I need to go on FoxNoise. Everytime that one of those talking heads opens their mouth, I’d simply yell, “You lie!” Don’t let them actually say anything, just “You lie!” And, after they cut my microphone, just yell “You lie!” at the top of my lungs until my larynx was shredded (or they have security “escort” me out of the building—at which point, start yelling, “So you liars can’t handle the truth, can you?” until I’m out of range).

Thank you, Bill, for giving us all a shining example of “whitesplaining.”

Now. Take your sorry-ass opinion and shove it back where it came from. Not sure if it was your ass or your mouth since both produce pretty much the same substance. (Of course, if it had come out of his ass, that could be reused for fertilizer somewhere.)

“Ms. King is Director of African-American outreach for Priests for Life, an order of Catholic priests who were created to fight against liberalization of abortions laws and for abortion restrictions.”

Hmm. So a Black WOMAN is an “outreach director” for a group of MEN who have no real use for her in any other respect. DOYC knows she can’t be a priest within the Catholic Church (she presumably lacks the necessary penis-line to God) and I’m not really sure her alleged status as a minister holds any water with the Catholic Church, either.

Would Bender (from “Futurama”) consider THIS to be the “definition of irony”?

(Interestingly enough, her Wiki entry points out that she had not one but two abortions in the 1970s and the only reason she didn’t have a third abortion was because neither the father of the fetus nor her grandfather would pay for it. I just have to wonder why she didn’t pay for it herself? Sounds like she was a “taker” back in the day. Oh. She’s also been twice-married and twice-divorced and is on her third marriage. I have to wonder what the “Priests for Life” were thinking when they chose her to be their “outreach director”? Couldn’t have possibly been her trading on her name, now could it?)

“The good news is, though, Christ is coming back,” Jeffress assured us. “The short-term forecast for the world is turbulent, the long-term forecast is good.”

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, Mr Jeffress, they’ve been saying pretty much the same thing for the last 1950 or so years. And yet, we’re absolutely NO closer now than we were back around the time of Nero to that “second coming.”

Just as soon as Huckleberry and his fetus-loving ilk spend as much time defending the rights of the born children—the ones who can’t get adequate health care, the ones whose sole “good” meal of the day is the one they get through school lunch programs, the ones whose mothers and fathers are out of work and have had their unemployment benefits stripped so that food is hard to provide (given the number of other families in the same situation)—then I’ll give their ideas some consideration.

Also, as soon as Huckleberry and a certain batch of the fetus-lovers also come clean about which group of fetuses are most affected by legal abortion, I might be willing to consider their side. They don’t like to acknowledge it publicly but there does seem to be a sizable contingent of the fetus-lovers who are more concerned about white women having abortion. Yes, in order to make their fetus protection concerns more palatable, they have to make certain that they mention how minority communities are being so adversely affected by abortion, but we all know they don’t really want more little black and brown children (who have the audacity to grow up into black and brown men and women, a scenario which doesn’t exactly appeal to the bulk of the fetus-lovers).

Yeah, sandman1. You just know the Fox liars hate the President for trying to UNDO what the right-wing has been working on for the last 30 years—trying to eliminate the middle class.

Rush needs to watch out. By laying it on so thick with his complaints about the attacks on Christie, he runs the risk of making Christie look like a 98-pound weakling (instead of the two-ton bully he really is).

The teabaggers don’t generally like men who appear to be weaklings and need other men to support them.

truman, it’s probably because of his wife. Remember, Carville is married to the right-wing mouthpiece, Mary Matalin. I’d imagine after being married to her for 20 years, he’s probably lost a bit of his feistiness.

Hell, even when he’s been on Bill Maher’s HBO show, he doesn’t seem as feisty (but when he does get feisty, he doesn’t hold back).

