The president is a radically racial polarizing person. As I recall, he was supposed to be the great uniter when instead he has been the worst racial divider ever in the White House.
I don’t believe in government redistribution of citizen’s earnings. Like Mao, the president does, as he told Joe the Plumber. I believe in wealth creation through individual hard work and sacrifice, and that government should simply stay out of the way of job-creating, entrepreneurial free-market addicts. The president believes just the opposite. His class warfare tactics are anti-free market, anti-success and anti-American … Welfare advocates Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven taught you well, Mr. President.
Ted Nugent watches Glenn Beck. Like the rest of the Tea Party, it’s only reason he knows the name of an old lady, Frances Fox Piven, who Beck regularly demonized on Fox News for an article she wrote with her husband, now dead, when Nugent was about 18 and playing “Journey to the Center of the Mind” in the Amboy Dukes.
Beck regularly cast her as a person with a plan to collapse the economy of the United States and the perversity of that is well-described here at an article in the New York Times.
From the Times:
Her name has become a kind of shorthand for “enemy??? on Mr. Beck’s Fox News Channel program, which is watched by more than 2 million people, and on one of his Web sites, The Blaze. This week, Mr. Beck suggested on television that she was an enemy of the Constitution.
Never mind that Ms. Piven’s radical plan to help poor people was published 45 years ago, when Mr. Beck was a toddler …
Two years ago, from a Nugent column, on how he’s been menaced by the alleged plots of an old lady:
[I] previously have been the target of [the Democratic Party’s] vicious personal lying attacks and smear campaigns straight out of the playbook of Richard Andrew Cloward, Frances Fox Piven and Saul Alinsky.
So, once again, for those who think I’m too mean and unfair …
A political columnist at Esquire puts together the best thing I’ve read on the Wisconsin recall.
He states the other side won out of anger at the very idea of it and that outside pundits, specifically Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, fed this. That coverage on the progressive network, as if the recall was in the bag, was used by Koch money to aggravate people and assure them they were right to be angry. (Incidentally, I stopped watching Maddow and Schultz for related reason. Their careers rise and fall on the niche entertainment value of how irritating and meddlesome they appear to non-progressives on national issues. Whether that’s an asset or a liability is for marginal and uninspiring Democratic politicians to mull over.)
The writer, Charles Pierce, points out the belief in Wisconsin that governors should not be recalled except for criminal misconduct, ignoring recent history in which California’s Gray Davis was recalled over outrage at electricity market gouging and rolling blackouts — which the electorate, largely, did not find out had been rigged by Enron until well after Arnold Schwarzenegger was in office.
But those were the forces that combined with an overwhelming flood of out-of-state money to make liars out of practically everybody. This was a winning electorate that found itself besieged by the images it saw on its television, and it felt its concerns being drowned out by drum circles and chants. When Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch got up and began her speech with the line “this is what democracy looks like,” she was doing more than simply engaging in some stunningly high-level gloating; she was telling her audience exactly what they wanted to hear. Their democracy was hijacked by other people. The out-of-state special interests that most bothered them were not the Koch Brothers; it was Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz. Upwards to $50 million poured into Wisconsin from various plutocrats and their front groups to tell the people in this hall that people from outside Wisconsin were taking them all for a ride. The money was a balm. The money was an amplifier. The money gave them absolution because the money told them what they already believed …
As the room grew steadily more rowdy, I fell into conversation with Ed Hannan, a lawyer from Greendale …
“It means the restoration of integrity in government,” he continued. “It means an understanding of the role of government, the limitations of the role of government, and the return of power to the taxpayers, as opposed to union organizers. That is how important this is. Going forward, what we will then see is more legislation that is going to limit the role of government and, more than that, a repeal of laws. For instance, the Minimum Mark-Up Law, a limitation on the environmental laws. We need to have sunset laws on environmental restrictions and the employment-related laws. This election was never about collective bargaining. It was about legislation that removed the state as the collection agency for union dues.”
There was no point in arguing with the man. There didn’t seem even to be any sport in pointing out that the “restoration of integrity in government” that he saw in the results was on behalf of a guy who took to the podium last night three steps ahead of a sitting grand jury. The distance between what I saw and what Ed Hannan saw was too great. I might as well have been talking to him in Finnish.
