July 22, 2010
— Dave in Texas Beer summit?
Nah.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack rushed to judgment when he dismissed a former government official over racism allegations, U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview on Thursday."He jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles," Obama said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" that will be broadcast on Friday.
The cool thing about backing the bus up when you've made a silly Presidential leadership boo boo, is that they can always find another body to toss back under when you find first gear again.
And since I'm taking this stupid metaphor to the bank (see what I did there?), anybody remember Obama backing the bus up before now? Or does shifting the blame to your cabinet head not count?
I for one am comforted that my federal government can respond swiftly and powerfully when the exigencies of Youtube require that it do so.
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Posted by: runninrebel at July 22, 2010 05:56 PM (i3PJU)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 22, 2010 05:57 PM (IqfKc)
Posted by: CanaDave at July 22, 2010 05:57 PM (8TT4U)
He jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog I gave an order to spike this quick and everybody scrambles
Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 22, 2010 05:58 PM (TRlMm)
They didn't originally believe something as mundane as an oil spill would result in revelations of administrative incompetence.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 22, 2010 06:00 PM (TRlMm)
Malignant narcissists like Ogabe are loyal only to themselves. They'll toss any of their groupies under the bus in a heartbeat if necessary.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 22, 2010 06:02 PM (TRlMm)
I feel better. You?
Posted by: nickless at July 22, 2010 06:02 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Rocco the package boy at July 22, 2010 06:03 PM (VMcEw)
Posted by: nickless at July 22, 2010 06:04 PM (MMC8r)
How about an oil spill plus Bonnie?
Posted by: Methos at July 22, 2010 06:05 PM (qs3lE)
Then my follow-up would be: Why would anyone want to serve under this piece of detritus, knowing what he does to his "friends?"
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 22, 2010 06:05 PM (7Sljs)
Posted by: Eric at July 22, 2010 06:09 PM (orD9t)
I don't recall Prez Bush being an easily-railroaded President given to making dumbass knee-jerk mistakes -- especially due to trivialities like YouTube BOO! or blogs BOO! or the Media Culture from Affff-ghan-ee-stan to Zzzzzanzibar BOO!
I recall Bush being able to bitchslap Congress around at-will.
.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at July 22, 2010 06:09 PM (ruzrP)
Posted by: Ira at July 22, 2010 06:10 PM (W6bJb)
How about an oil spill plus Bonnie?
I mentioned that in one of the other threads earlier. If that bitch ramps up to Hurricane status, I plan on drowning my sorrows in SoCo and Captain while she drops black rain around me, as the current track has it going right over me.
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 22, 2010 06:10 PM (AFlF9)
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 22, 2010 06:11 PM (Qp4DT)
No he jumped the gun because you have made everything about race, you bleed, talk, eat race, so all your minions also bleed, eat, talk race. So when a possible race situation faces your admin, what do you expect they will do? O by the way happy anniversary on the "cops acted stupidly," comment, one year ago today when we got to see you trot out this "post racial," philosophy.
Posted by: Jehu at July 22, 2010 06:11 PM (o94F9)
Posted by: Ira at July 22, 2010 06:12 PM (W6bJb)
If not, I am going over to LGF to swim in the slime.
Posted by: HuffPo Troll at July 22, 2010 06:13 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 22, 2010 06:13 PM (Dd2Jo)
I feel better. You?
Posted by: nickless at July 22, 2010 10:02 PM (MMC8r)
Only personally.
otherwise not at all
same way i feel about his weakness in foreign policy. personally- it's a yeah we knew this.
nationally- it's bad for our nation. little satisfaction, just makes us extremely vulnerable
wrecking economy as we knew, yep. we knew, he did it bad for us, little satisfaction in being right
etc..
Posted by: willow at July 22, 2010 06:14 PM (SbsTp)
Posted by: Reverend Al Sharpton at July 22, 2010 06:15 PM (VMcEw)
Posted by: Rev. Joseph Lowery, noted racist and Precedential Medal of Freedom recipient, bitches at July 22, 2010 06:15 PM (Qp4DT)
Just stay out of the way, they can fuck it up without our help.
