Hugh Hewitt: Republicans Will Face No Evolution Questions From Me

The latest GOP anti-science misdirection: “who cares?”
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You may have heard that one of the moderators for the Republican presidential debates will be right wing talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, which makes total sense from the GOP’s point of view — because he’s guaranteed not to ask any questions that might be embarrassing. For example, whether they reject the scientific theory of evolution.

Hugh Hewitt will not be asking questions about contraceptives at CNN’s Republican presidential debate.

In an interview with radio host Aaron Klein that will air Sunday night on New York’s AM 970 The Answer, Hewitt ruled out certain types of questions completely.

“I don’t care what people think about evolution,” he told Klein. “I don’t care. I never cared. I don’t care if they know how old the earth is and I just have never cared about personal religious beliefs.”

This is the latest Republican talking point on evolution, of course; who cares? What does it matter?

It matters because Republican politicians at every level of government are still, in 2015, trying to find ways to sneak the teaching of creationism into public school science classes. In Louisiana, for example, where Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law a “teach the controversy” bill sponsored and written by the creationist Discovery Institute.

It would be especially embarrassing this time around, too, because it looks like this may be the first GOP presidential race in which all of the candidates are creationists.

And this is why they’re now pretending it doesn’t matter. Classic dishonest misdirection from the anti-science party that specializes in it.

UPDATE at 3/1/15 12:09:43 pm by Charles Johnson

We should also note, by the way, that Hugh Hewitt himself is a creationist. (h/t: Timothy Sandefur.)

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132 comments
1 Iwouldprefernotto  Mar 1, 2015 12:08:50pm

Hugh Hewitt: Republicans Will Face No Evolution Intelligent Questions From Me

Fixed

2 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 1, 2015 12:09:01pm

Aaron Klein? Isn’t he that guy from the mothership of batshittery, WorldNetDaily?

3 Lidane  Mar 1, 2015 12:09:14pm

People who believe that The Flintstones was a documentary or who think the Earth is 6000 years old have no business setting public policy.

Yes, this shit matters.

4 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 12:10:04pm

We should also note, by the way, that Hugh Hewitt himself is a creationist.

5 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 12:10:17pm

re: #2 The Mother Of All Pies

Aaron Klein? Isn’t he that guy from the mothership of batshittery, WorldNetDaily?

Yes.

6 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 12:10:28pm

And thus we see the method to Rinsed Prius’ madness: Keep the ridiculous number of debates, but put moderators in charge who will make sure none of those really hard questions like “Do you believe in evolution?” come up.

7 team_fukit  Mar 1, 2015 12:18:02pm

So the age of the earth, a physical artifact that has left enduring physical evidence ever since it has existed, is a religious belief?

talk about nullification

8 Belafon  Mar 1, 2015 12:23:28pm

re: #7 team_fukit

So the age of the earth, a physical artifact that has left enduring physical evidence ever since it has existed, is a religious belief?

talk about nullification

I had a guy at work try to argue that they can’t really determine the age of rocks because the amount of radioactive material could have changed by being absorbed or released by the rocks.

It’s gotten to the point where they spend more time trying to be creationists than accepting that their God must have created the rocks. At least this guy hasn’t tried to claim that God’s a practical joker.

9 wrenchwench  Mar 1, 2015 12:23:41pm

re: #2 The Mother Of All Pies

Aaron Klein? Isn’t he that guy from the mothership of batshittery, WorldNetDaily?

Updinged that.

re: #6 Targetpractice

And thus we see the method to Rinsed Prius’ madness: Keep the ridiculous number of debates, but put moderators in charge who will make sure none of those really hard questions like “Do you believe in evolution?” come up.

And that.

10 lockjawcanbefun  Mar 1, 2015 12:24:32pm

Question Number 1 for the panel: Who is your most admired President, and why did you choose Ronald Reagan?

11 Lidane  Mar 1, 2015 12:29:58pm

re: #10 lockjawcanbefun

Question Number 1 for the panel: Who is your most admired President, and why did you choose Ronald Reagan?

Question 2: How much do you love America?

Question 3: When will Congress finally investigate Benghazi?

Question 4: Best solution for securing the border — land mines and sniper towers or sharks with frickin’ laser beams in the Rio Grande?

12 team_fukit  Mar 1, 2015 12:33:09pm

re: #8 Belafon

Well, if Adam and Eve hadn’t eaten that fruit maybe we’d have an accurate reading of the age of the rock…/

(I say that in jest, but in my fundie Christian science book they argued that the Fall has accelerated (or even initiated) the aging process of the cursed earth… so all the analytics would be off because of that)

13 Iwouldprefernotto  Mar 1, 2015 12:33:18pm

I remember seeing a clip when they interviewing candidates for the chairmanship of the RNC. One of the questions was how many guns do you own?

14 Belafon  Mar 1, 2015 12:33:44pm

re: #11 Lidane

Will Jesus return because you were elected, or will he return because you will be term limited?

15 BigPapa  Mar 1, 2015 12:34:06pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

We should also note, by the way, that Hugh Hewitt himself is a creationist.

He’s a creationist, does not believe in AGW, and believes, in a literal sense, snakes have talked and Jesus turned water into wine.

