More of this, wingers. Here’s some crazy motherfucker from around the way, a Daily Caller “reporter”, getting all “you lie” on Obama.
Fucking TPM shit won’t embed anymore so here.
The economy sucks and we’ll get outspent by the Galtians. We need to make as much winger freakoutaid between now and November as we can.
handsmile
Just how long until one of them throws a shoe? The desperation of these bastards is just staggering.
And cue the Village media to defend their brave colleague.
Southern Beale
So let’s see, the Romney bus heckled Obama supporters in Cleveland yesterday and the Romney-supporting Neil Munro heckled Obama in the Rose Garden today. But we’re supposed to be civil and respectful to these assholes because why exactly?
Maude
The heckle is all over the internets.
Wow, that guy made a boo boo. The support is for the prez.
TPM is officious now.
curiousleo
@handsmile: Are they really defending him for this crap?
shortstop
The level of disrespect is absolutely staggering. And the Daily Caller congratulates Munro on Twitter…with a comma splice to boot.
ETA: Without having read any other winger discussion of this event, I know damned well they’re going to conflate “challenging the president/asking the president questions” with “interrupting the president several times in the middle of his statement.” Because, you know, there’s no difference between the two.
Culture of Truth
Both sides do it.
Valdivia
I really cannot understand how these people think this is ok? From the Romney honkies to this Daily Caller heckler, WTF?
Also too. Are they going to blame Obama as they always do? He drives them crazy so it’s his fault? Like the NYT Edit. this am who actually calls out Mitt Romney on it but blames Obama for not making the media call Romney a liar? I mean, isn’t that their job? Obama has to make them do that too?
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
I don’t get the aggression.
Aren’t they (from their point of view, anyway), winning?
bemused
Munro will probably get a sweet raise and multiple job offers.
Anyone reporting what exactly this ass was yelling?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Consider the source: He works for Tucker Carlson, a professional over-grown spoiled brat who has been fired by every cable network in existence. The mystery is why any of them ever hired him
curiousleo
Is there a pool for the day they call Obama a n—– on tape? Because we’re getting closer and Mr. Google Problem’s nclang doesn’t count for winning the pool ;)
Hill Dweller
The twitter machine tells me CNN brought on Joe Arpaio to discuss Obama’s announcement…
Can you imagine the shit storm if Dems had done to Bush what wingnuts have been doing since Obama took office?
I’m really starting to despise the press in this county. If they had an ounce of courage and/or integrity, the republican party would have been publicly humiliated long ago.
Culture of Truth
“Obama Yells at Immigrant: Film at 11”
Maude
@Valdivia:
Maybe they left their pacifiers at home.
Infantile and it need to made unacceptable.
Southern Beale
@handsmile:
Not even a Villager. Chris Hayes:
Just kill me now.
Mark S.
@handsmile:
Sister networks represent!
4tehlulz
If this keeps up, this is going to end very, very badly.
arguingwithsignposts
I can’t get the video to play at all.
Trentrunner
Munro said that “foreign workers” would take American jobs under this policy shift.
Keep erupting, wingnuts.
Culture of Truth
Yet again Obama has failed to unify the country.
Trentrunner
@Southern Beale: I think you’re missing Hayes’ sarcasm.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Hill Dweller:
and those imbeciles a) think they’re the guardians of journalistic integrity and b) really can’t understand why their ratings are in the toilet
Eric k
Souther Beale,
I think your missing the sarcasm in Hayes comment.
Culture of Truth
you read that as Hayes defending Munro?
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
@Southern Beale:
I…think your sarcasm meter went and busted on that tweet.
BGinCHI
The summer officially starts today. This is how they are going to play it.
Can’t wait to see how the media enable the GOP out of fear and laziness.
Valdivia
@Maude:
It’s what they are but how is it supposed to be strength to act like a child. If they are winning they sure don’t act like it.
Valdivia
@4tehlulz:
please don’t even mention it.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Southern Beale:
I think that was snark on Chris’s part.
