Wednesday, February 18, 2015

FURTHER COMMENT SUPERFLUOUS.

When you see Obama holding up one finger in a photograph, F.W. Burleigh of the distinguished conservative journal American Thinker will have you know, he isn't telling someone to wait a minute, nor calling for attention, nor witnessing for Christ like Archie and the Gang, nor doing the Lindy Hop --
Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign 
Is President Obama a Muslim? A lot has been written about this, but if photographs speak louder than words, then a photo taken at last August’s U.S.-African Leaders’ Summit in Washington D.C. might shed considerable light. 
It shows Barack Hussein Obama flashing the one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith to dozens of African delegates...

The one-finger display is the distinctive Muslim gang sign: The index finger points straight up while the thumb wraps underneath and presses against the digital phalange of the middle finger. The remaining fingers are squeezed against the palm in order to highlight the extended forefinger...
There's even semiotic analysis of a grainy photo detail:

The reaction of Togo president Faure Gnassingbe, at the top row second to the left, is less approving. Through his face you can read the mind of this Sorbonne- and George Washington University educated leader. His mind is screaming, “You gotta be kidding!”
I could go on, but why spoil it? If you're a fan of Crazy, this is a treasure trove.

UPDATE. John Bridges, among others, sees the problem.



265 comments:

  1. "presses against the digital phalange"

    It's hilarious when they try to sound smart- they sound so stilted.

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  2. the distinguished conservative journal American Thinker

    I guffawed. * superfluous further comment *
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  3. Martin Pollard9:44 AM

    That's the inherent danger of wearing your tinfoil hat outdoors: it melts what's left of your brain.

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  4. Fact: under Obama, hundreds of thousands have gathered in stadiums to flaunt the Islamic gang sign. These rallies, accompanied by brutal spectacles, have even been televised, but the lame stream media refuses to expose the truth.

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  5. The conspiracy is even deeper than we thought!

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  6. Megalon9:47 AM

    Helping IS to achieve their aim of world domination by bombing the fuck out of them and giving arms to their most effective foe (the Kurds) and organizing an international coalition to provide money and other support to those they're threatening is the very essance of Alinskyite strategy! First we fail to take Kobani, then we take Berlin!

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  7. Helmut Monotreme9:54 AM

    It's also the way to sign for the number one. 1. Arabic numerals, people!

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  8. Ted the slacker9:54 AM

    Come get your sharia foam fingers!

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  9. Emily9:56 AM

    And he's worn a blue suit more than once. I think we all know now where Obama sits on the Crips versus Bloods fence.

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  10. Ted the slacker9:57 AM

    Note to self - read BBBB's comments before posting.

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  11. coozledad9:58 AM

    The thumb up the ass display is the distinctive republican gang sign: The index finger manly seizes both testes while the thumb wraps underneath the prostate and presses against the ribcage. The remaining fingers are squeezed against the keypad to write a piece for American Thinker.

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  12. randomworker10:00 AM

    Kinda sounds like they are fingering each others buttholes over there at the American Stinker.

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  13. Halloween_Jack10:01 AM

    Finally, proof of Iraqi chemical weapons of mass destruction: they want you to pull their finger.

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  14. GeniusLemur10:06 AM

    When they try to sound smart, they sound weird... as though they're trying to pretend something they're not and don't comprehend at all.

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  15. GeniusLemur10:10 AM

    Next up: right-wing pundit screams about Obama's "Muslim" bed. It has four legs, and the people on top lie flat which makes it completely unlike a good old-fashioned American bed.

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  16. Megalon10:14 AM

    Laying flat in total submission to Sharia law every night, for YEARS! And I had thought Obama couldn't get anymore treasonous.

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  17. GeniusLemur10:27 AM

    And I just found out his chair has four legs, too! You know what it means when furniture has four legs? It represents the four pillars of Islam, that's what!

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  18. It happens to every one of us, because it is the will of Allah.

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  19. TERRORIST FIST BUMP!

    Greatest Fox News analysis ever.

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  20. Paul MacDonald10:39 AM

    To me it just looks like President Gnassingbe has to go to the bathroom.

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  21. Helmut Monotreme10:43 AM

    Which one gets left out? There's five pillars of Islam.

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  22. Gromet10:46 AM

    Freedom. Our Freedom gets left out.

