Quotes of the day
posted at 10:30 pm on April 1, 2009 by Allahpundit
“I simply can’t believe it. This stunning, unprecedented action has left me speechless for the past two days. I keep saying, ‘Did Obama really fire the chairman of General Motors? The wealthiest and most powerful corporation of the 20th century? Can he do that? Really? Well, damn! What else can he do?!’
He has the massive will of the American people behind him—and he has been granted permission by us to do what he sees fit. If you liked this week’s all-net three-pointer, stay tuned.”
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Nice.
We get 13 photos of Sarah Palin posted by Ed and the closer is Michael Moore.
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Rich socialists have all the fun.
They never promised they wouldn’t be hypocritical.
eforhan on April 1, 2009 at 10:35 PM
He does not have the will of the sane American people. Does that count for anything?
sheesh on April 1, 2009 at 10:35 PM
No he doesn’t. He has the massive will of maybe 30% of the population behind him. Others are apathetic or in opposition. Anyway, as I said in the headlines thread, “Sieg, Heil!”
And does it bother lefties that Moore seems to be even fatter than Rush?
ddrintn on April 1, 2009 at 10:35 PM
NORM!
29Victor on April 1, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Good job to Glenn Beck for starting off by quoting definitions. That’s half the problem with this whole issue. The language has been so muddled up that it’s hard to even have intelligent discussions about whether, yes, Obama is acting like a socialist and fascist in many ways, and what that means.
kc8ukw on April 1, 2009 at 10:36 PM
I keep waiting for him to order Palin dropped to the Rancor monster….
sven10077 on April 1, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Now that one is scary.
ddrintn on April 1, 2009 at 10:37 PM
One of our liberal trolls (proudly) links this in the headlines:
LINK
Summary: Hey, that german fascism was pretty sweet. Glad Obama is taking us there.
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 10:37 PM
M. Moore has been, is, and will be a fool, whom fools have made rich.
p.s. he looks like a fat and ugly old woman.
Entelechy on April 1, 2009 at 10:38 PM
hate to say it, but moore’s right. americans did want him to fire the bastard, and they want him to fire some more. beck can cry us all a river. if O fires the wrong people, you can vote against him in 2012.
sesquipedalian on April 1, 2009 at 10:38 PM
And just as it is getting close to bedtime. That may induce some messed dreams\nightmares.
WashJeff on April 1, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Interesting Glenn Beck clip; it appears we are on the road to fascism and not socialism. Jonah Goldberg was correct.
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 10:39 PM
See Soros, and the fools he fools are too blind to see.
Entelechy on April 1, 2009 at 10:40 PM
hey, keep trumpeting your failure to grasp history.
sesquipedalian on April 1, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Obama had no legal authority to fire the guy; even if he wanted to. That you think this over-reach of executive power is a good idea, is quite interesting.
Yes, you’ll enjoy the command economy.
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 10:41 PM
The Bush Administration listens in to communications between terrorists and American?
Why that’s a dangerous threat to our liberties!!!
The Obama Administration running entire businesses and industries across the country?
Ho hum. No danger there.
For some reason property rights and economic freedom cannot be threatened in the minds of our civil libertarians.
For them, the government will abuse NSA powers but not Treasury powers.
Go figure.
SteveMG on April 1, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Looks like Moore is getting hammered in the DB comments.
OT sort of… Why is it when I look at photos of Moore I can almost smell his foul breath and butt rot.
katy on April 1, 2009 at 10:42 PM
“He has the massive will of the American people behind him—and he has been granted permission by us to do what he sees fit.”
Someone ought to warn him about toking before posting.
GarandFan on April 1, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Hey let’s build thing and then blow them up. For the funds we will rape and pillage our neighboring countries and confiscate the property of the Jooooooooooooooos.
These idiots will unfortuantely NEVER understand the broken window parable.
WashJeff on April 1, 2009 at 10:42 PM
blatantblue on April 1, 2009 at 10:42 PM
High Definition?
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Yes,Obama points his finger,and presto,your gone,
and the Marxist Socialist Media,look upon in wonder
ment!
Just wait until journalists start to disappear!!!
(Sarc).
canopfor on April 1, 2009 at 10:43 PM
carbon_footprint , I don’t know if Jonah Goldberg was right or if, if it’s
Lieutenant DanGlenn Beck. I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both is happening at the same time.WashJeff on April 1, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Fascist/communist pig that Moore. Inflated jerk. Move to North Korea.
I am currently reading Jonah’s book. Amazing information.
Glenn hit the nail on the head with our country in fascism. Wake up America, especially you ridiculous Obama drones.
