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DUmmie FUnnies 05-23-06 (Freudenschade, Baby!)
DUmmie FUnnies ^ | May 23, 2006 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

Posted on 05/23/2006 2:29:13 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Freudenschade, Baby! Apparently the DUmmies never learn. Not only did they suffer from a mass dose of Freudenschade over Fitzmas, the DUmmies fell for another round of premature Freudenschade jubiliation yesterday over the story of an Army Ranger who admitted to committing War Crimes only to have to eat a big heaping of crow later when it found out that the Army Ranger in question was FAKE. But FIRST.... The latest on the Hoaxmas Front. As of this writing TruthOut is sticking with their Partial Birth Apology in which they continue to stick by their Fitzmas fairy tale in which Karl Rove has ALREADY been indicted on May 12. Meanwhile, Pied Piper Pitt is still holed up in the Furorbunker hoping to wait out the backlash forces of Hoaxmas that are now beseiging his once mighty Third American Reich which began (according to him) with ice hockey fans screaming "USA! USA!" following the American victory over the Soviets at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Rumor has it that a certain Dr. Morell is currently administering strong doses of alcohol to Pitt in order to ease his emotional suffering during this turmoil. When there is a new battle on the Hoaxmas front, we will keep bring you the update as well as detailed analysis of Pitt's political Götterdämmerung.

And now back to the latest DUmmie Freudenschade.... Yesterday, the DUmmies temporarily forgot their Hoaxmas woes to celebrate the news that a former Army Ranger had openly confessed to committing war crimes as you can see in this THREAD titled, ""By my hand alone almost 200 were taken out, that's just a rough estimate." Yes, Freudenschade broke out all over DUmmieland over this news that was soon followed by the inevitable crow eating ceremony when it was REVEALED that, "The video of the Army Ranger is a fake." So let us now join the DUmmies in the midst of their Freudenschade celebrations in Bolshevik Red, while the commentary of your humble correspondent, whipping up another serving of crow for them, is in the [brackets]:

"By my hand alone almost 200 were taken out, that's just a rough estimate"

[Commence the Freudenschade celebrations, baby!]

Army Ranger Jessie Macbeth speaks about War Crimes he and other Rangers committed in Iraq with the encouragement and blessing of their superiors.

[Oooh! Oooh! I sure hope I didn't drink up all the victory champagne celebrating Karl Rove's May 12 indictment.]

He's got the courage to speak out. To implicate himself in War Crimes. I can support this Ranger and any others that have the courage of their convictions to speak out about the atrocities they were encouraged or ordered to commit by superior officers. At the same time I am completely revolted by what he and others did to innocent Iraqi civilians.

[We have an extra big heaping of crow warming up in the oven for you, DUmmie LibertyorDeath.]

IT'S A FAKE!!!!!! He is wearing his beret on backwards. I doubt he is even who he says he is. It's a shame that crap like this gets posted on DU. Giving credibility to these kinds of lies demeans the whole site."

[Shut up you lousy KILLJOY!!! Let the DUmmies enjoy their Freudenschade.]

I'm not sure what picture this angry person is debunking, but it is not the picture in the video that I watched. His beret is "fine" and medals can't be seen as it's a head shot. Further he has some medals pinned to the outside of his picture frame and his moustache was shaven.

[Is that you, Marc Ash?]

I'm not gullible for giving a guy who wears his beret "differently" the benefit of the doubt. I don't believe nor disbelieve him.

[Jason Leopold has verified that this guy was definitely an Army Ranger.]

Still doesn't explain the sleeves. Why would a Ranger roll his sleeves like a Marine? Seriously, little shit like that gets pounded into your head every day you're in the military.

[I'll search for an explanation of this at TruthOut.]

I'm not defending him as truthful or not, but I think there was truth to what he said about the experience in Iraq.

[The Dan Rather Apology: The Army Ranger might have been fake but his confession was accurate.]

I admit to wild speculation. However I understand it's not uncommon to wear ones beret "wrong" regardless.

