Wonkette
For 25 horrifying minutes, CNN has been broadcasting awful old white people yelling at another awful old white person (Arlen Specter) about the African who is going to (hopefully) euthanize all the awful old white people, and how the white American god will soon “stand before” Specter and other senators and representatives, and kill them.
Much yelling, much obesity, and oh how this country needs a good old fashioned The Stand-style plague of death (for awful old white people). Now the commercials (for awful old white people drugs, paid for by their Socialized Medicare) are over and the awful old white people are yelling at Arlen Specter again. [WGAL/TPM]
“Marge, old people don’t need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them…”
It’s time for free soma for old people.
You know, I always thought that the youth were the most easily manipulated by corporate interest, what with all their MTV watching and chronic insecurity. I see now that all you need to pull a fast one on awful old white people is Pat Boone, a PHRMA front-group and racism. This definitely beats the time Reagan fooled kids into thinking that conforming was the REAL rebellion.
Who else thinks that Obama should call bulls*** on this whole health care astroturfing, and call it for what it is: white racists who hate that there’s a Black Man in the White House, who hate that the USA is becoming a white-minority country, and can only vent their anger through these teabagginations?
IOW, just the latest mutation of Lee Atwater / Karl Rove’s Southern Strategy.
I guess putting mercury in their high fructose corn syrup was a FAIL.
H1N1 you are our only hope.
Come to Carousel… all is right in Carousel…
Well, I just clicked over to the article, wanting to know what I am talking about before commenting, because I’m in that kind of a mood today, and, in the words of Gertrude Stein, I think, there wasn’t anything there.
Some old guy yelled at Arlen Specter. It didn’t say what he was yelling at Arlen Specter about. Although I suspect it was some senile old git who is opposed to health care, because that’s who’s doing most of the yelling nowadays since they really don’t have the birth certificate issue any more, the article doesn’t specify that, and I am 100% in favor of Arlen Specter just getting randomly yelled at for being a nasty, old, miserable, corrupt piece of shit.
Arlen Specter wouldn’t have a chance if his cancer had to be treated with insurance provided by the gummint.
To be fair to the Old People, I know plenty of old people and not a single one of them a) Voted for Ron Paul, b) Go to “town hall meetings” to yell about how negroes will send everyone to Russia.
The GOOD news is that Arlen will finally be able to sit down in peace and eat his just dessert — maybe lime jello pudding, or a Scotch or two. Certainly hope he enjoys it, after all the hysterical chubby people.
Ken, you’ll get a lot more accomplished watching the judge shows and porn.
doxastic: Pat Boone the anti health care activist. how sad. freakin’ sad.
doxastic: It’s not Pat Boone and racism. The old guys are enraged that Disney yells at Miley when she flashes her bra and the old women are enraged that nobody will make a sexy vampire movie for them.
Soylent Green is looking better and better. Sorry mom.
It’s Christmas in August. If Christmas was the angriest day in the world and you spent it yelling incoherently at your elected representatives for doing something that would probably benefit you.
gurukalehuru: Good call. One crazy person does not characterize a group, unless he’s a Republican.
Ken Layne: Same here. So where do these particular Olds come from??
I’ve been watching this bit of televised masturbation….I like how almost every one of these ass-hats (hey, it’s a Tuesday morning, why the fuck these people at work…they’ve all been bitching about taxes and probably aren’t paying a fucking dime, but I digress)…
I like how they all started off with “I’m not a lobbyist, un-american, no one put me up to this…”
Also, big reference is page 59 of HR 3200…which according to these clowns authorizes the govies to get access to your bank account in order to blow the money on hookers and blow.
Actually it authorizes the gov’t to do Direct Deposit (ETF)…
Christ these fucks can’t even read!!
Just in case you’re keeping score, the Deathers lead the antiwar hippies in guns brought to town hall meetings by a score of 2 to 0.
Hopefully, Hopey’s visit to NH won’t make it 3-0.
Ken Layne: As an OWG (Old White Guy), I thank you for the disclaimer. Nevertheless, you must concede that Teabag Nation, a/k/a Reaganistan, is predominantly old(er), white, fat, and… er… challenged when it comes to logical thinking.
Come here a minute: and the McCains were so afraid of their government-provided healthcare, they were forced to have lil Johnny in Panama.
Perhaps one can take a different view on this horrible sequence of events.
Maybe this is a way for all to see just what racism really looks like: how pathetically fearful and angry and defensive and selfish and infantile and evil and ugly and stupid it really is.
Perhaps these town meetings could be called “Racism: Snapshots of America.”
These town hell oldz sure are proving that adage that the older you get the crankier you get. Some of these people would benefit from a little extra fiber I’m sure.
No, CNN needs to televise MORE of this stuff! This is pure comedy! I loves it!
