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June 24, 2013

Let's ask an expert. . . . Please come CAPTION Ben Stein!!!!



Ben ("I'm okay by me" ) Stein is saying: "Listen, the very notion of climate change is undergoing revision. That's what 'change' means for craps' sake! . . . Yesterday it was bad, today it's good. . . Yesterday it was a ravenous beast, today it's a cat licking your feet. . . . Yesterday it was in the dictionary, today it's loose and running free. . . . People who say they believe in climate change but who won't change their mind about it are just flapping their gums!"
June 23, 2013

Please come CAPTION, Mitch (the fog machine)McConnell!!!



Mitch (between a nurf-rock and a soft spot) McConnell is saying: "And these so-called fact checkers and truth mongers, like the bullies and liars at Media Matters, do the nation incalculable harm by taking the very words of conservatives (who are only trying to save this desperate nation!) to attack them. . . . These creatures have in my mind not only abdicated the right to any and all moral authority but also to continue an existence free of legal consequences. . . . Using our own words against us. . . . Now, that's low."
June 20, 2013

The abyss speaking to the abyss. Please come CAPTION Sarah Palin!!!



Sarah, exploring-the-surface-for-nearly-four-decades, Palin is saying: "Well, it's pretty danged obvious what's wrong with this country: not enough people are thinking about me!!! . . . And then, golly, there's the national debt . . . "
June 20, 2013

Everyday's a Weekend at Bernie's! Please come CAPTION Bernie Goldberg, the whine-miester!!!



Bernie ("God wouldn't have given us lies if He didn't mean for us to use them" ) Goldberg is saying: "Why Bill, under this law preventing such racial background checks, I could sue the NBA for not hiring me as a star forward, or movie studios for not making me a leading man, or the lottery for not awarding me ten billion bucks!!! . . . Would you believe it? . . . And how come no one brings this up on other networks??? . . . Makes you suspicious don't it?"



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Link to the real story on Media Matters:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/19/fox-news-botches-civil-rights-law-to-defend-dis/194526

June 19, 2013

W's back!!! Please come CAPTION Mr. All Hat, No Cattle!!!



W.("Does anyone know what happened in My Pet Goat?" ) is saying: "We don't need new ideas. . . . In fact for me, the Republican Party has always been sort of a no-brainer"
June 19, 2013

Squirreler than thou. Please come CAPTION Michele Bachmann!!!



"And I have to tell you, Chris, I've just figured out a way to stop prison rape and other violence both in local jails as well as state and federal penitentiaries: arm the prisoners!!! . . . Let them carry concealed weapons! . . . It's a simple as that. . . . Ol' Bruno will think twice about pulling some funny stuff with a little guy if Shorty could be packing! . . . Brilliant, right? . . . Why can nobody else think of such things?"
June 17, 2013

Who put the 'hippo' in hypocrisy? Please come CAPTION The Captain of the Crapper!!!!



Dick, the Master of Murk, Cheney is saying, "And now, Chris, he has the gall to appoint Susan Rice who took what was apparently very bad information and peddled it as aggressively as she did. . . which most experts agree constitutes an almost traitorous, certainly a criminal, lack of attention or competence or both. . . . No one making errors like that, especially at that governmental level should go unpunished, especially in the light of the loss of four, brave American lives. . . . And yet she's rewarded!"



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Here's the real story at Media Matters:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/16/fox-news-sunday-revives-benghazi-conspiracy-cam/194481


(I should point out, the words "took what was apparently very bad information and peddled it as aggressively as she did" are from the actual interview near the end. How does one satirize an overt clown of self-deceit and professional liar?)
June 15, 2013

The next 10 days will be worth more than 200 years. Please come CAPTION Head Wreck!!!!



Head Wreck, never knowing nor caring to know intelligent caution, is saying: "The whistleblower has information which will change America more than all the wars in history, more than all plagues, and dustbowls, more than all the market crashes and Communist infiltrators, more than technology and sudden income level shift . . . His information could likely reorder the elemental chart and change the very laws of physics. . . . Those critics of mine who say I'm given to wild exaggeration, will be crawling on their knees begging my forgiveness. . . . Why, . . ."



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Here's the actual story on Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/12/glenn_beck_has_news_that_will_rock_the_nation_change_everything/
June 14, 2013

One plus one equals a black hole. Please come CAPTION Laura Ingraham and Bill O'Reilly!!!!



Bill ("I'm always surprised and amazed at my brilliance&quot O'Reilly is saying: "Laura, you're right, but only half right as always. . . . Letting girls, regardless of age, have access to the abortion pill, 'Plan B' or whatever you call it, will not only result in an explosion of rapes and incest and pedophilia, a 'plague' I might say, . . . but because of its assault on moral standards, it will reinforce relativism which in turn will result in more bestiality, serial killing, terrorism and mass destruction. . . . People say I go overboard, but when the ship has hit a glacier and is going down . . . ? Let the viewers be the judge."


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The Media Matters actual story here:

http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/06/13/foxs-oreilly-plan-b-access-will-lead-to-stds-st/194467
June 13, 2013

The mind's a terrific thing to baste! Please come CAPTION the new/old Fox contributor!!!



Sarah ("Don't waste time trying to understand something when you can say something" ) Palin is saying: "Why I'm proud as poodles to be back on as a Fox contributor. Since I've been off, many people have come up to me and said Fox seems to lack gravitas. . . . Now I'll be back and I can bring some weight to the discussions, give solid historical perspectives, bring some real philosophy to the issues, and stuff like that."

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About skip fox

I am retired, now a professor emeritus at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where I taught in the English department for 37 years. I've written 4 chapbooks and 5 full-sized books (all listed as poetry though many include other genres as well), including _Sheer Indefinite: Selected Poems, 1991-2012 (Univ. of New Orleans Press, 2012). I've also written a 500+ page bibliography of three contemporary poets: Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, and Robert Duncan. I am writing now, both fiction and poetry, more now than ever. My first vote for President of the United States was for Dick Gregory in 1968 (Bowling Green, Ohio). Favorite quote: "It's easy to be an idealist if you don't have to mind the evidence, but no one said it was supposed to be easy" (Richard LaPauvre).
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