Author - Bob Cesca

White House

Photograph of the Day

Photo: Dayo Olopade / TheRoot.com Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama at the White House playground. Striding out from the West Wing, the two seemed thick as thieves—smiling, Secretary...

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Wingnuts

'I've Got My Tea Bags Here'

*Head in hands* The Sons of Liberty dumped corporate tea into Boston Harbor in order to protest an unfair tax cut for the East India Company. They didn't buy thousands of corporate tea bags and wave...

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The Media

Manchurian Basket Case

Glenn Beck had one of his famous schizoid embolisms today. Among other things, he seriously claimed that the national debt is "one and a quarter quadrillion dollars." At around 2:47 in the video...

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Civil liberties

More Fakery

The Human Rights Campaign has wheeled more audition tapes further proving that actors were used to portray "real people" in that new and awful anti-same-sex marriage commercial. By the way, contrary...

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Education

Grotesquely Stupid

Back in the mid-'90s, I worked at an FM Top 40 radio station and when I was hired, the program director asked that I use the pseudonym "Cunningham" because my actual last name sounded too ethnic and...

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Religion

Super Stupid

Ken Blackwell is phenomenally wrong in so many ways. The founders wrote the Declaration and the framers built the Constitution on a foundation of natural law. Not Judeo-Christian dogma. But what else...

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Civil liberties

Fakery

That anti-same-sex marriage commercial I posted last night appears to show real people who will be somehow oppressed if gay people are allowed to get married. Again, real people who the National...

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The Media

Weird Commercial Placement

I just saw the following very creepy and very dishonest commercial on MSNBC: It was aired during the Rachel Maddow Show. Beyond the weird placement, it never ceases to amaze me how a hateful, bigoted...

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Radio Show

Radio Show

Me and Stranahan on the radio at 10 p.m. EDT. With special guest, Iraq War veteran GItheJOE. Listen live here. Call-in number: (347) 945-5235. Or just contribute in the comments. UPDATE: Show's over...

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Wingnuts

Losing vs. Tyranny

By the way, notice that Breitbart is a socialist. Or at least he sends his kid to a publicly-funded education facility financed with a system whereby wealth is redistributed from property-owners to...

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Wingnuts

A Cork on The Fork

DougJ hypothesizes: ...the Tea Parties might be a way for disgruntled Glenn Beck watchers to blow off steam without hurting anyone. In that respect, maybe there's something to the tea baggery as a...

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