Look I’m going to be embedding self-indulgent tweets in my posts a lot these days. Deal with it.
@chucklane1 Remember when you called her Sandra Day O’Palin? voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2…
— Doug Johnson (@DougJBalloon) September 19, 2012
Heh.
Warren Terra
Fun, but not as good as Mitt telling the Latino audience that not only is he proud to have originated Obamacare, he lied to the Republican base all through the primaries:
I can’t wait for someone braver or stronger than myself to find out what the son of Erick thinks about that one.
Thoroughly Pizzled
Indeed.
Linda Featheringill
Dedicated to Mitt Romney:
[Man of Constant Sorrow]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08e9k-c91E8
:-)
Comrade Mary
Stay gold, DougJ. Stay gold.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
Bring it, DougJ. I’m not on “twitter”, but if you replied to him, didn’t it automatically show up on a screen he owns?
@Warren Terra: I was surprised at that, those comments aren’t dissimilar to the ones by a staffer that made Laura Ingram go ballistic and all but call for a conservative write-in candidate, Laura Ingram who can’t figure out why the Corn tape is such a big deal.
Trentrunner
Spank, spank. Me likey.
taylormattd
I too love it when I crack myself up. :)
Spaghetti Lee
Sarah Palin? Who’s Sarah Palin? C’mon, guys, that doesn’t even sound like a real name.
Mark S.
@Warren Terra:
Maybe Mitt thought this was another closed-door fundraiser.
taylormattd
Also, am I the only one that hates the fuck out of supposedly witty, but actually eye-roll-inducing hashtags like the one Lane used?
DougJ
@Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker:
Yeah it does. He could block me if he wanted, but he indicated he wouldn’t (which earns him some small measure of my grudging respect).
Yutsano
@Warren Terra: I can already hear the screams of RINO echoing through wingnut canyons. He just isn’t very good is he?
JSinLA
Long time lurker. Had to come out to congratulate you (and follow you) after such a quality shot.
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
@Spaghetti Lee: trying to keep things in perspective, but I have the growing feeling that a year from now, it’s gonna be MItt Who?
gussie
@taylormattd: You are not alone #asregardstheunfunnyhashtagsthatidiotsuseinatransparentandtragicallyhalfwittedattemptedtostartaviralmeme
geg6
Man, this Rmoney machine makes the McCain team look like geniuses. I can’t take my eyes off it.
And I swear, I’ll kill you, DougJ, if you force me to start doing the whole twitter thing. I’ve been avoiding it like the plague because it’s not my sort of thing at all. I have no desire to tweet anything ever and I don’t want to follow or be followed by anyone ever. But if you’re doing some of that good ol’ DougJ trolling, I fear for my sanity as I may not be able to resist.
hep kitty
Look, this fucking debt clock. I remember being horrified seeing that thing for the first time whirling during the Bush presidency. It was on the internets, but it was not common knowledge.
And now here they are, the war supporters, with the fucking debt clock. I’ll tell you what you can do with that debt clock, Ryan. Bend over.
MikeJ
What does this refer to?
Keith
Nice burn.
hep kitty
I’m sorry sometimes I don’t read the links b/c they won’t work for me.
Anya
DougJ, if you want your tweet to be public, you have to put something before his twitter address. Example: [email protected] or hey @ChuckLane1. Now your twitter is private, which means, Lane and your followers are the only ones who will see it.
Nicole
Wow. That op-ed piece was truly horrific. He was lapdancing all over La Palin and the woman who foisted C Plus Augustus on the nation. Bleah.
Good for you, Doug.
And the snarky hashtag thing was dead eight months ago.
Chris
@Yutsano:
Oh, he’s good. Got him through the primaries, didn’t it?
KG
@Warren Terra: Jesus Joseph Mary and Moses, that’s some Grade AA++ amazing. I hope this gets massive play because I want to see the RW freak the fuck out that they’re stuck with this guy or start defecting to Goode or Johnson “on principle”. Ok, I know the won’t defect, but it’s fun to imagine
bago
How many Oh’s do you want on the front of that Snap?
Litlebritdifrnt
@geg6:
Twitter is great for the purpose of being on top of things every minute of the day. I am one of those people who has to know what is going on immediately, without twitter you are perhaps hours behind of a story until you see it on a blog or a newswire. With Twitter, you get the up to the minute information the minute it happens. I like that.
John O
That was a good one, DougJ!
Sarah Palin has rocks for brains, but was blessed with good cellulitey looks.
