Republican Civil War - "It's like you're all brainwashed!"

If you heard someone call Rush Limbaugh a brainwashed Nazi, which political ideology do you think he would follow? Well, you're wrong, because a Republican just called Rush Limbaugh a brainwashed Nazi.

"I'm a veteran. We're not supposed to be torturing these people. This is not Nazi Germany, Red China, or North Korea. There's other ways of interrogating people, and you kept harping about it -- "It's OK," or "It's not really torture." And it was just more than waterboarding. Some of these prisoners were killed under torture."


I'm pretty sure Rush just cut him off at 2:45. That guy was pissed, he wouldn't have shut up like that. Good thing Republicans aren't going to follow this guy's advice, or else they might actually have a chance in 2010.

Oh Hannity, you cute bumbling paranoid fuck.

According to Sean Hannity, Barack Obama has "seemingly apologiz[ed] for our engagement in the war on terror." What the president actually said was "The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam." Conservatives continue still to confuse normal Islam with terrorist cults. Have I ever expressed how glad I am that these fucking morons aren't in power? Because I am.



“Okay, there was never a president who said we're going to have a war against Islam.”

And Obama never said there was. He wasn't "apologizing" on behalf of George Bush, he was "apologizing" on behalf of dumbshits like you who say the Qur'an is no different from Hitler's Mein Kampf.

Shortly after Obama was inaugurated, I started compiling a list of right wing propaganda. Because it's one thing to call something propaganda simply out of anger or frustration, but it's a whole new ball game if you can gather the evidence for it. So that's what I've been doing. At first this was only going to be directed towards Drudge Report, but then I started noticing things on Fox so I decided to include them too. I tried to leave the opinionated stuff out of this completely, all of these are trying to play themselves off as legitimate news.

Fox News criticizes an anti-Rove attack ad. When they play the ad, they neglect to mention that they've edited it.



Fox News plays some clips of people saying the economy is getting better. They say all the clips are recent. They throw in a six month old speech by Joe Biden out of nowhere. He was making fun of John McCain, and they edit it out of context.



Apparently, Barack Obama wants to enact Sharia law. This allegation is based on an email claiming that Yale Dean Harold Koh, who is now an appointee to the State Department, said Sharia law could apply to the U.S. Fox was unable to reach the author of the email for comment, but went ahead with the story anyway. The thing turned to be completely false.



Barack Obama says that Americans have shown arrogance and been dismissive towards Europe. Sean Hannity gets angry and neglects to play what Obama says less than a minute later when he finishes his point. He continues by saying Europeans have held the same attitudes towards Americans, and there needs to be a mutual understanding.



BLAME AMERICA FIRST??!!!?!!??!!1

Now on to Drudge.




This was posted the day the stimulus bill passed in the House.




They've apparently never met a single teenager during the Bush years.




Politico: Abraham Lincoln doesn't go anywhere without his notes




This was on the day Obama allowed us pursue stem cell research like the rest of the world. The only reason Obama needed to "unleash" science in the first place was because the leash Bush put on it was so god damn tight. Seriously Drudge, are you a time traveler from the Dark Ages? Science is suddenly bad. In the year 2009.




Just like every single president who has ever lived.




That Republican Congressman couldn't possibly have any sort of motive for saying these things.




So here's a picture of some women, chosen completely at random.




Just like what the entire Congress did when the economy crashed. But instead, here's a picture of Barney Frank.




OH NO, WE CAN'T TELL THEM WHAT TO DO WITH THE MONEY WE'RE THROWING IN THEIR FACES, THAT WOULD BE SOCIALISM




Heh.




WHAT A FUCKING RETARD




SO HERE'S A PICTURE OF OBAMA IN A HITLER POSE




Radical! Cowabunga, dude!




Get it? Because he's on TV.




YOU CAN'T BE HAPPY IN A RECESSION WHAT A DISGRACE




I hope the Cold War NEVER ends!

Partisan Gap in Obama Job Approval Widest in Modern Era

For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades. The 61-point partisan gap in opinions about Obama's job performance is the result of a combination of high Democratic ratings for the president -- 88% job approval among Democrats -- and relatively low approval ratings among Republicans (27%).

By comparison, there was a somewhat smaller 51-point partisan gap in views of George W. Bush's job performance in April 2001, a few months into his first term. At that time, Republican enthusiasm for Bush was comparable to how Democrats feel about Obama today, but there was substantially less criticism from members of the opposition party. Among Democrats, 36% approved of Bush's job performance in April 2001; that compares with a 27% job approval rating for Obama among Republicans today.

The partisan gap in Bill Clinton's early days was also substantially smaller than what Obama faces, largely because Democrats were less enthusiastic about Clinton. In early April 1993, 71% of Democrats approved of Clinton's job performance, which is 17 points lower than Obama's current job approval among Democrats. Republican ratings of Clinton at that point (26%) are comparable to their current ratings of Obama today (27%).

