Attorney General Eric Holder to Resign, Right Wing Blogs Gloat, Rant

The DMOTI: “Good riddance”
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President Obama will be announcing at 4:30 pm Eastern time today that Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning.

Close friends said Holder had been exhausted by his job at times and had earlier considered leaving several times, especially last summer and fall, when he was facing pillorying from Hill Republicans over the department’s handling of the Fast and Furious gun program. But Holder was very reluctant to leave his Justice post at a low point, and he wanted to depart on his own terms.

[…]

Holder now announces his resignation after a series of successes in the past year, having received accolades from community activists for his leadership in investigating and responding to the police shooting of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo. Holder has often spoken about race relations in blunter terms than the president.

While Holder has no immediate plans once he steps down, the Justice official said, he has spoken with friends and colleagues about establishing some sort of center or institute to continue his work on restoring trust between law enforcement and minority communities.

Here’s an NPR audio report:

MP3 Audio

And of course, right wing blogs are already in a frenzy of back-slapping and partying and gloating; if there’s one thing right wingers know how to do, it’s gloat.

The Dumbest Man on the Internet has weighed in with one of his typical grotesque race-baiting posts, complete with a picture of Holder from 1968: Breaking: Controversial Scandal-Plagued Attorney General Holder to Step Down | the Gateway Pundit.

And guess who wrote the ludicrous article Hoft cites, claiming Holder took part in an “armed takeover” of an ROTC office in 1968? None other than… Chuck C. Johnson.

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159 comments
1 Dr. Matt  Sep 25, 2014 10:19:37am
2 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 10:19:41am

Wait till the wingnuts start wailing and gnashing teeth when Obama announces his replacement

3 b.d.  Sep 25, 2014 10:20:26am

re: #2 Kragar

Wait till the wingnuts start wailing and gnashing teeth when Obama announces his replacement

Attorney General Bill Ayers.

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4 HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2014 10:22:52am

Well Holder was right when he called us a nation of cowards. We’re afraid to talk about the effects racism has had in this coutnry because right wing dipshits and their friends in the media flip out whenever someone tries to have that conversation.

5 Unabogie  Sep 25, 2014 10:23:41am

They think Eric Holder participated in an armed takeover of an ROTC office?

Like, in real life???

How do you persuade people whose whole worldview is based on a foundation of pure fantasy?

6 Lidane  Sep 25, 2014 10:25:49am

re: #2 Kragar

Wait till the wingnuts start wailing and gnashing teeth when Obama announces his replacement

I hope it’s a Republican, just to watch the GOP cannibalize one of their own because Obama.

7 Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2014 10:27:03am

We did it! We got rid of Holder! It only took 6 years, far longer than the average tenure of an Attorney General!

8 b.d.  Sep 25, 2014 10:27:30am

re: #6 Lidane

I hope it’s a Republican, just to watch the GOP cannibalize one of their own because Obama.

I don’t Obama has had enough Republicans in his cabinet as it is.

9 Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2014 10:29:30am

Guess who wrote the Daily Caller article Hoft links to, claiming that Holder participated in an “armed takeover?” None other than… Chuck C. Johnson.

donotlink.com

10 Lidane  Sep 25, 2014 10:29:43am

re: #8 b.d.

I don’t Obama has had enough Republicans in his cabinet as it is.

Sure, but think of it this way — Holder isn’t leaving until his successor is confirmed. The batshit crazy the GOP are going to unleash in any confirmation hearings will probably keep Holder around anyway.

11 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2014 10:30:40am

bwahahahaha….

12 b.d.  Sep 25, 2014 10:31:49am

re: #10 Lidane

Sure, but think of it this way — Holder isn’t leaving until his successor is confirmed. The batshit crazy the GOP are going to unleash in any confirmation hearings will probably keep Holder around anyway.

Yes, but. Holder wants to leave but the Republicans in the Senate won’t let him sounds really nice too.

13 Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2014 10:32:48am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Guess who wrote the Daily Caller article Hoft links to, claiming that Holder participated in an “armed takeover?” None other than… Chuck C. Johnson.

donotlink.com

Hey, if he was armed, the 2A enthusiasts will be cool with that. No…?

14 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 10:32:50am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Guess who wrote the Daily Caller article Hoft links to, claiming that Holder participated in an “armed takeover?” None other than… Chuck C. Johnson.

donotlink.com

You would think something like that would have come up during his confirmation hearing.

15 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Sep 25, 2014 10:34:08am

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, strictly speaking, when Comedy Central does it it’s comedy. It’s not their fault if their comedy looks more like journalism than right-wing journalism does.

16 b.d.  Sep 25, 2014 10:36:38am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Why isn’t Chuck C. still writing for The Daily Caller?

17 urbanmeemaw  Sep 25, 2014 10:36:56am

Well Charlie Pierce will be happy. He called for Holder to be fired because he was persecuting some journalmalist or other (think it was Fox “News” reporter) for not revealing a “source” of a leak or something. I’m sure when President Paul appoints the Southern Avenger as AG he will continue to vigorously defend voting rights for the poor, elderly and people of color.

