The Commander Guy reads Powerline so we don’t have to:
It is ironic that Mussolini looks downright modest compared to The One. Maybe I am overstating the case, but it does seem to me that Obama lacks a basic understanding of, and sympathy with, the concepts of pluralism and tolerance that are necessary for any democratic society to function. I think is is truly urgent that we not give Obama another four years to lead the United States down a path that is far too well-trodden and that, history shows, leads only to disaster.
I thought pluralism and tolerance were bad things, anyway. Pluralism often equals Muslims and Ameros. Tolerance makes us gay. Right?
Just Some Fuckhead
I remember when Democrats used to be too pluralistic and tolerant. Thank god they can’t ding us for that anymore.
Forum Transmitted Disease
For God’s sakes, somebody just call him “Nigger Hitler” at the debates so we can move on already.
These people. Jesus. The all have undiagnosed OCD or something.
Phoenix_rising
Tolerance isn’t what makes us gay. I’m pretty sure my mother made me a lesbian.
(Best response: If I got her the material, could she make me one?)
beltane
Now that I think of it, the similarities between Obama and Mussolini are striking. In physical appearance, political philosophy, etc. they are practically like identical twins. Why didn’t I see this earlier?
Excuse me, but I’ll be stepping out in search of a black shirt to wear for tomorrow’s debate.
scav
Anybody hear the boom! as we blew past the bizarre barrier?
El Cid
Well, on occasion Obama has talked about us being all together in one nation, and Mussolini discussed how we were really all part of a grand superorganism known as the nation and that the fascist party would be the brain and there could be no class conflict within nations because how could tissues and organs in one being fight each other, and that’s pretty much the same thing, obviously. Clearly she’s not.
Warren Terra
That path being centrist moderation well to the Right of the policies anywhere else in the wealthy world?
BGinCHI
Gay gay or happy gay?
General Stuck
The eliminationist rhetoric, usually subtle, is getting past the point of concern. “we have to get rid of Obama” as a general theme outside the boundaries of elections, is increasingly a dog whistle for other solutions, on frequencies received all to well by right wing whack jobs.
And the comment sections of what are considered mainstream right wing blogs, are getting closer and closer to “somebody kill the nigger, now!”
I won’t even venture to Freeperville or Stormfront.
Hypatia's Momma
Gay leads to AIDS. AIDS leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to Kevin Bacon.
dmsilev
“Maybe” John Hinderaker needs to be slapped in the face with a large fish. Repeatedly.
scav
@Hypatia’s Momma: But wait! I thought there was a Bacon shortage looming.
Cris (without an H)
You think?
Rommie
Well, when you have a train obsession…
Just more rationalization of how Obama MUST be evil, because otherwise they fail in their worldview. I wonder how many times the fourth wall gets asked for advice.
beltane
@dmsilev: If Obama were really like Mussolini being slapped in the face with a large fish is exactly what would happen to him, but only after he was made to drink a bottle of cod liver oil.
danimal
All this talk about IslamoKenyanSocioAnarchistic Communism and remember, it’s all about a 5% tax hike (ETA: on the super-rich) and some free health care for the poor.
What would they say if a real leftist ever came to power?
gogol's wife
@dmsilev:
You must have watched the same 1932 Spencer Tracy movie I did last night, “Me and My Gal,” in which Tracy, a cop, has to deal with an altercation between two men in Ed’s Chowder House. They’re both terribly drunk and one keeps hitting the other one in the face with a large fish, and all the drunks are arguing over whether it’s a salmon or a halibut or a shad. It’s hilarious. But maybe you’re just making a general “large fish” reference.
handy
It’s like rain on your wedding day if you ask me.
El Cid
@Hypatia’s Momma: And, of course, Michelle Obama won’t let anybody eat bacon, so we’ll have to get used to 6 degrees of textured vegetable proteins.
dmsilev
@gogol’s wife: It was more a generic reference, though I confess this was in my thoughts.
BGinCHI
@gogol’s wife: Are you sure it wasn’t the Brown-Warren debate you were watching?
Mino
I don’t know how they see around the log in their eye.
El Cid
@danimal: That’s the point of going all hysterical on someone who’s not even close to leftist. Drawing a line in the sand at each point, and screaming that one single millimeter reversed after they step 4 steps to the right is, in fact, Maoism-Leninism.
jgaugust
O/T: Unfortunately for the Goppers, on the eve of the 1st debate, Ryan gets his own percentage/camera moment: huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/paul-ryan-30-percent-welfare-state_n_1933730.html
Oops…
Hypatia's Momma
@scav:
Not if we’re Gay, duh. Because Gay leads to Bacon. QED
Hill Dweller
Does anyone here watch Tweety’s show? If so, can you give the details of Chuck Todd’s appearance? The twitter machine is lighting him up for talking about ‘white guilt’ and Dems’ lack of enthusiasm.
gogol's wife
@BGinCHI:
You have a point.
Culture of Truth
Maybe I am overstating the case
Nah….
jibeaux
You know what you will never find in these posts? An example to illustrate what the fuck they`re talking about.
Culture of Truth
Maybe I am overstating the case
Nah….
Culture of Truth
Maybe I am overstating the case
Nah….
