Please tell me they don't believe this is real...

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Chibibar

heh... I can't tell if it is hoax news or real news, but after reading the article, I think it is a hoax, but if it is real, well... I'm kinda sad.
 
General Specific

General Specific

Obama wants to set free all of the convicts in prison and then imprison all the good, honest people! Then, since we're in prison, we will be forced to bum rape each other, thus promoting the homosexual agenda!
 
Krisken

Krisken

If it is a joke, with all the crazies coming out of the fringe groups lately, it's hard to tell.

They certainly make for good T.V. though.

Edit: Oh, and if you want a real laugh, check out the comments.
 
phil

phil

They replaced my pre-set hip hop station with conservative talk. The first thing that I heard the first DJ say on that station was that Obama was a secret muslim.


I'll believe that people believe anything these days.
 
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rabbitgod

Amorous Vyxen said:
Also, just to nitpick with what was already a dumbass article, Hedda Lettuce is a drag queen, not a transvestite.
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One of the comments said that they thought it looked more like Ru Paul. We all know those perverts all look the same. It's part of the uniform of the secret homosexual agenda police.
 
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Kitty Sinatra

Them bleeding heart secret homosexual agenda police already got to me. I used to love looking at a beautiful girl naked. But now, if that girl's not doing another girl I just don't care :(
 
Krisken

Krisken

Amorous Vyxen said:
There were comments?

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Oh God... WHY did I read those?

How can they all believe that?

And who cares if they celebrate xmas or not?
Hell, I don't even see how it matters if he was in fact a Muslim.

That's all rhetorical, I know these nutjobs view any non-white Christian as an interloper and a (potential) terrorist.

AMURRIKA! FUCK YEAH!
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Hah, I told ya it was entertaining! Conservatainment!
 
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Chibibar

Well... it can be as real as the Health Care bill coming to the U.S.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

It's this kind of crap that gets forwarded to me by relatives. I thought they were better than that. I'm really close to just cutting off all contact with them.
 
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Chronos[Ha-G]

My father is the type to believe all the "Secret Muslim!", and "He bowed down to a foreign power!", and "he's promoting blah this and blah that!" sort of stuff, which I know he receives in emails from...other people. Fortunately, either he doesn't like forwarding those emails to other people he knows, or he just doesn't forward them to me. Whatever the reason, I'm grateful - even if I did identify with either of the major parties, this stuff would piss me off.
 
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Wasabi Poptart

DarkAudit said:
It's this kind of crap that gets forwarded to me by relatives. I thought they were better than that. I'm really close to just cutting off all contact with them.
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THIS!! I can expect a link to this crap from my dad in 5...4...3...2..
 
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Armadillo

Well, as much as I hate to say it, I think this is real. As I remember, the White House had a "send in an ornament" deal, which is pretty benign. However, if an ornament with Chairman Mao's picture IS on the White House Christmas Tree, I can't bring myself to just dismiss it. With the insane amount of protocol people there, I'd be amazed that it snuck through.

Now, for the sake of argument, imagine that another President had an ornament on their tree that had a picture of Hitler on it. Would that be "no big deal" and people bothered by it "hysterical?" Now multiply Hitler's body count by 10 or so, and you've got Mao. There is no way, no how that a picture of Chairman Mao should be anywhere NEAR the White House. Period.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Armadillo said:
Well, as much as I hate to say it, I think this is real. As I remember, the White House had a "send in an ornament" deal, which is pretty benign. However, if an ornament with Chairman Mao's picture IS on the White House Christmas Tree, I can't bring myself to just dismiss it. With the insane amount of protocol people there, I'd be amazed that it snuck through.

Now, for the sake of argument, imagine that another President had an ornament on their tree that had a picture of Hitler on it. Would that be "no big deal" and people bothered by it "hysterical?" Now multiply Hitler's body count by 10 or so, and you've got Mao. There is no way, no how that a picture of Chairman Mao should be anywhere NEAR the White House. Period.
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:facepalm:
 
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Armadillo

Gruebeard;320402][quote=Armadillo said:
With the insane amount of protocol people there, I'd be amazed that it snuck through.
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Because not one single thing has ever snuck past Obama's people.[/QUOTE]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming Obama himself, but the protocol folks didn't do their job here. Mao was a pretty bad guy, and again, I don't think we'd be seeing this "oh whatever" reaction if it was a different President (Bush) with a Hitler photo ornament.

