Falling Out of Love

First it was Captain Legthrill, declaring to the world that his public love affair with Teh Won has come to an end. Chris Matthews apparently has gotten over his puppy love for Zero, and has crawled back into the closet with his binky and his desiccated, well beaten carcass of Karl Marx to hug.

But it looks like the rest of the presidential media fan base is following suit.

“The Justice Department’s collection of journalists’ phone records and the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups have challenged Obama’s credibility as a champion of civil liberties – and as a president who would heal the country from damage done by his predecessor.” — Washington Post

“…reporters are tripping over themselves to condemn lies, bullying and shadiness in the Obama administration.” — Politico

This isn’t just about press rights. It’s about the right of citizens to know what their government is doing. In an atmosphere of secrecy and punishment – despite the hollow promises of transparency – that’s getting harder every day.”– New York Times

It didn’t take Benghazi. It didn’t take the deaths of four Americans and the subsequent lies. It didn’t take Fast and Furious. It didn’t even take the IRS.

It took a rogue Justice Department violating the sanctity of the First Amendment by trying to get its claws on the phone records of the Associated Press for the media to wake up and quit playing domestic abuse victim to Zero’s wife beater.

Maybe they’ll finally start reporting objectively what is really going on in this administration.

Nah.

The Demise of Captain Legthrill

It appears I’m not the only one who is disillusioned with the path ahead being forged by my America. Seems Chris Matthews has lost the ole “thrill up the leg.”

“What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn’t like dealing with other politicians — that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn’t particularly like the press…. He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft,” Matthews said.

“So what part does he like? He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere,” Matthews continued. “But what part does he like? He doesn’t like lobbying for the bills he cares about. He doesn’t like selling to the press. He doesn’t like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn’t seem to like being an executive.”

Poor Chris. I guess he’ll have to go back to the festering carcass of Marx hidden away in his closet and kissing the ring on the shriveled claw.

Assholes at Salon: Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American

You think I’m kidding? Loathsome asstards at Salon actually published this drooling dreck of a piece by some self-loathing, metrosexual cockgobbler named David Sirota, who vomits his sincere desire to see a white guy be responsible for the murder of three, including a young child, as well as hundreds of grave injuries.

Why?

Because you see, since white people are privileged, and therefore aren’t immediately suspected of terrorism. It’s mostly the poor, underprivileged minorities that get the blame and are “collectively slandered” whenever mass murders happen.

…privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being.

This has been most obvious in the context of recent mass shootings. In those awful episodes, a religious or ethnic minority group lacking such privilege would likely be collectively slandered and/or targeted with surveillance or profiling (or worse) if some of its individuals comprised most of the mass shooters. However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings — even though most come at the hands of white dudes.

Likewise, in the context of terrorist attacks, such privilege means white non-Islamic terrorists are typically portrayed not as representative of whole groups or ideologies, but as “lone wolf” threats to be dealt with as isolated law enforcement matters. Meanwhile, non-white or developing-world terrorism suspects are often reflexively portrayed as representative of larger conspiracies, ideologies and religions that must be dealt with as systemic threats — the kind potentially requiring everything from law enforcement action to military operations to civil liberties legislation to foreign policy shifts.

There is so much FAIL here, I’m getting a headache just thinking about it!

Apparently, even though data show that more terrorist attacks have been perpetrated by non-Muslims than Muslims, Shitslurper over there is upset that we’re waging a “War on Terrorism,” because it’s, by its nature a war on Muslim terrorism.

Let’s take a look and see how many fundamentalist Muslim attacks we have seen since 2000, shall we? But instead of using a link from an obviously biased source like ThinkProgress used by Shitslurper, let’s use… oh… Wikipedia.

1. 2000 H. Rap Brown(Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) shoots two police officers
2. 2000 New York terror attack
3. 2000 millennium attack plots
4. 2001 September 11 attacks
5. 2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting
6. 2002 José Padilla (Abdullah al-Muhajir) Plot
7. 2002 Buffalo Six
8. 2002 John Allen Muhammad (Washington Sniper) killings
9. 2003 Columbus Shopping Mall bombing plot
10. 2004 financial buildings plot
11. 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot
12. 2006 Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar SUV attack
13. 2006 Sears Tower plot
14. 2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
15. 2006 Toledo terror plot
16. 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
17. 2007 Fort Dix attack plot
18. 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot
19. 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting
20. 2009 Bronx terrorism plot
21. 2009 Dallas Car Bomb Plot by Hosam Maher Husein Smadi
22. 2009 New York subway and United Kingdom plot
23. 2009 Fort Hood shooting
24. 2009 Colleen LaRose arrested (not made public until March 2010)
25. 2009 Failed Christmas bombing of Northwest Flight 253 (a.k.a. “Underwear Bomber” incident)
26. 2010 Attempted suicide car crash on Whitestone Bridge
27. 2010 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt
28. 2010 King Salmon, Alaska local meteorologist and wife assassination plots
29. 2010 Alleged Washington Metro bomb plot
30. 2010 Alleged car bomb plot against Portland, Oregon Christmas tree lighting ceremony
31. 2010 Alleged plot to bomb military recruiting center in Catonsville, Maryland
32. 2010 Abu Talhah al-Amrikee death threats to South Park Creators- See: Zachary Adam Chesser
33. 2011 Alleged Saudi Arabian student bomb plots
34. 2011 Manhattan terrorism plot
35. 2011 Lone Wolf New York City, Bayonne,NJ pipe bombs plot.
36. 2011 Alleged plot to attack Pentagon, U.S. Capitol with model aircraft packed with explosives
37. 2012 Car bomb plot in Florida.
38. 2012 February 17: An illegal immigrant from Morocco was arrested near the Capitol after an undercover investigation into an alleged plot to carry out a suicide attack on the national landmark that houses Congress. Amine el-Khalifi, 29, was picked up while carrying an inoperable gun and a fake suicide vest provided to him by undercover FBI agents posing as al-Qaeda associates.

