You know, good for him, but honestly some activities really ought to be pursued behind a paywall.
All of this stuff is crossposted from the Pub.
Do any of my fellow right-wing extremists share this perception? You there — reloading your 7.62 ammo in the Idaho cabin while listening to the short-wave militia broadcast — do you feel as if you’re now part of the woof and weave of the GOP tapestry?
How is it that Charles Johnson and Christopher Orr both think Glenn Beck (whose Fox show I’ve never watched, BTW) represents the camel’s nose in the tent, a dangerous intrusion of crackpottery into the Republican mainstream, while the genuine wingnuts still feel as ostracized and alienated as ever? Is this a consensus or . . . a conspiracy?
Are Johnson and Orr just mouthpieces for the Council on Foreign Relations, the WTO and the Bavarian Illuminati?
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As you’ll see by looking below, I had hoped that that story might be the weirdest clusterfuck of disgusting you’d be exposed to all week. Then came the news that Obama declined Sarko’s pressing offers of a visit to Normandy because he feared it might give offense to Germans or Brits.
What? WHAT? I had no idea that he was so sensitive to the feelings of the Reichstag that was destroyed 65 years ago.
Meanwhile, he’s been apologizing for wrongs done to people of his skin color 150 years ago, a situation also rectified with American blood. To Turks. I was pretty sure that Obama was a moral imbecile, but now I find he’s an historical imbecile, as well.
Oh, and I almost forgot to add–Andy Levy and Allah Pundit take note–fuck you, Mr. President.
This man is a douchebag’s douchebag.
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The weirdest clusterfuck of disgusting you’ll read all week. I mean, with any luck.
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Despite Charles Johnson’s stern warnings of increased isolation if Iowahawk were to test-fire his long-range Type-Big-Dong Glow-Stick rocket in contravention of agreed-upon blogospheric standards of good behavior, Iowahawk yesterday performed what to all appearances was a successful test that sailed harmlessly over the Lakewood Mobile Home Court. Johnson immediately sent his representative Allah Pundit to lodge a complaint with Pajamas TV, who tabled the matter.
Roger Simon, the Chairman of Pajamas TV, issued a statement that given the tensions in that region of the blogosphere, Iowahawk’s actons were unhelpful and would make it more difficult to achieve a lasting peace, even as Johnson, flanked by Allah Pundit, Patterico and other bloggers representing the Sensible Alliance, expressed a desire to rid the blogosphere of bad language, whilst taking unilateral measures to reduce their own stockpiles of epithets.
Despite numerous violations of blog protocol and decorum over the decades, the reclusive Iowahawk blog has managed to retain a steady stream of humanitarian links, malt liquor and glow sticks. Virtually all of the aid is provided with the condition that it be shared equally amongst the residents of the Lakewood Mobile Home Court, but it is thought that most of the aid goes directly to Iowahawk and his close friends.
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There’s great dicentra stuff, here and here, as well.
UPDATE: Anthony at Sister Toldjah agrees with thor (in comments) that the Telegraph headline was meant to gin up undue lather against Obama. Since they’ve been pissed about him since the “too tired” reception given the PM (whom they don’t like, either), I suppose there’s truth in that.
However, I don’t care whether Obama didn’t want to make the Germans or the Brits feel that they weren’t getting as much love. He had an opportunity to pay respect to the dead at Normandy, before he went to tell the troops in Iraq that they had to start doing what they’ve been doing, and he declined it. I think it was a bad decision, considering the apology tour he went on, and that he was foolish to decline Sarkozy’s offer, which may well have been made with Obama’s best interests in mind, given the symbolic nature of the post-summit peregrinations. The guy cannot even be bothered to throw a sop to American patriotism.
To white people, the African-to-American slave trade is a fable about other white people.
Don’t be judgy.
AHEM
That’s that island where all those horses went crazy and died and the mommy pushed the baby into the well and she came out of the tv and made a mess of the floor.
This is simply vulgar… and does nothing to refill my gin and tonic. At times like this I truly regret that the monocle has fallen out of fashion. One could properly glare through one of those.
The two links to the fabu dicentra posts go to the same post, which increases the sensation that there was a transporter accident last November and Spock has always had a goatee.
