Obama tangles with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer over immigration book
By David Nakamura

PHOENIX — President Obama is used to tangling with Republicans in Congress. Last Wednesday, he sparred with one on a tarmac.

Arriving in this Southwestern city on the second stop of his post-State of the Union tour, Obama descended the stairs of Air Force One and was greeted by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who was among the local politicians waiting for him in a customary receiving line.

Such moments are designed photo ops designed to burnish the image of the president and the politicians. This time, it quickly turned into a dust-up in the desert.

Brewer attempted to hand Obama a letter, which she later told reporters was an invitation to sit down with her to discuss “Arizona’s comeback” and to tour the U.S.-Mexican border with her.

   Ugly Witch — Governor Jan Brewer [ READ MORE ABOUT JAN BREWER AND APARTHEID ARIZONA ]

“I thought we probably would’ve talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another,” Brewer said later. “Our country is upside down. Arizona was upside down. But we have turned it around. I know again that he loves this country and I love this country.”

That’s when things went sour. Obama and Brewer engaged in what reporters described as an “intense exchange,” with the Republican governor pointing her finger at the president and the two appearing to talk over each other.

The exchange ended when Obama abruptly walked away as Brewer appeared to still be speaking, according to a summary provided by reporters in the press pool that shadows the president on his trips.

Asked about the conversation, Brewer told the reporters that Obama was “a little disturbed” about her book, “Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure the Border.” [ READ MORE ] [ MORE HERE ]

De-legitimizing ‘Black’ Obama: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Says Obama ‘Threatened’ Her!

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Obama Gets into a Weird Argument With a Weird Governor – ‘Apartheid’ Arizona’s Jan Brewer (P1/2)

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Meanwhile, El Commandante Fidel Castro last week said — the GOP race for nomination “is idiocy, ignorance.” The Republican presidential race is “the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,” former Cuban president Fidel Castro wrote in an opinion piece on las Wednesday.

Castro made his comments in his latest column of “reflections” on a Cuban government website, attacking the Republican candidates two days after their debate in Florida.

Castro was reponding to the comments that Romney and Newt Gingrich made about what they would do if he died.

Romney said he would “thank heavens” Castro had “returned to his maker,” while Gingrich said, “I don’t think Fidel’s going to meet his maker. I think he’s going to go to the other place.” — [ READ MORE ]

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In Other GOP Idiocy …….
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Overboard Psycho-Talk: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus Jabs Stupidly at President Obama

Ignorant RNC Chair Reince Priebus Clowns as Romney ‘Stamps on The Corpse of Gingrich’

Cheap Shot Artists: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, GOP Candidates Attack Obama

UNCLE-TOM Allen West To Obama ‘Get The Hell Out of The United States of America’

Gov. Chris FATS Christie Thinks Civil Rights Should Be Left To Referendums in 70% White America

Dream Act: Flip-Flopper Mitt Romney is Now ‘Softening’ His Hardline Position To Woo Latino Voters

Desperate Republicans Stupidly Try To Justify Voter Suppression Tactics

Fox’s Bolling Calls Stimulative Benefits Of Food Stamps “One Of The Dumbest Things I’ve Ever Heard“

Fox’s Bolling Cites Oprah, Joy Behar, Whoopi To Argue That Liberal Women Are Not As Attractive As Conservatives

Article: Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice, Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer

Limbaugh: A Hermaphrodite Is “Like A Moderate“

Ding-Bat LIE: Carlson: “People Say” Keystone XL Would “Create 20,000 American Jobs” [ THE TRUTH ]

The Muppets Attack Fox — Fox is NOT News — Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy hit back at Fox News during a UK press conference following the London Premiere of their new film. Fox had publically criticized the film for supposedly pushing a ‘dangerous liberal agenda’ at kids.

Previously: Fox Business’ Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets’ Liberal Agenda: “Brainwashing” Your Kids!

Media Matters Goes Light Bulb Shopping — For over a year, conservative media outlets have told (LIED TO) consumers that in January 2012, they would no longer be able to purchase incandescent light bulbs due to federal efficiency standards. A trip to CVS shows that in fact, incandescent light bulbs are available, only now they’re more efficient. [ FOX NEWS -- HELPING KEEP THE STUPID, VERY STUPID ]

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Reference: How Fox News Is Destroying The Republican Party
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President Obama warned the nation Tuesday that the decades-old promise of a secure and rising middle class is under threat because of growing disparities between the rich and everyone else in America.

In an election-year State of the Union message that will likely serve as the template for the months of campaigning ahead, Obama outlined a series of steps that he believes will reinforce the tentative economic recovery, including proposals to eliminate tax incentives for companies to move jobs overseas, to make college more affordable and to expand help for credit-worthy homeowners looking to refinance mortgages at historically low interest rates. [ READ MORE ]

FULL SPEECH

The RepubliTHUG response was delivered by ‘Apartheid‘ Indiana’s Governor — Mitch Daniels.

