Saturday, March 31, 2012

Ron Paul Is A Racist, Misogynist Nutball - Here's The Proof

Ron Paul: "It's the media's fault I'm a racist, misogynist John Bircher paranoid conspiracy theory spouting nutball."

This is again relevant, though Ron Paul isn't, after the news that a dedicated Paultard tea bagging racist POS posted an assassination threat against the President of the United States and his children. Trailer trash loonytoonian racist POS Jules Manson posted:

"Assassinate The F***ing N****r And His Monkey Children"

Nice, eh? Well, the eternally pubescent naive little boys who comprise 99% of the Paultards are already whining about bad apples and other nonsense. Sorry, little boys, but facts are facts, and the fact is Ron Paul is a racist, misogynist nutball POS, and I can prove it with his own words.

Here are a sample of but some of Ron Paul's racist rants, complete with independently verifiable citations. Say what you will about Paul, one thing you can't say is that he isn't a racist, misogynist POS.

Anyone who's read this blog or my Facebook posts for any length of time knows how I feel about Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a racist, misogynist John Bircher crazy conspiracy spouting nutball. It bothers me no end that many self styled "progressives" support this whackjob racist lunatic 'cause, like, d00d, he wants to legalize dope and end war! No one who considers themselves in the least progressive has any business supporting this nutball POS.

When it comes to racist, white supremacist nut baggery, Ron Paul didn't lick it off of the wall. His dad was an avowed white supremacist and racist and was the leader of the race riots and pogroms that drove African-Americans out of many Texas communities in what is one of the darkest chapters in all of Texas history, a history rife with dark chapters of violent racism.

Since the '70's, long before he was elected to Congress, Ron Paul has been active on the political scene. He's published and edited a series of newsletters, beginning with crudely mimeographed John Birch style single sheets passed by hand from nutball to nutball right through slick, glossy mulit-page propaganda pieces marketed to white supremacists, anti-Semites and conspiracy theorists through a sophisticated bulk mail and nutball paranoid lunatic radio campaign, currently led by nutball extraordinaire Alex Jones. All of these Paul publications share a few defining characteristics. They are all chock full of racist, anti-Semite, misogynist paranoid loon nut baggery and they are all published under Ron Paul's name by companies owned by Ron Paul and they all list Ron Paul as editor and/or publisher.

Paul has gone to great lengths to try to cover up his most outrageous nutball proclamations. For example, though Paul has continually published these loon rags since 1976, his online "archives" only go back to 1999. The previous 23 years of Grade AAA, USDA Prime nut baggery haven't been simply covered up, they have entirely disappeared, never to be admitted to again. In recent interviews Paul has claimed he didn't write the stories - though the only name that appears on any of these publications is Ron Paul's. He's also tried to sell the hilariously asinine lie that he had no idea what "others" were publishing under his name, despite for many years pocketing millions in profits from the publications he now claims to have known nothing about. But thanks to the work of dedicated investigative bloggers and reporters, almost the entire record of Paul's whackjob lunatic nut baggery is now available online. Here's some actual quotes from political newsletters published and edited by Ron "Nutball" Paul variously named Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report and The Ron Paul Survival Report...

Ron Paul On Race

1990 issue warned of “The Coming Race War,” and an article the following year about disturbances in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was entitled “Animals Take Over the D.C. Zoo.”

Paul alleged that Martin Luther King Jr., “the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” had also “seduced underage girls and boys.” The man who would later proclaim King a “hero” attacked Ronald Reagan for signing legislation creating the federal holiday in his name, complaining, “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”

No conspiracy theory was too outlandish for Paul’s endorsement. One newsletter reported on the heretofore unknown phenomenon of “Needlin’,” in which “gangs of black girls between the ages of 12 and 14” roamed the streets of New York and injected white women with possibly HIV-infected syringes. Another newsletter warned that “the AIDS patient” should not be allowed to eat in restaurants because “AIDS can be transmitted by saliva,” a strange claim for a physician to make.

