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You know who was the very first human on the planet to use humor to serious effect? The 20th-century folk hero Saul Alinsky, inventor of community organizing and father of the Quercus genus of shade trees. Before Alinsky, no one ever thought to mock one’s political foes — and after Alinsky, no one ever did again.
So when birthers look around in despair and wondering why everybody in the MSM is coldly ignoring the True Facts behind Barack Obama’s forged Kenyan Bird Certificate, they know exactly who’s to blame.
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
Who said that?
One of Barack Obama’s political mentors – Saul Alinsky.
Do you think he embraced those words? Do you think his acolytes do?
I see evidence of it every day – particularly with regard to those calling on Obama to do the only decent, moral, legal and American thing to do about his mysterious, elusive birth certificate.
Saul Alinsky’s death grip on American political rhetoric may extend beyond his shameful grave, but — but!
But I have news for the late Saul Alinsky.
OH DO TELL.
[T]he ridicule of this campaign has been so over the top, so pervasive, so malignant and so obvious, it has backfired. The rules for radicals work well when radicals are not running things. But when the inmates take over the asylum, as they have in this country in the last six months, the old tactics of intimidation simply allow more people to see through the looking glass.
And that is why nobody is making fun of wingnuts any more.
‘Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon’ [WorldNetDaily]
Can someone make me a diagram that connects these seemingly disjointed ideas together. I… I’m just having a hard time reading this as anything other than an output from a random word generator.
Nobody’s making fun of wingnuts anymore? Let’s change that! A wingnut walks into a bar. . . and splits his head open and bleeds to death. Wingnuts - no sense of perspective.
WOOP! DEAD MAN JUST GOT TOLD!
IN YOUR FACE, PILE OF DUST FORMALLY KNOWN AS SAUL ALINSKY
Speaking of potent weapons, that is a nice cock-duster ’stache that Mr. Joseph Farah is sporting.
Correct. When nobody home ‘t ain’t funny, though taint is, particularly wingnut taint.
Did they not pick up when even Faux News was mocking and ridiculing those tea bagging protests? Or was Obama secretly behind that too?
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
youbetcha!!!! Also, too.
So, basically these people are so deluded that nothing they see or hear will persuade them that they are a bunch of racist, fringe whackos in serious need of getting naturally selected out of humanity.
“I dare my media colleagues to commission some scientific polls on this simple question: “Should Barack Obama release his birth certificate?”"
That’s like commissioning a poll that asks the following question: “Should BHO get a drivers license?”
A: He fucking has one douche nozzle.
Oh, and you want ridicule? Shave that fucking black cock off your upper lip.
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
Youbetcha!!! Also, too.
It’s not easy to write an entire article using nothing but a Ouija board and one’s own feces.
Awww, widdle Joey don’t want to be made fun of no more. Why doesn’t mean Bawack weave widdle Joey awone with his hatwed and wrongness?
Buzz Feedback: GAH! That thing on his face! What the hell is that thing?!?
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
And nuclear bombs… don’t forget the nuclear bombs.
So “birthers” are like criminal inmates taking over an asylum and we should listen to them for that reason alone?
If anyone on this planet who knows ridicule, it’s the man who looks like Wario (of the Super Mario games.)
“acolytes” can only mean one thing: Nobama is SATAN and Alinsky is his high priest.
“Well-deserved ridicule is a wingnut’s breakfast.”
Mama Grizzly: Ugh.
ZOMG I DON’T WANT SAUL ALINKSY’S DEATH PANEL EUTHANIZING MY RETARDED COMRADES IN ARMS!
Buzz Feedback: orange: It’s not a moustache.
It’s the dirtiest Sanchez in the history of dirty Sanchezes, given to him by Jerome Corsi.
Where is Gog when you need him?
Buzz Feedback: It appears that his entire top lip has been redacted. Much like Omaba’s birth certificate.
So if ridicule is a weapon, is it protected by the 2nd Amendment as well as the 1st? Or did I just blow your mind?
And he means it too!! Everyone of his hyerlinks is double underlined! So there, Libtards.
Inmates taking over the asylum? That would be like a group organizing to attend a meeting where a member of congress is to speak, then shouting to prevent the member of congress from speaking.
Ah yes — the mysterious, elusive birth certificate. It’s just like his mysterious, elusive wife and children, or his mysterious, elusive residence or his mysterious, elusive position on health care. And why isn’t the mainstream media covering such things? It’s like they’re trying to hide the truth from us.
rambone: By a panel of the ten most recent people to blow Bill Clinton, no less.