ETA – see everyone else beat me to it.
arguingwithsignposts
OK, got it in another browser.
Man, how I wish Obama had said something like:
Trentrunner
Both Joe Wilson and Neil Munro really really love the interrupting cow knock-knock joke.
Todd
Sadly, nobody in a position of authority took a baseball bat to the Blogger’s head, which proves that Obama isn’t running a tyrrany.
I gotta say, I’d pay money to watch a wingnut receive a deserved beat down.
Bruce S
Tucker Carlson is a rancid little shit – Brietbart Lite!
The rightwing media isn’t a news operation, it’s a hard-right activist propaganda machine that’s targeting the President. The notion that these wackos have the audacity to bitch about Obama having done community organizing under the broad umbrella of “Saul Alinsky”, while adopting for themselves – with benefit of press credentials in this case – disruption and strident advocacy is beyond irony or idiocy. Tucker and his crew are cretins. And whiners who can’t stand being called out for what they are when they play the part of hecklers during a Presidential speech.
I hate these people. And I hate that these miserable little dipshits occupy enough of my brain to even engender my hatred.
biff diggerence
I’d settle for Tucker Carlson in traction.
Amir Khalid
Reposted from earlier thread:
I wouldn’t worry about Obama, and I doubt any commenter here would either. But as a former journalist, I feel very strongly about this: heckling a speech, disrupting an event you’re supposed to be covering, should be a firing offense for a reporter. Then again, given that it was the Daily Caller he works for, I doubt anything like that is going to happen.
I am amazed that anyone on the right thinks these juvenile stunts are winning anyone over to their side.
quannlace
Well seeing as Romney is doing all he can to avoid reporters and improptu questions, we may never know.
Cris (without an H)
What exactly did this guy shout? I listened, once, to the TPM video but couldn’t really make it out.
Bruce S
@Southern Beale:
I’m sure someone else has pointed this out. But that was sarcasm.
TG Chicago
OT: Here’s a shocker. Sullivan is being stupid:
Okay, so Sullivan thinks Obama should have done something different in order to have the opportunity to call the GOP phonies. Fair enough. But wait! What’s Sully’s very next sentence?
Uhh, no. Obama didn’t embrace the BS plan because he wanted to actually get something done in private. What Sullivan wanted was to put politics above policy (Call them phony! Be brutal!), but yet he still wants to claim it’s Obama that played politics.
Would ol’ Sully’s preferred line of action have resulted in any different policy results? Of course not. He doesn’t even pretend it would have.
What a maroon.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cris (without an H): “Why are you giving jobs to foreigners instead of Americans?” and something about being a “cold war groom”, I think.
JenJen
As I mentioned in the other thread, I suppose any minute now we can expect a flurry of tweets from Jake Tapper defending the Daily Caller as a legitimate news organization.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Wait a minute… what the hell is a “cold war groom”?
Brachiator
Local talk show radio host Bill Carroll (KFI) is making a big deal over the reporter who tried to interrupt the speech with “what are you going to do about the foreigners who are taking jobs from American workers?”
Carroll also said that the US military should not allow illegal immigrant children to join. To hell with defending the country.
Carroll, by the was was born in Scotland and raised in Canada. He used to be the host on various Canadian media stations. I suppose, but don’t know for sure, whether he is an American citizen. But even though he has been here for a few years, he doesn’t have much knowledge of California or national politics, aside from a generic conservative rant.
Joseph Nobles
Munro claims he just mistimed the ending of Obama’s speech. Twice. Loudly. And Tucker says Sam Donaldson heckled Reagan so karma.
Maude
@Valdivia:
I don’t understand it except it gets them attention.
karen
@bemused:
The Daily Caller already said they’re “proud” of the reporter.
rlrr
@Joseph Nobles:
And Tucker says Sam Donaldson heckled Reagan so karma.
