Axelrod v. Turd Blossom

Axelrod To Bush Advisers: Butt Out

David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, had harsh words for some of former President Bush's closest advisers during an interview with the Post's Lois Romano yesterday, dismissing as "intramural stuff" the critiques offered by the former Administration.

Axelrod praised Bush for his handling of the transition while sharply criticizing some of the former president's advisers.

Axelrod said he was "disappointed" by former Vice President Dick Cheney's comments regarding the planned closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and the suggestion that it would increase the likelihood of a terrorist attack; he described himself as "surprised" by former White House chief of staff Andy Card's remark that not wearing a jacket in the Oval Office was disrespectful.

But, Axelrod saved his strongest condemnation for the man who held his job in the Bush White House: Karl Rove. Of Rove's criticism of Obama's economic stimulus plan, Axelrod said: "The last thing that I think we are looking for at this juncture is advice on fiscal integrity or ethics from Karl Rove -- anyone who's read the newspapers for the last eight years would laugh at that."

Rove did not return an email seeking comment. But, he did pen an op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal in which he starkly criticized the way Obama has gone about addressing the financial crisis and heaped praise on congressional Republicans for how they have handled the matter.

Rush Limbaugh is a dangerous fat-ass

(from Bob Cesca)

What you don't know about Rush Limbaugh just might kill you! Film at 11.

I just listened to about a half-hour of Rush Limbaugh stammering through his addled haze about how the recovery bill is actually a "porkulus" bill. After a lot of fake hemming and hawing about whether he should proceed, he decided to list some of the spending items in the bill. Nothing alarming or ridiculous -- lots of spending on renovations to federal buildings, some green transportation provisions, and so on. All of the items he listed create jobs and save the government money in the long run.

But he and Hannity and other far-right crazy people have taken to listing these items with an outraged tone of voice that's entirely incongruous with the content of what they're reading. Put another way, Limbaugh could recite the names of childhood leukemia victims and, in that tone of voice, the list would sound like a roster of criminally insane rapists.

A staple of modern media satire involves taking mundane, unremarkable video footage, desaturating the colors and adding scary music to make the subject of the footage look evil or sinister -- like a news magazine show or prison documentary. Only, Limbaugh isn't doing this for satirical purposes. He's doing it in order to deliberately deceive his dittoheaded listeners.

The far-right will never grasp or accept the fact that government spending stimulates growth -- double the growth that's created by tax cuts. I mean, the government could allocate funds to tear down the Washington Monument and, in its place, rebuild four replica monuments made out of ham, and such spending would create jobs and stimulate the economy. Likewise, modernizing the Bureau of Indian Affairs building with green technology succeeds in creating jobs, and it reduces government spending over time.

How is that so awful? Oh yeah, because Limbaugh read it aloud in a scary voice.

NSFW: really funny old AFSCME video

I think this AFSCME video is from the 70's. Don't listen to it at work. It's profane, funny and pretty much describes the jobs union members do.

Jesus..... errr... apeman: Only 39% believe in evolution

(NBC's Mark Murray)

Today it's not only Abraham Lincoln's birthday; it's also Charles Darwin's.

And a brand-new Gallup poll tied to Darwin's birthday finds that just 39% of Americans believe in evolution.

As expected, Gallup notes, education plays a big role here: 74% of those with post-graduate degrees believe in evolution. That's compared with only 21% of high school grads (or those with less education) who believe in the theory.

Ditto religion: 55% who don't attend church believe in evolution, versus 24% of weekly churchgoers who believe in it.

Really? This says so much about America. I don't see what anyone can do to fix this country, or redeem us in the eyes of the world.

And in all honesty, maybe Darwin WAS wrong. Otherwise these intelligent-design jackasses would already be dead.

Un-com-fortable

Joaquin Phoenix made a bizarre appearance on Wednesday night's Letterman to promote his film "Two Lovers," during what may be his last visit as an actor. Phoenix has insisted he is retiring from film to focus on his hip-hop career.

Phoenix was unresponsive for part of the interview, while giving one word answers for other questions.

Phoenix has no sense of humor about Letterman's teasing over his monosyllabic non-answers.

He has an uncomfortable exchange with Paul Shaffer, gets annoyed at the audience and won't even set up the clip from his movie "Two Lovers." That's before he takes the gum out of his mouth and sticks it to Letterman's desk.

Letterman ends the interview with, "Joaquin, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight."

It must be seen to be appreciated.

Freakiest.

Interview.

Ever.

