Department of You Can’t Make This Shit Up:
Dear NBC: stop trying to insult Russia with every comment. Reagan was a terrible president, the Cold War is over.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) February 8, 2014
Yes, Putin is a jerk and Russia is a kleptocratic state. It's partly that way because we held a fire sale there.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) February 8, 2014
It has some totalitarian connotations unfortunately, but the Russian national anthem is an extraordinary choral piece.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) February 8, 2014
See, I was but a child when the USSR fell. So when I hear the Russian national anthem, it's just a beautiful piece of music to me.
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) February 8, 2014
That is what our old friend “thereisnospoonupmyass” posted on Twitter last night during the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies.
There are millions of people in Europe and other places with longer memories who don’t have such warm fuzzy feelings about the former Soviet Union.
Fucking idiot.
Unfortunately, he’s not alone:
NBC Glorifies Russia’s Soviet Past as ‘One of Modern History’s Pivotal Experiments’
NBC whitewashed Russia’s communist legacy in the lead segment of its Friday broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage narrated the network’s lionization of the largest country by land mass: “Russia overwhelms. Russia mystifies. Russia transcends. Through every stage of its story, it’s resisted any notion of limitation. Through every re-invention, only redoubling its desire to cast a towering presence.”
[…]
The empire that ascended to affirm a colossal footprint; the revolution that birthed one of modern history’s pivotal experiments. But if politics has long shaped our sense of who they are, it’s passion that endures….
Communism was a “pivotal experiment?
WTF?
We allied with the Soviet Union during World War II out of strategic necessity, but we never liked or trusted them, and for good reason. Almost immediately after WWII ended the Cold War began, in which we spent decades, billions of dollars and tens of thousands of American lives trying to halt and contain communist expansion around the world.
When I was a lot younger I trained to be a cold warrior. I spent two years in “West” Germany, helping to face down the communists of Eastern Europe. We took that shit seriously. If a war started, we would have been the first to fight and die.
Communism was no fucking experiment. It is one of the darkest chapters in human history, right next to Nazism. Tens of millions of people in Eastern Europe died under the iron boot-heel of the commissars.
I am not hatin’ on Russia – the Russian people suffered as much under communism as anyone else. But David Atkins should study a little history before he opens his mouth about shit he don’t understand.
The Crawdad Hole 
If Obama is gonna be on NBC every night of the Olympics I ain’t gonna watch.
Bob Costas is bad enough.
Just rubbing my hands together thinking of how to ruin the week/month/year of the dip that owns/runs the local NBC-TV affiliate. When he hears from the bunch of people getting stoked up tonight about the $$$ value his holdings took because of a major dump Friday night at what was supposed to be NBC’s big moment, his carefully coiffed hair is gonna get totally messed up. Great fun! Let the 2014 Olympic Complaint Games begin!
Who’s to question how they do foreplay? It’s private.
😆
“Ferreyr “suddenly and without warning … lunged at Mr. Soros — who is 83 years old — and struck his head with her hands, knocking off the headphones he was wearing to amplify the audio in the room.”
Soros is an ancient, evil, DEAF, roue. And he likes ’em feisty. She knocked his hearing aid off. LOL.
If she was schtupping that old piece of shit she deserves her payoff.
Kevin Drum at MoJo:
Kevin Drum is a fucking idiot.
Drum is another non-economist who writes “expert” and “explanatory” journalism about macro economics. He should have an investment column in the WSJ or the Financial Times. /S/
Also, January usually is the retirement month for federal employees.
If the government took over the private sector, then all new jobs would be public sector.
I can’t wait for that kind of dumbass argument.
Is NBC afraid that the Ru-skies are going to kick their butts out of the country if they don’t kiss their ass? Think of how much money they would loose if they shut them down. Or damaged their equipment. Or is this just the culmination of the ignorance and idiocy of the “creative class” (or the trophy for participation generation as I think of them) when they have too much air time to fill and they are scared, hungry and cold? How is this that much different from a average day on CNN or MSNBC? When does Melissa Harris-Perry show up to opine about White Russians?
Maybe NBC was promised an interview w Putin if they behaved. They’ve been kissing bronco’s butt for so long, they don’t notice the stench any more.
Somebody should ask Bob Costas what Putin’s ass tastes like.
