Following up on this post that covered Patrick Courrielche’s report of his participation in a conference call where the NEA discussed recruiting “artists, producers, promoters, organizers, influencers, marketers, taste-makers, leaders or just plain cool people” to help Obama shape the public into the correct manner of thinking.
Seems that report was just the first shoe. Big Government’s Big Hollywood recaps the call, the fall out and promises more.
And now here is MORE:
The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable.But some have claimed that the invite and passages, pulled from the conference call that inspired the article, were taken out of context. Context is what I intend to establish here.
**NEA conference call full audio and transcript here**
Excerpts:
•“I just first of all want to thank everyone for being on the call and just a deep deep appreciation for all the work you all put into the campaign for the 2+ years we all worked together.”
•“We won.”
•“I’m actually in the White House and working towards furthering this agenda, this very aggressive agenda.”
•“We’re going to come at you with some specific asks here.”
•“I hope you guys are ready.”
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•“I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service.”
•“And then my ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table.”
•“Again, I’m really, really honored to be working with you; the National Endowment for the Arts is really honored.”
•“You’re going to see a lot more of us in the next four and hopefully eight years.”
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•“I’ve been asked by folks in the White House and folks in the NEA … we had the idea that I would help bring together the artist community…”
•“…the Hope poster obviously is a great example, but it’s clear as an independent art community as artists and thinkers and tastemakers and marketers and visionaries that are on this call, the role that we played during the campaign for the president…”
•“…the President has a clear arts agenda and has been very supportive of using art and supporting art in creative ways to talk about some issues that we face here in our country, but also to engage people. And I think all of us who are on this phone call, you know, were selected for a reason.”
•“And so I’m hoping that through this group, and the goal of all this, and the goal of this phone call, is through this group we can create a stronger community amongst ourselves to get involved in things we’re passionate about as we did during the campaign. But to continue to get involved in those things, to support some of the President’s initiatives, but also to do things that we are passionate about and to push the President and push his administration…“
Comment by Joe on 9/21 @ 9:59 am #
Only the best art for our Dear Leader!
Comment by Joe on 9/21 @ 10:01 am #
Meanwhile Michelle “Marie Antoinette” Obama has a little fiefdom of her own (here is a list of the First Lady’s staff):
1. $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for th e First Lady)
5. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 – Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11.. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M.. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 – Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 – Ja ckson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 10:05 am #
Rod Dreher has taken to his fainting couch with a wet cloth and his favorite portrait of William F. Buckley.
Comment by Darleen on 9/21 @ 10:07 am #
Joe
That arugula doesn’t just shop for itself.
Comment by Carin on 9/21 @ 10:08 am #
Top of the docket for Rush today.
Comment by Carin on 9/21 @ 10:09 am #
Now, here’s for some SHOCKING NEWS. New car sales are way down.
Like, the lowest in 27 years.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 10:16 am #
A new week…a new phony scandal.
Nothing on Acorn today? How ’bout them Republican car dealers?
Under the bus already?
Comment by Darleen on 9/21 @ 10:16 am #
Carin
Like, the lowest in 27 years.
BWHAHAHAHAH!!!1!!1
Comment by Darleen on 9/21 @ 10:18 am #
Snotcone
Really, trying to say these are hoaxes is pretty delusional even for you. You’re like a cat trying to cover up its poo on a tile floor. Scratch all you want, it ain’t working.
Comment by Darleen on 9/21 @ 10:20 am #
Yes, nothing but a hoax.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 10:22 am #
Darleen,
Are you guys ever going to come with, you know, something of substance that might sway America to forgive the Republicans?
Or are you content to be out of power forever, just whiling away the years flinging poo at the adults?
Comment by Eben on 9/21 @ 10:23 am #
I really think snotcone should contact the Dem leadership and ask them why they keep caving into all these one day stories and phony scandals and throwing all these people and organizations under the bus.
Comment by Eben on 9/21 @ 10:24 am #
Because, in his infinite wisdom, he thinks we’re all pulling for Repubs.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 9/21 @ 10:25 am #
Is there any particular reason to get out of Barky’s way, since he’s doing such a good job of it all by hisownself?
Comment by DarthRove on 9/21 @ 10:34 am #
Snowcone.
You seem to labor under the misapprehension that this site is full of die-hard Republicans.
Please continue this, as it provides much amusement.
Comment by Darleen on 9/21 @ 10:37 am #
since he’s doing such a good job of it all by hisownself?
yep
Comment by Blake on 9/21 @ 10:46 am #
Snowcone,
This administration is already covered in shit. However, MSM and the White House are desperately trying to convince everyone “their shit doesn’t stink.”
We here know Republican shit stinks and think it should be flushed, repeatedly. Hell, we’re to the point we’d like to dynamite the whole bathroom.
Wheres you seem to think gold fixtures and mirrors make things smell better.
Guess what, a gold plated bathroom still stinks, no matter who is responsible for the massive morning dump.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 10:52 am #
How many racist codewords can you fit in one comment, Blake?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 10:56 am #
“Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 10:16 am #
A new week…a new phony scandal.”
Law-breaking inside the White House brought down Richard Nixon.
Just a reminder.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/21 @ 10:57 am #
I’m pretty sure this entire post, all the comments, and especially the picture, are racist.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 10:57 am #
“Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 10:22 am #
Darleen,
Are you guys ever going to come with, you know, something of substance that might sway America to forgive the Republicans?”
LOOK! BUNNIES!!!!
Comment by cranky-d on 9/21 @ 10:58 am #
Shorter me: RACISTS!!!!
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 10:58 am #
If not overt propoganda, what else could this be called?
Comment by Bilwick1 on 9/21 @ 11:00 am #
Why does the NEA even bother? I’m a libertarian who movies in artsy circles, and although they think they’re free spirits, I can tell you that most of them that I’ve encounter are probably even bigger State-fellators than Snowcone. (And that’s saying a lot.) In any political contest, the arts community will almost always support the least pro-freedom of the candidates, and pretty much will always fall in lockstep behind Big Brother. (Provided, of course, he doesn’t threaten to cut their subsidies.)
Comment by Blake on 9/21 @ 11:01 am #
JD,
I’ll take that as high praise.
We could start a new game.
Call it “Racist Codeword Bingo.” Everyone would win and lose at the same time, because all words are secretly racist code words. So, by winning, you lose, because, “you’re a racist.”
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 11:01 am #
It is clearly an inappropriate use of the NEA to push Barcky’s legislative agenda. My question is if this is legal? Can taxpayer dollars, especially with someone in the White House, be used for overtly partisan political purposes?
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 11:02 am #
You seem to labor under the misapprehension that this site is full of die-hard Republicans.
