Number 8……

My first instinct was #6, but I’m going with #10…it perfectly captures what these clowns see when they look into a mirror.

#4…all great, but that one made me laugh. Die Valkyrie runner-up.

Nice set but #4 (Cat Copter) is perfect. (Purrfect?) Execution is sufficiently slap-dash as to be appropriate for Breitbart and the flying cat carcass is a perfect metaphor for the situation.

Wow, fine efforts all. I’m going with #4, Helicopter Breitbart.
I laughed, I cried, then I laughed again when I noticed the mouse hanging from his right paw/hand/wing!

#4. Paws down.

#9. Uh, DeepKarma @2, I don’t think there is a #10…

#4, paws down.

Great minds, and mine.

Definitely #6. He’s all suited up for the Renaissance Faire.

No. 9. But no goatse? (I am a refugee from Sadly,No).

They are all fine, but for unabashed comedy and irony and absence of self parody awareness…the original is still the best. But if I have to choose, I have to go with #4, “Le chat mort”. It is current. It takes a little thought. And, most importantly, it too is dead.

Like it or not you do speak for FDL, and when you troll the Pharma thread attacking Members in the most non-constructive way, and then have the moderators shut down comments, that doesn’t help anything. You owe people an apology.

#4 Speedbumpcopter!!!

Ima go with #6. But I’m liking #9.

Yeah, yeah, but which one are you voting for, bmull?!?

Priorities, man! Or woman.

Oh, crap. I vote for #5.

Thank you hall monitor, but I have no idea what you are talking about nor have I ever asked moderators to shut down comments.

Also, where did you get the idea that I’m “constructive”? That’s crazy talk.

I like #5 best. It’s original, well done, and has a bunch of nice little touches. Besides, I’ll always remember Fatbart looking like that, with his mouth wide open, yelling about something or other.

I do like the “fat lady singing” vibe of #5, but what do I know? I’m just a misogynistic SWM asshole.

But, #4, flying superhero Breitbart catman is, as they say, purrfect. A catastrophic success!

Oh, and bmull, huh?

# 7: “The Lord Jesus Breitbart Sits Enthroned in Judgement Upon the World Which Rejected His Message and Crucified Him, Or Maybe Killed Him With Some Kind of Invisible Kenyan Poison.” Of course, #2 involves enthronement as well.

I gotta go with #8 – Breitbart as Hellmouth.

Though I am disappointed the goatse didn’t make the cut.

I love the fat lady singing but I have to go with 9. Deal With It.

And I`m the first to vote for #1!!!!!!1111!

I’m a sucker for icanhazcheesburger memes.

Gotta go with #2. None of ‘em beats out the original, though. Can I vote for the toast?

#5 is killin’ me. The Madonna pointy-bra-laser-shooter is the best thing, EVER!

Oh, and may I note that I am being as non-fucking-constructive as I can possibly be because being non-motherfucking-constructive on a motherfucking blog is how I roll.

Prizes for all! 8, 4 & 9 all tempted me, … but

I vote for the fat lady, it has that essence-of-blowhard element: Number 5

#5 for me – because Breitbart prolly led a secret life as a fat crossdressing Valkyrie.

#3 For me. There is nothing more disrespectful than a freaking chicken suit.

Since #9 is an animated .GIF and not an actual still life I think it should be disqualified from the voting.

#3 truly captures teh zeitgeist of the whole paradigm. Saint Britefartsalot in his true colors, yet copy/pasted and positioned to remind us of the original homage collage.

Aw, I’m bummed. Mine didn’t make the cut.

Too offensive?

Those ‘Game of Thrones’ people can be a mite twitchy…

#8

The others were good, but #4 was hilarious.

#4, but i do love the icon one.

#6 just makes me so happy.

#2 for me… It’s got a certain Sadly, No vibe that appeals. But #5 is also wonderful.

I’ve got to say that I’m very disappointed that Tild’s goatse-flavored homage didn’t make the cut.

I did like the Napoleonic midget feel of the image

ICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDE
ICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDEICANTDECIDE

What you said…. I rather like the icon and the hellmouth, but I don’t think not-St. Andy is recognizable in them….no. 4? Likely…the dangling mouse below the copter blades is such a nice touch… but #9 is good, too, and of course the cheezburger-capshuned one…but..but..ican’tdecide! Well,wehave time, GWPDA

8; Always had his mouth open.

Note to TBogg: sounds like bmull is going to talk to Jane about your behavior, so get that apology ready, cowboy.

PHAT lady.

#3 for me, but I love them all!

#4 was my favorite shopped entry, I lol’d. #1 made me laugh too, and I liked #5 for the concept.

Win – #4
Place – #5
Show – #1

#5. Tough choice as they were all good.

#5 easily.

If it hadn’t been a choice I’d have gone with #9

#5

I’m with GWPDA — can’t decide but numbers 4 and 5 speak to me. They speak in a way that makes me all squicked out but, at the same time, nakes me think of ordering that second glass of wine after all.

#5. It’s just too good.

#9 FTW!!!

Nice work you all, but I got to go with #5 immediately struck my funny bone, plus them brass breast make shimmy, shimmy.

#6 without a doubt. Perfect. They play at their roles while taking themselves seriously.

