C-list blogger turned Tennessee Republican Party "communications director" Bill Hobbs takes a bit of a beatingfor playing the Muslim card on Barrack HUSSEIN WANTS TO KILL US ALL Obama and so turns to playing the "but everyone does it!!1!!1" card:
The Tennessee capital press corps has apparently just discovered a Tennessee Republican Party press release that they previously ignored when it was issued two days ago. Apparently, using Barack Hussein Obama's middle name is a no-no. The TN GOP received back-to-back phone calls minutes ago from reporters for the Chattanooga Times-Free Press and the Nashville City Paper, asking the same basic questions, all of which ignored the main point of the press release, which is that Barack Hussein Obama is not a friend of Israel.
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Silly, of course. Run a Lexis-Nexis search for the number of times the media has used Hillary Rodham Clinton's middle name, often to underscore her feminist leanings and independence from her husband. Do a search for how many times during the 1988 and 1992 campaigns the media called the first George Bush "George Herbert Walker Bush," to underscore the media's protrayal of Bush as a preppie elitist. Ditto the media's reference to Dan Quayle as "J. Danforth Quayle."
I see several problems here.
First (or, as they say in Tennessee, Frist!) I would be willing to give Hobbs a pass if the Tennessee Republican Party consistently refers to John McCain as John Sidney McCain III, otherwise, no sale. Second, blowing the fact that Rodham is her maiden name is like missing a layup. Weak. Most importantly, what does it say to the Tennessee Republican Party that the local press corp treat their press releases like a Valpak mailing?
Later Josh Marshall makes a joke. Hobbs runs with it.
He may be stupider than Brock Olivo.
h/t Hullbaloo for the Olivo story.
(Added) Oh, this just gets better.
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Eat your peas Sidney. Zip your pants Sidney. Keep your hands off the lobbyists Sidney.
Hussein sounds tougher, more manly. More military, somehow.
Of course Rodham is the manliest of all.
Oh, my. That last link to the story about the mysterious client who dropped by Bill’s house to e-mail was just the best laugh I’ve had in ages. Not since Jim Jeff Guckert Gannon have I heard such a fantastic tale of setting up web sites for others who drop by your mom’s kitchen to upload posts, or something.
These guys are really not too bright. Funny, but not bright.
Wild Bill Cunningham was peddling the same I-was-just-saying-his-name dodge for NPR listeners tonight. He made a convincing argument–if you’re less than six years old.
Let’s spell it out for the morons: Using the man’s middle name is not the problem. Acting like it has some significance is the problem.
Funny, ha-ha. I’ll bet you a bushel of Dungeness crab that missive will now be used as an attack tool. They don’t need to credit the writer and his satire, but if Jesus really loves me like Father Callahan said he does, my inbox will have at least one reference to this, with a subject line of … “B. HUSSEIN’S HIDDEN AGENDA”
Of course, they’ll tell us he has fathered two black babies … with a black woman.
Maybe my New England snobbiness is showing, but my only question after laughing my way thru all those great links is this: does the GOP in Tennessee do birthday parties? They certainly know how to throw teh funny.
Between Olivo (”Q for the candidate: if you were a bodily fluid what would it be? A: Phlegm.”) and Mr. Hobbs’ hilarious attempt at lying about his super-secret identity as a paid shrill for a telecom, all they need is a singing stripper and they’d have themselves a dapper little talent agency. Black-face acts would obviously cost extra…
As NPR mentioned last week, George Herbert Walker Bush’s nickname in the Navy was ‘George Herbert Walker Bush’, because that’s how he introduced himself to everyone, in best Connecticut aristocratic fashion.
In other news, Bill Hobbs is a very silly man.
Brock Olivo earned the coveted Lt. Walters quote:
Bill Hobbs is entitled to no less.
And I thought Glenn Renyolds made me embarrassed to be from Tennessee.
Hobbs is an unholy embarrassment. Always has been, from what I’ve seen of him. And the SOB actually works or worked on GOP campaigns as communications director for the Tennessee Republican Party. Which, come to think of it, I am grateful for since he’s so goddamn stupid. They deserve him.
Perhaps Hobbs would prefer Barack H. Obama (kinda like what my daddy used to say, “Jesus H. Christ!”). Or perhaps not…
People with heads of improper dimensions seem to be idiots.
Chimpy McCodpiece, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Timmeh.
Now, Bill Hobbs.
That guy’s head’s gotta be twice as high as it is wide.
He also sports the AssChin.
Or, if you prefer, the ChinAss.
Either way, it puts him chin-by-chin with noted cheater and loser Tom Brady.
Not a good place to be these days.
