Donald Trump, Asshole of the Day for September 12, 2014

by TheDailyEdge (Follow @TheDailyEdge)

In some ways, Donald Trump is like any other racist moron who still can’t accept that America has a black President. In others, he’s just like an average Fox News viewer--an uninformed dolt who refuses to give Obama any credit for turning the economy around following the Bush crash and the worst financial crisis in 80 years. But unlike your average dumb racist, Donald Trump also plays the role of “successful businessman” in an elaborate con game he’s been working on the less-educated members of the populace for years. His idiocy goes unchallenged when he appears on the fact-free morning show Fox & Friends. And many of his 2.7M Twitter followers seem to be under the illusion that he: a) may still decide to run for President; and b) would be good at it. More than anything else, Trump is a proud and opportunistic asshole. So when news outlets reported that a Trump-owned golf course had denied President Obama a tee time over Labor Day weekend so as not to inconvenience its members, Trump seized the opportunity to milk the story and, yes, be an even bigger—and more disrespectful—asshole than his club manager had already been. He tweeted:

Needless to say, both the “lamestream media” and the RWNJ birthersphere took the bait. Too few, though, have pointed out the fallacy at the center of his offer. Obama leaving office would not be “a great service to the country.” Calling Obama an economic failure, which Trump frequently does, is something only a moron who told Americans not to buy stocks after the crash in 2008 —right before the greatest five-year accumulation of wealth in America history was about to begin—would do. In fact, Forbes recently crunched the data, and declared that Obama has outperformed even St. Ronald Reagan in terms of jobs, growth and investing.

For saying he'd offer up one of his golf courses as an incentive for a President he's lied about and insulted for almost six years to quit his job, Trump is Asshole of the Day.

This is Trump’s sixth time as Asshole of the Day. 

President Barack Obama, Asshole of the Day for August 14, 2014

by GirlGetALife (Follow @GirlGetALife)

The images coming out of Ferguson, MO are surreal: police firing smoke bombs, tear gas and rubber pellets at mostly peaceful protesters. Officers pointing guns at unarmed marchers. Journalists being manhandled and arrested for simply doing their jobs. It's as if this country has traveled back in time to 1965.

The unrest in Ferguson began when Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year old African American male, was shot and killed by police. Brown's murder is 1 of 4 such shootings that have happened in the U.S. in the last month.

Local residents, confused and angry, gathered to protest the shooting and the Ferguson police department's decision not to release the name of the officer who killed Brown. Tensions were high and a mostly peaceful protest turned violent.

President Obama addressed the situation in Ferguson today, and instead of using this as an opportunity to address racial tension and police brutality in America, he fell flat. Sure, he said all the right things about Brown's death being a loss and expressed sympathy for his family. But, when his remarks turned to the violence in Ferguson, he chose to condemn looting and other disruptive acts by a few residents before he addressed the inexcusable use of police force against the protesters:

There are no gray areas here: the police brutality we're seeing in Ferguson is unacceptable. The U.S. fancies itself an international beacon of democracy and justice and equality, but our president chose to condemn the destruction of property before he denounced the abuse of police power and the blatant violation of the protesters First Amendment rights.

The ordering of Obama's statement is disturbing. Not because he's black, but because he's human. And because he's our president. He had an opportunity to move this country forward, if only a little bit, by speaking frankly about what's going on in Ferguson. But he chose to maintain the status quo, giving property a higher value than human rights and human lives.

The President's remarks had their feel good moments and he, of course, tried to promote healing:

But here's the thing: this isn't a time for healing. It's a time for real talk. Racial tensions in this country are at a new high - partly because the president is black and some people can't deal with that reality - and Obama had the chance to address them. He chose to tip toe around the issue.

Obama spoke eloquently - and called for action - after the Sandy Hook shootings and around issues of gay marriage. But on this issue he was detached.

Calling Obama out in this way may seem unfair, especially when Laura Ingraham suggested Brown's murder isn't worthy of a national spotlight. And because Rep. Steve King coined a new racist term when he said the Ferguson protesters are of a 'single continental origin' (code for black).

But it's easy to call out the obvious idiots, the racists who say things that make us cringe. It's a lot harder - and riskier - to single out the do nothings. But that's what Obama is. He's the one guy who has the platform to openly address issues of racial profiling and police brutality but today he said very little. That's why he's Asshole of the Day.

It is President Obama's first time as Asshole of the Day.

