Comments on: A tale of two Americas, Political Party Edition

By: frazzlesnazzle

frazzlesnazzle — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:24:15 +0000

I believe the correct term is “persona non twitter”.

By: bobpine

bobpine — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:51:36 +0000

Well Mr. Beck,as they say in the hood”what goes around.comes around”.

By: oldnslow

oldnslow — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:28:31 +0000

Thanks, Marion! (holding out a big plate)

Good morning pups and thanks for the post Attaturk.

As despair deepens and disgust reaches never imagined proportions it becomes more and more difficult to accept that there is even a remote possibility reasonable discourse is achievable.

What has happened here is that a fucking nut job who is bleeding advertisers because they can no longer afford to be associated with a nakedly partisan racist has been allowed to SILENCE a strong, progressive BLACK voice. A modern lynching. Pure and simple. Deep, deep shame on the entire country for allowing this to happen.

As a Veteran it was double difficult to be treated as though I did not have a President becuase I voted D during the bush years. It is truly painfull to be treated the same way by a D President because I am a progressive. Fuck. Me. To. Tears.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:20:10 +0000

Well, if I’m remembering correctly some of President Obama’s harshest critics a few weeks after the Inauguration in January 2009 came from liberals. It hasn’t let up either and so now the right wingers can say, “See? Even the well known lefties are on our side!”. Disgusting. Some here should be ashamed at the slamming they’ve done, because it’s only given the right wingers fodder for their ridiculous notions. Also, listening to what the “anonymous insiders at the White House” say when you read down through an article written by a right wingers shows the stupidity of some! The right wingers are willing to lie, distort, and deceive to bring down the black man, so if they have to….they will make up insiders for their articles to keep the negativity going against President Obama.

By: solai

solai — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:10:04 +0000

I keep thinking of the line from a tv show that failed. Aaron Sorkin wrote it. Matthew Perry was talking to a Right-winger about why the left and right can’t get along. (Paraphrased)
Matthew Perry: You hate us because you think we think you’re stupid.
Right-winger: Correct. And why do you hate us?
Perry: Because you’re stupid.

By: solai

solai — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:05:51 +0000

IMHO, We keep seeing their arguments as stupid and not worth our time explaining that their stupid until it erupts into a tidal wave. Take the argument that the U.S. can’t safely incarcerate terrorists or death panels or that Kerry wasn’t a war hero. Too ridiculous to counter. Then it becomes the conventional wisdom and it’s too late.

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:05:43 +0000

Maybe the twitterati call us twitless.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:02:55 +0000

Glenn Beck will now be using Van Jones’ philosophy to achieve his maximum program goals!

Beck really didn’t win, though. Van Jones will still be advising President Obama. He just won’t be paid to do it now.

By: StonyPillow

StonyPillow — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:55:48 +0000

May God bless the laboring men and women of America. We’ve got more to do, but today at least, let’s remember we can be strong.

By: Marion in Savannah

Marion in Savannah — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:50:01 +0000

Good morning, pups. Prof. Krugman is off today, so it’s the Pasty Little Putz and Mr. Cohen. The Pasty Little Putz, in “A More Perfect Death,” says our move toward physician-assisted suicide springs from the same quest that leads us to spend nearly twice as much on health care as any other developed nation. (One thing that the putz neglects to mention is that the person he refers to as “Dr. Emanuel” or “the author” is the brother of Rahm Emanuel.) Mr. Cohen, in “An Egyptian for Unesco,” says talk of naming Egypt’s culture minister, Farouk Hosny, to head Unesco raises issues of Arab prejudice and cultural bridge-building.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got a full Southern breakfast for y’all. Help yourself to eggs your way, bacon and/or sausage, grits (none of that instant garbage, the real thing), toast or biscuits and your favorite jam. I’m off to have my second cup of tea outside, where it’s a simply gorgeous morning. Happy Labor Day!