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Newsmax Sees Opportunity For Beloved Coup

Absolutely hysterical right-wing war newsletter Newsmax, which recently opined that a military junta should overthrow the executive branch of the United States Government, because of “spending,” is now very seriously concerned about Barack Obama “declaring war on Fox News.”

The headline allegedly refers to an incident back here on Planet Earth, when Barack Obama said that he didn’t enjoy this one television channel. (Did you know that there are hundreds of television channels?) Anyway, yadda yadda, Glenn Beck is looking for “recruits” for either an army or god fucking knows what. These Newsmax links are rife with viruses, can’t click ‘em.


8:59 AM on Tue October 13 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. Bostoprov says at 9:09 am, October 13th, 2009

    It’s true, Jim. Newsmax gave me cancer.

  2. slavojzizek says at 9:10 am, October 13th, 2009

    Obama declares war on Fox? About freaking time. At least get the Russians on board for some tough sanctions. But if he wants to just skip to the bombing stage, be my guest.

  3. memzilla says at 9:11 am, October 13th, 2009

    We are all crying salty tears of sadness in sympathy, just like Glenn “Vick’s Vapo Rub” Beck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4I2f0ZO6g.

    Oh wait, those are lulztears we are crying. Snark on, Wonketteers.

  4. Glenn, you go to war with the pants-shitting, crybaby troops you have, not the troops you wish you had.

  5. PsycGirl says at 9:13 am, October 13th, 2009

    Nah, he only set the lasers on “stun”.

  6. And the Boogeyman parade continues.

  7. You’re misreading this headline here. Obama has vulpophobia, or a fear of foxes. I think we as Americans can ban together on this one and spare the poor man any further jarring news articles about foxes for the remainder of his presidency.

  8. Mad Brahms says at 9:15 am, October 13th, 2009

    Really, after the whole “death camps” and then “death panels” and then Glenn Beck’s biography of Obama in which his smug, sinister voice narrated his allegedly dubious birth, is it really *Obama* that issued a declaration of hostilities? Not that “they started it” is a very good comeback, but really, this has been open war for a while now.

  9. ttommyunger says at 9:17 am, October 13th, 2009

    Newsmax, that’s that huge pussyfart with the squeaky boy’s voice, right? What a dipshit!

  10. Brillzzz says at 9:19 am, October 13th, 2009

    It’s true — Howie says so: “The White House is now fighting a three-front war: Iraq, Afghanistan and Fox News.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html?hpid=topnews

  11. PsycGirl says at 9:19 am, October 13th, 2009

    Isn’t “new recruits” redundant? Or is there such a thing as an old recruit?

  12. zhubajie says at 9:24 am, October 13th, 2009

    So what? Didn’t Fucked-in-the-head-News declare war on Obamarama a long time ago? They should be glad he pays some attention them and not exclusively to TBN or some end-times profit I mean prophet?

  13. freakishlystrong says at 9:25 am, October 13th, 2009

    Glenn Beck recruiting. For what? Shiver…all fear the weeper.

  14. ManchuCandidate says at 9:26 am, October 13th, 2009

    Like the folks at Faux Newz know what a war really is. This is a one sided racist hissy fit waged against a brick wall.

  15. Holy Cow!! says at 9:33 am, October 13th, 2009

    You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. You will be adapted to service us.

  16. AnSnarkist says at 9:33 am, October 13th, 2009

    I would say that Obama declaring war on Fox News is like Christmas in October, but then I’m afraid that he would declare war on Christmas in October, forcing me to call it Happy Holidays in October. Pfft… who ever heard of a holiday in October?

  17. comicbookguy says at 9:38 am, October 13th, 2009

    PsycGirl: Considering the Fox News demographic, I’d go with old recruits.

  18. norbizness says at 9:45 am, October 13th, 2009

    The etymology of the Newsmax brand can be traced back to the ancient Sanskrit, where “news” means “people who think that agents of the Illuminati are broadcasting reports to their lizard overlords in the sky through secret transmitters in lo-flow toilets” and “max” means “whole lotta.”

