No sooner than I post the one for Yesterday, they post the one for today….. 
Bronze: Rupert Murdock for saying Faux Noise is fair and balanced, even when they’re not
Silver: Glenn Beck for making a rather idiotic remark about Walmart backing down on the Debbie Shank lawsuit
Gold: Darrell Issa for doing the very thing that I already Blogged about.
From April 2, 2008:
Bronze: Steve Ducey for saying that the recession is a liberal Plot.
Silver: Rush Limbaugh for trying to explain the democrat party nomination process
Gold: Tony Snow for lying about Obama’s voting record, proving the Cancer has gone to his brain! 
Randy Rhodes, Liberal Talk Show Host and suspected Lesbian and/or sex change recipient, was suspended was calling Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro "Big F*****g whores".
Official statement from Air America Radio:
Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, at a recent public appearance on behalf of Air America in San Francisco which was sponsored by an Air America affiliate station.
"Air America encourages strong opinions about public affairs but does not condone such abusive, ad hominem language by our Hosts," said chair Charlie Kireker.
Turns out, Kireker is a Hillary supporter. From what I have read, there is anger amongst Liberals about it too.
To be fair, Rhodes was not on her show, when she made these comments, she was at a personal appearance. Someone recorded it and it was posted to YouTube.
Of course, now at Huffpo, someone is calling John McCain a whore now too. Hey, At least they’re fair.
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Man, it comes in waves….
The Article: GOP Rep. Darrell Issa under fire from everywhere after 9/11 comments – (via New York Daily News)
The California congressman who called the Sept. 11 attacks "simply" a plane crash ran for cover Wednesday under a barrage of ridicule from fellow Republicans, first responders and victims’ families.
San Diego GOP Rep. Darrell Issa was under siege for suggesting the federal government had already done enough to help New York cope with "a fire" that "simply was an aircraft" hitting the World Trade Center.
"That is a pretty distorted view of things," said Frank Fraone, a Menlo Park, Calif., fire chief who led a 67-man crew at Ground Zero. "Whether they’re a couple of planes or a couple of missiles, they still did the same damage
Oy…. I’ve heard of "Open Mouth, Insert Foot", But Man, this is like over the top…
He’s from California, Which says quite a bit, and he’s a Republican. Interesting combination.
I also notice his last name, I wonder what his nationality is? Let’s see here, via Wikipedia:
Darrell Issa’s mother is of Bohemian German descent and his father is of Lebanese Christian descent. Issa was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and worked for a rabbi. Issa enlisted in the Army during his senior year of high school, where he served as a bomb disposal technician.
Well, that explains it all! I guess nationality loyalty is thinker than loyalty to the United States. Why didn’t he just come out and say the 9/1 hijackers were heroes?
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Not only do I hope this teacher has to pay through the nose, But I hope he gets fired too!
The Article: Student Sues ‘Anti-Christian’ Teacher Over Remarks in Class (via FOXNews.com)
Chad Farnan, a 16-year-old sophomore, says the teacher, James Corbett, told his students that “Jesus glasses” obscure the truth and suggested that Christians are more likely than other people to commit rape and murder.
Farnan recorded his teacher telling students in class: “What country has the highest murder rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rape rate? The South! What part of the country has the highest rate of church attendance? The South!” Farnan said he took the tape recorder to class to supplement his class notes.
The reason I say this? Because for one, he’s wrong as can be. Second, had this remark had been made about Muslims or Blacks or even Jews, the outcry would have been of Biblical proportions. (If you’ll pardon the phrase)
This is the very reason, right here, that parents, in ever growing numbers, are home schooling their children. Honestly? I cannot blame them, this sort of nonsense has no place in the public school system.
Why? You ask? Because, just in case anyone has forgotten, this Nation was settled by Christians. White Puritans at that! Now go read your history books, and then argue with me.
And…. Just in case anyone has a problem with that…. Buy this book here:
 Amazon.com: Christianity and the American CommonwealthISBN: 0915815729 |
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Cross-Posted @ Wayward Fundamentalist Christian
Couple of interesting related stories as well.
No, not her! She’s getting married. 
Go read the story over on NPR:
The Justice Department’s inspector general is investigating whether a career attorney in the department was dismissed from her job because of rumors that she is a lesbian. The case grew out of a larger inquiry into the firings of U.S. attorneys and politicization at Justice under former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Several people interviewed by the inspector general’s staff described the case to NPR and said they came away with the impression that the Attorney General’s office decided not to renew Leslie Hagen’s contract because of the talk about her sexual orientation. Hagen received the highest possible ratings for her work as liaison between the Justice Department and the U.S. attorneys’ committee on Native American issues. Her final job evaluation lists five categories for supervisors to rank her performance. For each category, a neat X fills the box marked, "Outstanding." And at the bottom of the page, under "overall rating level," she also got the top mark: Outstanding.
The form is dated February 1, 2007. Several months before that evaluation, Hagen was told her contract would not be renewed.
Here’s where Goodling gets into the Picture:
The official line on Hagen’s dismissal was that contracts like hers are a privilege. Rotating new people through the job each year gives more people a chance to serve.
But what happened next seems to undermine that explanation. Internal Justice Department documents obtained by NPR show that soon after Hagen was let go, two people in her office had their contracts renewed for another year.
And Hagen’s post remained vacant months after she left.
Justice Department e-mails obtained by NPR show that Gonzales’s senior counsel Monica Goodling had a particular interest in Hagen’s duties. A few months before Hagen was let go, according to one e-mail, Goodling removed part of Hagen’s job portfolio — the part dealing with child exploitation and abuse.
Goodling, who left the Justice Department last year, declined through her lawyer to comment on the matter.
Well, I would guess so! Especially if she did do this. It could come back to haunt her.
Should be interesting to follow….
I could go one and rant and rave about how this Administration was corrupt from the ground up. But what more can I say, that hasn’t been said by people who get paid much better money then me? Not much at all.
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I can tell you with no amount of hesitation. That this would have never happened, had I been running security.
Political Opinion aside, whomever was running that security detail, should be fired from the secret service.
If that had been me running that detail. This jerk’s noggin would have been beamed off the pavement and he would gotten his butt kicked, royally.
That guy was very much over the line and should be sitting in a jail cell right now. Period.
I find it quite amazing that our United States Secret Service is that damn incompetent that they did not arrest this guy.
I guess this can be expect considering the White Piece of trash that we have in the White House.
Damned Idiots. 
