Far Left Haters Have Even Infiltrated the Greeting Card Industry

I was picking out a birthday card for a family member this weekend at Walgreens when I saw these conservative-bashing cards…

The Sarah Palin-bashing birthday card:
palin card
“I can totally see it from my house.”
This, of course, is a spinoff from SNL’s Palin smear that she could see Russia from her house.

And, of course they are still pushing the Bush-bashing card–
bush card 1
“We just got 100 Brazillian troops to finish up in Iraq.”
(They misspelled Brazilian.)

bush card 2
“How much is a Brazillion?”

On the other hand, the Obama cards were positive and celebrated hopenchange.

How sad. We’re not even safe from their filthy propaganda in a greeting card aisle.

#1 October 25, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Chisum commented:

Yep, the BDS is alive and well. With no signs of abatement. The more BO bombs the more the left sputters, “But…but…but…Buuuush!”

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/10/balloon-boy-derangement-syndrome.html
#2 October 25, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Mike commented:

What brand of card were these?
#3 October 25, 2009 at 5:27 pm
myna commented:

Let the loonies just buy the cards themselves. Feeds their feeble mind.
#4 October 25, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Jo commented:

I suggest no more SNL for any republican ever — just ignore the left. The’ll goof on one regardless of participation or not. So why waste one’s time.
#6 October 25, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Solaratov commented:

Amazing! Mr. Bush has been out of office for almost a year, now – and the leftards are still consumed with him. They’re obsessed. (and a lot are probably possessed.)

Bush OWNS their butts. They whine and snivel – and he ignores them.
#7 October 25, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Hypogean commented:

Let’s ask the Obama supporters:

What did Sarah Palin ever do that’s comparable to the failure of TARP; the failure of HAMP; the failure of the stimulus legislation; the ordained-to-fail health-care “reform” which will not be deficit neutral and which will reduce our quality of life; the ordained-to-fail cap and trade; the failed Iran policy; the failed Russia policy; the nearing-to-failure Afghanistan policy; the failed policies toward all our allies; and the failed Israeli-Palestinian policy?

Let us know why she’s the idiot, while our utter failure of a president is the smart one.
#8 October 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Guess Who commented:

It’s the free market. If people weren’t buying them, the greeting card companies wouldn’t be selling them.

Or if you think there’s a lot of demand for cards making fun of Obama, you should start producing them.
#9 October 25, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Midwestengr commented:

Let us know why she’s the idiot, while our utter failure of a president is the smart one.

I’ll answer that hypogean…

They hate her because she an intelligent, beautiful, white Christian woman who has worked really hard and is very successful. It just burns their asses that a person can make a lot of sense and not have a degree from some Ivy League college, to them, it’s not possible. To liberals, it’s all about materialistic things and “status”.
#10 October 25, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Richard of Oregon commented:

While we still have a semifree marketplace, some enterprising fellow should start a greeting card business that targets the left. I would name it the TFT card company. TFT standing for tit-for-tat.
#11 October 25, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Evil Otto commented:

Guess Who has a point. It’s the free market, and there’s a market for crap like this among the drones of the left. It’s a way of distracting themselves from thinking about what a miserable failure this president has been.

Most likely, though, any attempts to market anti-Obama cards would be met with cries of “racist” from the left. They only believe in the free market when they’re the ones selling.
#12 October 25, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Midwestengr commented:

Guess Who says:

Or if you think there’s a lot of demand for cards making fun of Obama, you should start producing them.

One could produce them, but they’d be called racist. Barry is black you know?
#13 October 25, 2009 at 6:07 pm
TheScribbler commented:

Wasn’t it Walgreens that took the Obama Chia Pets off the shelves because they “offended” people? Sometimes I wish I could bring myself to whine like the Left, cry about being offended and get my way. It’s ridiculous.
#14 October 25, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Jo commented:

Guess WhoNo Gravatar
October 25th, 2009 | 5:51 pm | #8

Here is a suggestion for a card.

Bozo: The USA has 57 States.

