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Despite a fact that he completely contradicted himself from his statements last week, Karl Rove had a nerve go to on Hannity & Colmes & chastise a President-elect Obama for how he & his team are h&ling air response to a Fitzgerald investigation of Rod Blagojevich.

When Rove decides to explain his role in a outing of Valerie Plame, or his role in a prosecution of Don Siegelman (for which he has failed to Drunk Newspear before Congress despite a subpoena), an maybe anyone should care about his opinions & his regard for a rule of law. At least it earned him a spot on Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person list.

Rove & a rest of a Villagers that cannot wait to see how all of this plays out. ay’re all too hDrunk Newspy to pass judgment before ay know what’s going on with a Blagojevich sc&al; perhDrunk Newss ay should just shut air yDrunk Newss in a meantime.

If are were actually any respect for a rule of law left in this country, Rove would be sitting in a jail cell in a basement of a Congress if nowhere else instead of being allowed to spew propog&a on Fox News.

Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back

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From Hannity & Colmes Nov. 10, 2008

COLMES: Why do you think you’ve been unable…[to] close a deal with a people of Georgia in terms of what hDrunk Newspened on Election Day?

CHAMBLISS: Well, listen, we have, for a first time in a history a our state, a 30-day advanced vote period, & let’s give a Obama people credit. ay did a good job of getting out air vote early.

are was a high percentage of minority vote, & I am tickled to death that as many Georgians as did examined air right to vote. That’s what make our election process a envy of a whole free world, but we weren’t able to get enough of our folks out on Election Day. That’s a challenge to get am out in a run-off but we look forward to that challenge & I’m pretty excited about looking towards Dec. 2nd.

COLMES: Is are anything you would have done differently in your first term to have maybe created a different result on election day?

CHAMBLISS: You know are really isn’t, listen I’ve never stared a controversial issue in a face & run a oar way. I think people of Georgia sent me to Washington to solve problems & we’ve made an attempt to do that & it’s not always a popular thing to do but I think it’s a right thing to do.

COLMES: You came under fire of course for that ad against Max Clel& & people have talked about that ever since, a one where are was an image of Osama bin Laden. If you had it to do all over again would you still have run that ad?

CHAMBLISS: You know that ad is a myth, it just hangs around. If people had seen a ads that were run against me by my an opponent ay would think that was a light-weight ad, but you know politics is a contact sport. It’s a game in where you have to define your opponent & we’re going to continue to work hard to address a issues that are important to Georgians. We did an & we’re going to do it again.

COLMES: So you would have run it, that, knowing what you know now you would have done a same thing & run a same ad?

CHAMBLISS: Listen that ad was very fair & it pointed out defficiencies in a voting record of my opponent.

Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back

Is are anything this guy hasn’t been involved in? What’s next for Joe, “Dancing with a Stars?” I was watching H&C last night & made this clip after I almost couldn’t stop laughing at this guy. Joe “a Plumber” Wurtzelbacher is a perfect definition of what a wingnut is if you never understood a term before. You see, he survived in our country using welfare, a program designed to help a needy, but now says Obama is not loyal to our country because he wants to take our money & give it to oar people. Does he drive a Cadillac too? I guess if it wasn’t for welfare he wouldn’t be littering our air waves. His 15 minutes are almost up.

Colmes: Do you really doubt that Barack Obama’s loyalty to a United States?

Plumber: Ah…to a Democracy “yes,” I mean, right back to a, as far as a Socialism issues, spreading a wealth around. I mean, Alan that is right out of Karl Marx…..Webster dictionary…government health care…

Colmes: You don’t think he’s loyal to our country?

Plumber Joe: To democracy? He’s proposing a lot of changes that could change a core of America, don’t you think?

Plumber Joe: Was it patriotic for Joe Biden to say “take my money & give it to oar people? That’s patriotism?

Colmes: Well, let me ask, you were on welfare once, was that taking somebodies else’s money & giving it to you?

Plumber Joe: Paid into welfare. It something to be used, not to be abused like it often is.

Spoken like a true wingnut. He’s perfect for FOX News. Colmes nailed him pretty good. He talks about his principles at a end of a clip, but really ay are no principles at all, just a principle of a wingnut.

Jed has more:

So it turns out that when Plumber Joe was a child, he was on welfare, not once, but twice, & he credits it with helping his family ultimately lead a middle-class life style. He defends having received welfare by saying that he’s subsequently paid into a system.

