Real Time returned last night and Bill Maher wasted no time in courting controversy by talking about the #MeToo movement.

Maher is making some very good points here, that I think a number of us have also discussed in the past.

The #MeToo movement is overall a very positive thing, but it can render itself completely ineffective if those participating do not exercise a little objectivity.

Hillary Clinton's book is now a number one bestseller.

Courtesy of CNBC: 

Last week, Hillary Clinton released her new book, "What Happened," a first-person tell-all that documents her surprising loss to Donald J. Trump in the 2016 presidential election. 

Now the book is ranked No. 1. on Amazon's Best Sellers list. 

It's beating out New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady's "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance," which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, "The Handmaid's Tale," and Stephen King's horror classic, "It: A Novel."

The book has already sold more than 300,000 copies, and is still going strong.

I am less than halfway through the book but so far I have found it to be the most authentic and unguarded book from Hillary Clinton that I have every read.

At times Hillary is almost plaintive in her attempts to understand what it about her which inspires so much hatred.

She points out that her political ideology is right in step with her husband's, with Joe Biden's, with President Obama's, and even with Bernie Sanders who she voted in synch with 93% of the time.

And yet the hatred directed at her was substantially more intense than that faced by most of her colleagues. (With the possible exception of Obama, and we all know why that was the case.)

Very early in the book Hillary addresses her mistakes, though some reviewers have suggested that she only focuses on others. After that she really seems to be attempting to examine as dispassionately as possible all of the other factors which helped determine the outcome of  the election.

Some of that focus is definitely concerning the deeply entrenched sexism which is still a big part of the political DNA in America.

As a man I recognized the accuracy of some of Hillary's observations, but I really feel that women are going to understand it in a more fundamental way than I ever could.

I am not yet sure if I will ultimately find this book cathartic, because right now it is still just ripping off scabs, both hers and mine.

However if you have not yet purchased the book I do recommend it, especially for those people who still deeply dislike Hillary or think she was a "flawed candidate."  For THAT audience I think this book may serve as a revelation. (And yes I recognize that most of them would never even consider reading it.)

Speaking of sexism and hatred, the other book mentioned in the CNBC article was Katy Tur's book "Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History," which is currently number one in Amazon's Humor and Entertainment category.

I have not yet purchased that book, but it is on my list. 

Alaska Congressman Don Young forced to apologize after saying something sexist and mean to a female colleague.

Courtesy of MSN: 

Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) was forced to apologize on Thursday after he lashed out at Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in unusually personal terms during House floor debate late in the evening. 

During consideration of a government spending package for 2018, Young was offering an amendment regarding wildlife management on national preserves in his state of Alaska. 

After Jayapal, a liberal freshman representing Seattle, spoke in opposition to his amendment, Young snapped that she "doesn't know a damn thing what she's talking about." 

He then questioned Jayapal's motives by accusing her of parroting talking points from a special interest group, rather than expressing her true opinion. 

"What you said was really nonsense. It was written by an interest group, not yourself. Maybe your staff is affiliated with the Humane Society or some other group. And I'm disappointed," Young said. 

Young, 84, proceeded to address his 51-year-old colleague as a "young lady." 

"You may not know me, young lady. But I'm deeply disturbed," Young said.

As it turned out Young picked on the wrong "young lady" and Jaypal demanded that he withdraw his remarks, which after some consideration he did.

And that is quite a victory for Rep. Jaypal, because Don Young NEVER apologizes or takes back an insult, no matter how ignorant.

I guess Jaypal should consider herself lucky that at least Young did not twist her arm.

I keep hoping that at 84 Don Young will finally do Alaska a favor and retire, but I think he actually plans to die in office.

ABC invites Eric Bolling of Fox News to join Sunday panel, because apparently journalism is dead.

Courtesy of Media Matters:

Fox News host and Trump shill Eric Bolling is scheduled to appear as a panelist on ABC’s This Week. Aside from cheerleading everything President Donald Trump says and does, Bolling was a prominent birther who challenged former President Barack Obama’s legitimacy, as well as a racist, sexist and Islamophobic conspiracy theorist. Bolling has been one of Trump’s most outspoken media sycophants, even on Fox News. 

