Obama Just Won’t Stop Mugging These Poor Birthers!

Woe is they! There was that very bad week when the best thing to happen was their weasel-wigged champion mocked into Quitterdom, and then this morning:

“BREAKING! Jerome Corsi’s Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!” screamed the headline at Esquire’s Politics Blog. A “reflective” Joseph Farah decided to pull the just-published white elephant, Esquire informed us:

...in light of recent events, this book has become problematic, and contains what I now believe to be factual inaccuracies,” ... “I cannot in good conscience publish it and expect anyone to believe it.”
When asked if he had any plans to publish a corrected version of the book, he said cryptically, “There is no book.”

Despite the many tells in the piece (Farah’s headgear is and ever shall be the only reflective thing about him), this article caused an eerie, Freeperish squealing to erupt from every orifice of the Wingnet. The real Farah unsurprisingly immediately developed a conspiracy theory about just WHO was behind Esquire’s PRIMA FACIE Restraint Of Corsi (hint: “1600 Penn, Ave.” sound familiar?). Surely waggish Esquire editor Mark Warren couldn’t have come up with this Nixonian dirty trickery by himself! Warren put Farah out of his misery (and disappointed a lot of us) after just a few hours of delicious wingy hand-wringing:

for those who didn’t figure it out yet, and the many on Twitter for whom it took a while: We committed satire this morning to point out the problems with selling and marketing a book that has had its core premise and reason to exist gutted by the news cycle, several weeks in advance of publication.

(Big Ole Hat Tip: Humboldt Blue in the Rumper Room)

And just when American Patriots were contemplating that injury, The White House Occupant has released his ultimate insult: Birthers As Fundraising Tools:

Yes, for a mere fifteen sawbuck donation to the Obama 2012 Campaign, Very Special Latte Liberals can sip their Lunghi-Form Kona from an Obama “Made In USA” mug, while saying to themselves, “I like my coffee like I like my President: HAWAIIAN.”

Posted by Mrs. Polly on 05/18/11 at 06:08 PM • Permalink

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Comment by Bob Stanley on 05/18/11 at 06:29 PM

I was going to get the t-shirt but I’ll get more mileage out of the mug.

The GOP should have learned ~ mock the President and he’ll mock you back via “terrorist fist jab” buttons during the campaign and “BFD” t-shirts last year.

Comment by Elisabeth on 05/18/11 at 06:34 PM

I got the mug. Gotta love that they can keep a sense of humor over this ridiculousness. And if they raise a few bucks, so be it :-)

Comment by terry on 05/18/11 at 07:35 PM

Man, the wingnuts hate this shit. Hilarious comment sections are only hilarious for a minute, after that they’re all on the same loop.

Oh, and I hear that Humboldt guy is totally AWESOME!

Comment by HumboldtBlue on 05/18/11 at 08:08 PM

that Humboldt guy is totally AWESOME!

Shhh, don’t let Justlen hear you say that~~Humboldt is HIS. ;o}

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 05/18/11 at 08:21 PM

Forget Corsi and forget his book “Where’s the Birth Certificate” (which is already moot). Don’t waste your hard-earned money on someone out-witted by Obama, instead read a BANNED book like “America Deceived II” by a real rebel and the “World’s Most Hated Author”, E.A. Blayre III.
Last link (before Google Books bans it also]:
http://tinyurl.com/9okrez

Comment by Mike on 05/18/11 at 08:28 PM

Mike, the “World’s Most Hated Author” makes me wonder how popular E.A. Blayres I & II must have been.

Likewise, I had to wonder about “America Deceived I.” Amazon reviewers soon settled the question of why E.A. Blayre III might be the “World’s Most Hated Author.” My favorite so far:

This is almost certainly the worst written book I have ever read…..Avoid this book even if someone wants to give you a copy. It hurts to read it.

There was more. A lot more.

