Former heterosexual Marcus Bachmann is giving Mitt Romney head.

Uuuhhh… You mean the racemixed affirmative action bill burton? Sorry dude, ‘the jig is up’ on the silly whitey got me down tactics of 2008. America is entirely aware of the price of politically correct, white guilt social experiments in the White House. 2012 marks the end of this embarrasing cartoon in American politics.

The stick of dynamite in your butt has exploded!         KID BUTTSMOKE!!!!

Mediaite, please fire Tommy Christopher. His EXTREME liberal bent, which singularly drives virtually every article he composes, is gratingly annoying. He offers no fresh insight or POV but rather just a predictably lame onslaught of exaggerations and bias. Whenever I read an article he wrote, without seeing his name first, I can immediately tell who the writer is. He’s the only writer here whose articles in effect are more about him than anything or anyone else.

I like this site because for the most part, it feels like most writers are offering objectivity, whether they are complimenting or being critical of people on the right or people on the left. Sometimes they add some personality, color, or humor, all fine.

But Christopher has an agenda, more than anyone else on this site. His articles are the only ones that take an extreme tone in perpetuating that agenda, always favoring his own personal ideology regardless of any hypocrisy, embellishment, convenient dismissal of certain facts, and so forth. He is dishonest in many of his writings, and as such is a stain on an otherwise great site.

Lol!

That ad used an out-of-context clip of Romney saying “There are a lot of
reasons not to elect me,” but the key difference here is that the
snippet was obviously being used for humorous effect, and the missing
context was self-evident. Romney was actually saying those words
himself, not quoting someone else.

Always with the excuses Tommy.

*Well when my side does it… it’s OK. And here’s why it’s totally cool when Dems do the out of context thingy.

That’s right!  You blackies had your chance and you f-ed everything up!  Things were perfect until the PC police came around and told us Real American White Folks that we had to vote for the AA Welfare King Oblamo!  It’s time for Whitey to get back to his rightful place in charge of all the AA miscreants.  Revenge is going to be sweet!

You’re Letter to the Editor has been duly noted and will be passed on the appropriate party:  http://www.wpmods.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/trash-can.jpg

There was one affirmative action politician in 2008.  She was pulled from Alaska in the hopes of turning the McCain campaign into a historical moment.  She proved unready and became a drag on the campaign.  The “racemixed affirmative action” as you put it was a man who waged the most effective campaign in modern history and then proceeded to clean up the worst economic mess since the great depression despite sharing time with obstinate partisans in the worst Congress this nation has ever seen.  Obama is not a perfect leader, but your assertion that he has not proven his worth is only undermine by your reliance on tired racial criticism that is unsupported by reality.  Cheers! 

hahahah you tell ‘em jaco!!!
hey tommy – if you write them, they will read them!!!

Tommy, Tommy, Tommy… only in your little liberal head is Burton in Romney’s head. It’d be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic and sad… Are you kidding me right now? Priorities USA is running out of money and yet they’re spending $$ attacking Romney 1 year before the election. You think ANYBODY (except leftwingers like yourself) will even remember Burton’s pathetic ads next November? In contrast, Rove’s group is holding their warchest and their fire until it really matters next summer…

Typical deranged liberal lecture. Either you are black, or you have a massive case of white guilt. Again, read closely, Americans will no longer be fooled by liberal ‘tired racial criticism’ assertions. Queers!

FIRE TOMMY! FIRE TOMMY! FIRE TOMMY! He is such a partisan hack, his articles have no balance and he is a liability to this web site. FIRE TOMMY! FIRE TOMMY! FIRE TOMMY! 

Tommy Christopher – poster child for whats wrong in the media today.

That’s a pretty un-American suggestion there, Jacob. Why would you seek to silence someone just because you don’t like their (clearly stated) point of view? As you pointed out, you can see my name first, and just skip ‘em if they hurt your brain. It’s a free country, in case you forgot. Feel free not to read me. But if you do, why not engage the substance of what was written? What did I write that you think was untrue/unfair? I’ve noticed that the lion’s share of whining on this site ignores that key question.  

Third option: You are a racist and don’t quite have the nut meat to admit it. That happens alot… you should accept the fact. One less cross to bear.

Nut meat! Then the third option would be: you are also a homosexual, or lesbian named ‘Greg’. Every word you type reveals fruity desperation. Keep typing…

Queers!

