After two days of gloating over Komen’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood, Wingnut Nation now has a great big sad about Komen’s non-reversal reversal:
Mona Charen of the National Review Online lamented that “it’s extremely disappointing that Komen has caved” but “it’s hardly surprising given the onslaught they’ve endured over the course of the last few days,” and NRO’s Daniel Foster charged Planned Parenthood with “gangsterism.”
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Oh yeah. She's virulently antigay, too.
I just read an article over at Politicususa that was so WTF!?-inducing, that I put a record on just so I could make it scratch — skr-r-r-reeek!! — after which, I slapped myself, did a double take, rubbed my eyes with closed fists, did a shot of whisky, and then read it again.
That’s how absurd what you’re about to read is.
But first, let me back up.
A couple weeks ago, Michele Bachmann signed a Families Values Are Awesome and Homosexuality Will Kill Your Children pledge, which noted that while slavery was, like, totally the worst, at least little black childrenses had two parents back then.
The “slavery preamble” to the Conservative Nutbag Pledge read as follows:
“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA?s first African-American President,”
Needless to say, that didn’t go over too well; the odious clause was removed from the pledge, and Bachmann made some silly claim that she hadn’t actually read the slavery preamble (even though it was the first damn clause in the pledge, hence the term “preamble”).
But never mind that. Point is, the conservative nutbags realized that it is absolutely inappropriate for a white person to laud the virtues of black family life under slavery.
It’s much better if you get a black person to do it.
Posted in Culture Critic, Now That's Some Racist Bullsh*t, Please Die in a Fire, Teabilly and GOP Mendacity, What the Crap!?
Tagged Jesse Lee Peterson, Michele Bachmann, no seriously that just happened, racism, Republicans are asshats, rightwing asshattery, slavery, South Central Tea Party, Star Parker, The Grio, WTF!?
Meet John Boehner, the new Speaker of the House. He’s just a regular guy, one who grew up in a poor, working class family, and you could have a beer with him. Or twenty. Just make sure he picks up the tab before he either passes out or starts weeping into your shirt about how much he loves you, man, and THEN passes out. And, he will weep at some point during the drunken festivities. He cries. A LOT. You know, Nancy Pelosi got shit for so much stuff. She was a ball-buster. She hurt the Republicans’ feelings by saying mean things about them, so they HAD to vote against a bill. She was so reviled, some Blue Dawgs thought it would be better if she weren’t Minority Leader* because she’s “divisive”. However, most of the Democrats recognized a true leader when they see one, and they voted her in.
Remember when Hillary Clinton teared up and got shit for it? I never understood the manufactured outrage or the tut-tutting that she couldn’t deal with the pressure. I still don’t. However, I must point out that Boehner tears up when he’s talking about the two-for-one special at the nearest buffet, for god’s sake. I’ve never seen a man cry as much as he does, and I seriously wonder what the fuck is wrong with him. I don’t mind if a guy cries–but he’s third in line to be president (and if that doesn’t give you the fucking chills, I don’t know what will), and he crumbles more easily than a Michael Jackson nose job. When he gets mad, he cries. When he gets happy, he cries. When he has to sneeze, he cries. It’s as if his tear ducts are permanently on, leaving him no recourse but to cry cry cry.
(click to sob along with House Speaker, John Boehner)
