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The Dear Leader Gives the Children Candy!
Via Tina Brown's Daily Beast, an apparently irony-free video featuring a variety of pro-Obama pumpkins, courtesy of the website Yes We Carve. For some reason, I find this video even creepier than the one with those singing robot kids.
Elemenope|10.23.08 @ 4:29PM|#
I don't know about creepier--personally I don't think it's ever a good idea to mix one's politics with one's candy--but the side-profile one towards the beginning is nothing if not impressive.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 4:32PM|#
Speaking of carving, anyone else see that Drudge flash?
Scary, if true.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 4:33PM|#
Ah, there's a link now:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became
angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The
attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife
to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.
Looks like the felon-American community is really taking Obama's
"get in their faces!" exhortations to heart.
Kaganspawn|10.23.08 @ 4:40PM|#
I don't think this Moynihan kid has the intellectual chops to play at Reason. Every time I see his byline it seems to be something sophomoric. Here the point presumably is supposed to be that using kids/songs to sell politics is creepy and propagandistic. Well, there's nothing there. The market uses kids, cuteness, eroticism or whatever will sell the product. Where's the critique here? What does this have to do with determining the proper role of government or individual liberty? Does our intrepid cub want to ban propaganda, perhaps?
anarch ben godwin|10.23.08 @ 4:41PM|#
02:00 - "We are One People. We are One Nation."
00:47 - "It's the first time I've ever been compelled to be part of
a movement such as this."
Wiki - "One of the Nazis' most-repeated political slogans was
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer - One People, One Empire,
One Leader."
Jordan|10.23.08 @ 4:43PM|#
I don't think this Moynihan kid has the intellectual chops to play at Reason. Every time I see his byline it seems to be something sophomoric. Here the point presumably is supposed to be that using kids/songs to sell politics is creepy and propagandistic. Well, there's nothing there. The market uses kids, cuteness, eroticism or whatever will sell the product. Where's the critique here? What does this have to do with determining the proper role of government or individual liberty? Does our intrepid cub want to ban propaganda, perhaps?
Perhaps this post was mostly tongue-in-cheek? In any case,
drink!
|10.23.08 @ 4:44PM|#
Oh, dear. It's almost enough to make me vote for McCain. If I were registered, that is.
|10.23.08 @ 4:45PM|#
I think anyone who uses the term "chops" to refer to anything that isn't served at a steakhouse, doesn't have the intellectual wherewithal to post on Reason. God that is an annoying term.
|10.23.08 @ 4:47PM|#
You know, I read a story a couple weeks ago about a guy who
kidnapped somebody from a sub shop with a realistic looking bb gun
because he was wearing an Obama tee shirt, forced him to his knees
in an alley, and pretended to execute him.
I never felt the need to spam the Reason threads with it; but then,
my candidate isn't getting his ass kicked.
Dave Weigel|10.23.08 @ 4:51PM|#
Huh. I was wondering how Fox News would remind people that Obama
is a scary black person.
My best to the woman. It sounds like she made it out OK ("the woman
refused medical treatment after the assault").
Kaganspawn|10.23.08 @ 4:52PM|#
@Jordan, alas no. @John, too bad the phrasing is not to your liking, but if you think there is something in the post we should care about, let's hear what it is.
Derrick|10.23.08 @ 4:54PM|#
It's a damn shame that most cute girls are Democrats. Has anyone else noticed that?
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 4:54PM|#
I wasn't going to mention the McCain campaign manager's house
that got shot up, but what the hell.
http://www.local6.com/politics/17784129/detail.html
Cool Cal|10.23.08 @ 4:55PM|#
"Oh, dear. It's almost enough to make me vote for McCain. If I
were registered, that is."
Ellen, I think someone needs a talking to from Dustin Hoffman ...
or Jennifer Aniston, or Laura Linney, or Leonardo DiCaprio ...
sage|10.23.08 @ 4:56PM|#
I wonder if the ATM camera captured this assault. Seems pretty far-fetched. The guy had his $60; why didn't he beat feet?
Dave Weigel|10.23.08 @ 4:57PM|#
By the way, not every reported hate crime pans out. In my last
year at college a latino student claimed he was bashed, then later
admitted to cops that he wasn't.
http://www.chron.org/tools/viewart.php?artid=758
It's best to give this stuff 48 hours to shake out.
Pittsburgh Robber|10.23.08 @ 4:59PM|#
This is really unfair. There I am out there working hard,
helping Barack spread the wealth around at gunpoint, and this woman
has the nerve to put a racist hate speech McCain sticker on her
car.
And when I exercise my freedom of speech by carving a B on her
repuke face with my knife, suddenly I'm the bad guy! Sure, blame
the victim!
Man, we really need some hope and change around here.
|10.23.08 @ 5:02PM|#
Kaganspawn
I think it's supposed to suggest that Obama is kind of like N.
