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.
Love how this cretin does "product placement" by spitting his tobacco juice into a Pepsi bottle. This video is only 2 minutes of your life that you'll want back.
For many years, livestock love traditionalists were forced to live closeted lives lest they become objects of ridicule and laughter. But your work of turning rural life into a sacred calling changed all that. People of substance began praising livestock love. Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern offered it as an acceptable alternative to the sin of homosexuality. Compelled childbirth advocate Neal Horsley spoke lovingly about his relationship with a mule. Sen. John Cornyn painted us a picture of turtle tapping. Even the First Lady, Laura Bush, regaled us with tales of the President's attempts at stallion milking.
Now, a judge has ruled it to be legal. It came in a case against Robert Melia, a Moorestown, Pennsylvania cop. His fellow officers had found videos of him, offering up his little policeman to hungry calves. Burlington County Superior Court Judge James J. Morley ruled that the calves were more likely puzzled than harmed.
Let me boil down the two arguments of the Traditional Value Coalition's (TVC's) piece If You Hate America You Have a Lawyer -- Chai Feldblum: 1.) If a person who lives in the United States of America is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, then one hates America. 2.) If a person who lives in the United States of America is more liberal or progressive in their politics than the folk at the TVC, then one hates America.
TVC article text to the points (emphasis added):
Feldblum isn't known by most Americans, but her career experience and employers make her a sort of general counsel to the Forces of Darkness. She has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign Fund and she founded something called the Moral Values Project, a "gender equity" group meant to sound like something conservative.
She is a lesbian and has played a major role in pushing the LGBT agenda in American culture for the past 20 years.
The actual last line in the piece by TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty:
"Liberals hate America and so does a President who insists on appointing them to positions of power and responsibility within his already tottering administration."
Let me pose a response in very narrow terms:
Throwing my Disabled-20Year-Navy-Persian-Gulf-War-Veteran-(Service Connected)-Who-Is-Also-A-Transgender-Woman card, exactly How many years did Andrea Lafferty (or her father and TVC founder) Lou Sheldon serve their country in the military? -- or in any other way (Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, etc.)?
Is Andrea Lafferty actually saying that my service to my country was done with hate? That all LGBT and progressive service veterans of the military, Peace Corps, or AmeriCorps hate their country?
Apparently, she is saying exactly that. She -- and her father -- are apparently conflating Americanism with their being heterosexual and cissexual, and unAmericanism with being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans (LGBT). She and her father also are conflating Americanism with their conservative political opinions, and conflating unAmericanism with liberal and progressive political opinions.
This should be a galling conflation to American LGBT service veterans; this should be a galling conflation to LGBT and progressive Americans; this should be a galling conflation to all Americans.
Andrea Lafferty's opinions seem to be arguments from believing her side has values and her opponents have zero values -- when the reality is that her peers' and her's opponents include Americans with different values.
However strongly I may disagree with Andrea Lafferty's and Lou Sheldon's viewpoints, I don't believe for a moment that the two hate America. To not extend me, as a Disabled-20Year-Navy-Persian-Gulf-War-Veteran-(Service Connected)-Who-Is-Also-A-Transgender-Woman, the grace to believe I too don't hate America -- well, it says something that should be shocking to Americans about the TVC version of values.
During Take Back America 2008, I spent part of a day running around with a camera and a microphone asking people which issue was most important to them in the upcoming election. Just when I thought I was done, the camera turned to me and I was faced with the same question.
My answer came quickly and easily: health care reform. When I explained why, the argument that came out of my mouth was based more in morality than economics.
TPM has caught the conservative movement with its racist pants down again. Actually, we saw so much racist garbage during the campaign from the low-information Base that it was no surprise to find out the Teabagger movement and is apesh*t not just about taxes, but the fact that we have a black president.
On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded to fellow members of a Google listserv affiliated with the Tea Party movement the image below. Above it, he wrote: "Funny stuff."
