This is what pathetic desperation looks like in its rawest form, as presented on a Fox News web page. When you’ve spent two years pushing every bullshit meme you can find, in the worst economy since the Great Depression, and even your own polling shows that nobody can stomach either the crazy or the supposedly sane candiates you’ve propped up, this is all you’ve got left.
Next up: Was Obama eating sushi when the 9.0 earthquake hit in Japan? Bust out the file photos — I’ll bet Malia was wearing a Hello Kitty t-shirt that day.
Dexter
They are simply waiting for Frank Luntz to come up with his poll-tested talking points.
OTOH, I don’t mind if Fox sets itself on fire.
nitpicker
Someday we’ll be trying to remember their candidates’ names…
RSA
I did like this comment on the site:
SST
Should read: GWU Suicide Tragically Coincides with Barack Hussein Obama Speech
They’re slipping.
4tehlulz
Fox’s claim that the “suicide” “coincide[d]” with the speech shows that they are part of the coverup too!
jazzgurl
What a sad lot they are! I guess people are beginning to tune out of living daily in hostility,negativity and slash and burn.
dr. bloor
I eagerly await Bat Boy’s debut on Fox.
"Serious" Superluminar
From another comment:
yes, because it’s not like Fox are using this to promote their own agenda after all.
Kirbster
@dr. bloor: I do miss The Weekly World News. While other tabloids wasted time on celebrity gossip, TWWN covered the really important issues of the day!
Extreme Liberal
How many people do you suppose made a connection between the two….way to freakin many,I’m sure. It will show up in the next poll of Fox viewers I’m sure. “Do speeches by the president cause people to commit suicide, yes or no?
"Serious" Superluminar
So the Faux craziness inspired me to go over to RedState, where I found this post by son of Erik. Money quote:
The death panels will throw you under the bus!
WereBear
I’m so sorry for the family who now has their tragedy tied into Fox News narratives; Fox doesn’t care.
Perhaps they will send the family to Walgreen’s for some counseling; if things like “insight” and “empathy” weren’t bad words.
mai naem
I listened to the Norah ODonnell interview with Obama’s sister yesterday. ODonnell asked her if Obama was happy in the job and she seemed to hesitate before kinda sorta saying yes. It makes you wonder if all this birther crap,michelle obama dissing crap, he goes on furrin vacation crap, the racial crap, the republican bullying/hostage taking crap has just gotten to him. Hell, he sure doesn’t need the job financially. He’s already made enough money with the books and the presidential pension. Why would you want this crappy job? If I was McCain, I would be happy right now for not winning.
Comrade Javamanphil
@“Serious” Superluminar: In Barack Obama’s America, the bus gets thrown under you!
Omnes Omnibus
@dr. bloor:I happen to know that Bat Boy is a member of the Green Party, but, if elected, would caucus with the Dems. So there.
AnderJ
Terrrible indeed, but a great reason to link to the say when there’s nothing left to burn, you have got to set yourself on fire comes from!
Cassidy
Hell, while in the gym this morning, the big discussion on HLN was Biden might have been asleep during the speech. No policy discussions. Sadly, I was not surprised.
chopper
@”Serious” Superluminar:
i love it when people mix their metaphors. you buttered your bread, now sleep in it.
MattF
Well, Fox is at a disadvantage here– they can’t try a reprise of the “Bill Clinton is a drug-dealing murderer” claim because it might, just possibly, be perceived as insensitive and, golly, maybe even racist. So, they just have to stick with Kenyan-Muslim-Soshalist-suicide inducer. I feel so sorry for them.
Roger Moore
How do they know it was suicide? How can we be sure it wasn’t Obama’s goons taking advantage of everyone paying attention to the speech to settle an old score? Paranoid minds want to know!
RSA
@”Serious” Superluminar:
On the plus side, this will be good for the automotive industry.
Comrade Javamanphil
@MattF: I heard Obama was actually the trigger man Hillary hired to bump off Vince Foster.
maya
FOX was going to show Rupert and Roger wearing black arm bands, but ditched the idea at the last minute. There was a good chance that their viewers might have believed they joined the New Black Panther Party.
catclub
Blind pig and acorn season: “Mr. Prudent: Obama Preaches Deficit Sanity”
Joe Klein declines to be evenhanded but actually falls in with Obama’s plan an dgives Ryan’s plan the disdain it deserves. Also mentions that only 13% of the country thinks deficits are a problem. It is entirely a within the beltway phenomena.
cat48
Obviously, the Goopers need a TeaPublican Candidate to run & they must be in teaparty costume, including hat, at all times. Let’s find out which one of these goopers really want it! That will bring those Fox poll numbers right up.
New Yorker
I can’t wait for next Wednesday (April 20th, aka Hitler’s birthday) when FOX spends the whole day with Jonah Goldberg on set telling us the ways in which Obama’s liberalism is just like Nazism.
Death Panel Truck
Wow. That piece out-Onions The Onion.
piratedan
@#11
well yeah, but with the recent budget cuts proposed in the Ryan plan, you’ll have to lay out in the street and writhe a bit before the bus comes along, you know how it is when the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many….
Dr. Squid
Seeing as it hit about 3:30am Eastern Time, he might have been dreaming about eating sushi, which is good enough justification for FoxNews to ATTACKATTACKATTACK!!!
Caz
Excellent point.
Oh, by the way, where is your article of outrage about the comments immediately following the Giffords shooting? I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Did you remove it from the site? Hmm… I could’ve sworn you were outraged when the sheriff and a bunch of other liberals immediately blamed the republicans for this mass killing.
Oh well, good point here, but if you want credibility, how about being consistent. It means supporting a value or belief regardless of which party it may coincide with or oppose. Get it? Clearly you don’t. You can’t just pick and choose when to stand up for your values. That makes you a partisan, disingenuous, or even…wait for it….a coward.
Stand up for this kind of stuff when the dems do it too and maybe you’ll have a little more credibility. But if you’re just aiming to please juicetard nation, then keep up the good work.
Mnemosyne
@Caz:
Um, do you really not understand the difference between murder and suicide? Here’s a little primer for you:
Suicide: you kill yourself
Murder: someone else kills you
See, because of that little difference — killing yourself vs. being killed by someone else — that means that there is someone else to blame when a murder occurs.
Willi H Bleimeister
There is a reference to this abomination on the Fox News Website, but when you try to access the link, it can’t be found anymore. The Fox Ministry of Revision will soon deny it ever existed
frouglas
love the Stars quote
DFH no.6
Not dealing with the substance of the post.
Someone’s terrible personal tragedy used as grist for the mill in attacking the president. Rightwingers, among their many other glaring faults, have no fucking shame, none.
Fuck all fucking fascists, each and every one. The heat of a thousand suns and all that.
But great song by another in a long line of great, new Canuckistanian bands. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check the youtube link in AnderJ’s comment at #16.
I’m heading out shortly to see the Stars alter ego – Broken Social Scene – at Coachella, where I’ll leave all this Sturm und Drang for three days of musical fun in the sun with a few score thousand mellow young people (and scant fellow Boomers, who are apparently mostly smug fat Teabaggers now, the sellout assholes) before coming back to real life.
Suzan
Desperation?
Hell, they think they’re winning.
And they’ve got some hot juice to spritz the body politic with leading up to election 2012 that we won’t believe.
It’ll probably make us wonder about how many have Kenyan citizenship.
Thanks for staying on top of this nonsensical but extremely impelling (to idiots) reporting.
S