Violet
What law is it when someone mentions Mussolini in the thread? Not Poe’s law. Must be some law for it.
dmsilev
@Hill Dweller: Chuck Todd on Chris Matthews’ show? That’s a bad combination. Toxic, even.
Sloegin
Tolerance gives Republicans wide stances.
Violet
What law is it when someone mentions Mussolini in the thread? Not Poe’s law. Must be some law for it.
Hypatia's Momma
@El Cid:
There will have to be more urging by the Right for Gay, than. Because only then will we continue to have Bacon.
Mino
@Hill Dweller: You mean…is he drunk?? I’ve sbeen suspecting such lately.
Hypatia's Momma
@El Cid:
There will have to be more urging by the Right for Gay, than. Because only then will we continue to have Bacon.
scav
@Hypatia’s Momma: No wonder they’re pissed. Better fitting jeans, better bods to fill same and unlimited Bacon.
greenergood
Sorry, Mom just sent me her latest Obama-hating email link:
daveweinbaum.com/TennBillboards.html
Looking forward to election night (not!) – maybe going to someone else’s house that night. Should’ve remembered before booking my back-to-mom plane ticket that the first week of November is not a good traveling selection in an election year, when Mom ‘misses George Bush’ … help …
greenergood
Sorry, Mom just sent me her latest Obama-hating email link:
daveweinbaum.com/TennBillboards.html
Looking forward to election night (not!) – maybe going to someone else’s house that night. Should’ve remembered before booking my back-to-mom plane ticket that the first week of November is not a good traveling selection in an election year, when Mom ‘misses George Bush’ … help …
Ash Can
I remember, back when Obama was first elected, hearing folks of color say that White America was going to lose its collective shit. Being pasty white myself, I had no idea then just how right they were.
Ben Franklin
@El Cid:
Mussolini had a much lower bar. All he had to do was make trains run on time.
Ben Franklin
@El Cid:
Mussolini had a much lower bar. All he had to do was make trains run on time.
Hill Dweller
@dmsilev: I can’t watch Tweety. He gets on my nerves. Todd is even worse. Hell, with the exception of Chris Hayes and Maddow, I can’t watch MSNBC.
That said, I was interested in knowing why Todd got people riled up today. Apparently he went above and beyond his usual Willard water carrying.
BGinCHI
@Violet: Godwin with Marinara.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Hill Dweller:
There are times when I feel that Chuck Todd should be turned into bacon, but lack the enthusiasm to do anything about it, and that makes me feel guilty. But what the fuck does any of that have to do with being white?
Hypatia's Momma
@El Cid:
This just means that the Right will have to step up and call on all of us to be Gay for the sake of Bacon. Because vegetables are a socialist-commie-facist plot and Bacon is American. America!
BGinCHI
@Violet: Godwin with Marinara.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Hill Dweller:
There are times when I feel that Chuck Todd should be turned into bacon, but lack the enthusiasm to do anything about it, and that makes me feel guilty. But what the fuck does any of that have to do with being white?
Hypatia's Momma
@El Cid:
This just means that the Right will have to step up and call on all of us to be Gay for the sake of Bacon. Because vegetables are a socialist-commie-facist plot and Bacon is American. America!
fleeting expletive
I tried a little while ago to check in on Think Progress, and my computer warned me that the site contains malware. Hacked perhaps? Too scared to try again, at least for now.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Hill Dweller:
There are times when I feel that Chuck Todd should be turned into bacon, but lack the enthusiasm to do anything about it, and that makes me feel guilty. But what the fuck does any of that have to do with being white?
fleeting expletive
I tried a little while ago to check in on Think Progress, and my computer warned me that the site contains malware. Hacked perhaps? Too scared to try again, at least for now.
fleeting expletive
I tried a little while ago to check in on Think Progress, and my computer warned me that the site contains malware. Hacked perhaps? Too scared to try again, at least for now.
Southern Beale
Drudge found the whitey tape, you guys!
* sirens *
Seriously, my Twitter feed is all over some thing Drudge claims to have. I hope it’s a gigantic flop. I didn’t think anyone gave two craps about him anymore, anyway.
RaflW
Through the looking glass and out the other side.
Must be quite a ride those wingers are on.
Oh, and I’m all atwitter because Matt Drudge has his desperation siren on. “Whoo-Whoo-Whoo, I’m Matt Drudge and I can’t stand the though of Obama winning! Whoo-Whoo-Whoo”
(I hope Colbert finds a good way to skewer the s.o.b. this week. Drudge, I mean…well, any of those weak-kneed pansyasses who are in full on Obama’s gonna win, America will be destroyed panic).
Violet
@Hill Dweller:
He said that a lot of Republicans believe that if Obama is reelected that race helped him, not because it got the African American vote out, but it’s because there’s a “slice of white Americans, out of white guilt, if you will, that will reelect him.” Chuckie said he’d heard that kind of thinking from a lot of Republicans.
RaflW
Through the looking glass and out the other side.
Must be quite a ride those wingers are on.
Oh, and I’m all atwitter because Matt Drudge has his desperation siren on. “Whoo-Whoo-Whoo, I’m Matt Drudge and I can’t stand the though of Obama winning! Whoo-Whoo-Whoo”
(I hope Colbert finds a good way to skewer the s.o.b. this week. Drudge, I mean…well, any of those weak-kneed pansyasses who are in full on Obama’s gonna win, America will be destroyed panic).
