Eric Cantor: Labor Day Celebrates Business Owners (What!)

The right wing version of Labor Day
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Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor crassly uses Labor Day to push the GOP’s dishonest “WE DID BUILD IT” attack line against President Obama, and in the process totally perverts the meaning of the holiday, turning it into a celebration of business owners.

This must be the Republican version of Labor Day that takes place in their weird alternate right wing universe, because in the real world it’s a holiday that celebrates the contributions of workers and labor unions; in other words, pretty much the opposite of what Cantor said.

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107 comments
1 jaunte  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:37:53am


[Link: www.politico.com...]

2 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:37:55am

You know Eric, you could give some credit to those people whose work helped make those business owners so rich but I know you have a stick up your ass so I can forgive you for that.

3 Kragar  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:38:29am

On Republican labor day, Business owners bust open pinatas shaped like union organizers.

4 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:39:11am

re: #1 jaunte

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Yes, I have. Romney mentioned Carter in his speech too. Two things.
These guys whine about Bush being criticized and they blame Carter? Carter who left office before my parents even met? I mean even Herbert Hoover wasn't a punching bag in 1964.

5 Kragar  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:39:43am

re: #1 jaunte

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Foreign Policy vs the Soviet Union, Economic Policy vs Carter, Social Policy vs Satan

6 jaunte  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:40:42am

re: #4 HappyWarrior

Yeah, I don't think that message is going to carry many voters under 50.

7 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:41:51am

Yes, on a day that was brought about by unions, to celebrate the labor of the common worker, let us instead engage in Gilded Age-era celebration of rich men and the blood they've bled from those workers.

8 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:41:53am

re: #4 HappyWarrior

Yes, I have. Romney mentioned Carter in his speech too. Two things.
These guys whine about Bush being criticized and they blame Carter? Carter who left office before my parents even met? I mean even Herbert Hoover wasn't a punching bag in 1964.

Well, he did get a song in a musical.

9 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:42:26am

re: #6 jaunte

Yeah, I don't think that message is going to carry many voters under 50.

Yeah it just sounds so stupid to me. But I don't want to ever hear complaints about "blaming Bush" ever again when Carter is still being used as a punching bag when the man is nearly a third century removed from the presidency.

10 jaunte  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:42:43am

Eric Cantor, taking a day to celebrating the successes of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

11 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:43:38am
Anyone else notice that the Republicans have shifted to campaigning against Jimmy Carter?

They really are running on fumes at this point.

Talk about being stuck in the past.

12 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:44:00am
13 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:44:32am

re: #6 jaunte

Yeah, I don't think that message is going to carry many voters under 50.

I'm not a Jimmy Carter fan. But this does remind me of the time that San Francisco was trying to get the sea lions off one of the piers by playing orca sounds. Someone said that this was like trying to get people to move out of an urban high rise by playing lion noises.

I guess what I'm saying here is, I'm just not that afraid that Jimmy Carter is going to become president again if I vote for Obama.

14 Gus  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:44:34am

Revisionism is all the rage with Republicans these days.

15 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:45:06am

re: #1 jaunte

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Carter's the last Democrat that they can run on that scares anybody. Just like Reagan's the last Republican they can invoke without feeling like they've stepped in something that smells bad.

16 jaunte  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:45:11am

re: #13 SanFranciscoZionist

But, but "Raaawrrr!"

17 Decatur Deb  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:45:25am

re: #8 SanFranciscoZionist

Well, he did get a song in a musical.

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And a TV theme:

"Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again."

18 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:45:25am

re: #7 Targetpractice

Yes, on a day that was brought about by unions, to celebrate the labor of the common worker, let us instead engage in Gilded Age-era celebration of rich men and the blood they've bled from those workers.

No, no, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS.

They hit the sweet spot. They're not plutocrats, but they're better than regular people with salaries.

My mother, a former small business owner, said she was somewhat baffled by the incessant references to small business owners at the RNC.

19 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:45:47am

re: #6 jaunte

Yeah, I don't think that message is going to carry many voters under 50.

That's the demographic they're aiming for - and pretty much the only one they've got.

20 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:45:52am

They've been calling Obama, Jimmy Carter 2.0 even before he was the Dems' nominee. It's kind of how their candidates think they're all the incarnation of Reagan.

21 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:46:16am

re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist

No, no, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS.

They hit the sweet spot. They're not plutocrats, but they're better than regular people with salaries.

