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Almost as soon as it went up yesterday the knives --or guns-- were out for Jim Carrey with this one.

via NBC

In a biting "Hee-Haw" themed Funny or Die spoof, the outspoken comedian takes aim at America's "heartless" gun enthusiasts -- including Charlton Heston, the late actor and former NRA president.

Carrey performed double duty in the video, as both Heston and the twangy lead singer of the band performing the catchy "Cold Dead Hand." (The title is an allusion to Heston's rifle-toting 2000 NRA address, in which he referenced the famous slogan "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.")

"Charlton Heston movies are no longer in demand, and his immortal soul may lay forever in the sand. The angels wouldn't take him up to heaven like he planned, because they couldn't pry the gun from his cold dead hand," Carrey sings, with help from famous peace advocates Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon and Abraham Lincoln -- all peace promoters assassinated by gunmen.

The lyrics also hit male gun owners below the belt, suggesting that they are overcompensating for an anatomical deficiency:

"You're a big, big man with a little bitty gland, so you need something bigger with a hairpin trigger."

Carrey seems unrepentant.

'Cold Dead Hand' is abt u heartless motherf%ckers unwilling 2 bend 4 the safety of our kids.Sorry if you're offended… say.ly/jtu5rar

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) March 24, 2013

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We at C&L have posted a few negatives against Starbucks, their CEO, and some of their more unsavory business practices over the years. But credit where credit is due. Howard Schultz was having none of NOM's foolishness at their shareholder's meeting.

via KPLU, for NPR. Video by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

The CEO of Starbucks defended his support of same-sex marriage at the company’s annual meeting in Seattle. Starbucks came out in favor last year of Washington’s referendum legalizing same-sex marriage. Opponents of that measure vowed to make Starbuck’s pay, and the National Organization for Marriage launched a boycott of Starbucks.

At the company’s annual meeting Wednesday, shareholder Tom Strobhar suggested that the boycott had indeed bled the company of value.

“In the first fill quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales and our earrings — shall we say politely — were a bit disappointing,” he said.

CEO Howard Schultz shot back that the decision to back gay marriage was not about the bottom line, but about respecting diversity. He said the company had delivered a healthy return last year, boycott or no.

“If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the 38 percent you got last year, it’s a free country. You can sell your shares of Starbucks and buy shares in another company. Thank you very much,” he said, to loud applause from the audience.

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Rachel Maddow highlighted, in real time, what CNN and MSNBC were showing versus what Fox News decided was relevant (repealing the health care law) when President Obama makes his first trip to Israel. The results were eye-opening, surreal even. At the very moment Obama was receiving the highest honor Israel can bestow, Fox News was quite literally declaring him an enemy of the state.

Text via Egberto Willies' blog:

After that big speech that was so well received by that huge Israeli audience in Jerusalem, President Obama was honored at a state dinner. He was awarded the Israeli Medal Of Distinction which is the highest honor a civilian can receive in Israel. He is the first sitting President to ever receive this award. Israeli President Simon Peres said to President Obama quote “The people of Israel are particularly move by your unforgettable contribution to their security”. He called President Obama, Dear Barack.

So that was what was happening live in Israel. CNN and MSNBC are carrying it live showing the President of the United States receiving this medal at this big state dinner in a foreign country… Fox News channel however is pretending like it is not happening. They’re talking about repealing Obamacare…. We are all watching as the Israeli president is saying to President Obama, “I know that you would not stop striving for a better world. What was running on Fox News instead was a commercial for their new special on President Obama as an enemy of Israel…

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A Republican County Sheriff in Massachusetts is fielding calls for his resignation after his Obama assassination "joke" made at a Republican breakfast didn't sit well when it was leaked to the public.

via WCVB, Boston.

PLYMOUTH, Mass—Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald said Wednesday he and his family have received more than 100 threatening emails and voice messages because of a joke he delivered at a St. Patrick's Day breakfast in Scituate during the weekend.

"Things have taken a very sinister turn," said McDonald. "I've received all kinds of hate emails, phone messages and voice mails, many of them physically threatening me, my family."

McDonald labeled the joke "political satire" that's been repeated for 150 years. It involves the ghosts of presidents past visiting President Barack Obama in his sleep. They offer advice on how to change the direction of the country. The last President is Abraham Lincoln.

