To borrow from Flannery O’Connor, this is as natural to the mainstream media as breathing.
But they’re misreading us. And that’s because at some point they really began to believe the “reality” they’ve been trying to create — one in which Obama is a competent statesman beloved by his subjects, and if the GOP would just go away, the Won would help usher us in to an Utopian age of art and salon talk, of foreign film festivals and wine tastings.
— Once he figured out a way to do away with all the riff raff in flyover country, that is — or at least, made it so they’d be inclined, economically, to serve their betters in some useful capacity, like, say, assembling wind turbines and ski lifts, in exchange for basic cable and plenty of potato chips.
Which is why their reaction today is so surreal, and so quietly amusing:
No, my darling yentas. We’re going to hold the election. And savor it. Because I can’t wait to witness all the Pauline Kael moments from blinkered media harpies who’ve become so accustomed to fingering themselves that they’ve neglected to take the pulse of the rest of America.
Enjoy your day, gals. Ours is coming soon.
Jeff, when you are on a roll you are good. Damn good.
What Joe said.
BUT, don’t we need someone to oppose Obama in a presidential election?
Away from Romney, not seeing many doing the work.
What Joe said, too. Really good.
Don’t underestimate Obama’s work ethic, the dude cut short his golf round Sunday to make last minute adjustments to the raid. He is willing to pay the price, man.
Ding Dong! Osama is dead. Which old bitch? The son of a bitch!
Ding Dong! Osama bin Laden is dead.
Wake up – sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, Osama bin Laden is dead. He’s gone where the dead fish go,
Below – below – below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
Osama bin Laden is dead!
President Obama:
As President of the Capital City, In the County of the Land of U.S.A., I welcome you most regally.
Eric Holder:
But we’ve got to verify it legally, to see
President Obama
To see?
Eric Holder
If he
President Obama
If he?
Eric Holder
Is morally, ethic’lly
Hillary Clinton
Spiritually, physically
Leon Panetta
Positively, absolutely
Rest of the Cabinet
Undeniably and reliably Dead
Navy Coroner
As Coroner I must begin, I thoroughly examined him.
And he’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead.
President Obama
Then this is a day of Independence For all the Americans and their descendants
Eric Holder
If any.
President Obama
Yes, let the joyous news be spread The wicked son of a bitch at last is dead!
here’s the line up for thurs. debate:
“By contrast, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has joined several other Republicans — Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer and pizza magnate Herman Cain — in committing to the debate. “
Ah, the Hens are clucking, are they?
Good. It keeps them occupied.
These guys, like their viewers, have an attention span measured in minutes. Do they really believe that anyone will remember this a year from now? Honestly, Team Won! is praying to the holy ghost of Marx that people forget the conditions we’re currently living under before election time comes around. How do you say “Remember the night we got Osama?” without your debate partner replying, “Oh, yeah, that was the week that gas briefly dipped below $4 a gallon. Good times!”
These dingbats are like children playing with matches. They don’t mean to burn everything down; they’re just having some innocent fun. Nevertheless, they need to be smacked and sent to their rooms without supper.
Mildred Romney is skipping the SC debate, which is good. He should skip them all.
Warmed-over also-rans from 2008 need not apply.
I was at the pump today and this was the exchange:
Guy at the next pump: “Great he killed Osama, how about taking a few oil wells and getting the price down.”
I replied: “How about opening up the gulf and Alaska for drilling.”
Guy at the pump: “Hell yeah, this is nuts.”
it was funny listening to rush today mixing up obama with osama
Exactly right.
Osama bin Laden is dead. Good.
And tomorrow, al-Qaeda will still hate us. And so will Hamas.
And we will still have multi-trillion dollar deficits.
And we will still have almost 20% real unemployment.
And produce prices will still be going through the roof.
And the cheap octane will still be over $4/gallon and climbing.
And so on, and so on, and so on.
it is the drip drip drip of baracky’s incompetence that will wash this event away
I know I sound like a broken record, but, “Hello? View hens? Remember, Bush41? The guy who kicked Saddam out of Kuwait? And who lost the next election anyway? Because of a “bad economy” that we’d all kill for right now?”
