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Diogenes

2011-11-07 09:21:55 AM

Do the Democrats really want to be spawning little James O'Keefes? I hope not.

Marcus Aurelius

2011-11-07 09:27:32 AM

Well it's not like he got caught sucking dicks in a public restroom, is it?

ManateeGag

2011-11-07 09:37:09 AM

Marcus Aurelius: Well it's not like he got caught sucking dicks in a public restroom, is it?

Not yet.

GAT_00

2011-11-07 09:43:30 AM

Diogenes: Do the Democrats really want to be spawning little James O'Keefes? I hope not.

It would have been how hard to hand it back and say he doesn't agree with such rhetoric? He sure didn't seem bothered by it.

KyngNothing

2011-11-07 09:47:43 AM

Diogenes: Do the Democrats really want to be spawning little James O'Keefes? I hope not.

So following someone around videotaping their public appearances is just like misleadingly editing videos and pushing them out IOT push an agenda?

// Macaca

Diogenes

2011-11-07 10:01:22 AM

GAT_00: Diogenes: Do the Democrats really want to be spawning little James O'Keefes? I hope not.

It would have been how hard to hand it back and say he doesn't agree with such rhetoric? He sure didn't seem bothered by it.

The guy's not on stage. I'm not expecting him to make some dramatic display.

KyngNothing: Diogenes: Do the Democrats really want to be spawning little James O'Keefes? I hope not.

So following someone around videotaping their public appearances is just like misleadingly editing videos and pushing them out IOT push an agenda?

// Macaca

Not the same. Similar. Waiting and watching for the moment you get some "gotcha" moment to exploit. This wasn't a Macaca moment. Allen walked right into that. If that guy hadn't been videotaping, someone else probably was and it would have come out all on its own. There's a difference between catching someone doing something dumb and hunting them down in the hopes they'll give you something to work with.

Seriously, the GOP does something outrageously stupid or downright unAmerican nearly by the minute now. Let's keep our focus on important things. I don't want to see the Democrats descend into Breitbartish behavior.

GAT_00

2011-11-07 10:04:45 AM

Diogenes: The guy's not on stage. I'm not expecting him to make some dramatic display.

How about simply handing it back?

This guy has a history of asshole comments and actions. Nothing I've ever seen from him makes me think he disagrees with the image.

Diogenes

2011-11-07 10:12:14 AM

GAT_00: Diogenes: The guy's not on stage. I'm not expecting him to make some dramatic display.

How about simply handing it back?

This guy has a history of asshole comments and actions. Nothing I've ever seen from him makes me think he disagrees with the image.

Not knowing him, I can only judge by what I see here. Sure, he could have handed it back. He could have also passed it around the circle. I'm just not going to get outraged over this. I already know the majority of Republicans irrationally and unfairly hate Obama.

lakefivedi

2011-11-07 10:29:47 AM

He is the same man that is trying to save the contraversial jesus statue on USFS land on Big Mountain.
I believe he enjoyed the cartoon.

sammyk

2011-11-07 10:52:27 AM

GAT_00: Diogenes: The guy's not on stage. I'm not expecting him to make some dramatic display.

How about simply handing it back?

This guy has a history of asshole comments and actions. Nothing I've ever seen from him makes me think he disagrees with the image.

The whole thing screams setup. Think about it. The guy hands him the cartoon the second the camera man walks arounf\d the corner. It's a lame attempt to act like that lame ass O'Keefe. Sure Rehberg is a total asshat. But this is no gotcha moment.

what_now

2011-11-07 11:59:43 AM

Yeah...my outrage o'meter isn't even pinging.

When someone makes an off color or racist joke you can 1) make a fuss or 2) just not associate with that person.

Now, I don't think this cartoon was racist, I think it was stupid. I guess you could make the stretch that Obama and Kadhaffi are both black so therefore racism, but I think the author is trying to compare Obama to an evil dictator.

So...its a stupid cartoon. I've seen worse. And unless this guy sent it around himself, I don't really care.

Ms.Maus

2011-11-07 12:34:43 PM

I can only hope that people see Erin Bonsteel for the horrible political cartoonist she is.

/have little hope, seeing as Ramirez has more than one Pulitzer.

ACallForPeace

2011-11-07 12:35:42 PM

This is a non-story.

EWreckedSean

2011-11-07 12:35:57 PM

And today's mock outrage brought to you by TPM...

coeyagi

2011-11-07 12:37:38 PM

EWreckedSean: And today's mock outrage brought to you by TPM...

There is more mock outrage one thread up. You should go multiple layers of meta mock on this one.

HotWingConspiracy

2011-11-07 12:38:21 PM

"Do without Congress" is teabag messaging.

keylock71

2011-11-07 12:40:20 PM

Stupid partisan cartoon... Stupid partisan "controversy".

