No, seriously:
The problem is there are people in this country, maybe ten percent, I don’t know what the number, maybe twenty percent on a bad day, who want this president to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn’t president. … They want to be able to say, well, he didn’t really have that batting average; he really wasn’t the first African American president; he really didn’t do health care; he really didn’t kill bin Laden. There’s an asterisk, and they have been fighting for that, the people like Donald Trump, since day one. They can’t stand the idea that he’s president, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn’t like somebody in another racial group, so what? It’s the sense that the white race must rule, that’s what racism is, and they can’t stand the idea that a man who’s not white is president. That is real, that sense of racial superiority and rule is in the hearts of some people in this country. Not all conservatives, not even all right-wingers, but it always comes through with this birther crap and these other references and somehow trying to erase ObamaCare, erase his record in history, and a big part of it is bought into by people like John Boehner, who’s not a bad guy, but he knows the only way he can talk to the hard right is talk their language.
Chris Matthews is to mental health what Lindsay Lohan is to sobriety.
The Crawdad Hole 
From the last thread
Susan Rice to be National Security Adviser?
Well, Susan is a good little foot soldier since she believes everything you tell her, repeats it and now rewarded. It’s how Tony Soprano promoted his capos.
Obama and friends really think they will “weather this storm” and get back to business as usual , and just keep on doing what they do best , lie cheat and steal . They are complete political animals and are still seeking to turn this onto Republicans .
I have never seen another administration full of incompetent people who would have trouble getting and keeping a job in the private sector like this one. Fiction writers, failed lawyers, tax cheats, cooks, bombers, slum lords and other ass lickers.
twitter over capacity for me
https://twitter.com/massSNAFU/status/335005293631111169
This is a short summary of laws potentially broken and possible punishments for those involved in the IRS scandal. I don’t know anything about rightside but this article is pretty bare bones and factual quoting statutes
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013051632551/us/politics/irs-gate-the-potential-criminal-implications.html
By the way I noticed one of those laws had to do with two or more people conspiring to take away constitutional rights…….Um I think somebody needs to investigate the Senate, just saying!
IRS also denied pro-life groups tax-exempt status
http://washingtonexaminer.com/report-irs-denied-tax-exempt-status-to-pro-lifers-on-behalf-of-planned-parenthood/article/2529750
Holy crap
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/335013633744588802
What’s creepy is that many who are commenting on the IRS article in the NYT support what the IRS did, because these groups were conservative. The vile progs are fascist bigots.
Can you imagine all the screaming and tantruming they would do if this were happening to them (vile progs)?
Horrible. I’m reading a great book by Harvey Silverglate, Three Felonies a Day — it’s about how federal criminal laws have become so vague and overreaching that average, law-abiding citizens probably break 3 of them a day just going about their lives. Very chilling.
This is actually a cool article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/
A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries
Like I always say, the United States is the least racist country in the history of the world.
Yup.
for sure. 🙂
This kind of projection for the motives of those who don’t agree that Obama is all that and a bag of chips used to piss me off, now it just makes me laugh. What a sad little world Tweety lives in. He makes decisions on who to vote for based on the ethnicity of the candidate and just cant image that there are people out there that don’t think the same way as he does.
All true. But what Chrissie engages in, is actually hate speech. He should be shunned.
I’m curious, how come terrorists aren’t labeled racist? Seriously, they want to kill and maim people because of their ethnicity, their religion, their culture. Terrorists really are hardcore racists. That’s who we should be concerned about.
In the US, I’d say the number of hardcore racist is somewhere around less than 1%. Another couple of percent are simple bigots. Then there’s this huge group, say about 15-20% that are like Matthews. They don’t want equality, they want to nurture feelings of persecution so they can declare their personal self righteousness and nobility to the whole world. This is the most insidious group when it comes to racism, because their method of operation requires them to focus on differences, to never let black people forget that somebody might hate them because of their skin color. They are so addicted to feeling pity, that they don’t even care if they rob people of their power.
I’m tweeting that.
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/335014610660904960
Not sure racist is the right word. The terrroist type you are referring to are prejudice against other religious and ethnic groups, many of whom are the same race as they are. They aren’t targetting people because they are white/black/asian, they are doing it because of politics and religion. I would call that a bigot, not a racist for the same reasons you differeniated racists/bigots in the US in your comment.
