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Skeet Birthers Can’t Afford to Admit the Truth, So They Explode with Insanity
Yesterday I wrote an article about the “skeet birther” movement sweeping the right wing paranoiacs, only to be regaled with tall tales explaining in no uncertain terms that the President is so busted. He never went skeet shooting, the picture is a lie! If only I would take off my Obama blindfold, I would see the truth.
As the right wing media jumped around like frogs from lily pad to lily pad, desperately hoping to land on The Accusation That Stuck, they screeched that the gun angle was wrong, the gun was wrong, the smoke angle was suspicious, the President threatened them not to photoshop the picture, “questions must be asked”, etc.
Then the Holy Grail of Skeet Birthers: The President could not have been skeet shooting on that fateful day in August, in spite of the picture provided by the White House. You see, he was golfing that day.
This gem was tweeted by a very confused Right winger, aptly self-named CrazyBullet2012, who is currently working on proving that the President can’t skeet shoot AND golf on the same day:
Over at Breitbart (the place for crazy memes that will soon infiltrate Fox News), they’re teeming with paranoia because the time stamp on the skeet picture is set to PST.
One Breitbart writer embarked on Skeet Gate with great solemnity as if it were WaterGate itself, while allegedly attempting to calm down the skeet birthers — “CTFO” he urges his nervous cult. (There’s a job waiting for him as a factchecker at the Washington Post, no doubt.) However, much investigation is required:
So I went back over to the photo’s metadata page to get a screenshot, and I realized this time that it also included the time as well as the date. Great! I’ll make my case that much more cleanly—
“Taken on August 4, 2012 7:19 PM PST.”
No. That cannot be right. Can it?
So that’s 10:19 PM eastern. Sundown that day was 8:16 PM eastern.
Well, can’t tweet that. It’ll just drive everyone even more bananas.
Right, much better to write that so that all of your readers can file it away in their He’s Coming for Us file. No worries, patriots, the Breitbart writer has, in fact, reached out to Pete Souza, White House photographer, to confirm that his camera was set to the wrong time zone. I’m sure Souza will get right on it, unless his bat phone is set to avoid the crazy galaxy.
The world awaits the results of the time zone stamp drama!
All of this energy expended in an attempt to debunk a photo of the President skeet shooting seems absurd. It is absurd. It’s happening because conservatives refused to believe the President when he said he went skeet shooting, so when faced with evidence that they were wrong, they do what agenda-ridden paranoiacs do: They double down. They are going this far down the rabbit hole only to prove that the President does not skeet shoot.
Let that soak in.
What would it mean to them if the President did skeet shoot (as he obviously has)? What world view would this puncture that is so precarious it can’t allow a moment of reality to violate its dark, dank dungeon?
Well, you see, if they admit this, then the entire house of cards might tumble down. They might be permitted, then, to admit that it was Mitt Romney who restricted gun rights, while Obama expanded them. They might have to admit that Ronald Reagan restricted gun rights, that the Republican National Convention refused to allow even toy guns into its hall, and that Sarah Palin disarmed an Alaska militia.
But these facts fly in the face of their entire world view — a world view based on deliberate lies fed to them by the money machine behind right wing paranoia, in which a fictional President Obama is the boogeyman of their nightmares. So these poor suckers can’t be allowed to see the truth, even for a moment. Instead, they must double down on the crazy.
These are the same people who think that the Sandy Hook massacre was a set up by the President. Some of them don’t believe that the children are really dead. One of them heckled a parent of a murdered child. Judging from their behavior, we get the idea that they are, quite frankly, very ill.
This concludes today’s foray into the jungle that is a right wing conspiracy theorist’s mind. Do not try this without a sense of humor, because if you really absorb the chronic level of brainwashing of which millions of right leaning citizens are victims, it will both sadden and alarm you.
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15 Responses to Skeet Birthers Can’t Afford to Admit the Truth, So They Explode with Insanity
Churchlady
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 4:07 pm
Oh hell – when it’s proven that only the time listed was wrong and that he had been both on the golf course and at Camp David skeet shooting, the skeet birthers and others would holler he was traveling in a helicopter “AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE” and therefore a rip off and evil monstrous man.
Never mind all the days in Texas his predecessor had or the vacation days Reagan had flying to Santa Barbara (where, if I recall, he ALSO spent his time ‘clearing brush’. Lotta GOP brush…)
The obsessions of the Right have been with us for a very long time. They pay no attention to facts, so these insightful posts by reasonable people must necessarily be read by other reasonable people. The RWNJs are just too invested in their own hysteria.
Herman G Morgan III
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Thanks for coining the term “Skeet-Birthers”, as I’ve been struggling for days to come up with an appropriate label for this latest TeaLiban insanity !
