Charles Johnson continues the hazardous duty of reading Pam Geller (h/t commenter JenJen).
According to Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller, President Obama only acted against Osama bin Laden because there was a military coup.
[…..]Her source for this ridiculous rant? A site called “NewsFlavor,” which features completely unprofessional “articles” written by anonymous Internet non-entities. This article is credited only to “Ulsterman.”
And yes, this is quite a sentence from Geller:
It is the height of hypocrisy and crass opportunism to draw out the release of the death photos so as to prolong the news cycle on the story, and to neglect the tornado-ravaged parts of the country — instead, Obama campaigns at Ground Zero on Thursday for an “O-victory lap,” while it appears that in fact Obama had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the OBL operation.
It seems like only yesterday the New York Times did a fashion spread on Geller.
Jay in Oregon
Not bad, not bad… it lets the wingnuts keep spanking off to the thought of hot man-on-man military action AND reinforces their worldview that Democrats are Weak On Defense(r).
The cognition, it is dissonant.
Keith G
Are you saying that she is deserving of a Moore Award?
Calouste
First appointment for Obama after he approved the raid on bin Laden was to go down to Alabama and look at the tornado damage. It took him, what, 5 days less to go there than Bush did after Katrina?
opie jeanne
Why do adults pay attention to this woman, let alone the idiot who made up that shit?
Muley Graves
I loves me them crazy chicks. They’ll rock your cock right off.
Of course, you gotta lock up the guns and valuables before you have ’em over, and get a vasectomy beforehand, or one way or another you’re going to find yourself in a world of hurt, son.
lamh34
I know this is an important topic, but damn you DougJ…now I got Montell Jordan in my head. That damn song was the summer jam in my hood, and it still gets people on the floor.
Now I gotta check my IPOD!
Surreal American
Oh the hell with it. If it makes the wingnuts feel better, just tell them this:
At the crucial moment in the Situation Room, Obama wussed out and had to bring in Sarah Palin. Palin, while wearing a General MacArthur cap, was all to happy to make the call to take out OBL on behalf of our lily-livered Kenyan usurper.
Cat Lady
It just gives me such enormous pleasure to know that Obama’s very existence has the ability to send so many otherwise sane people around the bend and off the cliff, and he doesn’t even have to have any personal knowledge of or interaction with them for them to self-immolate. It’s quite a trait.
Just Some Fuckhead
That certainly explains Petraeus to the CIA. And they prolly forced Obama to release his long form birth certificate so grunts would stop going AWOL.
Martin
@opie jeanne:
Not unfuckable.
That’s it from start to finish.
fasteddie9318
Pam, for one, welcomes our new insect overlords, and would like to remind them of how useful a batshit crazy fringe lunatic blogger could be to their cause.
opie jeanne
@efgoldman: I just noticed that Charles Johnson writes for LGF and I got no memo that they had switched sides.
Maybe I just hallucinated the whole thing, but the comments under his article looked sensible. Did supporting the insupportable cause the entire place to collapse?
Auguste
If I never have to hear someone ask “why do we pay attention to” someone who recently was cited as the driving force behind a formerly-constantly-front-paged political movement again, it will be too soon.
ETA: I’m not arguing that Pam Geller is anyone but a lightweight. I’m saying that there’s a portion of this country who looks at her otherwise, and debunking her shit is always going to be valuable. Would it be as valuable as a 3000 word expose on Guantanamo Bay? No. But bandwidth is still nearly free.
Midnight Marauder
@Calouste:
These people are straight up clowns. It is amusing to watch just how untethered from reality they are becoming.
JCT
@opie jeanne: I’d like to think it’s like rubbernecking a car wreck or a perverse love of bad performance art , but given the repeated comments regarding how “attractive” some guys seem to find these harridans (Geller, Palin, Coulter, Noonan [j/k]) sometimes I worry about the real motivations.
opie jeanne
@Martin: Women don’t have dicks to think with, so we don’t get it.
kdaug
@Cat Lady: It’s a filtering mechanism. Pay attention to who’s falling and/or burning. Remember them.
