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- Even though an Israeli confessed to stealing Obama’s prayer from the wailing wall and giving it to the press, there is still not an iota of proof that Obama didn’t leak the prayer to the press himself in order to “thuggishly politicize the holiest and most sacred site of world Jewry.” Therefore, I demand a full investigation.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Jody said,
July 29, 2008 at 2:27
It’s imagery such as the one depicted that could throw a man into the arms of the ex-gays. Figuratively speaking.
Tim (The Other One) said,
July 29, 2008 at 2:41
I demand electro shock therapy to rid my mind of that image !
Jennifer said,
July 29, 2008 at 2:42
Heh. His whole fantasy is based on his initial presumption that only an arch conservative would have taken the note from the wall…someone like him. And ends up at “because the note wasn’t taken by the usual suspects you’d think of (conservatives), it proves that the whole thing was engineered by Obama and proves he’s sacreligious and disrespectful of Judaism. Unlike us conservatives, who would only steal and publish the note for political reasons.”
And he knows all this, because it takes one to know one, or something.
monkey knife fight said,
July 29, 2008 at 2:47
I fucking *knew* that was going to be the right wing talking point about this whole affair. Someone posted a link to this story on Metafilter yesterday and sure enough, the right wing jackasses over there started right in with this very talking point.
monkey knife fight said,
July 29, 2008 at 2:51
As for who actually stole it, I think this person’s theory (from the same Metafilter thread) makes the most sense:
“Can’t somebody for once realize that something is not a PR gambit? The context is that right-wing Orthodox Jews in Israel distrust Obama, because he’s prefers to let American foreign policy be dictated more by sanity and pragmatism than by apocalyptic fundamentalist Zionism (whether of the Jewish or Christian Right variety). When Obama appeared at the wall, he was heckled by Orthodox rabbis, one of whom yelled “Jerusalem is not for sale.” It’s not much of a stretch to argue that the seminary student who stole Obama’s prayer was probably studying under one of those rabbis.”
Shell Goddamnit said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:00
I am always sorry afterwards when I click on one of they links thinking “It’s so utterly appalling – SURELY this is an exaggeration. Let’s look & see how horrible it really is!!” This sick curiosity must be directly related to the impulse to pick scabs or look into the toilet.
tigrismus said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:10
Obviously it was a set up because a real prayer would’ve asked for forgiveness for all those people he killed.
mikey said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:11
Can we check the kerning on that prayer?
And what’s Daffy doing with his thumb, anyway?
I do that when it’s late and I’m lonely….
mikey
Lesley said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:12
Is that a sandwich in his pants or is Daffyd just glad you see him?
Snorghagen said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:14
…thereby casting into the mud all the higher attainments of thousands of years of Western Civilization and revealing himself as a purveyor of chaos, an agent of corruption, and a destroyer of worlds!
Seriously, it still amazes me how easily these chumps can work themselves into a state of apoplectic berserkitude over utterly trivial bullshit like this.
Libertarius ShadowLord said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:17
See what comes from writing down your prayers? See what comes from praying?
Gary Ruppert said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:18
The fact is, why did you have to do that picture? I don’t need to see those exquisite thighs and then look over to the DoomNovelizer’s puffer-fish face. The fact is, it’s nauseating.
Lesley said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:20
Ok, I just clicked over and may I just say that, in addition to the ugly text, Daffyd’s site represents some of the worst web design ever.
I can only hope Daffyd isn’t in the interior decorating business (unless he’s making those barf-obscuring paisley carpets for hotel lobbies and movie theatres).
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:22
This is double reverse looksism of the worst crime.
pedestrian said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:25
Ok, I just clicked over and may I just say that, in addition to the ugly text, Daffyd’s site represents some of the worst web design ever.
Also, he is fat.
Doctorb said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:26
This just in: Obama’s actual prayer was:
O great
SatanLord, I seek revenge on Rachael Ray of the Food Network. Can’t you make her… eyes fall out or something?… tits fall off?David Brent has never looked so good, except on his computer dating profile I guess.
HumboldtBlue said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:30
I didn’t click the link fuckers, nuh-uh, no goddamned way. Although I am pretty sure obama X is plotting the downfall of Western civ as we speak, it takes the courage of the Daffy’s of the world to expose it. So there, america haters!111!!!232!2!!!!!!
christian h. said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:36
Monkey knife fight, I don’t know. I’d have to guess that it’s just someone who wanted some publicity – I wouldn’t think there was any politics involved. (Probably the wingers are angry that he didn’t pray for what they believe are his most secret desires, like “please g-d, kill whitey” or something.)
Edmund Schluessel said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:46
“ab duckwuth”?
skippy said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:46
hello god? it’s me, barack…
Our Dead Selves said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:47
Am I allowed to go O/T?
This made me laugh extra hard.
Gerald Curl said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:47
Flynn Taggart would shoot that prayer out of the wall with his fucking plasma gun.
J.D. Rhoades said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:51
Daffyd (formerly David Friedman) has been batshit crazy as long as I’ve been on the Internets.