Full story: Washington Post

Steve King, Asshole of the Day for July 24, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

After 6 years almost no one is willing to go "full birther" any more. No one except Donald Trump maybe. You can't come right out and say Obama wasn't born in America without people tuning you out, and everyone knows that. Even the people who deep down hate him and feel he is foreign know it.

Rep. Steve King, the xenophobic congressman famous for suggesting that most immigrants are drug mules with cantaloupe-sized calves, starts a speech saying he won't assert where Obama was born. He's not a birther, you see. But then he plays to his crowd's racism by suggesting Obama is foreign:

Now there's a dog-whistle-- "not raised with an American experience".

It's true that Obama didn't live his entire life in America, but he only lived overseas for 3 years as a child. Other than that he lived here, among Americans. His mother was an American. The grandparents he lived with were American.

Of course Rep. King doesn't even explain what American experience it is that Obama doesn't have, because he doesn't have to-- he knows that his crowd will know what he means.

We're all familiar with the "I'm not racist, but…" statements, and how they are all pretty much racist. Once you start putting people in groups and making them all the same in your head, you're in racist territory. It's like these people think that racism is only lynchings and Jim Crow laws, and not the wider array of discrimination that happens in life. And what is Rep. King doing if not saying "I'm not a birther, but…"? So when he starts claiming Obama doesn't have an American experience, it's obvious what he means. And for that, he is Asshole of the Day.

It is Steve King’s first time as Asshole of the Day.

Full story: Buzzfeed

Dick Cheney, Asshole of the Day for July 17, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

Impeachment has been a hot topic among Republicans and Tea Partiers ever since Sarah Palin said "It's time to impeach" last week.

But not everyone agrees. John Boehner thinks his little bullshit lawsuit is the right course of action, even though he is ridiculously suing the president for delaying the employer mandate, which House Republicans both hate and even voted to delay for one year themselves.

And then yesterday Dick Cheney spoke up against impeachment, calling it a distraction:

"Worst President of my lifetime." There have been 13 presidents in Dick Cheney's lifetime:

So Cheney is saying that he thinks Obama is worse than Nixon AND George W. Bush. Of course he worked in both Nixon and Bush's administration, so I guess in his warped view of the world, he thinks they did a good job.

Look, if you're going to say Obama is a worse president than Nixon and George W. Bush, you need to assert how something he has done or hasn't done is worse than:

But Dick Cheney has no examples that are worse than those things. None. Because there aren't any. And for that, he is Asshole of the Day.

It is Dick Cheney's fourth time as Asshole of the Day. His previous wins were for

Full story: Talking Points Memo

Is President Obama Asshole of the Day?

Mike Nealon sent me this on Facebook, and since we gave Rick Perry Asshole of the Day for not shaking hands, we thought it was worth asking:

Of course there was more to the Perry story than just not shaking hands— he also claimed that Obama was “in on it somehow”, meaning that Obama had conspired to create this crisis of Central American immigrants.

So is President Obama asshole of the day? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Photo source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama

Asshole of the Day for June 2, 2014: Sarah Palin

by TheDailyEdge (Follow @TheDailyEdge)

Just days before deserting her post as Governor of Alaska in 2009, Texans for Sarah Palin reported the following:

This news release has since been scrubbed from the Alaska Governor's website (h/t to @clydetheslyde for bringing it to our attention.) . Today, of course, Palin was singing a different tune, with one of her standard anti-Obama Facebook rants in which she accuses the President who killed bin Laden of helping bin Laden and slams him for calling Bowe Bergdahl's service "honorable.". 

For being awful, inconsistent, hypocritical, nonsensical, but predictably opportunistic about the release of a US soldier held captive for almost five years, half-Governor Palin is, for the seventh time, Asshole of the Day.

Previous wins were for:

Full story: http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/02/sarah-palin.html

Robert Copeland, Asshole of the Day for May 16, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

It's 2014, but apparently there are still people who think it's OK to use the N-word. And not just some mouth-breathing racist on Twitter upset that there's a holiday for Martin Luther King. Nope, apparently a police chief in New Hampshire thinks it's OK for him to say it:

He didn't even try to code it by using "thug" like some people do. Just right out with it. The president is a N*****. That's what he says.

And he knows it's wrong, because he emails and says "n-word", not actually using the word. But he doesn't apologize. He claims President Obama "meets and exceeds my criteria". Oh, so this idiot has criteria for using the n-word! It's not just a racist knee-jerk reaction to a black man in authority!