16 Nyet  Mar 1, 2015 12:38:31pm

And to think that some people think there’s too much reason. Heh. If only.

17 BigPapa  Mar 1, 2015 12:39:53pm

When I drive I still listen to AM radio, so i still get maybe up to an hour of Hewitt a week. It’s his duty as a Murican citizen to help the GOP, Team Red, so he has GOP politicians on his show as much as he can. He spouts this concept as a virtue.

He’s not anywhere near a journalist, he’s a propagandist.

18 Skip Intro  Mar 1, 2015 12:41:47pm

“Do you agree that Jesus is the only way to heaven and that all non-believers are going straight to hell?”

“Scott, would you care to take that?”

19 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 12:43:04pm

re: #18 Skip Intro

“Do you agree that Jesus is the only way to heaven and that all non-believers are going straight to hell?”

“Scott, would you care to take that?”

Scott: “I’ll punt…”

20 b.d.  Mar 1, 2015 12:43:20pm

Hewitt will end up doing what he was assigned to prevent. He will ask the dumbest gotcha question on earth and all will look like complete buffoons trying to appease the wingnut primary voters

21 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 12:43:55pm

Thing is, Hugh is still rather tame for a GOP booster. Let’s get Erick, Son of Erick in there. Or Matt Drudge. Or any of the other nutters who think Republicans are “too liberal” and want them fully committed to the lunacy of their base.

22 jaunte  Mar 1, 2015 12:44:00pm

Because unions are exactly like ISIS.

23 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 12:44:41pm

re: #22 jaunte

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Because unions are exactly like ISIS.

Peggy must have started drinking early.

24 Skip Intro  Mar 1, 2015 12:44:55pm

re: #20 b.d.

I think he’ll just be setting up softballs about how evil the Democrats are in general and Hillary is in particular, and just let them run with it.

25 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 12:45:09pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

Peggy must have started drinking early.

Does she ever actually stop?

26 Shiplord Kirel  Mar 1, 2015 12:46:52pm

“Which do you believe is the greater threat from the filthy foreign masses pouring over our borders: Violence and terrorism or diseases like ebola and bubonic plague?”

27 Skip Intro  Mar 1, 2015 12:47:13pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

Does she ever actually stop?

I think she must have a permanent I.V. drip bag filled with Stolichnaya Blueberi Vodka.

28 b.d.  Mar 1, 2015 12:48:00pm

re: #17 BigPapa

When I drive I still listen to AM radio, so i still get maybe up to an hour of Hewitt a week. It’s his duty as a Murican citizen to help the GOP, Team Red, so he has GOP politicians on his show as much as he can. He spouts this concept as a virtue.

He’s not anywhere near a journalist, he’s a propagandist.

Seems like the bagger media people have already chosen candidates since every single thing in wingnutville is a competition and a battle to the death.

Who is Hewitt backing or round-about supporting?

29 team_fukit  Mar 1, 2015 12:48:44pm

re: #16 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

One would think that not recognizing scientific consensus would be a political curse rather than a blessing

30 BigPapa  Mar 1, 2015 12:50:29pm

re: #28 b.d.

Who is Hewitt backing or round-about supporting?

He loves Tom Cotton, though cotton is not running for pres. He’ll probably pull for Rubio or Cruz until they drop out then fall in line with Jeb if he’s still there.

All because Go Team Red.

31 blueraven  Mar 1, 2015 12:53:40pm

I don’t buy this from HH; “I just have never cared about personal religious beliefs.”

In his own words:

Frankly, until we of faith can create enough distance from our religious devotion to see how it is being used to divide, and therefore defeat us; taking the issue off the table looks like the most expedient option open to a candidate. Even one whose personal religious devotion is quite plain, as it is in Walker’s life. One wishes for a better way for Walker, or any other candidate, to go in circumstances like these, but at the moment it seems like any other response will be divisive. By comparison, avoidance does not look so bad.

Unless people of faith can unite across their various theological, sectarian, and minor issue boundaries, look for religion in 2016 to be a battle between the media trying to push it to the fore to divide Republicans and the candidates trying desperately to push it into the background. In 2012 Romney successfully pushed the issue into the background, but there is data suggesting that such muted turnout and helped Obama win. The successful candidate is the one that is going to be able to lead the party and religious leaders in keeping the issue on the table while not allowing it to be divisive.

He just thinks that, right now, it is a losing proposition for republicans to talk about it so much.

I am sure Rick Santorum, Huckabee, Phil Robertson, among others will agree. ///

32 Kragar  Mar 1, 2015 12:54:09pm
33 Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2015 12:55:18pm

re: #31 blueraven

I don’t buy this from HH; “I just have never cared about personal religious beliefs.”

In his own words:

He just thinks that, right now, it is a losing proposition for republicans to talk about it so much.

I am sure Rick Santorum, Huckabee, Phil Robertson, among others will agree. ///

Savonarola/Torquemada 2016

35 Lidane  Mar 1, 2015 12:56:50pm

re: #22 jaunte

This is stupid. Even the most generous, pro-Reagan view of history doesn’t consider the firing of a bunch of American air traffic controllers a foreign policy achievement. And it’s laughable to think that firing those workers somehow scared Moscow into taking America seriously.

