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Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:00 AM

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A conservative radio host says he's especially desperate to get tickets to a football game because of what might happen if Barack Obama is elected.

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Thursday, June 26, 2008 05:21 PM

There's really only one thing you can say about that

WTF?

Thursday, June 26, 2008 05:24 PM

Are you kidding?

The Trojans are going to swamp Ohio. This guy's nuts!

Thursday, June 26, 2008 05:37 PM

Not paying attention

What an loon. He'd vote republican even though the last Islamic terror attack on US soil was under the disgraceful watch of Bush.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 05:40 PM

No crazier that what you loons say about Lieberman

I heard he'll outlaw pork.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 05:43 PM

Forget about the tickets...

The guy ought save his money for a higher quality crack supplier.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 05:50 PM

Fight On!

Trojans are going to kill Ohio State.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 06:00 PM

1984

I don't know what's worse, the moronic remark, or the fact that we have media watchdog groups monitoring what folks are saying.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 06:03 PM

Uh-Oh!

Hughie's off his meds again!

Thursday, June 26, 2008 06:09 PM

Sad

Sad, but only a drop in the bucket. The Republicans are going to spend the next several months desperately trying to convince people that to vote for Obama will in fact mean the end of civilization. I only pray that enough people have wised up to their modus operandi that their scare tactics will not be effective this time.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 06:29 PM

Absurd

What an absolute moronic comment.

Absurd, because I mean, like everyone knows USC will definitely win.

Go Trojans!

Thursday, June 26, 2008 07:40 PM

Drop in the bucket

The reality that the pundit's words are nonsensical (attack and game) will not stop it from being repeated on Conservative outlets nationwide and echoed in the Mianstream media for weeks, without the slightest skepticism.

It is what we have come to expect from the Fourth Estate: Consevative Stenography masquerading as Journalism.

And it will work to perfection, until the day our reporters receive a spinal transplant: Which I do not expect to see in my lifetime.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 07:41 PM

My accountant...

My accountant told me that he can't 'see voting for Obama' because once he's in office he will push for reparations for slavery because he 'has to' which I assume is because he's black.

I thought that was the funniest thing that I'd heard. Then it hit: He's a racist. Yes? or just frightened...

Thursday, June 26, 2008 08:19 PM

@Event Horizon

Get back to us when you've actually read "1984". Or read the newspaper...same thing these days with the Bush administration and their loyal media lapdogs.

Thursday, June 26, 2008 08:55 PM

The Last Football Game

On the other hand, football is a stupid game. We spend far too much mental, physical and economic energy on it anyway.

Once the terrorists come into power here, after simultaneously defeating the combined strength of all our armed forces, burned Washington DC to the ground, and they are raising goats on the former White House lawn, they will make soccer the national sport.

It will be a painful adjustment at first, but after a few years we will come to realize that a tailgate party is a tailgate party, however and wherever you find it.

Getting drunk, stripping down, and painting our bloated overfed bodies in the local team's colors will be cool again. We will adjust. We will survive.

Friday, June 27, 2008 05:10 AM

@Tukla in Iowa

My my, such vitriol and baseless assumptions on your part. But you're right; I should have referenced 'The WWF For Dummies' handbook .

Friday, June 27, 2008 06:02 AM

@Pinky

Before reading Salon this morning, I gave the Philadelphia papers a once-over. In today's Daily News, there's an opinion piece (link below) on the very topic your accountant brought up.

It was the first I'd heard about reparations in connection to Obama, and it caught me a bit off-guard. My first thought was, "Oh crap, I can already hear this 2008 version of the swiftboaters licking their chops over this one!"

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080627_Obama__change___reparations_will_make_U_S__better.html

Friday, June 27, 2008 06:29 AM

When the Rapture Comes, Can I Have Your Car?

I'd buy Hewitt a whole section of tickets to that game if it would guarantee that after the election Hewitt and all his wingnut buddies would leave the country and never come back.

Why are these people still here? Why haven't they moved someplace where like-minded types keep minorities in their place?

You know, like Saudi Arabia.

Friday, June 27, 2008 06:30 AM

These people are crazy

or they are cowards that run scared from their shadows.

Friday, June 27, 2008 07:11 AM

Wimpy wimpy wimpy!

I'm always struck by how weak the wingnut right thinks Americans are. They assume we'll just curl up and die the minute an Islamic terrorist shouts "Booga booga!" at us. Yup, we can't possibly elect Obama because we have to shelter behind Republican Dad McCain to protect our frail selves from the scourge of the new caliphate or something.

All of their chest thumping and sabre rattling must be compensation for inadequacies in, er, other departments.

Friday, June 27, 2008 07:14 AM

Hugh Hewitt

Fear owns his gutless candy a$$.

Friday, June 27, 2008 07:18 AM

@Tideswimmer

"Getting drunk, stripping down, and painting our bloated overfed bodies in the local team's colors will be cool again. We will adjust. We will survive."

Don't you realize that after the terrorists take over the United States they're going to ban alcohol?

A truly frightening thought. We either get McCain, who will veto every single beer, or we get the terrorists taking over the country under Obama and banning alcohol.

There's only one solution: Brian Moore for President!

Friday, June 27, 2008 07:27 AM

Fear

Re: "I'm always struck by how weak the wingnut right thinks Americans are. They assume we'll just curl up and die the minute an Islamic terrorist shouts "Booga booga!" at us. "

Conservatives won't curl up. They will, however, crumple up the Constitution and hand it over to the Radical Right, just as they've done to the Bush Administration.

Friday, June 27, 2008 09:01 AM

When the terrorists win, there will still be football

They'll just change the shape of the ball, and ban the use of hands.

Friday, June 27, 2008 09:05 AM

Surrender

The best button on the radio is labeled "Off." These wing nuts find any way possible to emote with their warped rhetoric. Maybe they're already sour grapes, figuring in their heart of hearts they have no chance (and don't deserve one). If they are so unhappy with prospects, why don't they just move, to Zimbabwe, for example. There's a nice conservative government! Dissent? You're outta there!! Not one "Islamist" anywhere in sight! Go ahead; git!!!! We have no further need of you.

Friday, June 27, 2008 09:39 AM

A New Greasy Republican Turd

Ahhh, it’s always a pleasure to welcome a new greasy turd floating up from the cesspool of Republican talk radio.

“I don't know what's worse, the moronic remark, or the fact that we have media watchdog groups monitoring what folks are saying.”

Great point!! Because it’s really scary that people are keeping tabs on the content of rightwing propaganda disseminated over the public airwaves by nice, patriotic “folks” like Clear Channel and Rupert Murdoch. Strangely enough, though, there’s nothing whatever scary about secret government agencies reading the mail, tracking the internet use, and listening to the phone conversations of ordinary citizens, because we all know that no one but the terrorists has anything to hide from Republican Big Brother.

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