I guess I missed this, but exactly when did Katie Couric and Wolf Blitzer firebomb Sarah Palin’s church:
Does anyone have any idea what the hell he is talking about? Did I miss something?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL
I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.
Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.
Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.
Ah, the different things are different argument.
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
A consequence of cucumbers
It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
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demkat620
No, but I never understand what she is talking about.
Eric U.
If anything, her church didn’t get enough coverage, they are nuts.
beltane
If this video features the sound of Sarah Facepalm’s voice, I refuse to watch it. This woman has lingered way passed her expiration date, and her only purpose now is to stink things up.
She also left Alaska with more per capita debt than any other state in the union. Palin will forever be the Miss America of FAIL.
Joe
That was an awesome teleprompter Victoria Jackson was using in that song
beltane
@Eric U.: They are nuts, they are nasty, and they didn’t even do a good job of casting out this woman’s demons.
Tom Levenson
You missed nothing. This is what happens when 1/4 of the nation goes off its meds.
My favorite was Beck’s “Teach your kids how to plant food.” Kinda gotta teach them how to thresh and winnow wheat, grind the kernels, and bake them some bread too. Subsistence agriculture is a fine thing — if your goal is simple subsistence.
(Oh — and a ten by ten foot backyard wheat plot will get you up to, maybe, 25 loaves of bread. Maybe that’s the point — you grow your own food, Glenn, and you’ll get skinny at last.)
Tom
“Keep walking towards the fire.”
My advice exactly.
Andrew Breitbart… what is it about the right-wing that makes it celebrate clearly insane people?
J. A. Baker
I think Blightfart is referring to the arson at Bible Spice’s church that took place about a month after Obama was elected. He’s basically suggesting that the media was playing Osama bin Laden to the perp’s Mohamed Atta.
I mean, talk about more projection than a 24-theater multiplex.
Pigs & Spiders
I had to ship a whole bunch of product to Wasilla, Alaska yesterday. I work in the entertainment industry. It was all I could do to let the shipment go out the door, knowing how it was to be used.
James F. Elliott
Is Glenn Beck a complete idiot?
“They’re making the same moves the Weimar Republic made, which led to Nazi Germany…”
The Nazis came to power as a fascist backlash against the Weimar Republic, Glenn. In your analogy, you are the goddamn Nazi.
Little Dreamer
That’s not fire, that’s “the light” – yes, keep telling them to walk into the light!
;)
geg6
@Joe:
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
Boy, she sure has gotten fat, hasn’t she?
J. A. Baker
Hannity calls the Teabaggers “Tim McVeigh wannabees.” (scroll to 7:43) And they cheer him for it!
Un-freakin-believable.
Little Dreamer
@J. A. Baker:
That wasn’t arson, that was “the spirit” cleansing the church of it’s impurities.
;)
Surly Duff
Can “Joe the Plumber” still retain the title plumber when all he does is spout bullshit instead of cleaning it up?
And if you think Palin has lasted too long, what about Joe? Talk about extending your expiration date.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Jeebus H Christ. Those people are nuts.
El Cid
@beltane: Budget numbers are elitist and look down upon the beloved and courageous Sarah Palin, and this makes her just like Ronald Reagan.
Barack
Did you see that, one of the Teabaggers had a Glenn Beck button on his hat!
In other news, Barry has brought his Chicago teachings to the local Democrats in Washington DC.
“A crowd sprayed with bullets in a drive-by that killed four and wounded five had just returned from the funeral of man slain nearby and a 20-year-old is suspected in both shootings.”
There is much work still to be done in Washington, as this is nowhere near the dozen or so sent nightly to that single emergency room with knife and bullet wounds in Barry’s old neighborhood, where his teachings have had time to sink in.
Leelee for Obama
@J. A. Baker: So. let me think! Hannity accidently tells a truth and compares his soul-mates to a mass-murderer and they cheer him for it? That’s what happened?
Jeebus-these people are certifiable.
Leelee for Obama
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: And so the mind-meld continues……
Brick Oven Bill
Oh noes, there goes my alias.
beltane
@J. A. Baker: Next thing you know, the teabaggers will be demanding that Timothy McVeigh be put on the $50 bill. He was even more of a patriot than their beloved Ronald Reagan.
PaulW
The point is to always make the Republicans look like victims, even when they are the ones holding the matches and the gas cans.
kid bitzer
you know if beck had ever spent a day working on an anvil–no, if he had spent even ten minutes working on an anvil–he’d know that he needs to lower that thing about two feet.
no wonder he never actually tries to hit it with the sledge–hitting things up at chest-height is really awkward.
and really awkward is how that fat fuck looks, wielding a sledge! gosh, what an authentic working man he is.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@Leelee for Obama: yup:)
Leelee for Obama
@Barack: B. O. B., is that you?
jeffreyw
The trouble with Joe “the plumber” is that he isn’t funny enough.
