Remember yesterday when we were all making satirical jokes about how Fox News would call the angry bum arrested for allegedly shooting at the White House some symbol of the #OccupyWallStreet protests? Well, that happened. Today. The turnaround time for Satire-to-Actual Fox News Report has hit an all-time low of about ten hours.
Media Matters gets up early to videotape this absurdity:
Fox & Friends claimed that alleged White House shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez had been “tied to [the] Occupy” movement, even calling him the “‘Occupy’ shooter.” In fact, investigators have reportedly “found no connection between him and the Occupy protesters.”
Haha, they even dragged terror-porn b-lister Michelle Malkin out of mothballs to basically read our post from yesterday, with a straight face.
Incredible! Or, not. In any case, that’s the story today in the Alternate Universe of Old People In Their Nearly-Foreclosed Homes: The pro-Obama hippies at the #OccupyDC camp are actually anti-Obama assassins. Good to know! And maybe it will become true someday, if enough cops crush enough innocent skulls, right? Gah. [Media Matters]
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OWS needs to move uptown and OccupyFoxNoise.
The sanitation at Fox HQ would probably improve.
Fox News mentioned OccupyDC, thus they are "tied to" the Occupy movement. Fox News is Terrrrrorists!
Apparently, their reporters tried to "blend in" with the protestors.
But most of the protesters can't afford fake boobs or that much hair dye, so it will be hard for them not to stand out.
Steve Doocey is a mess, isn't he?
And risk getting bedbugs?
Oh HELL YES
Wow….just wow.
That's actually dumber than Perry saying Obama grew up privileged.
nope, not clicking on that link with terror porn baby malkin.
not doing it.
i need my eyes too much.
From what I've read about his mom and grandparents, Obama did grow up privileged as regards moral, ethical and intellectual guidance. As far as economic and social privilege – maybe not so much.
This is like when James Kirk got that computer to blow up by the power of logic.
"But if the Occupy protesters want to kill the antichrist NOBAMA does that not mean they are like us, but they are SMELLY HIPPIES, but they want to kill Obama, but they are COMMIE radicals…..*Boom*
Job done.
"I'm a libtard and everything I say is a lie. In fact, I'm lying right now."
*Boom*
Harcourt Fenton Hussein Obama, where have you been? What have you been up to? Have you been subverting the Constitution again, you miserable Muslin!
Maybe if he'd dyed his long hair blond, he could have blended in as a Fox news babe.
Occupy Shooter (D)
Crazy like a Fox News report.
**golf clap**
to be fair, dude doesn't look really 'brown'. how else they gonna tag the left?
Beard = Muslin. It's math.
His name is in Mexican, or Cuban, or something.
So an American OSS Agent in Germany during WW-II who tried to blend in with Germans would be called a "Nazi Spy"?
As if Fox would be *opposed* the Nazis.
Watching it on Ustream, as it happens. They seem to be moving to 23 Street, which is still a ways from the Murdoch emporium.
They forgot the part about him being an illegal immigrant. With a name like Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, the guy is obviously an illegal communist immigrant who wants to destroy America by killing the Kenyan Muslim usurper President. When he's done with that, Señor Ortega-Hernandez will implement Sharia Law and legalize gay marriage. But at least he has a firm respect for the 2nd Amendment, witness the AK-47.
This is the guy who has the "ISRAEL" tattoo on his chest, right? So it all makes sense now.
Commie gun. Just check the Smith & Wesson (TM) Second Amendment if you don't believe me.
The guy looks like he probably speaks Cuban!
Or some kind of Spanish…(see: Family Guy)
The camp Alinsky kids are becoming, basically, lice-infested criminal magnets across the country
Then straight after that she claims it's all some kind of plot dreamed up in academia as an excuse for big government intervention.
So the person dehumanising the protesters as lice-infested Alinsky tools immediately claims it's also, too, a government/academia plan.
My brain, she hurts.
You know who else had an interesting method of dehumanising and de-lousing a group whom he disagreed with?
Criminals and lice, like peanut butter and chocolate.
(Oh and to answer your question, my veterinarian.)
Tarzan
Chief Grady?
Henry Miller?
Balcerczak and Galbrish?