Paul gave credence to the theory, later shown to have been the product of a Soviet disinformation effort, that AIDS had been created in a U.S. government laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Three months before far-right extremists killed 168 Americans in Oklahoma City, Paul’s newsletter praised the “1,500 local militias now training to defend liberty” as “one of the most encouraging developments in America.” And he offered specific advice to antigovernment militia members, such as, “Keep the group size down,” “Keep quiet and you’re harder to find,” “Leave no clues,” “Avoid the phone as much as possible,” and “Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”

In a March 2009 interview, Paul entertained Jones’s claim that NORTHCOM, the U.S. military’s combatant command for North America, is “taking over” the country. “The average member of Congress probably isn’t a participant in the grand conspiracy,” Paul reassured the fevered host, essentially acknowledging that such a conspiracy exists. “We need to take out the CIA.” On Paul’s latest appearance on the Jones show, just last week, he called allegations that Iran had attempted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States a “propaganda stunt” of the Obama administration. In a January 2010 speech, Paul announced, “There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup” against the American government. “They’re in businesses, in drug businesses,” the congressman added.

Ron Paul said of crime in Washington, D.C., “I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”

He also told the newspaper he did not know that his newsletter — with 7,000 to 8,000 subscribers — was listed by a neo-Nazi group called Heritage Front, apparently as recommended reading, under the Internet heading “Racialists and Freedom Fighters.”

In a column on the LA riots... “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.”

Commenting on the MLK Day holiday, the Ron Paul Report called it... “Hate Whitey Day.”

"...opinion polls consistently show only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions”

“if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be”

Black representative Barbara Jordan is “the archetypical half-educated victimologist” whose “race and sex protect her from criticism.”

In an article entitled “The Coming Race War,” The Ron Paul Political Report refers to the “pro-communist philanderer Martin Luther King” and refers to his “non-violent approach” as “(i.e., state violence).” The newsletter advises that, “if there is any issue the Republicans have in their favor for the next presidential election, it is the question of race. It was all over for Michael Dukakis when Jesse Jackson gave his awful prime-time speech at the last Democratic convention, and the cameras focused on masses of teary-eyed, left-wing blacks.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/February1990.pdf

A May 1990 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report cites Jared Taylor, who six months later would go onto found the eugenicist and white supremacist periodical American Renaissance.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/May1990.pdf

The May 1991 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report cites American Renaissance and offers readers subscription information for it.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/May1991.pdf

The July 1994 Ron Paul Survival Report cites “criminologist” Jared Taylor.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/July1994.pdf

The January 1993 issue of the Survival Report worries about America’s “disappearing white majority”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/January1993a.pdf

The July 1992 Ron Paul Political Report declares, “Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,” and defends David Duke. The author of the newsletter--presumably Paul--writes, “My youngest son is starting his fourth year in medical school. He tells me there would be no way to persuade his fellow students of the case for economic liberty.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/July1992.pdf

A March 1993 Survival Report describes Bill Clinton’s supposedly “illegitimate children, black and white: ‘woods colts’ in backwoods slang.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/March1993.pdf

Ron Paul On Homosexuality

The December 1989 Ron Paul Political Report contains entries on a “new form of racial terrorism,” cites former Congressman Bill Dannemeyer’s claim that “the average homosexual has 1,000 or more partners in a lifetime,” and quotes Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in the third person.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/December1989.pdf

In January 1990, the Ron Paul Political Report cites “a well-known libertarian editor” who “told me: ‘The ACT-UP slogan on stickers plastered all over Manhattan is ‘Silence=Death.’ But shouldn’t it be Sodomy = Death’?”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/January1990.pdf

The July 1991 Ron Paul Political Report defends homophobic remarks made by Tom Clancy, and cites Clancy saying, “I live in a free country, and if people want to have their anuses used in that way, while I find it unsavory, I do not arrogate to myself the right to prevent them from doing so.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/July1990.pdf

The September 1994 issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report states that “those who don’t commit sodomy, who don’t get blood a transfusion, and who don’t swap needles, are virtually assured of not getting AIDS unless they are deliberately infected by a malicious gay.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/September1994.pdf

Ron Paul's Nutball Paranoia

A fundraising letter from Paul’s 1984 Senate campaign in which Paul complains about the “minions of Kissinger and Rockefeller” and “the big New York banks, and their pals in Texas” who “want me silenced.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/Senate1984.pdf

The January 1988 Ron Paul Political Report approvingly cites Dr. William C. Douglass, who “believes that AIDS is a deliberately engineered hybrid” developed at a World Health Organization experiment conducted at Ft. Detrick. Douglass has long been a fringe medical guru, and today claims that “smoking can help you live longer!!!”

