Weekend Update - D-Day Edition

• Sorry, Dick. You can't have it. You can't have even a moment of credit, a glimpse of sympathy, any sort of merciful forgiveness just because you sort of, kind of half-assedly came out in support of gay marriage, again, even though you actually didn't. Mark Morford says "Nice Try, Dick."


• "The Republican Party that is in such disrepute today is not the party of Reagan. It is the party of Rush Limbaugh, of Ann Coulter, of Newt Gingrich, of George W. Bush, of Karl Rove. It is not a conservative party, it is a party built on the blind and narrow pursuit of power." Think some pinko liberal leftie said that? Think again.


• Here's a shocking little story about Bill O'Reilly being caught in a lie. Okay, so it's not shocking.


• And speaking of Fox Noise, the Evil Murdock has recently launched a website called Foxnation.com. The Fox Nation has displayed an uncanny ability to mislead readers, twist the truth, spread wild conspiracy theories, and misrepresent the reporting of legitimate journalists and media outlets.


• President Barack Obama's pick for intelligence chief at the Homeland Security Department withdrew from consideration Friday amid questions about his role in the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists. You see, his name was Mudd, with two d's, and ... oh, never mind.


• Here’s conservative icon and convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. “Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then.” M. Kane Jeeves asks the all-too important question "At what point, in America, did it become okay to be stupid?"


• Rachel Maddow investigates the insane claims of Liz Cheney and her father, Darth. Guess what, they're both lying.


• Here's one that would cause Uncle Bob to break out the brandy: What are Christians to do when faced with evil, logical, scientific reasoning that "mocks the Bible?" Answer: "Christians must learn to think critically, deconstructing the news we read and watch and submitting it to biblical analysis. "