What Some Fools Believe
By mistermix March 1st, 2012
The firehose of stupid is too fast for me to keep up. In the last 24 hours:
- Joe Arpaio said he’s going to hold a press conference to announce the results of his Obama birth certificate investigation.
- Romney says that Santorum needs to give back the delegates that he won in Michigan because Democrats crossed over.
- Romney was against the Blunt-Rubio Amendment an hour before he was for it.
In case you think I’m exaggerating about the stupidity, take a look at Memeorandum this morning. It’s a dozen items on the Blunt-Rubio bill and contraception, the story of a racist GWB-appointed federal judge, and Limbaugh calling women sluts.
Posted in Republican Stupidity
Didn’t Judge Cueball already break this story last night?
March 1st, 2012 at 8:47 am
Romney is gonna screw himself into the ground pretty soon.
March 1st, 2012 at 8:49 am
Rush Limbaugh is a national embarrassment and proof positive that Republicans have no principles. None.
March 1st, 2012 at 8:50 am
I would just add this bit of MSM concern trolling from the Times about the “downsides” of Obama’s “new” optimistic tone:
Bonus points to Helene Cooper for getting “some liberals” in there to both disagree with the president and reinforce the “fact” that real liberals are naturally pessimistic.
March 1st, 2012 at 8:56 am
...which liberals?
Why does not one ever, ever ask that?
March 1st, 2012 at 8:57 am
@Irving: SteveM and Zandar, at least the ones from yesterday.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:00 am
The conviction among wingers that they could beat Obama with practically any breathing candidate always seemed weird to me—the recent tremors make me think that the prospect of Obama winning in November is starting to sink in, even for the crazy.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:02 am
On the other hand, Bill Simmons interview with Obama (note: entirely about sports) was pretty fun diversion during my walk to work.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:02 am
Can that investigation possibly come up that Obama isn’t a citizen? Obama’s already released it and the matter has been settled. What new info can he have investigated but revealing the actual certificate?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:03 am
Stay classy, America.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:04 am
And you foolish bioluddites continue to pretend that there isnt a biological basis for conservatism.
;)
March 1st, 2012 at 9:04 am
Was that judge’s joke really racist? It was tasteless and inappropriate, but the thrust of it was that the president’s mom fucked a dog at an orgy, not anything racial.
Am I missing something?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:06 am
It is a calvacade of stupid.
Metro says that its advertising “has been ruled by the courts as a public forum protected by the First Amendment.”
This bothers me a lot. Ad should never have been allowed, and it’s opening up a Pandora’s box.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:06 am
@cathyx: He’ll hold a press conf to say “Of course the President is a natural-born-citizen; and I’m a moron for believing otherwise.”
Oh, March 1, not April 1, sorry.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:06 am
Hasn’t Sheriff Dumbfuck painted himself into a corner? His report almost has to find Obama’s BC a “fake”. Otherwise, the teatards will crucify him. But if/when he announces the Pres illegitimate, wont they then demand that he go and arrest the President?
Or is this announcement going to be limp, with a “we dont know for sure, but suspect its phony” conclusion that the teatards will accept but not force him to act? And why do I even care about this shit?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:07 am
@MattMinus: The implication was that a white woman who would sleep with a black man would fuck anything.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:09 am
@Elizabelle: If a winger wants to demonstrate publicly that he’s a rage-fueled idiot, what’s the problem?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:09 am
@MattMinus: I’m not fluent in racist wingnut, but I think the racist thrust is that fucking a black man is roughly equivalent to fucking a dog.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:09 am
Still don’t know why Arpaio isn’t sitting in one of his own tents in the middle of the desert wearing pink underwear. How hard could it be to prove that this schmuck is corrupt?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:11 am
So, is anyone going to call their republican rep and ask them if they think Rush is wrong?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:11 am
@Punchy: To maintain Tard Cred, he’s got to gin up some bullshit about fonts and watermarks. To maintain Establishement GOP Cred, he’s got to say otherwise. I’m guessing he’ll instead announce that he’s gay.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:12 am
@cathyx: I assume that the conclusion will be that the evidence is inconclusive and more
Hawaiian vacation timeresearch is needed.March 1st, 2012 at 9:13 am
@MattMinus:
Die in a fire.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:13 am
This isn’t crazy as much as it is emblematic of the modern GOP:
He’s Ron Paul without the phony folksy schtick.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:13 am
@Gin & Tonic: Actually, I think it goes further: You get a black child by fucking a dog.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:14 am
The Right Wing doesn’t have a firehose of stupid. They’ve got a friggin’ geyser. It’s bottomless and propelled by hot, foul-smelling gases. Step too close and you’ll get burned.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:14 am
On the front page of big journalism right now. Apparently, andrew breitbart died last night. Really. I can’t link for some reason.
