JABbering Stooge

This is why we lost two governors in the special election last night:

WASHINGTON — In a blow to the White House, the Senate’s top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation, leaving the measure’s fate to the uncertainties of the 2010 election season.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., spoke as Democratic officials said it could be December before Senate debate begins in earnest on the issue atop President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda, months after senior lawmakers and the White House had hoped. The drive to pass legislation has been plagued for months by divisions within the party’s rank and file.

Idle question: Is it possible that Rush Limbaugh put in a bid for the St. Louis Rams knowing that the NFL would balk at the notion of a racist git owning a team in a sport where the targets of Limbaugh’s special brand of bigotry dominate — just so he could get his next persecution fix?

That was the sound of millions of wingnut heads exploding at the news that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is good news for the Republicans, sayeth the Village Idiots™.

* Cf.

Shorter Entire “Librul” Media:

• Michael Moore is fat, and he hates America and the Baby Jesus. Therefore, his new documentary is the Worst. Movie. EVAR!

The next person who claims that the media has a liberal bias gets slapped.

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

Evidently not. Here’s Tim Graham, complaining about Mike Malloy being Mike Malloy:

On Wednesday, radical radio host Mike Malloy took a page from Ed Schultz (or perhaps it was the other way around) in asserting that the “neo-fascist right” takes joy in the killing of a Census worker:

• This is what they do. O’Reilly inspires people to go kill doctors who provide private abortion services, legal services to his patients; and then O’Reilly stands there with that dung-eating look on his face — what a SOB he is. ‘It wasn’t me; of course it was you, you thug!’ And the suicide-prone Glenn Beck rails against Census workers, and inspires his people to kill one for sport; I bet you O’Reilly and Beck and the rest of these monsters on the neo-fascist right in this country love this stuff. It gives them something else to talk about. It’s sport.

And here’s Noel Sheppard (whose NewsBusters bio pic resembles Hoyt Pollard’s character in Deliverance), reveling in the implied violence against Al Gore disguised as humor perpetrated by Pillz-E* on Jay Leno’s new prime-time show last Friday:

As NewsBusters’ Brent Baker previously reported, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh had fun with Jay Leno Thursday evening actually driving an electric car over a cardboard cut-out of Al Gore.

Prior to that hilarious scene, Limbaugh sat down with Leno and discussed politics, President Obama, Medicare, and even weight loss.

So there you go. The new rules for political discourse in this country, courtesy of NewsBusters. Acting out one’s violence fantasies against an cardboard surrogate for a liberal politician? High comedy. Calling out the right wing for their atomic heat-level hate against anyone who isn’t a member of their straight-white-male-conservative-Christians-only club? High treason.

Also.

* For the thinking-impaired at NewsBusters, this is what I’m referring to.

Oy (via John Cole):

Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards talked a campaign aide into claiming he fathered a child born to Edwards’ onetime mistress, sources familiar with the issue said Monday.

Edwards admitted to his affair with Rielle Hunter in August 2008 after months of denials, but said he could not have been the father of Hunter’s daughter, who was born the previous February. Former Edwards staffer Andrew Young has said he was the girl’s father — but has recanted and says he made it because he believed in Edwards, lawyers and others familiar with the matter told CNN.

Young was married with children when he claimed to have fathered Hunter’s child. He never signed any affidavits or legal papers, however, and reversed his claim after Edwards, as one of the sources put it, dropped Young “like a hot potato.”

[…]

The New York Times reported in August that Young has submitted a book proposal in which he tells publishers that Edwards knew all along that he was the father of Hunter’s child — and that he promised to marry her after his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, dies.

Wow. We sure dodged a bullet there, didn’t we? Thanks for making me ashamed to have supported you in the primary, jackass.

So Jimmy Carter dared to go there, did he?

How dare he speak the truth?!

Naturally, the reaction from the teabagging, cock-slapping wingnutosphere was swift and unanimous:

Even though practically everyone has done it by now, I couldn’t resist my own commentary on the highlowlights of the (Not Quite A) Million Moron March.

Naturally, there were Birthers there.

Hey, moron: I took a semester of Russian in college. I’m pretty sure that Cyrillic doesn’t mean what you think it means. I’ll spell it out for you: sndigeh. (Which I’m pretty sure is not a word in Russian!)

“Don’t Blame Me — I voted for Sarah” — says a lot about the intellectual acumen of these moral midgets, doesn’t it?

Yep. A purely organic movement, I tell you! No astroturfing here. 

Our protesters are more eco-friendly than your protesters. Yes, indeedy. 

Nope, no racism there.  (For the “front” side of the sign, go here.)

You stay KKKlassy, Fetus Fetishists.

And of course, no Glenn Beck-promoted teabagging would be complete without (not very) thinly-veiled threats of violence…

Right. Because if they tell you they’re Fair & Balanced™®© (every five seconds), it MUST be true!

The freaks who get off on torture (especially torture of Democrats) also put in an appearance. (Dale Franks, is that you?)

Glenn Beck for Prez in 2012. Says it all, doesn’t it?

Hey, look! The Jonah Goldberg Fan Club made it! And they’re just as doughy as their hero!

Ironically, the leading cause of death for President Garfield was an armed lunatic conspiracy theorist.

Probably the only true sign in the bunch, but not for the reason he thinks.

I see the Teabagger Big Tent™ still has room for John Bolton fans.

I think we’re done here.

(All pics courtesy of the 9/12 Flickr photostream.)

Here he is in the rush to war in 2002 accusing Rep. Bob Filner (D — CA) of treason for daring to tell the truth about St. Ronnie The Red-Ink Raygun helping Saddam gas the Kurds:

This is also the same Rep. Joe Wilson who was forced to apologize for slagging the late Strom Thurmond’s *urp* lovechild for daring to admit what Thurmond’s family had openly admitted to.

Yeah.

You stay KKKlassy, Rep. Wilson.

Spread the meme.