6 Year-old White/Spanish/Chinese Girl: You are so wrong!

Bozo: Your a bitter racist!
#15 October 25, 2009 at 6:15 pm
liberalsabide commented:

Have them printed in Austrian so moonbats can understand…oh wait!
#16 October 25, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Rich commented:

Target used to sell greeting cards with the President’s face Photoshopped onto a monkey. But I haven’t seen any in almost a year. I can’t figure out why they stopped…
#17 October 25, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Before Gore, Kneel commented:

Guess I know where I will browsing while recovering from the flu….
#18 October 25, 2009 at 6:24 pm
LarryD commented:

Or if you think there’s a lot of demand for cards making fun of Obama, you should start producing them.

Even if there were, perhaps conservatives just have more class and integrity than your average libtard, and don’t feel the need to step into the gutter to their level.
#19 October 25, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Before Gore, Kneel commented:

Oops. ^ be, as be contagious or not to be, that is the question.
#20 October 25, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Galt commented:

The Left controls the culture: they’ve decided it’s okay to denigrate Bush, but unseemly to mock Obama.

Culture precedes politics. Which explains why even on issues where conservative policy is demonstrably superior, Leftist cant prevails.

If we were Libs we’d call the anti-Sarah jokes anti-woman, or sexist. Instead we’re too honest, and simply denounce them as hyper-partisan and mean-spirited.
#21 October 25, 2009 at 6:40 pm
liberalsabide commented:

The lefties showed their amazing sense of humor over the Sore Loserman signs in 2000.
#22 October 25, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Aitch748 commented:

I’m getting pretty sick of this garbage being pushed into our faces from every direction.

If I see any of these cards in a store, I’m going to rearrange the display and hide the cards behind others. The pricks who put this stuff out can’t sell too many of these cards if people can’t find them.
#23 October 25, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Chisum commented:

THIS is why we don’t make fun of our President.

A Hunk Of Manly, Uh, Manness

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2009/10/25/a-hunk-of-manly-uh-manness.php

Any questions?
#24 October 25, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Jason commented:

Jim, stop being such a drama queen. Who cares about a few greetings cards? You either buy them or you don’t. You vote with your dollars. That’s the beauty of capitalism. Stop getting yourself so excited over such trivial nonsense. Guess what, you can buy lefty t-shirts too! And books! And they have websites! And they write comedy skits for SNL! WHO CARES???
#25 October 25, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Cher Cropper commented:

Merely reinforcement media for the libtards, and not very good at it either. Junior high kids could put out something more humorous than that.
#26 October 25, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Very Impressive commented:

Aitch748
October 25th, 2009 | 6:46 pm | #22

Wow, such profound respect for the free market exhibited by conservatives here. You’re going to hide cards you don’t like behind other cards in the hopes of preventing their sale? Shouldn’t you let the market forces determine whether these cards enjoy good sales or not? Pretty typical conservative hypocrisy, really.
#27 October 25, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Otter commented:

Not very impressive:

I guess turning Rush Limbaugh’s books face-down, hiding them behind other books, putting Spencer’s (truth about) islam books in the wrong section of the store… these are Not hypocritical actions?

Oh, but I forgot: when liberals do it, it is Legitimate.

In a Pig’s Eye.
#28 October 25, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Solaratov commented:

Chisum
October 25th, 2009 | 6:47 pm | #23
THIS is why we don’t make fun of our President.

A Hunk Of Manly, Uh, Manness

.
And, in keeping with that sentiment, I offer this visual aid:

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc85/Mamba1-0/enough_said20300.jpg
#29 October 25, 2009 at 7:13 pm
John commented:

I saw the same thing and simply complained to the manager. He agreed the cards were offensive and I watched him remove them from the stand. I guess he could be putting them back right now, but in all honesty, the cards represented about $15 total revenue for the store. My changing my prescriptions to another drugstore, which I was ready and willing to do would probably cost them more than they would make off of those cards over the course of the year (if not the decade!).

