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Calling himself “A liberally progressive, sarcastically cynical, iconoclastic polymath,” Headly Westerfield has been a professional writer all his adult life.

Chow Mein and Bolling 10 ► Ignorant And Proud Of It

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Unretouched pic of Bully Boy Bolling
taken by me directly from my tee vee

It’s not JUST that Bully Boy Bolling is an ignorant Bully Boy. It’s that he’s so proud of being an ignorant Bully Boy. 

What’s more: his ignorance is not just limited to the Fox “News” arguefest The Five, still the worst show in tee vee since My Mother, The Car. Bully Boy Bolling proudly displays his ignorance on social media all across the innertubes. His pride in his own ignorance extends to sending out links to articles that prove he’s an ignorant Bully Boy; articles that demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that he lies boldfaced on tee vee. Then he lies again in his messages which also display his proud ignorance.

Bully Boy Bolling’s latest ignorance comes in the shape of a message he proudly sent out this morning, which follows the ignorance he proudly spouted on The Five last night:

Let’s parse that, shall we? Liberals are not “jumping up and down.” Many people, including Bob Beckel on last night’s The Five, are sharing a picture of a man at a Mendacious Mitt rally proudly wearing an ignorantly RACIST t-shirt that says “PUT THE WHITE BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE.” Furthermore, Beckel’s outrage had nothing to do with the polls. People are simply appalled at a clearly racist t-shirt. Then, just to put the cap on it, he calls the writer at Mediaite, TC,
or Tommy Christopher, to the “left of Che Guevara” in order to
discredit him.

However, facts are facts, Bully Boy.
Tommy Christopher could be from Mars for all that it matters, but that wouldn’t change the fact
that he caught you in another lie for which you are proudly ignorant, which simply adds to the list of all your
previous proud ignorant lies.

Here’s the segment from The Five:

After Beckel referred to the racist t-shirt, as Christopher points out in his article: 

Bolling took that as his cue to add in his two cents. “Did you hear, over the weekend, the story about the kid on the West Coast who took the hammer to some Obama headquarters offices,” Bolling said, ”and it turns out he was a liberal, he’s a very progressive liberal, and the speculation is he was doing it to make Mitt Romney look bad?”

“I was making no connection to Romney,” Beckel protested.

“It’s like Munchausen Syndrome by political proxy,” giggled another Fiver.

What actually happened over the weekend, in Denver, Colorado, not the West Coast, was that a gunshot was fired into an Obama campaign field office while campaign volunteers and staff were inside. The shot shattered a plate glass window on the front of the building, but thankfully, no one was hurt. Police are reviewing surveillance footage, and have said they are looking for a “vehicle of interest.”

An incident similar to the one Bolling described did occur three years ago, and is a popular way for right-wingers to dismiss a pattern of violent opposition to the President.

So, Bully Boy Bolling is caught in a lie, which he was using to deflect his brain-dead audience of The Five, into ignoring the racist t-shirt. Then, when Christopher calls him on it in an article on Mediaite, Bully Boy actually tweets out the proof that he lied and disparages the writer by saying he’s to the “left of Che.”

Not content to leave it alone, and because he previously has proven he is a Bully Boy with a notorious thin-skin — who can dish it out, but cannot take it — Bolling comes back a few hours later with the following:

None of this explains Bully Boy Bolling’s lie, of course, nor does it explain why he won’t accept that someone wore a racist t-shirt. However, it does muddy the water sufficiently so his brain-dead followers will have no idea what’s going on. Which, naturally, is the whole point. Never tell the Fox “News” audience the truth. It would burst their bubble.

Musical Appreciation ► Bob Weir

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DATELINE October 16, 1947 – Robert Hall Weir is born in San Fransisco, California and grew up in nearby Atherton, on the other side of the bay, with his adopted parents. He picked up the guitar at the age of 13. Three years later, on a New Year’s Eve, he followed the sound of banjo playing to meet Jerry Garcia for the first time. After jamming all night they decided to form a band. At first they called themselves “Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions,” which became “The Warlocks,” and finally “The Grateful Dead.”

There is no ‘Merkin band with the same storied romance between its fans and the group. Long before most people even knew about Bootleg recordings, The Grateful Dead would allow fans with tape machines to plug directly into the sound board. Dead Heads would follow the band around the country, and across the world, to take in as many shows as they could. An entire culture grew up outside Grateful Dead concerts, not to mention inside the shows.

While with The Dead, and after the death of Garcia in 1995, Weir also performed with such bands as Kingfish, Bobby and the Midnites, RatDog and his latest band Further, which is named after the bus used by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, where the Grateful Dead got their start, and the subject of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, one of Tom Wolfe’s early books.

However, it will always be about the music.

ENJOY!!!

The Fox “News” Spin Cycle ► Episode 21

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Bizarro is owned by DC Comics

It was another busy week and the research room of the Fox “News” Spin Cycle was working overtime with 333 tweets and status updates collected in the week since Episode 20 was published. Of course most of them were from Judge Nap. That’s why, beginning next week, we are giving Judge Andrew Napolitano his own series.

