Michelle Obama told People Magazine that Jane Fonda is a role model, sending the right wing media into a tizzy. (photo: ET)
The Wingnut Wurlitzer: A Guide
25 January 14
s a service to our readers, we now present a handy guide to how things work inside the impenetrable bubble that is the conservative media mind. Today's lesson comes from People magazine, wherein the First Lady said something nice about Jane Fonda.
(Here I am saying something nice about Jane Fonda -- if the entire final season of The Newsroom isn't about she and Sam Waterston lobbing bon mots back and forth, then the whole project's been a waste.)
This quickly made its way up -- or down, depending on your point of view -- the greasy food chain made up of the otherwise unemployables who populate the various wingnut welfare vanity projects. First came Tim Graham of Newsbusters (!). He got a link from examiner.com. Then the news made it through the marble walls of the Breitbart Mausoleum For People Too Lazy For Necrophilia and thence, finally, to NewsMax. Next stop -- algae!
The Breitbart guy is particularly impressed by this shrewd analysis from examiner.com.(OK, most of the lost souls in the mausoleum would be particularly impressed when water comes out of the faucet hot, but play along.)
In addition to her anti-war activity, Fonda has called for taking Rush Limbaugh off the air, and celebrated the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement that was endorsed by the Chinese Communist Party, the Communist Party USA, Hezbollah, David Duke and a number of Democrats, including President Obama and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
(Follow his link and you find that, horrors, among the other supporters of Occupy is the IWW. The Wobbly threat! Aux armes, citoyens!)
This got him the link from the NewsMax crew, wherein we learn the following:
The comment is likely to enrage Vietnam War veterans who still remember how Fonda, now 76, went to North Vietnam in 1972 and was photographed sitting on an anti-aircraft battery. Fonda denounced U.S. military leaders as "war criminals" and later called tortured American POWs "hypocrites and liars," telling them to "get a life."
I suppose they could ask one of the many combat veterans in the employ of Newsbusters, examiner.com, the Breitbart joint, and Newsmax itself, but never mind.
Anyway, that's how it works. Within a week, I guarantee you, you'll get an e-mail from your crazy drunk uncle about how Michelle Obama used to smuggle munitions down the Ho Chi Minh Trail when she was three.
The rest from RSN:
Pregnant Woman Ordered off
Life-Support
Erin Delmore, MSNBC
Delmore reports: "The hospital caring after a brain-dead pregnant woman must pronounce her dead and remove her from life support by 5 p.m. CST on Monday, a Texas judge ruled."
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Erin Delmore, MSNBC
Delmore reports: "The hospital caring after a brain-dead pregnant woman must pronounce her dead and remove her from life support by 5 p.m. CST on Monday, a Texas judge ruled."
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Congress Cuts US Military and Development Aid
for Afghanistan
Ernesto Londono and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post
Londono and DeYoung report: "With no perceptible opposition from the Obama administration, Congress has quietly downscaled Washington's ambitions for the final year of the Afghan war, substantially curtailing development aid and military assistance plans ahead of the U.S. troop pullout."
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Ernesto Londono and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post
Londono and DeYoung report: "With no perceptible opposition from the Obama administration, Congress has quietly downscaled Washington's ambitions for the final year of the Afghan war, substantially curtailing development aid and military assistance plans ahead of the U.S. troop pullout."
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JP Morgan Doubles CEO Jamie Dimon's Salary
Despite Billions in Fines
Associated Press
Excerpt: "JP Morgan Chase has almost doubled chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon's pay for 2013, rewarding the executive for settling probes against the bank. Dimon will receive total compensation of $20m in 2013, consisting of $18.5m in stock options and a base salary of $1.5m, the bank said in a statement Friday."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "JP Morgan Chase has almost doubled chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon's pay for 2013, rewarding the executive for settling probes against the bank. Dimon will receive total compensation of $20m in 2013, consisting of $18.5m in stock options and a base salary of $1.5m, the bank said in a statement Friday."
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Freezing to
Death in the Wealthiest Country on Earth
Scott Keyes, ThinkProgress
Keyes reports: "Living on the streets is dangerous any time of year, but that's especially true when temperatures dip below freezing. In this past week, as a cold front swept through the Midwest and Northeast, at least five homeless people have died from the cold."
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Scott Keyes, ThinkProgress
Keyes reports: "Living on the streets is dangerous any time of year, but that's especially true when temperatures dip below freezing. In this past week, as a cold front swept through the Midwest and Northeast, at least five homeless people have died from the cold."
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Experts Reject Food Industry's Bogus Legal Claims About
GMO Labeling
Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
Paul and Cummins report: "The food industry is playing every conceivable angle in its quest to keep labels off foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - including, according to a leaked document, threatening to sue the first state that passes a GMO labeling law."
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Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
Paul and Cummins report: "The food industry is playing every conceivable angle in its quest to keep labels off foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - including, according to a leaked document, threatening to sue the first state that passes a GMO labeling law."
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