Hate Radio Jock Boortz on Obama's Address to Kids: "Republicans Get Rolled...And Deservedly So"

[jefferson_dem]

Posted to wingnut blog - TownHall.com. The comments there are hysterical (not necessarily the "ha ha" funny kind).

Republicans Get Rolled...And Deservedly So
by Neal Boortz

Today at noon Barack Obama addresses the nation’s schoolchildren .. or a good number of them anyway. Many students won’t hear the speech because of a rather severe miscalculation from the right. Republican screaming and wailing made it sound as if Hugo Chavez was flying in via Aeroflot to speak to our poor, innocent, unsuspecting angels. School districts reacted … and millions of school kids will sit around picking their noses at noon instead of watching the speech.

So now the speech is out. As of yesterday afternoon you could read it on the Internet. I’ve read it, and if there is anything in there that I wouldn’t want my child to have heard from a U.S. President, I certainly couldn’t find it.

Egad! The speech is innocuous! What are we going to do now? I know! We’ll all claim that Obama changed the speech after the uproar from the right! Well, duhhhhhh. Of course he did! Why wouldn’t he! Well, actually he really didn’t have to change it. It probably wasn’t written by the time conservative boxers bunched up en masse. So Obama’s speechwriters took their cue from the right and made the speech essentially bulletproof from the get-go. One sharp mind in a Republican strategy session could have seen this one coming from the next galaxy.

President says he will give speech to schoolchildren.

Republicans say the speech will be full of leftist propaganda

Parents run in circles flailing arms overhead while screaming and shouting.

Some school officials black out Obama’s speech. (racist comment)

Grinning speechwriters prepare speech with no leftist propaganda.

Republicans look like fools.

People now more reluctant to listen to conservative complaints about Obama.

Now how easy was that? For about three days we have parents, the Republican Party and assorted odds spinning around on their eyebrows and spitting wooden nickels over Obama’s speech. He’s going to indoctrinate our children. He’s going to fill them full of socialist ideology. They’re all going to come away from school today singing Kumbaya and waving red flags. They’ll probably stop on the way home from school to buy a Che Guevara t-shirt from vendors the Democrats will have waiting out in front of their schools. Then the hopelessly indoctrinated kids will come home and destroy all the incandescent light bulbs and turn the spare bathtub into a recycling bin. Before they do their homework (reading The Communist Manifesto) they’ll hide the car keys so daddy has to take mass transportation to work on Wednesday.

TeamObama must have loved this one. Talk about a hanging curveball. Once the manic inanity started all they had to do is sit back, prepare an innocuous speech for The One, and let the people scratch their heads wondering what in the hell the Republicans were so upset about! Now the next time the right comes up with an objection to some Obama concept, people who last week might have been on board will stand back and look at the Republicans with a jaundiced eye.

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http://townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2009/09/08/republicans_get_rolledand_deservedly_so?page=full&comments=true/div]

[depakid]

1. Wow. That's just pathological

Obama planned it all from the start just to make Republicans look bad....

:crazy:

[denem]

2. Reublicans don't need help from Obama

[Cha]

18. Yeah, because the republicons don't

need any help from anyone making themselves look bad. That's the only thing in which they excel.

[Qutzupalotl]

26. Just being decent and reasonable is a good strategy

when your opponents are slinging wild hyperbole.

As much as some on our side would like to see Obama fighting back, complete with insults, this is far more effective at changing minds.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Feh. Article was okay, but I regret reading most of those comments. *gouges out eyes*

[man4allcats]

4. Re: "One sharp mind in a Republican strategy session"

Oh please! There's an assumption that strains credibility.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. +1000

:spray: :rofl:

STOP!!! You're killing me!!!! :rofl:

:headbang:

[Turborama]

5. "manic insanity

Fixed

[Somawas]

6. Saying that Republicans look like fools is redundant.

[Historic NY]

7. In other words they were...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJDXJZ_jqo&feature=related

[OwnedByFerrets]

8. From DAY 1 of this made up tempest....I have said

that after the speech, they would pound on their chests and scream, "IF WE HADNT RAISED THESE CONCERNS, HE "WOULD" HAVE INDOCTRINATED OUR CHILDREN. SEE HOW WONDERFUL WE ARE?"
Its good to see someone eat some little bit of crow here.

[zulchzulu]

9. Obama should so a speech about the beauty of the American Flag

The Republicans would kneejerkingly protest and try to say he wants to change the flag or some other nonsense.

We can play these idiots like a drum.

[Mariana]

10. "Parents run in circles flailing arms overhead while screaming and shouting..."

And crying, Neal. Don't forget that. Crying in front of a TV camera because the big bad President is going to give a speech for the children.

[TrogL]

24. Anybody got a Youtube clip of that? It was priceless

[Mariana]

27. I think it's posted in the Videos. nt.

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

36. Here ya go

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/20704892/index.html

[Jennicut]

11. Its a conspiracy to make Rethugs look bad! Actually, they are just idiots is the honest truth.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Ahhhh.......but USEFUL idiots!

