Jesus's favorite Super PAC?

The religious right is so fond of referring to Jesus and his teachings and thoughts, and maybe they know more about it than we do. But when he said that the money lenders should be kicked out of the temple, we never got the sense that he then recommended that they be replaced by super PACs.

FRIDAY FAUXLOSOPHY

As said by the late Jack Bender; "In what would have been prescient advice to our president in his next debate, if a man like Gov. Romney misrepresents seven times, call him on it seven times. If he does it 17 times, call him on it 17 times. And on into the night...

50 SHADES OF VAGUE

According to the Tax Policy Center and virtually every other group of economic analysts that arent under the thumb of Rupert Murdoch and/or Fox News the tax cuts proposed by the Romney/Ryan team are roughly (and that's pretty rough) 5 trillion (5,000,000,000,000) dollars. They claim it is "revenue neutral" and will be made up by closing loopholes and deductions. But forgive the play on words, their solutions amount to "50 shades of vague". Because if you divide 5 trillion by 300 million (as in the number of Americans) it would amount to over $16,000 in "savings" from every man, woman, child and infant in America. Where to begin, well were they to cut the funding of PBS that would amount to $1.35/year for each of us, or to go from the ridiculous to the sublime, less that 0.3 cents/day. Sounds like we are not quite half way there.

Just the Facts, Thank you Ma’am

A sports talk show host advised people to do their civic duty and watch the debate with hopefully
the Yankees comfortably in front, which they were. He said turn on MSNBC and then FOX and you
would see two different universes. I would add to then turn on Brian Williams to find out what really
happened. On Brian Williams we had the best set of fact checkers. Particularly Andrea Mitchell, who
went forward with her “truth squad” and maybe the biggest single debate was the President’s claim and Mitt Romney’s strong denial that he did not promise a $5 trillion tax cut.
He would make the Bush tax cuts permanent.
He would cut all rates an additional 20%.
He would repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax.
And permanently repeal the Estate Tax.
The tax policy department currently headed by two former Bush addvisors said it would cost $4.8 trillion over 10 years. Not $5 trillion, but pretty darn close. And obviously all the deductions in the world, and Romney still won’t say what they are, won’t cover $4 trillion dollars. Unfortunately, Mr. Romney's level of truth came nowhere near his level of rhetoric.

AIR MITT

Air Mitt or should we say err Mitt (as in e-r-r) has surfaced in one of the more interesting press conferences held by Willard Mitt Romney. In fact, this past Saturday he was talking about the electrical fire on the plane which Mrs. Romney was flying and thank heaven everyone was okay, and he went on to say the problem with such a thing is that you have no place to go on a plane.  Well we knew that at Real Fox News.  But then he went on to say that “because you can’t open the windows for ouside oxygen and why haven’t they figured out how to do that.  And our answer would be because an open window or windows at 400-500 miles per hour would have some other logistical difficulties. Okay, we did say that Republican compassion is to compassion as Republican science is to science.  But really Mitt, power windows on a flying jet aircraft?  Seriously?

Honestly, It’s Good That Linda McMahon Is Running For Senate.

It’s good that Linda McMahon is running for senate.  It’s good for the people who were out almost a million dollars from the banks in 1975.  Of course, I’d be curious to know just what that computes in today’s dollars, in lost opportunity, etc.  But it’s good for them because she’s planning on paying it back.  It’s good for all the printers who get her business.  Many printers have benefited over the years from her in New Hampshire.  More recently it appears some in CT because they would not if she wasn’t running for senate.  And it’s good for the state of CT because she is now caught up in our taxes in the “luxury mansion.”  Good for her.  And to repeat, it is honestly good she is running for senate.  But of course if she were all that honest she wouldn’t have had to run for senate to pay back all those debts of those people who trusted her that she burnt; to pay the taxes she had due.  And maybe she’ll even get around retroactively to giving her former employees health care and benefits they never had.  In fact if we could keep Linda McMahon running for office and losing, we think she could do a lot of good.