Complain. Complain. Complain. And make Otter Jason and the other leftist wanks get their leftist wank-off material from a specialty store!
#30 October 25, 2009 at 7:15 pm
KR commented:

I like this funny cartoon:
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/10/23/speedboat-or-palin-vs-the-rinos/

Go Doug and Sarah!
#31 October 25, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Aitch748 commented:

To #26:

What the hell makes you think we give a damn about liberals thinking we’re hypocrites? Hell, NOW I’m tempted to go around to various stores LOOKING for these cards instead of just sticking to the stores I normally frequent. I’ll do it, knowing and not caring about how it makes you pinko dipsticks happy to call me hypocrite (and racist, and troglodyte, and teabagger, and closet homo, and every other label you like to throw around like confetti). Why should we give a damn about your opinion? Your only purpose in life is to be a nuisance to other people, and your only ambition is to turn up the volume and cause suffering instead of mere annoyance.

Tell you what, I promise I won’t actually shoplift the cards and burn them in a big bonfire in the middle of the parking lot. How’s that? /sarc
#32 October 25, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Chisum commented:

Solaratov,

‘Nuff Said!
#33 October 25, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Guess Who commented:

Most likely, though, any attempts to market anti-Obama cards would be met with cries of “racist” from the left.

Who cares what the left says, as long as people buy them? Are you going to walk away from a surefire profitable opportunity simply because some liberals are going to call you a racist?

Oh, and while I’m a liberal who voted for Obama, I still think there are plenty of things you could make fun of him for that have nothing to do with race. So have at it, enterprising Republicans.
#34 October 25, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Ladue Pundit commented:

Or if you think there’s a lot of demand for cards making fun of Obama, you should start producing them.

Hey, I haven’t bought a greeting card since Clinton was erected (pun intended).

Cardstock + internet + printer = free greeting cards. The Post Dispatch was my main source of photos before I had a computer. I’ve made some classics and I can even fold paper into my own custom envelope.
#35 October 25, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

Why not make one with Obie in a thinking position with a balloon over his head that says, “Hmmm, I wonder what comes after 999 trillion…?”
#36 October 25, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Tod commented:

Haven’t shopped Walgreen’s since Christmas 2007 when I found one open in Las Cruces, NM, on Christmas day! Great! But when I went in, saw a bunch of banners “Celebrate Kwanza.” Not a single Christmas message — on Christmas day. No wonder they were open.
#37 October 25, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Guess Who commented:

Even if there were, perhaps conservatives just have more class and integrity than your average libtard, and don’t feel the need to step into the gutter to their level.

Haha, that’s a good one. You could put that joke on a greeting card and it would probably sell a bunch. Keep ‘em coming!
#38 October 25, 2009 at 7:22 pm
KR commented:

Jay Leno and BO’s mop:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GlennBeckDailyClips#p/a/1/US6J1nd1-FA
#39 October 25, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Chisum commented:

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/10/25/sunday-funnies-57/
#40 October 25, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Guess Who commented:

Hell, NOW I’m tempted to go around to various stores LOOKING for these cards instead of just sticking to the stores I normally frequent.

If this is really the best way you can think to spend your time and express yourself politically, I say go for it.
#43 October 25, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Robert commented:

Blacque Jacques Shellacque
October 25th, 2009 | 7:20 pm | #35
Why not make one with Obie in a thinking position with a balloon over his head that says, “Hmmm, I wonder what comes after 999 trillion…?”

You’d have to put in a couple of those little guys at the bottom, saying “I hope nobody tells him!”
“Yeah, we can’t afford THAT!”
#44 October 25, 2009 at 7:47 pm
justpassingthrough commented:

Bush:“How much is a Brazillion?”
Obama: “It’s the next number I’m shooting for after a trillion.”
#45 October 25, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Jo commented:

Tina Feygly: Bush is a man, Sarah is a women, but Bozo is a bi*$h. nuff said!
#46 October 25, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Eric the Red commented:

Guess Who

Oh, and while I’m a liberal who voted for Obama…………

Now that explains it. No ability for critical thinking.
#47 October 25, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Evil Otto commented:

Who cares what the left says, as long as people buy them?