Oh yes, gentle Rumproasters, ~~I happen to know that the above tinyurl is quite safe~~

Sorry, Mike! It’s just that you’ve been with so many blogs, and we like to feel special.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 05/18/11 at 09:05 PM

Oh yes, gentle Rumproasters, ~~I happen to know that the above tinyurl is quite safe~~

Nicely done, Mrs. P. Given we already have two regular Mikes commenting here, this particular “Mike” (who’s not either of them) won’t be troubling us again.

Comment by YAFB on 05/18/11 at 09:11 PM

I actually work with two birthers. I need that mug.

Comment by HG Hay on 05/18/11 at 09:27 PM

~cut to HG Hay metronomically bonking his coworkers’ heads with mug~

Comment by gil mann on 05/18/11 at 11:44 PM

For the mugless here is a link to get mugged:

https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/o2012 -made-in-the-usa-mug?source=20110518_js_m_misc

Mine is in the mail. ;-)

Comment by marindenver on 05/19/11 at 12:30 AM

Yes, for a mere fifteen sawbuck donation to the Obama 2012 Campaign

No, it’s a $15 donation. 15 sawbucks would be $150. For that kind of money you could get a NPR totebag.

Comment by MikeJ on 05/19/11 at 01:11 AM

Oh gawd. The “pedantic guy” is back.

Comment by marindenver on 05/19/11 at 01:17 AM

I would definitely drink the president’s milkshake. What?

And, I do not like the blingee. It’s all shiny and hurts my eyes.

/curmudgeon

Comment by asiangrrlMN on 05/19/11 at 02:02 AM

I’d like to disavow that Mike. Maybe I should start using the handle I use elsewhere - That Other Mike. There are too many Michaels. Hmm. Sounds Dr Suess.

Anyway, can I get a special name change from management?

Comment by Mike on 05/19/11 at 02:22 AM

Whelp, evidently I don’t know the value of a sawbuck. What am I, a Republican?

Perhaps the Obama campaign will accept my stash of simoleons for an American-made weeping hankie.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 05/19/11 at 02:25 AM

@That Other Mike: You are a credit to Mikes everywhere, and set an impossibly high bar for Mikes, so if you do put in for a name change, it shall be granted, but only out of compassion for the hopeless position of the lesser Mikes.

It’s all shiny and hurts my eyes.

I’m sorry asiangrrlMN, I should probably have posted a trigger warning:

~~ MRS. POLLY MAKES BLINGEES. SHE HAS A MAGPIE EYE AND LOVES SHINY THINGS, ALSO HER SPELLING IS IFFY AND SHE DOESN’T KNOW THE VALUE OF A SAWBUCK.

***Refunds available at the Box Office Window, Thursday mornings from 6:00AM to 6:10AM~~

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 05/19/11 at 02:45 AM

Oh gawd. The “pedantic guy” is back.
Actually, no, he isn’t.

oops

Comment by That Pedantic Guy on 05/19/11 at 06:00 AM

Yay me! Can I be That Other Mike, then?

Comment by Mike on 05/19/11 at 07:36 AM

Can I get a name change, too?

I think I’d like to go with ‘MikeyX’.

Comment by Mr. Whipple on 05/19/11 at 08:08 AM

I thought we agreed to call each other Bruce.

Comment by Oblomova on 05/19/11 at 10:52 AM

Actually, no, he isn’t.

Still not catching on to that *snark* thing, are ya?

Comment by marindenver on 05/19/11 at 11:10 AM

@Oblomova, I’m fine with that but I’d rather not be in charge of the sheep dip.

Comment by Bruce aka Dave S. on 05/19/11 at 11:34 AM

“I like my coffee like I like my President: HAWAIIAN.”

L2D@MD (laughing to death at my desk).

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 05/19/11 at 11:44 AM

@Mrs. P, and your margins are too wide and your font is too small and your content is too snarky!!!!!!!! Oh, wait. This isn’t BJ? Sorry. I love your writing so much, I’ll look at anything you post.