Glenn Beck: No Advertisers in England

Image from source, Raw Story

There's something particularly strange about the popularity of Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh and the various cartoon characters in right-wing world. No matter what gaffe they make, no matter how prejudiced they are or what they do. . .their fans love them even more.

Busted with somebody else's Viagra on a trip to the Dominican Republic after going deaf from a previous illegal drug habit? No problem! He's still the best! Cribbed notes on your hand at a speech that was almost indecipherable while simultaneously embracing and rejecting the tea baggers? Doesn't matter! We want you to run for President! And Glenn Beck? A Mormon with a rabid right-wing Christian following, and who is absolutely certifiable? Our new leader! So what if he has no advertisers? Obviously he's too good for them!

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Glenn Beck runs without ads in UK — for four straight days, activists say

An American political advocacy group aimed at empowering black voices in politics announced Tuesday that the British broadcast of Fox News' Glenn Beck show was forced to run without any paid advertisers last week after the last of the program's corporate sponsors bailed. . .

Read more at: Raw Story

Michelle Bachman: Census = WWII Japanese Internment?

Just when you think that Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-Minn.) can't be any more batshit crazy, she pulls some more guano out from her nether regions.

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Bachmann links Census to 1940s Japanese internment

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who may be redistricted out of a job based on next year’s Census findings, has already stated she won’t respond to certain Census questions required by law for fear that ACORN will get its hands on the info. Now she’s working to spread the fear — by conjuring the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. . .

Read more at: The Minnesota Independent

Stuck on Stupid, Pt. 4: The Whole Crazy CPAC Crew

Keith Olbermann and Eugene Robinson did a great wrap-up of the big ball of crazy/stupid/desperate that is the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and the current Republican Party in general. It's a hoot!

Rovian Alternate Reality Breaking Down: Bachman

This example of "creating our own reality" by a Republican is notable for a couple of reasons. Michelle Bachman, Congresswoman from Minnesota, stuck her foot in her mouth on Hardball with Chris Matthews, by calling for a McCarthyesque "Anti-American" investigation into Congress. She was on tape, plain as day. And yet, on the FOX "News" program Hannity & Colmes (their one so-called "balanced" program), there she is, saying it never happened, it was an "urban legend." Them's some big brass ones y'got there, Michelle!

This latest attempt at re-writing history has utterly failed. Nobody believes her. And that is something of a victory, a--dare I say it?--change we can believe in! For the last eight years, we liberals have been stupefied by the constant stream of "reality creating" spearheaded by Karl Rove. We'd hear the President (or Dick Cheney, or Donald Rumsfeld, et. al) say something on Monday, say he didn't say that on Wednesday, and have Wednesday's proclamation become accepted fact on the Sunday morning shows.



Occasionally, they would get busted. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart or Countdown with Keith Olbermann would show two clips side-by-side, contradicting the obfuscation. And once again, liberals would sit slack-jawed, with proof positive that they were right, and yet the general public just wasn't seeing it. Thankfully, those days seem to be ending. Dare we hope that Karl Rove's political machine is really, most completely dead? That it's so rusty and broken that it can't be rebuilt, or given replacement parts? Nah, I'm sure they are hastily building a new one, though they may have to start from scratch. Let's just hope people aren't so gullible from now on.