DISQUS

Shakesville: Why They Invented YouTube

  • tata · 1 year ago
    You need an APPLAUSE sign.
  • puellasolis · 1 year ago
    "Not:" you keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
  • larkohio · 1 year ago
    She is not only mean, she lies.
  • Griffin · 1 year ago
    One would think that if we have access to this film, so does CNN. If Colmes knew that he was going to ask this question, why didn't he have this tape spooled up and ready to run after her denial?
  • shakerTS · 1 year ago
    Because had that happened, Colmes would have come back from the tape to an empty chair.
  • Mustang Bobby · 1 year ago
    Good point, Griffin...except Alan Colmes is on Fox, not CNN and the original clip is from MSNBC. But it would have been worth it to see nonetheless.
  • Griffin · 1 year ago
    Yeah, I knew he was on Fox and I could see 'MSNBC' in the corner of the YouTube vid. I have no idea where I pulled CNN from.
  • shakerTS · 1 year ago
    Great post Bobby. Seems Rep. Bachmann and Mike Huckabee share a similar playbook.

    (It ain't just a River in Egypt.)
  • KMTBERRY · 1 year ago
    HONESTLY, I think that these older Republicans don't UNDERSTAND or USE computers, or the Internet, or something!

    This kind of Denial only works when people have no ability to see taped footage after the fact. Does she understand that anyone can google her name and see this footage anytime they want?

    I don't think they KNOW this. One of their interns should TELL them about the Series of Tubes!
  • Jade · 1 year ago
    And this post is the reason they invented the phrase: "Oh SNAP!"
  • bgk · 1 year ago
    We have always been to war against EurAsia!!!!
  • Melissa McEwan · 1 year ago
    She is a trainwreck.
  • Broce · 1 year ago
    She is a trainwreck.

    This. Yes.
  • YoungFeminist · 1 year ago
    She's still denying this? Wasn't she the same person who put out the commercial where she said something like, "I may not always choose my words right, but my heart is in the right place." Which is essentially the same thing as saying I have good intentions, but I fuck up ALL the time. So vote for me! *smiles*
  • RedEmma · 1 year ago
    Lovely how YouTube has made this sort of thing widely accessible. Back in the day, even after the popularization of VCRs, you would have had to get lucky (happen to have taped the segment), or remember what network and when the piece aired, and send away for a tape in order to orchestrate an expose. It would have taken a huge amount of resources. It still astounds me a little how easy it now is -- it's right there, incontrovertibly, her face and voice and image, saying those hateful things. Bobby's right, this is truly why they invented YouTube.

    Well, this and Flight of the Conchords videos.
  • Graham · 1 year ago
    They don't even try anymore and I stopped being shocked at the sheer brazeness of their lies long ago. I think even if Colmes had the tape of her original statement and played it back to her on the air, it wouldn't have fazed her a bit.
  • tata · 1 year ago
    Why do we so regularly have to remind our Republican ruling class that everything is recorded, and that we actually heard them say what they said and saw them do what they did? Is this some kind of crazy cognitive dissonance, and how long before they get the wild idea to shut down YouTube for all its comic archivosity?
  • zub0n · 1 year ago
    Wow. She's - not very bright.
  • Anne Onne · 1 year ago
    The best thing about the modern age. I can't believe people are STILL trying to pull this one off, despite the fact that whatever someone writes/says publicly will always be found somewhere on the net. I just wish there were more interviewers willing and able to truly grill the people coming on their show about what they said in the past when people start getting a 'hazy memory', because it's one thing to change your mind as you get more facts (so long as you're genuine) and another to pretend you never said what you said, and refuse responsibility for your actions.

    Youtube has found its purpose. The moronic portion of its commenters are, of course, another matter.
  • Sarah from Chicago · 1 year ago
    she is mean, she lies, and despite being a Christianist, she is crooked as hell

    Seriously, what is the word 'despite' doing in this sentence? Being a christianist is right in the same field as being mean, lying, and crooked as hell.

    Hell, I think they're requirements to be christianist.
  • Dalhyp · 1 year ago
    Where is the "You are an idiot!" song when you need it?
  • Sarah from Chicago · 1 year ago
    The moronic portion of its commenters are, of course, another matter.