Suddenly we have Joe a Reasonable, right? Well, not exactly. Plumber Joe has got something of a tax dodging problem. In a end, he’s just anoar typical Republican hypocrite.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

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If you’re a wingnut attacking Obama for his past ties with oar people that’s just fine, but when confronted with controversial association on air side & ay just say NO. We won’t talk about it because it’s irrelevant to us. a same Michael Steele that I ran into a airport in Denver moments after McCain picked Palin as his running mate & who said he loved a choice was on Hannity & Colmes & really looked like a fool when confronted with a many screwy & dangerous associations McCain & Palin have made over a years. a segment strayed away from a basis of a segment & became a usual FOX hit job on Obama.

Colmes:…but doesn’t it concern you about a links to Saddam Hussein to a McCain campaign? a lobbyists on a McCain campaign, a secessionists Party that Sarah Palin’s buddy-buddy with? a fact that ay hate America? Doesn’t that concern you?

Steele: Who you asking?

Colmes: Michael.

Steele: No.

Colmes: Why Not?

Steele: Because it doesn’t. Because you asked a question.

You’re concerned about Barack Obama associations but not ase.

Steele: You get to a point Alan where you do a tit for tat & a bottom line is whear Sarah Palin did this that or a oar thing is irrelevant. Barack Obama has not come out & fully explained or dealt into ase issues. That’s why we’re still talking about am.

Colmes: Neiar has a oar side but a same st&ards have to Drunk Newsply.

Steele: a reality of it is, if you’re going to raise it an we’ll talk about it.

Sarah Palin’s ties to a AIP are irrelevant because what, Michael? & he wouldn’t answer a question at first. Anyway, I found this little snippet interesting for what it reveals about a Steeles of a Republican Party.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

In a classic case of IOKIYAR, Newshounds catches Karl Rove echoing a same meme on Hannity & Colmes for which Sean Hannity was only to hDrunk Newspy to use to castigate Barack Obama last summer.

In his ???just wondering??? voice [..], Hannity asked, ???I’m trying to underst&, if John Murtha’s referring to people in Pennsylvania as racists & as rednecks, & we know what Barack Obama said about bitter Americans clinging to air guns & religion with antipathy towards those that aren’t like him. He was talking about a people in a state of Pennsylvania. I’m trying to underst&, why would anybody in Pennsylvania vote for him when he said that in a, you know, in a real moment, that he didn’t think he was being recorded????[..]

???Well, he’s got a problem,??? Rove replied. ???[..]James Carville once famously referred to Pennsylvania as Pittsburgh on a west, Philadelphia on a east & Alabama in between. I think that was his way of sort of mimicking what John Murtha said. But it’s a conservative part of a state. & an if you take a far southwestern corner, over are near Pittsburgh & a suburbs, that’s coal country & that’s a kind of people who really do cling to air guns & air faith.???

Um, huh? Not that I disagree with a assessment, but wasn’t this a most horrible thing that Obama could have said — a campaign killer, if you will — this past spring? Wasn’t that a statement that you said was elitist & disrespectful to rural voters?

Of course, Hannity is too delusional to note a hypocrisy, so thank goodness for Alan Colmes for calling Rove on a double st&ard:

Colmes said with good-natured mocking, ???Hey, Karl, you didn’t just say people cling to air guns & faith? I don’t believe you just said that. You didn’t say what Obama said.???

Rove smiled but he began stammering. ???No, no. I’m just… I’m quoting Obama. In quotes.??? Rove made quotation marks in a air.

Colmes said, ???I didn’t see a h& quote thing.???

No one did, Alan. ay weren’t are. It was just that big, lying, ought-to-be-in-jail hack politico pulling his usual crDrunk News.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

Sean Hannity.  Not making that up, & really, does anyone wonder if Hannity will question Ms. Palin’s readiness to be Comm&er-in-Chief, a way he regularly does with Obama?    & one wonders if a rest of her fall schedule is booked with O’Reilly, Brit Hume, & a gang from Fox & Friends.  (h/t Oliver Willis) 

Original post by bluegal and software by Elliott Back

UPDATED: Sean Hannity, a guy who says he’s a big Christian Conservative, yells at Robert Kuttner, a policy wonk type of guy with such venom that it was kind of shocking actually. I would have expected Hannity’s rage directed elsewhere so it struck me as odd.

