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Flashback: Steven Hayes Reported One Key Player Behind Benghazi Talking Points Alterations -- Obama's Fabulous Fabulist Ben Rhodes
A blind man "sees" an elephant one touch at a time.
Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults. The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA's talking points, just six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, and additional information about why the changes were made and by whom. As intelligence officials pieced together the puzzle of events unfolding in Libya, they concluded even before the assaults had ended that al Qaeda-linked terrorists were involved. Senior administration officials, however, sought to obscure the emerging picture and downplay the significance of attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The frantic process that produced the changes to the talking points took place over a 24-hour period just one day before Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, made her now-famous appearances on the Sunday television talk shows. The discussions involved senior officials from the State Department, the National Security Council, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the White House.As you know, the initial talking points were very accurate -- it was a coordinated attack conducted by Al Ansar. The early drafts were now amended through the internal process. In some areas, the new material shed further light. But--
... But elsewhere, CIA officials pulled back. The reference to "Islamic extremists" no longer specified "Islamic extremists with ties to al Qaeda,: and the initial reference to "attacks" in Benghazi was changed to "demonstrations."Victoria Nuland -- Hillary's Praetorian at State -- objected to so much accurate information in the report, which could be used to accurately suggest that Hillary might have been at fault for not taking previous CIA warnings (and Al Ansar attacks and scouting missions) seriously.
After that deputies meeting, "attacks" morphed into "demonstrations" and the early (correct) certainty that Al Ansar was behind this was mysteriously vanished.
In an attempt to address those concerns, CIA officials cut all references to Ansar al Sharia and made minor tweaks. But in a follow-up email at 9:24 p.m., Nuland wrote that the problem remained and that her superiors--she did not say which ones--were unhappy. The changes, she wrote, did not "resolve all my issues or those of my building leadership," and State Department leadership was contacting National Security Council officials directly. Moments later, according to the House report, "White House officials responded by stating that the State Department’s concerns would have to be taken into account." One official--Ben Rhodes, The Weekly Standard is told, a top adviser to President Obama on national security and foreign policy--further advised the group that the issues would be resolved in a meeting of top administration officials the following morning at the White House.
Read the whole thing (re-read it, maybe). I can't really summarize it without just quoting the whole thing, which of course I can't do. The American Thinker, though, had this to say of Hayes' report:
CIA career officials clearly and repeatedly identified Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-linked Islamic terrorists as the culprits behind the murder of four Americans. Of course, this would cause embarrassment for the Obama team, especially in the few weeks before the election. They had been boasting for years that Al Qaeda had been decimated, the "tide of war" was receding; they had been on a mission to whitewash the prospect of Islamic terrorism as a threat to America (see Lauri Regan's superb column ("Can a President who has promised to stand with Muslims protect America? ). Obama's Cairo speech before an audience that included Muslim Brotherhood officials that he compelled Egypt to include, was a paean to Islam. It was also, to a great extent, a work of fiction that included grandiose and subsequently disproven claims about the positive contributions Islam has made to America and the world. That speech was written by Obama's foreign policy speechwriter and now National Security Council team member, Ben Rhodes. That is the man who Hayes "outs" as a key person behind the Benghazi cover-up. He reportedly altered the CIA talking points to delete references to Islamic terrorists, "attacks" (they became "demonstrations") and other negative references to Islamism. Also, someone at the White House level apparently dreamt up the idea of blaming an inconsequential video for triggering a spontaneous protest, that in the frenzy of events, led to the murder of Americans. These CIA talking points were eviscerated to whitewash the role of Islamic terrorism.Who is that man? Well, we still don't know. What we do know is that there were a lot of Force Multipliers in the press eager to run with it -- and eager, since then, to claim that nothing untoward happened in Washington on the night of the Benghazi attack, or in the subsequent days of lies when the battlefield, which had been clear and easily understandable, was obscured by an artificial Fog of Psychological Warfare created by someone with a gift for fiction in DC. We know the talking points went from more accurate to more fictional through this process -- Kill Your Darlings, the writers call it, though they also Kill The Things In the Manuscript That Just Aren't Working.
Narratives. Sometimes they just need a fictionalist's deft touch -- the crafty guidance of a frustrated failed novelists who likes storylines and clear heroes you can root for. Thanks to ThunderB.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: johnd01 at May 06, 2016 12:59 PM (ukNFU)
Posted by: johnd01 at May 06, 2016 01:00 PM (ukNFU)
Posted by: turfmann at May 06, 2016 01:00 PM (zTikR)
WOrks?
Posted by: blaster at May 06, 2016 01:01 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: blaster at May 06, 2016 01:01 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: turfmann at May 06, 2016 01:02 PM (zTikR)
Here's my frustrated novelist take on all of this:
We are being ruled by people who thought The West Wing should be a documentary and now are doing their very best to LARP it into becoming reality.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:02 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 01:03 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:04 PM (ZcEXv)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 06, 2016 01:04 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:04 PM (mcm0N)
So, America likes Disney products
Posted by: Sen Corker at May 06, 2016 01:04 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:04 PM (/E+t2)
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:02 PM (mf5HN)
Will the real Reality Show candidate please stand up?
Thank you, Mr. Obama.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 01:05 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: plum at May 06, 2016 01:05 PM (YMH9o)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:05 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: Jean at May 06, 2016 01:05 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:06 PM (ZcEXv)
There were farce multipliers at the CIA, too. And the cowardly GOP decided that they didn't want to say jack shit about anything, either. Mittens tried once, but after Candy Crowley sat on his face on TV and nearly suffocated him he didn't feel like talking about Bengazi anymore, either.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 06, 2016 01:06 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: @votermom at May 06, 2016 01:06 PM (nbrY/)
Posted by: Jean at May 06, 2016 01:05 PM (cXiMR)
Yeah, I prefer gaslit due to lazy. I mean energy efficiency.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:06 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: General Zod at May 06, 2016 01:07 PM (Bdeb0)
Look, a con man lives for the con, and part of the pleasure of pulling a really good con is not merely the pay-off, but also in letting the mark know he was a pigeon.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 06, 2016 01:07 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 06, 2016 01:07 PM (oKE6c)
13 Iran got everything they wanted and then some from this deal. I don't see anybody paying a price for it. Let's be real clear here, we're way past the point of ripping up a deal with Iran and fixing this.
Netanyahu and Israel paid a price...got every antisemite braying about Jews controlling everything. Another nail...
Posted by: plum at May 06, 2016 01:07 PM (YMH9o)
finished my post about The Night Manager
Good weekend distraction
Link in nic
RETURN TO TOPIC
Posted by: @votermom at May 06, 2016 01:07 PM (nbrY/)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:08 PM (1ZOkK)
Like you would say I went shopping, not I went shopped. Although you could say I shopped.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:08 PM (/E+t2)
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:08 PM (O2RFr)
Wow. I feel like I'm waking up in Alex Jones's fever dream.
So I guess that seals it. We have no effective free press anymore. At least not on important things. I guess things will never really get better.
Posted by: LawLurker at May 06, 2016 01:09 PM (zKwtX)
Posted by: Jean at May 06, 2016 01:09 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:09 PM (mcm0N)
Wing should be a documentary and now are doing their very best to LARP
it into becoming reality.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:02 PM (mf5HN)
HASHTAG! HASHTAG! HASHTAG!
Posted by: The guy in the wizard costume at May 06, 2016 01:09 PM (LUG6K)
13 Iran got everything they wanted and then some from this deal. I don't see anybody paying a price for it. Let's be real clear here, we're way past the point of ripping up a deal with Iran and fixing this.
Netanyahu and Israel paid a price...got every antisemite braying about Jews controlling everything. Another nail...
Posted by: plum at May 06, 2016 01:07 PM (YMH9o)
And the most vociferous proponents of this "deal" were and are . . .
American Liberal Left Jooz. Not Jews, but Jooz.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:09 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:09 PM (1ZOkK)
Wars are now kinetic actions. Rape is having sex with someone without a signed contract first.
Fundamental transformation, baby!
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 06, 2016 01:10 PM (gyKtp)
Oh, absolutely!
I clumsily meant nobody is or was going to be held accountable.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:10 PM (/E+t2)
Posted by: NPR at May 06, 2016 01:10 PM (k4M/B)
And yet Donald Trump is a madman who is not to be trusted.
And I say that as a person who is VERY wary of that man.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:10 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: ace at May 06, 2016 01:10 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: jmt at May 06, 2016 01:10 PM (I8vjj)
If you give him a parachute, it wouldn't be Cruel and Unusual Punishment - As he'd enjoy the ass raping he got from the locals.
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:11 PM (ZcEXv)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:09 PM (1ZOkK)
Technically, if he was covered in goat skin, he wouldn't be naked.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:11 PM (mf5HN)
You have to admit that was pretty f**king stupid....
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:11 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:09 PM (1ZOkK)
Nah. He should be dropped off where there are Kurds and Iraqi Christians hanging on by their fingernails.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:11 PM (p4UlV)
tweaks. But in a follow-up email at 9:24 p.m., Nuland wrote that the
problem remained..."
