JABbering Stooge

Takes one to know one, SIR:

In an interview with CBS News radio yesterday, former President George H.W. Bush called assailed the tone of our national discourse. “I don’t like it. The cables (TV) have a lot to do with it,” he said, adding that MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann were partly responsible:

• The Republican elder statesman said, “It’s not just the right.” He complained, “there are plenty of people on the left.”

  While he said he does not believe in personal name-calling, he singled out MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow calling them “sick puppies.”

  “The way they treat my son and anyone who’s opposed to their point of view is just horrible,” Mr. Bush said.

That’s right. President George Horton’s Willie Bush called Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow “sick puppies” for alleged namecalling.

My irony meter just a-sploded.

Sidebar: If Poppy Bush is truly concerned about the state of political discourse in this country, perhaps he should start by having a long chat with his good friend Pillz-E about his comments for oh…the last year or so.

For that matter, when will we hear David Horowitz or the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) denounce this assault on campus freedom of expression?

At approximately 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon, a few members of the newly recreated non-religious group, Alabama Atheist and Agnostics, did chalking in the Ferguson Plaza, outside of Lakeside Diner and outside of Reese Phifer Hall, according to Peter Sloan, vice president of Alabama Atheist and Agnostics and a senior double majoring in music composition and philosophy.

“While we were chalking somebody dumped water on what we were chalking, somebody spat at us,” Sloan said. “But really, overall, most people were polite.”

At approximately 6 p.m., AAA finished their chalking, Sloan said. By midnight, all the chalking had been erased and scrubbed clean by what appeared to be an organization’s effort.

[…]

The chalking was redone from midnight until 1 a.m., Sloan said. The chalking was again found to be erased by noon on Monday.

Yeah, yeah. I know. I’d better check the temperature in hell, first.

BTW, the administration was extremely unhelpful to the atheist organization — essentially telling them to go Cheney themselves. I seriously doubt they would have treated a Christian organization that way.

And in other news, colleges have become commie indoctrination centers filled with radical America-hating feminazi professors who need to be blacklisted. The Young Conservatives of Texas said so.

Big Hollywood The Andrei Zhdanov School of Conservative Correctness, Andrew Breitbart’s monster creation, caught falsifying charges of Hatch Act violations in the Obama administration that they were perfectly okay with when The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible did it.

John “Spathi” Hinderaker, looking for any excuse to delegitimize charges of a racist element to the teabaggers:

In that 12 percent, we have identified the hard core of President Obama’s support—those who, if the Obama administration said the moon is made of green cheese, would believe it. Or pretend to, anyway.

Right. Because John Hinderaker would never eagerly perform verbal fellatio on a politician just because their political views mostly meshed! No, not ever!

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

Oh. Well, that’s different, then.

Over at Lawyers, Guns and Money, Davenoon ably takes apart Bob Owens’ ludicrous claim that the late Sen. Kennedy was really a super double-secret Commie spy of water fluoridation and sapping purity our of essences. But the best part is the opening paragraph:

It comes as little surprise that someone who commemorates treason in defense of slavery would fail to notice the absurdity in accusing Ted Kennedy of conspiring against his country, but that’s one of many reasons that Bob Owens remains a Very Special Blogger.

How true.

Huh? You sure about that, WingNutDaily? Hannity/Palin 2012?

WASHINGTON — Talk-show host Sean Hannity, a vocal opponent of Barack Obama’s policies, said today he would not rule out a bid for the presidency in 2012.

Egged on by radio colleague Bill Cunningham [That would be this Bill Cunningham, BTW. — Ed.], Hannity said he would consider entering the front lines of the political fray if God directs him.

[…]

While Obama’s approval ratings have been plummeting in his first year in office, no clear Republican frontrunner has emerged. The candidates most often considered viable include Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Hannity’s Fox News colleague Mike Huckabee.

Cunningham, one of Hannity’s guests during a visit to Cincinnati today, said the nation and the Republican Party need Hannity.

When WND asked Hannity to repeat what he said on the air about a run, he said, “I ducked.”

Later in the program, a member of the audience asked what the host thought of a Hannity-Palin ticket.

The studio audience erupted in applause.

Are you kidding me? Are you fucking kidding me? Hannity would be an oppo researcher’s wet dream! This is the man who was responsible for rehabilitating domestic terrorist Randall Terry during the Terri Schiavo debacle. Hannity is good friends with noted racist and Teabagger violence inciter Hal Turner.

And let’s not forget that Hannity is a talk radio host with his own prime time show on Fox Propaganda. There’s tons and tons of opposition research gold to be mined in those radio and television archives. Wouldn’t you just looooove to hear the clip of Hannity calling Congressman Jim Moran (D — VA) an “asshole” repeated on an endless loop night-after-night all across the TV airwaves? (Fat chance with our media, I know, but a guy can dream, can’t he?)

So, really, Hannity/Palin in 2012?

Bring it, bitchez!

(h/t, JJ)

Caribou Barbie via Facebook, August 9, 2009:

Also this week, Alaskans will join Senators Murkowski and Begich in town hall meetings to discuss the current health care legislation. There are many disturbing details in the current bill that Washington is trying to rush through Congress, but we must stick to a discussion of the issues and not get sidetracked by tactics that can be accused of leading to intimidation or harassment. Such tactics diminish our nation’s civil discourse which we need now more than ever because the fine print in this outrageous health care proposal must be understood clearly and not get lost in conscientious voters’ passion to want to make elected officials hear what we are saying. Let’s not give the proponents of nationalized health care any reason to criticize us.

Funny how just last Friday, Bible Spice had absolutely no problem with stoking the resentments that lead to “intimidation and harassment,” thereby “giv[ing] the proponents of [Obama’s rather modest health care reform plan] any reason to criticize” them:

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

Right. Because CIGNA’s “death panels” are soooooooooooooooo much better. 

DougJ is shrill (slightly fixed):

When someone a black man talks back to a cop in his own house, that’s disorderly conduct.

When people make death threats and start fights in public, that’s exercising their First Amendment rights.

So it would seem.

It’s the only thing I can think of that would explain why he would open his latest column thusly:

Scolding Americans for our various sins is proving popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists.

Yes, Mr. Hanson. You’re right. Scolding Americans for our various sins is very popular among an elite group of self-appointed moralists.

You know what would be a supremely, side-splittingly funny dose of irony? If Orly Taitz, Queen Bee of the whacked-out loons who think President Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery, was busted for crudely forging a “Kenyan Birth Certificate™” that was based on an Australian birth certificate!