I’m too furious to comment on the cynical, craven, political opportunism involved with the very public reception of the bodies of the slain American diplomats being returned from overseas. It’s a show being put on for cameras, yet another nodal point of coverage the left uses to keep its mainstream media outlets filled with the images that they hope the casual voter puts together into a picture of competence, compassion, hope, and change.
This is what a poststructural postmodern political system looks like: it cares not that you can identify its propaganda, just that it can spread it successfully faster than you can combat it. And it has hit upon a strategy for doing so: supplying images and statements to its media arm, refusing to answer questions, declaring criticism off-limits or “politicizing,” and then waiting for the voters to put the whole thing in focus like some hellish squint art poster, as if it is they who has done the hard work of seeing the completed picture hidden in the noise.
As Pablo pointed out, while the bodies were being unloaded, and the maudlin spectacle was unfolding for public consumption, manufacturing the images it hopes will fill the void of unanswered questions, here’s the Tweet that went out from the President: “Winter is coming, but these sweatshirts are perfect for fall: http://OFA.BO/rj5Tns”
These people don’t care about you. They don’t love this country. They are who we thought they were. And they’re committed to pretending they aren’t just so long as it takes to bring the whole fucking thing down.
They’re betting on our indifference and ignorance, their own abilities to manipulate the news cycle and dictate the narrative, and the allure of their panders and divisions.
Something wicked this way comes.
it’s very historic, our diplomats getting slaughtered like Ramadan goats while the White House actively works to appease terrorists by calling in favors at google
there might could even be a fucking postage stamp one day
Meanwhile, Frey defends his friend Jan Crawford, who was at the center of the media’s coordinated attack on Romney.
I mean, it’s not like she did something heinous like calling her dog by saying, “Here, boy!’ within earshot of a black man.
Here’s the link to Frey’s post, so you can read it in its entirety and judge for yourself:
http://patterico.com/2012/09/14/in-defense-of-jan-crawford/
And we’re wasting a thought on that toadish duplicitous lickspittle functionary because…?
But Smoke, she’s a good woman.
Oh and “Something wicked this way comes.” Nah, by th’ pricking of my thumbs, its been here for years…
– Something wicked isn’t ‘coming’ anywhere, its already here.
– Don’t forget Jeff. According to little stalin, “we’re all in this together”, because even as the Left destroys the entire country they’re ardently ready to place the blame on anything and everything but themsleves.
Let me play devil’s advocate for a minute.
What is the reason they have for bringing it all down? This bunch doesn’t seem to know their assholes from their elbows, nor know what the outcome would be if it all did come crashing down.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is the assumption that they’re all avowed leftists/socialists who are practically planning the downfall of our country? Or is it that they’re so incredibly ignorant/stupid that they think their philosphy can work when it’s never worked in the history of mankind.
Occam’s razor; I’m leaning toward the latter: It’s difficult for me to see these people as anything but craven political opportunists, who thanks to the lack of real education in this country, really believe themselves to be intelligent, learned people.
JMHO
I’m so disgusted over Obama & Hillary’s damaging behavior this week. I don’t care if they’re fools or knaves. It doesn’t matter. The results will be the same.
Collective personality disorder.
What? They do everything else together.
Know any personality disorders?
Is that Axelrod slouching towards Gomorrah?
Ace, in a moment of insight:
I tend to think they really believe in themselves and their own intelligence. They *do* have a very high opinion of themselves, and most politicians are not, as a general rule, humble
I went to lunch with a very rural friend of mine today. She does not read the news. She asked me honestly – “so what is it with Obama? you think he’s really a Muslim?”
I told her: no. He doesn’t have a religious faith. He worships himself, or the Almighty State. That would explain his ability to pretend to any faith, or all of them, or change his opinions on the fly depending on whatever serves his personal aims. Obama has nothing to do with religion whatsoever.
To show how right they are. Also the Eschaton must needs be made immanent.
Nobody can be this stupid this much by accident.
Your just jealous because he went to Columbia and Harvard Law, and you didn’t. Peasant.
Wow, check out Ann Barnhardt: http://www.barnhardt.biz/
Looks like a Spartacus moment has started.
Your just jealous because he went to Columbia and Harvard Law, and you didn’t. Peasant
Hey. I prefer proletariat.
or hayseed.
Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: Nothing. Nothing at all. It’s an ocean of hot shit and you know it. We’re fucked. We’ve been marching towards being fucked for twenty years. Today, we are finally here. A few short steps away from being fucked. Utterly hopelessly fucked. These are those interesting times referenced in the curse. Nothing we can do now but sack up and deal.
Mongol General: Uh….well, fuck dude…I don’t even. Shit.
re: Ann Barnhardt
if she gets killed our media will justify the killing.
We don’t live in the United States of America anymore.
Obama’s priorities.
They seem to think that they’ll get to rebuild it in their image. They’ll outnumber the rich or some such. They’re mistaken. But Cloward and Piven spelled out the strategy they’re using.
Hey, remember when Obama said “The day I’m inaugurated Muslim hostility will ease”?
I thought the sweatshirt tweet was a joke when someone mentioned it at AoS…now I realize its not. 8-|
Well, Darleen, it certainly has gotten easier for Muslims to be hostile.
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What?
Is the assumption that they’re all avowed leftists/socialists who are practically planning the downfall of our country?
That’s the assumption I’m working under. They need to tear down the existing infrastructure to install the new one. But instead of doing it all military-style like the Russians and Germans and Italians and Spanish did last century, they went all incremental and Cloward-Piven. Less resistance that way.
First they got hold of the educational institutions, to obliterate the populace’s ability to think. (Dewey was adamant that the purpose of free public education was to make the child as unlike the father as possible: all about creating the New Man For The Utopia To Come.)
Then they got Labor Unions, to undermine the capitalists.
Then they got Entertainment, to propagandize disdain and rejection of All That Came Before.
Then they seized the news organizations, to prevent The Wrong Kind Of Information from gaining a foothold.
All the while, they’ve been building the enormous scaffolding of The Entitlement State, to ensure our willing compliance when it all fell down and it was time for them to sweep in and save us all.
Their alliance with the Islamists abroad is similar to how they use Labor Unions domestically: the hired muscle that keeps the proles in line. Or in the case of foreign influence, that drives us out of the entire world (or at least away from the oil spigots), so that the rest of the world will be brought to its knees by the energy crisis.
You’d better believe that this is the culmination of 100 years of planning and scheming and plotting.
Just because most Conspiracy Theories are phony garbage doesn’t mean people aren’t up to something 24/7, while Decent People go about their lives.
The edifice is riddled through by termites, though it appeared mighty and solid. Its fall will take most people by surprise.
They’re mistaken.
They’re partly mistaken. They think they can seize control of the whole enchilada, but they won’t be able to control it. Too many of us will be hiding out in Galt’s Gulch.
I tend to think they really believe in themselves and their own intelligence.
That is entirely too timid an expression. These people are the most malignant narcissists and sociopaths that our country has ever created—except for serial killers, who lack the ability to work in groups.
Where else are power-hungry, socially adept sociopaths going to end up but Washington?
Where else are power-hungry, socially adept sociopaths going to end up but Washington?
– Harvard, Hollywood, the national media?
* smack * ….Whaaaa?…oh, sorry.
Wall Street, silly.
Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Pyongyang,
Brussels.
Atlantic City,Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston, Philadelphia, Austin, Portland, San Francisco, Albequeque…
– HuffPoop lede:
*MOB RULE*
….PROTESTS SPREAD… In Around 20 Countries… At Least 6 People Killed… U.S. Marines Arrive In Yemen… Blaze At U.S. Embassy In Sudan… German Embassy In Sudan Attacked… Obama Orders Diplomatic Security Review… Libya Arrests 4 Over Embassy Attack… U.S. Drones Fly Over Benghazi…
– Like they say at Pier 1 imports, you broke it you own it Progressives.
Lots of pottery barn jokes in the next Dunesbury strip no doubt…
Yep. ANY TIME NOW.
Trudeau is nothing if not honest and fair with his political satire. A fearless equal opportunity offender!
– I think its safe to assume Militant Islamusts are covinced that America, under the pathetic misguidence of the Obama administration, is weakened to the point of no return.
– Israel will not be sucked into our fucked up mess.
Pottery Barn and Colin Powell are both full of it with the “You break it, you bought it” line. Breakage happens at the Pottery Barn and you, as the breakee, aren’t liable for their crappy displays.
