Showing posts with label Reince Priebus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reince Priebus. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 04, 2016
#TedCruzLies ... But Says He's Sorry
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Ted Cruz is lying again.
After last week’s Voter Violation mailer — see post HERE — where he seemed to be shaming Iowans to vote by alleging that their voting records will be shown to their neighbors, this week, right before the caucus, his campaign announced that rival Ben Carson was quitting the race.
But that was a lie; Carson wasn’t quitting; Carson never said he was quitting:
"I think whoever is responsible for blatant lying should be dismissed, absolutely. Unless that kind of behavior is acceptable in your campaign culture."
Well, it’s acceptable in a Ted Cruz Campaign. And before anyone thinks this might be Carson just crying foul because he doesn’t have a shot at ever being president, ask yourself why Ted Cruz is now, after the caucus, apologizing for the, er, mistake? And why is Ted Cruz blaming CNN for the error, saying his campaign staff saw a CNN report that Carson was dropping out:
"Last night when our political team saw the CNN post saying that Dr. Carson was not carrying on to New Hampshire and South Carolina, our campaign updated grassroots leaders just as we would with any breaking news story. That's fair game. What the team then should have done was send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out."
See what he does? Cruz says his “people” saw it on CNN — though CNN never used the words “dropping out,” but simply reported that Carson planned to go home to Florida after Iowa, rather than heading to New Hampshire or South Carolina — and then he blames Carson and his campaign for not clarifying the CNN story.
Seriously, Ted, er, DetesTed? The CNN story was clear until you grabbed hold of it and mangled it into a lie.
Carson said he accepts Cruz’ apology, but wonders, as do I — and look at me, agreeing with Ben Carson — if there is a deeper issue within Cruz’ campaign:
"As a Christian I will accept the apology but it doesn't correct the problem. This is a cultural issue when people in your campaign feel that it's ok to distort the issues to their political advantage and to tell absolute lies. And the question really is will there be any consequences for that."
That’s Ted Cruz; he will blatantly lie to win; he’ll lie to the voters and try to shame them into voting for him, and he’ll lie about an opponent quitting so he can scoop up their leftovers.
And even Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee Chairman, seems to find it acceptable behavior and has refused to get involved. A GOP candidate for the highest office in the land is a proven liar and the boss sits on his hands.
Yup, that’s the GOP.
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Random Musings
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Is it really weird that I thought Jesse Eisenberg looked kinda hot in Now You See Me? |
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013
The RNC Foot-Stomps Over Planned NBC/CNN Hillary Films
You know what’s funny? The mere mention of the words “Hillary
Clinton” and “White House” sends the GOP into a tailspin, chasing their
collective tails and barking at imaginary doorbells.
Yesterday, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince
Priebus sent pissy, put-on-your-big-boy-pants letters to both NBC and CNN because
both networks have recently announced plans to produce, respectively, a film
and a documentary on the life of former Secretary of State Clinton.
And Priebus and the RNC see these programs—both of which
will air before the presidential campaign begins—as a kind of campaign contribution
to the Hillary Clinton campaign that has yet to even be verified or announced.
The mere mention of Hillary sends the GOP running and
pissing like a mad dog.
So, Priebus has decided that if either network airs their
Clinton programs than the GOP will formally bar Republicans from partnering
with the networks on any primary or Presidential debates in 2016.
To CNN, Priebus wrote:
I find CNN’s actions disturbing and disappointing. Your credibility as a supposedly unbiased news network will most certainly be jeopardized by the decision to show political favoritism and produce an extended commercial for Secretary Clinton’s nascent campaign.
And to NBC, he said:
I find this disturbing and disappointing. NBC cannot purport to be a neutral party in American politics, and the credibility of NBC News, already damaged by the partisanship of MSNBC, will be further undermined by the actions of NBC Universal executives who have taken it upon themselves to produce an extended commercial for Secretary Clinton’s nascent campaign.
To be fair, most major entertainment
networks—like NBC—and most news networks—like CNN—rarely produce mini-series or
documentaries about major figures in politics yet, the idea of a Clinton story is
an interesting one. It's a good one, too, as she has been on the forefront
of American politics since her husband became president in 1992.
Still, and I keep going back to this, just how scared of
Hillary is the GOP? I mean, they’re acting like Clinton, who has never said she
was running for president, has already won the office before the race had even
begun.
Hmmm, maybe they’re onto something …..
Here are the full letters:
CNN1Hmmm, maybe they’re onto something …..
Here are the full letters:
NBC
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Friday, July 26, 2013
I Didn't Say It ....
