Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Macaca Tuesday
Chuck Roberts of CNN apologizes for suggesting that Lamont was the al-Qaeda candidate. Kudos, Chuck.
They love us. They really love us.
Hannity has a nuclear meltdown. Is it me, or does Orifice seem a little stressed lately?
W is so popular right now the Mayor of Salt Lake City is planning on protesting his arrival.
Fox News hosts a “private investigator” who criticizes Islam for being only 1400 years old. Their next guest will be a homeless man raving about aliens.
Senator (this guy is actually a senator!) George Allen (R-VA) derisively calls an American of Indian descent working for his opponent a “macaca,” or monkey. Allen’s campaign manager later dismissed the issue with an expletive, saying Allen has “nothing to apologize for.” Allen later apologized. Nice, senator, real nice. Where are you from again? The Confederacy is over, Senator. You can’t treat the brown people like that anymore, even if they work on your plantation.
Typical right-wing hypocrisy.
This is an incredible post over at Huffingpost.com about the devastation in Lebanon.
Joe Klein, the Tom Friedman of Newsweek.
Recently LGF scooped the press. Eric Boehlert scoops them back.
Rep. John Murtha with some pithy words.