The November 1989 Ron Paul Political Report reports on the Bohemian Grove and Ronald Reagan’s “old Trilateralist agenda item of four-year terms for Congressmen.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/November1989.pdf

This 1993 Ron Paul Strategy Guide entitled, “How to Protect Yourself from Urban Violence” is a special supplement the Ron Paul Survival Report.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/UrbanViolence.pdf

In the April 1993 Ron Paul Survival Report, the author--writing in the first person--states, “Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.” The newsletters also warns readers to “do your very best to keep your family away from inner cities. If you can’t, have a haven remote from the metropolitan areas.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/April1993.pdf

The May 1995 issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report warns of “The Trilateralist Alan Greenspan” and its author writes, “Now that my five children are grown and educated, I’ve listened to the many supporters who’ve urged me to return to office. I can now give up my medical practice, and dedicate every fiber of my being to saving our country.” The newsletter also contains an advertisement for the Ron Paul congressional exploratory committee.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/May1995.pdf

The September 1995 issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report asks about “Black Helicopters?”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/September1995.pdf

The June 1996 issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report refers to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms officers as “Jackbooted Thugs.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/June1996.pdf

Ron Paul's Antisemitism

The November 1992 Ron Paul Survival Report defends chess champion and Holocaust-denier Bobby Fischer, saying that “the brilliant Fischer, who has all the makings of an American hero, is very politically incorrect on Jewish questions, for which he will never be forgiven, even though he is a Jew. Thus we are not supposed to herald him as the world’s greatest chess player.”
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/November1992.pdf

Newsletter Authorship

The masthead of March 1987 Ron Paul Investment Letter lists “the Hon. Ron Paul” as “Editor and Publisher” and “Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.” as one of several contributing editors.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/masthead.pdf

An undated personal solicitation letter--signed by Paul--asking the recipient to subscribe to his newsletter in anticipation of (presumably) the 1988 Libertarian Party Presidential nominating convention.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/personalletter.pdf

The April 1988 Ron Paul Investment Letter lists Paul as Editor.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/InvestmentLetterApril1988.pdf

The May 1988 Ron Paul Investment Letter lists Lew Rockwell as Editor. It also advertises books by the far-right conspiracy theorist Gary Allen, who was a contributing editor to the Ron Paul Investment Letter.
http://www.tnr.com/downloads/InvestmentLetterMay1988.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/us/politics/bias-in-ron-pauls-newsletters-draws-new-attention.html
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/company-ron-paul-keeps_613474.html?nopager=1
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/news-bulletin-ron-paul-is-a-huge-racist.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/grappling-with-ron-pauls-racist-newsletters/250206/
http://reason.com/archives/2008/01/16/who-wrote-ron-pauls-newsletter
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2011-12-21/ron-paul-racist-newsletters/52147878/1

Saturday, March 10, 2012

The End of the Wingnut Hate Shouters? 98 Major Advertisers Pull Ads From Right Wing Talk Radio

3/12/12 SECOND UPDATE:

BREAKING NEWS: All national advertising suspended from Douche Limpballs hate fest

This just in via ThinkProgress, Douche Limpballs syndicator Premier Networks has suspended all national advertising on Douche Limpballs' radio hate fest. This is an unprecedented move that possibly heralds the end of road for nationally syndicated wingnut hate shouters. Stay tuned for more details as they become available...
Radio-Info.com reports that Premiere Networks, which syndicates the Rush Limbaugh show, told its affiliate radio stations that they are suspending national advertising for two weeks.
3/12/12 UPDATE: 141 major advertisers have now dumped not just Rush, but the rest of the wingnut hate shouter flying monkey squad, as well. ThinkProgress has posted a PDF of the memo from Premiere Networks crapping on Rush and the rest of the wingnut hate shouters. The memo includes a list of all 98 of the major sponsors that have pulled ads not just from Rush, but from all of the wingnut hate shouters.

