Hey, did everyone know that Barack Obama was un-elected last night? Yeah, a weird thing happened. Instead of just voting for a new representative to replace Anthony “dick pix” Weiner, his entire old NY-9 congressional district got together to just cast their 2012 votes ahead of time, because seriously, who likes these eternal election cycles anymore. And the results are in: New York is finally tired of being godless, gay, socialist, and also not Jewish enough! They’ve chosen maniacal cackling Republican Bob Turner to be the new President of New York of America. The technical details still require us to point out this was nominally a House race between Bob Turner and Democrat David “tiny dancer” Weprin, but that is a terrible and boring headline with no stakes to it. Why is Barack Obama such a horrible failure that he lost the 2012 election a full year ahead of time? HINT: because of everything Republican pundits hate about him!
- Erick Erickson from RedState: “Obama lost New York Jewish voters…he lost them because for three years the Democrats have said Jewish voters love Obama and they really don’t.” They really don’t! That is why they chose Turner, a Catholic, over Obama, a Jew-hater.
- Manhattan’s top unmarried weepy cat lady K-Lo says that Obama lost because of, who else, the gay marrieds: “If you thought the marriage issue was over, this morning ought to give you pause.”
- Islamophobia princess Pamela Gellar consulted her inner demons just not to be left out, and this is all about Obama’s love for Muslims: “Bob Turner, who ran as the anti-Ground Zero mosque candidate, triumphed.”
The AP, meanwhile, has the actual numbers to help explain why Obama lost this election:
Voter frustration with Obama put Weprin in the unlikely spot of playing defense. A Siena Poll released Friday found just 43 percent of likely voters approved of the president’s job performance, while 54 percent said they disapproved. Among independents, just 29 percent said they approved of Obama’s job performance.
And that is that! Congratulations to Bob Turner, the new president of 2011. [AP]
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These are the same idiots who will help elect Perry. New Yorkers, of all people should know better…
We do know better but the whole "Obama the Schwartzer hates the Jews" is gaining traction.
This is where I came in, when Bush wooed the Jewish vote via the Neocons. Just the evangicals trying to get everyone into position for the Second Coming.
Joanna Angel & Lexington Steele need to hold a series of joint press conferences to deflate this rising antipathy between Jew & Black.
Interracial porn = racial transcendance!
I think they prefer to refer to it as 'greyscale'.
It's just a variety of the long-standing claim that the Democratic party is anti-Jew because most Democrats don't think Israel should be encouraged to commit genocide against the Palestinians; and it's always been bullshit.
Let's be honest, there is no evidence for that except sheer bigotry. But at least we have the big scary villain for "Zohan II: Rambo Was A Pussy".
I wish the teatardturds would make up their fucking minds. Is Obama the All-Powerful Mind-controller who snorts heroin off the butts of the Joint Chiefs? Or is he the wussy pussy that is terrorized by that big, mean, hamburger-chompin' black mama he married?
I fear for this nation.
It's yet another piece of vileness from the right-wing tools, we need Sarah Silverman to do a road tour again.
Bring back Wiener's dick.
This is a double standard. Weiner showed his dick and had to resign. GOPers showing their dick. Win for them.
So once again, for the mainstream media this is a giant important sign that means Obama is finished; meanwhile every special election won by a Democrat since 2010 are just ignored as if they never happened.
Pareene totally nailed this one.
He also remains the only reason to read Salon regularly.
(Though, sometimes, their movie reviews are decent.)
And I can't, for the life of me, understand why he doesn't attract better commenters. He deserves better than that.
The Paris Review hasn't added a politics beat, yet.
Salon commenters don't like snark and seem addicted to comments that are "libruls suck because/conservitards suck because" boilerplate. It's horrible and boring. Pareene deserves much, much better.
Would you go through the bullshit required to sign up for an account to comment just so Salon can send you begathon emails forEVAH?
I have resisted the temptation lo, these many years.
Alex Pareene usually hits it right on the head.
Exactly. Problem with that?
I found a new term I kinda like "Beltanschaunng". It sounded so……German.
WAAAAAAY OFF TOPIC BUT WORTH IT
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/...
