Sunday, April 17, 2016

5 Crazy GOP Moments, Trump, Palin and more - Oh, My

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/5-worst-right-wing-moments-week-donald-trump-outdoes-himself?akid=14173.294211.Jcto7P&rd=1&src=newsletter1054726&t=2

1. Donald Trump matched and possibly outdid his own previously high level of dickishness.
2. Can we please stop calling John Kasich the reasonable Republican candidate?
John Kasich, the so-called reasonable Republican candidate, managed to be pretty awful this week as well.
During a campaign stop in New York, a college freshman asked Kasich how he proposes to address campus safety concerns, especially the problems of sexual violence, harassment and rape.
He started off okay, if a tad old-fashioned when he referred to women who attend colleges as “co-eds.” He talked about confidential reporting, rape kits and the right to pursue justice. But he just couldn’t help offering some folksy advice to all those prospective “co-eds” out there, including apparently his own twin daughters who are touring colleges while he campaigns: “Don’t go to parties where there’s a lot of alcohol.”  Ugh. Really? No advice for young men about, oh I dunno, not raping people? Not to mention the inconvenient reality, as any teen or college student will tell you, that avoiding parties with a lot of alcohol means avoiding all parties. Just saying.

3. Sarah Palin bravely takes on science, and all who espouse it.
4. Bill O’Reilly finds another black man to lecture about racism.
5. And from the lunatic Christian fringe, this just in.
The mystery of Stonehenge has been solved, at long last. Turns out that giants created by Satan built it.
Yeah, that makes sense.
This exciting revelation—and when we say "revelation" we mean it in the biblical sense—comes courtesy of televangelist Jim Bakker, who hosted one Dennis Lindsay on his program on Wednesday in order to discuss Lindsay’s latest "discovery" in the realm of Creation Science.

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