Violet
@Hill Dweller:
He said that a lot of Republicans believe that if Obama is reelected that race helped him, not because it got the African American vote out, but it’s because there’s a “slice of white Americans, out of white guilt, if you will, that will reelect him.” Chuckie said he’d heard that kind of thinking from a lot of Republicans.
Cacti
@El Cid:
Obviously, Il Duce never heard of autoimmune disorders.
BGinCHI
@Violet: Godwin with Marinara.
RaflW
Through the looking glass and out the other side.
Must be quite a ride those wingers are on.
Oh, and I’m all atwitter because Matt Drudge has his desperation siren on. “Whoo-Whoo-Whoo, I’m Matt Drudge and I can’t stand the though of Obama winning! Whoo-Whoo-Whoo”
(I hope Colbert finds a good way to skewer the s.o.b. this week. Drudge, I mean…well, any of those weak-kneed pansyasses who are in full on Obama’s gonna win, America will be destroyed panic).
BGinCHI
@Violet: Godwin with Marinara.
David Hunt
@BGinCHI:
Doesn’t matter. Both states of mind are utterly evil in GOP philosophy in anyone who isn’t rich enough to buy off the cops.
gnomedad
Wingnut refrigerator magnet poetry. Not even a traceable distortion of reality.
RaflW
Through the looking glass and out the other side.
Must be quite a ride those wingers are on.
Oh, and I’m all atwitter because Matt Drudge has his desperation siren on. “Whoo-Whoo-Whoo, I’m Matt Drudge and I can’t stand the though of Obama winning! Whoo-Whoo-Whoo”
(I hope Colbert finds a good way to skewer the s.o.b. this week. Drudge, I mean…well, any of those weak-kneed pansyasses who are in full on Obama’s gonna win, America will be destroyed panic).
Tom Q
@Hill Dweller: I watched a bit, then turned it off. He seemed to be suggesting there was still this huge enthusiasm gap netween the parties — Pubs would walk over hot coals to defeat Obama; young folk and Hispanics were yawning. Lots of pollsters (and I believe the Nate-man) have been saying much the opposite since the conventions, so I don’t know if this reflected some particularly perceptive take on Chuck’s part, or was simply him clinging to an outdated narrative.
Didn’t hear him mention white guilt; glad I didn’t stick around if that entered the discussion.
David Hunt
@BGinCHI:
Doesn’t matter. Both states of mind are utterly evil in GOP philosophy in anyone who isn’t rich enough to buy off the cops.
gnomedad
Wingnut refrigerator magnet poetry. Not even a traceable distortion of reality.
RaflW
Through the looking glass and out the other side.
Must be quite a ride those wingers are on.
Oh, and I’m all atwitter because Matt Drudge has his desperation siren on. “Whoo-Whoo-Whoo, I’m Matt Drudge and I can’t stand the though of Obama winning! Whoo-Whoo-Whoo”
(I hope Colbert finds a good way to skewer the s.o.b. this week. Drudge, I mean…well, any of those weak-kneed pansyasses who are in full on Obama’s gonna win, America will be destroyed panic).
eric
ha, libtards….Mussolini made the trains run on time and Obambi wants to put trains everywhere. Luckily, brave patriots like Chris Crispy said no to his federal encroachment on the states’ rights to impoverish their citizens.
trollhattan
Wingnut: “I shore wish that blah man would talk English so’s I could understand what the aitch-ee-double-toothpicks he’s sayin’. Oh well, somebody on the radio will tell me.”
gnomedad
Wingnut refrigerator magnet poetry. Not even a intelligible distortion of reality.
WereBear
I wonder if Hinderaker has a cerebral hernia from all the heavy lifting his brain does, trying to make sense of the world through a Wingnut Lens.
RaflW
Through the looking glass and out the other side.
Must be quite a ride those wingers are on.
Oh, and I’m all atwitter because Matt Drudge has his desperation siren on. “Whoo-Whoo-Whoo, I’m Matt Drudge and I can’t stand the though of Obama winning! Whoo-Whoo-Whoo”
(I hope Colbert finds a good way to skewer the s.o.b. this week. Drudge, I mean…well, any of those weak-kneed pansyasses who are in full on Obama’s gonna win, America will be destroyed panic).
Lev
I sometimes wonder about whether or not it’s wise to even look for or expect intelligent movement conservatives, given that most of the premises of the ideology only make sense if you presuppose enormous ignorance. Obama is like Mussolini? Yup, he’s all about restoring traditional gender roles and burying the putrid corpse of democracy. Sheesh.
RaflW
Through the looking glass and out the other side.
Must be quite a ride those wingers are on.
Oh, and I’m all atwitter because Matt Drudge has his desperation siren on. “Whoo-Whoo-Whoo, I’m Matt Drudge and I can’t stand the though of Obama winning! Whoo-Whoo-Whoo”
(I hope Colbert finds a good way to skewer the s.o.b. this week. Drudge, I mean…well, any of those weak-kneed pansyasses who are in full on Obama’s gonna win, America will be destroyed panic).
Cacti
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
That seems to be the latest Luntz-approved talking point.