Colbert had a nice piece on it last night as well.
I didn't get to see him last night. This is the first time I've seen it. HE-LARRY-IOUS
Now these New Yawkers have a really big dick representing them. Proud, aren't you?
I just want to know how he looks in his underwear.
DO NOT WANT.
Bet he looks like the yellow guy in Sin City.
The election's a rorschach test, but Obama loses no matter what you see.
That means it's a RorLayne test.
So when Republicans win it's a "mandate" and when Dems. win it's "voter-fraud". I hope you got that people.
And slavery is freedumbs and ignorance is truth. Gotcha.
David Weprin has a mustache. You know who else wore a mustache?
John Stossel?
Jan Brewer?
Rollie Fingers?
BEAT ME!
Pay no attention to my post further down people.
Five minutes is nothing. I eat food from the floor that has been there five minutes.
It's still safe, right? It takes SIX minutes for the germs to get on it?
Rich "Goose" Gossage?
Not a handle-bar, though.
Spock
My aunt Lillian?
Snidely Whiplash?
Me? Luckily I am getting threaded after the gym today.
"World-is-flat" dude. Mercifully, his name has slipped my mind, except "the 'stache'."
Rollie Fingers?
Great minds.
AHHHHH! Damn. I had the screen up but was delayed on the snark. (doffs my cap)
I'm a Brewers rooter — about which: can you have your Pirates give the Cardinals the business? — so Rollie is fresh in mind. & new closer John
StacheAxford. (Bonus: his entrance music is Refused — "New Noise".)Catholic girls?
There's nothing like a Catholic girl, at the CYO, when they're learning to blow.
Zappa!
Eva Braun?
Bashar al Assad, although it's a bit wispy for a mass murderer.
Kind of a Gomez Addams/Nuckie Johnson, then.
Hot flapper sex, violence, suits and spats return Sunday night!
Lanny McDonald?
Tom Selleck?
Selleck, to Weiner, "Got any naked pictures of Huma?"
[long pause]
"Want some?"
I had forgotten about hot-hot-Huma. Where did she land when this whole twitdickpic thing shook out?
Stalin!
Along with – suspiciously – Hitler, Hirohito and de Gaulle – though neither Roosevelt nor Churchill. Coincidence?
More specific, please.
(Teddy wore a stache.)
FDR. Get your world wars straight. Mussolini was clean shaven, which may or may not mean something.
Lord Havelock Vetinari?
Every '70s porn star?
Joseph Farah?
Terry Jones? (Not the English historian/Python one. The comedian.)
Freddie Mercury?
Guys in their late 40s / early 50s who don't realize the 70s are long over and they look ridiculous?
The Men of Movember?
http://menofmovember.com/
Your Avatar?
That is just fantastic. Thank you very much. I can't believe I didn't know shit about it till now.
It's a Chicago ad community thing, so I don't suppose it's had a lot of national exposure yet.
Let's see if we can help. Men are woefully uninformed, ignorant, and reluctant to do anything about their own health. It's great that Chicago is investing in men's health.
John "Let's Bomb Iran" Bolton ?
Jimmy "Rent is Too Damn High" McMillan?
The rent wasn't the only thing that was high.
Pre-op Ann Coulter?
Oh please, post-op Ann Coulter.
My Ex-Wife?
Buffalo Bill Cody?
Related: if you're in the Portland OR area, tonight's Mustache Party Night at Modern Man Barber Shop — your choice of beer or scotch whiskey on the house~
HITLER!!!
Yay me. Thanks everybody for not saying Hitler till I came along.
John Oates?
So did Obama secretly clone himself and go to New York to campaign for congress? Someone call Beck (and Orly), it's a conspiracy!!!!
Looking for signs and portents among the chicken turds…
Well, our intrepid Democratic leadership that ran Weiner out of his seat sure showed… someone, didn't they?
We have a teabagging horde hell-bent to impose a totalitarian idiocracy, and what the hell is the only other ostensibly viable political party doing to stop them?
No one would have taken Weiner seriously anymore (if they ever did), which is a small thing. A big thing is the way the Gops would have used this in every race across the country.
