When Roger West first launched the progressive political blog "News From The Other Side" in May 2010, he could hardly have predicted the impact that his venture would have on the media and political debate. As the New Media emerged as a counterbalance to established media sources, Roger wrote his copious blogs about national politics, the tea party movement, mid-term elections, and the failings of the radical right to the vanguard of the New Media movement. Roger West's efforts as a leading blogger have tremendous reach. NFTOS has led the effort to bring accountability to mainstream media sources such as FOX NEWS, Breitbart's "Big Journalism.
Roger's breadth of experience, engaging style, and cultivation of loyal readership - over 92 million visitors - give him unique insight into the past, present, and future of the New Media and political rhetoric that exists in our society today.
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"As painful as this day is and always will be, it leaves us with a lesson: that no single event can ever destroy who we are, no act of terrorism can ever change what we stand for. Instead we recommit ourselves to the values that we believe in, holding firmly without wavering, to the hope that we confess. That’s the commitment that we reaffirm today, and that’s why when the history books are written, the true legacy of 9/11 will not be one of fear or hate or division; It will be a safer world, a stronger nation, and a people more united than ever before."
— President Barack Obama
May we never forgot those whom have fallen - and for those whom shall fall in the future fighting for our freedom.
The Democratic National Convention last week hosted several music stars to include the Foo Fighters, Mary J. Blige and James Taylor.
James Taylor was probably not expecting his performance to receive too much buzz around the internet (certainly not as much as Eastwooding did from the GOP Convention the week before). However, Jimmy Fallon chose him as the topic of his newest music parody, taking the lyrics to his classic “Fire and Rain” and giving them an election spin – ending up with “Romney and Bain”.
The song was a clear endorsement of the Obama campaign with the refrain: “So I’ll prob’ly vote Obama again”.
Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan has gotten in hot
water before for criticizing President Obama for the very same defense cuts
that he voted for in 2011. When confronted with this incongruity today on Face
The Nation, Ryan simply denied that he ever voted for the cuts, telling an
incredulous Norah O’Donnell that he didn’t actually vote for the cuts he’s on
record as voting for:
O’Donnell is, in fact, not mistaken. The Budget Control Act,
as passed, included both the roughly $600 billion in “sequestration” cuts that will happen if there’s
no compromise on the budget by December as well as the $487 billion ofmilitary-supported
cutsthat
will take place regardless. The fact that Ryan may have wished that the bill
didn’t contain said defense cuts does not absolve him of the fact that he and201 other Republicansvoted
for the bill as-passed.
Moreover,
Ryan’s statement after voting for the bill contained not a single word of
criticism about the defense cuts. As O’Donnell correctly noted, Ryansaid the bill“represents
a victory for those committed to controlling government spending and growing
our economy” and that “The agreement – while far from perfect – underscores the
extent to which the new House majority has successfully changed Washington’s
culture of spending.” It’s at best misleading, and at worst an outright lie,
for Ryan to assert that voting for the Budget Control Act did not mean voting
for defense cuts.
This is the thing with pathological liars, they cannot keep track
of the BS. What else is Paul "Eddie Munster" Ryan willing to lie about?
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Rachel Maddow discussed how a little-known third party candidate could scuttle Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s electoral chances in the state of Virginia and thereby cost him the presidency.
At the outset of the segment, Maddow pointed out that according to some polls, the Democrats have gotten a slight bounce out of their convention, but reminded viewers that “National polls do not decide elections.” Elections are decided state by state according to the electoral college:
“It doesn’t matter how many votes Mitt Romney gets in California, he’s going to lose that state. It doesn’t matter how many votes President (Barack) Obama gets in Oklahoma, he’s going to lose Oklahoma, no matter what. It’s only the states that are in contention that really matter. They are the only ones that get fought over once the campaign has been joined in earnest.”
Virginia didn’t even have a Teapublican primary election this year. Getting on the ballot in Virginia requires meeting a fairly stringent set of requirements. Of the 6 candidates who ran in the GOP primary, only Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) were actually on the Virginia ballot.
