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Rick Perry Unveils New Anti-Obama ‘Lazy’ Ad; Resurrects ‘Socialist’ Attack

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There’s a lot wrong with Rick Perry‘s newest campaign ad, starting with the fact that he’s getting way ahead of himself by targeting Barack Obama, when he still has to climb over Mitt Romney and four or five others. The ad, entitled “Lazy,” twists the President’s words out of context, and resurrects the “socialist” accusation that plays well with the conservative fringe, but not so well with ordinary Americans.

When the Republican presidential campaign first began, there was a Kum Ba Yah feeling among the candidates, who tried to obey Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment during early debates, and focus most of their fire on President Obama. That truce fell apart like a game of alcoholic Jenga, and soon, the GOP hopefuls were trading vicious body blows.

After a bruising couple of months fighting his Republican rivals, and his own cerebellum, Perry finds himself mired on the bottom rung of the second tier, hanging in there like a kitten on a motivational poster. What better time than that to shoot past his opponents, and hit President Obama with that old reliable “socialist” tag, the Freebird of anti-Obama attacks?

The ad, entitled “Lazy,” opens with an out-of-context quote from President Obama, telling leaders at the APEC summit, “We’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades.”

Perry then dissolves in to distort (a generous assessment) what the President said, saying, ”Can you believe that?  That’s what our President thinks is wrong with America? That Americans are lazy?”

Even in that abbreviated clip, the President is obviously not saying that “Americans are lazy.” Here’s what the President said, in context:(Transcript of REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AT APEC CEO BUSINESS SUMMIT Q&A, November 12, 2011, via email from The White House)

MR. McNERNEY: I think one related question, looking at the world from the Chinese side, is what they would characterize as impediments to investment in the United States. And so that discussion I’m sure will be part of whatever dialogue you have. And so how are you thinking about that?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, this is an issue, generally. I think it’s important to remember that the United States is still the largest recipient of foreign investment in the world. And there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity — our stability, our openness, our innovative free market culture.

But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — well, people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America. And so one of things that my administration has done is set up something called SelectUSA that organizes all the government agencies to work with state and local governments where they’re seeking assistance from us, to go out there and make it easier for foreign investors to build a plant in the United States and put outstanding U.S. workers back to work in the United States of America.

Maybe it’s just me, but I think most Americans probably fall pretty low on the Global Promotion of US Commerce flow chart.

Perry then proposes a balanced budget amendment, then oddly suggests continuing to pay ousted legislators. ”If Congress balks,” Perry says, “cut their pay and send them home.”

Finally, Perry delivers the closing jab (if only he could get multiple takes at debates), “”Obama’s socialist policies are bankrupting America. We must stop him now.”

The “socialism” charge is tired, and doesn’t resonate with anyone beyond the conservative Tea Party base, but it’s particularly jarring here, coming as it does after a quote from the President promoting US business interests around the world. Plus, Perry really ought to be concentrating on the “socialist” standing between him and Barack Obama, the one in his own party.

Here’s Perry’s “Lazy” ad, via YouTube:


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  • Anonymous

    This will most certainly work. Just ask President McCain.

  • Anonymous

    Poor little Ricky. Guffaw.

  • ricco

    Partisan Hack.  You’re no journalist.

  • Mo Fokker

    If the Republicans want to nominate Rick Perry, have at it.

    P.S.

    To all Christian conservatives,

    remember your obligation before God to nominate a real Christian man.

  • Byzantium

    Actually Obama is a socialist, perhaps neo-Marxist would be the proper term. This lifetime “academic” who grew up abandoned by his black father, raised by a white woman, went to privileged schools, grew up with people who were anti-white, anti-american, Marxists all throughout his life. Also, has yet to reveal what he wrote about while at Harvard. He is exactly in the same boat as Rev. Wright, Farrakhan, Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, and every degenerate rapper on MTV.

    He’s never been apart of the black experience, just like Herman Cain said. So, if I may apply the same standard as you liberals do to the opposition of Obama while in office; you’re a racist because of all the hate you spew about Herman Cain.

  • Anonymous

    taking shots at obama should only be done by the ows losers…

    bahahahaha

  • Anonymous

    I don’t get it,these republicans keep trying to use the socialist attacks at Obama when he beats each and every candidate in  every poll despite current low approval ratings.One would wonder if it doesn’t ring a bell that those pathetic talking points don’t work.Perry needs to start talking  about substance and leave this stuff alone or he’ll continue to compete with Bachmann for the bottom feeder position.

