You know, I'm kind of surprised that no media outlet I've listened to or watched, outside of NPR, has taken the McCain campaign to task for using surrogates to imply that being a Muslim is wrong. Outlets like ABC were calling the whisper campaign accusing Obama of being a secret Muslim a 'smear campaign', thereby implying being a Muslim is a liability. If the campaign had been about Obama being a secret Jew, there would have been cries of anti-Semitism from all quarters.

I have to say, for a country that likes to call itself a tolerant society, you sure do a lot of scape-goating.

MSNBC had a go. Chris Matthews had Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann on to defind why McCain and Palin think guilt by association arguments are such a good thing. She eventually claimed that Barack Obama and his wife Michelle held anti-American views and couldn't be trusted in the White House.


Here is the Huffington Post summary with videos.

Welcome back to McCartyism!

Thankfully, there is now a campaign to censure Bachmann.

After watching the interview I would like to ask if we can add her to the Asshole Fuckface list for the week.

you left out a ridiculous part of the Obama on a food stamp story


the woman claimed that she couldn't be racist because she'd supported alan keyes.

i love this country.

Of course, if the McCain campaign claimed that Obama was a secret atheist, there'd be no problem at all.

I've never understood the "But you could have been aborted!!" argument. It just seems so totally irrelevant.

That woman who made the food stamps is fooling no one.

whats wrong with the food stamp thing i like KFC, cool-aide, and watermelon and im white i just dont see the racist connection ...... oh wait are those pork ribs.... what a bitch!!




P.S. sarcasm dosent always come across in print media so i would like to state that this comment is funny.... thank you!

The funny thing is, I think, or at least hope, many prominent Democrats are secret atheists. You just can't make it to the upper echelon of American politics without loving ole Jesus a whole lot.

wow, there putting people in jail for being poor now, i better watch out, fuck.

I think that there are many people who only go through the motions of religion in order not to be ostracized, or in order to keep their social circles and status. I think the amount of "true believers" is most likely incredibly low. I can't think of anyone personally who claims to be religious than follows all of the mandates of their particular religion. At my former church (catholic), I know for a fact that almost every single married couple was using some form of birth control, even though they are all (except for totally ineffective methods, such as the rhythm method) expressly forbidden by the catholic church. Some people can live with the hypocrisy, I couldn't. To each his own, I guess.

I agree that there is no way in hell (pun intended) that a politician could get elected in the US, especially in a national election, without pandering to the religious, and completely ignoring us non-believers. Even stating that atheism is in any way legitimate would be political suicide.

That's why homeowner's associations (i.e. busybody neighbors with too much time on their hands) should be banned nationwide. Though their asshole fuckfacery is usually confined to telling people they can't build tree houses for their kids and stuff like that.
I don't know about Diana Fedele, but whoever made that Obama Bucks thing had to know what they were doing.

Dude, indirect indications, like, indicate that it's really fuckin' lucky for, like, Hitler or whatever that I wasn't standin' right there with like body armor and Predator inviso-field and an uzi or whatever. But I wasn't born in the future so I could have a time machine and go back and do that, y'know? So he was just lucky to be able to be alive and free to have the opinion "mein gott ich dan't want ter get schott ACH!"

On the serious: This is just a very specific example of the "you're an atheist; you don't have morals" misunderstanding.

Shove it up your bible-hole, Ed Whelan and National Review. The worst thing about that spooky canard "Liberal-controlled Washington! Oowooooowoooo!!!" is that it won't be liberal-controlled. Look back at the records to see how effectively Democrats could lock up plenty of votes or even get them decided correctly prior to Contract On America. Who thinks that the ugly side of the Repub minority won't be able to get some play? Ridiculous. Based on stats, why should we think that the Democrat (not "Liiiiberaaaal boo hoo hoo") -controlled government would stay that way? I'm pretty well convinced that Obama is going to win this election. I'm also convinced that he's going to have to pull Harvey the Rabbit (or *shudder* Frank) out of his very ass in public to get a second term. I honestly believe that. With four years to crack the whip, produce a dream team, and get a late-season "came out of her sequestered retreat/vacay in the Alaskan forest" blessing from Palin, and it's '84 all over again. Not in analogy, only in scale. I think Obama wins a decent majority in November (I'll be honest; I'm not seeing how fivethirtyeight is calling it like that) but gets creamed in 2012. I also feel confident that there are all sorts of things that he can do and do well not solely if he "only" gets four years, but because I know that he can do things well enough to win in 2012. It's just a lot of time for the freshly-born Karl Roves of the world to drop out of college to begin running their college's College Republicans.

Has anyone started a fund for this guy?

We all know the REAL reason Magic Johnson faked having AIDS...its the same reason any of us fake having AIDS: for the ladies.

Seriously, when the bitches find out you be packin' the HIV, they all be lined up out the door for a meaty dose of your toxic man-milk.

UPDATE: He has been released

Some people who aren't scum sucking pieces of shit came and helped him out.

EDIT: Here's a copy of the email I sent them.

Here's the names and email addresses, which were publicly listed on their association website, and a picture of the dickholes that thought a brown lawn was reason to send an old man to jail.

Let them know what you think, and use a disposable email address so they can't harass you.


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