Into the Sewer: the American right wing, 2011

"In any case, Jack has been admonished and put on night probation until further notice."

max is this how you got your gig

"I'll tell you what. He went to Occidental College then suddenly he ends up at one of the best schools in the country, Columbia. He vaults from there to Harvard Law School. Suddenly he's on the Harvard Law Review. Suddenly he's the editor of Harvard Law Review. We've never seen any grades of the guy. These are legitimate questions," Buchanan said.

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is pat buchanan implying that occidental college is NOT one of the best schools in the country?!

he's really blowing the lid off your (and obama's) biggest deception

the grades thing is even funnier when the donald does it.

do we have a thread on how conservatives are incapable of being funny?

― like, in Portland, they just don't fucking care, for example. (gr8080), Thursday, April 21, 2011 9:50 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

man there are two ppl who write for big gov't & the corner, andrew klavan and uh somebody 'kahane' (who's s'posed to be some kind of liberal caricature pseudonym) and they are both completely devoid of lols.

I direct you to Jay "Chuckles" Nordlinger's post on The Corner this morning.

nordlinger is hilaire!! don't think he knows it tho.

I began my column yesterday with an item on President Obama: his occasional peevishness, his descents into dislikability. I say that this side of O will be a boon to Republicans in 2012. An irritable, disdainful Obama will be easier to beat than a gracious, all-embracing one (One?).

In that column, I used the word “snippy,” which leads to a walk down Memory Lane, if you don’t mind. Do you remember Election Night 2000? Sure you do. A doozy. Al Gore calls George W. Bush to concede. But then he places another call. The Texas governor says to him, “You mean to tell me, Mr. Vice President, you’re retracting your concession?” Gore says, “You don’t have to be snippy about it.”

Oh, man, Bush could be snippy — true. But our current president is no slouch of a snipster himself. Did you see or read about his exchange with Brad Watson, a TV reporter from Texas? Go here. Now, from what I can tell, Watson wasn’t disrespectful. But he was reporter-like. And Obama isn’t used to that. He is used to quite gingerly treatment from the press. Remember when that anchorman executed a little bow to him?

After Brad Watson had his allotted seven minutes, Obama said to him, smoke practically exiting his ears, “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?” Given the treatment that O has received from the press, I have trouble blaming him for being sensitive, or snippy, when someone acts like a normal reporter around him.

Remember when a New York Timesman, at a formal press conference, asked him what had “enchanted” him the most about the presidency? (Well, that was the kind of question that the Bushes and Reagan always got from the Big Media. Right?)

P.S. No one likes conservative whining about media bias. But may I say — for the thousandth time — that we don’t much like the bias, either?

When i grow up i want to be a presidential mood ring.

to paraphrase Val Kilmer: "'Peevishness'?! Who _talks_ like that?!"

Also, a neat point that Pareene brought up a bit ago is that so many of these guys have harped on about 'bias' for so longthat they've now internalized it to mean 'active malice.'

and as such, attempt to respond in kind.

Trump said, "we have to look at it. We have to see, is it real? Is it proper?" He added: "It is rather amazing that all of a sudden it materializes." And, Trump said, there are still questions about President Obama's background. "The word is," Trump told the press, Obama "was a terrible student when he went to Occidental [College]. He then gets to Columbia. He then gets to Harvard."

"I don't know why he doesn't release his records," Trump said. "Why doesn't he release his Occidental records?"

^^ Pareene's response to this: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/26/trump_affirmative_action/index.html

Let us take, as an example, the story of a student so obviously unqualified, so transparently unworthy, that a book was written about what his admittance into Harvard said about the sorry behavior of supposedly elite colleges.

That student -- that dull, below-average student who somehow made his way into Harvard -- was Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Kushner's father, real estate developer Charles Kushner, bought Jared his Harvard acceptance. It cost him $2.5 million. (Kushner later went to jail for tax evasion and witness tampering, so it was also, technically, dirty money that bought Trump's daughter's husband's entry into the Ivy League.)

Wall Street Journal education writer Daniel Golden's book "The Price of Admission" explores the Kushner donation at length. An official at Kushner's (expensive, private) high school told the author: "There was no way anybody in . . . the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard. His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought, for sure, there was no way this was going to happen."

But it did.

And that is how things actually work at "elite" schools.

why doesn't he ask the experts Trump is getting his information from?

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"Look, I applaud this release. I think it's a step in the right direction," so-called "birther queen" Orly Taitz told me in one of her many media interviews this morning. "I credit Donald Trump in pushing this issue."

But she still has her suspicions. Specifically, Taitz thinks that the birth certificate should peg Obama's race as "Negro" and not "African."

