Archive for November 19, 2009
Sarah Palin Reads My Blog!
After thinking about it for more than a year, Sarah Palin finally revealed which newspapers, magazines and websites she reads: Newsmax, the Wall Street Journal, her hometown paper, the Frontiersman, and “everything online.”
I am so impressed! Such diversity. I’ve been trying to read “everything online” for years but what with there being an estimated 156 million websites — and that stat is almost two years old — I just haven’t found the time.
Sarah is obviously an amazing, amazing woman.
It is So Wrong for the Army to Ban the Media From Sarah Palin Fort Hood Event
This is so wrong!: The United States Army is a part of our government and we all help pay for it, no matter our political persuasion. It is charged with protecting all of us, no matter our political persuasion. It is not supposed to take sides against we, the people. Yet the Army at Fort Hood is trying to ban the media — another critical institution in this country — from covering an appearance by Sarah Palin there on Monday. Its reasoning? That the event might “turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama.”
If the Army has decided to permit Sarah Palin to go to Fort Hood, fine. I presume they’ll allow Noam Chomsky to go there too, but I’m not holding my breath. And if the event turns into “political grandstanding against President Barack Obama,” show it. Air it for all the world to see. I predict something like that would be repulsive, even to some conservatives. Think about the image: Sarah Palin criticizing President Obama on a military base.
But my main beef is that the military — again, supposedly a neutral government entity that you and I own — has no right to restrict media access to an event like this. What happens, happens and they’ve got to live with it. They are not a political entity and they have no business trying to control what we know about this event. It isn’t a matter of national security.
IMHO this indicates that the Army at least, has lost sight of its mission — again, to PROTECT AND REPRESENT ALL OF US.
Oprah Signing Off on September 9, 2011
Yo, Oprah, my 2¢: Come September 10, 2011, if you’re looking for something to do, buy or start a 24/7 cable news network to counteract the corrosion that is Fox.
A Sane Republican v. The Wingers
Screen shots from two Republican websites and their take on the same event:
1) Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish:
2) The Fox Nation:
Speaking of Health Care Reform…
Here’s an expose on five popular myths Americans believe about health care in other countries. Very interesting.
Fred Thompson — Another Flaming Hypocrite
Fred Thompson declares the war in Afghanistan ‘has been lost.” But in 2007 when Harry Reid said the Iraq war was lost, Thompson ripped into him for “encouraging our enemies.”
Doug Hoffman Claims the NY-23 Election Was “Stolen”
Do Republicans ever admit to just flat losing an election? Apparently not.
Earlier today I posted about a new poll showing that 52% of Republicans think ACORN stole the election for Obama. Now Doug Hoffman — the winger who ran in the NY-23 race — is claiming that that election was stolen from him too (this image from the Fox Nation homepage):
And one guess as to who he says stole it — surprise, surprise – “ACORN and union interests.” Well gosh golly gee. That’s creative.
You Can Bet Fox Will Drop All That Talk About Obama’s Bow
A Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll released today shows most Americans think bowing is appropriate:
Before Doing Your Holiday Shopping This Year…
Check out the 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame. New inductees include: Ikea and L.L. Bean.
Reason No. 23,479 Not to Vote for a Republican
Republicans Block Chris Dodd’s Effort to Immediately Stop Credit Card Rate Hikes.
A New Low (or is it a New High?) in Winger Craziness
Representative Louis Gohmert (R-TX), obviously striving to join the ranks of Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, suggested on Thursday “that Democrats may actually want another terrorist attack because rebuilding the city would create jobs.”