This is the money quote. Seniors could've changed the language themselves but, aware they'd have to yes/no on whether they authored given language, preferred to nod off pitches from worker-bees until they saw the one they wanted.
Straight from Advanced Shitheel Bureaucracy (prerequisite: Basic Shitheel Bureaucracy)
Posted by: General Zod at May 06, 2016 01:11 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: @votermom at May 06, 2016 01:06 PM (nbrY/)
*****
Ribbentrop is a better fit because he was a suck up, stupid and all the other Nazis hated him--because suck up.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:12 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2016 01:12 PM (Fmupd)
http://tinyurl.com/zxqd4ze
Technically, if he was covered in goat skin, he wouldn't be naked.
Just the important parts would be
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 06, 2016 01:12 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:11 PM (O2RFr)
***
Master-Class trolling.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 06, 2016 01:12 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:02 PM (mf5HN)
A very, very early threadwinner.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:12 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:12 PM (ZcEXv)
Posted by: ace at May 06, 2016 01:10 PM (dciA+)
Ace, your written version is far more colorful.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:12 PM (p4UlV)
So, entirely predictable?
Sadly, yes...
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:12 PM (O2RFr)
====================
L.O.L.
Posted by: mrp at May 06, 2016 01:13 PM (JBggj)
What if we shaved the goat before we skinned it?
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:13 PM (ZcEXv)
Posted by: Dusty Ben Raods at May 06, 2016 01:13 PM (vtcmf)
the cowardly GOP decided that they didn't want to say jack shit about anything, either. Mittens tried once, but after Candy Crowley sat on his face on TV and nearly suffocated him he didn't feel like talking about Bengazi anymore, either.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 06, 2016 01:06 PM (zc3Db)
---------------------------
Jeb keeps coming back to mind. If all that money and machinery had bought him the nomination, what would he be saying right now?
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:13 PM (pC96u)
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:02 PM (mf5HN)
Qu'est que c'est "LARP?"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:14 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: @votermom at May 06, 2016 01:14 PM (nbrY/)
Posted by: Dusty Ben Raods at May 06, 2016 01:13 PM (vtcmf)
You can't spell Gorelick without Gore + Lick.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:14 PM (p4UlV)
To Kill A Mockingbird
I Have a Dream
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The God Delusion
Posted by: Ben Rhodes at May 06, 2016 01:14 PM (1BQGO)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: iforgot
Ask Ben
Posted by: Jean at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (cXiMR)
We have to deal with Taco Bowl-gate.
You have to admit that was pretty f**king stupid....
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:11 PM (O2RFr)
-------------------------
No I don't. It was the best trolling I've ever seen.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (pC96u)
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (ZcEXv)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (39g3+)
Meanwhile Ben Rhodes and crew were busy having a circle jerk about the best lies to put forward so as not to sway the upcoming election.
What I would like to say would earn me a visit from folks I'd rather not spend time with. Suffice it to say that I do not wish these people well.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (YEelc)
Posted by: Dusty Ben Roads at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (vtcmf)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:09 PM (1ZOkK)
Or, plus parachute, with two fertile, female chimps strapped to him, and a jump-master yelling in his ear "...and this time, youngblood, don't fuck it up!"
Posted by: General Zod at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (Bdeb0)
Desperate times...
Posted by: @votermom at May 06, 2016 01:14 PM (nbrY/)
A - he better win this friggin' election
B - he better straighten up and fly right
C - we had better make him do B.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:16 PM (p4UlV)
Hillary! while a brilliant political and foreign policy mind I praised and in fact put a medal on would be a great choice for America....but I am better because I back amnesty.
//Yeb Bush
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:16 PM (g8Hfr)
Haha- just try to unpack that force multiplier!
Posted by: Roger Cohen, New York Times at May 06, 2016 01:16 PM (/m8T6)
And a dark and twisted rabbit hole it is.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (xuouz)
LARPing: for people who either never have sex, or people who never have <b>normal</b> sex.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 06, 2016 01:16 PM (LUG6K)
You need as many voters as you can to win. Instead you troll them.
You have to admit that was pretty f**king stupid....
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:16 PM (/E+t2)
But good enough to fool most of America, so there is that.
I think that's why Hitlery is so pissed off at Bernie---Bernie reveals something yuuuuuge about the Dem base--easily snookered.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:16 PM (mcm0N)
Large Alien Reticulated Penis?
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:15 PM (ZcEXv)
Greetings, Earthling. My name is MeepZorp. Pull my finger!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (p4UlV)
If a demographic swears a blood oath against you....fuck 'em troll em.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (g8Hfr)
And the most vociferous proponents of this "deal" were and are . . .
American Liberal Left Jooz. Not Jews, but Jooz.
there you go again....let us blame the 1.7% of the population of USA
JEWS ARE AMERICANS....and there is no organized voting block...
Posted by: plum at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (YMH9o)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (1ZOkK)
That doesn't bother me too much, it was their job. They weren't making policy, they weren't making decisions, they had no power to help or hurt those guys. They had a job to do: make sure this didn't hurt the president's chances of reelection.
The problem came about when the press uncritically accepted and reported the nonsense they were given and helped smother the story with a pillow, as Iowahawk puts it. That's where things get evil.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (39g3+)
One must become an ideologue, where ideas and symbols are mere instruments in service of the Movement.
"The point of thought is not to understand the world, but to change it." ---Karl Marx, in The Poverty of Philosophy
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (T/5A0)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: Furious George at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (Kl1Y6)
Posted by: Holden Caufield at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (ZcEXv)
And the most vociferous proponents of this "deal" were and are . . .
American Liberal Left Jooz. Not Jews, but Jooz.
there you go again....let us blame the 1.7% of the population of USA
JEWS ARE AMERICANS....and there is no organized voting block...
Posted by: plum at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (YMH9o)
So am I, moteck, and your point is??
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (p4UlV)
I don't think America was fooled, I think America didn't give a fuck which is worse.
Obama jailed a man to cover up his fuck-up.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: Jean at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (p4UlV)
Because she decided it should be. Isn't that enough?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (LUG6K)
I am sure Ben really does believe the Iran deal is a good one and that it was just a few Al-Qaeda connected types, but mostly a protest that went ballistic.
Posted by: Tilikum Majestic Killer Assault Whale at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (m3iiU)
On that night, was Obama 1- black out drunk or 2- recovering from the
latest round of electroshock therapy or 3- watching sitcom reruns on TV?
Posted by: Furious George at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (Kl1Y6)
You left out 4-Reggie and 5-coke binge.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:19 PM (1ZOkK)
malicious intent with Her e- mails... That's good enough for Me...."
Cool. So now I can start ignoring all the nanny state rules I don't like because I have no malicious intent, right?
Posted by: Ripley at May 06, 2016 01:19 PM (1BQGO)
He was high and either getting pegged by Worf or Reggie.
Ogabe had a black eye if you'll recall.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:19 PM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (p4UlV)
She's saying Obama is playacting as a character in the West Wing.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:19 PM (xuouz)
There is collusion between Politicians and media to NOT tell the US population what is going on.
Did you know that during Obama's illegal bombing of Libya (no declaration of war, nor anything from Congress, yet he helped overthrow a UN member state Government).... we lost a Plane? and almost lost the Pilot?
He was shot down over Libya, and rescued by pro American Locals...
The only reason it came out AT ALL, was it turned out one reason Amb. Stevens was in Benghazi then was to reward the guy who had helped the pilot.
The US Media KNEW about the story (British press talked about it a bit)... but at the behest of the DOD, did not cover it, EVEN AFTER the Pilot was rescued.
Why? It was an illegal War... and they did not want us talking about it.
Posted by: Don Quixote at May 06, 2016 01:19 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (8dxdo)
At least half of America didn't care.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (/E+t2)
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (ZcEXv)
JEWS ARE AMERICANS....and there is no organized voting block...
Posted by: plum at May 06, 2016 01:17 PM (YMH9o)
He didn't blame Jews; he said that self-hating, leftwing Jews were the strongest supporters of the Iran treaty. That is true and it embarrasses me (and JJ, I'm sure) to no end.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (zc3Db)
He looks like the kind of guy who has a small dick and who pays hookers to let him slap them around.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (LUG6K)
this party often has the downfall of not doing our homework and not actually fucking reading actual articles.
Posted by: ace at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Seems Legit at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (U+nHb)
Now that I look back on it, I found "Catcher In the Rye" tedious, irksome, pointless and banal. And allegedly as a 15 year old, I was supposed to somehow identify with it?
Pfft. Bazooka Joe and his Gang had more relevance in my life.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:21 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: iforgot
This deserves a medal!
Posted by: Never get old, still tragic as all Hell at May 06, 2016 01:21 PM (326rv)
Posted by: Holden Caufield at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM
HAHA - IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HOLDEN CAUFIELD IS AN ASSHOLE AND A PHONY.
Posted by: Ben Roethlesberger at May 06, 2016 01:21 PM (ZcEXv)
You need as many voters as you can to win. Instead you troll them.
You have to admit that was pretty f**king stupid....
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:16 PM (/E+t2)
-----------------------------
What about the voters who admire expert trollery and appreciate a troll on the other side for once?