Ben Franklin
Hey man, while you’re twatting in an uneditable format, there’s something else you need to know….
http://www.vice.com/read/whoa-dude-are-we-inside-a-computer-right-now-0000329-v19n9
Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker
@DougJ: You’re more generous than I am– which ain’t sayin’ much. I think the lack of embarrassment these people have about being wrong is just another symptom of their pathological arrogance. A few months ago Friedman was on Maher with Rachel Maddow. I thought things would get at least a bit heated, but the only time Iraq came up was an off-hand reference Maher made to Friedman’s support of the war. Friedman kind of shrugged and grimaced as if he had said the Patriots were gonna stomp Eli Manning into the ground. And on we moved.
jl
@Warren Terra:
I will try out a theory that Mitt is so pissed that he has to work at this getting elected president thing that he is just going to act out.
So, the forty 47 percent tape comes out, and first Mitt stands by it, then he says he was talking electoral tactics (obv fib), then he tries to explain it is about Obama not the voters (laffable). What the hell?
Maybe some aide wrote down the order in which you go through your walk back in the wrong order, or Mitt reads them off in random order. Should have gone with the ‘electoral tactics’ story first.
Now looks like we are going to get the same with Obomneycare.
The way this is going we will be able to pre order the tell all infighting books before the election. Or maybe actually buy them and have some GOTV BJ book club posts before the election.
Hal
Listening to Talk of the Nation today with Neal Conan and Ken Rudin, and Rudin spent some time talking about how Romney should be in the lead but he keeps sticking his foot in his mouth. What kills me about Rudin’s analysis today was that he basically was saying Romney had ideas and talks about the important things, but in between, is interrupted by Clint Eastwood’s chair or his 47% remarks.
This is what slays me about NPR political analysis. Who says Romney should by default be in the lead? It’s not just a likability question, it’s Romney’s shit policies and his embracing of an ideology he obviously does not agree with, but is go along with it because he’s desperate to be President.
Violet
@DougJ: How did he indicate he wouldn’t?
Your tweet is hilarious. I wish there were some website that tracked pundit idiocy and subsequent flip flops. Like a spreadsheet type website. Maybe pundits grouped by the rag they write for, or something. Just to track which paper or magazine has pundits that are the worst.
jl
And tactical puzzle for Obama. How can you do effective rapid response when Mitt changes his story before you can get anything out? Good news for Republicans? Hmmmm? Think about that, huh?
PsiFighter37
I was going to respond on Twitter, but damn, that is awesome. I think being a pundit means you are obliged to forget all the stupid-ass shit you wrote at one point.
@Warren Terra: Let me know when they start freaking out at Erick, son of Erik’s place. I can’t bring myself to go visit those sites and check out the glorious carnage for myself.
jl
And for DougJ, is internet stalking on Twitter ‘stweelking’ or ‘twalking’? I can’t keep up with the lingo.
MikeBoyScout
Gekko/Galt is the anvil.
We are the HAMMER.
Let’s bring it!
geg6
@Litlebritdifrnt:
For me, that’s exactly the problem with it. I can wait an hour or two. I have information overload as it is between my job and my politics addiction. And I prefer the whole story rather than the short blurbs on twitter.
All the shit I have to wade through just because I’m on FB is bad enough. I don’t need twitter cluttering up another part of my life. YMMV.
DougJ
@Violet:
I made fun of him about something else and he wrote “ha, thanks for the reply” or something like that.
Violet
@Anya: I’m not logged into Twitter and when I click on DougJ’s Twitter feed, I can see that tweet. That seems like it’s as public as it can be. Hmm…
@geg6:
I LOVE Twitter and detest Facebook. Facebook seems full of clutter. Twitter is fast and to the point. And hilarious.
Southern Beale
First Bryan Fischer said Amb. Stevens was raped and murdered by Libyans because he was gay. Now Fox News is saying Stevens was murdered by “an Obama ally.”
Jesus.
Violet
@DougJ: Ah, well, that was good of him. At least he isn’t such a special flower that he blocks anyone who points out his hypocrisy.
aimai
@Hal:
I think I heard that piece. The “expert” seemed to have a slight lisp due to faulty dentures and kept glossing over the parts of the story that made him uncomfortable, like the fact that Romney is a terrible candidate with a terrible message from a lousy party that no one likes.
aimai
Anya
Okay, so maybe this 47% smear might hurt Romney after all. Watch this DNC video (Mitt Romney: Outside the Circle) in one of the clips, CNN’s resident moron, John King admits that at one point in his childhood his family was on food stamps. I was skeptical before but I am beginning to believe this story has legs.
jl
@geg6: FB, that is a racket. I only use it when I have register for some event where you have to use facebook. I got so pissed off at blizzard of difficult to understand settings and offers and come ons and stuff you have click through to get the thing set up, I decided to disguise myself.
