RNC uses Rudy Giuliani and Fox News in robocalls
John's already posted about the RNC's new ads using FOX News and Andy Martin. But they're not done with the fear-mongering and the blatant lies to scare away voters from Barack Obama. TPM reports that another robocall featuring failed Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani threatening potential voters with the idea that Obama opposes jailing murderers and rapists (audio courtesy of TPM at above link):
Giuliani has recorded a new McCain robocall in which he suggests, in effect, that Barack Obama doesn't think sex offenders, drug dealers and murders should have to go to jail, according to Jennifer Henderson, a stay-at-home mom in Maine who tells us she received the call.
Readers in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio, and Colorado also report receiving the same call. [..]
Rudy claims Obama "opposes mandatory prison sentences" for rapists and murders, Rudy is actually referring to Obama's opposition to specific mandatory minimum sentences. By dropping the word "minimum," he's insinuating that Obama opposes mandatory prison sentences in general.
This just might be the sleaziest exercise in robo-slime yet. Congrats, Rudy!
It goes hand in hand nicely with the Terrorist/Obama direct mailer the RNC is sending out as well.
The level of hate is getting so bad that two call center employees quit rather than submit to saying the smears that the McCain campaign wanted them to disseminate. As Joe Biden said yesterday, McCain, stop these calls.
Huffington Post reports on three Republican senators who have condemned the tactics...and ask you to call your Senators to get them on the record too.
Duplicitous adulterous pro-choice drag queen with dubious connections
calling to let you know that Obama wants to eat your babies, fuck your
dad, sell your mom, and blow up your VFW hall.
Hilarious! And shit on the hood of your Lexus.
How can this man show his face in public after that failed high school campaign he tried to run, that was so embarrasing, How do stupid people like him become millionares?
http://www.barackobamacans.blogspot.com/
to set the tone. Anything McCain says is put in headlines like the following on the msnbc front page:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27336640/
Rudy is a sick m/f. It will do my heart well to see him meet his maker one of these days.
Are there no sane decent people in the Republican party?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
But they're all defecting like rats from a sinking ship.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
Whenever I see this picture of Rude Rudy I think of this guy.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
So when Rudy is in drag can we change his name to Duce Duchess of Downtown?
Throw in Douchebag, Deluded and Dumbfuck (your call as to the sequence of epithets) and you've got yourself a Republican brand name.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
Demonic, derailed, distorted, and diabolical are all good brand names for them also, but as a quick nickname for Rudy I'll vote for dildo.
Talk about scraping the bottom of the shit barrel. When a campaign needs Ghouliani (of all people) to call to question a decent family man's morals and character, it's clear they've hit the bed of their cesspool.
They're now drill, baby, drillin' the cesspool bed...
I think these robocalls are no longer aimed at the ones who will not vote for them, but to keep the ones that still may vote for them. Repubs are preparing for Hurricane Obama.
Who do they have left in the base besides:
Neo Nazis, Klansmen and general run-of-the-mill racists
Corporatists
Neocons
Christian death cultists
Right wing Zionists
You said it well. The hurricane is coming and they know all too well how their leadership responds to that kind of crisis.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
I think you're right. No Obama supporter is going to change their mind because of one of these pieces of garbage.
I hope McCain lives long enough to regret what he has allowed to be done in his name. He should be deeply ashamed of himself, but if he never is, it just goes to show the kind of person he really is, and it sure as hell isn't what our country needs now or ever.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
McCain is mostly myth. He was a goof-off who survived his miserable military career by virtue of having the right parentage until he landed in hotwater in North Vietnam. He was a P.O.W. for a total of four days, by his own admission, before he volunteered to collaborate in exchange for ... of all things....socialized healthcare.
The media constantly makes much of McCain refusing to be released ahead of P.O.W.'s who were in captivity longer, but never mention that he could not anyway by military code.