Asked about the email in a brief phone interview with TPMmuckraker, McKalip said he believes that by depicting the president as an African witch doctor, the "artist" who created the image "was expressing concerns that the health-care proposals [made by President Obama] would make the quality of medical care worse in our country." McKalip said he didn't know who created it.
After being busted for this bottom-of-the-barrel trash behavior, the Florida Medical Association condemned McKalip's bigoted email and called for an apology. McKalip had his nuts in a vise, so I'm sure it pained him to type this one out:
"I genuinely regret the decision I made in passing this e-mail message along. Directly to President Obama, I sincerely apologize for offending him. This was, in no way whatsoever, my intention. The image has nothing to do with my feelings or thoughts on any race or culture. I recognize that this image is offensive and hope that the nation refocuses on assuring all Americans have access to high-quality, affordable health care with no party interfering in the patient-physician relationship. My intention is to focus directly on the issue at hand, which is putting financial and decision-making power into the hands of patients and taking it from government and insurance companies," said McKalip.
Yes, we are to believe that the first image that comes to mind when you think of the current president is that he runs around a bone through his nose dressed as a a loincloth-clad witch doctor as he discusses health care reform.
I'd like to say that this was the end of it, but we're talking about conservatives, right? Specifically the kind of conservatives who talk a big game about personal responsibility except when it comes to themselves. Case in point -- McKalip's not sorry for what he did, he's mad at the humorless Left for finding out about his jocularity and ruining a perfectly good joke. Besides, he can't be racist, because, well, he helped out them pickaninnies once:
In an interview yesterday with the St. Petersburg Times, which picked up the story, he declared: "I am not a racist. I am simply a person speaking up to make sure patients don't get hurt by the government and by insurance companies.''
As a defense against the racism charge, he noted, in the paper's words, that he had "helped organize a career counseling day several years ago for African-American Boy Scouts." And he blamed liberal activists for touting the email, which he called a "satire."
Perhaps someone should buy him a membership to The Valley Club.
Oh, the fun we have had on the Intertubes with Sarah- and to think, all of these in less than a year. Why, that's almost as many days as she has actually BEEN in Alaska during the course of her governorship!
And to think, also we've been giving poor Mark Sanford sh*t for his "frequent flyer miles"- wink wink!
Anyhoo, let's have a gander of some of Sarah's most photogenic moments. Or should we say, "turkey", also?
Ewww, let's move along to something more tasefully done than live unedited interviews with failed Republican Vice Presidential candidates. My apologies to those with weak stomachs!
This is beyond pathetic. Are these people just entering the 21st century? I'm not sure how I got on this mailing list, but this is killer entertainment. Maybe they'll Tweet coverage from the Values Voter Summit Rogues Gallery, and interview Stephen Baldwin and Carrie Prejean.
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NetRightNation.com (NRN) executive director Adam Bitely today announced the formation of the new NetRightNation 500, a coalition of the top 500 center/right bloggers committed to "countering the Obama agenda every step of the way."
"This is a major development for the center/right blogging community," said Bitely, the founder of NRN. "For the first time ever, the top bloggers will be able to coordinate major nationwide offensives with hard-hitting, unified messaging. We'll be able to impact critical issues from the grassroots up, helping to stop the Obama Big Government agenda dead in its tracks."
According to Bitely, the NRN 500 together reach more than 500,000 readers nationwide. And, he says, they are the readers that "most influence grassroots attitudes and actions."
In order to help the NRN 500 wield that influence, Bitely says, the NetRight Nation team has put together what he terms "a highly pro-active program," including:
·A Twitter Instant Alert Service allowing NRN 500 members to further spread there message out to the entire blogosphere
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"We intend for the exclusive new NRN 500 coalition to set the tone and the pace for countering the Obama agenda every step of the way," Bitely said.
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Keyboard protection on...look at who's invited and who's confirmed to attend the 2009 Values Voter Summit. It's like the best of the Blend collection of wingers and fundies. Honest to god, did Stephen Baldwin think this head shot was a good idea to circulate? And lookee here -- RNC head also-ran Ken Blackwell and Washington State's fundie laughingstock Ken Hutcherson are on board.
