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Oh here’s a nice response to Barack Obama’s “Ich bin ein Muslin” talky-talk in Egypt: “The first 15 minutes of President Obama’s speech to the Muslim world was what I wanted to hear from candidate Obama a year ago. Had he given that portion of his speech during the presidential campaign much of the irrational fear of Obama as some sort of Muslim Manchurian candidate would have been relieved …. This was one of President Obama’s more important speeches and he rose to the occasion and delivered a fine speech.” And this was posted at, uhm, RedState What?
It’s true! Dan Spencer wrote this, for the famous wingnut site RedState, and he even encouraged conservatives to listen to (or, if possible, read) the entire speech, and not let others pull out some scary sounding fragment about “peace” or “tolerance” or whatever:
If you missed Obama’s speech you should invest the 30 minutes required to read, listen to, or watch the entire speech. Reading summaries, excerpts and critiques lets others do the thinking for you. Snippets can’t help you grasp the import, which you should have, especially if you want to disagree in a knowledgeable manner.
Could even the rightiest of right blogs be coming around to Barack Obama’s solid, boring international policies? Nah. Seven comments in, somebody’s demanding a personal framed copy of Obama’s Indonesian jihad-birth certificate.
Obama’s speech to the Muslim world [RedState]
Maybe I’ll give RedState the benefit of the doubt on this one, only because if we judged all blogs by their comments we’d be covered in truck nutz ftw.
Gack…Liz ‘not the gay one’ Cheney is going to be on MSNBC bashing Barry about his Utopian, rose-colored glasses world view. Would someone just waterboard her already? Who died & left her the expert on anything? What a bitch.
Rush will demand Dan Spencer to be frozen in carbonite and hung on his wall.
I can hardly contain my excitement over what the seventh post on THIS thread will bring.
To boil down the Redstate comments:
Less diplomacy, more waterboarding!
Basic summary:
>>If you missed Obama’s speech you should invest the 30 minutes required to read, listen to, or watch the entire speech.
RedState commenters: “No.”
Dan will either be apologizing soon, resigning for “family” reasons, or will be discovered in a public toilet trying to give a burly black man a Jackson so he can perform fellatio.
Any bets on which?
Get ready for the old fat white brigades to turn on RedState.
Umm, why does anyone have to bother with allaying “irrational fears” anyway? By definition, those who hold them are fucking nutjobs. And, believe me, going all logical on them doesn’t work.
What does he think this is, ReadState?
Really? Red State liked it? Did Obama say he would blast those sand niggers off the face of the earth if they didn’t stop being Islamo-Facist terrorist?
Damn, and I was looking forward to a round of “Islamic militant or RedState” with the reactions
Huh. Apparently, we have been sucked into a Mirror Universe. I now eagerly await the reports of Republicans hitting on women and marching in support of Puerto Rican independence.
Scrodd: Wow, was I right?
I’d bet on the apology, but I’m hoping with every fiber in my nutsack for the latter.
19kevin8:
Big words for blow jobs and gambling. Pretty standard, really.
Min: and in support of the gays, abortion support & having Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson over for dinner.
‘If you missed Obama’s speech you should invest the 30 minutes required to read, listen to, or watch the entire speech.’
Teaching your cat to become a vegetarian is probably easier than asking a Redstate reader to invest 30 minutes into being intelectually curious and thorough.
Texan Bulldoggette: Let’s not get carried away, now. Even in the Mirror Universe, Spock was still Spock.
Scrodd: And comment # 7 on Wonkette doesn’t disappoint expectations either.
I’ve come here to Wonkette to seek a new beginning between the RedState and Wonkette, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that RedState and Wonkette are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap and share common principles, principles of Paultards sucking, Ron Paul being an idiot and the mutual support of destroying the ReLOVEution.
As the Holy Quran tells us, Fuck Ron Paul.
Note the several helpful posters who provide alternatives to the Noo Yawk Toymz for those who prefer to read their Obama speeches unsurrounded by other blatant displays of intelligence..
Cape Clod: Does not disappointing expectations mean I get “post of the day” and called to Carousel, or does it mean I get banned?
Texan Bulldoggette: Liz “no, seriously, I’m straight” Cheney is the wingtard equivalent of Hillary circa 2001. It remains to be seen whether remaining loyal to a war criminal and extraordinarily unpopular lying buck-passer will be rewarded with elective office, but wearing what looks like clothes made by her mother probably won’t help.
Hm. I missed seeing the speech–did Hopey perhaps have a tidy-looking Van Dyke? Or parchment white, angularly-crinkly skin? I would accept either as a viable justification for this development.