Aaahh, the old “I’m not a Republican but I vote Republican every.single.election” ploy.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 11:03 am #
Or are you content to be out of power forever, just whiling away the years flinging poo at the adults?
How does someone like yourself develop an interest in politics sufficient to troll blogs? It mystifies me that someone of your shoddy intellectual make-up would find any of this interesting at all, let alone that you might actually think you add any value.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 11:03 am #
“#Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 10:58 am #
If not overt propoganda, what else could this be called?”
The Artist as a Young Whore.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 11:05 am #
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Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 11:02 am #
You seem to labor under the misapprehension that this site is full of die-hard Republicans.
Aaahh, the old “I’m not a Republican but I vote Republican every.single.election” ploy.”
Ah, the old “I’m not a moron….well yes I am” ,not ploy as much as truth.
Comment by Carin on 9/21 @ 11:07 am #
Oh, snowcow … you’re just so stupid.
Comment by SBP on 9/21 @ 11:09 am #
Aaahh, the old “I’m not a Republican but I vote Republican every.single.election” ploy.
It’s a simple concept, snotty. It’s exactly the same as the the way you communists and fascists always vote for the Democrat.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 11:09 am #
Carin’s #31 wins the thread.
Comment by Carin on 9/21 @ 11:09 am #
But, I will add, I do appreciate your concern. Yes, leftoids want us to stop bringing up these TOTALLY IRRELEVANT TRIVIAL DETAILS because it’s gonna doom us to powerlessness.
Comment by DarthRove on 9/21 @ 11:10 am #
I think I’ve figured Snowcone out.
He’s going to flog all of Obamessiah’s polices and defend His political allies in the face of withering criticism. Then he’s going to print the threads, mount them on posterboard, and get an NEA grant for his “performance art”.
Cle-VER!!
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 11:10 am #
Snowcow, I like that. As nom de cybers go his seems to afford us an inexhaustible supply quality put downs.
Comment by Carin on 9/21 @ 11:16 am #
I’d like to take credit, but he/she/it really did inspire me. I almost feel guilty taking credit.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 11:17 am #
Yes, leftoids want us to stop bringing up these TOTALLY IRRELEVANT TRIVIAL DETAILS because it’s gonna doom us to powerlessness.
Carin, the adults are discussing Gen. McChrystal’s Afghanistan report today.
Do you really think Breitbart’s latest egotistical flatulence is “relevant?”
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 11:20 am #
News: ACORN offices nationwide busted giving illegal tax advice to people posing as pimps and hookers.
Snowcone’s response: This is a non-story. No one cares. Why aren’t you talking about that guy who got beat up? You’re so heartless!
News: Obama Adminstration using NEA as a propaganda mouthpiece.
Snowcone’s response: This is meaningless. Why don’t you say something substantive? Don’t you care about ACORN anymore?
I’ve tried to get Snowcone to display the intellectual and moral seriousness that the Good Lord gave to spider monkeys by condemning bad things as bad before he showers us with abuse for pointing fingers at the bad things. This he steadfastly refuses to do.
Conclusion: Snowcone is un-bothered by prostiution, underage sex slavery, or the transformation of public artistic foundations into Obama’s MiniTruth.
Secondary Conclusion: Snowcone is a moral midget and a fascist.
My theory remains testable.
Comment by Joe on 9/21 @ 11:20 am #
My favorite ObamaArt™ remains this master
bationpiece.Great comments too.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 11:23 am #
The “adults” already said they ain’t sending no more killbots to the quagmire in Afgawneeestawn, snowplow.
Comment by Eben on 9/21 @ 11:26 am #
I think if I posted my voting history snotcone’s head would explode because I.don’t.fit.into.his.box.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 11:27 am #
Jesus Christ, what an idiot you are.
h/t sdferr
Comment by happyfeet on 9/21 @ 11:27 am #
Needing a personality cult just shows how weak the little president man is. What’s way more troubling is how these proto-fascist dirty socialist “artist” losers were so eager to wonder twin powers activate with the little president man.
They should be put on a list.
Comment by DarthRove on 9/21 @ 11:28 am #
The ghost of Ted Kennedy appeared in my bedroom last night to bray, “Afghaaanistaaan is Obaaama’s Vietnaaam!!!”
Comment by Joe on 9/21 @ 11:28 am #
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 9/21 @ 11:28 am #
ANd the hits just keep on coming, Obama is totally out of hi depth -amateur hour doesn’t even begin to cover it.- Snowcone says the important people are talking about important things while the superstar president goes on Letterman for super scary important discussion.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 11:29 am #
They are on a list, ‘feets. The “slack ass no-talent hacks what can’t cut it in the real world” list.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/21 @ 11:32 am #
Good – also – just glancing through I saw some hoochie from Al Gore’s Current TV here in Los Angeles was wanting to get her love for the fatherland kicking.
How creepy is that? A lot creepy I think.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 11:37 am #
“Do you really think Breitbart’s latest egotistical flatulence is “relevant?””
LOOK! BUNNIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO REALLY!!! LOOOK!
Comment by rrpjr on 9/21 @ 11:56 am #
Once again, the question for Leftists:
Suppose an NEA official under George Bush participated in a conference call encouraging artists to use their creative talents to advance the president’s agenda including that of the Iraq war.
You’re telling me this wouldn’t be on the front page above-the-fold of the NY Times with wall-to-wall calls for Senate hearings and even murmurs of “impeachment”?
Go ahead, tell me.
As a filmmaker, this story actually arouses more revulsion in me than the ACORN story. To make it through such a call without a violent physical reaction disqualifies one from even calling himself an artist, much less “independent.” I know the sort of people on this conference call, the so-called “tastemakers and really cool people.” I run across them all the time in LA. The experience is never better than dispiriting.
Comment by louchette, classic liberal & stoner slut (ret.) on 9/21 @ 11:56 am #
actually i am INTO this. no really.
so, who wants to help me write a grant proposal for a little art project? lemme see… it’s gotta have obama in it. and it’s gotta be super transgressive and OHNOES1 shocking to the bourgeoisie and their provincial sensibilities. and it’s gotta be something that can be rationalized via a childish and facile understanding of politics. so… hmmmm… dipped in urine? nah, already been done. covered in poop? already been done, and even obviouser (as bugs bunny would say.) maybe menstrual blood? that’s super icky and it can garner some instant islamophobic hater cred too. altho for that one i would need to hire me a pre-menopausal helper. but if she’s hot then that could be a big bonus win-win too.
come on guys! help me out here! together we can think of something. =D
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 12:00 pm #
Louchette always makes me feel a tingle up my leg.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 12:04 pm #
From a gay, minority AIDS victim and I think you have a winner.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 12:07 pm #
Menstrual blood is a tool of teh PATRIARCHY, and its use discriminates against transtesticles that cannot produce same.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 12:09 pm #
So, monkeyboy. go ahead and talk about Afghanistan! I’m all ears. (racist)
Do you see any opportunities to keep the terrorists at bay by building a Mile High Dirt Berm™? Are there any other engineering innovations that you’d like to suggest? I’d not use any shipping containers because of that, you know, whole land locked thing.
