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Ed Hale’s majestic website, Ex-Hillary Clinton Supporters For John McCain, has already conquered the Internet several times over, and is now looking towards new, uncharted waters: “print newspapers.” The next step in Evolution, avast! Here’s Ed’s rallying cry in the “plans” section of his site: “Ok, it is time to get serious and let the DNP know that we are not coming home in the fall. One of our member said it was time to take action and I agree.” PREPARE FOR THE NUCLEAR OPTION: a single half-page ad in one local tabloid newspaper. Appearing once! Ed’ll show these “shifty-eyeds” indeed!
Here is Ed explaining how he will capture the “Chicago Sun Time” with his dastardly advertisement, and also admitting that he is full of BS:
I think what we need to do is run a 1/2 or full page ad in the Chicago Sun Time letting the whole dam world know that we are full of the BS that Obama and the DNP is feeding us.
If we do this in Chicago, then the Obama camp will shit a brick. We will go into his own backyard and mess with him. That would be fun because the shoe would be on the other foot.
Riots! Panic on the South Side! Daley the Second decapitated by 18,000 tabloid paper cuts to the throat! Dead Norman Mailer somehow writing an article about it, for Parade magazine!
Contingency plans!
I had also thought about hitting some of the cities with ads in the Thrifty Nickel. Less expensive and common folks read them cause they are free.
The Thrifty Nickel too?! This nation is about to explode.
plans [hcsfjm.com]
we are full of the BS that Obama and the DNP is feeding us.
Don’t stop believing.
NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!
Wait, which shoe is on which foot? He’s right though, that would be fun.
It’s so cute how he keeps making spelling errors after making a post about the Wonkette commenters making comments with typos in order to make it look like they are stupid. Ha ha.
WTF is a “Thrifty Nickel”? I’ve never seen one in my life…
AxmxZ: Must be the upscale version of the Penny Saver
He really should step up to the plate and invest in a Greensheet ad. Just thought.
He will raise his donor base by pasting scores of those flyers with the tear off fringes at the bottom in bus shelters. The tear off will read “Donate by calling 1-800-NOOBAMA” His supports will become terminally confused trying to find the dash on the telephone keypad.
…I have a feeling that when all is said and done the add will be ran in a local swingers newspaper that you can pick-up for free in the local porno store.
republican president, something french, cicadas….
penny pincher perhaps, but it’s all “hush hush”?
Best part:
“Looks like the cost would be around $20,000. Can we come up with that much money is now the question?”
Depends on how much toothless blowjobs go for these days. Might take you a couple of years though.
“I have been doing some thinking. To raise $20,000 will only take 1000 member giving $20 each. I realize that some of the member may have a hard time giving $5 but then there is some member who could give $500.00. I am putting up a web poll here so we can vote on it.”
I want to see a fund-o-meter of that drive on their front page. “3 days to the Convention. Our fundraising goal: $20,000. Collected so far: $356.53″
And a frownie face.
I hear the Daily Planet, The Springfield Shopper and New New York Post are always looking for ads.
Oh sure — laugh now. But once the revenue comes in from the big hcsfjm.com bake sale on Sunday, y’all will be singing a different tune.
“Thrifty Nickel” was John McCain’s nickname in college, back when a nickel could actually buy you a raccoon coat. Twenty-two skidoo!
Also: “common folks?” For serious?
…shit, chances are this douche bag is pulling some major coin from both “bitters” and the RNC. I might open up my own “Fight Obama” site!
Seriously, what’s the Thrifty Nickel? I try to still keep it real, and I have absolutely no idea what the hell that is. I’m also interested in finding a copy of this “Sun Time” he mentions.
AngryBlakGuy: Nah, he’ll put up one of those 3×5 cards in his local grocery store. That’ll show ‘em!
OMG they should just start posting in Missed Connections on Craigslist. I’m sure Barry Husseiniacs would slit their wrists. “A ANTI-OBAMA”…waiting for “B ANTI-OBAMA”…
Suddenly Paulturds are lookin’ smarter.
This is a job for Craigslist.
Don’t forget the Auto Trader! That shit is CHEAP!!
The hand is definitely on the other foot now…..wait.
Carrie_Okie: Jinx!
I wish it was all hush hush. It certainly isn’t worth listening to. You don’t really have to spend a bunch of money to let people know that you are idiots, it will become obvious pretty quick.
Brutus Harlot: Penny Saver? Luxury! In my day, we used handfuls of hot gravel for currency.
What next–Auto Trader? Zounds! Ed Hale’s media victory will be complete.
ManchuCandidate: …dont forget the Publishers Clearing House!
“I think what we need to do is run a 1/2 or full page ad in the Chicago Sun Time letting the whole dam world know that we are full of the BS….”
Now, there’s truth in advertising.
