May 31, 2012
— Ace One chant I don't hear here, but which I read was chanted, was "Five more months! Five more months!"
The primary catcalls seem to be "Where are the jobs?" and "So-Lyyyyn-dra, So-Lyyyn-dra!"
I've asked @buzzfeedben and @buzzfeedandrew to craft a consistent style guide on when it's "heckling" or "protesting" (good words) and when it's "disrupting" or "shouting down." Don't be hard on them, though, because @buzzfeedandrew actually noted the point.
I think we're going to see a lot of this, from both sides. Hold the media's feet to the fire on its terminology -- "disrupt" suggests a crime (or a near-crime; sounds like disorderly person, sounds like assailing someone's right to speak) whereas "heckling" is something everyone can enjoy at a hapless buffoon's expense.
And "protesting" is of course positive.
As the campaign season goes on, we'll see the left's disruptions consistently described as "protests" and the right's counter-disruptions described as they were in the Town Hall protests -- thuggish, possibly racist attacks on America itself.
Don't let them do it. Insist they craft a style guidance on the terminology and stick to it, consistently, and I don't mean "consistently positive when the left is disruptive, and consistently negative when the right acts up."
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Posted by: dfbaskwill at May 31, 2012 11:27 AM (ndlFj)
We like the phrase "providing an alternative insight." It works best when the speaker is conservative.
Posted by: This Is CNN at May 31, 2012 11:28 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 31, 2012 11:28 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: This Is CNN at May 31, 2012 11:29 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 31, 2012 11:30 AM (U08Mg)
Posted by: EC at May 31, 2012 11:30 AM (GQ8sn)
"You can't handlel the truth?"
What? No seriously, what?
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 31, 2012 11:30 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: The Robot Devil at May 31, 2012 11:30 AM (136wp)
Posted by: Hobbitopoly at May 31, 2012 11:30 AM (TY3im)
Posted by: kathysaysso at May 31, 2012 11:30 AM (ZtwUX)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 31, 2012 11:31 AM (B+qrE)
What did they call it? Sounds as if they did not like it one bit.
Yeah. CNN. Those fucks. Soledad and Company.
We'll never ever see anything like this at an Obama event. Way too much control.
Wonder what might happen up in WI, though, when Bill Clinton gets to a mic in an outdoor venue? Stay tuned.
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at May 31, 2012 11:31 AM (PH+2B)
Posted by: thunderb at May 31, 2012 11:31 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 31, 2012 11:31 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Alex at May 31, 2012 11:32 AM (tGh6R)
Is there a snack machine around here?
Posted by: Meghan McCain at May 31, 2012 11:32 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at May 31, 2012 11:32 AM (Mrdk1)
Yes A-Rod, we have to worry about the debt...of course you moron.
It's some magical debt, that's someone else's, not our, we have to worry about that shit over there...
Bizarro indeed.
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E. Buzz. Bunnies. at May 31, 2012 11:32 AM (tcSZb)
Five more months is awesome.
I want to hear gimme an S! Gimme a C! Gimme an O! Gimme an A! Gimme an M! Gimme a T! What's that spell? SCOAMT! (The SCOAMF variant is also acceptable).
Posted by: alexthechick at May 31, 2012 11:32 AM (VtjlW)
It just occurred to me that Ace has been holding media members accountable via Tweetface.
We should all do this. Tweet these fuckers and ask them why they didn't ask this question, or ask them why they phrased something that way.
Point out there hypocrisy and shit.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 31, 2012 11:33 AM (9Q7Nu)
Posted by: David Asselrod at May 31, 2012 11:33 AM (136wp)
Posted by: minnie at May 31, 2012 11:33 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: SOLEDUD O'BRAIN at May 31, 2012 11:33 AM (MMC8r)
It reminds me of an oh-so-simple yet beautiful tweet I just read....
#YesWeCannibalism
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 31, 2012 11:33 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 31, 2012 11:33 AM (9Q7Nu)
The Obamabots were trying to disrupt Romney and other GOP candidates mid-way through the primaries. Apparently that doesn't count though.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 31, 2012 11:33 AM (SY2Kh)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 31, 2012 11:33 AM (0VxrB)
"When Automotive Drifting Goes Horribly Wrong in Saudi Arabia"
http://bit.ly/L0WCLy
It's a bit graphic..as in severed arms flying about graphic.
Posted by: Feynmangroupie at May 31, 2012 11:34 AM (oI744)
Posted by: Team Romney at May 31, 2012 11:34 AM (NG097)
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at May 31, 2012 11:34 AM (NVu2l)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 31, 2012 11:35 AM (1Jaio)
The left couldn't exist without the media's special style guide. My favorite?
Abortion Rights Supporters vs. Abortion Rights Opponents. See guys! They oppose rights! Those bastards.
Even better. Abortion Foes. Somehow you never see Fetal Foes, although the alliteration is fabulous.
