Posted: June 30, 2011 at 7:15 am
More Embarrassing Wiki-Moments for Republicans
For a party that loves to put itself on the highest pedestal of morality it sure has attracted a lot of dishonest and deceptive politicians and followers. It appears that attempting to alter or hide the facts of history through Wikipedia is a becoming a major Republican past time.
Unfortunately for Republicans, its not just Wikipedia’s credibility they are damaging, it is their own.
GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, the candidate who (as of this week) is leading among religious conservative voters and Montana Republicans according to the latest polling, was campaigning in Iowa a couple of days ago when she:
told a Fox News reporter that she was proud to be in the town where John Wayne was from, because she embodies his ideals. Unfortunately for her, it turns out that the actor John Wayne was not from Waterloo, but serial killer John Wayne Gacy was.
That’s when Republicans sprang into action to change John Wayne’s birthplace (in Wikipedia) to the Iowa town where John Wayne Gacy was born. History of course remained unchanged.
But that’s not all, Bachmann’s lack of facts spurred a second round of furious editing this week when she claimed that:
the nation’s sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was a “founding father,” even though he was just a child when his father, the nation’s second president, signed the Declaration of Independence.
Republicans immediately altered the Quincy Adams’s Wikipedia entry was changed to call him a “founding father.”
FREEEEEEEEDUMB! Or more specifically LIBERRRRTY! Sure, Bachmannure is an idiot, but she comes by her idiocy honestly, for she is a graduate of St. Jerry Fartwell’s Liberty University. And lest we forgot, the idiot georgie bush attempted to FIRE the entire Justice Dept. and replace them ALL with graduates of this “university”! Wow! Just imagine, an ENTIRE Justice Dept. composed of morons like Meechelle my dumbell!
A leetle history on “liberty” university. Is THIS really who we want governing our country, Jerry Fartwell’s ghost? I don’t THINK so!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gYSpsrJbcU&feature=related
Best…..eulogy…..ever…….for Meechelle my dumbell’s mentor, the Most Holy Revrearend, Jerry Fartwell! It’s pure Bachmannure! It’s Bachmania! It’s Bachmannuremania! PUHHHHleese don’t tell my that SHE is a legitimate candidate! Our country is fast becoming bizarro world! And I don’t like it. How can this happen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz5T1EEo8ws&feature=related
What? “Pinches his chubby little flanks every morning”???
Hitchens on Bachmannure’s mentor, the Most Holy Revrearend (now dead! ah shucks. he didn’t make it. too bad, so sad….NOT!), Jerry Fartwell! Wow! Sumtimes the TRVTH is a beeyatch! But still truthful. Is THIS really the kooky broad we want for prez, a Fartwell clone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52yTqMcwuQE&feature=related
Oh Happy Days from Jerry Fartwell and his student, Meechelle My Dumbell Bachmannure! Remember, that Meechelle my Dumbell is a GRADUATE of Jerry Fartwell University! And THIS is the person that the Teatards want running the country??? Wanna take back your endorsement, Dopey Reeburp? Yes, it’s that crazy out there, folks. Be afraid, VERY afraid! The LUCKY ones will get raptured up naked! Us poor pagans will inherit the earth. Sounds good to me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfLWNcX3yGI&feature=fvwrel
Bachmann lies and She’s Denny’s BFF http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/27/254687/michele-bachmann-pork-pledge/
It tells me a lot that Tea Baggers think changing entries on an internet site will change history. It tells me they are lazy idiots.
They think that the kid who yells the loudest on the playground wins. Immature nuts that they are.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/01/259417/americans-dont-know-independence-from-great-britain/
It’p a tactic that works well in a country with an average political IQ about half it’s average per capita weight. And it cuts both ways – if you got A’s in primary and secondary history classes, you know not much more than Bachmann.
I thought about what Dr Grahman, who taught History would have done to her, but that was back in the 70′s when schools still taught
Now schools just do what, lynn?
I have been out for a lot of years but in high school we were taught, for example, how bills became law, eg people freak out when the Mt House or Congress passes a bill, and don’t realize that till the Senate passes it and the Gov/President sign it its does not become law.
There was little “teaching to the test” and more making sure as many students as possible understood the material. I had one teacher in my Senior year, who taught to the Test, (NY State regents exam), that class was a joke, all we did was go over pass exams and learn tricks on how to pass it. Learning did not matter, passing the test did.
Minnesota is looking more and more like a battleground state so the political calculus to put it into play makes sense. She’s already cranked it down a notch to appeal to people that don’t know who she is. A Romney/Bachmann ticket appeals to a broad scraping, tearing trench of the earth scorching wing of the GOP.
It’s a good move for them.
Minnesoda’s in trouble
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/tim-pawlenty-minnesota-budget-shutdown
I’m surprised Palin’s numbers haven’t gone up in reaction to Bachmann’s idiocy. I don’t even want to talk about the Wikipidiots.
Speaking of embarrasing Republicans what has old James dirty sox Knox been up to lately? Its been almost a couple weeks since he has done something humiliating he is due. Although I guess its not really humiliating to someone like James who has no shame.
