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I've written before about how Republicans just aren't funny -- it isn't in their nature. Maybe it is due to the fact that those who swoon at the sight of authority just have no ability to prick the self-importance of the powerful in a way that generates humor, or that their tendency to laugh at the misfortunes of the weak (as in ethnic or sexist jokes) generally aren't funny to anyone over the age of five. But once again, those laugh riots at the Lieberman campaign are proving that they are, at heart, Republicans.
The Kiss Float was funny, delightful, light hearted and acute in its targeting of a particular, telling moment that exploded so many of the self-important myths generated by Joe and his Party of Ego. And in response? We get some LieberClown dressed up as Osama Bin Laden saying "Support Ned Lamont -- We Do."
That's great. Why not just build a campaign around three Poles and a lightbulb, a priest, a rabbi and a minister or "for a nickle I would"?
It's an old GOP card that has been played before, and will no doubt be played again. When this whole dark era of wingnut domination is over, maybe they can just return to bitching about black UN helicopters and fluoridated water. Honestly, their ham-fisted attempts to be funny are just abjectly painful to witness.
Now, I can't say for sure if Lieberman is paying this guy to make this sick and truly despicable joke. But in my experience, a) nearly all the people who show up on behalf of Lieberman not named Lieberman are collecting a paycheck for it, and b) the guy looks suspiciously like the guy who showed up dressed in a banana suit and tried to muscle his way into the frame with Ned Lamont during the "Wake Up WalMart" press conference (where the paid LieberYouth were first instructed to begin harassing Ned, right as Richard Goodstein appeared on the scene). (hat tip LamontBlog)
Because Joe is all about eschewing negative, partisan politics and taking the high road, don't you know. What a truly great man. How tragic that we blog urchins don't recognize that and refuse to kiss his ring.
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Pammy Atlas’s vlog is friggin hilarious..wait, it was supposed to be serious. Does that count?
back in the good ole days, they’d dress somebody up like Joe Stalin to endorse pinko Democrats !
The guy doesn’t look like OBL at all.
To me, it looks as if he’s dressed up as the typical “Arab” and that’s supposed to equal “terrorist” if you’re thinking with half your brain.
I’d say the Lieberman campaign is continuing its basic appeal to racism with this one.
I got a broken URL for that banana suit link, just fyi…
and how can you tell that’s osama, and not just some bedraggled guy?
It’s the Repub pundit loudmouths and bullies that aren’t funny. Others are bitingly so. It’s tied in with the very reason they become pundits and bullies - they’re broken, shame-filled, leg-shakingly afraid people. That doesn’t engender funniness, y’know?
and when I first started reading, I thought of Bruno Kirby in Godd Morning, Vietnam: “Sir…in my heart, I know I’m funny.”
that guy is supposed to be Osama bin Laden?!?
prolly be more effective if it were a slighty better costume…
I wanted to let you know there is a follow-up commentary just out regarding Lieberman and the VFF/GOP……..isn’t discovery just fun? Think you will find it interesting……
Sealed with a Kiss: Strange Bedfellows
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.or.....174731/329
frankly, I thought the dude was looking like a “hippie” supporting Ned — hippie-fear is fierce amongst elderly Republicans …
I thought the guy in the banana suit was George Allen? Now I’m really confused.
Didn’t look like Osama to me, either.
A disgusting analogy to make, anyway.
I didn’t know ZZ Top supported Lamont. :)
filthy racist xenophobes with no imagination at all and whose only game is endorsing more fear and hate.
macaca, little guatamalan, now arabs.
nice.
Hey, Mr. Linkee Man, linkee me banana!
I didn’t think of Osama–I thought the guy was supposed to be a hippie. Those wacky republicans!
I had no idea it was OBL either. Here are my ‘notes’ to the Republicans on their ‘Ned Lamont Supporter’ Joke.
1) Get a better OBL costume; and
2) Don’t use OBL until you capture him cause right now it’s just a reminder that your party failed to do what it set out to do and started a war we can’t get out of with a country that had NOTHING TO DO WITH THE 9/11 ATTACKS and is now just sucking lives and $$$ by the hour.
Other than that - I love it.
So who wants to commission a Summer’s Eve Box that says “Support Lieberman, we do!”
Twisted Martini @
17
Now THAT’S funny.
BTW banana link fixed.
It’s the Malkinization of America.
Twisted Martini– may I suggest the Fartacus scented variety?
(thanks Shez for that gem!)
