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Via Steve M at No More Mr. Nice Blog:

hitlery

I think this message is rolling satire. Not because the content is too absurd to be sincerely believed: Heartfelt crazy is the rule these days. But the spelling errors, come on — “ankchous”?

What say you: real or fake? Please feel free to discuss other topics as well, such as what the “Hitlery” people will do with their suddenly free two-minutes hate if Secretary Clinton declines to run (as I think she will).

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  5. 5.

    bewley

    Oh, its real.
    You could see that right here.(Colorado Springs), and people would be honking their horn in support.

  10. 10.

    Brian R.

    I’m just glad to see that severe psychosis now qualifies people for a handicapped parking permit.

  15. 15.

    Feebog

    The tip off is that they spelled “square pants” correctly. Although I must admit that the reference is pretty obscure. Must be trying to link that whole Sponge Bob Square Pants is gay thingee from a couple years ago.

  18. 18.

    Bob

    The new Arcade Fire, Reflektor, is one of those rare albums that gets worse with each listen. Bye-bye Reflektor. Also, too, the spelling.

  21. 21.

    Mr. Longform

    I was going to say “real” until I got to “ajenda” – just that touch too much — amateur snarkocity.

  22. 22.

    Poopyman

    @Brian R.: My guess is there’s not a (physically) handicapped rider in that vehicle. Fuck The Man! They can have their handicapped spot when they pry it from my cold, dead V8.

  27. 27.

    Amir Khalid

    The handwriting is quite neat — neater than mine is, most days. Why is the SQUARE PANTS above the rest of that line?

    Also, I Googled “Ajenda 21” and found this. I speak no Telugu, so I have no idea what the presenter is saying.

  29. 29.

    jon

    I think it’s real. Maybe Fox News can have a handwriting analyst look it over and tell us whether the IQ is at Genius or Ayn Rand-level.

  31. 31.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Botsplainer: Good God. Way to go Peggy.

    People from Senegal have traditionally been the target for some of the worse racism in France, including the most vile expressions I think I’ve ever heard, which I won’t even repeat.

    I always knew that Peggy Noonan would fit right in with Le Pen supporters.

  32. 32.

    lamh36

    Good morning BJ troopers.

    Just a friendly media alert for anyone who cares, President Obama’s interview with Steve Harvey held last Friday is airing today on Steve Harvey’s Daytime Talk Show. You can check out a preview clip released earlier this week….

    Steve Harvey & President Obama Surprise White House Tour Group

    Steve talks to President Barack Obama as he shares his personal side and opens up about family, fatherhood and holiday traditions. They decide to surprise a …

  35. 35.

    lamh36

    Also too,

    @NBCNews 13s
    President Obama to hold news conference at 2pm ET. More on http://www.nbcnews.com

    I’m assuming it’s his last one before he and the family goes on their annual winter vacation to Hawaii.

    ETA: If one fuckin’ WHPC ask the Prez about Duck Dynasty, they can all just DIAF!

  37. 37.

    lamh36

    @AP_Ken_Thomas 22m
    WASHINGTON (AP) _ Obama orders one-year review of military’s handling of sexual assault to measure progress.

  38. 38.

    Steve M.

    @David in NY:

    I don’t believe it’s genuine because there’s no bible verse cited.

    That may be the winning answer.

    BTW, I assume the Squarepants thing is a reference to Hillary’s pantsuits. (A common acronym for Hillary on the right is PIAPS, short for “pig in a pantsuit.” Yeah, I know — charming.)

    And thanks for the link, Betty….

  40. 40.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    I actually like “want to be” the best. As if the traditional “wannabe” spelling seemed too informal for such important writing. Don’t want to come across like a hick.

  45. 45.

    Betty Cracker

    @Patrick:

    What makes you think she won’t run?

    Mostly just a guess; I wouldn’t be at all shocked if she did run, but my gut feeling is she won’t. I know I’m totally in the minority on that.

  46. 46.

    TriassicSands

    What the hell is a “dicktator?” Maybe it’s an anatomically correct Mr. Potato Head.

    I say this is real. Wingers are nothing if not “gud spelers.”

  47. 47.

    woodyNYC

    I saw Ajenda21 and Ankchous at Southpaw 2 years ago, thought they were kinda derivative.
    – generated by BalloonJuiceCommentBot

  51. 51.

    J R in WV

    @Elizabelle:

    Spongebob Squarepants is a young sponge who has adventures under the sea, and wears squarepants because, being a sponge, he too is square. Cartoons on TV, I only know because of nephews watched it as very young toddlers.

    It’s for very young people, and seems pretty innocuous, I don’t know how the UN and MS Clinton got involved with it…

  52. 52.

