Here:
It really was not that shocking.
*** Update ***
Who said the following:
I now appreciate somewhat how Cofer Black, the head of the CIA’s Counter Terrorism Center, must have felt as he tried to warn Condaleeza Rice and the Bush White House about a brewing terrorist attack in the days leading up to September 11th.
JGabriel
Bastard.
.
Wilfred
That was cold, man.
Evilbeard
You bastard you popped my Rickroll cherry!
At least you could have taken me out for lunch first.
Phillip J. Birmingham
I don’t know what JGabriel and Wilfred are talking about. I needed to know this. I’m not sure I could vote for Obama after what I’ve seen.
Karmakin
roflmao.
Ted
I don’t appreciate that at all.
Con Mhac
That is one of the most despicable things I have ever seen. Mrs. Obama should be a shamed of herself.
Camper Joe
That’s my second Michelle Obama/RickRoll
To quote Michael Bluth after getting burned by the Cornballer… “EVERY DAMN TIME!!!”
Good one John.
b. hussein canuckistani
Bwahaha! I checked the comments first to see if it was something that would upset me.
Pillsy
Whitey’s…
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Garrigus Carraig
I just LOLd in my mouth!
Dennis - SGMM
Crap! Rickrolled. Shoulda’ known it.
dr. bloor
She said “Whitey,” not “Howdy Doody.”
Dennis - SGMM
Wonder how quickly No Quarter, et al, took it down after putting it up blind.
Balakirev
So we accidentally switched videos, and gave us McSame’s VP running mate acceptance speech?
Cain
hehe.. I dind’t click on it, I smelled a rat! Went throught the comments first. Evil Beard had the best reaction! Points to him!
cain
DougJ
My college roomate thought the whole point of Rick Astley was to be as nonthreatening to girls as possible. He thought the lyrics should be:
Never gonna feel you up
Never gonna bone you down
dr. bloor
Over at Willis already. Congrats, you just broke the land speed record for linkage.
Krista
Ditto. Can’t believe I fell for it.
Delia
Careful, John.
LarryAgent Flowbee will declare you a troll for life and ban you from No Quarter.ThymeZone
POTD for John. Awesome, totally Rickrolled me.
John has pwn.
NR
As for the whole Rickroll phenomenon, I liked xkcd’s take on it.
Ted
John Cole’s about the right age that he prolly used to think that guy was “rad”.
heheh
Cain
Props to Peter Johnson for the original link on a previous thread. Just shows what a mischivious bastard John is.
cain
demimondian
IHBT. IHL. HAND.
John, someday, somehow, when you least expect it.
Len
The Obama campaign is history now.
That was powerful stuff. I’m sure Malkin is having the best day of her life. Drudge is probably creaming himself and the Powerline boys said to hell with it and jumped into bed together.
Oh… and Johnny stroked out.
Xenos
pwned,
Now, who can I pull that on…
Dennis - SGMM
Just saw a Republican on the teevee. “Obama is gonna’ raise taxes his first day in office.” That’s fresh.
cbear
from a previous thread—
Dennis, I can’t figure out whether you’re an evil genuis–or you don’t know that Charlie Christ is teh gay.
Dennis - SGMM
Heh, heh, heh. The Republicans can have their own historical “first” – what’s wrong with that?
Batocchio
Haha. Well played.
asl
First time Rickrolled. Must be tired. You bastard.
passerby
First time I’ve been “rickrolled” and I liked it.
T
Thelonius
So it wasn’t “Kill Whitey”, it was “Rickroll Whitey.” That explains everything. No wonder the campaign was terrified of this coming out.
Genine
John, that was meeeaaaannnnn!
Otto Man
This is excellent news for John McCain!
Padraig
God help me, I did not see that coming.
AlphaFactor
Lol. Say what you want. I’ve always liked this song.
Laura Roslin
shit. This keeps happening to me. I actually like the music and video though.
AGH!
Then there’s this:
Never gonna give up, let you down…. never gonna tell a lie….
cbear
I’m not sure where that term originated, but it sounds eerily descriptive of a horrifying experience that I suffered in a Bangkok bathhouse, when I was but a lad.
The ricking was pleasant, but the rolling was painful—-and expensive.
flavortext
And if you’re a lucky soul, you never will.