So, for calling the President of the United States the N-word and standing by it, Robert Copeland is the Asshole of the Day.

It is Robert Copeland's first time as Asshole of the Day, but hardly the first racist to be named.

Full story: Talking Points Memo

UPDATE: Commissioner Copeland resigns!

Is Mike Huckabee Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is Mike Huckabee asshole of the day for saying Obama is lying about being a Christian?

Actually it's not clear what Huckabee is accusing Obama of lying about-- being a Christian or supporting gay marriage.

But in any event, Huckabee is trying to gotcha Obama. You know, that thing Sarah Palin hates so much. He's trying to say Obama supported Huckabee's position then, so Obama is either lying or a flip-flopper, as though flip-flopping were the worst thing ever.

Except there's a few problems with what Huckabee is doing.

1. Flip-flopping may have been fatal to Kerry in 2004, but that was before Bush became the most hated and least respected president since Nixon. You see, Bush made a virtue out of never changing his mind. Except he turned out to be wrong a lot, and stuck with his wrongness way past the point of reason. So trying to tag someone as a flip-flopper isn't what it used to be.

2. People can change their mind. Outside of the base of homophobes that Huckabee is trying to play to, the majority of Americans support gay marriage and changed their mind just as President Obama did. And those people don't feel like flip-floppers or liars for supporting same-sex marriage now having possibly voted against it in 2004 or 2008. No, they feel like they've done the right thing after their eyes were open. 

3. Obama was for civil unions, but not for marriage. It was about the word marriage, not about conferring rights to gay couples in committed relationships. And since 2008 people have learned that civil unions have many less rights than marriage, and that matters. We want gays to have the same rights as all other adults do. 

It's inaccurate for Huckabee to act like his position and Obama's in 2008 was the same on this issue. Huckabee actively campaigned against gay marriage. Huckabee did not, to my knowledge, ever support civil unions for gay couples. Obama supported civil unions and while he said he was against gay marriage, he didn't campaign on it or in any way push for Prop 8.

Photo source: Gage Skidmore via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_Huckabee_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg

Is Sam Clovis Asshole of the Day?

Is Senate candidate Sam Clovis asshole of the day for saying if Obama were white, he'd have been impeached by now?

There's no grounds for impeaching Obama either, but why should that matter. The reason Obama hasn't been impeached is because the House GOP is so worried about looking like racists. Mmhmm.

Photo source: http://iowans4samclovis.com/about-sam/

The Brendan Eich controversy is really getting out of hand. People keep trying to post this on my wall, and it's a distortion leaving out some key points. Aside from the one I made in the image about how Obama's position has been consistent with the majority of Americans, and certainly of the party he leads, Eich's position is now out of step, and most importantly, he hasn't changed his mind. He still wants to deny gays the full rights every straight adult enjoys.

Here's some more from Saturday's post where we named Glenn Beck Asshole of the Day for his comparison of gay activists to terrorists, based on the Eich being forced from his job.

The important part is Eich's values were out of step with the organization that he became the public face of, and he wasn't willing to change his position or even shut up about it. But that's not the narrative you'll hear on Fox News.

Is David Ortiz Asshole of the Day?

Is David Ortiz asshole of the day for involving the president in a Samsung promotion stunt?

Ortiz tweeted the photo above with Obama:

But it turns out this wasn't some spontaneous selfie:

Look, it's fine for a player to ask for a shot with the President. It's not cool to be doing so at your sponsor's behest for their marketing purposes.

The President should not be part of anyone's marketing.

Scott Lively, Asshole of the Day for April 1, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

Scott Lively is running for governor in Massachusetts, and if he has his way, there'd probably be a law every bit as repressive towards gays as the one in Uganda because it turns out he helped to get that law passed.

When discussing the legislation, Lively had this to say about Obama and his opposition to that law:

Obama is gay. Maybe. Or at least "100% invested in the homosexual agenda". Sounds bad.

Of course the "homosexual agenda" which Lively thinks is so sinister amounts to being treated the same as everyone else-- having the same rights and responsibilities, paying the same taxes, filing the same paperwork and the lot. There are no special privileges being asked for.

But Scott Lively equates equality for gays with a loss of privilege for bigots like him, and for that, as well as his calling Obama a possible homosexual, he is the Asshole of the Day.

