Republicans think it is a winning strategy to apologize for the oil companies? wtf... they used to be good at political pr.

I guess the messages coming out of the crazy right wing media sites are tailored for the drunkest koolaid drinker though so maybe for those viewers it is something they can get behind.

This guy again....

Diogenes: I would like some evidence of how this administration has "crucified" the oil companies. Specifics only, please. Not the typical vague crap I get when I ask these questions.

I've been assured by right wing talk radio listeners that Obama has all but outlawed and destroyed oil production in the US. Despite the fact that it's at a 8-12 years high he's killed it. FOREVER.

SilentStrider: Oil companies have been crucufied?
When did this happen?

That's my question. Major petroleum producers have been blowing through exorbitant amounts of capital securing domestic oil/gas leases here within the last year and a half. Hell, just look at the sheer number of acres Chesapeake has secured in Oklahoma/Texas/Kansas within the last year, then try to tell us with a straight face that oil companies are being crucified by the current administration.

Serious question: Is everyone who writes and posts at Townhall mentally ill? I'm not trying to be funny. Much of it reads like a manifesto from a borderline schizophrenic. Example:

There has been a concerted campaign to marginalize & demonize the principles & doctrines traditionally followed in civil American society. There's been the corresponding push to assert perverse & effete values of the Left & the totalitarian statists as normative & desirable. The pop media goes right along. Those who defend the former are attacked scurrilously, marginalized, boycotted, given the Alinsky treatment, even assaulted. Those asserting the latter views are praised, rewarded, treated like they rep the mainstream.
Personal freedom (except freedom to kill babies & the elderly), free enterprise, private property, monogamous heterosexuality, traditional religious faith, limited government...even freedom of speech now are passe.

The actual "article" wasn't much better. Lots of fragmented thoughts and just plain oddness. Sorry if this is a naive question, but I haven't really looked at this site before.

/Not a psychiatric professional

Headso: Republicans think it is a winning strategy to apologize for the oil companies? wtf... they used to be good at political pr.

I guess the messages coming out of the crazy right wing media sites are tailored for the drunkest koolaid drinker though so maybe for those viewers it is something they can get behind.

Kind of like Christianity. Not a bad thing, but their PR Representatives SUCK.

coeyagi: LasersHurt: Lando Lincoln: Citrate1007: TownHall should actually get an award for being such a progressive company that they only hire mentally handicapped individuals. I am also a little jealous that the writers get paid for this drivel....I wish I could work while drunk.

That does give me an idea.

1) Get loaded out of my mind
2) Write stuff that I think a conservative idiot would say and submit it to Town Hall / American Thinker / WND
3) Get paid

Monetizing Poe's law. I like it.

I think this was basically covered in South Park's episode about how they write Family Guy.

Two eels move some random balls from one side of the room to the other and they weave a narrative for Family Guy. Though, in this case, it would be Star-Spangled Eagles moving empty Budweiser bottles with notes in them from one room to another.

They were manatees not eels.

Aarontology: RexTalionis: Are these people ever happy?

This is a rhetorical question, right?

We're talking about people who are pissed off that bin Laden was killed.

Hey, Fartbongo only did that for political gain!

RexTalionis: Are these people ever happy?

Even when they get their way, they are MORE pissed off.

So no, they are forever bitter miserable people.

But it really screws up Obama and Secretary Chu's plan to keep energy prices so high that European prices begin to look cheap.
Seriously?! Has this idiot even seen the gas prices in Europe?

Will no one think about the needs of the oppressed, powerless oil companies?

keylock71: I'd love to get my hands on some of what the clowns at Town Hall are smoking these days...

No you wouldn't. It's hate. Pure, Borderline Personality Disorder, hate.

Ooh look, a fat white guy criticizing the President. You don't see that every day.

The Green Manalishi: There has been a concerted campaign to marginalize & demonize the principles & doctrines traditionally followed in civil American society. There's been the corresponding push to assert perverse & effete values of the Left & the totalitarian statists as normative & desirable. The pop media goes right along. Those who defend the former are attacked scurrilously, marginalized, boycotted, given the Alinsky treatment, even assaulted. Those asserting the latter views are praised, rewarded, treated like they rep the mainstream.
Personal freedom (except freedom to kill babies & the elderly), free enterprise, private property, monogamous heterosexuality, traditional religious faith, limited government...even freedom of speech now are passe.