Thoughts?
Comment by Blake on 9/21 @ 12:12 pm #
B Moe,
You forgot underage.
Comment by LTC John on 9/21 @ 12:13 pm #
Some of us “adults” have been following what has been going on in Afghanistan for longer than you have even known the word, sno. Some of us have even spent time there.
I still am P O’d at the NEA and ACORN – these types of stories need airing. Full sunlight and Lysol treatment for them, please.
Comment by louchette, classic liberal & stoner slut (ret.) on 9/21 @ 12:13 pm #
i’m an equal opportunity offender. i hate everyone equally. or at least i hate all their stupid equally. IYKWIMAITYD
Comment by Joe on 9/21 @ 12:15 pm #
louchette, you really have a talent for this.
Comment by Squid on 9/21 @ 12:16 pm #
Y’know, Snowy and his ilk are always carrying on about how Bush failed to prevent the attacks of 9/11 from happening, but you never hear them beating up Obama for not winning in Afghanistan in the same amount of time. I wonder why the inconsistency? They’re both inherited problems involving shadowing organizations on the other side of the world, so that defense doesn’t fly. Must be something else.
(I think our transgressive artwork should be O! planting a little ACORN that grows up into a child sex slave. Or better yet, “watering” the little ACORN with his mighty penis of Hope and Change.)
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 12:16 pm #
We are talking about the party of Kennedy, Clinton and Dodd. There is no such thing as underage menstrual blood.
Comment by Squid on 9/21 @ 12:16 pm #
Shadowy, that is.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 12:17 pm #
Squid – Most excellent ideas.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 9/21 @ 12:18 pm #
If not overt propoganda, what else could this be called?
It’s called socialist realism, and you have to be a complete cultist to lap it up. Which yellowsnowcone seems to have done, on cue.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 12:20 pm #
them beating up Obama for not winning in Afghanistan
Obama should end that pointless war.
Happy?
Comment by Log Cabin on 9/21 @ 12:20 pm #
Snotcone reliably returns to his laughable ‘non-scandal’ meme like a dog returning to it’s own vomit.
However, facts are facts. As a former federal government employee, we were told CONSTANTLY never to engage in campaigning or ANY OTHER political activities while collecting a federal salary, all the way down to political bumper stickers on our cars. The Hatch Act is quite clear and we all had to sign off on it as a condition of employment.
This litle NEA gabfest is illegal from the word “go”. Much like most of what Jug Ears McDeficit has his narcissistic little fingers into these days.
Comment by Blake on 9/21 @ 12:22 pm #
B Moe,
Great, I’m not only a racist, I’m now also an ageist.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 12:23 pm #
I think expecting Diego Rivera out of this is giving the left – and the art world – too much credit. The really creepy aspect is that the administration would solicit help like this and that the arts community would be at the ready to fellate them, but the end result is going to be a pile of dogshit that is neither persuasive or even visible to anyone capable of being persuaded.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 12:23 pm #
Slightly OT: those of you who read my word splatter that Darleen graciously upped from the Pub know that it was inspired by an E-Mail from my Brother, the lapsed conservative. I finally got a substantive response from him:
Maybe my brother is Snowcone/Alphie. (sigh)
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 12:25 pm #
Pointless?
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 12:25 pm #
Log Cabin! I was just thinking the other day that we haven’t seen you around lately. Good to see you!
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 9/21 @ 12:26 pm #
Are you guys ever going to come with, you know, something of substance that might sway America to forgive the Republicans?
Nope, I’m going to apply for a grant to write an opera about this, because it’s such fucking blatant bullshit that I have to be accepted. Maybe This one? Or This one? Not this one, though artists need to be open minded.
Comment by sdferr on 9/21 @ 12:29 pm #
louchette, rather than building artwork with perishable bodily fluids, how about removing surgical repair appliances (titanium screws, rods, joints, etc.) from the bodies of the deceased, suggesting the virtuous recycling aspects bound to the undying, immortal character of the leftist ideology at the foundation of our President’s hopes for our care. No matter how dead Marxism may have appeared to be at the demise of the Soviet Union, it is risen to live again, only better this time!
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 9/21 @ 12:30 pm #
Actually, I probably won’t apply for a grant. Because just like the 300 odd million Americans who don’t apply for grants because they don’t think they’ll get them, I’m worried that cost of paper and stamps is too much to risk.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/21 @ 12:31 pm #
I did not know snark could be considered substantive.
Comment by louchette, classic liberal & stoner slut (ret.) on 9/21 @ 12:31 pm #
sdferr, that is actually a brilliant idea. i love it.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/21 @ 12:32 pm #
The mostest appalling thing is that the little president man thought these budding little fascists need prodding.
More amusingly, the movie is a critique of greed that reshapes the book into a PSA for portion control.
Apparently that Meatball movie turned the book into some sort of dirty socialist anti-American screed.
Overseas audiences, though, may be forgiven for dismissing his predicament as a peculiarly American nightmare and rooting instead for his savior, a sensible Guatemalan bearing celery.
Barack Obama doesn’t want more propaganda he just wants to direct the propaganda efforts already under way. That’s a key observation I think.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 12:32 pm #
I am thinking of an interpretive dance where Barcky is the Tootsie Pop and all of his artist propgandists are the owls.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 12:34 pm #
A Tootsie Pop? Like with a chocolate center? Do I have to say it?
Comment by cranky-d on 9/21 @ 12:34 pm #
I’m also trying to figure out what America is supposed to forgive the Republicans for. Spending too much money? America has learned that the scale of spending is radically different with the progs in control. Lefties should probably be more concerned about forgiveness for the crazed policies of their like-minded political “betters.”
Comment by happyfeet on 9/21 @ 12:35 pm #
All those fascist little Dreamworks Animation monkeys gave big money to the little president man’s campaign, it’s worth remembering.
Comment by sdferr on 9/21 @ 12:36 pm #
“…what America is supposed to forgive the Republicans for.”
Breathing.
Comment by Frontman on 9/21 @ 12:38 pm #
“Aaahh, the old “I’m not a Republican but I vote Republican every.single.election” ploy.”
To my neverending chagrin, unfortunately this turns out to be the “lesser of two evils” approach more often than not. Flush ‘em all, indeed.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 12:40 pm #
The war in afghanistan is now pointless. Last year, it was essential, and Boooooosh had taken his eye off of it, to everyone’s detriment. This year, it’s pointless and a needless distraction.
