Linkarrhea, October 20th

Adam Serwer of The American Prospect responds to Patrick Buchanan’s bleating about white Americans losing ‘their’ country:

Black Americans have shed blood in every American war since the Revolution. This country, even the very Capitol building in which today’s legislators now demand to see the birth certificate of the first black president, was built on the sweat and sinew of slaves. Before we were people in the eyes of the law, before we had the right to vote, before we had a black president, we were here, helping make this country as it is today. We are as American as it gets. And frankly, the time of people who think otherwise is passing. If that’s the country Buchanan wants to hold onto, well, he’s right, he is losing it.

Good riddance.

Tis a pity how reality must intrude into Mr. Buchanan’s brain.

It’s funny when a former police commissioner has to go to jail. It’s even funnier when it’s Rudy Giuliani’s best friend Bernie Kerik! [NY News]

Oprah and Sarah. November 16th. I’m taping that ish! [The Caucus, NY Times]

Making the bigotry of Judge Keith Bardwell of Louisiana a tool for social justice. [The Unemployment Cafe]

The heart breaks for Rush Limbaugh. He was so close to achieving what, I presume, was a lifelong fantasy for him: becoming a NFL team owner. But unfortunately the reality of the free market that he once loved with his big mouth self. How does it happen that a man who says the most obnoxious things for stacks of cash doesn’t understand that a multibillion dollar enterprise doesn’t want to be tainted by his wacky, divisive antics? [Michael Wilbon, The Standard]

Dear Mr. President, I’d rather you fight for the Public Option than fight Fox News. [Telegraph]

Although I have zero proof…

…I think Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh are secret lovers.

Their little public spat is mere foreplay for the make up sex.

It’s just a feeling that Tallulah has.

Gingrich Takes On Rush: Hoping the President Fails is “Irrational” [HuffPo]

P.S.  They also do three ways with Roger Ailes.

Everytime I read about an American wishing for President Obama’s failure…

I wonder what exactly are they wishing for?

Are they hoping that they die in a terrorist attack?

Are they hoping that they lose their jobs and houses and have to live in a car or a homeless shelter?

Are they wishing to die in a nuclear war?

What exactly do they foresee happening to their LIVES if President Obama fails in his goals for the country?

It’s odd how patriotic Americans can spit on  the fate of their country and believe that the country’s failure will somehow bypass the hopes, dreams and wishes they carry in their peanut sized black little hearts.

If President Obama fails, we all are going down with him.  There’s a saying (which I’m going to screw up) but it basically says when digging a grave for someone else, you should dig your own grave too.

Hey Rush, be careful what you wish for.

Limbaugh: ‘I Hope Obama Fails’ [Think Progress]

So now Colin Powell realizes that Rush Lardbucket is detrimental to the GOP?

As  George W.  prepares to take his delusions and incompetence home to Texas,  Colin Powell gets the nerve to speak up, loud and proud, about the cancers that have been eating the party Colin loves so damn much?

Where was Colin Powell when Rush and others like him were uttering hateful, vile assertions against anyone who understood what it truly means to be an American citizen?

Thanks, Colin.  You have impeccable timing.

Yet I wonder how the GOP is going to handle their poster man for diversity turning on them like this.

Powell: GOP “polarization” backfired in election [CNN]

Powell lashes out at Palin: I’m from the South Bronx ‘and there’s nothing wrong with my value system’ [ThinkProgress]

If I were Oprah Winfrey, I would weigh 200 pounds too.

If I were Oprah Winfrey….

I would hire the Magnolia Bakery owner to bake treats for me 24 hours a day.

I would fund a news program that debunked every single lie that slithered out of sewage spewing mouths of Sean Hannity,  Rush Limbaugh and Mike Huckabee  The program would also highlight the incestuous connections that poison mainstream media.

I would give Joe Lieberman and Governor Hot Rod millions to retire.  Just go away!

I would make Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have dinner with me once a month because no one says no to me.  They would have to dress up and perform skits written by me!

I would play passive aggressive practical jokes on  Rupert Murdoch, Tina Brown, Arianna Huffington and Jann Wenner.  Just because.

I would build a separate house and hire  a full-time dog walker  for my dog, Morpheus.

I would make Ben Silverman create a show around the Midwest Teen Sex Show.

I would find a way to have Donald Trump deported to Zimbabwe.  Ha ha Mugabe, he’s your problem now!

I would have Joe Conason read me bedtime stories.

I would have Grace Jones perform for me on my birthday.

I would buy a private island, rename it Oprahphenia and have people perform interpretative dances to win an invitation to be considered for a visit.

I would pay the following ‘actresses’ to stop ‘acting’:  Jessica Biel, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton.  They can do ad campaigns and show up to nightclubs instead.

I would kill anyone who airs The Hills.  Not maim. Not blind with acid.  K-I-L-L. And most likely feed their body to Morpheus.

I would build a house with indoor plumbing, cable and the Internet here.

And I would have  fried chicken, chocolate cupcake and champagne for dinner every night!

Photo via american-buddha.com

The Conservative on the ‘Conservative’

To which, let me add a personal, affectionately-intended note: Rush, I knew William F. Buckley, Jr. William F. Buckley, Jr. was a father of mine. Rush, you’re no William F. Buckley, Jr.

-Christopher Buckley, patrician conservative elite to Rush Limbaugh, trashy bottomfeeder conservative drug addict [The Daily Beast]