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  23. coozledad10:47 AM

    You gotta have at least one pillar fer yer head.

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  24. Gromet10:56 AM

    Gnassawhat went to the Sorbonne! And GW! That education PROVES he's a perceptive African, so any face he makes supports our case. Not like the Kenyan Pretender, who went where? Probably no college at all. Probably the Solyndra Institute of Moocher Community Organizing and Stupidity, #Benghazi Campus, where I can tell you what he and his finger DIDN'T major in -- America!

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  25. GeniusLemur11:01 AM

    I know there are. And our theoretical right-wing pundit would know as well (if you know "pillars of Islam," you almost certainly know the number). But do you think he'd let it stop him?

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  26. DN Nation11:04 AM

    http://i.imgur.com/nC0UZSg.jpg

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  27. Magatha11:04 AM

    Oh, the phalanges aren't squeezy enough. On the other hand (not pictured) he is also talking, presumably using actual words, so we can't expect full mouth-phalanges coordination. But there could still be a conspiracy; they just had to deploy it with the president they had instead of the vice-president they wanted.

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  28. Magatha11:05 AM

    I tip my hijab to you, dude.

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  29. Is that from Sadly, No! ??

    So many great images seem to be lost...like all the Glenn Reynolds robot photoshops.
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  30. Notice that they had to make the anti-Trinitarian message even more blatant.

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  31. If President Obama WERE a Muslim, why wouldn't he just say so? He doesn't have to win any more elections, after all. Besides, it's not a crime, or anything to be ashamed of.

    Come to think of it, he also wouldn't be seen eating that Spam sushi when he visits Hawaii, either.
    http://onlineathens.com/stories/022509/liv_398203728.shtml

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  32. Ted the slacker11:19 AM

    je suis somethingsomething

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  33. "Hey, you. Yeah, you. You'd love a piece of this, right? Who wouldn't? And the naked chick's not bad either."

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  34. Oh, I have a similar Muslim gang sign I'd gladly present to Burleigh.

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  35. gocart mozart11:21 AM

    How do we know it wasn't a Minneapolis gang sign? Why can't we have more original idiocy?

    Minneapolis Mayor Explains Why Pointing Is Not A Gang Sign In #Pointergate Response. “I point a lot. Lots of people point. The President. Bill Clinton. Stephen Colbert. Babies. It is the earliest form of human communication.”

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/minneapolis-mayor-explains-why-pointing-is-not-a-gang-sign-i#.lgBVB1MY4

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  36. It's hilarious when they try to sound smart- they sound so stilted.Don't blame Burleigh; he's merely quoting exactly how the Qur'an describes it.

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  37. Adam K11:24 AM

    The American Thinker: The widest disjunction between title and content since The Neverending Story.

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  38. Heh. I love .

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  39. dstatton11:32 AM

    Photographs speak louder than words? So actions are worth a thousand words? I'm confused.

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  40. Besides, it's not a crime, or anything to be ashamed of.Uh, have you been keeping up with current events? There's a substantial portion of this nation that thinks it most certainly is.

    As for Spam sushi, gourmet jamón, etc., etc., etc., he's simply indulging in that underhanded doctrine allowing one to pretend not to be Muslim if it would put oneself in mortal danger for no real benefit for personal political advantage. (Note that these same people never thought to ask Mitt about "lying for the Lord.")

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  41. Brother Yam11:33 AM

    I think it's a thousand pictures equal action. So, make a short film and yer good...

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  42. dstatton11:38 AM

    The comments, as always, are a treasure:

    Still, only ONE SEVENTH of Americans believe Obama is a muslim. How much evidence do they want?

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  43. Through his face you can read the mind of this Sorbonne- and George
    Washington University educated leader. His mind is screaming, “You gotta
    be kidding!”I agree. This is the face of a well-educated man thinking, "A universal, uncontroversial pointing gesture is a Muslim 'gang sign'? How stupid does this Burleigh character have to be?"


    ... Oh, wait, Burleigh was referring to when the picture was taken. Yeah, I remember how George Washington University MBA program had a course entirely dedicated to how counting on one's fingers was for the heathen.

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  44. Steve-O11:46 AM

    Yeah, I took a peek and almost immediately got a headache from all the stupid on display.


    And it devolved in biblical prophesy pretty quick. Is that a thing on those sites? My goodness.

