The sign outside the Smyrna, Georgia office of Rep. David Scott (D-GA): Oh, and earlier today, MSNBC had video of a wingnut protester in the vicinity the president's town hall who had a handgun...
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Govmint Is In My Bank Accnt Stealing My Shit
As I mentioned earlier, there's a new horseshit lie about how the government-run healthcare death panels will take over your bank account and steal your money whenever they want. TPM's Zachary Roth...
Healthcare Marketplace
I'm watching the Dylan Ratigan unit and for the thousandth time this week, he's mentioning the creation of a website where health insurers can compete for customers in a marketplace, allowing the...
Specter Town Hall
MSNBC is carrying the Arlen Specter town hall in Lebanon, PA (about 25 miles from here). Every question so far has been some degree of crazy. I see lots of white hair and exclusively white skin. But...
Vile Nonsense
Johnny Isakson when asked about the cavalcade of wingnut healthcare lies: ...professional liars decided the truth could destroy health care reform, so they latched onto this vile nonsense in the...
Morning Awesome
AC Newman - "The Changeling (Get Guilty)"
Alex Jones Makes Glenn Beck Look Centered
Just go watch this. Alex Jones is absolutely the King of All Crazy. Plus, he's asking his people to act as crazy as he is -- for free cash! Seriously, he's running a wacky morning zoo style contest...
Doof Quote of the Day
“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is...
Mike Pence Continues To Be A Lying Liar
On Fort Worth television: WANE-TV: "I do want to ask you about the health care bill - sort of a specific about it. Many people have heard that the Congress and the executive branch would be exempt...
The Following Is A Huge, Stupid, Impotent Lie
Rush Limbaugh suggesting that Hitler was a man "of the left": This would be hilarious if it wasn't so remarkably wrong in every way. Hitler was a liberal? A liberal?! So what we can deduce is that...
Real Life 'Death Panels'
This is a long post, but it's very important. Question for Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Glenn Beck: How else would you describe the following real life story, as documented in Michael Moore's SiCKO...
Shocker! Beck Agrees With Palin
Beck on Palin's "Obama Death Panels will kill my baby!" crazy talk: "I believe it to be true." And he's going to devote a segment of his show today examining the death panel theory. Incidentally...
Wingnut Paradox
Josh Marshall: The conservative activist who claims he was beaten up by union thugs in St. Louis while protesting against health care reform is accepting donations towards his medical care because he...
'Conversation'
I've been meaning to mention this, so now's as good a time as any. Has anyone else noticed that they say the word "conversation" a lot -- and I mean all the damn time -- on MSNBC? I don't know...
The Liberal 'Circular Firing Squad' Is Back
At no other time in this debate over healthcare reform has there been a more obvious set of enemies. The Republicans, talk radio and Fox News are fabricating off-the-wall lies practically on a daily...
Morning Awesome
The New Pornographers - "The Bleeding Hearts Show" Live from Webster Hall, NYC (If you have Comcast On Demand, this whole concert is available in the Music section under Concert TV.)
Try Again
Picking up where he left off the other day, Atrios writes: I like cycling and cyclists just great, and certainly support making places more bike friendly, but I also think that cyclists who behave...
Gingrich Agrees With Palin on 'Death Panels'
Seriously. He agrees. And Gingrich is widely considered a wise old man of Republican politics. I tell you what, if any government panel tries to tell Sarah Palin that she has to euthanize her Down's...
On The Other Hand, We'll Concede These Items
This is a spot-on post by Stroszek at the Daily Kos. In it, he concedes all of the objections by the Healthers. For example: 1. We will not euthanize your grandmother. 2. Rahm Emanuel's brother will...
Durbin and The Public Option
I think Sam Stein's item in the Huffington Post is slightly misleading. The way the headline is written, it sounds like Senator Durbin is dropping his support for the public option. Instead, Durbin...