That was a few years ago. Not sure if it is still that bad.
So I my name is male, and anagram of my real name, my sex is female, I was born after I graduated from college. All my information is absurd. And I still get regular friend requests. And names I do not recognize that FB says might know me. Guess I should check some of out sometime.
jl
@Anya: Many parasites have very interesting and complex life cycles. Poor Mitt has, is, and will be discovering that in a few high profile interviews. Hope that keeps the 47 percent gaffeforce strong.
Smiling Mortician
@Hal: Bland, mindless political “analysis” like NPR’s isn’t about the actual candidates. They say “The race should be Romney’s for the asking” because they understand that as a general rule, the incumbent has a tough re-election bid in a time of high unemployment — as if a rutabaga could win as long as it’s the challenger and unemployment is over 7%. The answer to any such lazy punditry need only be “Have you seen Romney? Have you heard him?”
Southern Beale
Apparently Mitt Romney is pulling videos from 14 years ago, which is so cool because I have this awesome video from 1994 where he states in no uncertain terms that he supports a woman’s right to reproductive choice.
Anya
@Violet: Because your looking at DougJ’s twitter feed but if you go to Lane’s you won’t see it.
Violet
@Anya: Oh, okay. I see what you mean. I thought you meant it was only visible to Lane and Doug’s followers, not the public at large.
geg6
@jl:
I keep in touch with current students, former students I was close to, and far flung friends and family there. The one thing I had to finally do (because I was getting a ridiculous number of invites) is tell them all to not send me those invites to stupid games or whatever they are into.
Otherwise, it’s okay for me there. I only have one wingnut crazy always posting about “Obummer” like that’s the wittiest thing ever (an old not-really-friend-but-we’ve-known-each-other-all-our-lives kind of thing). I blocked an old friend because she came onto my page and had a fit about me being an atheist because she always thought I was a good person and now she knows I am not. I haven’t blocked the wingnut yet simply because he sounds so stupid that it’s kind of sad and funny at the same time.
Warren Terra
@Hal:
There’s a pretty good case to be made, based solely on economic statistics, that a completely generic and inoffensive candidate should beat Obama. But the Republican brand is so tainted by having wrecked the economy and by all the craziness it represents that this isn’t clear, and then you add Mitt’s own special awfulness as a candidate …
The offensive part isn’t really when Rudin says that Romney should be in the lead if he could stop fouling up – it’s where he pretends Romney’s got all these great ideas he’s not communicating properly.
Maude
@Violet:
I love Twitter. I’m following a lot of NASA agencies.
Anya
@Southern Beale: Bryan Fischer is a despicable person; if he dies the world would be a better place.
Violet
@Anya: Oh, okay. I see what you mean. I thought you meant it was only visible to Lane and Doug’s followers, not the public at large.
Anya
@Southern Beale: Bryan Fischer is a despicable person; if he dies the world would be a better place.
Smiling Mortician
@Anya: Nice video. The John King thing will ring true for a lot of people. And even Gergen was relatively thoughtful. And now for something completely different: have you seen Colbert’s take? Sorry for the HuffPo link.
Fluke bucket
@Ben Franklin: Thank you
Anya
@Southern Beale: Bryan Fischer is despicable. If he dies the world would be a better place.
Political Observer
BREAKING TODAY:
One to two minutes on Romney tape, see here.
Did the Obama campaign or the DNC knowingly manipulate then lie about the context of the 47% quote? Were laws broken?
Race STILL too close to call in Gallup and Rasmussen daily trackrs.
jp7505a
Oh this one hurts – Faux News, with no sense of shame or irony is reporting that one of the embassey attackers used to be a guest at Gitmo – ‘Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack, Fox News’ intelligence sources said. Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail. His Guantanamo files also show he has ties to the financiers behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Notice the date when he was returned to Libya – 2007. I think the guy in charge that year was named Bush!!! So if you want to assign blame for the deaths of the diplomats (which in the real world I don’t) to a president it looks like W is a much better nominee!.
PsiFighter37
@Political Observer: Oh, so you’re back again. David Corn already said the device accidentally turned off, and he turned it back on. And since Romney already owned up to the remarks…well, you can’t put the cat back in the bag.
Fail, just fail. And did you see all those polls coming out and showing Romney getting his ass kicked?
ETA: If Romney actually had anything additional to say about that segment, then he would’ve DENIED it during his presser. That Monday-night jaunt sure made it look like he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Warren Terra
@Political Observer:
Hey, Troll,
(1) The Obama campaign and the DNC have learned about the tape the same way you did, and used it entirely consistent with its meaning.
