I doubt anyone looks to a President’s canned holiday message for anything, even going back to1929,when Joe Biden used to watch Roosevelt on TV.

“In his own interview with Ms. Couric, Mr. Biden said: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

There are, of course, a few historical inaccuracies there. First, Herbert Hoover was president when the stock market crashed, in 1929. Roosevelt did not take office until March of 1933.

When he did, Roosevelt communicated to the people over radio — not television.”

http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/say-what-joe-biden-fdr-the-tv/

People say this whenever someone from the other side says something they like… but I’ve always liked Dana Perino, shes incredibly intelligent, she’s talented at debating and making a logical point. Shame she worked for the Bush administration bet it was a challenge o_o

President Obama’s newest Czar says “my advice to you is to start drinking heavily.”
http://www.spnheadlines.com/2010/03/homeland-insecurity-czar-appointed_20.html

Eric Bolling is a disgusting petty human being. He’s disrespectful and downright un American. He should be ashamed, Fox should be ashamed for what they are doing to this country.

This guy should be pie’d in the face everywhere he shows up.

” I doubt anyone looks to a President’s canned holiday message for anything…”

On that much we agree.

Obama didn’t mention elves, unicorns, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy or the flying spaghetti monster either.

Why is this president ignoring all of our make-believe icons???

 ”On Friday’s edition of The Five, Eric Bolling criticized President Obama for BREATHING” . Fixed your text. Bolling has got to be one of the worst right wing hacks on the uber right wing neanderthal Fox News Channel. If Obama walked on water, Bolling would critiicize him for getting his feet wet. I only half jest, I truly believe Bolling would bitch about Obama’s feet getting wet, he’s that much of a partisan hack.

The most unChristian thing you can do is deny another persons faith, and that is what conservatives have done to Obama way before he even became president. Its ok to not like someones political views, but these people hate him so much as a person that they have to deny having ANYTHING in common with him. Which is why they have to deny him being a Christian. Which is why they have to deny him being a US citizen. Anything that he has in common with them makes them sick to their stomachs, so they have to justify their hatred by creating these differences they have with him.  Once again partisan pettiness rules on Fox News. Thank GOD Dana Perino actually showed some civility and reason to Bolling’s absurd argument. I don’t know how these political commentators like Bolling can live with having so much hatred in their heart for people they have never even met.

When did Thanksgiving become a religous holiday?

ObamMy iS a Muslin AtHeist

When the NFL started playing on TV every turkey day. 

and yungchii is misinformed and silly

well conservatives have left GOD out of everything else—except to exploit HIM for profit and power..
Thanksgiving is NOT are religious holiday..
it is actually a celebration when the UNCHRISTIAN, HEATHENS, saved the Christians from dying…

then of course the Christians came en force to massacre, torture, behead, imprison and steal their land..

praise the Lord…

when will Obama praise Jesus for that trail of tears? Or when the settlers played kickball with Indian decapitated heads?
if only Christians were more like Jesus…oh what a wonderful world it would be…

Perino will be getting a call from Roger Ailes as saying anything positive about Obama is prohibited on Fox.

Let me be the first to call Perino a RINO.

Typical Repug false outrage.

“Thanksgiving is NOT are religious holiday..
it is actually a celebration when the UNCHRISTIAN, HEATHENS, saved the Christians from dying…”

I never really thought of it that way, very good point.

How about if you want to hear people talk about god, you TAKE YOUR ASS TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!

I’m only looking for competence in elected officials, not fealty to one God or another. I don’t care if it’s Yahweh, Allah, Donny Osmond or Harry Potter. I don’t care if they bark at the damn moon on friday nights. Can they do the job? Do they vote in ways in which I approve? The rest is window dressing.

And these people who freak out about it are a pack of jabbering Cleetuses. I don’t care how many people read their damn blog.
 

Eric Bolling is a close friend of mine.  He loves this country more than Obama ever will.  This is just yet another way in which Obama has shown that he is out of touch with the American people.  You should be ashamed.  You have no idea who Eric Bolling is as a man.  He is one of the kindest, most decent, giving people I have ever known.  He is honest to a fault and puts God, family and country first every day of his life, not just when it behooves him to do so.

The whole point of Thanksgiving was to give thanks to God.  Who do you think we’re giving thanks to?

WHO CARES?!

You’re as unamerican as “your friend” is. disgraceful and ignorant

a imaginary being in the sky!

The “pundits” on this show in particular have admitted that they are given rough talking points before the show. None of them do their own research and they know beforehand what they’re going to say basically. They get a sheet of paper that says something like “Argument for why it’s a big deal: 80 percent of people believe in some form of a God… Argument for why it’s not a big deal: GWB’s last Thanksgiving address didn’t mention God.” So both the outrage and the defense of Obama are fake. The depth of discussion and research barely rises above the high school level. 

Well said. This fixation on God is one of the things that turns many independents away from the Republican party. Focus on things that matter and are real. God doesn’t create jobs, protect our citizens or provide a social safety net.

Thanks for…..family, friends, good health and career…..real things 

Oh God…

Perino a RINO?  You Sir are a flipping idiot.

You have my sympathies.

Good job GOPman insightful as always. 

are you trying to be me?

Today is a day we set aside to give thanks to our government and its politicians for all they do to help us Ameriserfs. 

We are so lucky to have a government that taxes fast food and politicians who remind us how much they do for us.  It just makes me want to pay more in taxes to fund interest payments on bonds that were floated to cover the cadillac health care plans of public employees.

BS, tell that to the Native Americans.

I am thankful on this Thanksgiving Day for the fact that we have Barack Obama as President of the United States -and- as a viable candidate for re-election (as opposed to the sorry sorry set of rivals on the other side). Thank you Mr. President : your heart, your values, and your basic decency.. are all in the right place. But… your hands are tied. Unfortunately they were tied by us, the electorate…..by not providing you with a Congress that you can work with. Instead, you have a don’t-tax-the-1%-do-nothing Congress that battles you at every turn, while the people suffer.  God, they don’t EVEN let you pass your own appointments. It’s not Tea-publican gridlock,  it’s Tea-publican sabotage. Heck, it’s Tea-publican TREASON. And then they try to pin the blame on Mr. Obama. These people have no shame…or else its been purchased by those who can afford to do so. Thankfully, Occupy Wall Street is part of an emerging grass-roots evolution…a down-to-to-earth change …a change that will help us to re-elect the President AND to give him a more progressive Congress. Therefore, on this Thanksgiving day,  I am thankful and grateful that you are the President Mr. Obama! And I wish you well. You STILL give me hope.

Muslims are not atheist…
they are more monotheistic..
where Christians are Polytheist…ie God, Son, Holy Ghost, angels, Satan, saints?

not to mention assigning the Earth God Jesus to a fish and a lamb..
and this if funny why?
IT BREAKS THE VERY FIRST 2 OF THE BELOVED 10 COMMANDMENTS…
ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’ TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image–any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.’ 
(AND THE ACTUAL 10 COMMANDMENTS TABLETS BREAK THE 2ND AS WELL)

funny huh>>>
(secret–that is why Muslims do not allow ‘images’ of Allah..it is blasphemous to God…)
see how crazy funny this religion thing is? especially when those who know the least—are the most demanding and radically/ignorantly  ’pure’..?
hehehe

Republicant candidates – the real turkeys this Thanksgiving.  Can anyone argue with that?  Don’t think so.

I hope that one day politics and religion will be kept apart. They do NOT belong! If a president has to say God bless America he should really be saying God bless the world. We live in this world together and if there is a God ( which i am open to) then he or she loves the world and everybody in it. Nothing else makes sense to me. 

Republicans have truly become a party of traitors. Well poisoners to their fellow Americans and to the nation as a whole. They are truly beyond despicable. A bunch of right wing mullahs living behind their gated communities telling the other 99% how to live. What a bunch of pukes.

Amen!

No, actually they’re just a bunch of trolls, saying crazy things to try to get a reaction. The birthers are a great example of this.

You probably should care what wacky crazy/religious things they believe, it shows that they’re either liars or wackos.

The mouthpiece of the defining GOP president of the modern era is not a republican?? 

No. The point was to give thanks to the soliders in various America wars. Look it up. It has nothing to do with Pilgrams and Indians.

Tantaros, so annoying, yet so doable! If she only came with a mute button, I could watch. ALL. DAY.  Thanks Dana Perino for not being a partisan shrill.

