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6.54% Fascist 2.44% Fascist
Sun November 01, 2009
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(Huffington Post) Weird Blue Dog Democrats cost big Pharma 14 Billion dollars. Amazingly, this isn't due to lobbying or filling their campaign coffers  (huffingtonpost.com) (67)
(Politico) Interesting Petraeus for President  (politico.com) (208)
(Google) Ironic Limbaugh says that Obama "has got an out-of-this-world ego". Pot publishes press release saying kettle is a black as night  (google.com) (144)
(Watertown Daily Times) Followup Failed Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava is urging her supporters to vote for the Democrat in NY-23 race  (watertowndailytimes.com) (248)
(cfnews13.com) Florida Rep. Alan Grayson on how people see him: "They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly, but that's not what's important"  (cfnews13.com) (135)
(Some Guy) Interesting Hillary Clinton was kinda cute back in the day. Further proof that politics makes people ugly  (chicagonow.com) (131)
(ABC News) Amusing Rumors now circulating that Bill Clinton was punked in North Korea by a Kim Jong-il look-a-like. Matt Stone, Trey Parker wanted for questioning  (abcnews.go.com) (55)
(Yahoo) Scary President Obama indoctrinates over 2000 children into dark, satanic arts at the White House  (news.yahoo.com) (156)

Sat October 31, 2009
(Huffington Post) Followup John Lewis reunites with former Klansman who attacked him in 1961  (huffingtonpost.com) (62)
(National Journal) Scary "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.*" (*"Negative racial and religious stereotyping" not included)  (nationaljournal.com) (486)
(Some Political Party) Amusing Everyone knows Obama supporters are all about rainbows and unicorns... But how about Palin supporters? It looks like they're all about ponies  (our.gop.com) (95)
(Hot Air) Obvious "All the news that's fit to print" (unless we delete it after talking to the White House)  (hotair.com) (107)
(Hartford Courant) Obvious Joe Lieberman, feeling his committee chairmanship is secure, pokes another stick in the side of Democrats, plans to campaingn for GOP in 2010  (courant.com) (108)
(Huffington Post) Ironic In 1994, a Senator introduced legislation to kill the filibuster, calling the parliamentary maneuver "a symbol of a lot that ails Washington today." That senator? Joe Lieberman  (huffingtonpost.com) (64)
(LA Times) Asinine How to raise taxes without calling it taxes: Call it a loan. Kind of like that money you 'loaned' to your deadbeat brother-in-law  (latimes.com) (82)
(Salon) Dumbass Old 'n busted: Birthers. New hotness: Staters  (open.salon.com) (104)
(Politico) News Dede Scozzafava drops out of NY-23 special election  (politico.com) (219)
(ABC News) Sad Hopey McChange goes all W on a warrantless wiretapping lawsuit  (blogs.abcnews.com) (385)
(Some Guy) Stupid "A Criminal Complaint has been lodged against President Obama in the US District Court of Maine for his leading role in a criminal conspiracy amongst certain senior US Government officials."  (magic-city-news.com) (82)
(Sky News) Followup Abdullah Abdullah "likely" to pull out of Afghanistan's run-off election for president. 70,000 U.S. troops wonder what they are fighting for  (news.sky.com) (70)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Another person on the "JFK assassination was a conspiracy" bandwagon: LBJ. Wait, what?  (huffingtonpost.com) (46)
(NPR) Cool "Are you sure you can come into the US?" "I'm HIV-Positive"  (npr.org) (73)
(Crooks & Liars) Cool Jon Stewart executes full ippon on Fox News, throws them out of dojo and onto homeless guy who was just bumming a light  (videocafe.crooksandliars.com) (170)
(Yahoo) Strange Jerry Brown's only serious Dem competition drops out of race, giving Brown a clear shot to election as California Governor next year. This is not a repeat from 1974  (news.yahoo.com) (72)
(RealClearPolitics) Fail If Medicare were a bank, federal regulators would be closing its doors, selling its operations and sacking its managers  (realclearpolitics.com) (147)
(YouTube) Ironic Welcome to Mexico, where Americans are the illegal immigrants  (youtube.com) (88)

