“Countdown” guest host David Shuster and Michael Musto, Village Voice columnist and author, last week poked fun at a recent study published in Psychological Science showing that participants who had lower IQs as children were more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and be socially conservative. Musto’s take: “They’re dumb. Yeah, they’re narrow-minded. I mean, they think an innuendo is an Italian suppository.”

Michael Musto comments on a recent study showing that lower IQs lead to conservative views

References:

1. Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals? — The GOP seems to understand a psychological phenomenon that researchers are studying: conservatives appear to be motivated by fear in a way that liberals are not. [ READ MORE ]
2. Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

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In Other ‘Low IQ’ News
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“Countdown” guest host David Shuster tells of an unusual setting for a lesson in campaign finance — Nevada’s Moonlite Bunny Ranch. According to Shuster, “the working girls at the Moonlite Ranch, who reportedly love a good caucus, met and decided to endorse Paul’s candidacy.” Shuster further relates that the prostitutes attempted to make a direct campaign donation of nearly a thousand dollars to Ron Paul staffers, only to be directed to send the money to Paul’s super PAC.

‘Pimpin’ for Paul’: David Shuster reveals Nevada prostitutes who have the hots for Ron Paul

Hate-Talker Rush Limbaugh Falsely Claims That “There Is A Relationship Between Abortion And Breast Cancer“

“Mr. Syphilis” Sean Hannity Falsifies CBO Data To Make His Case That Obama Re-Election Would Be A “Disaster“ [ READ MORE ]

Juan Williams Deflates Fox News’ Ginned Up Obama War On Catholics: “There’s No War On The Catholic Church“

Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Names “True Causes Of Poverty“: “Poor Education, Addiction, Irresponsible Behavior, And Laziness” — [ READ: BLACK PEOPLE ]

Fox’s Crowder: Obama “Should Go Back To Burning The Taxpayer-Funded Incense To Whatever Pagan, Foreign Deity He’s Worshipping”

Payne Downplays U.S. Poverty: “The Very Poor Suffer From Gout. In The 1920s And ’30s That Was Called The Rich Man’s Disease”

Fox & Friends Hypes Discredited Figure To Downplay Jobs Report

Bill O’Reilly Downplays Planned Parenthood’s Cancer Screening Services

Fox’s John Bolton: “I Don’t Think It’s In Our Interest To Stay Out” Of A War Between Israel, Iran

Neil Cavuto’s Extended Ode To Slime-Bucket Birther — Donald Trump

Fox’s Bolling: Obama’s Homeowner Initiative Is “Class Warfare” That Was “Forged In Marxist Germany” And “Creeping Into America“

This time around, Glenn Beck, Fox News’ former baboon-commentator is not around to hijack MLK’s legacy.

He is safely buried somewhere on the Internet after Rupert Murdoch and his chief race-baiter, Roger Ailes — fired the evil, racist conspiracist from their political operation at Fox — last year.

But, Fox still habors lots of Beck wannabe’s and syphilitic liars like Sean Hannity ….and of course, the imbecile who started it all — Bill ‘Osama Bin’ O’Reilly, the quintiessential definition of a narcissist.

Outside of Fox, the bunch of racists, homophobes and gymnastic flip-floppers contending for the GOP presidential nomination — for November’s fight against Obama — have not shied way from the Republican tradition of race-baiting.

One, Newton Leroy Gingrich landed in hot water a couple of weeks ago when he said he wanted to appear before the NAACP and tell them why they should want pay checks over food stamps.

When Gingrich appeared at a town hall at the Jones Memorial AME Zion Church in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday, he launched straight to economic issues, offering his “solutions” to create jobs by drilling for offshore natural gas and modernizing the Port of Charleston for when the Panama Canal is expanded, writes: Sarah Posner

The audience didn’t care about Gingrich’s “solutions.” The first question out of the box came from a gentleman who wanted to know, quite simply (to paraphrase), what in the hell was Gingrich thinking when he said that kids should work as janitors?

The questions didn’t let up: will you retract your remark that Barack Obama is the “food stamp president?” (No, because more people are on food stamps under Obama, said Gingrich.) Why do Republicans place all blame for the country’s economic woes on Obama? And a heartbreaking question, from a schoolteacher and mother who recently became homeless, to which Gingrich failed to react like a, um, human. [ READ MORE ]

In Atlanta, Raphael Warnock, senior pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church, blended religion and politics into Sunday’s sermon and took a swipe at Newt Gingrich:

“He is playing an old game that’s part of the southern strategy…I think he’s relying on old logic of scapegoating and race baiting,” Warnock said, while referring to Gingrich’s anti-black “FoodStamp” slur.

The old goat also contesting for the GOP Nomination, Ron Paul — once described Dr. King as a “world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours” and “seduced underage girls and boys.” He even claimed — without a hint of proof — that Dr. King “made a pass at” fellow civil rights warrior Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded King as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). [ READ MORE ]

“Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy Ronald Reagan approved it!” “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day,” he added.

Dr. King was the leading advocate of social justice and equality during his time. He rejected segregation and worked hard to alleviate economic inequality. He was against the Vietnam war — all wars. Like Obama, he was a “community organizer” — a noble title Republicans have defecated on with rampant abandon.

