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Guantanamo has to be shut down, so goes the liberal logic, because its very existence so antagonizes al Qaeda types that it is used as a recruiting tool for terror. Making the world a more dangerous and unsafe place. Indeed, President Obama himself has repeated this “logic” endlessly.
Well, OK then.
First news reports out of Austin, Texas are telling us that the pilot of the plane, in apparent antagonized mode, set fire to his house before flying a plane into a building that houses — yes — the IRS. The very same IRS that, using Obama-think, is itself the Guantanamo-style symbol of bad things in store for the American taxpayer at a time when everyone is saying taxes will have to be raised.
Ergo, President Obama and his liberal allies will surely now concede that their push to spend trillions, a push that they intend to use as an excuse resulting in higher taxes, is responsible for sending this apparently crazed pilot plunging into this Austin IRS headquarters.
So the question, of course: how soon will the Obama Administration shut down the IRS because it has become such a potent symbol that it serves as a magnet for those who wish to do harm to Americans?
If this incident does in fact show that someone with a grudge against the IRS did this — does this mean this incident is Obama’s fault?
Just asking.
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Robert| 2.18.10 @ 1:35PM
really, are you?
Jake| 2.18.10 @ 1:37PM
Yea yea it's all Obamas fault, and Bush was behind 9.11 and spectator.org is really an undercover branch of al queda.
Get off the internet dick for brains.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:32PM
I'm with you on this one, Jake
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 4:22PM
Of course you are, Mike--you are the same troll. Doofus.
sandy| 2.18.10 @ 1:37PM
you're an idiot
Mike | 2.18.10 @ 3:33PM
No Sandy, You're the idiot.
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:12PM
This is CERTAINLY not a very diverse attitude!
Karen| 2.18.10 @ 1:37PM
you might seriously be the most ignorant person ever.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:34PM
No Karen. You and Sandy are vying for this distinction.
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:13PM
How doess ASKING a question make one IGNORANT?
Anna| 2.18.10 @ 1:38PM
No, it does not mean it is his fault.
You are a moran.
Anna| 2.18.10 @ 2:01PM
Wow. Talk about being a MORON, I didn't even spell it right. Haha.
odmartin| 2.18.10 @ 2:34PM
No, "moran" is more than "moron," so different is better. On the larger issue, however, and unless I missed the boat, this whole thing was an attempt at satire. Most of the responses, however, make me wonder about the mental accumen of the posters.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:37PM
Satire, bulls**t. Lord is serious and you know it.
This is a idiotic, transparent conservative dodge, always used when the utter stupidity of the argument cannot be ignored.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 4:24PM
Mike, feel free to wipe your foam-flecked computer screen now.
Take a chill pill, troll.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:09PM
Your learned a new word - troll- today. Congratulations ZerObama. In a few years, you'll have a vocabulary.
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:16PM
Get a room would you?!?
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:32PM
ZerObama
I see you were asleep in English when the teacher was instructing you about tone.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 10:33PM
Tone? As in you're tone-deaf, troll?
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:14PM
HOORAY, We have a WINNER!!!!
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 1:40PM
OMG, seriously? Are you really so lacking in quality journalism that you need to resort to crap like this? Worthless. Maybe Andy is right.
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 1:40PM
She's right Mr. Lord, you are a "moran".
James W.| 2.18.10 @ 1:41PM
Wow, that may be the most idiotic thing I've read in a long time. How long before the author wises up and deletes the post?
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 1:42PM
Not soon enough I imagine.
Vernon Rosa| 2.18.10 @ 3:27PM
It's called satire, folks. The libs try to spin every situation so they can blame Bush for whatever problem they caused. Jeffrey Lord was in no way indicating in this piece that Obama was at fault, he was just taking a jab at how libs think. Lighten up.
Mike | 2.18.10 @ 3:38PM
See the above post Vernon.
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:19PM
Once again he is being ironic here so if the premise of the QUESTION upsets you NOW you know how the other half of us see it when you pull that crap, oops I meant poop, no I meant B.S.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 4:26PM
More liberal 'tolerance' on display. Free speech for me but not for thee, right libs?
Sieg Heil, libtards!!
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:10PM
You're free to speak, even if it is verbal diarrhea, and I'm free to ridicule. See, we both love the First Amendment.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 10:35PM
What is it about you trolls and bathroom humor? Must mean you have sh!t for brains, Mikey. Ha.
kevin| 2.18.10 @ 1:43PM
this is funny. i like it
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 1:45PM
I love how the comments are more interesting then the actual post.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 4:28PM
Lord is brilliant! Just look how easy it was for him to incite the useless libtard clowns. LOL!
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:34PM
You may want to scroll down and observe how nicely Lord backpedals.
ZerObama | 2.18.10 @ 10:36PM
S.A.T.I.R.E!!!! Learn to discern, bonehead.