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  45. Buffalo Rude11:47 AM

    S,N! and The Poorman Institute (RIP) did a lot to keep me from losing my fucking mind back in the aughts.

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  46. Oh, the phalanges aren't squeezy enough.That's what she said.

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  47. M. Krebs11:59 AM

    What are you saying? That Spam is made of pork?

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  48. They don't. Unless you count this:

    Togo president Faure Gnassingbe's face shows great sorrow, not "you've
    got to be kidding". I am sorry you used the word "kidding" anywhere in
    your article. The concept that anything about Obama could be a joke, or
    that there is anything light about him and his behavior is inappropriate
    in a serious article. And this is a serious article. There are many who
    will grab any straw to avoid seeing the truth, and the concept of
    kidding will be their straw when they read this article.


    There's also a lengthy, unusually articulate comment from someone who's frustrated by how American Thinker keeps focusing on negativity, and irrelevant details like whether Obama is a Muslim vs. just evil or gay or whatever, and wants the "very smart people here" to focus more on positive things like how to "prepare for what's coming."

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  49. the distinctive Muslim gang sign
    That's one big gang.

    An initiate.

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  50. M. Krebs12:05 PM

    Not to mention this:

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  51. Howlin Wolfe12:05 PM

    Lionel Hutz agrees:
    Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of false advertising since my case against "The Never-Ending Story"!

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  52. So many great images seem to be lost...

    Say it ain't so!

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  53. They realize the final days are upon them. Once Obama is out of office, he'll become far less of a draw for the knuckledragger in search of a fear and loathing fix. Expect clumsy photoshops of Obama leaving a mosque with a sack full of severed heads.

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  54. Now we know why Tony never called Bobby. He was Muslim mole in a Catholic gang.

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  55. There are many who will grab any straw to avoid seeing the truthYeah, like deciding that holding up an index finger is evidence that someone is a Muslim.
    the concept of kidding will be their straw when they read this article.To be fair, "He has got to be kidding" did cross my mind. But it wasn't clutching at a straw so much as being gobsmacked that Burleigh's head could actually get that far up his ass.

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  56. Jay B.12:14 PM

    Is President Obama a Muslim?


    Short answer: No.
    Long answer: No, you fucking tool.


    Jesus, I mean I've come around largely on Obama, but a lot of his policies are still a shambles, especially in the "Post 9/11" department. I don't particularly like the overall foreign policy of killing and maiming of Muslims because freedom. These actions I would like to debate! His Administration's actions on civil liberties have been disgraceful! His HAMP debacle set real people back and it didn't need to be so! The alarming lack of banker show trials (hell, REAL trials, I don't care!) is a stain.


    But jumping fuck, it's bullshit all the way down from those mortally opposed to him. From the Speaker of the House to the "intellectuals" like Bill Kristol to the flotsam like this screaming idiot. It has no semblance of cohesion. No nod to reality. Just braying, stupid nonsense. It's not that I support Obama out of a sense of partisan loyalty, but out of simple solidarity to acknowledging the world as it is.

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  57. Jay B.12:16 PM

    Don't worry, if you lived through the 90's, you'll note that Hitlery brings out entirely new dimensions of fear, loathing and good ol' American misogyny.

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  58. Thanks, I feel much better now.

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  59. Jay B.12:25 PM

    It's a gift.

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  60. Robert M.12:28 PM

    In this distinctive sign, the distal phalanges of the fingers are pressed tightly to the center of the palm, while the thumb is wrapped across the center of the index and middle fingers. Then the hand is propelled with force toward the target audience.

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  61. DN Nation12:28 PM

    http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/5761



    All the busted image links here are a huge bummer.

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  62. carolannie12:29 PM

    But but but Regan holding up a finger was being a manly war hero, and Brewer was being all tough and courageous conservativey. So that right there eliminates the finger as an Obama signal of manly war hero stuff or tough and courageous conservativey. On to the Muslim signals!
    (and yes, I know Reagan never went to war except in his own mind).

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  63. Indeed, the taint has infiltrated Texas.

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  64. John Wesley Hardin12:38 PM

    I miss Gavin and HTML Mencken.

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  65. DN Nation12:39 PM

    The fact is, you shouldn't forget Gary Ruppert.