You can see the full memo here. In the meantime, here's the list of sponsors that have dumped wingnut hate shouters including Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity...
21st Century Insurance • Hotels.com • Rite Aid • Ace Hardware • Honda • Robitussin • Acura • IBM • Sam Adams • Advance Auto Parts • Icy Hot • Sam’s Club • Advil (All products) • Intuit/Small Business • Schiff – Digestive Advantage • Alacer/Emergen-C • Schiff – Mega Red • Allegra (all products) • Johnson & Johnson (All Brands) • Schiff – Move Free • Kohl’s • Schiff – Sustenex • Ally Bank • La Quinta • Scotts Miracle-Gro (all products) • American Express • Lifetime • Autozone • Little Caesars • Sony • Lowe’s • State Farm • British Petroleum • Luxottica • Staples • Bullfrog Sunblock • Macy’s • Sterling/Kay Jared Jewelers • Caltrate • MasterCard • Subway • Centrum • McDonalds • Takeda Uloric • Chapstick • Midas • The Home Depot • Clorox (Pinesol/Homecare) • Napa Auto Parts • ThermaCare • Cortizone • National Realtor • Toyota • DeVry • NBC-TV • Discover Card • Office Depot • Twinings of London • Domino’s Pizza • Office Max • Tyson/Wright Brand Bacon • Exxon/Exxon Mobil • One Main Financial • Unisom • Farmers Insurance • United Healthcare • Ford • Orkin • U.S. Army • Outback • U. S. Postal Service • General Motors (All products -GM Certified Service • Chevy • Onstar • Cadillac • etc) • Preparation H • Visa • Gold Bond (all products • ProNutrients (all products) • Walgreens • Grainger • Progressive Insurance • Wal-Mart • Green Mountain Coffee • Prudential • Wells Fargo • Hallmark • Radio Shack • Wrigley • H&R Block • Rent-A-Center • Yahoo!
Original Story: John Avlon has a story up on The Daily Beast about the news that a who's who of major corporate advertisers have pulled their ads not just from Douche Limpballs, but from all of wingnut hate radio. Ford, GM, Toyota, Geico, Allstate, Prudential, State Farm, McDonald's, Subway and others have removed their ads from wingnut hate shouter radio shows by Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.

This is a big story, and one that fianlly gives hate shouters like self billed rodeo clown Glenn Beck something real to cry about. Here's more...
Premiere Networks, which distributes Limbaugh as well as a host of other right-wing talkers, sent an email out to its affiliates early Friday listing 98 large corporations that have requested their ads appear only on “programs free of content that you know are deemed to be offensive or controversial (for example, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity).”
This is big. According to the radio-industry website Radio-Info.com, which first posted excerpts of the Premiere memo, among the 98 companies that have decided to no longer sponsor these programs are “carmakers (Ford, GM, Toyota), insurance companies (Allstate, Geico, Prudential, State Farm), and restaurants (McDonald’s, Subway).” Together, these talk-radio advertising staples represent millions of dollars in revenue.
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this latest controversy comes at a particularly difficult time for right-wing talk radio. They are playing to a (sometimes literally) dying demographic. Rush & Co. rate best among old, white males. They have been steadily losing women and young listeners, who are alienated by the angry, negative, obsessive approach to political conservations. Add to that the fact that women ages 24–55 are the prize advertising demographic, and you have a perfect storm emerging after Limbaugh’s Sandra Fluke comments.
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the irony is that the same market forces that right-wing talk-radio hosts champion are helping to seal their fate. Advertisers are abandoning the shows because they no longer want to be associated with the hyperpartisan—and occasionally hateful—rhetoric. They are finally drawing a line because consumers are starting to take a stand.
As the old, white, stupid knuckle dragging bigot demographic  - the only demo that listens to the hate shouters - dies off, it's only natural that major advertisers would seek to reach rather than piss off the far more desirable and far larger not old, not stupid, not bigoted demographic.

It's a delicious irony that the very same free market forces the hate shouters shout about are their downfall. Let's hope this really does herald the end of the wingnut hate shouters. Better yet, let's hope this is an example of the death throes of the morally, ethically and intellectually corrupt "movement" of half witted ignorant boobs, bigots, superstitious idiots and rabid loons that make up today's tea bagging GOP.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

You Think Your Luck Is Bad? Think Again...


In battle you never want to be standing beside a guy who's unlucky. Case in point... On May 3, 1846 the Mexican Army began a siege and artillery bombardment of Fort Texas, overlooking Matamoros. After 2 days of continual bombardment an American soldier, a man named Sergeant Weigart, one of the "Cotton Bailers" of the famous 7th Infantry, was hit by a shell. A short time later, as he lay bleeding on the surgeon's table, Weigart was hit by another shell, killing him instantly. Shortly after he was buried, a 3rd shell "exhumed" his battered, dismembered body and sent it flying through the air. He was the only American killed in the siege that marked the beginning of one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the Mexican-American War.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Mitt's Bully Backer Uses His Billions To Intimidate, Silence Critics - Help Fight Back

Caveat: Everything in post is my Consitutionally protected personal opinion, and if you don't like it, I'm looking at you, Frank, you can sue me. I can always use a good laugh...


