The new Obama video is ‘devastating’, but not to Obama
In case you missed it, last night we observed a test of the right-wing emergency bombshell system. It was only a test. If this had been an actual right-wing emergency bombshell ….
But it wasn’t.
In the early evening hours yesterday, Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge and Tucker Carlson started promoting what they claimed to be a “devastating” and previously unknown video of Barack Obama that would completely remake the 2012 presidential race. It would be a bombshell, a game-changer, an “October surprise” that would prove Obama to be an anti-white racist, just as they knew all along. It would do to the incumbent what the “47 percent” tape had done to Mitt Romney, if not worse.
And just to build the suspense, the world was told that for maximum impact, the bombshell tape would be released by Hannity and Carlson simultaneously at 9 p.m., Hannity on his Fox News program and Carlson at his Daily Caller site. Over the next few hours, giddy conservatives practiced their victory dance and whipped each other into an anticipatory frenzy over the video that would finally bring down their hated bête noire.
Nine o’clock came, the tape was released and … ppfffffffffft. Nothing. As in, literally nothing.
I don’t know Hannity personally. Never met the man. So I would have a hard time saying with certainty that he’s a racist fool. But after the way he behaved last night, I have no problem saying that he plays a racist fool on television. The same is true of Drudge and Carlson. In their “big reveal” on Fox, Hannity and Carlson tried vainly to pretend the tape was something it clearly is not, and they made themselves and their followers appear ridiculous in the process.
Here’s the reality:
The tape in question came from a 2007 speech by Obama at Hampton University, a historically black college in Virginia. The five-year-old speech had been reported on extensively at the time it was delivered by, among many others, Brit Hume of Fox News and by Carlson himself, on his ill-fated MSNBC show. As Dylan Byers reports at Politico, “The speech was also covered by CNN, NBC News, ABC News, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times, among others.”
In fact, the speech was so well known that Politico had cited a portion of it as No. 3 on its list of the top 10 gaffes of the 2008 political campaign.
In the speech, Obama dared to suggest that race — along with the Bush administration’s “colorblind incompetence” — had played a role in the excruciatingly slow response to New Orleans’ plight in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He was right; it did. Even if you disagree with that assessment, making such a suggestion is certainly not evidence that Obama hates white people, as Hannity and others now try to claim.
Obama also spoke kindly of his minister at the time, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, thanking him for bringing him to Christ. (The speech occurred before the falling-out between the two men.) He talked about the necessity of addressing poverty in the black community, including the need to “help with basic skills — how to show up to work on time, wear the right clothes, and act appropriately in an office. We have to help them get there.”
None of that is new. None of that is scandalous. Yet last night, Hannity and Carlson did their best to pretend otherwise. They even tried to gin up outrage that in a speech to a black audience, Obama adopted a more “black” way of speaking, which they claim to find deeply disturbing.
Seriously? I no doubt speak slightly differently with my Yankee cousins in Massachusetts than I do with my southern cousins in North Carolina. I speak differently in my professional capacity than when I’m having a beer at the bar or playing golf. We all do it to a degree, subconsciously, as a way of establishing common ground with our audience. At this point, if it is truly a scandal to you that black Americans speak differently when talking “among themselves,” I urge you to get out more often and participate in the 21st century.
In other words, this was not a bombshell, and it is devastating only in the sense that it exposes just how cynically and effectively the right-wing media manipulates its core audience, particularly on matters involving race. As U.S. Rep. Allen West of all people put it afterward, “What’s the ‘So what’ of this video? I don’t think it’s going to really go anywhere.”
Elsewhere, other segments of the right-wing media strained to find ways not to dismiss the video as the nonsense it truly is. On Fox News, transcript available here Greta Van Susteren and Newt Gingrich basically acknowledged that the tape is much ado about nothing, yet somehow pretended to be offended at how the media have covered it. Erick Erickson at Redstate took much the same tack, arguing that the video “is damning not of Barack Obama….The video is damning of the media.”
It is an odd argument. You concede that the video is of little consequence, then blame the media for not hyping it to the skies in the name of balance? Even the folks at Fox News understand the lunacy of that claim. If you read its muted account of the video, it is clearly attempting to put as much distance as possible between itself and this “controversy.”
The biggest tell of all, however, comes from the Romney campaign. It is sorely in need of a bombshell and a game-changer, and as it showed in its overly eager response to the tragedy in Libya, it is ready to pounce on any perceived opportunity. But in this case, it has refused to comment on the tape except to note — no doubt accurately — that it had nothing to do with its over-hyped release.
“What is the news?” Romney communications director Gail Gitcho asked in an email to Buzzfeed. “I don’t know.”
Something tells me that Romney will not be using footage of the Obama speech in his campaign ads. In fact, Romney adviser Kevin Madden made it pretty clear this morning that they want nothing to do with it. When asked whether the video was relevant, he said that “Voters … need to look at that video and make up their minds on that individually. I think what’s more important to this debate right now are the president’s policies are the president’s record over these four years. That is going to be the most important topic on stage tonight.”
The Republican National Committee also declined to comment.
