Typical GOP-isms: “She’s pretty. She’s ultra-conservative. Who cares if she’s nuttier than a fruitcake, she’s our fruitcake…and did we mention we think she’s darned pretty?”

Meanwhile, we Dems nominate a smart Nobel Peace Prize-winning president…

I think that says it all.

Hey Phoenix!

I’m sure Davey’s doing what she’s doing because she, like so many others, have bought into the idea that treating both sides fairly means treating the actors on both sides as though what they’re saying is equally valid.

I had a debate last week with the crazy CBR’s southeast regional director in which he said I had to give his logically inconsistent arguments the same respect that he gave my logically consistent arguments.

No I don’t. Having proven that his views are not factually or logically valid, I can safely call them moronic if he continues to defend them based on nothing.

Can you imagine what the MSM reaction would be to a Democratic congressperson who made statements as outlandish as those uttered by Bachmann?

Exactly! Wasn’t there a post a few weeks ago about the difference between the bases of the Democratic arguments and the bases of the Republican arguments that partly explains why the media treat them differently?

Good piece — it’s exactly what I’ve been saying for a long time, too — the rightwing loonies don’t see anything “wrong” in the way they think (if you can call it that) — and, they don’t believe anyone is capable of passing judgment on them or their actions except GOD! And, no, I’m not exaggerating the god part, either.

If your stomach will allow you to listen to the screed that the reichwingers have been preaching for the last 6 months, especially, the mantra is clear: no one has a monopoly on the definition of insanity and they intend to portray anyone who attempts to challenge theirs’ as being a dirty rotten commie bastard liberal, etc., etc.

It’s the same old game they’ve always played — up is down, right is left, the sky is green and the grass is blue — only now they’re working on the MSM to deliver the message, since they’ve been limited (up to now) to Rash’s dittoheads and Glenda’s bible-toters at Fuxnewz.

Somewhere, Joseph Goebbles is smiling — his legacy lives on!

Como se dice “CBR” in ingles, por favor?

That is to say, what’s CBR?

Rather doubtful that a Democrat spouting Bachman levels of crazy from the left could be elected Precinct Captain, much less elected to Congress

For the past couple decades conservatives have been accusing media of liberal bias, much like a basketball coach working the refs… and it has worked. Now most of the calls go their way.

Also can’t discount the fact that major media outlets are corporate owned and the GOP is traditionally viewed as the pro-business party.

The NYTimes is still publishing? Now that’s a pity.

It’s all about perception, you see . . .

If you can convince the media/press that what you have to say is rational by redefining what the meaning of “rational” is, then you can get them to pretend that you are and they can convince their readers and so on.

That’s how the Nazis did it. Read any history book or go to timearchives.com and check out articles written contemporaneously as Hitler was rising to power. The press was fawning all over him, too.

Scary, isn’t it?

Just think how many readers would be talking about a Times story that recounts Bachmann’s more interesting rants.
But no the Times puts out a puff piece that nobody but a GOPer would read. And the Times wonders why it loses readers.

See “CBR’s Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) Director Closes His Eyes to Death & Suffering”

The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) is a group that opposes abortion by going to public places where they are sure to find high pedestrian traffic and displaying graphic images intended to shock viewers into agreeing with them.

Among the shocking images, they graphically equate abortion with genocide.

During his rise Hitler talked quite a lot about jobs and prosperity, which sounded good to Germans who’d been barely scraping by since the end of the last war. He also blamed Germany’s difficulties on various designated scapegoats, which also sounded good… to those fortunate enough not to be a scapegoat.

So just what does Bachmann have to do to get kicked out of the House?

Lose an election or be convicted of a felony.

Seems kind of nuts for Bachmann to be speaking out against the Census when her district’s very existence is dependent on whether or not Minnesota loses a congressional seat after the 2010 Census.

Gregg Levine has a new post up: “Public Option to Be Left Out of Merged Senate Bill?”

Ah, Bachmann. How can we not love the zaniness of a congresswoman who sees “school-based health clinics” in a bill and goes to the House floor and calls them “sex clinics” that will have field trips to clinics were children can have abortions?

