President Obama declared early in his campaign for the White House that he is a Christian. We were led to believe that he was a supporter of the Purpose Driven teachings of California pastor Rick Warren. But it didn’t take long to discover that the only Sunday morning activity President Obama did on purpose was drive golf balls.
The evidence of his White House attacking the Christian faith, however, is plentiful.
It was President Obama who declared in an e-mail to CBN News that “whatever we once were, we’re no longer just a Christian nation.”
This is the same administration that invited Lady Gaga into the White House for an anti-bullying conference but banned Franklin Graham from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer observances.
It was during the Obama administration that Christian school children were ordered to stop praying outside the Supreme Court building because they were violating the law. Instead, those American boys and girls were forced to pray for the elected officials while standing in a gutter.
December 2011
80 posts
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly
Things I learned from this argument:
1. So, all people opposed to a mono-religious holiday season are anti-religious
2. If the people “diminishing Christmas” are anti-religious, and no one has declared a “War on Chanukah” or “War on Kwanza,” then Christmas must logically be the only legitimately religious holiday of this season.
I love the War on Christmas.
The Moscow activists who protested the Russian elections in the streets of Moscow Tuesday did not do a good enough job of looking scary and violent, it seems, because Fox News cut its coverage of the protests with footage riot police and streets on fire — in Athens. Animal New York’s Marina Galperina spotted some suspicious palm trees looking awfully healthy for December in Russia. We looked through the video, too, and there is clear evidence Fox used scenes from Athens.
Journalistic integrity! What is it with Fox and the misplaced palm trees?
Dick Morris, Fox News correspondent and former Clinton advisor, solidifying Fox’s place as a political organization
Jon Stewart, taking on Fox News’ yearly “War on Christmas” segments
Watch the entire clip here, it is worth it.
[In actuality], The U.S. solar power market grew a record 67% last year, making it the fastest-growing energy sector, the industry reports Thursday.
Its market share jumped from $3.6 billion in 2009 to $6 billion in 2010, helped by federal tax credits and declining technology costs, according to a report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and GTM Research.
Enough solar power was installed last year to power about 200,000 homes, the report says, noting that more than 65,000 homes and businesses added solar water or pool heating systems. In particular, the photovoltaics or solar panel part of the market soared most, more than doubling from 2009….
My year end list of the best blogs on Tumblr!!!!
Did you make the list? 90 blogs out of more than 36 million is approximately 1 in 400,000.
And being 1 out of 90 is approximately awesome. Thanks, Buzzfeed!
MoJo gets some Buzzfeed love, too. Much appreciated, playas! We endorse this list mightily.
1 in 400,000. And in excellent company.
Yes! Deactivation was a freak accident, but we are back!
Last week, on the network’s “Follow the Money” program, host Eric Bolling went McCarthy on the new, Disney-released film, “The Muppets,” insisting that its storyline featuring an evil oil baron made it the latest example of Hollywood’s so-called liberal agenda.
Bolling, who took issue with the baron’s name, Tex Richman, was joined by Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center, who was uninhibited with his criticism.
“It’s amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message,” he said.
“They’ve been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry,” Gainor continued. “They hate corporate America. And so you’ll see all these movies attacking it, whether it was ‘Cars 2,’ which was another kids’ movie, the George Clooney movie ‘Syriana,’ ‘There Will Be Blood,’ all these movies attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don’t want to tell that story.”
submitted by quellek2
Maybe not an exit speech?
New Gingrich, former Fox News contributor and current presidential race contender,
digging an even bigger holedefending his controversial statements on child labor laws.
Is he actually serious?
The NYPD provides Fox News’s midtown Manhattan studios 24/7 protection, The Daily Beast reports, more than any other media organization in the city.
ABC, NBC and CBS pay for their own private security details whereas, according to one security…
I remember when one of the less xenophobic arguments against the Park 151 community center was that it would require 24/7 security at tax payer expense. I’d much rather pay to protect it than Fox News.
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld with the unabashed homophobia of the day on The Five.
There won’t be any breakfast, so it will just be beds. It would be highly successful.
Newt Gingrich, former Fox News contributor and current presidential candidate
This surprised me as well.
#Worked the Obama campaign in 2008
#Republican candidates are a circus show
#Why does he have to be anti-abortion and support the Keystone XL pipeline
Greg Gutfeld on Fox News’ The Five
Things I learned from this argument:
1. Only on Christmas does one receive food and presents
2. Christmas is not multicultural
3. Non-white people are invasive and scary
4. Christmas is the only legitimate holiday during the winter season, excluding Haunukah, Kwanzaa, Bodhi Day, Eid-al-Adha, and Winter Solstice.
