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A Banner Day For Bully Boy Bolling ► Chow Mein and Bolling 11

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How can you tell when Bully Boy Bolling is being
CRAZY? Either his mouth is open, or it’s not.

It was a banner day for Bully Boy Bolling, as the loud-mouthed, conspiracy-mongering, The Five Fool™ managed to make the Media Matters Wall of Shame™ four separate times yesterday. I’m not sure that’s ever been done before, unless it was by Glenn Beck, who occupies a category of CRAZY all by himself. However, ever since The Five took over the 5PM slot vacated by Beck on Fox “News,” Bully Boy Bolling has done everything in his mouth’s power to be the craziest MoFo on Fox News.

It began early in the day when those Foxy Friends on Fox and Friends used Bully Boy Bolling to debunk the latest job numbers from the government. Bolling used the opportunity to return to his most recent conspiracy: That the jobs report was cooked. This time he doubled down on that whacked out theory by saying that he thinks if the job numbers are not corrected upwards, Congress should start an investigation of the Department of Labor. No, really! Watch: 

However, that’s not the only problem Media Matters found with this segment. Justin Berrier and Albert Kleine also took a look at his white board and decided Bully Boy Bolling doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about.

Courtesy of Media Matters for America

Since numbers are my natural enemy, I’ll leave it to Berrier and Kleine to explain:

Bolling’s math doesn’t add up: his numbers come from two different surveys that measure different aspects of labor market conditions, two surveys that are conducted in different ways, which often leads to large gaps between the two findings.

Every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issues the results of two surveys. One, known as the household survey, measures the number of people employed and looking for work. The results of the household survey are used to determine the unemployment rate. The other survey, known as the establishment survey, measures the total number of jobs gained or lost in a month through a survey of businesses. Because the surveys are conducted differently, the results often do not agree.

Bolling seized on the routine difference between the surveys’ findings to claim that 342,000 jobs were missing and therefore cast doubt on the unemployment drop for September.

Berrier and Kleine even quoted a Wall Street Journal article that explains why these numbers cannot be compared and, remember, the WSJ is owned by the same company that owns Bolling’s ass:

The answer lies in the way the two figures are calculated. The monthly payroll number–how many jobs are gained or added in a month–is based on a survey of about 141,000 businesses and government agencies. The unemployment rate and related statistics are based on an [sic] separate survey of about 60,000 individual households.

If those were Bully Boy Bolling’s only two screw-ups, it would have simply been a normal day for him at Fox “News.” However, it was a long day for Bully Boy and there was still The Five coming up many hours later, when he felt the need to return to his Jobs Numbers Conspiracy Theory™:

BOLLING: I think there’s an October Surprise. I think next Friday when the unemployment number comes out…

DANA PERINO: Yeah?

BOLLING: It’s going to be a surprise one way or another. It’s either going to be very good, if it’s 7 and a half percent, probably President Obama walks away — sails right through to the White House.

PERINO: But if you’re a conspiracy theorist it won’t be a surprise. 

BOLLING: We already did this conspiracy theory on Fox and Friends this morning. I think the books are cooked.

Watch: 

However, never say that Bully Boy Bolling is not afraid to make a fool of himself more than once on any given show. Exhibit A: This exchange with Dana Perino, who seems to play his foil — or instigator — during a segment when Bully Boy goes completely off the rails.

PERINO: What about, Eric, the economic numbers in the states where they were campaigning today? Iowa and they had the other swing ones. [sic] Yesterday we talked a little bit about the unemployment rates and those ones. [sic] The trajectory for Iowa has been fairly good — it’s down from where it was. But in all the other states it’s — the unemployment rate is up!

BOLLING: Up from when President Obama took —

PERINO: Yes!

BOLLING: — office. Up higher than the national average. President Obama’s, umm, strategy now is, is, yannow, just calling Mitt Romney names. Romnesia. Big Bird! He talks about Big Bird, binders and bayonets. But the Romnesia thing — I have a name. [Pretends to look thoughtful as if he just made it up.] I came up with a name.

PERINO: Okay.

BOLLING: It’s called Obamanoma. And, we’re in Stage Four Obamanoma right now. The symptoms are joblessness — 

BOB BECKEL: Obamanoma?

BOLLING: — dispair, dis — dependancy, homelessness. A desire to hang out with celebrities.

PERINO: We’re going to see if we can get that into the thesaurus. [CROSSTALK] I don’t think we should be comparing either of them to cancer, really. Probably not, but this election has been like a cancer on some people. I’m trying, Greg [Gutfeld], to —

BOLLING: It’s good. Thank you. Thank you.

Watch:

Oh, fer fuck’s sake!!! This is just another reason why The Five is still the worst program on tee vee since My Mother the Car.

The Fox “News” Spin Cycle ► Episode 22

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Bizarro is owned by DC Comics

It was a very eventful week on Bizarro World … err … I mean Fox “News.” There was so much going on that I had 318 screen captures to choose from, of which this is only a representative sampling. 

