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Asshole of the Day finds the public figures who are the biggest assholes each day
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Star Parker, Asshole of the Day for February 11, 2015

Ever since President Obama made the completely factually true statement at the National Prayer Breakfast that Christianity has been used in service of horrible violence and oppression, not just in Europe in the Middle Ages, but in America to support slavery and Jim Crow, the reaction from conservative Christians has been over the top ridiculous.

On Monday we called out Mike Huckabee for basically claiming Obama was a Muslim out to oppress Christians. But he was not the only one-- there was also Fox host Eric Bolling claiming that the number of killings "in name of religion" by non-Muslims stands at "zero." Yeah.

But then on Hannity the other night we had Star Parker go to a whole new place with her outrage:

The "Hannity" panel was discussing the President's address at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, in which he said Islam was not the only religion with a history of violence.
"I was in that room," conservative activist Star Parker told host Sean Hannity. "And it was frankly verbal rape."
"Wow," said co-panelist and Fox personality Gerlado Rivera, folding his hands and looking into camera. "Yikes. Yikes."
"Oh, yeah," Parker said. She continued, but Hannity was still catching his breath after her remark.
"That's a harsh term," Hannity said.
Parker looked straight at Hannity.
"Verbal rape is what it was," she said.

"Verbal rape"? How so? In that she was forced against her will to hear facts? Or that her islamophobia was challenged without warning or her prior consent? What definition of rape is she using?

Is she suggesting that we must now warn people and get their consent before challenging their bigotry? If that's the case, then we need to have new procedures for lots of situations, such as

  • Obama would’ve been required to warn and get permission of all racists before being allowed to assume the office of president and govern competently, rather than living up to their racist stereotypes.
  • Women will need to warn and get the consent of sexists in the workplace before they are allowed into roles of management.
  • Marco Rubio will need to warn and get the consent of racists before taking any job other than dishwashing or landscaping.

Because otherwise all those bigots and sexists might feel they too have  been "verbally raped". But none of that is true. This is nonsense. There is no “verbal rape” here. There is only her attempt to escalate her offended bigotry to something that sounds violent. I may have some patience for people using inflammatory words in an off-the-cuff reaction, but she’s been making the rounds, always saying “verbal rape”, so this is no accident.

So, for claiming that Obama's statement of facts amounts to "verbal rape", Star Parker is the Asshole of the Day.

It is Star Parker's first time as Asshole of the Day.

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Mike Huckabee, Asshole of the Day for February 9, 2015

Last week President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast and continued his assertion, stated often, that ISIS and other Islamic terrorists do not represent their entire religion, and that evil done in the name of Islam is no different than evil that has been done in the name of Christianity, not just throughout world history, but specifically American history with regards to slavery and Jim Crow. Here's what the president said:

Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

But apparently bringing up facts is unforgivable. And, while many conservatives responded with crazy talk, it's Mike Huckabee we're highlighting today, for his was particularly ugly and he is running for president. Here's Huckabee's response:

"Everything he does is against what Christians stand for, and he's against the Jews in Israel," he said on "Fox and Friends." "The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community. It doesn't matter whether it's the radical Muslim community or the more moderate Muslim community."

Huckabee makes two assertions, both objectionable. So let's take them in order:

#1 "Everything he does is against what Christians stand for."

So which one of these things that Christians stand for does Obama act against?

  • Helping the poor?
  • Treating others the way he would like to be treated?

Or is it that in Mike Huckabee's very narrow view of his own religion all that Christians stand for is persecuting gays and oppressing women?

Please recall that Obama is a professed Christian, and that during the 2008 election, members of Mike Huckabee's party tried to make it unacceptable that Obama attended the Christian church run by Rev. Wright. Ring a bell?

#2 "The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community."

Look, during his presidency Obama

  • Prioritized killing Bin Laden
  • Increased drone attacks against Islamic terrorists
  • Began bombing ISIS
  • Negotiated to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons

That doesn't sound like undying and unfailing support to me.

But Mike Huckabee doesn't care about that. He expects the president of a constitutionally secular country will unconditionally put Christians above all others, and by Christians, those who hold the narrow view of the faith that Mike Huckabee has.

And even more than that, Mike Huckabee knows that this line of attack plays to the portion of American racists who believe Obama to be a secret Muslim. And for that, Mike Huckabee is the Asshole of the Day.

