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Lulz, Can’t Get Enough Of ‘Em
Okay, so plucking stuff from the HotAir.com comments is pretty bottom of the barrel, but you’ve got to love HondaV65’s contention that James O’Keefe is ‘a SAINT’ compared to Martin Luther King (!):
Hell … Martin Luther King was a ’suspected felon’. Bill Ayers, close friend and confidant of ‘The One’ … was, by his own admission – a ‘felon’. Obama nominated a TSA director that violated privacy rights of others. Obama nominated a Treasury Secretary who’s guilty of lying on this tax returns. Nancy Pelosi relies on Charlie Rangel (a suspected TAX CHEAT) to write tax law. Chris Dodd gets sweetheard mortgage deals and undervalues Irish property …
And James O’Keefe is suspected of ‘playing with a phone handset’ and entering a federal building under ‘false pretenses’.
Hell yeah – I’ll cheer O’Keefe on! He’s a SAINT compared to the players on YOUR TEAM.
Oy.
PeeJ said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:43
Asshole. Roger Moore was The Saint. There can be no other.
Substance McGravitas said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:44
THAT WAS BEYOND THE PALE.
N__B said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:45
Maybe O’Keefe is the Saint Jimmy of American Idiot. Maybe not.
ulle said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:52
What were these stumblebums going to do if they actually reached the phone box? Cut the purple wire?
BachmannFan said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:52
Yeah, so Obama is a good speaker. You know who else was, Hmmm?
BachmannFan said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:53
a good speaker? well, someone else in history was……
BachmannFan said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:53
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Felonious Monk said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:53
When you put things in ‘quotes’ it means they’re ‘not real.’ You should ‘try it.’
BachmannFan said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:54
HITLER!
BachmannFan said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:55
Liberals love terrorists, but a patriotic freedom loving USA man is thrown in jail by biased police because he was trying to expose fraud and bias? That is just like what Hitler would do.
Gary Ruppert said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:56
The fact is, much of Obama’s program of socialism is like national socialism, therefore like Hitler.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:57
HondaV hasn’t gotten the memo?
Repukes were trying to claim MLK as one of them, last I looked.
~
wiley said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:57
The I’m rubber, you’re glue defense always works.
Rary Guppert said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:58
The fact is, Hitler. The fact is, hitler. Hitler.
N__B said,
January 29, 2010 at 4:59
The I’m rubber, you’re glue defense always works.
Particularly when playing “Naughty Collage Twins.”
owlbear1 said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:02
Naturally if O’Keefe had done this to a Republican senator everyone would be chuckling about how precocious he was behaving. Comments like, “What a scrapper!” and “That little scamp!”, would be rampant on the Intertubers.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:03
You know who else is a SAINT?
Your mother.
The Kid from Kounty Meath said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:11
I am, as Gar-Bear would say, full of bias on this (hence the nym), but isn’t Dodd as Irish as Eamon de Valera’s Lucky Charms?
Pere Ubu said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:13
Naturally if O’Keefe had done this to a Republican senator everyone would be chuckling about how precocious he was behaving.
Naturally.
I mean, apart from the comments about terrorism and sedition and waterboarding and all that.
Spengler Dampniche, Not Lester The Giant Ape or Anagram of Same said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:15
But seriously, have you ever seen Obama and Hitler in the same room? And think about this long and hard (and with considerable girth): MLK, Obama, Bill Ayers, and Hitler all have the same hobby: decoupaging human skulls with JEW SKIN!!!! I heard this on Art Bell, before he was taken aloft.
g said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:17
Why are young male conservative “journamalists” such douchebags? Between O’Keefe and John Ziegler, it’s a freakshow of asshattery.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:17
Particularly when playing “Naughty Collage Twins.”
Ooo, well played, especially for an engineer. Zombie golf claps.
Absinthe Martini?
The Kid from Kounty Meath said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:18
“Why are…conservative[s]…such douchebags?”
Wish I knew.
N__B said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:25
Zombie golf claps.
I know one’s a noun, one’s a verb, and one’s some kind of adthingy, but damned if I know which is which.
Absinthe Martini?
Nah. Had some tawny port a while back.
El Cid said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:26
I heartily encourage these bold conservative revolutionaries to continually publicly emphasize the superiority of these faux Telephone Repairmen to Martin Luther King Jr. They should do this while standing beside Michael Steele.
Michael Steele said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:28
Sounds “tight” to me!
Spengler Dampniche, Not Lester The Giant Ape or Anagram of Same said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:33
Jiggy, Michael.
Absinthe is damn good if, instead of dashing sugar-water in it, you hit it up with a little of that fancy ginger ale with the bits of ginger in it. Edouard or other fancy absinthes I drink straight on an ice cube.
laym said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:34
I’m no MLK scholar, but wasn’t he always prepared to do the time for his civil disobedience? Sing it, O’Keefe … we shall overcome … we shall overcome …
yallen said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:39
Spengler: but do you really get a 19th century Romantic Buzz from the stuff? (No need for extensive thujone etc. discussion — a simple yes or no please sir, will suffice for my purposes as the bar up the road offers but I have yet to partake.)