Korea's leader or something because his supporters are enthusiastic
about him and that is like a cult of personality blah blah
blah.
MM's job is to throw red meat to the right-wingers on H&R. I
imagine it's in response to so many posters constant bitching about
Weigel's "shilling" for the Dems. He's like an affirmative action
hire I guess...
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 5:03PM|#
It's best to give this stuff 48 hours to shake
out.
True, it might not pan out, though women are generally not inclined
to disfigure their own faces with a knife.
|10.23.08 @ 5:04PM|#
Meh (old news, but still)
Means nothing. We're not a third world country yet. Not even
close.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/13/arkansas.shooting/index.html
Elemenope|10.23.08 @ 5:07PM|#
True, it might not pan out, though women are generally not
inclined to disfigure their own faces with a knife.
You apparently have somehow forgotten that we are still in Silly
Season. What people are and are not generally inclined to do is of
no use in divining what they *will* do in the next two weeks.
Anything can happen. I'm telling you, we'll get some Gangs of New
York shit out of this here election before we're through.
Kaganspawn|10.23.08 @ 5:13PM|#
MM's job is to throw red meat to the right-wingers on
H&R.
I did not get the sense he was a political partisan, only that his
posts don't rate with me. They don't challenge me or tell me
something that interests me. But thanks anyway Nice Guy for not
ignoring me in favor of the threadjack about overzealous partisans
in this political season.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 5:15PM|#
There are pictures of the girl now. She has a pretty good black
eye to go with her new Obama campaign material.
Fortunately, the damage to her face doesn't look permanent.
Dave Weigel|10.23.08 @ 5:16PM|#
True, it might not pan out, though women are generally not
inclined to disfigure their own faces with a knife.
Yes, no 20-year old who's depressed about something has ever
cut
herself.
I hate that hoaxters make it hard to take these sorts of stories
100% seriously. But they do. I reported on such a hoax four years
ago. I'd rather give cops two days to chase down the facts than
start saying "Obama said get in people's faces and then this lady
got cut!"
Mister DNA|10.23.08 @ 5:17PM|#
True, it might not pan out, though women are generally not inclined to disfigure their own faces with a knife.
True, they let plastic surgeons do it for them.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 5:18PM|#
Yes, no 20-year old who's depressed about something has ever
cut herself.
Obvioously, jackass. They generally don't cut their faces was my
point.
|10.23.08 @ 5:18PM|#
Kingspawn,
Reason spends a lot of time making fun of people from all over the
political spectrum. Certainly when the right does something creepy
or stupid Reason calls them out for it. A think the strange
behavior among Obama supporters ought to be ridiculed. Strange
behavior in other political contexts certainly is and Obama
supporters would certainly be having a cow if people were doing
this for McCain. If Obama supporters don't like to be called a cult
and Obamabots, then they should stop acting stupid.
|10.23.08 @ 5:21PM|#
I'd be curious as to what point TallDave thinks his story
makes?
I'm not sure it makes any point other than bad black man supports
black man running for Prez.
I imagine there are bad black men out there that would like to see
the black guy get the win, yes. I imagine that there are neo-Nazi's
who would like to see the white guy get the win. I'm not sure what
this says about the black and white guy that are running
though.
Mr. Gompers, what do the union|10.23.08 @ 5:22PM|#
The guy had his $60; why didn't he beat feet?
Samuel Gompers: "More."
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 5:28PM|#
Certainly when the right does something creepy or stupid
Reason calls them out for it.
Didn't we get like three posts referencing a video of stupid McCain
supporters saying stupid things?
I'd say taking a knife to a woman's face to express support for
Obama trumps that pretty easily.
|10.23.08 @ 5:29PM|#
You don't have to be a raging conservative to be creeped out by
the cult of personality exhibited by the Obamabots. Makes me think
of Huey Long.
Ultimately, of course, this will simply lead to huge disappointment
in the next couple of years if he is elected and inevitably turns
out to be just another hack.
The U.S. president shouldn't have enough power to have a cult of
personality formed around him/her.
|10.23.08 @ 5:34PM|#
ChrisO
Cult of personality and the presidency goes togethe a lot I'm
afraid. Did you see Jesus Camp (where they prayed to a card board
cut-out of W?)? Reagan certainly had a cult of personality, as did
Clinton among blacks I'd say.
"Aaaaand the race gets played."
Yeah, at 4:33
|10.23.08 @ 5:36PM|#
"Didn't we get like three posts referencing a video of stupid
McCain supporters saying stupid things?
I'd say taking a knife to a woman's face to express support for
Obama trumps that pretty easily."
Wasn't the former at an official McCain/Palin rally? I think that's
a distinction with a difference.