Asking difficult questions is not the same thing as heckling…
TooManyJens
@Amir Khalid:
I don’t think the right’s tried seriously to win anyone over in a long time. To win someone over, you have to treat them with some kind of respect — enough to at least listen to their concerns and convince them that your policies are the best ones to address those concerns.
The right doesn’t have any respect for anyone who isn’t in their narrow class of Real Americans. They see the rest of us as traitors and disease. No, all they have is firing up the base (who love this sort of shit), and suppressing the votes of the enemy.
Wendy
@Hill Dweller: Sadly, I thought this was a joke. Sigh.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@Trentrunner:
Agreed, I read that as sarcasm.
Cris (without an H)
Nah. I’d just like to see a crowd point at his penis and laugh.
bemused
The Romney campaign must think heckling and honking is great for exciting the bully loving base, the 27 percent crazy. I notice Romney makes no attempt to tamp that down, at least publicly. People like Munro are beefing up their rightwing resumes. My thought is how low can they go before it turns off many of those not the hard core 27 percent of Republicans or is there anything so embarrassing or shameful Republicans can do that would be unacceptable?
Southern Beale
Aaaand the liberal media jumps in, full appeasement mode. Of course.
Cris (without an H)
Okay, what Michigan legislator changed the spam filter to trip me into moderation for referring to male genitalia?
Mike Lamb
@Southern Beale: 6 people point out that Hayes was being sarcastic, and you double down by linking to your blog about it?
bemused
@karen:
That is entirely unsurprising..
Trinity
@Southern Beale: Um…I’m pretty sure that is sarcasm.
japa21
As I review this incident, which though disgraceful, I hardly find shocking in today’s climate, I am reminded of a Bush presser. Some reporter, not one of the mainUS media, started asking a question of Bush by sayin g”Sir”. Bush immediately stopped him and said “Do you know who I am?” The reporter, properly chastened, restarted his question with “Mr. President.” When someone on some blog questioned that episode as Bush being arrogant, the RW talked all about how using the word “sir” was being disrespectful.
Yet those same RW folks are probably currently applauding this jerk.
Trentrunner
It’s probably a good time to notice that what Obama did today will
1) Shore up and motivate Latino voters
2) Make the wingnuts flash their true racist colors for at least a few days
3) Force Romney to ignore (that’s what he’s done today so far) immigration as an issue, since Obama’s now pre-empted the Rubio plan.
Brilliant fucking politics, and good policy. Oh, and everyone gets reminded that Tucker Carlson is the douchiest of douches.
win-win-win
Linda Featheringill
I found a video of the presidential statement and watched the whole thing.
Very nice statement, actually.
And yes, I believe the Prez was a bit pissed.
Brachiator
@Trentrunner:
Agree with you on this. I wonder
a)What Romney will say about this.
b)If Romney tries to keep silent, whether any reporters will press him on a response.
c)How soon Romney will disavow any statement he makes on this issue.
gbear
@Trentrunner: I count four wins there.
handsmile
And in our innocence we wondered how Rmoney and the GOP would respond to the President’s immigration initiative.
This incident will now dominate today’s news cycle, the details of this mini-Dream Act will be overshadowed and obscured, and time is bought for Republican scum to develop talking points against the policy. And best of all, a new round begins of one of the Village media’s favorite pastimes: “Why does President Obama have such a hostile relationship with the press?”
As always, it’s WIN WIN WIN IYAR!!
ETA: Trentrunner: Sadly (and strangely simultaneously) I see a different set of wins here, at least in the short term. And for the Village media, it’s always about the short term.
Joseph Nobles
@JenJen: Jake has already tweeted he’s in Mexico, suckas, and he’ll see us at the G20.
The other WH press corps reporters are very loudly denying Munro’s “about to wrap up” story. I’ve seen very little defense at all from any pro journalism source. I’ve not checked out the Breits, of course.