I think they're just suffering from shooter's envy.
Good point. And their heads are spinning because the person who actually employed their prized "Second Amendment remedy" doesn't look like one of them. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
And somehow they'll eventually accuse Obama of being allied with the guy who shot at him.
All part of his plan~
He set it up his own self. No respect for historic White House glass windows!, just like puttin' his Negro feet up on the presidential desk that time.
(Channeling the Right) "Obama just keeps having people shoot at him to get attention."
Oh great. Countdown until Fox annexes this talking point too.
It's as beautiful as the Mandelbrot set.
That's no doubt why they brought Malkin out of mothballs. She's the one who proposed that John Kerry shot himself in Vietnam because he knew he would one day run for president and wanted the Purple Heart for campaign purposes.
Surely, this is Obama's White House Reichstag fire. Amirite?
"There is now conflicting evidence of whether he was in the Occupy DC camp"
Meaning:
Crap, there is not a shred of evidence that this guy had anything to do with OWS…
I dunno. He looks a lot like a guy I saw on Fox News when their intrepid reporter interviewed some people at that-there protest in Warshington. Long hair, hippy-lookin' dude. Prolly the same guy.
"Conflicting evidence" = evidence that proves us wrong.
That's it, Fox has now moved beyond parody. Stephen Colbert isn't as far out there as the real deal.
We report (made up stuff). You decide.
We distort. You decide.
If that lying, venomous skank-ho is not on a trampoline, I'm not watching.
Breitbart has had a son?
He was the "Daddy", but the other party was more of a "boy" than a "son", if you catch my drift…
Dude looks like several emaciated squirrels are occupying his skull. Enjoy prison, dipshit!
I don't think you can convict Doocy just for being an idiot.
A better tact for Fox would be to imply that the guy was an Obama Supporter who was trying to kill the building and waited until the President was out of town so his "hero" couldn't get hurt.
Speaking of right-wing media, this one is priceless.
Man bites dog equals news.
Cop bashed teabag reporter equals implosion of someone's universe. http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/17/37134...
Well, when the cops indiscriminately beat up enough folks they were bound to hit some folks that deserved it eventually.
Oh, just fuck Fox.
HELL NO. Not even at gunpoint, and not even with Ann Coulter's dick.
After the report that screwing animals doubles penile cancer risk, I think not.
Being conservative causes cancer? And they say g-d does not have a sense of humor.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
50 minutes, and the drinking begins; I am hoping to involve at least 3 different mind-altering substances before the night is done.
Some days, I feel I just need a drill and a mortar bit.
Shelly is Malking out of both sides of her microphone. Gretta, on the other hand, is on the other hand. Up is down, in is out, mainstream is leftie radical, logic is ••• ☼
/ head asplodes, staggers off to find mop and sponges.
"Michelle Malkin …balls"
Don't think that wasn't noticed.
Nope. Not watching that clip. It took my dick three days to unturtle from watching the last Fucks & Fiends fandango.
I'm wit you, Elvis.
But but but, I thought the OWS protesters were all big Obama supporters and were being paid by Democratic operatives to wreak havoc and poop in the streets and so forth. But now turns out they're really criminal gangs of presidential assassins? Why does everyone hate America, or something?
fomenting ? Honestly, who the fuck uses that word? Oh, Malkin does–right.
The guy wants to take out Obama and has "Israel" tattooed on his neck. I can't wait to find out what his deal is. Aside from being from Idaho, where the two career paths available to young men are potato farming and anti-government nutjobbery.
Also meth lab workers.
Did they also add a (D) after his name?
So… wait… does that mean Fox now likes this guy? I mean, they loved those Tea Party dudes who were packing heat at campaign events.
It's all a matter of hat selection, people: "tri-corner " -wearing nutjob= patriot; knit cap wearing nutjob= dangerous liberal.
And he's a Mexi-can. Nevar forget!
Given that he shot at the WH while Obama was out of town, he's more of a Mexi-can't.
"It's all a matter of hat selection, people: "tri-corner " -wearing nutjob= patriot; knit cap wearing nutjob= dangerous liberal."
