Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/a-conservative-history-of-the-united-states.html" target="_blank">http://www.newyorker.com/onlin...tes.html</a> Some highlights: 1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: “The reason we fought the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.”—Rick Perry 1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.”—Dick Armey 1619-1808: Africans set sail for America in search of freedom: “Other than Native Americans, who were here, all of us have the same story.”—Michele Bachmann 1775: Paul Revere “warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells and making sure as he was riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.”—Sarah Palin. 1775: New Hampshire starts the American Revolution: “What I love about New Hampshire… You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world.”—Michele Bachmann 1776: The Founding Synod signs the Declaration of Independence: “…those fifty-six brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.”—Mike Huckabee 1787: Slavery is banned in the Constitution: “We also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.”—Michele Bachmann 1801: “Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.”—Glenn Beck 1812: The American War for Independence ends: “ ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’…that song—written during the battle in the War of 1812—commemorates the sacrifice that won our liberty.”—Mitt Romney snip 1964: Republicans fight for the Civil Rights Act: “We were the people who passed the civil-rights bills back in the sixties without very much help from our colleagues across the aisle.”—Representative Virginia Foxx 1967: Indonesia brainwashes its first Islamic terrorist spybot: “Why didn’t anybody ever mention that that man right there was raised—spent the first decade of his life, raised by his Muslim father—as a Muslim and was educated in a Madrassa?”—Steve Doocy 1967: Max Cleland blows himself up with a grenade trying to drink beer: “Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends.”—Ann Coulter 1967: John Kerry likely shoots himself in the leg in order to score a Purple Heart medal: “There are legitimate questions about whether or not… it was a self-inflicted wound.”—Michelle Malkin snip 2011: Obama outlaws fishing: people “can’t go fishing anymore because of Obama.”—Rush Limbaugh 2011: Obama provides health insurance for dogs: “In the health care bill, we’re now offering insurance for dogs.”—Glenn Beck 2011: President George W. Bush kills Osama bin Laden: “Thanks to George Bush…. Because if Obama had his way we wouldn’t have gotten bin Laden, you know that.”—Sean Hannity
Originally Posted By 182 57 states Obama "We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad" Obama
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "57 states Obama "We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad" Obama" I can just see the pathetic little internet search he had to do- "oh yeah, I'll show them. Obama said dumb stuff too. Yeah, here it is. Two of them. That'll do against those lebenty jillion by more people than I can count. Yeah, boy I showed them."
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Which brings up another point- Obama isn't the GOP's worst enemy. The GOP is their own worst enemy.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 What's great about that list is not only how many examples it shows, but that it shows the trifecta of mis or dis-information coming from the modern GOP. You have people who really are too stupid to know the difference, yet somehow won high elective office (Palin, Perry, Bachmann), people who might be somewhat brighter but who let ideology blind them (Malkin, Armey, Huckabee), and then people like Coulter and Hannity who probably really do know they're spreading hogwash, but also know that most of their "low information" audience won't recognize it as such and will simply swallow what they say.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Oh, and Donny, we went over the "57 states" thing, but I see you're still dishonestly spreading it.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox He has to, Dabob. It's part of his right wing marching orders. Like the good little foot soldier he is, Donny showed up right on cue to give us the same old tired "Heinz 57" Obama gaffe that he's used over and over and over again. Of course, he doesn't have the courage to challenge the more interesting discussions like the secret video tape of the Romney fundraising fiasco. But he does what little he can to serve his GOP Masters proudly.
Originally Posted By utahjosh Meh. This wasn't that funny. It was just sad, because people from both parties pretty much do this too often. "You didn't build that!" "I like being able to fire people" "I've now been in 57 states" "I'm not concerned about the very poor"
Originally Posted By Dabob2 You can argue that all of those statements were either Yogi Berra moments that came out wrong, or simply taken out of context (the "you didn't build that" certainly was the latter). But not the fundraising video. We have all 45 minutes of it, so "out of context" is out the window immediately. And what he said wasn't just a snippet here or there. It was a whole worldview that was both inaccurate and ugly.
Originally Posted By utahjosh Oops...I actually meant to post that on the out of context video thread.
Originally Posted By Tikiduck What these people spew could be considered demeaning to a thoughtful, intelligent audience. In the Alternate Universe of Republicans, they are idolized.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Oh, and Donny, we went over the "57 states" thing, but I see you're still dishonestly spreading it.<< Reason #439 why I quit the GOP: The dishonesty.
