After the Tea Party wins control of the Senate on a platform of education reform, here is what will probably become a historically accurate image of George Washington fighting a tiger.
After the jump, in its full glory:
Who needs concealed carry handguns when we have chairs? From the Grand Forks Herald: “Former officer opens fire in crowded bar”
“The gunman entered Jim’s Sports Club Bar and Grill through a back door Saturday night and started shooting at a table of patrons, which included his ex-wife… a bystander smashed a wooden chair over the gunman’s head, knocking him unconscious. “
Earlier: The Gunmen Among Us
Over at Say Anything Blog “North Dakota’s Most Popular Political Blog™” it appears they’re featuring content from past years. Like this 1991 debate about gays, AIDS and blood donation.
Oh wait, what’s that? This is a debate from two days ago? Oh my. Good to see rationality and factual information have finally started making it to North Dakota.
I have simply no idea why so much of the nation thinks about the wonderful Peace Garden State as an intellectual backwater full of hypocrisy about free living and individual rights.
Yes, the post office.. the employer of Mr. McFeely and my grandma (no joke).. is now an evil socialist entity that is to be here on out referred to in right-wing blog headlines as a “monopoly.” You know, like the socialist monopoly held by the police force.
“This person probably caught on, and turned it off.”
After pouring over literature, message boards and talking with proponents, it’s challenging not to see those who carry a handgun as dweeby 15-year-old kids who carry a condom everywhere. They’re “prepared,” “just in case,” because “you never know,” “it could happen.” Equally, they both seem to fantasize about situations when they might actually use it. It’s this way that some CCWers emphasize rare or unlikely “tactical” scenarios that will never materialize that make it a test for a rational person to take the movement seriously. And yet, the effort should be taken seriously because the driving force behind much of it is a genuine desire to be safe and protect oneself because “the system” is failing at this responsibility…
This is a screenshot of a list of Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Neumann’s position papers. A standard resource of any campaign. Note the “Obamacare”one. That is now the official name of the Republicans position paper that for years has read “Heathcare.”
America!
Conservative sites are trumpeting the latest Rasmussen Poll results:
“…daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. “
Here are some other statistics about Americans:
So it sure is a good thing we are paying attention to Americans’ opinions on the President’s performnace, no
“They want to come into the community like it’s a spectacle,” he said, “when for us, it’s like the circus is coming to town. We hope people have more of a life than to be suckered into that sort of scam.”
That’s spokesman Willie Jessop, commenting on plans for exiled members of the FLDS (Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint) church to operate “a guided tour through what promoters bill as ‘the largest and most secluded polygamist colony’ in America.” “The Polygamy Experience: A Guided Tour of Colorado City” will take place in St. George on the Utah/Arizona border. Tours depart on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. from the Fairfield Inn in St. George. $69.95 for “adults” includes transportation, four-hour tour, lunch and drinks (probably not beer).
Here is a post on “North Dakota’s Most Popular Political Blog” Say Anything which underscores just how polarized and paralyzing the online political discourse is. The post is by Rob Port, who during a recent trip to DC, pretended to be an investigative reporter.
During a tour of the White House, Port spied copies of several books he deemed “socialist,” including The Populist Revolt. The subsequent post? “Photo Evidence: Michelle Obama Keeps Socialist Books In The White House Library.” The post was picked up by First Things’ very popular Gateway Pundit blog, which wrote, “Figures. Michelle Obama Stocked White House Library with Books on Socialism.”
Of course, The Washington Post’s Short Stack pointed out that the books were put there by the Kennedys and that they’ve been in the library through every administration since (yes, Reagan’s too). Port put a small update in the piece itself but chose not to update the headline. The Gateway Pundit posting remains with no update.
Port rules by fiat and very clearly styles himself after Hannity or Limbaugh, though he shrewdly makes a point to disagree with them from time to time as an “independent.” He’s low-rent and local but fat with charisma and wit. Twenty years ago guys like Port made very good livings selling pieces of shit used cars to suckers. Then came the AM talk radio revolution and the Internet.
Does Port even care that his post was a lie? No. The goal of online partisan outrage factories like Say Anything is to find content, any content, to fire the machine. If that information turns out to be untrue, who cares. Post first, update (or not) later. A truth that makes right-wing accusations of inaccurate mainstream media reporting hypocritical and sad. And it makes my personal dealings with Port, including his decision not to speak with me due to concerns of my interview being all about “gothca’ journalism,” ironic and pathetic.
Think Progress’ Matt Yglesias looked at the story and came away with this conclusion: “Rob from the Say Anything blog is an idiot.”
Weather or not Port truly buys what he sells is unclear, but unlikely. Because the other focus of blogs such as Say Anything is to make a name for the owner regardless of collateral damage. Indeed, when The Post asked Port about his mistake, he said, “… I guess it is what it is.”
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