Ohio GOP Smears Al Franken In Press Release With Doctored Photo, Fabricated Quote
Ohio GOP Smears Al Franken In Press Release With Doctored Photo, Fabricated Quote
Yesterday, the Ohio Republican Party sent out a news release (full text here) attacking Rep. Sherrod Brown (D) for enlisting the support of comedian Al Franken:
It is not surprising that Sherrod Brown is enlisting the help of a Hollywood liberal, who like him, is so far out of the mainstream of Ohio values. What is troubling is that Brown would solicit support from someone [Franken] who compared conservatives to Nazis “who should drink poison and die.”
The quote used in the news release is taken from Bernard Goldberg book, 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America, in an alleged interview between Goldberg and Franken. But in his book, Goldberg makes it clear that the exchange is completely fictional. The Ohio Republican Party represented it as fact.
The news release was accompanied by this photograph, showing Franken dressed up like a baby bunny, wearing adult diapers and clutching a fluffy white teddy bear.
Andy Barr, director of Franken’s Midwest Values PAC, confirmed, “The picture is a fake.” The Ohio Republican Party used a 2004 AP photo of Franken for the doctored image:
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Heh actually I think it’s a pretty funny looking photo.. wow are we short for real news today?
October 26th, 2006 at 12:55 pmI can’t believe they put Al Franken’s head on Rick Santorum’s body. That’s just sick and disgusting.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:56 pmCan Franken Sue for Libel? The picture is a total fake… Franken shouldn’t let them get away with it.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:56 pmThe GOP Lied in a Political ad? What a Surprise! (sarcasim)
October 26th, 2006 at 12:56 pmSmears, fear, and queers, right? These people will lie and smear about anyone…bastards.
I found this while surfing on reddit. I think they think this is true. They WON’T win…no no no!
Again, bastards.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:58 pmI’m going to make a wild guess here that there is actually more photoshop skill in the progressive community than in the conservative community. Liberal photoshop honchos: get to work!
October 26th, 2006 at 12:58 pmis so far out of the mainstream of Ohio values
Dead man walking. I remember these noises coming out of Bush Sr. in 1992. If you have to speak your subtext, you’re screwed.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:58 pm.
And here I thought that was a pic of one of Foley’s special pages.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:58 pmAl Franken is just another trained monkey. and not even very funny or good at politics. please choose political veiws from someone that has at least a little back ground in something more important than show biz. then again EVERYTHING is more important than show biz.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:58 pmWho was that “news release” sent out to? Was it some sort of inside joke that got out of hand?
October 26th, 2006 at 12:59 pmFranken hardly qualifies as the dreaded “Hollywood liberal.” He’s a Minnesota liberal, like that rabblerouser Hubert Humphrey was.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:59 pmOkay. I actually like Franken and am not one bit surprised that the right is using lies and smears to go against him. Franken is the new boogeyman now that Michael Moore is laying low. Plus lying and smearing is what the Republicans are all about. They are a pathetic, pitiful party that stands for nothing besides power for powers sake and the don’t care how many innocent middle to lower class americans get crushed in the process.
Having said that…that picture is pretty funny.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:01 pmI thought only Democrats are allowed to fake photos.
Who the heck would enlist a loser like Al anyway? After his rating on AAR they should realize no one gives a sh!t what he says.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:01 pmi’ll take someone of Humphreys qualifications over a joke writers anyday.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:01 pmHey Kenny: Al Franken came from a lower-middle working-class family and he got to Harvard on an academic scholarship. You couldn’t even hold his jock in the mental capacity arena.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:02 pmDo you mean that some Repug read a fictional account and mistook it for truth? How could that be? I have never heard of that before.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:03 pmGee. If that had ever happened, we would probably have found ourselves in an unnecessary war by now fueled by false reports of WMD, mushroom clouds on the horizon and clandestine connections with al Qaeda and the 9-11 terrorists.
I am much more concerned about the Repubs who read truthful accounts and disregarded them as unimportant . . . you know . . . things like daily presidential briefings entitled “bin Laden Determined to Attack on U.S. Soil”. You know . . . things like that.
please choose political veiws from someone that has at least a little back ground in something more important than show biz. then again EVERYTHING is more important than show biz.
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Yeah Reagan was the worst. Glad we can agree on that.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:04 pmThis from a R party that condones dressing people up in underware while torturing them hahahahahahahaaaa, and I believe they actually used diapers on the terror suspects. With all the Republican pedophile scandals we know where their minds are at. Guard your children!
October 26th, 2006 at 1:04 pmAl Franken and politics is like trying to have the Stooges build a house. Amusing to watch but do you really want to live there when its done.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:04 pmApparently Ohio Repbus are trying to appeal to their “pedophile” base.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:04 pmKenny and happy guy: Franken goes to both war theaters every year with the USO. He flies in and out of fire-fight areas to entertain troops. He goes with a number of conservative friends who appreciate his work.
How many times have Limbaugh, O’Rielly, Hannity, etc. ever gone to Iraq or Afganistan to entertain the troops?
Also, Franken has been married to the same woman for almost 30 years. That sounds like “family values” to me. How are your guys doing in that area?
October 26th, 2006 at 1:06 pmHow pathetic.