He’s clearly trolling the republicans.

I didn’t realize that country-loving was a contest.

Why does Bolling put forth such a horrible, ugly, disgusting persona on that show if he’s such a good person?

gibberish

When the day comes that I or any American has to be told what to say on Thanksgiving Day by an ex football player,  towel snapping jock douchebag like Eric Bolling, this country is finished .

yea, there’s only one joe…

 I meant ex baseball playing douchebag, not football

cause he’s not a Christian

No, it’s not.  If that is what it means to you, that’s fine, but it is not the reason that Thanksgiving is a national holiday.

neither is mitt…
nor is bachman, perry, newt, cain or santorum—
but at least obama does try to help the poor and offer equal rights…

thanks—that is the nicest thing anyone has said to me all day…

Romney?

Your alleged friendship with Eric Bolling has absolutely nothing to do with the way he portrays himself on-air. As a Fox personality, he’s a douche. You can tell your friend I said that.

She does, it’s called the mute button on your remote.  Her hatefulness bleeds through her skin like rancid sweat.  I don’t think muting her is going to be enough.

That guy said he felt terrible God wasn’t mentioned.   Good grief toughen up conservatives!

wow, cool, I’m sooooooooo impressed. I wouldn’t brag about knowing that right wing douchebag and GOP shill . He did save Bob Beckel from choking so Bolling isn’t totally worthless. What makes him such an authority anyway, oh yes he played baseball once. He’s a complete putz.

lol has anyone else noticed those 2 bookends look almost exactly the same (dress wise)
except one has a jaw problem

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ….

And yet – if you actually DO listen, it’s there: President Obama in fact DOES use the word “god”,that exact word (“dog” spelled backwards, dog being a word for an actual thing that actually exists and therefore TECHNICALLY more useful that its palindromic ghost), & specifically refers to the culturally iconic atavism, or if you prefer, ritually invokes the invisible non-existence her-or-him-as-the-convenion-goes-self.Now, you MIGHT expect an actual reporter to look into this, but … nah, not James Cugnale, one of the great corporate lay-abouts in journamalismic history, and besides: James was on a DONUT BREAK when the meme came in.Hey, pretty nifty “fact checking” by foxpuppetheadnewstheater on this, yes no? It’s supposedly all pretty technical, but I gather it actually helps to listen and pay attention when you are in the regular mid-morning Obama Daily Meme meeting.And Dana Perino, what a REASONABLE person, right? Except she’s actually playing the reasonable person slash expert witness role today on foxpuppetheadnewstheater, helped along by the fact the thing being damned today never happened.I guess this all come down to a new foxpuppetheadnewstheater version of ‘taking the Lord’s name in vain”. 

Automat Sympathy Card

Please check “A” if you are telling the truth, 

and receive a very sympathetic rendition of “Tough break man, friend of that tool and all, I can see why you make up shit about what a quote-unquote great guy he is because the guy’s obviously psychotic and dangerouts.

Please check “B” in the far more likely case that your are lying your ass off here,

and receive a loud, sustained, wet sounding “PPPPFFFFFBBBBLAABBBBBBFF!” and an oddly-soft brown deposit on your right shoe.

Gobble, gobble.

Let me be the first to call you Ernest T.

It’s easy to see why Perino would defend an omission. Her entire public persona is a vacancy.

Dana Perino, like Eric Bolling would, and should have been fired by any real news organization long ago.Both Dana Perino and Bolling said on LIVE TV that there were NO attacks on this country during the GWB administration. Any legitimate news organization would have made these two shills apologize immediately. But Fox News knows that at least 5% of the Rhodes Scholars that watch Fox News can be convinced that the 9-11 attacks happened on…eh…President Gore’s watch. If Perino exhibits “confused facial expressions,” it’s most likely because she’s trying to recall what the events of the day actually mean. She’s already figured out that Cuban Missile Crisis thing. It really wasn’t a brand of cigars after all. She has disgraced the memories of those who died on 9/11. She is a trite, idiot.

What the hell are you ranting about?  Who poisoned what?  You are truly despicable with that tripe you typed that makes no sense.  I did want to puke, on that you were correct.

Do you understand the word “Thanksgiving”?

obviously not.  

You are giving thanks – maybe it’s to walmart, or whatever store you think you should be thankful for, but seriously dude, think before you type.  

Eric Bolling is a serial liar. He said Obama’s trip to Asia was costing tax payers 200 million dollars a day. He also said 26 warships were accompanying the President. Then he said, “All Muslims are terrorists” and when caught in that lie changed his statement to “all Terrorists are Muslim”. This man lies on  a daily basis. He does not have an honest bone in his body.

You should be thankful that he doesn’t have the congress in his back pocket, or we’d be downgraded to junk bond status by now.  Use your head.  

A president who wants to spend like a drunken sailor and the congress is attempting to save our sorry asses – and you want him to have free reign?  Are you insane?

There people are clearly all just getting here.

You know all this how?

Seriously dude – you think anyone goes on an hour show and doesn’t have an outline?

Oh yes, Sharpton goes on and doesn’t know his ass from grass and proves it – is that your barometer?

That is another thing that is lied about all the time, Eric Bolling never EVER came close to playing in the Major Leagues. Not even close. He never made it about a developmental league that is below A ball. And yet the Bimbos on that show always say he played Major League Baseball, and I have never once heard him correct them. Just Google Eric Bolling’s MLB stats, there are NONE, NADA, ZIP! He played high school baseball.

This from OUR Vice President. Biden needs to keep his mouth SHUT…everytime he opens his mouth he just shows how ignorant he is..makes Dan Quail look like a scholar.

…but God is the reason there is Thanksgiving.  Perhaps a name change is in order, since you seem to object so vehemently to the whole idea of “Thanksgiving”.

I’m thankful, I didn’t invite you to Thanksgiving Dinner.  It was delicious and I was most thankful that we could enjoy it with Family and friends.  

I forgot to mention I have heard Dana Perino say Eric Bolling was a MLB baseball player and he never even came close. He never even made it to A ball, and yet he never corrects his cast mates when they tell this lie.

you obviously don’t listen to Fox.  You listen to the fools who make up nonsense about Fox.

The only channel where you will hear both sides of any issue.  In fact, this program just proved it, and yet there you are jabbering you nonsensical talking points.

Eric Bolling is an ex high school baseball player, he never came close to playing in the Major Leagues, not even close!

I don’t object to Thanksgiving. What I object to is people like you that seem to think it is solely a religious holiday. Thanksgiving is when you give thanks for what you have (Family, friends, health) and if God is part of that great.

This is an issue because it’s (almost) an election year.If this was last year I doubt it would have made as much of a stink.

It’s a meaningless complaint.

If you want to complain then complain about Obama politicizing the “turkey pardon”.I don’t think that was the time and place to take shots at Congress.

Andrea Tantaros looks like a younger Danny Devito with long hair.

Eric Bolling is an asshole and if the President had mentioned GOD the way Bolling wanted then he would be there complaining about the President throwing his faith up in our faces.

I saw her interview on the Daily Show and I really don’t agree she’s a “trite” idiot. To each their own though.

You’re full of shit.

I have heard both Andrea Tantaros and Dana Perino say Eric Bolling played Major League Baseball when he never came close to playing MLB baseball. He never made it to AAA or AA baseball let alone the Major Leagues. And every time the women of FNC tell this lie Bolling never corrects them. It is just one example of how they tell the same lies over and over until people start to believe them. Google Eric Bolling’s MLB stats, there are NONE. NADA. ZIP. He appeared in 12 games of a developmental league that is basically made up of good high school players. And from this the ladies of Fox call him a Major League Baseball player. He played in as many MLB baseball games as Barbara Bush.

I’m sure they were thankful for the small-pox and other diseases our ancestors infected them with when they arrived.

There is no lie the news actors of Fox will not tell. Eric Bolling was a MLB baseball player the exact same way my cat is a saber toothed tiger.

Meanwhile, my very good conservative Republican friends didn’t go to Church last Sunday and don’t plant to this Sunday either. Who cares? Last time I checked, God doesn’t really have ANYTHING to do with politics. Yawn.

who exactly are you thanking?  It is a religious holiday.  What it has morphed into is what people like you think it should be.  You can’t change what it was.

Perhaps we can rename it “day before Black Friday”.  

Next you’ll be telling me that Christmas is not a religious holiday.  

p.s.  would you by chance be from the backwoods of Northern Ontario?

