A Special Kind of Stupid

[guido911]

Colo rep. Mark Udall, a real special kind of stupid:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/06/video-udalls-day-off/

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by TURobY

Same with the McD's at 13 & Harvard. It always seems to have CNN on.

The one at 145th and the Broken Arrow had Faux on when I went....

Yes, Jaynes is back, lol!

[FOTD]

The devil knows these three can't read so they watch FOX and listen to liars and jerks on their radddeeeooes.

Officials dismiss plot to kill Obama; only gun charges likely against 3 men arrested
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-obama-threat-investigation,0,5588406.story

So, how many other haters lurk in the shadows of intolerance?

[FOTD]

Leave it to our friends at Fox to bring this up like it matters.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/28/report-britney-spears-set-designer-built-obamas-invesco-stage/

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

The devil knows these three can't read so they watch FOX and listen to liars and jerks on their radddeeeooes.

Officials dismiss plot to kill Obama; only gun charges likely against 3 men arrested
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-obama-threat-investigation,0,5588406.story

So, how many other haters lurk in the shadows of intolerance?

Can you imagine if these guys would have said the same thing about Bush as they said about Obama? They'd be locked up for years. If the powers that be in this country let Obama be assassinated, just like they did the Kennedy's and Martin Luther King, this country will be doomed.

The Aryan Nation is getting their shot in the arm....not only meth, but Barack too.

U.S. Attorney Troy Eid seemed to say that because the three men were on drugs, they shouldn't be taken as a serious threat.

Is this one of the U.S. Attorneys hired by Monica Goodling?

[FOTD]

Fighting back against the media, even in Chicago: Obama campaign confronts WGN radio; "WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears," Obama's campaign wrote in an e-mail to supporters.

Obama campaign confronts WGN radio
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/obama_campaign_confronts_wgn_r.html

"It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves," the note continued. "At the very least, they should offer sane, honest rebuttal to every one of Kurtz's lies."

"I would say this is the biggest response we've ever got from a campaign or a candidate," he said. "This is really unprecedented with the show, the way that people are flooding the calls and our email boxes."


The "race" is on!

[FOTD]

http://stanleysound.com/audio_theatre.html

funny stuff....even for you rethuglicans.

[FOTD]

"I am extremely disappointed in the choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party.  I will still vote for Senator McCain" Docta Laura (thought she melted away or a house fell on her).


http://www.drlaurablog.com/2008/09/02/sarah-palin-and-motherhood/

[FOTD]

This is awesome. Sweet!


"You Fool, You Idiot..."
Posted by Pamela Troy in General Discussion
Wed Sep 24th 2008

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela%20Troy/50

Pamela Troy's Journal
"You Fool, You Idiot..."
Posted by Pamela Troy in General Discussion
Wed Sep 24th 2008, 02:22 PM
"Does anyone remember what happened on Hannity and Colmes last week?

On September 10, a few days before our stock market meltdown, Writer Robert Kuttner was being interviewed by Alan Colmes about his new book, Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, when Hannity, plainly incensed about Kuttner's bleak view of the American economy waded in with his rhetorical fists flying, exclaiming "Stop it. Stop it. This is — this is garbage you're spewing here."

I'm happy to say that Kuttner gave as good as he got.:

HANNITY: You said the economy is in dire straits.
KUTTNER: It is in dire straits. You want to deny that, you fool?
HANNITY: You fool, you idiot.
KUTTNER: You're going to deny that the economy is in dire straits?
HANNITY: For the first time — sir, sir, unemployment in this country...
KUTTNER: Sir, sir, my butt.
HANNITY: ... has been lowest than in the last four decades. Economic growth in the last quarter was 3.4 percent..."

The last time I a saw a conservative pratfall this blatant was back in 1979 when, just days before the news about the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island broke, George Will wrote an indignant piece about how the movie The China Syndrome -- a film about an accident at a nuclear power plant – was unrealistic and alarmist.