  19. Does Obama have an exit strategy?

  20. bureaucrap says at 9:51 am, October 13th, 2009

    Let them meet at Agincourt.

  21. germansteel says at 9:56 am, October 13th, 2009

    This White House is the first in history to attack the Main Stream Media as being biased in their reporting of the news, and all Americans should be outraged about it.

    What? Wait …… Oh, just forget what I was sayin’.

  22. comicbookguy says at 10:02 am, October 13th, 2009

    This new war must come as a relief to all Fox News viewers. They would be really mad at themselves if they spent all their money on guns and ammo over the past year for nothing.

  23. The Church of Realism says at 10:02 am, October 13th, 2009

    freakishlystrong: Ha, Don’t Fear the Weeper….

  24. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 10:13 am, October 13th, 2009
  25. alkybookworm says at 10:14 am, October 13th, 2009

    Ah, Glen Beck. It’s time for him to ge the Aldo Raine treatment.

  26. hobospacejunkie says at 10:38 am, October 13th, 2009

    Glenn Beck’s recruiting is fodder for MSNBC’s catch a predator show, let there be no doubt. An adult who converts to mormonismus licks dirty diapers, scrounged via dumpster diving, for sustenance.

  27. GreatOldOnesParty says at 11:04 am, October 13th, 2009

    PsycGirl: it’s “phasers”
    FHAYZRZZZZ!!!!

  28. It is hysterical watching the left try and make conservative news sources irrelevant. After years of bias reporting it is nice to finally have sources that present the news in a way that is not tainted or biased in the liberal way. We have gotten use to a incompetent white house but even for them this little hissing fit is laughable and shameful. CNN and MSNBC two dying networks must be thankful and I am sure they will reward the White House with the positive spin they are so desperate to get in their failed agenda,

  29. Where do I buy my war bonds?

  30. norbizness says at 11:27 am, October 13th, 2009

    LOL-hysterical or ROFLMAO-hysterical? [emoticon]

  31. binarian says at 11:30 am, October 13th, 2009

    Notalib: Dude…..you need a job or something.

  32. Tundra Grifter says at 11:30 am, October 13th, 2009

    JMP: WIN! Is that what Rummy would have told Gen. McKrystal?

  33. binarian says at 11:30 am, October 13th, 2009

    Notalib: …other than trolling, that is….

  34. Tundra Grifter says at 11:31 am, October 13th, 2009

    Is the purpose of Newsmax to make Wing Nutz Daily look at least half-way sane?

  35. friendlyskies says at 11:31 am, October 13th, 2009

    Notalib: Do you believe in evolution? Just out of curiosity.

  36. Tundra Grifter says at 11:33 am, October 13th, 2009

    PsycGirl: There certainly is for the GOP/Faux Noise/Glum Bleek Movement. The average age of Boss BlunderRush’s listeners is well over 70. And Sheer “Am I An Idiot?” InSannity’s audience can’t be much under that. Either.

  37. Tundra Grifter says at 11:35 am, October 13th, 2009

    Notalib: What’s wrong with “bias reporting?” Isn’t that the sort of thing the press should point out? Who is your favorite Faux Noise “journalist” - Jeff Gannon? You betcha!

  38. binarian says at 11:40 am, October 13th, 2009

    I absolutely loathe the way every time there’s a hint of dislike of of Faux News or Neo-Con opinionators it’s a “WAR” and they’re looking for “recruits”. Keyboard Kommando Chicken Hawks every fucking one of them.

  39. PsycGirl says at 11:47 am, October 13th, 2009

    GreatOldOnesParty: Oops, nerd fail mine.
    Notalib: did you go to elementary school? Your grammar and punctuation are lousy. But I do commend you for resisting the urge to randomly capitalize words. BTW the term is “hissy fit”. Any Fox viewer is quite familiar with them, so you should use the correct term.

