jane q. public

Michael Ian Black (“The State”/Wet Hot American Summer) set the humor aside (mostly) and made a fun little point about lying douchebag Sean Hannity.  Go read it now!

I bought it here.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Best thing I’ve seen all week!

EDITED TO ADD: Some might say (“some” being ME) Braisted’s use of “might privately argue” is a lot like Fox New’s tactic of using phrases like “some say” as a means of a reporter espousing their own opinions in a story (as is covered in ‘Outfoxed‘). It sounds more to me like it’s Braisted publicly expressing his opinion.

Huckaboom Hits TV

Guess what network? My stomach is churning.

Fox News raises hackles again with “baby mama” phrase

There’s a special place in hell for Rupert Murdoch and his minions.

I ran across a Los Angeles Times blog post about the bullshit forwards we’ve all seen about Obama – you know, the ones you have to delete when you realize what they are so that anger doesn’t cause you to put a brick through your monitor (or maybe I just need a little anger management.

Barack Obama vs. the Internet rumor machine

I think that the type of people who would buy into/be swayed by this shocking level of ignorance a) probably wouldn’t vote for an African American*;
b) probably wouldn’t ever vote for a Dem; c) probably watch Fox “News” so they most likely wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them in the face. Did I mention shallow gene pools? I’m just sayin…

However, I have a hard time letting bullshit get by without at least attempting to set the record straight. Last month Mary Mancini posted a handy response to such e-mails (I’ve even seen them as Myspace bulletin posts) at Liberadio(!). I’ve bookmarked it and have found myself almost wanting to get another of those forwards – in spite of the can of worms it might open up:

It’s Time for The Busy to Stop and Take the Time to Fight The Crazy.

The Times article also had a link to a section of Obama’s sight set up specifically to counter this type of misinformation:

factcheck.barackobama.com

*Tatie, my favorite editor, was I supposed to hyphenate that? I can never remember.

Abramoff Had Closer Ties to Bush
Color me shocked!

Senate Republicans block windfall profit taxes on Big Oil
The unexpected just keeps coming…