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March 06, 2014

NPR: "A Handful of Southern Democrats" Joined Republicans to Block Controversial Civil Rights Appointee
— Ace

Feast your eyes on all this Southern-ness.

When they're not busy making up false claims of Republican "dog whistles," they're eagerly crafting their own.

Update: Per a commenter at Jonah Goldberg's original post, NPR has now edited this clip so that they say "Democrats" instead of "Southern Democrats.

Posted by: Ace at 07:14 AM | Comments (280)
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1 Brain dead simple prescription for saving America:

1) Move tax day to election day. The people who object to that
are objecting precisely because they want to steal our money.

2) Print a family budget analog to the federal budget on every
IRS form.

How to get it passed:

a) A cadre of conservative House Reps should announce that until
this change is made, they absolve their constituents from following
federal tax law, because of the unconstitutional executive orders
that have modified the Obamacare tax.

b) The Reps should make speeches on the House floor urging tax
revolt.

c) The Reps should "Hire" all their constituents as part of their staff
for 1 penny per year to give them immunity.

Posted by: No Habla Inglés at March 06, 2014 07:14 AM (ecmD4)

2 Second!

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 06, 2014 07:15 AM (gBnkX)

3 North Dakota is southern only to Canada.

There!

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:16 AM (GQ8sn)

4 The noble tyrant hates him some ignoble traitors.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 06, 2014 07:16 AM (BZAd3)

5 Delaware is in the south you southern deniers!!!!!

Posted by: Jimi Ray at March 06, 2014 07:16 AM (Aif/5)

6 Morning ace.

How's your output today?

That just sounds wrong, don't it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, trapped in the free state at March 06, 2014 07:16 AM (DPkKe)

7 #WarOfNorthernAggression

Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (7ObY1)

8 We only joined the South in the hopes that this permafrost would thaw.

Posted by: North Dakota at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (A0sHn)

9 Pixy Hash Eating Test, Day 2, Take 165. Halp me Ace, you're my only hope. Doesn't matter if I'm on pirated wifi or change over to Sprint 3G.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (pHivF)

10 Uhhhh, you mean like Bob Casey Jr., who probably hasn't been south of the M-D line in his entire retarded life?

Posted by: joncelli at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (RD7QR)

11 6 Morning ace. How's your output today? That just sounds wrong, don't it. -- You can't ask about output - this isn't the dump thread.

Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (GSIDW)

12 The SCOAMF is a gutless pussy.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (DrWcr)

13 #1- I believe the going rate for nominal services performed is $1 per year. With that said, I think the plan sounds a bit far-fetched, which is still 100x more defensible and rational than anything Obama's done recently.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (+/C3g)

14 I have been thinking about them shooting down this guy today. I am thinking that there is more to this turd than just defending Mumia the cop killer.

There is something they are hiding from the rest of us.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 06, 2014 07:17 AM (T2V/1)

15 Hahaha!!! The NPR headline to the story is now "
Democrats Help Block Nominee For DOJ's Top Civil Rights Job"

Even the commentors on the NPR site are saying some of their orignal comments have been "disappeared".

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:18 AM (GQ8sn)

16 Kay Hagen and Mary Landfill voted FOR the deviant in question. Dixie is just a cup.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 07:18 AM (olDqf)

17 Us Southerners are too busy clinging to our guns and religion to understand all that high fallutin' government stuff.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 07:18 AM (8DWZQ)

18 I must be human, I never hear those whistles.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 06, 2014 07:18 AM (A98Xu)

19 This is why I Question EVERYTHING

Posted by: Kawfytawk at March 06, 2014 07:19 AM (EY4Et)

20 OT: CPAC live stream

http://tinyurl.com/q5p7fa4

Dan Bongino current

Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:19 AM (aUQgu)

21 Feast your eyes on all this Southern-ness.

Vote for me because Delaware was a slave state!

Posted by: Joey Biden at March 06, 2014 07:19 AM (ZKzrr)

22 Here's a great, uniting idea. Let's install a blatant racist in the Civil Rights division of DOJ.

Posted by: Barky & Holder Clown Show at March 06, 2014 07:19 AM (aDwsi)

23 15 Dixie is just a cup.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 11:18 AM (olDqf)

Not any more. They closed the factory near here a few years ago and moved it to Mexico. Now it's se Habla Cup

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 06, 2014 07:19 AM (T2V/1)

Of course Montana is in the South? Don't you remember all of those monumental Civil War battles that took place near Billings and Helena? Syrias, you guys!

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (+/C3g)

25 Reminder: It's always 1963.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (659DL)

26 OK, that's funny stuff there.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (zDsvJ)

27 Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 11:17 AM (7ObY1)

#WarofSouthernRebellion

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (QFxY5)

28 Carrying over from the last thread, I should have read the whole set of instructions for the Blu cigs (but I didn't because MORON.) It only COMES with the car adapter, but I can just buy the wall adaptor. Thanks for the tips.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (7ObY1)

29 Divide by race, divide by gender, divide by sexual orientation, divide by age, divide by wealth, divide by geography. It's the Progressive Way.

Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (yhJhK)

30 21 Here's a great, uniting idea. Let's install a blatant racist in the Civil Rights division of DOJ.

Posted by: Barky & Holder Clown Show at March 06, 2014 11:19 AM (aDwsi)

For great justice!

Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:20 AM (DrWcr)

31 Of course Montana is in the South? Don't you remember all of those monumental Civil War battles that took place near Billings and Helena? Syrias, you guys!

I remember the Battle of Billings. I think there was a movie made about it with Matt Damon/Ben Affleck.

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (GQ8sn)

32

Ahhhhh.... the beautiful tundra of N.D. Dixieland....

Posted by: dan-O at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (D0bIN)

33 I heard Joe Donnelly say "ya'll" once. I think it was while he was campaigning in Floyds Knobs.

Posted by: Burnett at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (I67je)

34

Ace, are you at CPAC? Or are any of the cob-loggers there?

Posted by: dan-O at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (D0bIN)

35 I love it when the dems invest so much in a complete asshole.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (A98Xu)

36 Is there here whar I can get me a huntin' license? Yee haw!

Posted by: John Kerry at March 06, 2014 07:21 AM (DrWcr)

37 trust me, i'm a handful alright!

Posted by: Mark Pryor (Ark.), at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (SO2Q8)

38 I've always told y'all the South's Gonna Rise Again(tm). I didn't realize we'd have North Dakota with us this time, but, hey, welcome to the party fellas.

Posted by: Andy at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (GpwJj)

39 Insty posted this, too. Apparently MWR is now a Southern belle.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (zF6Iw)

40 Geography: how does it fucking work?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (0HooB)

41 Insty posted this, too. Apparently MWR is now a Southern belle.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 11:22 AM (zF6Iw)

Just when I thought she couldn't get any hotter...

Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:22 AM (DrWcr)

42 You're darn tootin Delaware is southern. Down here we give you both barrels pilgrim.

Posted by: Sheriff Joe at March 06, 2014 07:23 AM (Aif/5)

43 We are all crackas now.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2014 07:23 AM (pt9WM)

44 Rebel Yell!

Everyone who does not drink the Kool-Aid is dispensable.

They do realize they've just indicted the entire South- don't they?

It would be funny if, reminiscent of the Civil War Democrats and Republicans united to defeat...Democrats.

Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 07:23 AM (GGCsk)

45 I am hoping MWR of New Hampshire will give me her spectacular mint julep recipe.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 07:23 AM (l3vZN)

46 Delaware is south of me.

Posted by: rickl at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (zoehZ)

47 Southern Pennsylvania Democrats

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (Os+6p)

48 Great battles of Civil War II: Obama's march into the sea.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (rj3Rt)

49 If it's south of Manhattan...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (HFap2)

50 Insty posted this, too. Apparently MWR is now a Southern belle.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 11:22 AM (zF6Iw)

*cuts diamond with it*

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (GQ8sn)

51 North: NY, New England less NH, West Coast, and any other state that votes Blue.

South: All other states.

Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 07:24 AM (yhJhK)

52 O'Hussein's reaction to this vote says more about him than anything else he's said or written.

Posted by: Jules at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (omBWL)

53 A handful of Southern Democrats...AND THE MAJORITY LEADER.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (659DL)

54 Dang, looks like I ripped off MPPP's theme. That's what I get for not reading all the comments first.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (l3vZN)

55

I wonder if Southern Blacks are also considered racists against Blacks by NPR.

Southeeeerrrn! is the new Raciiiiist!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (gorVZ)

56 As a result of global warming, 'South' has migrated northwards...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (SO2Q8)

57 Yay! I don't have to move to be part of the secession.

Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (GSIDW)

58 Only eight months until election day!

Posted by: MTF at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (LISuA)

59 This guy WILL have the office. To imagine otherwise would be to underestimate the Left. I suspect that a couple of the dissenting Dems will have a few words whispered in their ears, another vote taken, and it will be over.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:25 AM (aDwsi)

60 NPR is imbecilic.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:26 AM (DrWcr)

61 Mumia killed Bull Connor. He should get a medal or somethng.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (8ZskC)

62 The other day, Obama said that people call him a tyrant when all he is trying to do is make things better.

I wonder how many times this exact wording has been used in the past by "leaders" who history has categorized as evil.

*giving odds on - Many.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (BZAd3)

63 Indiana's in the South, too. After all, they have a racetrack and NASCAR, which means they must be in the South. QED.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (+/C3g)

64 What do you guys think Obama does all day? Seriously.

Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (yhJhK)

65 Montana and North Dakota are so racist even the ground is white.

Posted by: no good deed at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (vBhbc)

66 I remember the Battle of Billings. I think there was a movie made about it with Matt Damon/Ben Affleck. ---- You're thinking of "Dances with Whores". That was Kevin Costner

Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 07:27 AM (Kkb0b)

67 One wonders if those 7 mystery states are also Southern.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (aDwsi)

Reminder: It's always ~~1963~~ 1836.

FIF Texas!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (BAS5M)

69 63 What do you guys think Obama does all day? Seriously.

Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 11:27 AM (yhJhK)

Smokes. Takes it up the ass from Reggie. Smokes some more.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (DrWcr)

70 Race baiting is all they have left.

Posted by: Jack at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (XhzTz)

71 What do you guys think Obama does all day? Seriously.

He certainly watches more TV than I do.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (jlOxu)

72 Doesn't North Dakota have a lot of oil production? Definitely a southern redneck state.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (Os+6p)

73 "I heard Joe Donnelly say "ya'll" once. I think it was while he was ~~campaigning in~~ slobbing on Floyds Knobs."

Edited for truthiness.

Posted by: Old Farts everywhere at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (DPkKe)

74 No such thing as 'Southern' anymore. All the Yankees that destroyed the South post War of Northern Aggression have MOVED here and brought their despicable central gov politics.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (aUQgu)

75 Is Harry Reid from SOUTHERN Nevada?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 06, 2014 07:28 AM (84gbM)

76 The White House also misspelled the dick's name in their press release complaining about the rejection. See the sock.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (hn5v5)

77 Oh come on Ace, I'm sure they're flying the 'Stars and Bars' in Delaware as we speak!

Posted by: Jay in PA at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (3LaGb)

78 NPR's logic makes Monty Python's Burn the Witch part of The Holy Grail look positively genius.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (+/C3g)

79 Grits for everybody! Breakfast/lunch/supper is served!

Posted by: Bill at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (uvyrw)

80 What do you guys think Obama does all day? Seriously. He tried to think, but nothing happened.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (0HooB)

81 We finally conquered Pennsylvania!

Posted by: General Lee at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (sOtz/)

82 Southern Illinois will rise again!!!11111!!! Well, the first time, anyway.....

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (3iZoj)

83 South is just a state of mind so NPR is right losers get a life.

Posted by: Gary from Providence, Unemployed and Entitled at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (yhJhK)

84 The other day, Obama said that people call him a tyrant when all he is trying to do is make things better. ------ Actually, that is *precisely* what Hitler said.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (aDwsi)

85 Ever since Obama added those other seven states, the cutoff changed.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (SO2Q8)

86 Hey, Nodak brings oil, natural gas, and coal to the party - just ignore the lutefisk (Pro Tip: If you don't know what lutefisk is, don't ask; you are blessed).

Posted by: Alte Schüle at March 06, 2014 07:29 AM (CwPO/)

87 It's always 1963.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 06, 2014 11:20 AM (659DL)

http://youtu.be/O17MA58P-QY

Posted by: Country Singer at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (L8r/r)

The vote, Obama said in that statement, was Â“a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant.Â”

Bull. Shit.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (DrWcr)

89 Notably missing from that list is Senator Claire Mac from Missouri. You can tell she has more than 4 years until her next race She's not even pretending to be a moderate.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (pt9WM)

90 NPR does need to be destroyed It's insane that we are forced to publicly fund a hard left propaganda weapon like NPR with taxpayer dollars. At least with MSNBC I can refuse to watch and even refuse to buy cable. I have no choice with NPR.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (ZPrif)

91 Indiana's in the South, too. After all, they have a racetrack and NASCAR, which means they must be in the South. QED.

It sorta is. Everything south of US 30 is indistinguishable from Kentucky, except there are places in Kentucky you can buy beer on Sundays.

Posted by: Joey Biden at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (ZKzrr)

92 63 What do you guys think Obama does all day? Seriously.

Posted by: microaggressor at March 06, 2014 11:27 AM (yhJhK)

Fills in his March Madness brackets. He's been working on them since April 2013.

Posted by: joncelli at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (RD7QR)

93 I hereby declare my NY apartment to be an official southern state.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (7ObY1)

94 Halfwit sock off.

Posted by: HR at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (ZKzrr)

95 Pixy hash eating test, day 2, take 166.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (pHivF)

96 12 I have been thinking about them shooting down this guy today. I am thinking that there is more to this turd than just defending Mumia the cop killer. Posted by: Vic at March 06, 2014 11:17 AM (T2V/1) I suspect that EVERY Obama appointee is a "turd" in some form or another.

Posted by: D-Lamp at March 06, 2014 07:30 AM (bb5+k)

97 The lie goes halfway around the world before the truth ties its shoes.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (eoeps)

You know the one:

Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.

Sir Bedevere: And therefore...

Peasant 2: ...A witch!

(Crossing my fingers that I avoided a barreling)

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (+/C3g)

99 Haha....rickb223 is still getting Banhammered!!!

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (GQ8sn)

100 I wonder how many times this exact wording has been used in the past by "leaders" who history has categorized as evil. *giving odds on - Many. Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 06, 2014 11:27 AM (BZAd3) Can you say "all of them"? Good, I knew you could.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (yDmQD)

101

If it was really an important appointment to the President, the Gang of Whatever would have had John McCain find a way to support it. TFG didn't really care about this.

This was an effort to wind up the Democrat base, just like the repeated denunciations of the Koch Bros are political efforts to excite the base (#59 in campaign giving, behind every damn Democrat you can think of), and blaming business for their lack of hiring.

