GLENN BECK AT CPAC 2010:
‘Hello, my name is the Republican Party, and I’ve got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government…I’m addicted to spending and I just don’t want to spend today.’
(CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO QUOTE)
"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960
Grant in Houston sent me THIS ARTICLE from Politico to read about Sarah Palin not being a populist. It’s a great article and I hope you read it. What is so humorous to me is how Glenn Beck has been saying for quite some time now (HERE), that he is truly a populist! So laughable!
From Politico’s article:
But why do political analysts insist on using the word “populism” to describe conservative activism? Why should we care? Because it makes hash of both history and our current political conflicts.
The Populists were all about economic justice. They demanded government regulation of railroads, banks, telecommunications and insurance. And if that failed to curb corporate abuses, they wanted public ownership or at least a “public option.” They demanded a federal stimulus to get the economy out of the terrible depression of 1893-97.
The Populists were the ones who pushed for a progressive income tax to pay for the needs of the people, especially for better and more accessible public schools and universities. The Populist Party of the 1890s failed. But, in failure, its proposals refashioned progressive politics for generations.
Yet the populist reputation has suffered a cruel fate. In the 1950s, historian Richard Hofstadter discovered a “cranky” side of populism. “Progressive populism,” he suggested, had morphed into the conservative intolerance of McCarthyism.
It didn’t matter that this never happened. It didn’t matter how many scholars had showed that there was not a scintilla of evidence for a populism/Joe McCarthy connection. The damage was done.
I’m sorry….does any of that make you think of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin when you read it? Nope! I’m not making the connection either! What is it with the right wing fringe hijacking what Jesus and the liberals are? Seriously, the republic party is truly the Party of No New Ideas! They’re incapable of thinking individually. Group No-Think is what they do. Scary.
SIDEBAR NOTE: By the way, did I tell you Rush Limbaugh admitted on his show this week that he doesn’t purchase health insurance because it’s cheaper for him to pay out of pocket. Yep! He’s got the millionaires health care plan! The best in the United States. The right wingers are trying to portray Newfoundland Premier as the guy who fled Newfoundland to come to the United States for his heart surgery because America has the best health care system in the nation and Canada does not! Well, here’s the truth: The Premier of Newfoundland is a millionaire who has a condo in Florida and decided (because he can! When you’re a millionaire you can go anywhere you want to get your health care!) to have his heart surgery IN A WARM CLIMATE, BECAUSE CANADA IS COLD! Just like Rush Limbaugh, millionaires have choices. Maybe Rush went to Hawaii to have his “heart attack” for the same reason as the Premier: A WARM CLIMATE TO RECOVER IN!
This is too funny! Remember the post I did a few days ago about how Sarah & Bristol Palin were pissed about the show Family Guy in doing an episode with a character with Down syndrome who says she’s the daughter of the governor of Alaska? They claimed Family Guy was making fun of Trig Palin who does have Down syndrome. Well, turns out….Sarah Palin is now getting an ass kicking from the 39 year old woman who played the girl on the Family Guy episode because Andrea Fay Friedman understands satire and sarcasm!
I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm.”
In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.
OMG I love Andrea! (((((HUGGING HER WITH ALL MY MIGHT))))) She’s fabulous!
Not only did Andrea say this, but she also said this to the NYT in a phone interview:
Q. When did you find out about the reaction that the episode elicited from Sarah Palin and her family?
A. [laughs] That I did not even know about until my mom told me, “You’re on Channel 4!” And when I watched on Channel 4, on “Extra,” and I saw Sarah Palin with her son Trig. I’m like, “I’m not Trig. This is my life.” I was making fun of Sarah Palin, but not her son.
Q. Do you agree with what she and her daughter Bristol were saying, that the character and the jokes were insulting to people with Down syndrome?
A. It’s not really an insult. I was doing my role, I’m an actor. I’m entitled to say something. It was really funny. I was laughing at it. I had a nice time doing voiceover. It was my first time doing a voiceover, and I had fun.
Bah hahahahaha! Andrea is the best!