Lamont A Cranston
Me, too.
As a bonus, my wife looked over and asked what made me play that song; she’d never heard of Rickrolling. It’s an odd phenomenon to explain to someone.
John Cole
It started with duckrolling.
Kids.
dreggas
ok that was amusing…let’s just hope it doesn’t ressurect New Wave as popular music.
Zifnab
Damn you Cole!!!!!!!!!!!!
Andrew
This is good news for Rudy Giuliani.
The Grand Panjandrum
You da fuckin’ man, Cole! I haven’t been Rick Rolled in a while. Touche! (Just be careful ’cause I know where you blog, bro. ‘K, bro?)
cbear
Duckrolling?
WTF?
My Bangkok “Rickrolling” cost me $200 bucks, a nice watch, and a bad beating. I’d hate to think what my fate would have been if those guys had brought a goddamn duck in on the action.
Trinity
You got me. nice.
Dennis - SGMM
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
D-Chance.
From the No 1/4 boy:
No, of course not, Larry. Now either put up or shut up.
Darkrose
You win teh interwebs, John.
cbear
C’mon Dennis, on an earlier thread you said that you’d learned to not be self-conscious about posting embarrasing stuff….
Let’s hear about your time in the barrel at that Saigon teahouse, bro.
BTW, I’m still wondering about that whole “duckrolling” thing.
Is that where the duck pecks you in the balls, while the other guys beat and rob you?
flavortext
John Cole is a …?!
No… No! That’s not true! That’s impossible!
Libby Spencer
Rickroll virgin here. That was fun. Do it to me again baby.
Jake
Like several others, my first real Rickroll. Feels weird…but I liked it.
jaycbird
DAMMIT!!! Rickroll’ed AGAIN?!!
I’ve got to get outside more!
joe
That is, indeed, a Whitey tape.
Good Lord, is that a whitey tape.
RoonieRoo
Damnit Cole!
John Cole
The real question is how many blogs have rickrolled their commenters before?
Cris
The greatest thing about the Rickroll phenomenon is that Astley himself has a great sense of humor about it. I love that he acknowledges this his song was insubstantial pop music.
pjanson
Can someone post this over at NoQuarter? I can’t post there, I’ve been banned or my posts just don’t come up or something:
‘I found this diatribe linked at Kos. Typical Obamaton:
“I have some unnamed friends who say they’ll never vote for certain candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination for a variety of reasons. To which I shrug and concede “to each his own” […] It’s one thing to find one’s self stuck for four more years of the next “unitary president” like George W. Bush, but it’s quite another to participate in making that happen.
And the highest price being paid is one that slips our minds all too often:
The erosion of the rights of ourselves and our fellow citizens, the evisceration of Constitutional precepts, and — most precipitously and permiciously — the loss of our own humanity as well as how others regard us around the world. So to my “til-hell-freezes-over” friends, I say two words: Supreme Court.
Don’t get too extreme about who you’re going to vote for in ’08. Your freedoms, and your future generations’ freedoms, depend on it.
Every time you decide you hate Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Richardson, or whoever, and that you’d NEVER EVER vote for whoever you hate, just say two words to yourself: Supreme Court. […] It’s
all the reminder you’ll need.”
Which Obamaton posted that?
SusanUnPC.
dr. bloor
Hmm…how much farther behind can “Headrolling” be?
Doonhamer
Another take on the phenomenon (h/t anonymous poster at the GOS).
Rick Taylor
For those like me who had no idea what rick rolled means, here’s an explanation. Evidently it’s connected to the WOW community.
dr. bloor
You have to admire a man so willing to share his feelings of
ambivalencecontempt toward his readers.joeyess
Cole, you fucker.
Krista
I feel bad about the fact that your misfortune amuses me.
flavortext
pjanson:
I just tried, and I’m fairly sure they’re filtering any posts with links to the GOS.
jrg
I can’t help but feel a tinge of white guilt after watching that.
OriGuy
There’s actually an entry in Wikipedia for rickrolling. I wonder how long it will take before this manifestation gets added to the list.
AkaDad
I’ve been pwn3d. I blame this on CDS.
PeterJ
OT, but WTF?
