Sonia Sotomayer, Iranian Revolts, Robert Spencer: One of these is worthless

The one that’s worthless is, of course, Robert Spencer. Currently in the world of American and world politics we have a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, a real revolution happening in the Islamofascist Autocracy of Iran, a health care debate, an economy that’s doing not too well, and, well a lot of things.

So with all that in mind Pamela Geller, the shrill bitch lunatic behind the absolutely insane blog Atlas Shrugs, demands to know why a critic of Islam who just can’t help himself when it comes to joining and supporting neo-fascist movements named Robert Spencer and some nonsense the fat lunatic fascist is involved in isn’t national news on the front page.

Here’s your answer you insane clod: BECAUSE NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT ROBERT SPENCER. His blog is read by few people. His books are read by even fewer. Yes, when neo-Nazi groups like Vlaams Belang want an American critic of Islam, they go to Robert Spencer. When a meeting of fascists like Pro-Koeln need someone who doesn’t look like the ubermensch to make wildly inappropriate and racist comments about Arabs, they go to Robert Spencer. When the media wants a legitimate critic of Islam and Islamic terrorism, they’re not going to someone with a record of being a bigoted shithead, they’ll go to Christopher Hitchens, Irshad Manji, Salman Rushdie, etc. There are plenty of scholars on religion whose views aren’t contaminated by feelings that Christians should slaughter the Muslims living in Turkey, as Robert Spencer clearly believes (if he didn’t, why did he join the Facebook group, hmmm?).

Why does WND get invited to the White House press briefing?

And why does Press Secretary Robert Gibbs ever call on Les Kinsolving of the nutjob liars WorldNetDaily? I mean it’s ri-goddamn-diculous that this is even being asked. Every time Les is given the opportunity to ask a question, a torrent of stupidity comes out, usually from the braindead Joseph Farrah.

World Net Daily, of course, wets its pants and cries like a bunch of freaked out children when Robert Gibbs doesn’t play nice with their nonsensical truther bullshit.

Here, though, is an amusing part of that conversation:

“You know, Lester, I – I want to stay on this for a second, Lester, I want to stay on this for a second, because you’re a smart man, right?” said Gibbs.

“Hypothetical,” said an unidentified reporter.

“All right, all right, settle down in here. Only I get to make jokes like that,” said Gibbs.

World Net Daily is a legitimate news site, like a blog dedicated to posting pictures of amateur couples having sex is a legitimate news site. And at least with the latter, you get something on your screen with some potential value.

Sylvia Allen (State Senator, Arizona): Earth is 6000 years old. The void left by Palin quitting sure filled up quickly!

It seems like every couple days a Republican comes out of the closet to say something wholly remarkable in its stupidity. This past weekend it was Sarah Palin’s ridiculous and delusional resignation. The text of her resignation speech reads as though it was originally a Lady GaGa song, but even Lady GaGa thought what was written was too stupid. Before that we had two weeks of Mark Sanford lying and making up stupid stories, and basically admitting he’s been trolling for sex on the internet for years. Every day Glenn Beck opens his mouth undoubtedly something stupid is going to spill out so there’s no real point in actually listing what kind of mind numbing idiocy he put forth. And so on.

Now it’s nearly impossible to be an elected Republican in this country and not have your persona involve a whole lot of religion. It’s annoying, but it’s so common that whenever someone from the GOP talks about their faith in “god,” and how their Christian upbringing guides their policy decisions and life, the only real variable is the amount of time before the Republican talking about their faith admits to cheating on their spouse or demonstrating how effective abstinence only education is when forced to admit their child got knocked up because they’re not smart enough to know the proper usage of contraception.

Now however common it is for elected Republicans to come out and talk about their belief in their non-existent deity, it seems that very few are willing to come out and admit they believe the even loonier shit that goes with being a believer. Remember in the GOP debates when asked how many of the candidates didn’t believe in evolution? Only three of the nine on stage raised their hand (Huckabee, Tancredo, and Sam Brownback). Two of them had no shot whatsoever of being the GOP nominee, and Huckabee later explained that he believed the question was about evolution without any sort of creator (so he might not be a Young Earther).

