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White Mayor Of Some Suburb Has Several Theories Regarding Barack Obama

Oh goodie, it’s another edition of “minor Southern political figures typing on the Internet about Barack Obama.” The thick head of hair over here, Mayor Russell Wiseman of Memphis suburb Arlington, got all hot and bothered on his Facebook the other night during the death speech: “Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it….w…hen the answer should simply be ‘yes’….” But what is more Christian an act than re-declaring Holy War on the Mohammeds again forever? [Memphis Commercial Appeal]


12:25 PM on Fri December 4 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. MLHencken says at 12:28 pm, December 4th, 2009

    less teeth, more hair.

  2. SayItWithWookies says at 12:30 pm, December 4th, 2009

    What an idiot — if Jesus was the son of God, that makes God some sort of Middle Easterner. And we all know God is blond and blue-eyed and wears an Evel Knievel suit.

  3. SlouchingTowardsWasilla says at 12:30 pm, December 4th, 2009

    At least he didn’t say “muslin.”

  4. Cape Clod says at 12:31 pm, December 4th, 2009

    With a name like Wiseman, why does he give a shit about Christmas?

  5. memzilla says at 12:31 pm, December 4th, 2009

    So, his solution is, we should sic Lucy van Pelt on Osama bin Laden?

  6. Way Cool Larry says at 12:33 pm, December 4th, 2009

    maybe a better item would be a southern wingnut politician who DOESN’T believe Obama is a muslim?

  7. CrunchyKnee says at 12:34 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Pig Pen is a muslin!!!!!1111!

  8. “you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different……..”

    This is the stupidest originalist nonsense ever. You wouldn’t have missed seeing that cartoon you like so bad if not for the fact that renters got the vote?

  9. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 12:34 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Better still, this: “At another point he said, “you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different……..”

    Translation: We would still have a right-thinking, conservative, WHITE CHRISTIAN president if it weren’t for all those meddling liberals, niggers, fags, and wetbacks.

  10. V572625694 says at 12:35 pm, December 4th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: Worse yet, there’s a rumor Jeebus was Jew!

    Loved the Reebus Canebus pic.

    http://www.tafinn.com/andyfinn-us/audio%20files/firesign-theatre/firesign-theater-clips.htm

  11. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 12:35 pm, December 4th, 2009

    SlouchingTowardsWasilla: Oh it’s there, in the comments. If you can stomach them.

  12. dum librul says at 12:36 pm, December 4th, 2009

    60% of the current vote at the linked site answered: “Mayor Wiseman speaks for a lot of Americans who are frustrated with the President.”

    Clearly there are no Arlingtons worth preserving outside the one with the dead famous people.

  13. norbizness says at 12:36 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I think the mayor’s last name may file a deceptive advertising lawsuit against himself.

  14. disertation, n.: that thing people get shot for during the war, i reckon…

  15. Larry McAwful says at 12:36 pm, December 4th, 2009

    If this wiseguy cared about capitalism at all, he would have purchased his own copy of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” years ago, so he and his brood wouldn’t have to check the listings.

    Anyway, I don’t remember this clod grousing when George W. Bush preĆ«mpted “A Charlie Brown Eid” three years ago.

  16. DickTaterPeeNoShay says at 12:37 pm, December 4th, 2009

    CrunchyKnee: No way Pig Pen could pass a Halal food inspection.

  17. Truly, nomen non est omen.

  18. Nigerian Business Executive says at 12:37 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I’d totally hit it, on the condition that he not talk.

  19. Did you see the poll with that article? Apparently 60% of the readers of that paper think that the mayors comments are fine and dandy.

    To the Mayor, buy yourself a copy of the movie on DVD and your kids can watch it over and over. Some of us think that the decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan is rather important. Did you even know that’s what the speech was about? Probably not, given the content of your screed, you don’t appear to be a brain surgeon.

  20. Johnny Zhivago says at 12:38 pm, December 4th, 2009

    What in the Sam Hill is he talking about?

    I know a lot of mooslims that watch Charlie Brown: A Christmas Special!

  21. canadasteve says at 12:40 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Good muslin heavens!

  22. Nigerian Business Executive says at 12:41 pm, December 4th, 2009

    OBAMA IS THE ABU IBN GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS, SHEEPLE!!!!!

  23. Hooray For Anything says at 12:41 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I’m going to have to give this guy a break on this one– preempting a ‘Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special’ was pretty cold.