It was a week in which Fox “News” helped the GOP politicize the attack in Benghazi, Lybia, Vice President Joe Biden smacked down that snot-nosed kid Lyin’ Ryan, and several attempts were made by the Man Who Fell To Earth, before he finally succeeded on Sunday, which Fox “News” didn’t cover live at all.

After weeding out all the duplicate ideas, and non-political tweets, this is what we are left with, so, let’s get right to it.

It looked, for a moment, that Fox “News” was going to politicize this story. However, it disappeared without a trace.

Fox and Friends found a family to attack President Obama so they didn’t have to.

Judge Nap was promoting his own Libertarian-style column in which he attacked President Obama.

Ignoring all evidence to the contrary, and denials from the White House, Fox “News” spent a considerable amount
of time promoting this phony story that President Obama was going to bring the Gitmo detainees to Illinois.

This references the Presidential debate and, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, Fox “News” found people to trash President Obama.

While this was a segment to promote the Discovery Channel show, they found a way to trash President Obama.

One of Judge Nap’s Libertarian concerns.

This was just embarrassing. Guest Host Mike Jerrick acted like the biggest nerd in the Universe.

Then Jerrick had his sister on the show and they both came off as big nerds.

“QUICK! How can we blame this on President Obama?”

Fox “News” spent a while lot of time pretending the Jobs Report was cooked. However when previous Jobs Reports were bad for President Obama, Fox “News” was happy to promote those numbers.

No, not really. Breitbart is making it up and Fox “News” is repeating it.

And this happened too.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Detroit’s my home town and the police department is
lobbying for more officers. Therefore, they pumped out a scare story like this.

The GOP in the House has been doing everything in its power to politicize the Benghazi attack.

One of Judge Nap’s Libertarian causes. The government is bad. Lack of government is good.

Another of Judge Nap’s Libertarian causes.

And another . . .

. . . and another . . .

I was so proud. Early in the week Bully Boy Bolling proved I was getting under his very thin skin by pretending
he didn’t care. Therefore, I was only too happy to post about it on my blog. Then he proved he’s a typical Bully Boy
who can dish it out, but can’t take it. Consequently, I was only to happy to write about that on my blog as well.

Would it surprise you to find out that Rasmussen hated President Obama’s performance at the debate?

Peter Johnson, Jr., who comes off as everybody’s avuncular uncle is not just a President Obama Attack Dog, but is actually Roger Ailes personal lawyer and a Knight of Malta. Remember that when you see him expound over any religious issues.
Fox “News” Sunday has been sending out these “behind the scenes” photos lately. However, all they
reveal is that the network uses green screen fakery to pretend the guest is somewhere they are not.

Isn’t that cute? It’s made out of wood, just like the Fox “News” audience heads.

There’s so much wrong with this. Let’s start with a “school of journalism” getting pointers from the discreditable Fox “News.”

Fox and Friends Weekend has launched a facebook page. This is an example of what you get if you join.

Judge Nap seems to think it’s perfectly okay for churches to play politics.
I wonder if he would be equally okay with the churches being taxed.

One of the areas in which Judge Nap and I agree is that we are both anti-war. However,
was he as vocal about it when Dubya was lying the country into an illegal war?

Breitbart has a totally unsourced story, so Judge Nap feels it’s perfectly okay to pass it along.

Hoo boy!!!

Gee? A political party spinning a story? Nope, that’s never been done before.

Fox “News” is rather gleeful about this because it was the “Youth Vote” that helped push President Obama over the top in 2008.

Technical difficulties, my ass. God was making Her views known about the lies of Father Jonathan, the Fox “News” priest.

It turns out he wasn’t, but early in the week Fox “News” was positive that Veep Joe
Biden would be gaffe-tastic and Lyin’ Ryan would be in command of the facts.

This is so very typical of Fox “News.” A huge Republican voter registration scandal was uncovered in
several states, including Florida, so it deflects the issue with a small potatoes Democratic scandal.
Sadly this is true, but only because Dubya started 2 wars, one of them illegal. I
wonder if Judge Nap shows any concern for the soldiers once they come home.

This is typical of the hard-hitting news Fox and Friends weekend covers when they are forgetting to bash President Obama.

My favourite Bully Boy goes to Atlantic City a lot. Does he have a gambling problem?

There has been no decision. The Supreme Court has chosen to hear a case.  However, be afraid. Be very afraid.

Remember how just last week the Reich Wing was telling everybody the polls were biased and could
not be trusted. Suddenly when one favours its point of view, it’s announced from the rooftops.

Which one’s the pig? Too strong? See below for an example of Fox “News” calling someone a pig.

There are many people who skip the Pledge of Allegiance, or do not say the words “under God” when reciting it.
However, Fox “News” found a Democrat saying it, so it will use this as a cudgel to get its brain-dead listeners to hate her.

