Drizzled in Bullshit
The brain rot of the FireDogIdiots has reached epic proportions. There’s no turning back for these nut jobs. It doesn’t matter how many Obama supporters (aka Obamabots, Obama Zombies, Obamaphiles, Kenyans) tell these jackholes that they aren’t the base (You’re not the base; You’re still not the base; You’re no more the base than you were two seconds ago) — they simply will not listen.
They are so filled with Obama-hate that they have become one-note drones: Obama killed my grandma. Obama stole the cookie from the cookie jar. Obama is a wuss. Obama doesn’t know how to fight. Obama hurt my feelings. Obama drank my milkshake; he drank it right up.
On and on they drone. It never stops, no matter what Obama says or does. He could give every person in America a lifetime supply of Awesome, and these asshats would complain that the Awesome they received wasn’t awesome enough.
That’s the sheer absurdity of it: IT.NEVER.STOPS. Even when these asshats are demonstrably wrong, it doesn’t matter to them. They just brush it off and move on to the next item on their Outrage List.
At this point, I doubt that any of these people are actually liberal. It’s the intertrons; You can say or be or do anything on the intertrons. No liberal could be this angry at Obama all the fucking time. It has become a personal grudge to these people, and it makes no sense. It makes no fucking sense at all. Obama could cure cancer, and firebaggers would ask him why he didn’t go back in time and prevent the Black Plague from killing half the people on earth back in 13-whatever.
Please just stop it. Just stop. Remove your heads from your colon, and go take a nap.
The polls are in: The Base is happy. Obama’s brand is strong.
But these self-centered asshats aren’t getting the message. As they stare down the barrel of their own irrelevancy, their Obama-hate has turned to desperate outrage: “Obama is betraying his base. KILL PRIMARY HIM!”
Look, FDL is supposed to be a liberal blog, yeah? I can’t remember the last time I saw anything positive written about Obama over there, can you?1 Moreover, most of the negative crap is based on little more than speculation. (Obama gave Boehner the stink eye, which signals that he’s pre-caving on Social Security! KILL PRIMARY HIM!)
Most of the FDL posts start from the baseline of “Obama is the devil” and then proceed to view everything through that lens: An example: [This is a long one, so proceed at your own risk!]
A Tale of Two Acronyms: What Fierce Advocacy Actually Looks Like – START vs. DADT
President Obama, like all presidents, often says he “wants” or is even “fighting” for something [Sarcastic air quotes--clearly the superior opening salvo in all propagandistic pablum], but in fact puts no real effort into actually making it happen. ["In fact"? Where are the facts? Well, if you say it's a fact, then I suppose I'll just believe it. Notice how the author doesn't explain what "no real effort" means until after he's already made his point; at the end of the article, "no real effort" is revealed to be the "'if there is time' approach to DADT." ZOMG! MOAR SARKASTIC QUOTES!!] It could be he doesn’t want to spend political capital because he thinks it is a lost cause, thinks it is fairly unimportant, or even doesn’t really want it, but thinks it is smart politics to pretend he does. [The author has already stated the "fact" that Obama is a wuss (essentially), but come on! Don't expect him to have any "facts" regarding from whence the wussiness came! The author will throw out some ideas, though. He's just speculatin'. He's not saying for sure either way. It's Fox News 101: "Do Democrats hate America? Maybe they do, maybe they don't. We're just asking questions here."]
That is why it is important to recognize what a president acting as a “fierce advocate” actually looks like so you can distinguish the real thing from empty rhetoric. ["Fierce advocate"? Is that a gay advocate? I'm so confused. I'm sure I will be enlightened shortly.] We are seeing a what a real full-court press from the administration is when it comes to the START treaty. [What are you seeing? Because I'm seeing the news reporting that the Senate voted to repeal DADT. How did that happen? Well, "in fact," Obama promised Jane Hamsher that he wouldn't run for a second term if the Senate repealed DADT. Okay, fine--what I just posited doesn't make any sense, but how do you know it didn't happen that way? I just said it was a "fact," damnit! Or maybe, just maybe there's shit going on in the White House that you don't know about. Could it be? Maybe? Just a little?]
