A video released this weekend by action movie hero Chuck Norris claims that America faces “1,000 years of darkness” if President Barack Obama is reelected.
“If we look to history, our great country and freedom are under attack,” Norris warns, standing next to his wife. “We’re at a tipping point and, quite possibly, our country as we know it may be lost forever if we don’t change the course in which our country is headed.”
The pair go on to explain that Obama won in 2008 because more than 30 million evangelical Christians stayed home on Election Day. “We know you love your family and your freedom as much as Gena and I do, and it is because of that we can no longer sit quietly or stand on the sidelines and watch our country go the way of socialism or something much worse,” Norris explains.
Quoting President Ronald Reagan, Norris’s wife Gina adds that defeating Obama “will preserve for our children this last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into 1,000 years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”
Norris has been an outspoken critic of Obama’s since even prior to the 2008 election. He’s claimed in recent years that the Christian savior character Jesus would have been aborted by his mother if “Obamacare” were available 2,000 years ago, claimed that American progressives want to enshrine Islamic moral codes into U.S. law, and accused the Obama administration of trying to force the Boy Scouts to adopt a “pro-gay” position.
He also warned in 2008 that if Mitt Romney won the Republican presidential nomination, he’d “buy the White House.” Norris hasn’t repeated that particular criticism this election cycle.
This video was published to YouTube on Sept. 1, 2012.
Now I didnt post this to start another political flame war, or any flame war. I know it will eventually get out of hand, but lets at least try to discuss this like adults.
He said that one of the main reasons that people have a negative opinion of Republicans is because absolute nutjobs like Chuck Norris are presented as public representatives of the party. There are plenty of sane and rational Republicans. Chuck Norris has just publicly made itas clear as possible to the world (for those who were not already aware, from previous public statements of his), that he is insane.
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Jihadin- I was hoping it would be something along those lines when I saw the thread title. It could be an Onion article, right? Chuck Norris telling us that if we vote for Obama again, Chuck Norris will raise his fist and kick out the sun, giving us a thousand years of darkness. Fear him!
jordanis wrote: Kan, if you cant debate an issue without deliberately attacking the other side, stay out.
There's no "issue" to be debated here. You posted an article of a man who believes that he has to reveal that Obama is setting a country on a thousand years of darkness.
If anyone deserves ridicule, it is Chuck Norris for even dreaming to do something like this. It is a shame that something of this nature actually needs to be discussed as anything beyond "Is he serious?".
The sheer lunacy of suggesting that my comments on this being somehow "Anti-Conservative" is staggering.
The Republican Party has brought themselves to this. They pander to the extremists within their constituency, as those extremists are the ones who hold the keys to the coffers. They have lost sight of right and wrong and the ridiculousness of having to say this on a website about toy soldiers blows my mind.
And before you even say it...
The Democratic Party is no better. But at the very least, they're not the ones trying to freaking disenfranchise individuals such as myself and preventing them from voting with what amounts to a "Poll Tax: Part Deux".
Although, y'know what?
If we're going to get an "issue" out of this?
It is the fact that the Republican Party is going so far out of its way to distance themselves from their opposition (and vice versa with the Democrats as well) that we cannot reasonably have discourse without representatives from either party having to maintain an aggressive posture.
It is the fact that "compromise" is looked upon as a word loaded with such vehement refusal that you might as well have suggested that the individual suggesting compromise was a terrorist or someone who punched a baby.
jordanis wrote: Kan, if you cant debate an issue without deliberately attacking the other side, stay out.
There's no "issue" to be debated here. You posted an article of a man who believes that he has to reveal that Obama is setting a country on a thousand years of darkness.
If anyone deserves ridicule, it is Chuck Norris for even dreaming to do something like this. It is a shame that something of this nature actually needs to be discussed as anything beyond "Is he serious?".
The sheer lunacy of suggesting that my comments on this being somehow "Anti-Conservative" is staggering.
The Republican Party has brought themselves to this. They pander to the extremists within their constituency, as those extremists are the ones who hold the keys to the coffers. They have lost sight of right and wrong and the ridiculousness of having to say this on a website about toy soldiers blows my mind.
And before you even say it...
