The phrase is ‘hook, line and sinker’
This is pretty funny.
In an April Fool’s spoof, Car and Driver’s website reported that Barack Obama was forcing GM and Chrysler to drop their NASCAR sponsorships as a condition of getting bailout money.
Rush Limbaugh got a giggle out of it, even if he saw right through it:
“Every professional practical joker such as myself knows: If you really want to pull something off, don’t do it on a day where people are going to immediately doubt it. It’s absolutely silly. Car and Driver has a phony page on the website saying Obama has banned Ford, Chevy, and a bunch of others from NASCAR. Well, now, who’s going to believe this?”
Ann Coulter would. She included the bogus NASCAR item in her column as evidence of Obama’s misplaced priorities.
That was yesterday, and as of 6:30 p.m. the column was still up on the website, error included.
Do you think no one has dared to tell her yet? (H/T/ Washington Monthly)
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RW-(the original)
April 2nd, 2009
6:50 pm
I guess someone has their sarcasm detector turned off or just isn’t familiar with Ann’s work. If you’ll notice there are several things stated as facts in Ann’s column, the NASCAR bit isn’t one of them.
bugger
April 2nd, 2009
6:54 pm
It’s only a matter of time. NASCAR represents everything Obama hates. As soon as he finds a proper angle of attack, it’s over. That is why this was so easy to believe.
Reminds me of Cynthia repeating the SNL bit about Sarah Palin being able to see Russia from her house in the AJC. Some people just want to believe things that support their views.
Bosch
April 2nd, 2009
7:11 pm
bugger,
“Some people just want to believe things that support their views.Some people just want to believe things that support their views.”
Really?
mike
April 2nd, 2009
7:32 pm
Is there anything more trivial than a partisan pundit’s mocking of another partisan pundit?
Bud Wiser
April 2nd, 2009
7:34 pm
No, Mike, there is not.
bugger
April 2nd, 2009
7:37 pm
Bosch,
Now you’ve gone and hurt my feelings.
I Report/ You Whine
April 2nd, 2009
7:40 pm
Anybody want to bet that some day Ann will be right?
ew
RW-(the original)
April 2nd, 2009
7:42 pm
Is anybody following this blog on Twitter? If so do we actually get to see the comments over there?
@@
April 2nd, 2009
7:44 pm
jay, I think it’s Obama that kept pulling embarrassments from his site.
Since Coulter’s “attention to detail” remains, it would appear it’s you that doesn’t get it.
@@
April 2nd, 2009
7:46 pm
….and jay, I’m beginning to think you resent strong, outspoken women. Are you by any chance henpecked?
RW-(the original)
April 2nd, 2009
7:49 pm
The House passed Obama’s 3.5 trillion dollar budget. Talk about a rubber stamp Congress.
I guess we’ll just add that to the list of things that went from outrageous to good governance in the blink of an eye.
I Report/ You Whine
April 2nd, 2009
7:50 pm
Senate Rejects Obama Plan to Cut Tax Breaks on Charitable Gifts
“The Senate sent a clear message to the president,” said Senator Bob Bennett, a Utah Republican who sponsored the amendment. “Charities benefit greatly from the donations made by individuals in this income bracket, and raising taxes on these contributions would be a disservice to Americans and the millions of charities across the country.”
Whoop dee do.
You got a long way to go, Repugs.
But it’s a start.
Taxpayer
April 2nd, 2009
8:00 pm
Most people realized up front that the charitable contribution item was thrown in the mix to allow for a little haggling. A little bone to throw to anyone that started yapping. I see it still served its purpose though.
I Report/ You Whine
April 2nd, 2009
8:02 pm
Actually, the charitable limit didn’t poll very well, so it got thrown under the bus.
Less money for ACORN, hahahaha.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 2nd, 2009
8:16 pm
Acorn! Nuts!
Mrs. Godzilla
April 2nd, 2009
8:18 pm
RW are you saying that unless specifically noted as fact, any thing else
in Ms. Coulters work is fake?
No kidding?
jon
April 2nd, 2009
8:21 pm
Jay:
Thanks for the heads up on the Ann Coulter column. I actually went and read it instead of just taking the NASCAR paragraph from a left-wing blog.
