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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Jon takes down Graham and McCain for holding up hagel nomination over fake Benghazi outrage (via Crooks and Liars):

Young Turks: FAUX News’ crazy Al Jazeera theory.

Haggeling:

Maddow: Half of Michigan Blacks disenfranchised by GOP war on Democracy.

Young Turks: The GOP cat fight, staring Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove.

Thom: More Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

Sharpton: Is wacko Sen. Ted Cruz the new GOP savior?

Washington’s own Fukushima.

Thom: The establishment GOP versus the grassroots GOP.

Maddow: Indiana bill would force women to endure TWO transvaginal ultrasounds, before and after abortion:

Ed: Republicans are demonstrably out of touch with America.

Young Turks: How crazy is Sen. Ted Cruz?

Stephen on his sister.

Seattle Labor mobilizes for immigration reform.

Sam Seder: The Donald threatens blogger over Dump Trump petition.

Young Turks: Drunk tweets from Scott Brown?

White House: West Wing Week.

Greenman: Dark Snow Project.

Susie Sampson’s Tea Party Report: The week in intelligence.

Young Turks: Seven Craziest bills in the nation:

Maddow: No stigma for Sen. Ted Cruz for his McCarthy ways.

Pope Affairs:

Sharpton: Obama’s approval up; GOP still hell-bent on destroying him.

Stephen: Horse meat (via Slog).

#StopTheSequester.

Thom: Single biggest driver if income inequality.

Lawrence O’Donnell: Who will be the next Republican savior-o-the-month?

Sam Seder: MO GOP lawmaker proposes making it a felony to propose gun control legislation.

Ann Telnaes: Congress takes a recess.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    Seems a judge told the longshoremen, in short, “Stop wasting my time.”

    As the Memorandum of Understanding is not yet a binding deal and one of the things that could cause either party to walk from the deal is a to-be-completed environmental review, the Longshoremen are being stupid about filing suit over the arena agreement not having considered environmental impact. Nice try but a law student could have told you that over coffee for far less than your attorney’s charged.

  2. 2

    The “hot mic” claims another victim.

    Viewers who tuned in to Monday’s City Council meeting online might have heard more than they were meant to as several Walmart consultants huddled near a live microphone.

    Some of what was said — about city staff, opponents and a City Council member — wasn’t complimentary. At one point, Walmart site consultant Jeff Clayton refers to Councilman Scott Bailes as a “dipsh**.”
    http://www.news-leader.com/art...../302120089

  4. 4

    “Tens of thousands of Spaniards marched through cities across the country on Saturday to protest deep austerity, the privatization of public services and political corruption.”

    http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_.....ption?lite

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Sound familiar? Who you vote for does matter. Republicans act like they don’t like us, and we should treat them in kind, given what they want to do to us.

  5. 5

    Did you know Sen. Chuck Hagel got campaign donations from a group calling itself “Friends of Hamas”? Neither did anyone else until Ben Shapiro (who works for Breitbart.com, not exactly the world’s most reliable source) broke the “story.” A few minutes of work by a real journalist proved the group never existed, except in the overheated imaginations of rightwing propagandists (see, e.g., Ben Shapiro of the world’s not-most-reliable source).

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/wei.....sited.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentaries: Have you figured out yet that rightwing propagandists are pathological liars? That absolutely nothing they say is true? I mean, I’m a propagandist too, but there’s a big difference between men and them: I take pains to stick with true facts, while they peddle fantasies so bizarre they’re ruining the good names of reputable propagandists everywhere. Sheesh. They should be drummed out of the corps.

  6. 6

    From 5,

    I don’t see why this guy Hagel is such a big deal with the Republicans. After all, the guy was actually in the military, and a lot of Republicans never served a day due to draft deferments and “bad” knees. Maybe that’s what they’re mad about – Hagel has credibility when it comes to actual military service.

  7. 7

    Bob Woodward, well known conservative liberal writer of the WA Post:

    The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

    Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.

    See you leftist morons in a few months. Back to traveling the world.

  9. 9

    @7 All of us thought you were dead. Enjoy your trip, don’t hurry back, we don’t miss you.

  10. 10

    @8 Pluto is too damned nearby. Let’s launch him into interstellar space. Find a blank area between constellations and galaxies where there’s nothing to land on for 10 billion light years. That won’t get him out of our hair forever, but redshift will do as a temporary makeshift.

  11. 11

    Ever hear the astronomer joke about what caused the Big Bang? It goes, “Some scientists in the universe that existed before this one decided to test their big bang theory.” Apparently the test was successful.

