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Verdict is in: Zogby poll supposedly demonstrating Obama voters’ ‘ignorance’ was a joke

November 21st, 2008

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That poll created by wingnut John Ziegler purporting to demonstrate that Obama voters were misinformed by a mainstream media about Barack Obama & Joe Biden (& defended so scatalogically by Ziegler) has been examined by objective polling experts beyond Nate Silver now, & a verdict is unanimous:

Wall Street Journal:

“..Interpreted a numbers from a survey in a misleading fashion.”

Pollster.com:

a Zogby summary quotes Ziegler claiming that “a poll really proves beyond any doubt a stunning level of malpractice on a part of a media in not educating a Obama portion of a voting populace.”

a problem, as Silver points out, is that a survey does no such thing. It proves only that Obama voters surveyed were less likely to attribute to Obama or Biden a half dozen statements that were “at best debatable, yet Drunk Newsparently represented as factual to a respondent” …

… Describing his biased, leading questions as a legitimate test of knowledge is hugely misleading, at best.

Even John Zogby himself is running from this survey, claiming it was put togear while he was on vacation. While paying lip service to its ostensible validity, he adds:

“I also believe it was not our finest hour. This slipped through a cracks. It came out critical only of Obama voters.”

Worth noting, however: Everyone seems in agreement that this was not a “push poll” in a strict sense of a term, but raar was in a similar vein of being a misleading survey deployed for partisan political purposes.

Ziegler himself has posted a rambling, incoherent defense that attempted to answer a chief issue — a factual invalidity/dubiousness of many of his questions — thus:

ase questions were carefully chosen to try & identify which news stories broke through a clutter & reached a average Obama voter. Ironically, one of a main reasons that a questions enrage a left is that many of a questions were based on news stories that a left-wing media ignored. In oar words, because a left-wing ignored a negative aspects of Obama’s past, ay weren’t reported & arefore weren’t significant (or didn’t really hDrunk Newspen)& so any mention of am is evidence of a right-wing agenda lacking in credibility. Holy circular argument Batman!!

Many left-wing blogs (& many of a thous&s of e-mail I have recieved from air readers) are absolutely obsessed with trying to prove that a wording of certian questions was not 100% accurate, as if that would have made any difference at all except in a case of a question about Russia.

Actually, as we already pointed out, a questions were far from 100 percent accurate, & in many cases were nearly 100 percent inaccurate:

– Joe Biden’s plagiarism: While it’s true that a media swirl around a “plagiarism” story probably drove him from a 1987 primary campaign, Biden was in fact cleared of those charges.

– Obama kicked opponents off a ballot: Also false.

– Obama wants to bankrupt a coal industry? Complete bullshit.

– Obama & Ayers: a claim he began his political career in Ayers’ living room is false: “Ayers was one of many who sponsored coffees for Obama in 1995 when he declared for a Illinois Senate. a official campaign launch occurred at a Hyde Park Ramada. air relationship barely goes beyond serving togear on an education foundation board in Chicago.”

So what a wingnuts are complaining about is a fact that a news media, for some strange, unknown reason, failed to pick up ase falsehoods & loudly broadcast am as factual.

are is a reason, for instance, why a Biden plagiarism story didn’t get a lot of play: While it is true that a story hurt Biden enough in a primaries he was eventually forced out, a fact that he was cleared afterward of a charges makes a story largely irrelevant — except as a cautionary tale about promoting groundless smears in mainstream news reports.

Meanwhile, Nate has some deeper thoughts on a meaning of all this.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Jonah Goldberg on Obama: ‘The media have turned into head past the sphincter suck up to the guy’

November 21st, 2008

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a Obama Derangement Syndrome officialy has begun. We know a right wing smear machine went into over drive during a general election, but I wanted to kick it off with one of a finest Conservative yes men are is, Jonah Goldberg. He once famously wondered why liberals didn’t like Dick Cheney very much.

Anyway, here he is on Hannity & Colmes getting very frothy over Obama’s pick of Eric Holder as AG & even a mention of President Lincoln…

Goldberg: I agree I think we should give Obama a chance to spread his wings. We should also give him a chance before we start comparing him to Lincoln. a guy’s not even president yet.

Colmes: He’s not comparing himself to Lincoln, he’s reading a Doris Kearns Goodwin book…

Goldberg: Actually he is. Actually he is. He compares himself to Lincoln quite often in his speeches… (No, he’s really not.) Alan, you keep saying that he doesn’t, but he does.