One person who did make it on to the ballot for the general election in November, however, is the hard-right Constitution Party candidate and former Republican congressman Rep. Virgil Goode, Jr. (VA). Goode has been a Democrat and Republican, but in this election cycle has cast himself as an ultra-conservative alternative to Mitt Romney [AKA tea bagger].
Does Goode "Ralph Nader": Romney? Obviously this is the last thing that Romney wants to see on the ballot in Virginia. Goode stands a good chance of being the spoiler for Romney in the Commonwealth by siphoning away Teapublicans and other far-right voters, and thereby throwing the election by denying the former governor of the number of electoral votes by a wide margin. Even if Goode received just 2 percent or 3 percent of the vote in the general election, he could tip the scales in Virginia, where most surveys show Obama and Romney a few percentage points apart.
This is the scale tipper if you will [opposite of "suppress" the black vote] Let's see now, Goode a guy who couldn't retain his own Congressional seat believes he is a viable candidate for President? I love it, and it sounds good to me!
I am a firm believer that elections should be open, so no complaints here, just curiosity.
It's most certain that Goode is just a gnat-sized version of Ross Perot, an asterisk on the butt end of political trivia à la Lyndon LaRouche, the pimple on the posterior of the teapublican society, but if it causes the "magical underwear tour" a few heartaches and a loss in Virginia, go Virgil Goode!
Let's hope he does make a difference.
Virginia Attorney General Ken "remove the boob"Cuccinelli, a Romney supporter, is saying he will be "impartial" when deciding Goode's presidential fate, but yet we all know he is trying to have Goode taken off of the ballot in the fall, but whether he’ll be successful remains to be seen.
Faux News, Fixed News, Fox Noise does "Gods Work" because democrats fail to mention the almighty in their platform at DNC.
Last night, Jon Stewart carefully showed how Fixed News covered the RNC versus the DNC, and how the criticisms and praises were completely switched.
Stewart noticed some very glaring discrepancies in how the network covered the DNC and RNC, bashing the network for praising Republicans for the very things that they were strongly criticizing the Democrats for this week, from the policy in the speeches to the celebrities speaking at the conventions.
Stewart also brought up Fox News bashing the inclusion of celebrities at the DNC while expressing their profound love of Clint Eastwood last week. Stewart noticed that not only can Fox News not seem to recall anything that happened during the Bush presidency, but has “amnesia” that is making it forget what happened only a week ago. Eric Bolling was touched by Ann Romney‘s story, but was completely deprecating of Michelle Obama‘s. Stewart said, “Between the weekend of Tampa and Charlotte, Eric Bolling’s heart shrank three sizes.”
Last week, Brit Hume was enthused by how specific Paul Ryan got when talking about policy, but found Bill Clinton‘s detailed speech to be “wonky” and concerned with fitting in so many details. Chris Wallace at the DNC? The Democrats have “no specific plans about this economy.” But at the RNC, Wallace decided to not share what he liked and disliked about the speech because he didn’t want to take away from the celebrating.
And as for Wallace’s comment that people should just “shut up and watch,” Stewart noticed that would make a perfect slogan for Faux News.
If you happened to have watched both conventions these last
two weeks [DNC/RNC], then you saw two completely different values and beliefs,
one all white, and one with the ensemble that aped the rainbow. You saw one
selfish party, and one party whom has all Americans best interest in mind. You the DNC
stand by women, minorities, the poor, the middle class, the LGBT, the old, the
young. The RNC stood by an empty chair.
I was proud to see the Democratic party represented so well!
Partisanship aside, I saw one convention well thought out and planned
perfectly, and one discombobulated, with more lies, deceit - more egotistical
self righteous pasty white men then I care to see at one event.
The democrats were disciplined with their message and in one
nigh Barack Obama was mentioned over 250 times, Mitt Romney was mentioned 232
times the entire convention over at the RNC.
We saw at the convention what we already knew, that the GOP
his pissed off every form of human life in the United States.
President Barack Obama's speech last night at the Democratic
National Convention served as the final, rousing call to action to Americans
who, as the president said, "face the clearest choice of any time in a
generation."
In have never been more proud to be a Democrat than today!
