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You are here: Home / They Bring The Funny

They Bring The Funny

by John Cole|  January 15, 200910:06 am| 51 Comments

This post is in: Clown Shoes, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, PUMA = Propping Up McCain's Ass

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And now some sheer stupidity from the Confluence:

And what if Barack Obama DOESN’T remind me of Richard Nixon? Then what, you rogues?

And what would happen if we would cross breed the PUMA’s with Mike Pence’s Tiger Team– would we get some super-hybrid of stupid?

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  1. 1.

    Phoenix Woman

    January 15, 2009 at 10:10 am

    Maybe Goldberry and Erick Erickson should get together and have wingnut babies.

  2. 2.

    DougJ

    January 15, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Geithner and Agnew…I did not see that comparison coming.

  3. 3.

    The Other Steve

    January 15, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Eric Holder reminds me of G. Gordon Liddy.

  4. 4.

    wilfred the shoe throwing Norwegian

    January 15, 2009 at 10:18 am

    What does that make the TogerBeat Boys?

    Aspirating Assholes of Asininity?
    Shattering Shitheads of Sherlockness?
    Winking Wonks of Wankerdom?

    Agnew would know.

  5. 5.

    former capitalist

    January 15, 2009 at 10:18 am

    I’m not going over there to read the stupid. But really, Obama reminds them of Nixon? WTF? What’s the connection?

    I know I don’t have to wear garlic around my neck to ward off the apparently oncoming Obama evil.

    And, that picture of Mr. Nattering Nabobs brings back some really bad memories.

  6. 6.

    John Cole

    January 15, 2009 at 10:18 am

    Hillary Clinton reminds me of Kissinger.

  7. 7.

    DRD 1812

    January 15, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Pumas, tigers, what are these, Apple operating systems? Other animals can have rapid response teams. How about the Frog Force? Possum Pouncers? Chipmunk Chargers?

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    January 15, 2009 at 10:24 am

    Obama’s a Quaker? I thought he was a mooslim.

  9. 9.

    Phoenix Woman

    January 15, 2009 at 10:28 am

    @John Cole:

    You would think that Goldberry would have been mollified by seeing HRC as SoS. But nooooooooo.

  10. 10.

    Kevin K.

    January 15, 2009 at 10:29 am

    The author of that mess on Fox. Adult cow hat!

  11. 11.

    Napoleon

    January 15, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Daschle reminds me of Captain Kangaroo. Maybe that means that Reggie Love is Mr. Green Jeans.

  12. 12.

    cleek

    January 15, 2009 at 10:35 am

    heidiliofpotpourri reminds me of Gene Ray.

  13. 13.

    Zifnab

    January 15, 2009 at 10:39 am

    Wait, if Barack Obama reminds you of Richard Nixon, does that mean the wingnuts are conceding that he spent the 60s beating up the Commies in California? Does that make Joe Biden into Gerald Ford? Or George Bush into LBJ? If so, who is JKF? Does Dennis Prague become Janice Joplin?

  14. 14.

    Tom

    January 15, 2009 at 10:39 am

    So let the record reflect: I am not saying that Timothy Geithner is as corrupt as Spiro Agnew proved to be or as unfit for the office to which he, Geithner, aims. It would be far too premature to make these claims.

    This is how he ends the post. What’s notable is that nowhere in the post does he say what he is saying. He starts off by saying, does Geithner remind you of Agnew? Then he spends the rest of the post saying why the comparison is unfair.

    I love when people do this. From what I heard, it pretty much what Goldberg did with the entirety of Liberal Fascism.

    Make a claim or comparison. Then go on to say that the comparison is not really fair or valid.

    But to the rabid wing-nuts, the message is clear: Obama is Nixon. Liberals are fascists.

    It’s the most underhanded, dishonest form of commentary out there.

  15. 15.

    Kevin K.

    January 15, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Geithner reminds me of Hannibal Hamlin. I’ll let the Efflucians work that one backwards until their heads explode.

  16. 16.

    cleek

    January 15, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Does Dennis Prague become Janice Joplin?

    every full moon at midnight, yes.

  17. 17.

    Zifnab

    January 15, 2009 at 10:42 am

    @John Cole: Kissinger had cankles? I’m just trying to imagine him in a pants suite. All I get is this.

  18. 18.

    Keith

    January 15, 2009 at 10:42 am

    I’m quaking in my boots at the thought of hybrid PUgers running around comparing people to other people.