Anyway, his career after escaping court matial on release was distinguished by dumping his disabled wife for a ... then Keating 5....then plenty of TV appearances.....then this miserable campaign. He was always a fellow who put John S. McCain first.
who even listens to these all the way thru?
you get a phone call, during dinner or you know, in the middle of some really great part on tonight's exciting episode of CSI
phone rings.
you pick it up and say "Hello?"
and a voice says "GREETINGS VOTER I AM RUDY GIULIANI AND I WANT TO TALK TO YOU FOR A FEW MINUTES ABOUT HOW BADLY OUR ECONOMY IS RUINATED DUE TO THE CONTINUAL..."
*click*
you know? I mean - is it just me? I never listen the whole way through to a computer calling me. whether its a great new timeshare opportunity, political spamming, or hell even a debt collector.
its a million times more un-nerving when they call my celly.
...but so are the manufacturers of the voting machines. it ain't over yet. Be ready for a nasty, nasty scene on election day--and the day after.
Luckily, we have a constitutional scholar running for president who, I'll wager, is ready for 'em. He's a guy who's not in the habit of tilting his hand, but I think the guys who think he's unprepared to be president are in for a surprise when they see what he IS prepared for...
Is this the best they can come up with?
What they lack in imagination they make up for in stupidity.
As I watch the moderates flee the emerging face of the repebs and the news that Haider, the far right one time leader of Austria who died last week, was gay( it was an open seceret, who knew)twist up into a thought about the fate of the repubs after the election. Are we going to see a night of the long kinives in the party with a twist where the religous kick out the fiscal cons and take over the repub party outright. Much as the military and industry leaders forced Hitler to destroy the thugs in the SA to get their backing, will the Dobsons force the repub leaders(whoever emerges from the post election fiasco of the repubs)to jettison the "not true christian Americans" out of the party and turn it into a religous pol party that will try to impose its idelology on the rest of the country?
Just a thought on my day off, so yes I do need a hobby.
I've been thinking along the same lines. We may very well see a viable third party emerge after this all sorts out. I can see the xian death cultists creating their own party but once they do they'll see just what a minority they are and quickly fade to the fringes. The neocons and "Goldwater Republicans" will battle it out for control of the GOP. If the neocons prevail the saner republics will be forced to form their own party.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
POP_ below talks about hearing that the repubs would split into the party of Palin and the Party on Jindal, could happen but I dont see the old white men of the repubs letting their claws off the wheels of power anytime soon. I do think that you are right that the Dobson party would fall to the fringes but not as far as the libertarians or the green party are now, but still be able to be a king maker party. The AuH2O repubs and the neocons would fight it out for what would be called the Republican party with the loser sucking it up and going along with the winner.
How long do you think it would take for this to happen 1-2 years or 8-10 years, or longer? Me it will be at least 6 years for the old guard to give the power to the new wave but then their could be an Obama for them on the horizon that we haven't heard about yet; Palin is done as a country wide pol forever and Jindal is unproven at the national level but he does have the chops.
He scares me as much as Palin. In fact I see the two of them as peas in a pod so I don't agree with the reference that P.O.P. cites below.
Actually, now that I'm saying it, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a Palin/Jindal ticket as the first one to emerge from the Dobson party.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
....they're both big on exorcisms.
Somehow I just don't see the Republicans getting behind Jindal. He may fall right in line with the neocon ideology but how could the Republican base go for a (gasp!) dark-skinned "foreign" type? I should point out that I am an Indian American woman; Mr. Jindal is also Indian-American. His real first name, Piyush, is even more difficult than Barack. I think some of the attendees at McCain's rallies have shown us that racism is alive and well and it will prevent the Republicans from embracing Jindal.
where does cheney fit in all that?
probably on an estate with barbed wire and machine guns in the Society Islands or Paraguay or some other place out of reach of extradition. Like Kissinger, he's going to end up one of those people who has to be very, very careful where he travels.
Must make them feel good to be wanted.
He's building a palace there next to the Haliburton compound.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
....right after I posted. it's just his kind of place. preposterously currency-wealthy and pathetically sterile. I hope he has to spend the rest of his life there.
And it won't be very long.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
I continue to be amazed by the depths to which the Republican party is willing to sink. Republicans are all for high-minded principles while in office, routinely touting themselves as champions of ethics, moral restraint, and the rule of law. Yet, their actions demonstrate that their leadership consists of a petty band of hall monitors who are willing to lie at a moment's notice, all for the sake of maintaining power.