NFTOS has your back POTUS/FLOTUS, and I love it when I wake up and Barack Obama
is President!
Below are 8 powerful speeches during the convention. Watch
them all as they all bring insight to the only party on the planet dedicated to
all humans - not just the pasty white
GOPers.
DEVAL PATRICK
JOHN KERRY
JENNIFER GRANHOLM
SANDRA FLUKE
CECILE RICHARDS
ELIZABETH WARREN
JOHN LEWIS
BRIAN SCHWEITZER
Things to take away from the DNC convention:
Get out and vote
Ann Coulter's is so mad at the DNC convention that her Adams
apple is quivering
Democrats care about all humans
We all move forward as one
Republicans are liars and deceivers
There is HOPE for a better USA under POTUS
UPDATE: Gallup, as usual, posted its latest poll findings at 1 pm--and found a big bounce for Obama from this year's convention, adding to yesterday's indication. They show a very strong one-day 3% hike in his approval rating to 52%--his highest mark in many months. This means that he gained a whopping 7% in just the past three days.
Also, for the first time in more than a week, the numbers on his contest with Romney moved.
It had been a 47% to 46% lead for him (with no change at all from a week ago during and after the RNC)--but now he has opened lead to 3%, at 48%-45%. And that's in a 7-day poll average with only the first couple days of the DNC factored in, so it should go up a bit more over the next few days. (Note: Gallup site erratic, probably due to heavy traffic right now.)
Here's an item on the results the past two days. By the way, Gallup has often lagged behind other polls showing leads for Romney, so a Democratic bias seems very doubtful.
Bill Clinton singlehandedly dismantled the Romney-Ryan campaign narrative that President Obama is trying to put an end to Medicare at the Democratic Convention Wednesday night, pointing out that it is in fact the Romney-Ryan proposal for Medicare that would permanently change the program to a depreciating voucher system. “It takes some brass,” Clinton said, “to attack a guy for doing what you did”:
First, Both Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan attacked the President for allegedly robbing Medicare of $716 billion. But it is not true.........
So, President Obama and the Democrats did not weaken Medicare. They strengthened Medicare. When Congressman Ryan looked into that TV camera and attacked President Obama’s Medicare savings as “the biggest, coldest power play,” I did not know whether to laugh or cry. Key cuts that $716 billion is exactly to the dollar the same amount of Medicare savings that he had in his own budget. It takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did.
Below is the full forty nine minute speech and below this video is a shortened audio version of snippets from the speech
THE BEST OF BUBBA
Let's face it readers critical thinking is not a teapublican's strong suit. I found that after watching the speech that reason and a firmer grasp on reality is far more entertaining than an empty chair! Can we say that the "Big Dawg" chewed on some tea bagger bones last night. Crunch!
Can anyone remember what Bush said about Romney in his speech in Tampa last week at the RNC? Oh that is right, Bush wasn't invited to the American Taliban convention.
Bill "Bubba" Clinton, The bottom line: One of our greatest presidents who actually created a budget surplus for America! For his affair with Monica Lewinski and only because it took place on government property he should have been censored or reprimanded but not crucified. When the tea billies seized the opportunity to attempt to destroy his political career, America lost a golden chance to set this country right and keep it on a truly democratic course. As a past president he has continued to clearly articulate the real “American Dream” and is an incredible spokesman for that vision. He may be even more effective as a crucified president than if he had continued in office. A true American Hero!
The American Taliban, consider yourselves on notice, and consider yourself PWNED by Bubba!
The GOP and its radical ideology/mentality are very Neanderthal-ish, so much so that even today, circa 2012, these troglodytes if you will, still think its cool and OK to roam the planet and have their knuckles dragging the pavement.
Mitt Robme and Lying Ryan are proposing the query, "are you better of today than four years ago"?
NFTOS has found a treasure of gold with a little help from Ed Shultz of MSBNC fame.
The below clip is almost to the day exactly four years old. This frantic speech from G. W. Bush was given from the White House September 24th, 2008.
Now you tell me, are we better off than four years ago?
