for Jersey Central Power & Light. “Everyone understands this is an all-hands-on-deck event.” He said crews from throughout the nation were now working in JCP&L’s service area, including from California, Idaho, Kentucky, Florida, Michigan and North Carolina. He did suggest that municipal companies might have issues working side-by-side with non-unionized contractors. “We did not turn any crews away,” he said. A Public Service Electric & Gas spokeswoman also said the extent of damage from Monday’s superstorm called for as much manpower as could get here. “We have not turned any mutual-aid crews away,” Deann Muzikar said. “We’re taking any help we can possibly get.” As of Wednesday, about 1,050 out-of-state contractors were working in PSE&G’s service area, she said, including from utility companies in Canada, Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Pennsylvania and other states.

It’s a shame these spokesmen had to take time away from the actual work of cleaning up and putting people’s lives back together after the storm to comment on this bit of manufactured, political nonsense. But isn’t that the world we live in, here in the U.S. of A.?

Shield your mind, right wing citizen!

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It’s not Orwellian (or self-serving) at all for conservative media to urge supporters to only listen to conservative media.

David Frum: “This is pretty funny. The conservative Media Research Center has posted a public letter urging supporters not to listen to non-conservative media.

“Exposure to diverging views: no telling where that might lead. The risk is high and real that listeners may well find the New York Times more credible than Fox News.

“But that’s not the funny part. The funny part is that MRC is announcing with pride that their letter urging conservatives to forswear non-conservative sources of information has been signed by Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin. Of course it has! If you’re selling high-fructose soda, you hate to see your customers wasting stomach space on milk and orange juice.“

It’s no wonder that some people in America are completely insane: a steady diet from the “fever swamp of crazed conspiracy theories and shockingly offensive rhetoric…[of] obscure right-wing websites and viral e-mail chains,” supplemented daily with Fox “news” and AM hate-radio. And now self-censorship.

The base rubes on the far right are living in a kind of Twilight Zone state of pleasurable self-hypnosis. Instead of becoming even a little bit alarmed when their preferred media (propaganda outlet) tells them to censor the information they receive, they just lean back and slowly nod their heads… listening with half-closed eyes.

FoxNews / RWNJ controversy fail: Obama’s 9/11 Proclamation doesn’t mention God!

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Charles Johnson | Wingnut Nontroversy of the Day: ‘Obama’s 9-11 Proclamation Does Not Mention God’

Today’s wingnut outrageous outrage of the day comes to you by way of the ever-confused Todd Starnes of Fox News. It involves the exclusion of the word “God” in “Presidential Proclamation — Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance, 2012.” This was followed up by an even more hysterical pseudo-religious rant from the ever-seething Pat Dollard.

Behold the announcement from Todd Starnes:

 

How different from Bush’s Presidential Proclamations, right? 

[...] It turns out that George W. Bush did not mention God for his “Presidential Proclamation–Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance” for 5 of 8 such proclamations — meaning that the majority of these proclamations did not include the word “God.”

He mentioned it in the initial proclamation in 2001, and in the years 2004 and 2005.

George W. Bush does not mention God in 2002.

George W. Bush does not mention God in 2003.

George W. Bush does not mention God in 2006.

George W. Bush does not mention God in 2007.

George W. Bush does not mention God in 2008. 

[...] I offer the following alternative headline.

The Tax Returns: If Mitt Romney were being treated like Pres. Obama and other Democrats

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How tough is it for Mitt Romney to have to “deal with” Harry Reid’s accusations that a Bain Capital insider told him Mitt hasn’t paid federal taxes for 10 years?

It’s NOTHING compared to what Democrats have had to deal with.

BooMan nails it:

Mitt Romney isn’t really a Mormon. He’s an atheist who only went along with his father’s faith so he could duck the Vietnam draft. He didn’t actually try to convert anyone when he was in France either. In reality, he spent all his time in Monte Carlo gambling and buying high-end hookers. When his daddy found out what he was doing, he made him come home and marry his high school sweetheart. Actually, he only made him marry her after the second time she got pregnant. The first time, they got an abortion. Then Romney started using some of the mafia connections he had made in Marseilles to import heroin. By the time he became governor, they were flying it straight into a secret airport they set up in the Berkshires. When one of the pilots started to talk, Romney had him killed.

Wait for it….

