Pamela Geller
Aug 19, 2010 Obama Derangement Syndrome
While CNN was practically kissing her with softballs, Rachel’s fill-in anchor was telling the truth about the woman behind the anti-Muslim hysteria over lower Manhattan. Pamela Geller is the new Orly Taitz; and that is not an exaggeration, as Geller frequently invokes birther talking points.
Tags: birthers, pamela geller
Grady Warren Deconstructed
Aug 3, 2010 Obama Derangement Syndrome, Teabaggers
The congitive dissonance and psychological projection start right away:
Barack Hussein Obama — mm, mm, mm! You’ve been called the chosen one, the messiah, an African god, a post-racial president, Barack the magic Negro.
These are names thrown at him by other people. “Magic Negro” comes straight from Rush Limbaugh, for example. The president never claimed divine authority, but wingnuts on the right do exactly that all the bloody time.
Barack you are a lot of things, but you are not a magic negro. You’re an angry Negro and you have broken the hearts of more black Americans than any white man ever could.
“Angry Negro” comes straight from Glenn Beck, and it’s bogus. Brett Baier badgered the president for thirty minutes trying to get something resembling anger out of him and failed.
You have now proven that you are an enemy of the United States. Mr. Obama, on behalf of sixty million plus sportsmen and women I’m here to announce our plan to kill your political future by repealing and defunding your destruction.
Obama is an “enemy” because he’s foreign, possibly Muslim, but not because he’s black — even though Warren has referred to his blackness seven times already. See how that works?
Now, I’m going to talk down in a language I hope you can all understand because we’re at a time when we’re all gonna be judged in history on how our actions show on November 2nd 2010. The biggest vote of our lives is coming up. On this day we will have to look in the mirror and say,
What is this “we” Warren speaks of? Presumably not “white people,” because he’s not racist. Right?
“will I cast my vote for the party that has lied to me for more than 50 years — the Democrats, the liberals, the progressives — they’ve been ruining the lives of millions of blacks, ruining their dreams, their futures, their hopes.
Really? It wasn’t the legacy of Jim Crow? Right-wing historical revisionism is always good for a laugh…until you recall that millions of Americans actually believe it.
And if you’re a black American it’s time you need to decide are you an American first, or are you an African or black American first?
Interesting that you can be a white American, but not a black American.
Barack, you’re in a fight you will not win because you have underestimated how many millions of Americans love this country and have lost loved ones for these United States. But more importantly, they will fight for the right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to keep and bear arms.
Amazing. The president has earned an “F” on every grade the Brady Campaign gives; he has even extended gun rights into national parks. Yet he somehow remains such an enemy of gun rights that Warren is “prepared” to do incredible things:
Barack, our mission is peaceful but prepared, and our plan to defeat you is a simple one: we will vote out all lifetime politicians, all Democratic incumbents, and all non-conservative Republicans. And then we’ll repeat this process in 2012. We’ll turn the face of the House and Senate around some sixty-plus percent in those two elections and we’ll take back our country.
That would be the largest swing in the history of Congress. It’s also a nakedly partisan line, putting the lie to the idea that tea party insanity is anything but the same right-wing fringe coming out of the closet. Does the GOP avow or disavow Warren, I wonder?
You have declared war on the white man in America putting the wants and needs of moochers, leeches, looters, and criminals ahead of the producers and the workers of America.
See, when a black man is president it’s “war.” But it’s not about race. Right? And you’ve got to love the Ayn Rand hyperbole masking his complete ignorance about the plight of working Americans, who’ve seen their wages stagnate for three decades while the richest get richer.
And we don’t want fifteen to twenty million illiterate Mexicans and chicanos as our new welfare society living like rats in our neighborhoods. They must go, and either the government steps up or the government will have to clean up. They will not stay and get citizenship for breaking the law.
He’s scared of Teh Brown, but not because he’s racist. He even seems willing to use violence (“either the government steps up or the government will have to clean up”) and regards the problem as one of insufficient authoritarianism. When Teh Brown are invading, we must sacrifice freedom to save it. See how that works?
Barack, you, your advisers, pollsters, pundits, talking heads have wanted to know who are the pissed-off people in this country? Well, the pissed off people, sir, are the white people.
