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NewportBarGuy

2011-11-30 09:13:30 AM

Honestly, what else is there to do but laugh at their incredibly stupid worldview?

vudukungfu

2011-11-30 09:23:14 AM

That thing reads like the asrgument sketch from MontyPython.

NewportBarGuy: Honestly, what else is there to do but laugh at their incredibly stupid worldview?

Avoid the holidays with them, too?

hubiestubert

2011-11-30 09:23:42 AM

When faced with idiocy so large, the only sane thing to do is laugh, and then report what they said...

mrshowrules

2011-11-30 09:29:24 AM

You are not suppose to laugh as a reporter even though someone says something as stupid and attributing getting OBL to Bush and doesn't give credit to Obama for Libya.

Adopting a "wait and see" attitude in terms of judging the success to Libya is retarded. Libya was a success. The future of the country is still up in the air but it was handled masterfully by Obama with an intelligent doctrine which I hope is the standard for future involvement in international conflicts.

/however, you shouldn't laugh as a reporter. Laugh later when you listen to the recording.

Magorn

2011-11-30 09:29:37 AM

Republican Logic: 1 month after Obama is sworn in the destroyed economy is all his fault a result of his "socialist, Job-killing, business-hating policies"

3 years in office and all his foreign policy successes are "Thanks to Bush"

Diogenes

2011-11-30 09:33:03 AM

I wish they'd actually gotten into the topic instead of having a slapfight over the term "advocacy."

Boring.

WTF Indeed

2011-11-30 09:34:18 AM

This is just another example of liberals trying to assign strict meanings to words. We live in a capitalist society, words should be open to competition and then bundled together to make them more useful. But instead liberals demand their socialist way, and that we be told by their union thug teachers what words mean.

ginandbacon

2011-11-30 09:39:27 AM

WTF Indeed: This is just another example of liberals trying to assign strict meanings to words. We live in a capitalist society, words should be open to competition and then bundled together to make them more useful. But instead liberals demand their socialist way, and that we be told by their union thug teachers what words mean.

Have I told you lately that I love you?

keylock71

2011-11-30 09:40:19 AM

Diogenes: I wish they'd actually gotten into the topic instead of having a slapfight over the term "advocacy."

Boring.

Yep...

Having said that, I'm amazed that more reporters aren't busting out laughing with some of the nonsense that has been coming out of GOP politician's mouths in the last few years.

sweetmelissa31

2011-11-30 09:43:00 AM

NewportBarGuy: Honestly, what else is there to do but laugh at their incredibly stupid worldview?

The Republican debates should really have a laugh track.

Code_Archeologist

2011-11-30 09:46:16 AM

vudukungfu: Avoid the holidays with them, too?

Actually that is the best time. I had an argument like this during Thanksgiving...

RWI: And really what has the federal government ever gotten right when they were involved?
C_A: The interstate highway system
RWI: (exasperated) well yeah there is that, but even a blind pig finds an acorn every now and then.
C_A: The GI Bill (knowing he went to college on one)
RWI: uhm... well...
C_A: the Civilian Conservation Corps
RWI: (blinks) what the hell is that?
C_A: New Deal era program that put unskilled laborers to work developing federal, state, and local lands into parks... it was the most popular New Deal program and is used as a model for similar jobs programs today.
RWI: ...are you done?
Grandma C_A: I am particularly fond of Social Security
RWI: (goes off to get another beer and sulk)

mrshowrules

2011-11-30 09:46:31 AM

Magorn: Republican Logic: 1 month after Obama is sworn in the destroyed economy is all his fault a result of his "socialist, Job-killing, business-hating policies"

3 years in office and all his foreign policy successes are "Thanks to Bush"

If it wasn't for Obama, Bush would have got OBL in his first term. Because of Obama's obstructionism, it took Bush 10 years to get OBL. As for Libya, that is entirely Obama's failure apparently.