    Just look at Bachmann’s poll numbers and she hasn’t  missed an opportunity to call the president a socialist or un-american  on a weekly basis. 

  • Byzantium

    Yea, much better than any father-less degenerate atheist who’d hide behind the lines while real men defend America.

  • http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/630-E-Lovell-Dr-Troy-MI-48085/24509418_zpid/ Louisa Gismonde Calcaterra

    He’s not.  He’s a blogger – and he’s never said he’s a journalist. 

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed necolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling constraints. We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.  But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

    “Political discussions, the kind that at Occidental had seemed so intense and purposeful, came to take on the flavor of the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union..”

  • http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/630-E-Lovell-Dr-Troy-MI-48085/24509418_zpid/ Louisa Gismonde Calcaterra

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    My, my the ‘baggers are so miserable this primary season….geeeeee…I wonder why?!

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/630-E-Lovell-Dr-Troy-MI-48085/24509418_zpid/ Louisa Gismonde Calcaterra

    Awwwwwwwwwwwww!!!  Ricky is sooooooo adorable, thinking he’s still relevant in the GOP primaryl!!!   What a cutie pie!!!

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • Kid Dynamite

    I’d like to see a “Retarded” ad, putting the statements of Rick Perry IN context.

  • Anonymous

    You have been indoctrinated well, teabagger. Since we are on the subject, what is “the black experience?” Please don’t project your personal feelings onto liberals. You are not fooling anybody. If you are saying racist stuff, it’s because YOU believe them.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Okay then RICCO, have at it: don’t just make a tough-sounding snarl with no teeth, actually SHOW us what Tommy has wrong here. Com’on Mister Tough Guy RICCO, show us all, you cowardly freepster.

    Tommy does a truly GREAT job of here of walking us thru how this Perry meme was constructed out of broken twigs and chewing gum, showing us even a THEME that underlies the effort by Team Perry – because everything else sure as hell hasn’t been working for Perry.

    Lovely take by Tommy too: Perry goes and tries to label Obama ‘SOCIALIST’ for a comment where Obama is clearly promoting CAPITALISTIC ingenuity. Indeed, one might also go so far as to say Obama is CALLING on that other tired meme wingers go after him over, American eggs-over-sleazy-septualism.

    Tommy seems actually to be pulling up the standards at Mediaite, because, with the eggs-over-sleazy-septicon of di Fino, the rest, even Frances, seem to be trying to act more like actual reporters lately, and not peddlers of winger theme. Nando, tho, is looking more and more like the outlier here.

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    This is what Crony Socialism looks like:

    Schweizer’s New Book: 80% of Energy Department’s “Green Loan” Program Went to Obama’s Backers

    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/11/schweizers-new-book-80-of-energy.html

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Obama is socialist, un-christian, and whats the other one….UH….UH….EPA!

  • Anonymous

    You never know…Once the Republicans realize that Newt was a champion of healthcare mandates who lobbied for Freddie and Fannie, maybe it will be Perry’s turn again.

  • Anonymous

    Good work. I didn’t think it was possible to throw that many talking points into one rambling paragraph. Extra credit for the second paragraph that doesn’t even pretend to have anything to do with the topic at hand. The bar has been raised.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    uh, degenerate how, and also, how does this not render you a screaming pig.

    and atheist how, since the President is actually the ONLY candidate on EITHER side of this current purloo who has actually written and spoken IN DEPTH about the basis for his Xian faith.

    and by the way, I AM an atheist, and I certainly wish Obama were one too; but the fact is that he is not, he is a confirmed believer in the Unitarian concept of the xian ghost in the cosmos model, which I am disappointed by, as much as any other nutty made-up old legend derived from ignorant superstition.

  • Anonymous

    Any atheist is more Christian than any Republican.

  • Mo Fokker

    I haven’t forgotten that Republicans are the only true Christians just as they are the only true patriots.

  • Anonymous

    Wow.  Damning material from the POTUS.  He may be the first youth to ever rebel against authority.  You are right to be shaking your fist.

  • Blackwolfrun2000

    Are you real?

  • Anonymous

    Huh.  I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that “green” entrepreneurs are almost exclusively republican? 

    I wonder what percentage of oil subsidies went to GOP backers?

  • Mo Fokker

    Fair point, but you would also think a champion of universal healthcare in the state of Massachusetts wouldn’t be doing so well in the polls.