It is a funny picture, though.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:06 pmHey Bluedog. not only are you a member but also the president of the Al Franken Fan Club.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:06 pmTo paraphrase kenny, one of our favorite braindead, neoconned dittoheads:
“Rush Limpballs is just another trained monkey. and not even very intelligent or good at politics. please choose political veiws from someone that has at least a little back ground in something more important than show biz. then again EVERYTHING is more important than show biz.”
There you go, kenny-boy. It just took a little “photoshopping” to bring out the truth of your comment.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:07 pmAl Franken might run for senator of Minnesota so republicans have to test the waters now to see which smear sticks best.Typical scumbag tactics.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:07 pmWhy the hell would the GOP doctor a photo of Al Franken in a gayish pose? Karl Rove and the GOP have gone insane > Franken is very straight guy and not even remotely Gay!
October 26th, 2006 at 1:08 pmWhy is it that people aren’t being arrested? The Ohio Republican party has proven over and over again it’s a criminal syndicate. Arrest them, try them, convict them, and make sure they’re publically beaten at least monthly for the decade or 2 of their sentences.
Punishment is the only thing conservatives understand. Severe physical or emotional pain.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:09 pmIf the trolls here are so convinced Al is inconsequential, why does the Ohio Republican Party feel the need to attack him?
October 26th, 2006 at 1:10 pmDoctored photo, phony quote? Who cares? Republicans can only survive in a fantasy world, so just leave them there and brick up the door.
Leave them to rot.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:11 pm.
Wow, the Republicans need to get some better Photoshoppers.
Also, they could stand to use a body double that looks like Franken. I mean, I’ve never seen Al’s legs, but those clearly belong to a man in his 20s.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:11 pmthen again EVERYTHING is more important than show biz.
Comment by kenny — October 26, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
No.. not everything. REPORTING on show biz is even less important.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:12 pmYes whose head was removed from that pic? I bet it’s a pic of George Bush in that diaper and he would hump a Teddy Bear > lol.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:12 pmBoy, those Repubs sure have Foley on the brain.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:13 pmKenny, I like Al Franken because he’s a very smart man, he’s a balls-out patriot, he’s very, very honest and he does incredible research. I also think he’s very funny at times and very serious at times. Now, if you think O’Reilly or Limbaugh is funnier or smarter, whatever, but I’ll take Franken over frickin liars like those guys any day of the week and I’m proud to be a fan.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:13 pmIf the trolls here are so convinced Al is inconsequential, why does the Ohio Republican Party feel the need to attack him?
Comment by oxillini — October 26, 2006 @ 1:10 pm
Because they don’t have the balls to go after Jon Stewart :)
October 26th, 2006 at 1:13 pmWow, i’m a faithful and voting new york Dem who just thinks actors and hollywood is full of buffoons. When i hear Madonna, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Striesand and the like talk politics it just makes me want to barf.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:14 pmHow surprising that the best the trolls can do is come in here and attack Franken. None of them apparently have the stones to defend the Ohio GOP and the fictional content of their news release.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:14 pmThe funny part is people who think it’s smart to give comedians free material.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:16 pmIs there still one American who believes anything the Republicans say????
If there is then that American must be given medical attention or be locked down in an institution for the scary insane. This one person who still believes anything that the Republicans say is a complete arguement for universal health coverage. Such a person is a danger to himself or herself as well as the whole country. You can hear him or her coming down the street “wacko, wacko, wacko, wacko, wacko.”
October 26th, 2006 at 1:16 pmI love the smell of GoOPer desperation in the morning.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:18 pmIt smells like… victory.
Kenny just hates it when certain American citizens feel they need to express an opinion about a given election. It’s just not right, and it makes Kenny so sick he needs to throw up. Poor Kenny.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:18 pmSwordsbane, good point.
Let’s see ‘em go after Olbermann. Come on, Ohio, I dare ya!
October 26th, 2006 at 1:18 pmAl Franken and politics is like trying to have the Stooges build a house. Amusing to watch but do you really want to live there when its done.
Certainly better than the houses that haven’t been built after Katrina.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:19 pmgee..and foleys head should have been on that photo, trying to bop that rabbit!….
October 26th, 2006 at 1:20 pmDear # 42 i dont want to hear from conservative anyone, least of all a hollywood organ grinders chimp.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:21 pmin re #28:
The photo seems to be a mix of infantilism and plush, neither fetish being implicitly or even typically, gay. Just because it’s kinky, you can’t presume it’s homoerotic.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:21 pmFrist wants to talk pocketbook issues so I am now in the process of photoshopping an over-the-shoulder purse onto his picture. Pretty.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:22 pmHow freaking immature…
So, this is what sheer desperation looks like.
This is really the best they can do? Infantile insults and smears? They deserve to lose.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:26 pmThat is pretty evil. I am not for any attack ads from either party. Of course asking you guys to play nice is like asking the Repugs to play nice. Neither side will even take that request seriously. Politics are very sad right now.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:26 pmAgain, interesting how the patriarchal Republicans are so obsessed with a man’s crotch…
October 26th, 2006 at 1:28 pmYes pluky the pic is more of a fetish pose, but I know how the GOP operates, so they want their base to get a Gay message from it > humping a Teddy Bear is perverted and the daiper thing is silly too!