(2) There are two half-hour segments of Mitt being a jackass because he thinks it will stay secret between him and his rich friends. Unless the missing two minutes are where he explains it’s all a high-concept performance art piece and he means none of it, you and your Mitt-fellating friends are S.O.L.
(3) I recommend you go to this site instead. You might be happier.
Tom Q
@Smiling Mortician: Another answer would be that FDR got 60% and carried all but two states with 16% unemployment, and Reagan 59% carrying all but one state with 7.5%. So maybe the raw unemployment number isn’t as goddamn definitive as our pundit class seems to think. (Compared to direction of the economy, among other things)
Political Observer
@Warren Terra:
Kicking ass? The daily trackers are, as usual, too close to call, and Obama is falling behind in Colorado and New Hampshire. He’s already all but ceded North Carolina, Missouri, and Indiana as well. Wisconsin is now a battleground, remember.
PsiFighter37
@Political Observer: You’re a fucking clown. 2 Wisconsin polls, from REPUTABLE pollsters (not Rasmussen or your fucking clownish pop-up right-wing pollsters) showed him up by 6 and 14 points.
As the Mustache of Understanding would say, SUCK. ON. THAT.
eemom
Speaking of FB, Cole started a page for BJ, but it’s been kind of dead so far.
Back in the ancient days when FDL was cool, folks connected on FB. So go over and Like the page, y’all.
Oh yes — and the above is nicely done DougJ, very nice indeed. Hate that twat Lane — he’s like the Platonic form of emmessemm suckery.
Xecky Gilchrist
@Violet: I wish there were some website that tracked pundit idiocy and subsequent flip flops.
It could probably be pretty much automated; just save off each of their articles as it’s published, then repost it a year later. The interval might need tweaking or maybe there’d need to be a few like “Here’s what X said last month, and three months ago, etc.” but I bet it would pretty often hit.
Political Observer
@PsiFighter37:
PPP a DEMOCRAT poll hints that they’ll have very good numbers for Romney/Ryan coming out tonight!
Political Observer
All we have to do is move the national numbers just a LITTLE bit higher, one or two points, and we’re back in the game motherfuckers! The debates will do it!
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Warren Terra: Acutally, I recommend he go to this site instead.
PsiFighter37
@Political Observer: Yes, I just read their Twitter. It could also very well mean that Obama is up by less than what Marquette and NYT/CBS put out. Go ahead and hang your hat on being down in the polls.
Emma
@Warren Terra: Ye gods. Ye gods. Holy Moses.
PsiFighter37
@Political Observer: Have you ever seen Mitt Romney debate? He won the GOP ones because he didn’t say anything stupider than challenging Rick Perry to a $10k bet. He’s going to be knocked off-kilter once Obama rope-a-dopes him, and he’ll spend the rest of the night stammering his way through his responses like he always does…because he knows he’s a lying sack of shit and OH WON’T ANYONE JUST PLEASE, PLEASE LIKE ME?!
ETA: And it’s nice to know you never have mentioned anything positive about Romney. Good to know you’re solidly behind your man there.
Anya
@Smiling Mortician: Colbert is hilarious! I loved it!
People, please leave Political Observer alone. Just remember his delusions are real to him. He can’t help it; bless his little heart.
Chyron HR
@Political Observer:
The sad part is, this incredibly obvious analysis easily makes you the smartest person in the Republican party.
Are you going to brag about your KKK the Vote lynch mobs some more tonight? Because your complete contempt for the electoral process is so cute.
jl
@geg6: I might have been too harsh on. Anyone know of any up to date reliable third party guides or how to advice about FB? Maybe I should put up a real FB page.
Edit: on other hand, some new techie weird things are cool. Some super cool hip artsy fartsy SF Bay person had my current cell phone number before I did. Still get interesting message invites to interesting events around here. When I first got it and was looking around for something interesting to look into on a free night, I would just check my messages.
Emma
@Political Observer: Really. You really believe that two missing minutes in the middle of a tape negates all the poison he spewed before and after? HE HASN’T EVEN DENIED IT, you moron. He said it. There could be a hole the size of the Marianas Trench on that tape, and he still said what he said.
xian
@Hal: it’s a fallacy repeatedly debunked by Ezra Klein, that the fundamentals of the race indicate that Romney should be winning. They actually indicate a close race at worst.
jwb
@Dougj: yes, but you need to add a “.” in front of that @ so the rest of us who follow you but not all the folks you are writing barbs at can see your comments in our timelines on Twitter.