Voting for Obama is a white-guilt vote. George Will, Oink Limbaugh, and now Tuck Chodd have been beating that drum today.
? Martin
@Ash Can:
Being pasty white as well, I totally knew what they were talking about. C’mon, surely you’ve been invited into the ‘It’s okay, it’s just us white people here – let’s drop some n-bombs and bond’ conversations with the plumber or the delivery guy. Happens to me about once a month, even here in relatively tolerant SoCal.
Violet
@Tom Q: The enthusiasm gap seemed to be Chuck Todd’s own take on things. The “white guilt” thing he made a point of saying that this was what he’d heard from a lot of Republicans. In that sense he was just reporting it rather than saying he thought it was true.
trollhattan
@eric:
Fast trains, also, too. Sounds French, or Japanese.
TenguPhule
Nothing, because bullet ridden corpses up against a wall can’t talk. A real leftist would have initiated purges years ago.
Southern Beale
Oh, cancel the * sirens * — apparently Drudge’s hot scoop is a Hampton University speech Andrew Sullivan wrote about way back in 2007. It’s been on the internet for years.
Bostondreams
Mussolini was not a National Socialist. There IS a difference between Italian fascism and National Socialism. Hindrocket should be ignored simply because he cannot understand the difference and is a Barton level historian.
Cacti
@? Martin:
My friendly relationship with my brother in law, ended over just such a scenario. He kind of lost his shit when I called him a bigot.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I thought he was a feckless affirmative action baby who couldn’t stammer througha sentence without a teleprompter and, while a nice guy, is hopelessly in over his head.
I wonder what the Red Beanie Brigade, and the likes of the Waltons and Dominos pizza goon and the snivelling billionaires, think of a maximum $17,000 deduction?
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Cacti:
Anything to keep from admitting that they were cynical enough to run a pack of losers for the most important office in the land.
Comrade Mary
Southern Beale found it — from 2007.
Here, have this musical interlude instead.
trollhattan
@Cacti:
White guilt?!. Moi? Where be the white candidates at? I have the choice between the white American-black African son or some goddamn hunk of metal and plastic. I should feel guilty voting the “human” ticket?
gnomedad
I admit it. I’m voting for Obama because I feel guilty about my racist non-voting for Cain or West.
Cacti
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Like there wouldn’t be some grand canyon-sized exception that excused the rich from this “maximum”.
Tonal Crow
Godwin Godwin, oh Godwin it all,
Don’t stop now,
Here comes the fall!
? Martin
Unlimited corporate cash!
10 million donations so far. About $80 per donation.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cacti: well, we can’t say for sure, because Mitt won’t talk about it.
Also, too, Paul Ryan just declared the 47% to be not just moochers, but unemployed.
Violet
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Speaking of the teleprompter, NPR had some interviews with Colorado voters on whatever their morning show is today. The first one was an older-sounding woman at a Romney rally (I think) who said she thought Romney would do well, because, “Obama can’t talk without a teleprompter” and then she laughed. Wingnut delusion is deep.
Cacti
@? Martin:
It’s impressive, but also sad.
I expect in our brave new world of post-Citizens United elections, that mark will be broken regularly.
TenguPhule
I submit that Hindraker not immediately bursting into flame and suffering a hideously agonizing death after typing that is irrefutable proof there is no God.
trollhattan
@? Martin: Do the Willard numbers include his take during the primaries?
TenguPhule
But don’t you feel sorry for Skynet?
Mike Lamb
So lemme get this straight…GOP is still getting mileage out of a random t-shirt contest entry that compared Bush to Hitler. Now, you have the “blogger of the year” stating that Obama is worse than Mussolini with no blowback at all.
HOW IN THE FUCK DID WE GET HERE?
Anoniminous
@Tom Q:
As usual … wrong:
gnomedad
Oops, wingnut refrigerator magnets plus projection. There we go.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
We have 47% unemployment among registered voters? Fascinating, captain. That Mr. Ryan sure is wicked smaht.
scav
How close are they to playing the overt race traitor card? Do we need some sort of bell or buzzer with that, because I’m assuming it’s pulled from the same deck.
Villago Delenda Est
It’s always projection with authoritarian maggots like Assrocket.
We learned in WWII how to deal with people like him.
gbear
Shiny gay.
I am embarassed that Hindrocket is from the Twin Cities. I wish he’d go somewhere else.
Southern Beale
Shorter Drudge/Hannity: “black guy coming to steal your shit.”
Gawd that gets old.
hep kitty
I can’t find my remote!
Day 2!
? Martin
@trollhattan: They both include the primaries. One difference is that Obama could use all of his pre-convention donations to start his general election. Romney had to blow through a lot of his winning the primaries and didn’t have much left over for the early general election spending. That’s why he did that $20M bridge loan to spend pre-convention money that wouldn’t come in until post-convention because his donors had maxed out. Remember, contribution limits are set for both pre-convention and post-convention. If you max out pre-, you get reset and can max out again post-.
Enhanced Mooching Techniques
@trollhattan: You’re so racists against money powered robots!
trollhattan
Holy crap, the battle for Allen West’s seat is getting rough.
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/allen-west-military-career-attack-ad.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Violet
According to TPM, two new polls, Obama up by 2 in North Carolina and up by 3 in Florida. UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH!