The Democratic Party is no better. But at the very least, they're not the ones trying to freaking disenfranchise individuals such as myself and preventing them from voting with what amounts to a "Poll Tax: Part Deux".
yah... he's an evangelical... what do you expect? Being a Fire and Brimstone dude...
And how the Republican is trying to disenfranchise you again?
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
It is a bit much though...
Automatically Appended Next Post: Hey Manny... maybe I'm still lethargic from all the beer and porksteaks... but how is he stupid?
He's trying to rally up the other evangelicals to vote...
watch as Chuck is right and Obama will bring around 1000 years of darkness... i know its preposterous, but if you told an alien that we had a man directly responsible for 6 million deaths, they would say thats preposterous too...
None of this has anything to do with the 1000 years of darkness that will begin if we re-elect the dark skinned guy, the anti-Christ, Obama to a second term!
jordanis wrote: watch as Chuck is right and Obama will bring around 1000 years of darkness... i know its preposterous, but if you told an alien that we had a man directly responsible for 6 million deaths, they would say thats preposterous too...
I'm in North Carolina, where the Republicans have put forward a "Voter Identification" bill.
Y'know, as they have in several other states where there was a rather large young voter turn-out.
And you don't have any form of ID?
None that they consider acceptable.
Apparently: my student identification from my college, my voter registration card, my Selective Service card, and learner's permit are not acceptable.
Their requirement is for utility bills, property tax forms, and driver's licenses.
I live at home and go to a local college.
Damn... that sucks.
I'm not familiar with North Carolina, but could you get a non-drivers license card?
In Missouri, you can get one, which looks exactly like the real one, except for the red embossed "non-driver". Does N. Carolina have something like that?
I was listening to a story on NPR about voter registration drives in Florida, and a law which was just overturned. They were talking about how the state had made a law requiring all registration forms to be submitted within 48hrs, rather than 14 days, and all or nearly all of the organizations who do outreach to youth and poor populations found it too logistically difficult and expensive to meet the requirement, so their registration drives were almost completely shut down.
In the 13 month period ending the August before the 2004 and 2008 elections, the Dems averaged 200,000 new voter registrations in Florida. For the same period for this election, it was 11,000. That's like a 95% drop. Now obviously some of that can be attributed to other factors, like lower Dem enthusiasm going into this election, but that's still really dramatic and pretty disturbing.
Mannahnin wrote: Maybe he's concerned about other young voters, rather than himself personally.
I was listening to a story on NPR about voter registration drives in Florida, I think? They were talking about how the state had made a law requiring all registration forms to be submitted within 48hrs, rather than 14 days, and all or nearly all of the organizations who do outreach to youth and poor populations found it too logistically difficult and expensive to meet the requirement, so their registration drives were almost completely shut down. The law was (I think) recently overturned by a court, but perhaps too late.
In the 13 month period ending the August before the 2004 and 2008 elections, the Dems averaged 200,000 new voter registrations in Florida. For the same period for this election, it was 11,000. That's like a 95% drop. Now obviously some of that can be attributed to other factors, like lower Dem enthusiasm going into this election, but that's still really dramatic and pretty disturbing.
I get that Voter-ID is trying to ensure an accurate voting system... but, the States need to provide an official state ID (ie, non-drivers ID) like in Missouri... 'cuz, if they don't, then I certainly see the objection to that N. Carolina law (Utility or Driver's license only?).
But, that part about submission within 48hours? That's assinine... Could it be that registrations deadline within 48hours of polling??? <-----[edit] nevermind, just read that link....
jordanis wrote: watch as Chuck is right and Obama will bring around 1000 years of darkness... i know its preposterous, but if you told an alien that we had a man directly responsible for 6 million deaths, they would say thats preposterous too...
Haha, what?
Are you a real person?
yes I am a real person, have been for 22 years...i was poking fun at my own thread...am I not allowed to do that?
A) Reagan didn't say quite as many crazy things as Norris.
B) People thought Reagan was nuts when he said stuff like that, too. Have you ever listed to Bill Hicks talk about him and Bush I having their finger on the button?
Mannahnin wrote: Maybe he's concerned about other young voters, rather than himself personally.