Why Gov. Mitch Daniels is an Embarrassing Choice For GOP Response To State of The Union Speech

The ‘Tea-Party‘ Response was delivered by the bumbling, mumbling, crotch-grabbing womanizer — The great big GOP shit-pail carrier, Uncle Herman Cain

The ‘Young Turks’ Weighed in Too

……and here are the HATE-TALKERS and the LIARS

Osama Bin O’Reilly: Obama’s Concept Of “Fairness” Is “Pie-In-The-Sky“

Steve Doocy: If Nominated, Gingrich “Is Going To Take Off The Head Of The President” In Debates

Doocy: Obama Is “Going Into Campaign Mode” For SOTU Because He’s “A Much Better Campaigner, Many People Have Said, Than President“

WSJ’s Moore: Bipartisan Seating At State Of The Union Is “Like Date Rape”

Carlson: Won’t Obama “Be Running Away From His Record The Last Three Years?”

Kilmeade: Obama Will “Bring Up The Class Warfare Stuff” In His State Of The Union Address

Fox Panel Drools Over Daniels: “One Of The Best” Response Speeches, “Funny,” “Direct,” “Quite Impressive“

Wallace On Daniels Response: “A Star Is Born“

Fox’s “Bullet-Head” Tantaros Predicted Obama’s State Of The Union Will Be A “Very Divisive, Very Evil Speech“

Reference: Which Of These Is A Real RNC Ad — And Which Is Just Fox News?

The ‘White Crowd‘ at the recent South Carolina GOP debate lustily booed black debate panelist Juan Williams when he confronted shyster Newt Gingrich for calling Obama a “FoodStamp President.”

The majority of people who receive foodstamps are WHITE (59%) — a fact that Gingrich huddled over in order to racially smear black people for the purpose of enticing votes from racist whites in South Carolina. [ MORE ON FOOD-STAMP POLITICS ]

Meanwhile, a brand new batch of Ron Paul newsletters raises questions for the libertarian Republican — as well as a host of embarrassing fresh passages to go along with such classics as “the coming race war” and “the federal-homosexual cover up on AIDS” from earlier reports, TalkingPointsMemo.com reports.

Ron Paul claims “probably ten sentences out of 10,000 pages” were objectionable in his long-published newsletter series, even as he denies having ever written the content in question (or even having seen most of it). But, as TPM has reported and a new collection of Ron Paul newsletters posted by The New Republic confirms, racism, homophobia, and fringe conspiracy theories seem more like the newsletters’ raison d’etre than a rare aberration. In fact, even short promotional letters for the publication name-checked many of the most toxic passages.

Once again, contempt for African Americans and warnings of a “race war” are central themes in the most recently released materials. One issue warned “every honest American should be armed” to prepare for the coming violence.

“Today, gangs of young blacks bust into a bank lobby firing rounds at the ceiling,” one issue read, continuing: “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held as responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult, and should be treated as such.” [ READ MORE ]

In S.C. Debate Newt Gingrich Again Slams Obama as The ‘Best Food Stamp President’

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Ron Paul: Black Males Age 13+ are Big, Strong, Tough, Scary and Criminal!

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‘Campaign Racism’ is a Growing Issue For Republicans Newt Gingrich & Ron Paul

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Islamophobe Newt Gingrich Explains His Criteria For a MUSLIM President: Reject Sharia

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In Other Republican Propaganda | Obama Bashing | Lies | Racism | Bigotry
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When Jerry Springer Came to Fox News — Jerry Springer On Fox: “Every Single Day” Fox News “Bash[es] President Obama.” “It Is A Little Disingenuous” For Fox To Complain That “Newsweek May Be A Little Partisan.” [ GRETCHEN CARLSON'S LAUGHABLE DEFENSE OF FOX & FRIENDS ]

Hannity, Crowley Agree Obama Is “Food Stamp President,” Deny A Racial Aspect To Charge

Hannity: Obama Won’t Release “His College Transcripts, His Writings,” Because He “Probably Expressed His Radical Views“

Fox’s Andrea Tantaros: “I Think The Recession Was Good For Kids” Because They’ve Been “Humbled A Little“

Tantaros: GOP Only Gets 5 Percent Of The African American Vote Because Democrats Do “A Lot Of Brainwashing” [ WHY BULLET FACE IS WRONG!!]

Fox Still Inflating Keystone XL Pipeline Jobs Figure

Limbaugh: President Obama And Michelle Obama Are Not “Decent” Or “Average” Americans

OBSESSED Limbaugh Revives Attacks Against First Lady: “There’s A Reason She Is Called Michelle Antoinette”

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.

