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I try not to nutpick too much, but this (via Gex) is just too fucking funny:

The game is to see how many comments in a foxnews.com article that has nothing to do with President Obama do you need to read before somebody says something bad about President Obama. I call it “how many comments in a foxnews.com article that has nothing to do with President Obama do you need to read before somebody says something bad about President Obama”.

Not one article goes past 22 comments before they start bashing Obama. The best part is the names they make for Obama, such as “Oinkbama”.

This, from WND via reader C is pretty awesome too:

After Hawaii, Obama spent 13 not-so-swinging single years on the mainland before he married Michelle in 1992. In “Dreams,” Obama mentions only one girlfriend from that period, a woman who looks and lived suspiciously like Bill Ayers’ old flame, Diana Oughton.

Obama biographer Christopher Andersen tried to confirm this woman’s identity but made little headway. “No one,” he writes, “including his roommate and closest friend at the time, Siddiqi, knew of this mysterious lover’s existence.”

Word to the AP: If you want to write a story about a sexually confused individual, you don’t have to go to Indonesia to find one.

The hatred the 27 percenters have for Obama is unreal. But, hey, onetime an anonymous commenter at Daily Kos compared Bush to Hitler, so it’s all the same.

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  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    a woman who looks and lived suspiciously like Bill Ayers’ old flame, Diana Oughton

    I heard Diana Oughton is the illegitimate daughter of Saul Alinsky and Emma Goldman.

    (I played this game last week at a certain liberal blog. It was a state issue, I forget the state and issue, but it was Obama’s fault. Took about twenty comments).

  9. 9.

    Hunter Gathers

    You think it’s bad now? Wait a while. August is going to be fucking hilarious. The convention will be a hoot as well. This shit is just getting warmed up.

  12. 12.

    David Koch

    But, hey, onetime an anonymous commenter at Daily Kos compared Bush Obama to Hitler, so it’s all the same.

    /fixed

  15. 15.

    CT Voter

    All-consuming energizing hate. I didn’t ever think I’d see a black person elected President. Now that I have? I couldn’t ever have anticipated or thought about the level of hate hurled at this President. Or that an entire cable channel would be devoted to encouraging the hate. Win some, lose some.

  17. 17.

    kdaug

    “No one,” he writes, “including his roommate and closest friend at the time, Siddiqi, knew of this mysterious lover’s existence.”

    No one knew of my mysterious lover, either. I’d have been shot.

    But Siddiqi, you’re off the hook.

  18. 18.

    Hill Dweller

    In other news, the Romney campaign said Obama should release all documents relating to his meetings with world leaders. Are they even trying at this point?

    As an aside, it was the Obama campaign asking Willard to release his taxes going back to the 80’s that set Rombot’s campaign off. I’d bet the farm the Obama campaign has some dirt on Willard’s taxes. They don’t make such a specific question without knowing the answer.

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    handy

    I call it “how many comments in a foxnews.com article that has nothing to do with President Obama do you need to read before somebody says something bad about President Obama”.

    Heh. Pretty funny. Although going by my own memory of the Naughties-era blogistan, it didn’t take much encouragement for lefties to start ranting on GWB. Yeah, I know, “Both sides do it,” and the passage cited above about Obama’s trists wingnuts obviously take the derangement another level. But there’s a lot of tribal thinking in politics so this kind of phenomenon doesn’t surprise me.

  21. 21.

    Stella Barbone

    Diana Oughton came from the same small town my mom is from. She blew herself to smithereens when Barack was an 8 year old living in Indonesia. For obvious reasons (we knew some of her relatives), my sister and I followed the case with morbid curiosity. I’m 2 years older than the president. I really wish the Bill Ayers thing would go away. It’s just plain stupid. There is no way a young politician would have known Ayers’ past from 20 years earlier.

  22. 22.

    Warren Terra

    This, from WND via reader C is pretty awesome too:

    After Hawaii, Obama spent 13 not-so-swinging single years on the mainland before he married Michelle in 1992. In “Dreams,” Obama mentions only one girlfriend from that period, a woman who looks and lived suspiciously like Bill Ayers’ old flame, Diana Oughton.

    Until I Googled this, I had no idea just how special this was. I was going to point out that Ayres is 16 years older than Obama and has been with his current partner since at least when Obama was 11 years old, so the idea that he hooked Obama up with his former flame when Obama was in his 20s and a bit over half her age would seem unlikely.
    __
    But then I discovered something else that happened before Obama turned ten: Diana Oughton died. In fact, she died in a failed Weatherman bomb plot. Given that Oughton had been dead for a decade by the time under discussion, I shudder to think what about the description of Obama’s girlfriend caused the winger to think she “looks and lived suspiciously like .. Diana Oughton”?

