LiveBlog for Monday, August 30, 2010

The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to give us his rude impressions of Glenn Beck’s rally over the weekend

Ari Rabin-Havt of Media Matters for America calls in at 10:05am ET / 7:05am PT to co-host Right Wing World

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the economic roundtable she participated in this past Friday

Edie McClurg joins us in studio at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT for another edition of “Mondays With McClurg”

• GOP commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American. Civil rights leaders who accused the group of hijacking Martin Luther King’s legacy held their own rally and march.

• President Barack Obama said Saturday the end of combat operations in Iraq doesn’t just reaffirm the country’s sovereignty, but also makes good on one of his principle campaign pledges.

• The darkly intimate 1960s-era drama “Mad Men” and the comedy romp “Modern Family” were the top honorees at Sunday’s Emmy Awards as American life past and present proved a winning formula.

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Have a great day, everyone!

Michael Caine + Edie McClurg= 20% of every movie cast ever.

no fart jokes today PLEEASE

#233: "Santa Fe NM? My home town"

Congrats, sounds nice.

Bye all..........

SPARTA!?

and refocusing the heck of a job...

#243: Some station was showing it this past weekend. Hmmmm. Same people that ran "Breaker Morant" when the World Cup in S Africa started? Just saying?

Right wing callers all sound angry and with the harse Sarah Palin vioce.
But did you hear Carvil's Linclon quote this morning
God must have loved poor people because there is so many of them.
He went on that God also must love stupid people because there are so many of them (Refering to Obama being a muslim)

Shouldn't call them teabaggers, they don't like that. How about Teahadists insteasd?

And good call on the "Falling Down" reference. I can see it now: those long, wordless shots of Michael Douglas' thousand-yard stare now overlaid with Beck monologues as the voices in his head.

#246 - No. We don't. Even facts won't stop the instant spin that it was a liberal conspiracy. People barely listen to the reality about Kennedy's assassination. You think the right will consider facts when looking at the assassination of one of their movement's leaders?

we want some 2nd ammendment friendly fire

I think the best way to describe the tea-baggers is the following:

You deprive me of solitude, whilst affording no companionship whatsoever.

The point is that Beck's very paranoid! What more could be said?

For those too young to get the "Lonesome Rhoads" reference, it's from "A Face in the Crowd" - rent it, or see it at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, CA on Sept. 12th.

Is this crazy lady Diane again?

WTF was that? A Sarah Palin wannabe??

On HBO's True Blood, the white trash are the Black Panthers.

Is that caller Gladys Cravits?

Beck is very consistent... he goes where the money is.

235...we really need to go out and vote even more than we did in 2008

the predictions of Republican victories are setting us up for election fraud. that said, we need to vote like crazy to defeat them by wide margins.

#231: They're unemployed and have the time.

whats with all the callers form Santa Fe NM?
My home town

What's with the influx of barely-coherent rightard callers these days?

Oh, wow. Why am I suddenly reminded of a bug zapper?

Steph & Elvira? Will there be photographs? Or video?

now it is a boil on the ass

he sounds like a drunk ass pimple

Well, this has turned into a MENSA meeting with chaw.

#220 Good point. Zombie eat brains, they don't have them.
If I had youtube access, I'd share the Simpsons clip where zombie grab Homer and then shove him away because they're after braaaaaaaaains.

Yes. Our country IS in trouble. From the Reche.

BTW I had JWs at the door on Saturday. I love them. I had more than an hour and a half of playing with my favourite chew toys.

#215: What about paintball guns? Hunting camo, paintball and plenty of beer - that's some good family TV entertainment right there!

#210 - To destroy the brain first requires a brain to destroy.

Hardly any of the folks there looked like they were of reproductive age anyway.

#205: Nec_V20 shout-out! Gratuliere, happy bank hols and all that.

What was really funny was that there were more black people on the stage than in the audience.

#213 Bad idea, there were a lot of first responders on scene (more than 40 transported to hospitals), don't want them getting shot. Plus it was a family friendly event, children and fire arms shouldn't mix.

oh brother.. they HAD to have a token

i still think they should be allowed to bring their guns and have some friendly fire accidents

So King's niece is opposed to the allowing the elderly to marry? Post menopausal women can't be womb warriors.