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As someone who does not live in North Carolina and has very little interest in the politics of North Carolina (NO OFFENSE!), I’ve never heard of Renee Elmers before. I guess she is the Republican candidate running in the second congressional district against Bob Ethridge (whoever THAT is). Fair enough! Good luck! Except that she seems to have built her entire campaign around the “Ground Zero Mosque.” Uh, what? Excuse me, and I know that this is going to sound kind of obvious so I apologize, but WHAT THE FUCK DOES THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE HAVE TO DO WITH THE SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA? Unfortunately, that is not one of the questions that Anderson Cooper asked her during his interview about her incendiary campaign ad. However, he did ask her a bunch of other amazing questions, most of which were variations on “Do you have any idea what the fuck you are even talking about ever?” (A: “absolutely not, sir.”)
I know that we’re probably all a little exhausted with the whole Ground Zero Mosque thing, and also that very few of us have a vested interest in the second congressional district of North Carolina, but it is pretty thrilling/horrifying to watch Anderson Cooper straight BAT THIS BALL OF YARN AROUND.
Fuuuuuuck. Is it just me, or are there WAY MORE retarded assholes running for elected office these days? (And I mean “retarded” in the most insensitive and crassly clinical way. As in they are mentally impaired and that I have mean-spirited feelings about them and want to shove them into a locker.) You know what? I hope she wins. I hope all these people win. I hope they “take back the country” and water the White House Rose Garden with Brawndo, because those plants definitely need the electrolytes their stems crave. What is the worst that could happen? The inevitable and almost instantaneous collapse of the world as we know it* followed by a brief period of anarchic living nightmare followed by the eternal night? Sure. But that would probably be preferable to having to listen to this BULLSHIT anymore. VOTE RENEE ELMERS ON NOVEMBER 2ND! FOUR MORE YEARS! (Thanks for the tip, Benjamin.)
*I recognize it is kind of hyperbolic (but only kind of) to suggest that the world would instantaneously collapse if the Renee Elmerses of the world were elected, and I can certainly understand how it might suggest to someone with different political views than mine that I am having an insulting, knee-jerk reaction that would offend me were it to be inverted and turned towards people on “my side” of things. But I also would like to believe that even with these people we could find common ground in the fact that it is LESS THAN IDEAL to have boldly (and dangerously) incurious candidates who lack any discernible qualifications other than their ability to use SMALL WORDS, and who campaign on a platform of hatred and bigotry, running our country, regardless on where they stand on the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts or whatever the fuck.
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Someone’s looking better every day.
“Yes! It’s MY time!”
-Basilmarceaux.com (1885-2012)
I can’t believe that I was in New York City this past weekend and totally forgot to visit the Ground Zero Mosque so that I could protest it.
I bet they even have a tour bus that takes tourists by in the morning to protest and then stops at lunch for real New York pizza (covered in bagels and drug needles).
And then the real New Yorkers spit on you before gay marrying!
North Carolina has very strong ties to Constantinople, Gabe, so her rage is understandable.
“North Carolina! It’s got what candidates crave! It’s got electorates!”
“North Carolina! C’mon and raise up
Take your shirt off, twist it ’round yo head
Spin it like a helicopter.”
Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos.
“You are going to give North Carolina a bad name.” –Jesse Helms (1921-2008)
Like, for real!
“Duncan, you are dating a terrorist” – Renee Elmers
“dr. girlfriend, you are dating a terrorist. and i’m not talking about the monarch and his villainous acts!”
-Renee Elmers
Ms. Elmers, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
That truely did make my head hurt. Every time Cooper nailed her for being either racist or practicing bad politics, she just snapped back by trying to reverse the roles. I was going “BURN” in my head, while she was reorting by calling Cooper anti-religious and then when she got called out for smearing her opponent, she claimed her opponent had nothing to say about the issue and was trying to slander her. What…huh… how.. I dont even…. she represents everything that has gone wrong with politics in recent years.
Have fun at voting, North Calorlina’s 2nd district.
See, she made me so much dumber, I spelled Carolina wrong. Your thoughts, senator Davis?
I see what you did there.
Her intelligence is intimidating!
