
No. Really
In the opinion of Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the “Peanuts” television Christmas special.
Wiseman made the statements on his Facebook page, where he declared Obama to be a Muslim. Only people on Wiseman’s “friend’s list” had access to the post. He has more than 1,600 friends on Facebook.
“Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it….w…hen the answer should simply be ‘yes’….”
So this “Mayor” of some backwater Hellhole plops his nine morbidly obese children down in front of the TV with a six pack of Big Red and a stick of raw cookie dough apiece, and what to their wondering eyes should appear but a black guy who is definitely not Franklin.
The role of Peppermint Patty was played by Hillary Clinton because, well, you know…



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I love the part where he says only land owners should be allowed to vote, like the founding fathers stated in the constitution. But Jesus didn’t own land. I guess he won’t be able to vote when he comes back, unless he picks up some cheap, foreclosure property in someplace like…Tennessee.
And as far as the Peanuts Special goes, I have a good suspicion that Pig Pen is a dirty Muslim, and I have my doubts about Woodstock as well, since he don’t speaky no english. I’m gonna need to see birth certificates.
Clinical paranoia just isn’t pretty.
Oh, I am so with Mayor Wiseman on this one. “Peanuts” specials are a time-honored American tradition right up there with Moms and apple pies. That Obama would pre-empt “It’s a Charlie Brown Christmas” is downright traiterous.
The only way Barry gets out of this one is if he’s Bab’s “Most Innaresting Person.” If not, I want my vote back. (Hey, if the Academy can do it to Gore, so can I!) Harrumph. Too. Also.
“Wiseman” huh? Hmmm, maybe someone has to do some overcompensating there.
So, this Arlington is Arlington, Tennessee? Never heard of it.
Peanuts specials are gold for networks – if it was pre-empted, I’m pretty sure it will be shown before Christmas.
I wasn’t home, but even more likely, it ran after the speech. Anybody know? What an idjit, either way.
I know MY kids were disappointed. At least he didn’t interrupt the football game. You tell a team the game is over by half time, and the other will keep scoring unopposed.
I wonder how many progressives think corporatist sellout Obama deliberately pre-empted the peace-on-earth message of Peanuts for his warmongering speech?
Arlington is a suburb of Memphis. The sad thing is, not only is the guy the mayor of that bump in the road, but he’s also a VP for commercial banking at another bank. Scary.
Fitting, really.
Our president, love hime or hate him, is discussing the life and death matters of war and geopolitics.
The fucking wingnut wants his cartoons.
As stupid as that mayor is, the comments supporting him are scary.
First they came for Charlie Brown…..
Real Americans own a DVD of “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown” and watch it any time they want.
Now, now, now, Arlington isn’t a backwater hellhole, it’s an ugly nondescript suburb where lots of Baptists live. Wait. Distinction possibly not necessary.
We Memphis people have been all over this shit on Facebook today, and I stuck it up at Pam’s House Blend. So glad Wiseman is being made fun of far and wide today.
Shocker: Mayor Wiseman is a white guy. They always have the best Muslim-dar. For example, they can tell that Maurice Clemmons was a Muslim even though he was shouting “I am Jesus” after shooting four police officers.
Now that is funny
Floating around the ‘net after the election was this comparison of two maps.
One shows the blue swathes of counties that Obama carried, mostly rural, across the largely red South. The other showed the location of cotton plantations in 1860. Almost a perfect match – the pickers’ descendants hadn’t moved.
But there was one discrepancy that struck me. In south central Tennessee, there was an dense circular concentration of plantations, but all red in 2008. Then a vague memory hit me. I looked up a more detailed map and sure enough, the town that the plantations were centered on was Pulaski, TN. Yep, the birthplace of the Klan — which apparently did it’s share of local defenestration.
Sorry. It’s just what I think of when a Tennessee wingnut goes off.
Won’t be long till Wiseman is on O’Really’s show decrying Obama’s “War on Christmas.”
What’s the over/under on how long it will take Wiseman to:
a) Be described as “A rising star in the GOP.”
b) Meet with Sarah Palin.
Stay classy, Arlington.
OT, but still. Just found the bestest Moe Lane sentence ever written:
Arlington would be a backwater hellhole if it, along with the rest of Memphis’ suburbs, hadn’t been swollen by white flight. But, in general, I agree with your description. This peckerwood is all in a lather because that uppity Hawaiian pre-empted a cartoon that’s only been around for, oh, a mere forty-four years or so.
Maybe our evil muslim prez just really hates Vince Guaraldi. I know even I have my limits where light jazz trios are concerned.
The most diabolical part of Obama’s evil plot was making the show unavailable on DVD.
“Wiseman” could not be further from the truth.
Keep up the good work breaktheterror! I’m trying to remember whatever outrage I ginned up when Uncle Fucker (our last president) pre-empted my peacefull little corner of the tv world when he reassured the good people of Iraq that he meant them no harm right before shock -n-awe. I don’t recall mr. “Wiseman” reporting in on the disapointment his offspring felt at the time either. also.
Well, consider it payback for the time Bush pre-empted “West Wing” just so he could announce he was starting a war against the Mooslims!
Your TARP dollars at work….
Good grief.
Why would a man so politically astute not be aware of a speech that was only announced four or five days earlier? Are televisions, newspapers, and radio too liberal for him to utilize and thus keep up with current events? Does he just get Fox News transmitted to his teeth instead? Even then, I think Hannity might have mentioned it once or twice.