Scrodd: They’ll club him to death and then eat his still-beating heart. On YouTube.
Serious: Heh. Pronuciation-based comment of the day.
Cape Clod: Teaching your cat to become a vegetarian is probably easier than asking a Redstate reader to invest 30 minutes into being intelectually curious and thorough.
Careful, friend. The Banhammer awaits those who talk about their kittehs here. Unless those kittehs like bourbon; which mine does. Maybe if I got him hooked on martinis, I could get him to go veg; what with the olives and onions … nah. I’d probably have to step up to better quality gin to get him interested.
Of course, he just would have had to say those things to dispel a myth based on nothing.
Can’t snark. Barry’s speech was too good. More than good, it was magnificent. It’s not surprising that some conservatives would approve. However, we’re faced with the fact that some 2% of the population anywhere is just fuckin’ bat-shit crazy, and of this 2%, 80% (prolly) post on Teh Intarwebs and most on RedState. :p IN ALL CAPS.
Texan Bulldoggette: Rose colored glasses…oh, that’s rich! So, expecting the Iraqi people to swallow wholesale the “democracy” that was shoved down their throat…that’s not wearing rose colored glasses? The Republican mantra “America will be seen as liberators!” That’s not sporting the rose colored glasses? Not only is Liz wearing rose colored glasses, she forgot to take her Thorazine.
Wait, if I like a speech and Red State likes the same speech what does that mean? Have the wingnuts become sane or have I become a wingnut? Somebody help me, I’m so confused…..
Cape Clod: My cat likes spinach.
Hooray For Anything: That would be temporary sanity on the wingnuts part. Don’t worry, you’re all good.
Ok, maybe Nobama perhaps might not be the Muslim Manchurian candidate, but that doesn’t change the fact that he still is the Antichrist, right?
OH I GET IT NOW. This post: Red State says Something Sensible, previous post: The Corner says something Innofensive.
Instead of pointing out each and every crazy, offensive wingnutty bullshit commentary those wingtard websites spew out, our editors are going just post when the wingtard websites don’t.
It’s gonna be a quiet place around here. Lazy editors.
There are only two explanations for this. Either somebody @ redstate is “rockin’ the ganj” this morning or the end times are upon us…and I don’t see Jeebus on a cloud so…
Lascauxcaveman: Is it opposite day? If so, does that mean June 04, 2009 isn’t the pinnacle of suck?
Just listened to Obama’s speech. It is already on you-tube.
Thought is was a great speech. But I think the wing nuts will be all over the fact that he quotes from the Quran.
Anonymous Office Zombie: I think you’re confusing redstaters with freepers.
They can all grasp my fucking import.
I love this comment:
“It’s not intellectual to believe we evolved from hydrogen gas.”
I’m thinking some of them are not far beyond methane.
Hmmm, still no Redstate comment about TEH TEL-E-PROMTERZ. Maybe change is coming.
My rental car this morning had right-wing talk on a radio preset. I learned that Obama wants to stifle Christianity in this country, but quotes the Koran over in the Mideast. This means two things: (1) the world is not coming to an end, just that one Redstater was somewhat won-over, and (2) my rental vehicle was probably very recently used to cruise for illegal gay sex.
That RedState post was intended to be satire, right?
Take comfort: over at foxnews.com the headline is “Obama’s Terrorist Invite”.
Does anyone remember oldmanmurray’s time to crate review system? It seems that a 538ish project where right wing sites that allow comments are rated by how long it takes to hit various memes would be kind of fun. You could track long term trends, like Chappaquiddick and ‘nam, alongside newer nuggets, like TeLepr0mPTerZ and Muslin. Maybe even a talking point tracker. Actually, that would be cool. Realtime monitoring of phrases and distribution over time amongst operatives.
Cape Clod: Teaching a cat to be vegetarian is easy, because it involves no teaching. You just put lettuce in their food bowl, every day, until they die of malnutrition. I guess that is still fairly appropriate to your analogy.
Cape Clod: Indeed, the redstaters don’t even spend 30 mins watching one pr0n clip… not that their ‘attention’ span is anywhere near that long
“especially if you want to disagree in a knowledgeable manner.”
and their response is: Why start now?
from the comments:
“why not send a shout out to the Arabs from the gay community, the American Socialist Party, and NAMBLA? ”
Why not NAMBLA? Because the Republicans will be by next week to give their ’shout out’.
Ha ha ha, “read.”
Redstate does not know how to read. The internets do not work that way.
Min: So will Obama show up at a presser tomorrow rocking a wicked goatee, Bill Richardson shave clean?