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  66. Jay B.12:42 PM

    WTF? That's blasphemy. If I saw a fellow Horn with that prostate tickler and not the proper "Hook 'em" signage I wouldn't think him a Muslim, but something infinitely worse, an Aggie.

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  67. Yep. And General J.C. Christian. And TBogg's joint, and Plastic.com...


    Thank Bog Roy keeps the lights on here. Because I know I find great joy and happiness celebrating and discussing the especially exceptional! Americanicity of a certain subset of United Statesians.

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  68. Buffalo Rude12:54 PM

    And Mr. Leonard Pierce. . .

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  69. Brilliant stuff! Thanks for sharing.

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  70. And Coach Urban Meyer.

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  71. Jay B.1:00 PM

    Uncle Sam wants you -- TO BOW TO MECCA.

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  72. Oh, getting out of the boat and wading about is jolly fun. One must place one's feet carefully, however, because at most places if they suspect you're laughing, splashing about and reveling in their madness then sub-surface "mods" will suck you under, leaving nary a bubble to show you were there.


    Of course, this makes it doubly fun.

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  73. Smurch1:07 PM

    By Gad, I miss The General!

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  74. Indeed. I see all this Obummer wackiness as a mere tune-up for the real crazy if/when Hillary gets in.


    But let's not get ahead of ourselves! We have the GOP primary to look forward to next! And the anticipation of that alone makes me hop around like a four year old dying to piss. How many more sleeps is it?

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  75. Tracy1:14 PM

    I didn't know John Boehner went to Texas.

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  76. M. Krebs1:26 PM

    Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner: one Kilgore Hoover (who apparently read Breakfast of Champions a few too many times):

    I read somewhere that the only reason Obama was able to attend Hah'-vaad was because of Saudi influence. But even if that's untrue, there are so many red flags about this man - his origin, his upbringing, his mentors (FMD and JW), his sexual orientation (irrelevant to me but would be earth-shattering to MSM were he Republican), and on and on. And we have solid evidence after 6+ years that Obama is a serial liar, an usurper, a demagogue of the first order, a pathological narcissist, an old-school communist in deed, and the most contemptuous man in human history since Caligula. All that, and more, and what do we get from the MSM?
    Crickets.

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  77. Jay B.1:30 PM

    I tell ya, there are NO standards any more, Ed Roso.

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  78. mortimer20001:36 PM

    F.W. Burleigh is plainly wrong. Obama's not flashing a muslim gang sign. He's shufflin'. That's a Bill Robinson dance move if ever I saw one. And he's doing it because he's secretly black. No, really, it's true. You can read all about it at at Free Republic.

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  79. Had a couple of server relocations and in one shit got real, real quickly and poof.

    The wayback machine has been helpful in the recovery of some of the lost treasure, but that is a tedious task for one with limited intertron access and we dont have loadbellies interns. Though if anyone would like to lend a hand we'd appreciate the assistance.

    Anyhoo drop on by .

    /Sadly,not as good, but hopefully still relevant.
    ...

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  80. J Neo Marvin1:48 PM

    Nothing like uneducated people trying to sound sophisticated.

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  81. Jay B.1:56 PM

    Indoobitibly. [primps bowtie]

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  82. And he puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like Hitler.

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  83. Hillary: Less Islamo-Fascist, more femi-Nazi!

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  84. gratuitous2:06 PM

    Oh my, the comments. The comments.

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  85. gratuitous2:08 PM

    Actually, if you follow Gnassingbe's line of sight, he's not looking at Obama at all, but the guy walking in front of him. I'm sure the American Thinker folks would have a ready explanation, but I don't speak moron.

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  86. smut clyde2:09 PM

    the concept of kidding will be their straw when they read this article.
    Which we will use to break the camel's back! After it goes through the eye of the needle! And when we have enough straw, we will be able to (1) make bricks, and (2) hide the needle!
    This may be a straw-man argument.

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  87. J Neo Marvin2:15 PM

    Provider and Cerb have been writing like righteous obsessed angels for the last year. The comment section is a far cry from the past, but that's not their fault. I'd love to see the revival of the epic Sadly thread. Sigh.

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  88. Odder2:26 PM

    Just skimmed the comments below, but has nobody pointed out the "One Way" slogan of the 60s/70s Jesus Movement and its usual symbolic image? Many, many different versions of this design can still be seen online, and here are two examples:

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  89. I'm starting to think I fell afoul of Poe's Law here— "the concept of kidding will be their straw" is just too perfect a phrase to have been constructed without humorous intent. Or is it maybe from the Bible?