So she fell for the NASCAR joke. Otherwise it was a great column with great points about “Pay for Performance”.
Heck I fell for the Obama gave Queen Elizabeth an Ipod April Fools joke.
ddress the
Mrs. Godzilla
April 2nd, 2009
8:37 pm
A walk down memory lane….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHrGpp_0AvY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edailykos%2Ecom%2Fstoryonly%2F2009%2F4%2F2%2F715788%2F%2DThe%2DReturn%2Dof%2DAmerica%28UPDATE%29%2DMichelle%2DMobbed%2Dby%2DSchool%2DGirls&feature=player_embedded
ByteMe
April 2nd, 2009
8:37 pm
Whiner: I don’t think anyone will take that bet. Something about broken clocks being right twice a day. It’s bound to happen.
Ray
April 2nd, 2009
8:45 pm
Ann Coulter is the wicked witch of the East to most liberals. She is the anti-Christ, the idiot right wing journalist who calls it like it is. Yet, when you listen to what she has to say, most times, she is spot on. There have to be people like her in the mix to offset some of these crazy left wing crap that permeates every blog. She and Rove, Gingrich, O’Reilly, Hannity, Malkin, McWhorter, Cosby, Williams, Elder, Steele….. but you libs have probably never read anything that the above have written. You continue to call these people names, defile their opinions and pretend that you have all of the answers. You just can’t tolerate some who disagrees with you. Anyone who does this is fair game. Someone cannot have a distaff opinion or he/she is…. you label it but it is never pretty. What has happened to good debate without all of the name calling, etc. Are we so centered on our own opinion that we cannot admit that there might be another way of looking at things?
ByteMe
April 2nd, 2009
8:48 pm
Ray: There are often more than one side to every situation, but that doesn’t mean that the other sides are all equally truthful and honest or should be lent the same level of credence as the side that is more truthful and honest.
I Report/ You Whine
April 2nd, 2009
8:58 pm
Well said, Ray, well said.
Kamchak
April 2nd, 2009
9:04 pm
Ray
Even a broken analog watch is right twice a day.
fed up
April 2nd, 2009
9:09 pm
Did Commie and Chad get permanently banned? That Chad now he’s one that resents strong, outspoken women and must be henpecked.
Kamchak
April 2nd, 2009
9:09 pm
ByteMe
Sorry to repeat…damn refresh demons
I Report/ You Whine
April 2nd, 2009
9:10 pm
Even further, liberals are frightened by people who can think for themselves and who are not lockstep goons for Obozo like they are.
Make note of their knee jerk reactions and squealing wails of “outrage” over the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Bachman and the arch enemy of the idiotic, Sarah “Hotstuff” Palin.
They just simply cannot cope with human beings that do not mindlessly parrot what their leaders at the DNC tell them to parrot, that give them biscuits for parroting, hence the automated, robotic, feverish, synchronized and mindless attacks from the great united mass of stupidity.
They do seem to enjoy themselves, the way most cripples do.
jon
April 2nd, 2009
9:23 pm
I have been informed that the Oman really did give an IPOD to QEII. Are the Obamas regifting the crap that the Clintons gave them for xmas last year, or what?
Kamchak
April 2nd, 2009
9:23 pm
Wow–conservatives fawning over a blonde with long legs, big breasts and a nice butt–I’ll try to contain my shock and awe.
Taxpayer
April 2nd, 2009
9:24 pm
I heard Sarah applied for a trademark. She wants to be known as HotStuff™. I think she’s even trying close a deal to get that old Donna Summers song in time for 2012. She’s even struck a deal with the CIA for some of that Viagra that they’ve been handing out overseas. Word is she wants to give out some Grand Old Party favors.
RW-(the original)
April 2nd, 2009
9:26 pm
Mrs. G @ 8:18,
No
jon
April 2nd, 2009
9:30 pm
“Wow–conservatives fawning over a blonde with long legs, big breasts and a nice butt”
And libs fawn over Hillary, Nancy P., Maxine, and Michelle.
