October Derprise
The Daily Caller, The Drudge Report, and Fox News trolled America yesterday, with shocking revelations that President Obama, who is black, gave a speech in 2007. (He was black then, too!) These idiots hyped the video which was supposed to show, much to the chagrin of White America, President Obama saying and doing black things, talking to black Americans, and oh my god the horror, the horror.
It was an embarrassing day for wingnuts because they all covered this video back in 2007, and the full video has been online for 5 fucking years.
*** Anne Laurie and Zandar covered this as well. You can read my take here, if you’re so inclined.
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Chris
I didn’t laugh out loud when I read this, because I’m in the library and there is a decorum to be observed, but I want you to know that it was not easy.
MoeLarryAndJesus
I understand there’s a video where Obama is shaking hands with James Brown, but Tucker’s holding onto that one until days before the election.
It’s a shocker.
GregB
You’d think that the dildos at Politico and Chris Cilliza would be sick and tired of getting punked by Matt- John Kerry is Having an Affair/Young White Woman Gets Backward B Carved Onto Her Face By Enraged Negro- Drudge.
Higgs Boson's Mate
Not only is Obama intransigently black, he compounded his sin by marrying a black woman and fathering two black children. That makes four black residents, in other words a gang, of black people in the White House.
ZOMG! BLACK GANG CAPTURES WHITE HOUSE!
/RW Hackery
Zifnab25
It’s been over 4 years. When are we finally going to vet this Obama guy? I have no idea who he is or what he stands for!
Also, where am I? What is going on? Who are these older man-woman couple hovering over me in a white sterile environment? I’m still sorting these questions out from yesterday, when I was born. Oh, hey, this is amazing and I’m going to need a few minutes to sort it out because I think I just discovered my penis.
Zifnab25
It’s been over 4 years. When are we finally going to vet this Obama guy? I have no idea who he is or what he stands for!
Also, where am I? What is going on? Who are these older man-woman couple hovering over me in a white sterile environment? I’m still sorting these questions out from yesterday, when I was born. Oh, hey, this is amazing and I’m going to need a few minutes to sort it out because I think I just discovered my panis.
cmorenc
Wingnuts sincerely believe that if they only expose and explain enough times Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Obama’s true radical agenda to destroy America and how he’s one of the “bad” negroes instead of one of the “good” ones like Herman Cain and Justice Thomas, then a substantial portion of the non-wingnut rest of the American electorate will have a sudden epiphany SHEZAM! OBAMA’S ONE OF THOSE THREATENING BUCKS WITH T-BONE STEAKS, the suit and Ivy League background merely being a dissembling disguise. Keep trying to repeat the words, loud enough, in as many variations as possible, until it clicks, which it will, it must. Sometime, they’re SURE it will.
Villago Delenda Est
The desperation is not only palpable, it’s all over you like Cormac McLaggen tried to be all over Hermione Granger.
Warren Terra
The funniest part is that Tucker Carlson was promoting this supposedly new video yesterday, as some sort of scoop on his website, apparently having forgotten that he himself tried to make an issue of the same video in 2007.
Villago Delenda Est
@cmorenc:
Their idea of a “good” negro is a war criminal shitstain named Allen West.
That’s what their idea of “good” is.
Southern Beale
So let me get this straight: Republicans think that defending the Bush Administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina and making fun of Obama’s religion are the way to go at this point? Do I have that right?
comrade scott's agenda of rage
If Steve Martin’s experience is any indication, all Obama needs to do is listen to a Montivani record, then he’ll turn white. Technically he’s halfway there.
That would make the wingnuts happy. Oh wait, no it won’t, ie, their treatment of the last Dem president.
Southern Beale
@GregB:
OMG I totally forgot about the John Kerry affair thing. That one was hilarious.
blingee
…and judging by all the comments on liberal blogs it WORKED! You people fall for the wingnut bullshit every single fucking time. Wingnuts are idiots but at least they understand that people can’t drive by an accident without rubber necking.
So you may think that you are accomplishing something by pointing at them and laughing but you are only helping them to make something out of nothing. Mission accomplished.
…and you will NEVER learn because by the end of the day I can guarantee you will do it again.
Villago Delenda Est
@Southern Beale:
The desperation. They’re soaking in it.
LanceThruster
This is a “Gotcha!” of the giant sloth variety
Brachiator
Not only is Obama black, he is obviously enciting black hatred against Real American White People(tm). If re-elected, there will not only be black helicopters and sharia law sozhulism, Kenyan Style, but also the De-emancipation Proclamation, or Whitey Chained.
Because it is unpossible that a black president could ever want to help all Americans. Not like that nice Mitt Romney fellow, who will get the 47 percent of moochers to self-deport so that Real American Whitey Utopia can bloom again.
Mormon unicorns.
WereBear
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: I believe it was Lawrence Welk.
“This is the music of my people!”
