Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Second rate reporter says what?

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

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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.

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  2. 2.

    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.

  3. 3.

    Loneoak

    why do wingers always call their blogs Something Pundit

    Because pundits in this country are never held to any reasonable standard of intellectual merit or reporting accuracy.

    SATSQ.

  5. 5.

    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.

  6. 6.

    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.

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    @Cat Lady:

    If Trump wasn’t in the room, the lede would be Cowardly Obama Attacks Absent Trump.

    And, to complete the set, if Obama hadn’t aimed a few barbs at Trump, it would be “Obama Afraid to Confront Trump”.

    dms

  8. 8.

    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.

  9. 9.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @Loneoak: That, and at the same time they’re still coasting on the reputation of pundits being smart.

  12. 12.

    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.

  13. 13.

    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.

  14. 14.

    parsimon

    I don’t have the heart or twitter skills to check on this, but is anyone in the Village saying stuff like that?

    Not as far as I’ve noticed, but then, many of the Villagers are nursing hangovers today, and will be checking back in tomorrow.

  15. 15.

    General Stuck

    Boorish Obama Attacks Trump Repeatedly at Media Dinner While He Is Sitting in the Room.

    Has the ring of uppity negro back talks Massa Trump to his face. Repeatedly, and no one did nuthin’ about it.

  16. 16.

    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.

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    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.

  18. 18.

    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.

  19. 19.

    Warren Terra

    @darkmatter:

    Wait, there is a stupid version of erik son of erik?

    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.

  20. 20.

    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.

  23. 23.

    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.

  24. 24.

    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

  25. 25.

    hilts

    Newsbusters is pissed off that Trump got booed:

    If we had a truly impartial media, would they boo a political figure regardless of his or her opinions? According to The Wrap, Donald Trump received such Bronx cheers from so-called journalists when he arrived at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner (video follows with commentary). 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? Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it?

    newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/05/01/trump-booed-media-members-white-house-correspondents-…

  26. 26.

    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.

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    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.

  29. 29.

    Spaghetti Lee

    If we had a truly impartial media, why aren’t they agreeing with everything I say? ME ME ME!

  30. 30.

    hilts

    Surber in deep denial

    Obama’s snark may have given Donald Trump the high road. The public understands that public officials should be able to take a joke. The public also expects presidents to use self-effacing humor and not act like a sarcastic adolescent. The public also begins to see the pattern. First Sarah Palin, now Donald Trump. Hmm.

    blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/33259

  31. 31.

    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.

  33. 33.

    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.

  34. 34.

    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

  35. 35.

    maya

    why do wingers always call their blogs Something Pundit

    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.

  36. 36.

    M. Bouffant

    But now we must ask ourselves where Surber falls on the stupid scale.

    The public also begins to see the pattern. First Sarah Palin, now Donald Trump. Hmm.

    “Hmm,” indeed, Don. Remind us how Palin & Trump have been doing in recent polling?

    A new Economist/YouGov poll finds President Obama well ahead of Mitt Romney in a possible 2012 general election match up, 46% to 37%.
    For what it’s worth, Obama also crushes Donald Trump, 49% to 32%, and trounces Sarah Palin, 52% to 34%.

  37. 37.

    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.

  38. 38.

    hilts

    Byron York outdoes Jim Hoft in terms of sheer douchebaggery:

    “Obama’s angry comedy routine: President jabs enemies, mocks symbols of patriotism”

    Self-deprecation has long been a hallmark of presidential appearances at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Whether riding high or struggling in the polls, a president’s surest way to score points with the press and the Washington political establishment is to make fun of himself. While he’s also expected to get in a few digs at his opponents, over the years the theme of the dinner has usually focused on a president who’s big enough to make jokes at his own expense.

    In his remarks to the correspondents association dinner Saturday night, Barack Obama came up with a new formula: Cut the self-deprecation to a minimum and unleash a series of attacks on his adversaries — and start the performance in a way that seems to mock not just his enemies but the very idea of what it means to be an American.

    washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/04/obamas-angry-comedy-routine-president-jabs-enemies-mocks-sym…

  41. 41.

    kdaug

    Please do remember, people, it’s a class war. The race angle is a diversion, and has been since at least the 60s.

  43. 43.

    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.

  46. 46.

    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.

  47. 47.

    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.

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