Sure, polls say Obama and his agenda are wildly popular and enthusiastically supported by the public, but if you don’t count black people, you could say Obama and his agenda are merely really popular.
They just can’t help themselves.
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*** Update ***
I officially retire from “shorter” posts and will leave it to the masters. I just suck at them.
Just Some Fuckhead
Putting it in quotes makes it sound like he actually said it. I think it should be italicized.
Michael
Byron just doesn’t want to count black people. It is unpleasant for him, and shows his real worldview.
I’ll be waiting for Klan shills Tom Sowell, Walter Williams and Alan Keyes to excoriate him any day for that.
norbizness
Even shorter: “What silly Negroes!” (the 4:15 mark if you don’t want to sit through the whole thing)
BobJ
I think a black persons opinions only count as 2/3 of a real opinion under the constitution.
WereBear
I knew how awfully obtuse, xenophobic, and clueless they could be, but the height they have fallen from in about a year is incredible.
Is this the same party which had a lock on every aspect of government in 2005?
Leo v.2.0
Oh my god, DougJ’s question actually made it into Hiatt’s chat:
Trinity
Sweet Jeebus I hate the Rethuglicans.
TenguPhule
And if we ignore 75% of Americans, Republicans are still popular and in control.
TheFountainHead
@Leo v.2.0: That’s so much win it hurts.
Tom
I’d like to see York try and stammer his way out of that one.
JK
All-Time Dumbest Quote by Byron York
Source: The End of Rudy, http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDE0Njg5NTNlY2RhMDQ5MTUxNzVkNzEyOWZlMDNjNzg=
Mr. Stuck
Yep. I read this earlier. You used to could count on York to use at least several brain cells in his writings. But no more, the GOP death rattle virus has got him too.
GOP, In the Year of Our Lord 2009
“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief, “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.
smiley
@Michael: If you read Adam’s post you’ll see he’s saying that York and others don’t think it fair because blacks support Obama’s policies and approve of his performance because he’s is black, and only because he’s black. To York the support is based on nothing other than their shared blackness.
Mr. Stuck
A question a normal person would not answer.
os
well i guess the assumption is that black people support barack on every move because of racial solidarity, i mean nothing like say white christian evangelicals who support repulbicans because of their solid hatred of all things not white christian evangelical
Cat Lady
In a few short days, the right wing talkers and print pundits are just going to stop even trying to talk to anyone other than each other, and drop all the code they use in polite company. They’ve wanted to all along, but there are rules to follow if you want to go on anything other than Fox and Rush’s show. Hopefully they’ll all get their hate on in whatever netherworlds they occupy outside of view, and burn themselves out for once and for all.
Faux News
I think it’s 3/5 according to US law before the Civil War.
geg6
Speaking of idiots…
Has anyone been over to Glenzilla’s lately? He has the funniest post I’ve ever seen there about Virginia Foxx (R-NC) holding him up as a shining example of good reasoning against hate crimes legislation. Seriously. Go over and read it. Frickin’ hilarious.
Mr. Stuck
Rick rolled again?
TenguPhule
When they can’t tell the spoofs from the true believers, it’s time worry.
Tom
York might have a point. Maybe a solution is to count the response of black people as 3/5th of a regular response.
Then these polls wouldn’t be so skewed.
The Grand Panjandrum
York sounds like he’s a candidate to fill in for Rush when Limbaugh goes back into rehab. Jesus.
Ash Can
@Leo v.2.0: LOL! Punked!
Tom
Faux News
You guys beat me to it!
Mr. Stuck
Doesn’t count if not italicized. Book of Internet Traditions.
slag
Obama’s really popular, but if you don’t count people who can’t spell or use the CAPSLOCK button properly, then he’d be even more popular.
Zifnab
Wait, so are we to assume that black people reflexively support Obama because he is black and therefore don’t count?
What does that say about our last 43 Presidents?
“Yeah, I wasn’t a real big fan of Carter, but then I was thinking, like, he’s white like me. So I should cut him some slack.”
geg6
Another gem from Rep. Foxx during the hate crimes floor debate today:
I think we should start a betting pool or something for stupidest wingnut statement of the day. Or maybe one of those word a day calendar type things. Either way, I think we should try to make some cash off of the implosion of the GOP and help pay off the deficit or something.
El Cid
YEEEEEE-DOGGEH!!! SOUF’ GON’ RISE A’GINNNN!!!
binzinerator
@Michael:
Unless he can count each one as three-fifths of a person. Those were the gool ‘ol days, eh Byron?