Great segment in Beck’s show.
jencab on April 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM
I suggest you read up on the economic model of fascist germany, dude. This whitewashing of germany is disturbing.
Let me help you:
Nationalization of banks and industries (check)
Slavery for those opposed to the regime
Token obeyance to the free market (just to make the people think it existed)
Trade wars
regulation of private property
wages dropped over the years
1/4 of workers were forced laborers
Someone is ignorant; but it’s not who you think.
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM
it’s all about the herb to a portion of CLs and all about the black helicopters to the rest…
sven10077 on April 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Really? The more Americans learn about this and the more it sinks in, I don’t think fascism will go over very well.
We will.
ddrintn on April 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Would that be your liberal revisionist BS history? Because I think lorien has a pretty good handle on this tool of a “president” we are stuck with because of a$$hats like yourself.
Sorry, lorien, if I’m treading on your territory here.
tcn on April 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM
What an idiot. Even if you agree with any of his premises, what he says makes no sense.
He cites Wall Street’s negative reaction as a good sign? He uses the quote “should send a chill through all Americans who believe in free enterprise” as a sign of support? He acknowledges the $23 million golden parachute and then says “See ya. Don’t wanna be ya.”
This is just illogical, incoherent stream of consciousness based on a misplaced anti-business emotion.
tneloms on April 1, 2009 at 10:47 PM
This man took an oath to defend and uphold the US Constitution. His job is to govern. It is NOT to do the unlawful will of an angry electorate.
Good GAWD!
katy on April 1, 2009 at 10:47 PM
gulp…. ug…..
katy on April 1, 2009 at 10:48 PM
I see Moore has assumed Chris Matthews’ position.
“I’m ready for my close up, Pres Obama, sir”
sandlin71 on April 1, 2009 at 10:49 PM
AAAAARGHH…please, no.
ddrintn on April 1, 2009 at 10:51 PM
He’s still a remorseless eating machine…
StevefromMKE on April 1, 2009 at 10:51 PM
i know, visuals are great, aren’t they.
i’m sorry, i don’t mean to give you all nightmares, but i couldn’t help myself.
sandlin71 on April 1, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Wonder how Michael Moore would like being told that his Libtard ass gets way to much money for what he does…i.e., walking around with a smelly, sweaty baseball cap spreading lies and perversions of what is true, interspersed with cutesy cartoons according to a tired old formula that the Leftists at Cannes applaud as original…over and over again.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM
next week we might be back to socialism.
sesquipedalian on April 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM
FDR and many of his advisors were big fans of Mussolini.
29Victor on April 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM
It’s a difference without a lot of distinction. Lots of control; little real choice.
Enjoy the command economy!
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Great diet picture.
SouthernGent on April 1, 2009 at 10:56 PM
On the road to fascism,
one brick,at a time,
just keep drinking the Kool-Aid,
and follow Obama’s yellow brick road!!!
canopfor on April 1, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Socialist, fasciss, communist.
Make up your minds cons.
He is the President of the United States of America.
getalife on April 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Yes, it could be a case where we are moving into a new -ism. Mark Levin was very smart with his new book in defining all of the radical left movements into the word statism. Instead of getting hung up on terminology, he focuses on the actions of the left. Levin’s book will go down in history as the savior of this country, IMHO.
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Under both systems, sacrifice is invoked as a magic, omnipotent solution in any crisis—and “the public good” is the altar on which victims are immolated. But there are stylistic differences of emphasis. The socialist-communist axis keeps promising to achieve abundance, material comfort and security for its victims, in some indeterminate future. The fascist-Nazi axis scorns material comfort and security, and keeps extolling some undefined sort of spiritual duty, service and conquest. The socialist-communist axis offers its victims an alleged social ideal. The fascist-Nazi axis offers nothing but loose talk about some unspecified form of racial or national “greatness.” The socialist-communist axis proclaims some grandiose economic plan, which keeps receding year by year. The fascist-Nazi axis merely extols leadership—leadership without purpose, program or direction—and power for power’s sake.
– The Fascist New Frontier,” The Ayn Rand Column, 98
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Another stupid lib who hasn’t given much thought to what is happening to our nation. Without capitalism, what kind of movies could this man possibly make. Socialism is a career killer for this guy.
sherry on April 1, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Read my comment below yours.
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 10:58 PM
See:
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 10:58 PM
And enjoy the command economy!
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 10:58 PM
getalife on April 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM
He is a radical, ignoramous…like that better?
sandlin71 on April 1, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Did even Hitler, this early in his Reich anyway, fire the chairman of “the wealthiest and most powerful corporation of the 19th century”?
It would appear so,
Really.
I dunno. What else did Hitler do?
MB4 on April 1, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Michael Moore: Mentality on Loan From Goebbels.
