Wonkette
Jesus, we almost feel sorry for John McCain having to deal with these hacks on the right who are agreeing with Phil Gramm’s characterization of America as a “nation of whiners.” Here’s Fred Barnes, executive editor of Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard, calling Gramm’s comments “straight talk” and saying that American’s are “whining all the way through” the current Great New Depression. Surely keeping this issue alive and expanding on it is a great way for the Republicans to overtake Barack Obama in the polls. [YouTube via Think Progress]
WHAAA!!! They took my house from me and unemployment is at a 5 year high. WHAAA!!! Such a BABY!
Is Barnes an Obama supporter? He is doing a fabulous job for him.
these whiners cling to their guns and religion out of bitterness too
Isn’t he whining because everyone thinks he’s wrong?
Douche. Bags.
“‘Whaa, whaa, whaa, I can’t afford to feed my kids or drive to work!’ Buck up, America! In my day, we ate dead leaves and walked to work from the North Pole, uphill both ways.”
All this straight talk is an expression of their internalized homophobia
Doglessliberal: That’s my take on this. Obama doesn’t even need to produce campaign ads. Hey Barnes: Most Americans are hurting economically right now, so alienate us even more.
I love it when rich fucks talk about how the economy isn’t really in bad shape at all. “Look, we had to let one of our maids go, but we adjust — why can’t you follow our lead, America?”
I hope that elitist SOB chokes on his arugula. And don’t be calling me a bitter whiner, or I’ll shoot you with my gun and beat you with my bible that I’m clinging to.
What a fucking tool.
Quit bitching, fags. Did I weep and moan when i didn’t get the Oscar for Jurassic Park? Yes I did a bit, but that’s not my point. My point is McCAIN ‘08 ‘ITS TIME TO GIT ‘R DONE’!!!
They are out of touch (except for the touching of male genetalia).
no more 3 diamond whores for you whiners
sounds like fights are breaking out in the grand salon of the Titanic.
why in the fuck Fred Barnes isn’t whining about being unemployed is exactly what is wrong.
Why is Slim Slack Skank always looking at me? For the love of God woman ssssstttttooooooooooooooop!
“When will you middle-class drones learn that it’s not about YOU, it’s about US, the Lords of the Manor, the rich folks! So give up, shut up, and bend over. Mission accomplished!”
is “increased spending at costco and walmart” really a sign of a strong economy? do people really shop there when they’re feeling flush (with money)?
Advocatus_Diaboli: a-fuckin’-men!
I can’t fucking stand Fred Barnes. He’s a walking, talking, GOP ideology spewing cyborg.
The only whiner in the clip was Mara Liaison, NPR sellout.
Fred Barnes is a prime candidate for deballing. Where’s JJ? Or OJ?
I can’t wait till FOX introduces their newest commentator, Marie Antoinette.
General_Tso: NPR reported this morning that Ben Bernanke had said the “economic stimulus checks were working, and that the American economy was slowly improving.” I’m almost certain that people half a mile away heard me screaming at the radio, “That’s because we all spent our checks on gas and groceries in order to survive, you motherfucker!”
/rant
And Fred Barnes and Phil Gramm can chow down on an extra large bag of dicks, imo.
“Americans whining about a mental recession” = straight talk
“Americans bitter, clinging to guns and religion [as voting issues]” = scandalous elitism
Of course, Fred Barnes is right. US Americans are a bunch of pansy whiners.
“I lost my job. My kids have no healthcare. I can’t afford my mortgage payments or gas or food.”
Who gives a shit! The fact is that your problems are nothing, yes nothing, compared to the problems of the rich.
“My returns are so low this year! I can barely afford to buy that 4th home! My word, I’m only worth $400 million this year! I can only afford one ivory back scratcher!”
See?
hockeymom: Win.
What’s going on here? It’s like the GOP is smearing the GOP for us. The whole fucking party is cannibalizing itself. It’s sort of akin to watching lions eat their young (except way cooler.)
Q2: I would gladly contribute to enroll the photographer in an introduction to pornography class at the local community college. Anyone else in?
These folks are under the delusional impression that the American electorate is overcome with Freudian desire for a stern Daddy President. That only happens when the economy is in decent shape. That’s when people temporarily forget that Daddy gets violent when he drinks, and he drinks pretty much all the time, and vote Daddy into office. Right now, though, America is so smarting from so many boo-boos that all it wants is a sweet loving nurturing Mommy President. And Obama is all-but whipping out a tit to feed it.
GOP: “Let them eat guns.”
Good God, we’ve truly gone through the looking glass: I really wanna kiss ol’ Freddie Barnes for this gimme, on behalf of all us libruls who were just praying for a gimme issue.