* It starts with actions like having your Director of National Intelligence tell senators his opinion about the ratification of a new START treaty: “I think the earlier, the sooner, the better.” [Or like waiting so the Pentagon could conduct a study to shove into the faces of the Republican obstructors? Like appealing DADT decisions so the Republicans can't whine about judicial activism?]
* You get as many respected experts, like former Secretary of State Colin Powell, to join you in the push for legislative action, both publicly and privately. [Or like getting respected experts on the military aka The Fucking Pentagon to come out in favor repealing DADT? Or maybe like surveying service members to make sure that they were cool with having gays all up in their military?]
* You have the Vice President, Secretary of State, Defense Secretary, and Director of National Intelligence all personally call senators, like the just-sworn-in Mark Kirk (R-IL), to tell them how important it is that they support the legislation. [I see. He didn't bother to do anything to repeal DADT. Obama hates the gays and doesn't really want to repeal DADT -- he's only saying he does because -- oh what's that? It passed? Oh. You've got stupid on your face. You might want to wash that off.]
* Make life uncomfortable for those who oppose the legislation by having the Senate Majority Leader threaten to keep the Senate in session during the holidays if they try to kill it through delaying tactics. [Because Lord knows that threatening to make one work over the holidays is “fierce advocacy.” I guess my boss is a fierce advocate, too, because guess what I'm doing this holiday season? My boss will be so pleased that he's striking a blow for Amurika.]
* Put Vice President Joe Biden on TV to make the case that failure to pass START puts the country at risk. “I hope I don’t get in the way of your Christmas shopping, but this is about the nation’s business. This is national security at stake. Act. Act.” [Seriously? Joe Biden telling people to do something is supposed to be “fierce advocacy”? The man considered by most to be a walking gaffe, and whom I last saw on The Colbert Report handing out hot dogs to returning soldiers from Iraq (not that there's anything wrong with that!) Ninja, please.]
* Then, the next day, have Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hold a bipartisan press conference to push the Senate to ratify the START treaty. [Requisite mention of Hillary, the Lost Candidate: CHECK!]
* If that is not enough, then, at a press conference with your top generals, you have them advocate for the treaty with the strongest language possible, such as “All the Joint Chiefs are very much behind the treaty. We need START, and we need it badly.” [Kind of like when Defense Secretary Gates and Joint Chiefs Admiral Mullen held a press conference and reported that 70% of troops support repeal? You mean like that?]
This is what fierce advocacy on an issue looks like from the White House: making the case to the public through a series of important surrogates, and heavy private lobbying of individual members of Congress. [Agreed. Which is what the White House did, jackass.]
Because this is a treaty, the president’s room to maneuver is constrained on this issue by the Constitution [Wow! Just like DADT!] but on most other issues, a president can enhance his push with threats. [Obama is going to hold his breath until you get it together, Congress!] It can be small, like promising to kill a senator’s pet project, or as sweeping as threats to use executive orders to get the same result [which result can be undone in the blink of an eye by a subsequent president, who -- if you asshats have your way -- will be in 2012. Hello Madame President Von Wolfhuntress!], push it through with reconciliation, or even call for the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster, as George W. Bush did with some of his judicial nominees. [Are you stupid or somethin', son? Do you not understand that Obama is laboring in an entirely different political climate thanks, in part, to jerkwads like you and your Hamstress? How can you not understand that?]
If you see the administration using this multi-pronged, public and private push on an issue, you can be confident it is something the president really wants to make it happen. [Wow! Just like DADT! Remember when he said this at the State of the Union address on January 27, 2010: This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are. (Applause.) It’s the right thing to do. (Applause.)] If you don’t see this across-the-board push from the White House, you know the President’s commitment to the issue is soft at best, and, at worst, he is really signaling to the people that matter [Oooh conspiracy theories! The people that matter! I wonder who they are? I know one thing. It's not you.] that his promises are empty rhetoric he doesn’t want to see fulfilled. [You know what's empty? Your fucking skull.]
