If you haven’t seen it yet, you should. This video should be required viewing for anyone who is preparing to go on Fox News:

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Sadly, I have a pretty strong feeling Rep. Anthony Weiner won’t be invited back on the network any time soon.

Via: Crooks and Liars.

Bat-shit crazy anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, which pickets the funerals of U.S. soldiers, announced today it will be protesting at the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards.

She supported same-sex marriage long before it was popular to do so, and was an advocate of universal health care and social justice.

Another thwarted wannabe terrorist, another FBI affidavit…

We won’t dive as deeply into this one, because now we know what to look for: Was there a plot afoot before the FBI stepped in to aid and abet? Was the FBI protecting us, or just appearing to protect us?

Our story begins, as all stories do, on Facebook:

On September 29, 2010, MARTINEZ made a public, open source posting on his Facebook account stating: “The sword is cummin the reign of oppression is about 2 cease inshallah ta’ala YA muslimeen! don’t execept the free world we are slaves of the Most High and never forget it!” On October 1, 2010, he made another public posting: “Any 1 who opposes ALLAH and HIS Prophet PEACE.Be.upon.Him I hate u with all my heart.” On October 8, 2010, the CHS brought this information about MARTINEZ to the attention of the FBI.

CHS stands for Confidential Human Source, or Freelance Fink. We’re told nothing about the Fink, which is a shame. This being Baltimore, we’re curious which character from The Wire we’re dealing with.

And how did the Fink come across the Perp’s Wall — apparently some days after those posts? The story we’re not being told is actually more interesting than the one on the page.

For that matter, the story on the page is curiously familiar:

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OK – so I’m a little obsessed with her:

“Hackers in London apparently affiliated with ‘Operation Payback’ — a group of supporters of Julian Assange and Wikileaks — have tried to shut down SarahPac and have disrupted Sarah and Todd Palin’s personal credit card accounts.” [ABC]

“A Baltimore man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a plot to blow up an Armed Forces recruiting center in Catonsville, Md… The law enforcement sources said the man was caught in an FBI sting operation similar to one in Portland, Oregon, which led to the arrest of 19-year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-born U.S. citizen.” [TBD]

So, what’s Celibabe been up to since losing to the Delaware Marxist?

“Tragedy comes in threes,” O’Donnell said. “Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards’s passing and Barack Obama’s announcement of extending the tax cuts, which is good, but also extending the unemployment benefits.”

Huh?

“If we’re going to extend the jobless benefits we have got to cut spending programs and that’s the flaw in his announcement,” she said. “That’s the tragedy.”

Ah. Makes sense. Can’t extend unemployment benefits without cutting spending elsewhere, of course. But those tax cuts, well, we’ll gladly pay China next Tuesday, right?

Hold on — isn’t O’Donnell herself now unemployed?

Well, yes, but she’s relying on the kindness of strangers:

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