This passage you pasted in here is a perfect example of why it is a bad idea to educate a stupid person. Because all you get is a stupid person that uses big words.

I think that if it's okay for poor people to have to take a piss test to get welfare/unemployment benefits, then in exchange for billions in subsidies, corporate CEOs should have to take the same piss test on live TV. That seems pretty fair to me.

The Green Manalishi: Serious question: Is everyone who writes and posts at Townhall mentally ill? I'm not trying to be funny. Much of it reads like a manifesto from a borderline schizophrenic. Example:

There has been a concerted campaign to marginalize & demonize the principles & doctrines traditionally followed in civil American society. There's been the corresponding push to assert perverse & effete values of the Left & the totalitarian statists as normative & desirable. The pop media goes right along. Those who defend the former are attacked scurrilously, marginalized, boycotted, given the Alinsky treatment, even assaulted. Those asserting the latter views are praised, rewarded, treated like they rep the mainstream.
Personal freedom (except freedom to kill babies & the elderly), free enterprise, private property, monogamous heterosexuality, traditional religious faith, limited government...even freedom of speech now are passe.

The actual "article" wasn't much better. Lots of fragmented thoughts and just plain oddness. Sorry if this is a naive question, but I haven't really looked at this site before.

/Not a psychiatric professional

I think you're onto something. The level of cognitive dissonance required to be a Republican these days is staggering. I say that as a former Republican who still shares many rhetorically 'conservative' views, but whose brain, heart, and soul just could not abide their unflinching resolve to hijack the party of personal responsibility, small government, and private enterprise, and make it the party of dominionism and corporatism. There's really no other way to put it: the Republicans and their spokespeople (Townhall, Fox News, Clearchannel) can't possibly understand and agree with the views that they tout, they just BELIEVE them because they value loyalty and patriotism and the guys slathered in Red, White, and Blue HAVE to be patriotic and they HAVE to remain loyal to them.

Its sad, and I yearn for a day where we have two parties worth deliberating over. The Democrats are terrible hand wringing neoliberal goons, but at least they pay lip service to leveling the playing field and in many ways (other than foreign policy) are what the Republicans used to be.

The D's are shady and weak, but the R's are just farking loons who've chased all pragmatic, reasonable people away. The only ones left are the ones eager to live in a monoculture devoid of outside influence, a custom-crafted reality that echoes with anger and pride. Pity them, for they know not what they do.

Aarontology: RexTalionis: Are these people ever happy?

This is a rhetorical question, right?

We're talking about people who are pissed off that bin Laden was killed.

You know, I never thought about it that way, but it really makes everything so much easier to understand.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: The Green Manalishi: There has been a concerted campaign to marginalize & demonize the principles & doctrines traditionally followed in civil American society. There's been the corresponding push to assert perverse & effete values of the Left & the totalitarian statists as normative & desirable. The pop media goes right along. Those who defend the former are attacked scurrilously, marginalized, boycotted, given the Alinsky treatment, even assaulted. Those asserting the latter views are praised, rewarded, treated like they rep the mainstream.
Personal freedom (except freedom to kill babies & the elderly), free enterprise, private property, monogamous heterosexuality, traditional religious faith, limited government...even freedom of speech now are passe.

This passage you pasted in here is a perfect example of why it is a bad idea to educate a stupid person. Because all you get is a stupid person that uses big words.






Did someone say bloviating?

coeyagi: We get it, he's Black Crude.

WE GET IT, HE'S TEXAS TEA

Just how farking stupid does someone have to be to think that a president wants high gas prices during his election campaign?

STFU, Townhall, you cocks.

Don't you see? He's just letting them go down temporarily so he gets re-elected. Then he's really going to hike them up! This isn't an opinion, it's FACT!

Headline: It's certainly nice for the rest of us that oil prices are coming down. But it really screws up Obama and Secretary Chu's plan to keep energy prices so high. Maybe now they'll apologize for crucifying oil companies. But I doubt it HURRRRRRRRRR DERP DERP

/ftfy

I've always wondered how many times I need to bash my head against the desk to just get the right amount of brain damage in order for me to write something for TownHall.

birchman
Don't you see? He's just letting them go down temporarily so he gets re-elected. Then he's really going to hike them up! This isn't an opinion, it's FACT!