A couple of posters have said he’s done more to advance voting rights than any other AG in recent hisotry. I hope this doesn’t affect the effectiveness of the DOJ probes into police policies and behavior in Ferguson and Dayton.

I’m sad to see him go.

18 Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2014 10:37:03am

re: #14 Kragar

You would think something like that would have come up during his confirmation hearing.

It came up in the hearings held on Altair 6. CCJ was there, crashed with the Id Monster.

19 klys  Sep 25, 2014 10:39:49am

re: #15 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

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Well, strictly speaking, when Comedy Central does it it’s comedy. It’s not their fault if their comedy looks more like journalism than right-wing journalism does.

And, you know, I find it hard to feel too bad for people who were uncomfortable when they have to confront their own bigotry in the form of the people they are hurting.

That they’re lashing out instead of actually engaging in any self-reflection is also unsurprising.

20 iossarian  Sep 25, 2014 10:40:13am

re: #18 Decatur Deb

It came up in the hearings held on Altair 6. CCJ was there, crashed with the Id Monster.

“We fabricate, you decide.”

21 Bubblehead II  Sep 25, 2014 10:40:29am

re: #14 Kragar

You would think something like that would have come up during his confirmation hearing.

Now why would upchuck let a little thing like facts get in the way of a particularly good smear?

22 wrenchwench  Sep 25, 2014 10:40:29am
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It wasn’t until Holder arrived at Colum­bia University in the fall of 1969 that he connected with four other African-American students who could relate to his somewhat prismatic experience. On weeknights, they studied until the small hours; on weekends, they delved into the Harlem scene and immersed themselves in the activism of the times—marching in the streets for housing and education, coaching a youth football team, mentoring kids in the Manhattan Valley projects. “We took over the ROTC lounge in Hartley Hall and created the Malcolm X Lounge,” says Steve Sims, laughing.

[…]

It was an abandoned lounge. What were they ‘armed’ with, their big black hands?

23 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 25, 2014 10:41:24am

re: #6 Lidane

I hope it’s a Republican, just to watch the GOP cannibalize one of their own because Obama.

I sort of hope not. There seems to be a surviving meme that Attorney General and/or Secr of Defense need to be Republicans even in Democratic administrations in order to supply some elusive and ill-defined asset about being properly strong on law and order or defense policy respectively.

24 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 10:42:29am

And a quick perusal of actual facts show that while the student union Holder was a member of did take over an ROTC office while he was in college, it doesn’t say he was involved or that there was any thing linking them to the Black Panthers other than wingnut fever dreams

25 Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2014 10:42:49am

re: #23 Feline Fearless Leader

I sort of hope not. There seems to be a surviving meme that Attorney General and/or Secr of Defense need to be Republicans even in Democratic administrations in order to supply some elusive and ill-defined asset about being properly strong on law and order or defense policy respectively.

So Rudy Giuliani is a no-go?

26 iossarian  Sep 25, 2014 10:42:51am

re: #22 wrenchwench

It was an abandoned lounge. What were they ‘armed’ with, their big black hands?

I’m now thinking of the jailhouse scene in “Trading Places” where Eddie Murphy explains his karate skills.

Youtube Video

27 b.d.  Sep 25, 2014 10:43:37am

At the very bottom of the last Daily Caller article that Chuck C seems to have written.

* An earlier version of this article reported claims made in a Princeton student newspaper article that appears to have been fabricated. Kirkpatrick denies the reporting from the Daily Princetonian and The Daily Caller has not been able to confirm it independently.

dailycaller.com

So he was running with made up sh*t while he was writing for them too.

28 Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2014 10:45:14am

re: #16 b.d.

Why isn’t Chuck C. still writing for The Daily Caller?

They’ve said some pretty snarky things about him recently. I don’t think the parting was on good terms. Even a lot of conservatives think he’s a dick.

29 allegro  Sep 25, 2014 10:46:10am

re: #19 klys

And, you know, I find it hard to feel too bad for people who were uncomfortable when they have to confront their own bigotry in the form of the people they are hurting.

That they’re lashing out instead of actually engaging in any self-reflection is also unsurprising.

One of the “ambushed” fans said if he’d known NA activists would be there he wouldn’t have worn his Redskins jacket. Sounds like a total admission that he knows it’s offensive but just doesn’t give a shit.

30 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 10:47:12am

I’m currently investigating allegations that Chuck C Johnson is a serial goat molestor. More to follow once I confirm with my source that he’s also wanted for banging cattle.

31 Ace-o-aces  Sep 25, 2014 10:47:28am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

They’ve said some pretty snarky things about him recently. I don’t think the parting was on good terms. Even a lot of conservatives think he’s a dick.

That is an insult to dicks, which are productive and bring people sexual pleasure, neither of which describe CCJ.

32 iossarian  Sep 25, 2014 10:48:48am

re: #29 allegro

One of the “ambushed” fans said if he’d known NA activists would be there he wouldn’t have worn his Redskins jacket. Sounds like a total admission that he knows it’s offensive but just doesn’t give a shit.

All of the comments from the fans in that article are pretty telling. They basically were allowed to assume they’d be able to trot out their standard lines and wouldn’t be confronted with a strong alternate viewpoint. Which didn’t turn out to be the case, to their chagrin.

