Lol... I still find the idea of "Liberal Hate Groups" amusing.

Mr. Lipinski - the only things we hate is corruption, incompetence, and evil; that you happen to fit that bill is a choice you have made for yourself.

Left wing extremist groups? Oh yeah! The left are a rabid bunch of militants who are looking for world domination! I think I smell desperation here.

Wow, how many liberal boogeymen can they stick in one flyer? Hollywood, San Fransisco, Ted Kennedy. Disgusting.

Well, I'm actually quite tolerant of people who go to church. For an atheist, that is. The Deluded should have equal rights, just so they don't force it on the rest of us...

Faux News Opnion Poll, Feb. 3, 2008

If you are a regular Faux News viewer, please vote:

Could dirty hippies be taking over the Democratic Party?

A. That's not possible. Covered in all that dirt, the dirty hippies must be dropping like flies from one disease or another.

B. Absolutely. If Obama weren't so dirty, the white half of his skin color would be vastly more visable. And he's currently taking over the Democratic Party.

C. Probably not. Dirty hippies have low sperm counts and cannot reproduce well at all. You can thank evolution for culling that herd.

D. Yes dirty hippies are overrunning the Democratic Party. Evolution, i.e. survival of the fittest, DOES NOT EXIST. But Satan does and Satan is a dirty hippie from way back.

E. All of the above. What? Oh, that's not possible? Well, the diry hippies have me all confused. Damn them anyway.

I think I can imagine this guy snarling and pulling his hair out with every word. What a whack job! And people will swallow this tripe. Hook, line, sinker. The fools!

And, anyone remember 9/11?

Ties Between White House, Sept 11 Chief
By HOPE YEN Associated Press Writer

Feb 3rd, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- The Sept. 11 commission's executive director had closer ties with the White House than publicly disclosed and tried to influence the final report in ways that the staff often perceived as limiting the Bush administration's responsibility, a new book says.

Philip Zelikow, a friend of then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, spoke with her several times during the 20-month investigation that closely examined her role in assessing the al-Qaida threat. He also exchanged frequent calls with the White House, including at least four from Bush's chief political adviser at the time, Karl Rove.

Zelikow once tried to push through wording in a draft report that suggested a greater tie between al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Iraq, in line with White House claims but not with the commission staff's viewpoint, according to Philip Shenon's "The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation."

Shenon, a New York Times reporter, says Zelikow sought to intimidate staff to avoid damaging findings for President Bush, who at the time was running for re-election, and Rice. Zelikow and Rice had written a book together in 1995 and he would later work for her after the commission finished its job and she became secretary of state in 2005.

The Associated Press obtained an audio version of Shenon's book, which is to go on sale Tuesday.

[Edited. Please don't reprint whole articles. an excerpt and a link will do. Thanks-Sitemonitor]

Those wily democrats. They are so good at making the white house look so bad... Those poor republicans... NOT!

We don't look down our noses at anyone except the "F'in" Republicans who out source the Blue Collar jobs, what a pussy rightwing rant.

Typical DLC/Clintonista borrowing from the Republican attack book.

What's the problem with thinking Ted Kennedy isn't liberal enough?

It's too bad the Cold War's over. I would have appreciated being called a commie pinko too.

Go Lipinski! Shaking fists at punks on lawns since 19 ot 6!

"Political punks that sneer at Southwest siders like us."

"They laugh at traditional values."

"They mock those who go to church."

"They dismiss senior citizens as irrelevant relics of a bygone era."

Sorry guys. I completely overreacted when my boyfriend and I were standing outside their church sneering at them while holding my “Cut Social Security” sign.

this guy is in desparte need of a bj. can someone give him directions to larry craig's
stall at the airport.

"Get off my lawn, you little left-wing PUNKS!!!"

That press release reads like it was written in 1968.

Limpdinky's application for RNC funding...

Boy, Dan Lipinski is losing it. Everyone who doesn't like him is "far left"? Including Libertarians?

