Jeez mate, you’ve been reading the ‘intellectual’ section of this community for years, the apex of which is Jonah Goldberg, they idolise GW Bush and Bekkk is their most lucid spokesman. They’re dumb? Surprahs, surprahs, surprahs.

Those sheep are FUCKED UP. How did the guy with the mike keep a straight face/vomit from spilling from his mouth?

Btw, notice how the lady in the green shirt (next to yellow shirted moron) has no knees? Seriously, her legs bend like Gumby’s.

It is to despair, isn’t it?

But thanks for posting, anyway. This will be a useful reference post.

Beck says Obama is a racist and the reaction ranges from ignorant denial to enthusiastic agreement.
The bottle beckons.

I love how the guy with the Constitution t-shirt uses the lyric from ‘America the Beautiful’ as proof of American exceptionalism. “God shed his grace on thee” is not a prayer, but a declaration that we are favored by god above all others. End of argument.

Not much mention about crowning good with brotherhood.

As a Druid, I’d like to know why Christians keep wanting to build new churches near me. I mean, they’ve got a lot of churches already, so why do they need another one, other than to thumb their nose at me, then stick the thumb in my eye. Eeewww!

Straight outta the Onion.

It is to despair, isn’t it?

I think it’s more than that: I think it’s a kind of despair, grounded in illogic and a willingness to cling to easy falsehoods and believe shysters like Beck. I’d pity them, except that they’re going to vote in a bunch of nutjobs and fuckers while Dems stay at home.

Your “wall socket” quote is one of my favorites. Prescient. Some friends thought it was too harsh a judgement on our fellow Americans, but, sadly, you ended up being right. Congratulations?

Colbert needs to hold a satirical rally in DC. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stephen-Colberts-Restoring-Truthiness-Rally/115103608545041?v=info&ref=ts

Saw it at DU

…that people will start sticking their tongues in wall sockets just to see what electricity tastes like.

Wall sockets? You jest! It’s much too hard to fit a tongue in there. Light bulb sockets? Now you’re talking!

You’re putting far too much faith in the curiosity of the teatards. No, they’ll put their tongues in the sockets when Beck tells them to “taste the electricity, it tastes like VICTORY!” About 3 seconds after the teatards turn from GOP advantage to GOP liability. Also.

Fascinating. So many Sarah Palin sound-alikes. We have to have, uh, freedom and the founding fathers’ Constitution, and, uh, take our country back from the socialist, uh, communist, uh, we’re losing our honor. What the fuck does a dialogue between two of them sound like? Do they somehow understand each other?
And I have to say, while they are anxious people scared by a world too complex for them to understand, they are also, more importantly, a bunch of stupid fucking jerkoffs. Being worried about your future does not entitle you to be a hateful shit-head, and most people understand that.

Yes, the truly stupid have always been with us but in the pre-cable news days, they were confined to their local area, usually the park, and you could avoid them if you wanted to. Now, with cable news 24/7, they’re constantly everywhere. Sprouting their non sensical views of American history and values

Sorry, but that last part seems outweighed by basic empirical data:

Being worried about your future does not entitle you to be a hateful shit-head, and most people understand that.

The sweet contentment of ignorance.

The guy at three minutes has it nailed: Al Sharpton, African Americans, or “black people” don’t own the day.

Pure frontier gibberish.

United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 — The Flag (Flag Code)
8. Respect for flag

No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.

D. The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker’s desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.

Xtians. They slay me.

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You are not seeing stupidity, you are seeing cult behavior. Everything they say is straight from the hate radio. Monday the 30th they were going over every defensive point of this event: Why it was ok it was all white folks, why the left hated it etc etc etc. The question is how to deal with that phenomena because reality and facts don’t stand a chance.

So now Tucker Carlson’s ‘journalists’ are trying to create a brouhaha over these interviews because–even though the young men conducting the interviews correctly identified themselves as student journalists from Wright State–interviewees felt they had been misled, believing they were from ‘RightState,’ (which doesn’t actually exist, but sounds a little like ‘RedState’). They contend the journalists deliberately used a name which sounded like a friendly media outlet to trick them into sounding stupid. Carlson’s group thinks there might be ‘something to this.’ Really.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/08/31/maybe-they-should-dress-up-as-pimps/

My friends laughed when I said “Idiocracy” was the truest vision of our future I’d ever seen. Believe me: one day these people will have “Ow, my balls” engraved on our coinage along with a portrait of God wearing a backwards baseball cap.

