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The Bob and Elvis Show – September 9, 2010
This week! SPAM! Burn a Koran Day with Terry Jones; Sarah Palin's failed Facebook post about Park51; the al-Qaida hootenanny; The 9/11 love letter to Rudy Giuliai; Tea Party homophobia; jive deejays...
Palin Endorses Another Hooplehead
Shocker: Sarah Palin has endorsed Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell in her primary against one-time frontrunner Rep. Mike Castle, announcing her choice by calling in to Sean Hannity's radio...
Wingnut Preacher Cancels Koran Burning
Just in: GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy says he is canceling plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11. Rednecks in Florida will have...
Freefall! IEEEEE!
If you only watched cable news all day, you'd think President Obama was about to resign in disgrace with one of the lowest, most dismal approval rating freefalls in American history. Via the Urban...
Deficit Hawks
Greg Sargent reports that a number of Blue Dog House Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for the super rich. You know, because they're such fiscal hawks. Except for the additional $700 billion...
Best Stump Speech Ever
And by "best," I mean hilariously awful. Here is Ohio Republican candidate Phil Davison: The gusto with which he delivers his resume is insane. He's clearly having some kind of nervous breakdown...
It's a Trap!
This isn't a compromise at all: House GOP Leader John Boehner offered a concession on tax cuts, suggesting Republicans would accept a two-year extension of all the Bush-era tax breaks rather than the...
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The Police - "Synchronicity II" (Live) (Yes, it's become an impromptu Excellent '80s Rock Bands Performing Live theme week.)
Quote of the Day
"We also hoped for a chance to get beyond some of the old political divides - between Democrats and Republicans, Red states and Blue states - that had prevented us from making progress. Because...
The End of Bipartisanship?
Jon Cohn on today's fiery speech by President Obama in which he called out John Boehner by name: No, this isn't the first time Obama has attacked Republicans. But, as far as I can tell, this argument...
Quote of the Day
“People think of animation only doing things where people are dancing around and doing a lot of histrionics, but animation is not a genre. And people keep saying, ‘The animation genre.’ It’s not a...
Republicans Attempting to Brand 9/11
I'm not sure how 9/11 became a Republican occasion, but I can think of about a thousand other occasions I'd rather be associated with than the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil ever. Nevertheless...
Another Reason to Vote in November
Via Lawrence Lewis, there's the gerrymandering situation: Republicans are within reach of gaining control of eight or more chambers in statehouses around the country this fall, according to...
Worst Persons
This guy: Prominent Pastor Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church of Dallas gave a sermon a few weeks ago saying, among other things: "The deep, dark, dirty secret of Islam: It is a religion...
Rat Bastard Health Insurance Bastards
Any excuse to bilk more money from a captive customer base. Aetna Inc., some BlueCross BlueShield plans and other smaller carriers have asked for premium increases of between 1% and 9% to pay for...
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INXS - "Mystify" (Live)
Palin Commemorating 9/11 with Glenn Beck
Sarah Palin's latest Facebook post: Glenn’s coming to the Last Frontier! I hope my fellow Alaskans (and anyone visiting from Outside) will join me this Saturday, September 11, 2010, at Anchorage’s...
Generic Ballot is All Tied Up
Nate Silver wrote earlier that the previous Gallup poll showing a 10-point lead for the Republicans on the generic ballot was probably an outlier. You know the one. 51-41. And it looks like he was...
On Last Glenn Beck Lawn Concert Video
This one arguably contains the craziest of the crazies. Note the long contemplative silence of the guy at 2:09 when asked whether people on the terrorist watch list should be prevented from buying...