"Mr. Murdoch's Legendary Vision In The Future": Fair, Balanced, Unadulterated ...

BULLSHIT!!

From Think Progress:

Rupert Murdoch’announced today that Fox News’s top executive, Roger Ailes, has signed a five year contract extension with News Corp. “Roger has done a remarkable job building FOX News into a force in journalism and built a great asset for News Corporation,” said Murdoch in a statement. Ailes said that he looks “forward to carrying out Mr. Murdoch’s legendary vision in the future.”

If "a force in journalism" means part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy," maybe Murdoch's right. Fox News' subtitle of "fair and balanced" news has, however, become the laughing stock of just about everyone who's ever taken a course in journalism. (Sorry, Sarah Palin, a couple of courses in "sports broadcasting/journalism" don't count - not even at junior college level! Ooops, you actually went to a four-year college. Sorry, we couldn't tell.).

The video at the end of this post will show people what a joke Fox News REALLY is! Unfortunately, Fox's extreme bias can be mean spirited as well. Take a look at THIS picture:

It's obvious that Fox is comparing these singing kids to a Hitler Youth Group. You can view the real video here. And, of course, Bill O'Reilly made fun of the kids' efforts.

So, let's ask this of Fox News: which is creepier, the Obama kids or JESUS CAMP?

Just a thought.

The Gauntlet of Shame: G20 Summit Shows B**h Exactly What They Think of Him

Rotten Tomatoes Weren't Available!

The following video you are about to see shows just how low our prestige has sunk due to The B**h Doctrine. He is being openly vilified by heads of state.

Bye Bye, America, Hello Paraguay!

P.S.: Notice the sidebar and today's date in history: the opening of the Nuremburg Trials! Very appropriate. Bush is being judged by his peers and found guilty!

The Delusional Mind of Mike Huckabee (AKA Wackjob)

Whatever This Guy's On,
Please Do Not Take While Driving

You might also wind up saying "a rose is NOT a rose..."

Along with the idea that homosexuals haven't suffered enough to have civil rights, Mike Huckabee is now telling people that Proposition 8 did not ban anything:

HUCKABEE (On Bill Bennet's radio show):

"The very people who voted for Barack Obama in California…also voted to sustain traditional marriage. I refuse to use the term, “ban same-sex marriage.” That’s not what those efforts did. They affirmed what is. They did not prohibit something. They simply affirmed something that which has and forever has existed."

Delusion #1: "Something that has and forever has existed." All hyperbole aside, for the one trillionth time, where do Christofascists get the idea that one-man-one-woman marriage has ALWAYS existed? Huckabee has "Father Knows Best" on the brain. There have been one-man-ten-women (or much more) marriages. History has even seen one-woman-ten-men marriages. There have been group marriages. There have been societies where incest was the norm! There have been (according to scholar John Boswell) same-sex marriage in pre-modern Europe. There have been consensual marriages, but, more often then not, there have been arranged marriages. Totally consensual, one-man-one-woman marriages are relatively new in history. Just who "married" Adam and Eve? God? A dinosaur? Who? How many wives did Solomon have? Four hundred?

Cut the
LEAVE-IT-TO-BEAVER-EXISTED-SINCE-THE-DAWN-OF-TIME
crap!

Delusion #2: People can affirm something by amending the Constitution. If they have to "affirm" something - anything - then there is something wrong with the thing they have to "affirm". It's not strong enough to be backed by the Constitution as a general right, it has to be singled out as a "specified" right.

Delusion #3: The UberChristians who put together Proposition 8 DO NOT hate homosexuals. A religion that thinks it is the "One True Religion" is like a kids' club or, in more violent terms, a gang: "You wanna be in our club? We have rules. If you don't want to be in our club or follow our rules, you'll be our enemy and we'll hate you forever and ever." The "love the sinner, hate the sin" never floated and never will. The "Yes on 8" people hate homosexuals. They just needed a more "tolerant-looking" way to show it. And the phrase ELIMINATES the right of same-sex couples to marry was put in so that even morons could know who they were hating.

Delusion #4: "The very people who voted for Barack Obama in California…also voted to sustain traditional marriage. Not true.

(from fivethirtyeight):

Exit polls suggest that first-time voters -- the vast majority of whom were driven to turn out by Obama (he won 83 percent [!] of their votes) -- voted against Prop 8 by a 62-38 margin. More experienced voters voted for the measure 56-44, however, providing for its passage.

The people who voted for Barack Obama wanted CHANGE in government. The people who voted for Proposition 8 DID NOT WANT CHANGE in their idea of marriage.

Huckabee: go home and have a fun time in withdrawal.