  24. shortsshortsshorts says at 12:42 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Why can’t Barry just proclaim he’s a muslim and start this much-needed genocide?

  25. CaliforniaMike says at 12:43 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Thank God Prez’nit Muslin wasn’t around back in the day to preempt the “Green Acres Christmas Special.” Otherwise we would have missed the tender moments when they roasted Arnold Ziffle, when Eva Gabor tenderly took Eb’s virginity and when Mister Haney cornholed Sam Drucker while singing Christmas carols.

  26. bondwooley: Are you the one that sells tracksuits?

  27. shadowMark says at 12:44 pm, December 4th, 2009

    We can expect another rant from this guy if he sits the kids down tonight to watch the final episode of Monk and it turns out that Stottlemeyer killed Trudy.

  28. iantenna says at 12:44 pm, December 4th, 2009

    bon voyage charlie brown is a way better movie anyways.

  29. Another DC Lawyer (Again) says at 12:44 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Look, here’s the thing Mayor, your kids probably HATE the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. I’ve been trying to get my kids to watch it for years. The animation is boring to them, they are perturbed Charlie Brown doesn’t transform into a robot, and they don’t recognize the genius of the Vince Guaraldi score or recognize what a groundbreaking work of music it was at the time. Even worse, they don’t realize that this is all about their parents’ attempts to recapture an earlier, more innocent, time of their lives. So. Trust me, Barry did you a favor and allowed you to further, for however short a time period, the fantasy that your children like and respect you…becasue no one else does….

  30. proudgrampa says at 12:44 pm, December 4th, 2009

    To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, this idiot should not be thrown aside lightly. He should be thrown aside with great force.

  31. The poor sacrifice this man has made. A MOTHERFUCKING WAR interrupted his cartoon!

  32. Lefty Lucy says at 12:45 pm, December 4th, 2009

    queeraselvis v 2.0: And don’t forget the damned bitches.

  33. betterDeadThanRed says at 12:46 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Just one more item in my list of “Print is dead”

    The fact that something that considers itself a “Newspaper” felt that what some local wingnut official said on his Facebook page is news saddens me.

    Bye bye journalism. I think I’m going to cry now.

  34. germansteel says at 12:46 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Get that guy a hair piece for Xmas, for X’s sake!!!

  35. magic titty says at 12:46 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Allah will take care of this shitbird doodz. No worries.

  36. SayItWithWookies says at 12:50 pm, December 4th, 2009

    CaliforniaMike: And I sure hope our president doesn’t preempt my favorite special of this season, “An Ethan Frome Christmas.” The sledding scene is to die for — or at least get horribly crippled and disfigured for.

  37. He sat his kids down to watch the special and was shocked that Obama’s speech came on instead. I guess Obama and the news should have publicized the upcoming speech for a few days ahead of time, that way only complete morons wouldn’t have realized network shows were going to be preempted.

  38. queeraselvis v 2.0: You left out women.

    Also, I knew Henry Rollins was always an angry guy, but when did he become a racist.

  39. le petit mort says at 12:51 pm, December 4th, 2009

    CrunchyKnee: I think you mean Franklin is a muslin!!1!!1! After all, he was the Peanuts person of the mud.

  40. Oh, was that President Obama? I just assumed that Franklin had a bigger part this year.

  41. kungfusheriff says at 12:52 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Georgia elected a black lesbian state legislator. Arlington elected a retard. Affirmative action works!

  42. Larry McAwful says at 12:52 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Another DC Lawyer (Again): When I was a kid, back in the 1970s, Vince Guaraldi’s music always sparked lively discussions that led all four of the McAwful children to go sifting through back issues of Downbeat to either make or back up our arguments on the time signature of Linus and Lucy. My brother would say, “Guaraldi has nothing on Chick Corea,” and then I’d call Corea a hack, and then he’d punch me and then Mom would send us to bed before Charlie Brown bought the tree.

    Anyway: kids today are all philistines.

  43. AnnieGetYourFun says at 12:53 pm, December 4th, 2009

    queeraselvis v 2.0: How… how do these people function? I mean, breathing seems like it would be a bit of a struggle, but how do they get their pants on in the morning with nary a brain cell to be found?

  44. TubeCity says at 12:56 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Think of the message Obama would have sent to our enemies, if he had delayed announcing the despatch of 30,000 additional troops, in order not to disrupt an old cartoon show.

