Give it up to the good folks in New Hampshire who last month actually staged a serious 2 hour-long C-SPAN forum for “lesser known candidates” running for President of the United States to broadcast their pitches to hundreds of viewers and answer legitimate questions from the press about government relations,
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Red Tory v.3.0.3: Mitt Romney: “Job Creator”
Interesting discussion from this weekend’s “Up w/ Chris Hayes” program about the true nature of Mitt Romney’s dubious wealth-extracting endevours in the “free market” as a private equity investor (the polite term for “corporate vampire”). Oblivious to ironic contradiction on multiple levels, the anonymous SuperPAC backing Newt Gingrich has released
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: The Evolution of Negative Advertising
The absurdly hypocritical “Pot v. Kettle” sniping towards the end of yesterday’s MTP debate between Newt Gringrich and Mitt Romney over the legitimacy and moral superiority of the viciously negative ad campaigns being waged by their respective Super-PACs reminded me of this classic bit of satire from the wonderful HBO
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Worst “Debate”… Ever
Good grief, what an abysmal travesty ABC News televised earlier this evening in New Hampshire. Absent any substantive discussion, the most notable “gaffe” the media was able to latch onto (something that’s now supposedly trending in the Twittersphere) was Jon Huntsman’s ill-timed barb at Mitt Romney for being a clueless
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Santorum Comes From Behind!
Not a terribly big surprise that homophobic religious wingnut and trigger-happy war-mongerer Rick Santorum would emerge triumphant from last night’s lunatic fracas in Iowa. Beating out competing Christian zealots in the race to not be Mitt Romney with the power of endless shoe leather and attractive sweater vests, the man
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Canadian Conservatives Defined
Professionally angry midget Kathy Shaidle attempts to explain who’s who in the hinterland of Canadian “conservatism” to Sun News host Brian Lilley: Heh. By my estimation, Shaidle just slagged off about 90% of the “Bloggin’ Tories” in one form or another as not being REAL conservatives; at least that is,
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: God’s 2012 Predictions
Relax. You can now safely ignore all of the kooky predictions and hapless guesswork of zany media pundits about how events will play out in 2012 because The Lord God Almighty has just spoken personally to Pat Robertson and revealed His cunning plans for the New Year… Apparently, a “maximum
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Iowa Nice?
A response to the conventional political media spin about Iowa…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Bad Lip Reading: Stephen Harper
The Dear Leader’s Christmas message (in case you missed it) as mangled by the folks at Operation Maple: Yes, the novelty of these BLR things has long-since worn off since the classic “save a pretzel for the gas jets” Rick Perry iteration, but I feel obligated to post a Canadian
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Faking Poverty
Jagrup Brar, NDP MLA for the Vancouver-area riding of Surrey Fleetwood today embarked on his vow to spend one month living on the paltry $610 that single (ostensibly “employable”) people currently receive from the province on welfare, responding to a challenge by a coalition of social groups that wants the
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Charlie Brooker’s 2011 Wipe
To end the year on a fittingly sardonic note, here’s Charlie Brooker’s brilliant take on the past twelve months as darkly viewed through the pop culture lens of a jaded media critic: If nothing else, you can just skip about half way through the video to enjoy a short documentary
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Rex Murphy’s Year Ender
CBC’s professional curmudgeon offers up his patented barnacle encrusted summary of the year’s events: If you had hypothetically slept through the entire year like Rip Van Winkle and suddenly awoken to watch that demoralizing re-cap, might you not have been quite glad to have missed the whole demoralizing affair in
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Fox News Kills Ron Paul
Not literally, of course… but as you can see from nipped and tucked Scientoligist Greta Van Susteren’s year-end look back at the race to become the Republican presidential nominee, there is not ONE single mention of Ron Paul in the entire 7½ minutes of video. Why, it’s as if Fox
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Talking to Americans
RT takes to the streets of Manhattan in their own little “Jay Walking” segment to quiz “average” Americans about the world around them… The results are predictably appalling, but before getting too smug, they likely wouldn’t be that much different if this informal survey of incurious knownothings was taken on
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Frank Luntz: Xmas C-SPAN
Brilliantly evil wordsmith, Republican pollster and Fred Flintstone look-alike Frank Luntz holds forth on C-SPAN’s Christmas program about the current state of politics in America. (It’s kind of sad… but Frank isn’t married and says “my family is all gone now” which may account for the fact that he’s appeared
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Faux Wingnut Outrage: Xmas Edition
Former half-term Alaska Governor, wannabe celebrity, and brain-addled Fox News “analyst” Sarah Palin thinks the Obama White House’s official greeting card is “odd” because it fails to adequately highlight traditions like “family, faith and freedom.” Evidently, Palin speaks for many rabid right-wing Obama haters out there… at least insofar as
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Feliz Navidad
Beware the seemingly harmless fantasies you create – for you may come to regret them later. That seems to be the message of this intriguing short film by Alberto González Vázquez concerning a debate between a father and son about the existence of Santa Claus. Warning: It’s in Spanish and
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Great American Debate (With a Poll!)
Hard to believe that’s not necessarily an oxymoronic construction, I know, despite the terminology having been debased by countless so-called “debates” as part of the contrived circus/televised horse-race that is the primary political process in the USA. This past weekend, ABC News staged an ideological face-off, ostensibly about the proper
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Ex-Dear Leader Hysteria
I tweeted this earlier in the day, but the scenes just keep replaying though my head with annoying frequency for some disturbing reason. In one respect, it’s difficult not to simply scoff at the ridiculous demonstrations of hysterical “grief” over the death of the demented little totalitarian freak that was
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: So Long, Hitch
Christopher Hitchens died yesterday. His voice will be missed tremendously, maybe even grudgingly by some of those with whom he disagreed so vehemently about many things, not least of which, of course, the non-greatness of God. Just last week, Hitchens spoke at the Freethought Convention in Houston, TX, therefore making
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