  • Anonymous

    I’d like to say I disagree with you but you are probably right(though it might not be Perry).  I just want to see Newt debate Obama.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    You really are late to the party. You try to dust off a bunch old winger memes and try to peddle them as new, and you get just the distain they and you deserve. If you actually BELIEVE in what you write here, then book yourself into a mental hospital; more likely you WANT them to be true, or to get others to believe them, because it some how makes you feel more empowered and above your pathetic station in life.

    There is nothing, zero, nada to the “socialist” meme, and I speak here as someone who fervently wishes there WAS something to it. Obama is out of what is called the “Chicago” or “freshwater” socioeconomic mind set, of Milton Friedman and Eugene Fama and the neononKeynesians. The closest idea of how he sees political messaging is in that book “Nudge” written by his BFF legal advisor, U of Chicago Law prof Cass Sunstein, which I find naive and self-deluded, but the furthest thing from socialism.

    How do you think Obama got that “privileged” education you rant on about – he was one of two children of a single mom with a low-paying government job, remember. How about he EARNED it? Summa cum laude and Harvard Law Review prez, baby: suck on THAT, Byzant.

    We also note that you think that every black American who is NOT a corporate shill Uncle Tom is a “degenerate”, meaning you would see Jackie Robinson as one, and MLK Jr as one. 

    No one on the D side is spewing anything at your “boy” Creepy; he’s doing all on his own, and deserves every hit he takes on.

    Wright, Farrakhan, Cornel West, Tavis Smiley – good list of strong capable American patriots right there. My fav is Wright, then West; Smiley is a TV host type, superficial mostly, and Farrakhan too tribal, but he’s got lots of good points about how righty whitey uptighty Amerika has demonized the sons and daughters of black African slaves. I would have far preferred that Malcolm X had not been assassinated so he could have been on TV helping to prevent some of Louis’ most excessive extreme rhetoric, but then he was assassinated just for being correct, so there you are. 

  • Anonymous

    No it’s smart.  The tea party eats this crap up….hatin on Obama is strategy #1.

  • http://twitter.com/acidragdoll Bel

    You sound white.  Are you sure you should be embarassing yourself by talking about this?

  • Anonymous

    He should not waste his money on Obama attack ads, because he will never be nominee of the Republican party.

  • Byzantium

    Indoctrinated? This coming from someone who voted for a community organizer? It’s really hard to rationalize with a liberal because most of the time your on drugs and spend time blaming you father.

    If I’m a “teabagger” then that makes you equivalent to the self-hating, drug-addicted, rapist, non-educated OWS protesters. And those brainless non-talented rappers on MTV like Mos Def and Kanye West. The most pathetic primates to ever be put on television. Funny they love white women, and make an effort to have them in their terrible videos, but that’s typical for black rappers. 
    So, yea you’re in that category alone with that frivolous “Louisa Gismonde Calcaterra”. Don’t you hate yourself already?

    It actually takes critical thought to be champion individual liberty, freedom of associate, free market principles. That precisely what a liberal is not. And Herman Cain is right. A southern black compared to a half-black raised by a white woman – there is no comparison. 

  • Anonymous

    Excellent rebuttal. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Actually, given what he is after here, to win the GOP Game, Contestant Perry is following a poor but not entirely crazy strategy for THAT – though, one that loses him the next game. This is the way of all contests: contestants are always trying to win the current one with the tools that should have been used to win the past ones, but no longer apply and certainly cannot apply to the future ones.

    But you’re right that even the GOP base SEEMS to be saying this isn’t working – except …. then you have to explain the Creepy Cain thing and the rise of Newtster. So it looks more like the GOP base like contestants who pander to them more CONSISTENTLY, not more deeply. Could be a clue to why Mittens cannot seem to close the deal.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    All of that a wade thru the shallow end of the pool of the American experience, my friend. If you missed it, go back and read your history books.

    Plus, you failed to get to the part where he was DISSING all that as pointless nihilism.

  • http://twitter.com/acidragdoll Bel

    Oh my God, it’s Frank Miller!

  • Norbit

    And I thought the squalid, crime-infested Obamavilles spriniging up all over the place resurrected the Socialist ”attack”.

    (btw Tommy, if you support the policies indicative of socialism, why do you call it an attack?) 

  • Byzantium

    Are you kidding me? I know your a liberal, probably champion drug use, but please not here.

    Chicago is a corrupt sh*thole unlike any other city in the world. How dare you say Obama isn’t a neo-Marxist? Do you know what Marxism is? Do you know how Karl Marx’s economic theory is distinguished? Of course you don’t. 

