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(London Times) Interesting Gore Vidal knew John Kennedy, John Kennedy was a friend of his, and Senator Obama is no John Kennedy. Because he's even better than John Kennedy   (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk) divider line 84
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Atillathepun [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 05:52:59 PM  
Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.

 
Psychotropic 2008-05-17 06:55:01 PM  
Atillathepun: blah Global Warming blah Muslim blah Insane blah terrorist blah crazy pastor blah....

I didn't realize it was possible to cram so much stupid into two sentences.

 
Tunk87 [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 06:57:24 PM  
Psychotropic: I didn't realize it was possible to cram so much stupid into two sentences.

I think I lost some IQ points just reading it.

 
robsul82 [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 07:02:24 PM  
Atillathepun: Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.

You're retarded if you meant that, 10/10 if you're trolling.

 
quickdraw [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 07:11:35 PM  
Atillathepun: Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.

Hon, some people just suck at trolling. I'm one of them and so are you. Find another niche'. This is the second thread I saw you Clintownd yourself right in the Boobies. Great screenname BTW.

 
mikemoto [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 07:11:38 PM  
Ah, he's still sore that Bob Roberts beat him in that senatorial race in 1990.

 
Saborlas [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 07:32:19 PM  
Barack Obama is not cheating on his wife with a mobster's girlfriend. That's a higher WIS stat right there.

 
Atillathepun [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 07:36:29 PM  
quickdraw: Atillathepun: Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.

Hon, some people just suck at trolling. I'm one of them and so are you. Find another niche'. This is the second thread I saw you Clintownd yourself right in the Boobies. Great screenname BTW.


First it's sweetie and now it's "hon". You people stop at nothing.

And regarding your profile "SHOW US YOUR HUSBAND!"

 
burndtdan 2008-05-17 07:39:14 PM  
Atillathepun: First it's sweetie and now it's "hon". You people stop at nothing.

have a piece of pie to help you get over it, sweetie.

www.dubuquerotary.org

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 07:40:45 PM  
Atillathepun: Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.

Woah, nice Freeper channeling.

 
CtrlAltDelete [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 07:58:11 PM  
F*ck Gore Vidal.

That son of a b*tch wrote Myra Breckinridge and set back the gay rights movement 50 years before it even got f*cking started. He and Tony Kushner are supposed to be the sacred cows of LGBT literature but you know what? There are a hell of a lot of better writers out there.

 
quickdraw [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 09:16:21 PM  
Atillathepun: "SHOW US YOUR HUSBAND!"

Oh alright^ just this once.

 
Mrpotatoe [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 09:38:08 PM  
Does anyone realize that Atillathepun is mixing Al GORE and GORE Vidal? Yeah it's like that.

 
twobux [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 09:38:39 PM  
Maybe I'm late to the party on this one, but why do I have a feeling Obama = Jimmy Carter?

 
quickdraw [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 09:50:44 PM  
twobux: Maybe I'm late to the party on this one, but why do I have a feeling Obama = Jimmy Carter?

Because you are too young to actually remember Jimmy Carter's presidency?

 
Dr.Knockboots [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 09:54:29 PM  
Is he related to:
Nacho Vidal?

 
ScubaDude1960 [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 10:03:15 PM  
subby: "Because he's even better than John Kennedy"

It's not really much of an accomplishment to be better than John Kennedy.

 
Clbe 2008-05-17 10:06:03 PM  
Atillathepun: Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.

www.forumammo.com

 
gonzoliga [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 10:18:15 PM  
Gawd. Gore invokes Gore from her dubious Rome sanctuary. Voted up for the Farkfun Factor when it's greenlighted.

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 10:24:36 PM  
i159.photobucket.com

Janice Ian Curtis Mayfield, Leslie Gore Vidal Sassoon

 
MorningBreath [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 10:29:25 PM  
Gore/Vidal in 2008.

 
T.M.S. [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 10:31:55 PM  
CtrlAltDelete: F*ck Gore Vidal.

That son of a b*tch wrote Myra Breckinridge and set back the gay rights movement 50 years before it even got f*cking started. He and Tony Kushner are supposed to be the sacred cows of LGBT literature but you know what? There are a hell of a lot of better writers out there.


Vidal is more of an institution than anything else these days.

What do you have against Kushner?

 
CtrlAltDelete [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 10:33:32 PM  
T.M.S.: What do you have against Kushner?

Dialogue.

 
bringbackwhatshappening 2008-05-17 10:41:37 PM  
quickdraw: twobux: Maybe I'm late to the party on this one, but why do I have a feeling Obama = Jimmy Carter?

Because you are too young to actually remember Jimmy Carter's presidency?


