’)I’m totally freaking shocked that the freaking right-wing just made some stupid crap up again.
The right side of the web is apoplectic this morning claiming that President Obama doesn’t know who the French president is.
They point to an article in the French newspaper Le Figaro reporting that President Obama last week wrote a letter to former French President Jacques Chirac.
“I am certain that we will be able to work together, in the coming four years, in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world,” Obama is purported to have written.
This has electrified the Internet. Why would President Obama initiate correspondence with Mr. Chirac instead of President Nicolas Sarkozy?
One excited blogger writes, “Doesn’t Obama ever consult his staff before acting? Sarkozy is the President there! It’s like Sarko writing to George Bush and saying he looks forward to working with him. Chirac is the FORMER president.”
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Our handy colleague, Laurent Belsie, who writes the New Economy blog here at the Monitor, speaks French. (We don’t hold that against him.)
With his help we found out that another French newspaper, the New Observer, explained that Obama was merely replying to a Chirac letter who was writing him as the head of his foundation — the Jacques Chirac Foundation for sustainable development and cultural dialogue.
The foundation is promoting access to water and medicines in west Africa, combating deforestation in the Congo Basin, and trying to save dying languages in Polynesia, according to a spokesman who helped set up the foundation.
Thanks to the Christian Science Monitor for getting to the bottom of today’s right wing bull of the day.
How do you attack a president that rarely legitimately blows it, and owns up to it when he does?
I don’t know Parthenon, I’ll get back to you as soon as Obama apologizes for those Region 1 DVDs.
How do you attack a president that rarely legitimately blows it, and owns up to it when he does?
Rarely? He’s been in office for 60 days! He’s blown it on a number of occasions.
And Oliver, was the letter written? Yes. So how can something be “made up” that was true? If you want to take issue with people thinking Barack Obama truly didn’t know who the French President was, fine. And seeming as how Presdient Obama has pretty much ignored French President Sarkozy, but has time to pen letters to Chirac is more evidence of what looks like a tin ear.
Oh and any chance you’re ever going to admit that you, TPM Muckraker and others were wrong about Bobby Jindal and the whole “during Katrina” thing or are you just going to continue to behave as though liberal bloggers never fuck up?
SaveFarris says: “I don’t know Parthenon, I’ll get back to you as soon as Obama apologizes for those Region 1 DVDs.”
This is blowing it? George W. Bush ignored a direct threat from an organization that had attacked the United States repeated, because he thought the agent was only covering his ass. You don’t have an issue with that, but DVDs get stuck in your craw.
Jay Caruso: “And Oliver, was the letter written? Yes. So how can something be ‘made up’ that was true?”
Jay Caruso… you are a fucking idiot. Please, never bread.
The lie here is Obama wrote to Chirac because he thought Chirac was the president of France.
Come on, even Sarah Palin knows who the President of France is. Specifically, she now knows that he’s *not* a Canadian DJ.
What’s made up is the outrage.
Well, Jay is correct. Obama DID write a letter mentioning Jacques Chirac instead of Nicholas Sarkozy. The fact that this letter was addressed specifically to Jacques Chirac should not detract from the outrage we should express at the FACT that Obama did, in fact, use the name of Jacques Chirac in his letter instead of Nicholas Sarkozy.
Continue with your outrage, Jay. No one is stopping you.
One thing’s for sure, Vice-President Palin would have known the difference. She and Sarkozy had a nice chat on the telephone…didn’t they?
Jay Caruso… you are a fucking idiot. Please, never bread.
Don’t worry. I don’t even know how to bread.
Enlightening and refreshing commentary from CS as always.
Oh and PLASTIC TURKEYS anyone?
Oh and PLASTIC TURKEYS anyone?
That’s a dig at W., yes?
Jay Caruso… you are a fucking idiot. Please, never bread. –Southern Strategy
Simply amazing. Calling someone a fucking idiot and then telling them to “never bread”.
Classic Strowbridge.
Now he’ll tell me I’m being insensitive to the mentally challenged.
And he’d be right this time.
