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Steven Weber

Posted: June 17, 2010 01:39 PM

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Breaking News: Republicans, While Using Gulf Oil Disaster for Political Gain, Accuse White House of Using Gulf Oil Disaster for Political Gain!

Another in a Series of Psychological Projections

Dr. Ruth weighs in: "Typical behavior for bullies who have teeny, tiny genitals. You know, the kind that gets laughed at in a high school locker room... Look! There goes a pair now"

True to form, the Republican Party (aka "The Knights Who Say No") has flexed their one remaining set of muscles (jaw) and launched another salvo characterizing the Obama Administration as "shaking down BP." While the world holds its sides watching the perennial GOPutzes flop and mince around the stage in their chuckleheaded outrage, the American public (held in the desperate despotic party's thrall through classic fear and reward tactics) has responded to the situation by playing with their iPhones and consuming untold amounts of fried food.

Due (of course) mainly to the president's noticeably darker skin tone, the Republicans have been at sixes and sevens trying to cope with the seismic shift in their fantasy paradigm, while unable to grasp that, while the Commander In Chief's amount of melanin might be higher than previous presidents', the way things are done in American politics pretty much have not changed. Backs still have to be scratched, favors granted, deals made. As Paddy Chayefsky said in Network: "The world is a business, Mr. Beale..." (FYI: Network was a movie made in 1975. There are no aliens in it. Just television executives and corporate CEO's).

However, since Obama's inauguration in January of '08, the party's deeply xenophobic roots have been poking through the tightly woven material of their serge suits and no amount of obfuscation has sufficiently disguised it. Wavering from loud allegations about the legitimacy of his birth, to giving him harumphing silent treatments, to breaking protocol and heckling him during a state of the union address, the Grand Old Party has pooped relentlessly its pants in public.

With the mid-term elections approaching (and having nothing to run on except their redoubtable distaste for the dusky Democratic director), the Republican party is gearing up for another colossal display of desperate madness.

Next week: Glenn Beck unveils detailed schematic outlining how Obama is to blame for the Johnstown Flood.

 

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05:25 PM on 06/19/2010
From Rogues of K Street: Confessions of a Tea Party Consultant
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The campaign plan...uses the phrase black arts when talking about how we’ll win in the fall. It’s not a document filled with dirty tricks but a plan to create a nonprofit organization called Ensuring Liberty Corporation. It uses unconventional methods to get our message out...A good piece of mail gets its message across in 10 seconds. Television gives you 30 seconds, maybe. We’re playing to the reptilian brain rather than the logic centers, so we look for key words and images to leverage the intense rage and anxiety of white working-class conservatives. In other words, I talk to the same part of your brain that causes road rage...

http://www.playboy.com/articles/rogues-of-k-street/index.html?page=1
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Yeah sure, no dirty tricks there, more like a psy-ops program designed to brainwash white working-class conservatives. This confirms what I’ve been saying: the rightwing knows how to stimulate the brains of its followers to trigger the release of norepinephrine (a stress hormone) when exposed to falsely associated frames within carefully constructed narrative structures. This is the method to Glenn Beck’s madness:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtlOBa6qa3o

This creates unconscious and automatic negative reactions in conservative brains toward people like Obama, thus explaining why they are impervious to facts and the truth. They unilaterally surrender their capacity for reason without ever being aware of what’s been done to them.

- Tom
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nkrempa
Mom, concerned human, somewhat old person
04:43 PM on 06/18/2010
I gaped at Barton's idiotic hyperbole yesterday morning, and laughed uproariously at his hasty backtracking in the afternoon. Yet another Republican getting himself thrown to the sharks as bait by way of his own mouth. I am becoming increasingly convinced that the "Rabid Right" is going to implode by way of it's own pedantic ideology, and the Teepers are going to feast on the gruesome remnants.

Fortunately, that means that most Democrats running for office in 2010 will have a much easier time of it. Unfortunately, it also means that we will be treated to similar spectacles across the country as the implosions continue - thus clogging the legitimate (non-FAUX) news feeds with more idiocy. Eh, win some, lose some!!
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aznurse
01:59 PM on 06/18/2010
steven, I hope you realize that "Kams" has a thing for you. If anyone else wrote the same exact thing, there would be no response from her.
Its creepy.
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Anna Nicole Dahmer
Lie like that & you won't go to heaven
04:40 PM on 06/18/2010
fanned because it is creepy.
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Larry Megill
12:28 PM on 06/18/2010
You are a brilliant and certainly dangerous observer.