Higgs Boson's Mate
@trollhattan:
Now that’s more like it. My dad used to tell me that if you get in a bar fight pick up a stool or a chair.
trollhattan
@? Martin:
Thanks for the ‘splanation. I think we’re going to see many of the big money boys bailing on the WMR Failboat this month,
sensingbloody well knowing he’s a losing cause and they’re shoveling cash down a rathole.Will any shift shamelessly to the winning side to try and buy a leeetle last-minute influence? “Listen, sorry about the ‘up yours’ yesterday, here’s a pie.”
I suspect a few will, but on the down-low.
JPL
Wasn’t it Michele who supposedly burned the Whitey Tape?
trollhattan
@Enhanced Mooching Techniques:
You should see how I treat my Roomba!
Frankensteinbeck
@Ash Can:
I think of it in terms of scientific models. Take as your assumptions ‘there is a lot of racism in America’, ‘racism is socially punished unless it’s deniable’, and ‘the first black man is elected president. What do you expect? Pretty much all the shit we’ve seen for the last four years. Screaming anger that seems unconnected to issues, insults and declarations of intent to punish said black president way beyond what other presidents get, a resurgence of old memes used for race-baiting, and so on and so on…
trollhattan
@JPL:
Buried in the WH veg garden with Hoffa.
PurpleGirl
@scav: Brilliant! I will be borrowing this.
Bruce S
I tend to not want to use the term, but I think that reading this crap and the insanity emanating from Ralph Reed, that a significant segment of the wingnut Right has actually descended into something that reeks of anti-Americanism. I think they really are hating on this country, the mainstream of American culture/politics and the demographic/cultural shifts that are indicative of a more inclusive society. Romney himself plays this sour note with his contempt for the “47%.” The GOP base – and the “leadership” that cravenly sucks up to it – is increasingly pathological, delusional and in the grip of hate and resentment. Nothing much there other than their pathologies and crippled psyches. “Conservatism” has been dragged into the gutter.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@JPL:
Has anyone heard anything from Agent Flowbee lately?
kay
Mitt Romney does this horrible, fake thing at the beginning of his rallies.
He pretends he’s surprised at the applause.
His eyebrows go up, his eyes widen in mock amazement at how much others love him. and he plasters on a “humble” smile.
It goes on well past awkward.
It’s like no one told him that would be a fleeting expression on a human being.
My hope is, he does it at the debate because people need to see that.
Anoniminous
From the Great Orange Satanist hisself comes word of something I didn’t think was possible … Romney losing ground with Latinos, too
Obama is now at 73% support up from 69%. Romney 21% support down from 24%.
Jeebus.
JPL
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Haven’t looked in any gutters lately.
WereBear
That made me laugh so hard I think it’s safe to make cocoa now, it won’t be going up my nose any time soon.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Bruce S:
Your supposition makes way too much sense to me. If they can’t have the America of their imagination then let it burn. They’d rather have the whole shithouse go up in chunks than let “those people” have a hand in running it.
zzyzx
@Southern Beale:
That transcript doesn’t have the quotes Drudge has on its front page. However, it’s hard to be too scared of, “My pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.. ”
No one other than those who already won’t vote for Obama will be moved. If that’s one of the two scare quotes, it’s another non-troversy.
hep kitty
Chris
@Bruce S:
They’re no longer running the place, they’re no longer the center of attention like in the fifties, so they feel left out and want to burn the place down rather than share it.
You know that kid who gets insanely jealous when his baby brother arrives, because now Mom has another kid to take care of and frankly he needs more taking care of right now? Republicans are that kid grown to adulthood with zero maturing process.
piratedan
damn, I must’ave been making a run for a sixer when Obama nationalized Amtrak…..
At times I almost pine for Obama to round up all of his “enemies” and transport them to a certain undisclosed location and put them behind barbed wire just so they could have the satisfaction of knowing how right they all were but I’m too busy being a lazy ass athiest liberal lgbt supporting taker to actually show up at the secret black helicopter organizational meeting at the mosque to make it happen.
Maude
@kay:
I can’t stand the sound of his voice.
Hypatia's Momma
@scav:
And who doesn’t want unlimited Bacon?
trollhattan
@kay:
It’s special reboot moments like these from which “trees are all the right height” quips emanate. Doubtless, his genius advisors keep encouraging him to keep looking for opportunites to let his “real” personality out.
What could possibly go wrong?
hep kitty
@Southern Beale:
I think that needs to go on a bumpersticker
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@kay: The Obama campaign has a great commercial with just a few second clip of Romney with that weird half smile and shark eyed (“like a doll’s eyes, chiefy”) look as he turns his head. I think it’s from his Libya press conference. I think it’s very effective.
beltane
@hep kitty: The fact that Mitt is both greedy and miserly is NOT endearing. It does underscore the fact that rich people tend to bitch and whine about money more than normal people do.
hep kitty
@trollhattan: It’s about time
KG
@greenergood: the answer to that is easy…
“Reagan’s right, a job is the best social program, especially if it’s a good paying job,” pause of amazement to wash away, then add, “that’s why we need good school, roads, transit, and legal system that protects both employers and employees. You know, a bunch of government type stuff.”
trollhattan
@WereBear:
Thanks, this is a tough room. :-)
Davis X. Machina
@Bruce S: It’s a not-uncommon right-wing fantasy.
