Answer YES if you can see dat shit.
Answer NO if you can’t see dat shit.
Answer Barack Obama is a Muslim if you are intellectually honest.
Update: My guess, based on the results so far, is that Flash and video content should be explained – as in, embed the content, then put a brief explanation of it after the embed. That way, it will work for people whose companies restrict video and Flash, and will be accessible to JAWS users (you know who you are.) For my part, I will do that. either in the content or on ALT tags.
Update II: The overwhelming plurality of you believe Obama is a Muslim. Awesome.
John Cole
You know we have a plugin that allows you to do polls internally?
Zifnab
It would be helpful if you hosted a flash video with said poll so we could know whether we were talking out our asses or not. Which isn’t to say we’ll stop talking out our asses, but it will probably give you a better poll sample.
James Hare
I’m glad to see others are taking this poll just as seriously as I did. For the record, I can actually see flash videos and stuff. And B-Rock "the Islamic Shock" Hussein Superallah Obama is Muslim as hell.
Comrade Darkness
Help! Am I answering the spirit of the question or the literal wording of the question?
In other words if I can see flash do I answer Yes (I can see flash) or No ( I can’t not see flash).
–What the heck, Barack’s a Muslim is just funner to click.
Atanarjuat
I found the third choice to be a distortion of Senator Barack Hussein Obama’s religious preference and the usual calumny that agents of intolerance engage in.
On the other hand, questions regarding BHO’s actual birthplace and his supposed American "citizenship" have yet to be answered with any unimpeachable proof.
Country First.
Bey
@Comrade Darkness: That’s why I went for the clearly correct answer.
Michael D.
@John Cole: I looked everywhere and I couldn’t find it. I knew it was there somewhere.
MikeL
I had a problem, but I got flash working on Linux with a little tinkering.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
Polls is boring. Music videos much more better. Russia love you, Sarah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9V_aOCga0&eurl=
Comrade EdTheRed
Yeah, like, I totally heard that B. Hussein Obama was actually born in PANAMA!!1!! How can someone who was born in Panama even run for President????!!!1!!one!!
SamFromUtah
At work, I can’t see the videos and stuff.
At home, I can, but I rarely play the videos, and never the ones for which the rest of the post consists of "LOLz @ 18:47!"
So in any case it’s helpful to have a bit of a description.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
Polls is boring. Music videos much more better. Russia love Palin! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9V_aOCga0&eurl
4tehlulz
lulz the work firewall blocked me from answering the poll.
Michael D.
Yeah, I could have worded that better.
Yes, if you can see that shit.
No if you can’t see that shit.
Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
hmmm… I’m not seeing my comments going up… browser problem or a ban? there it went… maybe the youtube link was an issue?
Comrade Nixon Hailfire Palin
Using parody as a talking point? It doesn’t get much lamer than that.
Comrade Darkness
FTW
And his forged birth certificate lists a hospital that wasn’t even built until four years after he was born.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Okay, I’m confused.
You structured this poll in such a way that the answer to the question is a negative, so answering yes would be a double negative meaning NO?
I can see videos.
Up until last night I could not play all videos, but that was a problem with Firefox plug-in DLL omission, not your blog.
I am fine with the added content.
I would suggest for those who can’t see the added content (as I was once one of those people) that transcripts are provided.
In the meantime, I am voting NO in the poll which means I am able to "see that shit"
ATinNM
I have yet to receive unimpeachable evidence Atanarjuat isn’t a sheep fucking, goat scrotum sucking, chopped baby liver eating pervert.
Without such evidence it is irresponsible not to speculate.
THeDRiFTeR
Thanks for the fucking pop ups. Nice. Is the flash question serious, or is this a deal you’ve worked with advertisers?
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Too late, I already voted the way it was written. You’ll have to subtract one vote from the NO column and put it in the YES column.
You DID go to grammar school? Just checking.
Comrade Darkness
Was someone taking up a collection to get us some better trolls? One or two who can research a little before blathering. I know it’s a lot to ask, but I tire of doing troll basic education.
It’s not Obama’s, or McCain’s for that matter, citizenship that are in question. It’s whether they are "natural born". That is the wording that matters for president that does not matter for the Senate. At least Obama shows up on the birth register in Hawaii. McCain doesn’t show up in the birth records on base in Panama (i.e. U.S. soil).
David Hunt
I too found the question’s wording confusing, so I decided that it was all the dirty Muslim’s fault. My answer reflects that. I can see embedded Flash players.
crack
I don’t like flash much so I use flashblock. Youtube and such is blocked at work, so even if I didn’t any flashvideo access would be unlikely.