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:22 PM (pC96u)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (zc3Db)
Don't think he knows me or my lineage. In any case, my post was not ambiguous.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:22 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 06, 2016 01:22 PM (k4M/B)
You have to admit that was pretty f**king stupid....
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:16 PM (/E+t2)
I'll let Scott Adams explain this to you:
The Taco Bowl Photo
By now you have seen the image of Trump eating a Taco Bowl on Cinco De Mayo and saying "I love Hispanics!" It was funny, provocative, playful, and viral as all get-out.
But more importantly, ever time it got retweeted and shared, more people saw a smiling Trump proclaim his love for Hispanics. Repetition is truth. Trump's truth had a good day. That was a clean win.
http://bit.ly/1ryiEkG
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:22 PM (xuouz)
Ben, Ben the only QB on Earth who is better at reading the field than a book.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:22 PM (g8Hfr)
Post that on the Front Page and he'll see it.
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:22 PM (ZcEXv)
Well, I guess you hope the appreciative ones out number the trolled ones.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:23 PM (/E+t2)
He looks like the kind of guy who has a small dick and who pays hookers to let him slap them around."
actually i like them to slap me around, and tickle me with feathers...but don't tell anyone..shhhh
Posted by: benny r at May 06, 2016 01:23 PM (c6/9Q)
Jeb keeps coming back to mind. If all that money and machinery had bought him the nomination, what would he be saying right now?
Posted by: iforgot
This deserves a medal!
Presented by 27 Generals and Admirals.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 06, 2016 01:23 PM (k4M/B)
"Hey America vote for me and you'll get 25,000 dollars....just like Obama gave you 2500"
//DJT reaching out to Obama fans
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:23 PM (g8Hfr)
At least half of America didn't care.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (/E+t2)
45 - 50 years of brainwashing plus a protracted period of prosperity and instant gratification will do that to a lot of people, if not vast swathes of the society.
Tragically.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:23 PM (p4UlV)
BTW, I finally saw a picture of Ben Rhodes, and the man looks like a sleazy Washington staffdouche.
He looks like the kind of guy who has a small dick and who pays hookers to let
Fixed for accuracy.
I guarantee, he got wedgies all through high school.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:23 PM (1ZOkK)
http://bit.ly/1ryiEkG
Just keep telling Yourself that...
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (O2RFr)
information overload leads to the proverbial fox-hedgehog dilemma. You're cursed as "low information" if you commit to a few truths without depth of data, and you blind yourself trying to keep up with the blizzard of data points if that's your goal.
I think I'm kind of a hedgefox, but more hedge than fox.
Posted by: General Zod at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (1ZOkK)
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (lKyWE)
You know, we can't fight the 52% with that 25% and expect to win, right?
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (ZcEXv)
Posted by: The Barrel at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (xuouz)
Really? Do you think Rush is merely too dumb to read to the end? Or do you think that the entire MSM is just going to give this story a good leaving alone?
This story destroys what little legitimacy the MSM has left. Why would they turn the knife themselves?
Posted by: LawLurker at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (zKwtX)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (LUG6K)
*shoves non-smallpoxed blanket through USB port for you*
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (OcD4G)
None of the above. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Say no more.
Posted by: Body Man Reggie at May 06, 2016 01:24 PM (+aCe4)
Posted by: iforgot
Tax cuts, amnesty, c'mon, derpa derpa, privatizing social security...
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (4ErVI)
You do realize Adams is a cartoonist and not some master of the universe, right?
No, eating a freaking taco bowl while advertising Trump Grill is not a clear win on anything.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: The Lurking Spider at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (8v0G6)
Posted by: ace at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (dciA+)
Ace, I imagine Rush is to busy to read articles with all the Bengay he's got to rub on his back.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (/E+t2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (1ZOkK)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM
What You said...
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (O2RFr)
The left is reacting to the Republican candidate's messaging.
!!!
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Phinn at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (fCWi3)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Never get old, still tragic as all Hell at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (326rv)
Sudden outbreak of Bushido?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (YEelc)
The left is reacting to the Republican candidate's messaging.
!!!
You're not serious are You?
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (NOIQH)
At least half of America didn't care.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:20 PM (/E+t2)
********
Oh gawd. That's probably more correct.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (1ZOkK)
I am sure Ben really does believe the Iran deal is a good one and that it was just a few Al-Qaeda connected types, but mostly a protest that went ballistic.
Posted by: Tilikum Majestic Killer Assault Whale at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (m3iiU)
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I'm more cynical. I think Rhodes either was willfully clueless about the deal -- could be bad, could be good, who cares? -- or he knows it's bad and he'll offer himself as kapo if things go that way.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:27 PM (pC96u)
I don't think America was fooled, I think America didn't give a fuck which is worse.
Obama jailed a man to cover up his fuck-up.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (g8Hfr)
Precisely. This was a case Amnesty International and the ICRC should have been shrieking about, because it was a political imprisonment. But crickets.
Congress, and that man's congressman in particular, should have been shrieking. But crickets.
And four men died, and 30 more were severely traumatized and gagged from speaking. But crickets.
I'm with grammie winger. I think laundry is the only solution to reading about this wretch and his gleeful hoodwinking of the American public. And a public that allowed themselves to be hoodwinked, and questioned nothing.
Posted by: Moki at May 06, 2016 01:27 PM (ezHMO)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (/tuJf)
You forgot eating a taco bowl on top of an old photo of your ex wife Marla Maples while advertising Trump Grill. Now, that's trolling your own wife on an expert level.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:27 PM (/E+t2)
We've needed some new curtains in there for quite a while.
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:27 PM (ZcEXv)
Stupid like a Kardashian!!
Well there are some similarities....
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:27 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at May 06, 2016 01:27 PM (8dxdo)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (p4UlV)
Sefton, you and your fellow anti-semite, Charlie Brown's Dildo, are really going to have to cool your jets with all that Jew-hatin' you have going on....
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (u0lmX)
Sudden outbreak of Bushido?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (YEelc)
Emphasis on Bush. Well played. *golf clap*
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (p4UlV)
Because Hillary isn't going to hire anyone outside of the bunch she pulled into State, and if Trump gets the nod, well, that goes without saying ...
So is B. Rhodes a 100% Rodhamite?
Posted by: mrp at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (JBggj)
Everything is starting to come out.
How long do you think it will be before Ben Rhodes is back in his mother's basement trying to write short stories?
Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (Ff12p)
No, eating a freaking taco bowl while advertising Trump Grill is not a clear win on anything.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (/tuJf)
In fact I was aware of this fact, Jack, as I am that a possible next president of the United States is a weirdo steak salesman and reality TV star.
Either one of them would make a better president than anyone in the entire Obama administration.
The people of the United States need to start looking less at credentials and more at outcomes.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (xuouz)
They're not dumb. We're just not privy to the script, it seems.
Posted by: LawLurker at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (zKwtX)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (1ZOkK)
*catapaults gallons of Febreeze to Jane*
Remember, the tentacles on the tentacle thingy (no, not that one, or that one, or that other one with the spots) aren't trying to shake your hands.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (mf5HN)
In my darker hours I am convinced the right is stuck in the position of the Kulaks during Stalin's Ukrainian Famine where many had to go cannibal to live...
"If only Comrade Stalin KNEW!"
//Kulaks
"If only the American Voter Knew"
//Modern Conservatives
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:18 PM (p4UlV)
Sefton, you and your fellow anti-semite, Charlie Brown's Dildo, are really going to have to cool your jets with all that Jew-hatin' you have going on....
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (u0lmX)
It's not Jew-hatred. It's hatred on wayward sinners/apostates.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (p4UlV)
The 7th Circle of Hell is too good for these soulless homunculii and their media golems.
Posted by: Grump928(C) is nothing if not equanimous at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (rwI+c)
You do realize Adams is a cartoonist and not some master of the universe, right? No, eating a freaking taco bowl while advertising Trump Grill is not a clear win on anything.
who what better understand the impact ofsinglephotocoupled with ashort phrase than a cartoonist?
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (lKyWE)
And they really understand the Hillary server issue.
The minimum wage issue--not so much.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:29 PM (mcm0N)
Every news cycle you'll hear someone in the media say they're flummoxed by Trump's resilience to fact-checking.
This is why.
The Media no longer has any credibility.
Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at May 06, 2016 01:29 PM (h+IVw)
So is B. Rhodes a 100% Rodhamite?
Posted by: mrp at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (JBggj)
44% Catamite.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:29 PM (p4UlV)
I know, right?
Like straight out of central casting - such a punchable doucheface.
That's the guy who told a reporter he read "To Kill a Mockingbird" to his 1 month old kid and spends his spare time wondering which literary character he best embodies.
*pushes 2-ply hazmat suit through usb port to Jane*
Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2016 01:29 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: The Lurking Spider at May 06, 2016 01:29 PM (8v0G6)
So would I and I would make a shitty president.
