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HBO Films: ‘Game Change’ Trailer
Posted by Richard Warnick in 2008 Election, Entertainment, John McCain, National Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin on February 2, 2012
It’s one thing to read about it, and something else to see the Hollywood version. “Game Change” premieres on HBO March 10.
Bill Maher on Beating the Rich with a Stick
Posted by Cliff Lyon in 4th Estate (Media), Conservative, Mental Illness, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin on September 5, 2011
What can be said about Bill Maher but that he is the truthsayer of our time.
Bonus: The Reason Why Liberals Don’t Like Bachmann & Palin
Sarah Palin’s ‘Red, White and Blue America’
Posted by Richard Warnick in 2012 Elections, Capitalism, Economy, National Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tax Policy, Tea Bag Party, This Blog on September 4, 2011
Yesterday I watched most of Sarah Palin’s “Red, White and Blue America” Tea Party speech on CNN. From the Washington Post:
Palin used her nearly 40-minute speech not only to denounce those in power but also to lay out her own prescription for reviving the U.S. economy. She called it a “bona fide pro-workin’ man’s” program that would check the power of “an out of touch and out of control” federal government.
Stripped of the nonsensical rhetoric, here is Palin’s 5-point plan:
1. Give more power to state governments at the expense of the federal government.
2. Repeal the Affordable Care Act and eliminate government regulations.
3. More federal budget cuts in the middle of a double-dip recession, and halt ARRA “stimulus” spending.
4. DRILL BABY DRILL! (This one got a lot of emphasis).
5. Eliminate taxes on giant multinational corporations.
“This is how we break the back of crony capitalism because it feeds off corporate welfare, which is just socialism for the very rich,” she said, making no sense whatsoever. “We can change all of that.”
Palin claims to be dead set against what she calls the “permanent political class.” But I can’t tell the difference between what she is proposing and what the right-wing political establishment wants. Even the Obama administration is already implementing at least 3 of her 5 points.
What’s Sarah Palin Doing These Days?
Posted by Richard Warnick in Activist groups, American People, Conservative, Democracy, Democrats, Economy, Free Speech, Liberal, National Politics, Party Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Bag Party on April 16, 2011
Former half-term Gov. Palin addressed the Wisconsin Tea Party rally on Saturday. Unfortunately for her, progressives outnumbered baggers 20 to 1. She came on right after Andrew Breitbart, who cordially invited the assembled multitude to “GO TO HELL!” If it wasn’t obvious already, people in Wisconsin have had enough of the Koch brothers, Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Partyers, the Republicans, and the right wing in general.
There’s a time for civility, Jon Stewart style, but this is not the time. The Tea-GOP is trying to eradicate the American middle class, and we are going to stop them.
UPDATE: Raw Story has more video: Palin, Breitbart booed at tea party event
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot; four to six others reported dead (updated)
Posted by Glenden Brown in Activist groups, Conservative, Fox Lies, Gabrielle Giffords, Glenn Beck, Gun Control, Sarah Palin, Some people should not own guns, Tea Bag Party, White Supremacy on January 8, 2011
According to MSNBC, Rep. Giffords was shot point blank in the head at a public event in Tucson.
There are few details at this point.
NPR and MSNBC are reporting the congresswoman is dead, as are six others. The shooter is in custody.
UPDATE 12:50 p.m. – MSNBC is now reporting the congresswoman is in surgery – she’s not dead but she is very critical.
How Do You Define ‘Non-Political’?
Posted by Richard Warnick in Activist groups, Bigotry, Conservative, Free Speech, Glenn Beck, National Politics, Sarah Palin, Tea Bag Party, This Blog on August 29, 2010
Yesterday’s Beck-a-thon at the Lincoln Memorial was billed unconvincingly as a “non-political” event, and “not a Tea Party rally” in order to circumvent National Park Service rules. But somebody forgot to tell the participants to leave their right-wing partisanship at home. Which is OK by me because, you know, free speech is as American as apple pie.
h/t Scott Keyes at Think Progress, Talking Points Memo, Gawker, and Associated Press.
