Mike Pence to give speech at NRA convention, where for his protection no guns will be permitted. Wait, what?

Courtesy of The Sacramento Bee:  

Guns won’t be allowed when Vice President Mike Pence speaks Friday at a National Rifle Association convention in Dallas in order to protect his safety. 

The NRA says the Secret Service ordered the ban, but survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting are calling the move hypocritical, noting the organization’s fierce opposition to gun-free zones in most public places. 

No firearms or weapons of any kind will be allowed at the NRA Leadership Conference at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, during Pence’s appearance, according to an NRA website. The notice emphasizes that the U.S. Secret Service is responsible for security at the conference, given Pence’s attendance.

So wait, everybody being armed makes everybody safer, EXCEPT the Vice President?

As you might imagine this smacked of hypocrisy for many people, including the Parkland survivors.

The NRA has evolved into such a hilarious parody of itself. pic.twitter.com/6Pw6NTQAe6

— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) April 28, 2018

And the parents of those who did not survive the Parkland school shooting.

On so many levels, this is enlightening. According to the NRA, we should want everyone to have weapons when we are in public. But when they put on a convention, the weapons are a concern? I thought giving everyone a gun was to enhance safety. Am I missing something? https://t.co/f4wgNhJ7RI

— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) April 28, 2018

We also need to keep in mind that this is not the first time that the NRA has been caught being complete hypocrites.

It's really strange that when the NRA has a speaking event, or at CPAC, or at a Trump rally... it's a "gun free zone". I wonder why? Probably because guns kill people. #GunReformNow pic.twitter.com/MZ7ZPSPS2F

— Alternative NOAA (@altNOAA) February 25, 2018

The NRA is going to have to finally decide whether or not guns keep EVERYBODY safe, or if they are only dangerous to people that they care about.

Really can't have it both ways. 

What the hell happened to Ed Schultz?

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

Speaking this week in a National Review podcast, hosted by Jamie Weinstein and published Friday, the TV host refused to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin for his troubling human-rights record, instead declaring that Putin is “viewed as a progressive Democrat” by the Russian people. 

When confronted with his own past comments acknowledging Putin had a “nasty human rights record,” Schultz focused on the “tremendous friction” between the U.S. and Russia, and claimed that his previous remarks about Putin “might have been overboard.” 

“Does he have a nasty human rights record?” Weinstein pressed further. “I think the United States has a nasty human-rights record,” Schultz replied. 

“I do think that every super power on the globe has a very poor record on human rights.” 

While his former home MSNBC has hit ratings gold—due, in part, to its extensive coverage of the ongoing probe into Russian ties to the Trump campaign—the famously bombastic progressive Schultz has gone in the opposite direction since departing the network in 2015. 

As The New Republic noted in 2017, since joining Russia’s state-owned television network, Schultz has repeatedly praised Trump’s political acumen while downplaying accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Schultz also brushed off Russia's annexation of Crimea, and defended Vladimir Putin as working to improve Russia.

Yeah, apparently by robbing the country blind, and subjugating it's people.

True confession time, Ed Schultz was NEVER among my favorite MSNBC hosts.

In fact I typically skipped his show, and when I was invited to meet him when he came up here I said I couldn't cause I was washing my hair.

But still I thought that he had some integrity, with his whole defend the middle class shtick.

But now that looks like it was all bullshit.

Hey I understand having to make a living (I've done some shit to make money that we are not going to discuss here.), but to completely sell out like this is pathetic.

At least when Keith Olbermann left MSNBC he managed to maintain his ideological credibility. 

Donald Trump announces that April is "Sexual Assault Awareness" month. Let's not all laugh at once.

Courtesy of Yahoo:

US President Donald Trump -- who has himself been repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct -- on Friday designated April 2018 "National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month" amid a national debate over the issue. 

"Sexual assault crimes remain tragically common in our society, and offenders too often evade accountability," said a proclamation from Trump released by the White House. "These heinous crimes are committed indiscriminately: in intimate relationships, in public spaces, and in the workplace." 

"Too often, however, the victims of assault remain silent. They may fear retribution from their offender, lack faith in the justice system, or have difficulty confronting the pain associated with the traumatic experience," it continued. 

"My administration is committed to raising awareness about sexual assault and to empowering victims to identify perpetrators so that they can be held accountable."