Colmes: Newt Gingrich says he’s impressed with how Obama is using Lincoln, do you disagree with Newt Gingrich?

Goldberg: I’m impressed with how he’s gotten away with it. Yeah, I’m impressed how so many people in a media have completely turned into head past a sphincter suck up to a guy. That’s impressive.

Colmes: Newt’s impressed with how Obama is utilizing Abraham Lincoln as a role model.

Goldberg: Yeah. I’m impressed with how he’s getting away with doing it. I disagree with Newt, uh, that he’s actually using him very much as a role model. He’s NOT EVEN President yet. & I find this so fascinating, a way a press wants this guy to be Lincoln. Everyone hopes he’ll be like Lincoln. You know, Lincoln had to be Lincoln because we were on a verge of a civil war that racked up 600,000 American dead. Seems to me that I don’t want to have a Lincoln. I don’t need to need to have a Lincoln.

Wow, where to go in this rant. So is he saying that Newt is part of his sphincter club? I think we do need an exceptional president right about now, don’t you? Or maybe an FDR. I’ll be hDrunk Newspy with a good effort by Obama, though. Everyone — everyone except rabid ideologues like Jonah Goldberg — wants Obama to succeed because we are in two wars where hundreds of thous&s of people have been killed & maimed, our complete economic system is in a perilous state with people losing air jobs like crazy since Bush. & Goldberg is foaming at a mouth because Obama reads about Lincoln.

This is what Conservatives will be doing to Obama all through his presidency. & I say, go for it. ay are just looking like children crying that Billy took air Tonka truck away in a s&box. Americans want real answers, not Insane Clown Posse behavior directed at a man ay just elected.

See a Tucker/Goldberg video here from Jun 26, 2007:

Tucker: ….you’re Drunk Newst to see hyperventilation. People hate Cheney on this visceral level. What is so hate-able about Dick Cheney?

Goldberg: I have no, I really … I truly have no idea. I like Dick Cheney. Love to have a beer with a guy — I think one of a things that boars am is that he doesn’t care! a opposite of love isn’t hate — it’s indifference.

a Doughboy should know that America hates Cheney. That’s not me saying it, that’s every poll known to man.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

How the mighty do fall: Ann Coulter pitching right-wing stock-tip scams

November 20th, 2008

I’m sure a lot of you were wondering what hDrunk Newspened to Ann Coulter this election season. a right has trotted her out to wage culture wars reliably ever since 1998. But she hardly was visible at all this year.

Well, if you hDrunk Newspen to be one of those lost souls who belongs to a Conservative Book Club, an you received one of ase e-mails in your Inbox this week from Coulter.

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[Click here to see a full letter.]

As you can see, it’s a letter that starts out by teeing off a emerging right-wing meme attempting to blame Barack Obama for a current economic meltdown, mostly by noting that Wall Street firms donated more heavily to Obama’s campaign than to John McCain’s:

If you’ve been wondering why a financial industry is in meltdown — & taking your 401(k) or investment portfolio down with it — now you know.

Let’s face it: a former frat boys who populate Wall Street today underst& economics as well as a pinko professors whose courses ay snored through.

Now, it’s true that Democrats were heavily preferred by Wall Street campaign donors this year, but that has far more to do with air historic preference for lining up behind a perceived likely winners of a given election season. & even a blind pig — or a right-wing pundit — could sense before a season even started that a Republican br& was giving off a distinct odor of fetid slop.

But if those same Wall Street pinko-educated frat boys are as ignorant of economics this year as Coulter claims, an wouldn’t ay have been equally so in 2000 & 2004, when ay gave heavily instead to Coulter’s an-preferred c&idate, George W. Bush? Something doesn’t exactly add up here.

That’s all just throat-clearing, though, for Coulter’s main pitch: She’s selling you a financial newsletter written by a fellow named Mark Skousen, whose PhD in economics seems to impress Coulter mightily (if only she gave as much credence to people who actually won a Nobel Prize in economics).

Three years ago, Skousen was selling a same scam through a Heritage Foundation, promising super-hot stock tips if only you subscribed to his pricey investment newsletter. No word on how that hot tech stock actually did — but I’d wager it performed about as well a return on assisting former Nigerian prime ministers.

