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Man, they sell some badass pens on the Hill.
Why should a Republican alienate HIS constituents to entertain YOUR audience?
Suppose they just told him to “pound sand” would that be an implied statement that the guy making the film is just an instigator?
Oh no! An instigator! Someone trying to ask what to many would be a simple question, but for those cowards it’s the equivalent of “So when did you stop beating your wife?”
The fact is, some Congressmen do believe the Birther nonsense or are at least willing to put their names on to bills investigating the absurd claims, so it is a legitimate question to ask Republicans if they are indeed fucking nuts. And if that offends them, maybe they should pull a Palin and quit.
Why should a Republican alienate HIS constituents to entertain YOUR audience?
How does saying yes he was born in the US “alienate” anyone?
Are you really suggesting that Republican constituency = birthers?
Wonder how long it would take you to have a hernia if Oliver said something like that.
LOLOL
What a classy bunch those Republicans are!
Members of congress are there to represent all of us. And this includes Dems who run from GOP/Fox camera guys.
So they don’t talk to a shmuck from Huffington. Big deal!
The Pres. doesn’t ‘talk’ to Fox.
So they don’t talk to a shmuck from Huffington. Big deal!
The Pres. doesn’t ‘talk’ to Fox.
Nice false equivalence, dipshit.
TNC:
http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/birth_of_a_stupid_nation.php
So they don’t talk to a shmuck from Huffington.
Actually most of them do talk to him, and it’s what they say that’s so hilarious?
Our wingnut friends here will tell us that the birthers are a tiny insignificant minority, but they clearly have a number of GOP congresscreeps by the balls.
The “Birthers” (nice semantical escalation, there) will fade away when the Left leaves them alone. When all you mini-Michael Moore’s fail to make the Republican Party the “where’s the Birth Certificate” Party, it’s you that will look foolish for stalking them.
It’s like this : The more you bug them, the sillier you look. You check the Gross Receipts on Bill Maher’s latest “humorous look at religion”? Practically had the opening at BlockBuster.
If I were a long time incumbent and my seat was secure, with Democrat and Independent support, I would call them crazy, too.
And if YouTubeMan only snagged about a dozen people , how many weren’t fun targets?
I will leave you with this: I don’t think these “birthers” are obsessed with race. I think there is another reason people get an uncomfortable feeling about Pres Obama.
The “Birthers” (nice semantical escalation, there) will fade away when the Left leaves them alone
Frank, pants FIRST, then shoes, ok?
I don’t think these “birthers” are obsessed with race. I think there is another reason people get an uncomfortable feeling about Pres Obama.
Uh huh. You mean that dumb old cunt who screamed in that now infamous video “I want my country back” was concerned about…taxes?
When all you mini-Michael Moore’s fail to make the Republican Party the “where’s the Birth Certificate” Party, it’s you that will look foolish for stalking them.
And the birthers won’t look foolish?
I gotta hand it to you, Frank, you certainly are a good whistler – graveyard whistler, that is.
I don’t think these “birthers” are obsessed with race. I think there is another reason people get an uncomfortable feeling about Pres Obama.
Right, some of them aren’t obsessed with race, they’re obsessed with religion.
Fucking cowards, running away like that from what should be the easiest question on the planet to answer. Seriously. They are running away from a guy with a camera asking if Obama is a U.S.-born citizen. That’s fucking pathetic.
Frank DiSalle wrote:
“I think there is another reason people get an uncomfortable feeling about Pres Obama.”
Well, “people” said he was a Muslim terrorist/black militant/socialist, and the electorate voted him into office.
That either means that the nation really wanted a Muslim terrorist/black militant/socialist as President…or it means that the nation doesn’t really believe much that “people” say.
“People” get uncomfortable when they realise that they have no credibility anymore, especially when “people” became very accustomed to having the nation nod in agreement at every baseless assertion they made over the course of several years.
“People” thought that politics consisted of uttering magic words like “traitor”, “tax cuts” and “victory”. When “people” realised that magic words were pretty much their entire game, “people” got uncomfortable.
But “people” can’t admit that they screwed up and overplayed their hand, cried “wolf” too many times, and accused half of the electorate of treason. Instead, “people” blame Obama for their own failures.
I don’t like this. These kinds of ambush “interviews” should be criticized, whether coming from conservatives (Bill O’Reilly’s producers like Jesse Walters), or liberals (Mike Stark here).
‘Why should a Republican alienate HIS constituents to entertain YOUR audience?’
Wow; answering a fucking question would alienate their constituents?
Thank goodness the question wasn’t ‘What would Jesus do?’
Seriously Frank, that’s just lame; running away like a kid who got pushed off the swingset at a playground? This is what you believe their constituents would expect of them?
That’s just plain weak.
‘The Pres. doesn’t ‘talk’ to Fox.’
No, but Senator Obama did; perhaps as President he recognizes the increasingly irrelevant nature of FOX.
‘The “Birthers” (nice semantical escalation, there) will fade away when the Left leaves them alone.’
I seem to recall that same strategy being applied to certain ‘dead enders.’
How did that work out?
This video is a work of art.
There is no doubt that the fringe runs the GOP these days.
It’s terrifying and kind of wonderful at the same time.