June 12, 2012

Secretive Romney is Tightlipped, Secretive
— LauraW

Ooooooo.

The Republican presidential candidate refuses to identify his biggest donors who "bundle" money for his campaign. He often declines to say who's meeting with him or what he's doing for hours at a time. He puts limits on media access to his fundraisers. And he resists releasing all of his tax returns, making just a single year public after facing pressure to do so.

-----------snip-----------------------

Not that Obama has been totally open, either.

Oh, no? "Not...totally open?" The article goes on to insinuate that while Obama restricts access to information, he has his reasons. Somehow Romney is more sinister about it.

Let's consult the Wayback Machine, since reporters do not care to do any actual work anymore. Nor do they have any personal memories of 2008 other than of following their heartthrob breathlessly around the country and writing "Mrs. Gregory Christina Obama" in lipstick on their hotel mirrors.

Democratic National Convention, 2008. Colorado. ABC reporters are on a public sidewalk watching who is going to meet Obama.

DENVER -- Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.

Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.

This is what happens to reporters who want to know who Obama's big donors are.

And THIS is what happens to Romney's big donors, when Obama identifies them to his deranged fanbase and the MBM (but I repeat myself).

I certainly can't imagine why Romney isn't hurling all his files open for media perusal. Very mysterious.

Let's talk about what is, and is not sinister, now, please. PLEASE. We have a lot to say on that front lately.

Thanks to Skinbad.

Posted by: LauraW at 08:25 AM | Comments (135)
Post contains 324 words, total size 2 kb.

1 Hypocracy, thy name is SCoaMF.

Posted by: Infidel at June 12, 2012 08:30 AM (O/fK8)

2 One glaring difference: Obama's "silence" and "non-transparency" is destroying the country. He uses it to do evil.

Posted by: cafe meetings that don't need to be recorded... at June 12, 2012 08:31 AM (HOOye)

3 What do you mean Obama is not transparent?  He's told our enemies everything they might want to know about our intelligence assets.

Posted by: WalrusRex at June 12, 2012 08:34 AM (Hx5uv)

4 OT, sort of. In the daily email from the Obama campaign (aka, my "daily chuckle"): "We're adding a twist to the upcoming Dinner with Barack: You not only have the chance to sit down for a meal with the President and a guest of your choice. You also get to help pick the President's guest." *jakeman daydreams about bringing Ted Effin Nugent and watching their heads go all asplodeh.*

Posted by: jakeman at June 12, 2012 08:37 AM (96M6e)

5 Rules are only for one side donchaknow?
The good guys get a free pass because they are the good guys.
Now, doesn't that make you feel better?

Posted by: baseballguy at June 12, 2012 08:37 AM (MaS0T)

6 omg, really? anyone else hear the "black" targeted radio ad from obama & co? omg, so racist

Posted by: cafe meetings that don't need to be recorded... at June 12, 2012 08:38 AM (HOOye)

7 I find your post to be careless (and racist).  Your agonizer, please.

Posted by: Mirror Spock at June 12, 2012 08:39 AM (IC6Er)

8

The sixth pouch of Malebolge is missing its SCoAMF


Posted by: imp at June 12, 2012 08:39 AM (UaxA0)

9

"We're adding a twist to the upcoming Dinner with Barack: You not only have the chance to sit down for a meal with the President and a guest of your choice. You also get to help pick the President's guest."

*jakeman daydreams about bringing Ted Effin Nugent and watching their heads go all asplodeh.*

 

*Help pick* means "choose from this list of acceptable to us choices."

 

Even more OT: I got a call from my Senator re: Lawfare after a letter/response/slightly angry followup.  The system kinda works!

Posted by: tsrblke at June 12, 2012 08:40 AM (22rSN)

10

Nor do they have any personal memories of 2008 other than of following their heartthrob breathlessly around the country and writing "Mrs. Gregory Christina Obama" in lipstick on their hotel mirrors.

 

Okay, I laughed REALLY LOUDLY at this.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 12, 2012 08:40 AM (4df7R)

11

We're adding a twist to the upcoming Dinner with Barack

 

You know, is it just me or is really, really, REALLY cheesy to refer to the sitting President by his first name in any sort of semi-official or official correspondence?

 

Also, Jon Corzine could not be reached for comment on the subject of secretive bundlers...'cause no one seems to know where the hell he is.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 12, 2012 08:41 AM (B+qrE)

12

We're adding a twist to the upcoming Dinner with Barack

 

You know, is it just me or is really, really, REALLY cheesy to refer to the sitting President by his first name in any sort of semi-orricial or official correspondence?

 

Also, Jon Corzine could not be reached for comment on the subject of secretive bundlers...'cause no one seems to know where the hell he is.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 12, 2012 08:41 AM (B+qrE)

13 High quality snark there, Laura!

Posted by: rockmom at June 12, 2012 08:41 AM (qE3AR)

14 Did I mistakenly put up the hunchback signal?

No. I. Did. Not!

