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You are here: Home / Just Go Ahead and Tape “KICK ME” On Your Back

Just Go Ahead and Tape “KICK ME” On Your Back

by John Cole|  March 10, 20127:18 pm| 34 Comments

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You really can not exaggerate how silly the people at Politifact are…

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    March 10, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    Can we start calling them Politifiction?

  2. 2.

    gbear

    March 10, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    Politifart

  3. 3.

    lamh35

    March 10, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    Santorum, Gingrich ratchet up conservative rhetoric in the South

    Santorum also took on Gingrich obliquely, reminding the crowd that he and his own wife, Karen, have been married 21 years and home-schooled their seven children. On Friday, he was less subtle in drawing an implicit contrast with Gingrich’s history of marital infidelity, castigating him for sitting on a sofa next to Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) in a TV ad calling for steps to address climate change.

    “I didn’t sit on the couch with anybody,” Santorum said. “I would only sit on the couch with my wife. Period. No other women — particularly not Nancy Pelosi.”

  4. 4.

    JGabriel

    March 10, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    Politi-truthy:

    The shark attack figures include documented instances of sharks attacking human victims. The voter fraud cases indicate the number of cases deemed legally sufficient for an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

    Clearly this an unfair comparison. They held shark attacks to a higher standard than vote fraud. They should have compared allegations of shark attacks to allegations of voter fraud.

    I mean, if every GOP allegation of vote fraud counts, then so should every drunken fratboy who says, “Duuude, you won’t belieeeve it! I got attacked by a SHARK!”

    .

  5. 5.

    Narcissus

    March 10, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    Is “Sit on the Couch” code

  6. 6.

    lamh35

    March 10, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    So if it was a just world, then then would mean ix-nay on the vp-ay for Christie right?

    Gov. Chris Christie Calls Veteran An ‘Idiot’ In Shouting Match

  7. 7.

    khead

    March 10, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    I’m sitting on the couch right now.

    With my wife. And some cats.

    But not with Nancy Pelosi.

  8. 8.

    Yutsano

    March 10, 2012 at 7:38 pm

    I have a response for this.

  9. 9.

    Wag

    March 10, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    Guilty until proven innocent. It’s the GOP way

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 10, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    “I didn’t sit on the couch with anybody,” Santorum said. “I would only sit on the couch with my wife. Period. No other women — particularly not Nancy Pelosi.”

    Shorter Rih: I’d never sit on the couch with a filthy blood-traitor.

  11. 11.

    Comrade Mary

    March 10, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    The next cat I get will be called Nancy Pelosi and I shall sit with her any damn place I please.

  12. 12.

    Joseph Nobles

    March 10, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    Ah, Politroll. Fact-checking a Colbert joke means an almost guaranteed free mention on the Report. All page views is good page views.

  13. 13.

    Raven

    March 10, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    @lamh35: Not just any old vet, this dude was a SEAL.

  14. 14.

    Wag

    March 10, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    Can we have “sitting on the couch with Nancy Pelosi” as a new tag line?

    Or maybe “sitting on the couch with Rick Santorum”

  15. 15.

    ruemara

    March 10, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    OT: Just made my first ever bechamel sauce. It’s damned fine, since it is made with half & half, butter, garlic, sage and white cheddar. I must now revise my statement that McMegan is a terrible cook. She must be godawful in a manner that harkens to near apocalyptic, to need a $1500 machine to make what an inexperienced chef can read a basic on wikipedia on, and whip up less than 10 minutes later.

  16. 16.

    Comrade Mary

    March 10, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    @Yutsano: Dude, you’re a bronie?

  17. 17.

    Raven

    March 10, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    @Yutsano: Aren’t you sposed to be somewhere?

  18. 18.

    J. Michael Neal

    March 10, 2012 at 7:47 pm

    Minnesota 5, North Dakota 1 I was really nervous about this game all week (no, I don’t have enough to do), but when the Gophers came out of the tunnel like they were launched from a cannon I knew we were in pretty good shape. We got some help the the Whioux goalie, but Also controlled the game except for a three minute stretch at the start of the second.

