What does it say about early 21st century America that some of the best journalists, at least judging by the political facility of their readers or watchers, includes two fake comedy political shows and one guy from the Rolling Stone? [Read more…]
Dinesh D’souza gets a small dose of truth courtesy of Bill Maher from Real Time, and like most wingnut grifters he doesn’t handle the truth well at all. Mediate has the video, here’s a recap: [Read more…]
The Daily Show was brilliant last night, Colbert was equally great. And once again it raises the question of why a fake comedy-news show and a satirist posing as a wingnut pundit are the among the first ones out of the gate ‘reporting’ the obvious.
This right here may have saved this election. The judge was not kind to the bullshit Ryan-Romney was spreading about Obama trying to curtail military voters either: [Read more…]
It was bad enough that the GOP was running around virtually in drag pretending to love women and minorities all week, while quietly or not so quietly nailing down planks on their platform that would more appropriate if read to the illiterate masses by a 14th century small-town crier. Plus Clint Eastwood was up there, a debacle that will be cruelly dissected elsewhere — just not here. Then there was touching witness to the generous side of Romney that We the People and billions dollars worth of media have somehow failed to perceive: [Read more…]
This was a GOP latina who took the podium as part of procedure, some other faction didn’t like the rules. So they started shouting “Go Back Home” and “USA, USA”. Yeah, that happened yesterday too.
It’s not completely clear why what happened actually happened, but apparently a convention attendee or two started throwing food at a black CNN camera person: [Read more…]
There’s just something eerily fitting about the GOP convention being delayed by a heat engine in the form of a tropical cyclone. And while we’re at it, how loud would the claims that God-eh hates XYZ, where XYZ equals anything to the left of Genghis Kahn, be right about now if the tables were turned? [Read more…]
Just one poll, not sure what to make of it, yada-yada-yada: [Read more…]
You may want to hold your nose if you go below the fold. The National Review waded into the sewer of right-wing misogyny, and decided to spruce the place up by taking a giant steaming shit: [Read more…]