It's the return of Crappy Hour! Today, the Washington Independent's Spencer "Attackerman" Ackerman rejoins me with an analysis of the situations in Iran, North Korea, and Afghanistan... plus a primer on why I should sleep with Jewish men.

Iran's Supreme Leader: Sit Down And Shut Up

Megan Carpentier

6/19/09 10:00am

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has decided the best way to lead the country while thousands of people are protesting the fraudulent elections is to tell them to shut up, accept the results or risk a violent crackdown. [MSNBC]

Mildly-Hurt Madame Hillary Wants Obama To Get Harsher On Iran

Megan Carpentier

6/18/09 10:00am

Hillary Clinton (and Joe Biden) wants President Obama to talk tough on Iran, sympathetic on the opposition. The Secretary of State is also currently recuperating from a fractured elbow, which will require surgery in a few weeks. [Plum Line, CNN]

Obama Administration Will Afford Only Some Rights To Gay Americans

Megan Carpentier

6/17/09 10:00am

In the wake of the Obama Administration brief in which same sex marriage was compared to incest, its offer to extend some federal benefits to domestic partners seems like a sop, especially without full health insurance benefits. [Huffington Post]

Letterman Apologizes, Palin Accepts, Iranians Continue To Protest Real Stuff

Megan Carpentier

6/16/09 10:00am

Following a call from his mom, Dorothy, that she was siding with Sarah Palin, David Letterman made a heartfelt and un-joking apology for his joke last week. Palin accepted, reiterating they both have the right to free speech. [Associated Press]

Iranians Continue To Protest Election, American Pols Continue To Bloviate

Megan Carpentier

6/15/09 10:00am

Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has told supposedly-defeated candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi to pursue his complaints about election irregularities "calmly," while Iranians continued to march in the streets, more leaders declared the elections invalid and forces continued arresting people. [NY Times]

Palins, David Letterman Continue To Take (Sometimes Cheap) Shots

Megan Carpentier

6/11/09 10:00am

Yesterday, Sarah and Todd Palin got incensed about another David Letterman joke in which he suggested A-Rod impregnated her daughter at a Yankees game. (The daughter in attendance was 14-year-old Willow.) Gross. [Politico, LA Times]

Sarah Palin Thinks Letterman's Jokes About Her Looks Are Pathetic

Megan Carpentier

6/10/09 10:00am

Sarah Palin didn't like David Letterman's crack Monday night about her "slutty flight attendant look" (neither did we); she calls it "pretty pathetic." If her make-up is the only thing he can find to mock, we agree. [Politico]

Republicans Decide Sarah Palin Best Seen, Not Heard

Megan Carpentier

6/09/09 10:00am

Last night, Sarah Palin ended up stopping by a Republican fundraiser that she was scheduled to headline, dropped out of and tried to get back into when her 2012 rival, Newt Gingrich, took her slot. [Washington Post]

Stephen Colbert Takes One For The Team, Victory In Iraq

Megan Carpentier

6/08/09 10:00am

Stephen Colbert taped his first show from Baghdad yesterday, allowing General Ray Odierno to shave his head, declaring victory and not watering his act down in some insincere effort at sincerity. [NY Times]

Obama Will Visit Concentration Camp, Draw No Parallels To American Behavior

Megan Carpentier

6/05/09 10:00am

Barack Obama, after his meeting with Angela Merkel, will visit the ruins of the Buchenwald concentration camp. He will likely not compare our re-purposing of Abu Ghraib to the Russian's post-war re-purposing of Buchenwald for political prisoners. [UPI, Huffington Post]

Obama Can See America From Cairo

Megan Carpentier

6/04/09 10:00am

Barack Obama gave his long-awaited speech in Egypt this morning, giving a thumbs-up to democracy, a thumbs-down to new Israeli settlements and some recognition to the fact that America fucks up some times. [NY Times]

Rick Santorum Knows What African-American Women Really Need

Megan Carpentier

6/03/09 10:00am

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum suggests that Barack Obama, as an example to "African-American males," not take Michelle out on any more fancy dates, but just head to a local bar, throw back a beer, and head home. [Salon]