What the actual fuck? Are conservatives just that oxygen deprived these days?

36 De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2015 12:57:19pm
Houston, the feline has landed.
37 blueraven  Mar 1, 2015 12:57:38pm

re: #31 blueraven

I don’t buy this from HH; “I just have never cared about personal religious beliefs.”

In his own words:

He just thinks that, right now, it is a losing proposition for republicans to talk about it so much.

I am sure Rick Santorum, Huckabee, Phil Robertson, among others will agree. ///

oops, my bad. It is HH’s website but is not his own words. The post is by John Schroeder.

38 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 12:58:03pm

Read through the Noonan piece, and it’s about what you’d expect. Reagan totally didn’t want to have to fuck over Patco, but they left him no choice, so he fucked them over and it was a good thing. The downfall of unions at every level was okay because the Soviets saw he was “tough.”

You’ll find no more faithful cheerleader of St. Reagan than Peggy Noonan.

39 BeachDem  Mar 1, 2015 12:58:25pm

Isn’t Jake Tapper also supposed to be a part of the Hewitt Hootenanny? Will he be allowed to ask questions or will he be bound and gagged?

40 jaunte  Mar 1, 2015 12:59:16pm

re: #35 Lidane

It’s amazing. She admits there’s no evidence the Soviets considered it, but insists despite that, of course they did.

41 jaunte  Mar 1, 2015 1:00:44pm

And hey, I’m sorry, if AWACs needs to fly, they’ll go up without the union air traffic controllers on duty.

42 BeachDem  Mar 1, 2015 1:01:43pm

re: #38 Targetpractice

Read through the Noonan piece, and it’s about what you’d expect. Reagan totally didn’t want to have to fuck over Patco, but they left him no choice, so he fucked them over and it was a good thing. The downfall of unions at every level was okay because the Soviets saw he was “tough.”

You’ll find no more faithful cheerleader of St. Reagan than Peggy Noonan.

My bet is that Wonkette will be along to sanesplain Peggy’s latest drunken rant any time now. (They love them some Noonesense)

44 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 1:03:45pm

re: #42 BeachDem

My bet is that Wonkette will be along to sanesplain Peggy’s latest drunken rant any time now. (They love them some Noonesense)

And either tomorrow or Tuesday, Charlie Pierce will once again give the piece the proper shellacking it deserves.

45 Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2015 1:04:44pm

re: #41 jaunte

And hey, I’m sorry, if AWACs needs to fly, they’ll go up without the union air traffic controllers on duty.

Not even an issue—the services have their own ATC career field, with MOS’s like the Army’s 15Q. That’s where most civilian ATC types get their start. PATCO badly underestimated how fast that pipeline could replace the strikers.

46 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 1, 2015 1:10:22pm

re: #38 Targetpractice

Read through the Noonan piece, and it’s about what you’d expect. Reagan totally didn’t want to have to fuck over Patco, but they left him no choice, so he fucked them over and it was a good thing. The downfall of unions at every level was okay because the Soviets saw he was “tough.”

You’ll find no more faithful cheerleader of St. Reagan than Peggy Noonan.

I don’t like to read Peggy Noonan pieces without the Wonkette commentary.

47 Kragar  Mar 1, 2015 1:14:10pm

“I find, a very good measure of correlation between my religious beliefs and my scientific beliefs — people say, how can you be a scientist, how can you be a surgeon if you don’t believe in certain things?” he continued. “Maybe those things aren’t scientific. Maybe it’s just propaganda.”

48 WhatEVs  Mar 1, 2015 1:18:48pm

re: #6 Targetpractice

And thus we see the method to Rinsed Prius’ madness: Keep the ridiculous number of debates, but put moderators in charge who will make sure none of those really hard questions like “Do you believe in evolution?” come up.

And the sad part is…it could likely work where the insanity won’t shine through. Are you frightened yet?

49 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 1:19:47pm
50 Justanotherhuman  Mar 1, 2015 1:19:54pm

I despise the ignorance of these people and what they are doing to the country. Of anything, this would be the final straw that broke the back of the US—not war, not the economy, none of that, just this kind of ignorance that seems more endemic than ever before.

51 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 1:23:25pm

It was all just a fun joke and Chuck knew about it even though he didn’t:

52 BeachDem  Mar 1, 2015 1:24:45pm

Back to the 2016 Dem ticket for a moment. My prediction:

Hillary
O’Malley for VP

My reasons:

1. Hillary, while many here are ambivalent or negative to her, has a pretty strong following; and has a lot of Dem activist supporters—I’ve been to several local, state and national Dem events, and the Ready for Hillary people are everywhere, and they’re well-received. They will be able to get out the door-knockers and phone-callers. Also, she can raise a lot of money.