Edit: although some on twitter are saying it might be a hoax or hack.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:14 am
@Egg Berry: I’d have doubts. Sounds like they got hacked and took the site offline to clean it up.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:18 am
@Egg Berry:
Good point re the hacking, because link won’t work and there is nothing about this on other outlets (quick Google search).
Happy warrior? Happy?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:19 am
http://livewire.talkingpointsm.....l-by-2-000
This kind of sustained jobless claims for weeks under 400,000, could well portend another good month of job creation via the BLS report that comes out tomorrow. It could even be a blockbuster 300 grand +. Whereupon Republicans can be expected to freek out and tie boards to their asses for another dive into the national uteri. Sheriff Arpaio should time his big presser on his O birther investigation, to blunt the real world damage of an improving job market. I’m serious, and it’s scary.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:20 am
@TooManyJens:
Ahh,completely didn’t see it that way.I guess I’m way more perverted than racist.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:21 am
Whoa! Breaking: Andrew Breitbart has died. No joke. Check twitter for links to Fox story.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:21 am
@cathyx: I expect that Arapio will announce that he is not “satisfied” with the evidence of the kind that that people and institutions accept every day in matters of birth and citizenship.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:22 am
@Egg Berry: I went to the Big Journalism page. Is there confirmation anywhere else?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:22 am
@ I’ll wait until a credible source reports his death.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:23 am
Drudge has a working link to Breitbart dead story.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:23 am
Thes are desperate and evil people. It’s a good thing they aren’t heavily armed.
Wait.
Oh shit.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:23 am
@cathyx:
Besides, even if Obama was born in Kenya, he would be a citizen because of his mother’s citizenship.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:24 am
@brettvk: some twitterers say there’s family confirmation. Also, the site link is on drudge, so it’s probably getting slammed. Lots of people trying to get confirmation.
Edit: the daily caller said it got confirmation from joel pollack of breitbart.com
March 1st, 2012 at 9:24 am
@Trinity:
Obama’s goons must have got to him.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:25 am
If it’s not a hoax (and I still think it is one), it would need to be pointed out (1) Drinking oneself to death isn’t “natural causes,” (2) Is he dead, or is he just hiding from Shirley Sherrod? and (3) He’s a terrible person, and the world would be better if he’d never have lived.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:25 am
@Trinity:
And the world is one asshole lighter.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:25 am
@brettvk: The all-knowing, all-seeing Wikipedia has been updated to include his death…
March 1st, 2012 at 9:25 am
If true, I don’t know how quickly you could say “natural causes”. Didn’t he have some kind of substance abuse problem?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:27 am
If he indeed is dead, and died of natural causes, then, as was the case with Broder, justice has not been served.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:27 am
It really does feel endless, doesn’t it?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:27 am
@rlrr: Actually no he wouldn’t be. There was a very convoluted law in 1960 concerning residency requirements for mothers under a certain age to confer citizenship on their children. Stanley Anne would not have qualified. I will try and get you a link from Fogbow.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:27 am
@MattMinus: don’t think that we have forgotten that you were one of ABL’s main stalkers, along with Kola, Interrupted.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:28 am
How does one die at age 43 of “natural causes”? What’s so natural about dying at age 43?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:29 am
@Egg Berry:
If it isn’t a hoax or hack, one can only hope that his corpse was found on top the naked corpse of that asshole O’Keefe, and there is videotape of the cocaine and rough trade play involved.
Its just a shame that it wasn’t Lord Jiggles. I’d actually go to church and light a candle in thanks for that answered prayer.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:29 am
inb4 Obama killed Breitbart
March 1st, 2012 at 9:29 am
I hear Obama is sending food stamps to North Korea, also, too.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:30 am
He should’ve behaved himself. So sad.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:30 am
Today is a good day for political discourse in the US. Andrew Breitbart was a terrible, miserable human being. And I don’t mind saying that. I’m not going to pretend he was an honorable person who was just standing up for causes he believed in. I’m not going to pretend he was just a Happy Warrior!
He was an awful man.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:30 am
Abc says l.a. Coroner has confirmed he died. MUST CREDIT EGG BERRY!
(sorry, just seemed appropriate)
March 1st, 2012 at 9:31 am
Breitbart things seems to be real, more reports coming out
March 1st, 2012 at 9:31 am
Breitbart was a happy warrior.