I suggested he needed to lose weight, before he cost the taxpayers of Montana more, by having another heart attack, maybe he’s at a Fat Farm?
Someone needs to make a fact page on Wikipedia about Knox… that would be awesome. He’s such a dork.
Hey, I am very slow, but it just occurred to me that you folks chose “Montana Cowgirl” as your name because the national committee suggested you fellas choose something with a local flavor. If it were New Mexico, you’d be ” New Mexico Roadrunner”‘ and if it were Alabama you’d be “Alabama Largemouth Bass.”
I so dumb. You’re Democratic hacks who get paid ado this. I’m talking to a committee of operatives, seedy guys in polo shirts who also work mailing lists. Hacks.
WHAT? I prefer burgundy leisure suits, white belts and white shoes! AND, a cowboy hat. I dunno, Mark. I can’t say for sure who cowgirl is, but I have a pretty good suspicion. And I THINK that you would be suprised to learn that she’s every bit as Montanan as you are, AND a real cowgirl. AND a real writer. If ya come from THAT part of the state, of course you’re a cowgirl! I’m kinda suprised that others haven’t figured it out. Guess they aren’t looking in the right direction! That’s all I got to say about that!
There are sixty or seventy actual cowgirls and cowboys left in the state. The rest just wear the hats and do the line dances when they are trolling for hokey pokey.
Spoken like a guy who’s NEVER lived in East Overshoe, Montana! Didn’t get outta Bozo much, didja Mark? Can you even RIDE a horse?
Generally when I see “Larry Kralj” I just move on, but since your comments are directed directly at me, I’ll answer: The Montana self-image is a mystique. The primary source of income in the state is first, retirement income, second agricuture. Ranching, which employes “cowgirls” and boys, is way down the list. Indiana, for instance, far outstrips Montana in cattle production, as it takes fewer acres there to feed one cow. Yet I don’t see Indianans prancing around in line dances and wearing hats many times the size of the brains underneath.
Larry has dug down so far as to sometimes seemingly leap from beneath a cowpie when he posts; but you have become somewhat of a uni-wailer yourself, Mark.
I can remember when I used to take time to attend to posts by each of you; but that was back when Democrat was my default party. Now I read nothing but mewling complaints from all sides.
Well Mark, I have two explanation for the cowboy hats – one, we still have a very high cattle to people proportion – meaning that a larger portion of our population actually has a direct or familial connection with ranching. And the second reason would be this – we make 2 billion from agriculture (the number includes farming and ranching; indeed, many families engage in both in different proportions), and 1.8 billion from tourism. Cowboy hats aren’t really necessary for agriculture, but they certainly are for tourism.
Very nice that you combined ag and ranching, not only are the two separate and apart, but the personality types are quite different, which led to conflicts in American history.
By the way, when you combine my wealth with Bill Gates’, we are up in the billions.
Top ten
1. Texas
2. Kansas
3. Nebraska
4. California
5. Oklahoma
6. Missouri
7. Iowa
8. South Dakota
9. Wisconsin
10. Colorado
Don’t know where I got Indiana.
Excuse me? WTF are we discussing what people wear as if it offers insight into who they are or what they believe? People in San Fransisco wear sweaters. People in Portland have lots of tattoos. People in New York tend to greys and browns. People in Texas wear more ‘cowboy hats’ than those in Montana. Truckers wear what used to be called baseball caps, but somehow evolved. Seattle is rife with plaid, though so is South Central LA. At least in LA it might mean something. WTF?
Somehow, because Mark’s never seen something, it means something that it doesn’t happen there. WTF?
Calling people out for what they wear or what they do with their free time really is a culture war. And it’s an amazingly stupid one as well.
It must be tiring–to be ever on guard against anybody getting one past you, wulf. You are one sad little compulsive.
Funny that. It seems you just described yourself.
I am not convinced that it was actually Mark T that wrote that post (unless, of course he was drunk when he wrote it – then all bets are off). The flow of the comment, the spelling, the timber… it was all wrong for most of what Mark writes about. I am guessing this is a spoofer or, if it is Mark, I would question his sobriety.
You mean “timbre”.
“paid ado” was meant to be “paid to do”‘ but Steve Jobs stepped in and superimposed his preferred wording. Happens frequently on Apple products.
I will cop to excess liquids when I do that, but this “Cowgirl” veers from very dumb to somewhat smart, and the focus on the other party and inability to reflect on “her” own speaks of a machine operation or a person of little intelligence. But the enterprise is successful that there is obviously some PR smarts underneath. Ergo, Democratc hacks in a boiler room. IMHO.
I’m sorry, Mark that you have put up with us. A man of your “timbre” does not deserve it. I’m sure there are many other blogs where you can find people more to your liking. I hope you find one soon.
No, I’ll stay. You go away. What do you want here? A Democratic chorus?
your stuck with me, I try to stick to the issues, but your treatment of others on this blog disgusts me
You mean “you’re.”