Yet, President Obama has vowed to wind down the war and remove the ‘Merkin presence in Afghanistan.

Does this mean that Judge Nap supports the Occupy Movement?

Where was Judge Nap when Dubya was passing the Patriot Act, participating
in the rendition program, and  and waterboarding suspects?

Judge Nap seems to think money spent on PBS is bad. Where was he when Wall
Street execs were getting giant bonuses paid with the government Bail Out Money?

This was a totally untruthful, hour-long trashing of President Obama’s environmental policies.

Friedman also said: Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning
the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users
and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

This was the Pay Per View debate special that, financially, was a fiasco. Many people who paid couldn’t access it and,
by the next morning, could be found for FREE all over the innertubes. Even Fox “News” was giving it away for FREE.

Two things, Loofah Lad: 1)> Paul Krugman is always sure of his facts, whether you happen to agree with him or
not; 2) Weren’t you one of those who claimed it was unseemly to call out Mendacious Mitt for his lying lies?

Small government = small guy gets crushed.

Here’s another area where I happen to agree with Judge Nap, and Milton Friedman, apparently too.

Fox “News” never promotes President Obama’s speeches in advance, nor does it
run the president’s speeches in full, like they did this one for Mendacious Mitt.

However, Fox “News” was happy to promote this speech from  Mendacious Mitt.

However, Fox “News” would die if people didn’t support lies. It’s all in how you look at it.

Yeah, because we all know that Jesus was one tough motherfucker who told the poor to take a flying leap at a rolling donut.

Don’t tell me, tell the Mendacious Mitt-Lyin’ Ryan campaign.
An unsupported allegation, from someone no one has ever heard from before,
published on World Nut Daily becomes a national story because Fox “News” says so.

Spare us the Faux Outrage, Bully Boy Bolling. He’s talking out of his ass again and he knows
it. He was a former commodities trader and knows what happens in one state would
not have the same results across the country. Furthermore, he also knows that the California
EPA regulations are the toughest in the country. Yet, he would choose cheap gas over clean air.

Fox “News” started pushing this story, which has been totally debunked as a bad translation by Google, right after it
was revealed that a Mendacious Mitt SuperPAC took $1,000,000.00 from a Canadian businessman. What a coincidence.

Oh, fer fuck’s sake!!! The Falafel King brings on a body language expert to decide who won the presidential debate.

President Obama gives lots of speeches. Fox “News” never gives them a kiss on the ass like this.

This is another example of how Fox “News” takes a bogus article and elevates it into national news.

One wonders why someone with a reputation for REAL journalism would sit down with a race-baiter like Scammity.

However, Judge Nap said NOTHING about Mendacious Mitt’s fundraising in Israel of the
$1,000,000.00 contributed to the Mendacious Mitt SuperPAC by a Caanadian businessman.

Judge Nap will pass along any Libertarian ideas, as long as it doesn’t conflict with his support of Mendacious Mitt.
Is this woman still an official Fox “News” contributor?

When Dubya was president, and gas prices were rising, Fox “News” kept saying that the president
can’t effect the price of gas. However, now that The Black Guy is in office, it’s a different story.

Can we get Fox “News” personalities to wear RFID chips? That would make it easier to keep track of the lies.

There is no low to which KKKarl Rove and Fox “News” will not go. BTW,
Turd Blossom, have you admitted your MASSIVE conflict of interest yet?

Another Libertarian cause close to Judge Nap’s heart.

Loofah Lad even uses his silly quiz to push propaganda.

Another Libertarian cause close to Judge Nap’s heart.

Another Libertarian cause close to Judge Nap’s heart.
Remember when the polls were all skewed and couldn’t be trusted? That was only last week, but Fox
“News” is hoping you’ll have forgotten by now. Knowing its brain-dead audience, that’s a sure bet.

“QUICK! How can we blame this on President Obama?”

Because we all know how “Fair and Balanced” Fred Thompson is.

Touting polls that are favourable to Mendacious Mitt and trashing polss as skewed
that favour President Obama is just standard operating procedure on Fox “News.”

Because we all know how “Fair and Balanced” John McCain is.

There is not one single provable occurance of President Obama stifling Free
Speech, but Judge Nap’s not going to let that stop him from pretending there is.

It didn’t happen until Sunday, when Fox “News” was too busy bashing President Obama to cover it live.

This is Loofah Lad pretending he won the debate, even though Bill Moyers called him on his inaccuracies.

One bad debate and Judge Nap hopes that it is all over for President Obama.
To that end he’s pushing a pearl-clutching article by Andrew Sullivan.

This is not what it seems, but all you needed to know that was that it originated
at The Daily Caller, fast becoming President Obama Conspiracy Central.

Another story that Fox “News” is happy to elevate to a national story because an aggrieved
father wasn’t happy with the letter sent by the president after the death of his brave son.

