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Sad And Creepy: Watch North Koreans Weep Hysterically Over Death Of Kim Jong-il

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The news of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il‘s death hit its citizens pretty hard, as evidenced by this video of North Korean mourners bawling uncontrollably.

RELATED: North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il Is Dead According To State Television

The Blaze’s Billy Hallowell wonders if their ostentatious show of emotion is actually propaganda.

“Considering the organization and intensity seen in the video and the brutal nature of North Korea’s government, it’s natural to wonder how sincere these lamentations are. Are they being forced? Was this video staged? These are legitimate questions.”

Still, if your government continuously told you your leader was the end-all be-all of human existence and suddenly died, wouldn’t you react in the same way?

Watch the astounding footage of North Koreans grieving the loss of their leader below:

(h/t The Blaze)

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  • Anonymous

    Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
    And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
    -Hamlet, Act V

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    No different than 0ccupy Whatever here in the U S.

    Just a bit less expensive in NK.

  • Anonymous

    This is madness! 

  • Anonymous

    No this is Sparta. 

  • AMP2020

    It’s always hilarious when you hear someone, who knows nothing about North Korea, call it a godless-state. It is a form of religious fascism at its worst. Kimmy Jong was a god.

    I know it’s terrible to say, but after watching the video, now would be a good time to drop a bomb if they knew the whereabouts of his son.

  • Anonymous

    MG- they look like Dems when their welfare checks don’t arrive.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I suspect that we’ll have Republicans doing that in the streets of all major US cities on the night of 7 November 2012, or 12 November 2012, according to the Tollboothian Calendar.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    Funny

    And True.

  • david r

    I remember a teacher coming into our 8th grade Geometry class and telling us President Kennedy had been killed.  Many cried like that.

  • Anonymous

    Like you libs did  in November 2010?

  • Anonymous

    North Korea and America has one thing in common…..millions of brainwashed misinformed bots.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Remember Walter Cronkite’s face cracking.

    Part of the Kennedy circumstance was the horrible sense that something like that would happen in the US. A great deal of lost innocence on that day.

  • AMP2020

    it’s too early in the week to be trolling that hard, dude

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    No. A typical lie by Stoney. But, a fair representation of what will happen throughout America when Americans get their first January paycheck and discover what

    Böner and the House Republicans have done to them.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think it’s really creepy. An authentic human expression of sadness or sorrow is not creepy to me, whether it’s a family crying over the loss of their dog, or a nation crying after the death of their president/leader. Only if it lasts too long it can get creepy, but right now no.

    Instead, I find it pretty arrogant to call someone creepy for expressing his/her sadness…

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    No political equivalency. North Korea’s government is much more akin to one of America’s religious cults.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I remember laughing at the idiots who had shot themselves in their respective feet.

  • Anonymous

    They’ll be out there crying, “I want my country back” again.  Though I don’t know which country they’re talking about.  I suppose they mean one without a black, Democratic President.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Yeah, son, just make it up.

  • Anonymous

    Really? It obviously hasn’t stopped you, son! All you do is troll.

    Try again

  • Anonymous

    Now we know how conservatives felt when Reagan died.  Though the tea-party conservatives today would probably cheer in the streets as Reagan was not even close to being right-wing enough for them.

  • Anonymous

    sure son, I loved watching you little libs whine and stomp you feet.

    I was quite a wonderful display of lib angst!

  • Anonymous

    wow 10:18am and a lib throws the race card.

    It don’t get any better than this!

  • Anonymous

    as you libs would pillory JFK if he were alive today- no doubt, JFK would be considered a racist and a far-right whack-job for his stance against Communism.

  • Anonymous

    What is so difficult to understand about North Koreans’ reaction to the news that their Great Leader died?

    Can’t the world understand that North Koreans LOVE starving, freezing, slavery and exploitation and their hearts are broken over the passing of selfless and generous and loving Leader who graciously kept them in that happy state for five decades?

    Would you not cry, if you were a North Korean? What do you say, Trevor?

     

  • AMP2020

    Where can you point to comments of mine where I sound like a partisan hack? I tend to hate on Shultz, Chuck todd and Hannity but other than that, care to share?

  • Anonymous

    They act like he was John Lennon or something.

