Fox Nation Commenters Spew Hatred and Racism at First Lady Michelle Obama

Yet another disgusting deluge of open racism
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First Lady Michelle Obama is helping raise money for the presidential campaign by doing photo sessions, at $5K a pop. This is completely standard practice, not unusual at all in an election season.

But at Fox Nation, the official Fox News forum, it’s the occasion for yet another deluge of vile racism, right out in the open, in your face. Again, we see the deliberately misspelled slurs to avoid racist word filters, numerous comparisons to chimps and other primates, comparisons to “Sasquatch” and “Wookies,” blatant misogyny, and vicious stereotypes about African Americans. And many of the most disgusting comments are rated highly by other users.

Brought to you by Fox News: $5K for Photo With Michelle Obama - Michelle Obama - Fox Nation.

This is the photo Fox Nation chose to get the racists started:

i can go to the zoo and get my picture taken with a Chimp.. same thing.

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ha. people have been trying to get a picture of bigfoot for years… but what makes her think her picture is worth that much money?

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Who in the he11 would be stupid enough to pay this Ghetto Queen any money at all to have a picture taken with her ?

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Is Michelle Gorilla Cookies off her hormone treatments again?

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I wouldn’t pay 5 cent to have my picture taken with Aunt J’obama.

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Why bother? There’re plenty of the similar in zoo.

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Who in h—- wants to have a picture taken with the first Sasquatch? I’m sure Chris Matthews and Al Sharpton will be first in line.

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I’d much rather take my family for a picnic at the zoo and have a
family pic taken in front of the primate cage for FREE!

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roger that, just look at her face in this picture alone, reminds one of good ole Fred Sanford telling Esther “I could stamp your face in dough and make gorilla cookies”

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another first for this administration pimpyourwife for money. she would suckoff a aircraft carrier of men in order to keep go on vacations on our dime

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We could put her in a row boat filled with food and medicine and white women and not even the Somilias would pirate it.

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that would be like attacking big foot, not a good idea!

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A university lecturer once recalled the cannibalistic tendencies among a certain tribe in Western Kenya. “This was long ago when communities still waged wars against each other,” she told an attentive class deviating from the normal literature lectures. “In this community, well endowed women were and are still highly regarded,” she said. During times of war and in the event of famine the women were often forced to slice off a part of their fatty bodies to feed the warriors. “In this way they had share of the ultimate victory because they fed the warriors,” she said” (So, this is why Obama chose a woman with Big Hipps)

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This may also be the reason why so many Bla ck Women have such huge rearends. Over thousands of years, nature saw the need for larger hind ends and evolve so these women would have much bigger arses, to feed the troops.

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No I am going to stick with theory of sitting on their rears, getting welfare and going to McDonalds and having as many offspring as possible to increase said welfare check.

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I wonder which clown face she will make for the picture? Will she have her painted eyebrows on? Will she wear one of her greasy, filthy wigs, or will it be the “doorknob” hair do? Which ill fitting get-up will she wear for the occasion?

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Soliciting for money by selling one’s body has another name.

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woud that be called a hoe!

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i didn’t think national geographic had that much extra spending money.

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So … how much does it cost to breed that horse??? Hummm??

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I would pay for a picture of the shaved faced Wookeei ki ssing my a ss.

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Who in the he ll would pay to have their picture taken with a shaved faced Wookeei?

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Look folks, you can get a cheaper and better picture by going to the ape house at your local zoo.

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I’d pay the five grand, in fact I’d pay ten grand for a pic of sasquatch kissing my bare azzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!

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That photo was taken right out of PLANET OF THE APES!

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A little advice that will give you the same result and save you $5000, GO TO THE ZOO

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A picture with Chewbacca, are you kidding me?

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5 K for a picture with a buffarillo. Apologies to Buffalo and gorillas

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Fact is you could not pay me enough to have my photo taken with the Wookie

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Why does everyone here place zoo animals in such disregard?

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10 k for doggie style .

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The Pimp-in-Chief and
The First Hoe!
When will the hoettes join in?

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More proof positive that Stymie and Seabiscuit are FOR SALE.

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I wonder if she will take payments in food stamps?

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A photo
Of the Hoe in Chief!

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Asked if she would drink a Jack In The Box Bacon Milkshake, FLOTUS Say :

NOT WIDOUT A COUPLE A SWEET YAMS AN A MESSA GREENS’

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Don’t stick your hand in the cage when you get your picture taken with the lowland gerila.

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Pimping ain’t easy!

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He//, I can go to the gorilla display at the zoo and get it done for nothing.

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Or an organ grinder monkey. Tin cup, cute little red Fez

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I would pay $5k for a photo of Rumba Rump eating a banana.

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they can leave the getto but seems they will (anyone who use’s “african -” before american anyway) drag the getto with them, no matter where they were born

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I can go to the zoo and get a picture with her twin for free

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I would rather pay $5K to have a picture with Cheetah.

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go to your local zoo and have your pic taken with the resident Bonobo and you have the exact same thing for nothing.

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Just go to the nearest zoo and get a chimpanzee excited before taking it’s picture. Same thing, but cheaper.

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That’s the only way I would take a picture with this chimp. If they pay me $5000. LOL.

The thing about this rancid hate speech is that it’s not unusual at Fox News websites. Every single time there’s an article posted about Michelle Obama (or just about any black person) you’ll see exactly the same kinds of bigoted, overtly racist comments.

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UPDATE at 2/17/12 1:31:08 pm

Fox Nation has now deleted the entire thread of ugly comments and closed it.

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250 comments
1 jamesfirecat  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:38:38am

Pope still Catholic, bears continuing to defecate in forested areas.

2 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:41:20am

"Fox Nation Commenters Spew Hatred and Racism" would just be easier to post and no less true. The subject just changes from day to day.

3 HappyWarrior  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:41:40am

Sky still blue, FoxNation doing its best or worst depending on your pov to resemble Stormfront, alrighty then.

4 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:42:36am

If people would pay $5,000 to have their picture taken with me I'd be sorely tempted.

5 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:43:10am

Kilgore has been busy.
/

6 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:44:24am

FoxNation is not just an innocent bystander afflicted by rogue racist commenters. They deliberately chose an unflattering image to start things off.

7 lawhawk  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:45:40am

re: #4 Obdicut

Hey, I'll take $5,000 for taking the picture. I don't even have to be in it. /

8 HappyWarrior  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:46:25am

These people are such losers. Attacking her looks like that. Yeah, I am sure you're awesome looking Mr. Keyboard Warrior.

9 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:47:42am

sun still rises in the east...

//

Seriously, they are vile, vile people.

10 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:48:16am
"...the First Spouse is headed to Boston next month to do a parade of grip-and-grins with local Demmies, Obama-ophiles, fitness freaks, Dougie aficionados and anyone else who can pony up the dough."

Fitness must be a radical left concept.

11 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:48:20am

This is kind of funny:

they can leave the getto but seems they will (anyone who use’s “african -” before american anyway) drag the getto with them, no matter where they were born

Michelle Obama grew up upper-lower class or lower-middle class, her father was employed, her parents were together. Her mom was strict, banning television and being a martinet about doing homework. Michelle got into a gifted class and then into a magnet school. She and her brother both skipped a grade.

So is that what 'getto' is? Being ambitious, driven, successful, and disciplined?

12 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:48:42am

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

13 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:49:04am

re: #10 jaunte

Fitness must be a radical left concept.

MORE BACON!

14 Obdicut  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:50:08am

re: #12 Kragar

I think Obama is superior to the pope, in that he's a secular elected official from a nation with very wide suffrage and the pope was elected by 117 old dudes.

15 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:50:31am
petebertuglia 47 minutes ago
I don't like the ape comments, I know I call her sasquatch, but that does not mean the same as ape. I can't stand the sight of her for a trillion reasons, wouldn't p1$$ on her if she was on fire, but one of those trillion reasons is not her skin color. Same goes for the pig in the WH! hey are disgusting people and enemies of freedom, and blatant racists, but I am not interested in skin color! Sorry, but I just don't like the ape comments.

How magnanimous.

16 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:50:45am

re: #13 Kragar

Not the Onion:
Heart Attack Grill owner defends his restaurant

Speaking on Fox and Friends Friday morning Jon Basso says his restaurant isn't just a place to get artery clogging meals, like the Triple Bypass.

"What it's all about is a place where you can live the way our Founding Fathers intended us to live, and that is by our own accord," he said.

17 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:50:53am

re: #12 Kragar

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

Pope Barack I...hmm, has a nice ring to it.

//

18 renata39.5  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:51:13am

I usually skip reading these posts. I read this one. I remembered why I usually skip them. These comments make me feel physically ill. And it's positively revolting that the culture of Fox Nation's website is such that these commenters feel perfectly comfortable and safe posting such sickening, brutish things.

19 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:51:31am

re: #15 Bishop Cornwallis Gobbletot

How magnanimous.

He won't last long.

20 HappyWarrior  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:51:57am

re: #12 Kragar

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

Newt thinks he's superior to everyone else.