On the other hand, the response among many on the left has been to mock conservatives for being suckered in by the hype from Hannity, Drudge and Carlson, and at one level I get that. But I find this whole thing troubling. It bothers me that a significant number of Americans have allowed their hopes and fears to be manipulated by people such as Hannity, who see them as nothing more than marks to be fleeced. They are being played, and it is not a fun thing to watch.
Trapped within the right-wing echo chamber, they have not only lost touch with their fellow Americans, they have lost a sense of perspective as well. When something like this comes along, they respond to it as instructed and then are dumbfounded to find that the American mainstream sees it entirely differently. They cannot understand how something that makes such a big noise within the echo chamber has almost no resonance outside it, so they explain it away as media bias.
It is not media bias. Why do you think the Romney camp is keeping this whole mess at arm’s length? It’s because they understand that “scandals” ginned up for consumption within the right-wing mediasphere simply do not play well among Americans in general. They are professionals, and they recognize the disconnect that exists between reality as depicted within that echo chamber and the reality as experienced by the rest of the country. If they allow those two worlds to collide, they will lose and they know it.
That disconnect is dangerous. It is dangerous for those on the right who find themselves increasingly alienated and estranged from their fellow Americans, and it is dangerous for the rest of the country as well. It is particularly dangerous for the conservative movement, which has an essential role to play in our nation’s future. But it cannot fulfill that function trapped in a separate world of its own creation.
– Jay Bookman
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Southern Pride
October 3rd, 2012
11:37 am
If Hannity and company play racist fools, what does that make Obama? What does it make the 96 percent of blacks who voted for Obama because he is biracial?
Reality
October 3rd, 2012
11:37 am
Does anyone with an ounce of sense really watch FOX news? Just asking.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 3rd, 2012
11:38 am
Doom — “Yep.”
Nope.
“You yourself stated that as a presidential candidate that Romney should release 10 years of tax returns and I believe you also mentioned that his father also did so.”
I did say that, but that’s not what you just claimed I said. So you earn a GOALPOST MOVEMENT ALERT. There’s a big difference between saying ‘I think a candidate should release ten years of taxes’ (which I did say) and saying ‘Mitt Romney cheated on his taxes for ten years’ (which I did not say). Maybe if you look real close, you can spot that difference, too.
“No doubt about it. You and other liberals put the onus on Romney to prove Reid wrong.”
Nope. That’s not what I said and I challenge you to prove otherwise.
“The fact that you are now trying to dishonestly say that this didn’t happen does not surprise me in the least.”
Sorry, Doom, but you’re either suffering from a faulty memory or outright dishonesty. I remember the discussion QUITE well, and you were just as shrill and dishonest in your misrepresentations of my position then as you’re being right now. We DID have this discussion. It just didn’t happen the way you’re remembering it.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
11:38 am
Have pity on those poor unfortunates who willingly give themselves over to being manipulated by the likes of Sean Hannity.
But he sounds so sure of himself and everyone he has on to talk wtih him says things he agrees with, so they all must be telling the truth!
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 3rd, 2012
11:38 am
bill arp – “the real question is, do you want a job, or do you want a check and EBT card from the gubment?”
The answer is neither. I’m retired and self sufficient. Next.
Hoover is my hero
October 3rd, 2012
11:39 am
One thing you learn from reading the comments. Fox, Rush, hannity, etc. have done a really good job of painting a broad portion of the people in this country as moochers. It doesn’t matter that most of the people in the famous 47% actually have jobs or retired from jobs and just make so little that they don’t owe taxes. It doesn’t matter that they work all day mopping floors or frying burgers, emptying bedpans or earning tax free dollars because they’re in the armed services and serving in a combat zone. None of that matters, because your thought leaders have told you that they all want a hand out and that Obama plans on giving them one.
Are there people who want hand outs? Sure. Some of them are lazy bums and some of them are big corporations that want tax breaks or to be freed from safety regulations. I haven’t seen anything Obama has done to favor the lazy bums over the corporations. In fact, if you just look at how the Dow Jones Industrial Average has moved under Obama (up 60% vs. down 25% under Bush), you could easily say that the corporations have done quite well under Obama. But that’s ok, don’t let the real facts interfere with the imagined world you live in. Just remember to get your investments to the Caymans if Romney should win this thing – it’s the only way you’ll have anything left.
RAMZAD
October 3rd, 2012
11:39 am
The Republican brand is depreciating faster than a used Ford Tempo.
People are recognizing that these are desperate people who want power so badly that they will change the definition of ridiculous to get it.
Obama was right. The Bush administration’s response to hurricane Katrina was one of the
greatest failures of any American presidency. History has already made sure of that, since
Bush proved to the world that America is capable of electing and operating a Third World government.
Republican desperation and their exhibit of it is good for the country. We all get to see that
these are not Americans who are sincerely trying to help the country. These are political
and hand held hack saws who will drag themselves through sewers, pick up road kill for
food, and denigrate any person, and institution, exploit any lie, manufacture any scandal,
manipulate any person to appear to be useful Americans.
We are all getting to know better.
Let them continue. The higher the monkey climbs the more it is exposed.
