• February 22, 2012

The makeup helps him to feel sexy while he types.HOO-WEE, everyone strap in, the St. Petersburg Times has discovered that one of the more frothing racist loons littering the comments section on its news articles with vulgar diatribes is — GASP — an elected Republican officeholder! These types of reports are the only thing on the Internet more common than those annoying “FIVE SECRETS FOR A FLATTER TUMMY” ads everywhere, but okay, technically this is “newsworthy” because in addition to the bucketfuls of hateful slop that this Pinellas County Commissioner Norm Roche regularly dumped under his brilliant commenter handle “Reality,” he also went around anonymously insulting all the local officials in his county (which includes St. Petersburg) that he apparently just pretends to work with when he isn’t feverishly spewing bile at them online.

From their story:

After a Times report on fluoride and children’s health Oct. 18, Reality’s comment included: “Out of all the underprivileged folks they could interview, they picked one that needed an interpreter? Think about it.”

In another post last year, Reality complained of “race pimps.”

“And for God’s sake … Learn how to buy clothes that fit you so you don’t walk around looking like an idiot thug trying to hold your pants up. Whitie isn’t to blame for your ignorance.”

In one comment this year, Reality criticized St. Petersburg City Council member Karl Nurse for “pinheaded comments” in a City Council endorsement.

Yet Roche and Nurse had lunch a few months ago without a hint of animosity, Nurse said.

And of course there’s lots more vicious name-calling of his fellow public officials, but here’s some more of his Swiftian wit dedicated to yelling at minorities:

Six months earlier, Reality commented on achievement levels in Pinellas schools. “When a white kid and a black kid sit in the same classroom and are given the same information, tasks, and assignments — and the black kid fails — it has nothing whatsoever to do with the teacher, the system, the unions, the funding, or the school. Start with a 70% out of wedlock birth rate.”

But, really, why hide such genius behind a cloak of anonymity? Why not soak up all the credit that is so obviously his due? Why not just come out right away and claim a Nobel prize for Literature, immediately?

Roche defended the comments as his free speech right and a necessity in the Internet era. He said using an assumed name removes the risk that comments are dismissed for partisan reasons.

Yes, because “partisanship” is the only reason, probably, why anyone would dismiss them. Oh Florida, never change. [St. Petersburg Times]

{ 248 comments }

DrunkIrishman November 18, 2011 at 4:54 pm

Look out Gingrich, the Republicans have a new presidential front-runner!

Walkinwiddaking November 18, 2011 at 5:46 pm

Actually, not snarky but, spot on.

lefty74 November 18, 2011 at 7:41 pm

I saw a diagram today why Gingrich is floating to the top. They have snaked him with a helium hose, and have started inflating him just in time for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

nounverb911 November 18, 2011 at 4:55 pm

"Insane Anonymous Internet Racist Turns Out To Be Florida GOP Politician"
Rick Scott?

Herring_Burnit November 19, 2011 at 1:04 am

Allen West?

Terry November 21, 2011 at 9:56 am

Rick Scott doesn't bother to hide his malfunctions behind anonymous internet aliases.

SorosBot November 18, 2011 at 4:58 pm

Spanky, is that you?

nounverb911 November 18, 2011 at 5:02 pm

2b or not 2b?

user-of-owls November 18, 2011 at 6:12 pm

Yes.

poncho_pilot November 18, 2011 at 7:08 pm

preferably the latter. but it would make me feel a bit lonely: him and all of his various alter-egos check on me with some regularity. i think of it as having a tumor or other such growth that also probably writes down everything i say in between watching Fox News.

user-of-owls November 18, 2011 at 7:17 pm

Don't you mean writing Fox News?

poncho_pilot November 18, 2011 at 7:39 pm

i didn't think anyone wrote for Fox News. i thought it was just a machine that read the news online and spit out a version modulated with talking points. in fact, i'm not sure that the Fox News "personalities" aren't themselves, machines.

MissusBarry November 18, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Drat, knew somebody'd beat me to it.

SorosBot November 18, 2011 at 5:12 pm

Those comments really do sound a lot like the racist crap that the Breitards spew out.

GOPCrusher November 18, 2011 at 5:26 pm

Wasn't he paying them for awhile to go to known liberal message boards and post?

glamourdammerung November 18, 2011 at 7:21 pm

While there was a company that did pay folks to troll liberal message boards, I doubt Breitbart does. After all, his cult clearly lacks independent thought and would do it for free if he ordered them to.

whiterabid November 18, 2011 at 4:59 pm

It would be better with bacon.

nounverb911 November 18, 2011 at 5:06 pm

Everything is better with bacon.

