Pundit Country

for the week ending November 30

• Think Progress: Pastor Rick Warren Refuses To Condemn Ugandan Law Making Homosexual Acts Punishable By Death.

• Jamison Foser: The other right-wing media mogul you should worry about.

• Anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller says that Rifqa Bary is under “house arrest” and that “Ohio is effectively practicing Sharia law.”

• Eric Kleefeld gives thanks for the 10 wildest and wackiest political figures of the moment

• Right-wing groups played a big role in the losing fight against gambling in Ohio.

• Evan McMorris-Santoro’s top 10 moments of the right-wing tea party “revolution”

• Did Dana Perino forget all about 9/11?  Apparently.

• At least 40 Republican members of Congress would fail the RNC’s purity test.

• The American Family Association declares victory in its “war on Christmas” battle with The Gap (yes, that Gap).

• The Baltimore City Council has passed a measure requiring all crisis pregnancy centers to display signs stating they do not provide abortions or birth control referrals.

• Lilly Folwer has a good piece in Salon on Wiley Drake and the whole Psalm 109 effort.

• RH Reality Check reports that various right-wing groups in Nevada have come out in opposition to the “personhood” initiative effort in the state.

• Anti-gay hates crimes have increased for the thrid consecutive year, but I doubt that will stop the Right from lying about the issue.

• Gov. Mark Sanford faces 37 charges of violating state ethics laws.

• String of Racially-Motivated Attacks Hits Denver, Police Arrest 34 Suspects

• Finally, a game that is fun for the entire right-wing family: ”OBOZO’S AMERICA: Why Bother Working for a Living? is a fun fantasy board game based on the preposterous notion that a Marxist clown, running on the vague and shaky platform of hope and change, could become President of The United States.”

*items selected from Right-Wing Watch, Hatewatch and Talking Points Memo.

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What with all of the news regarding the officer shooting in Lakewood, WA today, I completely forgot that today is the 10th anniversary of the start of N30, or what it’s become known as: the Battle in Seattle.

It’s kinda odd looking back then and seeing where we are now. We were largely ignored by the WTO then and they seem to have repeated that strategy with every subsequent protest since as more and more of the world’s wealth goes to fewer and fewer hands.

Anyway, some of the readers I’ve seen have been posting a “where I was” perspective of the events of that day and I thought I’d add mine. I knew exactly where I was on the 30th. Right behind this photographer, much to the consternation of my girlfriend at the time.

h/t Punchbaby.com

Is Tarryl Comfortable As the Left’s Candidate?

When was the last time you saw or heard a right-wing candidate asked of they were comfortable being the candidate for Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and Steele?

Tarryl, by the way refers to Tarryl Clark, one of two Democrats who may face off against Minnesota’s 6th District against right-wing loon Michele Bachmann. Be prepared to see this race turn on pure ideology considering Bachmann has done little in terms of pork or policy for her district.

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As you may or may not heard by now, former VP candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is in Washington State this weekend visiting family during the Thanksgiving break.

During that break, it was announced that she would participate in a 5k run in Kennewick. However, Palin ditched the ending of the race to avoid the gathering crowd (a rather odd move considering she’s been traveling around the country promoting her new book Going Rogue).

Now while I understand that most national figures back out of committments from time to time, someone who, like Palin, has garnered a much-deserved reputation for bailing on events, this was just an idiotic move. If she had no intention of finishing the race, or was just using the start of the race as a photo-op, then why not have people in place before the start of the event saying exactly that to the press, so they don’t take off on a story they clearly seem to enjoy telling.

It is exactly this level of amateurish handling of her media events that have reinforced the impression among the public that this is someone who is clearly not ready for prime time, let alone ready for any major public office. It’s a lesson you’d think she would have learned by now.

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• Why Sarah Palin is unlikely to be the future of the Republican Party. (slate.com)