Napoleon
@Southern Beale:
God do you have your head up your ass.
andrewsomething
@Southern Beale:
Maybe you and David Atkins can start a reading group together?
arguingwithsignposts
Now might be a good time to replay that time Jon Stewart gave Fucker Carlson a sad.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Southern Beale: I think what your missing is that we’re talking about the Daily Caller. They would publish the reporters address, tell how much the countertops cost, and the route the reporter takes his kids to school.
Hayes was being sarcastic.
David Koch
The much bigger issue is Obama didn’t mention the public option, once! Not once!
kay
@Joseph Nobles:
He wouldn’t be denying he interrupted the President deliberately if he thought it was going well.
Which leaves a question.
Why was the Daily Caller “proud” of a reporter who (now) says he made a mistake?
Southern Beale
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
I’m not sure that he was but even so, he’s not the only one. Chekk out Mike Elk’s Twitter feed. Labor reporter for In These Times.
David in NY
Southern Beale seems to have lost the thread, so to speak.
ETA: Look, it looks like sarcasm, it sounds like sarcasm, and everybody here thinks it was sarcasm. “[N]ot sure” is not a tenable position.
And what somebody else said is not evidence of what Hayes meant. You’re a little short on both reading skill and sense of logical relevance today, which, I must confess, is not your usual mode.
Poopyman
@kay: Why, because it takes a big man to admit he made a mistake.
(/snark)
By the way, has he made an apology to The President and/or his colleagues in the press? I ain’t holding my breath.
Niques
@Bruce S: I hate these people. And I hate that these miserable little dipshits occupy enough of my brain to even engender my hatred.
Wow. This.
kay
It’s worse than “you lie” because at least there the heckler was a US Rep, so an actor in government instead of (supposedly) an observer of actors and events.
Someone needs to tell reporters they are not supposed to be the story.
That’s not their job. It’s not even in the same universe as “their job.” They’re so far out in front I’m not sure they can get back without a map.
Maude
@kay:
In a couple of hours the Daily Caller will be saying they weren’t really proud of him.
Shinobi
That painting Obama has outside his office seems more appropriate every day.
Mark S.
@Southern Beale:
Oh, Mike Elk. Wait, who is he?
Joseph Nobles
@rlrr: I think he’s talking about Donaldson shouting questions at Reagan across the lawn as he was getting into Marine One.
@kay: Yeah, their response to this is all over the place.
Good reporters do get the story, Tuck, but almost always it’s a bad reporter that becomes the story.
kay
@Poopyman:
What does The Daily Caller say now? The reporter they’re proud of now says he’s too stupid to recognize when a statement is over, albeit with a grudging, sort of whiny tone.
Is that what they’re proud of? That they’re fuck ups?
Alex S.
This is Obama drawing a line in the sand between past and future. If he wins the election, by whatever margin, he’ll cement these changes. He’s heightening the differences.
muddy
What would be good here is a gif of Jon Stewart on Crossfire, telling Tucker he’s a dick. Over and over and over. I live in hope it will be on Monday’s Daily Show. Not holding breath however.
Anyway it doesn’t matter what he yelled out, the President *was speaking*. Sam Donaldson shouted questions as Reagan walked away, but no one ever interrupted him. Black prez don’t count when it comes to courtesy, the rules of addressing the President at press conferences don’t apply to him of course.
TooManyJens
@Maude: “Neil who? Never heard of the guy. In other news, here’s Neil Munro with a report on the Kenyan Usurper’s plan to boost unemployment among white Americans.”
Poopyman
@kay:
When Tucker Carlson is involved, I read this as a rhetorical question.
Amir Khalid
@kay:
I guess because their gut reaction is always “In your face, Obummer!” On the other hand, Neil Munro, if he has the brains God gave a pudding, must realize by now that the White House will have devised some way of freezing him out that is too subtle for him to complain about.
amk
@Culture of Truth: You win the thread.
burnspbesq
It’s a shame that Obama didn’t go all Bryce Harper on that guy.