I was listening to a story on NPR about voter registration drives in Florida, I think? They were talking about how the state had made a law requiring all registration forms to be submitted within 48hrs, rather than 14 days, and all or nearly all of the organizations who do outreach to youth and poor populations found it too logistically difficult and expensive to meet the requirement, so their registration drives were almost completely shut down. The law was (I think) recently overturned by a court, but perhaps too late.
In the 13 month period ending the August before the 2004 and 2008 elections, the Dems averaged 200,000 new voter registrations in Florida. For the same period for this election, it was 11,000. That's like a 95% drop. Now obviously some of that can be attributed to other factors, like lower Dem enthusiasm going into this election, but that's still really dramatic and pretty disturbing.
I get that Voter-ID is trying to ensure an accurate voting system... but, the States need to provide an official state ID (ie, non-drivers ID) like in Missouri... 'cuz, if they don't, then I certainly see the objection to that N. Carolina law (Utility or Driver's license only?).
But, that part about submission within 48hours? That's assinine... Could it be that registrations deadline within 48hours of polling??? <-----[edit] nevermind, just read that link....
Oh no, it's quite well-known at this point that the voter ID laws are not to "ensure an accurate voting system". It's a non-solution to a non-existent problem.
"Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it's done," Mr. Turzai told the gathering of party activists. "First pro-life legislation -- abortion facility regulations -- in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor [Mitt] Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."
Now I didnt post this to start another political flame war, or any flame war. I know it will eventually get out of hand, but lets at least try to discuss this like adults.
You want us to discuss "...1,000 years of darkness..." like adults?
Though, seeing as Obama is clearly pining for dictatorship, and has merged with a sandworm, the fear is legitimate.
A) Reagan didn't say quite as many crazy things as Norris.
B) People thought Reagan was nuts when he said stuff like that, too. Have you ever listed to Bill Hicks talk about him and Bush I having their finger on the button?
A) True What happened to ol'Chuckie? B) Bill HIcks was awesome... made the proverbial "Mountain out of an Anthill" regularly. [off to see if there's Bill Hicks transcript in the interweb]
jordanis wrote: Now I didnt post this to start another political flame war, or any flame war. I know it will eventually get out of hand, but lets at least try to discuss this like adults. I think we need some more pro-conservative threads in here, as almost all of them are appearing to be anti-conservative.
This isn't pro-conservative. This is crazy pants nonsense.
Actual conservative politics are important, and it'd be nice if they were to appear again. In the meantime, as long as you take stupid nonsense like this seriously, then we're going to make fun of you. If you want to be taken seriously, then take yourself seriously.
Yup. The entire purpose of the voter ID laws being written and introduced is to make it harder for certain voting populations (poor, poor and old, and college students) to vote. Populations which are more likely to vote Dem.
They've been sold to the public as an attempt to address voter fraud, but in-person voter fraud is practically nonexistent. And that cover story has slipped, like when the PA House Majority leader made his public comment about its purpose.
Mannahnin wrote: Maybe he's concerned about other young voters, rather than himself personally.
I was listening to a story on NPR about voter registration drives in Florida, I think? They were talking about how the state had made a law requiring all registration forms to be submitted within 48hrs, rather than 14 days, and all or nearly all of the organizations who do outreach to youth and poor populations found it too logistically difficult and expensive to meet the requirement, so their registration drives were almost completely shut down. The law was (I think) recently overturned by a court, but perhaps too late.
In the 13 month period ending the August before the 2004 and 2008 elections, the Dems averaged 200,000 new voter registrations in Florida. For the same period for this election, it was 11,000. That's like a 95% drop. Now obviously some of that can be attributed to other factors, like lower Dem enthusiasm going into this election, but that's still really dramatic and pretty disturbing.
I get that Voter-ID is trying to ensure an accurate voting system... but, the States need to provide an official state ID (ie, non-drivers ID) like in Missouri... 'cuz, if they don't, then I certainly see the objection to that N. Carolina law (Utility or Driver's license only?).
But, that part about submission within 48hours? That's assinine... Could it be that registrations deadline within 48hours of polling??? <-----[edit] nevermind, just read that link....
Oh no, it's quite well-known at this point that the voter ID laws are not to "ensure an accurate voting system". It's a non-solution to a non-existent problem.
"Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it's done," Mr. Turzai told the gathering of party activists. "First pro-life legislation -- abortion facility regulations -- in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor [Mitt] Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."
I wouldn't call it a "non-existent" problem...
See the chart of what Manny referenced earlier:
That's very odd...
2008 seems out of whack...
2012 seems just as bad...
if there's true voter supression, then the law book needs to be thrown around.
Mannahnin wrote: Maybe he's concerned about other young voters, rather than himself personally.
I was listening to a story on NPR about voter registration drives in Florida, I think? They were talking about how the state had made a law requiring all registration forms to be submitted within 48hrs, rather than 14 days, and all or nearly all of the organizations who do outreach to youth and poor populations found it too logistically difficult and expensive to meet the requirement, so their registration drives were almost completely shut down. The law was (I think) recently overturned by a court, but perhaps too late.
In the 13 month period ending the August before the 2004 and 2008 elections, the Dems averaged 200,000 new voter registrations in Florida. For the same period for this election, it was 11,000. That's like a 95% drop. Now obviously some of that can be attributed to other factors, like lower Dem enthusiasm going into this election, but that's still really dramatic and pretty disturbing.
I get that Voter-ID is trying to ensure an accurate voting system... but, the States need to provide an official state ID (ie, non-drivers ID) like in Missouri... 'cuz, if they don't, then I certainly see the objection to that N. Carolina law (Utility or Driver's license only?).
But, that part about submission within 48hours? That's assinine... Could it be that registrations deadline within 48hours of polling??? <-----[edit] nevermind, just read that link....
Oh no, it's quite well-known at this point that the voter ID laws are not to "ensure an accurate voting system". It's a non-solution to a non-existent problem.
"Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it's done," Mr. Turzai told the gathering of party activists. "First pro-life legislation -- abortion facility regulations -- in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor [Mitt] Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."
I wouldn't call it a "non-existent" problem...
The Bush administration spent record amounts of time, money, and effort in pursuing voting irregularities.
They found, at best, two prosecutable cases of in-person voter fraud.
Do you really think it's a problem which requires laws to be put on the books or is it far, far more reasonable to look at it as the crock of crap that it is?
Mannahnin wrote: Maybe he's concerned about other young voters, rather than himself personally.
I was listening to a story on NPR about voter registration drives in Florida, I think? They were talking about how the state had made a law requiring all registration forms to be submitted within 48hrs, rather than 14 days, and all or nearly all of the organizations who do outreach to youth and poor populations found it too logistically difficult and expensive to meet the requirement, so their registration drives were almost completely shut down. The law was (I think) recently overturned by a court, but perhaps too late.
In the 13 month period ending the August before the 2004 and 2008 elections, the Dems averaged 200,000 new voter registrations in Florida. For the same period for this election, it was 11,000. That's like a 95% drop. Now obviously some of that can be attributed to other factors, like lower Dem enthusiasm going into this election, but that's still really dramatic and pretty disturbing.
I get that Voter-ID is trying to ensure an accurate voting system... but, the States need to provide an official state ID (ie, non-drivers ID) like in Missouri... 'cuz, if they don't, then I certainly see the objection to that N. Carolina law (Utility or Driver's license only?).
But, that part about submission within 48hours? That's assinine... Could it be that registrations deadline within 48hours of polling??? <-----[edit] nevermind, just read that link....
Oh no, it's quite well-known at this point that the voter ID laws are not to "ensure an accurate voting system". It's a non-solution to a non-existent problem.
"Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it's done," Mr. Turzai told the gathering of party activists. "First pro-life legislation -- abortion facility regulations -- in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor [Mitt] Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."
I wouldn't call it a "non-existent" problem...
The Bush administration spent record amounts of time, money, and effort in pursuing voting irregularities.
They found, at best, two prosecutable cases of in-person voter fraud.
Do you really think it's a problem which requires laws to be put on the books or is it far, far more reasonable to look at it as the crock of crap that it is?
Link for info concerning voter fraud. Is a non partisan source OK to post here? We all know non partisan is code for liberal..or so says a friend of mine. Interesting parts in there address supposed the accounts of voter fraud where the accusations were baseless and proven wrong pretty regularly. I think this was a topic a while ago as well.