Republicans collectively stand for the polar opposite ideals. Since the New Deal, Republicans have been on the wrong side of every issue of concern to ordinary Americans; Social Security, the war in Vietnam, equal rights, civil liberties, church- state separation, consumer issues, public education, reproductive freedom, national health care, labor issues, gun policy, campaign-finance reform, the environment and tax fairness. No political party could remain so consistently wrong by accident. [ From EvilGOPBastards.com ]

Wrong on everything MLK stood for!

But, that has not stopped Republican hypocrites from trying to claim MLK as one of them — a stupid conservative bigot.

Even more dis-heartening — is that some punkified, sissified black uncle-toms aligned with the GOP — have been running around carrying the Republican shit-pail — claiming that MLK was one of them. [ READ MORE ]

MLK was no Republican — and Gingrich and co. can harp all they want, …..the vast majority of black people want nothing to do with the Grand ‘White-Power‘ Party.

What Would ‘Community Organizer’ Martin Luther King Jr. Think of The Toxic GOP Politics Today?

Words in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From The Birmingham’ City Jail in April 1963

On MLK Day, Fox Hosts ‘UNTIE-TOM’ Star Parker To Discuss How MLK’s Message Has “Been Hijacked By Government Welfare Programs” — READ: Black Welfare Queens! [ REF: WELFARE: A WHITE SECRET ]

The Other GOP Nincompoops At Work….

Fox Guest Likens Marines Urinating On Dead Bodies To “Frat House” Behavior: “That’s What Guys Do”

Fox’s Hume: Marines Urinating On Dead Bodies May Be Unbecoming, But “I Just Don’t Think It’s Despicable”

Bolling: Obama Wants To Turn America Into The “People’s Republic Of Organized American Communities”

Media Matters For America: A Tale Of Two Fox & Friends Interviews

Among the many things Fox & Friends does that betrays their “fair and balanced” mantra is how the hosts interview guests of different ideological backgrounds. Their habit of lobbing softball questions to GOP candidates and officials even got so bad that Fox’s own Las Vegas affiliate slammed the show for their kid-glove treatment of then-Senate candidate Sharron Angle. [ READ MORE ]

DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz’s Rough Treatment By Fox & Friend’s ‘Ding-Bat‘ Gretchen Carlson

About 20 minutes later, co-host Steve Doocy lobbed soft-balls at RNC Chairman Preibus:

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Good Riddance: Bye, Bye ‘Retarded’ Psycho-Talker Michelle Bachmann!
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   Pic: Courtessy — Bossip.com

Like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann is a Sorry Quitter Despite Having ‘God‘ on Her Side

Jon Stewart Compares GOP Candidates To Box of Chocolate

New Hampshire or Bust: Mitt Gets Giddy, Newt Gets Angry & Michelle Gets Lost!

Vendetta: Big Newt Gingrich Vows To Be Nasty in New Hampshire & South Carolina

Stiff, Mirthless John ‘McSAME’ McCain Endorses Former Rival Mitt Romney in New Hampshire

Obama To GOP Bring It On ‘Ding-Bats!’

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Carlson Gives Romney Advice For A “Pretty Compelling Campaign Ad“

Hannity: “2012 — The Year To Defeat Obama And Save America. I’m Saying It Every Day On My Radio Show”

Ding-Bat Sarah Palin: Iowa [91% WHITE] Is “Sort Of A Microcosm Of America” Considering Income And Education, And It Represents General-Election Voters

Hannity Suggests McCain Should Get Romney To Bring Up Wright, Ayers, And Black Liberation Theology In Attacks On Obama

On Fox, Johnson Complains About “Activism,” “Propaganda,” And An “Unfair Portrayal Of The News To The American People“

Osama Bin O’Reilly: If College Students “Don’t Know They Can Vote Absentee, They’re Too Stupid To Vote”

Fox’s Bolling Fearmongers About Chinese Control Of U.S. Debt [ READ MORE ]

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NAACP Slams Santorum for Remarks About Blacks: In response to a voters’ question, Santorum on Monday was discussing the Medicaid program for the poor and disabled when he commented, “That’s what the bottom line is. So I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families.”

In a statement Wednesday, the NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said, “Senator Santorum’s targeting of African Americans is inaccurate and outrageous, and lifts up old race-based stereotypes about public assistance. He conflates welfare recipients with African Americans, though federal benefits are in fact determined by income level. In Iowa for example, only nine percent of food stamp recipients are black, while eighty-four percent of recipients are white.” [ READ MORE ]

Hatemonger Rick Santorum Says Obama is Taking ‘White‘ Money & Giving it To ‘Blacks‘ [ WHY THE BASTARD IS WRONG ]

Rick Santorum, The King of Homophobia!

PLAYLIST: Rick Santorum is a puss-filled, ignorant racist-misogynist. The former Senator with a “Google Problem” is a homophobe extraordinaire, a cruel bone-crunching, merciless hyena of a man.

   By: DeWayne Wickham
The lead to a recent Associated Press story about the declining influence of black lawmakers in the South reads like something written by the late Lee Atwater, the race-baiting former Republican Party chairman and GOP spin-doctor.