I wrote a blog post about this silly bullshit from Bully Boy Bolling as well, especially after I discovered he blocked me
on Twitter after I hurt his sensitive feelings. Like every bully I have ever met, he can dish it out, but he can’t take it.

More from the Austin Petersen Brain Trust. Judge Nap wants the nation to “fire Obama”
in favour of Mendacious Mitt, who everyone knows is athe lyingest liar to ever lie.

Even Judge Nap knows how stupid this is, but that doesn’t prevent him from passing it along to his brain-dead followers.

This is just a way for me to blow my own horn. Mid-week 3 of the Top 5
posts on my blog were from my popular “Chow Mein and Bolling” series.

Once again Fox “News” is touting polls favourable to Mendacious Mitt. Last week
polls that had President Obama in the lead were criticized as skewed an inaccurate.

This is the closest you’ll ever see KKKarl Rove come to admitting he controls nearly
$300,000,000.00 in two SuperPACs from Crossroads. Then he goes on Fox New and
touts his own attack ads, without mentioning his MASSIVE conflict of interest.

This was a very funny, and very effective, advert. That’s why Fox “Nes” spent so much time denigrating it.
“What’s next?!?! Suing General Motors for car crash?”

Suddenly Lara Logan is a favourite on Fox “News” because she said something bad about President Obama.

This oddsmaker is going to lose his shirt.

Now Judge Nap is promoting movies with a Libertarian point of view.

Who does?

The question wasn’t strange, but Fox “News” will go with Lyin’
Ryan’s condemnation to a question he wasn’t prepared to answer.

This is Judge Nap’s Biggest Lie of the Week™. This is an industry
that had been deregulated. More regulation may have saved lives.

Ayn Rand took Social Security and was against all religions. She’s a fraud, who Judge Nap is happy to promote.

The Republicans helped pass this bill, Judge Nap. You know that, right?

No, but that’s not what The Daily Caller, Conspiracy Central, wants you to believe.

Blowing my horn again. One day later 6 of the Top Ten posts on my blog were all about Fox “News.”

He’s still trying to sell the bullshit that fewer government regulations would have prevented these
deaths when this was an industry that was already deregulated. What’s worse, I’m sure he
already knows that, but since it doesn’t fit his Libertarian ideology, he’ll push a lie instead.

Empty slogans from the Libertarian point of view.

Of course, had AP published a funny picture of President Obama, that would have been fine with The Falafel King.

In which Bully Boy Bolling sent the wrong Twitter address out to his brain-dead fans and there were complaints galore.

Because we all know how “Fair and Balanced” the Toe-Sucking Whore-Monger is.

Fox “News” is doing everything in its power to trash Big Bird
because President Obama is doing what he can to save Big Bird.

Keith Ablow (who embarrassed himself at the end of the week, but I’ll get to that) seems to think
he’s perfectly normal for stocking survival food and guns for the upcoming Apocalypse.

Even though he has already admitted on another newtwork that he has no proof the Job Report was cooked.

Another Daily Caller bullshit story that Judge Nap hopes his brain-dead listeners will believe.

This was such a funny segment because Wretched Gretched went all ’80s Fan Girl to gush over Rick Springfield.

This was how Fox “News” tried to ‘play the ref’ before the Veep Debate even started.

Remember just last week when Fox “News” kept telling it’s brain-dead audience that it was unseemly
to call Mendacious Mitt a liar for all his lying lies? Yet, when Stephanie Cutter tells the truth, Fox
“News” calls her a liar and then claims she turned “beet red,” which was another Fox “News” lie.

TRANSLATION: Boss screws workers to avoid doing the right thing.

It turned out that Lyin’ Ryan would need all the help he could get at the debate the
following night when he came off looking like the lying schoolboy he really is.

It didn’t work the first time, so Scammity tried again. Anything to help Lyin’ Ryan.

If we could tax GOP lies, we could retire the debt.

How can you trust a man who wears a bad toupee? This will be like all the other times: Frank Luntz will have
another skewed focus group, which he will claim is representative, which will proceed to trash President Obama.

Every Fox “News” Sunday poll is bullshit. It starts with the preselected audience of brain-dead
Fox “News” viewers, who get their misinformation from Fox “News.” While they are careful (most
of the time) to say the polls are not scientific, they are not even non-scientifically credible.

“Hammers” is just another one of those action verbs Fox “News” likes to use when the truth is the opposite.
This is something I wish I had not lived to see. As my friend Carol said: I hope I die before I grow old.

Blowing my own horn again when later in the week all 5 of the Top Five posts on my blog were about Fox “News.”

Another Libertarian cause of Judge Nap’s. I have no problem letting Gary Johnson debate.
He is more likely to take away votes from Mendacious Mitt than President Obama.

Again Fox “News” is touting a debate when it is in Mendacious Mitt’s favour. If the polls start to swing
the other way, Fox “News” will go back to saying how they are skewed and should not be trusted.

This is teh Libertarian point of view. Not that I disagree totally, but a
Libertarian candidate doesn’t have a hope in Hell of being elected.

