You Lie!

Despite his new status as hero to the reptard right wingnut casserole, Joe Wilson’s seemingly courageous act of career-ending stupidity was really an act of cowardice; for what he really wanted to yell was this: “FUCK YOU YOU ARROGANT SOCIALIST NIGGER!”

Gaslighting The Masses (Update)

gaslighting   verb    ruthlessly manipulating an individual, for nefarious reasons, into believing something other than the truth; manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity After a decade of gaslighting the Americans into a permanent state of anxiety over war, terrorism, economics, health, and even their very identities, the right wing media complex is moving in for the kill, …

Teh Dumb Fux

I watched this segment live, but the ten minutes go by too fast to really let it sink in. Listen and read it to fully understand we’re dealing with a failed political party of staggeringly ignorant people. . .

Sen. Inhofe: They’re Coming To Take You Away

Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe announced this week that he won’t even read let alone sign whatever health care reform bill emerges from the Senate. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) has told a town hall meeting that he doesn’t need to read legislation on healthcare reform or to know any details of what’s in it, he will oppose it out of hand. …

Bachmann Turner Diaries Overdrive

According to leading wingnut Rethug Rep. Michell Bachmann, who chose to spend her vacation time courting wingers from another state (Colorado) when she could have been responding to the concerns of her own, Democratic attempts at heath care reform have …the strength to destroy this country forever….What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, …

Playing The Death Card

Jacques Ellul points out the key role that “power words” play… …to break the barrier of the individual’s indifference. They must penetrate like bullets; they must spontaneously evoke a set of images and and have a certain grandeur of their own timeliness…To the extent that propaganda is based on current events , it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. …

Vet Death Manual

Rethug Propaganda Minister Michael Steele on the Chapiquidic News Network warning about a death manual for veterans (originally prepared by the Bush Administration): If you want an example of bad public policy, just look at the situation with our veterans, when you have a manual out there telling our veterans, you know, stuff like “are you really of value to …