Line of the Day: 2014-03-24

But he talks, a lot. It is a wind concerto played entirely on dog whistles ...
    -- Adam Weinstein, describing Michael Hill, in "Inside the
    American Id: Chilling With the South’s New Secessionists"

I'll give that a big Oh, Snap!

We have so many Tea Party readers and followers. To lose all zero of them due to our September cover would be devastating.

— EBONY (@EBONYMag) August 7, 2013

(h/t: Doktor Zoom)

Doghouse's Olios are always good

This one, especially so.

Yeah, yeah. Fish in a barrel. But when the master is holding the shotgun ...

TBogg on Geraldo Rivera being very sad about not becoming your next U.S. Senator from New Jersey?

I was going to say it could not get any better, but then I happened to hover over the first link in TBogg's post, to the authoritative news source that, according to the Blogger Ethics Panel, must be cited before commencing to snark.

The flagship of the Right Wing Noise Machine, ladies and gentlemen.

It's almost hard to believe that conservative outreach to minority groups still isn't doing any better.

Wait. There are STILL WHITES-ONLY PROMS?

Sometimes there are no words.

From the annals of Our Christian Nation

Congressman’s Restaurant Refused To Serve Muslim Couple

We don't need to make clear that it was a Republican Congressman, do we?

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(h/t: Wonkette | pic. source)

[Update] Follow-up.

Oh no he di'n't!

A note from the Underground:

Mitt's birther comment has officially gone viral. 8+ pages on Google now.

Capping off another week of talking about everything EXCEPT the economy. His advisers and apologists will be spending the whole weekend explaining it, walking it back, etc. Woo hoo! This, along with the Aiken mess translates into a very bad week for the Mittster.

Looks like!

Dude doesn't even know how to dog-whistle.

(h/t: The Artist Formerly Known As GingrichIdeas | pic. source)

Line of the Day: 2012-04-10

I think Jesus just carried his Smirnoff Ice into the next room.
    -- Roy Edroso

It's most definitely worth heading over to find out the context.

Haha, only serious

One of eight from Brian McFadden's Neighborhood Watch News and Notes:

Also good: fourth in the slideshow (the above is first): The Endangered Moderate Republican.

I was going to make a sex joke about Newt Gingrich and Alabama ...

... but then the section underneath it left me laughing even harder. Or crying. One of those.

(click to see the little horizontal lines that mean "insigificant," full size!)

You don't actually need me to link to the Wikipedia page on Southern Strategy, do you?

(source | via)

Another look at the cocoon

Remember that part I highlighted from the recent "New Rules" bit I posted last week?

Say it again:

But people in the mainstream don’t know a lot about that world. The worst thing that most people hear is a few seconds of Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh when they’re in a taxicab. But if you spend time at Media Matters or the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Watch” blog, and so on, or, if, God help you, you go to a white nationalist conference as I did in Washington in September, you know that these ideas have real currency.

My worry isn’t that Newsweek would approach some right-wing guy and get a quote from him, but that they would do it without knowing just how right-wing he is.

[Links added].

The above is from Katie Ryder's interview of Arthur Goldwag, on the question of the New Hate and whether it's different from or worse than what wingnuts of old wallowed in.

Another statement from Goldwag that's well worth repeating:

... Ryan Lizza, the other week in the New Yorker, wrote about a study showing that in recent years the mainstream right has moved much farther to the right than the left has moved to the left.

And from that article:

Polarization also has affected the two parties differently. The Republican Party has drifted much farther to the right than the Democratic Party has drifted to the left. Jacob Hacker, a professor at Yale, whose 2006 book, “Off Center,” documented this trend, told me, citing Poole and Rosenthal’s data on congressional voting records, that, since 1975, “Senate Republicans moved roughly twice as far to the right as Senate Democrats moved to the left” and “House Republicans moved roughly six times as far to the right as House Democrats moved to the left.” In other words, the story of the past few decades is asymmetric polarization.

(h/t: KK, via email)

Don't they already have about 365 of those every year?