Just a thought.

A better picture of the situation - Separate But Equal??

Did Matthew Shepard Suffer Enough?

Huckabee Doesn't Seem To Think So

According to Mike Huckabee, gays have just not suffered enough to have their rights linked to "civil rights." On The View, Huckabee went on and on about his pride in America in electing Barack Obama, but when Joy Behar asked him about gay rights, he immediately went into phobic mode: gay rights are "different rights." He then went on to suggest that the turmoil of the African American Civil Rights movement, was too staggering to be compared to gay rights.

Evidently, this is the new tack by Christofascists: "gays haven't suffered enough."


(From Think Progress, Nov. 19)

Tara Wall, deputy editorial page editor at the Washington Times, wrote today that “[t]here is no comparison” between blacks’ struggle and gay people’s struggle because “[b]lacks were stoned, hung, and dragged for their constitutional right to ’sit at the table.’ Whites — gay or not — already had a seat at that table.”

(TP) To suggest that a civil rights movement must meet some sort of violence threshold is an incredibly dangerous argument — not to mention blind to the serious violence gay people have already suffered. 16.6 percent of all hate crimes reported by the FBI in 2007 “resulted from sexual-orientation bias,” and the number of hate crimes directed against gays and lesbians increased six percent from 2006. More striking, a 2007 study by the University of California, Davis, found that “[n]early four in 10 gay men and about one in eight lesbians and bisexuals in the United States have been the target of violence or a property crime because of their sexual orientation.”

Think Progress said it more stridently and more succinctly than I ever could. Thanks. Let's see now: gays absolutely MUST experience some form of slavery, undergo Jim Crow-like laws, and be killed on more massive a scale than they have been in the past. How bloodthirsty! How Southern Baptist! How Christofascist to laud the election of someone in a minority then turn around and say that another minority has a "different" set of rights. Too bad. Sometimes Mike Huckabee seems almost genuine...and human. But Southern Baptists can be very, very hypocritical.

You almost have to ask: are they born that way, or do they choose to be hypocrites?

Just a thought.


Before you view Huckabee's statement, look at these statistics:

Isn't 97.2% ENOUGH?

Scalia Must LOVE Gonzales: "Torture Isn't Really Punishment"

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
by Antonin Scalia

In light of the indictment of Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales today, I found this video to be an eye-opener: Justice Scalia comes off as the most arrogant b*****d in the world. Let's hope none of the administration's crimes have to be hear by the Supreme Court!

Gonzales' Private Attorney Paid For By Taxpayers: Is He Worth It?

Anybody Out There Who Wants To Make $24,000 per month?

(If Gonzales fires his attorney at any time...)

Another problem for Gonzales (thank you, God!).

(From Think Progress)

This summer, six attorneys “rejected from civil service positions at the Justice Department filed a lawsuit” against “former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and three other top officials for allegedly violating their rights by taking politics into consideration” in the hiring process for the Honors and Summer Law Intern Programs.

Today, McClatchy reports that the Justice Department has agreed to pay for a private lawyer to defend Gonzales, which could cost taxpayers up to $24,000 a month: According to a person with knowledge of the case, the Justice Department has imposed a limit of $200 an hour or $24,000 a month on attorneys’ fees. Top Justice Department attorneys generally earn no more than $100 per hour. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

If it were any more than that exorbitant sum, Gonzales' trial expenses would have to be considered part of the "Bailout" program! Something tells me that, if justice is really served, we'll be seeing more of B**h's administration behind bars (unless he gives them a last-minute pardon!

Just a thought.

Cheney and Gonzales Indicted on Abuse of Prisoners in TEXAS (of all places!)

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!

We've Been Waiting For Something Like This for EIGHT years!! Praise Jesus! Praise the Goddess Justitia! (and I never thought I'd say this)
Praise Texas!

(From Think Progress.com)

A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County’s federal detention centers:

The indictment accuses Cheney and Gonzales of engaging in organized criminal activity. It criticizes Cheney’s investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers.

It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and “at least misdemeanor assaults” on detainees by working through the prison companies. Gonzales is accused of using his position while in office to stop an investigation into abuses at the federal detention centers.

Of course, you know they'll walk away from the indictment scott free! But Who Cares? It's a step in the right direction! It may open up indictments from other states. And from other countries!!

Could the next indictment be against someone whose last name begins with a "B"?
Oh PLEASE! Pretty please! Pretty Please with chocolate on it! Anything!

Karma, please don't stop it! Buddha, meditate on a continuum! Energizer Bunny! Just everything, everyone, keep going! Time is precious now. If anyone has anything on this vile administration, release it NOW!