He’s dismissed Trump’s lies, downplayed the controversies surrounding the president, and deflected blame from Trump and his allies. Even his colleagues at Fox News have called him a “Trump apologist.” Bolling has also criticized the integrity of the host of This Week, George Stephanopoulos. In October, Bolling speculated that Good Morning America, ABC’s morning show which Stephanopoulos also hosts, did not cover hacked emails from former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s top aides released on WikiLeaks because Stephanopoulos used to work for former President Bill Clinton.

MM goes on to list a number of sexist, racist, and Islamophobic remarks that Bolling has made over the years, complete with video, and then sums up the problem with his appearance on what is considered a serious Sunday news program at the bottom of the page: 

During his time at Fox News, Bolling has pushed a number of conspiracy theories. He was a big force behind the “birther” conspiracy theory that alleged that Obama was not born in the U.S. After Obama released his long-form birth certificate, Bolling still claimed, that “there is a legitimate question as to whether or not the president of the United States is allowed to be president of the United States.” 

Bolling took it upon himself to thoroughly examine Obama’s birth certificate on air, even speculating that the certificate’s border showed it may have been photoshopped. Bolling also speculated about the death of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich who was murdered in 2016, dismissing the police conclusion that his death was the result of a botched robbery: “It’s clearly not a robbery. There wasn’t a robbery. … This was a hit.” Bolling concluded that there’s “lots of smoke right now” and that the death was “like an episode of Homeland.” 

Beyond that, Bolling has pushed a number of other conspiracy theories, alleging that Obama was trying to “bring people closer to the cities” to keep an eye on them and questioning whether Obama “let” an oil rig leak so he “could renege on his promise” to “allow some offshore drilling.” Perhaps his most entertaining conspiracy theory came in 2011 when Bolling wondered if “liberal Hollywood was using class warfare [in a Muppets movie] to brainwash our kids.”

Simply put not only should Eric Bolling NEVER be given legitimacy by inviting him on an actual news show, but NONE of the Fox News talking heads, or Right Wing radio hosts, should be provided that platform to spread their lies to the American people. 

And yes I include Megyn Kelly, Greta Van Susteren, and Hugh Hewitt in that category.

These are NOT journalists.

They are purveyors of conspiracy theories, alternative facts, and Right Wing talking points. 

There is a place for that, but it is certainly NOT on actual news programs that advertise themselves as practicing journalism.

Creepy Donald Trump continues to be creepy.

Video of the bizarre moment when President @realDonaldTrump called me over during his call with Taoiseach @campaignforLeo Varadkar. @rtenews pic.twitter.com/TMl2SFQaji

— Caitriona Perry (@CaitrionaPerry) June 27, 2017

Courtesy of Buzzfeed: 

President Donald Trump on Tuesday interrupted his call with the new Irish prime minister to bring attention to a reporter, saying, "She has a nice smile on her face, so I bet she treats you well.

"The reporter, Caitriona Perry, who has been the Washington correspondent for the Irish public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann since 2014, shared the "bizarre moment" on her Twitter feed and it quickly went viral.

Here was what the reporter said about the incident to RTE:

"One minute we were outside the window and the next minute I'm meeting the President of the United States," Caitríona told RTÉ Entertainment after her encounter with the US Commander in Chief. 

"Usually we would shoot from outside the window of the White House and that's what we were expecting today but instead we were invited inside to witness the President's call to the Taoiseach. When we went in he was already on the phone but I caught his eye and he called me over."

Well of course she "caught his eye," she is an attractive woman, and he is a notorious pussy grabber. 

In fact I would bet that the entire reason that all of the reporters were invited inside was so that he could get a better look at her.

As you might imagine the comments on Twitter were mostly outraged.