  15. 15

    @ 6

    Hagel has credibility when it comes to actual military service.

    So does Bradley Manning.

    Credibility comes in handy when it suits liberal talking points. Other times, military service isn’t so popular with them. Recall what Wesley clark had to say about McCain in 2008:

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI.....rk.mccain/

    Recall things said about McCain that same year by Harkin (who has a personal record that should have made him think before speaking) and Rockefeller.

    Boiling it down, the GOP sees Hagel as another Republican willing to give cover to Obama’s efforts to dismantle military programs they believe are worthwhile.

    Hagel acts as Obama’s puppet, Obama gets to say ‘Hey, it was his decision and he’s a member of the Republican Party.’

    It’s been trendy for presidents to appoint someone from the opposite party to a Cabinet post or other high-level position. Presidents from both parties have done it.

    It would be interesting, after Obama’s term ends, to see Judd Gregg interviewed about the Commerce position he agreed to take, before figuring out what The One had planned for him and changing his mind about it.

  16. 16

    @15 Republicans use words when it suits them too. They lie, steal and cheat then accuse others of doing the same, but they do it best.

  17. 17

    This paragraph, or part of it, is trending heavily on the right-wing side of the ‘sphere today:

    “The good news is, the world doesn’t end March 2. The bad news is, the world doesn’t end March 2,” said Emily Holubowich, a Washington health-care lobbyist who leads a coalition of 3,000 nonprofit groups fighting the cuts. “The worst-case scenario for us is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens. And Republicans say: See, that wasn’t so bad.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....ml?hpid=z1

    I have no idea how this will turn out in the next several days, but I would point out that there aren’t a whole lot of big names, on either side of the debate, on the Sunday shows:

    http://www.nationaljournal.com.....y-shows-22

    Kaine and Ayotte. Not exactly either party’s clean-up hitters.

    Might give one the impression that the sequester is a fait accompli.

  18. 18

    #13. I could be in favor of the Draft for Everyone with no collage deferments or deferments for the rich and butt cysted like Limbaugh and what ever Cheny used to avoid the draft. It would cause middle class and upper middle class families to have a stake in the game of war.
    It’s so much easier to be a war monger if YOUR kid has no chance of being sent to the fighting.

    My father was drafted into service twice and he instilled in me, a healthy disrespect for politicians going to war.

    You want to kill support for invading Iran, institute a general draft.

  19. 19

    Let’s REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR –
    As we go to meet the foe –
    Let’s REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
    As we did the Alamo.

    We will always remember –
    how they died for liberty,
    Let’s REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR

    Wait. What?

    Hawaii Governor warns that sequestration will make Pearl Harbor less secure

    “The plain fact is that will undermine our capacity for readiness at Pearl Harbor,” Abercrombie said, referring to the base that was attacked by Japanese military forces in 1941 that resulted in the deaths of 2,400 Americans. “Now if that doesn’t symbolize for the nation that far from overstating it, it is zeroing in on a graphic example of what happens when we fail to meet our responsibilities congressionally, I don’t know what does.”

    Silly Hawaiian Governor.
    Doesn’t he realize that the same party dead set on having a sequester is the party that sat in the White House when the 9-11 attacks happened?

    Republicans don’t give a hoot about national security or the national economy. They got theirs, tough luck to the rest of you.

  20. 20

    Next stop…

    Mike da moron @19 – Obummer created the sequester before he was against it. It’s Obummer who hates da military! That’s why he nominated Chucky Hagel!

    Oh joy of joys… Soledad O’Brien will be no more on CNN. Heh heh heh!

    Back to traveling…

    Oh and for the hispanic jackass@8 from Pluto… Not going to visit your home ya moron!

  21. 21

    From 15,

    Actually, I think Manning did us a service by exposing just how mean our government can be. Julian Assange might be not a nice person, but holding government accountable for reprehensible behavior is fine with me.

  23. 23

    Obummer [heh. fecklessly repeating a moronic taunt rendered useless last Nov 6. – oh shit it was ALWAYS useless] created the sequester before he was against it.

    Who the F voted for it? Teabagger House no? Was it filibustered by the Turtleman and crew in the Senate?

    This “space cadet”‘s idiocy knows no bounds.

  24. 24

    Lie of the Year, so far.

    Sayeth the fool whose credulousness features the gateway pundit, hot air, the “unskewed” pollster, ad nauseum…

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