Well I for one did not even make it part way through that before I was banging my head on my desk. 

Trump announcing this is like Colonel Sanders announcing a "Be Nice to Chickens" month.

Russia warns the United States against meddling in their election. Yeah, you heard that right.

Maria Zakharova

Courtesy of USA Today: 

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday rejected U.S. criticism over opposition leader Alexei Navalny's blocked presidential bid, saying it amounted to "meddling in the Russian elections." 

"This statement by the U.S. Department of State, which I'm sure will not be the only one, is a direct interference into the electoral process and the state's domestic affairs," Zakharova said in comments carried by state-owned TASS news agency. 

A State Department spokesman expressed concern over the "restrictions on independent voices" in response to the vote by Russia's top electoral body to formally bar Navalny from participating in the 2018 presidential election. 

"The funniest thing about it is that this statement was made by the same people who put the foreign agent label on RT and Sputnik, persecuted Russian media worldwide and invested vast sums in 'countering Russian propaganda,'" Zakharova said.

Can you believe the balls on these guys? 

They use Facebook and social media to spread misinformation, hack a number of government and personal computers, and then attempt to manipulate their asset in the White House to repeal sanctions against their country, and they have the audacity to bitch about the State Department pointing out that they are rigging an election to reelect Vladimir Putin?

I can't even.

The Pope calls the spreading of "fake news" a "very serious sin." Seriously?

Courtesy of the AP:

Pope Francis is criticizing journalists who dredge up old scandals and sensationalize the news, saying it’s a “very serious sin” that hurts all involved. 

Francis, who plans to dedicate his upcoming annual communications message to “fake news,” told Catholic media on Saturday that journalists perform a mission that is among the most “fundamental” to democratic societies. 

But he reminded them to provide precise, complete and correct information and not to provide one-sided reports. 

The pope said: “You shouldn’t fall into the ‘sins of communication:’ disinformation, or giving just one side, calumny that is sensationalized, or defamation, looking for things that are old news and have been dealt with and bringing them to light today.” 

He called those actions a “grave sin that hurts the heart of the journalist and hurts others.” 

Look I totally agree with the Popester here that the spreading of fake news is a bad idea.

However does he really want to talk about "disinformation, or giving just one side, calumny that is sensationalized?"

Because I am pretty sure that his entire religion depends on much of that.

For the record there is very little in the Bible that is backed up by actual facts or secular historical documentation.

The entire religion depends on the continued spreading of disinformation and calumny ( the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone's reputation; slander.) Just ask those who have been tortured and killed for heresy or accused of witchcraft.

Yes fake news is bad.

So how much longer will the Pope and his fellow Christians continue to spread it?

Ted Cruz defines the word hypocrisy.

FOX NEWS HOST TO @tedcruz: You cool working with alleged child molester Roy Moore if he's elected?

CRUZ: Sure, no problem, that's up to the voters.

FOX NEWS HOST: And what about alleged groper Al Franken?

CRUZ: Now that's a very serious problem. I'm extremely concerned. pic.twitter.com/1QzMq0Hud5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 30, 2017

When it comes to the allegations against Roy Moore Cruz is all "let the voters decide," but when it comes to the far less egregious allegations against Democrat Al Franken it is suddenly "These allegations are serious and they keep coming up everyday."

It is like he has absolutely no irony meter.

The Pope denounces climate change deniers. "I denounce thee, I denounce thee, I denounce thee."

Courtesy of CBS News: 

Pope Francis denounced those who deny global warming and urged negotiators at climate talks in Germany to avoid falling prey to such "perverse attitudes" and instead accelerate efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. 

Francis issued a message Thursday to the Bonn meeting, which is working to implement the 2015 Paris accord aimed at capping global emissions. 

In the message, Francis called climate change "one of the most worrisome phenomena that humanity is facing," and urged negotiators to ignore special interests and political or economic pressures and instead engage in an honest dialogue about the future of the planet. 

He denounced that such efforts are often frustrated by those who deny climate change, are indifferent to it, or think it can only be solved by technical solutions. 

Well good for the Pope!

I do not always agree with this Pope, but he is dead right to call these people out for clinging to a belief that is not backed up by the facts, and for which the opposite point of view is held by the smartest, most knowledgeable people on the planet.

Oh...wait.