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Topping the list in 2011 is Rupert Murdoch’s corrupt Fox News a.k.a “Fixed News” a.k.a “Fake News.” Fox News Channel wraps itself in slogans of journalistic objectivity like “fair and balanced” and “we report, you decide,” but ample evidence conclusively indicate a race-baiting, terroristic, fraudulent right-wing tilt in the network’s ‘news.‘ Fox is NOT news, it’s a racist, bigoted and biased Republican political operation. [ VIDEO ]

Fox & Friends: Fox News’ Top Misinformer Of 2011 — Fox News’ Fox & Friends made considerable contributions to the field of conservative of misinformation throughout 2011. The efforts of co-hosts Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Brian Kilmeade — as well as their rotating cast of fill-in hosts and Curvy Couch guests — have made Fox & Friends the top misinformer on Fox News in 2011. [ READ MORE ] [ MISINFORMER OF THE YEAR: RUPERT MURDOCH AND NEWS CORP. ]

PLAYLIST: FOX & FRIENDS — A BUNCH OF FRAUDULENT BUFFOONS

Doocy On OWS-Inspired Holiday Play: “I Wonder If One Of Them Goes And Poops On The Sled”

Also topping the list is the king of hate-talkers, the man WHO ATE THE GOP, behemoth Rush Limbaugh — “America’s Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy,” per his website — RushLimbaugh.com [ READ MORE ]

Rush Limbaugh: Climate Change Misinformer of the Year

PLAYLIST: Rush ‘FAT’ Limbaugh: The Man Who ATE the G.O.P

Next is Dr. Keith Ablow, Fox New’s favorite doc — who has been named “Misinformer Of The Year On LGBT Issues” — In 2011 Fox News’ Dr. Keith Ablow brought a toxic mix of homophobia and pseudo scientific anti-LGBT talking points to new lows. The “Fox News Medical A-Team” member has been a prolific source of anti-LGBT misinformation, disguising his animosity toward gay, lesbian and transgender people as expert commentary on human sexuality. His bigoted rants against J. Crew, Dancing with the Stars, and the Girl Scouts have earned widespread criticism and mockery, eventually causing him to resign from the American Psychiatric Association. For his consistent promotion of known falsehoods and shirking of established medical opinions on LGBT issues, Ablow has earned the title of LGBT Misinformer of the Year. [ READ MORE ]

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PREVIOUS SCUMBAG WINNERS:
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1. 2010: Sarah ‘Death’ Palin Named Mis-informer of The Year 2010
2. 2009: Misinformer of the Year 2009: Glenn Beck
3. 2008: Fox’s ‘Syphilitic’ Sean Hannity — Named ‘The Sickest’ ‘Propagandist Extortionist’ for 2008

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Whoppers: Ron Reagan Jr. Discusses The Political Lies and Liars of The Year 2011

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More Liars & Racists, Misinformationists
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“Toe-Sucking” Dickhead Dick Morris Calls Newt Gingrich’s Plan To Arrest Federal Judges “Part Of A Checks And Balances System“

Limbaugh And Fox’s Doocy Embrace Gingrich’s “Dangerous” Plan For Judges [ READ MORE ]

Fox’s Crowley Claims Obama Had A Year Of “Disappointing And Dangerous Foreign Policy Fumbles” — No Mention Of Bin Laden

Fox’s Eric Bolling: “That’s Not Racist. … It Is Not Racist To Profile. Absolutely Not”

Limbaugh: “The Uninformed Voter Is The Democrat Target Audience”

Limbaugh Suggests Media Have Treated Kim Jong Il Better Than Republicans (REALLY???)

Carlson: Is Obama “Killing The Keystone Pipeline” With “Thousands Of Jobs On The Line” To “Please Environmentalists?“

The No-Bain Zone: O’Reilly Sidesteps Romney’s Jobs Record

Hypocrites: Fox News Calls For Yearlong Payroll Tax Cut Extension — After Weeks Of Attacking It [ read more ] http://mediamatters.org/research/201112190007

The Big Picture: December 16, 2011

References:

1. 2011: The Year Of The Right-Wing Media’s War On The American Worker

2. Politifact’s Flawed “Lie of The Year” Selection Only Encourages More Lying

3. Fox News Still Pushing Myth That Stimulus Failed

NOTE: Independent economists agree that the stimulus significantly raised employment and increased GDP, and experts say it is the winding down of stimulus spending that is causing a “fiscal drag” on the economy. [ READ MORE ]

On Same Day Poltifact Fails To Call Stimulus Falsehood Its “Lie Of The Year,” Steve Hayes Says The Stimulus “Failed“