This was incredibly bad judgement on the part of ?uestlove and incredibly disrespectful to a “guest” on the Jimmy Fallon show. Even worse was the “I apologize if you are all over sensitive about it” apology that doesn’t really acknowledge the misogyny involved:

“The performance was a tongue-in-cheek and spur of the moment decision. The show was not aware of it and I feel bad if her feelings were hurt. That was not my intention,” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson said in a statement.

via Jimmy Fallon Drummer Calls Bachmann ‘Bitch’ Song ‘Tongue in Cheek’ – ABC News.

Completely unacceptable professionally and self sabotaging as a political statement.

Not to say a Late Night talk show is as important as a Sunday talk show, but instead of this interview revealing the awful platform Bachmann and her party mates want to implement if one of them gets elected, people will now focus on ?uestlove: that “Obama Supporter” and “rapper” is so angry that he felt he had to call Bachmann a “bitch” and “slut” on the sly.

I would guess he just cost himself some creative license as the musical director for the Jimmy Fallon show.

Josh Marshall links to TPM’s article Dems Solidifying Hispanic Vote. The details:

Obama’s approval ratings among Hispanic voters — and the broader electorate — have been relatively weak at times this year, but as the Republican primary campaign hits the home stretch he’s showing no signs of trouble in matchups with any of his potential opponents. An extensive survey of Latino voters by Univision this week showed Obama racking up similarly high margins against Mitt Romney (67-24), Rick Perry (68-21), and Herman Cain (65-22). The 2-1 ratio is roughly in line with Obama’s margin against John McCain in 2008.

via Democrats Consolidating Hispanic Vote Early | TPM 2012

The current front runner Newt Gingrich, he believes we should turn the public school into work houses for children and also fire the janitors:

Newt Gingrich proposed a plan Friday that would allow poor children to clean their schools for money, saying such a setup would both allow students to earn income and endow them with a strong work ethic.

via Gingrich: Laws preventing child labor are ‘truly stupid’ – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs.

Instead of releasing detailed platforms, they like signing pledges authored by lobbyists in exchange for their blessing. The worst, the pledge to outlaw any same sex marriage rights:

The pledge by the National Organization for Marriage states that, if elected, Perry will send a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the states for ratification, and appoint U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges who will “reject the idea our Founding Fathers inserted a right to gay marriage into our Constitution.”

Others vying for the Republican presidential nomination, including Michelle Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, have also signed it, according to Brian Brown, president of Washington-based National Organization for Marriage, which campaigns against same-sex marriage.

via Perry signs pledge on anti-gay marriage amendment – Yahoo! News.

Herman Cain alledges black people are brain washed into voting Democratic. That we couldn’t be looking at policies that benefit us and our community.

“African Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view,” Cain says, according to quotes posted on CNN’s PoliticalTicker blog.

via Herman Cain: Blacks ‘brainwashed’ to vote for liberals.

This ridiculous line of thinking that basically intimates blacks are too stupid to know what’s good for themselves is not new…the black mother’s wombs ads on billboards also peddle in this black people are too silly to know what’s going on mythology. Ron Paul? This guy wants biblical/feudal justice to rule the day. Seriously:

I don’t want to go that way, I want to go back down… all the way to the family and the Church — believe me it would be a happier and more peaceful world if we went in that direction, rather than asking the government and asking the King to solve all these problems… we need the family to deal with it.

And we can take our message and learn something from the Old Testament, how there was such a strong emphasis on the Patriarchal society and the disputes settled by judges rather than looking for Big Government.”

Hullabaloo.

Ron Paul sounds like he wants to introduce house bill to make Leviticus the law of the land, and women second class citizens who are second or third wives, child brides as well who are to be considered chattel to settle disputes.

To win the Republican nomination, “those people” (Poor, Latinos, People of color, Women, LGBT, Muslims) must be reckoned with and talked about. Not reasoned with and talked to. And the nominee for the GOP will be bound by this rhetoric in the general election.

The budget deal was all cuts if this committee failed so there was no reason for a Republican on this committee to compromise.

The Republican debates continue to expose not to re

Pew’s numbers shows that the President’s approval rating, which has been consistently underwater during a difficult summer in Washington, is now even at 46 percent. It also shows that his favorability rating, a point of particular strength for him, continues to be positive. 52 percent of those Americans polled holds him in a positive light, versus 45 percent who see him unfavorably.

Pew: Obama Approval Ticks Up, Bests All Challengers Nationally | TPM2012

And, yes, Romney should not be even in New Hampshire vs anyone else in the GOP field, but he is. If you can’t win where you’re from, you may as well stay there.

Can you really bother to begin to trust his journalistic opinions and critiques of the banking industry after this? He’s basically a public lobbyist for BOfA. I don’t agree with Taibbi, but I can trust that his opinions of banks and the credit crisis are honestly held and favor a journalistic standard rather than a weird mix between that and a corporate standard.

 

Sullivan is a great blogger, who attempts to have actual discussions regarding his conservative opinions, (e.g. his realizing that successful is not the same as wealthy or correctly valuing Obama’s pragmatism that is lost to many liberals), but this type of “he ain’t that bad” shit about Andrew Breitbart is too annoying. It’s like when Bill Maher would swear Coulter is really awesome when no one is looking, except worse than that.

Shirley Sherrod really lost her job, and Breitbart was intent on declaring her a vile white people hating racists. As far as I am concerned, Breitbart can kick rocks. If Sully is ok with that, then fine, but someone who can be so horrible publicly but is delightful privately shouldn’t really be trusted.

 

On thing to remember about the President, is him just being in this White House is a big deal, in a negative way, to a lot of people. It’s the average loonies plus ones that don’t like how he looks: Secret Service says bullet hit White House | AP | 11/16/2011.