Posted by: Lauren at May 31, 2012 11:35 AM (bV8xV)
Posted by: cowboyup at May 31, 2012 11:35 AM (UPbcb)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at May 31, 2012 11:36 AM (Mrdk1)
You can't craft a style guideline for people with no style.
Posted by: Roy at May 31, 2012 11:36 AM (VndSC)
I always thought "babykiller" had a nice ring to it.
Posted by: Cicero at May 31, 2012 11:36 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Team Romney at May 31, 2012 11:36 AM (NG097)
Romney's protestors = Fascist Reich-Wing Rethuglican Shredders of the Constitution.
Further questions?
Posted by: The MSM, fearless seekers for truth at May 31, 2012 11:36 AM (RD7QR)
Yeah... that's because the ones who have the truth were the ones being told they couldn't handle it.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 31, 2012 11:36 AM (8y9MW)
They weren't wearing their safety belts. That's a classic result of this kind of accident.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at May 31, 2012 11:37 AM (nEUpB)
12 The CNN one was classic, once the chanting started they cut away and starting spinning faster than an old 45.
Which is great - Barky's team will NEVER be able to get their message out if their messengers keep getting pwned like this.
The talking heads only know to parrot what the spokesdonkeys are spewing - they don't appear to be able to think for themselves - so if the message isn't getting out, the talking heads can't reinforce it.
Way to go, Mitt - keep them on the defensive!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at May 31, 2012 11:37 AM (0xqzf)
Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2012 11:37 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Team Romney
Make them live by their own rules and THEN punch them back twice as hard.
Posted by: Roy at May 31, 2012 11:37 AM (VndSC)
This is beautiful.
We have David Axelrod talking about "handling the truth" in Boston the day after Deval Patrick and Elizabeth Warren said they don't give a shit about the truth.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 31, 2012 11:37 AM (9Q7Nu)
Posted by: thunderb at May 31, 2012 11:38 AM (Dnbau)
Do unto others what they have been doing to you for at least 3 decades.
Posted by: kdny at May 31, 2012 11:38 AM (MJ76f)
The fact that Republicans / Conservatives have finally gotten a little Alinskied up in an election where our standard-bearer is MITT F'ING ROMNEY is incredibly surreal.
I won't knock it. But Mittens better recognize once he gets into office.
Posted by: reason at May 31, 2012 11:38 AM (V40IZ)
Posted by: minnie at May 31, 2012 11:38 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: wth at May 31, 2012 11:39 AM (wAQA5)
Axelrod is is such an assclown nimrod.
Posted by: NancyPelzombie at May 31, 2012 11:39 AM (h1VOU)
Posted by: Captain FAPtastical at May 31, 2012 11:39 AM (/pd0C)
Posted by: Bob at May 31, 2012 03:35 PM (PJXbW)
I will go with used car salesman
Posted by: The Jackhole at May 31, 2012 11:39 AM (nTgAI)
Cut and Pasted from my Twits! (This was me, not someone in my feed)
Given the video, I think "disarming" was the correct phrase. (Perhaps "Neutering")
Posted by: tsrblke at May 31, 2012 11:40 AM (22rSN)
^^^
Ayup.
We'll prob. see more of that -- no more outside pressers for a while.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 31, 2012 11:40 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Dave S. at May 31, 2012 11:40 AM (UvR6d)
It's called "desperation" and it has a distinctive odor. It rolls off of SCOAMT and his team like smoke out of the Choom Wagon.
It's becoming increasingly clear that the Administration has been losing it's "human resources" so fast that no amount of money will make up for it.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 31, 2012 11:40 AM (8y9MW)
'Twould make a nice second line of a ROMNEY 2012 bumper sticker.
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at May 31, 2012 11:40 AM (PH+2B)
Posted by: NancyPelzombie at May 31, 2012 11:40 AM (h1VOU)
This is beautiful.
We have David Axelrod talking about "handling the truth" in Boston the day after Deval Patrick and Elizabeth Warren said they don't give a shit about the truth.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 31, 2012 03:37 PM (9Q7Nu)
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Thank you!
I was wondering if I was the only one seeing the Tsunami of Irony that's been washing over us.
Posted by: wheatie at May 31, 2012 11:41 AM (YzQ1g)
Posted by: momma at May 31, 2012 11:41 AM (oKsWl)
Posted by: wth at May 31, 2012 11:41 AM (wAQA5)
Posted by: minnie at May 31, 2012 11:42 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 31, 2012 11:42 AM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Axelrod Looking Like An Ass In Mass. at May 31, 2012 11:42 AM (c3mby)
55 The left is so rigid and humorless, this is gonna be fun! This is fun!
Ridicule is manÂ’s most potent weapon & A good tactic is one your people enjoy
Thanks, Saul.
Posted by: Roy at May 31, 2012 11:43 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: wth at May 31, 2012 03:39 PM (wAQA5)
FWIW, it's fine to me if they start restricting campaign events. They were stupid not to in the first place. Firstly, they'll have tons of empty rooms (whoops! Already there!).