What's that you say? What about Vitter? Can't explain that one.
Really, it was his name. The media wouldn't shut up about it because they loved making childish puns using Weiner. That's it; the guy got hounded out of office for a non-sex non-scandal because he had the misfortune of a last name that's used by five-year-olds to mean penis.
Today, we are all five-years-old.
And yesterday, and tomorrow, and the day after that, and also, too.
Es verdad.
It's his own god-damned fault.
But what Weiner did was – um, well kind of icky, though totally legal, didn't even involve actual sex and Vitter is still in the Senate . Wait, why the fuck did they hound him into resigning again when he didn't actually do anything wrong?
Fairness Doctrine elimination in 1987. Telecommunications Act of 1996. Herr Goebbels is laughing at us.
For that matter, Ensign- the only thing that actually got him to finally resign was the fact that it was imminently apparent that Ethics found his misconduct so bad that they were referring to law enforcment, because his misconduct rose to the level of being criminal. It's about as literal an example of "skipping town ahead of the sheriff" as one can have, in Washington.
Ensign was truly disgusting. He waited until literally the day before the "Ethics" committee was going to ask him stuff under oath. Which means, I guess, that they must have had some other solid evidence against him, as it apparently wouldn't have bothered him one bit to lie under oath.
Come now, surely a consensual exchange of naked pictures is just as bad as repeated rape via extortion.
Eye-rape is worse because what you see you cannot unsee.
And the ghost of john ensign still haunts us to this day, as our esteemed Messican governor appointed Congressman Dean Heller to the seat vacated by his resignation, and yesterday we defeated Obama by electing Mark Amodei (R-Bumfuck) instead of his (D) rival, Kate Marshall. I hate this fucking place.
By throwing him under the bus, the democrats gained the respect, civility, and cordial cooperation of the GOP. Right?
They're still getting even for Bork. And will never stop.
Turner should have fun while he can since NY-9 is about to be redistricted into the middle of Long Island Sound.
what's up with these fukkin Yankees?
I hate to say it, but Obama's entering problematic territory for 2012.
Everybody who's not already out of work feels like they are going to lose their job tomorrow.
The best thing that can happen for him is for Rick Perry to get nominated. Mitt Romney can appear to be a reasonable alternative to Obama for swing voters, but Perry is a George Bush acid flashback, only not as smart.
Honestly, if Obama governed like a liberal between now and the election, he might win back a fraction of the enthusiasm he needs to win it. Otherwise… well, people who study this stuff say there are actually very few true "independants", relative to the number of reliably partisan, but low-energy voters who need to be motivated to turn out in force.
So the object lesson there is that even (perhaps especially) if Rick Perry wins the nomination, no amount of appeal to terrified independants will actually help Obama win re-election (particularly since any such mythical moderates have almost certainly peeled off already due to Lou Sarah and the Teabaggers). Pretty sure the people Obama's surrounding himself with disagree on this point, though, and there's the rub.
Links?
Well, here's a good, well-sourced starting point: Fivethirtyeight has discussed this issue in a number of different contexts, but I can't find the one they wrote around the same time as the above, for whatever reason. But it's also pretty common-sense, if you think about it; the "independents" and "swing voters" that put the Tea Party in power are obviously overwhelmingly not the same "independents" and "swing voters" that elected Obama in 2008. Even among "low-information voters", there just aren't that many people who are that mushy and inconsistent in their values (Anthony Kennedy notwithstanding); it's that the those groups of "independents" were largely different people entirely.
And yet, Raw Story is reporting today that a Third Way poll is showing that voters who abandoned the President in 2010 are returning to him in preparation for 2012.
I really think a great deal of young Ezra, and he makes some excellent points. But it's time to drop some of these shopworn memes and stop letting the "pundits" dictate what we think, feel, see, hear, and believe.
So Tejas Dildo loses because …. ?
Yeah Mitt doesn't appear bat shit crazy. This apparently will make him acceptable to the voters. Maybe that will be his slogan 'Mitt, "Not Obama, Not Bat Shit Crazy" God Bless America there's trouble in River City.