My mother, a former small business owner, said she was somewhat baffled by the incessant references to small business owners at the RNC.

Yeah, I still chuckle at the "small business owner" who spoke on the first night of the convention, whose whine was that the Bush-era government contract his company had received was "taken away" by the Obama Admin.

22 Gus  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:46:43am

Hilarious. The Rs are whining about the Obama camp bringing up Carter while they're constantly bringing up Carter. The Romney camp reminds me of internet trolls.

Earth First
Jimmy Carter
Igloo White!

23 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:47:02am

re: #13 SanFranciscoZionist

I'm not a Jimmy Carter fan. But this does remind me of the time that San Francisco was trying to get the sea lions off one of the piers by playing orca sounds. Someone said that this was like trying to get people to move out of an urban high rise by playing lion noises.

I guess what I'm saying here is, I'm just not that afraid that Jimmy Carter is going to become president again if I vote for Obama.

(The sea lions are not dumb. They, or in some cases their descendants, are still on the boat slips at Pier 39, and the City gave up and now markets them as an exciting tourist attraction.)

24 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:47:22am

If they have to bring up Carter and the late 70's. Can this Steelers fan get a second Steel Curtain? :)

25 blueraven  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:49:06am

re: #17 Decatur Deb

And a TV theme:

"Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again."

Those were the days!
/

26 aagcobb  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:49:51am

re: #12 Shiplord Kirel

Unions Built That

All burdensome regulations that keep America uncompetitive./

27 Kronocide  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:50:03am

When will they have Carter in sit in the Eastwood Chair?

28 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:50:47am

Eric Cantor:

He graduated from the Collegiate School in 1981. He enrolled at George Washington University (GW) in 1981, and as a freshman he worked as an intern for House Republican Tom Bliley of Virginia and was Bliley's driver in the 1982 campaign.[5] Cantor was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity while at GW and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1985[6] He earned a Juris Doctor degree from William & Mary Law School in 1988, and received a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in 1989.[2]

All those schools should be ashamed (although I wouldn't expect much labor history in a Real Estate Development course) or Cantor should be ashamed for defaming those schools.

29 Interesting Times  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:50:48am
30 Decatur Deb  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:51:04am

re: #25 blueraven

Those were the days!
/

Holographic Archie will sing to an empty stuffed chair on the last night of the DNC.

31 jaunte  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:51:46am

GOP, getting the date wrong. May 2010: "...the President of the United States has proclaimed the last day of National Entrepreneurship Week, November 19th of this year, as National Entrepreneurs’ Day"
[Link: grasshopper.com...]

32 Digital Display  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:52:15am

Happy Labor Day Lizards!
Bite me Eric

33 dragonath  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:54:14am

re: #31 jaunte

"Entrepreneurs...? Sounds ...FRENCH!!"

34 jaunte  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:54:50am

re: #33 dragonath

Freedompreneurs!

35 aagcobb  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:55:14am

Now I feel all nostalgic

36 blueraven  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:55:36am

No Eric...its Labor Day, not Opposite Day

37 Gus  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:55:38am

Nothing political about this! No sirree.

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38 Gus  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:56:31am
39 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:56:56am

I really can't engage the Republicans any more. It's obvious to me that all their outrageous lies and goofy talking points are not fooling anyone. They just let the voters know the GOP is still around to provide a solution to the REAL problem, the president is still black. There is nothing to discuss with these people: They already know their claims are gibberish, and they have even admitted as much, so it is a waste of time to try to dissuade them.

Btw, I was a Republican for 40 years. To hell with these hijackers and bigots, and the establishment types who pander to them.

40 Mich-again  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:58:16am

Happy labor day to all those corporate attorneys who labor day and night looking for loopholes in the tax code and SEC laws so all those hard working millionaires can soon become billionaires.

41 A Mom Anon  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 11:59:02am

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel

Welcome to the dark side. Not only do we have cookies,we have ice cream too.....

42 Obdicut  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:02:12pm

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel

I do think there are a lot who are not racist but merely completely accepting of racism being used as a tool. So the problem for them is that Obama is a dirty liberal, and they are really opposed to liberal thought, to the idea that we as a society need a communal government that actually supports everyone in society. These people are still racist in that they tacitly endorse racism, but it's important to remember there are a lot of people who hate liberalism so much that they're okay with racism being used if it also attacks a liberal.

