It comes as no surprise that the right is trying to use Obama's win of the Nobel Peace Prize this morning against him. Fair enough! I mean, I don't really understand how that works, but I recognize and understand that many people do not like him, did not vote for him, and do not agree with his policies, and as such it must be difficult to see his winning the Nobel Peace Prize as anything other than further proof that the world has gone Upside-Downsies. "If they're going to give him one, then they should give George W. Bush a Nobel Public Speaking Prize. He was the best. I wish he was my dad." That was just a reductive and completely baseless journey into the mind of a caricature of a right wing voter. Sorry.
But seriously, Rush Limbaugh? An embarrassment?! I could understand claiming that Barack Obama doesn't deserve a Nobel Peace Prize, but how on Earth do you call winning a Nobel Peace Prize an EMBARRASSMENT?! Looks like someone had an Oxycontin for breakfast.
Other things that Rush Limbaugh considers to be equally or LESS embarrassing than winning a Nobel Peace Prize:
With a health-care reform song set to a Miley Cyrus song.
Um, obviously the kids from the Ron Clark Academy are great, and even though I liked their cover of T.I.'s "Whatever You Like" more than I like anything Miley Cyrus has ever done ever, or anything related to or based off of anything she has done, this is still pretty solid. But what was that one kid talking about at the beginning? He is against public health care because of what it will do to rich people? That is some Lil Bill O'Reilly shit right there is what that is. (Thanks for the tip, Matthew.)
I'm so sorry. I should have known that Wellford's mayor, Sallie Peake, was not your mayor. Obviously, East Cleveland's mayor, Eric Brewer, currently involved in a cross-dressing-photo scandal just days before the election, is your mayor. (Via Dlisted.)
You know that you should tell your parents that you voted for her, but it just hasn't seemed like the right time. It's not that you're scared of what they'll say, your parents have always supported you, but you don't want to see that quiet disappointment in their eyes. "But she makes ridiculous, unsustainable policies without the logical reasoning skills to back them up. She has attempted to literally cut the legs out from under our police department without clearly understanding what that would mean for the safety of the town. And she is saucy and combative with the press," they will say. "I mean, a 'no running' policy?" your mother will say. "What is that?" You will shake your head. "It's a no chasing policy, mom." She will look down. "All the same." There will be a pregnant pause. "Well, she's mine, and I love her," you will say. And then everyone will push the food around their plates in stone silence until someone, probably your dad, changes the subject.
Soon! You'll tell them soon. Just not tonight. (Thanks for the tip, Octavis.)
YIKES! Didn't he learn the lessons of Naked Gun? I mean, I guess there is some difference between going into the bathroom with a live mic on and making hilariously long and outrageous bathroom sounds at a press conference about ensuring the Queen of England's safety during her visit to Los Angeles and this, but STILL. It's pretty similar! Besides, everyone at least goes to the bathroom, not everyone has illicit affairs with lobbyists to the specific committee on which you serve, in direct conflict with almost everything that you stand for politically.
"We had sex on Wednesday a lot."
--Michael Duvall's Tombstone
Actually, everyone involved with this piece is pretty much a Quote Factory. "Your audio tapes, sir, your very sexual audiotapes, any comment?" Very sexual audiotapes. I am sure I have a pulitzer around here somewhere, and when I find it, I'm going to PayPal it to that guy. (Via TheAwl.)
As you know by now (and if you don't know by now, you should get better at knowing things), Senator Ted Kennedy died last night. Obviously, I can't effectively or meaningfully eulogize him, and the world does not need me to. You can find tons of informative, meaningful, and touching tributes to him all over the place. And you should. I will just say that in a government of mostly middle-of-the-road monsters, he seemed to be someone who worked hard for the things that he believed in, and that what he believed in tended to be helping other people.
And this video of Robert Byrd being shockingly (but also kind of wonderfully) emotionally raw on the Senate floor, which is actually a year old, and is him reacting to the news of Kennedy's diagnosis of brain cancer, broke my metal heart:
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Goodbye, Ted Kennedy. You will be missed. You're in heaven now, providing important, effective, lasting, and often bi-partisan governance to the angels. (Video via ThinkProgress.)
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