P.S. Sorry, that may have seemed like a cheap shot, but let's face it faith that exists despite evidence to the contrary is the very foundation of both climate change deniers and religious folks.

They are kissing cousins at the very least, and at the very most one is a parasitic entity which could not exist without the other.

Official White House position on women accusing Donald Trump of sexual misconduct is that they are all liars.

.@PressSec tells @JaxAlemany that the official position is that the women who accused the President of sexual harassment are lying. pic.twitter.com/myRI5Nmdn5

— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) October 27, 2017

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

The White House on Friday confirmed its official stance on the women accusing President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct: They are lying. 

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed the position in a press conference on Friday afternoon after CBS News reporter Jacqueline Alemany posed a question: 

“Obviously sexual harassment has been in the news. At least 16 women accused the president of sexually harassing them throughout the course of the campaign. Last week, during a press conference in the Rose Garden, the president called these accusations ‘fake news.’ Is the official White House position that all these women are lying?” 

“Yeah, we’ve been clear on that from the beginning and the president has spoken on it,” Sanders said in a curt response.

To be clear, according to the Republicans, any woman who accused Bill Clinton of propositioning them is completely believable.

Any woman who accused Democratic fundraiser Harvey Weinsten of sexually abusing or harassing them, completely believable.

Any women who are currently accusing Mark Halperin of being a pig, completely believable.

However the more than a dozen women accusing Trump of harassing, assaulting, or even raping them, well those bitches are lying.

Just thought we should take the time to clear that up.

So yesterday Melania Trump participated in an anti-bullying event. No, I am not kidding.

"My bully makes me dress up in tight clothes and pretend to like him in front of an audience, how about yours?"

Courtesy of the Daily Mail:

First lady Melania Trump voyaged to the Detroit suburbs Monday to speak to middle school students and participate in a 'No One Eats Alone' anti-bullying event, which the Michigan school was participating in. 

'I encourage you to find a new friend and eat with your new friend,' the first lady told students at Orchard Lake Middle School in West Bloomfield. 'Ask them what they like, what their hobbies are so nobody becomes sad or stressed and everybody feels included,' she instructed. 

FLOTUS was there as part of National Bullying Prevention Month and kicked off what the White House is calling the 'Week of Inclusion,' with the 'No One Eats Alone' event aiming to get students to reach out to their peers to make sure everyone has someone to sit with at lunch. 

Her husband is constantly bullying folks, including Gold Star families, on Twitter, he insulted his primary opponents and Hillary Clinton on a personal basis during the 2016 election cycle, and he is accused of multiple cases of sexual harassment and even rape, and yet this enabler of his sees nothing hypocritical in telling OTHERS to stand up to bullying?

Unbelievable!

This is a cover that's guaranteed to give the conservatives a conniption fit.

The Republicans and Right Wing media keep banging the drum about Harvey Weinstein while remaining seemingly oblivious to their own hypocrisy.

Just get a load of what Tucker Carlson, who currently occupies the time slot made available after Bill O'Reilly was forced out of Fox News due to his own accusations of sexual harassment, tweeted the other day.

Powerful ppl knew what Weinstein was doing & not only ignored it but actively took his side against his many victims #Tucker @FoxNews

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 13, 2017

I know right?

Supposedly anti-abortion Congressman who tried to convince his mistress to get an abortion, will retire. Update!

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term next year after a report that he suggested a woman he was having an affair with get an abortion. 

In a statement to Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA, Murphy said that he would not seek reelection in 2018 and would instead spend his remaining time in Congress working on mental health care reform. 

"After discussions with my family and staff, I have come to the decision that I will not seek reelection to Congress at the end of my current term," he said. 

"In the coming weeks I will take personal time to seek help as my family and I continue to work through our personal difficulties and seek healing. I ask you to respect our privacy during this time.”

Yes pay attention to me when I am advocating to take away a woman's right to choose, but please give me privacy when I get caught being a hypocritical douchenozzle.

I think this might be my feel good story of the day.

Update: And he has now resigned. 

Anti-abortion GOP Congressman accused by former girlfriend of pushing her to get an abortion.

Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: 

A text message sent in January to U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy by a woman with whom he had an extra-marital relationship took him to task for an anti-abortion statement posted on Facebook from his office's public account. 