Posted by: MTF at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (LISuA)

102

Yeah, and I love this added tidbit:

UPDATE: Related: Shaheen dodges reporters after controversial vote. Â“New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen fled the scene of the vote Wednesday Â– following her decision to support President ObamaÂ’s controversial nominee for U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.Â” So it was Â“controversialÂ” in that stronghold of the Old South, New Hampshire.

Adegbile defended a black man, and we don't like black people; that's the only reason it'd be controversial around here. Yep, we're just a bunch of old southerners up here in NH. We're basically Mississippi c.1843.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:31 AM (4df7R)

103 Tecnically, many parts of Pennsylvania resemble West Virginia...so Southern state for sure.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (Os+6p)

104 Can the use of terms by NPR like "Senate Jesus Freaks" be far off?

Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (GGCsk)

105 OT: Chuck Hagel is speaking before House Armed Services Committee re cuts. Could there be a dumber box of hammers for SecDef?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (aUQgu)

106 I wonder which side the Army of Northern Virginia will fight on this time?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (l3vZN)

107 perhaps Obama should just make him a czar.
so they can save all that blue on blue angst

Posted by: willow at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (nqBYe)

108 What do you guys think Obama does all day? Seriously.

A little choom, a little ESPN.

Posted by: HR at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (ZKzrr)

109 Adegbile defended a black man, and we don't like black people; that's the only reason it'd be controversial around here. Yep, we're just a bunch of old southerners up here in NH. We're basically Mississippi c.1843.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014 11:31 AM (4df7R)

MP4 says you are now a "Southern Belle".

*offers arm*

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (GQ8sn)

110 102 Can the use of terms by NPR like "Senate Jesus Freaks" be far off?

Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (GGCsk)

I believe the approved term is "Bible thumpers."

Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 07:32 AM (DrWcr)

111 A little mood music for Democrats facing the voters on Election Day 2014:

LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roX70PAu3oA

Symphonie Fantastique fourth movement "March to the Scaffold" Hector Berlioz

Posted by: mrp at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (JBggj)

112 Hell, the Dims managed to keep a Grand Kleagle of the KKK, Sen. Robert Byrd, in office for decades while simultaneously destroying other Southern Senators for minor missteps. That there is a talent, an evil talent, but, a talent nonetheless.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (kXoT0)

113 Sorta related. Re: Charles C.W. Cooke's article in the sidebar saying that if this vote had been held last year, all we would have heard today is that 'extreme' or 'obstructionist' Republicans had filibustered ObamaÂ’s nominee:

I just heard on the radio news that the Republicans filibustered the nomination. And that was on a Philly station where the murder happened and our Dem Mayor and DA came out against it and our PA Dem Senator voted against it.

See, can we finally put behind us the quaint idea that it really matter what we do or say?

Posted by: jeannebodine at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (2LJqa)

114 59 NPR is imbecilic. Posted by: Insomniac at March 06, 2014 11:26 AM (DrWcr) For myself, I see them as the living embodiment of Monty Pythons' "Village Idiot" competing in the "Twit of the Year" playoffs. "Wake up the neighbor....." Still, cracks me up.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (3iZoj)

115 i actually tweeted a thank you to my two idiot senators

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at March 06, 2014 07:33 AM (u8GsB)

116 OT: Chuck Hagel is speaking before House Armed Services Committee re cuts. Could there be a dumber box of hammers for SecDef?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (aUQgu)

No.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, think mink. at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (kXoT0)

117 Obama's schedule: noon - wake up 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - listen to security advisers blather on while dreaming of the golf links 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm - Golf links 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm - choom time 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm - dinner with Mooch, Beyonce and Jay-Z. Wagyu beef, buttery lobster and arugula ahoy! 6:30 pm -7:00 pm - get dressed for soul music party thing that Mooch is hosting 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Party while the world burns 11:00 pm - whenever he falls into a choom-based slumber: Reggie Time!

Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (7ObY1)

118 MP4 says you are now a "Southern Belle".
*offers arm*

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (GQ8sn)

Why I do declare! Thank you, kind sir. *accepts* Would you care to take a stroll 'round the peach orchard before having a nice tall glass of sweet tea?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (4df7R)

119 Haha....rickb223 is still getting Banhammered!!! I wondered what that was. I saw it for a few nanoseconds, and then, poof. I'd loan him some &&&&& if they'd help.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (0HooB)

120 The vote, Obama said in that statement, was Â“a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant.Â” --------------------------- Oh? 'Public Servant'? And when, exactly, did he occupy a public office? * waits patiently *

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (aDwsi)

121

I also enjoyed this press release by the leftwing "Leadership Conference" that condemned the use of the filibuster in defeating Adegbile.

http://www.civilrights.org/press/2014/debo-adegbile-filibuster.html

Posted by: dan-O at March 06, 2014 07:34 AM (D0bIN)

122 "a handful of southern democrats"

This is starting to become scary. A bald faced lie, you can dismiss until everything is a lie.

When you start to suspect they really believe what they are saying, it's delusion.
We are being governed by insanely delusional, insanely dishonest politicians, and we (the voters) are not doing anything about it.

Eventually the simple instinct for self preservation has to kick in, and you decline to ride with the obviously incapacitated driver.

Posted by: Declined to self identify at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (/hRQu)

123 Ok, maybe Sen. Coons is from Delaware. But with a name like "Coons", you know there has to be a racial component to his vote.

-libtard logic

Posted by: Adam_ME at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (J+jRf)

124 Lets burn down the NPR stations so votes like this never happen again.

Posted by: Moe Syzlac at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (zYhdB)

125 NPR: "A Handful of Southern Democrats" Joined Republicans to Block Controversial Civil Rights Appointee

Feast your eyes on all this Southern-ness.

We're all south of Canada, after all. Hellooooo, people.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (4df7R)

126 Obama is quite the two-bit Putin when it comes to running his government. He got Perez in over at Labor, and figured "Well, they took that one, let's see if we can squirt another load down their throats" and so he put up Adegbile.

Posted by: JEM at March 06, 2014 07:35 AM (o+SC1)

127 Violent crime has gone up 15% in both the past two years. I'm guessing as America dismantles all the "tough on crime" laws passed in the 90s -- the ones that brought the violent crime rate down to a record low --we'll probably see some predictable results This is predictable. Crime hit a record high in the late 80s/early 90s -- voters demanded we lock up the violent criminals. Crime falls for 2 decades straight -- and now the narrative is, oh look how mean it is to lock up the violent criminals. So we start letting them out, closing down prisons, etc, etc -- and crime almost immediately starts going up.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (ZPrif)

128 Wasn't it Genghis Khan who described himself as "a river to my people"?

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (XO6WW)

129 104 I wonder which side the Army of Northern Virginia will fight on this time?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (l3vZN)

Those of us with guns support states' rights, in general. Those without, well, I think the term useful idiots would be used by the centralized statists. Where I live there are a lot of soldiers from Ft. Belvoir and Marines at Quantico. Let's just say El Jefe would not be getting a lot of response from them.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (+/C3g)

130 Every time I pine for the old south, I head for New Hampshire. It's a slice of antebellum and the salad days of plantation life all rolled into a single state.

Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (GGCsk)

131 *cuts diamond with it*

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 11:24 AM (GQ8sn)

Well, bless your heart. Have a gander:

http://tinyurl.com/o4d9qfy

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:36 AM (zF6Iw)

132
As God is My Witness, I shall Never Vote Like a Northerner Again!

Posted by: Southern Democrat Senator from Montana at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (gorVZ)

133 Per Breitbart News: LENA DUNHAM HIRED TO PEN REALITY TV STORYLINE FOR ARCHIE COMICS Can't wait for the hot Betty-Veronica lesbo scene.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (7ObY1)

134 Would you care to take a stroll 'round the peach orchard before having a nice tall glass of sweet tea? ----------- Just some advice from a life long southerner, while taking the stroll be sure to sneer and make snide remarks at the help. Maybe slap one too, if they get uppity.

Posted by: Typical Southerner at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (Aif/5)

135 The vote, Obama said in that statement, was Â“a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant.Â” *head --------------> desk*

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (3iZoj)

136

Insty posted this, too. Apparently MWR is now a Southern belle.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 11:22 AM (zF6Iw)

*twirls parasol*

*titters behind lace handkerchief*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (4df7R)

137 " OT: Chuck Hagel is speaking before House Armed Services Committee re cuts. Could there be a dumber box of hammers for SecDef?

Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (aUQgu)

No."

Agreed

Posted by: J F'n Kerry, Shit on Shingle (SoS) at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (DPkKe)

138 Why I do declare! Thank you, kind sir. *accepts* Would you care to take a stroll 'round the peach orchard before having a nice tall glass of sweet tea?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014 11:34 AM (4df7R)

Thank you ma'am, though I can't stay too long. I must get back to running the Northern blockade of Portsmouth so I can deliver crucial war supplies to our Southern allies.

*tips hat*

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:37 AM (GQ8sn)

139 Chuck Hagel is a Republican so what do you expect and now Republicans are decimating our military budget those brave soldiers and veterans Republicans just use them for wars for oil and then discard them like tissues Chuck Hagel shame on you and shame on George Bush for making Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense and then Republicans filibustering all of President Obama's attempts to replace Hagel when will it all end they hate this country the stupid redneck racists

Posted by: Gary from Providence, Poet and Prevert at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (yhJhK)

140 While they spin fantasies out of whole cloth, the world burns. Pox upon them and their schemes.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (0z3kx)

141 NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE RADIO....

Posted by: @ChickenKievParamus at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (CkjRf)

142 Government Radio

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (ZPrif)

143

Posted by: Stu-22 at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (KbrNh)

144 Yogi and the rest of Jellystone were clearly racist cracka bears

Posted by: Boo Boo at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (Q6pxP)

145 I think that "Southern" is a code word for,Â…Â…ah, Â…..wait, it'll come ta meÂ…..

Posted by: ontherocks at March 06, 2014 07:38 AM (ACXx7)

146 Tweet, toot, whistle sounds to me.......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (HVff2)

147 LENA DUNHAM HIRED TO PEN REALITY TV STORYLINE FOR ARCHIE COMICS The fuck.....? Can't wait for the hot Betty-Veronica lesbo scene. Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 11:37 AM (7ObY1) That's the only reason I perused them.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (3iZoj)

148 Per Breitbart News:

LENA DUNHAM HIRED TO PEN REALITY TV STORYLINE FOR ARCHIE COMICS

Can't wait for the hot Betty-Veronica lesbo scene.

Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 11:37 AM (7ObY1)

They fucking ruin everything.

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (GQ8sn)

149 Harry Reid: not Southern, but possibly a pederast.

Posted by: Stu-22 at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (KbrNh)

150 I hope Gary is a sock... that diatribe is more stale than Hagel the sub-optimal bagel.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:39 AM (0z3kx)

151 For myself, I see them as the living embodiment of Monty Pythons' "Village Idiot" competing in the "Twit of the Year" playoffs.

"Wake up the neighbor....."

Still, cracks me up.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 11:33 AM (3iZoj)

Yes, unfortunately we don't have the certitude of them managing to shoot themselves in the head or managing, as Oliver did, to run himself over.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (+/C3g)

152 Can the use of terms by NPR like "Senate Jesus Freaks" be far off?

Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (GGCsk)

Great. Now jwest can add that to "bible thumper."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (zF6Iw)

153 Well, bless your heart. Have a gander:

http://tinyurl.com/o4d9qfy

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 11:36 AM (zF6Iw)

Yes.

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (GQ8sn)

154 Well, bless your heart. Have a gander: There are at least two midgets under that dress.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (0HooB)

155 Chuck Hagel is a Republican ...as in Helsinki, Sweden.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (3iZoj)

156

To me NPR is actually a key building block in the impervious house of delusion inhabited by your stereotypical urban/coastal liberal. It makes them feel "smart", its tones and feel and flavor is culturally exactly what these people have been accustomed to considering "sophisticated .... educated ...." etc. I have many acquaintances (even family) who sort of rank in the "B-C" student category of life, and are quite innocent about public policy on any serious level, but boy do they feel smarter with NPR as their guide to "correct, smart" views of the world.

I believe NPR's influence - baleful influence - is outsized. Was shocked when doing some golf trips to the upper South out of the Beltway a few years back that the only "news" on the radio was usually NPR. Shocked, and depressed. There *is* really no news in the US, not any more. It's been pretty bad for a long long time, but it has become materially, catastrophically worse in the last 15 years.

Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (afQnV)

157 Well, bless your heart. Have a gander: http://tinyurl.com/o4d9qfy Funny the things you notice..... that must be an antebellum concrete slab, complete with expansion joints, she is resting her pretty feet on.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (l3vZN)

158 *twirls parasol*

*titters behind lace handkerchief* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014
======
Last I saw, she was sitting on the front porch, flirting with the Tarleton brothers.

Posted by: mrp at March 06, 2014 07:40 AM (JBggj)

159

Why I do declare! Thank you, kind sir. *accepts* Would you care to take a stroll 'round the peach orchard before having a nice tall glass of sweet tea?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014 11:34 AM (4df7R)

Close, MWR, but you would still be outed as a Yankee by this phrase. It's simply a nice tall glass of tea. The fact that it is sweet is a given.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (+/C3g)

160 I remember driving through North Dakota on the way to Texas one time. Quite a sight it was, seeing all the black slaves stuffing canola seeds into 11-foot sacks. I think Leadbelly wrote a song about it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (yDmQD)

161 MWR re: Vivian Leigh.

Well fiddly dee

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (0z3kx)

162 Southerner here, born and bred- I despise this bigotry against us.

And Duh!1 is still a dunce.
At best....

Posted by: backhoe at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (ULH4o)

163 >>Every time I pine for the old south, I head for New Hampshire. It's a slice of antebellum and the salad days of plantation life all rolled into a single state. Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 11:36 AM (GGCsk) It was -14 in my little slice of NH when I got out of work this AM.

Posted by: ontherocks at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (ACXx7)

164 Oh? 'Public Servant'? And when, exactly, did he occupy a public office?

* waits patiently *

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 11:34 AM (aDwsi)

You should see someone about your pathological obsession with, like, actual facts and stiff.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (8ZskC)

165 Comics mostly went hard left decades ago. It's a tiny industry run almost entirely from mid-town Manhattan. The writing reflects that cultural bubble.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:41 AM (ZPrif)

166 Well, Delaware was a slave state, West Virginia is a bunch of backwoods hillbillies, Indiana had the largest incursion of the Klan at one point...

Posted by: Schmuck Bait at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (/Crba)

167
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Posted by: Rhett Butler at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (gorVZ)

168 Yes, unfortunately we don't have the certitude of them managing to shoot themselves in the head or managing, as Oliver did, to run himself over. Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 11:40 AM (+/C3g) LOL. I know, I know...... *fantasizes mass leftist suicide orgy* I'll be in my bunk.....

