In case you missed it.
Outstanding:
Ridiculous: Dana Loesch over at “Big Journalism” had her merry band of idiots fact-check Amy Poehler’s comment that “there are too many people” and attempts to disprove the statement by linking to studies demonstrating that birth and fertility rates have declined (as if Amy Poehler was making some sort of political statement about birth rates.)
Really?!
That’s like me saying “There are too many snakes on this motherfuckin’ plane!” and Dana Loesch directing her merry band of idiots to publish a study demonstrating that overall, the number of snakes on motherfuckin’ planes is decreasing, and then demanding to know what I have against airborne snakes.
Come on, y’all. You can’t be this stupid.
Oh wait, yes you can:
Really.
(h/t TBogg)
[cross-posted at ABLC]
Soonergrunt
This is “Dan Quayle calling out fictional character ‘Murphy Brown'” -level dumb.
Villago Delenda Est
Dana Loesch is yet another example of why we need retroactive abortion to be legal in specific cases.
Captain Spaulding
Getting into debates with comedians now?
freelancer
I remember around a decade ago when it was announced that there were now 6 billion people on the planet. Just this year it was revealed that there are now 7 billion. Loesch is a moron, and I have no clue what “government will out-populate the population” means?! There will be more federal employees than non-federal employees?! Oh and fuck Loesch for jumping on Amy Poehler’s role of becoming a mother.
That’s always baffling to idiot, winger, pro-lifers; when they find out that people that are pro-choice actually have fucking children. As if they are like “OMFG, You got preggers and didn’t kill your baby?! You must be pro-life! No? This is so cornfusin’!”
Arclite
Well, we’ve well exceeded the carrying capacity of the planet. We are able to exceed it due to the cheap availability of fossil fuels, but with those running out (not to mention the availability of fresh water), we actually DO need to reduce the population of the planet to avoid wide-spread famine and possibly societal collapse in many countries. Per capita food production throughout the world has been shrinking for a while, so we’re all going to be a lot skinnier.
trollhattan
Can’t a too-high birthrate that’s declining still be too high?
Just askin’.
Shorter wingnut: we’re not making enuf white babies in two-parent opposite-sex upper-class households.
So there.
Frankensteinbeck
@freelancer:
It means ‘You’re paying too much in taxes’, with implications that lots of worthless people have unnecessary government jobs, and all the other standard conservative tropes.
RalfW
I think what Amy meant to say is “we have too many extremely stupid people like Dana Loesch.”
Or maybe Amy meant to say “we have too many extremely evil people like Andrew Breitbart.”
Or both!
nitpicker
Sorry, Dana, but you’ve got this backwards. Jokes don’t tell comedians.
Villago Delenda Est
@trollhattan:
DING DING DING DING DING
One has to wonder why Dane Loesch isn’t preggers at this very minute.
Benjamin Franklin
Bug Journalism is here to stay.
b-psycho
When you’re fact-checking SNL, you already lost.
Merp
Obviously Poehler is right and Loesch is dumber than oak but we shouldn’t let that distract us from the real issue: SNL has been nigh unwatchable for the past few seasons. Last week’s episode was noteworthy in that it didn’t justify terrorists’ hatred of America through its awfulness.
Swap John Mulaney for Seth Meyers at the Update desk, get Keenan out of there completely, stop writing stupid Wiig sketches. At the very least.
trex
@Soonergrunt
And THIS…is CNN.
jeffreyw
Next they’ll be fact checking The Onion. I’ll bet money they will find it to be “mostly true”.
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
You have to run it through the trusty wingnut enema decoder to know what Dana is really saying. Or, There are probly this or that many people that may be this or that too many, or not. and who cares any way.
BUT THERE AIN’T ENOUGH WHITE PEOPLE because LOOKY WHO’S PRESIDENT.
Violet
@trollhattan:
I’ve actually heard this very thing said by the type of person who watches Fox News and votes Republican. I wish I were making that up.
freelancer
@Merp:
Fire Lorne Michaels and give the production gig to Conan (Though if I were Conan, I wouldn’t have anything to do with NBC).
Hell, cut the budget in half and bring on board Bob and David and re-ignite the whole crew that did Mr. Show. Infinitely better than SNL has been since the early to mid 90s.
Omnes Omnibus
@jeffreyw: Well, it has a remarkably good predictive ability. Also too, I used to live right across the street from its offices. Then it moved. Then I did.
DanielX
Do you suppose Breitbart actually pays this woman? Fact checking Saturday Night Live….jeebus. If she was a dog she’d chase parked cars. (No insult to dogs intended.)
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
@trollhattan:
DRAT. you beat me to it
Politically Lost
Don’t forget this stupid motherfucker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af-RiRDoGk
I’m sure that Dana is just following up on this talking point. There just ain’t enough white babies get squirted out…
Chris
@Violet:
I’ve read it from multiple persons in the comments sections at PJMedia. Don’t know if any of their front-pagers actually said it, but sure as hell no one ever disagreed.
If you transfer it overseas, to Europe, it becomes even more blatant. The “Eurabia” meme (Europe is about to become a caliphate because all their hajjis are breeding like rabbits and all their whiteys are aborting their children) is pretty commonly accepted throughout the entire base.
piratedan
sounds like Dana needs to take an aspirin, internally or between her knees, makes no nevermind to me.
Violet
@Merp:
It’s telling that they sent out a bunch of the SNL cast members to various talk shows last fall to talk up the new season. Ratings must be down.
I liked the show last Saturday, but it reminded me how good it was when they had so many good female comedians on it, like Amy, Maya, and Tina.
