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Turn on the news (Faux if you must), and all you see is anti-Muslim rhetoric about the Mosque (that is not a Mosque) at Ground Zero (that really isn't ground Zero), and talking head after talking head spewing forth the most heinous bile venom about how they have no right to put up their cultural center that close to Ground Zero. Then people wonder why there is an increase incidence of violence against Muslims.

I know that we have the freedom of speech here in this country, but something about not being able to incite a riot or violence against others comes to mind. Well, thank goodness there is someone like Stephen Colbert who can put this stuff in perspective for us....

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I so totally can't stand Glen Beck, and I make it a point to never (if at all possible) watch this ass-hat's program. However, I do so enjoy when Jon Stewart so expertly skewers Beck, as he did the other night on The Daily Show.

Seriously, you would think that anyone who spends more than five minutes watching Beck's verbal vomits, could clearly see that he is not only a tool, but that he contradicts himself.

Don't believe me? Watch the clip after the jump, and see...

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OK, so you all know that we've been following Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, as he skewers Faux News on their coverage of the Islamic Community Center that is sort of close to Ground Zero, and you all saw the other night how he was able to (using Fox's own "logic") link the man behind the Mosque to Fox News itself.

Well last night, Stephen Colbert took it all a step (hilariously) further when he not only took us all into his Terror Bunker 5200, but further on down the rabbit hole as he traced the money even further down that Faux News "logic"...

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We don't have to tell you folks that Faux News likes to make s#!t up and report it as fact. Not only that, but they indulge in fear-mongering, in their attempt to sabotage any agenda that doesn't reflect their world view. Now, it seems that they have (believe it or not), actually gone way too far.

They have done everything they they can to whip the country into a frenzy in order to spew hate about the Ground Zero Mosque (that really isn't a mosque) located at Ground Zero (except it really isn't Ground Zero). Still none of that matters, because since Faux News says it, it MUST be true, (and the continued repeating of it it makes it truier).

Interestingly enough, let's talk a closer (Jon Stewart), look at all of this nonsense, shall we?

But first, Fox News is giving money directly to Republicans

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Yeah, we were having something of a hard time with this one, apparently there is a gaping hole in U.S. Security. What is this gaping hole, you ask? Apparently, it is the 14^th Amendment, which (briefly) states that anyone born in the United States, is automatically a citizen. Well there are (fools) people who are insisting that there are pregnant terrorists who travel to the U.S. specifically to have their kids, to then take them back to the mid-east in order to raise them as "sleeper agents" to then come back in 20 or so years to then overthrow the country.

Seems to me as if some of these folks have spent too much time at the movies.

Needless to say, the leading lunatic in this "debate" is U.S. Representative, Louie Gohmert (R - TX), but hey, don't take my word for it, listen to Louie himself describe the problem...

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Not to make light of what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico, nor to detract from the posts that Walt is making (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz), but I though that I'd add this little bit of BP-related silliness to your Monday morning.

This may look like the work of a prankster, some PhotoShop kid with too much time on their hands, but no, this was once (and still is, I guess) a real thing.

Released in the 1970s, this BP-endorsed board game wasn't exactly a hit, but it's sure a hit with collectors now, with old copies being dug up and dusted off in the wake of the Louisiana Gulf disaster.

The game had up to four players taking control of deep-sea oil rigs. While there was money to be made and pipes to be laid, there were also dangers, like...well, "Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million."

The game is probably rubbish, hence its obscurity, but who cares when the box art is that poignant, and that creepy.

Now I know that this looks like some kind of sick Photoshop atrocity, but, rest assured, that no, it is not. It is an actual '70s board game that was endorsed by BP. Seriously.

George Santayana said, "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it" here is proof of a sort.

Right about now I'm sort of expecting the little mole men form that Old Superman movie to start climbing out of the well.

The Perfessor