Courtesy of Deadspin:
NBC pre-empted the first quarter of tonight's 49ers-Patriots game to show President Obama's speech at the Newtown memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. As you might expect, many football fans didn't take kindly to this. (So, too, some Bob's Burgers fans.) Here are those idiots, led by someone who claims to be a Division II football player in the state of Alabama.
really? can't even watch sunday night football cuz our nigger prez has to talk, really?
— Brandon Ortiz (@Brandon_Ortiz13) December 17, 2012
So Obama is going to interrupt my football?I wanna see Tom Brady not Barack, Michelle and their fugly ass kids.
— Bernie (@slow_bern) December 17, 2012
Obama instead of Football are they nuts? Who cares what the twerp has to say. #@whitehouse #POTUS #NBC
— Gerry Grubbs (@gegrubbs) December 17, 2012
Yes the shooting is sad but Obama is ruining millions of kids lives daily & i want to watch some damn football, fuck you ObamaThere are quite literally dozens more over at Deadspin which you can see by clicking the link at the top. Interestingly enough a number of the Twitter accounts have now been closed out, or made private, or the tweets themselves are simply missing.
— Alex Williams (@alexw0121) December 17, 2012
From what I read while researching this the individuals involved received a substantial amount of flack for their incredibly insensitive statements. As well they should.
Somebody on another thread mentioned how sad it was that the people in the Newtown auditorium where the President gave his speech last night had to remain sitting while he exited the building.
That is indeed sad, but we surely cannot blame the Secret Service for an abundance of caution while protecting a man that has become the MOST threatened President in US history.
A little O/T but timely: RAM or some other hack wrote up a screed for $arah.
ReplyDeleteNow maybe even in the midst of her feuds and fights, she has moments of regret and reflection.
None of us will likely know, but she says this today:
Quote:
I am so overwhelmed by the miraculous answers to my prayers that the comforting, secure hope I cling to is too inexplicable for a simpleminded person like me.
Ok, $arah, (RAM) you hit all the high points here like CLINGERS, and PRAYERS.
But $arah, tell us you are not simple minded, are ya really, also too?
The RW talking points are to bury their heads in the sand until someone figures out how to handle their assault weapons problems.
DeletePalins aren't going to watch the news, services about Sandy Hook. It is more like when Bush told people to go shopping.
http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/normclarke/vegas_update/SARAH-PALIN-JOINS-THE-NFR-CROWD-183675861.html
Sarah Palin had this to say at an NRA speech back in May,2010.
Deletehttp://austinisafecker.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/sarah-palins-appalling-lack-of-self-awareness/
Yes, Sarah is too simple-minded to write her own Facebook postings. Her NRA worship is more important to her than sympathy for murdered adults and children. Sarah Palin needs to STFU until she is ready to confess about the PIMPING and THE FAKE Birth of Trig. Sarah Palin is IRRELEVANT.
DeleteIn Sarah's mind the shootings are all relate back to her. She doesn't dare but I'll bet in her mind she's going over and over what she would say if she could give another blood libel speech.
DeleteI engaged with the hermaphrodite on the DeadSpin article going by the name of Liz Micheals who claimed to be an ex California Anchor woman...anyway I followed her from twitter to facebook and commented to her there. She had NO remorse whatsoever, and was the most vile hateful person I've ever encountered. I compared her thought process - which was all over the place - to Palin, and guess what? She's a massive fan! Surprise, surprise! I found it very difficult to believe she was an anchorwoman with those looks to be honest. Let us just say that her outside reflected the inner absolutely perfectly. I got her to engage with me by first offering her a shred of sympathy, thinking that it was a harsh punishment (years of unemployability) for something that could have been a stupid mistake...but no, she was actually very proud of the attention and what she had done, and was even stumping for a possible radio show. I told her good luck with the job hunt, that she would probably have many long years of sleeping til noon ahead of her and that even wingnutty sites would veer clear, though maybe Stormfront would offer her an opening! What a horrific person. She deserves every bit of sorrow coming her way. I rechecked her facebook page today and her ramblings are scrubbed clean and her page is very short on 2012 postings now. She couldn't take what she dished out!
