I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
More fun in the mailbox...this came in from the "The Washington Times Marketing Showcase":
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Good god -- the bile just flows continuously out of these beasts on the right; people like Mark Williams let their bigoted *sses hang out on international TV without a care in the world -- but claims he and the teabagger movement aren't racist. Say it, class -- "You Lie!" Devona Walker at The Loop:
Tea Party leader Mark Williams called President Obama an "Indonesian Muslim turned Welfare thug," last night on Anderson Cooper 360 in a segment where he was trying to deny any racist motivations behind the Tea Party protest.
Williams denounced those carrying blatantly racist signs against President Obama during the tea parties as "no more part of the mainstream of America than the hippies who wear nipple clips and feather boas in San Francisco streets during so-called peace demonstrations."
"What you're saying makes sense to me here when I'm hearing what you say but then I read on your blog, you say, you call the President an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief," Anderson Cooper said. "Yeah, that's the way he's behaving," Williams said. "He's certainly acting like it. Until he embraces the whole country what else can I conclude."
You see, Williams can say what he did without a bit of guilt that he's crossed some sort of line in defense of racism. Why? Because the people in question didn't burn a cross on a lawn or drag a black man tied to the back of a pickup truck down a road until his limbs fell off. THOSE PEOPLE are the racists, right?
Just because you don't use the N-word doesn't mean you are not a racist. Just because you call your movement one of "angry, working-class Americans" does not provide cover for the fact that you are leading a racist mob. Just because you don't explicitly tell people to assassinate the president, abortion doctors, gays, Hispanic-Americans or illegal immigrants, you may still have blood on your hands if you cheerlead them on and provide propaganda as fuel.
Well if someone ordered a set of Klan sheets for Williams, he would wear them very well, thank you.
Needless to say, when a rapper says his conservative views were inspired by Michael Savage, I think you can imagine the flavor of the lyrics and the extent of the "entertainment.' But Hi-Caliber (here's his Myspace page) goes low-end, by sharing his talent with the intellectual giants attending the 9/12 anti-Obama gathering last weekend. Check this out, via Think Progress:
We need tanks and hummers, not hybrid cars!
We need honest politicians, not communist czars!
USA, not the USSR.
We need more Ann Coulter and less Bill Maher.
[...]
I don't need another lecture from the Socialistic hypocrite.
Tuesday was your birthday, but where's your birth certificate?
(Sorry, Hank, but the "code" isn't fooling anyone... - promoted by Pam Spaulding)
Hank Williams Jr --
While doing his Don't tread On Me spiel in his act.
Talks about "folks like us" then shows his WHITE face and hands (around 2:30 in video). "Ain't too many things my beautiful people can't do..." Subtle as a f*ckin steamroller! Found this drek on Breibart TV too, what a treasure trove of DREK
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BONUS FROM PAM: This is laughably f*cked up -- a theme song for the teabagger "patriots". It's a good bookend to the talent of Hank Williams, Jr. Song by Steve Amerson & Dick Wells. Will this hit the top 40?
Newt Gingrich said "Don't Tell Me It Can't Be Done should be the rallying cry for the conservative movement, this is the anthem for the resurgance of the conservative movement.
God, judgment day, revolution, guns, abortion, taxes, uppity Negroes in the White House. (The last is only implied, of course.) Note to teabagging subtitlers: it's Capitol Hill, not Capital.
Thankfully Wells Fargo, the employer of leading Idaho tea-bagger Charles McAffee, doesn't train its representatives to document loan-delinquent homeowners in this manner. Via Raw Story:
The Republican Party chairman of Boise County in Idaho was arrested Thursday for aggravated assault after he pulled a gun on a man whose house he was photographing.
Charles McAffee, 33, was among Idaho's anti-tax tea-party activists, and is a member of the Idaho Republican Party Central Committee. He was arrested after pulling a handgun on a homeowner whose mortgage his employer sought to photograph for being delinquent
Do you see a trend here? Gun-brandishing teabaggers, right-wing preachers calling for the execution of gays and the President...in all of the years the left was out in the political cold, did we see any of this completely unhinged behavior? At some point the GOP and religious right leaders need to condemn these extremists and eliminationists or we can safely assume that they agree wholeheartedly with a class of people who encourage - or partake - in violence as a protest or act of intimidation. The AP:
According to police in the Boise suburb of Meridian, resident Robert Lutes called officers just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to report McAffee had pointed a .357 Magnum handgun at him during a verbal confrontation. McAffee acknowledged he pointed the gun at Lutes, according to the police account.
"I'm unarmed, I'm an old man," Lutes, 51, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "I'm trying to find out why he's taking pictures of my house. I said, 'Knock on my door, let me know what you want.' Then, I think he's reaching for his business card and he pulls out a concealed weapon and I think he's going to blow my head off."
