Author - Bob Cesca

The Media

Worst Person

Well, not a person, actually, but a network. CNN has been amping up the Obama Loves The Terrorists crap this week. And today, Benen reports that CNN shorted this quote from the president: "Al Qaeda...

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Cycling

Is Armstrong Chugging Pee?

No. No he isn't. Which is why this item from the New York Times about the latest Lance Armstrong doping allegation is extraordinarily disgusting, silly and disgusting: “I’m not saying anything about...

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Quote

Doof Quote of the Day

"Not at all, Glenn Beck. I'm proud to be with you." —Texas Governor Rick Perry responding to Beck's question, "Governor, you're regretting being on this program at this point, are you not, sir?"

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Wingnuts

Did You Know…?

Did you know that the digital broadcast converter boxes are communist brainwashing devices? Well now you know. And knowing is half the battle. The other half is burning college science books. At...

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Civil liberties

For Marriage

I was thinking about that far-right group -- the "National Organization for Marriage." Isn't the very notion of same-sex marriage, by definition, a "for marriage" or "pro marriage" position? And by...

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Wingnuts

Oxymorons

The far-right talkers and activists are lying stupids. I'd like to hear them explain how a defense budget hike is actually a defense budget cut. Much like a "liberal fascist," it's totally impossible...

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The Media

Best Person

Lynette Rice at Entertainment Weekly: ...word is that Sorkin is mulling over the idea of a new TV drama that takes a behind-the-scenes look at a cable news program (think: Keith Olbermann's show on...

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Wingnuts

'Tea Tantrums'

Sullivan beautifully summarizes the awesome ridiculousness and dishonest contradictions of the tea baggers. He concludes: ...What it looks like to me is some kind of amorphous, generalized rage on...

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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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