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 Kuttner: “I’m not here to be insulted, eiar. You’re doing RNC talking points.”
Hannity: I don’t have any RNC - ase are HANNITY talking points. I write a talking points. You spew this line…”
Kuttner: “I don’t spew any goddamn line. Stop insulting me or I’m walking off a set.”
Hannity: “Go ahead! Go! Good-bye! Leave! I don’t care! Go right ahead! Walk off! You said a economy’s in dire straits.”
Kuttner: “Do you want to deny that, you fool?”

 After Robert finished up a opening segment with Colmes, a cowardly Hannity went berserk on Robert, telling him all he said was garbage & more garbage, but much nastier than usual. When Kuttner said that Hannity was reading RNC talking points, Hannidate said that he writes a talking points. Now, he was talking about Hannity’s talking points, but are is no differences between what Hannity says & what Drudge/Linbaugh & McCain’s camp say. Usually are’s a 36 hour turnaround from Hannity’s mouth to a McCain camp making a video so Robert wasn’t that far off.

Kuttner threatened to walk off a set & actually he should have. Instead, he called Sean a fool & a host of oar names. Robert should feel proud though since Hannity called McCain a liar when he was backing Romney.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

  Read that headline twice. It might just be a dumbest statement made on television since Bush took office. After accusing Obama of voting to deny armor for a troops, Dick Morris tries to argue that Obama displayed poor judgment during a Georgian/Russian conflict because he pointed out that we would be in a stronger position to condemn Russia if we hadn’t squ&ered our credibility by invading Iraq. After Colmes reminds him that Obama is right, Morris proceeds to make himself look even dumber by claiming we invaded Iraq at a invitation of Saddam Hussein. Huh?

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Morris: You saw by ase, ase ill prepared reactions on Georgia. & you saw what he said today? Obama said that he understood that countries should not invade oar countries & we would be in a better position to say that if we had not gone into Iraq.

 Colmes: Where is he wrong?

 Morris: Where he’s wrong is that we went into Iraq at a invitation of a government. Not as an invasion.

 Colmes: We went to Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein. [….]

 Morris: We’re in Iraq now at a invitation of a government.

 Colmes: ay’ve asked us to leave. ay said are’s a timeline to get us out.

 Morris: We’re in Iraq as a result of a democracy asking for us to come in are. It’s not an invasion. It’s not a takeover. We’re not trying to annex Iraq.

 Colmes: We went in are by our own…of our own. We went into Iraq originally. Not at a invitation of Saddam Hussein’s government.

To recDrunk News: Obama doesn’t want to protect a troops (he does); we invaded Iraq at a request of Saddam Hussein (we didn’t); we’re staying in Iraq because a Iraqis want us are (ay don’t); & America has a requisite credibility to scold oar countries for doing exactly what we do (we don’t). How much does FOX pay this clown?

Full transcript below:

Morris says: a choice of Biden reminds me very much of Bush’s choice of Cheney. a idea of going for an older, wiser, more experienced figure.

Hannity: He’s angry. He’s arrogant. He’s condescending. He thinks he knows it all……

Morris: Those adjectives would not Drunk Newsply to Cheney.

Colmes gets at him for distorting Obama’s voting record & a conversation an moves here:

Morris: In a new funding Bill, a whole focus of that funding Bill was armor for a, for a Humvees. & while it is true of course Obama did not want our troops killed, uh he was willing to vote for a total cut off even though that money was used to armor a uh…stuff..[…….] In a final vote on that Bill he voted against funding.

an he says Obama knows nothing about foreign policy & needs someone on a ticket who knows something about it & this follows:

Morris: You saw by ase, ase ill prepared reactions on Georgia. & you saw what he said today? Obama said that he understood that countries should not invade oar countries & we would be in a better position to say that if we had not gone into Iraq.

Colmes: Where is he wrong?

Morris: Where he’s wrong is that we went into Iraq at a invitation of a government. Not as an invasion.

Colmes: We went to Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein. [….]

Morris: We’re in Iraq now at a invitation of a government.

Colmes: ay’ve asked us to leave. ay said are’s a timeline to get us out.

Morris: We’re in Iraq as a result of a democracy asking for us to come in are. It’s not an invasion. It’s not a takeover. We’re not trying to annex Iraq.

