The way I heard the story, Obama plans to have the soldier’s bodies dug up and arranged so that, viewed from space, they form his campaign’s “O” logo.  Obama is canny enough to know that the tour guides would never allow it.  They should consider themselves lucky that they escaped the fate of all those Chicago city comptrollers.

“Big Hollywood: You can trust us because we’re trustworthy.”

My suspicion for the lack of an authoritative citation: John Romano found it in some newspaper that comes out of “Old Europe,” and doesn’t want to admit to his readers that he considers those French surrender monkeys worthy of his time and attention. One of Big Hollywood’s central themes is that only dijon-loving Europhile librul media elites do things like read non-domestic papers.

How cool!  Where can I get that “Evil Grand Vizier” makeover?

How cool!  Where can I get that “Evil Grand Vizier” makeover?

Not to mention that Nostradamus-brand Blue Turban. Nice touch, that.

Glad to see you posting more, Jesse.

Oh, and I want the pointy ears.

If I were a bit more of a dick, I’d ask why Big Hollywood is so unconcerned with the security of the President, and wonder aloud if they were trying to expose him to danger deliberately. If I were more of a dick, that is.

Mon Dieu! no tour guides?!  That means the American tourists won’t have anyone but each other to ask questions such as “What’s the nearest place to get real food?” and “Do the Japanese have their own cemetery?”

I miss the days when every Big Hollywood post was either, “I can’t get a movie deal because I think tax cuts increase revenues,” or, “Cloverfield was a liberal screed because the monster attacking New York was a giant fish and not a giant Muslim.” Now there’s little difference between them and every other right wing group blog.

This is an unprecedented request.  I hope the French come to their senses and deny it.

The French?  Those well known surrender-monkeys?  They could never stand up to anyone…except when they refused to go along with our plans to invade a country that never did us any harm…

The French…those evil socialists who believe you should stay home when you’re sick and get better instead of infecting more people.

The French…who will rip up cobblestones and pelt their officials if their officials forget where the real power lies (i.e., with the people).

Those French?

Are we allowed to say “French” anymore—9/11 changed everything.  I thought we were supposed to say “Freedom” instead of “French”.

I like the eyebrow ring.

Here’s something I’d like to share…

I think Obama was promised the election to distract the people. They voted for him b/c of the fact that he is diverse and made so many wonderful promises. The governement used that to attract the attention of the people to lead them to something that is not right, that is wrong and could damage the people.

The quote above is from another website. Needless to say, a few people have asked this person to elaborate & they responded quickly…asking the rest of us to “bare with them”...This person also said they would respond as soon as they can “figure out how to put it into words.”

If these people were into reality-based fact-checking, they wouldn’t be wingnuts, now would they?

Can we get a little O Fortunae playing in the background to go along with that photoshop?  Which, btw, is freak’n epic and gets full points.

But, yeah, does Obama even have the authority to do this?  I mean, we haven’t even confirmed his birth certificate yet.  How the hell is this guy acting as President?

This person also said they would respond as soon as they can “figure out how to put it into words.”

Should have thought about that before posting the first bit.

Needless to say, a few people have asked this person to elaborate & they responded quickly…asking the rest of us to “bare with them”...This person also said they would respond as soon as they can “figure out how to put it into words.”

I can’t remember who first said this (I think it was John Cole at Balloon Juice) but he pointed out that the ‘wingers have been talking amongst themselves in code for so long that they forget the rest of us aren’t in on the code, which is why we don’t react the way they expect when they start talking about “socialism,” “school choice” etc.

I suspect we’re getting to the point where the code has grown so esoteric that they’re having trouble understanding one another.

But, without tourguides, how will the President find his way to the gift shop?

Thank you. You can see me in the comments thread to that post, attempting to call bullshit on it. The really incredible part is that while Romano was oh-so-careful about being vague (what the hell does “tour guide services” mean?) three-quarters of the BH commenters immediately began moaning and groaning about the poor veterans, at death’s door and unable to attend their last commemoration. And the one thing you CAN find in Google is Sarkozy saying he looks forward to welcoming Obama AND American veterans. Incidentally, I also searched the French sites. Nada.

If Obama were excluding veterans I’d be mad too, but that’s obviously not what we’re talking about. I suspect that Mr. Romano has taken a standard request—no tour guides walking around pointing and talking during the few hours of speeches at Colleville, no large groups entering the grounds—and either as a deliberate slant or because he knows absolutely nothing about the geography of the battle site, decided that meant “EVERYBODY OFF THE BEACH!” Certainly Mr. Romano either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care to mention that the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer is administered by the American Battlefield Monuments Commission and not the French government.