Obama eyeballs GOP, makes Loser sign on his forehead

Not really, but check out this quote:

"When it comes to how we approach the issue of fiscal responsibility, again, it's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package after they've presided over a doubling of the national debt. I'm not sure they have a lot of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility."
—Barack Obama, in his first prime time press conference.

ZING!

And even better - it's logical, accurate and true, 3 things that make it different from things emanating from the Oval Office 2001-2008

So is orange a natural skin color?

Is A-Rod perhaps the greatest Oompa-Loompa player ever?  

What race does he check off on government forms?  Is "Radioactive" a race?

Here's a screen cap from the Gammons interview, and looking at the Yankees logo, it's clear the color isn't messed up.  At least with anything not named Alex Rodriguez.

Oasis put stick in shit; stir it around

Oasis new clip is for the single “Falling Down”. The video’s plot seems pretty clear, as we follow a bright-eyed, luxurious young woman from random people’s beds to random drug dens. Later on, we see the woman putting on a crown, meaning that she’s regal or something, and at a red carpet event Oasis’ Gallagher brothers both snub the woman, hinting that one or both of them got it on with a member of the Royal Family.

How do we know she’s a member of the British monarchy? The final shot is a Gump-esque composite featuring the woman and Prince Charles side-by-side. So while Oasis’ spokesperson says the plot is of Wiz’s own creation, the real question is “Which real-life Princess had relations with one or both of the Gallagher boys?”


The song is a stylistic departure for the Gallaghers. Below is the clip for the first single from Dig Out Your Soul - "The Shock of the Lightning"

Bill O'Reilly plays Chrissy the Hippo

Jon Stewart lays into Bill O'Reilly and his hypocritical views on privacy.

Bill O'Reilly hates paparazzi. He calls them "scum of the earth". He's not necessarily wrong, either. Apparently, however, there's a caveat to that "Constitutionally mandated privacy".

In BillWorld, you're only entitled to privacy if O'Reilly doesn't have a beef with you. If he does, and you refuse to come before him on his program ("kneel before Zod"), then he sends camera crews to ambush you.

And what do we call camera crews that ambush people? That's right, paparazzi.

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Bill O'Reilly's Right to Privacy

Steroids shrink your..... vision

So this guy is taking steroids.


Which we've been told are bad, but are apparently worse than we thought. They've messed up his vision and caused him to throw away his family for a 50 year old woman who looks like this...



or is this her? It's getting hard to tell.

Flight of the Conchords

Just.... Radiohead and the Beatles and Mozart all suck in comparison.

Robots (The Humans Are Dead)


Business Time

Red Kitteh asks: I can has Socialism nows?

(Bob Cesca)
I wonder if Glenn Beck and the other far-right Neo-McCarthyites are willing to give up "socialist" government-run services like:

-Public schools
-Police departments
-Postal service
-Fire departments
-Roads
-Social Security
-Medicare
-The military
-Homeland Security
-The CIA
-The FBI
-The NSA
-The Alaskan Pipeline
-National Parks
-National Historic Sites

Any other pinko services the Republicans would gladly hand over to the finely honed talents of private industries like Blackwater and KBR?

(Newsweek)
We Are All Socialists Now

The U.S. government has already—under a conservative Republican administration—effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries. That seems a stronger sign of socialism than $50 million for art. Whether we want to admit it or not—and many, especially Congressman Pence and Hannity, do not—the America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state.

We remain a center-right nation in many ways—particularly culturally, and our instinct, once the crisis passes, will be to try to revert to a more free-market style of capitalism—but it was, again, under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly. People on the right and the left want government to invest in alternative energies in order to break our addiction to foreign oil. And it is unlikely that even the reddest of states will decline federal money for infrastructural improvements.

If we fail to acknowledge the reality of the growing role of government in the economy, insisting instead on fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century terms and tactics, then we are doomed to a fractious and unedifying debate. The sooner we understand where we truly stand, the sooner we can think more clearly about how to use government in today's world.

New Deal FAIL! errr..... wait..... what? Oh.

DailyKos rips apart the revisionist history being trotted out that the New Deal made the Depression worse.



Oh, but wait..... flip it upside down (like the World Of The GOP) and it becomes true. Roosevelt WAS a failure.

Bastard.

I hope he gets crippled for thi..... oh.

Eddie Vedder singing karaoke

Really.

At a motel in Mesa, AZ.

Really.

While he was participating in Cubs Fantasy Camp 2009.

Really.

Where the Streets Have No Name.

He also covered "I Got You Babe" with some drunk girl as well as "Yellow Submarine"

Swear. It's on video.

Watch him get his drunken Bono on.