Same deal with the ME. They shouldn’t leave all of those Mosques out there where they’re easy to break.
Trudeau is nothing if not honest and fair with his political satire. A fearless equal opportunity offender!
IIRC, Trudeau isn’t doing the strip anymore, and hasn’t for years.
a map of friday after prayers fun
He isn’t. He has minions who draw it and script it.
Hillbilly is all right with me, even though the nearest hills are a couple hundred miles to the west in New Mexico.
They’re going to be awfully surprised when they realize just how many gun owners there are in America.
Now the good man crowd is going after Romney, too? It’s as if they’re trying to make Romney the new Palin, which means I just might vote for him.
Apologize to Mohammed.
Heh.
Barnhardt is a badass. Next to her I feel like a wuss.
“IIRC, Trudeau isn’t doing the strip anymore, and hasn’t for years.”
That’s called a studio. Bob Kane wasn’t really drawing or writing Batman for very long either. But he was paying the people who did and doing the thumbs up/thumbs down on what got published. Jim Davis does the same with Garfield.
But the point is Dunesbury isn’t going to notice this total collapse of a horrible naive middle eastern foreign policy from Zero’s blue ribbon super group of a State Department. He’s going to whine about Romney not following the magical new campaign rules that Obama never was asked to follow.
The point is that Dunesbury as a poltical commentator sucks wet farts from dead bloated manatees.
– Karan burning could become a national sport.
– Koran also, or ‘Qouran, which evah.
I burned some corn once. The “man who walks behind the roads” took me to court about it. He got my mobile home and my seadoo. Fucker. I was pretty pissed when I found out he was just a hallucination brought on by exposure to ergot rye mold contaminated food. What’s a hallucination want with a seadoo anyway?
you left out the “holely” part
My hallucinated lawyer was a real doofus too.
I stabbed him to death with a ‘spirit blade’ at a grateful Dead laser light show though. Go me!
Maybe we should stage “Koran Day” at the local trap range.
“PULL!!”
BANG BANG (watch the pages flutter to the ground)
Gather up the remnants to start a fire so we can cook bacon burgers, bacon brats and S’mores.
see “holely koran day” works better
They’re going to be awfully surprised when they realize just how many gun owners there are in America.
No they won’t. All the guns are registered. They just consult the paperwork.
Might want to check that. Also, assuming that what paperwork you have is current and accurate is probably not a good idea. Then, we’re assuming that they’d have that paperwork, and that they’d be willing to act upon people they assume are armed.
These people can’t even feed themselves. They’re not taking power.
Depends on the definition of “registered.” I even managed to own a gun for some time in California, which does in fact have registration, without my gun ever being registered to me. Would have been a bummer if it had been used in a crime, but for my benefactor, not for me.
Now I live in a state that doesn’t have registration, and while I’ve been instant-checked for gun purchases, those records are supposed to disappear after a certain period of time. Then again, “assault” rifles sold by licensed dealers are supposed to be in the hands of lawful buyers, not smuggled into Mexico with ATF connivance, so…
My mother-in-law has been considering getting a gun, but she was wondering about the permit process. In Tennessee. Not to carry concealed — to own. She actually thought if she bought a gun in Tennessee while still living there, she’d have complications when she moves to Georgia and wants to have a permit for it here.
She’s so cute.
Otherwise known as Hanlon’s Razor (“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”)
I’m glad to know that the private transfer of firearms requires no permit in MN.
I’m partial to riff-raff myself.
Though I look nothing like Richard O’Brien…
There’s a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There’s a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there’s Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
— Rudyard Kipling
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/5minute_arguments/the_grave_of_the_hundred.php
I am thinking we need to up the ante. Heads are harder these days, it seems.
My mother-in-law has been considering getting a gun, but she was wondering about the permit process. In Tennessee. Not to carry concealed — to own. She actually thought if she bought a gun in Tennessee while still living there, she’d have complications when she moves to Georgia and wants to have a permit for it here.
I was actually wondering what the rules were myself, since I’ve lived in SC for a few years but haven’t owned a gun here yet. I know that a concealed carry permit acquired here is not recognized in GA, at least that’s what I was told. I need to figure that out since I bought some property in GA last year.
But yeah, when I asked my dad if I had to “register” firearms here, he just laughed at me.