[And it's also not uncommon to lock down an entire floor of Patton Boggs for a 15 hour meeting complete with a Secret Service detail.]

gully, show us one picture, just one picture of another Army Ranger with his beret sloping downward to his left. Berets are ALWAYS worn sloping downwards towards their right.

[LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!!!]

It is time this country learned the truth about what exactly is going on over there...that our troops are being maimed and killed and are killing for a bunch of lies; lies that make a few people very, very rich.

[Would you like your crow well done?]

I don't recall any reports like this in the foreign media. This would have been picked up in the foreign media if it was happening.

[This story won't be considered solid until TruthOut verifies it.]

Makes me sick that this adm is behind this cruelty. No wonder so many are coming back from Iraq with messed up minds. This is awful.

[It's not polite to talk with crow in your mouth.]

He is presented as a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War - I respect the group. If he is an IVAW member then I think he must be real - he couldn't pull the wool over fellow vets' eyes, I would not think.

[Excuse me. You've got some wool in your eyes.]

kick for the truth

[Enjoying that "Kick Me" sign affixed to your posterior?]

He's not a spokeman for the army. He's telling us what HE went through. as horrid as it is.

[According to the Arizona State University NEWSPAPER, MacBeth's worst combat experience was receiving poor service at a local coffee shop.]

Dan Rather was reliable too. But even he got tricked into a set up.

[So is MacBeth being Rathered or Leopoled?]

I just watched it, and I believe him. His mannorisms, his stutter is more pronounced when he talks about the things he did, the dis-connected thoughts... he's telling the truth.

[Is that you, Will Pitt, commenting from the Furorbunker?]

I believe anyone with a set big enough to CONFESS to War Crimes that are MOST CERTAINLY going on there. One more thing-Look at that guys eyes-there's ALL the proof anyone needs, right there.

[Your TruthOut journalist job application is currently being given serious consideration.]

I'm beginning to think DU exists in some kind of little fantasy world all it's own. That video is crap. I wonder how much the guy was paid to say that stuff.

[And this DUmmie WINS a Kewpie Doll dressed in camo clothing for having a brief moment of mental clarity.]

Have the freepers picked up on this? They would have a hay day - DU Admins better yank this article off line quick.

[Too late. It's already provided yet more comedy material for the DUmmie FUnnies.]

I think we're all going to need a drink by the time this is over.

[Is that you, Will Pitt, commenting from Bukowski's?]

It would be us and IVAW who've been Rathered, where Macbeth is the faked document - containing stuff that's in fact real.

[Fake but Accurate: The motto of the Leftist media. And now on to the DUmmie Crow Eating CEREMONY titled, "The video of the Army Ranger is a fake."]

The video of the Army Ranger is a fake.

[Munch! Munch! May I have another helping of crow?]

I served in Iraq 16 months as a U.S. Army Ranger." April 23, 2004. The war was less than 16 months old at that point. He must have a time machine.

[I bet the DUmmies would like to take a Time Trip back to May 12.]

possibly the war started earlier than thought...

[Correct. And the Civil war actually began in 1856.]

I am so, so disappointed in some of the people in this community, but I know there are others who are reality based. We can't fight their lies if we live in a fantasy world of our own. I want a reality-based community, is that too much to ask?

[Yes. Much too much to ask of DUmmieland.]

These days, however, reality is taking a back seat on DU in favor of the new flavor of the month - "If I want it it must be true. Therefore, I shall pretend that it is."

[Okay Dorothy. Now lean back, close your eyes, and repeat three times: "Karl Rove was indicted on May 12! Karl Rove was indicted on May 12! Karl Rove was indicted on May 12!"]

Late breaking DU news... Karl Rove was indicted last week by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the Valerie Plame affair. Details are lacking and we like it, but what the hell... it sounds good so run with it.

[Break out the victory champagne! Freudenschade, baby!]

If only they had known what an Army uninform looks like... ... the trick/stunt would have worked! Damn!!!!

[Damn that Faker MacBeth for not researching his scam carefully enough!]

Has Roves finger prints all over it. Pay some to lie, so that the real ones get discounted......