So that is where the eye infection came from.
I’m watching the intro to team figure skating/ice dancing right now, and apparently NBC has asked Johnny Weir to comb his hair and look less gay now that he is a commentator. Are they saving their own asses or saving him?
They should let Johnny be Johnny, let him sparkle 🙂
Absolutely. There’s no one else like him!
That is the worst singing since Yoko Ono.
I thought this was the funniest tweet from last night
I’d like to see the Bad Lip Reading guys fix it 😀
No offense, but that is not “singing”. That is “verbal performance art”, and it stinks.
Seriously? This is a spoof, right? Please tell me it’s not something people actually listen to. I got through about 40 seconds and couldn’t go any further. What was the payoff? I know I am one gullible person, so I need you to tell me . . .
Last one (I promise):
Is there a retarded chimp working at Salon?
That would explain a lot.
Are the “rich” going to have to wear a yellow star so they can be identified? Maybe a tattoo would be better.
Why does history repeat itself?
History doesn’t repeat itself, but lots of times it rhymes.
Other times it stutters.
This is OT but its OT on all the networks so I thought we should include it here. Trey Gowdy blasts Obama’s smidgen comment to O’Reilly on FOX.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/02/06/heated-trey-gowdy-makes-mincemeat-of-obamas-no-smidgen-of-corruption-statement-99155
Gowdy rocks. Obama also is “one of modern history’s pivotal experiments.”
Yep!
OT of the OT. Likee muchee WP’s new mobile app!!!!!
Scream!
He is not bashful. 🙂
I’m thinking the thought of being the focus of Gowdy’s squinty little eyes gotta be giving nightmares to hundreds of Omamacats.
I don’t get the freak-out over the story that the Russkis were killing stray dogs in Sochi. What do they think happens to stray dogs here in America?
NO! NO! NO! Can’t we all just get along?
It’s okay when PETA does it.
PETA doesn’t really rehome pets. Most of those that are surrendered are euthanized almost immediately.
Because openly rounding them up and euthanizing them in a few-week period makes them WAY deader than quietly with no fanfare euthanizing them over a couple of months, like we do.
LOL ….
Gold!
yoiu know I have to steal it
Communism would have been a pivotal experiment if the world leaned that communism was bad. Instead, it’s just another failed attempt at social engineering, like Obamacare.
Yep both suck 👿
I want one.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/02/was_obama_stoned_during_bob_costas_interview.html
was backtrack stoned during bob costas interview?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/free_trade_o_reaps_what_he_sows.html
interesting article on backtrack- reid – and FTA
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2014/02/08/medias-most-outrageous-olympic-outbursts-ridiculing-republicans-0#main-content
media’s most outrageous olympic outbursts ridiculing republicans
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/02/geraldo-attacks-oreilly-over-racist-obama-interview-what-you-did-was-strip-him-of-his-majesty-video/
I had to walk out of the room when this was on , or I would have thrown something at the tv.
backtrack is such a special snowflake and can not have any one question him and his policies
backtrack has NO majesty
“Majesty is an English word derived ultimately from the Latin maiestas, meaning greatness. The title ranks above Royal Highness.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majesty
This is a title jealously guarded to be used for emperors such as the Holy Roman sort or ancient Roman. Geraldo is a groveling POS.
‘Jerry’ hates being ignored and will say just anything to be given attention. Remember bad attention for them is better than being ignored.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/02/08/putins-choice-for-olympic-torch-lighter-tweaks-obama/
do not think Putin likes backtrack
I thought this was cute, the affordable coffee act.
http://chicksontheright.com/posts/item/25384-obamacoffee-coffee-you-don-t-want-at-prices-you-can-t-afford?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feedburner%2FbwTl+%28Chicks+On+The+Right%29
Paul Shillman goes full delusion:
Yeah.
That was one of the major selling points, right after “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
I work in a virtual retirement home, where people are still employed because they want to keep their insurance. They’re not leaving because Obamacare costs a lot more than employer plans unless you’re at poverty levels. For the whole time we’ve experienced Omamerica, people “retire” early because they lose their jobs and can’t find a job for so long that they give up.
