Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You cannot shame the shameless.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Come on, man.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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  1. 1.

    Dreggas

    It would be sad if it wasn’t so damn funny but these people really are out of their fucking minds.

  2. 2.

    James K. Polk, Esq.

    Republicans = no sense of sarcasm

    or

    They don’t care, and now they have they “proof” they desired…

  3. 3.

    freelancer

    The morans got fooled by the spoof Birth Certificate.

    They immediately embrace some lone wingnut blogger who O’Reilly’s her way into Ayers’s face, and he blows her off with some snark.

    The MSM picks up Breitbart’s ACORN non-story.

    At what point do BJers start doing Spoof Activism?

  4. 4.

    Dreggas

    @James K. Polk, Esq.:

    It’s the latter. All they have to do is believe. It explains a lot when it comes to republicans, conservatives and the right in general. It’s like some fucked up version of peter pan and where “clap louder” comes from. If you do believe and clap loud enough the tinkerbell du-jour will come back to life and all of your wildest dreams will come true.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Jake

    NOW THEY HAVE PROOF! NOBODY CAN QUESTION THIS!

    On one hand, this is absolutely brilliant. On the other, we will certainly hear about this on Beck, Hannity, and perhaps even on Lou Dobbs. Or at least those of you who watch those shows so the rest of us don’t have to will hear about it.

  7. 7.

    Demo Woman

    Did The Hill really print this? WTF Does this mean that Tweety is going to interview Ayers again? I could never understand the entire Ayers thing cuz his wife was obviously the one more involved with the underground anyway. Just shit!

  8. 8.

    geg6

    I think this is the funniest thing since the “Jeebus lvoes him some wingnuts and Glen Beck’s bible” painting.

  9. 9.

    JR (not the other JR)

    He should have said he had the “Whitey” tape, then set up a web site selling it for $39.99 a copy.

  11. 11.

    Skippy

    I think the Onion’s sole purpose now is to be a crystal ball in retrospect to people re-reading their headlines. These nutters have pretty much killed satire.

  12. 12.

    Mr Furious

    I thought this comment at Will’s Examiner link (in the Sullivan thread) summed it up pretty perfectly:

    I don’t think his heart skipped a beat when she said was a conservative blogger. I think it was more like one of those moments when you find money on the sidewalk.

  14. 14.

    calipygian

    Its actually been studied and conservatives have been found to lack the “irony gene”.

    The Irony of Satire
    Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report
    Heather L. LaMarre
    The Ohio State University,
    Kristen D. Landreville
    The Ohio State University
    Michael A. Beam
    The Ohio State University
    This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert’s political ideology. Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism. Finally, a post hoc analysis revealed that perceptions of Colbert’s political opinions fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and individual-level opinion.

    An entire group of people so fucking stupid they think Colbert is on THEIR side.

  15. 15.

    freelancer

    @JR (not the other JR):

    He should have said he had the “Whitey” tape, then set up a web site selling it for a phone line where people could put their name on a petition to be faxed to him to release the tape, as well as a bumper sticker for $39.99.

    Fix04zd.

  16. 16.

    SpotWeld

    When Lou Dobbs has Glenn Beck on to discuss thins, I probably won’t find this that funny…

  17. 17.

    Zifnab

    How soon until some brave Congresscritter tries to press for Articles of Impeachment? I mean, shit, the evidence is all there in front of us. Bill Ayers even admitted it.

    WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

  18. 18.

    Keith

    The bigger story should be “Ayers ponders lawsuit to recoup royalties from ‘Obama’ book.”

  19. 19.

    dr. bloor

    There are moments when I think Jonah must be perpetrating deep-cover performance art, but that hardly accounts for the rest of his fellow traveler in the political Clown Car that is The Corner.

  21. 21.

    Pasquinade

    The gullibility of conservatives, or more precisely their willingness to believe without bothering to fact check anything which confirms their biases, is amazing.

    ….a quote I found earlier today.

  22. 22.

    Dr. Squid

    I’ev said this a lot in the past – conservatives are the easiest people to con. All you have to do is call yourself a conservative and your word is gold to them. Likewise your word is also gold if you tell them what they want to hear, which is sunshine blown up their collective recta.

    So Doughbob Loadpants got taken by #1 and #2. What. A. Surprise.

  23. 23.

    calipygian

    I think the Onion’s sole purpose now is to be a crystal ball in retrospect to people re-reading their headlines. These nutters have pretty much killed satire.

    The Onion has had it pegged for a decade.

    Who can forget THIS classic from January, 2001?

    Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’


    Bush swore to do “everything in [his] power” to undo the damage wrought by Clinton’s two terms in office, including selling off the national parks to developers, going into massive debt to develop expensive and impractical weapons technologies, and passing sweeping budget cuts that drive the mentally ill out of hospitals and onto the street.
    During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.