And, I might say are doing an amazing good job at it.
Tell me again, where are the fucking grown ups in this administration?
Posted by: Kemp at July 22, 2010 06:17 PM (2+9Yx)
"I for one am comforted that my federal government can respond swiftly and powerfully when the exigencies of Youtube require that it do so."
And Rolling Stone...
Posted by: James K. Polk at July 22, 2010 06:17 PM (fLHQe)
Then my follow-up would be: Why would anyone want to serve under this piece of detritus, knowing what he does to his "friends?"
Because the Left enjoys a Satanic unity, it is why you never see insiders turn traitor on the Left, like you do in Repub admins. It takes the power of God to break such Satanic unity. Hitler and Stalin were unified until millions of Christians started praying in Europe and America, then suddenly their Satanic agreement is broken (actually Satan is kept from moving though them for a period) and true to their actual evil nature they turned on each other. If that had not happened we would all be speaking German and Russian.
And if we do not get wise...spiritually we will not break the growing Satanic unity between the Left and Islam. Witness what is happening to get the Mosque built at ground zero.
Posted by: Jehu at July 22, 2010 06:17 PM (o94F9)
Posted by: Nozzle at July 22, 2010 06:18 PM (sE08M)
Posted by: Ira at July 22, 2010 06:18 PM (W6bJb)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at July 22, 2010 06:19 PM (V/EYZ)
Bitch it's Bonniequa Listernea Quatina
Named after my daughter so I won't sue somebody.
Posted by: Shirley, I not no racist at July 22, 2010 06:21 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: willow at July 22, 2010 06:21 PM (SbsTp)
Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2010 06:21 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at July 22, 2010 06:21 PM (V/EYZ)
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 22, 2010 06:23 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: DKMY at July 22, 2010 06:24 PM (eyWA7)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2010 06:25 PM (VW9/y)
Can anyone think of anyone in this administration that is trustworthy?
the whole thing is so mindblowing tax cheats -head of fed.
jennings -school czar
holder- doj
seriously it's like animal house.
Posted by: willow at July 22, 2010 06:25 PM (SbsTp)
Posted by: Ira at July 22, 2010 06:27 PM (W6bJb)
Posted by: Portoy at July 22, 2010 06:27 PM (azgo2)
Wait, didn't Obama issue a statement that he was behind Vilsack on this? I distinctly remember this.
Shirley GMA will hit him hard on this.
Shirley they will.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 22, 2010 06:27 PM (T0NGe)
Hitler purged the SA - killed most of them - after the SS was formed. Made me wonder why the SS stayed so loyal for so long, when they could always be next. Obama has no problem destroying the careers and lives of his "trusted advisers." So imagine what he thinks of the little people.
Scary.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 22, 2010 06:27 PM (7Sljs)
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman at July 22, 2010 06:27 PM (okmLW)
Statement? Never heard of it.
Posted by: Charlie Gibson at July 22, 2010 06:27 PM (7Sljs)
Posted by: Animal House at July 22, 2010 06:27 PM (V/EYZ)
No, don't insult the Deltas. At least the Delta's got laid and built a float, these fuckers are like a train wreck. Carter's administration without the Sigma Nu's to run it.
They have one ballet dancing Joo trying to keep the entire thing together. It's not working out to well.
Posted by: Kemp at July 22, 2010 06:29 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman at July 22, 2010 10:27 PM (okmLW)
They did. They raced to put the fire out, which sunk the platform, immediately started threatening BP that they shouldn't be paying dividends, and then they didn't hesitate to stop the states and localities from implementing anything to save their shores and inlets.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 22, 2010 06:30 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Kemp at July 22, 2010 10:29 PM (2+9Yx)
That's the saddest part. Even Rahm, as nutty as he is, understood that, in America, health scare was dead with the election of that dipshit, Scott Brown. The Precedent showed him, and everyone else, that we aren't in America, anymore.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 22, 2010 06:34 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: saskmike at July 22, 2010 06:35 PM (ZoCgP)
Posted by: HuffPo Troll at July 22, 2010 06:36 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: Barack Hussein Mugabe at July 22, 2010 06:36 PM (p6OcK)
Vilsack just brokered a deal with Hamid Karzai and brought the Afgan war to an end. On his way back, he told Putin to step down because he threatens democracy in Russia. Putin complied, because in a brilliant maneuver Vilsack odered the 97th Air Mobility Wing to DEFCON II status. This made Putin fear possible reprisal.