As for the OP. Chuck has been saying cray cray things for a long time, no surprise here. The closer it gets to election time we will see more stuff like this. YAY.
Since when was Chuck Norris the most respected man on the Internet? I always thought he was respected in the same way a rubber chicken was: the centerpiece for a great running gag, but nobody really holds it in esteem.
Kanluwen wrote: Oh no, it's quite well-known at this point that the voter ID laws are not to "ensure an accurate voting system". It's a non-solution to a non-existent problem.
"Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it's done," Mr. Turzai told the gathering of party activists. "First pro-life legislation -- abortion facility regulations -- in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor [Mitt] Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."
For what it matters, an average of polls in Pennsylvania has Obama up 48-41. So not only is Turzai a cheating gak who's undermining Democracy for the sake of winning, he's also a loser.
I mean, cheat and win and you may be an donkey-cave but at least you gotta respect that guy can get gak done. But cheat and lose and what are you?
So now Clint Eastwood is a nutjob along with Chuck Norris.....wonder who the DNC has line up actorwise thats not calling for the death by drowning for the republicans
Jihadin wrote: So now Clint Eastwood is a nutjob along with Chuck Norris...
Well, no one has done that to Clint, they just criticized, and rightly, the bizarre performance he put on. He is still well liked and respected by almost all, but that doesn't mean his speech wasn't a bit of a head-scratcher.
Jihadin wrote: wonder who the DNC has line up actorwise thats not calling for the death by drowning for the republicans
It rings a bit hollow to criticize partisan slander while you are soaking in a tub of it you filled by your own words, including this very post. If you want to see less demagoguery and demonizing it would help start by not doing either of those things. Saying "everyone on the other side of the aisle is a dumb donkey-cave and they keep calling us dumb donkey-caves, which is mean and they only do it because they are dumb donkey-caves" undercuts the message a bit.
To wit, don't be the thing you profess to dislike.
Kanluwen wrote:There's a reason the Republican party and its adherents are looked upon less than favorably...
And it's people like Ronald Reagan
Fixed that for you but you can be forgiven in your ignorance.
jordanis wrote:watch as Chuck is right and Obama will bring around 1000 years of darkness... i know its preposterous, but if you told an alien that we had a man directly responsible for 6 million deaths, they would say thats preposterous too...
jordanis wrote:There, i fixed my statement in the OP, as I have been corrected, Chuck is being a lunatic.
You however may not, you posted this here without bothering to watch it.
1. Chuck Norris didn't say "1,000 years of Darknes" his wife Gena did.
2. Gena made it clear she was quoting Ronald Reagan
3. Even if you didn't bother to watch it the article makes both points clear. The paragraph starts: "Quoting Ronald Reagan"
For everyone that said Chuck is a lunatic this article was written for you, mostly in hopes you wouldn't read past the headline. Success. Good work to all of you rallying to the cause, finding witty YouTube videos, and making snarky comments about crazy pants nonsense and voter ID. Gena Norris thanks you for your time.
Yeah yeah, and Chuck Norris agrees with the statement which is why he decided to release the video with the statement in it. He didn't edit it out, he didn't say to her "now now, that's a bit crazy", he didn't do anything to counter the statement at all. He decided to release the video because he agrees.
To take a quote that was from a speech about standing up to Russia/Communism and apply it to a vote for Obama still seems a bit nutty. Regardless of who said it, Chuck was in the video and therefore endorses it.
He’s claimed in recent years that the Christian savior character Jesus would have been aborted by his mother if “Obamacare” were available 2,000 years ago,
Why would this be a bad thing? I mean the whole point was the he was here to die for our sins right? That seems like cutting to chase to me, getting things done more quickly and efficient without having to wait on big-government executions to do the job for him.
Crazy guy says something crazy.
People point out this is crazy.
Some people try to defend this, possibly crazy.
Talk about voter rights.
People imagine voter fraud.
Turns out they do so because they conflate voter registration fraud with voter fraud.
This will likely be brought up again because these people are incapable of learning.
I'm sad.
He’s claimed in recent years that the Christian savior character Jesus would have been aborted by his mother if “Obamacare” were available 2,000 years ago...