DeleteBTW, the LIz i was talking about was one of the ones that used the full N word. She called him a 'gun grabbing N*$*#r' and accused him of making a political speech. It was particularly vile, and her photo was particularly vile and it just drew me to learn more.
DeleteIt’s a great picture of the president with the kids; they love him and it cannot be faked. Even the shy little girl on the right is leaning in.
ReplyDeleteNewton's residents have been battling the stockpiling guns issue in their little town recently to no avail."...in the last couple of years, residents began noticing loud, repeated gunfire, and even explosions, coming from new places. Near a trailer park. By a boat launch. Next to well-appointed houses...."
ReplyDelete"...recent efforts by the police chief and other town leaders to gain some control over the shooting and the weaponry turned into a tumultuous civic fight, with traditional hunters and discreet gun owners opposed by assault weapon enthusiasts, and a modest tolerance for bearing arms competing with the staunch views of a gun industry trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which has made Newtown its home...
Something needs to be done,” said Joel T. Faxon, a hunter and a member of the town’s police commission, who championed the shooting restrictions. “These are not normal guns, that people need. These are guns for an arsenal, and you get lunatics like this guy who goes into a school fully armed and protected to take return fire.
....We live in a town, not in a war.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/nyregion/in-newtown-conn-a-stiff-resistance-to-gun-restrictions.html?hp&_r=1&pagewanted=all&
Is this for real?
DeleteExactly. The pond scum (aka $carah's psychophants) post bs like "look at that Israeli kindergarten teacher with the ak-47 strapped to her back"... with admiration.
DeleteFor real.
DeleteUnfortunately yes it's for real. I was disgusted reading many of the right-wingers comments on the internet right after the shootings defending assault weapons of mass murder to the nth degree. It's like the NRA let loose their nuttiest on the internet en masse.
DeleteO/T I happened to catch Megan Kelly on Fox while ago and of course she was interviewing someone (I forget who) that was implying that Sec. Clinton was faking her illness to avoid testifying about Benghazi. I'm so disgusted with the wing-nuts but please let them keep speaking so we can ALL see their hate on full display. The longer they keep doing it, the more people who turn off Fox - bad news for America.
I also heard some of the Clinton faking illness talk. What next?
DeleteThe game was continued in its entirety on CNBC; just switch the channel you idiots. Unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE to have the moron who used the N word to describe our President, to go into the locker room and spout that same drivel.
DeleteThe UNA foot ball layer was kicked off the team as he should have been, I really think he needs to be kicked out of the school. I live in Alabama an people like him are scary.
DeleteThese people are beyond retarded! All of them are mentally ill and should not have guns.
ReplyDeleteTo accuse the principal of being at fault for not being armed? What kinds of retards say this shit? Inbred retards and guess who brought them all out.
Sarah you bitch you OWN this shit. The blood of Tuscan on your hands as well as the blood of these kids.
You glorify GUNs. Heck you were speaking at a NRA conference in '09 (rather than mind your state) and at the exact time your were speechfying at the NRA a Anchorage kid blew his brains out.
from a gun left on the TV stand.
You and your retarded followers are the shit of the earth.
pond scum.
He's watching out for the children.
ReplyDeleteThis song made me cry. One man's tribute to Newtown...'We Care'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrmCrsXwZ7c
Pro-Gun Rights Senator: 'It's Time' For Gun Control Debate
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/joe-manchin-gun-control_n_2314782.html
Scarborough: My Views On Guns Have Changed After Massacre
ReplyDeleteJoe Scarborough said on Monday that the massacre in Newtown had forced him to rethink his "long-held" belief about gun rights.
In a lengthy monologue, Scarborough talked about how shaken up he had been by the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday. He noted that his children's ages averaged that of some of the murdered victims.
"From this day forward, nothing can ever be the same again," he said. "... Let this be our true landmark ... politicians can no longer be allowed to defend the status quo."
He said that he was a "conservative Republican" who had been solidly aligned with the NRA during his time in Congress, and had previously held libertarian views on the Second Amendment. But he added that Friday "changed everything":
"I knew that day that the ideologies of my past career were no longer relevant to the future that I want, that I demand for my children. Friday changed everything. It must change everything. We all must begin anew and demand that Washington's old way of doing business is no longer acceptable. Entertainment moguls don't have an absolute right to glorify murder while spreading mayhem in young minds across America. And our Bill of Rights does not guarantee gun manufacturers the absolute right to sell military-style, high-caliber, semi-automatic combat assault rifles with high-capacity magazines to whoever the hell they want.
