Right-wing bloggers unglued after Obama's primetime address
September 10, 2009 10:26 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Maybe it was the snap polling that showed Americans overwhelmingly liked the speech and now support Obama's health care reform push. Or maybe it was the sad spectacle of watching Republican loud mouth Rep. Joe Wilson's unseemly bout of heckling, which was roundly condemned by both sides of the isles.
Whatever the trigger, some right-wing bloggers seemed to snap at having to watch a Democratic president regain control of the health care debate last night. Why else would Allah Pundit contemptuously refer to the President of the United States as "this jackass"?
And yes, these are the same conservative hypocrites who lectured liberals during the Bush years about not showing sufficient respect for the Oval Office.
UPDATED: Why do right-wingers hate the office of the presidency? Between the casual "jackass" insults this week, and insisting last week that school children needed to be sheltered from the President of the United States, when did the once-patriotic GOP Noise Machine decide that the Oval Office needed to be desecrated at every turn?
As soon as a Democrat won the WH.
Surprise, surprise
I followed the link to Allah Pundit, and read the article. Typical conservative tripe, in my opinion. What really got me were some of the comments. 'The death panels are in there!' Good heavens. I'm beginning to believe there are Republicans out there who are -delighted- with the idea of death panels, hoping their party once more ascends to power. They sit in the dark, the blue glow of FOX 'News' splashing out of their TV to light their dim wits, rubbing their hands together gleefully, and planning on who will be the first person visited by the Republican death panels. I'm sure they have a list, just like Senator McCarthy did.
Good catch, NewFrontier. It should have been "even more unglued than usual".
I followed the link to HotAir, and it looks like they're sticking with the same "lie" that the second-string trolls at this site were using, that because there is no specific mention of excluding illegal aliens in existing bills, that means they're covered.
Personally, I wouldn't really care if some non-citizens were able to use the health care system, as it would probably be cheaper than emergency room services. Immigration is an entirely different issue, but anybody who was able to get into the system would probably be paying taxes anyway.
I bet I could take some guesses at that top 10, but would probably be scolded by some wingnut for playing the race card.
When America elected its first black president. As their behavior during Obama's speech shows, this time the disagreement is not civil and political, it's deeply and harshly personal.
Meanwhile...
Right-wing professional liars and GOP representatives continually attempt to deny Obama his birthplace, which doesn't happen under the umbrella of white privilege.
Right-wing professional liars have used racial stereotypes and epithets against Obama.
Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga) referred to Obama as "uppity".
Right-wing professional liars and GOP representatives have attempted to deny Obama his religion, which also would not happen under the umbrella of white privilege.
GOP representatives forwarded a racially-charged parody of Obama.
"Values Voters" resorted to racially-charged parodies of Obama.
The Chaffey Community Republican Women sent a satirical e-mail rife with racial stereotypes.
Murdoch's New York Post utilized racial stereotyping in a political cartoon targeting Obama.
But again, it's all just coincidental.
Sorry if I find this kind of funny but; I have lived in the South and the North. I have always said that the differences in racism can be profiled thusly:
In the South, they don't care where blacks live, as long as they know their place. (read "not uppity")
In the North, they don't care what blacks aspire to, as long as they don't live in their neighborhood.
So, considering where this rep is from, I do not find this remark to be unusual in any way. (BTW She won't understand the controversy either)
Don't worry, there are enough wingnut closet racists to scold both of us for bringing the completely irrelevant issue of race into any discussions of Obama derangement Syndrome.
Right aorund Januray 20th, 2009 I believe.
(Putting asside 1/20/93 to 1/20/01 of course!)
Only one problem: They were NEVER patriots!
The Noize Masheen thinks that Democrats desecrated the office by electing Obama, and so therefore it's OK for them to pile on. That's their twisted view.
I called Bush names, and I know many others did. Criticism is as American as apple pie, and so forth. But the reason I and others criticized Bush was because he was clearly abusing the power given to him. All those nasty stories about Bush are *true,* after all. Obama is not a socialist, not a radical, not a fascist, and doesn't want to kill your gramma. Obama doesn't want to provide free health care to illegal immigrants. When he says he doesn't want to do those things, it's not a lie.
But because the right in this country has lied and lied and lied about Obama, they have no alternative but to continue to call Obama a liar.
Republicans will attempt to distinguish themselves as moderates by condemning the loony fringe, as Gingrich did earlier by condemning the school speech controversy as silly. And we all know Gingrich is a 'moderate,' right? Right? So we see McCain saying the outburst was inappropriate, but not denying the charge.
And so it goes.