Bayard Rustin said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:41
Maybe someone told the rightards about me. Now, THERE’S a dealbreaker.
The Tragically Flip said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:41
Such socratic fellows these conservatives.
Now where did I put that hemlock…
Felonious Monk said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:41
I have a dream that me and my three little flunkies will one day live in a nation where we will not be judged by the legality of our actions, but by the
wealth of our dads!connections we have within the Republican Party!D. Aristophanes said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:44
laym – O’Keefe’s already co-opted ‘the truth shall set you free’, so he’s well on his way.
The Tragically Flip said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:48
I eagerly await the Letter from a New Orleans Jail.
g said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:49
’m no MLK scholar, but wasn’t he always prepared to do the time for his civil disobedience?
Well, there was his famous Tweet from the Birmingham Jail.
M. Bouffant said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:53
Kid, I can only assume (& assuming anything even vaguely rational from a Hotsnot common tater is strectching it, obviously) that Sen. Dodd has property in Ireland (He’s a landlord, scalp him!!) & perhaps undervalued it for taxes or something financial, considering he seems to have had some difficulties filling out paperwork, which, as even libs know, is exactly the same as entering Federal property under false premises & stuff for the Big Boy Journalist Club Initiation Prank.
laym said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:54
O’Keefe: a tireless fighter for privileged white daddy’s boys everywhere.
stryx said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:56
You know, I seem to remember that just last week over at BigFelony O’Keefe wrote
Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their “thus saith the Lord” far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.
Just like.
M. Bouffant said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:58
Why are young male conservative “journamalists” such douchebags? Between O’Keefe and John Ziegler, it’s a freakshow of asshattery.
The question is really “What is it about conservatism that attracts such asshats & douchewads?”
The Leadership Institute & so forth do seem to cultivate this, but it’s a(n un)natural talent that has to be there to begin with.
handy said,
January 29, 2010 at 6:04
The question is really “What is it about conservatism that attracts such asshats & douchewads
To steal a line from their Dear Leader ten years ago, it’s all about the soft bigotry of lowered expectations.
Spengler Dampniche, Not Lester The Giant Ape or Anagram of Same said,
January 29, 2010 at 6:12
Yallen, sorry not to respond sooner but I was suiting action to word… What absinthe does is it’s about 300 proof, so it gets you shitfaced, but the thujone keeps you from zonking out — basically you can save a lot of money by drinking Everclear and Red Bull, but you’ll look like an asshole, whereas with absinthe people will think you read Shelley.
M. Bouffant said,
January 29, 2010 at 6:20
Hey, since when is absinthe (or Everclear) legal in Kull-ee-fern-yuh? Asking for a friend.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
January 29, 2010 at 6:23
Absinthe is damn good if, instead of dashing sugar-water in it, you hit it up with a little of that fancy ginger ale with the bits of ginger in it. Edouard or other fancy absinthes I drink straight on an ice cube.
What if I do that while listening to Fables Of The Reconstruction?
Adolph Hitler said,
January 29, 2010 at 6:23
Also, as ve all know, absinthe macht der herz grow fonder. As mein old mother used to say. You see vot I did there, it was eine kleine joke. LAUGH, DAMN YOU!
Spengler Dampniche, Not Lester The Giant Ape or Anagram of Same said,
January 29, 2010 at 6:26
Oi Bouffant! It’s legal, but it’s 151 proof. You want 190 proof, you gotta go out of state.
Yallen said,
January 29, 2010 at 6:30
Spengler: that’s good enough for me!
DBR said,
January 29, 2010 at 6:32
The entire Republican Party, from top to bottom, is a freak show. Even their clowns have the tent.
dadanarchist said,
January 29, 2010 at 7:29
Why are you trolling for Lulz in the HotAir comments when there are lulz galore at the History News Network, where Spongebob Loadpants stomps his little feet after he gets his ass handed to him by not one, not two, but three eminent historians of fascism. I realize Liberal Fascism: OMG Hitler Lurved Tofu came out two years ago, but he is still beating that, uhm, meat furiously today, including posting emails from
the voices in his headhis readers urging him to restart the Liberal Fascism blog.C’mon! It’s way more lulzy than HotAir comments.
Dave Neiwert’s Introduction to the Forum – scroll down for the utter demolition of Goldberg’s
cheetohs tripargument and Goldberg’s “response.”It’s like it’s the winer of 2007-08 all over again!
Anthony said,
January 29, 2010 at 7:52
The best thing about Jonah’s response is that like at least half of it is him just saying he’s already responded.
dadanarchist said,
January 29, 2010 at 7:57
Yeah, if I cared enough and had time to waste (and I mean literally waste) I would try to map out the history of Jonah’s defense of his “book,” specifically those places where he states he “already responded” to see how many of them lead back to no response at all, or Jonah simply reprinting passages from his book, as if that proves anything.
filb said,
January 29, 2010 at 9:01
That book had a single intention: provide an excuse for Conservatives to call Liberals both Commies AND Nazis.
