VIDEO: Parody of right wing mom crying on CNN

By GottaLaff



Power to the paranoid!

Anti-Obama speech Craigslist ad for Republican "little people" actors in classrooms

By GottaLaff

Desperation can lead to, well in this case, insanity.

Via Commenter Pigboy, we have something fascinating from the Dep't. of What Have We Here: (bolding is mine)

Found on Craigslist:

"Currently seeking little people...

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Date: 2009-09-04, 2:18AM CDT
Reply to: comm-ccfat-1357804888@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

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As you know in a week Obama will be making a speech to school children. We are currently seeking republican little people to portray school children in hopes of possibly getting our points across. This is a very high pressure situation and we will need excellent actors as well as little people that are capable of portraying school children. There is pay and though hopefully no real exposure, we need to continue expressing an opposing viewpoint. Obama is approaching children in an attempt to avoid exactly what we hope to cause. No violence. No threats, just children with a republican view.

Thanks...

it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests"

http://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/com/1357804888.html

Good freaking lord! Want to see what's there now when you try to link to the page? This:

The best laid plans...

Photo-O'-The-Day: Obama the Indoctrinator edition

By GottaLaff

Via The Motley Moose:

VIDEO: Right Wing Mother Cries About Obama's Speech To Children

By GottaLaff

Paddy and I were on the phone this morning, literally sputtering to each other about the sheer idiocy of the "indoctrination" meme. These extremists are so fundamentally wrong that I find myself thinking my retorts-- so basic in their logic, so painfully obvious, so simple in nature-- must be deficient, that there must be some rebuttal I'm not remembering. But no.

My dad, a renowned doctor in these here parts, once told me, there is no way to win an argument with a neurotic, because they have their own logic. Bingo.

That said, all I can think of when I see this is, "Leave Brittany alone!"



Tim Rutten has a few more things to say about the compounding lunacy:

But there is no similar way to rationalize the bizarre controversy now raging over President Obama's plan to deliver a brief televised address on Tuesday to the nation's grammar school children. [...]

One group is urging parents to demand that their children be excused from watching the president and be sent instead to the school library to read the Founding Fathers. (The theory, one supposes, is that a good dose of the Federalist Papers will inoculate the young against Obama's attempts to subvert the republic through good grades.)

Kathy Miller, president of a statewide school monitoring group in Texas:

"I wish our elected leaders were responsible enough to denounce this kind of wild-eyed paranoia. But the problem is too many of them are actually feeding this kind of nonsense -- like when the governor flirts with secessionists and state Board of Education members say the president sympathizes with terrorists."

Miller has identified precisely the process at work in the healthcare hysteria and, increasingly, elsewhere where the GOP thinks it can shove the Obama administration into a ditch. Republican officials such as the Florida state chairman are playing a dangerous game with an unhinged segment of public opinion that regards Obama not as an elected official with whom they disagree, but as an illegitimate usurper of the presidency.

That paranoid fantasy is what's really behind the "birther" movement and the allegations that the president is -- take your pick -- a secret Marxist or a secret Muslim.

It's the kind of fanciful anxiety that produces comments like this, posted on a conservative website this week: "Barack Obama and his left-wing Chicago machine regime are putting into place laws and institutions which will insure that there will never again be free elections in America."

These are the people who are stockpiling ammunition and keeping their children at home next Tuesday.

Leave Obama alone!