  • Anonymous

    should have seen the sara palin groupies when she lost..
    even better to watch the PASSION OF THE CHRIST viewers, “HOW CAN THEY SAY HE IS NOT GOD!!!!” 

    yes people actually said that about a movie made by a bigot..

    liberals do not get hysterical–remember–we are Godless???
    CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS CLOWN POSSE..

  • Anonymous

    it is religion…

    watch any televangelism crowd..

  • Anonymous

    show me one time liberals have reactive like this..

    and then i will show you your radical, blind allegiance right doing it —always…

    THAT IS WHAT YOU DO..THAT IS RELIGION–
    IT WAS YOU ALL PASTING GW’S FACE ON THE BODY OF CHRIST..
    IT WAS YOU ALL MASTURBATING TO PICS OF SARAH PALIN IN BIKER SHORTS..
    IT IS YOU ALL GATHERING EN MASS WEEPING LIKE MANIACS TO FALSE GODS AND CHARLATANS..
    it is YOU…
    but ironically—BY YOU ALL HATING WHAT YOU CLAIM ME DO–WHEN IN FACT IT IS YOU—pretty much says it all..

    AND I WILL CONTINUE TO POINT THAT OUT~~~

  • Anonymous

    liberals do not get hysterical–remember–we are Godless???”

    LOL

    son, you obviously don’t know the meaning of the word “hysterical.” It has NOTHING to do with whether one believes in God.

    Man, you are really losing it.

  • Anonymous

    BY YOU ALL HATING WHAT YOU CLAIM ME DO-”

    Son,  next time say it in English.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACyLTsH4ac
    i can post 100′s of these …
    conservatives crying, weeping, yelling, screaming, cursing, and killing..
    ALL FOR THEIR GOD..
    religion son..
    you believe Jesus was the son..
    well the NK believe Kim was..
    so………………..who is crazy now?
    MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL….

  • Anonymous

    To be fair, conservatives aren’t making worship videos to Reagan.  Liberals, on the other hand, are making them of Obama 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3TKMKbifgQ

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    joe, we already KNOW you are a Christian bigot- no need to prove it again , son.

    BTW, YOUR posts was non-responsive to what I posted!

  • Anonymous

    What?? when they realize the gravy train has ended and they’ll have to go get a job?

    Also…the fact that you call govornment assistance money a “paycheck” is interesting as well.

  • Anonymous

    and you would be considered a dumbass any day..

  • Anonymous

    Frothing rant alert….

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    joe resorts to vulgarity and profanity again. No surprise!

  • Anonymous

    kind of like conservatives..

    they live in squalor in the worst places in America holding on to GUNS AND GOD..hating gays..
    living in trailers, uneducated, eating cheap food, driving beat up cars and working for cheap labor..voting R

  • Anonymous

    But joe-  they are attending those camps voluntarily- not at the behest of their govt. So YOU now want to usurp the rights of parents now- how quaint!

  • Anonymous

    I would love to see what happens if some guy started laughing and cheering in the video.  

    Lets jsut say we wouldn’t be hearing from him again…..Aint communism grand?

  • Hout Bosques

    Will you stop with the “son” condescension? You are among, if not THE SINGLE, most immature & reactionary tool who posts as a Mediaite reader, so much so that one can argue, with examples, that some of your fellow tools even are more mature. We get the impression of someone with a very very tiny weenie who’s frightened to shower with the other boys because of fear he’d be mocked, & who’s frightened of girls because if he somehow got lucky they’d all laugh at his vestigial dicklet.

  • Anonymous

    I agree….it’s called Obamaism.

  • Anonymous

    I was definitely saddened at the passing of Ronald Reagan. So much so that I drove ten hours to Washington DC to join the crowd  of thousands on The Mall to pay my respects.

    I was also saddened when Pope John Paul II died.

    But neither time did I wail and weep and cry as the North Koreans.

  • Anonymous

    Prove it joe.

    BTW, your hate is particularly palpable today- did ya take some more “Lib Hate” pills today?

  • Anonymous

    son, I think I obviously struck a nerve.

    Please, son, stop your crying.

  • Anonymous

    well show me where the liberal are acting like conservatives then SON~
    I can post all day your clan acting like fools..
    in the name of false idols.

  • Anonymous

    Nah, I think he forgot to get his weakly enema to unhinge that stick that’s so far up his ass.

  • Anonymous

    Kim…we love and miss you.

