Some of these folks have got to be taking the piss. They have just got to be.

I mean the alternative is that there are so many folks with negative IQ’s in one place that it could cause a tear in the space-time continuum.

Caught that over at Rumproast. The new Sack of Hammers Movement

Matching hat and jersey dude: “Obama wrote two books describing exactly what he was going to do.”

Interviewer: “What do his books describe?”

Mhajd: “You know…, his Marxism, Leninism…”

All hail Marx and Lennon

Yikes, is that “Columbus is America” crap still going on? I can remember reading that in the ’50s, if a record was a hit in Columbus that was supposed to be a sign it could break out nationally.

I’m sure the interviewer didn’t pick the brightest bulbs in the chandelier for the final edit, but it would be impossible to get any deeper than “Drill, baby, drill” when describing Sarah’s plans, policies & positions. That stuff’s fer ‘litists, anyhoo.

Bloody hell. It’s 2:15AM here on the East Coast and, once again, a T-Bogg post forces me to log in and comment. “This summer I hear the drumming, brain dead in O-hi-o”….snark perfection. I only hope David Crosby and/or Neil Young are readers who’ll be inspired to to do a rewrite of this tune – an opposite anthem, if you will.

I watched this movie on HuffPo earlier. Some of the Cult of Palinists are complaining that this was edited. Probably, so. I can only imagine what didn’t make the cut. I’m betting that the people talking in tongues while handling snakes was deemed a little too scary for the average American to absorb.

Were these people in a collective coma from 2000-2008? Didn’t they learn anything about political choices? Is it too much to ask people to consider intelligence and accomplishment when considering candidates that, if elected, could make or break this country? I’m seriously thinking we need a Constitutional amendment that requires proof of IQ to vote in national elections.

Spin soldiers and Palin’s Armey….

I think at some point Fresno supplanted Columbus as the test marketing capital. I guess someone decided that it was more “middle America” if you had hotter temperatures, lower humidity, and more Armenians.

Let’s see here.. 35,000 in a Golf Park Resort near Jacksonville to see Glenn Beck…20,000 to see Sarah Palin in freezing Ohio…I think Middle America is with the Sarah and Glenn, NOT with the socialized Marxist thugs…

I only hope David Crosby and/or Neil Young are readers who’ll be inspired to to do a rewrite of this tune – an opposite anthem, if you will.

Chrissie Hynde already beat them to it. Rush Limbaugh plays it as his theme song. These are the forces that we’re dealing with.

Sarahs here in Jacksonville this morning. Reporter asks people in line if they read the book. None had. Gotta have a wristband to get book signed. No cameras, cellphones, etc. Just a signature, no inscriptions. Sorry TBogg.

I can’t see this on dial-up but the local TV interviews were pretty embarrassing. “Sarah Palin has done a lot for this country.”

- In Columbus, I’m Il Distratto.

I was in Cincinnati this weekend to see the Phish and right as we were getting out of the car at our downtown hotel, a reporter for the local fox affiliate came up to interview me and my friend about bible spice — she was having a signing in Norwood on Friday. I didn’t watch later to see if we made the cut (too busy prepartying), but being the kind of DFH’s that would go see phish, i’m doubting our comments on palin would be shown on the local fox affiliate anyway.

Aha! The NYT coddled those people in Fort Wayne! Everyone they talked to simply sounded mildly uninformed and even then it was scary. I read the Finance Committee bill in plain English and had sympathy for the woman who implied that you didn’t know what you could hide in a 2000-page bill.

I don’t have to even watch the clip to know what they said. And, since I don’t need to be pissed off this morning (any more than I already am), I won’t. Your summary and the comments here are plenty for me. Wake me up when La Palina does something, you know, actually notable.

The stupid is strong with these ones.

The fact that Ohio (and Indiana) is a blue collar, rust belt state that frequently votes ‘Puggie in presidential elections should tell you everything you need to know. Anyone who goes that far against thier own self interests is obviously quite dim.

I have a theory and I am sticking to it.

Bible Spice is our real life Mirror of Erised

That perfectly explains why so many people spend time standing in front of her.

Well, that was refreshing…

It’s important to realize that by definition 100 is the mean for IQ. That means for every 120 walking around, there’s an 80 sitting in his camoflauge recliner, adjusting his tin foil hat and imagining how Obama’s going to prevent his bow hunting season. While watching the Blue Collar Comedy tour.