If by “happy” you mean obnoxious drunk.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:33 am
@Cacti: Sorry, but I read “one asshole lighter” as something you use to light assholes.
Proctology for the home handyman.
Why yes, I haven’t had my coffee yet. Why do you ask?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:33 am
@jibeaux: Heh. Him dying of a heart attack at 43 wouldn’t surprise me after seeing that video.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:35 am
CNN reports Breitbart’s attorney has confirmed his death at 43. MUST CREDIT EGG BERRY!
March 1st, 2012 at 9:35 am
Can we now unleash a torrent of rants about how Breitbart is getting all this publicity while our brave troops who gave their lives for us are uncelebrated?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:35 am
“natural’ causes could mean heart… can happen at the age. But I guess we’ll know shortly.
Jeez, where’s JC on this?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:35 am
@Cacti:
Hubert Humphrey was known as “the happy warrior.”
Breitbart’s just a bully. Or was.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:36 am
Is Romney seriously going to keep whining about Santorum getting crossover votes? Either he thinks there’s still serious doubt about the primary or he’s just flailing. It’s certainly not a winning message for a national audience to argue that Democratic and Independent votes don’t count and you have to give them back.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:37 am
@PeakVT:
Yesterday was a hellish ride in a handbasket that failed. Today, I’m walking with a spring in my step.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:37 am
@gnomedad:
Alas, people doing actual important things, not celebrities, die every day, but still our celebrity obsessed Ferengi Controlled Infotainment Networks concentrate on well known names, even for nefarious, fascistic reasons, like Andrew Breitbart.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:38 am
Convicted felon James O’Keefe’s benefactor is indeed dead according to many sources. Remember folks, Cole will be very upset if you say anything mean about Convicted felon James O’Keefe’s benefactor now that he is dead. What I find shocking is that he was only 43. Dude didn’t look a day over 53.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:38 am
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I seem to remember there being enough of a grey area in the 1960 law to confer citizenship for someone in that situation. Anyway, it’s moot since only a complete loon believes Obama was born anywhere other than Hawaii…
March 1st, 2012 at 9:39 am
@Steve:
He’s just flailing. There’s a bugged for-next loop somewhere in the program.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:39 am
My first words this morning were “holy fucking shit”.
Uttered after reading the racist email sent by a federal judge. Story at Benen’s place about the totally racist federal judge who forwarded a mind-blowing racist email about President Obama.
Wow. I think the “story” in the email message is worse than the photo of Barack as a monkey (with monkey parents, I believe). Un-fucking-believeable.
I bet Barack blows a stack on this one, privately of course, since they basically said his beloved dead mom fucks animals at parties.
I am really angry about this, and really sad for our country, This federal judge needs to be recalled. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Edit: I see that this is already being discussed upthread.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:40 am
I don’t speak ill of the dead, with the exception of Dick Cheney, who is dead but still walks the earth.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:40 am
I really hope there isn’t going to be any finger wagging about respecting the dead. The man was a shitstain and took delight in harming people. Happy warrior my ass.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:40 am
@Egg Berry:
Breitbart:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/andre.....d=15824337
March 1st, 2012 at 9:40 am
@4tehlulz:
Not a slam dunk, but “liberals celebrating/gloating” is.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:43 am
American political discourse is greatly improved by Andrew Breitbart no longer being involved in it, but I can’t say I’m glad he’s dead. I just wish he would have become a better person.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:43 am
@WaterGirl:
Unfortunately, Federal Judges can only be removed by impeachment.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the House wingnuts passed a resolution commending his bravery.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:44 am
Andrew Breitbart.
He was a kind of handsome dude.
Until he opened his mouth.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:44 am
@Elizabelle:
it’s been verified. shrug. won’t really say much there.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:44 am
@debit:
My take here is: Speak not ill of the dead.
So I will pay my respects to the family, tip my hat, and not speak of him again.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:45 am
I have nothing good to say about Breitbart.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:45 am
Yay, I mean, um, I’m sorry to his family for their loss.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:45 am
I really, really want the Georgetown student to sue Rush Limbaugh for defamation. Accusing somebody of being a prostitute is defamation per se: damages are presumed and don’t have to be proven. She isn’t a public figure, so Times v. Sullivan doesn’t apply. Even if she is, I think the “actual malice” standard is met: he knew the accusation to be false when it was made.
Hell, even imputing unchastity to a woman is defamation per se in many jurisdictions. Seriously, somebody tell me why suing him for defamation wouldn’t be both a great way to shine a spotlight on the issue, AND a potential payday to the young woman?
