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Last week all the Obamatards hated Andrea Mitchell for complaining about how Barack Obama didn’t invite the press to his basketball games in Iraq. This week they will love Andrea Mitchell for saying this McCain attack ad is “literally not true.” You know, the one about how Showboat Barry wouldn’t visit the troops in Germany because he couldn’t bring along cameras. (The truth is that he gave the troops the brushoff because he was busy inventing man-made AIDS.) [YouTube via Huffington Post]
SCOLDINGS
Wow. Doing her job, AND EVERYTHING. Sen. Burr sounds like he’s gargling marbles. Wait, he’s choking on the shit coming out of his mouth.
…Im still waiting on the inevitable Chris Matthews smack-down.
please…everybody…do not hope that mccain’s cancer has returned so he
has to drop out and can’t run any more of these bullsh*t ads.
please…it would be wrong.
I thought the big gun lies didn’t come out till late Aug. What is Johnny going to do then?
We’ll probably see an ad where this jive talking, Hip Hop-ified Barry look alike struting up and down the street whistling at the black, Hispanic and Asian ladies, but obvious doesn’t see what he’s looking for. The Barry look alike turns to the camera, grins and sez: “Where the white women at?”
“I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”
I hate man-made AIDs, I only get organic free-range AIDs, its far far better for you. None of those frightful chemicals and pesticides dont you know.
(updates Whole Foods online basket)
tsunami: …this is just the opening barrage to find the proper range and angle. You can expect the really nasty stuff after he is grinded into a cancerous paste on live television during the debates.
I’m a Republican (albeit a Barry Goldwater one).
But I’ve gotten to the point, due to the last eight years, where I see the “R” and figure that whatever is coming out of the speaker’s mouth is complete horseshit.
:::Sigh:::
ManchuCandidate: Needs tweaking. May I run with… Bambi is walking down a street full of burqas, to the tune of music to watch girls by, and then we get Bambi turning to screen “Where de white woman at?”. May as well go for the double whammy and save ourselves an advert later.
AngryBlakGuy:
sad, but likely.
hey…been meaning to say welcome back. did you ever explain
your absence or say what you did with tits larue?
It appears McCain has started listening to Rove’s advice.
When you’re desperate and demented, anything is possible.
This is not really a race between Obama and McCain. This is a contest of dueling stupids: The stupidity of McCain versus the stupidity of the American public. Will McCain’s stupidity eventually repulse stupid Americans? That is the question.
tsunami: …I went to Nigeria to respond to an Email I received.
AIDS, the yummy diet candy from the 70’s? It was man-made or should I say human-made?
@tsunami: if mccain drops out does that mean mitt romney AND george allen can be running mates? best. ticket. ever. over/under on weeks before mitt gets his nose broken by a macaca-gram (pass thrown into double coverage) is 1.5.
Time for Keith Olbermann to do his Tasmanian Devil impersonation and chew the carpet. Again.
Delicious: Yes yes yes. Fun project: Talk to an “undecided” voter. Now, try not to a) kill that person or b) kill yourself.
Delicious: If the past eight years have taught us anything, never, ever underestimate the power of stupidity. People yearn for stupidity. They cling to it, along with their guns and Jeebus. Stupid works. John McCain can’t get so stupid that he repulses stupid people. The real question is, can he get stupid enough? I think we all know the answer.
RuperttheBear:
Oh I know THAT type. They make deciding which McCrappy Value Meal the equivalent of a tournament chess move.
TGY: I was going to make a Rachel Maddow joke here, but I showed restraint.
Rachel Maddow is so hot. I love her neck.
Don’t you guys see it now? Obama cancelled his visit to an Army hospital when it became clear he’d be unable to poison the injured soldiers’ water supply.
Serolf Divad:
Too bad Haliburton beat him too it.
After Karl Rove’s successful ‘Character’ campaigns of 2000 and 2004, how can anyone be surprised. Rove is an expert at Negative Branding. All of the viral emails and urban legends attacking Obama’s character were just the set-up for a campaign that forces ALL NEWS into a series of narratives based on pre-selected, undesirable character traits.
Al Gore, we were told from the beginning, was an out-of-touch elitist. When he *sighed* in exasperation at W’s bumbling, he “proved” the established narrative. ELECTION OVER.
John Kerry was posited as an out-of-touch elitist and a flip-flopper. The scurrilous Swift Boat campaign also branded him as a liar. Karl Rove’s people were waving flip-flops at Kerry campaign rallies LONG BEFORE the famous “for it before I was against it” quote, which of course “proved” the narrative. ELECTION OVER.
Obama is, we are told. an out-of-touch elitist flip-flopper and an America-hater. Every bit of news from his resounding European success is being forced to fit the narrative. Talking to furriners, snubbing troops, etc. Each new ‘fact’ is attached to the chain of charges, reinforcing the negative brand. IT’S BASIC MARKETING.
Sooner or later, Hopey will blink the wrong eye at the wrong moment and with the weight of the accumulated ‘evidence’ to back it up, he will “prove” the narrative. ELECTION OVER.
‘Obamatards’ is right. My poor country …
FMA: “GET OFF MY LAWN!”
They would not let him smoke crack and have gay sex with the troops in front of a camera. So he said no thank you. I would have done the same thing - and so would Mrs. Greenspan.
RuperttheBear: Well SOMEONE has to take Jesse Helms’s place. Might as well be Sen. Burr…
I lived in NC. Richard Burr is mean spirited, a power hungry opportunist, and, in general, a dick. But he would have to go to ass hole school for a hundred years to take Jesse Helms’ place.
He was talking to furriners????? Well, there you go! I knew he hated America, but I didn’t know he hated furry animals as well!
“Look, Andrea, you may not have noticed, but he’s a negro. Clearly, he was just being lazy in not visiting the troops…”
StripesAndPlaids: “ass hole school” — Is that why they call it “Duke?”
greatgooglymoogly: Greatest. Comment. Ever.
And StripesAndPlaids, well, he’s gotta start somewhere. Yes, they’re mighty big shoes to fill, but he can try… oh can he try.
greatgooglymoogly: Well played, my friend. Well played.
Redhead: I have great confidence in Burr. I think he can graduate from ass hole school with an Ah.D.
So speaking of Ah.Ds and Duke… I hear Giuliani’s son has some time on his hands, or will once he stops crying bitter, bitter tears over the loss of his chance to play golf and do nothing productive for a living. Anyone else see a professorship in the future?
Neilist: Hey I am a Republican too - though admittingly, a Seward one.
FMA: In my experience, restraint is wasted on Wonkette.