    Secondly, Obama is obviously non-educated, he’s great at reading a teleprompter. He has never disclosed is writing in college, I can guess why. He got assistance through Affirmative-Action, a race-based academic platform, an artificial one at that. Essentially, he’s an idiot raised by a self-hating white woman.

    Farrakhan, Smiley, West, and Wright and lunatics that self-respecting, bipedal, darwinian primates do not take seriously. They are pathetic, just like Obama. Did you seriously call them American patriots? You are subject matter for intensive psychological examination. All four of those race-huslters should be deported just like you.

    Finally, I know you’re a liberal drug user, but your grammatical presentation is incomprehensible.

  • Anonymous

    Newt’s done as of today. Think about it: It’s not an unfair question to ask Newt if he thinks Newt should be sent to prison for doing what he accused Barney Frank of doing. This is not hyperbole in any sense.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy is actually the White House reporter for this website, if I’m not mistaken. So, your premise is wrong. 

  • Byzantium

    I sound white? Yea, I am white and beautiful. Very proud of it.

    I’m really having a hard time figuring out what point you’re trying to get across. I’ll assume you’re non-white. So based on your flippant question; you hate white people, you believe you deserve money out of their pockets because somehow you’re a “victim.” And you cannot get a job today because your online degree in ‘gender studies’ from DeVry University turned out non-useful.

    Seriously, if you believe deep inside that you actually have thoughtful input to bring to the conversation, please try, until then, continue blaming white people for your problems, it’ll turn out fine.

  • Byzantium

    You’re an idiot. I bet you have a bumper sticker that says “Jesus was a socialist.” And have a Che poster in your room.

    Listen. Stop hating your father, just get over it. You still have a shot a being a man… maybe.

  • Byzantium

    Yes, I figured out you were a homosexual atheist just by reading your name.

  • Anonymous

    The republican are learning well from Newt…I am loving that they are all going after Obama and not each other.  TC is just mad because if they keep this up, he and Obama won’t have any material of the republicans attacking each other to use during the Presidential Campaign.

    Come on Tommy – you are talking about what is wrong with Perry’s ad and you still haven’t given us a decent, full factual story on Solyndra or Fast and Furious?

    Journolist must be busy remdinding all lefty journos to continue to censor the truth from the people.

    Geez.

  • Mencius

    You right-wingers don’t understand what a reporter is. A reporter is someone who calls up multiple sources, fact checks everything and writes a story that reports something new. A blogger summarizes other news stories and injects opinion about what the stories mean. That’s basic Journalism 101 stuff but you don’t seem to understand it. 

    For all of the right-wing wailing against “liberal reporters” you guys don’t seem to understand that Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann aren’t reporters either–they mostly comment on news stories rather than do the heavy lifting to break the stories. But I guess that sort of confusion explains why you guys think that the opinion spewed out of the mouths of Limbaugh, Hannity and their ilk is actually “news”. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Thanks for proving my point about who you really are.

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    At what point in one’s life do they stop being considered a “youth”? In Obama’s case, it’s seems to extend to the age of 50 and beyond.

  • Cain

    Really weak stuff. desperate really. 

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for proving my point.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    “You still have a shot a being a man”
    How on Earth would YOU know? 

    Jesus was, by the way, at least the Jesus described by his companions in the New Testament, quite clearly a communist, not a socialist. However, then he came back and got that football scholarship to Notre Dame, flunked out as the latest wunderkindqb for the Redskins, took an assistant coaching job at College Park, and now is under indefinite suspension pending further hearings by the Grand Jury.

  • http://gawker.com/5482474/the-mysterious-case-of-toure-praising-raped-slaves-for-seducing-massa Touré’s insane mf cousin Phd

    You should read some books yourself, especially the ones which chronicle Obama’s years in Chicago.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Oh please let them have all of that Spaghetti Monster stuff. Let them have Mohammed, the Crusades, the  Inquisition, the Reformation, the pogroms, all of it. They want it so badly anyway.

  • Anonymous

    I actually never voted for Obama, tool. Now maybe you can actually tell me what the “black experience” is, bigot. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Not so much white as neggreen – the color pink is not in the spectrum, but rather created by red plus blue minus green, thus: pink. You are not likely to be white, since that’s a rare disorder in humans; pink, NEGGREEN, though, I can see that. Neggreen and proud of it. Neggreen power. I don’t blame neggreens for all the problems on the planet, but I am happy to assign them all to you.

