BREAKING: Stopped clock right twice a day:

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Wednesday night that despite the groundswell of grass-roots conservative energy, the tea party movement is not likely to revive the Republican Party.

“I don’t think you can talk about the tea party as a party,” Paul said during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “It’s made up of a lot of different people. And I don’t even see them as being Republicans.”

I don’t even see them as being carbon-based life forms, but hey, that’s me. This bit of ass-covering was what I found most interesting:

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Make them, that is, against the wonderful cartoonist Mark Fiore:

The death threats keep coming this fine morning.  I guess the Tea Party crew is determined to have “death panels” one way or another.  The dustup started because of this cartoon:

And what caused the orcs of the right to rise up and threaten the ringbearer?

NPR ran the cartoon, the orcs found it, and you know the rest.

Senility, or straight up lying?  You be the judge:

Appearing today on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, RNC chairman Michael Steele said that he wrote his book Right Now before he became chairman. The problem is, the book itself doesn’t read like it could have possibly been written before January 2009 — it was clearly written in late 2009, either in November or December, and is based entirely on current events up to that point.

“I wrote this book before I became chairman. Because of the clock and the calendar, I wound up doing it now,” said Steele.

This is epic lying.

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George Stephanopoulos, who doesn’t even bother to remind Mayor Shithead that, among other things, 9/11 and the shoe bomber happened on the Boy King’s watch.

Stephanopoulos, attempting to save a bit of face, takes to his blog to point out that Giuliani had a little memory lapse – and gets taken to task in the comments for his failure. I suggested he retire.

My former mayor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g-vtDwxWj8

As Think Progress points out, this is complete and utter nonsense:

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I haven’t seen Avatar, but if J-Pod hates it, I’m definitely going to:

John Podhoretz, the Weekly Standard’s film critic, called the film “blitheringly stupid; indeed, it’s among the dumbest movies I’ve ever seen.” He goes on to say: “You’re going to hear a lot over the next couple of weeks about the movie’s politics — about how it’s a Green epic about despoiling the environment, and an attack on the war in Iraq. . . . The conclusion does ask the audience to root for the defeat of American soldiers at the hands of an insurgency. So it is a deep expression of anti-Americanism — kind of. The thing is, one would be giving Jim Cameron too much credit to take ‘Avatar’ — with its . . . hatred of the military and American institutions and the notion that to be human is just way uncool — at all seriously as a political document. It’s more interesting as an example of how deeply rooted these standard issue counterculture cliches in Hollywood have become by now.”

And if J-Pod brings the stupid, you can count on Ross Douchebag to bring the stupid with sprinkles:

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Painful:

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He isn’t terribly bright, you’ll agree.