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You are here: Home / Damned Liberals Picking on People

Damned Liberals Picking on People

by John Cole|  July 14, 201111:14 pm| 94 Comments

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So when some wingnut broadcaster screws up and states there were no attacks on American soil from 2000 to 2008, you know whose fault it is, right?

You damned radical liberal left, that’s who.

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  1. 1.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 14, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    OK, is this Bolling guy trying to compete with Hannity for the mug most in need of being bashed with a Louisville Slugger? Is that the deal here?

  2. 2.

    Quiddity

    July 14, 2011 at 11:22 pm

    This guy has had Pam Geller on for friendly interviews about Obama’s “missing” or “forged” birth certificate. Of interest, Bolling seems to have the same aggressive posture as Bill O’Reilly and many others at the thuggish Murdoch empire. It’s classic bullying tactics. Taunt and deride opponents, but when you’re called out, suddenly get on a moral high-horse. Eric Bolling is a shit.

  3. 3.

    Kathy in St. Louis

    July 14, 2011 at 11:22 pm

    Well, of course, it’s the liberals’ fault. We aren’t supposed to be making fun of the journalism school graduates who skipped out on their history and current event’s classes.

  4. 4.

    Mark S.

    July 14, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    I don’t remember any wars America was involved in between 1941 and 1945.

  5. 5.

    beltane

    July 14, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    It’s because right-wingers are born liars; every time one of them opens his mouth a steady stream of bullshit pours out. Pointing out these lies is really mocking them for a congenital defect, which is a mean thing to do. Holding them to any sort of ethical standard is just like expecting someone with amputated limbs to climb the Empire State Building.

  6. 6.

    Ruckus

    July 14, 2011 at 11:24 pm

    Assholes always think they can shit out their own version history and get away with it. And it’s never their fault.

    Assholes.

  7. 7.

    Mark S.

    July 14, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    Quoth the douchebag:

    No, I haven’t forgotten. I happened to be standing there, watching in true terror as radical Islamists slammed planes into the towers that morning. I remember the towers collapsing, killing 3,000 including 16 of my close friends. And I really remember trying to comfort the kids of my friends at their memorial services. But it completely slipped my mind yesterday.

  8. 8.

    beltane

    July 14, 2011 at 11:28 pm

    @Mark S.

    I find it hard to believe that this douchebag had 16 close friends.

  9. 9.

    Jeffro

    July 14, 2011 at 11:29 pm

    I think half of it is right-wingers genuinely think 9/11 happened because of Bill Clinton’s neglect or some other such nonsense; therefore, Bush’s term didn’t really begin until 9/12/01.

    And of course, his second term ended prematurely, the day before Lehman Brothers collapsed. That was the day Obama was both elected and inaugurated.

    (Fixt ’cause “inaugurated” takes two tries)

  10. 10.

    Left Coast Tom

    July 14, 2011 at 11:30 pm

    Holding them to any sort of ethical standard is just like expecting someone with amputated limbs to climb the Empire State Building.

    Knowing that people with amputated limbs have climbed rocks in the Sierra Nevada, I’m going to assume someone with amputated limbs has climbed the Empire State Building. And that wingnuts still can’t meet any ethical standard.

  11. 11.

    eemom

    July 14, 2011 at 11:33 pm

    umm, Cole?

    You’re starting to remind me of my kids when they get bored but adamantly refuse to admit that it wouldn’t be such a bad idea for school to start again.

    Jussayinzall.

  12. 12.

    Martin

    July 14, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    Just gonna leave this here:

    California is considering joining New York and Delaware in a wide-ranging investigation into Wall Street’s role in the mortgage meltdown that could lead to criminal charges against financial executives.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Kevin

    July 14, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    @Kathy in St. Louis: As amusing as it is to crap on journalism school graduates, Bolling most definitely is not one of them. He is a former commodities trader, possibly an even lower form of life.

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 14, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    Mark S. – July 14, 2011 | 11:23 pm · Link
    I don’t remember any wars America was involved in between 1941 and 1945.

    The United States and Japan have enjoyed a century and a half of uninterrupted friendship.
    @9Jeffro – July 14, 2011 | 11:29 pm · Link
    abso-fucking-lutely

  15. 15.

    kth

    July 14, 2011 at 11:39 pm

    Bush was only really President from 2002 through 2006. Everything before then was Clinton’s fault, and everything after either Pelosi’s or Obama’s.