21 Interesting Times  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:52:05am

Speaking of vile people, here's a petition to tell GM to stop funding the climate-change-denying, pro-pollution Heartland Institute:

Tell General Motors: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial

It only accepts US signatures, unfortunately :( But given how much Heartland has ridiculed GM for accepting bailouts, and that GM sells the Chevy Volt, how incredibly stupid and wrong is it that they're potentially spending taxpayer bailout money on climate change denial?

22 HappyWarrior  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:54:50am

re: #11 Obdicut

This is kind of funny:

Michelle Obama grew up upper-lower class or lower-middle class, her father was employed, her parents were together. Her mom was strict, banning television and being a martinet about doing homework. Michelle got into a gifted class and then into a magnet school. She and her brother both skipped a grade.

So is that what 'getto' is? Being ambitious, driven, successful, and disciplined?

See that means she's "uppity." It's obvious what the "getto" comment means though.

23 jamesfirecat  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:55:42am

re: #14 Obdicut

I think Obama is superior to the pope, in that he's a secular elected official from a nation with very wide suffrage and the pope was elected by 117 old dudes.

Obama also hasn't taken any steps to cover for child molesters if memory serves...

24 Mattand  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:56:26am
The thing about this rancid hate speech is that it’s not unusual at Fox News websites. Every single time there’s an article posted about Michelle Obama (or just about any black person) you’ll see exactly the same kinds of bigoted, overtly racist comments.

Philly.com, the Philadelphia Inquirer's website, has been on a roll lately with this sort of horseshit. There's always a fair amount of racial tension in Philly that gets reflected in their article comments, but the hood-n-burning-cross set has really been vocal lately. Unabashed racial hatred that would make George Wallace blush.

25 Mattand  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:57:33am

re: #23 jamesfirecat

Obama also hasn't taken any steps to cover for child molesters if memory serves...

QFMFT
(quoted for mother effing truth)

26 HappyWarrior  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:57:35am

It's gonna be hilarious when Obama gets re-elected and these people flip out even more.

27 Romantic Heretic  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:58:10am

re: #10 jaunte

Fitness must be a radical left concept.

Their idea of exercise is probably getting out of their chair, walking to the kitchen and back again.

28 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 11:59:57am

re: #12 Kragar

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

"How many divisions does the Pope have?"//

29 Sheila Broflovski  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:01:28pm

re: #21 Interesting Times

Speaking of vile people, here's a petition to tell GM to stop funding the climate-change-denying, pro-pollution Heartland Institute:

Tell General Motors: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial

It only accepts US signatures, unfortunately :( But given how much Heartland has ridiculed GM for accepting bailouts, and that GM sells the Chevy Volt, how incredibly stupid and wrong is it that they're potentially spending taxpayer bailout money on climate change denial?

Here is a list of all corporations funding HI.

Biggest donor: NUCOR.

30 Mattand  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:01:59pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

It's gonna be hilarious when Obama gets re-elected and these people flip out even more.

The lawn chair and bucket of popcorn will be at the ready. The flip side, unfortunately, is that all of the race baiting that Fox and the current GOP is pushing will push one of these mouthbreathers over the edge.

31 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:02:33pm

re: #28 ☞☞☞☞☠

"How many divisions does the Pope have?"//

Well, it is the Church Militant...

32 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:02:38pm

re: #27 Romantic Heretic

They never seem to get tired of the idea that the Obama administration is going to force them to do something. Every bit of public relations encouragement for healthy eating and exercise that comes from the First Lady is taken as evidence that big gubmint is going to snatch the bacon from their hands and only allow arugula snacks.

33 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:02:40pm

re: #27 Romantic Heretic

Their idea of exercise is probably telling their wife to getting out of their her chair, walking to the kitchen and back again with a beer.

FTFY

34 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:03:00pm
Is Michelle Gorilla Cookies off her hormone treatments again?

Someone thinks they're Redd Foxx.

35 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:03:35pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

It's gonna be hilarious when Obama gets re-elected and these people flip out even more.

It will be, but I worry that some may crack so badly that they see violence as the only alternative.

36 dragonfire1981  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:05:15pm

re: #12 Kragar

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

They're past that. In fact, I think we're up to 16 now.

37 Coracle  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:05:44pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

It's gonna be hilarious when Obama gets re-elected and these people flip out even more.

I believed that he wouldn't escape a first term without a bona fide attempt on his life, and I'm damn relieved to have been wrong for three years. I still think the odds approach 50% before November, and far exceed it should he win a second term.

38 Randall Gross  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:06:09pm

FOX: The news station most favored by racists.

39 dragonfire1981  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:06:52pm

So you manage to run a successful blog, find time for your music, have an active social life, take care of your other daily business AND post hundreds and hundreds of racist comments on foxnews.com.

How do you do it Charles?

40 mr.fusion  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:08:22pm

re: #38 Randall Gross

FOX: The news station most favored by racists.

Not all FOX viewers are racists.....but if you're a racist you're probably a FOX viewer

41 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:09:11pm

re: #39 dragonfire1981

So you manage to run a successful blog, find time for your music, have an active social life, take care of your other daily business AND post hundreds and hundreds of racist comments on foxnews.com.

How do you do it Charles?

Magnets.

42 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:10:16pm

re: #41 Kragar

Magnets.

And Lizard Minions.

43 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:13:01pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

Pope Barack I...hmm, has a nice ring to it.

//

You shouldn't insult Obama like that.

44 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:13:08pm

OT: Whoa...

Italy plans to tax Vatican on commercial properties

Prime Minister Mario Monti has announced the Vatican must pay taxes on non-religious property, from which it previously enjoyed an exemption.

The annual cost could be up to 720m euros ($945m; £598m) according to municipal government bodies.

Italy's Catholic Church has 110,000 properties, worth about 9bn euros.

It includes shopping centres and a range of residential property.

45 General Nimrod Bodfish  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:13:42pm

re: #41 Kragar

Aliens

46 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:13:47pm

re: #44 Slumbering Behemoth

OT: Whoa...

Italy plans to tax Vatican on commercial properties

Man, Italy's desperate for funds, aren't they?

47 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:14:04pm

re: #20 HappyWarrior

Newt thinks he's superior to everyone else.

I keep hoping he'll get better.

48 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:14:38pm

re: #45 Exit Light, Enter Night

Aliens

Who do you think made magnets?

49 Coracle  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:15:12pm

re: #45 Exit Light, Enter Night

Aliens

Actually, he looks pretty Centauri.

50 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:15:23pm

re: #27 Romantic Heretic

Their idea of exercise is probably getting out of their chair, walking to the kitchen and back again.

Are you saying it isn't?

51 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:15:34pm

re: #49 Coracle

Actually, he looks pretty Centauri.

What do you want?

//

52 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:17:37pm

re: #35 Targetpractice

It will be, but I worry that some may crack so badly that they see violence as the only alternative.

Friggin crack'dheads.

53 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:17:38pm

re: #46 Targetpractice

Man, Italy's desperate for funds, aren't they?

They must be. They're in a recession at the moment, according to that article.

54 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:19:52pm

re: #51 Targetpractice

What do you want?

//

Vir Cotto was awesome.

55 teresa  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:19:59pm

Faux Gnus, oh those Murdoch employees, they refuse to take any responsibility for attracting those neanderthals to their site and their programming. Why? Because those folks are more than willing to spend their money on all things faux, they believe in the invisible war on Christmas, War on White people, War on the 1%, next up The Liburl War on Pat Buchanan. It is strange to witness how easily the Stormfront crowd moves between Faux Gnus and Stormfront. Murdoch should rename his propaganda machine: Crazy People R Us.

56 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:20:31pm

The US should start collecting taxes from all churches to put a dent in the dept.

57 Interesting Times  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:20:37pm

re: #15 Bishop Cornwallis Gobbletot

petebertuglia 47 minutes ago
I don't like the ape comments, I know I call her sasquatch, but that does not mean the same as ape. [remaining dribbling wingnuttery redacted]

Googling that name brought up some very interesting results, such as a Facebook profile where the person claims to be "unemployed due to hope and change" and lists Fox Nation under "interests."

But, uh, yeah, all comments like that (and worse) are from librul plants 9_9

58 freetoken  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:21:51pm

Rupert Murdoch has become even more filthy rich off of the ugly underside of American society.

Bratfart tries... won't make as much money though... but he really tries.

They both market to the same crowd. Take a look at where the comments are heading in this BigPeace article:

Half of Kenyan Slum Girls Trade Sex for Sanitary Napkins

Bratfartians can imagine all they want about "liberal plants", but really, that BigPeace article is just one of many weekly that act as nesting sites for the ugly.

59 Killgore Trout  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:22:32pm

re: #56 SH1T My Conscience Says

The US should start collecting taxes from all churches to put a dent in the dept.

When in Rome...
Italy plans to tax Church's commercial properties

60 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:22:36pm

re: #54 Kragar

Vir Cotto was awesome.

61 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:25:19pm

Bill Moyers Essay: Freedom of and From Religion

How do we honor religious liberty without it becoming the liberty to impose one set of moral beliefs on others?

62 lawhawk  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:26:36pm

re: #54 Kragar

Minbari scum. /G'kar

63 MittDoesNotCompute  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:28:02pm

re: #42 wrenchwench

And Lizard Minions.

And a nitrogen-rich subterranean lair.

64 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:28:51pm

re: #62 lawhawk

Minbari scum. /G'kar

Centauri. G'kar didn't have a problem with the Minbari.

