And how did the White House managers react to Shirley Sherrod being fired from the USDA because Andrew Breitbart fucked around with a video he found somewhere? High Fives all around, according to Politico’s Ben Smith. During Tuesday morning’s staff meeting, White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina reportedly said, “We could have waited all day — we could have had a media circus — but we took decisive action and it’s a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere.” Uh, yeah dude. [Ben Smith]
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Fuck that guy, I wanna talk to Loggins.
BreitFart – 1
America – 0
Ha ha, fuck you Jim Messina. Kenny Loggins was better off solo.
No, really, all joshing aside, FUCK YOU.
Ugh.
Yeah, way to win over those ‘pragmatic’ white voters who haven’t gotten around to throwing away their white robes. And you showed those loudmouthed liberals! They do not run this administration. This will be hailed as Obama’s Sista Soulja moment. If there is one thing the Obama administration should be identified with, it is fighting black racism. What could possibly go wrong?
did jim messina just refer to black women as circus clowns?
fire his ass.
and don’t actually answer that question. let’s all just assume he did.
Heckuva job, Vilsacky!
What a bunch of poopyheads. If you want to see the Italian Navy or an act of simple courage from these twits you’ll need a glass-bottomed boat.
My knee just shot into my balls reading that, … and I have long legs.
I’ll bet we can easily find public figures who are applauding Andrew Breitbart’s journalistic malpractice, who otherwise grouse about “lamestream media” and its selective, biased, out-of-context reporting.
It’s both stunning and disheartening that the ONLY news organization that goes to the trouble to show us that kind of hypocrisy is The Daily Show.
So what’s the 2012 campaign motto gonna be?
“Four More Years of Hiding Under Our Beds!”
Ah, so the administration was following in the grand literary tradition of the self-fulfilling prophecy, like Macbeth’s attempts to kill Macduff because he warned to beware him leading to his death at Macduff’s hands, or Anakin Skywalker killing Amidala through his attempts to save her.
“…we took premature, cowardly action and it’s a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere.”
FTFY
America is now basically a bunch of mid-levelish necktie types who are just desperately trying to prove their importance at all times.
I’m looking forward to Andrew Breitbart’s next production, a one hour edit of “Schindler’s List.” It tells the story of a German industrialist who helps the Nazis by using concentration camp prisoners as slave laborers in his factory. And then the movie suddenly ends.
FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCKING FUCKERS!!!
Sorry. *sighs*
The only thing that surprises me about this story is that Messina didn’t insist on anonymity.
I’m sure General Custer and the captain of the Titanic were congratulating themselves on their decisive action, too.
From this I conclude that Sherrod should be given Vilsack’s AND Messina’s jobs.
Chief of Staff Jim Messina, singled the White House’s initial response to the incident out for praise
Messina either “singled,” that is he was safe, or he was out. Doesn’t Ben(dover) Smith know anything about baseball? Or, perhaps, they know little about hiring dyslexic editors at the Politblo?
Oops, never mind. Messina is just being quoted by three anonymous leakers. All is right with the world!
I’m not sure how Barry can make this better, but that’s not what I wanted to hear from his staff. Today is pretty bleak.
Looks like Messina needs a good firing.
No, Messina. Running around with your hair on fire while simultaneously shitting yourselves over right wing race baiting is not good example of how to respond in this atmosphere. That’s a good example of being a douche.
Is there some kind of…law.. against disseminating information about someone that both mischaracterizes them and damages their reputation? Maybe one-a youse law-talkin’ types knows?
Cuz that’d be pretty sweet.
We are so fucked.
I remember seeing something pretty awful once when driving in my car, with my then-small kids, and talking like mad to distract them, hoping they would not see what I was seeing(it worked, for once) and going home and announcing to my spouse that WE ARE MOVING TO NORWAY RIGHT THIS MINUTE. But then we got busy with something and I forgot, and we are just SO fucked.
…something…. something…. USDA… Red Meat…. something…*cough*
P.S. Breitbart is a troll.
This could be a teevee show. Top Douche.
[re=622307]SmutBoffin[/re]: I’ve appeared before every court in my State, sometimes, as a lawyer. She’s probably a public figure, so she would have to prove malicious intent. Thats ordinarily pretty difficult to do, but with Breitbart, well, malice pretty much shines from his face. Plus, also, the deliberate editing of the video, that goes a long way towards showing malice.