I’ll take the former.
AmVet
April 2nd, 2009
9:31 pm
Is there anything more laughable than a trivial partisan blogger complaining about a partisan pundit’s mocking of another partisan pundit?
@@
April 2nd, 2009
9:31 pm
Mrs. G:
With the help of an humble man, let me show YOU a slide show!
In my slide show there is a man promoting a people. It stands in stark contrast to a bunch of world leaders promoting themselves and their own feeble efforts.
In my slide show, the president even praises his predecessor.
How refreshing!
ByteMe
April 2nd, 2009
9:33 pm
Whiner: You’re projecting.
Kamchak: it seems the old, white “family values” party has trouble thinking with its pants on.
ByteMe
April 2nd, 2009
9:34 pm
AmVet: It’s late. Could you explain what you just wrote?
Kamchak
April 2nd, 2009
9:37 pm
Taxpayer
I don’t know about “hotstuff” but “Caribou Barbie” is available.
jon
April 2nd, 2009
9:38 pm
Almost 3 hours into this blog before a poster takes a shot at Sarah Palin. Where is Chad now that the liberal front needs him most?
Kamchak
April 2nd, 2009
9:44 pm
ByteMe
For thirty-five years it’s been only one thought “us good, them bad.” Kinda hard to lose track of that one–pants on or off.
@@
April 2nd, 2009
9:59 pm
Mrs. G:
This is what was portrayed in those pictures that excited you so:
The G-20 summit of world leaders in London concluded on Thursday with immense fanfare and self-congratulation. The threats of walking out, widespread sniping and expressions of pessimism by leaders on Wednesday prior to the summit were replaced by enthusiasm, optimism and back patting.
But this is the reality of what took place there:
Overall, the G-20 concludes with no guarantees that another financial crisis will not strike again, something that Berlin wanted to come away with via strong global financial regulations. Therefore, despite the news of general satisfaction with the accomplishments of the G-20 summit, Berlin and Paris will be leaving London for Baden-Baden, Germany, and the NATO summit thinking that it is time to return the favor (or lack thereof).
…and this is what you have to look forward to:
This will specifically mean that the United States is not going to find an accommodating Europe — and certainly not an accommodating Germany — when it comes to the efforts in Afghanistan, nor a unified NATO ready to take on a resurgent Russia.
This just means that we are in store for another “successful” summit at the conclusion of which the European leaders and the U.S. will cite their satisfaction at the outcome and congratulate each other before the press at a job well done. Under the rhetoric however the U.S. and “Old Europe” will have grown even further apart.
That’s the Europe that you libs hold in such high regard.
Taxpayer
April 2nd, 2009
10:00 pm
I think you have it wrong, jon. Sarah, aka Caribou Barbie, takes the shots — from a helicopter — with a gun — in broad daylight. Sounds like Clue.
Coporal
April 2nd, 2009
10:02 pm
NASCAR died a long time ago. It’s just not the same. It’s really what IROC used to be. All the cars look and are set up the same. Just flip a coin for the drivers and drive around for two hours and then have a one lap sprint.
BORING !
fed up
April 2nd, 2009
10:03 pm
What is even more refreshing is that there was no teleprompter and even though was no teleprompter there wasn’t a lot of uh, uh, uh….
Coporal
April 2nd, 2009
10:17 pm
HUMMMMM ……………
Obama, Pentagon differ on whether Afghanistan is ‘America’s war’
Posted: 04:15 PM ET
From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby
Obama said of Afghanistan: ‘I think it’s America’s war.’
WASHINGTON (CNN) – There appears to be a bit of daylight between President Obama and a top Pentagon official on the matter of whether the conflict in Afghanistan is “America’s war.”
After the president unveiled his new strategy to combat extremists in Afghanistan last week, CBS’ Bob Scheiffer asked Obama on his Sunday show: “This has really now become your war, hasn’t it?”
“I think it’s America’s war,” Obama responded. “And it’s the same war that we initiated after 9/11 as a consequence of those attacks on 3,000 Americans who were just going about their daily round. And the focus over the last seven years I think has been lost.”
