After generations of creating truth from lies, the conservatives have turned to Fox to do the same in a visual medium. Once again, the “news” channel uses deliberately misleading charts to lie to viewers.
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On Feb. 15 Adam Bouska, Jeff Parshley, and Laurence Watts brought “NOH8 on the Hill,” to Congress. By the end of the day, 10 members of Congress had posed for NOH8 portraits. This “exceeded their wildest expectations.”
Read More...– Actress Julianne Moore, when asked if she gained a newfound respect for Sarah Palin after delving deeper into Palin’s life to portray her in the upcoming film “Game Change.”
“I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.” 33 funny but true quotes about conservatives – some of the most damning from conservatives themselves.
Read More...Truly, it is a war on our religious liberties and that violation of conscience that he would mandate that is un-American because it violates our First Amendment in our Constitution.
— Sarah Palin, Fox and Friends, February 15, 2012
“The right wing Republican politicians who have been denouncing the requirement that female employees have access to birth control as part of their health benefits as an attack on religious freedom completely ignore the church teachings they don’t agree with. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are both Catholics, and wear their faith on their sleeves, but they are hypocritical in picking and choosing when they wish to listen to the bishops.”
Read More...From my cousin Kirk comes this hilarious but true vignette of the 2012 election: when searching for “African Americans” on Mitt Romney’s website, the results speak for themselves.
And I can only assume that the example given, “blue drop,” refers to his blood.
Read More...http://www.towleroad.com/2012/02/spreadingsantorumad.html
Seriously – there’s no need to parody the crazy Right ‘cos they’re already so wacky themselves.
For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America’s defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security. Over time, however, this strategy created a base that really believed in all the hokum — and now the party elite has lost control.
Read More...Ki Gulbranson owns a logo apparel shop, deals in jewelry on the side and referees youth soccer games. He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government.
He says that too many Americans lean on taxpayers rather than living within their means. He supports politicians who promise to cut government spending. In 2010, he printed T-shirts for the Tea Party campaign.
Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense. And Medicare paid for his mother to have hip surgery twice. [New York Times]