[The obligatory "It was all Karl Rove's fault" posting.]

well if that's the case, he sure has Iraq Veterans Against the War...pretty well fooled. Somehow I think that's unlikely. Not inconceivable I suppose, but you'd think they'd spot a fake pretty quickly.

[Unless, gasp, they were fake vets as well.]

It seemed like a hoax.

[It seemed like Hoaxmas?]

I am listening to his account now, though this is an awful story, unfortunately, it sounds REAL to me.

[A True Believer to the Bitter End and probably still waiting to see the May 12 date on the Rove indictment papers.]

When this blows up in this kid's face he can intern for Jason Leopold. He'll have an equal amount of credibility.

[MacBeth will become Jason Leopold's personal Monica.]

He could very well suffer from some kind of grandiose delusion syndrome

[aka William Rivers Pitt Syndrome.]

This guy has not even told the truth about himself. He has not told the truth about his service. The unit he says he served in Falujah with was at Ft. Benning at the time. No. I WILL NOT believe him on this one. As far as Jesse MacBeth is concerned, I believe he has to have someone else call his dog because not even Fido believes anything he says.

[How about Robert Luskin's cat with the healthy stools?]

The guy is a poser, and this story smells real bad. Remember the Rovian trick of "discrediting the source"? Stay vigilant. To me, it feels like this guy is the new TANG documents, a "fishing expedition" of a semi-believable story that is later easy to refute and ridicule. Don't bite.

[Too late. The DUmmies have already been hooked, landed, and gutted.]

Stay alert. If Rove is doing it, others will pick up on it. This could be some kind of right-wing discrediting hoax, or even a cadre of lefties trying to "heighten the contradictions" by publishing false information (sad but true). I'd hate to imagine anyone in gov't would stoop so low as to put this guy out there to discredit IVAW.

[Avoid being sucked into the vortex of the Perfect Rovian Storm while on your way to the Crow Feast.]


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: armyranger; dummies; freudenschade; jessiemacbeth
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To: PJ-Comix
It is time this country learned the truth about what exactly is going on over there...

I'll have to agree with him there. The MSM has done a very POOR job of informing the people about any good news in Iraq...

...that our troops are being maimed and killed and are killing for a bunch of lies...

Maimed by COWARDS, but they are killing those cowards by the thousands, over lies told by Saddam....

(We loose more people in a months to highway accidents than we have lost in Iraq in 3 years of war. If these morons were alive during WWII, we would be speaking German and eating sauerkraut today)...

...lies that make a few people very, very rich.

Who? Bill Gates? George Soros? The "Donald"? These people were rich to begin with....and if "a few" were getting "very, very rich" from the war, you should be able to name them, or even ONE....

121 posted on 05/24/2006 2:54:44 AM PDT by dirtbiker (I've tried to see the liberal point of view, but I couldn't get my head that far up my a$$....)
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To: All

Remember, no AM DUFU edition today. Gotta split out early. Maybe a PM DUFU, especially if Pitt emerges from his Furorbunker.


122 posted on 05/24/2006 4:05:47 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: franksolich

Frank:

What is 'Scamdy'? Inquiring minds want to know.

Danka,

Jimbo


123 posted on 05/24/2006 4:29:00 AM PDT by bcsco ("He who is wedded to the spirit of the age is soon a widower" - Anonymous)
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To: Barset
Whew. Sorry.

Don't be... I enjoy reading your posts -- they're very insightful and full of information.

124 posted on 05/24/2006 4:40:20 AM PDT by kevkrom (Posting snarky comments so you don't have to)
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To: Charles Henrickson
By your phony video alone almost 200 DUmmies were taken in, that's just a rough estimate.

Are there even 200 "real" DUmmies to be taken in?

125 posted on 05/24/2006 4:41:27 AM PDT by kevkrom (Posting snarky comments so you don't have to)
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To: Darkwolf377
I believe anyone with a set big enough to CONFESS to War Crimes that are MOST CERTAINLY going on there. One more thing-Look at that guys eyes-there's ALL the proof anyone needs, right there.

This guy can join Sen. Byrd of West Virginia as the world's greatest authorities on liars.