  • connie_lingus

    Hey Tommy, is your back hurting?  Seems like you really enjoy toting Obama’s water.  It is not going to matter who runs against Obama or what you and your ilk have to say about them.  Hell, my local dog catcher could beat him.  Have you seen that almost 70% of the population believe the country is headed in the wrong direction?  Because of Obama’s policies and complete ignorance, he is destined to be another Jimmy Carter.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Oh and like no journalist ever read Obama’s first book. You really are Teh Gullible. Look, if you can’t afford to buy it, go to a library and read it. This is supposed to be read in context, explaining how he came to the determination NOT to reject Americanism.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Yup, Schweizer (I like how that sounds in German.), Breitbart projectionist. People who like that book are going to LOVE the one about John Kerry and Swift Boats.

  • Anonymous

    “Secondly, Obama is obviously non-educated, he’s great at reading a
    teleprompter. He has never disclosed is writing in college, I can guess
    why. He got assistance through Affirmative-Action, a race-based academic platform, an artificial one at that”

    Your English teacher was an affirmative action hire.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    That would be one million, six hundred thousand and no sense for, uh … historical analysis and, uh … strategic analysis. But not lobbying, no way, not THAT. Again: one hundred and sixty million pennies for Newtian thoughts. Really. Truly. Yeah.

  • Redleaf

    Hang on a second.
    Byzantium has a point. I’m a father-less degenerate atheist. I’m at the library now where I surf the web for free. Sometimes, I try and surf porn at the library computer like the father-less degenerate atheist I am. But those sites are blocked.

    So anyway, I believe that the Constitution protects father-less degenerate atheists, so my jobless, homeless, father-less degenerate atheistic existence can continue. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go pee on cop cars because I’m a father-less degenerate atheist.

    Love live Socialism! And may Obama’s real birth certificate stay locked in a government vault!

     

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Well? 20-25% for Mittens, 75-80% for Not Mittens, and it’s been like that for MONTHS, maybe YEARS.

    You know, I really think this “Mittens will do better in the general” nonsense is going to turn out entirely deluded. The whole idea is that the TP fueled GOP took all the indys in 2010. The actual SPLIT was 48-47 R versus D. The 2010 Midterms were won on the margins, with the higher turnout for the TP-fueled GOP. But that isn’t going to happen next year. Ds actually show up in presidential years. The only way the GOP gets it done is by voter suppression; without that, not just Mittens but any GOP Game Contestant is out there without a lifeline.

    Who really cares if its Mittens or Not Mittens: the winner now will be loser again – Bob Dylan.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks Mencius. You’re so smart!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    You’ve convinced me. I too want the fat little neggreen toad to be shown for the cowardly con artist he really is, and this GOP Game Show isn’t doing that. On to the general.

    By the way, as Newtster would put it, that stupid Newt ‘threat’ to haunt Obama until he gives in on a Lincoln-Douglas 143 parter is so much Newtian blather. Go to the elections debate website: the RNC and DNC have already agreed to the debates schedule, including times, dates and places. P, VP, P, P, in that order, between mid September to late October. As usual. Like always. And if you are the RNC nominee, you signed up for that deal when you ran in the first place for the nomination. In other words, typical Newtian blather, once again.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    And a very good point there: if you add up all the money Frank ever got by way of CAMPAIGN contributions, and you compare the money Newtstir got from the same source in DIRECT INCOME, Newtstir got way way more – and for himself, not just access; for his SOUL, not just his consideration; if you believe Newtie, for his HISTORY.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    This must be parody. Actually, if Perry had chosen to be measured and stay above the fray in the GOP Game Show, he never would have lost his initial lead. After all, Mittens stays pretty much out of it, and he’s been steady as a rock halfway down the shallow end of a wading pool.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Oh Nobits, Nobits, wherefor have y’all been old lawn guy? That is SO incisive, I … I actually have no idea what you’re saying. But you MEAN it, don’t you, Nobits? Sincerely.

  • Redleaf

    Hey, I’m a liberal self-hating, drug-addicted, rapist, non-educated OWS protester.
    And I take exception to assuming just because I’m a self-hating, drug-addicted, rapist, non-educated OWS protester that means I hate myself, take drugs, rape women, lack education and protest with OWS.

    Oh, who am I kidding! I’m just ashamed that Byzantium has so easily nailed the entirely of Americans who aren’t Republican or Tea Baggers. How can Byzantium be so smart?

  • Anonymous

    I am a Republican, also a Christian. But I am not one because I am the other …. Republican principles closer match my beliefs. You really should stop putting the world into your pre-concieved groups. 

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Another great article from Tommy.

