NWOTW: James Lewis
Todays New Wingnut of the Week is James Lewis and he (or she) comes, once again, from The American Thinker. “James Lewis” is the nom de wingnut of someone who is allegedly an “academic scientist” but, after you read anything that “Lewis” has written you are certain to suspect that his only real connection to any scientific discipline is the chemistry set he got for Christmas when he was twelve which, I will guess, was a long time ago.
The winning post from “Lewis” is a jaw-dropping exercise in wingnut hermeneutics that, by a careful interpretation of Obama’s Berlin speech, concludes that Obama is a gay communist.
Let’s go for the gay first:
A lot of gay messages were sent out by the big Speech to Planet Earth at Berlin’s Tiergarten — the Berlin zoo, a center of gay life, right by a nude park for gay men, which the media somehow forgot to tell you about.
Now, I don’t know all the gay hotspots of Berlin, but it seems unlikely that the Berlin Zoo is one. (“Hey, did you see the hot guy over by the reptile house?”) And an Internet search suggests that the biggest gay connection of the Berlin Zoo is that it has six gay male penguins. Now that is, admittedly, a shitload of gay penguins, but that still probably doesn’t make the Berlin Zoo a center of gay life.
And, of course, giving a speech next to a gay zoo and a gay park probably isn’t quite enough to prove that someone is gay. Although the similar notion that everyone who speaks at the AIPAC convention is gay because the Washington Convention Center is across the street from a gay bar is, indeed, a highly amusing notion.
Now let’s go for the Communist:
Senator O began his German Tiergarten speech with “Citizens of the world!” — a direct echo of “Workers of the world!” from the Communist Manifesto of 1848. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Communist Manifesto in German, and German school children know it pretty much by rote.
Why, of course, it’s an echo, because “of,” “the,” and “world,” are such uncommon words and have only been used in that combination in The Communist Manifesto, which German children are forced to memorize in the sixth grade in both English and German.
Or take the Obama slogan, “We are the change we’ve been waiting for!” … But it’s just Fidel Castro’s slogan, “La Revolucion Somos Nosotros!” — “We are the Revolution!” … [T]he Obama campaign just translated Castro’s big slogan into English, changed “the revolution” to “the change” — and presto! — we get the Audacity Hustle: “We are the change we’ve been waiting for!”
Same thing that Queen, a dirty Castro sympathizer if ever there was one, did when he wrote that famous pro-Castro anthem “We Are the Champions.”
And just in case you thought Lewis had exhausted his capacity for stupidity, there’s his final proof of Obama’s secret Communist sympathies:
The same thing for The Decembrist [sic] rock band [which opened one Obama rally] to echo the Russian Decemberist [sic] rebellion.
Except of course, the 1825 Decembrist revolt sought to replace the tsar with a constitution and had nothing to do with Communism — in 1825 Karl Marx was seven years old and more interested in toys than manifestos.
Actually, there’s so much in Lewis’s post that a wannabe Gary Ruppert trollbot could simply cut and paste random sentences from the post into his or her favorite comment section and have material for the next several months.
Fear does funny things to some people…
So Obama, Ayers and Write are militant atheists… who follow a theology of revenge, like militant Islam… My question: Is “James Lewis” naturally this stupid or did he have to go to school to learn this?
To be fair, the Berlin Zoo does seem to be a center of Germany’s gay penguin life.
The fact is, Obama is consumed by grandiosity, a pathological megalomania. Commentators on both sides remark on his keen intellect, but his is a second rate mind. He is not a thinker, or a scholar, or even a savvy politician. His judgment is so bad his handlers have to restrain him from putting is foot in his very large mouth. He is truly a Know-nothing. But what is really scary is what is exposed when the false front drops. A bred-in-the-bone radical socialist, immersed in the Stalinist faith from the day of his birth. Infatuated with the father who abandoned him to return to Kenya to dedicate himself to the cause of Marxism, His sole focus since adulthood has been to gain high political status so he can CHANGE the USA towards becoming a Socialist Republic. He has held srictly to that purpose, studied nothing else That’s why he is drawn to extremists like Ayers and Wright. That’s why he is embraced by MoveOn. Obama is The Great Pretender rolled into the Pied Piper.. And the Dems and the Press fall at is feet and HOPE to con America into putting him in the White House. Not us here in the Heartland.