The growing partisan divide in presidential approval ratings is part of a long-term trend. Going back in time, partisanship was far less evident in the early job approval ratings for both Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. In fact, a majority of Republicans (56%) approved of Carter's job performance in late March 1977, and a majority of Democrats (55%) approved of Nixon's performance at a comparable point in his first term.

I like how the Republicans' approval rating for Obama is at the exact same low point as Clinton in '93. That's one of the two reasons why they're failing so miserably right now. They're stuck in the partisan Clinton years. They just can't let those post-Reagan glory days die. The second reason is that they're still fighting Carter. Carter's presidency wasn't successful because he was too ambitious, and he didn't know how to play politics. His team was inexperienced, and he never made much of an effort to make allies in Congress. Republicans frame their idea of every single Democrat who has ever lived around Jimmy Carter.

That's why the American people didn't want Republicans running their country anymore. A person like Reagan may have been needed in the 80s (don't quote me on that, I don't know a lot about Reagan's presidency), but conservatives just can't seem to grasp that the world has changed. They refuse to keep up with the times, and that's why they lost in 2008.

Sunday Youtube Post

voting wahts that lol



I will say one thing, though. I really wish women would go back to those old 50s haircuts. God damn.

Shooting Followup

Crooks and Liars found the myspace page of the shooter's "best friend" who's been interviewed a lot today. Interesting reading material on it:

"DOCUMENTS I RECCOMEND YOU READ BY GOOGLE: "Civil War II" by Tom Chittum "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" "The Turner Diaries" by Dr. William Pierce "Jewish Supremacy" by Dr. David Duke It Has Even Been Documented In The Communist Manifesto: "“We must realize that our party’s most powerful weapon is racial tension. "By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. "In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavour to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negros. "We will aid the Negros to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions, and in the world of sports and entertainment."

According to another friend,

"He always said that if someone tried to take his weapons away he would do what his forefathers told him to do and defend himself."

... Mr. Poplawski was opposed to Mr. Obama's election, which he thought would result in the loss of his rights, Mr. Vire said. [...]

Mr. Poplawski told him he bought his guns "because he felt the quality of life was being diminished," Mr. Vire said.

Poplawski's neighbor said in a Fox interview that the violence was brought on by gun paranoia as well. Video included in the link up there.

This isn't the first time mainstream conservative propaganda has killed people. Last July, two people were murdered in a church. According to police interviews of the shooter,

"Adkisson stated that he had targeted the church because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of major media outlets. Adkisson made statements that because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would then target those that had voted them into office. Adkisson stated that he had held these beliefs for about the last ten years."

At his home, they found the following books:

• "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage
• "Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism" by talk show host Sean Hannity
• "The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life" by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly
  

Here's some conservative drum pounding to incite rage over the invisible liberal boogeyman trying to take away our guns, even though there is absolutely no evidence that Democrats are trying to do that. I hope shitbags like Glenn Beck have trouble sleeping at night.

Another shooting

A redneck killed three cops. He was afraid Barack Obama was going to ban guns. This is the second shooting in two days, bringing the total shootings in the last couple months to six. The guy had an AK-47 assault rifle and "several powerful handguns, including a .357 Magnum." Too bad that AK wasn't illegal, maybe three officers wouldn't have died.

Although the guy's irrational fear of Barack Obama probably had nothing to do with triggering this (he had just lost his job), can anyone honestly say that particular anger didn't contribute something to it? This is exactly the kind of shit I was talking about when I said people were taking right wing propaganda seriously. People just snap. And as long as they continue to spread lies about the president, this stuff is just going to keep on happening, at least until the economy improves. I mean I'm really not trying to jump the gun here. I don't want to believe talk radio's lies had something to do with this, but he really thought Obama was going to try to ban guns. It was a belief he held. You can't just ignore that.

Islam

Oh, they're adorable.

A powerful bloc of 57 Islamic states is again pushing for the UN to make it a criminal offense to criticise or 'defame' Islam.

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Though the 57 nations . . . have been lobbying for the move since 1999, the signs this time are that the resolution could well be made binding. While the resolution calls for protection against "defamation" of all religions, it only mentions Islam by name.

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If passed, the resulting binding resolution would find its way into various UN documents all of which would require that UN member states at "local, national and international levels" start restricting the free speech of citizens to prevent public criticism of religious beliefs, particularly Islamic belief.

Fuck Islam.

Hey guys, I founded a new religion just now, it's called the “Fuck Islam Religion,” and in it we go around saying that Islam should be fucked. No one is allowed to tell me how retarded and immature that is because that would go against my religious beliefs. Who wants to help me make it illegal for every person on the entire planet to speak out against my religion?

Islam is an Abrahamic religion, like Christianity and Judaism. They all believe in the same God. Islam believes Moses and Jesus are both prophets. The Bible says that you're going to hell if you don't believe Jesus is the Son of God. The Qur'an says – twice – that you're going to hell if you believe Jesus is the Son of God. Flip a coin?