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (3iZoj)

169 So what is the Secretariat of State up to today?

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (jlm/B)

170 Every time I pine for the old south, I head for New Hampshire. It's a slice of antebellum and the salad days of plantation life all rolled into a single state.

Posted by: Marcus T. at March 06, 2014 11:36 AM (GGCsk)

You should see it when the magnolias are in bloom. It's magical.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (4df7R)

171
The audio linked says "Handful of Senate Democrats", not Southern.

Misquote or stealth edit?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (kdS6q)

172 This sounds about accurate. I engaged a lefty family member re: healthcare, pointing out the problems of making it "free." (That is someone has to pay for it.) I discussed economic incentives (i.e. Friedman's "four ways you spend money.") concerns about payer base (i.e. it'll be to small if government takes it over) and a few other random things. The response "Racist." And since said family member looks like a photograph negative of me, people assume they have authority on such issues of bias. Pffffttt. I'm not a racist by any stretch of the imagination. Economic elitist, sure. Racist, no.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (hq5sb)

173 Aw, the MSM, bless their hearts.

Posted by: flounder at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (Kkt/i)

174 NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE RADIO.... Posted by: @ChickenKiev --------------------------- True, but simultaneously, National Propaganda Radio

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (aDwsi)

175 NPR translated: You hurt Barky, we paint you a racist hick.

Posted by: Sphynx at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (OZmbA)

176 ok how do i find a aos user script .
because. i don't have a clue what i'm trying to actually find when looking.
is there a page for that?

Posted by: willow at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (nqBYe)

177 Let's be fair, a handful of Southern Democrats DID vote against. NPR just didn't bother to mention the other hand was even fuller of Northerners. Editing me boys, editing!

Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 06, 2014 07:42 AM (Em6d4)

178 Can't wait for the hot Betty-Veronica lesbo scene.

I have a weird feeling in Lena Dunham's world, both Betty and Veronica are butch, and Moose is trying to open my squeakhole

Posted by: Jugghead at March 06, 2014 07:43 AM (Q6pxP)

179 138 @ Gary

Don't want to nitpick, but Hagel was appointed by the SCOAMF (and confirmed) approx one year ago. Gates was SecDef under Bush.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:43 AM (aUQgu)

180 Its those proud Norwegian-Americans and their flags. You can't expect the mental giants at NPR to be able to tell the difference between the star and bars and the flag of Norway, can you?

Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at March 06, 2014 07:44 AM (mJFYI)

181 NPR should be cut off from any taxpayer money. NPR does fine in the marketplace and would succeed if cast free. We don't need Government Radio. Millions of people choose to listen to NPR. They'd choose to do so even after it became a private, left-wing radio and not a public, left-wing Government Radio.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:44 AM (ZPrif)

182

Can't wait for the hot Betty-Veronica lesbo scene.
Posted by: Citizen X at March 06, 2014 11:37 AM (7ObY1)

rule34.xxx. Trust me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:44 AM (zF6Iw)

183 You know what will cure these raycist Senators

Raise the gas tax, impose a carbon-tax scheme.

Posted by: Tom Friedman at March 06, 2014 07:44 AM (Q6pxP)

184 I ask'd Barky if Putin was a gun clinger like those southern poles. He said, Â“Yes, and he put me in a judo hold; then bent me over.Â”

I twisted BarkyÂ’s arm behind his back and bent him over. Then I said, "Did he ram it up your button hole like this,Â” as I gave him the shaft.

Barky said, Â“Yes, but he didnÂ’t use any grease!Â”

Posted by: Barney F. at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (zGaZT)

185 I'm betting Dunham characters will have tattoos.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (aDwsi)

186 Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 11:40 AM (afQnV) NPR is a testing ground for possible larger initiatives. If the NPR crowd (which is a mix of mostly liberals with a few faux intellectuals mixed in) balks, then it's pulled back. Which reminds me, NPR's been floating trial balloons on "telecommuting fairness." based on the idea that I guess women are less likely to telecommute than men (sure whatever.) So expect that this fall with the WAR ON WOMYNZ shit.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (hq5sb)

187 177 Can't wait for the hot Betty-Veronica lesbo scene. I have a weird feeling in Lena Dunham's world, both Betty and Veronica are butch, and Moose is trying to open my squeakhole Posted by: Jugghead at March 06, 2014 11:43 AM (Q6pxP) --- Nope, Archie's the bitch while Jughead is the butch. He wears that crown lookin' hat cause he's the king of Queen Archie's world!

Posted by: Hooper X at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (/Crba)

188

National Palestinian Radio

National Pacifist Radio

I have been on NPR air just twice. Once was sort of apolitical international-ish semi-narrow technical stuff about a foreign country's aerospace industry. The other was a full half-hour on the local live interview show. The second was quite illustrative. The show is normally a call-in show. The host, after a few minutes, got a very concerned look on his face, and signaled his producer that there would be no calls.

I am 100% certain it was because he was terrified what I would do to his typical callers, who no doubt were sputtering with outrage and disbelief at what they were hearing (a very straightforward, factual, direct-experience account and explanation of one of the major ongoing elements in one of our two wars following 9/11).

It's all there - the delusional framework, the (baseless) moral and intellectual certitude, the inability to deal with contrary (i.e. real) information or analysis.

Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (afQnV)

189 If Nodak and Montana are in the south, that means WI must be in the deep south. Hey y'all!

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 06, 2014 07:45 AM (sjdRT)

190 Lena Dunham's Veronica will be dumpy & short, just like her.

Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (GSIDW)

191 And I can almost guarantee that the current Republicans will never cut NPR's funding.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (ZPrif)

192 The Canadian border is the new Mason-Dixon line.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (S+el1)

193 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 11:44 AM (ZPrif) IIRC it could still run as a 501Csomething (3?) and people could get their tax breaks for donating to it.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (hq5sb)

194 If Nodak and Montana are in the south, that means WI must be in the deep south. Hey y'all!

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 06, 2014 11:45 AM (sjdRT)

Do you put cheese on your grits?

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (GQ8sn)

195 "I also enjoyed this press release by the leftwing "Leadership Conference" that condemned the use of the filibuster in defeating Adegbile." I e-mailed that tool listed at the top in very neutral language to see what he says.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 06, 2014 07:46 AM (gBnkX)

196 Don't want to nitpick, but Hagel was appointed by the SCOAMF (and confirmed) approx one year ago. Gates was SecDef under Bush. I'm reasonably certain Gary is a sock. Not sure who, but it could be Mary Cloggenstein's cousin.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (0HooB)

197 115 OT: Chuck Hagel is speaking before House Armed Services Committee re cuts. Could there be a dumber box of hammers for SecDef?
***

Short of making Biden moonlight the position? No. That's why he's there.

I can't wait to hear a guy who sounds like a village idiot with a fresh head wound explain why we're cutting the military down to nothing while the world is going batshit crazy.

Posted by: B at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (5OEha)

198 >Do you put cheese on your grits?

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 11:46 AM (GQ8sn)<

Don't all y'all?

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (sjdRT)

199 A little mood music for Democrats facing the voters on Election Day 2014:

LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roX70PAu3oA

Symphonie Fantastique fourth movement "March to the Scaffold" Hector Berlioz

Posted by: mrp
.................

As some of us have been saying for quite some time.. give the Dims enough rope...

In addition to O'Care, we need our candidates to keep hitting their Dem opponents on these votes and keep stressing their relationship with Prezzy Bozo who makes these appointments.

