Updated:Duh! Healthcare Bill Doesn’t ‘Outlaw Private Insurance’

Earlier today, Twitter was all a-Itself with news, courtesy of Investor’s Business Daily, that the House healthcare reform bill “outlaws private insurance.”  I knew, without knowing, that they were misreading the thing, but haven’t had the chance to run through it yet.  Luckily, the Heritage Foundation debunks them, while ladling on their own false alarmism. [...]

Fox News Fuels Birther Madness

News Hounds (formerly New Shounds, wasn’t as catchy), has catalogged a passel of examples (actually, 1 passel and 2.5 smidgens, to be exact) of Fox News amplifying the Birthers of a Nation and their attempts to question Barack Obama’s national parentage: Perhaps desperate for new ways to undermine Barack Obama’s presidency, Fox News has joined [...]

Alex Flies Solo at White House

I’m sure she’ll be along soon to regale us, but in the meantime, here’s a screenshot of our White House correspondent in action.

Coburn to Sotomayor: ‘Splainin’ to Do

God, this is hilarious, because when I heard about all the questions about Sonia Sotomayor’s “temperament,” I wondered if the expectation was that she’d go off on an Eddie-Murphy-as-Ricky-Ricardo-style rant in the Supreme Court.  Tom Coburn is apparently susceptible to Jedi mind tricks: At least he didn’t ask her to greet his diminuitive pal. Lucky [...]

Response to John Boehner’s Healthcare Chart/Where’s Waldo Puzzle

GOP House Leader John Boehner has just sent out his crummy healthcare propaganda chart, which he cleverly throws everything but the kitchen sink into.  Ha, ha, John, it’s a confusing mess! Score!  You suck at making charts! Now, it might be fun to get my own CD of clip art and make a comparable chart [...]

Embarrassed Blue Dogs Flustered by Sarah Palin’s Offer to Campaign

If I know my political media coverage at all, this is going to be played as an embarrassment for future former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, but I don’t see it that way. Politico is reporting that, all over the Hill, congressional Blue Dogs are channeling their inner keyboard cat when asked about Palin’s offer to [...]

Fox Mounts Camera on Drunken Roomba for Obama All Star 1st Pitch

Seriously, was Abraham Zapruder not available to shoot the President’s ceremonial first pitch? President Obama threw out the ceremonial first pitch at last night’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and predictably, the right wing is trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.  Newsbusters posits the (tongue in cheek) theory that Rupert Murdoch planned [...]

Should the Washington Post Have Rejected Sarah Palin’s Op-Ed?

Future former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wrote an op-ed piece for the Washington Post today, in which she roundly dismissed the idea of cap-and-trade.  The piece is generating quite a lot of discussion, including rebuttals from John Kerry and Sarah Palin From Several Months Ago. Leaving aside the merits of present-day Sarah Palin’s argument, two [...]

So, 13 Minutes of Teabagging is OK, But 1 Blowjob…

This is the clip that everyone’s buzzing about.  Tee-frakkin’-hee, Marcy Wheeler said “blowjob” on cable.  Look, I get censoring language on the networks, but I pay for cable so I can hear the cursing!  And blowjob isn’t even cursing. Yeah, Shuster feels faint about the blow-j after this cocky tour de force: What I found [...]

Update:Welcome to Our OOL. Notice There Are No Blacks in it…*For Now

Update: After considerable bad publicity, and pressure from the Pa Human Relations Commission and Sen. Arlen Specter, the Valley Swim Club no longer gives a shit about safety.  Or something.  They’re going to see about letting the kids, and their $2 grand, come back. I just caught wind of this story, and I’m frakking stunned.  [...]

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