“(An) overwhelming allegiance to the Democratic Party has left them (black lawmakers in the South) without power in increasingly GOP-controlled state legislatures,” the AP said, citing a report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Racial politics

In the early 1980s, Atwater was a master manipulator of the news media and crafty manager of the GOP’s Southern Strategy, which uses racial fear to herd white Democrats into the Republican Party. He — like Richard Nixon before him — understood that a subtle appeal to racism would, over time, change the political landscape of the South.

This is what he said during a 1981 interview about how the Republican Party could marginalize blacks:

“You start out in 1954 by saying ‘—-, n—–, n—–.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘n—-’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now (that) you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic … because obviously sitting around saying, ‘We want to cut this,‘ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘—–, n—–.‘”

The AP story, which was published by news media outlets across the country, left out this critical context. The constant is the allegiance of blacks to the Democratic Party. That isn’t news. It’s the impact on these black lawmakers of the mass migration of Southern whites to the GOP that is the news.

Joint Center report

David Bositis, a political scientist and the author of the Joint Center report, seemed to make just this point:

“In most Southern states, the 46-year transition from a multiracial Democratic (Party) political dominance to a white conservative Republican political dominance is almost complete.”

PLAYLIST: The Southern Strategy

Marginalized

But while this change has taken place over nearly half a century, it has moved at warp speed over the past two years. Before the 2010 election, 51 percent of black legislators in the South were a part of a state legislative majority. After elections that year and this year, the number dropped to just under 5 percent, according to Bositis.

These changes have come in a political climate in which Republicans have craftily used the abstractions of “states’ rights” and calls for lower taxes to bring more white voters into the GOP fold.

2008′s impact

An even bigger missed story in the analysis of Bositis’ report might be the connection between the 2008 election of Barack Obama and the increased pace with which Southern Democrats lost control of state legislatures — and nearly all black legislators in the old Confederacy suddenly became members of the minority party.

Instead of ushering in the post-racial era, the election of this nation’s first black president has seemingly widened racial fault lines, most noticeably in the South. The Joint Center report is just the most recent evidence of this.

But just as the unchanged voting habits of black Southerners aren’t responsible for the loss of political influence for black legislators in that region, Obama’s election didn’t forestall the end of the Jim Crow era that Republicans made an integral part of this nation’s politics with their Southern Strategy — and which they continue to use as a political abstraction.

Somewhere, Atwater — who offered a suspect apology for his bad acts before his death in 1991 — must be smiling.

Through a series of gaffes, flip flops, somersaults, flat out lies, hypocritical and bewildering statements — Obama’s potential 2012 opponents have clearly demonstrated that they are not ready for prime time — All of Them!!

In the 2012 crop of Republican presidential candidates — ignorance on just about every issue and HATE are being celebrated and glorified — to new heights of absurdity.

The most stupid of the candidates, Perry and Cain, the biggest liars, Romney and Gingrich — are at the top in the polls, while the most sane and balanced of them all — Jon Huntsman, lives at the bottom of the pile.

Michael J.W. Stickings sums up the ignorance in the GOP:

Ignorance and irresponsibility play well in the GOP, after all, particularly with the party’s right-wing base. Think back to Donald Trump’s bullying talk on China — that was hugely popular on the right. Or consider now how all the “foreign policy” talk, such as there is any, among the candidates amounts to oneupmanship on “American exceptionalism” while painting President Obama, who is also knowledgeable about the world and about America’s place in it, as a traitor, a threat to the simplistic hegemonic worldview that passes for foreign policy in the GOP.

The Know-Nothingness Republican Platform For 2012

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Jon Stewart To Herman Cain After Libya Gaffe: ‘I Love You’

Honoring Neil Armstrong, “WEEPER” Boehner cries….Again?

House Speaker John Boehner couldn’t keep it together when presenting a Congressional Gold Medal to astronaut Neil Armstrong on Wednesday. C-SPAN video shows Boehner getting choked up after he handed Armstrong the award.

It’s one of many times that Boehner has gotten emotional in public. Here’s the ongoing list of what has made him cry: [ READ MORE ]

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Bonus Coverage of Right-Wing Hate & Lies
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Defending Herman Cain: Sean Hannity Makes Sexual Harassment A Punch Line

Sean Hannity and Monica Crowley Throw Kitchen Sink Of Epithets At Occupy Protesters

Bill O’Reilly Proposes “More Prisons” To Curtail Undocumented Immigration

Bill O’Reilly: The Occupy Movement Is “A Failure,” “Dead,” “Finished“

References: High Country Extremism

1. Part One: Pioneer Little Europe (“PLE”) Has Brought White Supremacists To The Flathead Valley …

2. Part Two: PLE Plans To Take Over Local Political And Economic Systems To Unleash “Uncontrolled White Nationalist Culture.”

3. Part Three: High Country Extremism: Racial Holy War And “Save The White Race! Earth’s Most Endangered Species”

4. Part Four: Fundamentalist Christians, The “Preparedness Expo,” And “Paradise” In The Flathead Valley …

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