My tweet importer thingy, which depends on the increasingly unreliable FriendFeed, has been up and down, but I just a series of posted tweets that I wanted to reproduce here. WARNING: Rant ahead. Contains some salty language. Proceed at your own risk. The tweets were inspired by this article, in which Glenn Beck reveals himself, once again, to be a… Read more »
Twitter: The overwhelming hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and total lack of compassion in the Beck argument is beyond repulsive. It’s almost evil.
Twitter: Are there some lazy unemployeds? Of course. But they’re so far from being the central issue that they aren’t even worth talking about.
Twitter: If u think the primary cause of long-term unemployment NOW, in worst job recession since WWII, is laziness, you’re an idiot or a bad person.
Twitter: This overreaction to liberal victimology is one of the most repulsive strains in American politics, and a key reason I remain left of center
Twitter: Some conservatives think EVERYTHING is fodder for a personal-responsibility culture war. Circumstances be damned; it’s always victims’ fault
Twitter: Glenn Beck On Long-Term Unemployed: ‘Ashamed To Call Them Americans’ http://huff.to/bBjsWz | I’m ashamed to call Glenn Beck an American.
Twitter: RT @julia_prior: CNN fail, typo caught on screen. I think a copy writer somewhere just got fired. http://bit.ly/bWeYZr
Twitter: .@wesrucker In fairness, SEC girls in late-summer outfits ARE a sight to behold, a big distraction, and a national treasure. cc @jayljohnson
Twitter: RT @wesrucker: Dooley said this morning’s “sloppy” practice might be partially blamed on the girls returning to UT’s campus for the fall semester.