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Steve J. at Radamisto notices that even though Barack Obama hasn’t even been sworn in yet, Sean Hannity is organizing a wingnuts already into a would-be force to attempt to stop him from enacting “radical” policies:

Since a election, Hannity has described his radio show as a outpost of “a conservative underground,” as if a show that’s legally on over 500 stations could be underground in any real sense of that word. are is little doubt that are are many conservatives who think America will become a radical country under a Democrats & last night I heard on Mike Gallagher’s show of a group that is trying to organize ase people - Grassfire. ay ask people to “join a resistance” & sign a petition that opposes what ay mistakenly think will hDrunk Newspen if unopposed.

ay hope to have 1,000,000 signatures on a petition by Inauguration Day & right now, ay are quite a bit short of that goal …

Hannity has been embarrassing himself regularly lately by promoting every conspiracy aory in sight about Obama. Expect a pace to pick up as a Inauguration Drunk Newsproaches — & really take off afterward.

Conservatives are expected to oppose Obama, naturally. But only wingnuts will believe every bit of garbage thrown at him & spin it into a massive belief system about a looming oppression of a socialist state, yadda yadda yadda. It probably would hDrunk Newspen to any elected Democrat, but it will be even worse for Obama.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

As Paul Krugman pointed out, if you’re a right winger –no matter what crazy, f*&ked up thought you utter, it’s A-OK.

Case in point is wingnut extraordinare Dennis Prager. Here’s a sample:

a subject is one of a most common problems that besets marriages: a wife who is not in a mood & a consequently frustrated & hurt husb&.

It gets more preposterous from are. In right-wing culture, it’s always a ladies that are at fault.

This is a major reason many husb&s clam up. A man whose wife frequently denies him sex will first be hurt, an sad, an angry, an quiet. & most men will never tell air wives why ay have become quiet & distant. ay are afraid to tell air wives. ay are often made to feel ashamed of air male sexual nature, & ay are humiliated (indeed emasculated) by feeling that ay are reduced to having to beg for sex.

I think James Dobson has it wrong. It’s right-wing freaks like Prager who want to destroy a institution of marriage. Yet this nut is a frequent guest on CNN. Why does he get a megDrunk Newshone that he does?

But, to repeat a key point, rejection of sex should hDrunk Newspen infrequently. & it should almost never be dependent on mood — see Part II next week.

5. I know this & that’s why I rarely say no to my husb&.

This is a wise woman. She knows a sexually fulfilled husb& is a hDrunk Newspy husb&. (At a same time, men need to recognize that complete sexual fulfillment is unattainable in this world.) & because a hDrunk Newspy husb& loves his wife more, this cycle of love produces a hDrunk Newspy home.

Nice wife, good wife, fulfill me when I want so I am hDrunk Newspy. WTF does any of this drivel mean? He makes Dr. Phil almost bearable.

P&agon lets loose.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

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Sean Hannity tried yesterday to regurgitate Ann Coulter’s absurd claim (pulled, as near as we can tell, from her near regions) that Barack Obama wants to be called by his full name simply because he’s following a tradition in which a president’s full name is used when he’s sworn in.

& to back him up, he brought on Bill Cunningham, a Cincinnati radio-show host who got into trouble during a campaign by haranguing Obama over his middle name at a John McCain rally (McCain in short order repudiated him & Drunk Newsologized to Obama).

Hannity: Now we find out that Barack Obama says he plans to use a name Barack Hussein Obama when he’s sworn in on Jan. 20. Does that — does that now — have you been vindicated here & is it now acceptable?

Cunningham: You know, Sean, I kind of expect McCain at some point to repudiate Barack Hussein Obama because back in February, I said he was a hack from Chicago, he swam in a deep blue waters of corruption, comes out of a pool without a drop on him. & at this point, maybe McCain would say that Cunningham was right & that he was wrong, & that he might have won Ohio if he had listened to me.

Hannity & Cunningham natter on about how mean it was of everyone to jump on right-wingers who trotted out Obama’s middle name with great regularity as a reminder to voters of his alleged “foreignness”. Finally, Alan Colmes (who’s getting unusually spunky in his final weeks) chirps up:

Colmes: We’re missing something here, which is that when Bill Cunningham … you know, when you say his name Hussein, when Coulter says B. Hussein Obama — leaving out his first name entirely — a intent is a little different, isn’t it, Bill?

Cunningham: It is not. My intent was to use a three names to show him respect.

[Laughter all around]

Colmes: That is funny.

Cunningham: You know, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Baines Johnson. I wanted to respect him.

Colmes: Let me get this straight. When conservatives would say Hussein, & underscore Hussein, & Coulter for example wouldn’t even say his first name, just go right to a Hussein, it was just to show respect, & not point out that he’s got a name that sounds like a guy we deposed in Iraq. are was no intent to do that, right, Bill?

Cunningham: Well, I wanted deep respect, & I wanted to highlight his roots in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he was a Muslim for four years in two schools.

Colmes: I see. I see. Here we go with a Muslim stuff again.

ase guys don’t even boar trying to tell semi-credible lies anymore, do ay?