Raised in a very Conservative home, by a John Birch Society level Conservative, I gladly drank that flavor of Kool-Aid until my first deployment to Vietnam. Like my Hero Hillary Rodham Clinton, I worked on the ’64 Goldwater Campaign, and believed that Barry G. was the answer to all of America’s ills.
I’m telling all this, so that readers may understand how Huge is the Reality Gap between true Conservatives of the past, and the mental cases masquerading as Conservatives Today. The innate racism of that era, is about the only idea or value that those 50′s Conservatives share, and if you had told those Old Boys that a Negro would be President in 2009, they would have injured themselves laughing ! That said, my Father, as well as Barry Goldwater, would have laughed also, when they learned that Ronnie Reagan had switched Parties, and was now a Right-wing Icon. Back-in-the-day, Ol’ Ron’s political fame was based on how many Actor’s names he turned over to the McCarthy Commission as having Communist ties, this while Ronnie was President of the Screen Actors Guild. Anyway, my original point was that Barry Goldwater, William F Buckley, and countless other Conservatives are spinning in their graves at what has become of their GOP. These Skeet-Birthers are a fine example of why we need Universal Background checks to purchase Guns, because these nuts are prime examples of why we also need Mental Health Exam’s before being allowed to write or speak about Political Ideas ! Forget Guns, these guys should have to register their poor Brains !
Moongal6
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 10:43 pm
Thank you for your comments. I agree with you. I was never a Goldwater supporter, but some of the things he said were quite prescient. Especially about the separation of church and state and how religious conservatives will be Americas’s downfall;
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them. ….. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom…. I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in ‘A,’ ‘B,’ ‘C,’ and ‘D.’ Just who do they think they are?… I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of “conservatism.”
- Barry Goldwater, (1909–1998), five-term US Senator, Republican Party nominee for President in 1964*, Maj. Gen., US Air Force Reserves, author of The Conscience of a Conservative.”
www.slate.com/blogs/money...
LMatte
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 4:48 pm
President Obama couldn’t of been skeet shooting that day because he was with me yea he was with me on a date yea because I am the queen yea that’s the ticket. LOL!!!
Nefer
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 5:12 pm
I personally would prefer to stick with the previous word formation style, which would make these idiots “skeeters.” As annoying as a mosquito’s whine, and with the same intellectual heft.
Some are complaining that the President pandered to these lunatics by releasing the picture, but I think it’s important to note how it was released; with Plouffe’s tweet flat out laughing at and ridiculing these fools (“okay skeeter birthers, start the photoshop conspiracies”).
I think this is an important step. From now on treat these morons with the seriousness they deserve. Laugh in their faces. And I hope the day comes when the president can point and laugh at some idiot reporter at a news conference and tell him he’ll get back to him when he has an intelligent question, not a stupid or time-wasting one.
Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 5:15 pm
I’ve said it before – the President should now move on to targets other than skeet.
Anne
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 5:42 pm
These fools are hilarious with their twisting of facts to suit their conspiracy theories about this president. They are some of the most petty, nitpicking dimwits I’ve ever read or heard about.
Elizabeth 44
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 7:00 pm
…besides it couldn’t have been pacific standard time in August, it would have been pacific daylight time. If we want to get ridiculous, certainly go whole hog. :-)
DeAnna Rice
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 7:06 pm
pathetic whining as usual…the only good skeeter is a squashed one..
Debbie
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 7:20 pm
I demand he release the birth certificate! Sorry, what I meant was, “Release the hunting license!”
Reynardine
Feb. 3rd, 2013 at 8:31 pm
“Skeeters” whine as they try to gorge themselves with blood. Then they lay eggs, like this here, for instance.
Jo
Feb. 4th, 2013 at 12:22 am
If its not on video it didn’t happen. Remember congressman Cleaver being cussed and spat on? We can’t prove they are racist, etc.
mjh
Feb. 4th, 2013 at 2:19 am
This gem was tweeted by a very confused Right winger, aptly self-named CrazyBullet2012, who is currently working on proving that the President can’t skeet shoot AND golf on the same day
Oh, but he can — in fact, this President can even WALK and CHEW GUM at the same time (unlike his predecessor) . . .
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Dan
Feb. 4th, 2013 at 9:14 am
Do these morons even realize what they’re saying? Not only did I have to interrupt my Super Bowl party to argue about whether or not, the President went skeet shooting, I also had to call out their bullshit notion that the President banned tater tots, is going to ban assault weapons, and trying to ban Pee Wee football. I was also informed that he wasnt a legitimate President, “because if it wasnt for the minorities he would have never been elected.” Finally I just gave up. Where do they get this stuff!?
inez
Feb. 4th, 2013 at 9:46 pm
cRAZYBULLET2012
missed his appointment with the psychologist,as he was scheduled for a colonoscopy……….on the same day. One would clear his mind, the other…..oh, well!