As the Foxites attempted to blame President Obama for the actual attack in Benghazi, Libya, they conveniently forget that they never blamed Dubya for the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Not to mention forgiving Bush for that whole illegal war in Iraq, which never did locate those Weapons of Mass Destruction. However, even more important for Fox “News” was its need to WHITEwash the massive blunder by Mendacious Mitt at the 2nd Presidential Debate. Rather than learn for himself what may have occurred, Mittens proved he lives in a Fox “News” created bubble when he walked right into the Benghazi Wall. Fox “News” has been working hard to fix that black eye ever since.

Let’s get right to it, shall we?

The week started, as it always does, with some Fox and Friends First cheesecake. With Ainsley Earworm
on her honeymoon, it was left to two other interchangeable “news” babes to deliver the morning leg.

More cheesecake.
That’s easy: Seeing Fox “News” on tee vees at the airport.
Bully Boy Bolling counts it down for people who don’t have calendars, or enough fingers and toes to count for themselves.
It may just be coincidence but after Mendacious Mitt visited Billy Graham, his church took Mormonism off it’s evil cult list.
Wretched Gretched was playing the ref even before the dabate happened.
After Mendacious Mitt fouled himself, they really gave it to Candy Crowley.
Let’s not even bother to wait for the outcome of the investigations. It’s time to fire someone … anyone!!!
That’s like saying “dog bites man.” Get back to me when she says something unexpected.
In case you missed KKKarl Rove’s massive conflict of interest: His 2 SuperPACs are spending close to $300,000,000.00
to influence the 2012 elections and Fox “News” always presents him as an honest, disinterested analyst.
Let’s not wait until the facts are in.
How long can Juan Williams get away with telling the truth on Fox “News”
when that truth is diametrically opposed to the lies that Fox “News” peddles?
Fox “News” that always complains about how unseemly it is to call people’s names, always refers to
Bill Maher as a “pig.” And, “trounces”??? While that’s another one of those action verbs loved
by Fox “News,” Bill Maher exposed Ann Coulter for the empty-headed sloganeer she really is.
Just like Mendacious Mitt, Donald Trump loves firing people. He built a whole show around it, with the help of NBC, of course.
Anything ever said about President Obama is repeated on Fox “News.” However, it never
passes along editorials in favour of President Obama. I’m still looking for one.
Oddly enough, by week’s end the Fox “News” invented narrative was falling apart, right on Fox “News.”
Those Foxy Friends at Fox and Friends keep promoting this series of lectures. While they are FREE, I cannot
believe that Bob Massi is just donating his time. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn he’s selling books
and other courses at these lectures. No one does stuff like this for FREE and everyone knows it.
KKKarl Rove caught in a massive conflict of interest, but you’ll never hear about it on Fox “News.”
More of the action verbs Fox “News” loves to use. While Ingraham
can throw as many punches a she likes, none of them landed.
The controversy was they discovered Candy Crowley has been reporting honestly for CNN for many years.
This is just more of the Fox “News” meme that the debate will be unfair before it even began.
Is this silly woman still an official Fox “News” contributor, or does she just shill for her DWTS daughter?
Why isn’t this man in jail?
IRONY ALERT!!! Fox “News” has a Bias Alert??? That’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
Fox “News” is the mainstream media, Bully Boy. Smart people actually wait for the evidence before alleging a cover-up. Just saying.
There is no controversy, but Fox “News” is trying to smear Elizabeth Warren.
This GOP study has been debunked, but that didn’t stop Fox “News” from passing it
along as if it means something. There are other studies in support of President Obama’s
policies, but you’ll never hear about them on Fox “News,” the “Fair and Balanced network.
This is the news everyone has been waiting for.

                  

This is the picture everybody’s been waiting for.
In case you’ve lost your calendar.
I think it shows guts.
Mendacious Mitt, why do you lie so much and do you think Fox “News” lying about your lies is helpful?
“QUICK! How can we blame this on President Obama?”
And what Trisha Yearwood cooks up will be more palatable and honest than what Lindsey Graham creates.
Let me take a guess: Because they are actually supporting President Obama? What do I win?
Another anti-Obama editorial from The Falafel King.
How refreshing for someone to take the blame for their mistakes. However, Fox “News” will find a way to turn it into a bad thing.
No, Bully Boy. I wrote all about this in Chow Mein and Bolling 10 ► Ignorant And Proud Of It. Read up, you ignorant shit.

Just another one of those segments where Jesse Watters interview people and only cuts together those comments
that makes everyone look stupid. Fox “News” somehow thinks this is worthy of airtime and this asshole’s salary.
A terrible video, with off-key singing and Fox “News” is touting it as this year’s “Obama Girl.” Yet, it’s just terrible.

 

Is he in jail yet?
Every single one was an anti-Obama tweet. What a surprise.
Why does Frank Luntz wear a dead laboratory animal on his head?
No one is threatening riots, but during the week this became a popular extreme Right Wing
talking point, so of corse Fox “News” has to pass along this stupid conspiracy theory.
I’d rather know what KKKarl Rove has to show for the $300,000,000.00 that his SuperPACs are dropping on the election and, furthermore, how much of an “in kind” donation all his appearances on Fox “News” are worth.
Even a coin toss is worthy of one of the Fox “News” action verbs.
Fox “News” has been doing everything in its power to make this a cover-up, but by week’s end this lie was falling apart.
No one threw Hilary Clinton under the bus. Furthermore, why is Steve Doocy trying to blame this
talking point on his neighbour? Can’t he take ownership of the crap he sends out under his name?
I bet you never predicted that all the headlines (except at Fox “News”) would say, “Mitt Screwed Up.”
Remember: Bully Boy Bolling is the man who called Vice President Biden a drunk, rude, disrespectful, an unhinged
cranky old man. He also has called President Obama a thug and accused him of chugging 40s in the Hizzy House.