  40. Senile Agitation says at 11:51 am, October 13th, 2009

    I’m surprised he’d go on Fox News to declare war. Going on to declare that Fig Newtons are “absolutely delicious” or that Michele is hotter than ex-Governor Snowpants seems more like something he’d like to share with the Fox audience.

  41. Oldskool says at 12:03 pm, October 13th, 2009

    It’s a win for both. Faux gets to play the victim (the one thing they detest in everyone else) and the White House sets them up as the ‘opposition’ along with stinky Limburger.

  42. One can only hope the War on FOX News goes better than the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror.

  43. slappypaddy says at 12:08 pm, October 13th, 2009

    congress declares war, not the president. you can look it up.

  44. I’ll bet Barry isn’t into the Lifestyle channel either.

  45. comicbookguy says at 12:16 pm, October 13th, 2009

    slappypaddy: hELLO? pATRIOT ACT?!1!

  46. sati demise says at 12:52 pm, October 13th, 2009

    Lets see, Glen Beck forms a clearing house for information and organization for the teabaggers..those nuts who bring guns to public meetings and call Obama a Nazi/Stalin. The 9/12 anti Obama group! Organized on tv everyday

    Obama simple does not care for this, does not go on Faux news. BFD suck it!

  47. Accordion-o-rama says at 1:06 pm, October 13th, 2009

    Servo: He’ll exit through the back of Roger Ailes’ putrescent skull.

  48. avoidinggradingpapers says at 2:02 pm, October 13th, 2009

    Notalib:
    It is hysterical watching the left try and make conservative news sources irrelevant. After years of bias reporting it is nice to finally have sources that present the news in a way that is not tainted or biased in the liberal way. We have gotten use to a incompetent white house but even for them this little hissing fit is laughable and shameful. CNN and MSNBC two dying networks must be thankful and I am sure they will reward the White House with the positive spin they are so desperate to get in their failed agenda,

    Some minor changes will greatly improve your paper! Just fix these twelve (12) errors, and you’re on your way to making grammatical and syntactical sense. For your writing to make logical sense, you’d really have to start all over and change the whole thought process, so for today’s purposes, let’s just fix the following:

    1. try to make
    2. biased reporting
    3. reporting,
    4. used to
    5. hissy fit
    6. in an untainted manner, unlike liberal news
    7. an incompetent
    8. White House
    9. CNN and MSNBC, two dying networks, must…
    10. thankful,
    11. the positive spin on their failed agenda, for which they are so desperate (<–touch of Noonington there)
    12. Go with a period at end of final sentence; if you use a comma, we think you are going to say more!

  49. comicbookguy says at 2:37 pm, October 13th, 2009

    avoidinggradingpapers: he was going to say more, but he suddenly got dragged off to a FEMA-sponsored death panel.

  50. comicbookguy:
    He ran to the gas station for more Skoal mint.

  51. comicbookguy says at 3:09 pm, October 13th, 2009

    Servo: He’ll be back once he realizes Obama banned flavored dip.

  52. PoignancySelz says at 3:26 pm, October 13th, 2009

    Notalib: Hey bitch, great news, Limbaugh sided with the Taliban last week. Why don’t you go post an image of Maugh Hameed or something

    Brillzzz: We really know who the real enemy is here now, time to take up arms, get more troops, shock and awe…the War on WaPo

  53. Long Form Def Certificate says at 9:00 pm, October 13th, 2009

    It’s a war on whores.

    No, seriously, Brit Hume been getting all up on Megyn Kelly &/or Kyndall from way back.

  54. drpangloss says at 12:06 am, October 14th, 2009

    slappypaddy:

    Damn you beat me to it. Well atleast it would be the first Declared war the U.S. has had in 60 years.

    America, great at killing Nazis, not so good against 3rd world coutries.

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