Did you hear about the gay German penguin?
He ate off Penguin Hitler.
The fact is, look at Obama’s back ground that should be enough to make your mind up about him he is nothing and McCain has done 26 years and spent 6 years in a pow camp he has paid the price and almost did not live ,on the other hand Obama organized cheap land lords for his own people who were froze to death in the winter and burnt up in the Summer . and the buildings now stand as a testament to his organizing and they stand dilapidated and empty. What has he accomplished over his 143 days as a senator , nothing, he votes present or misses the vote all together is this what we need in a real world someone who will not be there when he is needed. his Black liberation theology learning from Wright and Ayers is enough to scare the day lights out of me , all of you who are for Obama needs to go to the library and check out Mr. Cones book on the subject and it will tell you how Obama thinks. the book over and over again tells the black people to kill the whites in any way they can and to do it with out Gods blessing if it need be . all I ask is for you all to read this book it will change your minds about Obama.
I vote “funniest Gary ever.”
As someone who has hung out with some actual communists, I find the idea that Obama is a communist to be the most laughable thing in the world.
I think he just likes throwing words together that are very broadly connected to each other. For example: cat, dog, bear, lion, elephant, penguin… see? They’re all animals!
in 1825 Karl Marx was seven years old and more interested in toys than manifestos
Yeah, but I hear his favorite toy was a set of dominoes.
The fact is, the Leftist in-crowd just loves how Obama is putting Castro’s propaganda over on millions of ignorant American suckers. The fake Presidential Seal that was quickly dropped when it was widely understood as just another piece of Obama: premature electile disorder. That’s why the Decembrist rockers play the Soviet National Anthem to start their concerts. They’ll pay good money for Communist Agitprop! What a laugh! Devout Jews were sucker-punched last week when Obama inserted a “prayer slip” into the Temple Wall in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism. Every wingnut must get stoned here in the Heartland.
Erm, the place where Obama spoke is the Tiergarten, which is essentially Berlin’s Central Park. See, even though it’s called “Animal Garden”, it’s not the zoo. It’s a park. The Zoologischer Garten is at the opposite end of the Tiergarten, a good couple miles away.
…and of course, even though communist-like concepts have been around since the dawn of mankind, the word “communist” and its associated ideology didn’t even exist until around the time “socialism” was thought up. The first appearance of the word “socialism” was in 1834, maybe 1827 at the absolute earliest.
Man, they really can’t find anything about Obama to work against, can they.
This is just sad.
They got nothing but stupidity, ignorance and fear.
Oh, and Gramps McCain. Yeah. That’ll get it done…
M
If the place where Obama spoke is a few miles away from the Zoologischer Garten, how did the gay penguins get there?
Explain that away, smart guy.
Help me!
How far is the GOP Convention going to be from that airport mens’ room?
“Senator O began his German Tiergarten speech with “Citizens of the world!” — a direct echo of “Workers of the world!” from the Communist Manifesto of 1848.”
I’m pretty sure, actually, that Obama was referring to that iconic Smiths’ song “Shoplifters of the World Unite”, a sly dog whistle to his kleptomaniacal minions, no doubt.
The whole idea that Obama is a devout Christian is another fraud; he’s a militant atheist, just like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
Man, that’s just awesome. Jeremiah Wright – a bonified preacherman – is in league with P.Z. Meyers. The idea of a black man as president just drives them crackers, don’t it.
don’t tell that pelican guy about the gay penguins!
Ihr Völker der Welt, ihr Völker in Amerika, in England, in Frankreich, in Italien! Schaut auf diese Stadt und erkennt, daß ihr diese Stadt und dieses Volk nicht preisgeben dürft und nicht preisgeben könnt!
“People of the world, citizens of America, of England, of France, of Italy! Look at this city. Look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people”.