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  90. Obama will show you the Fifth Pillar when you get in the bed with him.

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  91. Oh my God, they've recruited ALL THE BABIES!

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  92. Oh yeah, I remember that now!

    How 'bout that.

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  93. Here's Angela Merkel... does it still count if she has her thumb out too?

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  94. dstatton2:41 PM

    Yes, especially Revelations.

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  95. DN Nation2:41 PM

    Wuzza-wuzzup, loony libs.

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  96. Sure, I'm saying that.

    Maybe I'm the only one on this thread that actually LIKES Spam?

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  97. J Neo Marvin2:44 PM

    Oh, the Hillary years are going to be entertaining, I guarantee.

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  98. DN Nation2:50 PM

    One of my pastimes is following the antics of syndicated wingnut cartoonists, for the nyuks, and a whole bunch of them have for whatever reason discovered that SAUDIS MADE HARVARD TAKE OBAMA story. Even though the born-on date for it is something like Summer '08. I guess drawing Obama playing golf six thousand times has grown tiresome.

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  99. J Neo Marvin2:58 PM

    They've been finding solid evidence in their pants for the last six years.

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  100. sigyn3:00 PM

    What kind of help do you need, Provider?

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  101. Jaime Oria3:03 PM

    Not to mention the chair comes with a matching Ottoman !!!

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  102. Emily683:06 PM

    John the Baptist was a smirking Muslim, or at least Leonardo thought so.

    http://www.leonardodavinci.net/images/gallery/st-john-the-baptist.jpg

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  103. I read somewhere that the only reason Obama was able to attend Hah'-vaad was because of Saudi influence.

    There are a number of reasons to consign this immediately to the bottom of the bird cage, the first three words are enough to make that a worthy proposition and tell any sane thinking person, that to read any further would be a waste of your time. Those missing the tell at first would be warned when they made it to Hah'-vaard.

    For the rest of us, however, those of us fascinated by the endless capacity of the conservative word-salad shooter to mistake bullshit for arugala, and petulance for comedy, just can't help but put its funny voice on. Hah'vaard indeed.

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  104. Emily683:07 PM

    Does a horizontal finger count? If so, here's Lord Kitchener trying to recruit Muslims for ISIS.

    http://www.iwmshop.org.uk/images/item_12794.jpg

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  105. Jaime Oria3:09 PM

    I must say, that is a rather Saddam-esque 'stache Kitch is sporting.

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  106. The recruitment song contains clues to how evil this movement truly was.

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  107. bargal203:13 PM

    They're all about the secret hand signs at the Thinker. Last July they exposed another one:



    "Sexually oriented feminists can be divided into two generations. The
    central purpose of the first generation was to legalize abortion and
    normalize sex outside marriage. Gloria Steinem is still the leader of
    that generation. She, who is often seen flashing her hand signal for her
    vagina, like any gang-banger, is still the leading political sex
    fashionista of her generation."



    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/07/the_psychopathology_of_sandra_flukes_allamerican_totalitarian_vagina.html

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  108. Well now that you ask....And maybe I should put up a post to coordinate this on the blog, but if a small cadre of folks could hit up the wayback machine and grab photoshops from the archives, that would go a long way to the restoration of the Sadly,No library..

    I see one person taking a page a piece, saving the files to a folder and uploading to a dropbox or some such...Having done a cursory glance of the situation, some shit may not be recoverable, unless the older cadre kept back up copies.

    Obviously this is in the slapdash stages, and shit needs to be sorted before I ask anyone to waste their time.

    Thanks for asking. Ill keep you apprised. :-)

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  109. Thank you kind sir. I too miss the abundance of MotherSnapping prolificness of the comment threads.

    My Roydar must be off a bit, I check in and find a new one with 7000 comments attached in less than 2 hours.*

    *hyperbole, cant.help.myself.
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  110. I followed the primrose path and was stunned by the opening:

    Let’s face it: if you want to see the workings of thought disorder, you have to do a Rorschach.

    I once did a Rorschach on a man who was experiencing a psychotic disorder. In card after card he reported seeing vaginas.