Compare the White House action on START with the “if there is time” approach to DADT. The latter is not fierce advocacy. [Oh really? Still think so, now that DADT has been repealed, you unstoppable jackass?]
I dissected the article to make a point. And that point is: The article could have been written by a drunk monkey. It probably was written by a drunk monkey. But it doesn’t matter; the sycophants — like Pavlovian dogs — chime in with some version of the Obama Sucks song. Every single comment is a riff on the same tune.
And the racism. Oh, the racism. What was once a bouquet of racism has turned into a full-fledged stench; and because The Hamstring doesn’t allow any differing viewpoints on her blog, one can presume that’s how she likes it. (It’s not surprising, given her brand of “humor.”)
Those who don’t agree with her false assessment of the Obama presidency (which is more than 80% of Democrats) are either shouted out of the comment section, or outright banned. A lot of liberals–those who still have fully functioning brains–see the firebaggers as a bunch of animals trapped in a zoo run by a crazed zookeeper who keeps her minions in check with a steady stream of lies, deception, and misinformation (that is when she isn’t misappropriating their money.)
The FDL sycophants are monkeys throwing poo at one another, and unfortunately, that poo sometimes leaves the outerbounds of The Lake and starts splattering on those of us who are actually trying to keep the Republicans from crapping all over the country again. This doesn’t mean we are worshipping at the altar of Obama; it means being realistic about what he can and cannot do. It means not reading malice into every word or action he takes. It means blogging in fora that permit dissenting views, and then hashing those views out. It means learning and growing and changing. It doesn’t mean blocking out everything one doesn’t want to hear.
But that’s not how Jane rolls. No dissenting comments exist in her FireDogWorld. Moderation is the spice of life in the Land o’ Lakes. The result? Comments like these:
A couple of points before I wrap this tl;dr up:
From Comment 9:
“This is where Clinton is a much better Kabuki player than Obama
Clinton would at least act like he was fighting for something, though behind the scenes he had killed it.
Another Big mistake Obama makes is ignoring the fact he is doing this Kabuki in a DEPRESSION. (People are not just mad at OBAMA, they are FURIOUS at OBAMA and the PHONY DEMS)
And let us not all forget the other big issue Obama forgets, someone on his staff needs to tell OBAMA, hello Mr. President here is a mirror, please look at it, you will notice that your are BLACK, I have a feeling a Black candidate doing Kabuki is not going to go over well with the DEM BASE. (this is just a fact) [You're stupid. This is just a fact. See how that works?]
What is funny about all of this, is the fact that a lot of DEMS in congress don’t see the Hell OBAMA is causing them come re-election time. :)
How many Dems want to be in the commercial with the lying Black Presidential Candidate for President? The GOP and The Left are going to tie you to OBAMA.
the 23 Dem Senators up for re-election are going to have tp defend some tough stuff in 2012!
1. Bob Dole Health Care Bill
2. Bush Tax Cuts
3. The Lying Dem Black Presidential Candidate [Seriously?!]three strikes and you are OUT! :)
Good luck Dem Senators
this is just the facts [You wouldn't know a fact if it punched you in the babymaker.]
This is the quote that is helping Progressives Organizations Raise Money
” We HATE OBAMA and THINKS HE IS SCUM”2say that, and you get liberal and progressives to donate
Laughing” [You cannot convince me that some of the comments like this weren't written by teabaggers. The grammar? The glee at the prospect of Obama's failure? Then again, the firebagger is the lowest form of teabagger.]
From Comment 13:
“At this point, I have such distrust for him and for the Senate that I feel compelled to fight everything they propose and to discount everything they say.
Obama is a capricious fuck.