43 Mich-again  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:02:39pm

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel

I really can't engage the Republicans any more. It's obvious to me that all their outrageous lies and goofy talking points are not fooling anyone. They just let the voters know the GOP is still around to provide a solution to the REAL problem, the president is still black. There is nothing to discuss with these people: They already know their claims are gibberish, and they have even admitted as much, so it is a waste of time to try to dissuade them.

Btw, I was a Republican for 40 years. To hell with these hijackers and bigots, and the establishment types who pander to them.

Agreed completely.. This November will be the first time I cast my vote for a Democratic presidential candidate, and I can't see ever voting Republican again. The SoCons and the Teabillies have taken the party over.

44 erik_t  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:02:59pm

It was gently explained to a six-year-old erik_t that the reason we didn't have a 'Kid's Day' along with Mother's Day and Father's Day was that pretty much every other damned day was Kid's Day.

Eric_C remains a little less mature than seven-year-old erik_t.

(and a little less cynical; we'd have Kid's Day if kids gave a shit about cards from Hallmark)

45 jaunte  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:03:14pm
46 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:03:55pm

re: #42 Obdicut

I do think there are a lot who are not racist but merely completely accepting of racism being used as a tool. So the problem for them is that Obama is a dirty liberal, and they are really opposed to liberal thought, to the idea that we as a society need a communal government that actually supports everyone in society. These people are still racist in that they tacitly endorse racism, but it's important to remember there are a lot of people who hate liberalism so much that they're okay with racism being used if it also attacks a liberal.

I don't think the folks who've been crazy would be substantially less crazy if Hillary were president, no, or even if a white man had taken it. The racial stuff stands out very starkly, but I think the hatred is the hatred of what the Democrats are imagined to represent.

47 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:04:39pm

I remember Australian soldiers in Vietnam. They were paid less than half as much as we were. Among other things, they were incredulous that American teenagers typically had their own cars.
Today, Australia's minimum wage is TWICE as much as ours and their economy is doing fine. The same is true of France, the UK, and a host of other "first world" countries whose citizens were actually poor by American standards in the not-too-distant past.
The world has left us behind, and few here even seem to suspect it. How can this be? "The unions" have somehow not destroyed their economies or wrecked their prosperity, as we are constantly assured they will here if given the chance.

48 Patricia Kayden  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:05:58pm

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel

Wow, I'm just a touch over 40. What made you finally get out?

Not surprised that Cantor can't give workers the respect they deserve on even one day. Then Republicans have the nerve to call President Obama "divisive".

49 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:06:46pm

re: #47 Shiplord Kirel

I remember Australian soldiers in Vietnam. They were paid less than half as much as we were. Among other things, they were incredulous that American teenagers typically had their own cars.
Today, Australia's minimum wage is TWICE as much as ours and their economy is doing fine. The same is true of France, the UK, and a host of other "first world" countries whose citizens were actually poor by American standards in the not-too-distant past.
The world has left us behind, and few here even seem to suspect it. How can this be? "The unions" have somehow not destroyed their economies or wrecked their prosperity, as we are constantly assured they will here if given the chance.

What, you want us to be like Greece?! You want this country to fail just so that you can engage in socialism! You don't really love this country, do you?!

50 Obdicut  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:09:18pm

re: #46 SanFranciscoZionist

Oh, I think there's a significant percentage of racists for whom his race is more important or at least highly bound up in their ideas of liberalism. The polls on interracial marriage that were done in the South has made me absolutely sure that an unknown but large percentage of people still have lethally nutty levels of distrust of blacks.

51 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:12:07pm

re: #50 Obdicut

Oh, I think there's a significant percentage of racists for whom his race is more important or at least highly bound up in their ideas of liberalism. The polls on interracial marriage that were done in the South has made me absolutely sure that an unknown but large percentage of people still have lethally nutty levels of distrust of blacks.

I've seen those. Nearly a half century after Loving and you still have people in fairly large numbers thinking it should be illegal. Truly scary and I say that as a southerner.

52 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:12:21pm

re: #50 Obdicut

Oh, I think there's a significant percentage of racists for whom his race is more important or at least highly bound up in their ideas of liberalism. The polls on interracial marriage that were done in the South has made me absolutely sure that an unknown but large percentage of people still have lethally nutty levels of distrust of blacks.

I'm not going to argue with that, but I do think the degree of acting out would not be perceptibly lower if Hillary Clinton, or Democrat X.Y. White were president. If that makes any sense.