Required Reading: Glenn Greenwald has an important story up at Salon about Mitt Romney's billionaire bully Frank VanderSloot. VaderSloot is the CEO of a controversial multi-level marketing company, aka pyramid sales, Melaleuca, Inc., that peddles dietary supplements and cleaning products and is a major power player in right wing politics and the Mormon Church with a long history of anti-gay activism.

VaderSloot is also the finance co-chair of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. In addition, his company, Melaleuca, has donated $1 million to a pro-Romney supposedly independent SuperPAC, Restore Our Future.

Greenwald details how this billionaire bully uses threats of petty, frivolous, but expensive to defend against lawsuits to silence his critics, including major magazines, journalists and even small bloggers that dare to report on VanderSloot's activities. Greenwald writes...
But it is VanderSloot’s chronic bullying threats to bring patently frivolous lawsuit against his political critics — magazines, journalists, and bloggers — that makes him particularly pernicious and worthy of more attention. In the last month alone, VanderSloot, using threats of expensive defamation actions, has successfully forced Forbes, Mother Jones and at least one local gay blogger in Idaho to remove articles that critically focused on his political and business practices
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This tactic almost always succeeds in silencing its targets, because even journalists and their employers who have done nothing wrong are afraid of the potentially ruinous costs they will incur when sued by a litigious billionaire.
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To allow this scheme to continue — whereby billionaires can use their bottomless wealth to intimidate ordinary citizens and media outlets out of writing about them — is to permit the wealthiest in America to thuggishly shield themselves from legitimate criticism and scrutiny.
It's a long piece, and one everyone should read. Greenwald details a number of cases, including the case of a brave blogger fighting back against a Bully's billions. Read the piece, then use your outrage to help journalists and bloggers fight back against this bullying wingnut POS. I, for one, hope this filthy stinking bleephole sues me, too, and I encourage everyone to blog about his despicable actions, spread the word on Facebook and tell everyone you know.

This nasty quackery pushing con-man prick wants to sue anyone and everyone who dares to tell the truth about him? I say let's give him 1 million targets and see how long he can keep it up, then use state laws against using lawsuits as intimidation to prosecute him criminally wherever and whenever possible. Maybe we can give his team of hired Brooks Brothers thugs something to keep them busy when they're not trying to censor VaderSloot's many critics. In the meantime, this bleephole's intimidation, threats and suppression of the free press, and Romney's connection to this POS, will finally get some much deserved attention.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Ousted Komen VP Karen Handel's Whine Country Tour Features Lies, Lies and More Lies

Ousted Komen VP Karen Handel, not content to let teh stupid quietly fade away, is on a
crusade. It's difficult to be sure, but she's either out to destroy Planned Parenthood or
she's out to destroy whatever shreds remain of her own credibility. Her first stop on the whine country tour was wingnut propaganda central, aka Fox News, of course. Today Handel went running to the TheDailyBeast to whine, bitch, moan and lie, lie, lie...

Here's some exceprts from the interview, along with some much needed reality to dispell
Handel's endless stream of bullshit:

“The idea that anyone would suggest Komen had a political agenda is absurd,” Handel told  The Daily Beast. “Komen is a breast-cancer organization—that’s what it does.” Instead, she accused Planned Parenthood of making the matter political, saying the group had “unleashed Armageddon” by launching a social-media firestorm. “Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag,” she said.
In point of fact, PP has no magical, mystical sway over the denizens of Twitter or Facebook. The social media firestorm was spontaneous, instantaneous and in direct response to January 31 AP exclusive report of  Komen's blatantly political decision.
“It’s no secret that for some years—long before my time—Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants. The issue would flare up, then die down, then flare up again. It was fairly cyclical. But over the summer, it intensified. More donors said they were pulling out. The issue was ratcheting up. It wasn’t dying down. “Two dozen Catholic bishops were saying not to support Komen,” she continued. “We needed to find some options for moving to neutral ground. I was tasked with doing that.” She added, “An inordinate amount of staff time was spent trying to manage the controversy. We should be able to focus on our own mission and not be distracted by the controversy of another organization.”

