Keith offered up a delicious wingnut trifecta of shoddy research and revisionist history Monday night.
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Bronze goes to Bill Kristol for (once again) making up facts not supported by reality in his attempt to smear Barack Obama and praise John McCain, his neocon brother-in-arms.
Comedian Rush Limbaugh gets the runner-up spot for disparaging a 10th grader’s decade-old research paper as he tried to trash Barack Obama’s astute observation that the current economic climate resembles the conditions that preceded the Great Depression.
And, of course, the coveted gold goes to convicted felon FOX News analyst Ollie North for having the sheer audacity to chide Barack Obama for suggesting we negotiate with Iran when he (North) was the principal architect in the Reagan-era scheme to illegally sell weapons to the Iranians.
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Tags: Bill Kristol, Iran-Contra, Oliver North, Worst Persons
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All 3 are pretty evil. Aren’t Bill Kristol and Rush Limbaugh always the worst people in the world. Is there a worldwide ranking system for this? Maybe we should come up with a points system for the worst people in the world to see how they rank…
excuse me while i throw up
How much longer do we have to put up with the far right’s lying, swift boating and scare tactics? How much longer will hard working Americans listen to the reich wing drivel as gospel? Thank you KO for your voice of truth and sanity! Keep up the great work.
Recently at an NRA function, Ollie North and some goons of his threatened and harassed some people with legitimate press credentials. They took the disks and batteries from their cameras and threatened them with federal crimes.
This is a direct assault on the freedom of the press.
http://www.wearechange.org/200.....ce-in.html
I get it now. Oliver was being tough on the terrorists. I know I feel powerless when I get ripped off by my phone company or when trying to use airline miles. Oliver was just stealing their money and selling them crap with no warranty that will keep them busy with constant repairs, navigating the Pentagon’s phone maze for customer support, all with a no-refund policy.
My son was at that NRA convention with his grandfather, and almost tripped Oliver North when he stopped in the middle of pedestrian traffic.
Later he asked his mom if that was someone famous, and she replied, “Well, he’s infamous.”
I think I get it, one should never appease the terrorist but it’s all right to profiteer from them.
on the diane rehm show this morning …a guy named Mickey Edwards was telling about his new book about real conservatism and he called limbaugh an idiot!!
Diane Rehm Show
Ollie was a hardcore drug runner in the 80’s and yet he walks around free, like some untouchable hero. He’s a criminal and has goons attack credentialed press when they ask questions he doesn’t like.
Oliver North
Convicted traitor and treasonous piece of shit , being lauded by She Yawn Insanity and FAUX Comedy Channel ; you can tell a lot from a person and the group they belong to by whom they revere and admire …………
Kristol, North, Limabaugh ?????? They are making lots of bucks from their eager support of the military industrial complex.
Absolutely the biggest pieces of shit ever. Oops, I forgot about the rest of the republican party! All pieces of shit!
The US gave Mexico 140 million just 2 months ago and the Police are abandoning thier post, So what happen to the money? The same with this country their is no accounting of money, morals scropples nothing, yet we are unfortunate to be with out a home the rethuglicans will lock you up for something. It does not matter what, you never get a trial. The people are always quilty except when you are one of thier crooks who they give money too. In that case you get to do what ever you want.
north is a disgusting, ignorant douche bag. He should be in prison not bothering us with his stupidity.
Crime pays!!!
It is odd the Iran/Contra affair is so ignored. Ronnie & Ollie are praised when they sold weapons to Iran- the same Iran BushCo is trying to go to war with…
Wait, I’m trying to understand Neo-Con thinking, I’m a silly boy.
In other news…
Up is down
White is black
In is out
Fast is slow
Off is on
Man, why was I born? These people are insane!
MargeAggedon @ 13:
ignorant??? hardly!!! douche bag???? not completely!!!
tool of the military industrial congressional mediatainment big pharma complex??? definitely!!!
centralilgirl @ 3:
the gop reichwingneocons live to lie. as long as a large
portion of Americans have an IQ lower than 29 points, they will listen.
it’s not a matter of fooling the people, it’s a matter of just
ignorant sheeple.
