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The Trivialization Of American All Attack All The Time Politics

How trivial has partisan politics gotten? How far do some folks who belong to political parties look for just anything to try and define and negatively characterize someone? GO HERE. (See the Cagle Cartoon below on talk radio.)

PS: If Obama is an elitist for ordering a burger with spicy mustard, then this means all of my relatives who lived in the 20s who were dirt poor when they came over from Russia and Poland were as well. They liked spicy deli mustard. Their love of horseradish must have meant they had polo ponies.

If you are what you eat, then we must humbly conclude that these folks eat an awful lot of baloney sandwiches.

  • Yes! Keep up that ranting and raving and go right off the deep end, please. I'm still laughing.

    Oh, earth to Hannity. Grey Poupon is a product of that unamerican elitist foreigner, Kraft Foods.
  • CStanley
    Hard to decide which is silliest:
    1. The media giving airtime to a social lunch between the pres and VP
    2. The hyperpartisans who use the occasion to mock the president
    3. The media watchdog group and blogs which mock the mockers.

    Really, there's nothing of more importance to talk about?
  • casualobserver
    So, if Hannity et al are trivializing politics by talking about it, what happens when Joe Gandelman continues to talk about it? Raises the level of discourse, I presume?
  • I like comedy and this is really funny stuff. I'm baffled how Fox or the GOP thinks this plays to their advantage. It's clear how it plays with the mainstream. This is laughable stuff and no one in the GOP has the nerve to call it stupid.
  • JSpencer
    It's really kind of interesting to watch and see just how far these crazies will go in exploring the limits of the absurd. Based on the willingness of the target audience to keep eating it up, I'm guessing the experiment has awhile yet to run. I extend my sympathy to those conservatives who are of a more rational bent, and who must find this sort of behavior embarrassing. As GreenDreams says though, it's good comedy for many of us. ;-)
  • Marlowecan
    Well, I think this is one of the stupidest damn criticisms of a political leader I have ever read.

    I saw the recent excellent series on "Air Force One" with President-elect Obama ordering his burger with "fancy" mustard (but with fries...he made a point of that).

    Of course...they were probably "French Fries".

    "President Poupon" was the graphic in Joe's link. Seriously.

    Poupon...Dijon...French Fries...one can connect the dots.

    Even the most deranged GOP partisan now realizes Obama is a French sleeper agent placed years ago to undermine American hyperpower by encouraging mass consumption of French mustard.

    A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.
  • daveinboca
    Hmmm..... After nearly a decade of raking Chimpy McHitlerBurton over the coals for almost anything he did....including going to bed early in a silly NYT column by Maureen McDowdy, it suddenly appears that only one sort of ox is goreable, to use a terrible pun on the ex-Veep's name. And I guess it's okay if MSNBC tries to hide the kind of mustard----nobody confuses Dijon with Deli mustard, as the disingenuous post on this tries to imply---but not okay if FOX News outs the Won about mustard choices.

    This absurdity started with the Bush Derangement Syndrome and to expect the White House Cheering Section (AKA Press Corps) not to make fun of a stunt like eating burgers at a fast-food joint reveals the pomposity of a blogosphere making a reach on an hourly basis trying to defend their glorious second-rate POTUS. They elected him with one-sided coverage, but they can't be expected to keep him and his goooofy sidekick Hairplug Joe from the stuff they threw at Bush on a daily basis just a little while ago.
  • pacatrue
    So if Joe Gandelman is trivializing political discourse by talking about Hannity trivializing discourse, what happens when casualobserver comments upon that trivialization?

    Wait, so if casualobserver trivializes political discourse by talking about Joe Gandelman trivializing political discourse by talking about Hannity trivializing discourse...

    I'm lost.
  • Hannity et. al. are doing what they do for a living - throwing red meat to the lunatic fringe that makes up 20% of the population and most of the Republican base. Hannity makes several million dollars a year so it must be working. They don't really care if it makes them and the Republican party look like fools - it's the bank balance that counts.
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