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When fanboys attack

By zuzu on 4.1.2008

And these are the people who like Obama.

Holy crap.

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8 Responses

  1. 1
    Roy 4.1.2008 at 1:03 pm |

    My jaw literally dropped open.

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    Lindsay Beyerstein 4.1.2008 at 1:15 pm |

    Bowling is more macho than basketball? I can never keep track.

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    Doug 4.1.2008 at 1:26 pm |

    Fuck, I stink out loud at both of those sports. If you’ll excuse me, I guess I have to go turn in my testicles to the local authorities. (Though maybe Matthews and Fineman will give me a pass on the basketball thing ’cause I’m white.)

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    Victoria Marinelli 4.1.2008 at 1:32 pm |

    Sweet Mother of God on a pogo stick. Chris Matthews needs to crawl into a very deep hole and Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

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    Victoria Marinelli 4.1.2008 at 1:38 pm |

    Oh, and also, re: the “macho” comment – I’m reminded of the (very principled) comments NOW made months ago about how sexist campaign coverage has had a negative impact on all the Democratic candidates, examining how the media has posited, in so many ways, these questions as if they had any merit to them whatsoever: Is Hillary Clinton’s voice grating? Is John Edwards too feminine? Is Barack Obama’s wife emasculating? Is Al Gore too fat to run for president?

    Etc.

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    Gina 4.1.2008 at 1:55 pm |

    Oh, I didn’t hear about the “emasculating wife” meme. How is she emasculating–because she voices opinions of her own?

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    Pizza Diavola 4.1.2008 at 1:58 pm |

    Oh, I didn’t hear about the “emasculating wife” meme. How is she emasculating–because she voices opinions of her own?

    There was an op-ed by Maureen Dowd a while back–maybe last summer?–where she said that Michelle Obama was emasculating because she publicly said that she has to tell Barack to pick up his socks or he snores or something similar. I.e. she admitted that her husband is human and not perfect, oh noez!

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    Amanda Marcotte 4.1.2008 at 3:57 pm |

    I don’t think they like Obama. I think they like to pick on the Democratic front runner. When it was Clinton, they were conveniently kind to Obama. Now that it’s Obama, he’s the target.

    Interestingly, both of them are subject to a similar attack: Being called a woman.

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