Video: McCain disavows Cunningham’s “Barack Hussein Obama” shtick
posted at 4:28 pm on February 26, 2008 by Allahpundit
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An early glimpse here at Maverick having already internalized the lessons of that Politico story and moving quickly to quash a talking point before it achieves liftoff. Dave Weigel’s right, though: Cunningham is notorious for this sort of rhetoric, so much so that it’s earned him recurring appearances on Hannity’s TV shows as the resident right-wing provocateur. McCain probably had nothing to do with choosing him as the warm-up act but his boys had better be more circumspect going forward, as having to retreat from this rhetoric over and over again will eventually start to smell a tad disingenuous. It’s early, though, so for now the left is cutting him a break.
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If you are serious about getting the facts right, check them out. But i seriously doubt that.
Ya know, my Hillary Check hasn’t arrived this month. The only thing keeping me on the job is the health insurance.
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 5:55 PM
This is basicly the “Golden Watch” argument truthers use. By their reconing, The video tpes of Osama Bin Laden are proven CIA/Mossad fakes because in them OBL is seen wearing rings and a watch, which is of course forbidden “according to the Sharia”.
A second example of inpenetable sophistry is exemplified thusly:
and
This sort of “I’m just being proper and thorough” crap is so juvenile, you want to slap the person saying it in the mouth as if they were the petulent children they resemble.
Hot Air can start banning these people, or they can allow these people to make fools of them and take the site down with them.
The guy who came up with the oh-so-clever “Osambo” epithet, btw, still holds his posting privleges.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 5:58 PM
you want to slap the person saying it in the mouth as if they were the petulent children they resemble.
Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. -Yoda
gmoonster on February 26, 2008 at 6:03 PM
I have a better idea, Hiney, instead of just banning those bigoted idiot-procovateurs who dare to say middle names, why don’t we set up a nice Gulag for them in Alaska? I think it’s a good start up. Free speech was never such a good idea anyway (except of course for people who use terms such as “half witted assholes” to fellow posters - these are just fine).
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Do you want this lightweight commanding the world’s only superpower?
Any kind of (even cheesy) criticism that derails his bid (and sours him for the mostly-inattentive public mind) is fair game in politics.
It’s Hardball.
Not croquet.
profitsbeard on February 26, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Yikes!
baldilocks on February 26, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Obama in Muslim garb
Am I racist bigot now, too?
gmoonster on February 26, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Apparently, it’s much easier to whine about people using Obama’s middle name than it is to have to discuss the disaster that is Juanita McCain….
Master Shake on February 26, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Exposed and desperate, the Hillaryite sockpuppet starts revealing its underlying leftist rationalles, such as the conciiet that they are entitled to free speech rights on a private web site which they have chosen to troll as if it were a public commons.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:11 PM
I wasn’t aware of the fact you own HA, Hiney. Maybe you should update Michelle about it.
Or perhaps your name is Hussein Obama and you already think all private property belongs to you?
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Yes?
I mean, what’s you “logic” here? because Hillary does it, it can’t be bad?
Nobody’s buying it.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM
More like, raising this idiotic issue distracts people from discussing the real problem, McCain’s largely liberal positions. We need to stay focused here, stop being distracted by the shiny objects and hammer away at this RINO.
Geministorm on February 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM
You’re right. it’s a shame on this site that you and others remain registered.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Why the muslem angle then? Why not just go ahead with the n-word stuff?
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:16 PM
IT…IS…HIS…NAME! When did it become a foulmouthed curse to say a person’s name aloud? When the libtards who control Politically Correct thought, speech, and action declared it thus. That’s when.
By the looks of it, John Sydney McCain is just another thought police hall monitor.
Just a thought: A list of acceptable presidential middle names: Delano; Fitzgerald; Milhouse; Wilson; Herbert-Walker; Quincy; Knox; Howard; David: Baines, etc
List of unacceptable presidental middle names?: Hussein. By this logic, he cannot become president? Unless he changes him name.
HusseinWestern_Civ on February 26, 2008 at 6:17 PM
You two need to take this elsewhere or else get back on topic.
Geministorm on February 26, 2008 at 6:17 PM
So, let’s take this to the clear: you are saying HA is acting in a shameful way?
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 6:19 PM
I’m saying that HA’s inaction is shameful in the positive statement it makes.