It is Mike Huckabee's sixth time being named Asshole of the Day. Previous wins were for

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Michele Bachmann quit Congress, but not spouting nonsense

The way Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) sees it, President Barack Obama has been supporting Islamic jihad “at every turn.”
"And I have been very surprised, to answer your question, to see the President of the United States, at every turn, cut the legs off of our ally, Israel, and in fact embrace and lift up the agenda of Islamic jihad," Bachmann said during an interview on Washington Watch, hosted by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins.
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Bill Maher, Asshole of the Day for October 10, 2014

While I don’t share Bill Maher’s atheism, I certainly support his right to not follow Christianity and to keep America from becoming a theocracy, regardless of what Justice Scalia might think.

Maher said it’s ridiculous for President Obama to claim ISIS isn’t Islamic, because looking at the actual beliefs of ISIS and many Muslims around the world shows that much of Islam “has too much in common with ISIS.”
Maher tore into liberal ideas of multiculturalism and non-judgment when it comes to whether certain belief systems are better. Maher said of course “liberal Western culture” is better than horrid theocracies where people’s rights are threatened every single day.
Because for all the ways Maher and others might insult Christianity, none of them are receiving death threats in response.

I’d been looking for a way to point out the problem with what Maher said, and Fareed Zakaria explains it better than I could:

I know the arguments against speaking of Islam as violent and reactionary. It has a following of 1.6 billion people. Places such as Indonesia and India have hundreds of millions of Muslims who don’t fit these caricatures. That’s why Maher and Harris are guilty of gross generalizations. But let’s be honest. Islam has a problem today. The places that have trouble accommodating themselves to the modern world are disproportionately Muslim.
…There is a cancer of extremism within Islam today. A small minority of Muslims celebrates violence and intolerance and harbors deeply reactionary attitudes toward women and minorities. While some confront these extremists, not enough do so, and the protests are not loud enough. How many mass rallies have been held against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in the Arab world today?
The caveat, “Islam today,” is important. The central problem with Maher’s and Harris’s analyses are that they take a reality — extremism in Islam — and describe it in ways that suggest it is inherent in Islam. Maher says Islam is “the only religion that acts like the Mafia, that will [expletive] kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or write the wrong book.” He’s right about the viciousness but wrong to link it to “Islam” — instead of “some Muslims.”

It wrong for Maher to blame the entire religion for some extremists, even if it’s say a sizable, outspoken number who make the news for their violent intolerance. There are so many peaceful Muslims in the world, and it’s wrong to smear them and their religion for it. Just as it would be wrong to think that Christianity is as intolerant and sexist and homophobic as people like Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee are.

So, for blaming an entire religion of over a billion people for the actions and intolerance of a small portion, Bill Maher is Asshole of the Day.

It is Bill Maher’s first time as Asshole of the Day.

Full story: Washington Post and Mediaite.

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Louie Gohmert, Asshole of the Day for August 21, 2014

Case in point: Looney Tunes Tea Party Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert. Best known for being a moronic hatemonger willing to smear anyone who happens to be Muslim, Gohmert was at it again yesterday, telling listeners to SirisXM's "The Wilkow Majority" that Obama won't be able to protect America from the threat posed by ISIS because: "If you're Commander-in-Chief you can't be listening to Muslim brother advise on when it's time to stop destroying Muslim brothers."

This on the same day that, as Think Progress, reports:

President Obama expressed outrage over the slaying of reporter James Foley at the hands of ISIS , saying the group “speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents. No just God would stand for what they did yesterday, and for what they do every single day.” The president also vowed to continue the American policy of conducting airstrikes against the organization. “The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people,” Obama said. “We will be vigilant and we will be relentless.”

This is the same Louie Gohmert who previously claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood was guiding the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings. It's his fifth time as Asshole of the Day.

Full story: Think Progress.