  45. comicbookguy says at 12:56 pm, December 4th, 2009

    We need to go back to the way our forefathers intended. When Paul Revere rode into town shouting, “The British are coming!” and everyone was at Ben Franklin’s house watching cartoons, told him to STFU.

    Looking forward to next week’s facebook update: “Oh, it’s on now. Nevermind.”

  46. Georgia Burning says at 12:56 pm, December 4th, 2009

    3rd-tier suburb mayor is a stupid Repug bigot who doesn’t know what the Constitution says. When’s he running for governor?

  47. SlouchingTowardsWasilla says at 12:56 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Oh, the South will rise again…just not any time soon.

  48. KilgoreTrout_XL says at 12:58 pm, December 4th, 2009

    “Education: …; graduate of Arlington Elementary School.” Not kidding. Also:
    “Hobbies: Jogging, spending time with family, late night movies with friends.”

    Fuck yeah group porno.

  49. Larry McAwful says at 12:59 pm, December 4th, 2009

    SlouchingTowardsWasilla: Not until the next commercial break, anyway. Then it will rise for more Mr. Pibb and to get more mayonnaise to spread on their po’ boys.

  50. binarian says at 12:59 pm, December 4th, 2009

    AnnieGetYourFun: Just don’t go read the comments, it’ll TOTALLY ruin your day…

  51. Don’t worry Mr. Balding Badly! A Charlie Brown Christmas will be on 47 more times over the next month. In the meantime, your kids could…oh, I dunno…read a BOOK? Or maybe engage in some wholesome Christian activities you seem to enjoy like name-calling and hatred.

  52. magic titty says at 1:01 pm, December 4th, 2009

    queeraselvis v 2.0: Don’t forget wimminz.

  53. Barcode of the Apocalypse says at 1:01 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Gay pedophile. Notice that he doesn’t say WHOSE kids he’s sitting down to watch Charlie Brown Christmas. And, this is a kids’ show — why is he sitting there surrounded by his lovely boys when he could have been watching WWE and drinking beer like a real man.

  54. Gorillionaire says at 1:02 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Larry McAwful: Don’t know how the family stayed together after that Cecil Taylor album came home.

  55. Hooray For Anything says at 1:02 pm, December 4th, 2009

    JMP: Well, it’s not like he has a profession that lends itself towards paying attention to the news

  56. KilgoreTrout_XL: Friends : plugs :: Wiseman : power strip

  57. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 1:03 pm, December 4th, 2009

    TubeCity: My thoughts exactly. Only I was imagining the Republican hue and cry if Barry had “dithered” so that Charlie Brown could save Christmas for the 40th year in a row.

  58. AnnieGetYourFun: Check that picture again. See any pants?

    I am so sorry now I even had that thought. Oh no. There it was again.

  59. RoscoePColtraine says at 1:04 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I believe the entire library of Charlie Brown Holiday Special can be yours to view anytime you damn well please, by going to the store and spending roughly $30.

    This guy wanted to see the “free” version on tee-vee. He’s a socialist, plain and simple. Why does he want to take away the hard earned royalties from the folks who made that awesome piece of tv nostalgia?

  60. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 1:06 pm, December 4th, 2009

    queeraselvis v 2.0: magic titty: red sky: Lefty Lucy: Sorry sorry sorry! AND WOMYNZ TOO.

  61. Manos: Hands of Fate says at 1:06 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Check out the online poll. “Mayor Wiseman speaks for a lot of Americans who are frustrated with te president” (i.e. Mayor Wiseman speaks for white bubbas who hate black people doing anything besides being linebackers)is leading by at least 15 points.

  62. thefrontpage says at 1:06 pm, December 4th, 2009

    What a wingnut psycho! He should either resign from office, or he should be forced out of office. Anyone this stupid, moronic, juvenile, childish and imbecilic should not be holding a public office, and should not be mayor. What a wingnut!

  63. He’s the mayor of a city called Memphiswith a huge pyramid, who is the real Muslim?

  64. coolcatdaddy says at 1:08 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Excuse me, Mr. Mayor? Have you considered a thorough psychiatric examination to check into those delusions you seem to be having about some kind of Muslim in the White House doing things to your television?