US quits Human Rights Council
Chris Johnson
flavortext- you KNOW it to be true :)
I always say, that place contains everything, even the truth. Purely hypothetically, mind you. It’s been over 9000 days since I visited any such website.
wasabi gasp
What’s the problem with Rick Roll?
As long as you’re not richardmarxin’ me or chungin’ my wang, I’m good.
pjanson
flavortext: thanks mate. What’s the GOS exactly? The KOS diaries?
I managed to get one long, very clear minded post up there, a couple days back, saying basically, ‘don’t believe everything you are told, think for yourself and investigate these allegations against Obama yourself’. It stayed for about five minutes then was deleted. Pretty sure they don’t want people thinking for themselves.
While I am getting mightily sick of people throwing lists of names together, and other people lapping them up, I figure it’s worth a shot, right?
If you think Obama has skeletons, well, you just wait. McCain is about a half inch of skin from being a skeleton himself! Think about it guys, McCain hasn’t been vetted. I’m grabbing my big bag of popcorn and I’m munching it down because I’m a fat arsehole piece of shit with nothing else to do:
Check this out: McCain, Timothy McVeigh, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Gotti’s ex-wife, Benedict Arnold, the guys who killed Socrates, ohhhh boy, McCain has skeletons!
Anyway, once they catch that guy who hijacked that plane in the ’70s and parachuted to escape, the beans will all be spilled, all over the Republican Convention. Yeah!
Notorious P.A.T.
Awesome.
Chris Johnson
PeterJ- that link would have been much better if it was another rickroll, as I expected it to be…
Kinda ‘holy shit’ ville there.
Are we talking ‘make Obama grovel and apologize for days when he gets elected’, or are we talking ‘we’re about to throw half our population into prison camps, what would we want with human rights?’?
1jpb
John Cole says:
“The real question is how many blogs have rickrolled their commenters before?”
Always brilliant and insightful; now a trail blazer too.
Count me as one more sucker.
passerby
Every time you decide you hate Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Richardson, or whoever, and that you’d NEVER EVER vote for whoever you hate, just say two words to yourself: Supreme Court. […] It’s
all the reminder you’ll need.”
Which Obamaton posted that?
SusanUnPC.
cbear
No worries, K.
Like I said, I’m just thankful to have avoided the duck-on-man action—and escaped with my balls, if not my diginity, intact.
Royston Vasey
Well done. I went straight to the video.
=)
Meanwhile….
The recording that shows Michelle Obama saying disparaging things about white folks is for real. It is not part of some elaborate dirty trick. The people who have seen her comments describe it as “stunning” or “devastating.” I have not spoken directly with the people who have seen the tape, but I have spoken to two of my friends who are friends with those who watched the tape/dvd.
/-|
pjanson
Anyway I’ll try and get the post up there somehow. Every post I make is filtered, regardless of whether I clear cache, restart the computer, change email/nickname/re-register.
I can’t figure out if all these people saying ‘Oh I’m so torn, blah blah blah, goodbye Democrats, drama drama drama, I’m voting McCain’ are serious. I’ve seen so many duplicates that they are probably posting pseudonymous repetitions but I can’t be sure.
I feel like I really have to get at least one or two posts on there, especially some of the words of SusanUnPC when she was at KOS:
Another example:
“John McCain: Anything to Win
Karl Rove has taught John McCain well. Be macho and attack. Always attack. Macho Manly Man McCain doesn’t think the military should divert soldiers to train Iraqis, even though American commanders in Iraq, as reported in Tuesday’s New York Times, are already transferring thousands of soldiers from traditional combat to be advisers to Iraqi units.
But, the biggest lesson McCain learned in the 2000 South Carolina primary after Rovian henchmen spread rumors that McCain had a black baby? “Do unto others!””
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/7/123210/357/88/278580
(Also some comments she posted on the above thread):
“The racist attacks on McCain taught him that racist attacks work. Makes all the sense in the world to hire the guy who made that racist attack ad against Harold Ford Jr.”
—
“most of us bought into that maverick act of his.
Sadly, too many still believe it. It’s hard to overcome “first impressions.” But, if somehow people are clued in?”