(hat tip to Grant in Houston for sending me the link to the NYT article about Andrea)
This is too funny. Sarah Palin said recently that it was okay for Rush Limbaugh to use the word ‘retard’ 40 times during one of his shows because he was using ’satire’, but it was not okay for Rahm Emanuel to allegedly use the words ‘fucking retarded’ when lambasting the liberals for going after Blue Dems. Now she and her daughter Bristol are going after the show, Family Guy, for using satire showing one of the characters dating the retarded daughter of the Alaskan governor!
Since Sarah still doesn’t understand what satire is all about, here’s the definition for her to ponder:
satire [ˈsætaɪə]
n
1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a novel, play, entertainment, etc., in which topical issues, folly, or evil are held up to scorn by means of ridicule and irony
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the genre constituted by such works
3. the use of ridicule, irony, etc., to create such an effect
[from Latin satira a mixture, from satur sated, from satis enough]
Okay, people this is going to be a shocker but it’s the right wing Baptist ministers in the South who are praying to g-d today that President Obama is ‘taken out by g-d’! See? I knew you wouldn’t be shocked!
Praying for President Obama’s death has become a sick cottage industry for some evangelicals on the lunatic fringe. Bumper stickers, T-shirts, and teddy bears are sold with the wholesome-sounding slogan “Pray for Obama” but tagged with the more troublesome “Psalm 109:8”—which reads “May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership” followed by “May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.”
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Pastor Wiley Drake kicked off this Presidents’ Day Weekend with an email blast to his supporters saying “Imprecatory Prayer is now our DUTY” and announcing a daily teleconference call to advance the cause. Drake has been an enthusiastic advocate of imprecatory prayer since he announced that God answered his call with the murder of Kansas abortion clinic doctor George Tiller in church last May. “George Tiller was far greater in his atrocities than Adolf Hitler,” Drake said at the time, “so I am happy. I am glad that he is dead.” This emboldened him to add “the usurper that is in the White House … B. Hussein Obama” to the list said in his church on Sundays.
In Pastor Drake’s own vicious vile ungodly words: “I’m known as a birther, you know. I don’t believe Obama was born in this country. He’s an illegal alien and so forth,” Wiley told me, matter-of-factly. “And so I began to pray what the Bible teaches us to pray and that is imprecatory prayer. An imprecatory prayer is very strong. Imprecatory prayer in Psalms 109, for example, says if you have an evil leader above you, you pray that Satan will stand by his side and you ask God to make his children fatherless and his wife a widow and that his time in office be short… Other Psalms say when they speak evil, God will break out their teeth and when they run to do destruction God will break their legs.”
What a nice man. And we’re to believe these are the people Jesus loves? What if g-d sees these bastards as the ones who should be fatherless because they’re spreading Satan’s killing lust? Huh? Do these bastards ever think of that? Oh wait! They don’t think. They’re robots who every Sunday brainwash their followers to believe their interpretation of the bible after years of being brainwashed themselves. See? The children in these churches will grow up to do the same thing to their kids. Hate breeds very quickly! It’s peace, love, and respect that does not. Sad.
I am working today as usual, but that’s okay, I’m going to pray that President Obama continues to drive the right wing crazy while asking g-d to take out the right wing in the rapture to leave the whole entire planet to us. See? As an Atheist I will be praying all day on President’s Day! Thanks Pastor Drake!
Too funny. I’m telling ya….it’s time for ole Sarah to go back to the “How To Be A Smart Teabagging Conservative 101″ class with Dick Cheney, Dick Armey, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and all her other handlers, because the woman after a year of intense studying can’t even remember the three key points they want her to make every time she opens her mouth, which is: ENERGY, TAX CUTS, LIFT AMERICAN SPIRITS!
Last night during the Teabagger’s Debate in Nashville, Tennessee, she wrote on her hand the 3 key points, but made a mistake. She wrote down “BUDGET” instead of TAX CUTS, and scribbled out “BUDGET” on her hand!…..
For $100,000 this is what her fans got to see! Of course, they will never believe she would cheat, because in their mind she is the Goddess Of All Truths and is married to Scott Brown the Messiah! See? Idiots.
According to THIS NYT ARTICLE, 600 teabaggers showed up for the kick off event last night:
Six hundred advocates had gathered for the convention at the Gaylord Opryland here, a small fraction of the millions that Tea Party advocates say turned out for protests over the last year. Many not attending said they were put off by the ticket price to the convention — $549, plus fees, hotel and transportation. (Another 500 people, organizers said, bought $349 tickets to hear Sarah Palin, who is to be the keynote speaker on Saturday night.)
