FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Not everyone on the right identifies primarily with Republicans, you know. And not all Republicans are part of the Tea Party.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Ah yes, go straight to Howard Stern if you want accurate, fair and balanced information.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Thanks ... I think ...

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvvKvI3nr4k

(Cue Starman saying Stern's a genius)

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

To clarify my point, George, I am not saying every Republican is racist (though I would venture that it's there for every Tea Party supporter). However, the reason I made the initial statement that so offended you was in reply to Norrin's comment that obesity is the only thing that can be mocked. That sounds -- and much of the GOP anti-Obama rhetoric sounds -- like the old guy at the office saying "man, you can't joke about anything anymore!"

These things were just raging after the 2008 election. Remember that email about how someone was posing for Playboy and Michelle Obama was upset that she only got to pose for National Geographic? That and about a dozen other email forwards were circling the globe. On a few occasions they were sent out by Republican officials on their government email accounts. The New York Post ran a cartoon depicting Obama as a gorilla. Even in this election, Romney was unable to resist a crack about Obama's birthplace.

So, yeah, I think this "poor Chris Christie" line is really just that Republicans got all their good jokes taken away.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

As opposed to Michael Moore?

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

And political cartoons depicted Condoleezza Rice as a big-lipped, buck-toothed parrott, and 98% on the left defended them.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Where's John Galt, and why did he hire only white strippers?

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

I don't pay any attention to that slovenly fatfuck either, in case you're wondering. Never watched any of his shit.

There are reasons no national candidate ever uses him as an actual part of the campaign (in fact, most discreetly ask/order him to keep his distance).

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

A wise move on their part.

He plays to the lowest common denominator of the Dems. he's their Fox News.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

I understand. Keep in mind that I'm a blue-eyed white guy with a thick southern accent and strong libertarian leanings. It chaps me pretty good when those leanings, which do put me politically athwart President Obama and his party, are assumed to be grounded in racism. You didn't do that, of course, but I am probably overly sensitive to it. Peace.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Actually I am rather surprised Moore hasn't been hired by Fox to play their cartoon liberal clown. He'd be the perfect punching bag to set up their talking points.

Just like MSNBC or Current could hire Glenn Beck to do an hour every day, then let the rest of the lineup spend the rest of the day taking shits on him.