Comments on: Orly Taitz, "birther movement" queen, runs excellent self-produced ad for US Senate campaign (video)

By: Petzl

Petzl — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:09:00 +0000

Seriously, sounds like a chronic smoker narrates it (over the phone).

By: BBNinja

BBNinja — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:40:00 +0000

I can’t take someone seriously who can’t afford to splurge on at least a 10 dollar microphone.

By: BillStewart2012

BillStewart2012 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:20:00 +0000

California has a new “top two combined primary” system, where instead of each party picking its candidates through primaries or caucuses and entering the winner in the general election, all the candidates are in a combined primary and only the top two vote-getters are in the general election. This means that third-party and independent candidates are unlikely to get into the general election, but if one party dominates a district, there’s likely to be a runoff between the top two candidates from that party which everybody gets to vote in, so the more moderate candidate is more likely to win.

For Senate, there are six Democrats running, 14 Republicans, 2 Peace&Freedom, a Libertarian, an American Independent Party candidate, and no Green. None of the heavyweight Republicans wanted to run against incumbent Dianne Feinstein, but there are a couple of middleweights and a bunch of lightweights and kooks like Taitz, most of whom paid a $3480 filing fee in lieu of getting signatures. In a traditional system, many of the lightweight Democrats and Republicans would have been on their own party’s primary, lost, and not shown up in the fall. DiFi got 49% of the vote, Elizabeth Emken (middleweight R) got 12%, Orly Taitz got 3% (4th place among Rs, 5th overall.)

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:33:00 +0000

Has anybody called 20th Century Fox to see if they want to send a little infringement takedown notice for that searchlight logo? I mean, not that I would ever advocate politically motivated takedowns, but…

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:35:00 +0000

Wow that one is buck wild crazy pants.

Tea Party?

I ask because I can imagine Taitz sitting around a table pouring imaginary tea for people she’d dug up and attempted to reanimate because she heard them agreeing with her through 6 feet of earth and she really needs the votes.

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:59:00 +0000

We’re just gonna have to agree to disagree on this one.

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:55:00 +0000

McClane/Gruber 2016. Yipee ki-yay, Mr. Falcon.

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:53:00 +0000

That’s superfluous…

all perinea are cute.

By: Dingos

Dingos — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:18:00 +0000

” So Feinstein it is.”
I don’t know. I think I’ll take nuts over completely corrupt. At least Orly could accidently do the right thing. LOL! It could happen. :)

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:33:00 +0000

Yet no cutesy illustration of a perineum to round out the punning?

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:58:00 +0000

“She’s like the energizer bunny on steroids.”
Doesn’t California have enough politicians who are intimately acquainted with steroids?

By: noah django

noah django — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:02:00 +0000

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

By: Shinkuhadoken

Shinkuhadoken — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:30:00 +0000

She gives owls a bad name.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:28:00 +0000

I’d go with Brewer/Taitz. They kind of give off the same vibe.

By: 10xor01

10xor01 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:58:00 +0000

Performance art? Cain / Taitz 2016!

By: mseery

mseery — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:43:00 +0000

“In a series of self-produced and narrated internet ads for her California senate campaign, Orly Taitz praises herself in the third person…”

Correction: unless Dr. Taitz underwent a radical accentectomy, that is not her voice narrating the ad.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 03:11:00 +0000

“Depravation?”

Are you sure you didn’t lose a letter “n” in her last name?

That, by the way, is not her doing the narration. Compare voices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB3W5NTAAAo

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:44:00 +0000

For some reason, she reminds me of Boom Boom Geoffrion. Maybe its because as a Flames broadcaster, the more excited he got the more incoherent he got.

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:31:00 +0000

ORLY? taitz.

By: bfarn

bfarn — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:12:00 +0000

The strongest, most immediate reaction that hit me was empathy for the poor niece, or brother in law, or kid down the street who got roped into doing those graphics. That 20th century fox logo? Clearly the work of a high school kid who got volunteered by their parents.

Also, she should consider laying off the cigarettes and white wine breakfast during audio sessions.

By: Ginbuck

Ginbuck — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:11:00 +0000

I’m about to head out the door to my polling place in CA. I toyed with the thought of giving her my vote as an act of subversion. But I could never admit to myself or loved ones that I voted for her. So Feinstein it is.

By: Sagodjur

Sagodjur — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:07:00 +0000

Too bad her political career can’t go all the way to the top since only American-born citizens can be president and we haven’t passed the 61st Amendment (or enhanced our calm) yet.

By: ponzicar

ponzicar — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:06:00 +0000

At first I enjoyed laughing at this woman and her birther antics, but now I’m feeling slightly guilty about making fun of someone who is obviously mentally ill.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:46:00 +0000

I’m an imaginary person who uses drugs.
Thats what I got from the energizer bunny steroids thing.

By: saurabh

saurabh — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:43:00 +0000

I like “depravations of Constitutional Rights”. But, you know, the rest of it is a bizarre mix between: “Orly Taitz is totally the wrong person for this job,” and, “God, do we need someone other than our current Senators.”