    Gin & Tonic

    @TriassicSands: anatomically correct Mr. Potato Head.

    I bring this up with people once in a while and nobody ever believes me – but this is largely an old crowd here, so maybe somebody will confirm. But I remember when the Mr. Potato Head toy consisted of a collection of ears and noses and lips, etc., with sharp prongs – because you were to supply your own potato to stick them into. You didn’t get a fake plastic potato.

  53. 53.

    sparrow

    Fake. The misspellings are too “placed” in my opinion. Especially “Ajenda”… come on, no one is THAT dumb.

  54. 54.

    Chickamin Slam

    I want to say that we’ve been trolled. That’s John’s car. He wrote that on the back window after he finally got it pulled out of the field.

  55. 55.

    Redshift

    @Yatsuno:

    Back to the Hitlery thing then huh? Can they at least TRY to get an original thought in their heads?

    Ah, but this one is “Hillery Hitler,” which is either slightly original, or else it means he doesn’t think “Hitlery” is obvious enough.

  56. 56.

    Redshift

    @Gin & Tonic: Oh, definitely, I remember those from when I was a kid. It makes the whole thing make a lot more sense when you know that. Otherwise, why a potato? (I know toymakers have come up with much weirder things, but still.)

  58. 58.

    Redshift

    People who scrawl wingnut messages on their car windows are pikers. There’s a van that drives around DC that has sign boards mounted all over it covered in wingnut scrawl (and yes, bible verses.) Now that’s dedication!

  62. 62.

    MattF

    I’m guessing it’s a troll. However, ‘Google AJENDA 21’ actually does work because the google-mind figures out what you meant.

  63. 63.

    Bill Arnold

    Guessing fake. The dotted “i”s in dicktator and other words are suspicious, as is the apostrophe in “dosn’t’.
    Also, if it was really in the NYC area, odds of satire are a little higher than most other places.
    On the other hand, at least in my (NY) area Chevy Blazers tend right-wing.

  65. 65.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    This is too funny, I was behind a car here in Jacksonville, NC yesterday with the same type of screed drawn all over the back window. Couldn’t read it all but did catch “all democrats gone in 2014”. The car was also covered in Romney/Ryan stickers which gave me a self-satisfied smirk.

  68. 68.

    lamh36

    @Yatsuno: the current Foxbot is still Ed Henry, who I believe is the chair of WHPC this year.

    My money’s on Jonathan Karl of ABC fame or one of the internet outfits.

  69. 69.

    ruviana

    I’m thinking rollin’ trollin’ because the misspellings are too obvious and even a bit twee. But nuts like that are out there….

  70. 70.

    Betty Cracker

    @lamh36: Agreed: They will absolutely waste the president’s time with a stupid question about the Duck Dynasty yahoo within the first couple of minutes. And he will answer the dumb question with more patience and thought than it deserves.

  71. 71.

    Bill Arnold

    @sparrow:

    Fake. The misspellings are too “placed” in my opinion. Especially “Ajenda”… come on, no one is THAT dumb.

    Also, if google visibly reminds you if you misspell something.
    (Somewhat on topic, does anyone know of any recent machine learning work on satire detection? I know it’s considered to be a hard problem; last work i see in a brief search is 2009.)

  75. 75.

    slippytoad

    Amazing how fucking illiterate the far right is becoming. It’s as if every time they get made fun of for their Playskool efforts at intellectualism, they double down on being dumb-asses.

  77. 77.

    lamh36

    @symmetry11 1m
    President Obama orders one-year review of sexual assault in U.S. military http://reut.rs/1cWsWzF

    @samsteinhp 1m
    Obama spoke to Gillibrand yesterday before announcing his 1 year review plan for sexual assault in the military

  78. 78.

    Redshift

    Yesterday, someone posted on Twitter a photo of the back of a car with “OBAMA IS THE ANTCHRIST” written on the window.

    And the comment “At last, ants have a savior!”

  79. 79.

    maya

    What did the author of Rear Window II write that with and on? Looks like white-out on black window shaded glass. Ted Cruz coloring book crayons perhaps?

  80. 80.

    Redshift

    @Dead Ernest:

    They changed it to a fake plastic potato?!

    Yup. I would guess because 1) no more pointy ends on the pieces, and 2) the could charge more for that extra big chunk of plastic in a bigger box.

  81. 81.

    Yatsuno

    @Betty Cracker: Ed Henry will have the President address the current controversy with a carefully worded question then three follow-ups about how Phil’s First Amendment rights are clearly being violated. After the President wishes he could choke Ed out, he will address the question and move onwards. Bonus points if Ed gets Benghazi in there too.