Secondly, I've always assumed most campaign events were really hand picked crowds. I guess when Palin was in town after the VP debate anyone could come, but it wasn't well advertised and Biden was across town at his own event (so we only had one Code Pink disruption and the crowd took care of it.)
But as far as "Huge High profile rallies!" I just assumed you'd want to ensure this didn't happen.
Posted by: tsrblke at May 31, 2012 11:44 AM (22rSN)
Additionally, the right must utilize guerrilla media tactics to bring any attention possible to issues that the MFM would rather ignore (Which is why Romney was smart in craftily dragging the media out to Solyndra today without first tipping them off).
Sure the media is going to attempt to punish us for taking advantage of them, but they've already passed the limits of covert bias so what more can they do without losing the last credibility they have left?
Posted by: Xander Crews at May 31, 2012 11:44 AM (ttOZC)
The CNN one was classic, once the chanting started they cut away and starting spinning faster than an old 45.
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It would have cut away a few second faster if the control room's technical director didn't have to dive over 3 people to cut the feed.
Posted by: Jimmah at May 31, 2012 11:45 AM (cWkOB)
Wonder what might happen up in WI, though, when Bill Clinton gets to a mic in an outdoor venue? Stay tuned.
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at May 31, 2012 03:31 PM (PH+2B)
Boom Box. Pink Floyd. "Have A Cigar"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 31, 2012 11:46 AM (xDqit)
As in Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" when the Duke and the King perform "The Royal Nonesuch" in Arkansas.
Could one get jailed for that today?
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at May 31, 2012 11:46 AM (PH+2B)
Klassy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 31, 2012 11:46 AM (UOM48)
^^^
Last week I went to the opening of Romeny's HQ downtown. Some OWS parasite brought his dog that was wearing a sign that read 'Why would you put me on top of a car?" I walked out w/some people and one Romney guy said 'Yes but Obama would eat your dog'. A little girl (yes, some shit for brains Occupier brought her 6 yr old to a protest) looked like she was going to cry upon hearing the news for the first time that her Zero Hero actually ate a dog.
Life is tough, buttercup.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 31, 2012 11:46 AM (pLTLS)
"You don't actually allow them to derail you."
In defense of Dave, honestly, when was the last time he actually had to deal with a heckler? Or an opposing viewpoint of any sort, for that matter?
His ability to handle a dissenting viewpoint has atrophied greatly.
Posted by: reason at May 31, 2012 11:47 AM (V40IZ)
In Axelrod's nightmares Mitt Romney is Edward Scissorhands.
Posted by: Mikey NTH wondering what happened to the pole lamp on the front lawn at May 31, 2012 11:47 AM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 31, 2012 11:47 AM (piMMO)
The left will resort to alternate mean if they see they're losing their rally voice. I don't think it will go immediately to shooting. It will be balloons filled with urine and baggies full of shit that'll be thrown at their opponents.
If that doesn't work, then the dems will start calling in the union goons with bludgeons.
If that doesn't work, the shooting will start.
Posted by: Soona at May 31, 2012 11:47 AM (VRHIU)
Posted by: Roy at May 31, 2012 11:47 AM (VndSC)
http://tinyurl.com/7y784j8
Link to Weaslezippers
Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 31, 2012 11:47 AM (tf9Ne)
Then you don't send him out there.
Of course: they're running out of people to send.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 31, 2012 11:48 AM (8y9MW)
We should all do this. Tweet these fuckers and ask them why they didn't ask this question, or ask them why they phrased something that way.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 31, 2012 03:33 PM
@MSM @Ace : Because fuck you, that's why
Posted by: The MBM at May 31, 2012 11:48 AM (Y+DPZ)
66 -
I guess so, but it seems really odd to be doing this, doesn't it? That's why you hire the starlet (aka Obama), isn't it? You hire the pretty face to get in front of the cameras while you sit behind yelling "action" and "cut!"
Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2012 11:48 AM (TOk1P)
The 'Pro-Romney Protestors' were using substantive material for their chants.
Which is commendable.
But....since "Mike Check" has been deemed to be 'cute' and 'okay' by the lapdog DNCmedia...perhaps it will take the conservatve protestors using that particular chant, to highlight the hypocrisy that the Left is engaging in.
Posted by: wheatie at May 31, 2012 11:48 AM (YzQ1g)
Posted by: thunderb at May 31, 2012 11:50 AM (Dnbau)
Golly, but the litter box is stupid. "Discouraged" by Pelousy babbling on the Constitution?
Why even bother insulting her?
Posted by: imp at May 31, 2012 11:51 AM (UaxA0)
Romney is definitely not partying like it's 2008. He said at his presser at Solyndra that if Obama is going to send hecklers to his rallies he is going to send them to Obamas.
Mitt Romney: If you send a Heckler, We send 20 hecklers, If you send an Occupier with a dog, we have a dog barbeque. It's the MA way.
Posted by: robtr at May 31, 2012 11:51 AM (MtwBb)
I thought it was fanatical devotion to the pope, or nice red uniforms.
