Puerto Rica-minica-Tex-Mex buffet does sound delicious. Sign me up!
BTdubs, why are there no Latinas represented in that video segment? Are there no women on the streets of New York who would like to share their bigoted views about Central Americans, South Americans, and West Indians on basic cable?
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Showing posts with label republicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label republicans. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Mayonnaise?
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Thursday, April 04, 2013
"If you're a young person struggling with your sexuality,"
"there is no safer place to come out than on a Republican survey."
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Friday, August 24, 2012
"Hey, Representative Todd Akin."
"I have a question for you. If women can't get pregnant from legitimate rape, then how come there are so many light-skinned black people walking around Alabama?"
Because the rapists stole their cars. Obviously.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
"Do we really need Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling?"
Yes, we do. But considering The Green Lantern and whatever this Vice Versa/Freaky Friday ripoff is, I say it's Gosling for the win. The smirkiness begins at 1:30:
Who's that curly-haired guy?
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Friday, April 29, 2011
They're not my Republican friends.
"The issue it seems to me is with a $1.6 trillion deficit, it is insane to think that the only way you're gonna move toward a balanced budget is by slashing college Pell grants, by cutting Medicaid, by converting Medicare into a voucher program, by cutting programs that working class people and middle-class people desperately need. And at the same time, our Republican friends say, 'Well, we're gonna to do all of these terrible things to the most vulnerable people in America, but you know what, we're not going to ask billionaires to pay a nickel more in taxes.' I think that that is insane."
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"Working people have rights. Health care should be a right of all people, not just a privilege of the wealthy."
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
"Speaking of never intending to give factual statements, Fox and Friends."
"You can get a pap smear or a breast exam at Walgreens . . . Ladies, just look for the stirrups."
Readers, that remark was not intended to be a factual statements. Keep your pants on at the drugstore.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
So right again, Stephen T. Colbert
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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"If you're really good at pretending, maybe you can get a job as a Republican member of Congress. Because pretending to help you is apparently a big part of what they do."
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
"Hey, I'm just keeping it real, Tatum O'Neal."
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Steele Crazy After All These Years | ||||
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"Let's cook up some veal. I'm just kidding. It's an all vegan barbecue."
Oh, Michael Steele.
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Friday, July 02, 2010
"Where were you on Christmas Day?"
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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(Skip to 3:22 for the not-so-subtle bigotry.)
"You have a very different belief system than most of the people who come from where I come from."
What?
The nerve of those Republicans. Lindsey Graham, I'd like to know where you were on Christmas Day, you putz.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
"Let's say The Rapture occured, and all the Republicans were gone."
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Yes, let us please say that, so us sane people could get something done.
"Would the Democrats at that point be able to pass legislation they want?"
I would hope so.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
"You should change your name from C-SPAN to Black-SPAN."
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Where else is that caller going to go for the kind of coverage C-SPAN provides? The security camera room at the Men's Wearhouse?
I should start calling in to C-SPAN. I'll try to keep up that 80 percent.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
My main problem with Republicans
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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is that they actively support and vote for people like these: 30 GOP Senators Vote to Defend Gang Rape.
Please note that former Presidential candidate John McCain is one of the 30, now putting him in the same moral league as former Presidential candidate David Duke.
I have problems with Democrats, too, but so far, my problems with them have not included the phrase "defending gang rape."
Republican readers (all two of you, maybe), can you explain this situation?
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Whenever I think to myself,
"Is it just me, or . . .", it is never just me. Janeane Garofalo, who recently played a caricature of a women's studies professor on Greek, crystallizes the TEA party movement for me:
"Let's be honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about. They don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism, straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks."
For additional coverage, here are some articles:
appreciate opportunities to release their repressed racism in public, by Macon D, stuff white people do.
10 Most Offensive Tea Party Signs, by Nico Pitney, The Huffington Post.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
"What about fetuses with guns?"
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Better Know a District - Illinois' 18th - Aaron Schock | ||||
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It's so cute when they try to answer grown-up questions. And by "they", I mean Republicans like Aaron Schock, the current US Representative for the 18th district of Illinois.
Stephen Colbert: Tell me about the Fightin' 18th.
Aaron Schock: Tell you about what?
Colbert: The Fightin' 18th.
Schock: The Fightin' 18th? What's the Fightin' 18th?
Colbert: Do you not represent the 18th district of Illinois?
Schock: Yes?
Colbert: Tell me about the Fightin' 18th.
Schock: You mean like tell you about my district?
[Has Aaron never watched The Colbert Report, including the segment on which he is appearing, called "Better Know a District"?]
Colbert: It sounds better to say the Fightin' 18th.
Oy vey. If Representative Schock is truly "the new face of the Republican party" (what happened to Bobby Jindal?), then we can all sleep easy.
There were also few quotes which, when taken out of context, can sound dirty, especially if you were already objectifying Representative Schock, as I was. Is he more than "just a pretty face, hair and body"? Readers, I suggest you watch the video and decide for yourselves.
Either way, I don't do Republicans; they are weird. I envision Republicans on a spectrum of, at best, misguided, and at worse, evil/Dick Cheney. He shot an old man in the face!
Colbert: Is there a spanking machine.
Schock: No spanking machine in Congress.
If only there were.
Colbert: It's a simple question. I think your constituents deserve to know. Do you or do you not have six-pack abs?
Schock: Well, you know, as soon as I say that, and then I get out of shape, you're going to use it against me. So, you know.
Colbert: You're implying that I am so taken with you right now. You're just implying that I am going to stay obsessed with your abs, sir. And yes. I'm not saying there's no chemistry here. But I'm saying I'm keeping this professional. All right? And I'd wish you do the same.
I wish he wouldn't.
Colbert: Congressman, thank you for taking the time to shock and awe me.
Thank you, indeed.
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
"Well, there's not a lot of elections in China."
Texas lawmaker suggests Asians adopt easier names, by R.G. Ratcliffe, Houston & Texas News.
A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are "easier for Americans to deal with."
The comments caused the Texas Democratic Party on Wednesday to demand an apology from state Rep. Betty Brown, R-Terrell. But a spokesman for Brown said her comments were only an attempt to overcome problems with identifying Asian names for voting purposes.
The exchange occurred late Tuesday as the House Elections Committee heard testimony from Ramey Ko, a representative of the Organization of Chinese Americans.
Ko told the committee that people of Chinese, Japanese and Korean descent often have problems voting and other forms of identification because they may have a legal transliterated name and then a common English name that is used on their driver’s license on school registrations.
Brown suggested that Asian-Americans should find a way to make their names more accessible.
"Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?" Brown said.
Brown later told Ko: "Can't you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that's easier for Americans to deal with?"
Well my peace. "You and your citizens"? Isn't she talking about Americans? Whose citizens does she think these people are?
Here are two comments that explain some of my thoughts on the situation, sic implied:
By suggesting that Asian-Americans adopt names that are easier for "Americans" to deal with, she implies that Asian-Americans are not "American" by separating the terms. While that may not have been her intent, it was the consequence she should have expected, assuming she is adequately educated of course.
- danieln92000
[ . . . ] that women is keep saying, "You and your people", "easier for us". so it's You vs. US? that woman has already set her mind that Asian-Americans are not part of Americans.
- sangjai90
Also, Toby is an easy-to-pronounce American name, dating back to the good old colonial days of the United States. I'd bet Representative Brown finds it much easier to deal with than Kunta Kinte.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
"The Republicans are going to get clobbered by African Americans?"
Yes, Stephen. You should be afraid of black people.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Agreeing with Republicans
Showdown looming in Congress of automaker rescue, by Stephen Ohlemacher, AP via Google News. Emphases mine.
Hardline opponents of an auto industry bailout branded the industry a "dinosaur" whose "day of reckoning" is near, while Democrats pledged Sunday to do their best to get Detroit a slice of the $700 billion Wall Street rescue in this week's lame-duck session of Congress.
The companies are seeking $25 billion from the financial industry bailout for emergency loans, though supporters of the aid for General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC have offered to reduce the size of the rescue to win backing in Congress . . .
. . . Sens. Richard Shelby of Alabama and Jon Kyl of Arizona said it would be a mistake to use any of the Wall Street rescue money to prop up the automakers because a bailout would only postpone the industry's demise.
"Companies fail everyday and others take their place. I think this is a road we should not go down," said Shelby, the senior Republican on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. "They're not building the right products," he said. "They've got good workers but I don't believe they've got good management. They don't innovate. They're a dinosaur in a sense."
Added Kyl, the Senate's second-ranking Republican: "Just giving them $25 billion doesn't change anything. It just puts off for six months or so the day of reckoning."
If you do agree with bailing out General Motors, I suggest you watch Who Killed the Electric Car?, and then reevaluate your opinion.
There is no need to give corrupt millionaires and billionaires even more taxpayer money.
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Boo-freaking-hoo.
Republicans in biz feel stifled, bullied, by Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter.
. . . there are many who are trying to make Hollywood more accommodating to political diversity. Andrew Breitbart is one. At his Breitbart.com, he's launching a "Big Hollywood" blog with 40 industry conservatives tasked with -- among other things -- highlighting liberal intolerance.
"There's an undeniably vicious attitude against those who dissent," Breitbart said. "Hollywood is the most predictable place on the planet, not exclusively because of politics but because of narrow-mindedness."
Breitbart maintains that liberals have pushed conservatives too hard in Hollywood and that Americans have noticed. His intent is "to stop the bullying."
One "Big Hollywood" blogger is Andrew Klavan, an accomplished novelist-screenwriter who made a splash with a Wall Street Journal article comparing Batman and the "The Dark Knight" to President Bush and the war on terror.
"It's not easy being different," he said. "The liberals aren't all that liberal. We think they're wrong, but they think we're evil, and they behave like it."
. . . If you lean right, pitch to those who are sympathetic, or at least tolerant of conservative viewpoints, Klavan said. Mel Gibson, Jerry Bruckheimer and Joel Surnow come to mind.
As white male writers in Hollywood, it must be difficult for Mr. Klavan and Mr. Breitbart to feel like they fit in. Oh, wait . . .
When you consider Mel Gibson as one of your sociopolitical peers, there is something wrong with you. Also, if we "liberals" think you conservatives are evil, well . . . All I can say is that these people aren't helping your cause.
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