May 09, 2010

Obama: Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength
— Gabriel Malor

The so-called "intellectual" President is cribbing from a book every highschooler in America has read...and he's plagiarizing the bad guys:

"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter," Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia.

"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.

He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.

"All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

Does the President of the United States really believe that technologies that put more information in the hands of the public (and the voters) impede "empowerment" and "emancipation"? I hope not, but let's face it; Leftism has always relied on a certain ignorance. Certainly his speechwriter must have seen similarities between these statements and the most well-known work of political fiction of the twentieth century.

Just this year alone, the President attempted (and succeeded) in rushing through healthcare reform without allowing the true costs to be told. And then they were well on their way to an inquisition of the major corporations who started mentioning the costs. He and the Democrats now face enormous backlash precisely because the technologies that he bewails—blogs and talk radio—empowered us to discover and share the costs of ObamaCare.

For Obama, the engines of argument have become as objectionable as argument itself. The President laments that technology "exposes us to all kinds of arguments", a curious complaint from someone with as much education as Obama. He says this is putting pressure on our country. But preserving "all kinds of arguments" was considered so important for the United States that the principle was enshrined in the First Amendment!

And this isn't some bogus call for civility, either. His call to quiet the "diversion" of arguments is just the same old call to curtail dissent that is common among Leftists. The president is not worried about the opinion pages of the New York Times distracting young minds. It's the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal he would like to silence. It's Glenn Beck and Ed Morrissey and our very own Ace.

Update: This is not the first time Obama demonstrated what a fearful and small-minded man he is. He has been complaining about Rush Limbaugh for over a year now. His war against Fox News similarly displayed an inability to deal with dissenting arguments. Even the White House press corps has complained about the pettiness that results from even the hint of criticism.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 11:16 AM | Comments (333)
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1 the means of emancipation

*WHEEET* Race Card! 15 minute suspension.

Posted by: The Referree at May 09, 2010 11:20 AM (KUkfs)

2 Obama doesn't know how to work an iPod?  I thought he was supposed to be some tech-savvy guy?

Oh, like he was supposed to be genius . . . not so much.

Posted by: Adjoran at May 09, 2010 11:21 AM (3hg5M)

3 It's nothing to worry about, Gabe. The fat chick on CNN was telling Wolf Blitzer at 11:55 a.m. that because the One didn't mention Limbaugh, Beck and Palin by name this time, that it was okay for a President to give a speech like this.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 09, 2010 11:22 AM (WBIMn)

4 My seven-year old daughter can work her iPod. If the President would like to drop by, I am sure that she would put partisan differences aside and show him how to work one, for the good of the country.

Posted by: Robert at May 09, 2010 11:22 AM (cRjEb)

5 Lest we forget this is a man who has admitted a kind of addiction to his Blackberry and who has given iPods as gifts (albeit loaded with his wit and wisdom).

But we all know what's going on here: He can't stand opposition and that's what all of these "distractions" are.  For him, "truth" has nothing to do with "fact".

Posted by: AmishDude at May 09, 2010 11:23 AM (T0NGe)

6 Here's a list of what makes me happy and a list of what makes me unhappy. Study them. A quiz is coming.

Posted by: Easy Bake at May 09, 2010 11:23 AM (ONBbr)

7 Obama has studied "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" quite well. 

Posted by: aquaviva at May 09, 2010 11:24 AM (chhDr)

8 Being both thin-skinned and something of a nag is not attractive. (Bammer these days reminds me less of Carter than he does of Wilson, who was also notoriously thin-skinned.)

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 11:24 AM (O3eFQ)

9 This is what the Progressive/Liberal temper-tantrum that results from losing the control over the message and the messengers looks like.

Posted by: Robert at May 09, 2010 11:25 AM (98ywz)

10 I love seeing Republicans complaining about the president

This is why the Democrats will win in November.

Posted by: clapflagon at May 09, 2010 11:25 AM (Mmw0q)

11 I wish Obama didn't know how to use an ipod

Posted by: Queen Elizabeth at May 09, 2010 11:27 AM (Mmw0q)

12 I hate it when links don't work.

Posted by: Robert at May 09, 2010 11:27 AM (cRjEb)

13 Now, now, Gabe, this is EXACTLY the kind of caricature thinking Monty just warned us about. Obama doesn't want to recreate Newspeak; he just wants to put aside a few unnecessary, inconvenient truths... It's for the children!

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 09, 2010 11:28 AM (2J8Q6)

14 This is why the Democrats will win in November. Wow. That's not the vibe I'm getting. Word on the street is that Democrats are going to get whipped like rented mules come November. But then, I live in reality. Maybe the news is different in Keebler Elf-Land.

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 11:29 AM (O3eFQ)

15
Obama used a commencement speech to prop up his own propaganda and knock down his critics?

Obama is a turd of the highest order of Turderytm.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:29 AM (eFWa0)

16 This is not the first time Obama demonstrated what a fearful and small-minded man he is. He has been complaining about Rush Limbaugh for over a year now.

Hey, when 99% of the rest of American media figuratively blows you 24x7, enemies are hard to find. Rush gives Barry an outlet for his genetically acquired pent-up bile.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 09, 2010 11:29 AM (554T5)

17 Obama, long walk, short pier. Assembly required.

Posted by: Ronster at May 09, 2010 11:29 AM (I+U8m)

18 The dumbass thinks this helps him. Keep talking, numbnuts, the GOP could now get 100 seats in November, you could have that number at 200 by August.

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 11:29 AM (ONBbr)

19 The fact that American "conservatives" never complain about how liberal the "MSM" is shows how much better they are than Obama.

Posted by: snapdragon at May 09, 2010 11:30 AM (5Etcj)

20
What's the opposite of inspirational?


Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:30 AM (eFWa0)

21 Monty 14, I think #10 is an attempt to "enter the dragon", so to speak.

Posted by: Zimriel at May 09, 2010 11:30 AM (KUkfs)

22 I love seeing Republicans complaining about the president

Like it or not, we're your last line of defense from tyranny, asshole.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 09, 2010 11:31 AM (554T5)

23
Kinda reminds me in a way of when the Worst Lady during the campaign told young people not to go into white collar professions.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:31 AM (eFWa0)

24 "With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.

I think that Occidental, Columbia and Harvard have failed miserably in teaching their affirmative action students what the word "information" means, because the Indoneisan Imbecile obviously hasn't got a clue.  Who classifies iPods, Xboxes, or PlayStations as "information"?  Then again, he's still a step up from his profoundly retarded "profit and earnings ratios" or "reduce premiums by 3000%".

This America-hating imbecile had better be thrown out of office soon, or there will be nothing left of this once-great, but quickly deteriorating, nation.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 09, 2010 11:31 AM (Qp4DT)

Posted by: logprof at May 09, 2010 11:32 AM (Mmw0q)

26
Obama to graduates: "Be all you can be ignorant worker bees and let President Government take care of everything."

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:32 AM (eFWa0)

27 Obama wants us to shut up. He won, you know.

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 11:33 AM (ONBbr)

28 For Obama, the engines of argument have become as objectionable as argument itself. The President laments that technology "exposes us to all kinds of arguments", a curious complaint from someone with as much education as Obama. He says this is putting pressure on our country.

Hypocrite.  Obama to grads: Seek alternative views
He also appealed for a more civil political debate and advised graduates to seek out and consider alternative views on the issues of the day, even if it makes their "blood boil."

He wants people to seek alternative views, but then denigrates the very technology that allows them to do so? 

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 09, 2010 11:34 AM (c0A3e)

29

Maybe the news is different in Keebler Elf-Land.

There's no reason to bring Dennis Kucinich into the argument.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 09, 2010 11:34 AM (P33XN)

30 Obama is a turd of the highest order of Turdery(tm). I dub thee Knight of the Poop Chamber! Arise, Sir Craps, and accept your new shield: a good porcelain commode on a field of saffron, a brown bend sinister, and a roll of mauve double-ply asswipe on a field of cerulean blue! This shall ever be the mark of your house!

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 11:34 AM (O3eFQ)

31 21 Monty 14, I think #10 is an attempt to "enter the dragon", so to speak.

Posted by: Zimriel at May 09, 2010 03:30 PM (KUkfs

Oops

Posted by: logprof at May 09, 2010 11:35 AM (Mmw0q)

32 I would give some minor respect to the MFM if they would just admit the truth about themselves. Come out of the closet, MFM!

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 11:35 AM (ONBbr)

33 Obama wants us to shut up.

He won, you know.

FZ predicted this.

Posted by: sTevo at May 09, 2010 11:35 AM (zIUsq)

34

He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs

Since he admits to reading Andrew Sullivan, it's obvious he wants Andrew to shut up about Sarah Palin.

For once, I agree with him.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2010 11:35 AM (XdlcF)

35
Sir Craps.

This is my son Baron von Skid Mark.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:36 AM (eFWa0)

36 So, during a commencement address Obama tells the graduating students that Ignorance is Bliss. At Hampton University, a historically black college.

He also noted a disparity in educational achievement between African Americans and other racial groups.

Obama is blissfully ignorant of his own ignorance.

Posted by: davidt at May 09, 2010 11:37 AM (aag4W)

37
Zappa wrote another great tune about Obama: "Asshole"


Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:37 AM (eFWa0)

38 Guttenberg was a radical extremist.

Posted by: the elite at May 09, 2010 11:38 AM (4WbTI)

39 Obama has a point, or would if he drew the correct conclusion from his argument, that more information does not necessarily equate to better information. What our new access to information requires is a willingness and ability to do more thinking for ourselves, to use the technology and access to test and verify what we take in.

That's a blessing of our times not a curse.

Obama simply draws the conclusion that most people are too stupid or lazy to do this and therefore there information intake needs to be screened for them by pre-approved and credentialed authorities.

Of course, once information is freed from the right type of controls, well, yeah leftism is in danger.

As for the validity of what you can learn via 'new media' it's much more self-correcting than the 'old media'.

I have a friend who works in an non-editorial position at a newspaper. He was aghast that I would write about so many things on the blog without be a 'reporter'. After pointing out a reporter is not a subject expert everything they write about I explained that if I post something with a factual error there are dozens of bastards fine readers who will call my ass on it within minutes.

I asked him to compare that to the correction process of his newspaper.

Posted by: DrewM. at May 09, 2010 11:39 AM (9B5OK)

40 38 Guttenberg was a radical extremist.

Posted by: the elite at May 09, 2010 03:38 PM (4WbTI)

--Hey!  I didn't think Short Circuit was that subversive!

Posted by: logprof at May 09, 2010 11:39 AM (Mmw0q)

41
No diversity of thought in Walt Obama World.

No tolerance for differing opinions.

This Obama is a disgrace to the office of American presidents.


Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:39 AM (eFWa0)

42 I think a Ministry of Information is in order.

Posted by: Los Presidente Obamanos at May 09, 2010 11:40 AM (QeWQ8)

43 A speech so brilliant the the ass-licking MFM has to immediately explain why the speech is not shameful and outrageously stupid.

