What Religion Would That Be?

Peter DiGaudio is as much fun on twitter as he is on his cyclic blogging. For example, DiGaudio thought this to be worth the re-tweet:


By inference, that must mean that liberals are Christians, since it was the very Christian James T. Harris that claimed to own his daughter.

Harris Goes Beyond The Pale

We already knew that James Harris was a sexist, when he said he owned his daughter.

Harris' sexism and misogyny became more and more focused on Michelle Obama.

But when he refers to the First Lady as a prostitute, that goes beyond the pale.

He is obviously intimidated by beautiful, intelligent women, especially if they are African American.

The man really needs to go to therapy to deal with his own insecurity issues, instead of making a fool of himself like that.

The Chief has more.

No Discernable Change

James T. was a sexist then.

James T. is still a sexist now.

Stay Classy, Charlie

Charlie Sykes, defender of women's rights (to be treated like meat).

It's not the first time either.

Where's Sykes' Morality Now?

Charlie Sykes, who, despite his own checkered past, likes to fashion himself as Mr. Morality, and isn't afraid to call out a liberal for sexism, even when it isn't there.

So why hasn't Mr. Morality called out his buddy, James T. for this post?

And where was Mr. Morality when the "brilliant" Tom McMahon posted this or this?

Can you say hypocrisy?

Do They Really Want Sykes To Be Their Spokesman?

Charlie Sykes has been constantly harping on DPW Chairman Mike Tate and his press releases calling the recent Teabaggerfest for what it was, a corporate sponsored anti-government rally. Tate also pointed out in another release that Walker is trying to pander to the lunatic fringe of the right wing by speaking at the event.

Sykes has been so upset by this that besides the many times a day harping on the radio, he has put up not one, not two, but three posts so far squawking about the truth-telling.

The question is really do Scott Walker and the Republican Party really want the thrice-married, adulterous, sexist and racist Sykes as their public mouthpiece?

Oh, wait, they probably do. He is perfect for them.

Sexism In The City, Revisited

Over a year ago, I wrote about the sexism that is prevalent amongst the right.

Zach tells us that some things, unfortunately, never do change.

Alcohol And Poor Social Skills Don't Mix

Good old Kevin Fischer, the church-going, moral compass of Franklin shows us what he is all about.

In one of his posts tonight, he is all excited because one of his alleged readers told him of some misogynist event happening in Las Vegas.

Not only is he acting like Rush Limbaugh after the arrival of a whole new shipment of Viagra, he goes on to insult the women of the Midwest because they don't meet his ideals of beauty.

But then he displays why all of his old friends, even the conservative ones, have gotten sick of his attitude:

NOTE: Prudes and downright Kevin Fischer haters can e-mail their complaints to Mark Maley at Journal Communications. My guess is that these days, he'd love to hear a protest that's actually interesting rather than , WAHHHH, I HATE THE NEW BLOGGING SYSTEM, I QUIT!

The only problem is, his rudeness is not because he is better than those that have graduated on to bigger and better things, while he stagnates at a site run by someone else.

Nope, what Fischer's real problem is is that he is trying to hide his envy of competent bloggers, like Janet Evans, Cindy Kilkenny and Greg Kowalski. Fischer must subconsciously be aware that if he went out on his own, he would get lost in a heartbeat. He would lose his readership (all four of them if you include his wife), and we all know how desperate he is for any kind of attention.

Let us just hope that someday, Fischer will be able to pull up his big boy pants and start acting like a man.

Hypocrisy, Thy Name is James T.

"Why do liberals hate women?" asked the man who thinks he owns his daughter.

See also: Hypocrisy AKA Daddio

Missing The Point

A couple of weeks ago, during the Miss U.S.A. pageant, Miss California stated that she was against gays being allowed equal rights and being allowed to marry.

One of the judges, Perez Hilton, went overboard and got carried away in attacking her.

Since then, a lot of garbage has turned up on Miss California, and she may lose her crown for violating her contract with the Miss California pageant.

Predictably, the right wing has gone absolutely nutty about the issue. Sykes has been talking about it almost every day as well as posting gratuitous pictures of her. James Harris has been clamoring for attention with his martyr role while posting more gratuitous pictures of her.

But the thing that the Posse Comatose and the hysteric Hilton are all guilty of is continuing the sexist behavior of objectifying women and demeaning them by having the pageant in the first place.

Belling: Sexist As Well As Racist

Mark Belling, well known for his racist rants, including the infamous "wetback" comment, has found a new demographic to discriminate against: women.

