GOP House Members Try to Steal Their Own Election
These people are like rabid dogs:
Day: February 2, 2006
AFA Targets God-Hating NBC — Again
Whoops, they done it again: You’da thunk NBC would have learned its lesson after “The Book of Daniel.” If you recall, the American Family Association brought so much pressure to bear on the network that NBC pulled the show after three episodes with no outside advertisers.
According to AdAge, the AFA, led by Donald “Wildman” Wildmon and his merry band of Bible thumpers, is on NBC’s case for an episode of “Will & Grace” where Britney Spears portrays a conservative Christian talk-show host who does a cooking segment called “Cruci-fixins.”
Sounds damned funny to me, but the AFA ain’t laughing:
“They would not be making fun of Mohammed or Buddha,” said Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the AFA, which is based in Tupelo, Miss. “It’s almost sacrilegious. I wonder who is at the helm of NBC that they are not getting the message. NBC doesn’t seem concerned that they are tanking because they are offending their viewers and running them off.”
AdAge noted that the AFA is taking on a hugely popular program in its final season, not a mid-season startup, and that, given the show’s content (it portrays GAY people — gasp!), few of the AFA’s true-believing constituency even watch the goddamned program.
Just Wait Until I Tell the President on You!
The hometown news has a little more colorful reporting about the U.S. Representative from Florida’s wife how got ousted from the State of Union address, along with Cindy Sheehan for wearing a t-shirt reminding people about the troops. St. Petersburg Times:
Beverly Young said, “Wait until the president finds out.”
Young said she was sitting in the gallery’s front row, about six seats from first lady Laura Bush, when she was approached by someone from the Capitol Police or sergeant-at-arms office who told her she needed to leave the gallery.
She reluctantly agreed but argued with several officers in the hallway outside the House chamber.
“They said I was protesting,” she said in a telephone interview late Tuesday. “I said, “Read my shirt, it is not a protest.’ They said, “We consider that a protest.’ I said, “Then you are an idiot.”‘
Well, not really, Bev. Protesting is a crime in Washington, and if you thought for one minute you were exercising your right to free speech, it’s time to wake up and smell the facism.
They told her she was being treated the same as Cindy Sheehan, an antiwar protester who was ejected before the speech Tuesday night for wearing a T-shirt with an antiwar slogan and refusing to cover it up…
Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the Capitol Police could not provide details about the incident but said, “She was not ejected from the gallery. She did leave on her own.”
No sense exaggerating, after all. It sounds like part of the problem is that Bev and her husband, The Honorable C.W. Bill, are used to ordering the hired help around since they have friends in high places.
Young’s husband, a Republican who chairs the House appropriations subcommittee on defense, was unaware she was removed until after the speech. He said he was furious about the incident.
“I just called for the chief of police and asked him to get his little tail over here,” Rep. Young said late Tuesday. “This is not acceptable.”
Beverly Young said, “Wait until the president finds out.”
Oh no, you didn’t say that.
‘My Name is George W. Bush and I’m An Oilaholic’
One day after claiming that “America is addicted to oil” in his State of the Union address, President Bush stunned the nation by confessing that he was personally battling a petroleum addiction and was entering rehab immediately.
’When you start invading other countries to get more oil, you know you’ve hit bottom’In a nationally televised address from the Oval Office last night, a visibly agitated President Bush began his speech with the following simple statement: “My name is George W. Bush, and I am an oilaholic.”
The president, seeming to choke back tears, said that he had thought he was keeping his petroleum habit “under control,” but added, “When you start invading other countries to get more oil, you know you’ve hit bottom.”
…In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he hoped the United States would wean itself from its dependence on Middle Eastern oil and would gradually become dependent on Middle Eastern nuclear energy instead.