  16. 16.

    Mark S.

    July 14, 2011 at 11:39 pm

    @beltane:

    Everybody exaggerates a little when they’re telling a story.

  17. 17.

    moonbat

    July 14, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    “…thank you liberals, for reminding me how petty you can be.”

    And Thank You, Mr. Bolling, for reminding us what a lying sack of shit you are when you think no one with a brain is listening.

  18. 18.

    rob!

    July 14, 2011 at 11:42 pm

    I miss Glenn Beck.

  19. 19.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    July 14, 2011 at 11:42 pm

    Who the fuck is Eric Bolling?

  20. 20.

    mai naem

    July 14, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    I am watching ODonnell. Seriously, can we get rid of Sarah fckin Palin already. OMG I want her to be the Repub candidate because I know she would by far be the easiest to beat, okay, thats not true, Herman Cain would be the easiest but I would break my teevee if I had to listen to six months of campaigning from the Wasilla Hillbilly.

    Also too, John Boehner may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer and all, but he’s a much better face, orange as he may be, for the Repubs than Cantor who looks like a total arshoel. The hair, the long forehead, the icky eyes, seriously not unthreatening looking enough.

  21. 21.

    The Dangerman

    July 14, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    So, somehow he forgot 9/11 and, when called on it, somehow he forgot the Anthrax attacks in his explanation.

    Asshole.

  22. 22.

    Jamie

    July 14, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Everyone forgot about the anthrax attacks in there.

    ooops, what dangerman said.

  23. 23.

    danimal

    July 14, 2011 at 11:48 pm

    Um, Mr. Bolling, you were making the point that Bush kept us safe. So, you see, missing out on the most heinous attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor is kind of relevant.

    Petty attacks are pouncing on grammatical mistakes. Relevant attacks are ones that point out that your statement is factually incorrect. Spectacularly incorrect in this instance. Try to learn the difference.

    Bush did not keep us safe. He was negligent.

  24. 24.

    GregB

    July 14, 2011 at 11:49 pm

    You know the wacky folks in the midwest who make kitschy carvings of celebrities from large mounds of butter and then display them at the county fair?

    I am going to do the same thing except I am going to carve Fox News talking heads out of large mounds of shit.

  25. 25.

    Martin

    July 14, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    You know the wacky folks in the midwest who make kitschy carvings of celebrities from large mounds of butter and then display them at the county fair?

    Actually the butter-cow lady died a few weeks ago.

    Norma Lyon, a self-described dairy farmer’s wife and mother of nine who achieved fame well beyond the Midwest as the “butter-cow lady” of the Iowa State Fair, sculpturing tons of U.S. Grade AA salted butter each year into life-size figures of cows, famous people and, once, a diorama of the Last Supper, died on Sunday in Marshalltown, Iowa. She was 81.

  26. 26.

    GambitRF

    July 14, 2011 at 11:53 pm

    So long as Michelle Obama is eating hamburgers liberals have no right to point out silly technicalities like forgetting 9/11

  27. 27.

    piratedan

    July 14, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    How dare we hold anyone at Faux to the high journalistic standards of a middle school newsletter? After all, 9/11 has been the lynchpin that Faux News has used to scare the people of the United States about Muslims, Immigrants, Democrats and promote their special brand of theological fascism for nearly a decade, it’s just an oversight that it was overlooked. Can’t we all just have a little bit of compassion around here for the “working man”?

  28. 28.

    Jennifer

    July 15, 2011 at 12:12 am

    Damn you for posting a new thread when I was posting to the last one! But this fits, because it’s another example of a damned liberal (me) picking on people. And the odds are probably 100 to 0 that the woman I was “picking” on vote Republican. So anyway, here goes, AGAIN:

    What am I up to?

    I took my nephew who’s visiting me out to dinner at Chili’s (which is where he wanted to go). When we went in, I showed the hostess my e-cigarette, asked her if she was familiar with them and if it was ok to use it. She said it was fine, so, I was taking an occasional puff off it while waiting for the food to arrive. So, on the other side of the divider where our table is, one table down, there’s this huge fatass mountain of a woman, who’s very rudely staring at me. And clearly talking about me, as she says something to her fatass husband and he turns around and stares too. The waiter comes by to drop off our drinks and says, “oh, you’ve got one of those e-cigarettes.”