Jay, Dennis, and SaveFerris generally traffic in these sort of “daily outrages” which they don’t even bother to think about to use them as a cudgel with which to harrass their “friends” and family about something they’ve been told to get angry about with respect to Obama. The fact that they NEVER question this and ALWAYS stick to the script (even, as we can see in Jay’s case, in the wake of actual evidence that the outrage is based on falsehood) is only a symptom of their problems. If they weren’t outraged that Obama used the name “Jacques Chirac” in a letter addressed to Jacques Chirac, they were throwing a tantrum that someone, somewhere, said something inappropriate about their hero, george W. Bush or they’d be screaming about how evil Nancy Pelosi is. Their friends think their scripted outrage-of-the day crap means that they “know a lot about politics.” Or at least that’s what their friends and family who don’t secretly hate them for their BS think.
This is just another sign that the right-wing outrage machine is based on ignorance and that its followers are nothing but a group of imbeciles. I’m just thankful that the talking points are so well-known and that their adherents are so willing to spout off the talking points verbatim that it allows us to recognize quickly who the imbeciles around us are.
Now he’ll tell me I’m being insensitive to the mentally challenged.
No, you’re being insensitive to the yeast deficient.
No Duros, a dig at the left wing blog community that was convinced President Bush’s surprise trip to visit troops in Iraq was a completely staged affair as it came complete with the President posing with what was CLEARLY AND WITHOUT A DOUBT (according to the same left wing bloggers) a big plastic turkey.
Of course, their little temper-tantrum fueled conspiracy theory turned out to be completely untrue. It’s just an example in a LONG LIST of many, but clearly one of their most absurd.
Seems to be a lot of this bullshit for the sake of bullshit coming from the right:
http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/03/21/right-wing-bloggers-and-their-commenters/#comment-144082
It’s just an example in a LONG LIST of many,
That both sides engage in.
M’kay?
George W. Bush ignored a direct threat from an organization that had attacked the United States repeated
Wait a minute: before George W. Bush came along, the US was in the midst of a decade-long reign of peace and prosperity, where our international standing was never higher! You mean to say we were actually in the midst of a war and W. should have acted as such?!?
Hmmm… wonder why Mr. Clinton (the *actual* president during said time) isn’t held to the same standard.
Duros, I agree. It’s just that our host has an air of self-righteousness about it as if the left never ever does anything like that or if they do, it’s these rare once in a blue moon occasions.
You mean to say we were actually in the midst of a war and W. should have acted as such?!?
Of course not Farris. Al Qaeda did not exist before January 20th, 2001.
Hmmm… wonder why Mr. Clinton (the *actual* president during said time) isn’t held to the same standard.
Because he didn’t respond to “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside U.S.” by going bass fishing. Dumbass.
Me: “Jay Caruso… you are a fucking idiot. Please, never bread.”
Jay Caruos: “Don’t worry. I don’t even know how to bread.”
I blame being on a diet. I’m hungry.
By the way, I noticed you latched onto my Freudian slip, but ignored my point.
The right wingers made up the fact that Obama doesn’t know who the French President is.
SaveFarris: “Hmmm… wonder why Mr. Clinton (the *actual* president during said time) isn’t held to the same standard.”
Clinton was working on ways to combat Bin Ladden, and getting no help from the Republicans. When Bush took over, he reduced the anti-terrorism task force, and then the United States was hit.
What George W. Bush did directly increased the odds of the United States getting hit. Therefore, he is assigned more of the blame.
Why is this so difficult for you to understand?
In fact, they met as recently as this past July. Somehow I have a feeling then-Senator Obama was aware he was meeting with the president.
There’s another one of those ten-second google searches that continue to evade folks like Joaquin.
Duros, I agree. It’s just that our host has an air of self-righteousness about it as if the left never ever does anything like that or if they do, it’s these rare once in a blue moon occasions.
Well, it is his house.
Hey Dennis. How’s the market doing?
It’s just that our host has an air of self-righteousness about it
“WAAHHH! Oliver is being mean to republicans and making fun of us!!!!”
Grow the hell up, you jackass. You spew right-wing talking points all day. You’re a mindless devotee of the destructive, ignorant organization known as the Republican party led by idiots like John Boehner, Dick Cheney, and George W. Bush. You are deserving of nothing other than contempt, and you should be thankful that you deal with nothing other than a bit of self-righteous mockery, given your wealth of moral and intellectual deficiencies.
Hey Dennis. How’s the market doing? QIB
Likin’ it, QIBbie. Glad Obama’s teleprompter has finally started telling him to stop talking down the market.
