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(Yahoo)   Bait and Switch 101: 1) Find an inbred racist moron who misquotes the Bible and says he hates Obama. 2) Imply that anyone not supporting Obama is just like this guy. 3) Oh, did I say "imply"?   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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torch
2008-10-27 12:44:43 PM  
"God taught the children of Israel not to intermarry."

Which is to say, don't marry your sister.
 
patrick767
2008-10-27 12:49:56 PM  
Obama is a Marxist Muslim who wants to kill babies. Those who support him are too.
 
burndtdan
2008-10-27 12:49:57 PM  
Bait and Switch 101

sounds more like over-generalization than bait and switch.
 
Bill_Wick's_Friend
2008-10-27 12:59:31 PM  
Find AN inbred moron who hates Obama, misquotes the bible, makes not-at-all bigoted statements about Muslims and black men and who shouts "socialist!" in response to most questions?

Just one? I can find dozens, if not hundreds, on YouTube.
 
Chearl
2008-10-27 1:10:10 PM  
I'm still waiting for the McCain supporter who has honest and intelligent disagreements with Obama policy rather than the typical terrorist, socialist, foreigner empty accusations.
 
R.A.Danny
2008-10-27 1:14:32 PM  
If you lie down with dogs...
 
thomps
2008-10-27 1:16:59 PM  

R.A.Danny: If you lie down with dogs...


God taught the children of Israel not to intermarry...
 
GWShenlong05
2008-10-27 1:20:48 PM  
I could drive around the Florida panhandle and find more than one, if that's the sort of qualifier you're putting on "Bait and Switch," submitter.
 
MacG
2008-10-27 1:22:01 PM  
I only wish the only thing people could come up with to hate was the color of his skin. In that case I would vote for him. Unfortunately, there's lots of stuff to dislike.
 
GWShenlong05
2008-10-27 1:23:51 PM  
Also, this article was surprisingly good. FTFA:

As psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has succinctly observed, "We hold ourselves together by keeping things apart." While legally sanctioned racial segregation in public life may be moldering in history's dustbin, a corresponding segregation in our inner lives continues to structure our thoughts and emotions.

Some people consciously, most unconsciously, hold on for dear life to the pure and invariant categories of "good" and "bad." Keeping them apart and unambiguously distinct helps us retain a reassuring infantile fantasy of safety, order and certainty. "Race" lends itself well to this process of splitting. Imagined as fundamentally unlike us, the racialized other becomes the perfect receptacle into which we are free to project all the wishes, impulses, and longings that we cannot bear to see in our ethnic group or ourselves. In other words, racism allows us to be all-good because there is someplace outside of us to put the bad.

Of course, this ruse we perpetrate on ourselves only works if we can sustain the delusion of absolute difference. Those who are more consciously racist rely on what Erik Erickson called "pseudo-speciation," viewing other racial groups as separate species. "Inter-breeding" thereby becomes a psychological, as well as a theological abomination.

That's a theory I've believed for years, so it's good to hear that validated from an actual psychoanalyst.
 
Bill_Wick's_Friend
2008-10-27 1:30:36 PM  

MacG: Unfortunately, there's lots of stuff to dislike.


Most of the "stuff" turns out to be nonsense.

Ayers?
ACORN?
Rev Wright?
"Socialism! Socialism! Socialism!!"?
Muslim?
Not a US citizen?
"Baby killer!"?


What little bits of truth ARE in there are unimportant to me. That there are so many lies in there shows just how valid most of that "stuff" is.

On the other hand:

* Health care policy -- I like his direction
* Economic policy -- more stable than McCain's "spending freeze....except military....and veteran's care....and, uh...infrastructure, education, anything else he can think of at the moment which is obviously needed"
* Pro choice (vs McCain's flip flopping on Roe v Wade for the past decade)
* Against the war in Iraq.
* FOR a stronger war against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan
* able to see "diplomacy" as important and not just a glossed-over step on the march to war.

/top of my head
 
Psychotropic
2008-10-27 1:43:33 PM  
Real Americans™ support Sarah Palin.
If you do not support Sarah Palin, you are not a Real American™.

This was not said by any average inbred racist moron, This was said by someone running for the vice presidency of the USA.

Sarah Palin is Queen of the Inbred Racist Morons.
 
brigid_fitch
2008-10-27 2:16:10 PM  

Chearl: I'm still waiting for the McCain supporter who has honest and intelligent disagreements with Obama policy rather than the typical terrorist, socialist, foreigner empty accusations.


I've been doing phone canvassing for Obama for the past 2 weeks and have found exactly ONE McCain supporter who had a valid argument: He makes over $400K/year, so will save over $3K in taxes. He was also quite vehement about Obama's diplomatic views on foreign policy, preferring McCain's saber-rattling ideas. "After all, it worked for Reagan with Russia, didn't it?"
 
Craig341
2008-10-27 3:15:10 PM  
...

So, how many right-wing links does this make today?
 
IXI Jim IXI
2008-10-27 3:15:28 PM  
One Drop Rule:

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By ixijimixi at 2008-10-15
 
Macinfarker [OhFark]
2008-10-27 3:17:24 PM  
Someone over at the Fark day shift really hates Obama today...
 
