Nutroots go ballistic: We demand a stultifyingly dull debate! Or else!

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 17, 2008 01:33 AM

Oh, the left-wing bloggers are in high dudgeon over the Democrat debate.

How could ABC News do it? Behold the teeth-gnashing. And hair-pulling. And foot-stomping.

How dare the ABC moderators ask questions about topics that are, you know, topical?

How dare they ask questions that–gasp!–conservatives are asking.

How dare they explore questions of character, truthfulness, and judgment?

Don’t you know you’re supposed to do the Schoolmarm thing or the Suck-Up thing or the Bogus Plant thing?

Don’t you know you’re supposed to just let the candidates bloviate about Compassion or Global Warming or Diversity or some other MSM-designated Important Issue?

Don’t you know you’re supposed to ask the same, old, recycled softball questions in order to allow the candidates to recite the same, old, recycled answers about their health plans, their housing plans, their Iraq withdrawal plans?

Why, this just proves the MSM is in cahoots with Fox News! (Or “Fix News,” as the pastor who shall not be named likes to call it.)

Charles Gibson is Rush Limbaugh’s puppet!

George Stephanopoulos is a traitor!

The nutroots campaign against ABC has begun. A Daily Kossack fumes:

President Barack should pull their Broadcasting License…We expect Objectivity George! We’re Watching you!

If they can’t have back their stultifyingly dull Democrat debates, dammit, they are going to get all Rumpelstiltskin and jump up and down ’til they burn a hole in the ground.

No more pesky questions about candidates’ lies and shady associations.

Call in Suzanne Malveaux and let’s get back to “Do you prefer diamonds or pearls?”

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Commenter 29Victor beat me to it: “Talk about bitter. So are all of these lefties going to turn to God, guns and prejudice now?”

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  1. #201
    On April 17th, 2008 at 6:57 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    …Mr. Obama said. “She was taking every opportunity to get a dig in there. You know, that’s all right. That’s her right. That’s her right to kind of twist the knife a little bit.”

    I told you someone would emerge bitter. :) Funny.

  2. #202
    On April 17th, 2008 at 7:09 pm, rooster said:

    On April 17th, 2008 at 6:52 pm, nbarry said:
    Obama’s claim of not hearing the sermons is like the piano player in the whorehouse who swears he doesn’t know what goes on upstairs.

    Too Funny! Could you please let “The Other Side” know this, he’s mad because I called Barrack a liar.

  3. #203
    On April 17th, 2008 at 7:30 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    On April 17th, 2008 at 7:09 pm, rooster said:
    Too Funny! Could you please let “The Other Side” know this, he’s mad because I called Barrack a liar.

    Still waiting on proof Rooster, all I see is accusation and innuendo.

  4. #204
    On April 17th, 2008 at 7:46 pm, rooster said:

    The Other Side,

    All the proof needed is in #185 of this thread, thank you very little.

  5. #205
    On April 17th, 2008 at 8:02 pm, hadsil said:

    I’m almost sorry I didn’t watch the debate.

    Almost.

  6. #206
    On April 17th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, apacherat said:

    I found the ABC debate very informative. My suspicions about Obama were confirmed.

    Obama associates with weathermen terrorist.

    Obama’s pastor is anti American and is a racist.

    Obama’s wife despises America.

    Obama’s church is un-American and preaches hate.

    Obam is not patriotic.

    Obama wants to take away my guns.

    Obama wants to raise my taxes.

    Obama wants to reward illegal aliens with amnesty.

    Obama wants to take away what little wealth I have and redistribute to those who refuse to work for it.

    Obama refuse to wear the American flag lapel pin and says those who do aren’t true patriots.

    Obama wants to surrender and admit defeat in Iraq and cut and run.

    I thought I was happy but Obama say’s I’m a bitter person. I’m confused ???

    Obama and Clinton are like two peas in a pod, except Obama is the pea left of Clinton.

  7. #207
    On April 17th, 2008 at 8:19 pm, rooster said:

    So, apacherat, tell me how you really feel about B Hussein Obama.

  8. #208
    On April 17th, 2008 at 8:19 pm, DougT said:

    Everything that I’ve been reading and based on what I saw had far more to do with Clinton being given a relatively easy time, but Obama getting hit with “uncomfortable” questions.

    O’Reilly is talking to Dick Morris about the very topic now. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but my take matches O’Reilly’s.

    This has nothing to do with Republicans or conservatives. This is classic Dem infighting. Personally, I love it. A brokered convention will be a fun thing to watch.

    Go Hillary! Never give up! Never surrender! (Except if that’s your War on Terror plank, of course.)

  9. #209
    On April 17th, 2008 at 8:23 pm, hadsil said:

    I guess ABC ran out of pillows.

  10. #210
    On April 17th, 2008 at 8:57 pm, apacherat said:

    rooster said:

    It’s to early to say how I really feel about Barrack H. Obama. I’m sure more revelations about Obama will be surfacing in the near future.

    My guess will be Obama’s association with the Almighty Black P. Stone Nation, a Chicago South Side street gang. We all ready know that the Rev.Jeremiah A. Wright had connection with the Black P. Stone Nation. And nobody’s political career from the Chicago South Side goes to far with out the approval of the Black P. Stone Nation.

  11. #211
    On April 17th, 2008 at 9:02 pm, gopftw said:

    Oh boo-hoo, cry me a river.
    Typical liberals crying when their favorite candidate goes under some media scrutiny. When you’re a public figure, you are expected to answer the tough questions and have your life carefully researched.
    Double standards with the Dems again – question yours, but not ours or we’ll cry.