The Moar You Know
@Atanarjuat: He was born in Saudi Arabia, in Mecca. The drums were beating out a sinister rhythm, much like the doleful tattoo before an execution, but with a slithering, sexual overtone. The city was preturnaturally quiet the morning of Barack The Islamic Shock Hussein Al-Quaeda Osama Obama’s birth.
His father was a pan-Arabist Black Panther nationalist of Indonesian descent, at the time a decorated colonel of the Soviet Army, a direct adjunct to Josef Stalin and Chairman Mao. His mother was a dewy-eyed church-going sixteen year old from the Midwestern heartland, an innocent child of liberals from Kansas, who were in Saudi Arabia to gain more "cultural awareness". Little did they know their lives were to be forever altered by this tragic decision.
Barack The Islamic Shock Hussein Al-Quaeda Osama Obama’s mother had never seen a Negro before, and once she got over her instinctive terror at the sight (the same terror that all humans feel on viewing a dangerous animal, such as a snake, tiger, or spider) she felt herself irresistably drawn to the magnetic power of the dashing yet dangerous blackamoor.
At first she was relucatant, but once the Negro overwhelmed her, she shed both her inhibitions and her certain knowledge at the wrongness of violating the racial boundaries laid down by generations of decent folk; she abadoned herself to the libidinous attentions of the perfidous savage, and did so with a willingness and vigor that astonished and repelled those who knew her previously.
Nature took its course. Seduced by the magnetism of the sinuous, confident Negro, she stayed on in Saudi Arabia to bear the child of the man who had stolen, not just her heart, but her very soul, along with it any possibility of salvation.
Barack The Islamic Shock Hussein Al-Quaeda Osama Obama was born January 6, 1966 (6/6/66). He was to have been aborted, but a Watusi witch doctor walked all the way to Mecca from his home country, Mali, a distance of well over 9,000 miles. He arrived in the abortionist’s waiting room, and told the assembled men and women that he had a vision, and that this young infant, not yet borne, was to be the ruin and despair of the white man one day.
The assmebled men and women listened and concurred. The baby would be born in Mecca, as are all Muslims, and then smuggled to the United States and passed off as a native-born child, so that the vision of the witch doctor would be realized and the American empire destroyed by this child; Barack The Islamic Shock Hussein Al-Quaeda Osama Obama.
Edmund Dantes
The short answer is "It depends on where it’s coming from". I can’t see any material that comes from Youtube. However other flash embed videos from other places I can see because my company hasn’t gotten around to blocking those domains yet.
Lab Rat
I had trouble with Flash and You Tube videos in Firefox this past week. I found that disabling the flashplayer plug-in in Firefox, closing the browser, then re-opening Firefox, re-enabling the plug-in, then closing and re-opening Firefox fixed all problems. All Flash and video now play normally.
hth.
Atanarjuat
Comrade EdTheRed said:
Actually, the reasonable speculation is that the country of BHO’s birth is Kenya. As everyone knows, that’s where his father was born and where most of his actual family lives (including a destitute half-brother whom BHO seems to be ashmed of). Ongoing investigations have revealed that BHO’s supposed Hawaiian birth certificate is very likely to be a clever forgery….
…and this is just scratching the surface of the very elusive Democrat Presidential candidate. It’s all very unsettling, to say the least.
Country First.
Axe Diesel Palin
I read the site on my phone while commuting on the train. So, I cannot read flash.
Michael D.
@The Moar You Know: That was awesome.
Warren Terra
On my computer, I can see everything. everything.
On my phone, which I use about 1/3 to 1/2 the time, I can’t see Flash.
One detail: if there is a hyperlink to a YouTube video, I can watch it on my phone – but if it’s embedded I can’t watch it, and unlike when I’m using one of my computer’s browsers, clicking the embedded video does not function as a link to YouTube. So if you want to go out of your way to make your Embedded YouTube videos available to whatever vanishingly small proportion of readers frequently read Balloon Juice using a phone similar to my own, you could add hyperlinks to videos you embed, directly below the embedded videos. Do note, though, that if you use that opportunity to consistently RickRoll me and people like me instead, we will probably catch on after the first several offenses.
Atanarjuat
I must confess, The Moar You Know, that essay was quite funny!
If only more of the liberals here on BJ had your sense of humor instead of being such perpetual, tripe-flinging sourpusses. Without a doubt, the whole blog experience here would be so much more pleasant for those on the right.
Thanks for the welcome chuckle.
Country First.
cleek
how many fingers am i holding up ?
