Start in at about the 5-minute mark to hear theocrat Screwy Louie tell Christy Zink that she should have carried her brain-dead fetus to term, you know, just in case.
So tell us, Louie, when does an egg become poultry, you theocratic assrocket?
I guess this counts as a score for Michelle Malkin’s outrage machine and army of orcs and winged monkeys:
MSNBC is reviewing its portrayal of the testimony of Neil Heslin, the father of a Sandy Hook victim, at a legislative hearing in Hartford on Monday. The 33-second video clip in question, embedded above, features a graphics box saying “Mocked and Loaded. Sandy Hook Victim’s Father Heckled by Gun Rights Advocates.”
“We’re reviewing the video in question,” says an MSNBC source.
Smart move, considering that Heslin wasn’t, in fact, heckled. Audience members merely answered a challenge that Heslin posed from the microphone.
And that is from the WaPo’s Erik Wemple.
I will not link to the stuff from Twitchy. You can find that on your own.
The thing is, Heslin was giving his testimony and asked a rhetorical question, and some members of the audience (clearly gun enthusiasts) replied. It might not be the classic drunk in the comedy club (which seems to be the only definition that anyone cares about), but it was disrespectful, and really sad. I’m sure that the NRA had many toadies and minions there to testify on their behalf and so the gun lobby would be well represented, but far better to interrupt the father of a six-year old boy who was shot in the forehead during a mass murder.
What is bothering me about this isn’t so much that Heslin was interrupted (I’ll use that word instead of heckled), but the way that the far-right Malkin and her Twitchy brethren are making a media bias case out of NBC labeling it as heckling.
And now they are going to be doing their victory dance in the end zone because they got NBC to review it.
It’s a distraction from the real issue, which is that a deranged person got a hold of an assault weapon and mowed down a large number of first grade children and their teachers in cold blood. Every effort to distract us from this fact, arguing over semantics (heckling vs. answering), Malkin and her ilk are supporting crazy people and their alleged right to kill toddlers. She must be proud of herself.
Digby says that it is an issue of incivility in a public hearing, and she’s right, but it is so much more. It’s really vile that so many people think owning military grade weaponry is more important than letting children grow up.
Stories like this both make me laugh and cry: Governor Rick Scott of Florida adopted a rescue dog before the election and retuned him after moving into the Governor’s mansion. Oh, yeah: he named the dog Reagan.
From Checkers to Bo, dogs have played a roll in the optics of politics, but rarely have politicians been so transparent about the poor beast being a prop.
Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.’
–WI Rep. Roger Rivard, retelling advice from his father.
Really? You think people with pre-existing conditions should not have health insurance? Why not just give them one of your precious guns and a single bullet?
So let me get this right: you are bribing your kid to be straight? Or as you put it, “to correct his problem.”
UPDATE: It’s a hoax.
(BuzzFeed – they transcribed the ad so if you cannot read it, click the link and read it on BuzzFeed)
My father the trial lawyer used to tell us growing up that we should never volunteer information when on the witness stand, so in a way I guess he was a fan of the sin of omission.
I bring this up because Cardinal Dolan uses dad’s second gambit (answer truthfully, but bury the truth in a lot of noise) to obscure that he actually said yes when asked if he paid off pedophile priests:
Dolan, while serving as Milwaukee archbishop in 2003, agreed to pay multiple accused pedophile priests $20,000 in exchange for their agreeing to leave the priesthood, according to documents cited by The New York Times.
Joseph Zwilling, Dolan’s New York Archdiocese spokesman, told The Post last week that there was no “payoff” to pedophile priests — only “charity.”
“The New York Times does not have a reputation for fair and accurate reporting when it comes to this issue,” Dolan said yesterday after Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown. “So, to respond to charges like that — that are groundless and scurrilous — in my book it’s useless and counterproductive.”
But what is especially nice is that these ex-Priests and pedophiles that Cardinal Dolan set loose enter the secular world with ready cash and a clean record.