  19. 19.

    Hob

    January 15, 2009 at 10:42 am

    Obama is exactly like Nixon in two ways:
    1. There are five letters in his last name.
    2. He writes his own books.
    What more do you need?

  20. 20.

    Neue Internetprasenz

    January 15, 2009 at 10:43 am

    If Barack Obama reminds you of Jethro Tull lead singer Ian Anderson, then DHS Counsel-Appointee Rand Beers must remind you of bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn from Booker T. & the MGs.

  21. 21.

    4tehlulz

    January 15, 2009 at 10:47 am

    You would think that the PUMAs would be reminded of Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, but that would kill all their haet for an Obama appointee, so it’s understandable that their memories of the early 90s would be a bit….blank.

  22. 22.

    gex

    January 15, 2009 at 10:55 am

    That breed of kittah will be all furbulz and no lulz.

  23. 23.

    gex

    January 15, 2009 at 10:57 am

    How, exactly, does it help the GOP to compare who they consider questionable Dems to GOOPers who are widely considered to be questionable? Is "OMG they are almost as bad as us?" and an effective tactic?

  24. 24.

    David Hunt

    January 15, 2009 at 10:58 am

    But to the rabid wing-nuts, the message is clear: Obama is Nixon. Liberals are fascists.

    Wait. Obama is a Liberal. Does that mean that conservatives have proved Nixon was facist?

  25. 25.

    jackiebinaz

    January 15, 2009 at 11:01 am

    Maybe Goldberry and Erick Erickson should get together and have spawn wingnut babies hellchildren.

    edited for accuracy

  26. 26.

    Zifnab

    January 15, 2009 at 11:01 am

    Wait. Obama is a Liberal. Does that mean that conservatives have proved Nixon was facist?

    It proves that liberals are conservatives from the 1960s, if that helps.

  27. 27.

    Joshua Norton

    January 15, 2009 at 11:02 am

    Obama a Nixon? How quaint. How’s about the Chimpster as Lincoln and Churchill? There must come a time when being this delusional causes actual physical pain.

  28. 28.

    gbear

    January 15, 2009 at 11:04 am

    @Hob:

    3. He has a healthcare plan more progressive than anything that’s likely to get passed.

    @wilfred the shoe throwing Norwegian:

    I’ll vote for #2 just because the word ‘Sherlockness’ is so cool. I’d also vote to shorten TogerBeat to TogaBeat. It has a nice fratboy ring to it.

  29. 29.

    MattF

    January 15, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Winston Churchill reminds me of Captain Kangaroo.
    Peter Pan reminds me of Calvin Coolidge.
    Peggy Noonan reminds me of Fred Flintstone.
    Betty Boop reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt.

    Well, not really.

  30. 30.

    The Moar You Know

    January 15, 2009 at 11:14 am

    I no longer believe there is any such thing as a "PUMA". I think they’re just Republicans spoofing as disaffected Democrats.

  31. 31.

    gbear

    January 15, 2009 at 11:19 am

    How can Obama remind them of Nixon when it was John McCain who had the plumbers this time?

  32. 32.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    January 15, 2009 at 11:33 am

    Did you see their new conspiracy theory yesterday WRT the interview done back in 1996 and just published by Le Monde? According to the wiley PUMA’s why would such a major newspaper be interviewing an unknown guy and his wife back in 1996 when he wasn’t even a senator yet?

    Exhibit A:

    "Except this interview was given in 1996. Why was Le Monde interested in the Obamas in 1996 when he wasn’t even a blip on the radar screen and hadn’t won anything yet? Let’s think about the implications. Le Monde would have had to have known he existed. He was just an obscure Chicago lawyer with no major accomplishments and no election victories under his belt. Who the f%^* would have cared? *I* had won more public offices by 1996 than Obama. Le Monde wasn’t beating my door down for an interview. So, the question is: who has been grooming him and for how long?"

    This is so full of fail it is pathetic (natch) mainly due to the fact that Le Monde never interviewed him, it was an author working on a book about American married couples who did (and who chose not to put him in the book cause he and Michelle were too "normal") Le Monde just recently found the transcript of the interview. Secondly I dunno maybe the fact that he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review might have had something to do with it, ya know cause his fizzog had been on the front page of all the major newspapers in the US or something.

  33. 33.