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:28PM
Backpedals????? NO, he does not. He states the obvious TRUTHS without the LIBERAL SPIN below. First he gave you some of your own SPIN medicine in reverse and then posed QUESTION. Apparently when SPINS aren't BASHING a conservative you all can't handle it.
republitard| 2.18.10 @ 1:45PM
Is it Bush's fault that 9/11 happened? Is it Bush's fault we had anthrax attacks?
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 1:51PM
The only ones to blame for 9/11 are the terrorists who attacked us. Cowards. Get George and Osama in a fist fight, I'd put money on Bush, regardless how little I like him. Hmm, that does make an interesting daydream.
Missy| 2.18.10 @ 4:52PM
9/11 was Clinton's fault; his dereliction of duty during the 1990s caused the terrible deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans that awful day.
Thank God for George W. Bush; his courageous actions protected us from more Al Qaeda terrorist attacks.
Brian| 2.18.10 @ 1:47PM
Wow. Does the American Spectator PAY Jeff Lord for this drivel? Because they should totally ask for their money back.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:39PM
Are you kidding? They all agree with Lord.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 10:37PM
Yes, we all agree that Jeffrey Lord is a great writer.
Robert| 2.18.10 @ 1:48PM
You know what ... If you look at it in a twisted way we could understand how everything should be put on obama. He puts everything on President Bush
Bateman| 2.18.10 @ 1:53PM
Totally agree. You'd have to be twisted to find such an analog. And dishonest.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:41PM
Just as Bush did on Clinton.
Nobama| 2.18.10 @ 5:01PM
Liar! Bush had too much class to blame Clinton for anything--including 9/11. Idiot.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:12PM
Okay, so Bush let his handlers do the bashing, just as he let them do everything else. I stand corrected.
ZerObama | 2.18.10 @ 10:38PM
Who? Provide proof with your whine, libtard.
Andrew | 2.18.10 @ 1:53PM
Judging by these comments, I really don't understand how you have a column or any sort of audience that cares what you have to say. Is that Obama's fault too?
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 1:53PM
True, in a backward twisted way. I do think it's time to stop playing the "Bush did it" card.
Joe Stack| 2.18.10 @ 1:56PM
Even I have to rise from the dead to call this article completely asinine.
I was in Hell, but even the Devil said, "Wow, that Jeffry Lord -- what a douche!"
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:32PM
WHERE did you get those drugs? Can you get a refund, because they have eaten up your brain!
nick| 2.18.10 @ 1:56PM
Can I too get paid to write nonsensical bullcrap for American Spectator?
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 1:56PM
I started kind of a funny saying a while ago, "If it isn't one thing, it's Obama." Seems to have caught on a little. All in good fun.
ggoblue| 2.18.10 @ 2:01PM
boy anyone who doesnt get this blog is seriously stupid. i almost dont want to let you in on what he is saying. of course its not obamas fault. likewise closing gitmo will not placate our enemies. hes saying if you dish out that drivel you should have to take it. fricking idiots.
Ken| 2.18.10 @ 2:10PM
Lord's "analogy" is indeed moronic, and that make you the "fricking idiot."
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 2:11PM
We get that (I think). The post just takes such a long and skewed approach at making the point that it's easy to see how readers might get, um, confused at best.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:46PM
Nobody's confused Jeremy. Lord just made the mistake of showing us how he really see the world.
Missy| 2.18.10 @ 5:03PM
Oh oh! Lord did it now--he's outed himself.
Watch out, Jeffrey; Mike has his eye on you.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:14PM
Who is your eye on Missy? Palin? wink, wink.
ZeroBama| 2.18.10 @ 10:40PM
Nice dodge, moron.
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:35PM
Dodge or Government Motors (GM), LOL! Oh lordy I'll have to explain that one now!?!!?
Ken Roberts | 2.18.10 @ 2:06PM
Truly a sad day , I must go else where >
Rhonda| 2.18.10 @ 2:06PM
Did you even read Stack's letter?
S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 2:07PM
Well, I see my services are not needed here.
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 2:09PM
It would be hard to imagine how you could improve things.
cat| 2.18.10 @ 2:07PM
Obama was not mentioned in his manifesto--just Bush so I think Bush was to blame.
How about he was responsible for his own actions?? Conservatives love personal responsibility so I'm giving the pilot the responsibility.
Maddy| 2.18.10 @ 2:09PM
Seriously, I'll bet you get lost just about every time you drive into work. Unfortunately, you appear to have made it in today.
@ggoblue| 2.18.10 @ 2:12PM
@ggoblue. No everybody "gets" what he is trying to say. Everybody uniformly rejects this as having at least 6 breaks in logical/critical thinking. I suggest you take some classes in both before lambasting everybody here as idiots, oh sorry "fricking idiots". Wow... Narcissistic much?