  23. 23.

    Anya

    Let me just be the first to note that this hatred has nothing to do with racism. It’s because of other stuff he’s done. Ya know what I mean….

  26. 26.

    Anya

    @Hill Dweller: In other news, the Romney campaign said Obama should release all documents relating to his meetings with world leaders. Are they even trying at this point?

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Hill Dweller: They’re not very agile, are they? They think they’re going to get miles out of that Medvedev moment. They might have if Willard didn’t think Breznev was still running the USSR. I admit I stay in a bit of a bubble, so I have no idea if this is getting some traction, or if it goes in the right-bubble with teleprompter jokes and Ayers and ALinsky

    I’m glad to see Romney’s cluelessness on foreign policy (because IMHO he fundamentally doesn’t care about it) is getting some play. I hope it ripples out beyond MSNBC.

  28. 28.

    porter

    yawn…and water is wet. So what else is new.

    I’ve been spending a wee bit of time over at brietbart.com tweaking the neanderthals but it’s not much fun. Just too easy. All I gotta do is mention that I love the black panthers, acorn, socialism and how I can’t wait for Obama to come and take away their guns and the death threats from the annonymous internet hit men tough guys start coming.

    At least here I sort of agree with stuff even if I think Cole is a fucking moron.

  29. 29.

    Joseph Nobles

    My goodness. When a young black man is not all “Where da white women at?”, he must be sexually confused in WND land. I mean, I’m barely exaggerating what the WND writer actually said.

    If anyone is following my exploits with my nutty Alabama relative, I’ve now offered to buy her Fareed Zakaria’s “The Post-American World” so she can see that Barack Obama reading it isn’t the Constitution-hanging-by-a-thread event she seems to think it is. I know, I know, I’m taking a chance.

  30. 30.

    Stella Barbone

    @CT Voter: I seem to remember a similar level of bile being hurled at another president. He was accused of murder, drug running, and collusion with the Chinese and mysterious forays into Soviet Russia. Although he wasn’t black he shared something else with President O — it started with a “D”. No Fox “News” in those days, but Jerry Falwell would send you a VHS tape “proving” the allegations in exchange for a “donation”.

  31. 31.

    SW

    Look, suck it up. You are known by your enemies. I hated Bush and Cheney. I didn’t just dislike them. I hated their fucking guts for what they did to this country. If these motherfuckers didn’t hate Obama he wouldn’t be doing his job. The biggest mistakes he made were trying to suck up to these ass-wipes. Screw them. Just like in 1865 the only way to deal with them is to torch them, beat them so bad that it will take them generations to recover. And then when they start to raise their stinking bigoted heads up and start to think it might be safe to come out again you have to be prepared to beat their asses all over.

  32. 32.

    Anya

    @Stella Barbone: @Warren Terra: These people have sick fantasies. What’s the significant of this and why do they go to such a length to establish an outlandish link? Are they trying to mask their racism with these crazy conspiracies?

  33. 33.

    handy

    @SW:

    Imma go ahead and re-post this part if you don’t mind:

    The biggest mistakes he made were trying to suck up to these ass-wipes. Screw them.

  36. 36.

    Hill Dweller

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Romney, Rove and the MSM are desperately trying to make it an issue, and Jon Stewart did a bit that fell flat, but it hasn’t really resonated. Regardless, Obama didn’t say anything that a person with an ounce of common sense didn’t already now.

    I also think the Obama camp want to have a foreign policy debate with Willard.

    As for requesting Romney’s taxes, they are implying Willard and his Bain buddies evaded taxes. It is a very specific charge that I don’t think the campaign makes without having the goods.

  37. 37.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @Shari:

    Fucking ridiculous. Even the most loony non-Anarchist libertarians I know think that you can’t fuck with the ability of the government to enforce the law, because it just leads to chaos. And this from Social Moderate Economic Wonk Mitch Daniels no less! Wonder how all those old cops who vote Republican because Hippies will feel about their GOP governor giving any lunatic a right to gun them down if he feels ‘threatened.’

    GOP 2012: Mad Max isn’t a movie, it’s a policy handbook!

  38. 38.

    Clime Acts

    Why do you people, whom I trust regard Foxnews.com commenters as cretins, spend your time there among the slime?

