Comments on: Stephen Colbert sums up the McCain campaign http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:53:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Howard C http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212682 Howard C Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:46:36 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212682 I generally believe idiots don't post comments on blogs like this one. I just get annoyed when told I am reciting someone else's ideas without any thought process of my own, like I'm here doing someone's job to give you guys guff. I generally believe idiots don’t post comments on blogs like this one.

I just get annoyed when told I am reciting someone else’s ideas without any thought process of my own, like I’m here doing someone’s job to give you guys guff.

]]> By: Jacques Chester http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212681 Jacques Chester Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:30:52 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212681 <blockquote>Sorry OT, but Jacques - what’s going with Club Troppo, haven’t been able to access it most of the weekend and still can’t?</blockquote> You're not the first, so I'm trying to work it out.

Sorry OT, but Jacques – what’s going with Club Troppo, haven’t been able to access it most of the weekend and still can’t?

You’re not the first, so I’m trying to work it out.

]]> By: Pollytickedoff http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212680 Pollytickedoff Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:27:37 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212680 "But calling someone a socialist and calling them an idiot who can’t think for themselves are two different things" Not when many of those using the word socialist believe that it is is synonymous with 'idiots who can't think for themselves'. Which I'd say, given it's frequency of use, is about 99.9% of them. :) “But calling someone a socialist and calling them an idiot who can’t think for themselves are two different things”

Not when many of those using the word socialist believe that it is is synonymous with ‘idiots who can’t think for themselves’. Which I’d say, given it’s frequency of use, is about 99.9% of them. :)

]]> By: Howard C http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212679 Howard C Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:46:40 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212679 Well, I never made the Ifill point because I barely knew who she was. No one makes that point about white politicans and white moderators, so I stayed away because I didn't believe it. No one convinced me. All I was saying is that when many commenters on this blog say the same thing about climate change, we don't accuse them of reading from the Greens' Talking points. Sure, some of the more hot headed and less well-thought-out may call them socialists. But calling someone a socialist and calling them an idiot who can't think for themselves are two different things. As a member of the political centre, I think I'd rather be called a socialist. Well, I never made the Ifill point because I barely knew who she was. No one makes that point about white politicans and white moderators, so I stayed away because I didn’t believe it. No one convinced me.

All I was saying is that when many commenters on this blog say the same thing about climate change, we don’t accuse them of reading from the Greens’ Talking points. Sure, some of the more hot headed and less well-thought-out may call them socialists. But calling someone a socialist and calling them an idiot who can’t think for themselves are two different things. As a member of the political centre, I think I’d rather be called a socialist.

]]> By: Lefty E http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212678 Lefty E Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:05:25 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212678 I like how she carved the B in reverse - having done it the mirror. They arent getting any smarter :) I like how she carved the B in reverse – having done it the mirror.

They arent getting any smarter :)

]]> By: Tyro Rex http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212677 Tyro Rex Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:02:48 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212677 Shall we bring up the G.O.P.'s behaviour over the "face-carving" incident? A fraud perpetrated by a Pennslyvania Republican campaign worker, Ashley Todd. Before it was exposed by the Pittsburgh police as a fraud, McCain's national campaign was already handing out the talking point - white women sexually assaulted and mutilated by black Obama-supporting man - that's a play on an age-old racist fear right there. Then when the "victim" finally got perp-walked by the cops, McCain's campaign tried to blame the media (multiple media outputs reporting the same quote from the Mccain campaign, so, no), then the cops for the quotes - the cops were saying all along that they were unsure about the allegation (up to the point they arrested the fraudster). It's despicable. Completely despicable. Drudge and Fox news totally exposed as the echo machine for the Republican Party's Heart Of Darkness. See Talking Points Memo for details - http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/239888.php Olbermann on 'Countdown' was on the money over this ... "what, don't they think Obama has an alibi?" ... video in link above. Shall we bring up the G.O.P.’s behaviour over the “face-carving” incident? A fraud perpetrated by a Pennslyvania Republican campaign worker, Ashley Todd. Before it was exposed by the Pittsburgh police as a fraud, McCain’s national campaign was already handing out the talking point – white women sexually assaulted and mutilated by black Obama-supporting man – that’s a play on an age-old racist fear right there. Then when the “victim” finally got perp-walked by the cops, McCain’s campaign tried to blame the media (multiple media outputs reporting the same quote from the Mccain campaign, so, no), then the cops for the quotes – the cops were saying all along that they were unsure about the allegation (up to the point they arrested the fraudster).

It’s despicable. Completely despicable. Drudge and Fox news totally exposed as the echo machine for the Republican Party’s Heart Of Darkness.

See Talking Points Memo for details -
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/239888.php

Olbermann on ‘Countdown’ was on the money over this … “what, don’t they think Obama has an alibi?” … video in link above.

]]> By: Lefty E http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212676 Lefty E Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:52:53 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212676 yep, and the finance crisis has brought forward the use-by date on pomo Conservative identity politics of the last decade. Its truly the recession we had to have. yep, and the finance crisis has brought forward the use-by date on pomo Conservative identity politics of the last decade.

Its truly the recession we had to have.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212675 Mark Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:45:00 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212675 Yes, precisely. Like all the commenters who'd thought up all by themselves the "Gwen Ifill has a conflict of interest!" scare before the Palin/Biden debate. If it had been a genuine expression of opinion, one might have expected to see some reflection afterwards. But, no, we just get the caravan moving on to whatever the new GOP talking point <i>du jour</i> is... Yes, precisely.

Like all the commenters who’d thought up all by themselves the “Gwen Ifill has a conflict of interest!” scare before the Palin/Biden debate. If it had been a genuine expression of opinion, one might have expected to see some reflection afterwards. But, no, we just get the caravan moving on to whatever the new GOP talking point du jour is…

]]> By: Tyro Rex http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212674 Tyro Rex Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:42:59 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212674 The problem is HowardC, is that those "slanders" **are** the actual Republican "talking points", as robo-called to heaps of American households and blathered to the angry mob baying for obama's blood, that masquerades for Palin's audiences at RNC-sponsored rallies. The problem is HowardC, is that those “slanders” **are** the actual Republican “talking points”, as robo-called to heaps of American households and blathered to the angry mob baying for obama’s blood, that masquerades for Palin’s audiences at RNC-sponsored rallies.

]]> By: zorronsky http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212673 zorronsky Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:22:40 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/10/26/stephen-colbert-sums-up-the-mccain-campaign/#comment-212673 Socialists hate Jesus, don’t they? (Except for George W, that is.)Because he was frist? Socialists hate Jesus, don’t they?

(Except for George W, that is.)Because he was frist?

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