They make Hoover seem downright cuddly.
(Yeah, yeah, the New Deal can be seen as an outgrowth of his policies, I know. It just seemed like the right time for some old-fashioned Hoover bashing.)
ManchuCandidate: YA REALLY.
People are such IDIOTS:
They fail to understand that if your one job isn’t paying enough, GET MORE JOBS. TONS OF JOBS. Do. Not. Sleep.
THOSE are the thoughts of an elitist.
Why does my Dodge Ram only get 13 mpg? And whyy is my house worth less than I paid for it? Any whyyy can’t I get a decent job? And whyyyy does my escort service only rate me at 3 whore diamonds? And whyyyyy do the towelheads hate our freedoms? Will someone please tell me whyyyyyyy??
Hey Fred - sales are up at Costco and Walmart cuz no one can afford to buy their stuff anywhere else. Last month, those same folks were shopping at Neiman Marcus. Now they live under 395 in a box.
I love how the chic at the end says “Oh, Fred.” After they went to commercial, she grabbed his crotch real hard and told him to shut up and eat a bag of dicks, or else we’ll have a nigra prezdent!
take away Fred Barnes’ Messican poolboy; then we’ll see who whines*
* could be his wife, could be teh gay luvin’ Fred “I love it when you ram that vaccuumy tube up there” Barnes.
Does Fred Barnes have some kind of aphasia? He never seems to be able to construct a complete sentence on the first try.
Awww, he stopped short of saying that the nation of whiners is “looking for a handout”. Damn, so close.
Come on, Fred is just putting on a brave face. But he has been hit by hard times too. Why he just had to fire his caddie’s chauffeur last week.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Hmm, maybe Bernake was referring to the fact that the main industry that seems to be recovering thanks to those rebate checks is the porn industry.
Hooray For Anything: When I found that out I laughed all the way to the Adult Video Store.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Ha! I think I hear you — too true!
Holy shit. That’ll awaken anyone’s inner Marxist. Why didn’t he just wipe his ass with a Ben Franklin on-air while he was at it?
freeradical: Hey, if you buy your Truck Nutz at Walmart…. Are they WALNUTZ! ? Hmmm?
This just in:
“Wussy troops, letting terrorists win, says Gramm. `Leave `em all over there until we win,’ urges former Senator.”
This must be that cunning Republican strategy I’ve heard so much about, where the message insults the voters to lower their self-esteem so they’ll elect a clueless, faithless, cranky ranter. Good plan, good plan. MOO HA HA!
Also, to call Fred a ‘fucking cocksucker’ would be an insult to people who like to fuck and, yes, suck cock.
Yeah, don’t the Americans know they can just give a few speeches to replenish the ol’ coffers? Or get a job bloviating on Fox News?
Phil Gramm has always been a nasty Reaganite prick and thankfully I had forgotten about his existence until WALNUTS! brought back the snide old turtle-man, but now I’m happy he’s getting airtime again.
Fred Barnes has clearly never been to a Costco or a WalMart.
shortsshortsshorts:
The stimulus is for porn!
The stimulus is for porn!
That is why stimulus was born!
Porn! Porn! Porn!
Just read all the comments, and my tummy is a little woozy. WALNUTZ! is gonna lose, right?
WadISay: I guess he/she figured ass-shots are easy.
AxmxZ: IMO it’s a lot worse then that; they are desire a savior, someone to do the heavy lifting for them. Someone to claim us, someone to follow. Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo. Someone to fool us, someone like you.
What, Fred couldn’t make a “the peasants are revolting” crack while he was at it?
Suggestion: Let us dis-employ as many Republicans in November as is humanly possible, and then start the countdown until we hear their whining.
Turnabout is fair play, after all. Horrific shrieks of discontent in 3… 2…
snig: Huzzah!!! Get Stimulized !
Q2: Too bad they already sold the world.
Fred Barnes is great. A genuine pussy that talks tough in front of a camera or a computer monitor, and probably smells like a studio set when he’s off work the same way whiners with shitty real jobs smell like french fries.
WonkaBee: what you said felt like one of those full circle things.
Slogans for the RNC convention:
That didn’t hurt. This is gonna hurt…
Shut up and keep rowing
Goodbye from the worst polluter in the world!
Chastising with Scorpions
Shut up or I’ll give you a reason to cry.
Because we said so.
A bag of dicks is too good for him. He should eat a big bowl of fuck.
It is magic, isnt’ it? I mean, I’m having a good time, anyway. Just watching this long Republican road that they told us was never going to turn, and suddenly it loops around 180 degrees. How the hell are the GOP going to finesse this election with this tactic?