As an aside – Can these right wingers do anything for themselves? They seem to always have to cheat and steal ideas along with money.

If vote splitting is possible – try to get McMegan’s calculator, I think there’s a function for it there – I’ll go:

1/2 vote for #4
1/2 vote for #8

[If vote splitting is verboten, just flip a coin or go with your own preference, Judge T.]

Both capture the guy’s combination of malevolence and pettiness. #8 represents his ongoing after-life status as an alpha in Pathetic Wingnut World, while #4 does justice to the memory of his silly exhibitionist nature.

I like them all for different reasons, but in some of them he looks too… too…, I dunno, benevolent and/or sagacious. Although I do have to say that #5 does capture the bombastic silliness.

Finally, #9 is a sentimental favorite, but I think that sniveling little turd depicted at lower right – who stills slithers among us – deserves his own future contest, preferably after receiving some much delayed justice from the legal system.

#6. Seriously, he was made for the role.

Come on down number 5. Like the cross dressing feel to it. Also too, its got Republican partay on it. Always a good thing to attach Republican stuff to stoopid peoples. Also too, who did the judging here – did money exchange hands. Why did Lesley’s pretty cool one not make the cut?

#4, definitely. I’m surprised that his speedbumpy corpse wasn’t turned into the HindenBart to begin with. Noxious effluent was his specialty, so he should have been self-inflating (not a euphemism).

#5

You know it’s over when the fat lady sings.

Brunhilda singing the aria….#5.

All suited up for Valhalla.

#4 is TOO topical, nobody will “get it” in a year or two, and the #8 Bosch parody makes him unrecognizable.

I like them all but I’m disappointed there’s no gangsta Obama drawing a bead on him with his heart attack gun….

I don’t get it, either.

That being said, I can’t decide — they’re all possessed of that certain “I know not what”.

And I love the fact that the grifter who was trying to charge several grand for his fancy canvas photocopies didn’t even paint the “original”, but p-shopped it from stolen parts.

Why not just let the dead lie in peace, T-blogger? I don’t know. Not a fan of the dude, but I think Oilbomber and the Smirking Chimp have killed more than this poor feller. State violence is the real enemy. The state kills kids.

#5

I feel dirty for playing, but to paraphrase your post, Breitbart made a living out of making people sad. #4 made me cry with laughter, though they’re all great.

Number 6….. Because it is the first number of the beast (bring on the meteor!!) and I actually laughed out loud.

I see we have another hall monitor.

Wah?

2 also, too! And then 4 also, too!

Party Pooper!

#5!

rickhill @ 60, that would’ve been awesome.

#4! Dead Bart Copter! I really did laugh out loud.

#5!!! Hilarious entries all…

GET OFF MY LAWN!

Have respect for the dead, dude. Snark is bullshit. Karma is real and a bitch.

How is he supposed to achieve martyr status if aspersion are not cast?

We all have our roles to play, thank you for playing yours.

Dude, be kind to a kitten. Karma dealt with.

Geez!

No contest: #4, the cat-copter. Both dead, both entertaining in the afterlife.

Whatever. Snark is stupid and old. Rather listen to Bill Hicks or Carlin. Angry men, but at least they cared. What do you folks care about?

Balloon Goose is not funny, Former reich wingers are not cool.

So why don’t you take your own sweet little self off to somewhere that will make you feel all warm and happy, instead of hanging around here where it so obviously distresses you? I’m sure you can find some Carlin on YouTube… Have a great life.

At least Carlin was funny.

What do you folks care about?

Mocking stupidity.
Pantsing arrogance.
Wedgifying wickedness.

And bassets. Don’t forget the bassets.

Carlin: http://youtu.be/acLW1vFO-2Q

Hicks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np6_b-72H3E

Learn from the masters.

Why can’t I decide????

#2 for the just plain reality that it could have been like that, “So he bought himself a one-way ticket, on an airline made of snow!”

#8 because I’m a big Bosch fan!

#9 again, because I like art, and the religiousity of it so…heavenly!!!

So, no vote yet, must slaughter a goat and read the entrails.

BTW, what kind of trolls are these? Can’t we get a latch on this side of the door? Maybe a snark license or pass or something, say, a warning on the other side of the door- “Abandon sensitivities, all ye who enter here.”

and of course;

Beatifying Bassets.

Thanks!

@creature, #83 (my Reply button didn’t work for some reason)

BTW, what kind of trolls are these?

Boring and inept. But better than the one that Attaturk had for months early in the morning. That one just buzzed around and called people names.

Have respect for the dead, dude.

Oh for fucks sake!

If I didn’t respect The Dead I really doubt I’d have gone to all those shows with all those nearly naked girls doing their mesmerizing (probably satanic, in your world) dances and….

Breitbart himself had exactly as much respect for the dead as he’s getting here: none. If you don’t like snark, go elsewhere for your ration of righteous indignation over a screaming lying rageaholic.

Oh, and I vote for #3, the chicken suit.

I went with “tedious and boring” last night but I do like inept!

Like Andy did with Kennedy? That nonsense aside, we’re not mocking the dead, we’re mocking the DeadHeads he left behind. Left behind without any music to smoke grass to. That, my friend, is a bitch.

The rise of the Zombie Hall Monitor

Present your purity ring ON DEMAND or zombie will be all zombie about…something.