In his defense, George Will is at least an elegant writer, and has a semblance of old world courtesy. Hannity's roughneck, "shut-up-or-I'll-beat-the-crap-out-of-you" approach, on the other hand, ups the ante to the point where, watching the video today, you can only shake your head in wonder. It's not just that Hannity is wrong. We're all wrong at some point. But few of us are so arrogantly, insultingly and obnoxiously wrong in front of a national audience.

Unless, of course, we're right wing pundits with bestselling books and/or talk radio/cable TV shows. In the years since 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, belligerent and unrepentant wrongness seems to have become the norm among right-wing apologists. When they are proven wrong they don't alter their viewpoint. They just file away being wrong as another injury inflicted upon them by liberal meanies. They also quickly convince themselves that liberals who were repeatedly warning against attacking Iraq or deregulating the marketplace are now pleased about being right and were therefore always rooting for the dire consequences they had been warning everyone about – like the rise of sectarian violence in Iraq, the collapse of companies like Enron and Worldcom, and all those stocks that went just a tad sour last week. The fact that liberals might have been warning against these things because liberals didn't want them to happen is not to be considered.

I feel as though I'm in a rollercoaster, in that instant when it's just crested the top of a slope and is about to plunge straight down. No, I'm not cheering and throwing my arms up over my head. I don't like rollercoasters as much as I used to, and I know that unlike the old Zephyr at Pontchartrain Beach, the one we're riding now can be genuinely lethal.

Being right doesn't even begin to make up for what may lie ahead for us. But I confess, I do derive some comfort from watching that slender, bearded scrapper, Robert Kuttner, warning us about the fragility of our economy and calling that square-jawed bullyboy a fool.

Just before events have proven Kuttner to be correct on every count."

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD



This is awesome. Sweet!


"You Fool, You Idiot..."
Posted by Pamela Troy in General Discussion
Wed Sep 24th 2008

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela%20Troy/50

Pamela Troy's Journal
"You Fool, You Idiot..."
Posted by Pamela Troy in General Discussion
Wed Sep 24th 2008, 02:22 PM
"Does anyone remember what happened on Hannity and Colmes last week?

On September 10, a few days before our stock market meltdown, Writer Robert Kuttner was being interviewed by Alan Colmes about his new book, Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, when Hannity, plainly incensed about Kuttner's bleak view of the American economy waded in with his rhetorical fists flying, exclaiming "Stop it. Stop it. This is — this is garbage you're spewing here."

I'm happy to say that Kuttner gave as good as he got.:

HANNITY: You said the economy is in dire straits.
KUTTNER: It is in dire straits. You want to deny that, you fool?
HANNITY: You fool, you idiot.
KUTTNER: You're going to deny that the economy is in dire straits?
HANNITY: For the first time — sir, sir, unemployment in this country...
KUTTNER: Sir, sir, my butt.
HANNITY: ... has been lowest than in the last four decades. Economic growth in the last quarter was 3.4 percent..."

The last time I a saw a conservative pratfall this blatant was back in 1979 when, just days before the news about the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island broke, George Will wrote an indignant piece about how the movie The China Syndrome -- a film about an accident at a nuclear power plant – was unrealistic and alarmist.

In his defense, George Will is at least an elegant writer, and has a semblance of old world courtesy. Hannity's roughneck, "shut-up-or-I'll-beat-the-crap-out-of-you" approach, on the other hand, ups the ante to the point where, watching the video today, you can only shake your head in wonder. It's not just that Hannity is wrong. We're all wrong at some point. But few of us are so arrogantly, insultingly and obnoxiously wrong in front of a national audience.

Unless, of course, we're right wing pundits with bestselling books and/or talk radio/cable TV shows. In the years since 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, belligerent and unrepentant wrongness seems to have become the norm among right-wing apologists. When they are proven wrong they don't alter their viewpoint. They just file away being wrong as another injury inflicted upon them by liberal meanies. They also quickly convince themselves that liberals who were repeatedly warning against attacking Iraq or deregulating the marketplace are now pleased about being right and were therefore always rooting for the dire consequences they had been warning everyone about – like the rise of sectarian violence in Iraq, the collapse of companies like Enron and Worldcom, and all those stocks that went just a tad sour last week. The fact that liberals might have been warning against these things because liberals didn't want them to happen is not to be considered.

