Jive Mofo

I'm not usually a fan of Frank Rich, but he has a good point here about carpetbaggers in the Tea Party movement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17rich.html

Steele is representative of a fascinating but little noted development on the right: the rise of buckrakers who are exploiting the party’s anarchic confusion and divisions to cash in for their own private gain. In this cause, Steele is emulating no one if not Sarah Palin, whose hunger for celebrity and money outstrips even his own.

Roger Ebert has an interesting post calling out Rush Limbaugh in an open letter to Rush.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100114/OPINI...

Having followed President Obama's suggestion and donated money to the Red Cross for relief in Haiti, I was offended to hear you suggest the President might be a thief capable of stealing money intended for the earthquake victims.

Is Rush Limbaugh an asshole? Absolutely. Is this news? Absolutely not.

The ratings are in, and conservative Clear Channel talk radio station KOA has tanked from first place to tenth in the ratings. Why? Arbitron switched from paper diaries to People Meters.

Read all about it in the Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14167621

Harry Shearer has an excellent take on how to handle Dick Cheney:

The problem with pretending we're at war, rather than understanding we're dealing with a criminal syndicate -- like the Mafia -- is that it gets our resources overextended and tied down in geographical areas, like Afghanistan, while the opponent is free to move and relocate (hello, Yemen!, hi, Somalia!).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/cheneys-game_b_407368.html

Or why Barack Obama wants to double FOX News' ratings.

FOX News is all a flutter about the White House War on FOX News. Rupert Murdoch is calling it a ratings boon, and FOX News just can't seem to stop creating stories about how they're now on the Obama White House's "enemies list."

But I have to laugh at all the serious journalists who are wondering if it's "wise" for the White House to go after FOX this way. Of course it is.

Ah, my friend, it is a pleasure to be back on the blog. I take being compared to Bluto as a compliment since I spent the first 30 years of my life emulating that great American scholar. Your modern Persian/Iranian history, however, if you pardon my saying so, may be slightly flawed and omits some very important details. This is the politically incorrect version that is not taught in the public schools or universities. Read at your own risk.

I just found the list that we used to have on the fridge. Actually, this is the second list we used to keep on the fridge -- it's called "Band Names II".

Feel free to add any suggestions in the comments section:

Band Names II

• I Saw Charo
• The Ironic Nerds
• Smarty Math Pants
• Fart Patsy
• Tasty Ailment
• Screwball Ruse
• Bitter Midget

On September 11, 2001 networks filmed people celebrating in the streets in Ramallah. The PLO confiscated the footage, fearing a PR nightmare. Too bad the GOP couldn't get to this video.

Here we can see people from the group Americans For Prosperity -- a main tea party organizer -- celebrating America's loss of the Olympics in 2016. It begs the question, do you have to be an unpatriotic American to be a good Republican these days?

Yes, you read that correctly. "Americans for Prosperity" cheered at the news that America lost the Olympics in 2016.

Read more at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/02/conservatives-revel-in-ob_n_307...