This is just freakin’ weird. Scott Baio was brought into an interview on Fox to tell the world that Obama is a secret Muslim.
WEBSTER: We just rolled those series of sound bites, would you agree that it appears the president very reluctant to say Islamic Terror? Would you agree?
BAIO: Very reluctant? He’s absolutely reluctant. I can’t tell, Lester, if he’s dumb, he’s a Muslim or he’s a Muslim sympathizer and I don’t think he’s dumb.
“Dumb” would be getting interviewed on air by a guy called Webster and repeatedly calling him Lester.
The interview is pretty much an ad for Donald Trump featuring an old television actor who isn’t shy about demonstrating his ignorance…which probably means it’ll be effective with the Trump demographic.
He is open about the source of his information. I have conversations with my buddies about this, we sit around and shoot the breeze.
Yep, that’ll resonate with the audience. Must be true.
Interesting choice of words, for an American.
I dunno though, what other option could there possibly be? That he doesn’t want to play into the hands of the likes of ISIS and promote anti-Muslim sentiment in the west, thus deepening the rifts already present and giving Muslims in the west less support by their neighbours, greater feelings of isolation from their non-Muslim fellows, and more reasons to consider joining with groups like ISIS? Does that seem at all likely? That the president of the US wouldn’t want to promote a situation in which the citizens of the nation he leads oppose him and the nation? Seems pretty far fetched to me!
We shoot everything in America. He could even have said “shoot the shit”, except it was on TV.
If Joanie really loved him she’d yank him off the soundstage and place a book in his hands.
“shooting the breeze” is euphemism for “breaking wind”, which is euphemism for flatulence (umm farting)
*snark*snark*
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What the hell is so magically bad about refusing to say the magic werds [sic] ‘Islamic Terrorism’?
T___ is obviously magic cuz it is never applied to similar events perpetrated by WASPs.
I mean, really. They attack Obama not for any action, nor inaction, related to preventing recurrence; simply that he refuses to use the ‘madge ick’ words they think will fix everything when spoken by the reigning POTUS.
This sounds awfully related to the pathology of always invoking prayer in response to horrific events.
What is so bad about simply saying, “this was an of terrorism performed by someone who happens to be a person of [insert religion].”
It seems the point is to paintbrush the entire religion as perpetrator of the most recent act of terrorism.
Even the few terrorist who proclaim the act to be in the name of [insert religion], are insufficient. To label the entire [insert religion] as behind the act. [religion] is being used by the terrorist, not the same as the religion using the terrorists.
Like saying axes clearcut a forest, instead of a paper mill clearcut a forest for pulp.
Drowner:
A book!? No, no, that’s unAmerican. Unless it’s a bible.
[OT],
Caine,
would listening to an audio book be ok?
Is it American to watch foreign movies if they’re dubbed?
Man, someone ought to tell ISIS of this revelation. They’ve been calling him “the mule of the Jews” all this time.
Seriously, does no one on the right listen to those they’re ostensibly fighting? I thought knowing your enemy was military strategy 101. Somehow, social conservatives are better at cooperating even unintentionally than liberals are when making the most deliberate efforts. I suppose there are many more roads to a shittier world than to a better one.
einsophistry @ 7
No, of course not. That would get in the way of listening to their own fevered imaginations. It’s not about what’s real, it’s about the narratives they construct for themselves.
I think his comments towards the end: “The constitution is not a suicide pact”, and “There’s an acceptable amount of casualties…that’s just the way it is…we just have to live with it, is that what we want?”
actually make a pretty good argument in favor of gun control.
Well, I guess Trump has found his running mate.
Unfortunately Erin Moran might not be much help in talking sense into Baio. She might have similar views.
What is it with these former celebrities becoming so right-wing? What ever happened to the right-wing howl that Hollywood is controlled by liberals?
I wish people would turn these veiled accusations back at the accusers. There’s absolutely a phrase or word that is being actively avoided, and it isn’t “Islamic Terrorism”.
Foiled again by blockquotes.
Everyone was so shocked to witness Trump’s affinity for conspiracy theories, his lack of shame in any situation even when he’s proven wrong, and his refusal to learn anything about civics, policy, and government. But we must step back and look at those belonging to today’s conservative movement.
We had George W. Bush and Sarah Palin, the epitome of incuriosity & proud of it. We have FOX News (sic) and talk radio with their miles wide but inch deep analysis of current events and government. Next they drag in Baio, because he’s from Hollywood and they want to attract the youth vote (completely ignoring that those “kids” are now grandparents).
There’s zero self awareness at the heart of the GOP. They think dragging a washed-up, minor TV actor is the perfect counter to the “left’s” celebrities, completely ignoring that they’re usually politically active and have invested brain power to the issues (Mark Ruffalo, George Clooney etc.).
ugh
false dichotomy, “He’s either X or Y, I don’t think he’s X so he must be ~~~ so you catch my drift, hmmmm?*”
I also wonder why they so obsess about that phrase. They act as if it was a magic spell; that Obama is refusing to say it to keep them active. Not realizing that the use of the phrase by the paranoids is one of the motivations for the attacks.
Seems to correlate: (a) the desire to attack terrorists by labeling, and (b) the invocation after a tragedy to only pray and not encourage taking any action to address the cause of the tragedy.
Why are the personal opinions of an actor whose show was cancelled in 1983 considered business news? I only made it to the absurd intro. I guess if you say the phrase “former actor and Trump supporter” as if you are saying ” imminent and respected political science expert” nobody will notice the propaganda?
Baio attracts the youth vote? That’s difficult to believe. In case you didn’t notice, he’s not a kid anymore. At 55 he’s officially pushing 60. Not what your typical millennial hipster would consider young.
The novelist/activist Dave Eggers went to a Trump rally in Sacramento and has written some interesting and disturbing observations for The Guardian.
What he saw there relates to the types of viewers Fox and similar venues appeal to and the kind of material they produce to get those eye balls. Certainly Fox/News Corp is about the money, and the way Murdoch made his fortune is with “tabloid journalism”…an oxymoron on par with “reality TV.” No wonder Trump is a fav. Trump has already got the Page 3 part (in essence), so I’m surprised he doesn’t include chem-trails, Sasquatch, UFOs, and alien abductions in his stump speech.
I liked him as Bugsy Malone. Not much since then.
Although that was the movie when I first saw Jodie Foster, who I had a big teenage crush on. Ah nostalgia.
uh, that IS the youth demographic for the GoP. 55 is the new 17 dontchyaknow.
Please, everyone- Wherever the Christian Right would want you to use the phrase “Radical Islam”, use the phrase “Theocratic Fascism” instead.
Reminiscent of the late Fred Allen’s “One Long Pan”. . . . “What is this Long Pan find in pocket?”
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Except that in this case, it’s more about homophobia than theocratic fascism. They seem to always be trying to detract attention from something, and it’s always worth the effort to figure out what. The other thing that is actively being avoided: the majority were of latin-america origin