GAT_00

2011-11-30 09:51:28 AM

Magorn: Republican Logic: 1 month after Obama is sworn in the destroyed economy is all his fault a result of his "socialist, Job-killing, business-hating policies"

3 years in office and all his foreign policy successes are "Thanks to Bush"

And remember, Carter caused that recession in 1983, but the Bush Tax Cuts instantly fixed the economy.

Cewley

2011-11-30 09:55:00 AM

The Diaz-Balart brothers are well known pinheads who figured out saying Cuba Si - Castro No was enough to get them elected. Toss in Ros-Lehtinen, and you have the Tres Stooges.

alizeran

2011-11-30 09:55:46 AM

Appeaser!

Appeaser!

Appeaser!

Appeaser!

Appeaser!

Appeaser!

Thats No Moose

2011-11-30 09:56:26 AM

vudukungfu: That thing reads like the asrgument sketch from MontyPython.

This.

I actually spat into my coffee mug on reading the transcript.

wmoonfox

2011-11-30 09:56:26 AM

That reads like a Monty Python skit.

coeyagi

2011-11-30 09:56:41 AM

Latinos in the Republican party. There, done, no reason to listen to them.

Lord_Baull

2011-11-30 09:56:48 AM

Attacks, subby?

[inigomontoya.jpg]

pootsie

2011-11-30 09:57:27 AM

[ laughing guy.jpg ]
HA HA
IM AN ADVOCATE!

Tigger

2011-11-30 09:57:34 AM

/however, you shouldn't laugh as a reporter. Laugh later when you listen to the recording

While in general I agree this convention couldn't possibly foresee the stupidity of the current GOP.

Either way it's not 'advocating' if you came to work with a pickle lodged in your ass as a result of a homoerotic fantasy gone horribly wrong then I would laugh a lot - doesn't mean I"m advocating pickles in the bum.

God's Hubris

2011-11-30 09:58:01 AM

I was told by reliable sources that the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are solely Obama's.

Diogenes

2011-11-30 09:58:39 AM

alizeran: Appeaser!

Appeaser!

Appeaser!

Appeaser!

Appeaser!

Appeaser!

I miss that guy! Where'd he go? I guess the Teabaggers drowned him out by turning it up to 11.

God's Hubris

2011-11-30 09:59:26 AM

Magorn: Republican Logic: 1 month ~~after~~before Obama is sworn in the destroyed economy is all his fault a result of his "socialist, Job-killing, business-hating policies"
3 years in office and all his foreign policy successes are "Thanks to Bush"

FTFY

NeverDrunk23

2011-11-30 10:00:34 AM

sweetmelissa31: NewportBarGuy: Honestly, what else is there to do but laugh at their incredibly stupid worldview?

The Republican debates should really have a laugh track.

The damn thing would explode after sentence number 3. Even laugh tracks can only take so much crap.

JusticeandIndependence

2011-11-30 10:01:16 AM

Lord_Baull: Attacks, subby?

[inigomontoya.jpg]

Yeah, I came in here to ask that question.

KatjaMouse

2011-11-30 10:01:54 AM

NewportBarGuy: Honestly, what else is there to do but laugh at their incredibly stupid worldview?

A few months ago there was this video floating around on facebook where this journalist student went around the Glenn Beck Tea Party rally in DC and just asked attendees a series of questions and put it in a well edited montage. And by well edited I mean that the answers were all intact, not chopped up and edited out of context and he created a record of what these people actually believe. And still that kid got slammed by the right for making them look bad and manipulating people or taking a biased and liberal look at the Tea Party. Again... he asked them pretty straight forward questions and posted the answers he recorded.

/The truth has a liberal bias, apparently

Arkanaut

2011-11-30 10:03:20 AM

Diogenes: I wish they'd actually gotten into the topic instead of having a slapfight over the term "advocacy."

Boring.

He was being an advocate for his definition of advocacy!

spcMike

2011-11-30 10:04:01 AM

NeverDrunk23: Even laugh tracks can only take so much crap.