Glad you enjoyed!

I always endeavor to be as ept as I can. Because being very ept tends to keep me gruntled… (Yeah, I do love those words that only work in the negative. At my age I’m almost never ert…)

#4 made me laugh the hardest, but I vote for #3 ’cause what could be a more poetic send-up than a chicken suit?

The artwork is bad, too.

Oh, PUH-LEEEZE just piss off, mkay?

Say what you want about the Deadheads…music was good….we have crap now. And I’m gen x. Gen x…a bunch of morons who suck up to the Man like the sold out hippies.

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It’s great, Lesley, but do not annoy the happy fun IP lawyers.

HOLY FUCK Captain Bitter, you need professional help.

#5 for me, the fucking blowhard.

Although as someone else said, the toast is a classic.

Number Five…I see the grease still dripping from the face. That haunch of road kill.

I not only vote for #5, I’d like to offer $3999.95 for one of them there giclee prints of it. Make mine black velvet.

I realize that you are just an attention-seeking troll, LHH, but I’ll humor you with a substantive response. What we are mocking here are the wingnuts’ pathetic and laughable attempts at deifying Breitbart, not Breitbart himself. Although it must be said that Breitbart was a person with profound anger management issues who ruined good people’s lives for fun and profit.

Oh and vote? #5. ‘Cause: Bluegal

I shall send a stern note to her though, because panties should have been involved.

I vote for number 2. And against the elementary school hall monitors who seemed to have stumbled their way in.

Hey LHH, as you troll the thread while others are voting – or, um, doing whatever the hell it was I was doing upthread – perhaps you might wish to occupy yourself pondering some provocative thoughts on George Carlin I ran across a few months ago. The author is a regular commenter at Cole’s blog – a Gen-X’er, I believe. Since you seem to have some admiration for the late Mr. Carlin, maybe this will be of interest.

Okay, now you’ve managed to send me off into a rant. :-)

George Carlin is part of the 60s generation that got us into this fucked-up mess in the first place by deciding that they were too good for electoral politics and, since the revolution was coming, they didn’t have to bother to vote.

Well, the revolution came, only it was the Reagan Revolution, and it happened because assholes like Carlin thought voting wasn’t important enough to bother with despite being the generation that saw people literally die to secure the right to vote.

Fuck George Carlin. Seriously, he helped create the problem and now he’s going to whine about it? Fuck him.

I’ll admit to initially being somewhat shocked by this viewpoint at first – in the sentient period of my ~56 years on earth, I’ve only heard Carlin cursed by those whom any reasonable person would also welcome as a critic. But upon further reflection, I think she may have a point, i.e., Carlin was a privileged white dude who had the luxury of scruffy/informal dress and a provocative act, incurring a level of risk nowhere close to that invited by true cultural revolutionaries like Pete Seeger and his contemporaries 30-40 years earlier.

Funny stand-up + acting as an evangelical for turning on/tuning out = surrendering the future, with laughs.

And so here we are now…

Congratulations. You are probably the lamest troll to inhabit these parts. Every comment just shrieks ‘jejune’.

And for a guy who cares about the unemployed and wants to fight the power, you seem to have forgotten that Breitbart make his splash by getting ACORN defunded. But it’s cool, man. Poor folks can’t get help finding a place to live or dealing with medical, childcare or landlord issues and need some community support? Fuck’em.

You’re such a complete fucking fraud.

I laughed out loud at the chicken suit. A vote for #3.

I’ll vote for #4 with a side of fries and a big dill pickle.

Since you hate everything about this thread, maybe you should fuck off.

Without a doubt, number 4 gets my vote! It’s purrrrfect!

Number 4 is my favorite. Andrew flying at someone else’s command is priceless–not to mention as a dead cat.

#9
#5

Thanks for the contest!

Everyone’s a winner, well, except Long Bitter Hippy (rendered nicely in #8) and bmull (#7)….

#5 The only one that made me laugh out loud.

U guys know why I’m here, rather than Baby Blue, where I formerly loitered?

U still take out the trolls. U-all and teh Owner.

Bassets too, of course. Still. Thanks.

Brilliant! All of them. But my heart belongs to Helicat (#4)

Shouldn’t these all be stitched together into some kind of traveling quilt exhibit?

Submitted for your approval:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/06/08/open-thread-1341/
Read the newspaper article in the picture.

The pussy gets my well considered vote. #4 with the side mousie!

I like #4, but the chicken suit is also very good.

Perfect!

Also, too: filth. And provocation.

The brass pointy titties with an axe by a landslide aka #5. The pugnacious attitude fits the departed brain fart. If I were on drugs more heavy than beer #8 speaks to the vile excrement that came out of his pie hole (when not choking on a bag of salted dicks).

One vote for number 5, please. And one round of applause for all our talented artists.

“Have some respect,” he says. Explain how this is any more “disrespectful” than some grifter with the wingnut seal of approval photoshopping Breitbart’s head onto a body that looks like something out of World of Warcraft, and charging $4,000 a pop for signed copies? We may be irreverent, but we aren’t craven!

I was trying to decide between the “Flying Catbart,” “St. Breitbart of the Beltway,” the very Wagnerian “Wingnut Cycle,” and “Hellmouth.” But the stench of hypocrisy leads me to vote for #2! (Carlin would have loved the irony….)