"I don’t know if I’ve
used the word ‘tolerance,’ I don’t really care for that word myself. I don’t
have a problem with it, I just think it has another meaning politically that
can go the other direction. I happen to believe that our principles are sound.
I do believe, and I still will tell you that our party believes that marriage
is between one man and one woman. Our party believes that life begins at conception.
I think those are foundational issues that aren’t going anywhere but what I
have said, which I don’t think should be controversial at all and I would think
that Christians and pastors and everyone in between should agree that our
principles have to be draped in the concepts of grace, love and respect and
that’s not code language, that’s the New Testament. ... So ‘tolerance’ — maybe
some people use that word, what I would tell you, when I think about it, I
think about grace, I think about love, and I think about respect, and I think
those are things that are very square with our beliefs as Christians."
Straights from the horse’s,
er, mouth: the GOP wants you to think they are open and accepting of women and
The Gays and immigrants, but the truth is they are not.
They are the same old GOP.
Stephen
Rhodes, openly gay one-time NASCAR driver, on returning to the track after a
ten-year absence and being gay:
"I
don't think going into a sport — having to face the ones that either like me or
don't like me — is anything any different than I live any day. I live in the
South. I know that NASCAR has a conservative, Southern fan base, and I'm not
going to try and change anyone's minds and their opinions. They're either going
to like me or going to hate me. That's just life in general, really."
But, just the fact that he’s
out there, and out, will get the discussion started.
And that’s the first step
toward changing people’s minds.
"Spiderman
stands for everybody — gay, straight, bisexual, transsexual. To me, love
between two consenting adults is love. To me, that anyone would bat an eyelash
at what I said to me is interesting.'"
He isn’t speaking as
Spiderman, a fictional cartoon character; he’s speaking as a human being wondering
why some of us question the love that any two people share.
Ken
Cuccinelli, Virginia's Republican Attorney General, speaking about The Gays
during a gubernatorial debate:
“My
personal beliefs about the personal challenges of homosexuality haven’t changed
... The notion that because I believe marriage ought to be protected, because I
believe life begins at conception — just like hundreds of thousands of
independents and Democrats — this isn’t just me, it isn’t just Republicans.
There are lots of Virginians, millions, perhaps, of Virginians, who share my
sincerely held beliefs.”
Or
maybe not.
Cuccinelli might have been so
busy wondering about the ins-and-outs — see what I did there? —of oral and anal
sex that he missed a new poll in his own state that shows 505 of Virginians
support same-sex marriage. And most probably support
keeping Ken Cuccinelli out of their bedrooms.
Harvey Fierstein, on Vladimir
Putin's anti-LGBT policies in Russia, and the upcoming Winter Olympics:
"Mr.
Putin’s campaign against lesbian, gay and bisexual people is one of
distraction, a strategy of demonizing a minority for political gain taken
straight from the Nazi playbook. Can we allow this war against human rights to
go unanswered? Although Mr. Putin may think he can control his creation,
history proves he cannot: his condemnations are permission to commit violence
against gays and lesbians. Last week a young gay man was murdered in the city
of Volgograd. He was beaten, his body violated with beer bottles, his clothing
set on fire, his head crushed with a rock. This is most likely just the
beginning. ... With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the
country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against
Mr. Putin’s attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must
demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott. In 1936 the world
attended the Olympics in Germany. Few participants said a word about Hitler’s
campaign against the Jews. Supporters of that decision point proudly to the
triumph of Jesse Owens, while I point with dread to the Holocaust and world
war. There is a price for tolerating intolerance."
I am generally on the side of
keeping politics out of the Olympic games, but Fierstein, as usual, makes valid
points about this type of stand your ground.
Standing up against discrimination,
against violence, against intolerance.
But, should there be no boycott,
let there be some stunning victories by openly gay athletes who can show
Russia, and Putin, that he cannot continue his hate speech towards the LGBT
community.
Amanda Hess, writing for Slate, on the newest Weiner scandal:
"What would the American public find if it combed through all of your Facebook messages, Twitter DMs, and Gchat history? If it had an exclusive peek into your webcam, or could scroll through your iPhone pics at will? This great nation is littered with hard drives full of poorly lit topless pics, broken promises to former lovers, and messages that sounded sexy at the time but look very stupid now. Anthony Weiner’s sexts don’t make him look like a sexual predator or even a freak. They make him look very, very ordinary."
Except, most ordinary folks aren't running for mayor of the biggest city in the country.