Well, there certainly haven't been any messiahs born in the UK since the 1967 Abortions Act.
That counts as scientific proof by Norris-esque standards, doesn't it?
English Assassin wrote:Well, there certainly haven't been any messiahs born in the UK since the 1967 Abortions Act.
That counts as scientific proof by Norris-esque standards, doesn't it?
I'm sure it does by the standards of Bill "You Can't Explain That" O'Reilly.
I'm sure that any day now he'll be there protesting for better social security and childcare facilities for single mothers, just in case they are carrying the next messiah.
Melissia wrote: Chuck Norris is, and always has been, a gakky actor, a mediocre-at-best martial artist, and a complete moron.
This hardly changes any of that.
Actually thats not correct:
Martial arts career
Norris in 1976Norris was defeated in his first two tournaments, dropping decisions to Joe Lewis and Allen Steen and three matches at the International Karate Championships to Tony Tulleners. By 1967 Norris had improved enough that he scored victories over the likes of Lewis, Skipper Mullins, Arnold Urquidez, Victor Moore, Ron Marchini, and Steve Sanders. In early 1968, Norris suffered the tenth and last loss of his career, losing an upset decision to Louis Delgado. On November 24, 1968, he avenged his defeat to Delgado and by doing so won the Professional Middleweight Karate champion title, which he held for six consecutive years.[9] In 1969, he won Karate's triple crown for the most tournament wins of the year, and the Fighter of the Year award by Black Belt Magazine.
Norris made history in 1990 when he was the first Westerner in the documented history of Tae Kwon Do to be given the rank of 8th Degree Black Belt Grand Master.[13] On July 1, 2000, Norris was presented the Golden Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Karate Union Hall of Fame. In 1999, Norris was inducted into the Martial Arts History Museum's Hall of Fame [49]
What's notable about this vid is that Chuck Norris explicitly acknowledges that he believes something could be worse than socialism. I guess he could just be talking about communism, however, which would be kind of cheap.
Hank Williams Jr. lashes out at Obama: ‘We’ve got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys’
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 9 hrs ago
Hank Williams Jr., whose "Monday Night Football" theme song was pulled by ESPN last year after he compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, lashed out at the president during a Labor Day weekend concert.
"We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays, and we hate him!" Williams reportedly told the crowd at the Stockyards Music Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday. Williams was the headliner.
Concert goers "let out a loud but less-than-unanimous cheer," Thor Christensen wrote in The Dallas Morning News.
According to Christensen's review:
The 63-year-old singer began his anti-gay commentary a few songs earlier, mocking "queer guitar pickers" in the middle of "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down" before moving on to his next target: Liberal politicians, who he told to "move to Mexico" at the end of "We Don't Apologize For America."
Before it was pulled, Williams' song "All My Rowdy Friends" had opened "Monday Night Football" broadcasts for 20 years.
[Related: Are you ready for some Hitler? Williams says comments misunderstood]
While appearing as a guest on "Fox & Friends" to break down the 2012 GOP presidential field last October, Williams—who campaigned for John McCain in 2008—said the president's golf outing with House Speaker John Boehner at the height of the debt deal talks in June "would be like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu." He later called Obama and Vice President Joe Biden "the enemy."
After ESPN pulled the song, Williams issued a statement:
Some of us have strong opinions and are often misunderstood. My analogy was extreme—but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me—how ludicrous that pairing was. They're polar opposites and it made no sense. They don't see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the president.
Williams then wrote and recorded new lyrics directed at ESPN and Fox for his song "I'll Keep My":
So Fox 'n Friends wanna put me down/Ask for my opinion/Twist it all around. Well, two can play that gotcha game you'll see.
I have now added his name, along with Ted Nugent, to the list of 'humans' I intend to hunt for sport when I am finally named Emperor of the New World.
Jihadin wrote: So now Clint Eastwood is a nutjob along with Chuck Norris.....wonder who the DNC has line up actorwise thats not calling for the death by drowning for the republicans
I don't know...how about Sean Penn.....or.....Alec Baldwin.....or....Tim Robbins....or.....any number of left wing Hollywood nutjobs.
