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(Huffington Post) Amusing Macaca, v2.0: George Allen, thinking his mic is off, describes a Facebook townhall meeting as "torturous"   (huffingtonpost.com) divider line 68
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NewportBarGuy [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 10:29:10 PM
Wow, that's it?

Lame.
 
Fart_Machine
2011-12-21 10:30:56 PM
And so?
 
s2s2s2
2011-12-21 10:30:58 PM
I am outraged, right?
 
s2s2s2
2011-12-21 10:32:15 PM
Is this the guy that when told by someone that the person's name was "Macaca" had the temerity to refer to him by that name?
 
FlyinS
2011-12-21 10:33:15 PM
Dudes a douche but this is very "meh".
 
Fart_Machine
2011-12-21 10:36:51 PM
s2s2s2: Is this the guy that when told by someone that the person's name was "Macaca" had the temerity to refer to him by that name?

No, this is the guy who made up several different stories (because S.R. Sidarth sounds like Macaca) for calling the guy a slur for videotaping him.
 
ghare
2011-12-21 10:37:05 PM
I agree with him on this one. A facebook meeting probably IS torturous
 
WorldCitizen [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 10:37:17 PM
Yeah, sounds like he was talking about the technical issues part of it. Non-story.
 
Get Lost
2011-12-21 10:37:47 PM
Them durn needy peoples that vote and biatch and complain will be the death of him.

/Meh video.
//7 weeks until next republican outed.........
 
CravenMorehead
2011-12-21 10:38:40 PM
Whatever. Sadly there are people who would actually vote for this idiot again.
 
culebra
2011-12-21 10:38:47 PM
To be fair, he was talking to Virginians.
 
Altair
2011-12-21 10:39:50 PM
Yeah why even green light this?
 
inglixthemad
2011-12-21 10:46:37 PM
s2s2s2: I am outraged, right?

More like laughing.
 
StopLurkListen
2011-12-21 10:47:08 PM
Well, they are. Only idiots, perverts and trolls post to internet thingys.
 
cirby
2011-12-21 10:54:21 PM
"he was frustrated [because] staff couldn't confirm if technical difficulties [with Facebook] townhall prevented people from viewing."

Facebook only bats about .500 on this sort of thing, and some times, it just flat falls apart - like what happened here.

Rahm Emanuel's first one pretty much crashed and burned, for example.
 
Hickory-smoked
2011-12-21 11:01:20 PM
What? Was he supposed to say "enhanced-interregationous?"

Anybody offended by this statement probably hasn't spent any time on Facebook.
 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 11:06:07 PM
Always treat cameras and microphones as if they were live. Especially if you're a whiner running for office.
 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 11:09:44 PM
I'm going to have to say that someone who thinks this represents "macaca 2.0" is probably a soul-sucking moron.
 
cannibalparrot
2011-12-21 11:13:31 PM
Bucky Katt: Always treat cameras and microphones as if they were live. Especially if you're a whiner running for office.

They're the gun that'll kill your campaign.
 
lennavan
2011-12-21 11:16:11 PM
I have to say I am super poutraged that a politician planned his remarks in front of a camera and possibly made a mistake. This is so amazingly poutrageous I am about to scream. Seriously, scream.
 
LectertheChef
2011-12-21 11:16:19 PM
Not exactly a scandal, Facebook sucks goat balls, it's not really a secret.
 
jpo2269
2011-12-21 11:21:05 PM
commenting on technical issues is now news?

huffpo has never been a credible news source,but damn, this is some weapons grade stupidity on their part...
 
velvet_fog
2011-12-21 11:21:16 PM
ghare: I agree with him on this one. A facebook meeting probably IS torturous

and

culebra: To be fair, he was talking to Virginians.

This isn't Macaca 2: Electric Boogaloo by any stretch. In fact, it's a little refreshing to see a politician speaking spontaneously and acting human for a change.
 
s2s2s2
2011-12-21 11:22:46 PM
Fart_Machine: s2s2s2: Is this the guy that when told by someone that the person's name was "Macaca" had the temerity to refer to him by that name?

No, this is the guy who made up several different stories (because S.R. Sidarth sounds like Macaca) for calling the guy a slur for videotaping him.

It is hard not to be felled while walking amongst all these balls.
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 11:24:59 PM
s2s2s2: Fart_Machine: s2s2s2: Is this the guy that when told by someone that the person's name was "Macaca" had the temerity to refer to him by that name?

No, this is the guy who made up several different stories (because S.R. Sidarth sounds like Macaca) for calling the guy a slur for videotaping him.

It is hard not to be felled while walking amongst all these balls.

What is this I don't even
 
Fista-Phobia
2011-12-21 11:33:50 PM
Thanks trollmitter.

Mata. MATA. DrogbaaaAAAA. LAMPARD. GOOOAALLL!
 
technicolor-misfit
2011-12-21 11:36:05 PM
I'm a dirty libby-lib commie, but he's clearly referring to the fact that it apparently took three takes and he was very much out of his element with the webcasting process... NOT that it was torturous to talk to voters.

Please, my fellow liberals, stop sinking to the Breitbart/Limbaugh level of trying to spin perfectly innocent stuff into an unbelievable outrage. That's not a contest we need to try to "win."

"OMG, he said 'torturous!!!' Obviously he was talking about interacting with the citizens of Virginia!!!"

Of course, this has more to do with ginning up bullshiat page-views than anything else, I'm sure.
 
Lackofname
2011-12-21 11:39:22 PM
Non-story, overzealous blogger.
 
Satanic_Hamster
2011-12-21 11:46:48 PM
You know, the only real failure here is the subby for writing his moronic inaccurate headline and the jerkwad who approved this non-story.
 
sammyk [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 11:49:00 PM
CravenMorehead: Whatever. Sadly there are people who would actually vote for this idiot again.

