Archive for the ‘#notintendedtobeafactualstatement’ Category
Coming Clean Under A Hard Rain
Cue the “abyss staring back” and “ends justify the means” soul-searching on the case of HuffPo’s Peter Gleick admitting to less than forthright methods to obtaining the right’s game plan on pushing climate change denial in schools. At the beginning of 2012, I received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be [...]
February 21, 2012
· 
Zandar · 
84 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Decline and Fall, IOKIYAR, Science and Technology, Show Us Your Countertops, The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right, We Are All Mayans Now
Most don’t
I’ve been looking at the reactions to Mitt Romney’s panicked, dishonest defense of his opposition to the auto bailout. I’ve chosen a couple of Romney’s particularly egregious lies, with the facts following each, because I really do think these lies give one a good sense of the man and his priorities. First, the reporter: Romney’s [...]
February 17, 2012
· Kay · 66 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement
Wingnut Medical Science
NH Republican Jeanine Notter asserted that the pill causes cancer. Prostate cancer. In men. You do the math: Is it possible that maybe the public is just punking us all by electing these morons for entertainment purposes?
February 16, 2012
· John Cole · 240 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Teabagger Stupidity
Friess’s Frame
The Man Behind The Froth has spent millions bankrolling Santorum through his super PAC so far, and today Foster Friess pretty much undid every dollar of “free speech” he bought with this awesome statement on birth control to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell: On this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s so inexpensive. You know, back in my [...]
February 16, 2012
· Zandar · 144 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Clown Shoes, Sweet Fancy Moses!
False flag
Funny: The right wing propaganda site Politico was so eager to try to do a smear job on President Barack Obama and his visit to Milwaukee today that they failed to look before they leaped and ended up landing into a pile of foolishness with both feet: Yup, the mistook the Wisconsin state flag as [...]
February 16, 2012
· Kay · 75 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement
Open Thread: Moochers of “Real” America
Matt Yglesias, it would seem, is a severely optimistic person: A very neat Aaron Carroll chart shows that, on average, conservative states feature more “dependency” on federal programs than do liberal ones. You can slice this kind of data in a variety of ways, but you always end up with the same aggregate pattern. It [...]
February 15, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 137 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, C.R.E.A.M., Open Thread, Republican Stupidity
Open Thread: Manners, People, Manners!
Best comment on Charles Murray’s new bestselling Social Darwinism apologia comes from Doghouse Riley: It turns out that Charles Murray is to the “conservatives” at the Times what Halley’s Comet is to a superstitious medieval peasantry. And yet, Murray’s call for a rekindled attention to Mad-Man- style social hypocrisy has leaked downward from the dutiful [...]
February 15, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 73 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Assholes, Jump! You Fuckers!, Open Thread
The Shady Pines Caucuses, and what happened there – a Cautionary Tale
Well, my dears, there has been much excitement at Shady Pines. Today was the second Monday in February which means, of course, that we have just held the Shady Pines Caucuses. This is quite a long post, so you might wish to make yourself a cup of tea or have a cigarette before you start [...]
February 13, 2012
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 23 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Open Thread
The Onion as Real News, part 4,391; Update to Why We Fight
Once again, The Onion has a story that might as well have come from an actual, real news source, if such had still existed in the US: New Breeding Program Aimed At Keeping Moderate Republicans From Going Extinct Some choice tidbits: Though hopes for the captive breeding program remain high, many leading political conservationists note [...]
February 13, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 93 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Crazification Factor, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Open Thread, Our Failed Political Establishment
Occupy the Toybox
Lego figurines, Kinder surprises and other toys played the role of ‘demonstrators’. Photograph: Sergey Teplyakov/vkontakte I would love this even I didn’t have a half-dozen tchotchkes on my desk right now. From the Guardian: Police in the Siberian city of Barnaul have asked prosecutors to investigate the legality of a recent protest that saw dozens [...]
January 30, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 59 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Foreign Affairs
Ron Paul, Innit, to Win It? (No)
Tis the season when local TV channels traditionally replay the adventures of an angry, mean-spirited little cartoon gremlin—but this year, Dr. Seuss’s Grinch risks being eclipsed by Dr. Paul’s “Ronvolutionaries”. Jonathan Chait, at NYMag’s Daily Intel, hilariously smacks down Andrew Sullivan’s happy fantasy of an Iowa-led RonPaul ReLOVution: It would be nearly impossible to imagine [...]
December 21, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 76 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Election 2012, Glibertarianism, Republican Stupidity
Ryan, with some Wyden thrown in
In a move that could hurt Democrats’ ability to campaign against Republicans on Medicare in next fall’s elections, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is teaming up with Republican Rep. Paul Ryan on a Medicare overhaul plan that would give beneficiaries a set amount to use toward buying private coverage or to pay for a traditional fee-for-service [...]
December 15, 2011
· Kay · 335 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Domestic Affairs
Clearly, he’s a victim of peer pressure
Governor Walker has fallen in with the wrong crowd: Another major shoe has dropped in the John Doe investigation of Gov.Scott Walker’s current and former aides. On Tuesday, authorities arrested Andrew P. Jensen Jr., a commercial real estate broker with Boerke Co. and a past president of theCommercial Association of Realtors-Wisconsin. Fran McLaughlin, spokesman for [...]
December 14, 2011
· Kay · 56 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
There Must Be A Pony…
... given all the manure being spread by the GOP contenders. Via Greg Sargent, Erick Erickson [warning: Redstate link] has a big sad: Since November of 2010, political reporters in this nation have been telling us Mitt Romney would be the nominee. And while I completely agree and have said I expect it, the political [...]
December 9, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 126 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Election 2012, Republican Stupidity
Late Night Open Thread: Now Jon’s Just Messing with Cousin Mitt’s Head
... Although some might say it’s his application for Joe Biden’s job come 2016. From Alex Katz at the Boston Globe’s Political Intelligence blog: CONCORD, N.H. – Jon Huntsman, who has staked his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on New Hampshire, addressed members of the Legislature here today, reminding them of his commitment through [...]
December 1, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 14 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Election 2012, Republican Stupidity