The same goes for EPA regs that the Dems now have realized are also gonna hurt them in the fall.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (Z7PrM)

200 189 If Nodak and Montana are in the south, that means WI must be in the deep south. Hey y'all! --- You're honorary Southerners, what with the beer-drinking, sausage, and football worship. We sent you your lord and savior, Brett Favre, before he retired for three days and then rose again as a Jet.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (/Crba)

201 Lena Dunham's Veronica will be dumpy & short, just like her.

And look like Ernie from Sesame Street.

And constantly take off her clothes.

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 07:47 AM (GQ8sn)

202 Don't want to nitpick, but Hagel was appointed by the SCOAMF (and confirmed) approx one year ago. Gates was SecDef under Bush. Posted by: NCwoof ----------- I wrote a long-ish letter to Kay Hagan, explaining why I did not not want Hagel appointed. In return, I received solicitations for campaign money.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 07:48 AM (aDwsi)

203 160 MWR re: Vivian Leigh. Well fiddly dee Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 11:41 AM (0z3kx) That was one of my Mothers' favorite exclamations. Never knew where it came from until I saw GWTW (her favorite movie) for the first time, just recently. It was never on TV when I was kid and missed all the more recent opportunities to see it. She laughed.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 07:48 AM (3iZoj)

204 Last I saw, she was sitting on the front porch, flirting with the Tarleton brothers. They're all dead ... Land of Cotton Zombies!!!!!

Posted by: Adriane... at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (qoKTg)

205 Technically I'm in central NH. During the War Between the States my family was torn apart by those who wanted to fight for the Billy Yanks up in Colebrook and those who wanted to fight for the Johnny Rebs down in Concord. Oh, the woe!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (4df7R)

206 191 And I can almost guarantee that the current Republicans will never cut NPR's funding.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 11:46 AM (ZPrif)

Big government benefits the establishment right every bit as much as it benefits the left.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (BZAd3)

207 "And I can almost guarantee that the current Republicans will never cut ~~NPR's~~ anyone's funding." For completeness.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (gBnkX)

208 Thanks EC, so much for any concept of lunch...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (0z3kx)

209

Do you put cheese on your grits?

Cheeze Whiz

Posted by: Philly Grits at March 06, 2014 07:49 AM (A0sHn)

210 196 BB

Thx for the warning. Need all the help I can get.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:51 AM (aUQgu)

211 OT: Rutgers University leftists are having shit-fits that Condi Rice will be speaking at this year's commencement. Racist!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 07:51 AM (olDqf)

212

Since we're talking things Southern, I'll repeat my favorite Gone With the Wind story:

The author, Margaret Mitchell, was an honored guest at the film's premiere in Atlanta, seated next to Gable. When she saw the train station sequence, with hundreds of wounded extras stretching to the horizon and filling the frame, she turned to him and whispered, "Mah Gawd, if we'd-a had as many soldiers as that, we'd-a won the wah!"

Here's the scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us6LpxSkKYo

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (zF6Iw)

213 North Dakota hushpuppies are the bomb!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (BAS5M)

214 NPR's business model involves subsidies at the federal, state, and local level. Many/Most NPR stations are run out of universities. The operating costs are paid for by the university (student tuitions and fees). Typical it is run and staffed by student volunteers as well. The station pays no rent. The NPR stations also typically have just been granted prime spectrum on the radio dial (it's always in that 88.5-99.1 range -- very convenient). And they also are typically granted free license to broadcast at extremely high power levels -- meaning huge range to maximizing listeners. NPR sells their programming to the stations. Each station pays NPR a large fee for the right to broadcast NPR content. That fee is paid by the university. Also the huge electricity costs are paid for by the university. Any shortfall is paid by listener donations.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (ZPrif)

215 Q. What is the difference between a troupe of baboons and Leftist protesters?

A. The baboons will actually bathe.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (0z3kx)

216 And I can almost guarantee that the current Republicans will never cut NPR's funding. Posted by: Flatbush
.............
NPR doesn't get any direct funding.

The member stations do and pay some fees back to NPR for carrying it.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 06, 2014 07:52 AM (Z7PrM)

217 As always down here in Florida, we support our Confederate brothers from New Hampshire to North Dakota. When shots are fired we will be right behind you. Way right.

Posted by: Beagle at March 06, 2014 07:53 AM (sOtz/)

218 Posted by: NCwoof It's a joke wrapped in a sock. Unlike the NPR which is a Libel wrapped in a lie wrapped in Lucifer's smile.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 07:53 AM (NouFn)

219 I just sent to npr.org. No story about it on the main page.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at March 06, 2014 07:53 AM (V70Uh)

220 That was one of my Mothers' favorite exclamations. Never knew where it came from until I saw GWTW (her favorite movie) for the first time, just recently. I gotcha beat: Mumsy Dearest actually thought she was Scarlett and demanded to be treated the same way. Did I mention she was batshit crazy?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:53 AM (0HooB)

221 Hagen and Landrieu voted for confirmation... Must mean that North Carolina and Louisiana are now northern states.

Posted by: NPR at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (8mJcI)

222 WWII trivia - Margaret Mitchell commissioned in December 1941 after Pearl Harbor the anti-aircraft cruiser USS Atlanta.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (0z3kx)

223 209 Do you put cheese on your grits? Cheeze Whiz Posted by: Philly Grits at March 06, 2014 11:49 AM (A0sHn) "Wit or wit-out?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (olDqf)

224 Technically both DE and MD are in the south. They are both south of the Mason Dixon line.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (32Ze2)

225 202 MikeH

Funny you mention Ms Hagan. Called her office before DOJ Civil Rights appointment vote, kinda sorta thinking she might use her head and vote no. Maybe she is dumber than Hagel after all.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (aUQgu)

226 Close, MWR, but you would still be outed as a Yankee by this phrase. It's simply a nice tall glass of tea. The fact that it is sweet is a given. I always used as my landmark when "sweet tea" changed to "sweetened tea". Which, as I doubt many present need reminding, are two very different beverages.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 06, 2014 07:54 AM (naUcP)

227 I wrote a long-ish letter to Kay Hagan, explaining why I did not not want Hagel appointed. In return, I received solicitations for campaign money. Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 11:48 AM (aDwsi) Good Lord Mr. Hammer, it's a good thing you didn't ask for anything more personal than that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2014 07:55 AM (HVff2)

228 Time for a pig pickin!

Posted by: 26 degrees in N. D. at March 06, 2014 07:55 AM (IXrOn)

229 215 Q. What is the difference between a troupe of baboons and Leftist protesters? A. The baboons will actually bathe. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 11:52 AM (0z3kx) Also, intelligence, beauty and common sense.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 07:55 AM (olDqf)

230 What NPR doesn't know and we do know is that under President GOP'er, their funding will be Executive Ordered and their anchors will be IRS'ed.

Posted by: Lois Lerner at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (LISuA)

231

Last I saw, she was sitting on the front porch, flirting with the Tarleton brothers.

After they left, the Gatlin brothers came a-callin'. And there were three of them.

Posted by: Kenny Rogers at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (BAS5M)

232 A Rush Limbaugh channel, meanwhile, has to pay for its license, pay for it's operating costs, pay actual employees to run things, pay electricity to braodcast -- and pay to license Rush (via Premiere Radio Networks, I thinks, who syndicates Rush). It has to pay rent on its offices and broadcast towers. It has to pay for everything involved in running a radio station. NPR stations don't.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (ZPrif)

233 Is there anything better than ND Fried Chicken and Waffles?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (32Ze2)

234 201 Lena Dunham's Veronica will be dumpy short, just like her. And look like Ernie from Sesame Street. And constantly take off her clothes. -- Betty will look like Ronan Farrow. Sound like him too.