I have no idea what your point is since your second sentence contradicts your first. Anchors, like Sharpton and O’Reilly, read from a teleprompter. “The Five” is different because it pretends to be free-form debate, like some of the Sunday political round table shows. But “The Five” pundits have admitted they get handouts with talking points on them, so they read through them and discuss them and then go on air and pretend they are spontaneously arguing. The disagreements are prefabricated. “The Five” pretends like it’s “This Week with C. Amanpour” but  in the latter the pundits are actually knowledgeable people who don’t need to be told what to say while the former features (some) people who are something like 30 years old without exceptional political and academic backgrounds. They’re mostly blowhards or pretty faces.  

Contrast that with actual pundits on both sides of the aisle. Do you think Peggy Noonan or George Will or David Brooks or Paul Krugman want or would use someone else’s talking points if they were handed to them before every show? There’s no way, because they are all (whether you agree with them or not) people who have built their careers based on being able to articulate their own arguments with their own research and ideas. 

I’m not thanking anyone. I’m thankful for family, friends, health, career etc. on Thanksgiving. So it is aptly named.

Now I must leave my igloo to go ice fishing.

Newsflash, conservatives:  Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday, nor is it celebrated anywhere else.

Simply put, it’s a day for giving thanks to whomever you choose to give thanks to.

Not one mention of the god Zuul, the Gatekeeper, either. Damn Obama!

I wish he had NOT used the word “god”, but he did  - – so the amazing part here is that this stupid WRONG meme generated a stupid WRONG meme on Mediaite and to this point about 89 reader comments on the fantasy question of whether something that was in fact SAID, should have in fact been SAID, predicated on the idea that it was NOT said, when it WAS said.

Hey, hilarity all around. foxpuppetnewsshow creates a phony phantasy controversy, Mediaite turns into Meme-ite and spreads both the lie than the word was not said AND the phony phantasy controversy BASED on that lie, memers gather and meme.

I think this one may have done it for me folks. Time to find a website somewhere where at least SOMETHING is real. Good luck to Tommy Christopher in landing a new job at a REAL news site, cuz;

There must be some way … outta here
I can’t get no relief 

- Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower

To attempt to destroy the country for fleeting political gain constitutes treason in my books. It sure as hell gives “aid and comfort to our enemies.”

And since you clearly support these treasonous activities . . .

It’s not surprising that Obama failed to mention God…nor is it expected that a guy like him would give any thought to God let alone give thanks to Him.

I REALLY like Joe…his BS is funnier than any skit SNL has done in years.

you still haven’t explained anything, just continued your rant.

Who is attempting to destroy the country and how are they doing so?  Since it’s “treason” in your book, I’m sure you will elucidate this threat that you are ballistic over.  

I call b.s. there chum.  You’re just pissed cause once again Fox came up with a winner so you have to attempt to belittle what it is.  They discuss – they know what topics they are going to cover and they discuss live.

You’re attempt to diminish the program is stupid.  

p.s. Sharpton has a teleprompter?  Too bad he can’t read.  

newsflash – Thanksgiving is a religious holiday and yes it is also celebrated in Canada (and damn – it’s called Thanksgiving there also).  It’s celebrated in October.  

Lens Crafters must be having a good Black Friday sale.  Not too late to correct your vision.  

I stand corrected that they also celebrate it in Canada. But…If it’s a religious holiday, why do they only celebrate it in 2 countries??   Wouldn’t it be worldwide?

Reason: Because it’s not affiliated with any particular religion.   

Sure, many Christians attach spiritual meaning to it, but it is not a “Christian” holiday. It was declared a holiday by Lincoln.

It’s about the fall harvest=food=life

I believe it’s celebrated in many parts of the world giving thanks for a bountiful harvest.  
p.s.  because the U.S. decided to name a specific date to give thanks and declare it a holiday means nada.  The world doesn’t start nor end at the u.s. borders.   The Pilgrims chose to make it a religious thanksgiving.  Go blame them.  

My gosh, golly, gee.  Perhaps you should send a note to the 5 and they can clear up your conundrum.  

I haven’t heard anyone talk about Bolling’s major league baseball career.  I have heard them all say that Bolling was a baseball player.  

Obama is a christian. But God doesn’t believe in conservatives.

You are a typical redneck psuedo christian

The original name for fixed news was GOP TV, they went with fox instead

Tea Party Nation warns small businesses to stop hiring anyone so it will hurt Obama’s re election

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-urges-businesses-stop-hiring-order-hurt-obama

It’s spelled “Quayle,” dearest rightwing scholar.

Good thing you’ve never thought of it that way because it’s crap.  
Actually it was a celebration of a bountiful harvest by the Pilgrims and they invited their Indian friends to join them.  

Do you believe all the dumb things people tell you?  Heathens, unchristian nonsense.  The Indians were not Christians but they sure the heck believed in a higher being.  

-yawn-
Conservatives still trying to cover for the idiocy of Palin. Aint gonna work.

Can you tell your friend to update his Miami Vice wardrobe?

“Quick, look over there!”

so do Musilms…..

and no I do not believe what everyone tells me…
that is why I am not a Christian..I ACTUALLY HAVE READ THE BIBLE…
and of course history..
now if YOU claim that ‘Christians’ were civil to the Indians? then i guess you are with those who deny any  plight to African by White Christians? Maybe you could deny the Holocaust too?

have you actually been to an Indian reservation? you may want to read the history of how good Christians enslaved Indians? infected them with small pox? actually killed up to 95% of the indigenous population?
it was the Indians that welcomed the Christians….

and as always–the Christians wanted it all…
kind of like our Blood for Oil program in the Middle east…and the fearful and lazily, ignorant fall for the lies..

show me I am wrong…show me where White Christians have embraced Indians?

is that the company that was hacking into people’s phones? that company that bases it ‘news’ on sensationalism?
the company that has all of those grocery store rags?

that one run by the Nixon guy? who actually was part of Nixon’s propaganda machine?
that company that has hired most top officials from Nixon and Bush2 administrations? Is Fox the one who has had most of the current Gop presidential  nominees on the payroll?
is that that one?

no-have not heard of it..but they really sound like a shitty company~

God is not the reason for Thanksgiving–or Christmas or Easter and you are really full of crap..
MAN IS THE REASON…

so is God the reason so many died for Thanksgiving? for so many starving on thanksgiving? 
and which god is it?
The Allah the Great and only? or the carpenter who built the universe and the stars and all that is and will be?
please tell us..
the one that tore down the tower of babble that was so large it threw men around the world–so hard they changed language and race? that must have been really big—i wonder where the ruins are?

anywhoooo…
i think you are a hypocrite and a fraud~

now that does not sound very Godly–at least we know you are not Christian with that mouth..or attitude and hate..
welcome —to the land of heathens…
loser~

again–Not too Christian…
maybe you should reflect on that ‘thankful’ thing some more..
you sure have a lot of hate for your American brothers and sisters…
not cool~

Aside from the uproar over Obama calling for a national day of service on the 9/11 10th anniversary, this is the dumbest thing I’ve heard from the right yet. Obama Derangement Syndrome is alive and well. It comes as no surprise that complete partisan hacks like Eric Bolling, who seems to be as intelligent as a racoon who can’t decide which way to run while standing in the middle of the road with a vehicle heading toward it, would be so up in arms about such a ridiculous thing. For the love of Mike, Obama mentioned God the last two Thanksgivings! Seriously, if you are a conservative, aren’t you embarrassed at this level of childishness portrayed by people like Bolling?

Seriously, can’t the right find legitimate policy things to criticize Obama about? I’ve never seen such an immature group of people in my life! I expect this type of whining out of my 2 and a half year old nephew, not grown people! Thankfully, honest and decent conservatives like Dana Perino don’t buy into the idiotic ODS hype and criticize on substantive issues. The same can’t be said for clowns like Bolling and the dolt right wing bloggers like Ben Shapiro.

I’m a Christian, and I call bull hooey.

they were to late Obamas over regulations did that already

Hey, I kind of prefer it as “Quail”; the way Quayle spells it reminds me of the medication, ‘ludes. Quayle often seemed to act like he was on those. But HEY, now he’s up there in the 0.1 percent, a combination Wall Street bankster and vulture capitalism pirate, so it all ended up for the best.

I can’t really tell if your supporting what “Bob” posted or what, but anyone at least ONE of you seems to be suggesting that Palin has taken on the attributes of a shiny object of distraction.