Jacob Brownwood|10.23.08 @ 5:36PM|#
These people cannot utter the word "individual". From here on out, it's all "us", "we", and, the scariest of all, "unity". These people are the most socialist non-socialists i have seen.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 5:45PM|#
If you'll notice, the 4:33 post says nothing about race.
Wasn't the former at an official McCain/Palin rally? I think
that's a distinction with a difference
True, but it involved 100% fewer knives to the face.
Orange Line Special|10.23.08 @ 5:56PM|#
Don't blame Reason too much, they just watched this one too many
times (my BHO HypnoVideoSatire).
On a somewhat related note, BHO lied yet again. Remember during the
last "debate" when he discussed threats made against him? He knew they both
were bogus.
Orange Line Special|10.23.08 @ 5:58PM|#
The One has spoken:
"This is a horrendous act of violence. Our thoughts and prayers
are with the young woman for her to make a speedy recovery, and we
hope that the person who perpetrated this crime is swiftly
apprehended and brought to justice."
Anyone notice what's missing?
|10.23.08 @ 5:59PM|#
don't know about creepier--personally I don't think it's
ever a good idea to mix one's politics with one's candy--but the
side-profile one towards the beginning is nothing if not
impressive.
My brother used a John Kerry stencil last year. It came out looking
EXACTLY like Hitler! Wish I had a picture.
YesWeCarve!|10.23.08 @ 6:00PM|#
TallDave | October 23, 2008, 4:33pm | #
Ah, there's a link now:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.
Looks like the felon-American community is really taking Obama's "get in their faces!" exhortations to heart.
TallDave FTW!
|10.23.08 @ 6:06PM|#
"Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the
assault, which happened outside the view of the bank's surveillance
cameras."
Bill Gwatney...maybe.
What's really weird is the "B" on her face is backwards..looking at
the picture at "Hot Air"
Tawana Brawley, maybe...
As for the pumpkins, "Dear Leader",,,aahhhh...someone lost their
kandy korn.
Elemenope|10.23.08 @ 6:08PM|#
Anyone notice what's missing?
OK, I'll bite.
What's missing, LoneWacko? Please tell me.
Potts|10.23.08 @ 6:15PM|#
Where's Moynihan's post about the creepy cornfield Sarah?
Or
this?
People do stupid shit to support their candidate. Get over it.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 6:17PM|#
My brother used a John Kerry stencil last year. It came out
looking EXACTLY like Hitler! Wish I had a picture.
Rofl. Also, Godwin!
|10.23.08 @ 6:17PM|#
Elemenope, I think he's refering to what yeswecarve! posted - that Barack told his dumbass supporters they need to get in people's faces and act like the animals they are. Something like that. Could be wrong.
Dave Weigel|10.23.08 @ 6:23PM|#
I don't get the problem with the "get in their faces" thing. Supporters aren't supposed to hector and canvass and win votes? Really?
Hogan|10.23.08 @ 6:27PM|#
a) on Potts' post, the cindy mccain is by far the creepiest
jackolantern
b)to capelza, not saying the whole story is definitely legit, cuz
obviously i dunno any more than the next person, but the upside
down b could easily result from her being on the ground and him
being behind her head.
|10.23.08 @ 6:28PM|#
It's a damn shame that most cute girls are Democrats. Has
anyone else noticed that?
Younger women tend to be more attractive than older women. Younger
people are more likely to have leftist leanings.
-jcr
X|10.23.08 @ 6:29PM|#
Moynihan's talent seems confined to "exposing" the wacky, irrelevant left-wing fringe. It's very light on anything that could be properly called "ideas." I'm so glad I can come to Reason and see heroic conservatives bashing liberal strawmen - the Biased Mainstream Media has deprived us of that pleasure. Hussein!
ACORN Stormtrooper|10.23.08 @ 6:41PM|#
Watch out, Republicans!
Sometime in late January, after Obama's taken office, he'll release
the internet information of the conservatrolls to "Kool Aid Teams"
of volunteers. They'll wait until you're sleeping or in a parking
lot, and then hit you with bats and tire irons (no guns, of
course!) until your arms and legs are broken, then they'll very
carefully carve a 'B' with a paper clip on your cheek so it doesn't
break the skin. Even as we speak, special teams of trainees are
going to surgical school to learn how to do precision cutting so we
won't break the skin with a resisting opponent. You know how we
Liberals are, can't stand the sight of blood.
You've been WARNED! HUSSEIN!
Orange Line Special|10.23.08 @ 6:44PM|#
What's missing is BHO telling his supporters not to do such
things. Really, try to reverse everything in your mostly wee minds:
at this point in time, McCain would have already sacrificed two
goats on the AltarOfPoliticalCorrectness as well as introduced a
bill to drive several red states out of the Union.
