Robertson: SNL Tebow skit fueled by ‘anti-Christian bigotry’

By Andrew Jones
Monday, December 19, 2011

Incensed over Saturday Night Live‘s light-hearted skit on Jesus and football quarterback Tim Tebow, Pat Robertson provided another stern lecture Monday morning to his viewers.

On the latest episode of The 700 Club, the televangelist thought the segment was brought on by “an anti-Christian bigotry that’s disgusting.”

“If this had been a Muslim country and they had done that, and had Muhammad doing that stuff, you would have found bombs being thrown off, and bodies on the street,” he said. “We need more religious faith in our society, we’re losing our moral compass in our nation.”

Robertson went on to praise Tebow for his faith.

“I think he is a wonderful human being,” he said. “And this man has been placed in a unique position and I applaud him, God bless him.”

In 2010, Tebow and his family filmed an anti-abortion Super Bowl ad for Focus on the Family.

WATCH: Video from CBN, which was broadcast on December 19, 2011. Saturday Night Live skit from NBC, which was broadcast on December 17, 2011.

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The MNGOP All-Scandal Team: Can't anybody here play this game?

Put your hands together and make some noise for your MNGOP Scandal starting line-up!

By Kevin Hoffman Wed., Dec. 21 2011 at 7:30 AM

After it was revealed that the Vikings lead all NFL teams in arrests, we published a satirical post entitled "Meet the Vikings All-Arrested Team."

Although no one has been arrested (unless you count expired tabs), the MNGOP has lately been giving the Vikings a run for their money when it comes to embarrassing revelations. The constant Parade of Fail brings to mind Mets manager Casey Stengel's oft-quoted statement about the 1962 season: "Can't anybody here play this game?"

In that spirit, we hereby present the MNGOP All-Scandal Team.
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Catholic cardinal warns Gay Pride Parade could ‘morph into Ku Klux Klan’

By David Edwards
Thursday, December 22, 2011

A Catholic cardinal in Chicago on Wednesday compared the gay
liberation movement to the Ku Klux Klan.

Appearing on Fox’s Chicago station, Cardinal Francis George
complained that this year’s Gay Pride Parade route would
mean that Our Lady of Mount Carmel might have to cancel
Sunday mass for the first time in almost 100 years.

“You don’t want the gay liberation movement to morph into
something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the
streets against Catholicism,” George said.

“That’s a little strong analogy, Ku Klux Klan,” Fox
Chicago’s Dane Placko noted.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/22/catholic-cardinal-warns-gay-pride-parade-could-morph-into-ku-klux-klan/

The 10 Most Ridiculous Right-Wing Outrages of 2011

The right seems to offer up a new trumped-up pseudo-scandal every week. Here are ten of our favorites from the year past.
December 19, 2011

Call them nontroversies, poutrages or pseudo-scandals. Since the 2008 elections, the conservative media have peddled a seemingly endless series of trumped-up non-stories, pitched as scandals rivaling Watergate, to their loyal rubes in an attempt to paint liberals, the media, scientists, Democrats and Obama – and other enemies of the Wingnut State – as perfidious, dishonest or downright treasonous.

A few of them have borne some remote resemblance to reality, but many of their pseudo-scandals featured no more substance than the bizarre right-wing emails your crazy uncle credulously forwards around to friends and family. Yet, with a dedicated conservative media headed by Fox News, many have been mainstreamed on the right, with some spurring calls for investigation by the GOP-led House. Those calls, in turn, then become stories for Fox News and other conservative outlets -- it's a feedback loop full of crazy.

We decided to take a look at the 10 shakiest mythological scandals of the past year. Of course, the list isn't comprehensive, because there's a new one every week.
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Rick Perry ‘retires’ to collect state pension while still governor

By Muriel Kane
Friday, December 16, 2011

Texas Governor and current Republican presidential candidate
Rick Perry appears to have pulled something of a fast one on
his state’s taxpayers by officially “retiring” earlier this
year so that he could begin collecting an annual pension of
$92,376 at the same time as he continues to draw his
$150,000 a year salary as governor.

The arrangement went into effect last January but became
public knowledge only this week, when Perry’s presidential
campaign filed the personal financial disclosure statement
after having previously received two successive delays.

Perry was asked about the payments during a campaign stop in
Iowa on Friday and replied, “That’s been in place for
decades … I don’t find that to be out of the ordinary. [The
Employee Retirement System] called me and said, ‘Listen
you’re eligible to access your retirement now with your
military time and your time and service, and I think you
would be rather foolish to not access what you’ve earned.’”
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Iranian engineer claims simple GPS hack took U.S. drone down

By Stephen C. Webster
Friday, December 16, 2011

An unnamed Iranian engineer reportedly working to reverse-engineer a U.S. drone recently captured by Revolutionary Guard forces told a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor that the aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems (GPS).

The technique, known as “GPS spoofing,” has been around for several years, and the Iranians began studying it in 2007, the engineer reportedly said. The U.S. Department of Energy notes that GPS is widely used, but insecure, although few users have taken note. GPS signals for the U.S. military are similarly insecure, and drones often rely on signals from multiple satellites.

“With spoofing, an adversary provides fake GPS signals. This convinces the GPS receiver that it is located in the wrong place and/or time,” the vulnerability assessment team at Argonne National Laboratory explained. “Remarkably, spoofing can be accomplished without having much knowledge about electronics, computers, or GPS itself.”

Worse yet for U.S. forces, it’s an exploit the Iranians reportedly learned after reverse engineering other U.S. drones they shot down, gaining a key bit of leverage against not just drones, but virtually any U.S. military hardware that depends on the same easily exploited signals. READ MORE

Anonymous declares war on Congress with #OpAccountable

By Muriel Kane Friday, December 16, 2011 The National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 has been assailed by civil libertarians for its provisions which allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial. Now the hacktivist collective Anonymous has joined the battle in its own distinctive manner, declaring war on the members of Congress who voted for the legislation under the operation name #OpAccountable. “This is an open letter to the US leaders,” the operation wrote in a document released on Friday, which cited both the NDAA and attempts to pass so-called anti-piracy legislation that critics fear would amount to preemptive censorship of the Internet. READ MORE