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What I see in NYC.

What I see in NYC. Foster statue at the Met.

What I see in NYC. music… awesome.

What I see in NYC. Rock Center.

What I see in NYC.

What I see in NYC.

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What is it about evil people not having an orginal creative bone in their bodies? And, couldn’t they have ripped off a better song?

Via the good folks at Sadly, No! comes this oily gem from the racist homophobic evil trolls at Fred Phelps church. Please note the Richard Ramirez effect around the eyes, the deep black circles and blood red soaked  look that people who live and breath hate get, as we see in this picture. Roll the video:

Now go take a nice long hot cleansing shower.

Don Surber on the (obvious) White House health care PR push…

A real debate would be between Obama and someone on the other side. Maybe Sarah Palin. Maybe Fred Thompson. Maybe Mitt Romney. There is no shortage of people who would love to clean his clock on this issue.

Mighty impressive list there. Nearly choked on my bagel.

Amusing how conservatives get their underwear in a twist when the Obama Admin uses the public relations tactics that the Bush White House perfected to a razor’s edge.

This is a close second:

When liberals write “faux outrage” they mean that conservatives have a legitimate concern.

Actually, no. When liberals write “faux outrage” they mean to call conservatives on their use of “paranoid style” and other mock forms of propaganda that are solely meant to incite an emotional response devoid of real facts.

It’s telling that Surber feels it entirely necessary to downgrade the point initially, since it does come from the king of right wing disinformation, Matt Drudge… Surber writes:

I was not going to bother with this issue. I saw the headline on Drudge — “ABC turns programming over to Obama; news to be anchored from inside White House” — and figured Matt was having a little fun with the news. A little summertime hype.

Always trust your gut Don. You had it right, then dropped the ball.

But, then… it’s all about us versus them, isn’t it?

Yup.

While conservatives can’t seem to govern, they know who to sling propaganda with the best of them. The current theme is twofold: right wingers are the victims, and anything bad that happens, liberals are to blame for it. A few examples plucked from the interwebs…

• Beck and Goldberg team up to claim that James von Brunn was a left-winger
• A ‘PRESCRIPTION’ FOR A MANUFACTURED CONTROVERSY….
• White “Separatist” Turns “Bad PR Lemons Into Lemonade” In TV Interviews
• Toil And Trouble…. – In case you were wondering what Glenn Beck thinks about all this right wing violence (and who doesn’t?) here it is…
• Sarah Palin’s Politics Of Grievance Are Back!
• Beck: ‘[W]e’re in the same situation here’ as in Iran.
• Bill O’Reilly Selectively Edits Joan Walsh Interview

You can’t make this stuff up…. mixed messages from the once mighty wurlitzer.

Karl Rove: Maureen Dowd is  “twisted, deranged“.

Former White House adviser Karl Rove lashed out at New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Fox News Channel Wednesday, saying Dowd was a “nasty, snarky person” with a “twisted, bitter little heart.”

“I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for The New York Times who misses no opportunity to show her disdain for the conservative side of the aisle,” Rove said on Fox News Channel.

“I actually went to an editorial board meeting at The New York Times and wasted a couple bucks on some flowers to give Maureen Dowd … give her a smile on her face. And that didn’t even work,” he recalled. “This is a dour, downbeat liberal.” (emphasis added)

Don Surber – “Why the left ridicules women” :

Too many American liberals cannot handle a strong, good-looking, intelligent, independent woman who disagrees with them — and so they make the crude, cruel and sexist remarks — including those about raping them or their 14-year-old daughters. [...] They are like little boys who cannot handle a strong woman. These women dare challenge them intellectually, and so we get crude counterattacks.

Rove is obviously angered that Dowd rebuked his effort at wooing her with flowers… which is kind of creepy and he’s shocked she didn’t kiss his bald pate? Hilarious.

Tbogg makes a good point.

More at Memeorandum.

Links of the day:

• Why So Scared of a Public Plan?
• Miranda On The Battlefield
• So… Now It’s A Pandemic?
• Bill O’Reilly wonders why Dr. Tiller’s supporters want to protect their anonymity