Another instance of NY voters punishing the incumbent party for hosting a sex-offender: first, Chris Lee, (R) Upstate; now, Weiner, (D) Outer Bouroughs.
Nothing to see her.
But that first election never happened, or at least might as well have considering how it was completely ignored by the national media.
Also, per FOX News, Chris Lee (D) NY.
Good thing our corporate Dems made sure that Weiner resigned.
They know what's best for us, after all.
~
Weprin was Obama losing, so who was Turner in winning?
Rick Perry? Not Jewish enough.
Bachmann? She's a total Jew, or at least an Israel hag, but still, not really anyone would trust her with a major economy.
I'm going with Ron Paul, because it really was an angry old man kind of election. Hey Obama, get off my lawn!
Ron Paul is viewed as an anti-semite in the Jewish community, and anti-Israel. He'd lose in that district.
Lawn jockies everywhere are offended.
Actually, this was a bellwether about whether the Lubavitchers or the Satmars will swing the 2012 presidential election.
Now, you just have me wanting a Mallomar.
Zombie Menachem Schneerson 2012!
Rebbe Without a Cause…
Plant Hasid and watch it grow…
Oh, fershure the Lubavitchers. They're about as crazy as Ron Paul.
The Post sub-headline may explain it: who would want "The Weiner Seat," let alone sit on it? Ok, maybe Marcus Bachmann.
"The Weiner Seat" was one of Johnny Cash's late-career classics.
George Clooney also built one in Burn After Reading.
So he won as a Catholic who loves the Jews and hates the gays and Muslims. This should make Newt a shoe-in, especially given his record number of non-gay marriages.
Catholic who loves the Jews
Torque Libel!
Defeating the guy who's actually Jewish. Go figure.
Ahora, este es mas entendible.
That right there makes me doubt the whole "Obama's losing the Jewish vote" meme.
Headline: Wham Bam in Weiner's seat with a Presidential Slap.
Thank you sir may I have another!
Ooooh, the New York Post. NY's FINEST. The Paper of Record for people who want to be know all about things that never happened. If the Dem had won it would have been on page 22.
True dat. Who reads this rag???It's right up there with the grocery store gossip rags in my book. Find out about the amazing celery diet and look at the cellulite on Brittany's thighs! Read all about it! Oh, and Obama's a near.
I was hoping the Murdoch scandal would end this rag…but…oh well.
All this over a non-penis picture. huh.
Do we really need more proof that voters in this country are ignorant enough to elect people who will fuck them over?
This story on the next page was more interesting:
HAMILTON, Ohio — A repeat public indecency offender with a "fascination for plastic" was behind bars in Ohio Wednesday after allegedly having sex with a neighbor's pink, inflatable pool raft.
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Judging by the looks of Calista, Newt also has a "fascination with plastic"
Another case of the Veinstream Media getting it all wrong. I know that raft; she's a total slut. She just floats there luridly, on her back, inviting all neighborhood plastic-philes to climb up on her and get their squeak on.
"get their squeak on"
I'm going to try to use that in a sentence today. Thanks!
Where's JG Ballard when we really need him?
Um … you don't really want to know.
"Dancing Queen" replaced as Gingrich 2012 campaign theme. New selection "Barbie Girl" to lead all official campaign events.
Making that dolphin noise like the slutty pool she is.
The thought of K-Lo in a Cat Women outfit (a la Batman) is making my breakfast want to abandon ship.
Don't think of it! Don't think of it!
Now my breakfast wants to abandon ship too. Damn you, Monsieur_Grumpe.
Weprin is an Orthodox Jew, and Bob Turner a Catholic, so clearly Weprin hates Israel and Turner was the only candidate that the Jewish people of New York could choose, for Judaism. Once more, the Karl Rove "attack people's on their own strengths" tactic strikes again.
The Jews don't vote their own in, that's incorrect. "Eh, that guy, who is he to be such a bigshot". They always go with the Italians.
Turner? That sucks! How are we going to double entendre his name when he shows his dick pics on Rentboy.cum?
Turn 'er Over, Turner's Over?
