Yessssss…it’s nice to see the case of Glenn Murphy, Jr. resolved during the campaign season. It’s a reminder that the GOP ranks are rife with Republican Sexual Hypocrites, perpetrating their sexual and criminal deviant behavior while presenting a pious, judgmental image to the public. (Courier-Journal):
The former chairman of the Clark County Republican Party pleaded guilty today to criminal deviate conduct as part of an agreement that could result in two years behind bars.
Glenn Murphy Jr. was arrested after authorities said he performed oral sex on a sleeping man following a July 28 party at a home in Jeffersonville.
...Murphy, who was also chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, resigned from both posts when the allegations were made public in August.
At the time of the criminal sexual activity, Murphy was at a party and spent the night on the top bunk in one of the bedrooms. At some point the predatory former Republican official decided to take advantage of the 22-year-old man in the lower bunk and
The man said he awoke at 6:40 the next morning and found Murphy performing oral sex on him, according to the document.
The man told Burton that he pushed Murphy away and left. Two days later, the affidavit said, the man met with Murphy and secretly taped a conversation during which Murphy apologized and begged him not to report the incident to police.
I don’t know what Murphy thought was going to happen; after all, it wasn’t the first time Murphy’s mouth ended up on someone’s privates while they were asleep. He had a prior arrest for sexual battery. Here’s the 1998 Clark County police report for your perusal (click to enlarge):
The very young governor of Louisiana is allegedly on John McCain’s VP shortlist, but this little bit of news should tank his prospects for selection.
Bobby Jindal, the 36-year old governor of Louisiana, is being taken seriously by the national press as a candidate on the shortlist to be John McCain’s Vice President. No one doubts that he’s a political prodigy—his impressive resume includes stints as president of the state university system, a Congressman and now governor.
But one of Jindal’s job titles hasn’t gotten much attention—and it just might prompt a few questions if his Veep candidacy gains steam: Exorcist.
We’ve discovered that in an essay Jindal wrote in 1994 for the New Oxford Review, a serious right-wing Catholic journal, Jindal narrated a bizarre story of a personal encounter with a demon, in which he participated in an exorcism with a group of college friends. And not only did they cast out the supernatural spirit that had possessed his friend, Jindal wrote that he believes that their ritual may well have cured her cancer.
It sounds like Jindal has a bright future as a competitor of Benny Hinn.
Sorry to bring up this guy again, but this is the living end. After posting about McSame’s idiotic reference to his campaign using “a Google” to vet his VP candidates, I come across this video (from early on in GOP primary) that I hadn’t seen. If anything should disqualify a person from leading us into the future, it should be this level of computer illiteracy. Voters, meet unashamed Luddite John McCain.
Interviewer: Are you a Mac or a PC user? McCain: Neither. I am an illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all the assistance that I can get.
There are plenty of “seasoned” citizens out there who surf the web and know how to use email, so he doesn’t get a pass for playing the crusty old coot card. There is zero excuse for John McCain to be completely helpless at the keyboard. If he cannot grasp the basic concept of email, the Internet, blogs or even a word processor on his own, we know the man is living in the past. You cannot delegate out knowledge about 21st century communication and technology that you would need to make critical decisions about the direction you want to take this country in, and how to protect and secure it in the digital age. Completely unacceptable.
Openly frustrated by what they see as an ongoing double standard in the press’s treatment of his campaign, Sen. John McCain and his aides have been aggressively denouncing unfavorable stories as “smear jobs” and “scurrilous attacks,” while the candidate himself has launched a series of stinging attacks on Sen. Barack Obama.
It’s a dangerous posture for a candidate whose political success is intimately tied with his image as an irrepressible happy warrior — equal parts President Ronald Reagan and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, with a dash of his old Arizona buddy Rep. Mo Udall’s sharp sense of humor — and whose appeal to independents owes nearly as much to character and personal narrative as to issues and ideology.
Shorter Politico: I thought we were friends, John! Friends! You even signed my yearbook!
For that bit of correctitude, the author gets a cookie. It’s a nice cookie.
However, there’s a point to this observation - the reason that people in this age category can’t find employment as is easily is, you guessed it, the minimum wage:
Who does this age group represent? How about high school and college students coming into the job market for the summer.
And what do many such job seekers get paid? Minimum wage –which Congress increased last year from $5.15 to $5.85, and which will increase again next month to $6.55, and then again next year to $7.25.