Morris said Adams had summed it up “nicely” in an interview when he said, “All aspects of male culture have been called into question, whether it’s gathering around on a Sunday afternoon to watch football with a few friends, whether it is going to the range and shooting some guns,

Adams talked about Sunday afternoon football (presumably the US version) and whined that “feminism” is causing a “wussification” of men? This, coming from a man from a country which has a form of football (Australian rules football) in which 4 20-minute quarters are played by men who wear no padding (Aussie rules “uniforms” are essentially sleeveless t-shirts and shorts) and no helmets. In addition to Aussie Rules Football, the country also participates in rugby (of which there are two varities with similar rules), another sport in which the players participate in the game with NO type of “protective equipment” (in fact, the “uniforms” are basically the same sleeveless t-shirts and shorts) and also play for 80-minutes (two 40-minute halves).

Maybe Mr Adams can talk about the wussification of his own country since American-style football has been increasing in popularity over the past few decades. You just gotta imagine that real Aussie men, used to seeing players wearing no protection and not having time outs for seemingly every little thing (oops, a player’s down and not getting up—better stop the game to check him out; Aussie football and rugby simply take enough time to get the man off the field without all the wussy Yank lollygagging) must wonder why people bother with “gridiron” (the Aussie term for American-style football).

I wouldn’t use George Costanza.

I’m more in mind of someone far more hateful.

Like Joseph Goebbels.

“To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda. In the beginning there is the understanding, this understanding uses propaganda as a tool to find those men, that shall turn understanding into politics. Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things than I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths. Those are found in other circumstances, I find them when thinking at my desk, but not in the meeting hall.” (speech given in January 1928, to an audience of party members at the “Hochschule für Politik”, a series of training talks for Nazi party members in Berlin; from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels)

Okay. Showed up right that time.

I’d love for someone (say, Jon Stewart) to host some of these whiners and ask them how they feel about FoxNoise’s criticisms of the Pope. You might recall how, after the Pope spoke about how income inequality was a critical issue and how Catholics should spend less time focused on issues like LGBT rights and abortion, FoxNoise hosts whined about the Pope being “too liberal.” I think that, for a network which is trying to turn the moving of the US Embassy to the Holy See into a new cottage-industry scandal by trotting out former Ambassadors to the Vatican and complaining about it, it would be important to hear how these former Ambassadors feel about network criticism of the Holy See’s head of state.

But, as zaglossus notes, the Vatican is really small potatoes. And I’ll add this: Do the FoxNoise whiners consider themselves to be Americans or citizens of the Holy See? If they’re Americans, the location of the US Embassy to the Holy See is of no concern. (The only way the Vatican itself could host all the Ambassadors and their staffs would be to build a new high-rise building—although, where exactly, is uncertain since the Vatican doesn’t have that much real estate for new construction—and then have ALL the foreign embassies share that building.)

Of course, I would LOVE to see the reaction of the FoxNoise kkkrew if they learned that Ireland (a country which is SO overwhelmingly Roman Catholic that divorce was only permitted in the last 20 years and has an abortion law that barely acknowledges any rights on the woman’s part UNLESS her life is placed in jeopardy) actually CLOSED its Embassy to the Holy See—which had been in Rome—more than TWO YEARS ago. Currently, the Irish Ambassador to the Holy See resides in Dublin.

(FWIW, you may have noticed I used the phrase “Holy See” in most instances instead of “the Vatican” or “Vatican City.” It turns out that NO ONE has diplomatic relations with “the Vatican” or “Vatican City.” ALL diplomatic relations are with the entity known as the Holy See. All treaties, obligations, etc are handled through the Holy See. It’s all a very complex legal issue, largely resulting from the 1929 Lateran Treaty which established the separate state of the Vatican City but the basic gist is that the state’s real power resides solely in the person of the Pope and his function as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. As it now stands, the “Vatican” only refers to the actual physical territory encompassing St Peter’s Basilica, St Peter’s Square, Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Gardens and a few exclaves—some mere buildings—in Rome and even in other parts of Italy, like the Castel Gandolfo while the Holy See refers to the government.)

Kevin, Dubya didn’t need an enemies list. After 9/11, he established that if you didn’t support him, you were automatically against him. With that kind of viewpoint, who needs to nuance it with the term “enemies list?”

