A woman was forced to resign as scout master of her son’s Boy Scout troop when other parents learned she was a lesbian. The woman has been in a monogamous relationship with another woman for 19 years, and they are raising three children together. Yeah, that crazy gay lifestyle.
Think, people. Who is the least likely person in the world to sexually abuse your boys?
President Obama had this Norman Rockwell painting hung in the White House. Righties are shocked, or outraged, or something.
Granted, this is about as edgy as Norman Rockwell ever got, but it’s still Norman Rockwell. Why is this even news? I should know that people are still this twitchy about race, yet stuff like this still takes me by surprise sometimes.
Most of the right-wing blogs on this “news story” bring up the fact that it was mostly southern Democrats who were standing in the way of integration back in the 1950s. Like this is supposed to prove something? Someone teach some history to these poor saps. From The Reader’s Companion to American History (not online),
In 1948, the Democratic National Convention was splintered by debate over controversial new civil rights planks that had been proposed for addition to the party platform. Adoption of the planks, urged by a group led by Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, was resisted by delegates from southern states. In the middle, trying to hold together the New Deal coalition he had inherited from Franklin D. Roosevelt, was President Harry S. Truman. As a compromise, he was prepared to settle for the adoption of only those planks that had been in the 1944 platform. But Truman’s own civil rights initiatives, including the formation of the Committee on Civil Rights and the Fair Employment Practices Commission, had advanced the civil rights debate to a new level, and he could not turn the clock back. The planks were adopted, prompting thirty-five southern Democrats to walk out. They formed the States’ Rights party, which came to be popularly known as the Dixiecrats.
Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, the Dixiecrats nominated South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond as their candidate for president. In the November election, Thurmond carried four states: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. He received well over a million popular votes, and his thirty-nine electoral votes represented more than 7 percent of the total.
The Dixiecrat episode was one of the most significant third-party efforts in America’s history. Truman won reelection, but the strong showing put forth by the Dixiecrats signaled impending changes in electoral politics. It was the most visible sign of the postwar erosion of the New Deal coalition.
Eventually the worst of the segregationist Dixiecrats, such as Thurmond, switched parties and became Republican. Righties: They’re your legacy now, chumps.
David Limbaugh, brother of Rush, tweeted this clever graphic …
This is an image we’re likely to see again, according to Maggie Haberman at Politico. If that’s the case, I propose changing it to this…
Editorial note: I don’t know for certain that Dubya was 22 in that picture, but the future President Obama was not 22 in the Limbaugh graphic. So there.
Steve M points out that in the last five presidential elections, the candidate with the least military experience won.