Speaking of which, now that it’s been confirmed that the print press is in a death spiral, paying $20,000 for print ads is such a brilliant plan.
What next, Ed? Skywriters? Carrier pigeons? Fleetfooted runners spreading the word from one tribal camp to another?
I just can’t work up a good hate-on for these people. They’re just too fuckin’ cute for words.
When will Nadine reveal her involvement with this whole thing? Also, the astonishing syntax and spelling errors tell us that this has gone beyond typos. This is some new relationship with the English language that I can only dream of having.
‘If we do this in Chicago, then the Obama camp will shit a brick. We will go into his own backyard and mess with him. That would be fun because the shoe would be on the other foot.’
Yeah, fertile ground for sowing discontent. An area where he won like 93% of the vote when he ran for Senate.
I prefer racists to be articulate, intelligent and witty.
Not so with this guy. He’s just a hard-working, lump of turd.
Wow, I love this page on the site, which PROVES unequivocally that Barack Obama is a Muslim because when he visited his half brother in Kenya he dressed up in “muslim dress.”
What more proof do you need than that?
Happy Fun Ball: It is like a Penny Saver, although even less fancy, and in each issue there is a buffalo nickel hidden somewhere in an ad. If you find it, and are the first to call your local Thrifty Nickel office with its location, you win some awesome prize like dinner for two at a local restaurant that was shut down by the health department five years prior.
i love these guys. first they make a website circa 1998, and now they’re moving to the dying medium of newsprint and before you know it will hire town criers to spread the news.
but i guess if there’s anything mccain supporters and hillary supporters have in common is their old age and crankiness.
Wait, so is there still a Penny Saver, or is it the Thrifty Nickel now because of inflation? I demand to know this paper’s background before I believe what it tells me!
And Street Roots. Cheap ad rates, and it comes with its own covert distribution network of shambling bitters.
Serolf Divad: If it’s named like a Muslim, dressed like a Muslim, and hates America like a Muslim…
I wonder if Cindy pays these people in Budweiser or Buffalo nickels.
didn’t the paultards teach them anything? get a blimp, for god’s sake, and the world will belong to you!!!
metropolitan:
You mean beyond the total detachment from Earth reality?
That is one of the ugliest sites I’ve ever seen. It’s actually grown much worse since you last covered the topic.
Also, it’s running some code that tries to change the settings in your registry. Click with caution if you are using IE.
Serolf Divad: What I found most offensive about the page you linked was the absolute absence of anti-aliasing on the header font. Their web designer needs to be taken out back and shot.
I can’t wait to read the ad:
We need show DNP that Hillary is our President four real! How dare they count votes of peoples in cawcusis. Obama turned his back on Hillary when she was shaking Ted Kennidies hand and he wus talkin two some person else. And once Hillary smiled next to McCain. So we need vote four McCain if Hillary not the Democrat numin….nomi….nom….yummy nom, i can has cheezburger?
WhatTheHeck: Hillary Clinton’s great uncle was a hardworking white turd-miner in West Virginia. How dare you besmirch these honorable brown-collar workers!
I find myself wondering if this guy is mildly delayed, but then I think of the mildly delayed folks I know who are waaaay smarter than this guy.
I hope they raise the $20k. Imagine how entertaining that ad would be.
“TO THE ELITISTS NOOBAMA CAMPERS AND TEH NON-DEMOCRATIC DNC! WE’LL REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER! SEE YOU IN DENVER, HRC!”
‘Thrifty Nickel’ is the new prison slang for ‘tossing your salad’
Isn’t this illegal under McCain/Feingold?
I don’t trust anyone who can’t spell “damn.”
“we are full of the BS”
Is there a cure for this BS? WHAT IS IT?????
jagorev: I had to take a rape shower after looking at the page source.
Godless Liberal *: How’d you know that? Where are you located? I’d never heard of the thing…
Do these people really understand John McCain’s position on issues? I wonder.
jagorev: Godless Liberal *: Serolf Divad: …Ok these guys are a bunch of fukking idiots(as if I expected anything else from the right wingers). Im of Nigerian ancestry and have TONNNNNNS of outfits just like that in my closet! It has nothing to do with RELIGION, they are tradition TRIBAL garb(in my case Yoruba). The fact that people lacking a chromosome(or two) have the right to do anything other than color with crayons, let alone vote is terrifying! By the way check the link below
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080613/NEWS02/806130488
graceless: By the by, everybody, don’t forget to vote! He wants to know if we think it’s a good idea to do a newspaper ad…
I can’t help but feel a little sorry… adorable old coot. Do you suppose he’s younger than John McCain?
“Ok, it is time to get serious and let the DNP know that we are not coming home in the fall.”