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 2:15PM
"Narcissistic much?" HA. I love it. *writes that down*
Michae| 2.18.10 @ 2:15PM
I do not read The American Spectator and likely will never look at it again after reading Lord's article. I only discovered The AS(s) looking for news on todays plane crash in Austin.
I am responsible tax paying citizen who falls somewhere in the middle with regard to where I fit within the political spectrum. I look at every days events closely to help me to fine tune my understanding of the issues and how I feel in relation to them.
I will be certain to NOT let the opinions of this publication sway my feelings.
You have allowed yourselves to be discredited, at least in my own mind, in one jackass article.
I will now go to my email list and inform everyone I know what hogwash I discovered in your publication today.
Doh!bama| 2.18.10 @ 4:55PM
Yeah sure, Axelrod troll. Get a job, moron.
Michael| 2.18.10 @ 2:17PM
You are a moranic moron and a moronic moran.
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 2:23PM
English[edit] NounSingular
moran
Plural
morans
moran (plural morans)
1.An unmarried Maasai or Samburu warrior.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moran
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 2:28PM
Yes! HAHAHA Now we're having fun.
Anna| 2.18.10 @ 2:35PM
Hahaha. I love it!
Jeffrey lord| 2.18.10 @ 2:18PM
Readers all...
Ahem.
The only person responsible for this crash is the pilot. Not Obama. Not the IRS. Not you. Not me. Not Rush. Nor Beck. Nor anybody else.
The only people responsible for terrorism are the terrorists. Not Guantanamo. Not Bush. Not Cheney. The terrorists. Period.
How long exactly do you think it will take before liberals are blaming this crash on some conservative, somewhere?
Wake up. We are responsible for ourselves - and this idiot is 100% responsible for what he did. No one - no one - else.
Brian| 2.18.10 @ 2:34PM
I think almost everyone here gets that, Jeff.
But your argument -- that somehow your logic is parallel logic to that used by mainstream liberals -- is completely asinine and false, and thus the pillorying you receive is deserved.
Pete| 2.18.10 @ 2:41PM
Brian,
You are right on. They recognize the logic (meant to be a joke here, but normal for their kind) so they actually think Lord is serious. Quite amusing.
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:41PM
Parallel logic = We can do it but you can't logic???
PLEASE explain yourself! I don't understand ho it is LIBERALS can look into a mirror and find fault, that is SOOOOOO unlike them.
mt| 2.18.10 @ 2:45PM
when locals heard it was an IRS building, there was a group wanting to go bayonet the wounded.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:49PM
Lord,
I'll believe the sincerity of your first two statements if I ever see some balance in your opinions.
Your third statement a typical conservative straw man to deflect attention.
I agree with your last statement.
Brian| 2.18.10 @ 4:07PM
Addendum: The fact that you used this tragedy as a tool to take a potshot at liberals before the fire was even out was, by the way, entirely classless.
Nobama| 2.18.10 @ 4:59PM
Like you libtards would know anything about class (except class warfare, you excel at that).
BusHitler to you, classless clown.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:15PM
Nobama,
Doesn't your middle school have a debating team?
Nobama| 2.18.10 @ 10:42PM
Yes, does your pre-school?
Pete| 2.18.10 @ 6:45PM
3:12 pm is the answer to how long.
http://trueslant.com/michaelpe.....-building/
Jerry| 2.18.10 @ 2:20PM
Understanding satire is apparently a lost art...
Pete| 2.18.10 @ 2:24PM
Not even that far fetched satire at that. Anyone who can argue that the election in MA speaks to frustration at the lack of speed with which the progressive agenda is being enacted can certainly follow the logic in the argument above.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:50PM
Clearly lost on you , Jerry
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 2:21PM
Sure they missed your point, but who is to blame for that? I say Obama...
Jeremy| 2.18.10 @ 2:24PM
Naturally! :)
Steve| 2.18.10 @ 2:23PM
Well, it was only a matter of time before this hopped out, designed only to give birth to all of the talking points that will be spewing out across the airwaves tomorrow. This will be Rush's point, Beck's point, Fox's angle, and most certainly, airhead Palin will take it and run with that annoying down home style of hers. You can almost feel the warm glow coming from the teabaggers right now. They must love this.
Jody| 2.18.10 @ 2:23PM
Having read your article and now the follow up I can say with confidence that you are the Stupidest Person on the Internet.
Jeffrey Lord| 2.18.10 @ 2:29PM
Jody...
So when the fingers start pointing at Rush or Beck or Fox...you will be here to defend them? I'm pleased if not hopeful.
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 2:32PM
Sorry, but once you've lost Jody you've lost middle America.
Sonny| 2.18.10 @ 10:43PM
Or at least the idiot liberals in middle America.