Tell me again how adults think, snowcone. I can’t wait until I’m big.
Comment by Pablo on 9/21 @ 12:40 pm #
Yeah, except for, you know, Barack Obama.
Comment by Joe on 9/21 @ 12:41 pm #
sdferr, you and louchette are true artists. I have to go listen to Iggy Pop now and contemplate your artistic awesomeness.
Comment by sdferr on 9/21 @ 12:41 pm #
Listening to Limbaugh at the moment, I find he’s missed the hidden point about Stephanopolos’ looking up the definition of “tax” in Merriam-Webster. The hidden point is that Stephanopolos understood beforehand that Obama would deny that the mandate is a tax. Otherwise, why bother?
Comment by Carin on 9/21 @ 12:42 pm #
So, snowcow doesn’t want to talk about THIS because there are more important things to discuss?
So noted.
Comment by JHo on 9/21 @ 12:48 pm #
But the British adults — yes the British adults — are discussing Obie’s decline, snoload. That being the American Commander in Chief and that being the Brits. And the Brit establishment newz. You know, all what’s right with the world and all. There’s no FOX News London, I’m thinking and I bet you are too.
They’re lambasting Obie on points in London, snoload, less than a year into his reign. I mean, less than a year into the reign of the Democrat-Unicorn Soopermajority.
Ow. Probably they refer, in part, to this. Also from progressive, urban, urbane, and oh so sophisticated London and, therefore and coincidentally, not from the US MSM.
The Brits. In their press. On the same day the NYT, characteristically, publishes a poignant retro-piece on Bush by that small man Douthat. That being this NYT.
Comment by Frontman on 9/21 @ 12:48 pm #
Beware of Guatemalans bearing celery.
Comment by Nan on 9/21 @ 12:51 pm #
sdferr’s comment at 74 was really creepy, and don’t do it anymore. I work with way too many people who’d say, “wow, what a great idea!”
Yeesh
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 12:52 pm #
Carin – This is a feature, not a bug, to demonic clows what support child sex slavery, like yellowsnow.
Comment by Snotcone on 9/21 @ 12:54 pm #
one.day.story.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 12:54 pm #
So, snowcow doesn’t want to talk about THIS because there are more important things to discuss?
OMG, this little whiff of flatulence isn’t the mighty “other shoe” Breitbart promised his acolytes, is it?
Comment by sdferr on 9/21 @ 12:54 pm #
Well lemme hasten to interject Nan, I wasn’t thinking the bodies would come from anything other than a voluntary act, a donation so to speak, as distinctly opposed to a scheme wherein the NEA would set about “procuring” bodies for use by some other means.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 12:56 pm #
Violating the Hatch Act is standard operating procedure for Leftists. And, yellowsnow condones child sex slavery.
Comment by Squid on 9/21 @ 12:58 pm #
Snowy: Afghanistan is the “good” war; Iraq was the “pointless” one. Check your notes.
And for those of you keeping score at home:
1) Obama’s pretense that he’s unaware of his connections to ACORN, the criminal organization that uses tax dollars sent by our criminal congressmen to help other criminals hide their criminal acts from the tax man and the cops;
2) Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme which was revealed to cost $300,000,000,000 per year;
3) Obama’s health care/health insurance reform effort which is hemorrhaging support faster than even the best amputate-for-profit surgeon could fix;
4) Obama’s paralysis in the face of increasing challenges in Afghanistan that demand swift and decisive action;
5) Obama’s continuing sucking-up to despots around the world at the expense of our allies and other democratically-elected leaders; and
6) Obama’s still-unfulfilled promise to “create or save” jobs in the face of an unemployment rate that exceeds his own worst-case scenario…
…are all one-day non-stories that the grownups don’t have time for. But hey — did you hear that the Messiah is gonna be on Leno tonight? It’s so rare for Him to make a public appearance!
Comment by louchette, classic liberal & stoner slut (ret.) on 9/21 @ 12:58 pm #
i don’t really care where the bodies come from. *makes a note to to include some incoherent drivel about ‘embodiment’ in the grant proposal*
Comment by Silver Whistle on 9/21 @ 1:01 pm #
As long as Obamamessiah does it, JD, yellowsnowcone approves. Dear Leader is not bound by normal laws, oh no. Not for Him the workaday world of the hoi polloi. If it is in the service of Dear Leader, all is excused.
Comment by DarthRove on 9/21 @ 1:03 pm #
I think we need to wait a few days to see if this turns into another week-long story like the “ACORN = child sex slavery” one.
Of course, what Snowcone still doesn’t get is that the ACORN story wasn’t really aimed at ACORN. And I doubt this story is aimed at the NEA, either.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 1:04 pm #
I wonder how many times the NY Times decided to not cover this …
Comment by sdferr on 9/21 @ 1:04 pm #
louchette, I have this apparently unbreakable habit of seeing enormous, otherwise “unimaginable except that you’re looking right at it” piles of shoes or hair brushes or belts and empty wallets etc. in my visual memory. It’s a habit I will refuse to lose.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 1:07 pm #
This is getting beyond absurd.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 1:10 pm #
As long as Obamamessiah does it
Afghanistan is the “good” war; Iraq was the “pointless” one. Check your notes.
I don’t approve of the Afghanistan war.
Never have, never will.
Comment by JHo on 9/21 @ 1:10 pm #
The people seeing straight through Obie’s madness disagree. From a number of continents. Across all 50 states. From the front pages.
To lie is one thing, snoblow. To do so in the face of reality is Baghdad Bob.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 1:10 pm #
BMoe – Just when you think they cannot get any worse …
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 1:11 pm #
Remember when Barcky would chant about listening to the Generals? Let’s see if he plans on listening to them now, since they are asking for lots more boots on the ground.
Comment by JHo on 9/21 @ 1:12 pm #
In effect, Breitbart defunded ACORN via congress, Bob.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 1:12 pm #
snotnose is one of those that is willing to admit that we should not be allowed to defend ourselves. And, it supports child sex slavery.
Comment by Pablo on 9/21 @ 1:14 pm #
What is it, snotcone? Explain the substance and potential impact of it for us, O Wise One.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 1:14 pm #
What the hell does he hope to accomplish, BMoe? How does one embrace a roll that, as an Ex-President, focuses on not only excoriating your own country on foreign soil but also dogging and slamming one of your closest allies?
Mental illness? Or has he drunk so deeply from the leftist Christian creed that he’s no nothing more than a blinkered ideologue?
He truly boggles my mind.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 1:15 pm #
To do so in the face of reality is Baghdad Bob.