Here’s a personal case study in how that works to squeeze workers out of the minimum wage job market:
John McCain is no friend of the LGBT community. He has spent the entire primary season trying to convince the hardcore anti-gay bible-beating set that he’s a true believer. I don’t think he’s fooled anyone, but he certainly hasn’t been a maverick who bucks his party to support LGBT equality.
Scratch that; he does have friends—in the Log Cabin Republicans club. I was waiting to see how the group responded to HRC’s report on the Arizona’s long record of opposing civil equality. You will not be disappointed.
Log Cabin has had a long relationship with Sen. McCain, going back to our national office’s opening in the mid-90s. He has had an open door to us at Log Cabin and has a record of inclusion.
We understand the general election starts today and Log Cabin will do its part to educate gay and lesbian voters about Sen. McCain in the weeks ahead. Contrary to what many Democrats are saying, Sen. McCain is not George W. Bush. Most gays and lesbians understand that fact. Sen. McCain isn’t going to use gay people as a wedge issue. He won the GOP nomination with no help (and with outright hostility) from many so-called “social conservatives.” This is a significant achievement for all gay and lesbian Americans.
HRC glosses over McCain’s principled stand against the anti-gay federal marriage amendment. As I pointed out in this column for the Washington Blade, McCain didn’t just vote (twice) against the marriage amendment. He put himself on the line, bucked his own party leadership and President Bush, and took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to speak against the proposal. In 2004, he gave one of the most impassioned speeches from the Senate floor on the issue. That isn’t insignificant.
Is his record perfect? No. But it’s inclusive and shows positive signs. We will hear more about his priorities and record in the months ahead. Stay tuned…
Let’s provide some reality-based eduction. Click below the fold.
If you’re going to try to run away from Bush, try not to embrace one of the most memorably pointless moments of his presidency. Also, it really does help not to compare your opponent to a losing candidate that no living American could have voted for.
Word’s coming down that he’s trying to pay off his minister to put up a YouTube video of him saying “Fuck Jesus” to the beat of the Notorioius B.I.G.‘s “Get Money”. We’ll let you know how this progresses.
It was a difficult day on The Michelangelo Signorile Show yesterday, as Mike spoke with several angry callers who are ready to vote for John McCain before casting a ballot for Barack Obama. In the clip below, the caller cites a few reasons I’ve seen out there, including: 1) we know McCain, we don’t know Obama; 2) There’s just something about him (Obama) I don’t like. Watch it:
This whole call needs to be transcribed and circulated because we seriously need to have a discussion about the underlying issues here that are hitting on the third rail. Mike challenges the caller to explain these positions, given the huge political gulf between McCain and Obama on nearly every issue. The caller ends up admitting that his decision to vote for McCain is not based on logic.
Caller: My arguments aren’t logical…this is what my gut is telling me; I don’t consider myself a racist or bigoted…there’s just something about the man I don’t like and I’m not going to vote for him.”
Mike: It’s funny that you say your gut is telling you this and then you go on to say that you’re not a racist, funny how that works, right? Because maybe your gut is telling you something that you’re not wanting to admit…but listen, but you should be voting based on logic, based on rationality. What Republicans want is for you to vote on emotion. And you are a perfect example of how they get votes from people who are voting against their own self interest.
Obama’s and Clinton’s positions are far closer than Obama vs. McCain—it doesn’t make any sense to vote for McCain. For some, not all - there really is a deep-seated fear out there about being led by a black man, so much so that they’d vote for McCain. They think electing Barack Obama is somehow going to erase white privilege— as if it was possible—and then exact some sort of revenge for past wrongs perpetrated on minorities. Jesse and I blogged about this jokingly the other day, but this aspect of the rejection of Obama is not being honestly articulated—the caller in this case went out of his way to bring up how he’s not racist—when race had not come up in the conversation at all up until that point.
Another caller provided a comment on Mike’s blog. Read it below the fold.
{UPDATE: The Freepi are fuming at McSame's lame speech last night. They are flogging him -- it's below the fold.}
Let’s get right down to business. Behold the presumptive GOP nominee’s deft political skilz—here’s a snippet of McSame whining during his speech Tuesday. He’s mad that Barack Obama has repeatedly tied him to Dear Leader:
You will hear from my opponent’s campaign in every speech, every interview, every press release that I’m running for President Bush’s third term. You will hear every policy of the President described as the Bush-McCain policy. Why does Senator Obama believe it’s so important to repeat that idea over and over again? Because he knows it’s very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false. So he tries to drum it into your minds by constantly repeating it rather than debate honestly the very different directions he and I would take the country. But the American people didn’t get to know me yesterday, as they are just getting to know Senator Obama.