But he’s not racist.
It’s the white people, stupid.
No racism there!
It’s taken fifty years of having things shoved down our throats that we’ve now had enough.
Apart from the right-wing’s obsession with oral gratification imagery, I wonder what he means by “fifty years.” That would take us back to 1960. Is he referring to the Civil Rights Act? Selma Bridge? “I have a dream”? Or is he lumping hippies and Negroes together in one big ball of hate?
We’ve had to pay for illegal acts, fraud, deceit, deception,
I’m with him so far on this list: illegal wars, fraudulent war profiteering, deceitful bank bailouts, etc. — maybe there’s common ground? Nah:
social programs that were smoke-and-mirror for far too long. We’re sick of it and we’re not gonna do it anymore.
If he’s referring to Bush’s Medicare Part D program, I absolutely agree. But I doubt that’s what he means. It’s way more likely he means ‘welfare,’ by which he means ‘black people.’ That’s what four decades of Lee Atwater southern strategy will do to your brain.
And Barack, if you want another white face to hate, I’m your huckleberry.
Why does he think the president hates white faces? He talks to Biden, Emanuel, Geithner, Bernanke, Gates, and Hillary Clinton all the time. Does he hate their faces too? Is that why he appoints them and keeps them around?
But even more fascinating is the way Warren keeps referring to the president by first name, as though they were familiar. It’s a step up from calling him “boy,” I guess, but it’s still a little weird.
The “huckleberry” line comes straight out of the movie Tombstone; you’re a daisy if you do, Grady Warren. A daisy if you do.
Tags: grady warren, racism, tea party
Morning Awful: Obama Prophecy Song
Aug 2, 2010 Morning Awful, Obama Derangement Syndrome
H/t Leigh, who I’ll be seeing in Minneapolis June 16-19 of 2011.
Tags: apocalypse paranoia, End Times
Uniform Code Of Military Justice
Jun 23, 2010 Afghanistan, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Obama's Afghanistan Policy
The general should be required to report to the president the same way privates reported to him when he commanded a company. After stopping three steps away from Obama’s desk, he should have to hold a salute until his superior officer (that’s what the Constitution says Obama is to McChrystal) returns the salute. Then he should be forced to stand at the position of parade rest while the commander-in-chief reads off the formal charge of insubordination.
Make no mistake: if Spec-4 Osborne described his platoon leader to Rolling Stone that way, he’d be lucky to get away with a field grade Article 15 proceeding. In all likelihood, he’d lose all pay, be reduced in rank, get confined to quarters, and have extra duty prior to a dishonorable discharge. That’s what military discipline and the Uniform Code of Military Justice would require.
The president will probably accept the general’s resignation. McChrystal will probably get a two-star retirement (with Republicans fighting to give him a four-star pension instead). What ought to happen, though, is a rejection of the resignation and a court martial. It’s what would happen to any soldier who did the same thing to any other commander.
On the day that generals decide national policy, we have crossed a Rubicon the founders never intended…and I am leaving for Canada never to return. That’s how important this is. Anyone who tells you the general is being treated unfairly has no business in uniform or the government; run from them, for they purpose tyranny.
Angry Black President
Jun 7, 2010 BP oil spill, Obama Derangement Syndrome
What was that thing I said about the president needing to reveal his inner angry president without contributing to the angry black man meme? We at last have a Samuel L. Jackson moment:
In an interview with Matt Lauer, the President said he has been consulting with experts to learn “whose ass to kick.”
Meanwhile, BP has been countermanded on press access:
Thad Allen, who is overseeing the federal response to the Gulf oil spill, said that “general guidance” had been issued that there were only two reasons why the media should be prohibited from an area: “If it’s a security reason or a safety reason because of personal protective equipment.”
Not content to get stuck with the bill and no milkshake, the WH has endorsed an unlimited liability cap for oil spillers. Vowing that the Gulf coast will “bounce back,” the president has grabbed the political center again.
Meanwhile, operations continue. BP will replace the cap with a better one:
The newer cap will “provide a better, tighter fit” than the current one collecting roughly one-third to three-fourths of the oil gushing daily from the sea floor, company spokesman Robert Wine told The Associated Press.
Ten to one odds things start happening ahead of schedule; the White House always stage-manages expectations.