Sen. Byrd on the floor of the Senate after watrching Anita Hill's testimony:

"I look at Ms. Hill and I do not see the face of a liar. I do not see the furrowed brow of a liar."

Don't need lie detectors. Just ask this guy and Byrd.

126 posted on 05/24/2006 4:42:41 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: PJ-Comix; Charles Henrickson
When this blows up in this kid's face

Is that you, benburch?

(Someone's got to do it...)

127 posted on 05/24/2006 4:45:06 AM PDT by kevkrom (Posting snarky comments so you don't have to)
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To: ravingnutter
But...don't you get it? It is a Rovian plot! That evil Karl Rove put him up to it! ROTFLMAO! What a bunch of DUmmies they are! No wonder they don't have jobs and have to post from their mom's basements! Good grief...if I was that freaking stupid, I'd kill myself!

DUmmies are so stupid, they could throw themselves from a tall building and miss the ground.

128 posted on 05/24/2006 4:46:51 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: decal
I wasn't around for the Rathergate - which one was discovered quicker, that one or this?

Rathergate was actually discovered before it happened. Rove's email to FReeper Buckhead discussing the fake but accurate TANG document and how Rove had set up Rather for a fall was sent the day before the broadcast.

We now return you to the the actual universe instead of this alternate.

129 posted on 05/24/2006 4:52:01 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: All
Check out post#35 on this thread for interesting points on the fake Ranger video:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637146/posts?page=35#35

130 posted on 05/24/2006 4:54:17 AM PDT by bcsco ("He who is wedded to the spirit of the age is soon a widower" - Anonymous)
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To: All
This fake Ranger is under warrant for arrest for two counts of 'assault in the fourth degree' and 'violation of a bench warrant'. See link below:

http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/cfapps/linx/calendar/GetCriminalCase.cfm?cause_num=06-1-01994-8

Now I have to go. Storms coming in 'big time'.

131 posted on 05/24/2006 5:03:25 AM PDT by bcsco ("He who is wedded to the spirit of the age is soon a widower" - Anonymous)
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To: PJ-Comix
Remember, no AM DUFU edition today. Gotta split out early.

Work is the curse of the FReeping Class.

132 posted on 05/24/2006 5:11:10 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: PJ-Comix

The DUmmies remind me of a George Costanza line to Jerry before Jerry took a lie detector test on Seinfeld:

"Jerry, it's not a lie...if YOU believe it."


133 posted on 05/24/2006 6:33:43 AM PDT by beans36 ("Is that 24 real hours or dog hours?")
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To: CAluvdubya
Hey, what FR Yahoo group? Why am I always the last to know something! (simulated DUmmie whine)

Click and save

SD

134 posted on 05/24/2006 6:55:32 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: PJ-Comix
Demented is all I can say about the serious posters at DU.

I would expect about 1/3 of the posters are just having fun stirring the poison in the kool-aid.
135 posted on 05/24/2006 7:31:07 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Stop The Lies! (Jesse Macbeth "speaks out").
136 posted on 05/24/2006 7:55:15 AM PDT by E Rocc (The Illuminati’s most secret ritual is the worship of Karl Rove.)
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To: SoothingDave

Some DUmmies seem to think the DUmmies owe the Bostonian Idiot an apology. Link on my next comment, although that thread has now been "locked."


137 posted on 05/24/2006 10:36:06 AM PDT by franksolich (wolkenkuckucksheim)
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To: franksolich

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1273046


138 posted on 05/24/2006 10:36:24 AM PDT by franksolich (wolkenkuckucksheim)
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To: franksolich

WiseButAngrySara (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:23 PM
Original message

Precisely one week ago, Mr. Pitt DID apologize, in a now locked thread...

[irrelevant information deleted]

On a personal note...

It would probably be a good thing for the health and welfare of this community for everyone to stop beating the excresence out of each other over this Rove story. This goes for me, too. I just got into a snipe-fest in another thread, and immediately felt stupid about it.

On my personal note, I believe that there are some members of the DU community who owe Will Pitt an apology. They are demanding an apology from Mr. Pitt for rudeness when they have themselves repeatedly been more rude and intolerant of other's opinions than Mr. Pitt ever was. DU is quick to point out the hypocrisies of others. Some of us should take a long hard look at our own.