I can’t find a single ACORN story today.
I rest my case.
flash.in.the.pan
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 1:15 pm #
one.day.story.
Shouldn’t you be chanting this over a string of rosary beads? The effect would be similar.
I don’t approve of the Afghanistan war.
Never have, never will.
Hurrah for your consistency, then. And your proposed response to 9/11 would have been…?
(Oh, and if you’re thinking of pulling a handful of tropes out of your ass with regard to “Well, my response wouldn’t have been…” Just don’t bother.)
Comment by JHo on 9/21 @ 1:15 pm #
snoload.
Why is that pertinent, Bob? Because leftism is intellectually and spiritually bankrupt. Its failure is never a question of if, but always a question of when.
You might want to get ahead of the fail curve, pal. Because it’s inevitable.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 1:16 pm #
Um … role. I only embrace “rolls” at barbeques.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/21 @ 1:16 pm #
Jimmy Carter isn’t any more anti-American than that church the little president man and his hoochie went to for twenty years I don’t think.
Comment by JHo on 9/21 @ 1:17 pm #
Ok, I’ll run with that. If it’s so, it’s because ACORN is ceasing to exist. As it should be.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 1:19 pm #
“Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 1:10 pm #
As long as Obamamessiah does it
Afghanistan is the “good” war; Iraq was the “pointless” one. Check your notes.
I don’t approve of the Afghanistan war.”
That’s because you’re a moron, snowblower
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 1:19 pm #
I can’t find a single ACORN story today.
I rest my case.
flash.in.the.pan
They’ve already been cut off by congress, moron.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 1:20 pm #
lol.
Snowcone has got to be satire. Nobody is this fucking stupid.
Comment by Ric Locke on 9/21 @ 1:21 pm #
no, no, louchette. You aren’t thinking hard hitting! enough.
What’s needed are used prosthetics — limbs, hands, all the various types, although snowcone’s prosthetic brain probably wouldn’t be edgy enough, and they all have to be from soldiers (small pictures of the individuals, preferably in uniform, will be attached to each). We glue and/or weld them into a simulacrum of (s*t, I can’t remember enough of the name to find it on the web; it’s a statue of a caryatid or Kore, who has collapsed under the column she supports but is still straining to hold it up. If it doesn’t break your heart to look at it, you have no soul), except that in this case the load that’s broken its carrier is a two-faced bust of Bush and Cheney holding money bags in each hand; and, at the figure’s feet, we have a pile of crushed and broken bodies of dead children.
No blood, menstrual or otherwise, needed, although a little blood and used engine oil, mixed, would add something to the piece. It may be hard to get the prosthetics, but that just means the grant has to be big — we’ll need two dozen or so, and I figure ten grand apiece will be enough for the people we get them from to replace them, so we ask up front for a million and settle for half that. The bust, crushed brown children, &etc. can come from stock — there must be a couple of tons of that stuff rolling around the Art Community.
Anybody prepared to do a concept sketch?
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Pablo on 9/21 @ 1:21 pm #
Did you look under your bed, alphie? How about on the internet?
Comment by Danger on 9/21 @ 1:21 pm #
BMoe,
The Boys at Powerline have discovered a jewel of Carter’s past that explains some of Carter’s behavior (the racist part)
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 1:22 pm #
I can’t find a single ACORN story today.
Fox News – http://tinyurl.com/n3esj8
WSJ — http://tinyurl.com/n5o7×4
Chicago Tribune — http://tinyurl.com/ng5txm
Los Angeles Times — http://tinyurl.com/lptgnd
All of these are on the first page of a Google news search for “ACORN.” There are others. All of them are timestamped today.
You either give mendacity or stupidity a bad name, I can’t decide which.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 1:23 pm #
People are paying attention to him.
Comment by Ric Locke on 9/21 @ 1:24 pm #
Ah, there it is: The Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone, Rodin.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Log Cabin on 9/21 @ 1:27 pm #
OMG, this little whiff of flatulence isn’t the mighty “other shoe” Breitbart promised his acolytes, is it?
See what I mean, folks?
Snowcone = A wormy, sick old dog.
“this little whiff…” = his own vomit.
Like most critters running solely on instinct, he will repeat this pointless behavior again and again, with no actual higher brain functions being involved.
Comment by JHo on 9/21 @ 1:28 pm #
So snotbore, there are all kinds of ACORN stories of late. Like, of the last 8 hours.
Yet ACORN is indeed, in some important ways, ceasing to exist.
When I speculate wildly I try to base it in some semblance of reality.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/21 @ 1:28 pm #
I can’t find a single ACORN story today.
Because you’re looking so hard? How hard are you looking? Really hard?
Because if you’re really looking, then it must be important to you.
Oh wait………you’re an idiot.
Comment by Snotcone on 9/21 @ 1:30 pm #
You shut up, JHo.
FLASH.IN.THE.PAN.
Don’t you redneck teabaggers listen? I just said it!
Comment by Dave in SoCal on 9/21 @ 1:31 pm #
When I speculate wildly I try to base it in some semblance of reality.
Alas, snowcow and reality have, at best, a nodding acquaintance. As it has demonstrated here again and again and again, ad nauseum.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 9/21 @ 1:32 pm #
Hey, maybe we’ve got this all wrong. Maybe the NEA are just going to get together and fashion some suitable memorial to our Dear Leader? Something like this, maybe spanning the Mississippi?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 1:32 pm #
The Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone, Rodin.
One of Jubal Harshaw’s favorites.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 1:32 pm #
If by nodding acquaintance, you mean they have never been in the same zipcode, then I would agree with you, Dave.
Comment by Dave in SoCal on 9/21 @ 1:37 pm #
JD,
By “nodding acquaintance”, I mean that they nod as they zip past each other at near light speeds. Hope this helps to clarify.
Comment by Snotcone on 9/21 @ 1:39 pm #
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
You are wrongwrongwrongwrongwrongwrongwrong!!!!!Eleventy!
Times a googol!
Comment by Snowcorn on 9/21 @ 1:40 pm #
I can’t find a single story of Obama lying. Oh well, back to my coma.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/21 @ 1:40 pm #
good one Snowcorn
Comment by alppuccino on 9/21 @ 1:45 pm #
This calls for another look an NEA treasure
So proud.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/21 @ 1:46 pm #
at
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 1:46 pm #
Is it true Obama is sending these to all his supporters for Christmas, Snowcone?
Comment by JHo on 9/21 @ 1:52 pm #
If I say lies and coverup, what do you think? Thought so.
In the Age of Hope For Change, where’s its Archie Cox?
