The big Christine O’Donnell/Chris Coons debate was last night. The debate was carried live by CNN, for the same reason ESPN shows NASCAR races. Everybody was waiting for a major pile-up. Christine had nothing to lose. She could hardly look worse than she did in all those clips from Politically Correct, if only because she didn’t have that 90’s mall-rat haircut. Unfortunately, she muffed virtually the same question about recent Supreme Court decisions that stumped Sarah Palin. Wow. She’s uninformed AND unoriginal. Christine, we know you’re patterning yourself after Sarah Palin, but you should leave out the mistakes. Or would that leave you with nothing to work with? O’Donnell said “Um, I’m very sorry, right off the top of my head, I know that there are a lot, but I’ll put it up on my website, I promise you.” Yes, Christine. Put in on your website… under “Frequently Asked Questions.” Too bad this wasn’t “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.” Christine could have called a friend. Just make sure it’s not Sarah Palin. The last of the 33 miners in Chile has safely emerged. There were some interesting moments, for sure. Miner Yonny Barrios had asked that both his wife and his mistress be waiting for him when he emerged. What a life. It sounds like the last 68 days in the mine is the first time his wife has been sure of where Yonny has been in years. He’s evidently been splitting his time between the two women for quite some time. I know the last 68 days have been tough on them, but at least it seems like they’re both used to waiting around for him.
Finally, the rabbi who helped arrange and write Carl Paladino’s anti-gay speech has denounced Paladino for apologizing. The rabbi said “I was in the middle of eating a kosher pastrami sandwich. While I was eating it, they come running and they say, ‘Paladino became gay!’ I almost choked on the kosher salami.” Maybe the rabbi writes speeches for Paladino, but it sounds like the rabbi’s dialogue is being written by Jackie Mason. Did you notice that the lunch meat in the rabbi’s story changed from pastrami to salami halfway through? That’s the lack of attention to detail that shows why he can’t get booked in the Catskills.
Thankfully, as I write this, the efforts to rescue the Chilean miners are progressing smoothly. If this sort of rescue operation were being run by American conservatives, they would only be rescuing those miners who had paid their $75 “mining disaster rescue fee” in advance. You know that if Rand Paul had been in charge, he would have opposed any rescue operation that used public money. What am I saying? If Rand Paul had been in charge, whatever mine safety laws there were would have been so weak that nobody would have survived. And Joe Miller from Alaska certainly wouldn’t have wanted to spend any tax dollars on rescuing these miners. But if there was public money being spent, he would find a way to funnel some of it to his family. If it was Sharron Angle who was in charge, the only thing she would have done is to get these miners some massages from the Church of Scientology. That’s probably better than Christine O’Donnell. All she would do is send the miners down some anti-masturbation literature… in case they’re faced with temptation during those long weeks in the ground.
It turns out that Carl Paladino, who was so scandalized upon seeing a gay parade, had no problem being the landlord for two gay nightclubs. It seems Carl had no problem with gay people—as paying tenants. Carl Paladino doesn’t necessarily want gays to remain in the closet… just to remain in some place where they’re paying exorbitant rent to Carl Paladino. Yes, Carl doesn’t care if he thinks your lifestyle isn’t “valid,” as long as the check is good.
The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of two people who were barred from a speech by George Bush because they had a bumper sticker reading “No Blood for Oil.” And no free speech rights for you! People! If you want First Amendment rights, maybe you should become a corporation. Bumper stickers aren’t free speech—money is free speech. These people should have pasted a million dollar check to a political action committee onto their bumper. The saddest part is that what these people were unfairly deprived of was the right to go and hear George Bush speak. I realize they’re making an important legal point, but frankly, they’re better off.
Another day, another batch of rightwing loopy. Last night Republican Congressional candidate Rich Iott defended wearing a Nazi uniform in World War II reenactments, saying his goal is to “educate people.” At least he didn’t use the Nuremberg defense. But then what’s he going to say—“I was just following reenacted orders”? Minority Whip Eric Cantor repudiated Rich Iott. Now Rich is mad at Eric for throwing him under the Panzer. Iott said that Cantor “reacted before he had all the facts. He didn’t know the whole story.” Odd choice of words for a guy whose Third Reich reenactments leave out the Holocaust part. Iott also said his reenactments are “a great outreach to the public.” Yes. I’m sure Josef Goebbels would be proud. Tea Party darling Joe Miller in Alaska has announced that he will no longer answer questions about Joe Miller. I can see why.