Allah appropriately banned a number of creeps like you (perhaps you’re one of those returning) when they sat on this websopace and shilled for the BNP. I would like to see that happen again.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:22 PM
With respect, we’re very much on topic here. This is what this story is about.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Wow, he’s a spit-fire. Why is that preacher dude standing behind McCain and not Huckabee? Doh!
SouthernGent on February 26, 2008 at 6:24 PM
You know Western Civ, your mother sure can take a nut in the cootch.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:25 PM
I’d listen to Willie Cunningham every day if I could.
Straight talk.
knob on February 26, 2008 at 6:26 PM
We have never battled a dictator named “Delano; Fitzgerald; Milhouse; Wilson; Herbert-Walker; Quincy; Knox; Howard; David: [or] Baines.”
If Harry Truman or Dwight D. Eisenhower had campaigned against an opponent whose middle name was “Hitler,” their opponent could have reasonably complained if their campaigns insisted on referring to him by his middle name.
It’s a matter of context. Nothing inherently wrong with the name, but its associations in American culture at the moment are indisputably negative.
DavidV on February 26, 2008 at 6:27 PM
I’m glad you made it clear you are ashamed with HA and AP.
Btw, i made a google search on your name and it turns to be you and DaveS are pretty much the radical left marks here. I wondered why you both pretend to speak on behalf of the management while cursing other members relentlessly. I guess vulgarity is just a leftist trait.
Btw 2: How can i be a shill for BOTH Hillary and BNP? You have to make up your mind, kid.
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 6:27 PM
I mean, what’s you “logic” here?
Hussein’s dad was a Muslim. His middle name is “Hussein”. It’s not racism, it’s facts.
gmoonster on February 26, 2008 at 6:28 PM
The only thing I’ve seen you do since you registered at Hot Air a few weeks ago is call other commenters “racists”, and similar epithets.
waterhouse on February 26, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Come’on Allah- git rid a some of the trolls. please. we old-timers deserve better.
Ex-tex on February 26, 2008 at 6:32 PM
With respect, it appears to the casual observer that there is a pissing and name-calling contest going on. This story is actually a non-story, Cunningham called Obama a “hack”, and the assumption was that the use of “Hussein” was the objectionable comment that McCain is apologizing for. Who, of any measurable intelligence, cares?
Seriously, anyone that is concentrating on the use of Obama’s middle name being used is getting distracted from issues of actual relevance, namely that McCain is so out of touch with the Conservative base.
Geministorm on February 26, 2008 at 6:32 PM
What a dweeb.
And for the record, I’ve never, ever mentioned Obama’s middle name directly, not that it matters.
FloatingRock on February 26, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Well, it’s not my problem if you only read the immigration threads.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:33 PM
I dunno. Team Hillary has expended an aweful lot of good faith and political capital making sure that poison is in the well in time for the general. I think it’s important to be loud and firm in disciplining the grassroots to not drink from it. At all.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Er…uh… You sure “exposed” me there when I said exactly what I was thinking. How do you manage these feats of intellect, Doctor Doom?
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Your mom too. She takes slooge up the cootch like a winner.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM
That was me (although I didn’t put it exactly like that), and it was sarcasm directed at the growing list of things that seem to be off-limits when discussing Obama.
And that’s even if there is relevance that you don’t happen to see. (i.e. women voting for Hillary just because they want a woman in the Oval Office; blacks voting for Obama just because he’s half-black).
No one is disregarding the issues, although the problems with McCain and the issues have trumped all so far.
His background and ties to his family in Kenya is relevant, as is the story that Ed is developing. As someone else reminded you, we are in a global war against Islamists. We have examined the current administration’s problems in determining good Muslim/bad Muslim. (re:CAIR and the Saudis). It is fair to do the same with Obama. Will his sympathies toward Odinga effect our policy in Kenya or elsewhere against Islamic Jihad? Is he going to appease Muslims on our own soil and grant them creeping sharia?
———-
You need to find a board where Islamism isn’t a major topic of discussion.
Connie on February 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Watch your mouth!!!! DaveS might hear you!
FloatingRock on February 26, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Even if McCain has the “right” to mention Obama’s middle name, it seems to me the smart political move is to stay away from that.
