Crooks, Creeps...and Crackpots
(www.crooksandcreeps.com)

America is threatened by the growing and dangerously disproportionate influence of destructively self-absorbed network of people.  These ego-centric "players" range from crooked, creepy and sometimes crazy politicians, to crackpot pundits and well-meaning simpletons who have adopted philosophies in sophomoric ways that, if deployed, are destined to dramatically diminish our democracy and the nation.    

They cover the gamut from greed-driven Wall Street barons seeking to be "king", to fat-cat bankers seeking another "fling" at taxpayer expense.  They include blustering billionaires intent on pillaging the country, deceiving its people, and gaining control of its very government -- by whatever means necessary.  Many are well known.  Others pull "puppet strings" from far behind the scenes, in secret.

These "leaders" appear to have lost their way, their minds, or their souls...perhaps all three.  Some lust for money and fame, others just for power.  Some act out of irrational fears, others create irrational fears to more easily manipulate the innocent or gullible.  Some seek the limelight out of sheer lunacy, others for well thought out but devious ends.  Whatever their means or motives; here we seek to expose them in ways not commonly called journalism and not art, but a hybrid of both.  


First, a few reflections on the recent presidential debates...

The Politics of Inheritance

I met a man 
with a silver spoon
who sold his soul 
for one doubloon

I met a man
who loved the poor
and created more
by closing doors

I met a man 
with a silver tongue
who deceived the pure
and betrayed the young

I met a man 
with a Midas touch
who said his mansions
were not too much

God pity men
of silver spoon
 and silver tongue
...and Midas men 
with golden touch.
Soon enough 
their reign will end
and better men
may then ascend

As for them...
the men of silver 
and of gold...
most grow colder 
as they grow old 
and face the fate
that sages state:
"Inherit  the Wind
and lose your soul."


For wealthy men
gripped by gold
life often ends
trapped within
gold's endless cold

Here-oh-ism

Here we come
and
here we go

Here we reaped
and
here we sowed

Here we writhed
and
here we sighed

Here we laughed
and
here we cried...

Here we lived
and
here...we died.

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TODAY's "NOTABLES"
(Coming:  Beck, Boehner, Hannity, McCain, O'Rielly, DeLay and others...in their own words)

Sarah Palin

Dingbat?
Dope?
Creep?
Crackpot?
Opportunist?
You decide.
Here she is in her own words...



'If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?'
...Sarah Palin, in ''Going Rogue''


''The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel.'''
...Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama's health care plan, Aug. 7, 2009


''As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where— where do they go?  It's Alaska.  It's just right over the border.''
...Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008


"Obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies."
...Sarah Palin, after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas, interview on Glenn Beck's radio show, Nov. 24, 2010


"They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan."
...Sarah Palin, at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2009


"Perhaps so."
...Sarah Palin, when asked if we may need to go to war with Russia because of the Georgia crisis, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008


"Don't retreat...RELOAD!" 
...Sarah Palin Tweet to radio host Laura Schlessinger, who used the word "nigger" repeatedly in an on-air rant at a female African-American caller, Aug. 18, 2010


"Don't Retreat, Instead - reload!"
...Sarah Palin Tweet after Congress passed the health-care bill,    Washington Post, January 11. 2011


"We're on Sarah Palin's target list...the way she has it depicted has the cross hairs of a gun sight over our district," Congresswoman  Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) told MSNBC. "When people do that, they've got to realize there's consequences..." 
...Soon after, while representing one of Palin's "targeted" districts, a man put a gun to Rep. Giffords' skull and pulled the trigger then randomly killed six and wounded 19 others at the site of a Gifford-sponsored public meeting.


"We used to hustle over the border for health care...in Canada...isn't that ironic?"
...Sarah Palin, who demonized a proposed U.S. single payer health plan, admitting that her family went to Canada's government run single-payer health care system rather than to U.S. doctors.  She calls the new U.S. healthcare and proposals for a single payer program "socialized medicine" that will lead to "death-panels" and rationing, March 6, 2010


"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree."
...Sarah Palin, Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, Nov. 22, 2010


"We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity."
...Sarah Palin, in her speech at the Republican National Convention, quoting fascist right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist and anti-Semite who once expressed hope that Robert F. Kennedy would be assassinated.


"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."
...Sarah Pailn, on the Iraq war, speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008 (Watch video clip)


"What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?"
...Sarah Palin, right after taking office in 1996, asking Wasilla librarian Mary Ellen Emmons if she would object to Sarah's banning books.

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Rush Limbaugh

Racist? 
Mysoginist?
Crackpot? 
Creep?
Lunatic?
You decide. 
Here he is in his own words....



"Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate."
...Rush Limbaugh, Aug. 6, 2009


"They want to rule us with an iron fist..."
...Rush Limbaugh talking about Obama and the Democratic Party on his syndicated radio talk show, January 2011


"If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu...."
...Rush Limbaugh, July 6, 2010


"Guess what? Faisal Shahzad is a registered Democrat. I wonder if his SUV had an Obama sticker on it."
...Rush Limbaugh, lying about the failed Times Square car bomber, who is not registered to vote, May 4, 2010


"What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here."
...Rush Limbaugh, suggesting "environmentalist whackos" blew up the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, creating the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history to stop offshore oil drilling, April 29, 2010


"That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires."
...Rush Limbaugh, on the death of longtime New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, July 13, 2010


"Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."
...Rush Limbaugh to a black caller he had trouble understanding in the 1970s, when he worked under the name "Jeff Christie" on a top-40 music program in Pittsburgh, as quoted in Newsday, Oct, 8, 1990


"Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."
...Rush Limbaugh


"Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it."
...Rush Limbaugh, "Fox News' Fox & Friends," February 3, 2010


"Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards..."
...Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 3, 2010


"We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax."
...Rush Limbaugh, discouraging Americans from donating to relief efforts in Haiti after an earthquake devastated the area, Jan. 13, 2010

 
"When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak?"
...Rush Limbaugh, blaming the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on the Sierra Club, May 17, 2010

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