Now, if we started telling these stories to people, and a substantial percentage of the population started to actually believe these stories, and if congressmen humored and even encouraged the people who believed these stories, and if media figures talked about these stories, and if Congress actually had hearings about some of these stories, then Mitt Romney would know what it’s like to be treated like a Democrat.

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Also, too from Steve M:

Poor Mitt. Logic tells us that Reid couldn’t possibly have heard this from multiple sources, so he’s just blowing smoke. And yet, even if it’s a lie, Reid’s put Romney on the spot, because what he’s saying sounds plausible to a lot of people.

Y’know, it’s a bit like saying that the current president is a secret Muslim socialist who lied about his U.S. birth and has a fake Social Security number and is secretly plotting to take away all privately owned guns if he’s reelected, either before or after he finishes the job of deliberately destroying American capitalism. It’s also a bit like saying that the previous Democratic president was a drug dealing serial murderer and rapist whose lesbian wife had her male lover killed when she wasn’t hanging sex toys on the White House Christmas tree.

It’s almost like that. The difference is that Romney’s not facing an ever-expanding list of accusations, most of them truly grotesque and preposterous, many of them of a felonious or treasonous nature, spread by multiple prominent rumormongers over the course of years, and believed in every particular by roughly a third of the country…

Romney says Reid is lying. To make this ONE accusation disappear, all Mittens has to do is release his returns and *poof* problemo no mas. Right?

Remember this? 2009 DHS Report on Rightwing Extremism (re: Sikh Temple shooting)

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Page 7:

Sikh Temple Shooter Identified: The shooter in the deadly attack Sunday at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek was identified as Wade Michael Page, 40, sources familiar with the shooting investigation said Monday. He served in the Army for several years and was assigned to psychological operations or PsyOps, according to the sources.  He is no longer in the Army. The Southern Law Poverty Center, a group that has studied hate crimes for decades, reported Monday that Page was a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a racist white-power band known as End Apathy. (via: wisconsinforward)

Related: The Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin

What rightwing domestic terrorism?

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“You may call tyranny a mandate or you may call it a tax, but it still is tyranny and invites the same response. If we refuse to obey, we will be fined. If we refuse to pay the fine, we will in time be jailed. If we refuse to report meekly to jail, we will be sent for by armed men. And if we refuse their violent invitation at the doorsteps of our own homes we will be killed — unless we kill them first. … I am on record as advocating the right of defensive violence against a tyrannical regime.” — Mike Vanderboegh, the ex-militia blogger…recently predicted that if the Supreme Court declared the health care reform bill to be constitutional, it would lead to violent insurrection against “government tyranny.”

Your Second Amendment right to bear arms gives you no right to use violence against those you disagree with.

Why does CNN currently suck?

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Joe Coscarelli asks, Why Is No One Watching CNN?

Put gently, as usual, by the Times: “Like Fox News, MSNBC now has hosts with clear political points of view at key times of the day. CNN promotes itself as the top source for nonpartisan news on television.” In other words, it’s boring and basic, so people only watch when they need primary results or Whitney Houston dies. Cenk Uygur of Current TV’s The Young Turks has the following advice:

… for the love of God, stop doing “he said, she said” crap that doesn’t actually deliver the news to anyone. Democrats said this and Republicans said that — who cares? What is the reality?! Your job is supposed to be to bring us facts, not what official spokespeople told you in their press releases and talking points.

I agree that the ‘he said, she said’ bullshit has to go — in fact Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein recently wrote an excellent op-ed, practically begging the media, like CNN, to stop being such complete failures on this issue. But to have CNN bill itself as the “top source for nonpartisan news” is a joke. Please. Let’s not forget this is the cable news network which decided it would be a great idea to add political commentary from such glorious wingnuts as Erick Erickson and Dana Loesch. If I wanted to listen to rightwing nutjobs (which I don’t), I’d turn to Fox News (which I won’t). CNN is losing on many fronts.

Why won’t President Obama do something and stop doing things!

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The conservative base just can’t figure out what it wants — in any given situation, ever. Getting any one of them to make sense about a solution to a problem, as they see it, would be like like trying to discuss the theory of relativity with a sack full of twigs and grass clippings. And the sad thing is, any discussion with the sack would be more productive and satisfying.