34 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 10:52:15am

“I know a lot of people don’t like President Obama, but once in a while, you gotta cut him a little slack,” he said. “He didn’t mean anything malevolent about it.”

35 Kid A  Sep 25, 2014 10:54:48am

And that stupid article that the aborted ginger Muppet wrote “earlier this week” was actually propagandized two years ago.

36 iossarian  Sep 25, 2014 10:55:43am

re: #34 Kragar

Credit where credit is due.

37 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 10:55:49am

re: #35 Kid A

And that stupid article that the aborted ginger Muppet wrote “earlier this week” was actually propagandized two years ago.

Kind of like his “Breaking news” from Ferguson which was 6 weeks old

38 klys  Sep 25, 2014 10:55:53am

Heh, Stonekettle got shaken up this morning.

Earthquake info here.

39 De Kolta Chair  Sep 25, 2014 10:57:21am

Wait a sec, Eric Holder was the Black Panther?

40 b.d.  Sep 25, 2014 10:58:15am

re: #39 De Kolta Chair

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Eric Holder was the Black Panther?

I see Chuck C there in the lower right hand corner keeping an eye on him too.

41 klys  Sep 25, 2014 10:58:57am

re: #32 iossarian

All of the comments from the fans in that article are pretty telling. They basically were allowed to assume they’d be able to trot out their standard lines and wouldn’t be confronted with a strong alternate viewpoint. Which didn’t turn out to be the case, to their chagrin.

But…but…but… it was so tense! She was so uncomfortable. She called the police afterwards!

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I lost the fucking violin, it’s so small as to be microscopic.

42 Lidane  Sep 25, 2014 10:59:38am

re: #39 De Kolta Chair

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Wait a sec, Eric Holder was the Black Panther?

Didn’t you know? He and Barack Obama grew up in Wakanda together then took the TARDIS back to 1961 to plant Obama’s birth certificate in Hawaii so he could run for POTUS.

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43 Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2014 11:00:12am

And now we watch as the GOP uses every legislative trick left to them to slow-walk a vote on Holder’s replacement until next January.

44 Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2014 11:01:16am
45 iossarian  Sep 25, 2014 11:02:07am

re: #41 klys

But…but…but… it was so tense! She was so uncomfortable. She called the police afterwards!

So much worse than a huge media/entertainment organization naming itself after an offensive term for people like you, and its supporters glibly instructing you not to be offended because it’s tradition.

46 De Kolta Chair  Sep 25, 2014 11:02:10am

re: #42 Lidane

Youtube Video

47 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 11:03:28am

Remember back in the 1930s when the Jewish Voters summit warned everyone about the Nazis? ITS JUST THE SAME!

48 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:03:28am
The Dumbest Man on the Internet has weighed in with one of his typical grotesque race-baiting posts, complete with a picture of Holder from 1968:

Stay classy, DMOTI.

And what exactly, bothers RWNJ about Holder’s apparent militancy in 1968? Wingnut land has been calling for an armed revolt to overthrow the duly elected government since 2009.

49 Lidane  Sep 25, 2014 11:04:39am

re: #48 Bulworth

And what exactly, bothers RWNJ about Holder’s apparent militancy in 1968? Wingnut land has been calling for an armed revolt to overthrow the duly elected government since 2009.

Because Angry Black Man, obviously.

50 iossarian  Sep 25, 2014 11:05:07am

re: #48 Bulworth

Wingnut land has been calling for an armed revolt to overthrow the duly elected government since 2009.

That’s different because white people.

51 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:05:17am
And guess who wrote the ludicrous article Hoft cites, claiming Holder took part in an “armed takeover” of an ROTC office in 1968? None other than… Chuck C. Johnson.

Of course, and here’s my surprise face.

TDMOTI and Chuck Subpoena J. Johnson, together again. The inspiration for Dumb and Dumberer.

52 Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2014 11:06:10am
53 wrenchwench  Sep 25, 2014 11:07:15am

The ‘ethnicity’ being ‘cleansed’?

Teabaggers. Whiny, whiny teabaggers.

54 Testy Toad T  Sep 25, 2014 11:08:56am

re: #52 Charles Johnson

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Chuck Todd lends some of his what?

55 iossarian  Sep 25, 2014 11:09:05am

re: #53 wrenchwench

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The ‘ethnicity’ being ‘cleansed’?

Teabaggers. Whiny, whiny teabaggers.

Yeah, white people are an endangered species in the GOP, for sure.

@_@

56 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 25, 2014 11:09:07am

re: #53 wrenchwench

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The ‘ethnicity’ being ‘cleansed’?

Teabaggers. Whiny, whiny teabaggers.

Genocide. McCain is trying to commit mass-murder! Isn’t it obvious, libtards?

57 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:09:11am

re:
#33

Fox’s Powers, Watters Erupt over Holder: ‘Let Black Panthers off the Hook’

Yes, very menacing they were just standing there, all two of them. /

58 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:10:32am

Gosh, Obama is sure trolling the RWNJ stupid this week. I can’t wait for tomorrow.

