The absolute insanity that is Michelle Bernard

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Tuesday February 24, 2009 · 10:25 PM PST

2009/02/24 · 22:25

Did anyone catch Michelle Bernard on Tweety's show? Honestly, I just spent the last several minutes typing out a proper transcript of this exchange. The question at hand was Jindal's remarkably stupid statement that the Bush Administration's failure during Katrina was reason to not look to the government for help.

Besides the absurdity of that statement stacked up against years of being forced to be protected from terrorists by the Bush Administration, all it proves is that government shouldn't be run by Republicans, not that government doesn't work.

If no-eyed Clyde rams the car into the tree, it's not the car's damn fault. Or the tree's for that matter.

But Michelle Bernard just blew my mind...

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Friday February 13, 2009 · 4:00 PM PST

2009/02/13 · 16:00

A few days ago I said in comments:

I think where my problem with him [Harry Reid] comes from is in that I really believe appearances in public have an impact on public perception of our leaders.

I was 7 years old when Reagan was elected. I have never lived in a liberal era. I want to see boldness coming from the top. I want to see the petty diffusiveness coming from the republicans met with powerful rebuttals.

I want the idea that government has no role in the lives of Americans outside of defense and security in the form of force to die.

I believe Obama is this man, but I want to see Lieutenants flanked in the congressional houses standing tall and proud for these ideals. I want them to push these ideas back into main stream acceptance and bury the lies of the Reagan era in the graveyard of failed policies.

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I want to see

more of this from the Democrats

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less of this, I am very concerned....

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more pie, oh boy am I hooked on the pie...

2 votes

Dear Mr. Brokaw: My apologies

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 8:25 AM PDT

2008/10/26 · 08:25

Last week I wrote a diary titled Tom Brokaw is a GOP hack

I have been bothered by many of Brokaw's questions and framing throughout this campaign season. I have found some of his questions about race to be borderline inappropriate.

But right now he is dong a great job interviewing John McCain. He is be very persistent, following up tough, and in my opinion acting just like a journalist/reporter/interviewer should be acting.

Yes, this is not a diary. But I wanted to be on record. Tom, you're doing a good job today. I apologize for calling you a GOP shill. I don't know what you are these days, you have me confused, but you are being very fair today and I appreciate it.

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Brokaw

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Brokaw

Vindicated!

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Still can't stand the guy

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The world is a complex place. Stop putting little bows on it.

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White House Guts Last Provisions Protecting Streams from Mountaintop Mining

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 3:46 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 15:46

Mountaintop mining has gone on for some years in Appalachia. I am astounded this happens and am especially astounded by the shear volume of waste and pollution and destruction this practice introduces to the environment. Where's Byrd and Rockefeller on this?

Restrictions on this style of mining, which involves blowing or scraping the tops off of beautiful mountains that have aged from a size outmatching the Rockies to a rolling expanse palming some of the most beautiful forests, rivers and valleys in our country or in the world.

The US government estimates 1,600 MILES of Appalachian streams have been erased by this practice.

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 12:06 PM PDT

2008/10/19 · 12:06

There is a great diary scrolling down right now by WinSmith titled "The Bias of Tom Brokaw".

No doubt resides in my mind on what positions Tom Brokaw holds. Out of all the questions he chose to ask Colin Powell, Brokaw resorted to sandbagging him with set-ups like WMD and how Powell acted during an Iraq Study Group meeting:

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Tom Brokaw is

A GOP hack

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A Republican tool

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The head vampire

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A borderline racist

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An over the line racist

14 votes

This choice is the troll count

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Vanden Heuvel drops the f-bomb on Bachmann (w/video)

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 3:42 PM PDT

2008/10/17 · 15:42

On the rec list is a diary about the horrible words and thoughts of Congress woman Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota.

Bachmann's insistence on bringing up boogiemen like Ward Churchill to drive her smear home, and her insistence that Obama was mentored by anti-American people and that Obama himself might be anti-American is the type of divisive hate speech that is typical of fascism and McCarthyism.

Katrina Vanden Heuvel does just that and all the while having to endure Pat Buchanan's comparison of Bill Ayers to the KKK.

