Headlines - Wednesday November 23

Robert Reich: "The REAL Public Nuisance"

 

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Bill O'Reilly:

"I don't think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police, particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus."

How dumb is that?  O'Reilly routinely Monday-morning quarterbacks every story he deems newsworthy but the actions of police on non-violent students is, according to him, off-limits to criticism because it took place at a "fairly liberal campus"?  God, is there a more pompous jackass in all of cable?

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Majorities Believe Newt's Anti-OWS Comments Were Meant For Congressional Republicans

 

 

All these folks do is occupy space in public hearing rooms they didn't pay for so they can go to bathrooms they didn't pay for; to get subsidized food from the Congressional cafeterias they didn't pay for while they clamor for cuts in public spending; to instruct those who go to work to pay the taxes to sustain their salaries and perks, so they can self-righteously proclaim that they are the paradigms of virtue for which we owe everything. Now that is a pretty good symptom of how much the right-wingers  have collapsed as a moral system in this country and why you need to assert something as simple as saying to them, "Go do your job and stop making the public take a bath."

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Yesterday, Mitt Romney released his first campaign ad, which quotes President Obama saying "if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose." But those weren't Obama's words; he was quoting a strategist for Sen. John McCain in 2008.

In response, the Romney campaign has defended this blatantly dishonest campaign tactic as "not out of bounds." Thus, ThinkProgress has created this completely in-bounds "advertisement" quoting Romney, in his own words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJorv8HBU4&feature=player_embedded

Brilliant.

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Jill: Isn't it funny how the GOP candidates who have "run a business" specialize in putting Americans out of work?

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Folks on Amazon are adding helpful reviews about pepper spray.

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Yeah, it was classless and crude, and she is owed an apology. And she can have it just as soon as Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right wing asshats who have trashed the First Lady apologize to her. Last night Michele Bachmann was on Jimmy Fallon's show, and the house band, The Roots, editorialized a little bit with their choice of music to play her on to -- Fishbone's Lyin' Ass Bitch.

 

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Why the hell don't people just laugh at these morons with the scorn they deserve, instead of voting for them? "Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's new Iowa campaign co-chair recently claimed that marriage equality would lead to people marrying objects like the Eiffel Tower. ... In a statement on the campaign's website last week, Bachmann's Iowa Campaign Manager Eric Woolson said that he was "proud" to welcome Tamara Scott as the Iowa co-chair because she "understands the critical time we are in." ... Scott, who also serves as state director for Concerned Women for America, led the fight last year to remove three justices from the Iowa Supreme Court who ruled to legalize same sex marriage, according to Right Wing Watch."

 

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The police officer who casually pepper-sprayed students at University of California, Davis, was involved in a discrimination lawsuit alleging that he used an anti-gay slur against an openly-gay officer, the Daily Mail reports. The racial and sexual discrimination lawsuit specifically singled out Lt. John Pike, a retired Marine sergeant, for "using a profane anti-gay epithet" against a gay police officer. The case ended in a $250,00 settlement.

 

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The Texas Supreme Court suspended a judge yesterday whose beating of his then-teenage daughter in 2004 was viewed millions of times on the Internet. "Aransas County court-at-law Judge William Adams was suspended immediately with pay pending the outcome of the inquiry started earlier this month" after video of the brutal beating went viral and was covered in major news outlets.

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When Richard Nixon performed the presidential tradition of pardoning a turkey on Thanksgiving, the bird was apparently uninterested in participating and was so flustered that it had to be restrained in a most gruesome way — getting its feet nailed to a table. Nixon would go on to be pardoned himself by President Ford, though he was much more complacent than the turkey.

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Imbecile Sarah Palin thinks Roger Ailes doesn't own her (he does)

Thanksgiving hasn't even happened yet and look, here already is a giant plate of half-putrefied "leftovers" to add to the compost bin: mutant overgrown toad wart Roger Ailes nearly (OH GOD, WHY NEARLY) evicted yammering reject Sarah Palin from his evil teevee space beams in an enraged fit right after she "announced" she was quitting the presidential race she never joined, because she failed at her sole remaining paid task of delivering this breaking non-information on Fox News. Sarah Palin told some other outlet first for the same reason she does anything: out of raw, brainless spite. READ MORE »

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Wisconsin recall supporters outed an anonymous Facebook group called Operation Burn Notice on Tuesday as a coordinated effort designed to destroy petitions signed to force Gov. Scott Walker and other Wisconsin Republicans out of office.  

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Obama heckled by OWS protesters.

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Photo from Doug the engineer with a conscience

 What has become of "posse comitatus?"

In 2009, teabaggers gathered with semi-automatic weapons
and Obama did nothing.

But when peaceful, jobless Democrats protest
the heavy artillary comes out?

If only we had a leader in the White House.