If you don't want people to ask you if you know that Scott Adams is not the Oracle of Delphi then stop quoting him all the time as if he is.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at May 06, 2016 01:29 PM (h+IVw)
That train left a LOOOOONG time ago.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (p4UlV)
It is a micro-aggression to those who are easily aggrieved. Hence, it is a nice slap at the politically correct.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (xuouz)
Marla Maples while advertising Trump Grill. Now, that's trolling your
own wife on an expert level.>>>
The fact that someone took the time to search the photo for hidden clues says something. I don't know what that something is but I did not see it until it was blown up and highlighted.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (P/aDH)
Hi Jane.
Should We send a search party?
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (O2RFr)
That was... what, 5 years ago? What could that possibly have to do with anything today.
#hilloryaintsoinevitableafterall
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (TOk1P)
Yep. When dealing with the Left, never ascribe to ignorance what can be explained by malice.
Posted by: Grump928(C) is nothing if not equanimous at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (rwI+c)
You're not serious are You?
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:26 PM (O2RFr)
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Why not? When is the last time anyone got in their face like that? A gigantic, unapologetic smile, an exuberant "Fuck you, puritans!" That's the glory of it; there's nothing they can do. The man prepares himself a Taco Bowl in the presence of his enemies. It is supremely unassailable.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (pC96u)
We've needed some new curtains in there for quite a while.
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:27 PM
Some curtains, maybe a few throw pillows....
Posted by: Eyegore at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (bzd8I)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (p4UlV)
I know. I was trying, unsuccessfully, I guess, to make a joke.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (u0lmX)
!!!
No, they're viciously, Rightly so, mocking his lame ass attempt at identity politics.
What message are you trying to send when you're eating a taco salad out of a burnt taco shell up in your Ivory Tower?
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (/E+t2)
Yea, cause that's our job.
Posted by: GOPe at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (326rv)
Count me in. I can do as shitty a job as anybody and I'll do it for less money.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (AbFmZ)
Flummoxed: bewildered, perplexed.
Not be confused with flabbergasted which means astonished.
Or DISCOMBOBULATED which means confused.
Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (h+IVw)
Posted by: Iblis at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (F7p30)
Fuck you you Trigglypuffs....I'm having a good time.
//DJT
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:32 PM (g8Hfr)
Never forget that Obama's administration intended for 30 people to die at the consulate to protect their election hopes.
YES.
It has looked like Obama's and Hillary's earliest meetings after the attack began were to establish the best narrative --- not freakin' rescue his people.
You read the NYT interview and think: yeah, his first impulse upon learning about the attack - after "Oh, shit!" - was "How do I spin this so Obama gets re-elected?"
Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2016 01:32 PM (NOIQH)
"If only Comrade Stalin KNEW!"
//Kulaks
"If only the American Voter Knew"
//Modern Conservatives
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (g8Hfr)
********
Walter Duranty--NYT Pulitzer Prize winner, baby. That guy.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:32 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (u0lmX)
When you mentioned CBD, I knew you were. Shame on me for not playing along!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:32 PM (p4UlV)
who what better understand the impact ofsinglephotocoupled with ashort phrase than a cartoonist?
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (lKyWE)
Our host self-identifies as an Ewok.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 01:32 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit
______________
Great. Democrat voters are easily snookered, and the Democrat nominee is almost always snockered.
Posted by: Furious George at May 06, 2016 01:32 PM (Kl1Y6)
Well, at least not while she's awake.
Posted by: The Lurking Spider at May 06, 2016 01:32 PM (8v0G6)
Storytelling runs in the bloodline.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 06, 2016 01:32 PM (JO9+V)
I am too actually. His mental illness causes him to see Iran as a victim of bad ol' America and not the evil monsters they are.
By rolling over and playing dead, we are mending fences/atoning in his eyes.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW TTB at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (m3iiU)
Posted by: Eyegore at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (bzd8I)
Some nice scented candles, a few pictures . . . .
Jane, I would send you a flamethrower but everything in the Barrel is extra flammable.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (mf5HN)
What message are you trying to send when you're eating a taco salad out of a burnt taco shell up in your Ivory Tower?
That You're an ass not You, but the Taco bowl eater...... Lets face it to some Trump will never do anything wrong and to some Trump will never do anything right...
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (O2RFr)
not that one, or that one, or that other one with the spots) aren't
trying to shake your hands.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM
You only think that's my tentacle....
Posted by: That tentacle thingy - yes, that one at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (bzd8I)
Quite....Duranty's grandkids have I think won the Kulturkampf...
the American Voters know and they could give 3 fucks as long as Comrade Donkey's Check Clears
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (g8Hfr)
That train left a LOOOOONG time ago.
Only took 47% of the USA, evidently.
But it appears it's taking on more passengers each day!
Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (h+IVw)
photo for hidden clues says something. I don't know what that something
is but I did not see it until it was blown up and highlighted.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (P/aDH)
What I'm enjoying about this erection season, more than I expected, is watching some people get the vapors over Trump.
It's like a cripple fight. I don't really care who wins, and I don't think the fight is all that interesting, but watching people work themselves up into a tizzy because two cripples are wailing on each other, sure is entertaining.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (TOk1P)
Walter Duranty--NYT Pulitzer Prize winner, baby. That guy.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:32 PM (mcm0N)
The Holocaust? Never heard of it.
Posted by: Charlie "Pinch" Gibson at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (p4UlV)
The fact that someone took the time to search the photo for hidden clues says something.
Is Waldo in it?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Yo! at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (GwIKd)
We've got treasonous scum selling us down the river and we're arguing about taco bowls.
The proper way to answer any leftist having fantoids about this is: Really? You're having a fit about a gdamn taco bowl? How petty are you?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (/E+t2)
That some people need to loosen up a little bit.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (hLRSq)
How long do you think it will be before Ben Rhodes is back in his mother's basement trying to write short stories?
Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2016 01:28 PM (Ff12p)
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That's a distinct possibility. Whistleblowers and prophets are often thrown under the bus -- after which their message is embraced.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (pC96u)
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (OD2ni)
66 >>Qu'est que c'est "LARP?"
Live action role playing, undertaken by people who "reenact" battle gear and group / tribes from the past, both real and imaginary. The closest many of those cosseted pussies get to being in combat.
Read all about it: http://dagorhir.com
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot, Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (BK3ZS)
"Oh shit--they are still hanging on?"
IOW--they're not dead yet?
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (mcm0N)
Sweet. Jane can spruce up the Barrel a bit.
We've needed some new curtains in there for quite a while.
Posted by: garrett at May 06, 2016 01:27 PM
Some curtains, maybe a few throw pillows....
Posted by: Eyegore at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (bzd8I)
Let me clean the place up a bit. *starts up gas powered leaf blower*
Posted by: Carl Spackler at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (JO9+V)
>>Well there are some similarities....
Yup - and that's not necessarily a compliment, but those botoxed bubbleheads are *rich*.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (NOIQH)
I would make a great God Emperor and my people would fear me exceedingly.
Posted by: Grump928(C) is nothing if not equanimous at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (rwI+c)
I've been saying from day one that the only reason they left those men to die in Benghazi was because they could not risk a rescue ATTEMPT --which we know there was plenty of time for--to fail in real-time. This would have reminded everyone of Carter and his failed rescue attempt of the hostages in Iran, and probably have cost Obama the election. So they did what they had to do---let them die and lie about it later.
Sick fucks.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (Ff12p)
Posted by: Yo! at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (GwIKd)
I would like to make a deal with the Trumpswabs.
I'll pay money, or commit an act of self-abasement, or submit to some Barrel-level unpleasantness, if you will stop appealing to the authority of Dilbert.
I mean he draws a funny comic but this Oracle of Cisco crap is really grating.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (1xUj/)
By rolling over and playing dead, we are mending fences/atoning in his eyes.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW TTB at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (m3iiU)
Evil Reagan also threatened them, and that's evil because he's evil, so the Iranians must be good.
My first boss in an embassy was a former hostage. He was a deeply damaged man. Good, good at his job, but damaged. He retired early. And State treated him like shit. That was my first real clue that the powers that be there were not good people.
Posted by: Moki at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (ezHMO)
Hildibeast is still on track to win the General.
I'm in pretty good shape in the firearms/ammo category, but I might be able to fit another on in...for the children you understand.
Posted by: trainer at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (7EbAY)
Posted by: Loran Gerban at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (s/vC3)
Midget wrasslin'.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (6hZFv)
The left or the supposed "right." Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This was predictable. We shifted humongous amounts of power to the Federal government, and tasked the press with keeping an eye on them. The government did what large power seeking organizations always do-they cut them in on the deal. Now we have an idiot with a MFA controlling how the nation thinks about foreign policy.
Posted by: LawLurker at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (zKwtX)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:30 PM (/tuJf)
If you want to be less frustrated by this election you need to seek out some alternate sources of insight onto what the hell is going on. Adams' record of predictions about Trump, not just his performance but also his tactics, is practically spotless. He called Trump winning the nomination and the presidency last August, and he patiently explains how all these things Trump does and says that have you convinced he's a stupid idiot loon who's doomed in the general are actually carefully planned PR strategy.
Or you can stick to what Dilbert Man termed "the Lucky Hitler explanation" for Trump's success, and continue being flustered, gobsmacked, horrified, and freaking obnoxious about it.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:36 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Loran Gerban at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (s/vC3)
More like Randi.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:36 PM (p4UlV)
I would make a great God Emperor and my people would fear me exceedingly.