Teleken @ 15:
That’s easy, it’s about selling war.
First you sell weapons to people, then you declare them evil because they have those weapons, then you attack them so you can use your weapons [creating the need for more] and their weapons [more sales] then you declare them ‘friendly’ again and start selling weapons to them again. That is unless someone else has started selling them weapons in the mean time. Then you just don’t declare them ‘friendly’ until you get rid of all those foreign sales agents. Of course there’s the added bonus if they happen to have widely coveted natural resources you can steal.
Now is a perfect time for me to thank Nicole for ceasing to call Rush Limbaugh a comedian after I requested it months ago. As a professional comedian - one of the good ones - hearing Rush called “comedian” feels derrogatory. Silent Patriot, My Friend, (HT to John McCain) would you be so kind as to refrain from calling Rush a comedian? Thank you. Me and my 25 years of expressing truth through humor appreciate it. Please take this as the gentle-hearted nudge it was intended to be. Your Pal, Carrot Top
Yup, it sounds like Kristol will soon get syndicated in the print media, Limbaugh will pick up some more radio affiliates, and North will likely head McCain’s Justice Department. If this keeps up the Republican brand will go from dog food off the shelves to dog shit on our shoes. Maybe it’s already way past that. Gotta a popsickle stick I can borrow?
North has been a scumbag for at least 40 years. From his efforts to get Randy Herrod off the hook for the Son Thang Massacre to the bombing in La Penca, Costa Rica in 1984. For more, see:
Sean Hannity’s Search For “Terrorists”
If you’d shown me a few of these “Worst Persons” segments 10 or 20 years ago, I would of said, “No way, that’s gotta be a joke.”
You know if KO also had a Stupidest Award and a Most Hypocritical Award then Ollie could have had a hat trick
8 Marko Mickey Edwards is an Okie and a Republican I’m not embarrassed to say is from Oklahoma. (I’m an Okie.)
Jelperman @ 22:
Thanks for the link. I enjoyed reading that.
A collection like this in one segment is enough to send any decent person from the room with an urgent need to vomit.
Excuse me . . . . .
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All pricks with no dicks.
Howard Hussein Beale @ 20:
Love your irreverent prop comedy and informative cell phone commercials!
On Highway 49 in Mississippi, in the piney woods near Hattiesburg, there is a piece of private property above which the owner flies an enormous Confederate flag. I was driving there one day when I saw a billboard just underneath the gigantic Confederate flag advertising a show at one of the Biloxi casinos: the Temptations and Carrot Top.
It was a weird scene.
Ollie North, American Traitor and Drug Runner.
What a Republican.
Doesn’t he look just like Curious George?
MargeAggedon @ 19:
WOW! If a weapons manufacturer were to militarize the largest nation in the world and then convince all other nations they needed to purchase weapons to defend themselves from this nation and then convince the largest nation it needed more weapons to defend against the now heavily armed other nations then said weapons manufacterer would become filthy rich while stifling the progess of mankind. That would be a terrible situation.
May there be a special place in hell for all three.
Did we not all grow up with Dr Seuss’s book?
Was the concept too simple to see the connection of the butter battle story with the military sales in the nation?
Children and conservatives are very susceptible to ‘bogey man’ yarns of all manners and if they reckon that adults believe as well, such narratives take on a certainty an infant or republican cannot discharge as daydream or boner-producing fantasies. The shock and strain twisted by this progression is life-long, with the hopeless dupe doing all within their influence not to distress a god, understanding with exact certainty, the penalty of doing so. The babyhood distress of accepting as true-life, demonic imagery and unholy places noramlly becomes lighter with maturity. The recently formed neurotic based conduits containing the information about hell, evildoers out to get you, and other diverse malevolent entities linger, at the very smallest amount, as an fundamental part of their limited but unconscious ideas.