Hey, Dennis, you’re either doing quadruple duty on a bunch of other blogs’ comments, or you’re simply another talking-points-spewing moron cum lemming. What the fuck is wrong with you? You can’t function unless some right-wing daddy figure is shoving talking points down your throat to repeat like an obedient little child? Are all you tighty-righties all a bunch of brainwashed little babies that you’re all saying “teleprompter” all at the same time? Or is it because your ignorant friends and families think it’s cute when you have something “political” to say that you think if you repeat your talking points to an educated public they’ll do something other than laugh at you?
Jay, I think your friend Dennis here is demonstrating that Oliver’s self-righteous mockery and contempt is warranted.
Shorter Dennis (again): I got nuthin’ (again).
Remember how Obama was all tongue-tied in his debate with John McCain because he didn’t have a teleprompter? Oh right that never happened.
Market’s gearing up for a major slip ‘n’ slide, I fears.
Remember how Obama was all tongue-tied in his debate with John McCain because he didn’t have a teleprompter? Oh right that never happened.
Yeah, the “Obama teleprompter!” situation is the
lamest.
attempted meme.
ever.
So lame. Reeks of got nuthin.
He came off incredibly eloquent on 60 Minutes. Are we meant to believe that somehow he had a teleprompter then?
ed says: “Market’s gearing up for a major slip ‘n’ slide, I fears.”
I think this new plan to buy ‘toxic assets’ is terrible. The fact that the stock market is going up is not a selling point, in my opinion.
I hope it works out, but I fear it won’t.
I enjoy the new right-wing respect for our French friends.
I thought this one was too stupid to be true. And I was relieved to hear that it was bogus.
Unlike misspelling the name of the president of Brazil.
Unlike giving Gordon Brown and family Region 1 DVDs and tchotchkes from the White House gift shop.
Unlike blowing off the traditional joint news conference with Brown.
Unlike the “Reset” button given to Russia.
Unlike the stirring trade war with Mexico.
Unlike the threats to rewrite NAFTA in a way that would royally piss off Canada.
Of course, establishing closer ties with Chirac is not that dissimilar with some foreign trying to make nice with Jimmy Carter circa 1982 — getting cozy with the very-unpopular former president while the current one is busy cleaning up the messes Mr. Former left behind. It might be unwise, but it’s hardly a major gaffe or a cheap insult to a head of state.
Yet.
J.
George W. Bush = Responsible for 9/11, worst attack on American civilians ever. Responsible for the death of a major American city (New Orleans). Responsible for the worst budget deficit in American history.
Barack H. Obama = doing good so far, needs to get rid of Geitner and turn the corner on this AIG/banking mess (who first got bailed out by, you guessed it, George W. Bush)
And I also lurve the bed-wetter/chickenhawk argument that Obama can’t read a teleprompter. Because, ya know, that obviously kept him from getting elected PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
You guys got nuthin’. Eight years of bullshit like this? Keep it coming. Keep watching the Republican party die a painful death.
Jay, you list a bunch of stuff that was nothing but a few outrages-of-the-day pushed by a bunch of right-wing nuts, but yet you remained silent like the moral coward you are about torture, getting us bogged down in Iraq, and the dishonest ravings of Dick Cheney. Of all the things to get outraged about YOU choose a bunch of trivialities shoved down your throat as a loyalty test of the right-wing fringe hate groups. I can’t say this speaks well of your moral judgment you were brought up with. You’ve WASTED your life defending the bona fides of jokers like GW Bush and John McCain, so your faux-indignation about the trivialities you’re flipping out over Obama with are pretty rich– Obama is a superior president and man in every way compared to the people you’ve spent your life supporting and defending. I can’t say your problems with Obama have much credibility.
Tyro, you’re projecting. I’m not “outraged” by very much. I’m entertained, more than anything. You’re the one who sounds “outraged” over the end of the Bush administration — you just can’t seem to let it go, and you swing between repeating your same old tripe, and denying that your Hero has feet of clay. Big, NBA-sized feet of clay.
And it kills you, doesn’t it?
Speaking of falling for crap, Oliver… how goes that Playboy-sourced expose’, anyway?
J.
Jay, you hitched your cart to a bunch of losers, remained silent in the face of political disasters, and now impotently flap your gums about a bunch of concocted kerfluffles cooked up by the Republican outrage machine to satisfy your urges. That anyone would think you’re in any position to express any judgment on these matters is a fantasy. You’re just a lemming flailing for something to get upset about. It’s going to be a while before you realize that the rest of the country, along with your friends and family, thinks you’re an ignorant freak who doesn’t know what you’re talking about. But you’ll figure it out eventually.