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
11:39 am
“This program has been around for years. According to the FCC, the government has been subsidizing landlines since 1984; the program, now called LifeLine, added mobile phones in 1997. LifeLine was enhanced in 2005 during the Bush administration, and TracFone’s SafeLink, the first purely free LifeLine phone brand, started disbursing free phones in 2008.”
_________________________
Was Bush attempting to buy votes or just Obama?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391003,00.asp
Fred ™
October 3rd, 2012
11:39 am
Like Fred’s brother, they don’t have it because they can’t afford it.
And you should see the look we get when one of us introduces the other as his brother. You see not only did we have different mothers, but we had different fathers as well lol. We look about as much alike as did Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder……..
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
11:39 am
Does anyone with an ounce of sense really watch FOX news? Just asking.
I don’t think AC Nielsen measures that.
getalife
October 3rd, 2012
11:40 am
I thanked tucker for helping our President and he banned me
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
11:41 am
Sigh.
If I was a Republican I could pine for those days back in 2008 when we were hemorrhaging 2,800,000 jobs a year…
Peadawg
October 3rd, 2012
11:41 am
“What does it make the 96 percent of blacks who voted for Obama because he is biracial?”
What did it make 90% of blacks who voted for Clinton and other white Democrats?
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
11:42 am
If I was a Republican I could pine for those days back in 2008 when we were hemorrhaging 2,800,000 jobs a year…
Yep, those were heady days, FOUR YEARS AGO….
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
11:42 am
What does it make the 96 percent of blacks who voted for Obama because he is biracial?
48% racist?
LOL!
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
11:43 am
What did it make 90% of blacks who voted for Clinton and other white Democrats?
And what did it make all those old white people who voted for Cain and any other… oh, wait…
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
11:43 am
JAY,
Thanks for the response..can’t answer your question about how much $ involved but it appears to be enough for subidized folks to continue to reproduce at a rate that is a multiple of non subsidized..why is it that the subsidized reproduce at such levels when they clearly can’t afford it?
Here you go..pages 9-16 are quite interesting if you have an unusual affinity for numbers..
http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p20-558.pdf
southpaw
October 3rd, 2012
11:43 am
TBS @11:25
Thanks for the link. It’s a good read. The paragraph in your excerpt showed that phone companies don’t have to pass along the charge to their customers. The paragraph before that was also interesting.
“All telecommunications service providers and certain other providers of telecommunications MUST (emphasis mine) contribute to the federal USF based on a percentage of their end-user telecommunications revenues. These companies include wireline telephone companies, wireless telephone companies, and certain Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers.
Godless heathen was mistaken about phone companies having to collect it from their customers, but right about it being a tax.
To the extent that I moved the goalposts, they needed moving. No need to mention it. Really–DON’T MENTION IT.
saywhat?
October 3rd, 2012
11:44 am
I think my co-worker Jamaican speech therapist is a racist. When she speaks to me at work, she has no accent at all, not Jamaican, not British, nothing. When she talks on the phone to her parents however, she has a thick Jamaican accent, to the point where I can hardly understand a word she says. The only thing I’m not sure about is whether she is being racist toward me or her parents. Maybe the wing nuts can help me figure this out.
Fred ™
October 3rd, 2012
11:45 am
ohmyliberals
October 3rd, 2012
11:31 am
It’s absolutely hilarious to read the liberal posts here. You type before you engage your brain and check out the facts.
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You mean like a complete utter moron who is too stupid to see the embedded video right here on this blog that is from the source, The Daily Caller? I mean what kind of moron would it take to accuse folks of watching some dited 9 minute video found…… somewhere when the original is embedded here? What kind of fool would do that?
Holy crap, I’m glad stupid isn’t contagious because if it were with all the stupid crazies coming here today we would all be incurably infected……..
getalife
October 3rd, 2012
11:45 am
Talking about w and New Orleans is not a very good idea.
Talking about w at all is a no no for the gop.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
11:46 am
REALITY,
The viewer ratings superiority of FOX over others speaks volumes…they have no more of less sense than those who watch LIB news outlets….just because one disagrees with you position doesn’t mean they lack sense…it does suggest arrogance on your part.
Towncrier
October 3rd, 2012
11:47 am
JHM:
“Go back and find those posts from me. I remember them — and your shrieking overreaction to them — very well…I CLEARLY stated that I had no idea if there was anything to back it up. Never once did I *accuse* Romney of any sort of tax evasion or malfeasance…You, OTOH, have a spitty memory and a chip on your shoulder. Oh, yes, and egg on your face, because once again you’re wrong, Doom.”
No. You are wrong, JHM. How is the following statement not an accusation of “tax evasion or malfeasance”?
Frankly, I think he’s one of those SOBs that the IRS threatened with prosecution for hiding assets in Swiss bank accounts and who the Swiss bank UBS ratted out. I think he got immunity — as many of those threatened did get it when they agreed to come clean to the IRS — and I think he RESTATED his taxes because of that.
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/09/21/mitt-romney-and-the-gops-bad-case-of-buyers-remorse/?cp=2#comment-1084226
stands for decibels
October 3rd, 2012
11:48 am
not terribly on topic, but when I saw that Tucker Carlson was involved, I remembered that he used to have, on his old TV show, Rachel Maddow as a frequent sparring partner.