SuperCool on April 1, 2009 at 10:59 PM
No (Sarc) needed……….
Seven Percent Solution on April 1, 2009 at 10:59 PM
There are fascistic elements here. But I would prefer the term “statist”.
ddrintn on April 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Michael Moore…
…VOMIT….
…inspired by drive-by-trolls such as getalife….
ladyingray on April 1, 2009 at 11:01 PM
There needs to be a showdown. Some of the CEOs Obama wants to fire should tell him to go to hell.
ddrintn on April 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Bush listening into terrorist communications is a threat to our civil liberties.
The Obama Administration running entire businesses is perfectly fine.
Make up your mind lefties.
SteveMG on April 1, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Wait, wait, wait…. Allah isn’t going to mock Beck for being an alarmist or a kook here?
RightWinged on April 1, 2009 at 11:06 PM
I wonder how Michael Moore will feel when Obama implements cap and trade on food consumption.
Metro on April 1, 2009 at 11:06 PM
HOW MUCH DO YOU GET PAID?
Jamson64 on April 1, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Michael Moore saying “hey, that fascism is pretty sweet” might’ve scared him straight.
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Can’t speak for anyone else but my mind’s made up.
He’s a facist.
You’re either an idiot, who can’t see it, or a facist who’s enthusiatically embraced it.
SuperCool on April 1, 2009 at 11:07 PM
That book is an arm length away from me. Haven’t starting reading it yet, plan to start in about 10 days. I am using the term statist when referring to the other side. That work is PERFECT for capturing who they are. And may someday in the future I can refer to myself as a liberal again in the spirit of the founders.
WashJeff on April 1, 2009 at 11:08 PM
sesquipedalian on April 1, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Cool. A new name for Obama. The unholy trinity.
Guardian on April 1, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Yeah, he definitely has a lot of similarities to Mussolini – including the adulation of the Chris Matthews type.
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:09 PM
All this quibbling over whether to characterize this power grab as Communist, Socialist or Fascist can be ended if you just consider this:
Nazism was a heresy of the religion of Marxism.
Think it over.
warbaby on April 1, 2009 at 11:10 PM
No (Sarc) needed.
Seven Percent Solution on April 1,2009 at 10:59PM.
Seven Percent Solution:
SPS,you know my wacked out humour by now!hehe:)
And,thanks for that link,I saved that USSR brainwashing
vid,on how to do it,back in the election campaign!
If Obama is really on that road,then,theres no question
about it,
the journalists should worry alot!
And,I wouldn’t put it pass Obama,to create a small pool
of so-called lock-stepped journalists to carry his message,
and all other media,will be BLACKED OUT!!!:)
canopfor on April 1, 2009 at 11:10 PM
There is nothing wrong with your coming life. Do not attempt to adjust your income or what job you have. My teleprompter and I will control your income and what job you have. If we wish to make you richer, we will lift up your income. If we wish to make you poorer, we will crush you with taxes or fire you. Do not attempt to live your own life. We will control your life. If we wish we can reduce your life to a living Hell, or sharpen it to Heavenly wonderfulness. We will control your ups. We will control your downs. For the next
four eight twelve sixteen twenty twenty four twenty eight thirty twothirty six years, sit quietly and obediently and we will control all that you see, hear and feel. You are about to experience theclawawe andmiserymystery which reaches from the innerdeliriummind to THE OBAMA SOCIALIST NATION UNLIMITED.- The One
MB4 on April 1, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Amen WashJeff.
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 11:13 PM
And why is that? Would he be force to censor them? I think they do that just fine.
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Thanks alot AP. The last thing I saw before I went to bed was NOT Moore. Guess I’ll just have to roll over and go to sleep now.
boomer on April 1, 2009 at 11:14 PM
And finally, the lefties are moving away from that categorization, so we can reclaim it!
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:14 PM
BTW,I watched,Hitlers Rise to Power,the Third Reich,last
night,
and its very similar,and scary,as its awfully close,to
what the Liberals are trying to accomplish!
canopfor on April 1, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Sweden’s banks aren’t the center of the world and are far simpler. So what works there, won’t work here. Sweden is actually choosing not to bail out their car company. Socialists being more capitalistic than Obama? Funny. OR not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program
Here are the 25 planks for the economy of the nazis. Enjoy!
Someone is embarrassing themselves, but it’s not who you think. That you even try to defend Nazi’s to defend Obama is pretty amusing though. So please, do continue.
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 11:15 PM
He looks hungry
johnnyU on April 1, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Tim is the man now:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/01/business/econwatch/entry4911030.shtml
getalife on April 1, 2009 at 11:15 PM
There is always the “Third Way.”
