One more celebrity weighing in on the imperatives of this election: (Bleeped, but not entirely SFW)
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(Non-bleeped, unequivocally NSFW original here.)
In other news — I just this moment received an email from one Barack Obama, asking me to send money…to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. I know this is pretty close to routine, but still, I take it as a good sign for both the presidential race and what’s happening down ticket that he’s extending the use of his network to support the rest of the party. It isn’t a big thing, of course, but still a positive.
And yeah, I know this is another drive-by post, but work is still brutal. TL;DR posting to resume…but when? I dunno.
chopper
i have had it with these motherfucking republicans in this motherfucking senate!
comrade scott's agenda of rage
Clearly Jackson was type cast for this role, mainly because nobody can say “fuck” as well as he can. Nobody.
dmsilev
@chopper: I believe the canonical form is ‘I am sick and tired of these motherfucking Republicans in this motherfucking Senate’.
But yes.
geg6
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
This is true.
scav
And thanks for the promise of more extremely long posts to come at a date to be determined later. Entirely too much crap for everyone to deal with immediately but even the potential of a more leisurely and less fraught time is a welcome reminder. Damn.
jeffreyw
@dmsilev:
.
..but I am just repeating what you wrote.
Punchy
Any more news on the Jeff Goldy dustup and the PeeDub/Malkin stalking fiasco?
dmsilev
@jeffreyw: Ah, for the more innocent times of yore when Congressmen were simply morons instead of assholes. Mark Twain: “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
lamh35
Whoa, Juan Williams ate his wheaties. Juan Williams this morning to Faux newstainers “The polls are credible even if you don’t want to believe them.”. http://t.co/5P0jBe13”
chopper
@dmsilev:
not so sure.
Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.)
¿Que signífica “TL;DR”? I see that often but I don’t know what it means.
FlipYrWhig
@lamh35: Is that “news-tainers” or “new-stainers”?
Upper West
Best part is at the end (coming the day after Yom Kippur): “Paid for by the Jewish Council for Education and Research.”
F^(%$k Sheldon Adelson!
NotMax
Um, you do know that Jackson is riffing on the NSFW spoof of kiddy bedtime stories he gave voice to esrlier?
dmsilev
@Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.): “Too Long, Didn’t Read”
Randy P
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: Also probably because he did the iconic recording of “Go the F*ck to Sleep”. I believe this ad is a nod to fans of that.
1badbaba3
When Obama gets the FEMA re-education camps going after the landslide, here’s hoping Sam gets to do all the announcements.
Totally fucking awesome.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
I can’t be the only one who immediately thought of this when I saw the start of that video.
ETA: Clearly, I wasn’t.
Tom Levenson
@NotMax: I have that book in my iTunes. I am aware of all internet traditions.
Southern Beale
I hear this Obama ad is running in Ohio right now. Probably the ad that will win him that state. At least I hope so.
Violet
@Randy P: Yeah, that’s what it reminded me of.
Hilarious and I love that there’s a website at the end. WTFU2012.com
sherparick
To show the alternative reality that goes out on Fox News, we have Worst Person of Two Decades (Newt Gingrich) make the following unchallenged, outrageous comments on Faux News (I wonder what kind of myth he is dealing here).
Here’s Newtie being a racist piece of work:
http://thehill.com/video/campaign/258689-gingrich-obama-not-a-real-president
“[Obama] really is like the substitute [National Football League] referees in the sense that he’s not a real president,” Gingrich told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Tuesday night. “He doesn’t do anything that presidents do, he doesn’t worry about any of the things the presidents do, but he has the White House, he has enormous power, and he’ll go down in history as the president, and I suspect that he’s pretty contemptuous of the rest of us.
This is a man who in an age of false celebrity-hood is sort of the perfect president, because he’s a false president,” he said. “He’s a guy that doesn’t do the president’s job.”
You have to wonder what he’s doing. I’m assuming that there’s some rhythm to Barack Obama that the rest of us don’t understand. Whether he needs large amounts of rest, whether he needs to go play basketball for a while or watch ESPN, I mean, I don’t quite know what his rhythm is, but this is a guy that is a brilliant performer as an orator, who may very well get reelected at the present date, and who, frankly, he happens to be a partial, part-time president.”
Newt, perhaps he is not a racist, but he certainly plays one on TV.
And to think he and Santorium came closest to acing Romney out of the nomination. And the Republicans wonder why they are losing outside the South.
amk
A perfectly fine and true ad. Yes, even the pearl-clutching version.
Tom you are a wuss just linking to the nsfw version.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
My reaction (and obviously a lot of other people) to Jackson’s use of “fuck” is not unlike the voice of Richard Burton. Back in the day it was said folks could listen to Burton simply read names out of the phone book and be entranced for hours. Jackson could do the same thing as long as he librully sprinkled “fuck” in there.