59 urbanmeemaw  Sep 25, 2014 11:11:23am

re: #52 Charles Johnson

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I have difficulty seeing “Chuck Todd” and “credibility” in the same sentence. Chuckles is nothing more than a right wing hack. I eagerly await his interview with Stormfront.

60 sagehen  Sep 25, 2014 11:11:38am

re: #19 klys

And, you know, I find it hard to feel too bad for people who were uncomfortable when they have to confront their own bigotry in the form of the people they are hurting.

That they’re lashing out instead of actually engaging in any self-reflection is also unsurprising.

They knew ahead of time that they were agreeing to have Jason Jones make fun of them; they just didn’t realize a bunch of Native Americans would be there speaking seriously.

61 Eventual Carrion  Sep 25, 2014 11:12:10am

re: #14 Kragar

You would think something like that would have come up during his confirmation hearing.

CCJ hadn’t made it up yet at that time. He was too busy taking care of that child molestation charge he had hanging over his head.

// Love how easy it is to make up shit about people.

62 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:12:28am

re:
#47

Remember back in the 1930s when the Jewish Voters summit warned everyone about the Nazis? ITS JUST THE SAME!

Actually it was a Christian Values Voter summit back then, too, just before all the true Christians launched a civil revolution against Hitler’s brownshirts, preventing the Austrian madman from ever gaining power and launching WWII.

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63 Dr. Matt  Sep 25, 2014 11:16:48am
64 Lidane  Sep 25, 2014 11:17:28am

This would be amazing if true, but I seriously doubt it:

Limbaugh Thinks Holder Could Be Resigning so Obama Can Pick Him for SCOTUS

65 Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2014 11:17:46am

re: #47 Kragar

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Remember back in the 1930s when the Jewish Voters summit warned everyone about the Nazis? ITS JUST THE SAME!

Just like Nazi Germany, they claim.

In public. With no worries about any reprisal. Because Hitler was known for his welcoming attitude toward dissent.

66 Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2014 11:20:09am

re: #64 Lidane

This would be amazing if true, but I seriously doubt it:

Limbaugh Thinks Holder Could Be Resigning so Obama Can Pick Him for SCOTUS

It would be like the scenes from the climax of “Mars Attacks”

67 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 11:20:30am

re: #65 GeneJockey

Just like Nazi Germany, they claim.

In public. With no worries about any reprisal. Because Hitler was known for his welcoming attitude toward dissent.

Exactly

68 Eventual Carrion  Sep 25, 2014 11:20:40am

re: #30 Kragar

I’m currently investigating allegations that Chuck C Johnson is a serial goat molestor. More to follow once I confirm with my source that he’s also wanted for banging cattle.

I’ll find a free lawyer to help us.

Edited to fix random space.

69 Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2014 11:21:48am

re: #67 Kragar

Exactly

Worst tyrant EVAR!

70 De Kolta Chair  Sep 25, 2014 11:23:45am

re: #1 Dr. Matt

HE’S TOO BUSY GOLFING!!!1!!

71 Dr. Matt  Sep 25, 2014 11:23:52am

re: #30 Kragar

I’m currently investigating allegations that Chuck C Johnson is a serial goat molestor. More to follow once I confirm with my source that he’s also wanted for banging cattle.

Stop libeling Upchuck!!!

72 sagehen  Sep 25, 2014 11:24:29am

re: #47 Kragar

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Remember back in the 1930s when the Jewish Voters summit warned everyone about the Nazis? ITS JUST THE SAME!

And yet again… they schedule their summit during the High Holy Days. Just to be sure there won’t be any Jews present.

73 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 11:26:16am

Bulworth, will/did you Page this?

74 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 25, 2014 11:26:42am

re: #67 Kragar

Exactly

He was the most courteous man in response to criticism to ever walk the Earth!
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75 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 11:27:30am

It’s overcast and a very livable temperature with no rain sight in my part of the world today.

76 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 11:29:14am

I look forward to reading Holder’s memoirs from his time as AGOTUS.

I think there is a lot there we just don’t know about and more we don’t understand. Histories testimony will be interesting.

77 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 25, 2014 11:31:06am

re: #75 FemNaziBitch

It’s overcast and a very livable temperature with no rain sight in my part of the world today.

Overcast, 63 F, and raining here in Philadelphia today.

78 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 11:31:11am

re: #50 iossarian

That’s different because white people.

Because they believe in the fairy tale that the Invisible Hand will swoop down and just Restore the Republic.

79 Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2014 11:31:22am

You know, Facebook has taught me a lot about the people I went to school with. Some of them are still pretty cool. Some of them are cooler now than they were then. Some of them have gotten a lot stupider. Some of them have gone totally bugfuck insane.

I always wondered how kids with stupid or crazy parents managed to be so cool, but as nearly forty years have passed since High School, most of them have reverted to type.

80 Eventual Carrion  Sep 25, 2014 11:31:35am

re: #75 FemNaziBitch

It’s overcast and a very livable temperature with no rain sight in my part of the world today.

Not overcast here, but no rain in sight for at least the next 5 days or so. I know many parts of the world would love some rain, but I think this will be the longest no rain streak we have had all spring/summer/(just into fall).