53 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:12:36pm

re: #50 Obdicut

Oh, I think there's a significant percentage of racists for whom his race is more important or at least highly bound up in their ideas of liberalism. The polls on interracial marriage that were done in the South has made me absolutely sure that an unknown but large percentage of people still have lethally nutty levels of distrust of blacks.

My grandmother still, to this day, thinks Dr. King was a "troublemaker." There's still plenty of folks out there who are old enough to have grown up in the thick stew of racism that existed in the South and live by that worldview.

54 Charles Johnson  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:12:38pm

re: #46 SanFranciscoZionist

I don't think the folks who've been crazy would be substantially less crazy if Hillary were president, no, or even if a white man had taken it. The racial stuff stands out very starkly, but I think the hatred is the hatred of what the Democrats are imagined to represent.

I have to disagree, because I don't think I have ever seen the right wing this crazed in my entire life. There's always been a right wing fringe, and there's always been a lot of hate directed at Democratic Presidents, but the level of sheer unhinged conspiracy theorizing and openly expressed racism is way beyond anything I've seen before. Fringe ideas have completely taken over the GOP.

I have to ask what it is that's driven them so insane with rage and hatred, what's so different about Barack Obama - and it's not his policies or politics. The election of Barack Obama has brought a long-suppressed but still powerful strain of right wing racism bubbling up to the surface.

55 Digital Display  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:13:17pm

I'd like to see South Park do an episode with the GOP in hell with Satan playing the worst rock song of all time over and over..
We built this city

56 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:13:24pm

re: #48 Patricia Kayden

Wow, I'm just a touch over 40. What made you finally get out?

Not surprised that Cantor can't give workers the respect they deserve on even one day. Then Republicans have the nerve to call President Obama "divisive".

I wrote a long post about that a while back.
The biggest single factor for me, personally, was the GOP's wholehearted embrace of Creationist superstition. They had flirted with it since the 80s, but it really became standard dogma during the 2008 campaign. As a scientist, I considered it unethical to support a party that would take such a position.

57 Kragar  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:14:46pm

re: #55 Digital Display

I'd like to see South Park do an episode with the GOP in hell with Satan playing the worst rock song of all time over and over..
We built this city

Added pain, have it sung by kids...

58 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:14:59pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

I have to disagree, because I don't think I have ever seen the right wing this crazed in my entire life. There's always been a right wing fringe, and there's always been a lot of hate directed at Democratic Presidents, but the level of sheer unhinged conspiracy theorizing and openly expressed racism is way beyond anything I've seen before. Fringe ideas have completely taken over the GOP.

I have to ask what it is that's driven them so insane with rage and hatred, what's so different about Barack Obama - and it's not his policies or politics. The election of Barack Obama has brought a long-suppressed but still powerful strain of right wing racism bubbling up to the surface.

I suspect that a lot of it has to do with the Internet...but we may never know. If we get a different Democrat in '16, it will still be unclear, because whatever got this rolling is not going to work its way out of the national bloodstream any time soon.

59 Lidane  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:15:05pm

Fucking assholes.

Everything that Cantor and the rest of the GOP takes for granted -- 40 hour work weeks, weekends, sick days, personal days, maternity leave, safe working conditions, workman's comp if you're injured, health insurance, 401K plans, paid vacation, etc. -- was the result of some union somewhere fighting for those rights. Those weren't gifts handed over willingly by the CEOs of various companies. Those were the result of workers getting out there and fighting for them over the objections of the Mitt Romneys of the world.

Fuck Eric Cantor and fuck this stupid lie of a GOP talking point. Today's a day for workers, not the boss.

60 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:15:10pm

I think the beginning of the fall for the GOP in my eyes from a historical perspective was Nixon's embracing the Southern Strategy and then Reagan made it worse with his "young bucks eating t-bone steaks" and the "Welfare queen with the Cadillac." That appealed into the bigotry that you saw and see with many whites in regards to poor blacks.

61 Decatur Deb  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:15:45pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

I have to disagree, because I don't think I have ever seen the right wing this crazed in my entire life. There's always been a right wing fringe, and there's always been a lot of hate directed at Democratic Presidents, but the level of sheer unhinged conspiracy theorizing and openly expressed racism is way beyond anything I've seen before. Fringe ideas have completely taken over the GOP.

I have to ask what it is that's driven them so insane with rage and hatred, what's so different about Barack Obama - and it's not his policies or politics. The election of Barack Obama has brought a long-suppressed but still powerful strain of right wing racism bubbling up to the surface.