  12. #212
    On April 17th, 2008 at 9:09 pm, Storm Chaser said:

    ABC gave Hillary an easier time because Obama has more serious character questions to answer than Hillary. He belongs to a church with racist beliefs, and he fraternizes with leftist radicals who are not afraid of violence. While Hillary lied about a fire fight, Obama lied about his views on gun control.

    Obama says rural folk like me are bitter,but what does he say about his supporters who excoriate the ABC debate?

  13. #213
    On April 17th, 2008 at 9:21 pm, rooster said:

    apacherat,

    He’s getting a pass on cousin Odinga (Muslim) in Kenya who caused massive violence when he lost the presidential election in December, 2007.

  14. #214
    On April 17th, 2008 at 9:33 pm, TexasTiger said:

    rooster:

    Proving that D’oh-bama had no knowledge of the content of Jeremiad Wright’s sermons is akin to proving that Carmela Soprano had no idea what Tony did for a living.

  15. #215
    On April 17th, 2008 at 10:36 pm, puhiawa said:

    Wow. A couple of real questions and not only do the candidates look like empty suits, but their supporters go hysterical because the questions demonstrate as much. You would think they would be happy to be shown the fraudulent, ignorant nature of their candidates. Next, the Global Warming hoax.

  16. #216
    On April 17th, 2008 at 11:02 pm, vatodio said:

    If Barak becomes President, does it mean people like Kennedy, Kerry-Heinz, Clinton, Eli Broad, Springsteen, Soros, and all the Hollywood celebritties will pay their fair share of taxes?

  17. #217
    On April 17th, 2008 at 11:03 pm, chris3cube said:

    The makers of Pampers and Kleenex have endorsed the Obama supporters as part of their new ad campaign.
    Poor babies… those, were, very tough questions.

  18. #218
    On April 17th, 2008 at 11:36 pm, Member-VRWC said:

    I liked the part when Gibson told BO that whenever capital gains tax rates are raised, revenues go down and vice versa.

    BO responded that he didn’t care if revenues would go down, he would raise rates as an act of “fairness” so the “fat cat” hedge funders would have to pay at a rate equal to their secretaries.

    Liberal conundrum — which is better:

    raise tax rates to be “fair” even if it means the government will have less revenue to piss away on stupid boondoggles

    OR

    keep the rates as is to keep the money rolling in so more and more people can get a free lunch (that someone else is paying for), and risk being perceived as unfair (Oh, The Horror!)?

  19. #219
    On April 17th, 2008 at 11:40 pm, Grape Ape said:

    It sounds like the Obamaniacs need Obamo-therapy before their pin size heads explode !

  20. #220
    On April 18th, 2008 at 1:48 am, nyk said:

    #203 TheOtherSide wrote:

    Still waiting on proof.

    Don’t hold your breath. (And I mean that both figuratively and literally.)

  21. #221
    On April 18th, 2008 at 3:09 am, pgtips said:

    @TheOtherSide

    What kind of “proof” do you need? It has already been established that

    1) Rev. Wright’s talks are frequently racist.
    2) The church is black supremacist. If it was a white church espousing such beliefs, they’d be arrested by now.
    3) Barack Obama claims to have been in the church for 20 years.
    4) 20 years of 52 weeks means 1040 sundays, and that means 1040 church services at the very least (assuming no midweek groups, etc).
    5) Those views aren’t held by Rev. Wright alone. Listen to the tapes. Notice that he is always greeted by applause and cheers, not gasps of horror.

    Given all that, you still believe that Barack Obama could go to over a thousand church services, mingle with the congregation who appear to support Rev. Wright, listen to the sermons coming from the pulpit, count the Rev as a personal friend, and yet still be unaware of what exactly goes on in the church?

    I find it unlikely that you are unable to think logically and come to what is the most logical conclusion, ergo you must be a troll egging us on. Therefore, I can only encourage you to try harder at trolling since your attempts are miserable at best. See lgm and sausage and take a page out of their book.

  22. #222
    On April 18th, 2008 at 5:00 am, RetFireman said:

    Are there really people out there that actually believe B. Hussein “Empty Suited Messiah” Obama when he makes the claim that he never heard any of these “sermons” or rants that the Reverend of the church he belonged to for so very long made?

    Does he, and his handlers, really siting around in their hotel rooms thinking that people are really stupid enough to buy into the lies he is telling about the entire incident…that he not only never heard any of those sermons and rants, but was also never made aware of them, and that in the private discussions he has had with the Pastor of his church, who he has considered to be a very, close personal family friend, that never, not once did any of this “Man of God’s” ersonal convictions come up or out in conversation, and that it was just something he let slip a couple of times in the heat of an impassioned, coffee fueled sermon?

    Well no WONDER he thinks the way he does about us bitter hicks.

    By the way…have you guys peeped the price of 1000 year old eggs at Southeby’s? It is enough to really drive a man to vote Democrat for life, I tells ya!

  23. #223
    On April 18th, 2008 at 5:53 am, graysonret said:

    If any one of these rookies ever wins the WH, be prepared for a Reid/Pelosi/Kennedy adminstration. It’s obvious, not having any experience, both will rely on those people to advise and run the Presidency, especially during the “honeymoon”. Neither one can afford to irritate the democratic leadership so they will bow to whatever is demanded.

  24. #224
    On April 18th, 2008 at 7:24 am, Craig said:

    Anybody notice who recently ENDORSED Obama? If that doesn’t speak volumes….I don’t know what does.

  25. #225
    On April 18th, 2008 at 7:43 am, committed said:

    Craig, you will have to tell us who endorses Obama. I can’t get the link to work for me.

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