    Next thing I know, here’s the manager at the table asking me to put it away, saying they’ve had a “complaint”. I say, “oh, that woman right there (pointing) who’s been rudely staring at me for the past 10 minutes? What’s her problem?” He says she’s complained about “the smell.”

    Now, I don’t know if you’re familiar with e-cigs, but…there IS no smell, unless you’re 2 feet away or in a very small enclosed space like a car, and even then it’s very faint, and in my case, since the liquid in mine is spearmint, it smells like a stick of gum – when you can smell it, which a fatass bitch sitting 10 feet away in a large room certainly can not. Horribly offensive, right? I ask him, “what does she say it smells like?” He can’t answer. I said, “I’ll be glad to put it away, but just so you know…I DID ask the hostess when we were seated if it was OK and she said it was, this things does not HAVE a smell, and all it’s putting out is water vapor.” But I put it away. He leaves, I look over, and fatass bitch is STILL staring at me. So…very loudly, and without really even thinking about it, I say, “I’m OFFENDED because you’re FAT!” My nephew almost falls out of his seat laughing.

    The waiter comes back by and apologizes, says she complained to him first, and he TOLD HER it was nothing but water vapor, and she STILL called the manager over and complained. Then he says, “that table has been a problem since they got here, sorry again.” So when he leaves, I start staring a hole through the fatass bitch; meanwhile I continue to push the button on the e-cig (but not puff on it) so she can see it lighting up. Within about a minute she says to her husband “she’s sitting over there STARING at me,” and I say aloud, and hope she’s reading lips, “goddamn right I’m staring at you, just like you’ve been doing to me since I got here.” She says to her husband, “I’m going to go on out.” And she gets up and leaves and (according to my nephew) stares daggers at the back of my head as she’s leaving.

    A few minutes later fat hubby gets up to leave. I see him through the window, waddling out to the car. He gets in and apparently gets some tongue-lashing from her, because he gets back out, comes back inside, goes up to the hostess stand and starts a conversation in which he’s pointing over to our table (again, according to my nephew). I say to my nephew, “what, are they pitching a fit now because I was doing the same thing to her she’d been doing to me the whole time I’ve been here? What, they’re going to ask the manager to kick us out of the restaurant for looking at her now?”

    Anyway, we ended up with a comp meal; I was nothing but sweetness and light to the manager and waiter. But I’m still kicking myself wishing I had gotten up, gone up to her table, and said, “look, if you’re so concerned about your health that you’re worried about inhaling a little WATER VAPOR, by all means stay away from hot beverages & etc, but most of all, if that’s your worry, stop digging your grave with your FORK you fatass busybody.” But then, we probably wouldn’t have gotten a free meal. As for the fatass twins, I think they paid full freight for their meal.

    You know, I’m a reasonable person. But when someone is such a fucking bitch that they’re going make shit up just to try to fuck up someone else’s day for their pleasure…I’m glad I made her uncomfortable enough to hove her fatass out the door.

    My nephew is still laughing about all of this, BTW. I’m a really bad influence.

  29. 29.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    July 15, 2011 at 12:16 am

    You damned libruls! I’d put the memory behind me, being rocked gently in the arms of Dick Cheney for all these years, that dear, sweet man wiping my tears away with a “Hush, hush, we’ll take care of it, don’t you worry your sweet little head.” I can still here the gentle thumping of his pacemaker. I hate you, libruls! Sixteen friends who I’d completely erased from my mind, and you have to go dredging up those memories!

  30. 30.

    handsmile

    July 15, 2011 at 12:16 am

    Lies, sanctimony, and dudgeon. It’s the extent of their job responsibilities. Rinse and repeat.

    Many here may have been first introduced to Bolling last month when, as host of the Fox Business Report, he said of Obama’s White House meeting with the autocratic president of Gabon, “It’s not the first time he’s had a hoodlum in hizzhouse.”

    Made aware that his racism was a bit too obvious, he smirked an apology a couple days later, “We got a little fast and loose with the language.”

