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OCTOPUS Tells The AMA How It Is

Posted on | March 24, 2010 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Ol’ Cousin TO President, United States (I just had the acronym machine calibrated), who was brilliant last weekend here in DC, sends some rather pointed mail to the American Medical Association:

Category: Barack Obama

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13 Responses to “OCTOPUS Tells The AMA How It Is”

  1. Joe
    March 24th, 2010 @ 9:56 pm

    That is funny.

    Jeff G. has been leading the fight on this issue for a while, but this is a funny bit by Ace:

    How the fuck can someone claim one of those is a more sophisticated argument than the other? Neither is sophisticated at all, and of them — Frum’s — has the added detriment of being effeminate to boot.

    I have less of a problem with self-professed “rodeo clowns” like Glenn Beck than I do with David Frum, who constantly asserts he is possessed of a more thoughtful, more intellectually mature ideology, but whose actual output consists of nothing but fagged-up derivatives of Morning Zoo shock jockery.

  2. Joe
    March 24th, 2010 @ 4:56 pm

    That is funny.

    Jeff G. has been leading the fight on this issue for a while, but this is a funny bit by Ace:

    How the fuck can someone claim one of those is a more sophisticated argument than the other? Neither is sophisticated at all, and of them — Frum’s — has the added detriment of being effeminate to boot.

    I have less of a problem with self-professed “rodeo clowns” like Glenn Beck than I do with David Frum, who constantly asserts he is possessed of a more thoughtful, more intellectually mature ideology, but whose actual output consists of nothing but fagged-up derivatives of Morning Zoo shock jockery.

  3. timb
    March 25th, 2010 @ 12:16 am

    Yeah, Joe, that was really insightful. Pretty much encompasses the conservative argument…mindless, profane, insulting to gays, and wrong. Go get ’em, Ace.

    Oh, and the last time Jeff G led anything it was a pledge drive. He’s almost as effective as you are

  4. timb
    March 24th, 2010 @ 7:16 pm

    Yeah, Joe, that was really insightful. Pretty much encompasses the conservative argument…mindless, profane, insulting to gays, and wrong. Go get ’em, Ace.

    Oh, and the last time Jeff G led anything it was a pledge drive. He’s almost as effective as you are

  5. smitty
    March 25th, 2010 @ 12:24 am

    @timb,
    Reading the Ace link, the argument seems to be that Frum is the conservative Neville Chamberlain.
    So your point in attacking Joe is unclear.
    Request you put a little more substance in your arguments, lest you take on the appearance of a troll.
    Cheers,
    Chris

  6. smitty
    March 24th, 2010 @ 7:24 pm

    @timb,
    Reading the Ace link, the argument seems to be that Frum is the conservative Neville Chamberlain.
    So your point in attacking Joe is unclear.
    Request you put a little more substance in your arguments, lest you take on the appearance of a troll.
    Cheers,
    Chris

  7. McGehee
    March 25th, 2010 @ 2:35 am

    timb is a troll.

  8. McGehee
    March 24th, 2010 @ 9:35 pm

    timb is a troll.

  9. The Dead Hand
    March 25th, 2010 @ 5:01 pm

    “Smitty” is Klingon for “troll”.

  10. The Dead Hand
    March 25th, 2010 @ 12:01 pm

    “Smitty” is Klingon for “troll”.

  11. Mike
    March 26th, 2010 @ 2:01 am

    You are the acronym master.

  12. Mike
    March 26th, 2010 @ 2:01 am

    You are the acronym master.

  13. Mike
    March 25th, 2010 @ 9:01 pm

    You are the acronym master.