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

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

D’Souza: With Obama you get this idea that his real enemies, from his point of view, it’s not Putin and it’s not Islamic radicals, it’s us. He’s waging a kind of war, a political war if you will, using the instruments of the state against conservatives and he’s good at that war and he’s fighting it aggressively. I don’t believe in this idea that Obama’s an amateur, he’s a bungler; no he’s very effective at what he wants to do. 
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/d-souza-obama-waging-war-conservatives-instead-islamic-radicals

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:

Number of Conservatives jailed, kidnapped, tortured or killed by Obama: 0
Number of Al Qaeda leaders jailed, kidnapped, tortured or killed by Obama: 22
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Is Rush Limbaugh Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is Rush Limbaugh asshole of the day for saying Jan Brewer is "being bullied by corporate America to advance the gay agenda"?

Limbaugh on Tuesday told his listeners that the media’s “soap storyline of the hour” is whether or not Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will veto SB 1062, which the state’s legislature passed last week.
“Religious beliefs can’t be used to stop anything the left wants to impose, unless they’re Muslim religious beliefs and then we have to honor those. But any other religious beliefs are not permitted,” Limbaugh said. “The left will not allow them. Now, the current thinking is that Gov. Brewer will probably veto the bill, which, you might think on the face of it will make her a hero with the news media and the rest of the left.”
Sure, it might make her a hero, he said — “for five minutes.” And then she’ll go back to being a “near criminal conservative Republican,” Limbaugh continued, because “their reaction will be, what took her so long? Why did she even consider not vetoing this?”
“She’s being bullied by the homosexual lobby in Arizona and elsewhere,” he said. “She’s being bullied by the nationwide drive-by media, she’s being bullied by certain elements of corporate America in order to advance the gay agenda. I guess in that circumstance bullying is admirable. In fact, this kind of bullying is honorable.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/rush-limbaugh-jan-brewer-veto-103925.html

Let's just skip by the bullying accusation, because really it's just tiresome for Rush Limbaugh to accuse someone else of bullying. That's just rich.

But he makes two other claims that are both ridiculous:

  1. Advancing the gay agenda. The only agenda here is that gays get the same treatment and protection under the law that everyone else does. There's nothing sinister about that.
  2. The left favors Muslim religious beliefs at the expense of Christians. This bill is about letting Christians discriminate against gays under the guise of religion. Muslims are not accorded anything comparable. And more than this, the Arizona law is so broad that Muslims could discriminate against nonbelievers such as Christians, which "the left" also opposes here.

I'd say the facts don't support Rush here, but he's never cared about facts.

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Scott DesJarlais, Asshole of the Day for February 4, 2014

When people bring up religious freedom these days, it's often perverted to mean "freedom to celebrate religions I find acceptable", sometimes stretched to claim the Founding Fathers only intended their religion under religious freedom. But despite his many other faults, at least Rep. Scott DesJarlais understands it correctly-- it's allowing religions to practice without interference or sanction from the state.

But, since he's a xenophobic bigot, Rep. DesJarlais doesn't like religious freedom. In fact he BLAMES religious freedom laws for allowing a mosque to build a cemetery:

While members of the mosque celebrated the decision, DesJarlais believes that the BZA’s approval could have been withheld if only the state legislature had not passed a law protecting religious freedom. “Unfortunately the Tennessee Religious Freedom Act, passed by the TN General Assembly, may have played a key role in allowing this cemetery to be approved,” the two-term representative wrote. “There is a difference between legislation that would protect our religious freedoms and legislation that would allow for the circumvention of laws that other organizations comply with on a daily basis.”

"Unfortunately" a mosque was allowed to have a cemetery. Unfortunately. Wow.

Let's see if we understand what he means here:

It's unfortunate that Christians have to live in an area where Muslims are allowed to exist.
It's unfortunate that Christians have to live in an area where Muslims are allowed to bury their dead.
How DARE those OTHER religions want to bury their dead too. The nerve!

So, for being such a bigot that he thinks true religious freedom is a bad thing, Scott DesJarlais is the Asshole of the Day.

It is Scott DesJarlais' second time being named Asshole of the Day. His previous win was for telling an 11-year-old girl to her face that her father should be deported, even though she is a citizen herself.

And if his name sounds familiar, remember that in 2012 it came out that, despite being a pro-life Republican, he had been caught pressuring the women he slept with outside of his marriage to have abortions.

Full story: http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/01/30/3225551/desjarlais-mosque-cemetery/

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Is Scott DesJarlais Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is Rep. Scott DesJarlais asshole of the day for complaining that religious freedom allowed a mosque to build a cemetery?

