Here is another wingnut whose outlandish behaviors and beliefs are being provided rhetorical cover by the glibertarians at Reason:
Yeah. This is about limited government. No birtherism or latent racism here. Just keep walking.
by John Cole| 64 Comments
This post is in: Assholes, Wingnut Event Horizon
Here is another wingnut whose outlandish behaviors and beliefs are being provided rhetorical cover by the glibertarians at Reason:
Yeah. This is about limited government. No birtherism or latent racism here. Just keep walking.
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Zifnab
Socialist = Corporate Takeover Advocate = Racist Welfare Queen = Secret Godless Muslim
It all makes perfect sense now!
Zifnab
Soci alist = Corporate Takeover Advocate = Racist Welfare Queen = Secret Godless Muslim
It all makes perfect sense now!
freelancer
via Think Progress
Apparently MC Andrew McCarthy was at the 9/12 rally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YLo9jsuEUY
We need tanks and hummers, not hybrid cars!
We need honest politicians, not communist czars!
USA, not the USSR.
We need more Ann Coulter and less Bill Maher.
[…]
I don’t need another lecture from the Sockalistic[my edit] hypocrite.
Tuesday was your birthday, but where’s your birth certificate?
Ajay
I think the idiot got away with it. He should have been eviscerated by Cooper but instead was given more time to say same “Hard Working American” etc. instead of just laughs.
ominira
OT: Okay I was freaked out by this story: Johns Hopkins student kills intruder with samurai sword, police say. My first thought was I’d prefer to be shot than run through with a sword.
Okay back to the teabaggers, birthers, townhall yellers, and other assorted nuts.
Dreggas
More Epic Fail
Beck has seriously jumped the shark here.
Elizabelle
I saw this briefly last night. Couldn’t endure; seized the remote.
At some point, you have to wonder about giving this fellow airtime.
Morbo
@ominira: Ah, but katanas are slashing weapons. That’s why the suspect’s hand was nearly cut off and the torso wound was a laceration. So you wouldn’t have to worry about being run through, just hacked to ribbons.
Da Bomb
@freelancer: Throw in some scracthing and Biz Markie bellowing and you got yerself a song!
KCinDC
A bit late, but I finally put up my photos from 9/12 in DC.
Travis
I hate these overblown descriptions. Cooper gave the guy plenty of rope, but hardly ever went in to work on the deeper meaning of what he was saying.
If you pay attention, like Gergen & Carville, then he said some crazy shit that clearly freaked them out. if you had CNN on in the background while you did the dishes, then he said stuff that a lot of Americans would say “hell yeah” to.
Travis
@freelancer: why do you keep reposting this in different threads?
freelancer
@Travis:
Cause I’m a jackass. And I think it’s hilarious.
SATSQ
General Winfield Stuck
I still can’t watch most you tubes, but I’ve heard this moran spout his crap before. I will note that to me it is clear where this thing is headed, that being the issue of race and the right wing. There is a rapid obsession with it coming from the RW base as the issue that tops the agenda. Sad to see, but totally expected from day one, at least by me.
If the wingnuts could find another bone to crush, like lurid Clenis material, they would go with that as a surrogate to bash and destroy Obama. But O seems to be actually a clean cut type who keeps it in his pants, and is actually someone who lives the moral life in about every aspect that wingnuts always claim as their blueprint for good living. Though as we know, more often they end up banging aids, prostitutes, and your odd Argentinian hottie. Pretty soon it will all be about race and a hundred stereotypes exploited.
And on my teevee is Joe Wilson about to become the wingnut Saint of Lost Causes by refusing to apologize on the house floor like anyone would who accused a presnit a lying in a national speech.
*And Boltin’ Joe has informed us that him apologizing would not cover one person with health insurance. I did not know that.
cleek
what’s the GOP’s obsession with Obama “shoving things down [their] throats” ?
they all say it, all the time “HE’S SHOVING IT DOWN MAH THROAT! Hep me! Hep me! HERE HE COME AGIN! AYEEE! THE TYRANNY IS AT MAH LARYNX! MY UVULA IS BEING OPPRESSED!”
Alan
I love how he also says they’re protesting the corporate control of our government. Yet everything the Right has done has been for corporate interest.
asiangrrlMN
Cole, please channel your inner TBoggs and give me a shorter wingnutbatshitcrazy because I’m still in mah happy place.
kthxbai.
Oh, and more Tunch.
Da Bomb
@cleek: Throats and penis, you do the math.
Justin
I’m down with the limited government message.
But where the FUCK were these guys over the past 8 years, when Bush was doing everything they’re complaining about.
kay
This was interesting to watch because he’s taken by surprise that they called him on it using his own words.
Which is fun to do.