But in testimony to the House Armed Services Committee, Michele Flournoy, the Pentagon’s Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, had a different perspective.
“I want to assure you that we do not think of this as America’s war,” Flournoy told committee members. “We think of this, of defeating al Qaeda and dealing with its extremist allies, as an international challenge and an international responsibility. This is a burden that the international community must share.”
getalife
April 2nd, 2009
10:19 pm
Ann got punked.
“The House GOP budget was up for a vote a few minutes ago and it…failed miserably; 137 in support, 293 (including 38 Republicans) against. Those are the only 38 Republicans in the House who don’t think we need a spending freeze and tax cuts for the rich at this particular historical moment. However, none of those 38 civic-minded souls voted for the Democratic budget, which just passed 233-196.”
Hoyer schooled young Ryan in the debate, He was on top of his game.
Jay
April 2nd, 2009
10:23 pm
Whiner asks:
“Anybody want to bet that some day Ann will be right?”
No, I wouldn’t.
For one thing, some day she MIGHT be right. It could happen. I mean, even a bad golfer can get a hole in one. It is certainly conceivable that some day in the distant future, Ann could be right about something. People hit the lottery, lightning can strike twice in the same place … stuff happens.
For another thing, I never bet with a known welcher.
jon
April 2nd, 2009
10:36 pm
So, Taxpayer, I guess you Obamanauts are pretty excited about the indictments that came down today against Blogojevich (Democrat, Illinois), If I were a Democrat, I wouldn’t be chiding a Republican gov so fervently when you have this guy in your camp.
Indictments lead to trials and sworn testimonies, or at least deals to save one’s skin in exchange for testimony.
Didn’t Blago imply last winter that he had some rats to take down on his sinking ship? One wonders where an expose’ of the Chicago political machine might lead.
Wasn’t Blago Obama’s man in the last election?
You know the drill, “What did He know, and when did He know it?”
Sweet dreams.
RW-(the original)
April 2nd, 2009
10:36 pm
Jay B just wishes he had one iota of the writing talent Coulter has.
jon
April 2nd, 2009
10:41 pm
So Jay, you don’t think Coulter is right to ask since the Federal Government is contributing so much to education in this country, why isn’t pay for performance on the table there?
Taxpayer
April 2nd, 2009
10:43 pm
jon, you clearly misunderestimate me. I say, bring ‘em down, if they’re guilty. Punish ‘em if that’s what they deserve. After all, spare the rod, spoil the politician.
Kamchak
April 2nd, 2009
10:43 pm
RW
Ann Coulter wishes she had a penis.
RW-(the original)
April 2nd, 2009
10:51 pm
That second 10:43 shows why you can’t let liberals loose without clearly defined lines. They just never know where not to cross.
Kamchak
April 2nd, 2009
10:54 pm
RW
Penis envy is a recognized pschological condition. Ann Coulter is clearly upset that she wasn’t born a man.
what
April 2nd, 2009
10:56 pm
Kamchak,
Why would she want a penis?
Don’t get the joke!
what
April 2nd, 2009
11:00 pm
Sorry didn’t see your post, refrsh, but what basis do you have to back up this theory of yours?
Only reason I ask is that I kinda understand the feild of which you speak. While at times Ms. Coulter may appear agressive and occasionally show signs of domination, there is not anything specifically about her that would seem evident of penis envy in my professional opinion.
But now if you were just making a generic sexist statement or run of the mill sexual middle grades joke then there is fact to your claim then I guess.
RW-(the original)
April 2nd, 2009
11:00 pm
So now we have a psychologist trolling the blog?
Geez…
G’night y’all. Stay tuned for fireworks because these blog “doctors” tend to melt down rapidly.
RW-(the original)
April 2nd, 2009
11:04 pm
what,
With the disappearing posts things get mangled here at times. Just in case you think my 11:00 is directed at you, it isn’t. You did what someone that does possess some expertise might do.
Kamchak
April 2nd, 2009
11:06 pm
what
http://psychology.about.com/od/sigmundfreud/p/freud_women.htm
BP
April 3rd, 2009
12:29 am
Ray @8:45 Why would you hold up entertainers (that entire group)as examples of where news comes from? Try following current events and form your own thoughts and ideas. I promise your head will not explode.