Can you imagine the brain-explosions if he’d just said “Clown question, bro?”
sharl
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TooManyJens
@burnspbesq: God damn it. I didn’t even know I wanted that until you said it.
qwerty42
Haley Barbour is quoted
He wants the wingnuts to calm down, but looks like it’s too late. I’m sure Barbour and others in the Republican Party find this sort of stuff “unpleasant” (like the previous “War on Women”), but it is the party they have, a party they built. Now it jumps the rails, revealing itself as angry, misogynistic, racist, warmongering (against the Soviets, to be sure!) and dog knows what else will be revealed to the public by the end of summer. They cannot stop themselves.
Mark S.
The Daily Caller is proud when their reporters can hold a pen and a notebook at the same time.
Citizen_X
@arguingwithsignposts: Well, he’d win the ironic hipster vote for that, no matter what Ron Paul says after.
But I can’t imagine Obama doing that. How about he just have Samuel L. Jackson up on the stage when he’s speaking? Then, when some twerp like this pipes up, he can say, ,”HEY! The PRESIDENT is SPEAKING. SHUT. The FUCK. UP.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@muddy: Anyway it doesn’t matter what he yelled out, the President was speaking. Sam Donaldson shouted questions as Reagan walked away,
Exactly. All reporters yell at all presidents for as long as I can remember. Even in former East Room press conferences, every time the president finishes an answer, that being the key point, they start clamoring for attention like Arnold Horshack (you younglings can make a google). But they don’t interrupt.
@Amir Khalid:
I wish I could use that in daily conversation in America. Somebody on the TV said Munro was there on a daily “blogger pass”. He’s’ never been to the WH before, and likely now never will again.
Linda Featheringill
@Shinobi:
Yes, the painting is quite appropriate.
Except that this time, he’s the President. [And probably a whole lot tougher than that little girl.]
David Koch
This is why I won’t vote for Obama.
He thuggishly violated that reporter’s first amendment rights.
sharl
Mike Elk is a leftie labor journalist. IMHO he’s quite good at straight-up reporting. But I wouldn’t trust him to detect snark, based on his neurobiological architecture. [He reminds me of my sweet, happy, not-a-mean-bone-in-his-body nephew, who is also missing the snark/irony detection module.]
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Citizen_X: You’ve seen the Key and Peele show?
Linda Featheringill
@Amir Khalid: #84
:-)
Love it!
arguingwithsignposts
@Citizen_X: English, mothafucka, DO YOU SPEAK IT?
kay
@Amir Khalid:
I just think they’re way off track if they’re “news” and not “opinion”. They can’t have this closed circle, where pundits talk about political media, and vice versa. I think everyone in any profession has to ask themselves, every once in a while, “what is my job supposed to be ABOUT? What is my general role here?”
A reporters job can’t be about political media, right? That’s a definite “no”. They can go from there, but that there is a “no, not that”. If they hear themselves talking exclusively about each other, I would think that would something of a red flag.
Hunter Gathers
Mittens responds with a big ball of mush.
Linda Featheringill
@Hunter Gathers: #100
That was actually an intelligent-sounding non-comment. I wonder if he was reading what somebody else had written.
shortstop
@Mike Lamb: Pretty sure she never reads most of the other comments in threads.
Hunter Gathers
@Linda Featheringill: I’ve read it several times and still have no idea what the fuck he is trying to say. Other than not taking a position on it, which is pure Mittens.
me
@David Koch: Chicago style politics!
Sasha
@Amir Khalid:
Winning people over to their side? No.
Winning more money from people already on their side? Yes.
David Koch
It only took Mittens 6 hours for him to cook up a garbled boilerplate non response, response.
Sasha
@Linda Featheringill:
That Obama was merely pissed and did not rip the jackhole’s throat out is a testament to his coolness under pressure.
