With less than a month to go before the
midterm elections, and
control of
the Senate on
the line, at long last,
Republicans think they've found a
winning strategy—
scare the
living shit out of (white)
voters.
It's an oldie but goodie.
Their message is simple: If Ebola (species Kenya Obamavirus) doesn't kill you, then ISIS and the Mexican drug cartels will (via Arkansas)... because Benghazi!
What it lacks in truth, it makes up for in derp.
And, needless to say, Politico is impressed.
After all, according to the sort of "conventional wisdom" they peddle, the only prescription for what ails America is more fracking idiocy.
Morning lineup:
Meet The Press: National Security Adviser Susan Rice; Former Secretary of State James Baker; Former Secretary of State/War Criminal Henry Kissinger; Others TBD.
Face The Nation: CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden; Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta; Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX); Roundtable: Peggy Noonan (Washington Post), Susan Page (USA Todau), David Rohde (Reuters) and David Ignatius (Washington Post).
This Week: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey: Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI); Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci; Dr. Richard Besser (ABC News); Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro; Roundtable: Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile and Republican Strategist Matthew Dowd.
Fox News Sunday: Plaintiff's Attorney in Virginia SSM Case Ted Olson; Tony Perkins (Family Research Council); Republican Strategist Karl Rove; Democratic Strategist Joe Trippi; Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Amy Walter (Cook Political Report), Former CEO of HP Carly Fiorina and Bob Woodward (Washington Post).
State of the Union: RNC Chair Reince Prieus; DNC Chair/Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL); Others TBD.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on the capture of Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the world’s most wanted man (preview); an interview with FBI Director James Comey (preview); and, an interview with reporter James Risen (preview).
On Comedy Central...
Jon Stewart and Daily Show correspondent Kristen Schaal examined Republican efforts to win the lady vote. (10/08/14)
The Daily Show
Monday: Author Matt Bai
Tuesday: Actor/Comedian Zach Galifianakis
Wednesday: Bill O'Reilly (Fox News)
Thursday: Author/Activist Bryan Stevenson
And Stephen Colbert examined the claim that Republicans are people, too. (10/09/14)
The Colbert Report
Monday: Author Walter Isaacson
Tuesday: Musician Neil Young
Wednesday: Writer/Director/Producer Justin Simien
Thursday: Author William Deresiewicz
Elsewhere...
Hobby Lobby owner Steve Green defended his company's investments in contracpetion and abortion drug makers.
Steve Green, president of the Hobby Lobby craft store chain whose objections to offering coverage for some forms of contraception led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling last summer, responded for the first time to questions about his company's investments in pharmaceutical corporations that produce contraception and abortion drugs.
Those investments drew charges of hypocrisy after the company went to the high court to opt out of covering four forms of contraception on its insurance plan. Green also discussed the evidence, or lack thereof, that contraception interferes with a fertilized egg.
"That is several steps removed," Green told msnbc on Thursday when approached at a conference on religious liberty at Cedarville University, referring to revelations reported in Mother Jones in April that Hobby Lobby’s 401(k) plan invested in corporations that produce contraception and abortion drugs. "Whether they do or not [invest in these drugs and devices], I couldn't confirm or deny it. I don't know if it’s even true. Of course, the other question I would ask is, do those companies also provide a lot of life-saving products that our employees are dependent on? I don’t know that either. But we've not made any changes."
Meanwhile...
Some crack detective work exposed President Obama as the Antichrist.
An "analyst" trained in the very, very discredited "Bible Code" method, which tries to predict future events through letters in the Bible, has come out with some big news: President Obama is in the Bible Code, and he is probably the Antichrist.
Bible Code-breaker Jonathan Wright appeared on "Trunews" last week, where he told host Rick Wiles that Obama is either the Antichrist or the harbinger of the Antichrist. Not only does the Bible Code prove this to be the case, says Wright, but so does Obama's non-existent Muslim wedding ring. [...]
Wright insisted that he has "nothing against" Obama, he is just reporting on the unambiguous truth found in the Bible Code: "I really didn't want the American president to be 'the AC' or the Man of Sin, it just looks like he's the forerunner and we're not looking for a needle in a stack of needles by the way."
And, speaking of sin...
"Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson shared his thoughts on safe sex.
"Biblically correct sex is safe," Robertson said in the sermon, which was flagged by CNS News Tuesday. "It's safe. You're not going to get chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, AIDS – if you, if a man marries a woman, and neither of you have it, and you keep your sex between the two of you, you're not going to get ever sexually transmitted diseases."
He then attributed those "terrible, debilitating diseases" to "orthodox liberal opinion," which he defined thusly: "Just breed anything and anybody. Just have at it. Go for it."
"Look, God's way is the safe way. That's all I'm saying," he added. "True or false? Man meets woman, marries her, keeps his sex right there, the children come, the chances of them getting a sexually transmitted disease, would you say is almost zero?"
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
- Trix