If you superimpose a map of Muslim countries over the map of intolerance that votermom posted there is almost 100% overlap of muslims and racism. Seems to me there must be a correlation between fierce religious intolerance and racism.
Huh? Murphy, muslims are tolerant…..it’s the religion of peace for goodness sakes!
Are you suggesting that they are less tolerant than we are constantly being told??? I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
Actually, in those countries even the non-muslims are suspicious of “people of another race.”
That’s kind of a natural reaction to seeing that “other race” blow up & behead people you know.
Well, the reason I differentiate racists and bigots is because racism requires some power behind it. People sitting on their back porch shooting off their mouth are simple bigots. They really don’t have the power to oppress anybody. Racism is systematic and institutionalized.
Prejudice against other religions, ethnic groups, and cultures, backed up by believing you have the right to kill them, is pretty darn racist if you ask me.
I differentiated based on the clasical definitions in webster’s dictionary. As I understand muslim terrorist motivations, they fit more under bigot than racist definitions below. I dont see their actions motived by their race, as by their religous and politcal world view. Defintions are fluid and I can understand why you can see a kind of racism in some of the terrorits groups. Heaven knows there are a lot of them and their motivations are varried.
Definition of RACISM
1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
Definition of BIGOT
a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
using the dictionary definition of racism, I would argue that pretty much NO ONE in the USA is a racist. Seriously. The percentage of Americans who believe that “racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race” is so small as to be statistically insignificant.
In which case, the civil rights movement can just shut itself down and Chris Matthew’s mouth should be permanently duct-taped closed. Which makes no sense (well, the duct tape maybe) of course, so a more complex definition of racism is needed.
Yttik’s definition is more useful as a social tool for increasing tolerance among people and ensuring that those with power (the govmt, big corps, institutions) are held to a very high standard of fairness — forget outright racism, we don’t want our government and institutions to even be biased for lords sake.
Which is why we’re the greatest country in the history of the world.
😉
Doesn’t that ass-kissing, leg-tingling psycho know that pulling the race card just doesn’t work anymore? This jackass has cried “wolf” so many times that even the wolves are yawning.
Fox Cincy: IRS employees say “we were just doing what the boss said”
Of course they were. There’s really is no such thing as a rogue IRS agent. There are no “rogues” in a bureaucracy. There is paperwork, rules, red tape, and orders from above. The system hardly allows room for common sense, so it certainly doesn’t allow room for people to act independently.
The Fox report flashed a Tea Party express rally where Sarah Palin was speaking, which reminded me that in 2011 everyone was expecting her to run and the Tea Party would have been her machine if she had.
Another motive for the targeting.
Gay Patriot made a good observation about Obama releasing an opponent’s divorce records that you could pretty expect that behavior to continue.
Also love this (someone posted this downstairs), Gutfeld’s riff on the media’s “Elvis Syndrome” ….
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/15/Gut-Check-Intervention
Noticed that the House of Reps cloak room was bugged too, Holder’s got to GO!!! He won’t approve a special prosecuter? Wonder why?
As the Obama sh*t keeps hitting the fan, the I-word certainly is a possibility now that all these “scandals” together are pretty damning. Standing alone, not so much…..
Oh, and those Benghazi emails, any hints as to where Obama was that night?
The NT Times has actually written an editorial critical of the President. I just about fell over.
When you’ve lost the NYT ….. 😀
But yet again they are only outraged when their own fucking ox is gored.
Honk!
I may need smelling salts
Part of the AP scandal
https://twitter.com/SCPatriot68/status/335024578151710720
I believe at least at this point we only know that the phone records were retrieved from the phone company. Some of those records led back to the cloak room. I don’t think we have any evidence that there was any actual wiretapping involved at least not at this point.
However and this is tinfoil hat territory at this point. Doesn’t the Patriot Act give the justice department a pass on wiretapping for a short period of time like 48 hours or something? Sort of like a preview fishing expedition and then they have to go to FISA court? I think that’s part of the Patriot Act, all under the auspices of national security of course.