Below the fold are more invitees...it's too delicious.
UPDATE: MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell makes it sound like Palin is stepping down for family reasons and is sick of politics... has told backers she wants OUT.
UPDATE 2 (by Pam): She figures Mark Sanford self-immolated, Charlie Crist (ha) is going for the Senate, Mitt's Mormonism won't pass the fundie test, and Bobby Jindal looks like a featherweight. I guess that leaves Huckabee. What a field that is for 2012. From the NYT:
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Friday that she would step down by the end of the month and not seek a second term as governor, fueling speculation that she is seriously weighing whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
Ms. Palin, who was Senator John McCain's vice presidential running mate last year and solidified the support of the party's conservative base, explained her decision at a news conference at her home in Wasilla, Alaska, accompanied by her husband, Todd, and other family members.
"We know we can effect positive change outside of government," she said in making the announcement.
There had been wide speculation that she would seek to be the Republican Party's presidential candidate in 2012. Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, who is also considered to be a leading Republican candidate for president in 2012, announced last month that he would not seek re-election.
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for Republicans. Trounced in November's election, faced a popular president, and a voting public that seems to have rejected their conservative politics, now they're stuck with Rush Limbaugh as the de facto head of their party.
The annual wingnut fest known as CPAC is off and running and the luminaries of the conservative fringe are all there spewing lies and engaging in promoting conspiracy theories (check out Accuracy In Media's Cliff Kincaid floating the "Obama isn't a U.S. citizen" BS).
As usual, there is a plenty of opportunity for gay bashing at an event like this, and here is a prime example - a panel called "New Challenges in the Culture War." Mouthpieces at the podium included: Rep. Chris Smith (NJ), Janice Crouse of The Beverly LaHaye Institute and, Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel and Liberty University School of Law and colleague of Bam Bam Barber.
Mat doesn't rely on facts (do any of these people?) as he shares with the fire-breathing crowd why marriage equality will result in a boom in the prison population.
The Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver explains to the CPAC audience that "same-sex marriage sets forth a fatherless policy" and says that you don't need a bunch of scientific data to know that that is bad. After all, kids without fathers tend to fare poorly ... and if you need proof, all you have to do is take a look at the prison population.
Thus, the logic seems to go, letting two women get married will lead to a whole generation of fatherless children who will inevitably become violent criminals.
BONUS: Failed presidential candidate Mike Huckabee tried to burnish his conservative cred by (Tapped):
Mike Huckabee stole the show today, as thousands of CPAC attendees, many of them college students, crammed the big ballroom to hear him talk about why John McCain lost the election the future of the conservative movement. Huckabee spared no criticism of the candidate he stumped for -- even lamenting, at one point, that he had campaigned for McCain even after the nominee voted for the bank bailout back in September. That "was not our best moment," said Huckabee, adding that it "would have been our best shot at winning the White House" if McCain had been a true conservative voice rather than "a meek 'me too' big government echo."
Huckabee was off the rails with the socialism theme -- saying that Stalin and Lenin would have loved the TARP and stimulus bill and that the United States was becoming the "Union of American Socialist Republics." It's the new cold war, only the enemy is here at home.
Daimeon sent me this horrid link and yeah, I clicked it. If you take this filth at face value, the blogger at Magic Negro Watch claims to be a conservative black man.
Despite what clueless white liberals and Negros think, the election of Barack Hussein Obama was not a breakthrough for Negrodom
Who knows if he is black, but the junk on this blog is still offensive.
The "About Me" section is illuminating; he surely must be BFF with the delusional, self-loathing House Negro of The Sean Hannity Show, Jesse Lee Peterson. This is how the blogger describes himself.
About Me
Gaius Lawrenitis Negris
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
I am not a Republican, I am a Conservative and I have this never ending nagging distrust of liberals, particularly white liberals. White liberals are a bunch of phony socially retarded trifling people who lack even the most basic form of common sense. My blog is my tiny little weapon against liberal nonsense and stupidity. If you find this blog offensive, then you are exactly the type of individual who needs to be reading it.