Speaking of falling for crap,
OH HAI
J!
Gee, thanks, Tyro. If it wasn’t for you, I’d never know that I imagined all the blunders Obama The Magnificent has seemingly made so far. And without you, I’d be stuck living my empty, meaningless life.
Thanks for sharing your Kool-Aid, Tyro. Things are SO much clearer now.
J.
J.G.Thayer: “Gee, thanks, Tyro. If it wasn’t for you, I’d never know that I imagined all the blunders Obama The Magnificent has seemingly made so far.”
You’ve completely blown them out of proportion, but that’s nothing new for you.
What’s so amazing is you are fucking blowing a gasket over DVDs when people on the left are complaining about Geitner and the Toxic Assets crap.
We are talking about policy, you are masturbating to right-wing talking point.
And you think we are the ones drinking the Kool-Aid.
Fucking amazing.
Your total lack of self-awareness has to be intentional. Your life must suck so much; it’s the only explanation that makes sense.
Jay had his live saved by tax-payer provided healthcare. He would like to deny this type of life-saving procedure to his fellow Americans.
That’s really all you need to know about him. He’s either a) too dumb to recognize his own hypocrisy or b) a dickhead who got his and doesn’t want others to get the same.
Like Comrade Rush, he’s a living embodiment of the contemporary Republican party. He’s a feature, not a bug.
I thought this one was too stupid to be true.
ROFLMAO. Pricless. Please, Jay Tea. Stop.
Man, I just LOVE it when I become the center of attention. The words of Jaim, Strowbridge, fafaroo, and Tyro are like dollar bills in my garter. In their eyes, I swear I’m more important than President Obama.
Shucks, I’m blushing.
J.
The words of Jaim, Strowbridge, fafaroo, and Tyro are like dollar bills in my garter.
Perhaps you just revealed too much about what you think you’re doing here.
J.G.Thayer: “Man, I just LOVE it when I become the center of attention.”
We’ve noticed.
There’s a term for that: Troll.
The words of Jaim, Strowbridge, fafaroo, and Tyro are like dollar bills in my garter.
Thanks, Jay Tea. Now I have to go wash my brain.
If it wasn’t for you, I’d never know that I imagined all the blunders Obama The Magnificent has seemingly made so far.
64 days. If those are huge blunders, I’m satisfied.
Loosing a city, that’s a “disappointment.”
Duros, there are quite a few cities we could do with loosing. Starting with San Francisco and much of the Bay Area. Chicago, too, and possibly New Orleans.
A couple others come to mind, but they are landlocked and wouldn’t come loose quite so readily.
J.
“Duros, there are quite a few cities we could do with loosing. Starting with San Francisco and much of the Bay Area. Chicago, too, and possibly New Orleans.”
You mean those major urban areas that actually make a net contribution to the economic, industrial, and cultural life of America, as opposed to the arm-pit of a town you inhabit in New Hampshire?
Go fuck yourself. When Mississippi starts to take less per capita in Federal fundings (even before the bail-out) that people in California or New York do, Republicans can start talking about how great Red states (i.e., “leeches”) are compared to the deep blue ones.
Seriously — you had your life saved by money from other taxpayers, many of whom were probably as liberal as I am, and you have the gall to suggest America would be better off without three of its major cities?
Here’s a hint, dipshit — America will eventually recover from the Bush II/Republican recession, and it will be because of hard-working people in the very places you despise like San Fran, Chicago, New York, DC, Miami, and so on. Not so much bumpkins like yourself wetting your diapers from your mom’s basement in Buttfuck New England or whatever little rat-hole you’ve decided to despoil with your presence.
Gee, did someone once have a bad experience in New England? Did a New Englander do some “bad touching” on you when you were a wee one? Man, Jaim, you’re TOUCHY.
Especially since the provocation was a very mild jibe mocking you for misspelling “losing” as “loosing.”
Someone’s knickers seem permanently tied in knots…
J.
“a very mild jibe”
All those dead men, women, and children in New Orleans were a joke to you?
Please Jay, continue to show us your true colors.
Duros, there are quite a few cities we could do with loosing. Starting with San Francisco and much of the Bay Area. Chicago, too, and possibly New Orleans.
Nice, Jay. Real nice. Tell O’Reilly we said hi.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/28/katrina/main4393238.shtml
Hilarious.