I repeat: A Libertarian candidate doesn’t have a hope in Hell of being elected.

No shit, Sherlock.

Another story based on faulty statistics that was debunked by week’s end.

Judge Nap promotes his own column in the Washington Times which was a endorsement of Gary Johnston.

He’s now old enough to wear long pants.

Former Veep trashed President Obama for the situation in Lybia, even though the policies of the
Dubya administration did so much to fuel anger in the region. Then he trashed Joe Biden’s performance
at the debate, even though he told someone on the floor of the Senate to “Go fuck yourself.”

No matter how hard they tried those Foxy Friends at Fox and Friends couldn’t get
General Hayden to sign on to their assessment of the attack in Benghazi.

It will if Fox “News” has anything to say about it.

More stumping for the Libertarian candidate by Judge Nap.

However, KKKarl Rove will describe everything EXCEPT his MASSIVE conflict
of interest in spending nearly $300,000,000.00 to influence the 2012 elections.

Some idiot on MSNBC wondered whether Mendacious Mitt died his hair. All the anchors
told him pretty much that he was an idiot for even mentioning it. However, The Falafel King
(who calls his show “The No Spin Zone,” remember?) tries to sell it to his brain-dead followers
as a MSNBC investigation, hoping they won’t click through and discover he’s lying to them . . .again.

Judge Nap wants his brain-dead followers to believe that the choice is binary.

Oh, wait! Isn’t it unseemly to be calling people liars Fox “News”???

My Latin is rusty, but so is Judge Nap’s.

While these seminars are FREE, I wonder what merchandise Bob Massi sells to make it worth his while.

Yet it turned out very differently.

Fox “News” started pushing this story as soon as it was learned that a Bain backed solar company was going bankrupt.

Thomas Jefferson also said, “Honesty is the first chapter of the book of
wisdom.” This one has been conveniently forgotten by Fox “News.”

Bully Boy goes all Bully Boy once again.

Only idiots wear a baseball cap indoors.

Who cares?

She’s only partially right. It’s an issue because the entire GOP, with the help of Fox “News,” is trying to turn it into
an election issue. Whatever happened to allowing sober investigations to play themselves out before blame is assessed?

This is Judge Nap’s mantra. Yet, he virtually contradicts himself
with his next message that came almost immediately afterwards.

It was a private company that screwed the Gulf of Mexico up for generations to
come and the government that held the company accountable. And then Judge Nap
contradicts himself again with his next message which came almost immediately afterwards.

You can’t have it ALL ways, Judge Nap. Choose a stance and stick with it.
The woman is clearly an idiot. And, if you watch the clip, it was the other way around: The
host confronted the woman’s idiocy and she couldn’t explain why she holds that opinion.

Does this mean Mendacious Mitt’s religion is now on the table?
Bully Boy Bolling is whistling past the graveyard. He knows the Vice President won the debate.

Judge Nap is whistling past the graveyard. He knows the Vice President won the debate.

Here’s the reaction from the phony bologna focus group.

Judge Nap is bitching about the Nobel Peace Prize given to the EU.

Fox “News” has spent a lot of time denigrating VPN Biden for his debate performance as an
excuse to avoid having to say Lyin’ Ryan lost the debate, even as he lied his way through it.

Oddly enough every tweet Fox “News” mentioned was anti-Vice President
Biden and not a single one was anti-Lyin’ Ryan. Well, whaddaya know?

Yet, the coward has blocked me on Twitter because he can dish it out, but he can’t take it.

CAPTION: God, if you’re listening, strike down this Lyin’ Ryan for his lying lies.

Sarah Palin is a punchline everywhere but Fox “News.”

This is Judge Nap’s second biggest Lie of the Week™. The Obama administration is not trying to prevent
ANY votes. The court challenge is to ensure that everybody has equal access to the voting booth.

Because VP Joe Biden won the debate, so he has to be denigrated.

Now Scammity is promoting the Ayn Rand movie too.

Shorter Judge Nap: He’s against it.

This is the Vice President who shot his friend in the face.

I’d love to follow you, Bully Boy, but you blocked me on Twitter.

Now Judge Nap (while cleverly quoting another so it doesn’t look
like he’s saying it) is calling the president a “political thug.”

If this was two Republicans, it would never see the light of day on Fox “News.”

More Bully Boy Bolling Bullshit™: There’s no indication that this person is a Socialist. Although
he worked for the Democratic campaign in ’08, it was for pay and there is no proof he voted
Democratic. What’s more is that Bully Boy is avoiding mentioning that several shots were fired at a
Democratic campaign office in the very same city. Why would he forget to mention something like that?

This is Mendacious Mitt and Lyin’ Ryan pandering to Ohio voters by claiming President Obama wants to kill Ohio jobs.

Why isn’t this guy in jail?

Does this mean, now that you’re married, you’ll no longer be sending out the morning cheesecake photo?
There are montages out there of all the Lyin’ Ryan lies, but you’ll never see that on Fox “News.”

