The firehose of stupid is too fast for me to keep up. In the last 24 hours:
* Joe Arpaio said he’s going to hold a press conference to announce the results of his Obama birth certificate investigation.
* Romney says that Santorum needs to give back the delegates that he won in Michigan because Democrats crossed over.
* Romney was against the Blunt-Rubio Amendment an hour before he was for it.
In case you think I’m exaggerating about the stupidity, take a look at Memeorandum this morning. It’s a dozen items on the Blunt-Rubio bill and contraception, the story of a racist GWB-appointed federal judge, and Limbaugh calling women sluts.
Chyron HR
Didn’t Judge Cueball already break this story last night?
Mino
Romney is gonna screw himself into the ground pretty soon.
Trakker
Rush Limbaugh is a national embarrassment and proof positive that Republicans have no principles. None.
tomvox1
I would just add this bit of MSM concern trolling from the Times about the “downsides” of Obama’s “new” optimistic tone:
Bonus points to Helene Cooper for getting “some liberals” in there to both disagree with the president and reinforce the “fact” that real liberals are naturally pessimistic.
Irving
…which liberals?
Why does not one ever, ever ask that?
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Irving: SteveM and Zandar, at least the ones from yesterday.
MattF
The conviction among wingers that they could beat Obama with practically any breathing candidate always seemed weird to me– the recent tremors make me think that the prospect of Obama winning in November is starting to sink in, even for the crazy.
J.W. Hamner
On the other hand, Bill Simmons interview with Obama (note: entirely about sports) was pretty fun diversion during my walk to work.
cathyx
Can that investigation possibly come up that Obama isn’t a citizen? Obama’s already released it and the matter has been settled. What new info can he have investigated but revealing the actual certificate?
jibeaux
Stay classy, America.
samara morgan
And you foolish bioluddites continue to pretend that there isnt a biological basis for conservatism.
;)
MattMinus
Was that judge’s joke really racist? It was tasteless and inappropriate, but the thrust of it was that the president’s mom fucked a dog at an orgy, not anything racial.
Am I missing something?
Elizabelle
It is a calvacade of stupid.
Metro says that its advertising “has been ruled by the courts as a public forum protected by the First Amendment.”
This bothers me a lot. Ad should never have been allowed, and it’s opening up a Pandora’s box.
Gin & Tonic
@cathyx: He’ll hold a press conf to say “Of course the President is a natural-born-citizen; and I’m a moron for believing otherwise.”
Oh, March 1, not April 1, sorry.
Punchy
Hasn’t Sheriff Dumbfuck painted himself into a corner? His report almost has to find Obama’s BC a “fake”. Otherwise, the teatards will crucify him. But if/when he announces the Pres illegitimate, wont they then demand that he go and arrest the President?
Or is this announcement going to be limp, with a “we dont know for sure, but suspect its phony” conclusion that the teatards will accept but not force him to act? And why do I even care about this shit?
TooManyJens
@MattMinus: The implication was that a white woman who would sleep with a black man would fuck anything.
MattF
@Elizabelle: If a winger wants to demonstrate publicly that he’s a rage-fueled idiot, what’s the problem?
Gin & Tonic
@MattMinus: I’m not fluent in racist wingnut, but I think the racist thrust is that fucking a black man is roughly equivalent to fucking a dog.
Scott
Still don’t know why Arpaio isn’t sitting in one of his own tents in the middle of the desert wearing pink underwear. How hard could it be to prove that this schmuck is corrupt?
debit
So, is anyone going to call their republican rep and ask them if they think Rush is wrong?
Face
@Punchy: To maintain Tard Cred, he’s got to gin up some bullshit about fonts and watermarks. To maintain Establishement GOP Cred, he’s got to say otherwise. I’m guessing he’ll instead announce that he’s gay.
dmsilev
@cathyx: I assume that the conclusion will be that the evidence is inconclusive and more
Hawaiian vacation timeresearch is needed.Cacti
@MattMinus:
Die in a fire.
The Ancient Randonneur
This isn’t crazy as much as it is emblematic of the modern GOP:
He’s Ron Paul without the phony folksy schtick.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Gin & Tonic: Actually, I think it goes further: You get a black child by fucking a dog.
ned
The Right Wing doesn’t have a firehose of stupid. They’ve got a friggin’ geyser. It’s bottomless and propelled by hot, foul-smelling gases. Step too close and you’ll get burned.
