13
Oct
So Much Suck
Michael Steele’s Official RNC Blog is titled “WHAT UP?”
Tammy Bruce announces the next Nobel Prize winner, and it is a racoon. Because the word coon has never had another meaning in the past.
I’m kind of pissed off I am feeling a little better, because after fifteen minutes of reading blogs, I want to go back to bed.
Just Some Fuckhead
Ya wanna hang out today, maybe drive around in my truck drinking budweiser and smashing mailboxes with a baseball bat? It’ll take yer mind off things.
Notorious P.A.T.
What up indeed.
dmsilev
The lead sentences of Steele’s blog post:
He has clearly grasped the Internet Tradition which requires grammatical errors in as many sentences as possible.
-dms
John Cole
@Just Some Fuckhead: I’m finally feeling a little better, so I don’t want to exert myself. I am, however, cleaning my house like a mad man. Got the bleach and lysol out and am washing the sheets and cleaning everything I may have touched and am going to burn the velveteen rabbit.
John Cole
@dmsilev: I have no room to talk.
Minionero
Ladies and Gentlemen, I Give You The Official Nickname of Michael Steele For All Eternity (as coined by Brad at Sadly, No):
Filibusta Rhymes
Kryptik
The obvious solution is to debate the issues of the day with Tunch and Lilly. Because whatever they come up with is bound to make more sense than anything coming out of the Noise Machines today.
PaulW
There are three ways to ensure that this Suck eventually goes away:
1) Keep voting AGAINST Republicans, not necessarily FOR Democrats…
2) Get Ross Perot to pump some money back into the Reform Party and try to get it back up as a viable third-party alternative (yes, there are some crazy elements of the Reform Party even when Perot ran it, but after Pat Buchanan crashed and burned it to the ground one hopes the crazier stuff burned with that disaster).
3) Start suing FOX News, NewsMax, any other conservative outlet for Fraud: they’re not selling news: Hit them for False Advertising! They’re not selling quality service, sue them for that! It’s not First Amendment: it’s strictly business for them, it’s all about MAKING MONEY for them. So go after their money.
Zifnab
@dmsilev: These tubes saved my life!
ricky
As Americans we are truly blessed. We don’t have to wait to see untreated mental health problems on open display (OK I am listening to the Finance Committee as I type).
The Moar You Know
@PaulW: This has been done. The Supreme Court has ruled that Fox News has the constitutional, God-given right to report lies as news.
Sorry.
Brachiator
You might think that Bruce, who once was the president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW, might have something to positive say about the woman who won the Nobel for Economics, but I guess once you go full wingnut, there is no dialing it back. Ever.
Also, too, I guess according to Ross Douthat, Elinor Ostrom, one of the winners of the 2009 Economics Nobel, is a failure.
asiangrrlMN
@John Cole: Nekkid? ‘Coz we all know what happens when you clean whilst naked.
@Minionero: That is brilliant! Thanks for posting that here.
Ash
@dmsilev: Good lord, what is up, with that man? Really, commas are not, really, always so necessary, you know, what I mean?
Minionero
@Ash
True, but a comma once in a while doesn’t hurt, and I wish someone would tell Matt Yglesias that.
Ash Can
Tammy Bruce is just a bigot. There’s no reason to expect any different, or better, of her.
asiangrrlMN
Commas, are, indeed, necessary at times; semi-colons are necessary as well!
Heh. A grammar thread. This could be fun!
Just Some Fuckhead
@John Cole: That’s prolly a good idea just to put the “whole atmosphere of death” thing behind you.
Oh, and your suggestion about painting the kitchen light yellow went awry. The colors look a lot lighter on the little color cards than they do on the wall so now I’ve got a spongebob yellow kitchen.
Ash Can
@Brachiator: I figured from the get-go that the RWers wouldn’t be happy with a green economist receiving the prize, male or female.
Napoleon
So what is the story on Tammy Bruce. Is she a PUMA that went wingnut over the MUP?
slag
Why why why do you do this, John? You post this racist bullsh#t, which is going to bring BOB here to spout more racist bullsh#t, which means a donation will need to be made in his honor to some organization that fights racist bullsh#t. You’re sending me to the poor house with this nonsense. I hope you’re happy.
Can we set up some sort of BOB bullsh#t fund? Where we all put a quarter in a jar every time BOB unleashes his inner eliminationist? We could donate it to ACORN. Or Color of Change. Or NOW. Or NARAL. Or…does Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition still exist?
Notorious P.A.T.
@asiangrrlMN:
You know what else is “fun”? “Unnecessary” quotation marks. They crack me “up”.
maxfolger
Ever wonder where Michael Steele gets his coaching?
http://bit.ly/11cgfE
(satire)
jrg
After reading Steele’s “What up?” column, I’ve come to a groundbreaking conclusion.
Much like adding “in bed” to the end of what’s written in a fortune cookie, if you add “with Ebonics” to the end of every sentence Steele writes or says, things begin to make sense.
...with Ebonics.
...with Ebonics.
Steele is a ridiculous caricature of what Republicans think Obama is, and they love him for it. Them fools is whack.