They know I have a long record of bipartisan problem solving. They’ve seen me put our country before any President - before any party - before any special interest - before my own interest. They might think me an imperfect servant of our country, which I surely am. But I am her servant first, last and always.
When I clicked over to Jesus’ General the other morning, I should not have been eating breakfast. Guest poster “John McCain” shared his trip to show how he knows how to “connect” with young voters in the virtual world known as Second Life. See his pasty virtual tattooed posterior below the fold.
“We hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that somehow nobody has ever thought of before,” Mr. McCain said. “Yet it’s hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another.”
I’m just surprised that McCain got through the Republican nominating process and doesn’t see what can be gained from talking to crazy anti-Semites.
I think there are two principal reasons for Obama’s omission of military service from the commencement address. First, in the guise of praising public service, Obama sings a song of himself. His work as a “community organizer” in Chicago is more praiseworthy, in Obama’s eyes, than work for profit-making companies in the private sector.
George W. Bush on Sunday, approaching genius. Note that he spends 81 words discussing military service (most of which are spent congratulating people receiving their commissions), 88 discussing private sector work (most of which are spent talking about the need for greater responsibility and ethics) and several hundred talking about the dread “public service”. This is out of 2700 words.
I eagerly await their repulsion at his anti-capitalist pacifism.
As I’ve mentioned before, politicians who court endorsements from religious leaders do so at their own peril, because you never know kind of batsh*t politically incorrect statements or sermons will come back to haunt the politician trying to rope in more people of faith at the polls. Look at Obama and Rev. Wright, or John McCain and John Hagee.
One of the luminaries of gay-hating, womb-controlling “professional Christian” set, Ralph Reed, knows the religious right is becoming a big problem for the GOP and he is urging John McCain not to seek fundie endorsements—or at least, keep his contacts with them on the DL, treating them like the crazy granny in the attic. (Right Wing Watch):
And you know that something really odd is happening when that figure is Ralph Reed, whose own political career tanked thanks to McCain’s own investigation into the corrupt world of Jack Abramoff. Yet here Reed is, nearly two years later, doling out campaign advice to McCain as the candidate struggles to overcome the controversy generated by the endorsements of John Hagee and Rod Parsley:
John McCain should stop seeking endorsements from evangelical pastors and instead appeal directly to their church members, said Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition executive director.
“John McCain doesn’t need to be standing at a bank of microphones next to a particular leader,’’ Reed said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt,’’ to be broadcast today. “My advice would be stay away from endorsements and stick to the issues.’‘
...Reed, 46, said McCain’s strategy of wooing evangelicals shouldn’t be “top down,’’ and his meetings with leaders and activists should be held in private.
“He needs to connect with them’’ by touting his opposition to same-sex marriage and his anti-abortion record, said Reed, a regional director of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.
Point in question, John Hagee’s latest anti-gay Armageddon batsh*ttery. See below the fold.
It’s too much to hope that MSNBC will fire this asshole - unless it’s for stealing Chris Matthews’ schtick - but you might drop MSNBC a line about this anyway:
Discussing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s decision to remain in the presidential race, MSNBC senior campaign correspondent Tucker Carlson, during the May 27 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, said of Clinton, “Look, she’s a trapped animal, there’s absolutely no question about it. As I’ve thought to myself many times, if you’ve ever tried to get your cat in a box, you know what Hillary Clinton is doing right now.” Carlson then imitated a screeching cat, and added, “with all four paws out, all the hair standing up? Look, she is in feral mode.” After co-host Mika Brzezinski said, “I don’t know what to say,” and guest co-host Mike Barnicle said, “Tucker Carlson, ladies and gentlemen,” Carlson asserted, “And I say that as a compliment, I admire her tenacity. I do.”
Don’t worry, he says it as a compliment. Join us next time when Tucker Carlson compares McCain favorably to a 19-year-old beagle with bladder control problems.
Dear NBC (e-mail addresses liberated from Media Matters, too):
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NBC Television Network
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phil.griffin@nbc.com
Steve Capus,
President, NBC News
steve.capus@nbc.com
MSNBC
letters@msnbc.com
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Tucker Carlson .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The very young governor of Louisiana is allegedly on John McCain’s VP shortlist, but 
Patterico’s Pontifications notices that 