Incidentally, if anyone is serious about restoring the honor of America then how about calling for prosecutions of torturers and torture conspirators — as required by the U.N. Convention Against Torture?
More info: BuzzFeed: The Best Anti-Glenn Beck Signs At The Glenn Beck Rally
Because you just can’t make this stuff up…
Posted by Shane Smith in Sarah Palin on July 17, 2010
This is actually rather old now, but for some reason I forgot about it and didn’t publish it. After all the “good” news about oil spills and such I needed a bit of a laugh, so….
Sarah Palin, who we all know is no quitter (as she told us while quitting her job) is an independent maverick (thus the job at the ultra right mouth piece Faux “news”) and an American intellectual (as we saw by the notes she wrote on her hand so she would have a cheat sheet to make fun of Obama for using a teleprompter) as well as national treasure.
But she is so much more.
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Every Time Someone Votes Republican God Kills a Kitten
Posted by Cliff Lyon in Ann Coulter, Laugh, Lying, Sarah Palin, Steve Urquhart on July 4, 2010
Every time someone votes Republican God kills a kitten
Sarah Palin Was For Deepwater Offshore Drilling Before She Was Against It
Posted by Richard Warnick in Disaster, Energy, Environment, Lying, National Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin, This Blog on June 2, 2010
h/t to Below The Beltway
Sarah Palin is upset at “Extreme Greenies” for (in her mind) causing BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Never mind all those “drill baby drill” speeches promoting offshore drilling as “environmentally safe.” When she said “offshore,” it really meant “safe onshore places.” Except, there is no such thing as environmentally safe oil and gas drilling no matter where you do it.
On TPM, Brian Beutler adds:
Of course just two months ago, in a widely circulated missive, Palin attacked President Obama’s plan to open up large swaths of the U.S. coastline to potential drilling for being too little, too late. “[L]et’s not forget,” she wrote, “that while Interior Department bureaucrats continue to hold up actual offshore drilling from taking place, Russia is moving full steam ahead on Arctic drilling, and China, Russia, and Venezuela are buying leases off the coast of Cuba.”
AZ ‘Papers, Please’ Law Unconstitutional and Un-American
Posted by Richard Warnick in Civil liberties Infringement, Equality, Foreign Policy, Hypocrisy, Immigration, National Politics, Racism, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Bag Party, The Constitution, This Blog, Utah Politics on May 17, 2010
On a lonely Phoenix street in April, a police officer pulled behind Jim Shee’s parked BMW and asked to see his “papers.” Shee, 70, who had pulled over to the side of the road to check text messages on his cell phone, responded, “I hope you mean my registration and license.”
The police officer said Shee was being questioned because he was “suspicious.” It’s typical… in April, he was pulled over twice in less than two weeks.
“DWB,” said Shee, who is of Chinese and Spanish descent. “It’s ‘driving while brown’ … when he saw me all he saw was brown.”
The new Arizona immigration law is probably never going to be enforced. States have no power over immigration because it’s an attribute of foreign affairs. Just as states can’t have their own foreign policies or enter into treaties, they can’t have their own immigration laws either. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been treated to the spectacle of all the putative Constitution-defenders on the right rallying to support this patently unconstitutional law.
Predictably, former half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has joined in.
This pretty much cancels out all the “we’re not racists” claims of the Tea Party movement too.
Announcing a lawsuit filed in federal court in Phoenix on Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union and other rights group described the law as “un-American” and an invitation to racially profile individuals.
“Arizona’s law is quintessentially un-American: we are not a ‘show me your papers’ country, nor one that believes in subjecting people to harassment, investigation and arrest simply because others may perceive them as foreign,” said Omar Jadwat, a staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. “This law violates the Constitution and interferes with federal law, and we are confident that we will prevent it from ever taking effect.”
