Cheap Blogging Crutch 07.24

The Five Craziest Glenn Beck Moments
I know, only five? How can you whittle down such a voluminous record of frothing, childish insanity into only five examples? Sure we all loved the fake pouring of gasoline on a staffer, and the weeping, by God, the sniveling weeping, but what about him ripping stars off a flag, claiming FEMA was setting up concentration camps, and that Keith Olbermann killed all the world's democracy? It's like asking to choose which one of your children you love most.

G. Gordon Liddy says Obama is an ‘illegal alien’ born in a ‘hospital in Mombasa.’
Really, does the media have nothing better to do than spend valuable air time debating lunatics about where President Obama was born? Really should anyone be interviewing a degenerate cretin like Liddy about anything other than how to make time in a federal pen fly by quicker, how to properly ref a boxing match between Mr. T and Rowdy Roddy Piper, or the best way to plot the murder of journalists you don't like?

Memo to Post: If George Will quotes a lie, it’s still a lie
The Climate Progress blog on why maybe the Washington Post should tell George Will to stop writing half-assed dishonest columns of climate change. Still though at least Will had the stones to base a column around a bullshit statistic. That at least puts him one up on all the guys who stand outside, go "It's cold today. It should be warm." and then churn out a column about Al Gore's global conspiracy.

Official: Joint chiefs chairman 'infuriated' about detainee abuse
Apparently Admiral Mike Mullen is one of the latest to be outraged at the detainee abuse and specifically the abuse documented in the photos that have been barred from release. So that brings the "outrage" total to just about everyone in the Obama Administration. They're outraged! Just not enough to let the American people know what happened or prosecute those who authorized it.

Boehner says GOP health alternative is coming
After the House chair of the GOP Health Care Solutions Group said the the GOP didn't actually have any health care solutions, weepy beach party aficionado John Boehner totally swore that they did totally have an alternative plan and they'll totally unveil it at some nebulous future date. I'm saying their health care plan is capital gains cuts, estate tax removal, cutting the corporate tax rate, and possibly finding the richest guy in America and blowing him. Who's taking bets?

Quotes of the weekend

Not content to just let right wing critiques of Sonia Sotomayor completely scrape the bottom of the barrel, Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy decided to lift up that barrel and look for another barrel underneath it, so that they might scrape that one too.

El Rushbo:

LIMBAUGH: Not only does she lack the often discussed appropriate judicial temperament, it's worse than that. She brings a form of bigotry and racism to the court. I don't care, we're not supposed to say it, we're supposed to pretend it didn't happen, we're supposed to look at other things but it's the elephant in the room. The real question here that needs to be asked and nobody on our side from a columnist to a TV commentator to anybody in our party has the guts to ask, how can a president nominate such a candidate? And how can a party get behind such a candidate? That's what would be asked if somebody were foolish enough to nominate David Duke or pick somebody even less offensive.

The felon who wanted to have his political enemies murdered:

LIDDY: I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien, “the race.” And that should not surprise anyone because she’s already on record with a number of racist comments.
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LIDDY: Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then.

It's hard to know why this party is out of power when it has such stunning intellectual lights as these two. Sotomayor=David Duke/menstruation will destroy the legal foundation of this country. If the debate is already this degraded three days after her nomination, imagine where we'll be when her conformation hearings start up. I can hardly wait.