And yet Vir saved thousands of Narn anyways.

65 ProGunLiberal  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:32:35pm

Well, Think Progress now has a summary of the most offensive things that Buchanan said before he was fired.

Why MSNBC Dumped Pat Buchanan: His 10 Most Outrageous Statements

These ones pissed me off the most.

4. Said the Jewish population in the United States dropped in the 90s because Jews aborted all their babies. Buchanan explains that the decline in the American Jewish population during the 1990s (a decline that a Brandeis study says never occurred), “is a result of the collective decision of Jews themselves. From Betty Friedan to Gloria Steinem in the 1970s to Ruth Bader Ginsburg today, Jewish women have led the battle for abortion rights. The community followed.”

5.Asserted Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people including 69 teens in Norway, “may have been right.” Buchanan called Breivik a coward, evil, and cold-blooded, and then proceeded to defend his twisted rationale for the killings: “As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right.”

8.Argued that Poland and the United Kingdom had it coming in World War II. Buchanan seems to suggest in a 2009 column that World War II—and all the atrocities that accompanied it—was really the fault of Poland and Britain, for refusing to engage in diplomacy with Germany. “Why did Warsaw not negotiate with Berlin, which was hinting at an offer of compensatory territory in Slovakia? Because the Poles had a war guarantee from Britain that, should Germany attack, Britainand her empire would come to Poland’s rescue.”

9.Dabbled in Holocaust denial. Pat Buchanan danced alarmingly close to denying key facts of the Holocaust. In a 1990 column for the New York Post, he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk (whom he later compared to Jesus Christ) against charges from Holocaust survivors that he was guilty of murder by accusing the survivors of misremembering all of it: “This so-called ‘Holocaust Survivor Syndrome’ involves ‘group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.’ Reportedly, half of the 20,000 survivor testimonies in Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem are considered ‘unreliable,’ not to be used in trials[…]The problem is: Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.”

10. Argued Hitler was an individual of “great courage.” That’s just one of the quotes that the Anti-Defamation League attributes to Buchanan in their compendium of offensive remarks from Buchanan over the years. In 1977, he qualified his labeling of Hitler as racist and anti-semitic by adding that “he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier in the Great War, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him[…]His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”

66 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:32:39pm

Ugh. Internet connection went down about 45 minutes ago. Customer service totally unhelpful - they just scheduled a service visit, tomorrow. Posting this with my iPhone's 3G connection.

67 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:34:39pm

re: #55 teresa

Faux Gnus, oh those Murdoch employees, they refuse to take any responsibility for attracting those neanderthals to their site and their programming. Why? Because those folks are more than willing to spend their money on all things faux, they believe in the invisible war on Christmas, War on White people, War on the 1%, next up The Liburl War on Pat Buchanan. It is strange to witness how easily the Stormfront crowd moves between Faux Gnus and Stormfront. Murdoch should rename his propaganda machine: Crazy People R Us.

And yet, you have Daniel Larison in your list of favorite blogs. He recommends Lew Rockwell, Taki Theodoracopulos, Joe Sobran, and other racist paleoconservatives, as well as The American Conservative, which publishes Pat Buchanan. What's up with that?

68 Sheila Broflovski  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:35:55pm

re: #65 ProGunLiberal

4. Said the Jewish population in the United States dropped in the 90s because Jews aborted all their babies. Buchanan explains that the decline in the American Jewish population during the 1990s (a decline that a Brandeis study says never occurred), “is a result of the collective decision of Jews themselves. From Betty Friedan to Gloria Steinem in the 1970s to Ruth Bader Ginsburg today, Jewish women have led the battle for abortion rights. The community followed.”

The decline in the Jewish population from 1987-1996 was totally my fault. I stopped giving birth in 1987, and my daughter had her first baby in 1996.

So, I will accept the blame for that time period. However the Jewish population surge is back on track again.

69 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:37:09pm

re: #55 teresa

Ooops, where are my manners.

Welcome, hatchling.

70 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:39:09pm

Yet another atheist high school student complains about religious songs in after school choir...

Wait, what?

71 The Optimist  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:39:29pm

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

72 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:39:37pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

Ugh. Internet connection went down about 45 minutes ago. Customer service totally unhelpful - they just scheduled a service visit, tomorrow. Posting this with my iPhone's 3G connection.

Wow, that sucks. Especially if you're one of the unfortunate ones, like me, where you get one broadband provider or the phone company. Or sometimes they're even one and the same.

73 ProGunLiberal  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:40:20pm

re: #68 Look At My Grandbaby!

I still wonder why the fuck MSNBC didn't fire him sooner, with all this bile he said and wrote.

74 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:40:55pm

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

Don't you think they ought to be publicized?

75 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:42:31pm

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

I'm assuming you mean that ironically.

76 leftynyc  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:42:39pm

Looks like an average day on any freeper thread.

77 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:44:45pm

re: #75 Kragar

I'm assuming you mean that ironically.

I don't see any irons around here, do you?

78 leftynyc  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:44:50pm

re: #12 Kragar

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

As an American Jew, why wouldn't I consider my President superior to the Pope (who means nothing at all to me personally)?

79 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:45:21pm

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

Sure. If no one talked here about what the Fox commenters are saying, they would just get tired and stop.

80 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:45:23pm

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating condemning the comments.

FTFY, FOC

81 ArchangelMichael  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:46:09pm

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

The point. Missed it you have I would say.

/yoda

82 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:46:35pm

re: #77 thedopefishlives

I don't see any irons around here, do you?

You've got to set the hook.

83 MittDoesNotCompute  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:50:03pm

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

Oh, bullshit...Charles posts excerpts from Fox Nation/News so that the little bastards can't deny the shit when a mod over there gets around to blackholing comments wholesale.

Do you have any issues with setting some disinfecting sunlight on these bigoted, moronic choads?

84 General Nimrod Bodfish  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:50:09pm

re: #71 The Optimist

They are being published here so that everyone that isn't a skull-fucking racist/bigot/misogynist can see who Fox News markets to, to see who is the GOP base, to see who the GOP appeals to, to get the centrists to realize that Fox "News" is becoming nothing more that a mainstream Stormfront site. Nobody is giving credence or condoning the thousands of racist remarks there, they are being condemned and ostracized here, and hoping that others would do the same and marginalize them.

85 Tigger2005  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:51:49pm

re: #12 Kragar

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

Yup, they're not satisfied to just make 10 louder.

86 lawhawk  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:52:13pm

re: #78 leftynyc

As an American, why would I consider the Pope to be relevant as compared to the Office of the President? The President is our leader. The Pope isn't. If I wanted spiritual enlightenment as a Roman Catholic, then the Pope's positions would carry weight.

Yet, I'm Jewish, so I have no such inclination. He's just the leader of a religious group. Some things he says and does may jibe with my own moral and ethical leanings, but plenty other things do not.

One has to wonder whether, if Newt came to the opposite conclusion, he'd be busy claiming that the President had split/dual loyalties - to the Church and the US.

Newt's whole line of reasoning here is troubling.

87 Talking Point Detective  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:53:43pm

Seems to me that this phenomenon is growing, if anything.

How does that work?

My guess is that they see Charles posting their comments and are so mind-numbingly ignorant they think he's indicating approval and don't realize that he does that to ridicule them.

Wait. On second thought, no one could be that stupid.

Wait. On third thought:

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

88 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:54:14pm

re: #78 leftynyc

And I think we need to understand this is just one more phase in an ongoing assault on Christianity and on Judaism and on organized religion by secularists who believe that they have the right to get between man and God.

So Newt is actually in favor of creeping shariah?

89 lawhawk  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:56:32pm

re: #88 jaunte

Well, he is a friend of Grover Norquist /Geller

90 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:56:34pm

re: #86 lawhawk

As an American, why would I consider the Pope to be relevant as compared to the Office of the President? The President is our leader. The Pope isn't. If I wanted spiritual enlightenment as a Roman Catholic, then the Pope's positions would carry weight.

Yet, I'm Jewish, so I have no such inclination. He's just the leader of a religious group. Some things he says and does may jibe with my own moral and ethical leanings, but plenty other things do not.

One has to wonder whether, if Newt came to the opposite conclusion, he'd be busy claiming that the President had split/dual loyalties - to the Church and the US.

Newt's whole line of reasoning here is troubling.

The 3 branches of the Conservative Government are the Executive, the Legislative and the Church.

Screw the Judiciary.

91 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:57:11pm

re: #88 jaunte

So Newt is actually in favor of creeping shariah?

As long as its done in Jesus's name

92 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:57:25pm

re: #12 Kragar

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

Hey Newt, your lack of American Exceptionalism is showing. Saying that the leader of the Vatican is superior to the leader of the USA? Showing your true colors as a Vatican-Firster, are we?
/////

93 Tigger2005  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:58:28pm

I'm sure the homophobic comments to Fox News stories about Ellen, gay marriage, etc. are also pretty horrific.

94 lawhawk  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:59:07pm

re: #90 Kragar

Actually, Newt pretty much gets rid of everyone but the Executive. It's my way or the highway. And the highway's shut. He's pretty much indicated that he has the right to ignore the courts as President since he's the only person who can possibly know what the Constitution means.