The fact that Obama’s campaign uses people like Debbie W. Schultz or Burton says a lot about the juvenile nature of it’s organization.

Mitt Romney is an accomplished man of substance and likely the next President, who will have the massive job of restoring our good standing in the world and cleaning up the failed Obama’s disasters.

Burton is a mosquito on the picnic table in the park that Romney drives by on his journey to the White House.

Un-American? No… not saying it’s un-American. Saying it’s bad journalism.

Everyone else here maintains a good sense of objectivity. That’s why this site is truly one of the best around. You, however, don’t. To engage you would be to engage Keith Olbermann or Sean Hannity…. whose POVs are absolutely American but frequently one-sided, hypocritical, conveniently absent of certain contrary facts, and therefore misleading, whether I might be tempted to agree with one side or the other.

I have no problem with a criticism of the right or any POV. My problem with you is that every article you write, you write not objectively but based purely on bias. You leave out critical facts often, you take things out of context, you embellish, you exaggerate, you make little effort to accurately explain or quote the other POV… there’s no point in engaging you because you are not objective.

The fact you call me “un-American” is exactly the point. I’m not trying to shut down your POV. I’m very clear–your incredibly biased often dishonest approach is different from everyone else on this site. It’s not that there isn’t a place for it… or you haven’t a right to say your views somewhere… but it seems completely out-of-line given the mostly objective analyses that your colleagues provide, seeming to subscribe to a vision of wanting to report on the substance and illuminate debates or objective insights rather than perpetuate their own political ideologies.

Yes, when I see your name, I often tend to ignore the article, as you suggest. But a lot of times, I jump right into reading the article first based on the headline… because I assume it’s coming from “Mediaite,” which seems to carry with it certain values I respect… that is, except for when it’s coming “Tommy Christopher.”

OBAMO wants to bludgeon his opponents, so I say that whoever wants to bludgeon OBAMO right back should unapologetically do so.

And just to make extra clear…. your calling me “un-American” as if I said you haven’t a right to express yourself completely mischaracterizes my original post. That’s what you do with respect to everything you cover.

I never said you don’t have a right to express yourself or that this isn’t a free country for everyone. I specifically talked about what you do versus the journalistic values that the rest of Mediaite puts forth.

The fact that you jump to “un-American” and “free country” is a non-sequitur to what I said. So too are so many of your analyses of other situations or statements.

Here I am just trying to have a good day. Checking into Mediaite to observe the regular crazy and up jumps Rasta_Crimewave. Reading from his junior Klu Klux decoder ring he then switches to an attack on Gay folks.  I’m going to resist the urge to go ham.  Instead…

“[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.”

-Bayard Rustin

And Steve Grammatico is the creepy dude in the duster one the edge of the playground in that same park, making the mothers uneasy as he imagines dishonest words and deeds.

You all are cracking me up with this stuff.  First the “Occupy” on his article now this crap.  Go to the right wing B(l)ogs and waddle in the mire if Tommy fails to tickle your fancy.

It sounds like you’ve been on the wrong end of a few bludgeonings yourself!
And no apologies . . .

Every comment that you post has to do with one person having sex with another…

It was first Megyn Kelly and Herman Cain … then it was Martha MaCallum and Herman Cain… Now Bachmann and Romney… Occupy camps should look out for you or we may hear more about sexual assault in the paper. You are a twisted individual!

What’s with the little kid name, anyways “Tommy?” Aren’t you a full grown man? You’re OK with this?

Don’t like the comments here? Go ‘waddle’ on MSNPC. Better yet, go volunteer to be the stomped white victim of a black flash mob! You dig being a victim, right?

Put down the camera and back away from the young boy.

No, I don’t like the comments.  The public sphere deserves standards.  The right wing digital mob has no standards.  Don’t get mad because others have the gall to notice how disgusting you are and prefer some distance.  

I remember the Bush years… when it was “un-American” to call someone “un-American”.

Obama=Occupy Failure!

Bill Burton is an unmitigated jerk, therefore fits Obama’s campaign perfectly .

Where did pink hair have that six-figure job?

Poor Mit, he’s looking tired and worn out defending his flip flops. He would embarrass a Maytag washing machine. He’s exactly what Americans can’t stand in politics right now. He must have learned from McCain’s Senatorial campaign, and to think I once would have vote for McCain until he lost his soul to Grover and the insane tea smokers. It leaves one wondering what do these people stand for? Oh I forgot, they stand for corporate person hood…………..