  83. 83.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh36: Obama spoke to Gillibrand yesterday before announcing his 1 year review plan for sexual assault in the military

    I hope he also asked her “what the fuck are you doing going along with Menendez and Schumer trying to provoke another land war in Asia?”

  84. 84.

    Elizabelle

    Points for driving a Blazer.

    As in Glenn Beck’s rant o truthiness, The Blaze.

    Which can be taken as fire pits of hell.

  85. 85.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Redshift: Was it Molly Ivins or Clinton who said “He’s not stupid. He doesn’t know anything because he doesn’t want to know anything, but he’s not stupid”

  87. 87.

    Elizabelle

    @fka AWS:

    Ah. Poe’s Law.

    I was wondering if it was Piece of Excreta Mobile.

    PS: Had to look up Poe’s Law, unlike the rest of you in the know. (Cleek’s law is short enough for me to remember it.) Per wiki:

    Poe’s law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that without a clear indication of the author’s intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.

    Came up in a discussion of creationism on christianforums. That would do it.

  88. 88.

    Ruckus

    @sparrow:
    Nobody’s that dumb.

    Don’t get out much do you?

    To answer your implied question, Yes, yes there are people this dumb stupid.
    Many, many, people.

  89. 89.

    Ruckus

    @sparrow:
    Nobody’s that dumb.

    Don’t get out much do you?

    To answer your implied question, Yes, yes there are people this dumb stupid.
    Many, many, people.

  91. 91.

    Cervantes

    @Betty Cracker:

    I wouldn’t be at all shocked if she did run, but my gut feeling is she won’t. I know I’m totally in the minority on that.

    I suspect she’s more than feeling her age at the moment. Recuperation may happen, or not.

  94. 94.

    WaterGIrl

    ruemara, are you out there?

    i just got good news on the final insurance check from the tree having fallen on my house on may 31, followed by nearly 7 months of repairs and disarray and financial uncertainty.

    for years I have wished I was in a position to do something to help you out, so I’d like to get your camera for you. i have amazon prime, so there would be no shipping cost. all you have to do is send me your address so i can have it shipped to you. looks like it could be there before christmas, if we do it today.

    Edit: off to run some errands, will check back in as soon as I get back.

  96. 96.

    Jay C

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Nope, not just you I’m also old enough to remember the “original” Mr. P.H. – back when he was a vegetarian in the Good Old Days when kids’ toys dangerous enough to do double duty as a home phlebotomy kit hadn’t been regulated off the market by meddlesome bureaucrats…..

  98. 98.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Betty Cracker: I’m a mirror-image of you, I think she’ll go for it, but out of a sense of duty rather than the fire-in-the-belly, and I won’t be shocked if ultimately she decides against it. Kind of interesting that the woman so often portrayed as pathologically ambitious is, along with Al Gore, a rare exception to the notion that the only cure for presidential ambition is embalming fluid.

  99. 99.

    Gene108

    @Amir Khalid:

    I do not understand Telegu, but I was able to pick out the name Chandrababu Naidu, former Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh* and Delhi, with a shot of Indian PM Manmoham Singh and Congress Party head Sonia Gandhi at a negotiating table.

    Plus Telengana (sp?) was mentioned several times.

    I therefore surmise the story is about the splitting of the state of Andhra Pradesh to form the new state of Telengana from the western part of the state and some sort of negotiations with the Centre and / or Congress Party (ruling party ATM in Delhi) about the creation of Telengana from Andhra Pradesh.

    *Read more on the Andhra/Telengana split here

  101. 101.

    hoodie

    I’m thinking it’s real. There’s another shot of the same car at a drive through. “Ajenda” shows up in some TP sites associated with Glenn Beck. Probably not your typical asshole rightblogger type, maybe someone partially mentally disabled with some associated physical issues, hence the scrawl on the back window (proper teatard would have NRA decals, Gadsen flag stickers, Nobama bumperstickers, etc.), odd misspellings and semi-random association of Hillary, SpongeBob and Agenda 21. I’ve run across that type before, e.g., functional enough to drive a car and hold a lower skill job, but a few bricks short of a load and vulnerable to right wing and religious hucksterism.

  103. 103.

    Cckidsmaa

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I know, right? Every time I see a R-R bumper sticker I want to throw up the “L” loser sign.

    I don’t, though, because I’m not 15. Doing it in my mind, though.

  104. 104.

    NotMax

    @Jay C

    Remember the original Mr. Potatohead very well.

    Speaking of sharp pointy bits, how about the original lawn darts.

    Not an obvious danger, but also remember the first attempt at plastic flying discs, the Pluto Platter. Didn’t catch on until it was withdrawn and rebranded as Frisbee.

  105. 105.