Thanks, Laura. You only ruined everything. Again.

Posted by: Andy at June 12, 2012 08:42 AM (5Rurq)

15 Jon Corzine could not be reached for comment on the subject of secretive bundlers...'cause no one seems to know where the hell he is.

***

He was sucked into the same black hole that got the billion dollars.

Posted by: WalrusRex at June 12, 2012 08:42 AM (Hx5uv)

16 This Romney guy, let me tell ya, I played poker with him once and not ONE TIME did the guy show me his hand! So not only is he secretive, he doesn't mind unfair advantages either!

Posted by: Drones R US at June 12, 2012 08:42 AM (v/itI)

17 just can't find anything to exploit, can you barry?

Posted by: whiner in chief at June 12, 2012 08:44 AM (HOOye)

18 13 Circa, yes, it's cheesy. But I personally like it for the resonance with "My Dinner with Andre." Tedious, unresolved, pointless, existential yapping for 2 hours...

Posted by: jakeman at June 12, 2012 08:45 AM (96M6e)

19 Barack O'Bundles is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable dog-eating failure.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 12, 2012 08:45 AM (67FA8)

20 This does not bode well for Romney. He should disclose all he can if he wishes to gain the trust of Americans. Transparency is something the electorate still values.

Posted by: deskrat at June 12, 2012 08:46 AM (Haix8)

21
By KASIE HUNT | Associated Press




Gee -- I wonder if there's some appropriate way I could shorten that name....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 12, 2012 08:46 AM (kdS6q)

22 19 jakeman:

Around 20 or so years ago, I tried, TWICE, to watch that movie.  Fell asleep both times.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 12, 2012 08:47 AM (67FA8)

23 Well, you know how those MORMONS are, right?

Posted by: Totally Unbiased and Neutral Newsreader at June 12, 2012 08:47 AM (4I3Uo)

24 Gee -- I wonder if there's some appropriate way I could shorten that name....Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 12, 2012 12:46 PM (kdS6q)

Not any way that's fit for a smart military blog anyway.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 12, 2012 08:47 AM (sbV1u)

25
Ladies, I found the man of your dreams.

Meet Mr Right...


http://tinyurl.com/bo5emao

Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 08:48 AM (9Q7Nu)

26

OT:   Blumenthal is up at the Holder Oversight Hearing.   He just said something along the lines of, "I don't think you should pay any attention to people who are saying you should consider resigning because of various issues.  And I also think that, if this discussion was held six months from now, the tenor of the discussion would be very different."

 

(That's just a paraphrase, but the second half is very close to the actual quote)

 

So this     raises     several    questions for me:

 

1) Is Blumenthal suggesting that    Obama is probably going to get kicked out   in November?

 

2) Is Blumenthal suggesting that a Republican administration's    DOJ      would not be scrutinized as closely by Republican senators, even for such gross    malfeasance?

 

3)   Is Blumenthal    implying  racism as the reason for the   current scrutiny?

 

4) IS Blumenthal actually a walking skeleton wearing a skinsuit?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 12, 2012 08:48 AM (4df7R)

27

Why I bet that Romney fellow won't even disable the security settings on his online donations page which restrict donors to U.S. locations!

 

The unmitigated GALL!

Posted by: reason at June 12, 2012 08:48 AM (CGjum)

28 GO SNOW!!!!

Posted by: Simon Bar Sinister at June 12, 2012 08:49 AM (XBdI0)

29

Man, Axelrod either needs to stop posting himself or hire some better concern trolls.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 12, 2012 08:50 AM (B+qrE)

30 I have it on good authority that "Secretive" is a dog whistle for "Racist"

Posted by: The Peasants at June 12, 2012 08:50 AM (fRlaj)

31 7 omg, really? anyone else hear the "black" targeted radio ad from obama & co? omg, so racist Posted by: cafe meetings that don't need to be recorded... at June 12, 2012 12:38 PM (HOOye) It sounds like it was an outtake from the 1972 film "Blacula" or it was an SNL skit with Eddie Murphy. Rush just noted that if they are resorting to running ads in June aimed at black voters - who vote 97% of the time for the Dems - then they must have some hideous internal polling numbers. I love the smell of SCOAMF panicking!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 12, 2012 08:50 AM (MCDCp)

32 You know what I consider pretty fricking sinister?   That the President has a kill list.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 12, 2012 08:51 AM (4df7R)

33

"This does not bode well for Romney. He should disclose all he can if he wishes to gain the trust of Americans. Transparency is something the electorate still values."

 

rainbow got a new hash?

Posted by: reason at June 12, 2012 08:51 AM (CGjum)

34 #24 Yes, they're the ones who blow up commercial aircraft. It's clear that Romney is tied to international terrorism.