What's nice is that fear eventually turns to love in these situations.
Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at May 06, 2016 01:36 PM (h+IVw)
Posted by: Charlie "Pinch" Gibson at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (p4UlV)
202 Asswipe sock off.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (p4UlV)
********
oh man.
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 06, 2016 01:36 PM (mcm0N)
Are you kidding?Tommy Veitor is now a consultant with another former Obama staffer - yes, people actually pay him money for advice.
I'm sure Rhodes will set up shop, too.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 06, 2016 01:36 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Rick554 at May 06, 2016 01:37 PM (CcdLA)
I'm not a fan of Trump and I thought the taco bowl thing was funny.
We've got treasonous scum selling us down the river and we're arguing about taco bowls.
The proper way to answer any leftist having fantoids about this is:
Really? You're having a fit about a gdamn taco bowl? How petty are
you?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 06, 2016 01:34 PM (u0lmX)
i saw it and laughed.....then i saw some stupid thing that he was caught looking at a picture of his ex wife in a bikini......her picture was in the fucking news paper on his desk......jeez.....the outrage!!!!
Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 06, 2016 01:37 PM (0O7c5)
Once the money has been returned and sanctions were off, we're probably at the point where we should see if the deal works now.
Also, for me the big issue is manipulation of the media.
Posted by: Harun at May 06, 2016 01:37 PM (UBBWX)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 06, 2016 01:37 PM (AbFmZ)
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (O2RFr)
It was another Rorschach test...
Posted by: Don Quixote at May 06, 2016 01:37 PM (qf6WZ)
Tommy Veitor? Wow. Blast from the past. And what about the sorority chicks, Piss-hockey and that other slag with the poindexter specs?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:37 PM (p4UlV)
231 " So is this guy, Ben Rhodes, any relation to Cecil? "
In his own mind he is the Colossus of Rhodes
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot, Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 06, 2016 01:38 PM (BK3ZS)
Really? You're having a fit about a gdamn taco bowl? How petty are
you?
This.
The Russians are carving up Europe.
The Chinese are expanding in the Pacific.
Militant Islam has set fire from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Khyber Pass.
South America is descending into poverty and anarchy.
Millions of people have been uprooted and are on the march, causing massive social, economic, and political disruption.
But please, tell us how important it is to talk about a fucking taco.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 06, 2016 01:38 PM (LUG6K)
So what? I called Romney getting the nomination last time years before the race even began.
Where's my cookie?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:38 PM (/tuJf)
Basically telling friend a foe alike that 'Everything that guy said is bullshit.'.
Posted by: Grump928(C) is nothing if not equanimous at May 06, 2016 01:38 PM (rwI+c)
wins, and I don't think the fight is all that interesting, but watching
people work themselves up into a tizzy because two cripples are wailing
on each other, sure is entertaining.
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Midget wrasslin'.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2016 01:35 PM (6hZFv)
Mexican midget female/tranny mud wrasslin'.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:38 PM (TOk1P)
MFA? NFC. No Fvcking Clue.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2016 01:38 PM (6hZFv)
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (/E+t2)
That you can do whatever you want, whenever you want.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 06, 2016 01:38 PM (oKE6c)
Tommy Veitor? Wow. Blast from the past. And what about the sorority chicks, Piss-hockey and that other slag with the poindexter specs?"
Hellloooo!!!
Posted by: Marie "Fat Legs" Harf at May 06, 2016 01:39 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2016 01:39 PM (6hZFv)
That grin he's wearing implies he was eating something else...
And why not?
Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2016 01:39 PM (Ff12p)
Posted by: Harun at May 06, 2016 01:37 PM (UBBWX)
----
Which raises the question.....
Can you manipulate somebody to do something they already want to do anyway???
Posted by: fixerupper at May 06, 2016 01:39 PM (8XRCm)
Just like you don't read Trump's position papers or listen to his speeches or put any stock in what he says he's going to do.
You're the most amazing political observers of all time, carrying out complex analyses of a presidential campaign that you're observing almost exclusively through secondary and tertiary sources.
God bless.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:39 PM (xuouz)
But please, tell us how important it is to talk about a fucking taco.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 06, 2016 01:38 PM (LUG6K)
Like it or not, Trump's background as a reality TV star - along with being a positive to an extent - is also a negative.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:39 PM (p4UlV)
I'm not a fan of Trump and I thought the taco bowl thing was funny.
We've got treasonous scum selling us down the river and we're arguing about taco bowls.
The proper way to answer any leftist having fantoids about this is: Really? You're having a fit about a gdamn taco bowl? How petty are you?
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Imagine if Romney had actually walked around with a couple of binders after the left went hysterical over "binders full of women." Imagine if he had "accidentally" dropped them and a bunch of head shots of (smart conservative attractive) women fell out.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:39 PM (pC96u)
And I also know that 52% of the public wouldn't give a crap. President Fourputt's cult worshipers would obfuscate and excuse unceasingly, and so would the Empress Dowager of Chappaqua's cabal.
More days than not, I have to fight off the urge to bitchslap people half unconscious and scream "Pay attention! This is important!" while shoving this news into their pieholes. If there was ever an entire society in need of some wall-to-wall counseling, we're living in it.
I find myself wondering if, centuries ago, a handful of Roman citizens, peeking over the walls at the incoming Huns, Goths, and Vandals, wondered how low it would take for general society and the judgment of history to prove they were right. I feel like they must have.
Posted by: Qoheleth at May 06, 2016 01:40 PM (iIzG7)
Posted by: ScoggDog at May 06, 2016 01:40 PM (8v0G6)
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (/E+t2)
That you love Hispanics.
This isn't the Gordian Knot here people.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:40 PM (xuouz)
" So is this guy, Ben Rhodes, any relation to Cecil? "
Maybe Cecil the seasick sea serpent or Cecil the dead lion.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 06, 2016 01:40 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Lincolntf at May 06, 2016 01:40 PM (2cS/G)
Oh, that's fucking rich, coming from the Votin' Angry Crowd.
Look, Trump is a fucking clown and the fact that he is mocked and jeered at isn't making anybody uptight but his supporters. Don't get your mullet all in a wad.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:40 PM (/E+t2)
Also, for me the big issue is manipulation of the media.
Posted by: Harun
The big deal for me is that our party lied its ass of to us and faked a vote.
We already knew that the MFM was actively against us. The rise in these creatures moving to and from the administration to the media cemented it.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 01:41 PM (326rv)
I didn't read the initial interview, if that matters.
Posted by: Randy Weaver's Revenge at May 06, 2016 01:41 PM (0q6u6)
I'll pay money, or commit an act of self-abasement, or submit to
some Barrel-level unpleasantness, if you will stop appealing to the
authority of Dilbert.
I mean he draws a funny comic but this Oracle of Cisco crap is really grating.
I'll take your deal (I would; I'm a Trumpswab), to wit:
I hate Dilbert. It's repetitious, too cute by half, and looks like it's drawn by a gifted fourth-grader. It's not a funny comic, and I don't "appeal to its authority."
I choose self-abasement. Name your poison.
Posted by: General Zod at May 06, 2016 01:41 PM (Bdeb0)
How brilliant......Let's alienate some more people... That'll bring in the votes...
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:41 PM (O2RFr)
Where's my cookie?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:38 PM (/tuJf)
Everybody predicted Romney. Predicting anyone other than Romney was the sure sign you are delusional.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:41 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 01:42 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Moki at May 06, 2016 01:42 PM (ezHMO)
You can explain to me how car salesmen work, and that is useful to know their techniques, but it doesn't make me admire them or accept their tactics.
In fact, the wise car buyer knows these tactics and doesn't get taken in by them.
Kari will sit patiently for the sales manager's response to his offer and keep talking about the monthly payment.
Posted by: Harun at May 06, 2016 01:42 PM (UBBWX)
It's all about the Legacy, that is, the narrative.
Who cares what Obama actually does and what the material consequences are.
What is the story?
What words and symbols will be in future textbooks?
We must hug Castro NOW. So we can create a Legacy.
We must make peace with Iran. For our Legacy.
So what if actual damage to living, breathing humans is done?
The Legacy of wound-healing and peace-making that the Ben Rhodes of the world will promote is paramount.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 06, 2016 01:42 PM (T/5A0)
Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at May 06, 2016 01:42 PM (h+IVw)
Posted by: iforgot
Imagine if he fought half as hard as he did against a flag.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 01:42 PM (326rv)
http://tinyurl.com/z5pn2jy
Like Obama, Rhodes is a storyteller who uses a writer's tools to advance an agenda that is packaged as politics but is often quite personal. He is adept at constructing overarching plotlines with heroes and villains, their conflicts and motivations supported by flurries of carefully chosen adjectives, quotations and leaks from named and unnamed senior officials. He is the master shaper and retailer of Obama's foreign-policy narratives, at a time when the killer wave of social media has washed away the sand castles of the traditional press. His ability to navigate and shape this new environment makes him a more effective and powerful extension of the president's will than any number of policy advisers or diplomats or spies.