  65. GuyClinch says at 1:08 pm, December 4th, 2009

    See, Obama’s muslin father contrived to have birth announcements placed in Hawaii so his spawn could one day become president and pre-empt Charlie Brown Xmas. Obama’s job is done; hand it over to Biden.

  66. DickTaterPeeNoShay says at 1:10 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Of course the network always had the option of not carrying the speech if they thought Charlie Brown would be a absolute ratings bonanza. Take that Mr. Capitalism!

  67. More from Russ’s FaceBook rant:

    ā€œyou know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different……..ā€

    Well, dang-it, someone had to say it.

    Link: http://originalist.tumblr.com/post/269206250/russell-wiseman-tennessee-mayor-assails-muslim

  68. SmutBoffin says at 1:15 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Fuckin’ fuck. The narrative here is just…dumb.

    1) Man gets mad at TV for not showing Charlie Brown.
    2) Blames Muslims, particularly imaginary ones.
    3) Receives accolades from racists and those who are spacetimewarpingly stupid.

    I mean, I was once irked as a child that a speech by Ronald Reagan about, I dunno, arms-limitations treaties or something preempted the Dukes of Hazzard, BUT I WAS 7 YEARS OLD.

  69. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 1:18 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Scarab: Actually, Wiseman rules over the hamlet of Arlington, about 30 miles (and a million years) away from Memphis. Not to say that Memphis hasn’t had its share of certifiably insane politicians, but this wingnut is on the short bus by himself.

  70. Manos: Hands of Fate says at 1:18 pm, December 4th, 2009

    S.Luggo: We also know who else they thought should have the exclusive right to vote.

  71. SmutBoffin says at 1:19 pm, December 4th, 2009

    S.Luggo: This is known in suit-wearing white male circles as “being a stand up guy” and “telling it like it is”.

  72. CapnFatback says at 1:21 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Mayor Wiseman is just repressing. He’s really acting out cuz Linus gives all those props to the shepherds in his big “spotlight speech” (who was operating the lights, anyway?) and Wiseman’s three ancestors get diddly-dick.

  73. vitamins taken helmet on says at 1:21 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Best comment on a comment ever:

    In response to sgtsawzall:

    “Arlington must be pround”

    know where knot

  74. MameDennis says at 1:22 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Mayor Russell Wiseman is a blockhead.

  75. sarcasticusername says at 1:22 pm, December 4th, 2009

    ivenson: i think what he’s trying to say, is that under the old rules we never would have had a nigger president; but he was probably worried that people might think he was a racist or something.

  76. IceIceBaby says at 1:23 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Well, Charlie Brown *is* the reason for the season, so he has a point.

  77. queeraselvis v 2.0: The only thing that made me prouder of Memphis than Wiseman’s facebook idiocy was the CA comment thread.

    But seriously, the landowner clause statement? What more do you expect from the people who left Memphis city limits because blacks started BUYING property? Wiseman and his ilk honestly think that if the “landed” requirement for franchisement had never left, good decent (white) folk would still be living in Midtown and the poors would be sharecropping cotton in the outskirts, where they BELONG.

    UGH.

  78. Scarab: He wants as little to do with Memphis as possible, actually. Too many darkies.

  79. Cookie_Monster_Cupcake says at 1:27 pm, December 4th, 2009

    This man is the poster child or why we need to bring the Digital Divide back, and STOP THE MADNESS OF WANTING BROADBAND INTERNET EVERYWHERE

  80. Oldskool says at 1:28 pm, December 4th, 2009

    His frat-boy face screams, “I’m a fucking idiot, sure, but I can work this smile like it’s nobodys bizness and that’s all that matters.”

  81. slappypaddy says at 1:31 pm, December 4th, 2009

    that face… those eyes… where have i seen him before?…

    i have it! i met his great uncle once removed, in berlin, on crystal night, burning a jewish bookstore and beating the proprietor to death. i could be mistaken, but i’m pretty sure that’s who that was.

  82. Buzz Feedback says at 1:31 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Muslim is the new “n” word. Or maybe it’s the old one by now.

  83. Extemporanus says at 1:33 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Upon hearing about the birth of baby Jesus, this Wiseman came bearing a gift of Duhrrr?

  84. Cape Clod says at 1:34 pm, December 4th, 2009

    SlouchingTowardsWasilla: Yes the South will rise again. And the North will once again kick it in the nuts and say “Sit the fuck down.”