Posted by: ErikW at June 12, 2012 08:51 AM (s+yXS)

35 Obama is opaque. I'm transparent.

Posted by: Mr Cellophane at June 12, 2012 08:51 AM (XBdI0)

36 Well the names have to be reported sometime, don't they?  How do they keep it secret?   It's public information.  Unless it's going to one of those private groups (501 c or whatever it is.)

Posted by: jeanne at June 12, 2012 08:51 AM (GdalM)

37 Rush just noted that if they are resorting to running ads in June aimed at black voters - who vote 97% of the time for the Dems - then they must have some hideous internal polling numbers.

****

If they can get that number up to 150%, Barack might have a chance.

Posted by: WalrusRex at June 12, 2012 08:52 AM (Hx5uv)

38 29 GO SNOW!!!! Posted by: Simon Bar Sinister at June 12, 2012 12:49 PM (XBdI0) When I stand up I'm as right as rain, but when I bend over I have a stabbing pain! Shoeshine Boy channeling Barney Frank.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 12, 2012 08:52 AM (MCDCp)

39 The Romney people should not get defensive about this. They should say "yeah I gave money to Romney- so f'in what?" I'm sick of our side getting all mealy mouthed. Stand up and be counted. Give your coworkers and neighbors permission to say "Obama sucks and I'm not asahmed to say it."

Posted by: fugazi at June 12, 2012 08:53 AM (4bvZp)

40 Not just Romney, but anonymous bloggers are also hiding their identity, no doubt to protect their grooedy corporate interests in this new age of Citizens United and corporate personhood.

Posted by: Kos sack at June 12, 2012 08:53 AM (xXhWA)

41

Anybody got a transcript of the afrocentric Obama commercial?

 

I'd love to post it on FB, verbatim, with spelling that accurate notes any "nuance" in speech.  Let my more liberal friends call me racist for it.  Then post the link associating it directly with O'12.

Posted by: reason at June 12, 2012 08:53 AM (CGjum)

42 Yeah, that "black" commercial for Obama is hilarious for about a million reasons Axelturf didn't intend.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 12, 2012 08:54 AM (tqwMN)

43 Meet Mr Right... http://tinyurl.com/bo5emao Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 12:48 PM (9Q7Nu) ========= or, better yet: http://tinyurl.com/842tlpl yum yum

Posted by: whiner in chief at June 12, 2012 08:54 AM (HOOye)

44 * throws away dirty smelly kos sock

Posted by: indigo child at June 12, 2012 08:54 AM (xXhWA)

45

We are racists once again according to a Harvard paper.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7h5kb2g

What is Political Economy anyway?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/bleufb8

He has a Twitter.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ca8e6n5

Where do they find these people?

Posted by: Cluebat from Exodar at June 12, 2012 08:54 AM (cqZXM)

46

"If they can get that number up to 150%, Barack might have a chance."

 

Hey, anybody know when Early Voting starts?

Posted by: Hosni Mubarak at June 12, 2012 08:55 AM (CGjum)

47

Speaking of names:

Asa Eslocker - ABC News

Pretty sure that's one of those fake names you give a substitute teacher...

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 12, 2012 08:56 AM (kdS6q)

48
1) Is Blumenthal suggesting that Obama is probably going to get kicked out in November?

****

I think it's a reference to that time in Khe Sahn during the Tet Offensive when Blumenthal had Ho Chi Minh by the throat and was choking the shit out of him but had to let him go to save a young child from napalm.

Posted by: WalrusRex at June 12, 2012 08:56 AM (Hx5uv)

49 @42: Honestly, a text transcript is boring, it's mostly clips of Obama campaign speeches.  It's the 70s porno music bed and the low-rent sounding gospel choir that make it really mockable.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 12, 2012 08:57 AM (tqwMN)

50 15 Did I mistakenly put up the hunchback signal? No. I. Did. Not! Thanks, Laura. You only ruined everything. Again. Oh, man, I am so sorry. But is it really my fault? The thick facial hair, the dog nose...you have to admit, Ace and I resemble each other.

Posted by: lauraw at June 12, 2012 08:57 AM (mhzPJ)

51

"Pretty sure that's one of those fake names you give a substitute teacher..."

 

Har-dee-har, fucker...

Posted by: Amanda Hugginkess at June 12, 2012 08:57 AM (CGjum)

52 Hence, the Soros and Obama hackers are working overtime!

Posted by: whiner in chief at June 12, 2012 08:57 AM (HOOye)

53 Rush just noted that if they are resorting to running ads in June aimed
at black voters - who vote 97% of the time for the Dems - then they must
have some hideous internal polling numbers.



They don't have a problem with them voting Dem, they have a problem with them showing up. I'm sure going all social liberal doesn't sit well with blacks outside of the northeast.