But, you need to look very very closely at the actual words Breitbart used. He said that what she said “creates the appearance” of racism. Tricky fucker. He is now saying that he feels bad for her for what “the media” did to her, because, he says, “the media” misunderstood what he was saying. About “the appearance” of things and such.
One of the guys on Journolist had the right idea:
“What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.”
[re=622290]Gorillionaire[/re]: “America is now basically a bunch of mid-levelish necktie types who are just desperately trying to prove their importance at all times.”
Wow, Gorillionaire, that is an EXACT description of the DC bureaucrats that my lab reports to. You are the Scott Adams of government programs.
This a joke, right? You joking on me completely now, I am getting it.
No?
A black woman who helps out poor white farmers gets canned cause a hateful blogger misled everybody on what she actually said using Windows Movie Maker. High Fives!
If Messina REALLY wants to avoid any future media circuses, he should probably just call Andrew Breitbart right now and see if there are any other administration figures he has a problem with, so they can be fired immediately. Breitbart will be placated knowing he got his way, and won’t need to call for the firing of anyone in the administration ever again, his point having been made.
[re=622270]dr.giraud[/re]: I knew of Loggins in high school and he was a pussy too.
[re=622285]JMP[/re]: literary tradition of the self-fulfilling prophecy
Yeah, what a messina.
At least Jack Stuef won the weewee’d hours today.
Obama and his whole god damn staff should be flushed down a fucking toilet.
[re=622307]SmutBoffin[/re]: Indeed. How much does it take for Bitebrardt to get in legal trouble? Or at least be cut off from the mainstream attention he so desperately craves?
Does the world have to stop turning every time Bratburdt makes a new “shreds” video?
That be some shrewd political instincts that boy has.
[re=622330]WindbagCity[/re]: No, the only thing that will make Andy happy is if they fire everyone in government, except THE TROOPS!!
P.S. the domain name racebaiter.com is still open
[re=622319]Prommie[/re]: Ah. I learneded something! An ‘iPhone’ to you, sir or madame.
[re=622337]Roger Williams hates your ways[/re]: So what’s your answer, Vote Rethuglican? That’ll fix things.
what a fucking disgrace. i have no snark and no desire to defend the adminstration. spineless fucking assholes.
[re=622324]Oldskool[/re]: Right, the thing about Tucker (presumably, definition 3? )’s super lame “controversy” going on at the same time as this is, what, how is any of what Spencer said supposed to be wrong? That all sounded just about right, from where Is tood.
Go fuck yourself Messina..no, wait, you would probably enjoy the experience. Say hello to my little (6’5″ greasy hunka unrequited love) friend, Cleatus!
[re=622357]mumblyjoe[/re]: HTML fail. Definition 3
[re=622347]SmutBoffin[/re]: My gender? I am a Benincasaphile.
What’s the matter, Brightbutt? Was she too uppity? Or are you trying to teach a lesson? Black people, don’t help white people or Brightbutt will burn your ass.
Way to pick up the mantle of MLK and the civil rights movement, Brightbutt.
White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina reportedly said, “We could have waited all day — we could have had a media circus — but we took decisive action and it’s a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere.”
…and then followed with a mean guitar riff and sang “Yo Mama Don’t Dance.”
Since when is anything Breitard (or any of the other loons on the right produce/manufacture) considered by anyone with a brain anything other than completely suspect? Right they aren’t. Conclusion — no one in the White House House has a brain. Bipartisanship in action!
[re=622357]mumblyjoe[/re]: It’s comical that they act horrified that anyone would consider doing what they do every day. It’s why the White House comes off looking afraid of those fuckers, the Right sent those Christmas cards long ago.
[re=622350]obfuscator[/re]: snark off/ If Messina is really and truly so all-fired concerned about a 10-minute media circus, then he should fall on his sword today.
snark on/
Really he shoulda done it when he got out of bed this morning. Better yet immediately go out on the Mall and do the self-immolation thingy so all of the cell phonies can record the deed and upload it to the intertubes.