"And you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options," Shannon Edwards, a forensic psychologist in Pittsburgh with whom the congressman admitted last month to having a relationship, wrote to Mr. Murphy on Jan. 25, in the midst of an unfounded pregnancy scare. 

A text from Mr. Murphy’s cell phone number that same day in response says, "I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will." 

The congressman has been lauded by the Family Research Council, for his stance on abortion, as well as for family values, generally. He also has been endorsed by LifePAC, which opposes abortion rights, and is a member of the House Pro-Life Caucus, an affiliation that is often cited by his office.

Then there's this.

FYI: Tim Murphy just voted for the bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks. https://t.co/HBom1ABEIR

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 3, 2017

And in case you were wondering, yes the Congressman is most certainly married.

You know I wish I could still be surprised by shit like this, but honestly I now expect the Republicans to be raging hypocrites and only find myself surprised when they are not.

Jared Kushner and others in the White House still often use a private email account to correspond. Update!

Courtesy of Politico:

Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business. 

Kushner uses his private account alongside his official White House email account, sometimes trading emails with senior White House officials, outside advisers and others about media coverage, event planning and other subjects, according to four people familiar with the correspondence. POLITICO has seen and verified about two dozen emails.

“Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business,” Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Kushner, said in a statement Sunday. “Fewer than 100 emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account. These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal rather than his White House address.” 

Aides who have exchanged emails with Kushner on his private account since President Donald Trump took office in January include former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, and spokesman Josh Raffel, according to emails described to or shown to POLITICO. In some cases, those White House officials have emailed Kushner’s account first, said people familiar with the messages. At times, Bannon and Priebus have also used private email accounts to correspond with Kushner and others.

Well now I would suggest that this calls for a taxpayer funded, never ending investigation by Congress.

Oh I'm sorry, that only, and I mean ONLY, happens if your name is Hillary Clinton.

You know I have now reached the point of being unshockable.

I think that there is literally nothing I could learn about Donald Trump and his administration that could surprise me in any way.

Vladimir Putin has a secret room of his own in the White House? Yeah, that seems perfectly believable at this point.

Donald Trump and his family are secretly lizard people from some far away planet? Oh yeah, makes sense.

Trump is actually the result of an experiment using Adolf Hitler's DNA to establish an American Fourth Reich?  Actually that might be the most believable one of all.

Update: Oh hell, Ivanka did it too!

Still not surprised though.

While Donald Trump works to build walls to keep the brown people out, he openly invites Russian tourists to have babies on his properties.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

While Trump rails against U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants, his Florida properties have become a playground for birth tourists from Russia’s upper crust. The Daily Beast has discovered several companies are advertising rentals in Trump properties to expectant Russian parents. While the Trump Organization does not directly profit from subleases of privately owned condos, it does benefit from Russian patronage of the nearby Trump International Beach Resort. (The Trump Organization did not return requests comment.) 

Many of the companies that cater to Russian birth tourists advertise their services openly and warn no one will get in trouble as long as they don’t lie on immigration paperwork.

A thriving Russian emigré community has grown around the Miami suburbs, making it a home away from home for those looking for a few months away from Russia’s bitter winters. The area’s most popular Russian deli, a mainstay for many moms on birthing forums, as well as other shops serving a taste of Eastern Europe, sit directly across the street from the Trump International Beach Resort, Trump Palace, and Trump Royale. 

Some Russian parents-to-be come on the cheap, eschewing fancy packages in favor of a do-it-yourself approach from a modest Miami apartment. A no-frills, three-month stay in the Miami suburbs, complete with out-of-pocket medical bills, can cost $20,000, moms told The Daily Beast. 

The Florida Trump properties are convenient options for wealthy Russians who can afford it. They are notorious for being investment properties for Russia’s hyper-wealthy, a safe place to store savings in U.S. dollars. And birth tourism companies offer Trump apartments as part of packages costing upwards of $75,000.

Okay on the surface this may seem like kind of a stretch to make the assertion that Trump is involved in helping Russians have anchor babies here in America in order to reinforce their connection to our country and encourage Russian investments. 

But when you toss it on the heap of ever growing evidence that Trump has numerous business ties with Russia, that his companies helped launder Russian dirty money, and then add it to the fact that the Russian government spent thousands and thousands of dollars and thousands and thousands of man hours to help hm get elected, it simply reinforces the notion that Trump is either working with Vladimir Putin, or FOR Vladimir Putin.