Comment by louchette, classic liberal & stoner slut (ret.) on 9/21 @ 1:53 pm #
thank you ric. (and regards!) and yes it is a lovely sculpture. and thank you so much for more such awesome ideas and directions for this project. altho, i still think if we’re speaking ZOMG TROOTH TO POWAH here and engaging in ‘the highest form of patriotism,’ the piece should critique and problematize and (whatevers else sounds important and intellectual) the current admin and congress, not any previous ones. so no booshitler or any of that baby eating puppy vivisector cheney. it’s gotta be teh teleprompter emperor, his fattie hating bosslady, pelosi, reid, etc.
and alppucciono: fuck yeah! that’s what i’m talkin’ about. that’s the sort of art we should be applying for grants with.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/21 @ 1:54 pm #
If anyone didn’t know snowcone trolls Ace as honestcloud. WTF kinda job does he have to post all day I have no clue.
Comment by Benito Mussolini on 9/21 @ 1:58 pm #
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state!
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 2:00 pm #
The thing about slowcone is that I find myself suddenly wondering if I call other trolls imbeciles too indiscriminately. Maybe it’s some kind of jedi mind trick. Is it possible that he’s some sort of Sorosian palate cleanser sent here to make the rest of our pinko flotsam seem intelligent?
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 2:02 pm #
I don’t know about snowcone being honestcloud. The latter just screams “I have never encountered people who don’t share my opinions on the internet before,” while snowcone sound like he’s at least armored up with a nice aura of blase snark.
Comment by Joe on 9/21 @ 2:02 pm #
Of course. Still, while Obama deserved to be really grilled on his plan, I have to thank George S. for asking at least one
racistslightly less than fauning question.Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 2:03 pm #
“he’s at least armored up with a nice aura of blase snark.”
Ignorant snark.
Which is orders of magnitude worse.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 2:05 pm #
Well, yeah. But he evinces a world-wearniess that honestcloud is just to SHOCKED! to affect.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 2:06 pm #
I cannot believe that Georgie Snuffalupagus, the one that was moved to tears by Barcky winning, was the only one that asked him a remotely contentious question. Then, he quickly reattached his lips to the Royal Schlong, but for a brief moment, he committed an act of journalism.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 2:06 pm #
Again, with long history, alphie/snowcone is a cage poker. He care not a whit for logic and facts. All he cares about is coming up with the most outrageous thing that will get him a reaction.
Until he posts something so outrageous that he gets banned … as he has been banned from several blogs.
Well that and seeking funding for the Chinese Troops in Shipping containers defense.
Comment by Ric Locke on 9/21 @ 2:09 pm #
#144 No, louchette, we’re talking NEA here. Any slightest negative reference, however oblique, to the folk you name will get the application bounced so quickly it will violate the Law of Conservation of Momentum. It has to diss “flyover country”, conservatism, Republicans, gun owners, “teabaggers”, and the like.
For further discussion, see Nicholas Packwood.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 2:09 pm #
What got him banned last time?
Or would that awaken sleeping dogs?
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 2:10 pm #
he’s at least armored up with a nice aura of blase snark
I prefer to be covered in a patina of snark.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/21 @ 2:16 pm #
I prefer to be covered in a patina of snark.
Check with thor. I think he’d be glad to drizzle you.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 2:17 pm #
See, that’s what I’m talking about. Honest Cloud is too busy coming up with new forms of the word “ignorant” to correct one on the connotations of “aura” vs. “patina”.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 2:18 pm #
Snark is pretty much a utility belt for the witless on the interwebs at this point. It can’t mask teh stupid, especially for someone who mistakes the wad of Obama spunk on his tummy for a patina of snark.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/21 @ 2:20 pm #
Yeah maybe. I just noticed the first comment he made here was pretty much word for word what I saw over there earlier. Same “Oh new week new scandal yawn”. I guess in the trolls defense stupid only comes in so many flavors.
Comment by sdferr on 9/21 @ 2:20 pm #
You needn’t trouble to diss the old regime Ric, you can praise the new, all the while bearing an esoteric message of FAIL specifically designed to be overlooked by the new regime’s Gatekeepers, who, after all, given the job they are doing, aren’t going to be the brightest lights on the tree.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 2:21 pm #
There’s probably a “Q” source for all their tired evasions.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 2:25 pm #
I’m not sure about last time as he’s been banned so many times it’s hard to keep track (his various names on various blogs are embedded in my name link.) I know got banned in his Alphie mutation for stating, on a memorial thread to the murdered students at Va. Tech, that compared to the casualties in Iraq, what happened to those students was “no big deal.”
Jeff dropped an MIRV on his ass for that.
He also got banned at Jules Crittenden’s place when he, in so many words, wished then Major john harm on his upcoming mission to Iraq.
He’s also echoed the thor meme that Russia won WWII and the US was merely a bit player as well as opining that Neville Chamberlain (one of his aliases) was “right” when he signed the Munich accords.
There is so much more but I get tired talking about it.
Comment by louchette, classic liberal & stoner slut (ret.) on 9/21 @ 2:30 pm #
point taken, ric. and awesome article. it’s bookmarked now.
and yes i suppose you’re correct. it would have to be incoherent and ambivalent, in both celebrating and dissing ‘flyover country.’
and, semi-OT, but this reminds me of something from when i was in gradual school/TAing… when jeff koons first had that show of his ginormous fake hummel and other granny’s mantle type porcelains, including the infamous one depicting michael jackson and bubbles, i had a huge argument with a bunch of my colleagues. i really liked koons, still sorta do (but not in the same way.) and i thought the work was clever. but all my leftard art damaged friends hated the piece, and were deeply offended by it. and i tried to get them to ’splain to me why. and tho they were mostly spouting jargon with no content a few were sort of able to explain their anger. and what it boiled down to was this: i hate this art, not because it makes fun of people like my grandma and the things that suchlike people enjoy, but because my grandma might actually see it and might like it and she wouldn’t properly understand that it was intended to insult and hurt her. therefor it sucks.
um kya… i am so glad to not be in that world of stupid anymore. srsly.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/21 @ 2:32 pm #
Snowcone’s blatherings are so scripted and repetitive. Why can’t there be just a stock reply to any of his pap?
I vote for “Open the window”
Comment by sdferr on 9/21 @ 2:35 pm #
That is the funniest thing I’ve read in months.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 2:36 pm #
I find stock replies marginally less irritating than the trolls, personally.
But I won’t fault anyone for whatever “Whatever” suits his/her fancy.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 2:41 pm #
Stock reply? I vote for “Vanilla Pickles.”
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/21 @ 2:42 pm #
The art community does seem to value anti-art, for its own sake, more than art. The avant-garde works very very hard to avoid doing anything resembling working at a craft.
