Boy does time fly! It seems like just yesterday that Paul Ryan was charging his constituents $15 each to come yell at him at town halls. But now times have changed! Paul Ryan is a Vice Presidential candidate, which means that he has to let people come yell at him WITHOUT EVEN GIVING HIM MONEY. Like yesterday, when he went to the Iowa state fair in Des Moines and had to just stand there until cops intervened to protect him from a lady yelling questions like ARE YOU GOING TO CUT MEDICARE (yes, of course he is, DUH) and STOP THE WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS (*cough* Communists *cough*).
Poor, poor Paul Ryan was reduced totelling the crowd that since Iowans and Wisconsinites “like to be respectful with one another, and peaceful with one another and listen to each other these ladies must not be from Iowa or Wisconsin.” Yes, Paul Ryan is so respectful and peaceful, probably because he is from Wisconsin. Like that one time he politely and respectfully made jokes and laughed as cops wrestled an old man the ground because he dared to point out all the six ways that the Ryan Plan would screw him from Sunday, or the other time he politely and respectfully filibustered his own town meeting so he wouldn’t have to hear what constituents had to say about his plan to ruin their lives. For funsies, here he is at a “listening” session back in 2011, interrupting everyone and lecturing at anyone who asks him tough questions and then finally just asking a bunch of them to leave.
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Paul "The Pinata" Ryan.
Batter up!
Is there an echo?
echo?
Cookie?
Damn, the echo's broken.
It was better the second time.
I dunno. The net is wonky here today…much like our nation
Its Wisconsin, we all wear cheese heads.
Still not up to the Cheney standard — Paul Ryan doesn't do that thing where he looks at the heckler a certain way and they start choking and stop breathing.
He also hasn't shot anybody in the face, yet.
"You have failed me for the last time, Mr. President". Say, maybe that's what *really* happened in the Pretzel Incident!
The Force Choke is totally a third-level Sith Lord special ability. He needs a few more Evil Experience Points first, then he can level up.
If there was no middle class, this type of shit wouldn't happen.
Romney/Ryan 2012
I see what you did there…
The peasants are revolting!
I'll say – they stink on ice!
Heckle him now, but in a few years he will make the trains run on time and his troops will make sure you don't dare heckle him again.
Looks to me like the troops are already making sure we don't heckle him.
As Rachel Maddow pointed out last night, this is the one year anniversary of Mitt's flop at the very same event which produced the ineffable "corporations are people, my friend!" I salute the brave liberals of Iowa, who give excellent heckle! Which of you fuckers…?
the ineffable "corporations are people, my friend!"
"Corporations are people" isn't ineffable. I say "Corporations are people? F' that!" all the time.
If only there were more of the 1% this wouldn't happen.
Case in Point, from the Southampton Romney Fundraiser supporter In The Range Rover:
"We've got the message," she added. "But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who's got the right to vote — they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income — one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/romney-hamp…
How will Paul Ryan ever hear the voice of the voter if people refuse to shut up and listen to him?
Come on, guys, just let him tell himself what voters want!
To be honest, he was just there to enjoy the fair, not be a participant in the democratic process.
Where's the picture of him eating a corndog? Isn't that a required photo op for the Repubs when they attend the fair?
Yeah, but he has to be a public health nut or people will start dwelling on his family's uncomfortable relationship with the Grim Reaper.
I'm guessing that when/if he's not a rising star anymore, he'll look like Ben Stiller at the end of Dodge Ball (which I'm pretty sure borrowed the fat suit from Fat Bastard in Austin Powers and then covered it with doughnut crumbs and chicken fat).
he has to be a public health nut
Yet when Michelle Obama says anything at all about public health, the Reeps scream about the nanny state. IOKIYAR again…
There are people cheering for women getting taken out by the cops for asking questions about a politicians platform's? Oh hell….USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
So when are the olds going to be pelting him with empty prescription bottles?
All of them Katie!
(Wait, I screwed that up didn't i?)
In fairness, $15 to tell Ryan how much he sucks sounds like a pretty good deal.
Yeah, but $15 and an arrest?
Who votes for these assholes?
All those assholes yelling, inexplicably; "USA, USA"!
I thought that was ironic, but maybe I'm just naive.
That's not panty-throwing!
No, that's when he addresses the Beltway press.
Or the Boy Scouts.
Specifically Bill Kristol.
Here's this fun thing! https://twitter.com/PaulRyanGosling
Saaaaaaaaay… You know who else demanded to be respected?
Fredo Corleone?
Rodney Dangerfield?
Aretha Franklin?
Damn you!
Now I'm hearing an echo too! Weird how its delayed by twenty minutes. The accustics in this place are strange!
Hey, I'm on my mobile in a meeting. Cut Baconz some slack.
Dr. Frank-N-Furter?
Eric Cartman?
Dubya, Mittens, and every Republitard with textbook-case daddy issues?
Me?
Barack Obama? I mean, with infinitely more aplomb and cool, of course.
Aretha Franklin?
My long-suffering boss?
Jan Brady?
Marcia Marcia Marcia LIBEL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV5Zr7Osfu4
Offspring?
What kind of GOP VP candidate has that kind of trouble pre-screening their crowds? That didn't happen to $arah!
Why won't these mean ladies just shut the fuck up and let this nice man ruin America and send them all to re-education/debtors prisons? SO RUDE!
Also, whatever happened to going to your own medicare-less death with diginity?!
Joe Biden was found hiding behind the corndog stand, handing out $20 bills to potential hecklers.
In the video, you don't see him making his escape in a 1978 Trans Am.
That's what happens when you fuck with people's Medicare, Mikey blue eyes.
I would pay at least $30 for the chance to heckle this mofo.
I would mortgage my house to kick him in the crotch.