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:48PM
I hope for our sake and the sake of future inspired satirical or ironic posts by you that you are not holding your breath with your hopefulness! I believe a few posts back someone mentioned CLASS. Bet they are all mad because you beat them to the punch, keep up the good work. By the way did ANY of the liberals ANSWER your question. NO! Not as eloquently as you did yourself!
@Jerry| 2.18.10 @ 2:23PM
@Jerry "A very common, almost defining feature of satire is its strong vein of irony or sarcasm, but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. The essential point, however, is that "in satire, irony is militant." This "militant irony" (or sarcasm) often professes to approve (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist actually wishes to attack."
I do not think this word means what you think it means...
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 8:53PM
OK professor. Simplify it down. Which word applies? and are you grading this on a curve for the liberals sake because I'm sure they would not want to offend anyone. Hey wait a minute, that is all they have been doing. No really, what do you think about the post? Just curious because you only seemed to be grading the word selection.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.18.10 @ 2:32PM
Jeffrey, I LOVE IT! HEH!
You whipped out your little rubber knee-hammer, tapped lightly.....and we are going to be watching communist, (pardon the shorthand), knee-jerks for the rest of the day.
Good joke!
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 2:35PM
Watch it Texas, these varmints will turn on youfaster than a sidewinder on a merry go round.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:57PM
Ken,
I find your fantasy life quite amusing.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 10:44PM
That's good, bonehead, because the joke's on you!
Lawrence Bosch| 2.18.10 @ 2:34PM
Finally, an American with the guts to stand up to the monstrous tyranny of life in Obama's America. Joe Stack, we will avenge you! America can't survive the marxist onslaught by the Kenyan and his al qaeda collaborators in the demrat party. Joe reminded us in the most dramatic way. He is the first martyr of the Tea Party activists who are taking back America in his name! God preserve his soul!
@Jerry| 2.18.10 @ 2:36PM
Ah, Satire!
Lawrence Bosch| 2.18.10 @ 2:42PM
0Lawrence Bosch| 2.18.10 @ 2:42PM
*Shhhh! It's our secret*
Franz Liebkind| 2.18.10 @ 2:39PM
You sniveling cowards! Cringing under a desk. Clinging on for life like baby butterflies. I am going to show you how to die like a man
[points gun to his own head and attempts to kill himself but is unsuccessful and then throws gun onto the couch and a bullet shoots out]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395251/quotes
Brian| 2.18.10 @ 2:34PM
Blaming Obama for this pilot's plane crash is beyond craziness like anyone has imagined because that is someone who's going insane. Maybe before he decided to burn his house and fly a plane into an IRS building to kill innocent people is not only insane but dumb and stupid. For everyone who's out there who has such idiotic plans to harm innocent people because of a system or a logo should start thumbing through the yellow pages and make an appointment to see a psychiatrist and may want to keep rolling through the yellow pages until they find a good lawyer. A symbol does not draw you to commit suicide and murder all in one shot and let's get it straight. If you want to post stuff like this make it something positive things that the people in the neighborhood do.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 10:45PM
Dang, you're crazy. Miss your rubber room much?
allen| 2.18.10 @ 2:35PM
You're comparing a federal branch of the government responsible for the enforcement of tax policies of our country to an entity infamous around the world for torture, inhumane treatment, and civil rights abuses? Seriously?
Cpm| 2.18.10 @ 4:23PM
Ever been audited?
CJohnson| 2.18.10 @ 2:39PM
Fret Not Jerry; the 'cliches' the libtards cut and paste into comment boxes provide insight into how mighty your pen is at confounding these dicks. Carry On.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 3:59PM
CJohnson,
I have the name of a good neuropsychologist.
Rahm| 2.18.10 @ 10:46PM
Good thing, too--you need one.
jen| 2.18.10 @ 2:41PM
Um....some of the young libs writing on here should maybe read it again and try to imagine that the author just might have been writing satirically. If you didn't get that, you're over your head on this site.
Bokonon| 2.18.10 @ 3:14PM
Jen: maybe you or some of the other experienced, grizzled 'cons on here should call out the stupidity of this article. You know, instead of being silent, or instead of trying to flip this into a gripe about liberals not having brains or a sense of humor. Nice try. But ... you fail. Guess you are in over your head.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 11:19PM
According to the latest CNN Poll--52% of Americans would vote AGAINST Obama at this time.
It only took one year for you stupid liberals to screw everything up for yourselves! America hates you now.
Must be a record, and you didn't even get ObamaCare passed!! LOL!
Sucks to be you, libtards. See you clowns on November 2, 2010.
We'll be there.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 4:01PM
Ah yes. The cons have the talking point. Now all of you are going to start pushing the satire bs. Go and follow the herd, Jen
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 9:00PM
Can you say satire, "Yes we can"
Can you say jealous because they have NO talking point "Yes we can"
Can you say Mooooo louder liberals "YES WE CAN"
really Mike get a talking point
CHummel| 2.18.10 @ 2:43PM
Jeffrey; sorry, not Jerry.