Ken Layne: I even have an old people friend, so I can’t possibly be ageist.
Oh man, is that crowd inbred family reunion or what? Does every retired sorehead with “man-titties” and a tee-shirt collection have to get on television now?
I just can’t wrap my mind around it.
The olds waste their days at townhall meeting bitching about socialist healthcare while I get up at the crack of dawn and go to work so my employer can take my money out of my paycheck for the olds’ socialist healthcare.
Meanwhile, in the Vandalism League, the Deathers have taken a 1-0 lead in defacing congressman’s offices with swastikas.
Arlen hasn’t heard of the Flag@whitehouse.gov thing, but he’s going to look into it.
Why are essential fatty acids the only fat these white people don’t consume? They need to take a fire hose of Omega 3s and spray this crowd down.
trickyrick: I’m not sure it’s just Pat Boone the anti-health care activist. I think it’s Pat Boone the corporate whore who will do anything for money in a pathetic and always fruitless attempt to be relevant to pop culture. I doubt he knows any more about health care than he does heavy metal music. Nevertheless, he should undoubtedly and with haste be converted to old people nutritional supplement, so at least his final act will be selfless.
Crab1: I got that beat. Some of my best friends are old people. I wouldn’t mind if my sister married an old person. I think one used to live in my neighborhood, but he died, I think.
Just noticed that this particular town meeting was in Lebanon, where they make that excellent baloney. Had me a sandwich of that profound meat just yesterday, with lettuce and mayo. Not till today had I even given a moment’s thought to what goes INTO that baloney, and now I’m on my way to the hospital to have my stomach pumped. Sure wouldn’t wanna digest the leavings of some right-wind chubby old and pass it through my anus.
I thought a lifetime of flouride in our drinking water was supposed to make these people complacent (W/ GREAT TEETH).
To make them happier, the Dark One should just give them a Viagra handout
When God stands before me, He’s going to have answer some tough questions about Katrina.
Meanwhile in New Hampshire (courtesy Politico)
“the Secret Service won’t take kindly to anyone trying to overrun a presidential event.”
Let the good times roll.
Sen. Spector should have maybe waited with the whole, “I’m a Democrat now” bullshit, because in Lowinformationstan ANY Democrat is a librul that will have to stand before God for trying to better our Nation.
memzilla: memzilla: Really. It’s ALL about Hopey’s black half.
Have you noticed that, though Specter continues to tell them they need to ask questions not make statements, all he gets from the Obama-haters is statement after uninformed statement. They don’t come to learn anything about plans to improve their health care, they come to lecture people and feel important for once in their ignorant, joyless lives.
“how the white American god will soon “stand before” Specter and other senators and representatives…”
I think he has that backwards. Aren’t we supposed to stand before God? Damn, these rightwingers always get their talking points mixed up. They need to practice at home more.
freakishlystrong: Spector’s a Democrat only when he starts voting like one. And a real one, not those fake, in-it-for-myself-only blue ball Democrats. Then again I wouldn’t necessarily have a problem with Spector giving plenty of fuel to Sestak for use against him in the primary.
Democracy is messy…or so I’ve been told
Athar: they have been studyin’ the emails Pat Boone is sending them. Spector needs an overhead projector and a wifi connection set on snopes.com
Simple, elegant solution to that bullshit.
This is why the Israelis invaded Lebanon, too many cranky olds. Was a failure, obviously. Try again, my hebrew brothers.
They are just mad that Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, and Ed McMahon left them in the lurch, forcing them to confront a dystopic nightmare replete with oversexed dance instructors, Negro presidents, and educated women in high positions of authority. Most of all they miss Laugh-in, and they still don’t realize that All In The Family was intended to be satire.
PrairiePossum: Good point. CALL IN THE DEATH PANEL/EUTHANASIA SQUADS. Mandatory govt abortions, health care for Mexicans, free socialism! We really are fucked, aren’t we? These fat white angry yellers are just too stupid to be able to comprehend what is in their/their childrens’ best interest. McCain/Palin didn’t lose that election by enough of a margin for me to be able to say that the nation is basically full of bright and rational people and this health insurance reform stuff is gonna pan out.
hobospacejunkie: Go Sestak! Tho, gotta at least give Arlen props for attempting to engage these frothing, insane, old racist wingnuts in sensible discourse…
Does anyone else see the hyserical irony, (besides Ken, obviously), in the pitchfork mob from The effen’ Simpsons representin’ the wackjobs so well? Could be a photograph!
honkyman: “right-wind”
If that is a typo, it is an awesome typo, and I promote it to meme.
Ken Layne: I bet those awful old people yelling at town halls are the same ones who voted for Reagan - the so called Reagan Democrats.