Egg Berry
On the front page of big journalism right now. Apparently, andrew breitbart died last night. Really. I can’t link for some reason.
Edit: although some on twitter are saying it might be a hoax or hack.
Scott
@Egg Berry: I’d have doubts. Sounds like they got hacked and took the site offline to clean it up.
Elizabelle
@Egg Berry:
Good point re the hacking, because link won’t work and there is nothing about this on other outlets (quick Google search).
Happy warrior? Happy?
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/weekly-jobless-claims-fall-by-2-000
This kind of sustained jobless claims for weeks under 400,000, could well portend another good month of job creation via the BLS report that comes out tomorrow. It could even be a blockbuster 300 grand +. Whereupon Republicans can be expected to freek out and tie boards to their asses for another dive into the national uteri. Sheriff Arpaio should time his big presser on his O birther investigation, to blunt the real world damage of an improving job market. I’m serious, and it’s scary.
MattMinus
@TooManyJens:
Ahh,completely didn’t see it that way.I guess I’m way more perverted than racist.
Trinity
Whoa! Breaking: Andrew Breitbart has died. No joke. Check twitter for links to Fox story.
gelfling545
@cathyx: I expect that Arapio will announce that he is not “satisfied” with the evidence of the kind that that people and institutions accept every day in matters of birth and citizenship.
brettvk
@Egg Berry: I went to the Big Journalism page. Is there confirmation anywhere else?
The Ancient Randonneur
@ I’ll wait until a credible source reports his death.
Elizabelle
Drudge has a working link to Breitbart dead story.
Wilson Heath
Thes are desperate and evil people. It’s a good thing they aren’t heavily armed.
Wait.
Oh shit.
rlrr
@cathyx:
Besides, even if Obama was born in Kenya, he would be a citizen because of his mother’s citizenship.
Egg Berry
@brettvk: some twitterers say there’s family confirmation. Also, the site link is on drudge, so it’s probably getting slammed. Lots of people trying to get confirmation.
Edit: the daily caller said it got confirmation from joel pollack of breitbart.com
rlrr
@Trinity:
Obama’s goons must have got to him.
Scott
If it’s not a hoax (and I still think it is one), it would need to be pointed out (1) Drinking oneself to death isn’t “natural causes,” (2) Is he dead, or is he just hiding from Shirley Sherrod? and (3) He’s a terrible person, and the world would be better if he’d never have lived.
Cacti
@Trinity:
And the world is one asshole lighter.
ned
@brettvk: The all-knowing, all-seeing Wikipedia has been updated to include his death…
Elizabelle
If true, I don’t know how quickly you could say “natural causes”. Didn’t he have some kind of substance abuse problem?
Villago Delenda Est
If he indeed is dead, and died of natural causes, then, as was the case with Broder, justice has not been served.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
It really does feel endless, doesn’t it?
Litlebritdifrnt
@rlrr: Actually no he wouldn’t be. There was a very convoluted law in 1960 concerning residency requirements for mothers under a certain age to confer citizenship on their children. Stanley Anne would not have qualified. I will try and get you a link from Fogbow.
Gromitt Gunn
@MattMinus: don’t think that we have forgotten that you were one of ABL’s main stalkers, along with Kola, Interrupted.
Face
How does one die at age 43 of “natural causes”? What’s so natural about dying at age 43?
Yevgraf
@Egg Berry:
If it isn’t a hoax or hack, one can only hope that his corpse was found on top the naked corpse of that asshole O’Keefe, and there is videotape of the cocaine and rough trade play involved.
Its just a shame that it wasn’t Lord Jiggles. I’d actually go to church and light a candle in thanks for that answered prayer.
4tehlulz
inb4 Obama killed Breitbart
gnomedad
I hear Obama is sending food stamps to North Korea, also, too.
jibeaux
He should’ve behaved himself. So sad.
Michael Demmons
Today is a good day for political discourse in the US. Andrew Breitbart was a terrible, miserable human being. And I don’t mind saying that. I’m not going to pretend he was an honorable person who was just standing up for causes he believed in. I’m not going to pretend he was just a Happy Warrior!
He was an awful man.
Egg Berry
Abc says l.a. Coroner has confirmed he died. MUST CREDIT EGG BERRY!
(sorry, just seemed appropriate)
Rosalita
Breitbart things seems to be real, more reports coming out
Cacti
Breitbart was a happy warrior.