    This should have been our hint that we were entering a period of unspoofability.

  24. 24.

    Bubblegum Tate

    So Poe’s Law obviously needs a corollary that deals with wingnuts instead of fundies*. The question then becomes: What is the name of this corollary?

    *I know that wingnuts and fundies are frequently one and the same, but Poe’s Law deals specifically with religious stuff, and I’m proposing that we need one that deals specifically with political stuff.

  26. 26.

    calipygian

    There are moments when I think Jonah must be perpetrating deep-cover performance art, but that hardly accounts for the rest of his fellow traveler in the political Clown Car that is The Corner.

    Doughbob is honestly way too fucking stupid and full of self-congratulation to be doing performance art.

    My bet is on Andy McCarthy.

  27. 27.

    calling all toasters

    I have a recording of Mick Jagger’s voice where he admits killing the Kennedys.

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne

    Given that Ayers’ book was published six years after the one he supposedly ghost-wrote for Obama, clearly the pertinent question here is where Obama is hiding his time machine and how we can all get one.

  31. 31.

    MattF

    This is the guy who proved that fascism is ‘liberal’. I thought originally that the ‘Liberal Fascism’ thing was kind of clever– if liberals are the real fascists, then the warmongers and racists on the right are just regular people. But now I see the light. He’s just very, veeeery, veeeeeeery dumb.

  32. 32.

    Joe Lisboa

    I have a recording of Mick Jagger’s voice where he admits killing the Kennedys.

    After all, it was you and me.

  33. 33.

    jenniebee

    I don’t know why, but this made me think of the momentary Freeper rejection of Red/Blue in favor of calling themselves the Rainbow party. They were seriously pissed when someone told them what all those rainbow bumper stickers really mean.

    If anybody ever lets on to them about what “Friend of Dorothy” means, let me know. I’ll need popcorn.

  35. 35.

    calipygian

    I have a recording of Mick Jagger’s voice where he admits killing the Kennedys.

    And I have one in which both Bob Marley AND Eric Clapton cop to killing a sheriff, but oddly enough, not the deputy.

    I also have another recording in which a San Francisco musical combo urges killing an entire class of people, to wit, “the poor”. But the GOP seems cool with that.

  36. 36.

    handy

    @MattF:

    But that’s central to his point, since It Is A Very Serious, Thoughtful Argument That Has Never Been Made in Such Detail or With Such Care.

  37. 37.

    gocart mozart

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-07/bill-ayers-punks-conservative-blogger/

    The far-right fever swamps have been fantasizing for weeks that Bill Ayers wrote President Obama’s memoirs. According to Ayers, they’re living the “twilight zone.”
    Let’s put this one to bed right now.
    Far right sites have been spreading a post around today by blogger Anne Leary, who wrote that she ran into Obama acquaintance and 2008 election albatross Bill Ayers at an airport. Leary writes how Ayers, unprompted, unleashed a long-winded confession confirming one of the more absurd conspiracy theories floating around the fringes: that Ayers secretly authored Obama’s bestselling memoir, Dreams From My Father.”
    I e-mailed Ayers to see if he could shed any light on the story. His response:
    “You’ve all lost your minds,” he wrote. “Best of luck in the twilight zone.”
    That sounds simple enough. Already some of the bigger conservative bloggers, including National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg and Hot Air’s Allahpundit have indicated that they don’t take Leary’s story too seriously, especially given that Ayers has a long history of deadpan responses along the lines of the one she described, as the Washington Independent’s David Weigel reports. With any luck that should be the end of things. But then again, the “death panels” and the birthers’ fantasies about Obama’s nationality are still in orbit, way out there in the blue.

  38. 38.

    Alan

    If you want a good laugh go read Althouse’s take on this–Ayer’s is being too clever by half. He’s hiding the truth right there in plain site–because he did write the book. Heh and indeedy also.

  39. 39.

    dmsilev

    @Mnemosyne:

    Given that Ayers’ book was published six years after the one he supposedly ghost-wrote for Obama, clearly the pertinent question here is where Obama is hiding his time machine and how we can all get one.

    I thought it was well established that Obama has a time machine. How else would he fake his own birth announcements in the local paper?

    -dms

  40. 40.

    Interrobang

    Do we actually have any evidence that Missus Potato Head and Her Teabag of Parts wasn’t just making up the whole thing? Or does nobody actually credit her with having that much imagination?

  41. 41.

    demkat620

    Man, they really can’t let go of anything.

    And even more depressing will be when Jonah is on tv to discuss this “proof”

  42. 42.

    smiley

    Given this level of stupid, I fully expect the result will be Goldberg, et al., claiming, “Well, if it turns out that Ayers didn’t write it, that’s not to say that Obama didn’t plagiarize Ayers.”