Martin
Man, Mitt is going to have to walk that shit back. He’s really trapped. Rather than another flip-flop, he supported Obama’s decision but criticized the process. And what was his criticism? That a future president could reverse the decision – made while campaigning to be that future president. Clever. Mitt is uniquely positioned to protect the policy he’s claiming to support by vowing to not reverse it, while actually wink-wink-nudge-nudging that he’d reverse it by pointing out that its vulnerable. I think even Wolf Blitzer is smart enough to see Schrodinger’s position here and call him on it.
I give him until Sunday morning to be forced into a firm position supporting or opposing the policy.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@bemused: [quote]The Romney campaign must think heckling and honking is great for exciting the bully loving base, the 27 percent crazy. I notice Romney makes no attempt to tamp that down, at least publicly. People like Munro are beefing up their rightwing resumes. My thought is how low can they go before it turns off many of those not the hard core 27 percent of Republicans or is there anything so embarrassing or shameful Republicans can do that would be unacceptable?[/quote]
For a greater understanding of why the Right engages in this type of behavior, see Josh Marshall’s Theory of Bitch-Slap Politics (which you will find cross-referenced with “Swiftboating”). It’s *not* about winning hearts and minds, that’s for sure.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@biff diggerence:
Yes, I could imagine being stuck in the snow, popping open the trunk, pulling Tucker Carlson out, stuffing him under the power wheel (with studs on the tire) and using him for traction to get unstuck, then driving off, leaving the shredded remains behind.
Yup, I would like to see him used for traction.
Yutsano
@Martin: The crazies are going to demand purity here, and Willard will assent to this in front of that audience. Then when he gets to Nevada or Texas, suddenly he’ll reverse himself again and go back to either hedging or denying the crazy talk. We’ve all seen this dance from him before.
Villago Delenda Est
OK, someone, somewhere is going to breach, and use the N-word.
Who is it going to be?
Gus
@Southern Beale: That’s gotta be facetious.
chopper
@TG Chicago:
lol. ‘i’m still angry that obama didn’t adopt a phony-baloney plan that guts social security and medicare. luckily, i still have vodka shots in the library for succor’.
Amir Khalid
@Linda Featheringill:
Just ask Mitt what kind of “long-term solution” he has in mind for this, or for anything, and watch him panic.
Bex
@curiousleo: If there’s a pool on near-day, I’m taking August 23.
Djur
Chris Hayes was being sarcastic, but do you know who did sincerely defend the heckler? Balloon Juice’s bestie Corey Robin. Heh.
David Koch
This was only a stunt by Obama to step on Romney’s spectacular bus tour.
Tokyokie
@Mark S.: Yeah, but then they’d need opposable thumbs.
gbear
@Martin:
Wolf was willing to go to Sheriff Arpaio for comment on this. I don’t see Wolf as having any smarts at all, on any topic, ever. He’s a gasbag.
chopper
@Brachiator:
he’s going to have an alternate policy to talk about, but a convenient bus horn will honk every time he talks.
hey, he said his immigration policy is near!
chopper
@handsmile:
it also goes to show how much mittens is in the president’s wake here. while mittens is busy driving around in his bus hooting, the president uses his power to change policy for the better. and mittens has no real response except to hoot louder.
just goes to demonstrate the difference between the two candidates.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Southern Beale:
[quote]I’m not sure that he was but even so…[/quote]
You obviously don’t know who Chris Hayes is. He’s Maddow-level smart. No way he’s actually condoning what went down, today.
Do yerself a favor: When 20-something people here politely point out you’re reading something wrong, reassess your take.
Unless you like looking deliberately obtuse.
NancyDarling
@Southern Beale: I read that tweet from Hayes as snark.
Svensker
@Djur:
Are you Derf or Matoko or LilTim? And who the hell is Corey Robin? Apparently I’ve missed this “bestie” in my 3 years of reading BJ pretty much daily.
chopper
@David Koch:
yeh, the irascible blustery tour aint going so well right about now.
