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(108,903 posts) Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:43 AM Jan 2015

5 Demented Right-Wing Moments This Week: Michele Bachmann's Hilarious Delusion

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/5-demented-right-wing-moments-week-michele-bachmanns-hilarious-delusion

1. President Michele Bachmann delivers on one of her campaign promises.

Drivers enjoying the cheapest gasoline in years may not know this, but they have retired Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to thank for the low prices at the pump. During her awe-inspiring run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, Bachmann promised voters that if elected, she would bring them $2-a-gallon gasoline, and dang if she did not deliver on that campaign pledge this week.

2. Tea partier Steve King makes bizarre comparison of Louisiana lawmaker to Jesus.

What would Jesus do, is a perennial question of the Christian faithful. Tea partying, rabid anti-immigrant congressman Steve King came up with a rather bizarre anwer to that question this week. King's Jesus would give speeches to white supremacist groups, apparently. King was speaking about the controversy surrounding his Republican colleague Rep. Steve Scalise after reports emerged that he spoke at a conference with close links to former Ku Klux Klan leader and white pride-espousing politician, David Duke.

3. Fox News offers absurd advice to women in honor of the New Year.

What do men want? It’s the age-old question. Oh, wait. No, it isn’t.

Fox & Friends offered some sage advice to the ladies on how to please their men on New Year’s day, so get out your notepad, gals.

4. Conservative economist Art Laffer offers laughable analysis of why the economy is recovering.

Yep, he said that. His actual words:

"The reason we're now coming out is because all of those stimulus dollars spent are now drying up and government spending as a share of GDP is falling very sharply, which is leading to a modest recovery right now, and I think it will continue and I'm very optimistic about the long term, but the reason why we're having any growth now is because of stimulus spending running off and not being there any more."

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5 Demented Right-Wing Moments This Week: Michele Bachmann's Hilarious Delusion (Original Post) xchrom Jan 2015 OP

If these people aren't on something then they need to be. hobbit709 Jan 2015 #1

Number 5 is most egregious: chervilant Jan 2015 #2

Someone did run their car into protestors (somewhere) and I saw FB posts praising it underpants Jan 2015 #3

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

1. If these people aren't on something then they need to be.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun Jan 4, 2015, 07:47 AM

Jan 2015

Either they're on some kind of hallucinogen or they need to take something to stop their hallucinations.

chervilant

(8,267 posts)

2. Number 5 is most egregious:

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun Jan 4, 2015, 09:30 AM

Jan 2015

5. Head of Gun Owners of America blames ‘black leftists’ for racism. If you had any doubt that gun nuts and racists have a little something in common, consider the case of Larry Pratt. This outstanding citizen heads up Gun Owners of America, a right-wing, pro-gun group, so comfortingly, he is armed to the teeth. He offered up his sterling analysis of the root cause of racism in America this week: it’s the black people.

And not just any black people: black leftists.

Pratt made this claim during an interview with Internet hate-talk show host Stan Solomon. The two were discussing the deaths of unarmed black men Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of white police officers. Pratt then spoke of the murders of two policemen in Brooklyn, which no one is celebrating.

“Let’s face it,” Pratt remarked. “The racism that we are dealing with in our country comes primarily from a small group of black leftists, and it’s almost like a repeat myself —radical leftist, racist. When you’ve said radical leftist, you’ve pretty much said racist.”

As if this were not vile enough, evil-as- hell Solomon upped the ante by suggesting that peaceful protesters should be killed, Right Wing Watch reported.

“The next time there’s a die-in, make sure they’re dead,” he said. “The next time they block the road, run their asses over.”

Now there’s a true patriot for you.

underpants

(182,826 posts)

3. Someone did run their car into protestors (somewhere) and I saw FB posts praising it