They Can't Even Ratfuck With Any Measure of Competency . . . . And Yet They Want to Run The Country? . . No Thanks....

The Gadfly is just about to hit the road for his 4 day vagrancy foray away from the reality-based world he resides and plies his trade in dear readers.

However, before he skedaddles off to give his brain the direly needed R&R that has been long overdue in coming, The Gadfly would like to leave you with a couple of posts to ponder.

First up -- this sad. sad, sad bit of business:

After President Barack Obama concluded his joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands on Tuesday, several conservative media outlets noted that his remarks were followed by "awkward silence."

"Some rustling could be heard as people began to leave, but only one person attempted — and failed — to begin a slow clap," the Daily Caller's Danny Huizinga wrote Thursday.

"After giving a transparently disingenuous speech about privacy and individual rights at the Hague, one person is heard giving a very weak clap," a post on Top Conservative News reads. "No one else claps at all."

A local CBS news outlet in Washington, D.C. even picked up the story with the headline "Lone Person Awkwardly Slow-Claps at Conclusion of Obama Summit Remarks."

But as the Daily Caller realized on Thursday, Obama had been speaking at a press availability attended by scores of journalists who do not usually applaud subjects they cover.

And so they issued this correction:

"This article originally reported that the silence ensued after a Wednesday speech. The silence actually ensued after a Tuesday press briefing, where applause is less common."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/daily-caller-obama-applause


The Gadfly mordantly chuckles to himself.  This story, dear readers, sums up the entirety of the intellectual aptitude of the collective fucking right-wing conservative movement in America today.

Unable to compete fairly and honorably in the arena of ideas and vision, they are left to their own childish, ratfucking devices such as this.

They have such a raging, vindictive hard-on for trying to nit-pick everything Obama does or says that they fail miserably to even get the basic background facts needed to support their attacks correct.  And in the end, they simply look like the callow ankle-biters that they truly are.  Just sad and pathetic - and it is why The Gadfly grants no mercy in his on-going observations of them.

Oh -- and btw -- journalists (aside from those listening to their own leaders in North Korea or Iran perhaps), never applaud after hearing world leaders give press briefings -- as such, it is a whole lot less than "less common."


----TFG