95 Big Steve  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:59:44pm

The Pope!!! The Pope!! Isn't there a Stalin quote about the Pope's lack of divisions or that the Pope can't do division or something of the sort.

96 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:01:29pm

re: #95 Big Steve

The Pope!!! The Pope!! Isn't there a Stalin quote about the Pope's lack of divisions or that the Pope can't do division or something of the sort.

Been done earlier in the thread. "How many divisions does the Pope have?"

98 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:03:04pm

Sheldon Adelson made a lousy bet.

99 lawhawk  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:03:11pm

OT: For those TWC subscribers in the NYC metro area (and beyond I guess) who have been unable to watch the Linsanity develop at the Garden, good news. MSG and Time Warner have come to an agreement brokered by Gov. Cuomo and AG Schneiderman to resume broadcasts.

The end of the impasse will be announced Friday afternoon by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and executives of both companies. A settlement had been urged by Eric T. Schneiderman, the state’s attorney general. The governor’s intervention in the past 24 hours with James L. Dolan, executive chairman of Madison Square Garden, and Glenn Britt, chief executive of Time Warner Cable, accelerated the agreement, which is a long-term deal.

The blackout deprived many Knicks fans around the state of seeing much of the rapid rise to stardom of point guard Jeremy Lin — as well as the continued success of the New York Rangers. Friday night’s Knicks game will be available to all Time Warner customers.

The impasse began Jan. 1 with the companies disagreeing angrily over what Time Warner Cable would pay to continue carrying MSG.

100 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:05:49pm

re: #93 Tigger2005

I'm sure the homophobic comments to Fox News stories about Ellen, gay marriage, etc. are also pretty horrific.

I couldn't tell you. All the comment sections on Ellen related articles at FoxNation seem to have been shut down.

Oh...

101 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:07:11pm

re: #98 jaunte

The House doesn't always win?

102 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:07:49pm

Obama DOJ Won’t Defend Law Denying Military Benefits To Same-Sex Couples

The Obama administration has announced that it will not defend defend laws that prevent same-sex couples who are legally married from obtaining benefits. In a letter to Congress today, Attorney General Eric Holder argued, “[t]he legislative record of these provisions contains no rationale for providing veterans’ benefits to opposite-sex couples of veterans but not to legally married same-sex spouses of veterans.” “Neither the Department of Defense nor the Department of Veterans Affairs identified any justifications for that distinction that would warrant treating these provisions differently from Section 3 of DOMA.”

103 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:09:50pm

Internet's back. I knew it wasn't a problem with the modem, but you can't tell customer service that - they just ignore you. It was down for about an hour and a half.

104 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:11:23pm

Blast from the past:

Ron Paul Newsletter @RP_Newsletter
A successful Pat Buchanan candidacy would be wonderful.

105 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:12:01pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Internet's back. I knew it wasn't a problem with the modem, but you can't tell customer service that - they just ignore you. It was down for about an hour and a half.

I love dealing with help desks scripts to get to actual customer service.

106 SpaceJesus  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:13:19pm

[Link: www.womenofgrace.com...]

Anybody see this? Its making the rounds on the right recently. Anybody know enough about women's health to address it?

107 teresa  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:13:40pm

re: #67 wrenchwench

Oh I think I am intelligent enough to read Larison for his foreign policy analysis, I think being informed on what the smarter Republicans think about issues that are not related to abortion, guns and the flag keeps me informed about them, somewhat. I read Bruce Bartlett too! But I am not a libertarian. Sorry! I read a variety of blogs and books, yes books! Just finished Harold Ickes Sr. policy book "Fightin' Oil" I bought the first edition at Powell's. It's awesome, no one currently in our government writes like that, too bad too. I hope my liberal cred will be improved on that alone, but if that doesn't do it, I did work for Jerry Brown's campaign in 1992. Also I love Andy Cohen.
*shrugs shoulders wanders off to make some hummus

108 Varek Raith  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:14:29pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Internet's back. I knew it wasn't a problem with the modem, but you can't tell customer service that - they just ignore you. It was down for about an hour and a half.

Did you plug in your computer???
;)

109 lawhawk  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:15:27pm

Well, what do you know - Former VP Dick Cheney has come out in support of same sex marriage in Maryland.

"By far the biggest boost came in the morning when Republican Del. Wade Kach, who was considered a sure-fire no vote, threw his support behind O'Malley's bill. Kach had voted against the bill two days earlier in committee.

The Baltimore County delegate said he reached his decision after mulling the testimony he'd heard during a nearly 11-hour hearing on the bill last week and watching how same-sex couples supported one another. 'I thought to myself, if my constituents were here, they'd have a different perspective on the issue,' Kach said. 'I'm sure of it.'

He also became the target of a last-minute lobby effort, and said his voice mail was full of messages from important people, including Mehlman, Bloomberg and an offer to talk with former Vice President Dick Cheney, whom Kach regards as a "great man." [emphasis added]

I went full-on Liz Lemon when I read that. "What the what?!" I said outloud to my computer screen.

Despite having a out-and-proud lesbian daughter, Mary, Cheney's politics have sent mixed messages to the gay community. Since leaving office he has stated that he supports same-sex marriage but would like to see the issue addressed at a state, not federal, level. However, as Vice-President, he remained largely silent when the Bush administration pushed for a constitutional amendment codifying opposite-sex marriage in case the already-on-the-books Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was challenged in court. President Bush eventually abandoned the idea after winning reelection in 2004, but Cheney was branded as disingenuous at best and disloyal at worst by many in LGBT community. Has the former VP and sometimes St. Michaels resident changed his tune? Or is he just expressing what he's always believed, but felt he couldn't officially endorse until now?

110 Big Joe  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:16:32pm
111 Lidane  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:17:21pm

Cue the 'splodey heads again:

Obama Administration Wouldn’t Defend Blocking Military Benefits From Same-Sex Couples

The Obama Justice Department has concluded that legislation banning same-sex couples from receiving military and veterans benefits violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment and will no longer defend the statute in court, Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a letter to Congressional leaders on Friday.

“The legislative record of these provisions contains no rationale for providing veterans’ benefits to opposite-sex couples of veterans but not to legally married same-sex spouses of veterans,” Holder wrote. “Neither the Department of Defense nor the Department of Veterans Affairs identified any justifications for that distinction that would warrant treating these provisions differently from Section 3 of DOMA.”

112 Mocking Jay  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:17:50pm

re: #109 lawhawk

Well, what do you know - Former VP Dick Cheney has come out in support of same sex marriage in Maryland.

LIBERAL COMMIE SOCIALIST!!

113 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:18:29pm

re: #106 SpaceJesus

[Link: www.womenofgrace.com...]

Anybody see this? Its making the rounds on the right recently. Anybody know enough about women's health to address it?

Oral Contraceptives and Cancer Risk: Questions and Answers

Some cancers depend on naturally occurring sex hormones for their development and growth. Researchers are interested in learning whether the hormones in oral contraceptives affect cancer risk in women (see Question 1).
Some studies have shown an increased risk of breast cancer in women taking oral contraceptives, while other studies have shown no change in risk (see Question 2).
Oral contraceptive use has been shown in multiple studies to decrease the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer (see Question 3).
Oral contraceptives have been shown to increase the risk of cervical cancer; however, human papillomavirus is the major risk factor for this disease (see Question 4).
The risk of liver cancer is increased in women who take oral contraceptives and are otherwise considered low risk for the disease (see Question 5).

114 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:19:44pm

re: #106 SpaceJesus

I searched for this "The World Health Organization has named the birth control pill a Group 1 Carcinogen", and all that came up were links to freeper stories and anti choice sites.

115 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:20:01pm

re: #106 SpaceJesus

Expert: Dr. Angela Lanfranchi

Joel Brind is a professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College and is the primary advocate of an abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link. While Brind is pro-life and his goal to prove an ABC link, he has published papers in respected journals on other human hormone topics.[28] He has fought against the legalization of RU-486 testifying at a federal hearing that "thousands upon thousands" of women would develop breast cancer as a result of using the drug.[29]

In 1996, Brind published a meta-analysis in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH) which was immediately criticized in a Journal of the National Cancer Institute editorial for concluding response bias was unlikely to have affected their results, "dismissal of the study's limitations, and their blurring of association with causation."[30] The amount of attention the study received prompted a cautionary editorial by a JECH editor.[31] After Brind's study failed to convince the scientific community of a causal relationship, Brind co-founded the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute (BCPI) in 1999 with Angela Lanfranchi,[32] a surgeon and pro-life advocate. In 2003, Brind was invited to the NCI workshop, where he was the only one to formally dissent.
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

116 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:20:18pm

re: #111 Lidane

Cue the 'splodey heads again:

Obama Administration Wouldn’t Defend Blocking Military Benefits From Same-Sex Couples

STOP OPPRESSING ME!
/

117 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:20:35pm

Fox Nation just deleted the entire thread, and closed the comments for their article.

118 lawhawk  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:21:29pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

You're stomping all over the free speech of right thinking Americans. Damn you. Damn you to hell. /rwnj11ty

119 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:22:52pm

I feel so irrelevant.

120 Mocking Jay  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:22:58pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

Fox Nation just deleted the entire thread, and closed the comments for their article.