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Shorter - he is a lying cocksucker
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 06, 2016 01:42 PM (mEZce)
pic of his old side-piece in the Taco Bowl pic as part of a carefully
planned strategy?
How brilliant......Let's alienate some more people... That'll bring in the votes...
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:41 PM (O2RFr)
Nah, he's not alienating more people. He's just alienating the same people who are already alienated. Only morely so.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:43 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Kaspar Gutman at May 06, 2016 01:43 PM (Fv0+L)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 06, 2016 01:43 PM (HSmrB)
Yeah. By arguing and going on about it, we're accepting the Left's premise that these petty, piss-ant trivia is important. And that exactly what they want.
Again, can we please stop letting them choose what "outrage of the day" they're going to scream about today instead of saying,"F you, you stupid child? What about these really important issues? Let's talk about those things."
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 06, 2016 01:43 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (p4UlV)
Some people just have to brag about their greatest success.
Posted by: Loran Gerban at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (s/vC3)
Posted by: Moki at May 06, 2016 01:42 PM (ezHMO)
No relation. Born Randi Buelen
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (mEZce)
At least He got some "coverage". Not necessarily positive, but what the heck there is no such thing as bad publicity, and He should know... He's the King of it...
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (O2RFr)
About that picture of Trump with a Taco Bowl?
That grin he's wearing implies he was eating something else...
And why not?
Posted by: JoeF. at May 06, 2016 01:39 PM (Ff12p)
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A grin for the ages.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (pC96u)
http://tinyurl.com/goay2z6
Posted by: Flock of Seagulls at May 06, 2016 01:42 PM (h+IVw)
_____________________________
I'd hit it....
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (HSmrB)
I'm telling you ... unless he dies first ... Barry will tell everything.
Posted by: ScoggDog at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (8v0G6)
By a federal law enforcement official. And it's 2 dead now.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: George J. at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (ukNFU)
Oy.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (p4UlV)
Where are Mohammed and Malvo? Did anyone see a white van driving away from the area?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (TOk1P)
Some people just have to brag about their greatest success.
Posted by: Loran Gerban at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (s/vC3)
He realizes that there will be absolutely NO consequences to him and the movement he suppers.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: shillelagh at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (L3vVL)
Posted by: DaveA at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (DL2i+)
And have you seen your lady friend? Prayers have been sent upwards for you on that front!
Posted by: Moki at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (ezHMO)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (AbFmZ)
positive, but what the heck there is no such thing as bad publicity, and
He should know... He's the King of it...
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (O2RFr)
Now you're catching on.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:46 PM (TOk1P)
Where are Mohammed and Malvo? Did anyone see a white van driving away from the area?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (TOk1P)
Isn't one of them rotting in Hell and the other rotting in prison?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:46 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: DaveA at May 06, 2016 01:46 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:46 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Randy Weaver's Revenge at May 06, 2016 01:46 PM (0q6u6)
I didn't read the initial interview, if that matters.
Posted by: Randy Weaver's Revenge
the thing is coming undone, and has even while they were "negotiating". And since a foreign power is involved, the only ways to control this now are to stifle the MFM and to feed out the story/fact that the administration was playing 3-D checkers the entire time.
That's my guess. Besides, it's a big middle finger to the country, the battered spouse that is the MFM and a knee slapper for their base.
It's not like anyone is going to go to jail.
The dems were liars and clever; the rethuglickans debased themselves giving it cover.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 01:46 PM (326rv)
Posted by: General Zod
Eh, I'll meet you in the Barrel. It's more creative than either of us.
BTW, I tried early on to make "Trumpswab" a thing and it didn't catch on.
Howie Carr calls people (mostly toady politicians) "rumpswabs" for sucking up to powerful overlings.
I thought it was a good portmanteau that should have caught on, but didn't. I have a capacious closet full of other failure to show ...
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 06, 2016 01:47 PM (1xUj/)
That grin he's wearing implies he was eating something else...
You'd be grinning too if Sean Hannity was under your desk.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:47 PM (/E+t2)
Posted by: mrp at May 06, 2016 01:47 PM (JBggj)
She ignored her friend's call for help and let him die.
Then she lied to the families over the coffins.
Posted by: @votermom at May 06, 2016 01:47 PM (nbrY/)
A Fed shot several people?
Or the Fed is dead?
Man Maryland needs gun control laws I guess...
oh wait....
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:47 PM (g8Hfr)
And have you seen your lady friend? Prayers have been sent upwards for you on that front!
Posted by: Moki at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (ezHMO)
Thanks. Trying to get together next week when our schedules are better.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (mEZce)
Oy.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:44 PM (p4UlV)"
Yikes. Time unfreeze Chief Moose (I kid.).
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (OD2ni)
Same message as that with Trump and the taco bowl: "I can do whatever I want, whenever I want."
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (326rv)
Posted by: Don Trumpote at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (cJDvr)
Bonzo was one Hell of a chimp.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (AbFmZ)
Fed did the shooting. He's on the run but they seem to know who he is. He is also suspected of a shooting yesterday.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (/tuJf)
Obama and Hillary!'s incompetence and indifference has killed more Gay men than I ever have.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (g8Hfr)
He's just alienating the same people who are already alienated. Only morely so.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:43 PM (TOk1P)
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And the good news is that he's not backing down, and yet no one is dying. They're screaming louder and more profanely and threateningly to be sure, but Trump -- incomprehensibly, infuriatingly -- is failing to curl up in a little ball of pleading remorse.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (pC96u)
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:45 PM (TOk1P)
Isn't one of them rotting in Hell and the other rotting in prison?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:46 PM (p4UlV)
Yeah, I should certainly be less flippant. People are dead. My kneejerk reaction to something like this though, is to assume the dead are "good" guys and the killers are "bad" guys, and that's not always true. So I dismiss the story, mentally, until we know.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:33 PM (TOk1P)
It's okay Burt, you're among friends.
You can share such things with us.
We're here for you, buddy.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (mf5HN)
She ignored her friend's call for help and let him die.
Then she lied to the families over the coffins.
Posted by: @votermom at May 06, 2016 01:47 PM (nbrY/)
Worse than that. Chris Stevens was warning them for months before that shit was going to hit the fan. And she ignored it to run guns to jihadis in Syria.
She deserves to be (REDACTED).
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (p4UlV)
Hmmm, wrong. Looked at the schedule and it appears to be a La Raza spokesman for the Taco Bowl.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (FtrY1)
288 Appears to be a domestic violence shooting. One of the killed is the estranged wife of the shooter.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:46 PM (/tuJf)
Didn't the shooter know that Maryland has strict gun control laws? Didn't he pay attention to the "no gun zone" signs?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (u0lmX)
Wonderful, add this to the Dorner thing and you may see why I am not a fan of "Keystone Kommanods"....
what a dumb ass world.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (OD2ni)
Chief Moose was one tough customer. God bless him.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (/E+t2)
Can someone please explain WHY Ben Rhodes made these admissions?
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (326rv)
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They're not admissions. They're boasts.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (pC96u)
Which, by default, means more of the same.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (T78UI)
couple of binders after the left went hysterical over "binders full of
women." Imagine if he had "accidentally" dropped them and a bunch of
head shots of (smart conservative attractive) women fell out.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:39 PM (pC96u)
When the stuff came out about Christine O'Donnell admitting to dabbling in witchcraft, I suggested that her campaign should pass out witch's hats with "O'Donnell for Senate" signs on them. Turn the left's attempt at mockery against them.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 06, 2016 01:50 PM (LUG6K)
Of course... Who didn't see that coming?
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:50 PM (O2RFr)
Perhaps for the same reason Hillarity laughed about destroying a 13 year old rape victim.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 01:50 PM (326rv)
Which, by default, means more of the same.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 06, 2016 01:49 PM (T78UI)
There is no alternative. Unless you know something I don't.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:50 PM (p4UlV)
Or the Fed is dead?
Man Maryland needs gun control laws I guess...
oh wait..."
We actually have a conservative governor now so they'll probably blame him. I am sure those a-holes Mikulski/Hoyer/Van Hollen are working on the presser now.
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 06, 2016 01:50 PM (OD2ni)
Look, Trump is a fucking clown and the fact that he is mocked and jeered at isn't making anybody uptight but his supporters. Don't get your mullet all in a wad.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:40 PM (/E+t2)
My record here is one of a pretty level-headed instigator and purveyor of fine epithets for the discerning Moron and Moronette. I'm not the one getting a twist on because a man ate from a Taco Bowl.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 01:51 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Grump928(C) adjusts his Alcoa Sombrero at May 06, 2016 01:51 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 06, 2016 01:51 PM (ucDmr)
point where I realized that I could never ever vote for Hillary no
matter who she was up against.
She ignored her friend's call for help and let him die.
Then she lied to the families over the coffins.
Posted by: @votermom at May 06, 2016 01:47 PM (nbrY/)<<<
No no no. See I didn't ignore my good friend Chris. We were just playing a joke on each other. My good friend Chris was such a kidder, and he would have loved that I was pranking him by not answering his calls. Even if it did end up with him getting killed. Ah, that was my good friend Chris, anything, even dying, for a laugh.