After the cleansing fire, Tomorrow Belongs to Me.
trollhattan
@beltane:
He’s Gordon Gekko without the hookers, Champagne and blow. And ironically, hookers, Champagne and blow would humanize him. What he’s left as, is Monty Burns with Tagg as Smithers.
hep kitty
@beltane: That has certainly been my experience.
Although a former boss of mine was a Dem. He had a great cushy job and made good money but he was also very generous and kind. He liked to spend money on his family, take trips, and generally enjoy life with the money he had. He was in his 60’s, he’d earned it.
He brought me and other ladies gifts from his trips, including regular installments of absolutely to-die-for hand-dipped turtles from a New Orleans candy shop.
I never once heard him complain about paying taxes and freeloaders and moochers and shit like that.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Maude:
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Romney is the type of candidate you’d like to throw a beer at.
beltane
@trollhattan: A few years ago I saw photos of one of his mansions that was on the market, a huge log home somewhere out west. It was extremely bland, charmless and generic looking. I can’t speak for everyone but I always thought that one of the main perks of extreme wealth was the ability to surround oneself with beautiful things and be a patron of the arts. The Romneys are not of this mindset and appear to have no aesthetic sensibility whatsoever. They are just dreary, boring people with a lot of money. What a waste.
The Other Chuck
@trollhattan: What amazes me is that West was so blisteringly stupid as to go there in the first place.
Actually I don’t know why I should be amazed at teabagger stupidity, but I just figured if he was crafty enough to get elected in the first place …
JPL
When is Drudge’s big reveal?
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
I think that’s better known as “wishful thinking.”
Political Observer
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!</em?
NEW Obama RACE SPEECH! Transcripts and video coming soon! Shout-outs to Rev. Wright! Insults the poor! Portrays America as a racist society! Has an accent he NEVER uses in public!!!
October Surprise anyone?
This is going to turn the race UPSIDE DOWN motherfuckers!
FOX NEWS tonight! 9 pm!
Maude
@hep kitty:
I bet a lot of rich people don’t like being lumped in with the Romney types. It isn’t fair to paint them all with the same brush.
Political Observer
‘We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs. We should be investing in minority-owned businesses, in our neighborhoods’…–Barack Obama
Political Observer
OBAMA DECLARES HOW POOR PEOPLE: ‘Need help with basic skills, how to shop, how to show up for work on time, how to wear the right clothes, how to act appropriately in an office’… Developing…
Political Observer
DAILY CALLER: ‘For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America’… Developing tonight…
Gwangung
@Political Observer: yeah, real controversial.
Shouldn’t you be able to do better than that?
Higgs Boson's Mate
Wonder who showed it how to bold text.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@beltane: Romney’s place in Deer Valley? It’s certainly a vulgar McMansion, but I confess the skier in me is jealous of whole ski-in ski-out thing. Not being a beach person, it’s the $12 million ranch house in La Jolla that leaves me confused. Now, the place in New Hampshire, 15 acres on a huge lake? That’s what I’m buying the day after I win the lottery, which I figure is as likely to happen whether or not I buy a ticket, so….
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Remember folks, do not tip the poll dancer. You don’t know where that thong has been.
General Stuck
@Political Observer:
WTF. You some kind of propaganda bot? Daily Caller? Did the bow tie put you up this dead ender shit?
dmsilev
@JPL: According to our pet troll just now, 9 Eastern. Booga booga booga!
scav
still, when he breaks out the bold, things usually get funny. A little bit K-tel hits of the mmummmm-mumplties but well . . .
Comrade Jake
OMG, you mean to tell me Drudge found the Whitey tape?!?!? Holy shit – that really blows the election wide open.
MoZeu
@General Stuck: Yup. I checked out the comments there and they are simply appalling. It makes me sick to my stomach. I followed the “far left” Orange Satan throughout all the Bush years and never saw anything to compare to the violent, vitriolic rhetoric that is routine on supposed mainstream blogs. Hindrocket has long since taken leave of any sense he might ever have had. Reading those comments makes me feel utterly violated. The hatred these people have for anyone with a different worldview is shocking to me. I guess I live in a cloistered environment and don’t have any wingnut relatives who send me e-mails so I really lose track of how scary the right wing in this country is right now.
raven
@Gwangung: Don’t engage it.
Political Observer
It’s going to be 100% uncensored, unscrubbed, and UNEDITED! The “transcript” from the Atlantic is the cleaned-up version.
He repeatedly shows contempt for whites and white America, and calls for what amounts to racial reparations.
hep kitty
@beltane But pretty much everybody else I’ve known who has money are whiners and definitely bitch about taxes. Talk about seeing yourselves as “victims.” It’s kinda hard to be around.
Oh and then there are people I know who benefit/benefited greatly from government programs (SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Voc Rehab) who are scared of Obama and Dems. I don’t know which is worse. At least 3 of these people would probably be dead or living on the streets if it weren’t for those programs.
dmsilev
@scav: I’m kind of disappointed that we haven’t yet seen VICTORY! or UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH!. Where’s the respect for tradition?
