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Comment by doone on April 20, 2012 at 7:47am

Pat Robertson Suggests that 'The Poor Jews Don't Understand' the Root of Antisemitism

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 12:45pm

Today on the 700 Club, televangelist Pat Robertson said that Satan is using Antisemitism to destroy Israel in order to “wipe out that consciousness that people have of the existence of God.” But Robertson added that “the poor Jews don’t understand that, it’s too cosmic for most of them to grasp, especially because they don’t believe Jesus is the Messiah.”

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Comment by doone on April 18, 2012 at 9:48am

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Comment by doone on April 17, 2012 at 2:02pm

Always Blame the Gays

By John Cole April 17th, 2012

Tony Perkins:

Perkins: Yeah, you know that’s a great point. Just for a moment step back and look at the implications of this, over the weekend we saw the news of the President’s Secret Service detail in Colombia and the issue of them hiring prostitutes and now the White House is outraged about that. Actually in a meeting this morning my staff asked, ‘why should the President be upset’? It was actually legal; it was legal there to do that, so why should we be upset? Well, the fact is we intuitively know it’s wrong, there’s a moral law against that.

The same is true for what the President has done to the military enforcing open homosexuality in our military. You can change the law but you can’t change the moral law that’s behind it. You can change the positive law, the law that is created by man, but you can’t change the moral law, it’s wrong. So what you have is you have a total breakdown and you can’t pick and choose. Morality is not a smorgasbord; you can’t pick what you want. I think you’re absolutely right, this is a fundamental issue going forward because if we say ‘let them do what we want,’ what’s next? You cannot maintain moral order if you are willing to allow a few things to slide.

Because gays can openly serve in the military, our morals are now so bad that we are even engaging in prostitution! No one please tell the poor dear that prostitution is “the oldest profession.”

I expect for these religious nutters like Perkins, everything they dislike for the next decade will be alternately blamed on gays in the military or Obama or both.

Comment by Chris on April 16, 2012 at 11:43pm

Ted Nugent a real american hero who claims that 30 days before his draft board physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene.  The last 10 days, he ingested nothing but Vienna sausages and Pepsi; and a week before his physical, he stopped using bathrooms altogether, virtually living inside pants caked with his own excrement, stained by his urine.  That spectacle won Nugent a deferment, he says. "... but if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd killed all the hippies in the foxholes...I would have killed everybody." -Detroit Free Press Magazine , July 15, 1990

Mitt should be proud to have Ted on his side.

Comment by doone on April 16, 2012 at 6:38pm

 Josh Glasstetter / rightwingwatch.org: 
Ted Nugent Stumps for Mitt Romney at NRA Convention: “Chop their he...

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Comment by doone on April 16, 2012 at 6:35pm

What's their big problem?

by David Atkins

It's common knowledge that the Obama Administration has sent the right wing into an apoplectic tizzy. Many people have written why that might be the case; I've written a few pieces myself attributing it to avision of demographic decline.

But it's still bizarre to read about freak outs like this:

Nugent called President Obama a criminal and denounced his “vile, evil America-hating administration” which is “wiping its ass with the Constitution.” Taking it a step further, he said that “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” “If you can’t galvanize and promote and recruit people to vote for Mitt Romney, we’re done,” he continued.

Supreme Court justices also came under assault by Nugent, who claims that the court’s more liberal members have signed a declaration against Americans’ right to self-defense...

Nugent concluded with a call to cut off the heads of Democrats in November: “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November. Any questions?”

A lot of people will read this and clutch their pearls at Nugent's apocalyptic and violent rhetoric. But that's not what bothers me. One didn't see nearly as much of it on the left as one sees on the right today, nor from remotely as mainstream a source of Republican support as Nugent. But during the Bush Administration I heard some pretty heated and forceful rhetoric from a lot of people on the left. Nor am I one to fault anyone of any political persuasion for making a passionate appeal.

But what I don't understand is what has Nugent and his pals so riled up. The Obama Administration's great liberal achievement was implementing the Heritage Foundation's anti-Hillarycare healthcare plan. The Administration hasn't proposed or implemented any serious gun control laws, and has in fact been extremely measured even in the face of the obvious problems caused by "stand your ground" laws. The Administration has been famously and erroneously attentive to deficit concerns. It has been fairly aggressive in its foreign policy, enough to cause some major rifts on the left and libertarian fronts. There have been no major scandals to latch onto. It hasn't exactly been hostile to the interests of Wall Street or energy developers. It hasn't pushed an immigration reform package. There's just no reason for the wingers to be this freaked out.

During the Bush Administration, the Left had plenty of cause for alarm for myriad reasons. The Bush Administration engaged in two wars, one of which had no justification or rationale whatsoever not based in lies. It illegally outed CIA agents who conflicted with its deliberate lies to go to war. It passed huge, crippling tax cuts for the rich. It gutted environmental protections. It tried to privatize social security. It massively curtailed civil liberties, and corrupted and politicized every agency it dealt with, from the Justice Department to the EPA. And, of course, it crashed the economy while bailing out the richest Americans with few strings attached. The Left had every reason to be sounding an apocalyptic alarm, and rightly so. Insofar as President Obama has not addressed or tried to fix any of the problems the Bush Administration created, various sections of the left have remained legitimately upset (though I would argue that some issues are more the fault of Congress than of the President.)

Comment by doone on April 16, 2012 at 6:35pm

But what is Nugent's problem, exactly? What are the issues, beyond a generic sense of loss of identity and aggrievement, are driving a guy like him to feel this strongly? It's clearly not anything substantive, but something deeper seated, something cultural, and something profoundly personal that doesn't express itself in terms of actual legislative issues. As I mentioned before, I have my theories, but even they're unsatisfactory. One of the reason that the Right gets tagged so often as racists, in addition to all the more obvious evidence, is that their overreaction to the Obama presidency doesn't seem to have much in the way of more credible explanations.

Whatever is wrong with Nugent and his friends, though, one thing is clear: there is nothing President Obama or national Democrats can do to appease them. So they might as well stop trying.

Comment by doone on April 15, 2012 at 12:01pm

Well, It Does

Apr. 15, 2012

drops out of presidential race, because a “come from behind” victory sounded too gay.

(Rick Santorum)

Comment by doone on April 15, 2012 at 11:42am

What If Matt Drudge Accidentally Told the Truth?

By Betty Cracker April 14th, 2012

Comment by doone on April 15, 2012 at 11:40am

We Don’t Need No Education

By Betty Cracker April 15th, 2012

North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx went on convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy’s wingnut talk radio show last week to denounce all these students and recent college grads who are bitching about theirstudent loans:

I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money. He borrowed a little bit because we both were totally on our own when we went to college, totally. [...] I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that. We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” You don’t have it dumped in your lap.

Of course, the expense today’s students incur is a bit more steep than the cost of obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Dinosaur Husbandry during Foxx’s youth, even spread out across seven years. How much more? It’s hard to do a direct comparison since not all of the chiseled stone tablets used to record educational expenses in Foxx’s day have been digitalized. But here’s a chart that illustrates how tuition costs have risen since 1985:

Could a near 600% increase have something to do with ballooning student indebtedness? Possibly! Here’s the punchline: Foxx chairs the House Subcommittee on Higher Education. Hahahaha!

[X-posted at Rumproast]

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