    Cckids

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I know, right? Every time I see a R-R bumper sticker I want to throw up the “L” loser sign.

    I don’t, though, because I’m not 15. Doing it in my mind, though.

  111. 111.

    Gene108

    I remember a Get Smart episode, where Max and 99 were under cover in a department store, because KAOS was using the toy department to smuggle stuff.

    The ending was a “gun fight” in the toy department. KAOS had guns. Max and 99 had kids toys.

    After the good guys emerge triumphant, Max has a great one liner, and I paraphrase, they didn’t stand a chance, we were armed with the most destructive devices devised by Man (kids toys), while KAOS only had guns.

  112. 112.

    kindness

    That windshield message? That is why I have a fat permanent marker Sharpie in my glovebox. I like nothing better than to add my own ‘color’ to these peoples cars. Now, I reserve that for bumper stickers. I don’t write on the actual car. In this case though I’d have to give it some serious consideration.

    My favorite is to add ‘ I like little boys. I have free candy.’

    Yea I’m a shithead.

  114. 114.

    Jibeaux

    Ajenda 21 is that store in the mall with the teenagery clothes that won’t hold up six months, innit? Seems like a digression…

  120. 120.

    MCA1

    @Betty Cracker: My hope is that the President’s response is to play dumb. “What are you talking about?” This would force the “reporter” at hand to visibly lower themselves by actually describing the specifics, to which the President could then respond “Oh. Well, I don’t have any context on which to comment. And that strikes me as something not necessarily worthy of a Presidential press conference, doesn’t it?”

  121. 121.

    Petorado

    I was going for fake until I noticed the way the writer hid the “n” in Clinton. (Heh-heh, he said “clit!”) Only a genuine douchebag would have though of that clever bit of puerile smarminess.

  123. 123.

    Jeremy

    @amk: I disagree. It seems pretty obvious that she is running. This is basically her last shot at being president and I doubt she will pass it up.

  125. 125.

    libarbarian

    Of course LIEbrals don’t want real AMERICANS to know the TRUTH about aGAYnda 21. They don’t want US to FIGHT the universal WAR raging within the LOINS of every GOD-FEARING STRAIGHT MAN. No – they just want us to SURRENDER and DROP TO OUR KNEES and succumb to the TOTALLY NOT-GAY desires that burn within us. But REAL straight Americans know that being Gay in a choice and that GOD wants us to have righteous boring sex with women and not to GIVE IN to the TEMPTATION of all-male sex orgies.

  130. 130.

    Bill Arnold

    @Julie:
    OK, I fed this into their online sentiment analysis demo

    HILLERY HiTLER SqUARE PANTS CLinTON IS A WANT TO BE DiCKTATOR. IF THE BOMBER DOSN’T TAKE YOUR GUN SqUARE PANTS WiLL. SHE IS ANKCHOUS TO SCORE POiNTS WiTH THE NEW WORLD ORDER. -GOOgLE AJENDA 21

    and got back “The document sentiment is: neutral (0.000)”
    Assembling an accurately labeled satire/not satire corpus for training and testing classifiers seems a hard problem.

  131. 131.

    donquijoterocket

    @Amir Khalid: I didn’t need to google ajenda 21 because I was pretty sure they were speaking of the UN sustainability proposals contained in agenda 21 which the RWNJs come unglued over despite always getting it wrong. I did, however, have to google Telegu. I believe this is real, if to no one else then at least to the owner of this land yacht.It’s of a piece with those “liberals” hunting licenses and would appear on the same type vehicle.

  132. 132.

    aimai

    @lamh36: I’m jealous. But I feel that not enough people got hugs. If it had been me I would really, really, have wanted a hug from the President. You could tell a whole lot of them wanted that hug and wanted more time to talk to him personally. I would really, really, really, like to have a Christmas tour of this white house before this administration is out. It never occured to me to want to see the White House before but I would love, love, love to see it while the Obamas are still the hosts.

  133. 133.

    JGabriel

    Betty Cracker @ Top:

    I think this message is rolling satire. Not because the content is too absurd to be sincerely believed: Heartfelt crazy is the rule these days. But the spelling errors, come on — “ankchous”?

    Right? Everyone knows it’s spelled “ankshus”.

  135. 135.

    examinator

    What’s that thing about 1000 monkeys and typewriters and time ? clearly marker technology hasn’t worked all that well. May be in say 1 million years we’ll get something either literate or sense just not in that town.
    The mind repulses how this person manages to count to 21!

    If as you say it’s satire it’s poor because the sign has neither a target or a point. Satire needs both to work.

  136. 136.

    Blokus

    Another picture of this Chevy shows that it’s from Michigan. And it has a handicap license plate.

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