- FOX News is sad that Barack Obama is so mean to the Senate Republicans, who are just interested in good-faith negotiation! (FOX News)
- Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry totally gay for earmarks? Yes, according to fellow Republican and opponent Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison! (CNN)
- New York Gov. David Paterson will not run for reelection because governing is just so hard! And definitely not because of any domestic violence scandal or abuse of power, or anything. (NYT)
- Black people were much better off as slaves than they are now because they are all abort-o-holics, according to Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ). I for one am looking forward to when Michael Steele has to go on TV to defend this statement. (TPM)
- Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio is all about fiscal responsibility, which is why he will pay back the Florida GOP for the flights he accidentally charged to the state party’s credit card. (Miami Herald)
- Thailand’s highest court fined former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra almost $1.5 billion after finding him guilty of corruption. This practice, known as “accountability,” could never happen in this country! (Guardian)
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- House Democrats don’t think they can convince Americans to support… cutting the deficit by making rich people pay more taxes. What are House Democrats even for, anyway? (The Hill)
- Mocking Sarah Palin’s crib notes is a terrible affront to the Baby Trig because Palin is just not subject to the same rules as other politicians, also too. (ThinkProgress)
- Oh, and speaking of which, Sarah Palin simply cannot stop lying about things to serve her political interests. Palin 2012! (The Plum Line)
- FOX News uses fraudulent polls, according to Bill O’Reilly and Karl Rove. FOX = ACORN?!?!?! (Daily Kos)
- Terrible batterer Scott Cohen will drop out of the Illinois Lieutenant Governor race to be replaced by… well, pretty much anyone. (WGN-TV)
- Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), the first Vietnam vet elected to the House, has died at the age of 77. (Press Release)
The Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Long-Term Employment Act of 2010
Sarah Palin joins FOX News.
- How does Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) balance his commitment to the national GOP with his duty to South Carolina? By just cold-fuckin’ ignoring his constituents. (The State)
- Barack Obama has ordered more soldiers to Afghanistan for continued warmaking! In tomorrow’s papers, pundits begin to ignore any connection between this war and George W. Bush. (NYT)
- Popular Drudge-bait website Politco and FOX News are deeply concerned about President Obama’s use of the word “unprecedented” which, like the healthcare bill, is so long and therefore terrible. (Raw Story)
- Death panels! Not just for olds and Trig anymore, according to Senate candidate Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL). Now Dr. Obama will personally kill all of America’s women, using breast cancer. (The Plum Line)
Certainly Not Balanced
“How will Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Mitt Romeny split the 193% of GOP primary voters?” wonders this handy FOX News chart! Sure, 70% of Republicans supporting Sarah Palin seems like a landslide victory for America’s Governor Media Personality™–but wait! Mike Huckabee is closing in with 63% percent of the vote and Mitt Romeny is right behind him at 60%… WHAT DOES THIS CHART EVEN MEAN? Clearly, ACORN has tampered with the results of this poll.
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Is Fox just trying to get on The Daily Show now?
FOX News gets caught again with fake B-roll footage. This time, they’re splicing several rallies from the 2008 campaign (you can see people holding McCain-Palin signs and, in one clip, even a teleprompter) into a story on Sarah Palin’s book tour to claim that Palin is getting “huge crowds” at her book signing events. Like, “entire high school gymnasium” huge.
Jon Stewart recently called out Sean Hannity for using footage from a September 12 teabagger rally for a story about a smaller rally on November 5.
Here Is That Sentence with “Eliot Spitzer” and “Ethics” In It That You Thought You’d Never See
- Client #9, or “Eliot Spitzer” as he is sometimes known, is giving a lecture at Harvard’s Center for Ethics!…? However: “He’s not speaking about ethics. He’s here to talk about a research project we’re launching on institutional corruption.” So, you know, speaking from experience, then. (Boston Globe)
- What is the most offensive thing someone could say in 140 characters or less? Oh, how about equating Barack Obama with the Muslim terrorists who crashed planes full of Americans into things on 9/11? That should do it. (Denver Post)
- Lou Dobbs is quitting CNN, so probably he will just go on FOX to be appreciated for hating Mexicans. Who will CNN choose as their new token racist? (Politico)
- Haha, looks like birther lawyer Orly Taitz has suborned perjury–a.k.a. encouraged witnesses to go on the stand and lie under oath! But everyone knows that “facts” and “truth” (not to mention the entire American legal system) are all in on Obama’s conspiracy! (TPM Muckraker)
- There is only one way to get on Santa’s “nice” list this year, and that is to obtain these Sarah Palin Christmas ornaments and hang them from your Christmas tree! Of course, if Santa really wanted to help America, he’d quit delivering presents now and go on a book tour. (Wonkette)
There’s Stupid, and Then There’s Sarah
They might have played along with the whole “death panels” thing, but Sarah Palin’s latest nonsense lie–the one about Obama’s secret Islamic plot to take God off of America’s metal currency–is too absurd even for FOX News:
As Fox News anchor Bret Baier noted this evening, picking up on a Politico report, Palin said this past Friday that there had been a lot of “change” of late, and talked about the dollar coin — how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the rim of the coin, rather than on the face. “Who makes a decision like that?” said Palin, seemingly pointing to the Obama administration, adding: “It’s a disturbing trend.”
However, the coins were in fact commissioned in 2005 by the Republican-led government of the time. And as Baier adds, Congress acted specifically to change this in 2007, and Fox displayed a James K. Polk presidential coin with the phrase on the coin’s face.
Watch it:
Letting the GOP Stop Healthcare Reform Didn’t Make Joe Lieberman Feel Douchey Enough
- Sen. Joe Lieberman (R, bascially-CT) will campaign for Republicans in 2010 and then run for re-election in 2012 on the highly popular “with us on everything but the war” platform. (ABC News)
- Whoops! Somebody accidentally put the names of over 30 members of Congress who are under investigation by the House Ethics Committee on “The Internet.” Unfortunately, the Washington Post is also aware of this “Internet,” so they have that list now. (WaPo)
- While you were sanitizing your hands for the 83rd time of the day last night, America got its Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin! Swine flu vaccines for everyone! (CNN Political Ticker)
- Nobody in the Parks and Recreation Department in Frederick, MD, could have predicted that hanging dummies that look like dead bodies from trees, a la a lynching, might not appeal to the city’s residents. (Frederick News-Post)
- Even Stephen Colbert does not care for the Guantanamo Bay prison and the torture that goes on there. (New Security Action)
- Oh look, totally unbiased FOX News is bringing back the “death panel” lie, in case you’d thought the healthcare debate had calmed down too much. I bet Robert Gibbs will say something mean to them again! (TPM)
A friendly suggestion for FOX News
If you want to convince people that you really are a “legitimate news organization” and not the mouthpiece of the Republican party, then maybe you might want to think twice before having one of your supposedly unbiased journalists “discuss the dangers of government-forced health care” at a rally run by Americans for Prosperity or float rumors that your CEO is considering running for the Republican nomination in 2012.
Just a thought.
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