Wow, I’ve run across a lot of really stupid right-wing wackos on here, but you’re right up there.  Are you embarrassed yet?

FIRE TOMMY! He is a disgrace to this site!

Let’s start a Fire Tommy campaign. He is a total hack.

ya know Gloves, both sides have their partisan hacks, as you are one for the repubs, or will you deny too that you are Steve Grammatico? You mention Wasserman Schultz, who is chair of the Democrat Party. You would expect her to be silent, or to shill for Romney, the most dishonest politician in the last twenty years or so? You DO understand the role of a party’s Chairrman, don’t you? Remember Michael Steele? Your dishonesty is right up their with Mitt/Willard! Oh wait, he wasn;t lying when he said his real first name was Mitt, was he? Now why would he feel the need to lie about something so mundane? Could it be that he feels he has to lie about EVERYTHING, lest he be found out? 

lmao!

Aw, c’mon. There were at least three great lines in this article!Tommy’s pretty good, and no more partisan than most on this site. He never said he wasn’t! 

My Favorite:

 former White House Deputy Press Secretary is in full possession of Romney’s goat (which is good, because now the goat won’t have to ride on the roof).

A close second:

given the near-universal knock on Romney that he changes positions like a porn star who’s off his Ritalin,

…and the bronze goes to:

 “One reason to elect me is that I know what I stand for, I’ve written it down”

Oh wait, Willard REALLY SAID that one, so TC gets no credit.

totally agree, firetommy — he’s dishonest and misleading all in the name of his own ideology. is this supposed to be a partisan site? don’t think so.

“You leave out critical facts often, you take things out of context, you
embellish, you exaggerate, you make little effort to accurately explain
or quote the other POV”

Here’s a suggestion Jac:  POINT OUT WHERE TC ERRS INSTEAD OF RANTING.  If these errors are so readily discernible, then someone with your soaring intellect should have no problem addressing them. 

That is all.

See, you accuse me of things (without providing any examples – you guys never do), but then you lie in your response to me. I never called you “un-American.” I said your suggestion that I be fired because you don’t like my point of view is an un-American suggestion. Go back and read it if you don’t believe me.

Again, you whine about bias and such, but never explain what you think I wrote was unfair or inaccurate. Put up or shut up.

Yes! Thank you.

That’s not at all what I said. 

Seriously? Someone named “nomad28″ is asking me about my name?

Did you say the exact quote… “Well when my side does it… it’s OK. And here’s why it’s totally cool when Dems do the out of context thingy.”… no you didn’t.

Did you in fact make a few rationalizations (based on your personal opinion) about how out of context quotes were cool in one way… but the other guy did it in a totally uncool way… yes. I’m not saying I like the Mitt ad. I’m just saying you can’t one minute say Mitt is out of line for the douchey use of out of context quotes by Obama and then think it’s totally cool when the other side does it. Your rationalizations that the out of context quotes used by Burton is your opinion and your more than free to have that opinion. But you don’t think that your personal political leanings might influence your opinion just a little to see one as OK and the other as totally over the line?

I don’t like it when either side does this. And you showed in the past with the Taliban Dan ad that when a Dem steps WAY over the line you can see it. But when the sides are close you always call out one side and make rationalizations for the other. The line for the right is black and white and the line for the left is grey.

This is my opinion and nothing more. Feel free (as I’m sure you will) to disagree with everything I’m saying. All I’m saying is I think you personal political leanings makes you look for the “out” when a Dem does something in the grey area, but not see that same  “out” when a Repub goes into a similar grey area.

Not trying to be a troll here……

I’m not suggesting you be fired because I don’t like your point of view. I’m suggesting you be fired because you are a terrible journalist, Tommy. Totally unobjective, dishonest, misleading. Even if I were to agree with your POV, you’d still be a terrible journalist.

Go back and read what I said, moron.

You’re making assumptions. I never said that either was “cool” or “uncool,” just that there was a “key difference here,” which is that “the snippet was obviously being used for humorous effect, and the missing context was self-evident. Romney was actually saying those words himself, not quoting someone else.”

If you think that’s not a key difference, tell me why. If you agree that this is a key difference, then your criticism is hollow. 

I thought the use of Romney’s quote, and “It’s not a pretty picture, is it?” were funny, but I wouldn’t characterize it as “fair.” It was self-evidently unfair, Romney obviously wasn’t trying to convince people not to vote for him, but it wasn’t dishonest. 