Bet you didn’t see that coming, you left-wing commie bastard! Joseph Farah is eagerly awaiting your response, Mr. Alinsky, though he doubts you will be man enough to challenge his cast-iron logic!
bored with gravity: I thought it was a minus sign.
Headline: Deathers Birthed Birthers Death
I think he’s misguided, everyone knows the most potent weapon for wingnuts is distraction.
In fairness to the Birthers, let’s not forget how doggedly they pursued George Bush to show his military records!
Um, didn’t they?
“I have been attacked by presidents before”
Oh come on.
magic titty: He’s got Magog bent over a barrel and is making him squeal like a pig.
Extemporanus: Me and George Will do not approve this comment.
Although I am a Republican, I want to apply to be a member of Obama’s Death Camp panel, because I have some great ideas. My supporters shouted a lot at the local Town Hall meeting over the weekend, and I think they were supporting my candidacy, although it was hard to understand through the shower of spit. Here is my humble plan:
Every pregnancy should be terminated with low-cost plastic coathangers. Everyone in prison should be executed through cost-efficient starvation. No government-paid medical assistance for anyone ever again, except for me, unless they pay cash up front. Those pesky veterans think we owe them something. Sick kids will be encouraged to die off soon for the good of the nation. Old people over 45, too. All doctors and nurses must take jobs with insurance companies or be exterminated. Hospitals closed. Everyone left in America (except the Hispanials and African-heritagers) will move to Georgia, where we shall crown Newt Gingrich as our king. Only male landholders vote. Whites only. Protect our Freedoms, and God bless America.
Thank you for your support.
I don’t have a frail ego. I have been criticized viciously before, and I survived. I have been attacked by presidents before – in ways that actually hurt my finances, my reputation and distracted me from my mission as a journalist.
You’d get distracted too if you were on the receiving end of a Gerald Ford nut-punch.
It is probably true that the birthers were not blown out of the water by for example pointing out that POTUS’ mother, 100% real American white woman, is all BHO needed to be a natural born American. Or as they say in fancy law schools, he could have been naturally born in Kenya. It was not pointed out as the birthers looked stupider and stupider doing their birther thing.
BTW, the birthers had a crazy claim that if POTUS was born in Kenya, somehow British Law would prevent him from being a natural born American. I never followed exactly why.
My idea of ridicule: changing one letter in the august publication’s name to express scorn. You can go with WorldNutDaily or WorldNetGaily.
Conservatives’ idea of ridicule: “Now, what was I laughing about? Oh yes! That crippled Irishman!”
4tehlulz: Dead man snarking.
The ironic thing is that Saul Alinsky had terrible body odor.
Here’s a question that I would love to hear Brian Williams ask Joseph Farah.
“I’ve been trying to figure something in my head, and maybe you can help me out, yeah? When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you’re insane? Maybe you’re just sitting around, reading “Guns and Ammo”, masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, “Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!”? Yeah. Do you guys do that?”
Extemporanus: I agree it isn’t a mustache, but I think it is one of those black bars censoring the words “Fuck You Nigger” that he had tattooed across his upper lip.
SRSLY, U GUYS!
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-Dedicated to 0RLY T41Tz
You do have to like that the right’s logic is “Don’t worry about doing crazy things, because they were going to make fun of you anyway.”
TeddyS: The patient should have to pay for their own hangers!!
TeddyS: You forgot to thank the troops!! We should always thank the troops for protecting our freedom!!!
Car Ramrod: I thought he was saying Saul Alinsky will be heading the death pannels that will be executing Trig Palin and his grandparents. Did I misread the whole thing?
TeddyS: Every pregnancy should be terminated with low-cost plastic coathangers.
That’s not environmental transcendence! The coathangers should be made of something sustainable, like sharp bamboo.
Mild Midwesterner: ““Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
And nuclear bombs… don’t forget the nuclear bombs.”
And surprise! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as…
“I have been attacked by presidents before – in ways that actually hurt my finances, my reputation and distracted me from my mission as a journalist.”
The sad thing about people with a persecution complex, other than the fact that they are frequently given jobs in conservative media, is that when you point out that they HAVE said complex, they inevitably believe that you are a part of the conspiracy to take them out.
