Thursday, July 20, 2006

Focus on the foamers: DeLay fundraising group fined, will shut down

A PAC called Americans for a Republican Majority, which was instrumental in Tom DeLay's rise to power, has agreed to pay a $115,000 fine to the Federal Elections Commission and shut down. The agreement, reached July 7, was made public Wednesday.

In other news of the far right, Michelle Malkin suggests Bush "missed an opportunity" in his speech today to the NAACP by not "hitting back hard at the race exploiters who shamelessly accused him of hating black people and suppressing black votes."

Sure, Michelle, exploiting facial differences is bad. Which is why you should not ever, ever, let yourself be photographed, since your only claim to fame is that you are a self-hating mixed-race conservative whose watered-down opinions make Ann Coulter look like William F. Buckley.

And the SF Weekly takes a close look at Michael Savage, a nationally sydicated right-wing talk show host who inexplicably happens to be based in San Francisco. The vituperative Savage, whose real name is Michael Weiner, is revealed as a former beatnik wannabe who once fostered a correspondence with Alan Ginsburg, including a proposal to shove a camera lens up the famous poet's butt. Must be read to be believed.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

the North Beach crowd was mightily amused by the michael savage article. one thing I'm surprised they left out is that the former Michael Weiner also wrote a semi-autobiographical, homoerotic novel called "Vital Signs", which chronicles a man's struggle against his love for the male form. One copy is available on amazon for about 70 bucks.