The latest from the shitshow fail parade that is the fact free fantasy known as “conservative media”:
The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child—still residing in utero—must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a White House tour, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Pregnant women are not required to count their fetuses as full human beings when registering for White House tours, contrary to some reports suggesting otherwise, the Secret Service said.
The Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday posted a copy of an email from White House Visitors Office director Ellie Schafer to a Capitol Hill staffer explaining the process for registering for a tour of the White House. The email indicates that pregnant women must include a baby in the count of guests if the child is expected to be born by the time of the tour, a line that some conservative news outlets say is akin to a pro-choice White House treating fetuses as people.
***This notation device “simply serves as a placeholder for the baby once it’s born,” Milien said. “All White House guests are required to provide information at the time of their request for the tour, including for children and infants, and those expected to be on the tour once born.”
Milien said the White House has thousands of visitors every day and that people sign up for tours months in advance, often canceling and rescheduling. By having a placeholder ready for a baby-to-be, it prevents delays when people might otherwise show up for the tour with a child not previously listed, he said.
“This policy was implemented so if you want to bring your children on a tour, we can account for them,” he said.
These really are the stupidest people on the planet. They aren’t counting fetuses, they are simply saying that you should register an extra name so when you show up for your White House tour nine months later +1, you can avoid some hassle.
These people are causing me physical pain.
gaz
Free Bacon is competing with Whirled Nut Daily for the title of dumbest site on the internet.
Baud
So the purpose of this piece is to try to convince pro-choice Democrats that Obama is a hypocrite?
BGinCHI
Any reports on whether you have to name and count your balls when you visit?
Cuz I’m gonna need time to work out that second name.
David
It’s not just that they’re stupid, it’s that they’re so relentless. Day in, day out, the stupidity just doesn’t stop. It’s exhausting.
David Koch
speaking of kooks, a Ron Paul supporter told me last week that bin Laden is still alive because there’s no death photo. And he was serious.
what is it about Paul that serves as a magnate for all the loons?
deep
http://www.tucksbrand.com
Works wonders for that kind of pain.
Maude
Yahoo News picked up the headline. It is becoming more vacuous every day.
This is breathtakingly stupid.
General Stuck
Yea, right, The Secret Service “says’/ Not so secret anymore and the service is Obama’s advance team field pimps, scouting for O’s international ho stable. Probly running blow for him too, only a matter of time till we get that news.
BGinCHI
@David Koch: Ask him if he’s seen a photo of Ron Paul’s brain.
Spaghetti Lee
I’m not even sure what point they’re trying to make (and I hate when that happens-makes me think I’ve been outsmarted). If the WH “counted fetuses as people” or whatever, wouldn’t that show that he pays the holy fetus due respect as the Christaliban demands? Shouldn’t they lie and say he doesn’t to get the anti-abortion nuts riled up? It’s not like they have any problem lying, after all.
aimai
@David Koch:
Takes a Magnate to know one, I guess, but its usually written as “a magnet. “
liberal
Huh. So around where I live (suburban MD, north of DC), if a couple registers with a daycare before the baby is conceived…its evidence for the, uh, PRE-UNBORN position?!
(Yeah, daycare around here is kinda competitive…)
Emdee
@gaz: Washington Free Bacon
I’d like to propose calling it the “Washington Fear Bacon.” Fear is like bacon to these people: they know too much of it is bad, but they can’t resist piling it on.
(Most Americans agree on the bacon part, but not the fear.)
I dunno, maybe it’s not a good plan. I just like names like “Breitbrats” to catch on so we all know instantly what we mean. I like bacon, too. And I’m a person, and will be in 9 months, I hope.
Chris
@David:
This.
Why must we I be surrounded by frickin idiots?