EatsBabyDingos November 18, 2011 at 5:19 pm

Even a threesome with Newt and Whaley Barbour?

snickersnack November 18, 2011 at 5:44 pm

The only thing good about that would be the bacon.

Herring_Burnit November 18, 2011 at 9:23 pm

Urp.

Pragmatist2 November 18, 2011 at 5:00 pm

Uh, what else would an anonymous Internet racist be but a GOP politician?

Numbat_Dundee November 18, 2011 at 5:34 pm

An aspiring GOP politician?

Swampgas_Man November 18, 2011 at 5:35 pm

O, plenty of things — a troll, a retiree shut-in (shut in for good reason), one of those "professional" journamalists from FOX. . .

Herring_Burnit November 19, 2011 at 1:05 am

A resident of one of our finer Institutions for the Mentally Afflicted. With computer privileges.

anniegetyerfun November 18, 2011 at 6:55 pm

Family.

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 7:05 pm

No shit. Thanksgiving, here we come!

102415 November 18, 2011 at 9:44 pm

Having it on Friday helps.

horsedreamer_1 November 18, 2011 at 8:22 pm

Lou Sarah?

nounverb911 November 18, 2011 at 5:00 pm

“FIVE SECRETS FOR A FLATTER TUMMY”
1. Throw away your remote control and get off your hoverround to change the channel.

CommieLibunatic November 18, 2011 at 5:46 pm

I prefer running like there's a 28 Days Later zombie snapping at my heels.

user-of-owls November 18, 2011 at 6:13 pm

Michelle? Michelle Obama? Fancy running into you here!

HedonismBot November 19, 2011 at 10:55 am

Steps 2-4 = ?
Step 5 = Profit!

OkieDokieDog November 18, 2011 at 5:00 pm

So I take it that this guy is mouse click away from being the Grand Wizwart in the old white dudes KKK clubhouse?

Biel_ze_Bubba November 18, 2011 at 5:50 pm

The positions of Grand Dragoon, Imperial Klutz, and Pinhead County Commissioner probably go hand-in-hand down there.

ShitFilledExistence November 18, 2011 at 5:01 pm

How is yrttnrtt pronounced? "yert nert'? herp derp!

Seriously though, what a choad.

EatsBabyDingos November 18, 2011 at 5:02 pm

If you criminalize flouride, then only Flouriduh will have worse teeth than West Virginia.

nounverb911 November 18, 2011 at 5:05 pm

There's always England.

Schmannnity November 18, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Q: How do you know the toothbrush was invented in West Virginia?

A: If it had been invented in another state, it would be called the teeth brush.

EatsBabyDingos November 18, 2011 at 5:15 pm

I dated her in college. Her nickname was "Organ Grinder."

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 7:07 pm

One of my favorite taunting retorts to the redneck troglodytes on my local news site, after they've told me that my comment "stinks," is: "Must be your own upper lip. Try brushing your tooth." haw haw!

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 5:02 pm

Holy shit. This stuff sounds almost word-for-word like some of the racist garbage that gets posted in the comments section at my local "newspaper"'s "news" site, and which some of us attribute to one of our stupider state legislators. Maybe there's a secret cabal of asshat local-pol trolls?

ShitFilledExistence November 18, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Are you referring to the AZ Republic by any chance?

SorosBot November 18, 2011 at 5:09 pm

All of 'em, Katie.

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 6:49 pm

No man, I'm referring to the Knoxville News-Sentinel, here in the glorious border state of Tennessee. Arizona? Hah! I yearn for a liberal-socialist mindset such as one might find in Arizona! We're talking Rebel flags, cock-fights and rusted-out trailers. And that's the middle class!

Jukesgrrl November 18, 2011 at 7:36 pm

You think we don't have Rebel flags and rusted-out trailers down here, southWEST of the Mason-Dixon Line? The big Rebel flags are usually on huge-wheel trucks that also sport cannibis symbols. The little ones are on vans flanking bumper stickers for the Alive! Church or the Cool Congregation, which invites you for coffee after you've enjoyed being in the audience of Rev. Randy's televised service. Topic: "How True Christians Can Spread the Message of the Constitution." Cock-fights … too Messican … but there's a puppy mill in most of those trailer parks.

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 10:27 pm

SW, huh? Lessee, that'd be, what, Arkansas? Lawseeana? Oh Christ, not Miss-sippi? So, you got Rebel flags and cannibis stickers on the same vehicle? Luxury! Here in upper Appalachia that'd get you five to 10 for impersonatin' a hippie. And we don't allow no browns around our cock fights up thisaway. That'd get you 15-20 for mixin' of the races.

