Vagabond Scholar (Free subscription) | yesterday
This has been all over the blogosphere, but I'm still not tired of it, and it's an instant classic. Stewart plunges into the demagogic truthiness of Glenn Beck: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Projectwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis If you're not familiar with Glenn Beck's shtick, Crooks and Liars has a good collection.
The Satirical Political Report (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
“IT WASN’T EASY DIGGING UNDER THAT GODDAMN WALL, BUT WHEN YOU’RE AS EMBARRASSED AS I WAS, YOU LOOK FOR ANY HOLE AT ALL TO CRAWL INTO.” Story and video of Markos’ diss of Tancredo, at Crooks & Liars.
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Number of comments: 2 Kos with some EPIC pwnage: -mg UPDATE: Crooks and Liars links to a Denver Post article detailing Tancredo’s 1-Y Vietnam deferment. [...]
Sempringham (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From Crooks and Liars : Michael Bloomberg spent a reported 105 million dollars on his re-election campaign, the same amount Norway donated in 2007 to The World Bank for a health care initiative for the poorest nations. And from Kevin Drum : Congress passed something today. Hooray! Congress gave final approval Thursday for an additional $24 billion to help the jobless and support the housing market...
The Osterley Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Having watched the Republican candidate being rejected by the Palin/Limbaugh/Beck set as "too liberal", Newt Gingrich goes on to the Hannity show and surrenders to the tea bagger logic. In retrospect it is clear Dede Scozzafava should never have been nominated because she was far too liberal to be acceptable. Yeah, that's right Gingrich, the electorate elected a Democrat for the first time...
Gerry Canavan (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The big story tonight is a massacre at Fort Hood in Texas , apparently a shooting by Major Nadal Malik Hasan, who (Crooks and Liars reports ) "was prone to making outrageous remarks about Muslims 'defending themselves'" and who had also (his cousin claims) been subject to anti-Muslim harassment. There's a lot still to come out about this, especially since TPM is reporting now that contrary...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I'd like to thank John for letting me spread the word about this cause, and I'd like to thank everyone here at Crooks and Liars for helping pitch in. It's important that we work to end the war in Afghanistan, and it's important that we support progressive voices who work to do so. Six months ago, President Obama had ordered in tens of thousands of new troops to Afghanistan while admitting that there...
viewpoints (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
First, the bad news!Most politicians are standard cheats, infamous liars and/or extraordinary crooks. A good number of capitalists, businessmen and professionals are unprincipled, dishonest and/or greedy. More. There are murderers and rapists, kidnappers and carnappers, thieves and holduppers plus probably a million and more other individuals who thrive in evil and delight in vices. No wonder
Saber Point (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
There are unconfirmed reports coming from leftist sources such as the NY Daily News and Crooks, Liars and Cowards that Hoffman supporters have been electioneering too close to polling places, and "yelling anti-choice stuff at voters." It sounds like another Democrat dirty trick to me: they are setting up excuses for their presumed loss in this election, like they did in Florida in 2000 when...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Keeping The ACORNs In Their Place by digby John Fund and Rush Limbaugh have been darkly predicting an outbreak of voter fraud by the ACORN conspiracy that is threatening to take over the world. Indeed, the rank and file is worried that ACORN has even infiltrated the campaign of the teabagging darling Doug Hoffman. Dave Weigel reports from NY 23: Outside, two dozen Hoffman supporters lined the sidewalks...
News Hounds (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
John Amato at Crooks and Liars noted, "The teabaggers are turning to threats and intimidation out there in NY-23 land" and cited this article from Elizabeth Benjamin in the NY Daily News: "It's getting ugly out there. I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O'Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence...
Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Looks like Sen. David “Diaperman” Vitter got confronted by a rape victim and pulled a Cindy Sheehan on his ass when she asked him why he voted against Senator Al Franken’s amendment to hold Contractors like Halliburton accountable when their male employees attack their female employees while on the payroll (h/t Heather, at Crooks and [...]
Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Yesterday we covered how the progressive blogosphere was afire with activity around Florida Democrat Alan Grayson's "money bomb," which has thus far raised, according to a campaign tally, more than $505,000 through the efforts of several progressive blogs (Open Left, Daily Kos, Crooks & Liars, Digby) and the hitting of email lists of high-profile progressive groups, including MoveOn,...
Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It's perhaps cliched, but no less true, that Democratic Representative Alan Grayson of Florida is a Rorschach test of contemporary American politics. If you ask people working in politics about the fiery, hard-charging, bulldog-ish Grayson, the responses tend to reflect a view of politics how it should be, in the eyes of the respondent, rather than a close read of the reality of things circa 2009....
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
By GottaLaff Via Nicole at Crooks and Liars , we hear "I've had enough!" words about suckage from a frustrated John Conyers: President Barack Obama is “getting bad advice from… clowns” on Afghanistan and “sucking up to the wrong people” on health care , U.S. Rep. John Conyers told a Detroit radio audience this morning, according to show host Rev. Horace Sheffield....
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