So a major media outlet needs to give it's community a timeout. Sounds like kindergarten .

121 Coracle  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:23:33pm

Rick Santorum: "This Is Just Crap"

Poor Choice of Words Department (LGFPage)

122 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:24:24pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Internet's back. I knew it wasn't a problem with the modem, but you can't tell customer service that - they just ignore you. It was down for about an hour and a half.

"First, we need you to restart your computer."

edit: Relevant xkcd comic: [Link: xkcd.com...]

123 ReamWorks SKG  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:27:03pm

What amazes me about Fox comments is that they are likely done by Adults. It's easy to discount YouTube comments, for example, because most of them are probably made by 10 year olds.

But I seriously doubt that anyone under 50 is reading and commenting on Fox blogs.

(And, I think Mrs. Obama looks lovely.)

124 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:27:55pm

re: #122 Bishop Cornwallis Gobbletot

They actually had me unplug the modem and remove the freaking backup battery. Complete waste of time, and I told them before I started. Next time this happens I'm going to ask to get escalated to a higher support level.

125 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:28:38pm

re: #107 teresa

Oh I think I am intelligent enough to read Larison for his foreign policy analysis, I think being informed on what the smarter Republicans think about issues that are not related to abortion, guns and the flag keeps me informed about them, somewhat. I read Bruce Bartlett too! But I am not a libertarian. Sorry! I read a variety of blogs and books, yes books! Just finished Harold Ickes Sr. policy book "Fightin' Oil" I bought the first edition at Powell's. It's awesome, no one currently in our government writes like that, too bad too. I hope my liberal cred will be improved on that alone, but if that doesn't do it, I did work for Jerry Brown's campaign in 1992. Also I love Andy Cohen.
*shrugs shoulders wanders off to make some hummus

There's some Lizard cred. A foodie!
;)

126 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:28:43pm

re: #123 reuven

But I seriously doubt that anyone under 50 is reading and commenting on Fox blogs.

I would swear I saw someone credible make the claim that 55% of CPAC attendees were under 25. I find that difficult to believe, but also incomprehensible and depressing if true.

127 Lidane  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:31:07pm

re: #126 Bishop Cornwallis Gobbletot

I would swear I saw someone credible make the claim that 55% of CPAC attendees were under 25. I find that difficult to believe, but also incomprehensible and depressing if true.

Yeah, but those under 25 CPAC girls dress like whores don'tcha know:

“Women [at CPAC] will be future leaders, too, and I was dismayed to see how many of them either looked frumpish or like two-bit whores,” wrote conservative blogger Melissa Clouthier. “If, at the number one conservative conference of the year, young men and women are looking and acting like the cast of Jersey Shore, it’s time to reset the compass.”

Clouthier went on to say that females should not show cleavage or wear skirts shorter than three finger-widths above the knee. “Bend at the knee,” she lectures. “No, I don’t want to see your butt.”

128 General Nimrod Bodfish  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:32:31pm

Take a look at the picture Fox News used for the article, now look at this. There's a reason they chose that kind of picture of the First Lady. They could have chosen any picture of Mrs. Obama, but they picked that one.

There's a reason racist/bigoted comments reign supreme on Fox News articles.

129 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:32:40pm

re: #127 Lidane

Her spectrum is:

frumpish ---- melissa clouthier ---- two-bit whore

130 Lidane  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:33:35pm

re: #128 Exit Light, Enter Night

There's a reason racist/bigoted comments reign supreme on Fox News articles.

Fox News knows their audience.

131 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:33:50pm

re: #127 Lidane

The John Birch Society? Mum.
White Supremacist Peter Brimelow? Crickets.
Skirts above the knee? OMGWTFBBQ!!11ty

132 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:34:55pm

re: #128 Exit Light, Enter Night

Take a look at the picture Fox News used for the article, now look at this. There's a reason they chose that kind of picture of the First Lady. They could have chosen any picture of Mrs. Obama, but they picked that one.

There's a reason racist/bigoted comments reign supreme on Fox News articles.

Absolutely... the photo was deliberately chosen to get the racists stirred up, I have no doubt at all. Fox Nation does this kind of race-baiting all the time, and I do mean ALL the time.

133 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:38:04pm

re: #128 Exit Light, Enter Night

It would be harder to get their desired comment thread going with this:
Image: 499363295.jpg

134 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:40:08pm

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

If you believe twisted logic is good logic.

135 Lidane  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:41:08pm

Rush Limbaugh, moral crusader:

136 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:41:31pm

re: #133 jaunte

It would be harder to get their desired comment thread going with this:
Image: 499363295.jpg

Nah, that would probably get the OMG ELEVENTY BILLION DOLLAR DRESS ELITIST outrage machine rolling.

137 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:41:38pm

re: #12 Kragar

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

Well I do. Fuck the pope. He has noting to do with my life, the Pres of the USA does. So yeah, I think the President is superior to the pope.

138 Tigger2005  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:42:11pm

re: #126 Bishop Cornwallis Gobbletot

I would swear I saw someone credible make the claim that 55% of CPAC attendees were under 25. I find that difficult to believe, but also incomprehensible and depressing if true.

Why should it be surprising? Schools aren't teaching logical thinking any more. I'm 45 and if I took a class like that, it was an elective. I educated myself in the principles of logical thinking (Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Toolkit" is a great basic resource). It boggles my mind, the completely irrational ways some people think--and not just on the Right. Most of them have no clue--they think their messy, fuzzy, pretzel-like, screwed-up thought processes are pure genius.

139 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:43:14pm

I've noticed that I like to play a lot of RPGs, particularly ones that allow the character to craft various items (Fallout NV, tech characters in Arcanum, etc.). I usually take a lot of notes or make lists for things I want to remember without having to dig through layers of in-game menus.

So I'm cleaning up my desk, finding various bits of paper here and there with these RPG related notes I have made.

They look like the shopping lists of a mad man, or maybe an evil genius.

I'll be burning them, so future civilizations don't dig them up in some long forgotten land fill and ask "WTF?!?!"

140 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:44:33pm

It took Fox Nation about two hours after this post to delete the entire thread and close it. They seem a little on edge.

141 Varek Raith  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:45:53pm

re: #133 jaunte

It would be harder to get their desired comment thread going with this:
Image: 499363295.jpg

Giggity!

142 researchok  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:46:07pm

re: #140 Charles Johnson

It took Fox Nation about two hours after this post to delete the entire thread and close it. They seem a little on edge.

Maybe they don't like mirrors.

143 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:47:17pm

I'll bet they have an intern keeping an eye on LGF. What a thankless job that must be. Hi, intern!

144 Sheila Broflovski  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:47:37pm

re: #124 Charles Johnson

They actually had me unplug the modem and remove the freaking backup battery. Complete waste of time, and I told them before I started. Next time this happens I'm going to ask to get escalated to a higher support level.

Was the call center in the U.S. or some other country?

Call centers have a script that they are required to follow, their job performance reviews are dependent on how closely they followed the script, also the after-call survey!

145 Lidane  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:47:41pm
146 Tigger2005  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:47:52pm

re: #140 Charles Johnson

It took Fox Nation about two hours after this post to delete the entire thread and close it. They seem a little on edge.

In other news, Stormfront reports sudden spike in registrations and postings.

147 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:48:36pm

re: #137 RayFerd

Well I do. Fuck the pope. He has noting to do with my life, the Pres of the USA does. So yeah, I think the President is superior to the pope.

Dude, come on. He has a gold hat and a gold robe and carries a gold scepter. He sits on a gold throne in a special sovereign city made of gold and marble. He could teach us all a few things about humility.

148 Sheila Broflovski  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:48:52pm

re: #146 Tigger2005

In other news, Stormfront reports sudden spike in registrations and postings.

Fox deleted the thread, who says they shut the user accounts?

149 Tigger2005  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:50:29pm

re: #148 Look At My Grandbaby!

Fox deleted the thread, who says they shut the user accounts?

But if the cockroaches (apologies to actual cockroaches) think they can't post their filth to Fox News anymore, they may scurry off to even darker, nastier corners of the 'Net.

150 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:50:56pm

re: #149 Tigger2005

But if the cockroaches (apologies to actual cockroaches) think they can't post their filth to Fox News anymore, they may scurry off to even darker, nastier corners of the 'Net.

Like Reddit :D

151 simoom  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:52:25pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

I used to waste my time Flagging comments on Fox to little effect (nothing I reported ever seemed to get removed). Outside scrutiny definitely seems to be driving them to some degree of, at least haphazard, comment moderation.

152 MittDoesNotCompute  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:52:35pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Internet's back. I knew it wasn't a problem with the modem, but you can't tell customer service that - they just ignore you. It was down for about an hour and a half.

Comcast took down their network in my neighborhood for about 30 minutes early this morning before I went to bed for maintenance

C'est la vie...

153 Amory Blaine  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:53:04pm
pRESIDENT ALIEN 27 minutes ago
Uncle Omar?
___________________________________
pRESIDENT ALIEN
Kenyan by birth --- unAmerican by choice
زوجتي هي قطعة من القرف جدا

Read more: [Link: nation.foxnews.com...]

They just moved to different threads.