Davo
April 3rd, 2009
12:35 am
I’m glad your finally comparing yourself to your peers from the right, Bookman. She’s a skanky right winger and your whiney liberal elitist. Taken as a whole, baby boomer f*ckups. Hey thanks for your contribution to the American Dream ™ boomers.
“Five dollars for a pretzel!”
Aristotle
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
5:44 am
NATION IN BRIEF: House OKs pro-Obama budget plan-Urinal
A “pro obozo budget,” what the hell is that?
Funding for the vast goony propaganda machine?
ew
~~~~~
RW- Bookman could care less about obtaining the writing skills of Ann Coulter, it’s not like he’s employing any skills now, but her money?
Now that, he wants.
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
5:47 am
Look at the Urinal lie-
President Barack Obama picked prominent survey researcher Robert Groves to lead the Census Bureau, less than a year before the 2010 census begins. He must be confirmed by the Senate. The bureau is under pressure from Congress and advocacy groups to provide a more accurate tally of Hispanics and other minority groups than in the past.-Urinal
Just imagine for a moment what would have arose if Bush had taken the Census Map behind closed White House doors.
ew
drew
April 3rd, 2009
6:18 am
“For another thing, I never bet with a known welcher.”
Good one, Jay…you gotta love a whineyasswelcher getting the old blog bitchslap. Priceless! BWAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
6:37 am
drew- Meanwhile, back in reality, I got an editorialist from a major daily “news” paper resorting to schoolyard taunts, hehehehehe
Any other tricks you’d like to see me make him perform?
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
6:52 am
drew- Meanwhile, back in reality, I got an editorialist from a major daily “news” paper resorting to schoolyard taunts, hehehehehe
Any other tricks you’d like to see him perform?
Taxpayer
April 3rd, 2009
7:02 am
I got Jay to comment on my posts before.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
7:04 am
Car and Driver really shouldn’t play April Fools tricks on these poor folks. Haven’t they suffered enough?
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
7:06 am
Just imagine for a moment what would have arose if Bush had taken the Census Map behind closed White House doors.
Setting aside your poutrage over a non-issue, and to answer your hypothetical:
You’d be defending it, of course.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
7:10 am
Perhaps i should take this down to the dead thread but being that it’s dead and this one will probably become dead in a few minutes–I’m disappointed in Jay’s seemingly superficial take on Sen. Dodd.
(I say seemingly because I don’t want to really consider the alternative, that he’s in the bag for his corporate masters to hang the Senator out to dry.)
@@
April 3rd, 2009
7:12 am
jay…..you didn’t! Yes you did!
For another thing, I never bet with a known welcher.
Now you ^^^ see…..this is why your rules leave everyone here confused. It wasn’t that long ago that you came in to tell some posters to:
…put the welcher comments to rest — it’s getting tiresome or something along those lines.
You don’t even read your OWN advice?
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
7:13 am
Back to what this comments thread turned into: Few things are more amusing than watching conservatives defend the most loathesome examples of their ilk, deploying their usual projections and amatuer psycho analysis.
That said, I do find the liberal echo-chamber meme about Coulter being especially “Mannish” and basing some of the attacks on her appearance to be rather revolting.
Her verbiage and noxious attitude are foul enough without making cracks at the expense of the transgendered.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
7:16 am
@@, Jay’s business about the “welcher comments” were directed at a longtime commenter who brought it up Every. Single. Time. he posted.
You really don’t remember?
When Whiner actually decides he’s going to bet someone, then reminding one and all that Andy is, in fact, a guy who’s welched on a bet is appropriate.
Taxpayer
April 3rd, 2009
7:19 am
So true, DB at 7:16. It’s the same principle when a Republican is running for office, especially when they throw up comments such as being in favor of reducing the debt and deficit, etc. Someone has to take on the role of setting the record straight.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
7:20 am
Taxpayer, Jay hasn’t replied to one of my inquiries in ages. I think he did about four, five months ago.