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 11:40 AM (ONBbr)

44

let me get this straight:

Owe doesn't know how to work an iPod,

yet he gives the 80 something Queen of England one and when everyone laughed about it he MFM didn't see anything wrong with it.

I guess Owe thinks "i" shouldn't be used to describe anything but himself 

Posted by: Rick in MB at May 09, 2010 11:41 AM (2ocJB)

45

Walt Obama World

Mentioning Walt reminds me I have to watch Breaking Bad tonight.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 09, 2010 11:41 AM (P33XN)

46
don't get me started on B-Bad

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:42 AM (eFWa0)

47
some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction
Like Rev Wright saying Aids was invented by the government to kill black people?

Posted by: Atomic Roach at May 09, 2010 11:44 AM (Oxen1)

48 There are four lights!

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 11:44 AM (ONBbr)

49

Yeah... He is most likely arguing something Orwellian (so to speak). He has shown himself to be extremely thin-skinned (racial code word? Racists!).

But, if we interpret him favorably, Drew is right, he's dancing around half a point.

In some ways this speech is also rather Huxleyian.

Information can be a distraction, and too much information can cause information overload. One result of which is that it's truth or functionality becomes irrelevant, and it is treated as entertainment.

There's a sincere and important discussion to be had there.

Not that I suspect Obama of having any part in it.

Posted by: Entropy at May 09, 2010 11:45 AM (eL+YD)

50 So we have to throw away our internet news, I-Pods, etc. and then go fishing or  hunting? Wow, he is a great guy.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at May 09, 2010 11:45 AM (nxUYP)

51 48
There are four lights!

LMAO. Love the TNG ref.

Posted by: Robert at May 09, 2010 11:46 AM (98ywz)

52 He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction,"

And this was a prepared speech?  By whom?  A four year old?  What is "claim traction" anyway?  I missed that in my English classes.  Maybe it's an Indonesian thing?

Again, hats off to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard, for showing that even a total retard can get through their programs ... if they want him to.

I shall now claim traction for ...  LOL

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 09, 2010 11:46 AM (Qp4DT)

53

I cannot believe what the hell I am reading. I really cannot.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at May 09, 2010 11:46 AM (ACkhT)

54 So, what does Barry Obama want emancipate us from, our prosperity?

Posted by: huerfano at May 09, 2010 11:46 AM (qEf7Y)

55
Obama's Crazy Claim List

The Stimulus failed.
Cash for Clunkers failed.
Iran is out of control.
Recession is worsening.
Health Care Reform made everything worse.



Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:47 AM (eFWa0)

56 There's a sincere and important discussion to be had there.

Discussion? Yeah.....I won asshole! I decide the discussion.

Posted by: Barry to the B. at May 09, 2010 11:47 AM (nxUYP)

57 Wasn't McCain endlessly mocked for his lack of technological expertise? Even though the media misinterpreted the fact that he didn't get online because he can't type, what with the war injuries.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 09, 2010 11:47 AM (T0NGe)

58 I have signed a presidential order to ban all blogs, radio shows and televsion news shows except CNN.  This is to keep America safe.  You fucking dummys are getting way too much information for your own good.  You need to stifle your flapping stinkholes and listen to me on CNN.  I will be on 24/7 for your enjoyment and entertainment.  Nothing else but me...all me, everyday...just me folks, my voice, my words, my thoughts..all me....eeeeewow

Posted by: Hugo Brack Ovomit at May 09, 2010 11:47 AM (r0u40)

59 So, I shouldn't use an iPhone to download the latest poll showing that Easy Bake is less popular than chewing on glass?

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 11:48 AM (ONBbr)

60 I've said many times that the Obama admin has frequently gone the Full Orwell.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 09, 2010 11:48 AM (T0NGe)

61 He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," I think the prepared speech said that, "some of the craziest clams claim tractors". Presidential speechwriters are true poets of the absurd.

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 11:48 AM (O3eFQ)

62
some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction
Like Ray Nagin saying people were murdering each other inside the Superdome?

Posted by: Atomic Roach at May 09, 2010 11:48 AM (Oxen1)

63 Again, hats off to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard,

Still not impressed with an Ivy League education. MIT, Northwestern...we can talk.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at May 09, 2010 11:48 AM (nxUYP)

64 Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 03:48 PM (O3eFQ)

ROFLMAO.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 09, 2010 11:50 AM (Qp4DT)

65

I think it was the super market tabloid The Globe that had out an Obama Hit List on people he and his minion wanted 'taken down': http://tiny.cc/tyxyd

 

 

Posted by: Drillanwr at May 09, 2010 11:50 AM (GkYyh)

66 I claim this traction in the name of Spain!

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 11:51 AM (ONBbr)

67
Obama: Dissent is harmful to our republic.

That's exactly what he said. Dissent is treasonous. Disagreeing with his stupid policies equal to sedition because you want the government (and the govt is the country, in Obama's view) to fail.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:51 AM (eFWa0)

68

If Barry isn't careful, he's gonna end up in traction after the election.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 09, 2010 11:52 AM (P33XN)

69

I cannot believe what the hell I am reading. I really cannot.

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at May 09, 2010 03:46 PM (ACkhT)


Glad to see that you're an ex-Dem, I have been an ex-dem for about 15 years. I believe everything that spews from his cock-holding mouth, and I have made it my lifes work to turn others into ex-dems.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at May 09, 2010 11:52 AM (nxUYP)

70 With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work --


Ahh, but McCain was a dinosaur for not using email and it was fine to report that as proof that he was out of touch.  (Ignoring the fact that his debilitating injuries had a bit to do with his typing skills).

Posted by: The Diddy at May 09, 2010 11:52 AM (R08C+)

71 President Obama's policies are much more acceptable if I only listen to what he says about them.

Posted by: Comrade Comrade at May 09, 2010 11:52 AM (4Irul)

72 Obama is a turd of the highest order of Turderytm.
So you think he's a creature from the Turd Dimension? Sounds plausible to me.

Mentioning Walt reminds me I have to watch Breaking Bad tonight.
Except Walt knows what he's doing even though he is a criminal unlike the One.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 09, 2010 11:55 AM (WBIMn)

73 404, Barry.

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 11:55 AM (ONBbr)

74
You goys mentioning Hugo Cahvez are spot on.

Not too long ago, Chavez said support for his policies would be over 80% if there were no critical voices the press and on tv.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 11:55 AM (eFWa0)

75 Barry, be careful, even I am starting to think you're a danger to the Republic.

Posted by: That guy who always calls Mr. Obvious at May 09, 2010 11:56 AM (nxUYP)

76 Obama would have no problem if the internet were exclusively the domain of leftist garbage like Gawker, Kos and LGF. He's all pissy because its hard to be a dictator when the peons won't listen. He's also figuring out that that wave called November is starting to grow out on the ocean horizon.

Posted by: jjshaka at May 09, 2010 11:57 AM (o1MYr)

77 Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 03:34 PM (O3eFQ)

That was full of teh funny, Monty.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 09, 2010 11:57 AM (554T5)

78
some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction
Like Andre Carson and John Lewis saying Tea Party protesters outside of Congress called them n*gg*rs?

Posted by: Atomic Roach at May 09, 2010 11:57 AM (Oxen1)

79 I'm putting the First Amendment on hold for now, just until the crisis is over.

Posted by: Easy Bake at May 09, 2010 11:57 AM (ONBbr)

80

He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction,"

He should know, they've used this technic for the last 20+ years. they don't like us shlubs catching on to it. and using the same technics back.

information correction ,  against misinformation given .

they lost their meme!

now anyone can play!

Posted by: willow at May 09, 2010 11:57 AM (7FgWm)

Posted by: Entropy at May 09, 2010 11:57 AM (eL+YD)

82 Chavez is so proud of Pres'Ent Toonces.

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at May 09, 2010 11:57 AM (erIg9)

83 FUBO

F' You Barack Obama

Man, I can't wait till 2012

Posted by: Horst Grossenholz at May 09, 2010 11:58 AM (2jp4I)

84 Chavez is so proud of Pres'Ent Toonces.

Well, they damned near hugged.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at May 09, 2010 11:59 AM (nxUYP)

85

My Playstation is a fountain of information. When I pop in Fallout, for example, I learn all about planning ahead for disaster. With Saint's Row, it's a great way to learn crowd control and how to take over neighborhoods. Same with Grand Theft. And with Assassin's Creed or Splinter Cell, I learn how to complete missions with stealth.

Is that what Obama meant? He is an idiot proving himself more stupid with each passing day.

Posted by: Unruly at May 09, 2010 12:00 PM (SVZM2)

86 Chavez, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!

Posted by: Pres'Ent Toonces at May 09, 2010 12:00 PM (erIg9)

87 bwaha technique!! sorry i'm still a poor sorry misspeller when i'm mad.

Posted by: willow at May 09, 2010 12:00 PM (7FgWm)

88 Chris Matthews says O's ass still tastes like Cherry Garcia.

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 12:00 PM (ONBbr)

89 Obama doesn't know how to use an Ipod?

Oh, wait....   http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/obama-spotted-in-hawaii-with-ipod

Posted by: Wendy at May 09, 2010 12:00 PM (qwha5)

90 Heading out to be with family to celebrate Mother's Day.  Gonna tell all the sprouts that they're more skilled than our current pres-uhhhhhh-dint. 

Lord, but I detest this man.

Posted by: Theresa D at May 09, 2010 12:00 PM (iGCmo)

91 Just what the kids wanted: another lecture by a smug leftist assistant professor.

Posted by: PJ at May 09, 2010 12:01 PM (dLFNL)

92 76  He's also figuring out that that wave Conservative Tsunami called November is starting to grow out on the ocean horizon.

Fixed it for ya.


Posted by: TexBob at May 09, 2010 12:01 PM (2jp4I)

93 "With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work --

 O'rly? S the President of the United States isn't smarter than a fifth grader? That's reassuring, and by reassuring i mean we're fucked.

Posted by: koopy at May 09, 2010 12:01 PM (ctR4U)

94 wendy, how dare you point out yet another lie from Pres'ent Toonces, you racist interweb using hater!

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at May 09, 2010 12:01 PM (erIg9)

95 It's even weirder than what you say. I detected a tinge in his words of the idea that the students of the black college he was speaking at were particularly susceptible. Perhaps I am on the lookout for this angle in everything he says now, but read the transcript over and tell me this isn't the same race-driven diatribe but now with Hollywood buddies and the iPad as the bad guys. Who knows how he's going to win this one. He's such a bore.

Posted by: flurmf at May 09, 2010 12:02 PM (j6yh6)

96

I think this thin-skinned nature is why he refocuses and redirects the whitehouse correspondant's dinner away from critism of him. 

On another note, I think statements like those above are frightening, coming from a president.  Fucking crazy.