I feel as though I'm in a rollercoaster, in that instant when it's just crested the top of a slope and is about to plunge straight down. No, I'm not cheering and throwing my arms up over my head. I don't like rollercoasters as much as I used to, and I know that unlike the old Zephyr at Pontchartrain Beach, the one we're riding now can be genuinely lethal.

Being right doesn't even begin to make up for what may lie ahead for us. But I confess, I do derive some comfort from watching that slender, bearded scrapper, Robert Kuttner, warning us about the fragility of our economy and calling that square-jawed bullyboy a fool.

Just before events have proven Kuttner to be correct on every count."

Said it before, I'll say it again: Hannity is a goob. A big goob.

[Quinton]

All of the above really doesnt mean mucs as in 2 weeks the USA will make changes like we have never seen.We will loose most of our freedoms and socialise will replace them.Dont worry,we are from the government and we are here to take care of you.

[Quinton]

All of the above really doesnt mean much as in 2 weeks the USA will make changes like we have never seen.We will loose most of our freedoms and socialise will replace them.Dont worry,we are from the government and we are here to take care of you.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by Quinton

All of the above really doesnt mean much as in 2 weeks the USA will make changes like we have never seen.We will loose most of our freedoms and socialise will replace them.Dont worry,we are from the government and we are here to take care of you.

Are you so upset about the change that you had to make sure everybody knew by posting twice?

[:O]

And by the way, it's 'socialism'.

Not like it will even happen.  Same thing happened under Clinton's watch, or at least was tried.  The republicans are making mountains out of molehills here.  Like that's anything new, though.

[FOTD]

The Right-Wing Media has unleashed a Race War that threatens our Democracy and our Personal Safety!
The election of Barack Obama was a return to America's Constitutional, pro-democracy roots -- and as a step into a future filled with promise and opportunity, not the destruction, tyranny and lies of the Bush Administration. But what none of us expected is that the right-wing media shills and their corporate owners would unleash what is becoming an armed rebellion of white males against our government.

[FOTD]

Some others in radio AND TV need arresting.

Radio Host Is Arrested in Threats on 3 Judges
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/us/25threat.html?_r=2&ref=us

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: June 24, 2009
WASHINGTON — An Internet radio host known for his incendiary views was arrested Wednesday in North Bergen, N.J., after federal officials charged that his angry postings about a gun case in Chicago amounted to death threats against three judges.

In a case that tests the limits of free speech, the Justice Department charged that the radio host, Hal Turner, had crossed the line into hate speech.

Mr. Turner, regarded by civil rights monitoring groups as a white supremacist, an anti-Semite and a "maestro of radio hate," posted commentaries on his blog denouncing a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, that upheld two local bans on handguns.

"Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed," Mr. Turner wrote in a blog entry on June 2. "Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions."

He said the three judges, William J. Bauer, Frank H. Easterbrook and Richard A. Posner, should be made "an example" of in order to send a message to the rest of the federal judiciary: "Obey the Constitution or die."

Mr. Turner also posted the judges' photographs, phone numbers, work addresses and courtroom numbers.

There is no indication that Mr. Turner or anyone else acted on his warnings. Nonetheless, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in an affidavit that it believed his comments constituted "a threat to assault or murder a United States judge."

F.B.I. agents arrested Mr. Turner at his home, and he is due to make his first court appearance on Thursday. Three weeks ago, in a case still pending, state officials in Connecticut charged Mr. Turner with inciting violence against lawmakers involved in an unrelated decision involving the Roman Catholic Church.

Traditionally, the courts have given wide latitude to First Amendment rights, even in cases involving speech that is widely considered offensive, but public statements regarded as "true threats" have not been afforded legal protection. One key test case came in 2002, when a federal appeals court in California upheld a $109 million jury verdict against organizers of an anti-abortion Web site that distributed Wild West-style wanted posters of abortion providers, with photos of dead doctors crossed out.