Damn good writer, too...
10:00 AM on 06/18/2010
It's appalling how regularly republicans accuse others of emotions they are experiencing or actions they are doing (projecting). I wonder if they are aware they are doing it, or is it an unconscious defense mechanism kind of thing? Because if they truly are clueless about all their projecting, that means they are just out of control mentally. (which explains a lot)
08:49 AM on 06/18/2010
My daughter is a Republican so she keeps me up on all the news. Obama is going to keep me from getting heart surgery if I need it and relegate me to a place where I can be 'done away' with...left to die. My Medicare is going to stop. He is going to go into all the rich people's tax papers and take money from them and give it to the poor. He is going to take all the 'zealot's' guns out of their hands...My SS is going to stop, Obama is going to take my insurance away from me and make me buy from the government..and THIS is just for starters!
05:13 AM on 06/21/2010
No. only if you're a republican.
08:46 AM on 06/18/2010
This is great!
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telebob59
Unrepentant, unreconstructed Dharma Bum
08:45 AM on 06/18/2010
A much improved piece of op-ed composition this time out from Mr. Weber. Sarcastic in a classic syndicated columnist kind of way and consistently on target.
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Fi
"We are all the sons & daughters of Chaos"
07:27 AM on 06/18/2010
I would like to think the Repubs are going to get a good whipping come November, but I would'nt put money on it though.
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ConnieInCleveland
One Lonely Voice trying to make a difference
06:52 AM on 06/18/2010
Any politician who has the guts to repeat 'shakedown' should be 'shamed down'! They should be shamed out of American politics!
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05:47 AM on 06/18/2010
Rep. Barton, "I'm Sorry"


With apologies (naturally) to...Brenda Lee

I'm sorry, so sorry, The White House made you pay your dues
I didn't know the Dems could be so cruel
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh, oh
Oh, yes

Dems demand, BP agrees
Gulf Coast victims need immediate funds
But that don't right
The wrong that's been done

Spoken:
(I'm sorry) I'm sorry, BP
(So sorry) So sorry Tony
Please accept my apology
But I was blind, Until Boener explained it to me
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh, oh
Oh, yes

It's acceptable, even if reprehensible
For Repubs to support reckless corporate actions
But not out loud, That makes us look like bums
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh, oh
Oh, yes

I'm sorry, so sorry
Please accept my apology
I showed the true Republican idealogy

(Sorry)
03:21 AM on 06/18/2010
Republicans have become a disgrace. With people like Beck, Palin, Rush, Hannity...to name a few? What a disgrace!
05:41 AM on 06/18/2010
You know I have sought a word that describes my feelings about what this group has become and I had never thought of disgrace. Now that you have used it I know what I was looking for. I would also add dishonorable, unjust and cruel.
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06:09 AM on 06/18/2010
And just let me add,

#$&^bt#*

)@#S^Y&$%

As well as,

%&@!#W$*_*
08:42 AM on 06/18/2010
Great adjectives for them. We might add a little 'light on the intellectual arena' also. Especially Palin. Beck a close second...Hannity gets the prize for cruelty although Palin has a nasty mouth. Unjust? All of them. It is NOT because they are on the 'right' that I feel this way. There are people on the right I can endure...actually, Bill O'Reilly is not that bad sometimes. But these people? They have NO boundaries. I don't expect them to agree with me..or the Dems. Just not be so incredibly loony..i.e., Palin and her 'announcement' that Obama is going to have a 'death panel' for old people. They lose ALL credibility when they come up with these insane stories. And Palin calling Obama a Terrorist when they were running...what a bunch of immoral, low, insufferable gang of thugs.
01:23 AM on 06/18/2010
So the right is aligned with a british oil company over small bussiness and the "little people" in the gulf. There should be retribution for this come November.
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LMPE
I connect the most dissimilar things
11:42 PM on 06/17/2010
I can read the right-wingers' faces all the time. They always say:

We don't like having a (N bomb) president!
10:36 PM on 06/17/2010
this is terrific discourse! did you get 'paradigm' from the Nanny?