Brick Oven Bill
Not as far as you know Leelee.
ajr22
OT I would like to say congrats to Cory Booker. I have been following him since his show. Newark had it’s first murder free month since 1966. This is a great accomplishment, and he has worked really hard. The guy is a shining example of what a public official should be. Look into the guy if you don’t know, he deserves a lot of respect.
El Cid
@J. A. Baker: I hate Sean Hannity but I’m pretty sure that in that clip he’s trying to suggest that it’s the liberal media which is painting the brave TeaTards as “Tim McVeigh wannabe’s”.
geg6
@Leelee for Obama:
Gotta be. For one thing, BOB’s about the only wingnut teabagger I’ve ever seen who can spell.
My rule of thumb with teabagger writing is if it’s spelled correctly, it’s definitely BOB.
David in NY
@Barack:
Um, you know, calling the President “Barry” isn’t really an argument about anything. Nor is the President responsible for crime in the big cities, which, as I recall, existed under Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Bush.
So learn to think. And quit blaming all black people for the actions of some. There’s a name for that. Also.
kid bitzer
by the way, i suspect that the “sarah keeps walking towards the fire” line is a confused mash-up of a couple of other right-wing memes:
1) when everyone else is running out of a burning building, fire-fighters are running in;
2) a lot of fire-fighters died on 9/11;
3) therefore, by walking towards the fire, you take on the mantle of 9/11 heroism.
what really pisses me off about this is that prior to 9/11, they would have spat on any new yorker as a coastal elite. then some jackass saudis fly some planes into the wtc, and for a week the wing-nuts love new york. now they are back to hating coastal elites, and 9/11 really happened in wasilla. also.
Ash
So if she keeps walking towards the fire…eventually she’ll walk INTO it, yes? pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease
Quackosaur
I didn’t know that 2010 USA was exactly the same as the Weimar Republic and that we’re making the steps toward Nazism; thanks Glenn Beck!
If you think about it, it sort of makes sense. The Weimar Republic is the American government, which represents a coalition of various liberal and conservative parties/interests. A small rabid, conservative minority begins to agitate. Conservative elites, believing they could control this minority, threw their support behind it as a means of defeating the soshulists/liberals and dissolving the Republic and entrenching themselves into power positions. Of course, the (now) somewhat larger radical conservative minority schemed and became larger, and it eventual cast aside the conservative elites in favor of its own radical leadership.
So, except for the lack of hyper-inflation, a Great Depression, losing a World War, a different political system, and a military with designs on power, things are exactly the same as Weimar Germany.
Oh, and the Tea Party = NSDAP, but don’t tell them that, they might get mad.
/end Godwin
Little Dreamer
@PaulW:
Exactly!
Sly
I see that Wayne Allen Root is trying to latch himself on to a failure of a political movement in a vain attempt to advance his public persona beyond that of a Vegas sports handicapper. Again.
SGEW
Historians really won’t be able to make heads or tails out of all this. I wonder what it’ll be called?
It’s going to be left to future sociologists to try to explain, like the Dionysian Mysteries, or the Hula Hoop craze, or whatnot.
elmo
I haz a firewall. Can haz description of unseen video pleez? kthx.
Sly
@kid bitzer:
Beck is the one of the worst kinds of Coastal Elites. He’s a Fairfield County Republican. That’s just a notch below an Orange County Republican in terms of smug, self-entitled douchebaggery.
cleek
When People In Their 60’s Refought The 60’s
Sly
@SGEW:
Depending on November, it may be anywhere from the Anti-Masonic Party to the Know Nothings. Some weird, minor political movement that people will study in post-graduate political science courses.
Countervail
Sarah Palin’s home church was badly burned by arson in December 2008 but they’ve never identified any suspects or specific motive.
Follow up story from the LA Times Here.
Leelee for Obama
@SGEW: The Great Devolvement is my guess, but I’m really trying hard to be perky today, so how about, The Time the Young Discovered the Meaning of Attrition?
Shalimar
@Sly: What a shock that a man who makes his living lying about his record to gullible fools would keep trying to get into politics by latching on to every group of gullible fools he can find.
uila
And you’re not on LSD!
“Please be advised that the brown metamucil that is circulating is no good…”
DonkeyKong
From the files of “fuck, I wish I wrote this!” the always brilliant James Wolcott.
I turned on the TV and there’s Sarah Palin, keynote speaker at an outdoor Tea Party rally in Nevada, shouting into a wind so strong her words seem to be whipping back at her. Everything’s flapping: the flags, the script pages in front of her, the hinges of her mind like a shithouse in a gale, to borrow a phrase from somebody, I know not whom. It’s a pep talk Palin must have written herself because no outside party could put together such a staccato barrage of folksy locutions and plucky banalities that sends logic and coherence running screaming from the room. It’s really quite patronizing, the low-rent quality of pre-fab rhetoric she fobs off on her followers as she rakes in money from the “mainstream media” she pretends to upbraid, but her marks clearly don’t mind, so let them be pawns in her game, serving as crowd extras in the movie Robert Altman didn’t live to make. -James Wolcott
Leelee for Obama
@DonkeyKong: I love James Wolcott! That is all!
