The GOP field for 2012 presidential elections read like this: A black token, uncle-tom Herman Cain equipped with a head packed tight with pizza; yet to declare Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann — dimwit cuckoo witches; cockamamie Newton Leroy Gingrich — a 68 year old thrice married adulterer and scam artist extraordinaire; another yet to declare Libertarian Ron Paul — who wants to legalize heroin; Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota who has the personality of a high-school prankster; thrice married birth certificate maniac Donald Trump — who dropped out the other week but is “re-considering“; Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana who has just dropped out of the race because of fear of airing the “dirty panties” of his wife who deserted him for another man, leaving him with their two daughters — then came back after smelling the millions Daniels made while working as an executive for Eli Lilly & Co., a multi-billion dollar Indianapolis based drug company with a history of malfeasance and criminal practices:

In the decade that Daniels climbed the corporate ladder at Eli Lilly, the company was illegally marketing its leading osteoporosis drug, Evista, as well as its blockbuster anti psychotic, Zyprexa, putting tens of thousands of patients in harm’s way. Lilly pleaded guilty to two criminal misdemeanors, paid more than $2.7 billion in fines and damages, settled more than 32,000 personal injury claims — and copped to one of the largest state consumer protection cases involving a drug company in U.S. history, a review by iWatch News shows.

With 2008 candidate Mike Huckabee, the man who once wished loudly that Obama be shot — apparently comfortable with his multi-million dollar contract at “Fixed News” a.k.a Fox News, the only other “viable” candidate is master flip-flopper Mitt Romney, a Mormon — who is regarded suspiciously by the racist-religious base of the Republican party.

Ailes Employees Hannity And Rove Work To Defend Republicans Against “Dirty Tricks“ [ LOL! ]

Well, those are the “carpetbaggers” Mr. O‘Bama will be facing in 2012!

Mr. O‘Bama Goes To Ireland

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Fox President Roger Ailes who controls and dissipates GOP propaganda thinks Sarah Palin is an idiot — as reported by New York Magazine, which has just published an extensive profile of Ailes that details the significant role he plays in conservative politics.

Immediately following the announcement by tea party favorite Herman Cain that he is “running for President of the United States” and “not running for second,” Fox News wasted no time in jumping to gush over Cain. “Yes He Cain!” frothed Fox about the uncle-tom — a limp attempt to mock Obama’s “Yes We Can” slogan of 2008.

Herman Cain Invokes Martin Luther King’s “Free At Last“

“Free” you are not Herman. You are a negrophobic, “chicken-and-biscuit eating uncle tom,” a monumental “pubic” disgrace to the black cause in America. You are a slave crawling back to your master — in the Tea-Party plantation! You are a boot-licking, butt-licking, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized, homogenized nigger who is being trotted out in front of us by Republican racists to provide America with an illusion of black inclusion.

Are those rabid racists in the Republican base capable of voting in a black man for president? Hell NO!! See video below for proof:

Flashback: In 2008 The Racism of Sarah Palin’s Supporters Was Bloody RAW!

Herman Cain — you are wasting your time. You are a fool if you think these imbeciles will ever make you president of the United States!

Hermain Cain Could Not Answer A Basic Mid-East Question [ SEE VIDEO AT 01:40 ]

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Meanwhile, Dick Morris the “toe-sucking,” always wrong Fox News guru is again on the warpath — spilling lies and hopeless predictions as usual. Here is what he said about 2012 in April:

2012: Dick Morris’s Hopeless Prediction on Apr 7, 2011

Dick Morris: Herman Cain ‘Blew Me Away‘ But He Cannot Win. [ READ: 'Pleasure Me' Nigger But Know You Are In The Wrong Place! ]

Dick Morris: Opposing Obama And Democrats Is Only Way To Avoid “Another Holocaust“

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Last week the Fox idiots were out in force after Obama’s mid-east speech. As usual the deranged, syphilitic attacks on Obama were nauseating:

Right-Wing Media Portray Partition Plan Supported By Israelis, American Jews As Simply The “Palestinian Plan“

Doocy Falsely Claims Obama “First President” To “Suggest” 1967 Israeli Borders

Beck Wannabe Bolling: “I Can’t Remember Ever” When A President Said “Israel Back Off Your Border” — Wrong! [ SEE VIDEO ]

Huckabee On Obama Middle East Speech: “The President Of The United States Betrayed Israel”

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The Big Picture: May 20, 2011

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The masses are asses. We know this. But the level of ignorance displayed by the attendees at the “Restoring Honor” rally is shocking even by contemporary standards.It is quite clear that Glenn Beck is a master propagandist with a chilling and Svengali-like power over the lemmings of the New Right. Beck-watching is compelling (to me at least) because his popularity is a barometer of the toxins in our political atmosphere. Moreover, I wonder if Beck’s followers would be so slavish as to follow him off a cliff, and to what extremes would the tea party brigands go in their devotion to his cult of personality.To point, here is a little armchair sociology to help put Beck and the New Right’s devotees into a broader context. — Courtesy of Wikipedia

How Did So Many Republicans End Up Believing The Falsehoods Heaped on Obama?