Barnes ain’t doing this to help the Great White Turtle, John McCain. He’s giving Fox Props to his soul brother conservative, Phil Gramm. If it just so happens that propping up Gramm’s shit stack “analysis” makes Walnuts chase his Geritol with one of Cindy’s complimentary distributorship beers, hey, that’s just a bonus.
So, if this is in fact the Straight Talk we can expect from McCain, maybe the campaign slogan can boil down to something along the lines of, oh, I dunno… “Hey, America, I’m sorry I called you a bunch of whining pussies. But honestly, is it my fault that you are a bunch of whining pussies?”
Yeah whiners. You know who else gets on my tits? Rape victims. Oh and those people disfigured by machetes in those African countries, who then went on to become rape victims. Fucking whiners. I find their whining so annoying that I actually begin to feel like I’m some sort of rape victim, and they are violating my body, raping me with their whining. Some day I’m going to find the whiners’ houses and pelt those houses with flaming bags of poo. And whoever doesn’t run away in fear gets raped. And then they’ll really have something to whine about.
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Eight years of corporate greed and gross mismanagement threw this country into the great abyss. Those responsible got “save yourself” retirement packages of 100’s of millions of dollars, leaving the working class to clean it up with stagnant wages. And what do they expect? To sit in silence?
Is it impolitic of me to say I’d like to punch Freddy in the nose?
Also, I am not a serf.
I am more into waterboarding now!
Barnes, aka the Fox-trot-troll.
WoW!
How can anyone be duped by that elitist douche bag!
Let them eat cake is so much more succinct compared to his right wing delusional diatribe. Poetic in comparison actually.
Lets hope he takes his mind-meds and gets returned to his NEO-CON-CELL before Rove gets a chance to beat on his ass…….or maybe that was what he was looking for.
YeeeeeS,,,MassssSTeeeeR, did I do good. No Barnes No! for that you will wallow in your own filth for a week.
Barnes, o thank you Master, thank you!
Barnes = the Gollum of Fox
Fred Barnes angling for VP?
Can I have some cheese?
I’m afraid all this negative expose is signaling a real downturn for cheese markets, so we can’t afford to hand out any more cheese.
I don’t think Fred Barnes would be comfortable at an Applebee’s salad bar.
That whiner librarian, Carol Kreck, is back in the news about her McCain = Bush sign. And not only that … GREENNUTZ! (aka “two peas in a pod man”) has his day in the camera too.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-kreck/mccainbush_b_112285.html
Check out the GREENNUTZ! walking those NUTZ! around at 0:36 and 1:59
Aurelio: This is a requirement for US politicians.
Actually, a lot of Republicans are fat, lazy, whiners, wondering why they can’t have 3rd world prices, 1st world wages. Barnes and Gramm are among them!
When enough lose their homes, can’t afford gas for their cars, then they’ll be eager to enlist in McCainiac’s 100 Years War! It’s either that or hire The Lord’s Resistance Army and Rev. Gen’l. Butt Naked’s Butt Naked Battallion, and I suspect they’d be too scary even for Republiconquerors.
Zhu Bajie
Have you ever watched the weekly half-hour abortion he hosts with his buddy Mortie on Phox Nues? It’s like watching two high-school debate captains flirting with each other for 30 minutes. Thankfully, before they pop Viagra and proceed to fuck like nasty pigs, we are taken to our latest installment of ‘Obama Will Rape Your Mother With A Baseball Bat And Steal Your Apple Pie’ with your host Whitey McGee.
Followed by ‘Toss Karl Rove’s Salad’ with your host Sean Hannity.
Karl prefers syrup, by the way.
This reminds me of the episode where Louis CK apologized for calling his wife a cunt by calling her a cunt seven or eight more times.
America is about to spray Fantastik into the GOP’s pie.
You can cue em up on NPR like the planetary procession. “Oh boo hoo! I have to carpool now!” “Dear me, my cat’s meow chow sure smells good.” “Waa! no new bowling shoes this year!”
Well, compared to Europeans, who have been paying over $6 for a gallon of gas for years, we kind of ARE whiners.
Technically.
Do what I do, & continue to refer to Fred Barnes as “The Beetle”. I’m sure he loves that.
Jewdishoowary Square: and we liked it!
Don’t forget “You’ll get nothing and like it.”
Does anyone watch the cable news pundits (I can’t stomach them myself)? I find it interesting that McCain gets to brush off Gramm’s comments by saying, “he doesn’t speak for me,” when in fact he was speaking for him to the WSJ, and people fail to do any push back on it. On the other hand, whenever Obama scratches his nose wrong, these idiots are doing special reports, and round tables about how he is out of touch with the American people.