Funambulist In Chief

Despite receiving a thumbs up from a number of conservative foreign policy observers, and the public at large, for his handling of the current Iranian domestic turmoil, the wingers seem to have settled on a narrative that President Obama has been too timid in his response to same. It was a theme dutifully picked up by the MSM at Tuesday’s …

False Equivalency

Tweety during his silver tongued false equivalency rant On his Hardball show  yesterday, Chris Matthews did a segment called The Hate Machine about the dog whistle relationship between right wing extremists and their “conservative” enablers in the media. Though he didn’t mention the inciters by name, I will– O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, and Beck being just the most prominent hate …

Bully O’Reilly Just Can’t Help Himself

CNN’s Rick Sanchez’s smackdown of a lying Bully-O Has it really been six years since the publishing of Al Franken book,  Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them ? Chapter 13 is dedicated to television’s most arrogant narcissist, Bully Bill O’Reilly, a  self-styled “cultural warrior”  and former war correspondent. (He once covered the Falkland Islands war for CBS and …

Latest Hypocrite

Not exactly family safe, but that’s the nature of hypocrisy, now isn’t it.

Evolution Of Wingnut Deception Routines

“Look out behind you!” – An ancestral Rethuglican deception ploy The ability of primates to deceive a perceived competitor for access to resources or mates conferred obvious survival advantages on those who mastered it. So successful were the results that their victims had to develop effective countermeasures. In time, they evolved the ability to detect physiological clues– facial expressions, vocal …

Dick Sorta Comes Out…

Seems like you can’t turn on the tee vee these days without being assaulted by the tortured logic of Dick Cheney. His recent flailings have been focused on massaging a flacid argument for brutality against America’s foe’s, especially the one’s we have in leg irons. But now he’s managed to interject himself into yet another battle raging on the front lines of the war on culture culture war. Sure, closeted gay Republicans have become passé in Washington since the sequestering of the Bush sock puppet down in Dallas, but Dick is on the loose again, and this time he’s got a hard-on for sweet young stud named Spencer.

Sad and Distasteful

WASHINGTON — Not everyone attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was entertained by comedian Wanda Sykes. Count Bill Bennet as one of them. CNN’s Wolfe Blitzer sat down in the Situation Room© with the colossal Bennet, who was still visibly upset over the Dinner. Yes. The Dinner.