Check out the poster in the back.
Update.
Heh.
Update. Yes, folks, it’s a photoshop. But as Cokie et al. said about everything the right made up about Clinton, isn’t the point here that you *could* imagine Paul Ryan liking Nickelback? Isn’t that bad enough?
Cris (without an H)
HA HA HA HA
geg6
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Jeebus, he’s a loser.
And, can I ask, why does anyone find this guy attractive? I keep hearing that he’s a good looking guy, but I just see the guy that the guys on the swim team used to hang on the flagpole by his jockstrap.
Yutsano
He’s a Canadian plant??
Maude
Is that Ryan? Wow, he looks like it was a very rough night.
Schlemizel
christ – here we go again giving credence to the unimportant bits. Its the spin afterwards that matters and if I have to spend another week of hand-wringing and bet wetting on BJ I may open a vein.
We have wasted a week in which Willard has ‘topped’ himself a few times for new stupidity pissing & moaning and frothing over L’il Andy. Lets try to keep expectations in line with reality from here out please
raven
Sometimes it’s good to be old, I don’t know shit about this band or the fucker that ya’ll can’t stop talking about day-in-and-day-out.
Major Mel Funkshun
I’m guessing he covered up his Hulk Hogan poster with his Nickleback poster when he hit puberty, about 15 minutes ago.
Uncle Cosmo
Can we geezers get a tad of explanation here? What’s so effin’ funny?
Keith
Backwards ballcap? Check.
Nickelback fan? Check.
Now all he needs is a soul patch and an earring in his left ear.
EDIT: And his shredding totally sucked.
Souvik
Saw this on lamebook
http://www.lamebook.com/on-blast/
BlueDWarrior
Could this man give off any stronger a douchebag vibe? Seriously, he seems like a general internet meme waiting to happen.
Legalize
Such a douche. That’s really all there is to say.
TooManyJens
Paul Ryan has asked that he be referred to as “Mr. Ryan” instead of “Congressman Ryan” in the debate. Wouldn’t want all those voters who hate our shitty Congress to associate him with its failure.
I liked Jesse Taylor’s (of Pandagon) reply:
MikeJ
Here’s the source. Another video from Bad Lip Reading.
Violet
Hahahahhahahahaha! Hilarious!
geg6
@Uncle Cosmo:
Nickelback, dear FSM, he’s got a Nickelback poster. And he, apparently, does not mind that he’s now shown himself in public with that poster.
I’m old, too, but even I know that Nickelback sucks, sucks, sucks. Depending on your age, I’d compare them to the Bay City Rollers in my youth. Maybe the Herman’s Hermits type from the Sixties, though I feel bad about lumping Herman’s Hermits in with Nickelback. Hell, I feel bad about lumping the Bay City Rollers in with Nickelback. At least the Bay
City Rollers had interesting clothes. Weird, but interesting.
Comrade Mary
@Yutsano: YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
Holden Pattern
He’s not the only one. Three “Likes” seen in a row on a former high school classmates’s Facebook page: “Nobama”, “Teaparty!” and “Nickelback”.
Hill Dweller
The Nickleback poster is proof positive that douche never listened to RATM.
Hill Dweller
@TooManyJens: Joe should repeatedly call him congressman. If asked why after the debate, he should say it was a gaffe.
Zifnab25
Christ, it’s like he’s trying to find new reasons to make me dislike him.
dedc79
It makes sense, in a way. Nickelback’s success is as puzzling as Ryan’s.
burnspbesq
@Comrade Mary:
He’s an evil Canadian shape-shifter. Has anyone ever seen Paul Ryan and Mark Steyn in the same place at the same time? Well? Have you?
geg6
@Hill Dweller:
Very true. I never believed the RATM story anyway. I mean, seriously? Mr. Ayn Rand Fanboi loving RATM?
I don’t think so.
TheMightyTrowel
Maybe this is the RNC strategy for getting out the youth vote (ca. 2000)
geg6
@Hill Dweller:
THIS.
Hal
Paul Ryan, meet Henry Rollins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8tmhHOH5uk
HG Hay
I think the background is fake. I want to believe he’s that horrible, but other items in the shot are a McDonald’s soda cup, an empty can of coke, a picture of Hulk Hogan, an ad for Spring Break ’88… I think you get the idea here. Plus, they obviously edited in someone else’s hands to hold signs saying “Steak Baby,” etc.
Cris (without an H)
And just to be clear, this is a video composite. Ryan didn’t really make a video with a Nickelback poster in the background. But that doesn’t prove he doesn’t like Nickelback
Yutsano
@Comrade Mary: It would be irresponsible not to speculate at this point. And no way is he Canuckistani, unless he was trained really really well.
slag
When I saw the bad lip reading video, I had assumed that the background was a Photoshop joke. Are you sure it wasn’t?
Anibundel
This is all I have to say about that:
http://media.salon.com/2012/10/rand_ryan_cover2.jpg
h/t salon.com
Redshift
Just got a fundraising email “from” Joe Biden with the subject line of “My promise to you and Barack tonight”. I was hoping it would say “I will do my best to kick Paul Ryan’s ass and send him home crying for his mommy.”