—
“Aren’t they wary of Romney’s religion (Mormon)? And I’d think that Romney’s lack of international / foreign policy / military experience would be a big drawback. ? […] But I read that McCain already has a big operation going in some of the early primary states, including Nevada. (The story mentioned another state where he has a big operation, but I can’t recall … Iowa or NH? Maybe So. Carolina? SNORT.)”
—
And so on. I emailed John the screengrabs and the downloaded site I got from when the ‘Representation’ thread was ‘Wild Savage Evil Blacks Running Wild’ or some such nonsense, and I emailed him a bunch of those quotes, asking if he’d let me whip up a post here with a few condensed versions. That way at least a few more people would see it, and it might be somehow propogated to NQ.
I dunno if it’s entirely futile, but it’s really doing my head in to be honest – whether these people are lunatics, serious, Republican trolls, SusanunPC copies, idiots stirred up by Larry Johnson, or what.
passerby
Oops, looks like I’m trying to perfect the art of inverse block quoting.
T
cbear
My advice?
Go with D.) All of the above.
Daniel
Best. Rickroll. Ever.
Dennis - SGMM
I was drunk. Just don’t ask me about the “wax job.”
pjanson
Passerby:
Actually that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make.
The sheer one sidedness at No Quarter, the generalised, pancake view of reality, y’know, good or evil, mostly evil, it’s so prevalent that it’s almost a parody, but unfortunately it isn’t.
So SusanUnPC is quite possibly demented – a very complex condition, as far from one-sided as a mental condition can get.
But in all seriousness – I couldn’t tell whether you were being subtly sarcastic, or whether you were implying that I had portrayed her as a chest-beating racist.
In any case, by posting her own arguments, made before the campaign at Kos, my aim is to try and show the people at NoQuarter, and maybe SusanUnPC herself – that before she was immersed in this environment of ‘yes Larry, no Larry’, she could think for herself. And did think – or write – almost in diametric opposition to her political expressions now.
Notorious P.A.T.
He was. Words can’t describe how great it is that the biggest soul voice this side of Motown belongs to a skinny Brit with a carrot-top.
passerby
Nope, it was a straight question. From her comments about the “savages” yesterday I had already assumed that she was a chest-beating racist.
She sounds demented. Probably one who needs constant attention and so runs around trying to garner as much of as she can, wherever and however she can.
Sad, actually.
T
Chuck Adkins
Cole,
You’re such a bastard. :P :lol:
Best,
-Chuck
norbizness
It’s going to be difficult to choose between all-denim Rick Astley or black turtleneck-with-a-white trenchcoat Rick Astley for President.
slag
What? You couldn’t play the whole song?
Mike
“Do you remember Rick Astley?
He had a big fat hit, it was ghastly.”
— Nick Lowe, “All Men Are Liars”
PaulB
GOS = Great Orange Satan = DailyKos. I think this started around the time that some on the right were pretending that everyone in the lefty blogosphere took their cue from Kos.
PaulB
I absolutely love Larry Johnson’s latest pathetic attempt to pretend that there is actually, really, no, seriously, this time I mean it, a “tape” out there because he has “two … friends who are friends with those who watched the tape/dvd.”
It’s also hilarious to watch him pretend that the Obama campaign has coordinated a disinformation and attack campaign on those who are trying so valiantly to find the truth, whether it’s Obama aides “verbally assault[ing]” a McClatchy reporter, or the Obama campaign sending instructions to bloggers to claim that Michelle said “why’d he” instead of “whitey,” or the Obama campaign circulating the novel from which this storyline was cribbed.
Oh, and you’re going to love this direct quote:
Can you get any more delusional than that? What’s pathetic is that there are still people on that site who cannot see through the obvious scam.
rachel
But did the US leave voluntarily, or was it kicked out?
Krista
Well, you know what they say…kinky is when you use a duck feather.
Perverted is when you use the whole duck.
Mark
At least it wasn’t goatse.cx.
W. Kiernan
Wow, that’s a great song! Who is that dude?
D.N. Nation
Just flamed No Credibility. Felt good.
Desmond
I wish I could, but I got banned or something.
OriGuy
Has anyone ever seen Larry Johnson and Douglas Feith at the same time in different places? It seems impossible that two people could be that stupid.
Steve J.
Until now, I didn’t think any major blogger had worse musical taste than Atrios.
