Barbie in a burkha

Man, are the wingnuts heads gonna explode over this!

UPDATE: As expected, the rightosphere is alight with outrage, as witnessed by the spittle being spewed by these appropriately wimpish-named blogs - Scared Monkeys, Jammiewearingfool and Weazel Zippers. That these blogs have no sense of self awareness in their nomenclature is so indicative of their cluelessness of their posts within.

Move over Rush, Glenn Beck is the leader of the GOP now

Glenn Beck is not satisfied with the adulation of his racist, aging TV audience. He is moving further and further into political activism with predictable results. The Palin effect, if you will - the cult of personality as the new politics.

Blame Obama. He really set this magnetism as policy deal into action. The GOP, not recognizing the possibilities, have laid down and died. The television-friendly among their followers, however, are smarter in media matters than the corn-fed southerners of the party itself.

Armed with vague pronouncements and a questionable grasp of policy, celebrities like Palin and Beck are stepping out into activism, with an eye on 2010 and/or 2012. What they don't know is that they are not the GOP; they only represent the fringe of the right-most loonies.

Progressives in the States should step aside from criticism and let these voices squeal as loudly as they want. Just let them dig their own Elmer Gantry graves. They may have a couple of million fans at the most, but that's it. A couple million. Fans. You can't win elections by playing only to your base, especially when that base is a tiny minority.

Glenn Beck's talking up some scary plan for 2010 lately. It's scary because Glenn Beck is talking. And today, Glenn Beck unveiled his 100-year plot to fundamentally change America—and democracy—as we know it. Glenn Beck is fucking insane.

Janine Krieber eviscerates Iggy's Libs

Janine Krieber, wife of Stephene Dion, posted a brief but blistering critique of the current Liberal party and its leader on her Facebook page. The post was deleted quickly but not before it was widely distributed.

Janine Krieber wrote on the popular social networking site Facebook that the party is in full collapse.

She warns the Liberals will pay for refusing to endorse the historic left-wing coalition between the Grits, NDP and Bloc Quebecois that almost toppled the Tories last December.

The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the note, where Krieber openly questioned whether current Leader Michael Ignatieff is the one to lead the party out of its funk.

With the Libs a full 15 points behind the Cons, I'd say she has a point. With no real opposition, the Cons keep rolling on and over the Canada we once knew, leaving little if any of our former dignity and respect behind.

Conservative torture and media supplication

Graphic via The Skinny

When the facts are in and the Cons are exposed as liars about their knowledge of torture of prisoners Canada handed over to Afghanistan, the claims of ignorance and innocence will soon enough change to a defence of 'so what'.

Like the Republicans in the States who once decried torture, after being caught torturing prisoners, suddenly changed their tune to almost braggadocio levels - 'yeah, we tortured but it wasn't called torture; we renamed it 'enhanced interrogation' so it's OK. And it prevented more attacks. And, and...' Soon enough, the media took up this change as the truth. The flip flop is all but forgotten. And torture is now A-OK.

This will be the rallying cry of the Cons as soon as the truth is so evident they can no longer deny. Expect a twist in the tourniquet of the media, too. Macleans will hire Mark Steyn to parrot Republican talking points on how torture is fine when conservatives do it. The Globe and Mail will claim no Canadian actually tortured anyone so MacKay and co. are guiltless. Rex Murphy will pontificate on CBC that our torture of prisoners 'saved lives'. The National Post will argue that the Cons did the right thing, well because the Post always says that.

Torture will become cool in Canada, too. Don't believe me? Just wait.

Marie Antoinette lives. In Alaska. And on the road.

Let them eat ... shit. Even sheep will bray out of turn when they don't get fed on time. The queen doth fiddle while her subjects riot. Hoofs are impatient. Even for a queen.

Je ne regrette rien

John McCain may regret Canada pulling out of Afghanistan in 2011 but not many in Canada do.

Diversity = cancer and pollution

Diversity, according to Ann Coulter, has "jumped the shark". Give her some credit, she gets the goat. I say, let her have it. It's too much fun on the sidelines not to bleet.

Sliding Through Life on Charm

Sarah Palin-Marianne Faithfull edition. This whole hullabaloo about Newsweek's cover is marshed in hypocrisy and opportunism.

The truth is what is in front of you, not what is already in your mind.

"Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow"

That is the gist of the popular bumper sticker, 'Pray for Obama. Psalm 109.8". Sounds nice at first blush, right? Not when you read the contents of that Psalm. "Let his day be few and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow". Sounds like a biblical death threat to me.

Rachel Maddow has more:

H/T: Crooks and Liars

Wanker of the day

S. Robert Lichter.

Virulent liberal hater, S. Robert Lichter, tilts a new study that compares the networks and the first half hour of a Fox News show to front the meme that Fox News is not just fair and balanced but in some cases more so than the other networks. The column is sheer wingnuttery in action. While he does acknowledge that Fox News has its 'conservative talk show hosts', MSNBC is just as bad! No wonder Michelle Malkin loves this guy.

Oh by the way, about the study. It's from an organization called The Center for Media and Public Affairs from the same university that employs one S.Robert Lichter. This kind of poll comes comes out every year like clockwork from Lichter's group showing the same thing - the media is librul!

CMPA operates as a tax-exempt nonprofit group under a 501(c)(3) designation of the Internal Revenue Code. Since 2004 CMPA has been an affiliate of the George Mason University, where CMPA President Dr. Robert Lichter serves as Professor of Communication. Donations to assist CMPA's activities are tax deductible.