What?

Also, I was shocked, shocked that Facebook offered no obvious way to report a misleading ad.

Line of the Day: 2013-09-13

I realize my lack of ruthlessness goes to the heart of the liberal dilemma.
    -- Roy Edroso

Dilemmas are hard.

Maybe this'll just confirm your liberal biases ...

... but Rick Perlstein's Baffler piece from a few months ago, "The Long Con: Mail-order conservatism" is an enjoyable read, in a faintly horrifying way.

Lotta money to be made out there, if only you didn't have a conscience.

(h/t: Julian Sanchez)

Not true. Actually, he's going to send the Black Panthers to BURN IT DOWN.

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Media Matters patiently cleans up the latest spewage from the puke funnel.

(h/t: Wonkette)

The Ninth Commandment? That Commandment is no longer operative.

The church apologized for the deception on Thursday and restored the original photo to the site, but not before Patriarch Kirill weighed in, insisting in an interview with a Russian journalist that he had never worn the watch, and that any photos showing him wearing it must have been doctored to put the watch on his wrist.

Will a picture help?

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"Lying or stupid?" is never easy to decide upon with Michele Bachmann

You know, all of these kind of questions really aren’t about what people are concerned about right now.

You mean, besides all the people who constitute your base, amirite?

But on a more hopeful note, as I noted elsewhere, "David Gregory challenged Republican presidential hopeful..." is a phrase all too rarely seen. Who knows, the new year is just around the corner …

I know, I know. You're thinking, I see someone got into the champagne a little early.

The Catholic Church is being run by wingnuts

Check out the language of victimhood in this lede:

The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops opened a new front in their fight against abortion and same-sex marriage on Monday, recasting their opposition as a struggle for “religious liberty” against a government and a culture that are infringing on the church’s rights.

Same as the fundies. It only appeals to stupid people …

… and those who prey upon them.

No one is forcing the Catholic Church to perform same-sex marriages or counsel parishioners to get abortions. Do they have to adhere to some fair labor and health care standards if they want to provide public services, using government (i.e., public) money? Yes. That doesn't seem like too much to ask, because they aren't being forced to take government (i.e., our) money, either.

Meanwhile, they get a free ride on all taxes, despite their increasing political activism. And when they encounter resistance in seeking their reactionary goals in secular matters, they howl about persecution.

There are lots of good Catholics out there, in every sense of the word. It's long past time for them to get rid of their medieval leadership.

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Tweet of the Day

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Line of the Day: 2011-11-14

In re last Saturday night:

The sheer ignorance, callowness, narrowness of mind and shallowness of thought was greater than any debate I recall on this subject ever.
    -- Andrew Sullivan

Say what you will about him, when he's on, Andrew Sullivan can deliver a righteous rant with the best of them. Worth reading the whole thing.

For a shorter, equivalent take, see here (via). The latter link is worth clicking for the Blingee alone.

Oh, hey. Some blowhard has a hot new hashtag.

#oreillylincolnerrors!

(h/t: Lance Mannion)

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Eh, Peabody Award, Polk Award. 2, 1. Present, Gone. What's the difference?

Damn that LIBERALLY BIASED!!!1! ...

... Park Service?

A reviewer for the official National Park Service bookstore at Ford’s Theatre has recommended that Bill O’Reilly’s bestselling new book about the Lincoln assassination not be sold at the historic site “because of the lack of documentation and the factual errors within the publication.”

(h/t: Eric Boehlert | pic. source: MyFaceWhen | title: cf.)

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The Whole World Is Laughing

Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot.

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Your savior of the Republican Party, ladies and gentleman.

Somewhere, Dunning just high-fived Kruger

I haven't been reading political news these days, for reasons too obvious to spell out, but I couldn't keep my eyes from straying across this blurb on the front page of the NYT:

Assumuing we're not talking about spewing bullshit with a straight face, wrecking the nation in the service of Koch interests, or impersonating jellyfish, the idea of members of Congress questioning anyone's competence …

Full article here, if you must.

