Monumentally dumb, even for The American Spectator
August 24, 2009 3:10 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
The fringe pub just posted a name-calling screed about Obama and 9/11. After reading it a couple times I still have no idea what the Spectator is talking about, other than according to the Spectator's anonymous sources, Obama plans to completely desecrate the memory of 9/11.
Or something like that.
But this passage I got:
Color of Change is the extremist racial grievance group that isn't happy that TV's Glenn Beck did several news packages on Van Jones, the self-described "communist" and "rowdy black nationalist" who became the president's green jobs czar after jumping on the environmentalist bandwagon. The White House may be behind a push to destroy Beck by convincing advertisers to stop buying time on his show.
Read that again. According to AS's Matthew Vadum, Color of Change is leading a advertising boycott Glenn Beck because his show aired some nasty reports about a Color of Change ally, Van Jones.
Talk about living in a parallel universe. The boycott, of course, came in response to Beck's hateful smear that Obama is a "racist" who suffers from a "deep seated hatred of white people." That's why nearly three dozen companies have recently walked away from Beck's show.
But in Spectator's la-la land, Beck never called the President of the United States a racist. The episode simply does not exist.
UPDATED: Alan Colmes and Mahablog try their best to dissect the American Spectator's Obama-9/11 stupidity.
there like that ultra view of every thing.
On another note, a woman that I used to date and I got into a conversation about these townhall protests. In particular, there was one where a guy from Israel who had moved here and was now a citizen was talking about health care in Israel, and how it was not so bad, and a woman off to the side of him shouted at him, "Sieg Heil!" and he flipped out. Rightfully so.
This woman I used to date, claimed that the woman was a liberal progressive plant, and that it was a fake scene. Her proof? She just "knew" it was. And that on Limbaugh one day, he talked about how these plants were being used at all of these townhall meetings to make conservatives look bad, or something like that.
This was a woman I used to respect, and talk to about politics a lot, and apparently, she's gone off the deep end. Talked to me about death panels, and all of the good talking points that have come out recently.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
What the heck is white KKKulture, anyway?
... or maybe he's just suffering acute Korsakoff syndrome from his pre-Mormon days.
it's hateful to call someone hateful? this website is screwed. just an observation.
Beck's claim flew in the face of all the evidence and was done for purely political motives. Therefore it was hateful. It is perfectly logical (i.e., not hateful) to point it out.
this website is screwed.
a. A website is "screwed" because you disagree with it? You seem to place a very high value on your own opinion.
b. So is your capitalization. It's not just with their words that the neocons regularly make themselves look foolish.
just an observation.
Fine. Feel free to leave and improve the site at least that much.
In other words, 9-11 has nothing to do with being a day of "prayer" and "reflection" and everything to do with war and death and destruction to the furriner overseas. I think it's a magnificent idea to turn the day over to a celebration of alternative energy.