I agree with DavidV above. Highlighting “Hussein” in the current environment is very different from mentioning other, more situationally innocuous middle names.
mikeyboss on February 26, 2008 at 6:46 PM
You forgot the Black Helicopters. Illiminati are there to get you! CFR are definitly stirring the pot, they took over AP’s brain and prevented him to ban all the solicitors who mention The-One-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Middle-Named!
Why don’t you answer, do you think i’m a BNP shill or a Hillary agent?
Or perhaps i’m Skynet itself?
Or does it get more sinister than that? Hmmm….
Resistance is futile….HA has been assimilated..you are next Hiney. We are anonymous…over the years, we have been watching you…we are out to get you, Hiney Von Pewps. You can run but you can’t hide. The world is doomed. Nothing can help you now. Mwuahahahahahahahaha!!
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Until you pulled that one, I thought your argument was pretty decent, even though I didn’t completely agree.
Talk about banning. I’d ban you for that without a second thought. Who knew Cartman from South Park was registered on Hot Air???
LegendHasIt on February 26, 2008 at 6:51 PM
People drinking from that well will drink from *any* well, to use your analogy. We can’t save those people, nor should we try. Focus on the important issues, don’t let these weasels (McCain, Obama, & Clinton) scurry out of the spotlight that we should be shining on their policies.
Surely, you’re above this? Stooping to juvenile remarks makes one appear to be…..you guessed it, a juvenile.
Geministorm on February 26, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Is this littlegreenfootbaalls………lol
AMartinez on February 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM
I’d take that as a stinging rebuke if it wasn’t just a pastiche of riffs you’ve borrowed from me. Being what it is, it’s more like a confession of how deeply I’ve managed to get under your skin.
I’m sorry you suck.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Connie on February 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM
You, and others on this board, need to learn to understand the difference between Muslims and Islamists. Sadder even, many on this board need to learn the difference between a Muslim and someone who has a Muslim-sounding name because he is named after his father, who was born a Muslim but was an athiest ex-Muslim by the time his son was was born.
I’m fed up with responding to the fallacious responses of morons… please don’t produce another.
DaveS on February 26, 2008 at 6:57 PM
It seems perfectly obvious that you’re the one, DaveS, that has jumped ship and is now defending Obama—-however, based on the fact that the premise of your defense is that his middle name is too shameful to mention, I seriously doubt he actually appreciates your help in any way.
FloatingRock on February 26, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Once muslim your allways a muslim, fact ask Robert Spencer or others.
AMartinez on February 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Why? What’s wrong with what I said there? It is oobviously a statement of fact.
What? We’re supposed to presume that gmoonster and you just hatched from an egg? We’re noot alowed to deal in perfectly dry facts? I mean, everyone has a mother. I have a mother. Her name’s Marabeth. Why do you think there’s something to be ashamed of about having a mother?
You PC police really are something.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 7:03 PM
And all of Obammas name , life, family,anything is open for discussion. He’s running for our country’s highest office.
AMartinez on February 26, 2008 at 7:03 PM
Robert Spencer (of this blog) explained time after time again there is no such difference. Muhammad himself engaged in Jihad and beheaded people, which means there is no moderate Islam. Didn’t you claim to be an old timer here?
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 7:06 PM
DaveS, if you are unable to attain satisfaction from Hot Air’s staff to have everybody here banned, perhaps you can go over their heads to your buddies McCain and Obama and suggest modifying the 1st amendment to make the use of Obama’s middle name a criminal offense. I’m sure Obama would appreciate the sentiment.
FloatingRock on February 26, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Funny that someone who has been saying that people can’t use certain terms and names is accusing ME of being “PC Police..
I’m hardly PC. I just don’t care for gross juvenile schoolyard insults being posted at what used to be a classy place where people used to argue based on substance instead of bile. .
LegendHasIt on February 26, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Obama’s middle name will have an effect on only a few swing voters.
It’s going to be a non-issue for the most part because there are real, striking issues such as higher taxes, surrender in Iraq and bankrupting the government with universal healthcare that is much more important to conservatives to defeat.
tx2654 on February 26, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Really the “list” is only one item long: Attacking people for things which are accidents of birth is stupid bigotry.
When you attack somebody for something which is an accident of their birth, and someone else calls you a bigot for it, it’s because you’re a bigot. They’re really not just saying that to avoid a larger issue. When the sun stands directly overhead on a summer day and the clock strikes noon, the clock isn’t trying to get you to stop talking about the war on terror. Seriously.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 7:06 PM
Maybe you should learn to think for yourself, then. If Robert Spencer is feeding you this “once a Muslim, always a Muslim” nonsense, he doesn’t deserve your attention… it’s stupid on its face.