Here's some history of the religion. I actually think the history behind it is really interesting, and more people should learn about it.

Islam was founded by some dude named Muhammad in 627 AD. This was only a couple hundred years after the fall of Rome. While Europe was plunged in the Dark Ages, Arabia was actually doing quite well. Muhammad was visited by an archangel named Gabriel. Gabriel told Muhammad that he is a messenger from God. God is all powerful and can do anything, so he could have just spoke to Muhammad himself, but for some reason he decided to send Gabriel. You better not question it, or else God might make locusts eat your daughter's first born donkey or something. Zip it.

Gabriel said that God said that Judaism and Christianity are manmade lies and he doesn't want anyone believing them or else he will be very angry. Gabriel told him a bunch of stuff and Muhammad wrote it all down. That's the Qur'an. God could have just given Muhammad the book in the first place and saved him the trouble of writing all that shit, but whatever.

Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)

Then Muhammad went to Mecca and preached some junk. Then he united all the tribes of Arabia. If I were to make a guess, I would say that Muhammad (peace be upon him) was one brilliant motherfucker who made all that shit up so he could be propelled into power. Regardless, then he died. Nobody knew who should take his place, so everyone split into factions and started killing each other. This is where modern Sunni and Shi'a originate.

Then after all their little civil wars, they united again and decided to invade some shit. They had this crazy idea in their heads that the entire world should be united under their Islamic Caliphate, and anyone who doesn't accept Muhammad should be cut down like the infidels they are. Like the evil alien race in every sci fi ever made.

They expanded, and expanded, and expanded, and expanded some more, and they eventually acquired the biggest fucking civilization since the Roman Empire. They made it so god damn far, that they even briefly held a small foothold in France. Fucking France! Seriously! France!

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The battle that finally pushed them back is really kind of an amazing story. The Franks possibly had about 30,000 men -- with no fucking cavalry -- and Muslim sources say the Caliphate had as many has 80,000!! That's a lot of fucking Muslims! Though, their number is ultimately unknown, and this very well could have been exaggerated. If they hadn't been stopped, all of Europe might have fallen and Christianity might have been wiped out. Wouldn't that be an interesting alternate dimension to live in!


Well anyway, this whole period is known as the Islamic Golden Age, and what came out of it was the some pretty god damn brilliant shit about law, philosophy, and religion. A lot of it was even stolen by some Christian and Jewish philosophers, just like how they stole all their shit from the pagans a few centuries before.

Well, the Christians in Europe got a little jealous. Christian authors saw Islam as the religion of the antichrist, and its followers sex-crazed and subhuman. So the Christians, starting with the Battle of Tours up there, started taking back their shit, and drove the Muslims all the way out of Spain. Then we get over half a millennium of Crusades, Jihads, and the slaughter, torture, and rape of millions of innocent people. God high-fives Gabriel and grabs the popcorn.

“These wars are gonna be fuckin' sweet!”
-God

Modern Islamic terrorism has many, many origins, and I won't name any of them in seriousness because frankly, I don't know what they are. I think Western expansionism and the Cold War both had a big play in it, but I'm kind of talking out of my ass, so don't quote me on that. The mindsets of terrorists like Al-Qaeda, is that they want to return to the Islamic Golden age. They want to take over the world and unite it all under an Islamic Caliphate. That is their ultimate goal.

So it's kind of funny to see all these Islamic nations banding together and doing this. The goal of Al-Qaeda is for the whole world to submit to their will, and these nations are doing the exact same thing, but by saner means of nonviolence. Terrorism and mainstream Islam couldn't be any more different, but it just goes to show that all religions have similar mindsets -- imposing their will on others. Hell, it's everywhere in America. We got stem cell research, we got the modern civil rights movement in gay marriage, we got creationism in public schools, we got abortion (though, I think both sides of this are bullshitting), we got the unconstitutional government endorsement of a religion by having Christmas as a federal holiday... there are buttloads more, especially when you look at the historical issues of our country. Like how modern Christians ignore the fact that Christians used the Bible to defend the slavery of human beings.

THE POINT IS - insecure religious extremists can't deal with the fact that opinions other than their own exist. They want everyone to think like they do, and that's why they're so aggressive. They suppress human rights, and they try to suppress our freedom to speak whatever the fuck we want. When religion is embedded into government, you get fascism. That's why we have to fight back. Every single day, the Religious Right shit on the secular Deistic principles America was founded on, and they have to be stopped. Or else we'll just end up like one of those 57 Islamic states pushing for their unabashed fascism in the UN.

I say it all the time, and I'll repeat myself: we are going to be SO much better off once the baby boomers step down from government. KEEL OVER ALREADY YOU FUCKERS, ALL THAT COLD WAR PROPAGANDA FUCKED YOU UP TOO MUCH.