ETA: Also what Anya said.
kc
Get’em, DougJ!
jl
@Emma: I agree with you, but I would like to see what those missing one to two minutes contain.
If there is anything that changes the context, there were a lot of people at that event, and I would imagine by now we would have heard something about what is not on the tape.
This is bad news for me personally, until it comes out, since I will waste quite a bit of time trying to think up any context that might possibly make any difference.
xian
@Smiling Mortician: and of course “as a general rule, the incumbent has a tough re-election bid in a time of high unemployment” simply isn’t true. It’s the direction the economy is going – not some arbitrary absolute figure (that only make sense if you ignore FDR).
Hill Dweller
@Political Observer: During the Walker recall vote, the Marquette poll(which currently has Obama up 14) was far more accurate than PPP.
taylormattd
@Political Observer: lmao.
taylormattd
@Political Observer: This is DougJ trolling us, right?
Joel
This troll isn’t even funny. Do not engage.
Triassic Sands
Charles Lane considers “…remember when people thought Palin might run for president?” a random thought.
Funny, it looks and sounds (and smells) more to me like mere cranial flatulence.
Emma
@jl: Short of:ha.ha.ha. it was all a joke, thanks for coming, try the veal what context would create a sea change in what he said? If they were missing at the beginning, it could have been: My opponents say that I… but they’re missing in the middle, AFTER he has spewed a hell of a lot of poison into the air.
And if there are extenuating circumstances, why aren’t some of those donors coming forward and screaming bloody murder?
Calouste
@Political Observer:
amk
rimshot. Show the world the stupidity of pundtwitry.
jl
@Emma:
Maybe, they cut out the part where Mitt admitted he was on drugs?
Comrade Mary
@Political Observer:
Too many question marks. Too much desperation. Over the top. Either POP has been outsourced, or Doug is fucking with us again.
Remember, PO’s old voice was just plain snotty. He didn’t get all het up.
Political Observer
Carter was up by EIGHT POINTS in October and Reagan won. Just remember that.
amk
@Political Observer:
Keep raising those expectations for mitt, the twit, boy. That’s the ticket.
DougJ
@Anya:
Thanks!
Xecky Gilchrist
@amk: The
primaryconventiondebates will do it!Yeah, yeah. Pie.
Emma
@jl: Won’t matter to anyone. Liberals will say “so our suspicions were correct.” Conservatives will say “find the messican waiter who slipped it to him.”
Comrade Mary
@Comrade Mary: (Of course, I meant “too many exclamation marks”.)
This shrill PO is defective. Isn’t he still under warranty? If not, can someone whip up a pie filter that will translate him appropriately?
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Rmoney R’lyah wgah’nagl fhtagn! THE LUCKY ONES WILL BE POLLED FIRST!
Ben Franklin
@Fluke bucket:
Yer welcome.
JCT
@Southern Beale: I’ve been waiting for someone to whip that out. Nice.
Lyrebird
@gussie: Ah, a thing of beauty!
jimmy
Holy sh*t, this is funny!
Petorado
That knock on your door, Doug J, is fame. From Eschaton:
Yer welcome
different-church-lady
What can you do, Doug? When someone deserves something, that thing should be given to them.
dww44
@Hal: Didn’t read rest of the comments, but thanks for this about NPR and specifically about “Talk of the Nation”. I get so angry that I simply cannot abide listening to it any more. I also wish someone would explain why Romney should be in the lead? He has nothing to offer the country. Nothing.
Villago Delenda Est
@Political Observer:
I do indeed remember when you told us, months ago, that you could “take to the bank” a Rmoney victory in the Colorado GOP primary.
That Rick Santorum won.
FlipYrWhig
@dww44: It’s not a claim about Romney, it’s a purely deterministic view that bad economy = incumbent losing, irrespective of any qualities held or lacked by either candidate.
AA+ Bonds
owned
Comrade Nimrod Humperdink
I figured Jack Welch would’ve gotten you banned by now Doug. Troll harder!
TS
@Anya:
Anya – thank you so much – I have often seen that half explained – now I understand
Wahrheit
@hep kitty:
It is not a debt clock, it is the National Savings Clock. All those bonds are someone’s assets. Ryan tells me that my share is $50,000. Cool!
Wahrheit
@dww44: Now, not so hasty. He is white enough, also.
Trinity
Niiice.
JustRuss
@Hal:
Hal, if you’ve been able to determine exactly what ideology Mittens does agree with, you may be the smartest man on the internets.
Fort Geek
@Political Observer: Ah, the sweet bitterness of conservative desperation.
bwahahahaha!