New Tom Tomorrow. Right. On. Target.

[kpete]

[Arctic Dave]

1. O. M. G.

[valerief]

28. +1 gazillion

[Brickbat]

2. Unwavering Apologist needs a frame where he says, "Shut up, shut up! HE'S GOT A PLAN!"

YOU NEVER LOVED HIM!

[truebluegreen]

9. +100 nt

[yurbud]

21. no shit.

[Maven]

55. I TRUST HIM 100% HE'S GOT A PLAN!!!!111! LOOK AT THESE HEROIC LOOKING PICTURES!

and such.

[alcibiades_mystery]

57. UA's and their endless Picture Threads!!

I call that Worshippering, which is the opposite of Critical Thinking Skillz!!!!

[L0oniX]

64. How dare you disrepect their religion.

[KG]

3. Tom Tomorrow, emoprog...

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. For REALZ!!!

[closeupready]

25. Yeah, right? LOL

[cthulu2016]

88. Tom Emorrow

[raouldukelives]

93. God bless em. If it wasn't for emoprogs, I'd feel like I was taking crazy pills. nt

[OnyxCollie]

4. !

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. +1,000,000

Love the new name for Them: Unwavering Apologists! Ahahahahaha! That's Awesome! Somebody on Team Awesome suggested Professional Obama Defenders (POD People, get it???? Ahahahaha!), but I think maybe Unwavering Apologists should definitely be the name we call Those People! And look at the funny suit with the A for Apologist on it! Awesome! We should make the Unwavering Apologists wear an A for Apologist here: or better, a UA for Unwavering Apologists. Not to be confused with TA for Team Awesome!!!!

K&R to Infinity!!

[L0oniX]

37. I'm still gonna use "worshippers" because it implies more ignorance, blindness and hypocrisy. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

43. +2,000,000

[Armstead]

7. As usual Tommy T nails it.....+1,000

[truebluegreen]

8. Ouch. The Unwavering Apologist.

There's a disturbingly long list of people around here who resemble that remark...

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Yeah, and they just got SCHOOOOOLED!!!

Oh snap!

[truebluegreen]

12. +100 nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. +101 kickity kick yo! nt

[Marr]

34. I guess it stung a little, huh?

I can quite understand.

[truebluegreen]

41. ?

Stung who?

[Marr]

44. I think alcibiades is being sarcastic.

[truebluegreen]

47. Oh, thanks...I was confused.

[alcibiades_mystery]

49. No ways, dude!

I'm on board for the Big Win!

[alcibiades_mystery]

45. The UAs are getting ROASTED, son, what?

[L0oniX]

35. Some of them are not even US citizens. n/t

[WorseBeforeBetter]

67. Allow me...

" "

[Hassin Bin Sober]

71. Is that the clown who needs an enema?

" "

[WorseBeforeBetter]

72. 'Tis. And since this is popular lately...

" "

[L0oniX]

84. +1

[jsr]

83. Yep. But they know all about America.

I wonder if they'd be willing to ditch their socialist universal healthcare and move to the U.S.

[HughBeaumont]

11. Ah, Doll Hands Brooks and Thomas "Milton" Friedman . . .

. . . the most average writers on the planet with the grandest self-importance.

People pay attention to Thomas Friedman and buy his unintentionally hilarious books. Our corporate run media love to have him on and allows him to spew, unopposed or challenged, the opinions and musings of a regular multi-millionaire Average Joe (who pretty much got to where he is via lucky breaks, marriage and other opportune moments) in regards to what American workers need to do to change their situations.

In case you want a sentence summary of those musings: "It's all your fault, you need to get smarter, people being lifted out of poverty overseas is great even if it means job losses here, and it's either this or North Korea/Communism."

Oh, and Thomas doesn't at ALL like to be challenged. Check out the New Zealand interview down this thread. A little long of a listen, but it's well worth it to see how to completely expose a corporate toady who has nothing but flimsy arguments that dismiss SO many intangibles:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022665769

[nxylas]

14. The NYT apparently admitted that he hasn't has an editor in years

Just a quick copy edit, no actual fact-checking or anything inconvenient like that.

[HughBeaumont]

18. His metaphors alone would drive even a straight-edge to drink.

[myrna minx]

61. That's hilarious!

[nxylas]

95. Have you seen this?

http://www.thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com

[HughBeaumont]

100. The fact that a generator can mimic every column he writes to the word . . . .

. . . speaks VOLUMES to his painful averageness he attests Americans can no longer possess if they want to compete.

[tex-wyo-dem]

97. That IS a hilarious toon...love it :)

[Armstead]

16. They do have certain talents

David brooks is great at saying "Calm down. Nothing needs to change" in a way that seems thoughtful and reasonable while he insults anyone who holds a different view as latte drinking airheads.