(Not y’all, not y’all…)
aimai
@Spaghetti Lee:
Hey spaghetti Lee, fancy meeting you here. I think it does make sense to wingnuts–its like the way they are constantly finding signs that Jews really do know that Jesus is Lord, but are just denying it for their own nefarious purposes. The reasoning is that since fetuses are obviously people pro-choice people must be lying about not considering them equivalent to full born humans. So we probably hold little “birthdays” for them as soon as we pee on a stick and we deduct them from our taxes after the first missed period and we know as well as any little forced birther that they begin as a perfectly formed homunculus holding a tiny sign, the size of a dot, saying “I’m not pro-choice.” But we prefer to pretend we don’t know all that stuff. Occasionally, however, we slip up–like Obama’s grandmother announcing he was born in Kenya. Because the truth will out!
aimai
The Dangerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqnoULgD30
lamh35
OT, but hey Cole, can you please explain this to me, since you know so much about WV poltics.
I West Virginia, Keith Judd (currently in fed prison) was winning 34 percent of the Democratic primary vote against Obama.
BruceFromOhio
These people are causing me physical pain.
That’s the Total Objective.
If you can’t twist it to suit your own uses, break it so no one else can use it. Rovian politics applied at the granular level dictates that anything and everything must be distilled through the political filter, and if it (whatever “it” happens to be) cannot be twisted into a shape that fulfills your purpose, it must be trashed so thoroughly that it is unusable for *any* purpose. What 8 years of Drunken Frat Boy couldn’t deliver must now be trashed like a kegger at a frat house.
liberal
@David Koch:
I heard a Paul-ist going on on a radio interview about what constituted a good presidential candidate. At one point he threw in a “should have served in the military, since he’s going to command the military” line. It took me a few milliseconds to realize he threw that random bit in because Paul must have served in the military. It didn’t make any sense so far as Paul’s own political philosophy, as far as I knew.
cathyx
But what if you have twins and don’t know it yet?
Bruce S
More socialist tyranny if you ask me. This White House edict is a violation of the woman’s constitutional right to privacy as established under Roe v. Wade, which means that the woman at the Romney rally was right. Obama has no respect for the constitution and should be impeached, if not tried for treason. Not to mention that the world is about to end. Not because of the prophecies of Revelations, but slow death by climate change. The insanely paranoid wingnuts are pretty much right about everything. They just don’t understand why.
Bruce S
King Solomon decides which one gets to take the tour. Or maybe that Nazi in Sophie’s Choice…
Baud
@cathyx:
OBAMA FORCES WOMEN TO HAVE ABORTIONS TO VISIT WHITE HOUSE
Martin
Amendment 1 will pass. AP.
Bill T.
Embrace the stupidity, John. These people are the reason Bic puts instructions on their cigarette lighters.
greylocks
Have a beer, John.
Bruce S
Kidding aside, we’re faced with the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet under the guise of “contemporary conservatism.”
Odie Hugh Manatee
Speaking of “their own reality”, I decided to tune into Faux to see what crazy was up to and heard BillOw stating that the reason Obama is being silent on gay marriage is because he doesn’t want to alienate black voters.
Yes, once again it’s all the fault of people who aren’t white.
Mark S.
@David Koch:
Clime Acts is a Ron Paul supporter? I thought he was a holier-than-thou firebagger.
Soonergrunt
Not worth a front page post on its own:
The teabagger Rick Berg, who didn’t know what the minimum wage is in North Dakota has won his primary, and Dick Lugar, a moderate (in as much as Republicans could be moderate in the last 10 years) has been defeated in his primary by teabagger Richard Mourdock.
It looks like we might, with any luck, have another batch of Christine O’Donnells and Sharron Angles to kick around this year. Even if they win, they’ll have to fight harder for it, and takes money away from other races where it might finance some mischief.
Soonergrunt
@Mark S.: The two groups are NOT mutually exclusive. I read firedoglake every now and then (it makes me feel better about myself in that “at least I’m not fucked in the head like these people” kind of way) and there’s probably not a week that goes by that somebody over there isn’t pimping Ron Paul in the same way that idiot Glenn Greenwald was doing a while back.
Snail Darter
Sometimes a small fish makes a big splash, sometimes not so much.
Comrade Jake
It’s almost like these people take pride in being ignorant.
General Stuck
@Soonergrunt:
Don’t think it matters in Indiana, this go around. They seem to have rallied around their long history of confederate sympathy.