2. O’Malley fills in the gaps.
Young—check (53)
Gets along well with the Clintons—check
Executive experience—check (mayor and governor)
Good state connections—check (DGA chair for 2 years)
Good stance on progressive/liberal issues like same-sex marriage and in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, opposition to capital punishment
Good speaker—just heard him speak yesterday, and he comes across really well. Little tidbit—while he was talking, he took a swat at triangulation. As soon as the words were out of his mouth, I turned to the person next to me and said, “If he runs with Hillary, he’ll have to drop that line from his speeches.” Sure enough, the NYT and others picked up on it big time.

nytimes.com

I think he might launch a small campaign for the primaries, which would be good to give him some exposure and present some challenge to some of Hillary’s less popular stances. Then, I think he’ll be the VP pick, and they can soften her problem areas with him.

Just my thoughts on the subject.

53 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 1:24:46pm

re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth

It was all just a fun joke and Chuck knew about it even though he didn’t:

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What interview is he talking about?

54 Nyet  Mar 1, 2015 1:25:18pm

re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth

Has it been published?

55 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 1:25:31pm

re: #53 Charles Johnson

What interview is he talking about?

This one, no doubt:

56 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 1:26:54pm
57 Nyet  Mar 1, 2015 1:27:37pm

So I see Breitbart croaked 3 years ago. How time flies.

58 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 1:28:52pm
59 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 1, 2015 1:29:39pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Odd for Chuck to just supply someone with video of that nature. It’s almost like handing the future blackmailer incriminating documents.

Oh, that’s right. Chuck doesn’t have anything a blackmailer would want.
//

60 WhatEVs  Mar 1, 2015 1:29:59pm

re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth

It was all just a fun joke and Chuck knew about it even though he didn’t:

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Well, Chuckles blocked me. Gosh dangitall.

61 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 1:30:35pm

re: #47 Kragar

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I’m unaware of the Bible having anything to say about brain surgery. Does he reject the science on the matter as “propaganda”?

62 Nyet  Mar 1, 2015 1:33:07pm

re: #47 Kragar

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Or maybe Ben Carson is just an unscientific fraud? ^_^

63 Justanotherhuman  Mar 1, 2015 1:34:59pm

This is the kind of shit that makes me weary of the human race.

boston.cbslocal.com

This woman has absolutely no ethical core and I hope she gets a wake up call in a long jail term, but she won’t. Not for the stupid TV she didn’t need and tried to steal, but for the reckless neglect of her child she’s supposed to love and protect.

64 makeitstop  Mar 1, 2015 1:39:17pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

This one, no doubt:

That kid hasn’t even hit 30 and he’s sporting the paunch of a 50 year old.

I passed 60 a while back, and I’m pretty sure I’m in better shape than he is.

Does a constant diet of hate run your body to shit or what?

65 blueraven  Mar 1, 2015 1:39:57pm

Good Grief. Top story on Drudge

PAPER: OBAMA THREATENED TO SHOOT DOWN ISRAELI JETS

66 Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2015 1:40:49pm

I saw that headline on Google News this morning and completely ignored it.

67 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 1:41:20pm
68 Belafon  Mar 1, 2015 1:44:20pm

re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth

It was all just a fun joke and Chuck knew about it even though he didn’t:

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A few years ago, my nephew was over at our house. Our youngest, who was seven and about 6 years younger than the nephew, wanted to play against him on a PS3 game. My nephew handed the controller to my middle son and grabbed an unconnected controller. My middle son then beat my youngest and my youngest turned to my nephew and said “I was going easy on you,” which I know isn’t true because my son can be a competitor. I had to explain to him how he shouldn’t try to make up a story afterwards to make things look better for him because it actually looks worse.

69 blueraven  Mar 1, 2015 1:46:27pm

re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg

I saw that headline on Google News this morning and completely ignored it.

Yes, most sane people would.

However:
The Daily Caller
Breitbart
FOX
Newsmax
PJ Media
Washington Times

and many others are running with it.

70 Belafon  Mar 1, 2015 1:47:57pm

re: #65 blueraven

When a tweet is posted with a small image of text with the text significantly wider than the height, the image is zoomed in really far, so you only see a little bit of the text. The individual characters are about an inch high, so I only see a little of the text. Is anyone else seeing this? Running Chrome on Linux Mint 17.

71 Shiplord Kirel  Mar 1, 2015 1:48:04pm

re: #65 blueraven

Good Grief. Top story on Drudge

PAPER: OBAMA THREATENED TO SHOOT DOWN ISRAELI JETS

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Once sorted out, the original source appears to be a Kuwaiti newspaper well known for bullshittery. They cite confidential sources, presumably one with access to the most closely held Israeli diplomatic secrets. Could a third string rag in an Arab country really have that kind of access? I’d just as soon believe that Alex Jones had bugged the Oval Office.

72 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 1:48:35pm

re: #65 blueraven

Good Grief. Top story on Drudge

PAPER: OBAMA THREATENED TO SHOOT DOWN ISRAELI JETS

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This story originates with the same people that invented the fake Israel opened the dams story.

73 Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2015 1:49:47pm

re: #69 blueraven

Yes, most sane people would.

However:
The Daily Caller
Breitbart
FOX
Newsmax
PJ Media
Washington Times

and many others are running with it.

Until Snowden drops the digits, it’s just BS.

74 Nyet  Mar 1, 2015 1:50:11pm

re: #70 Belafon

Same here. Chrome Win.