I’m sure the Tea Party Movement doesn’t like the poor and middle class of this country (just like their republican counterparts!), so kicking them away by making it expensive to attend their functions is the way they’ll show it!
Sarah Palin will be working tonight at this Tea Party Convention, because she’ll be paid $100,000 to do so. See? This is how Astroturf works! She says the money she receives will be given back to the cause. The cause? You mean….giving the money to her SarahPAC so she can use this money to buy more of her books to boost it’s sales and to give the book out to other teabaggers who give her money? Wow! Probably.
What will Sarah talk about tonight? My guess she’ll be working to divide the nation further! She’s good at that.
The Tea Party Movement is completely a mess. Why? Because IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY & PROFIT NOW! LOL *shaking head* I would be embarrassed to call myself a teabagger…..let alone supporting an Astroturf campaign!
I will be gone this evening (surprise B-day party for a friend of mine!) but if you see anything interesting happening at the Tea Party protest, please post it in the comments. I won’t be able to watch Sarah’s speech either so please give your feedback in the comments too! Much appreciated.
MSNBC has been granted permission to access Todd Palin’s emails (over 3,000 emails!) and as soon as the PDF link was provided online, The Immoral Minority, PalinGates, and The Mudflats have had a field day! Some of these emails are damaging to Sarah and Todd’s credibility. What I find most fascinating is the email to Todd & Sarah in May 2008 (the month after Trig Palin was born…to who again?) asking for Trig’s birth certificate for medical insurance purposes! Here’s part of the email (click on snapshot for larger view):
Does Todd Palin provide it? Well, according to PalinGates, he calls them with the information instead! What’s to hide, really? “Sarah is the one who gave birth to Trig” isn’t she? Or did you and Sarah adopt your grandchild and you didn’t want anyone to know this information, because you were busy protecting your child Bristol, you know, “Ms. Abstinence Girl”? Here’s Bristol Palin in October 2007 on MTV looking awfully pregnant if you ask me (you can watch the video here!):
Bristol Palin left school during this time because she had “mono”. Uh ha. I believe she had a home birth at Auntie & Aunkie’s house in Wasilla (which is where Sarah Palin drove to after her plane landed in Anchorage after her long flight and speech she gave in Texas. How come she didn’t go to a hospital in Achorage and instead drove an hour or so after her water broke hours before? Oh wait! Her water didn’t break. Her daughter’s did!)
Speaking of Sarah’s speech in Texas….HERE’S THE EMAIL FROM SARAH ASKING FOR NO SECURITY TO BE ON THAT TRIP WITH HER AND TODD! Hmmmmmmm…..this is the famous “wild ride” day that Sarah took back to Alaska “pregnant”! (CLICK HERE TO HEAR SARAH PALIN TALKING ABOUT THE “WILD RIDE”) Sarah got the call at 4 in the morning that her daughter’s water had broke! That’s what I think and I’m sticking to it.
Well, I’m off to witness the last hour of the Recall Election in my town (the 2nd Recall Election this week! Woohoo! We’re kicking ass and taking names here!) and won’t be back until 9:30-10:00pm! Have fun going through the emails!
Of course, when Glenn Bleck asked who her favorite Founding Father was she first said, “all of them” and then when Bleck wanted to help her a little with an answer, she talked over him (thinking back about what Karl Rove & Dick Cheney told her to say!) until she finally said, “George Washington!”.
By the way, want to hear something neat? This morning on Glenn Beck’s radio program right out of the gate, guess what he said? He said he has heard that there are some republicans out there that have some dirt on him and are going to release it. Cool huh? Beck said he’s fine with this because his life is an open book, but…..then he said in part (paraphrasing), “If I’m not here in the future, that’s okay!”, you know, trying to reassure his worshipers that he’ll be fine. IS GLENN BLECKY NERVOUS ABOUT SOMETHING? Hmmmm, what ever could it be that the right wingers know about him and could get him off the air because it’s so devastating? I don’t know but I want to!
Spits of rage…