This is really sad. I saw the photo and thought “Cool. Ned has the support of Connecticut rastifarians.”
I wish I were kidding. Will try to get out more.
Blog urchins? is that anything like sea urchins?
At least someone has spines—even multiple ones. That’s us.
Rob Zuber @ 12
707 - that was my reaction
Rove’s guys need to get a better costumer provider.
There are going to be all sorts of disgusting, ugly things going down in Connecticut this fall because the GOP sees this as a Republican pick up state (i.e. Liberman). Personally, I think, if anything, it’s going to help Lamont. As a resident of CT on and off for 40 years, I don’t think any CT Dem (or Independent, or moderate Republican) is going to appreciate having swiftboaters and Rove henchmen in CT throwing mud and filth.
Perhaps the $60 a day included the money for props and costumes.
besides, have you ever seen a plump or sunglass sporting Osama on teevee?
me neither.
Florida Mom @ 20 should have a spew warning!
When dirty tricks go bad…
actually, it’s an Allen Ginsburg look-alike
Wingnuts aren’t funny. And we need to hold them accountable. ThinkProgress has a good article on that tool Stephen Hayes being picked to write Cheney’s autobiography. Rush Limbaugh, The National Review, Drudge, Instapundit, and their enablers on cable TV need to be held accountable for this mess.
We need a data mining project, so every time any one of these idiots speaks, their stupid and hilariously wrong past statements get thrown back at them.
it’s probably not the same banana that is showing up with a monkey at Sen. Allen’s events.
http://online.wsj.com/public/r.....mp;hasAd=1
Link to new zogby poll results:
Good news:
There are some new competitive senate races-
Nevada- now within three points
Arizona- now within four points
Tn - within three points
Webb up one in Virginia!!!!
Also good news- Brown up 9 in Ohio
Bad news:
Talent now in the lead by 4.5 in Mo.
Lieberman up ten in his race.
EPU’d part 1.
egregious @ 82
Interesting. Just got off the phone with my business partner in New York and asked him what he thought about Lieberman…
He said. “You know, I don’t even know anything about Lamont but I can’t stand Lieberman. It’s not even about the war in Iraq. It’s because he’s whiner!!! And I’m Jewish!” LOL
My business partner isn’t as politically savvy or as informed as I am but I thought his whiner observation was interesting and wonder how prevalent that is to the casual observer (and voter).
I thought that guy was a musician I know (he’s Jewish with dreadlocks) and did a double-take. “Hey, what’s MJ doing in Connecticut?” :)
I Emailed Cilizza a link to the previous post and got back an Email from his Blackberry saying he cant open it so I cutted and pasted the entire Jane-post and just Emailed it to him …
God, it looks like Jamie Farr in Cannonball Run.
Nice pre-printed sign he’s sporting there. Very grassroots.
www.WhinyJoe.com
Dean Wormer @ 34
Go Klinger!
What a bunch of fuckheads.
That probably is the same punk as the banana pic.
Fuck him and Fuck. Them.
Let’s push them to the wayside this November.
*blech*
The Allen Macaca mocking banana is a female without a beard– link to Anna Banana and Mac Monkey.
http://www.newsleader.com/apps.....60302/1002
rwcole @ 29
This is the Zogby Interactive which is an online poll of self-selected voters. Don’t take it too seriously.
EPU’d part 2 of 2.
egregious @ 92
Florida Mom, LOL.
I thought it was someone trying to look like John Belushi. I also thought, “cool.”
Yes, I need to get out more, too.
annburns @ 27
Well, for starters, the Rovians were using the “OBL supports” crap back in 2004. I was with Emily’s List in West Palm Beach on election day and “OBL endorses Kerry” signs were up everywhere.
Sad
This Osama guy should be invited on the Colbert report! Wouldn’t that be entertaining.
Bad costume choice.
At first glance I thought an Amish Union had endorsed Ned.
Then I wondered why Captain Ahab was supporting him.
-GSD
Re Brown up in Ohio over DeWine,
Guess a lot of people like me are begging their Ohio relatives to TAKE ACTION.
Democracy…it might just work…
cozumel,
“My business partner isn’t as politically savvy or as informed as I am but I thought his whiner observation was interesting and wonder how prevalent that is to the casual observer (and voter).” it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer!
Scurrying downthread to see if he responds….
(WTG, *ilson!)
Egy, if I may?
*ilson46201 @
33
***
Someone from the Lamont team should pass out Enlistment forms to each and everyone of these Yellow elephants. Asking them at the same time “Why aren’t they fighting over there so Osama won’t need to attend Lamont rallies!
dab from CT @ 25
Sorry about that.