I assume the latter.

Alex Jones is launching a website to fight fake news. No, I am NOT kidding.

Infowars launches new media platform in the battle against fake news!

>>>> https://t.co/cBcphgf7Og <<<<#NewsWars #RealNews #WarRoom pic.twitter.com/3RZm1lxCch

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 11, 2017

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

If you’re wondering what the site’s goals are, you’ll have to stay on the homepage long enough to see their various taglines. Changing every few seconds, the taglines appear to be the following: 

“Battling tyranny worldwide” 
“Rebooting America...” 
“Restoring the 2nd Amendment” 
“Making America Free Again” 
“Chronicling/Documenting the fall of globalism” 
“Republics thrive in the light” 
“Truth explodes in the light” 
“Battling corrupt elites worldwide” 
“Tyranny dies in the light” 

The fact that the site was launched by Alex “they’re turning the friggin’ frogs gay” Jones gives these dramatic slogans a bit of a different tone. 

Alex Jones starting a site to battle "fake news" is kind of like a pedophile starting a home for abused children.

But remember, now that Trump is in office up is now down, black is now white, and facts are for sissy liberal snowflakes.

(BTW Jones also claims that the Nazis photographed in Charlottesville are just Jewish actors playing dress up.)

The president who promised to "put Americans back to work" is hiring dozens of foreign nationals to work at his private clubs.

This interview by the way took place in July of last year, but if anybody thought Trump was going to change tactics once he became president they simply don't know Donald Trump.

Courtesy of NPR: 

The Trump Organization is asking the federal government for special visas to hire scores of foreign workers for two of President Trump's private clubs in Florida — the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach and the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter. 

The requests for H-2B visas, posted on the Department of Labor website, are for 26 cooks, nearly 50 waiters and waitresses, plus housekeepers, a hostess and a bartender. The jobs range in pay from just under $12 to less than $14 an hour. Mar-a-Lago and the Jupiter club have relied on foreign workers in past years for staffing during their peak seasons, which run October through May.

This year, the request for foreign workers comes in the middle of "Made in America" week at the White House. 

Trump, who has had his own line of ties manufactured overseas, says he wants U.S. companies to focus this week on ways to create more opportunities for American labor. The Trump Organization hasn't responded to questions about the visa requests.

The thing that gets me about this is that it will MAKE NO DIFFERENCE.

The Trumpsters are unable to accept the reality of any negative information about Trump period, the rest of us are so exhausted from the overwhelming amount of hypocrisy that is coming from the White House that we can barely muster any more outrage.  

It is like our ethical nerve endings have been numbed down to the point of abject indifference.

And that is fucking dangerous, because it is EXACTLY what Trump and his administration are counting on.

Top crime watchdog quits because she felt holding businesses accountable for ethical violations while Donald Trump is in office was hypocritical.

Courtesy of  New York Magazine:

Until late last month, former federal prosecutor Hui Chen worked in the Justice Department’s fraud section, ensuring that corporations followed federal ethics laws. She started the job in the fall 2015, but in the last six months it became impossible to conduct her duties without feeling as if she was “shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic,” she recently wrote on LinkedIn. So she quit, and she blames the White House: 

First, trying to hold companies to standards that our current administration is not living up to was creating a cognitive dissonance that I could not overcome. To sit across the table from companies and question how committed they were to ethics and compliance felt not only hypocritical, but very much like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. Even as I engaged in those questioning and evaluations, on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest, the ongoing investigations of potentially treasonous conducts, and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts. Those are conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company, yet I worked under an administration that engaged in exactly those conduct. I wanted no more part in it. 

As a compliance expert in DOJ’s fraud section, Chen essentially served as a corporate crime watchdog. She helped ensure that companies made changes to the policies that resulted in their prosecution and then monitored the effectiveness of those changes.

Totally get it. It's sort of like being a firefighter in a town where the fire chief is a pyromaniac.

Of course with Chen out that means that nobody is watching the candy store, and I think we all know that even IF Trump decides to replace her it will be with somebody who is completely blind to unethical behavior by corporations.  

If you ever before wondered just how much damage one president could do in only one term, sit back and watch, because you are about to have that question answered in spades.