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Wait, Karl Rove's secretly funded PAC was caught lying? Again?

No one could have predicted that Crossroads GPS would earn another one of these:

Now they have a full house!

Zombie Reagan Lives! "Trees Cause Air Pollution," v2.0

Or maybe Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) is just taking one for the team -- dumbing things down even further to smooth the way for Sarah Palin's threatened entrance into the presidential race. In any case, he …

... needs to hit the science books, forestry experts suggest.

They reached that conclusion after hearing Mr. Rohrabacher declare during a Congressional hearing on Wednesday that clear-cutting the world’s rain forests might eliminate the production of greenhouse gases responsible for climate change.

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[Added] New information to me:

Rohrabacher served as assistant press secretary to the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan.[1] From 1981 to 1988, he was one of President Reagan's senior speech writers. During his tenure at the White House, Rohrabacher played a leading role in the formulation of the Reagan Doctrine. He also helped formulate President Reagan's Economic Bill of Rights …

Plenty of time to talk about the terrorist trees.

RedState RedFace

Intoned the GHEMRotRSTF and CNN employee one week ago today:

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Hat tip to Roy Edroso, whose latest wingnut wrap-up is all about the Republican candidates and ex-candidates, and what our favorite rightbloggers have to say about them. Intro here, full column here.

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In shocking news, Republicans caught playing dirty tricks

Have you been paying attention to the special election to be held Tue 24 May for the House seat in NY-26? (This is the seat that opened up after second-term Republican Chris "the Craigslist Congressman" Lee resigned this past February.) As you may know, this election has become of national interest due to its status as a referendum of sorts on the GOP's near-unanimous support for the Ryan plan to destroy Medicare, and the consequent panic by senior Republicans from Boehner to Rove as their erstwhile safe seat now appears to be winnable by the Democrat, Kathy Hochul.

There's a longish article in the NYT about this race, which fans of inside baseball might enjoy. Here's a particularly delicious nugget:

And like Republican leaders in Washington, Ms. Corwin has found it difficult to grapple with the Tea Party movement, as she tries to fend off the aggressive candidacy of Jack Davis, who is running on the Tea Party line after failing to win the Republican nomination.

Concerned that Mr. Davis was draining support from Ms. Corwin, Republicans produced a wave of attacks on him, including circulating a much-publicized video that party operatives said showed Mr. Davis assaulting a young Republican volunteer who was tracking him with a camera.

But the attacks backfired after it was disclosed that the volunteer was Ms. Corwin’s chief of staff, a development that led the Davis camp to claim that Mr. Davis had been set up. Ms. Corwin was then barraged with questions from local reporters about her role in the episode.

Another interesting wrinkle: both Marco Rubio and Allen West have recorded phone messages urging support for the Republican candidate, not the Tea Party candidate. You'll recall that both Rubio and West were favorites of the teabaggers way back in 2010. I wonder if there will be any backlash for either of them.

P.S. Don't forget to visit JaneCorwin.org!

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You almost have to admire ...

... how hard he refuses to develop self-awareness:

… Florida pastor Terry Jones, who has generated controversy by burning, and threatening to burn, the Koran at public demonstrations … said nobody can predict when Judgment Day will arrive. Those who do are irresponsible, he said.

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Prediction check

While looking for something else, I came across an old note to self. I thought you might enjoy it. The date of the original post was 4 Nov 2008.

Prediction   [Jonah Goldberg]

Now that McCain has lost, and Sarah Palin has time to reintroduce herself down the road, the anti-Palin conservatives will almost surely look foolish in retrospect.

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Newt Gingrich still doesn't know how the Internet works

The disgraced former Speaker of the House is now for the Ryan "plan." Though he was against it yesterday, and for it before that.

Maybe his candidacy is being funded by Romney?

[Added] Ah, good. Noted Internet personality Rick Santorum is coming to stepping up to clarify matters.

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