"In those years ... when they wrote race, they were writing 'Negro' not 'African'," Taitz says. "In those days nobody wrote African as a race, it just wasn't one of the options. It sounds like it would be written today, in the age of political correctness, and not in 1961 when they wrote white or Asian or 'Negro'."

O RLY

I still can't believe her name is Orly Taitz

http://www.theonion.com/articles/trump-unable-to-produce-certificate-proving-hes-no,20250/

I still can't believe her name is Orly Taitz

Actually, being saddled w/such a name explains a lot about her.

i just wanna interrupt to lol @ the mention of the Kushners (the buddies of my state's disgraced ex-governor Jim McGreevey).

that's all.

Adam I posted that already apologize to me immediately

• If the original document was in a bound volume (as reflected by the curvature of the left hand side of the certificate), how can the green patterned background of the document's safety paper be so seamless?

• Why, if Obama was born on August 4, 1961, was the “Date Accepted by Local Reg.” four days later on August 8, 1961?

• What is the significance of the smudges in the box containing the name of the reported attendant?

• David A. Sinclair, the M.D. who purportedly signed the document, died nearly eight years ago at age 81. So he is conveniently unavailable to answer questions about Obama’s reported birth.

• In the “This Birth” box there are two mysterious Xs above “Twin” and “Triplet.” Is there a sibling or two unaccounted for?

• What is the significance of the mysterious numbers, seen vertically, on the document’s right side?

• Finally, the “Signature of Local Registrar” in box 21 may be a desperate attempt at establishing the document’s Hawaiian authenticity. Note to forgers: It is spelled “Ukulele.”

These friggin' people. I mean, on one level, you want to blow apart their arguments (e.g., "• Why, if Obama was born on August 4, 1961, was the “Date Accepted by Local Reg.” four days later on August 8, 1961?" BECAUSE THE FUCKING REGISTRAR'S OFFICE WASN'T OPEN AT 7:30PM ON A FRIDAY, DUMBSHIT), but why bother. LITERALLY nothing will convince them.

• David A. Sinclair, the M.D. who purportedly signed the document, died nearly eight years ago at age 81. So he is conveniently unavailable to answer questions about Obama’s reported birth.

ffs the doctor who delivered me has been dead for years.

dead....conveniently

what are the odds that the doctor who delivered someone approaching 50 years old would be DEAD

someone should look into this IMMEDIATELY

the significance of the smudges

dead....conveniently

NOT TOO CONVENIENT FOR HIM, AMIRITE??

Is there a sibling or two unaccounted for?

One thing I am amused by is how this all marches thru the usual steps of conspiracy theory. You'll never reason a man out of a position he adopted thru non-reason, etc.

http://thehivedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/twins.jpeg

This is my big opportunity to claim Dutch citizenship, since I can't trust my birth certificate and my mother that I was born in the USA.

This part is over, forgery or not,

now we can debate the true meaning of

a Natural Born Citizen

But First some Questions

Why did a good man go to prison because of this little piece of paper, that only cost $10.00?

Was this worth over 2 million dollars of private money and 2 plus more million in public money to keep secret?

Why was this made two days ago and yesterday Hawaii said they do not release these any more?

A natural born citizen is a person born with unalienable and undivided allegiance to the United States of America. And this is something the current occupant of the Oval Office never had.

So some local rightwing douchbags are protesting the appearance of Imam Rauf in Portland this evening.

http://islamtodayoregon.blogspot.com/2011/04/feisal-abdul-rauf-coming-to-portland.html

"In those years ... when they wrote race, they were writing 'Negro' not 'African'," Taitz says. "In those days nobody wrote African as a race, it just wasn't one of the options. It sounds like it would be written today, in the age of political correctness, and not in 1961 when they wrote white or Asian or 'Negro'."

She's got a point -- nothing says "politically correct" like referring to black people as "Africans."

dudes.

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=185094

hahahahahaha

You could say he's seen many shops in his time...

warning, do not click if completely insane right-wing racism will ruin your day

GOP Oklahoma lawmaker: Blacks don't work as hard as whites

gee, I wonder what this link will contain (lol)

this woman is a treat (from Wikipedia):

Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man... women tend to think a little bit more about their family, wanting to be at home more time, wanting to have a little more leisure time.

So basically, she is telling her constituency she is lazy and should be replaced by a man.

pareene's takedown of ben stein is pretty hilarious

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/28/ben_stein_jokes/index.html

With 3053 comments, the FOX News article about Superman renouncing his citizenship is a gold mine:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/04/28/superman-renounces-citizenship-00th-issue/#comment

lol usa

And written by a former ILXor! Awwwwwwww.

Oh sorry, not that article.

This article, which is also a total goldmine of psycho comments.