For the slacker who was on the right track as well as the person
who asked, I have a special treat, candycorn. Don't worry, it's a
special caramel coating. (Sorry)
|10.23.08 @ 6:51PM|#
Linky, RC?
Well, here's one story about someone being assaulted with a gun for
wearing an Obama shirt for you - although the author has his own
theory.
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/negroid-wearing-barack-obama-t-529587.html
Not the one I read about though. Lemme see what I can find.
|10.23.08 @ 6:52PM|#
Hogan...I thought of that, but she had to be laying perfectly
still to bet that clear a "B"...and look at her "shiner"...no
swelling and the white of her eye is clear..no blood. I've had an
eye or two blackened, and they were never that tidy.
Something is fishy...
nebby|10.23.08 @ 6:53PM|#
Isn't saying you want the guy caught and to go to jail a pretty
direct rebuke of his actions?
Did you want him to say "Please don't cut people's faces", is that
really necessary in your world?
|10.23.08 @ 6:59PM|#
What's missing is BHO telling his supporters not to do such
things.
And how many times have you told your anti-immigrant readers not to
commit violent acts, Wacko?
MSM|10.23.08 @ 7:04PM|#
We'll handle this in the usual way.Front page national news for the racially motivated attack and buried in the Pittsburg newspaper local section if it proves to be a hoax. Bwaaaaaaaaa!!
|10.23.08 @ 7:06PM|#
Is this really all they have left?
Of course not. That tape of Michelle Obama ranting about "whitey"
is going to be coming out any minute now.
NotTallDave|10.23.08 @ 7:07PM|#
McCain's campaign has been just like Iraq--a strategic MASTERSTROKE!
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 7:10PM|#
I don't get the problem with the "get in their faces" thing.
Supporters aren't supposed to hector and canvass and win votes?
Really?
Because if McCain said it, he'd instantly be blamed for every
offensive thing any Republican did.
Sheesh, this from the guy who pimped the McCain rally video.
|10.23.08 @ 7:10PM|#
"Colorado 50.4 45.0 Obama +5.4
Ohio 49.7 43.7 Obama +6.0
Florida 47.8 45.8 Obama +2.0
Nevada 49.3 46.0 Obama +3.3
Missouri 48.0 45.3 Obama +2.7
North Carolina 49.2 47.2 Obama +2.0
Virginia 51.5 44.5 Obama +7.0 "
These are the RCP latest numbers for battleground states. Given
that Obama's support is from groups with historically lower
turnout, the possible Bradley effect and the Kohut Lacunia I'd say
it's anybody's ballgame or more likely Obama losing.
If Obama loses while the Dems make gains in the house and senate I
hope there will be some big time hard thinking on the part of the
idealistically naive left wing of the party.
|10.23.08 @ 7:12PM|#
TallDave | March 31, 2008, 10:59am | #
The problem for Obama is that he's considerably further from the
center than McCain, and with a late August nomination it's going to
be hard for him to tack toward the center in time to win.
The Wright thing barely scratches the surface of his vulnerability
from the right.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 7:13PM|#
I'd say it's anybody's ballgame or more likely Obama
losing.
Oh, I still think the MSM can drag him across the finish lines,
knife-wielding supporters and all. He's got huge amounts of voter
fraud and credit card fraud going for him too.
It's nice to see the Chicago Machine going national. Really makes
me proud of the hometown.
|10.23.08 @ 7:13PM|#
You heard it here first:
PUMPKINS ARE FOR OBAMA!
also, ACORN squash came out in support today... while in other
news, Zuchinni throw their weight behind the McCain/Palin
ticket.
BDB|10.23.08 @ 7:15PM|#
John is right. If the Republicans really eat the furniture, all they're doing is giving him cover to move to the center. If they really wanted to bring down his Presidency, they'd try to contain the insanity so the leftist base will get angry at him rather than defending him out of instinct because the Republicans are going apeshit.
|10.23.08 @ 7:15PM|#
I've never heard the phrase "drag him across the finish line"
used in reference to someone with a double digit lead.
The best part of this election is watching the people who are
counting on racist voters to save them make asses of
themselves.
BDB|10.23.08 @ 7:17PM|#
Joe-
TallDave is repeating the latest Mark Steyn column from NRO.
Really. He used the phrase "drag him across the finish line" today,
too. It's amazing, I tell you. The message discipline!
MAX HATS|10.23.08 @ 7:20PM|#
It's a damn shame that most cute girls are Democrats. Has anyone else noticed that?
All this talk about the "health of the mother" (air quotes) got
bitches confused. I mean look at Palin. She's an inspiration. She
shows that if you just wink and flirt and dress pretty, you too can
succeed.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 7:20PM|#
Of course, the best part of all this is we'll soon find out
whether the victim has any outstanding tax liens or questionable
licensing.
The American people have a sacred right to know!