All this time I thought they were upset with the DNC, the Democratic National Committee. They were just frustrated by Distributed Network Protocol! Who wouldn’t be fed up with a comprehensive effort to achieve open, standards-based Interoperability between substation computers, RTUs, IEDs (Intelligent Electronic Devices) and master stations (except inter-master station communications) for the electric utility industry? However, I can’t really see what Barack Obama has to do with any of this.
(www.dnp.org)
“the Obama camp will shit a brick. We will go into his own backyard and mess with him. That would be fun because the shoe would be on the other foot…”
the mixed metaphors are giving me a headache
jagorev: Godless Liberal *: Serolf Divad: …and ironically they call it the “hottest” story on the internet but the site only has 2159 hits!? What a bunch of fukk-ups!
AngryBlakGuy: Yoruba? That sounds pretty terroristy to me. Have fun in Gitmo, terrorist.
And next we will place advertisements across the bottoms of all Western Union telegrams and on the sides of hansom cabs and horse-drawn streetcars!!! No one will be immune from our insidious message!!! BWA-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!!!!!!!
Walter Sobchak: Actually, the source code is surprisingly decent. Mostly valid HTML 4.01, and the formatting is done in CSS. I’ve seen many professionally designed corporate web sites that are far worse. As I said, it’s the designer that needs to be shot.
NoWireHangers: Good, I am glad I’m not the only one who was confused by the DNP thingy. Silly old coot.
Still, I think it would be a blast to meet him. Road trip, anyone?
P.S. You’ll have to pry the title of “World’s Dumbest Website” from National Review’s the Corner or Michellemalkin.com out of their cold, stupid hands.
Hey look, people dumber than those that actually like McCain.
Me love you, Sun Time.
Uncle Al: On the other hand, if you shit a shoe in Obama’s back yard, then the brick would be on the other foot.
jagorev: …yeah, maybe I shouldn’t have sent that over the internet!
ronaldpagan: I’ve always wondered where the “dam world” was anyway. I think it’s underneath the Colorado, deep within the land of the trolls who invade Wonkette.
graceless: We should all vote “maybe”
My favorite part is that 87 people have voted on the idea to do the ad. And 307 people have viewed the page. Ed himself has to account for at least 20% of both, and Wonkette readers at least another 10%. Watch out world! There are so many people angry at the “DNP”!!
AJO: Down with dinitrophenol!!!
AngryBlakGuy: They are 35,000 strong and growing!! Numbers like that could throw the election to Nader.
By the way, if they really want to reach Chicagoans, they should run the ad in the Tribunes.
jagorev: You know, something very similar was said about hillaryis44. That is, it looks terrible, deliberately. One could conclude, that it is done by a professional, hired professional, whose job includes making it look amateurish. Why would anybody do that? Who would do that? More than once, on behalf of the same politician? Can I get a HMMMMM?
These no-hopers are not real Democrats anyway.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
i’m going to try to see if i can rent them my el camino with a big megaphone on the roof and i’ll drive them around downtown while they spread the news to common folk.
Canmon (the Inadequate):
well yes, actually i do think they need to register as a 527
I hope Ed writes and edits his own copy.
We are full of the BS, here at Wonkette, too.
metropolitan:
They really just need a Gabbo-type billboard of mystery.
There is just so much fascinating information on this site! Did you know that Obama is not a U.S. Citizen because his mother was not 21 when he was born? She was 18. Obviously, this disqualifies him as a citizen. Obviously. “Stay tuned to your TV sets because I suspect some of this information will be leaking through over the next several days.” Also, there is evidence he was actually born in Kenya and rushed back to Hawaii days after his birth, because the hospital has no record of his birth. I, for one, am outraged. I have already signed up for Ed’s emails and newsletters.
Why don’t they take out an ad in the free real estate magazines that you get at the grocery store? Or put in a 3-liner in the classifieds in their various community papers?
I will so enjoy the tsunami that is the Obama campaign this November.
If they are 35,000 strong (and growing!), shouldn’t they be able to raise the funds with contributions of $0.58 per member? I’m beginning to understand why Hilz is in debt. What a bunch of cheap bastards!
I’m really hoping the RNC funnels them some cash, because that ad is sure to be pure comedy gold.
35,000 strong and growing… once they get to 10 million strong and growing like the Flintstones vitamin army, then he can talk.
” We are Barry’s kids… ten million strong and growing.”
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: thank God for the 19th amendment. It’s a gift of hilarity that keeps on giving.
When are these bitters going to lay the groundwork for Hilldale? You know, the place next to Paulville that’s “Nothing more than a breeding ground for tranks, lo-bos, and zipheads.”
AngryBlakGuy: Right, and BO looked in those pics wearing those traditional garbs about as comfortable as Ralphie did in The Christmas Story when he was forced to wear the footsied bunny rabbit pajamas his aunt got for him.