What a nutcase. If people didn't care before, they may now think it is time to send him back home where he is safe from himself.

Its just amazingly poor writing.

This radical left liberal is not looking down her high-school drop-out nose at her blue collar self.

Nice to see KKKarl Rover's broadening his client base...

miss_kitty @ 22:

Pixie @ 20:

Hmmm not sure what else to do with my time...it's only 8:31 here and I've already pushed an old lady into traffic, flipped off a passing military convoy and flung dog poo at a religious couple....anyone have any ideas? Maybe I'll go burn some flags on the way to my abortion appointment. Maybe my Muslim lesbian partner has some ideas...../puts her thinking cap on

Oh yeah, and Ted Kennedy isn't liberal enough.

Pushing an old lady into traffic? That's been so done...Flaming bags of poo on their doorsteps-possible trigger for heart attack and/or stroke...pretend they're still alive and cash their benny checks, stealing their kitties-now there's some ways to fuck with relics of a bygone era!

Although kudos on the dog poo toss at the religious couple. I'll keep that in my punky mind. For the next Jehovah's Witnesses that show up on my doorstep...

Damn, you guys are smart. I'll have to bring some of these ideas up at our next satanic ceremony. Every tuesday!
And nobody forget the sacrificial geriatric this time, ok?

Actually, now that I've read it a couple of times, it's hilarious. It has all the sterotypes of Dems and Libs compiled in a couple of paragraphs. Classic.

Jesusturnedwaterboardingintowhine @ 9:

I've commented 3 times in a row now :(
but I had to commend you on your sweet name!

What? They don't kick puppies and eat baby ducks?

Actually, aside from church, morals, goodness, and hygiene, another thing liberals are really against is glue sniffing, which seems to be a staple at the Lipinski offices.

Well wonders never cease. Now Democrats are taking up the McCarthyism 2.0 battle cry. Forgive us Mr. Lipinski for trying to save the Democratic party from the out and out capitulation to the Neo-cons. If that makes me an extremist, so be it. It hardly seems extreme given the mealy mouthed, spineless majority of Repug-lites that have given this administration a free ticket to defecate on our constitution and in turn on democracy. The Bush Administration are the true extremists in all of this. You sir, have NO idea what my values are.

You mean we're supposed to snicker and sneer? At the same time? My commie pinko college profs didn't teach me that! I want my money back!

While most of it sounds like crap I know that like it or not left wing blogs do have a faith hater problem.

I couldn't respond to this since I was too busy spitting on some homeless vets fresh off the plane.

Oh wait, hating our "phony" vets is what rightwing shitbags like BillO and Rush do. Fuck Lipinski in his ear with a pencil.

cd @ 53:

While most of it sounds like crap I know that like it or not left wing blogs do have a faith hater problem.

I like to think of it as a rationality, reason, logic, science and philosophy addiction...

If ya can believe that!

Nothing spells love for men and women of the military like dismembering 40,000 in an illegal war. Vote for Bush!

Proud2bHumble @ 60:

cd @ 58:

Proud2bHumble @ 57:

cd @ 53:

I like to think of it as a rationality, reason, logic, science and philosophy addiction...

If ya can believe that!

Thank you for providing evidence.

Don't hate the gullible irrational, hate the irrational gullibility...

ha ha

cd @ 61:

Proud2bHumble @ 60:

cd @ 58:

Proud2bHumble @ 57:

Thank you for providing evidence.

Don't hate the gullible irrational, hate the irrational gullibility...

ha ha

Either you type reeeeaal slow, or it took you 5 minutes to get the funny. Here's hoping you're a hunt-and-pecker, and not just that last part.