I learned everything I need to know about America after watching this video…

I learned everything I need to know about America after watching this video…

I’m taking my less-than-Walmart-greeter-wages to Guatemala where I can live like a king before the fate of the Indians befalls me.

See ya, suckas!

“We’re fucked. The terrorists won.”

Although my work firewall won’t let me see the video, I can well imagine. But I prefer to be the glass half-full guy. While the terrorists are watching our ultra patriotic brothers and sisters, laughing hysterically and uncontrollably (“those are the people we hate?!”), the NYPD can sneak up and taser them. No Problemo.

It’s all part of the plan.

Thanks for drawing my attention to this video. I just posted it on my blog and noted that

By the way, doesn’t the guy with the binoculars look and sound like Leon Panetta’s fatter, dumber brother? Or, just maybe, it was Leon doing some undercover surveillance of the rally…think about it, binoculars?…better get out the chalkboard Glenn.

Reasonable…no?

Gabby Johnson’s right!

I’m laughing out loud at TBogg’s wall socket comment, and then I start watching the video. I had to stop it at two minutes, because I was getting so angry at this young interviewer for not asking follow-up questions like: “Take back your country from what? The legitimately elected President”? Etc., etc.

Tucker should be freakin’ thrilled that I wasn’t asking the questions. I would’ve started a riot with these dittohead/beckerheads by just giving them FACTS! Jeebus, the stupid just burns in this country.

@rickhill I agree. When questioned on any of these fears they can’t articulate the specifics because they don’t have any specifics.
They’ve been manipulated by hate talkers, manipulated on a pre-verbal level.

They get upset at any questioning them because their feelings come from deep inside so they must be right. They feel it in their bones.

I don’t know if the people behind this can be defeated given the control they have of the message and the amplifiers.

I give up. We’re fucked. The terrorists won

Yes, Ruturd Murdoch and Lush Limpbaugh and Friends are indeed winning with a certain percentage of the population. Remember that this freakshow would not be happening without the 30+ years of highly planned and incredibly funded Disinformation operation.

Blech and his buddies are just willing pawns in the operation. If it wasn’t this guy who mocked a woman live, on-air about her miscarriage, it would simply be some other disgusting tool. The BigMoney owners are the real terrorists.

Thankfully, the Internet (largely a result of decades of government/military development) got to point just in time before they totally took over.

My friends laughed when I said “Idiocracy” was the truest vision of our future I’d ever seen. Believe me: one day these people will have “Ow, my balls” engraved on our coinage along with a portrait of God wearing a backwards baseball cap.

The kid in the video: “You do know that Beck called Obama a racist?”

Teatards: “Brawndo has electrolytes.”

I agree that “Idiocracy” is our future, with a dash of Vonnegut’s brilliant “Player Piano” thrown in.

Teatotaler: A person who practices or promotes complete abstinence from logic and truth.

What an easy assignment. He didn’t even have to waste any time cherry-picking the fattest, stupidest people he could find.

A perfect illustration of my “Theory of Thirds” at work. A third of the country is normal. A third of the country is nuts but takes their medication (my category). And then there is the final third, which got picked up in the little yellow school bus to take them to the “Honor” rally. I mean, really?!? Al Sharpton and His Black Panthers?!? Performing here today? Being a “Lucky Ducky”, I spend my days with my nose in the blogs, but that’s a new one to me.

Costa Rica, here I come!

“…eventually our entire country is going to be so stupid that people will start sticking their tongues in wall sockets just to see what electricity tastes like.”

Close, but not quite.

I am delighted that the interviewers are from Wright State University in Dayton and identified themselves as such. The interviewees seeming to think that they said Right State dot com, and so they are all on the same side.

Even more delighted that it is my old alma mater.

You are not seeing stupidity, you are seeing cult behavior. Everything they say is straight from the hate radio.