  85. bureaucrap says at 1:34 pm, December 4th, 2009

    He has the type of neck that indicates that he played football at his regionally-accredited bible college (could it have been college of the Ozarks? Maybe!). Those boys are always bottoms.

  86. If you’re in a harassin’ kinda mood, the phone # to his office is 901-867-1067

    And he uses an aol email??? russwise@aol.com

    Have fun!

  87. Cape Clod: Are you sure? Why the shit would the North even WANT us anymore?

  88. I always wondered what happened to “Psycho” err Francis from “Stripes.”

  89. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 1:44 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Zadig: Oh please, like Russ would ever live in Midtown. Waaaaaaaaay too close to Mississippi and aforesaid darkies for his comfort. Also, fun fact: until fairly recently, Arlington residents haven’t been anything but cotton farmers and their (ahem) “hired hands,” so the whole sharecropping thing was TOTALLY THEIR ECONOMY.

  90. comicbookguy says at 1:45 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Charlie Brown died for your sins!

  91. Take a look at the suggested photo gallery’s on that web page, down on the lower right. They have a lovely photo gallery of a Klan rally. I’m not kidding.

  92. PsycGirl says at 1:48 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I was considering a suggestion that we all order this guy his own copy of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to be sent to his office, but I can’t figure out how I’d make any money off that suggestion.

  93. This poor Christian, God fearing man had his family values moment ruined by that gay black muslin Manchurian pretend president, Hopey X, and all you can do is mock his pain.

    The only solution is for all of us to book tickets on Dick Morris’ cruise - or hope to be converted to Right Wingism by that dumb shit-whistle who thinks AOL is new and edgy. Only then will we be able to see the vast liberal/socialist conspiracy in all its nefarious evilness.

    That and a few ounces of really fine opium treated sensimilla. That should do it.

  94. ForTheTurnstiles says at 1:52 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Zadig: Glad you’re onto that. Mostly we just want “y’all” to up and leave us alone. Here’s some sweet tea. Go and play with your sister.

    (not you personally, but the Babble Belt generally)

  95. Native of SL UT says at 1:52 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I remember when I was a little 5 year old kid, back in 63, when my Saturday morning cartoons were interrupted so they could show some damn flag covered coffin being hauled down some street forever. Still pisses me off.

  96. Creative Nickname says at 1:54 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Ooh, another story about Memphis wingnuts/dingbats! As a Memphian, all I can say is, “Oh shit.” And also, “Help! Get me out of here!”

  97. Sweet Baby Cheeses says at 1:56 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Obama’s war speech is part of the war on Xmas. Who knew?

  98. snideinplainsight says at 1:56 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Just how would that conversation have gone, anyway? It’s like an SNL skit waiting to happen -

    RING!

    Intern: Hi, NBC, office of the head of programming. How can I help you?

    RI: Hello, I’m Rahm Immanuel, Chief of Staff for the President.

    I: Wow! Good day, sir! What can I do for you?

    RI: Well, the Pres is going to lay out his new war strategy in a big speech some night this week. He intends to send a lot more troops to Afghanistan, and he’s hoping they war to death as many Muslims as possible, especially the radical ones (all of them). For about eighteen months. Then they’re all going to leave, so the Taliban, whosever left, can take over again.

    I: I see sir.

    RI: But listen kid; the President has instructed me to select a time for the speech which pre-empts the most Christmassy thing you got on your schedule this month. What can we totally wreck with an ‘unprecented’ prime-time address cutting into it?

    I: Well, sir, we have The Sound of Music coming up on thursday…

    RI: Nah, Sasha likes to sing along to that one. Plus the Pres thinks that young one, Freidrick, is kind of cute, especially when he wears those little shorts.

    I: I see (gulp.) We have Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer on friday…

    RI: NO NO NO, there’s no mention of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in that one at all, that totally falls outside the mandate here, clearly.

    I: The Pope’s midnight Mass from St. Peter’s, then?

    RI: Everybody’s either in bed by then, or stuffing the stockings with care, you know what I mean? Plus, the Pope is a big contributor, you know.

    I: All that’s left is ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’.

    RI: See, that’s great kid - it’s got “Christ” right in the title! It’s perfect!

