Build Your Own Joe Wilson Commemorative You Lie Assault Rifle!

Gun maker sells assault rifle component engraved with You Lie congressmans quote
Stumble This! There's something to be said for poorly timed remarks, but it's another thing to display a flagrantly insensitive contempt for political realities. Example one: Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who shouted "You lie!" during a Speech by President Barack Obama. He's become a hero to tea party Activists for his outburst, even in spite of a voting record showing lock-step support of President George W. Bush's least fiscally responsible policies. With Congress and the media making much of the...

Glenn Beck: Sell Your Organs to See Spider-Man Musical
The latest critic to break the traditional embargo and review Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before Opening Night isn't actually a theater critic, but more of a critic of rational thought and intellectual integrity. On Saturday, Right Wing demagogue du jour Glenn Beck saw the big-budget, high-tech rock musical—which we delicately likened to watching a Spandex clad fat man with a flesh-hook suspension fetish masturbate onto a giant pile of money, while singing Muzak versions of all your le...

Joe Wilson 'You Lie' Slogan Etched Onto Line Of Assault Rifle Components
Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) Health Care-era "you lie" interruption of President Obama is now reportedly being commemorated with a place on a new, limited edition line of Assault Rifle components. The Columbia Free Times reports that the words are being engraved on a series of lower receivers manufactured for popular AR-15 assault rifles. Lower receivers are one of the primary pieces of the Firearms. "Palmetto State Armory would like to honor our esteemed congressman Joe Wilson with the release ...

Joe Wilson You Lie Assault Rifle Thing: Way Late Or Right On Time?
The product “is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Joe Wilson or his campaign,” according to a line of text at the bottom of the page. A picture of Wilson holding a rifle and standing in the company’s gun shop appears on the same page. The perfect accessory for all your black-president-hunting needs. Unfortunately, the product page for this component is no longer available. Did the gun company see what happened in Arizona and take it down? We don’t know. But this ̶...

Rep Joe Wilson Honored By You Lie On Assault Gun Component
A South Carolina gun company is “honoring” Joe Wilson by having the congressman’s phrase “you lie” — the one he shouted at President Obama during a State of the Union Address — etched into components of an Assault Rifle. “Palmetto State Armory would like to honor our esteemed congressman Joe Wilson with the release of our new ‘You Lie’ AR-15 lower receiver,” reads a portion of the company’s website. The page with this offer ...

South Carolina: You Yell Shit at the President, We Engrave it on an Assault Rifle (For a Limited Time Only!)
Seriously, South Carolina? I mean, SERIOUSLY!? Y’all remember President Obama’s BFF 4 LYFE Joe Wilson (R-SC), right? Of course you do. Wilson made headlines last year after he yelled “You lie!” in the middle of Obama’s nationally televised Speech about Healthcare Reform, right after Obama stated that his plan for Health Care reform did not include covering undocumented immigrants. I wrote about how appalling it was that Wilson—a member of Congress—wou...

'Both sides' don't produce politicized assault rifle components
'BOTH SIDES' DON'T PRODUCE POLITICIZED Assault Rifle COMPONENTS.... It's hard to forget Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) heckling of President Obama in September 2009, shouting, "You lie!" when the president was, in fact, telling the truth during a Speech to a joint session. Of course, some folks remember the incident more fondly than others. Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) Health Care-era "you lie" interruption of President Obama is now reportedly being commemorated with a place on a new, limited editio...

No More Mister Nice Blog
THE Conspiracy TO KEEP YOU PERPETUALLY ENRAGED (AND, INCIDENTALLY, PARANOID) Steve Benen and Atrios have both flagged this Harold Meyerson column in The Washington Post, and I thought I'd add my thoughts about why right-wing Rhetoric inevitab...

Art of War, Media Messages, and Conservative Terrorists
The debate rages on, and thanks to media spin and constant false equivalencies, at least one poll has 57% of its respondents rejecting any possibility of inflammatory Speech having any influence over Jared Lee Loughner's actions on Saturday morning. Welcome to the confluence of media echoes and denial. It was predictable, this la-la-la response. Kneejerk, even. No one wants to believe that words can influence, because that would require individuals to own their own words. God forbid. This is tru...

Sarah Palin says blaming rhetoric for shooting is 'a blood libel'
Sarah Palin ended her near silence on the Arizona shootings yesterday, saying that critics had manufactured a "blood Libel" by blaming her Rhetoric for contributing to the shooting rampage in Tucson in which six people died and 14 were wounded, including Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords. • In her video message, Sarah Palin said she and her supporters would not change their Rhetoric because of the Arizona shooting In an eight-minute address posted online, the prominent Republican...

Conservative speech the real target of liberal attacks
Despite the fact that a majority of Americans do not believe "Rhetoric" had a ny role in the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, liberals in the media continue the mindless party line that conservative "hate" Speech is responsible for all the ills in the world. What exactly, constitutes conservative "hate" Speech still remains something of a mystery because most on the left simply use the phrase "Hate Speech" without giving any real clear examples. Liberals, on the other hand, h...

Loughner Friend: 'He Did Not Watch TV' or 'Listen to Political Radio'
It's become clear since Saturday that some in the media are determined to blame outspoken Conservatives for the Tucson massacre. So there's really no reason to believe that yet another fact contradicting that attack will put it to rest. But in the spirit of journalism - that thing the left's media attack dogs profess their reverence for - it should be noted: a friend of the killer, Jared Lee Loughner, told "Good Morning America" that Loughner "did not watch TV. He disl...

