I accidentally sat thru Mark Burnett & Roma Downey oozing righteousness about this yesterday on Sunday Morning. Guess we know how they vote. Everyone commenting on this is quick to compare it to the “head” of GWB showing up in a “Game of Thrones” episode which was quickly removed from the re-airing of the show. Think they’re going to change the devil if we make enough of a scene? Yeah, me neither. Via.
“This organization is so sinister that it doesn’t even exist!.. What else is [Hagel] hiding that hasn’t happened?… What are his ties to the Dead Poet’s Society? And why are they dead? Did they know too much about Benghazi?
“President Obama, you must withdraw Hagel’s nomination, or you will lose the support of every moderate Republican, another group that doesn’t exist!“
– Stephen Colbert Taking Apart Breitbart for ‘Friends of Hamas’ Debacle
Meet Ben Shapiro, editor-at-large of Breitbart.com:
The Sacramento Bee is now reporting that Shapiro will be speaking at the California Republican Party convention. Karl Rove’s slot had to be moved due to a scheduling conflict, so Breitie Ben will be taking his place.
Yes that Ben Shapiro.
You can stop laughing– or crying– now.
As my friend and Twitter pal @Jazzcattrio (h/t for the link) tweeted me just now, “I guess his speech won’t be titled ‘Journalistic Integrity’.”
To refresh your memory, here’s a recap of the utter insanity and lies that pass for Republican politics these days, from Raw Story:
Breitbart.com editor Ben Shapiro wrote, “On Thursday, Senate sources told Breitbart News exclusively that they have been informed one of the reasons that President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, has not turned over requested documents on his sources of foreign funding is that one of the names listed is a group purportedly called ‘Friends of Hamas.’”
When Shapiro called the White House for comment, they hung up on him, which he took as confirmation. Shapiro ran the story and tweeted the link out to his more than 40,000 Twitter followers, touching off a right-wing media avalanche.
Those wacky, zany smear mongers on the right just don’t know when to quit. They’ve become quite the laughingstock, yet persist in their nasty, delusional little ways. So now the GOP is anticipating Breitie Ben’s California convention antics with glee, blissfully unaware of the immense hole they’re continuing to dig for themselves.
If this is what they meant by reinventing the party, then by all means, please proceed.
H/t: Jazzcattrio
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Hypocridiot Willard Romney, whose lies have finally been called out, has two Solyndras of his very own. How nice that the so-called “news” media have finally noticed that he’s full of it.
Bob Schieffer pointing out GOP hypocrisy to RNC chair Reince Priebus:
“You say, a president that’s in love with his own voice. That leads me to what you all were doing last week, that is organizing a rally to try to drown out David Axelrod when he goes up to Boston at the same that out on the west coast Gov. Romney was loading up reporters in a bus and taking them on a secret mission to the Solyndra plant because he said he couldn’t reveal where they were going, but he was fearful that Democrats would try to break that up. Isn’t that kind of silly and petty when you look at it? This campaign should be, it seems to me, about very serious things and serious issues.”
Um, Reince? Mitt Romney has at least two Solyndras of his own, but who’s counting? Oh, and fake presidential Solyndra scandals don’t count.
Schieffer:
“Mr. Priebus, you’re not saying that the economy was in great shape when Pres. Obama took the oath. It seems to me there might have been a couple of little problems before that.”
Yeah, there might have been:
Via The Maddow Blog
Why, what a coincidence! Just the other day I posted about what a liar Willard Romney is, and pointed straight to his blatant hypocrisy regarding his efforts to perpetuate the fake Solyndra not-scandal.
Not to pile on (okay, yes, to pile on), but Think Progress is reporting about a second Romney-backed solar company that filed for bankruptcy.
This makes me wonder two things: Why is Willard willing to subject himself to such easy debunking, and why are solar companies going under when they’re such a big part of such an effective solution to our energy problems? Especially when, per TP, the solar industry has “created 64,000 jobs across the energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors.”
Konarka is the second Massachusetts solar company, along with Evergreen Solar and Beacon Power, to receive taxpayer dollars under Romney’s tenure and subsequently declare bankruptcy.
Let’s remedy both of these problems by 1) re-electing President Obama, and 2) supporting green energy.
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