He wasn't "waving it around", and looked like he was just humoring the guy who gave it to him.

Considering this guy is a Republican, I'll assume there's many more valid reasons to criticize him, though...

juniperwasting

2011-11-07 12:45:52 PM

Denny is a god awful human, and a terrible representative of the state of Montana.
The state has two very distinct cultures, east and west. West is fairly progressive, educated, "sub"urban.

The east is prairie country, filled with very nice but devotedly conservative people. I love them, but do not try to talk politics if you don't agree with them. I think of everything in MT east of the Rockies as West Dakota.

Denny appeals to their baser instincts, not their general giving and kind natures. He wins on their votes, with the conservative bastions from Billings.

Grungehamster

2011-11-07 12:50:08 PM

Diogenes: GAT_00: Diogenes: Do the Democrats really want to be spawning little James O'Keefes? I hope not.

It would have been how hard to hand it back and say he doesn't agree with such rhetoric? He sure didn't seem bothered by it.

The guy's not on stage. I'm not expecting him to make some dramatic display.

KyngNothing: Diogenes: Do the Democrats really want to be spawning little James O'Keefes? I hope not.

So following someone around videotaping their public appearances is just like misleadingly editing videos and pushing them out IOT push an agenda?

// Macaca

Not the same. Similar. Waiting and watching for the moment you get some "gotcha" moment to exploit. This wasn't a Macaca moment. Allen walked right into that. If that guy hadn't been videotaping, someone else probably was and it would have come out all on its own. There's a difference between catching someone doing something dumb and hunting them down in the hopes they'll give you something to work with.

Seriously, the GOP does something outrageously stupid or downright unAmerican nearly by the minute now. Let's keep our focus on important things. I don't want to see the Democrats descend into Breitbartish behavior.

To be fair, the "Macaca" comment was directed at a Democratic tracker, which is apparently what the guy falling Rehberg was as well. The fact that the dude was following him around all the time was what brought Allen's attention to him in first place. Still, you're right that this is a more intimate setting.

I agree that this is underwhelming, but as far as the question of ethics of this do we know if it was a like-minded constituent or someone working with the tracker who showed him the picture? That makes a big difference to me.

Cletus C.

2011-11-07 12:52:33 PM

He's going after a Senate seat, both of which are held by Democrats in Montana. He must be destroyed.

FormlessOne

2011-11-07 12:59:57 PM

So, I watched the video, and, sure, he's being "friendly", but I'd be more interested about the fact that he took a campaign donation check at the same time from the same person who apparently gave him the cartoon.

"Sure, your cartoon's offensive, but, hey, you have money, so I'll be happy to show it off if you hand me that check."

skullkrusher

2011-11-07 01:11:19 PM

FormlessOne: So, I watched the video, and, sure, he's being "friendly", but I'd be more interested about the fact that he took a campaign donation check at the same time from the same person who apparently gave him the cartoon.

"Sure, your cartoon's offensive, but, hey, you have money, so I'll be happy to show it off if you hand me that check."

the cartoon is stupid. It doesn't qualify as "offensive"

FormlessOne

2011-11-07 01:13:48 PM

skullkrusher: FormlessOne: So, I watched the video, and, sure, he's being "friendly", but I'd be more interested about the fact that he took a campaign donation check at the same time from the same person who apparently gave him the cartoon.

"Sure, your cartoon's offensive, but, hey, you have money, so I'll be happy to show it off if you hand me that check."

the cartoon is stupid. It doesn't qualify as "offensive"

To you, perhaps. Portraying Obama as a just-executed dictator, to me, is mildly offensive. Watching this guy chuckle about it, show it off, take a check from the guy that gave it to him, and then claim he doesn't agree with the cartoon is slightly more offensive than the cartoon itself.

EWreckedSean

2011-11-07 01:27:13 PM

FormlessOne: So, I watched the video, and, sure, he's being "friendly", but I'd be more interested about the fact that he took a campaign donation check at the same time from the same person who apparently gave him the cartoon.

"Sure, your cartoon's offensive, but, hey, you have money, so I'll be happy to show it off if you hand me that check."

"You have a stupid cartoon of Obama, I can't take your check." Really? Come on.

skullkrusher

2011-11-07 01:27:48 PM

FormlessOne: skullkrusher: FormlessOne: So, I watched the video, and, sure, he's being "friendly", but I'd be more interested about the fact that he took a campaign donation check at the same time from the same person who apparently gave him the cartoon.