The wingers don’t seem so handy with these new-fangled compooter thingies. Maybe they should go back to using telegrams and the postal service. I’m afraid they may have spent too much time in social studies.
I for one love the strategy of always saying “John SIDNEY McCain,” with an ominous emphasis on SIDNEY, maybe a wink-wink nudge-nudge know-what-I-mean. I intend to start today.
Yeah, funny how the press never mentions his full name. Just as they never mention that John Sidney McCain III only went into politics because he was a washout as a Navy man when compared to his grandpa and daddy, both of whom made admiral.
They keep confusing her with Dennis Rodman.
Especially as the GOP has owned Tennesee, thanks to the Southern Strategy, for decades.
Grave robbers, footballer that took a social studies course, this numbskull, coleman caught astroturfing, you just can’t make this stuff up. WTF are they going to do for a finale? We’ve got a lot of calender to fill before November.
I predict a laff-riot minstrel show at the GOP convention starring the screaming Eagles barbershop quartet. Frist and Ashcroft come out of retirement to join celebrity Larry Craig in playful blackface entertaining the storm troops.
Lincoln was dead wrong about one thing. There was never a good reason to let the southern states back in the Union after the Civil War.
And maybe in was “J. Danforth Quayle” to signify that his popular name was derived from his middle name rather than his first name?
Someone needs to tell Mr. Hobbs that channeling Tim Roth’s portrayal of Dutch Schultz in “Hoodlum” for his head shots fails to make him look either tough or politically savvy.
If these people weren’t so goddamn frightening and a threat to civilization as long as they hold power, observing them from a distance would be one of the most fascinating “social” studies experiments of all time. For instance, let’s drop Hobbsy, Bill O, Sidney, maybe Malkin, Ann Althouse, etc. onto the set of a reality show, like ‘Survivor’. Or better yet, how about ‘Project Runway’? On second thought, that wouldn’t work. They would just design the same white sheet and hood ensemble every week.
Excuse me for saying this, but reading Tman’s comments over in the kierenmccarthy link really make me miss the days of the unregistered free-for-all comments at old TBogg, when someone like Tman or even Hobbs himself might show up and make a complete ass of themselves. The comments would be 300 bits of holy hell and an absolute blast to read. Those days are sooo gone & I’m sorry for the loss.
This guy gives sock-puppets a bad name.
But wait–it gets even better! John SIDNEY MacCain III may not even be a REAL “natural-born” American Citizen, and thus may be inelligible to serve as President of the U.S.
Yes, unlike Islamowhitebreadafriterrorist Barrak Hussein Obama, who was born in Hawaii in 1961, John SIDNEY McCain III was born on a military installation in the Panama Canal Zone. For those who missed the lengthy jurisdictional ramblings in Hamdan, we summarize: U.S. Military installations are NOT subject to U.S. jurisdiction because they are NOT U.S. lands or terrritories–a fact that was emphasized and strengthened in the U.S.A. Patriot Act and various other pieces of legislation passed in the wake of 9/11. And unfortunately for SIDNEY, Congress never quite got around to passing a law that states that the children of U.S. Citizens who are born on foreign soil have the status of “natural-born citizens.” Poor SIDNEY may only qualify for citizenship as a “naturalized citizen.”
This of course means that Chimpy has endorsed one of those Central-Americans who take jobs from “real Americans” and/or survive off the public dole until they’re grandfathered in on some legal technicality cooked up by civil-rights lawyers…. Where are the Malkinistas when you REALLY NEED them?
Bill Hobbs, doing putting the “right” in right-wing lunacy for years. He was a frequent commenter on the old SKbubba blog, and was I think eventually thrown off for being annoying (well, it was him or another rightard, there wasn’t a hairs difference between’em).
I think he was “released” from his job as some sort of PR person at a college in Tennessee for posting a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammed. Here’s some linkage about that. (Oh, and that classy cartoon is there too)
Bill of course has all the class of Michelle Malkin in John Derbyshire’s body and writes with the erudition of the Doughy Pantload himself.
Hobbs was a pain in the ass four years ago and is living proof that ‘roids get no better… ever, and being the second-best conservative blogger in Tennsess is akin to being the whore closest to virginity in the brothel.
Dammit! I missed harassing my favorite wingnut! Oh, the fun I used to have with him at South Knox Bubba’s! Especially when he used to have the “Help me buy this Trek Bicycle” Paypal button on his blog, and I shamed him until he removed it! I might have to start checking here a bit more than my current once a week. Then again, I probably won’t. Damn, only one old-timer on this thread. Sad.
I remember George Herbert Walker Bush calling Pete DuPont “Pierre” just to piss him off.
If you stare at that picture long enough you will see drool slowly leak from the corner of Bill’s mouth.