Newsbusters is gravely, deeply concerned that the media is covering Sarah Palin’s family drama more closely than Barack Obama’s. This is when it becomes relevant to point out that Palin based a substantial portion of her electoral and personal appeal on her ability to manage her fuckup dropout family using…
Tax Day Tea Parties, as sponsored by Fox News, will heat up the nation next week. But, given the conservative propensity to attract crazy motherfuckers who are arming themselves to avoid the FEMA concentration camps, how will they explain the rather large number of people holding signs asking for Barack…
I’m certainly not the expert on Outer Wingnutteria (hat tip to David for the phrase) like David Neiwert is, but I know enough to start really beginning to worry that the hardest of the hard right are going to go on a self-immolation and violence-causing spree like they did in…
Ben Shapiro declares bravely that RAP IS CRAP, because it’s all the blacks with their banging and their tim-tutting and clothes branded with obscenities like ENYCE and FUBU and POLO. Today, Grammy-winning rapper T.I. (Total Imbecile? Thug Idiot?) was sentenced to 18 months behind bars for illegally owning machine guns…
Gee, I think tossing your daughter out of the family home because she came out of the closet is the epitome of evil. Alan Keyes, on his blog “Alan Keyes is LOYAL TO LIBERTY,” has a frothing-at-the-mouth post about Notre Dame’s invitation to the president to speak and receive an…
Rush Limbaugh compares Barack Obama to Robert Mugabe because Rush Limbaugh loves freedom and black people.…
I’m glad we don’t have to worry about racism any more. Sean Delonas created this unbelievable cartoon for the New York Post that clearly passed muster with the editors’ desk. It portrays commentary on the stimulus bill (“They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill”) using…
Jesus H. Christ on a cracker. In Rep. Bryan Stevenson’s (R-MO) vigorous objection to Barack Obama’s support of the Freedom of Choice Act he decided to bring an offensive blast from the Civil War past to the floor. : “What we are dealing with today is the greatest power grab…
Who’s going to be left to tell us that black people have sold out and betrayed their history by holding up the most successful black person in history as a hero? I really dig my priest, but he’s from Boston. So, in the readings today he recounts the story of…
Good grief. You have to read this crafty, but delusional swill from Diane Gramley, of the Pennsylvania American Family Association. She opens her op-ed in The Bulletin bleating about the injustice dealt to one of the historically black Boy Scout troops that marched in the inaugural parade — by Barack…
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