And we can pretty much all agree that’s true, but the facts are she’s got an awful lot staked on continuing to be a distraction and she still has over a year to go on her contract as a Fuppet on FNC.

But Mediaite doesn’t have a contract with her, so the party to blame for her Fuppet face showing up on Mediaite is Mediaite, because there’s always going to be pimply-faced kids one-handing their snark here – there’s tons of them now as it is – plus a few die hards. 

So all we can do here is to hold the feet of the individual Mediaite posters to the fire and complain.

 You asked who I am thankful to for my families health. Why do I have be thankful to a person (God)? I don’t believe in God so I’m thankful for the fact that my family is healthy. God has nothing to do with the fact (in my opinion) that they are healthy.

As for the igloo joke…I was just having some fun with you. And you are right, I’m not a left wing loon but I’m definitely left of centre (Canadian spelling).

I want to see Obama lose in 2012 but have to agree with Perino on this one..

Indeed, but the big bucks for here were as a Fuppet on Fox, because there’s no risk of model failure. It makes it tougher for her were she to try to leave Mordor, er, Murdoch, but the combo of pretty woman, big bucks, and low risk is pretty attractive, especially for someone who was hired to be a pretty talking head in the first place. After all, it’s not as if anyone has ever accused her of having an interesting or even  independent thought.

Also, I liked her hair way better as in was in the Bush White House; right now she looks like that wife character that’s being cut out of Mad Men, only that woman is a fiction played by an actor. Perino was a natural Fuppet.

Particular; say those magic words and we demand PARTICULARS. How, exactly is Lisabucaro1 fos, as you claim?

You do a good job on making your point, but I don’t agree. The one and only openly atheist President the US ever had was Lincoln, and Lincoln because of it had to pander like a pussycat to catnip to the believios because of it. So they all have to pander to the believios, and the only thing we have to make sure about is that they’re actually pandering and not even coming close to believing in that crap.

That’s why I love the Rick Perry move with his Come watch me say words up towards the outer edge of this atmosphere as if I really believe we can convince some creature in the cosmos to come down and get the weather patterns more organized to help out Texas with its drought Rally. I mean, that is pure human ooga booga, ancient bone in the nose, virgins hurled into the volcano, classic pandering there, and I say if a guy’s prepared to do that, my confidence in his capacity and willingness to lie to believios is increased, and that makes me feel a whole hell of a lot better about his candidacy. Really, the only one’s I really think actually might THEMSELVES be believios are Romney and Huntsman, cuz I’m used to watching genuine American political pandering by xian fundies, but not by mormonians. It’s kind of hopeful that Huntsman was in a rock band, but I get concerned when everyone else is pandering to their own flava flave of religidiocy, and then there’s Willard Mitt Romney over on the end keeping his mouth shut on the subject but prepared to lie about everything else. The only truly forgiveable lie an American politician can make in my book is an OTT pander to the believios that he’s, you know, kinda one of uv ‘em, wink, wink, nod, nod, nods as good as a wink to a blind bat know what I mean, nudge nudge. 

well D’UH

Nothing to do with Phil Gramm you say?

Anyway, I will look it up SSD, because you are right in suggesting that, thanks.

But over time it’s become lots of other things, including increasingly a day of watching huge, steroid addicts in armor pounding the capacity right out of each other’s brains.

(Not that it’s all THAT big a deal, but since sometime around the 1970s, around when Jack Ham almost killed Darryl Stingley, the NFL has pretty much been a breeding ground for early Parkinsons disease, early Alzeimers, etc, premature death by 25 to 30 years or more, starting from around their mid 40s. The NY Times has semi-regular articles on this phenomenon … but what the hell, who really cares, right? They get millions, or a few of them do, for 2, 3 maybe 4 years to kick each other in the head like a mule once a week about 50 times, why should we all care?)

I hope it was a happy Watch Large Muscular Men Hit the Holy Hell Each Other Day for everyone. 

So who DOES that harvest thing NOW? Immigrants? Illegals? Mang, we oughta conseeder maybe we should chutt dat holiday down, mang. Especially since global warming and corporate farming have completely screwed up the ‘fall harvest’ meme. Even the leave in the Appalachians are looking funny.

And food, hey, are you talking what Creepy Cain calls “food” or what kind of food? Mac & cheese? Spaghetti carbonara? Garbanzo beans curry? Pork paella? Sugar donuts? Not much “fall harvest” foodstuffs there.

Face it, this holiday became Occupied by NFL and believios because no American has anything to do with “harvest” or “food” anymore. When Americans think “harvest” these days, they think in terms of organized human organ harvesting rings.

Can’t be both, but I actually would prefer either one of those, though “AhHeist” [sic] more. Problem is, American pols can’t elected rat catcher as admitted atheists.

No no no: SOME xians are poly, some are uni. Unitarians, for example; Presbyterians; Uniteds; I’m guess Obama – all those are Uni, like the early Founder Deists.

Or MANY higher beings – wood spirits, cloud spirits, wind spirits, fire spirits, harvest spirits, rain spirits – it was all a hell of a lot more rational than what xian fundy believios buy into.

Obviously it’s time for the GOP dummies to pass legislation reaffirming that “Thank You, God” is the official Thanksgiving motto.

You ever hear Aussie Rupert Murdoch say the name? “Fuhx News” is how he said it. I think he bought the 20th Century Fox cadaver just so he could name his TV network something hundreds of millions of American say every day multiple times per day. Fux Sux.

Obama will thank God when he shows his long-form birth certificate.

People here might want to go to website of The Guardian newspaper in the UK and catch up on all the illegal crap that Murdoch got up to there. There’s going to be SOME sort of reckoning, and quite a few folks are headed to British jails. 

Idealogical idiots. 

I wanted to hit Like, but then I thought – what in hell is NyQuill saying? 

How about, since it’s the illegals and migrant workers and new immigrants that do the harvest now, we call it Underpaid Farm Labor Appreciation Day? And celebrate in the modern equivalent of the colonial settlers, by each non-farm worker family reaching out to a farm-labor family and holding a common dinner. That would be GGGREAT! 

“and we know what happened to the liberals”
What I heard is they pretty much got replaced by the FURTHER left New Democratic party, and are on their way to merging the two parties into one, which together got a higher vote support than the Can-Cons. That’s what I heard.

Whoa, steady on there big fella – ain’t no one calls anyone in these parts a hypocrite and a fraud, less’n they’ve fixing to accuse ‘em of being left wing loons er outing ‘em as card carryin’ Rs.

Who, me worry?

Let’s see . . . deliberately wrecking the country’s credit rating, announcing to our enemies that the only political objective of the opposition is to ensure that the government fails, colluding to avoid business expansion because it might make the government appear competent, attempting to gut the middle class . . . I think “treason” is a pretty good word in this case.

I could go on.

Yeah, only less attractive.

Hah! EVERY US president in history in the last 110 years has politicized the Turkey Pardon. Politicizing the Turkey Pardon is like nearly the oldest of ALL Thanksgiving traditions. 

Frankly, I don’t think that wrecking the middle class could be defined as “saving my sorry ass.”

It could be defined as “shoving a broken bottle up my ass,” but I suspect that’s not what you meant.

Actually, Sarah Hale and Abraham Lincoln are the reasons why there is a Thanksgiving. Hale flogged the idea for decades and Lincoln signed the proclamation.

“God” had nothing to do with it.

It was never, ever, ever, ever a religious holiday. You need to distinguish between the nonsense sloshing around in your head and the real world.

Let’s just end this charade. Here is the Baseball Reference entry for Eric Bolling:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=bollin001eri

That means he got a cup of coffee at the Rookie League level, showed nothing – seriously folks, I could take just those who posted here today and find for sure 1 probably 3 and possibly 5 who would do better – so got cut before the stench of from how BAD he was stuck in the air for ever.

Think about this, folks: we are not talking the majors, not AAA, not AA where prospects go for seasoning, not A where prospects start out, but ROOKIE League where they see if you know which end of the bat to hold and which end of the ball to throw and if you have ANY speed or power or arm or ANY THING! Eric Bolling showed he had ZIP, NADA, NOTHING!

I would even give him a bit of credit if he just made a Single A minor league ball team, because that would mean he showed SOME THING. 

But … no. The porky perky little blond beer maid on each weekday morning shows more every day that Bolling had. 

Sheesh, I sure wish that you’re right.