It is time for Congress to put children before deadly dogmas. It's time for politicians to start focusing more on protecting our schoolyards than putting together their next fundraiser. It's time for Washington to stop trying to win endless wars overseas when we're losing the war at home ... For the sake of my four children and yours, I choose life and I choose change."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/joe-scarborough-newtown-shooting_n_2315100.html
Scarborough doesn't work on Fox, MSNBC. He wants to fit in with a bigger part of the population. I don't trust him or believe much of what he says.
DeleteThose tweets indicate hatred to the exclusion of compassion for slain children. I had a surge of nauseau just short of vomiting reading those tweets.
ReplyDeleteHate and fear.
DeleteOn behalf of the 1.5 million members of the American Federation of Teachers, including the 35,000 members of AFT Michigan, we ask you to veto Senate Bill 59,
ReplyDeletewhich would rewrite Michigan’s gun laws to permit persons to bring concealed firearms into schools, college dorms, churches, hospitals, bars and sports
stadiums.
http://www.aft.org/pdfs/press/ltr_randi-govsnyder121612.pdf
Fire arms do not belong in schools or an any campus. Please sign this petition and encourage your leaders to resitrict the sale of semi-automatic weapons and large capacity mags, strengthen the laws regarding backround checks needed to purchase firearms and ammunition, and support mental health care.
DeleteANother Alaskan Mom
I wouldn't ant my grandkiddos to go to a school where there were weapons within reach.
DeleteCNN anchor Don Lemon on Monday made an impassioned plea for more stringent restrictions on assault weapons like the one used by Adam Lanza in last week's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
ReplyDelete"Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting?" Lemon said during a broadcast on the cable news network. "You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it. No one needs an assault rifle to go out and shoot a deer. No one needs an assault rifle that's capable of shooting 10, 20, 30 rounds off at the same time to shoot a duck or to shoot quail. It does not make sense."
Watch:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/cnns-don-lemon-speaks-out-passionately-against-assault
And raise the gun ownership age to 28-30.
DeleteSome of us are old enough to remember way 'back when, when a football game that ran way, way, WAY overtime was cut short to air the movie Heidi. The brain-dead football fans completely lost their shit, and since then, football (and all sports) have been allowed to drag interminably on and on and on with stupid chatter while other programs are pre-empted or completely not available.
ReplyDeleteSince there are dozens of cable channels that show nothing but sports, I move that that's where they should live, not on network tv where they interrupt more important things. Problem solved.
1968 Super Bowl, not just any game.
Deletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game
I was in college, working part time as a long distance telephone operator on that night. We did not know what happened, but all of a sudden the switchboards lit up with people demanding to speak to someone at NBC Headquarters in NYC. The anger was scary. Since I also was working the night that MLK was assassinated, I was very upset; thought there was another cataclysmic event happening.
DeleteTechnology now gives us Twitter and wireless phones. Instant expressions of anger now pollute the internet. I hope these idiots get swamped with angry tweets for their disgusting insensitivity and selfishness.
Bob Schieffer: If Sandy Hook Shooter Had Arab Name, ‘People Would Be Going Nuts’
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/bob-schieffer-if-sandy-hook-shooter-had-arab-name-people-would-be-going-nuts/
I find it sad that I had to license my 20-pound, elderly rescue dog who had never hurt a living being in his life and renew his license every year so that I could legally keep him in my house, yet I can walk into any gun show in the country and buy a gun and the ammunition to slaughter dozens of people without any kind of oversight whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteand I have to license and also keep up my 9 lb dogs therapy license so he can go into nursing homes.
DeleteNFL Player Victor Cruz Honors 6-Year-Old Shooting Victim By Wearing His Name On Sunday
ReplyDeleteNFL player Victor Cruz, wide receiver for the New York Giants, plans to honor 6-year-old shooting victim Jack Pinto by wearing the boy’s name on his cleats and gloves during Sunday’s game. Pinto was a fan of both the Giants and Cruz and after learning this, Cruz reached out to Pinto’s family to offer his condolences.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/nfl-player-victor-cruz-honors-6-year-old-shooting-victim-by-wearing-his-name-on-sunday/
The Giants’ star receiver wore the name “Jack Pinto” on his cleats and gloves during the Giants’ tough, 34-0 loss to Atlanta in honor of a six-year-old boy killed during the mass school shooting on Friday morning. Cruz called Jack’s family after learning he was a huge fan of Cruz and the Giants.
