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You are here: Home / Politics / Politicans / Black Jimmy Carter / We are all chunky Reese Witherspoon now

We are all chunky Reese Witherspoon now

by DougJ|  October 12, 200912:36 am| 136 Comments

This post is in: Black Jimmy Carter, Media, Assholes

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Ross Douthat writes the definitive respectable conservative Obama Nobel piece:

But by accepting the prize, he’s made failure, if and when it comes, that much more embarrassing and difficult to bear. What’s more, he’s etched in stone the phrase with which critics will dismiss his presidency.

Slick Willie. Tricky Dick. Jimmy “Malaise” Carter. Dubya the Incompetent.

And now Barack Obama, Nobel laureate.

All right, I understand that every member of the wingerati has to take a shot at this topic. But why did he leave out Ford and Reagan? And “Dubya the incompetent”? Has anyone ever said that? Not much besides this column shows up in the google searches.

Update. Steve M from NoMoreMisterNiceGuy sums up:

Drama Queen Obama just made a statement saying that he doesn’t think he’s earned it yet? That’s like saying you think you haven’t earned a flaming turd on your doorstep! It’s a ridiculous award! They gave it to Al Gore and Jimmy Carter, fer crissake! If it actually meant something, Ronald Reagan would have won it — eight years running!

Typical Obama — he gives the queen an iPod and now he has the bad taste and lack of manners to turn this into an international melodrama. Now the world will be focused on him next month when all these silly Scandinavians convene in Oslo and Diva Barack isn’t there!

It’s all about him — it’s always all about him.

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  1. 1.

    Martin

    October 12, 2009 at 12:40 am

    Chunky Resse Witherspoon would make a good Ben N Jerry flavor.

    But I like the new conservative value – don’t accept praise, because that’ll make failure hurt more.

  2. 2.

    ricky

    October 12, 2009 at 12:40 am

    Did you try inserting the word “fucking” before “incompetent?”

  3. 3.

    Martin

    October 12, 2009 at 12:41 am

    Oh, and fuck the Yankees, just because it hasn’t been said yet in this thread.

  4. 4.

    Sentient Puddle

    October 12, 2009 at 12:42 am

    I don’t know, if I’m trying to put down a presidency, “Barack Obama, Nobel laureate” doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as “Tricky Dick.”

    Is Douthat even trying anymore?

  5. 5.

    soonergrunt

    October 12, 2009 at 12:44 am

    I don’t think that the President deserves the Nobel prize, but at the same time, watching the wingeratti loose their collective shit over it has been immensely entertaining.

    There’s nothing like the taste of wingnut tears.

  6. 6.

    Martin

    October 12, 2009 at 12:45 am

    Is Douthat even trying anymore?

    He seems the same as always to me.

  7. 7.

    General Winfield Stuck

    October 12, 2009 at 12:47 am

    “Dubya the incompetent”?Has anyone ever said that?

    Yes, but it seems insignificant what with all the innocent blood on his hands.

  8. 8.

    gbear

    October 12, 2009 at 12:47 am

    But I like the new conservative value – don’t accept praise, because that’ll make failure hurt more.

    So does that mean that heaping scorn on the president will make his success all the more sweet?

    I can kind of see who’s going to get the last laugh in that scenario. Butthurt Level 5 coming right up.

    & yes, fuck the Yankees. also.

  9. 9.

    bago

    October 12, 2009 at 12:55 am

    Is there any context I’m missing here?

    “But by accepting the prize, he’s made failure” just sounds retarded.

    Obama, Nobel Laureate.
    Stephen Hawking, Nobel Laureate.
    Al Gore, Oscar-winning Nobel Laureate.

  10. 10.

    Nellcote

    October 12, 2009 at 12:56 am

    Talk about whiny 5 year olds loosing their shit, just wait ’til he gives his acceptance speech!

    http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/about_peaceprize/award_ceremony/

  11. 11.

    Cat Lady

    October 12, 2009 at 1:01 am

    Obama’s presidency dismissed by non-contributing assholes like Douthat for winning a Nobel prize. Uh huh.

    Wingnut tears and pretzel logic. Yummm….

  12. 12.

    JGabriel

    October 12, 2009 at 1:06 am

    @Sentient Puddle:

    Is Douthat even trying anymore?

    Sadly, yes. It must be terribly embarrassing for his mother.

    .

  13. 13.

    JGabriel

    October 12, 2009 at 1:09 am

    DougJ:

    And “Dubya the incompetent”? Has anyone ever said that?

    Fuckwit is my choice, mostly because that word cracks me up. Clusterfuck is my other nickname for Bush, mostly for accuracy.

    .

  14. 14.

    JGabriel

    October 12, 2009 at 1:12 am

    Nellcote:

    Talk about whiny 5 year olds loosing their shit, just wait ‘til he gives his acceptance speech!

    Better yet, wait till he’s re-elected.

    .

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 12, 2009 at 1:16 am

    The NPP is “European humbug”?

  16. 16.

    Citizen_X

    October 12, 2009 at 1:19 am

    You think the wingnut/MSM reaction was fucked up for Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Just wait till he gets reelected in 2012. Then we’ll hear all about whatta looser he really is.

    On edit: damn you JGabriel!

  17. 17.

    Wile E. Quixote

    October 12, 2009 at 1:25 am

    @bago

    Actually Stephen Hawking is not a Nobel laureate.

  18. 18.

    Anne Laurie

    October 12, 2009 at 1:26 am

    @Sentient Puddle:

    Is Douthat even trying anymore?

    Trying? He’s fvcking aggravating!

    Also, he hopes that ‘Dubya the Incompetent’, in all its mealy-mouthed inadequacy, can be promoted by milk-and-water Rethuglican-defenders like Douthat to top the Google hits for more descriptive monikers like Commander Codpiece, the C-Plus Augustus, Captain Clusterfvck, Darth Cheney’s Sockpuppet, or the Smirking Chimp. Good luck with that, Douchehat.

  19. 19.

    mandarama

    October 12, 2009 at 1:26 am

    Ugh…I usually love your post titles, but didya HAVE to remind us of the “chunky Reese Witherspoon” episode? I had purged that revolting trip down Douthat’s college memory lane from my mind, and now I feel ill.