What is planet Kolob? The birthplace of Harry Porter, Santa Claus, or maybe Mary Poppins, a bad trip on LSD?. No, according to the Mormon scriptures (Doctrine and Covenants, Abraham 3) our galaxy, if not all galaxies, is posited to contain countless planets either already, or soon to be, inhabited by human-type life. The greatest of these planets is Kolob.
Kolob is a star or planet described in Mormon scripture. Reference to Kolob is found in the Book of Abraham, a work published by Latter Day Saint (LDS) prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. According to this work, Kolob is the heavenly body nearest to the throne or residence of God. While the Book of Abraham refers to Kolob as a “star”, it also refers to planets as stars, and therefore, some LDS commentators consider Kolob to be a planet. Other Latter Day Saints (commonly referred to as Mormons) consider Kolob to be a Christian metaphor.
Kolob has never been identified with any modern astronomical object and is not recognized as an ancient concept by modern Egyptology. Kolob is rarely discussed in modern LDS religious contexts, but it is periodically a topic of discussion in criticism of Mormonism. The idea also appears within LDS culture, and there is a LDS hymn about it. Kolob is also the inspiration for the planet Kobol within the Battlestar Galactica universe, created by Glen A. Larson, a Mormon.
Now I am all for my POTUS looking to a higher being, but Kolob. Seems a bit of a stretch don' t you think?
Take a look at Mormonism from Bill Maher, then see why the separation of church and State is paramount.
Let's face it readers tea bagger or not, a presidential candidate believing in the plant Kolob is one we can do without in the White House, I can accept magical underwear, and prophets speaking directly to God, or Joseph Smith in this case, but a planet that cannot even be found by the Hubble telescope, Houston we have a problem!
Much has been made of Clint Eastwood's bizarre speech at the Republican National Convention, but few have endeavored to explain what it really means. On Friday's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart not only reveled in the absurdity of the scene but also used it as a launching point for one of the more scathing commentaries of Romney's acceptance speech so far.
Stewart said:
"This is the most joy I've gotten from an old man since Dick Cheney non-fatally shot one in the face."
The full segment can be watched in three parts: the first lauds Eastwood's "fistful of awesome," the second takes on Romney's whitewashed portrait of America, and the third brings home the real message of Eastwood's speech: the difference between the real Obama and Republicans' Obama. Watch all three below.
Somebody get the straight jackets out and call the local Looney bin as there is elderly old man - a stammering simpleton if you will - that wandered onto the stage at the RNC last night. If captured, be careful, he is armed and dangerous, he's high on tea bagger.
Last night, Clint Eastwood, the Academy Award-winning actor, director, and screenwriter, delivered one of the most bizarre political convention speeches in American history.
Speaking without prepared remarks, Eastwood carried on an imaginary conversation with an invisible President Obama seated in a chair next to him on the convention stage. I can't even begin to try to summarize Eastwood's rambling address to a bewildered audience and press corps. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick, looked less than pleased with Eastwood's speech. And the Hollywood star's invisible Obama skit quickly spawned its own Twitter feed—@InvisibleObama—and a satirical 2012 presidential bid. As well as#eastwooding.
POTUS Tells Tea Baggers That The Presidential Chair Is Taken
Clint has once again showed us why movie stars should be seen on the big screen and not at political conventions. Clint was quoted as saying:
"We don't need lawyers in the White House" [Speaking on POTUS' law degree], I guess Clint failed to know that Mittens has a law degree from Harvard.
The last time I saw a relative act like this they where diagnosed with dementia, keep an eye on Clint., Maybe that should be the new Eastwood reality TV show, looking for Clint's mind.
If I was a caring man I'd say that Clint's stunt was really sad. I'm pretty sure he can't help himself, but it's behavior like that - that gave rise to the phrase "there's no fool like an old fool."
What's more disturbing, Clint Eastwood losing his mind on stage, or the crowd cheering his every word even though it made no sense - and they had no idea what he was talking about? That's the thing with these mindless troglodytes, I heard a stat on MSNBC that stated that The American Taliban, [US GOP] require little information when picking a candidate to vote for, DUH, no shit Sherlock!
