Comments for Oliver Willis

Comment on “Faggot” Is New Conservative Way To Argue by AwkwardSilence

AwkwardSilence — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:58:36 +0000

Translation: I will add a completely irrelevant tangent to my initial ridiculous comment, just so I can take a swipe at some anonymous liberal strawmen and create the illusion of equivalence with this idiot I really shouldn’t be defending in the first place.

Also, “Chimpy” is as bad as “faggot”? Really???

You need to recalibrate your insults.

Comment on Video: Klanfail @ Ole Miss by bikelib

bikelib — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:40:47 +0000

Hey now, everyone knows that the Klan–like the Nazis–are extreme leftists. And that the people targeted by these guys are the real racists. Or something.

Comment on Gabor Steingart, Der Spiegel’s Obama Doomsayer by jr

jr — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:38:52 +0000

Der Spiegel’s answer to Dick Morris

Comment on 60 Minutes Reporting Shames Sarah Palin & Co.’s “Death Panels” by jr

jr — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:36:59 +0000

Sarah can only understand catch phrases. She fears what she doesn’t understand

Comment on 60 Minutes Reporting Shames Sarah Palin & Co.’s “Death Panels” by Repack Rider

Repack Rider — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:42 +0000

“Facts” confuses Sarah.

That’s why she avoids them.

Comment on Gabor Steingart, Der Spiegel’s Obama Doomsayer by Infidel753

Infidel753 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:01:26 +0000

Europeans, even the British, usually have a tin ear for American politics in my experience. They can get a lot of details right but still not understand the overall picture. It’s made me hesitant to comment on European politics for fear of sounding equally clueless.

Comment on UK Watch: A Comeback For Gordo? by Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:56:47 +0000

UK cons are not economically conservative in an American sense. Pay attention to them for five seconds and you would know instead of spouting crap. The whole reason I’m a liberal is largely due to liberal economics, which insists on being based on reality and actually helping people.

Comment on UK Watch: A Comeback For Gordo? by soullite

soullite — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:22:53 +0000

Conservatives in Englad ARE very conservative. It’s just that Oliver Willis doesn’t actually care about the economic issues that have the biggest impact on most peoples lives. Like a lot of Americans “liberals”, only Abortion, Gay Rights, and social issues like that actually count.

Comment on That’s The South by anotherbozo

anotherbozo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:22:52 +0000

Happily, Alan, Oliver linked his Nov. 23 KKK vid to this thread, and I benefited. And thanks from me, too, for the perspective. I always suspected there was more worthiness to be found in Oxford, which after all nourished Faulkner, Barry Hannah and James Seawright. (OK, google Seawright)

Comment on Glenn Beck Thinks He’s Martin Luther King by I'm a Hick

I'm a Hick — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:40:21 +0000

‘Give the voters a choice between a Republican and a Republican, and they will choose the Republican every time.’

HST

Comment on Conservatives Pushing T-Shirts Calling For Obama’s Death by Bruce Henry

Bruce Henry — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:01:51 +0000

Lonya, that was an excellent takedown of Pharisee Phrank.

Comment on Video: Klanfail @ Ole Miss by Randy Brown

Randy Brown — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:04:12 +0000

That’s always, always the case with modern klan rallies. After all the bravado only a handful of them show up, outnumbered at least 10-1 by counterprotestors.

The KKK are your great-grandaddy’s fascists. It’s the skinheads, Palinauts and motherBeckers who need to be watched carefully.

Comment on UK Watch: A Comeback For Gordo? by MadDog

MadDog — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:00:25 +0000

Gordon Brown wasn’t “dealt a bad hand” as you put it. He was Chancellor for the 10 years that Blair was Prime Minister. He was instrumental in the endless trail of poor decisions and mis-management that led to us having a higher rate of borrowing than every previous Government COMBINED and our woefully inadequate defence against the sub-prime fiasco.
Nerd is too good a word for him, since nerds generally know what they are doing and are even quite good at it.
Brown may be a smart guy, but he doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing in Government. It’s painful to watch.
He has no mandate from the British voter, and it’s frankly disgusting the way he was allowed to take office by his mate who was on the way out, based on some arrogant agreement they’d made years before.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no sucker of Cameron’s cock, but if he gets in at least it will be because he was chosen at the ballot box. What would Americans do if you had a leader who was just handed office without actually being elected? Oh, wait… GWB… you’d take it up the tailpipe too, right?

Comment on Conservatives Pushing T-Shirts Calling For Obama’s Death by Zython

Zython — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:43:41 +0000

That’s the only way to explain the “And Obama’s days…” sentence without viewing it as a weird non sequitur to the one that precedes it.

So, “no” only in the sense that he hopes someone else will do his dirty work for him? Makes sense.

Comment on Video: Klanfail @ Ole Miss by Felix Helix

Felix Helix — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:43:08 +0000

That’s got to be the timidest protest ever. What, they just stood there for ten minutes doing nothing? The odd Sieg Heil and that’s it? Granted, their uniforms are nice and shiny, but they’re not making much of a statement. Not even a “we’re here, we’re racist, get used to it” banner. I guess it would have to be more like “we’re here, we’re racist, but we’re not going to let you know who we are because that could be risky.”

What a weird combination of flamboyance and closetedness.

Comment on Conservatives Pushing T-Shirts Calling For Obama’s Death by daniel rotter

daniel rotter — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:09:49 +0000

“Are you threatening the life of the PotUS?”

From his sentence just before “And Obama’s days as President will be few”, it appeared that Frank was indicating that people who make Christians and/or teabaggers mad will react in such a way that they will murder Obama (And please, don’t give me that crap that the quote is in reference to impeachment of Obama or him losing re-election in 2012. I’ve already explained why the former is an implausible excuse.. The latter explanation doesn’t stand up as well, since we’re talking about 3 years until November of 2012, which doesn’t exactly represent a “few” days). That’s the only way to explain the “And Obama’s days…” sentence without viewing it as a weird non sequitur to the one that precedes it.

Comment on Video: Klanfail @ Ole Miss by Cargo

Cargo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:57 +0000

Wait is this the last tea party? Republican convention?

Comment on “Faggot” Is New Conservative Way To Argue by daniel rotter

daniel rotter — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:48:37 +0000

No, that’s not the issue, Frank. This isn’t just “someone,” this is the co-chair of an organization representing a very prominent and vocal political and ideological movement.

Comment on Video: Klanfail @ Ole Miss by jr

jr — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:19:03 +0000

I’m glad people counter rallied against those gretawire commenters

Comment on Microsoft, News Corp Make Bid To Be Irrelevant by Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:12:10 +0000

Cuban really doesn’t understand this. He got lucky – amazingly so – with Broadcast.com being sold to Yahoo at the top of the market, but otherwise doesn’t know dick. People search not for brand names, but for an answer to their questions. Sure, it helps to have a source of authority as the answer, but Google – or any good search algorithm – will find the best available source. This stuff is walled-garden stuff that didn’t work 15 years ago when there were services like AOL and MSN, it sure as hell won’t work now.