"I realize that we won't have teabaggers running across the countryside lopping off people's hands with machetes. But the sentiment that drives people like Beck and Limbaugh isn't all that different, even though the worst we've seen are spit spewing screamers at Townhalls and a few cases of head stomping and false arrest. So far. This cannot end well," – Digby, comparing right-wing media to facilitators of the Rwandan genocide.
(Hat tip: Serwer)
“Juan Williams’ firing did not happen in a vacuum. It happened in the context of him having been the official Fox News lawn jockey for years," – DougJ. (He has since changed "lawn jockey" to "stooge".)
(Hat tip: The Confluence)
An ad created by ACT Responsible, a "group of Left-wing advertising executives," for a conference in Cannes:
The Dish noted the Rovian smear ad by Democrat Alan Grayson last week, equating his Republican opponent with the Taliban. But in case you missed it, here's the Daily Show's proof that not only was it a smear, it was a calculated lie – a deliberate, cunningly edited inversion of the truth of what candidate Dan Webster actually said. Truly disgusting.
Rep. Alan Grayson does the full Kos:
Ed Morrissey fights back:
I seem to recall how Democrats used to shriek hysterically about having people impugn their patriotism for opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, suddenly, quoting either Ephesians 5 or Colossians 3 makes one the equivalent of a terrorist group that is our enemy in the field? TPM avoids taking any kind of a principled stand on this smear, noting only that “reporters and partisans argue about dubbing a Congressional candidate a member of the Taliban[.]“ Do they really “argue” about it? Which reporters, or even rational partisans, think that calling a candidate “Taliban Dan” is somehow both instructive and reasonable?
"[A] traumatized America that, up until [9/11], thought it was “all that” was easily manipulated into being the blunt instrument of war that Bill Kristol and his chickenhawk buddies at PNAC had their hearts set on since the late 90’s. To them, the attack on 9/11 was the greatest fucking day of their lives because it gave them the causus belli fantasy that they had been masturbating to for years," – TBogg, adding that Kristol should "just fuck off and die, you evil piece of shit."
by Chris Bodenner
"He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers. His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave," – Jesse Jackson. TNC sighs.
"Another thought, going even deeper I think in terms of race in my opinion there is not a black man on the Supreme Court," – professor Boyce Watkins.
The Dish 