Video and transcript below:

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 4:48 PM PDT

2008/10/14 · 16:48

Hardball did a special today on the close Senate races around the country. These races aren't over by any shot, but as of right now, the country is leaning blue. A 60 seat majority would be just what we need to put this country back on track. Hardball also goes into 3 other races which brings the total to 12 seats in play.

States below:

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Sunday October 05, 2008 · 9:00 AM PDT

2008/10/05 · 09:00

The very low Sarah Palin came out screeching yesterday about Barack Obama's relation to William Ayers. Aside from the fact that Obama was 8 years old during Ayers' radical years, the right wing hate machine will attempt to tie Obama to him.

Well, hang this anchor around their neck:

In 1981 John McCain sat on the board of the US Council for World Freedom, an ultra right wing group ~~founded~~ chaired by Iran Contra figure Maj. General John K. Singlaub.

Begala: It was affiliated with the World Anti-Communist league, the parent organization, which ADL [Anti-Defamation League] said has increasingly become a gathering place, the forum, the point of contact for extremist racists and anti-Semites.

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The bigger terrorist is

William Ayers

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The Contras

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Is John McCain too troll like?

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 9:03 AM PDT

2008/09/27 · 09:03

Late in the evening, after hours of reporting and hypothesizing and yammering to anyone and everyone that would come on the show, Chris Matthews had a break out question about our little buddy across the aisle. Is John McCain just too troll like? Seriously...

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America needs

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America needs

A new Troll

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Some Birth of the Cool

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Boxer LAYS OUT K5&McCain + 101 more missed roll call votes than stroke victim Tim Johnson

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 12:37 PM PDT

2008/09/25 · 12:37

McCain has married his debate appearance and campaign to this crisis. That is the most abject politicizing of a crisis I have ever seen. And Barbara Boxer pins him to the wall, going after his courage, his capacity for leadership, his integrity and his link to K5. His supposed strong points. God I LOVE it!

I think it was a little political theater to change the debate and let me tell you why he wants to change the debate: of all the people who have been in the forefront of deregulation which is THE cause of this problem, deregulation, is John McCain. It started with the Keating Five when he went in there and tried to press regulators not to go after a Savings and Loans of Charles Keating; and it continued on out through his whole career, leading the charge with Phil Gramm for deregulation.

A President has to deal with it all. Believe me, on a much smaller scale, I represent 37 million people on any given day. I have to do it all and if I am running for President I have to have the courage to do it all and I don't just say time-out and I need to climb up into the corner with my blanket, because life isn't that way and I thought it was bizarre quite frankly.

Video below...

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Barbara Boxer

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Rocks

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She's my Senator and she Rocks

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Third choice for suckerfools

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Bush keeping troops in Iraq longer for political reasons.

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 10:19 PM PDT

2008/09/23 · 22:19

Did this stand out to anyone watching Rachel's show tonight? Is Rachel reading this right?

Maliki: The final date was really the end of 2010 and the period between the end of 2010 and 2011 was for withdrawing the remaining troops from all of Iraq, but they asked for a change [in date] due to political circumstances related to the domestic situation [in the US] so it will not be said to the 2010 followed by one year for withdrawal but by the end of 2011 as a final date.

Rachel reiterates:

In essence he is saying that when he was negotiating with to pick a withdrawal date for our troops to come home they initially settled on about 15 months form now, the end of 2010, but then according to opensource.gov, Prime Minister Maliki says the Bush Administration came back and said they'd actually like our troops to stay in Iraq an extra year. Through 2011. Why an extra year? Quote: Due to political circumstances related to the US domestic situation.

So the Prime Minister of Iraq says on tape that, according to our own government's translation, the Bush Administration wants to prolong the war in Iraq an extra year for our domestic politics.

video below

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 4:40 PM PDT

2008/09/22 · 16:40

Rep. Jim McDermott just had the quote of the day:

"This is the third time we've done it with this bunch. First the war, that didn't get paid for. Then the tax cuts, that didn't get paid for, and now King Henry takes over to distribute 700 billion dollars. He's going to be there for four months. And in four months he will make deals and then he'll go out and he'll be able to catch a pass he threw to himself."

UPDATE: Full transcript below...

Also, I'll leave a couple urls so not to bog it down for dial-uppers, but Krugman was great today and I'll link to his appearances on Gregory's show and Olbermann when it's ready.

Krugman on David Gregory's show

Krugman on Olbermann's show

digg it if you do it.

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