The number one problem in Joe Miller’s campaign is Joe Miller. Joe says he wants to talk about the issues. Hey, aren’t you the guy who wants to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and the minimum wage? By all means, Joe, talk about the issues. Joe doesn’t like to talk about how his wife collected unemployment benefits despite his opposition to that, or how he had publicly funded health insurance, despite his opposition to that. He just wants to talk about the things he opposes, not how he benefited from those things. Miller and his wife got state low-income hunting and fishing licenses after he started a $70,000 a year job. And his family of eight children has also received state and federal low-income medical benefits. Miller has said that the nation suffers from an “entitlement mentality.” I would accuse him of the same thing, but it doesn’t seem he’s actually entitled to a lot of the benefits he’s been taking advantage of.
The rightwing rabbi who arranged Carl Paladino’s synagogue visit says he wants to create an “Orthodox Tea Party.” Can there be an Orthodox Jewish Tea Party? I know tea partiers claim that they’re against all pork, but they don’t seem to follow that as strictly as Orthodox Jews do. And I wouldn’t get too chummy with Carl Paladino, Rabbi. Believe me, you do NOT want to be on this guy’s email list.
Shame on The Washington Times for running a ridiculous editorial attacking Hugh Hefner and blaming him for all the sins of the world and for using a Photo without Permission in Article from Long Time Friend of Hef`s!
Let’s start off with a little humor from our new best friend, Christine O’Donnell. Christine describes her alleged work in marketing for the movie “The Passion of the Christ” as “nonprofit work.” Ahem. Mel Gibson movies are not non-profit ventures. Well, they might be from now on, but not intentionally. Not only was the movie “The Passion of the Christ” clearly for-profit, it was the work of people like Christine O’Donnell who made it so profitable by taking an intensely sado-masochistic quasi-porn film and peddling it to religious conservatives. Mel Gibson made “The Passion of the Christ” to make money. The only difference between it and “Lethal Weapon” or “Mad Max” is that those movies are watchable.
It turns out that Christine O’Donnell’s father was briefly a fill-in as Bozo the Clown in the 60’s on a local station in Philadelphia. In true Christine O’Donnell style, her father’s stint as Bozo was completely overstated. At least they didn’t say he went to clown college at Oxford. Daddy O’Donnell was a local Bozo on a Philadelphia UHF station that became Fox channel 29. Now his daughter is a national Bozo. And they both only appeared on Fox!
And now, from comically inappropriate Republican candidates to tragically inappropriate ones. A Republican running for Congress in Ohio likes to pretend he’s a Nazi… unlike most Republicans, who like to pretend they’re not. It’s true. Republican Congressional candidate Rich Iott of Ohio is a Nazi re-enactor. Being a conservative Republican, it’s not that much of a stretch. He’s already got the attitude, all he needs is the SS uniform. And he and his pals all seem to have found them. Where does one go to find an SS uniform these days? Is there an “LL Ich Bean” catalogue?
Iott and his pals re-enact the battles of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division. Why are these people re-enacting the Second World War? Probably for the same reason Southerners re-enact the Civil War—they don’t like the way it turned out. Iott says his Nazi fantasy weekends were part of “a father-son bonding thing.” Somebody should have told this guy about Little League. Or, ever hear of the Boy Scouts? I’d rather have my kid learn how to tie knots than learn how to machinegun Jewish peasants.
The Supremes heard arguments yesterday in the case of the anti-gay funeral protesters of the Westboro Baptist Church vs. the father of a killed Marine. Unfortunately, sometimes the only remedy for someone else’s disgusting free speech is exercising your own – and so I will.
Time for some “less than a month until Election Day” updates. Candidate for Governor of New York and anger management poster boy Carl Paladino has purchased airtime today at 5:13pm ET for a major announcement! Nobody knows what he’s going to say, but we can be pretty sure that he will be yelling.
The US Chamber of Commerce is using funds from foreign entities to influence American elections. That’s because the US Chamber of Commerce has a lot more to do with commerce than it does with the US. It’s still illegal for foreign corporations, countries or individuals to make political contributions in the United States for any election, but the Supreme Court opened the floodgates of corporate money into elections, and a lot of foreign money is getting lost in the flood. There’s your vicious circle—US jobs go overseas, where they make money for foreign corporations, who send some of that money back to America to elect Republicans who will ship more jobs overseas. The only American jobs that the Chamber of Commerce gives a damn about are the jobs of Congressman and Senator. And they want to make sure that those jobs are on their payroll.
