From the Mean-Spirited to the Asinine: 7 Prime Examples of Right-Wing Lunacy This Week

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/mean-spirited-asinine-7-prime-examples-right-wing-lunacy-week



1. Ken Blackwell: Cutting Food Stamps, Oh So Christian

Obviously, the adjective “Christian” has gone through a lot of permutations since Jesus died. Now, apparently Christian means purposely not helping people who are down-and-out. That’s the interpretation that Family Research Council fellow Ken Blackwell was going with when he said this week that “nothing is more Christian” than the massive ($40 billion) cuts to food stamps passed last week by House Republicans.

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2. Bill O’Reilly: Jesus Died For Our Taxes

Speaking of Jesus, religious history scholar and messianic Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly has penned, or had his ghost pen, a new rant called Killing Jesus: A History. And it turns out, and this is really going to surprise you, that Jesus was a Tea Partier.

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3. AIG CEO: My Plight Is Similar to Lynch Mob Victims

Robert Benmosche, CEO of the insurance giant AIG made a headscratchingly, off-base comparison in recent comments that were reported, and yet completely glossed over, in last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. He compared the anger over the fact that he and other executives received huge bonuses even as the government was bailing them out, and despite the fact that AIG was one of the prime causes of the economic collapse — to the racist anger of lynch mobs in the south.

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4. Gohmert’s Pile (of Crap) – Obamacare and Immigration Are Plots to Deprive Real Americans of Full-time Jobs

Shockingly, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert spewed some more ridiculousness this week. His is an active brain and he always has a theory cooking. Here’s the new brew: Democrats are using the health care reform law and an immigration bill to deprive red-blooded Americans of their full-time jobs and replace them with (presumably non-red-blooded) immigrants.

[KansDem]

1. They just say whatever comes into their lame pea-brains, anymore...

They really don't think about what they're saying, do they?

Before the coming of Big Media, these folks would have been relegated to the attic...

[xchrom]

3. there's no 'edit function' in their brains. nt

[Arkansas Granny]

2. From the people who rewrite history and the bible to match their delusional worldview,

this is not too surprising. They've been doing it for years, if not centuries.

[trusty elf]

4. F*ck it!

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