# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1931
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38602 "2018-08-15T17:10:15Z")
It’s not really dumber than Rick Scott [wearing a Navy cap](https://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/09/974393-everyone-loves-hat-gov-rick-scott-wears-no-one-knew-political-message-back/)every time there’s a camera on him. He got out in 1972 just 29 months after enlisting. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38603 "2018-08-15T18:28:41Z")
Devin Nunes calls 911 on protesters outside his district office. > **[‘Not what 9-1-1 was designed for’: Devin Nunes slammed for ‘calling the...](https://www.rawstory.com/amp/not-9-1-1-designed-devin-nunes-slammed-calling-police-protesting-constituents-2649250625)** > > Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) was publicly called out for misusing 9-1-1 by beckoning police to shield him from constituents in his central valley congressional district."Clovis police were called and the building housing Congressman Devin Nunes’... ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38604 "2018-08-15T18:56:14Z")
Fox “News” calls the Democratic nominee for Governor of Vermont “that transgender”. > ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38605 "2018-08-15T19:55:46Z")
While live streaming, Nazi Jason Kessler gets yelled at by his father for being a Nazi and Nazi Patrick Little whines about not having any money. > ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38606 "2018-08-15T22:23:24Z")
Is there any limit to Giuliani’s stupidity? I think not. [Rudy Giuliani Claims Facts Are ‘In the Eye of the Beholder,’ Calls Trump the Most ‘Honest’ President in History](https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-trump-facts-honest-1073965?utm_source=Public&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Distribution) > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Tuesday that in the modern era facts are “in the eye of the beholder.” > > In a back and forth exchange between Giuliani and Chris Cuomo on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, the former mayor of New York City called Trump one of the most honest presidents in history. > > “If fact counting is anything, we’ve never had anybody with the level of mendacity that he has,” Cuomo quickly responded, likely alluding to the over 4,000 false or misleading claims Trump has made, according to The Washington Post since taking office. > > “It’s in the eye of the beholder,” Giuliani said. When Cuomo tried to respond that factual statements are not in the eye of the beholder, the attorney answered with “nowadays they are.”… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38607 "2018-08-15T23:21:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Is there any limit to Giuliani’s stupidity? I think not. > > [Rudy Giuliani Claims Facts Are ‘In the Eye of the Beholder,’ Calls Trump the Most ‘Honest’ President in History](https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-trump-facts-honest-1073965?utm_source=Public&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Distribution):smack: And Republicans claim Liberals are soft-headed postmodern relativists who can’t handle objective reality. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38608 "2018-08-16T00:33:08Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Is there any limit to Giuliani’s stupidity? I think not. > > [Rudy Giuliani Claims Facts Are ‘In the Eye of the Beholder,’ Calls Trump the Most ‘Honest’ President in History](https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-trump-facts-honest-1073965?utm_source=Public&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Distribution):smack: Newt Gingrich employs a similarly Orwellian redefinition of reality in his book “Trump’s America”: > [@](#): > > President Trump is redefining the very structure of American political and governmental dialogue by insisting on fact-based conversations… > **[Trump's America](https://books.google.com/books?id=8oRBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT99&lpg=PT99&dq=%22redefining%2Bthe%2Bvery%2Bstructure%2Bof%2BAmerican%2Bpolitical%2Band%2Bgovernmental%2Bdialogue%2Bby%2Binsisting%2Bon%2Bfact-based%2Bconversations%22&source=bl&ots=bbA-7M7kNI&sig=Z082z9xbLm19dSxAhU-hilPoaoM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9rorFqPDcAhVOs1kKHXkmD-IQ6AEwAnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22redefining%20the%20very%20structure%20of%20American%20political%20and%20governmental%20dialogue%20by%20insisting%20on%20fact-based%20conversations%22&f=false)** > > From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Understanding Trump, this "essential" book reveals the truth about the Trump presidency and explains his groundbreaking plans for our nation and world (Rush Limbaugh).No one understands the "Make... War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Compulsive lying is ‘insisting on fact-based conversations.’ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38609 "2018-08-16T01:26:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Is there any limit to Giuliani’s stupidity? I think not. He isn’t stupid. I think his game is just to throw out confusion, including all the bald lies it takes, so that the Deplorables can continue to dismiss the investigation, and anything else legal involving Trump, as a partisan “witch hunt”. He’s not really acting as Trump’s lawyer, but as a political advocate. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38610 "2018-08-16T02:51:57Z")