It’s self-selection for irrelevancy.
opie jeanne
@Auguste: My comment was not meant in that way. I meant why does ANYONE pay attention to her. It’s obvious why we do.
fasteddie9318
@opie jeanne: I keep wanting to ask about this too, because it seems to me that, unlike Cole who did a whole “I can’t believe I was that stupid” conversion thing, Johnson has been doing a sort of “I didn’t abandon the fucko squad, the fucko squad abandoned me” thing. I don’t know if I’m right about that though.
Bulworth
Unless Obama invites W to share the podium with him Thursday at Ground Zero. In which case none of the hypocrisy and crass opportunism applies.
fasteddie9318
@Martin: Speaking as a happily hetero guy, they haven’t yet invented the drug powerful enough to make me want to fuck that.
opie jeanne
@fasteddie9318: I went there a few times before 2008 or 09, just to see how they were backing up their nonsense when I saw it mentioned elsewhere. I learned not to get out of the boat very often, no matter how delicious the mangoes appeared.
Doug Harlan J
@lamh34:
It’s a great, underrated song.
BGinCHI
Rhymes with “hunt.”
Martin
@opie jeanne: Understandable. I actually have to tilt my head to the side a bit as I don’t have a wandering eye, but my friends have provided me with decades of entertainment watching them make the most goddamn retarded decisions because the only organ that was getting blood was their dick. One friend in particular will buy ANYTHING so long as you’re blonde, show a bit of cleavage, and are moderately capable at flirting. It’s both hilarious and sad at the same time.
Ripley
God, I hope he uses a bullhorn at Ground Zero on Thursday. Dare I dream? I’ve been mostly a good boy this year.
Comrade Luke
I still can’t believe that this place and LGF are aligned once again, on the left.
Donald G
@opie jeanne: Johnson and LGF broke with the crazy some time ago. The worst of the worst have either flounced or been banned and have gone off to “stalker-blogs”, where they spend their time stewing in their crazy hate and conspiracy theories and feuding with Johnson.
LGF now spends its time going after the religious right, AGW deniers, neo-Confederate racists like Robert Stacy McCain, birthers, neo-Nazi skinheads like the EDL and their alliances with anti-Muslim activists like Pam Gellar and Robert Spencer.
And yesterday, in his comments following up his post congratulating Obama on the bin Laden killing, Johnson stated that he wished he had voted for Obama in 2008 instead of supporting McCain.
forked tongue
I was just thinking that I haven’t seen this yet and am actually a bit surprised: Has any wingnut claimed yet that this whole affair just shows Obama’s cold-blooded deviousness–that he’d order a hit on his own ideological soul-mate just for a political advantage?
Bobby Thomson
As opposed to the extremely tasteful exploitation of the dead at the 2004 RNC convention in New York, which did not at all draw out the most momentous occasion in American history, Bush’s incoherent response to heckling by construction workers while standing on the bodies of people killed as a result of his incompetence.
Gus
I know it happened a while ago, but what caused Charles Johnson to to from full on wingnut to Pam Gellar basher?
burnspbesq
@Martin:
“Not unfuckable”
No accounting for taste, I guess. I’d rather wake up next to Jane Hamsher. At least I could stand to talk to her for the length of time it would take me to find my pants, shoes, and car keys.
Jay in Oregon
@efgoldman:
Gellar got a crapload of publicity by drumming up the bigots against the infamous Ground Zero Mosque, unfortunately.
opie jeanne
@Martin: There’s a song by John Hiatt called Little Head. Sums it up pretty well and I’ve watched it in action.
Ruckus
@Martin:
Only as long as her mouth is not forming words. And only for the guys only using their little brain.
Redwood Rhiadra
@opie jeanne: Because 27% of the country is fucking nuts and eats this shit up.
burnspbesq
@opie jeanne:
“Women don’t have dicks to think with, so we don’t get it.”
And no woman in the history of the universe has ever thought with her reproductive organs.
gwangung
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Cat Lady
@kdaug:
Yeah, I get that feeling all the time now too, since almost everyone’s gone mad. We’ll need to recognize who’s who when the time comes, which is why I have a Balloon Juice t-shirt.
forked tongue
@Gus:
Not that I paid much attention, but it seems to me the first thing, or one of the first things, that turned Johnson against Geller was her alliance with that Dutch (?) (Swedish?) neo-nazi, whatever his name was.