October 26th, 2006 at 1:28 pmSo, Kenny, who was more correct about this Iraq war, Senator Norm Colman or Al Franken? Who do you think would be more likely to fulfill his constitutional duty to oversee the executive branch, Norm Coleman or a Senator Al Franken?
October 26th, 2006 at 1:30 pmRogerRoger: “Of course asking you guys to play nice is like asking the Repugs to play nice. Neither side will even take that request seriously. Politics are very sad right now.”
Right Roger. Listen can you point out some of these Democratic attack ads which use false info and false pictures?
October 26th, 2006 at 1:34 pmKenny must be of his medication again…
October 26th, 2006 at 1:34 pmIts funny that they put Franken’s head on Gannon/Guckert’s body!
October 26th, 2006 at 1:34 pm#2. That still is the best thing written here so far. Santorum’s body damn that’s funny.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:36 pmFranken isn’t from Hollywood but the smear merchants from the drooling GOP love using the Hollywood card. The reality is that their party is full of evil, hard to hide the facts of that reality. The hate and evil is just exuding from these chumps. Yep, don’t let your children grow up to be a little helper on the hill or maybe they will get more than they wished for. Or maybe a member of the armed services so they come home from Iraq in a box. These chumps are desperate, the lies aren’t working anymore so they have to doctor photos of Franken.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:36 pmAl has been a sucker for libs for years. Al, take your thumb out your mouth, take your thumb out your mouth, there you go.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:38 pmDaryll got out of the yard again… And he’s pooping on the neighbor’s front lawn.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:42 pmWhile we’re laughing and pointing at this they’re busy injecting malicious code into e-voting machines
October 26th, 2006 at 1:42 pmAl wishes he had thighs like that emm …..mmmmmm… MMMM
October 26th, 2006 at 1:43 pmDaryll, Franken is and always has been a liberal. There is no evidence that he sucks his thumb. All you’ve shown is that you don’t even understand the book upon which you base your own philosophy.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:44 pmre: James Bearless @ 12:58
October 26th, 2006 at 1:45 pmAs opposed to what the Hastert gang is flossing with?
October 26th, 2006 at 1:46 pmRE: James Bearless @ 12:58
October 26th, 2006 at 1:48 pmThat pic is so ludicrous no one could believe it is true. That’s about as far fetched as George Bush standing in front of a banner that reads “Mission Accomplished.”
October 26th, 2006 at 1:49 pmJust remember, it all comes down to Bush, Cheney and the IraqWar!
That’s why ALL this other crap is being tossed out there, now.
,Bush, Cheney and the IraqWar!
October 26th, 2006 at 1:49 pmthis can only be those compassionate liars I always hear about, I gotta admit that photo is funny, but it is so over the top goofy, childish, it’s not even believable. The GOP has turned into the Onion.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:51 pmWell, the bunny picture is indeed obviously a fake.
If you know Al Franken you know that his legs are are short and stumpy … Franken could play for the Timberwolves if he had legs like those in the photo.
Hey, it’s the truth.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:51 pmI LOVE THIS!
The fact that the Cons are attacking Al Franken bespeaks the fear they have of him and the Air America radio network. Al’s show, and the Air America network are emerging from their infancy and becoming a force to be reckoned with. The Cons are confirming this when they strike back at him.
GO AL! GO AIR AMERICA!
October 26th, 2006 at 1:52 pmJay: “Franken is very straight guy and not even remotely Gay!” - - No matter what anyone says about the ambiguous Stuart Smalley.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:53 pmThere is Daryll again,
Now I want you to answer the question yesterday of how you KNOW Jesus is angry over the court ruling you commented on.
I have a bet that you can’t answer that without proclaiming yourself a prophet ( false one )
So Daryll how do you KNOW Jesus is angry?
October 26th, 2006 at 1:58 pmexplain or admit you lied and do not KNOW.
I’m looking forward to a debate between Al Franken and Norm Coleman. If you’ve ever seen Coleman speak without prepared text, you know what a rout this debate will be.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:58 pmSantorum hasn’t got a prayer (sorry Daryll). He’s down double digits to Brown, no way to go but smear and fear.
October 26th, 2006 at 1:59 pmDaryll, you’re getting off your theme.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:00 pmWhy does Jesus hate Al Franken?
But hey; it’s your blog…
October 26th, 2006 at 2:00 pmAhem Paul, You know they just filed chapter 11 right?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:01 pmEvidently Daryll has not learned that in the time of Jesus, people could be executed for saying they knew what god was thinking.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:03 pmYou know, I really don’t see a need to object to this press release. First, no news organization (with the possible exception of Fox News) would be irresponsible enough to pick it up.
Second, a quick search of Google News reveals that those media outlets that did pick it up are reporting on the fallacy of it, not the content.
And third, let the kids play. They are catering to their base; the bra-snapping, beer chugging frat boys who think ‘Hey Dude, where’s my car?” is high art.
This has no legs - let’s not give it any by over-reacting.