Right, because public perception doesn’t affect sales at all. Because stores totally ignore cries of racism, threatened boycotts, and bad publicity.

Are you going to walk away from a surefire profitable opportunity simply because some liberals are going to call you a racist?

????

Who are you talking to? Do you think I’m some greeting cards magnate?

Oh, and while I’m a liberal who voted for Obama,

Nooooooo. Really?

I still think there are plenty of things you could make fun of him for that have nothing to do with race. So have at it, enterprising Republicans.

I’m reminded of the Whole Foods boycott a few weeks ago. The president of that company dared to make suggestions that the left didn’t like. The results? Incredible amounts of bad publicity, and a boycott by the very people who praised the company only a short time before.

Don’t give me this crap, Guess Who. Your side is hypersensitive to criticism of your empty suit of a president. Companies are vulnerable to charges of racism, and you liberals use that charge as your main weapon of choice nowadays. Few companies are willing to risk even a charge of racism. So that conservative greeting card company will find few markets for its anti-Obama products.

Which suits you just fine.
#48 October 25, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Guess Who commented:

Who are you talking to? Do you think I’m some greeting cards magnate?

How hard do you think it is to produce your own greeting cards? LaduePundit makes his own at home. Go to a Kinko’s or a commercial printer and I’m sure it would be pretty easy to make them in bulk. Especially if you’ve got such a surefire moneymaker as conservative-themed greeting cards.

And by the way, the stores around here were selling anti-Clinton cards well into Bush’s presidency. They probably still are…and that’s in blue-as-the-sky New York City.

Right, because public perception doesn’t affect sales at all. Because stores totally ignore cries of racism, threatened boycotts, and bad publicity.

Well then, organize boycotts of the stores that sell anti-Bush and anti-Palin cards and see how many people show up. Rally the “tea party-goers” if you want.

I’m reminded of the Whole Foods boycott a few weeks ago. The president of that company dared to make suggestions that the left didn’t like. The results? Incredible amounts of bad publicity, and a boycott by the very people who praised the company only a short time before.

And few people showed up for the boycotts, nobody that I know of accused Whole Foods of racism, the CEO did not publicly retract his views, his supporters even organized “buycotts”, the company does not appear to have lost any significant revenue, and the whole thing blew over. So in what way does this remind you of that, other than in a way that completely supports my point?

Companies are vulnerable to charges of racism, and you liberals use that charge as your main weapon of choice nowadays. Few companies are willing to risk even a charge of racism. So that conservative greeting card company will find few markets for its anti-Obama products.

So basically, what you’re saying is that nobody on your side has enough courage of their convictions to stand up against baseless charges of racism?

FYI, there’s quite a market for anti-Obama merchandise on the Internet…even anti-Obama greeting cards.
#49 October 25, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Hypogean commented:

Guess Who
October 25th, 2009 | 7:19 pm | #33

Oh, and while I’m a liberal who voted for Obama, I still think there are plenty of things you could make fun of him for that have nothing to do with race.

Indeed, such as his presidency and that fact that people voted for him.
#50 October 25, 2009 at 10:43 pm
hlj commented:

Rip them up and put them back on the shelf. Did I say that out loud?
#51 October 25, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Jason commented:

John: Complain. Complain. Complain. And make Otter Jason and the other leftist wanks get their leftist wank-off material from a specialty store!

So because I think whining about a greeting card with a leftist slant is trivial and not worth bothering with, I’m a “leftist wank”? Well I guess you’re a drama queen as well. Actually I’m a libertarian who’s spend most of his adult life fighting the left. On important issues, not greeting cards, t-shirts, posters or badges. The point is, Jim Hoft discredits his blog by expressing over dramatic outrage over completely stupid things like this. Other posters have said it right – the issue here is freedom, the free market, capitalism…values that conservatives should respect but all too often don’t. This is America, the epicenter of free speech. Nobody is off limits when it comes to mockery or criticism, even (believe it or not) Sarah Palin. If some leftist douchebags want to market a card mocking Sarah and make money out of it then good luck to them. It doesn’t affect any important issue in any shape or form.