  20. 20.

    va

    October 12, 2009 at 1:27 am

    Hm. 394k results for W. the War Criminal.

  21. 21.

    chris

    October 12, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Just want to point out that the article is called “Heckuva Job, Barack” (although it’s linked on the front page as “Nice Job, Barack”). Huh?

  22. 22.

    The Dangerman

    October 12, 2009 at 1:33 am

    In 2012, after the Sarahcudda gets waxed (hmmm … nah, nevermind) in the General, I expect some serious long overdue self-examination from the Right (snicker … yeah, couldn’t do it with a straight face).

  23. 23.

    Wile E. Quixote

    October 12, 2009 at 1:34 am

    Is it just me or was there a time when you had to know your ass from a hole in the ground to be a columnist at the Times or the Post?

  24. 24.

    Bombs'R-Nuts

    October 12, 2009 at 1:35 am

    “Dubya the incompetent”? Has anyone ever said that?

    Not many, Mostly we all just said Bush is “Too Stoopid to be Preznit.”

  25. 25.

    Ian

    October 12, 2009 at 1:43 am

    My favorite moniker was Shrub. I miss Molly Ivins

  26. 26.

    Comrade Luke

    October 12, 2009 at 1:44 am

    Of all the faux controversies, this is one I really just don’t get.

    I mean, the guy was nominated by someone else, never pursued the award (if you can even do that), was as surprised as anyone when he won and admitted publicly that he didn’t think he deserved it, and somehow this is a problem?

    How is this an issue AT ALL?

  27. 27.

    jl

    October 12, 2009 at 1:51 am

    I read the silly column. Another minute of my life wasted, but I bear sole responsibility. But, if anyone’s short of time, read Noonan’s, it is black comedy ROFL.

    Uh, yeah, I would imagine that Obama turning down the award would do a lot to push his agenda. That would be the smart thing to do right now. No question about it.

    If Obama does fail, the violence, money and lives lost, in addition to worry and stress among the voters, will just pale in comparison to the Nobel Peace Prize shame. Boy howdy it everyone will remember the prize thing, fersher.

    I doubt that one of Douthat’s statements is true. I did not see an outpouring of Obama worship from the left since the award was announced. I saw a lot of sensible people sensibly trying to figure out the rationale behind the award, and what it meant, and how best to use it.

    The big problem with Gross Doubt That’s column is that it is not as hilariously repellant, absurd and bitter as Noonan’s. So it will provide him with no reward either with the wingnuts or the rational.

    Shorter me in previous comments: To the rest of the world, this reward may make sense if Obama’s policy turn around is achievement enough, which might be a sign of how much they did hate Cheney/Bush. If that is the case, it may enrage the wingnuts, even if it leaves the rest of us merely somewhat puzzled and slightly more hopeful.

    The prize may seem to raise the stakes but it is largely symbolic. I think Woodrow Wilson’s Peace Prize was similarly partly aspirational, or maybe it was an attempt by the Nobel Peace Prize committee to put its finger on the scales as Wilson was fighting for the League of Nations with the isolationist GOP. Maybe Obama has a better chance at making progress in international relations than Wilson did, and that is what is driving them crazy. They are still stuck in the 1919 debates, except they are isolationists with a far larger and more powerful professional expeditionary military force, and long range weapons that can be used to kill and destroy

    Obama has done better at foreign affairs than in other areas, but the chances of set backs are very high. Obama should take every advantage he can get and run with it, and he would be a fool not to. I predict that Obama will play this pitch perfect, this kind of thing is his strength. We have to get him up to speed in follow-through.

  28. 28.

    jl

    October 12, 2009 at 1:52 am

    @Comrade Luke: That is also true. But the wingnuts will say if he was still Asserting American Will, he could have stopped it, and would have. Or, we would extract some concession from Norway, or bomb them. They do produce oil, you know.

  29. 29.

    JasonF

    October 12, 2009 at 1:53 am

    I had no idea what the title of this post was referencing so I Googled it and now I’m going to have nightmares.

  30. 30.

    Mike D.

    October 12, 2009 at 1:54 am

    Barack Obama, Nobel Laureate

    Ouch. Devastating.

  31. 31.

    jl

    October 12, 2009 at 1:59 am

    by the way, I am not Chunky Reese Witherspoon, and I do not have one either, whether Ice cream or the other variety. I feel left out and it is not fair. What gives? Where is my Chunky Reese Witherspoon, which sounds pretty good?

  32. 32.

    Calouste

    October 12, 2009 at 2:02 am

    Via TPM:

    Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Liz Cheney attacked President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. “Well, I think what the committee believes is they’d like to live in a world in which America is not dominant. And I think if you look at the language of the citation, you can see that they talk about, you know, President Obama ruling in a way that makes sense to the majority of the people of the world,” said Cheney. “You know, Americans don’t elect a president to do that. We elect a president to defend our national interests. And so I think that, you know, they may believe that President Obama also doesn’t agree with American dominance, and they may have been trying to affirm that belief with the prize. I think, unfortunately, they may be right, and I think it’s a concern.”

    IOW, the American President should pursue an aggressive imperialistic policy, just like her father.

    Oh, btw Liz, in 2008, the American people elected a President exactly because he promised to govern (Presidents govern, kings rule, Ms Cheney) in a way that made sense to the rest of the world.

    There is a highly concentrated amount of neocon fail in those comments.

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    October 12, 2009 at 2:08 am

    And now Barack Obama, Nobel laureate

    Oh yeah, that really sounds like failure.

    Douthat’s dubious conclusion is one of the all-time dumbest things that I have ever read. And I’ve read a number of Jonah Goldberg columns.

    Ross has jumped the shark on the right wing tactic of painting anything that Obama does as a failure no matter what. This goes beyond “Fuck America” to “The Nobels don’t mean squat if Obama or a Democrat wins it.”

    The only problem is that Ross doesn’t keep this inside the American political arena, and so it more clearly looks like the hysterical foolishness that it is, because it appears to attempt to slime all the Nobels, which would presumably make the Physics and Chemistry winners also losers.

    I don’t think so.