Really people, it’s she just the cutest?

Not.

Bachmann needs professional help.

If a homeless person was saying the stuff she has said in public I would expect her to be committed.

Thanks. I worried there for a bit that CBR was an acronym that I ought to know.

Bachman is committed. Just to the wrong stuff, and she’s in the wrong house. She ought to be in the loony bin.

CBR is an acronym that you ought to know, as these are the people who appear on university campuses across the country trying to push nonsensical bs on young Americans by means of the juxtaposition of shocking but totally unrelated images.

Then again, if you don’t care, I guess they’ll have just that much more of an easy time of having success with what they’re doing.

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I stream MN public radio, and I heard that Bachmann has raised a LOT more money than her opponent. So batsh*t loony must still sell well in some places.

Something missed in this piece is that in addition to being a nutcase, she is also (and the two are probably linked) an extreme right wing christianist who is an expert at dog whistling. Check some of her earlier messages when she was in the state legislature and was trying to get the christianist base support.

Corporate media love them some Bachmann because crazies like her make the rest of the Repug caucus look relatively sane, and therefore, their pro-corporate machinations look acceptable (as long as you’re being told to look the other way). IOW, Bachmann provides cover for corporate wrongdoing.
Just another reason the NYT is dying a slow, painful, well-deserved death.

The corporations like her because she’s a distraction – another juggler clown who entertains the masses, whilst our corporate overlords have their hands in our pockets. We progressives can face-palm all we want, but admit it: we allow ourselves all that righteous indignation over this nonsensical clown who’s guaranteed to be the story du jour every several days or so.

Bachman gives the fundie Chritians that warm & fuzzy feeling because they all love to victimize themselves, feel constantly under attack by us horrid libruls, and be big old martyrs. Bachman feeds their need, and like Bible Spice, MentalIllness Michelle is good with the red meat and the dog whistles.

Progressives can’t just take the high road and ignore the likes of Bachman, but finding the right response is tricky. Calling out the NYT – that alleged bastion of liberal-medianess (ha!), is one step. Voting her out of power is the name of the game.

“when Bachmann accused Republican George W. Bush and the GOP-controlled Congress of setting up a Communist-style ‘planned economy’.”

I find life too short to track the antics of the world’s Michelle Bachmanns. But we need to be fair. The above might not be the best example of crazy.

Think about it:

* The Soviet planned economy scuppered free enterprise, set up monopolies, and generally robbed everyone blind so that a few favored insiders in management could become oligarchs.

* The Bush deregulated economy scuppered free enterprise, set up monopolies, and generally robbed everyone blind so that a few favored insiders in management could become oligarchs.

The only obvious difference that I can see is that is that Bush calls his oligarchs “CEOs” instead of “commissars”.

So lets be fair–this may be one of the two times per day when a broken clock is right.

If the the progressive movement is to be effectual at all it must learn to have a spine, something that is carped upon constantly in many comments here regarding Reid and others. Merely idle observations won’t achieve much. The HCR issue is important to our well being and either we do nothing more than lament or we take action.

The unwillingness to include the PO in the merged bill is the linchpin for electorally taking out Reid primarily and let him be the example for the rest of the scabs such as Lieberman, Lincoln, Landrieu and the others.

An openly declared campaign to unseat Reid for this specific piece of cowardly machination must be carried out. The very act of doing so, whether successful or not will show a determination and that we are a force to be reckoned with. If nothing is done then this would demonstrate the irrelevancy of progressives as nothing more than poor doormats who only carp while they are getting the shit beat out of them.

A concerted campaign to finance a primary opponent to this clown, someone who will support the option to publicly finance the paying for health care, should be carried out now. Small coordinated contributions among a few hundred thousand people will have a definite impact, action is the only thing that will impact the outcome here.

I very well might come to that, but you’re jumping the gun a bit.

Take a look at “If there’s no PO, Dem Senators should vote against cloture” for one suggestion as to what to do right now, at this point in the process.

Bill Prendergast is a cartoon. The only reason he published his own comic book is because no one else will publish his crap.