Brachiator
Might be my computer, or Comments is acting up again (Windows 7 and IE PC)
Violet
@Warren Terra: I know! That’s my favorite part of this whole fail parade. Tucker himself covered the video on his show in 2007. Hilarious.
Villago Delenda Est
@Brachiator:
Comments are not acting up for me, but that’s right now.
Give it 15-20 and they will be.
FYWP in advance.
Southern Beale
Obama has already secured the 7-Eleven vote.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Violet:
Tucker himself covered himself with FAIL this time.
You made me riff, Violet. :)
Bulworth
Yeah but now GAME CHANGE! because shut up that’s why.
Steve
@blingee: Clearly the fact that we are having lots of fun mocking these idiots is bad news for Obama, somehow. Maybe it’s because of all the undecided swing voters who monitor ABL’s blogging incessantly.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@WereBear:
Originally from the album “Let’s Get Small”.
“I was born a poor black child…then I heard my first Montivanti record..and I said ‘these are my people'”
Back to trying to be pertinent, some days I think the whole racial hatred of Obama by the Repup “intelligentsia” is overblown since these people castigated Clinton with equal fury…until something like this latest from Bowtie Boy shows up. At the very least it’s message is aimed at the hard core bigoted wing of the party…which to be fair, is a large portion of the party. In the Clinton years, all they had to fall back on was Vince Foster and blowjobs.
AdamK
Not only is Obama black, he KNOWS he’s black (and has known it since at least 2007) but has yet to apologize for it to the American people!
patroclus
Tucker Carlson is a race-hustling idiotic non-journalist. The fact that he, himself, tried to make an issue out of this in 2008 by covering this video blies his attempt to make it sound newsworthy now.
And Obama was, if anything, too tame about Bush/Brownie’s incompetence in 2007 regarding Katrina. Kanye West and many others attributed the incompetence to racism; Obama didn’t. So, Carlson/Hannity/Tapper got this one wrong; just like in 2008.
If this is all they’ve got, they got nothing.
pk
I actually saw the whole video and thought what a reasonable, rational guy Obama is, still a better choice than Hillary and I have to go vote for him again.
blingee
@Steve: If you think like a 5yo then yea, the point behind your sarcasm is true. You are only preaching to the choir around there.
But mass psychology is different and you obviously are not capable of understanding such concepts.
johhny aquitard
O my God. I had no idea the President was black. I of course don’t pay much attention to politics, but honestly, you can’t really tell from the way he talks, you know? So I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Well, that settles it. I’m not voting for him.
SatanicPanic
@blingee: DAMN, I knew I missed something on that meta thread:
Comment complaining about liberals mocking something conservatives said/did because it only gets more attention for said thing conservatives said/did
quannlace
Poor Tucker. His own quote at his website:
“N: ‘This isn’t a dog whistle — this is a dog siren'”
Ah, so you’re admitting you use race-baiting stories, eh?
WereBear
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: Ohh. Sorry. I was thinking of The Jerk.
Turns out I was wrong, there, too: according to wiki, it’s the Roger Wolfe Kahn Orchestra.
Bort
Hmmm, this was definitely not as good as “Obama’s Hip Hop Birthday!!!” on Fox Nation. Needs more blackity black.
The Other Chuck
@quannlace: The fuck is a “dog siren”? Jesus, that’s McMegan-level idiotic.
And why won’t FYWP remember who I am?
Yutsano
@SatanicPanic: It’s okay. I fergot the Durf post too.
The Red Pen
Yes, but now we can prove it!
Brachiator
@Villago Delenda Est:
I’ve been away from the Intertubes. Has someone already talked about George Will channelling the ghost of Geraldine Ferraro and saying that if Obama wins it will only be because America was too afraid to dump its affirmative action president?
Conservatives are doubling down on race hatred, not by resorting to the N word, but by trying to paint Obama as an impossibly aristocratic Stepin Fetchit that Real White America(tm) is too fond of to kick to the curb. It’s all despicable.
jibeaux
@SatanicPanic: to my credit, I did include “comment complaining that linking to right wing blogs only gives them clicks”, but I was a little late to the game.
jibeaux
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Mnemosyne
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
I do actually think this is one of the things that drives some people insane about Obama: by his own account in Dreams from My Father, he chose to be black. He could have gone the Harold Ford Jr./Clarence Thomas route, married a white woman, and essentially “passed” enough to be acceptable to white corporate types.
But he didn’t. He moved to Chicago — where Harold Washington had helped gain political power for African-Americans — and married a girl from the South Side. He joined a black church and built his constituency starting from that base. And that fact just drives some white people absolutely bonkers.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
Isn’t Will basically admitting that Bush II was re-elected out of pity?
hueyplong
The intro segment with Hannity is hilarious. Carlson is nearly breathless. It’s almost as though, inside, he’s screaming, “It’s my big chance!”
The actual verbalizations are priceless as well, but nothing tops Carlson’s “We will be relentlessly attacked [nice larding of victimization there] on two gounds. One, people will say this has already been reported, well actually it hasn’t been reported and I know because I reported on it the first time.”