Funny thing – ever since Fux went to this Ayn Rand theme, hiring rates have gone UP.

Show us the regs that Obama brought in. Regs have gone DOWN since Obama came in. Even the new act, Dodd-Franks to politely ask the banksters to steal more slowly, there are no regs in that yet because the Rs have filibustered all agency heads. 

So go head: show us the Obama-made regs that you say have done this.

Man, that’s like a TRIPLE-down on moron. 

Look, the only problem with God’s long-form is no witnesses. 

He TRIED to get the dang think registered in South Carolina, but they said even if he HAD witnesses, he was an immigrant and so he had to apply first to the federal immigration service, or go see Willard Romney’s lawn care service. 

Also, no one can figure out what that scrawl means under “Name of Father”. Kind of looks like “n/a”, but that never cuts it. He needs to be more candid, or at least come up with a better cover story. This neutrinos going faster than light thing is promising, lots of ideas of how maybe He could go back and plant a hospital record in Spartanburg/ 

He was able to sneak his son in somehow, by that climategate-like “trick” of getting him re-born in upstate New York or south Alabama or Texas or somewhere, but to this day, God carries no papers, so he tends to hang around the northeast states, spreading his beneficence on Tom Brady cause he really really likes how Brady hangs in the pocket and WHOA have you see Brady’s WIFE? When the Pack won it all last year, God thought about moving to Wisconsin, but then caught a clip of Scott Walker on TV and decided he wanted no part of that guy or the hell-hole he’s creating there. 

God’s got a time share in Puerto Vallarta that’s been sitting vacant because of the insecurity and because God can’t get off the No Fly list. but lately he’s been looking at Colorado cuz it’s nice near the mountains and global warming is making things a tad TOO warm in the South. But He’ll see y’all at Augusta National in the spring, in time to tee off with Jack and Arnie.

You’re just making shit up again. Would you care to share with us your historical research that details the religious beliefs of the original owners of the colony’s site?

One of those conservative women as much as said Obama is faking his belief in God.  She lacks even the grace to give him the benefit of the doubt.  She believes in God but she has no manners.

You were trying to make a little rubric spelling out “OSAMA.” How endearing.

Unfortunately you’ve spelled out “OMSMAH” which – if I’m not mistaken — is the acronym of the Ohio state agency responsible for monitoring the proper disposal of contaminated sludge from meat packing plants.

I did get a chuckle over “muslim atheist,” which is at least as creative as it is moronic.

I’m thinking yunchii is more along the lines of a literal moron. Ya know, Down’s Syndrome, brain damage from a bad car accident, that sort of thing.

I’d like to think Lincoln was an atheist, but it’s hard to tell. He did “say the right thing” when required to for political reasons. And of course his speeches and writings are suffused with language and thought from the King James bible and sermons of the day.

But I agree, it’s hard to imagine that someone that brilliant (perhaps the greatest genius the nation has ever produced) being a sky fairy believer.

But on television he plays a repulsive asshole. Life is strange.

I’m thinking that parallevar doesn’t believe that Lisa1 has ever actually met Bolling. I’m thinking para’s probably right.

It would be great. But American politicians must.be.believers or they’ll never get elected. It’s hard for me to swallow that someone as informed and intelligent as Obama believes such claptrap, but a whole lot of other smart people do, so I suppose it’s possible.

Since none of what you’ve posted about Thanksgiving being a religious holiday is true, the only person to blame here would be . . . you.

Bob there you go again, correcting domaines spelling, and you got mad at me for suggesting you were a union teacher on newser, but you can’t help yourself, and you didn’t deny either.

Bob just calling her names isn’t going to change anyones mind, oh never mind, that’s been the Dems strategy for years.

Soros! [drink] . . .

Dougster, your ridiculous comment about attacks on US soil shows who the real trite idiot is, you fully know that reference was about attacks that occured after 9/11 but just so you can try to seem intelligent you come up with that drivel. Keep trying I’m sure you can do better,
And let’s all agree it was clintons failure in strengthening our intelligence agencies ( rather than weakening as did happen ) that precipitated 9/11

The more you go on the more of your ignorance you reveal.

Gonerouge. You are a disgraceful idiot but I’m ok with that because you represent the Dems point of view for all to see, I’m sure when independents read your smack they realize that your party has no leg to stand on other than trash talk, keep up the good work.

You can jam that fist up your ass.

As always name calling with no examples of ” a douche “. Name off a few things you don’t like about billings points of view, I’m sure you can’t.

“That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular….I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, or scoffer at, religion.”

I knew it!! That’s exactly what he’s doing! After all those times republicans have ruined his plans now he’s just trolling them.

I have NEVER understood a country that claims to be a “melting pot” to be so judgemental and singular in it’s expectations.  Why can we respect that others may not have a Christian perspective of God and leave it at that?  Thankfully speration and Churh and State still exists – although that gaps seems to continually decrease.  When was it required or expected that a national mus/should address reference God?  I thought that each individual should have personal relationship with his or her God – as I do.  Do you really need the President to reference God in a speech as afirmation? 

As an above poster noted, Dana is the class of that show but she’s not a sports fan. What she meant by “MLB” was that EB was a major league buttwipe. She’s just too classy to say that on the air.

I never get this Jesus BS from the right. You can’t get more socilaist than Jesus. 

Ha!     

+10

Don’t worry…I am.

once again you heard wrong.  The liberals are done – they have to rebuild.  The NDP has always been around.  Jack Layton (the charismatic leader of the NDP) died recently.  There is no liberal party to “merge” with anything.  So you heard wrong.

The opposition pulled a non confidence vote on the Conservatives and damn the guys got a majority and so the end of the non confidence nonsense.  I guess they got ahead of themselves there skippy.  So, you heard wrong – you heard from a lefty who tried to spin you into how the left rose and conquered (didn’t happen – exactly the opposite happened).

Bolling might be the dumbest guy on tv. It’s close between him and Douchy

or beings.

Hey what are your thoughts about the stupidity of selective outrage concerning this incident?

Oh crap on me: I was dead wrong in thinking I’d heard the word “god” come out in this weekly talk from the President. It must be because I’m getting to age where dirt defers to me. I heard some combo of word and then THOUGHT I’d heard a reference to the flying spaghetti monster – but no. In the alternative, I blame Turkey Poisoning – it was too good and I’d eated too much of it. 

Which then takes me to my fall-back, because I’d said below, at least twice, that I was actually p.o.’d that the President would be referring to the imaginary one, so now I have to apologize to him, too, for thinking he’d done that.

I just feel so bad for Atheists and agnostics and their inability to feel gratitude and celebrate Thanksgiving. Poor poor heathen bastards.

What? , …they CAN express deep gratitude? What the hell?  Just one more example of the war on Christianity in this country and the drive to destroy generations of our dominance.

I’m new here, and am very impressed with how smart some of you are. It’s fun to read, even when reason turns to unreasonable anger by the less-smart set. As defined of course by me, the god of reason. 

I watch “The Five” quite a bit. Theres on per on there who thinks they are the know all & end all of everything. Thinks they are right & everyone else is wrong. Sanctimonious & self important. That person is Dana. Can’t stand her arrogance & elitism.

As for the rest, they are great!

Secret Muslim???
LOL

Thanksgiving has nothing to do with Pilgrams and Indians?
Reallly?
LOL

Sounds a liitle grim.It is all what you make of it,

Nobody spews more feigned outrage on television than Eric Bolling.  Sean Hannity and Keith Olbermann have been usurped. 

If the President had included God in his speech, Bolling would be all over him for not thanking Santa Claus. 

It was created by Lincoln to give thanks to the Union soldiers.

That sounds like an atheist giving a political answer to me; you can be an atheist and not be an enemy of, or scoffer at, religion. You can be a private atheist and never openly deny the truth of Scriptures or speak with disrespect about religion. But who knows? I read it as him coyly admitting his atheism; a Christian might read it as a man of private Christian beliefs who doesn’t feel the need to insert his religion into his politics.

If you always heard people on Fox News defending Obama, then why is this particular incident news? It made Mediaite because it is an uncommon, unexpected occurrence. If it really happened all the time, it wouldn’t warrant a post like this. You can’t use an exception to prove the rule.

You are an IDIOT.

Unbelieveable A$$hole

amen bro~

Damn you are DUMB.

Again
Damn you are DUMB.

Oh, Baby Danielson, quit crying. Someone will come & change your diapers. But, knowing you, you probably like them that way.

