Academy Award Preview: Best Actress Nominee Ann Coulter

The best actress category is controversial this year since Ann Coulter's sexual identity is unknown, but nonetheless her attempt to pretend she's not an asshole was touching if ultimately a failure. Being born without a conscience has undoubtedly been quite a handicap, and I expect her to win the sympathy vote here.

Now I know that Michele Bachman made a strong push this year with her crazy comic stylings, but who can forget Sarah Palin's portrayal as a tragically insane woman in 2008 that brought her accolades from all over? The sympathy vote always wins.

Dick Morris, Asshat (and Our Newest Guest on the Island of Idiots!)

That's a pretty crude title, but he really is a fat obnoxious shitheel. I'm keeping my feelings in here.

Morris, a tax cheat and patron of prostitution, is a darling of extremist conservatives for saying things he should know are untrue, and getting things so wrong so often that an award "for stunningly wrong political, social and cultural predictions" is named after him by Andrew Sullivan. A brief history of Morris's inane prognostications is given at The Guardian -- it's worth seeing, really it's phenomenal. But doing so helps him generate publicity for his salacious books and to generate income in his role with Newsmax, a hyper-conservative "news" site that sells financial products.  According to Media Matters Morris has a long history of fabricating smears of progressives, and Media Matters backs this up with a long list of documented instances.

Clown Convention in Mexico City; Trump Flying In Tomorrow

As reported by THV11, the pride of Little Rock, "eight hundred brightly-dressed clowns from around the world converged in Mexico City on Wednesday for the 17th International Clown Convention. The convention's theme is peace through laughter." They arrived by single car.

America's Favorite Clown, Donald Trump, may arrive at any moment. Trump recently delighted the nation with his antic shenanigans of trying to get the U.S. President to jump through hoops for a possible charitable donation by Trump. It was funny becauseTrump has been called "the country’s least charitable billionaire, a guy who has personally donated [only] a combined $3.7 million to his foundation since 1990" and "the laughingstock of the uberwealthy." Trump, who is known for his hilarious catch phrase "you're fired!," is a charter member of the Island of Idiots.

The Island of Idiots

You may have noticed that we have a new tag around here called "Island of Idiots." Okay, you didn't notice. Well, we do.

Now, I don't want to insult anybody or anything, but some people are just idiots. I think most people deserve respect -- really, everybody deserves to be treated with a dose of humanity -- but ... there are some folks whose stupidity, dishonesty, or appeals to fear, bigotry and hate are so unabashed and affect so many that I feel they should be called out.  Oh, if only there were a place we could send them, a metaphorical Australia, a place to they could share with the narcissists, sociopaths, and shitheels of their ilk.  A corner to stand them in.

The Island of Idiots is that place. It's reserved not just for those who are wrong or dishonest but who are wrong or dishonest without repentance and with utter disrespect for their fellow humans by the score.  Rush Limbaugh, we welcome you.

[Ed: You keep using this word "idiot." I don't think it means what you think it means.]
[GF: "Idiot: an utterly foolish or senseless person."]

Just So I Can Call Somebody a Nazi

I know some day in the future I am going to look back on this blog and wonder if I ever called anybody a Nazi.  I thought I should ...

So, these people were Nazis:


These people are Nazi wannabes and equally idiotic:


This person is just an idiot:

Fine Americans, All

Recently in exciting news from the world of Republicans:

• David Siegel, whose made his billions in the timeshare condo racket (and had to settle a criminal case for violations of federal laws as well as paying millions for sexual harrassment), threatened his 6500+ employees with termination if they vote for Obama.  This despite the fact he's prospered greatly while Obama's been President and, in fact, is in the process of building himself the largest house in the United States.
• Georgia U.S. Representative Dr. Paul Broun said "All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell." He also said he believes the Earth is about 9,000 years old and it was made in six days. Broun sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Broun says in the video that he got into politics to support hunting -- during his speech there are a huge number of stuffed deer heads on the wall behind him.  He believes President Obama is a socialist trying to destroy the Constitution.
• Meanwhile, guitarist with hearing loss Ted Nugent, who also has had his share of legal troubles , accused the Obama administration of treason, referring to them as "enemies of America." He did this on the eve of a Discovery Channel special promoting "an inside look at gun culture" from Nugent's viewpoint. Nugent said at the 2012 NRA Convention "if Barack Obama becomes the President in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." He also compared the Obama administration and Democrats to coyotes who needed to be shot, and encouraged voters to "chop [Democrats'] heads off in November." In the past he's threatened to kill the President and the Secretary of State.  Nugent is an avid gun and hunting proponent.
• Donald Trump, who is both (a) a multimillionaire real estate mogul with a lot of legal troubles and huge houses and (b) an entertainer, called President Obama a "Foreign candidate getting foreign donations."  Trump ... wait, frankly, the less I say about Donald Trump the better we'll all be since he thrives on the attention he gets from being shitheel.