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Early Morning Swim: Republicans Blame Democrats for Recent Violence, Claim to be Victims
Turns out Eric Cantor is a lying liar.

Turns out Eric Cantor is a lying liar.

According to police, Eric Cantor was mistaken. His staff office in Richmond, Va. was not targeted by political extremists as he claimed earlier today with so much partisan pizazz. Instead, a bullet fired into the air at 1 a.m. on Tuesday happened to fall at just such a trajectory that it punctured the office’s front window and fell some inches from it.

Police in Richmond said late Thursday that bullet was fired randomly, and that Cantor’s office was in no way the target.

I’m sure he’ll issue a retraction today, right?

Tags: Early Morning Swim, Republicans

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Late Late Night FDL: Far Away Eyes
The Rolling Stones — Far Away Eyes.

The Rolling Stones — Far Away Eyes.

What’s on your mind?

Tags: far away eyes, late late nite firedoglake, music video, The Rolling Stones, YouTube

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Have fun keeping your share of the TLC Swag from the Duggars
Sarah Palin’s forthcoming reality show … it’s no ‘Keeping up with the Kagans’

There were stories circulating this week that somehow super-grifter Sarah Palin’s “alternative reality show” Baked Alaska was somehow going to end up on the Discovery Channel. The same channel that has given you “Planet Earth” and “Life“, shows featuring the undeniable power of the evolutionary process, was going to give you someone who thinks the first Kentucky Derby winner rode a Jesus-Horse.

But alas, you cannot schedule Sarah Palin before or after “Mythbusters” so Discovery shuttled her off to lesser-light TLC, the network that brings you such quality programming as ‘Hoarding: Buried Alive‘, ‘Little People, Big World‘, and the Duggars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and Counting. And it’s great that Palin can come to TLC and save the network because the Duggars are just about out of cipherin’ digits to figure out how many they’ve done birthed.

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Allen Barra on the Curious Case of Thomas Sowell
Is the noted scholar in residence at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution truly America’s “most original and interesting philosopher,” as Paul Johnson insists?

Is the noted scholar in residence at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution truly America’s “most original and interesting philosopher,” as Paul Johnson insists?

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No surprise that Harris poll finds Republicans believe GOP smears of Obama

A Harris poll released on March 24 found that a majority of Republican respondents believe that President Obama “is a socialist,” “wants to take away Americans’ right to own guns,” “is a Muslim,” “wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a one world government,” and “has done many things that are unconstitutional.” The findings follow a year of such smears and attacks on Obama by conservatives.

Republicans have bought into right-wing smears of Obama

According to the Harris poll, conducted of 2,320 adults between March 1 and March 8, a majority of Republicans repeatedly) but that it “may have been the plan from the beginning” to get the “institutional infrastructure” set up to create a public option. [Glenn Beck, video promotion for his book, Catastrophe, Morris stated that “through the G20 summit process and then the elaboration and expansion of regulation of financial institutions” Obama “has put the regulation of the American financial sector under international control” and that as a result, the “Declaration of Independence has been repealed.” Morris added that the “loss of sovereignty” lies “at the core of Barack Obama’s agenda.”

Beck declares the American Community Survey unconstitutional. On his Fox News show, Beck asserted that the supplement to the Census called the American Community Survey “is unconstitutional,” adding “I don’t need to tell you all of this.” [Glenn Beck, 7/28/09]

Limbaugh: Obama is “the greatest example of a reverse racist.” Talking about the nomination process of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Limbaugh said: “Here you have a racist. You might want to soften that and say, a reverse racist. And the libs of course say that minorities cannot be racists because they don’t have the power to implement their racism. Well, those days are gone because reverse racists certainly do have the power to implement their power — Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist, and, now, he’s appointed one.” [The Rush Limbaugh Show, asserted that “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.” Limbaugh repeatedly “compared Obama’s health care policies to the Nazis’ ” [The Rush Limbaugh Show, reference to expanding the foreign service, AmeriCorps, and the Peace Corps — Beck said: “I’m finding this — this is the hardest part to connect to. Because this is — I mean, look, you know, David [Bellavia, former Army staff sergeant], what you just said is, you said, ‘I’m not comparing’ — but you are. I mean, this is what Hitler did with the SS. He had his own people. He had the brownshirts and then the SS. This is what Saddam Hussein — so — but you are comparing that. And I — I mean, I think America would have a really hard time getting their arms around that.” [Fox News’ Glenn Beck, 8/27/09]

Beck: “I read [Mein Kampf]” and “the Germans … were an awful lot like we are now.” After asking, “Did the Germans know?” Beck stated that “the scariest book I ever bought was Mein Kampf.” He continued, “I went and I bought it and I read it, ’cause I wanted to answer that question. The answer was — yes, they knew. I think the Germans, however, were an awful lot like we are now; we’re kind of living in a denial like — no, that can’t really be happening. No, that really — you don’t want to believe some things but you have to. You have to actually think about them.” [Glenn Beck, 6/10/09]