BDeevDad
Evidently Tammy Bruce has a pet Racoon just for these occasions. I don’t see how this can be explained away.
BDeevDad
sorry, dupe. Chrome is too fast
CT Voter
I’m not terribly familiar with Tammy Bruce, so I clicked on the SadlyNo link, and then from there to the original link.
Yikes. What kind of narcissist is this individual? “Join the United States of Tammy”? (Yes, that’s a retching sound you hear. . .)
And she’s pictured sitting in front of a radio mike while holding a gun?
Is that site real, or parody?
Louise
Michael Steele’s Official RNC Blog is titled “WHAT UP?”
Oh no he di’in’t!
JHF
I hear ya. I don’t generally check in to the blogs first thing in the morning any more. It’s just too disruptive and can’t be healthy. I do visit THIS one, however, because it’s populated with real human beings.
Hope yer cold is on the run!
Ash
Since when did “social media” become a proper noun? Allah on a freaking cracker, did this guy fail 6th grade English?
Brachiator
@Napoleon:
No. Bruce was starting to follow a wingnut path long before Obama came on the scene. From her Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Bruce
The last time I heard her, on Los Angeles talk radio station KABC, she had becoming increasingly right-wing, with a hint of teh Crazy.
D. Aristophanes
Except that it’s not her pet, but a picture she lifted from the Internets …
ironranger
John, looking at this putrid stuff is retarding your recovery. Walking away for awhile until you are strong enough to stomach this disgusting trash is the best thing to do for your body & sanity.
I’m waiting for the defenders of this garbage to react with, ” What do you mean it is racist? We’re not racist whatsoever. Can’t you take a little joke?”
Pasquinade
Judgment Day: Birther Taitz Fined $20,000 For Misconduct
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi.....php?ref=mp
Orly Taitz Responds To Judge’s $20k Fine: Shove It!
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi.....ne_sho.php
asiangrrlMN
@slag: This is brilliant. I would be down with a B.o.B. bullshit fund. I’ll toss in a quarter every time B.o.B. says something racist and/or sexist!
@Notorious P.A.T.: Yeah, I “love” that one. Another fave of mine are apostrophe’s in a word that is a plural: our kid’s are not learning.
SenyorDave
And she’s pictured sitting in front of a radio mike while holding a gun
If only life were like The Wizard of Oz. Then we could click our shoes three times and wish she would make good use of her gun.
By the way, I Bruce is the one who referred to Michelle Obama as “trash”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....78109.html
Common Sense
I heart John Stewart. Great video eviscerating CNN. Especially the goatfuckers lines. Thanks, John Oliver.
Warren Terra
I don’t think the R’s can ever manage to top that 2008 minority outreach event featuring special guest speaker George Allen.
Still, to give them their due, they keep trying. They just keep on trying.
BDeevDad
@D. Aristophanes: Figures Patterico lied. And BTW, I was saying even if it were her pet, any person with a brain would know it was racist to compare a black man to a raccoon.
BDeevDad
@Common Sense:
Shell
Oh, that Michael! He’s just so ‘street.’
Shell
Okay, make that $40,000.
Steeplejack
@John Cole:
No, don’t burn the velveteen rabbit. Just no.
ChrisZ
Really, someone with a blog named Balloon Juice is gonna make fun of someone else’s title?
asiangrrlMN
@Common Sense: Oh my goodness. I laughed so hard, I almost cried. That was so fucking funny. CNN leaves it there.
Svensker
@asiangrrlMN:
Pie is racist and sexist? Dang!
ed
Ms. Bruce’s bio offers further evidence about talk radio (especially local). Most of these folks are not conservatives at heart, they are entertainers needing a gig. They only ticket available in radio is one more asshole yelling the same crap into the right wing echo chamber, for which there seems to be an insatiable appetite.
And of course there are now so many “talkers” that the way to move ahead of the field is to be as outrageous as possible. “Hey, a coon picture will get me noticed! I called the President a coon! Look at me, look at me!”
Ms. Bruce, how on earth do you wash your sheets without the red dye on the KKK emblem bleeding into the white?
slag
@Common Sense: That was simply amazing! I had no idea that all my whining about establishment media could fit so easily into a 5 or 10 minute Daily Show segment. I am in awe.
Demo Woman
@Pasquinade: Orly is going to be interviewed on HLNews tonight by Joy Behar.
I don’t have cable so I’ll have to wait for the youtube version.
slag
@asiangrrlMN:
It really does make one want to cry sometimes.
eemom
Sort of on topic, evidently the new RNC website also sports a “Future Leaders” page that is…......blank.
Off topic, but even more delicious, Orally Twatz has been slammed with a $20K sanction by an exasperated California judge.
No time to do linkies, but they’re both over at Memeorandum.
Good times.
Demo Woman
John, I hope that the frequent posts mean that you are feeling better.
Vote for Bitsy
eemom
drat, someone beat me to the Orly scoop. : (
trollhattan
If going after Fox for lying ist verboten, how about for racketeering? Eliot Spitzer has some spare time.