Mark, sometimes the TRVTH is a leetle more limbre than you think! We ain’t ALL into your ideological purity! Hey, loosen up the political chastity belt, dude! You’ll breathe a lot easier! I know that youre saving yourself for Ralph Nader, but in the meantime, go out on a date or two!
My pointing out the stupidity of adherence to one of two allowed parties that are each financed by the same oligarchs is not “ideological purity.” It is that word I try not to use but will use here one time: “truth.”
You apparently have troubling handling that concept.
It is a word that needs constantly to be redefined…
Now that is more like the Mark we have come to expect. As far as the spelling errors, you know I have disgraphia and I consistantly miss letters/words and mispell things. You, on the other hand, usually don’t – ergo, either a spoofer or you were less than sober.
I more suspect that you did not know that the word “timbre” existed and that “timber” means a forest product That even in a sober state. That’s an opinion base on experience, but I could be wrong. Maybe you were just drunk.
As usual, you suspect incorrectly. Get over yourself.
You accuse me of being inebriated, I return the compliment, and you tell me to get over myself. You missed your big put-down chance. You were supposed to say “Well, the jerk store called, and they are running out of you.”
If you want to play the insult game, you must first learn to use the language, stop claiming disability, and jump on opportunity when it presents itself.
I try to watch my spelling but these graveyard shifts, I’m on bring out my dyslectica (? )
I’ve gotten so fat my fingers won’t fit on these itty bitty keyboards anymore. I used to eschew the spelchek; but I can no longer do so. Even my one-liners are risky.
Maybe James Knox is logging in as Mark T. He does have multiple screen names.
For the record, I am “Mark Tokarski” and “Mark T” and “Jesse Homs” at 4&20, as they do not allow me to use the first two. I do not deliberately hide behind a screen name as do those guys in the basement of the Montana Democratic Party calling themselves “Cowgirl.”
Why would they not allow you to use “Mark Tokarski”? Was it because you were being a nuisance troll?
Teawankers–and reformed Democrats–are very choosy about who they include beneath these big tents anymore.
As it was explained to me by one of the writers over there, it was because I was critical of Democrats. I asked him why a certain mean and foul-mouth commenter there was allowed to post incessantly and with extreme incivility, and was told that he was more supportive of D’s, while I, who did not even use swear words, was not. I guess not being respectful Dems is grounds for banning. As told to me by one of the writers over there.
How appropriate you would spin that fairy Tail in a post about idiots attempting to re-write history.
You do carry on, wulf. Your intellectual reputation takes a battering whenever you post in opposition to Tokarski; but it is too late to save your reputation anyway–even by shlutting down–I guess.
I have the transcript. I don’t make things up. Now, gfy.
What a ‘specter’ that photo is, ‘dumb and dumber’ is it? Speaking of that, President John Quincy Adams was indeed a great American – and ‘Founding Son’ not ‘Father’ – who fought vigorously against slavery and for many PROGRESSIVE ideals Ms. Bachmann, but you can’t remember that, can you while
your’re ‘boning up’ on John Wayne ‘redux’, etc. Anybody for a stanza of ‘I’m a little Tea Potty’..?
I find this picture highly disturbing. Something about the fake evil smiles reminds me of the characters on House of 1000 Corpses (especially knox). Knox would have been great to cast as Tiny’s even more deranged and repulsive cousin.
It is well to refer to ones standard of intellectuality in ones posts.
I am quite high brow.
I just love when the comments veer sharply away from the contents of the article and crash boldly into the bare-fisted mud wrestling contest that we all so enjoy. American politics=professional wrestling fandom.
Bachmann’s competition for Veep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkFIXdby4Cs&feature=player_embedded
Yay for spelling nazis!
Ignorance should rather be celebrated.
No… I just think it’s hilarious when people feel like they must correct others misspelling.
I think it’s even nicer when the “tolerant left” shows up and decides to make fun of the person with dysgraphia.
Keep it classy… LOL
I am used to it. Most people know what dyslexia is but few really understand dysgraphia. Given that I have been slung crap all my life for my lack of spelling, missed letters and words, poor handwriting, and reversed numbers, I really don’t take offence anymore. It just shows the other person’s complete and total stupidity.
I just thought that you were related to Lewis and Clark! I give them boys an “F” for their trip ’cause they couldn’t spell sh*t! Just think how much more succesful they’d have been if they would have been good spellars!
But I hear ya on the poor handwriting deal. I could NEVER seem to convince them nuns that I just couldn’t write well! Period! Hell, I spent damn near every recess working on cursive and watching the other kids out there on the playground having loads of fun! I think that has effected me, ‘causing me to be the misanthrope I am. I STILL cannot read my own handwriting even when I try to write well! THAT sucks!
I understand, I’ve fought dysgraphia, and dyslexia since a drunk blew a red light and I got a head injury, my writing is like my walking, somedays its good, somedays its bad. People don’t understand, its not lack of education, or laziness…it just is what it is
You boys must be close!
I don’t care about grammar or spelling. People were going after me and I was toying with them. It’s all in good fun, as only Jed appreciates.
Just twittered: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/polinaut/archive/2011/07/gallup_poll_bac.shtml