    With that wrist thus slapped, he signed a new contract with the other to be part of Fox’s Insane Klown Posse replacing Herr Beck.

  31. 31.

    Comrade Kevin

    July 15, 2011 at 12:17 am

    @Jennifer: You want a cookie?

  32. 32.

    Jennifer

    July 15, 2011 at 12:19 am

    @ Comrade Kevin – depends. What flavor is it?

  33. 33.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    July 15, 2011 at 12:21 am

    Wasn’t Katrina clinton’s fault?

  34. 34.

    Comrade Kevin

    July 15, 2011 at 12:21 am

    @Jennifer: It’s a piss and vinegar cookie, with a side of sanctimony. Right up your alley.

  35. 35.

    Linda Featheringill

    July 15, 2011 at 12:24 am

    People who tell lies or make big mistakes should be called out on it. That is what peer pressure is and is the way any society maintains a standard of honesty.

    I’m glad they got him.

  36. 36.

    Jennifer

    July 15, 2011 at 12:24 am

    @ Comrade Kevin – no thanks – I think you should shove that one up your ass, where it belongs.

  37. 37.

    Cat Lady

    July 15, 2011 at 12:26 am

    Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you.

  38. 38.

    Citizen Alan

    July 15, 2011 at 12:26 am

    I think I love you Jennifer. I want to bear your children.

  39. 39.

    Martin

    July 15, 2011 at 12:37 am

    Huh. I wasn’t aware of this, but there’s a broad effort to reform the presidential election process called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Basically, there’s an agreement working around the states that would have each signatory state award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. It only goes into effect if the signatories can assemble a majority of electoral votes.

    So far, 7 states plus DC have approved it, comprising 77 EV (out of 270 to trigger it). CA has sent it to the gov, and NY is working it through the legislature. That’d deliver another 84 EVs.

    Interesting plan.

  40. 40.

    Mark B

    July 15, 2011 at 12:37 am

    Even after 9-11, there were several terrorist attacks, even if you’re just limiting yourself to American soil. Anthrax, anyone? If you’re trying to defend George Bush, you might at least try to use fact, but to be fair, it’s a really hard task to do with facts.

  41. 41.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    July 15, 2011 at 12:38 am

    WAR Why Can’t We Be Friends?

  42. 42.

    Jennifer

    July 15, 2011 at 12:40 am

    @ 38 Citizen Alan – considering how full of piss and vinegar I am, and the fact that you find that appealing…I shudder to think of the children.

  43. 43.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    July 15, 2011 at 12:41 am

    Don’t be so hard on Mr. Bolling, he had a snort of a 40oz before the cameras rolled.

  44. 44.

    MikeJ

    July 15, 2011 at 12:44 am

    @Martin: I’m against it until you get the treason states (Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, et al) to sign on. It’s moronic to have solid Dem states say they give away a win when the treason states will go for victory at any price.

  45. 45.

    Lurleen

    July 15, 2011 at 12:50 am

    Another white guy. That’s all I see on my tv. white guys. it’s all i hear on my radio.’

    It’s at least not so much here, until it is.

    white guys, I am so very tired of them.

  46. 46.

    Canadian Shoggoth

    July 15, 2011 at 12:53 am

    Kinda surprised that Bolling went for the “well of course 9-11, you liberal morons!” instead of covering his “on US soil” flub by saying that 9-11 was a violation of airspace instead, thus he was right all along. I supposed high dudgeon beats having been correct(in his mind) from the start.

  47. 47.

    Martin

    July 15, 2011 at 12:54 am

    It’s moronic to have solid Dem states say they give away a win

    Ok, slow down and think it through…

    It only goes into effect if the signatories can assemble a majority of electoral votes.

    It wouldn’t matter what the non-signatories decide to do, the signatories would have enough EVs to decide the election.

  48. 48.

    Martin

    July 15, 2011 at 1:09 am

    Oh, and because it bears repeating, following Prop 8, the California Marriage Protection Act which was campaigned largely to protect children from being taught that gay marriage was acceptable in school, Gov Brown today signed the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act which would “amend the Education Code to include social sciences instruction on the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. This bill would also prohibit discriminatory instruction and discriminatory materials from being adopted by the State Board of Education.”

    So, Prop 8 may have passed, but we’re teaching your kids about teh gheys anyway.