These are the attacks of which we are aware. I’m fairly sure there are more the general population knows nothing about. But let’s go with 38.

In comparison, since 2000, the number of other attacks is as follows:

KKK violence – 0

White Supremacy – 1 (The Spokane bombing attempt)

Christian Extremism – 1 (the guy who killed abortion provider George Tiller in 2009)

Black militancy – 1 (the nuts who planned the Sears Tower plot)

Jewish militancy – 1 (the JDL plot to blow up the King Fahd Mosque)

The only lunatics who rival the Muslims in the number of attacks are the eco-terrorist assholes, who are responsible for millions of dollars worth of property damage, but generally stick to vandalism and break-ins instead of targeting innocent Americans. But while I don’t discount them here, they’re a different animal altogether (no pun intended).

But according to this emasculated fuck, poor Muslims are constantly suspected in bombings such as this latest one in Boston, and IT’S JUST NOT FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIR!!!

And that’s why he hopes that a white American committed this crime. Because the perpetrator matters.

The death of a child doesn’t matter.

The deaths of two others don’t matter.

Loss of limbs, blood, gore and agony don’t matter.

What matters is that the poor Muslims will get the blame!

This is proof positive that the assholes at Salon who published this written diarrhea and its author are heartless, repugnant, pernicious shitstains.

In case you didn’t know.

You’re welcome.

Gun Grabbing Nanny Bloomberg & MAIG At It Again

Per the NYT:

The commercial is an unambiguous appeal to gun owners: a middle-aged hunter, rifle in hand, vows that he will fight to protect the Second Amendment.The commercial is an unambiguous appeal to gun owners: a middle-aged hunter, rifle in hand, vows that he will fight to protect the Second Amendment But in a sensible, father-of-the-house tone, he also urges voters to support comprehensive background checks, “so criminals and the dangerously mentally ill can’t buy guns.”

The man behind the advertisement is not known for his kinship with the gun crowd: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the nation’s fiercest advocate of restrictions on firearms since the December rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Determined to persuade Congress to act in response to that shooting, Mr. Bloomberg on Monday will begin bankrolling a $12 million national advertising campaign that focuses on senators who he believes might be persuaded to support a pending package of federal regulations to curb gun violence. The ads, in 13 states, will blanket those senators’ districts during an Easter Congressional recess that is to be followed by debate over the legislation.

It goes without saying that authoritarian scumbags like Michael Bloomberg think they know better than we do. Given his propensity for going after large sodas and salt, there’s no level of micromanagement he won’t stoop to. On Meet The Press, to fellow anti-gun left-wing stool-pigeon David Gregory, he said:

“[W]hile I think we are going to win this [background checks], celebrating in advance isn’t the right thing to do. We’ve got to go out, we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us. … I don’t think we should give up on the assault weapons ban. But clearly, it is a more difficult issue for a lot of people. And I don’t know that that reflects the N.R.A.’s power. It may be just that people have different views about assault weapons than they do about background checks. … I think I have a responsibility, and I think you and all of your viewers have responsibilities, to try to make this country safer for our families and for each other. And if I can do that by spending some money and taking the NRA from being the only voice to being one of the voices, … then I think my money would be well spent … If 90% of the public want something, and their representatives vote against that, common sense says, they are going to have a price to pay for that.”

Bring it on. We’ll make it our business to punish you and your friends, Nanny.

Just Remember, Kiddies…

AR-15s and other “assault” weapons are evil and bad, unless they’re used to defend murals of Teh Won™ from vandalism.

That’s according to Martin Bashir, who has never met a gun law that didn’t make him have a spontaneous orgasm, and actually compared the NRA to Hitler!

Newsbusters reports:

For some background, since 2008, Davis has had murals of Obama painted on the exterior walls of his restaurant. Unfortunately, vandals have at times thrown paint on these murals including this past Monday.

As Bashir predictably praised his guest – even comparing the defacement of these murals to Obama’s struggles with his political detractors! – he eventually said, “But thinking of your willingness to protect this mural, Mr. Davis, we also know that in addition to your support for the president, you support the first amendment and you also support the second amendment. And we have a picture of you with a weapon. I believe it’s an AR-15 over your shoulder. Now sir, I have to ask you, would you consider using a weapon like that on someone who was prepared to deface a painting?”

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In fact, after Davis gave a lengthy answer to Bashir’s question which included “I will do the right thing to defend and protect my property,” the anti-gun host concluded the interview by saying, “Thank you for your resoluteness and perseverance, and I’d love to have breakfast at the Breakfast Klub myself sometime.”

So to recap, “assault weapons” are evil and bad, and are only good when used to defend liberal causes, items, murals, etc. In all other cases, they should be banned using whatever means necessary, even selectively editing video to show gun rights supporters allegedly “heckling” a grieving Sandy Hook parent, who is testifying in favor of an assault weapons ban.

h/t: Newsbusters