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Trolling the Master

by John Cole|  October 22, 20121:35 pm| 32 Comments

This post is in: Our Failed Media Experiment

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I see headlines like this: “Revenge of the Soccer Moms: Why Are Women Abandoning Obama?” and I wonder if the MSM and headline writers are finally getting some revenge on DougJ.

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    October 22, 2012 at 1:36 pm

    Maybe he’s decided to make some additional money moonlighting as a headline writer?

  2. 2.

    ruemara

    October 22, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    I’m pretty sure everyone in that article is DougJ. Also, I submit this, without comment.

    Gavin Newsom shared a link via The Gavin Newsom Show.
    19 minutes ago
    What has been President Obama’s biggest failing, from a political perspective?
    __
    In this clip from his interview, airing tonight, 11PT, on Current, The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof lends his perspective:
    __
    Nicholas Kristof on Obama: His achilles heel, and what a 2nd term might look like
    current.com

  3. 3.

    danimal

    October 22, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    Headlines and articles like that seem to me to be, in my favorite military euphemism, a target-rich environment.

  4. 4.

    RaflW

    October 22, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    “Why are newsrooms a horde of craven hacks?” Film at …

    never.

  5. 5.

    srv

    October 22, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    I went to the Obama office here and they didn’t have any tote bags. Major disappoint.

  6. 6.

    Cassidy

    October 22, 2012 at 1:49 pm

    It’s been a little over a week, so I’m going to do some light spamming again. On Feb 2, 2013 I’ll be taking part in the Fight for Air Climb in Jacksonville, FL. My Firefighting class is required by our Chief to do a community service project to remind and reinforce the idea that Firefighters are public servants and role models; personally, I agree with that sentiment. I don’t have a personal connection to lung cancer, or any cancer really, other than my continual struggle to quit smoking.

    So, your donation, if you’re willing, either contributes money to that particular cause or buys you a small piece of my misery. I’ll be climbing 42 stories up in full bunker gear and air pack (roughly 30lbs). If you can or feel like it, please donate. I’ve already met my goal thanks to some very generous individuals. At this point it’s become a bit of a competition between classmates (I’m 3rd place) and to see if we can get our team into 1st (currently 2nd).

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 22, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    “Women are abandoning Obama” because the horse race narrative demands it.

    What is actually happening is secondary to sustaining the horse race narrative. Infotainment, people! Infotainment!

  8. 8.

    Matthew Reid Krell

    October 22, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    @Cassidy:

    So, your donation, if you’re willing, either contributes money to that particular cause or buys you a small piece of my misery.

    Which is it?

  9. 9.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    October 22, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    When the Master is ready, the Student appears.

  10. 10.

    Mnemosyne

    October 22, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    @Matthew Reid Krell:

    Depends on what you want more: to donate to a good cause or to cause Cassidy physical misery. If you want to do both, it’s a two-fer!

  11. 11.

    The Moar You Know

    October 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    Hell, I think they’re learning from him, not trolling him.

    I love DougJ, but if he’s the future of our national discourse – and I suspect he is – we are in for a world of hurt.

  12. 12.

    SFAW

    October 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    I must be missing something – people here think DougJ trolls?

    I find it hard to believe that such an Astute Political Observer as DougJ would do such a thing.

    That’s almost as ridiculous as suggesting that Mitt Romney lacks integrity, or that William Kristol’s judgment is suspect. So quit yanking my chain.

  13. 13.

    Davis X. Machina

    October 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    @The Moar You Know:

    I love DougJ, but if he’s the future of our national discourse we are in for a world of hurt.

    But DougJ has what plants crave!

  14. 14.

    TaMara (BHF)

    October 22, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    @Cassidy: I’ve bookmarked this and will shoot you a donation next week. Sounds like a great cause. But I think we’ll need pictures.

  15. 15.

    Culture of Truth

    October 22, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    by an amazing coincidence, the race is completely tied, reports the media, which is very excited by a tied race.

  16. 16.

    Culture of Truth

    October 22, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    Why would it be “revenge”? Just because Obama banned soccer?

  17. 17.

    The Moar You Know

    October 22, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    @ruemara: I knew that fucking self-aggrandizing alcoholic womanizing piece of shit Newsom would pull crap like this the first day he got a chance to.

    Kristof? Man, starting at the bottom and work your way down. Newsom’s backup plan to “being president” must be “being Geraldo Riviera”.

    Why yes, I’m a former SF resident, why do you ask?

  18. 18.

    Suffern ACE

    October 22, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    Mr. Obama, what is your greatest flaw. Mr. Romney, what do you think is Obamas greatest flaw?

  19. 19.

    Culture of Truth

    October 22, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    @Suffern ACE: David Gregory actually asked his guests a similar question a few weeks ago. It was hilarious.

  20. 20.

    JenJen

    October 22, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    Never mind, of course, that there really isn’t much evidence that the gender gap has disappeared. The new CBS/Quinnipiac Ohio Poll released this morning has women favoring Obama over Romney by 15 points, for example. It really does matter where pollsters are seeing this “narrowing gender gap”, doesn’t it?

    But, you know, doesn’t fit the “narrative.” This election really needs to be over already.

  21. 21.

    ericblair

    October 22, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    @Davis X. Machina:

    But DougJ has what plants crave!

    Horseshit?

  22. 22.

    Mnemosyne

    October 22, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    @JenJen:

    It really does matter where pollsters are seeing this “narrowing gender gap”, doesn’t it?

    Wait, wait, let me guess — the South?

  23. 23.

    Maude

    October 22, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    @JenJen:
    No, No, No. You can’t destroy the narrative.

  24. 24.

    mdblanche

    October 22, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    @Mnemosyne: If the Electoral College saves us from the South unilaterally electing Mitt “he’s white, he’s probably got other characteristics” Romney, I’ll never badmouth it again.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    October 22, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Wait, wait, White, white, let me guess—the South?

    Fixed to more accurately reflect something-or-other.

  26. 26.

    Seanly

    October 22, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    Ugh, Yahoo News. The only thing worse than a Yahoo News item is the virulently rascist, sexist and wingnut comments the same news item collects. I have a very well established Yahoo account that I use for my store & professional society memberships and I cringe at ever time I make the mistake of reading a news item on the home page. If the commenters at Yahoo News were the majority view, the world would be a mashed up version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall and a Nancy Grace rally.

  27. 27.

    Cassidy

    October 22, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    @Mnemosyne: @Matthew Reid Krell: Prettymuch. There’s a little something for everybody.

    @TaMara (BHF): I will happily provide pictures.

  28. 28.

    grandpa john

    October 22, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    sort of like the poll I read from FL a few days ago that had FL women even and had Mitt up 3 with Hispanics

  29. 29.

    Smiling Mortician

    October 22, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    @Seanly:

    the world would be a mashed up version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall and a Nancy Grace rally.

    This is true wherever two or more are gathered in my name in front of Fox News.

  30. 30.

    mouse tolliver

    October 22, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    “I just haven’t been satisfied with Obama the last four years,” Bonilla said. She voted for John McCain in 2008, but this year she hasn’t made up her mind. “My husband’s going for Romney, but I’m still not sure,” she said.

    How can you abandon Obama if you were never with him in the first place?

  31. 31.

    Mark S.

    October 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    @Seanly:

    a Nancy Grace rally

    Please tell me such things don’t exist.

  32. 32.

    TenguPhule

    October 22, 2012 at 6:55 pm

    How can you abandon Obama if you were never with him in the first place?

    Remember, Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an Orphan.

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