It is Scott Lively's first time as Asshole of the Day.

Full story: Joe My God and Channel 4 News

Is Donald Trump Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is Donald Trump asshole of the day for saying Obama "put a big target on Manhattan"?

Really, Donald? So you're saying that prior to the president's statement, no one had ever targeted Manhattan before? Except for 9/11. And 1993. And every time the UN is in session. And the Times Square guy. But now that Obama made that statement, now they'll target Manhattan for sure.

Donald Trump isn't just a hateful bigot, he's also a colossal idiot.

Photo source: http://www.nbc.com/node/42546/bio/41511

Is Mitt Romney Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is Mitt Romney asshole of the day for blaming Obama and Hillary Clinton for not being able to see the future in Crimea?

I love when guys like Mitt Romney attribute magical powers to leadership ability. Or suggest that Obama and Hillary could have prevented all this or dealt with it better but then go on to suggest absolutely no different course of action than what was done except for magical leadership. First it was Lindsey Graham blaming "weak leadership", then Sarah Palin blamed Obama's "mom jeans", and then Mitt himself pulled this crap last week by blaming Obama without offering even one thing he'd have done differently, but that time without the magic future reading power.

Perhaps this magical leadership ability to read the future only comes with magical underwear.

Photo source: http://www.mittromney.com/

Is Dinesh D'Souza Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is Dinesh D'Souza asshole of the day for saying Obama is waging war on conservatives instead of Al Qaeda and Putin?

Sorry, Mr. D'Souza, but there is no war on conservatives, despite your self-martyrdom and whining. And all you have to do is check the scoreboard:

Photo source: https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/

Sarah Palin, Asshole of the Day for March 4, 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

Does weak leadership invite aggression? Can it be proven? That is the the obsession with the chattering classes since Friday, that somehow Obama's leadership style of not invading countries for no reason and using diplomacy invites other countries to get out of line.

But of course there's a problem in claiming this in all situations-- sometimes events have nothing to do with us. It's true. So it's fair to ask of anyone who claims that Putin invaded the Ukraine because of Obama's alleged "weak leadership" if Russia or Putin was likely to act any other way than they did to a situation on their border, where they still have naval ships, and there's still a sizable Russian leaning population.

That question clearly isn't one Sarah Palin is interested in:

Mom jeans? Sorry, governor, but you don't get to claim that "mom jeans" on the President allowed Putin to invade the Ukraine when the standard bearer for your party a year ago, Mitt Romney, was ridiculed for a month for wearing mom jeans, and by Fox News no less.

Of course it's pretty obvious what Palin thinks a good leader is and does:

So, for accusing the President of what the leader of her own party wore in 2012, and for suggesting there is nothing more to international relations than acting tough, especially with a nuclear power, Sarah Palin is the Asshole of the Day.

It is Sarah Palin's fourth time being named Asshole of the Day. Previous win were for

And that doesn't even include when she appropriated MLK Day to accuse President Obama of playing the race card.

Full story: Talking Points Memo

Dick Cheney, Asshole of the Day for February 26, 2014

By The Daily Edge 

You know he's a Dick. But as he can't help reminding us, he's also an Asshole. 

In an interview on Monday with Fox News, Cheney said that President Obama would: "much rather spend money on Food Stamps than on a strong military or support for our troops."

Cheney was slammed immediately for ignoring the fact that many of our current troops rely on Food Stamps--$100 million-worth were used at military grocery stores in 2013 alone. Not to mention the fact that 900,000 veterans nationwide--many of whom served in the unnecessary Iraq War that Cheney himself lied us into--rely on the SNAP program to feed themselves and their families.

But it took Major General Paul D. Eaton--who commanded troops during Operation Iraqi Freedom--to really remind us what a despicable piece of work Cheney is to this day: "Vice President Cheney is one of the architects of the worst foreign policy disaster of the 21st century," Eaton said. "We're young, but the decision to attack Iraq, and to do so in such an incompetent manner, does not give him a platform to say anything about the foreign policy under execution today."

In other words, it's Chickenhawk Cheney's own record--putting our troops in harm's way in an ill-planned war that had no legitimate justification--that shows the ultimate lack of respect. So even if the point Cheney was making was valid--which it wasn't--he should have enough respect for our current, Iraq-War-ending, Bin-Laden-killing President to keep his mouth shut.

Asshole.

Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/paul-eaton-dick-cheney_n_4859068.html?utm_hp_ref=politics