The threat of eternal damnation just doesn’t pack the same wallop with some of us.
trickyrick: That is a very good idea!
honkyman: That’s jumbo to you sir /yinzer
RoscoePColtraine: Sartre held forth that Hell is other people. He was only partly right. Hell is these people.
trickyrick: Athar: Actually, the birthers/palinites have already slammed snopes as being a “liberal” website, run by “liberals” to promote “liberal” ideas.
Therefore, anything demonstrably true is not to be believed because facts are “liberal.”
druranium:
All the old S.O.B.s who show-up at the town hall meeting and bitch about socialist run healthcare should have their Medicare privileges automatically revoked. If they love the private sector, they should have to buy health insurance in the private sector just like us who work.
This is the second time Specter’s gotten yelled at about health car at these meetings. Have we explored the possibility that people are just reacting to his general douchebaggery?
Dreamer: …and before that The Silent Majority… Gone Wild.
And now, the hilarious epilogue!
“And there you have it. An extraordinary showing out of Pennsylvania. As we watched for the past hour non-stop, an informed, articulate, and very concerned group of American people take their questions directly to their elected representative, Senator Arlen Specter, who they attempted to put on his heels with some very tough questioning. This is American democracy at work. This will not provide fodder for those who describe these folks as angry mobs or dismiss them as un-American. It will however provide a lot of fodder for debate.”
Megyn Kelly, Fox News
bureaucrap:
The birthers/palinites only use the Bible to check their “facts.”
So THIS is what Crankshaft would look like if it was turned into a movie.
geeze, seeing these crazy old crackpots … is this what is in store for us? (take me now lord)
doxastic: I call fail on you sir. Honkeyman was right. “Jumbo” is regular baloney. Lebanon Baloney is that spicy, sweet salami-like lunchmeat of unknown Amish ingredients that is yum, what was I sayin’? Oh, yea. Don’t be a jagoff to Honkeyman.
How many of the olds who are wetting their Depends over “socialism” are on Social Security or Medicare? How many are willing to give them up? I thought so.
You can bet these brainiacs are the same ones who screamed us into Iraq. At some point you’d think they’re re-evaluate where they get their news. This whole “debate” is eerily like 2002; the same stupidity, the same hyperventilating.
bureaucrap:
CROSSEYED & BRAINLESS
“Facts” are librul and facts are gay
Fats are whitebread and overweight
Fats come with just one point of view
Fats say whatever Rush wants them to
Fats just twist the truth around
Fats are townhalls turned inside out
Fats are getting the best of Dems
Fats are racist on the face of things
I’m STIIIIIIIIIIL WAITING (for my goddamned sane national healthcare system)
OT Baloney fun fact: Grandpa (a butcher) used to call it D.D. He said that in the trade it was known as as donkey dick. Mmmm…
Mr Blifil: Hmmm… all of this has started up ever since Conan took over the Tonight Show. Maybe it will all calm down when Leno’s show starts up.
*bows to yunz
DoctorCulturae: They couldn’t stay silent because they can’t stomach the black muslin dude in the WH.
Sarah Paling Around With Stupidity – Self-Induced And Chronic
http://msmpost.com/news/127/ARTICLE/1358/2009-08-11.html
My “Eat Steak At Every Meal Until I Have A Massive Coronary In the 12th Fairway” exit plan for when I turn 60 seems more and more an act of genius.
Also, CNN is too busy sucking Dobb’s shriveled old dick. CNN as of late is all screaming angry white oldeys, and covering Palin’s internet douchery.
Maddow is where it’s at. From C Street/The Family to debunking all the righwing horseshit on healthcare, tt’s fact night every night on her show.
“Go figure, a libtard likes Maddow, I’m so surprised. Hmmm, i bet you watch Olby, too.”
That’s right voice in my head, and fuck you!!
nbawriter: Selfish bastard. You need to take a few out with you when you go. It’s a crying shame that all the rampages occur at schools, universities and, now apparently, health clubs. Why hasn’t someone brought their personal arsenal to a retirement home, Denny’s or Boca Raton? Bad, bad eugenics, people.
I see, they can call liberals un-American but when liberals (if you can call Pelosi a liberal) call THEM un-American that’s not okay.
SmutBoffin: I wonder at what point does a Fox News host who isn’t Shep Smith reads something they’re supposed to say and goes “oh, Jesus, really? Not even I’m going to say this bullshit.”
memzilla: Agree, I’ve come to the conclusion that these fucktards just can’t stand the idea of a black man being president, it has driven them insane. Just like the Nazis couldn’t just come out and say they hated Jews, the racists have to latch onto some other issue to express their Obama hatred. Obama ought to revoke all their Medicare and Medicaid, just to teach them a lesson.
