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We’ve all heard the news of Sen. Reid’s dumb-ass comments pertaining to Obama.

In their new book “Game Change,” authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann say that in 2008 Reid described candidate Obama as a ” ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one,’ ” whom many voters would embrace.

Reid’s insensitive remarks aside, many Right Wing Wackos (RWWs) began spouting comparisons to Reid’s remarks and Trent Lott’s remarks made in 2002 that he wished Strom Thurmond had been elected POTUS. ‘Those comments ended up getting Lott removed as majority leader, so why shouldn’t Reid be removed’ cries the little sheep. Remember Strom Thurmond? The bigoted racist segregationist that said,

All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches.

Well, take a moment to glance at those two quotes from Reid and Thurmond and ask yourself if they’re even close to being similar. Faux News loves to incite the dumb masses of GOP/Tea Bag/RWWs so, of course, they push the “double standard” myth commonly pushed by RWWs about Liberals. Another case of the pot calling the kettle “black”. Their response isn’t a surprise nor are their audience’s responses a surprise. I just wanted to share a few beauties I cherry-picked out of the readers’ comments when Faux asks whether there’s a “Double Standard”. Let the frightened illiterate hysteria begin. For your amusement:

gsspike

Rhode Island

It’s the American people Read insulted not Obama! He needs to apologize to us!!!

Maybe gsspike needs to “Read” more.

onathan8

California

How do you spell doubel standed? Democrat is how it is spelled.

Let’s start with, “How do you spell doubel?”

susanfuchs

New York

If you wish to see how much of a “double standard” there is, re-listen to the president’s words… “harry reid has been on the “right” side of history, …. so apparently, if you are a democrat, you’re okay to say anything, but if you are a republican,,,, you can’t. That, is repulsive, you wonder why people are angry and getting more so?

The logic is truly astounding. ‘Don’t you see, since they said A apparently it means X.’ Uh oh, another one of those “angry” warnings.  Don’t ask what susan is fuching.

genus1

Montana

Montana -- Interesting, at every press conference Biden has 60% blacks around him. Where are his friends at the funeral of his mother?

Ouch! This Palin supporter goes right for O’Biden’s jugular.

astergis46

Georgia

I’m not surprise by the comment that Mr. Reid made comments like that has gone on since slavery and will continue to go on until the end of time it isn’t a party line it’s ignorance and as long as we have ignorant people in this world we will continue to have rasicm.So lay off the political issue and just deal with the real issue.WE LIVE IN A RACIST INVORIMENT.

The… voice… of… reason…?

bigak

Pennsylvania

I was a loyal Democate until I saw the light & converted. The Democates do not represent anyone but themselves and don’t care who realized it. Double Standards in everyway. We all must fight extremely hard in the next elections to get rid of all of them.

Like a deer staring into your headlight. Oh, “Double Standards” is now a proper noun, don’t forget.

ordinaryjoe

Missouri

Harry Reed is a communist traitor and like all communists he operates under a double standard. On more reason to vote out all the communist scum in congress in 2010

Seriously, people think that Mr. “Reed” is a Communist? Points for least spelling errors.

jimgoodman

Nevada

I hope all Republicans will ban together and take control of both the House and Senate so the American people will be considered in any bill and do away with all these buying of votes.

Ah, the jimgoodman’s of America. The naivety is almost cute, isn’t.

foxhunt55

California

IT IS ALL ABOUT HEALTH CARE! THAT IS THE ONLY REASON HE IS STILL THERE. THE HYPOCRISY IS AMAZING BUT NOT UNEXPECTED! I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR THIS MAN AND WE HAVE TURNED ENOUGH CHEEKS FOR THE DEMS. TIME FOR HIM TO GO! THE SOONER THE BETTER!

Aaaaah, stop screaming at me! I think I missed the part where RWWs, “TURNED ENOUGH CHEEKS FOR THE DEMS.”

lucillelouise

Colorado

I am so very tired of Democrats practicing double standards regardless if it has to do with racism or any other issue. The senate needs to be divided evenly as well as the house and I’m so afraid this will never happen. Obama is in bed with the worst, has done many favors like for BEN NELSON recently and he on his own is scary.

Wide-eyed and doe-like, lucillelouise gave her mind entirely to Faux News and Baby Jesus.