Trump doesn't allow formalities like sitting in the Oval Office to put a crimp in his lechery. https://t.co/SfsxWMVopp

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) June 27, 2017

This should bring chills to anyone who has ever had to work with a man like this. https://t.co/VSOyMuMRbg

— SivaVaidhyanathan🗽 (@sivavaid) June 27, 2017

its almost like we elected a self professed sexual predator 😷

— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) June 27, 2017

Great, just another reminder that we have destroyed the integrity of the presidency by allowing the Russians to install a vulgar, misogynist, ignorant, moron into the Oval Office.

It appears that Tom Arnold might still be willing to reveal those tapes of Trump calling people the "N" word.

1. I'm going 2 explain cause I know U rode Trump's butt for the 5 yrs it took him 2 confirm Obama's legitimacy. I received tape via program https://t.co/scvnHYpEuV

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

2. Used in our biz 2 prevent piracy. Had a limited time password. When I received no one thought Trump would be Pres. When it became real https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

3. People got scared. Can't blame them. Me & my fam get threatened by Alt Right nuts a lot plus only Billy Bush's career was hurt by "grab https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

4. Her by the pussy" tape. Normally I don't think a persons private life should affect job. Didn't say anything about Natl Enquirer paying https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

5. Off Trumps playmate girlfriends. Plus he'd always been nice to me but he became a bully. John McCain's POW heroism, Cruz's dad killing https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

6. JFK Etc. Not the guy I knew & he was stoking racism. Lying. Basically saying anything to get elected contradicting himself. Then the https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

7. Russian hack happened. That and him lying about releasing his taxes. I knew he'd spoken to Putin 2013 in Moscow during Miss Universe https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

8. Contest from NBC guy that was with him. I shot a movie "produced" by one of his bus partners & Putin pal. Very chatty. This was 2015 so https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

9. Of course he didn't think he was telling tales about what happened in 2013 to a US President. You have to see his taxes. These tapes https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

10. Are disgusting but not illegal. I'm not going to out the little guy but I personally confronted 7 powerful Hollywood people who have https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

11. Everything. They hate me now. Terrible career move but I believe if Russia has something they can blackmail our president with its worth https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

12. The risk to me. Plus I'm a 57 year old father of 1 & 3 yr olds. I want to do all I can so there's a safe America for them. Call me & I https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

13. Will give you the names of the 7 big shots and you can risk your livelihood and confront them too. All will be reviewed soon. Smart https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

14. Watergate level journalists are ontop of this. https://t.co/scvnHY836l

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) December 26, 2016

Personally I doubt that Trump supporters learning that he uses the "N" word and insults women will do anything except make them like him even more.

However I also think that it is very important that we reveal as much about this POS to the public as possible. 

Hopefully these tapes will soon see the light of day. 

Early endorser Sarah Palin finally comes out of hiding to confront the Trump controversy. And look it only took her 24 hours!

"Sexualized behaviors? What would I know about sexualized behaviors.?"

Courtesy of Dora the Endorser's Facebook page: 

Crass Heard 'Round the World 

Disgusting, shameful, totally disrespectful "locker room" garbage, privately shared between two Hollywood playboys over a decade ago, is now made to be "the crudeness heard 'round the world." The old Bush and Trump braggart comments were beyond abhorrent and offensive, though both boys apologized for them. 

Oh my God! Has Palin, like numerous other GOP women, finally reached the end of her patience with Donald Trump and is now willing to condemn his actions and withdrawal her endorsement for the good of the party? 

Please, just who do you think we are talking about here?

As offensive, however, is media obsession with a very old conversation between non-political figures when we're in a crucial time facing earth-altering shifts in our future. The Supreme Court, international tinderbox relationships, global security, and our entire economy hang in the balance. With the question of what kind of country we will leave our daughters and sons unanswered, I wisely look at today's candidates' positions and what they have accomplished, while being well aware there are no perfect candidates. I encourage all to quit putting faith in flawed human beings. 

You first lady.