Ernst Reuter, Mayor of Berlin in a speech to 350,000 people in front of the Reichstag (German Parliament building, visible from where BO made his speech) on the blockade of Berlin by the Soviet Union – 1948.
This was the basis of BO’s “Citizen of the World” phrase. Wingnuts really should learn to Google – and the gay centre of Berlin is not the Tiergarten – the nude park referred to is probably Viktoria Park in Kreuzberg –
Amazon.com confirms shipment of 6 copies of the Penguin edition of Das Kapital to a gay zoo in Germany…. It’s in Revelations people!!!11=!==!!
I blame the practically lactating Al Gore for the gay penguins.
Shame on you, Al Gore!
The fact is, I’m not saying that Obama is a real Marxist; he might be suckering his Marxist buddies, too. Obama is a people-pleasing hustler, and he may not have any convictions at all. (Bill Clinton doesn’t). I am just pointing to what Obama is doing — sending out contradictory sucker messages every single day. He’s got them for Leftists, blacks, whites, gays, Jews, Christians — and soon, when he picks his Veep running mate, he will have a big message for the Hillary feminists.
All the Obama messages say the same thing: You can trust the Messiah of our Age! He’s one of you!
Obama is Bill Clinton without the integrity.
Watch for the Audacity Hustle for the next hundred days, and maybe for the next eight years. But only if Americans fall down for the biggest sucker job in American history.
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Oh well. I was adding hands, but no go.
Parts of Tiergarten are well-known for cruising. Then again, so is one of your local parks or nature reserves. Or your local 24 Hour Fitness steamroom. And that bathroom on Concourse C by gate 23. The bathroom down the hall from the Young College Republican’s office in the Student Center.
Oh yeah, ESPECIALLY the bathroom by the College Republicans. “Swing” by after they’ve been drinking gimlets on a Friday night.
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– miss the recipes, man
Righteous Bubba said,
August 10, 2008 at 21:49
I just discovered that at least on Firefox/Linux and other GTK+-based apps, I can type ctrl+shift+u and then a unicode number, and hit enter, and that symbol will appear.
Another afternoon, wasted.
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Cut Up Gary Ruppert says:
The fact is, I’m not a real Marxist; he saying that Obama is might be suckering too. Obama is a his Marxist buddies, people-pleasing hustler any convictions at, and he may not have all. (Bill Clinton pointing to what Obama doesn’t). I am just is doing — sending sucker messages every out contradictory single day. He’s blacks, whites, gaysot them for Leftists, Jews, Christians picks his Veep running — and soon, when he mate, he will have the Hillary feminists a big message for. All the Obama mething: You can trusts sages say the same the Messiah of our! Obama is Bill ClinAge! He’s one of you ton without the Audacity Hustle forgrity. Watch for the the next hundred days next eight years. and maybe for the But only if American biggest sucker job is fall down for the American history.
Damn you, WordPress!
If the place where Obama spoke is a few miles away from the Zoologischer Garten, how did the gay penguins get there?
Everyone knows that gay penguins can fly.
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Ach du lieber zeit…can one bottle this “stupid?” Is there a market for same? I’d like very much to become rich, and there seems to be plenty of stupid. What should I charge? Can anyone tell me?
I’m pretty sure, actually, that Obama was referring to that iconic Smiths’ song “Shoplifters of the World Unite”, a sly dog whistle to his kleptomaniacal minions, no doubt.
Free Winona!!!
Hmm? Oh yes, my friend…. in a hearbeat!
That reminds me, I have a pint of Beaumont cheese in the fridge that I need to use before it discombobulates. Thanks RB!
the 1825 Decembrist revolt sought to replace the tsar with a constitution and had nothing to do with Communism
Communism, democracy, it is all the same thing: Giving those filthy peasants a say and some control over their lives. God knows we can’t have that sort of thing.
As to being an “academic scientist,” I personally believe he is probably a “creation scientist” at an unaccredited southern Bible college with a mail order divinity degree.
Even more damning for the Obama campaign, Oliver Goldsmith wrote a series of epistolary essays called _The Citizen of the World_. In 1760.
