Prop 8 Trailer Released

My friend Reed has been busy.

Here is the trailer:

Check out the full site here.

Calling out the astroturfers

Senator Ensign as illegal as immoral

Interesting new revelations on the Ensign scandal.

Caught in the act

Jed at Daily Kos has a good summary of Faux News getting caught with their hand in the till, so to speak.

The video isn’t really a surprise: anyone whose watched coverage of protests can see that Fox is sympathetic to the protesters, but this video offered a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Fox actually fueling the fire of the very same crowds they claim to be covering.

All the news that’s fit to invent.

Reality vs. Glenn Beck

Priceless.

Hat tip:  MyDD

Rooting out the evil

My friends at Cadillac Tight discuss the corruption in the Bush Justice Department.  Read it.

It is difficult to imagine any practice more deeply corrupt than a presidential administration distorting the criminal justice system in order to use it as a partisan weapon against its political enemies.
Newly released documents, including thousands of pages of White House emails, show that Karl Rove, Harriet Meiers and other high-ranking political figures in the Bush White House were deeply involved in using the federal criminal justice machinery to further their partisan political goals — including successfully orchestrating the firing of a top federal prosecutor who failed to bring criminal prosecutions against Democratic politicians because the evidence did not support bringing criminal charges. And, not surprisingly, Karl Rove also lied to Congress about his role in this corruption.

Republican poetry

Christianists on the Hill

Parsing the wife

FDL calls it:

The only thing missing from the statement is a fine Southern “Bless his heart” to tie it all up with a bow.

Holding Faux News Accountable

“Asshat” is too kind for Sacha Baron-Cohen

Oh how I loathe that man and his variant of “humor”.

But his latest stunt really is over the top.  And Melissa McEwan nails it.

Eminem has alluded to, on multiple occasions, having been molested as a child. (His new album contains a widely discussed track in which he imagines a child being raped by a stepfather.) I don’t know for certain whether he has been, although I suspect it’s likely given his fascination with the subject and his evident anger surrounding it. It’s really incidental, except insomuch as how much worse this will have been for him if he is a survivor of sexual abuse.

And because there was more reason than usual to stop and think about how fucked-up this “joke” really is.

Baron-Cohen certainly is aware of the same almost-but-not-quite admissions Eminem has made about his childhood that I am, and he went ahead with this stunt, anyway. Most of the people in that audience, and probably most of the people who have viewed the video and found it hilarious, are aware of the possibility that Baron-Cohen was sticking his genitals and butt into the face of someone who is very likely a survivor of sexual abuse.

Yet it’s all so goddamned funny—because most of us won’t even make the connection between what Baron-Cohen is doing and sexual abuse.

Giving it to them straight

It’s not often I’m proud of my former governor, but he’s done a good job these days…

Confess Dick

It’s not often I’m proud of Jesse Ventura, one of my state’s more … colorful governors.  But this is priceless.

They’re melting, they’re melting…

Bill Maher has a good piece in the LA Times on the GOP meltdown.

It’s been a week now, and I still don’t know what those “tea bag” protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who’s going to win “American Idol.” But it wasn’t tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that’s when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.

The conservative base is absolutely apoplectic because, because … well, nobody knows. They’re mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. Even though they’re not quite sure what “it” is. But they know they’re fed up with “it,” and that “it” has got to stop.

Yep.  The party of  “not Obama.”

Leaving the reservation

Shepard Smith showing, again, why he’s among the few ethical people at Faux News.