This may help. Note in particular this:
So I have to get the carry permit here in SC, and then I’ve got to get one in GA as well if I want to carry my weapon in my car when I drive to my property in GA? ugh i need to be able to travel back and forth with it. stupid gun laws. heh
At the rate thing are goings, everyone will be carrying openly, so you won’t need a permit.
The fundraising and campaigning amidst the chaos in the Middle East are revolting. They’ve managed to top their Obama registry fundraiser with YARDSALEFOROBAMA.COM. This is not a joke – they want Obots to sell off their possessions and send the money to O.
This administration is a swarm of cheap, oily, soulless, fame seeking, abhorrent, carnival barkers, hustlers, and maggots.
Say what you will for Nero, at least he didn’t fundraise for his next Christian BBQ while Rome burned. I’ve seriously been going crazy all week. This is worse than silence and mumbled apologies: this is slap in the face evil.
Since y’all are quite astute about these matters, I thought I’d ask if this terrible thought has crossed other Outlaw-like minds: while it is certainly possible, is it probable that the assassinations in Libya were known about and allowed to be carried out for the OPTICS?
This has been bothering me all day, and quite frankly making me sick to think about it.
If I’m even more off base than usual, just let me know and I’ll never mention it again.
Thanks.
Yeah, I did that too. Well, I possessed it. A pearl handled .357 Magnum. Things were a little weird for a while and my then-BIL figured we should have one. I’ve got a couple right now that are not connected to me by any paperwork whatsoever, all perfectly legal.
is it probable that the assassinations in Libya were known about and allowed to be carried out for the OPTICS?
#occoppywallstreet was a fizzle so baracky outsourced it to #occupymuslimbrotherhood?
I mean that all for the faux grand patriotic display put on by POTUS with the SOS, full colors, bagpipes, press, &c, Obama allowed his own diplomat and staffers to be murdered for the sake of upping poll numbers and beating on the “you can’t change horses in midstream” meme alluded to upthread.
No, leigh. I think it’s simple naivete. They knew Ansar al-Sharia had plans in the works, but The Won was just too busy campaigning, and his team is full of idiots. The optics suck for them, despite the furious efforts of Baracky’s media to blame Romney for the situation.
You can if you realize that your horse is really a blind, incontinent mule.
Late to this.
Firstly, the left has always believed, and with some reason, that they benefit from chaos. people will be ready to embrace their tyranny to escape anarchy. Now this bunch is more than those we see in the USA. They are part of something bigger.
What they want to set up is in some ways similar to the radical Islamist’s Caliphate. I call it “transnational fascism”. A one world government run by the international elite. A water empire which can never die as there will never be anyone or thing outside it.
The USA is the biggest impediment to this dream and so must be brought down by any means necessary.
Or is trying to kill you.
Thanks, Pablo. That makes more sense than thinking Jughead had somehow morphed into one of the Borgias.
Anyone who was still thinking that Hillary was > than Barry ought to rethink that thought after today. She’s proved she’s a bigger bus driver than the Wonce.
“you can’t change horses in midstream””
The car ain’t out the ditch so I ain’t votin’ for the sunva-bitch.
To put it another way, I ain’t carrying this damned horse across this damned stream.
“sunva-bitch”
“Round here we pronounce that ‘sumbich’.
That too. But I tend to think he’s mostly the former. The people he surrounds himself with, OTOH…
I can’t wait for the tell-all books. The ones from the permanent staff will be epic.
lively tonight in cairo
I’m worried about Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan. I hope we’re changed the rules of engagement so our guys can shoot back.
Here ya go.
And NBC? CBS? ABC? CNN? Do they care?
“These people don’t care about you. They don’t love this country. They are who we thought they were. ”
Darn Skippy, Mr.!
Now back to catching up.
Meanwhile…
KEEP FIRING PEOPLE!!!
Pablo
Of course they don’t care. Obama is DESTINY.
As Chris Matthews just said Romney is arrogant in just running against The One.
I think Matthews needs to move to Cuba where they already have a dictatorship.
Ok, I scanned the Patty piece and was reminded of three things:
1. The Font style on that site makes my head hurt (there’s prolly an internet trick Geoffb invented to fix that) and it’s difficult to pick out commenters names.