Dan Gainor from Faux News is Arguing with me on Twitter

(This is from my post on DailyKos)

I’m actually a little surprised that my lowly tweets were even noticed.  I’ve only got 63 followers, basically nothing, yet somehow when I posted a comment about Dan Gainor’s recent opinion piecefor Foxnews.com he caught wind of it and responded.  The argument continues… this is fun!

My original tweet:

F-Head Dan Gainor at Faux News says gov. workers making 100k/yr. are “fat cats”// Nevermind millionaire execs. http://bit.ly/7Em2O9

Subtle, huh?  I know, I’m not much for playing nice.

His response:

@GodlessAmerican Millionaire execs aren’t getting paid w my tax dollars (except largely where Obama has made sure they were)

Mine:

@dangainor, Uh, are you forgetting the TARP funds which your beloved Bush passed? Exec. pay has gone up 400% in 30 yrs.

@dangainor How about the abusive privatization of our military propagated by Rumsfeld?

Gainor:

@GodlessAmerican “Abusive?” You guys are the ones who like a big military. Funny thing is, military NEEDS to have certain skill sets.

Mine:

@dangainor Us guys like “big military?” WTF Liberals have continuously called for lessoning of military funding.

@dangainor It is the Right and Faux News that continuously calls for military action. Not liberals.

@dangainor “Certain skill sets” already were present, Rumsfeld replaced gov. workers for over-paid ‘fat cat’ privateers.

Gainor:

@GodlessAmerican What you say and what you do are different. You want the peace dividend but get angry when people are hired 2 do those jobs

@GodlessAmerican Funny, peace protests were everywhere under Bush and are nowhere under Obama. You guys just used the war for politics

@GodlessAmerican Not enough of those skill sets were present to fight the war.

Mine:

@dangainor There already were people doing those jobs Gainor; Rumsfeld fired them and replaced them with contractors.

Let’s see where things go from here.

UPDATE: 2038 PST

Me:

@dangainor You’re ignoring the ‘fat cats’ that were paid with YOUR tax dollars to do a job that Americans already did for far less.

UPDATE: 2041 PST

Me:

@dangainor There’s protests against Obama’s war. I know of people that have gone to a few.

That’s for rossl.

UPDATE: 2046 PST

I wanted to bait him a little since he wasn’t replying.

Me:

@dangainor It’s harder arguing with someone that isn’t going to agree with everything you say like Faux News, huh?

And Gainor finally replies:

@GodlessAmerican You can’t be serious and claim that Dems are still making the war an issue.

Me:

@dangainor No, you’re right. It must be since Dems have to clean up the HUGE mess Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld left us, ya think?

UPDATE: 2052 PST

Me:

@dangainor Instead, Obama is making nuclear proliferation an issue. He’s not chasing after a false report of yellow cake that doesn’t exist

UDPATE: 2103 PST

I’s tinks Gainor no liky playing wit me.

More baiting:

@dangainor Atleast Obama hasn’t flown a “Mission Accomplished” banner. There are protests against the war, Y doesn’t FN cover them?

UPDATE:  2114 PST

I think that’s all folks.  I had a great time.  Thanks for the recs.

Oh, and my last tweet:

@dangainor Thanks for playing with me. Excuse me while I talk to a few adults, @markos place. http://bit.ly/84kThn

UPDATE:

UPDATE: 0933 12/22/09 PST

Gainor:

@GodlessAmerican I follow lefty sites and I watch as even the Code Pinkers try to rationalize the war. Who are you kidding?

@GodlessAmerican Nuclear proliferation is a bogus issue. Nukes won’t go away. He might as well promise rainbows and unicorns.

@GodlessAmerican You do know I don’t work at Fox, just saying.

Me:

@dangainor And yet the threat of WMDs brought the nation to its knees.

@dangainor Your opinion piece rang true to one of Faux News’ messages, kill the middle class.

@dangainor A conservative dissing nuclear proliferation? Wasn’t nuclear disarmament Reagan’s legacy? Oh, and helping the rich get richer.

@dangainor And my wife loves Unicorns, damnit!

UPDATE: 0945PST

Me:

@dangainor You write for the Forum, you’re a constant guest on Faux Business(insert joke). You’ve got a few hats. All push neo-liberalism.