SHANA TOVA!!!

 Real Fox News wishes all its readers and fans a Shana Tova, a happy and healthy sweet new year!

FRIDAY FAUXLOSOPHY

CONVENTIONAL FACT CHECKING

The fact checkers have spoken after both political conventions and there seems no doubt that the Democrats ideology has been framed by the facts and the Republican facts were framed by the ideology.

WORDS OF A FEATHER

We must apologize again for plagiarizing in advance, as we did yesterday to the great Stephen Colbert. In the USA Today published September 6, I had the following submission;

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/letters/story/2012-09-05/are-you-better-off-4-years/57616604/1

 Clobert closed last night saying “Mitt, you just keep demanding that Americans answer the question are you better off than you were 4 years ago. But just don’t answer it yourself, because that would mean releasiung more than 2 years of ur tax returns.

Conservatives want to be John Wayne

Hey, because conservatives aren’t all that bad, when it comes to the defending in this country, they all want to be John Wayne. You know, play a soldier but never for a minute actually be one.

Are you better off than...

“Are you better off than you were 4 years ago” is a question that Mitt Romney has every right to ask, and the Democrats are going to have to answer. That said, my problem with Mr. Romney is not his query but  his approach, as he constantly uses  the word “you” in describing economic challenges, and he never, but never uses the word “we”. And I can’t help but wonder if that is because he personally is much better off than he was 4 years ago. But the American people can’t get that answer because unlike every presidential candidate in recent memory, including his own father, McCain, Obama, Kerry, Bush, Clinton et al, he has not released a representative number of his own tax returns. It’s as if someone had regularly shouted down Vietnam War protesters and then avoided the draft himself. Oh wait, Mitt Romney did that too. Really Mr. Romney, your lack of candor is taxing our patience, because regarding Republican presidential candidates we are certainly not more informed than we were 4 years ago.

LYIN RYAN

Here is a quote. “Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world’s record for the greatest
number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. That was by Sally
Kohn and she works for an organization called Fox news. OMG when someone on the right lies too
much for Fox we at real Faux News need to point it out. And we have a new knick-name, it’s Lyin’ Ryan.

YOU DIDNT BUILD THAT

When Mitt Romney got the endorsement of Jenna Jamison, the world’s leading porn star, whose
exploits are legendary, and who certainly got the interest of her on screen male partners and viewers.
Wasn’t it fair to contradict Obama when you see the reaction of these men, and say to Mr. Obama, “You didn’t build that?”

Compassionate Conservatism - Round 2

Who could forget candidate George W. Bush’s phrase that he was a “compassionate conservative”, directly implying that an entire political philosophy need such a qualifier. Well, given past and current Republican attitudes towards the poor, ill, disadvantaged and women who could say that Mr. Bush was not prescient? Now Congressman Todd Akin comes along as the latest case in point, running as a Republican for Senate in Missouri and said “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down”.

An amazing attitude to be sure, but what’s more amazing is his current role in this conservative Republican House of Representatives, namely that he serves on their science committee. Which leads any thinking person to the inescapable conclusion that conservative compassion is to compassion as conservative science is to science.

What’s In A Name?

John Stewart made that very point when commenting on the LIBOR scandal by noting that the two lead protagonists were named Rich and Diamond, when Stewart said, “Are you kidding?” 

Well, we at Real Faux News have another entry for the "What’s In A Name" sweepstakes from the breaking news on the banking scandal at SCB.  It seems that they are accused of having made illegal trades involving the government of Iran and pocketing commissions of hundreds of millions of dollars in the bargain.  So why do “What’s In a Name?”  Because a New York bank regulator who has taken it upon himself to initiate the investigation is named Ben Lawsky.  So the greedy guys at LIBOR are named Diamond and Rich and the banking enforcer is named Lawsky!

So stay tuned because we’re waiting to find out if the guy behind the Republican Super Pacs is named Hiddenbucksman