    I: But Mr. Immanuel Sir, please, please, you can’t do this! Think of the children! Think of all the little ones, whose only exposure ever to our Lord and Savior is this, this poorly-animated, plotless, but MUCH-BELOVED half-hour cartoon? (Not to mention snare brushes)

    RI: You bleepity - bleepin’ little twerp!! Know your bleepin’place in the world! Put us right in the middle of that show, and you better do exactly what we tell you to do or I’m sending a bleep, bleep horse’s head over by special, Secret Service delivery! I’ve already asked Sprint for the GPS for your phone over there, kid. Your only option is to conform here, really.

    I: No, no, NO!!! How did I become an instrument of this terrible, horrible regime!! What about the children, the children!!

  99. finallyhappy says at 1:57 pm, December 4th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: I actually own that movie on VHS- I think Liam Neeson is in it. I mean “Ethan Frome”- I don’t have the jolly Christmas version because like Jesus, I am a Jew.

  100. SkoalRebel says at 1:59 pm, December 4th, 2009

    War on Christmas Specials.

  101. Barry is a tarbaby afterall. A nice, sticky, available blame catcher for all of life’s frustrations and disappointments. People don’t like killing Afghans as much as you? Throw the blame on that tarbaby Barry, and hope it sticks. People don’t love your team’s quaterback, Jesus, as much as you? Toss that blame on the tarbaby, too. He roots for the other team.

  102. proudgrampa says at 2:07 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Larry McAwful: I asked my 4-year old granddaughter. She agrees with you, Larry. Chick Corea was a hack.

  103. doxastic says at 2:10 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Rusty here is an inspiration to all Americans afflicted with receding brain-lines.

  104. snideinplainsight says at 2:10 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Hey, send the Mayor there a Freedom Tray, would you?

  105. Barrelhse says at 2:12 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Tennessee. Heh.

  106. Neoyorquino says at 2:14 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Mayor Russell Wiseman looks a lot like someone I’ve seen before (don’t know if he qualifies as dumb, or dumber):

    http://thenastyboys.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/lloydchristmas.jpg

  107. Who actually owns property nowadays other than the banks?

    And considering the federal constitution didn’t touch upon voting qualifications until Reconstruction, I’m guessing he’s talking about Tennessee’s original 1796 constitution…

    But wait, we have the Googles! Tennessee’s 1796 constitution guaranteed the right to vote to men of age who’d lived in the state for over six months, regardless of whether they owned property. It was the “least imperfect and most republican of the state constitutions” according to Jefferson. Linkies!

    But if he really, really, really wants to be all originalist, then I recommend we send his ass to Gitmo for claiming Hopey’s a mulsin, under the Sedition Act.

  108. Flanders says at 2:16 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Manos: Hands of Fate: that needs to be corrected, fellow warbloggers!

  109. doxastic says at 2:18 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Really? You are a mayor and you didn’t know that the President was going to give a major address on the new strategy in Afghanistan? Jesus Christ “Wiseman,” the church bulletin and Burger King tray liner cannot be your source for all relevant current events.

  110. doxastic says at 2:23 pm, December 4th, 2009

    S.Luggo: It’s rare to see someone who is disgusted by the 3/5ths compromise because it shafted white guys. I’m almost impressed.

  111. Mr Blifil says at 2:23 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Good Ol’ Charlie Brown, product of a borderline suicidal depressed mid-westerner. I guess Vince Guaraldi was pretty good at disguising all those negro influences in the Charlie Brown score, otherwise the good mayor and his snowflake children may have been discomfited. Did Franklin even exist when that special aired?

    Ever see that PBS special on Schulz, where his son says he can’t even read the old strips anymore because all they remind him of is the loss of his childhood way of life? HE RUINED PEENUTZ FOR ME.

    Hey I just made a funny: INSTEAD OF PEENUTZ HE SHOULD TRY TRUCKNUTZ

  112. betterDeadThanRed says at 2:24 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I just sent his phone number to a nice man who needs help in transferring $300,000,000 into the country.

  113. snideinplainsight says at 2:25 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Next up: The President delivers his big speech on his new global warming initiative and the Copenhagen agreement. Afterwards, we resume our special showing of “Old Yeller” as scheduled.

  114. comicbookguy says at 2:27 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Guppy06: And if only the banks could vote, how exactly would anything be different?

  115. Georgia Burning: Or vice president.

  116. Darkness says at 2:58 pm, December 4th, 2009

    The scary bad man is controlling my teevee thing!
    Five year old in man’s body. End of story. Yawn.