Troublemakers A.C.
2008-10-27 3:17:45 PM  
4.bp.blogspot.comView Full Size
 
Hang On Voltaire
2008-10-27 3:19:20 PM  
FTFA: As Ricky Thompson, a pipe fitter from Mobile, Alabama,

First off, the NY Times reporter CLEARLY had an agenda. Second, he went into a Wal Mart parking lot asking people about Obama so he knew what he was doing targeting lower class whites. Third, he never would report or seek comments like that in NY, NJ or CT. Fourth, Mobile is a majority white city with a black mayor.
 
xuanzhiyouxuan
2008-10-27 3:19:41 PM  

Chearl: I'm still waiting for the McCain supporter who has honest and intelligent disagreements with Obama policy rather than the typical terrorist, socialist, foreigner empty accusations.


That's because republicans hated mccain up until a few months ago. As honestly as people like limbaugh and hannity can't stand Obama, it tears them up inside to support mccain. This fact brightens my day a little.
 
SomethingInYourTeeth
2008-10-27 3:20:12 PM  
Glenn Reynolds, of Martinsdale, Virginia....

There is no Martinsdale, VA. I call shenanigans.
 
Drunk Astronaut
2008-10-27 3:20:18 PM  

Macinfarker: Someone over at the Fark day shift really hates Obama today...


It's just another typical day, actually. Someone must be pre-auditioning for the Fox News version of Fark.
 
bubbaprog
2008-10-27 3:20:36 PM  
submitter does not understand "Bait and Switch."

"Bait and Switch" is what happens when submitter writes a headline that is completely contrary to what the article states. We are baited into clicking, and then the promised article is nowhere to be found, with something less interesting instead.

Then again, perhaps submitter DOES understand Bait and Switch.
 
Hang On Voltaire
2008-10-27 3:20:40 PM  

Macinfarker: Someone over at the Fark day shift really hates Obama today...


It's not Obama's fault, it is the media. They are not going to lose this election and they will be as fraudulent as they can in order to get Obama elected.
 
wage0048
2008-10-27 3:20:41 PM  
Way to go, modmins! You're down to .36% commie!

A few more troll-headlines and you'll be neutral.
 
Iji
2008-10-27 3:20:59 PM  
Who exactly is it that keeps scouring the Internet for pro-republican link submissions to FARK? I mean, damn, you've got to be a pretty big time loser to feel the need to defend the Republican cesspool, let alone taking a proactive involvement.

I'm of the belief that anyone still trying to actively help McCain/Palin is an Ashley Todd drone.
 
Duke_Phillips
2008-10-27 3:22:24 PM  

Hang On Voltaire: Macinfarker: Someone over at the Fark day shift really hates Obama today...

It's not Obama's fault, it is the media. They are not going to lose this election and they will be as fraudulent as they can in order to get Obama elected.


How so?
 
Uchiha_Cycliste [TotalFark]
2008-10-27 3:22:49 PM  
Submitter is a terrorist and anyone who doesn't vote for, nay BOW DOWN TO McCain hates America. God I hate you stupid libs. With your "rights" and "equality" if God wanted everyone to be equal they would all be white, speak American and be Catholic. Anyone who is different is inferior.
 
stratospaly
2008-10-27 3:22:52 PM  

Bill_Wick's_Friend: MacG: Unfortunately, there's lots of stuff to dislike.

Most of the "stuff" turns out to be nonsense.

Ayers?
ACORN?
Rev Wright?
"Socialism! Socialism! Socialism!!"?
Muslim?
Not a US citizen?
"Baby killer!"?


What little bits of truth ARE in there are unimportant to me. That there are so many lies in there shows just how valid most of that "stuff" is.

On the other hand:

* Health care policy -- I like his direction
* Economic policy -- more stable than McCain's "spending freeze....except military....and veteran's care....and, uh...infrastructure, education, anything else he can think of at the moment which is obviously needed"
* Pro choice (vs McCain's flip flopping on Roe v Wade for the past decade)
* Against the war in Iraq.
* FOR a stronger war against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan
* able to see "diplomacy" as important and not just a glossed-over step on the march to war.

/top of my head


Arguing on Fark is like arguing with a woman... Your need to make since is by far overpowered by Farkers drive to make the argument piss you off as much as possible.
 
ArgusRun
2008-10-27 3:22:56 PM  

Hang On Voltaire: FTFA: As Ricky Thompson, a pipe fitter from Mobile, Alabama,

First off, the NY Times reporter CLEARLY had an agenda. Second, he went into a Wal Mart parking lot asking people about Obama so he knew what he was doing targeting lower class whites. Third, he never would report or seek comments like that in NY, NJ or CT. Fourth, Mobile is a majority white city with a black mayor.


You mean he targeted real Americans? That's what I've been hearing. Only small town rural white people are real Americans.
 