Bootlegger
@Leo v.2.0: A semi-reasonable answer to a hilarious question. Well-played DJ.
joes527
I’m coming to the conclusion that the Decline and Fall of the Republican Party was put on the fast track by AM Talk radio and Fox News.
It can’t all be the media’s fault, though maybe the very beginning of the end for the Republicans was the Nixon/Kennedy debate where Dick (your father’s Dick, not your Dick) “learned” that media image was everything.
In any case, Karl Rove put together a perfectly reasonable plan to take over the world. He would harness the power of stupid to fill the sails, while he and his kept their hand on the tiller to keep the ship sailing in the direction of world domination.
What went wrong? Somehow stupid transformed itself from a means that served Rove’s diabolical plan into an end itself. And what blew the wind of stupid into a hurricane that would end up puting Rove and his evil companions on the rocks? Fox News.
At least that’s what I’m thinking.
Bootlegger
@geg6: How could we possibly choose the winner?
dmsilev
@joes527:
The monster *always* gets away from the Mad Scientist and causes much havoc and destruction. I wonder who Igor is in this analogy.
-dms
gex
Deleted for pointlessness. Can we do that with the GOP?
passerby
Byron York: but if you don’t count black people, you could say Obama and his agenda are merely really popular.
Sounds like he has a bad, undiagnosed case of White Privilege.
There’s a lot of that going around, but the media refuse to report on it.
(…and visquine and duct tape won’t keep you safe from it.)
Laura W Darling
@geg6: I think John should go open a Cafe Press store. He could put the BJ logo on a bunch of t-shirts, ball caps, coffee cups, neti pots and the like. When something super cool is said, he can run over and slap the quote onto the merchandise.
Wake me when we reach Peak Wingnut!
Maybe part of the profits could go to animal rescue groups?
You’re welcome John. Always thinkin’ over here.
Zifnab
@joes527:
I assumed the hurricane was created by global warming.
tc125231
@TenguPhule:
So , what’s your point? Those are not “real” Americans, they should be ignored.
Cat Lady
@joes527:
Right. The problem was when the fundie rubes stopped just showing up to fill the sails, and wanted their turn at the rudder. They then proceeded to mistake the giant protruding rock for the shore of Jesusland.
Mark S.
Do Republicans ever wonder why they have so little support among blacks? Are they ever at all embarrassed by it?
comrade scott's agenda of rage
As the late Steve Gilliard usta say, not all Republicans are bigots but all bigots are Republicans.
Steve never met some of my Appalachian relatives, all white, all Democrat and bigoted as all gitout.
But you get my point.
gil mann
I’m a pretty far cry from being aware of all internet traditions, but isn’t a “shorter” supposed to be more damning than the original, for comedic effect or whatever?
SGEW
Arlen Specter?
Bubblegum Tate
@Mark S.:
Why, because the islamocommienaziLIEbruls bought off the blacks with welfare, of course. (That is a serious argument that they make, and no, they aren’t at all ashamed to make it.)
chrome agnomen
republicans: all suffering from whine flu.
geg6
Laura W Darling: I like it. 1) Making fun of wingnuts. 2)Kibble for rescues. 3) ??? 4)PROFIT!
gypsy howell
Add a fur coat and a large silk cravat, and Byron is starting to look more and more like Oscar Wilde .
I’m not sure what that means.
Oh wait. Maybe I do.
Just Some Fuckhead
Yours was fine and made the point. Sadly, No went for the snark. Different animals.
NR
And if you factor out all the people who don’t believe in evolution, Obama’s probably up around 80-90% or so.
Anyone can play this dumb game.
socratic_me
I actually prefer the “shorter” here to Sadly No’s
Ash Can
No, don’t do that. You’re better at it than you give yourself credit for. Both you and the Sadly, No! shorters had me laughing out loud.
gerry
I thought that was a very good shorter.
Screamin' Demon
Sadly No! are by no means the masters of the shorter. That would be one Elton Beard. He could nail the essence of an article using less than half the number of words in a typical Sadly No! shorter.
There’s a reason why it’s called the shorter…
Ecks
Me three.
lucslawyer
I suggest a new name for the “GOP”….the WPE…the White Power Evangelical Party….
Wile E. Quixote
@John Cole
I like it. Oh, by the way John, you can say that the Pittsburgh Steelers won the 2006 Superbowl, but if you don’t count the last three quarters of the game the Seattle Seahawks won by three points.