In case you hadn’t noticed, a bunch of Marxists have infiltrated our government and are in the process of dismantling everything America stands for. Greetings cards are about as important to the fight as a gnat’s fart.
#52 October 25, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Jason commented:

hljNo Gravatar
October 25th, 2009 | 10:43 pm | #50

Rip them up and put them back on the shelf. Did I say that out loud?

Unfortunately, yes. And in doing so you betrayed a disrespect for the most important principle of civilization: the right of property. To be honest many contributors to this thread sound to me no better than the left and it’s surprising, since it’s usually the left which throws tantrums and tears things up. When I think of political vandals and silencers of free speech I think of young dumb leftists, not conservatives or libertarians.

And of course if the situation were reversed and liberals were throwing a hissy fit over some conservative greetings cards and talking about taking them off the shelves and ripping them up, think how you’d react.. That’s right – this thread would be full of comments about how liberals can’t handle free speech, how they’re showing their weakness by getting upset over nothing, etc. Be honest.
#54 October 26, 2009 at 12:24 am
Hypogean commented:

Jason
October 25th, 2009 | 10:47 pm | #51

This is America, the epicenter of free speech.

And Jim Hoft is exercising his right to free speech, which for some reason upsets you.
#55 October 26, 2009 at 1:11 am
Poopsicle commented:

OMG… we’re… we’re… DOOMED!!!!!!!
#56 October 26, 2009 at 1:25 am
Hypogean commented:

Poopsicle
October 26th, 2009 | 1:11 am | #55

OMG… we’re… we’re… DOOMED!!!!!!!

Man. That’s just pathetic. You need to hire someone to write your posts for you. I’ll do it for, say, $400 a week?
#57 October 26, 2009 at 3:30 am
Nahanni commented:

If it were me I would have grabbed a shopping cart, filled it full of merchandise that I had bought over the last year or had planned to buy on that trip. I would have wheeled it up to the front of the store and asked to speak to the manager.

When said manager arrived I would have handed him/her those greeting cards and said “See the contents of this cart? Thanks to your store carrying these “greeting cards” the items in this cart will be bought elsewhere. Yes, you have the right to carry whatever merchandise you wish, I have the right to shop elsewhere which I shall do from now on.” I would have then walked out of that store and never darken it’s doors again.
#58 October 26, 2009 at 4:22 am
Evil Otto commented:

And few people showed up for the boycotts, nobody that I know of accused Whole Foods of racism, the CEO did not publicly retract his views, his supporters even organized “buycotts”, the company does not appear to have lost any significant revenue, and the whole thing blew over. So in what way does this remind you of that, other than in a way that completely supports my point?

In no way. Sheesh, you’re dense. I wasn’t talking about the success of the boycott. I was talking about the fact that the reaction of your side to criticism (even mild criticism), of Obama is, well, to overreact. Scream racism. Boycott.

Saturday Night Live dared to make fun of the president, and CNN fact-checked their skit.

So basically, what you’re saying is that nobody on your side has enough courage of their convictions to stand up against baseless charges of racism?

(sigh) No, that’s not what I’m saying. Learn to read.

And it doesn’t matter whether the charge is baseless or not.

FYI, there’s quite a market for anti-Obama merchandise on the Internet…even anti-Obama greeting cards.

And that’s the INTERNET. There’s quite a market for all sorts of things on the internet, but that doesn’t mean you can sell the same things in stores. Trying to sell these cards in retail outlets would trigger the racism reflex from the left. And quite often that is enough to get retailers to cave in.
#59 October 26, 2009 at 7:38 am
Guess Who commented:

Sheesh, you’re dense. I wasn’t talking about the success of the boycott. I was talking about the fact that the reaction of your side to criticism (even mild criticism), of Obama is, well, to overreact. Scream racism. Boycott.

