27 Reasons To Give Thanks
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 27th, 2009 5:35 am by HL
27 Reasons To Give Thanks
We’re thankful President Obama is thinking long and hard about committing more troops and money to Afghanistan. We’re thankful President Bush feels liberated now. We’re (not) thankful Dick Cheney has elected to move from his undisclosed location to the media spotlight. We’re thankful Al Franken has gone from playing self-help guru Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live to […]
We’re thankful President Obama is thinking long and hard about committing more troops and money to Afghanistan.
We’re thankful President Bush feels liberated now.
We’re (not) thankful Dick Cheney has elected to move from his undisclosed location to the media spotlight.
We’re thankful Al Franken has gone from playing self-help guru Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live to helping rape victims receive justice from their employers.
We’re thankful for the healing power of beer.
We’re thankful there are some on the right who think Glenn Beck is “incoherent,” “mindless,” “erratic,” “bizarre,” and “harmful to the conservative movement.”
We’re thankful for long hikes on the Appalachian Trail.
We’re thankful Michael Steele understands that he can’t “do policy” and that no one has any reason to trust his “words or actions.”
We’re (not) thankful for “birthers,” “deathers,” “tenthers,” or “tea baggers.”
We’re (not) thankful conservatives believe they love America so much that they can root for our President to fail and for our nation to lose out on hosting the Olympics.
We’re thankful NFL players refused to “bend over and grab the ankles” for Rush Limbaugh.
We’re thankful six companies have resigned from the Chamber of Commerce due to its denial of climate change science.
We’re thankful Falcon “Balloon boy” Heene wasn’t actually in the balloon.
We’re thankful Lt. Dan Choi and Lt. Col Victor Fehrenbach bravely spoke out against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
We’re thankful Shep Smith doesn’t always drink the Fox News kool-aid.
We’re thankful more than 80 companies refused to lend their sponsorship to Glenn Beck’s hateful rants.
We’re thankful there are progressive organizations in D.C. lobbying for a two-state solution in the Middle East.
We’re (not) thankful for the filibuster.
We’re thankful that more than 20,000 of you stood up to Bill O’Reilly’s harassment machine and called for impeachment hearings against torture advocate Jay Bybee.
We’re thankful that Iran’s authoritarian rulers live in fear of their own population.
We’re thankful we’ll no longer have to listen to nativist rhetoric on CNN and global warming skepticism on ABC News.
We’re (not) thankful for bailed out CEOs who think they’re doing “God’s work” by doling out billions in bonuses.
We’re thankful for the legacy of the Liberal Lion.
We’re thankful Bill O’Reilly won’t be following us home for Thanksgiving.
We’e thankful a “wise Latina” sits on the Supreme Court.
We’re thankful our boss helped rescue imprisoned American journalists in North Korea.
We’re also very thankful to have the support of readers like you! What are you thankful for? Let us know in the comments section.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Beck?s Sexist Reason For Ruling Out Palin-Beck Ticket: She?d Always Be ?Yapping? Like We?re ?In The Kitchen?
In recent days, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has indicated that she may be open to a conservative presidential dream ticket in 2012: Palin-Beck (or Beck-Palin). “I can envision a couple of different combinations, if ever I were to be in a position to really even seriously consider running for anything in the future, […]
In recent days, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has indicated that she may be open to a conservative presidential dream ticket in 2012: Palin-Beck (or Beck-Palin). “I can envision a couple of different combinations, if ever I were to be in a position to really even seriously consider running for anything in the future, and I’m not there yet,” Palin told Newsmax. “But Glenn Beck I have great respect for. He’s a hoot.” Fox and Friends plugged the idea yesterday morning and asked Palin whether she would run with Beck. She kept the door open, saying, “I don’t know. We’ll see, we’ll see.”
But just a few hours later on his radio show, Beck shot down the idea, saying he was “absolutely” ruling out a Palin-Beck ticket. He explained that if he had the number two job, Palin would always be “yapping” like they were in “the kitchen”:
BECK: I don’t think things are hoots. I don’t. I don’t think it’s a hoot. I would never use the word hoot, and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she would stop using the word “hoot.” […]
No, no I’m just saying — Beck-Palin, I’ll consider. But Palin-Beck — can you imagine, can you imagine what an administration with the two of us would be like? What? Come on! She’d be yapping or something, and I’d say, “I’m sorry, why am I hearing your voice? I’m not in the kitchen.”
Listen here:
A woman’s appropriate place on a presidential ticket, according to Beck, is in the number two spot. Otherwise, she should just “yap” away in a kitchen somewhere. Apparently, being a vice presidential running mate behind a woman is a serious challenge to Beck’s manhood.
When Newsweek ran a picture of Palin in a running outfit on its cover this month, Palin and many others criticized the magazine for being sexist. Beck joined the outrage, saying the “attack” on Palin was “dizzying” and “devastating.” He said Newsweek had reached “the highest of the lows” and added that the magazine now “sucks.”
Transcript:
BECK: Now Sarah Palin, is — she’s down in Florida, and Fox asked her this morning a couple of questions. Do you have both questions or just the one?
PAT: I have just the one.
BECK: Oh just the one, okay. Alright.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Chances you’ll run on a ticket with Fox’s own Glenn Beck, as was reported earlier this week?
PALIN: I saw that, I saw that. I got a kick out of it, and he probably thought that was just a hoot too to hear such a thing.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BECK: Okay, stop stop stop. I don’t think things are hoots. I don’t. I don’t think it’s a hoot. I would never use the word hoot and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she would stop using the word “hoot.” (LAUGHTER)
COHOST: I think that’s a good safety tip.
BECK: I mean it’s a laugh, its funny, it’s ridiculous. You would say it’s ridiculous, because it is. It’s ridiculous. But I don’t think — please stop using the word hoot. […]
BECK: Play the whole thing again.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Chances you’ll run on a ticket with Fox’s own Glenn Beck, as was reported earlier this week?
PALIN: I saw that, I saw that. I got a kick out of it, and he probably thought that was just a hoot too to hear such a thing. Um, I don’t know. We’ll see, we’ll see.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BECK: We’ll see, we’ll see.
CO-HOST: He probably thought it was a hoot, though, she was — she was talking about you.
BECK: Yeah, let me just put this rumor to rest cause she’s obviously — she hasn’t ruled — she obviously hasn’t ruled it out.
(CROSSTALK)
BECK: Did she not say, and I quote, “We’ll see, we’ll see.” So she clearly hasn’t ruled it out.
CO-HOST: She said it twice, she reiterated it.
BECK: So while she’s considering it, I just want make it very — You’re such a jerk.
CO-HOST: What?
BECK: I’m sure she finds this a hoot. So while she’s still considering it — “we’ll see, we’ll see” — I just want her to know, I’m ruling it out.
CO-HOST: Really?
BECK: A Palin-Beck ticket — I’m absolutely ruling out.
CO-HOST: Oh God, not this again. Please can we not?
BECK: Please can we not? (CROSSTALK) No, no I’m just saying — Beck-Palin, I’ll consider. But Palin-Beck — can you imagine, can you imagine what an administration with the two of us would be like? What? Come on! She’d be yapping or something, and I’d say, “I’m sorry, why am I hearing your voice? I’m not in the kitchen.”
CO-HOST: You’d you have to live up to evil conservative stereotypes, you’d have no choice but to do so.
BECK: I’d have to.