Sorry but I can’t find who posted this link, but it’s worth posting again – The Left and Obama-Trauma“ [Notice how the Sycophant posts a link to The Black Agenda Report, which is part of Hamsher's Common Sense Media? Do you see how circular this all becomes? Her minions cannot even point to a non-Hamsher source in support of their claims that everyone hates Obama OMG LOL. Also, really? Pointing to one black blogger and hold him up as representative of all black people? We are not a monolith, assholes!]
From Comment 23:
Obama Triangulates the left, it is only right the left Triangulates the Black Vote
Are Black Voters going to vote for Palin, Romney, Newt, etc.? NO
The intelligent left needs to stress to Black Voters Obama is More Clarence THomas, Alan Keyes, he is no Martin Luther King.
Every commercial with Obama should feature a picture with him hugging Clarence Thomas, this is just good politics
We must make the Black Voter ask why Obama hugging Clarence Thomas. [Uncle Tom jokes kill with "Black Voters."]
It’s like Lord of the Flies over there; the racism that has infected the comment section is appalling for a group of people who claim to be “better than Republicans.” At this point, I would prefer the company of the Freepers; at least with the Freepers you know from the outset that most of them are a bunch of racist asshats. The racist asshats who comprise the FireDog Sycophant Brigade don’t even understand that their actions and words are racist because they are liberals, damnit, and liberals are Not Racist, and don’t you even think it! The dreaded “R” word to a white liberal is like the dreaded N-word — the mere use of the “R word” causes such severe cognitive dissonance that the mind of the firebagger, essentially, short circuits. Don’t you dare call them racist! NO DISASSEMBLE!
If you’re still reading this (congratulations!), here’s my point (at long last): I find it appalling that Jane Hamsher — the self-anointed leader of the progressive movement and the woman who appears on MSNBC as a matter of course (and Fox News occasionally despite decrying all Democrats who appear on that network) – is so insecure in her own political views and her ability to make cogent arguments, that she does not allow any opposing views on her blog. It is downright reprehensible that she allows (or champions?) the blatant racism that is oozing from her Lake.
Jane, the surest way to maintain a belief that you are always right is to never have anyone tell you that you’re wrong. If you delete all of the comments that question your views and leave only the laudatory comments, eventually you will begin to believe your own bullshit. (That is, of course, if your goal hasn’t always been to undermine the Democrat party from the inside. It seems more and more likely that your endgame is to make money off the backs of your hapless sycophants, since you’ve accomplished absolutely nothing thus far besides moving PAC money from one pocket to the other.)
The bottom line is this: If you refuse to allow opposing views on your blog, then you own the racism of your commenters.
Stop it, Jane. Just stop it. You’re hurting America.
1 No liberal is that one note, unless that liberal is either stupid or a Republican. Which one are you?
2 Notice how none of these sycophants can get it through their empty skulls that they are not the base! They are a distraction. A pimple on the ass of humanity.
There was a time when I had a level of respect for Hamsher and those who wrote for FDL but as the raison d’etre for the site is now fomenting hatred for the President by spouting misinformation and outright lies, I despise her and those who lap up the the propagandist swill she heaps into the trough.
And, on a purely hateful note, is that shit-eating “I – am – SO – superior” smirk that she sports on newstalk shows tattooed on her mug?
Wonderful post, young lady.
Carry on.
Hamsherites.. as I like to call them and Greenbecks.. yes the morph between Greenwald and Beck, since they are effectively no different and I were having quite the argument last night. But you know what, you are correct, I’ve been a Democrat for around 30 years. I actively participate in our monthly meetings, etc and those people absolutely never show up to our meetings, they never participate, they’ve never lifted one finger to get someone elected. They believe because they contributed some money that they get a say in what the President does, and right now they want a childish fist fight, but they do want a real fist fight. They are haughty as well, believing they can make much better choices than the President in every aspect of his Presidency and they speak with no respect at all towards this President. They want to pick who is on his cabinet, they want to choose, his Chief of Staff, they want to choose nominees for Supreme Court ultimately they don’t want him to make decisions, as they believe ultimately they get to make those choices. And they believe their choices are better, than say the Presidents, even though he was elected. It is interesting no so called progressive even made demands like this of President Clinton, they did not deride him like this, they did not speak about him in such derogatory ways. I am absolutely convinced that this President can be equated to Jackie Robinson in that he takes much abuse from people, but he slogs ahead and does his job and he does it so damn well. I know who is the better person here and it will never be them.