Instead of even acknowledging this person who it completely full of shit, let’s talk about how handsome Anderson Cooper is:
You are a handsome devil, Anderson Cooper, you silver fox, you.
I want him to bat ME around like a ball of yarn.
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crap, wait!
all I’m saying is you get to display 9 minutes of an idiot like this being racist and making no sense on your show, you really ought to be able end her fucking career. Like Jon Stewart did to Tucker Carlson and the guy with the stock show.
I felt like Coop kept getting her to say these really crazy things, and then kind of letting her go.
I was just trying to say that unless you’re really going to make someone like this eat their words, don’t put them on tv more.
What bothered me the most is that he failed to just say that her whole argument is irrelevant to the race she’s running. Sure it’s incendiary and stupid and wrong, but most importantly it has nothing to do with NC’s second congressional district.
Who cares about her opinion on this shit? I mean, it’s good to have opinions, even strong opinions, about national issues. But this is a national non-issue and it has literally no bearing on the well-being of people in North Carolina. It’s not like she has an opinion on a bill that could in some way affect her constituency.
MAH BOO!
FIGHT!
You… just…. have no idea. Christine O’Donnell is gonna be pissssssed!
Hi, Becca’s mom!
Remember when he was hosting The Mole? And we could say things like, “I am the mole…IN YOUR PANTS.”
Okay, maybe that was just me.
I had to stop at 1:45. Even the promise of staring at Anderson Cooper’s handsome, handsome face is not reason enough to watch this tripe.
I made it nearly four minutes, but now my brain is broken for the day. Sorry, job!
I got to 1:38 before I was fired for yelling, “Fuck you!” at my computer.
Does anyone understand what I do with my 401k? Do I just get it now, or what?
I thought I was only going to watch a couple of minutes, but it was like a car accident — I COULDN’T LOOK AWAY.
Gabe’s just mad because this lady has her finger on the pulse of America.
“omg seriously, we just sit next to each other, there’s no relation, really” – 3rd congressional district of north carolina
Ha, I actually live in the 4th NC congressional district, and I feel like pointing next door and saying, “HA, HA!”
Yup, I go to college in the 5th district and although Virginia Foxx is a stupid homophobic racist piece of shit asshole motherfucker cunt who voted against aid to the Gulf after Hurricane Katrina and against the Matthew Shepard Act, insisting that Matthew Shepard was killed “was killed in the commitment of a robbery” and not because he was gay, I’m glad Elmers is in the 2nd district. Seriously, fuck Virginia Foxx.
Blegh what an awful person. Not deserving of such a great pornstar name.
I don’t have a joke here because this post was actually pretty depressing.
2003 California Recall Election’s got NOTHING on 2010! It’s about to get CRAZY!*
*Scary
Seriously, right? I protest-voted for the porn star in that one and she was way more qualified than the lunatics up this year.
I don’t hope she wins, but I hope that some Australian woman tells her she won and she starts making a victory speech (about no-victory-mosques), and then the Australian woman tells her ‘oops, my mistake, you actually lost the election. shut up now.’
This is a victory mosque on the Burlesque (?) coat factory.
The terrorist have won over our lapels.
If I lived in North Carolina and just threw up on my ballot- that counts as a vote, yes?
Yes, but as a vote for HER.
You know, back in 2000, I was convinced that Al Gore wasn’t progressive enough, and I voted for Nader (because he had a rally in Madison Square Garden with Eddie Vedder and Phil Donahue, and I was convinced we were all raging against the MACHINE). I believed strongly that if George Bush were elected because I didn’t vote the lesser of two evils and support Gore, Bush would screw up so badly that nobody would ever elect a Christian Conservative Republican to office again and CASE CLOSED. I spent the following eight years in a tailspin of disbelief at how bad (relative to my political leanings) it got, and how much support the voters gave his administration.
I guess I’m saying that we should never underestimate the number of voters who BELIEVE this lady is right. The only way to really shut this lady and her ilk up is to vote against her in the polls.
Sorry to get all seriousgum – ten years of regret builds up in a man…
Fuck this. Sometimes I want to ride MY Segway off a cliff.