ReplyDeleteJack was such a big fan of Cruz that his family is even considering burying him in Cruz’s No. 80 Giants jersey, Cruz said. “It was very humbling to hear how big of a fan he was and how they were thinking about putting my jersey on him for the services,” Cruz said. “It was an emotional time. It really shows you what type of effect that athletes have on kids. Not just seeing you on TV. They want to be you. They idolize you. They wear your jersey everywhere.
“It really showed me how real it is to be a role model. It was definitely humbling for sure.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/giants-cruz-pays-tribute-sandy-hook-victim-article-1.1221445#ixzz2FKP4ieYU
Does Cruz own guns and will he continue to do so?
DeleteWant to get your blood boiling?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/huckabee_blames_gays_for_the_newtown_massacre/
A couple days ago, Huck was claiming that this happened because "they" took God out of the schools. :-)
DeleteGee whiz, I thought it was the absence of religion in schools? Huckabee can't decide on the cause of Friday's massacre - so many choice available to him. What an idiot he is.
DeleteBeaglemom
What is this crap about God being in the public school system? It never was and I went through it for many years. I'm 70 today.
DeleteHuckabee is full of crap in saying that we need to 'put God back in schools'.
Religion has no place in the public school system. It is up to the parents to teach their children religion not schools!
Just a bit OT...
ReplyDeleteBut; whenever an elected official such as Joe Lieberman is on a talking head show and blames video games or violent movies or "tax-funded abortion pills" or lack of prayer in school or godlessness in general or teh gays or single-parent homes or WHATEVER -- I'd like for them to be asked how much money the NRA gives them and/or their campaign.
Either that, or a chyron at the bottom of the screen running that information as they blame everything other than the weapons that do the actual killing.
We have so many Americans today that have no values or respect for others. It is just awful to watch, hear and read! Such anger and nastiness!
ReplyDeleteThank God we have President Obama in our world. I think he is doing one hell of an excellent job in spite of what we are seeing in America today.
I am sickened by these tweets and the sick minds behind them. And so many of them, spurred on by garbage tweets like these.
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to seriously doubt -- but fervently hope -- Barack Obama can survive these escalating threats by shit-heads who obviously want him and his family dead.
Alright, you've acknowledged that the one post on Clinton was inappropriate. You can stop now, all these posts are not asking people to look for a solution by having the 'conversation'. They've degenerated into political agitating which can't have any other effects than negative.
ReplyDeleteSo are you saying we should quit picking on the poor little racists?? No way, no how, they should be outed and shamed by those that know them, their employers should know, their neighbors should know.
DeleteWe waited several hours to see our president speak. Did any one else notice that of all the different churches that were represented, there was not a Baptist, an Assembly of God, in fact there were no Evangelical churches at all. Jewish,Bahaii, even Muslems were represented. Are there these churches in this town? I live in Alaska and these churches are everywhere up here.
ReplyDeleteGryphn, do you need to do cleanup @8:23 or am I misreading?
DeleteIf they were, I am sure they would have been represented. Frankly, doesn't strike me as an Evangelical community....there was not enough fire and brimestone being thrown around. :-)
DeleteThere are many areas of the country that have managed to keep the baptists and evangelicals out, I wish I still lived in one of those areas.
DeleteBTW it's B'hai and Muslim, both of which have members that are more "christian" than the evangelical hate crowd.
DeleteSince it seems to matter so much to you @8:28, and you're apparently too lazy to find out for yourself, New Hope Community Church was there. And, yes, it's evangelical. So what? Is evangelical the only true Christians for you?
Delete"christian" is not a secular adjective, even if you don't capitalize it. The word is kind. Use it please. Especially since these days, kindness is the LAST thing that comes to mind when I think Christian.
DeleteAuthoritarian, busybody, illogical, scientifically uneducated, does.