thanks for commenting, and you are absolutely right. the manner in which they constantly deride the president is atrocious in and of itself, but that they have the temerity to whine about hippie punching when obama calls them on their bullshit is laughable.
OMG ABL!! This is not the FDL from the past, I loved the old FDL. I am just astounded by the comments and as far as I’m concerned it looks like they’ve been taken over by the body snatchers or something.
I don’t go there at all any more, I just don’t want to give them any traffic. When I saw Hamshers name coupled with Norquists I knew something ugly had changed. But the blatant racism really does blow my mind.
I am not black and it sickens me, I don’t know how you can stand it.
Jane Hamsher made “Natural Born Killers” and put Joe Lieberman in blackface. OF COURSE she has a right to feel superior to the guy who has signed more progressive legislation than any president in my lifetime.
Seriously, from now on, I want anyone who brings her on their show to ask just what makes her qualified to pass commentary on — well, anything. Including cinematic quality, given that NBK is, to put it charitably, a smoking-hot turd on celluloid.
Same shit from (possibly) a different side of the spectrum: Obama makes people who were born to think of themselves as the natural leaders of the world (or at least to feel like, no matter what happened, they could always regard themselves as patronizingly superior to black people) like the sad wastes of their mother’s birth pangs that they are. What campaigns have they won? Where is the money going? What legislation have they shepherded through?
So yeah, it comes down to the oldest human impulse in the book: sheer fucking jealousy. Read through those sad, semi-literate, half-baked conspiracy-ridden threads at FDL and they are indistinguishable from the Freepers. They’re losers, they know it, and it makes them enraged.
The only question is whether it’s better to ignore them or keep pointing and laughing at the sad delusion drunk poop-throwing manic-progressive primates.
It might also be fun to keep pointing out that the president doesn’t have the luxury of “banning” people from Congress who don’t agree with him. Of course, because he’s actually a dusky-hued untrustworthy Manchurian candidate puppet of Rahm, the Evil Jew (remember “Rahmbama” as an epithet?), he probably DOES have that power. He just won’t use it!
Seriously, do they ever stop and think how fucking insane they sound? If Obama REALLY didn’t want to do healthcare reform — guess what? He had an ironclad excuse called THE SUCKTASTIC ECONOMY HE INHERITED!!! He could have easily done what Rahm and Biden advised — expand SCHIP and call it a day. But no — he insisted on that big fucking giveaway to the health insurance companies — the giveaway that they fought tooth and fucking nail because — I dunno. They didn’t WANT that massive giveaway? Seriously, I’m not fucked up enough to follow the drooling fuckwittery behind the shouting-at-clouds conspiracy freakazoids over at most proggie blogs these days.
The only question is whether it’s better to ignore them or keep pointing and laughing at the sad delusion drunk poop-throwing manic-progressive primates.
My vote is for the latter. At least until I no longer see her on MSNBC as part of a panel of People Who Know Shit. Jane doesn’t know a goddamn thing, as evidenced by her appearance on LOD, and the subsequent edited clip.
FDL has officially morphed into No Quarter and Hillbuzz. I fully expect a reemergence of the infamous “Whitey Tape” rumor to hit any day now. And Hamsher will be booked on Olbermann to “discuss” it.
I agree with Teresa (though I don’t think I can claim her level of experience with grassroots Dem party work) — these people are further insulated by the fact that they don’t actually work on campaigns (which, given how Hamsher screwed up with Lamont, is maybe a blessing overall). So they literally don’t know what the hell politics means. They just treat it like Dungeons and Dragons and have no real-world yardstick to measure by.