  • Anonymous

    son,  tell me what the word has to do with believing in God?

    Go ahead- you made the claim.

    And  who said libs act like conservatives? Is that another straw man you are proffering?

    And God worship by liberals?

    Here ya go:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3TKMKbifgQ

    BTW, joe, we have seen enough of your religious bigotry for a lifetime.

  • Hout Bosques

    He’s not making it up. North Korean is an industrialist’s ultimate dream: a completely controlled work force with no ambitions greater than being able to make it through one day into the next, grateful for any scrap thrown to them. People think there’s hope for North Koreans emerging from their captivity with the death of the latest in the dynasty of their dictators, but that’s not going to happen, not at all. Instead, what’s far more likely to happen is that the military bosses are working up a national campaign to install Kim Jong Il’s son into the same slot as Il was himself slotted when his own dictator father died, & that what North Koreans can look forward to, very soon, is an even deeper crackdown to ensure their submission to power. In the scheme of the Korean peninsulat, North Koreans are nothing more than drones, kept bearly alive to continue to do the work in the DMZ mass factories in order to keep South Korean investors in goods to sell into consumption-based economies, primarily the U.S.

    It’s inconceivable that North Koreans will rebel against their masters because North Koreans have only a single Fox News Channel like media from which to learn about the rest of the world & themselves, & so they think themselves lucky to have someone to worship & obey.

    That’s what the 0.1% want THIS country to be: 320 million compliant drones. The reason it doesn’t work as neatly is because the U.S. has over the decades since WWII proven itself the world’s most reliable dumping ground for consumables, like fossil fuel energy stalks, plastic crap & media toys, & the 0.1% still haven’t figured out a way to maintain Americans as a reliable buying group without money; but they’re working on it.

    And fortunately for them, in order to provide themselves the room to continue to experiment, they have reliable lackey tools like “stoneparkIV”.

  • Anonymous

    http://westorlandonews.com/2011/09/19/really-america%E2%80%99s-ten-poorest-states-are-red/

    np son…
    we all know it is true…but you all just like to hide behind your lies..

    the mere fact that the south is where most conservatives are–the most racists, less educated, lowest pay, highest crime and most demanding on the government is not a subjective reality…
    WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE DATA..
    unless you want to say that conservative areas are thriving metros?
    PLEASE PROVE WHERE THESE CONSERVTIVE MECCAS ARE??

  • Anonymous

    nothing up my ass—just proving what i say–UNLIKE YOU FOOLS WHO CAN DO NOTHING EXCEPT ATTACK ME—for the thing YOU do…
    losers~

  • Hout Bosques

    There’s that ridiculously inapt use of “son” in condescension again, pipsqueak. It’s a sure sign that you spend your time one-hand on the keyboard & the other holding on for dear life to that vestigial dick of yours to make sure it doesn’t spontaneously fall off.

  • Hout Bosques

    Hoo boy, stoneparkIV must really be feeling anxious this morning, holding on so tightly to his tiny penis with that “son” tripe.

    You should really go off & whine to your mommy for a while, Cartman.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Edwards/588445226 David Edwards

    yea people always talk about Iran and its leader’s religious zealotry but forget that many thought Kim Jon Ill was the second coming of Christ

  • Anonymous

    ha

  • Anonymous

    Then joe if conservatives are all the rich people, how can they be so poor?

    And poor joe, because the red state have poverty, doesn’t mean those who are poor are conservatives.

  • Hout Bosques

    Except that JFK was a young man – very young as pols go & extremely young as presidents go – & he’d been murdered. 

    But yes, the point still holds: it’s fear of instability, of the not known.

  • Anonymous

    son, I think you are obsessed with me.

    How quaint!

  • Anonymous

    This from the lib who attacks everyone.

    He is so, so precious.

  • Hout Bosques

    Not only do that they not ‘know’ any better, due to having access onto to a Roger Ailes-like single media propaganda organization, what they’ve been conditioned to believe is that compliance with Dear Leader’s will means a chance at continued life, whereas defiance of authority means certain horrible, humiliating torture followed by death & ignominy. 

  • Hout Bosques

    Yes, but not like you think; you’d do just fine as a North Korean drone.

  • Anonymous

    son, that was a hell of a lot of words to say noting.

