After being mercilessly made fun of by Wonkette, a conservative blogger desperately wants people to take her claim of "African Voodoo" inside the White House seriously.
Over at Townhall, the conservative opinion outlet, writer Kristen Atkinson claimed on Saturday that "The Obama White House is abuzz" over his mother-in-law's allegedly odd behavior.
(How she knows this? "A close friend of Michelle's.")
She goes on to claim that Michelle's mother had turned to Santeria when her late husband was gravely ill, and that recently, fretting for her health, she'd invited an old friend over and conducted some kind of ritual.
In steps Wonkette, snarky as ever.
This story and all of its quotes are true. Jane Mayer of the New Yorker is one helluva reporter and would never make up something this incendiary. Oh… what is that, Intern Riley?… It’s from Townhall, not Jane Mayer of the New Yorker?… THEN IT’S EVEN TRUER.
Of course, blogger Atkinson has a reputation of factual, credible reporting to defend (wait ... does she?) ... And defend her claim, she did ... In, well, this rambling quaff of a tirade:
I posted a very serious article recently in Townhall.com about witchcraft in the White House, and later realized that your website had made a farce out of it. I saw that your staff and readers made a lot of extremely cruel comments about me and my story. Why are you people so rude? Does anybody take anything seriously anymore?
Do you really, truly, seriously think it is OK for a president to use a forged birth certificate? Do you actually believe it is appropriate for a man who was raised a Muslim to pretend he is a Christian and go to a church for 20 years with an anti-American preacher? Do you really want a president who was brainwashed by communists since he was a child, up through university, to hate America to be our president? Do you think that it is fine if a family member of the president defiles the White House with voodoo? Don’t you know what fate could befall our nation as a result of allowing Satanic forces to gather over the White House?
After 8 years of a president sent by God to lead the American people and rescue us from the horrors of 911 and Islamo-fascists, it now boils down to this? How incredibly tragic. You folks don’t really seem to understand the extreme peril that our nation confronts. Stop making fun of me. Take off your blinders! Wake up!
Impressive.
All of which, of course, makes the claims of Voodoo even more believable. ... Right?
-- Stephen C. Webster
**Update: I'm sure Frank would believe her ...
Do you seriously think that someone who wrote this "After 8 years of a president sent by God to lead the American people and rescue us from the horrors of 911 and Islamo-fascists, it now boils down to this?" should be taken seriously AT ALL???
"After 8 years of a president sent by God to lead the American people and rescue us from the horrors of 911 and Islamo-fascists, it now boils down to this?"
Is it just me, or did 9/11 actually happen AFTER God sent us a President who would be dumb enough to ignore all the warnings that the US intelligence services had given to him?
I'll double-check the date of 9/11 and get back to you on that one.
Typical conservative idiocy...
Even if it's ever proved that Michelle's mom turns to an alternative prayer style, how is that any worse than Mrs. Reagan consulting astrologers while in the WH or Sarah Palin being blessed by her bizarro preacher who believes in witchcraft?
It's not. And at worst, this is the mother of a First Lady, not a First Lady herself or someone who wants to be First Lady.
"Voodoo"?
Isn't that "dog whistle" for
That Old Black Magic
???
After that brilliant response, I see a Pullet Surprise in the future for Atkinson.
So sayeth my Majic Eight Ball.
It's documented that Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy consulted a number of psychics on issues of national security, and as we know from the Bible (Leviticus, Deuteronomy etc.), those who consort with mediums and fortune tellers are "unclean" and an "abomination."
Is Ms. Atkinson is ready to denounce President and Mrs. Reagan for allowing Satanic Forces to gather over the White House?
Oh, and Kristen doesn't know half of it!!!
Everyone knows good Muslims only wipe their bums with their left hand and eat with their right and and and I heard Obama uses his right hand so he is a baaad Muslim too and and and he picks his nose and and and he eats it and they do evil sacrifices in the basement and Michelle has cooties.