Going around media filters you clearly see one candidate offering a bold vision with solid plans to build a stronger, safer, greater America (Wait, "one candidate offering a bold vision with solid plans to build a stronger, safer, greater America?" Is she getting ready to endorse Hillary Clinton?), while the career politician in the race offers only tired, sad, unsustainable, illogical ways of the past that will leave our children unsafe, broken and abused. 

 Oh I forgot, in Palin's world everything up is down, and everything down is up.


In today's Presidential race, it's only telling which candidate participated in cruder past conversations if both candidates' communications were all exposed, but alas, that won't happen. (Oh so since the completely imaginary possibility exists that Hillary has said things just as shocking as what Trump said on that tape, we should assume that one is no more guilty than the other? Oh yeah, there's some logical thinking for ya.) This, despite the fact that just one of Hillary Clinton's leaked conversations told us all we needed to know about her respect for a woman's life. Tellingly, there was never an apology for this.

At this point Palin links to that completely discredited You Tube video of Hillary supposedly laughing about getting a rapist off during her days as a public defender. It is yet another sad attempt to create a false equivalency, and it fails completely.

It's undeniable that it's only politics allowing characterization of Trump's old comments as more outrageous and offensive than Hillary's comments, as she's caught on tape gleefully defending a child rapist, laughing behind the victim's back, bragging about her disgusting, shameful, totally crude act in defense of a man's worst perpetration of evil on a little girl.

Damn she went all out at the end there. I think she even managed to dredge up some faux outrage. 

Palin then used this image to illustrate her post.

 Well I could not agree more.

In fact I guess we should all have expected that the wife of a man accused of pimping women out for the sexual pleasure of men, and the mother of a man who drunkenly beat his future wife so badly that he was hauled away by the cops, would have little difficulty coming to the defense of a man who has sexually harassed women for over thirty years, and who once raped his own wife in anger over the fact that the procedure he had to reduce his bald spot hurt his big orange head.

For the record Sarah, there is NOTHING supported by the facts in Hillary or Bill Clinton's past that even comes close to the disgusting nature of what's on that tape.

And when you add it to all of the other despicable things we now know about Donald Trump (Twitter rants, fat shaming, lies about his wealth, racism, sexism, links to Putin, etc.) our choice for the next leader of the greatest nation on earth becomes clear.

Though to be fair that actually became clear for most of us on the day that you endorsed him for president.

Four decades of Hillary Clinton responding to sexist questions from the media.

Courtesy of Mother Jones:

Nearly four decades is a long time to be hearing the same stuff about being a woman in power. The nauseating proof comes in the form of a new video that was put together by National Memo, a news and politics website, and posted to YouTube on Thursday. 

It tracks almost 40 years of Hillary Clinton—as first lady, senator, and presidential candidate—and the sexist ideas about women in public life put to her in numerous media appearances. Some of the interviewers appear to be adopting sexist tropes to humanize Clinton or to highlight inequalities, while other commentators are downright nasty. Together, it plays like a relentless heartbeat of gendered criticism.

You know sometimes I look at Hillary Clinton and I think "The poor woman just looks exhausted sometimes."

But you know dealing with this kind of garbage for four decades would probably destroy most people, and the fact that Hillary Clinton may look a little tired sometimes but is still plugging away and working for the people of this country should be admirable by anybody's standards.

New ad uses Donald Trump's history of sexist remarks against him.

Courtesy of Vox: 

A new Super PAC ad suggests how Donald Trump's history of sexist insults can be thrown back in his face — perhaps previewing how Hillary Clinton would go after Trump in a general election. 

The ad, released Monday by a Republican-led anti-Trump Super PAC, features a series of women attacking Trump through a simple yet effective tactic: reading Trump's own words aloud. 

Many of the video's Trump quotes — "bimbo," "blood coming out of her … wherever," "fat pig" — are familiar to close followers of the campaign, while others ("It really doesn't matter what they write, as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass") give added depth to Trump's views on women.

Look I understand why racists and assholes support Donald Trump, but if you are a woman supporting him you might think about seeking therapy.

Trump is self absorbed, abusive, objectifies women, and discards them when they are no longer young and beautiful. The guy is literally the poster child for every warning that young women receive about men from their mothers.

