Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog kick the #$@% out of Fox News (VIDEO)

Great catch by Think Progress:

Melissa Harris Perry takes aim and DESTROYS "The Help" (VIDEO)...

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And she's STILL picking the movie out of her teeth...

Desperate to change the subject after that last post...

I'm posting this not because it has anything to do with anything (other than being a damn good Super Bowl ad for Sunday...and featuring Star Wars), but I wanted to wash the taste out of my mouth from that last video I posted. Euugh.

"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding": Keith's Special Comment on the Tea Party (VIDEO)

Dear old Dad (a frequent reader and critic of this blog) complained about the length of this Special Comment, saying that he already knew most of the information in it.

Problem is, that a lot of people don't, and it always helps to have this stuff in one space. This was a good Special Comment. I'm not always on board with Keith a 100% of the time, though we are both Liberals, but this one was pretty good.

Long yes (almost 20 minutes), but good.



Legal issues probably prevented a Broadcaster from NBC/Universal from using a short clip from MGM's 1954 classic "Inherit The Wind", but YouTube places no such restriction...at least until the MGM Lawyers get ahold of it.



The really good part of the speech, the "you have the power to do more" the user unfortunately cut off.


But because I'm a screenwriter I gotta put the text up.  Respect for the author...

Henry Drummond: I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy, you can only punish. And I warn you, that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys every one it touches. Its upholders as well as its defiers.

Judge: Colonel Drummond...

Henry Drummond: Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!

Judge: I hope counsel does not mean to imply that this court is bigoted.

Henry Drummond: Well, your honor has the right to hope.

Judge: I have the right to do more than that.

Henry Drummond: You have the power to do more than that.

My Star Wars expertise is finally recognized by the Mainstream Media!

For the record, in this Ezra Klein piece, I was the reader in question.

Not sure if "Machete" is going to help... (VIDEO)

Yes, this a trailer for an actual movie. This isn't Funny or Die stuff, this is coming out September 3rd, 2010. (Can't say much for its box office prospects).



Let's be honest, the trailer was cut to respond to/take advantage of the Arizona Law. As quick as Rodriguez works, this had to have been in the works for the last year at least. (I've been hearing about a Machete movie since the first Spy Kids movie came out, so...)

Even Crooks and Liars...

This is from Jon Perr of Crooks and Liars, echoing the same idea that Jeffrey Goldberg did:

As President Obama stands poised to escalate the war in Afghanistan while purportedly offering an exit strategy from it, Americans can and should debate whether his is the right course for U.S. national security interests. The list of contingencies which must go right for the U.S. to succeed - curbing corruption in the Karzai government, securing Pakistani cooperation and commitment in battling insurgents in its frontier regions and buying off Pashtun tribal warlords, just to name a few - is a very long one. But to claim, as Michael Moore now does, that candidate Barack Obama never told his supporters he would dramatically ratchet up the American effort there is just fantasy.

I got the Email from MichaelMoore.com and did something I never thought I'd do, I promptly dropped his Email Newsletter.

Listen, I liked Bowling for Columbine, I loved Fahrenheit 9/11 and I loved, loved, loved Sicko. But I passed on Capitalism: A Love Story because I didn't think Moore has a good grip on Economics...

...but I didn't drop his newsletter. I just disagreed with the premise for Capitalism; that the Bailouts were unnecessary.

I'm sorry, but if you're going to burn down a Banking System or Capitalism, you damn well better have something to replace it with. Instead, Moore's solution for Capitalism was "Freedom".

Once he said that, I knew I was skipping the movie.

But this email about Afghanistan? Michael Moore was just making !@#$ up. If you're going to lie, I've got better things to do with my time.

A Loving message to my Father's new family on Thanksgiving Eve (VIDEO)

Don't worry. They know what I'm talking about...

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