Instead it said “I told Barack I have one mission tonight: tell the truth and stand up for what we believe in.”
That’s okay, too, I guess.
JPL
@TooManyJens: Mr. Ryan as a congressman, you voted for yadda, yadda, yadda….
raven
Nothin wrong with Peter Noone.
Citizen_X
@Cris (without an H): “Are you now, or have you ever been, a fan of Nickelback?”
Oh, and here Salon’s collected some of today’s Paul-Ryan-posing pshops. Enjoy.
Frankensteinbeck
@geg6:
My theory is that the Village Punditocracy is composed almost exclusively of badly repressed old gay and bisexual men. This leads to them fawning in homoerotically charged language over men who aren’t quite good looking enough that Punditocrat might worry the guy is gay. Dominance issues and indications of rough trade a plus – they’re bad boys to feel like this and they want to be abused for it.
lamh35
@TooManyJens: And what happens if Biden “forgets” and calls Ryan Congressman? Then what. Personally, I say the heck with the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” after Romney lied his way through the first one and woulda been disqualified from any REAL COMPETITIVE debate team for all his lies, I say Fudge it, Biden should call him Congressman once or twice just to get under his skin. Then he should drop it, then intersperse it again among his points to goad the F*&’r
ETA: @Hill Dweller: beat me to it.
slag
@Anibundel: Genius!
Keith
@HG Hay: Of course it’s fake; watch the video…the guy is saying he’s in a band called “Steak Baby” and is shredding on a guitar.
PeakVT
Paul Ryan:Nickelback::Joe Biden:George Thorogood and the Destroyers
MikeJ
@PeakVT: I would love to sit down with Joe Biden and have one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.
Maude
@Schlemizel:
I read Bloomberg and that those types of tweets during the debate. They were talking about what was being said. Not one mention that Obama was “off his game””.
It was the awful media hype and they did this before the invasion of Iraq.
I didn’t understand the stuff here either.
I try to stay up and listen to the VP debate on radio.
DPS
isn’t the point here that you could imagine Paul Ryan liking Nickelback?
Yes, I couldn’t agree more. It obviously feeds into a perception people already have of Paul Ryan. Wondering whether this is a photoshop job misses the point.
The question is now, what can Paul Ryan do to change the Nickelback narrative?
Bobby Thomson
Shit, this is easy. Joe just needs to say, “Mr. Ryan is the Congressman who voted for the same cuts in Medicare spending that he now criticizes the administration for,” and “Mr. Ryan is the Congressman who wants to turn Medicare into a voucher program where people are left with coupons and no guarantee of insurance or coverage,” and “Mr. Ryan is the Congressman whose budget plan just doesn’t work as a matter of simple arithmetic.”
I would shove that up his ass.
Seriously, that would be like Rmoney “insisting” that Obama not mention Bain in the debates. Shove it up your ass, liar.
Omnes Omnibus
@DPS:
Perhaps if he copped to being a Creed fan?
SIA
@TooManyJens: HAHAHAHAH GO JOE
kay
@Bobby Thomson:
I think so, too. Congressman is correct. He shouldn’t be allowed to run away from it.
We’ll have accuracy and honesty until he opens his mouth, at least, that way. He’s lying and dodging before he enters the fucking building.
Omnes Omnibus
@kay: I think it would be disrespectful to fail to use his title. He earned by winning an election, didn’t he? Also too, it would be unfair to Congressman Ryan if his title isn’t used and the Vice President’s title is used. Now, since it would be rude not to use the Vice President’s title, they have to use Congressman Ryan’s.
bryan
He thought the name was in reference to a rebate of some kind.
He cannot resist a good rebate.
Frankensteinbeck
@kay:
Note that when Obama tried exactly this tactic, Romney’s very effective tactic was to repeat his lies again as if Obama’s facts were wrong. The truth is less effective than you think! It does have to be a major part of the arsenal, however.
geg6
@Omnes Omnibus:
Did you catch the clip of Scott Stapp on FOX the other day, opining that Obama has forced him to not vote for him this time because he’s so disappointed in him. No real reason, he’s just been disappointing. Stapp looks fat and in dire need of a hair washing.
It’s fucking hilarious, especially how seriously they take him.
gelfling545
@geg6: I don’t see the attraction. I have asked several females & a few males I know for their opinion and the most said “meh” (although one did say that perhaps if his bank balance were tattooed on his forehead but that’s another conversation for another time). To me, he resembles my sisters miniature dachshund (at least in facial expression) which is to say: adorable if running around the floor nipping at your ankles; for other purposes not so good.
Omnes Omnibus
@geg6: Luckily, I seem to have missed that.
Svensker
@Citizen_X:
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: Trying to outdrink an Irishman? Your liver may never forgive you.
freelancer
This thread is rapidly becoming the tumbler of people who are snookered by The Onion.
THE PIC IS A SCREENSHOT FROM A BAD-LIP READ OF RYAN WHERE THEY DIGITALLY PUT HIM IN THAT ROOM!
Roy G.
The smackdown Tom Morello gave Ryan in Rolling Stone was beautiful.
Roy G.
sorry for the bad blockquote mojo – that’s all Morello above.