Here’s a fun exchange they had, back in 2006.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/before-she-was-the-rachel-maddow-the-best-of-the-maddow-tucker-carlson-debates/
And to be honest, Tucker doesn’t come off like the kind of yahoo that’d get behind something as silly as this October Surprise of 2012. Guess all that wanking takes its toll.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
11:48 am
I have no idea why all of you refer to Obama as “black”…he is actually beige…Romney puts off more of a pink hue than white…so in my book, its a beige against pink…just saying
steve powers
October 3rd, 2012
11:49 am
“They are professionals, and they recognize the disconnect that exists between reality as depicted within that echo chamber and the reality as experienced by the rest of the country”
They are? where did the get the 47% line? or why did he jump the gun on the Benghazi attack?
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
11:49 am
but it appears to be enough for subidized folks to continue to reproduce at a rate that is a multiple of non subsidized..why is it that the subsidized reproduce at such levels when they clearly can’t afford it?
Causation not shown. Why do subsidized folks have worse teeth than non-subsidized folks? Is it because of the subsidy?
As Jay said: in EVERY country in the world, the poorer you are, the more kids you have… likely because the relative lack of availability of birth control information and methods.
Rightwing Troll
October 3rd, 2012
11:50 am
“And you should see the look we get when one of us introduces the other as his brother. You see not only did we have different mothers, but we had different fathers as well lol. We look about as much alike as did Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder……..”
How about Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder??? It was much funnier movie, I believe we have some of the main characters from that movie hanging around here on a daily basis…
stands for decibels
October 3rd, 2012
11:50 am
The viewer ratings superiority of FOX over others speaks volumes…
Over others, if the “others” are cheezy cable tv political punditry shows, I guess this “superiority” is meaningful.
Bigger picture, though, it amounts to something like 1-2% or so of the adult American population on a given evening, during their most popular programming; I think people on both sides tend to overstate its influence, frankly.
Fred ™
October 3rd, 2012
11:52 am
just because one disagrees with you position doesn’t mean they lack sense…
Nope. But when they use lies repeated from fox and talk show hosts it shows stupidity.
Pandora
October 3rd, 2012
11:52 am
Well said. Too funny. What they need to do is dig up more Mitt Romney tapes. It will show you how racist he really is. OBAMA 2012
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
11:52 am
southpaw
As long as you call all “fees” assessed by local, state and federal government a tax than you are correct.
ITS ALL BUSHIES FAULT
October 3rd, 2012
11:54 am
If you listen to Rush , Sean or Fake news you are an Ass Clown.
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
11:55 am
For the severely conservative candidate…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GnoLJIIS4w
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
11:55 am
What they need to do is dig up more Mitt Romney tapes. It will show you how racist he really is.
No, they don’t.
Towncrier
October 3rd, 2012
11:55 am
“The viewer ratings superiority of FOX over others speaks volumes…they have no more of less sense than those who watch LIB news outlets….just because one disagrees with you position doesn’t mean they lack sense…it does suggest arrogance on your part.”
Interestingly, recent polls reveal that Democrats (read: liberals) have a much greater “trust” in the mainstream media than do either Republicans or Independents. We all, to some extent, listen to what our itching ears want to hear.
George Boykin
October 3rd, 2012
11:58 am
Methinks Bookman is spinning for damage control. This is not “old news.” This is an ‘unedited” “unabridged” film of Obama’s 2007 speech. The “old news” story about this speech that Bookman wants us to focus on is the abridged version of the speech that edited out all of Obama’s racist rhetoric, which was circulated to the press in 2008 by the Obama campaign.
Verbal Kint
October 3rd, 2012
12:00 pm
Why the squealing if the video is a non-factor?
Rightwing Troll
October 3rd, 2012
12:00 pm
“Interestingly, recent polls reveal that Democrats (read: liberals) have a much greater “trust” in the mainstream media than do either Republicans or Independents.”
That’s because the “mainstream media” will actually report the truth and show both sides of the issue, unlike Faux who presents campaign ads as news…
Rightwing Troll
October 3rd, 2012
12:01 pm
“Why the squealing if the video is a non-factor?”
You confuse “squealing” for pointing and laughing…
Fred ™
October 3rd, 2012
12:02 pm
George Boykin
October 3rd, 2012
11:58 am
Methinks Bookman is spinning for damage control. This is not “old news.” This is an ‘unedited” “unabridged” film of Obama’s 2007 speech. The “old news” story about this speech that Bookman wants us to focus on is the abridged version of the speech that edited out all of Obama’s racist rhetoric, which was circulated to the press in 2008 by the Obama campaign.
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Or so Sean says and some dummies believe……….
Jay
October 3rd, 2012
12:02 pm
“.why is it that the subsidized reproduce at such levels when they clearly can’t afford it?
The answer is complicated, but it has nothing to do with responding to a gov’t subsidy, as you claim. The linkage of poverty to high birth rate occurs in every society regardless of the extent of gov’t safety net. In fact, it’s probably more apparent in societies with no safety net at all, because the poverty is deeper there.
Google “poverty birth rate” and read a little.