Everyone other than Fox needs to stop giving Guiliani, Conway, et al, airtime. Just take their friendly Fox interviews and document the lies. It’s fucking useless interviewing them, because anyone with a working brain cell knows they are lying, and all that crew is doing is trying to find those without working brain cells. Stop helping them! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38611 "2018-08-16T15:14:33Z")
[GOP-TV strikes again:](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/402119-fox-newss-ainsley-earhardt-praises-us-victory-over-communist-japan) > [@](#): > > Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt incorrectly said Thursday that the U.S. defeated “communist Japan” in World War II ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38612 "2018-08-16T19:41:00Z")
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38613 "2018-08-16T19:43:21Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [GOP-TV strikes again:](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/402119-fox-newss-ainsley-earhardt-praises-us-victory-over-communist-japan) > > > [@](#): > > > > Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt incorrectly said Thursday that the U.S. defeated “communist Japan” in World War II Forget it - she’s rolling. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38614 "2018-08-16T19:54:58Z")
they’ve even got a flag > **[Communist Japan Flag by AnnikovTheRed on DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/annikovthered/art/Communist-Japan-Flag-569027189)** ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38615 "2018-08-16T20:28:32Z")
Eh, [who can tell _Those_ People[tm] apart](https://tvline.com/2018/08/16/fox-news-aretha-franklin-patti-labelle-photo-death/)? > [@](#): > > Fox News Channel on Thursday aired a photo of R&B singer Patti LaBelle in a tribute to the recently deceased Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38616 "2018-08-16T21:00:56Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Eh, [who can tell _Those_ People[tm] apart](https://tvline.com/2018/08/16/fox-news-aretha-franklin-patti-labelle-photo-death/)? Oh, good grief. So stoopid… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38617 "2018-08-16T21:16:11Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Eh, [who can tell _Those_ People[tm] apart](https://tvline.com/2018/08/16/fox-news-aretha-franklin-patti-labelle-photo-death/)? Update to the idiocy. Which only continues. > [@](#): > > UPDATE: In a statement, Jessica Santostefano, vice president, media desk, Fox News, said: “We sincerely apologize to Aretha Franklin’s family and friends. **Our intention was to honor the icon using a secondary image of her performing with Patti LaBelle in the full screen graphic, but the image of Ms. Franklin was obscured in that process, which we deeply regret.”** > > The image of LaBelle Fox News used was from a 2014 White House concert called “Women of Soul.” Franklin and LaBelle did both sing there but, at least in the PBS recording of the event, did not perform on stage at the same time. And, as Mediaite points out, the **AP photo used in the graphic does not include Franklin at all.** ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38618 "2018-08-16T21:27:22Z")
Ainsley Earhardt - had to look her up. Blonde airhead Fox bigot. Sorry to stereotype blonds but it’s the Fox standard. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38619 "2018-08-16T21:36:01Z")
WronG thread. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38620 "2018-08-16T21:41:25Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > UPDATE: In a statement, Jessica Santostefano, vice president, media desk, Fox News, said: “We sincerely apologize to Aretha Franklin’s family and friends. **Our intention was to honor the icon using a secondary image of her performing with Patti LaBelle in the full screen graphic, but the image of Ms. Franklin was obscured in that process, which we deeply regret.** ” > > > > The image of LaBelle Fox News used was from a 2014 White House concert called “Women of Soul.” Franklin and LaBelle did both sing there but, at least in the PBS recording of the event, **did not perform on stage at the same time. And, as Mediaite points out, the AP photo used in the graphic does not include Franklin at all.** [USA Today says Aretha only performed solos that night.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/03/06/women-of-soul-in-performance-at-the-white-house/6141621/) ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/38621 "2018-08-16T22:36:27Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Update to the idiocy. Which only continues. What is even more appalling was that the 2 ladies did not like one another. But Ms. LaBelle is classy and said her good-bye quite nicely: > **[Patti LaBelle Gives Aretha Franklin a Fitting Diva Send-off, Puts Feud to Rest](https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/patti-labelle-remembers-aretha-franklin-ends-their-feud.html)** > > “I am deeply saddened about the passing of the Queen of Soul and my sister in song, Aretha Franklin.” ““I am deeply saddened about the passing of the Queen of Soul and my sister in song, Aretha Franklin. Today the world has experienced a tremendous loss. Aretha was a rare treasure whose unmatched musical genius helped craft the soundtrack to the lives of so many,” LaBelle wrote.”" [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1930) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1932)