And Friedman is great at making status-quo conventional wisdom sound like it is some genius insight that he just came up with and is imparting to us mere mortals.

[wtmusic]

17. But Friedman won a Pulitzer...what could possibly go wrong? nt

[yurbud]

24. my favorite Friedman stupidity: effect of Iraq War on oil price: $6 or $60 a barrel

Neither of Friedman's scenarios happened in reality and oil hovers around $100 a barrel now.

Oddly, Pat Robertson repeated pretty much the exact same line. Maybe it was to bait people too smart to buy the WMD and terrorist crap, but not quite smart enough to wonder why an administration wholly owned by the oil industry would fight a war to LOWER the price of oil.

But one thing I haven't seen much planning for is the impact an attack on Iraq would have on the world's oil market. Depending on how the war went, that impact could be very bad and lead to a sharp spike in oil prices, like $60-a-barrel oil. But -- wait a minute -- it could also be very good, and lead to $6-a-barrel oil that would weaken OPEC and, maybe, also weaken the Arab autocrats who depend on high oil prices to finance their illegitimate regimes and buy off opponents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/opinion/6-or-60.html

[dreamnightwind]

89. Excellent find - nt

[JHB]

42. Hugh, that link is to the thread, and the radio link is a bit far down...

...so to lend a hand:

Direct link to post mentioning the NZ radio interview with TF
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2666380

Radio show itself (top of the list):
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/20111022

[HughBeaumont]

73. Thanks for the links -

Hard to link to the site . . . it's blocked by work firewall.

It's an amazing takedown (listen to Tommy Mustache squeal when he's called on his wealth) and a perfect example of how ridiculously uncaring and shilling our corporate-owned media really is.

[tex-wyo-dem]

92. Thay're ridiculously uncaring and shilling because...

They're an integral part of the game of prostituting for the next $$$ and could care less if the rest of us get shat upon or barely have a pot to piss in (or are heading in that direction).

I continually wonder what the engame is that they and the rest of the upper-crust 1% really want. Do they really want a country/world where a single-digit percentage of the population has everything and the rest live in squalor? Sounds like a depressing scenario that a lot of third-world countries I can think of exist with.

Do they really want that?

[nxylas]

15. Will we now see an outbreak of Unwavering Apologist avatars on DU?

Like the Sensible Woodchuck ones that were everywhere after Chuckles made his first appearance.

[L0oniX]

33. They are not REAL Democrats. n/t

[LWolf]

96. I'm happy to bring Chuckles back for you. nt

[ananda]

19. Whoa!!

That was awesome!

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Correction

It was Awesome!!!

[Jackpine Radical]

38. I think you mean

wesome

[alcibiades_mystery]

46. Double Awesome Team Awesome!

UAs LOSE when Team Awesome WINS!!!!!!

[bobduca]

70. Sarcasm, you are doing it wrong.

[Occulus]

87. He's been pretty damned insulting about it all day.

Jerk.

[WillyT]

22. Absolutely Perfect !!! - K & R !!!

[closeupready]

23. Love it. K&R

[yurbud]

26. Republicans hope their candidates will do what they say, Democrats hope they won't

Obama spewed the corporate DLC line all along, but we HOPED he'd CHANGE, first when he got elected, then when he got REELECTED.

If he didn't push for a truly progressive agenda when he had both chambers of Congress, there's no reason to expect it now.

[BrotherIvan]

59. Pretty much

[bvar22]

74. Spewed the Corporate line all along?

I don't think so.
Not in Campaign 2008 where Candidate Obama promised to:

*renegotiate NAFTA

*Make EFCA (Employee Free Choice Act) The Law of the Land

*Put on Comfortable Shoes and Walk the Line with Union strikers

*Raise Taxes on the RICH

*Require GMO warnings and Country of Origin Labels on all food sold in the USA

*Raise the Cap on FICA Deductions

He definitely sold himself as a Anti-Free Trade, Warrior for the Working Class,
and sold himself as the Anti-Clinton,
even making statements denying any ties to the DLC.
He made them take his name OFF their website.


....but I guess he was only "Bluffing" then too.



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their promises or excuses.
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[dreamnightwind]

90. Thank you

He campaigned as anything but how he has governed.

[MannyGoldstein]

27. "does anyone hear the words that come out of my mouth?"

Sigh.

[Skittles]

80. I asked one of them recently, "Do you even listen to yourself?"

they are so over-the-top ridiculous in their efforts to excuse the inexcusable

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. Middleman has a new book: "The Audacity of Retreat".