Blend reader GottaLaff of The Political Carnival was so incensed about the right wing, racist nutbag who ripped up a poster of Rosa Parks during a Sen. McCaskill town hall that he contacted David Shuster about it, and then emailed me to say his report was on.
Earlier today, I Tweeted David Shuster about the video Paddy found of a clip that the corporate media had conveniently ignored (they only aired an out-of-context segment that showed an African American woman being ejected from a town hall meeting, implying that she had instigated the disruption).
Shuster apparently found the clip as informative as we did, and included it as part of a broader discussion, and for that we thank him.
This time, it was USAir, thank you very much. When we arrived at the gate the agent said that there was some sort of delay (not weather, not technical, not crew over hours), so I have no idea what the problem was. But get this -- when I asked her if there was a chance it would be cancelled, she said
"Oh no, the weather is fine, there's a good plane on the ground. It will just be about an hour before it leaves Pittsburgh, and the flight is 57 minutes to RDU."
So Kate and I went to wait. Grabbed an ice cream at Carvel, walked back to the gate and the sign just had the flight info on it, and an 800 number beneath. Not good. I called and got the brain-deadening -- "the flight has been cancelled." I hung up and laughed so loud Kate had to tell me to pipe down.
The line of weary people waiting at the gate for the agent to reroute them. I called that 800 number back and waited on hold for a while, but finally got an agent and she couldn't book me on any USAir flight today or on any other carrier today. So we're going on a 6:18 flight that will get there (hopefully) at 7:40 AM. That will not give me much time to get the luggage, cab it to the conference center to check in, get my NN09 registration and to my panel by 9AM ("From Prop 8 to Full Equality in All 50 States: Fighting for Marriage Equality and LGBT Rights Across America").
Of course we already boarded the dogs, so flush that $ down the drain.
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Here's an item I came across while I was not airborne...a video of one of the local crazies. Facing South captures a teabagger/birther/nutbag protestor at a town hall held by Brad Miller (D-NC):
A protester at Rep. Brad Miller's "town hall" meeting in Raleigh, NC compares Obama to Hitler and says Democratic reform legislation will make people "55 and older will not be allowed to have hip replacements" and other surgeries. She also echoes erroneous claims that the legislation will allow government "grim reapers" (Sarah Palin's alleged "death panels") will tell the elderly to "take a pill and just die." She also bemoans the fact that she "was accosted by a woman who was Jewish.
Wow. Just. Wow. All I know is if this is the path these people are taking, the darkest days are ahead. Exclusive video from an incident at Senator McCaskill's town hall in eastern Missouri:
This is the only video of what actually happened at the event this afternoon. The news only showed the woman being escorted away by the police. What happened was the women walked in with signs, the crowd booed and yelled at the women. The women rolled up their posters and put them down. A photographer/reporter approached the woman on the end and wanted to see what the poster was. As the woman went to show the photographer/reporter what the poster was, a man from the bleachers stood up and snatched the poster from the woman and photographer/reporter. As the woman went to retrieve her poster the police stepped in and escorted the woman and the man from the building.
The poster was not of Obama, it was not pro health care, the poster that was taken from the woman and wrinkled up into a ball was of Rosa Parks.
National news coverage only showed the woman being escorted from the forum and left out the fact that it was the man who started the incident. Not to mention it was a poster of Rosa Parks.
Angry Black Bitch has an on-site report of the out-of-control nightmare coming from the kind of people we saw in full-out-racist mode at McCain/Palin rallies during the campaign.
I did have an unfortunate incident with a woman when I was trying to make a phone call outside of the hall while being black. She got up in my face...said something about being tired of all us [insert N-word]...and then called me a baby killer (I was wearing a pink Planned Parenthood t-shirt). She was quickly escorted away by an extremely nice and police officer.
They are so far off the reality-based charts that it's hopeless to think the conflicts will not escalate:
A lot of the folks in attendance were confused. President Obama was portrayed on signs and pamphlets as some sort of Nazi, socialist, foreign born, communist, Muslim, euthanasia enthusiast, fascist who wants to tyrannically impose new environmental standards to perpetuate the dangerous myth of global warming all the while teaching the wee little babies about birth control in pre-school and plotting to knock off Grandma.
These people seem to be scared shitless by the Obama presidency.
Many of them are on Medicare...like Medicare...don't want to see Medicare go away, but are opposed to government healthcare coverage options.
No surprise here from the GOP base. Blender Kel Munger of the Sacramento News & Review covered the teabaggers in that part of the world this week and has a great description of the event in the post "Revolt of the frightened, middle-aged white tea-baggers":
The stage was set up way to the front of the west capitol steps rather than near the steps, which crowded the audience into a much smaller space. Figures; it made 5,000 people (guestimate based on number of rows times number of people in the third from the back row, which I cut through to get out of the crowd) feel more like 10,000 because the crowd area was small and packed.