Jeffrey Lord| 2.18.10 @ 2:45PM
Allen....
Seriously....
You seem to miss the point entirely. I don't give beans what Guantanamo is known for, particularly since 99% of it is BS. But even if it were 0 true...or if it never existed...the terrorists will be terrorists. Guantanamo did not exist on the morning of 9/11.
The point is not Guantanamo, and its not the IRS. Its not Obama. Not Bush. Its the very simple, correct idea that everyone is responsible for their own actions. Period. End of story. Seriously.
S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 2:47PM
Who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians in the Iraq war?
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 2:48PM
Saddam Hussein?
S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 3:04PM
Saddam Hussein did not have them killed, and as we know "everyone is responsible for their own actions" and everything happens in a vacuum, right?
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 3:07PM
Just funnin ya
Gina| 2.18.10 @ 10:47PM
Thin skinned b@stard, ain't he? LOL
Jon| 2.21.10 @ 9:03PM
I followed that link to obama's home page, lol
michael | 2.18.10 @ 2:45PM
Wow, nice shot CJohnson. Speaking of dicks, how did Bush's taste?
Michelle O.| 2.18.10 @ 10:49PM
Geez, Michael; do you kiss Obama's ass with that mouth?
@Jen| 2.18.10 @ 2:49PM
Neither a Liberal no young here. As others have said, assuredly on many different points on the political spectrum, this is not satire, this is a leap of illogical thinking that is designed to be purely political and antagonistic in nature. If this was intended to be satirical, the author clearly failed, as this is not satire. As a logical standpoint this is the most ludicrous application of logical fallacy. Your desire to insult all those who do not agree with your assessment as somehow moronic or young or liberal not only shows you to be completely partisan, and self centered enough tho think you are the only person who has any sort of intelligence. Were I you I would rethink my life and how I view others.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 10:52PM
Good thing you liberals can see what's in the author's head, Jen--must be all that 'transparency' Obama was talking about last year.
Now, finish your homework so you pass eighth grade this time.
Big Jim| 2.18.10 @ 2:55PM
I just want to say a word on behalf of the Morans. I know several familys with that fine last name and they are all wonderful poeple. I wonder what outfit directed all the morons like Steve and Jody [just above] to this post. They obviously represent a concerted effort, on the part of some lefty blog, to twist Jeffrey's humor into an excuse to snivel & whine about "unfair" talking points by those on the right. Go home you stupid a-holes & stick your heads up each others butts!
Mark| 2.18.10 @ 2:56PM
Let's call it what it is.
Right wing fanatical terrorism.
How is it not?
Ellis| 2.18.10 @ 4:20PM
Probably because the note he left reads like Keith Olberman wrote it. This guy was a sick leftist nut job. Shall we call it left wing fanatical terrorism? Kind of like the University prof in Alabama? the left is angry right now.
Cpm| 2.18.10 @ 4:28PM
Read the last two lines of his note. He hates capitalism and admires communism. He hates corporations and Wall Street bankers. Sounds kinda leftwing, if anything.
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 2:59PM
Everything was going fine until Anna opened her pie hole...
Jill| 2.18.10 @ 3:00PM
Jeffy Jeffy Jeffy,
You are an amazingly poor political strategist. The Gipper wouldn't be proud.
It is very simple, the correct idea is that people like you that knowingly inject this type of propaganda into the media stratosphere are to blame for the current decline of every aspect of America.
Tim| 2.18.10 @ 3:09PM
Jill's never been the same since she got back from that hill, and the terrible incident with Jack.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 10:54PM
She fell down and broke her crown or did she come tumbling after?
Lawrence Bosch| 2.18.10 @ 3:01PM
I think it is clear to everyone that had not Obama threatened the American middle class with enslavement and complete dissolution of the Republic into a dystopian marxist nightmare, none of this would have happened. If he cared about America, he'd resign and surrender to the authorities for violation of immigration laws. The fact that Patriots are not snapping and attempting their own suicidal protests against the government of the satanic kenyan is a measure of the Patriot Movement's incredible restraint and resolve in the face of an enemy of immeasurable evil.
S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 3:06PM
THIS is how you do satire! Take notes, Mr. Lord.
Max Bialystock:| 2.18.10 @ 3:06PM
THAT'S OUR HITLER!
Jill| 2.18.10 @ 3:09PM
Are you serious? Satanic Kenyan? If by the patriot movement, you are referring to the tea baggers and birthers... you are as deranged as the author of this non-sense editorial.
Jack| 2.18.10 @ 10:55PM
Jill, somewhere a rubber room is missing you.
JA| 2.18.10 @ 3:11PM
Excellent! Well done sir. The sarcasm comes raging through in this comment. Satire well done.