    Suck it, Prop 8 assholes.

  49. 49.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    July 15, 2011 at 1:19 am

    i’ll post here and in the open thread below: going to be in Seattle Tuesday night and then in Portland Wednesay for the Portland/West Brom match. I would greatly welcome suggestions on places to eat drink and party in either city.

    Thanks!

  50. 50.

    The Dangerman

    July 15, 2011 at 1:21 am

    So far, 7 states plus DC have approved it, comprising 77 EV (out of 270 to trigger it).

    I dunno; I smell lawsuits from here to there the first time someone of stature (read: Republican) gets boned out of EV’s that would have sent him or her over the top.

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    July 15, 2011 at 1:32 am

    @Martin:

    Not sure I like the idea of the interstate popular vote compact. If y’all want to amend the Constitution to get rid of the Electoral College, there is a prescribed procedure by which you can do that. It requires three-quarters of the states to be on board.

    Amending the constitution is supposed to be hard. If it weren’t, do you think we’d still have a Bill of Rights?

  52. 52.

    JITC

    July 15, 2011 at 1:34 am

    Come on. This guy misspoke when he said 2000. This is obvious.

    Why isn’t anyone calling him on the fact that he ended his time period at 2008? The direct implication that he was trying to get across is that Bush kept us safe, Clinton did not and Obama had put us in danger.

    He’s not an idiot because he said “2000.” He’s an idiot because he has no clue about the numerous terrorist attacks on U.S. interests & troops, allies and other civilians around the world and because he ended his time period at 2008.

  53. 53.

    Martin

    July 15, 2011 at 1:35 am

    gets boned out of EV’s that would have sent him or her over the top.

    States are free to select electoral college electors however they want, and those electors can choose however they want. Nebraska and Maine divide their electors with a manner of proportionality. There’s a broad understanding that in a clean sweep, at least one elector will vote for the losing candidate in order to maintain George Washington as the only unanimously elected president. Early on, state legislatures selected the electors, not a popular vote.

    They’ll sue, because shit, everyone sues for everything, but it’s 100% legal under the Constitution.

  54. 54.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    July 15, 2011 at 1:39 am

    True story earlier tonight: out with some colleagues in a crowded bar in downtown Houston and two very attractive ladies waded into our area to order drinks (at first) but then stuck around to chat with us. –In case you are wondering, I attribute this serendipity to our 24-year old analyst who by all accounts is a chick magnet (they started talking to him first).– Anyway, things were going well conversationally (I am nearly 40 and the one I was talking to was probably 27) and out of the blue, I was asked what I thought of “Barack Obama” in a way that suggested extreme disapproval on her part. Not wanting to screw things up for my single friends, I said something to the effect of he’s alright. She said something to the effect of let’s talk about something else.

    Questions:

    In that scenario would you go guns blazing, your single friends be damned?

    Would you pretend to “agree” to have her lay out her unadulterated viewpoint?

    Or would you go with the flow and change the subject and not rock the boat?

    Full disclosure: I bailed to get home to help put my three kids to bed! I feel like I missed an opportunity for… something…

  55. 55.

    Martin

    July 15, 2011 at 1:40 am

    Amending the constitution is supposed to be hard.

    Agreed. But it’s not amending the Constitution. It’s merely striking down a convention that has never been followed uniformly and replacing it with another convention that is equally legal under the Constitution. The Constitution doesn’t say a damn thing about all EVs going to the popular vote winner in each state, and in fact, that’s not even what happens in every state. Hell, it doesn’t even say anything about having a popular vote. Technically, we can skip that step entirely.

  56. 56.

    Jebediah

    July 15, 2011 at 1:40 am

    Martin @48:

    So, Prop 8 may have passed, but we’re teaching your kids about teh gheys anyway.
    Suck it, Prop 8 assholes.

    Sometimes I am particularly happy to live in CA.

  57. 57.

    dogwood

    July 15, 2011 at 1:42 am

    I always thought the political pissing match about who caused 911 a perfect example of American arrogance. As with everything else, we disregard that there were other actors in the disaster. The world is full of non-Americans who actually have an agenda that they are capable of carrying out. American have come to believe that anything bad that befalls this great nation, must be the fault of some president.

  58. 58.