MAX HATS|10.23.08 @ 7:21PM|#
Oh, I still think the MSM can drag him across the finish lines, knife-wielding supporters and all. He's got huge amounts of voter fraud and credit card fraud going for him too.
You know, when I retreat into fantasyland, it usually involves a
lot more sex and a lot less voter fraud - but hey, to each his
own.
|10.23.08 @ 7:21PM|#
capelza | October 23, 2008, 6:06pm | #
What's really weird is the "B" on her face is backwards..
See, what we have hear is another oppressed minority failed by the
education system. He makes his S's backwards too.
|10.23.08 @ 7:25PM|#
TallDave | March 18, 2008, 4:14pm | #
joe,
LMAO You still don't get it.
You sit here mouthing racial pieties about how we're finally going
to make progress, etc, etc -- while your candidate's campaign is
crumbling precisely because he chose to closely associate himself
with someone who was "whipping up racial animus."
Irony and hilarity seldom meet so convivially.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 7:30PM|#
Huh. I was wondering how Fox News would remind people that
Obama is a scary black person.
Wow, and I thought you were a jackass before.
Can we please have Virginia back?
-|10.23.08 @ 7:34PM|#
March 18, 2008
Wasn't that around the time Obama was losing most of the final
primary races?
BDB|10.23.08 @ 7:38PM|#
I found one!
joe | May 23, 2008, 9:56pm | #
Now, Sistani and Sadr are meeting.
Sadr, who conditioned his agreement to disarm on Sistani, who never
directed him to.
Great. Things are about to get a lot worse.
Oh, wait, that was joe.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 7:45PM|#
Hmmm, there's some skepticism on the woman. We'll see if it pans
out. A couple days and we should know.
She'd have to be pretty crazy to beat herself up, but who
knows.
|10.23.08 @ 7:46PM|#
I guess I will be accused of swift boating this girl, and I
personally hate to be so cynical when we are talking about victims
of what, if true, is certainly a despicable act by a cowardly jerk,
but from only looking at the picture I am curious about the "B"
scar. I agree it does look pretty straight. Are there stiches? I'm
having trouble wrapping my mind around that getting there the way
it is said to get there. I mean, I guess it is plausible (who knows
how the guy was standing relative to her, maybe he ordered her to
"stay still", etc).
The fact that his happened to happen NOT to one of the thousands
upon thousands of people who simply have a McCain sticker and
support him but instead to a young college republican activist that
is active in the McCain campaign makes me reserve judgment on it
for now. And she declined medical help?
The story mentions a video camera, I'd like to see that tape big
time.
|10.23.08 @ 7:47PM|#
Talldave, if it IS a hoax you should really self-exile yourself
from human contact for a few weeks.
If only to let yourself "air out" a bit...
BDB|10.23.08 @ 7:48PM|#
If it's a hoax it will sort itself out. People really need to quit playing amateur detective on the internet (remember the birth certificate stuff, and Palin's pregnancy?) it usually doesn't end well for the person doing it.
|10.23.08 @ 7:50PM|#
BDB
Oh agreed, there is no fucking way we can find out from here. I'm
speculating out loud.
BDB|10.23.08 @ 7:51PM|#
Anyway random supporters doing horrible acts (whether it's this or people spray painting "nigger" on the sides of Obama HQ, or what have you) says a whole lot more about them than it does about the campaign they're "supporting".
BDB|10.23.08 @ 7:58PM|#
Ok, nevermind, even Malkin is saying it's fake.
I think it's safe to call it "hoax" now.
Elemenope|10.23.08 @ 8:03PM|#
Turns out it's not a person with a McCain bumper sticker. It's a
McCain Campaign Volunteer.
Huh. Wonder what that means.
Beacon of Truth|10.23.08 @ 8:13PM|#
You know, these sorts of threads always involve a lot of,
"Ooooh, you're so biased. Why don't you do the exact same thing to
the other side? Huh?! I knew it you're a [commie leftist, pinko
tree-hugger|crypto-fascist right wing looney]."
Guess what, people. In the real world, things aren't always fair
and balanced. It's not a matter of bias. It's just that we don't
always have time to present both sides of every issue in an easily
accessible, point-counterpoint fashion.
Get over it.
That is all. This thread has grown tiresome.
|10.23.08 @ 8:13PM|#
October 23, 2008: The Battle of the Daves.
TallDave | October 23, 2008, 4:33pm | #
Ah, there's a link now:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry
when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The
attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife
to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.
Looks like the felon-American community is really taking Obama's
"get in their faces!" exhortations to heart.
Dave Weigel | October 23, 2008, 4:57pm | #
By the way, not every reported hate crime pans out. In my last year
at college a latino student claimed he was bashed, then later
admitted to cops that he wasn't.
http://www.chron.org/tools/viewart.php?artid=758
It's best to give this stuff 48 hours to shake out.