If you have the guts to confront a black man who does not follow the liberal prescription for success in America by bitching and whining about how much the government should "care" then make your voice heard. It's easy to visit and hang out on a blog where only people of one particular political persuasion congregate and where your narrow little myopic view is appreciated and accepted. If you are a liberal and particularly if you are white try and educate yourself to something other than what you were taught at some university by some idiot Birkenstock wearing professor. All black people don't think alike I'm living proof.
I scrolled down to look at the feeble commentary and then I saw this...
Wow, talk about under the radar - Gabriel Malor of the arch-conservative blog Ace of Spades quietly outed himself, as he mourned the passage of Prop 8.
On Prop 8: I know most of you disagree with me about it. But could we have a moment of silence for those poor fools who were happily married or engaged yesterday and today are finding out that they don't have squat? Prop 8 was much more personal than some silly high-speed train or hospital funding. People are hurting today. And I'm one of them.
Commenters at Ace of Spades, where ribald anti-gay humor has always been one the features that makes the blog so delightful, were shocked. "Did Gabe just come out of the closet?" exclaimed A Different Dave in Texas. Apotheosis did his best to take it in stride with a nervous attempt at humor: "I'm sorry you're hurting, Gabriel. I'd offer you a hug, but...y'know. Just a beer or something, man? We're cool, right?" But while some commenters offered him sympathy, others stuck to their core conservative principles. "Wow. I'm really hurting for all the guy who want to marry their sisters. The gals who want to marry their Doberman Pinschers. The pain. The hurt," wrote Dang sarcastically. "I'm not a hard hearted person, but I'm also not going to lose sleep about the democratic process working to the disappointment of some. That's just the f---ing breaks," said Nom de Blog. Moronizer was having none of it: "So you got 'married,' knowing full well that it might get voided. Boo hoo." And Religious Zealot wanted Malor to stop acting so gay about it: "I don't deny that Gabe and others are hurting, it's just that it's a drama-queen reaction." I hope that in the coming days the bloggers at Ace of Spades will redouble their efforts to make fun of gays lest people start speculating about the sexual preference of the other co-bloggers and regular commenters there. Better to nip this thing in the bud before it spreads.
Speaking of conservatives, I'm stepping into the lair of PajamasMedia later today (Ace of Spades is in its network, btw), appearing via webcam on PajamasTV to discuss the ballot initiatives with PajamasMedia founder and CEO Roger L. Simon. His name might be familiar to you for another reason - he is one of the members of the Republicans Against 8 group. What Roger said about his support for civil equality:
The preeminent social issues - gay marriage and abortion - are quite separate. Lumping them together, as is often done by the media and by ideologues on both sides, is insulting to our intelligence.
For me, same-sex marriage is by far the simpler issue. I am one hundred percent for it on moral, civil rights and scientific grounds. (Sexual orientation is not elective.) And I am surprised so many of my fellow citizens would want to deny others a chance to experience a life of recognized love and commitment, something I have found, through hard experience, to be easily the most fulfilling and socially useful way to live. It would seem almost, dare I say it, unchristian.
Leaving no potential avenue of attack unexplored, the Republican National Committee has decided to bash Barack Obama over his October visit to see his ailing grandmother in Hawaii.
Of course the visit itself is not being criticized, but rather the way the campaign paid for the nominee's unscheduled detour. On Monday afternoon, the RNC blasted out a complaint from the California Republican Party charging that "Obama for America violated federal law by converting its campaign funds to Senator Obama's personal use" for the trip. That proposed issue for the FEC to investigate is one of five violations alleged by California Republicans in their complaint (which you can read in its entirety here).
"Senator Obama recently traveled to Hawaii to visit his sick grandmother. This was the right thing for any grandson to do -- at his own expense -- but it was not travel that his campaign may fund," said California Republican Chairman Ron Nehring in a statement Monday.