Seriously, I agree somewhat. Some of the lefty sites and commenters do express anger toward faith in the same black-and-white dualistic good vs. evil terms that fundamentally flaw the fundamentalists...

cd @ 64:

Proud2bHumble @ 63:

cd @ 61:

Proud2bHumble @ 60:

ha ha

Either you type reeeeaal slow, or it took you 5 minutes to get the funny. Here's hoping you're a hunt-and-pecker, and not just that last part.

Seriously, I agree somewhat. Some of the lefty sites and commenters do express anger toward faith in the same black-and-white dualistic good vs. evil terms that fundamentally flaw the fundamentalists...

Please don't get me wrong chances are I dislike Pat Robertson more than you do but I hate it when people lump jerks like him and people like Ghandi together.

If we keep this back and forth going long enough on this thread, we may be able to cover the width and breadth of most screens (well not the width, but I knew that and wanted to not only define breadth as the vertical dimension, but do it in a fairly long-winded(fingered?) way in case said occlusion becomes the goal rather than the byproduct of our screenopolistic conversation - see what I mean?).

I don't doubt you've seen Ghandi included with Pat Muthafuckinlyincrazypieceashitassholegreedymegalomaniac Robertson in the same 'famous religious person' grouping somewhere, and tho I never have, it sounds like a hoot. It would be tough to find two more diametrically opposed persons. What exactly do you think the chances are that you dislike P.M. Robertson more that me? Give me some numbers.

If I was anal enuf, I'd correct "... dislike...more that me?" but I'm not, so I won't.

cd @ 68:

Proud2bHumble @ 65:

cd @ 64:

Proud2bHumble @ 63:

Please don't get me wrong chances are I dislike Pat Robertson more than you do but I hate it when people lump jerks like him and people like Ghandi together.

If we keep this back and forth going long enough on this thread, we may be able to cover the width and breadth of most screens (well not the width, but I knew that and wanted to not only define breadth as the vertical dimension, but do it in a fairly long-winded(fingered?) way in case said occlusion becomes the goal rather than the byproduct of our screenopolistic conversation - see what I mean?).

I don't doubt you've seen Ghandi included with Pat Muthafuckinlyincrazypieceashitassholegreedymegalomaniac Robertson in the same 'famous religious person' grouping somewhere, and tho I never have, it sounds like a hoot. It would be tough to find two more diametrically opposed persons. What exactly do you think the chances are that you dislike P.M. Robertson more that me? Give me some numbers.

Who could dislike Robertson more than Christians who not only disagree with 99% of what he's saying but who think he's despoiling their name?

Well, Satanists, hopefully, unless he secretly is one.... Oh, wait....

Frank Dufek @ 70:

This scared me to read... and I'm not even a 'liberal.' Has haunting echoes of past mass movements towards villainizing an entire political party.

Whatcha mean yer not a librul, ya evil bastid!

Feel better?

too slow - gonna go watch some ijitbox - check back later

Maddy @ 74:

GonzoD @ 66:

I still prefer to be refered to as "A Dirty Fucking Hippy!"

And Dan Lipinski, if we stink it is from hard labor not the rot of our souls.

Wow!
My hat is off to you.

plooger @ 76:

Good lord, Lipinski sounds like a far-Right whackjob. I don't think you'd be able to differentiate his rant from something coming from a Right Wing politician.

That's because Dennis Miller writes his stuff.

'They look down their educated noses at blue-collar men and women who work for a living.'
--Dan Lipinski

'I understand why Americans are interested in winners, but I am developing a lively interest in losers. I want to know what they know. Their anxieties seem more fundamental. No, I do not intend to idealize the poor. I am not unsophisticated! I intend only to remember that the poor exist; and to dream about a Democrat who cares equally about national security and social insecurity--to dream on ...'
--Leon Wieseltier

I used to live on the Southwest Side. This installment of "This American Life" about Chicago Mayor Harold Washington gives an accurate portrayal of Chicago's politics.

Proud2bHumble @ 63:

Seriously, I agree somewhat. Some of the lefty sites and commenters do express anger toward faith in the same black-and-white dualistic good vs. evil terms that fundamentally flaw the fundamentalists...