While members of the mosque celebrated the decision, DesJarlais believes that the BZA’s approval could have been withheld if only the state legislature had not passed a law protecting religious freedom. “Unfortunately the Tennessee Religious Freedom Act, passed by the TN General Assembly, may have played a key role in allowing this cemetery to be approved,” the two-term representative wrote. “There is a difference between legislation that would protect our religious freedoms and legislation that would allow for the circumvention of laws that other organizations comply with on a daily basis.”
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/01/30/3225551/desjarlais-mosque-cemetery/

"Unfortunately" a mosque was allowed to have a cemetery. You see, it's unfortunate according to this asshole.

Let's see if I can paraphrase what he's really saying:

It's unfortunate we don't live in an America where only Christians are allowed to have cemeteries. I mean, how DARE those OTHER religions want to bury their dead too. The nerve!

And just in case you doubt how racist this guy is, remember that he tells 11-year-old girls to their face that their father should be deported, even though she is a citizen herself. Or what a monster he is in general when he claims to be pro-life in public but pressures the women he's sleeping with outside of his marriage to have abortions.

Photo source: http://desjarlais.house.gov/about

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Is Paul Broun Asshole of the Day?

Is Rep. Paul Broun asshole of the day for complaining that a "middle eastern man" wasn't harassed by the TSA?

"You go through TSA. Does anybody not go through airports? Hold up your hand if you don't because I don't want to embarrass anyone but we're patting down grandma and little children," Broun said Wednesday. The remarks were flagged by Buzzfeed on Friday
"Let me tell y'all a story. I went through the screening of an airport not too long ago and right in front of me there was an elderly lady," Boun continued. "TSA pulled her off to the side and patted her down. And then right behind her was a little kid and he got pulled to the side. I went through and right behind me was somebody dressed in eastern dress —man, single guy, traveling by himself. That's typically [described] as middle eastern and he went right through."
In the clip Broun did not explain why he thought this happened or if it was a coincidence. 
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-rep-surprised-middle-eastern-man-not-patted-down-by-airport-security

Sorry, Rep. Broun, but random checks don't mean ALL people who might be Muslim. That's not what random means. And no, we're not screening everyone who might be Muslim because racist assholes like you think they are all terrorists.

UPDATE: Rep. Paul Broun, while a racist asshole, lost to Tom Perkins for Asshole of the Day. Tom Perkins claimed that protests of the 1% are JUST LIKE the Nazis persecuting the Jews.

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

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Is Victoria Jackson Asshole of the Day?

Is Victoria Jackson asshole of the day for wanting to change the 1st Amendment to ban Islam?

Victoria Jackson believes many mosques are terrorist training camps. She named the one in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
When I asked Victoria Jackson if she believes in freedom of religion, she said, “I believe in freedom of religion except for those religions that want to kill other religions.”  Jackson believes “all they want is an Islamic state and if they can’t do it peacefully they’ll find other means. When asked if she’d change the First Amendment she said, I’d make an amendment to the First Amendment.”
http://www.alan.com/2014/01/24/victoria-jackson-wants-to-throw-muslims-out-of-the-united-states/

I suppose we should just be grateful that this racist realizes she'll have to amend the Constitution to get rid of Muslims-- that the Founding Fathers said Muslims have the same rights Christian racists like her have.

Photo source: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/07/24/how-victoria-jackson-went-snl-cast-member-tea-party-member

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Is Erik Rush Asshole of the Day?

Is Erik Rush asshole of the day for saying Obama is “a foreign-backed, Marxist operative and Islamist whose objectives include the effective destruction of America”?

When are we going to stop pretending that the individual representing himself as Barack Hussein Obama and currently holding the office of president of the United States is anything other than a foreign-backed, Marxist operative and Islamist whose objectives include the effective destruction of America as we know it?
http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/stop-pretending-obama-is-our-president/

And of course he backs it up with a bunch of questions but proof of nothing. That’s the formula for guys like him— ask a bunch of leading, scary questions, but never listen for the answers and keep on asking.

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Is Bryan Fischer Asshole of the Day (again)?

Is Bryan Fischer asshole of the day for saying states can outlaw Islam and ban mosques?

Though the claims turned out to be false, Fischer said on his radio program yesterday that under the Constitution as it was originally written, individual states have the freedom and power to declare Islam to be illegal and prohibit Muslims from practicing it or building mosques.