WereBear
Actually, “keep walking towards the fire” is a common exhortation in some evangelical circles, a way of referencing the Book of Daniel story of the three guys in the furnace who didn’t burn up because their faith was so strong.
Though I can’t find any references online to that exact phrase; I’m going on memory here.
geg6
@Countervail:
Probably one of her own kids. Isn’t Willow in the deep shiznit over burglarizing and wreaking destruction in one of the neighbor’s homes?
joeyess
They followed up each rally with a tutorial
wasabi gasp
Is Breetbarge gay? Or is that his nursing home voice?
Keith
@James F. Elliott:
You ask that about a guy who appears to be advocating smacking an anvil with a sledgehammer really hard.
Scott
@geg6:
Actually, nope, Willow isn’t in trouble at all. It was decided to only charge the boys. The girls were just witnesses.
Willow is definitely ready to follow in her mom’s footsteps…
LD50
@ajr22:
Jesus fucking christ, since 1966??
Sly
@Quackosaur:
I’d pay good money to see McCain grow the handlebar mustache required to play Hindenburg for that reenactment.
matoko_chan
Is Breitbat actually saying Palin should DiaF?
Because she is prolly that schtupid.
Another reason old white ppl should consult the UD …….besides naming their party after a sex act.
:)
bobbo
wasabi gasp:
I had the same question. I’m surprised he wasn’t tarred and feathered on the spot. I guess the Palin love trumps the gay hate.
matoko_chan
Urban dictionary.
1. DiaF
Die in a Fire. Past tense is also acceptable. Usually used as an insult, but sometimes to inform. Sometimes used with the word “Go” in front
Guy: “Lol, he diaf iirc.”
Other Guy: “roffles tahts teh sux0rs.”
Guy: “Yeh.”
also
Big ePeen: “UR TEH NUb!”
Possible Nub: “NO IM NOT GO DIAF!”
Big ePeen: “reported”
Paris
Maybe Victoria Jackson is auditioning to get back on SNL.
RSA
So in the opening of the video I hear someone singing in a traditional black gospel style, and I see someone in the audience holding up an Obama-as-voodoo-doctor poster. Then my head explodes…
YellowJournalism
“Your kids bring home the history books…you tell them, ‘Nah, that’s not the way it happened.'”
If they’re formatted on the new Texas standards, it’s for sure I would tell my kids that!
charles pierce
Is that woman sure I’m not on LSD? Because I’m seeing some pretty strange stuff on there.
Remember November
and with non-violence, beat the truth into your kids EVERY DAY.
LuciaMia
Surprised?? These are the same people who mock people with cancer or parkinson’s.
Bubblegum Tate
@kid bitzer:
Not only that, they’d spit on firefighters as union thugs.
@Sly:
As odd as this feels for me, I need to speak a bit in defense of the county–and town–I grew up in.* Yes, Fairfield Republicans are self-entitled douchebags; so are Fairfield Democrats, for the most part. That’s just a rich Fairfielder thing. But just the other day, I was reflecting on this with a friend: The Fairfield Republicans I grew up around weren’t wingnuts. They were Republicans mostly because they were rich and wanted that top-bracket tax cut, which at least makes sense. And by and large, they didn’t go for all that social conservative culture war bullshit. You could agree or disagree with them, but at least they were sensible; they’re the kind of Republicans the GOP has left behind.
[asterisk here] As a disclaimer, I haven’t lived in Fairfield for well over a decade, and when I go back to visit my mom, it’s never for more than a week, so it’s possible the place has gone full metal wingnut since I left, but I haven’t really seen it. And I say it feels odd to defend Fairfield because growing up, I couldn’t wait to get the hell out of there, and nowadays, when I tell people where I’m from, I usually follow it with “…but don’t hold that against me.”
Uloborus
My two cents on ‘Barack’:
I knew it was BoB because it just didn’t make any sense or seem connected to anything or to go anywhere. It was stream of consciousness rambling, not logic.
At this point, I’m starting to think that not only is BoB a spoof, but it’s DougJ who’s actually on some kind of freaky drugs.
kindness
Couple of things….
1) Uh, yes, they must be on LSD. They are hallucinating. Something is in the Kool Aide they’re drinking
2) Victoria Principle was never an SNL favorite of mine but she grows bigger every time I see her. No not physically larger although from these shots that is true, a bigger mutant with absolutely no brain cells. Seriously now….What in the Kool Aide would cause someone to not have 2 brain neurons to rub together? In my biggest stoner haze of my youth I had more togetherness than anything popping out of her mouth.
3) Sarah Palin….well….just look at the company she keeps.
Paul in KY
I wish I could write half as well as Mr. Wolcott.
auntieeminaz
@cleek: I resemble that remark!
lawnorder
Dunno about the “fire bomb” part but it seems her church did have a small fire last year. Not sure if it was arson or just accident.