What better way to destroy his ego than to see him beaten by a woman in 2016?

Here is SNL's cold open from last night mocking Sarah Palin and featuring the amazing Tina Fey.

Okay that was awesome!

And you know the truly frightening thing is that if you close your eyes Fey sounds almost EXACTLY like Palin. Except when you look at her she is so much better looking.

Speaking of Palin, and you know she wants us to, Maureen Dowd had a rather interesting article published in the New York Times which explains how Palin has liberated people who are now allowed to openly criticize her without being called "sexist."

Here is a taste of what she wrote:

But when Palin turned out to be utterly unqualified and unintelligible, spouting her own special Yoda-like language, it did not reflect poorly on women as a whole — only on her and John McCain. What the hell were you thinking, Senator? 

Ordinarily, it’s considered sexist to call a woman shrill. But Palin liberated us on that score. She really is shrill. 

Ordinarily, it’s dicey to focus on what a woman in politics is wearing. But again, Palin has freed us up. She sported a cardigan so gaudy and rogue at her Iowa endorsement of Donald Trump (the man who viciously mocked her former running mate’s war record) that we would be remiss not to mention that it was the sartorial reflection of Palin and Trump themselves. 

Ordinarily, you have to tread gingerly in critiquing a working woman on her mothering skills. But Palin’s brawling brood runs so wild around the state she once governed, in a way that is so contrary to her evangelistic, sanctimonious homilies on family values, that it seems only Christian to advise her to study the Obamas to see what exceptional parenting looks like.

I LOVE that last line.

Boy I remember back to the days when damage con-trolls rushed over here to call me a sexist and a misogynist.

I guess I have Sarah Palin to thank for forever undermining their attack strategies.

Yeah, I'm not going to say thank you.

Donald Trump takes up the Republican party's last weapon against Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton.

Courtesy of the New York Post:  

Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Hillary Clinton Sunday — by bashing her for her husband’s infidelity. 

“I think he is fair game,” Trump told Fox and Friends of Bill Clinton, “because his presidency was really considered to be very troubled to put it mildly because of all of the things she’s talking to me about. She’s mentioning sexism.” 

Over the Christmas season, Trump went on a Twitter bender warning Clinton to “be careful” when she accuses him of sexism. He implied Sunday that warning meant he’s ready to unload on Bill for his sexual exploits. 

“He’ll come under attack, not just from me,” Trump predicted. “He’ll come under attack from many other people.” 

“I think that Bill Clinton turned out to be a liability against [Barack] Obama when they ran against each other [in 2008],” Trump added. Bill Clinton is set to hit the campaign trail in the New Year after largely staying in the wings since his wife’s second presidential launch.

The only time that Bill was a liability for Hillary in 2008 was when he compared his campaign to Jesse Jackson's, but that was really only a minor distraction.

Hillary Clinton has announced that she is letting her husband out to campaign but HE'S DEMONSTRATED A PENCHANT FOR SEXISM, so inappropriate!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2015

Nothing about Bill's sexual peccadilloes caused her or her 2008 campaign any real distress and I highly doubt eight years later that they will have any more potency.

Opening up this particular can of worms really only allows the press to dig further into Trump's own multiple marriages, and accusations of sexual assault. And knowing Mr. Thin Skin that will only anger him into responding with insults and accusations against the press, Hillary, and I'm guessing even Bill himself.

If this is the attack that Trump and the Republicans are hoping will help them to derail Hillary's momentum than they do not understand Hillary Clinton and they do not understand the women voters of this country.

I will do far more for women than Hillary, and I will keep our country safe, something which she will not be able to do-no strength/stamina!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2015

And tweets like this are not exactly helping either. 

WARNING! This video features a Fox News talking head well known for making hateful. misogynistic comments about women. Oh and Sean Hannity has a jerk for a guest on as well.

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

While debating the gender wage gap, McInnes asserted that women earn less “because they choose to” and are “less ambitious.” Tamara Holder was pretty taken aback, flatly telling her counterpart: “Your comments are absolutely deplorable.” 