Oh, yeah, quite a number of "progressive fundies" out there, driven every bit as much by hate/intolerance/ignorance as their counterparts on the right. Both groups are small, yet quite vocal minorities, and thus have managed to dominate a few message boards and blog comments areas. Since the PFs find refuge on the left, they are part of the reason why the Democrats are perceived overall as less friendly towards religion than Republicans. Also note the CFs are finding the Republican Party increasingly to be not religious enough, a good sign indeed.

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=287

The Democratic Party continues to face a serious "God problem," with just 26% saying the party is friendly to religion. However, the proportion of Americans who say the Republican Party is friendly to religion, while much larger, has fallen from 55% to 47% in the past year, with a particularly sharp decline coming among white evangelical Protestants (14 percentage points).

living in the Lipinski fiefdom almost my entire life i can easily report that i have received mail from his campaign at least once a week for the last several weeks. that is more mail than i've ever received from either him or his father in years. scared? maybe. but his father also made sure that there are two ringers in the race, just like he did the last election, to make certain the vote gets split so his republican son can again win for him. the last mail from Lipinski quoted snippets from local papers that ripped Pera while neither of the other other candidates even got a mention.

i am the only one in my neighborhood that has a Pera 08 sign in my front yard. most are Lipinski and a couple have the far distant Caparelli. Pera scares the hell out of my neighbors because Lipinski's father has held sway over the district for decades. also, Pera's stands are portrayed like the post says - too liberal, anti-working class, anti-elderly, etc.

for the first time ever Lipinski-fils showed up at a couple of appearances [i don't even remember his father doing that], refused not only to join in anything similar to a debate but didn't even show up for the Chicago Sun-Times' editorial board meeting.

as far as the question one commenter posted, WOW! Why’s this Republican running in a Democrat primary anyway? , it's called Chicago politics. if you are not from Chicago, you can in no way understand it. though it works, sometimes it is very sad...

cubejockey @ 6:

Is there 21 year old in the basement writing this shit like Karl Rove did at the Washington RNC HQ back in the 70s?

There is, and he works cheap. Give him a couple of Playstation 3 games, a big supply of cheetos, and a couple of cases of Red Bull, and he'll write whatever you want 24/7

I always find it amusing when they make these whiney claims and yet fail to identify and individual or group that falls into the vague category that is being described. The author is completely unable to back-up anything that he states or be specific, yet despite not having this information feels that a conclusion is possible.

This is no more authentic then claiming that bands of secret cannibals like that candidate and openly support him.

God-- that last paragraph is literally like something you'd see in an old Nazi flyer. I mean, from before they actually seized power. That's very interesting.

mike/ @ 85:

living in the Lipinski fiefdom almost my entire life i can easily report that i have received mail from his campaign at least once a week for the last several weeks. that is more mail than i've ever received from either him or his father in years. scared? maybe. but his father also made sure that there are two ringers in the race, just like he did the last election, to make certain the vote gets split so his republican son can again win for him. the last mail from Lipinski quoted snippets from local papers that ripped Pera while neither of the other other candidates even got a mention.

i am the only one in my neighborhood that has a Pera 08 sign in my front yard. most are Lipinski and a couple have the far distant Caparelli. Pera scares the hell out of my neighbors because Lipinski's father has held sway over the district for decades. also, Pera's stands are portrayed like the post says - too liberal, anti-working class, anti-elderly, etc.

for the first time ever Lipinski-fils showed up at a couple of appearances [i don't even remember his father doing that], refused not only to join in anything similar to a debate but didn't even show up for the Chicago Sun-Times' editorial board meeting.

as far as the question one commenter posted, WOW! Why’s this Republican running in a Democrat primary anyway? , it's called Chicago politics. if you are not from Chicago, you can in no way understand it. though it works, sometimes it is very sad...

Couldn't have said it better myself!