Are there no adults at their meetings? Do they ever question themselves? Are there any lines they won't cross?
No.
No.
And.....erm.....no.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
Is anyone outside of the base or under the age of 10 really dumb enough to fall for this?
Can't remember who was on MSNBC a little while ago, but they said the republican party could well split and in the future one side would be the party of Bobby Jindal and the other would be the party of Sarah Palin.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Wow - that may be my favorite picture of Giulia of all time. Perhaps even better than this one ~~ http://www.writethis.com/files/nosferatu.jpg
Look at that - Listen to him - and remind yourself -- This might have been our president.
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I've changed my mind -- that's gas.
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The only reason that McCain is the republican candidate is because he was the least freaky of all those who were running in the primaries. McCain isn't a comeback kid, he was just all they could find after they looked over the list of possible nominees. They went back, pulled him out of the trash heap, dusted him off and declared him to be their candidate.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Romney couldn't capture the religious faction because he's Mormon, and Huckabee couldn't capture the Wallstreet because he wasn't one of them. McCain was kind of in the middle, and had Bush's backing once Romney's lack of viability became apparent.
Frankly, Huckabee would have been a far more dangerous opponent than McCain. He wouldn't have had to rally the nutjobs, and he could have simply trotted out the typical Republican economic talking points. And he has few connections to Bush, one of the several lead weights killing McCain's campaign.
HAHAHAHA Ah, yes. They'll lock up the Gulianni voters.
Seems to me that they are drilling past the bottom of the Mariana Trench at this time. It really is quite pathetic, but if this is their chosen method of self-destruction, so be it.
what other idiocy is written underneath, on the inside of the leaflet? It's too small to read...
Just curious.
should be grateful that Obama opposes any sentence for cross-dressing serial adulterers.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
They truly embody the childish coping mechanism of calling anyone they don't like, fear, or flat out don't agree with a 'terrorist'...
They might as well be calling Obama, liberals/progressives, rational people, intellectuals with open minds, and people who make decisions based in reality....poopyheads.
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
In that case, I for one have never been prouder to be a poopyhead.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
Rudy's defeat in FLorida was a highlight of the election year. God, how I detest this buffoonish, spineless man-child.
I have to work out these urges somehow.
Freakin' Repugs. Every day I make an effort to recognize their humanity. Every day I hear yet another story concerning their lack of respect for anyone else's.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
We spent years mistakenly trying to see their humanity while they have been bending over backwards for decades trying to dehumanize everyone who is not also a raving wingnut.
When I heard about the latest "Terrorist" smear, I immediately went to the Obama website and donated another $25. If we all do that, especially when we're pissed, Obama will crush McCain in no time at all. Go Obama!!!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
I swear, I'm such an idiot. My husband just called from the lab and said he is taking off early today so we can go and vote. I'm so fu*king excited to cast this vote that I can't stand it. Weeee!!!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Using a photo of a plane about to hit a building is a Rovian attack through and through and one day soon I hope John McCain appologizes to the american public for the direction he allowed his republican handlers too take him. If this were a Rudy campaign we would expect a lot more or worse but McCain was once above this fray and a target of it as well. His ideology has been hi-jacked and Senator McCain should ponder the irony of that statement. sarah Palin on the other hand will most likely go the way of the polar bear.
Of course folks like Nosferatu 9iu1ian1 love to ignore the fact that many of the enemies that the GOP would have us never speak to again are the same whackjobs, killers and scumbags with whom previous Republican administrations were more than happy to do significant volumes of business with in the past
It's great to see American's rise above their bigotry, fear and hatred to come together to face these trying times as one nation.
I'm just kidding.
The GOP / RNC hates your country.
Best of Luck,
Marvin
Oh yeah. Norm Coleman condemned the tactics after he saw that it ws costing him the election.
