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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald Jokes about President Obama Raping a Nun [View all]Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)20. Do you seriously think that Barack Obama is liable to start raping nuns on television?
I would hope not, because that would be insane. I don't even think Greenwald thinks that would happen.
So the only option yet, a literal interpretation being out, is that this is a joke -- a rape joke told at the expense of President Obama and his supporters. That's your choice...
...other than glossing over rape jokes to protect Greenwald from the consequence of his own words.
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I remember that well. The photo-diarist was chased off that site the vitriol got so bad.
banned from Kos
Jan 2012
#15
It was a "she". The Obama bashers are fighting a Potemkin village constructed by the likes of GG.
banned from Kos
Jan 2012
#26
Wow, that was extraordinarily long and bad. The logic he used was like following a spaghetti noodle.
Major Hogwash
Jan 2012
#56
Funny how the economy is recovering under the policies you insist are disasterous.
TheWraith
Jan 2012
#45
So, a second-rate pundit can be "held accountabe" but the President of the United States can't?
baldguy
Jan 2012
#72
If you have a valid criticism of Greenwald, rather than these ad hominem attacks, then post it.
baldguy
Jan 2012
#87
If had bothered to READ Greenwald's actual columns rather than just the headlines
baldguy
Jan 2012
#125
When exactly has Glen Greenwald ever been a popular or effective progressive talking head?
mythology
Jan 2012
#75
I had never heard of glenn greenwald until I joined DU and saw all the Greenwald hysteria
limpyhobbler
Jan 2012
#7
Do you seriously think that Barack Obama is liable to start raping nuns on television?
Bolo Boffin
Jan 2012
#20
Meant to post this as a response to the OP. Comment not directed specifically to you one_voice!
stillwaiting
Jan 2012
#127
Of course the twitter feed does not support the headline, but never mind.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2012
#13
I have often heard the same 'joke' applied to objects of personality-cultists of all sorts
Occulus
Jan 2012
#62
I don't know about every item that is posted, because I don't have time to read all of DU.
tabatha
Jan 2012
#53
Very dishonest. But hey, par for the course as GG said. Election season is upon us and
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#57
The story is misleading, the rape reference (while tacky) is taken out of context
rocktivity
Jan 2012
#58
Hell, even I will rec this. I hope it gets more recs than any DU post EVAH!
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
#76
He should have joked, like Obama did, about killing people with drones!
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
#88
Lol, DU has been discredited enough the past few days. I just can't contribute to that by
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#115
And President Obama jokes about the little single payer advocates at his town hall forum, video ...
slipslidingaway
Jan 2012
#77
No, not the same, but one is the President of the US and the other writes a column ...
slipslidingaway
Jan 2012
#80
No more offensive than all those DU threads about rightwingers raping goats.
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
#99
Hey! I laughed when the President joked about killing the Jonas brothers with drones!
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
#92
I think you must not have read through all the links. The headline is false.
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#120
Does the new DU archive posts or can I kick this thread for the next 11 months?
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
#91
Impatient? Nope. This thread has so much win that I want to keep it at the top
Luminous Animal
Jan 2012
#96
How many times have I read here that "GW could eat a baby on TV and no one would care"
lumberjack_jeff
Jan 2012
#137
"It wasn't a joke of any kind: it was a *deadly serious point* about blind defenders of evil acts...
slipslidingaway
Jan 2012
#147
This recent tactic of one word subject lines in a reply is pretty annoying ...
slipslidingaway
Jan 2012
#163
Sad the lengths people will go to protect and support someone they agree with, even when that person
DFab420
Jan 2012
#153
Kicking this into the face of the disingenuous, intellectually dishonest people who threw this crap
Bonobo
Jan 2012
#164