On another topic, Poland is playing Russia today at the UEFA Championships and there is already marches going on outside the stadium police out in riot gear nothing bad has happened yet still peaceful.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at June 12, 2012 08:59 AM (tKFT6)

54

This is the type of behavior increasingly engendered by the caustic and terribly tainted mode of Team Obama and more broadly, the DNC of which Mr. Obama's leads.

The stark hypocrisy within the DNC political machine when it comes to money and campaign bundling goes beyond the pale and into the land of sociopathic in its consistent ability to completely discount the facts through a theme of projection.

While the DNC did not have direct control over the Denver law enforcement, they have created a strong arm Banana type republic repression when it comes to access, transparency and fair play.  And it is precisely this that provides the directive and signaling for the type of behavior exacted on a press that presumably is still covered under the first amendment in this country.

During the 2008 campaign, we should remind ourselves which candidate it was whose campaign turned off all internet security so as to claim ignorance from where on-line donations were ultimately coming from.

Disgusting tactics at all costs is ugly, very ugly indeed.

Posted by: Journolist at June 12, 2012 08:59 AM (QWOh7)

55 Meet Mr Right...

****

That video starts with an ad for a dating site.

Posted by: WalrusRex at June 12, 2012 08:59 AM (Hx5uv)

56 @50 - oh.  Boo.

Posted by: reason at June 12, 2012 09:00 AM (CGjum)

57 I think it's a reference to that time in Khe Sahn during the Tet Offensive when Blumenthal had Ho Chi Minh by the throat and was choking the shit out of him but had to let him go to save a young child from napalm.

Posted by: WalrusRex at June 12, 2012 12:56 PM (Hx5uv)

 

Right, right.   Of course,   "Ho Chi Minh" was actually    "GI Joe     action figure," and the young child in question        was       really     a Barbie doll     that was teetering on the edge of the Toys for Tots collection bin    in danger of being left behind in the Toys R Us parking lot.    But, you know, that's just SEMANTICS.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 12, 2012 09:00 AM (4df7R)

58

We are racists once again according to a Harvard paper.

Racists, misogynists, Gaia-rapers, children-haters, war-mongers, Christianists, luddites, gun nuts, constitutionalists, and patriachists.

 

We can also do fifth grade math. 

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 12, 2012 09:01 AM (B+qrE)

59

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 12, 2012 01:01 PM (B+qrE)

 

*throws penalty flag* You forgot homophobic.

 

 

Ummm and some of us can't do fifth grade math. Paging Amish, Amish to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: alexthechick at June 12, 2012 09:02 AM (VtjlW)

60

Racists, misogynists, Gaia-rapers, children-haters, war-mongers, Christianists, luddites, gun nuts, constitutionalists, and patriachists.

 

As I've taken to saying, if    I'm not called a racist directly or indirectly at least once a day, I     have     to go over my    actions of that day to see where I went wrong.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 12, 2012 09:03 AM (4df7R)

61

@59 - and MAN do  go overboard with Red White and Blue crap  every Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Flag Day (*cough* this Thursday, in case any of you forgot *cough*)!

 

Jeebers.  How gauche.

Posted by: reason at June 12, 2012 09:03 AM (CGjum)

62 On another topic, Poland is playing Russia today at the UEFA Championships ====== thanks for the reminder, even tho I have it on record, I wouldn't mind watching in rt for a bit, if possible

Posted by: whiner in chief at June 12, 2012 09:03 AM (HOOye)

63

Racists, misogynists, Gaia-rapers, children-haters, war-mongers, Christianists, luddites, gun nuts, constitutionalists, and patriachists.


Gaia forbid we create a society where intelligence, logic, reason, and determination are held in esteem and "privileged"


Posted by: imp at June 12, 2012 09:03 AM (UaxA0)

64 We can also do fifth grade math.



And three-variable calculus, but who is counting?

Posted by: Horace Philpot at June 12, 2012 09:04 AM (+Uv5V)

65

*throws penalty flag* You forgot homophobic.

This, of course, goes without saying as we burned Malor at the stake long ago.

 

Wait...what?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 12, 2012 09:04 AM (B+qrE)

66 How self- deluded do you have to be to believe that the story here, as far as this "openness" issue goes, is that Romney is "secretive" and Obama is "not perfect on the issue?"

Posted by: runninrebel at June 12, 2012 09:04 AM (bI3Cc)

67 @39{/i] Simon Says: Heh.

Posted by: Simon Bar Sinister at June 12, 2012 09:04 AM (XBdI0)

68 Guys from Mars!

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 12, 2012 09:04 AM (pLTLS)

69 Simon Says: Off italics!

Posted by: Simon Bar Sinister at June 12, 2012 09:05 AM (XBdI0)

70

How self- deluded do you have to be to believe that the story here, as far as this "openness" issue goes, is that Romney is "secretive" and Obama is "not perfect on the issue?"