Oh, heck, Istillcantdecide…I’ll decide!

I vote for #4.

And when will the self-righteous serious folks realize that they’ve stumbled into the wrong place and just go find the one they want, leaving those of us who do love snark alooone?

number 9, number 9, number 9

Anyone who doesn’t like #4 the best is a dirty rotten $%^&*(). So what if it’s *too* topical – do you want [snark] to live forever? I might have gone for #5 (who doesn’t like singing fat lady jokes?) but addition of the mouse, standing in for Breitfart’s Lifetime Achievements, is just effing brilliant.

Fly Barty! Fly!

I had no respect for Andrew Brietbart while he was alive. He was a self-serving douchebag chasing dollar bills – nothing more.

Now that he is dead I am supposed to show him respect?

Why?

Douchebag alive, douchebag dead, his death changed nothing.

I like number 9

Okay, so there is legitimate cause for disagreement with the sanctification of George Carlin. I had no argument with the guy, but neither was I a fan. But the 60s generation? Dude was born in 1937. What do we mean by the 60s generation? Anyone who was living from 1960 through 1969 who might have done something at some point that may have made things less sucky today?

Wait: I realize now that I am assuming that someone who says 60s generation might tend to use that term interchangeably with baby boomers. Or they might not. Those born in 1937 were not boomers. But they darn well had political agency during the 60s. So while I resent the comparison, I might possibly thank you as well.

Heck, I do not know. I guess it is the same as it ever was: happy generations are all alike; every unhappy generation is unhappy in its own way.

So I will go with #4, although I like #s 6, 7, 1, 2, 8, 9, 5 and 3 as well.

Number 8. Hieronymous Bosch was the shiz.

8 > 5 > 4…and please harsh the dickhead’s mellow.

Dahling, I love you dearly, but one cannot shriek “jejune” — one can whisper it, mutter it, mumble it, possibly even declaim it (at the risk of seeming all thespian), but mouse-in-room jumping-on-chair shriek? I think not. Besides, the poor dear may not have access to a dictionary. Let’s just call him or her naive, boring, tedious, superficial and generally dull. Dull I could shout.

I think they’re all wonderful, but #4 made me laugh. So kittycopter gets my vote.

Is Long Haired Hippie also a Dirty Fucking Hippie, or is one a subsection of the other? I’d like to know so I can channel my hatred for all things Obummer appropriately.

I like #5 the most. I did look suspiciously at #8 for a while.

#4 Then #3

I’m a fan of #8 but he doesn’t look recognizable enough. #4 is pretty funny, but the helicopters aren’t laughing. So #5 is up there too.

Gotta go with #5. It captures the iconic Breitbart bellowing from the hinterlands. Although #9 made me lol.

#6, the 5

Okay, if I have to choose, my vote is #5, Breithilda. All of them are good but, for me, the real Breitbart will always be BreitToast.

I am deeply afraid that Mrs. TBogg will use the ‘winner’ of the contest as the pattern for her new tat.

Gotta be #4.

While #5 is strong, and will undoubtedly live on as a proper memorial to the role he played when he fades into a minor historical footnote, #4 captures so much more of the many moving parts of the here-and-now.

Sure it’s topical and ephemeral – that also describes all the content he ever “produced”. He was never interested in substance, only winning the news cycle. The guy who made Helicopter Cat captured more eyeballs for 15 seconds around the world than any Breitbartian ratfuck caper ever could. And the fact that his little band of dopes is still beating that drum in his name, as well as the grifting IP thief who prompted this call to shooping in the first place, only further cements the connection to HeliCat.

Also, too, the mouse is a good touch.

#5 but they are all great.

That hurts. Really. But I refuse to get down into the mud with you people.

Again, the Left (again, if you can really call this the Left) is inept and feckless because, well, you don’t stand for the working class. No wonder people can’t stand you folks. Try addressing the real problems of real people. Once the Left stood for that–you know real things.

That is all.

That’s one of the most moronic statements I’ve ever heard. As if being a snarky smartass and caring about – even actually improving – the plight of working people are mutually exclusive. You know who ELSE didn’t think they were mutually exclusive?

SAUL ALINSKY, that’s who!

Say what you will but this form of snark is unproductive. The irony gig is lame, and just alienates people. It alienates me! Being from Gen X, I wager most of this stuff is coming from Gen X because that irony pose is native to the generation. Thankfully, Gen Y is more earnest; OWS confirms it.

#7

My vote is for #5.

Honorable mention: #9

It alienates me!

But you’re back for more? How ironic!

The other unspoken truth about the Balloon Juice/T-Blog/Kos people is that in a previous age they were Republicans/right wingers. The Balloon Juice guy was a Bush supporter, if I remember. Even Kos was a right winger at one point. Not saying you can’t change politically, but the space that used to be occupied by 1960s Republicans is now Democratic territory. My point? You are not historical liberals. People who call themselves liberals today are essentially right wingers. This is why there is so much acrimony between Naderites and Dem apologists. Naderites are essentially FDR liberals.

Yes, I am indeed masochistic. I guess some part of me wishes to get through to you people. I know, stupid.

#8.

