Virginia Congressman Jim Moran was none too pleased when he heard about the ad shown above, which says “Barack Obama wants politicians and bureaucrats to control America’s entire medical system. Go to hell Barack” and can be found in the Clarendon, Virginia Metro station. (Sorry if this post is “inside baseball,” since it involves the local transportation system.) Some goober paid $800 to put it up as an advertisement for his movie, about how ObamaCare will murder every last American by, who knows, providing them preventative care visits for no co-pay? Or perhaps it’s the free abortions…
Jim Moran went so far as to write a sternly worded letter to the Metro people demanding that this be taken down, giving the film’s producer the best plug he could’ve hoped for:
“This advertisement is inappropriate, disrespectful of the President, and should be removed immediately,” Moran said. “The families with children and thousands of tourists who take Metro everyday should not be subjected to such garbage. I understand WMATA vets these advertisements before allowing them to go up, but it seems someone wasn’t doing their job when this ad was approved.”
Why does Jim Moran hate the Constitution?
Chief spokesman Dan Stessel said Metro “cannot decline ads based on political content.”
Stessel wrote in an e-mail that Metro’s advertising “has been ruled by the courts as a public forum protected by the First Amendment.”
What do you think, reader? Should Barack Obama go to Hell or is this poster the poster equivalent of Hitler?
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Wow, now Barry can visit Andrew B. Sweet!
But shouldn’t that read,
From Brietbart to Obama: Come to hell Barack.
This guy better watch out, Pirates, Osama and now Brietbart. His enemies seem to end up…
The first amendment only applies when it comes to hate.
–Rick Santorum
Needs moar crosshairs.
Surveyors marks!
Not too long before we'll be riding the White House Watermelon Garden car!
Best Wacky Racer ever.
But, stangely, most fun Mario Kart edition, ever.
"[Virginia Congressman] Jim Moran went so far as to write a sternly worded letter to the Metro people demanding that this be taken down…."
First time an anti-Obama piece of propaganda has been opposed by a Moran.
Wow. That was just fantastic.
It's okay though if it's just the girly parts that are "controlled"… by the GOP.
"Get an Obama-ectomy Screening Package"
I hope the Easter Bunny includes one in my basket this year!
Yes, but you're a woman, so you can't take any eggs out of the basket.
Except maybe the chocolate ones. Those would prolly be ok.
OK, look, it was a TYPO! A TYPO!
It's supposed to be "Go to Hell and Back!" It was an ad for Airtran airways.
Needs more exploding oxygen bottles.
(Too soon?)
But write something bad about Petraeus or Dubya and get thrown in jail for treason!
Betray-us?! I remember the howling and screaming over that one.
But just keep in mind that they're telling a Knicker President to go to hell, so it's all OK and not insulting at all.
Psst, dude, bureaucrats already controlled our health care system; bureaucrats who worked for for-profit health insurance companies. "ObamaCare" just restrains them from screwing over the sick as much as they used to.
It is God's will that insurance companies screw over the sick, and the sick should just be grateful and accept the gift that God has given them–the gift of dying slowly and painfully of a treatable disease.
Come on, spill it. You're Ron Paul, aren't you?
"'ObamaCare' just restrains them from screwing over the sick as much as they used to."
Seems that is precisely their problem. Screwing over the sick = profits. Think of the job creators!
How can they create jobs if they can't refuse coverage when someone develops cancer?
Exactly. Libruls always worried about the poor cancer patient, never think about defending the right of the wealthy to morally oppose having to do shit for anyone but themselves.
Learn how to use a comma, Logan Darrow Clements. Your name is awful, Logan Darrow Clements. Congratulations on finally not spending that spare $800 on a rent boy, Logan Darrow Clements.
a "Moran" with a brain! We granted the demands of the mouth-breathing cardinals' fan.
I think the NYC subway system forbids political advertising…except when there's a book or a movie to be sold. I do know they hae a committee that reviews and vets ads, but then they've let ads for laser hemmorhoid surgery appear– Dr. Sitzmor, I swear to God that's his name– so who really knows?
on a cross post note, you think Breitbart is reassessing his healthcare choices?
I happen to follow Breitbart's prescribed nightly-bottle-of-whiskey-chased-by-oxycodone regimen, and I find it delightful. My skin is so dewy, as well.