You just hope that he ends up dating Marcus Bachmann.
Alternatively, you could go with "The Turner Guy-aries"
Maybe we can talk about his diaries.
Turner? I have to do this side first.
Turner? I didn't know she wasn't a lesbian!
NY-9 will be dissolved through redistricting and relocated to the West Bank.
well, on the plus side, we'll have four years to mock and point.
thanks NY 9.
Meh, the district probably won't last one, as New York's due to lose a congressional seat anyway. Thanks a lot, dumb-ass hipsters who didn't return the census/other asses for fleeing to the suburbs!
Also, Representatives get elected for two years, i.e., 2012.
Weprins of Mess Distraction
Bob Turner: now there's a man who knows which side of his matzah has the bitter herbs on it.
Weiner shows his dick and now we're all screwed?
thank you, ma'am?
Why don't the jews love the schwartze? Why should the jews love the schwartze?
Hey, did everyone know that Barack Obama was un-elected last night?
uh, Kirsten honey, many Teabaggers believe that Obama isn't even legally elected
537 fraudulent votes in Florida is still a mandate, though.
In Florida, man dates you!
/Mark Foley
Now, there's one man who knows how to Yakoff.
also, how do they call "chopped liver" in Kenyan ?
I have been practicing my soon to be required Texas drawl and public displays of jesus love….
"Ahhh just love that jeesus fella y'all, he's gunna burn all them gays"
don't forget your props: a Glock 21, "Don't Tread on Me" poster and XXXL sized flag shirt
to be fair, now that doug feith is advising pres perry, i'm sure things will go swimmingly for the jews and the middle east.
You mean, the Mossad is advising Perry.
The Stupidest Fucking Guy On The Fucking Planet is advising Perry? How could this go wrong?
Let me count the ways.
"Do the Dougie" Fail.
Meanwhile, Barry still doesn't have the balls not to veto the Palestinian state resolution at the UN. It's the same story as with the Repugs. These people hate him, are never going to vote for him, so why does he even fuck with them?
The old orthodox jews in forest hills don't like the shvartza president.
The fact that they didn't vote for the jew should not be a surprise, the only people they hate more than the shvartzas are other jews (cf Ed Koch's autobiography).
Did you ever see The Man In The Glass Booth?
On the other hand, I am glad to see the Post showing a new tolerance, an embracing, even, of alternate lifestyles, as evidenced by the encouragement to "Go Mo."
Out of curiosity I checked Turner's wiki.. For those interested in something beyond a 2-dimensional profile of NY-9's new overlord: he & his wife took in a kid whom I've never heard of but apparently was orphaned when 1 or both parents died of AIDS complicated illness, there was even a movie made about it.
Soe he's got the Bachma2n gene?
well if the NY Jews who voted for liberal Weiner don't like Obama, that doesn't bode well? I guess this country deserves the GOP sellouts & corporate shills? I mean if we have such a huge increase in poverty, yet there aren't "Hoovervilles" springing up on the lawns of the GOP & blue-dog Dem politicians, then this dumb country will keep on going down the tubes. I guess Marx didn't have enough data that fat-asses don't make revolutions.
Pretty depressing. The Beginning of the End.
It is the end of the Beginning of the End.
The sad fact is that the Democrats are almost as sold-out and feckless as the Republicans. I don't think I need to point out any proof of this to the Wonking Class. The only thing Barry has going for him is the utter turdliness of his apparent opposition. How you get an electoral victory for either the Plastic Mormon or Dubya Part II is a mystery to me, unless the crazy in America goes over the 30% mark.
Sad, but true.
OT, but speaking of loving schwartzes, Oy Vey, Sarah, Sarah, how could you! Schtupping with the schwartzes! Its meshuggina.
Isn't it great? We don't care, but the death baggers do!
Hoisted by your own petard, Sarah, dear.
She's a meshugge is how.
"Wham Bam" laid out a little better than the editor's preferred headline, "UP YOURS, NIGGER!"
Murdoch never misses an opportunity to lick some Republican ass.
Hello? Who reads that rag?