Some of the Cult of Palinists are complaining that this was edited.

Not like that ACORN video or anything.

Hey Stubby-

What’d you pay to get the moron franchise here? I’ll bet they sweetened the deal with a free copy of Chairwoman Sarah’s thoughts.

Speaking of Marxist thugs, what do you think about Sarah’s socialist “tax the oil companies and cut a check to every citizen of the People’s Republic of Alaska”? Is there any Governor who had a more socialistic agenda than Sarah? Take your time answering….political hypoxia can lead to the spins…

Oh sure, whip out the mad math skillz.

Like the one Palinite said “it sounds good on paper”….

Hey, our Little Stubby won’t need much time to answer. He just makes shit up….

Tbogg, your dad was simply trying to stuff some Heartland ‘Murkanism into you on your summer vacation. Thank G-d it didn’t work!

That was the longest eight minutes of my life. I felt like I was being held under water. My eyes got bigger, my pulse ran faster. And now that it’s over I am spent. Sarapocalypse.

Jaysus, who are you telling? My in-laws live an hour north of Colombus, and would fit into that crowd with no questions asked (bless their hearts). Every time we go for a visit, I spend most of the time traveling up there doing calculations on how far I need to shove my head out the car window in order for a passing 18-wheeler to tear it off.

Back in the day (I’m 72) someone ran ads in print media advertising a wonder fertilizer which they named “Eranum”. They offered to fill a gallon bucket with the wonderful product for a mere five bucks, you supply the bucket and pay shipping & handling. The ads extolled the miraculous results obtained by the use of their fertilizer.

The tag line at the end of the ad was;

Remember, Eranum spelled backwards is …..

They made lots of money. Probably from the ancestors of the people buying Bible Spice.

Note the lady @ 1:26 and again @ 4:36 in the flick.

And that, of course, would be Columbus, not Colombus. Shit, it’s contagious, even through the intertoobz.

The people interviewed shared a lack of desire to know the specifics about …everything. Palin has this lack of interest in things outside herself. She got the tattooed lipliner, but probably didn’t investigate the origin of the ink, … just a general lack of depth. So stupid, and so happy being that way. Weird, weird weird.

Perhaps if you dressed up as Palin Man, you could get something special.

When I saw this on Huff Po it reminded me of something else…a similar crowd, smug AND stupid, cheerily answering questions with cliches and pre-fab talking points, and then all confused or suspicious when asked, “Why?” or “What does that mean?”

And then–duh–I remembered: video of a crowd in Bethlehem, PA during the election campaign, waiting outside Stabler Arena to hear Sarah Palin.

True story.

55,000 people–that sounds pretty close to the sum total population of middle America (btw, get out an atlas. Jacksonville is not in the middle of America). With a following like that, it is sure to be landslide (for someone) in 2012.

Ha. If that dude weren’t so chipper, I’d say he was stubbornestgeezer.

Columbus is my adobtive hometown. There are well over 1 million people in the greater Columbus area, so while 20,000 is a lot of people it is by no means a sizable portion of the electorat. Recently we have elected Strickland and Brown. Our secstate Brunner has fixed the voting machine fuckups that cost Kerry in ’04 and is now running for senate. You may have nicer weather, but since we are here, hows the governator treating you? Or that state deficit greater than some countries GDP? Or your housing market that is …well even i dont like to think about that.
Drink up your sunshine beeyotch, you’re no better than me.

“Drink up your sunshine beeyotch, you’re no better than me.”

Funnier though….

Main qualification for President of The World?

OMG! She’s soooo pretty!

True.

I’m sorry. I should not have done that.

Now I’m going to hell, or heaven, or into worm castings when I die. Also…

Which begs the larger question. Looking at LooneyTune Oregon TeaBagger videos I see where they had a fan-fuckin-tastic turnout of 4000 Baggies here in Eugene recently! Granted our economy sucks here, so most of those could have been residentially-challenged folks just wondering around. One commenter on the video seemed to think there were well less than 1000 Bags baggin’.

When counting Baggers, does 1 Bag actually count for 2 (or more)?

We lived two blocks from the beach. And we went to Ohio.

