Bradlee Dean overcompensates for his tiny penis (again) (and again)
I suspect the Rev. Bradley Dean Smith will long look back on today as being the day he went on national TV and made a speech but not until several months had passed learned he hadn’t been wearing any pants. Suing journalists for repeating what you were taped as saying? Oh my.
According to Smith, better known as Bradlee Dean, Maddow and other unnamed news outlets defamed him by tweaking comments made on his radio show about Christians taking a lax stance toward homosexuals.
In an interview with City Pages earlier this month, Smith talked in great detail about his belief that the media has unfairly targeted him.
“It’s hurtful crap people say,” Smith said of the media. “And they say, well, you’re a public person. But then you think about Jesus Christ up on the cross being crucified, and what was he crucified for? He was crucified for their sins. That’s a hard lesson to learn, man.” [City Pages] [more from CP]
No shit, man. I hear you, man. So does the Minnesota Independent’s award-winning reporter, Andy Birkey. Sued alongside Rachel Maddow? Hard to see any career damage coming out of this so far. Everyone being sued is gay? This is so not ever going to see the inside of a courtroom. Seriously Bradlee, you homophobic piece of neurotic self-justifying shit, why don’t you sue me as well for some preference balance? [Yes, I'd love a piece of what Bradlee's giving out even though I'm not really sure what a piece of his ass would be worth once the lawyers get their share.]
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News:
Dawn raids? If true, cool!
Meteor Blades on the growing wealth gap (again, I listened to a U.S. Senator outline all of this in 1980 when the right was just getting started with their rewrites of all our financial laws, rules and regulations — this radical transfer of wealth was exactly what they wanted to have happen)
Wells Fargo, doing their part (see previous link)
PP clinic firebombed in Dallas (but it was a Molotov Cocktail so I’m sure it was an attack by lefties, or anarchists or maybe even Muslims) (that or wingnuts have discovered irony)
Franken finally goes SNL on the Senate floor (worth the click, and then the click-thru)
Click here to see what world class link aggregating reads like (then read this Harper’s link to see how provocative concise facts can be, even without links).
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From my perspective, Gov. Bridgefail is easily one of the most loathsome politicians in America today. So you can well imagine my gratification at learning that Pawlenty’s campaign manager, Nick Ayers, is widely loathed and despised by his peers in the Republican party. [insert gratuitous snark about the leaks on O'Bachmann's migraines to Politico here]
No longer considered a first tier candidate by most, Bridgefail was on the receiving end of a bitchslap extraordinaire Tuesday. That’s when T.Rump, the king of comb-over island, called out Pawlenty as not being a “tough guy.” Ouch.
Yech etc.:
NYTimes lets right-friendly writer interview James O’fucking liar Keefe [Romenesko] [Wolcott]
It’s a members only thing, you wouldn’t understand
Thick as a brick? It would have to be an especially dense brick
Driftglass: Only Nixon can go to Nixonland
Worse, at the end of the day these folks still own Rush Limbaugh. Completely, totally, indubitably. He’s theirs, all theirs. We have to take the heat for Chris fucking Matthews, the ‘pugs can sure as hell take the rap for Rush goddamn Limbaugh. [Fox] [Glenn Beck] [Bill O'Reilly] [establishment media] [shorter establishment media] [Piers fucking Morgan]
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In my life, the Dept. of Justice has sometimes been OK, but mostly it’s been scum-driven and conflict-ridden. Today? More than ever.
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Breivik:
Charles II with some insightful quotes
I like Weigel and Chas. Johnson’s takes on Breivik, but I’m not comfortable with the unspoken assumption that those who challenged Bush’s legitimacy = birthers
Frank Schaeffer on the Christian right and how he built an ice woman to masturbate into and yes, I think this provides insights into Breivik
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Joe McGinniss’s eight worst ways I’ve ever spent eight minutes intrigued me enough that I was thinking about putting together my own list, and then I realized that every item on my list involved waiting for the cop who’d pulled me over to get out of his car and walk over to mine (the one with the drugs in it).
Joe’s list is more interesting but I think my waits were worse.
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Etc.:
PETA: Usually you have to be a Republican to be this obnoxious (sorry to be a speciesist, but genocide is always more serious than packing plant conditions)
I’d like to emphasize the fact that while I’m a pirate, I’ve never resold anything I’ve downloaded ever because that is stealing
PZ finds a moral code superior to the one used by priests
Kudzu Jesus wouldn’t pee on this man’s shoes if they were on fire
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This one made me think of Ed Kohler for some reason.
True fact: the Molotov Cocktail was originally used against the troops led by General Molotov by the Finns who didn’t really want the Soviets to get their way. Finland’s distillers actually provided the bottles and the combustible spirits for the troops to use against the Russian tanks. So it’s not a leftist thing at all, but an anti-communist weapon. Whether Mannerheim was a fascist or just a fascist sympathizer is a historical fact I’ll leave to others, but give the Finns some credit for coming up with an anti-Communist weapon on the cheap.
I stand corrected. A cheap weapon powered by distilled spirits? I can totally believe the Finns came up with this one.
“You go to battle with the distilled spirits you have, not the distilled spirits you wish you had”
–Karl Gustaf Mannerheim, 1938
Tool up for Friday. Tea
The same old plan is a lesson.
Ready for the off the books TA graduate myth?
No?
Me either wanna use some tools and get high?
Granted I do dig the colors of that banner Wege…but let it flow to go further.