OBJECTIVE-FACT-ABOUT-LONG-DECEASED-ENEMY-GATE!!!

Here comes the latest right-wing freakout:
Uh Ho: Obama Says Vietnamese Dictator Inspired by Founding Fathers

"...we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson."
-- President Obama talking to reporters alongside Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.

It may come as some unwelcome news to the families of the nearly 60,000 Americans who died in the Vietnam War that the whole thing was just a misunderstanding.

That was the impression President Obama gave on Thursday when he spoke to the press after his meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang. Sang brought Obama a copy of a letter sent to President Harry Truman from Ho Chi Minh in which the communist dictator spoke hopefully of cooperation with the United States.

Obama, striking a wistful tone, observed that it may have taken 67 years, but the United States and Vietnam were finally enjoying the relationship that Ho once wrote of. After all, Obama said, Ho had been "inspired by the words of Thomas Jefferson." ...
That's from FoxNews.com. The freakout extends to PJ Media, The Blaze, Drudge, Gateway Pundit, etc., etc.

But where did Obama get this notion from?

Um ... I assume he got it from Ho Chi Minh's own Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, written in 1945, which begins as follows:
"All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free.

The Declaration of the French Revolution made in 1791 on the Rights of Man and the Citizen also states: "All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights."

Those are undeniable truths....
So the fact Obama made reference to is, in fact, a fact.

Also: we normalization relations with Vietnam eighteen years ago this month. The trade embargo ended a year earlier, in part through the efforts of former prisoner of the Vietcong John McCain, working in concert with John Kerry. If the right had a problem with the fact that the U.S. has normal relations with Vietnam, it had an eight-year Republican presidency to raise those objections.

I heard nothing. I've heard nothing even from the current crop of right-wing loons in the House.

So shut the hell up, right-wing media.

Cheap shots and iconography

The Great and Terrible. From leftwingnutjob.
That old white magic:
He's just so—mavericky! [jump]

End the slave power—exterminate the Hutts!
Mongols?

David Limbaugh:
"But despite all that, no other race has ever fought a war for the purpose of ending slavery, which we did," the radio host opined. "Nearly 600,000 people killed in the Civil War. It's preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they've done more to end it than any other race, and within the bounds of the Constitution to boot."
Who were those Caucasians fighting against in the American Civil War? Remind me!

Waay better mustache than Friedman, too! Via.
Old Senator McCain was shocked, shocked to learn that the Obama administration was using the figure of Theodore Roosevelt (in his reincarnation as Washington Nationals mascot) to promote the Obamacare launch coming this fall (the Obama administration apparently thought this would be reasonable, just because the Colonel supported universal health care).
Come to think of it, though, McCain might be right: the Bull Moose platform called for a National Heath Service alongside
federal regulation of interstate corporations, the conservation of natural resources, graduated inheritance taxes, and women’s suffrage. It also called for industrial health and safety standards, the prohibition of child labor, a minimum wage for women [!], compensation for industrial accidents, injuries, and occupational diseases, and “the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance.”
And to TR the modest protections offered by the Affordable Care Act against its bribes to gigantic financial trusts, in the context of the retrenchment of progressive legislation that has been going on since 1980,  would seem awfully thin.

Another one of Paula Deen's best friends, Ineata Jones (known as "Jellyroll"),  ringing in the diners at a Deen restaurant. New York Times. Not in it for the money, just loves show business.

It's never about race!

New York Times:
That is where the two women’s stories diverge. Ms. Deen, through her publicity team, offered a statement denying all of Mrs. Charles’s accusations: “Fundamentally Dora’s complaint is not about race but about money. It is about an employee that despite over 20 years of generosity feels that she still deserves yet even more financial support from Paula Deen. ”
Right—the fact that that woman wanted to be paid as much as white folks got shows that she's purely mercenary.

Heifers like heptagons. From Rural Revolution.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, are these the legs of a valedictorian?

Atlantic Wire:
"Some [undocumented immigrants] are valedictorians, and their parents brought them in," [Iowa representative Steve] King said. "For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."
My favorite response was this sweetly insane one from the surrealist blogger otherwise known as Another Kiwi:
And as Georg Friedrich Händel said, All we like sheep.

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...