Fri October 30, 2009
(ABC News) Sick ABC: Obama spent $160,000 for each job the stimulus has created. White House: Don't distract the American people with your "math" and "science"  (blogs.abcnews.com) (238)
(The New York Times) Unlikely The Stimulus package saved *pulls number from hat* 640,239 jobs, mostly in *throws dart at board* education  (nytimes.com) (172)
(The Washington Independent) Amusing Not News: 58% of poll respondents blame former President Bush for the current state of the economy. Fark: This was a Fox News poll  (washingtonindependent.com) (179)
(NY Magazine) Amusing In what may be the widest stance ever, New Yorker to run for Idaho US Senate seat without ever leaving New York  (nymag.com) (59)
(538) Interesting Your daily moment of clarity: "It's easier to unify Republicans because mostly they want to stop things. It's harder to unify people when you want to do things."  (fivethirtyeight.com) (529)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious Sen Harkin: "That's a nice chairmanship you've got there, Senator Lieberman. It would be a pity if someone were to take it away from you."  (talkingpointsmemo.com) (181)
(The Raw Story) Obvious George H.W. Bush: Republicans are 'Extremists' and 'Blockheads.'  (rawstory.com) (275)
(National Review) Scary "From the earliest days of the presidential transition, Barack Obama's political operation sought to entrench the arts community in its 'outreach' operations"  (article.nationalreview.com) (204)
(Politico) Fail Congressional Budget Office finds the public option will have higher premiums. Oops  (politico.com) (309)
(AFP) Interesting Obama welcomes to the White House the 'legendary' Lee Kuan Yew, founder of Singapore, inventor of the Five-Point-Palm Exploding Heart Technique  (news.yahoo.com) (152)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Second Republican joins race for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. In other news, there are at least two Republicans in Massachusetts  (boston.com) (66)
(CQ Politics) Scary I for one welcome our new zombie voter overlords  (cqpolitics.com) (71)

Thu October 29, 2009
(The Weekly Standard) Obvious A recent survey finds Republicans know more about current events than Democrats. Weekly Standard faults MSM for not reporting the survey results. MSM responds: "Survey? What survey?" Remember, kids: Media bias is imaginary  (weeklystandard.com) (448)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting "People thought something small, agile and smart was coming to government, but so far it's turning out to be just big-box politics."  (online.wsj.com) (110)
(Salon) Asinine Orly v. O'Reilly: "Keep in mind, what OReilly did, is more dangerous, more harmful then what some idiots like Rachel Maddow or Keith Obertmann [sic] did, since people believe O'Reilly to be fair and balanced."  (salon.com) (135)
(Breitbart.com) Fail CMF, whose motto is "Good Government Through Good Management," is holding a taxpayer-funded seminar for Congressmen on how to improve their approval ratings by avoiding face-to-face townhall meetings with voters  (biggovernment.com) (15)
(Yahoo) Obvious Last year, Bill Clinton screwed his wife, for once  (fe25.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com) (42)
(FDL) Obvious Blue Dog "fiscal conservatives" kill measure that would save the average family $1400/year and the government $85 billion  (fdlaction.firedoglake.com) (205)
(Political Wire) Amusing Sarah Palin: "Those who would sell their body for money...are likely to say and do anything for even more attention." Andrew Sullivan: "Hey, here's a video of you in a bathing suit competition"  T-Shirt  (politicalwire.com) (107)
(National Review) Obvious Ah, fall. Temperatures are droping, leaves are falling, and ACORN is turning in forged voter registration cards  (campaignspot.nationalreview.com) (272)
(Fox News) Dumbass Vice-President Joe "Oh, Should I Not Have Mentioned That? Was That Wrong?" Biden reveals car manufacturer's privileged information  (foxnews.com) (108)
(St. Petersburg Times) Obvious Obama is overstating the potency of his package  (tampabay.com) (38)
(NewsBusters) Ironic Senior White House adviser says she is "speaking truth to power" when complaining about Fox News' bias  (newsbusters.org) (166)
(Think Progress) Fail "[This area] lags on human development indexes, its governor is dogged by corruption allegations, and election results simply break down along ethnic lines and re-enforce entrenched divisions." Iraq? Afghanistan? Try Mississippi  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (106)
(Fox News) Asinine Well the numbers are in and "Cash for Clunkers" ended costing about $24,000 per vehicle, next up - Healthcare  (foxnews.com) (471)
(Yahoo) Obvious Pakistan: We don't know where Al-Qaeda leaders are. Hillary: Huh? what? Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of my bullshiat detector going off  T-Shirt  (news.yahoo.com) (108)
(Politico) Asinine Want some maverickyness? That'll be $100K  (politico.com) (188)
(Reason Magazine) Interesting The health care public option will give private insurers competition, which is a good thing, right? "The typical state has 27 companies competing in the small-group health insurance market"  (reason.com) (249)
(Guardian.com) Obvious "Joe Lieberman has become the Balloon Boy dad of the Senate, a fame-whore so addicted to media attention that he hatches ever-more-desperate and risky schemes that sell out his "family" to earn press attention."  (guardian.co.uk) (152)
(Slate) Asinine Now the hippies want you to feel guilty for taking a hot shower, won't be satisfied until everyone is as dirty and smelly as them  (slate.com) (261)
(Quahog Times) Fail RI unemployment is 13% and climbing. What do lawmakers address? "Indoor prostitution, and the scourge of text messaging. Those are real issues. They don't go away"  (projo.com) (135)
(Yahoo) Hero President photographed with flag-draped coffins of returning American soldiers. This is obviously not a repeat  (fe7.story.media.mud.yahoo.com) (739)