-tw
October 26th, 2006 at 2:04 pmI think it was Reagan that used the bottle on mokney boym, let me find that picture again; http://www.axenhammer.com/bedtime_for_bonzo.gif
October 26th, 2006 at 2:05 pmThe Republicans overtly lie time and time again. Yet, people with very little brain power still continue to vote for them.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:05 pmLeave it up to Repubs to find a picture like that to doctor. Makes me wonder how many republican operatives are sitting around looking at men in adult diaper pictures.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:07 pmI liked reading Al’s book The Truth (with jokes) and his plan to run for office in 2008. Time for us Canadians to send financial support to the free thinkers in America.
Good luck winning your country back from the moral controllers.
Actually US Politics is now too important to be left in just the hands of the American people. Too much spending on the Military Industrial Complex and not enough on education. The whole world now gets to vote.
Go Al Franken! Only Democrats can be funny!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:07 pmDarryl, see if you can follow this:
There are lots of religions. They all have fairly detailed doctrines concerning lots of topics. You don’t have to get too far down in the details of those doctrines before they become exclusive of each other, in other words when you get that far down into the details if one of those religious doctrines is right then all the others are by definition wrong. I think you’d agree with that because you believe yours is the right one. But step back for just a moment and ask yourself this question; Which is more likely, one of these doctrines is right to the exclusion of the others, or NONE OF THEM ARE? Now please put the snake down and just walk away.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:08 pmThe GOP has the burden of being led by a war criminal. All they have against liberals is to put a comedian in diapers and lie about him? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
October 26th, 2006 at 2:08 pmROFLMAO!!!!
Let me get this straight.
Franken is supposed to be a comedian, right? (Not a very funny one, but still.) So, this picture is an attempt at humor, right?
Laugh!
As to portraying Franken as a baby, I have two theorys. One is how he sound on the radio. He talks with a pronounced slur which does make him sound rather like someone learning to talk (a baby?). My second theory is possibly the way man reacts when he loses the argument, downright pouty and hurt.
To be honest, I tried listening to the man, but he’s quite un-listenable. Very seldom funny (although he does laugh at his own jokes, I give him that) and typically shrill. Does he still do the ethnic, orthidox jew stick - “Oy, Oy, OY”. That was about as unfunny as anything could be made & certainly didn’t play at all outside the confines of some areas of NYC.
One reason Air America ain’t making it even with an infusion of charity cash.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:09 pmLook at those legs. Now we know where they got the picture of Franken’s face, but where did they get the creepy man-baby picture to put it on? Did the Republicans just happen to have a picture of a grown man dressed in a diaper laying around the office? I bet it’s Jeff Gannon.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:09 pmThis smells an awful lot like DeWine.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:09 pm(Or is it DaWhine?)
I can smell Mehlman here, as well.
Pathetic.
Hey Trolls, Al Franken used to write Dennis Miller’s material!
Now go explore your pedophillic fantasies while us liberals
go vote.
ugh
October 26th, 2006 at 2:10 pmWow. I mean wow. Is this for real?
The picture doesn’t even LOOK real. No way Franken has legs that nice. Tony Snow maybe - he has to do all that dancing behind the podium. Or Tucker Carlson, but Franken? No way.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:10 pmWayne, Jesus loves Al Franken. I never said Jesus hates anybody. I personally think that Al is an intellectual person (besides the fact that he supports liberal views). He’s a very patriotic man. Also, per biblical laws, I know that Jesus was angry about NJ’s legislation to allow homosexual unions (I’m not going to call it gay marriage). The bible says that he frowns at sinful acts.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:12 pmThis is just the type of thing that pisses off the Little Green Snotrollers, I’m gonna rush over there and see if their showing us how it’s done.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:14 pm[…] Problem is, he never said it. Oh, and the photo they attached to the release is photoshopped - heavily. […]
October 26th, 2006 at 2:15 pmwhat is it with republicans and crotch shots?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:16 pmHappy guy: “What makes you assume everyone is a Christian anyway?”
Do you renounce christianity???!!! Do you deny knowing Jesus christ???!!
Repent, or face an eternity of damnation!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:16 pmEven though Franken never said it, I think conservatives should be encouraged to drink poison and die.
It could only help.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:17 pmYes but you said “Angry” maybe he was just irked or maybe miffed or slightly taken aback. He told me he was like totally pissed but he’s over it now. Lately he’s decided that people need to stop wearing crosses ’cause you know, that shit hurt. He said “I told ‘em to remember me with wine and bread but no, they gotta keep pushin’ tha cross in my face.”
October 26th, 2006 at 2:18 pmApparently no low is too low for these GOP scumbags. I thought they had a big “war chest” where they were going to dispatch an “army of investigators” to dig up all sorts of dirt on Democrats? And they best they can do is say Harold Ford Jr. likes white women and make shit up about Sherrod Brown?
They got bupkus.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:18 pmDaryll: “Also, per biblical laws, I know that Jesus was angry about NJ’s legislation to allow homosexual unions (I’m not going to call it gay marriage). The bible says that he frowns at sinful acts.”
Daryll since it is the New Testament that describes the philosophy of Jesus, can you point to any gospel in the New Testament which forbids homosexual unions? You say the bible frowns on this. Please supply chapter and verse so we can make sure you know what you are talking about.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:20 pmMan, I told myself I wasn’t gonna get petty and mean. Sorry Darryl.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:20 pmbeer chugging frat boys who think ‘Hey Dude, where’s my car?†is high art.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:21 pmIt’s not? Sure, it’s no “Battlefield Earth”, but what is?
