Month: April 2012
O’Reilly Says Watching ‘Glee’ Will Turn Kids Gay, Just Like Watching James Dean Movies Made Him Want to Smoke
After the Fox network show “Glee” featured a trans character last week, Fox News’ resident social scientists Bill O’Reilly and Gretchen Carlson did a segment on O’Reilly’s show in which they warned Fox News’ audience of predominantly elderly viewers that teenagers who watch “Glee” without parental supervision, often while doing drugs, are likely to choose to be gay:
Partial transcript:
Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Shows One Group Was Right — the Welfare Recipients
What do you do when the facts don’t support your actions, which were based on extremist rhetoric and false notions? If you’re Gov. Rick Scott (GOP/Tea – Fla.) you simply change the mission.
The results are in, and drug testing of welfare recipients as a means to deny them assistance costs more than it saves and fails to shrink the welfare rolls. On the plus side, it shows that drug use is lower among welfare recipients than in the general population.
The idea that people on public assistance are lazy, fatcat, dishonest, drug using cheaters of the system who eat steak and drive Cadillacs is so deeply held on the right that it can’t be shaken — no matter how much the facts pee all over it.
The facts have Gov. Scott and the Florida legislators who introduced the bill — which is being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) even as it is under consideration in 25 other states — pivoting. They say their idea wasn’t so much to save taxpayer dollars, which is precisely what they claimed at the time, but to cut illegal drug use and…um…give me a second here…what sounds good? Something about children? Maybe?
“It’s not about money, it’s about the drug issue,” said Rep. Jimmie Smith, R-Lecanto, who sponsored the legislation. “It’s about using every tool we have in the toolbox to fight drugs.”
Jackie Schutz, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office, said the governor agreed: The drug welfare law is about protecting children and getting parents back to work.
So along with saving taxpayers money, fighting drugs, protecting children, and getting parents back to work, that brings the total number of things the new law isn’t accomplishing to four.
Rivera’s Escort Escapades
The state of Florida questioned Rep. Rivera’s expenditures
To determine whether he merited censure.
When he showed up with a date,
She always looked great —
But that’s ’cause his campaign had paid for her!
Rivera Paid Female Escorts to Accompany Him at Campaign Events
Further, the subject continued, that as a single man running as a political conservative, it was necessary for him to appear at campaign related events with a female escort.
— A “close-out” memo from the Florida State Attorney’s Office, ending its investigation into Rep. David Rivera’s (R-FL) campaign finances.
Fired Secret Service Supervisor Runs Afoul of Sarah Palin
I was really checking her out, if you know what i mean?
— David Chaney, one of the Secret Service supervisors ousted from the agency this week for their involvement in the Colombia prostitution scandal, who “made light of his official protective work on his Facebook page, joking about a picture of himself standing watch behind Sarah Palin,” the Washington Post reports.
Palin responded on Fox News in her usual witty manner: “Well check this out, bodyguard — you’re fired. And I hope his wife sends him to the doghouse. As long as he’s not eating the dog, along with his former boss.”
McCain Razzes Obama Over Eating Dog as a Child in Indonesia
Good pic of my son Jimmy’s bulldog, Apollo – I’m sorry Mr. President, he’s not on the menu!
— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), on Twitter, in reference to President Obama eating dog while a child when he lived abroad in Indonesia.
14 Percent of American Women are Stay-at-Home Mothers
14%
Of American women are currently stay-at-home mothers of children under 18. These women tilt more politically independent than women overall do. And, unlike Mitt Romney’s wife, they tend to be economically downscale, according to Gallup.
Does Romney’s Teavangelical Base Know He Has Hired an Openly Gay Spokesman?
Romney’s National Security Spokesman Is Openly Gay … A fact that doesn’t make it into the Washington Post. But I’m in no way outing [Richard Grenell]. He has lived with his partner, Matt Lashey, for the past nine years, and is a frequent advocate for Republicans and gays. Which is why this pick is interesting. For Romney to have an openly gay spokesman is a real outreach to gay Republicans, a subtle signal to moderates, and the Santorum faction’s reaction will be worth noting.
Actually, the chance that Santorum’s faction will ever be exposed to the unpleasant fact that Romney has appointed an openly gay man to a high-profile position is less than zilch. Sully, who often writes about epistimic closure, may have been momentarily deluded when he wrote that last bit.
The Republicans base will not learn about it by reading (once openly gay, now closeted) Matt Drudge’s right-wing news aggregator website, and they won’t hear about in the GOP propaganda dumps on Fox News or hate radio — and teavangelicals would never expose their beautiful low-info minds to Sullivan’s posts on the The Daily Beast, even though he is a conservative Catholic, albeit one who is also openly gay.
