A little more than eight years ago, Barack Hussein Obama formally announced that he was running for president of the United States.
In the years since—during which he won the presidency, not once, but twice—Obama has been called nearly every name in the books (the Old and New Testaments).
Among the many horrible things he's been accused of being are: a secret Muslim; a death panelizer; an anti-Semite; a community organizer (with scare quotes); un-American; a terrorist sympathizer/apologist; a communist/socialist/Marxist; a traitor; a monarch; a Kenyan anti-colonialist; a rapist; a moron; the Antichrist; and, quite often, Hitler.
But, wait ... there's more!
He's also been called: a dick; that nigger; a "boy" from the "ghetto"; an assclown; and, worst of all, whitey.
Now, I suppose Obama may be some (all?) of those things ... but it's really not my place to say; I mean, I'm not a psychiatrist, man.
History will be the judge.
Update: Obama is probably not the Antichrist.
Correction: Obama is not a suspected rapist.
Apology: I was wrong to suggest that Obama is (allegedly) an assclown.
Excuse: I'm a bit hungover.
#SorryNotSorry
Morning lineup:
Meet The Press: Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN); Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R); Graeme Wood (The Atlantic); Sherrilyn Ifill (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund); Rep. Charles Dent (R-PA); Roundtable: Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Michael Gerson (Washington Post), Nia-Malika Henderson (Washington Post) and Amy Walter (Cook Political Report).
Face The Nation: Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R); Former White House Senior Advisor/Author David Axelrod; Roundtable: Danielle Pletka (American Enterprise Institute), David Ignatius (Washington Post), Michele Flournoy (Center for New American Security) and Former State Dept. Special Rep. to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith.
This Week: Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Black History Month Panel: Author Shelby Steele and Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic); Roundtable: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Amy Chozick (New York Times), Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard) and Joe Klein (TIME).
Fox News Sunday: Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; Former CIA/NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden; Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane; Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R); Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Kirsten Powers (USA Today), Kimberley Strassel (Wall Street Journal) and Peter Baker (New York Times).
State of the Union: Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R); Others TBD.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a tribute to Bob Simon (preview).
On Comedy Central...
The Daily Show and The Nighty Show were in reruns this week, so there are no new videos to share. Instead, here's one of Jon Stewart's old standup routines about religion.
The Daily Show:
Monday: Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde; Tuesday: Photojournalist Lynsey Addario; Wednesday: Comedian Conan O'Brien; Thursday: Actress Olivia Wilde.
And a flashback to when former Daily Show guest host John Oliver and correspondent Larry Wilmore tried to have a conversation on race. (07/24/13)
The Nightly Show:
Guests TBD.
Elsewhere...
A Mississippi state legislator denied being a racist—his racist comments notwithstanding.
State Rep. Gene Alday, R-Walls, who came under fire after his racist comments appeared in a Clarion-Ledger article Sunday about public education, said today his remarks were out of context and that he's a nice guy.
"I'm not a bad person, and that makes me look like an evil person," Alday said Monday. "I didn't do anything wrong. The guy made me look like a fool."
The comments in question refer to African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, a small community in Desoto County. Alday, 57, said that he comes "from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks.' They don't work."
Meanwhile...
Televangelist Pat Robertson was barking mad about gay marriage.
On "The 700 Club" today, Pat Robertson criticized a Washington judge's ruling that a florist who denied service to a same-sex couple seeking flowers for their wedding violated a state anti-discrimination law, calling the verdict "crazy."
"This is outrageous," Robertson said, "To tell a florist that she's got to provide flowers for a particular kind of wedding? What if somebody wanted to marry his dog? She's got to have flowers for that? What if there's a polygamous situation where a guy has five wives and he wants to have five ceremonies and she's going to be forced by the law to provide them flowers? This is crazy."
And...
An Arkansas state senator shared his totally sane idea for dealing with ISIS.
Arkansas state Senator Jason Rapert took to Facebook to suggest that the best way to "quickly turn things around" in territory captured by Islamic State extremists would be a "strategically placed nuclear weapon."
"With ISIS spreading all over the Middle East and Africa and Islamic Extremists carrying out violence in Europe, the United Kingdom and even in the United States, I wonder why the civilized world just sits by when we have weapons that could wipe out these barbarians where they are concentrated?" he asked.
"I believe," Rapert continued, "it is time to annihilate the strongholds and pursue the rest till we have them all captured or killed. A strategically placed nuclear weapon would save the lives of our soldiers and quickly turn things around."
"It is time for the insanity to be stopped."
The End.
- Trix