J.D. Rhoades said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:53
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008683.html
Jrod said,
July 29, 2008 at 3:56
Jewry? JEWRY?!
Does anyone who’s not either an anti-semite or a worthless hack whose greatest writing accomplishment was a DooM novel which compares poorly with your average slash fanfic use the word Jewry?
Does this guy take his writing cues from old Henry Ford screeds or something?
I also like the way that Obama’s prayer, in which he asks God to help him remain humble, is thuggishly politicizing the holiest of holies. You know that if Bush took a leak on the wailing wall Daffy would be praising him for his courage in standing up to yadda yadda yackity yack.
Flying Fox said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:05
Actually, yes plenty of perfectly decent people (historians mostly) use the word Jewry. It is a perfectly decent word to use. Cromulent even.
El Cid said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:07
This whole trip was arranged so that Obama could remove the cleverly hidden prayer to recreate the Caliphate he left as a young Indonesian jihadist as a secret, and somewhat confused, mission to the Western Wall, and replace it with a bland, marketable prayer more appropriate to such a Manchurian robot candidate as is Barack Hussein Obama X Lumumba.
Anne Laurie said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:23
“When Dafydd gets into an argument, which he almost always does, his sheer personal obnoxiousness can be so prodigious that, years later, people still talk about it with awe.”
And these are sf fans — people who, if it weren’t for ADD, would long ago have obtained a *patent* on sheer personal obnoxiousness! Making oneself a social misfit in sf fandom takes a truly extraordinary combination of native ungiftedness and dogged determination… believe me, I
have triedknow this from personal experience.But mostly, Clif, I want to thank you for not recycling a certain worn-out and exhausted image. The new, improved Daffyd ap InHisOwnMind image is a blessing to those of us who blog during mealtimes.
J— said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:29
Is that a sandwich in his pants or is Daffyd just glad you see him?
Dude finally got his big lizard.
owlbear1 said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:29
If I understand this conspiracy, Obama created a “Fake Prayer”, which he diabolically stuck into the Western Wall, for one of his nefarious agents to steal, in order to hoodwink the media into thinking he wrote a “REAL prayer” to stick into the Western Wall?
commie atheist said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:30
Can we check the kerning on that prayer?
Quick, call Tech Dude! Only he can save us now!!!!
Jrod said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:34
Alright then, Flying Fox. If the word is used by historians, I’ll give Daffy a pass on “Jewry” as soon as he demonstrates the tiniest bit of historical awareness.
Until then, using it just makes his writing even more cartoonish. If that’s possible. (It’s not.)
Lesley said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:34
But mostly, Clif, I want to thank you for not recycling a certain worn-out and exhausted image. The new, improved Daffyd ap InHisOwnMind image is a blessing to those of us who blog during mealtimes.
The owner of the body from the neck down might sue though. Marky Mark?
J— said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:37
Oh, wow. Did you all see the previous post? I haven’t yet read through to the end, but I wanted to stop and share this (emphases his):
That last sentence. What power. What righteous indignation.
Now, off to read the “argument.”
Blue Buddha said,
July 29, 2008 at 4:51
Maybe he placed a real prayer in the wall, making the media think it was a fake note, or maybe he put the fake prayer in the wall because he knew the media would think that he would put a real prayer in the wall in order to bluff them.
…or maybe he just poisoned both goblets. Inconceivable!
Libertarius ShadowLord said,
July 29, 2008 at 5:23
I wrote a prayer down once, and it was publicized. I was very embarassed, because even though the prayer was granted, its nobody’s business that I now have a twelve inch long penis.
MzNicky said,
July 29, 2008 at 5:26
I’d hit that. If he put a bag on his head.
mikey said,
July 29, 2008 at 5:32
Right there wit’ ya, MzN.
I hit the motherfucker too.
What?
mikey
Anne Laurie said,
July 29, 2008 at 5:35
I’d hit that. If he put a bag on his head.
Bring two bags, MzNicky. You’ll need something stuffed in that mouth to muffle his “conversation”. Make it three — then you can cover your own eyes, in case *his* bag slips.
jcricket said,
July 29, 2008 at 5:39
WTF? Aleph says he is a student who made a rash decision to take the note….but should not be believed, according to Daffy.
Then……Aleph says he supports Obama… so of course Daffy runs with that all the way to Conspiracy City.
Either the kid is credible or he’s not. He can’t be used as support for an argument in one paragraph and then discredited as a liar who cannot be trusted in the next, or vice versa.
It’s bass ackwards logic.
Lesley said,
July 29, 2008 at 5:47
Bring two bags, MzNicky. You’ll need something stuffed in that mouth to muffle his “conversation”. Make it three — then you can cover your own eyes, in case *his* bag slips.
Of course if this was KLo and some guy was saying this, there’d be hell to pay.
What? It’s exactly what they’d say. And watch the sayers jump all over you for the double standard.
jcricket said,
July 29, 2008 at 5:48
On J’s recommendation (link), I just went back and read the previous post. Wow. It is scary that that kind of dementia is really deliberately developed, encouraged and rewarded.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
July 29, 2008 at 6:08
Okay, I think the wingnut translator’s broken because this grade of crazy is rarely found outside Renew!