Fox News: Vilsack, "the real power in DC."
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 22, 2010 06:36 PM (Dd2Jo)
Posted by: Ira at July 22, 2010 06:36 PM (W6bJb)
Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2010 06:37 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: ChicagoJedi at July 22, 2010 06:37 PM (WZFkG)
You have to admire Sherrod, though. She knew exactly what was going on.
The NAACP was instructed to do this in order to get out the black vote in November. Breitbart blew up that strategy and Sherrod was starting to talk badly about Obama. They had to shut her up fast.
Funny thing about the Left: They HATED Karl Rove. If you ask them why, most can't say, but a few know. It was because he had a strategy of get out the vote. So he would often emphasize social issues. The somewhat informed Left thought this was beyond the pale.
But it was projection, because they knew how dirty things are when they use this strategy.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 22, 2010 06:37 PM (T0NGe)
Or when he's micromanaging now. Best if he just stays on the golf course & stops being trigger-happy.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 22, 2010 06:38 PM (LUaw0)
Posted by: sped at July 22, 2010 06:40 PM (rdFBV)
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 22, 2010 10:10 PM (AFlF9)
I hear you. My church has been sending groups to the Chauvin area ever since Katrina and Rita hit (and we had a group there last week before the national lutheran youth gathering in New Orleans this week). We'll be praying for all of you.
Posted by: Methos at July 22, 2010 06:40 PM (qs3lE)
I ant worried about shit. But I do want The President's endorsement.
I am the ONLY Black man running for the US Senate.
I think, actually, I demand his endorsement.
It would be racist if he didn't endorse me and come down and speak for me.
I hope the other brothers agree.
Stir pot, stir pot.
Posted by: Alvin, the candidate, not the chipmunk at July 22, 2010 06:40 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2010 06:44 PM (FcR7P)
There will be no end to this. BP made the mistake of thinking that they were dealing with a Western country.
-->Best if he just stays on the golf course & stops being trigger-happy.
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 22, 2010 10:38 PM (LUaw0)
Yep. I'd happily donate to a golf fund for him.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 22, 2010 06:44 PM (Qp4DT)
Did you guys see the vid of Marceaux, the guy running for Tennessee governor? Allah linked it.
Allah makes a good point. Marceaux and Greene would be a great debate.
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 22, 2010 06:45 PM (Dd2Jo)
Posted by: Harry Truman at July 22, 2010 06:48 PM (6i16r)
Posted by: dagny at July 22, 2010 06:50 PM (glZvk)
Posted by: Vilsack at July 22, 2010 06:50 PM (Dd2Jo)
Posted by: Portnoy at July 22, 2010 06:51 PM (azgo2)
Well anyway, he better endorse me.
I not asking for an infomercial for my action figures, but he could sign a few.
Posted by: Alvin, the candidate, not the chipmunk at July 22, 2010 06:52 PM (2+9Yx)
I bet you guys didn't know it, but I lead the shadow government.
Posted by: Vilsack at July 22, 2010 06:53 PM (Dd2Jo)
I bet you guys didn't know it, but I lead the shadow government.
Posted by: Vilsack at July 22, 2010 10:53 PM (Dd2Jo)
The Hell you say???
Posted by: ALmost Zombie Dick CHeney at July 22, 2010 06:55 PM (azgo2)
Put this in your imaginer and slosh it around for a minute:
What if Barry had acted with such unprecedented dispatch when Tennessee was being devasted by the floods, or when the oil was gushing from the oil well, or even...
when upwards of 20 million Americans lost their jobs.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 22, 2010 06:56 PM (r1h5M)
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 22, 2010 06:58 PM (Dd2Jo)
Wow! Ballsack is a real gutsy guy. Falling on the sword for The Won, and in the end they will jump bad and dork him in the squeakhole.