What could make a religious revival mixed with a right wing high school pep rally even better, get a stuttering old man to talk down to an imaginary opponent. The only thing that could have topped this fiasco was to have the old man piss himself because his depends were already saturated.
He reminded me of "Uncle Herman" at the family picnic, drunk off his ass. I just don't understand why the tea baggers didn't get Clint's daughter , Francesca to chainsaw, ax, and burn Ann Romney's 100,00.00 Birkin handbag on stage as a protest to Mrs Obama's wardrobe choices in the past 4 years. At least that would have been entertaining.
The entire convention was a white elitist party, that contained more bullshit - or was full of more shit that Christmas turkey. This convention is why we don' t let friends drive while high on tea bagger. Mr. Eastwood is a prime example of your brain on Republican.
Post Script: Did you all play NFTOS' drinking game during the convention this week? [Where you were to take a shot of liquor every time you saw a minority]. The country was the soberest it's been in 100 years this week.
The white elitist party called the Republican National Convention
In America we have only two choices, and until such time [which I doubt ever happens in our time] that changes we have the Democrats and the society of mental patients [republicnas]. I choose the Democrats.
Fiscal Responsibility: Eddie Munster spoke on this very topic last night, Paul Ryan spoke on how fiscal inept this country is and how fiscal sound he is. Facts for the record:
According to Fox News columnist Sally Kohn, vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday "was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech."
"On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold," Kohn wrote.
In a surprising move, Fox News joinedCNN, The Huffington Post,the Washington Post's Wonkblog, and ThinkProgress in publishing a fact-check of the Republican vice presidential nominee's speech, finding that the speech was full of lies and misleading assertions.
Kohn, who describes herselfas a "progressive voice on Fox News," wrote in her Thursday column that though Ryan came off as likable during his speech, his misrepresentations and omissions "caused a much larger problem for himself and his running mate."
In her column, Kohn called out four lies in Ryan's speech. She critcized Ryan for blaming President Obama for the shutdown of a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., that actually was closed during the Bush administration. She also knocked Ryan for pinning the blame for S&P's downgrade of U.S. debt on Obama, when Republicans in Congress helped precipitate the downgrade by threatening to refuse to raise the debt ceiling.
"The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth," Kohn wrote.
At a basic level of humanity, what pisses me off about politicians who lie, especially at a national level, is that the deceptions are degrading. A candidate who knows the truth, but makes a deliberate decision to deceive, is working from the assumption that Americans are suckers.
And last night, Paul Ryan made painfully clear that he thinks we're all profound idiots who'll believe an endless string of lies, so long as they're packaged well and presented with conviction. Jonathan Cohn suggested last night's address may have been the "most dishonest convention speech" ever delivered.
It was a truly breathtaking display of brazen dishonesty. Paul Ryan looked America in the eye and without a hint a shame, lied to our face:
Ryan lied about President Obama's auto-industry rescue, blaming the administration for a plant closing orchestrated by President Bush. Ryan lied about Medicare, falselyaccusing Obama of undermining the system. Ryan lied about the debt downgrade, falsely blaming the president for a downgrade causedby Ryan and congressional Republicans.
Ryan lied about the Simpson-Bowles commission, falsely accusing Obama of walking away from debt reduction, and ignoring the fact that Ryan himself fought to ensure the Simpson-Bowles commission never even released a report. Ryan lied about his plans for the safety net, saying he intends to "protect the weak" when he budget plan intends to gutpublic investments that benefit the poor.
Ryan lied about the debt, saying Obama "has added more debt than any other president before him," when the truth is, that was George W. Bush -- who added over $5 trillion to the debt thanks in large part to congressional votes cast by Paul Ryan.
Ryan lied about the Recovery Act, calling the stimulus "a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst," when reality shows the exact opposite. Ryan lied about small businesses, accusing Obama of raising their taxes, when he actually cut their taxes.
Paul Ryan, the man the media and 'the American Taliban" celebrate as a bold truth-teller, told one lie after another, demonstrating a near-pathological disdain for honesty. His speech presented no substantive ideas, no policy solutions, and no bold positions on any key issue, but it included enough falsehoods to choke a fact-checker -- all because he assumes you're a fool.