On his radio program today, he referred to women who breast feed their babies as "sows."

Apparently, he caught the wrath of most of Milwaukee, as he should have. From Dan Cody:

Even women calling in to his show today who identified themselves as “conservatives” were outraged at the outrageous statements of WISN’s “premier” talk radio show host. And rightfully so.

Why a single middle aged man who has no family (that I know of at least) thinks he’s qualified to provide commentary about something as personal as breast feeding and it’s effect on women, their children and their families is beyond me. Why that kind of person thinks they can make such an offensive comparison and then try to cover it up is even a bigger question.

Read Dan's whole post, include the audio from the show, at his site, Left on the Lake.

Lessons From The Perferssor

While it is not OK to pick on Catholics or Christians for the choices they make, like Bill Maher does, it is perfectly fine to pick on women, because they're not men.

This has been today's lesson from Perfesser McAdams.

Those Classy Conservatives

Again demonstrating that they are the faction of hypocrisy, the right wing strikes again.

Example 1: Remember, during the election, how the right wing would love to try to put doubt in people's minds about Obama's patriotism, based solely on whether he wore a flag pin on his lapel?
Well, patriotism is now passe, as Tom McMahon shows us in his over-the-top fear of peace and prosperity.

Example 2: This one comes via Zach at Blogging Blue, who highlights Peter DiGaudio's continuing violations of Godwin's Law. Perhaps it's his own Aryan beliefs that Peter is projecting.

Example 3: The sexist post by The Asian Badger, who calls Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi the c-word. I thought that was a no-no. Oh, right, you can do if you are on the right - how did I ever forget. Also worth noting are the two (at the time of this post), who are also right wingers and have no issue at all with it.

And these people wonder why no one takes their whinings and attacks seriously. It's not the culture - it's the hypocrisy.

Make That A Sexist Boor

Zach showed us a spot in which Kevin Fischer once again proves himself to be a boor.

Fischer now has another post up which shows that he is not just a boor, but a sexist boor (emphasis mine):

Nursing moms are in a tizzy. They want to breast-feed.

Go ahead.

They want to have pictures taken of them doing so, and they want to be able to show you those pictures on their Facebook accounts on the Internet.

Sorry, sweetheart, but not everyone wants to see that. And not everyone wants to see you breast-feeding wherever you darn well feel like it.

Sorry, Kevin. I know you think you're all that and a bag of chips, but all you are is just another sexist boor.

Why does Lazich keep him around? Is this who she wants representing her to the public?

No Insight On Incite

Man, oh man. A guy goes away for a couple, three days, and all heck breaks loose.

As I am trying to catch up on the things I missed whilst tied up in other ventures, I find the perfect example on why no one, and I mean not one person, should ever take Patrick McIlheran seriously.

Showing he is the ultimate shrill for the hate-and-fear-mongering Republicans, Paddy puts up a notice that he will be on Sykes' Sunday Incite show, complete with this laugher (emphasis mine):

Well, politics hasn't gotten mean on "Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes," though the tone of the presidential campaigns will be one of the topics.

Sykes is pure meanness. How else could one explain his racism, his sexism, his prejudice and his flat out lies?

PaddyMac isn't any better. Remember how he defended the blatant racism of a local blogger. Paddy called it "refreshingly caustic and pungent."

Only the most deranged, or the most fearful of sheep, could ever take either of these people seriously.

Does He Really Want To Go There?

Why would a man who brags about "owning" his daughter think he knows one thing about feminism, much less what it means.

That's Entertainment!

McIlheran has a column in this morning's paper in which he congratulates Rush Limbaugh for twenty years of national airtime. He goes on to crow about just how wonderful he thinks talk radio is. He goes on and on about how he thinks squawk radio is entertaining and then some. He even quotes the other half of the McSykes comedy show:

For many of us, it spared us from losing our appetite for news, as well. Sykes, a journalist before taking to the airwaves, describes Limbaugh as water on parched earth when conservatives first heard him. “It was the first time they heard someone espousing their beliefs, showing some respect instead of being condescending,” said Sykes.

[...]

“If you’re a liberal,” said Sykes, “you have no problem encountering liberal ideas. You swim in a sea of liberal ideas, liberal assumptions, liberal commentary.” What talk radio did was provide an alternate frame for those who aren’t liberal, letting listeners know they weren’t alone in thinking liberal premises were a load of deep-tunnel overflow. Talk radio laughed at things that deserve mockery but weren’t getting it. It made current affairs a sport, not a chore.

