One WaPo writer smacks down another WaPo writer

Add comment November 19th, 2009 10:47am Pat Cunningham

 

 In a battle of Washington Post columnists, Ruth Marcus THRASHES Michael Gerson — but good!

 Gerson, if you don’t know, is a sanctimonious evangelical who used to write speeches for George W. Bush, in which role he infamously took credit for the work of his colleagues.

This is not satire

1 comment November 19th, 2009 09:35am Pat Cunningham

 This video is one in a series promoting the congressional candidacy of Republican Terri McCormick, who’s running in a district that includes Green Bay and Appleton, Wis.

 The best part of the laughably contrived and poorly acted dialogue is where the bartender refers to something he thinks John Wayne said at the Alamo.

 Notice, too, that the crowd in the bar greets Terri before she’s even visible coming through the doorway.

 This is funny stuff:

When did fear-mongering become patriotic?

21 comments November 19th, 2009 08:33am Pat Cunningham

 

 Joe Conason NAILS IT.

 An excerpt:

The loudest voices on the right never tire of telling us that they are the truest patriots. They claim to be the deepest believers in our system, the strongest defenders of our Constitution, the most upbeat, bold and courageous Americans anywhere. But now that the government is finally prepared to put the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on trial, these same patriots are the first to spread doubt, instigate anxiety and abandon constitutional principles.

When did fear-mongering in a time of war become an act of patriotism?

Let it be, Lord, let it be

3 comments November 19th, 2009 07:52am Pat Cunningham

 

 It says HERE that the Dream Ticket for 2012 is not out of the question.

 Oh, please, please, please let it happen. Please.

What’s happened to our country?

4 comments November 18th, 2009 02:21pm Pat Cunningham

(Cartoon via Bartcop.com)

An endorsement of cannibalism?

6 comments November 18th, 2009 01:51pm Pat Cunningham

 

 An interesting quotation:

 If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

 I’m not going to tell you who said that. Find out for yourselves. But I’ll remind you that humans are animals, and they’re made out of meat.

 Oh, and if you’re wondering, I am neither a vegan nor a cannibal. Nor do I consider my carnivorism a mandate from God, which is the point I’m trying to make here (in case you didn’t get it).

Nifty new book helps turn kids into wingnuts

Add comment November 18th, 2009 01:03pm Pat Cunningham

 

 Don’t let them durned libruls tell you that THIS KIND OF THING is child abyoose.

 No, sir. It’s a real edgeyoocayshunul book. It even uses one of them Yiddish wurds for a Jew powlatishun.

Defense troops in so-called War on Christmas peddle falsehoods

12 comments November 18th, 2009 12:21pm Pat Cunningham

The right-wing American Family Association is shamelessly VIOLATING the Ninth Commandment.

Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow

8 comments November 18th, 2009 11:40am Pat Cunningham

Nine minutes of focus on extremism among Obamaphobes:

Mark Kirk deservedly blasted for alarmist stance on Thomson prison proposal

11 comments November 17th, 2009 06:21pm Pat Cunningham

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, a candidate for the Republican nomination to succeed Roland Burris in the U.S. Senate, is getting A LOT OF HEAT for his craven fearmongering in the controversy over the proposed transfer of Gitmo detainees to an underutilized state prison in northwestern Illinois.