As you might expect, the conversation became increasingly heated, with McInnes eventually telling Holder, “Most women are happier at home, they are pretending that they like working.” 

To which Holder replied: “Why am I here?” 

“You would be much happier at home with a husband and children,” McInnes responded, provoking what can only be described as a WTF face from Holder. 

She then declared that McInnes is “doing a disservice” to Fox’s viewers with his “absolutely disgusting” comments.

Actually Tamara Holder is wrong there. McInnes is doing exactly what he was brought onto the show to do, and what Fox viewers secretly want to see.

The schtick is for the host to bring on a guest who says terribly racist, sexist, or simply insulting comments, and then they chuckle at them and feign disapproval, when the entire point is to voice actual beliefs shared by Fox News viewers in a manner where Fox can "officially" create some distance from them.

You see this same thing play out on almost all of the shows which allows them to stoke the flames of sexism, racism, and elitism, while keeping their hands relatively clean. (One of their favorite gimmicks is to hire some black Uncle Tom to come on the program and trash the President or condemn virtually all actions taken by African American community. Yes Fox News, we DID notice that!) 

Make no mistakes, if Hannity thought he could get away with it he would have taken off his shirt, popped open a cold beer, and bumped chests with this Glenn McInnes guy all the way through this segment.

P.S. By the way that claim that Hillary paid female staffers less than male staffers does not hold up to scrutiny either. 

Two more passengers have jumped into the GOP Presidential clown car.

Yesterday we learned that Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina have decided to throw their hats into the 2016 ring.

Courtesy of USA Today:  

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told a Florida television station on Sunday that he is running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. 

"I'm willing to be part of the equation and, therefore, I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the United States of America," Carson said in an interview with CBS affiliate WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Courtesy of CNN:  

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina announced her candidacy for president on Monday, becoming the first declared female candidate to seek the Republican Party's nomination. 

"Yes, I am running," Fiorina said on ABC's "Good Morning America." "I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works. I understand the world; who's in it." 

The ex-Silicon Valley executive and long-shot White House contender has never held public office. In 2010, she unsuccessfully ran for Senate in California, losing to Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.

In my opinion, and this is really saying something in a field that includes Ted Cruz, I think these are the two most pathetic GOP candidates so far.

The reason I say that is because I believe that the ONLY reason the Republicans want these two to run, and believe me they have no intention of letting them win, is race and gender.

Believe it or not conservatives see Carson as their version of Barack Obama, a smart black man.

And they see Fiorina as their answer to Hillary Clinton, a person with female plumbing. (Just like Sarah Palin was their answer to Hillary back in 2008.)

So essentially these two are camouflage and are being poorly used to cover for the conservative's innate racism and misogyny.

And the fact that they, on some level, realize this and are still willing to play their parts is, like I said, pathetic.

Female Fox News host eviscerates her own network over sexist article called "How to land a husband at the Masters"

Okay that is one gutsy newscaster.

Well if she gets fired I have little doubt she will quickly find a new job. she's pretty awesome.

Here is a little more info about Katie Nolan.

Ted Nugent continues working toward the day when he will have NO venues willing to allow him onstage ever again.

Courtesy of the You Tube page:  

Conservative rock star Ted Nugent was deputized by local law enforcement at a Tea Party event in Wyoming in which he complained about America’s alleged post-World War II decline and women who do not enjoy hunting, Media Matters reported. “We have bent over since World War II because we couldn’t believe that the universally celebrated good of America crushed the universally understood evil of J*ps and Nazis,” Nugent said during a 30-minute speech to members of the Big Horn Basin Tea Party. “We couldn’t believe that that government that represented us in good over evil could turn on us. They’ve turned on us.” 

Nugent also accused hunters in Colorado of allowing “bureaucrats” to limit their Second Amendment rights, and challenged members of his audience to each “fix” 100 people and get them to vote for conservatives. “If I hear another hunter tell me, ‘Man, I wish I could get my wife to support hunting,’ fix your wife,” Nugent said. “Fix her or replace her.”