@ Lawrence Bosch| 2.18.10 @ 3:21PM
Great use of Satire, show Jeffery here how it is done!
JA| 2.18.10 @ 3:06PM
Good replies Jeffery. I understood the use of satire here, but for me (and obvious others) it just didn't come out well. I did however enjoy your article about health care reform ("Who will tell Michael J Fox he needs to die?" http://spectator.org/archives/.....l-j-fox-he). The satire in that article was clear, unlike this. I admire your good form in your replies as well.
Lawrence Bosch| 2.18.10 @ 3:10PM
Just watch: Obama will secretly revoke the tax credit for Cessnas and small planes. Ha! The jackal thinks he's so clever! Onward Christian Soldiers! Marching as to War!
Me| 2.18.10 @ 3:13PM
He left a letter. I don't think he blames any one person, but the only president he mentions in a not so flattering way is George W. Bush. Here's the letter. I would jump on the "you're an idiot" bandwagon but...you're just too easy of a target.
Read his letter here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw.....suici.html
S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 3:13PM
Visiting Liberals: where was this piece linked, that led you all here (if I may ask)? Is this a KOS-attack?
@S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 3:29PM
How about none at all...
Conservatives to can also call BS to conservative articles, authors and blogs. Otherwise conservatives are truly cut of the sheep cloth as the liberal keep saying. It is OK to call a spade a spade, even if it is from the same "side" as you. But if you really think this is about sides, and need to support "your side" regardless of intellectual honesty, you would be better to follow football over politics. This sort of thinking from both the left and the right is destroying the USA faster than any one party.
S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 3:36PM
How about you ask the regular commenters here whether they consider me on their "side", see how that works out for you.
S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 3:44PM
So, in which case your giving credit to an influx of liberals because of clarity of thought, and the ability to call out a conservative writer as being grossly incorrect and way off the mark if it were satire? So to you clarity of thought must mean agreement of your political platform, so could not have come from conservative thinkers? Interesting, but ultimately ends at the same conclusion, regardless of political ideology.
S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 3:47PM
I don't remember writing this. And I still don't understand it. ESL?
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 5:05PM
Look at all of Toddard's clueless friends. You should feel right at home, Turddard.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:39PM
ZerObama
In my earlier post, I confused you for a middle schooler. Apologies. I see you are in late elementary school, a time when kids are generally fascinated with the scatological.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 11:03PM
May I remind you of your 'verbal diarrhea' post above? Pot call kettle.
You must be a pre-schooler.
CC| 2.18.10 @ 3:30PM
No, several people on Twitter were speculating about how long it would take for Fox News to blame it on Obama. Someone else responded with a link to this story.
S.L. Toddard| 2.18.10 @ 3:37PM
Thanks - just curious.
Jeffrey Lord| 2.18.10 @ 3:51PM
S.L.
You really believe terrorists are not responsible for what they choose to do? Really?
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 4:03PM
CC
Its the Fox Opinion network, not News
Nobama| 2.18.10 @ 5:07PM
Yes, unlike the totally neutral MSDNC network, right, Clown?
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:40PM
Is this supposed to pass as a denial that its the Fox Opinion network?
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 11:00PM
Deny what? The fact that Fox beats the snot out of all the other Cable News shows? That Fox is by far the most trusted News network?
Looks to me that you're the one in denial, stooge.
CC| 2.18.10 @ 3:16PM
Using the cliché "just asking" to end a story is a sure sign that even the writer can't quite swallow the argument they just made. A good thing to watch out for, dear reader.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 4:04PM
But make no mistake about it. He wants you to swallow it.
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 5:08PM
Looks like HuffPo threw up all over this thread.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:19PM
ZerObama
Does your mom know you are on the computer?
CC| 2.18.10 @ 5:29PM
Seeing left-wing conspiracies everywhere?
(hint: try searching Twitter for "austin plane spectator" and you'll see the tweets that led some new people here).
ZerObama| 2.18.10 @ 11:05PM
At least I don't live in my mom's basement, Mike.
Jim| 2.18.10 @ 3:16PM
All because the IRS wouldn't buy his bullshit that a Grand Piano was a legitimate deduction for an accountant?.
Major Tom to Ground Control: You've really made the grade.
Pete| 2.18.10 @ 3:17PM
I don't care where they came from, I'm just glad they did. This is better than a comedy club any day. Thanks JL.
A Stephens| 2.18.10 @ 3:23PM
I'm reminded of Austin Powers when Dr. Evil says to his son, "you just don't get it -do you Scott?".
Well done Mr. Lord
Big Jim| 2.18.10 @ 3:27PM
Whatever Bosch thinks he's satirizing it's not Jeffry, it's not conservatives & it's not the tea party folks. I'm guessing it must be the far left that is so disappointed with BO's centerist policies. Damn that BO!