And by that measure it was a complete success.
Where does “truth” or “reality” come into the picture? It doesn’t. He doesn’t need to defend anything.
noen said,
January 29, 2010 at 9:09
The take away quote from Jonah’s defense:
“I’m not going to dilate on this point too long.”
Man knows how to write!
gainsayer said,
January 29, 2010 at 10:25
It may be the bottom of the barrel, but damned if there’s a buncha fish down there. Let me grab my shotgun.
Hatchepsut said,
January 29, 2010 at 10:31
I think there was only one scientific study ever done on Thujone (back in the 1960s?) and it concluded that thujone didn’t have any groovy psychadelic effects. So what made all those painters and poets (i.e., Van Gogh) so Romantically Mad at the turn of the last century? Probably the cheap alcohol (something akin to bathtub gin) used by distillers eager to cash in on absinthe’s wild success.
Still, absinthe does seem to have a different effect than other liquors (including its cousins like ouzo): your tongue seems to thicken, making conversation a little problematic well before you get drunk; and, yes, even as the buzz hits, you feel curiously alert and awake.
But, no, no Green Fairy. If you do see one, you may want to check out whether alcohol poisoning is involved…
Dot said,
January 29, 2010 at 11:17
“Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their “thus saith the Lord” far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.”
If there is any justice in this world, O’Keefe’s cellmate’s name will be Balaam.
lobbey said,
January 29, 2010 at 11:36
Yallen, sorry not to respond sooner but I was suiting action to word… What absinthe does is it’s about 300 proof, so it gets you shitfaced, but the thujone keeps you from zonking out — basically you can save a lot of money by drinking Everclear and Red Bull, but you’ll look like an asshole, whereas with absinthe people will think you read Shelley.
and if you drink the right unsanitized stuff (i.e. with the tree bark and shit), you start to think your Shelley….
btw, someone mentioned cider with port the other day. Tried it last night, I’m found my brand….
lobbey said,
January 29, 2010 at 11:39
Hey, since when is absinthe (or Everclear) legal in Kull-ee-fern-yuh? Asking for a friend.
Here, and they send it in a wrapped up little bag:
http://www.originalabsinthe.com/?ad=mdm
Good review over at Modern Drunkard too…
N__B said,
January 29, 2010 at 13:51
someone mentioned cider with port the other day.
I mentioned cider with dark rum, but your mad-scientist experimentation intrigues me.
Chris said,
January 29, 2010 at 15:06
I love that he puts MLK “on our side.” So much of the efforts of those dozens of conservative ‘intellectuals’ who’ve spent the last twenty years patiently explaining that MLK was really on OUR side because he was against racism and black people are racist and, and, and…
It’s funny watching the discrepancy between the ‘intellectuals’ who love to claim the mantle of liberals gone, and the base which is still running on the same kool aid as they were in 1964.
Jack Elam said,
January 29, 2010 at 15:07
Peej: Ian Ogilvy. Not as good as Moore, maybe, but he more than held his own.
smedley said,
January 29, 2010 at 16:59
Breitbart is pissed that Shuster used deception to get Breitbart to appear on MSNBC:
http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/01/28/how-david-shuster-lied-to-get-me-to-appear-on-msnbc/
Breitbart: “Irony? I don’t know the meaning of that word.”
bjacques said,
January 29, 2010 at 17:25
Ian Ogilvy was awesome in The Witchfinder General.
YOU TOOK HIM FROM ME!!!!
Hey Hitler. How would you like a Hertz Donut?
Interrobang said,
January 29, 2010 at 18:39
You know, at first I thought that James O’Keefe bit where he was comparing himself to Paul of Tarsus was a bit self-aggrandizing. But then I realised that James O’Keefe is more than likely also a misogynist, fucked-up, power-hungry, lying sack of shit who fucks up everything he touches and loves to make people miserable. So there’s actually probably something to that. Too bad it’s not as, uh, flattering as he thinks.
Parrotlover77 said,
January 29, 2010 at 18:54
Confidant now? I’m just curious, will it officially be Peak Wingnut when William Ayers retroactively becomes Obama’s ex-lover? Or is there more room for wingnut growth after that?
Mark said,
January 29, 2010 at 19:16
“privileged white daddy’s boys”
I think the term you’re looking for is “Trustafarian”.
stryx said,
January 29, 2010 at 19:53
Just to be clear, it warn’t actually O’keefe who wrote that passage on Bigblartblart.
Actually, it was that one other guy who went to jail.
The one who was disappointed in the White Moderate.
New Orleans Saints fan said,
January 29, 2010 at 22:10
Pretty sure he’s not a Saint.
Thank dog, Darren Sharper is!
Sophist said,
January 30, 2010 at 6:01
Corrected by me on your behalf.
anthony said,
January 30, 2010 at 9:49
The Honda V65 is a shit bike and encourages its owners to be wild overcompensators with bullshit reasons about why it’s actually great.