Okay who calls people "Japs" these days?

And as for men "fixing" their wives or replacing them, well buddy that goes both ways.

Media Matters also reported this: 

Returning to his usual attacks on elected Democrats, Nugent called Attorney General Eric Holder a "racist" and a "felon," called for the arrest of Holder and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and said that Obama "doesn't have the credentials to drive my tour bus"

What was it that the editor-in-chief of Pollster USA said again?

That soon Nugent will be limited to gigs playing at NRA conventions and Fox News events?

Yeah well that day is certainly sped up by this kind of racist and sexist bullshit.  

Sarah Palin is enraged that one of her endorsees is getting attacked using his own words against him. Now why would she take that so personally I wonder?

Courtesy of the Wasilla Wendigo's Facebook page:

The more things change the more they stay the same? Seems so! If the national GOP machine spent as much time fighting President Obama's disastrous and dangerous agenda as they've spent fighting that great conservative candidate Chris McDaniel, well, maybe they'd have been successful at stopping Obama's "fundamental transformation" of our country. Negative results from Obama fulfilling that one promise of his to transform America are just beginning to be felt at home and abroad. (Yeah the ending of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, better access to health care, protection against discrimination in the federal workplace and military for the LGBT community. Such a terrible "transformation.")

Let's cut through the GOP Establishment's rhetoric and the predictable media bias in Mississippi's U.S. Senate race and look directly at the record. Chris McDaniel is a proven conservative fighter with undeniably impressive, tangible and needed results. He's gone above and beyond in his capacity as a citizen, attorney, and citizen legislator to stop the Obama agenda. We need to send this fighter to Washington where he will continue his fight for all of us by shaking up the status quo and by effectually defending our Constitution. Take a look at Chris' legislative and personal accomplishments for the constitutional conservative cause here, and see the recognition he's received by those who know him best. Election day is just one week away. Please send a message to the career politicians who sure seem satisfied with the trajectory our nation is on, because they sure don't lift a finger to help elect the guys they KNOW will be the fighters for American exceptionalism in DC. Instead, they ignore their opportunity to stop the damaging leftist policies the people do not want, and instead choose to put all these resources into trying to defeat a courageous, proven Republican who's smart enough to stay independent of any political machine on any side of the aisle for the sake of We the People. Please support Chris McDaniel for U.S. Senate on June 24th. 

- Sarah Palin 

PS: Pay attention to who is funding these attacks on Chris' record. One of the Super PACs supporting Chris’ opponent received a huge donation from none other than Mike Bloomberg whose positions on things like gun control and the intrusions of the nanny state run counter to what the voters in Mississippi stand for.

I believe what has Palin's soiled panties in a twist is this ad paid for by Citizens for Cochran:

Please, how many of us haven't accused a woman of using her tits to get elected before?

Or referred to women as "Mamasita," "Hot Mama," or called them a "fine young thing?"

I mean it's not like he is representing a party that has been accused of waging a War on Women or anything, right?

Or maybe I'm wrong and what has really caused Palin's hot flashes to suddenly flare up is the fact that TPM discovered ties between McDaniel and the KKK.

Though since this is a conservative candidate running in Mississippi that hardly seems like a scandal at all really.

Let's see sexism AND racism, yep seems like the perfect Sarah Palin endorsed candidate to me.

In ABC interview Hillary Clinton clarifies statements in her book about Sarah Palin. Update!

Courtesy of ABC News:  

Hillary Clinton elaborated today on why she rebuffed the Obama campaign’s request that she attack Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential race to blunt Palin’s appeal to women. 

Clinton made her comments in an exclusive interview this morning on Good Morning America with ABC’s Robin Roberts after Palin cited Clinton’s new book “Hard Choices” to suggest it was the Democrats “who fired the 1st shot in the real ‘war on women.’” 

Clinton admitted she was asked by the Obama campaign to “go out and criticize” Palin when she was selected as John McCain’s running mate during the 2008 campaign, but she said, “‘For what? For being a woman? No let’s wait until we know where she stands. I don’t know anything about her, do you know anything about her?’ And nobody of course did.” 

