Just because something happened does not in any way mean that it happened. Maybe once you libruls could learn that.

Reminds me of my Rush-listening neighbor, who went into fits of apoplexy after hearing that I had gone to see Farenheit 911, talking about what a “propagandist” Michael Moore is. When I pointed out that it’s kind of hard to claim someone is “propagandizing” things when he’s showing clips of people telling lies, on videotape, that they actually told, it made not a dent. Although a few years later he was willing to concede that Bush was a complete disaster, he’s still not able to admit his role in enabling that disaster through his gullability and refusal to believe what his own lyin’ ears and eyes were telling him.

Also. All hail the return of the toilet-themed photoshop!

I’m trying to imagine a “context” in which what Scott Brown said could be deemed appropriate. It’s just not coming. Color me shocked, looks like the “left-wing blogs” are right about the Republicans – again.

The image is completely appropriate, although technically shouldn’t he be crapping directly on the keyboard?

Scott Brown is, and has always been, a marginally engaged state legislator with no significant accomplishments. While Coakley has run a lousy campaign, I keep saying the same thing over and over to Brown supporters: “I can’t be responsible for debating the voices in your head.” We now have an electorate that not only votes on what they believe will happen, e.g. Brown killing healthcare, but because the voices in their heads tell them Obama is a criminal Muslim socialist hell-bent on destroying the Constitution. There is no antidote to this, sad to say. We’re fucked when 40% of the electorate is motivated to vote on issues completely without basis in fact which will never happen. They’re like children afraid of monsters in the closet, and that kind of irrationality can’t be cured.

Does anyone think Brown will win? The villagers are all acting like it’s inevitable, so that makes me think it’ll be Coakley in a cake-walk.

Hold up now, the “OMG Dijon!” guy is going to accuse people of reading too much into trifles?

Yes, some people do think Brown will win, primarily people who have been watching the polls and tea-baggers who have no sense of reality. But it is important to remember that the Republican GOTV effort in MA is as shriveled as Mark McGwire’s gonads. In the end, I think the Democratic party’s infrastructure in MA makes the difference. I’m guessing Coakley with 52% of the vote. Of course, I also find it interesting that the conservative know-nothings have already laid the groundwork claiming the SEIU, ACORN, and other organizations will have stolen the election if it’s close. It’s funny how they never lose an election fair and square.

Jesus: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/17/in_bolton_reading_writing_and_republican_rhetoric/

Students everywhere love assemblies – sometimes for the presentations, often because they simply get to get out of class. But the middle-schoolers at Florence Sawyer School in Bolton may be rethinking that one, after a recent morning visit from US Senate candidate Scott Brown that could rank as the downer assembly of the year.

Amid brightly colored banners that said “We are the world,’’ “Walk the path to your dreams,’’ and “Hop to it!’’ Brown spoke gravely to the adolescents about the “debt ceiling’’ and “unfunded mandates.’’ About a cap-and-trade plan that he said might force the school to lay off teachers or cut activities to pay energy bills. About the Taliban and Al Qaeda potentially joining forces to move on Pakistan and obtain nuclear weapons.

Then the truly cheery part began.

Brown, asked how he felt about the “Patriotic Act,’’ said he was happy to give up some personal freedoms to protect the country from attacks like the one a Sudbury man allegedly plotted on a local shopping mall, before being thwarted.

“I hate to talk so bleakly, because you have smiles on your faces still, but we’re at war, and people want to kill us,’’ Brown said. “They want to hurt you, they want to hurt me, and they want to hurt my kids.’’

Brown stuck with the theme in asking the students to encourage their parents to vote for him.

“Tell your folks to get involved,’’ he said. “Be my little army. Be my young army of young people.’’

“Be my little army. Be my young army of young people.’’

CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

I applaud the return of the “Douche a la commode” motif.

“Tell your folks to get involved,’’ he said. “Be my little army. Be my young army of young people.’’

Is it even necessary to Godwin this comment?

“Tell your folks to get involved,’’ he said. “Be my little army. Be my young army of young people.’’

I kind of just threw up in my mouth.

It’s funny, with that photo and title, I first read “It would be irresponsible not to defecate.” The meaning is perhaps clearer this way.

“Tell your folks to get involved,’’ he said. “Be my little army. Be my young army of young people.’’

Children of the Corn!

Ahh, toilet shoops. Can’t beat the classics.

Also, I’ve been curious. I see the term Villager tossed about all the time, and I guess I’ve learned the definition from context. But what’s the history of the word?

Jennifer said,
…he’s still not able to admit his role in enabling that disaster through his gullability and refusal to believe what his own lyin’ ears and eyes were telling him.

Orwell had to have the Minitrue rewrite history. He believed, like so many people, that facts could stand in the way of bombast. If there was one thing I learned from the last decade, it’s that if powerful people lie, it doesn’t seem to matter the evidence for it. Maybe it was just that there’s no willingness to confront the powerful anymore.

the middle-schoolers at Florence Sawyer School in Bolton may be rethinking that one, after a recent morning visit from US Senate candidate Scott Brown that could rank as the downer assembly of the year.

My dad was a combat veteran and I’m sure he wouldn’t appreciate the indoctrination of our youth at school, and I’m sure all teabaggers agree with me.

@Michael G: Also, I’ve been curious. I see the term Villager tossed about all the time, and I guess I’ve learned the definition from context. But what’s the history of the word?

Blame it all on teh Clenis:

“We have our own set of village rules,” says David Gergen, editor at large at U.S. News & World Report, who worked for both the Reagan and Clinton White House. “Sex did not violate those rules. The deep and searing violation took place when he not only lied to the country, but co-opted his friends and lied to them. That is one on which people choke.