Steve Doocy is easily amused.
The debate begins. And yet Mendacious Mitt never explains how.
It’s amazing how much the personalities at Fox “News” forget, if they ever knew in the 1st place.
One GOP talking point after another from Scammity.
There’s a lot too blame on Dubya and gas prices is just one of those things.
Yet economists have confirmed that was the reason gas prices had taken a tumble at
the end of Dubya’s term. However, don’t let the facts confuse you, Scammity.

You don’t seem to know how utterly stupid you appear, Sean.
Yet, Mendacious Mitt continuously broke the rules and hectored the president as if he
was an intern who brought back the wrong coffee order. That endeared Mittens to nobody.
What doesn’t add up is any of Mendacious Mitt’s tax plans, which seem to change whenever he speaks of them.
Because Mendacious Mitt is not used to following the rules, which are for everybody but himself. And, being
questioned by a woman? That’s unheard of in Romney’s World of boardrooms and the Mormon church.
Mendacious Mitt was rude and hectoring during the debate, but credit where credit’s due: He managed to get off a lot of lies.
Nor should it. Dubya really fucked things up and Fox “News” covered for him then and is still covering for him.
There were much better quotes, but Fox “News” wants to pretend President Obama is just playing small ball.
The same is much preferable to anything that Mendacious Mitt has proposed, then unproposed, then proposed all over again.
The first blaming of the moderator came less than halfway through the debate, which makes the 5 minute figure laughable.
Yet, it was all a lie, as Scammity well knows.
It’s hard not to smile when you know you’re winning.
This “spiking the football” meme was silly the first time and just gets sillier as time goes on.
Mendacious Mitt has so much money in his (not very) blind trust tied up in China that this is
accurate. How can he be trusted to get tough on China when it will hurt his own earnings?
This is the whole problem Mendacious Mitt had with taking Fox “News”
memes and thinking they resembled anything close to the truth.
This is HIGH COMEDY. Thinking they were helping, Fox “News” provided the transcript which actually proved
Mendacious Mitt wrong and then spent the rest of the week saying the transcript did not say what the words actually said.
I thought this moment should have gotten more play in the post-game shows. How can Mendacious
Mitt really think that Obama’s pension, with small investments made by whoever handles that pension
fund, with money that Mittens PERSONALLY invested in China and still has invested in China?

If lies were taxed, Mendacious Mitt could retire the debt.
The ‘Merkin public doesn’t have to settle for Republican liars.
This just shows how delusional Fox “News” is. They’ll spend the rest of the week lying in an attempt to prove this.
He’s never ducked responsibility. However, mendacious Mitt has run away from his own positions time and time again.
Yes. Next question?
Choose an issue and Mendacious Mitt has been on all sides of it. More flip flops than a Florida beach.
As it should be. The president never shirks responsibility. Mendacious Mitt won’t even agree on what he has said previously.
And that ends the debate, but not the Fox “News” lies. The rest of the week the so-called “Fair and
Balanced” network will be playing clean-up for that spill on aisle five that Mendacious Mitt left.
Steve Doocy thought Mendacious Mitt was a disaster, but has to blame the debate format instead.
Midway through the debate Doocy claimed it was five minutes. Yet, there was no mention that Mendacious
Mitt interrupted his own time to hector the President with questions, which ceded time to Obama.
Of course Crowley was right, but no one at Fox “News” can admit that, so they
will spend hours pretending that President Obama didn’t say what he clearly said.
Toe Sucker Morris weighs in and we all know how “Fair and Balanced he is.”
I look forward to laughing at Frank Luntz’s bad toupee as he spins the debate reaction of his so-called “fair” focus group.
Surely he must be in jail by now.
Umpires call balls and strikes and Mendacious Mitt struck out. However, Fox “News” has to blame someone for Mitten’s fuck up.
I heard it. So did President Obama, who tagged him on it.
This was the other crazy Right Wing meme the morning after the debate. Of course
nothing said about how Mendacious Mitt broke the rules that he agreed to beforehand.