Bobby Thomson
@Cat Lady:
Pam has been bat shit insane since well before 2009.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@opie jeanne:
CJ did indeed switch sides to a degree, I think it was about 2 years ago. IIRC the anti-science stuff on the right-tard side (AGW denialism, 6000 year old Earth, etc.) was the breaking point for him.
Auguste
@opie jeanne: Ah, understood. My apologies. Hopefully the reasoning for my conclusion-jumping is logical based on a long history of reading blog comments meant in the opposite manner – but in hindsight what you meant is clear.
Cat Lady
@forked tongue:
Geert Wilders
lamh34
@Doug Harlan J:
Not underated in my hood DougJ. It’s a multi-generational song in my family. My granny liked it, my momma liked it, my little sister liked it, hell even my youngest nephew loves it.
We in the AA community really good at keeping good music going from generation to generation. Seriously, my nephew is 11 years old, too old to have ever seen Micheal Jackson during his Jackson 5 or Off the Wall years, and yet, he knows every word to “Rock with You” and yes he does the dancing that MJ did in the video.
This song is no exception…lol.
Sentient Puddle
@burnspbesq: Now see if we’re looking at this level, I’m just going to say that I got a functioning hand and imagination, and call that good enough.
MikeJ
@lamh34:
You might say It’s a Family Affair.
General Stuck
There are just so many right wing tears to catch right now, I am going to have to pull out the Mason Jars to save them all for later, to sprinkle on my O”Wheaties/ And steaming cups of BarryWhoopass.
pragmatism
can’t hear anything for the past couple of days. teh waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahmbulace siren is deafening.
aimai
@Midnight Marauder:
Its like the more he does the more they accuse him of “not spending enough time on X” while the more time he spends on X the more they accuse him of not being able to multitask.
Still, I think the shit is really going to hit the fan when they start looking at pictures of Obama at the various photo-ops and imagining that he is plotting their destruction at the same time. Which, come to think of it, is the logic behind “Obama encouraged birtherism in order to make us look bad.”
aimai
djangone
Wow, it seems like just yesterday Charles Johnson was pushing the ‘Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast’ smears. Ah well, we always have the Billmon line, now a bit frayed, “The Little Green Footballers aren’t Nazis — any more than a 13-year old kid jerking off with a copy of Playboy is Hugh Hefner.”
Joel
Pam Gellar looks like an evil Dyan Cannon.
lamh34
@MikeJ:
yeppers! After that, no DJ of any good would forget to play: “We Are Family.
Love this song, cause I’m the oldest of 5 sisters….this is our theme song…lol
opie jeanne
@Donald G: I remember Cole’s transformation, and I wrote a short article and linked to his memorable post here in a blog I sometimes kept, sometimes still do work on.
A very angry little blog at times.
Mark S.
That would sum up pretty much all of the right.
joeyess
Let me tell you how crazy those people over at NewsFlavor are…. this is one of their arguments for the military committing high treason:
Of course, I had to respond.
I asked “Gunny” what the president was supposed to be wearing during a military operation. Was he supposed to wear this?
opie jeanne
@burnspbesq: Yeah, we do. Got me.
Mnemosyne
@joeyess:
Because, what, the president was supposed to give some clue that this was happening? Does “Gunny” know anything about operational security? Keeping secrets? Classified information? Any of that ring a bell for him?
opie jeanne
@Auguste: I should have been more clear in my post.
I wouldn’t come here if it weren’t for the mangoes that other people have picked.
lamh34
OK, this is so OT, but I’ve a self-proclaimed O-bot, but I’m an even bigger Michelle O-bot.
I love our FLOTUS!!!
Michelle Obama Dances to Beyonce’s Let’s Move Song
Jay C
@Martin:
Yeah, except that for anyone from New York, Pam “Atlas Juggs” Geller is such an archetypal stereotype/caricature, the caveats basically write themselves. “Fifty-two-year-old single mother of four” with a “floor-through loft”?