I know so many people over 50 who have lost their career jobs in the last 5 years and so far only one of them has found employment in their profession and he took a job making less than my son made in his first job right out of college. Sure the government has hand outs available for them but they want to work. I would like to see some real statistics on unemployment by age and by sex. I mean stats that count actual unemployed people not people who seek unemployment checks. And I would like to see under and unemployment stats on recent college grads. Because I know a lot of kids who can’t find work and somehow the multinational corporations feel they need to import immigrants to work.
The U6 has unemployment at about 13%. The number the media uses is the U3.
Some interesting points regarding the Allen-Farrow news:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts
Good catch, DT.
Woody Allen is a perv. His marriage to his “daughter ” reeks of perv, and Mia herself has very childlike qualities . I read that custody decision . Woody Allen is a textbook case molester .
MYIQ
you got some good reviews over at Rev Amy’s place today.
also a she printed a letter that you would agree with from a soldier who was stationed in Germany in the 70s
http://rabblerouserruminations.wordpress.com/
I arrived in Wurzburg, Germany in January 1979. That’s about 40 miles from Wildflecken. I was assigned to the 6/52 ADA, a unit of the 32nd AADCOM. The first thing to get hit in an invasion are the air defense units.
Our units had real missiles, pointed east and ready to launch within minutes. They were manned 24/7/365.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/02/barack-obama-the-george-wallace-of-free-speech.php
this is off topic but a must read article
democrats and free speech
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/61028
this article really gives you something to think about
I think I’d put Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi at the head of that guard.
would like to see this guy on the Mongolian Olympic team
Here’s the thing: I’m in favor of civil rights. I’m not in favor of being cheered for deliberately and gratuitously desecrating people’s religious spaces. That’s not “bravery”, that’s childish barbarism.
DeBlasio is really bringing NYC back to the 70s, where bums and violent criminals littered the street while rich white liberals talked about social justice in expensive restaurants.
The Brits call folks doing that “hooligans”. Californians call them “delinquents”. Texans call them “target practice”.
In Chicago they are called “cops”.
Kaboom!
Does Deblasio not know that Pussy Riot went to the oldest and most prestigious Christian church in Russia, stood on the main altar and pee’d all over it? They’d have been arrested in American, too, had they done that here.
I’m not sure how you expose human rights abuses by the Russian government by defiling a church altar.
That’s the thing. As many problems as I have with the behavior of Islam, I’d never dream of it being “okay” or in any way helpful to march into a major mosque and start pissing on Korans. And if I did, it would rightly be seen as a statement of a desire to religiously exterminate them.
Why is this ok for the sacred spaces of Christians, and Christians only?
for the breaking bad fans here
http://mashable.com/2014/02/08/walter-white-facebook-look-back/
any one watching Judge Jeanine tonight. between Benghazai and the power grid problems it is a must see. when the video becomes available see it
My kid is watching The Goldbergs. This show is hilarious.
http://weaselzippers.us/172415-john-kerry-tries-to-reassure-people-on-security-at-the-olympics-by-pointing-out-the-boston-marathon/
our taxes pay john kerry right??? man are we getting took
no my grandmother did not make this video
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/113623-hilariously-harsh-guide-millennials-workplace-millennials-response/
Did you move the furniture around.
She should have placed at least 3rd.
That girl is more flexible than a Chinese acrobat.
I’ve often thought that it should have been perfectly obvious that the “Soviet experiment” was going to go horribly, horribly wrong in its very first days – when Lenin said the following (as quoted by John Reed in Ten Days That Shook the World):
It seems to me that it’s all foretold right there: the purges, the show trials, the gulags, the famines, and the iron fist of the CPSU and the various secret police agencies that kept it in power.
John Reed and the other early communists had an excuse – socialism/communism were just theories that had never actually been tried.
Today’s idiots have no excuse.
Reed was a smart, if terribly naive, guy who really was appalled at the brutality and inequity of the 19th (and early 20th) Century version of capitalism (rather like Marx himself). I still don’t understand how he could have heard those words (especially when they were being used to completely disenfranchise and marginalize the democratic left-wing parties in Russia) without realizing that Lenin was intent on establishing a brutal totalitarian dictatorship. And Lenin was a pussycat compared to Stalin.
They assumed that human beings are ultimately malleable, and thus may be “improved” via coercion, and grow to like it. It’s an almost purely religious, Puritan-esque philosophy. The Perfection of Man imposed from without. All philosophies of that nature fail, badly.