Men in Black

[paft.livejournal.com]

Here is a picture from today's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing about the Obama administration's birth control mandate:



The first row are the allowed witnesses.

All those people a couple rows behind them? Well... those witnesses just don't fit in.

That's why most of the Democratic women on the committee walked out of the room.

Just now, Oklahoma GOP representative Jim Lankford implied that these men in black were being "berated" by the committee. In fact, they've mostly been getting strokes just short of full-body massages from most of the remaining committee members. This hearing is such a transparent and over-the-top, right wing extremist attack on the administration (one Representative invoked those dastardly laws against smoking in public buildings as a sign of the slippery slope the administration has set up) that clips from it should be used by Democrats in the upcoming election.

I cannot imagine any reasonable and honest person watching this hearing and not being appalled.


Partially crossposted from Thoughtcrimes

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Comments

[paft.livejournal.com]

Oh look. The next panel is up and they're doing a little better. Now two out of the five panelists are female!

I wonder if we're going to see an all female panel later in the day.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

The next panel is up and they're doing a little better. Now two out of the five panelists are female!

Aha, proof that the government monitors our conversations here!

[paft.livejournal.com]

Did someone say this?

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I don't follow all the threads here. Wouldn't surprise me, though ;)

[paft.livejournal.com]

Nobody said it. You just made it up.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

...maybe I said it.

[paft.livejournal.com]

You make no sense.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

As Frost said, "Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense."

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

They saw what the monthly topic is!

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

Careful there, you don't want to be accused of making things up!

Seriously, though, I bet they have a whole branch of the FBI dedicated to t_p.

[paft.livejournal.com]

ain: Careful there, you don't want to be accused of making things up!

Only if she does make things up.

Like you did.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

You're just making that up.

[paft.livejournal.com]

Scritch, scritch, scritch.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I thought you weren't going to bother with me? Talk about your mixed messages...

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

Obvious joke was obvious.

(Your) hilarious overreaction is hilarious.

[paft.livejournal.com]

I dislike being drawn into a response under the mistaken notion that the person is actually interested in discussing the topic.

Don't know why this kind of trolling is so popular. It seems that deliberate idiocy online is not just present. It's downright evangelical.

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

So, the FBI influences congressional hearings? Fascinating theory, that.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

Through our alien overlords, natch.

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Poor them!

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

Too bad it's not still conspiracy month, we could all take guesses on who the FBI mole is among us. It's always the one you least suspect.

[paft.livejournal.com]

And it's such a handy way to derail a topic!

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

No one is forcing you to play along, you can always ignore comments.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

Unless, of course, they know it's always the one you least suspect, and therefore the mole would be by far the most suspicious.

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

I like the way you think. *takes notes*