If by “happy” you mean obnoxious drunk.
Tom Levenson
@Cacti: Sorry, but I read “one asshole lighter” as something you use to light assholes.
Proctology for the home handyman.
Why yes, I haven’t had my coffee yet. Why do you ask?
PeakVT
@jibeaux: Heh. Him dying of a heart attack at 43 wouldn’t surprise me after seeing that video.
gnomedad
Can we now unleash a torrent of rants about how Breitbart is getting all this publicity while our brave troops who gave their lives for us are uncelebrated?
Villago Delenda Est
CNN reports Breitbart’s attorney has confirmed his death at 43. MUST CREDIT EGG BERRY!
Rosalita
“natural’ causes could mean heart… can happen at the age. But I guess we’ll know shortly.
Jeez, where’s JC on this?
Elizabelle
@Cacti:
Hubert Humphrey was known as “the happy warrior.”
Breitbart’s just a bully. Or was.
Steve
Is Romney seriously going to keep whining about Santorum getting crossover votes? Either he thinks there’s still serious doubt about the primary or he’s just flailing. It’s certainly not a winning message for a national audience to argue that Democratic and Independent votes don’t count and you have to give them back.
Yevgraf
@PeakVT:
Yesterday was a hellish ride in a handbasket that failed. Today, I’m walking with a spring in my step.
Villago Delenda Est
@gnomedad:
Alas, people doing actual important things, not celebrities, die every day, but still our celebrity obsessed Ferengi Controlled Infotainment Networks concentrate on well known names, even for nefarious, fascistic reasons, like Andrew Breitbart.
The Ancient Randonneur
Convicted felon James O’Keefe’s benefactor is indeed dead according to many sources. Remember folks, Cole will be very upset if you say anything mean about Convicted felon James O’Keefe’s benefactor now that he is dead. What I find shocking is that he was only 43. Dude didn’t look a day over 53.
rlrr
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I seem to remember there being enough of a grey area in the 1960 law to confer citizenship for someone in that situation. Anyway, it’s moot since only a complete loon believes Obama was born anywhere other than Hawaii…
Villago Delenda Est
@Steve:
He’s just flailing. There’s a bugged for-next loop somewhere in the program.
WaterGirl
My first words this morning were “holy fucking shit”.
Uttered after reading the racist email sent by a federal judge. Story at Benen’s place about the totally racist federal judge who forwarded a mind-blowing racist email about President Obama.
Wow. I think the “story” in the email message is worse than the photo of Barack as a monkey (with monkey parents, I believe). Un-fucking-believeable.
I bet Barack blows a stack on this one, privately of course, since they basically said his beloved dead mom fucks animals at parties.
I am really angry about this, and really sad for our country, This federal judge needs to be recalled. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Edit: I see that this is already being discussed upthread.
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
I don’t speak ill of the dead, with the exception of Dick Cheney, who is dead but still walks the earth.
debit
I really hope there isn’t going to be any finger wagging about respecting the dead. The man was a shitstain and took delight in harming people. Happy warrior my ass.
Linda Featheringill
@Egg Berry:
Breitbart:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/andrew-breitbart-publisher-author-dead/story?id=15824337
gnomedad
@4tehlulz:
Not a slam dunk, but “liberals celebrating/gloating” is.
TooManyJens
American political discourse is greatly improved by Andrew Breitbart no longer being involved in it, but I can’t say I’m glad he’s dead. I just wish he would have become a better person.
Cacti
@WaterGirl:
Unfortunately, Federal Judges can only be removed by impeachment.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the House wingnuts passed a resolution commending his bravery.
Elizabelle
Andrew Breitbart.
He was a kind of handsome dude.
Until he opened his mouth.
chopper
@Elizabelle:
it’s been verified. shrug. won’t really say much there.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@debit:
My take here is: Speak not ill of the dead.
So I will pay my respects to the family, tip my hat, and not speak of him again.
Omnes Omnibus
I have nothing good to say about Breitbart.
Cargo
Yay, I mean, um, I’m sorry to his family for their loss.
elmo
I really, really want the Georgetown student to sue Rush Limbaugh for defamation. Accusing somebody of being a prostitute is defamation per se: damages are presumed and don’t have to be proven. She isn’t a public figure, so Times v. Sullivan doesn’t apply. Even if she is, I think the “actual malice” standard is met: he knew the accusation to be false when it was made.