Most of the millions of people who watched the speech on television tonight do not read fact-checks or obsessively consume news 15 hours a day, and will never know how much Ryan's case against Obama relied on lies and deception. Ryan's pants are on fire, but all America saw was a barn-burner.
CNN's Wolf Blitzersaidhe counted "seven or eight" claims that "fact checkers will have some opportunities to dispute," but concluded the lies didn't matter because it was "a powerful speech" that gave Republicans what they "were hoping for."
Let that sentence roll around in your brain for a moment, and ponder what it means for our country.
Ryan lied uncontrollably, but that's not terribly important. It undermines our democracy and the basic norms of the American political system, but no one seems to care anymore. Ryan thinks we're idiots, but his cynicism matters less than the electoral implications.
The United States is better than Paul Ryan's dishonesty. It has to be. Our future depends on it.
Facts about Paul "Eddie Munster" Ryan and what he voted for:
Bush Tax Cuts
TARP
Auto bailout
Two unfunded wars
both stimulus 2008/2009
Rx drug program for the elderly
How 'fiscal responsible' is this for the pathological liar named Paul Ryan?
It is now clear that the Romney-Ryan ticket is dead set on running the most extreme, out of touch, outrageous, dishonest, hypocritical and mindless campaign in the history of modern American presidential politics. The campaign itself has said on numerous occasions that "facts" are meaningless and they will ignore them. This is not only absurd, but a dangerous trend for our nation and our democracy. We have Paul Ryan on stage throwing red meat lies to a crowd of the most radical elements of the American Taliban imaginable. Ryan is no budget genius; he is a phony. Ryan endorses tax cuts for the rich, subsidies for Big Oil, and record spending on military contractors with no way to pay for them. At the same time, he wants to end Medicare as we know it and leave tens of millions of Americans without way to pay their bills. This is how we grow the economy? Good luck America with Thurston Howell III and Eddie Munster running your country.
How many blacks and Hispanics where in attendance at the TAB [The American Taliban] convention last night? Not many! I saw more pasty white humans with bad teeth at this convention then in my previous 51 years on terra firma! You would think that oral hygiene and oral health would be top priority to these folks! [Just for reference I am a white male]
What was the theme of the convention last night? "ME", its all about me. John Kaisich, Transvaginal Bob McDonnell, Nikki Haley, Rick "Frothy" Santorum, Scott "Koch Whore" Walker, and Chris " I can't push my lard ass away from the dinner table long enough to lose a gram of weight" Christie, spoke about themselves when the platforms intent was for America to learn about Mitt and his magical underwear.
While the lard ass [Christie] took his anger out on Democrats and POTUS, he failed to tell the convening troglodytes, is that both he and Mittens states run the bottom of the lists in unemployment.
That's the thing with these hypocritical American Taliban's . This group is [GOP=TAB=The American Taliban] is the "Team Not Quite In Last Place."
This lard ass [Chris Christie] touts his brand of conservatism and fiscal responsibility in a marquee speech at the TAB convention yet his own state brings up the rear in unemployment!
During tonight's TAB convention, try NFTOS new drinking game. Safe drinking game: Drink when you see a non-white person in the TAB Convention audience. See why the TAB courts the pasty whites with rotten teeth. Robme/Ryan are so unpopular and out of tune with women, African Americans and Hispanics - Ann Robme's "women" speech was both insulting and condescending, watch for yourself.
"I LOVE YOU WOMEN"
We are surrounded by fallacious ideologues - all this nonsense about Mittens and Ryan leading the country into some sort of golden age of austerity. What utter nonsense and bull shit!
There's no way in hell that Romney / Ryan can win the way they constantly lie about Obama's accomplishments in the wake of constant teapublican opposition in the Congress -- purposely blocking every meaningful piece of legislation (including jobs bills) from Day One.
What's more they claim Obama raided Medicare, which is absurd not only because it's not true (he re-allocated Medicare Advantage funds to the regular Medicare fund where it belongs) but that's actually their plan!
