How to Become a Right-Wing Icon
Sexually harass your staff:
He’s spent only 431 days in Congress, has never seen any of his bills pass out of subcommittee and was best known for voting against major pieces of legislation because they weren’t liberal enough for him — at least until he was accused of sexually harassing a male staffer.
Meet Eric Massa, conservative media hero.
The New York Democrat’s weekend radio rant against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has his star rising on the right even as he resigns from Congress under an ethical cloud.
Rush Limbaugh vowed to make a “national story” out of Massa’s claims that Democrats orchestrated his downfall because he voted no on health care reform — adding that Massa is “going to have so much support from people.”
Matt Drudge led his site for much of the day Monday with all-caps links to POLITICO’s coverage of Massa’s statements: “RAHM ‘WOULD SELL HIS OWN MOTHER,’ ‘SON OF THE DEVIL’S SPAWN.’”
And Glenn Beck took to Twitter to announce that he’d have Massa on his show for “the full hour” Tuesday because “all Americans need to hear him.”
And remember, these are the “family values” guys.
3/9/10 9:55 am | | Permalink | Tags: Drudge Report, Eric Massa, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh
- I hope Rush Limbaugh appreciates the life-saving “socialized medicine” he received from unionized hospital employees in Hawaii. (SEIU)
- Former Mo. State Sen. Jeff Smith begins his year and a day as prisoner number 36607-044 at a federal prison in Manchester, Ky. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- Florida GOP Chair Jim Greer has resigned for failing to be an insane teabagger like the rest of his party. (St. Petersburg Times)
- In response to the Christmas underpants bomber, Canada will install full-body scanners at eleven major airports as part of a new global effort to create the world’s biggest porn collection improve airport security. (CTV)
- Politico, DC’s most popular chronicle of politicians’ marital affairs, has no problem with reprinting Dick Cheney’s nonsensical ramblings about President Obama verbatim and with very little commentary. (The Plum Line)
1/5/10 12:57 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, Canada, Dick Cheney, Jeff Smith, Jim Greer, Politico, Rush Limbaugh, underpants bomber
Quote of the Day
If we’re going to ask why did he do it, knowing full well that he’s in the same mosque in 2001 with the radical preacher going nuts, we’re going to also [laughter] have to believe that the guy was just like Obama, and didn’t hear Rev. Wright’s words when he was in his church.
– GOP leader Rush Limbaugh, reacting to reports that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was spotted in a Virginia mosque with possible ties to al-Qaeda by comparing him to the President of the United States.
11/9/09 4:51 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, Fort Hood, Nidal Malik Hasan, QOTD, Rush Limbaugh
Wanker of the Day
Rush Limbaugh
9/17/09 10:14 am | | Permalink | Tags: racism, Rush Limbaugh, WOTD
Deathers
Daily Kos’ Jed Lewison defines the conspiracy:
Deather, defined
Main entry: deather
Function: noun
Etymology: From birther, a related conspiracy theory which holds that President Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen. Inspired by the teabaggers of April 15, 2009.
Date: Mid-2009
Definition: One who believes or spreads the false conspiracy theory that the health care reform legislation before Congress would create “death panels” or force seniors and sick people into euthanasia.
Examples: Sarah Palin is a deather. Glenn Beck is a deather. Rush Limbaugh is a deather.
8/11/09 1:17 pm | | Permalink | Tags: death panels, Glenn Beck, healthcare, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin
Free Speech Only Applies to Right-Wingers (Because They Put Those Yellow Ribbon Magnets on Their Cars)
- Teabaggers are now threatening violence against the SEIU and other pro-healthcare reform groups for daring to show up at town halls. Let freedom ring! (The Plum Line)
- Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) is introducing legislation to give tax credits to pay for pet care. Healthcare for humans? Not so much. (Michigan Messenger)
- A GOP town hall turns ugly when Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) dares take the name of Glenn Beck in vain. It was only a matter of time before Republicans got a little taste of their own medicine. (Think Progress)
- Bill O’Reilly secretly wants to make out with Barack Obama, but it’s okay because the real wingnuts have all switched over to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh already. (Mediaite via Wonkette)
8/7/09 3:59 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Bob Inglis, Glenn Beck, healthcare, pet care, Rush Limbaugh, SEIU, teabaggers, Thaddeus McCotter
Barack Obama is Optimus Prime
- How sad, nobody wants your Watergate Hotel, where Richard Nixon famously was a crook. The hotel sold at auction for $25 million to the only bidder. (Washington Business Journal/WaPo)
- Before you vote for Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) for Senate, consider the fact that Mark Kirk is a Decepticon. So Rush Limbaugh is Megatron, then? (TPMDC)
- Lou Dobbs does not like illegal immigrants, and Lou Dobbs does not like Barack Obama. This has led Lou Dobbs to wonder if Barack Obama is an undocumented immigrant. So now I’m confused, was Barack Obama born in Indonesia, Kenya, or Mexico? (Political Wire)
- Formerly hospitalized Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) returned to the Senate today just to stick it to that Obama guy. Um, hooray? (Roll Call)
- Mark Sanford is tired of everyone asking about all the sexy things he did to his soulmate, who is not his wife, when they should be focused on more important things like, I dunno, his unusually high taxpayer-funded travel expenses, maybe? (CNN Political Ticker/WYFF)
7/21/09 3:54 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, IL-Sen, Lou Dobbs, Mark Kirk, Mark Sanford, Richard Nixon, Robert Byrd, Rush Limbaugh, Transformers, Watergate
The Modern GOP
Things your President of the United States Barack Obama did today, according to the Republican Party:
And then they wonder why even other Republicans don’t like the Republican Party.
6/25/09 12:21 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, GOP, Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh
Apology Watch, Ex-Presidential Edition
Shortly after jumping out of a plane (to celebrate 85 years of his parachute opening on previous such occasions), former President George H.W. Bush some choice words about the GOP’s treatment of Sonia Sotomayor:
“She was called by somebody a racist once. That’s not right. I mean that’s not fair,” Bush said in an interview with CNN. “It doesn’t help the process. You’re out there name-calling. So let them decide who they want to vote for and get on with it.”
“I don’t know her that well, but I think she’s had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair hearings,” he said.
So now the question becomes whether a former President of the United States will apologize to Rush Limbaugh. Of course, if he’s like the rest of his party, then the real question is not whether he’ll do it but how long until he does.
6/12/09 5:56 pm | | Permalink | Tags: George H.W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Sonia Sotomayor
Shorter Rush Limbaugh
Limbaugh: I Could Support Sotomayor If I Became Convinced That She’s Anti-Choice
- Sonia Sotomayor allowing personal feelings because of her heritage to influence her decision making: bad. Sonia Sotomayor allowing personal feelings because of her Catholicism to influence her decision making about abortion: good.
6/3/09 7:52 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Rush Limbaugh, shorter, Sonia Sotomayor
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