Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:33:41 pm
Here's an open thread to hang out and watch the Grammy Awards. There's a live video feed here: GRAMMY Live.
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Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:45:40 am
I don't even know what to say about this any more. There's a real sickness running rampant in the right wing; the Fox News comment thread on Whitney Houston's death is yet another disgusting deluge of outright racism: Singer Whitney Houston Dies at 48 | Fox News. There are almost 5000 ...
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Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:35:13 am
The Republican Party's descent into Dark Ages misogyny continues; now Mitch McConnell, sensing that the GOP is on a reactionary roll, is planning to introduce legislation to let any employer deny contraception coverage. Just amazing. In the space of a few months the Republican Party has gone from opposing abortion to ...
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Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:44:24 pm
Rest in peace, Whitney Houston. A beautiful woman with a truly huge gift for singing, but a sad, sad life. Whitney Houston via Shutterstock I was in a recording studio doing a session when I first heard Whitney Houston sing -- we were on a break, watching TV, and her first MTV ...
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Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:19:44 pm
That incredibly obnoxious, blatantly racist CPAC "rap" video (Steven Crowder and Chris Loesch, wearing powdered wigs) spread rapidly across the blogosphere yesterday, and now, unbelievably, an anonymous writer at Andrew Breitbart's "Big Journalism" website is actually trying to claim that Crowder and Loesch's use of the word "knickers" was totally ...
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Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:30:00 pm
And now, with the closing speech at an event that prominently featured white nationalists, the delightfully perky word salads of half-governor Sarah Palin. Click for Video Related: CPAC Panel Will Feature White Nationalist Leader Peter Brimelow Rick Santorum's Dinner With a White Nationalist
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Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:05:57 am
The thing about Rick Santorum is that he's genuine. He really believes that anti-science reactionary bullshit he spouts. He's not just saying it to get elected, unlike Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. The reactionary Republican base senses this genuineness; they see Santorum as one of them. And this has now catapulted ...
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Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:21:03 pm
CPAC is just an unbelievable freak show this year. Here's Andrew Breitbart screaming at Occupy protesters to "behave" and "stop raping people."
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Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:12:16 pm
Yet another jaw-dropping moment from CPAC, as right wing "comedians" Steven Crowder and Chris Loesch perform an absolutely nauseating "rap" song, wearing "founding fathers" powdered wigs. And don't miss what happens at about the 2 minute mark, as an African American walks out. Yes, they're yelling the N word, pretending they're ...
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Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:10:12 pm
Speaking today at the unofficial CPAC panel “Islamic Law in America: How the Obama Justice Department Is Selling Us Out,” sponsored by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Task Force was "proud to say" that most of the mosques attacked in the US were in ...
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Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:57:34 pm
I just discovered this gem at YouTube, while searching for videos with Todd Rundgren -- the entire legendary 1981 Utopia concert from the Royal Oak in Detroit, just under an hour long. The band really kicked ass this night, and Todd's voice has never sounded better. I set this embedded video ...
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Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:57:45 pm
New polls show that Rick Santorum is now the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. And today, Rick Santorum had dinner with an overt white nationalist. I wish I was kidding about this. The Republican Party is openly legitimizing white nationalism at CPAC; this is the year that overt racism went ...
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Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:04:43 am
Mitt Romney is just beginning his speech at CPAC, sharing billing with white nationalists, Birthers, and sovereign citizen weirdos. Why hasn't the presence of outright racists at the most high profile Republican event been a bigger story? Shouldn't presidential candidates be held responsible for legitimizing the views of these disgusting ...
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Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:00:02 am
Catholic leaders and evangelicals have apparently managed to raise enough hell that President Obama is making some adjustments to the newly announced contraception rules. Now employers won't have to provide insurance plans that cover contraception for women; insurance providers will do it directly. The move, based on state models, will ...
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Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:30:49 pm
Appearing today at the CPAC panel discussion that featured white nationalist icon Peter Brimelow: Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King. Rep. King has read all of Brimelow's books, but claims he hasn't seen any evidence of racism or white separatism. Washington, D.C. -- Iowa congressman Steve King is unconcerned about the implications ...
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Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:39:56 pm
I commented yesterday that it was almost unbelievable how crazy the right wing rhetoric is getting, and here's yet another example from reactionary candidate Rick Santorum, speaking in Oklahoma and telling the crowd that the science of global warming is a myth, now totally disproven and rotting in the dustbin ...
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Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:08:39 am
As we noted yesterday, this year CPAC is hosting a panel discussion featuring an outright, unspinnable white nationalist race hater, Peter Brimelow. When the organizers were confronted about this disgusting development, they refused to renounce Brimelow: The American Conservative Union is standing by its decision to permit a panel at ...
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Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:19:12 pm
Unless I passed out under an enchanted tree and have been sleeping for decades without knowing, this is the year 2012, right? AD? So why are we still fighting over contraception? The controversy over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision to eliminate funding to Planned Parenthood—and subsequent reversal— ...
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Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:45:15 am
It was bad enough when CPAC recently allowed the wacko paleo-conservative John Birch Society to have an exhibit, but this year things are exponentially worse. This year, the Conservative Political Action Conference, at which presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich will appear, is having a panel discussion featuring ...
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Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:59:36 am
Rick Santorum's big wins last night in Minnesota, Colorado, and Missouri are important signs of the power of reactionary religious thinking in today's right wing. Of all the candidates, Santorum is by far the most fanatical; he's absolutely opposed to all contraception, wants to see abortion made completely illegal, is anti-gay ...
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Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:58:23 pm
Our new feature of the day has to do with comments; when you post a comment, your username is shown on the top line. This is how it's been at LGF for lo, these many years. But now, you can actually change the name that shows up in your comment, by ...
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Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:14:33 pm
There's a primary election in Missouri, and caucuses tonight in Minnesota and Colorado, so here's a thread to keep up with news from the front lines; the Missouri primary just closed (at 8pm ET) so results should start to be available soon.
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Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:58:30 pm
Birth control pills via Shutterstock Right wing think tank the Heritage Foundation is blaring that "Obamacare" has awakened a sleeping giant: It is a rare moment indeed when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause, and it is rarer still when that cause is a political one, with ...
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Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:03:58 pm
This is rather unfortunate, but what other choice does Obama have? If he doesn't deploy his own Super PACs (while never actually coordinating with them, wink), the gargantuan amounts of money the Republicans will throw into the race would give them an overwhelming advantage: We Will Not Play by Two ...
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Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:04:20 am
The Associated Press is reporting that the appeals court has ruled California's voter-approved ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, so we know what the next big right wing freak-out will be. UPDATE at 2/7/12 11:39:32 am Here's a link to the court's decision. Also see: Prop. 8: Gay-Marriage Ban Unconstitutional, Court Rules
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Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:49:28 am
Republican anti-choice activist Karen Handel is resigning from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, with an angry statement defending her work against Planned Parenthood: Karen Handel Resigns From Komen for the Cure. I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement ...
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Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:09:01 pm
Rick Santorum misses the days when women would die in horrible agony from having back-alley abortions. Ah, good times. Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago...60 years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, ...
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Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:34:20 pm
Louisiana Republican Rep. John Fleming is the latest politician to fall for an Onion story and believe it to be genuine news: Congressman Falls for the Onion's Planned Parenthood 'Abortionplex' Story. Rep. Fleming posted on Facebook an Onion story from last year on an "$8 billion Abortionplex" being built by Planned ...
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