I believe that for your average Fox viewer (or on-air dolt for that matter) your statement exhibits a PhD level grasp of critical thinking skills and a brilliant expression of the confluence of higher math, logic, and philosophy.
"Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing, Reg…"
Sure, because the one thing you can count on with academics is collusion.
He's from Idaho, he owns guns and he's mentally ill. Sounds like a typical Faux Noise watcher.
But actually 10 hours seems kind of slow for them to twist this around.
Substitute "over night" for "10 hours" Fuckedup Friends have to get their beauty sleep.
I just checked "Fox News target demographic" in the dictionary and found the exact same picture.
So Fux News is now anti-Obama assassination attempts? Did that happen after they fired Beck?
Can you imagine the cognitive dissonance on the right? A pro-Israel, Obama-hating… Mexi-can? Whose side are you on, Hay-Zoos?
HAHAHAHAHA you called Michelle Malkin a "porn blister." Maybe if she got a shot, she could clear that right up.
So he shot at the president??? Hello show on Fox!
See, the entire Occupy movement is a cover for President Obama to sneak in an agent to half-heartedly attempt to assassinate him, providing a pretext for the inevitable crackdown on gun ownership that Wayne Lapierre is always going on about. Even more sinister will be if they prosecute the shooter but don't confiscate everyone's guns — because then they'll be trying to lull everyone into complacency.
You mean like with Reagan?
FUCKING CUNT!
"HA HA, that's a good one.
Oh, you're serious."
*presses detonate button on remote-controlled dildo*
So we can refer to "Acorn Pimp James O'Keefe"?
"Occupy-Pimp"
true!
Columbia School of Journalism-Pimp, or Dildo Yacht-Pimp…
I think you mean "Acorn CHILD-Pimp James O'Keefe."
This just in!
'RACIST WAR-WHORE REPORTER' Michelle Malkin tries to blend w/actual Reporters
That anchor baby woman got me all disorented.
It could have happened in the orthogonal universe Fox News occupies.
Based on that reality, if I just type in this box, that he was actually a Tea-Party founder, then you should be able to report it because I typed it, and if you read it here, it must be true, so it's your duty to report it. You're all welcome.
"Blame Righty?" Umm…no Michelle it's "Kill Righty."
That would make James W. von Brunn the Tea Party Shooter.
More like the "Free Republic Shooter". Though it would be true in that case as he was a poster there.
Trying to assassinate Hopey while he is in Bali is like trying to find WMD in Iraq .. or trying to find OBL in Afghanistan
If the worst is going to be assumed anyway, work with it. Let every Occupy protester be as well-armed as is legally permissible. Let the Teabaggers see exactly what they're clinging to.
Brinksmanship is the only language they really understand, if they understand anything.
EDIT: Oh, fine, I suppose a bunch of scary (i.e. dark-skinned) union thugs waving signs saying "We've got guns, too!" would suffice.
Needz moar Black Panthers.
Needz moar Black Panthers.
Both of them?
Hey! I support the Black Panthers fully. At least, I assume that's what my purchase of Burn Baby Burn hot sauce means.
Yep, all two of them, Katie.
Limbaugh and Beck will refer to him as a liberal because of course these people always are.
So, I'm assuming this means that FOX News is now calling for the arrest of Sarah Palin for leading the assault on Gabrielle Giffords?
Did Fox also mention that the shooter looks like Joe Biden?
That's not Michelle Mawkin!
She's a totally lame, lice-infested cheerleader…
I just KNEW I recognized this guy from somewhere! Strong family resemblance, at least…
I don't see what the problem is here. He used the Occupy Movement in some way shape or form so it's only natural to call him the 'Occupy Shooter'. It's better to give him a title so people can specifically recognize him and with the way h used the Occupy Movement it fits well enough.
Yeah, because his going on about how "Obama is the antichhrist" certainly does not sound like the stupidity you and your pals spew.
Glamourdammerung, I'm surprised at you. Don't you remember the early days at Wonkette, when it was so immersed in snark nobody could really tell the political positions Wonkette held? That's my high-water mark for true snarkiness and if you feel you can pin datateday down to a serious position or ideology then I must be doing something completely wrong here…
I must be doing something completely wrong here…
At least it is finally dawning on you.