    Learn the word sententious, son

  • Anonymous

    let me try to help you dear..
    THE RICH ARE THE 1-5%..THEY OWN MOST OF THE SHIT..THEY ARE MOSTLY THE CONS..
    THE POOREST ARE 20-30% MOSTLY CONS…
    the rest is middle  and working–mostly liberals..
    did you ever read anything at all?
    how old are you? 14?
    i am really embarrassed to even have to keep pointing out the obvious to you–really~
     

  • Hout Bosques

    What toolish nonsense. The Occupy movement is very much a distinct function of a still-somewhat free society, just the opposite of what would ever be tolerated in a drone society like the 0.1% & Republicans & evangelicals in particular have sweet dreams about. 

  • Hout Bosques

    There’s that “son” condescension, again. Seriously dude, if your hand stays wrapped around your dick much longer, it’s going to be permanently deformed.

  • Anonymous

    THE POOREST ARE 20-30% MOSTLY CONS…”

    Prove it, son.

    Cite the study from the US Census Bureau that reports on poverty in the USA showing poverty by political ideology!

    bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • Anonymous

    kind of like liberals..

    they live in squalor in the worst places in America (inner cities) holding onto GUNS (and using them on opposing gangs and/or innocent people) and hating gays more than conservatives do.

    living in tenements, undereducated, eating cheap food bought by food stamps, driving beat up or stolen cars, and instead of working for cheap labor (or any kind, for that matter) they collect welfare, or awaiting money from “0bama’s stash”.. voting Democrat.

  • Anonymous

    says the flatulent irrelevant lib.

  • http://profiles.google.com/abeeftec Michael Leinbach

    That Video is not even close to the NK people crying over someone who claims to be a GOD. Jesus PROVED it by the Miraculous and his rising. This guy proved nothing. And that video is of children most likely crying because they have been witnessed to that all their wrong doing is washed. Cleaness has a way of bringing out tears of joy not tears of dispair. I think you have no ability to see the difference at all.
    Discernment is not one of your strong qualities I see

  • Anonymous

    HUH?
    sorry i do not speak stupidshit…

    when are you  going to get a job–you are worse than michelle~

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    That’s enough now “gramps”.

  • Anonymous

    On every opinion show on FOX, in addition to the conservative guests, there are guests who are definitely liberal.

    When you likened Roger Ailes to a bloodthirsty Korean dictator you demonstrated how to reach a brand new high plateau in liberal stupidity.

  • Anonymous

    son you were the one who wrote:

    BY YOU ALL HATING WHAT YOU CLAIM ME DO”

     not me.

    What’s next? “Me Tarzan, you Jane?”

  • Anonymous

    stone has no life and post after everyone else…

    if anyonen supports korean style governmetn it is the cons with their propoganda media at fox, big government in their lives..
    YOU ALL HATE WHAT YOU ARE AND BLAME LIBERALS..
    the smellers are the fellers..
    so go change your diaper–shit for brains~

  • Anonymous

    hey dipshit..
    if most of the poor live in states run by conservatives…EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE THAT THE POOR WERE LIBERAL–which it is not–IT IS SELF EVIDENT THAT THE CONS ARE THE WORST AT GOVERNING…
    THEY ALWAYS HAVE THE WORST ECONOMIES..
    no matter what you say…. Conservative leadership creates the greatest poverty for the most people..

    quit being stupid~

  • Hout Bosques

    If JFK were alive today, he would be 94 years old, & given the health issues we know about, his being alive today would be highly unlikely.

    If JFK had not been assassinated, then it would have been he & not LBJ whose administration would be identified with the Civil Rights Act of 1965, so your suggestion of his being “considered a racist” is stupid beyond credibility. 

    You’re clearly too young to know what things were like in the early 1960s. Regardless of how one feels about how the Kennedy administration reacted to it, the fact was that the USSR & the Castro regime had agreed to arm Cuba with long-range nuclear weapons & the USSR had already sent ships bearing those for installation. The USSR thinking, we know from any number of sources, was that the situation of Cuba having nukes aimed at the US was simply to equate the situation in Europe, where US nuke installations were all over Western Europe aimed at Iron Curtain capitals & suspected installations – indeed, much of the the USSR politburo considered the American reaction to the Cuban initiative as that of a ‘paper tiger’ because of the hypocrisy involved; that is, the consensus belief in the USSR politburo was that the US was bluffing. 