    While being awarded the Nobel can be seen as a burden, Obama has the rest of his political career, not just the terms of his presidency, to do good work.

    On the other hand, Douthat will soon be forgotten.

  34. 34.

    Ash

    October 12, 2009 at 2:22 am

    Wait, I don’t even understand if this is supposed to be some sort of diss? is it just because it’s 1:20 in the fucking morning that I don’t understand? THIS MAKES NO SENSE. NONE OF IT MAKES SENSE, SWEET JESUS.

  35. 35.

    Deschanel

    October 12, 2009 at 2:26 am

    “Dubya the viciously, willfully stupid warmonger and rotten bastard who enabled the fish-gutting of the formerly great American middle class” would’ve been my moniker, if I weren’t a liar like Douchehat.

    Also, Jimmy Carter never said the word “malaise”. It was attributed to him by the shitty right-leaning press of his day, who were dying to get Reagan elected. And look where that’s gotten us!

  36. 36.

    Brachiator

    October 12, 2009 at 2:31 am

    @Calouste:

    We elect a president to defend our national interests. And so I think that, you know, they may believe that President Obama also doesn’t agree with American dominance

    Sweet boneless Jebus.

    So, according to La Cheney, our national interest means world dominance?

    Wow. And to state this bit of wingnut anxiety so baldly.

    There is a highly concentrated amount of neocon fail in those comments.

    It’s certainly highly concentrated something. So it’s not enough for the US to be the lone superpower; we must also be the most dominant force in the world.

    I’m just waiting to see Sarah Palin sign off on this one.

  37. 37.

    Comrade Kevin

    October 12, 2009 at 2:33 am

    If Douche-at knows a Chunky Reese Witherspoon, he can send her over to my place.

  38. 38.

    Brain Hertz

    October 12, 2009 at 2:33 am

    What’s more, he’s etched in stone the phrase with which…

    You know, I’m sort of struggling with the verb voice in that clause.

    If I understand correctly, Ross Douchehat is saying that it was a mistake for the President to decide to have the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to himself. Is that it?

    Oh, wait, “by accepting” the prize. I see. What he’s saying is that his reporting would have been, like, all totally different and stuff if the President had decided to refuse to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

    [bangs head on desk]

    Why does anybody listen to these assholes any more?

  39. 39.

    JK

    October 12, 2009 at 2:39 am

    @Calouste: @Brachiator:

    Liz Cheney is drunk with delusions of grandeur. Can’t wait to see what political office she decides to run for.

  40. 40.

    FlipYrWhig

    October 12, 2009 at 2:51 am

    Yeah, “Barack Obama, Nobel laureate” is quite a zinging putdown. It’s sorta like “Jonathan Lethem, MacArthur genius-grant recipient.” Utterly humiliating.

  41. 41.

    freelancer (itouch)

    October 12, 2009 at 2:53 am

    Is it just me or does anyone else want to convince their gfs to mail their placebo pills from their bc presript to mr. douthat?

  42. 42.

    Calouste

    October 12, 2009 at 2:58 am

    @Brachiator:

    It’s full fontal imperialism.

    Actually, Cheney makes a very good case why Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. He turned the one remaining super power away from pursuing dominance, dominance which the US considering the state of its economy could only have achieved by military means and not by economical ones.

    There was a comment here the other day in reference to Obama getting the prize for not being Bush that Mandela got the prize for not being Botha. Which was not true, Mandela got the prize for being Mandela. It was de Klerk who got the prize for not being Botha.

  43. 43.

    simonee

    October 12, 2009 at 2:59 am

    @JK:

    Liz Cheney vs. Sarahgeddon! Hopefully she’s just that deluded.

  44. 44.

    Bijan Parsia

    October 12, 2009 at 3:10 am

    Aside from the bizarreness of thinking that calling a Nobel Laureate er…a Nobel Laureate (there are, I suppose, circumstances where this would be insulting, but a necessary condition, I would think, is not being a Nobel Laureate), its interesting to note that all of the put-down presidents have done pretty well for themselves. Who calls Bill Clinton “Slick Willie” these days and who cares that they do? Jimmy Carter is routinely referred to as our greatest ex-President and history seems to be ever more kinder about his tenure. Nixon, rather shockingly, did a pretty good job at rehabilitation during his lifetime (become, e.g., a trusted mentory type to Slick Willie).

    I think Bush Jr. will fare only worse as time goes on. But that’s because unlike all the rest, he really has nothing going for him. Nixon, criminal slimepig that he was, was, in fact, pretty damn smart and, oh, y’know, had some CV fillers like China and detente (and some decent domestic stuff alongside the break-ins).

    Something would have to go very bizarre for Obama to crash and burn to Bush Jr.’s degree. I guess if you delude yourself into thinking that he is the empty suit Bush Jr. was in fact (while deluding yourself that Bush Jr. was somehow in principle credible), then this will seem plausible.

  45. 45.

    Yutsano

    October 12, 2009 at 3:44 am

    @Bijan Parsia: Besides which (and yes I’m that petty because I’m going to mention it no matter what y’all think) how many ex-Presidents have been asked to cook with Paula Deen? Answer: ONE. Granted, he’s a Georgia native, but still, that was one of the most charming episodes I think she’s ever done.

    Plus when is she gonna go cook for the Obamas? She was invited during the campaign to go.

  46. 46.

    Brachiator

    October 12, 2009 at 3:55 am

    @Calouste:

    Mandela got the prize for being Mandela. It was de Klerk who got the prize for not being Botha.

    Indeed! Very well put.

  47. 47.

    Joseph Nobles

    October 12, 2009 at 4:23 am

    Strangely enough, when 9/11 truthers discuss what they call the “official story,” they tend to dismiss it as the “incompetence” theory. I wonder if Douhat secretly pretends to be a 9/11 truther on left-leaning websites?

    Eh, tinfoil hat off.

  48. 48.

    JGabriel

    October 12, 2009 at 5:37 am

    Liz Cheney:

    I think what the committee believes is they’d like to live in a world in which America is not dominant.

    I think they’d just like an America that doesn’t ignore the damn safety word.

    .

  49. 49.

