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March 10, 2008 at 05:27:11

If Barack Hussein Obama Is Assassinated Will Coulter Think It's Funny?: The Middle Name Gambit

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"Because I think it's funny." ~ Ann Coulter explaining why she uses Barack Obama's middle name (May 6, MSNBC Live)

Why are all you liberals so upset with using Barack Hussein Obama's middle name?
Isn't Barack Hussein Obama proud of it?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt dealt with it and he had polio. Are you saying that Barack Hussein Obama can't deal with something a guy stuck in a wheelchair had no problem with?
Thomas Alva Edison didn't care if people used his middle name. What's the matter? Is Barack Hussein Obama afraid people will think he couldn't invent the light bulb?
I could go on and on, but I don't have to because the talk radio Lords of Loud already do.
"Now, may I ask a simple question? Is that his name? It is. So why can't it be used?"~ Rush Limbaugh on using Obama's middle name (Feb 26, Rush Limbaugh Radio Show) .
What a great question, Rush. Three actually. The same number of parts that legitimately make up Barack Hussein Obama's full name.
Yes, Barack Hussein Obama's middle name is Hussein. If you don't know it, just turn on your radio and listen to John McCain's little buddy, Cincinnati's Bill Cunningham. Or listen to most any right wing show on the dial.
Really, I'm not kidding. Barack Hussein Obama's middle name is Hussein. Hussein, just like the Hussein in Saddam Hussein, the guy who was so evil we needed to invade his country to get rid of him.
Hmm. Wait a minute. I wonder... Tell me his last name didn't have something to do with his killing and plundering, not to mention the torture chambers. Didja hear me?! Hussein tortured his own people in torture chambers. Saddam didn't kill, plunder and torture. There must be millions of Saddams. It was Saddam Hussein who did. Not Saddam Clinton or Saddam McCain or even Saddam Alva Edison. Yep, the killing, plundering and torture was done by the same guy with the same last name that is Barack Hussein Obama's middle name.
If you don't get the point then you probably don't listen to talk radio. Or you believe the explanation of the uber patriotic hosts who plead innocence when they use Barack Hussein Obama's middle name only because that is his name. Certainly they're not using it as a scare tactic to inflame their fan base. Are they?
Call me crazy, as in Steve "Crazy" Young", but I they know exactly what their doing and they're certainly not using it to be funny. Even if that's their excuse, funny leaves the building the first two or three hundred times you use it. What they're hoping is that using "Hussein" will scare their patriotic fans into not voting for Barack Hussein Obama. No great revelation there. Sophomoric maybe. But no one ever accused talk radio of complex thought. Problem is, if it works as well as they hope it does, how will it affect the fans who may be one stamp from going postal?
The Left may crucify me for this, but I believe most of talk radio's right wing fans are sane. Maybe even as many as 99.99% of them. But as Limbaugh and the boys are proud to promote, talk radio has tens of million fans who tune in daily. Some hosts have more than ten million alone. And if my math assumption is close, that means there could be 1,000 who are several miles off the reservation. Doesn't mean they'll pick up a gun, but maybe one - .1% of those 1,000 - would.
Some may call it free speech. But is it free speech to yell "Barack Hussein Obama" in a crowded theater when that theater may be crowded with panicked talk radio fans who feel that if Barack Hussein Obama becomes president that it will be exactly like having Saddam Hussein as president?
And when that one nutjob wakes up one morning, believing what talk radio is trying to impress upon him - that this Hussein may be just as dangerous as that other one - he just may lock and load to save America from potential killing, plundering and torture chambers.
Farfetched? Maybe, but those who are perpetuating this type of scare tactic just might want to consider the ramifications of a tactic that works far too well.
Funny, huh Ann?
Former talk radio host Steve Young is an award-winning television writer and author of Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (www.greatfailure.com). His L.A. Daily News oped column can found every Sunday at www.dailynews.com/columnists

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A talk show host, author, columnist,award-winning television writer and filmmaker, his inspiring book, "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (Tallfellow Press) has been published internationally and has become required reading in the Wharton School of Business Masters Program. His "All The News That's Fit To Spoof " column appears every Sunday on the L.A. Daily News Oped Page. Steve has appeared all over national TV and radio with his unique brand of satirical punditry and social observations appearing in national periodicals from the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, to his own weekly Internet column "The Lords Of Loud," at AlbionMonitor.net and The Huffington Post.