2 However comma I did make the effort to see if our conservajedi joined in the conversation and perhaps even display some maturity and give the smarter commenters there some deference, but sadly no Patrick sitings.
and
3. I’m still a hopeless optimist;).
Too dumb for another term. A little less than Four more months. Then YOU GO HOME NOW! YOU HEAH FOH YEAH!
Up periscope!
Hey, guys/gals. Did I miss anything important over the summer?
My husband is despairing. He’s certain that Jugears is going to be reelected.
I keep telling him to keep his powder dry.
Red! Where the hell have you been, young man? Father and I have been worried sick.
Snooki had a baby.
“The USA is the biggest impediment to this dream and so must be brought down by any means necessary.”
Spot on Mr. B!
The French press published pictures of Princess Catherine’s ta-tas.
“Up periscope!:
Prep the TLAM tubes, dial in the Down Range coords and launch when ready, Mr.!
“The French press published pictures of Princess Catherine’s ta-tas.”
Not her best feature.
Under the radar. Restock, resupply, refresh. Lurked all summer. Did someone say tatas?
Jaysus-H! I take a break and look what I find – Ayrab Fall, Obama Fail and Bernanke Fool. Last time I leave the keys with you kids!
A country boy is all I’ll ever be…
“Jaysus-H! I take a break and look what I find – Ayrab Fall, Obama Fail and Bernanke Fool. Last time I leave the keys with you kids!”
Welcome to your new backyard.
A Patterico-Barrett Brown conspiracy came to light.
I’d hit it.
See? If you’d stuck around, cooler heads would’ve prevailed.
Now, look at this mess! Who’s going to clean up this mess?
I’d hit it.
That’s what Wills said.
I say we give the keys to Ms. Barnhardt.
I’ll bet she wouldn’t have any trouble mensurating the target coordinates.
I
Heh, he’s a lucky man.
She’s mastered the art of firing downrange, that’s for sure.
I look forward to seeing the Royal babies. Soon, I hope.
I have to get my boy from a football game. That’s for Patterico, if he’s reading.
BBL.
Stay safe, Leigh.
I don’t think Miss Barnhardt fires down range.
Rather, she carpet bombs and then makes the rubble bounce.
Rubble doesn’t make trouble.
If Obama had an ounce of Miss Barnhart’s testoterone he’d tell those sand-dwellers that the next American embassy attack will be followed by an evacuation of U. S. personnel followed by the Grand-daddy of all warheads being dropped on their foreheads.
This. A hundred times this. This in every flavor, on every subject, listed every epic fail this Obamanation has delivered over the past four years.
On every show, on every channel, every day from now through Halloween. Pound it into our neighbors’ heads until they cannot deny it any more.
plus here’s an a-ha video
Squid
saw that earlier…it’s the rapid response I wish we had in 08
– Beck had a recording of some Conservative gal that gave a talk in front of a T-party group where she describes ObamaCare in one long sentence, and it was hilarious.
Spectacular Optical, Videodrome…
Here it is: Obamacare Summed Up in One Sentence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnY8r7_fLw
plus here’s an a-ha video
it is bad when the swifter sweeper ad is better than the vid
Checked the Patterico link. Most of ’em over there are pointing out his “I’m always right, and if I’m wrong, see above” fallacies. There’s one comment that stands out, and made the visit worthwhile…
Jan Crawford might have gone to work with the best of intentions, but once on board, fitting in took precedent over standing out. She simply followed the herd, and is lost for it.
Kim du Toit!
Now there’s a blast from the past.
I care about the left being outraged about 1/4 as much as they pretend to care about me being outraged. Sadly they still have me at a slight disadvantage.
I wish Steven Den Beste would write something about this shit.
A purge of the Lizardoids may be coming soon.
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What the hell do I care that he doesn’t call his commenters that?
“I’d hit it.”
It’d hit it too, should it extend me the honor of its company in that pursuit, but I probably wouldn’t have bought a poster of it when I was 15 and I’d be looking it in the eyes when I talked with it.
[…] -Jeff Goldstein on the arrival ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base: I’m too furious to comment on the cynical, craven, political opportunism involved with the very public reception of the bodies of the slain American diplomats being returned from overseas. It’s a show being put on for cameras, yet another nodal point of coverage the left uses to keep its mainstream media outlets filled with the images that they hope the casual voter puts together into a picture of competence, compassion, hope, and change. […]