“Now that is, admittedly, a shitload of gay penguins,”
I lol’d.
Ye olde James Lewis seems to know quite a bit about Soviet Russia for an alleged Capitalist, if you catch my drift.
Wow, this is easy. Can i has TNR paycheck now?
Scott–
FINALLY it makes sense. Good job.
“2 jars alternative mare lung”
Would you believe, there was an alternative mare selling jars of its lungs not two blocks from here?
(Is it remotely possible that anyone here knows this reference?)
Lock and load! Point me to the nearest Unitarian-Universalist Church!
Booyah!!!
I am a revolutionary socialist, I grew up in Germany, and I haven’t memorized the Communist Manifesto – although they did make us memorize some Caesar in Latin and part of the Iliad in Greek – does that count?
I do know, however, that the German line translates as “Proletarians of all nations, unite!” not “Workers of the world, unite!”. I also know that Obama isn’t even a social democrat, and if he’s ever read Marx, then he certainly hasn’t understood any of it.
As for the academic scientist thing, I’d sadly have to say it is quite possible. I’ve seen some weird politics (and I’m not talking about liberals) around in my area (mathematics).
Same thing that Queen, a dirty Castro sympathizer if ever there was one, did when he wrote that famous pro-Castro anthem “We Are the Champions.”
If we are talking about the neighborhood in San Francisco, I’m pretty sure that Freddy Mercury was in favor.
Alexander von Humbug said,
August 10, 2008 at 21:12
Erm, the place where Obama spoke is the Tiergarten, which is essentially Berlin’s Central Park. See, even though it’s called “Animal Garden”, it’s not the zoo. It’s a park. The Zoologischer Garten is at the opposite end of the Tiergarten, a good couple miles away.
The tiergarten used to be an animal park for the private entertainment of the kaiser many many moons ago. now it is a very beautiful public park with many open fields separated by wooded tracts with all sorts of paths and bike paths lovely little bridges etc and one can often see the young ladies of berlin sunning themselves topless and sometimes bottomless (as one can observe all over europe) no one thinks much of it because its just someone enjoying a little sun which is rare enough in berlin.
The zoologischer garten is in fact several miles from the tiergarten not on one end or the other. The ‘zoo’ in berlin is actually what berliners call the main train station. there is a beate unsa shop across the street which might have something to do with his gay rant but I doubt it.
Best comment over there:
“premature electile disorder”
Ha! Best quote of the week (and it’s only Monday).”
Proving they really don’t know what day it is (because that was posted on a Sunday).
I grew up hearing “James Lewis” as a racist term for black men.
Fucking Simon and Garfunkel. They didn’t say anything about gay penguins, just reactionary zebras and dumb elephants.
there is a beate unsa shop across the street which might have something to do with his gay rant but I doubt it.
A guy like him is likely to be afflicted by the whole gay vs. European confusion.
the Berlin zoo, a center of gay life, right by a nude park for gay men, which the media somehow forgot to tell you about.
Lewis certainly seems to know exactly where to find gay life in Berlin. Can’t help but wonder if it’s from up-close-and-personal experience….
By which he means “Those other presidents who didn’t burn down the white neighborhoods and send all the crackers to reparations camp. WINK WINK“
The fact is, here in the Heartland we collect de-oxygenated blood from the body in the right atrium and pump it via the right ventricle into the Lungland so that carbon dioxide can be dropped off and oxygen picked up. Then oxygenated blood from the left atrium is pumped into the body via the left ventricle. If Obama is elected the left atrium will pump Castro’s propaganda into the body and the white blood cells will be forced to pay reparations to the red blood cells.
Matt T. @ 21:30:
Drives them crackers nuts? Drives them crackers up the wall? Drives them crackers to Wal-Mart?
Enquiring minds, etc, in the service of bad grammar.
Just to be kinda serious for a moment, christian h. — I agree that Obama isn’t particularly left of anything except the right wing. But I don’t really see any evidence to suggest he’s too stupid to understand Marx.
I’ll bet anything that the Berlin Zoo has lots of Fairy Penguins.
