the talking dog: July 4, 2008

Shakesville: Were the hecklers in a 'free speech zone?'

Majikthise: Propriety dictates that if one can't say something good about someone, they should say nothing. Okay...Jesse Helms is dead. Good.

Open Left: Congressional races looking up for Dems

Barry Crimmins: Call Me Lucky

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Joe Bageant, Democratic Veteran, World-O-Crap, Old Fashioned Patriot

Ed Helms responds to Shadegg's claims of, "the level of taint."

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Helms: When Tom Delay or Bob Ney walks into the gym, people can't help but whisper, " Jesus-God-would you look at the size of that taint!"

Don't forget to check out the map of D.C. They do a perfect send up of the word "taint."

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TDS had a funny bit last week. A year after the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts, Ed Helms investigates to find out if the critics' worst fears have come true. Has gay marriage ruined Massachusetts?

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Does James Dobson have to quake in his boots?

As usual, Stewart cuts through the red tape " and delivers some of his best work last night on 9/7"

Ed Helms says:...through the President's leadership, he'll end up building a billion dollar damn in Arkansas.

Stewart: Why would he build a damn in Arkansas?

Helms: His plan will be to fight the water over there, so we don't have to fight it over here.

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The list of disasters that the administation has faced had me rolling, How many times have we heard already that Mike Brown is due some sort of medal. lol

Jon Stewart calls the right wing loons out over the treatment of Cindy Sheehan.

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Ed Helms points out how President Bush is not letting his vacation plans be disturbed by Cindy in his usual funny way. Melanie Morgan, Michelle Malkin, and Fred Barnes all enter the very elite "Hall of Fame" for Circus Clowns. Stewart ties in the hypocrisy by the same Barnes ( Cindy's a crackpot )over to the Schiavo saga.

In the book, Helms suggests that he believed voluntary racial integration would come about without pressure from the federal government or from civil rights protests that he said sharpened racial antagonisms. "We will never know how integration might have been achieved in neighborhoods across our land, because the opportunity was snatched away by outside agitators who had their own agendas to advance," he wrote. "We certainly do know the price paid by the stirring of hatred, the encouragement of violence, the suspicion and distrust."...read on

Jesse, do you think you were one of the agitators stirring the pot with hatred?

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The NY Daily News has the story. It's actually vintage Clinton...and probably a very accurate analysis of Arthur Finkelstein:

"... He went to Massachusetts and married his longtime male partner and then he comes back here and announces this," Clinton said at a Harlem news conference.

"I thought, one of two things. Either this guy believes his party is not serious, and is totally Machiavellian in his position, or there's some sort of self-loathing there. I was more sad for him."

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Sounds accurate to me. Finkelstein helped elect Jesse Helms over and over. Something doesn't add up. This was his quote about his nuptials in Saturday's New York Times:

"I believe that visitation rights, health care benefits and other human relationship contracts that are taken for granted by all married people should be available to partners," he said.

See, Arthur, the problem here is that the people you work to elect don't believe in visitation rights, health care benefits and the other human relationship contracts for gay couples. They don't think of your relationship as human or normal. They hate you.

Update-John Aravosis takes a shot at Clinton.

Jesse Helms biggest fear? Bill Clinton running the United Nations click here