81 darthstar  Sep 25, 2014 11:31:49am

Scandal plagued? Fuck those assholes.

82 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:32:05am

Good grief, the RWNJ Values Voters Summit is this weekend? Didn’t they just do this in the Spring? Or was that another RWNJ conference? American Conservatives for a Pure America, maybe. People’s Front of Teabag.

83 Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2014 11:33:20am

re: #82 Bulworth

Good grief, the RWNJ Values Voters Summit is this weekend? Didn’t they just do this in the Spring? Or was that another RWNJ conference? American Conservatives for a Pure America, maybe. People’s Front of Teabag.

SPLITTERS!!

84 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 11:33:59am
85 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:34:16am

re:
#73

Nope, I can’t from my desktop. Something wrong with my browser here at the office. Please go ahead if you can and have time.

86 Bubblehead II  Sep 25, 2014 11:34:34am

re: #75 FemNaziBitch

It’s overcast and a very livable temperature with no rain sight in my part of the world today.

Clear, Hot (86 now will probably break a 100) with a bit of a breeze.

87 Dr. Matt  Sep 25, 2014 11:35:47am

Hasn’t it been like 3 months since they had a teaparty trucker protest? Seems long overdue for another one.

88 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:35:54am

re:
#83

It’s the usual assortment of partisan hackery disguised as values and religion.

89 Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2014 11:37:24am

re: #86 Bubblehead II

Clear, Hot (86 now will probably break a 100) with a bit of a breeze.

Rained last night, but it stopped before I left for work. Enough rain to actually wet the ground. Here’s hoping for a lot more!

90 Lidane  Sep 25, 2014 11:40:41am

Ugh. I hate this. Normally I’d be thrilled that I’m finally getting health insurance with a job, but the pathetic salary at this gig means that I’m going to end up paying a premium for an HSA I will never contribute to at all just to get some kind of coverage and avoid getting penalized on my taxes later.

God, I need a new job.

91 Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2014 11:41:17am

Andrea Tantaros: “He Was One Of The Most Divisive, Polarizing, Controversial, Most Dangerous Men In America … He Ran The DOJ Much Like The Black Panthers Would”

Seriously, at what point does someone like Andrea Tantaros become so laughably extreme that Fox tells her to tone it down? Or is there really no bottom to the rabbit hole?

92 Single-handed sailor  Sep 25, 2014 11:42:00am

re: #89 GeneJockey

Rained last night, but it stopped before I left for work. Enough rain to actually wet the ground. Here’s hoping for a lot more!

0.31 inches of rain here. Not bad for September in CA.

93 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2014 11:42:26am
94 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:43:35am

re:
#91

I’m afraid Andrea is just treading water there, trying to keep up with all the wingnuttery.

95 klys  Sep 25, 2014 11:43:39am

re: #92 Single-handed sailor

0.31 inches of rain here. Not bad for September in CA.

A whole 0.51” down here, apparently.

It was all done by the time I pried myself out of bed, however.

96 lawhawk  Sep 25, 2014 11:44:23am

But NYPD/PAPD have all increased security, just to be sure.

97 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:44:40am

RE: Values Voter Conference

Why would any organization or person invite Todd Starnes to address its assembly?

98 sagehen  Sep 25, 2014 11:48:11am

re: #79 GeneJockey

You know, Facebook has taught me a lot about the people I went to school with. Some of them are still pretty cool. Some of them are cooler now than they were then. Some of them have gotten a lot stupider. Some of them have gone totally bugfuck insane.

I always wondered how kids with stupid or crazy parents managed to be so cool, but as nearly forty years have passed since High School, most of them have reverted to type.

The ones who are “cooler than they were then,” or “a lot stupider than they were”… they haven’t changed at all. You just know more about them now, and can finally see them as they’ve always been.

99 Bubblehead II  Sep 25, 2014 11:48:17am

re: #89 GeneJockey

Rained last night, but it stopped before I left for work. Enough rain to actually wet the ground. Here’s hoping for a lot more!

Looks like we are going to get drenched again this weekend. Last time it rained hard here it destroyed a lot crops prompting a request for a disaster declaration.

100 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 11:49:57am

It’s Banned Books Week. How did I miss it until Now?

Paged

101 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 11:52:22am

read.gov has some interesting titles.

I’d like to read the reprint by Barbara Tuchman.

102 Lidane  Sep 25, 2014 11:54:09am

New Pro-GOP Campaign Wants You to Know: ‘Republicans Are People, Too!’

You know, if the GOP actually treated women, LGBT people, the poor, and minorities like people there might not be a need for a slick ad campaign like this.

Just a thought.

103 Jay C  Sep 25, 2014 11:55:39am

re: #82 Bulworth

You’re right: IIJM, or does it seem like “conservatives” (of every stripe, from batshit insane to just merely crazy) hold some sort of “summit” or other every couple of months? Apparently in some sort of bizarre “looniest statement of the year” competition?

104 wrenchwench  Sep 25, 2014 11:56:36am

re: #102 Lidane

New Pro-GOP Campaign Wants You to Know: ‘Republicans Are People, Too!’

You know, if the GOP actually treated women, LGBT people, the poor, and minorities like people there might not be a need for a slick ad campaign like this.