Posted by: votermom at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (GSIDW)

235 The "typical Southerner" started disapaearing when the Dixie Highway was put together and the Yankees started driving down to watch alligator wrestling while decked out in Bermuda shorts, black socks, and sandals.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (T2V/1)

236 Being from Missouri, there does seem to be a dividing line between those who pronounce it Missouree vs Missourah. Personally, since all my peeps got here long after that war ended I never felt much need to choose sides.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2014 07:56 AM (pt9WM)

237 Nood

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (bCEmE)

238 I'm fixin' to pretend that all that stuff hanging off the trees 'round heah is Spanish moss instead of icicles. BRB.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (sjdRT)

239

I wrote a long-ish letter to Kay Hagan, explaining why I did not not want Hagel appointed. In return, I received solicitations for campaign money.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 11:48 AM (aDwsi)

I've sent letters and emails to Shaheen and Ayotte at various times. Every time I do I always start off and finish the letter with a statement along the lines of, "Look, I know this is being read by a staffer and isn't ever going to get to its intended recipient, so just sum up my points and stuff them under her door or tack them to her forehead with a Post-It note, okay?"

Depending on how I'm feeling, I may or may not use some profanity.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/u][/b][/i] at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (4df7R)

240 I'm sure that this was an honest mistake, confusing District 12 for District 8. The writer must've just gotten confused while rushing from the in-office wellness center to the gourmet cafe.

http://tinyurl.com/lskgqyg

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (aq/zi)

241

NPR says "A handful of *Senate* Democrats..." Not "Southern."

I had already posted a snarky comment over there before the error was pointed out. Either they re-recorded the opening, or NRO and the rest of us didn't hear it correctly.

It was still an awful, race-baiting report for other reasons.

Posted by: CJ at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (9KqcB)

242 Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2014 11:56 AM (pt9WM) If you're a statewide politician you have to swap seamlessly between both to pander accordingly.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (hq5sb)

243 NPR is entirely dependent on taxpayer money. It's BS to say -- oh, no, we give millions to the university radio stations, who then pay millions in license fees to NPR -- there's no tax subsidy to NPR. That's stupid. Come on.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 06, 2014 07:57 AM (ZPrif)

244 It's obviously because Condi Rice is black that the lib professors at Rutgers don't want her to appear. I mean, there is no other possible explanation. Just out and out racism. Those Rutgers profs are known for their racism. It's genetically proven that they're racist.

Posted by: Sphynx at March 06, 2014 07:58 AM (OZmbA)

245 Well fiddly dee
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 11:41 AM (0z3kx)

That was one of my Mothers' favorite exclamations. Never knew where it came from until I saw GWTW (her favorite movie) for the first time, just recently.

It was never on TV when I was kid and missed all the more recent opportunities to see it. She laughed.

My mother's was Hells, bells, and shithouse mouse.

Go figure.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 06, 2014 07:58 AM (DQZLr)

246

Anna, nice to see you so early in the day, with some WWII trivia. The USS Atlanta was one of the many casualties of the several Naval Battles of Guadalcanal, for which all interested must rush out and buy Hornfischer's "Neptune's Inferno". All his books are very good, but that one is literally a page-turner (at least for WWII geeks).

Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 07:58 AM (afQnV)

247
NPR doesn't get any direct funding.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry

Like PBS, the Feds use the CPB as a bagman to fund NPR. And:

The CPB's annual budget is composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds. For fiscal year 2012, its appropriation was $445.2 million.

Thanks John!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 06, 2014 07:58 AM (kdS6q)

248 223 209 Do you put cheese on your grits? Cheeze Whiz Posted by: Philly Grits at March 06, 2014 11:49 AM (A0sHn) "Wit or wit-out?" Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 06, 2014 11:54 AM (olDqf) Are they Magic Grits?

Posted by: Vinney at March 06, 2014 07:59 AM (84gbM)

249

OT for a moment, but Ukraine has reared its ugly head again.

Thankfully, Barack Obama is on the case, along with the super-serious David Cameron. Happily Patrick Stewart is listening in to their call, as is a goat.

http://bit.ly/1lBWMz8

Posted by: MTF at March 06, 2014 08:00 AM (LISuA)

250 NPR is entirely dependent on taxpayer money. It's BS to say -- oh, no, we give millions to the university radio stations, who then pay millions in license fees to NPR -- there's no tax subsidy to NPR. That's stupid. Come on. Posted by: Flatbush Joe
..........
It's a technicality. Yes, I agree NPR would not be in business without government funds.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 06, 2014 08:00 AM (Z7PrM)

251 I gotcha beat: Mumsy Dearest actually thought she was Scarlett and demanded to be treated the same way. Did I mention she was batshit crazy? Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 06, 2014 Now, that would suck. Mom (devout Roman Catholic) was one step away from becoming a nun, she couldn't take one vow. Guess which one? *raises hand and spikes football* Anyway, 6 months later (preemie) I show up. I never understood what she liked in that scheming, self-centered b*tch. Maybe she just liked Rhett telling her off at the end. I know I did. I can imagine a full theater, of the time, giving a standing ovation.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 08:01 AM (3iZoj)

252 the inmates are running the asylum.

Posted by: seamrog at March 06, 2014 08:01 AM (Zt034)

253 242 - Heh, I have noticed that. It creeps me out, and demonstrates just how phony these people really are.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 06, 2014 08:02 AM (pt9WM)

254 I always used as my landmark when "sweet tea" changed to "sweetened tea". Which, as I doubt many present need reminding, are two very different beverages.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 06, 2014 11:54 AM (naUcP)

I read an article once about a restaurant near Atlanta that went through ~80 gallons of iced tea per week, 80% of which was sweet iced tea. The article also mentioned the restaurant used 50-60 pounds of sugar per week for the sweet tea. I did a little math and figured out the appropriate ratio was about a pound of sugar per gallon of sweet tea, and made it accordingly.

And for all of you northerners, there's a reason why you get a disgusted look on your face if you offer someone who wants sweet iced tea a glass of regular iced tea and a bowl of sugar. Properly made sweet tea is supersaturated by adding and dissolving the sugar while the tea is hot. You can never dissolve the proper amount of sugar into the tea after it has been chilled.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 06, 2014 08:02 AM (+/C3g)

255 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014 11:57 AM (4df7R) I wrote to McCaskill once. About Lawfare. I got a generic "I hold town halls for free speech!" back. So I immediately wrote back how offended I was that my letter couldn't even be sorted properly and that no response was better than a wrong response. Netted me a phone call from her. Which foolishly I didn't pick up (because I expected black helicopters and my wife being fired.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at March 06, 2014 08:02 AM (hq5sb)

256

UPDATE: NPR apparently re-recorded the opening to change "Southern Democrats" to "Senate Democrats."

The also changed the reference to the nominee from "her" to "him." They had gotten the gender wrong. STILL, the report remains a race-baiting mess. Police v. Minorities.

Posted by: CJ at March 06, 2014 08:02 AM (9KqcB)

257 "My mother's was Hells, bells, and shithouse mouse. Go figure." Mine's was "shit and run backwards." God, I miss dear ol' Mom.....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 06, 2014 08:03 AM (gOoFi)

258 Obama is so very focused on Ukraine that his Daily Security Briefing was mysteriously missing from today's and yesterday's published schedule.

