The Democrat Thread

[StrangeSox]

I think its kind of funny.

 

But he probably shouldn't do that.

 

Funny from Colbert or Stewart, inappropriate from the WH Press Secretary.

 

Then again, they are just paid liars and deflectors.

[Balta1701]

This is a pretty good 10 minutes.

 

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[BigSqwert]

Interesting read

 

If you don't think there's a media double standard that favors Republicans over Democrats, then let's play a game of what-if.

 

What if, in 2006, at Yearly Kos, the first annual convention of liberal bloggers and their readers, organizers shelled out $100,000 for former Vice President Al Gore to address attendees? And what if the same organizers booked as an opening-night speaker a fringe, radical-left conspiracy theorist who'd spent the previous year pushing the thoroughly debunked claim that some Bush White administration insiders played a role in, and even planned, the 9-11 attacks. What if the speaker (also proudly anti-Semitic) received a standing ovation from the liberal Yearly Kos crowd?

 

Given that backdrop, and given the fact that the 9-11 Truther nut had for weeks bragged about his chance to share the stage with Gore, do you think the press would have demanded that Gore justify his association with a hateful conference that embraced a 9-11 Truther? Do you think pundits would have universally mocked and ridiculed Gore's judgment while condemning the Yearly Kos convention as being a hothouse of left-wing hate? Do you think Gore's appearance would have become a thing?

 

I sure do.

 

Gore and liberal bloggers would have been crucified by the press and the D.C. chattering class if the scenario I described ever unfolded in real life. (FYI, it goes without saying that organizers for Yearly Kos, now known as Netroots Nation, would never dream of mainstreaming an anti-Semitic 9-11 Truther via a prime-time speaking gig.)

 

But this past weekend in Nashville, at the first National Tea Party Convention, the Beltway press did just the opposite with regard to Sarah Palin's keynote address, which did follow a prime-time speech by "birther" nut Joseph Farah, who over the years has carved out a uniquely hateful and demented corner of the right-wing blogosphere. Because, yes, at the Tea Party convention, Farah, a proud Muslim-hater and gay-hater, did receive a standing ovation from the conservative crowd after he unfurled his thoroughly debunked birther garbage. (i.e. Obama "doesn't have a birth certificate.") And Farah did brag in the weeks leading up to the event about his chance to share the stage with Palin, to associate with Palin. ("Sold out! Palin-Farah ticket rocks tea-party convention," read the headline at Farah's discredited right-wing site, WorldNetDaily.com.)

 

Worst of all, though, the press played dumb about the whole thing.

 

Fact: Virtually nobody in the corporate media said boo about Palin helping to legitimize Farah by sharing the same stage with him. She was given a total free ride.

 

And I mean nobody. According to Nexis, there were more than 150 newspaper articles and columns published in the U.S. last week that mentioned both Palin and the Tea Party. (Combined, The New York Times and The Washington Post published 18 of them.) Yet out of all those articles and columns, exactly two also mentioned Joseph Farah by name. (Congrats to the Philadelphia Daily News and New Hampshire's Concord Monitor.)

 

And keep in mind that lots of scribes, even after listening to Farah's rambling rant, filed dispatches from Nashville stressing how mellow and mainstream the Tea Party convention was turning out to be. According to the Post, the mood at the Nashville confab was "festive, even giddy." And no, not a single word in the Post dispatch mentioned Farah's high-profile birther harangue.

 

Bottom line: The birther movement embarrasses most conservatives. Yet even when they invite a birther nut to speak at their conference, the press still won't ask tough questions. Instead, journalists politely look away.

[GoSox05]

Interesting read

 

 

Not to mention that 600 people went to this. Really? 600 people. This thing is getting major coverage and being called a "movement". I wish they gave that much coverage to every left wing protest that was over 600 people.

[Balta1701]

Not to mention that 600 people went to this. Really? 600 people. This thing is getting major coverage and being called a "movement". I wish they gave that much coverage to every left wing protest that was over 600 people.

600 attendees and 300 reporters, to be more precise.

[lostfan]

I forgot to post this a few days ago but did anyone catch Sarah Palin saying it was ok for Rush Limbaugh to call people "retards" because it was "satire" and that justifies her calling for Emanuel's resignation? lol. That's f***ing pathetic.

[lostfan]

This is a pretty good 10 minutes.

 

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bald-faced hypocrisy. Not anything I didn't already know, but nice.

 

The caucus truly and honestly doesn't care about actual governing, and even policies they think are good they'll just vote against. Obama called them out at the Q&A too, they really don't care though.

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[Balta1701]

I forgot to post this a few days ago but did anyone catch Sarah Palin saying it was ok for Rush Limbaugh to call people "retards" because it was "satire" and that justifies her calling for Emanuel's resignation? lol. That's f***ing pathetic.

 

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[Balta1701]

The caucus truly and honestly doesn't care about actual governing, and even policies they think are good they'll just vote against. Obama called them out at the Q&A too, they really don't care though.