Posted by: Dizzy Dean at May 31, 2012 11:51 AM (z9HTb)
Posted by: toby928© at May 31, 2012 11:51 AM (NG097)
His ability to handle a dissenting viewpoint has atrophied greatly.
Posted by: reason at May 31, 2012 03:47 PM (V40IZ)
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I can also see them coming to the conclusion of not having any outdoor events anymore. Everything will be inside with strict audience selection (unions and/or campaign workers).
Posted by: Soona at May 31, 2012 11:51 AM (VRHIU)
Wish some incriminating pics/video would surface of Barry's and Rahm's times there.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 31, 2012 11:51 AM (UOM48)
Chris Mattews tonight will say it looked a like a Brooks Brothers protest and think he's clever.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 31, 2012 11:52 AM (9Q7Nu)
Usage: "Man, I was all ready to give my song and dance to the boss about how I should be making twice what I do, but Sally turned up with her charts about how I produce less than anyone else and totally Breitbarted me!"
Posted by: Brother Cavil, New Caprica City DMV at May 31, 2012 11:52 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: *starting to drink early at May 31, 2012 11:52 AM (HOOye)
To have an effective campaign, you can't just have one pretty face, you have to have lots of them. SCOAMT got off easy last time because a) McCain wouldn't actually run against him and b) the Media was so far in the tank he could fake it with fewer spokespersons.
Now, though, they're not running against McCain. They're not even really running against Romney- though he seems to be picking up on the tactics quickly. They're running against Breitbart. Because of that, they have to have more people out in front of the cameras- but he's burned so many bridges, and thrown so many people under the bus that they've got to be running out of people willing to go and do that for him.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 31, 2012 11:52 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Meghan McCain at May 31, 2012 03:32 PM (QKKT0)
Yeah, ten of them, and you emptied all of them today. Would you like to join our Frequent Snackers Club?
Posted by: Lance Snacks Deliveryman at May 31, 2012 11:52 AM (1grxW)
Posted by: scofflawx at May 31, 2012 11:53 AM (IhBRY)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 31, 2012 11:54 AM (QF8uk)
I saw Algore speak a few days before the 2000 election (it was right outside my office window; I was going to hear the megalomaniacal blowhard whether I wanted to or not) and while you had to give them your name and show an ID and your name/address got logged before they gave you a ticket, it was open to anyone. A local band opened.
They did throw out some clowns wearing Nader/Whosit stickers.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at May 31, 2012 11:54 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Jones in CO at May 31, 2012 11:54 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: thunderb at May 31, 2012 11:55 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Exile at May 31, 2012 11:55 AM (O0lVq)
Y'know, it breaks my heart that Andrew isn't here to share the pleasure of chumming fish guts into the feeding frenzy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 31, 2012 11:56 AM (xDqit)
"The mother of Rudy Eugene, who was shot and killed by a police officer as he chewed the face off a homeless man in Miami, says her son was "a nice kid" who could have been subdued with a Taser rather than gunfire. "He was a good kid. He gave me a nice card on Mother’s Day. Everyone says he was a zombie. He was no zombie. That was my son,” the mother [said]."
If a zombie is coming after me, I don't want a Taser. I want Daryl Dixon.
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 31, 2012 11:56 AM (Hx5uv)
I'm sensing a new Twitter hashtag in the making.
#ObamaProtestChants
Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 31, 2012 11:56 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: The Drizzle at May 31, 2012 11:57 AM (ysCLj)
Posted by: we could seriously lower gas prices at May 31, 2012 11:57 AM (HOOye)
They're stupid. They'd fall for simple subterfuges.
Bring what looks like a standard pro-Obama sign, but actually has peel-off graphics. The real sign underneath would read something like "BULLSHIT!" or "YOU LIE!" that you'd quietly hold up when Obama tells a whopper.
Of course each "bullshit" sign bearer needs to be paired with someone feigning Obama enthusiasm who happens to have a video camera so they can tape the inevitable assault.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 31, 2012 11:57 AM (t/Rgj)
"It would have cut away a few second faster if the control room's technical director didn't have to dive over 3 people to cut the feed."
They'll start running the "live feeds" on a three-second delay, just in case.
@97 - they won't anymore. I honestly think the Administration wasn't expecting this. They have assumed that a somewhat lukewarm acceptance of Romney as the (R) candidate will drive down our morale and keep up as home. But no. We may not love Mitt, but we sure loathe Barry.
Posted by: reason at May 31, 2012 11:57 AM (q/kmn)
tomahawk chop
LOL.
At U of Miami (FL), we would do that, all the while chanting, Fuuuuck you Sem-i-noles, Seminoles fuck yoooou!
Good times.
Probably be hate speech now
Posted by: imp at May 31, 2012 11:57 AM (UaxA0)
121 -
I suppose it's possible this event was supposed to have been held by someone else (Patrick? Warren?), and Axelrod had to come off the bench, but jeepers that's a weak bench!
Good then.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2012 11:57 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 31, 2012 11:58 AM (UOM48)
says he was a zombie. He was no zombie. That was my son,” the mother [said]."