 

In fairness, one is pretty open about operational details of top secret national security information.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 12, 2012 09:06 AM (B+qrE)

71

The guy who wrote the paper in which we are racist -

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

- has his CV posted on the Harvard site (ofc).

It's interesting in that he show three research papers and they are all extrapolations of search engine hits.

This guy googled his way through Harvard.

Posted by: Cluebat from Exodar at June 12, 2012 09:06 AM (Mv/2X)

72 42 Anybody got a transcript of the afrocentric Obama commercial? ------------------------------- That shit was funny. "Weee Gotttt Yo Back!"---Set to black sexploitation movie music of the 70's.

Posted by: Drones R US at June 12, 2012 09:06 AM (R0JuT)

73 That stench you smell?  No, its not a dead cat under your porch, its Obama's desperation.

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 12, 2012 09:07 AM (hLyZo)

74 As I've taken to saying, if I'm not called a racist directly or indirectly at least once a day, Ihave to go over my actions of that day to see where I went wrong. You're a racist, MWR. *high-fives* Don't worry about nothin'. Have a great day.

Posted by: lauraw at June 12, 2012 09:07 AM (mhzPJ)

75

What happens when the elasticity of the Obama division meme becomes as streched out as an old pair of sans-a-belts.

Then what?

Romney uses hair gel?   

Posted by: Journolist at June 12, 2012 09:08 AM (QWOh7)

76 OT: has anyone noticed that Breitbart has been down all morning?

Posted by: Mister Christopher at June 12, 2012 09:08 AM (DQhAB)

77

You're a racist, MWR.


*high-fives*

 

Don't worry about nothin'. Have a great day.

 

Posted by: lauraw at June 12, 2012 01:07 PM (mhzPJ)

 

Hey, thanks, lauraw!  

 

*high fives back*

 

That frees up my evening.      Jenga, anyone?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 12, 2012 09:09 AM (4df7R)

78

"How self- deluded do you have to be to believe that the story here, as far as this "openness" issue goes, is that Romney is "secretive" and Obama is "not perfect on the issue?""

 

Silver lining of McCain's non-campaign in 2008?  The (D)'s can't go full Alinsky on the (R)'s over this, because McCain let it slide with Barry, so technically, we are playing by our own rules already...

Posted by: reason at June 12, 2012 09:09 AM (CGjum)

79 Rschrim ‏@Rschrim

Minus those sold to Mexican drug dealers // “@MattCover: Holder: "I've stuck by my guns." #irony”
Retweeted by JammieWearingFool

Posted by: kbdabear at June 12, 2012 09:09 AM (Y+DPZ)

80

Romney useshair gel?

 

I think they already did that one.

 

They have also tried:  He was....Governor of Massachusetts. (ominous music stab)

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 12, 2012 09:10 AM (B+qrE)

81 has anyone noticed that Breitbart has been down all morning?

***

Hmm, I've been reading it today w/no probs.

But speaking of, does anyone remember when Andrew talked about 'Big Education'. I wonder if that got put on hold.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at June 12, 2012 09:10 AM (pLTLS)

82 The Obama "We Got Yo Back" ad will not offend its target audience in the least. Although it should. Hell, I'm offended.

Posted by: Whitey McCrackin at June 12, 2012 09:10 AM (OL96w)

83 78 OT: has anyone noticed that Breitbart has been down all morning?

Posted by: Mister Christopher at June 12, 2012 01:08 PM (DQhAB)

 

It's working for me.        Which URL are you trying to reach?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter at June 12, 2012 09:10 AM (4df7R)

84

New Obama meme:

Romney uses HASH...............tags.

Posted by: Journolist at June 12, 2012 09:10 AM (QWOh7)

85 "Weee Gotttt Yo Back!"---Set to black sexploitation movie music of the 70's. Posted by: Drones R US at June 12, 2012 01:06 PM

Reminded me of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccs1-TSQ4BQ

Posted by: huerfano at June 12, 2012 09:11 AM (bAGA/)

86 OT:  In red on Drudge

Team Clinton has issued a warning to Team Obama that if they don't reverse course on the economy they are going down like Michael Moore on a dropped pizza.


Posted by: WalrusRex at June 12, 2012 09:11 AM (Hx5uv)

87 @77 - have they rolled out the Funky Special Mormon Underwear attack yet?

Posted by: reason at June 12, 2012 09:11 AM (CGjum)

88 @50:  All it needed was Don Cornelius doing the voiceovers...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 12, 2012 09:12 AM (wtvvX)

89 OT: has anyone noticed that Breitbart has been down all morning?Posted by: Mister Christopher

no because it's up.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at June 12, 2012 09:12 AM (famk3)

90 hehe, I was expecting to hear Shaft! throughout the entire radio ad: Who's the black private dick That's a sex machine to all the chicks? SHAFT! Ya damn right! Who is the man that would risk his neck For his brother man? SHAFT! Can you dig it? Who's the cat that won't cop out When there's danger all about? SHAFT! Right On! They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother SHUT YOUR MOUTH! I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft. THEN WE CAN DIG IT! He's a complicated man But no one understands him but his woman JOHN SHAFT!