“I think it’s fair to say that I made it clear I’m not going to go attack somebody for being a woman or a man. I’m going to try and look at the issues, where they stand, what their experience is, what they intend to do and then that’s fair game,” Clinton said. 

In responding to Palin’s tweet she tried to clarify saying, “That’s not exactly what I said.”

The first thing that should be pointed out is that the idea that Hillary would attack Palin for being a woman seems to have come from Hillary herself, and NOT the Obama campaign who were simply looking for a female face to counteract the buzz that was created by Palin's addition to the GOP ticket.

In fact in the book she explains what motivated the Obama administration to ask her: 

The 2008 presidential candidate writes in the book that, 'The Obama campaign suspected that her nomination was a blatant attempt to scuttle their hope of welcoming the women who had vigorously supported me. They immediately issued a dismissive statement and reached out to me in hopes I would follow suit.' 

'But I wouldn't. I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women. I didn't think it made political sense, and it didn't feel right. So I said no...''

Second it appears that Hillary was very sensitive about perceived sexism within the 2008 Obama campaign, which I actually don't remember but perhaps I missed some things that Hillary picked up on. (To be fair there were a few racist remarks coming out of Bill Clinton in those days as well.) In fact it appears that she is still very sensitive about what happened in 2008, and despite the fact that they seemed to have buried the hatchet there is clearly some residual animus.

Perhaps that explains to some degree why Hillary is providing Palin with this new ammunition that I can guarantee is being written into some long winded ghostwritten Facebook post as we speak.

Update: A former senior Obama Campaign official has offered some very important context:

 A senior Obama campaign official said that the request for Clinton to speak was tailored specifically to Palin’s speech after McCain picked her as his running mate, in which she made a direct pitch for Clinton supporters. 

“Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America. But it turns out the women of America aren’t finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all,” Palin said at the time. 

“We wanted Hillary to go out and say the Republican platform is completely inconsistent with the principles on which I ran,” said the official, adding that it was not supposed to be a broad-based knock on Palin. 

Now see that makes perfect sense, and it seems much more inline with how I remember that the Obama campaign handled things. 

My question is why did Hillary not explain it accurately, and leave it up to others to put things in perspective?

She is smart enough to know better.

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And you know she's right. Just wait for it.

Congressman writes memoir in which he states that "The wife is to voluntarily submit" to the husband. Did I mention that he is a Republican?

Courtesy of The Washington Post:  

A Republican member of Congress says in a recently released book that a wife is to "voluntarily submit" to her husband, but that it doesn't make her inferior to him. 

Rep. Steve Pearce's (R-N.M.) memoir, "Just Fly the Plane, Stupid!" was released last month. Its publication -- and his acknowledgment in the book of the controversial nature of the submission debate -- come as the Republican Party reevaluates how it talks to and about women. 

In the book, Pearce recounts his rise to owning an oil-field service company and winning election to Congress. In the book, the Vietnam War veteran says that both the military chain of command and the family unit need a structure in which everyone plays his or her role. 

He said that, in his family's experience, this meant that his wife, Cynthia, would submit to him and he would lead. 

"The wife is to voluntarily submit, just as the husband is to lovingly lead and sacrifice," he writes, citing the Bible. "The husband’s part is to show up during the times of deep stress, take the leadership role and be accountable for the outcome, blaming no one else." 

Pearce, who is Baptist, emphasizes repeatedly in the chapter that submission doesn't mean inferiority but rather that husbands and wives play different roles. He also says it doesn't mean his wife doesn't have a say in major decisions. 

"The wife’s submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband," he writes.

Christianity, helping husbands dominate their wives for over 2000 years. 

No wonder the Republicans fight so hard against raising the minimum wage and allowing women to have control over their own bodies, that might give those second class citizens the idea that they don't need a man in their life paying their bills and telling them what to do.

Sobering checklist of the day.

Trying not to panic here.