Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Nothing worth doing is easy.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

The revolution will be supervised.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

In my day, never was longer.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Usually wrong but never in doubt

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Second rate reporter says what?

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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  3. 3.

    Schlemizel

    I would love to have this man as my neighbor! A great guy who could easily have walked away & said “not my fight”. But he did not, he is a mensch.

  4. 4.

    piratedan

    just waiting for Obama to condemn Hitler and Mussolini so that the GOP can claim that at least IL Duce got the trains to run on time and that the Jews are the REAL racists.

  5. 5.

    the Conster

    So where’s the gif? The internet loop won’t be closed until there’s a LOLCAT version, a gif, and a conspiracy theory that blames Obama.

  13. 13.

    Ben Franklin

    @Davis X. Machina:

    It’s time for Obama to channel his inner Django. With all this bullshit sharting around Benghazi, it should be clear to him he must stop being the appeaser. It’s time to break those slave chains and go for the fucking throat of every fucking war criminal, heckling him from the audience. Start with Guantanamo, and shove that shiv right up their white power orifice.

  17. 17.

    jomo

    This guy is more than an Antoine Dotson or Sweet Brown. He is a genuine hero who truly went beyond what most of us would have done to turn up these girls. I hate that this is going to be his legacy.

  22. 22.

    Bruce S

    I’m not a big fan of this – most folks wouldn’t get this treatment. Let him speak in his own words and leave it at that. He may seem like more than a bit of a character to a lot of people who never actually encounter guys like him, but he’s not a joke. And his observations are coming from a very honest POV. The context of this entire episode is horrific and he’s the one guy who did the right thing when he found himself in an unexpected situation. He’s a good man. I don’t believe this is intentionally malicious – “good humor” and all that – but it’s kind of creepy and disrespectful IMHO.

  23. 23.

    jl

    The guy is a hero, the girls who kept trying to escape are heroes. I think Mr. Ramsey is obviously a pretty regular guy who does not stand down and does not walk away. So, it will take more than one of these ‘mash-ups’ (is that what you dang kids call it?) to turn him into a clown.

    Anyway, the story will get even uglier. Looks like there were more pregnancies. Where are the other kids? Looks like they died and are buried in the backyard.

    Unless the neighbors who have been interviewed are lying about multiple calls about trouble at the house (including sighting of a naked woman crawling in the backyard), the cops should have done more than knock on the door.

    Even Worse
    Josh Marshall, TPM
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/05/even_worse.php

  24. 24.

    Bruce S

    Also – why “Clown Shoes.” A lot of folks who will laugh at this aren’t fit to shine this man’s shoes.

  28. 28.

    Mandalay

    @SatanicPanic:

    This turns him into the butt of a joke.

    I am not seeing that at all (though others here appear to agree with you).

    I thought the original raw video of his interview was great, but to me this remix version is incredibly powerful, and not remotely funny.

    I guess YMMV.

  29. 29.

    lamh35

    @BettyPageisaBlonde: @jomo: @SatanicPanic:

    I’ve never been a fan of these “hilarious” Black neighbor videos that become viral hits. And I try to delete them from my timeline when I can. There is something too racialized about the whole process and I’ve never been one to find autotuning shit like that funny. All I think is imagine if you will if youtube was what it was today back when Katrina happened. Now how many of those “Hilarious” autotuned videos would I appreciate as a NOLA native/Katrina survivor? I’d be and you’d be pissed too. So naw keep your autotuning BS thank you.

    ETA: I tell ya also, in hindsight, I’m happy that we did not have twitter, facebook, myspace, whatever during Katrina, cause I just don’t even want to imagine the snark, the buzzfeed links, the twitterverse who think they are comedians and the RWNJ all creaming the way they seem to do nowadays

  30. 30.

    Mandalay

    @Bruce S:

    Also – why “Clown Shoes.” A lot of folks who will laugh at this aren’t fit to shine this man’s shoes.

    This. Cole should be filing this thread under “Post-racial America”.

    If anyone is laughing at that video I hope it is nervous, uncomfortable laughter. If you truly find it ha!ha! funny then something is badly wrong with you.

  33. 33.

    Mandalay

    @John Cole:

    Jeebus people.

    Must be different strokes for different folks. I think it’s awesome.