5. Greg Gutfeld is an idiot.
November 2011
38 posts
Bill O’Reilly, as quoted in Politico’s “Herman Cain’s Fox Problem Revisited”
Four accusations of sexual harassment and a 13 year affair = some Internet crazy thing
Yesterday, someone called me a Slactivist. This was in response to a Facebook post about Indigenous People’s Remembrance Day (instead of Thanksgiving) and the irony of people camping out for Twilight and Black Friday without incident or pepper spray. I don’t think that any of these things are specifically untrue or controversial, as camping out for Black Friday and Twilight occurred and no one was arrested, and indigenous people should be thought of on Thanksgiving. Either way, the point is that apparently this comment constitutes Slactivism, which, according to Wikipedia, involves things like “signing Internet petitions, joining a community organization without contributing to the organization’s efforts, copying and pasting of Social Network statuses or messages or altering one’s personal data or avatar on social network services” or donating to a charity.
By these guidelines, sure, my Facebook status constitutes slacktivism. However, I can’t really have huge problems with that, because I have even bigger problems with the fact that slactivism is even a named and branded perjorative that is used to belittle people, especially young people, by “activists,” or people who just disagree with them. So, here, Tumblr, is a brief overview of why I hate the term and idea of slactivism.
First, slactivism insinuates that there is a correct way to be politically or socially active. This is incredibly false. We can probably mostly agree that when we post a Facebook status or reblog a picture from Occupy Wall Street, we don’t feel as politically involved as the people there. However, I’m not sure that this is a problem warranting belittlement. So many people, especially young people, are not politically involved, and the continued development of technology is starting to change that. Is tweeting your support the same thing as standing amidst Cairo protestors? Obviously not, but now somewhere some 16 year old boy on his computer knows what is going on. And, even for a minute, he cares about it, enough to tell someone else who didn’t know. That person probably cares too, and so the cycle continues. The purposeful spreading of news, support, and information- why isn’t this activism? Why should we tell people that there is a correct way to be an activist, and then shun or mock them when they can’t fulfill that role? Who decides what activism is, and why should we disenfranchise people who, maybe for the first time, feel activism in their own lives, in whatever form?
Secondly, slactivism is a privileged term. Activism, as seen through the lenses of those so quick to cry slactivism, is a privilege. It is cost-prohibitive. It is dangerous. It is often racist, classist, sexist and heteronormative. I admire from the deepest parts of my heart those people camped out in New York and all over the country, many of them who are there despite these conditions. They are better people than I am, better citizens, and I admit that. My life as it currently stands does not allow me to partake in continued activism that like without serious repercussions for myself and my family. You can call me scared, or not married to the cause, or a coward, or a slactivist, but it doesn’t change the fact that I must do what I can with what I have right now.
So I blog. I work for political campaigns and non-profits. I phone bank. I post Facebook statuses! I protest. I write op-eds. I vote (seriously…go vote.) I understand that these things are small-scale and they in no way compare to the people putting literally their lives on the line in the streets for their rights. Those people are undeniably activists. They are my heros. When I can, I join them. However, I do not think it is fair to classify those who are not participating similarly as slacktivists. There is activism in everyday life, in multiple forms. I perform my gender and sexual expression as an act of political resistance. Someone puts a Ron Paul 2012 sticker on their car. A mother wears a “Bring the Troops Home” pin to work. A boy posts a political rally video on Tumblr. You sign a petition, you donate to a cause, you spread the word. In my eyes, this is also activism. This is political participation, and it matters! Why should we belittle these small gestures, when little by little they add up, they encourage, they spread news and information, they start campaigns, they start revolutions. Why are we so hell bent on political activism by ideal standards, when the cold hard truth it, not everyone can or will meet them?
Activism is everywhere, large and small, loud and quiet, public and private. We should embrace this, because when we don’t, we fight against our own causes, our own people, and our own voices.
#tradition #nom #happy thanksgiving!
Fox News correspondent Neill Cuvato to PETA spokesperson Lindsay Rajt, discussing PETA’s controversial billboard likening eating turkey on Thanksgiving to eating a domesticated dog.
War on Thanksgiving, War on Christmas, War on Easter, War on Halloween. Apparently no one is allowed to post offensive billboards unless they are Christian, because I saw at least three “Homosexuality is a sin,” “Jesus Saves,” and “Prepare to Meet Your Maker,” billboards on the way home.