Posted by: racist ad at June 12, 2012 09:13 AM (HOOye)

91 They have also tried: He was....Governor of Massachusetts. (ominous music stab)

Did they show him walking in realllllly slowww motionnnn?

Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2012 09:13 AM (KXm42)

92

Weee Gotttt Yo Back

 

Copyright infringement.  Expect to hear from my lawyers.

Posted by: Diego's Rescue Pack at June 12, 2012 09:15 AM (CGjum)

93 if they don't reverse course on the economy

Obama cribbed his economic plan from the final scene in Thelma and Louise.

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 12, 2012 09:15 AM (hLyZo)

94 Team Clinton has issued a warning to Team Obama that if they don't reverse course on the economy they are going down like Michael Moore on a dropped pizza.

But how?  By doing what a Republican would do? 

Bill's just fucking with him now.

Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2012 09:15 AM (KXm42)

95 You know what I consider pretty fricking sinister? That the President has a kill list.

If you don't have a list you haven't been paying attention.

Posted by: DaveA at June 12, 2012 09:15 AM (NqmTy)

96
today in the Boston Globe "news" paper:

Former governor Mitt Romney’s administration in 2006 blocked publication of a state antibullying guide for Massachusetts public schools because officials objected to use of the terms “bisexual’’ and “transgender’’ in passages about protecting certain students from harassment...

I filed it under: Who Gives a Fark

Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 09:15 AM (9Q7Nu)

97

Just wait until the momentum gets rolling on the concurent investigations into the national security leaks.

 

Posted by: Journolist at June 12, 2012 09:15 AM (QWOh7)

98 Wow, Obama so desperate he's taking his commercial advice from Jimmy Fallon- How is Obama's new Black-centric commercial different from this?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFQIciWsF4 Slow Jammin' the vote.....Awww yeah!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2012 09:15 AM (XBdI0)

99 I filed it under: Who Gives a Fark Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 01:15 PM (9Q7Nu) Also file it under: Stop trying to micro manage behavior

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 12, 2012 09:16 AM (05RcU)

100 There are NONE creepier than this current politburo.

Posted by: dagny at June 12, 2012 09:17 AM (WCAIB)

101 Slow Jammin' the vote.....Awww yeah!

Amateur president.  Amateur human.

Posted by: eleven at June 12, 2012 09:17 AM (KXm42)

102

"... and writing "Mrs. Gregory Christina Obama" in lipstick on their hotel mirrors."

 

I thought that was "Chris and Barack TLA" on the inside of their TrapperKeepers?  Multiple times.  Enclosed in a heart.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - will it rain today or no? at June 12, 2012 09:17 AM (hLRSq)

103

"Bill's just fucking with him now."

 

You would too if the first time you met him he "accidentally" called you George.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 12, 2012 09:17 AM (CGjum)

104 Former governor Mitt RomneyÂ’s administration in 2006 blocked publication
of a state antibullying guide for Massachusetts public schools because
officials objected to use of the terms “bisexual’’ and “transgender’’ in
passages about protecting certain students from harassment...


I filed it under: Who Gives a Fark

********

Me! Me! Me!

Posted by: Chris Christie at June 12, 2012 09:17 AM (pLTLS)

105 The Obama administration says Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and is warning about a dramatic escalation in the Arab country's 15-month conflict. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the delivery represents the "latest information." She says the U.S. is concerned as the helicopters "will escalate the conflict quite dramatically." She is calling instead for Moscow to help the U.S. push forward a political transition plan for Syria. Clinton was speaking Tuesday at the Brookings Institution, a liberal-oriented research and policy organization. Russia has consistently said it would not condone the use of outside forces to end the conflict and has said that it would not supply arms that would aid the government in quelling the uprising. Memo to hillary and obama: do yooz 2 know what the middle finger means?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 12, 2012 09:18 AM (05RcU)

106 OT: You have to read the article on the Bloomberg soda ban in the NY Times.  It is farcical:
"At parks, bodegas and fast-food restaurants across the Bronx, many residents had not heard of most of the previous anti-obesity efforts. “If I did, I don’t think I’d be this big right now,” said Faith Coleman-Njikeng, who, at 5-foot-2 and 200 pounds, has never been heavier. “They didn’t do a good job of publicizing them.”"