If the Romney camp pulled a quote out of context where the President said “Don’t vote for me,” I’d have the same reaction.

I and many others have pointed out his dishonest, misleading, inaccurate statements over and over. His hypocrisy and ideologically driven exaggerations that are sometimes even offensive. He rarely responds to those because there can be no response unless he’s willing to admit his dishonesty.

There is a reason that Tommy’s articles are the only ones on this site that elicit mass negative feedback from the readers, accusing him personally of these things. Others may elicit disagreement, debate, or what-have-you, but not accusations about personal biases and political agendas.

FIRE TOMMY!

the guy does have a point. what other writer here regularly gets comments accusing him of a political bias? tommy is the only one.

Well… I really don’t think I’m making an assumption when reading your line about why you think the video of Romney was edited. If that’s your opinion of why you think the video was taken out of context there is nothing wrong with that. But it is your leap to say that’s why they did it.

Look… I don’t like Mitt or any other politician running to use their opponents words as they were clearly not intended (see Megan Kelly article on this site) and Mitt did that. You could make the same leap that Mitt’s use of Obama was “tongue in cheek”. Most wonks would know where this video came from… just as you assume most people would know Mitt would never have said… “There are a lot of reasons not to elect me,” about himself.

Maybe Mitt was using the edited video to make the point that Obama doesn’t want to talk about the economy to get elected since the economy is so bad? That still doesn’t make it right. Mitt was making a point and Burton was making a point. BOTH did it with edited, out of context video that didn’t represent the speakers intention. Neither was as harsh as the Taliban Dan ad and I don’t approve of either team doing it. Im not going to make excuses for Mitt’s (out of context) use of the Obama video.

Coming from somebody who indiscriminately bans posters who disagrees with him. Priceless. Suffer from the little man syndrome Tommy? Give you a little tingle that Michelle is afraid of you? What does she fear?
Insignificant little twerp who if he had to write anything of substance would get 0 hits. One trick pony who needs to agitate people to get any discussion.
 

It might have been Betty or Veronica.

“His hypocrisy and ideologically driven exaggerations that are sometimes even offensive”

And an example would be…

It’s funny: I – like most sane people – tend to ignore people that are blatantly dishonest.

Having Gloves like your comments isn’t exactly a badge of honor.

Excellent analysis.

(1)  Mittens produces blatantly misleading…er…ad based on a lie.
(2)  He gets called out on his..er…lies.
(3)  MWS calls to fire Tommy
(4)  GOP Wins!

my name is mitt
and i cannot quit
do not call me Willard
because that was a rat
and i ain’t all dat

so when you crown me king
and you know what i mean
don’t let it go to yo head
when i do not do as i said…..

because my name is mitt….
and at times…
I am full of ~

Where do you start with somebody who is as full of shit as you are? Nobody calls you out? Where do we start? Just a few examples.
During the health care passage you say the N word was sprayed at the Congressmen without any proof say a man who later thinks Republicans want to see him hanging from a tree.With all those people there nobody had it on tape. Yet when Jan Brewer said she was booed in Arizona your last line was “ANYWAY I COULDN’T HEAR IT ON THE TAPE” Hypocrite
Your article on Hot Coffee showed one side of the story without bringing out all the collusion between the makers of the film and the pure selfish interests they had.
Your handling of the Weiner was a joke. Between all the erroneous facts and the lies, you had to hide for days while the rest of the blogosphere called you out for the loser you are. Keep writing, It’s a reminder of what we need to make crawl back into their little holes next year. I could go on and on and so could many others who have called you out but most have been banned.
BTW I was Gar, Gar1956, SilGary, and now Mike, and I could give a flying fck how many times you ban me, you little pussy. 

Black kids like to stomp old white rappers’ heads’ into the concrete. Spray paint your face black to be safe, your white guilt won’t buy you any sympathy.

Spoken like a true idiot liberal.

“I said your suggestion… is an un-American suggestion” but “I never called you ‘un-American.’”

Tommy, if someone behaves un-American, they ARE un-American. Like if an Occupy Wallstreeter behaves like a loser, s/he IS a loser. If a foreigner comes across our border illegally, then that illegal immigrant IS a criminal. Period.

Only a liberal can look at behavior and still try to think the person is not that behavior.