Some kind of harvest festival is celebrated pretty much everywhere that there is a harvest season, or it was in the past. In the northern hemisphere, they are normally held in October because that is the last month when major crops are harvested, but in the US, it was switched to be one month before Christmas as a reminder that it is time to go shopping. That is the historical truth. Attempts to move the US Thanksgiving to the more appropriate October time-frame were opposed by those who knew it would destroy the real “holiday” known as Black Friday.

Black Friday is the One True Capitalist Holiday! (I am a proud Capitalist.)

Your rebuttal to facts indicates that you my friend are a deep thinker. lol

everything I posted is true.  What the left is suddenly attempting to spin it into because Obama forgot to thank God is another issue entirely.

Seriously dude, it is what it is and has been forever.  You suddenly not liking what it is, is not the issue unless you want to start a petition and do away with  the Thanksgiving Holiday.   

You might suggest they keep it though because you do get paid for not working that day and you can sit around and thank the dog for not biting you, the cat for not giving you cat scratch fever, the deer for not giving you lyme’s disease.  The possibilities are endless.  

I guess I have to spell it out for you.  It wouldn’t have been news if Beckle had said it.  It wouldn’t have been news if Geraldo had said it.  It wouldn’t have been news if Juan Williams had said it.  It surely wouldn’t have been news if Shepard Smith said it.  It was news because Dana said it.  Dana being a damn good talking head for Bush – now do you understand?  

You guys seriously should realize that the right does not play by the lefts handbook.  I know it shocked the hell out of all of you.  

Pagans have been thanking their gods for a good harvest long before Christianity copied that in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. The thanks for the harvest is NOT a Christian original, but don’t let that stop you from thanking the version of God that you choose to believe in.
Be happy your religion gives you comfort, and “use” it well.
Happy Holidays!

Thanksgiving in North America had originated from a mix of European and Native traditions.[4] Typically in Europe, festivals were held before and after the harvest cycles to give thanks for a good harvest, and to rejoice together after much hard work with the rest of the community.[4] At the time, Native Americans had also celebrated the end of a harvest season.[4] When Europeans first arrived to the Americas, they brought with them their own harvest festival traditions from Europe, celebrating their safe voyage, peace and good harvest.[4] Though the origins of the holiday in both Canada and the United States are similar, Americans do not typically celebrate the contributions made in Newfoundland, while Canadians do not celebrate the contributions made in Plymouth, Massachusetts.[5]In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition traces its origins to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. There is also evidence for an earlier celebration on the continent by Spanish explorers in Texas at San Elizario in 1598, as well as thanksgiving feasts in the Virginia Colony.[10] The initial thanksgiving observance at Virginia in 1619 was prompted by the colonists’ leaders on the anniversary of the settlement.[11] The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. In later years, the tradition was continued by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford who planned a thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623.[12][13][14] While initially, the Plymouth colony did not have enough food to feed half of the 102 colonists, the Wampanoag Native Americans helped the Pilgrims by providing seeds and teaching them to fish. The practice of holding an annual harvest festival like this did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.[15]According to historian Jeremy Bangs, director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, the Pilgrims may have been influenced by watching the annual services of Thanksgiving for the relief of the siege of Leiden in 1574, while they were staying in Leiden.[16]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

I understand very well. I’m not shocked at all. I don’t know why there’s
so much hate. My response to you wasn’t hateful at all. Your response
is brimming with rage and condescension. Relax.

You named four people on Fox who give a liberal perspective. Are there
anymore? I should have come up with Williams, but Beckle and Geraldo I
never would have thought of because I don’t take either of them
seriously. I’m sure there are some others, but using people like that to
claim that Fox is balanced is like when MSNBC hired Michael Steele and
Pat Buchanan to add “balance.”

I’m very willing to admit that MSNBC is geared heavily left. I don’t
know why many conservatives refuse to admit that Fox is geared heavily
right.

It’s spelled “Obongo” dearest mentally ill pseudo intellectual.

Well, their you have it. Rextum has been on ‘ludes’ all along. And we thought it was LSD and too much Rachel Bulldyke on the telly!

Stop typing so much liberal bulls hit. Spinning your white guilt won’t reduce it. Contact Bob, he has medication to reduce white guilt.

POLICE! Put the camera down and back away from the young boy.

Like I said, your Palin derangement is based on one or more of the following. You are:
A.) An ugly female
B.) An ugly transsexual
C.) A typical birth defected liberal
D.) A, B & C !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, thanks. Now, could you stop the ‘brown’ crime wave that plagues America?

Republicans expect their elected officials to include sanctimonious religious proclamations in their public addresses. Perhaps Obama should have announced that God spoke to him and suggested that he pardon the turkeys as a gesture of Christian compassion.

Ohhhhhhh fuuuuu uuuck, IT’S THE BLACK FIST OF MASTURBATION!

“He did save Bob Beckel from choking” WAS A CRIME! Now, what makes president homeboy an authority on anything? Wait till your LSD wears off before responding.

Hey Rextum the wunder gawd: PLEASE SPILL LIBERAL Kool-Aid ON YOUR KEYBOARD SO WHEN YOU GO INTO LIBERAL CONVULSIONS WE DON’T HAVE TO READ IT!

Strange situation.
I cannot find the video of the President’s Proclamation anywhere.
I do find a proclamation printed by the Washington post in which the president does mention God twice.
It is the 2011 proclamation.
What’s up with the lack of video?

I agree with Dana. This is not some freakin religious holiday. I’m a devout christian. There are no masses on Thanksgiving Day. You have services in the morning just like any other weekday. The christian crazies should get overthemselves, get a life, go to Somalia and feed the starving children, freaks!!!. Your, not going to get the independent vote by crticizing Obama for much ado about nothing.

Who. gives. a. crap.  If our President found a way to eradicate world hunger, you wingnuts would complain he’s overpopulating the planet! much ado about nothing – as usual from the right.

Eric Bolling is vying to be the new Glenn Beck.

Lets face it Obama is a closet atheist.  The only problem with this is that when he is looking for votes or favors he makes it look like he is religious which proves the phoney baloney he really is.   He should come out of the closet.

BJ but he is not president of the world so in saying God Bless America he is addressing his domain.  The rest of the world can look after themselves and do.

I don’t like it AT ALL. We have *In GOD we Trust* on ALL of our MONEY, and Obama talks about going to church, so if he goes to church, WHO is he praying TO?  We all NEED a good FAITH in something so that we don’t LOSE out minds. Our minds are what keeps us in the SANE mode, with what we are dealing with today. Everything in this country is beginning to SUCK, and I don’t know where the people are getting all this  MONEY to SPEND on this Thanksgiving BLACK FRIDAY.

Your scum bag fiend,…fiend is one of the most unAmerican trash bags under the “teas” control! He is so full of hate on that show, half the time he doesn’t even make sense! A real American would try for a few morals, not praying the country go down the tubes for the sake of the Kool-Aid drinkers! “Kindest, most decent, giving (?), honest”,… “Teas” don’t do humor well and these lies are disproven everyday on the “Five”!

There’s a popular belief among some American Christians that the American Thanksgiving holiday is necessarily religious. Aside from the apparent desire to turn everything into an expression of their religion, the primary reason behind this seems to be the idea that the whole point must be to give thanks to their god – not any other gods, just theirs, thus making it a Christian holiday too. If this is true, then it makes no sense for non-Christians, or at least non-theists, to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Why not give thanks to those who actually DO something to improve life on the planet…medical researchers, farmers, engineers and scientists, friends and family…?

http://atheism.about.com/od/religiousholidays/tp/GodlessThanksgivingAtheists.htm

Since the scriptures, tell us we can’t judge others, (call others liars or debunk their swill) I guess all that can be done is to laugh!

From George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation: “WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER…..”

The Indians were sharing “Thanks” to a religion they know nothing of,… yeah!

Just some more fake outrage from fake christians, full of real hate!

You know, of course, it’s not the ‘country’ that is such a bunch of sanctimonious peckerheads.  It is a small vocal group that holds a cross in one hand and a hammer in the other.  Thank GOD their god is not mine!

Bolling IS a real weinie…trying to make a ‘name’ for himself by being the biggest dick on the airwaves…

Perino’s spots are changing. The next thing we’ll see is Obama making her into one of his czars.