Unfortunately, I see the country turning against Obama. The left consider him ineffectual, while the right have numerous reasons, real and imaginary, to hate him. Someone on the left, whether non blue-dog Democrat, or from the Green party, needs to challenge Obama. If nothing else this will prevent the dialogue drifting ever rightwards until the election. Do we want a Republican campaigning on the issue of concentration camps for gays, Muslims and trade unionists?
Well, yeah, kinda. How else can O possibly win?
Don't have time to read what the rest of you losers said about this, but I read the CS Monitor on this race last night before Obama officially lost the election. Blame the Russian Jews who have moved into the neighborhood. Obama only won by 55% in this district because he hasn't come right out and said we'll help Israel reload their nuclear arsenal if they want to use theirs to nuke all their Muslim neighbors.
These people would be pissed off if Obama didn't rubber stamp an Israeli initiative to turn stray dogs into fur coats and use kittens to make sushi.
Poor Huma.
"prez slap" is the new "dick pix"
I trust the New York Post to know what really happened. They have everyone's phones tapped, after all.
This is what happened. Someone told Ed Koch that as an old Queen he was irrelevant and emitting too much CO-2, So he said "Oh Yeah" and then someone told the tabloids they like Koch , irrelevant. Now we couldn't have that, so they all jumped on the Jewish kid, scaring a whole bunch of Uber-Jewish kids to kick his butt cause everybody knows the Conservative J's want to be Orthodox but hate the fashion,. Can you say Decline and Fall???/
Weiner should have never resigned. Republicons can get caught with hookers (actual s.e.x.) and get a fukkin' standing ovation when they enter the House chambers, but if you're a Dem, you have to resign for vitrual clothed s.e.x. WTF people? What is wrong with you New York?
And rhe results are in
Rhut Rhoe!
This special election matters and is a referendum. Instead of those previous 7 or so the GOP lost.
The most distressing news is that only 19% turned out, that means turning out every teabagger in the place can overturn a hohum Dem…
Nancy, how's that forcing Weiner to resign thinking workin for ya'?
I walk past PNC Park everyday on my way home. I'll rub the statue of Roberto and say NA-NA-NA-nananannanana. For you. Although I'm a Cubs fan now. I can't bear to watch the Bucks anymore. It's just too painfull. 18 years under .500. (puts head in hands). At least with the Cubs I know they'll suck or blow it in OCT.
Jesus, they're almost as bad as Spanky and the Trolls. Why do they waste their time reading it if they hate the writers so much?
I went through it, actually. I think I've used it exactly once.
I tried it, only because Pareene had recently moved there. His first few articles were met with so much vitriol that I felt compelled to defend him.
The commenting system sucks sweaty dog balls, and the community isn't worth joining. I think I posted twice before deciding it just wasn't worth it.
Oh, hell yeah it means something.
It's even worse when you consider that they read writers they hate, then go to all of the trouble of navigating the clunky Salon commenting system to leave mediocre comments. All that trouble to repost your umpteenth screed about Obummer? Really?
A friend was on Open Salon, and I scooted over to check out her postage. The idea of hanging out with a bunch of misinformed yet opinionated hipster geeks who spend all their time gazing up their own assholes somehow failed to appeal to me at the time.
Come to think of it, it singularly fails to appeal even now.
Actually, it looks like they didn't do anything for 2010 or 2011, even though the site's still up.
A survey from Third Way that finds that Democrats need to reach out to Moderates is like a study from Heritage that finds that tax cuts for the rich increase tax revenue, is the problem. I'd trust it a lot more if it came from anything aproaching a non-partisan resource. Moreover, while the discussion Third Way put out on the subject focuses on "switchers", as opposed to the "droppers" that stayed home in 2010 instead of voting, there's zero discussion of the size of the two groups, either relative to each other or relative to the rest of the Democratic constituency. This information is sort of the minimum necessary to meaningfully access what's actually driving the "swing voter" phenomenon.
Like suggested also, I put a fair bit more stock in Nate Silver's stuff, which is eminently data-driven. He did put out a reax Ezra's thing around the same time that seemed to support it, but I'm at work and don't have enough time to sift through the Fivethirtyeight archives today.
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