(Jeff Danziger via GoComics – to embiggen)
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Paul Constant at the Stranger explains “God Saved Me From A Breitbart Documentary“:
Yesterday, I attended a free screening of Hating Breitbart, a hagiographic documentary about Andrew Breitbart. The theater was about a quarter full, but it was packed with enthusiastic teabaggers, eager to cheer on proud conservative comments, especially those that mocked education. Brietbart’s father-in-law shrugs off Breitbart’s origins as a liberal by saying “he went to college, you see.” The theater hooted and cheered. They booed and sneered at a Columbia School of Journalism professor. And they loved the fact that the first forty minutes or so of Haitng Breitbart was an account of James O’Keefe’s anti-ACORN stunt journalism. The end of ACORN is a proud conservative moment.
The problem is, I don’t know if Hating Breitbart ever gets around to explaining O’Keefe’s weird attempt to seduce a CNN reporter on a ship stuffed full of dildos and pornography and his other failed attempts at transcending one-hit-wonderdom….
Find out why here, and while you’re at it, check out some of Constant’s outside-the-security-fences vignettes as well.
Dave Weigel at Slate reports on the RNC response to liberal skepticism about evangelicals embracing a Mormon cultist: “Mike Huckabee, Putting Up with Mormons Since 2012.”
And Alex Pareene at Salon has been doggedly highlighting Arianna Huffington’s not-so-new solution to the unemployment crisis: Con people into “volunteering” as personal servants. Because if America’s gonna achieve its full potential in a New Gilded Age, Arianna knows how much we’ll need a dedicated Servant Class for the Banana Republicans to bitch about!
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Apart from human and other monstrosities, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Doggie D
Who tipped off the CNN reporter?
trollhattan
Court accidentally reveals sealed PG&E settlement with San Bruno burn victim.
The documents posted on the San Mateo County Superior Court website show the company paid the teenage girl $1.8 million and an additional $677,700 to cover her attorneys’ fees and $19,400 for medical expenses. The girl suffered second and third-degree burns in the blast that was blamed on an inferior pipeline weld. Her injuries required extensive treatment and will likely leave her with permanent scars, the lawsuit states.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/30/4771657/court-mistakenly-posts-secret.html
Investor-owned utilitis–another example of privitization fail.
lamh35
This made me think of the FP’ers at BJ too. Even when ya’ll complain, ya’ll never let the village off the hook cause even in ya’ll small neck of the blogosphere, I think ya’ll understand exactly where Booman is coming from.
Containing the Alternative Universe
by BooMan
kindness
Thursday evening? It’s only 2:34 PM out here on the Left Coast.
Amir Khalid
YOU LIE! I clicked on the cartoon and it didn’t get any bigger. Now I haz a sad.
mai naem
Mitt Romney is a big fat liar.
Now lets see if WP repeats this fifteen times.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid:
Click on the GoComics link, and use their magnifying-glass icon to large it up.
lamh35
What the heck, I seriously clicked post once, not 20X..
As with everybody else please delete. sorry.
Ben Franklin
@lamh35:
This is getting fucking ridiculous.
Culture of Truth
@kindness: alternate universes obviously
SiubhanDuinne
The NYT currently has an amusing rehearsal photo up on its web version (well, it amused me, although I don’t believe the Times was trying for humor): Romney, in the exact center of the picture, looking on earnestly while several staffers and technicians adjust…HIS TELEPROMPTER!! LOL!
(I wish I knew how to share the picture. I did capture the image if anyone is really eager to see it. Maybe I could just email it to Anne Laurie and leve it up to her.)
Anne Laurie
For a few minutes there, not only was FYWP multiplying comments, it wouldn’t let me delete the extras or access the “dashboard”. Gonna be one of those evenings…
I blame Tom L, for tweaking the NRA (/snark).
Spaghetti Lee
Well, obviously, the Dildo Boat Incident deserves its own feature length film. I’m thinking Oliver Stone directing, with Andrew Garfield as O’Keefe in his first big dramatic role.
lamh35
“It’s about time we got a First Lady that…looks like a First Lady.”
When asked about why he wasn’t supporting Obama :
I…I just don’t like him. I don’t like to look at him. I don’t like his wife. She’s far from the First Lady. It’s about time we get a First Lady in there that acts like a First Lady and looks like a First Lady.”
Amir Khalid
@Anne Laurie:
OK, got it.
tulip
Yeah… it’s only 2:57 out here in the Communist/Solhulist Republic of Berkeley or whatever those grumpy white real Murikins guys call it.
BTW Led Zeppelin’s Kasmir… great song or greatest song ever?
And yes I realize lyin blue eyed granny starver Paul six-pack Ryan says his iPad goes from AC through Led Zeppelin, of course he’s full of it, since LED Zeppelin would only get him to L.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: This is a link to the article and it includes the picture.
jh
The Republican Party Has a Reagan Hologram But Are Scared It Would Upstage Romney
http://tinyurl.com/9t78zms
Publius39
I’m going to be watching the RNC’s last day of activities(ie. Obama bashing, overt racism, misogyny, etc. etc.). The only way I can make it through the whole thing is with copious amounts of Modelo and Tequila, and my liver is hating me right now.
Spaghetti Lee
@Publius39:
You could…not watch?
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh35:
I heard that this morning on NPR and almost threw up then and there. Just vile.