Right – gimme a break: she’s the standard hot MILF you might pick up at some tony bar on the East Side; and then, when you’re slavering in anticipation in a cab on the way back to her place”, she gets a cell-phone call and spends ten minutes shrieking away to her “editor” about “ragheads” and “jihadis” and “Osama Obama” – and if you’re smart, you bail at the next red light, and scuttle home thanking your lucky stars your condom is still safely in your wallet. And your sanity still safely in your head.
MikeJ
@lamh34: That god the Bush white house never released the footage of Laura doing the running man.
joeyess
@Mnemosyne: nope. just crickets.
Martin
@burnspbesq: Yeah, not my taste either. I don’t really go for the trashy ‘real housewives’ look and attitude, but I can’t say that at +8 I’d turn her away. I’ve certainly hit worse targets at high alcohol levels.
Svensker
@opie jeanne:
Are you sure you don’t want to rephrase that?
opie jeanne
@Mnemosyne: You know what? I didn’t even notice what Obama was wearing, and I ran a clothing/costume design business for a whole lot of years. I was a bit more focused on stuff that was actually important.
joeyess
@Jay C: ha ha ha ha!!
Ha ha ha……. thanks, that’s the first good laugh I’ve had all week.
opie jeanne
@Svensker:
Ha! No, it can stand either way. ;-)
Years ago I was a MILF but mostly unaware of it, and that was a very long while ago.
Citizen Alan
@Jay C:
Does Pam Gellar really have four kids? If so, that’s the saddest thing I ever heard. I can’t imagine how awful it must be to have Gellar as a mother. Is it possible she only has one child who, as a result of Gellar’s horrible nature, has developed four personalities? You know, like Sybil?
Omnes Omnibus
@Martin: Neither does much at all for me. Aside from being married, I no longer drink enough that either would be a possibility. This, of course, leaves out the vanishingly small likelihood that either would chose to spend a night with me anyway. But as long as one is “straying,” why not a Scarlett Johansson or Ann Hathaway? Or even Brody Dalle?
joeyess
I guess this is a hoax? OMG. apparently “Ulserman” the origin of this bullshit is a hoax artist. I don’t even know what to call it, Poe? What? Fuck! I was completely fished in……. well, to be fair, so was Pammycakes and I don’t have a high-powered, high falootin’ blog, either.
Doug Harlan J
@lamh34:
That’s a lot tougher in the white community, when there’s so little good music to keep, let’s face it.
Dennis SGMM
@opie jeanne:
That song popped into my mind immediately. It explains so many otherwise-inexplicable things.
opie jeanne
@joeyess: Outstanding. She can’t tell a lie from the truth and doesn’t fucking care.
Andre
@Joel:
Not going to lie, I spent a few moments trying to remember which Star Trek species had threatened the Federation with a dyan cannon. It sounds terrifying.
MikeJ
@Doug Harlan J: Meh. Plenty of good white music. Sturgeon’s Law rules everything.
lamh34
@Doug Harlan J:
oooh, you gonna get in trouble for that…lol
(though I do agree (running away to avoid the fireworks)
Omnes Omnibus
@Doug Harlan J: Leaving aside recent “white” music which was either borrowed from, or strongly influenced by, AA music, I would like to introduce you to Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Verdi, Chopin, Vivaldi, Haydn, Brahms (who I personally could take or leave), Stravinsky, Copland, Guthrie…. I believe I have made my point.
JCT
@aimai:
That is going to be one of my favorite memes of all time. “He made us act like racist imbeciles, it’s all his fault”
@lamh34:
I’m with you on this — 100% . Barry did good.
Mnemosyne
@opie jeanne:
To me, it looked like Obama was wearing that zippered navy blue jacket that presidents seem to all be issued when they take office. He definitely wasn’t sitting there in a parka and hiking boots.
@Citizen Alan:
I don’t want to have to search for it, but I remember seeing a Geller video where one of her daughters was standing behind her and doing a wicked imitation of her while Pam talked. And Pammy put it up on the internet!
cleek
the Hate is strong with Geller.
hildebrand
My wing-nut brother-in-law is wanking on and on about Obama making the military wait 16 hours before giving the green light on the mission – anybody have any clue what this is about and why it is making the wack-a-loons loose their stuff?
cleek
@Mnemosyne:
i feel sorry for that kid.
reminds me of a song…
JCT
@hildebrand: Apparently after Panetta laid out all of the options and gave his opinion on Thursday, Obama said that he wanted to think about things for a bit and then came back ~ 16 hours later and said go for it.