Mama Grizzly: Can we mandate the use of a certain brand of hanger and de-regulate the closet accesory market to allow the price of these hangers to climb at an agressive pace? Because, you know, you ALMOST have me on board.
Snark aside for a moment. You really should read through a summary of Comrade Saul’s Rules. Line by line, word by word, they describe what the deranged right in textbook fashion. I’m sure that is just coincidence, since folks like Farah would never use ridicule and ad hominem attacks to get their points across, right?
“Humor is a weapon and radicals love weapons.”
That’s the best post tag ever, honeys.
Who is Joseph Farah? Why is the lead-in so opaque? Didn’t Sarah Palin say anything idiotic this weekend? And what about Hannity’s supper-duper-special expose of Obama’s way radical ties this Sunday? Isn’t that worth a little walk in the snark?
Zorg: Didn’t he just die of butt hole cancer?
Yo’ right wingnut Momma is so fat that small objects orbit her
AnnieGetYourFun: Clearly, someone hasn’t told Farah to tell the voices in his head to STFU.
Hey, you know the best way to get your idea some mainstream credibility? Describe it as being “through the looking glass”. Because when I think of being firmly grounded in reality, I think Alice In Wonderland.
Saul Alinsky isn’t the only dead man tormenting the Birthers! The heinous Voltaire, an actual Frenchman, said “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
See, America? Humor is an ANCIENT FRENCH CONSPIRACY.
Fuck them. Ridicule is only one of the many services we offer at wonkette, you bastards.
Snarkalicious: Whatevs. NORTH TO THE FUTURE!!!
WND has some AMAZING ads. Two large banners selling something that will give you larger muscles “without any work.”
user-of-owls: On NPR’s On the Media this weekend (ok, it’s a pretentious douchey show I know), they ran a story about how the Teabaggers and Tea Shirters are actually using, like on purpose, Alinksy’s methods. Earlier this year some guy from one of the astroturf organizations name-dropped Alinksy in an interview. Bob Garfield was basically calling shenanigans on Olberman’s and Maddow’s outrage at the tactics being used by the right.
aeiou: Ahhh…..sweet, sweet cheetos.
TeddyS: Add free heroin for anyone in pain and you’ve got yourself a Death Panel party platform. You’ll be elected unanimously.
You know this guy’s off the deep end when he suggests Glenn fucking Beck is a mealy-mouthed crypto-liberal who avoids controversy to appear more “mainstream”. He called the President an anti-white racist, for Christ’s sake! That’s not mainstream. That’s not any kind of stream. it’s a fetid swamp that must be drained immediately.
USS Millicent Kent: They guy interviewd, Adam Brandon, said:
“I mean, if this is astro-turfing, everything that MoveOn.org is doing is astro-turfing. The Boston Tea Party back in, you know, the 1770s would be astro-turfing. We’re doing basic organizing, and that is just trying to get people together, especially connecting them online, getting them materials, such as talking points, and telling them where and when they show up to town halls.”
Doesn’t sound so spontaneous.
user-of-owls: better yet, kelp. Two…two abortion methods in one!
Joseph whateverhisnameis said, “Maybe it’s time for the old radicals to write some new rules.”
If Mr. Joseph whateverhisnameis would simply tune in to HBO and watch Bill Maher, he’d KNOW New Rules are being written. Maybe not Saul Alinsky rules, but hey…
BTW, does anybody BUT a right-wingnut neocon know who Saul Alinsky is and what he did? I doubt it. But I don’t know how many times I go lurk over at that right-wingnut Palinista haven called C4P, and every other amateur “strategist” there refers to Saul Alinsky and how the liberals (all 17% of them) have dog-eared their personal copies of Alinsky’s playbook “Rules for Radicals”.
I mean, really… Who’s been radical, lately, eh? The U.S. congressmen/women trying to talk to the throng? Or the people who go to the town meetings really trying to get their questions answered? Or, maybe, those rabid-dog loudmouths, spittle flying as they yell “No!” over and over again, disrupting town hall meetings?
“[T]he ridicule of this campaign has been so over the top, so pervasive, so malignant and so obvious, it has backfired.”
Has it? I feel like I’m just getting warmed up, akshully.
After their 11th child, a “birther/teabagger” couple decided that was enough, as they could not afford a larger bed.
So the husband went to his veterinarian and told him that he and his cousin didn’t want to have any more children.