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Feel the power of this fully functional command economy.
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Look, I don’t think Obama is a dictator by any means.
I don’t think that.
But the powers he is grabbing today can be used by a dictator tomorrow.
Isn’t that what the left said about the NSA program? Sure, it may be used properly today to stop terorrists but tomorrow that power may be abused.
History shows it.
But for some reason (I think I know why) our liberal/left friends see no dangers in this accumulation of power by Washington.
I guess they imagine that the powers will always be used wisely.
SteveMG on April 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Hey getalife: Can you promise us that these powers taken on by Washington will never be abused?
No corruption, no misuse?
That’s the issue that you lefties don’t want to address.
SteveMG on April 1, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Geez:
lorien1973 on April 1, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Do you/we think that FDR was a dictator? Probably not, but he wasn’t for the civil liberties and all… Americans might never have their own little Chavez; however, we keep feeding the government beast – even under Booosh who paved the way for Obama.
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM
getalife needs to get a clue. Fascism, Socialism, and Communism are not mutually exclusive. In fact all three movements are essentially identical in their ultimate goals.
Nazis were not “right” or conservative like liberals like to portray. The only reason Hitler had a problem with the Communists in Russia is because Germany also had a Communist party and he felt threatened that the Communist party in Germany would rise and take away his power.
MobileVideoEngineer on April 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Damn getalife! Now you are mentally masturbating on this thread! Why aren’t you on your way to BCT? Didn’t you join either the Army or the Marines yet? Your President needs you in Afghanistan, and maybe Pakistan later, so why are you still lollygagging around on Hotair? Your President needs you, getalife. Don’t let him down.
MB4 on April 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM
The fasces was used by the Romans as a symbol of authority and power. Hitler usurped Roman symbology for his own purposes.
IIRC, the House of Representatives has displayed it on the wall since the beginning of the Capitol, as well as the Mace. This is an ancient symbol, used by the Founders, and to say it is associated exclusively with fascism is absurd.
A jaw-dropper.
cadetwithchips2 on April 1, 2009 at 11:20 PM
+1
Except you forgot to call the Nazis “far right.” /sarc
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:21 PM
I tend to go with “statist” as, sadly “fascist” has lost true meaning through overuse.
“Socialist” might be fine except that one can point to some pleasant countries with socialist policies, not truly socialist though.
myrenovations on April 1, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Sure. All it takes is an Enabling Act, a slavish media, an impotent legislature and apathy on the part of the sheeple.
ddrintn on April 1, 2009 at 11:22 PM
The same as usual: propaganda films. State command economies churn them out frequently. Of course, the financial rewards will be lower after the dollar devaluation and we all become public employees.
Loxodonta on April 1, 2009 at 11:22 PM
When this symbol is stamped onto the “patriotic foods,” it might not be so absurd anymore…
You are right. It’s all in how the symbol is used.
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Well, I think the concern is along the lines that Tocqueville discussed in Democracy in America.
That a sort of “bland despotism” envelopes democracy where the people become entirely dependent on the state and the state directs all of their affairs.
Is this a dictatorship? No, not really. There’s no name for it really (which is why Tocqueville couldn’t come up with one).
It’s a type of statism that clearly the Framers were worried about.
It’s certainly not freedom.
SteveMG on April 1, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Fascism has lost meaning because we have let the left continually redefine the term so as to distance themselves from their ugly cousin… We should never let them forget.
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:24 PM
HA commenters, so long as getalife and horde ruin threads on HA, go on strike. Sooner or later someone will notice and get rid of such auto-comment-generators.
This back-fro with them is utterly stupid, self included.
Entelechy on April 1, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Of course, the financial rewards will be lower after the dollar devaluation and we all become public employees.
Loxodonta on April 1, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Toiling in a government rice paddy while someone whips your back is “public” employment? Technically, I suppose so.
Bishop on April 1, 2009 at 11:25 PM
I like Goldberg’s “American Fascism with a Smiley Face.” Sounds just like the CEO in Chief.
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Clearly too much. We only hired getalife because he has a rich connected daddy.
DasObamaReich on April 1, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Upstater85 on April 1, 2009 at 11:23 PM
“Patriotic foods” usually have Eagles stamped on them. Know who else used Eagles? Hitler! [o noes!]
heh.
cadetwithchips2 on April 1, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Exactly. I say again, National Socialism was heretical Marxism. The difference was the “National” part, which afforded Hitler the use of Germanic myth.
warbaby on April 1, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I’d brand it on their foreheads, but then people would call me “extreme”.
myrenovations on April 1, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Barackito Obamalini.
MB4 on April 1, 2009 at 11:27 PM
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