They've always been this crazy, but now they can look around the Internet, listen to their AM, receive the blessings of men in suits, and feel brave about it.

62 Lidane  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:17:10pm
63 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:17:29pm

To see a crazed man talking at great length about how Bill Clinton had people killed, back when Clinton was president, you had to send forty dollars in the mail and get a VHS tape.

Today, all you need to see a crazed man talking at great length about how Obama had people killed to prevent the world from finding out about his gay Pakistani marriage and Kenyan birth certificate is to go to YouTube.

It's a LOT less trouble to bathe yourself in conspiracy theories today, and you can find companionship online with no trouble at all.

64 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:18:35pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

I have to disagree, because I don't think I have ever seen the right wing this crazed in my entire life. There's always been a right wing fringe, and there's always been a lot of hate directed at Democratic Presidents, but the level of sheer unhinged conspiracy theorizing and openly expressed racism is way beyond anything I've seen before. Fringe ideas have completely taken over the GOP.

I have to ask what it is that's driven them so insane with rage and hatred, what's so different about Barack Obama - and it's not his policies or politics. The election of Barack Obama has brought a long-suppressed but still powerful strain of right wing racism bubbling up to the surface.

The underlying theme to their hatred of Obama would have worked for Hillary as well, namely "They didn't win that election legitimately," the belief that the only way Democrats win elections is by stealing them or by lying about who they really are. That's been the whole point behind the push to "prove" that Obama is not who he claims to be, the talk about being the "least vetted president in history," the constant demands for more documentation and rumor mills running as to what "dark secrets" are being hidden by not making those documents available.

No, I don't for a second believe that, had Hillary won, the wingnuts would have hated her any less. Hell, if anything, instead of constant talk about birth certificate and college transcripts, we'd still be hearing about Vince Foster and Whitewater.

65 Iwouldprefernotto  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:20:00pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

I have to disagree, because I don't think I have ever seen the right wing this crazed in my entire life. There's always been a right wing fringe, and there's always been a lot of hate directed at Democratic Presidents, but the level of sheer unhinged conspiracy theorizing and openly expressed racism is way beyond anything I've seen before. Fringe ideas have completely taken over the GOP.

I have to ask what it is that's driven them so insane with rage and hatred, what's so different about Barack Obama - and it's not his policies or politics. The election of Barack Obama has brought a long-suppressed but still powerful strain of right wing racism bubbling up to the surface.

Not sure how much worse it is. Crazies went on and on how Clinton (Hilary or Bill) had Vince Foster murdered.

66 Obdicut  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:21:04pm

re: #52 SanFranciscoZionist

I'm not going to argue with that, but I do think the degree of acting out would not be perceptibly lower if Hillary Clinton, or Democrat X.Y. White were president. If that makes any sense.

I think there are some Democrats that it would be lower for. Biden, for example. I just don't see him getting people this worked up about him being a 'usurper'. I basically don't think there is a maximum limit on rage and hostility, and that Obama being black on top of being a liberal has added another dimension and ferocity to the rage of a not-insignificant group.

68 Kragar  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:21:33pm

re: #63 SanFranciscoZionist

To see a crazed man talking at great length about how Bill Clinton had people killed, back when Clinton was president, you had to send forty dollars in the mail and get a VHS tape.

Today, all you need to see a crazed man talking at great length about how Obama had people killed to prevent the world from finding out about his gay Pakistani marriage and Kenyan birth certificate is to go to YouTube.

It's a LOT less trouble to bathe yourself in conspiracy theories today, and you can find companionship online with no trouble at all.

Its the same reason no talent hacks can claim they're better musicians than the Beatles or Elvis. They can take advantage of better distribution networks than previous generations could.

69 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:21:59pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Chuck Norris Threatens '1,000 Years of Darkness' if Obama Wins.

Is he going to roundhouse kick the Sun?

70 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:22:00pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Chuck Norris Threatens '1,000 Years of Darkness' if Obama Wins.

Chuck Norris is an idiot and he was never cool. And as for bearded celeb endorsements. I take Jeff Bridges' happy endorsement of Obama over Chuck Norris' whiny No Obama.

71 Kragar  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:22:04pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Chuck Norris Threatens '1,000 Years of Darkness' if Obama Wins.

Is he going to roundhouse kick the sun if Obama wins?