I heard Paul Ryan tried out for Jeopardy, because he's so smart. He didn't make it, only because the show's writers (HOLLYWOOD LIBRULS) didn't agree that "What are tax cuts for the wealthy?" and "What is destroying Medicare?" are the correct answers to every question.
I want to know how much they paid that black man to stand on the stage with him.
That's not a real black man. That's a Ryan staffer in blackface.
He's so courageous and bold. Having 2 women haled away for talking mean to him.
You should see what he did to that guy who took his lunch money!
hauled, stupid.
Don't ya just hate when women ask men questions about the cornerstone platform of their political career
Maybe if they tucked $5 bills into his khakis?
What would be playing over the speakers?
C.R.E.A.M.
I can't wait until he gets heckled in New Jersey. "They must not be from Wisconsin or…. uh, never mind" Reboot the pander script!
Sure are alotta cops taking out people from his rallys. Its kinda scary to be honest.
(This comment is 100% snark free)
I was thinking that last night watching this. It's very brownshirty.
After all, they could just yell their objections from that cage over there.
They are called "First Amendment Zones" because the First Amendment doesn't apply.
Old Joe Biden is going to kick the shit out of this Fucktard.Really?His one claim to fame is wanting to dismantle Medicare?WTF Mittens?
The look on Ryan's face when he realizes there are no cops to haul the veep away for questioning him will be priceless.
i made the mistake of responding to a troll on the economist about this very subject.
while it was an utterly worthless exchange, i did realize they seriously – seriously – think gaffey joe is stupid – and far worse – their randian cheese-bagger teatard is smarter than average.
i have yet to see the evidence of the latter and as for the former, they have absolutely no idea what they're in for.
(rubs hands in glee).
Why isn't he sucking on one those Iowan corn dogs?
Someone this thin-skinned is exactly who we want a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
No cawn. The asshole conservatives in the house (Ryan), couldn't get a farm bill through because some sane ones objected to defunding the SNAP program. (Not Ryan).
Where's a jockeying citizen crowd control volunteer when you need 'em? Has Tim Profitt become a layabout?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/pro…
Wait a minute. He's charging people to yell at him? That explains a lot – he's turned popular outrage into a profitable commodity. He gets paid every time he pisses people off. It's like he's printing his own money!
Paul who???
Can Romney fire him?
Paulie Dead-Eyes went weeping to Godfather Adelson about not getting a starring role. Next thing you know, Ann wakes up screaming next to Rafalca's head, and it's Romney/Ryan 2012.
When you see yourself as the Second Coming in wrath, you find dissent hard to take.
Heckle / Jeckle 2012!
On a least a semi-serious note, on what grounds did the police remove those people? What law was broken? What crime did they commit?
Somehow, in Iowa, does Rep. Paul Ryan have the right to speak and they don't? It's obviously a political event. The whole right wing meme is that everyone has "political free speech" – including corporations, Super PACs and non-profits that just happen to spend all their money on campaigns, even though they aren't supposed to.
Why can't those people ask questions?
Disturbing the peace maybe. If you're not disturbing the peace before they grab you, you probably will be after they grab you.
Yelling at a fair? What do they do to the carnie barkers that want to guess your weight?
What do they do to the carnie barkers…?
Demand a percentage of course.
We have a good friend who works for a local citizens' review board of the police force. It's a classic cop move to be a bit rough when they first grab you. It's a natural reaction to pull back, twist, or otherwise react.
Bingo! Now they add "Resisting Arrest."
Or you can go rigid. Or limp. Or you can not offer your arms up for handcuffing at just the right angle. Or a million other things.
Yep, resisting is pretty much a catchall. My favorite is when someone is only booked on resisting arrest – because without an underlying charge, what the fuck were the cops doing making the arrest? Those typically don't go to trial, shockingly enough.
I look forward to seeing nothing but that for the next 2-1/2 months.
I'm sick of the middle class. Pick a side already!
Eyes…so blue! It's like looking into a smurf's anus.
-Jon Stewart 08/13/12
Diamond Joe Biden will be wearing those blue eyes as cufflinks. Because of votes.
Deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want him to eat fried butter.
Can't we just have these things in, you know, quite rooms?
Paul Ryan was too polite and courteous to enlist in the military in 1990.
He's doing it wrong. Needs more Rand Paul sponsored face stomping….
Maybe he should just hold rallies at Chick-Fil-A's around the country…
What do you call a comedian that doesn't have any good comebacks for a heckler?
Daniel Tosh?
unemployed?
Paul Ryan looks like he's about to burst into flames any minute in that bright sunlight.
Ryan has elevated arresting old people to an Olympic event.
He just needs more cowbell.
It's the fucking smugness that makes Ryan so unlikable. And of course the blackened heart and total lack of compassion.
I'm actually starting to think Romney is not just tone deaf, he thinks smug sounds great. How else to explain picking this ass, who I swear sounds like a slightly more nasal version of Mitt?
$arah better renew her contract quick, there's some real competition waiting in the wings.
Wisconsin is polite?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2012/06/…
And: http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/files/sikh1.jpg
This keeps up, Congresscritter Ryan is going to start thinking that some people don't like him.
I've never heard Ryan speak extemporaneously before– in fact, I hate videos of candidates yabbering…but I just watched this: he's no Sarah Palin, or George W. He actually holds ideas in his head and can vocalize them…very interesting.
cheese bagging teatard is cheese bagging teatard.
Ryan is an idiot…I'd F_ _ _ him though – kinda hot.
Nice group of thugs protecting the Ryan
"Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, Olds gotta heckle this clown 'fore they die,
Can't stop hating those Right Wing 'Tards"
Oh you're that guy! Pay attention when I'm talking to you damn it.
Huh? I'm sorry I wasn't listening.
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