  • david r

    All these young libs think you are a cretin if you can’t see the benefit of deficit spending.  As the late Jim Morrison said, “We want the world and we want it . . . NOW!”

  • david r

    I can’t believe you have a satellite view of that shack or yours (replete with address) included in your profile.  Do you think that’s wise?  I guess you are smarter than all those “baggers.”

  • david r

    I’ll bet Cain would smoke Obama’s butt at any form of human endeavor apart from sophistry and constitutional law.  I’ll bet he takes him at basketball.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C34g5mz1ZQ Mayor of Cornfield
  • david r

    Don’t go down that path of cynicism.  You just took part in something important.  Gave you a whiff of the Sixties. Something in the air. . .

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zmkzshUvE

  • Mencius

    Sorry to prove you wrong, pal. I know it hurts a little but don’t let it get you down. Of course, if I’m wrong and you were right about Louisa, I’d love to hear what your argument is. If not, maybe it’s best for you to let it go after you responded by saying nothing. 

  • Anonymous

    And what does ‘thinking like a black man’ mean? So many liberals say that black conservatives aren’t in their right mind… so, whats it mean? 

  • Anonymous

    Woot Woot, every party needs a grammar police. woot woot. 

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t even incite or ask to get involved in some huge argument. Louisa said  that Tommy is a ‘blogger, not a journalist.’ I then said that I believe Tommy is the White House reporter (AKA journalist) for Mediaite. Was simply interjecting my opinion that differed with Louisa’s premise.

    What are you trying to get into by bringing up Hannity, Limbaugh, and Maddow? I didn’t even mention their names. 

  • Texan

    What exactly was it you liked, “greg?”?

  • Texan

    philby, you’re totally going off the rails and I hope you don’t get behind the wheel of a car or have any sharp objects in your house

  • Texan

    your head must be really pointy to be able to poke it in the sand like that…

  • Texan

    even with no proof? Figures you would like that…

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Thoughtful and accurate context… “texan?”?

  • Anonymous

    I think you explained it perfectly

  • Mencius

    I think the confusion is over the meaning of reporter vs. journalist. Either way, if I misunderstood you, my apologies. This site is full of knee-jerk types so it’s easy to become knee-jerk in expectation of that, and it looks like that’s what I did. My comments about Hannity vs Maddow weren’t directed at you in particular, either. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s logical. That’s why. Is he wrong? 

  • Anonymous

    Get me an exact quote and the person who said it and I’ll respond. I’m taking him to task for what HE/SHE said.

  • Anonymous

    Keep shakin’ that fist.  Someone is bound to listen someday.

  • Anonymous

    Obama spent time….in CHICAGO!!!! Gasp! 

    Shake that fist!  They WILL get off of your lawn.

  • Anonymous

    Turns out that in a debate the candidates have to speak, and as soon as Perry opened his mouth it was game over

  • Redleaf

    I just can’t take Byzantium seriously anymore.
    Honestly, how many of these people actually vote?
    Maybe if we show them a bright, shiny object on Election Day, they’ll stay home. 

  • Anonymous

    Janeane Garafalo (paraphrasing):

    “I think Herman Cain is being paid to run as a Republican so the GOP can say ‘hey look were not racist, we support a black man!’ Keith Olbermann responds “is this just illusions of grandeur?” Janeane: “I think Herman Cain is suffering from Stockholm syndrome and is greedy for money so he’ll pander to the GOP”
    Of course, she can’t be racist since shes a liberal? (sarcasm) That is one of the most vile, hateful things one could say … does she not see her own racism despite calling out the GOP for their supposed racism? 

  • expatpatriot

    I’ve heard that “the country’s on the wrong track” comment from rightwingers before. One wonders, of course, whether they’re stupid or just think everyone else is. Probably both.

    Please note: “on the wrong track” doesn’t mean “I want Republicans running things.” It means “the country’s suffering from a worldwide economic downturn and Republicans can’t get their heads out of their asses long enough to pretend to help.”

    The “wrong track” meme is more in Obama’s favor (just like reality) rather than condemnation of his presidency.

  • expatpatriot

    You’ll be shocked to hear that Mediaite has its own editors and managers and *they* decide what to cover. Your complaint that they’re not talking about your favorite obsessions is foolish and sad.

    Which is consistent with your other behaviors.

  • expatpatriot

    I’m particularly fond of “policies indicative of socialism” which comes *this close* to making sense, but sadly falls in a heap just before the finish line.

    One thing the Internet has done is rob us of most of our streetcorner screechers.

    They’ve all come here.