Bean| 2.18.10 @ 3:30PM
This article makes me sad
SATAN| 2.18.10 @ 3:31PM
Honey, everyone knows Obama is to blame for everything. Even for stupid F**cks like you getting to tout your inane opinion.
See you soon. Come back Joe.
Occam's razor| 2.18.10 @ 3:55PM
Come on, guys, it's satire. The idea is to compare the" Obama tax rise/IRS obnoxiousness leads to terrorism" argument with the "we need to close Gitmo, it encourages terrorism" argument and show the ridiculousness of both.
My compassion goes out to the Federal workers who were innocent victims of this dastardly attack.
glenn beck| 2.18.10 @ 3:56PM
Of course this is Obama's fault. I mean how could he not have seen this coming, Jeff. He's just going to use this as part of his political socialist communist totalitarian Hitler agenda. Quick everyone grab your guns and hide!
Philo T. Farnsworth| 2.18.10 @ 5:54PM
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002180043
Beck on reported suicide pilot's manifesto: "It sounds like anything you could hear in a speech from Van Jones".
***
From the February 18 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck.
Sonny| 2.18.10 @ 11:06PM
Does David Brock of media matters have lotion? The Red Eye robot wants to know.
glenn beck| 2.18.10 @ 3:57PM
just saying!
David| 2.18.10 @ 4:24PM
Naturally libs get angry when someone has the nerve to point out their hypocracy.
Bokonon| 2.18.10 @ 5:46PM
Naturally, 'cons see everything as a political opportunity to attack liberals. And clearly, a tragedy like this is really about ... wait for it ... liberal hypocrisy!
Wow. Total win there, David.
Nice spelling, by the way.
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IT Corner » Blog Archive » The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Austin Plane Crash: links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
SK| 2.18.10 @ 4:45PM
The lefties blame the wingers, saying they're stupid and/or selfish. The right wing calls the liberals stupid and/or naive. When will you all realize we have more in common than what divides us?
Both our elected Democrats & our Republicans have sold out to the super rich who are stealing our national wealth and turning us into a third world nation. Both sides facilitate the destruction of our middle class, because the rich can’t stand that our great nation has pesky rules like minimum pay, child labor laws and the like. While the left makes the working and middle class pay for intergenerational welfare programs, the right makes us pay for thieving war profiteers, and both sides enforce wealth redistribution from the middle class to the banksters on Wall Street. Bush cheated to get elected and stuck us with the longest war since WWII, where we have to pay the bad guys to not kill us. Obama wants to saddle us with faux healthcare reform that forces us to pay even more money to the insurance companies who created this crisis, so they’ll have even more money to bribe/lobby our politicians. NEITHER SIDE cares about you and me anymore. No wonder this guy gave up.
Quit pointing fingers at the other side and do something about the biggest problem we face – rampant, disgusting Plutocratic takeover of our government by the super rich.
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Alleged ‘Suicide Manifesto’ Written By Pilot of Austin Plane Crash [Full Text] at Ir links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
David / Rockofliberty | 2.18.10 @ 4:51PM
Glenn,
Are you still undesided on socialism? I've stoped listening to you and I'd like an update.
Greg| 2.18.10 @ 4:55PM
@Toddard: Well, as a visiting liberal, truth be told?
When I first heard about the Austin thing, I did a google search for "Obama's 9/11", figuring that it was only a matter of hours until someone, somewhere, tried to connect the threads in some ridiculous manner.
The first one up so far is this "satirical" piece comparing the fact that us libs say that the decade-long detention, without charges, of a punch of people who it ends up actually were innocent back in 2001 contributes (along with a shit-ton of other stuff) to the ill will that can lead someone to take up arms against us, to saying that the fact that a guy cheated on his taxes, got caught, and flew a plane into an IRS building proves that Obama's responsible for it, for having taxes at all. See, I'm reasonably well-versed in satire, but there's still a few holes in that logic, all the same.
Happy Grandma| 2.18.10 @ 4:59PM
I cannot believe half of what I am reading. I caught a link to this page to see what the article was about. I caught the satire right away, but cannot believe all the childish comments some are leaving! What I find even worse is the way people have to swear or put others down just because they disagree with someone else's thoughts or politics. I worry about the direction of our Country these days for obvious reasons, but am frightful of the lack of decency towards one another. I was taught to be polite whether I agreed with someone's ideas or not. Resorting to swearing or putting another down just for those reasons is nothing less than a 'school yard brawl'.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 5:21PM
Happy Grandma
Why not join the fun?
Just asking.
Bokonon| 2.18.10 @ 5:51PM
I am not seeing the satire, Happy Grandma. If there is satire here, it is so deeply cloaked that most of us are missing.
No - I think Mr. Lord is entirely serious - that twist of the knife about "liberal logic" at the beginning is telling that this is meant in earnest and is intended as an attack, not as a joke. And THAT is a perfect example of the lack of decency that you cite. It really bothers me too. But let's recognize it when we see it.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 11:09PM
BUSHITLER!! Now that's the decency liberals are proud of.