75 blueraven  Mar 1, 2015 1:51:26pm

re: #70 Belafon

When a tweet is posted with a small image of text with the text significantly wider than the height, the image is zoomed in really far, so you only see a little bit of the text. The individual characters are about an inch high, so I only see a little of the text. Is anyone else seeing this? Running Chrome on Linux Mint 17.

Yes, I don’t know how to fix that.
Just click on the image and you will see the original.

76 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 1:51:39pm

re: #70 Belafon

Same here with Foxfire 36.0/Win7

77 Justanotherhuman  Mar 1, 2015 1:51:56pm

Estonian public broadcasting agency projects ruling Reform party has won election against ‘Pro-Russia’ Center party - @errnews
read more on news.err.ee

78 bratwurst  Mar 1, 2015 1:53:34pm
79 Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2015 1:54:12pm

re: #78 bratwurst

Nice.

80 thecommodore  Mar 1, 2015 1:54:43pm

Here’s Hugh Hewitt interviewing David Corn about Bill O’Reilly’s fabrications. He takes almost 20 minutes asking Corn about his resume, and even about Alger Hiss (1) before even addressing the substance of Corn’s claims. Hewitt thought this tack was so clever, even though it established…I’m not quite sure…nor do I really want to know.

mediaite.com

81 CuriousLurker  Mar 1, 2015 1:55:51pm

re: #70 Belafon

Same here—FF on Win.

82 freetoken  Mar 1, 2015 1:57:03pm

re: #31 blueraven

He just thinks that, right now, it is a losing proposition for republicans to talk about it so much.

Are you saying the GOP is practicing … what do they call it… TAQIYYA!!!

83 palomino  Mar 1, 2015 1:57:20pm

The Buzzfeed piece linked to refers to Hewitt as a “center-right radio host.” In what ways is he a centrist? Does anything separate him from the Limbaughs and Hannitys of the world other than making fewer of the barely coded racist and sexist comments that are the other guys’ stock in trade? OK, he supported Romney, but that hardly makes him a centrist. He’s been as hysterical (if a bit less nasty) as anyone over the last 6 years with Obama as Prez.

84 Nyet  Mar 1, 2015 1:57:54pm

re: #80 thecommodore

Hewitt is not a journalist. He’s a mouth-opener for money.

85 Shiplord Kirel  Mar 1, 2015 1:59:22pm

Foreign propagandists like RT are learning to exploit a completely unexpected and frankly bizarre windfall that results from certain peculiarities of the American media: They can make up any lies and wild fabrications they want with a fair assurance that the Fox/Drudge/Alex Jones media axis will run with them. It is a level of access to the American masses that communist era propagandists could only dream of.

86 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 1:59:50pm

A parody of a parody is redundant, Chuck:

87 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 1:59:53pm
88 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 2:01:03pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

Do you mess back? Do you show a sense of humor?Do you walk away?

Or do you just poop on the floor?

89 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 2:01:14pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

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Especially since he was really, really drunk at that Breitbart party.

90 freetoken  Mar 1, 2015 2:06:21pm

Ooops… there goes that talking point:

Conservatives are more likely to believe that vaccines cause autism

91 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 2:09:05pm

re: #90 freetoken

Ooops… there goes that talking point:

Conservatives are more likely to believe that vaccines cause autism

Oh, if only it were that easy.

92 freetoken  Mar 1, 2015 2:09:55pm

Speaking of evolution:

Ben Carson Defends Obama But Not Evolution

[…]

Carson also defended his belief in creationism, telling host Chuck Todd, “I find a very good measure of correlation between my religious beliefs and my scientific beliefs. People say, ‘How can you be a scientist, how can you be a surgeon if you don’t believe in certain things?’ Maybe those things aren’t scientific, maybe it is just propaganda.”

[…]

93 Shiplord Kirel  Mar 1, 2015 2:11:32pm

Wingnut heads exploding at free republic:
Gay Group Wins Formal Recognition From State Republican Party

The Log Cabin Republicans, a 38-year-old organization that had unsuccessfully sought a charter from the state party several times in the past, received the formal imprimatur on a 861-293 vote at the party’s biannual convention in Sacramento.

Brandon Gesecki, a delegate from Carmel who supported the effort, said the vote showed how much the party in California has changed in recent years.

I have said several times that the Cal GOP is generally the meanest and most hard-hearted bunch of bastards I have encountered in US politics. Still, though, they deserve credit for bucking the superstition-driven fundy/tea party social trend and confining themselves to their traditional pursuits of soul-dead greed and sycophantic support for the corporate agenda.

94 jaunte  Mar 1, 2015 2:13:04pm
95 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 2:15:47pm

re: #93 Shiplord Kirel

In California, the GOP is almost totally marginalized at this point. This is a political calculation - they know they’d be signing their own death warrants if they tried to parrot the usual right wing anti-gay line.

96 Nyet  Mar 1, 2015 2:18:59pm

re: #94 jaunte

Oh no, don’t tell me Chuck slept with Ann Coulter.

97 jaunte  Mar 1, 2015 2:19:32pm

re: #96 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

No, just her tiger.

98 GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 1, 2015 2:20:22pm

re: #77 Justanotherhuman

Puttin putting together another assassination plan.