Norman Coleman's as much a swine as any of 'em. I've been following his career since Al Franken brought it to my attention long before he announced his candidacy--when he was still on Air America Radio.
in the sticks and New York, possibly. Giuliani is still seen as a "hero" (gag) in the deep woods and parts of NY. He's such a hero that his campaign for presidency fell flat. Why would the RNC use him?Is he all they have left?
New Yorkers pretty much think Rudy's an asshole
Rudy's VERY unpopular in the City. After the 1993 bombing at the WTC, they found out that the firemen's radios didn't work well inside the complex, so the City took bids for new radios. A buddy of Rudy's submitted a bid for radios that also didn't work in the WTC complex, which they knew at the time. But (I bet you know what comes next) Rudy's buddy got the contract anyway. And we know what happened to the firemen on 911. The cops had different radios and were able to hear the order to clear out before the buildings came down. Not so FDNY personnel: they had Rudy's buddy's radios. So they knew nothing about the order to clear out.
And that's just ONE of the reasons Rudy is so cordially hated in NYC today. And don't even mention his name around a fireman in this town.
This story is well known. If you don't believe it, Google it.
Thanks for the tidbits.
WEASEL ...
What's REALLY great about this is that it's NOT WORKING! The smears are turning people off to McCain and his sleazy crew. Obama's lead is widening.
...is that McCain isn't man enough to admit a mistake even when it's hurting himself. If he accidentally shot himself in the foot, he'd say "I meant to do that" and then shoot the other one.
Indeed. According to RCP Obama surged 23 points today.
the more McCain lays it on...you'd think he'd know enough to shaddap a'ready...but--see my posting, "Even better, tho," above.
Received this piece of crap in my mail today. I live in Indiana. After showering to get the scum from this mailer off me, I called and complained to the Indiana GOP, McCain campaign, my senators and congressman.
I am outraged, disgusted and horrified that our country has come to this. This is not politics. It is slander. They should be ashamed, but of course, that takes morals, so they are not.
.......the Bushie neocons and the fundamentalist-right wing-nuts. Their problem is that they don't even know that the boat is sinking.
Is there anything he won't do? He and Palin make a great pair.
The point isn't that people don't know who Obama is; the scary thing is, we KNOW who the republican's are.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
just a heads-up, in case it hasnt already been mentioned. but while voicechatting with a friend in Iowa online the other day, he received one of these robocalls from rudy giuliani. So they are targeting more than just the states you've named in the post.
and being a ny-er, i cannot tell you how much i hate giuliani... this slimeball tactic comes as no surprise. the only surprise is that it didnt happen sooner.
Screw you Rudy, you fascist reject. There might be a job opportunity for you taking over Robert Mugabe's job in Uganda---they would sure appreciate your extensive experience in being a heavy handed authoritarian jerk. Go for it, paisano.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
I just love that picture of Rude-y -- it really captures his essence as a (putative) human being.
Delightful!
I can't look at Rudy without laughing because of Keith Olbermann's impression of him. I'd giggle if I got that robocall.
Wow, if I got one of those flyers with those punk-ass graphics saying TeRROriSTS, I'd laugh and put on my Never Mind the Bollocks on Vinyl.
No future for you, John McCain.
If I get a robocall from Rudy the Mobster, should I call 9-11?
I live in Southeastern Pa and today I received a political mailer from the Republican Party of Pennsylvania titled:
This is the story of William Ayers...
Terrorist
Radical
Friend of Obama
Pure lies and Bulls**t.
So, can a lisping, NY elitist, serial adulterer really rally anyone in the Heartland that they don't already have? You know, the real America, the morons.
thy name is McPalin.
NOBODY 2012
I just got a robocall from him on my voice mail. I saved it, if you want the recording.
That is one ugly man. He is filled with worms inside. YUK YUK YUK
Did you have to print his ugly photo? I am dry retching now....
"BARACK OBAMA - Not who you think he is."
Actually, in the case of Republicans, that statement is probably correct. Obama is not a muslim liberal socialist terrorist, like they think he is.
As a lifelong registered Democrat who lives in NC, I was shocked to be getting these obnoxious robocalls and wingnut propaganda in the mail...make them go away!!!!!!
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