Category: Michael F

Michael F10 Comments

IlDuce Dipshit

FromAlbum3 Setting aside for the moment any moral questions regarding the Wikileaks material, e.g., whether or not it’s the equivalent of outing Valerie Plame, or whether Julian Assange is a dashing bohemian or degenerate pervert…isn’t the very existence of so many top secret documents the essence of “big government?” And aren’t professional dipshit clowns like Newt allegedly anti-big government? And wouldn’tNewt’s preferred “solution” — declaring Assange an “enemy combatant,” which at its heart is government sanctioned killing, minus the whole messy rule-of-law and due process — be about as big government as any would-be autocrat/despot could dream for? Just wondering. … Continue reading IlDuce Dipshit

Michael F18 Comments

I Can’t Believe We’re Losing to These Guys*

FromAlbum3 I’m well aware of how thoroughly the deck is stacked against progressives, with the Villager mentality, the corporate media, and the institutional roadblocks (filibuster), and so on. But c’mon —McConnell especially doesn’t even bother hiding the fact that he’s a major league asshole…and the best this administration can do is pretend they haven’t done more to reach out? For the life of me I can’t figure out why the Obama team hasn’t fought fire with fire. For instance, one thing I can think of off hand is that the Republiclown leadership is forever whining about how they want “less … Continue reading I Can’t Believe We’re Losing to These Guys*

Michael F5 Comments

Pee Wee’s Playhouse

FromAlbum3 To be honest, I’ve generally consideredPee Wee Boner to be the most reasonable of the Rethug Leadership Clown Chorus; however, that’s on a scale that’s skewed off the charts. It’s like saying that Pee Wee Herman is more reasonable than Charles Manson. Or John Wayne Gacy. Anyway, my own .000000002 cents worth of post-election post-mortem is that yes, you can assign plenty of blame to the Democratic Party and the Obama Administration, the former living up to the Will Rogers adage about it not being an organized party, the latter trying so desperately to please conservatives that they ended … Continue reading Pee Wee’s Playhouse

Michael F6 Comments

Fox and Friends and Batboy

FromAlbum3 It’s one thing forFox to get duped by a Weekly World News article, that’s not surprising…what IS frustrating is to realize that if, heaven forbid, the “librul” media got caught in a similar mistake, the noise machine would be incessant. Hell, look at the howling over Dan Rather’s botching of an otherwise accurate report that George W. Bush opted for early retirement from what was already a Champagne Brigade slot. Or, more recently, consider howAlan Grayson is getting slammed for admittedly “creative editing” of a commercial — which doesn’t misrepresent his opponent’s views at all. If there’s going to … Continue reading Fox and Friends and Batboy

Michael F3 Comments

“Narcissists”

FromAlbum3 Matt Taibbi on the tea baggers: Scanning the thousands of hopped-up faces in the crowd, I am immediately struck by two things. One is that there isn’t a single black person here. The other is the truly awesome quantity of medical hardware: Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression — “Government’s not the solution! Government’s the problem!” — the person sitting next to me leans over and explains. “The scooters are because of Medicare,” he whispers … Continue reading “Narcissists”

Michael F1 Comment

And The Winner Is…

FromAlbum3 Well, congratulations are in order all around on this one, history repeating as tragedy, then as farce, then asbride ofFrankenstein…so, first, let’s give credit–or blame–where it’s due, starting with the entire Republiclown establishment. In deflecting blame from blowing up the economy — and a fair bit of Iraq and Afghanistan — on Dick and Junior’s watch, they opted for a none-too-subtle extended hate fest of “Who’s Your Daddy Kenyan Usurper” over the last couple of years, assisted by their loyal media corpse, um, corps, who just can’t quit Newtie, Johnny McCain…and Sister Sarah (who, it should be noted, never … Continue reading And The Winner Is…

Michael F5 Comments

Father, II Cannot Tell a Lie

FromAlbum3 To be sure, this is a pretty minor incident, political rhetoric taken to its absurd extreme, but nonetheless it fits with a pattern of, well, lying. Lying about everything from the non-trashing of the West Wing by the departing Clinton administration to the Iraq war itself, which is now full pathological bizarro, touted as a wingnut success. Pyrrhus is spinning in his grave. If you haven’t seen it, Jeffrey Scahill ripped the wingnut Iraq myth to shreds on Countdown last night;here’s a link to the video, hopefully they’ll post thetranscript (September 1) later today. It really is a sickness … Continue reading Father, II Cannot Tell a Lie

Michael F4 Comments

The Real Victims

FromAlbum3 Strictly on an intellectual level, it’s amazing to think aboutJeffrey Lord’s “logic.” I mean, we’re not even talking pretzel folds. More like protein twists. Back in the real world, though…good lord, what an asshole. What. An. Asshole. Borat had more tact. And since Mr. Lord presumably approves of “traditional” discipline, I say he needs a good old-fashioned smack upside the head. Continue reading The Real Victims

Michael F7 Comments

Lite Breit

FromAlbum3 Also, what Driftglass saidhere andhere. Breitbart would be just another wingnut with a website if the non Faux News media — and the administration/political establishment — didn’t take him seriously…and it’s not as if he’s ever done a goddamned thing to earn that distinction. Continue reading Lite Breit

Michael F7 Comments

Oh, So Now He Tells Us

FromAlbum3 BP CEO Tony Hayward nowadmits “we did not have the tools you would want in your tool-kit…” Ya think? Meanwhile, some people are actually floating, no pun intended, the idea of using anuclear bomb to try to stop the leak; thankfully, the administration isn’t seriously considering this “option.” If a relatively simple piece of equipment like asaw can’t operate properly at the site, does anyone really think a nuclear bomb would? Good grief. Continue reading Oh, So Now He Tells Us

Michael F2 Comments

It’s Not So Hard Out There For a Wimp

FromAlbum4 In non-top kill news out of New Orleans, James O’Keefe and his fellow O’Keefe-stone Kops were sternly admonished and given a slap on the wrist, which was pretty much what I expected. Presumably the lesson learned was that it’s ok to beat up on ACORN, which is like bullying the smallest and least popular kid in the class, but Senators, even Senators from BP (or maybe Senators from BP and other representatives of Corporate America), anyway, Senators aren’t to be fucked with. RHIP–Rank Has Its Privileges. O’Keefe is just a punk, like his mentorAndrew Breitbart. I hear Breitbart comes … Continue reading It’s Not So Hard Out There For a Wimp