[re=622362]mumblyjoe[/re]: Tucker Carlson’s mangina would explain the bow ties and Dick Clark baby face.
[re=622330]WindbagCity[/re]: Doesn’t work that way. Brightbutt has to wait for the next scandal within the Tea Party, and then go find an appropriate (i.e. random) member of the administration to tar with it. He needs people in the administration to serve as a distraction from (and target for) his own blatent assholery.
[re=622318]I Heart Accuracy[/re]: Ooh! It would air on Bravo, right after Real Housewives of Wherever the Fuck. The other contestants could be Erick son of Erick, Hannity, that Steve Doucy guy from Faux n’ Fiends (I mean, really, it’s IN his name!), the First Dude, Levi (for the camo vest), the former Miss California who got canned (for gender equity’s sake), and Pat Buchanan (St. Patrick of Buchananomics) for old time’s sake. Who will win? Whose cuisine reigns supreme?
Oh, sorry, wrong show.
Oh, this is precious. Bigbullshit.com has a story: Shirley Sherrod is a racist and a Marxist.
Just in case someone was feeling sorry for her, I suppose.
And did anyone else think that Rachel Maddow was trying to annoy bigfart by blaming Fox News for the Sherrod debacle and by refusing to name bigfart and the site as the source of the video? She kept calling it “a conservative website,” and she may have mentioned bigfart once, and bigbullshit.com once. That at least made me happy, since the sociopath craves attention.
[re=622389]weejee[/re]: There is exactly one way that Barry can turn this nonsense around (and it would be awesome): He waits anywhere from 6-30 hours from now, then gives a 2-hour presser about how the American people need to calm the fuck down and shut the fuck up, and maybe not decide to wildly overreact within 30 minutes of a story breaking. And then he gets out a stack of blank pink slips and just starts stone cold filling them out in front of the White House press corps.
“Tom Vilsack, pack your shit up. Jim Messina, you are too dumb to live. I don’t want your resignation, I want your ass out of the White House forever. Fired. Bob Bobson, we found bigbullshit.com in your browser history on your work computer. Fuck you, if you wanna aid and abet the poisoning of American politics and discourse, do it on your own time, which you have a lot more of now.” Etc.
[re=622379]Chumpatized[/re]: You’re so correct. What was their hurry?
This reminds me an an episode of the orignal Star Trek that I saw in faded-out reruns when I was in junior high. This super-powerful alien abducts everyone to his own planet and forces them to play all these games he makes up and fight each other and stuff. Then at the end it turns he’s really just a kid and his alien parents make him come home for supper and ground him and then Kirk et.al. get to go back to their ship.
Except this is even more pathetic because it’s real life and the alien doesn’t have ANY super powers.
In related news, that boy who keeps crying wolf is doing great work.
Maybe the Obama Administration figured that after financial reform passing and Elena Kagan moving towards getting confirmed, they needed to throw a bone to the Tea Baggers or else they would get all whiny and pissy.
Look she’s like black and in her mid-fifties. And can anyone PROVE her dad was killed by the Klan? I rest my case.
If Obama starts to irritate black people the way Artur Davis did, well then… just sayin. And I can’t tell you how angry I am at Obama’s lack of courage. Why are they so spooked about lies? Why can’t his administration expose the lies that everyone can see? If they had stuck to their honest message of Fox News is a Republican troll stand they could say, “We told you so,” ever so often. But hiding under the bed IS pathetic. And in a minute I’m going to unsubscribe to OFA, and angrily watch him ruin my (one and only opportunity, as I am in my late fifties) to witness greatness, and die happily, knowing that the first black president was a great one. I’m so mad at him, because I fear he’s trying hard to deny me that.
[re=622451]mercure[/re]: This is much more like that short story where the aliens invade, but they decide to just drop a few hints of an invasion and kick back with some brews on a nearby hillside and watch the humans eat their own in a paranoid death spiral.
[re=622281]just pixels[/re]: Daily Show’s been getting trolled lately too. Pussies the whole lot of them.
Oh. “Edited to mean the opposite of what she said”. I wonder who else would do that.
In your face suckaz…the world is not enough!
[re=622446]Zadig[/re]: Yes, I would like to see that too. Barry has to do a Mc Chrystal on them.
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