Because Soledad O’Brien insisted on telling the truth right to Sununu’s face.
WHEN FOX “NEWS” TYPES IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, YOU JUST KNOW IT’S IMPORTANT!
Yet Bully Boy Bolling knows that Candy Crowley was right, but if he ever admitted that he’d also have to admit
that Mendacious Mitt really screwed the pooch, and sold the pups, on that whole Benghazi debate segment.
Citytv is the station I wrote tee vee news for for a decade. It was so sad to see them
promote The Loofah Lad, even tho’ they were really promoting Katie Couric’s talk show.
Another one of those silly segments in which Watters finds people who say stupid things. It’s gotten plenty old.
Gee, what a surprise.
Gee, what a surprise.
Gee, what a surprise.
Gee, what a surprise.
This is the morning after the debate. Consequently no poll is going to reflect the debate
talking points. However, KKKarl Rove wants his brain-dead followers to believe this.
Now there’s a “Fair and Blanced” panel . . . NOT!
Show me one thing he’s fixed, Miller. Personally, I think Mendacious Mitt gets off on lying about things.
The only blows Crowley landed were against Mendacious Mitt’s lies.
This is just a variation on “Watters World.” Jimmy Kimmel asked people who won the
debate before the debate was even broadcast. Most of them said President Obama won.
Kerry Healey continued the lie that Mendacious Mitt had those “binders full of women”
prepared for his use, when the truth is that the “binders full of women” were prepared by a
nonpartisan women’s group PRIOR to the election and submitted to Mittens when he won.
What happened to all that talk that the polls were skewed? Oh yeah! That’s when the polls favoured President Obama.
This is how Fox “News” is trying to characterize Mendacious Mitt’s screw up at the debate: As a “MAJOR
MOMENT FOR GOV ROMNEY” and that … that … that woman Candy Crowley stepped on it!!!
Here’s a better statistic: No candidate who won the 2008 election has ever lost the 2012 election. And you can take that to the bank.
And the sky is green, too. Who you gonna believe, your own ears and eyes, or The Falafel King?
A more powerful voice for bullying by Bully Boy Bolling.
The daily countdown to election day. Thanks, Bully Boyu.

Be afraid! Be very afraid!!!
This was highly amusing. Ben Stein tripped them up by saying that taxes will have to be raised. The Three
Stooges spent the rest of the interview trying to get Stein to walk back the truth, but he stuck to his guns.
Not if I see you first. This is so disingenuous. Wretched Gretched can’t see anyone in the audience.
Would it surprise you to find out that Loofah Lad thought Mendacious Mitt won the debate?
This is my favourite story of the week: Dinesh D’Souza was caught sharing a hotel room with his fiancee, even though he’s still married to another. So Fox “News” allows him the opportunity to lay out his side of the story in an editorial. He denied having an affair with “Denise” but then said that he broke off the engagement because he didn’t realize one couldn’t be engaged while still married. By the end of the week he resigned as president of The King’s College, a New York City evangelical school. However, the only real question is why would Fox “News” allow someone to use its web site to deny charges like this? Could it have anything to do with that bullshit documentary which trashes President Obama with a non-ending series of lies?
What does that even mean? “Won the debate, but lost the argument”??? Oh, I get it! He didn’t lie as well ads Mendacious Mitt.
TRANSLATION: Had it not been for Candy Crowley Mendacious Mitt might have gotten away with his lies.
I have NEVER seen Fox “News” promote a pro-Obama advert, but they will give FREE “in kind” promotions to anti-Obama adverts all day long.
I guess only polls that put Mendacious Mitt ahead are not skewed. Makes sense.
Which only proves that Chris Christie is smarter than he looks.
From News Busters? What about all thos fake focus groups belonging to Frank Luntz?
This is the closest you’ll ever get to seeing KKKarl Rove admit that he’s behind American Crossroads and the $300,000,000.00 million dollars his 2 SuperPACs are spending to influence the 2012 election and he
doesn’t even admit it here, let alone on Fox “News,” which hides this massive conflict of interest.
What’s so funny about an URL?
How many subpoenas can Issa issue? Even before he arrived in Washington after the last
election he promised he would subpoena anything that moved. At least he kept that promise.
If KKKarl Rove says it, it must be true because he has no stake in the outcome, right?

Oh, lookie: They breitbarted the President again by taking his words out of context.
Many papers have endorsed President Obama, but Fox “News” has yet to pass any of those along.
TRANSLATION: Who knew Mendacious Mitt could read jokes written by someone else?
Yeah, President Obama was more self-depricating, so that’s what Doocy will highlight. If he was being honest (but he never is) he would also admit that Mittens threw far more jocular punches at President Obama than the other way around.
Well, even evil robots can deliver lines written for him by other comedians.
Because everyone knows that ratings equal quality, said no one ever.
Here’s your morning cheesecake.
Counting down . . .
Call me crazy, but I want a country where lying isn’t practiced by the Republican candidate for president.
Now he’s old enough to wear long pants.
What you are not being told by Fox “News” (and you knew they left something out, right?) is that
this came AFTER Mendacious Mitt’s son said he wanted to punch President Obama in the face.
A variation on Watters World. They found college kids who didn’t know all the nuances of the attack in Benghazi. I bet they could do the same thing with adults and the only people who would know anything about the Benghazi attack would be people who watch Fox “News.” And, they’d get it wrong just like Mendacious Mitt because Fox “News” lies.
Something tells me Geraldo Rivera is not a fan of Mendacious Mitt’s policies on immigration.
Which is what will make the last debate fun to watch, to see what Mendacious
Mitt steps in this time and whether he can get it off his expensive shoes.
Be afraid! Be very afraid!!!
Because we all know that body language will determine who wins the election, said no one ever.
A documentary called “Special Report Investigates: Death and Deceit in Benghazi”
wouldn’t be slanted at all, especially on the “Fair and Balanced” network.
The parents of the other people who were killed in Benghazi have asked that people not turn this into a political
football, but Fox “News” is going to exploit this mother’s pain and anguish to politicize the deaths in Benghazi.
Fox “News” is going to make sure that every member of its brain dead audience has been brainwashed
into accepting the Fox “News” created lies that place all the blame at President Obama’s doorstep.
Be afraid! Be very afraid!!!
TRANSLATION: We invented new information this morning and we will spin it for you.
I don’t think I want to know.
A reminder: This was said after Mendacious Mitt’s son threatened to punch President Obama in the face.
Izzat what you kidz are calling it these days?
Sorry, Charlie. So far, there is no proof that anyone lied, but keep trying.
Lila Rose?!?!?! Keep trying Fox “News.”
In your face, GOP!!!
Be afraid! Be very afraid!!! Oh, wait! Be outraged! Be very outraged!!!
Be afraid! Be very afraid!!!
Who is cooking the statistics? Oh, CNS? Then they can be ignored.
Did they leave out the speech in Las Vegas again, where President Obama called it an act of terror again?
REMEMBER: It’s only a skewed poll if President Obama is in the lead.
“QUCK! How can we blame this on President Obama?”
Be afraid! Be very afraid!!! At this totally denied by the White House story.
Be afraid! Be very afraid!!!