UPDATE: 1002 PST

Gainor:

@GodlessAmerican Your middle class claim makes no sense. Grew up in working class family.

@GodlessAmerican O wants to get rid of ALL nukes. He’s not trying to find peace between two potentially warring parties.

@GodlessAmerican Libs also write for the forum. If you were a better writer maybe you could as well.

Me:

@dangainor Where you grew up isn’t where you are now.

@dangainor Gosh, that hurts Dan. I don’t think they’d appreciate my ideas.

@dangainor I visit the Forum regularly, never see any Libs. You’re upset because you can’t back you Op-piece.

This is still going on today, 12/22/09.  If you want to keep following the conversation then go to my twitter page.

What’s funny is that it takes a comedian to get serious about politics.  Remember folks, this guy isn’t a career politician.  He hasn’t been grounded in the art of considerate bullshit that makes up the majority of D.C. debate.

Thank GOD for Al Franken! 8 O

It’s something that the Right has a hard time with, especially Beck/Limbaugh fans.  You can come up with your own opinions, but you can’t create your own facts.  Facts are facts.  Thune gets bitch-slapped!  South Dakota, you can do better!  So, did Thune read the bill?

Hell, yes!

Apparently, the separation of church and state isn’t something that’s important to religious fanatics (I guess that goeswithout saying).  These guys have been warned before that prayer is OK for students to do but it can’t be something that is promoted by school staff or administration.  Well, The principal of Pace High School in Florida seems to think that his position gives him the right to push his faith in dog/god on the rest of the student body.  He’s been warned repeatedly, and now may face jail time.

Frank Lay, principal of Pace High School in Pace, Florida, and school athletic director Robert Freeman are accused of violating a consent decree banning employees of Santa Rosa County schools from endorsing religion.

They face a nonjury trial before U.S. District Judge M.C. Rodgers. If convicted, they could be sentenced to up to six months in prison and fined, subject to sentencing guidelines.

The ACLU filed  a lawsuit against Rodgers and other officials some time ago.  Officials agreed that promoting prayer was inappropriate at school.  Case closed, right?  Nah, soon after the Jan. 9 agreement, Principal Lay chose to ignore those rules again:

But on January 28, “Lay asked Freeman to offer a prayer of blessing during a school-day luncheon for the dedication of a new field house at Pace High School,” according to court documents.

The ACLU has said that it isn’t seeking jail time, but I think they should.  It will be up to the judge to decide.  This type of indoctrination is disgusting.

While many conservatives have been bleating out about the supposed Death Panels that are included in “the bill” (which is an inaccurate account of the legislative process), they’ve ignored the fact that Death Panels do exist already.  There are no provisions that support a belief that there are Death Panels in any of the bills for healthcare reform, but insurance companies have had them for years.

The false Death Panel rumors became general knowledge to the public after Sarah Palin, in all of her ignorant god-fearing glory, spoke these fittingly ignorant words:

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

These insane, fictional comments didn’t originate in Sarah Palin’s mind.  How could anything originate in a barren waste-land?  They instead came from the fear mongering and false research and evidence gleamed by Betsy McCaughey, who incidentally couldn’t handle a real debate with Jon Stewart early this week.

McCaughey’s appearance in the spot light apparently didn’t sit well with the Cantor Medical where she sat on the Board of Directors, because she resigned the following day.

Many conservatives have also been bleeting on about the articles written by Dr. Emmanuel in which he talks about euthanasia and the allocation of healthcare, neither of which have been honestly talked about by the Right Wing Nutjob punditry.  While they’ve termed Dr. Emmanuel “Doctor Death” if anyone had bothered to read either of his essays you would notice that he is completely against legalized euthanasia in the U.S.  Never mind reality, the conservatives seem to say, he’s related to President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and we must find some sort of evil plot within the White House to demonize President Obama with.  Never mind reality, god and insurers are on their side.

So, while Right Wing Bleating Machines continue their unwarranted ranting and raving, while they continue to assist in the destruction of the American middle class, while they continue to fight for the right of insurance companies to rape the American public, and while real Americans fight for the healthcare reform that America deserves remember that there are actually Death Panels in existence. They aren’t run by the government, they’re run by capitalism’s beloved insurance companies.