Warren Terra
And, yes, The Moar’s comment was very nearly overflowing with win. The only possible improvements would be:
1) It appeared to say that "The Islamic Shock"’s mother was a US Citizen, which clearly limits its utility to those who want to believe this sort of thing.
2) It should be brought into compliance with Jesse Taylor’s wonderful Birth Certificate, which could be done fairly easily by simply setting the conception and the birth in different places.
3) In honor of the father’s "adjunct" status (and should that have been "adjutant"?), the comment’s author should have signed their name as "The Maor You Know".
The Moar You Know
@Michael D.: Thank you. I always liked that late 19th/early 20th century, purple prose literature. Occasionally I can ever channel it :) I was born 100 years too late, no question.
Dammit, you’re right. So close to the win!
sparky
@The Moar You Know: alsome. looks like an SJ Perelman riff in there, too.
oh, and what term are the kids using these days instead of "props"? my beanie wants to know…
perhaps if we sacrifice some trolls to the FSM you can uhhh take over for them?
Nannergrrl
Hahahaha
and
Quit stealing poll topics from Red State!
Soooooo, how many achievements points do YOU have?
:D
Gary Ruppert
The fact is that McCain is American at heart in a way that Obama is not. Anyone with two eyes can see it. I’m just pointing it out, not being racist or anything, so please spare me your uncivil, biased attacks and profanity.
The Moar You Know
One. The middle one.
Cabalamat
Surely the correct answer is "Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Muslim, whose (Christian) pastor is a dangerous anti-American radical".
Svensker
No.
(Michael D., couldn’t figure out which button to push on your poll. But I can see everything on my computer. )
Nicole
I can see Flash on computers, not on my iPhone. You tube is okay, though. But seeing as how I spend enough time on this site already, maybe it’s not bad to not be able to see Flash sometimes.
And McCain’s middle name is "Sidney" so therefore he is obviously a supporter of men with girls’ names who write bad pulp novels that are made into TV movies all starring Jaclyn Smith. Which is its own kind of terror.
(Full confession- Kelly Garrett was my favorite Angel)
Perry Como
Ewww, that’s not a finger!
cleek
hmmm. and all this time, i thought his name was Barack Osama Saddam Hussein Antichrist Madrassa Obama-X, aka BOSHAMO-X
dingdingdinger! we have a weener!
John PM
"On my computer, I can see everything. everything."
I can see infinity, and it goes on forever, forever … [claws eyes out and begins laughing uncontrolably]
MazeDancer
Lot of people with Mac’s and Firefox use Flashblocker so they won’t see Flash unless they click. Keeps the heat down.
kilo
@Comrade EdTheRed:
Well played, you caught a troll!
Garrigus Carraig
OT: Jörg Haider’s secret gay lover emerges?
SamFromUtah
For my part, I will do that. either in the content or on ALT tags.
Thank you very thank you.
RSA
Did you used to design ballots for the Democrats, Michael?
When a post contains Flash content or Video, I can’t see that shit! = Answer YES if you can see dat shit.
That’s kinda confusing.
For what it’s worth, running Safari on a Mac, I can see the presence of a Youtube video but it doesn’t run when I click it.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
OT (or perhaps not – this an open thread amiright?), and apologies if this has already been posted in another thread:
Gee thee hence to the swamp, Joe Klein has an Obama interview with much to chew over.
Michael D.
Was this poll really at RedState? I don’t go there.
Punchy
So you left the Polish dude just standing there, hanging?
cleek
Omama?
Punchy
I think you’d be stunned how many peeps like me read these blogs via phone while driving, grocery shopping, or when trying to avoid listening to the ole’ lady yammer on about laundry or coworkers. I bet this actually constitutes a rather large number of readers….
Cris v.3.1
"alt attributes," not "alt tags"
Krista
yOmama.
Common Sense
@ all of you fools that think Obama is actually a Muslim:
Andy Martin, who Hannity thankfully introduced to the world at large, proved you wrong today. Obama is not a Muslim — he is not even the child of Barack Obama Sr. He is in fact the illegitimate bastard of a liason between Obama and Frank Marshall Davis, of National Enquirer fame:
horatius
Obama is a Muslim button has it’s own wankerrific lure that forced even me, a longtime Obama fan to press it. It’s just too tempting to miss.
Comrade Darkness
Common sense,
Pretty strong family resemblance there.
I see what you are trying to do, but if that would have worked than simultaneously complaining he’s Muslim and his pastor is a whacko would already represent Fail. But it doesn’t. Because reason has zero to do with any of it.
Sigh.