F. Sinkwich
October 3rd, 2012
12:03 pm
Ho hum. I agree with the Romney guy:
“What is the news?” Romney communications director Gail Gitcho asked in an email to Buzzfeed. “I don’t know.”
Anyone with an IQ higher than today’s current temperature has known all along what O’bozo is: A stranger to American ideals who blames this country first and whitey second…or simultaneously as circumstances warrant.
But is this video helpful to O’bozo?
I think not. Only downside if it has any impact at all.
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
12:04 pm
RT,
In Republispeak, squealing is the new scared.
Faux News is political porn for lonely old white guys; of course it is highly popular…
Towncrier
October 3rd, 2012
12:06 pm
“Here’s a fun exchange they had, back in 2006.”
Thanks for that, SFD. Tucker is a sharp cookie (as is Maddow) and I think he gets the better of that exchange.
Verbal Kint
October 3rd, 2012
12:06 pm
“That’s because the “mainstream media” will actually report the truth and show both sides of the issue, unlike Faux who presents campaign ads as news…”
Guess that’s why the mainstream media’s ratings are so good..
Donna
October 3rd, 2012
12:06 pm
Have any of you actually opened your mind and watched this video? Even though this video was recorded many years ago it is as current as if he said it yesterday. His policies are very consistent with this message. The Government will solve all your problems! We will educate everyone, heal everyone, solve everyone’s problems. The President is pegging us versus them throughout this message. I have a difficulty with his message. There is no personal accountability for anything. He asks why is our government not helping the impoverished single mothers. My question to the President is why aren’t the fathers taking their responsibility for the children they helped to conceive? It is not rich vs poor. It is those who work hard for everything they got vs. those who have a sense of entitlement. He talks about “the poor having to commute for over an hour every day”, I had to commute for over an hour every day, yet I did not expect to get a free ride. Please watch the video first before you comment or just put your head in the sand and it all will be well!
Joe Hussein Mama
October 3rd, 2012
12:08 pm
Towncrier — “No. You are wrong, JHM.”
No. You are wrong, Towncrier. And you even posted the evidence of your own mistake. (laughing)
Frankly, I think
I think he got
and I think
You see those “I think” particles in there? Those denote expressions of opinion.
Thanks for the assist!
“How is the following statement not an accusation of “tax evasion or malfeasance”?
Asked and answered. Pay closer attention to what I actually *say,* not to what you *wish* I had said, Towncrier. (laughing)
Peadawg
October 3rd, 2012
12:09 pm
http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=1986380&spid=
What is it w/ the hatin’ on military voters this year? Geze….
Verbal Kint
October 3rd, 2012
12:09 pm
“You confuse “squealing” for pointing and laughing…”
I take it from this comment that you enjoying mocking people to make yourself feel better. Duly noted.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 3rd, 2012
12:09 pm
SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS!
‘Cause I was done with mocking this last night.
Towncrier
October 3rd, 2012
12:09 pm
Interesting:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/10/03/bob-woodward-obama-proposing-cutting-medicare
Maybe that will be covered in tonight’s debate.
The Thin Guy
October 3rd, 2012
12:09 pm
Bookman Dictionary. Racist Fool: Anyone who doesn’t agree with me.
Four agonizingly long years ago The Imam Bampøt Hussein ØDumbø told us he was the answer to our prayers. So far the only prayers he has answered are from the Disciples of Beelzebub. Every single problem this country faces has gotten worse with this racist fool working on it. The ØDumbø Maladministration is a colossal failure in domestic, foreign, and extra-terrestrial policy. The economy is in the sewer and sinking even lower with all the economic indicators pointing that we are transitioning from The ØDumbø Recession to The ØDumbo Depression. Thanks to his woefully inept and incompetent foreign policy the only continent it’s safe for an American to visit is Antarctica. And he has converted NASA into an outreach program for his fellow Muslims. The only way he could get a passing grade on anything is if the graders were the fired employees of the Atlanta Public School system or writers for the ajc. We are inundated with constant excuses for his abysmal failures. One of them can’t be that he is too stressed. Jug Ears is definitely the most relaxed occupant of the White House. It costs us 20 times more to give our teleprompter reader a vacation than Britain spends on the entire Royal Family.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210323/Obama-family-costs-taxpayers-1-4BILLION-year.html
Heck Zippy spends so much time playing golf he should change the slogan for his campaign from “forward” to “fore”.
Peadawg
October 3rd, 2012
12:10 pm
These guys are fighting for our freedom and counties can’t get their absentee ballots mailed out on time. Disgusting.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
12:10 pm
Guess that’s why the mainstream media’s ratings are so good..
NBC’s nightly news draws something like 3x more viewers than any of FOX’s lineup. So, yes, that’s why.
Patrick
October 3rd, 2012
12:10 pm
Gotta love the fake Southern Accent Obama turns on when he speaks to black folk. He is an empty suit that liberals have pinned their “fake hope and socialist change” to …..
Ahem
October 3rd, 2012
12:12 pm
What strikes me about this piece by Jay, and I haven’t seen the video, is what great wordy lengths Jay has gone to on this particular topic. I’m just saying that Jay really worked very hard to make his critique as convincing as he possibly could. Here’s the rub; the left will vote for Oblunda and the right will vote for Mittens and the middle will split in favor of Romney and Romney will win. It is really just that simple.