Background – Republican White House candidates have accused Obama of being soft on Beijing and vowed to take a tougher line on China’s alleged manipulation of its currency, with frontrunner Mitt Romney vowing to declare Beijing a currency manipulator, paving the way for US retaliatory measures. US lawmakers have accused China of artificially undervaluing its yuan in order to boost its own exports, hurting US manufacturers and hobbling the economic recovery.

Obama to create trade law enforcement bureau - ”The President believes that we can’t wait to crack down on unfair trade violations and ensure a level playing field for American workers,” says a White House statement. Later this morning, the president will sign an executive order creating an Interagency Trade Enforcement Center.

And here’s what the FoxNews-Dittohead-RWNJ-Teabagger base does, like clockwork (from the comments):

Etc., ad nauseum… 

Sorry, Teaparty: it’s not “Obama’s” Christmas tree tax. It’s “George Bush’s” Christmas tree tax.

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Once again, teatards, it’s actually Dubya’s fault. Again:

Right-wing media figures are accusing the Obama administration of seeking to impose a tax on Christmas trees; but the Christmas tree industry has been working since 2008 — before President Obama was elected — to partner with the Department of Agriculture and establish a marketing campaign funded by tree growers in order to promote the sale of fresh Christmas trees.

[...] Led by the Drudge Report and Fox Nation, right-wing media figures immediately leaped on the rule, calling it President Obama’s “Christmas tree tax“:

treetax

Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft said the “Christmas Tree Tax” illustrated that “Barack Obama hates Christians.”

Far from a tax initiated by the Obama administration, the proposal to create an assessment on tree growers to fund a research and promotion program through the USDA was begun by the industry during the Bush administration.

I guess George W. Bush hates Christians.

1 out of 4 right-wing nutjobs agree: Citizens United should not be overturned if Democrats want it

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To anyone with a brain (who isn’t a CORPORATION), this is great news:

House Democrats push legislation to overturn Citizens United ruling

A pair of House Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling that freed corporations to spend unlimited money on elections.

Sponsored by Reps. John Conyers (Mich.), senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and Donna Edwards (D-Md.), the proposal would amend the Constitution to empower Congress and the states to limit corporate spending on political activities.

“Last year, the Supreme Court overturned decades of law and declared open season on our democracy,” Conyers said in a news release. “It is individual voters who should determine the future of this nation, not corporate money.”

In the controversial Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court ruled that government limits on corporate funding of political broadcasts for or against individual candidates violate the rights to free speech guaranteed under the Constitution.

The ruling effectively undid certain provisions of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law, which was designed to prevent a deluge of corporate money in elections.

[...] The majority argued there is nothing in the First Amendment to indicate that corporations shouldn’t be afforded the same constitutional protections as individuals.

Read full story…

But take a look at some of the article’s first comments, undoubtedly from the teabaggiest of rightwing nutjobs:

When you actually HATE a group of people with different political views MORE than you hate the idea of corporations being afforded the same protection under the Constitution as individuals, no one has to listen to what you say anymore, ever. In fact, you’ve just identified yourself as being that much of a dipshit.

So as one of your favorite comedians has said for the past 10 years or so: Heeere’s your sign. Whether it’ll be spelled correctly or not — who knows?

http://assets.democrats.org/images/gop2012/mitt-romney/badge-corporations_are_people.gif

We outnumber them and we have the guns.” (Audience laughs) “I’m not kidding.” — Andrew Breitbart

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Explain to me how this isn’t hate speech, how it isn’t inciting domestic terrorism:

Charles Johnson: Videos: Andrew Breitbart Fantasizes About Killing Liberals –

Speaking at a Tea Party gathering in Boston, Andrew Breitbart fantasizes about armed conflict with his fellow Americans… He goes on to elaborate that he imagines the military is going to rise up and start killing union members to protect the country (or something), and reiterates that he’s talking about actual armed conflict and not elections.

Click the LGF link for the videos of Breitbart’s ACTUAL WORDS.

If a liberal commentator / entertainer (whatever Breitbart is supposed to be) had said this sort of thing, Fox “News,” Drudge, Limbaugh, the freshman Teaparty Congress, and every Teaparty GOP 2012 candidate — including the former half-term governor on Facebook (snerk!) — would be clutching their pearls, waving smelling salts everywhere, and hyperventilating on every network news program, 24/7!

It’s amazing what our ‘liberal’ media chooses to ignore.