Also, I'd be more than happy to see this be proven false. Hell, I WANT it to be false. I just don't think it is.

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Shegokigo;320398][quote=Armadillo said:
Well, as much as I hate to say it, I think this is real. As I remember, the White House had a "send in an ornament" deal, which is pretty benign. However, if an ornament with Chairman Mao's picture IS on the White House Christmas Tree, I can't bring myself to just dismiss it. With the insane amount of protocol people there, I'd be amazed that it snuck through.

Now, for the sake of argument, imagine that another President had an ornament on their tree that had a picture of Hitler on it. Would that be "no big deal" and people bothered by it "hysterical?" Now multiply Hitler's body count by 10 or so, and you've got Mao. There is no way, no how that a picture of Chairman Mao should be anywhere NEAR the White House. Period.
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:facepalm:[/QUOTE]

I'm sorry, you take issue with my statement?
 
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Armadillo

AGAIN, I'm only going on what I remember: the White House had a "send in an ornament" thing for the Christmas tree. All of my statements here are predicated on this being real, which I certainly can't confirm. IF IT IS REAL, would you join me in believing that it's not just a "silly li'l thing" that the mass murderer responsible for 50,000,000 deaths is on an ornament on the official White House Christmas tree?
 
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Twitch

Armadillo said:
AGAIN, I'm only going on what I remember: the White House had a "send in an ornament" thing for the Christmas tree. All of my statements here are predicated on this being real, which I certainly can't confirm. IF IT IS REAL, would you join me in believing that it's not just a "silly li'l thing" that the mass murderer responsible for 50,000,000 deaths is on an ornament on the official White House Christmas tree?
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If we're going to complain about his placement let's at least point out that it's a painting done by a little known artist by the name of Andy Warhol.
 
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Armadillo

Twitch;320408][quote=Armadillo said:
AGAIN, I'm only going on what I remember: the White House had a \"send in an ornament\" thing for the Christmas tree. All of my statements here are predicated on this being real, which I certainly can't confirm. IF IT IS REAL, would you join me in believing that it's not just a \"silly li'l thing\" that the mass murderer responsible for 50,000,000 deaths is on an ornament on the official White House Christmas tree?
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If we're going to complain about his placement let's at least point out that it's a painting done by a little known artist by the name of Andy Warhol.[/QUOTE]

Goody gumdrops. It's an Andy Warhol painting of a mass murderer responsible for the deaths of 50,000,000 Chinese.

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Gruebeard said:
Yeah, those pics are fakes anyway.

You're right that some ornaments were created by other people and sent in, but they were firs sent out to those people, and they were asked to pay tribute to local landmarks. I don't think Hedda Lettuce and Mao are American landmarks. Right?

Here's a more reasonable link:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/white-house-recycles-christmas-tree-ornaments.php
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Like I said, I want this to be fake. The thought of that scumbag's picture on the WH tree sickens me.
 
Timmus

Timmus

Is it just me or is that not a very flattering picture of Mao anyway? It looks like he is wearing makeup or something. Even if this actually is on the tree it seems like a bit of stretch to say he is being glorified.

I doubt a Christmas tree is anything Mao would have wanted his image associated with anyways.

That said if it's real and the intent was to poke fun at Mao it's still a pretty bad move to put it on the white house tree.
 
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Armadillo

Amorous Vyxen;320415][quote=Armadillo said:
Like I said, I want this to be fake. The thought of that scumbag's picture on the WH tree sickens me.
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Yes, but what makes you think it's not? Again I cite the example of a closeup xmas ball with "sup 4chan" on it. How does that make you think it's true?[/QUOTE]

Well, apparently Hedda Lettuce herself thinks it's real:

www.heddalettuce.com

...the White House’s comments on this media storm have been odd. I almost get the feeling that they are embarrassed by it all, as if they knew about this in advance they would have left my ball in the box. I understand completely by being a bit taken aback about the ball with General Mao’s picture on it, after all he was responsible for killing over 50 million of his people.
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Lying Bastard said:
Arm, Tim, you're both fucking idiots for even entertaining the possibility that it's not fake.
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And why is that?