Not even *trying* to appear to govern at this point.
Hope he enjoys the golf in Key West this weekend!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2014 08:03 AM (aq/zi)

259 "Neptune's Inferno". All his books are very good, but that one is literally a page-turner (at least for WWII geeks). *jumps up and down on chair* Ooo...ooo...ooo..me ...me ...me!!!

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 06, 2014 08:04 AM (3iZoj)

260 My mom's favorites was "Oh, shit!" and "He/she/they must be on drugs!"

Yeah....and I use both of heavily.
In my defense, though, a lot of people now are on drugs in CO.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 06, 2014 08:05 AM (aq/zi)

261 "Not even *trying* to appear to govern at this point." That would require some heavy lifting and we know Barry ain't into that. Besides, nobody gonna call him on it. Congressional GOP? Media? Nope.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 06, 2014 08:06 AM (gOoFi)

262 non-purist, actually Neptune's Inferno has a couple interesting omissions that puzzle me.

On D Day of Operation Watchtower, he mentions the transport Elliot getting hit and having to be sunk. But he omits any mention of the destroyer USS Jarvis, which was assigned as an escort for the transports, which was hit in the same air attack by a torpedo. The ship is not even listed in the Index.

Then later in August Admiral Turner dispatched USS Blue and USS Henley to disrupt the Tokyo Express. Again Hornfischer does not mention this battle or the loss of USS Blue to a Japanese torpedo.

So the book, while valuable, has issues.

Source: United States Destroyer Actions in World War II by Theodore Roscoe. United States Naval Institute Press 1953.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 06, 2014 08:08 AM (0z3kx)

263 Before dashing off to "Nood!", I will point out that Margaret Mitchell died when she was run down by a cab.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 06, 2014 08:09 AM (aDwsi)

264

98ZJUSMC, well then, go thee (at some point) and borrow/buy all of Hornfischer's books, or at least: Neptune's Inferno, Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Leyte Gulf), and Ghost Ship (USS Houston, story of her POW survivors). And stay alert for Anna's WWII arcana, esp. on the ONT (others, too, occasionally even my own small self).

Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 08:10 AM (afQnV)

265 I got me a hankerin for some deep fried lukefisk . Mmmm mmmm! Uff da y'all

Posted by: Dick "I'm a Dick" Durbin at March 06, 2014 08:12 AM (9ng2u)

266 I believe there was a story a few years ago pointing out that a number of popular "Public" NPR shows like Bill Moyer's had all rights assigned to the original creators. If I get this right: Moyers creates popular Leftist show, NPR pays him to air it on NPR stations, Moyers retains all rights and then receives millions in royalties on shows he is being paid by taxpayer money to make taxpayers buy. Moyers makes even more on reruns overseas and merchandise. Moyers refuses interviews on subject.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 08:12 AM (L9et0)

267 Margaret Mitchell was not hit by a cab. She was hit by a "cab driver" in his private auto. He was also drunk at the time, speeding, and driving on the wrong side of the road.

He only served 11 months in jail for killing her.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 06, 2014 08:14 AM (T2V/1)

268 Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

Posted by: Goatweed at March 06, 2014 08:30 AM (8HrdX)

269 O'Hussein's reaction to this vote says more about him than anything else he's said or written.

Posted by: Jules at March 06, 2014 11:25 AM (omBWL)

He's really pissy about this because he takes everything personally. If we had a real opposition party, they could take advantage of that.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 06, 2014 08:32 AM (NI2j4)

270 I'm loving the way the lefties who for years said all the racists left the Southern Democrats for the GOP are now blaming racist Southern Democrats...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 06, 2014 08:33 AM (XO6WW)

271 believe there was a story a few years ago pointing out that a number of popular "Public" NPR shows like Bill Moyer's had all rights assigned to the original creators. If I get this right: Moyers creates popular Leftist show, NPR pays him to air it on NPR stations, Moyers retains all rights and then receives millions in royalties on shows he is being paid by taxpayer money to make taxpayers buy. Moyers makes even more on reruns overseas and merchandise.
Moyers refuses interviews on subject.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 06, 2014 12:12 PM (L9et0)

Somebody at Weekly Standard did it. Billy Boy was not happy about it.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 06, 2014 08:34 AM (NI2j4)

272 #270 "He's really pissy about this because he takes everything personally. If we had a real opposition party, they could take advantage of that."

"I AM an opposition party! I'm TOTALLY opposed to the my base!" Â— John Boehner

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 06, 2014 08:35 AM (XO6WW)

273 Anna, thanks, and noted. While you are surely correct, I still think Neptune's Inferno covers the major naval actions - and puts them in context, an interesting context indeed in those early days of the war.

Posted by: non-purist at March 06, 2014 08:41 AM (afQnV)

274 I'm just stunned at how many people have a working knowledge of the Rural Southern Indiana Redneck culture. It really is a unique place.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 06, 2014 08:44 AM (MuoQy)

275 108 Adegbile defended a black man, and we don't like
black people; that's the only reason it'd be controversial around here.
Yep, we're just a bunch of old southerners up here in NH. We're
basically Mississippi c.1843.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 06, 2014 11:31 AM (4df7R)
MP4 says you are now a "Southern Belle".
*offers arm*

Posted by: EC at March 06, 2014 11:32 AM (GQ8sn)

While we can't all be lucky enough to be born Southern Belle's, I hereby nominatify you all as Southern by the grace of my proclamation today.

Proclamation of Dame Christy, Queen, Sixth of March 2014 Eleventy

Note: Yankee Long Island husband, with last name no Southerner could initially pronounce much less spell, considers himself "Southern by the grace of God"(and me). We moved to Floriduh to be closer to my family in Mississippi when the boys were small. Husband now eats grits more than I do and says he is "fixin'" to do stuff. Good man I captured across enemy lines. I have trained him well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Redneck Queen at March 06, 2014 08:48 AM (baL2B)

276 They can paint it how they want, but this has more to do with public employees unions. Who wants to be on the s-list of the Fraternal Order of Police during an election year?

Posted by: Terri at March 06, 2014 08:50 AM (4uSYN)

277 The commenters on the pjmedia article noted that the podcast audio too had been changed from "Southern" to "Senate Democrats". Seriously, how ethical is that to alter an audio recording without noting the correction. These libs at NPR are spineless.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 06, 2014 09:03 AM (9eDbm)

278 Yuo should check out the comments on Sen. Toomey's Facebook page. 90 percent are from folks thanking him for leading the effort against Adigbile, 10 percent are from raving lunatic leftists (BIRM) blaming the Koch Brothers and Fox News for the defeat. It's simply amazing.

Posted by: Frank Black at March 06, 2014 09:27 AM (YmPwQ)

279 By saying "blocked" I think they want people to infer the nomination wasn't voted on but kept from being voted on. The democrats didn't let GHWB nominee for the EEOC who happened to be black even out of Senate committee even though he had enough votes in the democrat controlled Senate to be confirmed. The media's reaction was silence!

Posted by: zefal at March 06, 2014 09:31 AM (2krBY)

280 241 NPR says "A handful of *Senate* Democrats..." Not "Southern." I had already posted a snarky comment over there before the error was pointed out. Either they re-recorded the opening, or NRO and the rest of us didn't hear it correctly. It was still an awful, race-baiting report for other reasons. Why would they specify "senate democrats"? I think that's a nifty trick in the hopes people will think that's what happened. Why would they specify the senate when NPR wouldn't fathom their listeners not knowing that presidential appointments are confirmed by the senate?

Posted by: zefal at March 06, 2014 09:35 AM (2krBY)

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