    No, JFK was never & would never be considered any “far-right whack-job” for having reacted as he did, nor is the Cuban Missile Crisis evidence for an such ‘inevitability’. The simple fact, which we know from sources like Krushchev & Brezhnev, is that the USSR misjudged JFK & realized that in doing so they’d come perilously close to causing nuclear conflagration.

    What’s comic is that the Goldwater crowd, Birchers and all, tried to parlay the Cuban Missile Crisis into a myth of Democratic administration WEAKNESS, when the American public saw it quite differently – as became evident with the result of the 1964 national elections.

    People should read Rick Perlstein’s book, Before The Storm: we are seeing many of the same patterns being played out all over again today, and by many of the same people & their inheritors:

    http://www.amazon.com/Before-Storm-Goldwater-Unmaking-Consensus/dp/1568584121/ref=pd_sim_b_1 

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Meltdown on aisle 5!

    Joe’s burning up with his hate  and vulgarity again.

    “if anyonen supports korean style governmetn it is the cons with their propoganda media at fox,”

    Don’t ya love it- libs can complain about  ONLY ONE conservative news source! Just one, when libs have:

    NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Salon,
    Slate, Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, The View,  HP, Vanity Fair, Village Voice, The Nation,
    The Atlantic,the Boston Globe,Chicago Sun-Times,The New Republic,The Seattle
    Times, Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Media Matters, Think Progess, The New
    Yorker,PBS et al.

    BTW  joe said the other day that if he were in charge of a country, he would eliminate religion- now, that is truly the statement of a committed  Fascist .

  • Hout Bosques

    You’re an idiot. One country, and only one country, has ever dropped nuke on another country, and it was us, and we did it twice. Anyone associated with that venture ended up deeply depressed to the point of being suicidal or was troubled by it forever after. 

    But worse: you obviously have not the first conception of what it would mean to drop a nuke on North Korea. Firstly, it would be North Korean people who would die in the hundreds of thousands to millions, not the dictatorship, who would use the event to further enslave their people. Secondly, North Korea shares the Korean peninsula with South Korea, our ally – we would be killing allies & innocents. Thirdly, the US would immediately be seen as an outlaw nation by the rest of the world, & every nation would rise up in righteous opposition to us, with tens to hundreds of millions of citizens in other countries dedicating their lives to the total destruction even annihilation of the US, out of self-defense. No one would deal with us, no one would trade with us, and we’d be the Great Satan to billions.

  • Anonymous

    nice change of the subject when you have no facts to support your illiterate claim.

    Now son, again:

    Cite the study from the US Census Bureau that reports on poverty in the USA showing poverty by political ideology!

  • Anonymous

    should you be out calling people racists, dear. or are ya off today?

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

    This will be the ‘baggers weeping in the streets when the lose the election next year!

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

  • Anonymous

    so your suggestion of his being “considered a racist” is stupid beyond credibility. ”

    Wrong! JFK had to be brought kicking & screaming the the CR movement.

    He voted against the 1957 CRA.

    “In the violence seen at Albany in 1961, Kennedy again did
    nothing as he believed that the trouble had been precipitated by SNCC who were
    referred to as “sons of bitches” by the president.

    “Kennedy only became voluntarily active when James Meredith
    forced his hand. In September 1962, James Meredith applied to a white-only
    college (the University of Mississippi) to do a doctorate.”

    “But would Kennedy have done anything if Meredith had not
    taken out legal action against the university? If Meredith had simply accepted
    his rejection – as illegal as it was – would Kennedy have taken such drastic
    action ? If Meredith had not existed, would Kennedy have hunted out those
    educational establishments that were blatantly breaking the law ?”

    http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/john_kennedy_and_civil_rights.htm

    “Kennedy’s approach to civil rights was viewed, by civil rights leaders,
    as noncommittal. But the violence in Birmingham on May 3 of 1963 left
    him no choice but to alter his course. The nightsticks, the police dogs,
    and the fire hoses had revealed a glimpse of what America could become.”

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/jfk-domestic/

  • Anonymous

    It’s sad and creepy that this article thinks it’s “sad and creepy” that North Koreans should cry about their president dying. This kind of smug attitude is why America is hated throughout the world.