A think a few much more credible people would politely disagree. I would much less politely disagree.
DaveS on February 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Oddly enough, whenever I paraphrase his argument like that, I get howled at for making “strawman” arguments.
I keep trying to use sarchasm to make my point. I keep forgetting that that doesn’t work amongst many of the people here.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM
I don’t get it; that McCain apologized demonstrates abject weakness, in my opinion.
He doesn’t have to be nasty, but he damn well better knock off the “i have great respect for obama/clinton”, “i think he/she would make a great president’ BS, and damned quick.
If he thinks he’s going to get kid gloves and apologies everytime a dem winds up an audience like that about him, he’s delusional.
Is this politics, or not? Does McCain want to win, or not?
We’re well and truly fooked.
Midas on February 26, 2008 at 7:24 PM
You will probably accuse me of being “Spelling Police” for this; Nonetheless:
It is spelled sarcasm…
Although I suppose you might say that “sarchasm” is an intentional pun on your part to illustrate the great gulf between your enlightened brilliance and the rest of us dumb, racist conservatives.
And in general: Sarcasm is much more effective when it is seen as witty and germane to the discussion, rather than merely ‘potty mouth’ insults.
LegendHasIt on February 26, 2008 at 7:34 PM
Oh …. sorry ….. just checking in.
I see the “you’re so stupid twins” are still here.
fogw on February 26, 2008 at 7:37 PM
I think McCain can (and should) take the high road, let the Democrats be nasty and use identity politics. I don’t think that will hurt him. If anything, more people will gravitate towards that. What’s going to kill him is if/when his policies and voting history are revealed through the national media, even if they agree with his positions, they will know that the *majority* of republicans/conservatives will find little or no ground in common with him. Most likely, this will result in a poor conservative voter turnout.
Geministorm on February 26, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Thank G-d, i have my own asserted opinion, but since you and DaveS presented yourselves as the representatives of this forum “official line of thought”, i figured at least Robert Spencer won’t be ridiculed by you.
You are a far leftist, and it’s OK by me. Live and let live. Just don’t lie, don’t curse, don’t make weird and nonsencial conspiracy theories and don’t threaten people - as you can see it doesn’t pay off. See ya kiddo.
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 7:39 PM
Señor Juan McCain del aspirante a presidente….
you cannot lose me, because you never had me.
HunnyWaggin on February 26, 2008 at 7:41 PM
What’s Rod Parsley doing standing at McCain’s left side and nodding his head so vigorously? Just wondering.
rightwingpastor on February 26, 2008 at 7:49 PM
LOL… says the person who thinks that Obama is secretly a servant of Mohammed, sent to us from his devoutly practicing father who cleverly feigned an athiest conversion decades ago so that we on Hotair would buy the preordained divine ruse today.
I think that about sums it up. LOL. Go back to Democratic Underground now. You won’t be missed.
DaveS on February 26, 2008 at 7:58 PM
Isn’t the issue whether someone should apologize [or hemi-apologize] for what someone else said?
That must be a new standard.
In which case, I would personally like to apologize for Senator Ted Kennedy calling his colleague ‘Osama’.
LaMonte on February 26, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Man a lot of arguing over a middle name THAT needs to be known. There is much more about this man that needs to be known. Shame on any one so thin skinned that they must object, and shame on McCain for saying he’s sorry. Well Conservatives what do we do now, John McCain wants to be the gentleman. Hey John you also supported the N. Y. Times. How did that work out for you.
jainphx on February 26, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Who’d a thunkit? “Aristotle” is a very recent member of our family.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Aristotle+on%22+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com&btnG=Google+Search
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Huh????
Connie on February 26, 2008 at 8:04 PM
I was going to reply to your post wherein which you called me a “lying Marxisto” by asking you how exactly you inferred from my writing that I believe in dialectic atomism, but this more recent posting of yours is more worthy of rebuttal.