154 MittDoesNotCompute  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:53:27pm

re: #133 jaunte

It would be harder to get their desired comment thread going with this:
Image: 499363295.jpg

Hubba hubba...

155 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:54:07pm

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

Or preserving them from white washing and a flush down the memory hole.

156 MittDoesNotCompute  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:55:07pm

re: #118 lawhawk

You're stomping all over the free speech of right thinking Americans. Damn you. Damn you to hell. /rwnj11ty

I read your comment as if it were being said by Joe from Family Guy when he's angry ;-P

157 blueraven  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:57:43pm

re: #106 SpaceJesus

[Link: www.womenofgrace.com...]

Anybody see this? Its making the rounds on the right recently. Anybody know enough about women's health to address it?

American Cancer Society

What's Already Known: Scientists have known for some time that birth control pills protect against ovarian cancer, and that certain lifestyle factors may affect risk. Age, weight, and a woman's reproductive and family history also appear to play a role in the likelihood a woman might develop ovarian cancer.

However, there's also some data that suggests oral contraceptive use increases the risk of other cancers. Cervical cancer has been linked to long-term birth control pill use, as has breast cancer. (For more information, see "What are the Risk Factors for Cervical Cancer?" and "What are the Risk Factors for Breast Cancer?")

But the picture is complicated. "Oral contraceptives slightly and temporarily increase the risk of breast and cervical cancer. However, the slight increase in breast cancer occurs during and in the 5 years following the use of these contraceptives, and usually at a time and age when risk is very low," said Debbie Saslow, PhD, director of breast and gynecological cancers at the American Cancer Society.

[Link: www.cancer.org...]

Bottom line: May protect against some cancers and may slightly increase risk of others with long term use. Certainly not up there with tobacco use.
Most women are aware of these risks.

158 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:58:54pm

re: #65 ProGunLiberal

9.Dabbled in Holocaust denial. Pat Buchanan danced alarmingly close to denying key facts of the Holocaust. In a 1990 column for the New York Post, he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk (whom he later compared to Jesus Christ) against charges from Holocaust survivors that he was guilty of murder by accusing the survivors of misremembering all of it: “This so-called ‘Holocaust Survivor Syndrome’ involves ‘group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.’ Reportedly, half of the 20,000 survivor testimonies in Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem are considered ‘unreliable,’ not to be used in trials[…]The problem is: Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.”

Note that the 20,000 bit was lifted straight from denial publications:

[Link: www.nizkor.org...]

As was another bit not quoted here:

[Link: www.holocaust-history.org...]

159 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:59:10pm

re: #127 Lidane

Yeah, but those under 25 CPAC girls dress like whores don'tcha know:

I have a weird opinion on this.

Dressing like two-bit whores does not make a woman one, however, asking for $.25 as payment for a sex act does.

Dressing like a two-bit whore is not justification for a man to treat a woman as a two-bit whore, nor is it justification for verbal or physical abuse or rape.

Two-bit whores should not be treated to verbal and physical abuse either, they should be given a leg up to improve their life and get out of the sex trade.

So fuck off all you right wing ninnies who disparage women for how they dress.

160 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 1:59:14pm

The Religious Right, Sonograms and Conscience Clauses

The same people pushing for these mandatory sonogram bills have also been pushing for years for “conscience clauses” to allow people to refuse to perform medical procedures or even dispense medication if it violates their religious beliefs, like allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control. So what do you suppose they would say if a doctor refused to perform this government-mandated invasive sonogram as a matter of conscience?

161 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:00:16pm

re: #128 Exit Light, Enter Night

Take a look at the picture Fox News used for the article, now look at this. There's a reason they chose that kind of picture of the First Lady. They could have chosen any picture of Mrs. Obama, but they picked that one.

There's a reason racist/bigoted comments reign supreme on Fox News articles.

Oh for fuck sakes.

162 blueraven  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:00:32pm

re: #155 RayFerd

Or preserving them from white washing and a flush down the memory hole.

I like to think of it as shining a light on the dark underbelly of the racist internet scumbags.

163 Achilles Tang  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:00:43pm

re: #143 Charles Johnson

I'll bet they have an intern keeping an eye on LGF. What a thankless job that must be. Hi, intern!

Hi intern,
Still learning how to spell "moderate"?

164 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:01:14pm

re: #133 jaunte

It would be harder to get their desired comment thread going with this:
Image: 499363295.jpg

Wow. Gorgeous and brilliant.

165 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:01:39pm

re: #135 Lidane

Rush Limbaugh, moral crusader:

Those damn horny yutes.

166 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:02:18pm

re: #163 Red Sea Desjardini Tang

That intern should take notes on their work at Fox. There could be an interesting book in it, once they get out.

167 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:02:21pm

re: #137 RayFerd

Well I do. Fuck the pope. He has noting to do with my life, the Pres of the USA does. So yeah, I think the President is superior to the pope.

If you're going to fuck the pope, do it with a 10ft pole.

168 Achilles Tang  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:03:37pm

re: #167 SH1T My Conscience Says

Now you are taking lessons from Fox :(

169 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:07:57pm

Google Busted With Hand in Safari-Browser Cookie Jar

Google intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them, in the latest privacy debacle for the search and advertising giant.

Google immediately disabled the practice after the Wall Street Journal disclosed the practice Thursday night, which was discovered by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer and confirmed by security consultant Ashkan Soltani.

170 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:10:01pm

Woohoo! Came home to fresh home-made sushi for lunch.

Even managed to grab some before the wife said it wasn't for me.

171 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:13:16pm

re: #107 teresa

Oh I think I am intelligent enough to read Larison for his foreign policy analysis, I think being informed on what the smarter Republicans think about issues that are not related to abortion, guns and the flag keeps me informed about them, somewhat. I read Bruce Bartlett too! But I am not a libertarian. Sorry! I read a variety of blogs and books, yes books! Just finished Harold Ickes Sr. policy book "Fightin' Oil" I bought the first edition at Powell's. It's awesome, no one currently in our government writes like that, too bad too. I hope my liberal cred will be improved on that alone, but if that doesn't do it, I did work for Jerry Brown's campaign in 1992. Also I love Andy Cohen.
*shrugs shoulders wanders off to make some hummus

I wasn't challenging your intelligence or your liberal cred. I was just trying to make sense of your comment in light of your link to Larison on your blog. Sure, being well-read, including a variety of sources, is a good thing, but listing Larison among your favorites is more like a recommendation. You snarked about Buchanan in your comment, yet you recommend someone who publishes at his site.

Really, I just want to understand it. I've seen intelligent, well-read people before who liked Larison, but the man is a "proud" member of the League of the South:

Let me take this opportunity to say a few words about the League of the South, a group to which I am proud to belong for these past ten years.

How can the rest of his commentary carry any weight with reasonable people?

172 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:14:07pm

re: #167 SH1T My Conscience Says

If you're going to fuck the pope, do it with a 10ft pole.

I'd rather use a shillelagh while wearing a funny hat.

173 Varek Raith  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:14:12pm

re: #170 Kragar

Woohoo! Came home to fresh home-made sushi for lunch.

Even managed to grab some before the wife said it wasn't for me.

INCOMING!!!
*Ducks under desk*

174 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:15:09pm

re: #169 jaunte

Don't Get Caught Being Evil.

175 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:15:56pm

Jonathan Alter retweeted this one:

176 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:16:37pm

Hooray! This is a great post by DesmogBlog:

[Link: www.desmogblog.com...]

177 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:18:37pm

re: #71 The Optimist

By printing the comments, LGF is publicizing and perpetuating the comments.

You're welcome to not participate in such a vile forum.

half-/

178 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:19:09pm

Mmph. Looks like Twitter's embedded tweet feature reverts to the original when you post a "retweet." I was trying to embed the RT from Jonathan Alter: [Link: twitter.com...]

179 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:19:38pm

Minnesota Vikings Set To Fleece Unwilling Taxpayers For New Stadium

Where is the outrage about tax payer money going to shit like this?

180 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:22:22pm

re: #179 Kragar

Minnesota Vikings Set To Fleece Unwilling Taxpayers For New Stadium

Where is the outrage about tax payer money going to shit like this?

I guess the Vikings didn't think to ask Jerry Jones how it's done.

181 A Mom Anon  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:25:42pm

re: #135 Lidane

You know,for someone who's been married 4 times,I don't believe he has any children. Hmm. Why would that be?

It's also rather puzzling to me that when these men pontificate about sex and assorted reproductive health issues,they always seem to talk about young women. What,are the rest of us dead below the waist after 25?

If men could get pregnant,abortion would be a sacrament. With free coupons.

182 Sheila Broflovski  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:26:10pm

re: #149 Tigger2005

But if the cockroaches (apologies to actual cockroaches) think they can't post their filth to Fox News anymore, they may scurry off to even darker, nastier corners of the 'Net.

They are probably already there.

183 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:26:53pm
Karma: 0

amirban

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Trying again to crack that shell, maybe...

184 Digital Display  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:27:41pm

re: #179 Kragar

Minnesota Vikings Set To Fleece Unwilling Taxpayers For New Stadium

Where is the outrage about tax payer money going to shit like this?

I freaking love it! If you want to be a big time sports city then cough up the money. Go big or go home..

185 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:29:44pm

re: #184 The Hoopster

I freaking love it! If you want to be a big time sports city then cough up the money. Go big or go home..