[Armstead]

32. LOL

[RetroLounge]

40. LOL!

RL

[alcibiades_mystery]

48. LOL

Awesome.

[L0oniX]

65. Comes with a discount coupon for "Its So Easy Even a Caveman Can Do It".

Tired of the caving, compromise and capitulation.

[WillyT]

79. LOL !!! - Perfect !!! - K & R !!!

[NealK]

94. Lol!

[rocktivity]

30. One good "Middle Man" deserves another

rocktivity

[L0oniX]

31. "he should at least stop asking for tax increases in return" LMFAO

Yep that will be next. I mean how far can you bend over ...and for what? It's the elderly who will be doing the bending over for this fucked up cpi shit. I don't hate Obama but I don't like that fact that he is like all the others who say one thing during a campaign and then go back on what they said ...and far worse than that. No REAL Democrat would ever bring up an idea to change SS in any way that would make it worse for people ...and no REAL DU Democrat would support Obama's bringing SS cuts to the table. It's not part of the debt. Fucking reframers!

[99Forever]

36. Whooop, there it is. n/t

[RetroLounge]

39. Yup

RL

[sabrina 1]

50. Lol, that is hilarious. 'NOT 11th dimensional chess'!

[progressoid]

53. I swear Tom Tomorrow reads DU.

[pa28]

51. MiddleMan seems to think Unwavering Apologist is kind of an annoying toadie.

Maybe he can crash on the couch over at Chuckles the Sensible Woodchuck's house once he's outlived his usefulness.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

52. Someone has been lurking here.

[progressoid]

54. Absolutely.

The resemblance is uncanny.

[Cali_Democrat]

58. I think so!

My post from a few days ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2655221

Look who's in the second and third frames

[Spitfire of ATJ]

62. Monolog writers for the Tonight Show etc. used to lurk in ATJ....

Many was the time that I heard them repeat something I posted word for word.

[Cali_Democrat]

56. Brutal

but true

[Egalitarian Thug]

60. K&R For Unwavering Apologist.

[Jakes Progress]

63. The Thomas Nast of our age.

The UA woodchucks have avoided this thread, hoping it would die. They vomit their drivel all over threads with facts and OP's with carefully thought out commentary. But they are afraid of the cartoons. They are afraid of being branded as the asshole in the baby blue tights with the big yellow A on their chest.

Tom T helps recovering enablers and UAs wean themselves off of the kool aid.

[Rex]

66. Thanks Tom, now we will get another angry letter

addressed to the Professional Left. Hopefully this time his braintrust will come up with a better adjective to describe us.

[LWolf]

101. Will he call Rahm back to pinch hit? nt

[colsohlibgal]

68. Send To An Apologist In Your Life.

Tom Tomorrow is brilliant x1000. The firm apologists just won't budge, Obama has a core of supporters that would stick with him no matter what, who can rationalize anything he does or says as he protects the plutocracy and asks the struggling to sacrifice. God forbid some multi millionaire would have to get by with 311 million rather than 347 million, better that Granny learns to like cat food.

Nice that he also took a nice shot at Friedman and Brooks and their word salad gobbledygook.

[spooky3]

99. agree - and your second pgh described my favorite part too!

[AverageJoe90]

69. I like Tom Tomorrow, but.....he's way off target this time....as in, dead wrong. n/t

[Skittles]

76. kinda like rockbands saying Spinal Tap was way off

[Skittles]

75. OMG!!!

Tom Tomorrow echoes me - anyone paying attention to the action WORDS Obama says would NOT BE SURPRISED!!!

[forestpath]

77. K&R Scathingly brilliant.

[Demo_Chris]

78. KICK! Absolute perfection as always.

[jsr]

81. Perfect.

[Ruby the Liberal]

82. *right click* | *save as*

K&R

[daybranch]

85. It is not in Obama's hands

to show what a democrat stands for. It is in ours. Call every democratic congressman and legislator you know and tell them they will be primaried if they support chained CPI. Are we going to just sit here silent. Not me. It is up to us to show who we are as democrats. We have to quit whining and keep organizing.

[dreamnightwind]

91. Actually I believe it is

"It is not in Obama's hands to show what a democrat stands for."

And it's not whining to call him on it. I'm all for organizing, though, let's get some real Dems elected! Primaries are our greatest point of leverage.

[cantbeserious]

86. All One Finds In The Middle Of The Road Is Dead Skunks And Armadillos

eom

[tex-wyo-dem]

98. Wow, talk about dead on...

TT does it again...and I will admit it kind of stings as for the longest time I wanted to believe that Obama was working for our interests, just doing it from different angles (11-dimensioal chess, as it were), but alas, just another pol working for the oligarchy.