And none of this jibberjabber can be true. I live in Ohio. There have never been any political shenanigans in my great state.
This is all going to backfire on them. Do it some more, please.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:22 pmGeorge #112 - You bet. Do they think we are all as stupid as they are?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:27 pmDid they hire a bunch of first year college freshmen/women to do their think tanking?
Backfire like a shattered bolt from an M-14 ripping through their cheekbones.
wow … check out those legs. Oh and anyone talking about the Bible or Jesus on here as if they have some corner on what is right or wrong belongs in a mental institution. The Bible is nothing more than fable written by men who sought to understand and in some cases control events and human nature. Jesus was no more real as a living person than Adam and Eve were or Hercules for that matter. Believe anthing you want to it’s your life … just don’t bring your chronic mumbo jumbo that Jesus is watching our sinful genitals to my door.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:27 pmDaryll runs from the question of how he knows Jesus is mad.
Anyone supprised? Not me.
Daryll claims to be a christian, but he is a dishonest person who cannot back up his own claims.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:27 pmAlso, per biblical laws, I know that Jesus was angry about NJ’s legislation to allow homosexual unions
I’m not gay, but what do you care, really, what these people do in their private lives? The can’t procreate and have been around since Socratic times and they haven’t destroyed the world
The Inquisition, and the other religious and cultural wars of tyrants, Kings, Pharoahs and dictators, straight men, have brought more ruination to this world than any small groups of gay people.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:28 pmDaryll,
Is Jesus angry about your eating shellfish and wearing mixed fabrics today? Oh, he’s not? Could that be because, he was God’s new covenant with his people and therefore the old Mosaic laws were defunct? Isn’t that the WHOLE point of the new testament. If you still follow Leviticus, you are not actually a Christian. Wrap your mind around that, you poor, lost soul.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:28 pmI think I’ve seen those legs before. It appears that they took a picture of Jeff Gannon from one of his whitehouse visits and put franken’s head on it.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:28 pmThe bible says that he frowns at sinful acts.
Comment by Daryll — October 26, 2006 @ 2:12 pm
Chapter and verse please. Until you provide it, you are considered wrong, and/or lying.
And it has to be Jesus saying it.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:28 pmGee. Republicans using a fake quote comparing them to Nazis. Wait a minute. Nothing could be further from the truth. Let’s compare:
The republicans invaded Iraq for no reason and lied about the cause.
The Nazis invaded Poland for no reason and lied about the cause.
The Republicans lied and covered up sexual sheananigans by Foley among others.
The Nazis lied and covered up sexual shenangans by Ernst Rohm among others.
The Republicans have systematically abriged or aboished constitutional rights in the name of “Security”.
The Nazis systematically abriged or abolished rights in the name of the :Greater German Volk”.
To quote Shakespeare:
“Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”
October 26th, 2006 at 2:29 pmI’m thinking liberals are not very funny people. Not much humor on the liberal side at least on this page!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:30 pmVerimente Mike! Exactamente!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:30 pmWell - remember - rove said they 100Million dollars to sling mud. They were working furiously to try to find dirt. HE DIDN’T SAY THEY WOULD MANUFACTURE IT…But we all know that is how the republicans work. LOOK AT BUSH…THEY ALL MAKE STUFF UP.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:32 pmJesus loved everyone, he would have gone to a gay wedding!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:32 pmHe promoted tolerance and understanding.
Maybe he was gay? (did he ever use his pee pee?)
Regardless, he was liberal enough to get nailed!
Did they hire a bunch of first year college freshmen/women to do their think tanking?
Comment by RUCerious — October 26, 2006 @ 2:27 pm
Can’t be women - the repigs don’t let theirs get educated. Just babies and laundry for the Christian women, just like Jeebus says (though don’t ask ‘em to quote it because they only know about the Bible - they’ve never actually read it).
October 26th, 2006 at 2:32 pmWhy did they use Al Franken’s head on George Bush’s body?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:34 pmBluedog49,
I Corinthians 6:9
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Romans 1:26-27: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence [sic] of their error which was meet.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:34 pmjKelly: “I’m thinking liberals are not very funny people. Not much humor on the liberal side at least on this page!”
Umm, don’t you have a prayer meeting to go to or something like that?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:35 pm101— Daryll, explain to all of us exactly HOW you KNOW Jesus is angry, now answer the question and quit skirting it.
I am waiting, but not holding my breath…..
October 26th, 2006 at 2:35 pm#
Hey Bluedog. not only are you a member but also the president of the Al Franken Fan Club.
Comment by kenny — October 26, 2006 @ 1:06 pm
That’s the cutting edge humor I’d expect from a Republican. Would you be so kind as to “show me the money” as well?
Toolbox.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:36 pmIf this is Rove’s October surprise, he’s lost his mojo.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:37 pmIt’s not a very good forgery. I wonder if the authors of the misquote and photos hate Jews?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:38 pmBluedog - did you know that both Corinthians and Romans were written by Jesus?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:38 pmDaryll knows Jesus is angry because of the many examples of Jesus admonishing homosexual behavior. Oh wait, that was Leviticus. Daryll, wrong book!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:38 pmSmear is half of the Republican campaign tactic of “Fear and smear.”