It seems that although each of us saw something different (Amish folk, Beat Poets etc) we all saw something positive. Not something meanspirited as intended. Ha. Ha.
Zorko @ 15
Yeah, I thought it was John Lennon. By the way, I’ve decided that I killed JonBenet. (har-har)
Salon.com War Room:
If you used a guy dressed like that in my part of Alaska, nobody would notice him.
Ouch! Some advice - don’t blog when you’re taking a break from housepainting. Gotta turn this machine off and clean the paint off the keyboard. Back later……
Good for Ned, from the looks of that picture at the top of the post, he has the support of GOP Congressman Don Young from Alaska.
-GSD
*ilson, speak of the devil.
the Rovians were using the “OBL supports” crap back in 2004
I saw one of those infuriating “nine out of 10 terrorists prefer Kerry” bumper stickers on a car at my daughter’s dance studio. I had a suspicion who it was, but wasn’t sure.
I put a post-it on their windshield, saying “If I were you, I wouldn’t put LIES on my bumper.”
The bumper sticker was gone next time I saw the car…was I going over the line? Maybe. But what I wrote was true, every word of it.
Oh, and jane–these vile things aren’t meant to be funny. They are meant to be “plausibly deniable”, as in when you rightfully point out how hateful and disgusting they are, the Rethugs will say, “you humorless liberals never could take a joke.”
Just another reason to wish these disgusting people the most humiliating defeat that could ever happen.
“but I thought his whiner observation was interesting and wonder how prevalent that is to the casual observer (and voter).”
Coz, that’s the very first thing most non-political people notice about him, and cringe about. It’s unfortunate, for the most part, that people form opinions based on stuff like that, but in this case it is indicative of his larger problem - he’s a wanking whiner!
I was shocked to hear Heidi Klum’s voice the other day. She sounds like she’s on helium but it doesn’t take away from her smarts or beauty.
No No Zorko! The guy in the Osama suit did it.
looks like one of those sandwich board “the end of the world is nigh” kind of guys
RevDeb
Actually, Zogby interactive is not a typical online poll. Zogby has been fine tuning it’s methodology for years and it’s results are now on a par with the Zogby telephone survey- it’s reliable and should be taken seriously. It uses stratified sample technology.
I had to study the picture for awhile - I knew it was supposed to be an insult, but I wasn’t sure how… Pajamahadeen, perhaps?
*ooabby @ 46
His larger point was (bus partner) personality is more important than the issues, in his opinion.
Whiner! LOL
Bilhelm @ 50
I wonder about Katherine Harris … exactly where was she Christmas night ten years ago?
Does his name contain the answer to his true employer?
CIllizA?
-GSD
I thought it was the guy from the Rock the Casbah video…I was wondering where his beat box was.
I’ve never seen OBL with shades, but I understand he has a beautiful bong he carries around with him.
This month’s Atlantic (or is it Harpers?) has a piece by a woman who apparently captured his attention. During their first “date”, he took several hits off his bong; she declined. I dunno,
I’m getting such a different picture of him from non-official readings. He seems like a spoiled rich kid, just like Georgie and about as serious in his religion as Georgie is. Does George go to church? I didn’t think so.
rwcole @ 58
rwcole
I’ll defer to your knowledge which I know you have a great deal of, but the last time I read about it, the interactive was still being refined and had a ways to go before it tracked with other polls.
If so, we’ve got work to do.
egregious @45,
A lot of Ohio folks I talk to are saying they want them ALL out. They’re sick of incumbents, period.
My pizza man was wondering about Blackwell vs. Strickland. I told him I thought BLackwell would have made a dandy Pharisee and why. We’ll see if his megachurch teaching cancels out my one little voice.
Aw, man, I’ve been EPU’d!!
rwcole– perhaps Dan Balz could be more informed by you. In today’s Wapo chat he had this to say:
GSD @
44
They, the Amish don’t wear shades.
*ilson46201 @
9
So did I, *ilson. I had to read the Lamont blog to find out this was supposed to be OBL.
This is a really stupid stunt.
Captain Goto @ 67
EPU’d at 67 ???
you keep using that word
I think mayby it doesn’t mean what you think it means
In unrelated not-funniness, the identity of the “secret hold” Senator is still unknown, but 58 Senators have been eliminated thus far as the possible culprit. Check the latest tally to see if your Senator still needs to be asked the question.
