It's Time To Stop Clowning - Or Getting Clowned - By Punting That Little Green Football Over Here

"Clearly (Jones) wasn't vetted. All (the White House) had to do was go and ask a couple of questions in San Francisco about this individual."

--Kimberly Guilfoyle, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's ex-wife and a Fox News commentator, on the White House's 9/11 Truther - who has the full support of San Francisco's Mayor - fitting, perfectly, with the portrait I've been painting of the "lunatic mainstream", and the environment they dwell in, which is covered by The San Francisco Chronicle.

Now why in the world would a black guy, who's leading a wacky political cult, thoroughly vet a black guy from San Francisco talking crazy talk? That makes no sense at all. How long is it going to take, for those who are sane amongst you, to understand how crazy people think? From top to bottom, these people have "atrocious judgment" because that's what they value - it's seen as an asset - so the idea they'd think something was amiss because someone was nuts is insane (or something like that.) "Crazy" is their default position. It's sanity itself that's suspect to this crowd. Got that?

I have to shake my head as I read my buds, Little Green Footballs' Charles Johnson, questioning the scruples of Glen Beck as Beck digs into these guys. I've never been a big Beck fan, but I know what he's doing and I approve:



CJ makes fun of all this "sekrit communist propaganda" by saying "Glenn Beck Does the Rockefeller Boogie", but it's not so funny once you discover the brilliance of Van Jones - the man who's been openly working to create "a multiracial socialist utopia" - earned him a Rockefeller grant. Call me a stupid peasant, but the only questions I have for CJ are:

"Is Beck right or wrong about the symbolism in Rockefeller Center?"

and

"What were Rockefeller's political sympathies?"

Put aside all your John Birch Society criticisms, or your fears about a McCarthyite "witch hunt" mentality running wild (sorry, Buds, but, when these guys have the White House, I think it's long past time for it) or, especially, your continual jokes about Beck's pouty face, and just cut to the chase. I'm "just a guy" out here and Beck's been found to be correct about Jones - and, to your applause, lost a lot of advertisers for his efforts - but is he (and, yea, the rest of us who are digging below the surface these people are projecting) right?

As the saying goes, "inquiring minds want to know,..."

Nothing That Big Moves This Fast Either

Los Angeles: in motion from Michael Marantz on Vimeo.

This video claims it's featuring Los Angeles, but is really just the places tourists go (Venice, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Downtown) with not one scene of South Central, Inglewood, East L.A., The Valley, Pasadena, Compton, Watts, Torrance, or anywhere else I think of as "home".

Oh well, it still made me a little homesick. I love L.A..

Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs

UPDATE: The great Joseph Nigro (whose contributions to this blog are terribly missed) sent me these two reminders, above and below, of what the "real L.A." experience is like - Man, I got so good at avoiding bullets that, at times, I felt like I was Wonder Woman with those fucking bracelets! - and, yet, I still miss it. Sigh. I'll get back there again, one day. I can hardly wait:

Just Call Me Angel In The Mourning

"Evangelist Tony Alamo, owner of a multi-million dollar 'church' that sold elaborate clothing to celebrities such as Michael Jackson, has been convicted of a series of disgusting crimes involving sex with girls as young as 9 years old. Five women testified at his trial that Alamo transported them across state lines to have sex with them when they were young girls. Alamo will probably end up spending the rest of his life in prison — and he’s comparing himself to Jesus."

-- Charles Johnson, discovering another connection - between Michael Jackson and the many "spiritual" fruitcakes that surrounded him and his money - on Little Green Footballs.

It's O.K.: According To NewAgers Nobody Really Needs To Be "Informed" Of Anything Anyway

"I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn’t come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up. It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact."

-- Shane Fitzgerald, who, upon the death of the french composer, placed a made-up a quote on Wikipedia - that was immediately relayed around the world by the media without question - proving once again (as if we needed a reminder after the Barack Obama/John Edwards fiasco of the last election) there is no "media watchdog" but a bunch of trained parrots incapable of independent thought, unlike at Little Green Footballs.

Some People Are No Fun

"You really are a stupid, evil piece of shit. You understand this, right? How do you live with yourself knowing you are making your own country stupider for a living? You are an amoral traitor and deserved to be punished as such. I hope you shoot your own nuts off."

-- Some lovable liberal, in an e-mail to Charles Johnson (who, BTW, played on Stanley Clarke's "School Days"!?! WOW!!!) giving us further proof NewAge liberals are the liars we always knew they were, when faced with Little Green Footballs.

Cult Watchers, That's Who: Arianna's Crazy

"Apparently, physicians and medical scientists are just as disgusted with the Huffington Post as your average 'right wing' blogger. Who knew?"

-- Charles Johnson, giving a plug to Orac's Respectful Insolence of a few days ago, on Little Green Footballs.

Religion: A Great Excuse To Act A Fool

"In choosing to practice willful ignorance and open hatred, in choosing to engage in the public flogging of those who dare to offer even a word of criticism, and in choosing to do whatever it takes (no matter how ugly and un-Christlike) to discredit people like Charles Johnson in retaliation for that criticism... it becomes apparent that these self-described 'Christians' are nothing of the sort. They are hypocritical charlatans, 'whited sepulchres' who shame themselves and - even more tragically - shame their God."

-- Irish Rose, defending our boy*, Little Green Footballs' Charles Johnson, against the folks who've been "saved", making her one Wild Irish Rose.

We disagree with Charley from time-to-time (especially about music: Dude!) but - if you're asking if we're in or out of his Lizard Army - TMR is most definitely down with him.

The 2008 Fiskie's Are In - And You've Been Had

"For their non-stop, unseemly, worshipful, overwhelmingly biased coverage in favor of Barack Obama, the winner of the 2008 Idiotarian Award just has to be ... our self-appointed guardians of information, the Mainstream Media and its mask of phony impartiality."

-- Little Green Footballs

Let's Hear It For The Lizardman!!!

"One of the biggest challenges of late to mainstream media came from the activities of a single blogger."

-- Nikki Usher, in a peer-reviewed paper on Little Green Footballs that aims to prove a Right-Wing blogger - not the mainstream media - is getting the news right, for First Monday.

The Daily Kos: Messing With Your Mind

"Looking around the web this morning, we see a whole lot of silly, meaningless Internet polls asking who won last night’s debate—and in quite a few of them, Joe Biden seems to be doing quite well, even coming out ahead of Sarah Palin.

Curious, isn’t it? Why would Biden be ahead of Palin in so many Internet polls? Were we just imagining that she crushed his hair-plugged head in ways it has never been crushed before?

No. The answer is simple, and it’s the same reason why Ron Paul did so well in online polls while totally failing to reach the general public. The “progressives” and the Kos Kids are going around the web and stacking every poll they can find, in an organized effort to skew the perception of the debate as much as their little blank hearts can manage.

Daily Kos: CALL TO ACTION! ’FREEPING FOR JESUS’: THE VP DEBATE.

Aren’t they cute?"

-- Charles Johnson, keeping an eye on the Devil's playthings, blogging for Little Green Footballs.