You keep using that word. I do not think it means
what you think it means.
Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) said during his radio show on Wednesday evening that his social media post earlier in the day calling for Islamic terrorists to "behead the cowards at CNN, MSNBC" and other news outlets was "satire." [...]
On his radio show, which is broadcast on radio stations WNYM in New York City and WIND in Chicago, the one-term congressman said he had been "exaggerating" and "using satire to make a point."
And that point was that he hopes future terrorists kill the right people.
He said, however, that he stood by the basic idea of his tweet.
“I don’t hope there’s another terrorist attack. I know there’s going to be one," he said.
When [a terrorist attack] happens, Walsh added: "Put the cowards in line first! Put the appeasers at the front of the line! … I hope they’re at the front of the line to be beheaded."
He was in Congress, you know.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2003—Bush Hands Gephardt a Big Issue:
Without proposing an alternative of his own, and as another sop to the Trent Lott Republicans he steamrolled last month, President Bush came out against the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy today, claiming that the current system calls for quotas and makes race "the" factor in admissions.
Dick Gephardt will file an opposing brief. In the big scheme of things facing this country right now, it is hard to see, outside of pure, craven pandering to a base he pissed off last month, why the President feels it is important for the White House to weigh in on this. Apparently John Ashcroft had free time apart from INS illegal detentions, the on-the-loose Democrats-only anthrax terrorist, and his singing engagements.
To demonstrate his opposition against race-based actions and policies, Bush announced that he would ask Clarence Thomas to resign from the Supreme Court, withdraw the nominations of Alberto Gonzales and Miguel Estrada from considertion for federal appeals court consideration, and directed Bill Frist and the NRSC to broaden their previous voter suppression efforts beyond African-American precincts in future elections.
Tweet of the Day
1. CIA's message to Senate staff: "Your use of this system may be monitored & you have no expectation of privacy."
https://t.co/...
— @billmon1
2. Which is also the security state's message to everyone, everywhere.
— @billmon1
On
today's Kagro in the Morning show: Geez, Ted Cruz had a thin resume when he first became Texas Solicitor General. Oh, and he had some booze in his car when he was a teenager.
Greg Dworkin says nobody's buying Mitt 3.0. Republicans in disarray! And rounds up the
Charlie Hebdo (and Dieudonné) news. The most French thing ever? The doc who championed hand washing & how they got rid of him. Do workplace wellness programs work? For whom?
Armando takes the reins for further discussion of the
Charlie Hebdo issues. Then, the conclusion of "Fundamentalist wrath."
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