"And Jerry, you know you should be ashamed, you and your surrogates ... put her deportation at risk. You put it out there and you should be ashamed for sacrificing Nicky Diaz on the altar of your political ambitions."
After all it wasn't fair game to expose the anti-immigrant, billionaire Meg Whitman's cover-up of employing an illegal, immigrant housekeeper for nine years. To make what she-who-would-buy-the-governorship-of-California does in her life a political issue.
Long told supporters at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church that he is "not going to be pulled into a street fight" and that he doesn't hate anyone. But he directed his listeners to turn to a passage in the Book of Job that read: "Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."
As his devoted flock cheered,
Bishop Long should be reviled for being a bigot.. (What's wrong with all those so-called Christians in his mega-church flock? ) He is the 21st face of Elmer Gantry – per NPR
Long himself drives a $350,000 Bentley, bought a $1.1 million home in 2005 and favors gold necklaces and Rolex watches.
Even if Bishop Eddie didn't seek sexual pleasure from his four male accusers when they were teens (almost no chance he didn't), he's a demagogue that only other haters could embrace.
Beck, Palin, O'Donell, etc. and the tea-baggers never stop whining. Will let David and Janice, who spoke to Matt Taibbi, speak for all of them in this diary:
"I'm anti-spending and anti-government," crows David, as scooter-bound Janice looks on. "The welfare state is out of control."
"OK," I say. "And what do you do for a living?"
"Me?" he says proudly. "Oh, I'm a property appraiser. Have been my whole life."
I frown. "Are either of you on Medicare?"
Silence: Then Janice, a nice enough woman, it seems, slowly raises her hand, offering a faint smile, as if to say, You got me!
"Let me get this straight," I say to David. "You've been picking up a check from the government for decades, as a tax assessor, and your wife is on Medicare. How can you complain about the welfare state?"
"Well," he says, "there's a lot of people on welfare who don't deserve it. Too many people are living off the government."
"But," I protest, "you live off the government. And have been your whole life!"
"Yeah," he says, "but I don't make very much."
Matt Taibbi was also still on the case of billionaire boys club this week. All the whining by the
hedge fund guys paid off in the Senate last week. Income taxes are for the "little people," not the rich.
For unbridled narcissism, listen to Act One: Wall Street: Money Never Weeps of This American Life's – Episode 415: Crybabies. The synopsis below pales in comparison to the radio piece.
Ira with Planet Money economics correspondent Adam Davidson on why—even after everything President Obama has done to save Wall Street, actions which have led to record profits and bonuses—Wall Street seems ungrateful. Adam and producer Jane Feltes head out to a Wall Street bar where they're told by three finance guys that there's no reason to thank the President for saving their jobs.
They claim to be brilliant (and therefore, unlike stupid people, deserve to be rich) and yet deny that all that Wall Street "brilliance" bankrupted most, if not all, the mega-banks and brokers. FDR and his team knew exactly what such vermin deserved. What a shame that DC Democrats and Republicans decided that restoring the mega-bonus culture on Wall St. was a high priority. But anyone that dares to point this out will be labeled a class-warrior crybaby by all the corporate, media, and political crybabies.
How many crybabies did I miss this week?