72 erik_t  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:22:10pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Chuck Norris Threatens '1,000 Years of Darkness' if Obama Wins.

Can't tell if dogwhistle or just dumbshit

73 Kragar  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:22:19pm

re: #69 Targetpractice

Is he going to roundhouse kick the Sun?

DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!

74 erik_t  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:22:38pm

re: #69 Targetpractice

re: #71 Kragar

You, sirs, win the internet. You may collect your box-jumping cat on your way out.

75 Decatur Deb  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:23:17pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Chuck Norris Threatens '1,000 Years of Darkness' if Obama Wins.

Be more impressed if Thulsa Doom said it.

76 Mattand  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:23:18pm

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel

Btw, I was a Republican for 40 years. To hell with these hijackers and bigots, and the establishment types who pander to them.

I vote Democratic most of the time, but I actually feel genuinely bad when I see comments like this.

It says that the GOP has been overrun by fanatics who are purging the impure. That the current leadership has zero interest in people who would be willing to discuss and work with the opposition. That's sad and it's worrisome.

77 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:23:27pm

re: #73 Kragar

DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!

Your post-fu is not strong, grasshopper.

//

78 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:27:15pm

re: #42 Obdicut

I do think there are a lot who are not racist but merely completely accepting of racism being used as a tool.

I call those "racists".

79 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:27:33pm

re: #67 Charles Johnson

Chuck Norris Threatens '1,000 Years of Darkness' if Obama Wins.

(Scratches head.)

Well. There is that.

80 Mattand  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:27:58pm

re: #75 Decatur Deb

Be more impressed if Thulsa Doom said it.

What is the Riddle of Derp?

81 blueraven  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:27:58pm

re: #63 SanFranciscoZionist

To see a crazed man talking at great length about how Bill Clinton had people killed, back when Clinton was president, you had to send forty dollars in the mail and get a VHS tape.

Today, all you need to see a crazed man talking at great length about how Obama had people killed to prevent the world from finding out about his gay Pakistani marriage and Kenyan birth certificate is to go to YouTube.

It's a LOT less trouble to bathe yourself in conspiracy theories today, and you can find companionship online with no trouble at all.

All true and it just illustrates that it has always been there under the surface, but now it is moving more and more into the main stream.

82 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:28:33pm

re: #80 Mattand

What is the Riddle of Derp?

The Riddle of Steel's mentally-handicapped brother?

83 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:28:56pm

re: #72 erik_t

Can't tell if dogwhistle or just dumbshit

The phrase immediately calls up for me 'thousand year Reich', but I think it may have different connotations for Norris's intended audience.

Also, many Chuck Norris jokes spring to mind.

84 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:29:33pm

People like Norris have been talking doom and gloom for years. There were people saying our "immorality" was going to lead to God's wrath when my grandparents were my age, when my parents were, etc. Wish sooner than later people would catch up on the fact that it's a scam.

85 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:30:26pm

But seriously, Obama holds a power that not even the might of Chuck Norris could overcome?

Impossible!

//

86 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:32:29pm

Quoted the headline to my husband. His response: "And Chuck Norris can do it."

87 Decatur Deb  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:33:05pm

re: #85 Targetpractice

But seriously, Obama holds a power that not even the might of Chuck Norris could overcome?

Impossible!

//

I think ol Chuck is just worried about 4 More Years of darkness.

88 The Ghost of a Flea  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:33:07pm

re: #65 Iwouldprefernotto

Not sure how much worse it is. Crazies went on and on how Clinton (Hilary or Bill) has Vince Foster murdered.

The narrative there was that the Clintons were crooks.

It was nutty, but there was a coherence to it.

The stuff thrown at Obama...even if you constrain yourself to the stuff said by GOP figures...makes even less sense. Conspiracies that start before he born, intellectual influences from the father he barely knew and/or people he met briefly, questioning of his avowed faith.

If Hillary had won the nomination and/or the presidency, I'm sure there would have been a lot of ugliness thrown her way. But the choice has consistently been made to present Obama as "other" and "not American."

Then again, maybe it's not an index of anything about Obama. Maybe the GOP is just being that much more screechy and apocalyptic because the paranoid style in politics requires escalation of threat to maintain intensity.

89 Sophia77  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:33:46pm

OMG Cantor is THE WORST (besides Ryan) - can't believe this guy. Do they honestly believe their counterfactual history?

90 erik_t  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:35:01pm

re: #89 Sophia77

Michelle, Barton, West and Gohmert say hi.