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 09, 2010 12:03 PM (9DKuP)

97 Who is this Wendy? Why is she annoying us? We are not amused!

Posted by: Easy Bake at May 09, 2010 12:03 PM (ONBbr)

98

"Who classifies iPods, Xboxes, or PlayStations as "information"? "

I was thinking that too.

I mean, I'm sure my iPod full of tango music shapes my political opinions somehow....

Posted by: experience smeperience at May 09, 2010 12:03 PM (eFBOQ)

99 Who knows how he's going to win this one. He's such a bore.

I don't have all the evidence yet, but I can bet he is already running out of people who believe him. His echo chamber is diminishing right in front of his eyes. Watch out.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at May 09, 2010 12:04 PM (nxUYP)

100 What's the opposite of inspirational?
Posted by: Randolph Mantooth

Sweaters and malaise pie?

Posted by: Thrillaminute at May 09, 2010 12:05 PM (FlcnG)

101 98

"Who classifies iPods, Xboxes, or PlayStations as "information"? "

I was thinking that too.

I mean, I'm sure my iPod full of tango music shapes my political opinions somehow....


Probably referring to the ipod touch

Posted by: koopy at May 09, 2010 12:05 PM (ctR4U)

102
some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction
Like campaigning on a promise to close Gitmo because it hurts our image with other countries?

Posted by: Atomic Roach at May 09, 2010 12:06 PM (Oxen1)

103

Yeah, I remember these kind of guys...Punks

He is the typical Student Teacher, not graduated, but assigned to teach the class when the real proffesor chose to take a day off. Snotty, arrogant, pompus, touchy and basically full of shit.

 

Posted by: Serfer62 at May 09, 2010 12:06 PM (HLCnI)

104 I forget the setting (interview, Q&A or something) where he said he wished the freedom of speech wasn't so free, especially when he made mistakes and got called out on them. Tough shit, chump. You won, remember?

Posted by: Annabelle at May 09, 2010 12:06 PM (OHFtC)

105

Probably referring to the ipod touch

Posted by: koopy at May 09, 2010 04:05 PM (ctR4U)


I know mine is chock full of information insurrection

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at May 09, 2010 12:06 PM (erIg9)

106 Don't make me fetch you back with the big orange balloon thingy!

Posted by: Easy Bake at May 09, 2010 12:06 PM (ONBbr)

107 flurmf at May 09, 2010 04:02 PM (j6yh6) might be onto something.

Is Obama telling the black graduates at Hampton University, "Don't listen to Whitey!"?


Posted by: davidt at May 09, 2010 12:07 PM (aag4W)

108

I love seeing Republicans complaining about the president

This is why the Democrats will win in November.

How is the second sentence contingent on the first?   Never mind.  It doesn't.  Like a great man once said, "Leftism has always relied on a certain ignorance."

Or you're a sockpuppet, and your just fooling around for laughs.

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 09, 2010 12:07 PM (9DKuP)

109 I know mine is chock full of information insurrection

There's an app for that


sorry, couldn't resist

Posted by: koopy at May 09, 2010 12:08 PM (ctR4U)

110

"Who classifies iPods, Xboxes, or PlayStations as "information"? "

I hereby pledge to not unconditionally believe all the information I find on my iPod, Xbox, and PlayStation.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2010 12:08 PM (XdlcF)

111

Or you're a sockpuppet, and your just fooling around for laughs.
Posted by: rdbrewer


Go with that 2nd part.

Posted by: Thrillaminute at May 09, 2010 12:11 PM (FlcnG)

112

what i want to know is who is in control of his teleprompter?, and why isn't anyone in His administration warning him about the commentary they choose?

are they so far out of mainstream anything, they don't see how ridiculous  and insulting this   most of what he says is, you'd think they would want to gain support not blow their whole ideology up, laying it all out for everyone to see how dopey it all is.

Is this who He is? really seriously? or is someone back there pulling these strings, It is all so far out, from national security, to domestic plans.

really i'm just left with my mouth hanging open most of the time in wonder. - i know many feel the same that i've spoken with.

they say: what is he doing? what does he mean? what the hell?

really should we ever think these things about our Presdient?

no we should just know He is on Our side. period.

Posted by: willow at May 09, 2010 12:11 PM (7FgWm)

113 obama-spotted-in-hawaii-with-ipod

No lie is too small for Toonces.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 09, 2010 12:12 PM (554T5)

114 in other words, ignore criticism of me.

Posted by: gomm at May 09, 2010 12:15 PM (7JES6)

115 "obama-spotted-in-hawaii-with-ipod" I found it in a sea shell by the sea shore.

Posted by: Easy Bake at May 09, 2010 12:16 PM (ONBbr)

116 2 Obama doesn't know how to work an iPod?  I thought he was supposed to be some tech-savvy guy?

We spent plenty of yo money securing his beloved Crackberry. Chumps.

Posted by: Secret Service at May 09, 2010 12:16 PM (EL+OC)

117
If only Obama didn't have any obstacles in his way.  If only Obama had the power of Chavez or Castro to silence any opposition.





Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 09, 2010 12:17 PM (0fzsA)

118 He's lost the Independents and what few conservative/libertarian Democrats there are. Politically, Obama and his crew have been reduced to trying to maintain his political base of the progs and the blacks and other minorities.

Posted by: davidt at May 09, 2010 12:17 PM (aag4W)

119
Obama is rather Gramscian.  He doesn't want to make us shut up; our shutting up  should just happen naturally.

We should want to shut up.


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 09, 2010 12:19 PM (0fzsA)

120 I think the bigger question is a diversion from what? His stupidity and arrogance? His desire to wipe out the private sector and cause massive unemployment? That somehow we are supposed to change into a Soviet style utopia because it always ends so well like the other so called utopias? I could understand his complaints against blogs since they wake people up to what he's really up to but to complain about Xboxes and Playstations both of which are primarily for playing games shows malice and insanity might be involved not incompetence.

Posted by: Akbar Zeb at May 09, 2010 12:19 PM (/mRzs)

121 [Here's the graduation message I would give the young 'uns.] You are all boned. Individually and as a group. You will have worse jobs -- if you are employed at all -- and will work for longer hours for less pay than your parents did. You will live smaller lives, travel less, and toil like galley slaves for people who drink the sweat from your brow as their due in life. Your world will be a far more perilous one than mine because we dared not call our enemies by their proper names for fear we would offend them. You will not know how to be married, or how to be functional parents to your children, because we never taught you how. You will not create much art of note, nor advance science much, because the very school we're in right now failed you completely. But on the off chance that there might be some few of you out there who are smart enough, strong enough, and lucky enough to pull us out of a future none of us want, I'll say this: we have done wrong by you. We chose to value the dull over the smart, and the slow over the fleet; we chose to reward mediocrity over excellence. We found actual accomplishment embarassing and did our level best to discourage it. I apologize to you for this, because your burden going forward will be all the greater. For the rest of you.... I don't particularly care for you. I don't like your music or your stupid clothes or hair or tattoos or piercings or your stupid sheep's faces. But as you are the ones who will be stuck with the check long after the rest of us have snuck out the back door, I can only say I'm sorry. I'm sorry we failed you. Learn from our mistakes and try not to repeat them. Go forth, and try not to fuck up as badly as we did.

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 12:21 PM (O3eFQ)

122

Imagine if, just as he began to speak to this traditionally-black school's graduates, Obama was struck by a meteorite laced with Truthinium:

"If you strart listening to anyone but the tried-and-true race-hustlers we Democrats traditionally use to control your thinking, you might wander off the plantation, and we would lose the stoking of your grievances as our primary source of political power!  I hope we can all agree that nobody wants to see that, right?"

The dirty secret that Obama and the rest of the Democrats can never afford to let out is that their love for the "disadvantaged" has nothing to do with helping them gain advantage, and everything to do with making sure they stay that way.  An accomplished and fulfilled man is much more difficult to teach to hate.

Posted by: sherlock at May 09, 2010 12:21 PM (thr9V)

123 I can't decide something.  Is Obama more of a douchebag or more of an asshole?  That's important, you know.

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 09, 2010 12:21 PM (9DKuP)

124

Knows how to use a crack pipe but not an IPOD.

 

He's Presidential material fo-shizzle.

Posted by: gus at May 09, 2010 12:23 PM (MaqIC)

125 crapwagon got a message on his iPod to hold off for now and wait for further instructions.

Posted by: The Goddess Irony at May 09, 2010 12:24 PM (ONBbr)

126 I believe officially, Obama is the EARL OF DOUCHEBAG.

Posted by: gus at May 09, 2010 12:24 PM (MaqIC)

127 I am dying to hear what my tech-geek, Apple fanboy, internet-addicted LIBERAL friends think of these particular pearls of wisdom from Barry. He really is just an idiot, whichever way you take his statement.

Posted by: Lincontf at May 09, 2010 12:24 PM (qSRHZ)

128 Semi- O/T: speaking of principle-free buttholes

For your next discussion with a leftie on the economy:

"[George Mason University economics student, Brett] Barkley's finding is that of 17 prominent economists surveyed, six showed evidence of shifting their views on deficits when power shifted, and the most significant changes came in the prognostical pontifications of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman  ..."




Posted by: Thrillaminute at May 09, 2010 12:25 PM (FlcnG)

129 Ear Leader may have been enrolled in a variety of institutions of higher education, but there is no evidence to support the contention that he actually ever learned anything while attending them.

hell, my Persian cat has a firmer grasp on reality than the First Idiot does.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 09, 2010 12:25 PM (d1FhN)

130 I can't decide something.  Is Obama more of a douchebag or more of an asshole?  That's important, you know.

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 09, 2010 04:21 PM (9DKuP)

I think it's pretty clear that he's more of a douchebag.  He's not unpleasant or abrasive to your face, like an asshole; that'd require more conviction, more balls.  He's passive-aggressive, talks-behind-your-back, implies you're a Nazi while calling for more civility, like a douchebag.

Posted by: FUBAR at May 09, 2010 12:26 PM (1fanL)

131 (fingers in ears) La-la-la! La-la-la! Crazy Claims! Crazy Claims! La-la-la!

Posted by: Barack Orwell-bama at May 09, 2010 12:27 PM (FcR7P)

132

are they so far out of mainstream anything, they don't see how ridiculous  and insulting this   most of what he says is

The best explanation I can come up with is that they write these things with zero visibility. He wants to complain about new technology and too much information, so he does. Thow in buzz words like iPod and Xbox for a laugh (wouldn't surprise me if he ad libbed those). Doesn't matter that they don't make complete sense. Can't look back and see that he admits to reading the blogger with one of the stupidest conspiracy theories out there.

Everyone else is stupid, so the speech can just be an artwork to admire. Fisking is unpatriotic.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2010 12:27 PM (XdlcF)

133

In keeping with his TOO MUCH INFORMATION is TOO MUCH policy.