"And Lincoln looks him in the eye and he says, 'Go to the theater,'" McDonald tells the crowd at Sunday's breakfast of about 100 Republicans who laughed generously.

For his part McDonald offered the standard non-apology apology republicans are so fond of:

"To the extent that some individuals seem to be unable to separate satire from reality, if I've offended them, I'm sorry for that," said McDonald Wednesday. "I'm sincerely sorry for that."

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A writer at The Onion re-upped this to YouTube in light of the recent controversial statements by CNN's Candy Crowley after the Steubenville verdict.

via

I was a staff writer on the Onion's show "SportsDome" which aired on Comedy Central in 2011. This is one of the stories we did--full credit to David Iscoe (twitter.com/realhumanbeing) for the idea and script. It could have been produced by the CNN team covering the Steubenville rape verdict.

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With hearings underway this week in Minnesota on legalizing same-sex marriage, having passed both Senate and House committees, at least one former GOP lawmaker has had a change of heart.

Video by The Uptake.

Lynne Osterman who was elected as a Republican to the Minnesota legislature says [she] regrets casting a "political expedient" vote for Minnesota's "Defense of Marriage" law that outlawed same-sex marriage. She tears up when talking about it and urges Minnesota lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage.

Full transcript below.

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Local Connecticut Fox affiliate WTIC in Hartford had a rather unique way of celebrating Women's History Month, with long panning shots of women's breasts. At least 51% of their viewers were not amused and complained loudly as the segment ran twice. WTIC for their part tweeted this today

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In his first televised interview since the election, Mitt Romney said his bid for the White House was doomed by his ability to effectively and honestly convey his opinions to minority voters.

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On Thursday night's The Daily Show, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow had this to say about going to the Supreme Court in person to see how it functions. Maddow heaped scorn on the justice after he characterized part of the "Voting Rights Act" as a "perpetuation of racial entitlement".

Transcript via Fox News

JON STEWART, HOST: Does he, you know, I only read some of the transcripts of what he was saying. And he was saying certain thing like, “We've got to get rid of this because it's one of the last vestiges of racial preferences,” the Voting Rights Act I guess.

MADDOW: He said that, he said when Congress re-upped the Voting Rights Act, they looked into whether or not it was still necessary. Ten months of debate, 21 hearings, 15,000 pages of evidence, and in the Senate they voted 98-0 yeah we still need that. But he said, “That vote really, what does that vote mean?”

STEWART: Didn’t he say something like, “We told them to fix this in 2006 but clearly they won’t or can't, so we have to do it for them?”

MADDOW: Because it’s not, it’s not a real vote. It’s a racial entitlement now. Voting is a racial entitlement, something that you are entitled to on the basis of your race.

Wait a second. Do you know how that sounds?

But I think he does know how that sounds, and that's the neat thing about being there in person because you can see oh, actually, he's a troll. He’s saying this for effect.

Naturally, this affront forced Fox News host Megyn Kelly to breathlessly rush to Scalia's defense, saying she personally objects to "that kind of language against the Supreme Court justice."

"I don't think it does anybody any good," Kelly said. "I think they vote their consciences up there whether they're left or right." (via TPM). Tellingly, she wouldn't mention Rachel Maddow by name, referring to her only as "a liberal commentator". (And no she didn't use the word "biotch", though you know she was thinking it.)

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Full transcript of Maddow below, along with a recording of Justice Scalia's remarks in court to the Solicitor General.

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Yesterday during a discussion with Thomas Roberts and Jimmy LaSalvia of GOProud about why CPAC excludes gays and other groups from their conference the topic of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie came up, and his own lack of invitation to speak. Steve Schmidt, John McCain's campaign manager, had nothing good to say about CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, the distilled fringiest of the right wing fringe:

ROBERTS: “Why does the CPAC organization want to risk alienating burgeoning stars like a Chris Christie, not invite him?”

SCHMIDT: “Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that’s missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies.”

Schmidt would later go on to call Mitt Romney's appearance last year, where he declared he was "deeply conservative as a Governor", simply "kowtowing" to the extreme right.