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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Ann Coulter Hates Soccer and the Metric System because "Foreign"

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From a Column entitled: AMERICA'S FAVORITE NATIONAL PASTIME: HATING SOCCER
June 25, 2014
Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.

 In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."

 Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.

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(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

. . . (6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.

I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.

(7) It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.

(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

. . . If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you:

No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

More at Link, Unfortunately

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Excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
~ Chris Preovolos, SFGate

. . . according to Ann Coulter the only object of sports is to cause either great physical or psychological harm to those who participate. Ann Coulter has a real, disturbing obsession with wanting people to get hurt in sports. Who hurt you, Ann Coulter? Who hurt you?
. . . The metric system is more rational because it’s based on decimals. Everything happens in powers of 10. It’s a lot easier to know that there’s 1000 meters in 1 kilometer versus 5,280 feet in a mile. This is not arguable. By the way, what does Ann Coulter’s fear of logical measurements have to do with soccer again?
~ Matt Yoder on Awful Announcing

It has been fun Ann, but it’s time to give it a rest. The only thing decaying is you.
~ Ben Cohen on Daily Banter

(Trumpets blare ... fade away into sound of one single, broken kazoo).
In the midst of the world's World Cup joy, the conservative ripped the sport on her website, writing "any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay."
She probably meant tooth decay, from increased nacho-eating in all those sports bars.
~ Tony Hicks, Contra Costa Times

Well, so much for the idea that Americans don't care about soccer.
The U.S. National team made it out of the so-called "group of death" Thursday to advance to the knockout round of competition at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Regardless of how much further the Stars and Stripes advance in the biggest sporting event on the planet, they already have revealed something that even casual observers can see.
Soccer is now woven inextricably into the fabric of American life.
Television viewership numbers continue to set new highs with each U.S. game.
~ Ed Foster Simeon, President/CEO at U.S. Soccer Foundation

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Friday, September 6, 2013

Senator John McCain Plays IPhone Poker During Syria Hearing

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From Forbes
One would think that the matter before the Congress would at least command their attention. But, as the Senate conducted a hearing today to discuss the details of the strike, and the arguments for and against it, Sen. John McCain took out his iPhone and played poker to pass the time.
An image of McCain’s phone was captured by Washington Post photographer Melina Mara, and posted to the Post’s live blog of the hearing. The photo is blurry, but clearly depicts a game in progress.

From Daily Caller ~ "Poker Fans Irate at McCain's Double-Dealing
Sen. John McCain, who was caught by a Washington Post photographer playing online poker during the Syria debate, once sought to ban online gambling — and gambling proponents are accusing the Arizona Republican of dealing from the bottom of the deck.
“John McCain not only opposed online gambling, he might have been the strongest critic of gambling in Congress,” Wayne Allyn Root, a successful Las Vegas odds maker, 2008 Libertarian vice presidential candidate, and prominent Mitt Romney supporter during the 2012 presidential campaign, told The Daily Caller.
“Obama and McCain are masters of that politicians’ art form — ‘Do as I say, not as I do,’” Root added. “That’s a nice way of saying they are liars, cheats, frauds and hypocrites.”


David Letterman's "Top Ten John McCain Excuses"
10. Leave me alone -- I'm a hundred years old
9. Can't gamble in casinos since getting caught counting cards
8. Relax, it's just a war hearing
7. Is Reagan upset?
6. I was on the phone with IBM headquarters in Dallas
5. Still able to pay attention to hearings on Iraq or Iran or whatever
4. At least it wasn't some sissy game like 'Bejeweled'
3. Someone has to win back our $17 trillion
2. Better idea than Palin
1. Calm down, it wasn't strip poker



Conan O'Brien: 
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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Rebranding Fail ~ GOP Misognist Super Pac Urges Folks to "Slap Hillary"


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Link to "Slap Hillary" Game via The Hillary Project

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From Buzzfeed
The website states that the game was “Created and produced by The SlapHillary Team,” and began spamming reporters to its existence Monday with the tweet, “Have you slapped Hillary today?”
According to the website RichardPoe.com, the game is in fact old “and was created Marie Poe, an award-winning filmmaker and animation producer of numerous hit shows, including MTV’s Beavis and Butthead.” The website also states the game was created in 2000.
The Hillary Project “games” webpage also features a game that allows you to control Hillary Clinton’s dance moves and a game in which Clinton fights President Obama.
The game was also featured as The Economist’s “website of the week” on Oct. 5, 2000.