One of these Daves is a shill, who allows partisan wishful thinking
to interfere with his ability to accurately distinguish and
understand the truth.
One of them is not.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 8:21PM|#
Talldave, if it IS a hoax you should really self-exile
yourself from human contact for a few weeks.
Shrug. I said it might be fake, however the socialists
mischaracterize me. If it's true, it's obviously newsworthy. If
it's fake... well, still waiting for the apology from the reporter
who made the "Kill him!" claim that the Secret Service
debunked.
Right-wing hoaxes generally don't make it far, as they don't have
an army of Dan Rathers to push them.
Malkin is suspicious but did not say it was fake, she just said it
looked odd. And it does. It would also be very odd if she did this
to herself. Right now, the latter seems more odd, but we'll know
more after the re-interviews.
TallDave|10.23.08 @ 8:23PM|#
Oh well, let the socialists play their "hate TallDave"
games.
Kind of flattering how they spend half their posts on me.
Anyways, I have a pretty girl and a Corvette, and not much time
left with the top down this year.
|10.23.08 @ 8:24PM|#
I said it might be fake, however the socialists
mischaracterize me.
Orly?
Looks like the felon-American community is really taking
Obama's "get in their faces!" exhortations to heart.
BDB|10.23.08 @ 8:26PM|#
BDB | October 23, 2008, 8:20pm | #
$5 TallDave says something about Dan Rather.
TallDave | October 23, 2008, 8:21pm | #
Right-wing hoaxes generally don't make it far, as they don't have
an army of Dan Rathers to push them.
Literally a minute later.
|10.23.08 @ 8:27PM|#
Right-wing hoaxes generally don't make it far, as they don't
have an army of Dan Rathers to push them.
See, I was going for "Al Sharpton," but I guess you can make a case
that you're Dan Rather, too.
Oh, btw - the African guy in London who got shot three times with
an air pistol for wearing an Obama shirt? Not debunked.
Kind of flattering how they spend half their posts on me.
I know the feeling, except the part about getting caught out like
this.
Anyways, I have a pretty girl and a Corvette... Ma, bring
my dinner down here, I'm playing Matchbox cars!
|10.23.08 @ 8:29PM|#
Gee, you sure you want to stick your neck out like that? We've only been mocking him for hours.
MAX HATS|10.23.08 @ 8:30PM|#
*****BREAKING*****
A MEMO FROM COMRADE SCHMIDT, CHAIRMAN OF MINISTER OF INFORMATION,
AGITPROP COMMITTEE
Comrades, in our Glorious Struggle against the international forces
of the proletariat TERRORR, it is now neccessary to
refer to our opposition as socialists.
|10.23.08 @ 8:35PM|#
Hey, BDB, did you catch this on fivethirtyeight.com?
The day before, in McCain's Loudoun Regional Victory Center in
Sterling, VA, we stopped by the office immediately after our Falls
Church Obama visit. A full-time volunteer had just papered the
office walls with GOTV shift lists, and all were empty except two
names on one day. It was 5 pm, and the office was closing. Six of
one, half dozen of the other, as it only held one lonely
phonebanker who complained to us about ACORN and the
media.
Ha ha!
Orange Line Special|10.23.08 @ 8:38PM|#
Somewhat on the actual topic of this post, yet another airhead
has joined the cult with
his own video.
Please, help me help you make it go viral! As you'll see, I
especially urge you to send it to all those who are deeply
religious, especially those familiar with Revelations.
BDB|10.23.08 @ 8:39PM|#
I have been getting about three robo calls a day from the McCain
campaign, though.
Did you know Barack Obama puts Hollywood ahead of AMERICA?
Reason Board Monitor|10.23.08 @ 8:41PM|#
We've only been mocking him for hours.
Not very effectively, sadly. Mostly you just look petty.
Mister DNA|10.23.08 @ 8:47PM|#
Well, since so many predictions are coming true in this thread,
I predict that at any moment, Scarlett Johansson and
Diane Neal are going to bust down my door and demand a three
way.
Oh, and OLS, there is no book of "Revelations" in the
Bible. It's a singular Revelation. That's a pet peeve of
mine... they're always doing that in movies, saying "Revelations"
in a serious vouce, meant to impress others with their knowledge of
scripture...
Kolohe|10.23.08 @ 8:48PM|#
Man, here I thought the calls to the local talk radio host about the Obama Birth Certificate Suit would be the most retarded thing I would exposed to all day.
BDB|10.23.08 @ 8:52PM|#
"Hollywood?
What the hell does Hollywood have to do with anything?"
You got me there. That was the whole robo call, really. "I'm
so-and-so from the John McCain campaign, and YO NEED TO KNOW that
Barack Obama puts HOLLYWOOD before AMERICA". That was all, no
further explanation.
