On Newsbusters, Michelle Malkin, Big Journalism, Alan Colmes, and David Shuster

Regular readers of this blog probably know some of this, but here goes anyway. On Newsbusters: I wrote two stories today based on Newsbusters stories, and it occurred to me that I ought to clear a few things up. First of all, I have no axe to grind against Newsbusters. In fact, quite the opposite. [...]

Top 11 (non-racist) Reasons Sarah Palin Left Hawaii

The Huffington Post is reporting that Sarah Palin‘s father, Chuck Heath, told biographers that his famous daughter left college in Hawaii because Asians made her uncomfortable. They highlight a passage from the New Yorker book review of “Sarah From Alaska” to make the case that the “Going Rogue” author’s escape from the Islands was a [...]

In Defense of Sarah Palin’s Alleged ‘Retarded Baby’ Jokes

At the risk of being accused, again, of link-baiting, I feel the need to come to Sarah Palin’s defense here.  Levi Johnston is all over the TV in the run-up to the revelation of his Johnston in Playgirl, and promising of Palin that he will “leak some things on her.”  Thanks for that visual. One [...]

Sarah Palin Exploits 9/11 in Response to President Obama’s Speech

I was perusing my Facebook wall today when I noticed that a private citizen had posted a response to the President’s address on health care.  “Oh, it’s Sarah,” I thought. “This ought to be good.” Sarah is one of my Facebook friends, and while she knows very little about health care, her rants on the [...]

Hey, Folks, it’s the House Healthcare Bill By Request! Section 312 Subsections B and C

(in radio-guy voice) Welcome to Tommy eh-eh-eh-X’s House Healthcare Morning Zoo! (funny sound effect)  This next request comes from the poster with the most-er, the tweep who will make you weep, Kimberly HANEYYYYY! (cue sexy sax music) Kimberly writes in “Dear Tommy EH-EH-EH-X!!! (explosion sound effect), please decipher Pg 145 Line 15-17 – in your [...]

Now We Finally Know What Sarah Palin Reads

Sarah Palin has been getting justly picked apart by the sane portion of the media all week for her “Death Panel” crazy talk, which she posted on her Facebook page last Friday.  Curiously, she has not offered much in the way of elaboration or defense of the outrageous and dishonest claim.  That is, until now. [...]

Pelosi and Hoyer Undercut Message With ‘Un-American’ Rhetoric

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer wrote an op-ed piece for USA Today that makes a lot of excellent points about the current healthcare debate.  Unfortunately, they lead with the kind of loaded statement that plays into the right’s “stifling dissent” meme.  The title of the piece is ‘Un-American’ [...]

Scary Obama OFA Edict:”Visit Rep. Adler’s office in Toms River”

What kind of sorcery is this?  Organizing for America sent me an email (a technology that I’m still not convinced won’t at least “borrow without asking” my soul) urging me to visit my local Democratic congressman.  Eerily so: (via email) According to our records, you live near Rep. John Adler’s office in Toms River, NJ. [...]

Newt Gingrich Next Republican to Play “Death Panel!” Here’s What You’ve Won

The Republicans are so awesome.  Man, if there were no Blue Dogs, life would be perfect. Sarah Palin invented a great game show called “Death Panel,” and Newt Gingrich, one of the folks battlin’ it out with Palin for headship of the party, is the latest contestant.  Let’s hear Newt make the case for “Obama [...]

Washington Post Worry-Mongers About Euthanasia

Washington Post columnist Charles Lane has written a piece that is dressed up as the antidote to Sarah Palin’s hysterical “Death Panel” fantasy, but in searching to empathize with the right’s point of view, he raises some specious objections to section 1233 of the House reform bill.  This type of story can be worse than [...]

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