Posted on October 12, 2012, 2:07 pm, by cocktailhag, under
Baloney,
Going Galt,
Holy Singers,
Not in Front of the Servants,
Nudes in the News,
Thrown Shoes,
WTF?.
Ever since Reagan, Republicans have chosen Presidential candidates the same way an ad agency might cast a beer commercial. Literally. Remember all the talk about who voters would want to “have a beer with” when attempting to sell a slow-witted, overprivileged ne’er-do-well who didn’t even drink, back in 2000? They never bother to find [...]
When one ponders what could possibly be wrong with us as a society when all our time, money, and political energy is devoted to developing a larger and more formidable military and police state, and in our spare time, all we manage to do is call gays icky and women sluts (and worse). Politics, to [...]
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banana republic,
Brooks Brothers Riot,
Class Warfare,
Corruption,
Dying Newspapers,
Eric Holder,
Iran,
Joe Biden,
Marijuana Legalization,
Police State,
President Obama,
Rodney King,
Taxes,
the 1%,
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Ordinarily, you’d think that an upstart journalistic enterprise calling itself PolitiFact emerging in this era of Cokie’s Law, where whatever utter claptrap some politicians coughed up would nonetheless become widely believed despite its jaw-dropping falsity, would be a good thing. And sometimes it is, especially when it eviscerates serial liars like, well, all the Republicans. [...]
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banana republic,
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Corruption,
David Gregory,
Dick Cheney,
Dying Newspapers,
Fox News,
Joe Biden,
Labor Day,
Medicare,
PolitiFact,
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Hag readers know I harbor an understandably visceral disdain for NBC’s David Gregory, but watching him this morning on his last-place excuse for a show, I think I started to figure out why. He’s an automaton (and a sloppily made, one, too… they evidently put on either the wrong eyebrows or the wrong hair at [...]
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Aaron Schock,
bailout,
David Brooks,
David Gregory,
Dick Cheney,
Harold Ford,
Joe Biden,
Jr.,
Karl Rove,
Meet The Press,
Rachel Maddow,
Sarah Palin,
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