Plus the fact Darth Cheney was really running the show, so Dubya didn’t need an enemies list. He just used Cheney’s.

BillO blathered, " . . . By the time your daughter gets to the teenage years, pot will be like chewing gum, smoking a cigarette.”

I’ve got absolutely no idea where BillO’s going with this line of “thought.” I’ve never read any research saying that chewing gum is bad for your health or should have limitations on its sale and distribution. (This isn’t Singapore, after all.)

As for cigarettes, well, their sales are restricted/regulated to adults (age varies by state). I’ve never heard of any cops busting underage kids for smoking (and I’ve never heard of any cops busting underage kids for buying cigarettes, only the store clerks selling them).

But, overall, I don’t get BillO’s point here. I’m not sure BillO gets BillO’s point.

Mike, if you bothered to read WHAT I WROTE, you’d see I asked if Hoenig would SWAP PLACES—not “give away” anything.

The FACT that you don’t seem to understand, you idiot troll, is that Hoenig does NOT “work”; he’s a fucking stock investor and pundit. As a stock investor, he “earns” his money by handling OTHER PEOPLE’S money and taking a percentage of THEIR investments. And, as a pundit, he tells people how they should live their lives without having the first clue of how they ACTUALLY live.

And if you think he’d give 2 seconds of thought about your defense of him, well, unless you earn a minimum of $100 grand a year, I seriously doubt he’d even bother with you.

Now, go back and learn to read.

Oh, and as for that “modern revision of the practice of human sacrifice and supernatural worship for the good of the tribe,” well that’s actully a little thing called SOCIETY. And just remember your little criticism the next time FoxNoise hosts some persecuted Christian whiner or has Father Johnny on the show: Jesus Christ himself told a rich man that he should sell all his worldly goods if he wished to follow Jesus. And the guy walked away. I’d say that I’m in better moral standing with my idea than you or the FoxNoise talking heads.

No, sandman, it’s not self-loathing (that’s why LGBTs are Republicons); it’s sheer stupidity. Those people have been so amazingly conned into believing that, if they just work hard enough, they too can, one day, be impossibly rich. In the process, they should accept whatever scraps their employers toss them without complaining like “only docking them a day’s pay for calling in sick or showing up late because of a doctor’s appointment instead of firing their oh-so-obviously lazy asses” or “accepting the idea of working 60 hours a week for minimum wage without any overtime because they should be thankful they’ve even got a job” and “you don’t need a union because we know what’s best for you.”

So, does this mean the Donald won’t run if another GOPer announces he (or she) wants to run for Governor? I mean, the State’s parties do hold primary contests, even for something as minor as “governor,” and isn’t the basic principle of a “primary” the idea that there’s not “unity” at the moment?

More likely, Trump is actually hoping that none of the GOP contestants candidates are able to gain enough support (ie, so many candidates that none of them can muster enough support to make it to a run-off) that the Party will turn to him and simply offer him the candidacy. (Of course, if that should happen, we’d probably see even MORE disunity on the part of GOP voters.)

Well, dontcha know, FoxNoise’s loyal African-American viewers are usually the same African-Americans brought on as guests and pundits (like Allen West, Herman Cain and Alveda King).

Well, truman, isn’t that pretty much SOP for FoxNoise itself? Instead of vetting a news story, the talking head (whichever one it may be) simply blames some lowly intern who was forced to “research” a story with all of 5 minutes to do so.

Apparently the KSM troll doesn’t comprehend the concept of “comparative discussion.”

Dude, if you’re going to hold the parents of that 2 year old responsible for the child’s profanity, you also need to hold Bristol Palin AND “Mama Grizzled” Sarah responsible for the PROFANITIES that originated from their children. You know—the kind that was offered as evidence in the article (which we all know you didn’t really read).

I would ask of you “Did you ever think of that one” but we all know that requires you to do something you’re incapable of doing: Thinking.