What woukd we do without Bully Boy Bolling’s daily countdown?
By the end of the week, this was the new Fox “News” meme: The government
COULD have prevented the attack in Benghazi, but was too slow to act.
Would you be surprised to learn that the promos do not defend Candy Crowley’s debate performance?
It merely promoted that Candy Crowley of CNN moderated the debate and works at CNN.
How ironic is this: Eva Longoria became Enemy Number One for retweeting something someone else wrote,
but totally ignored in the kerfuffle was her prayers for the victims of the mall shooting near Milwaukee.
Fox tumbler? Say it ain’t so!
Bully Boy Bolling makes a solemn promise.
Fox “News” just loves to find ways to denigrate Sandra Fluke.
No sense waiting for the outcome of the several investigations before apportioning blame.
Because the White House denied what Fox “News” thought would be a gotcha story, they shift to a gotcha story against the NYTs.
Because 5 days worth of their bullshit just isn’t enough.
See?
 And that brings us to the end of another edition of The Fox News Spin Cycle. Tune in next week when Fox “News” will be forced to WHITEwash whatever mistakes Mendacious Mitt makes at tonight’s debate.

Unpacking the Aunty Em Erican Blog At Six Months

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My All Time Top Ten. Click to enlarge.

Light the candles and break out the noise-makers!!! The Aunty Em Ericann Blog celebrates Six Months of Existence this week. And to think it all started with Johnny Dollar Has Proven Himself To Be A Very Dangerous Person on April 19, 2012.

It’s been a wild six months for both my readers and myself. In that time I have written 180 posts and published tens of thousands of words. I’ve made new friends and, just as importantly, made several new enemies. However, what have I learned in that time? Among other things, I’ve learned that posts on Brian Jones are hugely popular. My highest-rated post is the July 3, 2012 post on Brian Jones. As of this writing it has had 1991 hits, which is more than twice as many as my 2nd highest-rated post on Josephine Baker, while exactly a month older has only 863 hits. That’s also more than 3 times my Number Three most popular post detailing my HIGH-LARRY-US bun fight with the Fox “News” correspondent James Rosen, which has only 619 hits.

James Rosen, self-proclaimed Beatles
expert and historical revisionist

For the longest time the Rosen post was my most popular. It was sad to see it slide to Number Three because it was my first post about Fox “News” (aside from all my writing at NewsHounds). Its popularity gave me the impetus to launch several wildly popular series on my blog, including The Fox News Spin Cycle and Chow Mein and Bolling. Just this week I spun off a new series called Judge Not, exploring the Libertarian mind (such as it is) of Judge Andrew Napolitano, the Fox “News” Senior Judicial Analyst.

The Number Four Post in my All Time Top Ten is a sleeper that crept up on me. It also happens to be about Fox News. I was shocked when the so-called “news” channel (in the guise of Bill “Loofah Lad” O’Reilly) felt the need to attack Randy Newman for his “I’m Dreaming” song. Since being published on September 22, 2012 it’s already wracked up 471 hits in just a month, which might make it my fastest growing post in popularity. It will be interesting to see how it does over the long haul.

The E.W.F. Stirrup House

My Number Five All Time Post is the one that I wish was really my Number One, because it’s an issue near and dear to my heart. If you’ve not been following my Unpacking Coconut Grove series, please take a look. I am trying to save the historic 120-year old E.W.F. Stirrup House from Demolition by Neglect. A 120-year old house doesn’t sound like much, but compared to everything else in Florida, that’s ancient. The house is not only architecturally important, but culturally important as well. It marks the zenith of the Bahamian community in Coconut Grove which helped build and serve the rest of the community. It was built by one of Florida’s first Black millionaires who . . . Well, please go read it for yourself. Suffice to say that E.W.F. Stirrup was a man way ahead of his time. His important legacy will be lost when his house no longer stands.

However, as much as I am interested in looking back, I am just as interested in the current Top Ten Posts of the Week. Here’s how that breaks down.