“We all live together, we have a sense of community, there’s a small-town quality here. We all understand we do certain things, we make certain compromises. But when you have gone over the line, you won’t bring others into it. That is a cardinal rule of the village. You don’t foul the nest.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/quinn110298.htm

Whoa there, that Mr. Jacobson, esq. certainly has an eye-opening resume.

Did you notice that he’s a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority trainer? Goodness, that all went swimmingly well.

Also, take a look at the “Additional News Media Quotations” section of his resume. Jacobson not only helped “regulate” the financial industry over the last 8 years, he was a fierce, um, civil rights defender as well. Let’s say you are handing out mortgages left and right and you are working your nepotistic connections and then someone calls you “Mama’s boy” Well, that gotta hurt.

http://registeredrep.com/mag/finance_revenge_mamas_boy/index.html

Oh, and there are lots more examples in that resume. Remind me why Jacobson hasn’t been laughed off the internets? And while you are at it, remind me why he left a “successful” law practice to teach. Remind me why he can still practice law.

That David Gergen really is an insufferable twat, isn’t he? He needs to be in a Haitian earthquake.

I only pay marginal attention to politics locally these days as the outcome is so predictable. Mass gives a little more light and Boston especially. Brown got my attention when he ran an ad last week that had his daughter on begging all mass folks to vote for him, ’cause he’s such a great dad.

The lamest ad I think I’ve ever heard and I’ve read some on him too.

Apparently he’s a man who’s floor is extremely low and he hasn’t reached it yet.

Begging bored school kids to muscle their parents to vote for him
Using the old tradition of using offspring for electability points with a newfound low of creepy radio ads

and now the clip that isn’t really saying what he is really saying but not really saying but said enough for thinking people to know what’s he thinking

— that the birther movement may be nutty, but hey let’s not close that door and by the way, Obama’s ma is a ho’.

Asshole.

No, to the one who asked, I don’t think Brown has a chance in Mass. They’d give him a gilded throne in New Hampshire though, but this is a rough state to live in, not many state funded benefits to enjoy and the roads are kinda rough to drive on and the schools kinda suck.

What’s that about taxes?

Hold up now, the “OMG Dijon!” guy is going to accuse people of reading too much into trifles?

Bwah!

“Be my little army. Be my young army of young people.’’

Ummmm….and they get upset about school-children singing songs about President Obama’s inauguration?

Ummmm….and they get upset about school-children singing songs about President Obama’s inauguration?

Yep. Because IOKIYAR, silly person.

Was it the daily Show that ran a bit last week about Republicans and national security cred? Because “everyone knows” that the GOP is “better on national security”, so they can allow the worst terrorist attack in US history to happen on their watch, completely botch two wars, say any idiotic thing on the subject they want, and it does them no harm, because “everyone knows…”

Ha! I suspected that’s where the Villager thing came from. Now I know, and that’s half the battle. The other half is probably predator drone strikes on orphanages, though. They don’t show that part in GI Joe.

Scott Brown has had issues with student assemblies before.

IOKIYAR, g.
~

Also, wasn’t Obama’s school message essentially eat breakfast and study hard to get a good job? Brown’s message wasn’t exactly as wholesome. Then again, I’ll bet it plays better for the 12 year old crowd.

Everything about this guy’s tone of voice and body language when he says “I don’t know about that” communicates a very clear message about what he thinks to a person with normal brain function. But maybe law-talker guy here has prosopagnosia, in which case we’re all making fun of a handicapped person.

Seriously, if you get out of the boat, do bother to watch the clip. I’m all for taking things in context and it’s not in itself a damning answer but all the non-verbal context needed is in that video. You could show it to Kalahari bushmen and they’d point at Scott Brown and say whatever the word is for deranged white person is in their language.

However, it’s nice to know people on the right have ethical problems with pulling a few seconds of video or a still photo and inventing their own context for it, except for checking-out-ass-gate, bow-gate, and every other single time they do it, up to and including this time.

Other great uncut moments from history:

“One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind…not! Let’s blow this joint, fellas. I can’t wait to get back to Earth to bang some astronaut groupies.”

I’d love this professor’s take on the Zapruder film. Why are people so obsessed with a video that just shows Kennedy bending over to pick up something he dropped, and then making out with Jackie O?

That is a cardinal rule of the village family. You don’t foul the nest.

?ixd

Also, wasn’t Obama’s school message essentially eat breakfast and study hard to get a good job?

Pretty much. I likened it to a Hulkamaniac speech (child of the 80s here): “Train, say your prayers, eat your vitamins, stay true to yourself, true to your country, be a real American!” BROTHER!

About the vid linked in Jacobson’s post, can someone walk me through how that proves Brown is a Birther? The Blue Mass post that originated this doesn’t make that claim.

I guess this is just another edition of Winguts Making It Up As They Go Along

Gosh, I didn’t know there was going to be a quiz, but, given the choices of :

1. Buttwipe.
2. cobag.
3. dickhead.

Is the answer, then, “4. All of the above.” ?

Left the boat, skimmed, took some Gravol … much better now, thanks.

First look at this Brown guy – ecccchhh. Pretty much screams “two wetsuits, a humorless dildo, & a hyena-fursuit” to me … obtaining a court order for the purpose of excavating his garage & garden for human remains is highly recommended.

Comments over yonder thereabouts are about as full of wisdom & insight as they would be on YouTube … but there’s a golden nugget amongst the turds. Sounds like teh mighty PUMAs are on the case, so Coakley better be shaking in her boots!

First the Mittster, now this empty suit. What is it with Massachusetts Republicans and their male underwear model candidates?