US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

yeah it's not a thrilling thing to think about but i think dems would much rather embrace a stupakesque gutting of abortion regs and pass something than let it fail.

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?

youd be surprised. well, i mean, YOU wouldn't, but that's kinda your thing

I wonder if Reid's families plight will make him more sympathetic to the healthcare crises of the rest of America... (probably not)

family's

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/12/beck.boycott/index.html

lololololol nice one, Glenn

The thing that strikes me about that cnn article is that they went for an opinion from each end of the spectrum...but Jim Wallis is in the center-ish left, and Falwell Jr is off the far right deep end of nutcase crazy.

Too bad they didn't talk to Billy Graham.

How do you mean? Graham was his own special kind of nutcase. Did you know he arranged his teenage daughter's marriage to some rich and much older donor?

fuck Billy Graham

I can't remember the deets but I think she was like 17 at the time.

like i said @ beck thread a couple days ago: i bet eventually he'll cross too many lines you're not supposed to cross. come on, you don't mess with somebody's church or tell them to leave their church.

i guess there's no way beck will accept an actual debate because he doesn't have a command of the facts & will look like a fool

Frank Schaeffer, from Crazy for God

And this was the same chapel that the Billy Graham family sometimes dropped by to worship in, along with their Swiss-Armenian, multimillionaire in-laws, after Billy---like some Middle Eastern potentate---arranged for his seventeen-year-old daughter’s marriage to the son of a particularly wealthy donor who lived up the road from us in the ski resort of Villars.

Did the followers of Billy Graham know he’d plucked his seventeen-year-old daughter out of her first semester at Wheaton College to marry a man much older than her that she had never met?

yeah when you get clowned by The View it's probably for the best that you stay ensconced in your crazypants show where you can spit all kinds of nonsense without the risk of being called out

but then again he was sort of punked by that idiot Massa in his own house, so...

Graham, while often explicitly apolitical, was a power-junkie plain and simple. which is its own special brand of disgusting.

called out in person, that is

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yeah i wonder if Graham is even more nefarious, in a way. even tons of devout fundamentalists think Falwell's a boob. but Graham is sort of a golden boy

sucking up to Nixon and Kim Jon Il is indefensible imho

bailing MLK Jr out of jail is pretty defensible, though

The point about Graham is that he's definitely a politically-right-wing person whom has preached in favor of social justice (particularly with regards to segregation).

Dude, Frank Schaeffer has a blog, and he is one angry man -- I like him.

Graham was on the right side of civil rights, I don't think there's any question about that.

Apparently he's an Obama-stan but I'm prepared to let that go for his very excellent rants, occasionally given on-air on Rachel Maddow, among other places.

yeah what little I know of Schaeffer is pretty awesome. his dad was cRaZy pro-lifer (the father of the movement, in a lot of respects) but towards the end was pretty appalled at the movement he had had a direct hand in creating.

Yeah, I got my dad some of his books for Christmas (I only hope he reads them).

I approve of Schaeffer's defense of O's first year

by which I mean it sums up what he's achieved pretty well, and I don't think those accomplishments are insignificant. However, I don't have a problem with the left continuing to apply pressure for him to do MORE, because that is the left's job.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/christians-urged-to-boycott-glenn-beck/?partner=rss&emc=rss

This is one more article that makes me think the evangelical America that has been pawns of the right wing war machine for the past 8 years is the only real hope progressives have for making the public case for medical reform and financial regulations. Greed is an evil sin and Jesus is one of the world's most famous free health care providers in history. But could the Dems even handle memes so simple and flawless.

francis schaeffer: i haet u forever and i also haet the psuedointellectual army of apologists you birthed who think you can trace the evils of postmodern relativism to aquinas fuck u fuck u fuck u

frank schaeffer: <3 u

Won a Nobel peace prize (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

Gave a major precedent-setting speech supporting gay rights (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

lol

yeah f that

guys, he's had it really hard, cut him some slack. so he hasn't taken much of a principled stand on any issue of importance, and if he has, he's taken every precaution to make sure he fucks it up - he's still a good guy!

hahah i was <3ing the man in gen w/o having read the post lmao @ "won a nobel peace prize (but that wasn't good enough)"

told a totally funny joke that everybody who heard it laughed at (but that wasn't good enough)

could both communicate the appeal and criticize the substance of HOOM (but that wasn't good enough)

rode a dolphin through crystal waters to the rainbow tower (but that wasn't HOOM enough)

Unbeatable Dan Lacey-type image, though.

well this was entertaining: kucinich is worthless

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/03/stats-say-kucinich-may-be-least.html

the only thing of value he has is his smokin hot wife

Sarah Palin spoke in Orlando recently, and nameckecked the local Congressman. LULZ brought in response. Guess who:

http://www.graysonforcongress.com/newsletter_detail.asp?OptInEmailId=314

omg "chillbilly"

Alan Grayson cracks me up

I am perfectly happy for this man to carry on bringing LULZ as long as there are LULZ to bring.

My fave: Scientists are studying Sarah Palin's travel between Alaska and Florida carefully. They hope to learn more about the flight patterns of that elusive migratory species, the wild Alaskan dingbat.

yeah I don't want him to be President or even Speaker but as attack dogs go this guy is good value

chillbilly is clearly the worst alt-country subgenre

http://toomuchonline.org/the-‘party-of-no’-may-now-rate-a-new-label/

so this Great Recession meme seems to have taken root. is that what we're calling this now?

could've put these on the GOP thread lol. two profiles of manic dickback pimp-video-pimper andrew breitbart

http://www.slate.com/id/2247593/
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/03/ff_andrew_brietbart/

where is that 'breitbartocalypse' clock site? can't find it anymore. times up!

so the deal with breitbart is: the left is annoying (ok yeah) and though the right is a lot more annoying, they love him because they think he is entertaining and cool, and he is enough of a narcissist to go with whatever side pays him more money and makes him more famous?

and the left "freak out" over him = the left using his comments to raise $$$ and attention for themselves

great concluding graf at that wired piece

He takes a breath. “They call us tea-baggers. They call us racist, sexist, homophobic, and we are finally punching back. It’s over, dude. It’s over. You think you’re gonna be able to put the genie back in the bottle? It’s over. And if you don’t like my aggression, there are going to be millions more of me,” Breitbart says, the cell phone connection skipping in and out. “Because the new media provides the tools and there are millions out there who are outraged. Now they realize, ‘Wow, anybody can do that. We can hold these people accountable. We have the means. We have the technology.’” Then Breitbart hangs up. He has more interviews to conduct, a speech at the National Tea Party Convention to prep, and bloggers to talk to. The O’Keefe story might still turn out very bad for Breitbart. But there is no way he’s going to let someone else tell it.