Oh, darn. I seem to have missed the July 4th Defeat Obama Telethon, a five-hour event live from Las Vegas that featured a Who’s Who of the wingnut class. And they modeled it after the Jerry Lewis telethon, only this one would benefit Mitt’s Kids.
HISTORIC 4TH OF JULY TELETHON TO DEFEAT BARACK OBAMA
On Wednesday, July 4th, conservatives will celebrate American freedom and liberty by working to liberate the nation from Barack Obama’s presidency.
A special 5-hour “Defeat Barack Obama Telethon” will broadcast live from Las Vegas, NV and be seen all around the nation and the world via live video and audio streams. The 4th of July “Defeat Barack Obama Telethon” will be based on a similar model to Jerry Lewis’s historic Labor Day Telethons to fight Muscular Dystrophy.
Yeah. Except 7/11 isn’t going to show up with a million dollar check this time. And we won’t have to listen to Tony Orlando, with or without Dawn. But there are almost-stars a-plenty, including Hermain Cain, Joe Arpaio, Victoria Jackson, Dick Morris, Janine Turner and Joe the Plumber. Oh, and Jackie Mason because, hey, it’s stage time, right? And Pam Geller too.
I had a choice between watching that and being tied to an anthill naked, covered in honey; I chose the latter, less painful option.
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Dr X
July 8, 2012 at 10:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So they invite Joe Show-me-your-papers Arpaio.
Modusoperandi
July 8, 2012 at 10:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dr X, freedom ain’t free. Sometimes, you have to sacrifice the freedom of other people to protect it.
jayarrrr
July 8, 2012 at 10:57 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Guys, “Freedom” to an Authoritarian Follower means “Freedom to be led around by the dick and told who to hate and why and who to vote for (but not why) and which church to give money to.”
Freedom and Liberty mean being high enough in the pecking order to deny freedom and liberty to somebody else.
reverendrodney
July 8, 2012 at 11:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oo, I hope they don’t forget Ted Nugent! Watch Ted Nugent sing and talk and try to keep his hands off Victoria Jackson!
What a pair.
dogmeat
July 8, 2012 at 11:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I would find it pathetic and sad if it weren’t for the growing disparity in money between the two campaigns and their supporters.
Pierce R. Butler
July 8, 2012 at 11:13 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Alas, what a pity that Sarah Palin wasn’t available to lend some intellectual gravitas to the occasion.
Zeno
July 8, 2012 at 11:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Five hours”? Heck, no. The crazies fell short of their $250,000 goal on July 4 and added days to the telethon. As of yesterday, July 7, they were still sending out announcements crying about how “We have only 48 hours left to meet our $250,000 goal”! The wackaloon telethon is being rebroadcast and streamed multiple times in hopes of squeezing more anti-Obama money out of soft-brained right-wingers. They are both failure and liars.
Randomfactor
July 8, 2012 at 11:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They fell short of their target? Hard to believe, since they even had a separate channel broadcasting it to Pahrump.
Reginald Selkirk
July 8, 2012 at 1:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I heard Mitt’s kids are doing just fine.
Mitt Romney’s Kids Pay an Even Lower Tax Rate Than He Does
Reginald Selkirk
July 8, 2012 at 2:15 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Apparently buying political ads is not an effective method of stimulating the economy.
dan4
July 8, 2012 at 2:38 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I don’t understand the “7/11″ reference.
lorn
July 8, 2012 at 4:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Freedom isn’t free. Which is who the GOP advises everyone to get lots of money. By any means necessary. Money = Freedom is both an article of faith and the desired ideal.
F
July 8, 2012 at 5:23 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
7/11 7-11 7-Eleven is a convenience store chain which donated heavily to the Jerry Lewis Telethon and had the change donation displays at the checkout counter almost perpetually.
Sponsor:
MDA Sponsor: 7-Eleven
LOL, a two-point connected little gem
Jerry Lewis 7 Eleven Commercial
welcome to the 80s
dan4
July 8, 2012 at 5:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@13: Thanks.
Area Man
July 8, 2012 at 6:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Even given their normally low standards, I’m surprised they had the nerve to compare their hate-a-thon to raising money for kids with MD, as if they’re equally deserving of sympathy and in need of aid. They’ve taken their “help, help, I’m being repressed!” charade a little too far.
Dr X
July 8, 2012 at 9:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So the Tea Party is just like the French. They both think Jerry Lewis is a genius.
Tony aka The Psychic Octopus
July 9, 2012 at 3:06 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
{emphasis mine}
Why is this scumbag still walking around instead rotting in prison?
Tony aka The Psychic Octopus
July 9, 2012 at 3:10 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pierce R Butler:
She and Michelle Bachmann are studying up on foreign policy and civil rights so they can run in 2016 (hint to them, gay people are real, you can’t wish them away, and its called ‘equal rights’ not ‘special rights’) They only have 5 brain cells between the two of them and couldn’t lend even one for outside intellectual pursuits.
stace
July 9, 2012 at 7:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hermain Cain, Joe Arpaio, Victoria Jackson, Dick Morris, Janine Turner and Joe the Plumber
Throw in Orly Taitz and Donald Trump and you got yourself a heck of a start on the Douchebag Hall of Fame right there.
d cwilson
July 9, 2012 at 9:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Tony aka The Psychic Octopus @18:
Michele Bachmann knows gay people are real. She’s spied on them while hiding in the bushes.
fifthdentist
July 9, 2012 at 1:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
d cwilson, I’d think she could just go down the hall and look through the keyhole of Marcus’ bedroom.