Obie has decided that he will not release his medical records, his college transcripts, his applications for financial aid to Universities, his Passport application info and will not release his actual BIRTH CERTIFICATE.

Wild claims might gain traction.

Posted by: gus at May 09, 2010 12:27 PM (MaqIC)

134 Oh, and.  Of course he can work an iPod.  Bongs are harder to work that iPods, and he has no problem with bongs.

Posted by: FUBAR at May 09, 2010 12:28 PM (1fanL)

135 I'm on Twitter now.

Posted by: The Goddess Irony at May 09, 2010 12:28 PM (ONBbr)

136 See, you stupid conservatives are wrong because . . . uh . . . Oh! Because Bill Maher said so! Also, Bush hates black people! And, uh, Katrina!

THAT's why you guys are going to lose in December, or November, or whenever it is. Because you can't hug a child with nuclear arms! And no blood for oil! And . . . um . . . Sarah Palin something . . .

HELP ME MARKOS! I NEED MORE EMPTY SLOGANS!

Posted by: Turbonium Dragon at May 09, 2010 12:28 PM (ERwY2)

137 "Probably referring to the ipod touch

Posted by: koopy at May 09, 2010 04:05 PM (ctR4U) "

He didn't say iPod touch. He said iPod.  Of course, he's a fucking idiot so he probably doesn't know that there are a ton of different iPods out there.

And number 2: Who says I don't have an iPod touch? 

Posted by: experience smeperience at May 09, 2010 12:28 PM (eFBOQ)

138 Because you can't hug a child with nuclear arms!

No, but you can warm a child with nuclear arms.  Isn't keeping a child warm more important than hugging it?

Posted by: FUBAR at May 09, 2010 12:29 PM (1fanL)

139 Lincoln. They will say something like , "you heard what you wanted to hear, What I heard was His excellancy, telling Us not to be clingy to our technology, to listen to Him in all the forums He indicates,, because He alone is the g-d of all truth, and He does not want us lead into the bitter, clingy, hopelessness of financial desire, overcoming our duty to all of our  lofty, lefty ideas"

Posted by: willow at May 09, 2010 12:30 PM (7FgWm)

140 obama-spotted-in-hawaii-with-ipod

No lie is too small for Toonces.

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 09, 2010 04:12 PM (554T5)

That's true.  The Indonesian Imbecile gets a real kick out of lying, just for the hell of it.  He threw this one in just for giggles, but he really loves telling those whoppers that no one with a brain could possibly believe.

The Precedent is a pathological liar, in addition to all of his other pathologies and his mind-numbing stupidity.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 09, 2010 12:31 PM (Qp4DT)

141 Bush lied! People died! THAT's why you shouldn't listen to anything you hear on your iPod! And your Xbox is telling more LIES! LIES about President Obama! ALL LIES!

Posted by: Turbonium Dragon at May 09, 2010 12:32 PM (ERwY2)

142 This is one of the stupidest things I ever heard him say. And that's saying something!

Posted by: nevergiveup at May 09, 2010 12:32 PM (0GFWk)

143 Hey you golfing douchenozzle, by "crazy claims" do you by any chance mean stories that Arizona's law is going to result in people being pulled over for driving while Hispanic?

Do you mean calling Arizona's law "unconstitutional" when in fact it's merely enforcing existing federal law that you are too craven, lazy, stupid, ignorant and incompetent to enforce?

Those kinds of claims, Mr. President Cockknocker?

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 09, 2010 12:32 PM (9Ycb2)

144

"what few conservative/libertarian Democrats there are. "

trust me when I say there are more than you know.  The demon's rats leadership are one thing;;  they seem to be going down with the socialist ship, but most dems were and are centerists.  Most that I know who are lifelong dems have already reregistered as Independents or just dems in name only, they are all fleeing the demon's rat's party with a restraining order.

 

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at May 09, 2010 12:33 PM (ACkhT)

145 XBox?  Was he talking about some former wife?  Just wondering.

Posted by: Sparky at May 09, 2010 12:34 PM (r0u40)

146 Fisking is unpatriotic.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2010 04:27 PM (XdlcF)

For shame!  Fisting is something that every kindergartner needs to know.  Fisting is the greatest expression of patriotism ... for kindergartners.

Posted by: Kevin Jennings at May 09, 2010 12:35 PM (Qp4DT)

147
You know what?  There are some crazy claims out there... - but so what? 
So. the. hell. what?

Look what George Bush had to deal with -- actual members of the democrat party accusing him of knowing about 9/11.  Comparison to Hitler on a daily basis. etc.. etc... AND... The MSM's relentless, non-stop negative spin towards him.

Obama has the MSM at his back, propping him up.

(oh NOEZ - Rush Limbaugh is a big meanie)

Obama is a whiner; Pure an simple.  How pathetic that he whines in front of a graduating class.


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 09, 2010 12:36 PM (0fzsA)

148 XBox?  Was he talking about some former wife?  Just wondering.

Posted by: Sparky at May 09, 2010 04:34 PM (r0u40)

Malcolm X's wife?

Posted by: FUBAR at May 09, 2010 12:36 PM (1fanL)

149 The quote in the story reads more like a man (if I'm feeling generous) who is absolutely terrified by this post-Soviet world and its technology. He longs for his safe little world with one channel on the TV, "Teleprompter One."

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2010 12:37 PM (FcR7P)

150
speaking of commodes...

Drew Faust has spent millions of $$ to 'green' Harvard University, whose endowment took a huge hit.

Along with replacing perfectly functioning bulbs and light fixtures with CFL bulbs and expensive new fixtures, she had all the urinals replaced with waterless units.

Well, the urinals stink. They are a health hazard. You cannot have a 'waterless' urinal.

A waterless urinal = is a regular that does not flush. So she coulda saved tens of thousands of $$ by simply keeping the old urinals (which were practically new) and just shut off the water to them!

Moral of the story: Going Green is a fucking dumb.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 12:37 PM (eFWa0)

151 Can someone help me.  My INFO IPOD just keeps replaying the FOOL ON THE HILL.

Posted by: gus at May 09, 2010 12:37 PM (MaqIC)

152 The quote in the story reads more like a man (if I'm feeling generous) who is absolutely terrified by this post-Soviet world and its technology. He longs for his safe little world with one channel on the TV, "Teleprompter One."

Posted by: t-bird at May 09, 2010 04:37 PM (FcR7P)

Yeah, when he was in collidge in the early 80s, preaching unilateral disarmament and accommodation.  And, of course, hatin' whitey.

Posted by: FUBAR at May 09, 2010 12:38 PM (1fanL)

153 Can someone help me.  My INFO IPOD just keeps replaying the FOOL ON THE HILL.

Posted by: gus at May 09, 2010 04:37 PM (MaqIC)

And Revolution.  And Nowhere Man.  And Bungalow Bill.  And Piggies.

Posted by: FUBAR at May 09, 2010 12:39 PM (1fanL)

154

Obama said some arguments don't rank high on the TRUTH METER.

Every fucking word Obama says makes my BULLSHIT DETECTOR go off.

Posted by: gus at May 09, 2010 12:40 PM (MaqIC)

155 Well, these *are* the same folks that seem to think that "keeping a boot on the throat of" someone is a positive image.

Posted by: Anachronda at May 09, 2010 12:40 PM (LD+ZJ)

156 Obama is an unpresidential pussy

Posted by: sdsdfsdf at May 09, 2010 12:41 PM (Tfuib)

157 Well, the urinals stink. They are a health hazard. You cannot have a 'waterless' urinal. We've got some of those in some public buildings downtown. They're nasty. It's almost as if the town purchasing manager was struck by the following thought: "Now we can experience the feculent, pissy stench of bad plumbing just like the blighted urban poor!" On the other hand, the terlets in the Civic Center are turbo-flush masterpieces that I am proud and gratified to take a dump in.

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 12:42 PM (O3eFQ)

158
XBox?  Was he talking about some former wife? 
No, that would be XTube. And we know Barry is not a pitcher.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at May 09, 2010 12:42 PM (Oxen1)

159 This is the longest fucking nightmare I have ever had.Just can't believe how far we have fallen in such a short time.This reminds me of that Steven King story,The dead Zone,scary how close to the truth it is.

Posted by: ziptie at May 09, 2010 12:43 PM (0135J)

160 Heh, just out of curiosity went to the app store and Fox News is the #1 free app in the news section, no wonder he threw a hissy fit.

Posted by: koopy at May 09, 2010 12:43 PM (ctR4U)

161

Do liberals think that as you flush the toilet the water is sent into some other world??

There is no net gain or loss of water when it is flushed.

Posted by: gus at May 09, 2010 12:44 PM (MaqIC)

162 "All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

What he's saying is "focus on brain dead entertainment gossip shows, Oprah, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, and People magazine". Leave the opinion on important issues to people like me who think a lot.

Go play in your room, let us "grownups" do the thinking for you, it'll only scare you if you talk about grownup stuff.

Posted by: kbdabear at May 09, 2010 12:44 PM (sYxEE)

163 No-Flush "waterless" toilet marketing slogans: Now everyone can enjoy that "County Jail" smell! Nothing says "austerity mesasures" like a public building that smells of stale piss! The offense to your nose is nothing compared to the 12 cents a month you save on water!

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 12:45 PM (O3eFQ)

164 I don't know anything about waterless urinals, but have you seen the new candy bowls they've got? You get HUGE mints out of them!

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 09, 2010 12:45 PM (FcR7P)

165 #164  What he's saying is "focus on brain dead entertainment gossip shows, Oprah, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, and People magazine". Leave the opinion on important issues to people like me who think a lot.

You left out HuffPo.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 09, 2010 12:45 PM (c0A3e)

166
the toilets at HU have instructions on them: "pull handle up for #1, push handle down for #2." I shit you not.

pushing the handle down gives you a bigger 'flush' for solids.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 12:46 PM (eFWa0)

167
Really. They might as well remove the unit and let the men piss directly into the drain pipe on the floor -- because that's exactly what's happening anyway.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 12:48 PM (eFWa0)

168 The President laments that technology "exposes us to all kinds of arguments", a curious complaint from someone with as much education as Obama.

You'd think so, wouldn't you? But his so-called education insulated him against 'all kinds of arguments'. He was born, raised, nurtured, mentored, and educated as a leftist. At no point in his alleged education did he ever encounter contrary or conservative arguments. In fact, according to his memoir, by the time he reached Columbia he consciously avoided contact with any persons or ideas not of the radical left. That situation did not improve at Harvard Law or in Chicago.

It's easy to see why at this point in his life he has difficulties dealing with critics, and is confused by the failures of his programs. A man who has spent his life immersed in Marxist class-warfare propaganda is completely unprepared for the real world.   