Honorable Mention: #3

Oh, right. We must be earnest 24/7. Do you disapprove of people in your sleep, too?

I vote for #4, provided that he eats that dead mouse that’s dangling….

Possibly, if I could remember some of my dreams.

Snark 24/7 is equally bad–and with Gen X that’s the only card they play. I’d like to be inspired, ya know. Idealism has taken such a hit over the years that to be an idealist is to be, as T-blog infers, an infant. You see, that’s the problem–without idealism all you have is cynicism. And snark is just downscale cynicism.

Stranger in these parts, aintcha? Pro tip: Find out something about who you’re insulting before you go round throwing the invective. And, speaking as a first-generation hippy, get yer hair cut and go back to Moscow. That’s what your grandparents used to tell us …

Is that you Ralph? For a while I thought you might be Mitt, with the sort of childlike, “Why do you have such a big-nose?” insults. But now I’m beginning to see the ultra-serious, relentlessly-pestering, won’t-go-away similarities to Nader. If it’s you, thanks for the work on the Corvair, but we would have been better off without Bush in 2000.

Also, do you think Nader was more like the Wallace wing, the Ickies wing, Harry Hopkins wing, or the Cordell Hull Southern Democratic wing that all made up the FDR Administration (along with a few Republicans like Stimson and Knox)?

I really didn’t intend to insult either generation. I have problems with MY generation, Gen X, which I find insufferably conservative. Guess it stems from the cult of pragmatism, which is really killing us as a culture, both politically and artistically. I tend to identify with the old hippies–at least the ones who haven’t turned into Larry Kudlow or Bill Clinton.

Snark 24/7 is equally bad–and with Gen X that’s the only card they play.

That’s a mighty broad brush you’re swinging around there Sparky. Don’t put your eye out with that thing…

Yeah, you got me. I AM Ralph. LOL.

It is. But being Gen X and seeing how we act, I think it applies.

Holy fucking shit! You actually laughed! Now we’re getting somewhere!

Dada makes you laugh, but it’s not snark, if you get my drift.

You are a goddam genius! I like the way you think!

2 votes (wife and I) for #5. #4 is close second.

You know, for a “long-haired hippie”, you have big control issues.

Well, I’ve had my say. Happy trails. Think I’m done with T-blog for now.

Remember: idealism is not your enemy!

You are a narcissistic jackass – seemingly common these days. While you’re waiting for the applause that never comes, try to factor in the effect of such earnest self-involvement on your relations with people who are not you – and who don’t want to be you.

Or not. Mostly, just go away.

LHH seems to think anyone not like him is suspect. So my boomer-ass, the old union boss guy (totally legit), who rose from immigrant & union-organizer (from da ’30′s!) roots, fought in the streets (Kent State ’70!), sceptical intellect is some sort of tool of the monied oppressors, as are all of his littermates, and everyone else not untainted by righteousness, ie, himself.

Gotcha. Filed for future reference. I haven’t been judged like that since my last felony conviction.

Re: George Carlin- dude was a loose, irreverant cannon, dope-fueled and whiskey-bent, until, in his later years. He got clean, got introspective and spiritual (in an atheistic way). Pointing out society’s inequities is hard work, and always draws the ire of the beneficiaries of those inequities, or those too deluded to realize that those inequities are real.

Peace, brother.

So you don’t think FDR was a pragmatist? By your definition, are Grover Norquist and his followers pragmatists or free market ideologues? Are the Neocons pragmatists are ideologues? Still, you think trying to fit a changing and asymterical world into anybody’s precise ideological hole (or ideal) is what we need?

Look, I think the whole capitalist system is a fraud and unqualified failure. There will be no FDR now to save this earth-killing system, what with the rich elite in full command.

Five!

All my love to LHH and all of the other troll5 under the bridge. Claiming to be a Gen-Xer doe5n’t get any 5lack from me. My daughter i5 one and 5he at lea5t know5 that irony i5n’t a ferrou5 metal.

Five!

And another thing, I vote for #Five.

All right, I’ve decided.
SEVEN
S*E*V*E*N*
7EVEN
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It has that pretentious earnestness of someone who just got the joke about using the term ‘icon’ for computer pictures. Breity to a T.

I don’t think there are many on this blog who would disagree with that trend. But even if you’re that fatalistic, I don’t understand your objection to those who prefer not to “go gentle into that good night.”

But why do you support Obama then? I don’t get it. The guy’s a mass murderer like Bush and a tool of the corporations.????

Indeed.

There are a bunch of people who will look for any excuse at all not to bestir themselves in the cause of good. The favored method is to pretend that it’s all hopeless anyway.

We are all profoundly grateful for your earnest missionary work here, LHH. And now, good and faithful servant, enter into thy rest. You need not remain longer among us hard-headed, sarcastic heathens.

As an ancient geezer of the baby-boom generation, I do not have the profound understanding of “Computing Machines” and the “World Wide Web” that persons of your generation have. Still, I am told, there are other places to go besides this TBogg site which so annoys you. Maybe you should go look at funny pictures of cats for a while. I am even told that pictures of saucy young minxes with well-turned ankles can be found.

Take the rest of the day off, big guy. You’ve earned it.

In the spirit of ballot-box stuffing, I hereby cast a second vote for #7.