Actually I am old enough to recall the epic failure of Carter and candidate that wants to be prez in 09 will fail due to the baggage of the past 8 years.

 
JerseyTim [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 10:43:45 PM  
robsul82: You're retarded if you meant that, 10/10 if you're trolling.

I normally don't like to feed trolls, but his first sentence made me laugh out loud. I don't know what I want to be true, him being that stupid or that trolltastic.

 
Atillathepun [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 10:44:58 PM  
Clbe: Atillathepun: Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.

What's epic fail is that you took me seriously. . .having problems reading more than the post at the top (wonder if the filter will catch that?)

 
NubianzWithAttitude 2008-05-17 11:03:10 PM  
I have to give the guy props for the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, but the two sequels seemed kind of phoned in.

 
21-7-b 2008-05-17 11:14:34 PM  
His views on the man the Democratic candidate will have to beat are even more brutal than his views on Hillary: " You could beat McCain! I've never met anyone in America who has the slightest respect for him. He went to a private school and came bottom of his class. He smashed up his aeroplane and became a prisoner of war, which he is trying to parlay into 'war hero'."

In his view, McCain is "a goddamned fool. He was on television talking about mortgages, and it was quite clear he does not know what a mortgage is. His head rattles as he walks".

However, in Vidal's eyes, McCain is just a symptom of the real malaise affecting America today: the cynical subversion of the US constitution. "The Bush people", he says, "have virtually got rid of Magna Carta and habeas corpus. In a normal republic I would probably have raised an army and overthrown them. It will take a hundred years to put it all back."

By now he has worked himself up to a crisp fury: "Those neocons, lawyers, the big corporations - worse than that, extremists - want to get rid of the great power of oversight of the executive. See what they'll try to do to Obama. They're crooks. They're just gangsters. They are the enemy of the United States. There's no such thing as a war on terrorism. It's idiotic. There are slogans. It's advertising, which is the only art form we've invented and developed. It's lies."


on the plus side when you're 82, mccain probably seems like a young'un.

 
kuhns_m 2008-05-17 11:14:36 PM  
Joke + Retard = Jetard = McCain.

 
Vandal7000 2008-05-17 11:14:37 PM  
I'm still waiting to hear Sassoon's position.

 
Bathia_Mapes [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 11:15:00 PM  
Atillathepun: Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.

Do us all a favor & take your stupid ass out of here.

 
cleanie 2008-05-17 11:18:04 PM  
Psychotropic: I didn't realize it was possible to cram so much stupid into two sentences.

Win

 
Sharkface217 2008-05-17 11:18:14 PM  
Atillathepun

That was one of the best trolling posts I have ever seen. Bravo.


/it was obviously dripping with sarcasm
//right?

 
grxymkjbn 2008-05-17 11:18:24 PM  
Lionel Mandrake: Janice Ian Curtis Mayfield, Leslie Gore Vidal Sassoon

I think I went to elementary school with him.

 
milk_plus 2008-05-17 11:22:41 PM  
I'm not sure how friendly JFK would be toward Gore after that story he wrote about John dunking women's heads under water during sex so they'd grip down on him while he blew his load.

/voting enabled for the hump and dunk

 
Joe Moneybags McBigCock 2008-05-17 11:30:06 PM  
Is Obama the official Fark candidate yet or is still just open wide?

 
InternetLOL 2008-05-17 11:36:13 PM  
Joe Moneybags McBigCock: Is Obama the official Fark candidate yet or is still just open wide?

He's definitely the official troll pastime.

 
Prospero424 [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 11:36:40 PM  
Gore is a pretentious, cynical ass much of the time, but he occasionally makes astute political observations and always makes them entertaining whether he intends it or not.

 
Falcc 2008-05-17 11:38:53 PM  
Joe Moneybags McBigCock: Is Obama the official Fark candidate yet or is still just open wide?

Ron Paul sealed the nomination in the Boobies.

/Also, how do so many TFers not know Atillathepun?
//The guy's a comedy genius!

 
Shaggy_C 2008-05-17 11:39:12 PM  
I was going to come in here to purposely mix up Gore Vidal with Owl Gore and make a dumb comment about global warming, but it seems I was beat to the punch in the boobies. Well, I guess my work is done here.

That being said, this guy rubs me the wrong way. Statements like: "I fear what our black population might do. There has never been a revolution of blacks - yet". And that Obama is "our best demagogue since Huey Long or Martin Luther King". I frankly find the first quote a little racist and the second flatly false, unless he's using the ancient greek meaning of demagogue.

 
IlGreven 2008-05-17 11:39:23 PM  
Joe Moneybags McBigCock: Is Obama the official Fark candidate yet or is still just open wide?