I don't know his politics so I have no opinion on his idiocy. But if I was thinking of voting for him before today this gaffe wouldn't change my mind one bit.
 
BMulligan
2011-12-21 11:49:13 PM
Slow not-news day, obviously.
 
brainiac-dumdum
2011-12-21 11:49:35 PM
It was torturous, I was promised Macaca and there was no Macaca. Now I know how John McCain felt.
 
AgeOfReason
2011-12-21 11:52:57 PM
s2s2s2: Is this the guy that when told by someone that the person's name was "Macaca" had the temerity to refer to him by that name?

Keep on farking that chicken.
 
VictoryCabal [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 11:55:37 PM
Let's not forget the real sin of the whole macaca thing. I'm not a mind reader, so let's set aside the whole was-it-intended-as-a-racial-slur thing.* George Allen was born and raised in California. But when he was standing up in front of a crowd in Virginia, he told them to welcome Sidarth to America and Virginia. Sidarth was born and raised in Virginia. Yet because he was brown, Allen felt it was entirely appropriate for that crowd of redneck goobers to welcome Sidarth to the place he was born, because obviously he wasn't quite as Real American as the rest of him. So fark George Allen. I'm more Virginian than that asshole.

* of course it was. Allen is, and always has been, a racist asshole.
 
Dr. Mojo PhD
2011-12-21 11:58:13 PM
OH NOES! POLITICIANS SOMETIMES DISLIKE THE WORK THEY DO TOO, AND BLOW OFF A LITTLE STEAM WHEN IT'S OVER! AND HE'S A REPUBLICAN! WAH! WAH!

farking hell people, get your priorities straight.
 
s2s2s2
2011-12-22 12:08:32 AM
AgeOfReason: s2s2s2: Is this the guy that when told by someone that the person's name was "Macaca" had the temerity to refer to him by that name?

Keep on farking that chicken.

Neigh!
 
Notabunny
2011-12-22 12:27:02 AM
I hear there's a white sale at Macy's
 
DeaH
2011-12-22 12:33:09 AM
Look, it has already been established that Allen is a human turd, but this is not more evidence of that. Calling the participants knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers? Sure, really disrespectful. Calling them inbred Deliverance rejects? Okay, insulting. Calling them sheep who will bleat whatever tune their Republican masters tell them to? That would be bad.

Torturous? C'mon, subby. He was saying that he finds Facebook hard. That is not insulting other people. That's calling himself dumb.
 
Happy Hours [TotalFark]
2011-12-22 12:47:22 AM
"Server issues" - the standard response these days.

Comcast told me that the reason I was having problems was "server issues" and that they needed to send someone to my house to fix it. She even said "I understand what the problem is but I can't explain it." So "server issues".
 
Bigdogdaddy
2011-12-22 12:51:01 AM
I didn't read all of the comments nor google his name. I need to find out if he was a (D) or an (R) behind his political affiliation before I can conjure up proper outrage.........

Oh wait, I don't care.
 
Britney Spear's Speculum
2011-12-22 01:00:16 AM
Here's what I don't understand with SOPA, and Protect IP when it comes to the Democrats. George Allen lost because of Youtube. Obama won because of youtube.
 
The RIchest Man in Babylon
2011-12-22 01:21:48 AM
As a Virginian let me say a few things: (1) This is retarded. Facebook sucks, so I bet it was tortuous. (2) George Allen is a racist shiatbag. (3) F*ck you, Virginia for giving this dirtbag another shot at the political apple in this state. This is why we can't have nice things.

Seriously. George Allen having the nerve to run for office in Virginia again is like Newt Gingrich running for national office aga- oh, wait.

F*ck you, America.
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2011-12-22 01:26:58 AM
Britney Spear's Speculum: Here's what I don't understand with SOPA, and Protect IP when it comes to the Democrats. George Allen lost because of Youtube. Obama won because of youtube.

You're expecting, for the most part, 50- and 60-year-old non-technical people to understand the Internet.

/I like hyphens.
 
MrPerfectSU
2011-12-22 01:52:44 AM
Lackofname: Non-story, overzealous blogger.

Heh. Never before has this meme been so, so actually true.
 
LucklessWonder
2011-12-22 01:58:26 AM
The RIchest Man in Babylon: As a Virginian let me say a few things: (1) This is retarded. Facebook sucks, so I bet it was tortuous. (2) George Allen is a racist shiatbag. (3) F*ck you, Virginia for giving this dirtbag another shot at the political apple in this state. This is why we can't have nice things.

Seriously. George Allen having the nerve to run for office in Virginia again is like Newt Gingrich running for national office aga- oh, wait.

F*ck you, America.

THIS, my God, so much farking THIS!

/Cantor's a coontwaffle that Virginia foisted on the national stage also.
 
quatchi
2011-12-22 06:30:04 AM
Lame non-story is lame.

George Allan *is* still a twatwaffle, though.
 
Wyalt Derp
2011-12-22 06:41:23 AM
This is a big farking deal.
 
StrikitRich
2011-12-22 07:24:14 AM
Who hasn't described dealing with Facebook as torturous before?
 
Jake Havechek
2011-12-22 07:44:15 AM
s2s2s2: Is this the guy that when told by someone that the person's name was "Macaca" had the temerity to refer to him by that name?

Why don't you look stuff up before you make your dumbass comments.

Macaca (new window)
 
ToddMU03
2011-12-22 08:14:49 AM
Sounds like there were technical issues. I don't think he was talking about the meeting itself but the technical glitches. Anything with technical problems can be torturous.
 
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