Thursday, April 12, 2012

Newt Gingrich Continues to be a Whiny Little Crybaby



Like any spoiled child with an overinflated sense of his own worth, nothing is ever little Newtie's fault.

Newt Blames Fox News

Newt Gingrich, who is still, technically, running for president, blamed Fox News, and Rupert Murdoch in particular, for the failure of his presidential campaign Thursday.  "I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through," the former Fox employee said during a private meeting with Tea Party leaders in Delaware. "In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we're more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That is just a fact."


So, first of all. . .DUH!!!! CNN is less biased than FOX? You just figured that out? CNN, like most media outlets, and to their detriment, worships at the altar of objectivity, while FOX is to bias what Saudi Arabia is to crude oil.

But secondly,  FOX has been PRO-Romney? Have you watched FOX since you stopped working there? They were pro-anyone-but-Romney. They were pimping the absurdly unqualified pizza guy, then they were all over the pill-addled secessionist. They even liked the no-birth-control guy with the bad hair. They were puffing guys that weren't even in the race like the Sopranos extra from Jersey and W-without-the-charisma. FOX has never seemed to like Romney. Ask Mitt how much positive energy he's been getting from FOX.

“I assume it’s because Murdoch at some point [who] said, ‘I want Romney,’ and so ‘fair and balanced’ became ‘Romney,’ ” Gingrich said. “And there’s no question that Fox had a lot to do with stopping my campaign because such a high percentage of our base watches FOX.”


It's cute how you pretend that "fair & balanced" was ever a real thing. Especially while you're complaining that they haven't been sufficiently pro-Newt.
It's also kinda cute how you think that FOX is the reason you aren't winning. I t couldn't possibly be that voters remember your previous ethics violations, or your serial infidelities. It couldn't be that voters were less than impressed by your moon colony idea. It couldn't be that you were too lazy and/or incompetent to get your name on the ballot in some states, or the fact that you abandoned your campaign to go on a cruise, causing your campaign staff to quit en masse. It couldn't be your delusions of grandeur, describing yourself as a "definer of civilization" and "leader of the civilizing forces." It couldn't be the time that you insisted that anyone who quoted you was lying.
No, no, I'm sure it is FOX's coverage of you that is the real culprit here.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Obama to Back Down Again? I am Stunned!





BREAKING: White House To Delay Implementation Of Key Anti-Discrimination Order

By Igor Volsky posted from ThinkProgress LGBT on Apr 11, 2012 at 6:45 pm

After months of dodging questions about the progress of an executive order prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in federal contracting, the White House won’t issue the directive, but will instead study whether gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender employees require employment protections, ThinkProgress has learned. The news comes after White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett held a meeting with LGBT advocates to discuss the matter.
[emphasis added. By me.]

Seriously? You really need to convene a study to figure out whether LGBT people face on-the-job discrimination? Really?
There are what, like 30 states in which it is perfectly legal to fire an employee for being gay, and you wonder whether employment protections are necessary?
Are you really so afraid of what FOX and Rush are going to say about you that you won't do this simple act of human decency? Do you really think that treating gay people as full citizens is just too controversial? You can't just once say, "fuck it, I'm just going to do the right thing an let the chips fall where they may?"
Just issue the order. You know it's the right thing to do, just do it. Stop being such a wimp all the time. Geez!

If You Liked Joe MCarthy,

You're gonna love Allen West!

Allen West Suggests 80 House Democrats Are
Communist Party Members 



Seriously? 80? I think that might be the entire membership of the American Communist Party, and they all got elected to the House?
Congratulations, Florida's 22nd! You've elected a lunatic.