Thank u based god.
He was also mentioned on Fox News in some way, shape or form, so can we call him the "Fox News Shooter", and say he's been "tied to Fox News"?
That's what the media does, they'll take a shooter and assign a nickname based on something unique about the person. This person hid in the tents of an Occupy Movement. Occupy Shooter fits him just as well as the Zodiac Killer or the Unabomber, and some may not feel those names are warranted for whatever reason, but they fit.
But in fact "the media" isn't doing this. I did a Google search on the expression "Occupy shooter" and found many of them, falling into three categories. a) Fox news. b) Blogger Ben Smith, blogging before the facts were known, trying to prepare the ground for arguing that this indicates that the Occupy movement is more violent than the Tea Party. (Once it became clear that the shooter was not an OWS participant, though he took advantage of the hiding places that were available, Smith has dropped the expression "Occupy Shooter". As you would expect.) c) Literally dozens of blogs commenting (almost all of them negatively) on Fox News's choice of expression. No ABC, no CBS, No NBC none of the cable news channels but Fox, no newspapers. Just a) Fox b) Ben Smith (apparently withdrawn) and c) people criticizing Fox.
This makes it clear that your reference to the "people"/"the media" taking the name to "fit" is disingenuous. The name has not had any traction, which indicates it does not, in fact, fit at all. One entity only is using this way of talking, and that's a group that is, at the same time, presenting people who refer to the Occupy Protesters as "lice-ridden", as "dirty", as "violent", who want to claim (with no evidence) that the shooter has "ties to" the Occupy movement. So why did Fox choose this expression, when nobody else did, and it was greeted with howls of protest, as they surely knew it would be? The question answers itself: the name left an impression consistent with the other unfounded impressions they have been working hard to plant in people's mind about the OWS.
Ah, okay. Well, I think it's a cute name. Better to have an 'Occupy Shooter' who probably didn't do it in a direct conspiracy with other Occupiers and didn't even shoot a person then get an Occupy Shooter that was capable of actually killing somebody though. I'd embrace the moniker so if there's another person who tries something who did more with & about the Occupy Movement it'd be 'welp, they already used up Occupy Shooter, so…'
This really frosts my squirrel.
As long as it doesn't chap your ass.
Huh, maybe this Craiglist posting happened?
Semi-automatic rifle, "Israel" tattoo, from eastern Idaho, who shot up a black Democratic President's house. Yep, no chance he's a bagger, definitely an OWS lefty.
The guy apparently whined about how Obama was the antichrist.
Which explains Fox/Breitbart/general conservative lunatic fringe's collective guilty conscience.
After getting cut by DC United, therefore losing his work visa, this Salvadoran would do anything to stay in the US. Even if it would mean going to Federal pound ye in the behind prison.
Isn't he really only guilty of shooting at a window since the President and the First Family wasn't even home?
Attorney Allrude where are you?
Why couldn't this guy be mad a Fox News anyways? They have lots of windows.
Guy is one strange case. Having a Hispanic name in Idaho most likely means he's a Basque, so I'm positing he's a lonely sheep-herder who's listened to way too much AM talk radio. He's probably an Anchor Baby like Ms. Malkin here, in this clip where she says she refuses to play that game where you jump to conclusions and throw accusations at your opponents, as she repeats several times.
Israel tattooed on his neck, WTF? Okay so he's just another Jewish extremist Basque sheep-herding crazy person, nothing new there, right? Or short version: a crazy person.
He's of Mexican descent. His family owns a Mexican restaurant in Idaho Falls, I believe. Apparently, they gave an interview on Telemundo.
#OccupyChiChis
Has the firearm used to shoot the White House been traced back to Fast and Furious yet? Brian Terry's family wants to know.
Why do you want to change the subject so bad? Guilty conscience due to considering that the shooter sounds just like your master and the other clowns at Big Failure?
The subject is the occupy insect who shot the White House. My comment is on topic. : )
Now, if I'd mentioned the half a billion dollars given to Solyndra, money that without doubt found its way into Obama's campaign fund, and how solar energy is a farce because it takes several decades, if ever, for solar panels to pay for themselves financially and they never pay for their own carbon footprint because it takes fossil fuel to provide the energy to make them, like the majority of them which are made in China with low quality coal …. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/business/energy... … , well then, yes, I'd be changing the subject.