The woman sounds mad. Just the fact that she is a "birther" removes any credence for any of her other insane claims, which have all been disproved again and again. Thus, I see no reason to believe her rantings about Satan and voodoo. She is one of those people who does not believe evidence and never will. Brick wall.
The bulk of that second paragraph in her rebuttal is pure delusion.. but, then, she closes out with some enlightenment.. kinda.. SHE'S DELUDED.. hyper-ignorant xtian wiling to bet her life on some fairy tale..?
however, to this:
"Do you think that it is fine if a family member of the president defiles the White House with voodoo? Don’t you know what fate could befall our nation as a result of allowing Satanic forces to gather over the White House?"
Yes, I think it's perfectly OK for the President and his family to practice what ever religion they want.. isn't that one of the cornerstones of America? Freedom of religion? .. the second sentence.. well, that's just more example of her delusion.. no "fate" will befall our "nation" because of "satanic forces" because there is no empirical evidence that either god or satan actually exist.
That's the punchline to an awesome Daily Show joke.
That people actually believe President Obama somehow perpetrated a conspiracy of such awesome proportions, beginning his nefarious plan in utero.
Eggs in all kinds of wrong baskets, buying into weak fear-mongering and not being smart enough to know when you're the butt of a joke = Sarah Palin?! Who saw that coming?
Now shut up and go get your shinebox, bonehead.
This woman is in a deep hole full of stupid and can't stop digging. I can't wait to hear the next installment. You know that after she reads your response It will only convince her of how right she is and how much she needs a bigger shovel.
Doesn't anyone know that fascism and islam are not mutually compatible??????
What can be added to this??
After eight yrs of a pres. that lead us into an unjust war that cost the lives of 4000 of our finest......made the U.S. the laffng stock of the free world, because he did nt have the education to complete an english sentence (Yale...laffing)....."Thank the almighty for President Obama".......Pres Bush over saw the largest most brutal attack on U.S. soil in the history of this nation during his ummmmpresidency ??????? and that`s how he`ll be remembered thru-out history....deal with it, Don Wick
It would take a semi load of sage to smudge the evil out of the white house after Chimpy McFlightsuits evil reign. I hope that old gal put such a strong spell of protection on the white house that the evil Christ Cult will never enter it again. I hope she didn't forget the residents either. Crap, Let's all dig out our spell casting paraphernalia and send some of these spells to the white house ourselves. Damned Christ Crispy's, How dare they to call us evil.....
"...Over at Townhall, the conservative opinion outlet..."
Uh, 'nuff sed right there....
S -
You just hit on the REAL expose:
Obama is Baby Stewie!
Oh nooooooooes!
..She can't be nearly the witch the former First Lady's mother-in-law was...
This woman is what Barney Frank would call a "dining room table"!
OMG, did she really write that last rant? If so, she did a better job making fun of herself than Wonkette could even dream of doing.
I was wondering when RawStory was going to get a hold of this story. My friend's mother who is in the ranks of the looniest of loon christian conservatives pointed me to this blog. She truly believes BO is a muslim and MO mother is a "voodoo witch". I then asked my friend "the reason why she's not in a nursing home is because you can't afford it? Right?" I thought it was hilarious! He didn't.
The level of wingnut insanity is increasing exponentially.
What McQuaid said! If the American people found out how monstrous Barbara Bush really is, we'd all be doing Santeria rituals to get her back to hell.
I heard the Rodham family. Hilary's family were Chicago gangsters.
Sir Issac Newton was a warlock. And we know the British establishment gave us Obama thru the Saudi connections. so it really isn't that far of a stretch...except for Boosh was a skull and bones devil worshiping fake ass christian...and anyone who stands behind a Boosh should be executed. For treason or general stupidity.