Finally, it turns out that the regular-looking guys talking in a diner in a Republican ad in the West Virginia Governor’s race are actually actors. And the ad was shot in Philadelphia! If I was a voter in West Virginia, I would be very upset over this. And if I was a Screen Actors Guild member in West Virginia, I’d be even more upset. The casting call for the ad said “We are going for a ‘Hicky’ Blue Collar look.” So this ad features people who pretend to be regular working class stiffs, but really aren’t. That pretty much describes any Republican candidate, when you get down to it. The casting call also lists “clothing suggestions” including jeans, work boots, and flannel shirt. You know who is really set for this? Any actor who has recently appeared in a revival of “Lil’ Abner.” But the person they really should have used for this role is that poor Gene Cranich whose house they let burn down in Tennessee. He’s got the accent down, and he needs the money. But then I don’t know if Gene Cranich would be anxious to appear in a commercial that advances the same agenda that let his house burn down.
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If the Republicans are the party of the “haves” and the “have mores,” they’re going to try and win this next election by demonizing the “have nots” and “have nothings.” In terms of the “have nots,” more and more Republicans are coming out against even the concept of a minimum wage. The GOP wants the minimum wage to be just like them—they don’t want any limit to how low it can go. Most people look at the minimum wage and think “how do people afford to live on that?” Republicans look at the minimum wage and think “how do people afford to pay their hired help that?”
RNC Chairman Michael Steele has no idea what the minimum wage even is! Here’s a hint, Michael—it’s what the RNC would be paying you if they had their way. Oh well, if Michael Steele is ignorant about the amount of the minimum wage, it’s still not as bad as Joe Miller being ignorant about the constitutionality of the minimum wage.
Then there are always the “have nothings” to pick on. Newt Gingrich is urging the GOP to “close the deal” on the coming elections by vilifying food stamps. I guess “sharia law” didn’t fare too well in focus groups. Newt is sending out a strategy memo to Republicans telling them to use a “symbolic closing argument” of “paychecks versus food stamps.” Hey, why attack our problems when you can attack the people most affected by our problems? First of all, Newt, paychecks and food stamps are not at odds. A lot of people out there need both of them to get by. Newt’s memo says “It is an unassailable fact that in June, more food stamps were distributed by the government than ever before in American history.” It is also an unassailable fact that more food stamps were needed than ever before in American history. Blaming Democrats for food stamps is like getting hit by a car and then blaming paramedics for the fact that you had to take an ambulance ride to the hospital. Blame the car that hit you—and that car was driven by Republicans. Of course, underneath it all, Newt isn’t telling Republicans to attack food stamps. He’s really telling them to attack the people who receive food stamps. Food stamps versus paychecks! In other words, the poor versus the rest of us! And the people pitching this strategy are the same ones who will cry “class warfare” if we try to get the rich to pay their fair share of taxes!
There’s a new world of “limited government” coming, and it’s a world on fire. Recently, firefighters in rural Obion County, Tennessee watched a home burn to the ground because the homeowners failed to pay a yearly $75 fee for fire protection. It was more than just that home burning. The entire concept of a government by the people, of the people, and for the people went up in flames.
Nowadays fire protection is just for people who can pay the extra money it takes for that service. So I guess from now on, the first thing the firemen do when they show up is ask for a receipt. Talk about “death panels”! Now firemen will have to consult a billing list before deciding whether or not to put out a house fire. We now live in a world with “flame panels.” Here’s the thing about fires—flames spread. That’s pretty much the reason for the blanket fire protection coverage that most sane municipalities provide. The family told the fire department they would pay whatever it cost if the firemen would just put the flames out. The fire captain refused. So it wasn’t really about the money—it was about punishing those who don’t accept the new world. Let’s be clear, this family paid their taxes. That should cover basics like fire protection. If they don’t, then taxes aren’t high enough. But that’s not a concept that’s allowed in the new world. Rail on all you want to about “big government,” I think that government should be at least big enough to extinguish fires.
Let’s go from that nightmare to a nightmare that hasn’t happened yet—Senator Christine O’Donnell. In 2006, Christine claimed she had inside information that the Chinese had a “carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America.” How did she find this out? Maybe a little mouse with a fully functioning human brain told her. Maybe she got this information by consulting her crystal ball, or bubbling cauldron, or whatever the curious modern witch uses for divination purposes. O’Donnell went on to claim “There’s much I want to say. I wish I wasn’t privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to.” Gee, that sounds like another way of saying “make the voices stop!” There are ways to make you less privy to this “classified information,” Christine, but it involves medication and a jolt of electricity. Did you ever see “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”? Today’s HomeworkDiscuss
In her latest ad Christine O’Donnell proclaims “I’m not a witch” – seriously…
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CNN anchor Rick Sanchez has been fired after a bizarre rant in which he called Jon Stewart a bigot and said that the media is controlled by Jews. Your first question is obviously, why is this guy not working for Fox News? Of course, if Sanchez was working for Fox News, he’d still be working for Fox News. As it is, the comments from Sanchez were a scandal. If they were made on Fox & Friends, it would just be another Friday.