No, no they don’t. Because as Squid says, their attention span is in minutes…
I’ll enjoy the taste of their tears.
At unThinking Progressives
And others in the same vein.
That was to be expected, geoffb.
So they can concentrate on the REAL war. Against Tea Partiers.
Well the Tea Party is the existential threat to them. Fundamentalist Islamists aren’t throw them out of power in 2012.
My “going to” got gone.
I just don’t get why an illegal alien socialist Muslim who wants the terrorists to win would have ordered this.
I just don’t get why an illegal alien socialist Muslim who wants the terrorists to win would have ordered this.
There are a lot of things you don’t get. That’s one of the downsides to being a moron.
Hi, Pres. It’s me, CIA guy, here with my friend military guy. We found Osama. Got him in a house in Pakistan. Found him through the courier, who we found through the enhanced interrogation you said was despicable. What do you want to do?
Obama: “Uh. Let me meet with you a few more times, and if he’s still there, I guess we go try to capture him? Maybe with, like, soldiery stuff or some of them SEALy guys? And big choppers?”
I just don’t get why we’re supposed to pretend it was courageous for a President to issue the order to go ahead and get the guy who ordered the biggest terror attack on American history, nor am I clear what his options were, given that he wasn’t alone in the knowledge that we knew exactly where Osama was.
But then, I suspect you’re going for fraught irony, right?
Actually — since this was clearly a joint military-CIA operation — it’s starting to make sense for the Comedy Relief to become SecDef and the Smart Man to head up the Spook Squad….
caption this
Levin is playing audio of all the lib media going after Bush for “secret prisons” and enhanced interrogations, citing Geneva Conventions and Amnesty International.
And yet today, Joy Behar is bleating like a bloodthirsty jackal, and Andrea Mitchell is metaphorically grinding her old twat on Osama’s dead body. It’s amazing.
Do they think we don’t remember how they went after Bush Justice Department lawyers? How they opposed NSA surveillance? How they wanted Guantanamo closed? How they wanted the courts to protect these enemy combatants?
Sorry, but that won’t sell in the age of the internet. The audio is out there. The video is out there. And we’re gathering it up.
Im just glad he gave the order, if only to see Andrew Sullivan cry out in ecstasy.
Andrea Mitchell is metaphorically grinding her old twat on Osama’s dead body.
That might be the most OUTLAW thing you have ever written.
link
Barney Frank goes after Eric Canter for politicizing Bin Laden’s death.
Yes, really. Cuz Canter dared breath President Bush’s name in the same sentence as The One’s.
“Sorry, but that won’t sell in the age of the internet.”
tim rutten and the la times could not e reached for comment
another caption contest
link
How about “Who looks the least Presidential in this picture?”
Christ what a fucking embarassment.
Fuck Barney Frank.
Truth be told, we all know that the Dems did everything they could to weaken our ability to stop these fuckers. Until they took power. At which point, an opportunity is an opportunity.
We see through them.
spamicide, it’s kind of cute, in a sad pathetic way, that you think that killing Osama means anything, other than another islamist cockroach being dead. I mean that’s a good, good thing. But another cockroach will replace the nearly departed cockroach.
Not with Michael Moore’s dick. Although they’d both enjoy it….
To find it, you’d have to reach your hand in that gunt, unless he is kind enough to tie a pullstring on it for you.
Varicose vein:
So, the war on terror only exists because we’re fighting it, and if we stop, the terrorists will stop as well.
I did not know that.
Oh sure they’ll stop.
No, pull the OTHER finger.
“And they wandered in
From the city of St. John
Without a dime
Wearing coats that shined
Both red and green
Colors from their sunny island
From their boats of iron ”
reds and greens attacking
#2 Roddy:
You do realize that the election is eighteen months away? The field will start after Labor Day, and take shape in late winter – early spring. It is a little too early to start worrying about who the Republican candidate will be.
“Remember to hit (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, B, A) before you start, this time!”
I am with Roddy on #26. That was word smithying that conveyed a powerful (and horrifying) image… anyone see my airsickness bag around here?
I’m suprised he took time from his golf game to sign off on this.
Maybe one of his aids brought the clipboard to the back nine.
Just.. damn.