Odie Hugh Manatee
The Repubs love to hate mandates by government, even declaring them unconstitutional, yet the Virginia GOP is passing a bill that mandates that, like it or not, women WILL have something shoved up their hoohaw if they choose to have an abortion. No exceptions, for any reason. No choice. It seems that Repubs across the country are applauding their Texas-style treatment of women as second-class citizens whose bodies they and the religious right get to control. Now they are physicians without training and passing a law that mandates an unnecessary medical procedure, solely to harass women when they least need harassment. I would say it’s progress that the GOP is embracing mandates but I think they seriously got their wires crossed on this one.
I hope they get knocked out by the shock this fall. If women (and good men) don’t punish them this fall then they only have themselves to blame for the resulting disaster of total GOP dominion over their bodies.
Any woman who votes Republican at this point is fucking insane. Full stop.
Rick Massimo
BREAKING MUST CREDIT DANA LOESCH: Trans-Vaginal is NOT really an airline! Amy Poehler is MAKING IT UP! Just like a SUSPICIOUSLY LARGE number of things on this so-called Weekend Update news show!
Gawd, what a bunch of dickheads.
DON’TTELLMEWHATTODO! Awesome.
Satanicpanic
@trollhattan: John Gibson (that groundhog lookin guy on FOX) actually came out and said this a few years ago. Hell, Pat Buchanan’s been on this for longer than I’ve been alive.
jhaygood
but she WAS saying there’re too many people, and it IS political, and saying that birth rates are declining (which i have an EXTREMELY hard time to believe, except maybe per capita or something) does not mean that the population is not GROWING. sorry, getting all CAPS on this, but population is actually our fundamental existential problem.
OK, back to my dinner…
OzoneR
@Violet:
you mean this is new to you?
I’ve been hearing the “white families can’t have children cause they cants afford it, but n*gg*rs have 10 kids on welfare” bullshit since Gary Hart was a viable candidate for President.
and Obama’s election is just proof that for the last 50 years, Democrats have been only for the blacks.
But I’m sure he can win over my nice JFK and FDR loving family with an argument about economic fairness or whatever.
mzrad
Really??!
cocktailhag
@villago delenda est:
Why isn’t Loesch preggers? The question answers itself. And her not-children will join the whole world in rejoicing.
Violet
@OzoneR:
Why did you think what I said meant it was new to me? All I said was that I’d actually heard it said out loud. This was said in response to a “shorter” comment. According to our own BJ lexicon, Shorter means:
People don’t usually hear the “shorter” since it’s meant to be a sarcastic summation. I was responding that I’d actually heard the “shorter” almost word for word.
mzrad
jeezus, “out-populate our population”? Why can’t we just quote these idiots back to themselves? They seem to get their panties in a bunch when quoted, on record, as sounding like ignorant fools. We need to attack their egos relentlessly: it’s the most fragile thing they have that they most value. So stupid.
OzoneR
@Violet:
you seemed surprised by it.
I’m not. This was typical of where i grew up, and Evan Bayh regularly won the county where I lived!
suzanne
Ever noticed how, in addition to being all-around Horrible People, these fuckwads are Just. Not. Funny?
People like Dana Loesch are the reason “Two and a Half Assholes” has an audience.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Arclite:
I think you’re probably off just a bit. Rates of increase in food production may be down, but food production isn’t declining. The proof is in continued global population increase.
Food = people. Less food = less people.
Violet
@OzoneR:
You’re reading more into what I wrote than was there. Others might be surprised that such things are said out loud. I did not say or infer that I was. I did say I wish I was making it up, indicating that I wish it weren’t true.
Brain Hertz
Gotta love the concern about birth rates in Italy being “…so low that in one generation, the vision of the big happy Italian family eating around the table will be extinct.”.
Quite apart from the apparent longing for a vision of other countries as derived from movies, you really have to wonder if these idiots have ever been to some of the places they like to write about.
If the US had the same population density as Italy today, it would have a population of 1.8 Billion. Have these people any clue what that looks like? Do they realize what the impacts are of that level of competition for land and other natural resources? Some Americans really, really, have no clue just how fortunate they are to have what they have, and are mysteriously hell bent on throwing it away…
Ned Ludd
It’s quadratic stupidity.
To the extent that birth rates are declining in the relatively rich countries of the world, one would assume it’s because of relatively easy access to…contraceptives.
So not only is it absurd on its face to fact-check a satire like this, but she fails miserably by actually reinforcing their point.
Craig Pennington
Your example is too generous. You have the actual population of snakes decreasing, where Ms. Loesch’s “observation” is that there can’t be too many people because the rate of population GROWTH has slowed.
Conservatives — so stupid that they can fuck up the fact-checking of a fake news show.
gocart mozart
With some exceptions: Woman’s rights = Lower birth rates. Conservatives agee but they say it like its a bad thing.
Country stats here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html
kc
I think SNL has had some pretty funny bits this season.
How many children does she- weasel Loesch have?
chopper
@mzrad:
clearly, very soon there will be more gubmint employees than there are people. it’s science.
Zifnab
@Captain Spaulding: There’s an old saying about mud wrestling with pigs, and the pigs liking it.
WereBear
@kc: That’s because it implies women are actually; you know, people, instead of mobile incubator/prostitutes/maids.
Messes up their heads.
PWL
I’m hardly surprised. The humor function seems to be missing in the brains of the greater number of wingnuts. Instead, that area of the brain is occupied by a clump of dense matter…very dense…..
Binky P. Behr
@Arclite: These problems solve themselves. What we are working through now is who will have the wherewithal to hoard all the resources they need for their tribe and defend it from the starving morlocks outside the wire.
Regnad Kcin
@Merp:
Shark. Jump. (circa Jon Lovitz IMHO)
That is all.