Obamabashbots
Watch this clip and ask yourself this: Do Jane Hamsher (@3:53) and Adam Green (@1:07) look like people who are attempting to foment progress and change? Adam Green can’t stop bitching about how Obama never fights and uses the bully pulpit. As for Jane, the disdain is practically oozing from her pores; and of course she makes sure to bash Obama at the end because that’s all she knows how to do.
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Adam Green (of PCCC, the “progressive” group that is airing anti-Obama ads, one of which (as I wrote about here) is deplorably racist) may just be a dolt. That ad aside, I get the sense that he just doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing and that he doesn’t know anything about how politics works. I’m certainly no political strategist, but running anti-Obama ads? Seriously? What the hell is that going to accomplish? That’s no political strategy; it’s political strategery.
Jane, I believe, is equally clueless and uninformed, but she’s far more pernicious (as I discuss here and as Matt Osborne discusses here). Several bloggers have been trying to figure out what her “progressive credentials” are. Thus far, no one has come up with any answers (that I’ve seen). One thing seems certain, Jane is in it for herself.
As Deaniac83 at The People’s View points out, Hamsher seems more interested in criticizing President Obama than in doing anything of value. It makes no sense that she has a seat at the MSNBC table (or any table for that matter.) She obviously doesn’t know anything.
I’m going to cut this short before I have an aneurysm. I do have one more thing to say, however:
It’s time to move on to the next item on your Outrage List, Jane. Social Security, is it? Obama has pre-signaled that he might consider indicating that he may cave on Social Security? Unnamed sources told Politico all about it!
If you think the Democratic base feels betrayed by Obama’s tax-cut deal, just imagine the mayhem when Obama proposes to cut the Democrats’ signature program. [There's that base betrayal trope again!]
Time for more screeching headlines about the Catfood Commission, I guess — after you finish congratulating yourself for repealing DADT all by your lonesome, of course.
(H/T chaseyourtail!)
I love you for putting up the clip of Nelson.
Where do these idiots live? Here, in ex-urban America, Barrack Obama plays well with the peeps. Social security? We’ve given up on it, so go on and fix it. Gay? So what? The wars? Bring ‘em home. T-Party? Who the fuck are they? McCain? Check him in. Hamsher who? Firedoglake? Is that like the Cuyahoga River? All polluted and shit? (The Cuyahoga has gotten better, though.) No. The “base” is not upset. Except for the 137 garment rending, hair tearing, self-serving home coming queens just to the left of Chavez.
FDL was so much better when Christy was around to balance out Jane. It’s been non-stop bullshit ever since.
Can I confess something? I feel the need to confess something.
I have paid absolutely no attention to Hamsher. She lurched into my consciousness via her stupid War on Balloon Juice, and from what I learned there, I quickly understood that if I paid any attention to her I would (as you suggest here) have an aneurysm. Which I don’t want.
And yet I am feeling rather like I need to risk it, because every thing I read about this woman indicates to me that, in her self-involved, self-important idiocy, she is an actual-factual problem.
And that cheeses me off, because, aside from anything else, I really don’t have time for more fury in my day. My fury dance card is full up!
I’m with you, ee. I stay as far away from FDL and Hamsher as I can because she’s toxic. However, as she is making more and more news, I feel I should at least nominally pay attention. But, as with Palin, the sound of her voice gives me a headache, and what she says gives me heartburn. Sigh.
Somewhat OT but related, freep this idiotic HP post: “Obama Hates Social Justice Liberals Like Me,” Waah Boo Hoo http://huff.to/ijIymU
Dear, goddess. thank you for linking that, as i avoid that site, but now my head aches again. where to begin. maybe with sending the dear man a thank you note for all he sacrificed to bring about rights for people of color and women. sometimes I realize how daym ungrateful I have been.
and thanks for this post, ABL. rocked it again.
Dumbasses.
And doesn’t that smug little smirk on Hamsher’s face just say it all? Fucking dumbasses.
Oh, and thank ABL for the honorable mention! Made my day:)
Coming in pathetically late to put in an answer to a comment on a thread on another blog found even patheticallyer later!
From the great piece of reporting “How Jane Hamsher Spends Her PAC Money” by Rogers Cadenhead: http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3604/jane-hamsher-spends-her-pac-money
Cadenhead gave Hamsher repeated notice that he was going to publish what he had, derived from FEC filings and unnamed former employees, and gave her ample notice to respond, which she did not. He got a few comments from Cowgirl Jane’s Mooncalf Chorale (spell it however works for you!), among them sepia:
“So the piece was going forward regardless of whether you had accurate info from Hamsher or not, huh?”
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Seems fair enough, given that all of Hamsher’s pieces go out that way.
Rimshot, plz!
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Good grief. It just hit me: Jane looks like the love child of John McCain and Angela Lansbury.
What? You’d just eaten? Oh, I’m terribly sorry. Here, let me help you clean that up.
What an outrageous insult! (To Angela, I mean.)
Look at these dumb bigots http://bit.ly/eddgHN in which the speaker, accusing an opponent of harboring nasty racialized fantasies, reveals their own racialized fantasies. I guess it’s supposed to be ironic or satirical or something.