The doctor told him that there was a procedure called a vasectomy that could fix the problem but that it was expensive. “A less costly alternative,” said the doctor, “is to go home, get a cherry bomb, light it, put it in a beer can, then hold the can up to your ear and count to 10.”
The wingnut said to the doctor, “I may not be the smartest tool in the shed, but I don’t see how puttin’ a cherry bomb in a beer can next to my ear is gonna help me…”
”Trust me,” said the doctor.
So the southern republican went home, lit a cherry bomb and put it in a beer can. He held the can up to his ear and began to count:
“ONE. TWO. THREE. FOUR. FIVE…”
At which point, he paused, placed the beer can between his legs and continued counting on his other hand.
TGY: Dedicated also to Eric Cartman. Seriously, you guys.
WHY is everyone making fun of the Birthers? All they’re trying to prove is that no black person can be an American citizen without proving direct descent from Kunta Kinte. I think it’s in the Constitution. And claiming to be have been born in Hawaii (or Hawai’i'iyiyi as I’m pretty sure it’s spelled now) is a dead giveaway…everybody knows that’s a holiday destination, and who gives birth while on holiday? IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE.
This is but one more example of reading material intended for consumption by retards. Short, one or two sentence paragraphs –so one doesn’t lose one’s place?– in the self same style as our friend Douglas Burns.
Who gives a rat’s ass what this LeRoy Neiman wannabe has to say, anyway?
Speaking of ridicule, dude looks like a guy on a pizza box.
This Alinsky guy must be right on. When I was in college none of the actual radicals I hung out with though very highly of his work, but boy they must have been wrong.
Pseudo-journalists of Wonkette, why do you hate the after-birth certificates?
BTW: I love it when a-rsbs like Farah get all jibber-jabby and jumpy-up-and-down angry in only the way that cute little brown foreigners can. It makes me want to ridicule them.
aeiou: Is it for the Shake Weight?
I’m pretty sure what he means is he doesn’t want a Black man as president.
And speaking of Bar Sorento Hussein Kenyaovitch, once again in my endless quest to see my man, I am going to walk around the White House fence tomorrow in the HOPE of seeing him, Michelle, the girls or even Bo.
chascates: Yeah, I wonder how some of the mouth-breathers would take it if they heard that they were being “given talking points” and such (don’t they think they are independantly-minded and stuff?). The guy wasn’t trying that hard to euphemize what they are doing but still thought he could be all high and mighty about it.
“But when the inmates take over the asylum, as they have in this country in the last six months, the old tactics of intimidation simply allow more people to see through the looking glass.”
When sensless mixed metaphors pass as a reasonable critique of current affairs we will know America and the MSM have truly turned a corner and plunged over the cliff into a brick wall before running off the rails straight into the cold bosoms of populist ignorance.
The Cap’:
“Nobody’s making fun of wingnuts anymore? Let’s change that! A wingnut walks into a bar. . . and splits his head open and bleeds to death. Wingnuts - no sense of perspective.”
Ha ha ha. And no health insurance!
AnnieGetYourFun: I especially like how he calls it “obvious”. How the hell are we supposed to ridicule them without being obvious? Should we start framing the ridicule in the form of riddles? And what assurances do we have that the average wingnut will be smart enough to decipher even the simplest riddlecule, anyhow?
Funny? Noam Chomsky lighting his farts. Now that’s funny. He has to be good and drunk though, but when he is, he’s one funny motherfucker!
How To Take Down The Healthcare Lobbyists
http://msmpost.com/news/127/ARTICLE/1347/2009-08-06.html
Joe has been doing about a gallon a day of Just for Men moustache makeover, and it is slowly seeping into his cerebral cortex, where everything has to be either black or white, with never a touch of gray. His logic, however, is impeccable; “we played by the rules, we got clobbered; therefore, the rules need to change.” Bad athletes have been making this claim on playgrounds since time began (in 1905, when Einstein invented it), so why not bad writers, too?
Republicans are just angry because they don’t understand what humor is. Thus, they assume it’s something sinister and scary. They also don’t understand what a public option is.
Gosh darnit it is true. There are the die-hard fucktards who are incorrigible, they spread and believe the wildest rumors at the drop of a coonskin cap: but anyone with a normal amount of skepticism regarding political rumors should sense that all the bullshit about Obama really is bullshit (I mean, the kind that comes out of a bull’s anus).