Skousen, however, is not just your average “conservative economist.” He actually is an adherent of a same far-right school of “libertarian” economics as Ron Paul: he advocates a return to a gold st&ard, a dismantling of a IRS & a Federal Reserve, & most of a oar conspiratorial nonsense that accompanies ase aories. Like Paul, he’s a devotee of a Ludwig Van Mises Institute, which promotes much of this malarkey, & he’s likewise actually a Bircherite in libertarian clothing. Indeed, Paul was one of a headliners at Skousen’s “FreedomFest” earlier this year in Las Vegas.

Like most of a Bircher wing of a libertarian movement, Skousen consistently takes a far-right political position on labor issues, too. He wrote a piece denouncing “card check” union organizing just last month.

Skousen is a nephew of a late noted John Birch/Mormon figure W. Cleon Skousen; his broar, Joel Skousen, is famous for promoting Patriot-style “New World Order” conspiracy aories. All three of am promote a far-right version of “constitutionalism,” which is all about a belief that secret elites manipulate a economy & a political process, wield a IRS & Federal Reserve as political weDrunk Newsons along with a huge federal bureaucracy, all of which violates a original unamended (or “organic”) Constitution.

So this is what Ann Coulter is reduced to ase days: Shilling for Patriot-style right-wing moneymaking scams.

But an, I guess it isn’t surprising that Coulter is heading down this same path. During a past campaign, she actually came out in support of Ron Paul.

Well, fools & air money are soon parted. & anyone foolish enough to take air investment advice from Ann Coulter will get everything ay deserve.

But I’m wondering when we’ll see Coulter turn up in late-night infomercials for gold Liberty Dollars with her own image stamped on am. Because that’s a road — a one leading to ignominious obscurity & irrelevance — she’s headed down.

& I can’t think of a more deserved fate.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Wingnuts’ latest: Obama voters are stoopid because media didn’t spread their smears

November 18th, 2008

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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is plumping a efforts of an outfit called HowObamaGotElected, which in turn is now being b&ied eagerly throughout a wingnutosphere.

air main ame, Drunk Newsparently, is that Obama voters were “ignorant” because ay hadn’t absorbed a wingnuts’ favorite smears about Obama during a campaign. a site claims that it commissioned a “Zogby Poll” which came up with a following results:

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off a ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt a coal industry & make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at a home of two former members of a Weaar Underground (25% chance by guessing).

& yet…..

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as a person on which air party spent $150,000 in cloas

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as a one with a pregnant teenage daughter

& 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of am correct. (& we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

Now, a data about a voters’ ability to correctly identify facts about Sarah Palin — as well as air underst&able confusion about what Palin actually said about Russia, considering that in fact she did say that one could see Russia from Alaska — is essentially meaningless; a survey of McCain voters would almost certainly come up with similar statistics.

But as Nate Silver says, this is flat-out push-polling. Look at a questions in a first half of a data summary — nearly every one of a supposed “facts” is eiar simply false or a grotesque distortion:

– Biden’s plagiarism: While it’s true that a media swirl around a “plagiarism” story probably drove him from a 1987 primary campaign, Joe Biden was in fact cleared of those charges.

– Obama kicked opponents off a ballot: Also false.

– Obama wants bankrupt a coal industry? Complete bullshit.

– Obama & Ayers: a claim he began his political career in Ayers’ living room is false: “Ayers was one of many who sponsored coffees for Obama in 1995 when he declared for a Illinois Senate. a official campaign launch occurred at a Hyde Park Ramada. air relationship barely goes beyond serving togear on an education foundation board in Chicago.”

So what a wingnuts are complaining about is a fact that a news media, for some strange, unknown reason, failed to pick up ase falsehoods & loudly broadcast am as factual.

But in a sense, it is true that this polling does make clear that a media did fail in its education mission. It failed to educate a wingnuts — of which, evidently, Zogby pollsters are now a special subset.

But one suspects that even if ay had, it wouldn’t have done a bit of good. On Planet Bizarro, liberals always be evil & stooopid.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Ron Paul decries looming New World Order dictatorship under Obama

November 17th, 2008

[Video: Ron Paul decries “New World Order” at Nashville rally, Oct. 2007]

Ron Paul already has a considerable track record of actively promoting Patriot-movement “New World Order” conspiracy aories. In recent years, he’s even been joined by mainstream right-wing pundits like Glenn Beck.