“If I eat cheeseburgers and fries, I’m going to get dehydrated and that little cup is not enough,” said Jessica Torres, 22, a mother of two. "

"Arla Lucien, 27, a post office clerk trying to lose 40 pounds, said a ban would no more help her stick to her diet than the calorie counts posted on menus, another anti-obesity measure that city leaders hoped would lead consumers to make healthier decisions. She still orders her Big Macs."

Posted by: LIGuy at June 12, 2012 09:19 AM (+usC4)

107 21 This does not bode well for Romney. He should disclose all he can if he wishes to gain the trust of Americans. Transparency is something the electorate still values.

Posted by: deskrat at June 12, 2012 12:46 PM (Haix




Hahahahahaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahah gasp hahahahahahah

Posted by: dagny at June 12, 2012 09:19 AM (WCAIB)

108 You know what I consider pretty fricking sinister? That the President has a kill list.

My sources slipped me a copy last week.

1) Economy
2) Jobs
3) The unborn

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 12, 2012 09:19 AM (hLyZo)

109 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 12, 2012 09:19 AM (8y9MW)

110
Sometimes managing behavior is okay with me.

Did y'all see the story about the MA city that just passed an ordinance to curb cursing?

$20 fines will be issued. Some said the city is trying to legislate morality. WRONG.

They are trying to legislate public behavior -- same as peeing in public and scooping your dog's poop.

Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 09:20 AM (9Q7Nu)

111 "... and writing "Mrs. Gregory Christina Obama" in lipstick on their hotel mirrors."


Dear Mr. Democratic Nominee for President,

Do you like me (please check one)?
X Yes  No




SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!

He LIKES me! He LIKES me!


Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at June 12, 2012 09:21 AM (TJWQY)

112

I kept waiting for some shoe to drop on that post, like someone fessing up that they were meaning to sock a name, but forgot to put it in, or something...

 

Waiting for a punchline that never happened.

Posted by: dagny at June 12, 2012 09:21 AM (CGjum)

113 WTF - I didn't mean to sock dagny there, I meant to direct my message to her.  Oops.

Posted by: reason at June 12, 2012 09:22 AM (CGjum)

114
noodles

Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 09:22 AM (9Q7Nu)

115

Mitt Romney officials objected to use of the terms bisexual and transgender





Cis-privilege!
Posted by: Your English Lit Class TA

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 12, 2012 09:22 AM (kdS6q)

116 78 OT: has anyone noticed that Breitbart has been down all morning?

Posted by: Mister Christopher at June 12, 2012 01:08 PM (DQhAB)


If you've got Comcast, it's their DNS and routers.
I had the service guy out last week, and he told me to stand by for "issues".  I had a defective modem (wouldn't respond to control commands), and had been having trouble getting any site based east of the Mississippi river.

They're 'upgrading' to handle IPV6, and none of the service guys are happy or confident about the current progress.

Posted by: jwb7605 enhancing his calm at June 12, 2012 09:24 AM (Qxe/p)

117 My sources slipped me a copy last week.

1) Economy
2) Jobs
3) The unborn

Oh, thank god they took me off it.

Posted by: Bo the dog at June 12, 2012 09:24 AM (+usC4)

118

107 The Obama administration says Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime..... 

 

These worked very well for me in Georgia. Bashar will love them. Very effective.

Posted by: King Vladimir the 1st at June 12, 2012 09:24 AM (/V8D4)

119 Did y'all see the story about the MA city that just passed an ordinance to curb cursing?

$20 fines will be issued. Some said the city is trying to legislate morality. WRONG.

They are trying to legislate public behavior -- same as peeing in public and scooping your dog's poop.
Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 01:20 PM

As you saw, we meant what we said about the Good Samaritan Law with those four rude jerks from New York

Posted by: Latham, MA at June 12, 2012 09:24 AM (Y+DPZ)

120 same as peeing in public and scooping your dog's poop. Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 01:20 PM I got stuck in stop and stop traffic one night on the Cross Bronx Expressway once after a Yankee game and I had to pee so bad. I was this close ( see my fingers real close together) to getting out of the car and peeing my brains out.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 12, 2012 09:27 AM (05RcU)

121 Should be be allowed to know what the Democrats are up to? No.
Now see, this is a type of access the Democratic Party wholeheartedly agrees the American Public does not deserve to have.

Posted by: RoyalOil at June 12, 2012 09:27 AM (kSaUf)

122 They are trying to legislate public behavior -- same as peeing in public and scooping your dog's poop.

Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 01:20 PM (9Q7Nu)

 

 

 


Yeah, maybe.  And if this were a sane nation I'd not be too worried about it.  But here's how it will be enforced:

 

1.  If you look seedy or dangerous or dirty-poor, you can cuss all you want without result.  Nobody wants to go out of the way to risk annoying you, and what's the point of trying to make you pay money you don't have?

 

2.  If you look like a docile, law-abiding type, especially with money, you'll suddenly find out that "darn" is an objectionable word, and there's no recourse to paying the fine - no day in court. 

