The latest call to arms from Tea Party Nation: We’re under attack from liberals uploading porn to our website?
Good quote from my old friend Joan Walsh …
One guy is talking, perhaps inelegantly, about why he’s whole-heartedly supporting our first black president; the other is wishing the country had elected a racist. That’s exactly the same thing!
TPM favorite Frank Gaffney recently claimed that the top anti-Jihadists in the US counter-terrorism community are being purged because they’re too anti-Shariah and not PC enough. But one of the two purgees Gaffney mentions actually seems to have gotten canned for having sex with a government witness in a major congressional corruption investigation.
In other words, the FBI Agent, John Guandolo, screwed the pooch and the witness at the same time.
Sarah Palin signs on as a paid contributor with Fox News.
I was just watching DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton on Fox explaining why Sen. Reid should stay right where he is notwithstanding longtime civil rights advocate John Cornyn saying he should go.
Norton explained that there’s a rather elemental difference between describing American racial attitudes in archaic and embarrassing language and endorsing racism. But she also made the subsidiary point. People are going to interpret Reid’s comments in the context of a strong record on civil rights and anti-discrimination — just as they interpreted Lott’s comments in terms of a long record of support for neo-segregationist politics and white supremacist groups in his home state.
If Obama wants to sign a health care reform bill before next month’s State of the Union address, this is the week a lot of compromises have to be reached among Democrats on the Hill.
Sen. Cornyn says Reid’s talking about racism is actually much worse than Sen. Lott’s endorsing racism.
Talking about racism does not make you racist; advocating racism does.
I think this is probably the best explanation of the difference between Reid and Lott. It’s amazing how many different chatters are being led around by the nose on this one.
TPM Reader PH adds some more thoughts …
Whenever one of their side is brought down by corruption or racism, they have to then spend the next three decades looking for superficially similar circumstances that might allow them to take their revenge.
The tea party true believers are increasingly suspicious that the establishment GOP is trying to co-opt the movement (and probably for good reason). But things seem to be coming to a head over a for-profit “National Tea Party Convention” slated to be held next month in Nashville, featuring Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. Meanwhile, the convention organizers say their website is being overrun by liberals trying to “offend, disrupt and interfere” with their efforts, by among other things uploading porn to the site. So fun times all the way around in tea party land.
The would-be Christmas Day bomber had a one-way ticket from Nigeria to Detroit, right?
But that bit of what now appears to be bad information has circulated far and wide and become ingrained in the conventional wisdom about the failed attack.
Justin Elliott does the forensics on the one-way ticket myth.