They could borrow the laugh track from The Big Bang Theory. Lord knows that one is industrial strength.

Soon Right Away

2011-11-30 10:04:04 AM

Well, Taxbummer created Arabs and Muslimity and Bush (peace and blessings upon him for as long as he lives and even a while after, too) created the antidote for them so whenever we kill a terrorist (pronounced Muslim) then really Bush did it because he's the Founding Father of terrorist killings.

Reporter had no reason to laugh....

KatjaMouse

2011-11-30 10:04:13 AM

Code_Archeologist: Actually that is the best time. I had an argument like this during Thanksgiving...

RWI: And really what has the federal government ever gotten right when they were involved?
C_A: The interstate highway system
RWI: (exasperated) well yeah there is that, but even a blind pig finds an acorn every now and then.
C_A: The GI Bill (knowing he went to college on one)
RWI: uhm... well...
C_A: the Civilian Conservation Corps
RWI: (blinks) what the hell is that?
C_A: New Deal era program that put unskilled laborers to work developing federal, state, and local lands into parks... it was the most popular New Deal program and is used as a model for similar jobs programs today.
RWI: ...are you done?
Grandma C_A: I am particularly fond of Social Security
RWI: (goes off to get another beer and sulk)

I think this needs to be rewritten and turned into a Life of Brian homage.

Pants full of macaroni!!

2011-11-30 10:04:44 AM

Pants-on-head retarded.... or pants-on-head BRILLIANT?

/meh, got nuthin

coeyagi

2011-11-30 10:06:02 AM

God's Hubris: I was told by reliable sources that the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are solely Obama's.

How reliable?

4.bp.blogspot.com

God's Hubris

2011-11-30 10:06:33 AM

KatjaMouse: NewportBarGuy: Honestly, what else is there to do but laugh at their incredibly stupid worldview?

A few months ago there was this video floating around on facebook where this journalist student went around the Glenn Beck Tea Party rally in DC and just asked attendees a series of questions and put it in a well edited montage. And by well edited I mean that the answers were all intact, not chopped up and edited out of context and he created a record of what these people actually believe. And still that kid got slammed by the right for making them look bad and manipulating people or taking a biased and liberal look at the Tea Party. Again... he asked them pretty straight forward questions and posted the answers he recorded.

/The truth has a liberal bias, apparently

Is this a surprise considering these people think regulation kills jobs, and deregulation creates wealth for everyone even in the face of the recent Wall Street financial fiasco?

badhatharry

2011-11-30 10:06:46 AM

Diaz-Balart: "And I respect you when I give a point of view that you disagree with, laughing about it."

Reporter: "I don't know why you think I disagree with it."

Diaz-Balart: "You laughed about it."

The reporter is the stupid one.

KatjaMouse

2011-11-30 10:06:47 AM

coeyagi: How reliable?

That screen cap... can't be real.

Lord_Baull

2011-11-30 10:08:12 AM

Arkanaut: Diogenes: I wish they'd actually gotten into the topic instead of having a slapfight over the term "advocacy."

Boring.

He was being an advocate for his definition of advocacy!

I can appreciate his advocacy for the definition of advocacy.

Peki

2011-11-30 10:08:22 AM

wmoonfox: That reads like a Monty Python skit.

No it doesn't.

coeyagi

2011-11-30 10:08:38 AM

badhatharry: Diaz-Balart: "And I respect you when I give a point of view that you disagree with, laughing about it."

Reporter: "I don't know why you think I disagree with it."

Diaz-Balart: "You laughed about it."

The reporter is the stupid one.

Not really, I am pretty sure he was just trolling the dumbass.

KellyX

2011-11-30 10:08:48 AM

Code_Archeologist: vudukungfu: Avoid the holidays with them, too?

Actually that is the best time. I had an argument like this during Thanksgiving...