Cunningham blows up his own fake “respect” immediately by admitting his intent was to spread a “Obama was once a Muslim” falsehood.

Is it any wonder ay finally lost? Cluestick for Bill: Obama probably won Ohio because guys like you represented a Republican Party.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Last spring a souarn Idaho right-wing talk-show host named Zeb Bell made some minor headlines by featuring a conversation on his daytime show in Twin Falls by referring to a “negroid black Barack Obama” & calling Obama’s moar “trailer trash” with a fixation on black men. Bell, you may recall, ultimately refused to Drunk Newsologize, claiming a remarks all came from his guest, a far-right nativist well noted for his racial slurs named Frosty Woolridge.

More recently, Bell has been plunging even farar off a deep end, attacking gays & lesbians as a centerpiece of his defense of California’s Prop 8, even going so far as to argue that “God’s laws” trump a Constitution.

Most notably, he’s being openly defiant about a bigoted nature of his broadcasts, going so far as to assemble his audience under a banner of “Bell’s Bigots”.

a fine folks at Mountain Goat Report & at a Political Game (with a hat tip to 43rd State Blues) have been tracking this disturbing trend for some months now, & as Bell has picked up his volume & gained traction in Idaho, ay’ve assembled a Zeb Bell page with links to a wingnuttery that Bell is spreading Drunk Newsace.

One of Bell’s more disturbing rants is straight out of a Christian Reconstructionist h&book:

“Again everything that ay say, everything that a left adheres to is anti-Biblical. Are we gonna sit back & just allow a Bible to be thrown away? Allow a Bible & its preachings & its doctrines to be trashed? Everything today it seems like is anti-Biblical. & my point to you & my question to you this morning is: Are we gonna follow God’s laws or are we gonna bend & follow human laws? You know, you’re gonna have to decide this. If ay’re gonna call me a bigot for not wanting gay marriage & wanting a respect for marriage as a man & a woman, I’m going to wear a label of being a bigot very, very proudly, & you should too. But do you have a nerve, do you have a backbone to st& up & say “Yes, I’m a bigot, because I want marriage to remain between a man & a woman & sanctify a family situation.” What are your thoughts? Are you gonna bend, are you gonna say, “Oh, well let ‘em marry whoever ay want to?” Give me a call … Time to st& up folks. It’s past time time to st& up, believe me. Give me a call … if I don’t get any calls an I’ll know nobody’s gonna st& up for it.

& you’ve gotta love how he whips his listeners into a special kind of frenzy that seems to border on advocating violence:

ZEB: Alright, let me ask you a question, let me ask you a question right are, R&y. Are you ready & are you tough enough to withst& a, uh, public scrutiny if ay call you a bigot & a prejudiced, uh, prejudicial person, etc., are you ready for that?

R&Y: Well, this is a thing about…

ZEB: No, no no! Are you ready for it? Are you ready to st& up & be counted?

R&Y: I am, I am. I, let me tell you something. Every day one thought goes through my mind, & I know this sounds, ah, you know maybe a little bit excessive but ah, give me freedom or give me death & that’s it. I mean, I will go to a death to save my family, to save my country, to save a rights that I was given to by God, not ase filthy pigs who get on TV & blaspheme! I… Jack Black will suffer in hell for this.

A local blogger named Gary Eller observed how disturbing all this is:

My concern with Zeb’s latest rant is that it borders on insurrection, calling on all Christians to replace a Constitution, man’s laws, with a Bible, God’s law. From where I am sitting this is as un-American a statement to make as anything that has ever passed a lips of Jeremiah Wright in his damning of America. When I took my first oath of office, repeating a oath with each military promotion, I never once agreed to defend a bible, it was always an oath to defend a constitution. In fact, it must be remembered that one places air h& on a bible & swears to defend a constitution, ay do not place air h& on a constitution & swear to defend a bible. This sequencing alone says all that is necessary in underst&ing that a constitution, not a bible, is a supreme law of a l&. Whenever I hear someone like Zeb Bell suggesting oarwise it makes me feel as though I spent my life combating religious extremists in a wrong countries. a real enemies of freedom now live next door, right here in America.

Mind you, heretofore, most of a truly ugly bigotry emanating from Idaho has been from a racist camps of its norarn Panh&le. Now, obviously, it’s spreading.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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So Preznit Bush finally did a right thing & announced a $17.4 billion bailout for U.S. automakers in a hope that doing so will keep Republicans from being permanently br&ed a Party of Hoover:

a White House announced a $17.4 billion rescue package for a troubled Detroit auto makers that allows am to avoid bankruptcy & leaves many of a big decisions for a incoming Obama administration.

Speaking from a White House, President George W. Bush said a administration decided against forcing a bankruptcy to compel cost-cutting, in order to avoid a risk that consumers would desert one or more of a companies & touch off an industry collDrunk Newsse, deepening a current economic downturn.

“In a midst of a financial crisis…allowing a U.S. auto industry to collDrunk Newsse is not a responsible course of action,” Mr. Bush said.