You’re seeing both.

Hate radio and TV feeds on this kind of ill-informed populace. The stumbling and stuttering around trying to “explain” their own supposed viewpoints shows that they never understood the talking points to begin with, not even a little.

If it were actually Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh being interviewed, he’d still make little sense but at least would be able to put two sentences of flim-flam together without resorting to “Well, all I know is that uhm, that uh…”

This isn’t Professor Harold Hill being interviewed, in other words, this is the townspeople who’ve been flim-flammed by him and never really understood a thing he said.

Cult members can often spin justification for their strange beliefs almost as well as the leader can. These people come across as dimwits who’ve also been brainwashed, but they were dimwits to begin with.

And yet not one of these folks (I could only get about halfway through the video) has any EVIDENCE of Obama’s “racism,” “deep-seated hatred of white people,” or his “socialism.” I don’t think most of them really understand what the words mean. Such a sad commentary, yet so unsurprising. These are folks who have lived through 9/11, the financial meltdown and two wars. Yet the strokers at Faux Snooze et al., continue to use this rage to get them all whipped up. What happens when the Tea Partiers discover that they were snookered by the GOP?? Then it gets really, really ugly. The fat broad in the lounge chair: “You can’t pray at the Lincoln Memorial.” yeah, right…and you can’t pray in school either. Guess this bimbo hasn’t been in a classroom recently; I can assure you, there are many (silent) prayers uttered before the SATs…such ignorance. “The common clay of the New West….you know, morons!”

Given the chance, they would. Didn’t get off the boat when I saw this at BJ, not getting off the boat now. I am with T, it’s all over–I’ll be off sulking in my corner now.

“I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11.” — The Onion

“I learned all I needed to know about Islam on 9/11.” — Billy Joe Bob Binoculars at 9:38 in the video

I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up. — Lily Tomlin

The New Hampshire Union Leader says Dubois’ suit contends he suffered permanent brain damage.

I think that would actually be what’s known as a “pre-existing condition”.

They tried to warn me not to take the brown acid, and now I see why. This is the worst music festival ever.

Costa Rica, here I come!

No, no, no!

The former golf caddy said Guatemala is where you can live like a King. Unless, of course, you just want to live like a Czar, then Costa Rica it is.

Just don’t forget to call your “sister in Arizona” cuz thats’ll be where you gets all yours newz…..

omg, are these the acid flashbacks they promised us? And I was looking forward to mine!

Is there a loss of blood flow to the brain when people are borderline obese like these ‘tards?

zombies starved at BeckFest-a-Palooza!

Authentic frontier gibberish, even!

In that same Onion piece, the bigot whose “deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world,” says:

“That’s right: For reasons I am content being totally unable to articulate, I am choosing to associate Muslims with rape camps.”

This is the conceptual template for all this video’s lard-ass lawnchair loons, though none appear literate enough to read it off the palm of their hand:

“For reasons I am content being totally unable to articulate, I am choosing to associate X with Y.”

Tucker’s just undertaking a little test flight for the outrage machine to establish whether it has enough lift for automatic take-off.

When did The Onion stop writing satire?

“I’ve just been handed a note. It says, ‘Go ahead and take the brown acid. Take lots and lots of the brown acid.’”

Well, not really. I looked at the lyrics, and all the parts in all the verses starting “God …” are actually prayers or wishes or requests for the Deity to do whatever it is in that verse. The verbs are all in the present tense (mend, crown, refine). The more normal prayer form would have been “Let God shed”, or “May God shed” etc., but for metrical reasons Ms. Katherine Lee Bates only used that once, in the “May God thy gold refine” line.

If the most familiar line, the one in the first verse, were a flat statement of the status quo rather than a request, it would be “God shed His grace on thee/And crowned thy good”, etc.

It’s slightly confusing that “shed” happens to have the same form in both the present and past tense, but that’s English, love it or leave it. Assuming you’re not put aside by the repeated God-ness, the lyrics are quite a list of noble thoughts. Radical, even. “Til selfish gain/No longer stain/The banner of the free”, yet. Put that in your hookah and bubble it, Lehman Bros.