McIlheran points to the success of Limbaugh by saying he as "something like 20 million listeners" Whoopee. Given that the current population of the United States is over 303 million people, that means that Limbaugh draws 6.5% of the people. Not exactly a large share of the market, is it?

And what are these beliefs that talk radio espouses, that supposedly sooooo many people agree with? That women that stand up for themselves should be considered Nazis? That women should be owned? That it's OK to insult other religions? Other races? To call autistic kids spoiled brats?

You name it, they've insulted it. Yeah, that's what I want people to think of when they think of America...a bunch of racist, sexist, lying pigs. And we won't even get into their hypocrisy, trying to preach morality, when they have several issues of their own that shows their duplicity.

Bruce Murphy wrote a column just after McBride managed to hasten her departure from TMJ radio. That article sums up local squawk radio very accurately:

For Belling and the other radio squawkers, image is everything. They can’t afford to be regularly exposed as wrong because it demeans the franchise, and the franchise’s entertainment value depends solely on their personality. Thus, they screen callers to decide what points of view they can live with, ones that won’t undercut them too badly.

By contrast, a journalistic enterprise like the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel runs corrections on an almost daily basis, prints letters that disagree with editorials, and disciplines or even fires reporters who make egregious errors. Yes, the paper can be self-serving or slow to correct errors, but over time, a good newspaper will always prove itself bigger than any one person, even the editor. It can afford to admit errors and should even be admired for doing so, because this serves the entire community of readers.

Belling and Charlie Sykes make no pretense of serving the entire community. Belling’s longtime slogan, “Standing Up for Milwaukee,” generally meant he was standing up for every city but Milwaukee – namely all the suburbs surrounding Milwaukee. Sykes’ slogan, “Standing Up for What’s Right,” ripped off Belling and suggested a similar bias.

Both are smart, savvy media junkies who often sound like reporters but are actually entertainers who don’t abide by the rules of journalism. Day in and day out, they have to make outrageous statements that anger people, most of whom will never get a chance to respond. This builds ratings, but also builds up enemies they can’t afford to let on the air because the host’s image is at stake.

Squawk radio has absolutely nothing to do with the news. They take a news story, removed the facts that they don't like, and endlessly repeat the facts that they do like. Such as the myth of the "liberal mainstream media" or that it is Obama that is naive, when McCain repeatedly has shown and even admitted he doesn't know what he's talking about.

This explains why they have to spend so much money to keep squawk radio going, and why they're so deathly afraid of the Fairness Doctrine. Because what they say can't hold up to the light of the truth, and their rantings aren't as popular as being hopeful and positive. Look at the current Presidential campaign. The squawkers are besides themselves with Obama's popularity, and the fact that no matter how much mud they try to throw, they are the ones that always come out looking the worst for it.

If one wanted to be generous, one could call squawk radio the verbal form of blogging, presuming that the blogger isn't a very good one. (Then again, none of them are very good at blogging either.)

A more accurate term would be "Propaganda."

ADDENDUM: Isn't it ironic that these "entertainers" dismiss any celebrity that espouses a position different from theirs, questioning their qualifications to have an opinion, but then call themselves entertainers?

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Another Classy Post By Fischer

Apparently, some of the more strict adherents are none too pleased with an effort to change some of the ritualistic phrasing that is part of the Catholic Church.

Now, I'm not Catholic, nor do I agree with many of the positions that the Church takes, but I do believe in the Freedom of Religion, and would consider this issue to be an internal matter that they need to deal with.

Some of those who have strong feelings about this issue, can express themselves appropriately, like Dad29 does.

Fischer does not have the same kind of education or level of sophistication as Dad, as his clearly obvious in just the title of his post on the same subject, spelling errors and all:

BAPTISM AND THE FEMINAZI'S

As a public service, here is a link to their contact information, just in case you wish to let WISN know how glad you are that they are making this class act part of their station. He should fit in real well with Belling.

Just How Offensive Can He Get?

As I am sitting here, surfing the Web, I have the radio on, listening to James T., the Hip Muser.

He is ranting about healthcare, complaining that if we went to a universal health care system, we would have to wait for up to five hours in the emergency room, citing some antecdote or other. I don't know when the last time he had to go to an ER, but at certain hospitals, that would be an improvement.

But the thing that got to me, was as he kept referring to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as the Shrew and the Chocolate Jesus, respectively. I tell you, you can't find of odious fecal matter in a sewage treatment plant.