    Betty Cracker

    January 15, 2009 at 11:43 am

    The author, Heidi Li Feldman, is the most pretentious, irritating PUMAtard since Lady Lynn Forrester de Rothschild of "I say, Muffy, Obama is an elitist!" fame. Feldman used to sign her blog posts "Heidi Li Feldman, JD, PhD" — an absurd conceit that was too much even for the brain-dead morons who hang out at the PUMA boards to tolerate.

    Oh, and she reminds me of Aileen Wuornos. I’m not saying she’s a $10 prostitute. As far as I know, she hasn’t killed several men, dumped their bodies in wooded areas and stolen their wallets and cars. But hey, if Barack Obama reminds me of Peter the Great, obviously Feldman is analogous to Wuornos.

  34. 34.

    Phoenix Woman

    January 15, 2009 at 11:51 am

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    OMG, that is awesome. One must suffer heavy-duty sleep deprivation to achieve that level of paranoia.

  35. 35.

    gogiggs

    January 15, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    @Zifnab: I don’t know if Kissinger has cankles, but I have it on good authority that he has nicer legs than Hitler and bigger tits than Cher.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYDo9BIeNHg

  36. 36.

    RememberNovember

    January 15, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    Quick SAT verbal question:
    (many red-staters would fail fwiw)

    Barack Obama is to Richard M Nixon as George W Bush is to

    1. Richard M Nixon
    2. Millard Fillmore
    3. Thomas Jefferson
    4. Dick Cheney

  37. 37.

    Geeno

    January 15, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    @RememberNovember:
    How dare you besmirch Millard Fillmore like that.

  38. 38.

    RememberNovember

    January 15, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    @Geeno

    That depends on what your definition of besmirch, besmirches….
    lols.

  39. 39.

    Robin G.

    January 15, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    You know, there are times that I really think we’ve seen the stupidest, most absurd behavior of the Wingnutosphere. And then they always top themselves.

  40. 40.

    NR

    January 15, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    @Phoenix Woman:

    Obama’s not going to get any less black, so nothing he does is going to "mollify" that racist old hag.

  41. 41.

    NR

    January 15, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    @Zifnab:

    You can make a pretty convincing argument that Nixon was the last liberal president. Look at his environmental policies, for example.

  42. 42.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    January 15, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    If a cheeseburger reminds you of the quadratic equation, what does Delaware remind you of?

  43. 43.

    Shygetz

    January 15, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    You can make a pretty convincing argument that Nixon was the last liberal president. Look at his environmental policies, for example.

    "You can make a pretty convincing argument that G.W. Bush was the last liberal president. Look at his AIDS in Africa policies, for example."

    The answer to both propositions is "Yeah, if you ignore EVERYTHING else they did and only focus on one or two cherry-picked items, and then view those items in the most favorable light possible, then you might be able to convince an absolute moron with that argument. Maybe."

  44. 44.

    taylormattd

    January 15, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    @MikeJ: Um MikeJ, that "Muslin". Jeez.

  45. 45.

    the farmer

    January 15, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Roger Simon (Politico.com) reminds me of Floyd the barber (Andy Griffith Show).

    *

  46. 46.

    NR

    January 15, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    @Shygetz: It’s not just the environment. Look at his drug policies (focused primarily on drug treatment, rather than putting people in prison), normalizing relations with China, ballistic missiles, signed lots of civil rights laws, etc.

  47. 47.

    Sam L

    January 15, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    When the Tiger Team and the PUMAs mate you get one of

  48. 48.

    Sam L

    January 15, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    Sorry, one of these: http://www.liloia.com/images/liger.jpg

  49. 49.

    Johnny Pez

    January 15, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    @Robin G.: There will never be any such thing as "peak wingnut" because a Black Hole doesn’t have a peak.

  50. 50.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    January 15, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    @Phoenix Woman:

    It gets better, this was the banner headline over a pumapac today I KID YOU NOT:

    "If you believe in Puma PAC and our mission — *if you want us to continue being the most effective group of political activists in a generation* — will you help us reach our goal today?" (emphasis mine)

    The nano second I saw "effective" the tea I was drinking hit my monitor.

  51. 51.

    PAnAmerican

    January 15, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    The author of that mess on Fox. Adult cow hat!

    Question: If Heidi Li Feldman, J.D., Ph.D reminds you of Dr. Frank N. Furter……

    Ah fuck it. That’s a man, baby!

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