KG
@Political Observer: um, first, as someone pointed out upthread, Sullivan wrote about this, in the Atlantic, in 2007, that would have been before the 2008 election, or even primaries.
second, what exactly is offensive about saying that we should invest in small businesses (minority owned or otherwise)? Don’t we care about creating jobs? Please point out what, exactly, he says is offensive, other than this “accent”.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Violet: Yeah, they were riffing off George Will’s column today, which is essentially Ann Coulter’s latest book in less spittle-flecked language. George Will is white, male privilege embodied, in a perfectly tailored suit, probably not one of the ones his first wife threw out on the lawn when she found out he was fucking his boss’s daughter.
Liberty60
Whenever conservatives beg for tolerance I am reminded of those pirates at the end of the movie meekly begging “parlay?”
zzyzx
I love it when people start overselling controversies. Makes me feel better about what is there.
kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
They have a new ad on Romney’s mandated miners. It’s brutal. I’m not even sure it was needed because every Ohio newspaper focused on how the miners weren’t paid for the day and were ordered to stand there. That was the entire focus when Romney released the ad.
But what nerve he has. He did that appearance at the mine, the story was all over the place that the miners’ attendance was involuntary, so he puts them in an ad?
The Columbus Dispatch is a right wing rag and even they focused on the involuntary attendance/ lost wages angle.
Political Observer
Nope. That was the scrubbed version. This is the LONGER UNCUT version with shocking revelations!
trollhattan
@beltane:
Probably this monstrosity.
ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6091923
I’m sure that fits right into a mountainous setting. Supposedly, it was one of his Olympics perks, as there was some land-dealin’ going, on the side.
Reminds me of the end of “The Jerk” when Steve Martin’s family built themselves a giant version of their old shack with the money he’d sent home. I can imagine Willard and Ann looking at the developer’s catalogue and saying, “We want ‘The Aspen,’ but with five more bedrooms and seven more baths.”
Comrade Jake
Hey, Political Observer – pro tip: your posts are much more effective when you put the entire text in bold.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@JPL:
If I was still drinking I’d bet a case of good beer that however trivial it is, how out of context it is, or how long ago it was, any number of wingers will demand that Obama resigns immediately, immediately, immediately.
Largely because that is Romney’s best chance.
trollhattan
@General Stuck:
Treacher trolls lefty (sane) blogs so, inquiring minds….
KG
@Political Observer: oh, a director’s cut? How exciting!
Now, about my question… what exactly is so terrible in his speech? You say there’s shocking revelations, but everything you’ve posted about it so far is, what’s the word, oh, yeah, NON-FUCKING-CONTROVERSIAL.
trollhattan
@Political Observer:
Obama’s shocking revelation: “I like boobies.” Polls jump three points.
The End
nellcote
I blame Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” for instituionalizing the notion that the meaning of words no longer matter.
I want my language back!
General Stuck
@trollhattan:
Yea, that clown posted a picture of his cat on my blog a couple of years ago. It didn’t stay there long.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ash Can: Despite being one of your fellow Pasty-Americans, I believed it.
Bruce S
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
That was kind of my “supposition” – just not stated as baldly. They hate America. They hate the America that actually exists. They want to reclaim something that never really did exist as they imagine it, and if they can’t have it they want to take the country down. The “far left” never had any impact worth speaking of on a mainstream political party – this is the most destructive and far-reaching “hate America” campaign I’ve seen in my lifetime. And I’ve been through the ’60s, when there were a lot of hysterical lefties running around. But they were always marginalized by comparison, even when they made a lot of noise. These sickos have a major party candidate who hates half the country almost as much as they do.
MikeJ
@KG: I understand that Obama often makes origami unicorns in the oval office.
Anoniminous
@KG:
Think I’ll wait for the Extended Edition Blu-Ray release with polyphonic surround-sound.
General Stuck
@MoZeu:
They are going to get scarier
Smiling Mortician
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Yes. But they’re gonna do that anyway because Mussolini. Meanwhile, however will Obama survive without the crucial Creed demographic?
Also: your nym makes me smile every time I see it.
Chris
@beltane:
No, it’s being able to surround yourself with EXPENSIVE things, to show everyone you can afford them. Bland or not doesn’t matter. “Conspicuous consumption” is I believe the sociological term.
some guy
Breaking News: Obama Still Blackity Black Black
raven
@KG: Why in the fuck would you talk to this fucking moron? You think you are going to say some clever shit that will make it shut up. Get a goddamn clue.
Omnes Omnibus
@gbear: Madison has Althouse, so don’t try to palm Assrocket off on us. We have our quota.
Comrade Jake
@raven: Ease up. Everyone likes to play punch the clown once in awhile.
The Other Chuck
@MikeJ: I’d really love it if Mitt’s debate questions were the Voight-Kampff test.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Bruce S:
Figured as much. I was just re-reading William Burroughs’ Nova Express and some of his language (Though not his talent) found its way into my reply.
Chris
@Bruce S:
Aaron Sorkin pointed the same thing out in the nineties. “America,” to them, is a mystical quasi religious idea of a place that stopped existing in the sixties or thirties or Civil War, and in reality never existed outside of their fuzzy little heads.