This stimulated dread of a hellfire is so enormous and so unsettling of common sense and normal thinking, that any scheme to elude it becomes suitable. Blind horror perverts, bends and transforms time-honored balanced ethical deliberations. A self-centered mind-set is produced resulting from hysterical longing for private escape from perdition. Defective assessments by conservative or backward individuals can and often are prejudiced by a saving-from-hell doctrine as a replacement for of levelheaded analysis. The penalty of politicians making edicts or granting funding whilst beneath the hex of GOP hell-phobic-delusion are obvious.
After Iran-Contra, it’s amazing that Ollie has any credibility at all. He should be behind bars. Our nation and media have been taken over by thugs. I can’t even comment on Slick Willie Kristol or Comedian.
Thanks KO, X ten zillion times……..slowly the sheep are waking up…ahhhhhhh.
What is wrong with this country? Ollie North is vicious and not a little stupid, a convicted felon who ‘got off on a technicality’ and still he has a radio program and is invited comment on teevee (not the reputable shows, but still.) Michael (Weiner) Savage is a flat out racist who promotes violence against mniorities on the air; Rush Limbaugh calls for riots in Denver to his millions of dittoheads; Mike Huckabee makes a joke about assasinating the likely Democratic nominee, at a convention of gun lovers. AND NOTHING HAPPENS!
The corporate media and the criminals in government have ruined America. AND I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!
Powkat @ 38:
Don’t forget Justice Sunday I and II where they called for assassinating “librul” supreme court justices. Shouldn’t those radical preachers and congress critters that supported that be in jail?
I’m not in the least surprised that North’s a hero on the far right. There, so-called purity of intentions trumps everything. Oh, so Saddam didn’t have WMD after all? Well, that’s okay, George’s heart was in the right place… The consequence is the any-means-to-the-end mentality. At least with the moral relativism we “liburuls” are supposedly guilty of, you have to take into account that there is more than one definition of “right” out there. Not with these people. Collateral damage doesn’t matter–only what you were trying to hit. Thousands dead and billions squandered and a country’s future poisoned by this Munchausen-by-proxy scam that BushCo have been playing in Iraq for five years? Neocons are too busy counting their oil and no-bid contract profits. Theocons are cheerleading the mushroom cloud so they can be Raptured. And the rest of ‘em are too busy pointing fingers at (Bill) Clinton to detract from their short-sighted cowardice in electing these jack-booted @#$%^&*wits back into office in 2004.
Bottom line: Nobody left on the right willing to point up the traitor and criminal for what he is.
Wow ! What a trio ! These lunatics would make Hitler so proud . Thank God their party is about to go down in flames !
centralilgirl @ 3:
As long as there is one racist, one homophobe, one mindless authoritarian hate-filled moron out there, Rush will be on the air waves speaking directly to them.
Teleken @ 15:
STOP! Immediately! Otherwise, you will go insane.
ollie north - our man in iran.
Keith needs to fire his makeup artist. That’s an appalling amount of blush!
I once heard some rightie criticizing dems for their love of irony, stating we can’t live without. Sadly, one of the traits of rethugs, like North, is that don’t understand irony…or hypocrisy for that matter.
OMG, did North really say that? H*** ****! What a set he’s got. No shame for that punk.
The man personally shipped over a thousand missiles to Iran… WTF is he talking about? He should be in jail.
Is repub hypocrisy still ironic once you’ve come to expect it? Which leads me to another profound question…
If Larry Craig taps his foot in a washroom and an undercover cop is not there to hear it, does it still make a sound?
Ollie North gives his enemy a leg up against us, heroically making moot any advantage we would gain by using tough diplomacy with them.
Way to go Ollie!
Sigh. I swear wingnuts are increasingly devoid of the skills needed to survive reality.
I also loved Keith’s demolition of the guy who has a plug permanently stuck up his posterior….er Bill Kristol. But I’m betting the wingers are equally clueless about Kristol’s goof.