99 Shiplord Kirel  Mar 1, 2015 2:20:40pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

In California, the GOP is almost totally marginalized at this point. This is a political calculation - they know they’d be signing their own death warrants if they tried to parrot the usual right wing anti-gay line.

From the response at freeperland, it looks as though the national GOP may be ready to toss them into the dustbin as well, at least the dysfunctional base is. It may depend of how well Prince Rebus and his flying monkeys at the RNC can hold off the tea party/fundy wing. I predict he can’t and the Cal GOP will go the way of the dodo.

100 b.d.  Mar 1, 2015 2:24:09pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

This one, no doubt:

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These are the guys Chuck C. had his picture taken with and apparently got schooled by:

Looks like a Dudebro/Wingnut convergence, no wonder Paul won the straw poll.

101 Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2015 2:28:55pm

Lamas Running Loose in Southern Alabama County

dothaneagle.com

meetup.com

102 team_fukit  Mar 1, 2015 2:31:07pm

re: #94 jaunte

CCJ looks like he just did Drunk History

103 lawhawk  Mar 1, 2015 2:39:09pm

re: #78 bratwurst

I’d disagree with that sentiment. The difference between ISIS and unions is that unions represent a greater threat to conservatives than ISIS does.

That’s why conservatives have gone all in on trying to destroy unions wherever they have had a chance.

They’ll complain that the unions have destroyed the fiscal situation in given locality or state, ignoring that politicians used the pension funds as a piggy bank during flush times to balance budgets to the point where they’re now tremendously underwater and unable to cover obligations. So, the GOP is turning around and ignoring the contractual obligations and looking to rewrite the deal.

It’s something out of Robot Chicken, where the GOP plays the part of Vader, and unions are Lando.

…

104 lawhawk  Mar 1, 2015 2:51:45pm

White Sox baseball great Minnie Minoso has passed away. Broke the color barrier for the Sox, and before joining the Sox had played for the New York Cubans

Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta was born November 29, 1925 in Cuba (although there is some dispute about the year of his birth—the White Sox list his age as 92) and played with the New York Cubans in the Negro League before he made his debut with the Cleveland Indians April 19, 1949. Mr. Miñoso received his big break when he was traded to the White Sox in 1951. He became the first black player in White Sox history and was an integral part of the “Go-Go Sox” teams of the 1950s.

In addition to breaking the color barrier with the Sox, Mr. Miñoso also became baseball’s first black Latin superstar and helped forge a legacy between the White Sox and Cuban baseball players that exists to this day. His charming demeanor earned him the nickname “Mr. White Sox” and his other nickname, “The Cuban Comet” referred to his basestealing prowess—he led the American League in stolen bases three times. He finished in the top five in AL MVP voting four times, was a seven-time All-Star, hit .300 or better six times and drove in more than 100 runs four times. Mr. Miñoso wasn’t afraid of being hit by pitches, so much that baseball wound up changing the rules of the game so that batters had to make an attempt to avoid errant pitches.

105 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 2:51:47pm

re: #103 lawhawk

I’d disagree with that sentiment. The difference between ISIS and unions is that unions represent a greater threat to conservatives than ISIS does.

That’s why conservatives have gone all in on trying to destroy unions wherever they have had a chance.

They’ll complain that the unions have destroyed the fiscal situation in given locality or state, ignoring that politicians used the pension funds as a piggy bank during flush times to balance budgets to the point where they’re now tremendously underwater and unable to cover obligations. So, the GOP is turning around and ignoring the contractual obligations and looking to rewrite the deal.

It’s something out of Robot Chicken, where the GOP plays the part of Vader, and unions are Lando.

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What always gets me is how flexible their belief in the sanctity of a contract really is. Bank exec bonuses simply cannot be touched, but our duty to wounded veterans is flexible and unions contracts are subject to dismissal because the government was either “forced” into signing them or they were signed by “pro-union” politicians who agreed to “sweetheart deals.”

106 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 1, 2015 2:55:10pm

re: #105 Targetpractice

What always gets me is how flexible their belief in the sanctity of a contract really is. Bank exec bonuses simply cannot be touched, but our duty to wounded veterans is flexible and unions contracts are subject to dismissal because the government was either “forced” into signing them or they were signed by “pro-union” politicians who agreed to “sweetheart deals.”

Or, as Sister Peggy of the Everlasting Fountain of Everclear has drunksplained, raising the pay and improving the working conditions of the most high-stress job in the entire history of ever, would cost taxpayers money and therefore Ronnie had to give the unions a righteous ass-fucking to set an example to the Soviets.

That sounds so dumb when you’re sober.

107 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 3:00:19pm

Speaking of Regan’s greatest foreign policy achievement of firing the air traffic controllers, there’s this:

‘Heroic’ Anchorage air traffic controller credited with mid-air rescue

High over Southeast Alaska last August, 82-year-old Bill Bunten was flying blind.

The retired bank president from Topeka, Kansas, realized after leaving Ketchikan that the weather en route to Juneau was worse than he expected. Bunten dropped from 8,000 feet to 7,000 to lose the ice forming on the wings of his Piper Comanche. The autopilot wasn’t working and the engine sounded choppy. Suddenly, the small plane’s heading indicator and compass started spinning. Bunten remembered a note on his map about possible navigational problems in the area.