  • Anonymous

    Sad and creepy sounds more like a description of the Republican presidential candidates.

  • AMP2020

    Idiot, eh?
    1. You took a half-serious comment, seriously.
    2. Where did I say to drop a nuke?
    Relax Captain Nerdo. Go have a drink.

  • Anonymous

    The Occupy Movement is merely a movement where hippies get together.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DNMVQZCXFQTDIGILG354Q727YY Roma Victor

    If I call you “Daddy” will you call me “son,” too?

  • OSTL

    Weeper and fainter were you?

  • Anonymous

    They are acting. Anyone that has been to Korea knows they have professional mourners.

  • OSTL

    Cultists to be sure.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DNMVQZCXFQTDIGILG354Q727YY Roma Victor

    Are you referring to Juan Williams?

  • http://twitter.com/HighlyRandom Highly Random

    holy shit… could you imagine how they’d react if somebody had KILLED him???

  • Anonymous

    Yes, among others like Alan Colmes, Barnie Frank, Kirsten Powers, Pat Cadell, Bob Beckel, Susan Estrich, Lanny Davis, just to name a few.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DNMVQZCXFQTDIGILG354Q727YY Roma Victor

    I wondered what happened to Alan Colmes.
    I don’t think that small band of hardy liberals is really enough to make Fox completely “fair and balanced” given the hard-right slant of the key players like Hannity and O’Reilly, and the “three-against-none” context in the morning with Doocy, et al.CNN will sometimes have more conservatives than liberals in a segment, but MSNBC usually has just one conservative at a time. I’ve never seen Fox have more liberals than conservatives in a segment.

  • Anonymous

    son, you already is my bitch!

  • Hout Bosques

    There’s no room: your already over-obsessed with yourself. Get your hand off your weenie.

  • Anonymous

    What a pathetic bunch of losers.Reminds me of jesus freaks at a billy graham freak show.

  • CarmanK

    Cry or die for the video performance. Sounds right to me. I just hope there is a GOD, so that HE can get his vengence upon this despicble human being who abused his power with depraved human behavior.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YP2KT77VSYFCZEBK62OZRSC3ZQ Ricky Bobby

    your dad would be so proud… thanks for sharing son:)

  • http://twitter.com/joedoe15 joe doe

    How creepy. But then everything is Twilight Zone creepy about this country! Even those huge pageants of dancers and changing images… stunningly beautiful, yet the performers look terrified behind their smiles.
    I hope these poor brainwashed people never experience a movie like Marley and Me. They would dehydrate from all the tears! Or think ‘dinner’ when the dog dies…

  • Hout Bosques

    JFK voted against the CRA of 1957 because on being referred to committee headed by Dixiecrat Senator James Eastland, the legislation was turned away from being federal legislation dedicated to ensuring an end to racial discrimination against black voters by providing recourse to the federal court system, and into a device under which complaints would be referred to a bipartison federal commission, which as we have all come to know is simply a way to ensure that nothing ever gets done. This failing of the CRA of 1957 was obvious from before it ever got to Ike’s desk for signature, & was supposed to be specifically addressed in the CRA of 1960, which started out as a time limit on the jurisdiction of the Commission to be replaced by recourse to the federal court system, but again was changed in committee & as a result of another filibuster led by Strom Thurmond, resulting in EXTENSION of the Commission.

    JFK spoke out all during that period consistently against the idea of complaints being referred to bipartisan Commission, for legislation that provided recourse to the federal court system & for a dramatic increase in federal government hiring practices to allow for & encourage greater numbers of hires of black Americans. He spoke out in the Senate chamber against the final versions of each of the 1957 and 1960 CRAs for precisely this reason: that referring complaints to a bipartisan Commission would be an attempt to sweep the problem under the carpet & would constitute a step backwards not forwards in ensuring voter rights for black Americans.

    Finally, take a look at the history of the CRA of 1964 (You’re right on the date.); the initiative came entirely from the JFK administration in 1963; indeed, the bill had already been reported out of committee before he was assassinated:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#Committee_.26_Passage_in_the_House_of_Representatives 

    As the Wikipedia entry suggests, the assassination ‘changed the politics’, allowing LBJ to turn the passage of the CRA into something of a JFK memorial; but it had already been identified by JFK as the center-piece of his pending campaign for re-election in 1964.