A funny thing happened on the way to the bailout. A number of the members of the bucket brigade - that's us, taxpayers - realized that for all the billions of dollars worth of bailing we're doing, we still appear to be sinking. Our task seems to be keeping things afloat long enough for first class passengers to fill the lifeboats. And as the water rises, more of us are less content with apparent the "brokers and bankers first" rule.
And let there be no doubt, as the U.S. economy looks like it's going down for the first time, "brokers and bankers first" is the rule.
In the waning days of, well, everything from the George W. Bush era, to the Reagan era and 30 years of conservative rule - as is often the case in a disaster - men's true characters reveal themselves, and they reveal their intentions when they have little left to lose.
Yep, the results of November 4th aren't in yet, but the folks inside the McCain/Palin campaign are readying their resumes for some Beltway pavement pounding and forming the circular firing squad. Sounds like a winning end game, huh?
With despair rising even among many of John McCain's own advisers, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering - much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.
A McCain interview published Thursday in The Washington Times sparked the latest and most nasty round of finger-pointing, with senior GOP hands close to President Bush and top congressional aides denouncing the candidate for what they said was an unfocused message and poorly executed campaign.
Ya think? McCain, in a truly toilet-bowl-circling maneuver, has lashed out at the Bush administration's incompetence (that he enabled 90% of the time, but no matter). This is the 157,132 change in message by the campaign, and everyone on the inside knows only a miracle (or a massive vote steal operation) can save it from swirling out into the sewer.
One well-connected Republican in the private sector was shocked to get calls and resumes in the past few days from what he said were senior McCain aides - a breach of custom for even the worst-off campaigns.
..."If you really want to see what 'going negative' is in politics, just watch the back-stabbing and blame game that we're starting to see," said Mark McKinnon, the ad man who left the campaign after McCain wrapped up the GOP primary. "And there's one common theme: Everyone who wasn't part of the campaign could have done better."
...In The Week, former Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote of McCain's travails in a way that seemed to take defeat for granted and warned the GOP faces a long road back. "That's not a failure of campaign tactics. It's not even a failure of strategy. It's a failure of the Republican Party and conservative movement to adapt to the times."
Again, ya think? We've been saying the failure of conservatism was upon us -- hey, I'll even be charitable on this one -- it's mainly due to the the whack-a-doodle social conservatives that have been gestating in the host, like the creature in Alien, and now that wing has done a bloody, gory chest burst, killing its host -- the GOP. The power-mad creature is squealing and slithering off into the night, feeling empowered, taking over the ship, intent on killing everyone on board. It is off to serve as a drone for the Queen Alien, Sarah Palin, who is laying her wingnut eggs for her 2012 run.
It will destroy everything in its path -- our Constitution, personal freedoms, relations abroad -- the list of fragile entities the social conservatives want to devour is long and tasty. Republicans need an Ellen Ripley to open the hatch and suck that bloodsucking creature out into the airless realm of space for good.
The truth is that Obama in Ohio spoke the language of American democracy, which has always included a perception that wealth is a form of power, and that stupendous inequalities of wealth produce an undemocratic inequality of power. His questioner, angry in anticipation that he could not hold onto all of the $300,000 he might hypothetically earn in a year, spoke the language of righteous self-interest; and he cited as his irrefutable authority "the American dream." If I follow that dream, said the Joe of today, hoarding the wealth of the Joe of tomorrow, why should I ever pay a higher tax?
Obama's answer was simple and Christian. Once you have been helped by a tax break to prosper and to grow relatively rich, it seems fair to give others lower down the ladder the same chance that once helped you.
You'd think so. But once again, depending on how you you believe faith and finance relate to one another.
Tim Russo recently showed you the hate-filled ignorant base of support for McCain/Palin in Ohio. Make no mistake, that was no anomoly. The kind of conservatives drawn to Grampy and Bible Spice rallies in Bethlehem, PA look and sound as if they are playing from the same disgusting playbook of bigotry, ignorance and anger. They are proud to hold non-reality-based views, and attend rallies where these false messages are stoked for them by the two people on the ticket running for the highest offices in the land who know better. (KeystoneProgress.org)
Man #1: "That guy gets elected, he hangs around with terrorists."