Didn't most of the Liberals in the Eastwood thread say how much they like him, and how the chair thing was surprising and seemed out of character?
Didn't all the Liberals and Moderates in the Ellen Barkin thread say that she's a nobody and dismiss her as another crazy person?
Doesn't that kind of demonstrate that the narrative you're parroting does not represent reality? At least in the discussions we're having on this forum?
Crazy guy says something crazy. People point out this is crazy. Some people try to defend this, possibly crazy. Talk about voter rights. People imagine voter fraud. Turns out they do so because they conflate voter registration fraud with voter fraud. This will likely be brought up again because these people are incapable of learning. I'm sad.
Yeah. And the bit that makes me sad is it isn't just the usual suspects who are incapable of learning. It seems every time they turn up with the same old list of things that aren't actually true, a whole lot of us take the time to respond to each of them, pointing out the errors and somehow expecting that this time they'll see how things actually are and adjust their political views.
They don't learn, but neither do we, so we keep on spending our time posting corrections over and and over again.
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Mannahnin wrote: Didn't most of the Liberals in the Eastwood thread say how much they like him, and how the chair thing was surprising and seemed out of character?
Didn't all the Liberals and Moderates in the Ellen Barkin thread say that she's a nobody and dismiss her as another crazy person?
Doesn't that kind of demonstrate that the narrative you're parroting does not represent reality? At least in the discussions we're having on this forum?
I like Eastwood and I think he is still pretty good. I disagree with him in some politics, but his statements on gay marriage were spot-on. His movies are also awesome.
Chuch Norris is just a b-actor who is famous for being a cult-classic and just crazy when it comes to politics IMO.
Hank Williams Jr. lashes out at Obama: ‘We’ve got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys’
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 9 hrs ago
Hank Williams Jr., whose "Monday Night Football" theme song was pulled by ESPN last year after he compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, lashed out at the president during a Labor Day weekend concert.
"We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays, and we hate him!" Williams reportedly told the crowd at the Stockyards Music Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sunday. Williams was the headliner.
Concert goers "let out a loud but less-than-unanimous cheer," Thor Christensen wrote in The Dallas Morning News.
According to Christensen's review:
The 63-year-old singer began his anti-gay commentary a few songs earlier, mocking "queer guitar pickers" in the middle of "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down" before moving on to his next target: Liberal politicians, who he told to "move to Mexico" at the end of "We Don't Apologize For America."
Before it was pulled, Williams' song "All My Rowdy Friends" had opened "Monday Night Football" broadcasts for 20 years.
[Related: Are you ready for some Hitler? Williams says comments misunderstood]
While appearing as a guest on "Fox & Friends" to break down the 2012 GOP presidential field last October, Williams—who campaigned for John McCain in 2008—said the president's golf outing with House Speaker John Boehner at the height of the debt deal talks in June "would be like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu." He later called Obama and Vice President Joe Biden "the enemy."
After ESPN pulled the song, Williams issued a statement:
Some of us have strong opinions and are often misunderstood. My analogy was extreme—but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me—how ludicrous that pairing was. They're polar opposites and it made no sense. They don't see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the president.
Williams then wrote and recorded new lyrics directed at ESPN and Fox for his song "I'll Keep My":
So Fox 'n Friends wanna put me down/Ask for my opinion/Twist it all around. Well, two can play that gotcha game you'll see.
I have now added his name, along with Ted Nugent, to the list of 'humans' I intend to hunt for sport when I am finally named Emperor of the New World.
Oh Hai Godwin. I was wondering when you were going to show up.
Anyway, yeah. Chuck Norris is a joke, and hardly deserves the "badass" reputation that the net gave him.
Now Bruce Campbell on the other hand...
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d-usa wrote: I like Eastwood and I think he is still pretty good. I disagree with him in some politics, but his statements on gay marriage were spot-on. His movies are also awesome.
Chuch Norris is just a b-actor who is famous for being a cult-classic and just crazy when it comes to politics IMO.
I'm not even sure if he's B-Grade. I think he's more like, C grade or something.
Is he threatening the 1,000 years of darkness or saying Obama will cause them?
Because if it's the former we could just shoot him and then we'd be shiny.