"Sure, your cartoon's offensive, but, hey, you have money, so I'll be happy to show it off if you hand me that check."

the cartoon is stupid. It doesn't qualify as "offensive"

To you, perhaps. Portraying Obama as a just-executed dictator, to me, is mildly offensive. Watching this guy chuckle about it, show it off, take a check from the guy that gave it to him, and then claim he doesn't agree with the cartoon is slightly more offensive than the cartoon itself.

yeah - pretty sure thatsthejoke.jpg

If you are offended by people calling the President a dictator I really don't know what to tell you.

The Homer Tax

2011-11-07 01:33:37 PM

I don't think this cartoon was that big of a deal. Of course Republicans think Obama is the same as Kadaffhi, republicans are cro-mags...

To me, though the humorous part of all of this is not the guy and his cartoon or whatever, it's his staffers vociferous denial that he agrees with it. Of course he agrees with it, who cares?

They should have said "It's just a silly political cartoon, this is a non-story." To me, the fact that they are falling over themselves to disassociate with it is the funny part. Something about a lady and protesting too much...

p the boiler

2011-11-07 01:39:26 PM

I expect to see this kind of crap from the far right (not true Reps, just the extreme) - seriously Dems, don't do it, there is a reason (beyond policy) that so many people dislike the Tea Party.

The whole tear them down instead of doing something honorable to build yourself up is why the country is so messed up right now.

Fuggin Bizzy

2011-11-07 01:41:01 PM

I'm a Montanianian and not a Rehberg fan by any stretch...but this is ridiculous.

/Which has been said. I know.

someonelse

2011-11-07 01:41:18 PM

EWreckedSean: And today's mock outrage brought to you by TPM...

The TPM commenters don't appear to think it's particularly outrageous. Soon the mock outrage over the mock outrage will surpass the original mock outrage. Then what happens?

cryinoutloud

2011-11-07 01:41:39 PM

ManateeGag: Marcus Aurelius: Well it's not like he got caught sucking dicks in a public restroom, is it?
Not yet.

The day that happens--party at my house!

watson.t.hamster

2011-11-07 01:45:07 PM

skullkrusher: FormlessOne: skullkrusher: FormlessOne: So, I watched the video, and, sure, he's being "friendly", but I'd be more interested about the fact that he took a campaign donation check at the same time from the same person who apparently gave him the cartoon.

"Sure, your cartoon's offensive, but, hey, you have money, so I'll be happy to show it off if you hand me that check."

the cartoon is stupid. It doesn't qualify as "offensive"

To you, perhaps. Portraying Obama as a just-executed dictator, to me, is mildly offensive. Watching this guy chuckle about it, show it off, take a check from the guy that gave it to him, and then claim he doesn't agree with the cartoon is slightly more offensive than the cartoon itself.

yeah - pretty sure thatsthejoke.jpg

If you are offended by people calling the President a dictator I really don't know what to tell you.

Well to be fair no other president before Obama and likely no president after has/will ever be compared unfavorably to some deceased despot.

It literally never happens.

Literally.

Benni K Rok

2011-11-07 01:45:19 PM

ACallForPeace: This is a non-story.

It is a non-story. Collective meh all around.

Benni K Rok

2011-11-07 01:49:57 PM

watson.t.hamster: skullkrusher: FormlessOne: skullkrusher: FormlessOne: So, I watched the video, and, sure, he's being "friendly", but I'd be more interested about the fact that he took a campaign donation check at the same time from the same person who apparently gave him the cartoon.

"Sure, your cartoon's offensive, but, hey, you have money, so I'll be happy to show it off if you hand me that check."

the cartoon is stupid. It doesn't qualify as "offensive"

To you, perhaps. Portraying Obama as a just-executed dictator, to me, is mildly offensive. Watching this guy chuckle about it, show it off, take a check from the guy that gave it to him, and then claim he doesn't agree with the cartoon is slightly more offensive than the cartoon itself.

yeah - pretty sure thatsthejoke.jpg

If you are offended by people calling the President a dictator I really don't know what to tell you.

Well to be fair no other president before Obama and likely no president after has/will ever be compared unfavorably to some deceased despot.

It literally never happens.

Literally.

Now this, this is funny, because it's sarcasm. It's good and obvious sarcasm.

Bill_Wick's_Friend

2011-11-07 01:53:56 PM

Seems fair enough.

Michele Bachmann (R-MN) didn't agree with the "National health care = Dachau" banner that she was standing next to while giving a speech about how much she hated "Obamacare".

/party of abrogating personal responsibility

patrick767

2011-11-07 01:56:52 PM

skullkrusher
If you are offended by people calling the President a dictator I really don't know what to tell you.

I'm not really offended. I just think people who do that are farking morons. If a congressman finds it funny, then he's a farking moron too. That's not news though. I already knew the GOP congress was full of morons.

skullkrusher

2011-11-07 01:58:34 PM

patrick767: I'm not really offended. I just think people who do that are farking morons. If a congressman finds it funny, then he's a farking moron too. That's not news though. I already knew the GOP congress was full of morons.

not really offended? So you are a little bit?