Are We Ready For “Angry Black” Obama?
May 30, 2010 BP oil spill, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Obama White House, Obama smears, corporate fascism
So everyone’s talking about this as “Obama’s Katrina,” even Frank Rich:
For all the second-guessing, it’s still not clear what else the president might have done to make a definitive, as opposed to cosmetic, difference in plugging the hole: yell louder at BP, send in troops and tankers, or, as James Carville would have it, assume the role of Big Daddy? The spill is not a Tennessee Williams play, its setting notwithstanding, and it’s hard to see what more drama would add, particularly since No Drama Obama’s considerable talents do not include credible play-acting.
But life isn’t fair, and this president is in a far tougher spot in 2010 than his predecessor was in 2005.
Sure, the US Navy has submersibles; how many Navy submersible crews have experience with underwater oil-drilling? Answer: none. The US Coast Guard doesn’t have enough boom to protect the shores for which they’re responsible.
What ought Obama to have done? He should’ve just dropped an atomic bomb on it. Or designed top kill himself on a napkin. He should’ve farted on the head of BP’s CEO. Lots of good ideas — but what they really come down to is the lack of an angry black man:
Much more after the jump…
Not Like Bush
May 11, 2010 Obama Derangement Syndrome, firebaggers
AP via HuffPo: The president wants to reverse the national direction on drug policy.
WASHINGTON — The White House is putting more resources into drug prevention and treatment, part of President Barack Obama’s pledge to treat illegal drug use more as a public health issue than a criminal justice problem.
The new drug control strategy to be released Tuesday boosts community-based anti-drug programs, encourages health care providers to screen for drug problems before addiction sets in and expands treatment beyond specialty centers to mainstream health care facilities.
It’s amazing how much cognitive dissonance you find in the lefty blogosphere these days. Despair and disappointment are fashionable among the fissiparous left; but at this point, you have to be living in a different universe to repeat such nonsense. And yet they infest the comments at HuffPo.
Heckuva Job Brownie’s New Conspiracy Theory
May 3, 2010 Obama Derangement Syndrome, conspiracy theory
I was expecting this silly meme to spread and form new rationalizations. First we have the president sabotaging oil rigs, per Rush Limbaugh — your classic “false flag” nonsense borrowed straight from the world of Infowars and Alex Jones. The only problem is BP, which has not cooperated in the rhetoric and is trying to escape blame by pointing the finger at the subcontractor who owned the rig.
So now you have Heckuva Job Brownie On Cavuto as an “expert” in disasters (!) to claim the White House is just using the incident to oppose offshore oil development. This new line of thought ditches Teh Crazy™, but still flies in the face of facts: the president has put a “temporary hold” on offshore oil fields, but much the chagrin of the left he won’t cancel those plans outright just yet.
So you have the firebaggers saying Obama lurves him some oil at the same time teabaggers say he hates oil. As usual, the truth is in the middle: the president put some limited offshore development plans in his energy policy to draw Blue Dog senators into voting for climate change legislation; if anything, the timing of this accident has proven an embarrassment to the White House with its own base. He may drop development plans after the facts about what went wrong are known, but in doing so he’ll earn little credit from either side.
Yet the BP disaster benefits him somehow. It plays into Obama’s hands in some way. The right-wing punditocracy is sure it’s true because they want it to be true.
Declaring An End To Teh Stupid™
May 1, 2010 Obama Derangement Syndrome
Via Ebert, a video sure to delight ODS zombies:
Limbaugh used the word “antichrist” in 5, 4, 3…
Huffington Post has the text.
Nontroversy Born
Apr 28, 2010 Obama Derangement Syndrome, nontroversy
So the president showed up in Quincy, IL today to talk about Wall Street reform and a group of teabaggers showed up to stand with Wall Street. Apparently, they found it amusing that a SWAT team stood across the street. In fact, they smiled and posed for pictures with the SWAT boys behind them — “unbelievable,” is how they described it.
But they’re projecting the tyranny here. I spoke with Sgt. Folkenroth of the Quincy Police Department; he doesn’t think that’s their SWAT team in the picture, but the Secret Service – which is currently tasked with responding to a record high number of death threats. I’ll be confirming this tomorrow.