#4. The paws that refreshes.

Ya know, for someone claiming to be from Gen X, you sound an awful lot like a “HEY YOU KIDZ GET OFFA MY LAWN” type of old fart.

The only thing missing is the actual “Harrumph Harrumph” at the end of each comment.

Huh?

By your definition, the masses “murdered” by the follwing presidents were much greater: Madison, Polk, Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, Truman, Johnson, Nixon, aside from the two you mention. Among those, there are some whose rationale I would have agreed with and many accomplished things which would be applauded by the most idealistic among us. Despite those events, I was able to grow up in a working class family, get a free public education, graduate from college without breaking the family, have an interesting career, that allowed me to live in nice houses, raise three kids and get them through college, help one grandchild through college, retire with a pension and adequate medical care. In short, I have lived through probably the best circumstances of any generation in any location in human history. I see the laws and regulations that allowed that system, and further future improvement, to exist disappearing. I think Barack Obama is far better to stanch the flow and begin to reverse the loss than Mitt Romney. That is all.

It ain’t over til #5 wins

Ah poor LHH, trying to change his name if not his game…

Heh, not even close for me.

Number 3 in a landslide. I’m still laughing.

Aren’t you a moderator or something? The guy with the bird on his head or something? Think I’m done with this place. How do you delete yourself? Seems like they won’t allow you to do so.

Is this really all or are you just yanking our chains?

#4.

Apparently you were. So anyhoo – my vote is definitely for #5. They’re all great but in my head I hear the mezzo soprano belting out “BeHAAAAAAve yourselfs! Stop RAAAAAAAAping people!” Can’t beat that.

Do you get paid by the word or just a nickel a comment?

They won’t allow me to delete my posts or my profile, which is weird.

It HAS to be number 8, Hieronymous Bosch’s Hell, where Breitbart belongs.

You can always just STFU and go away. You’ll be neither missed nor remembered.

You could try just closing this tab and going to a blog that would welcome your world view more. Like, Hullabaloo or something. Pooper scooper act not needed.

Jinx!! I’ll buy the drinks.

We are all moderators. At least some of the time.

YES! It’s #6 for me, too. Posturing, play-acting, let’s pretend: the Republican ethos in a nutshell. That’s right, I said “nut.” Deal with it.

But she/he still hasn’t voted.

My guess, seeing as s/he has started to use the name of a composer, would be a vote for Breitbart In The Brass Bra. I’d suggest that TBogg log that as his/her vote.

I’m not happy with all that I read on this site, yet I honor the rights of those who post, especially when it is likely to be trashed as LHH /AB is.

If we cannot do that, as a minimum, then who the hell are we?

Trapped
OOh yeah
Trapped
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Trapped
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Trapped
OOh Yeah

‘Anton Bruckner’ = Toby Petzold…. or possibly, lubyanka.

We are Devo.

Okay, kids, let’s drop it and vote because that is what democracy is about even if it is overseen by a totalitarian strongman such as myself.

Oh, good grief. Listen, son, this is the internet. Even an old baby boomer like myself understands the permanence of the web. Also, the only people standing up for the working man are the people on the left. Liberals are not, as you said, right wingers. What else, what else… Oh, that line about “snark is just downscale cynicism” probably sounded absolutely perfect in your head. In print, it’s a dud. People who cannot appreciate snark are generally humor-impaired.

Now, you’re welcome to stay but you have to quit peeing in our pool.

Sorry Mr. Bogg. My last thing posted after your remark. I would have deleted it but, as Anton pointed out, they are there to stay. I keep my vote for #5. Backing slowly away…

#4! (…and thank teh FSM they haven’t actually done that with him.)

Huh?

He/She shows up and demands we all shut up or Karma is gonna get us.

I and others inform him/her not to worry about it and there are some nice places on the Internet he/she may visit that aren’t as upsetting.

He/she/it then continues to whine about some ideal she/he/it has about the how the world should work/works/worked. Being the gracious people we are, we give her/him/them the attention they/he/she most obviously want/wants/wanted.

A person not looking for attention would have gone away some time ago.

Unless you are saying LHH/AB is being forced to type at gunpoint?
Is that what you are saying we are doing? Our replying to the latest “Behave like I demand” is a form of coercion?

If the foo shits….

I sure wish I could do stuff with pix, but I seem to lack eptitude. Had I the skills, I’d have applied AB’s little face to Gachnar, the Fear demon, as he peers up through the floorboards squeaking “I am the dark lord of nightmares! Fear me!”

Big overture. Little show. Maybe #5 is best.

I went back and read all his posts before posting mine. I saw no demands. I saw frustration rather than demands. Perhaps he/she isn’t erudite to the extent that comments become a jumbled mess, which, upon examination with a bit of compassion, shows a different face than one might get from a cursory examination. No FDR? Perhaps true, perhaps not. Why is it in the post?

In any case, I don’t agree that he/she deserves summary judgement. Perhaps digging in to the roots with a welcome gesture is more appropriate. What makes this person tick? Maybe this person has something significant to say, beyond the surface. Perhaps this person is but a troll.

Compassion has it’s rewards and particularly in today’s political environment.

Also too, I noticed TBogg didn’t specifically restrict the number of times we could vote so I vote for #3 ∞ to the ∞ times before he changes the rules.

