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This guy is just reading Republican talking points too. Not at all interesting - and way worse than Hannity.

His first guest is billionaire Lynn Tilton who tells the hardscrabble story of being a single mother having to make her own way in the world as an investment banker. (I'm not really being sarcastic here, this is presented as a "pulled herself up by her bootstraps story".) Then they rag on TARP, but never mention that Bush was responsible for that. Everything Obama did, however, gets pinned on the President by name.

They just ran a bit on a black Republican, Michel Faulkner, who's challenging Charlie Rangel. Rangel, represents Harlem in the House. They let him go on for just a minute about how bad Rangel is, but the only thing he said about his own candidacy is that he wanted to stop black folks from being so "dependent on the government." No comment on whether white folks, being better and all, need such weening.

How he ranked his own segment when is karaoke fund-raiser was empty and he has no chance of winning is, you guessed it!, beyond me.

From County Fair:

Media Matters' Jeremy Holden ably tore apart Glenn Beck's latest mash-up of pop culture and paranoid conspiracism, wherein the Fox News host bemoaned the evolution of the bumbling sitcom father and linked Homer Simpson to the Weather Underground and President Obama's secret plans for communist world domination. Before I continue, reread that sentence and appreciate the fact that I didn't have to embellish at all for comic or dramatic effect.

-- Simon Maloy

Beck is a horrible actor.

Beck is starting off with the leaders of four Tea Party organizations. It's as lily white as you might imagine. The Tea Party believes in "physical responsibility." I did not know that!

Beck disses the NAACP for their comments regarding the Tea Party, then a few minutes later says the Tea Party needs to repudiate racism - which is exactly what the NAACP asked the Tea Party to do.

I'm totally unsurprised by the junk science advertisements.

Evan Bayh is useless.

Listening to Hannity is like listening to a book of RNC talking points, and yes, that means it's just as boring as it sounds. What's the appeal of this guy? I'm going to have to find a right-winger and ask about that.

He shows 20 seconds of a 60 Minutes clip and says it only showed one side of the story. I guess I should take his word on that?

This Brent Bozell segment is pure lunacy. They had the nerve to talk about the president whining about the media to "shut them up." And what was his life's work again?

I can't pay attention to this Carol Channing segment. I can't pretend to care.

FOX News is incredibly consistent in their naming schemes. The estate tax is never the estate tax, it's always the "death tax."

The same with "Obamacare."

Also, Dana Perino is doing a show now and the "we report, you decide" motto is nothing more than a joke. She keeps ranting on how sad and pathetic Joe Biden is, and asks how long before Democrats own up to being in charge of the economy, and how clearly it wasn't Bush's fault. This is all rendered as opinion with no facts to back it up.

They also keep showing Anthony Weiner (D-NY) bitching out Peter King (R-NY) just like they did Howard Dean's video during his campaign, but it doesn't look all that horrible to me. I don't get how you turn getting pissed off over denying heath care to 9/11 victims against him.

"Tennessee Candidate Asks If Islam Is Cult."

Family Security Matters: Exclusive: Crying Racism, Crying Wolf?

Media Matters: Conservative media oblivious to major increase in border enforcement

Paul Krugman: Tax Cut Truthiness

Washington Post: White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity

I'm going to spend this weekend watching FOX News.

"Only 1.38 percent of Fox News’ primetime viewers are African-American."

The Onion A.V. Club presents an interview with "Marc Maron."

"The Left Hates Conservatives" says Dennis Prager:

From Karl Marx to today, the Left has always hated people on the Right, not merely differed or been angry with them.

The question is: why?

Here are three possible answers.

First, the left thinks the right is evil.

Granting for exceptions that all generalizations allow for, conservatives believe that those on the left are wrong, while those on the left believe that those on the right are bad, not merely wrong. Examples are innumerable. For example, Howard Dean, the former head of the Democratic Party said, "In contradistinction to the Republicans ... (Democrats) don't believe kids ought to go to bed hungry at night."

Or take Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., who, among many similar comments, said, "I want to say a few words about what it means to be a Democrat. It's very simple: We have a conscience."

Has any spokesman of the Republican Party ever said anything analogous about Democrats not caring about the suffering of children or not having a conscience?

This is an excellent chance to take a trip down memory lane!

Get rid of the guy. Impeach him, censure him, assassinate him.

-- Rep. James Hansen (R-UT), referring to President Clinton

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.

-- Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX)

Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.

-- Rep. Don Young (R-AL)

Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God.

--Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC)

This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is B.S. Not only do you kick him, you kick him until he passes out, then beat him over the head with a baseball bat, then roll him up in an old rug and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below.

-— Michael Scanlon, Chief of Staff for Tom DeLay (R-TX)

Street Fighter Vs Tekken:

While I'm glad to see Nina in this, Kazuya wasn't the right choice, they should have picked Paul or Heihache.

"A 'Slap in the face' -- in 1981."

And on a related note:

"Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege" by Senator Jim Webb starts out with:

The NAACP believes the tea party is racist.

Actually, no, they don't:

Today, NAACP delegates passed a resolution to condemn extremist elements within the Tea Party, calling on Tea Party leaders to repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches.

So many people getting this wrong is telling. The NAACP asked the Tea Party to repudiate racists within its ranks, without accusing the whole of the Tea Party of being racist. Which isn't to say the NAACP (probably) doesn't think organizations (like say, the KKK) can be racist at the core. The difference between the KKK and the Tea Party is that the NAACP leadership probably thinks the KKK needs to die out, while the Tea Party needs to clean up its act. The NAACP even seems to think the "Tea Party leaders" will be willing to do so, something they'd never ask a Grand Dragon to do.

The problem here isn't what the NAACP said, which was limited in scope and appropriately worded, but what people heard, which was "the NAACP is ragging on white folks again."

"Mozilla tames Firefox tab monster with Candy."

Sounds interesting. It's also nice to see Firefox innovating a little in the interface aspects of web browsing.

I'm angry with Blizzard, but:

I'm not getting this.

I signed a new two year cell phone contract in September of last year. The cost to sign another new contract, just shy of a year later, is $439 with a Samsung Vibrant.

However a new contract gets the phone for $99.

Huh?

I can break the contract and get a Droid X for $439!

(Previously.)

"NAACP Pledges to Issue Statement Condemning Racist Attacks on Black Conservative":

On the July 17 edition of “Geraldo At Large” on the Fox News Channel, Borelli appeared on a panel discussion about race and politics with NAACP senior vice president Hilary Shelton.

During the discussion, Borelli asked Shelton if the NAACP would issue a statement condemning those who expose her to race-based abuse because she is an outspoken black female with views.

Here's that video again:

Shelton added that the NAACP repudiated past assaults on Bush Administration cabinet members General Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.

Borelli has been called the n-word by liberal critics, as well as other epithets such as “house negro,” “Stepin Fetchit,” “Sambo,” “Uncle Tom,” “Auntie Tom” and a “pitiful excuse of a human being,” among many others.

Project 21 will send a detailed letter to Shelton chronicling some of the past racist statements made against Borelli and other Project 21 members.

Dollars to donuts this list of insults will be from anonymous letter writing cowards, no name bloggers, and various other insignificant miscreants that no political junky has never heard of. While I found someone calling Borrelli a "house negro" on the second page of my Google search, it turns out that the first page of hits was conservatives whining about the name-calling.

And remember, Borelli's think tank of black conservatives - Project 21, will cozy up with white supremacists, lists Jesse Lee Peterson as an advisory board member.