When I worked on the Obama campaign, running a phone bank a couple times a week, we had volunteers comprised of a lot of longtime rank-and-file Dems as well as college kids, retirees, union people, name it. And even with the more internet-addicted volunteers, FDL didn’t come up as anything they read regularly. HuffPo, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars — occasionally pieces from there would be passed around. But the most committed and conscientious woman I met there — who still does tons of activism (she’s a retired teacher, so has a bit more time than some of us), raises money for food banks, canvasses and phone banks regularly (and not just in presidential years) — she has no fucking clue who Jane Hamsher is (I know because I mentioned this while we were canvassing a couple months ago and she just thought they sounded silly). Nor does she care — the “opinion leaders” in Pretend President on the Internets world really have very little ability to do anything other than score face time on Fox. Sorry, Jane — Kathy is the base. You’re the acid. Obama is the president. You’re the Hollywood has-been. Or never-was, more like it.
How did Hamsher screw up with Lamont? Lamont won the primary. Lieberman decided, because CT didn’t have a sore loser law, to run as an independent. And HolyJoe was helped by the fact that Connecticut Republicans ran a token candidate(After all, when was the last time the “official” Puke candidate only got 10% in any Senate race?). So you blame all of that on Hamsher?
Sure. Why not? It makes as much sense as the shit she and her sycophantic morons blame on Obama (Ben Nelson acting the way that his voters and corporate funders want him to, rather than as the manic-progressives deem he should, etc.)
Besides, I’m sure if she and the other Lamont volunteers had just “fought harder” and “used the bully pulpit,” and “created a winning narrative,” they could have put Holy Joe away — lame GOP candidate or not. I mean, the woman who put the Jewish guy in blackface is obviously a political-strategy genius. And why didn’t she see the fake-GOP candidate coming down the pike? She is the self-appointed queen of strategery, right? She didn’t realize that Lieberman would be a dick and run an independent campaign?
See, I’m generous enough to say “Well, maybe she really just didn’t see it coming.” Which makes me different than your average FDLer, who will start screeching about elaborate conspiracies before the hat hits the floor. “Obama never really WANTED to do healthcare reform at all!” Which of course explains why he expended political capital doing just that. Oh, but HCR was a big handout to the insurance industries – who, inexplicably, decided they hated the handout and fought vigorously against “Obamacare.” In other words, — “kill the bill” was just another thing that made Jane a strange, albeit willing, bedmate of conservative corporatists. (Move over, Grover Norquist!)
Also curious to see that she dropped her “rock star” like a hot potato. Lamont ran for the governor’s office this year in CT. Didn’t see a lot of rallying the troops for him over at FDL. Guess he wasn’t such a savior after all.
awesome. fucking awesome. You are aces in my book ABL. Simply aces.
Thanks for that post.
Fuck the Frustrati. They only exist on the Internet anyway. Well, aside from brief flashes on an MSNBC show that nobody watches anyway. They are ghosts. Not even a footnote.
I absolutely refuse to believe that these people are progressives. I think they are some GOP operatives who are trying to create mayhem and disunity among Democrats. ABL, thanks for reading that garbage so that I don’t have to. Why don’t you cross post this at BJ?
“Fuck the Frustrati”
That’s awesome wrapped in an awesome blog post.
Snark aside — what really makes me furious about the Firebaggers is exactly what ABL nails here: their blithe and uninformed willingness to ALWAYS look for the worst possible motivation. If reform efforts fall short, it can’t possibly be that the Senate is filled with 100 prima donnas and Blue Dogs have inordinate power. Nope — it must be that Obama is an evil sinister stalking-horse for the Nazi Corporate State!
