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Video- Al Sharpton: Limbaugh “Is At War With The CEO” Of Cumulus Media

Poor Rush, my heart aches for him. More here and here. Via MM.

The next earnings call for Cumulus is tomorrow and Dickey will undoubtedly be asked by Wall Street analysts how Limbaugh’s performing on the 40 Cumulus stations that carry the show. Despite Limbaugh’s immense value, Dickey has previously claimed that Cumulus’s top three stations had lost $5.5 million as a result of the anti-Limbaugh backlash. A while back, ThinkProgress obtained a memo showing the 96 national companies that had reportedly asked Cumulus to not broadcast their commercials during the Limbaugh program.

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Conservative super-PAC FreedomWorks made video of fake panda bear performing oral sex on fake Hillary Clinton

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There conservatives go again, showing off those family values of theirs. And by family values I mean hypocrisy, incredibly vile taste, and sexism.

David Corn at Mother Jones is reporting on tea party group and super-PAC FreedomWorks (where Dick Armey used to work) producing a video of a fake panda bear performing fake oral sex on a fake Hillary Clinton. The video was scrapped, but that won’t erase the sick incentive, the reporting, the mental image, or the disgusting subject matter:

In one segment of the film, according to a former official who saw it, [Adam Brandon, executive vice president of the group] is seen waking from a nap at his desk. In what appears to be a dream or a nightmare, he wanders down a hallway and spots a giant panda on its knees with its head in the lap of a seated Hillary Clinton and apparently performing oral sex on the then-secretary of state. Two female interns at FreedomWorks were recruited to play the panda and Clinton. One intern wore a Hillary Clinton mask. The other wore a giant panda suit that FreedomWorks had used at protests to denounce progressives as panderers. (See herehere, and here.) Placing the panda in the video, a former FreedomWorks staffer says, was “an inside joke.”

Another FreedomWorks staffer who worked there at the time confirms that ”Yes, this video was created.” [...]

How was that not some form of sexual harassment?” a former FreedomWorks official asks, noting that two female interns had been requested to act out a pretend sex scene. “And there were going to be thousands of Christian conservatives at this thing. This was a terrible lack of judgment.

“Lack of judgment.” That’s putting it mildly.

FreePAC, a FreedomWorks conference in July, 2012, was supposed to have shown the video, but that never happened. Apparently some of the saner staffers were appalled enough to change a few minds.

According to a former FreedomWorks official, Adam Brandon defended the film. He found it to be creative and funny. To repeat, he found it to be  creative and funny.

As we’ve noted in previous posts, including AUDIO– Fox mocks 102-year-old who waited hours to vote: “What’s the big deal? She was happy, conservatives have a very twisted, perverted definition of the word “funny.”

Other examples of their so-called humor:

VIDEO: John McCain jokes about “mercilessly interrogating, waterboarding” John Kerry at confirmation hearing

Taco restaurant thinks their “How to Catch an Illegal Immigrant” t-shirts are “witty and comical”

Karl Rove: “We should sink Todd Akin. If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts!”

Pennsylvania GOP official’s “joke”: Obama supporter is “mentally retarded”

VIDEO- What makes Mitt Romney chuckle: Abusing dogs, gay schoolmates, employees, Medicare recipients, the sight-challenged…

I could go on, but I won’t.

family values my ass

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Audio- Todd Akin: McCaskill ‘Like One of Those Dogs: Fetch’

Why the woman in this man’s state haven’t tarred and feathered him by now is beyond me.

La Cucaracha- Rush Limbaugh: “Bimbos don’t get satire.”

A major advantage of having a Twitter pal like Lalo Alcaraz (@LaloAlcaraz) is that he generously shares his work with us.

Here’s today’s La Cucaracha:

 

Video- Fox’s Kilmeade: Label On Pants Saying “Give It To The Broad” To Wash “Something That I Would Like To See Happen”

I know I’m pretty isolated at times, but I do read quite a lot and had no clue that “Back to the Future” gamma rays had some how snapped us back to the the 50′s. Makes sense since that’s what the R’s want to do to us with rights over our own bodies, but really, this crap is actually tolerated? Via MM.

AUDIO: Herman “Beat Obama with a Cain’s” Princess Nancy debate quip was a repeat of an earlier one.

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Via the L.A. Times: Hermie Cain had the following exchange with a supporter at a Michigan event. Nice imagery:

How do you beat Obama – beat him with a Cain,” Cain said to the friendly group of supporters.

As Cain was whisked out of the building through a back kitchen, a reporter asked what he meant by that joke.

“Herman Cain – C-A-I-N,” Cain responded, spelling out the letters of his last name. “Do I have to connect all the dots for you?”

No, genius, which is exactly why the reporter asked you that question.

As for that snide little “Princess Nancy” remark he made at the debate, it wasn’t the first time. Not only is he a serial harasser, he’s a serial “Princess” wisecrack offender. Aug. 11, 2010 (relevant portion at 2:05), via Think Progress:

So what did Hermie have to say about the Pelosi slight on the heels of allegations of sexual harassment? Pretty much what many of us would expect:

“Why do you apologize — was it insensitive to call her that?” a reporter asked.

So you all stop asking me about it,” Cain replied.  “Look I’m about the big issues, fixing this economy, not focusing on stuff like that. Alrighty? So ask her why she called the tea party people Astroturf a couple of years ago. That ought to be the question.”

Yes, make that comparison, because statements of fact are identical to sexist, gratuitous, and very unpresidential cheap shots.

H/t: @latimesmuskal

Harry Reid Calls Kirsten Gillibrand “Hottest Member”

Um, this is really inappropriate. Combined with calling Chris Coons his “pet” the other day, I’m wondering about Harry. Via Taegan-


Politico reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) gave Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) “an unusual form of praise” at a closed-door fundraiser.

Said Reid: “We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.”

“The comment prompted Gillibrand to turn red… and created a bit of stir among the small crowd there.”

Incidentally, The Hill had Gillibrand as the third “most beautiful” on Capitol Hill.