Thursday Stuff

This happened on this date 38 years ago – compared to the clown parade of supposed Republican presidential candidates we have now, Tricky Dick looks like FDR (we would find out about “obstructing justice,” of course)…



...and I wonder if Joe Biden realizes how prescient he was in this speech about Internet freedom – and more importantly, I wonder how committed he is to backing up these great words (more here)…



…also, happy birthday to PA’s Republican U.S. Senator…



…”Worst Persons” (Bill Orally opens his pie hole about the “Occupy” movement, and hilarity ensues; “Goodhair” Perry goes cherry picking for quotes – I disagree with Keith saying that Number 44 was talking about the government, but I still think Obama makes a good point, though what has happened has more to do with greed than laziness; but Roger (“Lord Voldemort”) Ailes gets it for literally making stuff up about the Constitution, realizing his core audience will be too dumb to know the difference)…



Update 11/18/11: Not surprisingly, John Cole nails it on the "lazy" thing here...

Here’s how it works - Obama says something, Republicans completely lie about it, the media notes the lie is catching on without ever actually calling it a lie, the Democrats have to waste resources and respond to the lie, Republicans double down, this sucks the life out of everything else for a couple week, and in ten years this will be conventional wisdom that Obama called Americans lazy, just like Al Gore claimed to invent the internet and the rest of the bullshit that wingnuts have adopted as received truths (snow in November refutes climate change, the more you cut taxes the more government revenue you raise, if a bombing campaign does not make people like you it means you didn’t bomb hard enough or your targeting was off, liberals lost Viet Nam, waterboarding isn’t torture, etc).

Uh, yep.

…and I wish I had a nickel for every video I’ve ever seen beginning with somebody leaving, for what it’s worth.