And, a la Tim Wise’s brilliant meditation on “If the Tea Party Were Black,” I wonder what would happen if there were black bloggers and klieg-light-seeking black pundits who habitually and viciously attacked a white president whose record was similar to Obama’s and threatened to primary him, skirted or crossed the line of calling him an ignorant evil-ass cracker in bed with corporations, etc. I believe that people like Hamsher would be aghast and appalled that they were “breaking ranks” and creating “division.” And the bitch of it is, minority voters have had to accept more craptastic compromises over the years than anything Hamsher and her precious clique have had to endure in the two years of the Obama administration. But — privilege hath its rank. And her unexamined privilege stinks to high heaven.
Their latest thing is evil Obama is going to gut Social Security and everyone will be eating cat food in their old age because of him. They’ve been pounding this drum for a while now. I first saw the term “catfood commission” on DK (big surprise). Then, when the Tax Deal passed, progressives were all raising “concerns” about how it would be a “threat” to social security. And the drumbeat is only getting louder,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46430.html.
See, if they can get enough people to believe that President Obama is going to throw old people and future old people under the bus then they’ve achieved their goal. It’s fear mongering 101 and it’s right out of the Karl Rove play book. Political sabotage is their aim and the more successes President Obama racks up, the more desperate their tactics will become. Look for the “Obama kicks Bo when no one’s looking” rumors to start any day now.
IRL, everyone I know was not surprised that Obama had to compromise to get the middle class tax cuts extended. No heads exploded. And everyone is happy DADT repeal is a done deal and think Obama is a darn good President.
But then, how important is real life compared to the blogosphere? Right Jane?
ABL, if lawyering doesn’t work out for you, you should consider becoming a surgeon. The way you took a scalpel to that POS post and dissected away the lies was a thing of beauty!
It’s also pretty impressive to let those comments see the light of day. What a sewer she’s got going over there.
As far as Kerry’s question whether it’s better to just ignore her, I agree with you. As long as she’s being put on cable teevee as an actual liberal spokesperson I think the true Jane needs to be put on display. When the Firebaggers finally become as irrelevant as the PUMAs would be the time to let her fade into obscurity.
Holy shit this article was fucking awesome. I love you, ABL. I would go totally lesbian for you. I fucking mean it.
They had me at the “intelligent left” (meaning: the WHITE left). Jesus. What breathtaking assholery. To paraphrase the dude from “Blue Velvet”: Fuck you, you motherfucking fucks.
Do you know who else scrubs negative comments off their site and bans anyone who submitted said comment from posting ever again? Sarah Palin’s Facebook page. How’s that for dubious company?
Excellent post, ABL!
Excellent post. XXXXOOOOO
And I made it all the way through it, do I get a prize?
You are seriously maligning drunk monkeys. They would never write that crap, no matter how drunk.
A very worthy rant. I was rather amused that on the other place of now seething Obama hate, DU, the VERY same people demanding that the US took action to defend citizens in Libya are now the ones condemning that action.
To the likes of the fleabaggers it is a new morning and thus it is time to remould a right wing meme into something some one on the left may believe. It is time for President Palin so the World can unite in opposition to how stupid America is.
So you’ve cherry-picked two examples of racial insensitivity from last year and from 2006. So what? If you were a denizen of FDL like I am you would know that the regulars are not racist. And if you are trying to imply that there was moderator censorship of the above exchange then what is your evidence? My experience is that you will not be censored for saying something unpopular but the other commenters will jump on you. That’s like any other comment board. True there is Obama-bashing 24/7 on some FDL threads but there’s Bradley Manning bashing 24/7 on Shoq’s blog. Great, we agree on Wisconsin.
I didn’t know there was a statute of limitations on racism (nasty word that — i know) but if you want a more recent example of “racial insensitivity” with moderator censorship fail as a bonus, try try this.
Also, I’m not sure what Shoq’s blog has to do with anything, and I’m not sure where you’re going with the Obama-bashing/Manning bashing comparison, but I haven’t seen any “Manning bashing” in his posts, and in any event, it’s irrelevant.
-ABL