    Seems strange to me that some are so eager to belittle it.

    ETA: Or maybe not. On second thoughts it’s kinda predictable.

  35. 35.

    Ben Franklin

    @Trollhattan:

    Listen, asshole. I don’t know what your b’day is but I think you may have been a student at Newtown, becuz your rationale is based on infantile breast-sucking which concluded much too late, and made you somewhat OCD about your failed connection to those who actually did something, even if it was getting stoned and listening to sounds. Mebbe you can reach that bar someday, but I doubt your need for teat, will allow.

  36. 36.

    Trollhattan

    @Ben Franklin:

    Listen, asshole. I don’t know what your b’day is but I think you may have been a student at Newtown, becuz your rationale is based on infantile breast-sucking which concluded much too late, and made you somewhat OCD about your failed connection to those who actually did something, even if it was getting stoned and listening to sounds. Mebbe you can reach that bar someday, but I doubt your need for teat, will allow.

    Uh, whut?

  37. 37.

    Mandalay

    @Trollhattan:

    consider adding this to your collection.

    Any web site that is trying to sell me something, but will only show me the price after I provide them with my email address, can fuck off and die in agony.

  42. 42.

    Trollhattan

    @Mandalay:

    Sorry–didn’t realize one had to be signed in to see details. Agree that’s annoying as heck. (It’s a great 4-CD collection of SF Bay area bands–tiny and huge–from the 60s. This morning’s LA set sold out too fast.)

  44. 44.

    cckids

    @jl:

    Unless the neighbors who have been interviewed are lying about multiple calls about trouble at the house (including sighting of a naked woman crawling in the backyard), the cops should have done more than knock on the door.

    Yes. I just saw an interview with a neighbor on Al Sharpton’s show & he said that after the cops were called about the naked woman, the kidnapper put tarps up all over the back yard, so that no-one could see in. Not suspicious at all, there, Cleveland PD!

  46. 46.

    John Cole

    Ben Franklin is taking a week off. I’m not sure what official rule he violated, but I’ll justify the ban as deserved for rampant douchebaggery.

    Sure, there are rules, but this is still a benevolent dictatorship. Come back in a week when you can stop being a dick for thirty seconds.

  48. 48.

    lamh35

    Charles Ramsey tells how he rescued missing women

    “I don’t even want it,” Ramsey said of the attention. “They keep saying I’m a hero. Let me tell you something, I’m an American, and I’m a human being. I’m just like you. I work for a living. There was a woman in distress, so why turn your back on that?”

  50. 50.

    Mandalay

    @John Cole:

    I’ll justify the ban as deserved for rampant douchebaggery.

    Go easy on enforcing that rule, or you’ll be left with just a handful of posters, and even fewer FPers.

  53. 53.

    TS

    @Mandalay:

    I thought the original raw video of his interview was great, but to me this remix version is incredibly powerful, and not remotely funny.

    I agree – only one who is a joke – in the original and the remix is the white dude who tried to walk away the reality

  55. 55.

    cyntax

    I don’t know. There’s something about auto-tuning it that makes me focus more on the social implications of what he said. He’s both awesome for being a stand up guy and for saying something depressingly true about race relations. YMMV.

  57. 57.

    lojasmo

    @John Cole:

    Damn, I was just going to thank him for his useful banal contribution blathering about how Obama should govern.

  58. 58.

    e.a.f.

    Charles Ramsey is to be commended for his actions. What I found interesting is his decision to come to the aid of a woman who was calling for help. He responded because he thought it might be a case of domestic violence. If there were more people like Charles Ramsey there might be less domestic violence.

    The news played part of the 911 call from the woman he assisted. My impression was the 911 operator appeared more interested in getting her off the line than in helping her. If this is the standard of assistance given to people in Cleveland, no wonder the women were kept hostage for 10 yrs and not found.

    Charles Ramsey did the right thing. He is the type of person you would hope would be there if you every needed help.

  59. 59.

    Bob h

    Soon enough Jess Sessions will warn us that the fact the three kidnappers were Hispanic means go slow on immigration reform.

  61. 61.

    Redleg

    That’s friggin’ awesome. I’m not a fan of artists who use autotune but this is cool. That dude is my hero. Also the person who created the autotuned clip.

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