Posted by: lyle at May 09, 2010 12:48 PM (4/lwv)

169 38 Guttenberg was a radical extremist.
Posted by: the elite at May 09, 2010 03:38 PM

That's why I went with Brian Dennehy to his home planet and you haven't seen me since the 80s

Posted by: Steve Guttenberg at May 09, 2010 12:48 PM (sYxEE)

170

My oh my; The Won gets wee wee'd up werily easily, doesn't the poor widdle wah wahing widdle baby?

 

What a turd--he suffers from Crack Berry syndrome but he wants to claim that he can't work an iPod?   Your average 4 year old in Beverly Hills can work an iPod.

Posted by: Don't Like Wee Wee'd UP Folks at May 09, 2010 12:49 PM (ktYjH)

171 "With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work --" I'm just a simple caveman president. Your modern world frightens and confuses me...

Posted by: gmsc at May 09, 2010 12:50 PM (AMrHH)

172 This reminds me of that Steven King story The irony being, of course, that King is about as far left as it is possible to get. I think the last decent book he wrote was Pet Sematary. His best novels were all the 1970's-era ones: The Shining, The Dead Zone, and 'Salem's Lot are still the standouts of his work.

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 12:51 PM (O3eFQ)

173
I enjoyed Misery a lot.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 12:51 PM (eFWa0)

174
Thomas Harris > Steven King

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 12:52 PM (eFWa0)

175 168
the toilets at HU have instructions on them: "pull handle up for #1, push handle down for #2." I shit you not.

"Flush twice, it's a long way to the Faculty Lounge"

Posted by: Harvard Maintenance Dept at May 09, 2010 12:53 PM (sYxEE)

176 To paraphrase Mr. Osbourne:

The ministry of truth that deals with pretense
The ministry of peace that sits on defense

The ministry of fear that won't let you live
The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 09, 2010 12:53 PM (iBTj9)

177 http://tinyurl.com/4dhj4c

From 2008, Obama actually pays for advertising which is on a billboard inside of a video game.

Posted by: blindgoose at May 09, 2010 12:54 PM (hZOQ8)

178 I like the high tech urinals that they have in Mexico. Dig a trench along the wall leading to the ouside so the piss can flow into the street.

Posted by: Ronster at May 09, 2010 12:54 PM (I+U8m)

179

All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy

Ah, if only we could return to the glory days of yellow journalism.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2010 12:54 PM (XdlcF)

180 172 Aren't Microsoft and Apple pretty much big Democrat donors?

Microsoft gave $2,396,960 (73% of their contributions) to Democrats in 2008.  According to Open Secrets.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 09, 2010 12:54 PM (c0A3e)

181 The irony being, of course, that King is about as far left as it is possible to get. I think the last decent book he wrote was Pet Sematary. His best novels were all the 1970's-era ones: The Shining, The Dead Zone, and 'Salem's Lot are still the standouts of his work.


The Stand, hands down.

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 09, 2010 12:55 PM (iBTj9)

182 Differnt Seasons was a good one too.Couple of decent movies from that one.Stand By Me,and I think Shawshank redemption.Yeah his politics suck but your right,The older 70's novels were the best.

Posted by: ziptie at May 09, 2010 12:56 PM (0135J)

183 Maybe Easy Bake will quit on ThanksGiving Day.

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 12:57 PM (ONBbr)

184
um, yeah, how do you think they plan to lower our 'carbon footprint' to 19th century levels?

By lowering 'carbon footprint' they mean lowering 'human footprint.' They hate the human race. Listen to them; they always speak contemptuously of the human race. It's insanity.

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 12:57 PM (eFWa0)

185 President Wonderfuck spent his entire political life being told how great and cool he his and is now having are a hard time dealing with the fact that a sizable portion of the population considers him an whinny asshole.

Posted by: YIKES1 at May 09, 2010 12:58 PM (E5V01)

186 King Barry the Eloquent's speechwriter is a juiceboxer named Jon Favreau. Just picture erg, poon, palin steele, snapdragon, Kos, or Ezra Klein writing speeches and you're got Favreau

Posted by: kbdabear at May 09, 2010 12:58 PM (sYxEE)

187 #175 The irony being, of course, that King is about as far left as it is possible to get. I think the last decent book he wrote was Pet Sematary. His best novels were all the 1970's-era ones: The Shining, The Dead Zone, and 'Salem's Lot are still the standouts of his work.

The Stand (197 !

I liked The Regulators and Desperation, but I admittedly don't have a good literary taste.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 09, 2010 12:58 PM (c0A3e)

188 189 President Wonderfuck spent his entire political life being told how great and cool he his and is now having are a hard time dealing with the fact that a sizable portion of the population considers him an whinny asshole.

He also didn't take getting bitchslapped by Putin very well. Of course Putin knows that he can do Barry in the squeakhole and nothing will be done about it other than a tantrum

Posted by: kbdabear at May 09, 2010 01:00 PM (sYxEE)

189 best comments: lemon kitten.

Posted by: gomm at May 09, 2010 01:00 PM (7JES6)

190 King's The Stand is at once a great book and a bad one. The part dealing with the actual plague and aftermath was great; the part about the "Boulder Free Zone" political crap was a snooze. King also shows some of his worst habits in that book: the "magical negro" (Mother Abigail); the "divine fool" (Tom Cullen); and solving all the problems by blowing everything up.

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 01:02 PM (O3eFQ)

191

Nov 21, 2008 ... After a historic presidential election, the tech-savvy campaigners who helped put Barack Obama in the White House say the nation is in for ...msnbc

Obama To Announce VP Through Text - Mobile Blog - InformationWeek

Aug 11, 2008 ... Obama will name his vice-presidential candidate through text and e-mail. ... Additionally, it reinforces Obama's tech-savvy persona -- or at least the perception that he is more ... OCTOBER 2007 · SEPTEMBER 2007

How 'tech-savvy' Barack Obama lost the health care debate ...

Sep 10, 2009 ... If there's one thing President Obama's good at, you would have thought, ... The Prez is using his tech savvy..hejust did a TV broadcast with great ..... December 2007, November 2007, October 2007, September 2007 ... telegraph

Oct 2, 2008 ... And since the McCain camp has lagged behind Obama in tech savvy, ... columnist since June 2007, but I've been a fan of gadgets for years. ...

blogs.orlandosentinel.com/

US President Barack Obama entered the White House with a pledge to use ... be one of the US' most tech-savvy leaders and has appointed a CIO and CTO to help him. Obama's tech leanings became clear when he made extensive use of social media .... Lean & Green · Digital Defences · Agenda Setters 2007 · Full Disclosure ...

www.silicon.com

well . hmm

Posted by: willow at May 09, 2010 01:03 PM (7FgWm)

192 121 [Here's the graduation message I would give the young 'uns.] Monty, that's the best thing I've read in days. THANKS!!

Posted by: Waiting to Retire at May 09, 2010 01:03 PM (2kf2s)

193 I liked The Regulators and Desperation, but I admittedly don't have a good literary taste.

LOL, me either.

I liked those two alright. I like the Dark Tower series, but, unfortunately, he didn't finish them before he got hit by the van and the story went kinda flooey after that.

Cujo was a decent book, but I hated the fucking movie. The last 45 minutes was nothing but screaming. I hate that. One of the reasons I hated Temple of Doom.

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 09, 2010 01:03 PM (iBTj9)

194 No no, you just sit there and eat, we'll do the thinking.

Posted by: Crusty at May 09, 2010 01:04 PM (qzgbP)

195 HELP ME MARKOS! I NEED MORE EMPTY SLOGANS!
Posted by: Turbonium Dragon at May 09, 2010 04:28 PM

Kos.. help.. help... illogical... coordinate ... coordinate

Posted by: snapdragon # 129 at May 09, 2010 01:06 PM (sYxEE)

196 King Barry the Eloquent's speechwriter is a juiceboxer named Jon Favreau. Just picture erg, poon, palin steele, snapdragon, Kos, or Ezra Klein writing speeches and you're got Favreau

Posted by: kbdabear at May 09, 2010 04:58 PM (sYxEE)


I'll bet a 1/2 pint of Val-U-Rite and throw in some Cheese Whiz and crackers that snapdragon is poon.

Posted by: YIKES at May 09, 2010 01:07 PM (E5V01)

197 King's The Stand is at once a great book and a bad one. The part dealing with the actual plague and aftermath was great; the part about the "Boulder Free Zone" political crap was a snooze. King also shows some of his worst habits in that book: the "magical negro" (Mother Abigail); the "divine fool" (Tom Cullen); and solving all the problems by blowing everything up.


There are a limited number of plots and plot devices in literature. Everything is a variation of something else.

Also, we're limiting comparison to King's body of work, which means the best is The Stand, hands down.

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 09, 2010 01:08 PM (iBTj9)

198

Turn off all of your electronic devices and get your information from stone tablets like I do.

Posted by: President Hip, Hi-Tech & Savvy at May 09, 2010 01:08 PM (t72+4)

199 This is one cool utility - free! It's from one of the computer PhD geeks at Google. You can use it to over-lay the Deepshitwater Horizon spill on your town, city, county, one or more states (Size matters! For a while, anyway.), even some entire regions: http://tiny.cc/u3jhn Bonus: You can adjust it to various rate-of-spill estimates --- from just under BP's BCS* of 210,000 gallons per day, through the oil industry's "Council of Experts" of a drop or so over a million gals per day, up to the whining coral-hugger wanktanks' of 2 million gals per day (though unfortunately still over half a million gals per day short of BP's own WCS**). * BCS = "Best Case Scenario" ** WCS = "Worst Case Scenario" Bonus Bonus: Adjust the rate to the closest approximation of the rate at which Obie spills toxic b.s. on campus graduation ceremonies.

Posted by: Shooter at May 09, 2010 01:08 PM (zfRju)

200

OT interesting/ depressingly funny  financial chart

http://tinyurl.com/2wgreqb

 

 

Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at May 09, 2010 01:08 PM (Vy7h2)

201 What. A. F*cker.  If his thoughts and intentions aren't clear enough for all to see (his subliminal messages about conforming to his agenda & ignoring the "noise" from anyone who criticizes him), then those poor idiots are blinder than blind.  I don't believe the 52% are still at 52%, but they are still high enough up there to really worry me.

Posted by: Twinks at May 09, 2010 01:09 PM (VYKgG)

202
1/2 pint of Val-U-Rite and throw in some Cheese Whiz and crackers

YOU are livin' the Moron Lifestyle® the right way, my friend.

Posted by: Dang Straights at May 09, 2010 01:09 PM (PANJ+)

203

be one of the US' most tech-savvy leaders

Well, if that's not proof you tea baggers are doing it wrong, I don't know what is.

/incoherent argument off

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2010 01:09 PM (XdlcF)

204 Didn't the Obama campaign try to get some traction by saying McCain wasn't technologically savvy?

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 09, 2010 01:10 PM (iBTj9)

205 Is this all you wingnuts have to complain about? This is a NONTROVERSY!

All he was saying is that bad crazy denialists should be banned so that reasonable constructive opinion such as is offered here at Little Green Foreskins can move our utopia forward

If you can't see that, then fuck you, asshole

Posted by: Charles Comic Bookstore Johnson at May 09, 2010 01:11 PM (sYxEE)

206 204, Aacckkkkk! Please warn when linking to the NYT!