So I take it that you will not be celebrating Christmas this year but will be celebrating Hallmark?

you were close—
it is a gun in the other…

You need your eyes checked. She’s hot! Brunettes > *

no it is called WINTER SOLSTICE???

you know–the shortest day of the year? the end and the beginning?
the old man winter?
have you people ever read anything at all other than right winged crazy crap that has no facts or reality basis?
JESUS IS NOT THE REASON OF THE SEASON…
and lets not even get started with Easter, spring planting, eggs, bunnies, fertilization and the spring equinox…

well you understand the NEW Christians do not have to PRACTICE what Jesus said–they just have to believe…
problem is –they do not even know what they believe in…

There is no GOD. Get used to it. This conversation is pointless. DARWIN was right.

Damn… I guess I need to sharpen my sarcasm skills more. :(

For a minute I thought you were speaking of Obama?

You watch The Five? That’s all I need to know.

Why would he? God doesn’t exist. Why thank something that doesn’t exist?

WAIT. WHAT? IF GOD DOESN’T EXIST DOES THAT MEAN BACHMANN AND PERRY WERE LYING ABOUT GOD TELLING THEM TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES?
Yes. They were lying.

It is celebrated in Canada. And you’re quite correct, we celebrate it in October. But it is not a religious holiday.

never said it was.  I did say that Thanksgiving in the U.S. was a religious event started by the Pilgrims.  

You’re just going with the grim – good for you.

My response was hateful?  Really?  Do tell?  What was so hateful about it.

I don’t “admit” Fox is geared heavily right, because it isn’t.  It it right by MSM standards, but far from heavily and every one of the news people gives a very balanced interpretation of the NEWS.  There are obviously right leaners, like Hannity and he doesn’t deny that for an instant – but he too has a liberal on to give some balance and a view from the other side.  He doesn’t shout them down, he debates with them.  

News is news – opinion is opinion.  Meghan Kelly gives a very unbiased perspective of whatever she is discussing and on many issues she is left of center.  It’s allowed on Fox.  You are what you are.  Geraldo is so in the tank left that his stance is mired in left wing lunacy many times and Colmes – well he hasn’t had an original thought since Jesus was a baby.  I enjoy Fox because I can listen to a Krauthammer who will discuss an issue very intelligently without raising his voice, spittle flying and basically losing it out of the starting gate.  I find there are very few left wingers who can intelligently argue without flames spewing from their ears, which indicates they are surely not in control of either themselves or the topic at hand.  Williams is about the only guy that I think is just a kind left winger who states his position and argues with intelligence.  Powers does usually also, but doesn’t have the in-depth knowledge that Williams has.  

I’m still pondering the “hateful” label.  Reread my post and didn’t see much hate, so would be curious as to why you interpreted it that way.  I was just stating my opinion, much like you stated yours. 

Yup. & you msnbc. Figures.

Of course it’s a religious holiday.  It’s a day of giving thanks to a higher being.  How you interpret it is your own choosing, and what modern label you want to apply, again is your choosing.  You cannot chose to ignore what it was and why it was and why there was a day proclaimed to celebrate.  The name itself gives you a clue, to give thanks.  

It’s a ludicrous argument and reminds me of the attempts to rename the Christmas Tree a Holiday Tree.  Now I have a few Jewish friends who always put up a Christmas Tree, and not one of them ever refers to it as a “holiday tree”.  I don’t for a second think they have converted to Christianity for the season.  They just happen to enjoy that Christian custom.  

after reading all these comments and all the things they dont like about certain GOP candidates i say lets just all vote for Ron Paul he is better than any GOP candidate anyway. He has the less baggage among any of them, he is the most consistent, his views and ideas are pretty much common sense and only takes actual thinking to come up with. Everyone complains when things dont change or when politicians say they are going to do things and they dont do it well thats because all these politicians are almost the same republicans and democrats are a two party dictatorship, the only time they work good together is when a 3rd party candidate like an independent tries to run, democrats and republicans have all the money and no third party has a real chance of getting into office. Ron Paul is the only one who does not look like he goes with the status quo and that is why his own party doesnt even like him. 

Republicans are ugly people inside and outside  and mostly stupid too. We don’t need or want their kind in this country.

“Eric Bolling is a close friend of mine.”

Your “close friend” is a fucking dummy…birds of a feather?

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
~Sinclair Lewis

so basically, there’s no response you cannot spin as “an atheist giving a political answer.” amazing.

Although I am no fan of organized religion I’d say there are probably a lot of brilliant people who tend to believe in God or even a something yet unknown but greater than ourselves.
People are multifaceted, so while it’s nice to suppose that real thinkers avoid the superstition of dogmatic beliefs , I doubt that’s true.  I read a quote once attributed to Lincoln. {paraphrased}
Time and time again I am forced to my knees by the stark realization that there is no place else to go.

No it isn’t. Why are you being so stubborn about it. It was originally to give thanks for the harvest and now it is a holiday for people to be thankful for the good  things in their lives. If God is part of that, then OK, but it isn’t a religious holiday per se.

And of course, Christmas is a religious holiday.

You are a LIBERAL.

“When you leave America it will be wrapped in a pink dress and carrying a rubber penis.”
~Martin Luther Sharpton

Soooooooooooooo many deranged liberals on this topic. We know, we know, God is a monster that sucks. Nothing new for liberals’ with that. Explain what wrecked Detroit Michigan. Start typing, fruits!

god doesn’t like you.

Another right wing attempt at comedy. You can hear the crickets coming from the computer screen.  

Actually, god is a sad fiction. Before you can suck, you need to exist.

You are a perfect example: you exist, therefore you suck.

For something to be funny, there has to be at least a smidgen of reality associated with it. Mere silliness doesn’t cut it.

Your little effort isn’t worth more than a D+ (and the plus is pure charity).

And?

I’m sorry, but Bolling’s a frakkin’ Einstein compared to Doocy.

Xmas.

“. . . have you people ever read . . .”

No.

The reason Obama didn’t mention God, is that it might be politically complicated to talk about Allah.

liberalism  is a mental disease

Excellent comeback. Might go over LNS’s head.

Oh. No. If Abe had come out and said, “I believe in Jesus Christ, and he is my personal savior,” then there’s no way I could possibly argue anything but that. Yet, he didn’t say that, even though he could have.

As far as the “hateful” label, it’s all about tone and diction.

And if you really think Megyn Kelly (I can actually spell [see: my tone here is dismissive and condescending]) is unbiased, then I suppose you also think pepper spray is essentially a “food product.” If you do, then I know I can pretty much ignore much of what you have to say.

Yes, it is the Personal Relationship a person has with God that counts.  I would rather Obama not mention God because I know he is no believer, so it would be like everything else he does, a lie.  All I ever hear are people whining about Christians, bla, bla, bla.  I have never seen any Christian try to force anyone to believe in Jesus or have gangs running around, forcing people into church.  Yes, we like our Christian shows, our crosses, etc, on display, but so what!  It is the nonbelievers who, although no one is trying to force them to do anything, they have to bitch and moan about Christianity, stopping prayer in public places, no manger scenes during Christmas, they don’t even want you to say the words, “Merry Christmas”, but instead, “Happy Hollidays”.  It is the non-believers who want to force their non-belief on us, not the other way around.  You have the sick little puppy you wanted to be President, who is a complete failure, so shut up and leave Christians alone.

I prefer “Obambi” because he is as weak as a new born dear, but much more worthless.  At least you can eat a deer!  I doubt the hogs would even touch Obambi flesh!

hmmmm pepper spray – food product, pepper spray – food product….. where on earth did that come from?  Who was talking about pepper spray and what does it have to do with this nonsense?  I don’t know, maybe you spray it on your steak or burgers.  Don’t know what you might use it for.

I do know that you have a problem – your posts indicate you have trouble focusing.  Perhaps you injested too much pepper spray.

tah tah. 

uuuhhh… That may win the prize for most obvious mental disorder.

It will go over the head of anyone who is not certifiably mentally ill. But you ‘got it’!

That is a horrible gender reassignment tit job, TOM BENNETT! Apparently God doesn’t like you either. We know, we know, you don’t capitalize ‘God’ because you’re all mentally fu cked up with your transsexual surgery fiasco. Now, put down the lube and back away from the young boy.

That is a horrible gender reassignment tit job, TOM BENNETT! Apparently
God doesn’t like you either. We know, we know, you don’t capitalize
‘God’ because you’re all mentally fu cked up with your transsexual
surgery fiasco. Now, put down the lube and back away from the young boy.

