Political Pornography

Buchanan invokes Godwin’s Law on the Newtster In a textbook case of the pot calling the kettle black, having professional bigot Pat Buchanan call Gangrene Gingrich “absurd” and “a political opportunist”  for comparing the proposed Park 51 Muslim community center to the Nazis and the Holocaust is like being called ugly by the alien in Predator. Nonetheless, Buchanan makes a …

A Winger Folk Hero Is Born

South Carolina Congressman, Joe Wilson (Winger- SC) In the middle of this evening’s address by President Obama to a joint session of Congress, a forum with a long history of decorum, South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson shouted out (from the relative anonymity of a large audience) —  Liar “You lie!” Congressman Wilson was responding to the president’s assertion that …

Dog Whistling Racist Violence

The source of the problem?  Lizard Brain is diagnosed by unusually thick cranium and remarkable subcutaneous fat layer; trapped, terrified lizard is always symptomatic. As Jacques Ellul points out in his classic 1964 book, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, propaganda cannot create something out of nothing. The human mind is not an empty vessel in which ready-made ideas can …

Charity in Truth

Why does it take 250,000 sperm to fertilize an egg?* What liberal leftist commie pinko came up with this agenda? * Resisting a “downsizing” of social security systems; * Support for labor unions and the rights of workers in a global economy marked by mobility of labor; * Combating hunger “by investing in rural infrastructures, irrigation systems, transport, organization of …

Palin Targets Polar Bears

That Great White Hunter, Vice President Darth Cheney, is famous for shooting near-captive birds and genteel lawyers in the face. Now his would-be successor, Sarah Palin, an avowed hunter and NRA pinup gal, whom MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan called “McCain’s new girl,” is picking up where Cheney left off. In an op-ed to the NY Times earlier this year, she …

Republicans And Military Men On John McCain

“McCain will make Cheney look like Ghandi” -Pat Buchanan. “There’s a lotta people who lie and get away with it. And that’s just a fact.” -Donald Rumsfeld

The Surge Is Not A Success

Urban renewal project in beautiful downtown Baghdad Chris Matthews‘ substitute host, McCain enthusiast Mike Barnicle, reacted incredulously Wednesday to a comment by Iraq war vet Jon Soltz, co-founder and chairman of VoteVets.org, that the so-called “surge” has not been a success.  Pressed by Barnicle, who reflects the corporatist media’s official narrative of the surge, Soltz made a number of arguments: …