Let the flaming begin, before this is locked. I so needed to say this.



WiseButAngrySara (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:38 PM
Response to Reply #4

8. It's good enough for me! What do these people want anyway, blood?

I have wondered if there is a way to see if more new DU members have signed on since this flamefest began. Any way of checking that out? Or am I the only one with those suspicions?


dogday (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:50 PM
Response to Reply #8

14. Sounds remorseful to me

I felt that he was remorseful in that post....


MrModerate (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:33 PM
Response to Original message

5. I gotta say, that's a weird-posterior apology . . .

And the Truthout/Leopold/Rove story is very, very strange.

Hard to imagine that Leopold will emerge with any credibility left, -- yet "people" keep saying that there's rock-solid truth behind it.

Tres peculiar.


MADem (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:36 PM
Response to Original message

6. He said the beating should stop...on both sides

That's all well and good, but I didn't see "I'm sorry" in there.

That said, I have no strong opinion one way or another on his role in this, beyond the fact that he took advocacy for his 'journalist' to a new and unfortunate level. He certainly fanned the flames, but he didn't light the fire.

The guy with the byline is the at the nexus of all this. He really is the one who needs to do some 'splainin'...everything else is just bluster, distraction and noise.


WiseButAngrySara (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:43 PM
Response to Reply #6

11. How do you know that Leopold wasn't used like Hatfield and Rather were? There sre so many similarities between Hatfield and :eopold that it is beyond uncanny! They were both probably selected by the Rove camp because of their lack of credibility. The reasoning being, well, they are telling the truth, but who would believe these people?

I started a thread on this several days ago, but it was promptly locked.


MADem (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 01:12 PM
Response to Reply #11

25. I don't know, but someone sure as Hades does, and that's the author.

If he got gamed, he needs to come clean. NOW. Not weeks from now. NOW.

Of course, he's looking at a third strike, here, seeing as he has pulled this "shoddy journalism" business twice before and been fired for it.

Three strikes and you're out...

I think he's praying for an indictment soon, so he can say "Right Church, Wrong Pew" but as time marches on, that's looking less and less likely. "Getting ahead of the news cycle" doesn't cut it, because the news cycle is sailing forward, covering miles like Lance Armstrong. There comes a point when thet turn of phrase should more accurately be termed "Making Excresence Up Based on a Halfposteriored Guess and Maybe Some BS Fed to Me by Someone Who Pretended to be In the Know."

And that's what it looks like he did. He may have been fed some excresence, but he ran with it without triple-checking. Sloppy of him, to be charitable about it, with a story this important. But hey, he wanted to be FIRST. And now, he's LAST....


cat_girl25 (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:37 PM
Response to Original message

7. On a serious note, before this gets locked...

I think the apologies should be via pms.


bettyellen (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:47 PM
Response to Reply #7

13. oh i think some people want everything as public as possible

they exist only to bitch and moan here.


bettyellen (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 01:01 PM
Response to Reply #15

18. you're right, i think some people delude themselves that they are a big part of this, and it's the hugest thing in the blogasphere, and they're working to make it the biggest deal.

in the end...it'll get resolved in spite of them. the 24 thread vigil just an embarrassing footnote.


RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:38 PM
Response to Original message

9. That's an apology?!

Pretty damn vague. Doesn't sound like a retraction to me, either. Sounds more like "I know my inflatulence stinks. Too bad your face is right there at posterior-level. Let's move on."


RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Wed May-24-06 12:47 PM
Response to Reply #10

12. You want some :poopcorn:?

BTW, I, personally, am far more upset about being duped than by being called names. It's not rudeness that galls me but duplicity.


139 posted on 05/24/2006 10:51:02 AM PDT by franksolich (wolkenkuckucksheim)
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To: PJ-Comix
so when do the Dems nominate him as their next Presidential candidate?

Reporting for Duty...

140 posted on 05/24/2006 11:47:02 AM PDT by CharlieOK1 (Did you get that thing I sent ya?)
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