Another Daily Caller story that is full of unsourced assertions. Not one person is “on the record.”

Fox “News” never mentions Bill Maher on the web site without the qualifier “pig.” NEVER!

Compared to all the softball interviews that Fox “News” gives to Mendacious Mitt and Lyin’ Ryan.

And that’s all the time we have, kidz. Another edition of The Fox “News” Spin Cycle has come and gone. Join us next week when we expose another whole series of Fox “News” lies.

And, remember, starting this week Judge Andrew Napolitano will be getting his own series. Feel free to make suggestions as to what to name it. I am leaning towards “Judge Not,” a terrific Bob Marley song, along with a Biblical injunction. However, I am open to suggestions.

Let’s end with a song.

Happy Birthday Lenny Bruce

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Dateline October 13, 1925 – Leonard Alfred Schneider is born in Mineola, New York. By the time Lenny Bruce died in 1966 he had changed the face of comedy forever. However, more importantly, he changed the face of The First Amendment and Free Speech forever.

“I rode with him in a taxi once,only for a mile and a half. Seemed like it took a couple of months”

– Bob Dylan about Lenny Bruce

Lenny Bruce had many run-ins with the authorities over obscenity in his night club act. According to the WikiWackyWoo:

 On October 4, 1961, Bruce was arrested for obscenity at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco; he had used the word cocksucker and riffed that “to is a preposition, come is a verb”, that the sexual context of come is so common that it bears no weight, and that if someone hearing it becomes upset, he “probably can’t come”. Although the jury acquitted him, other law enforcement agencies began monitoring his appearances, resulting in frequent arrests under charges of obscenity.

Bruce was arrested again in 1961, in Philadelphia, for drug possession the same year, and again in Los Angeles, California, two years later. The Los Angeles arrest took place in then-unincorporated West Hollywood, and the arresting officer was a young deputy named Sherman Block, who would later become County Sheriff. The specification this time was that the comedian had used the word schmuck, an insulting Yiddish term that is an obscene term for penis.[citation needed]

In April 1964, he appeared twice at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village, with undercover police detectives in the audience. On both occasions, he was arrested after leaving the stage, the complaints again pertaining to his use of various obscenities.

A three-judge panel presided over his widely publicized six-month trial, prosecuted by Asst. Manhattan D.A. Richard Kuh, with Bruce and club owner Howard Solomon both found guilty of obscenity on November 4, 1964. The conviction was announced despite positive testimony and petitions of support from – among other artists, writers and educators – Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, Jules Feiffer, Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, William Styron, and James Baldwin, and Manhattan journalist and television personality Dorothy Kilgallen and sociologist Herbert Gans. Bruce was sentenced, on December 21, 1964, to four months in a workhouse; he was set free on bail during the appeals process and died before the appeal was decided. Solomon later saw his conviction overturned; Bruce, who died before the decision, never had his conviction stricken. Bruce later received a full posthumous gubernatorial pardon.

“Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police”
– Phil Spector

 Much of what Lenny Bruce said is as true today as it was when it came out of his mouth:

Take away the right to say “fuck” and you take away the right to say “fuck the government.”

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

If something about the human body disgusts you complain to the manufacturer.

The kind of sickness I wish Time had written about, is that school teachers in Oklahoma get a top annual salary of $4000, while Sammy Davis, Jr. gets $10,000 a week in Vegas.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. 

 A Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as a descendant from that tribe. That’s what it says in the dictionary, but you and I know what a Jew is: One Who Killed Our Lord… there should be a statute of limitations for that crime.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

If you’re from New York and you’re Catholic, you’re still Jewish. If you’re from Butte Montana and you’re Jewish, you’re still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.

“Bruce stands up against all limitations on the flesh and spirit, and someday they are going to crush him for it.”
– The New York Post

Some of what Lenny Bruce said is just outright funny:

I won’t say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I’m going to be if I grow up.

Some of what Lenny Bruce said is just poignant:

I’ll die young, but it’s like kissing God.

This is one of Lenny Bruce’s most famous routines:

“But like all the truly important people in the world, he’s dead but he”ll live on.”
– Ralph J. Gleason

I first learned to love Lenny Bruce when Frank Zappa released The Berkeley Concert on his Straight label. It’s still worth a listen:

Lenny Bruce had a life worth exploring. If you are unfamiliar with his life and troubles with the law, this is a good place to start.

Chow Mein and Bolling 9 ► A Vice Presidential Debate Review

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Put down Bully Boy Bolling as another bullshit artist from Fox “News” who didn’t much like Vice President Joe Biden’s debate performance. 

The so called “Fair and Balanced” network has spent plenty of time since the end of the debate alleging Biden was drunk, rude, disrespectful, an unhinged cranky old man, and even attacked him for things he didn’t say. However, leave it to Bully Boy Bolling to take it so far over-the-top that it barely resembled what the rest of the country saw. However, before Bully Boy weighed in, The Five played a greatest hits package of Fox “News” personalities criticizing the Vice President.

