Quackery

No surprise to me! I’m surrounded by people like that! Honestly 80% or better believe that drivel!I did just have a thought though!In spite of being agnostic – I’m a fucking Lutheran! I must be, my parents were Lutherans!I must also be part Hispanic because my daughter is half Hispanic! I think it rubbed off!And since my niece adopted two African-American twins I must be part African! And, holy shit, they’re Baptists!So I guess I’m part Baptist! I might as well shoot myself!

OT–Fucking BBQ Brokaw. Ayers mentioned a few dozen times, Bradley effect, race, race, race…Palin Troopergate ethics violation mentioned once in passing and dismissed as “speed bump.” Unbelievable. They didnlt even discuss the report.It seems so far the Ayers stuff hasn’t helped McCain at all which surprises me because it is mentioned every 5 seconds in the media–and the way it is mentioned is so baseless and murky with the word TERRORIST being bandied about–our media is pathetic. Do they have any idea how dangerous this is–John Lewis has the guts and integrity to call this hate speech for what it is, and of course the BBQ media pushes back–pathetic.

I just can’t believe so many people think like this. I keep telling myself they are a very small minority but maybe that isn’t true. I just don’t know anymore.

Oh, I’m sorry folks, but Rick Davis explained the whole thing today in a way that makes perfect sense: See, John McCain was a POW, so he can say anything he wants. He can do anything he wants. Because he was a POW. Get it?

A. Is “Arab” the opposite of “decent family man and citizen?”B. Notice how McCain doesn’t say Obama isn’t an Arab at all?

Leeeeroy I noticed that too- when McCain grabbed the mic he never said “He is a citizen” or “He’s American.” Somehow he neglected using such a term.Not to mention: WTF wrong with being Muslim? Freedom of religion much ‘Merrca?

To Leeroy’s point, I think this woman was an RNC plant. I have never once, in the two years I’ve been hanging on every word from our about Senator Obama, heard the claim that he’s an “Arab.” Even if he had been born in an Indonesian whorehouse to the Ho of Babylon and fucking Heat Miser from the Rudolph Christmas Special, he’d be a goddamned Indonesian. But an ARAB? As in, Born In Arabia? What the fuck?This woman is clearly her neighborhood’s Cat Lady, the one that lives with seven or eight hundred tabbies and polecats and who stands on her front stoop exhorting leprechauns to work harder at driving the Jews out of Minnesota, and the RNC isn’t known for letting Just Any Old Douche take the mike at a rally with cameras rolling. These guys know how to stack a deck. So this totally off-the-wall “Arab” accusation may have been a clever Rovian ruse to give McCain something to deny — not that he’s not a Muslim, not a terrorist, not the bastard love child of Heat Miser and the Babylonian Ho, but not Arab, for sure — without really denying much of anything. Arab? Forsooth, good Cat Lady, he wasn’t born in Arabia! Terrorist? Eh, maybe. But he’s no fucking Arab!But Leeroy’s right, McCain makes the most unapologetic apology for his past lies and innuendo since the US apologized for Hiroshima by nuking Nagasaki.

They got it from Limbaugh, Elvis. Cesca posted about Limbaugh saying Obama was Arab-American a few weeks back…I found this one, but I think there was another, too, something really illogical.http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2008/09/is_rush_limbaug.html

PS – Gayle, I will so call you, sweetheart. Maybe we can get the NSA to wiretap our sweet, sweet love as you say nasty things to me like, “Obama was born in Qatar!” Ohhhhh, baby. You obviously need some phone badly, as much as you beg this guy to call you.

Found it:On the September 22 broadcast of his syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh baselessly claimed that Sen. Barack Obama is “not black,” and went on to ask: “Do you know he has not one shred of African-American blood?” Limbaugh continued: “He’s Arab. You know, he’s from Africa. He’s from Arab parts of Africa. … [H]e’s not African-American. The last thing that he is is African-American.”http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2008/09/here_we_go_1.html

Yeah, that would explain why I never heard it. I had an implant installed that automatically filters the sound of Rush Limbaugh’s voice from my brain. Turns it into the sweet sound of Ann Coulter being ingested by a wolverine.