Dick Cheney Sez: "Don't Worry, Be Happy"

Megan Carpentier

6/02/09 10:00am

Dick Cheney thinks: The Gays should be happy with whatever states choose not to discriminate against them; Americans should be glad George Tenet didn't have worse intel about the link between Saddam and Osama; and the Guantanamo detainees should be happy we didn't summarily execute them. [Time, CNN, MSNBC]

Republicans Insist On Not Calling Sotomayor Racist, Call Her Racist

Megan Carpentier

6/01/09 10:00am

Senate Minorityi Leader Mitch McConnell doesn't think it's his place to stop or chastise prominent Republicans who are running around screaming, "Racist!" at Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Of course, McConnell doesn't think a lot of things are his place, up to and including holding the Republican Senator majority. […

Tom Tancredo Remains The Face Of Republican Racism

Megan Carpentier

5/29/09 10:00am

Former Congressman and failed Presidential candidate Tom "I See Brown People" Tancredo yesterday said that Judge Sonia Sotomayor was a member of the Latino KKK, otherwise known as the National Council of La Raza, the oldest political advocacy group for the Latino community. Unmitigated racists, meet your leader. […

Crazy Wingnut Criticism Of Sotomayor Is Almost Amusing

Megan Carpentier

5/28/09 10:00am

Wow: there are apparently conservatives suggesting that Judge Sonia Sotomayor's enjoyment of traditional Puerto Rican food will impact her ability to be a mouth-breathing, lock-step conservative justice in the grand school of Clarence "Oral Arguments Are Nap Times" Thomas. [TalkingPointsMemo]

Rush Limbaugh Goes Wah, Cries "Racism" Over Sotomayor & Obama

Megan Carpentier

5/27/09 10:00am

Rush Limbaugh has his big-boy britches in a wad over the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court because she and President Obama are racists for thinking themselves not only equal to white people but superior to some...like Rush Limbaugh. By that standard, we are all racist! [Time]

Clinton Scores Another Hood; Republicans Lose More Ground

Megan Carpentier

5/26/09 10:00am

Yale University awarded Secretary of State Hillary Clinton an honorary Doctorate of Law yesterday, after which she spoke to the Law School graduating class. You know some of the undergraduate seniors were pissed. [Associated Press]

Hillary Clinton Still A Target Of Conservative Lawsuits

Megan Carpentier

5/22/09 10:00am

The Justice Department is asking a judge to dismiss the stupid lawsuit trying to prevent Hillary Clinton from serving as Secretary of State because she served in Congress. Clinton is the only former elected official in the Cabinet facing such a lawsuit. [Huffington Post]

Protests In Iran Persist; North Korea Continues Provocations

Iran's Supreme Leader: Sit Down And Shut Up

Mildly-Hurt Madame Hillary Wants Obama To Get Harsher On Iran

Obama Administration Will Afford Only Some Rights To Gay Americans

Letterman Apologizes, Palin Accepts, Iranians Continue To Protest Real Stuff

Iranians Continue To Protest Election, American Pols Continue To Bloviate

Palins, David Letterman Continue To Take (Sometimes Cheap) Shots

Sarah Palin Thinks Letterman's Jokes About Her Looks Are Pathetic

Republicans Decide Sarah Palin Best Seen, Not Heard

Stephen Colbert Takes One For The Team, Victory In Iraq

Obama Will Visit Concentration Camp, Draw No Parallels To American Behavior

Obama Can See America From Cairo

Rick Santorum Knows What African-American Women Really Need

Dick Cheney Sez: "Don't Worry, Be Happy"

Republicans Insist On Not Calling Sotomayor Racist, Call Her Racist

Tom Tancredo Remains The Face Of Republican Racism

Crazy Wingnut Criticism Of Sotomayor Is Almost Amusing

Rush Limbaugh Goes Wah, Cries "Racism" Over Sotomayor & Obama

Clinton Scores Another Hood; Republicans Lose More Ground

Hillary Clinton Still A Target Of Conservative Lawsuits

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