    There are a number of more ‘nuanced’ views of JFK’s progress from where he stood as a senator in 1957 & in 1960, to where he got to by the fall of 1964, but the suggestion of his being at all ‘racist’ is base revisionism. Bear in mind that even this comes from a right wing perspective:

    http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/john_kennedy_and_civil_rights.htm 

  • Anonymous

    actually my father is very proud..
    son who does not drink or do drugs?
    put himself through college and grad school?
    never cheated a friend or scammed a neighbor?
    only does business when it is best for both parties?
    millionaire at 30?
    bought first home at 19?
    never exlpoited people’s faith or fear?
    ordained minister?
    and that is just a few..
    so yes–all in all–Dad could have done much worse..
    I COULD HAVE BEEN A REUBLICAN..thank god that did not happen…

    oh ya–married 11 years–one wife..
    and yes i follow the actual teachings of Christ to the best of my ability..
    at times most of my salary goes to charity–sometimes ALL~

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003056070430 Matthew Threats

    Why don’t YOU TEA BAGGERS go to fox nation or THE BLAZE ???

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003056070430 Matthew Threats

    lol

  • Hout Bosques

    The world now mourns the greatest … golfer in the history of the world:


    When Pyongyang’s first golf course opened in 1994, he was given the honour of playing the first round. When he came to sign his card at the end, it stated that he had shot a 38-under-par round, which included 11 holes-in-one. His 17 bodyguards were put forward as witnesses to his remarkable feat.”http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2011/dec/19/kim-jong-il-things-never-knew?newsfeed=true 

    Such was his munificence, having proven his superiority to every other living being, he graciously avoided the slightest risk of damage to the standing & incomes of any other golfers by thereafter declining to partake in any actual golf competitions.

    Is it any wonder that so many North Koreans are so upset?

    (Mind you, it also seems a tad unlikely that the North Korean government media would allow the showing of any cheering of his death. That is, the selection of pictures being shown the world on how North Koreans are reacting to his death may possibly be not entirely, uh, objective.)

  • Tan

    No, liberals know that Communism just doesn’t work. Do you cons never give up on that ridiculous smear? I’ve never heard of any liberal that thinks Communism works or is a good idea. There’s a huge difference between advocating SOME socialism mixed with capitalism, and communism. If you don’t understand that then you need to do your homework and learn to read and discover that you don’t know what you’re talking about here and look ridiculous.

    If JFK were President today he would be shocked by the tax rate and would in fact RAISE it significantly particularly for the rich. Again, if your ignorance is such that you are not even aware of the tax rates at that time you really need to go away and do your homework. Tax rates were significantly higher, hence your assertion that he’d be considered much further right is untrue when we consider fiscal policy. In terms of foreign policy, Kennedy was reluctant to start a war in Vietnam and it was his death and LBJ’s subsequent promotion that guaranteed the dumb war. Now in terms of social policy you might have a point but that’s neither here not there. The early 60′s were a different time and it’s difficult to compare and contrast when society was so much more conservative in social terms. But we know he was personally very very not conservative when it came to his private life! So maybe he wouldn’t think gay marriage is a sin. It wasn’t a hot button issue then so we don’t know his personal views. We can’t know. Gay people kept quiet out of fear. Gays in the military was therefore also not a hot button.

    Your facts aren’t in and you need an education. And don’t reply to me with your condesending ‘son’. In any case I’m not male.

  • Anonymous

    Can’t wait to see liberals acting out like this when Obama gets turfed in 2012!

  • Anonymous

    This is pretty creepy to watch. Not as creepy as watching the video of those kids sing “mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama” though.

    Why “liberals/progressives” want to make America like this is beyond logic or reason. Than again, expecting any logic or reason from the dumb collectivist animal called “liberal/progressives” is a pretty silly thing to expect.

  • Anonymous

    There were 100 instances of equally creepy histrionics just like this being shot on video every day during the Obama 2008 campaign – and long afterwards too. His swivel-eyed zombie supporters make the North Korean  populace look like a bunch of champion chess players sitting around discussing John Stuart Mill while taking valium.

  • Anonymous

    Potvin, liberals are so dead inside they won’t even bother.

  • Anonymous

    It’s because they have been brainwashed to believe he’s a god. 

  • ATHF

    AHHHHHHHHHHHH  SON!