    Seriously, what do you learn that you don’t already know?

  39. 39.

    Anya

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Rove is out with an ad, basically accusing the President of being a traitor who conspires with foreign leaders to harm America. These people are despicable and willard is a craven empty vessel. I think we’re going to have the ugliest election in America’s history.

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    So the “family values” crowd disses Obama because he wasn’t a “swinger?”

    The mind boggles.

  41. 41.

    The Dangerman

    @Stella Barbone:

    He was accused of murder, drug running, and collusion with the Chinese…

    The last one is my personal favorite; there WAS some technology shared with China and their Long March (it’s the name of a rocket) program…

    …which was authorized by the first President Bush. There was a LOT of money on the line (I was working for one of the Prime Contractor’s involved) regarding that technology transfer and Bush signed off on it.

    Then Clinton got the blame. Unreal.

  42. 42.

    kdaug

    Necrobamaphilia?

    See? I suspected zombieism from the beginning! Just knew it! President of the Undead States of America!

    kdaug +4, good buddy, 10-4

  43. 43.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @NotMax:

    Either that, or they think having one girlfriend before marriage is ‘swinging’. Themselves all being exceptions, of course.

  44. 44.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Clime Acts: do the words “game” and “funny” tip you off? DougJ finds this amusing, just like you, from what I can see, find it amusing to play the sanctimonious condescending troll. A chacun son goo, as they say in Lubbock.

    You used to post under the name of the lawyer from Arrested Development, no?

  45. 45.

    handy

    @Clime Acts:

    This is just another drive-by “Look at those mean/dumb/scary Republicans” troll post by our esteemed DougJ. Nothing to see here, move along.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    Idle musing:

    If Barack H. Obama legally changed his name to Ronald W. Reagan, the sounds of heads exploding across the land would deafen the rest of the population.

  47. 47.

    J.W. Hamner

    Say it ain’t so! Please tell me they haven’t abandoned “Obambi”… I shall miss it and the self congratulation for cleverness(High Five!!) that went along with it. “Oinkbama” just really doesn’t do it for me.

  51. 51.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @J.W. Hamner:

    Wingnut code-culture bores me, mostly, but I do have a sneaky admiration for insults that don’t even rise to the level of good puns. Like ‘Odumdum’ for instance. How do you settle on that as your cutting insult of choice? The political zinger has a long and noble history, and I’m almost sad to see these schoolyard philistines degrade it so.

    I also am somewhat amused by the ‘Barry Soetero’ stuff. “I know his real name! I know his real name! Wait, what, you mean this isn’t Wizard of Earthsea and you can’t defeat things just by calling them by their ‘secret’ name? Well, shit.

  54. 54.

    Ron

    @Hill Dweller: It may have “set it off” but it doesn’t make it any less ridiculous. I’m sure world leaders would be just THRILLED to have records of conversations with them released to the public.

  55. 55.

    J.W. Hamner

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    Seeing the, uhm, efforts(?) Of right wing trolls these last few years has made me really self conscious of using “clever” nicknames or random capitalization in anything I write. It actually makes me feel a bit embarrassed when I see a fellow left-wing partisan do it… not because I believe in some standard of conduct… but because it’s so unfunny it physically hurts.

  57. 57.

    Warren Terra

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    I also am somewhat amused by the ‘Barry Soetero’ stuff. “I know his real name! I know his real name! Wait, what, you mean this isn’t Wizard of Earthsea and you can’t defeat things just by calling them by their ‘secret’ name? Well, shit.

    And imagine how their heads would ‘splode if they ever realized that the good characters in A Wizard Of Earthsea are all explicitly nonwhite – a deliberate choice by LeGuin that was ignored in the recent television adaptation, to her great irritation.

  58. 58.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @J.W. Hamner:

    I’ll admit to finding random capitalization funny and using it on occasion. One thing that does kind of make me wince is the insistent need to call Mitt Romney ‘Willard’. So the guy’s got a funny, kinda effeminate sounding name that he doesn’t like using, um…So? Is this kindergarten here? And there’s a lot of juvenile stuff that I do find funny, damn the implications, but that one’s always just bugged me for some reason.

  59. 59.

    MobiusKlein

    It’s chum thrown in the waters to make the sharks come.

    A story not getting enough traffic, pump up the odumbi factor, get the blood flowing.

    $

  60. 60.

