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Open Thread

by Michael D.|  August 14, 20085:37 am| 16 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Previous Site Maintenance, General Stupidity

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The folks at NoIQ are at it again. Discuss the insanity.

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  1. 1.

    Person of Choler

    August 14, 2008 at 5:55 am

    What’s with these people, anyway?

    The wife of Our Soon To Be Elected Savior SHOULD have speaking-slot priority over a mere Senator.

    In fact, his KIDS ought to given precedence over mere elected politicians.

  2. 2.

    Xenos

    August 14, 2008 at 5:56 am

    If you check out the comments section, it is clear that these ‘Clinton supporters’ are not Democrats. They all have screen names like ‘Clinton Fan’ and then go on to denounce Obama as a bloody handed late-term abortionist/infanticidaire because he voted against one of the phony ‘partial birth abortion’ bills back in the day. And they take their talkingpoints from the National Review.

    Just an infestation of crypto-republicans. The site needs to be shut down and fumigated.

  3. 3.

    Richardson

    August 14, 2008 at 6:13 am

    The ultimate Obama revenge comes when Michelle primaries Hillary for her Senate seat in New York.

    Best Havard v. Yale match in history.

  4. 4.

    gypsy howell

    August 14, 2008 at 6:43 am

    One supposedly “pro-Hillary” commenter refers to Michelle as “king kong’s little sister”

    Nice stuff ya got going there, Agent Flowbee. You must be so proud.

    I’m sure Hillary would be too, if she ever saw the cesspool you’ve created in her name.

  5. 5.

    Jake

    August 14, 2008 at 7:40 am

    I’m almost afraid to open the NoIQ site, for fear that the stupid will infect my machine.

    The best part of SusanUnPC’s post?

    Who cares what I think.

    The answer would be: nutjobs.

  6. 6.

    Jake

    August 14, 2008 at 7:46 am

    The Obama campaign passed 2 million donors.

    Giddyup.

  7. 7.

    Jake

    August 14, 2008 at 7:59 am

    Joe Klein, once again, can’t help but eviscerate the McCain campaign. Good on him.

  8. 8.

    PK

    August 14, 2008 at 8:06 am

    O.K. I went to the site and saw they were bitching about Michelle Obama’s brother in the comments. That was as much stupidity as I could take in the morning.

  9. 9.

    SpotWeld

    August 14, 2008 at 8:09 am

    Is speaking order really that a critical thing here?
    It seems like they’re trying to read some sort of pecking order into this that really doesn’t exist.

    I mean almost all the speakers probably have a seperate individual (and equally critical to them) schedule of people they need to meet with as part of the usual horsetrading and flesh-pressing that is politics.

  10. 10.

    Punchy

    August 14, 2008 at 8:56 am

    Mike, John, Tim — please fix your server. It was down for 5 hours yesterday (at least at my end). It does this daily. It’s the only blog I know of that goes dark every day.

  11. 11.

    Punchy

    August 14, 2008 at 8:59 am

    Pretty funnah

    (h/t Cal’d Risk)

  12. 12.

    PeterJ

    August 14, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Mike, John, Tim—please fix your server. It was down for 5 hours yesterday (at least at my end). It does this daily. It’s the only blog I know of that goes dark every day.

    The Man is trying to keep this blog down.

  13. 13.

    Zetsuki

    August 14, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    Dude. Your blog keeps going down.

    Does it need to be on life-support or something?

  14. 14.

    Dylan

    August 14, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Love the books advertised on the site when I visited:
    “The Case Against Barack Obama” – David Freddoso
    “Obama, The Postmodern Coup” – Webster Griffin Tarpley
    “Obama, The Man Behind the Mask” – Andy Martin
    “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” – JK Rowling

    Tell me there is some kind of Bayseian algorithm for choosing book ads to suit a site?

  15. 15.

    Johnny Pez

    August 14, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    The ultimate Obama revenge comes when Michelle primaries Hillary for her Senate seat in New York.

    A cute idea, but no way is Michelle leaving Chicago.

  16. 16.

    Richardson

    August 15, 2008 at 3:20 am

    A cute idea, but no way is Michelle leaving Chicago.

    Fine, I’ve got a better one. What if Michelle takes Barack’s Senate seat?

    Then Michelle could place her office opposite Senator Clinton’s in the Senate. We’d be privy to dialogue like this on a daily basis; “My husband was the first black President.” “Wrong sweetie, mine was!” It could make for a great sitcom. I think I’ll run it by Fox.

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