The Republic of Stupidity
Ummmmm… yes, to that…
In my case, it’s typically a sharp stabbing sensation right through the temples…
Not unlike the nastiest ice cream headache you could imagine…
And the pain just gets worse when I realize that these are are sort of dumb ph*cks that desperately, feverishly believe they deserve more and more say in how the rest of us live our lives…
David Koch
Soonergrunt:
you mean the rank and file or the administrators?
General Stuck
Mercy, you trying to start a downpour of fish?
Steve
They honestly don’t get that pro-choice people understand a fetus does, in fact, become a baby after nine months. They think it is some huge gotcha.
David Koch
hate to say “both sides”, but the geniuses at GOS have not one, but now two diaries on today’s vaunted recommend list saying the latest underwear bombing plot was fabricated by the government to create a pretext to bomb yemen.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve: Not if we get our way and abort the little fucker. Bwahahahahaha!
Omnes Omnibus
OT: WI Gov. recall will be a rematch of Barrett vs Walker.
Roger Moore
@liberal:
Yes, he was a flight surgeon, which obviously makes him much more fit to serve as Commander in Chief than any other candidate. And coming from a state with an international border makes him an expert in foreign affairs.
Roger Moore
@Steve:
Known in Conservative circles as the point at which the government ceases to have any interest in their welfare.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: How do these idiots reconcile their views of Carter (Naval Academy grad and nuclear Navy pioneer) and McGovern (Decorated WWII bomber pilot) with this shit? Don’t even get me started on what they did to Kerry…. Fucking asshole idiots.
Roger Moore
@Omnes Omnibus:
Being a Defeatocrat automatically makes you unfit to be CinC. SATSQ.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: Like I said.
Fucking asshole idiots.
Soonergrunt
@General Stuck: He pimped Ron Paul. That’s idiotic. Only slightly less idiotic was his “I’m not endorsing this guy, but look at all the things he says that I agree with” shtick.
@David Koch: Not remotely surprising. That level of stupidity is one reason I don’t post there anymore.
Steve
@Omnes Omnibus: In law school, Professor Catharine MacKinnon explained it to us like this: “Of course it’s a life. That’s why it’s got to be stopped!” I doubt I will ever forget that formulation.
gaz
@Emdee: I’m with TBOGG on this one and the reason is simple:
A strong implication that offering “Free Bacon” is the only way they can garner interest for this bird cage liner.
Also seriously, is there any other way to motivate wingnuts to read something longer than a bumper sticker?
LosGatosCA
So this is what the Roman Coliseum looked like just as the Dark Ages began.
The epidemic of stupidity in this world shows no signs of abatement.
LosGatosCA
So this is what the Roman Coliseum looked like just as the Dark Ages began. The epidemic of stupidity in this world shows no signs of abatement.
Jado
WINNING!!
This is their mission. They have no ideology anymore, they have no political goals, they have no function left other than TO CAUSE DISCOMFORT TO THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH THEM.
You say this is stupid (which it is), but the simple fact is that it doesn’t have to be smart, or true, or even metaphorical.
It only has to annoy LIEBRULS.
Mission accomplished.
jp7505a
(sigh) gET USED TO IT FOLKS. Come 2013 and a Republican Senate and NOTHING will get done in Washington, as opposed to the virtually next to nothing of 2012. If Mittens also wins then we will head back only to the 1890’s, if we are lucky.
PWL
What did you expect from people who thought fluoridated water was a Communist plot, and that the stickers on the back of road signs are secret instructions for an invading army?
Haydnseek
@Comrade Jake: They do take pride in being ignorant. None of this pointy-headed intellectual stuff for them! We are all ignorant on a wide array of subjects, but it takes a real wingnut to use it as a point of pride.
Haydnseek
@Roger Moore: He is also a physician, which makes it even more infuriating when he states that “family, churches and charities” are sufficient to cover the medical expenses of tens of thousands of medicare and medicaid patients per year, because these programs are pure socialism. This kind of willful ignorance is incredibly horrific, as he knows what medical costs really are. This is why libertarian ideas are absent from any civilized form of governance. These ideas can’t survive contact with reality for more than about forty-five seconds.