His patented single malt diet plan will give you the added benefit of a fresh peaty smell, with earthy undertones.
Doubt it. It's not like he needs it anymore.
Ha-Ha
-Nelson Muntz
i see the Canadian maple leaf in there. I live in Canada an am having FREE surgery on my wrist next week. I only had to wait 6 weeks. the physio and drugs will be free too. To quote Bon Scott: Hell ain't a bad place to be.
Plus Canadians live longer than U.S. Americans. Europeans live longer too. In fact, all the socialist healthcare countries have better life expectancy. Also lower infant mortality. But at least we have freedumb. USA! USA! US… cough, cough, gaaack, thud.
They also have better access to contraception, fewer teen pregnancies, and significantly fewer abortions. It's almost like doing things intelligently is a good thing.
It violates my deeply held religious beliefs. Namely, "Thou shalt not do things intelligently."
Yes, but they have an ingenious population. Or is it indegenius? Or something like that. I think what it means is that they are all light complexioned , and so deserve to have health care.
I have to have 'a procedure' in a few weeks–I had to wait 6 weeks for mine as well, but I get to enjoy my American Awesomeness and pay for mine. Luckily I have a jerb, otherwise it would go untreated until I drop dead from it, unlike people in your country. I bet you wish you had such awesome freedumbs.
So suck it, nations with healthcare! USA is number one!
(in stupidity)
Have you checked to make sure your "procedure" doesn't conflict with your boss's moral convictions?
You used the words "boss" and "moral convictions" in the same sentence?
You fucking Canadians.
That MD has a maple leaf in his hand. He must be a tree surgeon.
Or he's from Toronto.
He keeps them at just the right height.
Barack should take him up on. What I mean is, Barack should gather up all his awesome weaponry, enlist some space marines and enter the spacial rift to…kick the butts of all the demons in hell. They will be DooM-ed.
Yes, go to hell, Barack. Kick ass and take names.
Edit: Oh, and "make them your bitch!"
Well…free speech allows bullshit like this to exist…and free speech allows someone to say it should be taken down. The metro folks said no, so it looks like this is over…unless of course the Moran takes official steps to have it removed.
Angry, left-leaning independent that I am, I say it's a good thing. Even dumbasses like these should be allowed to express their opinions. It's too bad there's no coalition of people with brains to put up a counter-ad. Of course some redneck Virginian would probably shoot something like that off the wall of the metro station.
Yeah, he has the right to put up this moronic ad, and we have the right to call him a shit-for-brains douchenozzle for doing so.
Could not agree more, my wonkette bruddah. I just wish there was some way to get an ad up in the metro. Of course if conservatives do this, it's free speech; if liberals do it, it's slander. Virginia sucks. Truly. If I lived in NoVa I would just be horrified that somehow I'm lumped in with a bunch of fucking yahoos. And I would probably move the hell out of there.
Remember, when liberals criticize what a conservative says, that's an attack on their right to free speech!
I don't think free speech rights apply here. Publishers (in this case, the transit system) have the right to say what they will allow advertisers to post. If the government wanted to stop him from posting a sign on his own property, that's different.
It doesn't matter. Now that you can buy multiple guns each month in Virginia, all Metro riders will soon be dead.
an outbreak of lead poisoning?
Seriously, can someone explain the logic behind the NRA stance on this? I could ask some family members but would rather not–opening that can of worms with 'my cold dead hand' aficionados is not something I care to do.
But…why? What possible good explanation can they have? Somehow I don't think 'So you can build your own militia' or 'So you may arm your gang members with efficiency' are good reasons. Is it tied to the usual BS gun seller line of crap?
The logic behind this is that there is no logic. Curiously, this makes sense to a lot of people.
The movie says we're all going to die out, just like the Canadians did because of ObamaCare? Maybe we should have a test run, using only red states, before we mandate it for the rest of the nation.
"Why does Jim Moran hate the Constitution?"
That's right! Get a brain, Moran!
The real crime is that the socialist Metro is even open. Close it down and make it a parking tunnel or something. Doesn't this demo-rat understand that mass transit is pushing gas prices through the roof??? And for what – so a bunch of elites can get to work plotting the One World Government???