Arizona GOP Lawmaker Wants A State Holiday To Celebrate White People

(Think Progress, via Rexi44)

As she is about so many things, ...

... digby is right about that.

Sadly, Arkansas is not alone in this. Alabama and Mississippi appear to suffer from the same problem.

TimeAndDate.com says Georgia does, too, but perhaps they have recently gotten better?

[Update 2012-01-16 10:10] Just received the following via email:

Hi Brendan

Thanks for your email. We've checked with the official governement site for Georgia and the state will observe the holiday on Friday, November 25 this year. Our calendar has just been updated to reflect this, and we'll keep an eye on what happens for the following years.

Best Regards

Estelle Pettersen
Web editor - www.timeanddate.com

No one could have predicted that Florida ...

... would once again be looking for ways to suppress voting rights.

I guess someone still has work to do on his "Great Relationship With The Blacks"

As in, the leading candidate for the Republican 2012 nomination.

Here are a few thoughts from Baratunde Thurston, aka Jack Turner, from Jack & Jill Politics.

(alt. video link)

Quite moving, I thought.

(h/t: Angry Black Lady | title: cf. | x-posted)

Sometimes a line of dry prose says so much

The caption under one of the pictures accompanying an article about John Tanton:

The signature event of the Federation for American Immigration Reform is an annual gathering of like-minded talk radio hosts.

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The NYT article where the above appears says, "Dr. Tanton helped start all three major national groups fighting to reduce immigration, legal and illegal, and molded one of the most powerful grass-roots forces in politics." And: "Rarely has one person done so much to structure a major cause, or done it so far from the public eye." That applies to me, at least: though I know of two of the groups he started, his name does not ring a bell.

However, some people have been paying attention. The Southern Poverty Law Center has lots on "FAIR" (start here, see also) and Tanton himself (start here, see also). See also the SPLC report, "The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance," which ties "FAIR" together with the other two groups Tanton is connected with, NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies.

How is Texas Like Wisconsin?

Following up on the earlier post concerning Wisconsin's all-Republican government looking to install Voter ID requirements, here's a recommendation from Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns and Money:

The Vote Fraud Fraud

Texas edition. It’s also worth noting that most “Voter ID” statutes still allow for (heavily Republican-leaning) absentee ballots to be cast without ID.

With Republicans in Charge, the Myth Becomes the Reality

Now that every branch of the state government in Wisconsin is controlled by the GOP, wouldn't it be an excellent time to pass a Voter ID bill, and come to that, amend the state constitution to really nail it home?

And what does this mean?

That Wisconsin will be able to reduce its number of documented cases of voter fraud to zero! Hurrah! Which is a HUGE reduction from the previous number!

(Zero.)

And who will this new law hurt?

Eh, just people without a lot of money, a lot of English, or a lot of white skin.

Above: not a Wisconsin drinking fountain.
Not yet, anyway.

And the real beauty of this? Don't forget: no more ACORN!

This is America, Saved. For RealAmericans™. Just like the Republican Party promised you.

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Hat tip to Kay at Balloon Juice, whose post is worth reading in full.

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("Colored Waiting Room" sign pic source)

There is no bottom to the wingnut derangement concerning Those People

Hateway Pundit claims: "Michelle Obama’s 'Get Up & Get Moving' Program Linked to Increase in Pedestrian Deaths."

To decorate his post, he has a picture of the First Lady jumping rope. And he gives an image credit, for once. Right under the picture. Probably had nothing to do with the name of the source.

The First Lady jumping. (African Sun Times)

Of course Jim Hoft's whole post is made of idiocy. And of course Tucker Carlson reported the same nonsense.

(x-posted)

“educating students the truth about America.”

Demanding Tennessee teabaggers!

The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”

Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group’s lead spokesman during the news conference, said the group wants to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.”

Alex Pareene, who passed along the above, also points out a headline concerning North Carolina teabaggers:

Republican school board in N.C. backed by tea party abolishes integration policy

All of this is totally not racist!!!1!

(x-posted)