Peadawg
October 3rd, 2012
12:12 pm
Towncrier
October 3rd, 2012
12:09 pm
Just another example of politicians lying to the people and telling us only what we want to hear. Not what we NEED to hear.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
12:12 pm
Even though this video was recorded many years ago it is as current as if he said it yesterday
Actually, it was only current in 2007 before Obama got to be President and we knew what we had in him. Now, it’s just regurgitated nonsense that tastes just as bad as the first time we were asked to swallow it.
Nancy Goodman
October 3rd, 2012
12:13 pm
I thought Obama’s speech was very good, very moving. I agree with your comments about the speech and about the right wing bloggers. The speech did not seem racist. It seemed accurate to me, and I’m white. Hannity and Carlson appear to be racist and their comments are divisive and disgusting.
Rightwing Troll
October 3rd, 2012
12:14 pm
“I take it from this comment that you enjoying mocking people to make yourself feel better. Duly noted.”
No… only those who deserve it, although you’re correct, I shouldn’t mock the mentally challenged, it’s usually not their fault (except in this instance it is, most wingnuts choose to be hateful, racist, and backwards…) and they have it tough enough as it is…
curious
October 3rd, 2012
12:15 pm
Romney may not publicly endorse the video, but privately, he’s overjoyed for the reinforcement to his supporters.
I’m tempted to vote for Romney just to help boortz, cain, hannity, et al to keep from having a stroke.
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
12:15 pm
It is really just that simple.
The Mayor of Simpleton agrees…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYoTMxVzQ-A
Rockerbabe
October 3rd, 2012
12:15 pm
Its getting so, that one cannot even trust the liars [Hannity, Cann, Erickson, Rush, Medved, etc] to get it right about their object of desire. What a pity. . .President Obama is NONE of the things they claim about him. He’s just a well educated, calm, smooth black man that ascended to the Presidency. And that is what really bothers these shrill, do nothing of value, white guys and their big mouths.
I say, may these idiot irrelevant and do not buy their sponsors products or listen to their programs cause it might cause cancer of the brain and heart!
Ahem
October 3rd, 2012
12:16 pm
Bookman Dictionary. Racist Fool: Anyone who doesn’t agree with me.
Like so many of the willing “victims” of so-called racism, Jay Bookman is either ignorant or dishonest when calling alleged bigotry by the name racism.
ITS ALL BUSHIES FAULT
October 3rd, 2012
12:16 pm
Flip Robme is an out of touch pandering duoche nozzle.
Thulsa Doom
October 3rd, 2012
12:17 pm
Towncrier @ 11:47,
Man that was a blog beatdown if I’ve ever seen one.
Joe Mama,
“No doubt about it. You and other liberals put the onus on Romney to prove Reid wrong.”- Doom
Nope. That’s not what I said and I challenge you to prove otherwise.- Joe mama
I will defer to Towncrier’s post at 11:47 in which your argument was completely eviscerated.
“The fact that you are now trying to dishonestly say that this didn’t happen does not surprise me in the least.”- Doom
Sorry, Doom, but you’re either suffering from a faulty memory or outright dishonesty. I remember the discussion QUITE well, and you were just as shrill and dishonest in your misrepresentations of my position then as you’re being right now. We DID have this discussion. It just didn’t happen the way you’re remembering it.- Joe mama
Well Joe it looks like TC’s 11:47 post completely validated my point. But you were right in one respect. Your criticism of Romney was much more severe and outlandish then I remembered-The repost of yours that TC presented at 11:47 where you flat out accuse Romney of tax malfeasance several times in one paragraph with not a scintilla of evidence. You just think it therefore it must be.
Was what it that you were saying about egg on my face???
Anyway, I think you’ve been nailed red handed and have suffered enough humiliation for one day. No sense in me piling on anymore. I suspect you will respond with some more nonsense about goal post moving, parsing of words, and semantics games now that TC exposed you in such devastating fashion.
Save yourself some keystrokes and stand down for a while. There aint no wiggling out of this one Joe mama.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
12:17 pm
(except in this instance it is, most wingnuts choose to be hateful, racist, and backwards…) and they have it tough enough as it is…
We should keep them from marrying. That’ll teach ‘em.
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
12:17 pm
curious, those cheap charlatans LOVE that Romney is getting his ass kicked!
Ratings go way up on nitwit TV and radio when they get clobbered.
It plays right into their status as the Media Royalty in their Cult of Victimhood…
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
12:17 pm
Ahem
While you are here, fill us in on that “bombshell” Univision ran the other night?
Doggone/GA
October 3rd, 2012
12:17 pm
“Guess that’s why the mainstream media’s ratings are so good”
They are actually VERY good. Don’t confuse the ratings for CABLE shows with the ratings for broadcast network shows. The cable new shows pale in comparison.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
12:18 pm
I’m tempted to vote for Romney just to help boortz, cain, hannity, et al to keep from having a stroke.
I said it earlier that the Republican strategy this cycle is to encourage people to vote for Romney just to prevent four more years of Republican whining.