It cost me $83 to fill up my Hummer this morning – and that's a lot of money to pay to just drive it in circles like I do in order to increase my carbon footprint and infuriate my liberal neighbors!
Can you pull this off and not start laughing mid-sentence? You could be their candidate, since even repugs can't stand Romney.
Which metro line are we supposed to avoid because all the colored folks ride it? The blue line, was it?
"Obama-ectomy"? Sounds kinky…
Like all of the great movies, its available as a free download. I see an Oscar in someone's future!
Followed shortly by a Mayer.
It's kind of doubly amazing that nothing like this was going on during W's reign of ignorance. There was actually something to complain about then. Oh, I forgot, Bush was and is a white, southern moron.
I object. He is not actually southern. He was pretending to be southern, to make us all look bad, the asshole.
I'm offended that they didn't put a comma after "hell." It's basic grammar, people.
Oh boy. Canada City Style Healthcare is the new Freddy Kruger.
Who was it yesterday, mentioned that Dunning-Kruger effect has the most widespread manifestation among Americans, as opposed to in Asia or Australia?
Go to hell, nostrildamus! Because you… made my butt hurt! only in this case, made my brain hurt, with the awful truth of what you shared, that I did not want to hear — I throw sticks and stones at you in lieu of the idiots out there in their sicker, sadder worlds, who take their first-amendment rights rather far beyond the pale.
I apologize if it's already been mentioned but Congressman McFuckstick has life time free health care after just one term of service, as well as a pension annuity thanks to hard working people like me because he's in Congress. His opinion is no more valid than my morning shit. Fucking hypocrite.
Um, I think you may want to re-read the article.
Darling Fartknocker, I think Andrew's demise has upset you to the point where you are unable to read the article, mon ange.
It's hard to have an opinion on this. I've never ridden on a subway, but I do know some people who own railroads.
"My wife drives two trains."
Sounds like the plotline of "Atlas Shrugged II – Willard's Revenge"
Breitbart tried shopping that movie around to various Hollywood studios, and look where it got him.
Or is that "pulls"?
Typo. He meant "Go to Hell, Barah."
"Go to hah, you blah."
In retrospect, Breitbart might have benefited from preventative care visits with no co-pay.
Why can't Jim Moran do what anyone else would do in this case, and vandalize the ad? I know the DC Metro cops are a bunch of thuggish hawks, but a couple of discreetly placed stickers should do the trick. To wit:
“Barack Obama wants politicians and bureaucrats to get off their asses and work for the public good. Give them hell Barack!"
I am considering exactly that. Discreetly vandalizing. If i am caught, I will cry(hey, I cry everytime Beth dies in Little Women- oops, did I give away the surprise middle?) and say I am a patriot and could not accept the President being defamed. I was just planning to cover up the word Barack
Needs more cramming down our throat, uppity, and boy.
Movie should be called: Sick and Sicker and Sickerer…. in honor of the Idiocracy…
NFL referees want to control the entire football game.
Go to hell, referees.
Kindergarten teachers want to control the entire class.
Go to hell, Kindergarten teachers.
Why can't we be like all those great countries where the government doesn't get involved in medical care! Like Angola or Papua New Guinea!
I bet they don't spend a lot of time worrying about their health insurance premiums in Somalia.
Or the bastion of government small enough to be drowned in a bathtub – Somalia! For the freedumz!!!
Ban Profanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck yeah!!
Just a toursim tip?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway
There is a Hell, Michigan as well.
And here I thought it was ooh, heaven that is a place on Earth.
As I've said before…
The percent of members of Congress who get health insurance should match the general population. The haves and have-nots would be chosen by lottery once a year. If some member doesn't get covered, tough shit — they can go buy insurance or go without. That's freedom!
I thought "Sick and Sicker" was a Michael Moore movie.
Should just draw mustaches on it.
The sign says "Obama wants politicians and bureaucrats to control healthcare". Obviously the author is not a woman and has not dealt with an insurance company bureaucracy.
The Go-Pee'ers never question the protections we get from our socialist military, police and fire departments. They actually like to spend taxpayer money on those things. Health care (and the insurance that enables it) is just as much a protective service. If they want to keep Americans safe, they — the Repubicans — need to include our health security.