People just don't understand.
Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer's Mom at May 31, 2012 11:58 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: minnie at May 31, 2012 03:42 PM (oZfic)
Poor baby. You should take a handful of Valium and a bottle of vodka. That should cheer you up. I know it would cheer most everyone here up.
Posted by: MrCaniac at May 31, 2012 11:58 AM (1grxW)
Posted by: Roy at May 31, 2012 11:58 AM (VndSC)
94 Obama's Campaign is contracting with Industrial Light and Magic to use CGI for upcoming Obama events. They want to have a diverse crowd available.
Posted by: Roy at May 31, 2012 03:47 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Pyrocles at May 31, 2012 11:58 AM (cv5Iw)
It's beginning to look as if, 4 years later, the Obama people are gonna have that book shoved right up their asses.
Posted by: Jones in CO at May 31, 2012 11:58 AM (8sCoq)
These people in the press need to be flushed down the bowl.
Posted by: Exile at May 31, 2012 12:00 PM (O0lVq)
Bring what looks like a standard pro-Obama sign, but actually has peel-off graphics. The real sign underneath would read something like "BULLSHIT!" or "YOU LIE!" that you'd quietly hold up when Obama tells a whopper.
Of course each "bullshit" sign bearer needs to be paired with someone feigning Obama enthusiasm who happens to have a video camera so they can tape the inevitable assault.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 31, 2012 03:57 PM (t/Rgj)
You'd actually need to be a bit more elaborate. Since each time those signs go up they would get pulled down and the person removed. So you need to designate each person as "Sign holder #" So once one is removed the next one goes up. You also need the signs to either match the standard Obama signs to begin with or at least be too varied to identify before the real message gets removed.
Posted by: buzzion at May 31, 2012 12:00 PM (GULKT)
Because we (the right) is smarter and better than the left we will be able to continue this little Axelrod disruption until others join us just for the notoriety and mojo. We can be cooler. We just have to try a little and not be SUCH pussies.
Posted by: Dagny at May 31, 2012 12:01 PM (9ybEY)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at May 31, 2012 03:54 PM (/kI1Q)
Yeah, but this was a presser/photo op. You don't let those backfire frankly. Hell you hire pretty actors if you have to. I thought they ran a better campaign than this in 2008 (or was McCain's just so bad by comparision...)
Posted by: tsrblke at May 31, 2012 12:01 PM (22rSN)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 31, 2012 12:01 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Exile at May 31, 2012 12:01 PM (O0lVq)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2012 12:01 PM (05RcU)
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 31, 2012 12:01 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Lampshade at May 31, 2012 12:01 PM (lkdo/)
Mitt, punching back twice as hard. Love it.
Posted by: lael at May 31, 2012 12:01 PM (T6tvG)
Wait. A giant "choom" with smoke coming out of it....?
Posted by: Exile at May 31, 2012 12:02 PM (O0lVq)
Posted by: General Zod at May 31, 2012 12:03 PM (2+bRt)
Posted by: a crazy can't see a crazy: they just agree at May 31, 2012 12:03 PM (HOOye)
Posted by: nickless at May 31, 2012 12:03 PM (MMC8r)
They never understood why conservatives were wary of Mitt. Stunts like this or the Solyndra speech only encourage us to support him.
Posted by: Alex at May 31, 2012 12:04 PM (tGh6R)
That's the thing. I don't think they actually did. I think a combination of McCain's incompetence and the Media fully pulling for Obama made it look like he was better than he was.
We remember him as a good campaigner because that was the myth- not because it was the truth. Good campaigners don't say things like "punished with a baby." They don't say things like "I think, at some point, you've made enough money." Those two alone should have doomed him.
Instead, most people never heard the first, and by the time they heard the second, McCain had pretty well already killed his chances.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 31, 2012 12:04 PM (8y9MW)
Obama is the lowest government spender according to Forbes
Posted by: Lampshade at May 31, 2012 04:01 PM (lkdo/)
Did you guys forget to include the vacay's?
Posted by: ????? at May 31, 2012 12:05 PM (oZfic)
Posted by: Dagny at May 31, 2012 12:06 PM (9ybEY)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2012 12:06 PM (05RcU)
One of my favorite goofs was whoever it was who went around and asked people if they believed Obama was a Keynesian. Oh the outrage and the huffing and the how dare you doubt where he was born. Then they showed the one guy who actually gave a pretty good answer discussing the difference between Keynesian and supply side economics. The woman he was with was all "Oh! I thought they said Kenyan!"
Posted by: alexthechick at May 31, 2012 12:06 PM (VtjlW)
And pass out white lab coats so low-info voters think the characters on House, MD endorse your legislation...