  43. 43.

    Calouste

    @calling all toasters:

    I have a recording of Mick Jagger’s voice where he admits killing the Kennedys.

    Win.

    I also nominate this for inclusion in the lexicon and as a new category for posts on this site.

  45. 45.

    Skippy

    Not in the least bit surprising from the crowd who are firmly convinced that Stephen Colbert is one of them.

  50. 50.

    gocart mozart

    And Jonah loads his pants.

    Ayers Dreams of Obama [Jonah Goldberg]
    I am not sure what to make of the story that Ayers has now admitted to writing Obama’s autobiography. If it pans out, that is to my mind a very big story. Stay tuned. But I do think I should revise my earlier pooh-poohing of Jack Cashill’s effort to prove the Ayers-Obama connection. A while back, a close friend of mine (and a pretty famous person in NR land) harrangued me about how I didn’t give Cashill’s argument enough attention or consideration and that it makes a pretty persuasive case. This friend then walked me through it for a while and I was impressed. I’m still not sure what the truth is, but whether this latest story pans out or not, I figured I should at least withdraw some of my, uh, pooh-pooh.

  52. 52.

    Jon O.

    What surprises me most about this: that they’re resting their case on a terrorist that they didn’t waterboard.

  53. 53.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Calouste:

    I also nominate this for inclusion in the lexicon and as a new category for posts on this site.

    I think it works incredibly well as a snarky response to wingnuts and “conservatives” who fall for transparently obvious satire and openingly mocking rhetoric. Very similar to how they believe that deep down inside–at Truthiness HQ–Colbert actually means all those whacky things silly liberals laugh about.

    It also dovetails quite nicely with yesterday’s creation of “the “McNaughton.”

  54. 54.

    calipygian

    @Midnight Marauder:

    I think it works incredibly well as a snarky response to wingnuts and “conservatives” who fall for transparently obvious satire and openingly mocking rhetoric. Very similar to how they believe that deep down inside—at Truthiness HQ—Colbert actually means all those whacky things silly liberals laugh about.

    Second.

  55. 55.

    Colette

    @gocart mozart:

    A while back, a close friend of mine (and a pretty famous person in NR land) harrangued me about how I didn’t give Cashill’s argument enough attention or consideration and that it makes a pretty persuasive case.

    I had no idea Jonah knew the White Queen personally.

  56. 56.

    Tonal Crow

    Ayers did NOT write Obama’s autobiograhy. *Hitler* wrote it. And he planted the fake birth certificate, too. Also.

  58. 58.

    Mnemosyne

    @dmsilev:

    Yes, but did Obama go for the classic HG Wells model or the more up-to-date Tardis type? I think a DeLorean is out since they’re much harder to find these days, but if someone should happen to see one parked in front of the White House …

    How can we get some of these brilliant investigators of the right wing to report on this vital story? Malkin is already experienced at peering into people’s windows — I’m sure she could get the scoop for us.

  59. 59.

    joe from Lowell

    A drowning man will grasp even the blade of a sword.

    Their insanity needs to be understood as a function of their desperation.

    Unfortunately for them, their insanity just isolates them more from ordinary people, and they end up becoming more desperate, until…peak wingnut.

  61. 61.

    Midnight Marauder

    By the way, I think the title of this post is a clear frontrunner from “Best Thread Title of October”. If not all of 2009.

    Maybe we could have some end of the year BJ voting on the best thread titles. I certainly would dig that…that’s probably the reason I mentioned the idea.

  64. 64.

    Meanderthal

    OMG – He’s the Shrike?!

    We’re doomed. DOOMED! DOOMED!

    Well, he’s still a better choice than McCain…

  67. 67.

    Ash Can

    I honestly wonder what it would take to embarrass these halfwits. If Goldberg weren’t such an asshole I’d feel sorry for him.

  68. 68.

    WereBear

    @Dr. Squid: True.

    I’ev said this a lot in the past – conservatives are the easiest people to con. All you have to do is call yourself a conservative and your word is gold to them.

    That’s because DFH’s use “concepts,” which fit together and lead to other concepts.

    Conservatives use “realms.” There’s areas that are okay, like whatever your minister or Glenn Beck says. This lets them avoid “thinking,” which would only make the discrepancies in their head bump together and make their veins swell.

  70. 70.

    mcd

    @Comrade Jake:

    Callers, we have a WINNER:

    NOW THEY HAVE PROOF! NOBODY CAN QUESTION THIS! On one hand, this is absolutely brilliant. On the other, we will certainly hear about this on Beck, Hannity, and perhaps even on Lou Dobbs. Or at least those of you who watch those shows so the rest of us don’t have to will hear about it.