[Palm and forehead meet. Violently, if the act is prompted by cognitive thought.]
So IN THE ROLLOUT, their real and expressly admitted position is, “I know this is old news that everyone has already heard, but you guys just weren’t properly outraged last time. If we use the proper number of shrieking adjectives and adverbs, you’ll see it in a new light and realize that IT’S JUST LIKE THE 47% SPEECH, ONLY WITH MORE UPPITY, ANGRY BLACKNESS.”
I’m waiting for the breathless report that Obama has converted the American flag into a gang symbol: blue for Crips and red for Bloods, with only White (of course) remaining pure.
FoxNews is now pretty much impervious to parody. If SNL wants to do a skit on this, they cannot improve on the actual transcript. The Palinization of the right continues apace.
Michael James
@blingee: So we can take the fact that you responded to @Steve’s substantive post, which demolished the very foundations of your obvious troll, with nothing other than insults and unsupported opinions, as a flounce-out admission of defeat.
Wally Ballou
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Even the dog is black!
The Red Pen
@Southern Beale:
Yes, but that’s not all.
They’re also starting a dialog about the president ignoring intelligence briefings and how this lead to the deaths of four people in a terrorist attack. This topic couldn’t possibly backfire for Republicans.
Tone In DC
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
LULz. Two 50 something lawyers and two little girls definitely equals a gang, for some pearl clutchers on Fox.
catclub
@Southern Beale: I like that he is winning in Utah. Mormons don’t drink coffee at 7-Eleven.
I could unskew that poll.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
This is the madness of King George Will. An incompetent white president like Dubya is business as usual.
A competent black president cleaning up Dubya’s mess is a political charity case.
g
@Warren Terra: Well, Tucker did get one thing right. There were certain members of the media who really did a piss poor job – namely, one Tucker Carlson.
Ben Cisco
Wait till they find out his real name is Blackity El Negro bin Blackerson Le Noir Plastique.
Or Black Dynamite for short.
gocart mozart
Wait until they find out that he has fathered a black child, two even.
gocart mozart
@Tone In DC:
A gang is defined as two or more black people congregating.
See Police, The
The Red Pen
Buttrocket has a sad.
JustRuss
@Brachiator:
Yeah it was the big thing yesterday or Monday. I don’t recall anyone mentioning Ferraro, but that was the first thing that popped in my head. ‘Cause that comment worked out so well for her. It’s almost as if Will is a self-absorbed jackass who can’t learn from someone else’s mistake.
Enhanced Mooching Techniques
Wait a moment! Obama is BLACK???
gocart mozart
I for one, will not be satisfied until he releases all of his long form Parliment Funkadelics records.
Paul in KY
@Southern Beale: Sure seems that way. They are usually more diabolical than that.
Patricia Kayden
“The Daily Caller, The Drudge Report, and Fox News trolled America yesterday, with shocking revelations that President Obama, who is black, gave a speech in 2007.”
ABL, you missed out the “to a majority Black audience at a Black University” part of your sentence. And you forgot the “!!!!!”. This is scary stuff!
Paul in KY
@blingee: The people their propaganda is destined for don’t generally read liberal blogs.
elmo
It’s just so fucking depressing, really. They’re going on and on about his “black accent,” as though that alone – ZOMG HE TALKS LIKE A BLACK MAN – should be self-evidently offensive and frightening.
I mean, these are people who can get up in the morning, pay their bills, drive cars, cook without burning the house down, and generally take care of themselves. They’re not institutional-level stupid. And it just doesn’t even occur to them to ask, “So what? What’s frightening about a black man who talks like a black man?” It’s supposed to be self-evident, QED, that “talks like a black man” should = “hates white people.” Why is that? Who are they talking to?
Paul in KY
@blingee: Do elucidate for us, Professor ‘Blingee’.
JWR
@hueyplong: Compounding his idiocy, Carlson claims that as far as he can tell, back in 2007, reporters only covered Obama’s prepared remarks. Never mind that Obama’s improvised remarks were, and remain.. in the video.
gwangung
@The Red Pen:
This is after,
a) they just deployed a new team of military security in the area, and
b) refused to fund the Administration’s request for even more security
right?
Can’t imagine how that’s gonna play….
gwangung
@JWR:
Which he, himself, introduced and covered, right?
Brachiator
Of course, there were those missing years in which a half-white Obama wandered in the American Wilderness and perfected his Honky-Fu.
This especially upsets Limbaugh and other fools who are obsessed with Obama’s racial background.
cursorial
Sigh. Tucker Carlson just becomes wearisome. Maybe we should just congratulate the right wing on discovering Youtube, and consider it a small but hopeful sign that someday they’ll join us in the 21st century.
Miguel
You’re high. There can be no other explanation. It’s great that it doesn’t bother you that he completely lied about the amount of money going to New Orleans after Katrina.
Radon Chong
You are a damn genius.