The latest false rumor floated on the right is that, during his interview with Fox News’ right-wing shill Bret Baier this week, Pes. Obama made up an earthquake that hit Hawaii in 2006. The lie appeared on Drudge, Malkin,”Fox and Friends” and all over right-wing blogs. It’s unclear whether these people didn’t bother to check the Google, or whether they did a search and then knowingly lied. A Google search produced Fox News’ own coverage of the quake in about two seconds.
March 21, 2010
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Polls
When 104 GOP insiders were asked whether their party chairman was an asset or a liability, 71 percent said Steele was a liability, while only 20 percent said he was an asset. Another 9 percent said he was neither or both.
Poetic Justice
In Washington, D.C., one night,
Eric Massa said he’d show us the sights.
Of course, we were hoping
For some nonsexual groping
And the Friday night tickle fights.LDS Watch
Last year, before Tiger Woods’ sex scandals became frontpage news, members of the Mormon Church took it upon themselves to perform their secret posthumous rites for Woods’ paternal line. They baptized various late family members into the Mormon Church and sealed Woods’ father in eternal marriage to his first wife despite her claims he abused and the fact that she may be very much alive.
Dr. Democrat
Should Tea Party patriots boycott the 2010 Census? Their hero Rep. Michele Bachmann has proposed it, saying she is concerned that the Obama White House might misuse the data, which could end up in the hands of ACORN.
Media Watch
The “dirty little secret” of right-wing media is that the average age of their predominantly male radio audience is 67, just as the average Fox viewer is in his mid-60s. Now a new study from Pew shows that young voters aren’t buying what 20th century movement conservatism is selling.
Jesusland
God recently called Brother Oral Roberts home, this time seemingly free of charge. The 91-year-old faith healer and televangelist went without asking for contributions.
Gay Politics
No wonder Michelle Bachman is scared. Exactly how many people live in committed gay relationships has always been a matter of opinion, and hers was as good as yours. But official record-keeping will no longer turn a blind eye on gay households.
Ryan Skipper
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Stenography As Journalism Classic: Christian News Service Publishes Lies by Rep. Dreier (R-Closet) about ‘Slaughter Rule’ Without Balance or Rebuttal
When Rep. David Dreier was chair of the House Rules Committee, he used the “Slaughter Rule” 35 times in just one session. The rule, which has existed since 1933, was used by GOP speakers Gingrich and Hastert 202 times. You won’t learn any of that by reading the interview with Dreier about the rule published by the Christian News Service this week. In fact, CNSNews published Dreier’s disingenuous take on the rule without bothering to fact check or present any sort of perspective from the pro-reform side. That’s not journalism, it’s stenography — and, worse, propaganda.
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LYLAS: Nuns Defy Bishops to Support Health Care Reform
Proving they are women first and subservient doormats to bishops…not at all, a group representing 59,000 nuns has fired off a letter to Congress in support of health care reform.
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GOP House Used Dreaded So-Called ‘Slaughter Rule’ 202 Times under Speakers Gingrich and Hastert
Republicans are flailing away about procedural maneuvers involved in passing health care reform because polling on reform goes down when the focus is on process not the benefits reform will provide. The GOP’s current disinformation campaign focuses on the process of “deeming,” which they have labeled the “Slaughter Rule” after House Rules Chair Louise Slaughter. In fact, the GOP used this same procedure 90 times under Speaker Gingrich and 112 times under Speaker Hastert.
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Virginia’s Anti-Gay Attorney General Comes out – As a Birther
During his campaign for attorney general of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli made his view on gay rights clear: They are “intrinsically wrong,” he said, because “they don’t comport with natural law” and gay sex “is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.” As if that weren’t enough, he was recently caught on tape speculating about whether Pres. Obama was born in Kenya, which says, “doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility.” Got that? The top law official of the commonwealth of Virginia is a birther.
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24% of Californians – 8.2 Million People – Have No Health Insurance
A study by UCLA found that about a quarter of Californians under the age of 65 are uninsured. That’s 8.2 million people. By comparison, that’s more people than who live in 39 U.S. states and more than the total population of Virginia (7.8 million), Washington state (6.6 million), Arizona (6.5 million) or Massachusetts (6.5 million).
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Grayson: ‘Palin is a Chillbilly and the Smartest Leader from the GOP since George W. Bush’
Sarah Palin got better than she gave when she recently attacked U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Orlando). “I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them,” Grayson said. His press release called Palin “the former half-term Governor” and noted she wore clothes at an event she paid for herself. It didn’t stop there.
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News Desk
- Hawaii Tired of Accommodating Birthers
Yahoo News Hawaii may start ignoring repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here. As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama’s birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials to ignore people who won’t give up…
- Fox Staffers Admit Glenn Beck Rehearses Crying Jags
But why rehearse? All it takes is a dab of Mentholatum in the eye. More from Howard Kurtz @ WaPo.
- More Americans Think Global Warming ‘Exaggerated’
Gallup: 48 percent of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41 percent in 2009 and 31 percengt in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question.
- C Street Cultist Stupak Has a Dem Challenger in Primary – Two Words: Money Bomb
HuffPo: Connie Saltonstall has spoken out against Stupak for his anti-abortion views, which have repeatedly obstructed progress on health care reform. Act Blue: Money bomb!
- Greenwald on Chief Justice Robert’s ‘Majestic Petulance’
Glenn Grenwald at Salon.com: “It’s not actually a unique event of oppression or suffering to have to sit and listen to a speech where someone criticizes you.”
- Washington Post Defends Cheney Witch Hunt against DOJ Lawyers
Mrs. Graham is spinning in her grave, via Media Matters.
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Camera
Verbatim
A few miles from here, Congress is in the final stages of a fateful debate about the future of health insurance in America. It’s a debate that’s raged not just for the past year but for the past century. One thing when you’re in the White House, you’ve got a lot of history books around you. And so I’ve been reading up on the history here. Teddy Roosevelt, Republican, was the first to advocate that everybody get health care in this country. Every decade since, we’ve had Presidents, Republicans and Democrats, from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon to JFK to Lyndon Johnson to — every single President has said we need to fix this system. It’s a debate that’s not only about the cost of health care, not just about what we’re doing about folks who aren’t getting a fair shake from their insurance companies. It’s a debate about the character of our country — about whether we can still meet the challenges of our time; whether we still have the guts and the courage to give every citizen, not just some, the chance to reach their dreams.
Pres. Barack Obama, March 19, 2010
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