If it's the latter that seems unlikely since Obama would be dead in 60/70 years at the most...
It just serves to reinforce some of the opinions of the ancient Greek philosophers when they ultimately concluded that democracy might not be the best idea..
Hey, it's almost like white people have no clue how excited religious African Americans are to live in a world that has seen an African American president!
Or is that racist of them? I always get confused about how that works. Only straight, white, Christian men are the target of discrimination these days, right?
Pacific wrote: It just serves to reinforce some of the opinions of the ancient Greek philosophers when they ultimately concluded that democracy might not be the best idea..
More proof of the need for an enlightened Frazzled administration. A vote for Frazzled is a vote for a chewy treat in every bowl!
Pacific wrote:It just serves to reinforce some of the opinions of the ancient Greek philosophers when they ultimately concluded that democracy might not be the best idea..
I think they may have been onto something.
TheHammer wrote:Hey, it's almost like white people have no clue how excited religious African Americans are to live in a world that has seen an African American president!
Or is that racist of them? I always get confused about how that works. Only straight, white, Christian men are the target of discrimination these days, right?
Pacific wrote: It just serves to reinforce some of the opinions of the ancient Greek philosophers when they ultimately concluded that democracy might not be the best idea.. the Macedonians had conquered Athens, and that their new patrons didn't want to hear about democracy.
Pacific wrote:It just serves to reinforce some of the opinions of the ancient Greek philosophers when they ultimately concluded that democracy might not be the best idea..
I think they may have been onto something.
Plato was the kind of political thinker that thought that banning musical instruments would effectively suppress emotions in humans. Or that small/weak children shouldn't be fed. Or that strong children should go to war along their parents. Or that democracy was a bad thing.
Aristotle was a much better political theorist, and advocated a political organisation that included elements of all three general systems, kingship, aristocraty and democracy, as to get the best of all systems.
Pacific wrote: It just serves to reinforce some of the opinions of the ancient Greek philosophers when they ultimately concluded that democracy might not be the best idea..
It seems to work fairly well considering the living conditions of people under non-democratic nations is usually worse of than the democratic ones.
Pacific wrote:It just serves to reinforce some of the opinions of the ancient Greek philosophers when they ultimately concluded that democracy might not be the best idea..
I think they may have been onto something.
Plato was the kind of political thinker that thought that banning musical instruments would effectively suppress emotions in humans. Or that small/weak children shouldn't be fed. Or that strong children should go to war along their parents. Or that democracy was a bad thing.
Aristotle was a much better political theorist, and advocated a political organisation that included elements of all three general systems, kingship, aristocraty and democracy, as to get the best of all systems.
Okay, Chuck Norris' argument seems like blind patriotism to me. He did not explain why the low priority Obama placed on personal freedom was bad, and didn't acknowledge the many possible benefits of a more Socialist system. As a Socialist myself, it really gets on my nerves when people do that.
DOOMBREAD wrote: Okay, Chuck Norris' argument seems like blind patriotism to me. He did not explain why the low priority Obama placed on personal freedom was bad, and didn't acknowledge the many possible benefits of a more Socialist system. As a Socialist myself, it really gets on my nerves when people do that.
Norris has taken too many blows to the head and thinks real life is actually one of his crappy action movies...
Ah, Fox News, delivering quality rubbish as always.
Haha that 'zizzer' guy was entertaining, a lone (probably trolling) person fighting against the wave of intelligent life which was posting those comments.
And in relation to Chuck Norris...whose seen Expendables 2? I mean, come on, he was funny in that...although I was laughing all movie, he was exceptional. How many takes for the Chuck Norris joke to be told straight faced do you think?
DOOMBREAD wrote: Okay, Chuck Norris' argument seems like blind patriotism to me. He did not explain why the low priority Obama placed on personal freedom was bad, and didn't acknowledge the many possible benefits of a more Socialist system. As a Socialist myself, it really gets on my nerves when people do that.
Norris has taken too many blows to the head and thinks real life is actually one of his crappy action movies...
Definitely one of the funnier things I've read on Dakka. Here, good sir, have an exalt. You've earned it.
yah... he's an evangelical... what do you expect? Being a Fire and Brimstone dude...
