Today on his radio program, fat blowhard (and Gawker fan!) Rush Limbaugh announced an exciting new venture: a Rush-branded line of chewable OxyContin tablets. Just kidding! No, Limbaugh is totally not addicted to prescription drugs anymore. No, he's hawking iced tea, because why not?
Georgia Republican Rep. Bobby Franklin thinks miscarriages are actually secret murders and that paper money is a fraud. And he gets a lot of support for those positions. In fact, according to his home answering machine, everyone who calls him is a supporter!
This is what Glenn Beck's web site looks like, thanks to a combination of blind sanctimony and a rotating image generator that includes this picture. [via]
Someone in the House gallery during today's Ritual Reading of the Constitution shouted "Except Obama!" and "Help us Jesus!" when they got to the presidential eligibility requirements. Michele Bachmann was briefly worried that the world could hear her thoughts.
A group of right-wing conspiracists has produced a 25-minute phantasm of Obama-rage posing as a "documentary," and it's airing in battleground states. Will Fox News sue to keep them from using its clips, like it does against Democrats? Probably not!
It's a serious question. Goldberg, the author of Liberal Fascism and in-house funny-guy at the National Review, wrote a column today wondering why the CIA hasn't assassinated Wikileaks founder Julian Assange yet. What are they, lazy? Get to it, boys!
[A true American shows her love for Sarah Palin by sporting this t-shirt at launch of the Tea Party Express national tour in Reno today. Image via Getty]
Tonight, Jon Stewart discussed Christine O'Donnell and pointed out a) Karl Rove's criticism of her, and b) Rove's subsequent flip-flip on the issue after pressure from Sarah Palin/others. Then, Stewart blew holes in the "Republicans and Tea-Baggers are different!" argument.
Long before Tea Party backed candidate Christine O'Donnell won the Republican primary in Delaware, the conservative firebrand was arguing that the government was spending too much money fighting AIDS and said condoms wouldn't stop the disease from spreading.
Not officially anyway. Officially they'd like to stick to financial issues and will even praise Massachusetts' recent strike-down of DOMA because it promotes states rights. There are even some gay Teabaggers in Miami! You think you know someone, huh? [WaPo]
DC Douglas was the voice of Geico until recently, when a voicemail he left to Teabagger organization FreedomWorks was blasted over the Internet by organization leader Matt Kibbe. A video uploaded by Douglas explains how the group got him fired.
Even the flawed Politico-sponsored "exit poll" after last Tax Day's Tea Party showed that basically all the Tea Partiers voted for Bush and McCain. So let's keep constantly polling them and desperately trying to win their favor, ok, media outlets?
Hey, there's a Tea Party going on in Washington DC right now. Old white people are responsibly protesting socialism and also the fact that our president is Kenyan. Pic via Dave Weigel. (One more from Ana Marie Cox!)
Conservative savior Sarah Palin swooped into liberal Massachusetts yesterday for a rally on the Boston Common. There were lots of old white people, some stupid signs, and a bunch of boring speeches. We mingled. Here's what we saw.
Rick Sanchez's rants have been getting a little ridiculous as of late, but today's was unusually stupid. Watch as Sanchez decries a Tea Bagger's racist tweets by mocking his MySpace page and ugly haircut. Really, Rick? Really?
The Tea Partiers had a magazine for sale, at their Tea Party in Boston today. It cost $20 a copy! So... print isn't dead? And Teabaggers are adopting the Dave Eggers model for newspapers.
Unmarried conservative scold Laura Ingraham attended a party at George Will's house last night, and Joe Biden was there. Instead of stabbing him with an oyster fork, she took a photo and posted it to Facebook. Her fans are disappointed.
Black lawmakers claim protesters shouted racial epithets as they walked to the Capitol to vote for health care reform last month. Andrew Breitbart published a video conclusively proving that this didn't happen, even though it was filmed an hour later.