The really frightening thing is that people my age (43) are beginning to believe these Grimm’s Fairy Tales too.
Ken Layne: I know a ton of olds, all of them being conservative Republicans. The olds I know realise at this point that I would probably tell them to stop being stupid if they told me such stupid shit like the forced euthanisia nonsense. Though about half of them voted for Obama or did not vote at all due to Palin, so I guess you can teach old people new tricks eventually. It just takes really extreme circumstances.
a hard rain was fallin when i went to the town-hall meetin last night
the place was packed
ten thousand screamin and no one was listenin
Dreamer: Your facts are a little jumbled. We now know for certain that Obama is a shape-shifter from a Demonic, parallel universe, intent on the complete destruction of Truth, Justice and the American way! He’s also a lesbian.
All of this makes me pray for the euthanasia squads to clear out this horrible deadwood. Seriously, olds, you are just bringing about your own horrible demise. Put Ebola virus in the Ensure and let’s just be done with the motherfucking Greatest Generation.
Old_School_Liberal: Isn’t that where Marge told him to put down the Ross Perot pamphlet?
Ken Layne: Ssssssssh!! Ixnay on the “Eniorsay to UssiaRay” talk…. What happens in Carousel STAYS in Carousel…
Although I have not seen the event in question, I’m guessing it can be summed up by one word: Maaaaaaaatlock
How come when oldz go to Vegas they are able to run, but when they are home they can barely walk? I think the answer is cheap buffets and coupons. Maybe if the government stocks clinics with free pudding and 50%-off coupons on cholonoscopes and euthanasia services the problem would be solved.
The Cap’: 43?! Please, report to Carousel immediately - you’re 13 years past Renewal!
Athar: Loose lips, Comrade - loose lips… you don’t want to end up in “Russia” like the Seniors, do you?
memzilla: honkyman: I am giggling hysterically about the travails of your anus.
If you watch the video, the guy is pissed off about lobbyist influence on capitol hill…not sure I disagree with him on that point.
I was in a hospital waiting room with my mother the other day the other day (nothing serious) when one of the old men in the room struck up a conversation with us. He proceeded to tell us that Obama had said he was going to kill all the old people, and that he was very afraid for himself and his wife. My mom attempted to argue with him, but I’ve been working a service job for the last year so when the crazies get going I plaster up a fake-ass vacant smile and nod, without really hearing anything they’re saying. This was troubling though, because my grandfather has verbatim expressed the same belief. What the fuck.
PrairiePossum: Except that those of us who work don’t buy our health insurance. Our employers buy it at a substantially discounted rate.
Having to buy health insurance without the support of a company will run you more than your home mortgage.
liquiddaddy: The olds don’t run in Vegas. They drive those little motorized scooter things. And they drive them right over anyone and everyone.
I’ve been hit many times. Old bastards. Well bitches since most are the wimmen olds.
Bearbloke: There seems to be hair growing on my crystal.
Neocon Arlen “Warren Commission” Specter.
Anderson Baldwin Carter Choate Clemente Gonzalez Gravel Kaptur Kucinich McKinney Nader Paul Perot Sheehan Ventura
Future of a Nation that can not trust the Government & Propaganda Media?
DNC & RNC have sold out the country in order to enrich themselves
Chronic lying as career path, intellectual prostitution for paycheck
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me
Does the Government & Propaganda Media lie to you?
Wall Street Bailout Bill: Bush McCain Obama et al.
AIPAC 9/11 Bankers Extortion Blackmail Bribery
Independents agree on more than we disagree
Elite Ruling Class Greed or public servants?
Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil
Honesty compassion conscience guts
Both parties are corrupt to the core
Beware the divide and conquer
Whistle-Blower leaks multiply
A very RawStory on PressTV
InfoWars on a PrisonPlanet
Israel-first dual-nationals
Gung-ho Chickenhawks
JFK RFK MLK Malcolm
Anthrax Intimidation
GGreenwald
Single payer?
Medicare for all?
Off the table?
Just like Impeachment was…
El Pinche: I love how her show has morphed into that unique blend of snark/fact. She’s great, and that’s no snark.
nader paul kucinich gravel: WB!
You gonna stay and play this time?
zenferret: mmmmmmmmmm, ferrets.
I grew up in Lebanon, PA. I am one of the few who escaped.
I can’t tell if the crazy has gotten worse or if I’ve just been spoiled by my comparatively less wingnutty surroundings since then. Either way, Lebanon is a shithole full of conservative crazies who never leave and who think God caused Hurricane Katrina because the local high school started a Gay-Straight Alliance. (Seriously.)
Some of the worst exploitations of old people in the health care debate can be found in this commercial, featured on Pointless Planet:
http://www.pointlessplanet.com/2009/09/60-plus-sacrifice.html