@ Iria,...that's not actually true. (getting totally off topic here)
During WWII there were pan aryan alliances made between a few persian islamic leaders and the nazis.. The scary thing is that there are actually still a few white nationalist groups/militias (self identified aryans) trying to maintain pan aryan relations with their persian counterparts. There are even arab/american militias connected to a few neo nazi militias.... but whatever.
(back on topic)
Atkinson sounds like a real piece of work. And no doubt she'd be completely laughable except that there are far too many gullible people out there who eagerly swallow every bit of nonsense that halfwits like Atkinson throw out there.
Just look at how many people actually believe what they read in tabloids like the 'Enquirer' with headlines like ... "Elvis Found Alive After Being Returned By UFO's: Vows New Post-Abduction Album And Tour"
Know what I mean?
You people have no appreciation for brilliant satire. Do you also think Stephen Colbert and Glenn Beck are actually right-wingers? Come on, no one could be that crazy.
bush??? God,sent???? bush was the most evil person to ever be in the WH. The blood of over 4000 of our soldiers is on his and chenys hands.
Oh.
My.
F-ing.
GODDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This woman also didn't notice that history will use the GW Bush administration to mark the end of the global American hegemony.
I once heard that Voodoo could do surprising things. I know nothing about Obama's mother-in law being a witch, but there are MANY around. I once read a book on witchcraft. It is really satanistic. Nancy Reagon was an ASTROGLIST, it's nothing like voodoo or witchcraft. Also physics aren't necessarily witches. I've always been facinated by physics. I think many ordinary people have had a physic experince at some point in their life.
Since he's deceased, I maybe shouldn't mentioned it , but I'd read that Sammy Davis was a Warlock. They said he had one fingernail always painted Red as a symbol of that.
When I read that book, it was rather frightening what they had to do to become a Witch or warlock. That was a long time ago that I read that book. I cjhecked out of the Library. One can't be a Witch and be a believer in God, which I am.
mcquaidLA
..She can't be nearly the witch the former First Lady's mother-in-law was...
You are doubtless aware of rumors that Barbara Bush is the secret lovechild of "the Great Beast" Aleister Crowley...
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/george-w-bush-barbara-bush-and.html
And I just can't keep from hearing "That Ole' Black Magic" in my head....
I hear tell them there black people warship a differnt gud than the rest of us, and use a funny language
As a Luciferian myself I take offense at their offense.
Nuff said.
MWAhahahahahaha....
...and your little DOG TOO!
santaria and voodoo are very different crafts, the author has no clue what she is talking about.
I wonder how many of you have seen on the net about both Bush Sr And Bush Jr being atheists. I believe in Astrology as Nancy reagan does. Ther's really something to astrology. Nancy Reagan like to check if the astrology signs were good before Reagan did anythibg, I 'm not so much into astrology like she is, but I do bellieve there's something to it.
Let's take up a collection and send Kristen Atkison a bucket of KFC. If she's such an expert, she can use *that* sacrificed chicken to get to work on breaking that curse. It worked in Major League.
Oh, wait. NO IT DIDN'T. But that's okay, that was as fictional as Atkinson's fantasy...
I visited the Santaria museum in Havana and also a Santaria church. It isn't "voo-doo." It's a very respectful mixture of African tribal beliefs with Roman Catholicism. Oh, and they don't advocate killing people by dropping bombs on them.
Just figured I stop in to tell you townhall took the article down....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Stupid peoples are teh funny...
God, who the fuck Kristen Atkinson? Helen Ukpabio's pseudonym?
@ Arty40 -- I think many ordinary people have had a physic experince at some point in their life.
I KNOW everyone has a PHYSIC EXPERIENCE every day. It's called "gravity."
Hei, ProudPrimate!
What can be added to this? Well not much is needed. Except that republican capitalism is just about the same as corporate facism. We came very close to having both under Bush-Cheney. So if Bush was sent by god the then, as I have long suspected, god is a Facist.
Neocon AIPAC psyop "wordsmith" = Islamo-fascists
I can't laugh at the shit. The shit The Family is ranting at politicians is just as warped.