Your screen name is “Aristotle,” so let us rephrase your statement in the form of a syllogism. You say:
1: Muhammed was a ruthless killer
2: Muhammed invented the religion that all Muslims follow
3: Therefore, all Muslims are ruthless killers
In order for the conclusion to follow from your two premises, two additional premises are needed. They are, to wit:
2.1: The religion Muhammed invented unequivocally demands its followers to be ruthless killers
2.2: No one can claim to be Muslim unless they follow 100% the exact teachings of Muhammed
Even if we accept premise 2.1, it is still very possible for someone to follow Islam incompletely or inconsistently and still call themselves Muslim. There are people who call themselves Christians who do not castrate themselves, people who call themselves Jewish who do not kill gays and witches, people who call themselves Buddhist who do not completely renounce all earthly desires, and even people who call themselves Marxists who do not spend their days agitating for bloody revolution.
You can argue that for a moderate to call himself a Muslim is for that person to engage in a theological contradiction, but that contradiction alone does not make said moderate non-Muslim.
hicsuget on February 26, 2008 at 8:06 PM
Obama may have not chosen to be called Hussein, but he did intentionally choose a Muslimoid Africa-first Church and a had mentor who worshipped Nation of Islam and Farrakhan.
This is not a conspiracy, it’s the reality.
But since you don’t accept the fact that there is no moderate Islam even after you got pure evidence from Robert Spencer, and are telling me to go to DU for retyping what i’ve seen by the editors of THIS BLOG, you are officially classified a Troll in my book as well as your paranoid friend, Hiney. Please don’t respond to my comments and i won’t respond to yours from this moment.
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 8:08 PM
DaveS and Whiney von pimps for HA Mutaween.
BL@KBIRD on February 26, 2008 at 8:08 PM
Heh… I’m almost 100% confident that Aristotle is here from DU or Kos. He is so comically stupid that it must be an act.
DaveS on February 26, 2008 at 8:09 PM
Seriously, what’s “potty mouth” about aknowleging your mother’s role in your birth?
Why are we not allowed to even mention that you slipped out of your mother’s birth canal nine months after your father deposited his semen up there? Whatever his name is.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Why the shock? It’s just a dry statement of fact. Everyone has a mother.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 8:11 PM
How many Muslims openly say Muhammad was wrong of waging Jihad on unbelievers and cutting people’s heads off? Please answer.
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 8:11 PM
What’s with this creepy Robert Spencer worship? Is this some new Scientology spinoff? Learn to think for yourself.
Exit question (to pay homage to AP): What’s Robert Spencer’s middle name?
DaveS on February 26, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Or others, you say? How about Ayaan Hirsi Ali? I’m certain she would disagree.
Besides, if that were true, then nobody would be put to death for apostasy, because it would be impossible for a Muslim to be an apostate.
hicsuget on February 26, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Cunningham dude on CNN said the McCain HAS met him…twice. This is going to hurt McCain as I said before.
SouthernGent on February 26, 2008 at 8:13 PM
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 8:13 PM
Or others, you say? How about Ayaan Hirsi Ali? I’m certain she would disagree.
hicsuget on February 26, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is not a Muslim.
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 8:14 PM
with all due respect…
I don’t think the news media has to “reveal his policies and voting history to create grief for this…man. His history for the last 8 years or so has been pathetic (and I’m being nice here) in the eyes of conservatives. they know his record, this is precisely why he is getting so much grief. Now granted, he basically has won the nomination, but look at his voting & speech turnout compared to Mr. OBama-nation’s turn out? its scary. this will be a disaster for Señor Juan McCain, and for conservatives. I predict an embarrassment reminiscent of Reagan vs. Mondale.
And i STILL don’t know who to vote for.
“Madam, take me in
Let me be your friend
Won’t you take me in
Let me be your friend
I’m a lonely boy
I ain’t got a home”- Frogman Henry
No….no…NO!
I can’t!
disclaimer: I apologize to any person or persons of the liberal persuasion that I may have offended with my “Obama-nation” comment. I want to apologize for being disrespectful, im sure you would all make excellent Presidents, we just disagree on what an “excellent President” is…thats all. Furthermore, I’d like to separate myself, from myself and my comments.
HunnyWaggin on February 26, 2008 at 8:15 PM
For your point to be disproven, all it takes is 1.
hicsuget on February 26, 2008 at 8:16 PM
Well, basicly his first post to the thread was to say “Look! there’s that dood I read about at SourceWatch!”
Hiney Von Pewps on February 26, 2008 at 8:16 PM
No, for my point to be disproven you need a phonomenon, not an incident. Sheik Palazzi for example, is not a phenomenon but an incident.
