It’s Not Easy Being Obama
Cute video in The Capitol Steps genre. Now can everyone just get off his back?
Month: October 2010
CA Sen: Human Rights Campaign Ad Spotlights Fiorina’s Ties to Virulently Anti-Gay Hate Group
After Carly Fiorina won the California Republican primary in June, the anti-gay hate group National Organization for [Heterosexuals-Only] Marriage issued a news release taking credit for her win over socially moderate Tom Campbell:
Juan Williams’ Song
I don’t like Muslims on my plane,
I don’t like Muslims, they’re all the same.
I don’t want Muslims at Ground Zero
And Bill O’Reilly is my hero.
I’m scared of Muslims, that’s what I say,
And I’ll get fired for $2 million any day.
Verbatim
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.
— Former President George W. Bush, quoted by the Chicago Tribune.
Most Americans Blame Churches for Gay Suicide
2 in 3
The number of Americans who believe that churches are partly responsible for gay teen suicides. About four in ten also believe that, “the message coming out of churches about gay people is negative.”
Tell Clarence Thomas to Apologize
We relayed the story of how the deranged tea bagger wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas left a voice mail, out of the blue, for Brandeis University Prof. Anita Hill, asking her to first pray, then apologize for what Hill did WITH said deranged tea bagger wife’s husband.
Now Credo, the socially responsible phone carrier, is hosting a site with a petition asking that Thomas, not Hill, do some apologizing.
While we’re at it, can someone start a petition to add Anita Hill to the Supreme Court?
Twenty years ago, Professor Hill described how the now Supreme Court justice subjected her to descriptions of pornography he had watched, bragged about his own sexual prowess in graphic terms and famously reached for a soft drink in her office and remarked, “Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?”
Verbatim
I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they’re identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.
— Former NPR and continuing FOX News commentator Juan Williams, explaining to Bill O’Reilly that he’s not racist, just nervous (in the words of comic Marc Maron). Williams was fired from NPR following his appearance on FOX’s The O’Reilly Factor.
FiveThiryEight Forecasts GOP Taking House 228-207 – Well Over 218 Required for Majority
Putting John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and the rest back in charge really is like appointing arsonists as fire marshals. This will be a big win for Wall Street, megabanks, super PACs, foreign corporations, religious extremism — a giant leap backwards for the United States.
Analysis from Nate Silver here.
CA Gov: Ad Catches Whitman Repeating Schwarzenegger’s Talking Points Line By Line
Keep in mind that GOP Gov. Schwarzenegger’s approval rating is just 29 percent. Electing an amateur pol has proved to be a disaster for the state. Whitman, who is also a Republican, has tried to distance herself from him, but the way this ad irrevocably ties her to him is brilliant.
