Heh.
News photos of President Barack Obama bowing to Japan’s emperor have incensed critics here, who said the US leader should stand tall when representing America overseas. …
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“I don’t know why President Obama thought that was appropriate. Maybe he thought it would play well in Japan. But it’s not appropriate for an American president to bow […]

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Via Atrios, Media Matters serves up your daily slab o’ wingnuttery, in the form of Wesley Pruden’s column about Obama’s overseas sojourn:
He established a new precedent for how American presidents should pay obeisance to kings, emperors, monarchs, sovereigns and assorted other authentic man-made masters of the universe. He stopped just this side of the full grovel to the […]

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I see the bowing thing is driving right-wingers crazy. Good.
After eight years of a president who thought the world should bow down to him, we’ve actually got a president who realizes the importance of tact and displomacy and showing respect to our allies - instead of expecting them to fall in line and pronto because we […]

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Really? We’re going to go this far, really?
The Danville, Virginia Tea Party organization has announced a “Fired Up for Freedom” rally at which they’ll burn Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) in effigy, along with Speaker Pelosi.
No end to the crazy.
I’m so old I can remember when ritualized symbolic execution of public officials wasn’t cool.
Do the right-wingers […]

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This shows up in the e-mail, conservatives always forward these things in the apparent hope that I’ll read it, slap my forehead and say: NOW I see!!!!
During my last night’s shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand […]

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You know who the real oppressed minority is in this country? Southern white male judges, that’s who.

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He was looking for a brain to steal.

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Hey, Wingnut Queen Michelle Bachmann is sponsoring her very own tea party today!
And Republican members of Congress are falling in line - as they must. And she’s even talking about leading the teabaggers through the halls of Congress to find Congress critters who might dare vote for health care reform and shout at them in their offices.
Maybe […]

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Saw this over the weekend, one guy writes in saying he’s surprised I didn’t come up with this. No - but I’m happy to pass it along.
This is Frank Rich in the NYT, writing about the race in upstate New York - where it looks like Conservative (not Republican) Party candidate Doug Hoffman is going to win […]

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Fight!
Last night on Fox News’ On the Record, host Greta Van Susteren asked Gingrich about the “heat” he’s been getting for endorsing Scozzafava, especially from Beck. Gingrich fired back, saying the right-wing support for Hoffman is based on “misinformation” and an abandonment of conservative values:
GINGRICH: I just find it fascinating that my many friends who […]

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…never mind the loons:
“As a veteran, I believe that any veteran lending their name, to promote the leftist propaganda of global warming and climate change, in an effort to control more of the wealth created in our economy, through cap and tax type policies, all in the name of national security, is a traitor to […]

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Honestly, how stupid do you have to be to be a Glenn Beck fan?
Looking straight into the camera, and in all apparent seriousness, Beck warned that progressives have been working for years to strip Americans of their individual rights, and that in earlier times they would be called “tyrants” and “slave owners.”
Hmmm… no, Glenn, the […]

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Classy.

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Wingers. They transcend parody.
Incidentally, I think it’s wonderful that they’re now in full-throated howl against Olympia Snowe. Yes - hound her out of your party. That’s a wonderful idea. She can join Arlen Specter as totally and forever discredited in the eyes of people who think effective political protest entails… sending large bags of rock […]

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Actually, Josh Marshall has the best line on the Obama-Nobel thing:
It’s like when Hitler won the Nobel.
And he’s being snarky. Being serious is Erick Erickson over at RedState.com, who sez this:
I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of […]

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These people are freaks.

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Newsmax is now trying to claim that the columnist who wrote the “What if the military staged a coup against Obama???” column was just some unpaid blogger. TPM’s all over that little lie.
And though NewsMax has since taken it down, it’s being preserved by TPM and others. And it’s worth reading - just so you […]

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Helluva pic and letter over at Sullivan’s:

Of course they are screaming ’socialism’. They’ve been doing that since the 50s at least. They’re not talking about economic redistribution of wealth - they never have been. They’ve been talking about redistribution of privilege this whole time. They called MLK a communist because he wanted blacks to have […]

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sigh…
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) declared in a radio interview that same sex marriage is part of a socialist agenda to undermine “the foundations of individual rights and liberties.”
Said King: “Not only is it a radical social idea, it is a purely socialist concept in the final analysis.”
As Sullivan notes, “socialism” has now become the catch-all […]

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Only one source, you know.

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