I pointed out yesterday that those two instances, the “Arab” and “scared of Obama in White House” were pure plants designed to give McCain 2 soundbites BBQ media can play over and over. Which they have been doing ever since. I don’t go with the notion that McCain should have said what’s wrong with being an Arab or Muslim …. Wolf Blitzer said the same thing — that McCain should have pointed out there’s nothing wrong with that, but without saying of course, that Obama was neither …. he just left that question hanging in the air. Another talking head said the same thing today (I forgot which one, my head has been spun so bad today…)

And that post linked to a Media Matters story that said:Media Matters for America has previously documented that a similar claim was forwarded by Fox News contributor Monica Crowley when she guest-hosted the June 23 broadcast of The Laura Ingraham Show. A caller to the show claimed that Obama is “not really African- American. He’s Arab.” In response, Crowley said that “according to this genealogy — and again, because I haven’t done the research, I can’t verify this — but according to this guy Kenneth Lamb, Barack Obama is not black African, he is Arab African.”In a February 14 blog entry, “journalist, op-ed columnist, radio news-interview program host” Kenneth E. Lamb claimed — without producing any evidence — that “Sen. Obama is actually Arab-American” and that “Mr. Obama is not legally African-American.”http://mediamatters.org/items/200809220015We didn’t pay attention because the claim is absurd, but apparently some people latched on to it…

Monica Crowley and Laura Ingraham should be pan-seared in honey, glazed in boysenberry puree and fed to a grizzly bear with irritable bowel syndrome.

Okay… ABC news has actually done the homework.Can we SOMEHOW make this story grow legs?http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/palin-makes-tro.html

Packy – Its on the front page at Huff and Im sure Keith and Rachel will mention it. As far as CNN goes…Campbell Brown seems to be on a crusade for fairness in media..so who knows. And speaking of CNN..anyone whats up with Jack Cafferty? Im hearing all kinds of rumors about his absence from air.

Sadly, I have some family members, as do some of my closest friends, who firmly believe — no matter what you tell them or show them — that Obama is a Militant Mulsim Arab Jihadist who took the oath of office on the Koran and that if he becomes president, America will become one huge Roman Colloseum featuring mandatory abortions because they are so much fun, human-animal marriages, and the free-for-all rape of white women by black men.Sigh.

But see, Packy, if Sarah Palin just says it enough times, it becomes true. Isn’t that how it works for Republicans?Apparently even actually telling the truth over and over doesn’t work for Democrats, because no matter how many times a story is debunked, there are still people who believe Obama is an Arab, or a terrorist, or not a U.S. citizen, or whatever.People who have swallowed the Palin Kool-Aid can just bathe in the whole, poisonous punch bowl, as far as I’m concerned.

John Lewis is absolutely right: McCain is taking up the path of George Wallace.

After watching the Sunday shows today, the Ayers/Bradley Effect references outweighed Troopergate about 50 to 1. This story is dead in the BBQ media–unbelievable.and is it me, or does all the “Bradley Effect: questioning in the BBQ media seem like wishful thinking or an attempot at self-fulfilling prophecy? It’s almost like the WANT this to be a story on November 4th b/c it;s a “good story.”

The bad news is that, if she were 100 pounds fatter and had worse hair, that woman in the red dress could be my idiot sister.The good news is, my idiot sister wouldn’t get off the couch to vote for Jesus if Judge Judy was on “THE TV.”

Compliments of Andrew Sullivan:http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/break-the-back.html

Gee, how incredibly presidential:”We’re going to spend a lot of time and after I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24/7,” McCain said.

The trouble with McCain’s performance the other day is that gentle chiding and fatherly calming down aren’t what those people need. They need to be told to sit down and stfu because they are imbeciles; adults with the minds of stupid, frightened children. How about Perot’s willingness in 1992 to say, “If you hate people, I don’t want your vote”? I was no supporter of his, but candidates need to be willing to say that, and we didn’t hear Senator McCain say it. I don’t agree with the “RNC plant” idea because the moment was probably dispiriting to a lot of Republicans, except for the mad-dog hard right.