Filmmaker: "Who are the terrorists?"
Man #1: "Obama."
Man #2: "Obama's a terrorist! You know that?!"
Man #3: "Obama's a Muslim, he's a terrorist himself!"
Filmmaker: "Do you really believe that, sir, that Senator Obama is a terrorist?"
Man #3: "I believe that he supports terrorism."
Man #4 (walks by, randomly screaming): "Commie faggots!"
Woman #1: "Socialism! Communism!" (random people yell "Go to Russia!" "socialist swine" and "European socialist!")
Filmmaker: "You think they should die?"
Man #5: "Everyone dies, don't they?"
and look at this incredible exchange:
Protestor: "Palin voted to have women pay for their own rape kits. My friends shouldn't have to pay for their own rape kits. How would you feel about that?"
McCain supporter: "She should die!"
McCain supporter #2: "She should pay double!"
McCain changed his tone Friday when supporters at a town hall pressed him to be rougher on Obama. A voter said, "The people here in Minnesota want to see a real fight." Another said Obama would lead the U.S. into socialism. Another said he did not want his unborn child raised in a country led by Obama.
"If you want a fight, we will fight," McCain said. "But we will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments." When people booed, he cut them off.
"I don't mean that has to reduce your ferocity," he said. "I just mean to say you have to be respectful."
..."I don't trust Obama," a woman said. "I have read about him. He's an Arab."
McCain shook his head in disagreement, and said: "No, ma'am. He's a decent, family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with (him) on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign is all about."
He had drawn boos with his comment: "I have to tell you, he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States."
The article also notes that the hate-based ignorance peaks when McCain appears with Palin, who draws the most radical fringe of the GOP social conservative base. Bible Spice's crowd has now shown its face, and the blowback for McCain, in his desperation to hold on to that base, has been to turn off the very independents he sought to attract. The crazies and the Freepers are out of the closet and enjoying their time in the sun.
Amanda mulled about possible theories as to what the real purpose of awakening this angry underbelly and drawing it out into the open might be:
* McCain has just lost his shit.
* They actually think this will win them the election.
* They're hoping to incite some violence that will change everything, even perhaps stopping the election.
* Sabotaging Obama's Presidency.
* Palin's running the show now.
It could be any or all of these reasons or even more, but the bottom line is that someone in the McCain/Palin campaign thinks that public toxic wingnuttery of this nature doesn't need to be stopped. That should scare us all.
Tim Russo has part two of the McCain/Palin Mob in Strongsville, OH (part 1 here), where he interviews wingers outside of a Bible Spice rally, asking them the question "Do you think Barack Obama is a terrorist?" Tim:
This video includes a family who believes Barack Obama is a terrorist. They brought an Obama doll, to show he's a "puppet", and when asked why, their small child says "you need gloves to touch him". Bonus footage of 2 closeted gays - see if you can tell which ones!
Bottom line - I have never seen such a dangerous group of people at a presidential rally, so willing to announce their views to a guy holding a camera, and so transparently up to no good. These people are very easily incited, as we have seen, and they need to be exposed.
In particular, a woman, who teaches her own child, that the next president of the United States is so vile that "you need gloves to touch him" needs to be put on video, and see how her views look in the light of day. I don't know how anyone can teach their own child this level of hate.
These people are boldly ignorant.
Some select quotes in response to "Do you think Barack Obama is a terrorist?":
Woman 1: "He's a domestic terrorist."
Tim: "So why did John McCain stand onstage with him?"
Woman 1: "Because he's an honest, good man."
Woman 2: "Sarah [Palin] is a normal woman."
Tim: "and Barack is...?"
Woman 2: "He's a politician, a seasoned politician."
Tim: "That doesn't make him normal?"
Woman 2: "No...no...how many politicians are there versus normal people?