Barricaded Gunman

2011-11-07 02:01:10 PM

sammyk: The whole thing screams setup. Think about it. The guy hands him the cartoon the second the camera man walks arounf\d the corner. It's a lame attempt to act like that lame ass O'Keefe.

Huh. You seem to have specific information that wasn't readily apparent from the clip I saw. May I ask where you got this additional information?

AcneVulgaris

2011-11-07 02:01:14 PM

skullkrusher: patrick767: I'm not really offended. I just think people who do that are farking morons. If a congressman finds it funny, then he's a farking moron too. That's not news though. I already knew the GOP congress was full of morons.

not really offended? So you are a little bit?

Morons are offensive.

LarryDan43

2011-11-07 02:03:04 PM

keylock71: Stupid partisan cartoon... Stupid partisan "controversy".

He wasn't "waving it around", and looked like he was just humoring the guy who gave it to him.

Considering this guy is a Republican, I'll assume there's many more valid reasons to criticize him, though...

Its usually good practice to humor a crazy person who just handed you something. Unless you like getting stabbed or shot.

wyltoknow

2011-11-07 02:08:47 PM

He could have been holding that cartoon up for any reason. If all you got is a stretch that he was "waving it around", that's literally all you have, shut up and stop this petty crap. Focus on real issues and concerns.

randomjsa

2011-11-07 02:22:33 PM

Silly Republican, only liberals are permitted to draw comparisons between dictators and American politicians, didn't you get the latest copy of "Rules that Don't Apply To Us"?

StrangeQ

2011-11-07 02:25:13 PM

It looks like they're at some sort of sports bar, which makes me ask the question: who prints out random political cartoons and brings them to sports bars? Even your most backwards, head-up-the-ass and living in the past conservative knows how to use a smartphone; why wouldn't you just show him the picture on that?

Bill Murray said I was weird

2011-11-07 03:02:54 PM

randomjsa: Silly Republican, only liberals are permitted to draw comparisons between dictators and American politicians, didn't you get the latest copy of "Rules that Don't Apply To Us"?

No surprise you'd defend the guy - all republicans are angelic, pure as the driven snow victims to you.

You should just admit you worship all politicians with an (R) by their name and get it over with, instead of your usual make one post and run away like a coward schtick.

stevetherobot

2011-11-07 03:11:35 PM

StrangeQ: Even your most backwards, head-up-the-ass and living in the past conservative knows how to use a smartphone

We are talking about members of Congress here.

NewportBarGuy

2011-11-07 04:57:23 PM

I just wish someone would point out exactly what Obama is doing that is so bad? He's borderline boring with how middle-of-the-road he is. You people are so f*cking stuck on your hatred of the other side that you refuse to even look as sensible offers from the other side.

I don't think his policies go far enough, yet they are good for the nation as a whole. Revenue increases and budget cuts. How was that so bad? Jesus. F*ck you people. You're the reason why we can't have a solvent country.

Let's have the GITMO debate again so you can say how unsafe our SuperMax prisons are. Terrists gon' rape ur daughters! Steal yer jorbs!

Seriously, you are a pack of petulant children. We decried Bush as a whole because his policies were destroying our country, not because he was a Republican. You need to realize that and move on.

Kibbler

2011-11-07 06:06:17 PM

The cartoon said, "We can do without Congress." Wait--I thought that was the right wing position. How many times have I heard a Republican congressman say, with no apparent irony, "The problem is these here rascals in Congress"--and of course Gaddabongo.

muck4doo

2011-11-07 06:58:44 PM

Is Fark being paid to keep constantly green this TPM crap?

patrick767

2011-11-08 12:13:38 PM

NewportBarGuy
I just wish someone would point out exactly what Obama is doing that is so bad? He's borderline boring with how middle-of-the-road he is. You people are so f*cking stuck on your hatred of the other side that you refuse to even look as sensible offers from the other side.

I don't think his policies go far enough, yet they are good for the nation as a whole. Revenue increases and budget cuts. How was that so bad? Jesus. F*ck you people. You're the reason why we can't have a solvent country.

Let's have the GITMO debate again so you can say how unsafe our SuperMax prisons are. Terrists gon' rape ur daughters! Steal yer jorbs!

Seriously, you are a pack of petulant children. We decried Bush as a whole because his policies were destroying our country, not because he was a Republican. You need to realize that and move on.

This, this, this, and a whole lot of this. The GOP and their followers are ignorant children who only know how to say "NO".
/and "JOBS!" without any actual plan that would lead to more jobs

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