Think about it, it makes sense to cast such a wide net because then you could legitimately under the auspices of national security have a little listen on a LOT of phone lines. That could be a handy tool during an election, assuming of course any of the information was shared which of course would be illegal and I’m sure nobody would fracture any laws. It would explain why there was such a delay in telling the AP.
I know that’s kind of out there but you guys always say it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
an update to the article at the link confirms that Nunes meant that DOJ had seized phone records from the capitol press pool office (which we already know), NOT that there was evidence of DOJ tapping phone lines in the cloak room. I hope politicians arent being “confused on purpose” about the difference between seizing a phone record and listening in or recording an actual phone conversation.
That’s my understanding too it’s just phone records. At this point there is no evidence of actual wiretapping.
Congressional members need to be careful in making accusations like that too.
LOL….just change the name of your non-profit and you’re IN 😀
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/busted-conservative-group-changes-name-to-greenhouse-solutions-granted-nonprofit-status-in-3-weeks/
Jon Stewart gets in some perfunctory digs at Carney & Obama, then makes it all about reminding the audience how odious Republicans are.
http://nation.foxnews.com/jon-stewart/2013/05/16/jon-stewart-continues-piling-scandal-plagued-obama-he-s-either-nixon-or-mr-magoo
Down memory lane, did the IRS give Harry Reid Romney’s tax records?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/did-the-irs-give-romneys-tax-returns-to-harry-reid/
Quite possible.
from the link: ““He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” Reid told the liberal news outlet. “But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look?”
what a weasel.
Protecting his source ? Of course, Romney didn’t push back, but with hopes in the future all Presidential candidates will be required full disclosure on tax, military and SCHOOL records !
We can call it the Obama Act. 😀
Love it. 🙂
Matthews is a total dipshit of course, but there is actually something quite dangerous about his demagoguery: there is a sliver of truth in what he’s saying, and half-truths are a dangerous weapon. I’ve been reading the conservative blogs and news sites last few days because they have been leading with the scandal news as it’s breaking (hot air, powerline, malkin etc). I find the writers at these sites are good — funny, opinionated, and pretty responsible writers/journalists. The comments are a different story, unsurprisingly. The majority of commenters are perfectly reasonable partisans with whom one may or may not agree, but there are a significant percentage (10%?) of commenters who post pretty unabashedly racist comments. My “racist filter” is fine meshed — references to Barky, or Hussein, or the kenyan get caught in it, so I think 10% is a pretty liberal estimate. But that’s 10% of powerline commenters, for lords sake, not the general public.
In any event, of COURSE there are a tiny minority in the tea party and republican party who are white supremacists or who live in sincere fear about the demise of the white race. Yeah, so what? There are a tiny minority in the Netroots and Democratic party who are true-blue marxists and anarchists, who sincerely agitate for overthrowing the US govmt (dirty little secret: there are also true-blue racists in the democratic party and labor movement too, I know some of them even).
Matthews KNOWS this. He knows there are lunatic fringes, as well as not so fringey members who have offensive views, in all groups. Using the existence of a tiny few odious members to not only smear the entire group but to friggin justify the State’s criminal intrusion into their operations, denying their Constitutional rights, and just generally intimidating and silencing them is despicable.
I hate over-the-top comparisons (no, asshole, the tea party is NOT the Taliban, not even close you freak, and no obama is NOT Hitler), but Matthews is fucking dangerously irresponsible — his outrageous commentary can’t be brushed off — the Rwandan genocide was sparked by a media personality spouting off hateful lies on the radio, and what Matthews is saying here, along with Bond and his Taliban remark, is truly dangerous.
There were senators, and even Biden, iirc, calling the tea party terrorists.
People, Americans anyway, tend to rebel. So when you are constantly accusing them of racism, there is a small percentage who will take that as a challenge. So all these accusations of racism become a self fulfilling prophecy.
Do you have any idea how that percentage comes out on the liberal blogs? Contrary to what my fellow liberals may think they are not free of bigotry or racist stereotyping either when they make comments.
haha so true, and dont even get me started on their sexism/misogyny.
https://twitter.com/hollyR_J/status/335034188778573824
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/20134635-452/obama-eyes-gov-deval-patrick-to-replace-eric-holder-at-justice.html
The same governor of a state gives benefits to terrorists ? Same governor who wants to protect same terrorist’s privacy by not disclosing financial school records ?