Now he was in the clouds and struggling to get his bearings without the two instruments he needed to do just that.

But the experienced pilot wasn’t alone. Along with a non-pilot friend riding in the cockpit, air traffic controller Parker Corts was watching over the Comanche from Anchorage, hundreds of miles away.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association will honor Corts next week for “heroic actions that saved the life of a pilot last summer,” the labor union announced Wednesday.

It’s a great story about an incident that happens all the time, but we only hear about it when the plane crashes.

Well done, Mr. Corts.

108 lawhawk  Mar 1, 2015 3:07:01pm
109 Justanotherhuman  Mar 1, 2015 3:07:22pm

Look at the newly elected Prime Minister of Estonia (although he’s been PM since Mar 2014). He’s 35 yrs old and looks even younger and joined the Reform Party when he was 19. Prior to becoming PM in 3/14, he was Minister of Social Affairs. He is married to a pop singer, Luisa Värk, and they have a daughter.

Taavi Roivas

110 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mar 1, 2015 3:10:49pm

Outside of LGF, I have never encountered anyone who gives a shit about Hugh Hewitt or even knows who he is.

111 freetoken  Mar 1, 2015 3:11:34pm

re: #110 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Hugh has long been a radio staple around the religious circuit.

112 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mar 1, 2015 3:15:19pm

re: #111 freetoken

I know. And I reiterate.

113 Belafon  Mar 1, 2015 3:15:29pm

re: #93 Shiplord Kirel

Wingnut heads exploding at free republic:
Gay Group Wins Formal Recognition From State Republican Party

I have said several times that the Cal GOP is generally the meanest and most hard-hearted bunch of bastards I have encountered in US politics. Still, though, they deserve credit for bucking the superstition-driven fundy/tea party social trend and confining themselves to their traditional pursuits of soul-dead greed and sycophantic support for the corporate agenda.

It’s what happens when Republicans finally get their butts whipped at the polls rather than holding on through gerrymandering.

114 The Mother Of All Pies  Mar 1, 2015 3:19:07pm

re: #110 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Outside of LGF, I have never encountered anyone who gives a shit about Hugh Hewitt or even knows who he is.

I see no one else has cared enough to put Hugh Hewitt’s face on a manatee and make an OH THE HUGHMANATEE!!! meme for him, like they have done for Hugh Jackman and Hugh Laurie.

115 Belafon  Mar 1, 2015 3:19:15pm

re: #112 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

So, you don’t talk to any religious people.

116 freetoken  Mar 1, 2015 3:20:09pm

WTS-graduate black sheep Peter Enns notes the raging of the John McArthur machine:

Here’s something new: Genesis is in “crisis” and if you don’t see that you’re “syncretistic”

Getting back to my tattered soapbox of worldview collapse - I propose that GOP politics is a sandbox in which distraught, existential angst monologues have taken center stage, many which then combine into the chorus of nonsense that now makes up the “right” in this county.

Many people are having a hard time emotionally resolving what the world is now telling them.

117 stpaulbear  Mar 1, 2015 3:23:34pm

re: #112 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I know. And I reiterate.

He’s going to be controlling the questions asked at one of the very few republican presidential candidate debates. He deserves some scrutiny.

118 BigPapa  Mar 1, 2015 3:23:45pm

re: #100 b.d.

These are the guys Chuck C. had his picture taken with and apparently got schooled by:

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Looks like a Dudebro/Wingnut convergence, no wonder Paul won the straw poll.

DudeNut or Wingbro.

You’re welcome.

119 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 3:24:17pm

re: #110 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Outside of LGF, I have never encountered anyone who gives a shit about Hugh Hewitt or even knows who he is.

He has about 2 million listeners to his radio show.

120 Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2015 3:25:20pm

re: #100 b.d.

These are the guys Chuck C. had his picture taken with and apparently got schooled by:

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Looks like a Dudebro/Wingnut convergence, no wonder Paul won the straw poll.

Wow. That Twitter timeline is packed with bad craziness.

121 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 3:27:17pm
122 FemNaziBitch  Mar 1, 2015 3:28:12pm

Hello all!

Computer died AND had to take a trip to the AT&T store to get a new iPhone. Finally replaced the 4S today.

Was very glad the Genius guys were able to reset the battery and tell me how to do so myself in the future, so the only expense was the phone. WHEW!!!

AND the temperature outside stayed above 20 degrees for the whole afternoon!

How has your weekend?

123 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 3:30:48pm

re: #122 FemNaziBitch

Hello all!

Computer died AND had to take a trip to the AT&T store to get a new iPhone. Finally replaced the 4S today.

Was very glad the Genius guys were able to reset the battery and tell me how to do so myself in the future, so the only expense was the phone. WHEW!!!

AND the temperature outside stayed above 20 degrees for the whole afternoon!

How has your weekend?