Just a thought.

There’s the difficulty.

105 aagcobb  Sep 25, 2014 11:59:25am

re: #64 Lidane

This would be amazing if true, but I seriously doubt it:

Limbaugh Thinks Holder Could Be Resigning so Obama Can Pick Him for SCOTUS

RBG gave an interview and she has absolutely no intention of resigning.

106 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 11:59:37am

re:
#103

Their world view is so decayed they have to assemble frequently to reassure themselves. Because their weekly assemblies on Sunday and daily talk radio and Fox News broadcasts aren’t enough.

107 aagcobb  Sep 25, 2014 12:00:44pm

re: #71 Dr. Matt

Stop libeling Upchuck!!!

Kragar is just asking questions; it would be irresponsible not to.

108 NJDhockeyfan  Sep 25, 2014 12:02:21pm
109 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2014 12:03:40pm

If Holder is staying until a replacement is confirmed, he may well wind up serving under the next President a while as well as the rest of this term….

110 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 25, 2014 12:05:11pm

re: #96 lawhawk

But NYPD/PAPD have all increased security, just to be sure.

No one frothing at the mouth and trying to vandalize The Harpy’s new set of anti-Muslim posters?
/

111 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 25, 2014 12:06:50pm

re: #102 Lidane

New Pro-GOP Campaign Wants You to Know: ‘Republicans Are People, Too!’

You know, if the GOP actually treated women, LGBT people, the poor, and minorities like people there might not be a need for a slick ad campaign like this.

Just a thought.

I’m not sure I understand, want to understand, or agree with their definition of “people”. I expect it would be convoluted, bigoted, and the logical fallacy salad of “No True Scotsman” applied to a large number of categories.

112 A Mom Anon  Sep 25, 2014 12:08:54pm

re: #108 NJDhockeyfan

I keep cracking up when I hear “the Khorasan Group” (damn you Stephanie Miller, heh). It sounds like a giant conglomerate of some kind.

“At the Khorasan Group, we don’t make things, we make the things you use better”.

“Tonight’s episode of Masterpiece Theater is brought to you in part by a grant from the Khorasan Group”.

And so on. Yeah, I know I should be quaking in my boots over more terrorizers and the like, but life sucks these days and I have to find levity where I can.

113 thecommodore  Sep 25, 2014 12:10:01pm

re: #57 Bulworth

re:
#33

Yes, very menacing they were just standing there, all two of them. /

There ‘s a white girl in the background of that video talking on her phone, and she doesn’t seem to even notice those guys.

114 HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2014 12:11:42pm

re: #102 Lidane

New Pro-GOP Campaign Wants You to Know: ‘Republicans Are People, Too!’

You know, if the GOP actually treated women, LGBT people, the poor, and minorities like people there might not be a need for a slick ad campaign like this.

Just a thought.

I just feel so bad for them. I mean it’s not like they’like they haven’t respected LGBT people, the poor, women, and minorities. Oh wait? They’ve totally disrespected and belittled those groups? Yeah……..Poor widdle GOP can’t catch a break. My sympathy for them. Zlitch. Start treating your fellow Americans like people GOP and then we’ll talk.

115 Dr Lizardo  Sep 25, 2014 12:11:48pm

re: #112 A Mom Anon

I keep cracking up when I hear “the Khorasan Group” (damn you Stephanie Miller, heh). It sounds like a giant conglomerate of some kind.

“At the Khorasan Group, we don’t make things, we make the things you use better”.

“Tonight’s episode of Masterpiece Theater is brought to you in part by a grant from the Khorasan Group”.

And so on. Yeah, I know I should be quaking in my boots over more terrorizers and the like, but life sucks these days and I have to find levity where I can.

Despite their horrific atrocities, al-Shabaab still makes me chuckle to an extent because it sounds like a restaurant.

116 Lidane  Sep 25, 2014 12:11:52pm

re: #111 Feline Fearless Leader

I’m not sure I understand, want to understand, or agree with their definition of “people”. I expect it would be convoluted, bigoted, and the logical fallacy salad of “No True Scotsman” applied to a large number of categories.

We read the NYT too! We drive Priuses too! We like gourmet foods too! We like Starbucks too!

I wish I was kidding.

117 Bubblehead II  Sep 25, 2014 12:12:06pm

Ghost Hunters next shoot.

Ghost caught on camera at Espanola police station, officer says

118 HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2014 12:12:32pm

I think the GOP just lives in a bubble and doesn’t get why many Americans don’t like them. The whole being condescending and elitist assholes bit seems lost on them.

119 klys  Sep 25, 2014 12:13:00pm

re: #112 A Mom Anon

I keep cracking up when I hear “the Khorasan Group” (damn you Stephanie Miller, heh). It sounds like a giant conglomerate of some kind.

“At the Khorasan Group, we don’t make things, we make the things you use better”.

“Tonight’s episode of Masterpiece Theater is brought to you in part by a grant from the Khorasan Group”.

And so on. Yeah, I know I should be quaking in my boots over more terrorizers and the like, but life sucks these days and I have to find levity where I can.

