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HYPOCRITE: THEY NAME IS PIYUSH
JUL 31 Here's an interesting piece by syndicated columnist Tina Dupuy about Bobby Jindal, that church that hates gay people and won't get a free mention in this column, and free religion/speech. As Dupuy correctly points out, people who say stuff everybody else agrees with don't need free speech protection, and popular religions don't need protection, either. You don't have freedom unless the most odious speech has it, and Jindal doesn't get to say he protects religious freedoms if he's only talking about one religion in particular.
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BOB MANN PERPLEXED BY VITTER'S MAILINGS
JUL 31 Blogger Bob Mann is now taking a look at the mailings coming out of David Vitter's office. Bob wants to know - and we do too - why a guy with almost $10 million in the war chest needs to spend our tax dollars to campaign for governor.
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IAN: THAT QUESTION SHOULDN'T BE RHETORICAL
JUL 31 Blogger Ian McGibboney reflects on the lives lost in last week's theater shooting, as well as on the question "What can you do?" That question does have an answer, he says.
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JUL 31 Bobby Jindal waited (almost) a whole week before toeing the NRA party line on guns. In this post on Talking Points, he's quoted as saying that people should be able to bring guns into movie theaters. You know what? You don't get to be the root and cause of the problem and pretend to be the victim and solution to it as well. Please stop talking.
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JUL 31 Here's one just for fun from the Red Shtick, our favorite mostly-satire-but-unfortunately-sometimes-it's-hard-to-tell online publication. It's a quiz that will test your knowledge about the candidates for governor.
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CLINTON MAN MAKES NATIONAL NEWS FOR HATE CRIME
JUL 31 This post on the Inquisitr site recounts a July 25 incident in Clinton (no surprise there) in which a man slapped a child and called him the n-word. Apparently this individual had a problem with the kid's dreadlocks, and pulled down his pants to see if he was a boy or a girl. It was all caught on video, and now (thank goodness) this lunatic is behind bars.
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JUL 31 The Advocate's politics blog does a post-mortem on Bobby Jindal's appearance this week on CBS This Morning. He spent a lot of time talking about how other candidates are saying crazy stuff, but they don't have the "bandwidth" to do the job of President. Hey, ho, if you don't have the "bandwith" to be governor of Louisiana, who you talking about? But listen, be sure to click on the link to watch the video, if you haven't seen it. That first shot of him looks c-razy. He should call the guy he hired to retrain his face (and get rid of the lopsided grin) and get his money back.
Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
Hypocrite, thy name is Piyush! Also today, an analysis of Bobby's creepy appearance on CBS and a funny from the Red Shtick.