Ted Cruz, the Republican ::gag:;; Senator from Texas :::gag:::, speaking to the Christian Broadcasting Network about what might happen if The Gays become equal:
"If you look at other nations that have gone down the road towards gay marriage, that's the next step of where it gets enforced. It gets enforced against Christian pastors who decline to perform gay marriages, who speak out and preach biblical truths on marriage, that has been defined elsewhere as hate speech, as inconsistent with the enlightened view of government. I think there is no doubt that the advocates who are driving this effort in the United States want to see us end up in that same place."
Not.One.Pastor.Has.Been.Forced.To.Perform.A.Same-sex.Marriage.Ever!
Cruz needs to stop toeing the GOP line and spreading fear.
Amanda Hess, writing for Slate, on the newest Weiner scandal:
"What would the American public find if it combed through all of your Facebook messages, Twitter DMs, and Gchat history? If it had an exclusive peek into your webcam, or could scroll through your iPhone pics at will? This great nation is littered with hard drives full of poorly lit topless pics, broken promises to former lovers, and messages that sounded sexy at the time but look very stupid now. Anthony Weiner’s sexts don’t make him look like a sexual predator or even a freak. They make him look very, very ordinary."
Except, most ordinary folks aren't running for mayor of the biggest city in the country.
Ted Cruz, the Republican ::gag:;; Senator from Texas :::gag:::, speaking to the Christian Broadcasting Network about what might happen if The Gays become equal:
"If you look at other nations that have gone down the road towards gay marriage, that's the next step of where it gets enforced. It gets enforced against Christian pastors who decline to perform gay marriages, who speak out and preach biblical truths on marriage, that has been defined elsewhere as hate speech, as inconsistent with the enlightened view of government. I think there is no doubt that the advocates who are driving this effort in the United States want to see us end up in that same place."
Not.One.Pastor.Has.Been.Forced.To.Perform.A.Same-sex.Marriage.Ever!
Cruz needs to stop toeing the GOP line and spreading fear.
Alec Baldwin, complaining to
Howard Stern about Anderson Cooper criticizing him for the "toxic little
queen" TwitFit™:
"What I realize about [Cooper] is, everybody in
media, they have a job to do. Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is
to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that
you couldn't get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear
gas. Now he's the sheriff. Now he's running around writing everybody a
ticket!"
Sadly, no one used a canister of tear gas to shut
Alec Baldwin up.
Anderson Cooper, as a gay man who came out when he
felt ready, as is his right, has every reason to call Baldwin for being the
tyrannical dick-tator he fancies himself.
The
more and more that Baldwin talks the less and less he sounds like the LGBT ally
he professes to be.
As I said to Paula Dean, Shut the f**k up.
Friday, May 18, 2012
I Didn't Say It....
Andrew Sullivan, on President Obama's endorsement of
marriage equality:
"It's hugely
important and to tell you the truth, I didn't realize how important it would be
until it happened. Beforehand, I was kind of steeled. I was like, 'I don't
care, he's going to disappoint us again.' And then I sat down and watched our
president tell me that I am his equal, that I'm no longer outside, I'm fully
part of this family and to hear the president who is in some ways a father
figure speak to that, the tears came down like with many people in our
families, to be included....I never understood the power of a president's
words until that day, really. I thought, all that matters is the states and the
Congress and the Defense of Marriage Act and I had all this in my head and
suddenly this man saying, 'I'm with you, I get it, you're like me, I'm like
you, there is nothing between us, we are the same people and we are equal human
beings and I want to treat you the way you treat me.' That -- that was
overwhelming. That's all I can say. I was at a loss for words."
I think we all felt the
same way.
Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chair,
on whether or not marriage equality is a civil rights issue:
“I don’t think it’s a matter of civil rights. I think
it’s just a matter of whether or not we’re going to adhere to something that’s
been historical and religious and legal in this country for many, many years. I
mean, marriage has to have a definition. And we just happen to believe it’s
between a man and a woman....People in this country, no matter straight or gay,
deserve dignity and respect. However, that doesn’t mean it carries on to
marriage."
Typical GOP goose-stepping moron.
He actually lumps religion and legality in the same
sentence even though the two have no place together in law.
How can we expect the GOP to evolve on equality when they
can’t even understand the Constitution?
Bristol Palin, single unwed mother, high school graduate, and reality show
whore, on Barack Obama's methods of raising his children:
"While it’s great to listen to your
kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this
case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while
her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change
thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her
friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a
mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview."
I love how the girl who
got knocked up out of marriage is suddenly the Marriage Expert.
That’s like having Bristol
Palin be an Abstinence Expert and….
She is?
