WASHINGTON POST: It’s not fair to blame Beck for violence committed by people who watch his show. Yet Williams isn’t the only apparently disturbed character with a seeming affinity for the Fox News host. In April 2009, a man armed with an AK-47, a .22 rifle, and a handgun killed three cops in Pittsburgh. The Anti-Defamation League reported that the accused killer had, as part of a pattern of activities involving far-right conspiracy theories, posted a link on a neo-Nazi website to a video of Beck talking about the possibility that FEMA was operating concentration camps in Wyoming. The killings […]
TEABAGGERY: Neocon Cyber Coven Has Been Secretly Censoring Digg For Right Wing Purity Since 2009
ALTERNET: A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year. Digg.com is the powerhouse of social media websites. It is ranked 50th among US websites by Alexa (117th in the world), by far the most influential social media site. It reached one million users in 2007 and likely has more than tripled that by this point. Digg […]
SCRAPPLE TV: Getting Lit With AP Ticker
New feature: AP Ticker does dramatic readings of song lyrics. We start off with Public Enemy’s “The Enemy Battle Hymn Of The Public.”
Breitbart Brings Tea Party Minstrel Show To Town
[Click image to enlarge] PHILLY IMC: Andrew Breitbart said he wanted to discredit the NAACP’s claims of racism within the Tea Party campaigns. So he smeared a black woman to do it. Tea Partiers coming to Independence Hall on July 31 want to show that the NAACP is wrong about the racism within their campaigns. And they have invited Andrew Breitbart to speak. The Tea Party Federation is the organization that ousted a racist from their ranks last week after a racist mock letter to Abraham Lincoln. They are also the organization that is sponsoring what they have called a […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With AP Ticker
AP says ‘good riddance’ to the Ducks, the Gulf spill and Mel G. Plus, the auspicious debut of our new sportscaster, Hot Carl!
THE HARSHEST MELLOW: New Jersey’s Medical Marijuana Law Will Be The Strictest In The Land — Assuming It Ever Actually Goes Into Effect
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY Of all the shitty ways to die, ALS is arguably the shittiest. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS stands for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and in short it is slow death brought on by the steady and methodical withering of the nerves that control your muscles. First, you can’t button your shirt. Then, you can’t walk and eventually, you can’t breathe. The cruelest irony is that the disease does not affect higher brain function, and so even at the very end, you are a fully present mind trapped in […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Life Lessons
AP on the beauty of the sexy beast within. He is man, hear him roar.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Puppy Of The Week!
Each week, our pal Jamie from the SPCA drops buy with a cute little puppy in need of a home. This show is already working its magic. Lila, the puppy we had on last week, has found a good home. And Puppy Of The Week director Marc Brodzik fell so hard for this little guy, he adopted him after the shoot. Awww.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: The Week In Weed
A.P. goofs on Philly Mag’s cover story blaring the no-shit news that marijuana is, like, popular.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With A.P. Ticker
A.P. cracks wise about hospital infections, the Feds gunning to put Fumo in an iron maiden, and Larry Platt’s testicles. Plus sports: Phils suckage, Vick’s ” ‘All White’ birthday party shooting, and Tiger to take on 18 local holes. Only watch if you like to laugh.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Life Lessons
Your life coach AP Ticker on why he loves, loves, loves sum, sum, summertime!
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With AP Ticker
A.P. discusses Nutter in the Gulf, Christie on weed, ?uestlove’s Kanye moment, Comcast swallowing NBC and the homeless man living in center field at Citizens Bank Park.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Puppy Of The Month
New feature on Scrapple TV News: once a month we will bring our pal Jamie from the SPCA on to talk about some swell new doggie with a hard-luck story and in need of a home. We start off with Mila, who came into the shelter as a stray on April 4, 2010. She was a sad sight, covered in tar and mud, and was immediately a staff favorite because of her amazing spirit and willingness to give us love, even though she clearly hadn’t had anyone to care for her for quite some time. This 2-3 year old pit […]