What you said about Jews not burning witches and so on, the Reform Jews will say openly they don’t follow the Bible (in fact most Reform jews are atheists by as survey).
1.5 Billion Muslims out there, and 99.999% of them belong to Sunni, Shia and Wahhabi sects who support Jihad and Taqqiyah. Now contradict that.
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 8:20 PM
Yes, please.
Worst. Thread. Ever.
Dorvillian on February 26, 2008 at 8:23 PM
DaveS
Because you are clearly in the dark about Islam, you should not risk making such a fool of yourself trying to dismiss it.
BL@KBIRD on February 26, 2008 at 8:24 PM
I really hope you are enjoying the mutual masturbation.
Aristotle on February 26, 2008 at 8:24 PM
There’s a difference between reaching around and reaching across the aisle.
Muslims_for_Obama on February 26, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Even though it was unpreventable by him, his name is not an accident, however. It is a result of his parentage. And while it may be unfortunate timing, he happens to be running for President at a time when we are fighting a war against people of a certain ideology with whom his father may have been affiliated and his cousin seems to be now. The use of his middle name is a red flag. People can choose to pay attention to it or not.
That said, I do not think it wise for a candidate to refer to him using his middle name. As for Cunningham, perhaps McCain’s people should have paid more attention to his normal rhetoric. Or maybe they did. Maybe it was all a Rovian plot.
Is Allahpundit’s name considered blasphemy by Muslims?
I would guess so, but I don’t really care.
Connie on February 26, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Um, a bit of moderation is in order, please.
Midas on February 26, 2008 at 8:33 PM
I do declare….both are known as a “reach around” in MY book
HunnyWaggin on February 26, 2008 at 8:34 PM
Oh, you’re one to talk.
baldilocks on February 26, 2008 at 8:48 PM
Baldilocks
If you don’t believe in Islam thats your opinion. Had you gone over my posts to you on your blog you would have noticed I said I didn’t call YOU PC or covering up anything, but as your byline reads, your choose to become a ranting blog bully that isn’t worth subjecting oneself to.
I meant to commend you the other day on your attempt to loss weight.In your case you should know that those last 5 pounds of fat on your head are going to be impossible to lose.
BL@KBIRD on February 26, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Anything at any time suggesting in the least way that Islam may behind any beheadings, riots, mayhem, or being POTUS is now not allowed to be discussed. Mark Steyn call your office.
mred on February 26, 2008 at 9:03 PM
How quickly you forget. Maybe you were impaired.
BTW, I don’t know who or what the Mungali are.
You owe me an apology.
baldilocks on February 26, 2008 at 9:14 PM
I am not with John Sidney McCain on this one. Barack Hussein is fair game. It’s his name, nothing to be ashamed of.
Rusty Allen on February 26, 2008 at 9:19 PM
One Bob Dole every twenty years is enough. What in the blue hell is the GOP establishment thinking?
When do they bring out the treadmill?
Sammy316 on February 26, 2008 at 9:21 PM
All of this coming from someone with such a clever alias as
Hiney Von “poops” Pewps is …/gasp SHOCKING!!!
Adding to these colorful comments the rest of the personal attacks spewed out by this person in this thread alone; i.e. bigot, racist…etc.
Which BTW, we all know that the first one to start name calling wins any debate by default, right??? Just checking…
Anyway…..
Hiney Von Pewps /vote ban
WWMMD?
nootch on February 26, 2008 at 9:21 PM
This could explain McCain’s strong response:
Is John McCain also the youngest child in the family?
funky chicken on February 26, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Cunningham is on now lying through his teeth. He said Mav’s people told him to give him Red Meat. On Hannity today he mentioned nothing of the sort. Damage control. What a phony, this guy should endorse Romeney. Two birds of a feather.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 26, 2008 at 9:34 PM
I think HA is pretty much a free-speech zone… which you should be very, very grateful for.
You know, either we have free speech, or not… just because people do not agree with you, it doesn’t mean they must be “banned”.
stenwin77 on February 26, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Cunningham is frightening, like a Hillbilly - deliverance type who got lucky and got a radio show. He’s a Lew Rockwell - Alex whats-his-name Ron Paul type conspiracy theory maniac.
John McCain is way too classy for this loser. Look at the faces of McCain’s supporters - can you say painful??
AprilOrit on February 26, 2008 at 9:39 PM
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