    Sorry but seeing, "...do a Rorschach" and "...did a Roschach..." is offensive to my sense of right and wrong.



    Please tell me that "...do a Rorschach test" is proper usage, or have the wingnuts combined with the Rand corporation, mole people and texting, managed to club the stylesheet to death like a baby harp seal?


    ...

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  111. slavdude3:43 PM

    I guess this means that proctologists are seekrit Mooslimz, too.

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  112. Or is it maybe from the Bible?The Qur'an. Same diff.

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  113. The guy with the furrowed brow, weary eyes, and most of his head missing? Thanks, Obama!

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  114. the proper "Hook 'em" signageYou mean all those liberals weren't necessarily flashing a satanic gang sign? Oh, well. [HITS PUBLISH ON AMERICAN THINKER BLOGPOST]

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  115. Not sure were gonna be able to get those back...That was epic.
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  116. Well, in fairness, Uncle Sam represents the federal government, which currently wants to confiscate all your guns, force you into gay marriage, make you abort all children born and unborn, and convert you to fundamentalist Islam. So Burleigh might be on to something after all.

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  117. Brother Yam4:09 PM

    B-b-b-but wait... Aren't the Sorbonne and GWU, ya know, universities? Wouldn't that make him an elitist?

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  118. And he puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like Hitler.Hey, you wouldn't have caught George W. Bush putting his pants on one leg at a time ... at least, not without assistance.

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  119. SAUDIS MADE HARVARD TAKE OBAMAYeah, the Saudis, aka the Bush and Cheney families' favoritist fuckbuddies. How could Obama betray their investment in him like that?

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  120. They weren't even trying that hard to hide it. Why, the English translation of "Allāh" is right there.

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  121. Maybe they meant, "Behave like a violent reactionary psychopath with a journal"?

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  122. Lancelot Link4:18 PM

    I once did a Rorschach on a man who was experiencing a psychotic disorder. In card after card he reported seeing vaginas.

    "I've got a problem? You're the one who keeps showing me dirty pictures!"

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  123. All those sports fans chanting we're number one are in for a surprise.

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  124. "the most contemptuous man in human history since Caligula."



    Guess Hitler wasn't all that bad in his mind.

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  125. Were it Hilary right now this article would be on the "Bitch wife finger waving nag" topic

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  126. smut clyde5:09 PM

    The position of Rorschach's test among real clinical psychologists -- as opposed to bullshit artists playing as psychs on the Intertubes -- is fraught. The vast preponderance of evidence is that the Rorschach test is worthless except as a way for psychologists to impose their preconceptions upon their patients (this also applies to Exner's quantitative classification / scoring system for Rorschach results). The late Robyn Dawes advised that if a psychologist ever brings out the cards for non-entertainment purposes, it is time to lawyer up quick, because you have fallen into the hands of a dangerous quack.
    On the other hand, the APA can't ban it, because dangerous quacks sill comprise most of their membership.

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  127. smut clyde5:13 PM

    the most contemptuous man in human history since Caligula
    Heaven knows, they have given him enough reasons to show contempt.

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  128. I'm glad I read all the replies.

    I was gonna refer to this joke myself.

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  129. J Neo Marvin5:30 PM

    Gang signs signify vaginas now? I can think of some gentlemen I'd love to watch this guy explain this to in person.

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  130. I knew that about the test but was just fascinated by the usage.

    This is one of those situations where one gives a pass at the bronze age/pining for a 50's that never existed/the Gilded age/ wishing to drown the Magna Carta in its baptismal bowl desirings, to focus on the ridiculousness of the argument or presentation thereof.

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  131. Make sure you keep the bacon as far away from the Playdough as possible.

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  132. M. Krebs5:42 PM

    My only beef with it is that it's about 25% salt by weight.

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  133. Pseudonym5:43 PM

    Do you have the articles themselves (and with them the URLs of the photoshops) but not the images? It seems like it shouldn't be too tough to script a bot to fetch the images from the internet archive in that case.

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  134. Wow, I didn't know that.

    Now that I think about it, I guess I'm not surprised.

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  135. smut clyde5:51 PM

    Two cliches trying to squeeze out through the door at the same time.

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  136. Jaime Oria5:56 PM

    "...do a Rorschach" - if it isn't already in the Urban Dictionary, it soon will be.