Bill Cosby, whose sexual assault case resulted in a mistrial, will be giving town halls on how to avoid being accused of sexual assault. I have an idea.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Just days after a judge declared a mistrial in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, his publicists have revealed what he plans to do next — a national tour educating young people on sexual assault — specifically, on how to avoid getting accused of sexual assault. 

“Mr. Cosby wants to get back to work,” spokesman Andrew Wyatt told an Alabama TV anchor Wednesday morning. “We are now planning town halls.” 

“Really?” responded the WBRC Fox 6 News anchor in Birmingham.

There was a hint of skepticism in the anchor’s voice, which ballooned into full incredulousness from women’s groups and victims’ advocates Thursday when news of Cosby’s plans began to spread. 

“It would be more useful if Mr. Cosby would spend time talking with people about how not to commit sexual assault in the first place,” Jodi Omear, vice president of communications for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) told Newsweek. 

As Wyatt explained it, these town halls will educate young people and married men on the law and the dangers they face from accusations of sexual assault.

You ever read anything that seems so crazy that you cannot believe it's true?

Because that seems to be happening to me all of the time lately.

When I first heard about this I had the obvious reaction on Twitter.

I think point one in his talk about avoiding accusations of sexual assault might be don't sexually assault people. https://t.co/yweK2bQfmv

— Gryphen 2009 (@Gryphen2009) June 23, 2017

I don't know, just seems logical to me. 

But no in this age of Trump, this man is literally going to be talking about how young people, mostly men I'm guessing, can avoid being "accused" of sexual assault as if this is something that happens all of the time through no fault of their own. 

So I assume his talk will not include, "Hey don't drug their drinks and then rape them."

But will be more along the lines of "Hey once you drug their drinks and then rape them, make sure to wipe off any fingerprints and remove all traces of your DNA."

Jesus, what the hell is happening to our world?

Sarah Palin sees everybody piling on Kathy Griffin, flings her mummified carcass on as well.

Courtesy of the bandwagon jumper's Facebook page:  

Kathy Griffin has mercilessly attacked children for years. 

When this "celebrity" (who "celebrates" her, btw?) traveled all the way to Wasilla and actually knocked on my home's door to personally humiliate my kids again, I knew she was deranged.

(Ah yes, using the children as a shield, how Sarah Palin of her.)

The liberal "star" had attacked my teenage daughters for so long - first Bristol then, inexplicably, giddily announced she would "go directly after Willow Palin" despite Willow's young age and innocence in doing anything to earn the wrath of this attacker. 

And today Kathy claims SHE is the victim! 

Kathy's crocodile tears at her publicity-seeking press conference today mean nothing to mothers who've witnessed the ramifications her sick acts have had on precious children. 

So, on behalf of Melania Trump and other mothers who've tried to protect our children from Kathy's soulless vile attacks, I'll bite my tongue in print and not say what I'd actually tell her to her face... I'll keep it civil and merely tell her after her ridiculous self-serving statements today: 

Suck it. Up. Cupcake. 

- Sarah Palin 

I think the literal translation of this is "Oh look at me, look at me, please dear God, look at me!"

I have already expressed my feelings about the Kathy Griffin kerfuffle yesterday, so there is no reason to go into that any further.

After all we already know that the careless use of violent imagery can lead to catastrophe.

Of course as we pointed out earlier conservatives are engaged in a rather pathetic game of hypocrisy hide and go seek here.

After all this is what Ted Nugent said about a sitting President and his Secretary of State.

Of course Nugent bristles at being compared to Griffin now:

"I did not threaten anybody's life," he insisted to the Fox News crew, backing up what he'd said on conservative radio host Ben Ferguson's show on Wednesday, when he noted, "To compare what I said ... we're talking apples and grenades here," per the Hill. The "dead or in jail" quote was simply an expression of his fear of Big Government, he told Fox, while the machine gun statement was an "outrageous metaphor" on gun control. "I did nothing to harm anyone," he said. "[Griffin] came out with symbolism that was truly vile." 

You know I don't think that somebody truly understands what the word "metaphor" means.

For her part Palin also made yet another attempt to criticize former President Obama as well.

Did not turn out as she might have hoped.

What is that saying about glass houses again?

Exactly!

And the same holds true for jobs numbers, criminal activity within the administration, and demonstrating patriotism.

He's white, and he's a Republican, so it just doesn't matter.