    On to Duluth to play Cornell in the national semifinal. The Big Red played two very different hockey games today. They and BU each scored a touchdown in the first 60 minutes and then played 59:50 of shutout hockey before finally deciding that they’d had enough.

  19. 19.

    Naive and Sentimental

    March 10, 2012 at 7:51 pm

    I am quite happy for Politifact doing this because Colbert reacting to it on his show will make my day sometime next week.

  20. 20.

    Warren Terra

    March 10, 2012 at 7:54 pm

    @lamh35:

    “I didn’t sit on the couch with anybody,” Santorum said. “I would only sit on the couch with my wife. Period. No other women — particularly not Nancy Pelosi.”

    Unless “sit on the couch” is a well-known euphemism of which I’m unaware, this is really sick. I for one am perfectly capable of sitting on the couch with people in an entirely chaste manner. Rick not so much I guess.

  21. 21.

    Comrade Mary

    March 10, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    I think any man who chooses to sit on a couch with any woman should do so very, very carefully. Ouch.

  22. 22.

    Narcissus

    March 10, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    Oh yeah sit on that couch

    do it

    Plump those cushions

  23. 23.

    Jeffro

    March 10, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    Could Politifact please help me out here – where is this (comment seen on right-wing website comment thread…forgive me, I was bored) coming from:

    He (Obama) has been protected all of his life by powerful people. He was courted at some point by the Saudi’s, as the prince of Saudi Arabia paid for his Harvard Law School education.

    The Saudis covered the Harvard education, while the Iranians (or was it the Chinese) paid whomever forged the birth certificate? It all gets so confusing – HELP US POLITIFACT!

  24. 24.

    Viva BrisVegas

    March 10, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    Has Politifact been Komened? Has a super secret wingnut infiltration squad taken control?

    Where is James O’Keefe these days? More importantly, where is his pimp costume?

  25. 25.

    John M. Burt

    March 10, 2012 at 8:18 pm

    Politifuct?

  26. 26.

    gbear

    March 10, 2012 at 8:32 pm

    @Narcissus: Try the sofa…

  27. 27.

    Ben Cisco (mobile)

    March 10, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    By the FSM’s noodly appendages, that was Galaxy-class stupid.

  28. 28.

    Ben Cisco (mobile)

    March 10, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    By the FSM’s noodly appendages, that was Galaxy-class stupid.

  29. 29.

    Nellcote

    March 10, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    Clearly Politifact is for entertainment purposes only. Can’t ya take a joke?

  30. 30.

    Origuy

    March 10, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    @Jeffro: Is that the Saudi prince that owns a good chunk of Fox News or the one that GWB puckered up to? There are about 1000 of them, it’s hard to keep track.

  31. 31.

    RalfW

    March 10, 2012 at 10:44 pm

    What a useless bunch of wankers Politifact(sic) is turning out to be.

    I’m starting to see the light in the comment on today’s FactCheck(sic) thread: that these people have been bough off to say this shit so that everyone becomes so cynical about fact-checking that it’s thrown on the rubbish heap.

    Which would be a very unfortunate outcome. But we’re headed there. Fast.

  32. 32.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 11, 2012 at 12:52 am

    @Comrade Mary:
    My Little Pony has the most wonderful reaction images and video clips for any circumstance.

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    March 11, 2012 at 12:55 am

    @Comrade Mary: Yup. Outed myself awhile ago. For a series aimed at little girls, it’s surprisingly adult. But considering what the animator who developed it has done in the past, it’s not too shocking. Plus she insisted on total creative control. There’s even a wink and a nudge to Whovians in it.

    @Frankensteinbeck: This. Also. Too.

  34. 34.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 11, 2012 at 1:03 am

    @Yutsano:
    Faust is good, and Hasbro gave her huge freedom. Her head writer is the guy who did My Life As A Teenage Robot, and he is hysterical. Very sharp and silly sense of humor, and likes subtle edges and references. And the animation is fantastic. Computer animation (it’s animated in Flash with vectors) has finally allowed more detailed and complex animation to be done for the same effort and price – like I was told it would 30 years ago.

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