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Best Twitter Moment of the Week
By Tim Peacock
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That moment when you finally get to use the bluntcard you've been saving for a special occasion:
.@wendyjomason Well THERE'S the definition of irony right there. (PS: More ad hominem? #yawn) twitter.com/timsimms/statu…
— Tim Peacock (@timsimms) May 25, 2013
About Tim Peacock:
For virtually his entire life, Tim has been writing. Over the years he's dabbled in mainstream fiction, science fiction, dystopian fiction, and personal essays. The one consistent thread through his entire writing career has been blogging - he's been doing it since 1997 in one form or another. In creating Peacock Panache, he's combined two of his favorite hobbies: blogging and current events/politics. When not working here, Tim toils away at editing & rewriting the novels he's completed over the years. You can read samples of his other work here.
You can find Tim elsewhere online at his personal website. You can also find him on LinkedIn as well as on Twitter as @timsimms.
You can find Tim elsewhere online at his personal website. You can also find him on LinkedIn as well as on Twitter as @timsimms.
Jon Stewart Slams Peggy Noonan Over Reagan/Obama Scandal Hypocrisy
By Tim Peacock
Peggy Noonan - current Wall Street Journal columnist and former speech writer for President Reagan - made an appearance on Meet the Press this week and (in speaking with David Gregory and company) claimed that President Obama's current "scandals" are the worst she has seen in her life. You know - bigger than Watergate and bigger than Iran-Contra (where, as Jon Stewart so eloquently put it, "a President secretly sold weapons to Iran in return for American hostages and then used the proceeds to illegally fund a bunch of coked up right-wing jungle rapists in Nicaragua").
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On a recent episode of his show, Jon Stewart systematically destroyed all of Noonan's credibility in speaking on Obama and his scandals as an objective reporter. At one point he even quoted her book on Reagan where she said Iran-Contra was the fault of those around her beloved President and that the whole ordeal was just an unfortunate mistake. In comparing her words then to her commentary now, Stewart exposed her bias, her flip-flop blaming style, and her manufactured outrage.
Here's the clip:
About Tim Peacock:
For virtually his entire life, Tim has been writing. Over the years he's dabbled in mainstream fiction, science fiction, dystopian fiction, and personal essays. The one consistent thread through his entire writing career has been blogging - he's been doing it since 1997 in one form or another. In creating Peacock Panache, he's combined two of his favorite hobbies: blogging and current events/politics. When not working here, Tim toils away at editing & rewriting the novels he's completed over the years. You can read samples of his other work here.
You can find Tim elsewhere online at his personal website. You can also find him on LinkedIn as well as on Twitter as @timsimms.
You can find Tim elsewhere online at his personal website. You can also find him on LinkedIn as well as on Twitter as @timsimms.
Limbaugh On IRS' Lois Lerner: "I'm Telling You, I Can See Her With Whips And Chains"
From the May 22 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show courtesy of Media Matters:
Hate Indoctrination: New Children's Book Denigrates LGBT Families
By Tim Peacock
The story follows a simple path - a boy learns about gender through his school (which conveniently teaches biology through religion) and then transitions into a zoo visit where the boy learns that animal families "consist of a male, a female, and their offspring." It's at this point that the book takes a turn for the homophobic.
"Dad, can we pray for Jimmy and his dads?" the boy asks in the book. When the father agrees that it's a wonderful idea, the boy continues, "Dear Jesus, please show Jimmy and his dads the truth about how you made them and how much you love them."
The problem in the book doesn't lie in its inherent religious message; religion is fine as long as it teaches positive lessons about love, life, and happiness. Use of religion as a means to preach hate against others though cannot and should not be tolerated. Gays and lesbian families are just a valid as any other "traditional" family, and literature like this only reinforces negative stereotypes that result in LGBT harassment and violence in schools. This sort of child-indoctrination is the sort of trash that's created the skyrocketing LGBT teen suicide rate.
Jeremy Hooper over at Good As You had this to say about the book:
Because the drive to reject people who are so clearly a natural part of our world isn't going to be indoctrinate itself. They've got to be carefully taught.
Oh, and did you notice the cover? It says "Endorsed by the president of the American Family Association." That would of course be Tim Wildmon, a man who says gay couples make him want to throw up and that homosexuality is something to "be ashamed of." Lest you thought this book was anything other than aggressive indoctrination. It's not.
Although personally, I'm going to wait for the inevitable sequel: Michael Learns to Make A Protest Sign Smearing the Activist Judges Who Overturned Prop 8 & DOMA.
**MORE: Listen to the author talk to Concerned Women For America, where she attempts (@ around 3:30) to connect NAMBLA to gay activism in order to support Boy Scout discrimination.
Here's the video where the author promotes the book. Note that she's turned off comments so people can't tell her what they really think about her work. (Also note how many up and down votes it's received thus far, too):
About Tim Peacock:
For virtually his entire life, Tim has been writing. Over the years he's dabbled in mainstream fiction, science fiction, dystopian fiction, and personal essays. The one consistent thread through his entire writing career has been blogging - he's been doing it since 1997 in one form or another. In creating Peacock Panache, he's combined two of his favorite hobbies: blogging and current events/politics. When not working here, Tim toils away at editing & rewriting the novels he's completed over the years. You can read samples of his other work here.
You can find Tim elsewhere online at his personal website. You can also find him on LinkedIn as well as on Twitter as @timsimms.
You can find Tim elsewhere online at his personal website. You can also find him on LinkedIn as well as on Twitter as @timsimms.
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