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 01:11 PM (ONBbr)

207
Turn off all of your electronic devices and get your information from stone tablets like I do.
Posted by: President Hip, Hi-Tech & Savvy at May 09, 2010 05:08 PM

Me too!

Posted by: Ann Margrock at May 09, 2010 01:13 PM (sYxEE)

208 "We have always been at war with America."

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at May 09, 2010 01:13 PM (YIs6C)

210
He also didn't take getting bitchslapped by Putin very well. Of course Putin knows that he can do Barry in the squeakhole and nothing will be done about it other than a tantrum

Posted by: kbdabear at May 09, 2010 05:00 PM (sYxEE)



Putin is playing Wee-Wee like Moby playing a synthesizer, zoned out on X at a rave .

Posted by: Blazer at May 09, 2010 01:15 PM (t72+4)

211 Democracy. The President keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means

Posted by: Inigo Montoya at May 09, 2010 01:15 PM (sYxEE)

212 Iceland is ready for it's close-up again. Just what the Europeans need, more money going *poof*.

Posted by: eman at May 09, 2010 01:15 PM (ONBbr)

213 #201,Different Seasons was a good one.I think Stand By me,and Shawshank Redemption came from that.Do'nt forget the Creep Show series back in the eighties.Chistine was a better book than movie.

Posted by: ziptie at May 09, 2010 01:15 PM (0135J)

214
I used to be on the Beverly Hillbillies.

Cary Granite was on The Flintstones.

Posted by: Dash Riprock at May 09, 2010 01:15 PM (eFWa0)

215 Posted by: Charles Comic Bookstore Johnson at May 09, 2010 05:11 PM (sYxEE)


Oh Yeah!
Well fuck you, fuck ball.

Posted by: Ray "Bones" Barbone at May 09, 2010 01:15 PM (E5V01)

216 "Jaywalking" is a feature, not a bug

Posted by: King Barry, frequent Tonight Show guest at May 09, 2010 01:16 PM (sYxEE)

217 King tends to repeat himself a lot, thematically. Firestarter was basically a mash-up of Carrie and The Dead Zone, and he retconned Randall Flagg into the Dark Tower universe after introducing him in The Stand. And he never quite has gotten out of the habit of blowing everything up when he writes himself into a narrative cul-de-sac. I think if I had to pick one of his books as the best, I'd pick The Shining and then The Dead Zone, then 'Salem's Lot. After that...nothing else really measures up in my opinion until Pet Sematary, and even that wasn't up there with his early work. He fell prey to gigantism and lazy plotting, though he always retained a great sense of characterization and dialogue. (I haven't read Under the Dome yet, though I'll probably get around to it one of these days -- I'm assuming that it's a tedious "Save Mother Earth!" parable.)

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 01:17 PM (O3eFQ)

218 218
I used to be on the Beverly Hillbillies.

Cary Granite was on The Flintstones.
Posted by: Dash Riprock at May 09, 2010 05:15 PM

So was I, but you might have known me as "Gus"

Posted by: Stony Curtis at May 09, 2010 01:18 PM (sYxEE)

219 Depending on whether Obie is dead right or dead wrong, one or the other of the O'badministration-Acorn-MSNBC Triad of Doom and the Fox News-Talk Radio Squawkvox Axis is responsible for producing the equivalent of the methane hydrates in our national political spew.

Posted by: Shooter at May 09, 2010 01:19 PM (zfRju)

220

President Obama is right you racist ignorant wingers !

Posted by: snapdragqueen at May 09, 2010 01:19 PM (t72+4)

221

"Who classifies iPods, Xboxes, or PlayStations as "information"? "

Don't know about the XBoxes or Playstations, but maybe Barky is annoyed that you can download Rush or Levin to your iPod and get some real information.  Heh, heh.

Posted by: RushBabe at May 09, 2010 01:19 PM (W8m8i)

222 Didn't the Obama campaign try to get some traction by saying McCain wasn't technologically savvy?

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 09, 2010 05:10 PM (iBTj9)

Let me correct you.  That would be "claim traction".  We speak Indonesian English, now.  This is the new world, sucker.

And, yes, we claimed that the pilot of a jet fighter was a dope who couldn't work email ... because we're that smarts.  Yeah, we're smarts.  Watch that claim traction.

Posted by: Retarded Precedential Speechwriter at May 09, 2010 01:19 PM (Qp4DT)

223
heh, stony curtis

Posted by: Randolph Mantooth at May 09, 2010 01:19 PM (eFWa0)

224 Gabe,

Well done. 

I particularly liked the V article on Economic education.  I have a masters in Econ  and it never ceases to amaze how fucking stupid most liberal are about Economics.

Wishing it was true, makes it true for them.  Don't confuse them with the facts, they've already made up my mind.  Try to show them how raising the min wage is going to fuck Black kids?  They'll have none of it.  It's a raise for them.
 
They need a "FAIR WAGE".

You mean less of them will get hired, no way man.

I have NEVER met a HS teacher teaching Econ that knew shit about it.  You young guys want a free A, read Wealth of Nations, and write a report on it.  Your teacher will think you are discussing Greek naval operations.

Posted by: Kemp at May 09, 2010 01:20 PM (2+9Yx)

225 #221  And he never quite has gotten out of the habit of blowing everything up when he writes himself into a narrative cul-de-sac.

But I like 'plody things.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 09, 2010 01:22 PM (c0A3e)

226

We should all live the way they do in Kenya. Besides China and Spain, Kenya is a model society of utopia. Just think if we all had the same carbon footprints as Kenyans or ewoks. It would be so awesome.

Posted by: International Intellectual at May 09, 2010 01:22 PM (FIkYQ)

227 #221.Never did read The Shining.Just saw the movie so I really don't have an opinion.He lost me after writing under the psuedenum Richard Bachman.Never read the Dark Tower series.The last one of his novels I read was It.Wasn,t at all impressed.He definately peaked in the eighties.

Posted by: ziptie at May 09, 2010 01:22 PM (0135J)

228

speaking of Iceland, that Volcano up their way is gettin ready to go again... and its neighbor

 

sorry about the non-warning  

Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at May 09, 2010 01:23 PM (Vy7h2)

229

And, yes, we claimed that the pilot of a jet fighter was a dope who couldn't work email ... because we're that smarts. 

Hey, the claim worked against George Bush.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2010 01:24 PM (XdlcF)

230 mpur in Texas @ 208 Yeah, but then he-who-was-formerly-known-as-Maverick is still trying to figure out the location of the hole to pour fuel into his electric lawnmower. Get off my jumping cholla!

Posted by: Shooter at May 09, 2010 01:24 PM (zfRju)

231 Since you're not from the Educated Class, I can almost understand why Our President's speech concerned you.

If you read lots of obscure works like I do, keep a perfect crease in your pants, and go to the right dinner parties, you can provide the guidance Americans need to make informed opinions. Actually learning anything useful in the real world only serves to confuse and frighten people, especially people in the NY Times accounting department.

Posted by: David Brooks at May 09, 2010 01:25 PM (sYxEE)

232 I haven't read Under the Dome yet, though I'll probably get around to it one of these days -- I'm assuming that it's a tedious "Save Mother Earth!" parable.

It's actually fairly readable, although his leftyness bleeds through from time to time. It also recycles a few of his earlier narratives. Overall, I felt it was worth the time. 

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 09, 2010 01:26 PM (554T5)

233 But I like 'plody things. Well, we all do, Kratos...but sometimes quiet horror works better than 'splodey horror. The Haunting of Hill House or Turn of the Screw for example. King often strikes me as the Roland Emmerich of the literary set.

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 01:26 PM (O3eFQ)

234

 I have a masters in Econ  and it never ceases to amaze how fucking stupid most liberal are about Economics.

Makes me wonder. Perhaps there should be a requirement in such programs. The ability to apply whatever theory you have to Sim City. And see if it works.

The results could be quite interesting.

Posted by: HH at May 09, 2010 01:26 PM (6oDXl)

235

Hey, the claim worked against George Bush.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2010 05:24 PM (XdlcF)

Very true.  They don't even have any originality in their asininity.  There's nothing worse than stale, used asininity.  That's why Power Glutes is so nasty.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 09, 2010 01:26 PM (Qp4DT)

236 Yeah, but then he-who-was-formerly-known-as-Maverick is still trying to figure out the location of the hole to pour fuel into his electric lawnmower.

Hey Diego, what's a lawnmower?

Posted by: Sen. John McCain at May 09, 2010 01:27 PM (sYxEE)

237

I believe what Easy Bake is saying here is he wants us all to return to a happy simpler time like when Uncle Walty used to come into our living rooms every evening and tell us we were losing the Vietnam War and all of America believed him even though we were in fact winning.

However, with his domestic and foreign policy and failure to reign in spending and rogue states who will go nuclear under his watch, the happy simpler time he's gonna return us to is the stone age.

Posted by: Blazer at May 09, 2010 01:28 PM (t72+4)

238

I think if I had to pick one of his books as the best, I'd pick The Shining and then The Dead Zone,

Actually, I've always loved the movie version of  "The Dead Zone". Very low key, very well done. One of Chris Walkens' best roles IMO.

Posted by: HH at May 09, 2010 01:29 PM (6oDXl)

239 Never did read The Shining.Just saw the movie so I really don't have an opinion. I like to start fights with King fans by pointing out that Kubrick's movie of The Shining was better than the book it was based on -- a rarity in the movie world. King, naturally, disliked the movie and scripted a crappy made-for-TV miniseries that was "truer to his vision". His version sucked and Kubrick's didn't; QED. (Though I will say that Rebecca DeMornay made a better Wendy than Shelley Duvall did.) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 01:30 PM (O3eFQ)

240 83 FUBO

F' You Barack Obama

Man, I can't wait till 2012

Dude, that's a bumper sticker, get over to cafe press and start selling them!

FUBO 2012

10% that's all I want, OK 5% will work.  Get to it!

Posted by: Kemp at May 09, 2010 01:31 PM (2+9Yx)

241 Actually, I've always loved the movie version of "The Dead Zone". Ditto. One of Cronenberg's best movies. (The TV series was even watchable, though it didn't have much to do with the book other than the character names.)

Posted by: Monty at May 09, 2010 01:32 PM (O3eFQ)

242 AmishDude @ 57 - As I understand it, it wasn't the war injuries that curtailed his online prestidigitation -- it was that all his digits were already pressed into the transitive parts of various lobbyists.

Posted by: Shooter at May 09, 2010 01:32 PM (zfRju)

243 I'm going to have to dig out and re-read "Anthem", "1984", and "A Brave New World".  Was THX1138 ever a book?  I only remember the movie.