Anyway, during a hearing in Arizona about uranium and shit, a Republican state Senator named Sylvia Allen said that environmental concerns shouldn’t be taken into account because in the 6000 year history of the Earth, we’ve not been extinct, and therefore global warming is a myth (or something, I honestly couldn’t believe Young Earth Creationism was being used to invalidate environmental concerns that I didn’t bother to transcribe the crazy woman’s babbling).

Click here to watch video.

This brings us to a larger point, which is the unbelievably rapid disintegration of the Republican Party. How can a party that seems to be losing people left and right have such an amazingly deep roster when it comes to the comically stupid? Bobby Jindall, Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Sarah Palin, Sylvia Allen (now), George Allen, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and I could seriously go on so long I might end up with the first 1 terrabyte blog post ever.

How can a movement that once had individuals like William F. Buckley, Thomas Dewey, etc. have become so wildly anti-intellectual and ridiculous? I mean Ronald Reagan was no genius, but even he didn’t go to the extremes of brainlessness we continue to see from the right.

Reasons to hate Representative Peter King, Michael Jackson comments aren’t one of them

Peter King is a member of Congress from Long Island, New York. The man might be the most right wing member of Congress since the neo-fascist Tom Tancredo resigned in 2008 to spend more time organizing lynchings legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, blacks, Arabs, and Italians who look like Arabs.

Over the July Fourth weekend Rep King (Dipshit-NY) was asked about Michael Jackson’s death, and he responded by calling Michael Jackson a pedophile. Anyone who knows anything about this man that him saying something stupid like this is about as shocking as dropping a ball and it hitting the ground. The man is utterly brainless, and this isn’t exactly news.

Anyway, in the aftermath of Peter King proving he may have severe brain damage, a group was started with the intention of defeating Mr. King in his next electoral contest and according to reports they’ve raised an amazing $75. That will buy a minute of air time on NBC radio in 1924.

Honestly, there are sooooooooooooo many real reasons to dislike Peter King that makes his statements regarding Michael Jackson seem decent and thoughtful.

For example:
- He’s a racist
- He’s a sexist
- He’s a homophobe
- He supports torture
- He supported (and supports) the Iraq War
- He supports using nuclear weapons pre-emptively
- He supports the Patriot Act
- He supports Marxist Catholic terrorists (IRA)
- He voted for Reagan
- He voted for Nixon
- He voted for Palin
- He voted for George W. Bush
- He’s a Republican.

What he said doesn’t even remotely qualify as a reason to loathe Peter King.

SHOCKA! Fascist lunatic supports a military coup.

No, not Ann Coulter, though I’m sure it isn’t shocking I’m talking about Pamela Geller. The woman who thinks that the ethnic cleansing of the former Yugoslavia was a myth, also supports the military illegally removing from power a democratically elected leader because he associates with Chavez.

I don’t know why I even expect less from a woman who supports Neo Nazi parties like Vlaams Belang, and movements started by German neo-fascists.

WhyIslam.org: “Scientific Accuracy in the Qu’Ran”

Has to be read to be believed.

This is how it ends:

The above evidence shows that the Qur’an must be from God as it claims. The Qur’an says that you and every human being should consider this book with care. Had it been from anyone other than God, you would have found much discrepancy in it (4:82).

What stupid bullshit…

Why no Ark of the Covenant? BECAUSE IT DOESN’T FUCKIN EXIST

World Net Daily has been pushing for the past week the story that the fabled container of the Ten Commandments, also known as the Ark of the Covenant, was to be on display last week. Well so far there’s been no displaying of the AotC, and the supposed Ethiopian church where “it’s” “been” hasn’t said a word about this mythical item.

WND is a little annoyed that another of their “displays of idiocy” has gone terribly wrong:

The leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church today backed off on a much-anticipated announcement about the Ark of the Covenant — the ancient container holding the Ten Commandment — which he claims to have seen.

But no other evidence or, indeed, even any announcement, was made public today when word had been expected.

Ark hunters and Bible enthusiasts have been buzzing for two days on the report from the Italian news agency Adnkronos that Patriarch Abuna Pauolos, in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, said, “Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries.”

He had suggested the possibility the artifact might be viewable in a planned museum.

“I repeat (the Ark of the Covenant) is in Ethiopia and nobody … knows for how much time. Only God knows,” he said in the Adnkronos report available online.