This incident shows that Ohio Republican leadership is, well “unhinged.”
Sincerely,
Stephen Crockett
co-host, Democratic Talk Radio
October 26th, 2006 at 2:38 pmhttp://www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com
Al Franken is just another trained monkey. and not even very funny or good at politics.
Comment by kenny — October 26, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
No, you must be thinking of Bush.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:38 pmI’m thinking liberals are not very funny people. Not much humor on the liberal side at least on this page!
Comment by Jkelly — October 26, 2006 @ 2:30 pm
To you, humor is laughing at other people, generally those who are already oppressed in some capacity. To us, that’s not funny, because it is cruel and vicious.
Just because you’re too stupid to get true humor like sarcasm, doesn’t mean it’s not funny.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:40 pmGOP morality at work: “leave no lie untold”. Trolls, and other defenders of the GOP - kiss my ass - you are with worst type of coward-pussies ever born in this country - my 8 year old daughter could whip your asses.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:41 pmJane, except for the funny part, I think Bush is a riot when he does that “look at me, I’m presidential” schtick!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:41 pmFor those that don’t believe Jesus is angry at sin,
Matthew 18:7
7″Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! 8If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. 9And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:41 pmjKelly: “I’m thinking liberals are not very funny people. Not much humor on the liberal side at least on this page!â€
Your point? And here I thought liberalism was a political ideology and not a school of comedy.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:42 pm#143
I see hand, foot and eye….nope…no penis.
Still don’t see where Jesus is saying homosexuality is a sin.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:44 pmGosh Daryll, that’s an inspiring passage, but what I specifically asked you for was a passage which shows Jesus in particular had a problem with gay marriage. Are you haveing a little trouble with that?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:44 pmDo you still have both eyes Daryll?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:45 pmPaul+Gray, your opinion is blasphemous. I will pray to God for mercy on your behalf.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:45 pmPoor Daryll! You need to read more than very limited verses of the Bible, child!
Proverbs 6:16-19:
“These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
A proud look,
a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren.”
When you look at the above selection, it’s obvious that the republicans are much more of an abomination than any other political party. the truth will se you free, but first it’s going to tick you off!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:45 pmSo has anyone defended the Ohio Republican Party yet, or are all the trolls just blathering and hope no one notices the desperation in their Party? I wonder how Mr. Falwell feels about this stunt. Reminds me of a certain spoofed Campari ad.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:45 pm“Bluedog - did you know that both Corinthians and Romans were written by Jesus?”
Why no, I didn’t know that and I still don’t know that.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:47 pmDammit Daryll, Matthew isn’t Jesus, is he??
October 26th, 2006 at 2:48 pmJesus angry the GOP lied. Lie is mortal sin. Amen
October 26th, 2006 at 2:49 pm“…Sherrod Brown…is so far out of the mainstream of Ohio values.”
Which is why Ohioans have been electing him to Congress
FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.
The ‘mainstream of GOP values’ comes out of the end of the elephant.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:49 pmYou keep on praying Daryl.
There is no Dog (dixlexic agnostic)
Pray that you find understanding, tolerance, love and peace.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:49 pmDaryll,
You follow a guy who told you it’s better to cut off your own body parts than covert your neighbor’s oxen? That’s crazy, dude. Don’t you like yourself very much? Don’t you think you’re a good person? Why ever would you want to worship someone who is telling you to do stupid, hurtful things?
Besides, you’re still not posting Jesus saying ‘homosexuality is wrong’. That’s what we’re looking for…
October 26th, 2006 at 2:49 pmPaul Gray, you’ve gone and offended Daryll. For that offense, Daryll believes you are entitled to being tortured in hell for eternity. Wild, isn’t it?
October 26th, 2006 at 2:50 pmMatthew 18:7
Comment by Daryll
So when are you going to cut off the KKK types in your party? The war mongers? The ultra rich? The adulters that when get caught go on TV and cry for forgiveness? The congressmen that sell their votes? The congressmen that send money towards their own land deals instead of helping the poor? The habitual liars? on and on… how about the idol worshipers that pray to Bush, the Bible, and their own preachers? I guess it must be really REALLY conventiant to pick and choose which sins Jesus was talking about for yourself and for the rest of the world…. hypocrite.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:51 pmDo you still have both eyes Daryll?
Comment by Dog_named_Boo — October 26, 2006 @ 2:45 pm
I’m guessing not…
October 26th, 2006 at 2:51 pmOh, horrors! Someone’s making fun of Franken.
Oh, horrors!
October 26th, 2006 at 2:51 pm143— Soo, you claim Jesus is angry at the court because you read a scripture that says nothing about the court decision
Still does not tell us how you KNOW, instead you tell us how you Believe he is mad based on a passage written centuries before the court decision.
Still doesnt answer how you personally KNOW Jesus is currently mad about it.
one last time, tell us how you know, or admit that you do not know.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:53 pmDammit Daryll, Matthew isn’t Jesus, is he??
Comment by RUCerious — October 26, 2006 @ 2:48 pm
Funny…
October 26th, 2006 at 2:54 pmWhen exactly did this thread topic shift to Christianity?
Was it the baby Jeebus photo?