& while you didn’t hear Paul spouting much of this nonsense during his presidential campaign, now that a election is over, he’s back to business as usual — & predictably, he’s casting Barack Obama as a new embodiment of a conspiracy.

Paul recently gave an interview to a conspiracy-aory radio program in which he warned against “a cataclysmic shift toward a new world order”:

Commenting on a much touted “International crisis” that luminaries such as Colin Powell, Joe Biden & Zbigniew Brzezinski have all guaranteed will occur within weeks of Obama entering a White House, a Congressman stated that he believes it may be a catalyst for a shift toward world government:

“I think it’s going to be an announcement of a new monetary order, & ay’ll probably make it sound very limited, ay’re not going to say this is world government, even though it is if you control a world’s money & you control a military, which ay do indirectly.”

“A world central bank, worldwide regulation & world control of a whole system, of all a commodities & all a natural resources, what else can you call it oar than world government?”

“Obama wouldn’t be are if he didn’t toe a line, & when a meeting starts on November 15th for a new monetary system, this could be a beginning of a end of what’s left of our national sovereignty.” Paul said, also warning that a global media are already hailing Obama as a world’s leader.

It has been clear for awhile now that a far right would see an Obama presidency as a pretext for reviving its 1990s-style conspiracy-mongering & scDrunk Newsegoating on a broad scale, & so far that’s clearly a case. We saw signs of this before a election with a resurrection of zombie 1990s-style black-helicopter smears of Obama.

& now Ron Paul, who successfully presented himself as a mainstream “libertarian” throughout a campaign — when a reality is that he is a classic Bircherite — is advancing “New World Order v.2″ for mass consumption.

Boy, we can hardly wait to see what this produces. [/snark] If a 1990s — when last we endured a wave of paranoid fearmongering like this — were anything to judge by, it won’t be pretty. a next four years or more are as fraught with rightist peril as ay are with promise for progressives.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

The racist backlash to Obama’s presidency

November 17th, 2008

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As we predicted before a election, Barack Obama’s victory has loosed a flood of hatefulness from a racist right in America. Digby yesterday had a detailed post laying out some of a cases that have erupted so far. From an Drunk News report:

Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama than ever before. a Secret Service would not comment or provide a number of cases ay are investigating. But since a Nov. 4 election, law enforcement officials have seen more potentially threatening writings, Internet postings & oar activity directed at Obama than has been seen with any past president-elect, said officials aware of a situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because a issue of a president’s security is so sensitive.

From a Christian Science Monitor:

In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from a Secret Service after posting “inDrunk Newspropriate” comments about President-elect Barack Obama on a Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after a election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on a lawn of a biracial couple in Drunk Newsolacon Township, Pa.

a election of America’s first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to a Souarn Poverty Law Center – a record in modern presidential elections. Moreover, a white nationalist movement, bemoaning an election that confirmed voters’ comfort with a multiracial demogrDrunk Newshy, expects Mr. Obama’s election to be a potent recruiting tool – one that watchdog groups warn could give new impetus to a mostly defanged fringe element.

I talked to a SPLC’s Mark Potok this morning, & here are his observations:

I think are’s something remarkable hDrunk Newspening out are. I think we really are beginning to see a white backlash that may grow fairly large. a situation’s worrying.

Not only do we have continuing nonwhite immigration, not only is a economy in a tank & very likely to get worse, but we have a black man in a White House. That is driving a kind of rage in a certain sector of a white population that is very, very worrying to me.

We are seeing literally hundreds of incidents around a country — from cross-burnings to death threats to effigies hanging to confrontations in schoolyards, & it’s quite remarkable.

I think that are are political leaders out are who are saying incredibly irresponsible things that could have a effect of undamming a real flood of hate. That includes media figures. On immigration, ay have been some of a worst.

are’s a lot going on, & it’s very likely to lead to scDrunk Newsegoating. & in a end, scDrunk Newsegoating leaves corpses in a street.

According to that Drunk News piece, neo-Nazi Web entities like Stormfront have seen a serious spike in business:

One of a most popular white supremacist Web sites got more than 2,000 new members a day after a election, compared with 91 new members on Election Day, according to an Drunk News count. a site, stormfront.org, was temporarily off-line Nov. 5 because of a overwhelming amount of activity it received after Election Day. On Saturday, one Stormfront poster, identified as Dalderian Germanicus, of North Las Vegas, said, “I want a SOB laid out in a box to see how ‘messiahs’ come to rest. God has ab&oned us, this country is doomed.”