Same governor who is probably safeguarding Obama’s school records?
Yeah, he’d fit right in this team of dickwads.
stolen
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/335043135988178944
😀
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/335042727349739520
This is the fail safe. Tweety can use this to dismiss any criticism, any blatant evidence, any incompetence. I will never understand why this guy has a job that gives him a platform to spout his idiocy.
Not just a job. He makes $miilions$ a year spouting idiocy.
3223 RTs on this so far
The Fair Tax would eliminate the IRS. I think they have other great ideas too, but then the corrupt politicians (both parties) wouldn’t be able to use them as their personal ATM machine.
I remember Glenn Beck supporting the Fair Tax folks but reminded us that we should also tithe 10% of our income to local charities that directly help our communities.
Fox commentator Eric Bolling wonders if it was “just a coincidence” that he was audited by the IRS last year after being a very vocal opponent of obama during the re-election campaign.
http://nation.foxnews.com/irs-targeting-tea-party/2013/05/16/eric-bolling-i-was-audited-after-criticizing-obama
Oh, you don’t want to piss off Bolling. 😉 Didn’t he want to donate to keep the WH tours open for the kids who already planned trips to DC? I think the admin refused him.
https://twitter.com/votermom/status/335047806555398146
#MyTaxExemptIRSName play time
I added a couple 😉
🙂
Wow, I was just watching the local morning news (King 5 news, NBC) for the traffic report and they had a blurb saying. “The white house has released X number of emails regarding Benghazi which show that the CIA is responsible for the Benghazi talking points and that the CIA did not know if terrorists were involved in the attack when they developed the talking points.” So the white house mouth piece is still actively spreading shit and lies regarding Benghazi! What are they covering up.
Not only do the new emails show that CIA DID know it was terrorists from the git-go, but they also show that the FBI agreed with them, and had no argument with the original talking points from the CIA.
It was clearly the WH and State that pushed the alterations.
Of course they did, Obama was campaigning on having Al-Q on the run when clearly this proved he didn’t.
These guys are also from the Cambridge area and no red flags ?
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/14/7-cited-for-trespassing-at-quabbin-reservoir-patrols-stepped-up-across-state/
Oh but wait! Even Tweety has “soured on Obama”:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/chris-matthews-sours-on-obama-164095.html
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/16/Benghazi-Dump-Teleconference-Transcript-Missing
in the Benghazi E-mail dump, nothing about the teleconference. That is a important piece of the puzzzle
Or where Obama was that night ?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/embattled-irs-official-lois-lerners-husbands-law-firm-hosted-an-obama-campaign-organizing-meeting/
got this from Rev Amy’s place
there is so much incest going on in DC
The excuse that the IRS was being deluged with applications by Tea Party and other objectionable and fraudulent filings for non profit status is a lie. The excuse that they had to come up with screening criteria on the fly due to the deluge is a lie. http://philanthropy.com/article/IRS-Rationale-for-Tea-Party/139277/
Sheesh. Might be easier if we make a list of what ISN’T a lie, from this administration.
excellent link — thank you. I sure hope congressional staffers are reading blogs like this — there is so much info being disclosed and revealed on the tubes that is relevant to their inquiries.
This is what happens when the media stops taking the WH talking points as gospel and starts verifying everything.
I’m gonna live-blog the WH presser. Not sure how long I can endure Obama’s bullshit.
http://freebeacon.com/comcasts-agenda/
comcast (owner of msnbc) confronted at shareholder meeting about their fact checking and how do they protect themselves from libel lawsuits
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/05/15/did-the-white-house-try-to-get-a-conservative-columnist-canned/
no one is safe if they do follow in lockstep the dear leader
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/05/16/irs-scandal-spreading-to-epa-agencys-inspector-general-investigating-claims-of-bias-against-conservatives/
Inspector general now investigating the EPA for bias against conservatives
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/05/16/yahoo-partners-with-twitter-to-bring-tweets-directly-into-its-us-newsfeed-on-the-desktop-and-mobile-web/
for those of you who do the twitter thing
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/time_for_legal_fees_from_lawbreaking_government.html
this could make a big difference in lawsuits against the government. If you win the government lawbreaker will have to pay your legal fees