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I am a college graduate, a loyal patriot of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, a person whose convictions and pessimism drive my thought invoking others to think, and enjoy some politcal debate. I like truth even if it doesn't set you "free" in this US of A any longer. I am a liberal.
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shirley reeseI am a college graduate, a loyal patriot of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, a person whose convictions and pessimism drive my thought invoking others to think, and enjoy some politcal debate. I like truth even if it doesn't set you "free" in this US of A any longer. I am a liberal.
I do a bit of painting mostly in Acrylic. I do a bit of poetry writng mostly inspired by tragic thought. I do a ton of reading, mostly online. I speak straightforwardly and don't plan on changing. It's wor...

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You know it Mr. Young

Intelligent minds think alike they say. I'd say that you aren't off the mark and there are many nut jobs that listen to these "flag pin fascist" talking heads. I know. I read their posts in my local newspaper.

They still post that Bush was appointd by "God"--their god. They say that blowback will happen to us if we don't support the slaughter of Gazan and Palestinians by Mossad (Israeli Gov).

Yup, you hit the nail on the head. I hope those big boys traveling with Obama are watching very closely. I hope the name Hussein takes off around the country and every one starts naming their male babies Hussein. Should confuse those crazies a bit.

I like how Joseph Stalin's name took off. Many a Joseph roaming the earth. What about Joseph, the Bible character? How many ppl are named Adolf? That seems to have been a popular name in its time.

I have never been on the "Good ship Lolly Pop" but I do have the name. Hmmm. Conspiracy yathunk? One has to be fairly gullible to really swallow this crap put out there by these talking heads. I guess we have a lot of gulled ppl now don't we?

by shirley reese (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 316 comments) on Monday, March 10, 2008 at 11:01:50 AM

As we enter the last half of 2008, it is becoming increasingly clear that whatever this rogue administration and congress has planned for our final demise, is about to take place. I fully expect to see sites like OpEd either seriously compromised or gone altogether.

We have little time left, if any at all. Stand up now or there will be no peace.
Marti OakleyAs we enter the last half of 2008, it is becoming increasingly clear that whatever this rogue administration and congress has planned for our final demise, is about to take place. I fully expect to see sites like OpEd either seriously compromised or gone altogether.

We have little time left, if any at all. Stand up now or there will be no peace.

Forget it!

I wouldn't be concerned aobut anything Coulter says or writes.

by Marti Oakley (19 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 57 comments) on Monday, March 10, 2008 at 12:25:35 PM

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Sandy SandSandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, 10-minute newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspapers...

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That reminds me...

The '40s actor Adolph (sp) Manjou, composer Adolph Green; Hollywood's Adolph Zukor; Harpo (Alolph) Marx; writer of "The Maltese Falcon" Adolph Geutsch (and he had a double whammy) didn't change their names during WWII and they managed just fine.

They couldn't have asked for a worse first name in that era. Of course, they weren't running for president.

by Sandy Sand (143 articles, 0 quicklinks, 196 diaries, 1382 comments) on Monday, March 10, 2008 at 12:26:33 PM

A concerned citizen who wishes to WAKE UP AMERICA to how we are being brainwashed every day by the Powers That Be and that we must use our COMMON SENSE to evaluate what is going on in our country without believing the government who is in charge right now and who has been in charge for over 20 years.
b2008A concerned citizen who wishes to WAKE UP AMERICA to how we are being brainwashed every day by the Powers That Be and that we must use our COMMON SENSE to evaluate what is going on in our country without believing the government who is in charge right now and who has been in charge for over 20 years.

Coulter is a Twit!

Anything she says will be funny to her, the twit! Anybody who listens to anything coming out of her mouth has got to be a twit also. People like that love to hate because they think they are the "chosen" ones.

Chose to be stupid that is!

by b2008 (4 articles, 2 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 43 comments) on Monday, March 10, 2008 at 4:06:59 PM