From Think Progress
The sole officer identified on the PAC's public filings, Christopher M. Marston, is a Republican operative with ties to several prominent GOP officeholders.
Marston, a former Alexandria, VA Republican chairman, an unsuccessful 2011 candidate for Clerk of the City Court, and an Assistant Secretary of Education in the George W. Bush adminsitration, is treasurer of The Hillary Project...
...Marston, who served as treasurer for the pro-Rick Santorum Red, White, and Blue fund in 2012, also currently serves in a similar role for leadership PACs for Rep. Marlin Stuzman (R-IN), Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA), and Virginia Speaker of the House William Howell (R). None of those three responded immediately to ThinkProgress inquiries about their reaction to the game and their treasurer's involvement.

Disclaimor from Chris Marston, via Blue Virginia Blog
. . . I don't develop online video games for websites. My clients don't clear their plans for communication with me in advance.
How many small businesses ask their accountant for advice on their marketing plans?
Clients contract with me to meet their public disclosure obligations and ensure they follow regulations that apply to them. As a result, I'm listed on their FEC Forms. And usually as the "sole officer." The only two officers the FEC asks for are the treasurer and custodian of records. And I'm usually both.
Like the kids game telephone, as the story goes from one outlet to the next, I've gone from being the "sole officer" listed to leading the Hillary Project.
I don't lead the Hillary Project. Neither does Speaker Howell, Congressman Wittman, Congress Stutzman or any of my other clients.

It’s obvious that this ‘game’ is offensive and sexist. And one would hope that any person who thinks it’s a great idea to advocate slapping women–of ANY party–wouldn’t have a job anywhere near politics.
But unfortunately, that’s not the case. And that’s why we need to speak up. With all the rumors that Hillary Clinton will run for president, we can expect a lot more of this sort of misogyny in the political realm between now and the election–unless we nip it in the bud NOW.
Violence against women is not a joke. A woman is assaulted or beaten every 9 SECONDS in our country–and more than three women are murdered every day by their partners or boyfriends. When we excuse ‘games’ that make fun of abusing women, we perpetuate a culture that allows violence against women to stand, and that’s not OK.
~ Email from Ultraviolet

This ridiculous behavior is why no amount of 're-branding' is going to help Republicans win over women voters -- they just don't get it.Violence against women isn't a 'game.' Slapping a woman for speaking isn't actually a joke. It's just gross.
~ EMILY's List Communications Director Jess McIntosh via CBS News

This is not a fringe-of-the-fringe-of-the-Republican-Party undertaking, in other words. It's a reminder of how people a half step outside of the very core of the Republican establishment have always treated Hillary Clinton, and a preview of what the 2016 campaign against her would be. It's the nutcracker on steroids. And it's today's Republican Party: looking for laughs and fundraising dollars off of slapping a woman across the face.
~ Laura Clawson on Daily Kos

This is a non-partisan, non-profit charitable organization? I'm dumbfounded. How did this "organization" get this status. And, my tax dollars support this (if they don't pay taxes, you and me in effect are subsidizing them).
~ comment by Frank G. on Addicting Info

So, what do you do when an uppity woman doesn't know her place? You slap her, of course.
~ Charles Clymer on Huff Post

The republican soul in a nutshell - always fun slapping people around as long as they can't slap you back.
~ Donovan Digital on Wonkette

Phyllis Schlafly is demanding to be slapped also.
~ John Birf Society on Wonkette

Apparently the rape Hilary game didn’t test well with their focus group.
~ Goonemeritus on Wonkette











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