The waaahbulance made a lot of stops in wingerville this weekend. Thanks to many commenters for all of this.
The democrat-media complex will love him no matter what he (Obama) does.
As proof, far left comic Seth Myers beat up on Donald Trump after Obama beat up on Donald Trump last night at the media dinner. And the media loved it.
Hey, it’s a victory for Trump that the President talked about him at all, and he talked about him a lot. And all these stories about how grim and grumpy Trump looked? Trump always has a grumpy expression on his face. I detected more of a shadow of a smile than usual.
Isn’t it nice to know that folks who will be covering the upcoming presidential race have no qualms about publicly expressing their displeasure for one of the possible candidates?
Trump had to be smirking at the attention, but it’s a pathetic commentary that the allegedly independent White House Press Corps served as a vehicle for an incumbent President to bash his most vocal challenger.
These crazy fuckers have The Donald’s back because they think he pisses off liberals.
lamh34
Anybody have any idea what’s going on? Why is POTUS giving a previously unannounced statement.
I have a feeling it will have to do with Libya…! Gawd I hope it doesn’t involve “boots on the ground”.!
BTW, the statement WILL pre-empt The Apprentice…BAM
Fred
LOL! These people are hilarious. It’s ok for Chump to question the citizenship and intelligence (dog whistle) of a sitting Prez but the Prez can’t make fun of him at an event for making fun of people which the Chumpster voluntarily attended!
LOL!
hhex65
lol, yeah, he pisses us off and we fear him! please, dear god, don’t let them nominate trump in 2012
OzoneR
The only reason anyone votes for Republicans to to piss off liberals, that’s ALL THEY CARE ABOUT
Morbo
I don’t always troll, but when I do I’m very, very concerned.
dmsilev
Yes, yes, but did Richard Cohen think that Obama was funny? That’s the real important question.
Fred
@lamh34: Oy vey…..pre-emptive left wing attack much??!!
Fred
@hhex65: I would like to up that fear index to Orange! Please don’t nominate Chump. All liberals are quivering at the thought.
Unfortunately, it is 100% certain Chump has no intention of running.
Spaghetti Lee
And all these stories about how grim and grumpy Trump looked? Trump always has a grumpy expression on his face. I detected more of a shadow of a smile than usual.
Jesus. I almost feel sorry for people this desperate.
hilts
An example of Donald Trump pouring gasoline onto a fire
Graphic of Trump’s newspaper ad advocating the death penalty for the suspects in the Central Park jogger rape case
h/t http://media.ny1.com/media/2011/4/28/images/ENLARGE_01TrumpDeathPenalty.jpg
These suspects that Trump wanted to have executed eventually turned out to be innocent
h/t http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/politics/138192/-i-ny1-exclusive%E2%80%94-i%E2%80%94man-cleared-in-central-park-jogging-case-demands-apology-from-trump
Spaghetti Lee
@Fred:
Well in that case, I’d like to put in a vote for Walker/Bachmann 2012. Us liberals are scared of that one too, simply quaking.
Keith
This whole debacle could be avoided if these people would just learn that at least once everyone’s life (and usually more than once) you can be perfectly honest and say “Goddamn, I picked a lame horse!”
Gravenstone
Psst, I believe you were going for Franzia Pundit, not Fraznia. A nice attempt, though.
Roger Moore
@Fred:
Wouldn’t raising the fear index to Orange suggest that the Republicans should nominate Boehner?
lamh34
@Fred:
Sorry Fred, I’m far from “left wing”… ya got the wrong girl. I’m just saying what I hope it isn’t, not because I plan to strike about it, just because I know where such an announcement will lead in the blogosphere.
Left Coast Tom
I’d have to think the most pissed-off people would be anyone who paid to have a cow shit in their face.
Bob Loblaw
@Fred:
Because if there’s ever been an underminer for the President, it’s lamh32. She’s just such a ball of hate for Obama.
Don’t be a reflexive jackass, Fred.
Who knows, maybe we finally killed Bin La…you know, I couldn’t even keep a straight face when I typed that. Sad.
lamh34
@Bob Loblaw:
Twitter is ablaze about a possible OBL!!!
Blitzer said it’s NOT ABOUT [email protected]!!!!!!
RossInDetroit
Because I just ate I’m not going to follow the links. But I wonder what the ratio is of Obama bashing versus support for Trump. Does anyone in the ‘winger ‘media’ actually want him to run? I’m assuming that Trump’s real base aren’t typing blog posts due to the straight jackets they’re in.
M. Bouffant
The Prez is about to go on television & make an announcement of something.
Seriously.
Comrade DougJ
@Gravenstone:
Thanks, I fixed it.
hilts
@M. Bouffant:
In all my wildest, delusional dreams, I would hope Obama is about to announce that Bin Laden and Zawahiri have been captured alive.
I know this is insane to suggest, but it would definitely qualify as a big fucking deal.
