Humorless Politics Thread

[Kormod]

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That must be a special Heaven reserved for people who deceptively edit videos to get black people fired.

I also don't get the "joke." Texas is a place where the cliche says that everything is big.  Who's ever said that about Heaven?

[buffcoat]

That must be a special Heaven reserved for people who deceptively edit videos to get black people fired.

I also don't get the "joke." Texas is a place where the cliche says that everything is big.  Who's ever said that about Heaven?

Conservatives are a lot of things, but they aren't funny.

Not intentionally, anyway.

[Kormod]

I looked up "breitbart big" on Google and apparently a lot of his websites have the word "big" in their names. I guess that's what St. Peter is referring to. Pretty hysterical.

This is great:

[Kormod]

Ann Romney: 'I Don't Consider Myself Wealthy'

Wow. It seems like no amount of campaign prep can help these people.

[fonpr]

If Ron Paul wins the nomination, will the war-hawk Republicans switch sides in order to have a pro-war president?

[Kormod]

I'm pretty sure they're incapable of doing that. They'd probably have a collective meltdown and then desperately try to run some douche under a third-party banner.

[buffcoat]

Admittedly, $250 million isn't a lot of money anymore.



Srsly, though, how much damage is Rush Limbaugh going to suffer this time?  Imus eventually came most of the way down, I guess, though he still has a show (?)

The transcript for Limbaugh's obsession with this thing is really creepy, though it doesn't sound any different from what I imagine to be the  internal monologue of most people who hate women.

[roubaix]

I heard Imus say he's on more affiliates than ever, but people always ask him when he'll be back on the radio.

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The transcript for Limbaugh's obsession with this thing is really creepy, though it doesn't sound any different from what I imagine to be the  internal monologue of most people who hate women.

The transcript is indeed creepy--I think the part where he starts delving into her presumed need for contraceptives when she was in sixth grade is the nadir, though the solicitation to post homemade porn online is down there too.  But I'd read those words for a week before actually seeing clips of him delivering them live, on Stewart and Colbert, and it's about eleven dimensions of creep beyond the mere transcript.  You really have to see or at least hear him saying those words to appreciate the sheer crudity, brutality and sexualized hatred that vibrate from that man.

[Kormod]

Speaking of Limball, the Missouri state legislature is having a bust of his porcine head put up in their Capitol building (alongside a bust of Dred Scott, of course):

http://www.thegrio.com/politics/rush-limbaugh-to-be-honored-alongside-dred-scott.php

Conservative shock jock Rush Limbaugh will be honored in May alongside Dred Scott, according to Missouri Republican House Speaker Steven Tilley. Both men's busts will be added to the Hall of Famous Missourians in the Capitol rotunda.

One hundred fifty-five years ago to the day, Dred Scott lost his fight to win freedom in a ruling by the United States Supreme Court. The Chief Justice at the time wrote in his majority decision that blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."

Today in black history: The Dred Scott decision 155 years later

Limbaugh, who's been in the news recently for his crude attacks on a Georgetown Law School student, has led a career typified by controversy surrounding race.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that in 2009, Limbaugh said, "I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."

A Kansas City sculptor confirmed on his site that he was commissioned to create busts of Limbaugh and Scott, pointing out the contrast in the two men. "What do these two guys have in common you ask?" the sculptor wrote under pictures of Limbaugh and Scott. "Well, turns out that they are both in the process of being sculpted by E. Spencer Schubert for the Hall of Famous Missourians."

Advocacy group, Progress Missouri, has launched an online petition urging Rep. Tilley to reconsider his plans to induct Limbaugh in light of his most recent scandal. Yet Tilley has no plans to call off the ceremony, where Limbaugh's reportedly $10,000 bronze bust will be included to a gallery of other famous Missourians such as Negro League baseball great John "Buck" O'Neil and jazz icon Charlie Parker.

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Reporter Caught sleeping

[Smelodies]

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201203080019

Can someone translate what these two dingbats are talking about?

[Kormod]

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201203080019

Can someone translate what these two dingbats are talking about?

I like how Hannity throws Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) on his list of nefarious characters Obama associated with when he was "community organizing."

[Smelodies]

That's the most nonsensical stuff she's spewed to date.

Maybe the imminent showing of Game Change short circuited something in her cerebral cortex.