See more disgusting stories from camp American Taliban below:
HBO's "NEWSROOM" slams the tea baggers in it's closing seasonal episode.
"Ideological purity, compromise as weakness, a fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism, denying science, unmoved by facts, undeterred by new information, a hostile fear of progress, a demonization of education, a need to control women’s bodies, severe xenophobia, tribal mentality, intolerance of dissent and a pathological hatred of the U.S. government."
“They can call themselves the Tea Party. They can call themselves conservatives and they can even call themselves Republicans, though Republicans certainly shouldn’t. But we should call them what they are. The American Taliban.”
That's right readers, the "Tea Party = The American Taliban.
This clip is a very real depiction of this radical group called teabillies, teapublicans, and tea baggers.
Jeff Daniels [Will McAvoy] provides a very witty commentary on our current political system, one that deserves proper attention. This should be mandatory viewership for all American, especially minorities. The American Taliban is putting a choke hold on voters. While this is a fictional show the facts in this six minute clip is overwhelmingly powerful -and why is this you ask? Because these are the facts and they are undisputed!
Tea bagger sites, like the dead Brietbart's are up in arms over the show - which just happens to be spot on point with this lunatic fringe.
This scathing attack on the radical tea is well deserving, their no nonsense bullshit of attacking every corner of our society, [old, young, black, Mexican, the war on women] needs to be exposed, and exposed it is via HBO's Newsroom.
I personally can't wait for next season. Remember readers, a pissed off tea baggers equates to a great day.
Please share this blog and video clip with all your Democratic and tea baggers friends.
Transvaginal Governor Bob McDonnell (R-VA) yesterday claimed the issue of a rape exception to abortion was a “detail” to be left up to states and Congress. On ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos confronted the Governor and Party Platform Chair with the absolutist anti-abortion language in the platform he led the development of. This was his response:
McDonnell’s view of the plight of pregnant rape victims appears to be par for the course in the contemporary GOP. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) recently referred to rape as simply one “method of conception.” Indeed, this may be because the Vice Presidential candidate and the broader Republican Party have consistently voted to limit access to abortion even for women who are victims of rape and incest.
Moreover, McDonnell’s interpretation of his platform language is misleading. As Stephanapoulous noted, the platform endorsed a Human Life Amendment “to make clear that the 14th Amendment’s protections apply to all unborn children.” As the 14th Amendment requires all persons receive equal protection under the law, the practical effect of the amendment would be to render any law that allowed for any abortion in any case unconstitutional. This includes state-level laws, which means McDonnell’s line that the rape exception would be left to Congress and/or the states is flatly false.
McDonnell may be working hard to minimize the absolutist character of his party platform for a reason – Presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports exceptions for rape and incest, putting him at odds with the longstanding position of the Republican party platform.
“Legitimate rape” is great birth control. So says Todd Akin, and he oughta know. If we are raped we can rest unafraid, ‘Cause we can’t get pregnant if forcibly laid.
Our female bodies are clever that way, We only get pregnant when we say “okay.” Doctors have told him, so it must be so, The stork only comes if we don’t say “No!”
Rape won’t make babies and that is a fact; There’s no global warming; the Earth’s really flat. We heard it on FOX News so it must be true. Well, Mr. Akin, we say “FUCK YOU!”
A whole host of pissed off grannies tunes exist here. Raging Grannies.
Is there anyone within the confines of CONUS that the teapublican
How do you spell "fundamentalist" - G.O.P There are lotsa words that are spelled that way, it's clear to see Such as desperate and corporate and Batshit Crazy Or Nauseating, frustrating, whoopsie-dazy And what's the word for thinking that poor people are lazy? Oh, it's G-O-P
How do you spell "Disconnected" - it's G.O.P Who knew that spelling such scary words could be so easy? I can spell Mischievous, Hubris, Repugnant As easy as a mouse can scare a mighty elephant I can also spell "much worse than the incumbent" with "G-O-P"
Boys and girls just listen to me closely and you'll win that spelling bee Your efforts will be anything but Quixotic
Spelling is so simple if you remember all these words are spelled "GOP" Like dangerous, disingenuous, and unpatriotic
How do you spell "Constipated" it's G.O.P It's funny cause that also just so happens to be how you spell "poopsy" I can spell hypocrite and sanctimonious I'm telling you my spelling's anything but erroneous Oh, that reminds me I can spell "erroneous" G-O-P ~Taylor Ferrara
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Roger West
A new poll conducted by NBC shows that President Obama's favorabilities among African American voters is at an all-time high when contrasted against presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney. The poll finds that out of all African Americans polled, 94% favor President Obama, while 0% plan to vote for Mitt Romney. The other 6% were undecided.
