Stories to Watch: 4/21/12

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An example of the extreme intolerance of the religious right: Mitt Romney's scheduled commencement speech to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Seems that as a Mormon, Romney isn't a "true" Christian and has no business addressing "true" Christians. So, for those of you keeping track of these sort of things, either you're a Baptist or you're the enemy.


Which means that the Liberty U cultists will have a lot of enemies in the coming years; Pew finds that one in four people under thirty have no religious affiliation at all.


Ed Kilgore on state level Republicans and activists, Mitt Romney, 2012, and 2016: "[R]ight wing leaders don’t seem particularly invested in winning the presidency — at least not in 2012. Mitt Romney is not their candidate, and Barack Obama is the perfect fundraising and umbrage-inducing foil for right-wing fundraising and base-building for a wide-open contest in 2016."


You know how all this terrible class warfare stuff is supposed to be scaring businesses away from the US? Yeah, about that...


What's it like to get a transvaginal ultrasound? "Vigorously uncomfortable."


Weird. It turns out that Andrew Breitbart was not murdered by an Obama administration afraid of his lame-assed video. The rightwing version of Scooby and the gang will have to find some other mystery to chase around for a while.


Obama fundraising is down. Here's why that's not as much of a problem as everyone will say it is.


Finally, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight and, with a new moon. it should be an excellent night for viewing -- weather permitting.

Related articles

• Mitt Romney Will Give Commencement Speech At Liberty University (towleroad.com)
• Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure (cnn.com)
• Mitt Romney Decries 'Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy' In Media: Many 'Inclined To Do The President's Bidding' (mediaite.com)
• CNN's Loesch tells 'foreigner' Bashir to 'go back to his own country' (rawstory.com)

News Roundup for 10/25/11

Pat Robertson

Headline of the Day-
"Even Pat Robertson Thinks Republican Voters Are Too Extreme."

Yikes! Pat Robertson -- the man who said that Methodists and Presbyterians are the antichrist, who agreed with Jerry Falwell that "pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the People For the American Way" were responsible for 9/11, who claimed that a massive earthquake was the Haitians' own damned fault for being Satan worshipers, and who said that Scotland was a "dark land" ruled by the Homosexual Menace -- thinks GOP voters are too extreme. And they better listen to him, because he could kick all of their asses -- he can leg press a literal ton!

"Those people in the Republican primary have got to lay off of this stuff," Pat said on his TV show, Drinking Paint for Jesus. "They’re forcing their leaders, the frontrunners, into positions that will mean they lose the general election. Now whether this did it to Cain I don’t know, but nevertheless, you appeal to the narrow base and they’ll applaud the daylights out of what you’re saying and then you hit the general election and they say ‘no way’ and then the Democrat, whoever it is, is going to just play these statements to the hilt. They’ve got to stop this! It’s just so counterproductive!"

"Well, if they want to lose, this is the game for losers," he went on.

It was a rare moment of clarity for Pat, who then slipped back into dementia and tried to filet an audience member, apparently believing he was hosting a cooking show. (Right Wing Watch, with video)


-Putting the 'geniuses' in 'evil geniuses'-
A can't-lose move by Koch & Koch.


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And that's just the first step. Next, they'll corner the market on vuvuzelas and giant street puppets. (GoComics)


-Bonus HotD-
"After Calling It ‘A Good Issue To Keep Alive,’ Perry Says Birther Conspiracy Is ‘One Of The Biggest Distractions.'"

Obvious conclusion: Perry's rapidly deteriorating basketcase of a campaign really needs a good distraction. (ThinkProgress, with video)