    Jebediah

    July 15, 2011 at 1:48 am

    Gordon @ 54:
    How much tail your friends snag isn’t your responsibility. I an guessing I would have taken the bait and said something along the lines of “Obama? My GOD such a relief to have a a competent, English-speaking, non-alcoholic President again!”
    I have been married long enough that I no longer care to cut idiots slack just for being pretty.
    Your single friends are probably better off going out with you than with me….

  59. 59.

    Martin

    July 15, 2011 at 1:56 am

    I have been married long enough that I no longer care to cut idiots slack just for being pretty.

    I have as well, but my attitude is a little different. I have nothing to gain by having a confrontational discussion in a bar, particularly with pretty women. If I want to have a political argument, I come here. I’d have given an honest “Eh, I don’t want to talk about politics.” answer and moved the topic to something else.

  60. 60.

    Martin

    July 15, 2011 at 2:02 am

    Ha! FTFY!

  61. 61.

    Viva BrisVegas

    July 15, 2011 at 2:03 am

    “Yesterday I misspoke when I said there were no U.S. terror attacks during the Bush years. Obviously, I meant in the aftermath of 9/11.

    Obviously the anthrax attacks don’t count as terrorism, since they were only directed against Democrats and the media, not real Americans.

    The five people who were killed don’t count, because they probably didn’t even watch Fox News.

    This brain dead moron doesn’t even know enough to avoid doubling down on his own stupidity.

  62. 62.

    cbear

    July 15, 2011 at 2:06 am

    In that scenario would you go guns blazing, your single friends be damned?
    Would you pretend to “agree” to have her lay out her unadulterated viewpoint?
    Or would you go with the flow and change the subject and not rock the boat?

    You should have gone with the always popular, “You shore do have a purty mouf” and left it at that.
    Political cockblocking is never acceptable amongst real buddies.

  63. 63.

    No one of Importance

    July 15, 2011 at 2:08 am

    Aren’t these the same people who shat themselves into a frenzy because Obama wasn’t wearing a flag pin or something?

    I can honestly say that in Australia, no supposed journo would get away with this level of breathtaking hypocrisy without being called out on it from every level.

  64. 64.

    Jebediah

    July 15, 2011 at 2:12 am

    Martin @ 59:
    A very sensible and correct attitude. Single folk would also be better off going out with you than with me…

  65. 65.

    patroclus

    July 15, 2011 at 2:14 am

    dogwood, as a former expatriate living away from the States, I hear what you’re saying. But George W. was just awful – he was told beforehand about OBL’s plans, he then invaded the wrong country, to the tune of $2.5 billion per week, he instituted torture and vastly enlarged domestic spying, he and his cronies utterly wrecked the worldwide equity, bond, credit and payments markets, sending the entire planet into a deep recession from which we have yet to recover, he handled the leveling of Lower Manhattan and New Orleans abominably, he and his cronies blatantly lied to the entire world about non-existent WMD’s, he and his allies created the “debt crisis” through a combination of gargantuan spending and the lowest tax rates in decades and I could go on and on…

    Bush was terrible! Just awful! Are you saying I cannot criticize him because other factors and other countries were involved?

  66. 66.

    Jebediah

    July 15, 2011 at 2:15 am

    Cbear @ 62:

    Political cockblocking is never acceptable amongst real buddies.

    OK, but making them work harder for it isn’t the awfullest thing ever, and it might be entertaining too.

  67. 67.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    July 15, 2011 at 2:19 am

    Martin – to her credit, she deployed the let’s talk about the something else card, as soon as I expressed a non-condemning comment about the President. She was otherwise pleasant afterwards.

    Usually, with some of the knuckleheads in my office, I can’t resist getting a dig in and defending the intellectual turf.

    @Jebediah – generally I agree. I was in Austin with a (young – recent grad) colleague recently who was hooking up with women still in college and politics came up and I didn’t hold back. My friend didn’t realize the political affinity until I got into it with his friend (or coveniently ignored it) and he almost had a Larry David moment and declined (but didn’t).

    I guess what I am saying is that for me it is situational.

  68. 68.

    Martin

    July 15, 2011 at 2:24 am

    OK, but making them work harder for it isn’t the awfullest thing ever, and it might be entertaining too.

