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Remember where you heard it

10 comments July 14th, 2009

 

 I wonder if I’m the first person to make this prediction:

 Within the hour, Barack Obama will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the All-Star game in St. Louis, and the crowd will greet him with a mixture of cheers and boos.

 Tomorrow morning, as sure as the sun will rise in the East, the Drudge Report will make a big deal of the president getting booed, no matter that it happens to almost all politicians when they’re introduced at big sporting events.

And then, taking their cue from Drudge, right-wing blogs across the fruited plain will interpet the matter as unmistakable evidence that America is turning against the foreign-born Muslim terrorist who dares to occupy the once sacred Oval Office.

 Yes, I’ll be very surprised if this doesn’t play out exactly as I’ve described.

 UPDATE: Well, maybe I was wrong.  The booing of Obama wasn’t nearly as bad as I had expected. The cheers clearly dominated.

 So, I don’t know what Matt Drudge will do in the morning. But he’ll think of something.

 UPDATE II (Wed. a.m.): Surprise! Drudge has nothing snarky about Obama at the ball game. Just this photo:

 UPDATE III: It says HERE that Obama was a big hit with the ballplayers.

Talk about desperation! Loonies try to link Sonia Sotomayor to Bill Ayers!

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 Well, I guess Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to a seat on the Supreme Court is pretty much a mortal lock.

 At least, that’s what I infer from the LAUGHABLE DESPERATION reflected in a new ad sponsored by the right-wing (but wrongly-named) Committee for Justice, which seeks to link Sotomayor to 1960s radical Bill Ayers (above).

 Is this a ridiculous gambit or what? The wingnuts failed last year in their efforts to slow Barack Obama’s political juggernaut by painting him and Ayers as best buddies, which they are not and never have been. This kind of nonsense is even less likely to hurt Sotomayor, who doesn’t even know Ayers.

Grassley bothered by Sotomayor’s empathy, but not by Alito’s

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Hyprocisy, thy name is Charles Grassley — as we see HERE.

Co-director of Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic is live-blogging Sotomayor hearings

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 Andrew Pincus offers a worthy perspective on the doings in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

 Check it out HERE.

Wingnut soldier defies his commander-in-chief

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 Dude SAYS he shouldn’t have to go to Afghanistan because, gosh, Barack Obama isn’t really the president.

 Truth is, the soldier dude isn’t really much of an American.

In Sonia v. Sarah, GOP is doomed

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Margaret Wente writes:

I used to think that, after the debacle of the Bush years, the train wreck of Sarah Palin and the Obama rout, the Republican Party would recover its sanity and regroup. Clearly, I was wrong. People who argue that Sarah Palin is good for America while Sonia Sotomayor is a threat are obviously out of their minds. They are determined to drive their own party off a cliff into oblivion. And they’re succeeding nicely.

Read the whole thing HERE.

Climate Denial Crock of the Week

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An example of why Beckheads are to be pitied

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 You would think that Fox News, the most-watched of the cable news channels, could afford to hire a competent fact-checker to guard against idiocies like THIS.

 But then, strict adherence to facts would preclude the employment of Glenn Beck, wouldn’t it?

 UPDATE:  THIS GUY, too, noticed the Glennster’s departure from reality in the matter at issue.