He didn’t recover well at all. He was really struggling. I liked watching his face freeze and his eyes widen, momentarily, before he managed to get his mouth open and start babbling incoherently.
Martin
@ominira: That’s the third killing on a campus in the last week that I know of. Freaky.
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
Sorry, no one here gets out happy.
Bnad
In this video I see the teabaggers starting to lose the health care fight. “These are the hardworking Americans that put money in your pocket.” Let’s see how that kind of populism plays in the corporate media.
When the Establishment starts to suspect that the teabaggers might not be on quite as tight a pro-corporate leash as previously thought, the news crews will disappear from the teabag rallies.
Napoleon
@Ajay:
Are you kidding, he looked like a complete kook. It was pure win for the progressives.
HyperIon
Question: who is responsible for the text “Anderson Cooper destroys Tea Party…”?
I don’t think it is very descriptive of what’s in the video and I’m wondering who gets to supply the text.
Also I get tired of the triumphalism of “destroys” and “smackdown”. Now the Stossel video with the wrestler knocking him to the floor twice, THAT was a smackdown.
SpotWeld
Funny how B.O.B. is almost looking sane
Sputnik_Sweetheart
I would suggest that he types “teabaggers racism” into Google Images if he doesn’t think racism is a motivating factor among the teabaggers. But at least he admitted that the anti-reform protests are not really about healthcare. Silver lining and all that.
Shawn in ShowMe
They think they have a winning narrative here, especially with Serena expressing her desire to shove the ball down a linesman’s throat. “See, when the coloreds face adversity, their first instinct is to shove their views down our throats!”
Marked Hoosier
@ominira: That sword article had the bestest comment evah worth a million internets.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
kay
@General Winfield Stuck:
Why can’t he just accept the sanction? I wasn’t “for” a sanction, but I didn’t know they had these elaborate procedural rules. It’s clear he violated the rule. He’s not even disputing that he violated the rule. Just get it over with.
I can’t believe this individual has spent nearly his entire life either learning rules or obeying rules or enforcing rules.
He’s like: “there are RULES? I’m outraged!”
This is all new and strange to him? Why? He should have done it days ago.
I think he should be sanctioned for being a big whiny pain in the ass about the sanction.
Shawn in ShowMe
Must be some Kossack pulling double duty.
Dreggas
@cleek:
It’s the typical right-wing housewife’s obssession with BBC
Dork
Nipple clips?
Face
I couldn’t understand a single thing Carville said. Is he this unintelligible all the time?
General Winfield Stuck
@kay:
Because we are entering the era of politics by chaos and the hungry mob. This is a small, but important opening shot for the coming “hell no, I won’t go” winger rebellion against the system. Why, because they are fucked electorally, ideologically, demographically, intellectually, and about every other way that leads to regaining power within the system.
Where it goes and ultimately ends up is anyone’s guess. But the largely southern base demands that Wilson not submit. White men don’t apologize to black ones in public and on teevee. Even presidents that are black. . It’s a new pair-a-dine.
srv
@Dreggas: You know, when Little Green Footballs is the most sensical wingnut site still around, that’s saying something.
slag
@Dork: Yep. Because nipple clips are just as offensive as racist epithets. Are you surprised?
Dreggas
@srv:
No kidding, then again LGF has, on a few occasions now, stood up and called out the crazy.
General Winfield Stuck
@kay:
And I fully realize I am taking the most pessimistic view of what is going on, and could be very wrong. Hope so.
Bubblegum Tate
@Dork:
Yeah, that was a funny one. Clearly he has no idea what Bay Area hippies are like. Hint: They’re quite separate from the freaks, who actually might put on some nipple “clips.”
@asiangrrlMN:
Shorter Captain Teabagger: “This wasn’t a protest, it was a celebration of America! We celebrated by protesting the commie nazi muslim who usurped the presidency. Wait, I mean, we’re just regular folk doin’ regular folk stuff. OBAMA’S A NAZI! But I don’t know where you’re getting this idea that we think he’s a Nazi.”
Dreggas
@Bubblegum Tate:
hey i resemble one of those freaks! Folsom St. Fair rocks :P
asiangrrlMN
@Bubblegum Tate: Thanks for the shorter wingnutter. Much ‘preciate it.
Oh, and it’s nipple clamps. Just FYI.
srv
@Dreggas: Once or twice was enough for me. But the naked guy swinging around in a cage hanging from a crane in front of the Orthodox church – that was special.
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: Oh, and fuck you. I am determined to hold on to my happy space, if only for a day. Smiles, everyone, smiles!
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
Now your in the groove :–)
Dreggas
@srv:
I remember being there and thinking the only thing that could make this better would be seeing a midget (it was about the only thing i had not seen) when lo and behold a midget walks by dressed in pony gear. Made….my….day.