    Well, that’s a whole different matter – and yeah, it’s damn entertaining. But you have to do it just right. Done right, the girls stay interested but your buds have have all of this awkward bit of explaining to do, and you get to sit back and direct the scene.

  69. 69.

    Nutella

    July 15, 2011 at 2:50 am

    @Comrade Kevin:

    @Jennifer: You want a cookie?

    No, if she eats cookies she’ll become a fatass bitch and the kind of person who complains about people in restaurants.

  70. 70.

    dogwood

    July 15, 2011 at 3:07 am

    Patroclus:

    Bush was terrible! Just awful! Are you saying I cannot criticize him because other factors and other countries were involved?

    I have no idea how you could suggest I was saying you cannot criticize Bush. You may criticize whoever you chose. And I don’t need a litany of Bush’s transgressions, thank you. I’m well aware of the disaster he was as a president. Nonetheless, I believe the idea of the American president as the most powerful person in the world is a bunch of horseshit. It’s completely arrogant and ignorant, and it leads to people believing president’s have powers they don’t posses. Even George W couldn’t have pulled off all the crap he did without powerful assistance from the other 2 branches of government. I don’t much cotton to the doctrine of American Exceptionalism either. A nation that sat by idly for 30 years watching the supply-siders, deregulators, neo-cons, and religious zealots take over their country and now want it fixed in 2 years, is as parochial and venal as any other nation on earth.

  71. 71.

    Comrade Kevin

    July 15, 2011 at 3:30 am

    @Jennifer: Go take your “Smokeless” cigarette and shove it up your nose. The sooner dumb fucks like you die from lung cancer, the better. Seriously, go fuck yourself, and die as quickly as possible.

  72. 72.

    Jennifer

    July 15, 2011 at 3:44 am

    Comrade Kevin – Fuck you with your mother’s dick, asshole.

    Water vapor doesn’t cause cancer, dumbass. Was that you there with your fatass wife this evening, pissing and moaning about how rude I was being for staring her fat ass down after she’d done the same shit to me? I wouldn’t be surprised if that neckless lump was yours – probably better than you deserve.

    DIAF, dickbreath.

  73. 73.

    Yutsano

    July 15, 2011 at 3:45 am

    @Jennifer: @Comrade Kevin: ONE TWO THREE FOUR! I DECLARE A FLAME WAR!!

  74. 74.

    cbear

    July 15, 2011 at 3:46 am

    No, if she eats cookies she’ll become a fatass bitch and the kind of person who complains about people in restaurants.

    Let me guess—most people probably wouldn’t describe you as svelte, would they?

  75. 75.

    Jennifer

    July 15, 2011 at 3:47 am

    @ Yutsano – please note – only one of us is getting fucked with our mother’s dick, and it ain’t me.

  76. 76.

    Yutsano

    July 15, 2011 at 3:50 am

    @Jennifer: I fully anticipate you leaving a bloody broken corpse when all this is done. I just had a Don King moment is all. I’ll shut up now.

  77. 77.

    Comrade Kevin

    July 15, 2011 at 3:52 am

    Uh huh, and you never smoke anything other than the “e-cigs”, you never smoke actual cigaettes. Right.

  78. 78.

    Jennifer

    July 15, 2011 at 3:52 am

    @ Yutsano – your contributions from the peanut gallery are always welcome ;) And it’s only a Don King moment if your hair is along for the ride.

  79. 79.

    Jennifer

    July 15, 2011 at 3:53 am

    IN point of fact, I do not smoke actual cigarettes.

    Not that it’s any of your fucking business, dickbreath.

  80. 80.

    cbear

    July 15, 2011 at 3:54 am

    @ Jennifer

    I like your attitude. Please sign me up for your newsletter.

  81. 81.

    Comrade Kevin

    July 15, 2011 at 3:56 am

    Right, that’s believable. Of course.

  82. 82.

    Jennifer

    July 15, 2011 at 3:58 am

    Yeah. Like I care what some dickbreath online “believes” about people he’s never met. Sorry princess, you’re just not that special.

  83. 83.

    Comrade Kevin

    July 15, 2011 at 3:59 am

    I am being trolled. Fuck it.

  84. 84.

