While Perino took halfhearted issue with that description of Bolling, Stewart stood his ground, and for good reason, in my honest opinion. Take a quick listen to the breathtakingly open bigotry that was on display Friday evening when "the dumb guy," subbing for Bill O'Reilly, got together with The Lord's Own Nitwit, the Rev. Franklin Graham:

Rev. Graham: "[A]s a Christian, I want to emulate Christ, I want to follow Christ, and I want to do good to all men. Islam, the God of Islam wants you to die for him, but the God that I worship, he died for me. [...] But Islam -- the Muslims want to emulate their prophet Mohammed. Mohammed raped, he murdered, he killed and so we're seeing the followers of Islam emulate the prophet Mohammed, and we've got to take a stand, we've got to know what we're dealing with. But it's not just the Muslims in the Middle East. We have to be careful of the Muslims in this country. We need to stop the immigration, we need immigration reform, but to stop the Muslims coming to this country from countries that have active terrorist cells."

Oy, oy and oy again, because only one oy clearly isn't enough. To paraphrase the late author / entrepreneur Elbert Hubbard, while genius may have its limitations, these two dipschitts are not thus handicapped.

Part V

The Empire Strikes Back
April 12th, 2011.  Tuesday

I will get good news and bad news today. In that order.  I wake up with a well stocked pantry so I can think of other things.   The first order of business is a visit to the unemployment office.  In spite of being told my claim won't be challenged I don't trust them.  Working in the film industry you learn your way around this system and how easily it can go south.   Driving there I call my sister and ask them to start looking for a house for me to rent here expecting to be here, in AR, for a while.  
The first fortunate thing that happens for me, at the unemployment five,  is that I find out while discussing my case with the random case worker I draw is that he has only been in the job for a few months having previously been employed by and fired by the same employer who just fired me.  Driven by the same person behind my experience, something that person is known for BTW, and for similar stupid political reasons that had nothing to do with performance.  And they blocked his benefits.  He has an axe to grind and promises me he will move heaven and earth to make sure I receive benefits.  He tells me everything I need to do to prepare for a challenge should one come.  Then he reminds me that the congress has passed extended benefits and that should I need them I would be eligible for up to two years of benefits.   Welcome news but at the time I certainly have no plans to be unemployed for two years.  I have never really had a problem in the job market.

With this behind me I meet some friends from work for lunch and get the bad news.  I'm told that the Emperor and his minions plan to actively try to sabotage my job search.  Something they can effectively do because that 3.5 year job was my only work history in that field.   This plus the fact that I will be 60 in November in a field where the average age is twenty something is a real problem.  I know that I can find a job in the film industry.  I did that for the 15 previous years and have many friends and contacts.  The problem is, I don't want to.  It would mean going back into the contract meat grinder.  Two months here, three there.  God only knowing where "there" might be.   It was the reason I left the field in the first place.  Two years of unemployment is starting to look like a fortunate option.   It would bring me right up to retirement age and effectively be early retirement.  Not a terrible thing.  But with a big problem.  My single most important goal for retirement had long been that I would own the house I was living in.  I had been in a lease to own agreement with the landlord there and had fully expected to stay in that job for two more years or however much longer i needed to feel good about the equity in the house.
I really loved that house.  That house was my first major stroke of luck in this story.  I found and rented it from Craig's List without having seen it.  The pics looked great and surprisingly did not do it justice.  The biggest surprise was that it was a lakefront property.  Which incredibly was not mentioned in the ad.  It was right on a large gorgeous lake.  My backyard was lakefront. There was a lot of things I hated about being there in that city.  The geography, flatter than a calm ocean, the biggest hill for hundreds of miles in any direction was the freeway exit ramp.  I was never very excited about the job and hated about half the people I worked with.   That house made it all bearable.  I had great neighbors.  Still in touch with them.   I had really wanted to buy that house.

Having had several drinks for and after lunch I resolve to call the following day to inquire about cashing out my 401k.  Hoping it would give me the money I needed to move and pay a first and last month on a rental house.  If I had enough left over to pay down a couple of the over the limits cards I would have been thrilled.

During a discussion about marriage equality on Face the Nation, CBS host Bob Schieffer began by noting that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) had determined that Perkins' organization, the Family Research Council, was a "hate group."

"The Southern Poverty Law Center has branded the Family Research Council an anti-gay hate group," Schieffer explained as if it were a warning to his viewers. "We have been inundated by people who say we should not even let you appear because they, in their view -- quote -- you don't speak for Christians."

The irony that he, in fact, had him on the show allowing him to spew his hate seems to have somehow been eclipsed by his "stunning" acknowledgment that he was giving a forum to the leader of a hate group.

that I must play victim??

And Joe, if you have no religion then it is obvious you haven't studied Christianity

Sheriff Stanley Glanz announced the resignation of Tim Albin, the undersheriff. A 2009 internal review obtained by NBC News found that Albin had asked employees to modify reviews and training documentation for the volunteer deputy, Robert Bates.

The same review found that Albin told people who raised concerns about Bates to keep their mouths shut.

Joe Conason: Why Reporters Ignore the Real Story of the Clinton Foundation

The mere prospect of Hillary Rodham Clinton running for president again is evidently provoking outrage among old adversaries -- from Rush Limbaugh and Fox News to Maureen Dowd -- whose appetite for bogus "Clinton scandals" will never be sated.
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Now the Times is suggesting that the Clinton Foundation, a charitable organization responsible for saving and improving millions of lives every year, has been financially mismanaged and misused for personal enrichment, among other problems. Those accusations have been amplified not only by the Clintons' traditional enemies on the Republican right, who mortally fear a Hillary 2016 electoral juggernaut, but in a rather deranged column by Dowd, as well.
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Worse than the reliance on backstairs gossip, however, were the factual errors featured in the Times story, particularly concerning the Clinton Foundation's finances. As President Clinton himself noted in an open letter posted on the foundation website, the article incorrectly described the foundation's financial condition and history -- because the reporters didn't understand how nonprofits are required to report their cash flows on IRS documents.

In his letter, which will interest anyone who wants to understand what he has been doing for the past decade, the former president explained: "When someone makes a multiyear commitment to the foundation, we have to report it all in the year it was made. In 2005 and 2006 as a result of multiyear commitments, the foundation reported a surplus of $102.8 million though we collected nowhere near that. In later years, as the money came in to cover our budgets, we were required to report the spending but not the cash inflow. Also, if someone makes a commitment that he or she later has to withdraw, we are required to report that as a loss, though we never had the money in the first place and didn't need it to meet our budget."

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 But if Dowd and her Times colleagues were honestly interested in what the Clinton Foundation does with its funds, including the millions raised annually by President Clinton himself, all they would have to do is get off their butts and go look at its projects, which can be found all over the world. (Disclosure: This topic interests me so much that I recently visited Clinton Foundation projects in Africa with the former president and his daughter, Chelsea.)
That they never bother to do so, because reporting those stories would ruin their preferred narrative, tells but everything we need to know -- not about the Clintons, of course, but about themselves.

But the really interesting part is when it was written

I don't care what you think/write about me. I am who I am and I am perfectly comfortable in my skin.

But I reserve the right to respond to snarks in a like manner.

The mayor and police chief need to go. They allowed these people to destroy property, block traffic, take down US flag.

Not Just `Smoke and Mirrors'

"A skeptical Chris Wallace quizzed him on numerous points, including a $2.3 million donation to the Clinton Foundation by a Russian company that then was cleared by Hillary Clinton's State Department to purchase a Canadian uranium firm, giving it a giant stake in the world's uranium market -- a donation that was not reported."

Mark Halperin and the other of Bloomberg News guy said that the only Democrats defending the Clintons on this are those on the Clinton payroll.

Then they panned over to Donna Brazille as she began defending them. She looked down the whole time.

There is zero evidence that cash flowed directly to the Clintons, there is zero evidence that Hillary used any kind of leverage or advocated for the deal in any way. Yet you can "simply" declare her guilty of selling the country out.

That's pretty good, right???

Only 85% is paid out for salaries, and plane rides, and administration, and lawyers, and defenders of the cause, and computer programming assistance, and getting media people to lie for you, and oh yeh paying an accountant to redo your last 10 years of taxes and find a place for that $2.5 million that slipped notice.

I guess it is clear the Republican campaign will consist almost exclusively of asserting so-called Hillary scandals.  That means Republicans do not believe they can win on the issues.  Where is the mantra about tax-and-spend Liberals?  That was an oldy and a goody.

Winning by scandal has not worked for the Republicans.....Arguably Jimmy Carter only won because of Watergate.....And, I understand how the Republicans have Watergate Envy.   But the election of Jimmy only temporarily postponed the Reagan Revolution.  

But for me, it is an alternate universe.

I can't even imagine attending if I were to have been invited. I would look for some reason that I would have to be elsewhere.

There is the issue, for me, of the press schmoozing and oozing around the people in government about whom they are supposed to be objective and, imo, at arms length at all times. For me it is a conflict of interest - akin to contractors covorting with government officials from whom they wish to get money.

On top of that, this event takes place during times of great stress for many if not most Americans. And on top of that, we had just endured the loss of two innocents in a botched drone raid.

So, when I see the President become, sorry for the harsh words, the Court Jester, it just seems so abominably clueless.

But for many, this is a pleasurable event to behold. It reinforces the amour that they feel for this witty leader of the free world. So be it.

Ron Paul Stars In Oath Keepers Militia Film By Anti-Semitic Filmmaker

Former Republican congressman and onetime presidential candidate Ron Paul is starring in a new film about the threat of martial law in America which includes calls to join the extremist Oath Keepers militia. Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers supporter Elias Alias, firebrand preacher Chuck Baldwin, radical Arizona sheriff Richard Mack and far-right gun activist Larry Pratt are also featured in the James Jaeger film "Midnight Ride."

Paul, the father of Kentucky senator and current presidential candidate Rand Paul, previously appeared in Jaeger's films Fiat Empire, Original Intent, Spoiler and Molon Labe. As we've previously reported, Jaeger's group has a long history of publishing tirades against Jews (and their alleged involvement in child murder) and 9/11 truther theories.

Jaeger believes Israel was involved in the 9/11 attacks and he recently compared the state of Israel to ISIS: "Is it thus any surprise that when Zionists call for a Jewish state (ISRAEL) and Arab-Muslims call for an Islamic State (ISIS aka ISIL) there is going to be massive and endless conflict?"

One article he links to on his site, "Are Jews Conspiring to Take Over the World?," says that while it may be a fraudulent document, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion "accurately describe much of what is happening in our world today."

Alias hailed Jaeger's latest film as "a very classy showcase for the Oath Keepers [sic] mission, to the promotion of our `Ten Orders We Will Not Obey,'" a reference to the militia group's conspiracy-theory-laden manifesto about disarmament, nullification and concentration camps. He added that "Oath Keepers is helping James Jaeger fund the production of this important film, and the film will feature Oath Keepers in many ways."