91 blueraven  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:35:12pm

re: #87 Decatur Deb

I think ol Chuck is just worried about 4 More Years of darkness.

More like his, way too long, 15 minutes
Nice touch in the video BTW...the white robes hanging in the background

92 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:36:01pm

re: #90 erik_t

Michelle, Barton, West and Gohmert say hi.

Steve King. Can't forget Steve King who actually thinks victims of discrimination are "complainers." Of course, this is probably a man who thinks being told you can't force kids to pray in a public school violates his religious freedom.

93 erik_t  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:36:58pm

re: #92 HappyWarrior

Oh my yes. List was not intended to be complete, but he ranks with the worst of 'em.

94 The Ghost of a Flea  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:37:05pm

re: #89 Sophia77

OMG Cantor is THE WORST (besides Ryan) - can't believe this guy. Do they honestly believe their counterfactual history?

The Bartonverse.

95 A Mom Anon  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:37:21pm

re: #76 Mattand

I always was of the mindset that you should vote for the people who can or would do the best job. Party wasn't the issue,policy and giving a damn about the people you represented was the important thing. It should always be that way,but today it's damned near impossible to decipher what a republican will do once elected because of all the pandering they have to do to keep the extremists from threatening them. I'm in GA,and it's been this way really since 2001. It started with Rove's "Dems wanted to offer the terrorists therapy"bullshit,the local GOP used that as the springboard for a whole bunch of crap. The ads against Max Cleland by Saxby Chambliss' campaign were disgusting,and they got away with it. That emboldened the local republicans and shit got ugly really fast after that. It hasn't changed,and the advent of the tea party took things into a really awful place I'm not sure this area will recover from anytime soon.

96 HappyWarrior  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:37:50pm

What pisses me off Re: Cantor is I can't see any way he loses his seat outside the old Edwin Edwards (caught in bed with a dead girl or live boy).

97 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:37:53pm

re: #88 The Ghost of a Flea

If Hillary had won the nomination and/or the presidency, I'm sure there would have been a lot of ugliness thrown her way. But the choice has consistently been made to present Obama as "other" and "not American."

If Hillary had been elected, the War On Women that the GOP is waging might look like a reaction to that. The GOP is capable of multi-tasking.

98 jamesfirecat  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:43:16pm

Geeze, even Glenn Beck could have told this guy that it is Labor UNION day....

99 Decatur Deb  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:48:04pm

re: #91 blueraven

More like his, way too long, 15 minutes
Nice touch in the video BTW...the white robes hanging in the background

Green belts in KKK-do.

100 Sheila Broflovski  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:48:10pm

re: #44 erik_t

It was gently explained to a six-year-old erik_t that the reason we didn't have a 'Kid's Day' along with Mother's Day and Father's Day was that pretty much every other damned day was Kid's Day.

Eric_C remains a little less mature than seven-year-old erik_t.

(and a little less cynical; we'd have Kid's Day if kids gave a shit about cards from Hallmark)

When you said Eric_C my first thought was Eric Cartman.

101 Lidane  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:49:49pm
102 JRCMYP  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 1:17:30pm

re: #101 Lidane

[Embedded content]

I love Geordi LaForge. (Or however his name was spelled).

103 MittDoesNotCompute  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 1:31:13pm

re: #102 JRCMYP

I love Geordi LaForge. (Or however his name was spelled).

You got it right.

The man also hosted and executive produced Reading Rainbow on PBS for over two decades (before, during, and after his tenure on ST:TNG) and played Kunta Kinte in Roots, among many other things; he's a very well-read, intelligent man, compared to many in Hollywood.

104 alinuxguru  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 5:41:15pm

Just imagine if Ryan was VP. Today would be John Galt day instead of Labor day.

105 Patricia Kayden  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 6:20:40pm

re: #55 Digital Display

"We Built This City" is NOT the worst rock song ever, but you made me laugh my head off so good work.

106 labman57  Mon, Sep 3, 2012 6:47:32pm

Cantor was simply verbalizing his thoughts regarding a forthcoming submission to the future GW Bush Library of Revisionist History.

107 Bulworth  Tue, Sep 4, 2012 7:48:53am
This must be the Republican version of Labor Day that takes place in their weird alternate right wing universe, because in the real world it’s a holiday that celebrates the contributions of workers and labor unions; in other words, pretty much the opposite of what Cantor said.

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery.


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