**hic**
Posted by: Cankles Clinton! at May 06, 2016 01:51 PM (H9MG5)
Not just Rhodes.
Every reporter and every so called expert that signed up to tell and retell this propaganda we've been fed must be named.
Their twitter feeds and facebook and what the fuck ever else they have should be inundated with questions and demands for explanations!
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at May 06, 2016 01:51 PM (X+nFp)
Perhaps for the same reason Hillarity laughed about destroying a 13 year old rape victim.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 01:50 PM (326rv)
The Race Card comes with a handy Blue Cape of invincibility. It has a large "D" embroidered on it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 06, 2016 01:52 PM (p4UlV)
1) That he won't win because he's odious to leftist identity groups?
2) That he will win because the left will recognize a true believer liberal, and will be the anti-Christ in office?
It's a little confusing to get both at the same time.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:52 PM (xuouz)
NY DN- Federal Agent on Run in Maryland....
so the guy is a DHS employee....remember folks only Law Enforcement is responsible enough to have guns.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:52 PM (g8Hfr)
They're not admissions. They're boasts.
Posted by: iforgot
Just like Harry Reid boasting how his lies helped derail Romney.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 06, 2016 01:52 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:43 PM (TOk1P)
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And the good news is that he's not backing down, and yet no one is
dying. They're screaming louder and more profanely and threateningly to
be sure, but Trump -- incomprehensibly, infuriatingly -- is failing to
curl up in a little ball of pleading remorse.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:48 PM (pC96u)
Yep, but I rather think you decidedly used up your adverb quota. I even improbably made one up meself (morely), but I try to delicately place my adverbs, sparingly.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2016 01:53 PM (TOk1P)
"
obama is a "story teller" ? tongue-tied, inarticulate primitive with a sub-par iq ? no intelligent person can possibly call him a story teller. i'm not even sure obama knows how to talks or think in complete sentences. ny times just cannot let go of a crease in obama's pants can it.
Posted by: runner at May 06, 2016 01:53 PM (c6/9Q)
Whi the fvck do you think you are ? George R R Martin ?
Posted by: ScoggDog at May 06, 2016 01:53 PM (8v0G6)
Are you telling me the national apparatus is a bunch of morons just skimming for dick jokes?
Posted by: DaveA at May 06, 2016 01:53 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:31 PM (/E+t2)
That you love Hispanics.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:40 PM (xuouz)
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You and Trump say "Hispanics" but I assume you mean "Mexican-Americans," no?
Because I am 100% Hispanic, born and raised in a Spanish-speaking country, and I never even saw a taco until I came to the US.
You, I dunno. But I would expect Trump, who is a New Yorker, to recognize the existence of, say, Puerto Ricans.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 06, 2016 01:54 PM (T/5A0)
My first boss in an embassy was a former hostage. He was a deeply damaged man. Good, good at his job, but damaged. He retired early. And State treated him like shit. That was my first real clue that the powers that be there were not good people.----------Moki
I really do believe the left is criminally insane.
I am sure your boss' very existence reminded them of the fact Iran was not so nice and said reminder deeply rankled them.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW TTB at May 06, 2016 01:54 PM (+aCe4)
Posted by: runner at May 06, 2016 01:55 PM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 01:51 PM (hLRSq)
Neither am I Steven Wright, just pointing out the obvious.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:55 PM (/E+t2)
No Mexican ever saw a Taco Bowl before going to Taco Bell which is very Mexican because they have a chihuahua as a mascot.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:55 PM (/tuJf)
Trump calls them Spanish.
Posted by: Harun at May 06, 2016 01:55 PM (UBBWX)
at least until Monday morning, anyway, probably fox news around 7:30 in the morning.
Posted by: mallfly suPreme at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (qSIlh)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (xuouz)
Don't you think the Trump taco bowl picture is a bit... patronizing?
Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (dpnZC)
Posted by: ScoggDog at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (8v0G6)
Posted by: donna at May 06, 2016 01:50 PM (O2RFr)
Yes, of course. Which is why conservatives have to stop playing into Leftist hands by acting like they have a point when they scream about this shit. I don't like Trump either -but if you join the Left in overreacting to a minor thing like this, you're showing that there is some validity to their stupid "microaggression" b.s.
Really, we have to start shrugging our shoulders and saying "So what?" when the Left goes on about this, instead of joining the chorus because we don't like Trump either. PC will NEVER be defeated if the right keeps buying into it.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (hLRSq)
NY DN- Federal Agent on Run in Maryland....
so the guy is a DHS employee....remember folks only Law Enforcement is responsible enough to have guns.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:52 PM (g8Hfr)
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This is so ironic.
Posted by: Soona at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (Fmupd)
Posted by: Tilikum KAW TTB at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (+aCe4)
*crawls exhausted and filthy out of barrel*
*heads to shower with gallon of bleach*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:58 PM (1ZOkK)
Posted by: Picric at May 06, 2016 01:58 PM (QnQ+g)
Can someone please explain WHY Ben Rhodes made these admissions? Why would he screw his own allies and give such an awesome gift to his biggest opponents?
I didn't read the initial interview, if that matters.
Posted by: Randy Weaver's Revenge at May 06, 2016 01:41 PM (0q6u6)
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A nation that calls America "the Great Satan" and unceasingly cries "death to America" got America's global sponsorship for wealth and weapons.
That is an amazing accomplishment.
It's also a fait accompli. The mullahs have the money and weapons now. Who's going to get prosecuted over it? For what? No one will get in trouble; they'll all toast each other.
This is an end-zone strut.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 01:58 PM (pC96u)
Posted by: biancaneve at May 06, 2016 01:58 PM (sjq9T)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 06, 2016 01:58 PM (1ZOkK)
Don't you think the Trump taco bowl picture is a bit... patronizing?"
that is zee statement pozing as zee question, my boy
Posted by: dr. freud at May 06, 2016 01:58 PM (c6/9Q)
it's all a story, all a narrative, all a bid to cover for Teh One and Abuela Borracha.
We can't do anything to go after the Light-worker, but we can damn sure prevent that taco-bowl-eating POS from holding executive power, can't we?
Jump on Gary's Johnson, and enjoy the peace of knowing you did exactly NOTHING to stop this happening again and again and again.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 06, 2016 01:58 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 01:58 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: NSA Spy Cams at May 06, 2016 01:59 PM (1xUj/)
Don't you think that is the point?
He is telling his lost bloc "fuck you" just like Hillary! "Coal Miner's Daughter" told the coal miners.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 01:59 PM (g8Hfr)
Who's being manipulated?
Posted by: LawLurker at May 06, 2016 01:59 PM (zKwtX)
Posted by: The Lurking Spider at May 06, 2016 02:00 PM (8v0G6)
Don't you think the Trump taco bowl picture is a bit... patronizing?
No he was celebrating Cinco de Mayo
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 06, 2016 02:00 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: mallfly suPreme at May 06, 2016 02:00 PM (qSIlh)
Don't you think the Trump taco bowl picture is a bit... patronizing?
Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian
I'm not a trump support, but I'll jump in, if only to give a conservative a good shove.
Patronizing would be waving his middle finger while burning a mexican flag.
patronizing is telling people who dare dsiagree with you that they need to be given bibles.
Patronizing is saying that voters failed when they ignored the Justice league in favor of the donald.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 02:00 PM (326rv)
Oddly the media is not running with this as front page news with screaming headlines....
"oddly"
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 02:00 PM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2016 01:25 PM (/tuJf)
You forgot eating a taco bowl on top of an old photo of your ex wife
Marla Maples while advertising Trump Grill. Now, that's trolling your
own wife on an expert level.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 01:27 PM (/E+t2)=====
Still can't figure out why he didn't step into the breach for the sake of NYC and run for mayor against DeBlasio, et al. Seems like a better fit -- and he's loved so much for the skating rink, right? Insider NYC trolling.
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 06, 2016 02:00 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: LawLurker at May 06, 2016 01:59 PM (zKwtX)
Yeah it's insane.
The question now is: how to make the "Obama has faked his entire presidency with sockpuppets" memetic?
Because God knows the only thing that can get through the skull of any American is a freaking meme.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 02:01 PM (xuouz)
Then she lied to the families over the coffins.
Posted by: @votermom at May 06, 2016 01:47 PM (nbrY/)
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A cynic can say the other lies "had" to be told for political expediency in an election year.
A leftist can say that the Narrative "had" to be maintained.
But what can anyone say about the lies to the families?
A simple "I'm so sorry" would have sufficed.
Why the gratuitous, unnecessary lies?
The woman is a sociopath.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 06, 2016 02:01 PM (T/5A0)
It gets worserer and worserer.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 06, 2016 02:01 PM (FtrY1)
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Your concern is noted, and much appreciated, I assure you.
Anyone whose vote is decided or even influenced by this is exactly as shallow as you imagine the worst of the Trumpkins to be.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 06, 2016 02:02 PM (lutOX)
I am 100% Hispanic, born and raised in a Spanish-speaking country, and I never even saw a taco until I came to the US.
