I'm not happy with Ralph Nader, really, but I love what he did to Tucker Carlson.
Check out this exchange from last night's
Crossfire:
CARLSON: ...I just want to put into perspective the role of the rich in the American economy. I want to read from a recent editorial from the "Wall Street Journal."
Here what's it says. "In 1999, 553,380 taxpayers -- out of hundreds of millions -- anted up 28 percent of tax revenue. IRS data from 2000 shows that the top five percent of taxpayers (those with incomes of $128,000 and higher) paid over half the total tax revenue. Since it's exactly the rich who disproportionately pay most of the income tax, it would be impossible to lower the taxes without benefiting them disproportionately. It's their money."
Isn't this fundamentally true? Rich people are the ones who pay. We keep America afloat.
RALPH NADER, CONSUMER ADVOCATE: "You've got a bad premise here, Tucker. Since the rich people have grabbed off more of the wealth than they deserve by keeping minimum wage low, by preserving all the corporate tax subsidies, handouts, giveaways, all the tax loopholes, now you want to take that unfairness and use it as an argument to reduce their taxes further? I mean, have you ever taken a course in logic?" (emphasis added)
Boom! Ha ha! Take that, bowtie boy.
Goddam stupid links.
Anyway, the last line of the preceding post is supposed to read:
Letting Michelle Malkin judge a contest for outrageous journalism is similar to putting
Elliot Abrams on the National Security Council staff as a senior director for democracy, human rights and international operations.
Wait, it's even more ludicrous than that.
OK. Happy New Year. Now bugger off.
No, sorry. Here's something that will make you want to defecate. The MRC (media research center) has released their annual list of "most outrageous" quotes from the media. Funny, but all these "outrageous" quotes seem to be from, you know, icky liberals (or people like Katie Kouric or George Stephanopolpslodus...er, Judas Maximus, as Bartcop calls him. People who seem liberal when you're a raving conservative fuckstick).
As the crowning touch, can you guess who was one of the judges for this pristine, unbiased excercise in media criticism? If you said "a slavering, anorexic attack blonde" you're spot-on, Sparky.
Other notable evaluators of media balance employed here are Neal Boortz, Mona Charen, Michelle Malkin and the guy who inks the painfully un-funny Mallard Fillmore cartoon.
Letting Michelle Malkin judge a contest for outrageous journalism is similar to putting - z, 10:27 AM