(Background here.)
coz at 6o,
one would hope most people vote on issues, not personality … but I’m afraid that’s not true. On the bright side that should help Ned.
Your daily gas and oil prices
Average price for regular gasoline 8/28/06 in 50 states and DC
$3.00 plus 14 states
$2.90 plus 7 states
$2.80 plus 13 states
$2.70 plus 14 states
$2.60 plus 3 states
Average national price: $2.848, down $.043 from 8/25/06
Highest recorded national average price: $3.057 9/5/2005
Highest average price: Hawaii $3.349
Lowest average price: Ohio $2.614
Nymex Crude Future $70.40, down $2.11 from 8/25/06
Dated Brent Spot $69.95, down $1.79
WTI Cushing Spot $70.61, down $1.52
Gas continues to fall. This is good news for Republicans as it decreases pump rage. Ernesto turned toward Florida and away from the energy intensive Louisiana-Texas coast. As a result, oil prices which were set to jump either way on Friday fell and are again testing the $70 level.
One of the Three Wise Men supports Lamont? Aren’t we trying to keep religion out of this?
*ilson46201 @ 33
I posted a link to the FDL thread in his comments — told Chris he could get a Fix-Fact Fix at FDL! I guess if he’s still trying to open things on his Blackberry, then he’s not paying attention to the comments on his blog (not that I recommend it, what a bunch of losers he attracts!)
Nice going, *!
*ooabby @ 46, way to make use of the new spell-checking technology, and persevering until those red lines go away.
I just went over to Network Solutions to see if I could buy a lieber domain if I spelled it wrong as Leiberman2006. It was already taken, but they suggested the following for me!!
leiberboy.com
leiberdude.com
manguyon.com
leiberchap.com
manboystories.com
leiberfellow.com
manboylovers.com
leibermanwelt.com
manspankingboy.com
Hugh @ 74– I truly and absolutely believe that this is complete manipulation by bush, cheney and their oil buddies. There is no way that they fell all by themselves with wars raging…
no tinfoil hat required, imho.
It would be funny if, while he was checking his blackberry, he hit the shepard. Oy, Joe!
Ben Domenech @ 75
maybe it’s an Elder of Zion who had trouble with his TCP/IP Protocols?
Never mind. I got caught in a refresh from the 8th dimension.
you keep using that word
I think mayby it doesn’t mean what you think it means
My name is Diego Montoya.
ccmask - manboystories.com? does that mean Lieberman is a member of NAMBLA?
rwcole @ 58
I receive Zogby interactive surveys frequently. I rarely have the time to take them. Clearly it’s self selecting - on top of being only available to people with Internet access.
Secondly - living in CT - I would be shocked if a week after the primary, Lieberman didn’t have higher name recognition than Lamont among Indeps and Repubs.
If I were an 18 year incumbent - I would want much more than a 10 points margin. It seems to me he had a much larger margin in the primary and it melted away pretty quickly.
And just curious - he’s “up” 10 points compared to what? Did Zogby recently do an interactive survey of all likely voters in CT to compare these results to? Just curious.
I’d also like to see a breakdown of the votes - do you have that info? I would be surprised if Lieberman’s support doesn’t skew Republican.
Mommybrain @ 64
if he does carry this irem, he proably calls it a Hooka, and he most likely smokes tobacco in it
know your enemy
it’s a common practice in Arab cultures
op99, lol believe it or not I got it right the first try! btw your land line is still out
listening to Chris Shays on hardballs… sounds defensive, just like chimpy earlier today…
Don’t know if this was mentioned before:
TPM Cafe
kewl graphic
it gets better, OldCoastie…
Captain Goto @ 54
Fine, let’s see who laughs when a walking bottle of BUSHmills whiskey starts following Fredo around.
Captain Goto @ 82
wrong, do it again
Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die
I really hate it when they get the quotes wrong
I just bought www.ConnecticutForLeiberman.com and www.CT4Leiberman.com — it’ll take an hour for the forwarding to take effect … (notice the misspelling)
fwiw, being a nice guy, I also bought a couple of protective domain names for my local progressive Congresslady …
freepatriot @85 - I know what a hookah is and what is smoked in one in the Arab world. She clearly said it was a bong and he smoked wacky weed in it.
Margot @ 66
Lieberman: as funny as a tornado warning.
* At 642 PM EDT… National Weather Service Doppler Radar Indicated A Severe Thunderstorm That Was Likely Producing A Tornado. This Dangerous Storm Was Located Near Grove City… Moving Northeast At 15 Mph.