I have a fantasy of finding DuChamp’s “Fountain” and urinating in it. I wouldn’t be the first, but its the principle of the thing.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 2:42 pm #
yellowsnow is a zit on the asscheek of humanity.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/21 @ 2:48 pm #
Stock reply? I vote for “Vanilla Pickles.”
Ooh, I loved her films. Especially Pirates of the Hairy Bean and When Hairy Met Sloppy
Comment by alppuccino on 9/21 @ 2:48 pm #
stupid Nyquil
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 2:51 pm #
al: I would love to open your skull and take a look around sometime. I suspect I’ll see clowns in ski masks and hippos with cupcakes and M-16’s. :-)
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Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 2:52 pm #
Oh, and Vanilla Pickles!
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 2:53 pm #
The art community does seem to value anti-art, for its own sake, more than art. The avant-garde works very very hard to avoid doing anything resembling working at a craft.
That’s a recurring theme across artistic mediums I think.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 2:58 pm #
Oh, great. SEK lays on the snark about Bush’s Faith Based Initiatives while leaving out large chunks of the NEA teleconference transcript in a pathetic attempt to couch the call as a “call for service” … just like Faith Based initiatives!
Scott must have moved in with Alphie.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/21 @ 2:58 pm #
Oh, and Vanilla Pickles!
I loved her in 3:10 to Splooge!
This feels familiar.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 2:58 pm #
SEK’s link above is one of the more aggressively dishonest and mendoucheous posts that SEK has come up with. I am dummerer for having clicked on it.
Comment by sdferr on 9/21 @ 3:01 pm #
BJTex, in this Maguire piece, The Enigma Is Mutual (great title) I hear echoes your theme to Dreher:
Comment by cranky-d on 9/21 @ 3:11 pm #
SEK must be bored again and looking for something to stir up.
Comment by Darleen on 9/21 @ 3:15 pm #
Scott really is particularly dishonest … a man who claims to care about words, meaning and intent … and he tries to draw some equivalency between serving the poor and political propaganda in service of a cult of personality.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 3:24 pm #
SEK’s post was just so dishonest on so many levels. It starts off by comparing apples to submarines, makes a mockery of the actual facts involved in this matter, when he is not simply ignoring the facts, and conflates actual government programs with a call to propoganda. It also ignores that the faith-based initiative idea remains well in place with its own little czar under Teh One. Frankly, it is a dishonest hack piece, below even SEK, though he has been devolving right before our eyes recently. RACISTS !!!!!!!!!
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 3:31 pm #
political propaganda in service of a cult of personality</i.
Methinks you’re just jealous that Obama has a personality.
Last Republican to have one was…Reagan, maybe?
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 3:34 pm #
Snotnose – How much are you paying your child sex slaves nowadays?
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 3:40 pm #
Guaranteed that snotnose still requires the aid of velcro shoes.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 3:41 pm #
Methinks you’re just jealous that Obama has a personality.
You lost us at “methinks.”
Comment by Rusty on 9/21 @ 3:43 pm #
#184 & etc.
Another star just died. Entropy has increased. The expansion has slowed. All because of snocone.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 9/21 @ 3:48 pm #
Pondering your own perceived awesomeness a personality does not make.
Face it, Snowcane, his personality is the sum of his race(s) and funny Muslim-sounding name, and nothing more. He’s Sidney Poitier redux – an opportunity for you to expiate your racism and race based guilt and prop up a “good one” who is “well spoken.”
The problem is, now that we’ve done that, we’re stuck with him in the office which makes the Country pretty well fucked.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 3:49 pm #
Snotnose has yet to show any evidence of functioning grey matter, so it is demonstrably lying when it says methinks.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/21 @ 3:49 pm #
I prolly should wait til I get home before I google any pickles I think.
Comment by Pablo on 9/21 @ 3:50 pm #
Bush had no personality? There goes 8 years of memes.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 3:53 pm #
Looking for a business opportunity, ‘feets?
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 3:54 pm #
Pablo – Just like Teh One’s statements, their memes cease having any meaning the moment they are uttered.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 3:58 pm #
Obama only has a personality compared to the rest of the Democrats, Reid? Pelosi? Kerry? Gore?
Nothing but projection from this one.
Comment by McGehee on 9/21 @ 4:03 pm #
Be fair to Obama, his personality is light-years more advanced than Al Gore’s was.
Of course, I suspect that’s because unlike Gore’s Obama’s is written for the Mac.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/21 @ 4:05 pm #
we are disallowed youtubes here…
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 4:11 pm #
Imagine swirled peas.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 4:16 pm #
It’s a cafe in Japan where you can rent bunnies to pet and play with.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 4:18 pm #
So is a brick.
Comment by Jim in KC & Partners on 9/21 @ 4:23 pm #
I don’t know what’s wrong with you people. Art isn’t great art unless it serves the state. So fire up that paintbrush, that welder, your pooper–and get out there and illustrate dialectic materialism for me, gang!
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 4:29 pm #
The people involved in that inanity quoted above are the same people that think they know better how to spend your hard-earned money, and to make your healthcare decisions.
Comment by Darleen on 9/21 @ 4:38 pm #
B Moe
watched that video … fell over with sugar overload
Pink AND fluffy … even dishes topped with rice shaped as bunnies…..
Sanrio is jealous
Comment by happyfeet on 9/21 @ 4:40 pm #
that sounds fun
Comment by Blake on 9/21 @ 4:42 pm #
I beg to differ on Gore’s personality or lack thereof.
Gore has lots of personality. Unfortunately, Gore’s personality resembles Dr. Fronkenstein as portrayed by Gene Wilder. With maybe a touch of Tim Curry.
Comment by SBP on 9/21 @ 4:47 pm #
I can’t find a single ACORN story today.
Liar.
Associated Press (18 hours ago)
Bloomberg (35 minutes ago).
Associated Press (1 hour ago).
Lots more, nipply.
This isn’t going away.
Sorry.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/21 @ 4:54 pm #
Here’s a tip, SBP:
“Investigate” is Washington speak for “bury.”
This ain’t Watergate or Mark Foley.
Comment by SBP on 9/21 @ 4:58 pm #
Here’s a tip, nipply:
You’re a liar.
An incompetent one.
Hope this helps!
Comment by happyfeet on 9/21 @ 5:06 pm #
this is a lizard what looks much like American comic book hero Spider-Man
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 5:06 pm #
Why was Foley bad, but Studds was alright, snotnose? And how much are you paying those child sex slaves these days?
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 5:12 pm #
It’s amazing that snowbunny has gone this long without even saying something smart by accident. If he was just slapping his dick on the keyboard and then hitting “send” his odds of not beclowing himself would improve.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 5:12 pm #
Snotnose is alright with using taxpayer dollars to fund propaganda campaigns for Teh One.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 5:14 pm #
Abe – There are sooooo many flawed assumptions in your last comment, that they had to be intentional.