Conservatives will believe that one. Hell, they believe the chief lunatic at the NRA, LaPierre, when he rants that even though Obama hasn't come for your guns yet, he's definitely going to get to trampling the 2nd amendment if he gets re-elected.

You people are absurd.

/WND people
//not fark people
///well, some fark people

Didn't read TFA. Did it have my favorite conservative "fact" about oil: that if the federal government would only let us drill everywhere - offshore, ANWR, your mom's backyard - we could stop importing oil.

Because that one never fails to crack me up.

keylock71: Diogenes: keylock71: I'd love to get my hands on some of what the clowns at Town Hall are smoking these days...

I'm guessing I can pick some up in the cleaning product aisle at my local market?

Oh, key...bath salts are soooo bad for you.

They're not so bad. Though, I hear the "munchies" are a biatch.

Depends on who you're munching on.

Don't Troll Me Bro!: /WND people

/TownHall people
//derp

coeyagi: LasersHurt: This is pure gold. Amazing. Not only is it a socialist plot when it goes up, but ALSO when it goes down. Delightful.

There is no reality in their stupid brains where Obama has the United States' best interests in mind. It just can't be possible. It would be like asking a regiment of black soldiers to fight for their country in the Civil War.

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Why did I just read that in his voice? Dammit!
/titty sprinkles

AngryPanda: Citrate1007: Pre-9/11 GOP Read Orwell and view it as a warning
Post-9/11 GOP Read Orwell and adopt it as a political ideology

Doublespeak, Doublethink

Dammit, you. We went a whole week where no one mentioned that goddamn book. Now I have to give you a citation. It's double if you mention Idiocracy in the same sentence.

/read new books people

How about The Handmaid's Tale? That seems FAR more prophetic than most dystopian fantasies, given the dominionist bent of Christian right. Or Oryx and Crake, given the corporatocracy we seem hell-bent on forming.

Really, I think the DNC should just mail a copy of every book Margaret Atwood has ever written to every registered voter in the country.

MisterRonbo: Didn't read TFA. Did it have my favorite conservative "fact" about oil: that if the federal government would only let us drill everywhere - offshore, ANWR, your mom's backyard - we could stop importing oil.

Because that one never fails to crack me up.

I've still never gotten a coherent explanation from a pro-drilling conservative as to how changing the supply of oil HERE is going to change the price of oil on WORLD markets when OPEC can just drop its output to keep the supply/demand at exactly the same ratio. They usually just clam up or start pretending that somehow, out of the goodness of their hearts, oil companies (many of which aren't even U.S. companies) will only sell it to us and they'll sell it at below market rates.

But, then, I've never accused a conservative of being honest....

NO BLOOD FOR OIL!!!!!..........anyone?

Mrtraveler01: I've always wondered how many times I need to bash my head against the desk to just get the right amount of brain damage in order for me to write something for TownHall.

Twice for each book you've read (but you get a 5-bash credit if one of them was an illustrated children's version of the Bible or Atlas Shrugged).

Oil prices are coming down, huh?

Wake me when I can pay $0.879/gallon for gas again, like I did during the Clinton administration.

Splinshints: They usually just clam up or start pretending that somehow, out of the goodness of their hearts, oil companies (many of which aren't even U.S. companies) will only sell it to us and they'll sell it at below market rates.

I always find myself laughing hysterically and shaking my head when someone actually believes something that stupid.

But then again the oil lobby has done a spectacular job deceiving Americans and leaving them in the dark about how the oil market works to the point that many people actually do believe something that stupid.

poot_rootbeer: Oil prices are coming down, huh?

Wake me when I can pay $0.879/gallon for gas again, like I did during the Clinton administration.

Sorry to break it to you but most economists agree that no matter how much oil we can drill here, we'll never see prices that low again.

Thank the BRIC nations for that one.

SilentStrider: Oil companies have been crucufied?
When did this happen?

I think it may have been on a Cross of Gold, but I haven't really been following politics since the early 1900's

Fun Fact: Average gas prices around Seattle are still $4.25 and haven't dropped a penny since oil prices started going down.