Daffy’s daft theory goes like this:
Evil Islamofascist Barack Raise Your Taxes Obama has a secret plan to steal evangelical votes by:
1. Creating a Fake Prayer – full of stuff he thinks will play well in the Heartland and not with the true desires of his heart – to enslave humanity and steal all our guns.
2. Very publically place said Fake Prayer into the Wailing Wall. Not unusal in and of itself – giving the nefarious Obama “plausible deniability”.
3. And this is the tricky part, get
one of his politcal operativessome anonymized guy who might still be an Obama operative to steal the prayer so that it can be leaked to the press and the crafty manipulative text of the Fake Prayer will be widely publicized and enable Obama to steal all the Evangelical votes and worm his way into the Oval Office!!!one1!Only problem with this, other than being totally batshit crazy, is that the only people, and I’m being very generous with the term people, talking about this at all are wingnuts.
PS – I, don’t, know, why, I’m, using, so, many, commas,,,™
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
July 29, 2008 at 6:13
Here’s the evil brain washing text that I’m sure you’ve been seeing on TV everywhere:
I mean really. Who could possibly believe that Obama means any of that? Except the easily influenced evangelical vote which will obviously be swayed by such a carefully crafted yadda yadda yadda.
Leon Trotsky, Exile-in-Mexico said,
July 29, 2008 at 6:24
Fuck-a-duck.
Accusing Obama of thuggishly politicizing the Wailing Wall, /as they politicize the Wailing Wall/. Seriously, there has to be a term for this beyond projection.
Jrod said,
July 29, 2008 at 6:30
That prayer is soooo arrogant. It’s all ME ME ME ME. And he thinks he’s an agent of God? Why, we can’t possibly allow a man who considers himself an instrument of God’s will into the White House!
Or should I say… Black House? Guffaw! Oh man, it’s funny cuz Obama is black! Blackity black black black muslim.
Never mind that he didn’t bring the troops any turkey.
Left_Wing_Fox said,
July 29, 2008 at 6:41
Libertarius ShadowLord: Gee, and all I got was the foot-tall man with a miniature Steinway. Stupid typos.
SqueakyRat said,
July 29, 2008 at 7:55
Right, the Obama campaign released the text to the press. ‘Cause they wanted to be condemned for politicizing the holy yaddayadda, figuring the evangelicals would go big for that. But, oddly, only Maariv published it. So then they had this kid confess to stealing it. ‘Cause . . . I give up.
Danny Guam said,
July 29, 2008 at 9:24
I have no idea what this post is about.
Thank you for the photo. I need the funny. It delivers the funny.
I can leave now smiling.
Prayer Preyer « Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion said,
July 29, 2008 at 13:08
[...] that published the note to face a criminal investigation, while some right-wing US websites are suggesting that “Aleph” (or “Alef” in some reports) may have been working for the Obama [...]
Arky - Sexual Orient Express said,
July 29, 2008 at 13:26
The countdown to screaming N1993R! N1993R! N1993R!
continues…
By the way, my lawyer will contact you briefly re: that pshop. I’m suing for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
mikey said,
July 29, 2008 at 16:58
I’ve begun to despair for my tile grout…
mikey
fadegeophile said,
July 29, 2008 at 19:02
Awesome picture. Ab never looked so good.
Did I ever mention I’m a big fan of lookism?
Jeff R. said,
July 30, 2008 at 3:37
I really do enjoy reading this blog. It’s well written, funny and despite the snark often has good political commentary. That being said, I used to think they went over the line on some of the insults, particularly concerning Daffy here and Malkin. Sure, I laughed at them, but I wouldn’t have said them myself. But after reading that Making Light post J.D. Rhoades linked (which I actually came across in a previous S,N! comment thread) and especially the comments to it, I lost all sympathy for Daffy. In a way he really is a classic Usenet troll. But a true troll is deliberately being an asshole. With Daffy, I’m not so sure it’s really that deliberate. Sure, he’s an asshole , but I almost think part of it is a massive sense of entitlement and a complete lack of any self awareness.
After the incident of the concrete counter tops, or maybe it was the incident of university administrator suicide, I can’t recall, I lost any sympathy for Malkin. So, fire away.
Sadly, No! said,
August 11, 2008 at 16:47
[...] Though I think Shriver should give the makers of “Tropic Thunder” credit — at least they didn’t commit the horrible crime of having their characters eat giant sandwiches… [...]
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August 17, 2008 at 8:00
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Peter Gabriel said,
July 29, 2009 at 13:23
“dyckwydd” would be pronounced, roughly “d?k-oo-?th”. Welsh!
Peter Gabriel said,
July 29, 2009 at 13:24
For ? read a sort of upside down u which is “oo” as in “look”, only not quite so strong.
Peter Gabriel said,
July 29, 2009 at 13:24
For “a sort of upside down u” read “a sort of upside down omega”.
Peter Gabriel said,
July 29, 2009 at 13:25
For me, read stupid fucking cunt who should just die.