To lay wingnut eggs in your skull.
Wheee!
From AlterNet (h/t Rumproast):
Why Is Simon & Schuster Spreading the Wild Conspiracy Theories of an Unhinged Islamophobic Blogger?
Pamela Geller has some crazy ideas, which the corporate media seem content to disseminate uncritically.
July 31, 2010
By Elon Green
Threshold Editions, the imprint upon which megapublisher Simon & Schuster dumps books it’s too ashamed to release under its own name, made a ballsy bet: that Pamela Geller -- a deeply unhinged blogger who famously claimed that Barack Obama is the bastard child of Malcolm X -- has an audience sufficiently large and loyal to justify a six-figure advance. Makes sense! If MSNBC, Fox, NBC and CNN have Geller on, the pool of inbred, 50-something Tea Partiers desirous of an icky melange of silicone and Tom Tancredo
talking points cannot possibly have gone dry. Right?
Mary Matalin, the head of the imprint, is making a play for a crowd that can’t spell “niggar” but won’t mind reading a book about a man they see as just that -- so long as it confirms their half-baked theories. What better way to siphon off Tea Partiers than through a lady who cheerfully befouls the Upper West Side with a toxic brew of rotating hatreds? On days ending in Y this includes Muslims (“The motor of this presidency is submission to Islam”), transgenders (“Does [Obama] chill with anyone who is normal?”) and health care reform -- or as she calls it, “rape.”
This is bull goose loony territory, but it happens to be the language of modern conservatism. William Buckley’s body had not been in the ground 10 minutes before the National Review embraced Geller, happily laundering stories they wouldn’t publicly touch with a 10-foot noose.
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When your grand-kids ask you "Grandmoops, what finally killed the American publish industry?", at some point during your dissertation, remember to point to this.
So let the bidding war over Lindsay Lohan's
"Letters From
From the AP:
Lindsay Lohan released from jail, goes to rehab
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan has been released from jail, but she's not exactly a free woman.
The actress was discharged at 1:35 a.m. Monday after serving 14 days of a 90-day sentence for violating her probation in a 2007 drug case, a sheriff's spokesman said. She is now required to begin a three-month stint in rehab.
A prosecutor has said that Lohan cannot be released early and will have to spend the entire time in treatment.
Lohan's abbreviated stay was not unexpected, although it was considerably longer than the 84 minutes she spent at the same facility in 2007.
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Took my youngin' to see "Despicable Me" yesterday. When the villain goes to the Bank of Evil to get a loan to further his nefarious plots, he walks into the bank under the Bank of Evil sign, which reads "Formerly Lehman Brothers" underneath.
As Deep Throat taught us during Watergate: "Follow the Money."
Now, now Mr. Driftglass...You never know what could pop up when such 'wingnut eggs' hatch.
Surely Geller's half-baked cracked pot hissing away in the kiln could offer quality excrem- er, excitement aplenty.
;>)
Pam Geller really makes me mad. But, thanks to World O Crap I don't have to be angry anymore!
But, Geller still makes me upset to be from Long Island.
PS> Got laid off from the boatyard, Drifty. Damn recession even shrank the amount of rich guys' boats that need bottom paint. Oh the Humanity! Time to start a blog.
Pammy Jugs wants to fuck John Bolton as the bombs drop on Iran.
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