For what it’s worth, this is probably the Pope’s reaction to this lady:
I did the same thing in 2000, and I lived in Florida at the time, so imagine how shitty I felt during the subsequent eight years!
this makes me feel a little better about that night in 2000.
We all know the real threat.
“I’m a nurse and I’ve taken of every race, creed, color, and religion,” is the new “I’ve got a picture of a black person in my wallet.”
I highly doubt she has taken care of EVERY colour.
“Ooh hold on now: Purple or Green? You gotta draw the line somewhere!”
What a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch. Because obviously everybody knows that the best thing to do about something you know nothing about is to wage a campaign for national public office based solely on condemning that thing (that you know nothing about), and also that literally has nothing to do with the constituency you plan on representing.
If you’ll excuse me while I put on my bitter, vindictive hat…
okay
I’m glad these “retards” are going to get voted in. It is with a heavy heart that I will be moving out of DC this week (tomorrow through Sunday) and it gives me a modicum of joy to know I won’t be around while this transition takes place. I’m not talking about politically, I’m talking about having to ride the train with the hoards of pleated khaki and blue blazered assholes conspicuously carrying a worn copy of Atlas Shrugged and all the ill-mannered, self-important pricks that will be coming to DC in these congressional staffs, non-governmental conservative groups, and Rand Paul’s political appointments (if we actually make it to 2013).
I may not be staring a new and better life right now but at least I know everyone in DC will be miserable. Have fun at dinner, Washington, D.C.!
wwwest, all of us who live in washington dc are ALREADY miserable.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Rachel Zoe and Brad Goreski have literally split up.
http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2010/09/29/rachel-zoe-and-brad-goreski-calling-it-quits-amicably/
NOOOOOOOOO! I’m being absolutely serious, this is such tragic news (for me at least). Brad better get his own show, or at least stay in the public eye, because he is my imaginary boyfriend and how else are we going to go on dates?
You guyz should import our illustrious drunken irish leaders.
At least he looks fun!
This guy looks like an amalgam of my friends’ drunk dads.
I realize this is a reductive, angry, selfish statement, but as someone who grew up in Queens, spent summers in Brooklyn, and knows people whose friends and relatives died in the 9/11 attacks: stop talking about my city like it’s fragile and you need to swoop in and protect it from brown people, you stupid fucking Republican assholes from nowhere.
Hear Hear! My feeling is, if you didn’t smell the charred remains of 9/11 for the three weeks after it happened, you aren’t allowed to talk about it.
That’s right, Mom. I’m telling you to shut the hell up, too.
Amen.
“I do not know. And that is exactly my point.”
Rest your case!
North Carolinans are so dumb they care about other states issues. Soon you’ll have candidates in North Carolina saying that New York should increase subway fares to fund North Carolina wine mixers.
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I like to base opinions about a group of people on the actions of one person too!
nightheat was trying to do the thing where he’s pretending to be a person who is talking shit about the south, in order to show that people that talk shit about the south are intolerant.
I think that’s what was going on. It was fucking confusing.
Anyway, if that’s what it was, I want to be on record again saying I fucking hate when people do that. It is ok to be mad at the south for producing this woman. She’s a very typical product. You should be mad.
I find this woman, and any person like her, to be absolutely terrifying in the most pants-pissing way. The level of willful ignorance and pandering is astounding. When did being educated, worldly, and open-minded go out of style and being a horrible, xenophopic, dipshit become in style? Where the fuck am I?
And I am so fucking tired of people acting like anything to do with Christianity/Catholicism is wonderful. Religions are human institutions made up of fallible people. The fact that someone can be described as Christian does not automatically mean that they’re a good person!*
*Disclaimer – I don’t intend to offend anyone. I was raised in a religious household, etc. I just believe in respect for all religions/beliefs.
Sorry to be so seriousgum. People like this just bring it out in me.
Also, the fact that someone calls themselves a Christian doesn’t mean that they actually follow the teachings. The same goes for Islam.
When you have personal prejudices that need forcing down throats, it’s waaayyy easier to hide behind the cloak of ‘God says’.
Did you guys see this survey?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100928/ap_on_re/us_rel_religious_literacy_poll
“A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.”
I know that statistics are one of Twain’s three lies, but this is food for thought.
