Thursday Afternoon in the Matrix

Blackwater uses my tax dollars to buy whores. I guess that's okay, I'm not legally allowed to here, and you're using my money overseas..... so... awwww, go ahead.

North Carolina coach Roy Williams exposes himself as a me first phony when he compares twenty years of success, and two national titles, then losing 11 games to 230,000 people dying in Haiti. 

John Mayer says he has a David Duke cock.

Can this guy get any better?

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Hitting the Nail square on the Head

You ever have someone say exactly what you're thinking in a much more concise and professional way because you're not smart and can only cannel simple rage and happiness with words like "fuck" and "sweet"?  Via Crooks and Liars:

Tea Party Double Standards
by John Amato


Eric Boehlert makes an incredible point.

If you don't think there's a media double standard that favors Republicans over Democrats, then let's play a game of what-if.
What if, in 2006, at Yearly Kos, the first annual convention of liberal bloggers and their readers, organizers shelled out $100,000 for former Vice President Al Gore to address attendees? And what if the same organizers booked as an opening-night speaker a fringe, radical-left conspiracy theorist who'd spent the previous year pushing the thoroughly debunked claim that some Bush White administration insiders played a role in, and even planned, the 9-11 attacks. What if the speaker (also proudly anti-Semitic) received a standing ovation from the liberal Yearly Kos crowd?
Given that backdrop, and given the fact that the 9-11 Truther nut had for weeks bragged about his chance to share the stage with Gore, do you think the press would have demanded that Gore justify his association with a hateful conference that embraced a 9-11 Truther? Do you think pundits would have universally mocked and ridiculed Gore's judgment while condemning the Yearly Kos convention as being a hothouse of left-wing hate? Do you think Gore's appearance would have become a thing?
I sure do.
Gore and liberal bloggers would have been crucified by the press and the D.C. chattering class if the scenario I described ever unfolded in real life. (FYI, it goes without saying that organizers for Yearly Kos, now known as Netroots Nation, would never dream of mainstreaming an anti-Semitic 9-11 Truther via a prime-time speaking gig.)
But this past weekend in Nashville, at the first National Tea Party Convention, the Beltway press did just the opposite with regard to Sarah Palin's keynote address, which did follow a prime-time speech by "birther" nut Joseph Farah, who over the years has carved out a uniquely hateful and demented corner of the right-wing blogosphere. Because, yes, at the Tea Party convention, Farah, a proud Muslim-hater and gay-hater, did receive a standing ovation from the conservative crowd after he unfurled his thoroughly debunked birther garbage. (i.e. Obama "doesn't have a birth certificate.") And Farah did brag in the weeks leading up to the event about his chance to share the stage with Palin, to associate with Palin. ("Sold out! Palin-Farah ticket rocks tea-party convention," read the headline at Farah's discredited right-wing site, WorldNetDaily.com.)
Worst of all, though, the press played dumb about the whole thing.
Fact: Virtually nobody in the corporate media said boo about Palin helping to legitimize Farah by sharing the same stage with him. She was given a total free ride.
And I mean nobody. According to Nexis, there were more than 150 newspaper articles and columns published in the U.S. last week that mentioned both Palin and the Tea Party. (Combined, The New York Times and The Washington Postpublished 18 of them.) Yet out of all those articles and columns, exactly two also mentioned Joseph Farah by name. (Congrats to the Philadelphia Daily News and New Hampshire's Concord Monitor.)

When MoveOn held a video contest called Bush in 30 seconds and a Bush-Hitler video showed up and slipped through, the RNC and the media went ballistic.

Republicans Play Chess, Everyone Else Plays Checkers

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So last night I'm watching Jon Stewart interview Newt Gingrich on The Daily Show. And it struck me funny that the one time host of MTV's "You Wrote It, you Watch It" is now (along with Colbert) the only guy you can trust to really interview any politician and present tangible counter-arguments to popular talking points.

I guess I should let what few readers I have in on my political beliefs. Here we go: I want the government to use the tax dollars I give them to educate and look after peoples well being without being concerned about who has sex with who, what drugs I decide to do, how much I drink, and what I want to listen to/see in media. I think the Democratic party, as it is today, is filled with spineless gaping vaginas, who-if it happened today-couldn't come to a consensus on stopping the holocaust without polling their districts to make sure it couldn't be used against them when running for re-election. So I guess I kind of consider myself a liberal, libertarian...who knows. I just know I'm not a conservative.

Anyway, back to Gingrich. As I'm watching him spout GOP talking point after talking point (Government bad, Obama a Radical) and Stewart is successfully countering every argument showing exactly how silly it is. Then Gingrich outright lies when asked why the underwear bomber, that Newt has such a problem with being treated like a criminal and not an enemy combatant, is any different from Richard Reid the infamous shoe bomber and why republicans didn't have a problem with his being treated the same way.

"He was an American Citizen", said Gingrich.

Bullshit. He was British citizen of Jamaican descent. Now that's a pretty big lie because it shows that your argument is based on a false premise. But Gingrich didn't care. None of the Republican pundits care if their facts are wrong, or they lie. Why? Because the people who vote for them don't.

It's genius really. Republicans are about one thing, and one thing only. Freeing corporations and wealthy families from the tax burdens and regulations that have plagued them since FDR's new deal. Every republican sponsored bill passed into law in the last 40 years has achieved some part of that goal. Now that's a pretty small group of people to be helping so they have disguised there message in ingenius ways. Cloaking it under racism, populism, finger-pointing, fear, and creating a distrust of government by running it into the ground. They've spent over a quarter of a century cutting education so they's have a nice dumb electorate who would parrot their bumper sticker ready slogans any chance they got.