"Angola has made Islam illegal in the country," Fischer said, "and they are dismantling mosques. Mosques are illegal and they are dismantling the mosques that already exist; they're taking them down ... And you ask yourself the question, well, can we do that here? Could we do that in the United States? Could we make Islam illegal, could we prohibit the building of mosques, and the answer is yes!"

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-constitution-give-states-right-outlaw-islam

According to Bryan Fischer the states have the right to outlaw religions they don't like, but I'm sure he'd disagree if a state wanted to ban his particularly hateful brand of Christianity and put liberal Methodists in charge.

Photo source: http://www.afa.net/detail.aspx?id=2147486648

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Is Chris Plante Asshole of the Day?

Is Chris Plante asshole of the day for saying Obama wouldn't have scratched out "under Allah" in the Gettysburg Address?

Conservative media outlets were forced to issue embarrassing corrections Tuesday after running with the false accusation that President Obama excised the phrase "under God" when reciting the Gettysburg Address for a project organized by filmmaker Ken Burns. Burns has said that he asked Obama to read an early draft of the address, a draft that did not contain the phrase "under God."
Chris Plante, who hosts a morning radio show on Washington, D.C.-based WMAL, actually acknowledged at one point during his November 19 broadcast that an early version of the Gettysburg Address did not contain that phrase. But he still accused the president of plotting to "scratch out the phrase," after emphasizing that Obama was "the first black president." Plante then speculated that Obama would not have scratched out the phrase "under Allah" if it had been in the Gettysburg Address
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/20/fox-regular-asked-if-obama-would-have-omitted-a/196990

No end to the imaginary accusations and slurs people can hypothesize when their hate and bigotry is so strong, now is there?

Photo source: http://mediamatters.org/tags/chris-plante

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Is Larry Klayman Asshole of the Day?

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Is Larry Klayman asshole of the day for calling Obama "Mullah In Chief"?

“If wise, the Mullah in Chief ultimately will retire to his favorite golf course in Tehran and the half-sober House speaker to his tanning salon in Georgetown,” Klayman writes.
Once the president and top congressional leaders have been sent packing, Klayman writes, a group of right-wing activists will meet in a few weeks at Philadelphia’s City Tavern, where the first Continental Congress convened, to plan a new government.
“There, delegates of the tea party and other patriots from all 50 states will deliberate, plan for the rest of the revolution and elect a government in waiting, ethically and competently poised to take over the reigns (sic) of a real government responsive to the people,” Klayman said.
Klayman says Obama has been convicted in absentia by a people’s court in Florida of defrauding voters by using a false birth certificate to prove his eligibility to run for president and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/18/tea-party-activist-says-his-rally-will-send-obama-to-iran-and-usher-in-new-right-wing-government/

This ridiculous rally to overthrow Obama is happening today, and you can expect tomorrow that nutjobs will be complaining the mainstream media didn't cover it. The madness never ends for some people.

Photo source: http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/klayman

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Is Frank Gaffney Asshole of the Day?

Is Frank Gaffney asshole of the day for claiming Grover Norquist is running a "Muslim Brotherhood front out of his office"?

“[Norquist] is the guy responsible for a lot of the Muslim Brotherhood stuff that goes on in the White House, isn’t he?” Beck asked….
“Glenn, I think most people who know Grover only as a prominent anti-tax guy in the conservative movement would find that statement unbelievable, and to be honest with you I would’ve, but for the fact that I saw it first-hand as a result of sharing office space for what I think of seven biblically long years with Grover Norquist,” Gaffney remarked. “I sawterrorists in his office space. I had colleagues come to me and say, ‘You know there’s a Muslim Brotherhood front operating out of his office suite?’”
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_10/grover_the_terroristlover047460.php
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Is Larry Klayman Asshole of the Day?

Is Larry Klayman asshole of the day for repeating his "Obama bows down to Allah" nonsense?

Klayman, a conservative legal activist, called on the crowd to “wage a second American nonviolent revolution” and “demand that this president leave town.” He also said the United States is “ruled by a president who bows down to Allah.” “I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Koran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up,” Klayman said at the “Million Vet March on the Memorials.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/larry-klayman-wwii-memorial-president-obama-98459.html
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