2012 Republican Platform To Advocate Abortion Ban Without Rape Exception
Todd Akin is wrong on his rape stance, but understand that he is not alone in this disgusting radical ideology of legitimate rape.
Teapublican politicians have been falling over themselves to condemn from Rep. Todd Akin, the Teapublican Senate candidate in Missouri, who said Sunday that women who have experienced “legitimate rape” don’t get pregnant because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” The Romney-Ryan campaign called Akin’s comments “insulting, inexcusable and frankly wrong,” in spite of Ryan’s close working relationship with Akin on a number of radical anti-abortion and contraception bills. A Romney spokesperson added that the “Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape.”
But embracing a rape exception for abortion rights would put the campaign at odds with the Teapublican Party’s longstanding platform, the newest iteration of which will be officially unveiled at the Teapublican National Convention in Tampa. In spite of the massive public outcry from the right over Akin’s comments, the official GOP platform committee drafted a provision Monday supporting a “human life amendment” that would outlaw abortion without specifying exemptions for rape or incest. The platform reads:
Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.
Heading the committee is Gov. Bob [Transvaginal Bob] McDonnell (R-VA), best known for his “mandatory ultrasound” law requiring any woman getting an abortion to undergo an unnecessary ultrasound. Transvaginal Bob also revealed his regressive position on women’s rights in his college thesis, which slandered working women, contraception, and “fornicators.” It’s no surprise, then, that under his guidance, the Teapublican Party will reaffirm its support for a constitutional amendment that would outlaw abortion and likely many forms of contraception.
In saying they would not oppose a rape exception, Romney and Ryan are both changing their tune. Romney said in 2007 he would be “delighted” to sign a bill banning all abortions, and Ryan has been staunchly anti-abortion in all cases, even attempting to restrict abortion access to victims of “forcible rape” only.
The human life amendment has been a tenet of the Teapublican Party platform since the dawn of the Reagan era in 1980. It has survived for 32 years and nine presidential elections, even after former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) pushed hard in 2000 for an explicit exception for rape and incest. McCain ceded the language to party officials during his own run in 2008.
The “you-can't-get-pregnant-from-rape falsehood” is apparently something that enough people believe that Planned Parenthood includes it on its pregnancy FAQ page.
The problem with all this is - unlettered republicans, and this is why watching faux news is a no-no, and why higher education is so important.
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare... If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Republicans are furious at the extremist running for the Senate in Missouri, but yet are thrilled with the one running for Vice President. Both Ryan and Akin represent the same ideology on rape, incest, and personhood. No surprise here, what is the surprise is the hypocritical oath by these tea baggers. Not okay for Akin but for Paul [Eddie Munster] Ryan all is kosher.
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association on Monday insisted that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) was right to claim women could not become pregnant from “legitimate rape.”
“What Todd Akin is talking about is when you’ve got a real, genuine rape. A case of forcible rape, a case of assault, where a woman has been violated against her will through the use of physical force where it is physically traumatic for her,” Fischer said on his radio program.
“Under those circumstances, the woman’s body — because of the trauma that has been inflicted on her — it may interfere with the normal function processes of her body that lead to conception and pregnancy.”
Fischer said the trauma from rape interfered with normal physiological processes that occur during conception, which “may make it impossible for her, or difficult in that particular circumstance, to conceive a child.
Where in the hell do these idiots morph from? Common sense is knocking at the GOP’s door, and they evidently are not answering.
