Discussion: BIBI WATCH: Conservatives Fall All Over Netanyahu After Speech

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Yeah, he’s a “Churchhill” just like I’m an “Audrey Hepburn”

The GOP is batshit insane. Seriously. Bibi wants us to invade Iran. Who really thinks that’s a good idea?

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Well of course they have stiff wieners for him, he sounds just like Dick Cheney.

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That’s a fair point. LOL.

You’d think they’d take a stab at not all saying the same thing. Try not to be so freaking obvious that they’re regurgitating talking points… but NO.

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"Limbaugh criticized Obama for believing “that speeches and words can tame tyrants.” Oh, I don’t know, after all Limbaugh believed that draft dodging can successfully win wars.

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Ralph’s very, very brief synopsis of Bibi’s appearance before the joint session.

He blew in, blew up, and blew out!

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Add: …Got Blown (by RWNJs)

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Well, let’s face it. We all expected these kinds of false and hyperbolic comparisons. The Churchill and Neville Chamberlain tropes were almost certain to emerge. They are as cliche as they are vile.

As the son of immigrants from the U.K., whose parents and both military and civilian aunts and uncles ACTUALLY GOT BOMBED IN THEIR CITIES by the Nazis, long before America entered the war, and lived to tell my generation about it, I find these fools to be beyond any hope of redemption. They don’t know what the fuck they are talking about.

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I find their arguments as offensive as they are specious.

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Churchill, Chamberlain…

Talking points must have been distributed early.

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Aren’t these all the same idiots who banged the drums for us to invade Iraq? They should be expressing their opinions from inside a penitentiary.

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Wait a sec! For 6 years we’ve been told that Obama is Hitler. Today he is Chamberlain. How can he be both? Idiots…

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You keep humping that rubber chicken, guys.

“Netanyahu is the leader of the free world.”

Eagerly waiting for Politico/Glenn Kessler/NY Times to report on these comments.

Because of course, if liberals declared a foreign politician as leader of the free world, it would get exactly the same amount of attention that these insane comments will get. Exactly. Right?

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Before Cruz calls Bibi the ‘leader of the free world,’ he should check out how the rest of the ‘free world’ views Bibi.

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Conservatives are all for strong, autocratic megalomaniacal leaders so long as they’re not Democrats.

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Limbaugh criticized Obama for believing “that speeches and words can tame tyrants”.

Aren’t “speeches and words” exactly what Netanyahu is delivering, and nothing else? He’s a RW icon because he came all this way to say that something (he can’t say just what) has to be done? Is he giving speeches in the U.S. because he’s shopping blame for something he has done little to resolve? Nothing about this diplomatic fiasco and the choreographed RW response makes any sense in the real world, but they’re working it to get the usual rubes angry.

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Of course they’re falling all over themselves. They’re also drooling all over themselves too. Most of us know, anti-psychotic medication has potential, but it has to be dosed correctly.

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“Churchill”? Chamberlain? Seriously? What these idiots know about history would fit safely in a fishes ear with room to spare.

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“Speeches, words, persuasion, will never work.”

So, Rusty, what are you doing?

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Paraphrasing Groucho Marx in regard to conservatives, I’d refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

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