But every day I find myself wondering "Is the TelePrompter reading "1984" or.....?"

I suppose it could be watching the movie, huh?

I am so frightened.

The only saving grace is that with the new "healthcare" I probably won't be allowed to live long enough....

Posted by: Larry Sheldon at May 09, 2010 01:33 PM (OmeRL)

244 Ace, you should sell FUBO 2012 Bumper stickers with teh Ace of Spades jolly Roger logo after 2012.

Someone do in NOW, before it get stolen!

Posted by: Kemp at May 09, 2010 01:34 PM (2+9Yx)

245
I haven't read Under the Dome yet, though I'll probably get around to it one of these days -- I'm assuming that it's a tedious "Save Mother Earth!" parable.

It's actually fairly readable, although his leftyness bleeds through from time to time. It also recycles a few of his earlier narratives. Overall, I felt it was worth the time. 

Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 09, 2010 05:26 PM (554T5)






Its actually a fairly decent read as far as the character development goes, but I found the ending to be a little disappointing and his obvious conservative bashing in a few places will literally make you want to put it down at times, but it mostly comes early in the book.

Posted by: Blazer at May 09, 2010 01:37 PM (t72+4)

246 Barry makes a dandy target and is worthy of all the animosity that comes his way, but if you've been watching Beck's shows on "Crime, Inc.," he says that Barry's just a peon, a low-level employee.  Maybe another 'ron can clue me in, but I get the feeling from Beck that that hunka hunka burning schnoz, Andy Stern, is calling the shots on all things foreign and domestic.  I know Beck also unveiled a U of Wisconsin prof who would've rather remained anonymous as another master planner in Commie (ing) to Amerika.

Posted by: RushBabe at May 09, 2010 01:37 PM (W8m8i)

247

"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.

I'm guessing President D-Bag is not a fan of Bioshock.

Posted by: FireFly877 at May 09, 2010 01:38 PM (U5vKI)

248 249 Ace, you should sell FUBO 2012 Bumper stickers with teh Ace of Spades jolly Roger logo after 2012.

Someone do in NOW, before it get stolen!

Posted by: Kemp at May 09, 2010 05:34 PM (2+9Yx)

!!!!!!!Eleventy!!!!!!!!

Posted by: RushBabe at May 09, 2010 01:39 PM (W8m8i)

249 (I haven't read Under the Dome yet, though I'll probably get around to it one of these days -- I'm assuming that it's a tedious "Save Mother Earth!" parable.)

Last new thing I read from King was Duma Key, in which he managed to work in some gratuitous Bush bashing. Won't support him anymore.

When I saw Under the Dome on the shelves, my first thought was "oh, he must have watched The Simpsons Movie"

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 09, 2010 01:40 PM (iBTj9)

250 Saaaaay now: Isn't Barry about a day away from announcing his pick for the Supreme Court? Given how his March Madness bracket went so well, could be he's just reducing expectations and trying to tamp down all the coming questions for one genuine Grade A bitch of a hogmistress.

Posted by: Shooter at May 09, 2010 01:42 PM (zfRju)

251

Thanks for posting this take on the speech, Gabriel.  It seemed that a too many other blogs that carried posts on this are distracted by BOÂ’s admitted technological disability. Personally, I donÂ’t care if he can turn on a microwave or program a DVR.  The context is what is most important.  In fact, it seems that there is a tactic involved in grouping all the gaming and entertainment devices together as of sources of information.  For one, it marginalizes competing arguments as being nothing more than “entertainment.”  It also creates a foundation for policies which might limit the collectiveÂ’s access to such entertainment (itÂ’s for our own good because so much information is a stress on our democracy). 

Feel free to laugh at the glaring similarities with Orwell and what seems to be the administrationÂ’s ignorance of such similarities.  Personally, IÂ’m not laughing because I think they know this argument cuts against any notion of free speech – and donÂ’t care.  With the unfailing support of the media in marginalizing any who disagree, this administration is safe in saying what is on its mind.

As far as there being any point to a criticism of too much information – I suggest we think hard about the merit of that argument.  WhoÂ’s to decide what information is superfluous?  WhoÂ’s to decide, on our behalf, what information we should seek? 

Posted by: Thorne at May 09, 2010 01:43 PM (Msb/h)

252 Obama: Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength

"And this new age, I have the ability to put a camera on every street corner and in every bedroom."

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 09, 2010 01:43 PM (KGYya)

253 (Though I will say that Rebecca DeMornay made a better Wendy than Shelley Duvall did.)

You take your Steven King toilet book out of here before I bash you in the brain

Posted by: Rebecca DeMornay at May 09, 2010 01:44 PM (sYxEE)

254 Hey Diego, what's a lawnmower?

It's that noisy machine attached to the mexican doing your landscaping. No, not that one, that's a leaf blower. That one over there actually mowing the lawn, that would be the lawn mower.

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 09, 2010 01:45 PM (iBTj9)

255 "Under The Dome" isn't any sort of save mother earth type thing at all. It was OK, but just to give a comparison, Dean Koontz strikes me as a much better writer of these kind of things than King is.

Posted by: HH at May 09, 2010 01:45 PM (6oDXl)

256 piss directly into the drain pipe on the floor

That's how it's done all over the Turd World, where the Bammer grew up.

Posted by: gail at May 09, 2010 01:47 PM (f46PC)

257 Saaaaay now: Isn't Barry about a day away from announcing his pick for the Supreme Court? Given how his March Madness bracket went so well, could be he's just reducing expectations and trying to tamp down all the coming questions for one genuine Grade A bitch of a hogmistress.


Didn't he just appoint a Minister Czar of Information?

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 09, 2010 01:48 PM (iBTj9)

258 236 [Under the Dome]'s actually fairly readable, although his leftyness bleeds through from time to time. It also recycles a few of his earlier narratives. Overall, I felt it was worth the time.

You must have a LOT of time. I guess you were done with the more important stuff, like arranging your socks, dusting the shelf and counting your freckles.

Posted by: Zimriel at May 09, 2010 01:52 PM (rtzHA)

259 But I like 'plody things.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 09, 2010 05:22 PM (c0A3e)

You know what goes great with explosions?

Posted by: Herr Blücher at May 09, 2010 01:52 PM (PmyE1)

260 King Barry the Eloquent's speechwriter is a juiceboxer named Jon Favreau. Just picture erg, poon, palin steele, snapdragon, Kos, or Ezra Klein writing speeches and you're got Favreau

Wait a minute. The guy who directed Iron Man 2 also writes speeches for Obama?

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 09, 2010 02:06 PM (trjej)

261 Obama doesn't know how to work an iPod?

It seems like only yesterday when he gave one to the Queen, loaded up with all his speeches, because he thought she needed to get all hip and with the times... even though her grandson had already bought her one for Christmas.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 09, 2010 02:06 PM (mHQ7T)

262 So, O,dumbo is still running this country under the ignorance is strenth slogan?The strength of his ignorance is is shown everyday.What Galaxy is this asshole from anyway?Ojugears and Chavez must be on the phone to each other everynight thinking of new ways to fuck us.

Posted by: ziptie at May 09, 2010 02:13 PM (0135J)

263 So, he can't use technology, knows nothing of economics, surrounds himself with people having no real world experience, and he literally f*cks up just about everything he touches as president. Jimmy Carter didn't have sh*t on him when it comes to incompetence. His administration is not a cheesy movie with a happy ending, it is not a comedy, it is a complete f*cking disaster.

Posted by: ray at May 09, 2010 02:13 PM (9+P9E)

264 Obama used a commencement speech to prop up his own propaganda and knock down his critics?

At least that Sunblock song guy actually gave a fuck about the kids, even if he rambled a bit.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 09, 2010 02:15 PM (mHQ7T)

265 This cocksucker gave McCain shit for not using a computer regularly.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 09, 2010 02:16 PM (mHQ7T)

266

He doesn't know how to operate an iPod?  Yeesh...

Didn't this corporatist jackass go to Harvard?

Dude...

Posted by: Steve Jobs at May 09, 2010 02:18 PM (j4xgZ)

267 What's the opposite of magnanimous?  Turdlike?  How about statesman?  Weasel?  Our president is a turdlike weasel.

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 09, 2010 02:18 PM (KGYya)

268 "Wait a minute. The guy who directed Iron Man 2 also writes speeches for Obama?"

Totally different guy. This was the guy who made out with a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton. David Axelrod is not the American composer, arranger and producer, either.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 09, 2010 02:19 PM (mHQ7T)

269 Gabe, you should fix your first link to go to the actual post, not the YouTube search results.

Posted by: michael at May 09, 2010 02:23 PM (JtKsy)

270 "Does the President of the United States really believe that technologies that put more information in the hands of the public (and the voters) impede "empowerment" and "emancipation"?"

YES!

Especially when it's information of an OPPOSING point of view.  That damned 1st Amendment keeps getting in his way!  President Thin Skin wouldn't know "truth" if it came up and bit him on the ass.

Posted by: GarandFan at May 09, 2010 02:31 PM (6mwMs)

271 Just woke up from my Mom's Day nap.  Is this regime over?  I dreamed it was.  Don't give me any bad news.  I mean it. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 09, 2010 02:33 PM (UOM48)

272 Americans have learned to accept less than mediocre presidents. Obama may not be admired but at least he is not despised by most American

Posted by: Bill C at May 09, 2010 02:43 PM (I+7Zv)

273 If you think it's such a big fuckin' deal that our articulate black president said this, look up the number for his web page and complain!

Posted by: Sheriff Joe Biden at May 09, 2010 02:49 PM (Mmw0q)

274 279 Americans have learned to accept less than mediocre presidents. Obama may not be admired but at least he is not despised by most American

Posted by: Bill C at May 09, 2010 06:43 PM (I+7Zv)


He's heading in that direction at a quick-time pace though. Won't be long...

Posted by: ray at May 09, 2010 02:52 PM (9+P9E)

275 Thus saith the Blackberry president.

Posted by: Grandpa Munster at May 09, 2010 02:53 PM (e9Z8E)

276 Dudes, I have come back from the future to warn you not to vote for Barack Obama.  The outcome will be far worse than you can possible imagine.





Wait, what's the date?  Posted at May 09, 2010 06:49 PM


Crap.  Damn Chinese electronic junk ..

Posted by: damian from the future at May 09, 2010 02:53 PM (4WbTI)

277 Oppression is liberation. Bankruptcy is frugality. Ignorance is enlightenment.

Posted by: CheshirelCat at May 09, 2010 02:54 PM (4Q9fl)

278 Barack Obama really is a classical fascist. What's on display here is his obscurantism, which is essential to his elitist disdain for democracy.

Posted by: Jack Landsman at May 09, 2010 02:55 PM (Y1hgA)

279 Near FREEZING temps in NE USA in May is definitely global warming

Posted by: parisparamus at May 09, 2010 02:59 PM (ELj1r)

280

Can someone please explain why the "Easy Bake" nickname for Dear Leader?

