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The Republican nominee for President in 2008 is going to make George W. Bush look like a combination of Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky and Dennis Kucinich. And when that whackjob wins, after a very short time we will all be nostalgic for the measured, intelligent, middle-of-the-road presidency of George W. Bush.

Dean Esmay, on Hitler’s Germany:

There are serious academic scholars who say the German people, or at least vast swaths of them, were bullied and terrified into following Hitler’s gang of criminals. A gang of criminals who were never legitimately elected. I can point you to academic sources that debunk the “Hitler was elected” nonsense any time you like. He and his group of thugs seized power, through terror duplicity and coercion. They then constructed an image of German national unity that had nothing to do with what everyday Germans actually thought.

Hmmmm.

Why don’t those dead reporters file more *positive* stories about Iraq?

George W. Bush, call your office.

(stolen from August Pollak’s xoverboard site.)

Well, surprise: World Net Daily took the passage about Hitler and the Nazis out of the piece I wrote about last week. George Orwell, call your office. Meanwhile, a commenter on Crooks and Liars named Slippytoad pretty much summed up my feelings about the whole immigration “debate”:

If you bothered to ask me what my position was, I would tell you very simply that we need to do three things: #1, we need to prosecute companies who wink and nod and hire illegals. This would stop the incentive for people to come in the country. If they don’t have jobs to come to, they will stay home. #2, we need to make a serious and abiding effort to improve economic and trading relations with Mexico so that their economy is not an open cesspool of corruption and misery. We contributed to that mightily with the ill-conceived NAFTA giveaway to large corporations. We need leadership to come up with a trade program that actually improves economic conditions for everyone, instead of just for large companies. #3, we CANNOT deport 12 million people, and more importantly we should not. What we should do is make a sane and rational process for becoming naturalized that isn’t up to the whims of paper-pushing assholes, and not insist on horrific punitive measures that are only there to make racist pricks feel good about “administerin’ justice.” The people are here, and they have families here, and some of them believe it or not are refugees from oppresive regimes who came to America because they thought it was the land of the free. We owe it to them to give them the opportunity to do it right, instead of wasting tremendous amounts of taxpayer money, blood, effort, and time doing a purely spiteful thing like yanking them out of the lives they have established here and putting them in tremendous peril, just because we’ve suddenly decided to enforce the rules that we’ve been winking and nodding at for 30 years. Large corporations enabled this situation by nudge nudging and selectively enforcing immigration laws. Nobody, especially the Republican Congress, deserves any political capital for suddenly creating a crisis out of whole cloth and capitalizing on it.

And that’s what I’m really fucking sick of. The hysterical bullshit assertion that this is suddenly a crisis. Jesus Fuck, I grew up in Denver, Co, and know goddamn well what’s going on. DO NOT presume to tell ME what I do or do not understand about immigration. You have no idea who I am or what I do or who I know, so you can climb off your fuckin’ high horse of knowledge and come down here where your assertions stand or fall based on their truth. And the truth of it is, we are engaged in this discussion because Republicans are scared shitless of losing their base. And the reason they are using this issue is to scare their base with the image of a bunch of “filthy brown people” scumming up their alabaster fucking communities. And any impulse in that direction I encounter from anyone will be met with unremitting, withering scorn. Deal with the REAL ISSUE. Do not make up fake issues to scream about. I will mock you, I will get the facts, I will jam them right up your ass, and I will shut you down. Bank on it.

John Gibson went out of his way to be offended that anyone could have concluded that he was racist from his recent racist remarks about how white people need to have more babies to catch up to Hispanics. (I love it when they dig themselves in deeper.) His defense boiled down to “Hey, I love Mexicans. I just hate Muslims.” Thanks for clearing that up, John. We were worried there for a minute.

Gibson’s remarks led to a fantastic comment over at Digby’s Hullabaloo site:

Once again, I spent the morning trying to explain ‘water’ to my goldfish. He listens well, but just doesn’t see it.

It’s like explaining racism to John Gibson.

How do you tell a blind person what ‘red’ is?

“I’m upset with the Democrats too. Because after all this time, they still haven’t found one woman willing to have oral sex with President Bush so we can impeach him.”

-Woman in the audience of the Stephanie Miller Show on Air America, broadcasting from the Barrymore Theater in Madison

Why can’t more Democrats stand up for what they believe in? Come on guys. The President’s approval ratings are in the 20s. When are you going to grow a backbone?

My favorite little tidbit about the anti-gay-marriage vote detailed in the above link is how Arlen Specter voted for the ban in his Judiciary Committee, even though he’s personally opposed to it, because it “deserves debate in the full Senate.” Full-on crapweaselry on display these days.

“People get so worked up over the historical accuracy of Jesus marrying Mary Magdalene and having a child. But they don’t seem to have a problem with him coming back from the dead.”

-David Farré, religious philosopher

Some highlights from the Ultimate Crapweasel Media recently:

Fox’s John Gibson says that it’s white Americans’ duty to make more babies, to counter the tide of brown people streaming across our borders.

A World Net Daily columnist says that deporting those millions of illegal Mexicans should be no problem – after all, look how quickly the Nazis got rid of 6 million Jews.

The thing is, I’m glad when the essential racism of the right wing gets thrust out in the open like this. I would much rather they be honest, than try to couch everything in mushy code-word rhetoric. Stand up for yourself, racists!