Yes, Starbuck you are so much more pure than I.

Congrats.

#4 (without conversation, without controversy)

#4

While not the best technically, there is something about a remote-controlled-dead-Brei-cat swooping in from above with its Sword of Retribution and dangling last victim that is just so appropriate.

And Mr. Bruckner, speaking as an old Dirty Fucking Hippy, please allow me to quote Cartman, “Hippies. Hippies everywhere! They say they want to save the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.”

Perhaps digging in to the roots with a welcome gesture is more appropriate. What makes this person tick?

Long Haired Hippy is no Robert Alexander Dumas!

That fucker had no time for our type of fun!

Is it safe to come out now? Are the wierd people gone? Well except for the good wierd people.

I vote for 1 thru 3 and 5 thru 9 and the toast. I’m sorry but the catcopter is not cheesy enough for the subject matter.

I’m changing my vote from 2 to two, also too…

Oh it has to be number 4, seriously. That is priceless. Just the perverted love that could take their loved one’s dead body and turn it into a toy is intense. Perfect.

“How do you delete yourself?”

I’m afraid that’s a secret that I’ll never tell. But I’ve heard George Tierney of Greenville SC knows something about it.

I should have added: 4 is however excellent!

As long as you’re around, are you up to finishing your 9th symphony?

They won’t allow me to delete my posts or my profile, which is weird hilarious!

Sorry TBogg. I tried and tried and tried to refrain, but that final, mournful comment is just too fucking awesome to resist.

Damn lack of self control!

#4 is certainly the most appropriate!

Straw Man argument.

Maybe I should re-register as Alexander Dumas!

This reminds me of a fight years ago, over a hair tonic commercial, where, in the body of the commercial, the announcer entreated the listener to stop using that “greasy kid stuff”, to embarrass the competition. So a couple of chemists concocted a batch of hair treatment, named it Greasy Kid Stuff and became successful at pulling the original commercial off the air.

But I did welcome LLH….

Did you see Robert Alexander Dumas’ exchange with TBogg awhile back? An instant classic!

Link?

Maybe I should re-register as Alexander Dumas!

Now that you’ve actually conceded that all you are after is; in fact, attention, I take back what I said about your purity.

Troll.

Link?

It’s in FDL Super Vault somewhere.

I was so inspired by Robert Alexander Dumas that I immediately re-modeled my profile after him!

Troll! Now that’s funny! If so, I have an amazing ability to remain undetected as such here for many years.

Actually, I have conceded nothing. It’s a straw man argument, again. Or maybe reductio ad absurdum.

It’s truly amazing how quickly some people here will resort to summary judgement.

Perhaps you are looking in a mirror?

Is this what you were looking for, Larkspur?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26389828@N00/7170009471/

Takes a village indeed.

From about Comment 67

(At the great gazoogle, use the site: feature)

Tnx petesh!

That fucker comes out swinging!

Robert Alexander Dumas DOES NOT FUCK AROUND!

What a twit. It hurts, really? Tbogg said you claim to be all about working folks and yet you ignore what Breitbart did to ACORN among others, on purpose, just because he could? In view of the positions you take here, I don’t know what term other than “complete fucking fraud” so aptly describes you.

And if you don’t want to get down in the mud with us, why did you come here? It’s not like we sent someone to arrest you and bring you in.

#6 for the reason that it correctly identifies the silly RenFest-like phoniness that pervades the right’s childish idolization of Andrew the Magic Dragon Slayer. I mean, the simple fact that the “original”, by which I mean Bugnon’s piece, was an image shamelessly stolen from a video game advertisement, for God’s sake, is rich enough, but this gives the screws an extra turn or two and really rubs their noses in it. Well done all, by the way.

Good link. Thanks.

#6

But why do you support Obama then? I don’t get it. The guy’s a mass murderer like Bush and a tool of the corporations.????
That’s the job description for U.S. President. Until you get HR to change the job requirements, we won’t see any better candidates.

Yours for down-scale cynicism …

Since someone alluded to the possibility that there was no restriction on voting early and often I’ll add another, and another, and another vote for #5. The brass bra and screaming face are perfect.

Perhaps digging in to the roots with a welcome gesture is more appropriate. What makes this person tick?

I get what you’re saying, but there’s only so much time in the day to be all touchy-feely.

Long Hair Hippy is just your average, easy to spot from the get-go ObamaSucksTroll.

Robert Alexander Dumas, on the other hand, is something to treasure! He’s ticking and not in a soothing, grandfather clock way…

First comments to TBogg from each (you be the judge):

LHH:

Why not just let the dead lie in peace, T-blogger? I don’t know. Not a fan of the dude, but I think Oilbomber and the Smirking Chimp have killed more than this poor feller. State violence is the real enemy. The state kills kids.

Robert Alexander Dumas:

Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a Crutch, this whole post and all of the sycophantic posters on this thread have to be the most pathetic pile of shit I have ever witnessed. Don’t any of you have anything to do that is even close to worthwhile? Yeah, Breitbart was a piece of shit. That doesn’t matter any longer, he’s dead now.

RAD? He got my attention!

Why are there no “like” buttons?