March 1st, 2012 at 9:45 am
@WaterGirl:
FTA: “struggles with allegations” of racism? That’s some soft-peddling for Maddow’s place.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:46 am
Carrying constant, over-the-top rage can be lethal to the carrier.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:46 am
@The Ancient Randonneur: #65
Really. He looked about 57 to 60 to me. YMMV.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:47 am
New thread up about Breitbart death.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:47 am
@debit:
Two words for anyone who thinks Breitbart deserves any post mortem respect:
Shirley Sherrod
March 1st, 2012 at 9:47 am
Cebull, an 11-year veteran of the federal bench, was a George W. Bush nominee.
Elections have consequences…
March 1st, 2012 at 9:47 am
cue concern trolls tsk tsking our lack of respectful sorrow at this untimely and tragic demise. We are better than that, they will say.
Screw that, I says. Ones betterness relative to ones enemies is proved by defeating them. Or at least, as in this case, by outlasting them.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:47 am
@rlrr:
Of course only the idiots think the birth certificate is a forgery, cause they want to believe it. Can’t have that “other” person in the WH. I just pointed it out because lots of people believe that line about “doesn’t matter where he was born” when technically that is not true.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:47 am
If only Dimbarts end was the end of the line. My guess is there will be two new assholes raise to replace him.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:48 am
re: Breitbart. I have decided to believe that his untimely death is another data point, along with that meltdown he had at CPAC, in confirmation that there really was something seriously wrong with the man. Lack of blood flow to the brain can cause all kinds of unfortunate things, from erratic behavior to paranoid delusions. The poor man was just having a series of strokes in public, and couldn’t help what was happening to him.
Poor bastard.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:49 am
@tomvox1:
I am refusing to read that first. I am going to read about Snowe first. I also see a “Tensions Could Push Gas Up to $5 A Gallon” story on the front page, and I am wondering what has happened to my newspaper. This is bald scary speculation unlike the journalistic stylings of Judy Miller.
The way Sargent had the Romney hour-before-he-was-for-it story, Romney is claiming to be talking about two different Rubio amendments at different times, because he was asked about “the Blunt-Rubio amendment which allows employers to ban providing female contraception” and Rubio has a contraception amendment also. And then this morning Romney claims that some state law is being talked about. This could almost be a wink and a nudge from the Romney campaign because his first what can be assumed to be gut-level answer was perfectly fine, and he wants you to believe that he’s not paying that much attention to this great test of loyalty to the wingnuts.
Breitbart dead! I never thought of him as anything but a loathsome fraud but this is horrible. And he is way too close to my age.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:49 am
I can. A true, dedicated piece of shit asshole to the nth degree. Bet it’s hot where he is.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:50 am
@rlrr:
“Gore is the same as Bush.”
-Ralph Nader, 2000
March 1st, 2012 at 9:50 am
I give up. Limbaugh knows exactly what to do to get attention and incredulous sputtering from average liberals like me. That’s half the point of his whole show.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:52 am
Probably not in this case, because it was obvious in context that Limbaugh was not making a factual assertion but making using a metaphor to cast aspersion on her character.
Too bad about Breitbart, he did seem wound a little tight though.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:54 am
@elmo:
I’d like to see that suit, too.
Someone needs to bring Limbaugh and his radio stations to heel.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:56 am
@shortstop: Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
March 1st, 2012 at 10:00 am
@elmo: “potential payday”
accent on potential, since he will have hordes of lawyers to beat hers into the ground.
Kinda like going into a publicity war with someone who buys ink by the rail-tanker load. Rotsa ruck.
March 1st, 2012 at 10:01 am
Glad he died before he could do any more damage. O’Keefe now.
March 1st, 2012 at 10:09 am
At this difficult time, my thoughts go out to the family and friends of Davy Jones.
Imagine being forever connected in death with an asshole who subsidizes defamation and attempted rape.
March 1st, 2012 at 10:13 am
The beginning of the end of the Republican party is rearing its ugly head out of the end of the Republican party. Or something like that. May he and the whole Republican party rest in peace.
March 1st, 2012 at 10:15 am
@PIGL:
Living
wellis the best revenge.March 1st, 2012 at 10:15 am
@elmo:
You know what would be awesome? If she won, like, $10 million from Jabba the Rush, then donated it to Planned Parenthood.
March 1st, 2012 at 11:29 am
Only 6 more months until the election.
March 1st, 2012 at 11:57 am