I missed the photo op part; I thought he was stumping.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at May 31, 2012 12:06 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: thunderb at May 31, 2012 12:06 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: toby928© at May 31, 2012 12:07 PM (NG097)
It's the same lie that the Dems already tried to push. They get away with that number because they claim that the 2009 budget was signed by Bush (it wasn't, the 2009 budget wasn't passed until Obama was president), and they leave out the fact that Porkulus was added straight to the baseline.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 31, 2012 12:08 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at May 31, 2012 12:08 PM (U08Mg)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at May 31, 2012 12:08 PM (4/NTV)
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 31, 2012 12:08 PM (Go/E/)
Posted by: Dagny at May 31, 2012 12:09 PM (9ybEY)
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The way that reads, it doesn't sound like the "good kind" of three-way. Could be the "friend" caused the heart attack with an unexpected probe.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2012 12:09 PM (TOk1P)
Indeed, at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, Entenmann’s will be unveiling “Custom-made Entenmann’s large donuts, 1-foot in diameter” at Madison Square Park at the same time they unveil a “Proclamation Letter by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.”
http://tinyurl.com/7rptzcx
Idiot.
Posted by: Tami at May 31, 2012 12:09 PM (X6akg)
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 31, 2012 04:08 PM (Go/E/)
Hot troll-on-troll action baby!
Posted by: Mætenloch at May 31, 2012 12:09 PM (pAlYe)
They never treated the guy on 24 this way, disrespectful!
They don't even behave like this in Poland!
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E. Buzz. Bunnies. at May 31, 2012 12:10 PM (tcSZb)
Posted by: toby928© at May 31, 2012 12:10 PM (NG097)
Posted by: a crazy can't see a crazy: they just agree at May 31, 2012 12:10 PM (HOOye)
>>Can we have a guy in a dead-squirrel costume appear at every Axelrod event?
Another one? That might confuse the security guys.
Posted by: David A. at May 31, 2012 12:10 PM (XdlcF)
I don't want a Taser. I want Daryl Dixon.
I would like one of those even if a zombie isn't after me.
Hmmm, maybe for NaNoWriMo summer camp I'll do a Walking Dead story with Daryl Dixon actually doing what he would do in that situation (ie crossbow the fuck out of everyone else for being idiots)
Posted by: alexthechick at May 31, 2012 12:10 PM (VtjlW)
Posted by: alexthechick at May 31, 2012 04:06 PM (VtjlW
I remember that. It was awesome. What was really funny was a woman losing it and the lib next to her was trying to get her to STFU because she was be-clowning herself. Comedy gold.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 31, 2012 12:11 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 31, 2012 04:08 PM (Go/E/)
Stop it. I got a chill. Like a planet of the apes thing. But dumber.
Posted by: Dagny at May 31, 2012 12:11 PM (9ybEY)
And it was a *necessary* myth: remember that this was almost the entirety of the Dem/ MSM argument for Obama's "experience" and "competence": the excellence of Obama's masterfully-run campaign was meant to be proof enough of his future excellence and mastery as POTUS.
Posted by: lael at May 31, 2012 12:11 PM (T6tvG)
That's some clever shit. You've really become a master at the sockpuppeting game.
Posted by: Cicero at May 31, 2012 12:11 PM (QKKT0)
COPS IN MIAMI GRATEWITOUSLY SHOT AND KILLED ANOTHER BLACK MAN ON SUNDAY!!!
AND THEY TOP IT OFF WITH RASCISM CALLING HIM A CANNIBLE!
*SPIT*
Posted by: KayInMaine at May 31, 2012 12:12 PM (/Aauo)
Okay. That would actually be a preferable scenario, because it would mean he'd leave in January.
I'm much more afraid of a psychotic break from the Malignant Narcissist in Chief.
Can you imagine how much damage a clinically insane President could do?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at May 31, 2012 12:12 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 31, 2012 12:12 PM (UOM48)
Don't get too excited. He'll disappoint in a multitude of ways if elected. What we're really talking about is if our shit sandwich has some mayo and bacon on it or if we gotta choke it down straight up.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 31, 2012 12:13 PM (t/Rgj)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at May 31, 2012 12:13 PM (7TwHV)
Posted by: nickless at May 31, 2012 12:13 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 31, 2012 12:13 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 31, 2012 04:12 PM (UOM4
It's going to have to buy multiple drinks now. Bad day.
Posted by: Dagny at May 31, 2012 12:14 PM (9ybEY)
oZfic and Lampshade, a match made in Arkham.
Posted by: Waterhouse at May 31, 2012 04:08 PM (Go/E/)
The term "two monkeys humping a football" comes to mind.
Posted by: MrCaniac at May 31, 2012 12:14 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: King Putt at May 31, 2012 12:14 PM (L7hol)
wtf? no comment from average Greg/Gerg? Is he already sobbing under a blanket somewhere? pussy. I hope he gets a rash
Posted by: the Butcher at May 31, 2012 12:15 PM (8g9qq)
193 -
Hey, I left a guess on your pop quiz question on the other thread today. Never did get a reply as to whether I was right or not.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2012 12:15 PM (TOk1P)
I'd vote for a feces covered crack whore over Preezy Foschnizzle Algae.
Posted by: Dagny at May 31, 2012 12:15 PM (9ybEY)
It's going to have to buy multiple drinks now. Bad day.