Bill Maher has released his latest Christine O’Donnell clip (video below). This time Christine expanded on the “dabbling” theme. In addition to dabbling in witchcraft, she said “I was dabbling into every other kind of religion before I became a Christian. I’ve dabbled in Buddhism.” Can you really just “dabble” in Buddhism? What does that involve? Just a smidgen of enlightenment? But the dabbling didn’t stop there. Christine said “I would have become a Hare Krishna but I didn’t want to become a vegetarian.” Really. Christine said she decided against being a Hare Krishna “because I’m Italian, I love meatballs.” So what are you saying, Christine? That you were ultimately drawn to Christianity because they let you eat what you wanted? There’s a good motto for Christianity: “Come for the salvation, stay for the non-restrictive diet.” In the wake of a shooting incident at the University of Texas, Governor Rick Perry is calling for allowing concealed weapons on campuses. It would definitely change the nature of the classroom. If students raise their hands, you won’t know if they’re asking a question or surrendering. I think Rick Perry’s plan is just to make Texas so crazy that the rest of the states will actually ask it to secede.
Four states now explicitly allow guns in bars. Those states are Tennessee, Georgia, Arizona, and Virginia—just in case you want to know where you can loaded before you get loaded. Alcohol can cloud your judgment. But then how much judgment does a person who brings a gun into a bar have in the first place? If we allow guns in bars, how long until somebody wants to start serving cocktails at shooting ranges? Face it, having guns in bars is an invitation to disaster. All you have to do is visit the men’s room in any bar to realize that bar patrons have absolutely no aim at all.
In one of the most bizarre and hilarious stories you are likely to read today, CNN's Scott Zamost reports that during the production of a CNN documentary series on young up-and-coming conservative activists, infamous "ACORN pimp" James O'Keefe hatched a strange plot to pull a prank on CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau, involving a staged seduction attempt on a boat, with candles and dildos. Huh, what? 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. James O'Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show. Boudreau describes the matter as a "very strange turn," which is something of an understatement. It all basically went down like this: CNN has spent the past few months documenting the activities of some of the conservative movement's new young guns, including O'Keefe, whose undercover agitprop is a staple of an organization called Project Veritas. Believing she was going to be meeting O'Keefe to discuss a music video, Boudreau agreed to travel to Maryland to have a face-to-face meeting with O'Keefe. O'Keefe wanted Boudreau to come alone, and made it sound like his major concern was reticence over his privacy: "I just want to talk," O'Keefe told Boudreau on the phone. "I just want to have a, you know, meeting with you, and talk to you face to face about this. Because, I don't, I feel sort of, let's just say reserved about, about letting people into my sort of inner sanctum, about letting, letting people sort of take a glimpse into, into, behind the scenes, so that's why you know, I just feel more comfortable if it was just me and you and we just had a face-to-face meeting before I agree to, to let you guys come out and shoot the video shoot out there." That's from a recording of the phone call between O'Keefe and Boudreau, taped without her knowledge, but subsequently obtained by CNN when O'Keefe disseminated it to colleagues. Boudreau showed up for the meeting unaware that she was about to be subsumed within one of O'Keefe's stunts. But Izzy Santa, the executive director of Project Veritas, gave up the game just as it was about to go down: When Boudreau arrived at the address, a house located on a tributary of the Patuxent River, Santa approached her with a tape recorder in her hand and said she wanted to talk in the car, Boudreau said. "I noticed she had a little bit of dirt on her face, her lip was shaking, she seemed really uncomfortable and I asked her if she was OK," Boudreau said. "The first thing she basically said to me was, 'I'm not recording you, I'm not recording you. Are you recording me?' I said, 'No, I'm not recording you,' and she showed me her digital recorder and it was not recording." "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. CNN obtained "a 13-page document titled 'CNN Caper,'" which elaborated on the prank in hilarious detail. For example, here is the equipment list: Equipment needed a. Video 1. hidden cams on the boat 2. tripod and overt recorder near the bed, an obvious sex tape machine b. Props 1. condom jar 2. dildos 3. Music a. Alicia keys b. 80s romance songs, things that are typically James c. avoid Marvin Gaye as too cliche 4. lube 5. ceiling mirror 6. posters and paintings of naked women 7. playboys and pornographic magazines 8. candles 9. Viagra and stamina pills 10. fuzzy handcuffs 11. blindfold I mean, he thought of everything, right? After dressing the set in dildos and candles and porn and Viagra, Marvin Gaye's oeuvre really would have been "too cliche." But O'Keefe really thought that this would "turn the tables" on CNN: James was supposed to tape the following script before the meeting on the boat. "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." [...] It