    WereBear

    October 12, 2009 at 5:43 am

    @Bijan Parsia: And there’s your wingnut attitude in a nutshell.

    I guess if you delude yourself into thinking that he is the empty suit Bush Jr. was in fact (while deluding yourself that Bush Jr. was somehow in principle credible), then this will seem plausible.

    That is exactly how they think. How they must think, or face an uncomfortable truth, yet again.

    They are going nuts because it is a slap in the face, an undeniable world repudiation.

    Maybe our President got the prize just for being there, but that’s quite an accomplishment, isn’t it? Then, once there, he’s not sitting back. He is slowly turning the ship of state completely around.

    Because, you have to remember, we are the most dangerous country on earth and for eight years we were ruled by madmen.

    If there was a Nobel Prize for “Greatest Sense of Relief,” it would be this one.

  50. 50.

    Uloborus

    October 12, 2009 at 5:45 am

    Yeah, put me down in the ‘Obama deserved the prize’ category. I’m sure he *was* initially nominated for not being Bush. When the world’s remaining super-power seems to be sliding towards dictatorship and empire, lies to the international community to start random wars, repudiates the Geneva Convention…. Well, you get the idea, right? Not only did they loathe Bush, they were terrified of where this was going. We hated Bush, so we don’t see this as an accomplishment, but in their eyes Obama turned the US away from being a world-wide nightmare. That it’s too late to fix Iraq and probably Afghanistan is immaterial. We ain’t invadin’ Iran.

    Since then, he’s treated the middle east and Islam in particular with cultural respect, quietly ended North Korea’s latest temper tantrum, signed a nuclear deal I didn’t even *know* about because the US media doesn’t seem to care about anything but wingnut whining, and brought Iran gently to the bargaining table on their nuclear enrichment.

    He has, from the European perspective, reversed a very large portion of the damage Bush did to the world, particularly the US’s place in it, in a few months. That should at least make him a legitimate contender. And so, from an international perspective, he’s never going to ‘fail’ and not have deserved this in the first place. He ain’t going to become Cheney. Douthat’s opinion is not a flyspeck on their world map. Probably neither is the American liberal community’s, frankly.

  51. 51.

    demkat620

    October 12, 2009 at 6:29 am

    @Wile E. Quixote: Yeah, there was. Which was why alot of us here thought Daniel Larison would have been a great choice.

    But those days are over.

  52. 52.

    drillfork

    October 12, 2009 at 6:39 am

    Atrios (damn him) actually posted a snippet from Douhat’s “chunky Reese Witherspoon” essay. Honestly, it sounds like he might be suppressing a desire to switch teams. Cringe-inducing a read as it was, at least I know what that means now.

    http://www.eschatonblog.com/2009/10/deep-thought-from-ross-douthat.html

    Should probably go in the Lexicon, if it isn’t already (and assuming the Lexicon is functioning).

    OT, the insurance industry is starting to turn on healthcare reform. I guess they’re mad that whatever fan dance Obama did for them wasn’t as impressive as the immediate sell-out that PHarma got.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091012/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul_insurers

    Obama truly sucks…

  53. 53.

    Dave_Violence

    October 12, 2009 at 6:53 am

    And “Dubya the incompetent”? Has anyone ever said that?

    Not too often, it’s way too nice compared to what was usually said (W = Hitler, idiot monkey, asshole mofo, etc.). I am hoping that the tone of your comment is not to imply that W wasn’t criticized quite harshly, every day, in the open – because he was. Barry O is getting much better treatment, but keep in mind, as long as you pay attention to “them” “they” will not be ignored.

  54. 54.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    October 12, 2009 at 7:14 am

    Shorter Douchehat: This uppity President will confirm my fellow wankers opinion of his uppityness if he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.

    His chronology of presidents is befucked, also. In addition, Bush is Chimpy McFlightsuit and I must deduct 50 fReichtard points for failing to refer to Carter as HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTER in bright red flashing script.

    What’s more, he’s etched in stone the phrase with which critics will dismiss his presidency.

    Because his critics had nothing to say before this.

  55. 55.

    SGEW

    October 12, 2009 at 7:14 am

    Has everyone forgotten “Miserable Failure” already?

  56. 56.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2009 at 7:21 am

    the phrase with which critics will dismiss his presidency

    “critics” = “me, Ross Douthat, and people will remember my phrases, damnit!”

  57. 57.

    JK

    October 12, 2009 at 7:46 am

    Fuck Ross Douthat and Fuck the NY Yankees

  58. 58.

    JD Rhoades

    October 12, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Man, that’s some sour grapes, right there.

  59. 59.

    Uloborus

    October 12, 2009 at 7:52 am

    @El Cid:

    That… is absolutely, totally, completely it. God, is that it. You’ve summed up half of conservative commentary right there. The self-absorbtion is STAGGERING.

  60. 60.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    October 12, 2009 at 7:56 am

    Josh Marshall had it right:

    Can Obama survive the shame of global popularity?

    All the Yankee hate is as refreshing as an autumn’s morning air. My victorious Yankees are still playing on TV and the Red Sox are at home watching.

    Can the Yankees survive the shame of another World Series championship?

  61. 61.

    calipygian

    October 12, 2009 at 8:02 am

    The dumber the commentary gets about Obama’s Nobel Prize, the better the choice of Obama for the Nobel Prize gets.

  62. 62.

    Morbo

    October 12, 2009 at 8:12 am

    I thought critics were planning to just use his name. When you have Barack Hussein Obama, conservative critics don’t really need any extra words for their constituents to know what they’re talking about.

  63. 63.

    DBrown

    October 12, 2009 at 8:12 am

    Obama earned the Nobel Peace Prize for a number of reasons – foremost: the nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia (1/3 total warhead reduction on all platforms!), the rapprochement with Iran; the agreement to send over 75% of their enrich uranium out of the country to be processed (and hence accounted for and converted to peaceful uses which fully engages them and us) and the start of engagement in the Middle East. Finally, changing the course of American imperialism towards world engagement rather than war. The first achievement fully justified the prize but the last was very important to the world – avoiding a major war (Iran) is far, far better than ending a minor war (Afghanistan).