Posted by: Dagny at May 31, 2012 04:14 PM (9ybEY
One for each nic? It'll be in a NYC gutter by 5:00 p.m.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 31, 2012 12:15 PM (UOM48)
That might be preferable. The insane aren't always malignant. I could handle a nutty president who showed up at a black tie affair wearing his bathrobe and bunny slippers.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 31, 2012 12:16 PM (t/Rgj)
MoveOn warns: 'We Might Have To Pull The Plug'
Without a rush of new cash, MoveOn says it will have to give up efforts to elect Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, help the recall fight against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and energize younger voters whoÂ’ve soured on Washington.
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I didn't want those grapes anyway. They were probably sour.
Posted by: The Fox at May 31, 2012 12:17 PM (Hx5uv)
One for each nic? It'll be in a NYC gutter by 5:00 p.m.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 31, 2012 04:15 PM (UOM4
After the gloryhole that's where I make the most money!
Posted by: minnie ???? ozfic at May 31, 2012 12:17 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at May 31, 2012 12:17 PM (4/NTV)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 31, 2012 12:18 PM (bxiXv)
In short ---> it. is. awesome.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 31, 2012 12:18 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at May 31, 2012 12:19 PM (4/NTV)
Posted by: Tami at May 31, 2012 12:19 PM (X6akg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 31, 2012 12:19 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at May 31, 2012 12:20 PM (4/NTV)
Posted by: And Irresolute at May 31, 2012 12:20 PM (RC3M9)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2012 12:20 PM (05RcU)
Posted by: Lampshade at May 31, 2012 12:20 PM (lkdo/)
EDWARDS TRIAL: NOT GUILTY on county 3, HUNG JURY on all other counts -- ABC News NC team
Posted by: Tami at May 31, 2012 12:20 PM (X6akg)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2012 12:20 PM (05RcU)
Edwards -- not guilty on count three.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 31, 2012 12:20 PM (pLTLS)
Ungar fails to mention the trillion dollar expense of Obamacare.
And I think he credits the payback of TARP to the Obama years and while debited the Bush years.
His numbers are all wrong.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 31, 2012 12:21 PM (9Q7Nu)
"And at some point you say, ‘You know what, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.’"
I'm pretty sure there's some sort of secret Mormon drinking code here...
Wolf! Fetch me my iPad! I need some Wiki!
Posted by: Soledad "Taters" O'Brian at May 31, 2012 12:21 PM (kZVsz)
Posted by: toby928© at May 31, 2012 12:21 PM (NG097)
Posted by: Lampshade at May 31, 2012 12:22 PM (lkdo/)
Imagine if half the crowd at a Barky rally gives an enormous ovation to the local Dim Pol who introduces Barky, and then half the crowd shows no reaction at all to anything Barky says.
Posted by: mallfly at May 31, 2012 12:22 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Jimmah at May 31, 2012 12:23 PM (cWkOB)
Posted by: Dagny at May 31, 2012 12:23 PM (9ybEY)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 31, 2012 12:24 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at May 31, 2012 12:24 PM (6gk77)
I'll be in the swooning corner.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at May 31, 2012 12:24 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Jean at May 31, 2012 12:25 PM (OIJP7)
Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at May 31, 2012 12:25 PM (ay6+/)
Posted by: Dagny at May 31, 2012 04:06 PM (9ybEY)
**
Oh My...
Posted by: The guy that says "Oh My" at May 31, 2012 12:25 PM (eavT+)
Posted by: KaY In SaNe !!!11!11!!!!11! at May 31, 2012 12:25 PM (LROPO)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2012 12:25 PM (05RcU)
216 Can you imagine how much damage a clinically insane President could do?
That might be preferable. The insane aren't always malignant. I could handle a nutty president who showed up at a black tie affair wearing his bathrobe and bunny slippers.
But this one is already malignant.
He would more likely be the kind of clinically insane President who would send armed Drones to attack his 'enemies' at a conservative gathering for President-elect Romney.
....Or direct a nuclear attack on one of our allies.
He has no shame.
So if he had a psychotic break with reality....what would stop him from doing the 'unthinkable'?
Posted by: wheatie at May 31, 2012 12:26 PM (YzQ1g)
Posted by: steevy at May 31, 2012 12:26 PM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: toby928© at May 31, 2012 12:26 PM (NG097)
Posted by: KaY In SaNe !!!11!11!!!!11! at May 31, 2012 12:27 PM (LROPO)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2012 12:27 PM (05RcU)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at May 31, 2012 12:28 PM (C3KwS)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at May 31, 2012 12:28 PM (4/NTV)
Just goes to show that juries can be fickle.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 31, 2012 12:29 PM (SY2Kh)
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True, but who wouldn't?
Posted by: meekrob at May 31, 2012 12:29 PM (x2CNJ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 31, 2012 12:29 PM (UOM48)
I don't think the joint chiefs would execute patently illegal orders. Questionable?, perhaps, but clearly illegal?, probably not. They want to collect a pension when they retire too.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 31, 2012 12:29 PM (t/Rgj)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 31, 2012 04:27 PM (05RcU)
That's not exactly a high bar to jump over.