    What about “that’s my boy”

    A lot of Filipino dads like to say it sharp and direct to there kids especially there sons “BOY, you take out trash?” “BOY, you finish your home work?”

    So I take it that I was witness to Filipinos being condescending or racists to their own kids?

    So WTF is up with the progressive word games huh?

  • ATHF

    HOLY CRAP. WOW!

    LET’S SEE: north koreans are slaves to the south koreans who are slave to the U.S.

    North Koreans are nothing more than drones, kept bearly (haha, I know you meant barely) alive to
    continue to do the work in the DMZ mass factories in order to keep South
    Korean investors in goods to sell into consumption-based economies,
    primarily the U.S.

    I think you are ready to make your MSNBC debut as a  analyst about world business and political affairs.

  • ATHF

    hey Royal Gimp explain why Marxists are part of occupy San Diego?

    http://activistsandiego.org/node/3231

    http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/205347

  • ATHF

    SON, SOOOOOON, or son.

    How would you like us to address you SON?

  • Anonymous

    You conservaslobs are the delusional idiots. That’s beyond argument. Just look at your contenders for the repulsivan nomination.
    Do they arrive at the debates in a clown car?

  • Anonymous

    Its called Cult of Personality, and Strong Man governance…

  • http://profiles.google.com/intoxic.ch Daniel Saner

    Quite sadly I think this doesn’t even have to be staged. If only for the fact that they all know exactly what they’re supposed to do or say as soon as a camera is pointed on them.

    While the adoration for Kim Il-Sung was to a large degree true and honest, the worship of Kim Jong-Il was never as genuine as even many western media tried to make us believe. This discrepancy will become even more extreme after the handover to Kim Jong-Un, who doesn’t have a personality cult that has been cultivated for nearly 15 years before he came to power, as was the case for Jong-Il.

  • http://twitter.com/RabbleRealist A Rabble Realist

    What a bunch of freakish maniacs. Torch that country NOW.

  • ATHF

    FOR THE WIN, GOOD NIGHT NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    as you libs would pillory JFK if he were alive today- no doubt, JFK
    would be considered a racist and a far-right whack-job for his stance
    against Communism.

  • http://profiles.google.com/intoxic.ch Daniel Saner

    I don’t know. I think it’s creepy because I think it looks and feels far from authentic. But I would also argue that in this case, it would seem creepy to me even if it’s authentic simply because it shouldn’t be. I know, speak no ill of the dead and all that—but this man was responsible for the death of millions of their compatriots, so them feeling so sad about his own death feels really wrong and creepy. It’s like the Stockholm syndrome, only on a massive, national scale.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Who’s the Republican that you think could be Obama in a debate and the election?? Newt??

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Stone is nothing more than a pile of sh*t!! I don’t even respond to him anymore, not worth it!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It’s not sad, just creepy!!

  • NDanielson

    It’s like he was a Barry 0bama to them. LOL.

  • Anonymous

     Reminds me of the Palin fanatics when she finally quit stringing them along. I imagine the Obots will look that way after the 2012 election.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Alesse/1213267935 Mark Alesse

    Mass hysteria or crying to save your ass; either way it is a new low in the human experience.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    reminds me of those freaky fans who would weep over Michael Jackson’s every move.

  • Anonymous

    The ranting here about how Republicans and Christians are wacko is bizarre. Are people nothing but cartoons to you?  Does a person become somehow less human or less valuable because he or she views government or God differently than you?  You are a strange lot in this comment section. 

  • Anonymous

    What the hell does that have to do with North Korea..yikes.

  • Anonymous

    A lot of wailing but not too many tears. They were doing what was expected or they were told to do. I felt bad because I was laughing while watching it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/guy.blanton Guy Blanton

    I guess this is what happens when you’re afraid of being murdered by your government for not showing enough grief.

  • Anonymous

    Two guys hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. No name-calling from me, but it is very common in the Asian culture to have professional mourners. The acting is top-rate… Kim Jong Il had very tight control of the media and propaganda-makers. It is not at all surprising that people think the world may come to an end with his death given the “information” they get from government-controlled media. If you ever get the chance, do a night time fly-over of North and South Korea. Note the almost complete darkness within the borders of North Korea and the lights (an indication of prosperity) in South Korea. Communism doesn’t work. Read ‘Atlas Shrugged’.

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