Our Groovy Festival of Hate

[Part III, Freedomworks' Adworks will follow in the early week. The Fort Hood tragedy is an important event, whether we take the right path, or the disastrous path in its aftermath -- HW].

slick anti-Muslim propaganda

This is a special day for imbeciles, droolers, morons, haters and Michelle Malkin (who neatly encompasses all of the aforementioned demographics).

So, let’s go back to where it all went wrong.

Nine Eleven.

Oh … Dear … Ghod …

Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Michelle Malkin: ‘Political correctness is the handmaiden of terror’

And Michelle Malkin is the handmaiden of Satan.

The problem is, who can figure out what Robert Stacy McCain is the handmaiden of?

MSNBC Gets Astroturfed Again

Chris Matthews had a particularly repellent election segment last night, featuring Mark Williams and Willie Brown in front of pictures of California cities, respectively the former holder — until fired in 2006 — of the “Rush Limbaugh” chair at Sacramento’s KFBK AM  conservative talk radio station and the former Mayor of San Francisco and perhaps the most important Speaker of the California House in the 20th Century.

So, guess who got to do all the talkin’?

Willie Brown (l.) and Mark Williams (r.) 3Nov09

FreedomWorks and their Oregon Franchisees

In Part I ["Freedomworks’ Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon"  31 October 2009], we learned that FreedomWorks has been extraordinarily active in Oregon (a smallish state on the West Coast, population approx. 3 million) for many years now. And we learned that in FreedomWorks’ 2008 tax return, their highest paid outside contractors were in Oregon, as was the Oregon State Director, who was paid more than the Oregon governor to engage in what is “private legislation.”

Eastern Oregon

And we learned that they won’t tell us WHO is behind them.

Oregon conservatives launch nonprofits to push initiatives

By Dee Lane, The Oregonian
August 01, 2009, 10:00AM

“Day refused to say who is giving money to Common Sense …”

Ochoco Mountains

And we learned that I’ve been on vacation, and am posting photos FROM our “staycation” in the Oregon high county so you can see the state that FreedomWorks’ shadowy masters are trying to buy. We pick up the story of Mannix, Walker and Day.

November in the Moronosphere

You remember “NewsBusters”? “Exposing and combating liberal bias in the media.” You know, Brent Bozell’s fake Media Matters doippelganger, a “fact check” for the Reich …  er, Right?

Right.

[Note: Part 2 is on the way. Still waiting on some numbers.]

The News from SatanLand.

It isn’t every day that you get to see a true cretin cream in his creepy cretin jeans.

Sheppard drowning kittens

Today is such a day. Listen to Noel Sheppard, second ugliest man in the blogosmear™:

No Souls Day

Before continuing with part two (see yesterday’s “Freedomworks’ Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon“), I’d like to offer a little intermission entertainment, something to think about or explore on your own  before the beginning of Act II of our little drayma [sic] in surreal life …

Our successful free market lassaiz faire capitalists

Remember that Freedomworks is a major sponsor of the tea party movement. Because this email went out from the affiliated NEW American Liberty Alliance on Halloween morning (talk about unmasking):]

Freedomworks’ Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon

A scary, spooky Halloween story…

The “initiative” process, pioneered by Oregon in 1904, as a means of stopping corrupt and bribed legislators stalling needed reforms has been co-opted by the corrupters and bribers to STOP the Oregon legislature from making needed reforms.

Part The First

I haven’t written so much as an e-mail since October 14. Much needed vacation, although, in this case, it was more or less a “stay-cation.” Just the Oregon back country between here and Boise, Idaho (business convention).

So, I’ll intersperse this with Oregon pix, which turns out to be appropriate. This is the state that the [mystery benefactors]‘ little organization, Freedomworks* wants to buy with their stealth cash.

(* Founded as Citizens for a Sound Economy in 1984, after David Koch’s LITERAL purchase of the Vice Presidential slot on the Libertarian ticket in 1980 and walkout from the Libertarian Party Convention in 1984. The parallel Citizens for a Sound Economy FOUNDATION is now Americans for Prosperity. These are the two[?] main groups promoting the “Tea Party” movement.)

Rush’s Widdle Feewings are Hurted

[Limbaugh composed (although will not acknowledge it) the parody "Barack the Magic Negro" to the stolen music of "Puff the Magic Dragon." Smoking gun follows.]

Awww. It seems that somebody’s suggesting that he’s a racist asshole. Who?

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww …

And his widdle feewings are all hurted. I mean, who would LIE about somebody and then suggest he’s a racist? Why LIBERALS, of course!

Listen:

The Viper in the Armoire

[Note: an armoire is, according to Webster's Online Dictionary:

Main Entry: ar·moire

Pronunciation: \ärm-ˈwär, Southern also ˈär-mər\

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle French, from Old French armaire, from Latin armarium, from arma

Date: 1571

: a usually tall cupboard or wardrobe ]

Having had nothing meaningful to say, I have,  as admonished by my grandmother, said nothing. But new information has changed that.

This very American story of hate and its effects in modern day Indiana started out innocently. A source e-mailed me a copy of a letter that had been mailed to a Kiwanis chapter setting up a charitable event by Kiwanis International’s agent, Dennis K. “Denny” Flahault of Bloomington, Indiana; a Vice President of the Hylant Group, the 25th largest insurance company in the USA.

Dumb and Dumbererere

Kenneth P. Vogel — keep that name on the tip of your tongue, Bad Tabloid Hall of Fame jurists! — has managed to create a post today that ought to win whatever the journalistic equivalent of the Darwin Award is, or whatever the tabloid equivalent of the Raspberry Awards might be.

Incivility In American Political Speech

[NOTE: revised slightly, and with links, this was the presentation that I made last night at the panel  for Prof. Steven Candee's Political Science class at LCC, carried on Comcast Channel 23 last night in Eugene, Oregon. A necessarily abbreviated time line essay, given a 15 minute time slot for the presentation. Other panel members were Jackman Wilson, The Register-Guard's editorial page director; Rick Dancer, former KEZI anchorman and 2008 GOP candidate for Oregon Sec'y of State, and Charles Dalton, Chair of the Democratic Party of Lane County. -- HW]

This is not the first time in American history that our language has become so toxic. There are two other times that this has happened.

The Actual Hamilton-Burr dueling pistols

The first time was when Americans ignored George Washington’s idealistic — as it turns out — plea