Posted by: Fish at July 22, 2010 06:59 PM (v1gw3)
Posted by: Vilsack at July 22, 2010 07:00 PM (Dd2Jo)
I took a little longer time today in my morning delivery program, just so I could listen to Rush, the Man, Not the Band, Dude Was On Fire Pissed Off.
Great Show as always, but I sensed a bit more of We Are Fucked than usual for him.
Posted by: Woolie at July 22, 2010 07:00 PM (R+/tU)
Posted by: . at July 22, 2010 07:03 PM (p302b)
Posted by: notropis at July 22, 2010 07:04 PM (Pm3lw)
Posted by: navin r johnson at July 22, 2010 07:06 PM (qjHIb)
Posted by: . at July 22, 2010 07:07 PM (p302b)
Sarah Palin had a post on her facebook that facebook deleted, it claims automatically via a special program.
It's real. I ran afoul of that on Everybody Draw Mohammed day. Islamists are organizing complaints, flooding the system at FB with complaints to have individuals shut down.
I said things like "I think I'm going to have a beer with a jew." I uploaded a picture of Mohammed as rubber dogshit. On a profile that asks for such things as a matter of free speech--the whole thing pivoted on free speech--it shouldn't have been a problem. It's not like I was going to their profiles and posting or sending them pictures of Mohammed. I quit FB. That cavalier little boy who owns it is intolerable.
Posted by: Vilsack at July 22, 2010 07:08 PM (Dd2Jo)
Posted by: dogfish at July 22, 2010 07:11 PM (DVPCk)
Posted by: Obi Won at July 22, 2010 07:13 PM (DVPCk)
And, probably the same will hold for the GOP.
We were enemies before, now the lines will harden, maybe.
Posted by: evil midnight bomber what bombs at midnight at July 22, 2010 07:14 PM (hCQG5)
I'm beginning to worry that Greene, if elected, will be the smartest man in the government, and the one most capable of individual initiative.
Posted by: MrScribbler at July 22, 2010 07:20 PM (Ulu3i)
Dave in Texas is a damnable racist.
Posted by: Journolist at July 22, 2010 07:24 PM (LPL4Z)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at July 22, 2010 07:24 PM (554T5)
Posted by: Brian O'Connor at July 22, 2010 07:27 PM (Mcny5)
Posted by: ChicagoJedi at July 22, 2010 10:37 PM (WZFkG)
Whatever ...Vilsack is a pinko. That's too much.
Posted by: Hurricane Bonnie at July 22, 2010 07:29 PM (KS/r/)
Posted by: President Ebola at July 22, 2010 07:37 PM (7VEYx)
Obama's pulling his hair out over this one. That's why he called. He wants her to simply take the job and shut up. He dreads the continued attention a lawsuit would bring--or some kind of regular TV appearance-buckraking deal.
"Please take the job and go away."
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 22, 2010 07:37 PM (Dd2Jo)
Posted by: Filly at July 22, 2010 07:53 PM (Ol9R1)
Get Sherrod in front of a real reporter, if one can be found anymore, and ask her why the NAACP crowd was cheering her when she admitted she once had racist beliefs, and acted on them as a public servant. Just ask, but be prepared foe the possibility that the spin she puts on it may alter the length of the day on Earth.
By the way, the NYT did some of the slimiest mumbo-jumbo wording on this story I have ever seen. Can't get through to the link, but in the papers this morning they said that BOR called for her resignation, but in reality that was hours after the WH made it official (and he apologized today for it). Hannity was accused of "running the resignation as breaking news". Which it rather precisely was, at the time he ran with the story.
These two revelations were packaged together in such a way as to imply they were proof that Fox was at fault for it going viral long after the WH had announced it. All the NYT-stupids read it "correctly", you can be sure.
Merciful God, have these fools no shame?
