Top 10 Conservative Idiots
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Top Ten Conservative Idiots – War on Christmas EditionI am not EarlG nor am I going to pretend to be (much respect). This will not be the same column and heck this might last only 4 weeks but I will commit to doing 4 of these, if they catch on then so be it. If not I’ll take the cue and exit… well fittingly here… stage left (or stage progressive?).
It’s that time of year again, you know where we spend time with our friends, families, and co-workers relishing our time together, oh your watching Fox?
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Then it’s the time of the year for the war on Christmas and fittingly so here is the War on Christmas edition of the Top Ten Conservative Idiots.
This week The War on Christmas is back! Bill O’rielly [1] blames the gays, Rush Limbaugh [2] blames John Kerry, Jan Brewer [4&5] might miss Christmas completely, and Mitch McConnell [6] is busy with his war on himself to bother with Christmas.
1. Bill O’Rielly
This week Bill O’Rielly blamed the gays for the war on Christmas. And speaking on behalf of the gays let me be the first to tell you if we were part of this war sweaters like this
would not exist (Okay... you caught me, maybe a few
).
O’Rielly believes Christianity is under attack from gays and others who have no morals. "I absolutely agree 100% that the diminishment of Christianity is the target and Christmas is the vehicle because the secularists know the opposition to their agenda—legalized drugs is in that as well—comes primarily from the Judeo-Christian traditionalist people," O'Reilly said.
I’d like to take a minute to remind Mr. O’Rielly that gay families everywhere celebrate Christmas, without us there would be no Christopher Radko. Just FYI Bill we will be waiting for your net crazy rant on the War on Christmas next year, predictability is so passé.
2. Rush Limbaugh
Okay so he’s an easy target and I have gotten to the point where I don’t think his level of idiot really changes week to week, but here goes. On his December 7th edition of his daily (I know right?) show Limbaugh asserted that John Kerry shouldn't "make this comment about soldiers terrorizing women and children at Christmas-time". Limbaugh also accused Kerry of calling American soldiers “terrorists”, problem is here is what Kerry actually said:
This was in reference to Kerry’s comments from December 4th where Kerry criticized former President Bush’s foreign policy: "[T]here is no reason ... that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the -- of -- the historical customs, religious customs. ... Iraqis should be doing that."
See with Limbaugh it’s not really a war on Christmas but his war on the truth.
3. George Zimmerman
This week George Zimmerman was back in the news. First his legal team released a shocking, revealing, innocence proving image… which well… had been previously released… but this time it was in COLOR. It’s funny no one seems to care that Trayvon’s gun… I mean Skittles were actually also in color too.
Zimmerman went a step further and sued NBC on Thursday, claiming he was defamed when the network edited his call to 911 the night of the shooting.
"The former neighborhood watch volunteer filed the lawsuit seeking an undisclosed amount of money in Seminole County, outside Orlando. Also named in the complaint were three reporters covering the story for NBC or an NBC-owned television station. The complaint said the airing of the edited call has inflicted emotional distress on Zimmerman, making him fear for his life and causing him to suffer nausea, insomnia and anxiety."
Looks more like his nausea may have been caused by pigging out on the food in the county lock-up. He is still charged with second-degree murder, and his defense is still trying to use the “stand your ground law” to protect him. Hopefully if he wins his case (NBC sure did edit the call) he can afford to pay the lawyers it’s going to cost and awful lot to get him off the other charge.
4. Jan Brewer
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Arizona Reporter 1: "You sure you want to ask Jan Brewer about global warming?"
Arizona Reporter 2: "Why?"
Arizona Reporter 1: "Well did you hear what happened to the last guy?"
This week Arizona governor Jan Brewer was asked about global warming by the local TV station. When asked if global warming was a man-made occurrence Brewer responded, "Everybody has an opinion on it, you know, and I, you know, I probably don’t believe that it’s man made, I believe that, you know, that weather elements are controlled maybe by different things."
Brewer did not like the question and followed up with the reporter, grabbing his attention by punching him, check out the tape at link.
5. Jan Brewer again…
Earlier this week Jan Brewer was missing! Yes some were afraid she might be hiking… the last time someone was hiking it turned out trails were not the only mountains they were scaling.
There was sure a lot of concern and her spokesperson did the best to quell the publics fears: “I don't believe that the public has a right to know where every state employee is at all times, even one who happens to be the governor. She has a right to privacy, to a point. If she is taking a personal trip, she should be able to say so. But the governor's staff, without question, needs to know her whereabouts. When they don't know, or appear to have been deceived, everyone looks bad.”
Well after a few days of mystery Bloomberg finally found Jan Brewer in Afghanistan visiting the troops. Which certainly inspired a few fun tweets:
May I see your identification miss?
6. Mitch McConnell
On Thursday the senate MINORITY leader from Kentucky Mitch McConnell introduced legislation to raise the debt ceiling just to show that even Democrats would not support the bill. EPIC FAIL McConnell’s plan backfired after a vote was called on McConnell’s legislation to raise the debt ceiling by the senate MAJORITY leader from Nevada Harry Reid. In a twist of events not seen in the Senate ever before McConnell had to filibuster his own bill!
7. John Boehner
Turns out John Boehner wants some alone time with President Obama for the Holidays… err… to negotiate that cliff? Who really could enjoy the Holidays with that thing hanging over us anyways?
At House Speaker John A. Boehner’s request, Senate leaders and Representative Nancy Pelosi have been excluded from talks to avert a fiscal crisis, leaving it to Mr. Boehner and President Obama alone to find a deal, Congressional aides say.
It seems to me that John Boehner seems to think that he won the election? Let’s just hope that this year we don’t get a repeat of last year’s meeting where Boehner walked away. There is some consensus that this will be helpful
All sides, even the parties excluded, say clearing the negotiating room improves the chance of success. It adds complexity as the two negotiators consult separately with the leaders not in the room. But it also minimizes the number of people who need to say yes to an initial agreement.
Maybe Obama will take some pointers from the Guns & Roses song Don’t Cry when dealing with Boehner (got to be careful, he is a cryer).
Talk to me softly, Boehner
There is something in your eyes, Guilt?
Don't hang your head in sorrow, Boehner
And please don't cry, , Grover will get over it
I know how you feel inside, Boehner
I've been there before, remember last year
Somethin is changin' inside you, BAM Tax Hike
8. Dominic Pileggi
Dominic certainly got the memo about failure from William Hickson, “if at first you can’t succeed try, try, try again”, or in his case “cheat to win”. As the majority leader of the Pennsylvania State Senate he announced plans to re-introduce legislation, which would change how Pennsylvania allocates electoral votes. He must be tired of losing; no Republican presidential candidate has carried PA since 1998.
On his second attempt at rigging the election Pileggi’s legislation would award electoral votes in relation to the statewise popular cote, with a two vote bonus for the winner (everybody is in the giving spirit this season). This whole this boils down to another scheme to move a somewhat reliable blue state into the red column says Daniel Roth spokesperso for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which works to elect Democrats to state legislatures.
"They wouldn't be doing this if Pennsylvania had gone Republican in the past six elections. This is clearly an attempt to move electoral votes to the Republican column because they know they cannot win the state."
Roth is most likely right, the states which currently have similar legislation pending at some level include Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio. Sour grapes anyone?
And just check out the other mystery of who is paying to get the PA GOP's plan through the State House.
9. Okay now it’s your turn!
What did you think?
What can I do differently next time?
Should I leave this alone, as part of the DU legacy?
10. Help Write the "Re-Vamp!"
And finally if you liked it send me PM’s over the next week with ideas for next week. Over the next four weeks I will shoot for a Friday publish time, no guarantee on the time. Also if you happen to be a graphics wiz kid... some are in the works but my skill set, is well basic.
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great first effort
I look forward to more
run with it and see where it goes.
great first column, i'll be looking forward to next week
We've certainly have sufficient material to feed the award process these days. If you have a problem finding ten, or the time to document them I suggest you do a top five, or just leave off the number and name it the "Top Conservative Idiots" and let the bear market for idiocy for the week to guide you.
After all, it's your baby now. We all want it. And we'll support you, I am sure.
Just wow! You deserve a bounce:
with the order and some key omissions. Any list MUST have Limbaugh as number 1. He is way worse than O'Reilly, as is Hannity, whom you've overlooked. Other omissions: Beck, DeMint, Louie Gommert, Michelle Bachmann, and some other tea bagging congressmen all worse than Boehner and McConnell, who are actually establishment Republicans.
I applaud the effort at pic making, which I have no ability to do.
Great effort, looking forward to next week!
I hope to see you carry the torch beyond the 4 week trial period.
This old DUer is getting all misty-eyed over the thought of the return of the TTCI.
You done good!
Retired broken down court reporter here. Saw a zillion hearings and plea bargains and trials. Everything from JP court up to Federal District Court.
This is what it did to me:
Louie Gohmert, Congresscritter from Tyler, TX, and other counties, asked the government to keep the word "lunatic" in Federal Laws:
Quote from The Atlantic Monthly:
Yes, you read that right: It took six months to get this through both houses of Congress. What's more, the bill made it through the Senate despite the objections of one man: Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert. His office issued this statement explaining his stand as the lone "no" vote on the measure.
"Not only should we not eliminate the word 'lunatic' from federal law when the most pressing issue of the day is saving our country from bankruptcy, we should use the word to describe the people who want to continue with business as usual in Washington."
I asked Gohmert's office to clarify the statement as to whether his objection was to the removal of lunatic or just to the House focusing on issues like this rather than the fiscal cliff, but I've received no response.
You may remember Gohmert as the greatest exponent of the theory of "terror babies," the idea that Islamist groups like Hamas were sending women to the United States to have babies in the U.S. who would be citizens, allowing them to return later to perpetrate terror plots, an idea for which no evidence exists. A writer with a less discerning sense of humor might suggest the idea came from the lunatic fringe.
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He's not my Congresscritter but mine is just as bad. Mine is an oil company whore.
Good to see the list again!
you forgot Sen. Stumpy McCain.
This guy is totally worthless. He does nothing but wait around for the latest "scandal".. the current one being Ms. Rice's intitial comments regarding the Benghazi fiasco.
in a week or so he'll be ranting about a new scandal. this is providing service to your constituents?
I started reading DU just for this feature, way back when.
Agschmid!!
Thanks for keeping up the tradition! 