  64. 64.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2009 at 8:13 am

    @The Grand Panjandrum:

    When ‘the world’ either seemed to or was simply suggested to be going along with or appreciating George W. Bush Jr. (including made-up examples or tiny sub-sets of non-representative leaders), then it was proof that the world finally abandoned its crazy anti-America ways and recognized we were right all along.

    When ‘the world’ seems to in various ways support Barack Obama, this just means that ‘the world’ is still mainly full of anti-American effetes and Yurpeen fags and shit and Obama’s a cowardly surrender Munich-crat who likes to hear the damn weirdos in Berlin praise him, etc.

  65. 65.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2009 at 8:26 am

    O/T: Republicans discover the key to victory in 2010:

    Scream “NANCY PELOSI” a lot and also ‘San Francisco’ and such. A surefire strategy.

    WASHINGTON — Republicans are stepping up attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, deciding that a major part of their 2010 electoral strategy will be linking Democratic candidates to her… The approach emerged last week when the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of House Republicans, issued a statement saying it hopes Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, puts Ms. Pelosi “in her place” on Afghan policy. The statement accused Ms. Pelosi, a California Democrat, of putting party politics ahead of national security in her cautious statements on expanding the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.

    This is a staggering innovation because never before has the GOP considered running local elections against Nancy Pelosi.

    The difficult electoral situation the Republicans face in Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina will now be much more in their favor with the Pelosi strategem.

    Particularly when they should that picture of NANCY PELOSI ! wearing a scarf in SYRIA !!!

    Victory is ass-ured.

  66. 66.

    El Cid

    October 12, 2009 at 8:27 am

    should –> show

  67. 67.

    David

    October 12, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Is winning the Nobel Peace Prize Obama’s Chappaquiddick? It would be irresponsible of warmongers everywhere not to ask.

  68. 68.

    ricky

    October 12, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Obama the Nobel Laureate has now exceeeded by one month the record set by George the Incompetent for keeping us free of terrorist attack in his initial term. He broke the record on September 12 to celibrate the Glenn Beck rallies.

  69. 69.

    ricky

    October 12, 2009 at 8:43 am

    I missed it. Was Douthat’s reference to Witherspoon as “chunky” part of an expression of preference for Palin as “winky?”

  70. 70.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    October 12, 2009 at 8:43 am

    Have the Yankees realized that they should not hire pitchers who are at the end of their careers and focusing on bucks and the Hall of Fame? I think not. Go Angels.

  71. 71.

    ricky

    October 12, 2009 at 8:45 am

    @El Cid:

    You are not off thread. The secret memo on Pelosi refers to her as chunky.

  72. 72.

    jenniebee

    October 12, 2009 at 8:45 am

    For everybody who thinks he doesn’t deserve the prize, please do remember that he’s already took one large, well-armed country that was “going rogue,” showing total disregard for international opinion, and behaving in a violent, unpredictable manner, and convinced it, just by talking directly to its people, to seek another path. And he did manage to do that three months before the nomination deadline.

    This business of not being George Bush didn’t start on Jan 20, y’all. If it did, the wingnutterati wouldn’t be as profoundly insulted by the choice as they are now.

  73. 73.

    Ann B. Nonymous

    October 12, 2009 at 8:45 am

    Dear Ross Douthat,

    It is possible to use the word “jackass” in the New York Times. I certainly use it when I read it.

    Yours,
    Chunky Ann B. Nonymous

  74. 74.

    jenniebee

    October 12, 2009 at 8:46 am

    he’s already taken

    DAMN YOU SCOTT BEAUCHAMP MISSING EDIT FEATURE!

  75. 75.

    professor fate

    October 12, 2009 at 8:47 am

    The word that I think will be forever linked with W is “failure” as in “total failure” – or “complete fucking total failure”

    He’s already on a lot of lists of “worst presidents” and who knows over time he may actually suceed as something, by being known as: “Worst. President. Ever.”

  76. 76.

    Ash Can

    October 12, 2009 at 8:48 am

    @Comrade Luke:

    How is this an issue AT ALL?

    It’s not. All we’re seeing is the proverbial squid cloud of butthurt from the right. The Nobel Committee, however indirectly and classily, just kicked their asses to hell and back (again), and they’re all tearful and smarting over it. Poor things.

    This is why I don’t read pundits. They have nothing to say. Absolutely nothing.

    @JK:

    Can’t wait to see what political office she decides to run for.

    Why should she bother? The networks are falling over themselves to interview her just because she’s Cheney’s daughter as it is. I’m sure she commands astronomical speaking fees, and there’s always books to be (ghost)written. She can be Sarah Palin without having to quit a real job first.

    @Uloborus:

    He has, from the European perspective, reversed a very large portion of the damage Bush did to the world, particularly the US’s place in it, in a few months.

    Bullseye. This is, in a nutshell, why he got the prize.

  77. 77.

    Bootlegger

    October 12, 2009 at 8:51 am

    @jl:

    Uh, yeah, I would imagine that Obama turning down the award would do a lot to push his agenda. That would be the smart thing to do right now. No question about it.

    I agree with this, said it here the first day. It would have been some major Obama-fu if he had respectfully turned it down and made an impassioned speech about all the deserving people who they should have given it to. Even the wingnuteratti would have had a hard time spinning that on their magic outrage wheel, though their lord knows they would have tried.

    But he didn’t. And it is fun watching wingnut heads explode, I loves me some malkinfraude. And it is a rather trivial matter given all that is currently going on in the world. And Douthat is still an Asshat.

    So, opportunity missed. Move on to the next fauxrage.

  78. 78.

    Bootlegger

    October 12, 2009 at 9:00 am

    @JGabriel: Well-played pun!

  79. 79.

    georgia pig

    October 12, 2009 at 9:01 am

    In past few days, we’ve experienced George Fucking Will on climate change in the WaPo, “expert commentary” on Afghanistan policy from Cokie Fucking Roberts on NPR, and this closet-case fuckwit telling Obama to refuse the Nobel Peace Prize in the NYT. I give up.

  80. 80.

    Ash Can

    October 12, 2009 at 9:10 am

    And speaking of Nobel prizes, a little something to add to the RW butthurt — one of the two recipients of the Economics prize is a green economist (besides being the first woman to receive the prize).