    I never really understand WHY precisely youtube has comments ... I mean, I get why it has video-responses, as that's in the nature of the space, but why comments? If a poster really wants comments, why not a link back to their blog/website/etc?

    But yes, youtube comments are the current incarnation of the old usenet phenom.
  • Donna H · 1 year ago
    "twisted my words" or "taken out of context" or "not what I meant"

    Choose any or all of the above for her excuse. She can't help herself. She opens her mouth and lies fall out. How in hell did she get re-elected?!
  • shakerdb · 1 year ago
    I wonder if the young republicans who actually do get on the internets just shake their heads at this stuff
  • Graham · 1 year ago
    I wonder if the young republicans who actually do get on the internets just shake their heads at this stuff

    If you mean "nodding their heads in agreement" then, yes.
  • HeatherMae · 1 year ago
    I love how she has the gall to call it an "urban legend." She didn't just stop at "twisted my words", etc, she is actively denying that that video clip ever took place. YouTube is actually just a creepy horror story that teenagers tell each other when they're camping. We'll show up at the senate looking for her, and the senators will say "What, Michele Bachmann hasn't been alive for twenty years...."

    If only it were just a horrible dream.

    Kidding aside though, perhaps we need to send all of the news media to the Jon Stewart Fake Comedy News Academy. This is starting to get ridiculous.
  • Flewellyn · 1 year ago
    Because had that happened, Colmes would have come back from the tape to an empty chair.

    Which would differ from the start of the interview how?
  • tambourineman · 1 year ago
    My take on this, considering that it was Faux News and all, is that the omission of the tape was deliberate. It gave her a chance to deny it without any further questioning. Now, if anyone else asks, she can say, "I've already responded to this, blah blah, blah".
  • everstar · 1 year ago
    Hold on, I have to go drive out to the sixth district and shake some voters. *sigh*
  • Kyra · 1 year ago
    Last night my mother got her confused with Amy Klobuchar (MN's (Democratic) Junior Senator), and insisted that Michelle Bachman was Minnesota's other Senator (the one where we actually know who IS the Senator). And boy was that a nasty thought.
  • oddjob · 1 year ago
    I wonder if the young republicans who actually do get on the internets just shake their heads at this stuff

    Actually, I think what's happening is that young people get on the internets, see crap like this, and swiftly decide NOT to vote for Republicans. The Baby Boomer Republicans have been extraordinarily effective at guaranteeing their children will NOT be Republicans.
  • oddjob · 1 year ago
    (Change that to "their children's generation".)
  • CParis · 1 year ago
    @HeatherMae - Yes!
    Bachmann is sorta confused about what an Urban Legend is - usually you don't have like a recent, nice clear video on YouTube, but rather a grainy piece of film like BigFoot or the Loch Ness monster.
    Republitards!
  • Corey · 1 year ago
    Ixnay on the "Republitards", please. There are a jillion other ways to make clear how inane Bachmann, et al are behaving without using derivatives of the word "retarded." It's hurtful to a whole lot of people who may have developmental disabilities or who care about folks who do.
  • nightshift66 · 1 year ago
    I'm still astounded that this congresscritter was re-elected even after this and other bizarre comments. I think I shan't be traveling to her district any time soon.
  • GoldFishy · 1 year ago
    Seriously Michele? Stuff it.
  • DW · 1 year ago
    That is one seriously disturbed woman.
  • Flewellyn · 1 year ago
    I'm still astounded that this congresscritter was re-elected even after this and other bizarre comments. I think I shan't be traveling to her district any time soon.

    She's from the part of Minnesota that contains St. Cloud, the very very very Catholic part. The rest of Minnesota, even rural northwestern Minnesota where I live, is pretty liberal. And y'know, we don't get it either. In fact, many of us try very hard to avoid St. Cloud if at all possible.
  • PiixiiDustt · 1 year ago
    Urban legend my ass!

    Everytime I see that video, I am shocked that someone with those comments is serving in congress! She unfortunately got re-elected.