Okay, so the decision obviously WAS entirely political, and had everything to do with abortion, the "controversy" to which you refer. Gotcha...
The decision to cut funding was vetted by the board, she said, and it was in line with Komen regulations not to fund organizations that have been barred from receiving government funding. Planned Parenthood has been barred from receiving funding in some states, she said.
YOU set the asinine, now trashed "under investigation" policy, Karen, and no, Karen, PP has most certainly NOT "been barred" from receiving funding in any state for any reason, not now, not ever. Your claim is what is known in technical circles is known as BULLSHIT.
“There was an open and candid conversation (with PP pres Cecile Richards) about the (totally non-politica) controversy (over the politics of abortion) and the effect on Komen. There was a gentle ladies’ agreement, if you will, that no one was going to go to the press about this,” Handel said. In the agreement, she said, Komen offered to continue funding current grants, but not future ones.
Um, a "gentle ladies" agreement? Gag...
“What happened is nothing short of a disgrace. Cecile Richards put this issue in the press. There was a coordinated effort to get sites like moveon.org and change.org involved. There was an orchestrated, premeditated attempt to put this issue in the press. Talk about betrayal by Planned Parenthood—against an organization that took up for it for years.”
Bullshit. This is a pure, unadulterated Grade AAA USDA Prime lie. No, Karen, in point of fact Cecile Richards DID NOT go the press. That's a lie. In point of fact, it was ANTI-CHOICE right wing websites that bragged about Komen's political move, after they learned about it from anti-choice Komen insiders.

The AP exclusive that "broke" this story ran on January 31. But Christian website LifeNews had reported the story six weeks before, on December 14th and again on the 20th. ChristianNewsBuzz picked up the story on December 28. The Alliance Defense Fund, Lifeway Christian Resources, Americans United for Life and other anti-choice groups were bragging on Komen's PP slap-down back in December and taking credit for pressuring them into this balatantly political action. It was from these and other anti-choice sources that the AP first learned of Komen's decision. The rest of the media then responded to the AP report.

And no, the social media firestorm was NOT "generated." Only a paranoid wingnut imbecile would posit that anyone or any group had the magical, mystical power to make Facebook and Twitter erupt on command within minutes of the AP report hitting the mainstream press.
Handel, who ran for governor of Georgia in 2010 on an anti-abortion platform, denied that her political views played a role at Komen. She laughed when she heard that a blog had called her a “martyr for the pro-life cause.” She said, “There’s a great deal of irony in that when I ran for governor, I was not pro-life enough.” Her plan now, she said, “is going for some runs.”
Oh, cry me a river, you lying sack of wingnut poop. "Not pro-life enough"? Going for runs? More like striking out.

So, when you ran for Gov as a tea bagger with an anti-choice platform as your primary issue and promised that, if elected, you'd ban Planned Parenthood, that just wasn't anti-choice enough? When you wrote...

"I am staunchly and unequivocally pro-life.  I believe in the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life, and I will be a pro-life governor who will work tirelessly to promote a culture of life in Georgia,"
...that wasn't anti-choice enough?

Really?

<blink-blink>

Or how about this quote...

First, let me be clear, since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.
Who is it you think stupid enough to buy into the huge, steaming pile of happy horse poop you're peddling, Karen?

Friday, January 20, 2012

Yeah, but what have you done for us lately?


3 years ago today Obama inherited a GOP caused disaster of staggering proportions. All Barack Obama has accomplished since, despite stubborn GOP obstructionism, is...

Walked the country back from the brink of GOP caused total economic meltdown

Restored the honor and prestige of America internationally

Saved the American auto industry and with it hundreds of thousands of American jobs

Passed signature health care reform law after more than 100 years of failed efforts

Ended Iraq war

Saved hostages from Somali pirates

Killed Osama bin Laden

Killed more than a dozen high level al Queda leaders

Ended discrimination against gays in the military

Ended the stop loss policy that forced troops to stay on long after their enlistment expired

Improved veteran services and eliminated huge backlog of claims

36 months in a row of job growth, after 8 years of Bush job losses

Passed largest middle class tax cut in history

Lifted Bush restrictions on embryonic stem cell research

Appointed 2 women, including first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court

Created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to protect the 99% from the 1% over the strong objection of the GOP

Join me 1 year from today to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama to a second term...