Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Michael Savage: Bigot

Michael Savage: Bigot t-shirt.

Here, I'll let him explain for himself (including the quote at the bottom of the shirt):

"In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salvations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it, I think these people need to be forcibly converted to Christianity [...] It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings. [...] Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what I'd like to see done to these people." - Michael Savage, Savage Nation, May 12 2004

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Rush Limbaugh: Draft Dodger; Henry Kissinger: War Criminal


Rush Limbaugh: Draft Dodger t-shirt

It's kind of amazing to consider that for all his pro-war bluster and all his bullshit "Swift Boat" attacks on Vietnam Vet John Kerry in the 2004 election, Rush Limbaugh himself managed to find a way to avoid being himself drafted into that war (for which Kerry, I might add, volunteered).

Rush's excuse for being passed over? A pilonildal cyst on his ass.

At first, Rush avoided the draft because he was a college student, but then he dropped out of school, at which time he suddenly found himself staring down the barrel of Uncle Sam's finger. No problem! A trip to the doctor unearthed the previously unknown pilonidal cyst (essentially a large boil that must be surgically removed-- search the term in youtube and see how fast you can find something to make you barf) that rendered him 1-Y (a precursor to the term 4-F).

Funny thing, though-- he went on to spend the rest of his career sitting on his ass and expounding about the cowardice of guys like him who found a way to avoid serving. Or better yet, the cowardice of decorated vets like John Kerry. I couldn't make this up, folks!



Henry Kissinger: War Criminal - Still At Large t-shirt


Remember when Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon were breaking about every law in the book to support coups against democratically elected governments, waging undeclared war on various countries, building up Latin-American death squads, planning political murders, and napalming civilians? You don't? Well, next time you see him, ask Kissinger why he'll be arrested if he sets foot in Spain or Chile again!

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

War-Mongering Draft-Dodgers, a Field Guide


War-Mongering Draft-Dodgers t-shirt

Featuring:
George W. Bush, Cheney, Jeb Bush, Delay
Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Savage, Robertson
Romney, Bolton, Gingrich, Giuliani

Seems like all the most prominent pro-war characters in America share a dirty secret-- none of them have served in the military or actually seen, heard, or experienced war in any way. For characters like Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Ann Coulter, this is perplexing, since all were of age to have volunteered to serve in the first (or second!) Gulf Wars. If they were so in favor of America's desert adventures, how come they stayed home? But everyone has a choice, and maybe they happened to have better things to do just then. The characters on this shirt, however, are even more slippery-- at a time when Americans were being drafted by the thousands and being sent to Vietnam, all managed to find some excuse that allowed them to be passed over in favor of some other young Americans who then went to fight, and quite possibly die, in their place.

Makes you wonder how they got so fond of war as a means of solving problems, doesn't it?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Newt Gingrich: Philanderer; Ayn Rand: Creep; John Galt: Douchebag

Newt Gingrich: Philanderer t-shirt

Like so many of the conservative "pro-marriage," "pro-family" crowd, Newt Gingrich (former speaker of the house and author of the Contract On America) has never felt like those rules applied to him. For example, when he got his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from chemotherapy so he could marry his mistress. Not to rest on his laurels, he cheated on his ex-mistress-now-wife DURING the Clinton impeachment hearings, in which he and his cronies tried to drive Clinton out of office with the argument that someone who cheats on his wife isn't fit to govern. You know, I might happen to agree with that statement, provided we could apply it across the board...


Ayn Rand: Creep t-shirt

Hey everybody, it's Ayn Rand, who's responsible for the farcical "political philosophy" that says that if you're rich, it must be because you're an awesome person that does wonderful things for the benefit of everyone (after first benefiting yourself). The rich are the engine that drives society, the people who work to make their money are just parasites sucking at the teat of the genius of the wealthy, and selfishness makes the world go round. No where in this "philosophy" does Rand find room to consider that self-interested profiteers might do things that hurt everyone, apparently because only socialists would do that sort of thing. Everything that sounds like socialism is evil to Rand, however. If it were up to her, we'd have to pay protection money to the fire department to guarantee they'd come save us when our houses caught fire. She's a real creep.

John Galt: Douchebag t-shirt

And John Galt, hero of Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged and idol to a bunch of idiots who hate Obama, is a total douchebag. Buy this shirt for any moron you know who's "going Galt" by, uh, not stimulating the economy? Or whatever it is they think they're doing.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Bill O'Reilly: Degenerate

Bill O'Reilly: Degenerate t-shirt

I could call this guy a moral degenerate based on his horrific political opinions alone (not to mention the fact that he's crushed legitimate political discourse on television into a stinking pulp in favor of shouting and cutting people's mics off), but have you read his thriller Those Who Trespass? The guy's a total creepy perv. I know, who knew, right?

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Oliver North: Drug-Dealing Gun-Runner


Oliver North: Drug-Dealing Gun-Runner t-shirt (featuring original mug shot!)

Hey, that guy's on the radio too! Just like G. Gordon Liddy! And just like G. Gordon Liddy, he totally and incontrovertibly broke the law by selling guns to Iran (America's enemy, remember?) and secretly funneling the profits in to support for the Nicaraguan Contras, a right-wing guerrilla group which the United States congress had voted in 1982 to cease supporting.

North was convicted but his conviction was overturned due to some amazing legal slight-of-hand, so today he gets to tell people he isn't a felon even though he did commit all those felonies, and he gets to go on Radio America pretending that he doesn't oppose most of the stuff America originally stood for!

Unlike G. Gordon Liddy, however, Oliver North actually planned to suspend the constitution of the United States of America! See below.



(oh, and he NEVER warned Congress or anyone about Osama Bin Laden, in case you've heard that one. Conservatives made that up, naturally.

America: Accept It or Improve It.


America: Accept It or Improve It t-shirt.

We've been hearing this "love it or leave it" bullshit all our lives, but the simple fact of the matter is that if you love something, you care enough to maintain it, to work on it, and improve it if it starts to fail at what it's supposed to do. Your other option is just to accept it. Did anyone tell the Tea Party people (the first ones, or the more recent nuts) to "love it or leave it"? There's no reason you should put up with that bullshit excuse from anyone either.