Politics

I’ve oft spent countless hours at night, rolling in fitful sleep, imagining what kind of nation TheFoxNation.com really would produce if you took the userbase and staff and allowed them to actually take over the US and deport all us “unAmerican commies”.

Thankfully the real America in no way resembles the frightening dystopia of the Fox Nation. For the sake of shits-n-giggles, I’ve modeled a nation from birth to maturity using the commenter’s own beliefs and assuming that it would be a majority opinion. Read more by hitting the link below:
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McDonalds has, for whatever reason, opened a website honoring African-American heritage in the US. Obviously nothing wrong with that, unless you are an esteemed intellectual at TheFoxNation.com. The title of the news story: “McDonald’s Launches Black web site”

But, let’s consider the comments on the story for a moment. I think that McDonald’s has found the solution to Neo-con obesity! Take Loyal Footsoldier SashaH40 for example:

I just sent an email to McDonald’s corp. Expressing my disgust with this web site and will no longer go to their establishment. I hope others do as well.
http://www.mcdonalds.com/contact/contact_us.html

Out of the fifty or so comments as of this posting, a majority are calling for boycotts, some are pointing out how TheFoxNation now resembles StormFront ( a white power group ), and a few are making the typical “hahah KFC gold chains dumb black people” jokes. Fox Power commenter “Kenyan Chronicles” ( how cute ) even found this SHOCKING clue:

Check out their CEO–(black) and gave $30,000 to odumbo —-Enjoy those big-macs!

McDonald’s CEO is black!!! Stop the presses!!! A BLACK MAN IS A CEO!!!!

Now then, for those of you wondering how this relates directly to Republicans, consider the following obesity graph:

Now overlay that image with the following elections results for 2008:

And you get the following statistical breakdown:

Foxedy – The act of unknowingly transcending satire by becoming a blind parody of oneself. See Fox News & TheFoxNation.com

Use it, spread the term! Help me take over the world!

On cue, MM is blaming Obama directly for the NY flight thing. She had the nerve to post this blurb, the irony is just delicious:

Using military resources for a cheap photo-op. Scaring the pants off the public. Exploiting 9/11 imagery for self-aggrandizement. Keeping secrets and causing mass panic.
Um, can you imagine if a GOP administration did this?
Can you imagine?!

There are just no words. Apparently the last eight years are a happy void in her mind.

As hard as they tried, the April 15th anti-Obama tea parties just didn’t achieve that goal of being ‘non-partisan’ and a ‘grassroots campaign’. According to Michelle Malkin, the protests were about American’s being fed up with high taxes, even as 90% of the crowd protesting were receiving a tax cut courtesy of the stimulus plan.

Michelle’s adorable readers shared their stories of heroics and oppression from the protests, like this gem from chotii:

Lots and lots and LOTS of cars honked and waved and thumbs-upped. The guys driving big rigs (garbage trucks, 18 wheelers, UPS-sized vans and so forth) seemed to be uniformly glad to honk their approval. Even one public bus driver did!

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A lot of people tried to pretend we weren’t there. The people in hybrids and SmartCars seemed especially likely to try to make believe we didn’t exist.

OMG those hippies in hybrids and Smartcars, who are receiving tax breaks and spending less on gas, didn’t notice a couple of hundred people standing around on the sidewalks and parroting GOP rhetoric? Shame!

Of course the entire thing was non-partisan and just about taxes. It was covered evenly across media outlets and definitely was a grassroots campaign. /sarcasm

I mean, let’s look at how the media reported on the protests:

• Fox News Corporation — 133 mentions( Over Fox News and Fox Business )
• CNN — 36 mentions
• MSNBC — 32 mentions
• HLN — 24 mentions
• CNBC — 17 mentions

Definitely no hidden agenda there right?

Or let’s look at some of the corpor… sorry I mean lobbyist… wait, sorry I mean grassroots supporters of the Tea Parties and I’ll even use the Conservapedia.com definition (when available ) so I’m not accused of being an evil liberal!:

• American Family Association: The American Family Association or AFA is a non-profit conservative Christian organization that believes in protecting family values through consumer activism.
• Freedom Works: FreedomWorks is a conservative non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., United States.
• Americans For Prosperity (AFP) is a Washington D.C.-based political advocacy group which describes itself on its Web site as “… an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and federal levels.”Who sponsors RightOnline, which helps show conservative bloggers how to harness the web to win people to their cause. Which, as a sidenote, nothing wrong with that.
• Sen David Vitter (R), who is sponsoring a bill to recognize the protests and declare April 15th as National Tax Protest Day. Yeah, seriously.

ThinkProgress has a list of the politicians who jumped on the opportunity to speak at the protests, and I’m happy to report that they are from both sides of the issues. Oh wait, nope, they’re all beltway Republicans. My bad.

But ThinkProgress is an evil liberal website, so I’m sure there were *some* Democrats in attendance that actually *are* upset by the stimulus plan and taxes.

As far as the attendance numbers, it was pretty good. No official headcount, but the estimates are around 500-1500 persons per protest, with ~2000 protests across the nation, putting the total around 1-3million people participating. Without discrediting the turnout, Fox News is calling it “Mission Accomplished” on the Fox Forum, Michelle Malkin calls it “MASSIVE” and “historical” in her posts.

