I would have posted this sooner but I ended up locked in a two-hour Twitter battle over it, the highlight of which was my being compared to a hypothetical German in the early years of the Third Reich who refused to go jumping to conclusions about Hitler.
I was part of that Twitter battle (not the one who made the Germany reference), so I wanted to get my two cents in here. AP is having the wrong argument:
The RNC does occasionally display suicidal tendencies - see, e.g., pretty much anything to come out of Michael Steele's mouth over the past few months - but I can't believe they intended to call Pelosi a "pussy" knowing how offensive it is, how many votes it could cost them, and how outrageously outraged the media would be on her behalf as a way of changing the subject from her lies about waterboarding.
I don't think the RNC was "calling her a pussy," either. Any kid on a playground will tell you that makes no sense. They were clearly equating her with a movie character named "Pussy Galore," which actually is demeaning. They also feature a mimic of the sexually charged Bond titles sequences. Maybe the sexy woman with her back turned is supposed to be the CIA, not Pelosi.
However, at the end of the video, they display a graphic that says "Democrats Galore." Here, they are definitely calling the Democrats "pussies," I guess for their stand on torture? It's funny how much conservatives talk tough about torture, except for the ones who have been tortured. (See also: non-pussy John McCain.)
Thanks to liberal Democrats like Obama, our troops have been suffering under stifiling rules of engagement, that make their jobs harder and more dangerous. And that is a fact Jack.
The liberal Democrats on the San Francisco City Council even voted to disband the entire military. Home of San Fran Nan Pelosi among other whackos. Another fact Jack.
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Gregory Dittmer
5:01PM May 23rd 2009
Nuge 4:38PM May 23rd 2009 Thanks to liberal Democrats like Obama, our troops have been suffering under stifiling rules of engagement, that make their jobs harder and more dangerous. ########################################################################
Just what are these "stifiling rules of engagement" that Obama and/or the Democrats have put into place?
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Cube
5:31PM May 23rd 2009
Nuge. I forgot about all of those rules of engagement orders. Like, the ones you don't cite to and the ones we know of (see rotting carcass of your post and pirates).
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I happen to know several people, who were fighting UNDER BUSH...
and their were NOT ALLOWED to even fire upon anyone, anything...I heard way too many stories about, how they would be in such danger, but could not do anything, until the very second that it became their life, or the life of the person coming at them, I have a friend, that took a beionet to the stomache, because his CO told him NOT to engage.
You do not know what you are speaking of, at all.
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bob
12:04AM Jun 8th 2009
For one thing my name ain't Jack and your just a sore loser. With people like you no wonder why the RNC is falling apart and looking like a fool.
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bill
4:42PM May 23rd 2009
I think that's HI-LARIOUS, and appropiate. Watch the video of barry sniffing Abdullah's nuts again, and try to deny it. Oh yeah, barry, if you want to create jobs and turn around our economy, why won't you allow new oil drilling? Ever hear of the Bakken? Sure, move away from oil, but until we can do it, why not use our own oil? Yeah, I know, it might upset the spotted tree slug, right? PUSSIES!
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Gregory Dittmer
5:07PM May 23rd 2009
bill 4:42PM May 23rd 2009 Oh yeah, barry, if you want to create jobs and turn around our economy, why won't you allow new oil drilling? **********************************************************************
No one is stopping "new oil drilling" in the tens of thousands of acres of currently leased grounds. In fact, since the price of crude started dropping, the oil companies have stopped drilling and cut back on refining. During the run up in crude prices, oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico increased by 100 times... now it is down by some 20%. If you want to blame someone for laying off thousands of workers and driving up the price of gasoline and other oil products... look no further thsan the oil companies themselves.
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Cube
5:34PM May 23rd 2009
Us "pussies" just beat the shit out of your party in every branch of government. I'd rather be a "pussy" than a dirty asshole or have a Dick (Cheney) behind me.
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Dawn
5:25PM May 23rd 2009
She should be called alot worse than that. She is a traitor and should be treated as such.
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Dawn
1:29PM Nov 4th 2009
You have to drill where the oil is. ANWR has it. Offshore has it. But even if we drill it we still need approval for more refineries.
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workergy
11:14AM May 24th 2009
Well as far as the oil that is there, The oil land will be leased and the oil will belong to the company that drills it and under NO obligation to keep it here in the USA. Like alot of our Texas oil it will be shipped to Japan wher they will get a better price and we will be the Chumps for believing that the Oil companys have the USA their first priority !! Remember who has alot of stock in the oil companys.
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bill
5:31PM May 23rd 2009
That's pure comedy, gregory. I can't imagine the reckless policy of running our national debt to unheard of proportions, and taxing everybody who has two nickels to rub together has anything to do with it. Maybe you haven't noticed it yet, but everything is getting more expensive. That's why barry has to push through all of the ridiculous, un-american, unconstitutional, legislation as soon as possible, because when people start to see the results, no one will support what is being done, but by then, we will have no rights left. You will be one of the ones crying, "This isn't what we meant" but it will be too late. How many people supported the COMMUNIST revolution in Russia, and when they saw the results, risked everything to escape what they had created? Why were soldiers with machine guns shooting women and children who were only trying to get out? I suppose you think pouring a little water on someone's face is far worse than killing innocent people. And if you listened to what dipshit mancow said, he had drowned and had to be revived as a child.