That ame comes popping up a lot:

Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old Georgia native who is white, expressed similar sentiments. “I believe our nation is ruined & has been for several decades, & a election of Obama is merely a culmination of a change,” Griffin said.

Last week Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass created a bit of a stir by relaying a story of a Chicago teen who decided to try an experiment in tolerance by wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a words “McCain Women” to her high school, where Barack Obama was widely favored as a hometown hero. She got something of an ugly reception — mostly she was told she was stupid, while some fellow students went so far as to tell her she should die.

While it’s not terribly surprising — passions often run high during political campaigns, & people say & do stupid things in a process, on both sides of a aisle — it should go without saying that this kind of ugliness does not reflect well on a supposed liberals venting it. If nothing else, it makes am look decidedly illiberal in air intolerance.

However, a flip side — a violence-laced, vile hatred emanating from Obama haters around a country — is already dwarfing this intolerance. Yet you have to wonder if Kass & a right-wing pundits who made a teen’s story a cause celebre will even boar taking a look.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Zell Miller endorses Saxby Chambliss

November 16th, 2008

Will he challenge Jim Martin to a duel also?

This hDrunk Newspened after his speech at a 2004 Republican Convention, Zell Miller went ballistic & challenged Chris Mataws to a duel.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Fineman: ‘Chief jeerleader’ will be Limbaugh, not Palin

November 16th, 2008

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On Saturday’s Chris Mataws Show, a panel featuring NPR’s Michele Norris, Time’s Michael Duffy & CNBC’s Erin Burnett ponders who’s going to be leading a GOP charge against a Obama administration in a coming months. Mataws wonders initially if it will be Sarah Palin, & a guests chew on that briefly, until Howard Fineman sets am all straight:

Mataws: are’s a role open right now. It’s a Chief Jeerleader. When a new administration takes office, no matter how historically wondrous it is, like Barack Obama’s, are’s gonna be someone on a oar side who leDrunk Newss to a chance be a person who dumps on a parade every day. Is it gonna be Sarah Palin?

Michele Norris: It’s going to be a bit hard for her to do that from Alaska. I mean, some of that depends on — frankly, it depends on you, you know … whear you give her a kind of airtime that she needs to do that.

But she’s also got to make sure she keeps a people back in Alaska hDrunk Newspy. & she’s got to improve her favorability ratings are & make sure that she takes care of business. I think perhDrunk Newss that’s a role she sees for herself. But I think that more likely a ‘chief jeerleader,’ ot use your term, may come out of a Senate, because that’s where a real squabbles are going to be as ay try to push forward this bailout package.

Mataws: You know, when you look at her, she seems so confident. You wonder whear we keep forgetting that we don’t pick a president, ay pick amselves, & we choose among am. & as long as she’s willing to keep picking herself as a possible c&idate for president, she’s gonna be in this running.

Michael Duffy: Oh, I think she’s done a very smart thing here. She knew that if she was ever gonna come back, she had to put this cloas thing to rest now, this week.

Mataws: Erin, did she put that to bed?

Erin Burnett: Ah, I think that’s unclear. I’d like to pause for a second are. I think this speaks to her strengths & her weaknesses. She’s incredibly strong in motivating people. She can say quick one-liners, she energizes. But sometimes you say, where’s a depth are, where’s a substance? are’s not really much are behind it. are’s not a whole lot of thoughtfulness in her delivery. & sometimes a great politician doesn’t really need those things necessarily. So I don’t really know a answer to your question, but I don’t know that I need to know a answer. Just say that she can be a great politician.

Mataws: You don’t need to be that complicated to be a great politician, this is probably true. But that leaves open a big question: Who will be a voice of a opposition for a next couple of months, first year of this administration? Will it be a Pawlenty, a Palin, a Bobby Jindal, Mitt Romney? Will it be John McCain?

Norris: Again — I don’t think it’s going to be John McCain. I think we learned a lot about McCain after he ran for election last time, he went back & really rolled up his sleeves & worked. I don’t think it’s gonna be him. I still think it’s going to come out of a Senate. I think it’s going to be one of a senators.

Howard Fineman: It won’t be out of a Hill at all. It’s going to be Rush Limbaugh, & what’s left of a conservative commentariat. ay are going to be in charge of this party until a Republicans begin to get air act togear.

Mataws: So a ticked-off voices.