Both Franken and Jesus shared the same religion, but other than that, you are way off topic.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:55 pmBluedog49, why are you hiding from the quoted scriptures. If you don’t believe everything I quoted, look up the direct scriptures in the bible. Please, don’t be angry with me, be angry with God. He said it.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:57 pmOne more thing Daryl. Your religion….well it is not up to a high enough moral standard for me.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:57 pmAnd you know what, I’m a wee bit skeptical that people remembered what Jesus said 40 or 50 years after he died. Paul was the greatest charlatan of them all. “Look if we tell them they have to get circumcised and give up pork we’ll never get them to join us. Besides Jesus came to me in a dream and told me that it was all good. You original disciples are cool and everything but you got no vision! Don’t worry, I take care of everything.”
October 26th, 2006 at 2:57 pm#164
one last time, tell us how you know, or admit that you do not know.
Comment by Wayne
Daryll,
October 26th, 2006 at 2:57 pmThe better thing to do it to admit you don’t know. Otherwise some of us just might think you’re crazy.
I think I remember seeing that pic on FARK once.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:57 pmThat’s true Paul in LA but how long can we go on saying “That’s outrageous”, “They are bad people”, “They are so desparate”, “I didn’t get a harumph from that guy!”
October 26th, 2006 at 2:59 pmyou are way off topic.
Comment by Paul in LA
Yeah, Daryll the new TP missionary tends to have that effect on threads.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:00 pmI’ve seen that photo before….hmmm….oh thats Rush Limbaugh with Al Frankens head taped on.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:00 pmIt’s interesting how people find Atheism all on their own, without being lectured, prodded, preached or told about it. Hell, we don’t even have our own book. Yet I’ve never met a Christian who was ‘enlightened’ into Christianity. And they have to go for weekly updates to keep them in the group.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:02 pmUnbelievable - How desperate can you get?!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:04 pmThe bible says that I can own slaves…just as long as they’re slaves from another region. See, I really am a cherry picker.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:05 pmI am not at all horrified at the implosion of the Ohio Republican Party. When a once serious political party at the state level decides that sending out a known false quote and a photoshopped picture of a man in a diaper is the path to victory, that party should probably just admit defeat. Oh, and they should give back the contributions. I’m sure the contributors are ecstatic that this is how their beloved party is spending their money.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:05 pmIt is highly unlikely that Jesus said anything like the words attributted to him in Matthew 18:7. The compilers of Matthew were writing at a time when the Jesus Movement was being riven by conflicting ideas of how to define ‘Christian’ identity and proper ‘Christian’ behavior, and how much diversity in such definitions was allowable. This text is intended to justify excommunication, not self mortification. As such it stands in sharp opposition to the general unqualified inclusiveness of Jesus’s message.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:06 pmDaryll should be reading the bible for children. Someone should give him a PR-13 one.
We’ll be raping virgin girls before we pray, yeehaw!
We’ll be raping virgin girls before we pray, yeehaw!
We’ll be raping virgin girls, we’ll be raping virgin girls
We’ll be raping all the women before we pray, yeehaw!
(Numbers 31:7-18)
We won’t be stopping there, oh no we won’t, yeehaw!
We’ll be raping enemy wives before we’re done, oh jesus!
We’ll be raping enemy wives, we’ll be raping enemy wives
And then killing their children before we’re done, praise the lord!
(Isaiah 13:15-18)
We’ll be happy smashing babies against the stones, crack crack!
We’ll be happy smashing babies against the stones, I can’t wait!
We’ll be happy smashing babies, we’ll be happy smashing babies
We’ll be happy smashing babies against the stones, yeehaw!
(Psalms 137:8-9)
We’ll be crushin’ women’s rights after the rapes, yeehaw!
We’ll be crushin’ women’s rights, oh yes we will, hahaha!
We’ll be crushin’ women’s rights, what women’s rights?!
We’ll be crushin’ women’s rights before we’re done, yeehaw!
(Ephesians 5:22-24, Genesis 3:16)
We’ll be burnin’ witches alive on the stake, yeehaw!
We’ll be drownin’ witches in the deep river, woohoo!
We’ll be burnin’ witches alive, we’ll be burnin’ witches alive
We’ll be burnin’ witches simply ’cause it’s fun, give us more!
(Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:27, Deut. 18:10-12)
We’ll be screwing our own father before we cum, yeehaw!
We’ll be screwing our own father before we cum, take me now!
We’ll be screwing our own father, we’ll be screwing our own father
We’ll be screwing our own father before we cum, oh yes!
(Genesis 19:30-38)
We’ll be stonin’ our own son because he’s stubborn, yeehaw!
We’ll be stonin’ our own son because he’s stubborn, oh joy!
We’ll be stonin’ our own son, we’ll be stonin’ our own son
We’ll be stonin’ our own son until he dies, until he dies!
(Deuteronomy 21:18-21)
We’ll be fondling little boys in our churches, woohoo!
We’ll be fondling little boys in our churches, I love boys!
We’ll be fondling little boys, we’ll be fondling little boys
We’ll have to move the priests before they’re caught, oh no!
We’ll be Christians when we’re done, oh yes we will, yeehaw!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:06 pmWe’ll be Christians when we’re done convertin’ pagans, hallelujah!