    Anne Laurie

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    One thing that does kind of make me wince is the insistent need to call Mitt Romney ‘Willard’. So the guy’s got a funny, kinda effeminate sounding name that he doesn’t like using, um…So? Is this kindergarten here? And there’s a lot of juvenile stuff that I do find funny, damn the implications, but that one’s always just bugged me for some reason.

    When Romney was failing to govern the Commonwealth, his minions let it be known that he did not care to have That Name bandied about. Since many of us Massholes did not care for the guy, at a deeply personal level, we are never going to stop calling him “Willard”… unless Eric Fehrnstrom opens his yap again &lets something even more personally irksome loose.

  61. 61.

    FlipYrWhig

    Is Obama’s mystery squeeze who looks like the dead Weatherman supposed to summon up like a Vertigo kind of thing, where he tries to make the new woman into the former one?

  62. 62.

    Joey Maloney

    I like “Willard” not because it’s effeminate, but because Romney reminds me of this Willard – an awkward social misfit who becomes the leader of a pack of wild rats until they turn on him and tear him to pieces.

    It’s a parable for our times.

  63. 63.

    InsaneCaliCat

    Hey SW and handy, the president didn’t “suck up” to Republicans you mindless fucking twits. Attempting to work with people is not sucking up to them. But then again, I bet you mindless twits think if the president had just pounded his fists on every available podium we’d have the public option right now.

  64. 64.

    Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937

    I never understood the Bush=Hitler comparison. Cheney=Hitler I get, but I’m not knowledgeable enough about the Nazi leadership to know which dull,spoiled, drunk, frat boy to compare Bush to.

  67. 67.

    replicnt6

    @Stella Barbone:

    She blew herself to smithereens when Barack was an 8 year old living in Indonesia.

    To understand this, you have to understand that they think that Bill Ayers wrote “Dreams of My Father”. So, given that Obama is clearly gay or something, Ayers had to paste in his own girlfriend where the story needed a girlfriend for Obama.

    Makes perfect sense. If you live in a paranoid fantasy-world.

  68. 68.

    g

    @Warren Terra: Yes, that there is some finely constructed wingnuttery. All one has to do is conjure up a name that few will bother to look up, craft the sentence just so, and let your darling little fake scandal toddle off into the world.

    Five years from now, it’ll be coming back to you in email from your Uncle Chauncey.

  69. 69.

    Julia Grey

    Are they trying to mask their racism with these crazy conspiracies?

    “Mask”? How about demonstrate?

  70. 70.

    Julia Grey

    Are they trying to mask their racism with these crazy conspiracies?

    “Mask”? How about demonstrate?

  71. 71.

    Julia Grey

    Are they trying to mask their racism with these crazy conspiracies?

    “Mask”? How about demonstrate?

  72. 72.

    Julia Grey

    Are they trying to mask their racism with these crazy conspiracies?

    “Mask”? How about demonstrate?

  73. 73.

    Julia Grey

    Are they trying to mask their racism with these crazy conspiracies?

    “Mask”? How about demonstrate?

  74. 74.

    Julia Grey

    Are they trying to mask their racism with these crazy conspiracies?

    “Mask”? How about demonstrate?

  75. 75.

    Gex

    Wait a minnit. I’ve been told by my white male conservative overlords that no sex till marriage is demanded. Now they call it sexual confusion. At least they are moving in the right direction?

  76. 76.

    Gex

    @Shari: The NRA and police groups have been at odds over gun laws for some time now. I think the NRA wants to send a warning shot.

  77. 77.

    john f

    @The Dangerman: IIRC Don Rumsfeld sat on the Board of Directors of LORAL Corporation during this whole period also.LORAL was one of the major contractors involved.

  78. 78.

    Patricia Kayden

    Read Little Green Footballs for all the racist ugly comments made against Blacks in general on rightwing blogs, such as Fox Nation and Breitbart.com. What’s shocking is that there appears to be no censoring of explicitly racist comments by rightwing bloggers. I guess that’s their base.

  79. 79.

    Another Halocene Human

    @prufrock: Nah, Doktor Ley, the lush of the Danish doggerel.

    I’ve always thought Ashcroft was infinity plus one more Hitler-like than Bush. He really gave term 1 that fascist feel.

    Cheney was a Himmler (just a family man!), Rove the Julius Streicher, Ailes the Goebbels, and I don’t know who Rummy would be but I’m sure there are plenty of Prussian candidates. As for Goering, you’re looking for fat, self-satisfied hangers-on… maybe Jonah Goldberg would qualify, although he, technically, didn’t get anywhere close to anything.

    I don’t see Bush as a Nazi. Just his benighted self.

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