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. “Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.”

The Dunning-Kruger effect was put forward by Justin Kruger and David Dunning. Similar notions have been expressed-albeit less scientifically-for some time. Dunning and Kruger themselves quote Charles Darwin (”Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge”) and Bertrand Russell (”One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”

The Dunning-Kruger effect is not, however, concerned narrowly with high-order cognitive skills (much less their application in the political realm during a particular era, which is what Russell was talking about.Nor is it specifically limited to the observation that ignorance of a topic is conducive to overconfident assertions about it, which is what Darwin was saying. Indeed, Dunning et al. cite a study saying that 94% of college professors rank their work as “above average” (relative to their peers), to underscore that the highly intelligent and informed are hardly exempt. Rather, the effect is about paradoxical defects in perception of skill, in oneself and others, regardless of the particular skill and its intellectual demands, whether it is chess, playing golf or driving a car.

The hypothesized phenomenon was tested in a series of experiments performed by Justin Kruger and David Dunning, then both of Cornell University. Kruger and Dunning noted earlier studies suggesting that ignorance of standards of performance is behind a great deal of incompetence. This pattern was seen in studies of skills as diverse as reading comprehension, operating a motor vehicle, and playing chess or tennis.

Kruger and Dunning proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:

1. tend to overestimate their own level of skill;

2. fail to recognize genuine skill in others;

3. fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;

4. recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they can be trained to substantially improve.

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On the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, Glenn Beck is planning a rally on the steps of the Lincoln memorial. He’s been plugging the event as an opportunity to reclaim the civil rights movement. From whom? Black people? [ MLK DAY: THE STATE OF HATE IN AMERICA ]

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The Consequences of Beck’s Nightly Hour of Hate

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NOTES: Dr. Cornel West apparently has a bone to pick with President Barack Obama. Over time, the good Dr. West has become increasingly vocal in his critique of Obama, and even went as far as to say that Obama treated him “like a cub scout,” when refusing to address his concerns about the administration’s behavior.

“Well, I’ll tell you, I had not talked to my dear brother since the Martin Luther King gathering in South Carolina, and very briefly Super Tuesday. But he did come and make a beeline to me after his speech on I think it was Thursday morning in Washington, D.C. I hadn’t seen him for two and a half weeks, and he made a beeline to me, though, brother, and he was deeply upset. He talked to me like I was a Cub Scout, and he was a pack master, you know what I mean.”

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Fixing Obama’s approval ratings: Princeton Prof. Cornel West discusses his claims that the Obama administration has been “whitewashed.”

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Glenn Beck claims that Martin Luther King was a person of principles and values — and that he was trusted by Americans. Really!. Clearly, had he been of age in the 60′s Beck would have been at the forefront calling MLK a communist like many other racist shit-bags of the Republican Party did back then.

MLK was for social programs, affirmative action, social justice, etc. — things Glenn Beck attacks like a Mongoose hunting a Cobra!

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From RacismReview.com: On his June 18 radio talk show, Glenn Beck discussed his upcoming “Restoring Honor” rally, which is scheduled to take place this coming August 28th at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. If Beck’s earlier “Rally for America” (2003), the finale of his book promotion tour through “real America” is any indication, there will be lots of flag waving, honoring the troops, and some relatively small crowds. But he has something else in mind for this rally.

Stepping back from the obvious problems of Beck’s rally, however, we should contextualize white conservatives’ embrace of Dr. King’s legacy and civil rights rhetoric in a larger framework. This latest example is part and parcel of an increasingly commonplace exercise in colorblind racism.

Whites frequently invoke memories of the civil rights movement and the beloved Dr. King as a maneuver of positive self-presentation, evidence of the progress we have made in society. While the intentions of such whites may be “good,” the rhetoric remains problematic nonetheless, as it is often employed to invalidate the persistence of ongoing interpersonal, institutionalized and structural racism. [ READ MORE ]

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“This Is What Hitler Did“: Beck’s Obsessive Nazi Analogies

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