In Which I Continue to Berate Republicans

I meant for today's last installment to be something other than more criticisms of the GOP. I mean, it's fun and all, but sometimes you want to do something a little different than what you've been doing all day. It is hard to break that habit when so many opportunities present themselves, though.

For instance, I'm late to the table on this one, but Media Matters has an analysis of some Bill O'Reilly radio content from September 19th:

Summary: Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "

So thanks, Bill O'Reilly, for offering yourself up for ridicule like that. We appreciate every opportunity you give us to point at you and laugh.

How about this, which I found via Huffington Post: A copy of President Bush's UN Address was leaked on the UN's website, and it contained many, many phonetic sound-'em-out's for far away leaders and places. I can see "Kyrgyzstan [KEYRgeez-stan]" — I can. But Mauritania? [Man-HAT-tun] Sarkozy? [Doo-KA-kiss] Those are easy ones!

Or, as a last sign that things have gone far afield: You know who J.C. Watts is, right? He was a Republican Congressman from Oklahoma. He is an African-American that has been, for years, a stalwart defender of the Repbulican Party. However, he is none too pleased by the attitutdes and actions of the Republican frontrunning candidates (although I would argue that if there are more than 3 of you, none of you are frontrunners and you're all just failing less than the rest of the field) in their reticent refusals to attend Tavis Smiley's upcoming debate on minority issues. When you mess up enough as a Republican presidential candidate to make J.C. Watts come out against you publicly, you're doing it wrong.