Doggone/GA
October 3rd, 2012
12:18 pm
“I take it from this comment that you enjoying mocking people to make yourself feel better. Duly noted”
Only those who set themselves up to be mocked
Scuba Steve
October 3rd, 2012
12:18 pm
The old-fashioned Georgia racism displayed here on a daily basis makes me long for Texas. And that’s saying something. It’s no wonder you people are scraping the bottom of the education barrel.
Whether you believe in Creation or evolution, you’re right on either account (this isn’t where this post is going, but indulge me for a second please…)
Forget how we got here for the sake of this argument, the fact is, we’ve all evolved. The question is: to what extent were we allowed to evolve? I’m going to submit to many of you who have never thought this through, that the black American population has only been allowed to evolve at a much slower, much less-than-complete pace. (I should stop here and say that I mean social evolution, lest someone accuse me of claiming we’re primitive beasts -__-).
HOW can you expect education equality when the black community in America is at a generational disadvantage? When our earliest American ancestors were forbidden by law to be educated? When our MUCH more recent ancestors were forbidden — by law and by practice — to achieve higher education? These things pass down, we don’t have generations upon generations to turn back to for guidance today.
HOW can you expect us to obtain financial equality when black Americans are at a generational disadvantage? When our earliest ancestors were stripped of all ability to amass ANY financial gain, let alone any real wealth? Wealth passed among MULTIPLE generations is virtually non-existent in the black American community at this point, yet somehow we are to believe that the racial gap in financial achievement is somehow due to lack of aspiration and not by force? These things pass down, we don’t have generations of generations to look to for guidance today.
I could go on, but the fact is, we KNOW you and your fathers aren’t responsible for slavery. WE, America are responsible. And much of our power is built upon the backs of those who reap little of it’s benefits. So, no, “racism” isn’t an overused word today. Maybe it’s less obvious to you, many of my white brothers & sisters, but then again why would you notice it?
Ahem
October 3rd, 2012
12:19 pm
.President Obama is NONE of the things they claim about him. He’s just a well educated, calm, smooth black man that ascended to the Presidency. And that is what really bothers these
You are out of your mind. Obama is deceitful; dishonest; angry; arrogant; conceited; lazy; evil;…
barking frog
October 3rd, 2012
12:20 pm
Kamchak
and i think the sons of
confederate veterans
would agree.
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
12:20 pm
Ahem knows of some bombshell Univision surprise???
Lay it one me, Abomb…
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
12:21 pm
Abomb, you of all people calling anyone angry is well, …………………… rather cute!
Preston
October 3rd, 2012
12:21 pm
Barack Obama is a RACIST
Rightwing Troll
October 3rd, 2012
12:21 pm
“You are out of your mind. Obama is deceitful; dishonest; angry; arrogant; conceited; lazy; evil;…”
Wingnuttisms at their finest…
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
12:21 pm
Jam
He claimed it a few days ago, now will not discuss it……..
Was going to be a “bombshell” about Obama and “fast and furious”, right Ahem?
Thulsa Doom
October 3rd, 2012
12:22 pm
TC,
Just like I said. Joe Mama would resort to semantics games at 12:08 to try and wiggle out of getting proven wrong.
Ahem
October 3rd, 2012
12:22 pm
@
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
12:17 pm
I believe I spoke (wrote) to your silly childish taunt yesterday. Perhaps you missed it or can’t read for comprehension. That is your problem with which to deal. There.
Rightwing Troll
October 3rd, 2012
12:23 pm
Maybe the taker senior digits can follow Abob up with the list of 5 impeachable offenses Obama committed…
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
12:23 pm
Jam
At least the video clip last night had a fuse that was lit, even though it had no BANG to it.
I think ole Ahem’s Univision “bombshell” didn’t even light…….
Hoover is my hero
October 3rd, 2012
12:23 pm
Donna, how did you commute? Did you ride on tax funded roads or ride in a tax subsidized transit system? Now, that we’ve established that you use government aid, let’s talk about helping other people. One way to help impoverished mothers (or anyone) is to get them working, which is probably going to require some education, etc. Even better would be to support Planned Parenthood and help people who cannot afford to raise children avoid unwanted pregnancies. Ignoring them, letting them starve and slowing turning the middle class into the poor through outsourcing, corporate restructuring and continued wage cuts only adds to their numbers. That’s the Republican solution.
Brosephus™
October 3rd, 2012
12:24 pm
Fred
Yeah, your brother is the classic moocher when using my far rightie vision… Let him know I’ll send up prayers for him and his family.
Ahem
October 3rd, 2012
12:25 pm
Lay it one me, Abomb…
You trying to spit out a sentence or something there, Horse’s Azz?
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
12:25 pm
Ahem
You made the claim. So I am asking what happened?
Don’t make your usual bs claims if you can’t back them up or get mad when asked about them……………..
BOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
12:25 pm
Abomb now is back pedaling away from his Univison bombshell story?