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Gruebeard;320420][quote=Armadillo said:
Like I said, I want this to be fake. The thought of that scumbag's picture on the WH tree sickens me.
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It would sicken Mao, too. Communists don't wanna be hanging from no Christian symbol.[/QUOTE]

True. How did he feel about Andy Warhol, though?
 
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Twitch

Seriously? Are we going to say that Andy Warhol was idolizing chairman Mao? This thread is as bad as the comments on that news article if that's the case. I'm done here.
 
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Null

BUT IT ISN'T FUCKING THERE, YOU DUMB FUCKS!

You have three low quality pictures that could have been taken anywhere, posted on a dubious website, and saying "OH NOES DEMOCRATS HATE XMAS"

and you fuckers are going, "Yeah, that might be true."

Fucking kill yourselves for being that stupid.
 
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Armadillo

Twitch said:
Seriously? Are we going to say that Andy Warhol was idolizing chairman Mao? This thread is as bad as the comments on that news article if that's the case. I'm done here.
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Who said that?
 
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Twitch

Goody gumdrops. It's an Andy Warhol painting of a mass murderer responsible for the deaths of 50,000,000 Chinese.
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Thus implying that the focus of the art transcends the point of the work and all that remains is Mao's murderous legacy.
 
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Armadillo

Lying Bastard said:
BUT IT ISN'T FUCKING THERE, YOU DUMB FUCKS!

You have three low quality pictures that could have been taken anywhere, posted on a dubious website, and saying "OH NOES DEMOCRATS HATE XMAS"

and you fuckers are going, "Yeah, that might be true."

Fucking kill yourselves for being that stupid.
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Welllllll...I don't know that I'd call Big Government "dubious." Biased, yes. They're the ones who broke the ACORN sting story. You know, the one that led to ACORN having their funding stripped by Congress, a whole bunch of firings, and just incredibly bad PR. The evidence that this is fake is as strong as the evidence that it's real. So, can we really say one way or another until more evidence comes out?

And man, won't you feel like a jerk if this is proven true?
 
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Armadillo

Twitch said:
Goody gumdrops. It's an Andy Warhol painting of a mass murderer responsible for the deaths of 50,000,000 Chinese.
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Thus implying that the focus of the art transcends the point of the work and all that remains is Mao's murderous legacy.
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No matter what Warhol's personal feelings about Mao were, it doesn't change Mao's track record. I never said Warhol idolized Mao, and it really doesn't matter in this circumstance.
 
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Kitty Sinatra

Huh. I'm willing to consider this as real. That Hedda Ball could have been created by a gay-friendly community group (there's lots of rainbows on it) and the Mao one looks like it could contain the images of other artworks (which presumably reside in the same gallery as that Warhol pic.) That's pure speculation on my part. But I can live with that.

And if I'm right, I'd have no issue with Mao's ball. It's artwork. Art can be shocking and obscene and is just fine with me. And if that work is hanging in a gallery in the States somewhere, it is a local landmark and fits the tree's theme.
 
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Armadillo

Gruebeard said:
Huh. I'm willing to consider this as real. That Hedda Ball could have been created by a gay-friendly community group (there's lots of rainbows on it) and the Mao one looks like it could contain the images of other artworks (which presumably reside in the same gallery as that Warhol pic.) That's pure speculation on my part. But I can live with that.

And if I'm right, I'd have no issue with Mao's ball. It's artwork. Art can be shocking and obscene and is just fine with me. And if that work is hanging in a gallery in the States somewhere, it is a local landmark and fits the tree's theme.
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Well now you'll be told to kill yourself. So you've got that going for you, which is nice.

I disagree with you about Mao's picture on a White House Christmas tree being OK regardless of context, but I can respect where you're coming from. I abhor censorship in art as well, but I just don't see this as the right place.
 
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