(NYPost via Attaturk)
I want to be very clear about this: the Santorum story about baby Gabriel is how you spin an abortion story. They are using the reaction to the part about taking the aborted fetus home to distract from the point that it was an abortion to save Karen Santorum’s life, which is an option that theocrat Rick Santorum would deny to every woman other than Karen.
That does not make the tragedy of losing a baby any less, well, tragic.
Here’s the basic details:
Fatal birth defects happen a lot, it is not a happy event, it is a tragedy.
That said, this is exactly the decision that Rick Santorum wants to take away from everyone else. His no exceptions to save the life of the mother means that his wife Karen would have died under his theocratic vision of America.
As for taking the aborted baby home to meet the other kids, I have no idea what they were thinking, but perhaps in their torment it made sense. I don’t think many of us would do that.
I do NOT make fun of the decision to save Karen Santorum’s life. I think it was the responsible thing for them to do, the only choice that they could make. I do however take umbrage that this story is being spun to distract from the fact that Rick and Karen Santorum aborted a baby to save her life, but would deny that option for everyone else.
If the media were doing its job, they would point out the Santorum’s hypocrisy rather than call liberal commentators (what few that there are) insensitive monsters for saying that bringing home the dead fetus was weird. It’s the worst sort of spin.
Rick Santorum is a monster.
(ABC News is whitewashing this whole thing; here is the NYTimes story where Gabriel first makes his appearance on the national stage.)
…would agree to be Sanduksy’s defense counsel?
…thanks Frothy. That was damned white of you.
Chimpy and the banner
Major combat operation in Iraq have ended.
–Chimpy McStagger
The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that.
Larry Kudlow is a monster.
The troll speaketh:
There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.
“Yeah, there she was. The US of A, wearing Daisy Dukes and bending over a pool table. The US wanted me, I could just sense it. She was beggin’ for it.” Newtie did not say.
I found that I felt compelled to seek God’s forgiveness. Not God’s understanding, but God’s forgiveness. I do believe in a forgiving God. And I think most people, deep down in their hearts hope there’s a forgiving God.
Well, they say it is the last refuge of a scoundrel, Newtie.
Callista and I have a great marriage. I think that I’ve learned an immense amount.
“…like how to erase my browser history and delete the call record from my cell phone. I also learned to lock my office door when I am “consulting” with lobbyists so the staff doesn’t walk in, like they did with me an’ Callista. But that thing Callista does with her toes? Yeah, that’s hot, baby,” he did not say.
In the end, the presidency is different than any other job. You’re looking for somebody who is going to lead the nation. You’re looking for somebody who should be, ideally, the unifier of the nation. And, you’re looking to somebody to whom you’re going to loan enormous power for four years.
“…power is the ultimate turn-on, sweet cheeks. Enormous power, if you know what I mean and I think you do,” he did not add with a lascivious wink, licking his thin, lizard lips.
…if no one listens anymore?
A Senate proposal that has become known as the Internet “kill switch” bill was reintroduced this week, with a tweak its backers say eliminates the possibility of an Egypt-style disconnection happening in the United States.
As CNET reported last month, the 221-page bill hands Homeland Security the power to issue decrees to certain privately owned computer systems after the president declares a “national cyberemergency.” A section in the new bill notes that does not include “the authority to shut down the Internet,” and the name of the bill has been changed to include the phrase “Internet freedom.”
That has a strange, Orwellian ring to it, like something from the Chimpy Dynasty, doesn’t it? Who could do such a thing?
“The emergency measures in our bill apply in a precise and targeted way only to our most critical infrastructure,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said yesterday about the legislation she is sponsoring with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn). “We cannot afford to wait for a cyber 9/11 before our government finally realizes the importance of protecting our digital resources.”
Ah, the magic touch of Traitor Joe and Susan Collins, coming up with a way to strip us of our free speech rights. Now it makes sense.
(CNET)
This is why you don’t want a random image generator in the background of your website. Nice tiny gun you got there, pal.
(Via @aterkel on Twitter)
Bosnian police believe they have located a girl filmed hurling puppies into a river
Honestly, what kind of a monster would throw puppies into a river?
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