  117. betterDeadThanRed says at 3:04 pm, December 4th, 2009

    We should all chip in and send him a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree to cheer him up and calm him down.

  118. Can O Whoopass says at 3:04 pm, December 4th, 2009

    He’s the clown who complains to FOX about football running overtime cause he wants to watch, “60 Minutes”.

  119. PineyWoodster says at 3:07 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I’m a Texan, but idiots like this fellow make me glad the South lost the Civil War.

    That and the whole ’slavery is bad’ thing, also…

  120. teebob2000 says at 3:19 pm, December 4th, 2009

    V572625694: “And they do that, and that’s part of the fun of raising them.”

    Ah, memories.

  121. alkybookworm says at 3:23 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Oh yes, it all brings back such fond memories…

    We’d all sit in front of the old black and white, waiting for the strains of Vince Guaraldi’s music, while Dad was sitting on the sofa getting shit-faced drunk on mixed scotch. And at a special time in the show only known to him and he would pull out the old .45 from the war and start b;azing away at the set. And later, Mom would bail him out for illegal discharge of a firearm within city limits…

    Ah, special times…

  122. Capitol Hillbilly says at 3:46 pm, December 4th, 2009

    you KNOW it was “done on purpose” …

    Obama: OK, how can we ruin Christmas for the Wiseman family down there near Memphis?
    Emanuel: Let’s pre-empt ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas.’ When they turn on the teevee to watch it, they will hear you capitulating to the Muslins instead!
    Obama: Ha Ha, not bad for a Jew! We’ll snatch the football away just as they go to kick it!
    Emanuel: They’ll be so devastated they won’t even be able to eat their teevee dinners!

  123. confederette libtard says at 3:47 pm, December 4th, 2009

    That muslin usurper TOUCHES fucking Frosty the Snowman, and it’s ON, bitches.

  124. Memphis050505 says at 4:05 pm, December 4th, 2009

    queeraselvis v 2.0: Dang. I stepped out for a while, but you are holding our end up very well! I always wondered why there was never a special, “It’s the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Charlie Brown!”

  125. ArthurTwoSheds says at 4:47 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Wise-man??? More like Wise-ass!

  126. Suds McKenzie says at 4:49 pm, December 4th, 2009

    BigDupa: You interrupt Snoopy, I Kill Ya.

  127. balsa_wood says at 4:56 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I like that we live in an age where it’s okay for an elected official to write, “Okay, this is total crap.”

  128. problemwithcaring says at 5:00 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Sweet Baby Cheeses: He is stealth like that. Also, when you are muslim(sp), your mere presence in this country constitutes a war on Christmas, so it’s easy.

    “…and on Earth peace, good will toward men’”. That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.” Why don’t these darkie Muslin, commie sonofabitch obama people move to another country so that mah kids can hear a cartoon character utter this most important quote!!!! For America!!!1!

  129. lochnessmonster says at 5:16 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Mayor Russell Wiseman of Memphis suburb Arlington, got all hot and bothered on his Facebook

    Mr. Wiseman is not being very WISE…more like a Wisenheimer…Someone needs to tell politicians that people can get this stuff from their Faceplacespace, copy it and use it against them later on when maybe THEY are thinking of running for President!

  130. Itsjustme says at 5:25 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Did they add something to the CB Christmas Special? Should have watched it last year ya asshole.

  131. Starrigavan says at 5:30 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Yes, it is a Muslim plot to ruin Christmas for those living in the Central Time Zone.

    Of course Mayor Wiseman must be a Republican. Who else would think that the war in Afghanistan is less important than a Charlie Brown tevee special?

  132. bigfatpantload says at 5:55 pm, December 4th, 2009

    just when you start to think the wingnuts couldn’t possibly lower the bar any further…..

  133. Snarkalicious says at 6:44 pm, December 4th, 2009

    queeraselvis v 2.0: You left out wimmin folk. As is only right n’ proper. Hyuk hyuk hyuk.

  134. BobTheBuilder says at 6:47 pm, December 4th, 2009

    In Obama’s America they first came for “A Charlie Brown Christmas,”
    and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t have cable…

  135. comicbookguy says at 7:31 pm, December 4th, 2009

    This is why you should never ever get between a wingnut and his television. Just sit them in front of their cartoons for the next 8 years while the grown ups clean up the mess they made. Here, have a “freedom” sippy cup.