I guess I could be like the righties and say “What are you afraid of, BOOKMAN?” but my default presumption is the guy has a life.
BDAtlanta
April 3rd, 2009
7:42 am
She left it in there because she knew most of her readers would never question it as fact and they would then start repeating it in beauty shops and by the coffee rooms at work. Soon, it would be considered fact by a majority in the Republican party.
That’s the way Hannity and Fox News works, too.
That’s what separates the Republican sheep from the Liberals. We libs constantly question our leaders and criticize our pundits. The sheep wingnuts just follow along blindly.
Do You Know Everything?
April 3rd, 2009
7:44 am
WOW….I wish I knew everything like you guys on this blog. There is no subject that you are not experts on. Do any of you have jobs? Does your job allow you to spend all day making inane statements on this useless blog?……If you guys are so knowlegeable, oh year Im sorry Mrs. G, if any of you humans are so knowlegealbe why havent you run for office and jumped right in and solved all the worlds problems? I’ll tell you why…you are all a bunch of blowhards that talk a good game and produce nothing. So Long.
@@
April 3rd, 2009
7:44 am
DB, I do remember. It was a couple of leftist posters, who, for lack of anything else to contribute, would engage in a back and forth about a conservative poster.
Reminiscent of how girls in high school would team up to disparage some other girl just because they didn’t like her.
It was a self-affirming practice among the homely girls to bolster their depleted self-control.
Andy the welcher
April 3rd, 2009
7:53 am
Ann Coulter does have a penis to go along with that prominent adam’s apple. Have any of you wingbutternuts EVER seen her or known of her to be in the company of a man? (other than her appearances on Hannity’s show???)
Andy IS a welcher that’s a fact not an insult.
And he’s correct about as often as Mr Coulter, porbably because he cuts and pastes from Mr Coulter’s rants on a regular basis.
I Report/ You Whine
April 3rd, 2009
7:57 am
Believe me, I know exactly what I’m doing when I start a comment by saying “wanna bet.”
I make the liberals in here slobber and foam and talk about penises, their favorite subject.
ew
Andy the welcher
April 3rd, 2009
8:00 am
“Just imagine for a moment what would have arose if Bush had taken the Census Map behind closed White House doors”
Can you back that up??? Closed White House doors???
I seem to remember in the heady days of the “conservative” power grab of the early 2000’s that it was the conservatives that were redistricting like mad even though wasn’t time, traditionally, to do redistricting.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
8:05 am
Have any of you wingbutternuts EVER seen her or known of her to be in the company of a man?
Bill Maher? that FBI guy? Any number of slobbering fanboys who test negative?
Not that any of this is terribly important, but, well, it’s like I said @ 7.13…
Taxpayer
April 3rd, 2009
8:12 am
DB,
I don’t have to go too far back to find an example of numerous conservative posters trying to gang up on one poster that made remarks about conservatives (Republicans) that these posters did not like. Of course, they never once offered up any proof to disprove the poster’s comments — they just did not like to hear the truth so they attacked like a pack of wild dogs.
Kamchak
April 3rd, 2009
8:36 am
DB
My comments last p.m. were not at the expense of the transgendered. Freud theorized that all girls go through a stage of development, at age 3-5 wherein they learn that they have no penis, blame their mother,and bond with their father. To be “fair and balanced” little boys go thruogh a similar phase which he called castration anxiety. My point, which was not intended as a joke, is that Ms. Coulter fixated (Freud’s word)on this stage in her life. She never went to the next phase where she would have formed bonds with peer groups. Ms. Coulter’s career has always been in fields that is predominately male oriented–law, and conservative political puditry.
Do You Know Everything?
April 3rd, 2009
10:29 am
Hey Jay….how is it that when someone makes a comment about Limbaugh’s penis referring to Mrs. G it gets deleted and when it refers to Ann Coulter….it is perfectly allright. HMMMMMMM a little bias here maybe….
DB, Gwinnettian
April 3rd, 2009
11:07 am
Kamchak @ 8.36, I don’t think many modern day psychologists or psychiatrists put much stock in musty old Freudian theories, but thanks for the ’splanation anyway.