Seriously, I’m not clear what good freaking out about these things does the average American. Like, ok, if other people want to go and overreact and turn themselves into hysterical ninnies over it, well, that’s their prerogative, but when interacting with reality please try to keep at least a minimal connection to the actual threats at hand.

We are all more likely to die in a car accident than in a terrorist attack and yet nobody posts shit moaning about the horrible risk of having to get in the car in the morning but BROWN PEOPLE and send for my fainting couch!

If I’m going to panic about something going wrong, it’s going to be the thought that my husband was in a car crash on the way home from the office.

120 De Kolta Chair  Sep 25, 2014 12:13:59pm

Just a thought: If you want to elect a politician who agrees with you 100% of the time, you should write in your own damn name.

121 HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2014 12:14:29pm

re: #120 De Kolta Chair

Just a thought: If you want to elect a politician who agrees with you 100% of the time, you should write in your own damn name.

Indeed.

122 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 12:14:41pm

re: #120 De Kolta Chair

Just a thought: If you want to elect a politician who agrees with you 100% of the time, you should write in your own damn name.

That might be a problem. I don’t always agree with myself.

:0

123 iossarian  Sep 25, 2014 12:15:06pm

re: #116 Lidane

We read the NYT too! We drive Priuses too! We like gourmet foods too! We like Starbucks too!

I wish I was kidding.

OMFG there are some non-white Republicans and one’s even a vegetarian.

Mind: blown.

124 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2014 12:15:48pm

re: #115 Dr Lizardo

Despite their horrific atrocities, al-Shabaab still makes me chuckle to an extent because it sounds like a restaurant.

To me, al-Shabaab sounds like the chorus to an old Motown tune.

:D

125 HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2014 12:18:59pm

re: #123 iossarian

OMFG there are some non-white Republicans and one’s even a vegetarian.

Mind: blown.

They seriously think that’s how it works when they run people like Jindal or Cruz. Okay so not everyone in their party is white. The problem of course is GOP minority office holders like Jindal and Cruz have their own bigotries. Jindal and Cruz are huge homophobe for instance and despite being the son of immigrants himself hostile to the hopes and aspirations of immigrants.

126 NJDhockeyfan  Sep 25, 2014 12:24:12pm

This is an incredible number

127 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 12:24:40pm

Pips
Youtube Video

128 Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2014 12:25:08pm
129 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2014 12:27:37pm

re: #127 FemNaziBitch

Pips
[Embedded content]

I left something downstairs for you yesterday.
:D

130 HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2014 12:30:12pm

re: #128 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Wow tell em.

131 ChuckJager95  Sep 25, 2014 12:31:22pm

re: #123 iossarian

OMFG there are some non-white Republicans and one’s even a vegetarian.

Mind: blown.

The original title “Exceptions That Prove The Rule” was apparently taken.

132 Amory Blaine  Sep 25, 2014 12:31:28pm

Fifth Planned Parenthood clinic closes in Wisconsin as result of Scott Walker budget cuts

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin closed its fifth clinic in just over one year Thursday, prompting the head of the state’s largest nonprofit reproductive health care provider to call for new leadership at the state Capitol.

“The good news is it does not have to be like this,” said Tanya Atkinson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, the advocacy arm of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. “We all want strong, healthy families. Gov. Scott Walker has made it clear that he doesn’t share our values and will continue to erect barriers for women and families. This November, we hope people will join with us and vote for Mary Burke, a candidate who shares our values and cares about healthy families and communities.”

133 freetoken  Sep 25, 2014 12:34:08pm

Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, cares only about growing itself and making money.

They know that to do this they have to have products to sell to every corner of America.

Murdoch has (wildly successfully) already demonstrated that the hate-right/paleo-right was an underserved market in this country.

The reason Chuck Todd exists is for Comcast to offer products to every niche in the US.

Broadcast “journalism” even more so than print journalism has no high ground. It is a product that exists to sell advertising time.

134 wrenchwench  Sep 25, 2014 12:35:42pm

re: #128 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

The whole comment needs a tweet button. Time-saving convenience!

135 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 12:36:37pm

re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth

I left something downstairs for you yesterday.
:D

My GSD was very sympathetic to the noises coming from my computer!

:)

136 aagcobb  Sep 25, 2014 12:36:48pm

re: #133 freetoken

Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, cares only about growing itself and making money.

They know that to do this they have to have products to sell to every corner of America.

Murdoch has (wildly successfully) already demonstrated that the hate-right/paleo-right was an underserved market in this country.

The reason Chuck Todd exists is for Comcast to offer products to every niche in the US.

Broadcast “journalism” even more so than print journalism has no high ground. It is a product that exists to sell advertising time.

Murrow would weep.

137 De Kolta Chair  Sep 25, 2014 12:37:02pm

re: #117 Bubblehead II

“I do believe in ghosts — I don’t know (what exactly was on the video), but we’ve had some unsolved murders in the area,” Romero said.

Not hard to figure out why they remain unsolved.

138 freetoken  Sep 25, 2014 12:37:55pm

re: #136 aagcobb

Murrow would weep.

Shortest paragraph in the Journalism Holy Scriptures:

Murrow wept.

