Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

The willow is too close to the house.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Republicans in disarray!

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Stand up, dammit!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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Friday Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Laura Ingraham, Queen of the Nightcrawlers

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Per the Washington Post:

… The controversy stems from a Thursday night episode of “The Ingraham Angle,” in which the host lamented recent comments made by Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), criticizing Facebook’s refusal to take down an altered video of Pelosi.

Speaking with conservative activist Candace Owens, Ingraham likened the altered video to a work of satire. Clinton’s and Pelosi’s complaints, she said, were simply a coordinated effort from the left to “silence conservative voices” ahead of next year’s election, a common accusation by conservatives, including President Trump.

“Facebook now, what do they monitor, hate?” Ingraham asked. “That sounds good until you realize hate — and these are some of the people that they’ve shunned.”

Fox then displayed a graphic featuring Owens and seven other “prominent voices censored on social media.” Among those silenced, Ingraham said, were “people who believe in border enforcement, people who believe in national sovereignty.”…

Sen. Warren’s decision not to give them a media-friendly town hall looking pretty good right now…


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  2. 2.

    NotMax

    Trying to imagine the ones they chose to remove from the preliminary list of examples because including them might damage the FOX brand.

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    Mary G

    Just pathetic. Didn’t all her regular advertisers dump her? Are they back or is she surviving off Fox promos, survival kits, gold for sale at four times its price, and MyPillows?

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    hells littlest angel

    What could Fox have said? Racism has no place in modern-day conservatism? The poor bastards are stuck between alienating their advertisers or alienating their viewers.

  9. 9.

    germy

    @Mary G:

    Just pathetic. Didn’t all her regular advertisers dump her?

    From what I understand, advertisers make a big show out of leaving, and then a few months later (when no one is looking) they come slithering back.

  11. 11.

    germy

    Laura’s brother knows the truth:

    Fox News says it's "obscene to suggest" that Ingraham was defending white supremacist Paul Nehlen on her show. t.co/RejJ2mgu5V via @HuffPostPol
    Horrific on all levels! Shame on you, Laura. Deeper shame on Fox!— Curtis Ingraham (@CurtisIngraham1) June 1, 2019

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    germy

    My sister's use of the word "lifestyle" is beyond disturbing, especially given her involvement with me and my late partner. Love is not a "lifestyle" choice, Laura, and I speak from experience…what about you? @IngrahamAngle— Curtis Ingraham (@CurtisIngraham1) May 31, 2019

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    debbie

    Speaking with conservative activist Candace Owens, Ingraham likened the altered video to a work of satire.

    Then let’s have a real satire of Trump. All the fat photos, facial contortions, and dementia-ridden pronouncements, rolled into one, convenient package.

  15. 15.

    Duane

    @hells littlest angel: Fox is determined to normalize people like that. Given time it may work. Good people, both sides all that rot. Trumpov is a good example. A truly awful person still acceptable to millons of people.

  16. 16.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Duane:

    Fox is determined to normalize people like that.

    A bedrock element of modern conservatism. They’re pissed as Hell they can’t say the n- word anymore. It really helps explain why Trump of all the people they could have chosen.

  17. 17.

    AM in NC

    @Omnes Omnibus: Dartmouth was my top college choice in the mid-80s because I’d had an amazing experience there at a summer debate workshop. I didn’t get in and ended up going to UNC (which I also didn’t know much about, not being from NC). Boy am I glad the fates intervened that way. A large public school that was pretty diverse (especially compared to Dartmouth) was great for me. Of course this was before football was remotely a thing on campus, and the core liberal arts mission of the school hadn’t been swallowed by the health affairs campus ($$$$$$$$$$$). But still, bullet dodged.

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    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax:

    Trying to imagine the ones they chose to remove from the preliminary list of examples because including them might damage the FOX brand.

    Someone started June with excess brainpower that he had to get rid of.

  19. 19.

    randy khan

    @NotMax:

    Trying to imagine the ones they chose to remove from the preliminary list of examples because including them might damage the FOX brand.

    Yeah, it wouldn’t have been on-brand to include any mainstream conservatives.

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    bemused

    I feel ill imagining how Ingraham parents her three adopted kids, one from Guatemala,. Will they become twisted hateful people just like mommy? Will they believe it’s normal to spout vile wingnut beliefs to get six figure paychecks?

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    debbie

    @AM in NC:

    I went to summer school at Dartmouth after my freshman, so no danger of football anywhere. I loved studying at the library (Baker!), sitting in an overstuffed chair with a board laid across the arms serving as a desk and overlooking the green. I wrote some of my best papers there, and I would have been happy being there forever.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    @Matt:

    Something was nagging me about that picture, and I think you hit it. Maybe it’s just the original lighting, but that is lighter than the general run of her pictures on the Google.

  25. 25.

    EthylEster

    @Damien replied to : @Omnes Omnibus:

    You seem to be assuming anyone decent is coming out of Dartmouth now…

    Broad brush, Damien and Omnes Omnibus.
    Yes, of course, EVERYONE who EVER went to Dartmouth is indecent.
    Please stop writing bullshit.

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    StringOnAStick

    @bemused: Wanna bet that Ingraham adopted those POC kids so she could raise/turn them into Oreos like Clarence Thomas? Conservatives love having POC to spout the RW party line but they don’t have enough yet to provide the cover they’d like to have for their racist policies from that angle. Ingraham is vile enough to do exactly what I’ve described; I just hope those poor kids are able to both resist it and not internalize in any way the racism that oozes from her. Slim odds, I know. Poor kids.

  27. 27.

    James E Powell

    @Duane:

    Fox is determined to normalize people like that. Given time it may work.

    To some extent, it is working. Such people should be universally condemned, but they are not. And they do not need to be all the way normalized to be very damaging.

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    Raoul

    @germy: Angry older white people still buy laundry soap. Can’t miss that market of somewhere around two million crabapples over age 55! (Plus a fairly weak 400,000 in the prime 25-54 demo.)

  31. 31.

    Butter emails!!!

    One of the tweets strikes why I’m not as forgiving of those who like Sanders and Buttigieg did Town Halls on Fox. It may have been the best decision for them, but it hurt the efforts of a lot of people. Do we really want to elect politicians where it’s all about them and fuck the rest of us? Or, let’s put it this way, we’re trying to convince advertisers not to place adds on Fox News because it’s bad to support the racism and bad optics to have your product advertised alongside racist assholes. Meanwhile, along come Democratic politicians who are apparently OK with appearing on the white supremacy network, because hey they get to be on TV. Are we supposed to hold people who are just trying to sell soda and erectile disfunction pills to a higher standard than our politicians?

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    tam1MI

    Did anyone decent come out of Dartmouth in the early to mid-80s?

    Kirsten Gillibrand in 1988.

    So, no one then.

  38. 38.

    Ruckus

    @brantl:
    Some feel they are in the line of fire of a joke when it knocks down the front door of their house.

  39. 39.

    thalarctosMaritimus

    @EthylEster: even among decent, normal human beings who went to Dartmouth, which a friend of mine is one, “Dartmouth weirdos” is a running joke.

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