Common Sense
@asiangrrlMN
The reporter anchor duo looking to the Heavens asking who will check the veracity of competing numbers given by opposing politicians, followed by thirty seconds of stone faced silence from Jon, is what sent me over.
BDeevDad
@Common Sense: John Oliver’s rant was all kinds of awesome as well.
jibeaux
@ChrisZ:
I’m going to go with yes, and at length.
The S,N commentariat suggested hip hop names are full of win.
Token Loc is my favorite thus far.
Tonybrown74
Oh, for the fucking love of Christ
!
This man is an insult, not only to the intelligence of all humans, but to the dignity and self respect of black people everywhere!
He is supposed to be educated, but acts like a racist stereotype of black people pre-Jim Crow. He is a modern day Step-n-Fetchit, and it drives me crazy whenever he goes on television or posts this shit online, acting in this clownish stereotype of what he thinks people (particularly young people) believe black people act!
JenJen
I’m still laughing at “WHAT UP” being Steele’s RNC blog. Good gawd that is the most unintentionally hilarious thing I’ve heard all week.
Tonybrown74
I guess I’m in moderation ….
Oh, well!
Tonybrown74
Test
Comrade Mary
OMG, OMG, OMG, I just visited gop.com. As a FIRST! TIME! VISITOR!, I got a Steele homunculus walking onto the screen via green-screened video.
True to form, he was begging for help from Republican coders in order to help develop their “online property”. I’m sure Red State could let him know how well that will work out.
slag
@asiangrrlMN: OK. I’ve set up a BOB Bullsh#t Fund Google Doc that anyone can edit. When you see racist/sexist/homophobic bullsh#t coming from BOB, just add it to the spreadsheet. Then, at the end of each month, we can tally it up and see how much BOB’s bullsh#t has made for its respective organizations (to be determined). Depending on how many pledges we get and how much bullsh#t BOB says, an ActBlue page could be in order.
BTW, I’m serious.
Origuy
More Orly Fail, from Bad Fiction:
“The Court further directs the Clerk of this Court to send a copy of this Order to the State Bar of California, 180 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, for whatever use it deems appropriate.”
IANAL, but I suspect that when a judge does this, he expects sanctions from the Bar to follow.
Stooleo
Orly Taitz’s Facebook page
Shell
I love where it says ‘Wrong Orly Taitz? Search for others.”
Good God, are there more than one? The mind reels.
PurpleGirl
I wonder how much hydrogen peroxide she uses to color her hair and is it enough to get her on the terrorist watch list?
gocart mozart
@Minionero:
Token Loc
gocart mozart
Some other good ones,
Token Loc
King Ad-Hoc
Kanye Deep South Only
No Method Man
Galt ‘n Peppa.
The Vainglorious P.I.G.
Mos Tone Def
Midnight Marauder
—The opening line from Michael Steele’s inaugural “What Up” column.
IndieTarheel
@Minionero: Yo Brad, I’m happy for you and imma let you finish, but IcedTea Suh is the best Steele rap name of all time!
binzinerator
The Internet has been around a while, now. But, I still find it an amazing platform for innovation, not just in technology, but in life.
@Minionero:
Filibusta Rhymes
My suggestion:
Comma Chameleon
binzinerator
Dang block-mis-quoting. I hates it.
GregB
Tammy Bruce is Larry Johnson in drag.
A total kook.
-G
sistermoon
Michael Steele is an embarassment. Give him some blackface makeup, a pair of white gloves, have him sing a couple choruses of “Mammy” and he’d be a true 21st century minstrel.
The fact that he’s supposed to represent the GOP speaks voumes about how they view African Americans.
gocart mozart
TOP TWENTY RAP NAMES FOR MICHAEL STEELE
Token Loc *
King Ad-Hoc *
Kanye Deep South Only *
No Method Man *
Galt ‘n Peppa.
The Vainglorious P.I.G.
Mos Tone Def
Iced Tea Suh
Filibusta Rhymes
Notorious B.I.G.W.A.N.K.E.R. *
Ice T-Bag
Vanilla Ice (heh)
Ol’ Dirty Golfing Partner
Run Dumb M. Steele *
Chucka Conjob *
TuPAC
Flat Tax Slim
Birfer Rhymes
K-StreetRS-One
MC G.O.P. Pants
There are more in the Sadly No! thread. In the interest of full disclosure and admission of judge’s bias, the ones with the (*) are mine. In my opinion, the top three are:
“Mos Tone Def”, “Iced Tea Suh”, and my own “Token Loc”
chuck
@Origuy:
Actually that’s pretty much pro forma when it comes to Rule 11 sanctions. The CA bar is in fact pretty likely to act, but I suspect Sasha will be president before they bring the hammer down.
Wile E. Quixote
@CT Voter
The “United States of Tammy”? Sounds like a failed state and a terrorist breeding ground to me, we should send in the Air Force to level it and then let the Army and Marines pacify it.
Wile E. Quixote
@Origuy
Would stapling a copy of it to her Taitz, I mean, taint, be appropriate?