Oh, sure, most of the douchebags on my ignore list would vote for Hitler if he put an (R) next to his name, but sure, go ahead and be delusional and think everyone on Fark supports Obama...

 
mandrsn1 2008-05-17 11:43:44 PM  
Ich bin ein Muslim

 
frege 2008-05-17 11:45:56 PM  
Atillathepun: Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.

first the obvious points:
1 for B Insane,
1 for Muslim,
1 for Wright,
etc

that would be typical trolling.

But then we get:
1 for Al Gore vs Gore Vidal
1 for doing that subtly - "Mr Global Warming", not saying Al Gore directly

This is getting good.
Now, and this is so good I find it hard to explain in small steps:
1 for "Of course" as if the coming statement is obvious
1 for the statement itself - that somehow the first part: "...global warming..." is related to or *implies* the scond part: "...Muslim wimp...". Did I mention the "Of course" part?! Well, it's OK, the next sentence will explain it all, right? Right!?

And then the home run:
That next statement, I just can't find words to explain the level of fail/win. It is a stream of completely disconnected bullet points: "bankrupt" "harmless gas" "terrorists" "pastor/church", yet strung together in a way that almost appears sensible. You read it over and over. Oh and the level of depth - It isn't just his pastor that is the problem - it is Obama's fear of leaving his church that is the problem. You are left wondering:

- did I read that right? Am I comprehending the words correctly, or did I misread, and miss something? I better re-read.
- wait, how does the fear cause these problems?
- how does that relate back to Gore and global warming?
- He said it was obvious: "Of course..."
Conclusion:
*** It must be me, it must be MY FAULT that I do not understand the deep clarity brought before me !!!

Yes I have lost count.
I give it a solid 10/10.

Oh wait - some, nay many, took it seriously - and in fact, this should obviously be the main criteria to judge against!...

I am forced to give it 11/10.


/Oh god, and it was the uh, post-that-came-first.... More Points!

 
Prospero424 [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 11:47:15 PM  
Operation Chaos: Because it's true. (new window)

Uhuh.

I've read these articles from several sources now, and they all make the same argument with various alterations to fend of accusations of plagiarism:

Obama is Jimmy Carter because they both, GASP!, espouse beliefs to the left of the Republican Party!

Seriously, that's their argument that Obama = Carter: "he's a liberal!" Yes, he supports progressive taxation, like the vast majority of Presidents have. Yes, he opposes the ever-increasing and ever more expensive role of lobbying in Washington, like many on the left do. They would both, like 99% of American Presidents, prefer to engage in serious, bi-lateral diplomacy than bomb first and ask questions later.

Wow! They're like twins!

/shakes head

Using this rationale, I could much more convincingly make the case that McCain is Gerald Ford II or Nixon II or even Bob Dole II.

It's retarded.

 
Abner Doon 2008-05-17 11:48:03 PM  
Psychotropic: <b>Atillathepun:</b> <i>blah Global Warming blah Muslim blah Insane blah terrorist blah crazy pastor blah....</i>

I didn't realize it was possible to cram so much stupid into two sentences.


That's an insult to sentences everywhere. I've had drug induced hallucinations more coherent.

 
Prospero424 [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 11:48:15 PM  
Shaggy_C: ...the second flatly false, unless he's using the ancient greek meaning of demagogue.

Oh, trust me, he is ;)

He's just that pretentious.

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 11:49:17 PM  
Operation Chaos:

Love yer handle, dude...very subtle.

Mega-Dittoes!!

/slurp*slurp*slurp

 
Abner Doon 2008-05-17 11:52:25 PM  
robsul82: <b>Atillathepun:</b> <i>Of course Mr. Global Warming would support an incompetent Muslim wimp for President. Gore would like to bankrupt us because he fears a harmless gas and B Insane Obama would sell off our country to terrorists because he's too afraid of leaving his church and his crazy pastor to do anything useful.</i>

You're retarded if you meant that, 10/10 if you're trolling.


That's almost retarded as the original troll. 1/10 at best. You have to be at least a little subtle, and not just rape the keyboard with buzzwords and nonsense. Otherwise, it's just annoying and inane.

 
Shaggy_C 2008-05-17 11:53:18 PM  
Prospero424: He's just that pretentious.

Reading this guy's stuff all the time would make me hate Democrats, I think. He reeks of elitism...

 
Prospero424 [TotalFark] 2008-05-17 11:56:27 PM  
Shaggy_C: Reading this guy's stuff all the time would make me hate Democrats, I think. He reeks of elitism...

Hehehe, Vidal is the poster boy for "ivory tower" leftist elitism, and this is coming from someone who usually hates that sort of labeling.

If Ann Coulter was to create a caricature of what she wanted people to think "liberals" were like, she'd basically just sketch Gore Vidal.

 
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