(I bring you this blog post from Las Vegas, where I am vacationing. I’ve taken a short break from losing money in the casinos to catch up on the news.)

Liz Cheney has lied or at least been grossly incorrect about a lot of things. Like her father, it seems like she can’t go on TV without misinforming in some fashion. All of the incidents are equally egregious, but this one just cracks me up.

You may have heard that Obama made an unannounced trip to Dover to honor the service of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The President and Attorney General Eric Holder stood and saluted as flag-draped caskets were moved off the transport into the chapel in a precise and practiced military ceremony.

This simple gesture would ordinarily be seen as a good thing by anyone who honors the service of those in our armed forces. But the wingnut-o-sphere is shitting bricks. Not only that, but the conservo-luminaries are all over my TV talking about how terrible it was that Obama did this and, *gasp*, had pictures taken. (I guess if he had landed on an aircraft-carrier, and hopped out of the plane in a flight suit it would have been okay…)

Anyway, I digress. Liz “My Daddy Is Famous” Cheney had the fucking cojones to say this on Fox News Radio’s John Gibson Show recently:

I think that what President Bush used to do is do it without the cameras.

“Do what?” you might ask. Bush never, not once, even visited Dover to honor the soldiers he put in harm’s way. Much less “without cameras.” Liz Cheney, being the daughter of Bush’s Vice President, knows this, or she should know it. Which makes her either a liar or fucking ignorant. And given her track record of public statements, I’m going with liar.

That’s really only the first part of this post. The second part has to do with general criticism of this event from the dingbat contingent of the right wing. Boss Limbaugh himself called Obama “narcissistic” and criticized the event as a mere “photo-op.” Other wingnut bloggers and TV punditainers have followed suit. Or you could just read some of the comments on the above link to the Washington Post:

All the world is a stage to Obama … every action a measured bit of stage-craft. Cold. The man is very, very cold.

He does absolutely nothing unless there are cameras there to capture his “holiness”.

a staged sympathy event

Some are even getting all in a tizzy about the salute. Apparently they are unaware that a salute is the appropriate way for the Commander in Chief to acknowledge a servicemember.

It’s all just a bunch of wingnut poo-flinging.

And, ho! What’s this!

(photo via Hullabaloo; click for larger)

It’s wingnut godfather Ronald Reagan visiting flag-draped coffins of those who died in the US Embassy attack in Beirut. And he even brought Nancy with him!

This further confirms my “First or Worse” Theory of Unified Wingnuttery, which states that any action by Democrats/liberals which gets the wingnuts into a tizzy was done either first or to a greater degree by a Republican/conservative (more on this later.)

So, in summation, fuck you Liz Cheney, and fuck you wingnuts.

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Even if you ignore the silly Jesus stuff in the beginning of this video, it’s obvious that the ridiculous ACORN witch hunt is not about illegal activity, it’s about ideology. There are government contractors with FAR more egregious records of fraud (Northrop Grumman, etc.) and other illegal activity including murder (Blackwater) that are not receiving the same scrutiny.

In fact, Sean Hannity dismissed Blackwater’s actions because they are, in his words, “keeping us safe.” (Don’t get me started on that little bit of wingnut fantasy.)

As I’ve posted before, if Acorn was in the business of KILLING brown people instead of HELPING them this would not be an issue.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2a4MEAoxko

Oh, and the Defund ACORN Act IS a “bill of attainder” and, as such, is unconstitutional. But Fox won’t tell you that. In fact, the only way it could be constitutional is if it is applied equally to “any organization that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency [, or applied to] any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.”

“In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex.”

Imam Akmal M. Muhammad of the Islamic Freedom Foundation: “Same sex marriages, if allowed, will lead to the extermination of the human race because there is no procreation.”

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Of all the stupid arguments against gay marriage (and believe me, they are all stupid), this is the biggest forehead-slapper. I’M not getting gay married. YOU’RE not getting gay married. About 200 million Americans aren’t getting gay married. How exactly will this lead to the extermination of the human race?

Fucking moron.

1. Wingnut writes book alleging that Muslim groups are trying to infiltrate Congress and the White House with “intern spies.”
2. Wingnut publishing house publishes the book.
3. Wingnut congresspersons get copies of the book.
4. Wingnut congresspersons send official request for investigation to Sergeant-at-Arms.

What’s next? An official investigation into the presence of pod people in the halls of Congress? How about lizard men from the center of the Earth?

I mean, why not? As long as we’re entertaining fucking stupid-ass conspiracy theories…

Pulling The Trigger | Talking Points Memo

UPDATE: Okay, it appears they have NOT actually submitted a formal request. Why not?! What are they waiting for? What about the horrible national security threat we face from the swarthy, bearded Muslim hordes?

btch, plz…

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDR47EKTrCQ

…it’s pathetic, really, truly, in a “Look at the rabbits, Lenny” kind of way, how now, with Ted Kennedy dead and the Chappaquiddick arrows gone, Coulter’s quiver of reference points is getting emptier and emptier. All she’s really got left is passive aggressive Bill Clinton sex remarks. Reading her columns these days, now that she’s been out-batshitted by Glenn Beck and out-babed by Sarah Palin, is not unlike listening to a toothless meth addicted woman at a bar tell you how hot she used to be and won’t you please let her suck your dick for a dollar.

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The God of Abraham is one of the most twisted, hate filled, evil literary characters ever. He kills babies, promotes incest, rape, genocide and slavery, wipes out families to test individuals, demands sacrifices, needs constant praise, and periodically destroys the bulk of humanity. Yet we’re always told how loving and fatherly he is…

Honestly, is there anything more amusing than watching the GOP Noise Machine lecture people about accuracy and treating people fairly?

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“Killing Obama and his Jew/Muslim cronies has never been more fun for White Male Liberty Patriots living in their mother’s basement.”

“I consider President Obama to be in the situation of having inherited a burning apartment building. He proceeded to gather all the available fire trucks and douse the fires in half the floors. Yet his critics complain that the other floors are still on fire. Even worse, those critics are the ones who started the fire. And they want to withdraw the fire trucks.” — economist Larry Mishell