The Obama campaign’s Jim Messina dunned me for $5 with the virtual ink not even dry on the Wisconsin analyses:
What just happened in Wisconsin wasn’t an accident.
Republican Governor Scott Walker and his allies outspent the Democratic challenger nearly EIGHT to ONE — and one of the most unpopular governors in the country managed to hold on.
This result is direct confirmation that all the outside money that’s poured into elections this cycle can and will change their outcome. And it’s exactly what could happen on the national stage unless we can close the gap between special interests and ordinary people.
Go choke yourself.
You need to talk to your guy about making a message that beats the misinformation spread by billionaire money for the purpose of guaranteeing the white independent vote. You’ve no other choice. Shaking everyone else down regularly for serial micro-payments won’t get it done.
When voting yesterday I noted with bemusement “candidate” Orly Taitz, the clinically insane person best known for her national quest to prove the President is a foreign Manchurian candidate. But you can never be too nuts in this country. Taitz got over 100 thousand votes, most of them all in the category of “Registered Psychopath — White.” One also cannot rule out the possibility that some ‘voters’ ticked her out of sheer boredom and perversity.
It’s refreshing to see the delusions of “Queen of the Birfers” Orly Taitz extend beyond her crackers quest to prove Barack Obama was born in Africa. The South County dentist/lawyer/real-estate saleslady’s OrlyTaitzEsq site this morning boasts that Tuesday night’s election results show she is “currently” the fourth runner-up to incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and that “ballots will continue to be counted through July 13.” Oh, Orly . . .
Still, Taitz can take comfort in the fact that she finished ahead of 19 other candidates, and that at least 113,563 Californians share her crazy, including 17,549 in Orange County, where she was the choice of 6.1 percent of the voters.
Love the OC Weekly’s portrayal of the Taitz voter — below.
Today Ted Nugent did a radio interview with an Illinois station, WJBC, in advance of his show in Peoria. Ted informed the hosts that apparently the only reason there is unemployment is because people are lazy sods who want a handout. There are help wanted signs everywhere, according to Ted. And his many business friends tell him Americans don’t want to work, they just want to know how many sick days that get.
Hosted by R. C. McBride and Jim Fitzpatrick, the chat was mostly politics. It gave the rocker a chance to expound on all the people who hate him, the President, and his peculiar but very Tea Party views.
If you listen to the entire thing here — I admit it’s a hard slog — even the hosts become audibly uneasy with the direction Nugent’s philosophies take
But I did the heavy lifting so you don’t have to. The most paranoid and weird bits:
We are living in dangerous times. we have a corrupt government … We have a president who will quote the founder of communism … Then he’ll visit the Vietnam Memorial Wall and lie claiming that he wants to thank 58,000 dead American soldiers and Airmen and Marines and Seamen while he quotes the man they fought against.
No one has ever been as corrupt and dared to quote Mao Tse Tung as the President of the United States does right now … No one has raped the economy and destroyed the economy as quickly and efficiently as Barack Obama and his czars have done in such a short period of time because that was his goal. He wanted to fundamentally transform the greatest quality of life in the history of mankind into some kind of Detroit canker sore of dependency.
Because I’m a hunter, people hate me. People who hate me because
I hunt defines the left …
People who hate me believe you don’t have to get up early and work hard because you can get money from people who do get up early and work hard.
I’m a producer, I’m an asset to you, I benefit the American economy … If you look at the Occupiers, they hate me for that. I couldn’t be more proud that those who think Barack Obama and the Mao Tse Tung chant of redistributing earnings is good. I don’t want them to like me because that’s evil.
For every person that gets some form of welfare there are thousands
who don’t deserve it.
[One of the hosts gets audibly nervous at this saying “I don’t know if I’m qualified to [say] that …” He adds his family received some government benefit in the past when he was growing up. Nugent replies that he is because he’s done the “research.”]