South of I-10
You beat me to it!
cleek
YoYoMaMa Bo Bama
Fee Fi Fo Jihad
Zuzu's Petals
Fixt again.
I suggest a default correction feature.
Nannergrrl
Michael D.,
Must apologize, I was making, in political parlance, a funny. The vaguely worded poll, with counterintuitive explanation of which button to push combined with an off-topic opponent attack was the type folderol one might find on RedState.
But no, I did not mean to say that this poll was on RedState. As far as I know, they do not use Flash on their site – too creative and therefore, smacks of liberalism.
Lisa
Sorry but I just had to click on the Barack Obama answer because it was amusing.
I don’t believe he is. Not that it would be bad if he was.
Fulcanelli
No, no.. Yo‘ mama is a Muslim.
Fixt.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course.
Lisa
Oh and #55 made me laugh and laugh and laugh…..
ThymeZone
Depends on where I am. I read and post from around a dozen different machines, using 3-4 networks most of the time, and any old friggin network some of the time (example, the hotspot at the local whatever placy thingy).
Sometimes I can see all the content and sometimes I can’t.
Sometimes I am on a machine I dont have control over and cant install the plug ins. Sometimes content is blocked. Sometimes I am just high on crack and cant figure out how to see the content. Sometimes I am just Rocky Mountain High and When I first came to the mountains my life was far away On the road and hangin’ by a song
But the string’s already broken and I don’t really care
It keeps changin’ fast and it don’t last for long
A sentence or two about the embedded content prevents me from flying into a rage and verbally abusing the kid working the counter at the Safeway Deli.
Fulcanelli
In righteous leftist solidarity with America’s brutally oppressed Native American population, and indeed with the plight of oppressed people everywhere who struggle under the yoke of naked, unbridled Imperialist greed, I hereby request that we henceforth refer to Atanarjuat by his Native American name:
Warren Terra
Poor kid. Those sentences or two are frequently missing.
Fulcanelli
@The Moar You Know: Fucking WIN!
You forgot the part about the star in the east, though…
Calouste
@Garrigus Carraig:
Yeah, that’s really how a straight guy talks about one of his best mates:
Billy K (D-TX)
Well, YAH! I believe water is wet and the sky is blue, too. DURRR…
MH
I can see the poll options in Google Reader (Google’s RSS reader) but not the buttons to make a choice, for which I had to click through to the main post.
jcricket
Fixed.
jcricket
@Garrigus Carraig: This was awesome. Even better was that Haider’s gay lover is a bigwig in the right-wing neo-nazi party, and that Haider died after getting drunk at a gay club he went to after an argument with his gay lover.
Haider was truly repellant as a person, but I wouldn’t wish death on the guy. I have less bad feelings about it knowing he was drinking (kind of bring the death thing on yourself in that scenario). The only person I feel bad for is his wife.
Calouste
@jcricket:
Just looking at a few Austrian and German newssites. Apparently Haider went from leaving a party sober via a "Schwulenbar" (German has cool words sometimes) to dead after a 110mph car crash with 1.8 promille alcohol in under two hours. That’s some serious drinking.
Ghost Poet
Barack Obama isn’t just any ol’ Muslin. He’s a stealth Muslin and that’s the worst kind.
Comrade Jimbo
I voted "Obama is a Muslim" with the idea of seeing how many Wingnuts link to the poll as "More Proof"…
tripletee
@The Moar You Know:
Out-fucking-standing. That one deserves to go viral.
MNPundit
The all singing all dancing Muslim for the world (except America), that’s Barack Obama.
jcricket
Well, the Austrians and Germans are nothing if not efficient.
I believe Schadenfreude is the exact word one might use, were Haider just outed, not dead.
Dustin
Count me in as one of your phone readers; I do probably 1/2 to 3/4 of my news & blog reading from my Blackberry throughout the day so flash sites and "no comments for mobile readers" blogs (you know who you are) are a no-go for me. Having an explanation after the flash is a must.
MarkusB
Phuck the overwhelming plurality. When can we drop the religion wars?
As far as mobile phone users, well, God bless ’em, but I use my computer to view the glory that is Balloon Juice. My phone is barely capable of being a phone, and to paraphrase Abe Simpson, "that’s the way I likes it!"
I Am Obama's Father
Can’t see it in Chrome, ok in Firefox.
bedlam UK
Can see it, not allowed to at work.
(meaning I can secretly see it, but cant hear it )
Description would be a great help.
I heard that Obama was actually a Christian ( If Palins a Christian, I dont want none of that !! )
I am reassured by the Rethugs that this isn’t true, so I feel better.