That must mean when the anti-war protests broke out in 2003 that Michelle, Fox, FreeRepublic et al were astounded by the 20 million persons in 800 cities across the WORLD protesting?

hahahaha yeah, sorry. When The anti-war protest happened in DC in 2007, FreeRepublic reported how “low” and “thin” their numbers were at 25,000 attendees. Which happens to be about 25 times the amount of tea-party goers that showed up in DC. 25,000 = thin, 1,000 = massive. If that is how they are with numbers, I don’t think any one of ‘em has a better idea on how to fix the economy.

Conclusion
Ok enough of the snark, in all seriousness, I am GLAD that so many people turned out and coordinated these events. I’m glad that a portion of the protesters had best interests at heart and are honestly upset about how our government has been run, not over the past three freakin months, but DECADES.

At the same time I’m ashamed that right-wing pundits and politicians had to overshadow the protests and turn them into same-old beltway Obama bashing, and equally ashamed of the simpletons that were at there to protest a man and not an errant idea, policy, or even entrenched system.

Regardless of political affiliation, American’s coming together and protesting is EXACTLY what this country was built on, and I hope to see more of it. I may not agree with the partisanship that the GOP and it’s guard dogs pushed on the protests, but I can agree with the sentiment and ideals that the protests stood for: that Americans are finally getting involved and will let their gov’t know when they aren’t happy.

Hopefully that’s something that people on both sides of the aisle can agree with.

Apparently the “fine” bloggers over at RedState have started to run out of things to blame Obama for, so they decided to start making things up.

Most of you have probably already heard about the Microsoft bridge that will connect West & East campus, which currently is separated by a public highway. If not, here is the original CNN story.

Basically the Mayor of Redmond applied for $11mil in stimulus money to help build the bridge, which would alleviate traffic on the public highway and connect the two sectors, and Microsofts campus’.

Erick Erickson of Redstate.com, a mouth-breather neocon version of DailyKOS, somehow found a way to blame Obama:

Instead of the blue screen of death, let’s call it the blue span of death. Like the bridge to nowhere, Microsoft has somehow gotten its hands on $11 million of the stimulus dollars to build a bridge that will connect Microsoft to . . . well . . . Microsoft.

This is another example of Obama deciding he knows what’s best and us winding up with a raw deal.

Apparently Erick doesn’t do the whole “reading comprehension” thing, since the article he goes on to link states that the Mayor applied for the funds, and Microsoft has footed a little less than half of the bill for the bridge, which would be open to the public.

Last I checked, there are funds available for public infrastructure projects, and the Redmond Mayor took advantage, although Erick seems to think that Obama personally cut Microsoft a check for $11mil. Due to the low IQ of Redstate readers, the comments on the story are basically an echo chamber.

Sorry to all the haters. Click ‘Read More’ to view the full post:
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So Miley Cyrus did the Asian eyes thing in a photo, and someone in Cali decided to file a $4billion lawsuit over it.

Apparently they think that this no-talent hack has $4billion in the first place, or that she has any relevance other than trying to become sluttier and sluttier so she can eventually pose nude at 18.

Anyway, the real point is that Michelle Malkin, like a true hypocrite, has flip-flopped on Asian racism. When the Spanish b-ball team did it, she called them racial bigots, and her readers called for the Chinese to bomb Spain, et al.

When Cyrus does it, she says that she posed for a “stupid photo” and then throws some Asian self-hate into the post. Never wanting to be outdone in the race for King dumbshit, one reader somehow connected the lawsuit to Democrats. Seriously:

Ok, so blowing people up – or your girlfriend blowing herself up under your direction – is ok and results in a Profesorship and juice at the White House. Pulling your eyes back results in a $4 billion lawsuit. Yes, the Dems have made their mark.

And on the Spanish thread, one reader said:

That being said, I dislike Spain. Those pansies were “neutral” in WWII

Yeah, apparently we’re still hung up on WWII and how awesome America Fuck Yeah! was, and how Japanese import cars should be banned, etc.

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Michelle Malkin and her idiot’s are all over this one as usual. And, almost on cue, MM reader zyzzyg starts crying about Islamic schools:

Religion does not sound like economic stimulus to me.
However, I don’t want to see money going to Saudi Wahabist Madrassa Academies.
Yes, meetings should be held, and if that means Muslim/Islamic Schools are barred from sharing in any monies, then I am all for it.

TraditionalValues.org, a radical Christian organization bent on removing the separation of Church and State, are now attacking the Stimulus plan as being “anti-Christian” due to a certain subsection of the document which states:

No funds awarded under this section may be used for …

(C) modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities—

(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or

(ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission; or

(D) construction of new facilities.

TraditionalValues.org then goes on a bash spree, stating that:

This new administration and its secularist allies in Congress don’t accept the First Amendment’s protections of religious activity even as they cite the First Amendment to defend all sorts of bizarre and offensive speech and art.

Aaaaactually, the subsection of the bill in question does follow the First Amendment principles of not being involved in religion. If you are a religious institution, then you won’t receive federal funding.

I’m certain that if the text is removed and a religious Madrasah receives funding, TraditionalFailuws would be on the horn about “Islamofacism” and all that noise.

With all the things wrong with the Stimulus Bill ( and there are a lot of things wrong with it ), this has to be one of the biggest non-issues.

The only people I’ve found that are actually more stupid than Michelle Malkin herself are her readers. One reader contributed this gem on yet another gay bashing article on Michelle’s site:
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