 

I'd be pretty happy if they actually enforced some of the wiser laws already on the books.  Like the junk and noise ordinances, for example. 

Posted by: Reactionary at June 12, 2012 09:28 AM (xUM1Q)

123 They are trying to legislate public behavior -- same as peeing in public and scooping your dog's poop.

WRONG--  They're trying to legislate more income.  And $20.00/pop is low enough that most people won't complain too loudly.

There are an incredible number of difference between using offensive language (offensive to whom?) and, as you say, peeing in public.  For one thing, if everyone cursed in public we'd have a slightly courser culture.  If everyone peed in public, we'd have a breeding ground for plague and disease in our streets.

Back to that "offensive to whom" question- that's a serious one.  Are they going to maintain a list of specific forbidden words.  Let me just say enhance your calm.  Or are they, instead, going to say, "Oh, if you offended someone, your language must have been offensive!"

Neither of those work.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 12, 2012 09:29 AM (8y9MW)

124 Here's the commercial at the Blaze: http://tinyurl.com/7yf4n2q

Posted by: naturalfake at June 12, 2012 09:30 AM (XBdI0)

125
WRONG!

The town has a bunch of kids who act like assholes. Business owners and their patrons have had enough.

Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 09:31 AM (9Q7Nu)

126 Bill's just fucking with him now.

Now?  Bill's been fucking with him (and not in the way Obama likes) since Obama brought him aboard the campaign.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 12, 2012 09:31 AM (tqwMN)

127 If everyone peed in public, we'd have a breeding ground for plague and disease in our streets.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at June 12, 2012 01:29 PM

 

 

 

I acknowledge the difference between cussing and peeing, but let's not go overboard.  I don't think that pee presents the same epidemiological risks as, say, feces piles.  In a reasonable society, peeing gets the $20 fine, and cussing gets you public scorn and dirty looks.

On a related note, the idea that peeing in public can get you on a sex offender list is beyond absurd.  That's what happens when do-gooders run amok.

Posted by: Reactionary at June 12, 2012 09:33 AM (xUM1Q)

128 The town has a bunch of kids who act like assholes. Business owners and their patrons have had enough.

Posted by: soothsayer at June 12, 2012 01:31 PM (9Q7Nu)

 

 

 

They found a solution to that in the UK.  Play classical music in your store and around the store front, and the young people will flee in terror.

Why not just toss the miscreants out?

Posted by: Reactionary at June 12, 2012 09:36 AM (xUM1Q)

129

You should know when to Holder ‘em, know when to fold ‘em.

Posted by: baseballguy at June 12, 2012 09:38 AM (MaS0T)

130 "He often declines to say...what he's doing for hours at a time."

My God! He declines! For hours at a time! Do you know how long it takes to perform a Mormon ritual human sacrifice to Satan? Hours.

To give them the benefit of the doubt, the press is no longer accustomed to a Presidential candidate who can safely be left unsupervised for hours at a time, so I can see why they'd be a little panicky. 

Posted by: GalosGann at June 12, 2012 09:56 AM (T3KlW)

131 121 Did y'all see the story about the MA city that just passed an ordinance to curb cursing? $20 fines will be issued. Some said the city is trying to legislate morality. WRONG. ************* Anyone remember Demolition Man?

Posted by: Boomer Redneque at June 12, 2012 09:59 AM (TQDHl)

132 THE BALLS ON THESE GUYS!

Posted by: toby928© at June 12, 2012 10:02 AM (QupBk)

133 Chuck Todd told me this morning that I wouldn't hear about this because the right wing media wouldn't cover it. Of course CT was just telling me how MSNBC handles an Obama problem that hasn't been widely reported yet. Last week CT interviewed the two trying to take Giffords House seat in AZ. The R was on live on Wednesday, sometime after 6 AM PST, and got the kind of questioning one would expect - challenging. The D was on Friday AM, on tape (including an awkward cut towards the end of the interview), and faced such challenges as 'how do you differ with Gabby' (though even this was too hard for the old guy as he blathered talking points instead of addressing the question at all). If the D doesn't win the party has itself to blame - no way this staffer should have been elevated to run for the seat. He might be a great staffer but he didn't seem to be 'equipped' to run for the seat itself. The R was young and a 'happy warrior'. A good fit for the times in my view.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at June 12, 2012 12:59 PM (ocHBO)

134 Yahoo News is kind of the Webnews version of MSNBC. You know, liars, partisan hacks, guttersnipes, etc.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 12, 2012 02:19 PM (bxiXv)

135 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at June 12, 2012 02:36 PM (Xb3hu)

Hide Comments | Add Comment | Refresh | Top

Comments are disabled. Post is locked.
139kb generated in CPU 0.2851, elapsed 0.4494 seconds.
64 queries taking 0.4019 seconds, 263 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.