Really, only those mouth-breathers could make a careful thought process before you might be sending a bunch of young men on a potentially fatal mission into a “negative”. I’m sure those SEALS would have been much happier if he just quickly flipped a coin.
hildebrand
@JCT: Thanks for the clarification. Honestly. My guess is that these folks would criticize Obama if he had shot bin Laden himself. I guess there really isn’t anything that they won’t gripe about or develop into some kind of nefarious plot. Yikes.
Ruckus
@JCT:
When what little brain one has is in ones gut, all one makes is gut decisions.
ETA /bush the stupid
Yevgraf (fka Michael)
Slightly OT, but it looks like the former half-term governor wants to flick her bean to the sweet, sweet erotic imagery of the Osama snuff porno.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/03/palin-there-are-serious-questions-that-demand-answers/
Sniveling fucking skank.
MikeJ
@Yevgraf (fka Michael): That’s a disgusting image. Almost as bad as the bin Laden footage would be.
piratedan
@aimai: I think I get what you’re saying… maybe this analogy will work….the nation is 12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda is the President and Lee J. Cobb is the Birthers, I guess that would make E.G. Marshall the Boehner Republicans and Jack Warden the MSM.
cleek
@Yevgraf (fka Michael):
it’s fun watching them strain and reach and twist and grasp at something, something, to make Obama look bad here.
… not that there aren’t an alarming number of lefties trying hard to find a way to hate this …
Odie Hugh Manatee
Obama invited Bush to Ground Zero on Thursday. Bush declined.
Wow, he actually did something right for once. I know, stopped clock and all that but wow.
The wingers are gonna be pissed!
Get more Mason jars to collect those tears, you’re gonna need them.
Mnemosyne
@JCT:
I’ve never understood the habit some people have of criticizing something successful because it didn’t happen soon enough for their taste. It’s like Beese’s whine that, sure, DADT was repealed, but it wasn’t repealed when he wanted it to be.
If the mission had failed, sure, do the Monday morning quarterback thing and insist that Obama’s delay led to that failure. But whining about the details of a successful mission just makes you look like a baby.
cleek
@Mnemosyne:
i always assume it’s because they don’t care about the result as much as they care about finding new ways to hate. not finding fault would require them to admit the target of their hate isn’t 110.44% Pure Evil.
Omnes Omnibus
@cleek: That’s even more evil than Ivory soap.
JCT
@Mnemosyne:
And it’s amazing how *good* the wingnuts are at it!
I found this to be truly amazing, but it’s all about hating Obama, all the time. I think deep down in their lizard brains it’s all about inadequacy.
Joey Maloney
@fasteddie9318: I don’t know. If you loaded her up with enough Thorazine so that she couldn’t really form words any more, and then hit her with a couple snorts of crystal to give her a little mobility…
Draylon Hogg
So Obama is making too much of the photos? She should be thankful it wasn’t Bush he’d be waltzing the animatronic-ised corpse around the Dancing With The Stats dance floor in a 2 hour special by now.
Chris
I love it: we’re supposed to believe there was a military coup in the works, but that the ONLY objectionable thing going on was that Obama took out Osama to stave it off.
Pardon me, but if there’s a coup of any kind going on, we’ve got bigger problems than Osama. Yes?
Chris
@Bulworth:
Funny thing about that. He did (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_bush).
Classy move on Barack’s part.
Chris
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
According to him, it was discovering that the so-called “anti-jihadist” movement he was famous for taking part in, was in neck deep with European fascist movements like the BNP, the FN and the BZO.
Which, you know, I could have told him years and years ago, but better late than never.
Jay C
@Chris:
And to add: I think Charles wrote that what really made him see the light was that when he pointed out (and voiced his objections) to the unsavory neo-Nazi aspects of those European movements, his commentariat turned on him, viciously and started posting all sorts of “traitor”,”jihadist”,”Sharia” shit about him, and he realized (finally!) that he had been cheerleading a gang of unhinged hatemongers for years.
Disgruntled Lurker
@fasteddie9318:
Have you tried bath salts?