Baratunde tells it straight about the Donald. Your Thoughts?
-
Intro Link and Graphics
-
Top Categories
-
Counter and Badges
Category Archives: Barack Obama
The Executive Branch WILL Continue Enforcing DOMA, Just Will Not DEFEND It In Court
February 26, 2011 – 4:13 pmGet ready for the deceptive meme to come flying your way that the Obama administration is abnegating its responsibilities to enforce law by not enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act. The administration will continue to enforce the unconscionable law, it will only not defend it from legal challenges in court. Others, starting with the House [...]
Chris Rock On Obama-Era Hatred: Racism’s One Last Temper Tantrum Before It Goes To Sleep
February 17, 2011 – 1:12 pmFrom an Esquire interview online now: SR: Like many nice Caucasians, I cried the night Barack Obama was elected. It was one of the high points in American history. And all that’s happened since the election is just a shitstorm of hatred. You want to weigh in on that? CR: I actually like it, in [...]
Birther Madness In The Republican Party
February 16, 2011 – 10:00 amAnderson Cooper interviews Montana State Representative Bob Wagner who refuses to admit that he knows either that President Obama was born in America or even that being born in America makes someone a citizen: Stupefyingly, Representative Wagner is representative of more than 50% of likely Republican primary voters: Birthers make a majority among those voters [...]
Fear Of Middle Eastern Democracy
February 13, 2011 – 4:00 pmWatching this video, I’m starting to fear those who have seemingly no belief in either the intrinsic value or potential effectiveness of democracy as much as I fear Islamism: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
Thoughts On Secretary Clinton’s Response To Egypt
January 30, 2011 – 11:31 pmAs always when I venture out of my areas of specialization, let me preface all following remarks with the obvious reminder—I am by no means a foreign policy expert or a Middle East expert. So take the following on the merits of my arguments and bring forth any facts you think I may need to [...]
Rachel Maddow Demonstrates How Far To The Right The Country Has Moved In The Last 50 Years
January 30, 2011 – 4:08 pmRachel doing what she does best, the night after Obama’s State of the Union speech last week: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
Hitchens Brings The Most Eloquent Takedown Of The Tea Party Ever
January 29, 2011 – 2:46 pmEvery time I see him speak of late, he only becomes better. It’s almost like the cancer only makes him stronger: Your Thoughts?
Denouncing Political Rhetoric Which Is Indistinguishable From The Manifestos Of Paranoid Madmen
January 12, 2011 – 12:42 pmJon Stewart’s remarks about Tucson two nights ago were poignant, conciliatory, honest, humble, and insightful: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Arizona Shootings Reaction www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> The Daily Show on Facebook Here he hits the nail on the head: I do [...]
Daily Hilarity: Video Game Health Care Bill
August 28, 2010 – 10:36 amSee more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Your Thoughts?
Olbermann Details All The Evidence Of Obama’s “Secret Muslim Faith”
August 24, 2010 – 2:20 amThe depth of the conspiracy is so chilling: Your Thoughts?
FOX News’s Judge Andrew Napolitano: Bush And Cheney Should Be Indicted (And Lambasts Obama Too)
July 13, 2010 – 11:24 amA great interview with Ralph Nader: Napolitano’s new book, in which he discusses all these issues, is Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History. Thanks to Aram for the link. Your Thoughts?
New Hitchens Interview
July 12, 2010 – 7:38 amBut not a word about his illness. It is a series of rapid fire questions and answers on a range of topics, with little elaboration. Here are a few interesting bits: Several chapters are devoted to your Trotskyist youth. What attracted you to the left? The name. It was the left opposition to Stalinism, capitalism, [...]
Tom Tancredo Calls Obama The Greatest Threat To America
July 10, 2010 – 8:45 amHe essentially compares Obama to the Soviet Union and Al-Qaeda and argues that he is an even wors threat to America than them. It’s just baseless and shameless and insane: H/T: Discernible Chaos Your Thoughts?
Oil Spills Onto 1st Amendment, Making It Unreadable, Invalid
July 2, 2010 – 12:32 pmAnderson Cooper reports: Your Thoughts?
Obama’s New Avant-Garde Approach To His Weekly Address
June 28, 2010 – 1:20 pmCamels With Hammers isn’t the only one shaking up its visual approach. Check out Othe White House’s new style of weekly video address: Weekly Address: Jobs Creation from White House Weekly Address on Vimeo. Trippy stuff. And it has a message. Your Thoughts?
Obama Acknowledges Two Father Families In Father's Day Proclamation, Christian Right Flips Out
June 24, 2010 – 7:52 amSecular News Daily reports: As part of his Sunday proclamation, Obama included a reference to “two fathers”: Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian. Tim Wildmon, president of the far-right American Family Association, responded [...]
Bad Science In The Gulf
June 17, 2010 – 11:37 amRachel Maddow warns that the Obama Administration is ignoring scientific opinion about the way to rebuild the Gulf: Your Thoughts?
Olbermann And Matthews Rip Obama’s Oval Office Speech
June 15, 2010 – 11:51 pmThanks to Terri Lee for the heads up. Your Thoughts?
Cults Of Inerrant Leaders
June 15, 2010 – 10:39 amGlenn Greenwald summarizes an atrocity of institutionalized injustice, whereby the executive branch of the United States has the power to abduct and torture innocent people with impunity: The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning [...]
Obama To Make Reassuring Eye Contact With Every Last American
June 9, 2010 – 10:53 amObama turns to his strength: ROCKLAND, ME—In an attempt to convince an anxious populace that his legislative agenda is working and that everything is going to be all right, President Barack Obama embarked on a 50-state, 30,000-town tour Monday during which he plans to gaze assuredly into the eyes of each American citizen, one at [...]
Obama’s Correspondents’ Dinner
May 2, 2010 – 8:38 amPretty funny stuff as usual and just like last year his parody of Michael Steele’s forced attempts to make the GOP relevant to African Americans is one of his funniest stretches: Your Thoughts?
Obama Prays With Billy Graham
April 25, 2010 – 9:21 pmAs good as Obama is in his abstract thinking about the value of the separation of church and state, I loathe having to watch him pander to religious power brokers like Jeremiah Wright, Rick Warren, and, now, as president after president before him has, Billy Graham. Here’s Christopher Hitchens on Billy Graham: Your Thoughts?
Obama’s Rawlsian Defense Of Separation Of Church And State
April 25, 2010 – 3:26 pmThis video of a speech Obama made during his presidential campaign which is making the rounds among my atheist Facebook friends today: When the speech was made I commented on James Dobson’s faulty reaction to Obama. As I implied in that post, in the part not addressing Dobson, I think this speech is a spectacular [...]
-