It wasn’t liberal humor, you won’t understand it. You see, everything repulsive and backward you find normal. Look at it this way, you were born with a birth defect. When you type on a keyboard the defect is illuminated like a giant neon lesbian! CAPICHE?

You are a birth defected liberal? Tell us something we didn’t know.

Notice no liberal will explain Detroit? When you corner them they spew deranged ‘We hate’: America, God, sanity, indoor plumbing and working.

“. . . explain Detroit. . .?”

Maybe he can hear the sound as it swooshes by overhead.

Naah.

Ahh . . . humor only troglodytes can laugh at. How interesting.

One of the major problems with religion, which is of necessity based entirely on faith, is that it leads its adherents to think that the same magical thinking that suffuses their religious beliefs actually applies to the real world.

As an example, despite the fact that almost no one thinks of Thanksgiving as a religious holiday — and no religious body maintains that it has that character — you’ve decided it is and so that concludes debate.

Sorry. Your fantasies really have no meaningful impact on anyone else’s world.

As for Christmas, it certainly *was* a religious holiday at some point, but the religious aspect has been sucking hind teat to the secular aspect for decades. If you consider it religious, that’s fine, but most people just enjoy the parties, the presents, and the good fellowship.

Christ has become entirely optional for Christmas.

He was a very smart guy. He knew what to say to achieve his policy objectives. He may also have been sincere.

Bottom line, Lincoln was a much deeper thinker than you.

OK, let’s be charitable and assume that Perino meant to say “following 9/11.” Still makes her a perfect example of Bushian cluelessness.

“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like the play?”

“White guilt?”

That comes so far out of left field it might have been pitched by Karl Marx.

WTF do you imagine you’re talking about?

If you had any confidence in your faith, complaints from nonbelievers would roll right off your back.

But no, you wallow in your resentment and insist that the wall between church and state (or in your case, between Christianity and state) be torn down. You believe Christians are entitled to have everyone else pay for your religion’s presence in the public square.

And you’re so small-minded that attempts to make the holiday season inclusive for all (“Happy Holidays”)  trigger your entirely predictable and entirely pointless seasonal affective disorder.

Yes, the rest of us are really, really, really tired of you thinking the country was created so religious dickheads could dictate our behavior.

Why do you even bother to call it “faith” when it’s such a weak reed for you?

Perhaps, but the peckerheads are legion.

They’re cutting January Jones? Where am I going to get my liquid nitrogen fix?

You brought up Megyn Kelly. She said pepper spray was a food product. No problem focusing at all.

Considering the state of the world at present, instead of giving thanks it might be more appropriate to kvetch some, especially considering the state of President Obama’s world.  The Arab Spring is looking more every day like  a hostile takeover by radical Islam.  The latest sucking sound is Europe is going down the tubes.  Democratic Congressional candidates are more and more saying “Barak who?” when he comes to town.  Michelle gets boo-ed at a NASCAR event – big surprise there!  Even Chris Matthews is realizing that tingly feeling in his leg was sciatica.  About all he has to give thanks for is that he can still get in a round of golf now and again, and can still get some NBA players to suck up to him in return for a White House invite.  Poor Barak, nobody appreciates him anymore.

Heh heh. I like the wonder god but “Rextum” is funny!

Here’s why a lot of women hate men. No matter what we think of their brains, we always get around to their looks. Dana’s a doll. 

Call me a snark-handling pimply face teenager, but I’d do Sarah Palin too and so would most of us. No talking though.

Recently, I walked into a bar and inadvertently left the door open.

Barmaid: Were you born in a barn?

Me: It was more like a manger.

This extreme wit did not get the laughs I anticipated. If someone makes a big deal of their religion, they’re off my ballot. PLEASE don’t tell me Dana Perino has been born again. I love her. I love her hair.

So, you “know” the president is a non-believer, eh? And just how do you “know” this? The same way you “know” there is a god?
Also, as much as we’d like to, no one can force a non-belief on anyone.
Personally, I think ALL elected officials should be unmarried atheists. Unbeholden to anyone and sex scandal-proof. Therefore, incapable of being a hypocrite.

like I stated – Thanksgiving was/is a religious holiday.  It was designated as a day to give thanks to God for all the blessing we received during the year.  What it has morphed into, well that’s a completely different story.

For some reason, you deduce that because you lefties don’t agree with me on Thanksgiving that I’m going to change my “opinion” on my stance on Thanksgiving leads me to believe that you aren’t too strong in your convictions.  My stance isn’t my fantasy, it is fact.  

You seem to forget that this entire thread was due to Obama “forgetting” to thank God.  Now, do you realize how ludicrous your denial is?  People were taking Obama to task for forgetting what Thanksgiving is.   I realize it only resembles the old way of giving thanks in name only.  That does not change what its original intent was.  

I’m sure all you bible bashing atheists “celebrate” Christmas with food and drink and what have you.  None of you would think to go to work because it’s a dumb religious holiday and the whole Christianity thing is a sham, according to you.  None of you blowhards.

p.s.  I didn’t venture forth to any “black Friday” events either.  Humanity at it’s finest I can do without.   I come here and get enough of the hate, bile, distortion and misinformation that I need – don’t have to see it in living moving breathing color.  

Cleveland?

“…the defining GOP president of the modern era…”
I get the point but I think Pres. Ford wins that title hands down: dumb AND crooked without peer, IMO.

Our election process is so deeply flawed I think Justin Beiber could get elected if he were old enough.

What DO you do with a drunken sailor?

This is soooo taken out of contex. and the MSM just plays it up more and more.

Of course no one heard the speech that our dPres. O made duridng the week where he did indeed mention God.    Where are the true facts here!

People are getting soooo ridiculous with all their hateful rhetoric.  This is not the America I once knew.

heave ho and up he rises

I think it’s cuz Dana Perino is from Colorado. I’ve been reading the real estate section myself.

I think Steve Douchey has to be the winner, followed by the other host Brian Kilmeade.

You are right of course, but I would miss his comic relief. 

Mediaite…please ban this poor excuse for a human being.

I hope he is a closet atheist.

Your opinion of Thanksgiving is ahistorical, but largely unimportant. If you keep your idiosyncratic views of what a given day means to yourself, you won’t be criticized. If you broadcast it, you’ll get pushback.

And I have no interest in getting inside your head to determine what would make you accept historical fact.

But let’s be a bit more honest here: this thread exists because screeching wingnut commentators have accused Obama of deliberately omitting god from his address. “Forgetting” is your own invention. Believe what you will about *his* motivations.

And on that point, I also have no insight into the motivations of the (at least thousands) of people who, over the life of the nation, have worked to institute a Thanksgiving holiday. Perhaps their motivations were, in the main, religious. However, the fact of the matter is that in creating the holiday (Lincoln and FDR being the presidents most responsible for its formal existence), no one never established it as a religious holiday. If you happen to view it that way, that’s your lookout, but please get down off your high horse and stop hectoring the rest of us who see it as a purely secular day.

Perhaps that’s the concept you don’t grasp: the secular holiday. America has lots of them, one of which is Thanksgiving. And while Christmas is itself inspired by religion, the formal national holiday is extended to all Americans, regardless of their religion or lack thereof. No religious tests for giving presents!

And it’s unfair to call me a bible-basher. I’ve never bashed a bible in my life, and I use the one copy I’ve got, quite respectfully, to prop up the leg of a wobbly table.

Get used to it.  Obama’s doing everything he can to make that change happen.

The evidence is all around you.  Too bad you can’t see it.

“I know he is no believer

He goes to church more than Bush did, yet you “know” he is no believer.  No, you are dumb-eff bigot who wants to hide behind everything but the truth – you’d rather believe that Obama is some Kenyan, Muslim socialist than be a effing man and admit you’re just a simple racist.

Not to mention that Obama DID mention God, 5 EFFING times, in his Thanksgiving Day proclamation. He just decided to dedicate his weekly message to “those who serve.” You know, the military who you were probably praising to all high 2 weeks before on Veterans Day.

If Christians actually knew where their “God” came from there’d be a whole lot less crimes against humanity commited in his name. I mean you have Zionist Israel running bulldozers through palestinian neighborhoods murdering innocents with millions of Christians supporting it all because of some obviously eracist god says they are the chosen ones and if you don’t support Israel you are against God. what a perfect piece of ancient propaganda if I ever heard it.

Ron Paul