IowaOldLady
Re whether any other reporter ever did anything similar to another president (which I don’t buy anyway):
A couple of years ago, I realized that stupid talk was much easier to assess if I put my mom hat on. The occasion was that time in Gitmo when a guard urinated on a Koran and then said it was an accident. So, mom hat on, I imagine a situation in which a kid says, “I peed on my brother’s book but it was an accident.” Do I buy that? Hhahahahhah. No.
In this case, mom hat on, “If Donny from up the street jumped off a bridge would you do it too? Does that make it a good idea?”
Clarifies a lot of crap.
NancyDarling
@NancyDarling: And I’m a fairly old lady.
Mike Lamb
@Linda Featheringill: Really? I thought it was patently ridiculous. He’s also lying by implication to even talk about wanting legislation on the matter. It’s been kicking around for a decade.
sharl
@IowaOldLady: Hahaha, this is excellent guidance! Thanks for the comment.
gelfling545
@sharl: This can also depend on how much you have previously been exposed to it in your early life. Dinner table conversation amongst me & my sibs was pretty much a snark fest & my kids, nieces, nephews have carried on the proud tradition but it can take others aback or leave them merely puzzled. Nothing kills a good snark like having someone ask you earnestly why you think that.
ChrisNYC
Mitt is dangerously close to disappearing as a candidate. Ask him about immigration he says, “Sen Rubio has the plan.” Ask him about Soc Sec he bows to Paul Ryan. Ask him about public employees, he says, “I agree with Gov Walker.” Ask him why he ran he says, “Ann told me I had to.” Big story about the immi order and big story about the slimeball interrupting Obama and Mitt is nowhere. Doesn’t augur well for MR.
Valdivia
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
but that is not even a bitch slap. A honking bus? Are you fucking kidding me? A bitch slap actually requires a slap, this is the 2 year old version of a tantrum.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Valdivia:
Agreed, but I was mainly referring to the douchey-douche reporter.
Plus, I’m not saying all attempts at bitch-slap politics are going to avoid looking blatantly, Wile E. Coyote cartoonish.
No One of Consequence
@Linda Featheringill: I dunno about that. That little girl was *MIGHTY* fuggin’ tough by my standards. No disrespect to POTUS intended, but that little girl had fortitude that couldn’t be carried in a oil-sands earth-mover dumptruck.
– NOoC
Chris
@Valdivia:
The Romney honkies: “hey, lighten up, sure, it’s not okay, but it’s still just a few kids having fun, why are you obsessing on this? my God, you people are thin-skinned.”
The heckler, of course – all together now: “it’s just an isolated incident.”
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:
IMO, and like I said yesterday,
They. Hate. Him. They really, absolutely fucking loathe Obama on an almost pathological level. So when they see an opportunity to say “fuck you” to him as loudly as they can, an increasing number of them take it, and I don’t think the ramifications even occur to them. At least not as they’re doing it.
Amir Khalid
@ChrisNYC:
Mitt is about to show everyone how far a presidential candidate can get who disavows his own political past, who outlines no personal vision of his ideal America, who offers only other people’s policies: a complete cipher whose only identity is being a Republican. It will be instructive.
Chris
@TooManyJens:
Exactly. The right’s strategy for the last forty or fifty years has been “if we can just concentrate on winning the white vote, it doesn’t matter how many darkies and darkie-lovers we piss off.”
Goes a long way towards explaining their psychotic my-way-or-the-highway attitude towards governing, too: the rest of us aren’t even American to them. Not really American. We have no right to be here in their perfect utopia. We’re parasites and house pests. And you don’t sit down with parasites and house pests and talk about what you all want for the house, you just wage war on them.
jl
Ha, TPM says that Willard’s response was to criticize Obama’s directive as (paraphrase) short sighted solution to long term problem, but would not way whether he would reverse it or not.
The Romneybot is spurting oil again, and is getting itself all slippery.
Some said Romney would have to respond, as in, say something meangingful on the topic.