Watch:

ANDREA TANTAROS: Eric? Rude, cranky, disrespectful. Really unprecedented behavior and, if you’re trying to swing voters in your camp when you’re down, probably not the the way to do it.

BULLY BOY BOLLING: Yannow, umm, unfortunately Joe Biden — Mr. Vee Pee — confirmed all our suspicions. He’s a real jackrabbit. He embarrassed himself, he embarrassed the office, he embarrassed the country. Her lied about taxes. He lied about contraception. He lied about his voting record on wars. And, most importantly, he lied about what went on in Libya. The scary fact is this guy is one heartbeat away — a condescending smug, morally and intellectually bankrupt man — is one heartbeat away from the presidency. Your question, Andrea, four more years or four more weeks?

TANTEROS: Yeah.

It was only a few days ago that Fox “News” was trying to make the case that the Obama campaign calling Mendacious Mitt a liar when they called out his lying lie was “unseemly.” However, it seems Bully Boy Bolling has no trouble calling the Vice President a liar. 

The Five: Still the worst show on tee vee. Bully Boy Bolling: The worst person on the worst show on tee vee.

Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be ► Vice Presidents We Have Known

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It seems only fitting this morning, after last night’s Vice Presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congresschild Lyin’ Ryan, to remind people that on this day in 1973 President Richard Nixon nominated Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP. Agnew was forced to resign ahead of pleading nolo contendere (no contest) to charges that he accepted bribes as governor of Maryland and tax evasion before becoming Nixon’s one-breath-away-from-the-presidency pick as Veep.

After Richard Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford, who had been a Congressman, was elevated to the office of the presidency, despite having not been elected to either office.

“Some people say” that Ford’s massive gaffe during the Presidential Debate against Jimmy Carter doomed his reelection. There are others that say it was his own clumsiness, or perception thereof, that doomed his reelection. Then there’s a whole passel of people who blame Chevy Chase’s portrayals of Ford on Saturday Night Live as the reason Ford wasn’t reelected. I’ve never listened to those “nattering nabobs of negativity” because I’ve always believed Ford lost reelection because he pardoned Richard Nixon.

This turn of events made Gerald R. Ford the only appointed President of the United States, until George W. Bush in 2000.

Chow Mein and Bolling ► A Musical Interlude

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Unretouched photo of Bully Boy Bolling taken off my tee vee screen

I get email. Several people have asked me me how I came up with such an odd name for a series that (quite rightly) skewers Bully Boy Bolling for being the supreme asshole that he is. While I explained in the first episode of Chow Mein and Bolling, I guess it would be hubris for me to expect my faithful readers to go back that far.

The truth of the matter is I stole the name from Mike Nesmith, my favourite Monkee, who named a terrifically funny song “Chow Mein and Bolling.”



Now I guess I need to apologize to Mike Nesmeth, Nez to his fans, because my popular series Chow Mein and Bolling has knocked Nesmith off the top of the Google listings. I’ll do that my treating my fans to another great Mike Nesmith song, which helps put Bully Boy Bolling’s tee vee bullshit into the proper perspective.

Does that answer your question?

Chow Mein and Bolling 8 ► Bully Boy Bolling: Hypocrite

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Unretouched photo of Bully Boy Bolling
taken directly from my tee vee screen

It’s become something of a truism that if you find Bully Boy Bolling taking a stand on something, you can probably find him taking the opposite position at some time in the past. He’s like Mendacious Mitt Romney that way.

Lately he has been railing against Big Bird. That’s just another way he’s like Mendacious Mitt. On The Five — which could be a serious show with serious discussions about serious issues, except that it’s on Fox “News,” so all bets are off — Bully Boy Bolling compared the big yellow bird from Sesame Street to Dora the Explorer, even though one is on a non-profit network and the other is not. However, Bolling doesn’t mind comparing apples with oranges. To him it’s just an example of the “takers” versus the “makers.” According to Media Matters:

BOLLING: This is the capitalism versus redistribution edition of what’s
actually going on here — Big Bird: taker. Dora the Explorer: maker.
They’re both worth about $350 million bucks, both of the brands, but the
Big Bird, the Sesame Street Workshop, takes in about $6 million a year
of taxpayer largesse. Dora the Explorer, all branding, all sales — and
therein lies the difference.

Watch:

Yet, it wasn’t all that long ago that Bully Boy Bolling was decrying the same “makers” versus “takers” rhetoric as Class Warfare. It came during a discussion on The Five (What am I saying? There are no real discussions on The Five. It’s one argument followed by a Right Wing Talking Point followed by a argument, followed by a Right Wing Talking Point, only interrupted by Greg Gutfeld’s non sequitur snark and Bob Beckel saying something stupid) when Bully Boy was attacking Occupy Wall Street:

“This is class warfare: Anytime you highlight the takers, the makers, the haves, the have-nots, the 99 percent, the 1 percent, that’s what they’re playing. That’s the game they’re playing.”

