Mike Tidmus

God-O-Matic (animation: Mark Fiore)

“This is an opportunity for leaders with vision to reaffirm all that is great about America – to remind our people of the importance of diversity and stand up for equality for everyone regardless of their beliefs about religion. “The demagogues have had their say. Now it’s time for powerful voices to rebuke Newt Gingrich, [...]

Aside from the flambéing up of a stack of Qur’ans by some grandstanding evangelical Christian church in Florida already infamous for its homophobia and racism, Think Progress has a few examples: This weekend, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are hosting a rally in Anchorage, Alaska to mark the anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Ticket [...]

Salon.com’s War Room has a must-read on the radical religious right’s latest attention-ho anti-gay, anti-choice voice, (she’s not a real) Dr Alveda Beal King. King’s academic credentials have also raised eyebrows. She is regularly referred to as “Dr. Alveda King” in promotional material, although her doctorate is an honorary one, bestowed by St. Anselm College, [...]

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews slices and dices the president of Concerned Women for America, Wendy Wright (video: Hardball with Chris Matthews) Don’t you wish just once that these Christian gay-haters-for-hire would answer a direct question with the truth? Taste: Wendy Wright: Shut the fuck up, Chris. We’re Christians. So we’re entitled to not have to answer [...]

Carly Fiorina’s politics are more aligned with the Tea Party and Sara Palin than with every day Californians (video: Brave New Films at YouTube) Brave New Films: Carly Fiorina claims she’s a political outsider capable of solving California’s unemployment problems. Scarily enough, she is actually well-known for sweeping work-force cuts as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, [...]

“At Newsweek, Lisa Miller writes, ‘The Christian right is now poised to become a women’s movement — and Sarah Palin is its earthy Jerry Falwell.’ “That’s a major prediction, and not one that is suggested either by the past or the present. In some ways, the Christian right has always been a movement about women [...]

Here’s a thought: You know those hideous (so-called) ‘truth trucks‘ with the oversized, anti-gay and anti-choice graphics that the freakier elements of the extreme religious reich like to drive around and around and around — wasting fossil fuel, I might add? We needs to get us an entire fleet of those effen trucks plastered with [...]

Olbermann: Palin an ‘IDIOT’ and coward for mocking Maddow, MSNBC (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) Not that it wasn’t already an article of faith among thinking people that former governor, Christian supremacist, and failed Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin is an idiot — or “f*#king retard” if you prefer, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann named Palin his [...]

Would tossing Sarah ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Palin into a volcano appease the oil spill gods? I wouldn’t know for sure, but here’s a plan: Step 1: We trick Palin into getting on a jet headed for Iceland – we’ll tell her it’s a six-figure speaking engagement and let greed take its course. Shouldn’t actually be [...]

Sarah Palin claims drilling ‘safe and environmentally friendly’ (video: climatebrad at YouTube)

Olbermann: “Palin wants America to return to the way it used to be in 1775 — which might explain why a new poll finds that the libertarian constitutionalist half of the tea party wants nothing to do with her.” (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) Keith Olbermann: Who is running Sarah Palin? God is! She tells [...]

The GOP’s top Sarah Palin impersonator, Mike Huckabee, true to form, trashed the gays with that whole ‘adopting puppies’ nonsense. Yeah, yeah. But he also said he’d rather have an honest atheist as President than a dishonest religious person before doing a little atheist bashing, and closing with: “I think it’s nice if a person [...]

Sarah Palin Wins “Worst Mother in America” Award (video: Mrs Betty Bowers at YouTube) America’s Best Christian, Mrs Betty Bowers has bestowed Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers’ prestigious Worst Mother in America Award on former GOP Vice-Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin for her “heroic efforts in self-indulgent, absentee parenting.” Visit Mrs Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian, [...]

Muriel (Toni Collette) and Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths) perform Abba’s Waterloo from the Australian movie, Muriel’s Wedding. (video: Muriel’s Wedding at YouTube) Here’s a little something for the freakshow that constitutes the radical religious reich. Suck it up, Senator Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, Pastor Jim Garlow, Michelle Bachman, Tony Perkins, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Rush and [...]

Apparently Canada’s death panels were kind to the reigning queen of American tea-baggers. Young Sarah Palin and her family, according to a report from the Huffington Post, used to slip across the border to take advantage of that single-payer healthcare action in Canada: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths [...]

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly presents a balanced picture of the health care summit by randomly selecting four people who all think the bill is a terrible idea (video: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) Sarah Palin and Megyn Kelly and the rest of the Fox News entertainers most definitely need something crammed down their throats.

Fox News military analyst announces support for DADT repeal (video: fshakir1 at YouTube) This is huge! When Fox News gets something — anything — right, it’s stop the presses time. Well, here ya go and there ya have it; Fox News’ crack military analyst Col David Hunt labels Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell an “abject failure.” Fox [...]

Stephen Colbert: Sarah Palin uses a hand-o-prompter and defends Rush Limbaugh for calling liberals ‘retards’ (video: Colbert Nation) Oh. My. Dog! Hey! It’s cool if it’s satire. Sarah Palin said so. +++++++ UPDATE (10 February 2010, 7:25am): Obviously, The Rude Pundit agrees. From his post Sarah Palin is a Fucking Retard: The Rude Pundit watched [...]

A Few Gay Men & Women (video: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) How many generals and admirals siding with the gays will it take before McSame sees the light? That whole mythos of John McCain being an “honorable man” kinda croaked the day he sat down with the Reverend Jerry Falwell and sold his [...]

Via Eric Kleefeld, at Talking Points Memo, we learn of a new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll. Here are just a few highlights: 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached. 63% think Obama is a socialist. 53% think Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama to be president. 73% think gay people should not [...]

Rob Boston (The Wall of Separation): In Uncivil Disobedience: Why Religious Right Attempts To Invoke Martin Luther King Fail, Boston soundly thrashes claims made by the religious-tyranny-loving, gay-hating phonies who signed the Manhattan Declaration, specifically that they’re following in Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s footsteps … Boston notes, “This is bigotry, plain and simple. It [...]

“Sarah Palin is the peppy cheerleader in high school all the boys thought was so sweet but the girls knew was really a vicious shrew. She’s the new girl in the office who wears tight shirts and three-inch heels, is super-friendly to her male superiors, ignores the other women, and gets promoted sooner than her [...]

Sarah Palin Book Signing – Interviews with Supporters (video: NewLeftMedia at YouTube) In the video above, Queen Esther’s zombie army of darkness shows up for a combined Palin-Praising and book-signing. Had it been simply a book-reading, they’d all have stayed home in their double-wides and watched Fox News, listened to Rush and done their nails, [...]

Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue is Going Rogue (video: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon featured a clever sketch involving the Divine Ms M, Rachel Maddow, and Sarah Palin’s new entirely-ghost-written best seller — Dog forbid Ms Palin should crack a nail typing and be unable to fulfill her responsibilities as the [...]