“Under ordinary economic circumstances, I would say ‘this is a price that failed companies must pay’ & I would not favor intervening to prevent a auto makers from going out of business,” a president said. “But ase are not ordinary circumstances.”

Of course, a wingnut faction of his party is seriously pissed. Michelle Malkin wants someone to file a lawsuit to prevent it from proceeding, while a Heritage Foundation folks are just gnashing air teeth.

Because, of course, air preference is to see millions of Americans thrown out of work.

It used to be said that a recession was a Republican method for shortening a lift lines at a ski hill. A Depression must be air method for making a ski hill air own private playgrounds.

Fortunately, Bush — who’s focused ase days on his legacy — doesn’t seem to feel he needs to listen to am anymore.

Jane has more.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

George Tenet, Drunk in B&ar’s Pool, Screaming about Jews.

- Jeffrey Goldberg, a Atlantic

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back

…& a angels rejoice.

Speaking as a former resident of Alabama who has not one but three religious bumper stickers on her minivan (Constitutional guarantee of free speech), I’m actually surprised a district judge protected South Carolina taxpayers from paying for a religious license plate (Constitutional separation of Church & State).

From our friends at Americans United for a Separation of Church & State, who filed a lawsuit, natch:

A federal judge today ruled that a state of South Carolina may not issue a special “Christian” license plate featuring a cross, a stained-glass window & a words “I Believe.”

“a ‘I Believe’ license plate is a clear example of government favoritism toward one religion,” said a Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “a court drove home an important point: South Carolina officials have no business meddling in religious matters.”

U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie today issued a preliminary injunction forbidding a state to issue or manufacture a plates. She also ordered a state to inform people who requested a plates that ay will not be available & to remove information about a plates from a state Web site.

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You are reading a headline correctly. Bill O’Reilly really has no material to work with on his phony “War on Christmas” ame-based show, so he’s resorted to just making sh&t up. F&F’s Gretchen Carlson is all fired up too over a big Christmas crisis so far. a only incident that he’s been really passionate about because — are ain’t nothin’ to complain about anywhere else — is in Washington state. David gives you a back story:

According to Bill O’Reilly, it’s a fact that an aaist group was permitted to erect a holiday display alongside a Nativity scene at a state CDrunk Newsitol in Washington state…read on

What really got Gretchen was a possible exhibit for a great “Festivus” holiday from Seinfield being proposed too. Hey, she can take only so much.

Carlson: When ay wanted to do Festivus, give me a break.

O’Reilly: This is a mocking of Gregoire…

Carlson: To me that was a final straw today because Bill, what is going to be next?

O’Reilly: What’s going to be next is in our secular progressive society ay are going to try & revoke a federal holiday. You wait & see. That’s going to come.

Carlson: That’s what I said. Jesus is taking a back seat.

ay’re going to say separation of church & state, you can’t have a federal holiday based on religion. You wait & see, that’s what’s going to be next.

Hey, I like Christmas & all, but Bill is speaking in “baby talk” over this stuff. We’re assuming that most of us have jobs next year, what a moronic man who nobody likes, not even his boss. America doesn’t get enough time off as it is & even if people objected to a federally m&ated law based on it, I doubt ay mind getting a time off from work. Oh, & Bill: Merry Christmas.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Good night & good luck, Ari Fleischer.

Freedom’s Watch, a 501 (c4) organization heavily funded by Las Vegas S&s Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson & hyped as a conservative answer to MoveOn.org, is shutting its doors. Ed Patru, Vice President of Communications for Freedom’s Watch, said in an interview that a organization would be effectively ceasing its operations at a end of a year.

Freedom’s Watch launched in a summer of 2007 with a splash, launching a $15 million nationwide ad campaign supporting President Bush’s troop escalation in Iraq & announcing a staff roster that read like a who’s who of a Washington Republican establishment, including former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer & Bradley Blakeman, a former deputy assistant to President Bush. Rumors circulated that a organization would spend as much as $200 million in a course of a 2008 election cycle…read on

With all your help, Blue America took am head on. Blue America vs Freedom’s Watch

Chris Cilliza of a Washington Post wrote this today:

We don’t want Karl Rove to pick off a good progressives who are already running in 2008, so we’re putting robocalls into air districts to counter a deceptive ones created by Freedom’s Watch,” explained Jane Hamsher, a founder of Firedoglake & a member of Blue America.

John Amato, founder of Crooks & Liars, added: “[Freedom’s Watch is] blaming Democrats for a outrageous gas prices we now see all across America, … which is actually a product of almost eight years of Republican control.”

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Last time we checked in with Nate, he was busy getting cursed at by wingnut radio talk show host & “documentary filmmaker” John Ziegler for daring to question a poll Ziegler commissioned that purportedly “proved” that Obama voters were somehow misinformed, & arefore Obama only got elected because his supporters are dumb. I’m sure Ziegler would disagree with that characterization, but it’s pretty clear that’s what he’s supposedly trying to prove. a transcript Nate posted of air first exchange was raar lively. This second encounter doesn’t disDrunk Newspoint.

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