RWI: And really what has the federal government ever gotten right when they were involved?
C_A: The interstate highway system
RWI: (exasperated) well yeah there is that, but even a blind pig finds an acorn every now and then.
C_A: The GI Bill (knowing he went to college on one)
RWI: uhm... well...
C_A: the Civilian Conservation Corps
RWI: (blinks) what the hell is that?
C_A: New Deal era program that put unskilled laborers to work developing federal, state, and local lands into parks... it was the most popular New Deal program and is used as a model for similar jobs programs today.
RWI: ...are you done?
Grandma C_A: I am particularly fond of Social Security
RWI: (goes off to get another beer and sulk)

Is it bad I'm immediately thinking of the Monty Python skit from Life of Brian when I read that? God... life imitates comedy... so sad.

Jackson Herring

2011-11-30 10:08:51 AM

KatjaMouse

2011-11-30 10:08:55 AM

Peki: wmoonfox: That reads like a Monty Python skit.

No it doesn't.

Well, not one of the better ones.

someonelse

2011-11-30 10:08:57 AM

mrshowrules: You are not suppose to laugh as a reporter even though someone says something as stupid and attributing getting OBL to Bush and doesn't give credit to Obama for Libya.

True, but sometimes it's really hard not to. Especially when you know you shouldn't.

3.bp.blogspot.com

beta_plus

2011-11-30 10:10:16 AM

Stupid republicans. Quadaffi giving up his WMD program was completely due to Obama. NATO assisting the ethnic cleansing of sub-saharan black africans who were descended from slaves from Libya by Libyan insurgents was Bush's fault.

And Obama deserves all the credit for ordering the extra-judicial assassination of a man in front of his family while invading the territory of a country that never attacked us using intelligence gathered through torture.

/left wing media bias is a lie propagated by the racist facist koch brothers

KatjaMouse

2011-11-30 10:10:16 AM

KellyX: Is it bad I'm immediately thinking of the Monty Python skit from Life of Brian when I read that? God... life imitates comedy... so sad.

See dude? That's two Life of Brian mentions. This needs to be done now.

I alone am best

2011-11-30 10:10:18 AM

GAT_00: Magorn: Republican Logic: 1 month after Obama is sworn in the destroyed economy is all his fault a result of his "socialist, Job-killing, business-hating policies"

3 years in office and all his foreign policy successes are "Thanks to Bush"

And remember, Carter caused that recession in 1983, but the Bush Tax Cuts instantly fixed the economy.

You got half that right. I'm proud of you.

coeyagi

2011-11-30 10:11:29 AM

beta_plus: Stupid republicans. Quadaffi giving up his WMD program was completely due to Obama. NATO assisting the ethnic cleansing of sub-saharan black africans who were descended from slaves from Libya by Libyan insurgents was Bush's fault.

And Obama deserves all the credit for ordering the extra-judicial assassination of a man in front of his family while invading the territory of a country that never attacked us using intelligence gathered through torture.

/left wing media bias is a lie propagated by the racist facist koch brothers

3/10. You are putting more effort into these as of late. Kudos!

Wellon Dowd

2011-11-30 10:11:44 AM

Peki: wmoonfox: That reads like a Monty Python skit.

No it doesn't.

Yes, it does.

Fart_Machine

2011-11-30 10:11:45 AM

Zombie Butler

2011-11-30 10:12:16 AM

mrshowrules: You are not suppose to laugh as a reporter even though someone says something as stupid and attributing getting OBL to Bush and doesn't give credit to Obama for Libya.

Adopting a "wait and see" attitude in terms of judging the success to Libya is retarded. Libya was a success. The future of the country is still up in the air but it was handled masterfully by Obama with an intelligent doctrine which I hope is the standard for future involvement in international conflicts.

/however, you shouldn't laugh as a reporter. Laugh later when you listen to the recording.

Agreed. I miss neutral reporting that didn't tell me what to think while telling me the events of the day.

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