;-)

[Silent3]

17. I'm not normally one to defend someone like Boortz...

...but I don't think he's claiming this whole thing was a Democratic conspiracy from the start.

He wrote (emphasis mine): "Once the manic inanity started all they had to do is sit back..."

To me it looks like Boortz is squarely putting the blame on Republicans for starting the "manic inanity". He might be getting a little conspiratorial thinking that Obama had anything other than a fairly innocuous speech in mind from the start, and that the speech was changed in any sort of calculated response to the inanity, but he still is blaming Republicans first, and calling the damage they've caused themselves "deserved".

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

20. I agree....

The speech itself wasn't meant as an opportunity to sandbag the Republicans.

It wasn't until the screaming started that somebody in the White House decided to capitalize on the situation. The Republicans essentially handed the Obama Administration a baseball bat, and the Administration took a swing.

[beachmom]

12. Except "Republicans look like fools" was actually from the beginning.

My kids won't see the speech because of this. So for some of us, this is no joke.

[ecstatic]

13. " TeamObama must have loved this one"

Really? I wonder... if I were part of the White House staff, I'd be moreso shocked and disgusted by the ignorance, racism, and disrespect for the President of the United States. But that's just me.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. He's right about the Republicans getting rolled on this

He's WRONG, however, about HOW it happened- that Obama *planned* all of this just so that the Republicans would look like fools (wingnuts seem to think that the Dems are just so diabolical and machiavellian about EVERYTHING, don't they? I mean, the Republicans would never act so stupid if the Democrats didn't *make* them, right? :eyes:). No, the Republicans looked like fools because they started this "manufactroversy" in the first place. The *smarter* thing for them to do would have been for them to not say anything and let Obama give his speech and THEN pick it apart, distort it, and take comments out of context. Of course, since there probably isn't anything in his speech that any of their former Presidents haven't also said at one time or another- without the slightest *gasp* of attention and/or protest from Democrats, then the *smartest* thing for them to have done would be to just not even give this *issue* any attention. A few Pubs like Laura Bush and Newt Gingrich (of all people) have started downplaying *concerns* about the speech but they're a day late and a dollar short IMHO, particularly since we've already had Republican Governor (and Presidential UN-Hopeful) Tim Pawlenty already out there last week criticizing Obama's speech and lending credibility to the other Republicans and wingnuts acting as though this is something new and nefarious- that no other President has ever done.

EPIC......FAIL!!!!!!! Boortz and the Pubs are LOSERS and Boortz is a particularly despicable person!!!!!

[Cha]

19. He's calling the republicons so Dumb because

they fell for another "clever plan" from the Obama admin.:silly:

When oh when are the repukes going to wise up and stfu? Oh never.

[question everything]

21. I love the conclusion

Thanks, Republicans! See if there’s some drug available for that rectal-cranial inversion you’re suffering from.

[ItNerd4life]

22. Rectal-cranial inversion?

I'm trying not to picture it, but at the same time I must, I must.

[WeDidIt]

29. Looks something like this

[lfairban]

35. He used the wrong word!

That is not an "inversion", that's an "insertion".

[windbreeze]

23. I swear....I don't know what you do for a living...

but I think you missed your calling...unless, that is, you do stand up comedy...rectal/cranial inversion...LOL...I am stealing that for future use...Thanx for the laugh...wb

[question everything]

25. Oh, but that a gem is not mine

but Neal Boortz's whose rants were posted by the OP.

I just went to the source - had to post it on an RW message board - and loved the conclusion that the OP skipped.

Glad you enjoy it.

:hi:

[windbreeze]

30. ok...outed myself

for not having read the article at the source...so I did..it was so funny when I read it this am, I actually sat here and LOL...thanx.wb

[WeDidIt]

28. Give Republicans enough rope and they'[ll shoot themselves in the foot

and three-fourths of the time, you aren't even aware that you're giving the Beckerwood Beckerheads any rope!

[KeepItReal]

32. LOL!

Nice!

[question everything]

31. Kick for the evening crowd. Too good to miss (nt)

[JustGinger]

33. same ol' same ol'

It is not even close to as bad as what we did when Bush made a speech to children.
ROFL Man we were bad..

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/When_Bush_spoke_to_kids.html

[Colobo]

34. LOL! Boortz finally wrote something worth reading.

[lfairban]

37. Did you see the pic for the T-shirt ad in the OP link?

This is what the right is wearing to make a statement:



Something about the look in this girl's eyes really got to me.

[struggle4progress]

38. Boortz thinks Obama tricked the Rs into acting like assholes?

Riiight

:eyes:

Nobody tricked them into anything: they're responsible for their own behavior

[Robber M]

39. "Republicans look like fools?"

I for one am shocked! SHOCKED, I say!