I want to thank all my readers who drop in to read what I have to say. While you’re at my blog, please take the time to click on one of the adverts. It will cost you nothing, but it adds a few (and I do mean few) pennies to my account and helps support the time and energy it takes to maintain the Aunty Em Ericann Blog. Thanking you in advance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Fox “News” Spin Cycle ► Episode 20

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After another week of Fox “News” bullshit, it’s time for The Fox “News” Spin Cycle to gear up, wade through all the craziness, and deconstruct it for my faithful readers.

It was an exciting 7 days in Bizarro World. Early in the week Fox “News” tried to promote a 5 year old video, which was extensively covered 5 years ago, as an EXCLUSIVE, EXPLOSIVE new video, which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt President Obama is a ANGRY BLACK MAN! Be afraid, be very afraid.

Then came the Presidential Debates. After Mendacious Mitt lied his way through the debate, Fox “News” felt they had to WHITEwash his debate lies by pretending it’s unseemly for Democrats to call out a candidate for lying. Granted President Obama’s debate performance was lackluster, but that doesn’t mean that Mendacious Mitt didn’t lie every time he opened his mouth.

Then there’s Judge Andrew Napolitano. I had no idea when I chose to link up with Judge Nap how prodigious he would be in sending out messages. He’s like your crazy cousin who sends out dozens of cat pictures per day they’ve found on the innertubes, except The Judge finds Libertarian causes instead of cute animal pictures. There were so many, I decided to delete several of them.

All in all: It made for another interesting week in The Fox “News” Spin Cycle. Let’s get right to it.

Here’s Judge Nap’s first: A convoluted story about a man who lost a court case in which he claimed to have
been detained illegally after trying to pay a small road toll with a huge denomination bill.

Another softball Lyin’ Ryan interview? Will VP hopeful Paul Ryan ever appear on any other network? I doubt it.

Thomas Jefferson also said: “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are

injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods, or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor breaks
my leg.” So, how about that Phony War on Christmas?

Bully Boys are destroying ‘Merka.

TOO! MANY!! JOKES!!!
But look at those legs!!!

Because we all know that The Donald is an expert on Foreign Policy.

Thomas Jefferson also said: “I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”
Tell us again about the Fox “News” phony War on Christmas.

Isn’t this sweet and precious? One Bully Boy shows his admiration for another.

Who is Mickey Mouse?

Why isn’t this guy in jail?

This comment from Bully Boy Christie came after David Gregory allowed
Right Wing bullshit on his show and didn’t call anyone on it.

Bully Boy Bolling didn’t like a call in football, so he’s going to blame the refs, who he has already called “union thugs.”

This morning’s cheesecake pic from Ainsley Earworm.

“Governor Bully Boy Christie attacked the president again. How quick can we book him on the show?”

Here are two other people who trash President Obama every time they appear on Fox “News.”
In fact, The Donald has a weekly perch in which to attack the President of the United States.

It’s a mutual Bully Boy Appreciation Society.

Dana “Butter Wouldn’t Melt In My Mouth” Perino also comes on Fox and Friends
every Monday to attack President Obama, and Bob Beckel for good measure.

If anyone knows a hatchet job it’s KKKarl Rove, who still has yet to explain his MASSIVE conflict of
interest in spending nearly $300,000,000.00 from two SuperPACs in trying to influence the 2012 elections.

A poorly sourced story in a Murdoch newspaper and Judge Nap is in a hurry to pump it out.

This is the first of the ANGRY BLACK MAN stories Tucker Carlson’s The Daily
Conspiracy Caller pumped out this week. Of cource Judhe Nap will run with it.

Wouldn’t you like to know, Laura? Looks to me like one is giving smelling salts to another.

Here’s another ANGRY BLACK MAN story that Tucker Carlson tried to sell this week.

A total misreading of the statement, but that doesn’t surprise you, does it?

Thomas Jefferson also said: “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man
who reads nothing but newspapers.” I’m sure Jefferson would say that about Fox “News” today.

This is the closest I have ever seen KKKarl Rove admit he is in charge of the ‘Merkin Crossroads
SuperPAC. Of course, he didn’t admit anything, but it’s only 1 degree of separation. Maybe he’s
getting closer to admitting that he’s spending nearly $300,000,000.00 to game the 2012 elections.

While this is terrible, I have also read of stories where Democratic signs, and Democratic offices, have been
vandalized. Yet, I never see THOSE stories on Fox “News.” ALSO: The Molotov cocktail was proven
to be a fake, something known when this headline was written. That doesn’t make it right.
Any attack on democracy is an attack on us all.

WAIT!!! WHAT??? Somebody screwed up BIG TIME! Fox “News” is supposed to pretend that
KKKarl Rove has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with ‘Merkin Crossroads. Otherwise, Fox “News”
might have to say that KKKarl Rove is spending nearly $300,000,000.00 to influence the 2012 elections.

Bully Boy Bolling wants to blame Obama “Victory Laps” for the unrest in the Middle East, totally
forgetting the 100 years of ‘Merka meddling in Middle East policy, not to mention Dubya’s illegal
war in Iraq. However, to listen to Bully Boy, you’d think it was all Obama’s fault, all the time.

Judge Nap shares a lot of crap from Austin Peterson. Here’s another.

More from Austin Petersen.

Don’t hold your breath is you expect Bret “The” Baier to mention KKKarl Rove’s MASSIVE conflict of interest
in spending nearly $300,000,00.00 to influence the 2012 election. However, why doesn’t Joe Trippi bring it up?