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  137. Jaime Oria5:58 PM

    As exemplified by this filthy rockin' 'n' rollin' harlot -

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  138. I think this comment's a gas!

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  139. Well, those damn Arabs also gave us the zero. Whatya make o' that, smart guy?

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  140. Yeah, like deciding that holding up an index finger is evidence that someone is too a Muslim.

    Or that wearing a paisley scarf is actually displaying a kefieh in support of Arafat, thus disqualifying that person from hawking Dunkin Fucking Donuts.

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  141. I believe this is the only beef ever associated with Spam.

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  142. It also does nothing to stop those transmissions coming in through your fillings.

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  143. tigrismus6:35 PM

    This is just sad. I mean there's video, for Christ's sake, he's wagging his finger like a damn boogie woogie bugle boy.

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  144. tigrismus6:41 PM

    I'm guessing he meant distal, maybe? Anyone else have any idea?

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  145. tigrismus6:48 PM

    Lord, that Paine quote in the midst of that piece: "To argue with a man who has renounced the use and
    authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity
    in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring
    to convert an atheist by scripture."

    Indeed, sir, indeed.

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  146. smut clyde6:53 PM

    Phalange is NOT A WORD. I have a sad now.
    Perhaps he meant "phalanger", a kind of possum. "Digital Phalanger" could refer to the PHP compiler.

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  147. John Wesley Hardin6:54 PM

    One Way? Yeah, straight to Allah with Muslin gangsign, pal.

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  148. smut clyde7:00 PM

    More accurate to say that it is made with pork.

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  149. tigrismus7:14 PM

    Well yers, but I knew what word he meant there. Digital not so much.

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  150. tigrismus7:16 PM

    And no Stronginthearm jokes yet? It's like I don't even know you people.

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  151. JennOfArk7:21 PM

    We may finally get the answer to the age-old question: who do conservatives hate/fear more, the darkies or the bitches?

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  152. JennOfArk7:22 PM

    Even if you didn't support him out of partisan loyalty or simple solidarity, you'd have to support him on the basis of his opponents.

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  153. ColBatGuano7:24 PM

    You're saying the Rorschach test is the Feng Shui of psychology?

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  154. ColBatGuano7:26 PM

    I'm sure he used that description so that his mouth-breathing readers wouldn't realize he was talking about pointing.

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  155. redoubtagain7:35 PM

    Four pillars and one bolster.

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  156. JennOfArk7:36 PM

    Oh, I heard hers was WAY bigger than that....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-vs8fwgwk0#t=1m16s

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  157. stepped pyramids7:37 PM

    While briefly committed to a juvenile psych ward in 2004, the evaluation they did included ink blots, as well as the MMPI (which I never bothered to fill out).


    It's good to know that the diagnostic processes I was subjected to were as useless as I thought at the time. I mostly saw flowers and butterflies.

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  158. redoubtagain7:42 PM

    Secret hand signal (with special meaning to our Muslin President):

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  159. redoubtagain7:44 PM

    American President Gives "Secret Muslim Gang Sign" Hand Signals, American Right Wing Stubs Toes In Fit Of Rage

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  160. stepped pyramids7:44 PM

    After some time I figured out that JW is Jeremiah Wright, but who is FMD?


    And Republicans seriously still think Obama is gay?

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  161. mgmonklewis7:49 PM

    or at least Leonardo thought so

    He gave him the finger.

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  162. cleter7:50 PM

    Once he's out of office, they can get their fear and loathing from the Bride of the Monster...or whatever random city councilman gets the nomination after Mark Penn blows her insurmountable lead for her.

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  163. mgmonklewis7:51 PM

    The salt and fat content are like a blackjack to the brain's pleasure centers, enabling you to ignore the rest of SPAM's content.

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  164. I reckon so.

    Still, I like it when it's sliced thin, fried and sandwiched between the halves of a good ol' fashioned cat's head biscuit.

    'Cause I'm a Southerner; that's why.

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  165. JennOfArk8:05 PM

    I sure hope no one tips them off to the First Presbyterian Church in Port Gibson, MS, which sports a giant golden hand "flashing the Muslim Gang Sign," atop its steeple. I always referred to it as "the fickle finger of Fate."


    Then again...Presbyterians. So, you know, not real Christians.

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  166. Man, that is one sweet guitar.