Ahem. Queen is a band. You either mean “When they wrote” or “Freddie Mercury a Castro sympathizer &c.”
Yes I can be pedantic at times, but surely you don’t expect me to make fun of some poor soul who sees gay commies lurking in every corner BWAHAHAHA, WhoooOOo, [slaps knee] do you?
Snerk.
Drives them crackers nuts? Drives them crackers up the wall? Drives them crackers to Wal-Mart?
Enquiring minds, etc, in the service of bad grammar.
*Shrugs* It just drives them, as in “wingnuts”, crackers, as in “coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs”. Not every white, melinophobic dingbat is a “cracker”, as it’s a geographically specific term. Who knows where this “James Lewis” character comes from.
I grew up hearing “James Lewis” as a racist term for black men.
See, it makes me think of Bro. Dave Gardner. To wit, the line: “James Lewis! You get away from that wheel-barrow, you don’t know nothin’ ’bout machinery”. So ya never know.
A greasy drizzle fell across Boston. Outside the New England Aquarium, mercury vapor lights limbed the forms of two sleek Adeles.
“Sadly, No! Penguin Outreach” read the business card, its engraved letters still crisp on the damp linen paper.
“You know, we do kind of look like we’re wearing tuxedos,” suggested the older penguin.
The younger penguin lept into the cab exclaiming, “Who says that I’m not?”
Obama is a people-pleasing hustler
He’s a Chico Marxist!
If only Jeremiah Wright were as awesome as wingnuts make him out to be.
But where in Berlin should Obama have spoken? It’s a well-known fact that Berlin was partitioned after WWII into the Commie Zone, the Gay Zone, the Lesbian Zone and the DFH Zone.
The whole idea that Obama is a devout Christian is another fraud; he’s a militant atheist, just like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
I love the structure of this sentence. You could use it for so many other things.
– The whole idea that George W. Bush is a head of state is another fraud; he’s a famous anarchist, just like Martha Stewart and King Juan Carlos of Spain.
– The whole idea that cauliflower is a healthy vegetable is another fraud; it is a polyunsaturated fat, just like butter and lettuce.
– The whole idea that Canada is an independent country is another fraud; it is a territory of France, just like Louisiana and Peru.
I love the structure of this sentence. You could use it for so many other things.
Maybe I’m mistaken here, but isn’t this kind of thing exactly what JanusNode is supposed to do?
RB?
the Berlin zoo, a center of gay life, right by a nude park for gay men, which the media somehow forgot to tell you about.
The fact is, “James Lewis” displays a familiarity with gay hot spots that I, for one, find highly suspicious.
What about the “nude park” in Los Gatos”.
The one where I frequently don’t wear any pants??
Uh huh. Thought so…
mikey
Hmm – wonder how this person squares the whole “Obama = gay Commie” trope with inconvenient details like Fidel Castro’s known persecution of Cuban gays & lesbians, especially those living with AIDS?
These folks spin so damn much we should be using them to drill for oil – hell, we already know their skulls are solid enough to go through bedrock … & they’ll work for peanuts.
“You know, we do kind of look like we’re wearing tuxedos,” suggested the older penguin.
I am impressed by the self-control of all you commenters who have resisted the temptation to repeat the “blowing a seal” joke.
The whole idea that Canada is an independent country is another fraud; it is
a territory of France, just like Louisiana and Peru.subject to the whims and desires of powerful corporate interests.[Fixed]
That American Thinker” masthead – I didn’t know they made toilets that look so much like tree stumps.
Academic scientist – I’m guessing adjunct.
we get the Audacity Hustle: “We are the change we’ve been waiting for!”
You kids and your retro dance fashions. If the Audacity Hustle is cool again, then it’s only a matter of time before we’re all dancing the Funky Gibbon.
And an Internet search suggests that the biggest gay connection of the Berlin Zoo is that it has six gay male penguins. Now that is, admittedly, a shitload of gay penguins, but that still probably doesn’t make the Berlin Zoo a center of gay life.
I dunno, how are the parties?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXq8rELhUkw
Wasn’t there a disgusting three-toed sloth in there?