Judge Nap seems to outsourced his opinions to Austin Petersen. Why does Judge Nap believe that Mendacious
Mitt won’t put the 47% in economic chains? Because he makes enough money that he doesn’t have to think about it.

Somebody should tell Loofah Lad that Corporatism is not Capitalism
and Corporatism is what Mendacious Mitt is really selling.

HIGH-LARRY-US! Rumsfeld was one of those MoFos who lied the country into the war in Iraq.
That should qualify him in being an expert in NOTHING. Yet, here is is to trash the POTUS.

To hell with all that. Where’s the morning cheesecake pic, Ainsley Earworm?

The financial meltdown of 2008 (Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago when everything was
falling off the cliff?) was about more than mortgages. It also included the Big Banks betting against themselves.

Judge Nap has been against the ACA since Day One. No wonder he’s spinning this story.

This came out before the jobs report. President Obama also had a Job Act that Congress stalled.

Wretched Gretched is stuck in the ’80s. Which is improvement to the GOP which is stuck in the ’50s.

Should Mendacious Mitt have stopped lying?

It turns out that this may have been a result of “friendly fire,” but I have yet to hear that on Fox “News.”

Most objective observers thought that Elizabeth Warren won that
debate, so Fox “News” has to pretend that Scott Brown “nails” Warren.

KKKarl Rove wants people to sign up for his weekly email, where he still won’t
admit he is spending nearly $300,000,000.00 to influence the 2012 election cycle.

Normally Fox “News” ignores Jon Stewart because he skewers the network almost every day. Yet, when
Stewart criticizes President Obama, Fox “News” turns it into a national story. ALSO: “Obliterates”
is another one of those action words that Fox “News” loves to use, even if it’s inappropriate.

A total misreading of the story, but that doesn’t surprise you, does it?

Rumsfeld wanted “Weapons of Mass Destruction” to be the cause for the war in Iraq.
Have we found those yet? Or are they still part of the unknown unknowns?

This was a win for democracy. So, how will Fox “News” spin this as the worst thing that has ever happened in ‘Merka? Stay tuned.

It was almost shocking to see Judge Nap quoting Frank Zappa, who also said “Tax the fuck out of the churches.”

You’d think this “unholy alliance” began with the Obama administration. However, “Big Banks”
are on record as saying they are not happy with the way President Obama has tried to rein them in.

Yes, trying to have parents to get their kids to eat healthier food is the slippery slope to Big
Brother. I wonder if Judge Nap was this passionate when Dubya proposed The Patriot Act.

Sure, it’s “unconstitutional” to recommend healthy food choices. Maybe we can get Dr.
Keith Ablow to do a “Normal or Nuts” on Judge Nap for overplaying his hand.

This is Bully Boy Bolling reacting to the EXCLUSIVE, EXPLOSIVE 5-year old video that tried to portray
President Obama as an ANGRY BLACK MAN. I covered this more extensively in Chow Mein and
Bolling 5 ► Bully Boy Lies (Again), to which Bully Boy Bolling reacted. That follow-up can be read at
Chow Mein and Bolling 5.1 ► Bully Boy Bolling Bagatelle. It’s all a part of our extensive service called
“Chow Mein and Bolling,” in which I call Eric Bolling out for his nonsense.

Now Greta Van Sustenance attempts to drag Newt and Allen West into the 5-year old non-controversial
video which attempts to portray President Obama as an ANGRY BLACK MAN. It’s ironic considering
why Allen West was forced out of the military and his angry comments against Rep Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz, not to mention his angry smears against the Congressional Black Caucus.

Stunning! New! Both words are lies. It was not stunning, nor was it new. The funniest part about all of this was when
Tucker Carlson (of The Daily Conspiracy Caller) said he knows it wasn’t covered 5 years ago because he covered it himself.

Nothing makes the case that the end of civilization is near than a look at the
high ratings garnered by Fox “News” in the marketplace of ideas.

Bully Boy touting the ratings is like Ronald McDonald saying McD’s is the best
burger in the whole world. It’s just more proof that crap sells and ‘Merkins have no more a
discerning palette for so-called news, as they do so-called food.

I would have liked to hear a little honesty from Mendacious Mitt. It’s a good thing I didn’t hold my breath.

Where’s our morning cheesecake pic???

There it is!!!

Pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain, it’s just the Wizard In Hair.

More cheesecake, but why cut off the legs?

There’s some legs.

Do I think the new presidential tape will be mentioned? Surely you’re joking Martha in for Wretched
Gretched. It will be mentioned as many times as Fox “News” can get away with before everyone agrees the
network is a laughingstock for trying to sell a 5-year old video as EXCLUSIVE, EXPLOSIVE new
video which attempts to portray President Obama as an ANGRY BLACK MAN.

Of all the stuff that Fox “News” sent out this past week, this was the most puzzling.
Its brain dead audience believes in BOTH the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and the
Shroud of Turin. Is Fox “News” SciTech trying to make their heads explode?

Personally, I find this disgusting. It’s an attempt to link legal immigrants to welfare recipients. It’s xenophobic
bullshit, which must be why Judge Nap signed on to the Daily Conspiracy Caller’s framing of these statistics.