Joel
Coincidentally, the Republicans are expanding their search for presidential candidates.
Let’s make nominations. I nominate this guy.
M. Bouffant
Oh. I see. We already know.
lamh34
SHITTT
per Twitter:
Will possibly announce that OBL is dead and they have his body!!!!!
Southern Beale
Apparently Obama is going to announce at 10:30 that Osama bin Laden is dead.
So suck on that, wingers.
D. Mason
As long as he “pisses off liberals” during a Republican primary debate, I’m satisfied with his candidacy.
Served
Here come the FEMA camps!
M. Bouffant
Maybe he’s (finally) announcing his soshulist agenda, because it’s May Day.
No, claim is it’s a nat’l. security deal. This is almost exciting.
GregB
I hear that the hold up is that they are waiting on L. Paul Bremer to show up at the White House so he can come out and say: We Got Him.
M. Bouffant
OK, David Gregory saying it does concern OBL. Maybe Pakistan has been harboring him & we’ll start nuking them momentarily.
Martin
@Southern Beale: No. Fucking. Way.
After all of the birther bullshit, the teatards aren’t going to believe this unless they can fuck OBLs dead body personally.
Loneoak
Headline at NYT right now is bin Laden is dead.
RossInDetroit
Fox sez OBL dead. My teevee is on for the first time since last fall. It’s worth it.
Poopyman
Open up an Open Thread!
Southern Beale
OBL is dead and U.S. has the body.
Suffern ACE
Oh my. Oh my. Watching Fox 5 in NY. Broke away to say that, then went back to to discussing Jeter’s slump, but will break away when Prez speaks.
Jebus we have some weird priorities.
Poopyman
I won’t believe it until Luke Russert tells me.
Kane
The disdain for Trump goes beyond the politics of Left vs Right. Trump has been pandering to the worst elements of society, and people on all sides are sick of it. Those on the far right want the media to give Trump the same kind of pass that Palin was given.
handy
@Southern Beale:
Dayamn.
Captain Goto
Clean sheets!
Spaghetti Lee
@Suffern ACE:
If Glenn Beck was still around, he’d tie the two together.
JGabriel
Glenn Reynolds:
Yes, that’s Instapundit calling other people partisan sycophants. Irony, have you met Glenn?
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Omnes Omnibus
@M. Bouffant: Wow.
freelancer
Squeee!
RossInDetroit
Damn I hate TV. After this presidential statement the haunted fishtank is going off for another 6 months.
Kane
Bin Laden is dead!
Now how in the hell is the far right gonna spin this as something bad for President Obama?
hilts
Can’t wait to hear how Rush Limbaugh, Andrew McCarthy, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Palin, Trump, and Bachmann and every other wingnut asshole will try spinning this story to make Obama look bad.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kane: It took Obama almost 10 years to get him, obviously.
RossInDetroit
Bush had 7 years and failed.
Petorado
Seth Meyers … far left? Please. To paraphrase Colbert, if reality has a well-known liberal bias, then by logical extension humor must have an even more liberal bias. Wingers just take can’t a joke.
And the smirk on the Donald’s face was not at the jokes, but about how easily the Washington press corps gets played by a fiddle by anyone wishing to manipulate them. Trump’s feeling like Itzhak Perlman in that room.
hilts
Who will be the first birther bill sponsor in the House of Reps to congratulate Obama?
What bullshit will Sarah Palin post on her fucking Facebook account?
Can’t wait to hear from Rudy 9/11 Giuliani
General Stuck
Big part of it, which is normal. What is abnormal is the ever loosening control of the wingnuts have over their individual and collective ids at present. And a greater subservience to whatever is their cause, that is increasingly resembling cadres of Germanic Tribes, or something thereabouts.
We are at way with these crazy fuckers, or they are at war with us/ It is as yet a political war, but there are none or few prisoners taken under the current ROE’s. Very little backtracking or the usual mea culpas for going to far on vocal emissions of the perennial racism that has always lurked beneath the GOP surface.
You are either on their team, as Donald is, or you are not. And political correctness of ill intent fades a little more with each passing day. This is why I have so little patience with the liberal nitpickers and hand wringers, who don’t seem to grasp this reality.
Peter
@Bob Loblaw: Having heard what the news was when I opened this thread, I read this comment with the biggest smirk on my face.
Kane
Geraldo is actually doing high-fives on the set, saying it’s the best day in his journalism career.
Kane
Bin Laden, Gaddafi, Trump, Romney.
Not a good week for A-holes.
stevie lizard
this is what the title of this post comes from
Morbo
Welp, that about does it for the Republicans in 2012.
Bubblegum Tate
This is my favorite wingnut spin on the matter:
Because as we all know, Donald Trump is an incredibly humble, caring, low-key guy who would never flaunt position.
Jack709
The real question is, where can I purchase a Shadow of a Smile detector?