goes on to explain how James should "adapt" to my mood on the boat. "As the operation is going on, James will have to adapt and adjust to her mood and her reaction. If she is pulling away, withdraw and pull her back in. If she's unsure, comfort her and reassure her. Vacillate between somewhat serious interview and the come-hither persona as needed in order to confuse her judgment and also keep her on the boat." It would seem as if O'Keefe actually thought Boudreau would not realize something bizarre was going on, on this lube-covered boat! In fact, the documents CNN obtained more or less demonstrate that O'Keefe had little more than contempt for Boudreau, constantly deriding her intelligence and ability, referring to her as a "bubble-headed-bleach-blonde." In reality, Boudreau has had a storied career as an investigative journalist. Prior to coming to CNN, she reported on a potentially calamitous design flaw in tires manufactured by the Cooper Tire and Rubber Company. Her story led to further investigations and a product recall. She basically saved peoples' lives as a result of her work. James sent CNN an email denying that he intended to stage this prank, claiming that it was "not my work product." But the "CNN caper" document indicates otherwise, and even includes an detailed set of instructions on what to do if CNN caught wind of the plan, and "went on the attack." Santa, who prevented this all from happening, has apparently been stripped of her "duties" at Project Veritas, but remains on that organization's payroll. Boudreau writes about the experience in her own words, here.
It’s Friday, ya bastids! More conservatives behaving badly: New York governor-wannabe Carl Paladino, who threatened to “take out” a reporter, is defending his anger. Unfortunately, he’s doing it rather angrily. If angry people made the best leaders, we’d have President Mel Gibson and Speaker of the House Christian Bale. Really, what is the appeal in a candidate who is always irate? We want someone who will solve problems, not yell about them. What are you going to do about unemployment, Carl? Throw a folding chair across the room? How do you expect to control spending when you can’t even control yourself? Carl Paladino is truly frightening. If he loses this election, I think the state of New York should look into getting a restraining order against him. Among conservative corporate “persons,” Fox News is being sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over allegations of age and gender discrimination. Here’s the shocking part—it has nothing to do with Bill O’Reilly. The EEOC says Fox retaliated against reporter Catherine Herridge after she complained about age and gender discrimination against her. Age discrimination? Why does Fox News discriminate against older reporters? The average age of Fox’s viewers is 110. Anybody looks young to Fox News viewers. Herridge had also complained that at Fox News “female and black correspondents were given less desirable shifts.” I’m shocked! Who knew that Fox News has black correspondents? The only time I see black people on Fox News, they’re in Black Panther uniforms outside of a polling place. I hope Fox News handles these charges with velvet gloves… or at least with a loofah mitt. Meanwhile, News Corp, the corporate parent of Fox News, has donated $1 million to the US Chamber of Commerce, after giving another $1 million to the Republican Governors Association this summer. The US Chamber of Commerce is a business advocacy group. They’re made up of the rich. So News Corp is giving money to the rich—the same thing they think that the tax system is designed to do. There should be a law against this. And these donations from News Corp are designed to make sure there never will be. Today’s HomeworkDiscuss As the death toll climbs, Ellen DeGeneres made an emotional plea to put an end to teenage bullying:
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The big Christine O’Donnell/Chris Coons debate was last night. The debate was carried live by CNN, for the same reason ESPN shows NASCAR races. Everybody was waiting for a major pile-up. Christine had nothing to lose. She could hardly look worse than she did in all those clips from Politically Correct, if only because she didn’t have that 90’s mall-rat haircut. Unfortunately, she muffed virtually the same question about recent Supreme Court decisions that stumped Sarah Palin. Wow. She’s uninformed AND unoriginal. Christine, we know you’re patterning yourself after Sarah Palin, but you should leave out the mistakes. Or would that leave you with nothing to work with? O’Donnell said “Um, I’m very sorry, right off the top of my head, I know that there are a lot, but I’ll put it up on my website, I promise you.” Yes, Christine. Put in on your website… under “Frequently Asked Questions.” Too bad this wasn’t “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.” Christine could have called a friend. Just make sure it’s not Sarah Palin. The last of the 33 miners in Chile has safely emerged. There were some interesting moments, for sure. Miner Yonny Barrios had asked that both his wife and his mistress be waiting for him when he emerged. What a life. It sounds like the last 68 days in the mine is the first time his wife has been sure of where Yonny has been in years. He’s evidently been splitting his time between the two women for quite some time. I know the last 68 days have been tough on them, but at least it seems like they’re both used to waiting around for him.