They actually like to spend taxpayer money on those things.
In Virginia, two-thirds of the firefighters are volunteers. I hope your state is more progressive.
After 9/11 they were all about the Support Our First Responders, until they figured out that they belong to unions and are paid from tax dollars.
Honestly, I don't think it's appropriate to allow the phrase "go to hell [real person]" on a bus. But maybe it's different in Virginia?
Edit: or on a Metro station. Reading is fun-damental!
Let the poster stay but recommend the guy who paid for it get a mental health evaluation. Free of charge, of course.
Sick and Sicker: The Andrew Breitbart Story.
We'll know they are Xtians by their love.
And respect for author-i-tah.
Anyway, let this be the last day of publicity for this bitter, immature shill.
Actually, Jim Moran is a really good one. Ask any federal employee in his district, they love him.
Where's Hell Barack? Do they have any good nightclubs there?
grammar, spelling and punctuation – who can explain it?
Meh. Ballston is (where we get off to see the lil' lady's friend) the only stop I get off at between Fairfax and D.C.
I used to go there very frequently-coming from the Dc side. Ballston only had ads for contractors vying for an Antarctic contract- has that changed?
Just don't put up any advertisements that mention atheism, because then the xians might become violent. But xians BEING VIOLENT in an advertisement is perfectly legit.
On the bright side, there's another $800 down the rat-hole that the Rightards won't be able to use in November. Well-placed also. Patrons of public transportation are known to be among the fabled swing-voting class, heh, heh.
Is there a difference between the greater DC metropolitan area and Hell?
Doesn't Hell get Federal representation?
They can't reject this for the use of profanity?
As the producers of Planet of the Apes found, it's not profanity if you're literally telling him to go to an actual place called Hell. Then it's just a statement of geography.
Go to hell and you can finally meet Andrew Breitbart.
Meh, they're both morons. But the key thing here is that the right-wing publisher thinks there's a market for his product among the users of public transportation.
Metro spokesman Dan Stessel is a lying sack of crap. Here in Seattle we have similar rules about ads on our buses, except they banned some ads by the Freedom From Religion Foundation because they "were afraid of potential damage" to their buses from irate religionists trashing the buses. Metro could have used the same lame excuse to ban these ads. Except they love the ads.
That kind of statement is clearly disrespectful to white presidents.
I'm willing to chip in to raise $800 for a Wonkette metro ad, if it'll help. Barb has to write it, though.
ok, me too! and I'd get to see it- but do we have to put it at Clarendon?
It is disrespectful to the president and kinda childish in the bargain. But childish assholes have the same free speech rights as everyone else. Otherwise, Fox's anchor desk would be empty.
no , it is not a free speech right.. Metro could reject ads- nothing says they have to accept an ad that disrespects the president -or they could pick some other rule they must have- god knows, you can get arrested on Metro if they catch you eating a mint.
The sentiment is an exercise of free speech. Expressing the sentiment in this particular medium is also an exercise of free speech, only the right belongs to the actual owner of the medium.
"Sick & Sicker" will do even worse in the theatres than "Untamed" or "The Undaunted" or whatever the fuck the Palin hagiography movie was called. And that would be quite a feat.
This is great news! Now that we know that WMATA allows "Go to hell Barack," for a mere $3,200 we can display "Suck it, Boehner," "Eat me, Santorum," "Bite me, Romney," AND "Blow me, Boehner" on subway walls.
Folks said "Hail to the Thief" about George W. Bush because a conservative Supreme Court stopped the re-count that might have given us a different president and the Bushies had no problem with that (fought for it, even). Folks compared him to Hitler for trying to annex Sudetenland… I mean Iraq. Folks said he was chimp-like because he would say really stupid stuff on a regular basis and he couldn't pronounce "nuclear." And an Arab journalist threw shoes at Bush for being the warmongering Islamophobe who ordered troops to occupy his country.
Barak Obama is being told to "Go to hell" for trying to get low-income people health insurance.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! This is me going mad. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Go to hell, Logan Darrow Clements, there fixed it ….
Still is practically crying out for some professional shenanigans and vandalism…
Get a brain Moran!
But the hex doesn't work if you don't capitalize the "h" in "hell".
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