  71. 71.

    Mike in NC

    Yesterday USA Today chose to run an article entitled “In Defense of Glenn Beck”, by none other than Jonah Goldberg. Do they actually pay the guy for this shit?

  72. 72.

    AnotherBruce

    I e-mailed Ayers to see if he could shed any light on the story. His response:
    “You’ve all lost your minds,” he wrote. “Best of luck in the twilight zone.”

    I’m really beginning to like this Ayers guy. Stupid is mostly painful, but occasionally its hilarious.

  73. 73.

    Shell

    Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!
    Did she then carve a backward’s ‘B’ into her cheek as proof that Bill Ayers and/or his minions tried to stop her from posting the TRUTH!

  75. 75.

    Ash Can

    Oh, man, I’d absolutely love it if everyone on Fox ran like mad with this. It’d be wonderful. It gives me visions of Shep Smith resigning on air, announcing he could no longer be part of the Fox travesty, and the other networks collecting a mother lode of video clips to air and make fun of.

  76. 76.

    Shell

    This was over at Free Republic yesterday. I just assumed it was somebody’s fantasy written down while they were waiting for their delayed flight. But this blogger actually thinks she’s some conservative Nancy Drew who cleverly got the truth out of Ayers?

    I’m getting weary of too many things in this country being both funny and depressing.

  78. 78.

    Makewi

    Hahahahaha. Isn’t it funny how the murderous terrorist got over on that stupid conservative girl. Unrepentant terrorists with blood on their hands are so much cooler than stupid wingnuts!

  79. 79.

    kay

    @Makewi:

    She asked him if he actually wrote the book the President authored. Her question had nothing whatsoever to do with Ayres in particular. Nothing.
    None of this has anything to do with the people you’re pursuing in airports, or filming secretly, or otherwise stalking.
    It’s ALL to get Obama. You’ve lost your minds. Get a grip, for God’s sake, and stop clothing this insanity in “principle”.

  80. 80.

    LD50

    @Makewi: This is infantile. You have a large vocabulary, I suggest you try for something better than “oo! how can I insult libs?”

  82. 82.

    Jack

    @Mike in NC:

    There’s no corporate press without controversy. Since most of us live modest, reasonable, quotidian lives – controversy needs be manufactured.

  84. 84.

    Little Macayla's Friend

    @jenniebee: @Emma Anne:
    When I looked up Friends of Dorothy, I clicked this site:
    http://wapedia.mobi/en/Friend_of_Dorothy

    And speaking of gullibility (or something), it also says:

    “In the early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as “friends of Dorothy.” Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that a woman named Dorothy was at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel. The NIS launched an enormous hunt for Dorothy, hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay servicemembers.” [6]

    6. Shilts, Randy (1993). Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press. p. 387.

  86. 86.

    Polish the Guillotines

    @Makewi:

    Hahahahaha. Isn’t it funny how the murderous terrorist got over on that stupid conservative girl. Unrepentant terrorists with blood on their hands are so much cooler than stupid wingnuts!

    Dude, this is a full-strength whiff even by your standards. You’ve been flirting with the Mendoza line of spoof for awhile now.

  88. 88.

    Texas Dem

    Rumor has it that Obama is a Time Lord.

    I thought he was a Cylon? Damn, now I’m going to have to revise my entire world view.

  90. 90.

    Sinfonian

    These people … it would be hilarious, if they didn’t control the mainstream corporate media in America and basically still control Congress (not to mention my state’s legislature).

    I mean, they don’t know what the Rainbow Party means, they don’t understand why everyone snickers at them for being “teabaggers,” and then they bring out fisting, which is either about Communism or, well, fisting.

    Clearly, they lack the pop culture gene. Among others.

  91. 91.

    JMC in the ATL

    @Makewi: You’re not even trying, anymore. Total drop to 3rd behind BoB and Paul L. Time to find some better writers, or pack it in. Seriously.

    I hear Mr. Ayers is available.

  92. 92.

    Paul L.

    Silly wingnuts Bill Ayers is famous for his quirky sense of humor and his “hilarious” “Kill your Parents” “Joke“?

    COLMES: When you said at one point your philosophy was kill all the rich people, break up their cars and apartments, bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s at, was that a metaphor?

    AYERS: Of course. It was a joke and it was an extreme statement by a 20-year-old, and it was kidding, and of course, it was taken even that way at the time. If you read “Fugitive Days” you’ll see, not a manifesto, and not a history and not a — even an autobiography. What you’ll see is a memoir, a literary memoir, I hope, of somebody — a kid like me finding himself in a place like this. But it’s not a defense, but it does try to capture some of that irreverent kind of off-the-track lunacy.

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