    (h/t GOS)

  81. 81.

    Keith G

    October 12, 2009 at 9:18 am

    @ricky: http://wonkette.com/407085/misogynist-neck-beard-ross-douhat-shares-his-sexy-stories

    Good luck.

  82. 82.

    cmorenc

    October 12, 2009 at 9:22 am

    @soonergrunt

    I don’t think that the President deserves the Nobel prize, but at the same time, watching the wingeratti loose their collective shit over it has been immensely entertaining.

    At first, I didn’t think Obama deserved it either – perhaps a promising candidate for one in the future, but way too thin and short a resume at this point.

    But the more I think about it, the more putting a silver dagger in the heart of the ghoulish vampire Bush era seems like an immensely important accomplishment for world peace. In eight months, he’s come close to restoring much of the world’s respect that was utterly squandered in such spectacularly arrogant, stupid, toxic, and ugly ways by George Bush. (Except that he hasn’t come nearly so close to actually extricating us on Iraq, Guantanomo, and Afghanistan as we’d like). But I’ll cut him lots of slack even on those simply to not have a toxic toad-frog in the white house croaking cheerfully malevolent bullshit at the nation, pissing in everyone’s ponds except those of his fellow toadie swells.

    Not being George Bush (or his would-be sympatico successor) and successfully getting elected as the first black president are HUGE accomplishments that shouldn’t be underrated. Maybe not quite good enough on an ordinary scale for the Nobel Peace Prize, but in these times perhaps good enough.

  83. 83.

    gogol's wife

    October 12, 2009 at 9:30 am

    I just want to thank you all for restoring my sanity this morning. I’ve been composing angry letters to the Times about their whole coverage of the Peace Prize (Republicans won’t like it! Jay Leno is making fun of him! He’s just like Nixon!???), but you’ve helped me realize there’s no use in that.

  84. 84.

    Rick Taylor

    October 12, 2009 at 9:31 am

    Uh, yeah, I would imagine that Obama turning down the award would do a lot to push his agenda. That would be the smart thing to do right now. No question about it.

    And wingnuts like Douthat would totally respect him for it! They wouldn’t attack him for incredible arrogance or for embarrassing the country before the world for refusing the prize, not at all. Any suggestion they would rip into him no matter what he did is completely cynical. Why they’d criticize any president for winning the nobel prize, or using a teleprompter, or not ordering a state to release a paper copy of their birth certificate. The criticisms of Obama have nothing to do with the fact that he’s a Democrat or that he’s black.

  85. 85.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 12, 2009 at 9:32 am

    About the chunky Reese Witherspoon business, how does Ross Douthat have the nerve to call anyone chunky
    is beyond my understanding. I mean he has he looked at the mirror lately.

  86. 86.

    Rick Taylor

    October 12, 2009 at 9:36 am

    @cmorenc:

    I don’t think that the President deserves the Nobel prize, but at the same time, watching the wingeratti loose their collective shit over it has been immensely entertaining.

    I think one of the things people are missing is the Nobel Prize is meant to encourage promising behavior as much as it is to reward it. It was given to Wilson for his work on the league of nations, even though it didn’t go anywhere, and to Kissinger of all people for making noises about making peace with Vietnam.

  87. 87.

    Janet Strange

    October 12, 2009 at 9:37 am

    @Brachiator:

    “The Nobels don’t mean squat if Obama or a Democrat wins it.”

    This is not new. Remember that purple hearts don’t mean squat either – John Kerry got one.

  88. 88.

    Fulcanelli

    October 12, 2009 at 9:44 am

    @kommrade reproductive vigor: “Befucked”. I am so stealing that word.

    @Uloborus:

    The self-absorbtion is STAGGERING.

    Which is, of course, inversely proportional to the right wing’s level of self-awareness.

    What is staggering is the level of hypocrisy demonstrated by the human sphincters on the right who after screaming themselves hoarse for years claiming the patriotic, high moral ground on literally everything they do and say, find it repellent that America would walk it’s talk by electing an intelligent black man (gasp!) who actively demonstrates at least some small semblance of supposedly American values on the world stage and and gets recognized for it in a big way.

  89. 89.

    catclub

    October 12, 2009 at 9:44 am

    1. Anyone who keeps John McWars McCain away from the
    nuclear codes has earned two NPP’s.

    2. Can Obama send George Bush to accept the prize and read an acceptance speech that Obama has written? One with multi-syllable words?
    Hilarity ensues.

  90. 90.

    Egypt Steve

    October 12, 2009 at 9:46 am

    Bah. Obama did not win the Nobel Peace Prize for not being Bush. He won it for not being “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb bomb Iran” John McCain. It is an objective fact that the election of Obama has forestalled the inconceivable horror that would have been visited upon the world by an addled McCain and his administration of Bush-alumni war criminals and Christian zealots. What more does it take to earn the Nobel Peace Prize than to prevent many hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths?

  91. 91.

    danimal

    October 12, 2009 at 9:58 am

    Obama the Nobel Laureate has now exceeeded by one month the record set by George the Incompetent for keeping us free of terrorist attack in his initial term. He broke the record on September 12 to celibrate the Glenn Beck rallies.

    I want to shoot down this meme before it gets too out of hand. There were 42 preznits before W that share first place and own the record for avoiding terrorist attacks during their first term. There is only one preznit in last place, and that would be W. Obama simply stayed out of last place when he passed W on September 12th.

  92. 92.

    burnspbesq

    October 12, 2009 at 9:59 am

    @The Grand Panjandrum:

    Can the Yankees survive the shame of another World Series championship?

    The Yankees are as likely to win the World Series this year as ol’ Ross is of sleeping with Reese Witherspoon.

  93. 93.

    harlana pepper

    October 12, 2009 at 10:02 am

    Someone please explain to me how our President winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a bad thing? They don’t want to accept that the rest of the world is just so damned happy Bush is gone and we have a diplomat at the helm, they’re want to give him a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s like a “Thank you, God!” from the rest of the world. What part of this explicit message do they not understand?

  94. 94.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    October 12, 2009 at 10:02 am

    @burnspbesq: The Yankees are still in the playoffs. Ross was never in the game.