Posted by: buzzion at May 31, 2012 12:29 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at May 31, 2012 04:06 PM (/kI1Q)
Well "Photo-op" may have been the wrong turn of phrase. "Propaganda Photo opportunity" for later advertising and hyping the base was what I was going for.
Had it gone well, you'd have seen the photo of Axelrod presiding over the crowd on every left leaning talking point website everywhere (and the official campaign ones.) Romney managed to steal his thunder.
More power to us.
Posted by: tsrblke at May 31, 2012 12:30 PM (22rSN)
Today's Romney protest reminds me of the "Brooks Brothers protest" at the Broward County registrar's office during the 2000 recount. All the journos snickered about it, but it caught the Democrats flatfooted because they had never seen Republicans actually prostesting and thought they would have that tactic all to themselves. It seriously unnerved them. Later, the Freeper's daily protests outside of Al Gore's house in DC further unnerved the Dems. I really believe that one reason there wasn;t a general uprising after the SCOTUS gave the election to Bush was that all those protests and campaign-style tactics by the Bush forces left people thinking that the Democrats may truly have been trying to steal that election.
How many people thought that Romney would never get a group of people enthusiastic enough about him to stage a protest? Even if they were all paid staffers, the low-information voter sees it and says, "yeah, this guy is popular with a lot of people and it seems that plenty of folks in his home state like him and think he did a good job as Governor. And that guy talking for Obama looks like Hitler and talks like a moron."
This shit works. We have to do it. The other side never expects it, it unnerves them, and it amuses the journos covering the campaign which builds goodwill with them.
Posted by: rockmom at May 31, 2012 12:31 PM (aBlZ1)
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 31, 2012 12:31 PM (t/Rgj)
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 31, 2012 04:31 PM (t/Rgj)
At least he's had a real job.
Posted by: buzzion at May 31, 2012 12:32 PM (GULKT)
CNN - They're all over the perimeter!
CNN - Look out, David! We got live Mormons near the podium!
Posted by: 13times at May 31, 2012 12:33 PM (h6XiD)
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So would an actual sponge. And I mean the contraceptive kind.
Posted by: meekrob at May 31, 2012 12:34 PM (x2CNJ)
Today's Romney protest reminds me of the "Brooks Brothers protest" at the Broward County registrar's office during the 2000 recount.
I was thinking the same thing and that's why I predicted Chris Matthews will mention it tonight and think he's a snark master.
Posted by: soothsayer at May 31, 2012 12:35 PM (9Q7Nu)
"The sad part. As big a scumbag as Edwards is, he probably would have been a better President than the commie in the White House right now. "
John Edwards wouldn't have been president for long. Hurricane Rielle would have still made landfall, just after the win. Possibly around the time of Liz's death, and all the Country in Mourning stuff. Major scandal, leading to a resignation. Nothing would have actually gotten done in the meantime, except MAYBE Porkulus. Maybe.
Whoever Edwards would've picked as his VP (assuming it would not have been Obama) would have been a better President than the commie now, though. I agree entirely.
Posted by: reason at May 31, 2012 12:37 PM (kZVsz)
Who's paying for that? He's not going to use his own money.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at May 31, 2012 12:37 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 31, 2012 12:38 PM (bxiXv)
@264 - What? Special occassions like these call for special celebrations.
Edwards' gonna party so hard, Charlie Sheen will wake up with a hangover.
Posted by: reason at May 31, 2012 12:39 PM (kZVsz)
****
FIFY
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 31, 2012 12:43 PM (piMMO)
"Sponge Bob would be a better president than Obama."
Ooooooooooooh...
Who lives in a White House in the town of D.C.? (Sponge Bob Prez-Pants!)
Absorbent and POTUS and yellow is he! (Sponge Bob Prez-Pants!)
If partisan nonsense is something you wish! (Sponge Bob Prez-Pants!)
Then pull on the lever and vote for dis bish! (Sponge Bob Prez-Pants!)
Posted by: reason at May 31, 2012 12:44 PM (kZVsz)
Posted by: SurferDoc at May 31, 2012 12:49 PM (6H6FZ)
Did this Obama surrogate actually call Mitt Romney a "drive-by governor" on his way to higher office? Did I actually hear that? (I seem to recall that Romney completed his term as governor. Did "drive-by" U.S. Senator Barack "Choom Gang" Obama complete his term as he promised? Um, not so much.)
Shameless.
Posted by: Leo Ladenson at May 31, 2012 01:03 PM (mAm+G)
"You can chant down speakers, my friend, but it's hard to Etch-A-Sketch the truth away."
-- David Axelrod, the inventor of astroturf
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 31, 2012 02:17 PM (e8kgV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwPovyR9HY
Posted by: Genetic Tunder at May 31, 2012 06:10 PM (3yCFy)
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