Publius39
@lamh35:
Nope, no racism here. Time to move it along. Gotta remember that the GOP is a big tent part with fresh ideas…
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL: That’s the one! Thanks so much.
mai naem
@lamh35: I heard that this morning but I can’t make out the name – I can’t even figure out if she’s the retiree or she’s the wife of the retiree and is it her name or the husband’s name – Bobby Lucius? Bobbi Lucius? Is it even Lucius? I would like to track this twit down and send her an email. And ofcourse, it’s all to do with the color of Michelle’s skin.
Publius39
@Spaghetti Lee: I damn near had a fit after McCain’s war-mongering, neo-con circle jerk, and had to walk out about half-way through Ryan’s ode to lying that he called a speech. I’ve made it through the first three days, I might as well hang in till the end.
tulip
@lamh35:
Good fucking lord. What’s pathetic is me though, being surprised these assholes have no shame at all. And not only do they think this way but feel no compunction at all in expressing such vile views.
Post racial America bitches! Get some!
TexasMango
Apparently the GOP’s super duper secret speaker is Clint Eastwood. It’s a damn shame when the most exciting speaker at your convention is an 80 year old actor. I guess Chuck Norris was busy.
LanceThruster
@Publius39:
I look at it with the same repulsed fascination as I would a bowl winder.
Publius39
You really can’t make this shit up.”
The funny part about her saying this is that she inherited her wealth, as opposed to actually working for her money. I think I’m going to invest in guillotine futures tomorrow.
LanceThruster
@Anne Laurie:
Or if you have a scroll mouse, hold the CTRL key and move the wheel to shrinkify or embiggen (works on text, also too).
Publius39
@LanceThruster:
LOL, I actually had to take to teh Google to find out what a “bowl winder” was. Very aproprops.
Spaghetti Lee
@LanceThruster:
Ah, UrbanDictionary, where would I be without you?
quannlace
So it’s Clint Eastwood as tonight’s Mystery Date. I really wonder at the logic of this. Sure, he’s popular, one way to get people to tune in. What exactly he has to do with the RNC is a guess. Plus, isn’t there the risk of eclipsing Romney on what’s supposed to his big night?
I guess I’m getting Eastwood confused with his screen characters, but I wonder how he feels like the blatant lying of the Rom/Ryan team?
JPL
@quannlace: He’s a good Republican. I assume he will talk about the Super Bowl Ad he did for Chrysler and then say that’s why we need Mitt. I’m just guessing.
LanceThruster
@Spaghetti Lee:
I have the #1 definition for “bronski” there (I am IMMORTAL…electronically speaking).
Publius39
@quannlace: Eastwood is a libertarian and an objectivist, so I think its pretty safe to say that he views their lies as a means to justify an end. All he wants is to pay lower taxes and for the kids to get off his lawn.
tulip
@quannlace:
I would assume he doesn’t have a problem with it at all, if he’s willing to 1) endorse Romney/Ryan 2) speak at their convention.
At least too me it’s pretty clear by his actions that he has no problem with the GOP.
You would have thought with what happened to him after the Superbowl commercial it would have given him pause, but I’m sure any reservations he had/has is soothed by the potential millions I guess he’ll save under a Romney/Ryan presidency.
He’s got his, so who cares about anybody else?
LanceThruster
@Publius39:
I almost provided the link to the Urban Dictionary, but then thought that kids these days just don’t do enough googling themselves.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@jh: God Lord, the Reagen hologram was real and not a snark? rolf
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@TexasMango: Not to mention even Eastwood admits he’s a not a good public speaker.
Brachiator
The Blunder From Down Under
Gina Rinehart, the Australian mining heiress, worth $19 billion and earlier this year thought to be the world’s richest woman, has sparked another controversy in her latest column in Australian Resources and Investment magazine. (Yes, I am a registered reader online.) Rinehart rails against class warfare and says the non-rich should stop attacking the rich and go to work.
“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire,” she writes. “If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself – spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working…
“The lessons are the same,” she writes. “You can’t get rich without working hard, taking risks, investing and reinvesting your profits.”
Of course, as Rinehart knows, you can also become very rich from inheriting and expanding your father’s company.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So Ryan, the sexists Republican alive, only pulled 20 million viewers compared to Palin 37 millionviewers in 2008. Oh yes, the conservatives are just enthused this year.
mai naem
@TexasMango: Actually Eastwood’s 82 and while he’s won awards for the Iwo Jima movies and he’s a Hollywood Icon I wonder how many people under 30 consider him a big star. And, I’m not kidding here. I remember talking to some younger coworkers over a decade ago and they had absolutely no idea about The Sound of Music. I felt super old which I wasn’t. I know Clint Eastwood is not the SOM but I think people forget that each generation has their own celebrities/icons and a rare few make it through multiple generations.
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
Fuck all, I’d love to set her up with a day picking lemons in a California orchard, alongside some migrant laborers. Then, during dinner break, she can lecture them on how if they’d just work harder, they’d all become billionaires.
Dipshit with a charming accent is still le dipshit.
Roger Moore
@TexasMango:
FTFY.
TheMightyTrowel
Since it’s an open thread… heard this on the radio this morning and almost drove into a tree i laughed so hard.
“…Politicians to crime… are like pen1ses to foetuses…”
The prophet Nostradumbass
@trollhattan: and, they’re trying to get the CPUC to allow them to dump the costs of these lawsuits, and the repairs they’re starting to make, onto the ratepayers. I’m just happy I live in a city with publicly-owned utilities.