Barrett808: When I got up this am, I flipped on the TV to watch coverage of the speech. Barry had finished talking about an hour earlier, maybe less. All of the cable newses were interviewing experts, people on the scene, etc. All except one, that is. FOX and Friends was demonstrating how to wear a Snuggie.
I kid you not.
(which is especially lame because the Snuggie was a “hot topic” about 6 months ago…so FAIL, FOX bookers).
vitira: One of the commenters griped about reading another of Obama’s speeches and finding it “Just a bunch of intellectual rubbish really”. That’s Redstate for “Used fancy words with more than two syllables so I didn’t understand it”.
dijetlo: But what if Jeebus was on his cloud rockin’ a little ganj (purely for the sake of the glaucoma)?
مستحيل
متعذر
بغيض
لا يطاق
لا إحتمال
though the last can also mean “trucknutz” - depending of course on context
From deep in the comments at Redstate:
“The speech was about him, or maybe Rev. Wright”
He’s advising wingnuts to think for themselves?
RedState contributor found strapped to waterboard, dead of apparent drowning. Police suspect suicide.
hockeymom: That’s when you a know a speech by Obama was good- when not even Bill Kristol can be rousted to say something ridiculously stupid against it.
catsquatch: So they’re illiterate and deaf?
The headline could say, “Obama creates peace in Israeli / Palestine agreement”. Red State will say, “what about Rev. Wright? HMMMMMM?????”
“Um, excuse me, we’re wingnuts and we don’t do reading and context thank you very much.”
Lascauxcaveman: ‘Maybe if I got him hooked on martinis, I could get him to go veg; what with the olives and onions … nah. I’d probably have to step up to better quality gin to get him interested.’
You know what’s going to happen. Kitty acts like he’s really into Bombay Gin so you go out and buy a case of it. Then the next time you put his dish down, he gives you a look that says, “You don’t expect me to drink this swill do you?
I’m not saying that Red State readers should shoot Dan Spenser for writing those things… but if they did, I’d understand.
As a Public Service, Ima link to the damn thing - http://tinyurl.com/qcm6km It’s OK - not worth getting banned for, though.
Lascauxcaveman: “I’d probably have to step up to better quality gin to get him interested.”
That, my friend, would be a serious waste of gin, indeed!
Haha, at Redstate the commenters are screaming and clapping their hands over their ears to make the sound of Obama’s voice go away. Just a bit less than 8 years to go, bitches.
Cape Clod: So we were talking about Obama’s speech. Nice: reconciliation is good.
I just can’t get over the feeling that some extremist wants to chop our heads off, though…
Apparently, some but not all Muslims were favorably impressed, and the same thing applies as far as Americans are concerned. One more point in common.
They won’t be able to read it until SOMEBODY PUTS IT IN ALL CAPS.
The rapture is upon us, for Revelations tells us the rivers will run red with blood and RedState will agree with a sitting Democratic president.
Comment from Redstate:
“I have posted the video and text of Obama’s speech to the Muslim world at Right Side Politics (Examiner) - http://tinyurl.com/p73q3c and changed the link so you don’t have to go to the NY Times website.”
THE DICE PICTURE IS DRIVING US CRAZY!
This speech was targeted to young Muslims, posted on facebook and youtube, who pretty much think Hopey is cool. As for Liz Cheney, someone remind me why we care what she thinks?
“…30 minutes required to read, listen to, or watch the entire speech.”
So he’s acknowledging that his fellow redhaters can’t read any faster than they can listen?
Does this mean I have to start defending Bush speeches? I mean, it just can’t be done.
Actually, I think the mouthbreathing begins just two comments in, something about taxes, guns, outlawing sex with his furry friends, “OMG! iz blak guy!!1!”, etc…
I’m print screening this before it suddenly disappears.
OMG, I’ve never been to this “Red State” website before; what is the deal with those people?
Big Liver: RED state. Get it? Communists. Spread the word.
proudgrampa: I dunno, watching a shitfaced cat chasing a hamster in a hamster ball around the living room is cheaper and more fun than, say, a night at the cineplex (even if you’re using the good gin; pussy only weighs 10 pounds. It doesn’t take much to get him on a tear.)
As it is, 10 High on the rocks provides for the cheap laffs around here. I feel sorry for the li’l guy with his hangover the next morning, though. Not a happy kitteh.
thefrontpage: Yeah that picture just broke my brain.
CNN quotes reputable war blog Wonkette:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2009/06/04/moos.oddball.obama.moments.cnn
Interestingly, I tried to post an alternative viewpoint on redstate and after registering, it told me I have not been registered long enough to comment. Apparently you have to be indoctrinated and be stripped of all alternative viewpoints before commenting on their blog.