But so what? If you weren’t talking about the success of the boycott, then what were you talking about?

Saturday Night Live dared to make fun of the president, and CNN fact-checked their skit.

Again, so what?

There’s quite a market for all sorts of things on the internet, but that doesn’t mean you can sell the same things in stores. Trying to sell these cards in retail outlets would trigger the racism reflex from the left. And quite often that is enough to get retailers to cave in.

Sorry, but you’ve provided no examples to back up your point. Whole Foods and SNL are alive and well. Stores sold anti-Clinton greeting cards for years and are still in business.
#60 October 26, 2009 at 8:06 am
Dennis commented:

Gotta say, the “Brazillion” one is funny.
#61 October 26, 2009 at 9:12 am
ivehadit commented:

With BUYcotts, Conservatives stood up to the liberal, controlling “thought police”.
(Why do liberals want to control everyone? Is it that they are SO out of control themselves?)

And to set the record straight and inform of the dishonesty of the left, George W. Bush had better grades than Kerry at Yale. Yes, better, you poor misinformed mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed dirt. So tell me again why these cards are NOT more dishonest propaganda?

And yes, capitalism is STILL alive and well in this country so that 40+% of the country that now call themselves conservatives will NOT BE SHOPPING AT WALGREENS. And 36% who call themselves moderates, well we’ll just see.

Doesn’t sound like smart business practices by Walgreen’s, imho…dripping in understatement.
#62 October 26, 2009 at 9:17 am
Jason commented:

HypogeanNo Gravatar
October 26th, 2009 | 12:24 am | #54
This is America, the epicenter of free speech.

And Jim Hoft is exercising his right to free speech, which for some reason upsets you.

Riiiight….so now criticizing what someone says means you’re upset at them exercising their right to free speech.

Tell you what buddy. Why don’t you try figuring out your ass from your elbow and then take it from there.
#63 October 26, 2009 at 9:18 am
Dwayne "the canoe guy" commented:

Saw some Halloween cards at Target last night. One bashing Bush and two celebrating Obama. My wife wanted to complain to the store, but I told her to complain to the card company.

Complaining to the store over something like this is silly. One reason that we textbooks are so watered down is that people kept complaining about what was in the books. Read “The Language Police” for a better understandig of how this escalates.

I will say something if it is obscene and placed where families or children can see it. I once asked a store manager to read the cover Cosmopolitan over the store loudspeaker if it wasn’t obscene. He understood my point pretty quickly and covered up the magazines except for the title (which is fine).

Regrarding the cards, let the stores stock them and let the unsold ones be returned to the cad company.
#64 October 26, 2009 at 9:51 am
ivehadit commented:

With all due respect, being passive and allowing this to continue is part of the problem. See: the past 9 years.

Liberals bank on conservatives’ being busy with other things. (And we *are* very busy people!)
#65 October 26, 2009 at 11:59 am
Joanne commented:

I don’t understand what is so funny about Palin being able to see Russia from Alaska – she can; these people should get a map or check out google on-line.
#66 October 26, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Guess Who commented:

I don’t understand what is so funny about Palin being able to see Russia from Alaska – she can; these people should get a map or check out google on-line.

The funny thing was that she thought this was a foreign policy credential.
#67 October 26, 2009 at 2:20 pm
ivehadit commented:

“The funny thing was that she thought this was a foreign policy credential.”

Ah, that would be Tina Fey’s response NOT Sarah Palin.
#68 October 26, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Guess Who commented:

Ah, that would be Tina Fey’s response NOT Sarah Palin.

Palin did say she could see Russia from Alaska, but to be fair Charlie Gibson or whoever it was asked her about the proximity so it’s not entirely her fault. I think Palin was treated unfairly by the media, even if she was wholly unqualified for the job.
#69 October 26, 2009 at 4:39 pm
William commented:

I actually saw a very Pro-Palin birthday card in Walgreens a long while back. Bought it for my Dad. Course, I live in Texas…