    I'd love to get my hands on that.

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  167. Magatha8:23 PM

    Which is just another argument in favor of taking the damn fluoride out of the damn water. How will young people with their shiny healthy teeth receive the transmissions, much less hope for an answer some day?

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  168. M. Krebs8:33 PM

    Maybe he meant "flange." It would make as much sense.

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  169. The American Thinker is seriously bat guano insane. The video clearly shows Obama making a typical finger wagging gesture, in a good way, at something one of the folks onstage said. Check the video, starting around 2:08.

    http://www.c-span.org/video/?320901-2/usafrica-summit-group-photo-delegation-leaders



    I have no problem calling out a conservative making bat guano insane allegations.

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  170. M. Krebs8:40 PM

    Then I know you're hip to fried boloney, amirite? Amen.

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  171. M. Krebs8:41 PM

    Smut, you insufferable pedant.

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  172. M. Krebs8:42 PM

    She is fabulous.

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  173. Scott19608:43 PM

    I feel lucky to be alive. Pretty sure that won't last though. What kind of things do they recommend taking to FEMA camps again? Need to get a bag ready... OBVIOUSLY.

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  174. M. Krebs8:44 PM

    I'm at a loss to describe what these people as a whole comprise. Is it a cult?

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  175. M. Krebs8:46 PM

    Time for another Whitewater investigation! And she really did kill Vince Foster, you know.

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  176. M. Krebs8:49 PM

    I regret that I have only one up-vote to give to this comment.

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  177. M. Krebs8:51 PM

    Frederick Motherfucking Douglass?

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  178. M. Krebs8:54 PM

    Les Paul Deluxe! Highly underrated guitar. Never seen a red one though. A reissue of some kind?

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  179. JennOfArk8:57 PM

    Frank Marshall Davis. You know, Obama's commie mentor in Hawaii who trained him in the Red Arts when he was but a wee lad.

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  180. HankP8:58 PM

    I know what makes me raise a single finger in the air, but it ain't Islam.

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  181. Magatha9:26 PM

    Hell, let's just go for it. Eight years of Hillary, then eight years of Michelle Obama. I hope I live till Malia turns 35.

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  182. AGoodQuestion10:01 PM

    FW Burleigh warns, "If Barack Obama tells you to pull his finger, DON'T DO IT! Prez's commitment to jihad is silent, but deadly!"

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  183. AGoodQuestion10:07 PM

    Obama is comfortable with Islam’s extreme. He arms such people throughout the Middle East.
    Sure you're not thinking of Reagan, chief?

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  184. AGoodQuestion10:09 PM

    That's what I told Jumpin' Jack Flash.

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  185. AGoodQuestion10:15 PM

    Wheels within wheels, and wheels look just like zeroes. We're into some heavy shit here.

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  186. AGoodQuestion10:23 PM

    Yeah, this is a shared delusion with no windows to the outside world. One of the AT hacks spins some banal photos into a rehashing of a lunatic theory that's been running on fumes for seven years. The only complaint from the commenters is that his lame feints at levity do an injustice to the tragedy of America being led by a Muslim. This is the level of engagement with reality of a Second Life gamer who lets his meatspace dog starve to death.

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  187. Tehanu10:23 PM

    Burleigh might be on to something
    FTFY

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  188. AGoodQuestion10:26 PM

    This is him. I guess his hair fixative makes one hell of a lube.

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  189. AGoodQuestion10:38 PM

    Should I forward all my emails from Nigerian dignitaries to you?

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  190. AGoodQuestion10:46 PM

    Long beard. Head always covered. His hatband has stars, which are right up there with the moon. How did we not see it before?

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  191. AGoodQuestion10:51 PM

    The JW he refers to is John Wayne, right? That would account for the innuendo about sexual orientation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uv_WGEHr4I

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  192. AGoodQuestion10:58 PM

    Upvoted for stealth Talking Heads reference.

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  193. Oh, the phalanges aren't squeezy enough.

    Indeed. Where are all the true phalangists when we need them?

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  194. Jesus fucking Christ! Even Jesus is a fucking Muslim!?!?!?! Allah/Yahweh/Shiva damnit!

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  195. I find no comforter in that.

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  196. AGoodQuestion11:06 PM

    Obligatory.

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  197. I believe it involves explosive diarrhea.

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