Comment by newrouter on 9/21 @ 5:34 pm #
“This ain’t Watergate or Mark Foley.”
it must of been illegal immigrant underage house pages that trip up foley.
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 5:46 pm #
Ironic that snotnose is all atwitter about Foley dirty-texting, but condones aiding illegal immigrants into child sex slavery.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 9/21 @ 5:47 pm #
I dunno, I rather like the idea of this NEA project. Starbucks closed a bunch of locations this past year. Just think of how many unemployed baristas this makework project will get off the dole!
Comment by JD on 9/21 @ 5:55 pm #
There was a former ACORN board member, Michael McCray (I think) on Lou Dobbs’ show tonite. He was really good, and is combatting ACORN from his position as a former Board member.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 5:56 pm #
“This ain’t Watergate or Mark Foley.”
It ain’t the crime, it’s the coverup.
Just wait, yellowsnow.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 5:57 pm #
“Comment by Abe Froman on 9/21 @ 5:12 pm #
It’s amazing that snowbunny has gone this long without even saying something smart by accident. If he was just slapping his dick on the keyboard and then hitting “send” his odds of not beclowing himself would improve.”
Prove that that’s not what he’s doing.
Comment by JeffS on 9/21 @ 6:22 pm #
If he was just slapping his dick on the keyboard and then hitting “send” his odds of not beclowing himself would improve.
You’re assuming that his dick is long enough for this task. It’s more likely that he’s flinging his poo at the keyboard.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/21 @ 6:37 pm #
That one day story being buried just raised its head again on my local news radio station. A relative of the founder of ACORN apparently stole about one million dollars from the organization ten years ago and it was never reported to the authorities.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/20/ex-acorn-officer-embezzled/
Is it still no big deal if the story lasts a month?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/21 @ 6:39 pm #
I once did stock replies to nishi; they consisted of using the names of IJN warships.
I had fun with that, especially deciding where to put the punctuation marks.
Example: “Haruna, Mogami Chitose? Shigure! Akagi Kaga!”
have fun making your own replies.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 9/21 @ 6:51 pm #
I wonder if snowdork has ever gotten laid in his life.
Comment by Rusty on 9/21 @ 7:01 pm #
#223
That’s not an area of his existance I’d prefer not to dwell upon. He does,however, seem to be in full persuit of ‘below average’.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 7:31 pm #
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/21 @ 6:39 pm #
That was a scream, Mikey.
I LOLed, as they say.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 7:39 pm #
“Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 9/21 @ 6:51 pm #
I wonder if snowdork has ever gotten laid in his life.”
You mean like with a woman?
Comment by cynn on 9/21 @ 8:00 pm #
you sick fucks.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 8:04 pm #
“Comment by cynn on 9/21 @ 8:00 pm #
you sick fucks.”
‘Smatter, cynn, jealous?
Comment by cynn on 9/21 @ 8:10 pm #
Yes, I would be overjoyed to be like you.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 8:14 pm #
“Comment by cynn on 9/21 @ 8:10 pm #
Yes, I would be overjoyed to be like you.”
Someone with a loving mate and 3 wonderful children?
Stay away from the box wine, and it could happen to you.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 8:15 pm #
Oh, cynn?
Tomorrow.
30th anniversary.
Comment by cynn on 9/21 @ 8:18 pm #
Of what, your marriage? If so congrats. But what does that have to do with squat?
Comment by cynn on 9/21 @ 8:24 pm #
Shows you what a waste of time the Obama whining is. Keep crapping; we’ll clean up the litter box.
Comment by Darleen on 9/21 @ 8:33 pm #
N O’Brain
Happy congrats to you and the mrs!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 8:34 pm #
” Keep crapping; we’ll clean up the litter box.”
Don’t do that, that’s where ACORN hides the bribe money.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/21 @ 8:35 pm #
Thanks, Darleen.
Thirty five years on and Scottish Kate still talks funny.
Comment by Snowcone's dick on 9/21 @ 9:12 pm #
Yes, I would be overjoyed to be like you.
Congratulations! You’ve recognized your problem. Now, follow the 12 Steps To Liberal Recovery, and you’ll be a new person!
Comment by Snowcone's dick on 9/21 @ 9:15 pm #
Well, that link was messed up!
Sorry, cynn, try this one.
Good luck in your recovery!!
Comment by Pablo on 9/21 @ 9:21 pm #
Wow. Klavan is pissed about this. And Iowahawk brings the lulz.
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 9/21 @ 9:37 pm #
Cynn, I have no idea what you mean by that.
OTOH, maybe you should get a self-cleaning litterbox. See http://www.litterbox-central.com/litter-box/ for discussions about the various types.
Comment by B Moe on 9/21 @ 9:50 pm #
From the Klavan link, a pet peeve of mine:
If you are doing it for the money, you are a craftsman, not an artist. That is why I have always held anyone involved with the NEA with utter contempt. If you can make money honest money doing what you love and feel, that’s fine and God bless you. But patronage by any other name smells just as bad.
Comment by SBP on 9/21 @ 10:55 pm #
#241:
Hmm… I’d say that an artist tries to make an original statement, while a craftsman focuses on perfecting his technical control of the medium. One person can be both, of course.
Comment by geoffb on 9/22 @ 12:27 am #
For Mikey NTH.
Iwate! Kasuga! Syumusyu! Heil Küstenverteidigungsschiffe.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 9/22 @ 1:29 am #
Einheitslinienschiff!!!!
Comment by Carin on 9/22 @ 4:29 am #
Same “Oh new week new scandal yawn”. I guess in the trolls defense stupid only comes in so many flavors.
Trolls often SOUND alike because they all get their talking points from the same sources.
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Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 9/22 @ 8:48 am #
You can always tell when the lefties have nothing to say, because they do nothing but repeat how we aren’t saying anything important.
PWNED by history. It hurtses! It hurtses!
Trackback by Maggie's Farm on 9/22 @ 12:29 pm #
Tuesday afternoon links…
Art that the masses can comprehend: the above from a Protein Wisdom post on the O admin and the NEA
The earth is cooling off (especially here right now). They say it’s just going to be a 20-50 year blip – but they did not predict this. So what good…
Comment by Rusty on 9/22 @ 8:10 pm #
#242
I once watched a guy TIG weld an aluminum motorcycle frame. Welds like dimes laid one atop the other on every weld on the whole frame. He raised what he did for a living to the level of art, and to watch was poetry.I think when you take what you are passionate about and put your whole self into it so that it absorbs you totally you make it art.
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