Thrakkerzog
2008-10-27 3:23:01 PM  
I think the P.I.T.A gauge is going to burst soon. ;-)
 
Crackertron
2008-10-27 3:23:19 PM  
Imply or Implode?
 
wxgeek
2008-10-27 3:23:37 PM  

Hang On Voltaire: It's not Obama's fault, it is the media. They are not going to lose this election and they will be as fraudulent as they can in order to get Obama elected.


yes. that's it exactly. we're all out get to you.

cower in fear from the media. -twitch-
 
Ozarkhawk
2008-10-27 3:23:50 PM  
Did Hannity get an admin job here?
 
MindStalker
2008-10-27 3:24:31 PM  

brigid_fitch: Chearl: I'm still waiting for the McCain supporter who has honest and intelligent disagreements with Obama policy rather than the typical terrorist, socialist, foreigner empty accusations.

I've been doing phone canvassing for Obama for the past 2 weeks and have found exactly ONE McCain supporter who had a valid argument: He makes over $400K/year, so will save over $3K in taxes. He was also quite vehement about Obama's diplomatic views on foreign policy, preferring McCain's saber-rattling ideas. "After all, it worked for Reagan with Russia, didn't it?"



Just tell him that $3K is less than $10 a day or 0.75% of his salary.
 
Hang On Voltaire
2008-10-27 3:24:40 PM  

ArgusRun:

You mean he targeted real Americans? That's what I've been hearing. Only small town rural white people are real Americans.


He had an agenda and went looking for people to fit it.
 
BergZ
2008-10-27 3:24:51 PM  
Wait, wait, wait... You mean there are racist, morons who support John McCain!?! I'm so shocked you could knock me out with a feather.
 
Eidolon
2008-10-27 3:25:07 PM  
OK OK, we have cherry-picking outrage-inciting bloggers on our side too.

But I bet that well over half of those voting McCain are doing so not because they like Mac, but because they hate Obama, and many of those hate him for some pretty dumb-ass reasons.
 
Bf+
2008-10-27 3:25:14 PM  
Typical McCain supporter?
 
QU!RK1019
2008-10-27 3:25:35 PM  
Oh, did I say "imply"?

At least you didn't say "infer."
 
Uchiha_Cycliste [TotalFark]
2008-10-27 3:25:58 PM  

BergZ: Wait, wait, wait... You mean there are racist, morons who support John McCain!?! I'm so shocked you could knock me out with a feather.


*blows*
 
Corpus Delecti
2008-10-27 3:26:28 PM  
Fark is probably the wrong place to post this particular headline, given that 100% of "Fark Republicans Independents™" actually ARE inbred, racist, morons.

Seriously, read some of the horseshiat posted by Danlpoon, Softens_Hands, NYZooMan, Darconix, and so-forth. Then tell me that they're not mouth-breathing douchebags. I'm not saying that all Republicans are retarded assholes, but I am saying they're the only kind we see around these parts.
 
12349876
2008-10-27 3:26:33 PM  
"God taught the children of Israel not to intermarry."

I'm not part of the Jewish race, so I'm not a child of Israel and can marry whoever I damn well please.
 
Phil Herup
2008-10-27 3:26:59 PM  
Well, I am an inbred racist moran, so I'm getting a kick...

/out of the way
 
HoyaSaxa
2008-10-27 3:27:39 PM  
HuffPo article re-hosted on Yahoo, subby? Methinks we see what you did there.

/Habitual HuffPo reader.
//When they green LGFs, Malkin, etc., HuffPo seems like a reliable, moderate source.
///Where are the far-left sites? True far-left, not "Obama far-left".
 
NYZooMan
2008-10-27 3:27:43 PM  

Macinfarker: Someone over at the Fark day shift really hates Obama today...


Any observant person is aware of the alternation of slant of greenlights day by day.

Explains why O-bots haven't noticed.
 
Hang On Voltaire
2008-10-27 3:28:17 PM  

Duke_Phillips:

How so?


How so? Good lord look at the fellating of Obama. The casting of Palin as stoopid when Biden is the one saying the dumb things. Ignoring the democrats responsibility in the housing mess. etc etc. Hell even Dan Rather is now admitting that the media went to far in supporting Obama.
 
Hideously Gigantic Smurf
2008-10-27 3:28:23 PM  

R.A.Danny: If you lie down with dogs...


Then you're a darling of the furry community.
 
lilbjorn
2008-10-27 3:28:40 PM  

brigid_fitch: He was also quite vehement about Obama's diplomatic views on foreign policy, preferring McCain's saber-rattling ideas. "After all, it worked for Reagan with Russia, didn't it?"


No, actually Reagan was just lucky enough to be president when the USSR bankrupted itself in a pair of needless wars against the Muslims.
 
Corpus Delecti
2008-10-27 3:28:50 PM  

Ozarkhawk: Did Hannity get an admin job here?


About three months back. Last week they were actually Greenlighting headlines with the term "Libtard" in them. Hey, but thank god Drewshbag implemented the PITA thingy. Because that clearly proves that Fark is Fair and Balanced.
 
HoyaSaxa
2008-10-27 3:29:05 PM  
NYZooMan

I missed you buddy. Where you been all day? I keep F3ing for you and you're never around.
 
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