There's another one I got where Rudy Giuliani tells me I need to
know that "Barack Obama opposes mandatory sentencing for drug
users". Oh, that's sure to swing MY vote!
|10.23.08 @ 8:52PM|#
So, to get off the McCain supporter in western
Pennsylvania:
How about Obama supporters in western Pennsylvania? What are they
up to?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QIGJTHdH50
Mister DNA|10.23.08 @ 8:53PM|#
Damnit.
David Johansen and Diane Keaton busted down my door, demanding
directions to the freeway.
Oh well, I was close.
|10.23.08 @ 8:58PM|#
The McCain campaign is so effing lame.
They're going to run against Hollywood? Like Dan Quayle? Now?
They think people are out there are worried about Hollywood?
What is wrong with these people?
|10.23.08 @ 9:00PM|#
Hey, if it were Diane Keaton from her Annie Hall days I would not be displeased at all...
|10.23.08 @ 9:02PM|#
joe
What else are they going to say? That they are the ones to take it
to CEO compensation? The GOP has no ideas that appeal to people in
the current situation, so attacks is all they have...
BDB|10.23.08 @ 9:02PM|#
My theory is hes sticking it to the Republican Party for what they did to him in 2000.
Mister DNA|10.23.08 @ 9:11PM|#
I'm so-and-so from the John McCain campaign, and YO NEED TO KNOW that Barack Obama puts HOLLYWOOD before AMERICA"
Unfortunately, a $700 Billion bailout of the movie industry doesn't
seem all that ridiculous.
JB|10.23.08 @ 9:12PM|#
Weigel, why don't you move to somewhere in America-land? You know, maybe some place where people know the normal usage of "get in someone's face".
|10.23.08 @ 9:43PM|#
I can't wait for the BHO presidency. It should help reduce the screams that America is a racist society and the notion that feelings can solve our problems.
Orange Line Special|10.23.08 @ 10:43PM|#
Schempf: I note an undercurrent of hostility and racism in your comment. Thankfully, I have access to a beta version of Barack Obama's Neighbor2Neighbor program, so I signed you up. (Note: the rumors about Reason helping with that program are completely false and I must deny them in the most stringent terms possible. Do not believe those internet rumors!)
|10.23.08 @ 10:59PM|#
Did anyone catch that radio broadcast just now? Scary if true, apparently alien spacecraft have landed in New Jersey. Looks like word has already gotten out about Obama's loose borders and amnesty-for-all aliens policies.
|10.23.08 @ 11:05PM|#
nevermind, Karl Rove told Steve Schmidt to tell Hugh Hewitt to tell K. Lo to tell me that my source may have been drunk.
|10.23.08 @ 11:06PM|#
The GOP has no ideas that appeal to people in the current
situation, so attacks is all they have...
OK, fine, but Hollywood?
Everything they thought they had is a dud.
They thought they could make the country jump with race panics and
accusations of treason, and those don't work anymore.
This is a better country, because of Barack Obama's campaign. It's
gotten better before our eyes, and it's what's going on in the
Richard Trumka video I keep linking to that shows it happening.
|10.24.08 @ 12:03AM|#
This is a better country, because of Barack Obama's
campaign.
HAHAHA! Democratic partisans are so cute before they grow up and
get all disillusioned, yeah?
X|10.24.08 @ 12:59AM|#
The Obama Administration will likely be a disaster. He's riding in on a cloud of charisma, and I don't think ANYONE could reap the post-Bush whirlwind and come out looking good. That means in about 100 days we'll have a chorus of disillusioned lefties joining the loathsome, pathetic whining we're already getting from conservatives. Whupee.
|10.24.08 @ 7:41AM|#
In an interview on NBC Nightly News that aired Thursday, host
Brian Williams asked Palin: "Governor, are you a feminist?"
"I'm not gonna label myself anything, Brian," she responded. "And I
think that's what annoys a lot of Americans, especially in a
political campaign, is to start trying to label different parts of
America different, different backgrounds, different … I'm not going
to put a label on myself. "
But Palin gave a different answer in September when Katie Couric of
CBS News asked her, "Do you consider yourself a feminist?"
"I do," Palin answered.
Turtles|10.24.08 @ 7:53AM|#
Obama doesn't scare me. It's his whacked out supporters, apologists, and drones, all with blinders on who scare me. Including some posters above.
|10.24.08 @ 8:39AM|#
HAHAHA! Democratic partisans are so cute before they grow up
and get all disillusioned, yeah?
'
Even if Barack Obama suck as a president, this country will have
still gone through this campaign. We will have seen Helms/Southern
Strategy/TallDave style race-baiting as a political strategy fail
miserably, for the first time in American history.
We will have had activists and organizers like Richard Trumka
calling out his own people and helping the country work through its
original sin.