Hell, even imputing unchastity to a woman is defamation per se in many jurisdictions. Seriously, somebody tell me why suing him for defamation wouldn’t be both a great way to shine a spotlight on the issue, AND a potential payday to the young woman?
gnomedad
@WaterGirl:
FTA: “struggles with allegations” of racism? That’s some soft-peddling for Maddow’s place.
shortstop
Carrying constant, over-the-top rage can be lethal to the carrier.
Linda Featheringill
@The Ancient Randonneur: #65
Really. He looked about 57 to 60 to me. YMMV.
Elizabelle
New thread up about Breitbart death.
Cacti
@debit:
Two words for anyone who thinks Breitbart deserves any post mortem respect:
Shirley Sherrod
rlrr
Cebull, an 11-year veteran of the federal bench, was a George W. Bush nominee.
Elections have consequences…
PIGL
cue concern trolls tsk tsking our lack of respectful sorrow at this untimely and tragic demise. We are better than that, they will say.
Screw that, I says. Ones betterness relative to ones enemies is proved by defeating them. Or at least, as in this case, by outlasting them.
Litlebritdifrnt
@rlrr:
Of course only the idiots think the birth certificate is a forgery, cause they want to believe it. Can’t have that “other” person in the WH. I just pointed it out because lots of people believe that line about “doesn’t matter where he was born” when technically that is not true.
Schlemizel
If only Dimbarts end was the end of the line. My guess is there will be two new assholes raise to replace him.
elmo
re: Breitbart. I have decided to believe that his untimely death is another data point, along with that meltdown he had at CPAC, in confirmation that there really was something seriously wrong with the man. Lack of blood flow to the brain can cause all kinds of unfortunate things, from erratic behavior to paranoid delusions. The poor man was just having a series of strokes in public, and couldn’t help what was happening to him.
Poor bastard.
4jkb4ia
@tomvox1:
I am refusing to read that first. I am going to read about Snowe first. I also see a “Tensions Could Push Gas Up to $5 A Gallon” story on the front page, and I am wondering what has happened to my newspaper. This is bald scary speculation unlike the journalistic stylings of Judy Miller.
The way Sargent had the Romney hour-before-he-was-for-it story, Romney is claiming to be talking about two different Rubio amendments at different times, because he was asked about “the Blunt-Rubio amendment which allows employers to ban providing female contraception” and Rubio has a contraception amendment also. And then this morning Romney claims that some state law is being talked about. This could almost be a wink and a nudge from the Romney campaign because his first what can be assumed to be gut-level answer was perfectly fine, and he wants you to believe that he’s not paying that much attention to this great test of loyalty to the wingnuts.
Breitbart dead! I never thought of him as anything but a loathsome fraud but this is horrible. And he is way too close to my age.
peach flavored shampoo
I can. A true, dedicated piece of shit asshole to the nth degree. Bet it’s hot where he is.
Yevgraf
@rlrr:
“Gore is the same as Bush.”
-Ralph Nader, 2000
4jkb4ia
I give up. Limbaugh knows exactly what to do to get attention and incredulous sputtering from average liberals like me. That’s half the point of his whole show.
Culture of Truth
Probably not in this case, because it was obvious in context that Limbaugh was not making a factual assertion but making using a metaphor to cast aspersion on her character.
Too bad about Breitbart, he did seem wound a little tight though.
Elizabelle
@elmo:
I’d like to see that suit, too.
Someone needs to bring Limbaugh and his radio stations to heel.
kdaug
@shortstop: Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
catclub
@elmo: “potential payday”
accent on potential, since he will have hordes of lawyers to beat hers into the ground.
Kinda like going into a publicity war with someone who buys ink by the rail-tanker load. Rotsa ruck.
Seebach
Glad he died before he could do any more damage. O’Keefe now.
Bobby Thomson
At this difficult time, my thoughts go out to the family and friends of Davy Jones.
Imagine being forever connected in death with an asshole who subsidizes defamation and attempted rape.
Neldob
The beginning of the end of the Republican party is rearing its ugly head out of the end of the Republican party. Or something like that. May he and the whole Republican party rest in peace.
Bobby Thomson
@PIGL:
Living
wellis the best revenge.Bubblegum Tate
@elmo:
You know what would be awesome? If she won, like, $10 million from Jabba the Rush, then donated it to Planned Parenthood.
Nemesis
Only 6 more months until the election.