Hey, hey, hey!

Know what I heard?  I hear fascist Obama is going to visit a Nazi graveyard, and….

(Psst, Reagan already did that)

Oh….never mind.

Add a little vampire teeth and that pic would have been absolutely perfect.  HA HA HA

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Jrod, MosesZD, Michael Clear (re. Cloverfield description), Caren and Zifnab*: stop it, for the funny, it aches.

*I’d include Herr PhotoShop Artist if I knew whether or not it was done Fer Serious.

Best comment from Sadly, No!

If you read this list out loud, after 7 days Barack Obama appears in a mirror and calls you a schmuck!

I’m tempted, my friends, sorely tempted.  <

*gasp*
I am so putting this image on a t-shirt or totebag or SOMETHING.
It is too awesome.
The only thing- maybe a few more facial tattoos…

Or maybe I shouldn’t - mainly because I don’t think that people would get it - there’s people out there who don’t get Stephen Colbert for the FSM’s sake.

Channel surfing the other day and someone on FOX was talking about Colbert ‘roasting’ the President, and why that just didn’t work.

Still fucking clueless.

i did several other searches - “obama normandy security”; “obama normandy tourists” and the like.

Nothing came up on google news about anyone being barred from the beaches of Normandy at any point.

And one story featuring some official with Normandy’s tourism board had nothing but excitement from that official, who is anticipating the biggest Normandy party evah. - http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/liveit/article/654467

Seems like somebody’s just making shit up.

Channel surfing the other day and someone on FOX was talking about Colbert ‘roasting’ the President, and why that just didn’t work.
Still fucking clueless.

You know, I was wondering whether people knew that Stephen Colbert was a satirist, so I went to the gold standard of collective knowledge—Wikipedia. This is the first line:

“Stephen Tyrone Colbert (/kɔlˈbɛɹ/;[8] born May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist and television host. He is the host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.”

Ok, but everyone knows Wikipedia has horrifying liberal bias, right? What if we checked Conservapedia?

“Stephen Colbert is a writer, comedian and actor. Colbert is a Catholic, a Sunday school teacher[1], and a self-proclaimed Democrat . . . In the show, Colbert plays a satirical right-wing political talk show host”

People of America, there ain’t no damn excuse.

While finding nothing about this scandal, I did find one item of note from searching French websites:

Having heard that French fries are Michelle Obama’s favorite food, Jean-Paul Dambrine, proprietor of the fry shop Momo, recently made famous by the largest grossing French film of all time, Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis, (Welcome to Hickland, roughly speaking) has written Michelle inviting her to drop by for fries when she arrives on June 6.

I call utter complete and total bullshit on this, mainly because I live in France and something like this would’ve been a shitstorm. Result? Not heard a word about it.

If I were a bit more of a dick, I’d ask why Big Hollywood is so unconcerned with the security of the President, and wonder aloud if they were trying to expose him to danger deliberately. If I were more of a dick, that is.

Why is Big Hollywood so unconcerned with the security of the President? Are they trying to expose him to danger deliberately?

In my darker moments, I sometimes wonder what these cretins would do if, God help your country, somone did kill Obama.  I suspect there would be a massive mass purge of anything on their blogs that was remotely against him, followed by a mass chorus of “we didn’t say nothin’!”

UPDATE! MUST CREDIT JEFF!! Turns out that the writer in question was *ahem* a wee bit hasty:

UPDATE and CORRECTION: Barack Obama deciding to come to Normandy at the last minute, after his return from Egypt, has forced public tour companies to cancel their bookings for June 6th without warning. My original source blamed this on the US State Department when in fact it was the French government itself that made this decision.

I have learned from a follow-up source, that while it is unprecedented for the late notice, this would have most likely been the protocol in any case.

A bit less scandalous than first reported.

Don’t give up, wingnuts! If Obama was a real patriotic American, he’d never go to Normandy at all!

(Of course, then he’d be a treasonous Muslamofascist Commie traitor for not honoring our troops, so it’s a win-win!)

A bit less scandalous than first reported.

Well, I suppose nothing is a bit less than something.

Wow, I was totally shocked to find out that this story was completely not fucking true at all.

Ah, but the story WAS true, only it was supposed to be super-duper secret. It was only when Obama’s diabolical plan was publicly revealed by the heroic and fearless right-wing investigators that the Obama administration were forced to make changes.  It looks as though Obama won’t have the privacy he needed so that he could urinate on the graves of American heroes (which was, of course, the original plan.)