http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/liberalbigot/ en-us Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:28:38 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096938/posts She laughed. I had invited Cheryl Hall to the screening of “Religulous” to get a faith-based reaction to comedian Bill Maher's diatribe on the divine. Hall's credentials: longtime member of the United Methodist Women and faithful San Diego churchgoer whose husband teaches a weekly Bible study class. Surely, she would be offended at roasting religion as if it were a Hollywood has-been. But she laughed. Several times. Her defense: “I think God has a sense of humor.” And then she added: “If his point was to make religion look ridiculous, then he did a very good job.” It did not,... Sandi Dolbee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096938/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 20:28:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096134/posts Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is once again coming under attack because of her Christian faith. A recent Los Angeles Times story claimed that as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin espoused young-earth creationism. The report prompted liberal Internet columnist Robert Paul Reyes to brand Palin a "religious fanatic" with a "Neanderthal faith" who "thinks that 'The Flinstones' is a reality show." Reyes suggests that during tonight's vice-presidential debate, Palin should be questioned about her reported belief that God created the earth 6,000 years ago and that dinosaurs and men coexisted. Mark Looy is co-founder of the creation apologetics ministry... OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096134/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:00:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094906/posts Rosie's Place is a worthwhile shelter for abused women in Boston Mass.Each year they have a a fund raiser featuring a female comic. This year they selected Sandra Bernhard who as you probably know wished that Sarah Palin would be gang raped by black men.After Reese Hopkins who is the only Republican Black man in Massachusetts exposed this on his radio show (www.wrko.com and then listen live from 10 til noon)He was called by Emily Rooney (Daughter of Andy Rooney) and also by the Woman in charge of the fund raiser.Neither of these self-confessed super geniuses had been aware of... WRKO 680 AM Boston http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094906/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:33:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094636/posts Cynthia McKinney says 5000 executed Katrina used as cover. News Type: Event — Tue Sep 30, 2008 Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney announced for the first time on Sunday that she has received information that some 5000, mostly male, possibly prisoners were killed execution style, by single gunshot to the head, using the tragic events of hurricane Katrina as a cover. Candidate McKinney made the announcement at a conference in Oakland, Ca, for the Critical Resistance 10 on Sunday. While speaking she informed the audience that she has received information from a sources that were involved in the clean-up and disposal... Newsvine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094636/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 05:18:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094194/posts America is "dumb" because it remains the most religious country in the western world. This according to Bill Maher, who made such a statement on the September 30 edition of "The View." Appearing to promote his new documentary "Religulous," Maher continued his soapbox rants against organized religion. Elisabeth Hasselbeck set up Maher noting his comparison of President Bush to Osama Bin Laden, and noted that many presidents such as John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, spoke publicly of a higher power. Maher likewise replied "of course, it’s, it’s a religious country, unlike every other civilized western democracy... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094194/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:34:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090218/posts Bill Maher's Anti-Religion Movie “Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.” That’s my favorite quote from Bill Maher’s often brilliant, but often unfocused “documentary,” called “Religulous.” It opens in early October right after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival. The articulate, quick-witted comedian sets out in this film — which was supposed to have been released last Easter — to prove that line is true. Directed by Larry Charles, the man who put "Borat" together so skillfully, "Religulous" is blatant about Maher’s feelings: religion is bad. All religions are bad. They are ruining everything. If you go for... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090218/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:58:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086930/posts According to their site, Sandra (Gang Rape) Bernhard will continue to perform at the Center for the Arts at the DC Jewish Community Center until Sept. 28, all this week. Therefore I sent e-mails to: Arna Meyer Mickelson Chief Executive Officer arnam@washingtondcjcc.org Margaret Hahn Stern Chief Operating Officer margareth@washingtondcjcc.org Ari Roth Co-Director, Center For The Arts tellari@theaterj.org The e-mail is aimed at Roth, and I added the introductory sentence for the two women. Here is the text. If anyone wants to follow suit, each in his own words, these birds deserve all the flak they can get. TEXT I sent... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086930/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:56:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085777/posts The Washington Post isn’t the only daily D.C. newspaper to rave about Sandra Bernhard’s anti-Palin ranting. Wednesday’s Washington Examiner joined in, with the headline "Comedienne delivers enraged optimism." Barbara Mackay claimed "in the end, oddly and subtly, Bernhard’s message is positive." That’s not the impression you’d get from the blog of Theater J, where Bernhard is appearing. It has video of Bernhard calling Palin "Uncle Women," a "turncoat b—h" and a "whore." One complaint on the blog that Bernhard crosses a line of political incorrectness draws a defense from Ari Roth of Theater J that really drops the curtain on... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085777/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:17:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085505/posts The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reviewing complaints from both Americans and Canadians about a Web site columnist who recently described Sarah Palin’s supporters as “white trash,” compared the vice presidential candidate to a “porn actress” and called her daughter’s boyfriend a “redneck” and “ratboy.” The incendiary column by Toronto-based writer Heather Mallick appeared on the CBC News site on Sept. 5, after the close of the Republican National Convention. On the same day, Britain’s Guardian newspaper published another column by Mallick in which she trashed Palin’s home state of Alaska as a “frontier state full of drunks and crazy people.”... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085505/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:27:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084504/posts The Obama campaign has released new radio and TV ads in Spanish that seek to tie Sen. John McCain to anti-immigrant comments made by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The ads also suggest the Republican has "dos caras" -- "two faces" -- when it comes to his relations with Latino voters. The new messages, airing in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico, come in response to recent Spanish-language ads by the McCain campaign that suggest Obama is responsible for the collapse of last year's bipartisan immigration reform efforts. "They want us to forget the insults we've put up with, the... The Washington Post (The Trail Blog) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084504/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:39:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083153/posts Monday, September 15th 2008, 9:52 AM Beck/Getty Gov. Sarah Palin The current lie of the presidential campaign, current but certainly not last, is that you are some kind of lousy, sexist bum if you question Sarah Palin's lightweight credentials to be vice president of the United States, or the judgment of the 72-year-old who put her on the ticket in the first place. It means you're supposed to do about as much vetting on her as John McCain. She's a spunky mom, she has a son who's a soldier, she loves guns and hates Roe vs. Wade, and don't worry... Ny Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083153/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:29:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079198/posts Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn): "Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus, who our minister prayed about. Pontius Pilate was a governor." breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079198/posts#comment Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:09:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078316/posts John McCain announced that he was running for president to confront the "transcendent challenge" of the 21st century, "radical Islamic extremism," contrasting it with "stability, tolerance and democracy." But the values of his handpicked running mate, Sarah Palin, more resemble those of Muslim fundamentalists than they do those of the Founding Fathers. On censorship, the teaching of creationism in schools, reproductive rights, attributing government policy to God's will and climate change, Palin agrees with Hamas and Saudi Arabia rather than supporting tolerance and democratic precepts. What is the difference between Palin and a Muslim fundamentalist? Lipstick. [READ MORE BELOW] Solon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078316/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:56:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2078310/posts "GAYS" ARE UPSET BECAUSE SARAH PALIN’S CHURCH WANTS TO SAVE THEM? Excuse me, but what’s wrong with these people? Don’t “gays” have enough to worry about? Now they’re all exercised over Governor Sarah Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, and its efforts to convert them to normalcy: http://news.aol.com/elections/article/palins-church-promotes-gay-conversion/165471?icid=200100397×1208835546x1200532764. I must not get it. There’s so much antipathy in this country toward homosexuals and yet good people who want to end that antipathy by getting “gays” to return to normal lives are castigated for trying to “pray away the gay.” I realize that at least some “gays” don’t wish to convert... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2078310/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:48:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070754/posts An Italian museum has defied Pope Benedict by refusing to remove a statue of a crucified green frog clutching a beer mug and an egg. The Vatican had condemned the modern art sculpture as blasphemous. The board of the Museion museum in the northern city of Bolzano voted it was a work of art, however. The board decreed it would stay in place for the remainder of an exhibition. The wooden sculpture by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger depicts a frog about 1 metre 30 cm (4 feet) high nailed to brown cross and holding a beer mug in... Evening Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070754/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:25:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069435/posts "Using terms that would send Republicans into the history books, Jimmy Carter on PBS calls Barack this Black Boy" I couldn't believe it until I heard it for myself. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069435/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:05:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067855/posts Have you ever had this happen: You are minding your own business, teaching your life science course, it's early in the term. A student, on the way out after class (never at the beginning of class, rarely during class) mentions something about "carbon dating." This usually happens around the time of year you are doing an overview of the main points of the course, but before you've gotten to the "evolution module"... The student is talking about C14 dating and how it "has problems." But you are a life science teacher and can't think of a single point in your... Greg Laden's Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067855/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:01:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067678/posts A black delegate for Hillary Rodham Clinton says she was called an "Uncle Tom" by Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, 1 of Barack Obama's political mentors. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067678/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:51:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065679/posts DHP Review: Religulous Posted by Dirty Harry on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 While more entertaining and better paced, director Larry Charles‘ Religulous can’t help but remind of Morgan Spurlock’s dreadful Where In The World Is Osama bin Laden?, especially at the end where both films are undone by their attempts to close on serious points the preceding 90 minutes of antics simply can’t sustain. It’s surprising Charles let this one get away from him. After all, he also directed Borat, and one of the few saving graces of that humiliation-fest was that it never lost sight of the fact that... www.dirtyharrysplace.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065679/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:31:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2065577/posts This is the Apocalypse of St. Bill the Stoned. Though funny, smart and often profane, Religulous doesn't want to send you out of the theater with a smile on your lips. The final moments of the film aren't laugh out loud funny, but a parade of images of death and destruction. This, Bill Maher says, is what humanity is in for if it doesn't get rid of the nuerological disorder that is religion. You probably know my bias going into this film. I believe that religion is not just irrational but anti-rational, a Bronze Age worldview that should have been... CHUD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2065577/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:26:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065105/posts Leave it to the liberal print media to find some way to kill everyone's Olympics buzz. For instance, did you know that the choice by the U.S. Olympic Committee to have Ralph Lauren stitch the threads for Team USA's opening ceremonies uniform was an unfortunate nod to racism and classism and a futile, nostalgic clinging to America's waning WASP empire? That according to Sameer Reddy (pictured at right, photo via Newsweek) in an August 20 online exclusive for Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065105/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:02:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060683/posts The Rev. Robert Jones went to the Capitol last Wednesday hoping to make his voice heard. What he got instead was a swear-word laden rebuke from Democratic Sen. Pat Wiggins, who interrupted Jones' testimony to say: "Excuse me, but I think your arguments are bull----." The exchange left Jones, the senior pastor at Oak Park United Methodist Church, stunned and offended. "It is a slap in the face," he said in an interview. The outburst occurred as Jones, 46, testified at an informational hearing on how California will cut global warming emissions. Jones, who is African American, said he went... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060683/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:18:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059990/posts Much of America's political conversation is couched in code. And so it was that recently the McCain campaign accused Barack Obama of playing the "race card," two four-letter words that, taken together, trail a wealth of innuendo like a comet's tail. Using the term "race card" as a pejorative is almost always meant to promulgate the big lie that takes hold everywhere from the workplace to the classroom: that black men and women commonly use race as a bludgeon and an excuse, and that they will always blame failures or disagreements on racism. This is belied by objective reality. To... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059990/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:35:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058111/posts Obama, his campaign trying to transcend it -- but can't I can't be the only person who sees the snake in the room. The one that slithers away whenever the political pundits start explaining what the latest presidential poll means. From the moment Barack Obama went from a wannabe presidential contender to a front-runner, the race factor curled up and waited to strike anyone who got too close. Former President Bill Clinton got bit. So did the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Still, whenever commentators talk about the close contest between Obama and John McCain, they ignore the snake. Yet anyone who... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058111/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:21:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054587/posts The comments presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) made about his race in Union, Missouri on Wednesday--was not the first time Obama talked about his expectation that the Republicans will use race to detail his candidacy. Last June at a Florida fund-raiser Obama--the first African American to have a viable chance of becoming president--said the GOP will go after him because he is black. Obama said then, "The choice is clear. Most of all we can choose between hope and fear. It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or... Chicago Sun Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054587/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:15:47 GMT