I have a religious objection to anyone's tax dollars being used to help grown men play a kid's game.

186 Lidane  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:30:06pm

My surprise, let me show you it:

NJ Gov. Christie vetoes same-sex marriage bill

187 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:30:47pm

re: #181 A Mom Anon

If men could get pregnant...

... we'd have The United States Department of Daycare and Diaper Changing.
/with a budget larger than the military.

188 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:31:53pm

Bam.

[Link: articles.baltimoresun.com...]

By far the biggest boost came in the morning when Republican Del. Wade Kach, who was considered a sure-fire no vote, threw his support behind O'Malley's bill. Kach had voted against the bill two days earlier in committee.

The Baltimore County delegate said he reached his decision after mulling the testimony he'd heard during a nearly 11-hour hearing on the bill last week and watching how same-sex couples supported one another. "I thought to myself, if my constituents were here, they'd have a different perspective on the issue," Kach said. "I'm sure of it."

He also became the target of a last-minute lobby effort, and said his voice mail was full of messages from important people, including Mehlman, Bloomberg and an offer to talk with former Vice President Dick Cheney, whom Kach regards as a "great man." All three are recognized for their support of gay rights issues.

189 Lidane  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:32:00pm

re: #181 A Mom Anon

If men could get pregnant,abortion would be a sacrament. With free coupons.

Pfft. If men could get pregnant, the morning after pill would be available for free in every bar in this country, like a bowl of beer nuts.

190 A Mom Anon  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:32:59pm

re: #187 Slumbering Behemoth

Yep. And then some. Full time parenting would be considered a "real job" too.

191 darthstar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:36:37pm

Fox could save themselves a lot of time and embarrassment if they just disabled comments altogether.

Now, if they wanted to stop the "anonymous" racists, all they would need to do is to block the ip addresses of said posters as they found them. Chances are there are merely a few dozen people making most of those comments on a regular basis. Cut off their ability to post, and the problem goes away.

But Fox likes these people.

192 zora  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:36:56pm

Former Va. Republican Rep. Virgil Goode announces presidential bid

Virgil Goode Jr. may have served six terms as a Republican congressman from Virginia, but now he feels he can best bring about change as the Constitution Party’s candidate for president.

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

he's afraid of creeping sharia and muslims swearing in with the quran. that's good for about 25% of the base right there.

from 2006:

Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) issued a letter to constituents earlier this month in which he declares, “I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States” if we do not adopt “strict immigration policies.”

[Link: thinkprogress.org...]

193 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:37:00pm

re: #188 ☞☞☞☞☠

Bam.

[Link: articles.baltimoresun.com...]

States are starting to fall like dominos.

194 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:38:32pm

re: #192 zora

Former Va. Republican Rep. Virgil Goode announces presidential bid

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

he's afraid of creeping sharia and muslims swearing in with the quran. that's good for about 25% of the base right there.

from 2006:

[Link: thinkprogress.org...]

Which Constitution are they the party for?

195 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:39:21pm

re: #194 Kragar

Which Constitution are they the party for?

CSA.

196 all4one  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:39:41pm

Aunt J'obama? That's way too clever for a low-life who thinks the term Libtard is smart. They must be hiring professional racist name maker-uppers.

197 Digital Display  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:40:16pm

re: #185 Kragar

I have a religious objection to anyone's tax dollars being used to help grown men play a kid's game.

My Brother..I understand..But..
If you are going to be world class sports city then the whole city needs to support that goal..Take Indy...It has one of the best basketball arenas in the United States..It is awesome. Literally tens of millions of dollars come from Pacer games. The Colts stadium is world class and during the SB probably brought untold amounts of cash to Indy. The NCAA moved Indy and it is now considered the amateur sports Capital of the world..
Indy is now considered world class from men playing games..

198 darthstar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:40:37pm

re: #181 A Mom Anon

You know,for someone who's been married 4 times,I don't believe he has any children. Hmm. Why would that be?

The reason Limbaugh doesn't have any children is because he goes on sex tours to third world countries where he can load up on oxycontin and viagra and get serviced by young boys and girls depending on his mood. The guy is a predator and it's only a matter of time before he's discovered as such in the US.

199 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:41:52pm

re: #197 The Hoopster

My Brother..I understand..But..
If you are going to be world class sports city then the whole city needs to support that goal..Take Indy...It has one of the best basketball arenas in the United States..It is awesome. Literally tens of millions of dollars come from Pacer games. The Colts stadium is world class and during the SB probably brought untold amounts of cash to Indy. The NCAA moved Indy and it is now considered the amateur sports Capital of the world..
Indy is now considered world class from men playing games..

Privatize everything then. Thats what the GOP keeps saying makes everything better. Let private industry take care of it and keep the tax payer money out of it.

200 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:42:45pm

re: #198 darthstar

Um, link?

201 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:43:46pm

re: #191 darthstar

Fox could save themselves a lot of time and embarrassment if they just disabled comments altogether.

Now, if they wanted to stop the "anonymous" racists, all they would need to do is to block the ip addresses of said posters as they found them. Chances are there are merely a few dozen people making most of those comments on a regular basis. Cut off their ability to post, and the problem goes away.

But Fox likes these people.

IP addresses actually aren't that useful for blocking; with a lot of Internet connections, it's too easy to get a new one.

But Fox uses the Disqus commenting system, which has lots of moderation features. They can block people individually if they choose to - but I've now noticed several names that often post the worst comments, and never seem to get blocked.

In some cases, the most offensive users are long-time Fox commenters with thousands of comments to their "credit."

202 Varek Raith  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:44:29pm

re: #192 zora

Former Va. Republican Rep. Virgil Goode announces presidential bid

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

he's afraid of creeping sharia and muslims swearing in with the quran. that's good for about 25% of the base right there.

from 2006:

[Link: thinkprogress.org...]

Oh geez.

203 Killgore Trout  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:44:57pm

re: #200 Kragar

Um, link?

You haven seen the Rush Limbaugh, Jimmy Carter and Micheal Moore lemon party pic before? It's old news.

204 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:46:00pm

re: #203 Killgore Trout

You haven seen the Rush Limbaugh, Jimmy Carter and Micheal Moore lemon party pic before? It's old news.

eww

205 Kragar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:46:23pm

re: #203 Killgore Trout

You haven seen the Rush Limbaugh, Jimmy Carter and Micheal Moore lemon party pic before? It's old news.

Thanks for that.

206 darthstar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:46:30pm

re: #179 Kragar

Minnesota Vikings Set To Fleece Unwilling Taxpayers For New Stadium

Where is the outrage about tax payer money going to shit like this?

It's okay because it's the Vikings. Though they just got a new stadium a few years ago I thought...oh, that's right...the dome collapsed.

Wait...they've got an Indian Casino generously offering to help pay for the stadium...and that wouldn't cost the taxpayers a dime! (in taxes)

White Earth Chairwoman Erma Vizenor, at a Capitol news conference, said the 20,000-member American Indian tribe — the state’s largest — has desperate needs in health care, education and housing on its rural reservation about 250 miles northwest of Minneapolis. The tribe wants state lawmakers to vote to let them open a casino in the much more heavily populated Twin Cities, which Vizenor said would raise enough money to both alleviate tribal poverty and cover a taxpayer share of a stadium project that’s likely to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

207 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:46:42pm

re: #203 Killgore Trout

I am going to kick you so hard that your soul comes flying out of your mouth.
/

208 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:47:02pm

re: #201 Charles Johnson

Esp. as addresses tend to be dynamic.

209 Varek Raith  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:47:57pm

re: #207 Slumbering Behemoth

I am going to kick you so hard that your soul comes flying out of your mouth.
/

*Stands by with soul gem*

210 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:50:29pm

re: #192 zora

Former Va. Republican Rep. Virgil Goode announces presidential bid

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

he's afraid of creeping sharia and muslims swearing in with the quran. that's good for about 25% of the base right there.

from 2006:

[Link: thinkprogress.org...]

I was just reading about the Constitution Party.

Daniel Larison is a well-known blogger in paleoconservative circles and runs the highly-trafficked blog “Eunomia“,which is supported by The American Conservative. Larison is highly regarded as a paleoconservative luminary and was previously supporting Bob Barr, until snubgate that is. Now he has endorsed Chuck Baldwin.

The objective in supporting Barr was supposed to be that he would provide someone who would unite both Paul-supporting libertarians with cultural conservatives who remembered Barr’s past record and wanted a conservative alternative to McCain. However, Ron Paul’s endorsement of Baldwin has made clear that the better candidate to support to pursue that end is Chuck Baldwin.

Larison also admits to being a member of the New Mexico Constitution Party, but casts doubts on the Constitution Party’s organization. He ends the blog post by telling people to vote for Chuck Baldwin for President.

Gary Johnson also endorsed Chuck Baldwin in 2008.

212 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:51:08pm

re: #209 Varek Raith

*Stands by with soul gem*

Good idea. We can make a +3 Axe of Snark with that.

213 MittDoesNotCompute  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:51:16pm

re: #198 darthstar

The reason Limbaugh doesn't have any children is because he goes on sex tours to third world countries where he can load up on oxycontin and viagra and get serviced by young boys and girls depending on his mood. The guy is a predator and it's only a matter of time before he's discovered as such in the US.