139 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 12:38:31pm

re: #137 De Kolta Chair

“I do believe in ghosts — I don’t know (what exactly was on the video), but we’ve had some unsolved murders in the area,” Romero said.

Not hard to figure out why they remain unsolved.

Kinda hard to arrest a ghost.

140 Kragar  Sep 25, 2014 12:38:33pm
141 FemNaziBitch  Sep 25, 2014 12:39:40pm

Taking the pups for a play date in a large fenced in backyard.

bbl

142 Dr Lizardo  Sep 25, 2014 12:39:52pm

re: #133 freetoken

Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, cares only about growing itself and making money.

They know that to do this they have to have products to sell to every corner of America.

Murdoch has (wildly successfully) already demonstrated that the hate-right/paleo-right was an underserved market in this country.

The reason Chuck Todd exists is for Comcast to offer products to every niche in the US.

Broadcast “journalism” even more so than print journalism has no high ground. It is a product that exists to sell advertising time.

Paddy Chayefsky predicted it all back in 1976.

Youtube Video

143 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2014 12:39:54pm

re: #128 Charles Johnson

144 Bubblehead II  Sep 25, 2014 12:40:39pm

re: #137 De Kolta Chair

“I do believe in ghosts — I don’t know (what exactly was on the video), but we’ve had some unsolved murders in the area,” Romero said.

Not hard to figure out why they remain unsolved.

Yeah. I’m pretty sure that one is going to making the rounds on the paranormal circuit as proof that ghost are real.

145 De Kolta Chair  Sep 25, 2014 12:41:06pm

re: #139 FemNaziBitch

I meant they might remain unsolved because of dimwit cops like him. #1 on my list of suspects…

146 Amory Blaine  Sep 25, 2014 12:42:03pm

I’m starting to get a sense of what Chuck Todd’s job is.

147 Ace-o-aces  Sep 25, 2014 12:42:33pm
148 A Mom Anon  Sep 25, 2014 12:43:32pm

re: #140 Kragar

She is aware, isn’t she that they took her advice? They didn’t like what was happening to their school and they walked out. Of course Gretchen doesn’t mind the schools being dumbed down to the point that kids wouldn’t be able to feed themselves without a spork to the eye, but at least those kids are smart enough to know they’re being robbed of an education with this shit. I hope to see more of this where it’s needed, not less. So maybe if Gretchen doesn’t like it SHE should be the one to GTFO.

149 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 25, 2014 12:44:24pm

re: #137 De Kolta Chair

“I do believe in ghosts — I don’t know (what exactly was on the video), but we’ve had some unsolved murders in the area,” Romero said.

Not hard to figure out why they remain unsolved.

Such people should not be officers.

150 freetoken  Sep 25, 2014 12:44:47pm

re: #140 Kragar

I was thinking about writing a Page about the development of Japanese Nationalism in the late 19th and early 20th century, given that there are scary parallels with what happened there to what the likes of Gretchen Carlson and the Fox News gang and their allies constantly preach.

Reforming the educational system so that it would promote the new nationalism was one of the elements in the ascension of the destruction that followed.

151 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 12:44:56pm

re:
#147

It’s a question that’s gotta be raised….

152 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 25, 2014 12:45:07pm

re: #147 Ace-o-aces

Heh.

Youtube Video

153 Bulworth  Sep 25, 2014 12:46:59pm

re:
#140

Fox’s Gretchen Carlson to ‘Punks’ in CO Student Walkout: ‘Don’t Like It Here? Get Out’

I remember when Gretchen and Fox News said much the same thing when the angry teabags were shouting down opponents at congressional town hall meetings and when they gathered outside the halls of congress like a mob out to lynch anyone who voted for Obamacare.

///

154 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2014 12:54:25pm

Time rewards the patient

155 aagcobb  Sep 25, 2014 12:59:24pm

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

Paddy Chayefsky predicted it all back in 1976.

[Embedded content]

Larger

Remarkably prescient movie.

156 De Kolta Chair  Sep 25, 2014 1:15:13pm

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

Paddy Chayefsky predicted it all back in 1976.

[Embedded content]

The last words of Network:

This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

The last words of this movie:

This was the story of Chuck Todd, the first known instance of a man who was hired because he had lousy ratings.

157 BeachDem  Sep 25, 2014 1:19:53pm

re: #123 iossarian

OMFG there are some non-white Republicans and one’s even a vegetarian.

Mind: blown.

And now I see that this latest Republican monstrosity was the work of Vinny Minchillo.

Who’s that you ask?

He was part of the “Mad Men” team that Mitt Romney put together to sell the candidate to the country. Minchillo claimed back then he “reinvented political advertising.”

Even the “I live with the ghost of Reagan past” Peggy Noonan disagreed with that claim: “Mr. Romney’s ads are mostly boring. It’s kind of an achievement to be boring at a moment in history like this, so credit where it’s due: That musta taken effort!”

158 darthstar  Sep 25, 2014 2:35:59pm

re: #96 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

But NYPD/PAPD have all increased security, just to be sure.

Photo op at the subway!

159 urbanmeemaw  Sep 25, 2014 3:26:59pm

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

Brilliant, briliant movie.


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