* Locations Impacted Include… Grove City… Groveport… Upper Arlington… Columbus… Bexley… Westerville… Reynoldsburg… Minerva Park…
In the “Payback: What a Concept!” and “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry ‘n’ Chuck” departments (via Atrios): the DSCC page has zapped Joe out of existence, and shows Lamont as the “incumbent” in Connecticut instead.
Kos says Liddy Dole has drafted Republican workers all across the eastern US to campaign for Chaffey. Minus the editorial and punditocracy noise, maybe the incumbency protection racket seems to be truly bipartisan.
I also hear it’s an open primary. This is where maple sappy New England Dems separate from wild eyed Texas Republicans (it’s all that hot sauce burning our sphincters that makes us so ornery - and I’ll bet Jane finds red hot chili pepper seeds on her TP quite often too). In Texas the Republicans regularly vote in Democratic primaries to make sure the weakest Dem candidate goes to the general election.
Where is the Dem GOTV effort for Mr Laffey?
Is anyone on here from RI? What gives? Please don’t claim to be above that sort of thing. It’s legal, so it’s dumb not to. And with the R’s running smears against Laffey, wouldn’t it be delish to see them turn 180 degrees?
ccmask @ 77
Now I’m thinking we could have a lot of fun with leiberchap.com and leiberdude.com lol.
Fine, let’s see who laughs when a walking bottle of BUSHmills whiskey starts following Fredo around.
Ooooohhhh, me likey.
“Ham-fisted attempts” You really do have a way with words.I was thinking that’s exactly how
they handle everything,especially the Wilsons,
who in my opinion are a class act!
Florida Mom @
20
Florida Mom, have you heard from lotus?
Ah, I see RevDeb beat me to it.
I really hate it when they get the quotes wrong
OK, Ok, rubbing it in not necessary…sheesh!!!
*ilson: You did better than me. If you type in Leiberman (spelled wrong) on google images, the first hit is a clown.
Mommybrain @ 93
well Okay then
you gotta be clear about that, cuz Hookahs are quite common amongst Arabs
Hookahs and bongs are quite similar to begin with, and as I said, lots of Arabs I know have Hookahs
that said, I still don’t think the fact that osama bin laden smokes a little pot is relevent
if you ever visit my house, we won’t insult you by offering a bong hit
it’s all good
just wanted to make sure you knew of the cultural differences that could explain a misunderstanding on this issue
Yep. Wingnuts not funny.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI.....index.html
Rep. Harris: Church-state separation ‘a lie’
POSTED: 5:37 p.m. EDT, August 28, 2006
MIAMI, Florida (AP) — U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie” and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.”
…..
“If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin,” Harris said.
But they can be downright amusing…
Hmmm…that’s supposed to be OBL??? He looks more like Joseph or some other biblical character.
I own
www.LieberLoser.com
and
www.LieberDem.com
(which was the name of an abortive pro-Joe ‘independent’ blog)
angie #79,
I might agree except these guys are so incompetent they couldn’t manipulate themselves out of a wet paper bag. In fact, it usually works the other way.
Bush saber rattles with Iran. Prices shoot up and axis of evil Iran’s treasury gets richer and Americans end up paying more for gas and being pissed off about it.
Bush lets Israel rampage in Lebanon for a month. Fears of a wider war increase and push up oil prices. We lose credibility along with the Israelis while Iran’s revenues go up allowing them more easily to finance reconstruction in Lebanon.
freepatriot - I never said it was a bad thing and frankly, you would insult me if I visited you and you didn’t offer me a hit.
Maybe not relevant to you, perhaps…but you don’t speak for me.
Blub @ 105
So why isn’t Harris campaigning against Lieberman? He isn’t Christian. OK, maybe we’d rather have her campaigning FOR Joe.
Katherine Harris is sending her own self up a river with her saline pontoons.
LindyH
I haven’t heard from Lotus since yesterday. I am operating on the idea that no news is good news. The storm seems to be veering away from her neck of the woods. Lotus will come back to the threads when she returns. You can quote me on that.
Ed*ard Teller @ 110
to paraphrase Kanye West, the GOP doesnt particularly care for Jews either … there is only one Jewish GOP Representative in the House (Cantor of VA). Specter and Coleman are the only 2 Jewish GOP Senators …
angie @ 111
No kidding, talk about hilarious. I’m sure her remarks went over real well with Florida’s Jewish community. BTW, those are silicone, only the best for Cruella.