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LaMonte
1:47PM May 24th 2009
and you think all of this happened within the last 100 days?
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Truth
5:33PM May 23rd 2009
You will see comments on these boards, posted repeatedly by a troll with the alias Pundit. Pundit is posting "facts" on The Bush administration's involvement in various incidents of brutality, or torture. While some of these incidents did actually occur, those guilty have been punished. The remainder of the alleged incidents are not proven, but are being trumped up for propaganda purposes. It is well to remeber the saying: "Consider the source." A common wisdom we've all heard throughout our lives. It is particularly important today. This whole torture issue is being driven by the most dangerous man in America: George Soros. He hates Bush, and the Untited States, and has made it his lifes work to destroy both. He is the puppetmaster behind the democrat party, and the architect of it's shift to radical leftist thinking. He founded the Open Society Institute, which is funding many groups, including MoveOn.org (which controls the Democrat party), and Human Rights First, which is the group spearheading the push to prosecute Bush for war crimes. Human Rights First has teamed up with the ulra-left Aclu, another Soros funded organization, to try to force charges against Bush and Cheney. Soros has an admitted mission to destroy Bush, Cheney, conservatives and ultimately capitalism and Christianity.
This is serious stuff. Here is more on Soros:George Soros is one of the most powerful men on earth. A New York hedge fund manager, he has amassed a personal fortune estimated at about $7.2 billion. His management company controls billions more in investor assets. Since 1979, his foundation network -- whose flagship is the Open Society Institute (OSI) -- has dispensed an estimated $5 billion to a multitude of organizations whose objectives are consistent with those of Soros. (The President of OSI and the Soros Foundation Network is Aryeh Neier, former Director of the socialist League for Industrial Democracy.) With assets of $859 million as of 2005, OSI alone donates scores of millions of dollars annually to these various groups, whose major agendas can be summarized as follows: promoting the view that America is institutionally an oppressive nation promoting the election of leftist political candidates throughout the United States opposing virtually all post-9/11 national security measures enacted by U.S. government, particularly the Patriot Act depicting American military actions as unjust, unwarranted, and immoral promoting open borders, mass immigration, and a watering down of current immigration laws promoting a dramatic expansion of social welfare programs funded by ever-escalating taxes promoting social welfare benefits and amnesty for illegal aliens defending suspected anti-American terrorists and their abetters financing the recruitment and training of future activist leaders of the political Left advocating America’s unilateral disarmament and/or a steep reduction in its military spending opposing the death penalty in all circumstances promoting socialized medicine in the United States promoting the tenets of radical environmentalism, whose ultimate goal, as writer Michael Berliner has explained, is “not clean air and clean water, [but] rather ... the demolition of technological/industrial civilization” bringing American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations promoting racial and ethnic preferences in academia and the business world alike To view a list of many of the more important organizations that support these agendas and have received direct funding from Soros and his Open Society Institute in recent years, click here. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the "Groups" category of DiscoverTheNetworks.org.)
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bill
5:43PM May 23rd 2009
blockhead, you toothless bitch. I see you running your mouth constanly, and saying absolutely nothing. I suppose if a majority believes they are right, then they are, right? Do you then believe slavery was right? how about the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany? Why don't you tell me what my "party" is. Running your mouth about stuff you know absolutely nothing about, like usual.
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sitokhan1
5:55PM May 23rd 2009
Thank your Conservative Republicans for coming up with Stop-Loss, rotating the same troops again and again to Iraq until they commit suicide, rather than institute a Draft, which would make them look bad politically. Or Conservative Republicans, most of whom were Draft Dodgers like Cheney, who voted against every raise in Veterans Benefits, and who privatized Walter Reade, which had our heroes living in rat filth. It was a Conservative Republican's idea to sneak our dead heroes into the country like garbage, and burn them in pet cemeteries. And when did Cheney or Bush ever salute a flag draped casket? Yeah, they reeeallly love our troops!
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nnanciejean
6:05PM May 23rd 2009
I don't recall clinton OR obama serving in the military in ANY capacity. So be careful about the typical name calling you dems like to engage in. Instead of a real conversation, it always turns to name calling, changing the subject or blaming Bush. Even intelligent dems must be getting tired of the constant whining of their fellow lefties.
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pnut166
12:08AM May 24th 2009
Draft dodgers? Oh, you mean like Bill Clinton ?
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repukeslie7
10:55AM May 24th 2009
I don't remember Cheney, Rumsfeld, or Rove, the three that drove us into 2 wars serving either. Your hero, Rush, used butt zits as his excuse. When the framers of the Constitution designed our government, they did not make the military a separate power. It was deliberately put under the control of civilians. This was done for a reason. Live with it. That's the way our Constition works.
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bob
6:09PM May 23rd 2009
A two hour twitter battle over this?
Seriously, all you goofballs need to come up for air. Anyone over the age of 13 who takes two hours out of a nice Memorial Day weekend to have to "twitter battle" over a YouTube video should seriously consider taking stock of their priorities in life.
Fire up the grill. Have a couple of dogs, some corn on the cob. Invite the neighbors over for a beer. Chase the kids around the yard. Take advantage of the longer daylight hours.
Then after you've cleaned up and put the kids to bed, tune in to Cube's pretend radio show - Tonight! - 11:00pm (EST).