    Yutsano

    July 15, 2011 at 4:06 am

    @cbear: Down killer. She may just be too much for you. Or not. Either way to have been at that table…

  85. 85.

    Calouste

    July 15, 2011 at 5:04 am

    @JITC 52:

    No the guy is an idiot because he is so brainwashed with “Republicans good, Democrats bad” talk that that reaches whatever passes in him for a speechcenter before and to the exclusion of a rather very well known fact.

    The only reason he said “no attacks in 2000-2008” was because that was the duration of the Bush presidency, even though that was the period in which the biggest attacks in the last 60 years took place. And the only reason he didn’t include the period from 2008, even though no attacks on US soil took place, was because there is now a Democratic president. He makes Goebbels look like he had integrity.

  86. 86.

    alwhite

    July 15, 2011 at 6:25 am

    If you are going to defend Boy Blunder you are going to have to ignore an awful lot of facts and generally be very ‘forgetful’. He was King Midas in reverse, everything he touched turned to shit. There is not a single thing he did, not a single effort he made, not a single bill he signed that did not make us worse off.

    The 2 things closest to ‘success’, Medicare part D and Afghanistan, he fucked up. Part D is a time bomb because it forbids the government from negotiating lower prices for drugs or using its buying power to control costs. It will soon enough be too expensive & have to be cut. The invasion of Afghanistan was a masterful use of local resources and brilliant tactics – it was a plan designed in the Clinton administration. The follow up, even before the cluster fuck in Iraq was, and still is, a crime.

  87. 87.

    NamelessGenXer

    July 15, 2011 at 8:12 am

    @jennifer 28

    Bet the Ron Paul Libertarian Army shirt was hard to read over the belly rolls on that lard-ass bitch (I am woman, spare me the misogynist screed).

    This one time, I was standing on a freezing corner in NYC waiting for the light with my mom, who was lighting a cig when some butinsky old hag comes up to her out of nowhere:

    HAG: You know smoking lowers you body temperature and it only makes you colder.

    MOM (without skipping a beat): Do you drink orange juice?

    HAG: Yes.

    MOM: You know 100% of people who drink orange juice DIE.

    HAG: {crickets}

    Me: {facepalm}

    The light changed, and that was that, and I saw my normally kind-to-strangers mom in a whole new light. Epilogue: That was 20 years ago and my mom, FSM love The Silents, is still smoking, drinking and having a good time while it lasts.

    Also too, Bolling is the natural excretion of Murdoch.

  88. 88.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    July 15, 2011 at 8:32 am

    On behalf of fat people everywhere, will y’all please get the fuck off of that fat-hate?

    ‘Cause like Nameless Gen’s mom, I’m still drinking and eating and having a good time while it lasts.

    I’m a fat fuck, and I VOTE!

  89. 89.

    NamelessGenXer

    July 15, 2011 at 8:41 am

    @Ivan

    Nah, I don’t hate you, just the lard-ass bitch in jennifer’s story. We all have our vices. Mine is fine Colombian (although now it comes from South Jersey).

  90. 90.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    July 15, 2011 at 9:03 am

    Oh, Nameless, now I hate you. The closest I can get to The Fine Colombian these days is in a coffee cup…

    (that was, like, totally a dramatization- no haterade was actually consumed in the production of this note)

  91. 91.

    Paul in KY

    July 15, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    You go Jennifer! Wish I had been there to see it in all its glory.

  92. 92.

    Paul in KY

    July 15, 2011 at 1:18 pm

    Gordon, I would have said ‘He’s a Hell of alot better than Bush’.

    Completely correct & let’s them know you live in the world of reality. With that girl you may not have gotten laid, but you’d have your dignity.

  93. 93.

    asiangrrlMN

    July 15, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    @Jebediah: I’m totally with you on this one. My bro has lotsa Republican friends (one actually subscribes to the Drudge Report), and I told him that I would have to go full-metal if my friends sent me the shit his did to him. Then again, I wrote a personal ad that said I don’t care color, creed, religion, gender, or age, but I draw the line at Republicans, so what do I know?

    As for Bolling, he may DIAF now. What an utter moron.

  94. 94.

    Joel

    July 15, 2011 at 7:40 pm

    Whingenuts… They should have a rallying cry, like Badgers! Given that Wolverines! is obviously taken.

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