Not just that the armor part was stolen, but the guy obviously spent more time going over the armor to hide his plagiarism than figuring the scale for BB’s melon. Although if it were correctly sized, BB’d look like a pinhead.

BALLOT: Uh, lessee here, No., uh, No. 2, because “I AM FANG.”

Who’s letting these postcards through from the Masturbatorium for the Comedically Insane?

Great work all around, but the sheer insanity of #4 wins going away. And by going away I mean like Secretariat at the Belmont Stakes.

I ought to save this up for the next infestation, but … the so-called dispute between mockery and principled activism has been going on literally as long as I can remember, at least since the 1965-6 Acid Tests, and I have always been in the middle, with a foot or part of a head in both camps.

IIRC, Tom Wolfe’s book describes a scene when Kesey was invited to speak at a big protest because the organizers assumed he was “on their side” and he showed up with a bunch of toy machine guns going ack ack ack and pointing out the resemblance between Our Good Anti-War Rallies and (pace Godwin) Their Bad Nuremberg Ones. I myself was happy to point out the similarities between the Pentagon and the Kremlin, thought Pigasus for President was funny, etc etc. But when it came down to it, we hippies and the serious lefties really were on the same side.

Perhaps not incidentally, when, in 1990, I started campaigning against the build-up to the First Gulf War (which begat much of where we are now, alas), it was the acidheads who “got” the issue first, in my personal experience. My lefty political friends were all too often “well, Kuwait is deeply oppressive and perhaps there are two sides to this” — which was sort of true, but ultimately missed the point of U.S. hegemony. The freaks got the power trip faster. Working together, we damn near stopped it.

See also Emma Goldman, gobblesser. Laugh and dance and make love and revolution. And above all (this is the one I often fail at), be nice to each other.

I’d vote for #2 if he were propositioning an undercover cop.

I my heart of hearts, the Toast of Brietbart has always been the winner.

#6 for sure. I also like #8.

Exactly, word for word, six hours later.

And #5, because it’s perfect. Not that the others aren’t.

To quote FDR: “He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s OUR son of a bitch!”

Oh bluegal, I LOVE you! Perfect! Thank you. My day: you have made it.

Yeah, the toilet’s too clean–a dead giveaway that it’s been photoshopped; but I logged on in the middle of AB/LHH’s whinge for respect for the dead, so I couldn’t resist.

As for karma, the dead are dead. They don’t sit up in the clouds looking down on us like we were some sort of giant ant farm. The dead are ultimately remembered for their acts, not their reputations.

Heh – it’s what we in AZ used to say about Barry Goldwater…..

This is a lovely comment, substantial and thoughtful.
How the hell it ended up in the playroom is anyone’s guess, but I’m glad I saw it before it got lost in the toy box.

it’s taken hours and hours to decide … so, #4. Whoever came up with the idea was inspired by the Muse of Righteous Hilarity.

But #5 is a close 2nd, just a cat’s whisker from a tie.

#9

Number 8.

The Gooper template for future Murika.

Another trip to the Gates of Hell courtesy of Conster Travel.

Look, flying dead pussy with hanging varmint SHOUTS Breitbart like nothing else. Number 4 damnit!!!

I’m with VonZepplin and GWPDA: 7

The old-school, holier-than-thou form fits the way his minions worship him.

I love my cats so much. I can’t believe that some asshole, upon the death of his own beloved pet cat, gave it the taxidermy treatment and attached helicopter rotors to it! What The Fuck!

Having said that, my vote is for the dead cat #4.

So much of the whole scenario screams “Breitbart!”.

Hi!

This is Long Haired Hippy and I vote for #2!

Hi!

This is Long Haired Hippy Anton Bruckner and I vote for #2 also, too like Long Haired Hippy did two too!

Got mine as well.

But so did LHH!

So far as touchy-freely, the only time for that is now.

At least, that’s true for moi, and becomes closer to absolute truth the older I get.

#4 is my fave for his reincarnation, with #8 second because I imagine that is where he now resides.

I love ‘em all, but I”m voting for #4. Who ever thought to dangle a rat from the roto-claw is a genius.

I am sure the rules forbid me from voting more than once; however, I would like to register for #4 the votes of my 8 living siblings. And if needed to win, count the votes of their spouses and votes of my 2 departed siblings and my parents.

I laughed when I saw it and knew the cultural references–A real win.

I Have Decided!!!

The goat entrails indicate # 8- that vision of hell, with a special pace for Blightfart, is the most fitting.

On another note- whodathunk a TBogg Takedown of the most scummy of Scumbags would bring out a troll fight of moderately epic proprtions? Just goes to show- ya nevah know who’s watching! Entertaining on many levels. Wheels within wheels, man.

#5. Teutonic bombast = Brietflart!

# 8, because the Flemish school rules.

baaa None of these compare to my own Tom-of-Finland mashpic-up. I would download a copy but its a little umm messy at the moment.

and the Original is mighty fine anyway…except all his buds know that his arms were plenty long enough hehe

#9 ftw

If comment #272 puts entry number nine over the top I’m calling General Eric Holder. It would be the prudent thing to do.

OMG I almost forgot to vote.

I’m voting for my own, #5 (thx for including, TBogg) but if I’m not allowed to do that I have to say losing to number 4 wouldn’t be so bad. That’s the one that made me laugh, too.