...let us pause to remember one of the most cherished rituals of the Conservative media during the Obama Administration:
For eight years, tracking Obama's use of the personal pronouns "I" and "me" has been a cherished ritual in the conservative media — one small way to promote the idea that the president is self-centered and therefore out of touch with all the decent, hard-working folks out there.
On Tuesday, the Drudge Report linked to an American Mirror story that criticized Obama for "repeatedly talking about himself" — 40 mentions in 22 minutes! — when he welcomed the World Series-winning Chicago Cubs to the White House. The American Mirror noted that Obama said stuff like this: "I will say to the Cubs: 'It took you long enough.' "
What a narcissist.
Last week, the Daily Caller dinged Obama for referring to himself 75 times in his farewell address.For eight years, my email was clogged with shit like this from the Crazy Uncle Liberties in my life.
"My fellow Americans, Michelle and I have been so touched by all the well-wishes that we've received over the past few weeks," the president said near the top of his speech. "But, tonight, it's my turn to say thanks.'Gah, that's three self-references right there!
Over the years, this counting game has been played by the National Review, Weekly Standard, Washington Examiner, Infowars, the Federalist, the Daily Mail, Daily Wire, Independent Journal Review, CNS News and Conspiracy Outpost, among others.
Fox News appears to have been among the first to make this a thing, publishing an important finding by the conservative Media Research Center eight months after Obama took office:
Obama loves to hear himself talk — about himself. In just 41 speeches so this year, not including this week's big speech at the United Nations, Obama has talked about himself nearly 1,200 times — 1,198 to be exact. (That breaks down to 1,121 "I's" and just 77 "mes.")Does Obama actually refer to himself uncommonly often? The Fix's Philip Bump tackled this question in 2014 and found that the answer is not really. He compared the speech patterns of Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and found that all three said "I," "me" and "my" at similar rates: 2.68 percent of spoken words for Obama, 2.25 percent for Bush and 2.6 percent for Clinton...
It. Never. Stopped.
And now that they have everything they ever dreamed of in President Never Stops Whining And Lying And Talking About Himself For One Fucking Minute, any reference to anything that happened before the reign of President Never Stops Whining And Lying And Talking About Himself For One Fucking Minute is either greeted with a cow-dumb stare of blank incomprehension, or a ritual incantation of every fake Dimmocrap scandal that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh ever shit into their skulls.
And if you happen to come loaded for bear with facts at your fingertips, they will scowl, shift to another lie ... then another ... then another ... then another ... until you realize the wisdom of not trying to teach a pig to sing and walk away.
After which Crazy Uncle Liberty will return to the hive to brag about how he owned your Liberal snowflake ass.
There is no point in trying to reason with reprogrammable Republican meatbags.
No point at all.
Behold, a Tip Jar!
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There is no point in trying to reason with reprogrammable Republican meatbags.
No point at all.
Despite all past experience, I gave it one more college try last night, pointing out to childhood friends on Facebook that the post disparaging Nancy Pelosi on which they were avidly commenting was actually from a website that explicitly makes fun of Rightwing memes. I thought pointing out that they were actually being made fun of by the egregiously false post would make at least some dent. Nope. At least 10 more people have added their comments to how evil Nancy is.
In retrospect, none of the commenters have actually read the original post, let alone my comments on it. I'm not even sure they've read each other's comments.
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