I repeat: the Ark of the Covenant is a myth.

WND: All the news that’s so stupid it’s actually radioactive

The New York Times’ slogan is “All The News That’s Fit To Print.” Fox News’ slogan is “Fair and Balanced” (which is a joke, but this isn’t about FNC and their obvious right wing bent). World Net Daily’s is “A free press for a free people,” but should seriously be changed to what is written in the title of this post.

Anyone who’s paid even a minuscule amount of attention to the unbelievably stupid birth-certificate “controversy” surrounding Barack Obama is aware that currently World Net Daily is the only “media” outfit still pimping the horrifyingly stupid notion that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and not in this country. Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs still believes this too, but she’s so unbelievably dumb she doesn’t qualify as a human anymore and has been demoted to Australopithecus.

Now the preponderance of stories concerning Barack Obama’s birth status alone would qualify World Net Daily’s “writers” (pukers would be a better term) as radioactively stupid, but WND doesn’t merely pimp conspiracy theories about the commander in chief which might exceed the stupidity of the retards who call themselves the 9/11 Truth Movement. No no no, they’re also a clearinghouse for ridiculous medical theories too!

Take this headline:

Is diabetes a bald-faced lie?
‘Medical breakthrough of century’ – from insulin dependent to non-diabetic in 6 weeks?

I’m an insulin dependent diabetic, and have been since I was 2 years and 11 months old. I have experienced both Diabetic Ketoacidosis, and hypoglycemia so severe I actually don’t remember Christmas 2006 beyond receiving the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie on DVD. I hardly think a bald-faced lie could induce either of those situations.

By the way, what is the item that turned an insulin dependent diabetic into a non-diabetic in 6 weeks? A sweet potato from Japan. This is what World Net Daily promotes as health news.

However that isn’t the stupidest thing on the site. World Net Daily has been talking about how the actual Ark of the Covenant that holds the actual Ten Commandments is about to be displayed in Ethiopia.

I am fucking serious.

Ark hunters and Bible enthusiasts are buzzing about a report that the Ark of the Covenant, the ancient container that holds the Ten Commandments, is expected to be unveiled in Rome today.

As WND reported, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia says he will announce to the world the unveiling of the Ark, which he says has been hidden away in a church in his country for millennia, according to the Italian news agency Adnkronos.

Abuna Pauolos, in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, told the news agency, “Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries.”

This, by the way, was written yesterday. Now maybe the media didn’t give the event its due because Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died, but I would expect they’d at least mention that the supposed Ark of the Covenant was displayed.

The story goes on:

According to the Italian news agency, the announcement is expected to be made at 2 p.m. Italian time (8 a.m. Eastern) from the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome. Pauolos will reportedly be accompanied by Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Sellassie and Duke Amedeo D’Acosta.

“The Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia for many centuries,” said Pauolos. “As a patriarch I have seen it with my own eyes and only few highly qualified persons could do the same, until now.”

I did a Google News search, and the only news sources talking about this revelation end up linking back to WND.

Myth: Sanford’s affair is the issue. Fact: HE ABANDONED HIS POST!

Why should liberals, democrats, and people not keen on Governor Sanford be outraged by Mark Sanford’s behavior? No, it has nothing to do with the fact he has been cheating on his wife. It’s not even the fact he’s clearly in love with this other woman while ignoring his family. That’s actually fairly typical hypocrisy from the Jesus freak wing of the conservative movement (John Ensign, David Vitter, Newt Gingrich, need I go on?). It’s the fact that he abandoned his job as chief executive of South Carolina without leaving any indication of what should be done while he’s gone.

That is an impeachable offense. And besides, there is a lot more to this story than just hot sex with an Argentinian woman, and all that will come out in due time. But what is unforgivable, regardless of how bad he must feel from an emotional point of view, is his dereliction of duty.

People get fired for abandoning their job for two hours without saying anything. He should lose his job. Period.

Does anyone with a serious critical mind actually read Ann Coulter?

I just happened to go to her site, and read her latest screed, and came across yet another “liberals hate America” line and wondered “does anyone buy this shit anymore?” I mean beyond the usual group of idiots who actually like the shit she produces.