  • expatpatriot

    Hey, he has to spend all that money on something, and yachts and blow would be — even for Texas — a bit too much.

  • Texan

    So, you verified everything tommy wrote?

  • expatpatriot

    That wouldn’t be fair. Pick someone who hasn’t been in the lead yet.

    It’s not like the ultimate selection will make much difference. While Romney has a chance of beating Obama, it’s not much of one, and the others are non-starters in the general.

    The ‘Licans are hoping that (after they select Romney) they can bring the party together and present a unified front from, say, March 2012 onwards.

    I don’t see it happening that way. The Teepers are nihilists and they really, really, really don’t like Mitt. I’m seeing a “PUMA’ syndrome this season, except this time it’ll be real rather than imaginary and will be on the right side of the aisle.

  • Anonymous

    It might be Ron Paul’s turn. If not Paul, it will have to be an outsider like Christmas Christie. (I call him “Christmas” because I have a theory about his entering the race come Christmas break.)

    If Christie or some other wildcard does not jump in, I see an open convention on the horizon. THAT will be fun.

  • expatpatriot

    This is supposed to be meaningful? In my college days, I was a Republican.

    Sappy, silly, bygone college days.

  • expatpatriot

    The point is, some white guy lecturing us about how Obama “has never been part of the black experience” — while Herman Cain has — is laughable for us and embarassing to you.

    However, I’m unsurprised that you haven’t realized that yourself.

  • expatpatriot

    I suspect that RexTWG “dares” to say that Obama isn’t a neo-Marxist because there’s no evidence outside the voices in your head that he’s any such thing.

    Look at Obama’s biographical works, his public statements, and the causes he’s advanced since his early career and you will see nothing that suggests he’s anything more than a mainstream, conservative democrat.

    This is largely irrelevant to your brainless post, which quickly oozes off into the darkness as you descend into your own litle hell of racism and derangement.

    And please, “bipedal darwinian primates”? Oogah-boogah.

    You know, if you don’t do what you don’t know how to do (in this case write a couple of coherent paragraphs), then people won’t know you don’t know how to do it.

  • expatpatriot

    You took him seriously in the first place?

  • expatpatriot

    Censure’s point may be that Byz’s problem goes way beyond poor grammer and highlights that he can’t even think very clearly.

  • expatpatriot

    Hmm. Some of us can detect a consistent and clear rhetorical line that flows right throught the first few paragraphs to the end of the article.

    Perhaps your perceptions are too crude to take notice.

  • expatpatriot

    I sure hope you washed that reference to liberals fathers’ in disinfectant right after you pulled it out of your ass.

  • expatpatriot

    X-ray vision.

    Which he never uses to look under women’s (and young boys’) clothing.

  • expatpatriot

    So, there’s no overlap between religious right and the Republican Party?

  • expatpatriot

    Praise the lord!

  • expatpatriot

    I appreciate your efforts in keeping Byz stirred up (not that it takes much), because with every post s/he confirms the vile, bottom-feeding, foolish, mean, and deluded-deranged-despicable world view that characterizes the underbelly of the wingnutariat.

    In Mediaite they have found the two things they crave most: 1) fellow righty troglodytes who will applaud their every posting regardless of how incoherent it may be, and 2) a crew of willing lefties who will whack them until their peepees bleed (which is some sort of uniquely rightwing form of ‘fun’).

    Keep up the good work and remember to wash afterwards.

  • expatpatriot

    Perry seems to prefer whipping up one slavering partisan over convincing 10,000 voters. With that ratio, and given that the other ‘Lican nominees have nothing better, Obama can start making donations from his campaign coffers to those of other Dems.

  • Anonymous

    More like mediaite has its own censors;they will not report anything bad or iffy about hehimselftheone….wanting the spread the truth is sad?  Only in the eyes of the liberal loons working overtime to protect the big Zero.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Yes. Everything. Thrice. Why?

  • Anonymous

    I wonder what pseudo-comedian Brad Stine has to say in all of this. 

  • Anonymous

    Solyndra reference, drink! 

  • Anonymous

    Texan doing his best “To Catch a Predator” re-enactment. 

  • http://s1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa333/dew130/ adapto1432

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    It is provocative, but it sure as heck isn’t racist. That’s not very different from Coulter’s comments a week or two ago about “our blacks and their blacks.” Cain himself has said worse things about other blacks by saying they have been brainwashed by (white) liberals. It’s provocative, but again, not racist. I will give you a good example of a racist comment by a liberal. The comment about Palin being raped by “her brothers” than Sandra Bernard. That is racist. Your Garafolo comments are not.