I've come to loath Rush and his ilk, but let's stick to the facts, OK? His Oxycontin use is a matter of public record and he supposedly did take a trip or two down to the Dominican Republic to have his way with some of the ladies (having to use some Viagra to get the job done), but him possibly diddling minor girls (or boys) is unsubstantiated (and possibly libelous) rumor.

We don't tolerate when the RWNJs make up shit about us, so why make up shit about them? When you have the truth on your side, lies and half-truths are unnecessary.

214 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:51:20pm

re: #210 wrenchwench

Gary Johnson also endorsed Chuck Baldwin in 2008.

This is a zen koan, meditate on it to open your third eye

215 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:51:58pm

re: #211 Varek Raith

More War on Religion, eh?

216 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:52:10pm

re: #208 ★★★★★

Esp. as addresses tend to be dynamic.

Well, it depends - a lot of direct consumer cable and optical fiber Internet connections have fairly stable static IPs that rarely (if ever) change. Big companies though, or universities, are often run with a pool of IPs. And mobile devices usually get a new IP every time they log on, also from a pool.

So there are plenty of ways to circumvent IP blocks, even without getting into the more technical stuff like Tor or anonymous proxies.

217 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:53:28pm

IP addresses are still useful in terms of developing user "fingerprints," though.

218 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:53:30pm

re: #216 Charles Johnson

OK, maybe I overgeneralized from my experience. My DSL (on which I'm sitting at this moment) has new IP each time I "phone-in".

219 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:55:33pm

re: #218 ★★★★★

OK, maybe I overgeneralized from my experience. My DSL (on which I'm sitting at this moment) has new IP each time I "phone-in".

You know, it's gotten to the point that when I see a string of symbols, I think "Oh, that's Sergey."

220 Charles Johnson  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:55:37pm

re: #218 ★★★★★

OK, maybe I overgeneralized from my experience. My DSL (on which I'm sitting at this moment) has new IP each time I "phone-in".

Yeah, with a DSL connection it's usually trivial to get a new IP.

221 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:55:46pm

re: #211 Varek Raith

Obama DOJ Won’t Defend Constitutionality Of Denying Military Benefits To Same-Sex Couples

Oh noes!

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AMERICA MUST NOT LET THE FALSE WRONG-SEXYING HUMANOIDS WIN!!! THE FUTURE OF THE PATRIOT AMERICA STARTS AND RED WHITE AND STRIPES BLUE IS AT STEAK!!!

PLEASE DONATE TO FREE REPUBLIC, WE NEED TO PAY THE HOSTING BILL

222 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:55:48pm

re: #214 windupbird is in the gravity well

re: #210 wrenchwench

Thanks for thinking of me.

:)

223 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:55:57pm

re: #219 Meh.

You know, it's gotten to the point that when I see a string of symbols, I think "Oh, that's Sergey."

Handy!
/

224 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:56:41pm

re: #222 wrenchwench

misplaced tag syntax will be my ruination

225 darthstar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:58:45pm

re: #213 talon_262

Okay, let's assume for the sake of argument that the sex tourism industry in the Dominican Republic only provides legal age-appropriate entertainment to its clients...really? I can see Limbaugh asking for someone in her late forties or early fifties alright.

226 Digital Display  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:58:49pm

re: #217 Charles Johnson

IP addresses are still useful in terms of developing user "fingerprints," though.

A few years ago we talked about MAC Spoofing..amazing sophistication of users these days.

227 jaunte  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 2:59:16pm

CNN contributor Dana Loesch: Virginia trans-vaginal ultrasound no more intrusive than intercourse:

228 darthstar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:00:36pm

re: #227 jaunte

CNN contributor Dana Loesch: Virginia trans-vaginal ultrasound no more intrusive than intercourse:

[Video]

But is the procedure as short in duration?...wait...what?

229 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:01:11pm

re: #226 The Hoopster

A few years ago we talked about MAC Spoofing..

Well, that's pretty useless for web. It's only useful inside networks. (Unless the site runs some cunning Java plugin.)

230 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:01:13pm

re: #227 jaunte

CNN contributor Dana Loesch: Virginia trans-vaginal ultrasound no more intrusive than intercourse:

[Video]

Nor less.

Stupid hater of women.

231 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:01:35pm

re: #227 jaunte

IT'S ABOUT CONSENT, YOU STUPID BITCH!!!

/sorry, just got a little heated

232 darthstar  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:02:06pm

re: #220 Charles Johnson

Yeah, with a DSL connection it's usually trivial to get a new IP.

I don't think the knuckle-dragging bigots at Fox Nation are that smart. In fact, I'd bet most of them signed up for their anonymous accounts with their work email addresses.

233 blueraven  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:02:30pm

re: #227 jaunte

CNN contributor Dana Loesch: Virginia trans-vaginal ultrasound no more intrusive than intercourse:

[Video]

Unwanted, forced intercourse. It's called rape.

234 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:03:57pm
235 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:04:13pm

re: #202 Varek Raith

Oh geez.

Goode/Geller 2012

236 ProGunLiberal  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:04:20pm

re: #231 Slumbering Behemoth

Don't apologize for this anger. It is righteous and just.

237 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:04:49pm

re: #211 Varek Raith

Obama DOJ Won’t Defend Constitutionality Of Denying Military Benefits To Same-Sex Couples

Oh noes!

OK, that probably makes Obama pro-SSM in every way save for the explicit endorsement.

238 Targetpractice  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:05:37pm

re: #233 blueraven

Unwanted, forced intercourse. It's called rape.

And if the woman in question is pregnant as a result of rape, then any doctor who'd subject her to it a second time ought to have his practice shut down.

239 Decatur Deb  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:07:01pm

re: #227 jaunte

CNN contributor Dana Loesch: Virginia trans-vaginal ultrasound no more intrusive than intercourse:

[Video]

And a woman always should always submit unwillingly to intercourse in order to get life-saving treatment. If only there were a legal term for that...

240 wrenchwench  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:07:12pm

re: #236 ProGunLiberal

Don't apologize for this anger. It is righteous and just.

Yeah, but he called her 'stupid'.

so did I

241 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:08:07pm

So by this brain dead logic, if a woman consents to having one penis enter her body, one time, she forfeits her autonomy and must allow for all penises to enter her body without consent, by force of gov't.

Fuck. You.

242 MittDoesNotCompute  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:09:11pm

re: #225 darthstar

Okay, let's assume for the sake of argument that the sex tourism industry in the Dominican Republic only provides legal age-appropriate entertainment to its clients...really? I can see Limbaugh asking for someone in her late forties or early fifties alright.

Oh. come off it...I never said anything about "age-appropriate entertainment", only that there is no evidence that Rush has been going after minors. If he has been down in the DR for sex, I have no doubts he was going after the younger ladies, but whether it was PedoBear young, we have no idea and no evidence.

243 blueraven  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:09:31pm

re: #238 Targetpractice

And if the woman in question is pregnant as a result of rape, then any doctor state/federal lawmaker who'd subject her to it a second time ought to have his practice shut down balls put in a vice.

Fixed...Doctors would have no choice if it is the law.

244 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:09:53pm

re: #241 Slumbering Behemoth

So by this brain dead logic, if a woman consents to having one penis enter her body, one time, she forfeits her autonomy and must allow for all penises to enter her body without consent, by force of gov't.

Fuck. You.

That's a patho-logic one would expect from some very perverted individual. Not surprising for ueber-wingnuts.

245 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:13:40pm

Ya know, about 80-90% of the women I have known and/or dated have been raped or molested as a child. And that's just the women I've known who have been open about such abuses.

This shit is making me real fucking angry right now. I'm going for a walk. Laters all.

246 Achilles Tang  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:17:04pm

re: #179 Kragar

Minnesota Vikings Set To Fleece Unwilling Taxpayers For New Stadium

Where is the outrage about tax payer money going to shit like this?

As the Rays want to do in St. Petersburg. (I liked them better when they were the Devil Rays, but then some fundies got offended, believe it or not.)

247 Charleston Chew  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 4:00:25pm

re: #12 Kragar

Bloody Hell

Gingrich: Administration Believes Obama is Superior to the Pope

They're taking the crazy to 11.

We've come full circle. In 1960, Republicans wouldn't vote for Kennedy because they were afraid he was loyal to the Pope. In 2012, they fear that Obama isn't.

248 Charleston Chew  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 4:00:57pm

re: #247 Charleston Chew

We've come full circle. In 1960, Republicans wouldn't vote for Kennedy because they were afraid he was loyal to the Pope. In 2012, they fear that Obama isn't.

I guess that's really half-circle.

249 b_sharp  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 4:01:19pm

re: #227 jaunte

CNN contributor Dana Loesch: Virginia trans-vaginal ultrasound no more intrusive than intercourse:

[Video]

So, it's like government sanctioned rape?

250 Only The Lurker Knows  Fri, Feb 17, 2012 4:20:20pm

"Fox Nation has now deleted the entire thread of ugly comments and closed it."

Well of course they have and did. Par for the course. Let the Bigots rant and Rave until it becomes inconvenient and then try to make it disappear.

One has to wonder if they sell this crap to Vdare and other like sites afterwards.


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