Why should they? It's working. Unless something changes, by shutting down the government and making sure nothing changes, they're going to make serious gains this fall.

[lostfan]

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<!--quotec-->I forgot to post this a few days ago but did anyone catch Sarah Palin saying it was ok for Rush Limbaugh to call people "retards" because it was "satire" and that justifies her calling for Emanuel's resignation? lol. That's f***ing pathetic.

 

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I saw that... lol.

 

[BigSqwert]

Having fun with the George Bush billboard.

[StrangeSox]

bald-faced hypocrisy. Not anything I didn't already know, but nice.

 

The caucus truly and honestly doesn't care about actual governing, and even policies they think are good they'll just vote against. Obama called them out at the Q&A too, they really don't care though.

 

 

Sure, because they believe that government is the root of all evil. So, the less they actually govern, the better everything will be!

[Balta1701]

Sure, because they believe that government is the root of all evil. So, the less they actually govern, the better everything will be!

Naw, they're just like the Dems, they love more governing as long as its them doing the governing. The difference is they're willing to take steps to make sure things don't happen when they're not in the majority and they don't get called on it, whereas the Dems just happily go along with things when they're not in the majority and then lose seats for being obstructionists.

[BigSqwert]

Emphasis mine

 

Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake of Buena Park sent out an email Monday night, saying that perhaps his prayers had been answered with the death of Rep. John Murtha yesterday.

 

“Maybe God took him out,” Drake wrote. “Maybe God Answered our IMPRECATORY prayer that we prayed every 30 days.”

 

The Pennsylvania congressman, a decorated former Marine who fiercely opposed the Iraq war, died at the age of 77 after complications from gallbladder surgery.

 

I asked Drake if his statements weren’t distasteful, particularly coming immediately after Murtha’s death. He said that as a Christian, he didn’t buy into the sentiment of not speaking ill of the dead.

 

“It’s not distasteful to pray the word of God and include somebody’s name,” he said. “I didn’t celebrate his death. I said maybe it was God’s answer to our imprecatory prayer.”

 

Drake regularly asks his “prayer warriors” to participate in prayer targeting “unrighteous” politicians. He typically uses Psalms 109, including these passages including in his Monday email: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” And, “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”

 

At one point, Drake prayed for the death of President Barack Obama. However, he dropped that because he wants to see Obama faces charges that he is not a natural-born citizen and so cannot be president. Drake has such a lawsuit on appeal. Drake said he and his prayer warriors had been praying for Murtha’s death for four or five months. Among other things, Drake said Murtha’s use of profanity and his use of God’s name in vain. Beside praying for the death of specific politicians, he said they pray for “politicians in general who are taking unrighteous stands

 

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[StrangeSox]

Some people are absolutely crazy.

[lostfan]

He must be praying for my death too if that's his only criteria.

 

What an embarrassment to Christianity... seriously. Actually can you really even qualify him as a Christian?

[bmags]

Is he a white southern american? Than not only is he the most christiany christian that ever christened christ's country (America), he's also the most american american to ever 'merican up the world (also america)

[bmags]

also balta, you are confusing wanting to be in power with wanting to be in power and govern. Republicans aren't interested in governing, they are interested in elections, putting all their friends from evangelical colleges with no experience into important positions, and then using a bunch of terse, inciteful rhetoric. And start wars. They love imperialism.

 

That's why you had a FEMA unprepared for it's purpose, a dept. of the interior more concerned with doing blow and having blow-sex, and EPA heads who just thought it was LOL-funny.

 

 

[CrimsonWeltall]

Emphasis mine

 

 

 

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So God killed Murtha after you asked him to in prayer?

 

You're under arrest for solicitation of murder.

[HuskyCaucasian]

Emphasis mine

 

 

 

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Any "christian" who prays for the death of others clearly missed the entire point of everything Jesus ever said.

[Jenksismyhero]

Why should they? It's working. Unless something changes, by shutting down the government and making sure nothing changes, they're going to make serious gains this fall.

 

I love that when the Repubs do this it's evil, but when liberals do it it's standing up for what they believe in...

[BigSqwert]

I love that when the Repubs do this it's evil, but when liberals do it it's standing up for what they believe in...

Keep the Dem bashing to the other thread.

[Balta1701]

I love that when the Repubs do this it's evil, but when liberals do it it's standing up for what they believe in...

Aside from about 4 judges, name one single Bush initiative that was filibustered successfully.

[Jenksismyhero]

Keep the Dem bashing to the other thread.

 

it's not bashing! just an observation i find humorous. and it doesn't have to be a full filibuster, it could just be a huge segment of the dem party that decides on principal not to go along with something for political gain

[Balta1701]

it's not bashing! just an observation i find humorous. and it doesn't have to be a full filibuster, it could just be a huge segment of the dem party that decides on principal not to go along with something for political gain

So, in other words, you don't have a single example.