Gateway Pundit (why do wingers always call their blogs Something Pundit) attacks Obama with some down-home plain talk:
Boorish Obama Attacks Trump Repeatedly at Media Dinner While He Is Sitting in the Room.
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I don’t have the heart or twitter skills to check on this, but is anyone in the Village saying stuff like that? Sally Quinn, maybe?
This is where righties/establishmentarians (to the extent that they are really different groups) are at their worst, when they’re trying to score points with he-used-the-wrong-fork-for-salad type stuff.
Fred
Dijon MustardGate! That’s just Un-American I tells ya!
Cat Lady
If Trump wasn’t in the room, the lede would be Cowardly Obama Attacks Absent Trump. WATBs, the whole losery lot of them. Sweet sweet wingnut tears are sweet.
Loneoak
Because pundits in this country are never held to any reasonable standard of intellectual merit or reporting accuracy.
SATSQ.
lacp
Bear in mind that Gateway Pundit is the stupid version of Erik Son of Erik
sublime33
Conservatives used to admire John Wayne who would say “Aren’t you man enough to say that to my face?” Now they admire the Rush Limbaughs and St. Sarah of Wasilla who never saying anything bad if their target is within an earshot, but have bowling ball sized testicles when their target can’t defend themselves. They are truly a bunch of cowards.
Ash Can
That headline is priceless. Poor Gateway Pundit evidently isn’t too clear on the concept of the WHCD, or any similar function. And I wouldn’t say they’re at their worst when they do this sort of thing — but then, I’m not above laughing at them when they say “You’re supposed to use your salad fork like this,” and then jam the handle up their noses.
dmsilev
@Cat Lady:
And, to complete the set, if Obama hadn’t aimed a few barbs at Trump, it would be “Obama Afraid to Confront Trump”.
dms
Emma
I, for one, I’m enjoying the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. The proper answer to them is: what name should we put in the cup that Obama will make from your skull? Because, I mean, they never had much brains but at least their skulls will be useful.
Xecky Gilchrist
@Loneoak: That, and at the same time they’re still coasting on the reputation of pundits being smart.
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
Shorter: Obama can do no right.
darkmatter
@lacp: Wait, there is a stupid version of erik son of erik?
Warren Terra
Funny, I’ve heard exactly the opposite – that maybe the WaPo should be forgiven for inviting Trump, because in doing so they teed him up for mockery in a way that would have been less appropriate had he not been present. After all, you can make a lot crueler jokes to someone’s face than you can if they’re not present, at least if you have any self respect.
Not that I’d encourage forgiving the WaPo anything …
Also, what Cat Lady said. The only question is the words, never the tune. As she says, had Trump been abused in his absence, that sad tale would have been a major faux pas, to hear the wingers tell it. Had Obama not made any birther jokes, they’d have denounced him for being afraid of the topic.
ETA PS I see that as I made my comment, dmsilev made exactly the same logical extension to Cat Lady’s comment that I was writing.
Fred
@sublime33: Yes, statistical data suggests Rethugs are overwhelmingly cowards! Also helps explain their gun fetish. They are so fearful of boogeymen around every corner and their inability to deal with it they need the comfort of a gun to make them feel safer.
parsimon
Not as far as I’ve noticed, but then, many of the Villagers are nursing hangovers today, and will be checking back in tomorrow.
General Stuck
Has the ring of uppity negro back talks Massa Trump to his face. Repeatedly, and no one did nuthin’ about it.
Mark S.
Gateway Pundit? That’s some nut-picking. Is Confederate Yankee off this weekend?
To show what a team player I am, I scanned the Corner for everyone, and shit, they didn’t have one thing about the whole affair.
And I have to say, the Corner isn’t nearly as unreadable as it used to be, when it was all one sentence assholish Instapundit-type quips. But it still has that cocksucker Andy McCarthy, and he would make anything suck.
JAHILL10
@sublime33: This. I think one of Obama’s more endearing qualities is his willingness, nay his desire, to answer his critics right to their faces in public. The exact opposite of the hit on Fox & Friends then run away crap that the Repugs pull on a routine basis.
Keith
Given that Hoft has not been dead for several months due to a heart attack, I will assume that he did not watch the HOUR LONG roast of Donald Trump that Comedy Central did earlier this year.
Warren Terra
@darkmatter:
The mind does rather boggle. I’m tempted to say that the stupid version is Erik Son Of Erik Son Of Erik, but that’s quite unfair: it’s quite possible Erik has a son named Erik, whom I’d not care to insult, and I know nothing about Erik’s dad’s intelligence – his blithering idiocy could be a total and incomprehensible fluke.
Still, troubling though the concept is, there surely must be a possible Stupider Erik, just as Peak Wingnut Is A Lie. It’s like the famous quote “Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em,: And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.”, only with regard to intelligence, and in reverse.