Do you recognize your ridiculous hypocrisy, Bokonon? You liberals don't know decency from a hole in the ground.
Bokonon| 2.19.10 @ 2:44PM
And it appears that you don't realize what a ridiculous self-parody you are being. You are essentially claiming, hey, someone said something mean about President Bush at an anti-war rally several years ago, so all bets are now off - we conservatives can do and say whatever we want from here on out! No rules! Civility is dead! And it is someone else's fault! Bawahahaha!
Sort of inconsistent with Happy Grandma's point, dude. And you are proving mine.
Austinman| 2.18.10 @ 5:04PM
Love the way people cop out of opinion with the cowardice of "Just asking". Grow a pair and stand behind your words. Not only Jeffery Lord a complete idiot, he even make that fact irrelevant by being totally spineless.
Franklin| 2.18.10 @ 5:44PM
Jeffrey Lord,
Great article. It’s so frustrating trying to follow the uber left’s logic. Up is down and inside is out.
Thanks, I don’t feel so alone knowing that others have the same issue.
Bokonon| 2.18.10 @ 5:56PM
So, Franklin - what's your logic? That people are justified in crashing airplanes into buildings if they get mad enough at Obama? Or that acts of violence against the federal government are really a fair indictment of the federal government?
Gosh ... it is so frustrating trying to follow the ultra right's logic on these things. Up is down and inside is out.
Mike| 2.18.10 @ 11:11PM
"PROJECTION is a pillar of Leftist thought."
Get the point, Bokonon, or is it above your pay grade?
Bokonon| 2.19.10 @ 2:39PM
Is that all you have, Mike? Pretty weak.
"Putting quotes around things" is "such a great way" to "make your point."
I guess if I say something like "behaving like an asshat is a pillar of right wing blog posting," and put it in quotes, that makes it true, eh?
Buh bye. Thanks for playing.
Lawrence Bosch| 2.18.10 @ 6:07PM
Why do satirists hate America?
Just asking.
Lawrence Bosch| 2.18.10 @ 6:15PM
A friend in the media told me that careful examination of surveillance recordings near the office tower in Austin reveal Barack Obama leaping from the plane moments before it hits the office building and being intercepted by a black helicopter.
Clearly, Obama's plot is to paint all Christian Soldiers as homocidal maniacs. Joe Stack was fabricated by al qaeda operatives and their collabotors in the demrat party. There is no Joe Stack in the Austin phone book.
Now you know the rest of the story.
Pete| 2.18.10 @ 6:19PM
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Sarcasm - A Dangerous Tool links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Get the Word 'No You Can't' Out of Your Vocabulary! links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Austin Plane Crash: Is It … < Read what Young A links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Rightbloggers Attack Left With, Defend Selves From Joe Stack Associations links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Neil H| 2.19.10 @ 5:40AM
The thing I get from this article is that Lord thinks that the American government committing war crimes is basically the moral equivalent of the American government collecting taxes from people. That's the only way the whole thing makes any sense at all.
Interesting perspective.
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Another Good Whiner Angry at God and Asking Why He's Gonna Die links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Learning to Receive -- God Has So Much in Store for Us! Can We Accept It? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Lawrence Bosch| 2.19.10 @ 3:05PM
http://tinyurl.com/yz35enl
Here's some satire for you, Mr Lord!
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Photomaniacal » Blog Archive » Austin plane crash: the online reaction | Richard Adam links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
USA#1| 2.19.10 @ 8:32PM
Here's an interesting thought Jeffery:
This man flew a plane into a building on US soil. He essentially attacked our country to protest our current way of life. He was preaching his propaganda and trying to bring his attention to his cause. This sounds very familar to events and motives of 9/11/01. The country responded by declaring a war on terror and arresting those that had similar anti-US beliefs as the 9/11/01 terrorists. So, Jeffery, are you suggesting that the USA should respond in the same way, and hunt down these current cells within the USA that are criticizing our government, as they now pose an obvious threat to our national security? Just asking...
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Tony's Kansas City: A Prayer For The Local Real Estate Market | Kansas Real Estate links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Eric| 2.22.10 @ 2:05PM
To the author of this article,
This is a sad excuse for journalism, and so is this website. The conservative movement died and you lost all your power in government, now this is the only means in which you can express your jaded bigot minded opinions. You foolish conservatives repeatedly hold back advancements in science that c0uld benefit mankind tenfold.
Hurry up and cease to exist so the world can move on from your stupidity that you breed.
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Political Irony › Justifiable Terrorism? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Crazy Stuff XD » Justifiable Terrorism? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Austin plane crash: the online reaction | Richard Adams | NewsBag links to this page. Here’s an excerpt: