Partisan Gridlock with Geoff Berg

Today’s show: Obama MIA on campaign trail

NachonBlogger — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:18:21 +0000

Democrats are in deep trouble. Why does the President think Republicans are somehow going to realize that they should be cooperating with him? Why isn’t he in their districts calling them out by name? Listener calls and Kristen goes the full hour without a doughnut.

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Glenn Beck’s new website: Even dumber than you’d expect

NachonBlogger — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:18:52 +0000

At the 2003 memorial for slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam who wants to build a community center in lower Manhattan that fringe conservatives call the Ground Zero Mosque, sought to comfort a religiously diverse crowd. To Pearl’s Jewish father, he said:

We are here to assert the Islamic conviction of the moral equivalency of our Abrahamic faiths. If to be a Jew means to say with all one’s heart, mind and soul Shma` Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu Adonai Ahad; hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One, not only today I am a Jew, I have always been one, Mr. Pearl.

If to be a Christian is to love the Lord our God with all of my heart, mind and soul, and to love for my fellow human being what I love for myself, then not only am I a Christian, but I have always been one Mr. Pearl.

You probably read Rauf’s comments as an expression of sympathy meant to communicate a universal message of peace, unity and non-violence. It almost looks like Rauf was emphasizing the common values which underpin three of the world’s great religions. You are of course, wrong.

Per Glenn Beck’s new “news and information” website, TheBlaze.com and its crack reporter Jonathon M. Seidl, we now know that Rauf is nothing but a fraud.

Ladies and gentlemen, TheBlaze.com’s first big scoop:

Experts confirm: It is, in fact, impossible to be a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim all at the same time. Rauf’s a liar!

Lest you think I’m making this up, please, by all means, go and read Seidl’s story for yourself. Here’s the front page:

You don’t get to be an ace front page reporter for Glenn Beck’s website without knowing your stuff.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a migraine.

Tomorrow’s assault on Martin Luther King

NachonBlogger — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:37:47 +0000

As Glenn Beck lies by claiming that the people who opposed MLK — conservatives like him — were actually behind the civil rights movement, we ask whether those who will assemble in front of the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow to hear Beck are evil or just stupid. Stay tuned for the end of the show for a reminder of what tomorrow is really about. Listen here.

Today’s show: The right’s professional liars

NachonBlogger — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:30:10 +0000

Why Newt & the rest of the denizens of the vortex of bullshit are lying about the lower Manhattan Islamic community center…plus comedian Jimmy Dore, listener calls and Gabe finally fails to mention a certain incident that occurred over 30 years ago. Listen here.

In the chron: Irrational fear of ‘mosque’ hardly unprecedented

NachonBlogger — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:53:00 +0000

It’s about the 9/11 attack. No, not that one:

The Mountain Meadows massacre was a mass slaughter of the Fancher-Baker emigrant wagon train at Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, by a local Mormon militia and members of the Paiute Indian tribe on September 11, 1857. The incident began as an attack, quickly turned into a siege, and eventually culminated in the murder of the unarmed emigrants after their surrender. All of the party except for seventeen children under eight years old were killed—about 120 men, women, and children were killed, but precise numbers have been debated. After the massacre, the corpses of the victims were left decomposing for two years on the open plain, the surviving children were distributed to local Mormon families, and many of the victims’ possessions were auctioned off at the Latter-day Saint Cedar City tithing office.

Mormons Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck are no more responsible for the 9/11 attack in 1857 than Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (Park 51’s chief planner) is for the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Attributing to all the motives of a few is not only morally reprehensible, it’s anti-American, irrational and stupid.

The rest is here.

Today’s show: Marriage equality and the constitution

NachonBlogger — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:37:14 +0000

Prop 8, equal protection and the inability of marriage equality opponents to articulate a state interest in preventing it….plus listener calls and Kirsten’s doughnut problem resurfaces.

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Today’s show: Homage to Anthony Weiner

NachonBlogger — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:43:44 +0000

On today’s Partisan Gridlock: Farmer Mark from Katy calls, but his loud cock momentarily sidetracks the discussion of how Anthony Weiner’s nuts (but in a good way). A teabagger demonstrates the courage of her convictions…plus, we bid a reluctant but fond farewell to Afshar.

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NewsBusters promotes and sells gold while taking on journalists for criticizing Glenn Beck for promoting and selling gold

NachonBlogger — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:20:14 +0000

Actual journalists have been pointing out the conflict of interest inherent in Glenn Beck’s fearmongering about the economy. Beck likes to say that only gold will be worth anything after Obama rounds up all the white people and the Dollar is overrun by the Peso. Oh, and by the way, he adds during a commercial break, the good people at Goldline are standing by to sell you some….gold. Smarmy.

NewsBusters, a site dedicated to catering to conservative persecution fantasies, today criticized journalists for pointing out that Glenn Beck should probably not be pimping his product during his show.

In fact, gold is a great investment, NB says:

Gold has been a highly valued commodity going at least as far back as the ancient Egyptian culture in 2600 BC. But now, with economic instability and uncertainty over the health of major global currencies, the demand for gold has risen as a store of value and a hedge against inflation.

Over the past 12 months, the price of gold has gone up dramatically – up 25 percent from July 2009 (from $929 per ounce to $1,163 per ounce, after reaching a high of $1,250 per ounce). That has outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on a percentage basis.

Oh, by the way, NewsBusters, which bills itself as a place dedicated to keeping the media honest, sells ads on its site. Here’s one that was featured in the middle of its defense of (i) gold as an investment and (ii) Glenn Beck’s promotion of gold as an investment, despite the fact that Beck is sponsored by a gold company:

Of course, Brent Bozell probably has a flag lapel pin, so it’s ok.

Andrew Breitbart: Victim

NachonBlogger — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:51:22 +0000

Today’s show: Pitty party for victim Andrew Breitbart…..plus, we exclusively broadcast selectively edited audio of Breitbart (not to give anything away, but he mentions Long Dong Silver)….listener calls and Gabe wishes me a happy birthday in a way that only he can.

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In the chron: Sarah Palin punishes journalists

NachonBlogger — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:14:46 +0000

According to the former governor, she’s avoiding the media because in 2008 journalists (as opposed to the words which came out of her mouth) made her look stupid. Now she’s retaliating by boycotting them, in much the same way a patient might refuse chemotherapy to punish the doctor who diagnosed cancer.

The rest is here.