Misinformed? MSNBC viewers blame political rhetoric for Tucson shooting (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller NJ Governor Chris Christie surges in statewide poll Assange claims to have dirt on NewsCorp in 'Insurance' file Misinformed? MSNBC viewers blame 'political Rhetoric' for Tucson shooting Friend: Loughner steered clear of politics, news Anti-Defamation League overall supportive, yet disappointed in Palin's use of 'blood Libel' term Despite overwhelming evidence that accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was not motivated by either Left Wing or Right Wing p...

RFK Jr: You know, my uncle was also shot amid a climate of right-wing hate
Be sure to read the last post about Palin before you read Junior’s reminiscences or else you might not appreciate what a quintessential example this is of the left’s magical thinking about culpability. You want voodoo, you got it: Uncle Jack’s Speech in Dallas was to have been an explosive broadside against the Right Wing. He found Dallas’ streets packed five deep with Kennedy Democrats, but among them were the familiar ornaments of presidential hatred; high-flying conf...

Blame Derrida!
It should be clear, by this point, to any rational person that the Left in this country has simply lost its collective mind. The “reality based community” has been hysterically shrieking for the past five days how Jared Loughner was inspired directly by the words of Sarah Palin (or Glenn Beck), despite the fact they had not a single piece of evidence to substantiate the charge. (“Reality,” for the Left, must be a strange thing devoid of any basis in fact it seems.) Toda...

Joe-Wilson-inspired You Lie! rifle available for sale in South Carolina
What could possibly go wrong here? A South Carolina gun and accessories company is selling semi-automatic rifle components inscribed with “You lie” - a tribute to the infamous words of 2nd District Republican Congressman Joe Wilson when he shouted at President Barack Obama during a congressional Speech about national Health Care reform in the fall of 2009. “Palmetto State Armory would like to honor our esteemed congressman Joe Wilson with the release of our new ‘You...

Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: James Bond Aside, Beck Has Been Swinging Free For Years
If yesterday's Screenshot of a pre-programmed, rotating background on the Beck home page proved anything, it's that the right has no monopoly on people who can get worked up over very little.  In the name of clarity, I created a slideshow at BagNewsNotes of backgrounds rotating on the Beck homepage, the first one being the screen shot above that set off many Left Wing heavy breathers, offering Beck seeming to play out a little James Bond fantasy.  (Although incendiary images have been disapp...

Bernie Sanders - Slimeball of the Week
"Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country. I also want to thank the very many supporters who have begun contributing online to my 2012 Reelection campaign at (his website) There is no question but that the Republican Party, big money Corporate Interests and right-wing organizations will vigorously oppose me. Your financial support now and ...

David Brock Tells Matthews: Glenn Beck Has Been Responsible For 3 Thwarted Assassination Attempts
Media Matters founder David Brock appeared on Hardball and revealed to Chris Matthews his allegation that “Glenn Beck himself has been responsible for three thwarted Assassination attempts this year.” Brock listed three occurrences where a crazed assassin targeted a liberal politician or institution, and where evidence later emerged that the assassin may have been a viewer of Beck’s show. Matthews just nodded in astonishment, not questioning whether such tangential evidence tru...

Right Wing Round-Up
Leo Gerard @ AlterNet: Rights Come with Responsibilities; the Right Shirks Theirs. Sarah Posner @ Religion Dispatches: Huckabee’s Second Bapticostal Bid for the GOP Nomination. Towleroad: Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy Says Providing Food to Anti-Gay Groups is Not an Endorsement. Iowa Independent: GOP Lawmakers Vow to Continue Push for Judicial Impeachment....

RFK Jr. Insists JFK Was Killed by a Right-Winger
Just forgot all that stuff about Lee Harvey Oswald being a self-proclaimed Marxist who defected to the USSR, offered his services to the Castro regime, had originally planned to kill a conservative general who was an outspoken critic of Cuba etc. …Neither Beck, Hannity nor Savage nor the hate merchants at Fox News and Talk Radio can claim to have invented their genre. Toxic right-wing vitriol so dominated the public airwaves from the McCarthy era until 1963 that President Kennedy...

Obama visits Giffords, AZ shooting survivors
President Obama swooped into Arizona Wednesday night and immediately rushed to the Hospital to visit wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords ahead of his address to a nation in mourning. The President invited a bi-partisan coalition of lawmakers to join him aboard Air Force One for the trip to Tucson for a memorial for the Victims gunned down in the Saturday Assassination attempt on Giffords. Obama is moving to draw the country together amidst the partisan rancor that has engulfed the political landsc...

Midday open thread
Must read: Last October, Glenn Beck was musing on his Radio Show about the prospect of the government seizing his Children if he didn't give them Flu Vaccines. "You want to take my kids because of that?" he said. "Meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson." Last April, Erick Erickson, the managing editor of the right-wing RedState blog and a CNN commentator, was questioning the legality of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey on a radio show. "We have become, or are becoming, enslaved by the go...

Media Matters slams Palin video
Over the last six months, Media Matters has narrowed its focus to almost a single point: Glenn Beck’s Rhetoric, they argue, incites violence. CEO David Brock leads with this argument in his highly critical response to Sarah Palin’s video, offering three examples: -A man who threatened to Firebomb Nancy Pelosi’s house, whose mother said he got his information from Fox News; -Charles Wilson, who was arrested for repeatedly threatening to kill Sen. Patty Murray, and whose cousin...

Income Distribution and Social Insurance
I think that Stephen Williamson gets it right. He wishes that people were able to insure themselves against being born with the wrong parents, or against being protein-deprived in utero, or against getting some of the not-so-good brain-development genes: Stephen Williamson: Income Distribution Part II: Here's another thought relating to this post. Our basic notion of social Insurance is that each of us is placed, at birth, in a set of circumstances beyond our control. Before birth, we're not a...