And before you go on the "we're not all like that rant." My reply is that you are kind not because of, but in spite of, your religion. And if you want Christianity redeemed, then you'd better start taking the microphones and spotlight away from crazies - like Fuckabee, in other words, police your own.
Oh so you know that for a fact 8:28 ??
DeletePROVE IT WITH A LINK.
It's people like you that start rumors because you have no facts. Get off the internet!
There was a minister from a fundamentalist church who spoke - on and on with his eyes closed. At one point I was afraid that the would start "speaking in tongues." Otherwise, the remarks all seemed to be very appropriate and I was glad to see the variety and the congenial relationship that seemed to exist among the local religious leaders.
DeleteUghh, arguing over Fairy Tales again....this little thread here is a PRIME example of the damage that religion is capable of doing, and it does far more harm than good. Sure, let's all devolve into an argument over "us vs them", that's what always happens and that's why we need to, as humans, evolve beyond religion. Thanks for proving my point!
DeleteNo matter what they did in ninety minutes, they weren't going to make every "flavor" happy. I haven't seen ONE Atheist complain and whine and kvetch because we weren't represented.
DeleteThese services are like a meal, it doesn't matter what's served, I don't have to eat it.
What's important is being there for the families.
STOP carrying the waters of IGNORANCE.
ReplyDeleteBusiness as usual
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249238/Sandy-Hook-shootings-NRA-takes-Facebook-page-wake-Newtown-massacre.html
I do not need to know what the bottom feeders have to say about having their football game interupted. Reading their drivel only makes the world a sadder place to live.
ReplyDeleteObama Left A Nice Message For A Newtown Football Coach And Teacher Last Night
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-newtown-sandy-hook-ct-shooting-message-school-football-coach-2012-12#ixzz2FKpMAFY9
That was beautiful, I'd have that whiteboard hermetically sealed! A piece of history.
DeleteGoing after the obvious racist problem is a diversion from the task of having the 'conversation'. But that's o.k. too because there is obviously no will to correct the problem. It's too big to correct because it requires a cessation of violence against people in foreign lands.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gaggle of asshats!!
ReplyDeleteIt finally happened. Just now. While reading the comment above about Jack Pinto. I broke completely down and went into the snotty sobs. You see, this is the first time I've cried since I heard about this. I knew I would, just didn't know when and where.
ReplyDeleteAs I started reading that comment, a song came on the radio. I crumbled, finally. This was the song.
Sometimes in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow. But if we are wise, we know that there's always tomorrow
Lean on me when you're not strong. And I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on. For it won't be long til I'm going to need somebody to lean on.
If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry. I'm up the road, I'll share your load, if you just call me. Thanks, Bill Withers.
Of course, that's not the entire song. Just a couple verses.
I've been silent since Fri. I haven't left a single word anywhere. I have no words. Still don't really. But I've done a LOT of reading.
Fellow humans and Americans, What the fuck is wrong with us? We are sick. We are broken. What IS it going to take? Does anyone really believe that the solution is to day after day after day get on the net and start slinging insults and name calling? REALLY?
Has this EVER solved anything? Do you think it's constructive or destructive? Is it helping an already explosive situation? Does it help when different groups of people daily, hourly, are going thru the: "You suck." No! You suck. Well you're an idiot. Oh yea, you're a moron. So what, you're a cousin humper. Really, you're white trash. Your mom is ugly. Fuck you, your dad is a baby humper."
Come on EVERYBODY, aren't we better than this? Or are we? Please, just think about it. Am I part of the problem? What can I do to try to make it better?
You know what gang? If we don't stand together, we ARE going to fall apart.
We're fired up and ready to go!
DeleteDoes anyone know why Michelle wasn't with the president in Newtown? Just wondering. I would think her calming, motherly charm would have been welcomed.
ReplyDeleteWhat cracks me up the most is the first Twitter is from a Spic calling or President the "N" word!
ReplyDeleteLovely specimens, aren't they?????
ReplyDeleteI'll admit one thing, I didn't like GWBush one bit, but I respected the office he held and listened to every speech.
I would LOVE for one of them to get a "surprise" visit from the secret service.
I love that they include their own twitter names!
Not too bright.
Old habits die hard, they'll never change because they watch Fox News for the T and A.