I don't know which is worse, the fact that The Family has gotten itself so deeply entrenched in GOP politics in DC spouting that kinda nonsense...
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/did_a_shadowy_christian_group_help_keep_ensigns_se.php
Or that Hilary Clinton has fallen for the same kind of goofy bullshit, too.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich
"What planet do you spend the majority of your time on"
B. Frank 2009
Kristen Atkinson = Not Quite All There. Elevator doesn't reach the top floor. One oar in the water. The lights are on but nobody’s home. So dense light bends around her. Not the sharpest hook in the tackle box. One fry short of a happy meal. Bright as Alaska in December. Her cheese has slipped off his cracker. Prime candidate for natural deselection. And proof that evolution CAN go in reverse!
I think many people are fascinated by the occult, whih is why I once read a book on witchcraft. I CERTAINLY didn't want to become one. I guess believing Signs of the Zodiac is Astrology, which is the study of the stars. As farmers my parents only planted their seeds during certain signs. Myself , I believe surgery is best done and will heaf faster under certain Signs.
To paraphrase the movie Tommy Boy...
"Hit yourself in the head with a tack hammer because you are a retard".
What is wrong with those folks?
They will not accept the election results of November 2008.
Don't give up the fight folks. They will stop at nothing.
The truly sad and disturbing fact remains that this person is expressing many elements of what republicans, (that I personally know) actually and sincerely believe. Maybe not the "8 years of a president sent by God" crap but, certainly the rest of it...Yikes.
What a racist moron.
[...] then there’s this: I posted a very serious article recently in Townhall.com about witchcraft in the White House, and [...]
I don't know whether to be ashamed that there are people this stupid in the United States or relieved that they make themselves easy to identify as such by openly showing it.
Can I go to another planet AWAY from these wretched, ignorant, insane, racist, sorry excuses for human beings?? I had no idea there were so many mentally ill people in this country!
Oh noes! Michelle's is a Voodoo Child! Voodoo Child! Lord, knows shes a Voodoo Child!
[...] have a look at what afterbirther Kristen Atkinson has “discovered” about Obama’s family. After being mercilessly made fun of by [...]
The Obama Voodoo Curse must have worked. They have gotten Ms. Atkinson to go completely insane!
The judgment of God is soon to come and I feel very sorry for all of you. I stand with Ms. Atkinson and admire her courage for speaking out in spite of the ignorant, hate filled remarks. Truly those in darkness hate the light, because they love being in the dark. I pray you repent for your sins and come to the Lord Jesus Christ, because very soon it will be too late. If not? Then my words will ring in your ears for eternity. I'm so sorry for you.
I know for a fact (via a Very Reliable Unnamed Source) that Ann Coulter is really a man who's infiltrated the Right Wing Pundit and Anorexic Harpy Association, and that he is also one of them demonic atheists who sacrifice kittens and first-graders to Satan twice a year.
It's true! I read it on the internets!
Mary Runge writes: "I pray you repent for your sins and come to the Lord Jesus Christ..."
Thanks. You pray for me, and I'll think for you.
Ye Gods, where to start? I literally started to fall off my chair laughing, after a flash of pure rage at the racist insult thrown at The First Lady's mom. As a Wiccan cleric, I was tempted to lead a delegation into town-meetings in full ritual drag, denouncing the slur---and the implication that practicing Santeria (or any of the 'Diaspora Religions', as Santeria/Voudoun/Yoruba are known) should be taken as a slur at all. But then, the wingnuts would turn it into yet another Weapon Of Mass Distraction to drag the health-care debate off-topic. AGAIN. Sigh...
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Obama should believe in freedom of religion.
He should let his mother-in-law stay even if it causes a fuss (and if it's true in the first place).
If he can't be tolerant, well, I guess that's just more evidence that he's a fascist (see infowars.com and Tarpley on that one, but don't criticize me...all this talk of Santeria makes me hungry for a bag of dirt).