Gotta love Michelle Malkin’s takedown of a RINO named Michael Cohen today (see comment #3).
Heh. And yet how many on the right are echoing Cohen’s line.
Guess he, too, has our best interests in mind.
By the way, I missed the coup so I’m wondering: when did Andy Levy become the voice of conservatism?
I seem to recall someone else of late unpleasantness who likewise found this person nearly as compelling as he did SEK.
I think I’m going to start twittering so I can quote myself.
well, he is on FNC every night for, like, ten minutes.
Moral imbecile? Need to pull those gin and tonics a little tighter to your vest, might I suggest, for after reading the article you prescribed concerning the honorable Barack H. Obama it seems you lost the narrative in a bout of knee-jerk animus found at bottom of your crystal tumbler.
And no Sir, no amount of American blood can be transfused into the African dead. No sir. Rastafari stands alone! Did Usain Bolt’s 9.69 do nothing towards your understanding of their hardened, unwavering, undiminished Pride, which reminds me, early morning, April 4, shot rings out in the Memphis sky, free at last, they took your life but the could not take that. And nor should anyone flippantly try to trump their collective yet stolen greatness. Dreadlock rasta was a buffalo soldier, if you know your history.
What is up with this thor fella? At every single site I visit, there is (in addition to the usual batch of trolls) always that one guy who traffics in gibberish.
The preceding gibberish, as with all internet gibberish, brought to you by a grant from Soros LLC. Soros LLC proudly funding socialist gibberish for over 10 years. We hire the disabled, the dysfunctional, for you.
I laughed so hard, my lobster bisque came out my nose.
Great bloody snot, that’s not lobster bisque, hick. Lobster bisque tastes like lobster and snot tastes like your fore finger.
Man o man.
Obama was “cheered WILDLY” by the troops. It said so in the AP. If they were allowed to use the term “orgasmically” I’m sure they would have used that.
My bil’s in a combat troop in “The good war” right now. I’m thinking he and his men wouldn’t be cheering wildly.
related?
This might be called a struggle between populists and elitists, but the fact is that it involves a conflict of identity between two fairly distinct classes of Republican operatives. On the one hand, you have Republicans out in the “Heartland” — Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon or wherever — whose main concern is organizing people to win elections. On the other hand, you have the mainly Washington, D.C.-based apparatus of policy specialists, consultants, congressional staffers and — yes — conservative journalists, who unfortunately tend to think of themselves as more important to the Movement than the tens of millions of Republican votes nationwide.
This class schism within the GOP Big Tent was highlighted during the 2006-07 battle over the proposed illegal-alien amnesty legislation pushed by John McCain and the Bush White House. All you had to do was to listen to any talk-radio program to understand that there was an intense grassroots resistance to any proposal to grant permanent residency to foreigners who were here illegally. “What part of ‘illegal’ don’t they understand?” as it was expressed to me by one talk-radio host in a 2006 interview.
That grassroots sentiment was disdained, however, by much of the elite GOP policy apparatus, just as the same policy elite disdained the pro-life, anti-gay-rights sentiment of the Christian conservative movement.
The schism has expanded, I would say. Those conservative who wanna drive around with a bumpersticker declaring that “Obama is a good man” and those who don’t. That same group who leads the charge (followed by liberals) of “conservative” bashing.
I had no idea how childish allahpundit had become. How is “conservatives tell liberals how to act, too” a response to the point that conservatives should not take advice on how to act from lberals? Is he 13?
I guess Band of Brothers was not among the unplayable DVDs given to Gordon Brown.
Dan, your post is a medley of morsels that, like a fine rissota, work together synergistically, becoming far more amazing and powerful than their individual components. Mario Batali weeps.
Where to begin?
Well since Roger Simon started things off with an orgasmic rant over Mario Batali’s dad’s restaurant Salumi, then does that make Jeff this guy? The brilliant ascerbic voice in the wilderness?
Since we are on chef-food metaphors, are Charles Johnson and Allahpundit these two individuals? Okay, that was a cheap shot. That comparison is unfair to Maddams Wright and Patterson.
The link above for Allah and Charles Johnson did not work…
#11 – derailer of threads, depressor of site visits?