Wow, the stupid apple not
only felt out of the stupid tree, it hit every single stupid branch on the way
down, and then landed on a pile of stupid called Levi, and then fucked him.
R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin
Republican head, on Mittsy's marriage equality lack of evolution:
"Governor Mitt
Romney's statement in opposition to not just marriage but civil unions
jeopardizes his ability to win moderates, women and younger voters, especially
as a large majority of Americans favor some form of relationship recognition
for their LGBT friends and neighbors. Ultimately, the response of the
Republican candidates this election cycle will determine not just endorsements
by Log Cabin Republicans, but the votes of millions of Americans who are simply
tired of the culture wars."
Good luck with that.
Your presumptive nominee
and even the head of your committee disagree.
Oh, well, you can try
again in 2016.
Steny Hoyer, Democratic
House Minority Whip, on marriage equality:
"I have believed that
the phrase ‘civil union’ was an appropriate definition of a relationship that
is both different and the same between two people of the same sex. And I have
believed strongly that such couples must be treated equally under the law.
Because I believe that equal treatment is a central tenet of our nation, I
believe that extending the definition of marriage to committed relationships
between two people, irrespective of their sex, is the right thing to do and
will not, in any way, undermine the institution of marriage so important to our
society nor impose a threat to any individual marriage. It will, however,
extend the respect due to every one of our fellow citizens that we would want
for ourselves and our children."
And the Evolution
continues……
Michele Bachmann,
withdrawing her dual citizenship in America and Switzerland, roughly five
seconds after it was announced she was accepting dual citizenship in America
and Switzerland, Ladybird's land of origin:
"I sent a letter to
the Swiss Consulate requesting withdrawal of my dual Swiss citizenship, which
was conferred upon me by operation of Swiss law when I married my husband in
1978. I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born
in America and I am a proud American citizen. I am, and always have been, 100
percent committed to our United States Constitution and the United States of
America. As the daughter of an Air Force veteran, stepdaughter of an Army
veteran and sister of a Navy veteran, I am proud of my allegiance to the
greatest nation the world has ever known."
Pandering delusional,
married to a homosexual, moron.
Howard Stern, new
America's Got Talent judge, on fellow celebrity judges Britney Spears, and
Jennifer Lopez:
"Well, I think it's a wonderful decision [on the $15
million deal Spears just signed to become The X Factor judge]. Britney still
thinks the earth is flat. I don't anticipate great opinions from her. I
think she's gonna sit there like J.Lo, 'Oh, you're wonderful, you're terrific.
You think I can get a perfume endorsement out of this?' As far as any real
criticism, I think Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid will do that. I think Britney
will sit there and eat a lollipop and wear a sexy outfit. I'll tune in to
see what kind of train wreck she is, absolutely."
Snap!
Rick Santorum, bigot, homophobe, moron, failed
presidential candidate, on wanting Mitt Romney to talk up his anti-gay values:
"This is a very potent weapon, if you will, for
Governor Romney if he’s willing to step up and take advantage of a president
who is very much out of touch with the values of America...Hopefully Governor
Romney will continue to stand tall for his position on this issue and
understanding how detrimental it would be for society for it to have this
changed."
Like Romney needs to amp up his fear and loathing of the
LGBT community.
Like he needs the help of Frothy.
He’s enough lying, flip-flopping, pandering hatred for the
whole party, all by himself.
James Lankford, Oklahoma Republican Congressman, on his
support for legislation making it okay to fire someone for being gay....oh and
how being gay is a choice:
"Well, you’re now dealing with behavior and I’m
trying to figure out exactly what you’re trying to mean by that. Because you’re
dealing with — race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a
behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently — skin
color, something obvious, that kind of stuff. You don’t walk up to someone on
the street and look at them and say, “Gay or straight? I think it’s a choice
issue. Are tendencies and such? Yes. But I think it’s a choice issue."
Oh Jimmy. I know its Oklahoma but it doesn’t have to be
stupid.
See, your being stupid is a choice. Your being a homophobe
is a choice. My thinking you’re an idiot is a choice.
My being gay is an orientation.
Bob Staake, artist, on his art piece for the recent cover
of The New Yorker:
“I am honored to be doing this cover. It’s a celebratory
moment for our country, and that’s what I tried to capture. (I don’t especially
like those rainbow colors, but they are what they are—I had to use them.) I
wanted to celebrate the bravery of the President’s statement—a statement long
overdue—but all the more appreciated in this political year. We are on the
right side of history.”
I think his art
should become life. I’d like to see the columns lit up in Rainbow colors next
year as we celebrate Obama’s second term, and LGBT Pride.
Amirite?
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