But I think I predicted: weird awkward and untrustworthy BS would be response.
I bet a few people could reverse engineer the Romneytron and predict the nonmeaningful beahvior fairly precisely. Probably an Obama team doing that now. But, will it be considered cheating for the debates? Could there be a patent violation?
Edit: Oops. Brachiator beat me to it.
Double oops, looks like it was chopper.
Chris
@qwerty42:
Much too late.
That’s the thing, and it’s why the demographics thing does in fact give me some hope: Sure, I get that over time as Latinos are assimilated into the country, a lot of them will find reasons not to vote Democrat anymore, the MOTU will find ways to appeal to them just like they’ve found ways to appeal to white working-class voters, etc.
The problem is, for that to happen, the GOP would have to first dial down the racial rhetoric on Latinos enough, and that’s just not happening. If anything, they’re going backwards, and anyone who wants to change things is getting viciously primaried. They’re as solid a Democratic voting bloc now as they’re ever going to be, and I don’t see that fading for some time.
Tonal Crow
Please keep this up, wingers. And please don’t forget the questions about birth certificates and “Kenyan anti-colonial behavior”.
Amir Khalid
@Chris:
My understanding is that the Latino/Hispanic presence in America goes back centuries, and in fact many of them aren’t immigrants at all; they’ve been there at least as long as the white population. How many more centuries, I wounder, will they need before they are assimilated into America?
MikeJ
@Chris:
That by itself would be a triumph for us.
andrewsomething
Here’s some stellar previous reporting from our intrepid journalist:
http://jamyerson.com/2011/10/18/oh-neil/
Amir Khalid
Off-topic: The Recent Posts box is taking forever to load for me, and holding up the loading of the page as a whole. Anyone else having this problem?
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@Chris:
I probably hate Mitt Romney just as much, and for more solid reasons. Yet I still wouldn’t heckle him, or drive around his stump speech honking (look for the little black Subaru with the WARREN sticker on it).
And… I’m neither an angel, nor particularly well-mannered. In fact, I’m kind of an asshole.
So I guess I just can’t understand such a level of pure, unjustified assholery.
Turgidson
@Culture of Truth:
Of course they do. As usual, a quick note that some anonymous douche in the comments at Daily Kos said something mean in 2005 will do the trick.
Jay in Oregon
@Hill Dweller:
Speaking of Arpaio’s immigration policy credentials, did anyone think to ask him about being sued by the Federal government for civil rights violations of people suspected to be illegal immigrants?
TenguPhule
I say, let the Secret Service thin this overgrown herd of obviously unhealthy Meat Pressers. Preferably with Hunting Rifles for the sport.
TenguPhule
Fixed.
It is down to them or us.
And if somebody needs to get wiped out then let it be them.
WereBear
I sense that is a struggle that is going to preoccupy this century.
Mr WereBear pointed out that the only outlets carrying the President lately are PBS; I wonder why that is. Who covered the “too long” barn-burner he gave in Cleveland?
gwangung
@WereBear: Yeah, well, Asian Americans know that it’ll take the century after this for US.
piratedan
it’s funny, the big concern is about those american workers who may lose their “jobs” to these folks who are DREAM Act eligible and nary a peep about those job creators shipping American jobs overseas when outsourcing was all the rage to Bangalore, then we were told that profit margins dictated this necessary change and to suck it.
magurakurin
@Amir Khalid: yeah, and they even live in places like Colorado, Florida, Los Angeles, San Francisco, El Paso, all good, Anglo-Saxon words. And imagine trying to assimilate into a place named New Mexico.
Nickws
@Southern Beale:
Good grief, don’t tell me you parsed that as Mr Elk agreeing with Mr Daily Caller Loon about the president being a racist, and boy it sure is some crazy shit that Obama is a racist.
Because, no, these lefty media guys you’re quoting, they’re actually administering written beatdowns of this Munro guy.
Doubleday
@Southern Beale: Um…sarcasm?