That’s what they love. America, the real live three hundred million people who exist in the real world? Oh yeah, they HATE that. They couldn’t hate it more if they were fucking al-Qaeda.
raven
@Comrade Jake: It’s so dumb.
Mr Stagger Lee
I must admit, if President Obama did shave his head, dressed in a Tan tunic and black shirt and sang some Al Green from a balcony, I guess I would be cheering Il Duce,Il Duce also. I know many women would.
zzyzx
@raven: it’s not for him, it’s for anyone else who might read and be nervous.
Me, I’m going to freak out until the election is over and Obama has safely won.
LD50
One thing the wingnuts have never explained, is when Obama is Hitler, when he’s Stalin, when he’s Lenin, when he’s Mao, or when he’s Mussolini. I’m sure there’s a pattern to this (I.e., days when he’s not Mao or more Leninesque than usual), but I’ve never seen it laid out.
Davis X. Machina
@Comrade Jake: Bold costs more, and he’s on piecework. So bold works, but it cuts into his net.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@raven:
It might be more fun to encourage it to share more of its innermost thoughts. For the sake of your monitor don’t be sipping anything if it finally did.
Bruce S
@Chris:
Is “fucking” a verb or an adjective in that last sentence?
Works either way…
hep kitty
Are we going to have a Zingers Thread?
Omnes Omnibus
@LD50: In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.
Maude
@LD50:
They don’t know many names. They have to use what they have in their tiny brains.
They also have no idea of what those monsters did to people or that they would be washed away in a tide of blood if they were alive back then.
NR
@Chris:
You are absolutely right.
And the Democratic party is 100% dedicated not to fighting these people, but to compromising with them.
Comrade Jake
Yglesias’ tweets about the Drudge tape are pretty entertaining. A sample:
Frankensteinbeck
@LD50:
It’s Paulite moral philosophy. You are Good or Bad. All Good people are basically the same, as are all Bad people. Hitler, Mao, Obama, because they are Bad they must inevitably all do the same things.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Maude:
Their papers would have been stamped “Too stupid to be useful: forced labor.”
hep kitty
@nellcote: That brings to mind that squeaky, putrid little Ramesh Ponnuru’s “Party of Death”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Comrade Jake: As god as his witness, Willard WILL carry Georgia, Mississippi and Albama by double digits!
Maude
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Thank you.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Smiling Mortician:
Nice to hear that you get a kick out of it. It just popped into my head one evening.
bemused
@Violet:
Republicans are looking for any excuse why white people would vote for Obama over Romney except the obvious…their platform sucks.
Hill Dweller
I thought the “redistribution” tape was supposed to be Obama’s undoing.
Part of video Drudge is pushing has been on youtube for 5 years.
JPL
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Well if I were a contestant in this whitey contest, I would pick door number 2. Why 2 you ask, because 2 is a significant number for ..oh, never ming.
WereBear
I hope, if there is extra money, that the Democrats can run those swing state ads in the other states; I want the “independents” to get a load of what is scaring the heck out of their like in those swing states.
lamh35
North Carolina Poll: Obama By 2 Points, 20-Point Advantage Among Early Voters
Maude
@Hill Dweller:
Oops!
lamh35
Would love to hear Kay or Zandar’s take on this. It sounds promising.
Turnout for first day of early voting nearly double that of 2008
Higgs Boson's Mate
@hep kitty:
A Ramesh Ponnuru is an it that stinks.
General Stuck
@lamh35:
There is also a poll out showing Romney leading Obama in Missouri by I think just 4 points. One of the reddest trending states out there.
JPL
If the new tape is the old tape, does that mean we are suppose to hate the poor?
Good times, right before the 2004 elections Bozo Boortz was all a flitter about Kerry having an affair. Where did he read about that, Drudge of course.
danimal
Damn, I was hoping for the Whitey tape.
Disappointed again.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@JPL:
Matt Drudge?
Southern Beale
Does anyone else argue with their spouse about what to watch on TV at night? Honestly I can’t think of a lamer argument, ever.
Bob In Portland
Well, at least this should calm those who think that Obama is a socialist or a liberal.
Bob In Portland
Well, at least this should calm those who think that Obama is a socialist or a liberal.
Chyron HR
@Hill Dweller:
Yes, but this NEW video has him
badly dubbedusing a voice he’s never used before and saying “Where da white women at?”Davis X. Machina
@Bob In Portland:
It’s a floor wax. And a dessert topping.
The Sheriff's A Ni-
@Comrade Jake:
As if yelling ‘SCARY BLACK MAN’ for four years now has worked at all. I think at this point they’re just double-dog daring each other into dropping the n-bomb.
Redhand
These days I usually just lurk here at BJ, but Hindrocket’s post is so totally batshit crazy
that I have to say something. These are the people that accused Bush critics of having “BDS”?! I swear they are out of their effing minds. Words just fail me.
Narcissus
Meanwhile there are actual fascists marching in Greece, but he probably sympathizes with their positions
PurpleGirl
@piratedan: damn, I must’ave been making a run for a sixer when Obama nationalized Amtrak…..
Are they claiming that President Obama nationalized Amtrak? Do they not know that Amtrak is a government corporation, i.e. it is not privately owned and operated.
PurpleGirl
@beltane: Oh, that house was in Utah, in one of the developments that benefited from the federally built roads for the Olympics.