You, I dunno. But I would expect Trump, who is a New Yorker, to recognize the existence of, say, Puerto Ricans.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 06, 2016 01:54 PM (T/5A0)
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You sound like quite a special little copo de nieve. I suggest you eat a binders full of tacos.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 02:02 PM (pC96u)
Posted by: sven10077
Even better. He's not bowing down to rioters.
She's beating Winston Smith's corpse trying to explain how she hates coal, coal mines, coal miners and Nat King Cle while somehow loving them.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 02:02 PM (326rv)
He culturally appropriated a Californian dish...
yes that is where we are.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 02:02 PM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 06, 2016 02:02 PM (T78UI)
Posted by: Picric at May 06, 2016 02:02 PM (QnQ+g)
Right..."FU keep rioting"
and the riots aid his popularity
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 02:03 PM (g8Hfr)
Don't you think the Trump taco bowl picture is a bit... patronizing?
Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (dpnZC)
No. It's just normal, old-time politicking. Give it a rest, already. You trump haters are just reaching for straws and making yourselves look pretty friggin stupid in the process.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 06, 2016 02:03 PM (zc3Db)
I mean about seeing if the Iran debacle will "work"?
We've been at war with Iran - well, they've been at war with us - since 1979. It's a war with a real, and substantial, body count. Ours, and allies' and partners' bodies.
This was not *about* nukes. It was about trashing a remarkably effective edifice of sanctions against an active enemy that is the most dangerous one we face, and which shows no signs whatsoever of changing course.
The whole Benghazi thing - every aspect of it - remains incomprehensible. Unless one accepts that the US has, almost overnight, become a completely unserious country populated by dumbed down people "led" by dumbed-down "elites".
The WHOLE thing - from the idiocy of a chief of mission being in that place on 9/11 without a large security force, to the craven "tweets" by embassy Cairo to the mob outside apologizing for freedom of expression in America (the video nobody saw), to the obviously ludicrous lies about the nature of the Benghazi attack (mortars at a spontaneous "demonstration"? Contemporaneous wire-service reports that there was no disturbance up to the time of the attack, as observed by a business traveller nearby?), to the fact that it mattered, politically, whether this outrage was "Al Qaeda" or not.
To, of course, the still-unbelievable spectacle an American being perp-walked (deliberately for the cameras) to appease the islamist mob.
Ace has in the past few years asked (in desperation) - "is this even America any more?".
The Benghazi debacle, the fact that it had *zero* political fallout for anyone, answered that question for the 100th time.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 06, 2016 02:03 PM (QDnY+)
Yep, but I rather think you decidedly used up your adverb quota.
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Crap you're right, I just tried to use one and I'm locked out. Timer says 10 minutes for the next one to pop up.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 02:03 PM (pC96u)
I was gonna say. Pretty sure it's an American thing.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 06, 2016 02:04 PM (AbFmZ)
Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 06, 2016 01:57 PM (dpnZC)
I thought it was a calculated strike. It was silly and the reactions of those heading to the fainting couches are too perfect by far. If you really wanted to disarm political correctness you have to, in my opinion, show them to be making a mountain out of a molehill while at the same time being impotent to do anything to you.
You have to make their entire reaction look as ridiculous as it actually is, to get people to point and laugh at the SJW's.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet is Sense and Censorship Free! at May 06, 2016 02:05 PM (hLRSq)
It's like rioting over Pizza Hut...
"how dare you culturally appropriate a Kansas City invented confection of vaguely Italian origin?"
//Idiots
things you never hear...
Italians rioting over Chef Fucking Boyardee
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 02:05 PM (g8Hfr)
I can't see how outlining his, and the Obama regime's, misconduct, is in his personsal interest. Is there some calculation about his future that I don't understand, or is he just stupidly running his mouth?
Bear with me here.
Something I've noticed over the years is that sociopaths have some strange need to tell you what they're up to and what they're all about. Contractors, co-workers, room mates, officials -- my experience has been that they'll tell you, often in advance, if you have the ears to hear it, and the suspicious cynical mind to take it seriously. Has anyone else noticed this?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 06, 2016 02:07 PM (onVRT)
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 02:07 PM (pC96u)
Given a choice between my party calling me a racist, wackobird hobbit and the other shit,
I'd welcome a taco salad bowl.
And the former came for the "smart guys" with "ideas" while the taco salad bowl is the amateur hour.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 06, 2016 02:08 PM (326rv)
Who is this Bem Rhose character anyway?
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 02:08 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Don Trumpote at May 06, 2016 02:08 PM (+wjl1)
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 02:07 PM (pC96u)
fuck me how do I stream this?
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 02:08 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 06, 2016 02:08 PM (onVRT)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 06, 2016 02:09 PM (AbFmZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2016 02:10 PM (6hZFv)
Posted by: Drill at May 06, 2016 02:10 PM (TjXED)
Being a crass asshole who constantly says stupid and terrible things does not make you un politically correct. It just makes you a crass asshole who constantly says stupid and terrible things. Pointing this out is not playing into the lefts hands either.
Posted by: Arson Wells at May 06, 2016 02:10 PM (/E+t2)
fuck me how do I stream this?
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 06, 2016 02:08 PM (xuouz)
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Open another damn tab and find out his local affilliate. ClearChannel.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 02:10 PM (pC96u)
I refer you to the election of 1860 and it's immediate aftermath.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 06, 2016 02:11 PM (FtrY1)
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2016 02:11 PM (6hZFv)
Posted by: Picric at May 06, 2016 02:12 PM (QnQ+g)
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 02:02 PM (pC96u)
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Interesting.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 06, 2016 02:12 PM (T/5A0)
Posted by: ThunderB at May 06, 2016 02:12 PM (dbBTG)
To defeat PC we need crass assholes to stand up to the idiocy....
decent people won't do it first they WILL follow.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 02:12 PM (g8Hfr)
It isn't so much flammable as it hungers for the burning.
Posted by: DaveA at May 06, 2016 02:12 PM (DL2i+)
I refer you to the election of 1860 and it's immediate aftermath.
We're gonna be shootin' yankees before it's all over with anyway.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2016 02:13 PM (6hZFv)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 06, 2016 02:07 PM (onVRT)
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I think your sociopathic explanation goes some way -- and psychopaths are the same from what I've seen on tru-krime t.v.
I was arguing along those lines @348.
Posted by: iforgot at May 06, 2016 02:13 PM (pC96u)
Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 06, 2016 02:13 PM (dpnZC)
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I, for one, have never said the Golden Hair-Weasel isn't qa crass asshole. And let me add he's a seriously tacky man, with shaky morals and poor taste in general.
I'll add, further, that I don't trust the man, wouldn't mingle with him socially, and want none of my children to turn out like him.
And I'll even grant you that he is, worse still, most likely a moderate Dem, at best, and unlikely to reduce the size or scope of the Leviathan state.
And, for all that, I'll pull the lever for him over Hillary.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 06, 2016 02:16 PM (lutOX)
we were halfway through substantive testimony, so what's the point?
Theoretically the House writes
"Fuck this guy" on a paper, signs it, sends it to the Senate, they write
"And the horse he rode in on" and viola Joey Plugz is up.
I'd pay good money for that and I'm broke.
Posted by: DaveA at May 06, 2016 02:19 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE ED GEIN at May 06, 2016 02:22 PM (KId5h)
Posted by: chemjeff - Libertarian at May 06, 2016 02:13 PM (dpnZC)
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You catch on quickly, dontcha? No, not patronizing, not having "Reasons Why Donald is Exactly Like Your Abuela" as part of a social media campaign. Not telling WV coal miners that they weren't smart enough to understand that calls for shutting down coal companies was nothing more than a prediction of what would happen if Abuela Borracha wasn't elected.
Patronizing would require sucking up to them, courting voters on the basis of their presumed ignorance and gullibility, and, as I've noted earlier, any Hispanic likely to vote against Trump because of this was unlikely ever to vote for him in the first place.
But, just as you please.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 06, 2016 02:24 PM (lutOX)
Live action role playing, undertaken by people who "reenact" battle gear and group / tribes from the past, both real and imaginary.
Dang! I wanna be the QB in that electronic football game where you lined all the players up and then hit the switch and watch them fall over and shake like they have a coil of electric wire wrapped around their arm. Put me in coach.
Posted by: jsg at May 06, 2016 02:26 PM (gs8be)
If it's the mall I'm thinking of it's right next door to the County Court.
Posted by: DaveA at May 06, 2016 02:27 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: sven10077 at May 06, 2016 02:05 PM (g8Hfr) "
Chef Boyardee was a real guy. Italian-American chef who worked in Cleveland's Little Italy. He spelled his name differently, though.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 06, 2016 03:00 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: Reality at May 06, 2016 04:47 PM (UsCnO)
Although the investigation was conducted by Republicans, leading some reporters and commentators to dismiss it, the report quotes directly from emails between top administration and intelligence officials, and it includes footnotes indicating the times the messages were sent.
The Democrats don't care. Truly, they just don't care.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 06, 2016 05:43 PM (O4NI/)
But then taking that sausage in the ass is not what the people that want from Government.
Who works for whom?
Posted by: honestjoe at May 07, 2016 06:19 AM (UsCnO)
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