To Buck_Down… See MIKE…. above. (and plenty of other comments to any Tommy verbosity)

Our worthless Pontus has told so many lies that a made up one certainly isn’t going to make him look any worse.  However you look at it, Obama is a Failure when it comes to Leading and Running a Country.  Ruining a Country he is an expert at!

I did read what you said, and you’re lying. You said “Mediaite, please fire Tommy Christopher. His EXTREME liberal bent, which singularly drives virtually every article he composes, is gratingly annoying.”

See, that’s an example of engaging someone on what they actually wrote, and providing an example, rather than just whining and stomping because you HATE LEEEBRULS!

There you go again, Tommy. You take one sentence that set context for the explanation as to why you should be fired–namely that you are a bad journalist whose ideology drives you to post incomplete facts, dishonest statements, exaggerated and there fore misleading truths–and then use that alone to say why I have issues with you.

That is a perfect EXAMPLE right there of why you are a disingenuous journalist.

That is my problem with how you cover stories here versus your colleagues, who whether liberal or not, are usually far more objective and honest in their coverage.

And then after saying that I am un-American for objecting to your free speech, which was never the point, you have the nerve to try to block me from expressing myself further on this site?

That is another perfect EXAMPLE of your hypocrisy, another issue I and many others have with you as a journalist.

I am willing to bet, and your superiors will know the truth, that you have probably blocked more people on this site than any of your colleagues given that you are the only one to elicit so many comments, like mine, that object to your lack of respect for honest discussion.

Your attempt to block me and others is also a good example of why you are a weak man who can’t intellectually take the heat and must therefore resort to other tactics in orders to survive.

Sad.

There you go again, Tommy. You take one sentence that set the context for my  explanation as to why you should be fired–namely that you are a bad journalist whose ideology drives you to post incomplete facts, dishonest statements, exaggerated and there fore misleading truths–and then use that alone to say why I have issues with you. Complete misstatement and therefore mistruth, and you know it.

That is a perfect EXAMPLE right there of why you are a disingenuous journalist.

That is my problem with how you cover stories here versus your colleagues, who, whether liberal or not, are usually far more objective and honest in their coverage.

And then after saying that I am “un-American” for objecting to your “free speech,” which was never the point of my criticism, you have the nerve to try to block me from expressing myself further on this site?

That is another perfect EXAMPLE of your hypocrisy, another issue I and many others have with you as a journalist.

I am willing to bet, and your superiors will know the truth, that you have probably blocked more people on this site than any of your colleagues given that you are the only one to elicit so many comments, like mine, that object to your lack of respect for honest discussion.

Your attempt to block me and others is also a good example of why you are a weak man who can’t intellectually take the heat and must therefore resort to other tactics in orders to survive.

You pale in comparison to the standards set forth by the rest of the people who write on this site. And it’s not because you’re a liberal.

Sad.

I can’t figure out this site for the
life of me. I read the article posted, but the comments seem to come from a
different universe. Critical thinking is not enhanced by constant bashing. I am
not a glutton for punishment so I rarely bother to read the comments posted
(it’s not my first day). That being said, I do want to know what the discussion
may entail.

It is a futile effort.

Mediate is much like MSNBC,
advertised as liberal (like it’s a disease) but a major disappointment to a
true liberal, or progressive thinking individual.

Maybe I’m too stuffed with turkey, but I don’t understand what’s going on with most of these comments. Mediaite is an unabashedly left website. What I like about Mediaite is its trying to appeal to rightwingers who are bored with the sterility and vulgarity of rightwing websites. “Obama is a Kenyan Muslim, Socialist bogeyman, etc…” Occasionally there are some great interchanges between right and left people on this website which is a good thing. To think that you should have rightwing people writing this type of come-on material for Mediaite is ludicrous because there aren’t any rightwing writers who understand how empty and superficial most of the right’s arguments are on virtually every subject. As Steve Jobs said to Rupert Murdoch. Your work (FOX, etc) is basically destructive, not constructive. That’s the irony and dilemma of the right. You have no positive ideas or answers that can be taken seriously.

You are ‘stuffed’ with liberal insanity and too deranged to ‘understand’ common sense. Mediaite is doing a great job of confusing birth defected liberals. In the future, type less idiocy.

This reminds me of a line in one of my favorite movies, Metropolitan. “Tom Towsend…how about ‘Tommy’ Townsend. Sounds more UC.”