Watch:

Media Matters also points out: [I]n this instance, the argument doesn’t even hold up. While Sesame Workshop, the production company of Sesame Street, does indeed receive about $7 million in government contributions, that figure amounts to just 5 percent of its total revenue. Moreover, only 15 percent of PBS’ total budget comes from federal funds.

Even more hypocritically: Bully Boy Bolling’s preferred candidate in this election played the Class Warfare Card when he said, according to a secretly recorded video released by Mother Jones:

ROMNEY: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.

I mean, the president starts off with 48, 49 — he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn’t connect. He’ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean, that’s what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

However, that only echos comments on Fox “News” in general and from Bully Boy Bolling in particular: Fox’s Bolling Hypes Flawed Heritage Study To Pit “The Takers” Against “The Makers”

If you look up “Hypocrisy” in the dictionary it says, “See: Eric Bolling.”

Unretouched photo of Bully Boy Bolling taken directly from my tee vee screen.
You can almost see the hypocrisy coming out of his mouth.
Find more exciting episodes of Chow Mein and Bolling here.

Musical Appreciation ► Thelonious Monk ► A Jazz Great

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Dateline October 10, 1917 – Thelonious Sphere Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. When he was 4 years old his family would move to the “San Juan Hill” area of Manhattan. A year later he would start playing piano after listening to his sister’s music lessons. By the time of his death in 1982, he would be one of only 5 Jazz artists to appear on the cover of Time Magazine (the others being Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis and Dave Brubeck). Today he’s generally considered The Father of Bebop music.

According to The Monk Zone:

With the arrival Thelonious Sphere Monk, modern music — let alone modern culture — simply hasn’t been the same. Recognized as one of the most inventive pianists of any musical genre, Monk achieved a startlingly original sound that even his most devoted followers have been unable to successfully imitate. His musical vision was both ahead of its time and deeply rooted in tradition, spanning the entire history of the music from the “stride” masters of James P. Johnson and Willie “the Lion” Smith to the tonal freedom and kinetics of the “avant garde.” And he shares with Edward “Duke” Ellington the distinction of being one of the century’s greatest American composers. At the same time, his commitment to originality in all aspects of life — in fashion, in his creative use of language and economy of words, in his biting humor, even in the way he danced away from the piano — has led fans and detractors alike to call him “eccentric,” “mad” or even “taciturn.” Consequently, Monk has become perhaps the most talked about and least understood artist in the history of jazz.

The WikiWackyWoo says, “Monk is the second-most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1,000 songs while Monk wrote about 70.“

It wasn’t just his own compositions. When Monk covered another artists’ song, he had a way of turning it inside out and creating his lovely dissonance, where it none had before.

Clint Eastwood, when he’s not berating empty chairs, is a great aficionado of Jazz. He produced this 1988 documentary, directed by Charlotte Zwerin that can say far more than I can:

If that has whetted your appetite, here’s a Thelonious Monk Jukebox I put together:


Enjoy!

Bully Boy Bolling Is A Coward ► Chow Mein and Bolling 7

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Unretouched pic of Bully Boy Bolling
taken right off my tee vee screen

Like most bullies, Bully Boy Bolling has proven himself to be a supreme coward — and one with a thin skin to boot. The other day he tweeted at me how disinterested he was in my Chow Mein and Bolling series, but not so disinterested that he couldn’t NOT respond. See how that works?

So thrilled was I that Bully Boy Bully recognized little ol’ me, and my little ol’ blog, that I created an entire post around his tweet.

This morning Bully Boy Bolling sent out another tweet demonstrating his thin skin (which I’ll get to shortly) and that’s he’s also going to stick with his crazy, already debunked, wacky, conspiracy theory that last week’s Jobs Report was cooked. Naturally, I sought to capture his idiocy to embed it here. Low and behold, I was greeted with this message from Twitter:

You have been blocked from
following this account at
the request of the user.

Like most bullies, Bully Boy Bolling has proven he can dish it out, but he can’t take it. And that brings us to his latest nonsense.

Last night Jon Stewart and The Daily Show took on the Right Wing’s Phony Jobs Report Conspiracy Theory head on. Naturally Bully Boy Bolling was criticized for (once again) displaying his total hypocrisy. Watch:

Remember what I said above about Bully Boy Bolling having a thin skin? This morning he sent out the following:

Bully Boy Bolling can’t be so stupid as to think: 1). Sending out the link that demonstrates his idiocy beyond a shadow of a doubt is really a good idea; 2). That doubling down on a stupid conspiracy will suddenly make it less stupid; 3). Blocking me on Twitter is going to make any difference to me following, and making fun of, his bullshit.

As of this writing three of the Top Five posts on my blog for the week are from my Chow Mein and Bolling series. I’m clearly giving my readers what they want.

However, Bully Boy, thanks for playing our home game.