Here, for the benefit of some people who have asked me to explain why the Arizona law is unconstitutional, is the cite (emphasis added):
U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power….To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
Article VI, Clause 2 (the Supremacy Clause):
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Arizona law would criminalize not only undocumented immigrants, but anybody who helps them or who fails to carry paperwork proving legal status at all times. It would be impossible for the police to carry out a mandate to check anybody who they have a reasonable suspicion of being in the country illegally, without engaging in profiling or violating our basic civil rights.
If this law is allowed to take effect, people with brown skin – regardless of whether they are U.S. citizens or legal residents – will be forced to prove their legal status to law enforcement officers over and over. One-third of Arizona’s population – those who are Latino – will be designated as second-class citizens.
Perhaps encouraged by recent polls, Utah Rep. Stephen Sandstrom (R-Orem) is already drafting a bill just as unconstitutional and oppressive as the Arizona law. Governor Herbert had to cancel a special session of the Utah legislature to avoid a repeat of the Arizona fiasco.
It’s up to the courts to put a stop to this immediately. Our fundamental rights as Americans are at stake. Again. Thanks to the pseudo-patriots who don’t understand our Constitution.
Related One Utah posts:
Your Papers, Please… (April 27, 2010)
Jim Crow in Arizona (April 27, 2010)
Tea Partyers Coming to Utah Tuesday
Posted by Richard Warnick in Activist groups, Barack Obama, Conservative, Entertainment, Free Speech, Lying, National Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Bag Party, This Blog on March 28, 2010
The Tea Party Express is coming to Utah. Just like the Mad Hatter’s tea party, but it’s on wheels. They will be at the State Capitol Tuesday afternoon, following stops in St. George and Provo.
From the Tea Party Express website:
“You, the politicians in Washington, have failed We The People with your bailouts, out-of-control deficit spending, government takeovers of sectors of the economy, Cap & Trade, government-run health care, and higher taxes! If you thought we were just going to quietly go away, or that this tea party movement would be just a passing fad, you were mistaken. We’re taking our country back!”
The Bush administration bailed out Wall Street and doubled the National Debt. In January 2009 the government used $24.9 billion of the bailout money to inject cash into Chrysler and General Motors, but it’s an exaggeration to say that was a “takeover” of the auto industry. The cap and trade proposal that’s supposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (but really won’t) is stalled in Congress. “Government-run health care” is known as Medicare and Medicaid, and it has overwhelming support. In fact, two-thirds of Americans support Medicare for all, aka “single-payer.” President Obama has cut federal income taxes, but a recent CBS News/New York Times poll indicated that most people don’t know it, and 24 percent think taxes have gone up.
The Tea Party roadshow began Saturday in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nevada. Billed as a “conservative Woodstock” in a breathtaking contradiction in terms, the event featured former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, former “Saturday Night Live” comic Victoria Jackson, and blogger Andrew Breitbart.
Palin tried to downplay the eliminationist rhetoric common to the Tea Party crowd, blaming the media for making what she regards as an unfair association between violent slogans and violent acts. One sign brought to the event read: “Obamacrats: exterminate the vermin.”
Palin blasted media outlets for giving a forum to Democratic criticisms after the health care overhaul passed of her exhortations of her Twitter followers “Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!” and her singling out 20 House Democrats who voted for the health care bill as targets on her website using a map with cross-hair gun sights on their districts.
The Nevada Democratic Party set up a tent nearby to serve tea and donut holes (symbolizing the Medicare donut hole).
UPDATE: New York Times columnist Frank Rich reminds us that eliminationist threats from Republicans are nothing new:
In fact, the current surge of anger — and the accompanying rise in right-wing extremism — predates the entire health care debate. The first signs were the shrieks of “traitor” and “off with his head” at Palin rallies as Obama’s election became more likely in October 2008. Those passions have spiraled ever since — from Gov. Rick Perry’s kowtowing to secessionists at a Tea Party rally in Texas to the gratuitous brandishing of assault weapons at Obama health care rallies last summer to “You lie!” piercing the president’s address to Congress last fall like an ominous shot.
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