The subject is the occupy insect who shot the White House.
The "Occupy shooter" that had nothing to do with Occupy and spouts off the same type of stupidity folks over at Big Failure spew on a regular basis? It sure looks like you all are trying to change the subject after all the feeble finger pointing yesterday.
Really, you should work on that reading comprehension, champ. But then, if you had any common sense, you would not be a Breitard.
"I'm not going to speculate, unlike the mainstream media." "Occupy is stoking violent rhetoric." Which is totally different than the wingers at the teabag events who carried guns. Or Republitard pols enouraging "2nd. Amendment remedies."
The guy who did the same at the WH when Billy C was in it is serving 40 years. All I can say of this Mexican Socialist Muslin is that it sucks to be him.
Anyone see Keith tonight? The part about Faux news making up a 28th article of the constitution and section 144 and language about Supreme Court Justices recusing themselves? And totally ignoring the facts:
Thomas takes money he doesn't declare for the work his fat ass wife does for anti-health care groups.
But best of all, there is no Art. 28 or section 144. There aren't even 28 amendments. There is no language about the supremes having opinions. (More's the pity, since it could get Uncle Tom impeached.)
What kind of moran believes this shit? Murdoch has done for America what the Gaylords did for Oklahoma. These people just suck shit. How many ways can I hate them? Hate them. HATE THEM. Eat shit and die, Republics. Eat it now.
I know. I know. Preaching to the choir. But this particular choir is far more intelligent and snarky than the real choir at my church.
What if you exclude the sopranos?
Let me count the ways…
Seriously? A troll? Do nothing but thumbs down the dumb fucker and move on. They love attention. Why else would they wear teabag-dangling hats?
And tonight these dumb fucks, Perry or Newt or Mittens–if you can tell the difference, you must glamorfuck-the-troll, claimed Obama came from a privileged background. Mixed race kid raised alternately by his single mom or his grandparents, who never had more than a pot to piss in?
He just got those college loans for law school because he knew someday that he would want to run for prez and it would make him look like "just folks" the same way his Kenyan parents knew to forge his birth certificate and birth announcement to look like he was born here so he could run for president someday. No wonder he married the daughter of a Kenyan witch doctor lady.
Since I have shit to do, I don't have time to list anymore Teabagger Myths–the political equivalent urban myths.
What in the world are you going on about?
Myths about the president are "very, very urban" myths, indeed.
WH Shooter, two twerps and a twat, plus the Malkanator. What is this, how many crazies can you fit into one article? And no, I didn't watch the clip and you can't make me.
Malkin: "apparently, reportedly, allegedly" (forgot B.S.ishly)
WTF? That is all.
Looks like Obama has bigger problems on his hands. He went to a Gangsta Rappa funeral, hey bro'! Fox bait.
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Well, I think it's a cute name.
Of course you do. Telling lies about folks that conservatives dislike is simply another day for you cretins.
If the media had done that about the numerous acts of violence done by teabaggers of course, you would have been one of the folks crying about how mean everyone was.
The first time you copy/pasted a datateday original post it was at the bottom of the comment. This time, it's at the very beginning. Please read the rest of the comment where I give some pleasant & helpful commentary for the Occupy Movement. I don't think you did that.
Please read the rest of the comment where I give some pleasant & helpful commentary for the Occupy Movement.
There is nothing that qualifies as that in your screed there and we both know it.
Thank u based god.
Considering this garble, I certainly hope you are not one of those "English first" clowns too.
Really, fuck off, already.
"I'd embrace the moniker so if there's another person who tries something who did more with & about the Occupy Movement it'd be 'welp, they already used up Occupy Shooter, so…'"
Helpful commentary. I don't take sides. The Occupy Movement can always come to me for advice (but they're more likely to come to me to mooch money though…)
I don't take sides.
The Occupy Movement can always come to me for advice (but they're more likely to come to me to mooch money though…)
It sure must be nice to be a conservative as it clearly means never having to worry about moral and/or intellectual consistency.
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