  95. 95.

    Dan L

    October 12, 2009 at 10:03 am

    He definitely should turn the award down. There would certainly not be any stories about “Obama caves to pressure, admits lacks of accomplishments”. Besides, being in the good graces of the international community is hardly as important as being respected by the NYTimes editorial board.

  96. 96.

    Captain Goto

    October 12, 2009 at 10:04 am

    This.

  97. 97.

    Keith G

    October 12, 2009 at 10:06 am

    …I didn’t think Obama deserved it either…

    OK, by now I have read this notion hundreds of times and may I simply request that y’all just fucking stop it.

    It’s not your award, It’s their award. They get to decide who deserves it. If they were interested in your criteria I am sure they would have called. Okay?

  98. 98.

    burnspbesq

    October 12, 2009 at 10:06 am

    @The Grand Panjandrum:

    The Yankees are still in the playoffs.

    For another nine days.

  99. 99.

    jrosen

    October 12, 2009 at 10:07 am

    Nothing is more embarrassing than a joke that falls flat. After concern-trolling that accepting the prize makes BHO more vulnerable to ridicule (which would BTW probably be a break from being vilified as a Nazi) Ross the Righteous proceeds to attempt to ridicule him, by calling him (shudder!) a NOBLE LAUREATE. Rim-shot fallowed by an leaden silence.

    Will somebody at the NYT editorial page please get the hook.

  100. 100.

    Captain Goto

    October 12, 2009 at 10:07 am

    God**** it, This.

  101. 101.

    Ash Can

    October 12, 2009 at 10:15 am

    @harlana pepper:

    What part of this explicit message do they not understand?

    I think that, on a very visceral level, they do understand it. And this is why they’re so bent out of shape.

  102. 102.

    Mr Furious

    October 12, 2009 at 10:17 am

    @Bijan Parsia:

    Jimmy Carter is routinely referred to as our greatest ex-President and history seems to be ever more kinder about his tenure

    I thought he was History’s Greatest Monster?

  103. 103.

    Mr Furious

    October 12, 2009 at 10:21 am

    If the Yankees get by the Angels—no sure thing: the Angels are the Yankees worst nightmare, then I think the Phillies are more than capable of finishing the job.

  104. 104.

    Jamey

    October 12, 2009 at 10:23 am

    By Douchehat’s logic, this also will be shorthand for future-fail:

    “Ross Douthat: New York Times Op-Ed Columnist.”

    I mean, such a lofty mantel. How could he not fall short of its import?

  105. 105.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    October 12, 2009 at 10:36 am

    @burnspbesq: That WS championship will be more delicious when I can come here for the public rending of garments, wailing and gnashing teeth, and who knows what else!

  106. 106.

    Svensker

    October 12, 2009 at 10:36 am

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    About the chunky Reese Witherspoon business, how does Ross Douthat have the nerve to call anyone chunky

    I like it cuz it makes me think of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Which could explain why I’m getting a bit chunky meself…

  107. 107.

    Svensker

    October 12, 2009 at 10:38 am

    @harlana pepper:

    It’s like a “Thank you, God!” from the rest of the world. What part of this explicit message do they not understand?

    They DO understand it. They just hate it.

  108. 108.

    Erik Vanderhoff

    October 12, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Just want to point out that the article is called “Heckuva Job, Barack”…

    Didn’t the Right Wing go batshit for a period of time over not referring to President Bush as simply “Bush,” instead of “President Bush” or “Mr. Bush?”

  109. 109.

    Comrade Darkness

    October 12, 2009 at 10:43 am

    @soonergrunt: I have to agree that this seems hopefully pre-emptive but I expect he’ll deserve one at a later date. The awarding of it strikes me as a saddening gesture of a world terribly grateful that Bush II is gone. This is reminding me of the emails I got after election day from various friends/long-lost acquaintances around the global. They were pathetically grateful too.

    The rest of the world cannot vote for the u.s. president, but hoo-boy does our choice impact them.

  110. 110.

    Comrade Darkness

    October 12, 2009 at 10:46 am

    Re, the update. Typical Obama—he gives the queen an iPod

    GAH, what is this stupid meme. The queen already had a really old ipod, which she loved. WTF is wrong with giving her another? And 2, and more importantly, assert that Ronald “nuke the world, or coup d ‘état it” Reagan should have won it 8 years running?? But this guy turns around a give a shit whether the Queen likes her ipod?

    Cognitive dissonance much?

  111. 111.

    aimai

    October 12, 2009 at 10:52 am

    Comerade Darkness,
    SteveM is snarking. This is an imitation of a wingnut, not the real thing. Also, the blog’s name is “NoMoreMr.NiceBlog” not nice guy.

    aimai

  112. 112.

    Dan L

    October 12, 2009 at 10:53 am

    @Comrade Darkness- Understand sarcasm much?

  113. 113.

    ricky

    October 12, 2009 at 10:56 am

    @Keith G:

    Thanks. I’ll cherish the memory.

  114. 114.

    Chad N Freude

    October 12, 2009 at 11:02 am

    @danimal: I like this. GWB was the only president who during whose term there was a foreign terrorist attack on the United States.

    Slick Willie. Tricky Dick. Jimmy “Malaise” Carter. Dubya the Incompetent Undefender. And now Barack Obama, Nobel laureate.

  115. 115.

    ricky

    October 12, 2009 at 11:06 am

    @danimal:

    “I want to shoot down this meme before it gets too out of hand. There were 42 preznits before W that share first place and own the record for avoiding terrorist attacks during their first term. There is only one preznit in last place, and that would be W. Obama simply stayed out of last place when he passed W on September 12th.”

    Excuse me. I left out the modifier. “Free from Islamofacist terrorist attack.” There term islamofacist is a registered trademark of the twentyfirst century wingnutoshpere, and therefore cannot be applied to any President serving before the bridge Bill Clinton built was crossed. Satisfied?

    If not, check out the tenure of W. H. Harrison.

  116. 116.

    Chad N Freude

    October 12, 2009 at 11:09 am

    @harlana pepper: Any tribute from the rest of the world that is not extracted by force, preferably deadly force, is an insult.