We've already seen African-Americans have their "Holy shit, he can
win!" moment.
Try to get past your partisan blinders, prolefeed. There's
something more important going on.
|10.24.08 @ 8:42AM|#
Yeah yeah yeah, you hate liberals. You hate "lefties." You hate
"socialists." You hate unions. You hate Democrats.
Watch this video, and see if you can figure out why I keep posting
it on a site frequented by people who hate liberals, lefties,
socialists, unions, and Democrats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QIGJTHdH50
BDB|10.24.08 @ 9:12AM|#
"TallerDave | October 23, 2008, 10:59pm | #
Did anyone catch that radio broadcast just now? Scary if true,
apparently alien spacecraft have landed in New Jersey. Looks like
word has already gotten out about Obama's loose borders and
amnesty-for-all aliens policies."
HAHAHA!
BDB|10.24.08 @ 9:15AM|#
One bad thing to come out of this campaign is now after both Mondale/Ferraro and McCain/Palin, there's going to be the myth of a "curse" if a woman is on the ticket. A "curse" that leads to a landslide loss. I can hear Chris Matthews yammering about it already.
|10.24.08 @ 9:18AM|#
And Hillary.
Of course, that's grossly unfair. The Democrats lost in 1984? The
Republicans in 2008? Must be that woman VP.
But since when has that ever stopped the cable noozies?
BDB|10.24.08 @ 9:21AM|#
"Of course, that's grossly unfair. The Democrats lost in 1984?
The Republicans in 2008? Must be that woman VP.
But since when has that ever stopped the cable noozies?"
Yeah, like I said, can't you just hear Chris Matthews talking about
the "woman curse" already if someone picks a female VP in 2012 or
2016?
The real reason is of course that both the 84 Democrats and 08
Republicans picked a female because they needed something,
anything, to shake up the race they were losing.
BDB|10.24.08 @ 9:23AM|#
Hillary didn't lose the primary in a landslide though. She came very close to winning.
|10.24.08 @ 9:25AM|#
Tweety got some gender issues.
Remember when he used to speculate about which Republicans have a
manly scent?
BDB|10.24.08 @ 9:29AM|#
Yeah. I think Chris Matthews is one example where someone really does hate Palin mostly because she's a woman.
|10.24.08 @ 10:13AM|#
Yeah. I think Chris Matthews is one example where someone
really does hate Palin mostly because she's a woman.
Hard to say what, if anything is going on in Mr. Thrill-Up-My-Leg's
head, but I've always assumed his hostility to Palin is of a piece
with the rest of the coastal elites.
"She's just not one of us, dahling."
BDB|10.24.08 @ 10:34AM|#
RC--
He really hated Hillary Clinton, too, and she's part of the
"coastal elite".
BDB|10.24.08 @ 10:38AM|#
And he hated Hillary long before anyone even knew who Barack Obama was, extending back into the 1990s.
|10.24.08 @ 10:44AM|#
Matthews is like David Brooks and Rich Lowry - one of those guys
who idealizes the "noble savages" in red states, and talks about
how much more authentic they are than blue states. He's famous for
his division of the country into "John Wayne states" and "Jane
Fonda states." He spent the entire primary campaign talking about
Barack Obama not being able to "close the deal" with "regular
folks."
But he doesn't like Sarah Palin, so therefore, it's because he
dislikes red staters.
There is a cultish faith behind the media theories of the right,
one that dictates everything they see.
BDB|10.24.08 @ 11:19AM|#
Apparently police are making the woman submit to a polygraph test because her story doesn't add up. Fail.
|10.24.08 @ 11:21AM|#
Dave,
Apparently,
the police don't believe her:
Police planned to administer a polygraph test to Ashley Todd, 20, because her statements about the attack conflict with evidence from the Citizens Bank ATM where she claims the incident occurred, police said.
|10.24.08 @ 11:25AM|#
It's the writing on herself that's the tipoff.
Tawana Brawley wrote on herself, too.
BDB|10.24.08 @ 11:40AM|#
So did Morton Downey, Jr. He said he was attacked by white supremacists who carved a swastika in his face, but it came out backwards because he did it in the mirror.
Hey joe|10.24.08 @ 1:44PM|#
Maybe you could "educate" workers about the GREAT reasons for
them to vote against Barack Obama. Let them know that jobs are lost
when the minimum wage goes up, or when unions strongarm employers.
Or show them this:
http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html
|10.24.08 @ 2:38PM|#
I don't need to educate low-income workers about Barack
Obama.
They're one of his strongest voting blocks. I think it's the
insurance thing, but the blatant disrespect with which they've been
treated by Republicans is a good explanation, too.
guy in the back row|10.24.08 @ 3:52PM|#
bama supporters = cutters.
Is this a reference to the Stirling books? I'm on the new one, it's
great!
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