  136. Hooray For Anything: Barry actually didn’t. The network just decided to broadcast it on a different night. The next night.

    Wiseguy ‘parently lacks a TV Guide.

  137. Accordion-o-rama says at 7:39 pm, December 4th, 2009

    ArthurTwoSheds: You owe asses an apology.

  138. Alright, peeps, it seems sane people have taken over the internet poll. A whopping FIFTY FUCKING BILLION PERCENT say that our Holy Mayor’s comments were “embarassing.” Let’s send them a message and carpetbomb an internet poll! FREEDUMB!

  139. engulfedinflames says at 8:06 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Native of SL UT: True story: I had a girl friend who felt guilty and in some bizarre fashion responsible for JFK’s assassination because when he preempted her special program she voiced her hope that he’d soon be dead to her father, the governor, who was not amused. Wonder what ever happened to that lying ,thieving, psychotic little whore.

  140. But seriously, you guys? If you are an elected official, do not have a Facebook profile. There is no way that it will turn out well for you. And Twitter? For-fucking-get it. This is not snark. Elected Official people, remember this advice forever, and it will save you from a world of shit.

  141. bonghitsforjesus says at 8:55 pm, December 4th, 2009

    I’ve lived in Tennessee all my life and whenever I hear stories about some lobotomized good old boy with a big mouth acting a fool it’s always from some town in bumfuck egypt that I’ve never heard of. Then again, I live in the most liberal zip code in East Tennessee. Still, it’s good to be reminded that assholes like Mayor Douche are out there… THATS why I’m the NRA.

  142. Neoyorquino says at 8:59 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Henderson1985: Do you have any banhammers? I’d like a big shiny one . . .

  143. imissopus says at 9:43 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Gerald McRaney would have fucking known about the speech ahead of time.

  144. thesheriffisnear says at 10:34 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Barcode of the Apocalypse: Apparently I’m not the only one to pick up on the fact that Hizzoner looks like a follically challenged Ted Hagard.

    Just run Charlie Brown for 24 Hours straight like Christmas Story. Problem solved people.

  145. thesheriffisnear says at 10:36 pm, December 4th, 2009

    Damn, HAGGARD. That’s the third time this week.

  146. LowerdPeninsula says at 1:35 am, December 5th, 2009

    Russell Wiseman: Whose that-there Negra on the TayVey, and why ain’t he dancin’ or catchin’ a ball?

    Wife: (inaudible)

    RW: OHHH, that’s Muslin president?

    **wife and husband sit silent, confused and confounded for the next forty-five minutes in a state of near comatosis after having to exert power to use their brains to remember shit.**

    Yes, really, how many more Muslims does this president have to bomb before he gets to be a Christian? Seriously, you guys; he wants to know. Now. Quickly. Also.

  147. BarackMyWorld says at 1:32 pm, December 5th, 2009

    Now, remember that conservatives oppose Obama because they have disagreements with his policies, not because they are racists.

  148. Jim89048 says at 4:34 pm, December 5th, 2009

    Why does this fuckface remind me so much of AJ Weston, who was mercifully shot to death with bullets on the season finale of Sons of Anarchy?

  149. DustBowlBlues says at 5:45 pm, December 5th, 2009

    I’m so late to comment on this dickwad that it isn’t worth it. Think I’ll scroll up to Bible Spice’s latest whine.

  150. Witsendnj says at 10:00 pm, December 5th, 2009

    The funny thing is, speaking of Bible Spice, she never uses the word Jesus. She’s all Old Testament, radical Rapturist - I wonder how many of her fans realize that?

  151. Jim89048 says at 1:25 pm, December 6th, 2009

    Witsendnj: Who needs Jesus when you’ve got TriG?

  152. desertwind says at 2:38 pm, December 6th, 2009

    Dude broke into the secret Santa bourbon stash early, didn’t he?

  153. Unlearned Hand says at 9:40 am, December 7th, 2009

    I don’t think he’s really upset that the vote isn’t restricted to property owners. I think he’s really upset that Barack Obama isn’t property. (13th Amendment FTW!)

  154. IslandGirlFL says at 10:21 am, December 7th, 2009

    alkybookworm: Wow. Elvis was your dad too?

  155. IslandGirlFL says at 10:22 am, December 7th, 2009

    Charlie Brown is Jeebus? What an Epiphany….actually it’s mot until January. When did Jim Carrey run for Mayor, Also?

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