We’ll be Christians, we’ll be Christians
We’ll be Christians when we’re done
We’ll be Christians when we’re done
oh yes we will, amen!
Paul in LA. My bad, I just have this thing with snarky JFreaks.
And doesn’t DeWine look just damn desperate these days?
Poll Date Sample DeWine (R)* Brown (D) Spread
October 26th, 2006 at 3:06 pmRCP Average 10/09 to 10/23 - 40.3% 49.5% Brown +9.2%
LA Times/Bloomberg 10/20 - 10/23 507 LV 39% 47% Brown +8%
Mason-Dixon 10/18 - 10/20 625 LV 40% 48% Brown +8%
CBS News/NY Times 10/11 - 10/15 689 LV 35% 49% Brown +14%
Tritone - Excuse me while I whip this out!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:07 pmDaryll,
What translation of the new testament are you relying on? Because, last I checked, the letters of Paul were written in Greek. And the word you are quoting as “homosexual” is not an accurate translation. But you must know that, being so well read in the bible. You are either entirely ignorant of what you speak which makes you a pompous ass, or you are a liar. Either way, Jesus is not happy with you for putting words in his mouth or Saint Paul’s.
Why don’t you develop some humility and spread the real Good News, not your right wing bigotfest talking points?
October 26th, 2006 at 3:08 pmyangho - Well Done! I could put those lyrics to a catchy little tune…Maybe like She’ll be comin round the mountain!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:08 pmAnd so it was written, those who treasure wealth and material holdings above good of mankind will be smote from the heavens. And yea, even though their leaders spew untruths and pretend to be in the service of a higher power, they shall ignore fair warning and further immerse themselves in lies to betray those they were elected to serve.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:11 pm-Politicus 9:11
I never knew Al Franken was sooooooo hot! Maybe he can measure it for me.
-Mark Foley
October 26th, 2006 at 3:15 pmUnbelievable - How desperate can you get?!
Comment by Beverly+S.+Hill — October 26, 2006 @ 3:04 pm
Daryll seems pretty desperate… but I’m guessing he’s still capable of a whole lot more.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:15 pmRUCerious
October 26th, 2006 at 3:15 pmWe’ve got to protect our phoney-baloney jobs!
Oh yeah, well please have the good sense not to mention this to anyone…
October 26th, 2006 at 3:18 pm“There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o’clock. “
October 26th, 2006 at 3:18 pmDear Jesus,
October 26th, 2006 at 3:23 pmabout Daryll,
WE THE WHITE, GODFEARING CITIZENS OF ThinkProgress wish to express our extreme displeasure with your choice of missionary. Please remove him immediately. The fact that you have sent him here just goes to prove that you are the leading asshole in the heavens!
Oh yes and a great rubbing of parts.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:23 pmBe wary of the man who prophesses his religion.
Be admiring of the man who practices his.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:24 pmRock on RUCerious!
Rarem!
We have nearly reached the Blazing Saddles saturation point.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:25 pmRUCerious, if you’re ever in Indy let me know and we’ll watch Ms. Kahn sing “I’m Tired”. Funniest. Thing. Ever. My son loves that movie too.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:27 pmAs an Ohioan let me just clarify that the Ohio GOP is downright desperate! They’re going to loose the Senate seat and definitely the Governorship. Little surprise they would stoop so low.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:34 pmTritone - You bet!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:36 pmI did 3 months at Fort Benjamin Harrison in the late 60’s. Man was it cold Oct - Dec !
Comment for James Bearless: Conservatives for American Values is a (very good) satire site. Check out the disclaimer. “Note: Everything posted on this blog is satire and should be read as such.”
October 26th, 2006 at 3:36 pmBush eater, any hope of having that Jean Schmidt creature sent back to her Black Lagoon?
October 26th, 2006 at 3:38 pmMy wife works in Bldg 1. I have worked there as a contractor there as well.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:40 pmYou must be somewhat older than me. I was born in ‘63 one month before the assasination, a baby boomer but just barely!
Gotta run now. Volunteer to help Get Out The Vote!
October 26th, 2006 at 3:43 pmCall the Ohio GOP office and leave a message for Communications Director John McClelland. 614.228.2481 extension 118.
October 26th, 2006 at 3:43 pm# 136 rucerious YOU ARE AN IDIOT. A COMPLETE DONKEY WHO’S MOUTH IS WAY FASTER THAN THEIR BRAIN. Ever been to church? Ever been to a bible study? Whenever the priest or minister reads from the Corinthians, he says ” THIS IS A LETTER WRITTEN BY PAUL…PAUL…YOU IGNORANT JACKASS…TO THE CORINTHIANS.
As for Daryl chronic sufferer of IBS of the mouth, here’s a little nugget to shove…somewhere…
the bible was written hunderds of years after jesus was long gone, by men who met in a huge meeting of church bigwigs, to create the superman myth that you find at the heart of your cult-like mental illness. It was written as a
series of parables and composites of what they would like the civilized world, at the time, to embrace as a worldwide organization and sole “decider” of all that is proper.
Oh, and THEY would be the leaders, able to decide who is deserving of god’s love, who can be rich or poor, and of course, who can be perversely tortured, or killed in the name of the power they say god gave them….exclusively.
That is