Cris
Viva Buddy Hackett.
Kilo
Gee that almost sounds like Larry Johnson is wondering what it would have been like to be in the field of CT and making predictions about OBL’s capabilities prior to 9/11.
I wonder if this interweb has a search function.
He’s serious about wanting to kill Americans, but as long as he’s in Afghanistan, as long as he doesn’t have access to a cell phone, as long as he can’t just hop on a plane and travel wherever he wants without fear of being arrested, his ability to plan and conduct terrorist operations is extremely limited. We have to recognize [that] he would like to do a lot of damage. He would like to kill Americans, but wanting to is different from being able to, having the full capabilities in place. – Larry Johnson, 2000, PBS Frontline.
Phoenix Woman
Actually, John Cole is Rick Astley. That’s how he was able to get his mitts on a video to Rickroll.
James
Those dance moves! Whitey indeed.
kravitz
one of the reasons astley had a problem with that era of his life was the onerous contract he had with stock/aiken/waterman who produced it. of course, when they parted ways, he also stopped having such big hits…
CBeck
Trolling the rightwing blagosphere is like pissing into an ocean of piss.
I knew I liked you, Mr. Cole.
LanceThruster
I’ve never been Rickrolled though I’ve sought out his material on my own before. Does that confer some sort of immunity or should I still get a shot?
JenJen
Ultimate RickRoll. pwn3d!!!!!
B
Well-played, sir.
pjanson
passerby: Yeah, I think so too. Having read somewhere that she was aged and of ill-health, I presume she may be encountering mental health problems that are commensurate with physical ill health associated with aging. Symptoms of delusional paranoia may be a result of cerebral atrophy.
Or maybe she’s just a nasty bigot.
Either way, since I can’t post my quotes from her days of sanity on NQ, I’ll figure out a way to get them up on a blog site or send them to her directly.
She’s probably fucking Larry Johnson. Who knows, but on Kos she started fawning over him in her diaries around ’05, and at some stage he actually wrote the diaries for her.
Maybe she is Larry Johnson.
In any case, to preserve my faith in humanity I’ll probably steer clear of NQ, just for the time being or until I need another dose of the kind of slap-face silliness they provide there.
TenguPhule
The mark you leave on it will be nothing compared to the mark it leaves on you.
River
What’s really hard is trying to explain RickRoll to someone who can barely read and send email – my partner.
PeterJ
From his vorpal sword:
PeterJ
Seems like the US has been unhappy for a while about some countries that really aren’t pro human rights being members of the council, so they left voluntarily.
The more interesting question would be if they felt they should leave before some other country asked them to leave based on the idea that countries that aren’t pro human rights shouldn’t be members of the council…
lee
Damn! Good one.
I have never laughed so hard at a RR.
Shinobi
That was hilarious. I needed that.
MikeL
That was the first time ever I didn’t see it coming.
Tom
Someone whose entire purpose of public speech stems from their former CIA employment seems uniquely reliant on personal credibility. I encountered Johnson’s writing at TPM. He frequently based what he had to say on his experience, which the rest of us can’t verify because for some unknown reason the CIA won’t let us in the front door.
It’s not like the NYT’s Kristol, who can spew endless nonsense, we can verify whether or not it’s nonsense, and eventually the _NYT_ might be embarrassed enough to run a correction. It’s not like other writers starting from verifiable facts to draw conclusions from arguments which we may or may not find persuasive. In the Johnson TPM articles I read last year, his facts rely upon his credibility. Which should now be shot.
Julie Hensley
Guess we all better be careful if we say ‘why’d he’…. good grief all this crap over her saying why’d he cause the GOP is desperate…boy are they desperate if they have to twist that tape that badly.
Answering response 137
Out loud, Say "Why’d he" as in "Why’d he do it?" real fast
What does that sound like?
Who’s been had?
Does the image of a jackass come to mind?
No?
Whitey Republican got duped by a misheard word.
But can you convince Whitey the word Michelle said was "Why’d He" NOT WHITEY
Talk about building Bigoted hatred based on Bigoted Spin!
SHEEEEESH!!!!!!!!
WereBear
Marvy.
And yes, my first Rickroll.
When I talk about this in the future, (and you know I will,) John, I will be kind.