Files from the Attic: #2 "Scoop Jackson Needs To Get A Clue"

What better way to fill you blog with content than to use older posts from blogs that no longer exist. This one is from when I worked for Sports Radio 850 the Buzz. From The Blog June 16th, 2008. (As of this writing, Scoop Jackson Still sucks.)

 Just when I thought that ESPN still had some value as a sports information service, I read this article from Page 2’s resident hack, Scoop Jackson. This article entitled “What Happened to the New York City Point Guard? ” May be the worst example of Scoop’s schlock- passing -as- sportswriting I have yet to witness. Basically he breaks down the the answer to an interesting question like this: New York point guards are so into being New York point guards that they don’t need an NBA check.

What’s the point in being Jamaal Tinsley, a quasi-respected midlevel starting point guard for the Pacers, but having no one north of 110th Street honor you as dude in the summer, when you could be Kenny Satterfield or Andre Barrett, who dropped 68 and 66 points, respectively, in a Hoops in the Sun tournament game in the Bronx two weeks ago, and get love so unconditional that people riding the 6 uptown with you start rating you as the basketball equivalent of Zeus?

OK, now I know that there are legends on New York basketball courts that will live forever. But Kenny Satterfield? It’s not like the guy dropped out of the NBA because he didn’t find it challenging enough. This guy averaged A little over 5 points a game and less than 1 APG while playing 20 minutes a night for the Denver Nuggets in 02-03. But the real gem in the article is this:

That “love you for life” trade-off that most NYPGs have succumbed to over the past 10 years is possibly the reason the “foreigners” have been taking their spots in the NBA. To the point gods left in NYC — Dwight Hardy, Jeremy Hazell, Kemba Walker — the world can have that spot; they no longer want it, no longer need it.

Yes, that’s right, Scoop. Guys like “Future” and “Booger” are sidestepping the NBA and leaving it to the foreign players because it is SOOOO much more rewarding to play on the NYC tournament circuit. It couldn’t possibly be that they play a style of ball that is entirely about showcasing your own personal offensive attributes.  I love these tournaments. I love seeing “Half man Half Amazing” go to the hole. And with the And 1, and Mixtape tours now, playground basketball absolutely has a livable- and sometimes lucrtive-wage involved for the players. Bottom line is that if ANY NBA club thought these guys could help them they would give them a real contract. And if ANY of these guys were given an real NBA contract, they would sign immediately.   Why does ESPN pay guys to write like 10 year old fanboys?

They still do.

Who Dat, Indeed. Monday Afternoon Headlines

What I wouldn't give to have been on Bourbon St. last night when the Saints ran back the interception to go ahead two scores. I bet you could have felt that city orgasm. Anyway, lets get to the rundown:

Saints 31 - Colts 17 In case you missed it, Peyton Manning is the goat.

Sarah Palin thinks it's okay for Rush Limbaugh to call people "retarded"  Sarah also can't even remember her own talking points at a very staged interview so she does what I used to do in 10th grade history.

Apparently, there are women who pay $5000.00 to have sex with Leif Garrett. I hate to tell them, but if they would just wait until two or three in the morning when he's trying to get his sickness off and he'll let you shit in his mouth for dime bag. It's fun!

Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend lets the back of her hand do the talking.

Watch all of the Super Bowl's overhyped wastes of money here. My favorite was the Tim Tebow anti-abortion ad that sounds like its for healthcare reform.

Wednesday Afternoon Web Run

John Boehner comes right out and tells CEOs to pony up the dough if they want republicans to shill for them.  This news shocks no one and will go unreported on every major network.

FreeCreditReport.Com is not free and rings up credit on your card. Now I really want to punch that motherfucker.

Do you think Bono is a self-important preening jackass who talks down to people? So does AC/DC!

Perez Hilton said Miley Cyrus' 9-year old sister was starting a lingerie line. Owners of said clothing company say they only make tank tops for tutus which is entirely as creepy.

Twenty Bucks Says Peter Sprigg is Caught Fucking a Dude within 1 Year

Has there ever been a preacher or politician who has made it their life's work to haul away gays by the truckload, that wasn't secretly gay? Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, Mark Foley the list goes on and on.  Here's Peter Sprigg saying gays should be thrown in jail.

Matthews: Do you think we should outlaw gay behavior?
Sprigg: Well I think certainly...
Matthews: I'm just asking you, should we outlaw gay behavior?
Sprigg: I think that the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas which overturned the sodomy laws in this country was wrongly decided. I think there would be a place for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior.
Matthews: So we should outlaw gay behavior?
Sprigg: Yes.
Matthews: Okay thank you much Peter Sprigg. We know your position. It's a clear one. Thank you.


At least he says what he really wants done. And that's my problem with any debate on cable in this country. It's all controlled by people who think like this loud, bigoted, sick fuck except they don't have the balls to say what they really think like Sprigg does. Instead, they try to hide behind platitudes and "Luntz Speak" so that you cant debate them honestly. They hate the President and want him out because he might help poor people, but they say he's "Moving the country too far to the left".  They want insurance companies to keep bilking people out of their money and denying coverage to anyone who gets a zit for outrageous profits, but they say the "Government Run Health Care will cost too much". They want CEO's to go on running companies into the ground and using our taxes to bail them out instead of passing laws to keep them from doing what they're doing, but they say that "you can't restrict the free market" or "It will stem creativity in the financial sector."  All of this is done by well payed pundits who want you to be stupid and broke.