    If you think Douthat is an anus, check out this piece by Peggy Noonan.

  117. 117.

    matoko_chan

    October 12, 2009 at 11:14 am

    Hm. 394k results for W. the War Criminal.

    I like the Torture President.
    ;)

    I have just one thing to say.
    Why so serious, wingnuts?

  118. 118.

    ricky

    October 12, 2009 at 11:15 am

    @Comrade Darkness:

    To assert that Reagan should have won the Nobel instead of Obama is to assert that Reagan should have won an Oscar instead of Gore.

    It only requires missing his administration and body of cinematic work.

  119. 119.

    Chad N Freude

    October 12, 2009 at 11:26 am

    @ricky: I have never understood how the Academy could have overlooked his brilliant performance in “Bedtime For Bonzo”, whose title alone prefigured the Bush years.

  120. 120.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 12, 2009 at 11:29 am

    Second Law of Wingular Dynamics

    Wingularity tends to increase over time

    Third Law of Wingular Dynamics

    As we approach absolute wingularity, the sense wingnuts make approaches an absolute minimum.

    I am still working on the zeroth and the first law.

  121. 121.

    Waynski

    October 12, 2009 at 11:32 am

    @Grand Panjandrum — I’m with you. Go Yanks! Fuck the Angels.

  122. 122.

    LD50

    October 12, 2009 at 11:46 am

    But why did he leave out Ford and Reagan?

    I assume that’s because he forgot about Ford and because Saint Reagan is sacred. May I offer ‘Reagan the Senile’?

  123. 123.

    Bootlegger

    October 12, 2009 at 11:49 am

    @Dan L: Well he can’t do it now, had to be immediate. And it would have been easy to spin as “others are more deserving” and not “we don’t deserve it”.

  124. 124.

    Sly

    October 12, 2009 at 11:49 am

    Oh, come on. You guys are being far too mean.

    I, for one, enjoy learning all about undeserved recognition from Ross Douthat’s column in the New York Times. When it comes to hearing about how people shouldn’t be rewarded when they have an undistinguished career, that lacks anything in the form of noteworthiness or achievement, Ross Douthat’s weekly op-ed in the third most widely-circulated newspaper in the nation is where I look for guidance and surety.

  125. 125.

    Bootlegger

    October 12, 2009 at 11:54 am

    @Keith G: For the record, I don’t think “deserve” should have been part of the political calculation. I just think Asshat actually has a point that Obama’s political machine could have shut down the messianic conservative meme with one move. Instead they amplified it. Now, to torture the metaphor, they may blow the speakers and kill the meme themselves with their histrionics. But its a moot point now, the die is cast and they have to play it for what they can and hope the wingularity collapses on itself.

  126. 126.

    FLRealist

    October 12, 2009 at 11:57 am

    It’s not your award, It’s their award. They get to decide who deserves it. If they were interested in your criteria I am sure they would have called. Okay?

    @Keith G:

    Best thing I’ve read on the subject, bar none!

  127. 127.

    Dan L

    October 12, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    @Bootlegger I don’t buy that at all. Turning it down would just mean the Wingnuts would attack him for being ungracious or for “admitting his lack of success,” with the added problem of pissing off the global community. The right and the villagers were going to be pissed off either way.

  128. 128.

    Wile E. Quixote

    October 12, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    @drillfork

    Atrios (damn him) actually posted a snippet from Douhat’s “chunky Reese Witherspoon” essay. Honestly, it sounds like he might be suppressing a desire to switch teams. Cringe-inducing a read as it was, at least I know what that means now.

    Ewwwwwww, what a disgusting little man Ross Douthat is. I have to say that I’m not sure the other team would want him. They’d probably say “Nope, he has to stay straight, we, are way, way, way, way the fuck over our quota of self-loathing, hate-filled, not-too-bright conservative closet cases.”

  129. 129.

    Shade Tail

    October 12, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    @danimal (#91):

    I want to shoot down this meme before it gets too out of hand. There were 42 preznits before W that share first place and own the record for avoiding terrorist attacks during their first term.

    Are you including Bill Clinton on that list? Because terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in February of 1993.

  130. 130.

    Warren Terra

    October 12, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    DougJ,
    I’m glad you fixed the double-posting of SteveM’s response, but in fairness to SteveM I think you should make it more clar that SteveM is envisioning the inevitable Winger response if Obama had refused the prize – not, as it might otherwise appear from your quote, himself sincerely going Full Metal Winger about the part of Obama’s Friday statement in which he said he felt he had not yet earned the prize.

    For example, you could include the following line from SteveM’s post:

    I’m trying to what noises would be emanating from the right if he had stepped out on Friday and refused the damn thing.

    (although if you do so I’d add the apparent missing word “imagine”)

  131. 131.

    Jules

    October 12, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    All I have to see is the name Douthat which my brain reads as Douche-hat and I know that whatever is written will not be worth the 2 min out of my life that it will take me to read Ross’s latest spewings.
    And look, I was right, not worth my time.

  132. 132.

    Keith G

    October 12, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    @Wile E. Quixote: Amen.

  133. 133.

    Ruckus

    October 12, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    @JGabriel:
    Coming in late to the show today so haven’t read everything.
    I actually combine the two:
    Fuckwit is my choice, mostly because that word cracks me up. Clusterfuck is my other nickname for Bush, mostly for accuracy.
    Dubya the Fuckwit Clusterfuck
    or
    Bush the Fuckwit Clusterfuck (works for two presidents! one more than the other but still….)

  134. 134.

    Bob In Pacifica

    October 12, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    I don’t know if anyone said it already, but that flaming turd is worth $1.4 million and will get you a lot of free drinks in a lot of Bay Area bars.

  135. 135.

    bill

    October 13, 2009 at 12:05 am

    Jesus H. Christ, why hasn’t Anthony Lewis cock-punched this dweeb and then written about what a whiny-ass titty baby he is? Can we please just cut to the chase on this idiot?

  136. 136.

    Jennifer

    October 13, 2009 at 9:28 am

    So, unless I’m missing something, Obama is to the Nobel Peace Prize as Dubya was to the US Presidency. Fair enough.
    And whatever.

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