Then Nugent comments on those on welfare — he means African Americans:
They get their hair done. They have cell phones. They have all the newest clothes they possibly want …
Ted, on the economy and unemployment:
An able bodied person in United States of America has no excuse to
not have a job. I drive up and down the streets of this country every day and there are help wanted signs everywhere. And I have hundreds of entrepreneurial friends who are trying to hire people and 99 out of 100 people who come in claiming to want to find a job, the first thing they ask is “How many sick days do I get?” Are you kidding me? Maybe you need to communicate more with people who are actually in touch with direct human touch with the people that are causing the problems in America … There is an actual category that is acceptable, there is an actual authorized category of people in the United States of America … people who have quit looking for work. That’s a category of Americans? That’s unbelievable!
The asset to the US economy, playing the Star Spangled Banner and cursing out women and the elites for morning television.
Proving only that putting Republicans in power is dangerous because they do paranoid as well as predatory things antithetical to what the country once stood for, Kansas governor Sam Brownback signed into law the state GOP’s anti-shariah bill.
Republican Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill aimed at keeping state courts and agencies from using Islamic or other non-U.S. laws when making decisions, his office said on Friday, drawing criticism from a national Muslim group.
The law has been dubbed the “Shariah bill” because critics say it targets the Islamic legal code …
About 20 states [all under GOP governance] have considered similar legislation but the Kansas law is the only one signed in recent weeks, Council on American Islamic spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said.
“It’s unfortunate the governor chose to pander to the growing Islam-phobia in our society that has led to introduction of similar unconstitutional and un-American legislation in dozens of state legislatures,” Hooper said.
Hooper said legislators have often referred to Shariah law in supporting such legislation, but he said they take the word out of the bill to stave off legal challenges. The Kansas bill does not mention Shariah.
The Islam-o-Phobe most responsible for the national campaign to get anti-Shariah legislation passed into law in red states is birther Frank Gaffney, the man lampooned in the excerpt from the Tom Tomorrow cartoon, above.
Gaffney is also a prime mover in the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy and a vocal part of the Bomb Iran/ballistic missile defense lobby. Over the past few years he’s been in the blog on a frequent basis, every time for activities connected with electromagnetic pulse doom and whipping up fear, confusion and hysteria over the imagined creeping threat of shariah law in this country.
While we won’t be around to read future histories of the country, those who write them won’t be kind because of the likes of Frank Gaffney and the extremists of the Republican Party. They are a symptom the country is ungovernable and immune to reason, now in a demonstrable decline.
“Herd the Sodomites into captivity and chastise them with pointed sticks and electricity.” For a short time only, every copy of the Compleat Sayings of American Jesus will come with a small replica of the future North Carolina State Barbed-Wire Homo Corral.
If it were not for this crazy out of control corrupt government, my life would literally be perfect. Even my agonizingly painful battered knees are livable, but the enemies of America infesting our government have got to go …
In fact, as the greatest most enjoyable rock-n-roll tour of my life throttles intensely all across America on through the end of the summer 2012, I am doing more media interviews all the time and finally feel that America is slowly but surely waking up to the level of criminal abuse of power and corruption in the Obama administration and so prevalent across this otherwise great country …
Me, I get up as early every day as my weary old rock-n-roll bones allow me to, share a cup of Nuge Java … hit the laptop to answer my tsunami of Emails [sic] and send out my recent interviews and writings to all my editors …
There is always a little repair work to perform here and there, maybe a limb or branches to chainsaw off the fence or off the trails, a little Hang Em High feeder or water-crossing touch-up, and I usually fire-up the Challenger tractor and groom the lanes with my Road Boss grader …
Through our Sunrize Safaris, I guide hundreds of hunters each fall and winter at our Texas and Michigan hunting grounds, plus my annual adventures at the YO Ranch, Kenedy Ranch and Stasney’s Cook Ranchas well …
Live to fight, fight to live. Live free or die to buy Nuge Java and book my hunt at Stasney’s Cook Ranch or die.
I’ve never actually seen so many endorsements one’s businesses and the products of others disguised as a 700 word opinion column. It’s eye-watering.
Although Ted uses chainsaws, sadly, no official endorsement yet. I am told that Ted is in negotiations for having his likeness used with the definition for “oaf” in the next edition of the Webster’s Dictionary.