Posted by: sherlock at July 22, 2010 08:16 PM (jdXw+)
"No, he's not there yet. But he's trending in that direction... and he knows it. It's already starting to affect his responses -- he's drifting, drifting into Nixonian levels of paranoia and Johnsonian levels of ennui...."
Posted by: Looking Glass at July 22, 2010 08:19 PM (VJULd)
There are no words in the English language to describe how heartily sick I am of this story.
Posted by: Filly at July 22, 2010 11:53 PM (Ol9R1)
Agreed. And that's precisely we have to keep it on the front page.Posted by: Ed Anger at July 22, 2010 08:41 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Inspector Asshole at July 22, 2010 08:51 PM (KemLo)
We've found this out WAY too late. If only we could have gotten YouTube to hang around the Capitol during the health care cram-down, we'd be a lot better off.
Posted by: Filly at July 22, 2010 08:58 PM (Ol9R1)
These guys make Alvin Greene look like a super-fucking-rocket-genius.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 22, 2010 09:31 PM (IqfKc)
Posted by: sig at July 22, 2010 09:35 PM (2i+Vz)
Posted by: rockhead at July 22, 2010 09:40 PM (RykTt)
Posted by: curious at July 22, 2010 09:52 PM (p302b)
Not that I'm happy about lots of federal dollars going to colleges, to begin with, but ... WTF?
Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 22, 2010 09:59 PM (Qp4DT)
Dave in Texas is a damnable racist.
Posted by: Journolist at July 22, 2010 11:24 PM (LPL4Z)
Dude - I'm Journolist. You can be Journolist Prime.
Posted by: mattarlene@yahoo.com at July 22, 2010 10:31 PM (8EEyy)
O/t: I love the way Beck has ruined the word "progressive" for the left.
"That was our new clever word, dammit!"
Posted by: rdbrewer at July 22, 2010 10:44 PM (Dd2Jo)
Posted by: curious at July 22, 2010 11:07 PM (p302b)
Posted by: curious at July 22, 2010 11:11 PM (p302b)
Posted by: curious at July 23, 2010 03:11 AM (p302b)
That sink hole is racist!
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at July 22, 2010 11:13 PM (YVZlY)
Even the networks can not continue to hide massive stupid forever.
Posted by: Vic at July 22, 2010 11:39 PM (/jbAw)
Posted by: Shirley Q. Liquor at July 23, 2010 12:20 AM (IABpv)
See what they did there? Problem solved she quit. Nope. They hired her right back because they shouldn't have applied pressure to get her to resign.
SSDD.
Posted by: Blacksmith8 at July 23, 2010 02:10 AM (Xowz7)
Looks to me the NAACP knew their tea party racism charge wasn't going to hold up too well, surely not until November and needed a better story. So they put out some fresh race bait and hooked the biggest racist of them all -- And he acted stupidly.
Posted by: bill-tb at July 23, 2010 03:30 AM (y+QfZ)
Methos, you ought to check out Higher Things. It's all kinds of cool.
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at July 23, 2010 04:35 AM (5aVkt)
I was wondering how not one person in the NAACP leadership structure was in attendence and could remember that speech? Would not one of them remember the speech and immediatly point out the context of her story?
Maybe the edited out laughter part that everyone speaks of was something really bad, or these people deal with racists speeches all the time, they all run together.
Posted by: RealityMan at July 23, 2010 04:58 AM (obXkJ)
Isn't it obvious what's going on here?
Vilsack is racist.
The Department of Agriculture is racist
YouTube and blogs are racist.
And Good Morning America better watch its step or it will racist too.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 23, 2010 05:08 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at July 23, 2010 06:42 AM (yO+k1)
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Posted by: Ira at July 22, 2010 10:36 PM (W6bJb)
If it was a teen mother going to a family planning center to get an abortion to 'save her own life' then yes.
Posted by: GW McLintock at July 23, 2010 08:57 AM (ZiZJH)
Is the party of "Division" having trouble Finding Tea partiers to throw under the "bus"??? I like it when they eat their own...For the WRONG reason...It just makes the picture all the more clear on who the real Racist are...
Posted by: Dw Pepper at July 23, 2010 11:49 AM (7sLhO)
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