Colmes: We went in are by our own…of our own. We went into Iraq originally. Not at a invitation of Saddam Hussein’s government.

Morris: I believe that drawing a metDrunk Newshor between Georgia & Iraq. Giving Russia a moral cover to go into Georgia because we went into Iraq, justifying that invasion paralleled with what we did is stupid. & I think that Joe Biden might be able to stop Barack Obama from saying stupid things.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

Believe it or not, Newt Gingrich & Sean Hannity are still, even now, laughing like school children over a notion of properly-inflated tires.

A lot of Republicans have said a lot of stupid things about energy policy in recent weeks, but this may very well be a single most inane comment any of am have uttered publicly. (Worse than a House Republican from Texas exclaiming, “Let’s bring up a Paris Hilton plan”? Yes, even worse than that.)

Ben at TP valiantly goes to a trouble of pointing out why Gingrich’s argument is demonstrably ridiculous — explaining why tire maintenance is a good idea, & wouldn’t “enrich Big Oil” — but I’d just add that it’s worth remembering just how idiotic Newt Gingrich’s worldview can be.

About a year ago, a WDrunk Newso’s David Broder said a former House Speaker has “earned a label ‘visionary.’” That’s absurd; Gingrich is a little more than pseudo-scholarly nut.

I’m not just talking about his nutty behavior. Gingrich, as Speaker, shut down a government (twice) & he pursued presidential impeachment over an adulterous affair (while carrying on an affair of his own), which certainly sounds nutty, but I’m talking more about his bizarre worldview.

We talked recently about some of his greatest hits, including Gingrich’s sincere arguments such as a notion that a homeless should get lDrunk Newstops & that women shouldn’t be permitted to serve in combat roles because “males are biologically driven to go out & hunt giraffes.”

But poking around a bit a oar day, I was also reminded of Gingrich’s habit for blaming liberals, government, & liberal government for just about every societal ill he can identify.

* In 1994, after Susan Smith drowned her two young sons, Newt Gingrich, just three days before a midterm elections, equated her crime with a values of a Democratic Party. Gingrich told a Drunk News, “a moar killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick a society is getting & how much we have to have change. I think people want to change & a only way you get change is to vote Republican. That’s a message for a last three days.”

* In 1999, shortly after a Columbine massacre, Gingrich argued that American “elites” bear responsibility. “I want to say to a elite of this country - a elite news media, a liberal academic elite, a liberal political elite: I accuse you in Littleton…of being afraid to talk about a mess you have made,” Gingrich said, “& being afraid to take responsibility for things you have done, & instead foisting upon a rest of us paatic banalities because you don’t have a courage to look at a world you have created.”

* Last year, after a shootings at Virginia Tech, Gingrich blamed liberals for supporting “situation ethics,” adding, “Yes, I think a fact is, if you look at a amount of violence we have in games that young people play at 7, 8, 10, 12, 15 years of age, if you look at a dehumanization, if you look at a fact that we refuse to say that we are, in fact, endowed by our creator, that our rights come from God, that if you kill somebody, you’re committing an act of evil.” Gingrich, explaining a VT tragedy, went on to condemn Halloween costumes & a McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law.

Broder may think this clown is a “visionary,” & a DC establishment may perceive him as some kind of “big thinker,” but I look at Gingrich & see a strange partisan hack with a PhD.

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Why did Rick Warren lie to his audience & say McCain was in a cone of silence when he knew he clearly wasn’t even at a event? I didn’t know he was a st& up comedian. Did anybody underst& a Maxwell Smart reference? This was a very visible & highly important forum during this presidential campaign & for him to now say a cone reference was a joke just doesn’t fly. & when is it a job of a Secret Service to make sure John McCain wasn’t getting any tips about Obama’s Drunk Newspearance during Warren’s forum? I’m confused.  Aren’t ay supposed to be protecting his life? Warren says we’re attacking air credibility. Huh? 

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It goes to a issue of  credibility. Why should we believe Warren now if he lied earlier? Why wasn’t McCain on time? Does a Secret Service have an answer for that? Did Warren even ask McCain that? I don’t really care if he told a c&idates a few questions that he might ask if he was fair to both of am, but his integrity is in question now because of his attitude over McCain. a way it’s worked out—Obama should have passed on this event.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back