  • expatpatriot

    There is no such thing as censorship on a privately owned media asset. There is only editorial policy. Censorship applies solely to official bodies exercising authority over people subject to their rule. That in no way describes the typical poster on Mediaite.

    Unless you think the government should be enforcing some sort of “fairness act” on private business?

  • expatpatriot

    In other words, “may you live in interesting times.”

    I don’t want it to get *too* interesting.

  • Anonymous

    Is your real name David Duke?

  • Anonymous

    Try to improve “you’re” gramer pleize.

  • Anonymous

    You really don’t have a clue, do you?

  • Ralph

    How does Barry come up with that type of winner when he has no background or experience in economic policy?  The answer is that it was provided to him by his elitist policy insiders.  Imagine those words coming from the mouth of Elizabeth Warren.  See.  His failing there is a cringe response that was never developed.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe Perry ought to attack Romney, who really has accused Americans of being lazy:

    “We have been accustomed to being the world’s leading nation for so long, enjoying the freedom, security, and prosperity that comes with that leadership, that we have tended to avoid the hard work that overcoming challenges requires.”

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Typical Republicon, taking the President’s words out of context!! He never called Americans “lazy”!!

  • Anonymous

    …Tommy trying to kill the messenger but can’t touch the message.

  • Anonymous

    Let us pray that we can ALL become his variety of “socialist.”

  • Anonymous

    And that message being; I’m Rick Perry, the stupidest candidate ever to run for anyfuckingthing!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    Hey Buthead, what, Beavis? Your a socialist…………hu, hu, hu…….hu,hu,hu,…………The crony Communist Chinese are creating jobs for their people, while the corny capitalists in this country are sending them the manufacturing jobs and technology we create. So who’s side are the 1% on? Rock on 99………….

  • expatpatriot

    Rick Perry needs to stop sniffing glue.

  • expatpatriot

    Duh. You mean the president has expert advisors to counsel him? Impeach the bastard!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shirley-Gallagher/100002579722348 Shirley Gallagher

    Rick Perry, what a loser!
    Herman Cain, Loser!
    Mitt Romney, Loser!
    Michelle Bachmann, Real loser!
    Newt Gingrich, Has been Loser!
    With the possible exception of Ron Paul and John Huntsman, these are the best that the GOP can field? It’s no wonder that our once great country is rapidly approaching irrelevance as we slowly slide into the abyss. It’s taken us 40 years to get to this point and all we get is a bunch of wingnuts without a clue? At least the democrats seem to care about joe average. The republicans only seem to care about clowns, I guess the 1 percent think life is like a circus and we need an abundance of clowns to humor the other 99 percent. or is it that they think the president is a clown. Open mouth, insert foot.

    In their zeal to make sure that Obama is a one term president, the GOP has thrown away every opportunity to turn our economy around by running the country over the side of a cliff. One of my father’s favorite question when Iwas a boy was; “If everyone was jumping off a cliff, would you follow them?”

    I’ve thought about this question for decades and the best answer I can give is; “There are times, when jumping off the cliff might be the right thing to do, but only when it increases your chances of survival.” This is not one of those times.

    We didn’t have to go over this particular cliff but we are going over it anyway, thanks to the GOP.

    Sometimes I think that the GOP doesn’t want the White House. They just don’t want a democrat in it either,.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shirley-Gallagher/100002579722348 Shirley Gallagher

    Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are lair’s and its sad to think Americans will vote a lair into the W.H., if you are lying to me now and you are not in the W.H., why should i expect you to stop lying to me if i vote for you and you win the W.H. 
    Sorry, Republicans i really can’t vote for some one who are already lying because you are trying to save your run for President.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shirley-Gallagher/100002579722348 Shirley Gallagher

    And you know all of this how?.

  • proud2teabagu

    You’re a lair.

  • Bob

    Perry is desperate and trying to seize on a dishonest rightwing smear of the President to save his failing campaign. It won’t work.

  • Bob

    Perry needs to lay off the maple syrup. This ad is lame.

  • Nick O’Teen

    Hell, if you show them a bright, shiny object on election day and put an (R) behind it, he’ll vote for it.

  • Anonymous

    Why is Perry “getting ahead of himself” by speaking the truth about Obama?  Yes, he is only a candidate, but Obama is the Target we want to destroy, and destroy We, the People will, by voting the AntiAmerican Worthless Excuse of a Leader out of office in 2012! 

  • Djbynum02

    Socialism has part of politics on both sides of the aisle since hector was a pup.

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