Slog - Comments on National Review Watches the Obama Special http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia Some favorite bits of the Republican response: I half expect to look over and see Karo syrup dripping down the screen. If any undecided voters are moved by this nearly unwatchable garbage, then we will get what we deserve. But I guess if people buy the super absorbent car sponge, with bonus wax applicator, for $19.95, they may buy this horrid stuff. They cut to Obama live at a rally, just so he could hold chin-aloft and deliver the usual platitudinous boiler-plate about "change" for a few minutes? Seems like a waste. As for the format of the special itself,... Copyright 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:09:33 -0800 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:37:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by spencer I think National Review has completely taken on the position of “snotty sarcastic kid in the back of the class.”

Amen, Paul. You know that if McCain could have made this special, they would have been calling it a triumph, but since it's the other guy, all they have are snide dismissals. God, I hope they all have bleeding ulcers for the next 8 years.

]]> spencer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186533 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186533 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:15:14 -0800 Comment by abe Like you, Paul, I read The Corner every day. I hate every single minute of it, and I hate myself for doing it, but I simply can't look away.

Those people are completely delusional. Mark Steyn makes me want to punch a cute baby in the face and then feed my balls to a pit bull.

]]> abe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186536 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186536 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:21:37 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball I think National Review has completely taken on the position of “snotty sarcastic kid in the back of the class.”

Actually, the National Review seems more like the kid in the black trenchcoat who, after realizing that achieving their twisted world view is hopeless, appears in the school cafeteria with an assault rifle.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186539 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186539 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:23:47 -0800 Comment by LH and we are the elite? fuck them, this was as much real people as one could smoosh into 30 minutes and those assfaces have nothing but ridicule? way to show (AGAIN) your true stripes you neocon repugs.

]]> LH http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186540 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186540 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:31:01 -0800 Comment by kinaidos Do these folks have any idea how unelectable someone espousing these sorts of views would be?
They are forgetting that the reason Bush was electable in the first place was because he seemed to have distanced himself from this sort of cold-blooded business centered laissez-faire nonsense.
I truly hope that in 2012 it's folks like this who will be advising Palin in her campaign.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186542 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186542 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:33:45 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave some of that is pretty funny though.

demonizing good humor makes you poor sports.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186544 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186544 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:37:14 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave and i doubt they will back palin with gusto. theyre content being sarcastic jackasses.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186545 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:42:24 -0800 Comment by spencer @6: "Good humor"?

]]> spencer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186549 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186549 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:46:16 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave The first few ones were funny. Karo syrup was gold.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186553 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186553 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:57:14 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo The mean kid at the back of the class whose dad owns the factory that just laid off your dad and half the town when the company opened up a new plant overseas. That mean kid.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186556 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186556 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:08:11 -0800 Comment by spencer Oh, OK.

]]> spencer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186557 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186557 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:09:03 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay I particularly love how they always paint the unions as big brutish thugs who have brutally raped the sweet, trusting corporations. Sort of like Stanley and Blanche....

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186559 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:13:29 -0800 Comment by jessejb Oh no the repugs are learning how to snark. Please please don't let them learn irony too.

]]> jessejb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186560 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186560 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:13:56 -0800 Comment by Reverse Polarity Right. Blame the greedy fucking workers for Ford's decline. Ignore the fact that their entire business model was built around sales of gas guzzling SUVs, which was completely dependent on $1 p/gal gas. Yep, that was totally sustainable if not for the greedy goddamned workers.

]]> Reverse Polarity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186561 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186561 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:16:34 -0800 Comment by fixo there is an absence of Love.

]]> fixo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186569 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:37:20 -0800 Comment by John Bailo
The spirit of Wm. Buckley is alive and well, even if his kid is a duplicitous traitor and changeling.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186583 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186583 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:57:01 -0800 Comment by Mr. X @13,

Never happen. That would require wit.

@17,

The current crop of shameless knuckle-draggers that are are the lifeblood of Bailo's party are almost (almost, mind you) enough to make one actually appreciate William F. Buckley.

Which kinda reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw not too long ago - "I never thought I'd miss Nixon."

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186591 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186591 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:08:02 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle National Review represent the elitists that are the core of the Socialist Republican party.

Hope they've started packing their bags, cause forty years in the wilderness is a lot longer than they realize, and they never could make enough money at that rag.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186609 2008 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:52:13 -0800 Comment by Chip Why are all you commenters upset about conservatives being clever? All of these arguments (OK, not the Ford one) are completely reasonable, and, unlike the vast majority of Republican writing, sound like no retarded monkeys were involved in their genesis.

I, for one, look forward to intelligent debate with conservatives.

]]> Chip http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186668 2008 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:41:19 -0800 Comment by PC The conservatives like John Bailo here are too afraid now to espouse their actual ideas or to take on OBama on that level, so they resort to school yard Cartman- and Butthead-esque snarkery.

Like Obama says when you resort to that stuff you're trying to distract from showing you got no real content in what you say.

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186674 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186674 2008 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:30:59 -0800 Comment by robo I'm Obama crazy, but I have to agree with most of the comments-- Republican or not. It was pretty schmaltzy. Hats off to them for some good snotty sarcastic zingers. I guess Slog fans haven't totally cornered that market after all.

I guess I'm growing nicer toward them, now that we're winning. Let them spend the next eight years posting catty comments on blogs, while we bask in our new national order.

]]> robo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186675 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186675 2008 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:42:34 -0800 Comment by trufe Yea, that special was a soft focus plate of cheese w/ a side of cheese doodles dipped in queso sauce.

]]> trufe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186689 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/national_review_watches_the_obama_specia#c1186689 2008 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:27:34 -0800 Comment by scary tyler moore right on the money as usual, jubilation.

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