Then again, BO has that look a lot…
problemwithcaring: The only time Barry “Son of a Beach” Obama looks entirely comfortable is when he’s splashing off the coast of Hawaii in swimming trunks.
I’m glad to see that Tony Snow got a new gig.
AxmxZ: Or dropping a mad hacka-dunk over some poor fool Tarheel, hanging from the rim for a 3-count, grabbing his crotch and howling while pointing to the devastated center, and then tucking his shirt back into his highwater sweatpants while an aide fetches him an Evian.
Happy Fun Ball: After consulting with The Google, it seems like Thrifty Nickel is a somewhat downscale version of Craigslist:
http://www.tnol.com/
Great another political campaign based on the strategy of the great philosopher “Butters”
graceless: I grew up in Alabama, and we had it there. My grandparents, blind as bats, would pore over each week’s issue with a magnifying glass in the hopes that they would win dinner for two at ‘Round The Clock Restaurant and Petri Dish.
“One of our member said it was time to take action and I agree.” My member’s looking for a little action, too!
“I think what we need to do is run a 1/2 or full page ad in the Chicago Sun Time letting the whole dam world know that we are full of the BS that Obama and the DNP is feeding us.”
Nobody reads the Sun-times, so go ahead and run it, dumbass.
Joey Ratz: See i thought that too…I did a Google myself…but i think that is just some random online classified that stole the http://www.thriftynickel.com domain and bounces it to tnol.com which stands for the nation’s online listings or something like that…I bet the trademark “Thrifty Nickel” is sold to a bunch of local publishers who send these things out in the Bumblefuck areas of the US. I have lived in some of the more civilized areas of the the east coast and I have never heard of this publication, Penny Saver yes, Thrifty Nickel no…Now the last time I read through the pennysaver was many a year back. I know because i remember i had an onion tied to my belt and 5 bees in my pocket. Nickels were called bees back then, due to the picture of the bee on it…5 bees to a quarter we used to say. well anyway…
I didn’t do so well in my college logic course, but let me try to follow this one. Because they are angry that Hillary didn’t get the Democratic nomination, they are ready to vote for the OTHER guy who is the complete opposite of everything they and Hillary allegedly stand for. I’ve heard about this before. I think its call a “tantrum” and is most often seen in 2 year-olds.
mookworthjwilson: The first non-redirected Thrifty Nickel link seems to be the
Billings, Montana edition. The ads there are absolutely wonderful. Here are the first two:
FREE FERAL cats w/kittens. Would make great barn mousers. Desperately need new homes. Will find a way to catch. 321-1443
FREE BIBLE! Hear Jesus’ Prayer for You! Rec. Mess: 255-7668
Ed Hale would be right at home.
These people make me so happy.
AnnieGetYourFun: That would explain your name, coupled with your avatar. Right on.
I think this is the first time a site progressively downgrades the versions of browsers it supports. Any modern updated browser seems to crash the site
AngryBlakGuy: and I’m willing to bet that of that 2159 hits 2000+ came from here
Awwww, you guys are being mean. Ed deserves MUCH more credit than you’re giving him.
While all the Wonketters and various other voters not inclined to vote for McCain are viewing his site, the disastrous colors and flashing graphics are slowly causing nerves in your brain to commit suicide over the horrific image, and will more than likely cause seizures in 73% of viewers before November.
ManchuCandidate: The Hill will happily take those ads. Hugo and Jimmy will never notice anyway.
This blog was sent to me because it contained some erroneous information concerning Thrifty Nickel Ads and the TNOL.com website. Just to clarify; ThriftyNickelAds.com and AmericanClassifieds.com are both redirected to TNOL.com by design. They are different corporations; however, they are all wholly owned by the same publishing group. Thrifty Nickel Ads, LLC is the corporation that owns and operates TNOL.com.
The reason for the varying site names is that many years ago ThriftyNickelAds.com was the name of the site due to the fact that ALL print publications were branded Thrifty Nickel. That branding was changed approximately four (4) years ago and the site went to AmericanClassifieds.com to match the branding of the print publications, which all changed to “American Classifieds - A Thrifty Nickel Publication”.
With the expansion of the online division and the inclusion of hundreds of affiliate print publications over the last three (3) years, plus our new partnership with Google, it was decided to go to a generic site title that was easier for customers to remember and type. All of the old domains still point to our new site, which allows those that chose to use the old URLs, to reach the site using their older bookmarks.
As for being a downsized Craig’s List; actually we have many more ads in print, and currently reach markets in in every state of the US and some parts of Canada. We are not Craig’s List; however, all of our sites classified ads complete change on a weekly basis, so you don’t waist time going over stall content from weeks or months past, that is now irrelevant.
This response is not intended as an advertisement of the TNOL.com website; on the contrary, it is strictly meant to provide clarification to avoid further confusion, conjecture, and unintentional misrepresentation of certain facts.
Thank you for your time.