This has to be the most unintentionally funny headline to a blog post in the history of the intertubes: Left is getting desperate over Pajama Boy. Who the hell is Pajama Boy, you ask?
Here he is:
For some reason, conservatives have latched on to this ad and think it has some kind of significance. Jay Michaelson thinks the reason is anti-semitism.
Yes, Virginia, Pajama Boy is a member of the tribe. Look at him. Pale Ashkenazic skin, Jew-fro’d black curls, Woody Allen specs. Even the smart-ass expression on his face screams of the Wise Son from the Passover Seder.
Oddly, Pajama Boy does look undeniably Jewish, but he also looks like he’s enjoyably waiting for his next present from under the Christmas tree, or perhaps taking some pleasure in watching a younger brother or cousin open a new toy.
Is he manly? Does he prefer men to women? Is he “a metrosexual in a plaid onesie” or “an insufferable man-child” as conservatives have claimed?
Is Charles Cooke correct that “the vaguely androgynous, student-glasses-wearing, Williamsburg hipster” with his “priggish facial expression” proves “the harsh truth…that the advertising machine behind the Obama administration seems not to really know what normal human beings are like”?
Of course, in Williamsburg, Pajama Boy looks like a normal human being. That’s because Jews live there, along with other normal-looking Puerto Rican and Dominican human beings. That Cooke mentioned Williamsburg wasn’t some accident. It was no subtler than a derisive reference to Brandeis University from the mouth of Pat Buchanan.
So, yeah, just so we’re clear, slight spindly Jew-Boys are not normal human beings and, “suffice it to say, are people you do not want quartered anywhere near you.”
We get it.
That’s why we keep comparing you to fascists.
Tell ya’ what, I’ll do you a solid, BooMan. Obviously, you had a little too much holiday eggnog and have forgotten what Real Americans look like.
So here ya’ go, my friend.
He don’t need healthcare. Hell, he’d chew off his own arm if he had to.
I love that Mr. Duck looks like Osama bin Laden.
I thought they were punking the right.
or trolling
What the hell is Charles Cooke doing citing a notorious pajama boy like Oscar Wilde?
And Brideshead Revisited? Shouldn’t he be quoting from a Tom Clancy novel or a John Wayne movie? What kind of person sits around reading about pajama boys like Sebastian Flyte? The show was on PBS for Christ’s sake.
Hewish? Maybe. He could just as well be Italian by me. Oh1 I almost forgot, we’re not real Americans either. When I was growing up there were Italian names, Polish names, German names, Jewish names and American names.
I think he Harry and Louise’s son.
there may yet be hope for pajama boy — he holds that cup like a rifle.
Hehe. Wonder if the righties have considered whether he might be arab. They could be panicking even more!
This reminds me why I got out of political blogging. No one, other than obsessives on the left or right, has any idea this kerfluffle even exists.
It’s like a window into an alternative universe.
Agree. It’s hard for me to remember that only a miniscule number of people that I know even have the slightest idea that all this sturm und drang goes on every single day. And the things that do catch their attention are often as dumb or dumber than this kind of shit.
We, the people, are just really. really stupid.
C’mon Mike, this is a critically important post. Kindly take it seriously.
Obviously, Boo, you have never seen my Facebook timeline.
It looks like the progeny that resulted from an act of coitus between World Net Daily and Newsmax.
Can’t we just convince the right-wing crazies that he’s Venezuelan and watch them panic-howling about Zombie Hugo Chavez?
There is no substance in Republican policy or positions, just bullshit posturing.
Their proof of Obamacare’s failure is a buggy website that won’t be buggy permanently, never mind that you can sign up for Obamacare without the website.
PajamaBoy is simply the Republican ID on display. They’re making fun of a stock photo that means absolutely nothing, in order to win the public over to their side, that Obamacare sucks.
Because of what is on a stock photo.
This SHOULD be a front-page story, and the liberal bloggers should help the Republicans make this an issue.
Seriously.
This is most definitely one more, Please proceed, Republicans moment.
This is an entirely hilarious non-story. Let’s get every single news program showing Republicans and their enablers talking about it.
As I commented on another blog, the Repubs going ape over this obviously don’t watch Big Bang Theory (consistently in the TV Top 10) or are familiar with the Johnny Galecki character. No wonder they have lost the “young people” ….
I’ve got news fer ya, evodevo. It’s not just the Ratpublicans who have lost “the young people.” (The smarter young people, anyway.) They have also lost the not-so-young as well. The DumRats have lost them too. The whole media-driven society is now so thoroughly stratified…by intelligence, by education, by race, by class, by relative wealth, etc…that a real “majority culture” is no longer possible. We are now simply shards of a completely shattered control system. The amazingly rapid decline in Obama’s approval rating from the 70%+ level to the low 40%/upper 30% level tells the whole tale, as does the totally stalled…and thus totally useless…Congress. Many people…again, the smarter ones, buttressed by masses of the economically and societally frightened… no longer believe a goddamned thing that they are told by the government media complex. Not a word of it. Not about health insurance, not about economic markers, not about politics, not about foreign policy and especially not about the massive surveillance state that has been built as a substitute for a majority culture, built as a way to police the multiple and rapidly burgeoning netherworlds of disagreement regarding what is happening here. Bet on it.
The Democratic party? A party that includes such criminals as Bob Menendez and Chuck Schumer (Both on the take from foreign or foreign-based powers. Bet on that as well.), a party whose president has been caught out in massive lies and prevarications about everything from the best way to pay a doctor through to the amount and level of surveillance that is being applied to people who are not even suspected of any criminal activity and right on up to the true level of U.S. influence and military power being imposed on various states in the oil-rich Islamic areas of the world in order to keep fuel costs at a level that will not break the entire U.S. economy?
Fuggedaboudit. The U.S. is now a broken control system, and the average Janes and Joes on the street have lost all faith in it. We are now out of the control system woods and well onto some other slippery downward slope. It’s even harder to be able to tell the woods from the trees when both woods and trees prove to be nothing but holographic projections. The next president is likely to be a U.S. version of the U.S.S.R.’s Gorbachev. An intelligent politician presiding over the fall of an overextended empire. If we’re lucky. I can hear bin Laden laughing as I write.
If we’re not?
Batten down the hatches. It’ll get much worse before it gets better.
Bet on that a third time.
Have a nice day, and a wonderful New Year as well.
Later…
S.
Yes, our democratic institutions, the Democratic Party included, are sickly right now, highly perverted by the monied powers and their ability to pour poison into the body politic. Conceded.
Yet, people have been helped by laws passed by the 111th Congress, and benefited from policies executed by Obama’s Administration. And, if the McCain/Palin ticket had carried a Republican Congress with them, we would be in a second Great Depression right now, instead of a nauseatingly long recession for the middle class.
Happy New Year!