Tim: "Sarah's one."
Woman 2: "She's a politician but she's more on the normal side."
Woman 3: "SHE'S A WOMAN!!"
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Tim: "How long have you known Sarah Palin?"
Woman 4 (carrying a Barack Obama doll/puppet): "All my life."
A man next to her is carrying a sign that says "NObama, my Grandma said, "You are the company you keep." Tim asks "what company are you referring to." The man says: "the likes of guys like Bill Ayers."
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Man #2: "I think he's a Communist and a Marxist...I think he was indoctrinated by the teachings of his father."
Tim: "You know he only saw his father twice in his entire life."
Man #2: "The teachings of his father...not personally."
Another video of conservative crazies spewing bile is after the jump.
Sigh. As I've said before, the IQ of these conservatives is dropping like an anchor.
Tim Russo at BloggerInterrupted interviewed some of the ignorant yahoos at a Bible Spice rally in Strongsville, OH and the ignorance -- added on top of the proud bluster, is incredible:
A sample of the comments:
"I think he (Obama) is a one-man terror cell."
"He's got the bloodlines...look at the name."
"There have been more personal interviews with Sarah Palin than Barack Obama."
And then some tool comes up to one of the unhinged yahoos who can't stay away from the camera and instructs her - "Don't answer any questions until he (Tim) submits them to you in writing."
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Straight from the Straight Talking Maverick Machine into my mailbox. The smell of flopsweat and desperation requires a Glade Plug-in as they feed upon this intellectual mob's desire with the release of its latest ad this AM,"Ayers".
ANNCR: Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They've worked together for years.
But Obama tries to hide it. Why?
Obama launched his political career in Ayers' living room.
Ayers and Obama ran a radical "education" foundation, together.
They wrote the foundation's by-laws, together.
Obama was the foundation's first chairman.
Reports say they, "distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in education."
When their relationship became an issue, Obama just responded, "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood."
That's it?
We know Bill Ayers ran the "violent left wing activist group" called Weather Underground.
We know Ayers' wife was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
We know they bombed the Capitol. The Pentagon. A judge's home.
We know Ayers said, "I don't regret setting bombs. .... I feel we didn't do enough."
But Obama's friendship with terrorist Ayers isn't the issue.
The issue is Barack Obama's judgment and candor.
When Obama just says, "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood."
Americans say, "Where's the truth, Barack?"
Barack Obama. Too risky for America.
JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.
If this is such a critical issue in the campaign at this juncture -- and he approves of the message, then why did John McCain not take the opportunity to stand onstage with the "terrorist" during this week's town hall on national television and personally ask Obama about his past "associations?' No cojones, McSame? Don't want your past associations on the table? Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow discuss some of those McGuilt by Association ties. See the video below the fold.
Want to blame someone for the financial mess we're in? Well, join the club and get in line. Folks on the right are hell bent on blaming blacks. And if that doesn't work, they can always blame gays for our economic downturn. (Okay, okay! I confess already. it's all my fault. I'm not sure how I did it, and I don't know what I did with the $1 trillion that's likely to be the total we're in the hole.)
Speaking of Jesus' General, he wrote the NYT's David Brooks about the real, true, noble America -- you know, like the manly heterosexualist Robert Melia and his 
TPM has caught the conservative movement with its racist pants down again. Actually, we saw so much racist garbage during the campaign from the low-information Base that it was no surprise to find out the Teabagger movement and is apesh*t not just about taxes, 
Again, ya think? We've been saying the failure of conservatism was upon us -- hey, I'll even be charitable on this one -- it's mainly due to the the whack-a-doodle social conservatives that have been gestating in the host, like the creature in Alien, and now that wing has done a bloody, gory chest burst, killing its host -- the GOP. The power-mad creature is squealing and slithering off into the night, feeling empowered, taking over the ship, intent on killing everyone on board. It is off to serve as a drone for the Queen Alien, Sarah Palin, who is laying her wingnut eggs for her 2012 run.