“The Fairy Tale” is another ‘Merkin Crossroads advert, but you’ll never hear Fox “News” tie KKKarl Rove
to the $300,000,000.00 that his two SuperPACs are spending to influence the 2012 elections.

Something else from Austin Petersen. Maybe I should just subscribe to Petersen’s feed and skip the middle man.

Once again a Fox “News” action verb that has no relationship to what actually happened. Coulter also called this
guy a child molester because she was upset that he called her a Race Baiter for her latest Race Baiting book.

Why isn’t Fox “News” showing the real Obama? Oh, right!!! Because that run counter to the last 4
years of vicious propaganda that Fox “News” has been selling that President Obama is an evil man.

How many softball interviews will Fox “News” give to Lyin’ Ryan? As many as it takes.

If he lies his way through the debate while pretending to be Presidential, he’ll have it made.

Wait!!! What???
Two questions: 1). Is Sarah Palin still a Fox “News” contributor? 2). Is Bristol Palin still a reality show star?
The Right Scoop (Right Scoop, geddit?) makes up a headline which trashes President Obama.
Therefore, Fox “News” just as to use it. That’s what’s known as “Fair and Balanced” in Bizarro World.

Libertarian Judge Nap promotes Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.

Here’s Bully Boy Bolling trying to sell a new angle to the EXCLUSIVE, EXPLOSIVE 5-year old video that
attempted to portray President Obama as an ANGRY BLACK MAN. I debunked this whole line of attack in
Chow Mein and Bolling 5 ► Bully Boy Lies (Again). I was mighty gratified when Bully Boy Bolling
responded to me at Chow Mein and Bolling 5.1 ► Bully Boy Bolling Bagatelle.
Both entries a part of my very popular “Chow Mein and Bolling” series.

And the Bullshitters.

Already attempting to delegitimatize the appointment to the United Nations before it even begins.

And, already snarking at the appointment to the United Nations before it even begins.

What we can’t afford is four more years of Sean Hannity’s race baiting,
but if President Obama is reelected, it’s only going to get worse.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

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TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: Do you think the Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

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TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: Maybe Mendacious Mitt’s lies are NOT working.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

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That Lyin’ Ryan will lie his way through the debate and Fox “News” will pretend it’s working for him.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

No comment.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

Judge Nap really seems to rely on Austin Petersen’s opinion a lot.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: Are Mendacious Mitt’s lies working?

Aside from the vaguely racist aspect of this, it’s such a typical reaction to
trying to destroy any attempt ay repairing ‘Merka’s crumbling infrastructure.

When he lied.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies are working.

Bully Boy Bolling makes fun of a sick colleague.

More of Austin Petersen’s trenchant analysis.

One photograph of a moment frozen in time is totally meaningless, which is exactly why the
Washington Examiner and Fox “News” are using it to bash President and First Lady Obama.

The facebook page of “Capitalism” is another place Judge Nap likes to get his ideas. Clich HERE to see how well those ideas go over.

TRANSLATION: The Mendacious Mitt lies worked.
Sure, Romney wins a debate by lying his way through it, so clearly the stock market
reacts to that. Forget that President Obama’s policies might be moving the needle.

This is in reaction to the push back Bully Boy Bolling got when he said, “There’s going to be some Chicago-style,
thug, gangster politics coming” after President Obama lost the 1st presidential debate. Read how I debunk
Bully Boy Bolling’s “emotional” bullshit in Chow Mein and Bolling 6 ► Bolling’s New Conspiracy Theory.
It’s important to remind readers that Jon Stewart trashes Fox “News” almost every day of the week.
However, if he says something critical of President Obama, Fox “News” turns it into a big story.

Knowledgeable unnamed sources in a Washington Examiner article? That doesn’t even pass the smell test.

Just more Bully Boy Bullshit™ from The Five, still the worst show on tee vee.

Totally partisan hack Mark Levin sticks up for the ANGRY BLACK MAN framing of a 5-year old video and totally
partisan hack Bully Boy Bolling takes it as an endorsement. In a nutshell that’s everything wrong with Fox “News.”

No matter how many times this has been debunked, Bully Boy Bolling is going to ignore the truth and keep promoting
his ridiculous framing of this 5-year old video, which attempted to portray President Obama as an ANGRY BLACK MAN.

Libertarian Judge Nap giving Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson
another free plug. In a nutshell that’s everything wrong with Fox “News.”

Please ask Mendacious Mitt that question the next time you see him.

From this moment on Fox “News” will do everything in its power to promote a conspiracy involving this Jobs Report.

And so it begins . . .

. . . and continues . . .

Maybe Austin Petersen should have his own show on Fox “News.” Whaddaya say, Judge Nap?

When is calling a liar a liar a character attack?

. . . and continues . . .

A poorly sourced Breitbart story is worth less than all the electrons it took to transmit it through the innertubes.

. . . and continues . . .

Which is only fitting because this show is a dog’s breakfast.

More promotion of Austin Petersen, Judge Nap’s favourite “news” source.

More promotion from Libertarian Judge Nap for Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson.

 As another week ends, another begins. Stay tuned for our next exciting adventure of The Fox “News” Spin Cycle, when I will deconstruct the piles of bullshit shoveled at the Fox “News” audience by adults who really should know better.