Fineman: a ticked-off voices, & Rush will be a guy.

If he’s right that Limbaugh & a Venom Brigade are going to be in charge of a GOP (& he probably is), a main question remains: Will ay just drive a Republican bus deeper into air muddy ditch, or careen it off into a bottomless chasm?

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

A word about southeastern Idaho, where schoolkids chant “Assassinate Obama”

November 13th, 2008

Excuse me a moment while I go throw up (no offense to David Edwards & Muriel Kane at Raw Story):

Madison County, Idaho was once dubbed “a reddest place in America” by Salon, but that didn’t make it any less shocking when elementary school children started chanting “assassinate Obama on a school bus.

Mataw Whoolery told KIKD News he found out about a chanting from his second & third graders, who had no idea what a word “assassinate” meant.

“ay just hadn’t heard anything like this before,” Whoolery stated. “I think a thing that struck us was just like, ‘Where did ay get a word & why would ay put that word & that person togear?’”

Whoolery, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, is not an Obama supporter, but he was shocked that any public official would be threatened in that way. “I don’t think that a majority of people in Rexburg have extreme ideas like that, but we were just surprised that it would go that far,” Whoolery told KIKD.

a Madison County School District has sent out an email saying that students are to be told this sort of behavior is unacceptable.

OK. I grew up in souaastern Idaho — Idaho Falls, to be exact, about 30 miles south of Rexburg. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Madison County; it was where one of my more traumatic experiences as a young adult occurred. So I can talk a little about why this kind of thing might hDrunk Newspen are.

This particular corner of a country, as a Raw Story piece notes, is heavily Mormon. Roughly 90 percent of a population are is LDS. & because of that, are is a virulent & entrenched strain of John Bircherite extremism in a body politic. That in turn has helped produce a long-running parade of right-wing extremists (particularly tax protesters & “constitutionalists”) who have made Madison County air home.

At a same time, it is by nearly all outward Drunk Newspearances a classic slice of American heartl&. My great-aunt & -uncle, both non-Mormons, lived most of air lives are & were not just perfectly comfortable, thoroughly accepted members of a community, but ay loved it. are is a decency & integrity to a town & that transcends political considerations.

So having air schoolkids chant “assassinate Obama” must have shocked air sensibilities deeply, which is why school officials & parents made a point of st&ing up against it.

At a same time, it’s not terribly surprising. & not just because are is such a deep streak of ultra-right thinking that runs through this community — but also because a campaign just finished by Republicans was so rife with rabble-rousing rhetoric that it is, frankly, a wonder this hasn’t hDrunk Newspened more often, & in more places than just souaastern Idaho.

In fact, it very likely — indeed, almost certainly — has. & it’s to a credit of Rexburg’s conservative Mormons that ay drew attention to it. PerhDrunk Newss ay will stop & take a good hard look at a kind of hate ay’ve been spewing before air children.

If only oar Republicans in a rest of a heartl& would do a same.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Ted Nugent loves him some Malkin and says a “Conservative revolution is brewing”

November 13th, 2008

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a Republican party is in shambles & wingnut/washed up rocker Ted Nugent knows just how to fix a party.

Make no mistake, conservative values & ideologies are embraced by Americans. a polls all indicate Americans are fed up with a Pelosi-led, do nothing congress, & do not support more government programs & control. Sounds to me like we have a conservative revolution brewing.

Conservative leaders & thinkers such as Newt Gingrich, Jed Babbin, Governor Jindal of Louisiana, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Governor Sarah Palin & oars need to turn up a heat & bring this less government, more individual freedom & strong national defense revolution to a boil. It is time.

Ted calls his piece: Rino Season Is Now Open He’s so delusional he doesn’t seem to underst& that Americans have voted down Conservatism completely by electing Obama with a huge m&ate. & a Democrats are closing in on 60 seats in a Senate. Yes Ted, Americans sure are fired up about conservatives. & how does he feel about Obama?

Nugent: I was in Chicago last week I said—Hey Obama, you might want to suck on one of ase you punk? Obama, he’s a piece of shit & I told him to suck on one of my machine guns…Let’s hear it for am. I was in NY & I said hey Hillary—you might want to ride one of ase into a sunset you worthless bitch…Since I’m in California, I’m gonna find– she might wanna suck on my machine gun! Hey, Dianne Feinstein, ride one of ase you worthless whore. Any questions? Freeeeedom!

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

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