Second, this was all about the over-40 white people (only person of color I saw in the whole place who wasn't wearing a police uniform was a brave Black man on a bicycle who rode by with a "Fox Sucks" sign shouting "Fox can teabag me!"). Men outnumbered women about three to one.
Third, there was plenty of wingnuttery: the usual "Abolish the IRS" and "Return to the gold standard," as well as one guy who kept saying, "They're committing treason. Hang 'em all!"
Fourth, nobody seems to grasp that the Obama administration was not the author of TARP. They seem to have forgotten that a Bush administration ever existed, and the anger at President Obama ranged from the usual accusations of socialism (except for the guy with a sign equating him to Hitler-I think that's an accusation of fascism) to several signs with variations of "OBAMA: One Big Awful Mistake, America."
Uh, yeah, Kel, my name is Liz and I was at the same Sacramento tea party you were. And I don't know what the hell you're talking about about the black stuff, you're probably black yourself, I guess. I don't know whether you're some kind of hate monger ... maybe goes with your last name, Munger.
Anyway, as far as the black people showing up, there were quite a few black people and they were probably intelligent ones that weren't home on welfare where the rest of 'em probably were, and a lot of hispanics that we're paying for that are illegally here. So next time you write an article you better write it right because there was a black man that sung the tea party song in case you missed that one, and there was also a black guy from Hollywood, a comedian, who was up there speaking to the crowd.
The next time you decide to write your slanted view get your fucking facts straight you fucking asshole.
Paranoid. Racist. Wildly ignorant. What we saw on display at these Teabagging parties is exactly what ails the Republican party as it attempts to remake its sorry image. It is a political party that is wholly dependent on a slice of voters who don't have a clue about civics, history, or whether they look like raving Christianist jackasses in public.
We already saw that with the mobs attending the McCain/Palin rallies who were eager to share their bigoted, deranged views with anyone carrying a video camera. They are now enshrined on YouTube for Edition 2 of the State of the GOP Base. Let's examine...
Anthony Fossaceca was at a Cleveland teabagger party and his video is here. He noted:
Speakers screamed on the overly amplified sound system about higher taxes, abortion, guns, God being driven from schools, civil liberties being taken away (I know...I know), the price of stamps, and pretty much every other fringe idea the GOP hangs its hat on.
After an hour and 20 minutes of random ranting, one thing stood out. No one, not a single speaker or attendee, offered an original thought or idea on how to get our economy turned around after eight years of failed Bushonomics.
He also features what we all know is the undercurrent at these rallies, an expression of exasperated racism because Barack Obama is presidenting while black, and the country is being overrun by The Brown Menace. Ohio-based blogger Tim Russo captured this precious moment of "patriot" paranoia, also in Cleveland.
I've been doing video of right wing nutbags for a long time, but this one was the most disturbing event I've ever attended. The rotting racist rabid rump of Republicanism has been reduced to a twitching crowd of paranoids. I got harassed away by a growing mob of jackasses, some of whom are in this video. I tried to get the police to stop them, to no avail. After about a half hour of these thugs chasing me around the event, I just left.
More below the fold, including pix from Blender Naperville Mom.
I'm loving this batsh*t insanity way too much. So Governor Goodhair's ready to take his balls home and bed down with Chuck Norris to make a go of it as the great nation of Texas, announcing this grand decision to reporters in Austin after the local teabagging affair. (Houston Chronicle):
"Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that," Perry said. "My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that."
Just because you don't use the N-word doesn't mean you are not a racist. Just because you call your movement one of "angry, working-class Americans" does not provide cover for the fact that you are leading a racist mob. Just because you don't explicitly tell people to assassinate the president, abortion doctors, gays, Hispanic-Americans or illegal immigrants, you may still have blood on your hands if you cheerlead them on and provide propaganda as fuel. 
Needless to say, when a rapper says his conservative views were inspired by Michael Savage, I think you can imagine the flavor of the lyrics and the extent of the "entertainment.' But Hi-Caliber (here's his 
Blend reader GottaLaff of 
This time, it was USAir, thank you very much. When we arrived at the gate the agent said that there was some sort of delay (not weather, not technical, not crew over hours), so I have no idea what the problem was. But get this -- when I asked her if there was a chance it would be cancelled, she said
Paranoid. Racist. Wildly ignorant. What we saw on display at these Teabagging parties is exactly what ails the Republican party as it attempts to remake its sorry image. It is a political party that is wholly dependent on a slice of voters who don't have a clue about civics, history, or whether they 