Dreggas
@asiangrrlMN:
clover or vampire?
Davebo
I get that the real wacko members of the Tea Party are just minor fringe elements.
So I guess the leader of the party is just a minor fringe element.
BDeevDad
Carville, Broder and Cooper were tools. There was a reason he used the term Indonesian Muslim Welfare thug and they didn’t call him on it or even ask him what issues he has with Muslims or even Indonesian immigrants
Woody
The relevant question is not whether or not Obama is a CorpoRat stooge. He is. You don’t get to be where he is, who he is, without being a reliable tool of the Owners.
No, the question is where was the Teabagger when BushCo was shitting on the Constitution over the last 8 years?
That’s what you need to know. His complaints are legitimate. They are the same complaints as you’ll hear, almost anywhere on the left…The only relevant question is, since the guy was obviously old enough to have voted in 2000 and 2004, where the fuck was that smirkin pimp when the Busheviks were stealing the fucking country?
joe from Lowell
Wow, ominira.
Best.
Room mate.
Ever.
Don
I don’t think it’s much of a smackdown but I’d love to see more of these commentators get called out on what they’re saying in other venues. Too often they get to froth up their base in one venue and then act like they’re reasonable people in another.
Wile E. Quixote
That smirking moron’s face would look much better with a set of crosshairs centered on it.
burnspbesq
@Travis:
The look on Gergen’s face was priceless. He was (1) wondering what rock that guy crawled out from under and (2) wishing he could be anywhere else.
burnspbesq
@Face:
You need to be a native-level speaker of Suthrun to understand Carville.
DFH no. 6
@Napoleon:
Watched this entire wretched “interview” or whatever the fuck you call these things — cursing out loud, even though I was home by myself — and I gotta say I’m with ajay on this.
Cooper not only did not in any way “destroy” this asshole, he let him fulminate away with his nonsense for over half the air time, and repeatedly went back to him for more.
Gergen was ok, for the very limited time he was given, except for the bullshit false equivalency between the teabaggers and anti-Iraq war protests and the “both sides talking past each other” canard.
Carville made one salient point about the professionally-printed teabagger sign saying “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy”, but was otherwise his usual near-unintelligible self, spending half his air time just stupidly yukking it up.
Yeah, the teabagger leader fuckwit sounded like a complete kook, as Napoleon says, but this was no “progressive win”, and there was no “smackdown” by Cooper. For the millionth time, some rightwing asshole was legitimized on teevee, with no real opposition to his bullshit.
I was just surprised that he didn’t throw out the “2 million or more in DC” nonsense. He should have — none of the other three would have called him on it (well, maybe Carville, but no one would have understood what he said).
DFH no. 6
And yeah, what Wile E. Quixote said.
El Cid
Wait — now the term for gay men dressing extravagantly in San Francisco is “hippie”?
NickM
Great. Another new asshole to hate.
Was that an ear ring in his left ear? Or a misplaced nipple clip?
zoe kentucky
All I could think while watching it was “man, that guy is SUCH A DICK.”
I do think laughing at him is pretty effecitve, so is throwing his absurd quotes in his face, he got pretty testy when that happened.
Mostly I don’t understand why these people are treated like reasonable humans. They’re just not. Politics aside, the one thing the teabaggers have in common is that they’re all assholes. If this guy was your neighbor you’d do everything you could to avoid him. If he was your co-worker you’d try to ignore him the best you could, everyone would quietly roll their eyes when he spoke up in a meeting. They’re just not productive members of society– they’re a perpetual nuicance to everyone they know who isn’t related to them or who isn’t an asshole themselves.
These are people who can’t seem to help themselves– they think they know everything, that they’re better than everyone else and that their persecution complexes and impotent rage entitles them to embarassing hissy fits. They need to grow the fuck up and stop thinking that they’re the center of the universe.
zoe kentucky
Wait—now the term for gay men dressing extravagantly in San Francisco is “hippie”?
He’s mixing his fractured icons, can’t seem to separate gay SanFran from its Haight-Ashbury days. Although it does serve to remind us that so much of this is just a continuation of the “culture war” that started in the late 50s/early 60s and carried on through the 80s and 90s. Many of these people are still fighting 30 and 40-year cultural battles– abortion, school prayer, feminism, civil rights, gay rights– so much that many of their cultural cues go straight over people’s heads if they’re not already plugged into it.
b-psycho
Nice how this dumbass yells soshulism & then proceeds to talk about corporate bailouts, not realizing that the existence of said bailouts disproves “soshulist!” as a valid description…
joe from Lowell
The takeaway here is that racists use the word “working class” to mean “white.” It’s an interesting trick; it allows them to contrast the people they like both with rich people, and the allegedly lazy, non-working poor.