I’m still trying to figure out, why any conservative wants Barack to succeed. That bow, to the Guardian of the Two Shrines, represents the total surrender to Wahhabism; freeing the folks at Gitmo,
probably prosecuting the interrogators,
under ex post facto interpretations from the OLC, Slashing defense, in the middle
of two campaign, offering to give up nuclear weapons, while making it more possible for the Iranians to develop theres, shutting down the oil and gas industry, downsizing terrorism in favor of ‘man caused disasters’ Denouncing the hard fought battles that the US conducted
in the last century, saddling us with a massive health care bureaucracy, that will stifle medical innovation.
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#11 – derailer of threads, depressor of site visits?
I like the AoSHQ model for handling that particular variety of troll
This whole Obama wants to fail or succeed thing is tiresome. Wanting Obama to fail, in passing his agenda, is not schadenfreud or wishing ill for the country. It is the opposite. What Rush originally said and what Jeff defended is opposing policies that you reasonably believe will cause harm to the country and not buying into the left’s reframing of that argument. Rush actually gets that. If you are a self professed conservative, it might seem radical to actually say this, but adopting liberal fiscal policies should be defined as a generally bad idea. Obama is the embodiment of such policies. You want that to fail. Allah, Charles Johnson, and Patterico are not getting what Jeff is saying. I am frustrated that these dolts, and yes they are dolts over this issue, are being so thick and mendoucheous.
Perhaps this quote from the Two Fat Ladies says it all:
Two Fat Ladies.
Jeff is hardly the first to recognize this. Orwell recognized the power of watering down language. Ayn Rand spoke about it too.
Granted she does not want Obama to fail (because she is from the left) but Camile Paglia gets there is a serious problem:
More letters from Philadelphia, or Camile Paglia unleashed:
I get the feeling that Camile has more of that…testosterone, than Allah, Patterico, and Charles Johnson combined!
Now note the criticism of Rush above. At least Paglia puts her criticism in context, explains it, and makes a rational point. You would have thought Patterico, Allah and Charles Johnson were channelling their inner Olbermans in the way they went after Rush and Jeff.
FTR, I thought that parody was one of Shanklin’s finest. The Sharpton character yelling through the bullhorn cracked me up.
Comrade Carin, I thought it funny too (when you realized the source of the quote). I totally agree that Rush would be wise to put these parodies on YouTube and let them go viral. I suspect he would end up making more money in the long run and getting more exposure to these issues beyond his regular audience.
Here is the wikipedia (always rely on the best sources I say!–with snark)entry on the RNC controversy over this:
How is “conservatives tell liberals how to act, too†a response to the point that conservatives should not take advice on how to act from lberals?
I know you are, but what am I?
P.W. Herman–if you are going to go blind through self abuse, at least get a room!
Going on five
http://twitter.com/jimtreacher/status/1471888531
http://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/1471903246
Good old Treach.
I prefer the way I handle trolls, which is to say I say, “hey troll-boil, fuckin’ get back on your troll-cycle and pedal off.”
The worst smelling of the troll-fucks is your variety, the pointless little bouncy with nothing of interest to say. The esteemed Mr. Collins either didn’t read the article or merely read the headline. Show me where I’m wrong, whimpering troll-wag. Mr. Collins is a professional who appreciates the rare occasion where I sharpen his focus.
He also appreciates Irish poetry:
This guy comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colors of a royal flush
And hes peeling off those dollar bills
Slapping them down
One hundred, two hundred
And I can see those fighter planes
And I can see those fighter planes
Across the mud huts where the children sleep
Through the alleys of a quiet city street
Take the staircase to the first floor
Turn the key and slowly unlock the door
As a man breathes into a saxophone
Through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside its America
Outside its America
Ya dig.
Sometimes I like what Jeff is saying, other times not. I don’t wish him to fail.
It’s a bad cutting of word, a sort’a political santeria.
Besides, Obama isn’t going to fail. The man’s too big. The man is too strong.
He’s the diver. You’re the sponge.
Sometimes I think thor took A Separate Reality just a wee bit too literally. Step away from the datura, man.
mescalito is not your friend.
Step away from the datura, man.
That stuff grows wild in Southern Utah. In the mornings, the white trumpet blossoms face the sun, but by afternoon they’ve closed up against the heat.