FYWP.
His sole focus since adulthood has been to gain high political status so he can CHANGE the USA towards becoming a Socialist Republic. He has held srictly to that purpose, studied nothing else That’s why he is drawn to extremists like Ayers
Yes, that’s the reason he attended the Block Watch neighborhood action committe meetings and sipped bitter lukewarm coffee, to be able to commune with Bill Ayers over the most recent zoning decision about the commercial strip development over on X___ Street. He knew, from years of indoctrination, that the Master for whom he had been raised to serve, was sitting just across the living room, with the plate of cookies in front of him on the coffee table. Ah. Yes. A neighborhood Emergency Phone Tree. Clearly, this was the first step of his plan for World Domination.
the Leftist in-crowd just loves how Obama is putting Castro’s propaganda over on millions of ignorant American suckers.
Oh, I do, I do!! I sit and watch them rumba and laugh, knowing that they will soon be bowing to my will!!!!!!!!!!!
Is anybody around to play? Or am I all alone…..?
None of the goddam penguins will light the candles, blow bubbles or hand out decent ecstasy.
I gotta say, as gay penguins go, they really suck…
They do have light sticks and buble gum, but that’s kinda lame at this point….
mikey
And is that Bimler being mean to poor Roy Belmont?
I’m sorry; I’m not impressed with this wingnut. The various Gary Rupperts at Sadly No and at every other blog do this kind of work on a daily basis.
“Ahem. Queen is a band.”
Now, that Steely Dan. He was a great singer. But Good Charlotte? I don’t care for her very much.
The Spice Girls sang about “Colours of the world” and asked them to Spice Up Their Life. If that’s where Obama got the phrase from, that’s gayer than an antarctic of gay penguins.
If you think about it, gay people, Germans, and articulate black men have a lot in common. They’re all well-spoken, well-groomed, punctual and sharply-dressed, the kind of people you’d want to have as your neighbor if they weren’t responsible for the holocaust of destroying the traditional marriage, the regular holocaust, and the dual holocausts of affirmative action and stealing our white women, respectively.
It is surprising that Obama hasn’t picked some Detroit house anthem as his theme song, so he can dog whistle to all 3 groups at once — might I suggest “Nothing’s Changed”, by Ten City?
To say nothing of that com-symp singer “Pink” Floyd
Really, James? Really? You don’t think that maybe the famous Ghandi quote isn’t just a little bit closer to the mark? Really?
while obama was making some sort of a secret objectively-pro-nude-gay-penguin statement, mccain was ripping off wikipedia for his georgia speech.
wikipedia has entries on “gay penguins of berlin”. it really does.
that mccain is a fuckin’ mo is all i’m saying.
Best line from season 3 of Weeds: “He’s gayer than a handbag full of rainbows.”
Karl Marx, 1825:
“Rise up, little armless and legless Fischer-Price people! You have nothing to lose but your plastic chains!”
“OK, Karl honey, put down your little toys and come to lunch.”
“Aw mom! We were just about to have a glorious proletarian revolution!”
“That’s nice honey, you can overthrow the capitalists after your nap.”
Alright, so German school children all know the Communist Manifesto by heart…I wonder if they learn to recite it before or after “Mein Kampf”. Anyway, after the school day with many merry incantations of Hitler and Stalin is over, everyone gathers in the schoolyard to have a liter of beer or two and dance to oompah music.
Can someone PLEEEEEASE start to collect money for this poor guy to buy him a flight to Germany?
Thank you for the phrase “a shitload of gay penguins.” I will wheeze perversely about that one for a long time.
“mercury vapor lights limbed the forms of two sleek Adeles”
LIMNED not limbed, please.
English doesn’t make much sense sometimes, but that’s no excuse for this kind of mistake; after all, so much ELSE that you get right makes no sense, either.
Awfully late to the party, I know, but I just couldn’t leave that question hanging; it’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where they’re after mare sweat to brew an aphrodisiac.
And you, Mr. Wonderful, are named after Sammy Davis Jr.’s first starring vehicle on Broadway (or just the title song?)