Wow, that doesn’t sound like him at all! (grin)
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
12:26 pm
Jam
Ahem is in a meltdown, because I dared to question his bs………
Why is he mad at others because his gullibility was demonstrated………. yet again?
clem
October 3rd, 2012
12:26 pm
isn’t it amazing a sheet rock hanger can be a star for the right slanted media….that pt barnum guy had republicans in mind i guess
GT
October 3rd, 2012
12:27 pm
Jay best ever.
One thing the right wants is control, and the reason they want control is so they can select who they associated with socially and business wise. They don’t want to make America better they want to make themselves better. I am a white southern American that gets mistaken as one of them very often. I hear their comments and it is isolation with lip service to the constitution, and hired help. These tapes on the 47% are consistent with what I hear out of this crowd all the time. No real bombshell to me, just wonder what all the country thought Romney was thinking before this came out. Who needed proof? A lot of the educated older crowd have tone it down because it embarrasses the now grown children to have such ignorance representing them. But the blue collar whites have replaced the fallout, and most of the older educated whites have a secret society that loosens their tongues on these matters when in private. Can you imagine being a minority working in one of the country clubs in Atlanta and hearing the comments I know they hear.
Now Obama represents the whole country. One of the great distaste of the rich is having to rub against common people. The only way you are going to notice the common man is to be in a crowd with him or her. Clinton open an office in Harlem, Sister Teresa opened her operation in the slums not Piedmont Driving Club.
Nothing wrong with rich people as a group but from where do they think they can govern. Their knowledge of this country is a black and white Jimmy Stewart movie. How can you lead something that you don’t even know the language of and think death is better than learning it? The GOPs attempt to colorize their conventions is a lie. The token speakers are lies. Their indignity of being called out on it is a lie. Romney has a purpose in this world but when he is put into a position he has to lie to make a living it is time he finds his calling somewhere else.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 3rd, 2012
12:27 pm
Forget fast and furious
How about a game changing exposé on frumious Bandersnatches.
barking frog
October 3rd, 2012
12:27 pm
Without moochers, job
creators would have fewer
customers thus down
spiraling the economy.
go moochers!
Brian Hudon
October 3rd, 2012
12:28 pm
What’s really something, is that people think this speech is actually nothing. The first 5 minutes are actually quite chilling and not for the reason people might first think. Obama talks at length about the story, the miracle of unborn Jennifer Evers, who was struck by a bullet in her mother’s womb during the LA riots of 1992. This is an extraordinary admission from a man who has furthered the funding of abortion more than any other president in American history and who both supporter partial birth abortion and opposed the Illinois Infant Born Alive bill. Obama then goes on at length in comparing America’s problems, line by line, to a child threatened in the womb when he, Barack Obama, more than any other American president has increased the threat to unborn children from abortion through funding and moral support. I cannot support Obama for this reason and for others.
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
12:28 pm
Baghdad Abomb?
Where’s that Univision sensational news?
(Inquiring minds want to know!)
Joe Hussein Mama
October 3rd, 2012
12:29 pm
Doom — “Man that was a blog beatdown if I’ve ever seen one.”
Go look at the next sentence after the passage he posted. It says:
I don’t believe he’s been *proven* to have not paid his taxes
Which, of course, Towncrier dishonestly failed to mention. (laughing)
“I will defer to Towncrier’s post at 11:47 in which your argument was completely eviscerated.”
T’wasn’t. You’re just plain wrong. Read the post he linked to; he left out the parts that invalidate your argument.
“Well Joe it looks like TC’s 11:47 post completely validated my point.”
Afraid not. (laughing)
“But you were right in one respect. Your criticism of Romney was much more severe and outlandish then I remembered-The repost of yours that TC presented at 11:47 where you flat out accuse Romney of tax malfeasance several times in one paragraph with not a scintilla of evidence. You just think it therefore it must be.”
Once again,, read the sentence after what Towncrier posted.
I don’t believe he’s been *proven* to have not paid his taxes
Sorry, Doom. Your memory’s still broken. (giggling)
“Was what it that you were saying about egg on my face???”
You must have been kissing Towncrier, because now you’ve *both* got egg on your faces.
“Anyway, I think you’ve been nailed red handed and have suffered enough humiliation for one day.”
See that “I think” in your sentence, Doom? That’s an expression of opinion, not fact. (laughing, pointing)
“No sense in me piling on anymore. I suspect you will respond with some more nonsense about goal post moving, parsing of words, and semantics games now that TC exposed you in such devastating fashion.”
I like how Towncrier exposed himself as a liar by leaving out the very next sentence in the post — which invalidated your entire argument and his.
“Save yourself some keystrokes and stand down for a while. There aint no wiggling out of this one Joe mama.”
Oh, son, y’all didn’t give me anything to *have* to wiggle out of. (laughing)
Anyone who’s interested in the truth can just read the whole post — and then they’ll recognize that both you AND Towncrier are misrepresenting what I said.
Go ahead, Doom. By all means, pile on, son. Throw me in that there briar patch. (giggling)
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 3rd, 2012
12:29 pm
Tucker Carlson’s Obama video has increased conservative bloggers usage of the words “honkey” and “whitey” by 83% today.
Heh, heh, heh.
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
12:30 pm
I think Baghdad Abomb needs to stay away from Sabado Gigante for his news…