 

/sorry, a little slow

Posted by: Marybeth at May 09, 2010 03:00 PM (zQoWP)

281 Let me take a look at the proof of Obama's intellect.

Posted by: Spartan Baby Inspector at May 09, 2010 03:01 PM (KGYya)

282 Remember when Bush was an evil, black man hating dumbass because he flew over the flooding in N'awlins and there was the photo of him looking out the window of the plane/helicopter? 

Even the libs (and there are a lot of them) in Nashville won't be forgetting, or forgiving, Jug-ears anytime soon.

Maybe he could air-drop a bunch of I-Pods to the masses.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 09, 2010 03:05 PM (UOM48)

283 Do not imagine for a moment, Gabriel Malor and other unruly unwashed peasants, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than his Majestic Majesty, Emperor Barack Hussein Obama, that his subjects should have many souurces of information. He would be only too happy to indulge them in their iPods, iPads, Xboxes, radio talk shows and Internet, but sometimes his subjects might be racists, political terrorists or just plain stupid and not know what is the best information for them and then might get the wrong ideas in their heads and not contribute to the DNC and might not even vote Democrat in the next election, let alone vote Democrat early and often, Gabriel Malor and other unruly unwashed peasants, and then where would we be?

Posted by: CheshirelCat at May 09, 2010 03:06 PM (4Q9fl)

284 "Can someone please explain why the "Easy Bake" nickname for Dear Leader?"

Based on his level of experience  I think he should be called "Shake and Bake".

 

Posted by: FeralCat at May 09, 2010 03:09 PM (4Q9fl)

285

DonÂ’t know much about the economy,
DonÂ’t know much about technology,
DonÂ’t know much about an american history book,
DonÂ’t know much about the law I took,
But I do know that IÂ’m a communist,
And I know that if I insist,
What an equally poor world this would be

-Barry OÂ’

Posted by: ray at May 09, 2010 03:12 PM (9+P9E)

286 So let me get this straight.

We (and by "we" I mean the other 52%) elected a President who can't figure out how to work an Ipod. The glorified Walkman that has, literally, 3 buttons. One of which is an on switch.

[shakes head and blinks]

Posted by: Jess at May 09, 2010 03:12 PM (59PMf)

287 just sent out the speech to my liberal friends, but cited it to Hugo Chavez, hilarity ensued...

Posted by: LikeATimeBomb at May 09, 2010 03:17 PM (dd8Zt)

288 <i>Don't know much about history
Don't know much about producing energy
Don't know much about an economics book
Don't know much about the constitutional law I took

But I do know that I would love imposing Marxism on you
And I know that if you would just love Lenin too
What a wonderful socialist country this would be

La ta ta ta ta ta ta
(History)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
(Producing energy)
La ta ta ta ta ta ta
(Economics book)
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
(Constitutional law I took)

But I do know that I would love imposing Marxism on you
And I know that if you would just love Lenin too
What a wonderful socialist country this would be
- The Child Emperor
</i>

Posted by: FeralCat at May 09, 2010 03:19 PM (4Q9fl)

289 This is a guy who doesn't even know how to operate an Ipod or a Playstation controller (I bet Sarah Palin does not find either challenging).

Of course he's scared of discussion on the internet.  The information age is scary as fuck for a con artist who actually pulled off a really good con.  These days, it's a lot harder to lie.

Posted by: Lex Luthor, Ruler of Australia at May 09, 2010 03:29 PM (dUOK+)

290

I am appalled that he used the occasion of a commencement address to make these statements. And it shows a certain ignorance on his part about his audience, these graduates know how to operate all those devices and theyÂ’ve integrated them into their daily lives, I do not they would take too kindly to a government that eliminated them.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at May 09, 2010 03:31 PM (RZ8pf)

291 If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
- Joseph Goebbels

Posted by: FeralCat at May 09, 2010 03:33 PM (4Q9fl)

292 Come October his mind will still be in the Soros clouds and his talk will still be all make believe
Oh lord, the manÂ’s a fraud, heÂ’s a flim flam man

HeÂ’ll wrap himself up in a big beautiful box making out like heÂ’ll give out more gifts than Santa Claus
Oh lord, the manÂ’s a fraud, heÂ’s a flim flam man

Oh yeah, the beautiful gent, you know heÂ’ll leave you with hardly any medical care and nary a cent
But maybe he can heal the sick and pay your bills with his charm

His Marxist plans may be back up his sleeve but his talk will still be all make believe
Oh lord, the manÂ’s a fraud, heÂ’s a flim flam man

Posted by: FeralCat at May 09, 2010 03:45 PM (4Q9fl)

293

Hypocrisy on meta-steroids.

The "information" the Moron is complaining about is information that reveals the curtain of deceipt that his entire life is built on.

Posted by: proreason at May 09, 2010 04:20 PM (+8dSJ)

294

Gabe,

This is a gem, don't let this go.  Hammer this every day until the Liar-in-Chief is voted out of office.

Every talk-radio host will be talking about this this week.  Which makes me worry what is up the sleeve of his other hand.

Afterall, this is the man who made rainbows, unicorns and multi-colored skittles magically disappear without anyone batting an eye.

Posted by: 57 States at May 09, 2010 04:57 PM (UE+hB)

295 Obama wasn't citing 1984 or cribbing the bad guys, he was complaining, rightly, about how news has become a form of entertainment instead of education and that instant access and instant updates has made made it necessary for news to compete with other forms of media.  Secondary is the inability for a large swath of the public, left and right, to take anything with a grain of salt.  If it's on a credible looking "News" site, it must be true!  Not.


Posted by: Palooka at May 09, 2010 05:00 PM (AlGeW)

296 The recent bomb threat in New York is a good example of this.  No one knew what happened, but websites were constantly circulating bad information that was taken as fact.


Posted by: Palooka at May 09, 2010 05:01 PM (AlGeW)

297 304 The recent bomb threat in New York is a good example of this. No one knew what happened, but government officials were constantly circulating bad information as fact. (hi Bloomberg!) [fify]

Posted by: LikeATimeBomb at May 09, 2010 05:10 PM (dd8Zt)

298 (or the feds claiming for half a second that they thought the times sq. bomber was a lone wolf...)

Posted by: LikeATimeBomb at May 09, 2010 05:12 PM (dd8Zt)

299 Please.  The Talibubba bullshit was being spouted by every independent blog I can come across.

Even if Obama's speech today was cribbing 1984, I dunno why you silly geese would be all that upset.  You already pick and choose what to believe based on dogma anyway.  Conservapedia, anyone?  Reality has a well known liberal bias?


Posted by: Palooka at May 09, 2010 05:13 PM (AlGeW)

300 Bloomberg's info was spot on, of course. Obama was what? Golfing again?

Posted by: FeralCat at May 09, 2010 05:13 PM (4Q9fl)

301 Not my President despot.

Posted by: SuperCool at May 09, 2010 05:32 PM (DRsTV)

302 You are right Palooka, and I'll say it again.  We are still looking for a white guy, probably in his 40's, probably a member of a 'movement', upset about the health care legislation. It is quite irresponsible of FOX News to keep trying to paint this bomber as a member of our new allies on the 'War on Man-Made disasters' - a Moslem.  The evidence will in this case bear me out in the end, of that I am confident.  This is the reason we need to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, why hate-crime legislation is a good thing, and why we need a civilian army that is as well-funded, well-equipped, and stronger than our conventional military force to enforce both.

Posted by: Mayor Bloomberg at May 09, 2010 06:04 PM (UE+hB)

303 What a maroon. And a jugeared, thinskinned one at that.

Posted by: Filthy Scandi Snowbilly at May 09, 2010 10:47 PM (VPyiz)

304 i had what I consider an amazing insight today: I was reading this article about babies and at first I enjoyed it (having a small baby myself), then I began to doubt a few parts of it, wondering if the reporter had fudged or elided over facts to make it more interesting. Then I realized, I don't believe _anything_ I read in the Times. And people wonder why newspapers are dying. They are completely untrustworthy and useless, even for the smallest thing, no matter the subject, it's slanted and politicized. And prob ably always has been. We just woke up.

Posted by: docweasel at May 10, 2010 02:45 AM (BVmgA)

305

 

I listen to Obama speeches "some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter".

 

 

Posted by: Lily at May 10, 2010 04:36 AM (igSv+)

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The problem of fake ghds is a massive one and weÂ’ll shortly be publishing a major article on that subject in time for the run up to Christmas.

However, one of the ghd counterfeit websites gave us a real laugh recently when they started selling fake ghd rares.

Posted by: JOE khh at May 10, 2010 06:15 AM (vZ5U1)

307

So, what is the officially approved form of diversion for the folks? 

Coomunity organization?  in the tune of garner more votes for the dear leader?

"All your Free Time belongs to us."?

Posted by: always right at May 10, 2010 08:06 AM (7GfKM)

308 Maybe Obama has some design on first person shooter games (as in 'banning' them)?

Posted by: always right at May 10, 2010 08:12 AM (7GfKM)

309 "With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work..." Doesn't he realize that to the people who do know how to use these things, that this just makes you sound like an ignorant dipshit?

Posted by: freecitizen at May 10, 2010 09:39 AM (56ZAd)

310 This President rode to the White House on the backs of many young people.  People who were informed through the blogosphere by David Pflouffe.  When the Tea Party started to gain traction, the White House used it's 2 million e-mail members to dispel their arguments.  Even David was recently rehired to help the Democrats during the election year.  Now that this strategy is backfiring on him, Obama bad-mouths it as being unreliable.  Was it unreliable to get him elected?  Or is it because he is feeling the backlash from Americans who do not agree with his policies?  The media attempts to paint it as racist, but the American people know better.

Posted by: djaymick at May 10, 2010 09:42 AM (pXfXr)

311

It isn't 'news' when the president says something stupid.  We are wasting time talking about how stupid the stuff he says is.  What we should do instead is:

Realize this regime is dangerous.  Behave accordingly.

Do the exact opposite of what he suggests -- get well connected & skilled with all private & electronic forms of media.  We will be relying on them like the Tienamen Square democracy advocates relied on their fax machines.

Listen to Rush, Beck, Fox, conservative bloggers, and anyone else he says not to.

Cling to God & guns, in that order.

Get your kids the heck out of govt schools, if you haven't already.

Talk about political issues at church (I don't mean ahead of the gospel)  You just can't endorse candidates!  You can certainly talk about political issues all day long.

Assume that everything he says is a lie.  If it is a law, repeal it.  A nominee; block it.  If he says it's sunny, get an umbrella.

Teach your children that "free" stuff just means someone else is paying.  Teach them to figure out WHO, WHY, and what strings are attached before they take anything "free".

And have a nice day

Posted by: JaneLovesJesus at May 10, 2010 02:24 PM (Np1QL)

312 "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." -- John Adams

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