10 Most Absurd Right-Wing Lunacies This Week: Pity the 1% Edition

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-most-absurd-right-wing-lunacies-week-pity-1-edition




1. Thomas Perkins: The 1% are treated the way Nazis treated Jews.

If you’ve been spending your time worrying about the plight of the very poor, the long-term unemployed, low-wage workers or even the strapped middle class, stop it! You need to get some sensitivity training about the persecuted 1%. You know, it is just not easy being mega-wealthy. People are mean to you, In fact, it’s like the Nazis.


***SNIP

2. We heart Huckabee, and so will you, once you get that libido under control.

Mike Huckabee is nothing if not a creative thinker. Just when you thought you had heard everything, this week he made one of the most convoluted, crazy arguments against providing women with birth control we have ever heard.

***SNIP

3. Laura Ingraham does not think Sarah Silverman is funny. Sarah Silverman is crying about this.

Comedian Sarah Silverman has made a hilarious five-minute video featuring Jesus Christ himself which utterly destroys right-wing arguments against giving women access to reproductive healthcare and abortions. It is fantastic. Silverman hangs out with Jesus, who jokes that life begins “at 40,” and watches NCIS with her. At one point, Silverman points out that sperm has been found to have a sense of smell, which means that sperm is alive, which means that men should have to undergo painful procedures with things stuck up their penises, all of which might make them think twice about masturbating.

***SNIP

4. Iowa Republican Party posts incredibly stupid chart on racism.

The Republican Party is proving almost as adept at courting “minority” voters as it is at courting women. (Also, the LGBT vote, what with longtime gay Republican activist Jimmy LaSalvia loudly leaving the GOP and calling them “hopeless.”)

[daleanime]

1. K&R....

[shenmue]

2. There are only ten?

[JHB]

4. Key word/phrases being "Most" and "of the Week"

[Arkansas Granny]

3. K&R Just when you think they have reached the limits of crazy,

they manage to go a little bit deeper. It's scary to realize that there are people who believe and support them.

[PDittie]

5. The Swift-Boating of Wendy Davis

should have made the cut.