Cat Lady
@Mark S.:
Silence from the Corner means they just want it to all go away. Teh Donald was pw0n3d, and naow they haz a sad.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@darkmatter: Scary isn’t it? But yes, Hoft is much stupider.
hilts
Doug,
Did you know that Seth Myers is a “Far Left” comic?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43263
JPL
I live in Atlanta and the local news highlighted some light statements that the president said about Trump and laughed about it. Gateway is hallucinating.
dmsilev
@hilts: Didn’t our current pet troll Caz make that argument at some point yesterday? That the whole thing was just a super-liberal Hollywood Actor, hired by the super-liberal media to entertain the super-liberal President, and did so by attacking poor Donald.
And yes, he did use the phrase ‘super-liberal’ repeatedly.
dms
hilts
Newsbusters is pissed off that Trump got booed:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/05/01/trump-booed-media-members-white-house-correspondents-dinner
Gary D
Gateway Pundit doesn’t have an original thought ever on his blog. In this case he saw this is the position the Drudge Report is taken – Trump: Obama was too rude to me.
JAHILL10
@hilts: Booing a racist? Yeah that does make me proud to be an American, actually…
Spaghetti Lee
Hoft isn’t just the bottom of the barrel, he’s the fungus growing in the dirt underneath it. I wouldn’t use him as a barometer for anything except his own descent into madness.
Spaghetti Lee
If we had a truly impartial media, why aren’t they agreeing with everything I say? ME ME ME!
hilts
Surber in deep denial
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/33259
sublime33
” I think one of Obama’s more endearing qualities is his willingness, nay his desire, to answer his critics right to their faces in public.”
What is truly sad is that a politician that confronts his critics has become as admirable as a home run champion who doesn’t use steroids. It should be the norm, not the exception. Hell, even Richard Freaking Nixon wasn’t afraid to confront his critics one on one.
hilts
@JAHILL10:
“Booing a racist?”
According to Bob Somerby, this is not about race
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh042911.shtml
M. Bouffant
Christ on a crutch, Trump is the dictionary definition of “boorish.”
Spaghetti Lee above has an accurate definition of Hoft, although I’m inclined to believe that Hoft isn’t descending into madness as much as his brain is being devoured by spirochetes.
dmsilev
Funny. I just put on a hazmat suit and went looking at RedState. Couldn’t find a word about the event. Maybe they’re just trying to pretend that Trump doesn’t exist and isn’t currently the front-runner in nomination polling.
dms
maya
Especially odd considering that the origin of pundit comes from the Hindi, pandit; the language of brown people. They haven’t figured that out yet, obviously.
M. Bouffant
But now we must ask ourselves where Surber falls on the stupid scale.
“Hmm,” indeed, Don. Remind us how Palin & Trump have been doing in recent polling?
Joel
This is just great. I was worried that the wingnuts would abandon Trump like rats fleeing a sinking ship. Instead, they’re taking their roles as captains of this proverbial Titanic Very Seriously.
hilts
Byron York outdoes Jim Hoft in terms of sheer douchebaggery:
“Obama’s angry comedy routine: President jabs enemies, mocks symbols of patriotism”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/04/obamas-angry-comedy-routine-president-jabs-enemies-mocks-symbols-patriotism
Spaghetti Lee
@M. Bouffant:
Obviously, that’s not the public Surber was looking at. Not the right kind of public, y’see.
darkmatter
@Gary D:
That pretty much sums up Hoft.
kdaug
Please do remember, people, it’s a class war. The race angle is a diversion, and has been since at least the 60s.
Joel
Donald Trump is the Mr. Awesome of political candidates.
Jay in Oregon
@General Stuck:
You beat me to it. I saw “boorish” and thought well, it’s not uppity but it’s getting closer.
And to echo everyone else, there’s nothing Obama could have done that wouldn’t earn the disapproval of the Villagers and wingnuts. There’s nothing they can’t twist to fit their demented worldview.
If Trump hadn’t been there, Obama would have been faulted for taking cheap shots at him behind his back.
If Obama hadn’t tossed a few barbs at him, he would have been afraid to take on Trump.
Not Really
Osama bin Laden dead! So says CNN, AP, HuffPo.
Danny
Fuck yeah. And if true, he’s not the only one who’s dead.
JAHILL10
@kdaug: It doesn’t have to be either or in this case. They can whistle to either end of the evil spectrum. Double trouble! And is it not possible for Trump to be both a buffoon and a racist? I think he’s got both of those bases covered.
Jon H
“why do wingers always call their blogs Something Pundit”
I assume they’re following and emulating Instapundit, in a cargo cult ploy to attract readers.