As TPM reported earlier this week, FOX News management has said heads would roll for on-screen "errors" like running the cover of "Going Rouge" instead of the cover of "Going Rogue" in their programming.

So what quality control agent is doing their pie charts? They add up to 193%, dude. And Sandy points out that 70% of Republicans suffer from BACK PALIN: a pre-existing condition for sure.

(h/t Huffington Post - original video from NJ.com)

There's a special place in hell for people like this:

Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), the man who recently "let it be known" that he'd step in should Gov. Corzine drop out of the New Jersey gubernatorial race, had his hands full at a town hall meeting in Red Bank last week.

A new low for these meetings may have been set when the crowd shouted down a wheelchair-bound woman with "two incurable auto-immune diseases" who had the gall to ask a question. Read on...

WTF is wrong with these people? I struggle to understand how their minds must work. It has gotten to the point where I can barely stomach these videos, but we must continue to put them out there and expose the ugly truth about the Republican Party and the fringe crazies who are out there doing their bidding.

I'm not a fan of Brian Williams, but this is pretty funny.

Open thread below...

Toby "I love a good lynching" Keith:

Even though the black society would pull for him I still think that they think in the back of their mind that the only reason [Barack Obama] is in [the general election] is because he talks, acts and carries himself as a Caucasian."

Why is it that only idiots that defile the national dialogue are the ones being given a platform?

Prometheus 6: This is pure evil and McCain will love it!

FP Passport: Europe is Obama country

The Cunning Realist: Growing Gills

Threat Level: Anti-Robocall crusader pushes for a crackdown on political phone droids

Each week until the election the producers of Uncounted - The New Math of American Elections, will release a clip from the film because now, more than ever, people need to see stories that will motivate them to stand up and help save our democracy.

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: The Hacktacular Mickey Kaus...The History Commons - an online tool for journalists...Austin paper pulls, apologizes for, article on Netroots...Obama (and Big Media) turn a blind eye to Israeli apartheid...Pre-programmed ideological idiots continue to be welcomed on WaPo op-ed page...Usury is quaint...He's exotic, dammit...MSNBC prez on Fox "You can't trust a word they say"...McCain's bid should've ended last week...The decline of newspapers is about the rise of the corporate state, the loss of civic reponsibility to inform the public...Stephanopoulos also hacktacular...Nas delivers...He wants journalism, but journalism doesn't want him...The year the L.A. Times died...What traditional media can learn from blogs...Israelis accused of abusing journalist...

Mike's Round Up

Confined Space: The Senate confirmed Edwin G. Foulke Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational and Health. Foulke comes from a law firm well known in union-busting circles, where he has spent most of his career representing management in workplace safety and health cases.

Recovering Liberal: DPW agreed to sell their U.S. port operations to an American company and that seemed to end the port problem. But did it? Of course not! When La Cosa Nostra Bush is involved in anything, the problems are never resolved in a simple manner....The idiots have taken over

Crooked Timber: Inequality and American democracy

Attytood: From "pre-emptive war" to "pro-active arrests"...NYC's thought police

The Revealer: Harken to the whining chorus of the perpetually oppressed Religious Right.  Apparently all their tax-exempt churches and their vast private properties aren't enough to heal the hurt. Despite enormous influence in all three branches of government, and having granted themselves, and their benefactors in the GOP, exclusive dominion over patriotism and the personal imprimatur of God, it seems they are forever on the receiving end of unfairness, discrimination, and mean-spirited abuse.

Attytood: From "pre-emptive war" to "pro-active arrests"...NYC's thought police

The Revealer: Harken to the whining chorus of the perpetually oppressed Religious Right. Apparently all their tax-exempt churches and their vast private properties aren't enough to heal the hurt. Despite enormous influence in all three branches of government, and having granted themselves, and their benefactors in the GOP, exclusive dominion over patriotism and the personal imprimatur of God, it seems they are forever on the receiving end of unfairness, discrimination, and mean-spirited abuse

Magazine ad "unleashes hell" for Boeing and Bell

Check out this ad. Are these people insane? Here we are trying to soften our image in the world and these idiots print an ad that has a helicopter with soldiers coming down out of it and says: "It descends from the Heavens. Ironically it unleashes Hell." (only partial pic)

While they say it should never have been published; I wonder how it ever got to a story board? (hat tip DS)

TDS-oh so subtle, oh so sweet-and oh so visciously takes apart the idiots who are supposed to protect us during a time of crisis.

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Alabama Senator Hank Erwin: Katrina was God's wrath.

As I mentioned earlier, the wingnuts heads are all exploding with racism and the bible over Katrina. Erwin's statements are a bit more scary because he holds office. When you see Hank you figure Falwell or Robertson, but not a State Senator.

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Here's the transcript. Here's an article.

As you know, I'm not against religion or God or spiritual beliefs. I am against idiots like Erwin. The frightening thing is that people like Hank are being elected more and more in our country and our media will not call them out when they sprout nonsense like this. He's all smiling and so taken with his opinions. Why hasn't Las Vegas been hit with something you pompous fool?

Erwin: Well, I think, if you look at what‘s going on, this whole region has always known that, with the church, that New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are known for sin. And if you go to a church and you read your Bible, you are always told avoid sin and that there‘s judgment for sin. And I just think that, in my analysis—and I can‘t speak for everybody, but I believe that, if you look at the factors, that you had a city that was known for sin—the signature of New Orleans is the French Quarter, Bourbon Street. It is known for sin. read the whole transcript"

Scarborough makes a good point in his close when he says:

"All I will say is this. When you look at Matthew 25, and the disciples ask Jesus, how do we get to heaven? That‘s what they were interested in. We want to sit on the right hand of the father. How do we do it? Jesus said, you take care of the poor. You give the thirsty water. When they come to your door and they need food, you give it to them. When they need clothes, give them the clothes off your back and visit them in jail. Basically, help the dispossessed. " That‘s why I just find it hard to square up my vision of God and what Jesus Christ said in the New Testament with what the senator is saying tonight."

via Think Progress :Right-wing activist David Horowitz has been leading an aggressive effort “to limit what teachers may discuss and to bring more conservative views into the classroom.” Now he’s taking his ideological campaign to elementary schools, middle schools and high schools....read on

What these fools are doing is pretty much the same thing that Nike did to the NBA. These sneaker company idiots started targeting younger and younger kids in middle and high schools with their swarmy tongues and lucrative deals. Turning promising talent into egomaniacs that can only dunk the ball. The NBA's virtually unwatchable now since they were allowed to infiltrate the youth. Instead of learning how to use the glass on a fall away jumper or take some time practicing free throws, these kids are pampered night and day until they become useless on the court. (Lebron James might be the exception to the rule). Just watch an NBA game and you'll know what I'm saying. The new cliche that kids are screaming about now and will get air-time on 24/7 is "I failed my test because I'm a conservative." If Horowitz is allowed with all the other buffoons to enter the schools by the education officials we'll surely have a true prozac nation. Maybe David is in league with the drug companies. That might explain it part of it.