That’s nothing. When I was a kid living in the Big Apple, we went to Fargo, ND for vacation (in-laws, grandparents, cousins all from there — my father took the first train out of town after graduating college).

And, no, it’s not as glamorous as the eponymous movie makes it look.

Hey Mark, do fundies in Eugene labor under the gross misconception that they’re the majority, like they do in Portland? Like you, I live in a very blue district and am frequently stunned by how random wingnuts will start blathering to me about our eeeeeeeveeeeelllll gubermint that’s gonna bankrupt them with taxes(on their minimum wage job) and take their freedoms.

One of my favorite coworkers, last fall, when asked if he was going to attend candidate Obama’s rally on campus in Eugene let slip that he WAS going to try, and take his rifle, and try to get off some pop shots. This was in a group of 10 or so that he showed his ballsyness. His next really thoughtful comment was that “I hate Democrats and they need to be eliminated”.

He and I had a question-and-answer session afterwords, outside, beyond hearing of anyone else. My first question was: “Do you understand that it is a Federal crime to threaten to kill a US Senator”. Second question was: “Do you realize the company you work for is owned by a family solidly Democratic”? Third (not really a question): “I’d love to watch you tell grandma (founder of said company, solid Dem) that you hate Democrats and they need to be eliminated”.

Yeah, zumpie, they shoot their mouths off and whack each other off on their CB radios (during commercials of Rushbo’s broadcast) with how they are being fucked by the gubmit. One feller I worked with, after having lived in a company-owned semi truck sleeper for a while (I shit you not), catching all his fish/food himself, said “I’m not working Saturday”, this being a time of year when our truck drivers really need to work all the hours possible so as to generate revenue to pay their wages. He was right. He didn’t work that Saturday, or, well ever again for us. He got a job driving a dump truck, forgot to lower his truck bed in Eugene or Springfield, caught the bed on those pesky power lines, ripped down a power pole (and lines) which came close to smashing a pedestrian. He doesn’t work Saturdays for that company anymore either. Last I heard he was wildcrafting (harvesting wild) mushrooms in the forests. And I think of this feller, and I’ve seen him drop things on the ground and stand there trying to work out just how the fuck he’s gonna get his fat fuckin’ ass down to ground level to pick up what he dropped.

It’s fucking stunning. So much of Eugene is really groovy living-wise (food, music, farmers’ markets, wine, microbrews, etc, just like Portland) and then there are those living on the outskirts (many being lifelong rural Oregonians) who are so fucking stupid (80 IQ, that’s giving a few points!) that it makes you heart break. Their taxes are too high, our schools suck, rinse-lather-repeat. Ignorance breeding ignorance.

And watching videos of TeaBaggers (anywhere) being asked simple questions about policy issues and them getting pissed just fairly well sums up teh stupid….

Amen and Cheers!

I’ve got to stand up for Columbus. Columbus is a university city with lots of art, music, and theatrical activity. It votes liberal — 54% for Kerry in 2004 and nearly 60% for Obama in 2008.

If you interview Palin supporters in any city, you’ll get the same results as shown in this video. You can’t reasonably draw any conclusions about a city as a whole by interviewing Palin supporters any more than you judge the caliber of a high school by interviewing its dropouts.

To reiterate, is your point that if you interviewed Palin supporters in San Diego, they would be articulate?

I grew up in Columbus and let me say this—my guess is that those people in that video are from points north and west of Dublin—Madison County, Delaware County. Dublin is a soccer mom mecca, not a redneck hellhole. Go west of Dublin and hit Marysville, now there’s yer redneck hellhole.

The reason Columbus is a test market capital and “middle America” is because we have everything here. Smart people, stupid people. Rich people, poor people. It’s not dumbshit average—it’s a microcosm of the nation at large. Which is, incidentally, the reason that Columbus’ economy is still not in shambles. It’s diversified. Yes, we have a disturbing number of rich fucks in BMWs, and their number is growing. The city is undergoing gentrification at a disturbing pace. But god dammit, we have been dealing with the cowtown shit for too long, and for the 15th largest city in the nation maybe it’s time we got a little respect.

“This summer I hear the drumming dumbing, brain dead in O-hi-o” FIFY

As tempting as it might be to ridicule Columbus, Ohio, I would put forth the proposition that folks in the not-so-liberal haven of San Diego County ought not to be pointing too many fingers, ‘mkay?