Yunno “Jim FUCKING Smith” or “Fuck Joe Jones” and so on. He’s got a great voice in a unique way I’ve never been able to describe. It reaches it’s apotheosis whenever he says “fuck”.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@sherparick: Obama refuses to kiss the Republican ring, refuses to be a weakling on foreign policy, and is a black man ahead in the polls. Of course he’s not the type of president Gingrich expects him to be.
Tom Levenson
@amk: Dude! I linked to the NSFW one, which I would have happily embedded if I coulda found the embed code on the site.
Shorter: Feck off. (In the best possible taste of course, as Dame Edna would say.)
amk
@Tom Levenson: LOL. Dame Edna. Is he/she still alive ?
Randy P
@NotMax: You realize that’s an actual book. First showed up in bookstores about a year ago, I think.
rlrr
@Southern Beale:
“That add isn’t helping our campaign.”
— Mitt Romney
NotMax
@Randy P
Um, yes. Which is why I wrote “gave voice to.”
Violet
Can we get Samuel Jackson to do a similar one for downticket Dems?
scav
C&L has a download (not sure which version) for those that wish to put it on a loop.
amk
mittbot firing up his base. Look at all the hollering & cheering.
Randy P
Oy. Just overheard at work. “People say Fox News is biased, but it’s actually very neutral.”
How does a rational human believe stuff like that?
@NotMax: Sorry, read too fast. Supposed to be working.
Shelley
Even higher-ups pose a false equivalency between Fox News and MSNBC.
Rachel Maddow is not, repeat not, any reverse image of Rush.
Her opinions are grounded in truth.
rlrr
@amk:
Is he addressing the annual convention of the Bored White People of America?
the Conster
@amk:
Also, what’s missing in that picture? Thinking…. thinking….
MikeJ
@amk: I think you could find more black people at a Kenny G concert.
scav
@Randy P: neutral? Well, measured on the pH scale, they may very well have a point.
rlrr
@Randy P:
Is your co-worker from Bizaro World?
dmsilev
Heh. TPM:
I can just imagine the whining that is sure to soon emanate from the Romney campaign: “He’s quoting Romney’s words! That’s not fair!”.
artem1s
Or it could be
you’reObama is the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. I’d like that. But that shit ain’t the truth.The truth is you’re the weak. And
I’mRMoney is the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be the shepherd.amk
@rlrr: In all likelihood, the fucker was telling them that they are all gonna die in the next ten minutes.
@the Conster: A collective question mark asking ‘dood, wtf are you saying?’ ?
Punchy
So now he hates math, too?
Face
@Punchy: Well, if he just subtracts all the Times articles that think he’ll divide the country, that may add up to trouble.
catclub
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: McNulty and Bunk
Randy P
@rlrr: I think so. The same conversation included his experiences in Bizarro Spain, Canada and France which sound very different from the countries with those names that I’ve been to.
Dennis SGMM
@dmsilev:
Any Ad That Uses Words I Actually Said Is A Falsehood.
-Newt Gingrich
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Randy P:
That’s how they accept it.
Dennis SGMM
@Randy P:
Aw, c’mon. Which would you rather do; confront the fact that your president and Congress fucked over the entire country and then your doodz in the House did their best to keep it fucked up, or watch Fox news?
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@dmsilev:
Yep. It played this morning in the Denver market. Brutal.
rikryah
this entire ad is hilarious.
HILARIOUS
Tom Levenson
@amk: Believe so. Wikipedia suggests as much.
amk
@Tom Levenson: Thx Tom. Haven’t seen him in ages and was wondering.
WereBear
To some people, the appeal of Faux News and the pull of fundamentalism is the same: it is certainty.
Frankensteinbeck said, a few days ago, that as a society we blame all kinds of things on anything other than the true cause: an abusive parent.
In my experience, conservatives can have many different kinds of upbringings, but arbitrary, authoritarian, and senseless rule setting, with oversized punishment for the most tiny things, is a norm for them.
So, they recreate it in their adult life.
Joel
The NSFW one went private ? Anyone know where to find that?
mainmati
@Anatoliĭ Lъudьvigovich Bzyp (Mumphrey, et al.): I don’t know either. Maybe “talk left; drive right”?
WaterGirl
@mainmati: too long, didn’t read!
WaterGirl
Tom, love the title of your post. Perfect.
I am a fan of your shorter posts, so you are at least making some of us happy. I see your longer threads and think “I’ll come back to this one later when I have more time”, but sadly, later often never comes.
jcalchemist
@artem1s: “SAY 47% AGAIN! EMPATHY, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU HAVE IT?!?!”
Death Panel Truck
@Joel: At a very private place called YouTube.