I go by ground zero all the time…do you know the utter depravity that occurs within a 2 block radius of this place? Drunk guys pissing in the streets, awful gordon gecko-like businessmen, prostitution, poor customer service at duane reade…
A relatively recent dearth of coats.
not to mention all the overpriced mediocre sandwiches….
it makes me want to explode with anger when I see things like this, and then it makes me want to cry when I know that LOTS OF PEOPLE WILL STILL VOTE FOR HER. But to be fair, those people probably wouldn’t watch liberal media like CNN in a million years. Unfortunately…they do watch Dancing with the Stars, and praising your daughter’s dancing certainly qualifies you to be president!
I’m not sure why you say ‘to be fair’ the people that are voting for her aren’t watching ‘liberal’ media.
First of all, if you vote for racism-woman by mistake, cause you don’t realize she’s racism-woman, that’s YOUR fucking fault. YOU didn’t fulfull YOUR responsibility to know that she is racism-woman. You want to vote based on the information you got from CNN, FOX… then fuck YOU idiot, not racism-woman. She’s racism-woman, that’s what she does. She’s the evil part of this. CNN is the slightly less evil fucking asshole that is putting out bad information. YOU’RE the fucking asshole who didn’t get the good information about things when it is right fucking there on the internet.
Second of all, most of the people that are going to vote for racism-woman understand that she is racism-woman, and that’s why they are voting for her. That’s why being racism-woman works. There is one in every election, and they win in some places. They are evil.
Third of all, CNN is not the liberal media. It is owned by billionaires who’s agenda is not liberal. They hire fake liberals and people who do not understand which side they are on – like AndersonCooperThreeHundedandSixty – and those people pretend to get mad. But he’s a fake liberal fuck who doesn’t know how to call a racist person a racist person, and let’s them get away with saying things on tv like “the people funding that mosque MIGHT be terrorists. they are muslims. you don’t know they are not terrorists.”
I agree with most of the things that you are saying and was for sure being sarcastic. I guess I should have used quotes when saying “liberal media” to be absolutely clear that I think saying “liberal media” is akin to saying “I have no responsibility to know any facts.”
I guess also to be clear, I should say that I do not think that having anything to do with Dancing with the Stars qualifies you for anything. Ever.
oops, sorry about my sarcasm meter
Her opponent, Bob Etheridge was this guy, who attacked the student on the DC sidewalk recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvngDKctIYg
Remember this guy?
Supposedly, their upcoming debate is just gonna be the two of them standing five yards apart, whipping feces at each other’s faces.
-Guy who lives approximately four miles outside of NC 2nd District
I thought he was the guy who sang Come To My Window
“FOUR MORE YEARS!”
But Congressmen only serve two-year terms. Also, 2012. #pedanticgum
The only thing more terrifying that this individual woman is that THOUSANDS of assholes across America are nodding their heads in agreement.
“We’ll tell them in plain ENGLISH”
Ohhhhh. I see what you did there.
“Les diremos en inglés sencillo.”
–translated for the international community
As someone from NYC, whose school was evacuated on 9/11 all i have to say is “Woman, shut the fuck up”
Sorry for the lack of a joke, this drives me nuts.
I’m the same way. I think this is a bad impulse to have, but, mentally, I go there every time.
To be fair, I’m also that way about the 2003 Blackout.
“I was there. I had to walk to Brooklyn from Midtown. And the whole time, I was carrying a hardcover of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”
Pat, you had to mention Harry Potter & the 2003 blackout and make me smile.
I’m just gleefully anticipating the day in the near future where I can watch ‘Ow, My Balls’ on TV any time I want!
Please join me this Sunday at the Burlington Coat Factory. Services will begin at 9am.
Has open season on Mama Grizzlies started yet?
The “best” part is that both candidates think that the “mosque” shouldn’t be built. Also, Anderson Cooper!
I hope this isn’t the lowest comment y’all have ever read.
We live in a bureaucracy, meaning, Muslims filed the paperwork first. If someone would have rather a church, cathedral, synagogue, temple, hall, shrine, or any other house of worship or pancakes been built instead of a mosque, they should have done the paperwork first. Someone needs to remind Renee Elmers and her ilk, “you snooze, you lose.”