Wed October 28, 2009
(Breitbart.com) Fail Obama is on the verge of drafting an RFP to form a committee to select a focus group to commission a poll to formulate a study to formalize a discussion to tap a brain trust to hire an action team to consider a decision about Afghanistan  (breitbart.com) (195)
(Huffington Post) Cool Obama stands firmly behind gays, signs hate crimes legislation  (huffingtonpost.com) (585)
(Wall Street Journal) Scary Copenhagen Treaty, if signed into law, would establish one world government  (online.wsj.com) (379)
(Talking Points Memo) Fail Now that the ACORN boogyman has run its course in the media, the great minds at the GOP decide to pick on someone new: The AARP. What could possibly go wrong?  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (236)
(Some Alaskan) Obvious 70% of Americans dislike Presidential candidates who quit their previous elected position? You betcha  (alaskadispatch.com) (201)
(Washington Post) Followup Congress starts investigating something they know all about for a change: brain damaged millionaires  (views.washingtonpost.com) (37)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) react to Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) fuzzy public option logic. With bonus violence inducing Joe Lieberman picture  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (233)
(Letters Of Note) Amusing More proof that JFK was the pimpest Commander-In-Chief ever  (lettersofnote.com) (38)
(Washington Post) Amusing Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the Last Flat-Earther  (washingtonpost.com) (235)
(Wall Street Journal) Ironic Obama's health care plan will cause private insurance premiums to triple, with the biggest increases among the same young and healthy citizens who came out to vote for him in droves  (online.wsj.com) (459)
(Nieman Lab @Harvard) Obvious You'll need the smelling salts for this one: Harvard and Northwestern find that the more government funding a media outlet gets, the less likely it is to cover government corruption  (niemanlab.org) (34)
(The Hill) Interesting "This idea that we're suddenly going to establish litmus tests and purge the party of anybody who doesn't agree with us 100 percent; that guarantees Obama's reelection." Mr. Gingrich, prepare to be teabagged  (thehill.com) (229)
(Newsweek) Interesting New census conspiracy: it's a plot to further the homosexual agenda  (newsweek.com) (78)
(USA Today) Obvious "There's a kind of realism that's taken over, that 'the change you can believe in' - people have woken up and seen that as kind of a talking point, and I think there's some disappointment, some deflation."  (usatoday.com) (157)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Dennis the Red Menace" is Obama's latest commie tool to enslave America's right-wing  (courier-journal.com) (90)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Clean air? Clean Water? Alright,who's responsible for this?  (freedomedium.com) (123)
(Slate) Interesting Christopher Hitchens, famously obstreperous critic of religion, says "the so-called Christian right is much less monolithic, and very much more polite and hospitable, than I would once have thought, or than most liberals believe"  (slate.com) (297)
(Politico) Obvious What's remarkable is what hasn't happened: Things Obama's done that would have earned heaps of scorn if done by Bush haven't become metaphors for Obama's personal and political character, even become controversies  (dyn.politico.com) (273)
(NYPost) Obvious New York finds that if you tax them hard enough they will leave  (nypost.com) (108)
(Don Surber) Interesting Glenn Beck proves charge that Fox News is a subsidiary of the Republican Party by indicating that he's no longer going to vote for the GOP. Wait, what?  (blogs.dailymail.com) (156)
(Wall Street Journal) Amusing Congratulations, Gov. Schwarzenegger, winner of the "passive-aggressive political letter of the year" award  (blogs.wsj.com) (61)
(Gallup) Interesting Gallup finds conservatism has made a comeback: 40% of Americans say they're "conservative" while only 20% own the word "liberal"; the rest are among the 36% who self-describe as "moderate"  (cato-at-liberty.org) (176)
(LA Times) Interesting Rep. Alan Grayson apologizes for calling lobbyist a whore. Did not intend to disparage honest working girls by associating them with lobbyists  (latimes.com) (43)
(Examiner) Scary 2010 is shaping up to be 1978 redux, but without disco, thank God  (washingtonexaminer.com) (111)

Tue October 27, 2009
(Bloomberg) Cool President Obama updates his diplomatic scorecard: ☑ Solve the Iranian nuclear problem  (bloomberg.com) (162)
(CNN) Asinine An investigation shows that federal grants to Samoa to build a tsunami warning system were instead used for things like flat screen TV's and trips to Vegas. Hey, they could have just wasted that money  (cnn.com) (66)
(Google) Obvious Senate moderates voice concern over public option, constituents voice concern over Senate moderates  (google.com) (138)
(NewsBusters) Obvious Democrats "trying on every front to increase the role of government." What right-wing, teabagging, Fox-watching loon says so? Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass  (newsbusters.org) (142)
(Yahoo) Stupid Old and busted: "Bush has forgotten about Afghanistan." New hotness: "Obama has forgotten about Iraq"  (fe30.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com) (58)
(PoliFact) Interesting Democrats rang up a $1.42 trillion budget deficit in 2009 - the single largest in American history  (politifact.com) (456)
(538) Strange "The first surprise is that Reid is showing some backbone."  (fivethirtyeight.com) (95)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious Jane Hall says she quit FOX because of their slanted coverage and Beck is scary  (crooksandliars.com) (351)
(Politico) Asinine Rep. Alan Grayson (D-America's Psychotic Wang) may have gone too far by calling female Bernanke advisor a "K Street whore"  (politico.com) (352)
(Politico) Florida Nobody wants to take on Alan Grayson, much in the way nobody in a bar wants to take on the crazy drunken boxer taking random swings at the jukebox  (politico.com) (79)
(Wall Street Journal) Spiffy Shut up, whiny progressives: "Mr. Obama already has manned up. He's told the left wing of the Democratic Party that he's running the show, not them. Not comfortable with that? Go blog about it"  (online.wsj.com) (384)

Mon October 26, 2009
(The New York Times) Ironic Turns out most of the uninsured live in states likely to opt out of the public option. That whooshing sound you hear is the million-ton karmic shiathammer descending on the GOP  (nytimes.com) (724)
(Washington Post) Asinine "The good news is that religious conservatives continue to breed like rabbits, while secular saboteurs have shut down: they're too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids."  (newsweek.washingtonpost.com) (411)
(CBS Minneapolis) Dumbass Harry Reid says the health care reform bill introduced to the senate will include a public option, if that's okay with everyone  (wcco.com) (409)
(Some Guy) Asinine Whitehouse.gov now runs on open source. Like we didn't have enough fanatical zealots praising Obama already  (informationweek.com) (135)
(Reason Magazine) Obvious How both sides of the health care debate are misleading the American people  (reason.com) (168)
(Politico) Spiffy Hope and change and watching this drive: Obama has played as much golf in 9 months as Bush did in 2 years  (politico.com) (205)
(The Raw Story) Sick GOP Facebook page features a demotivational poster of Obama eating chicken with a message against interracial marriage. What - they shouldn't have done that?  (rawstory.com) (290)
(Some Monster or Critic) Unlikely Do you have Prince Albert in a can? How about Prince Albert in a sex tape?  (monstersandcritics.com) (12)
(Little Green Footballs) Followup Now that the dust has settled, 60% of Americans are in perfect agreement with President Barack Obama: He didn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize  (littlegreenfootballs.com) (192)
(Fox News) Obvious Critics decry "name calling" from the Socialist, Fascist, Commie, messiah, empty suit, uppity, Kenyan, Hitler like President Obama  (foxnews.com) (277)
(Chicago Boyz) PSA Why 20% of Britains are open to the BNP: "If a liberal order cannot provide economic and physical security, a population conditioned to see state power as the solution to all problems can slide into authoritarianism almost overnight."  (chicagoboyz.net) (116)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting Sean Penn flies to Cuba to interview the only man more left-wing that he is, Fidel Castro  (breitbart.com) (116)
(Wall Street Journal) Asinine ObamaCare is all about choice, or rather, taking choices away from American citizens and giving them to government bureaucrats  (online.wsj.com) (363)
(Telegraph) Obvious It's time for Barack Obama to stop campaigning and start governing  (blogs.telegraph.co.uk) (387)

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