I drove into town this afternoon for the first time since January.
YIKES! (Even 4WD is freaking scary when the road is covered in thick ice…)

I’m sitting here at home until all this shit finally melts (which apparently won’t be any time soon…)

124 Justanotherhuman  Mar 1, 2015 3:36:25pm

re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth

I drove into town this afternoon for the first time since January.
YIKES! (Even 4WD is freaking scary when the road is covered in thick ice…)

I’m sitting here at home until all this shit finally melts (which apparently won’t be any time soon…)

Holy cow! And to think I didn’t go anywhere for a week.

Holy cow. An entire month?

I’ve already written February completely off.

125 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 3:36:38pm

Reading through what the GOP is saying today on the Sunday Funnies is an absolute hoot, and tells me that this week is gonna be an absolute laugh riot. Boehner’s wants Senate Dems to “negotiate” (gee, when did we last hear that?), while McCarthy is saying McConnell should use the “nuclear option” and Scalise is saying there was no deal to bring the Senate’s bill to a vote if the motion for cloture fails tomorrow.

Throw that in with the inevitable fallout from Bibi’s speech and it looks like I’m gonna need to go buy some more popcorn. And a couple bottles of schadenfreude.

126 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 1, 2015 3:43:12pm

re: #122 FemNaziBitch

Hello all!

Computer died AND had to take a trip to the AT&T store to get a new iPhone. Finally replaced the 4S today.

Was very glad the Genius guys were able to reset the battery and tell me how to do so myself in the future, so the only expense was the phone. WHEW!!!

AND the temperature outside stayed above 20 degrees for the whole afternoon!

How has your weekend?

Fairly quiet. Paying bills, and feeding and interacting with both mine and the neighbor’s cats. Tuxedo Cat is particularly unhappy that I return from outside the apartment smelling like *other* cats. So she is spending a lot of time in the other room acting cranky.

Nothing exciting food-wise. Running the pantry down in regards to stuff that can spoil in anticipation of a trip later this week.

127 FemNaziBitch  Mar 1, 2015 3:44:50pm

re: #126 Feline Fearless Leader

Fairly quiet. Paying bills, and feeding and interacting with both mine and the neighbor’s cats. Tuxedo Cat is particularly unhappy that I return from outside the apartment smelling like *other* cats. So she is spending a lot of time in the other room acting cranky.

Nothing exciting food-wise. Running the pantry down in regards to stuff that can spoil in anticipation of a trip later this week.

You must be very, very careful while making the peace offering!

128 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 1, 2015 3:45:05pm

re: #125 Targetpractice

Reading through what the GOP is saying today on the Sunday Funnies is an absolute hoot, and tells me that this week is gonna be an absolute laugh riot. Boehner’s wants Senate Dems to “negotiate” (gee, when did we last hear that?), while McCarthy is saying McConnell should use the “nuclear option” and Scalise is saying there was no deal to bring the Senate’s bill to a vote if the motion for cloture fails tomorrow.

Throw that in with the inevitable fallout from Bibi’s speech and it looks like I’m gonna need to go buy some more popcorn. And a couple bottles of schadenfreude.

The GOP’s mouthpieces are taking all positions and acting in a way that makes it obvious that any “deal” with them cannot be trusted since they are more interested in their internal struggles and driving goal of screwing Obama above anything else.

129 Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 1, 2015 3:45:51pm

re: #127 FemNaziBitch

You must be very, very careful while making the peace offering!

I am cooking bacon later in the evening. That should make everything good.

130 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2015 3:50:13pm

re: #124 Justanotherhuman

Holy cow! And to think I didn’t go anywhere for a week.

Holy cow. An entire month?

I’ve already written February completely off.

That’s life in the backwoods when climate change runs amok.
Road doesn’t get plowed ever and shit just keeps piling up, compacting, rinse and repeat.
I have a friend a few counties south of me…her husband tried to get out today. Unsuccessfully.
Last week, one of her friends got some immediate supplies (she is sooo happy to have half-n-half again for her coffee) but she had to walk out of her holler (SIX MILES!!!) while wearing Arctic Tracks and using Nordic poles for balance, and carrying a 20-lb. backpack.
I told her that drone delivery service can’t come soon enough!
But really, this weather is totally crazy. We all prep for extended periods of being snowed in, even though it doesn’t happen often, but this is two years in a row of extremely extended being locked in.
It sucks.

131 Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2015 3:51:37pm

re: #128 Feline Fearless Leader

The GOP’s mouthpieces are taking all positions and acting in a way that makes it obvious that any “deal” with them cannot be trusted since they are more interested in their internal struggles and driving goal of screwing Obama above anything else.

It’s “Plan B” all over again, Boehner trying to bluff about the strength of his hand when it’s obvious he’s not even holding on to a pair of twos. He needs Democrats to get anything meaningful accomplished in the House, and so long as that’s the case, any attempt to strong-arm them will fall apart.

132 mr.fusion  Mar 2, 2015 9:23:10am

Example questions from Hewitt:

Obama is

a) The Devil
b) The antichrist
c) Muslim
d) Atheist
e) All of the above

Obama is

a) A ruthless thug that steam rolls his opponents
b) A spineless non-leader that capitulates to his opponents
c) All of the above

Obama’s executive order on immigration was:

a) The most illegal thing ever done by anyone ever
b) all of the above


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