And don't even get me started on the churches. This is the sharp-edged buckle of the Bah-bull Belt right here.

Dashboard_Jesus November 19, 2011 at 3:51 am

I went to school in Tucson and one of the best Tex-Mex bands ever played in this little juke joint on the edge of a trailer park near the Air Force base…of course Tucson is the most LIBERAL town in AZ (as far as I knew) but I left after graduation in '83 and never returned even for a 'vacation'…may have been the uneasy feelin' I had about the locals wearin' six-guns strapped to their waist, cuz it's legal?

SorosBot November 18, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Every newspaper comments section seems to attract blatant racists; they also usually have the city, probably because of all those, you know, urban people.

neiltheblaze November 18, 2011 at 5:33 pm

Newspaper comments sections appeal to bitter shut ins. That's my theory. And it's true – it's a Universal Phenomenon. They are ALL like this.

CommieLibunatic November 18, 2011 at 5:49 pm

What's worse is that I realize "I've got people in my own family who probably think like this." The horror is downright Lovecraftian in it's all-encompassing despair and soul-blackening madness.

Herring_Burnit November 19, 2011 at 1:09 am

I'm actually starting to feel grateful that those of my family that aren't already dead or dying are unknown to me.

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 6:50 pm

That's somewhat reassuring, thanks.

Oh wait — that description also applies to me. Shit.

emmelemm November 18, 2011 at 6:52 pm

It's weird, but they really ALL ARE LIKE THAT. Even here in liberal paradise, Seattle.

Herring_Burnit November 19, 2011 at 1:11 am

I was just going to say that even here in and around the People's Republic of Trendy-endy-endy-stan-stan-stan, our local fishwrap is littered with comments that sound like they came from singletoothed, rubynecked, unibrowed troglodytes of a distinctly racist, misogynist, homophobic persuasion.

Trannysurprise November 18, 2011 at 5:32 pm

Wapo?

Swampgas_Man November 18, 2011 at 5:36 pm

My local fishwrap refuses to print anonymous or pseudonymous comments; oddly, that doesn't stop the racists.

writechic November 18, 2011 at 7:05 pm

Same story at Alabama's al.com.

emmelemm November 18, 2011 at 5:03 pm

Snark momentarily aside, the comments noted above are actually pretty MILD compared to the hateful, hateful bile that's regularly spewed on, say, Yahoo comments.

GOPCrusher November 18, 2011 at 5:30 pm

But to be fair, a large number of those posters come from places like TrollVahalla.com and other trolling havens. They go out of their way to post the most insane shit that they can, because it's how they get their jollies.

CommieLibunatic November 18, 2011 at 5:53 pm

I would actually feel a lot better if all that insanity just came from bored /b/tards. I don't know how to handle the idea that they mean it whole-heartedly.

HedonismBot November 19, 2011 at 11:28 am

I looked at that site. I'm afraid I don't get it.
But I do know that people often seem to reply to comments that offend them more than they reply to reasonable comments. I can see why trolling would be attractive to people who crave attention or who have nothing else going on in their lives.

chascates November 18, 2011 at 5:56 pm

The venom seems to be pretty common anywhere it's simple to post. Local & national newspapers are always hotbeds. It's pretty easy to type out 'LIBERL SCUM WHO HATE AMERICA' as opposed to engaging in discourse with another, disagreeing individual.

The cocksuckers.

LesPaultard November 18, 2011 at 6:07 pm

Same goes for foxnews.com.

anniegetyerfun November 18, 2011 at 6:58 pm

Yes, I'm actually impressed by his self-control and spelling. I mean, the bar is set pretty low, and he sort of Rascal-scootered over it, but it counts for something.

OccupytheDashboard November 19, 2011 at 8:43 am

Yahoo comments isn't a discussion site…it's a mental illness.

Nostrildamus November 18, 2011 at 5:04 pm

The GOP has their own Reality.

Lionel[redacted]Esq November 18, 2011 at 5:10 pm

But since when has Reality had anything to do with the GOP?

Dok-cupy Everything November 18, 2011 at 6:30 pm

You mean to say that Steven Colbert lied to us about Reality having a liberal bias?

horsedreamer_1 November 18, 2011 at 8:24 pm

Ironically, you know who else wasn't afraid to kick Reality?

N.W.A.

SmutBoffin November 18, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Roche defended the comments as his free speech right and a necessity in the Internet era.

I would have just said "I did it for the lulz."

CommieLibunatic November 18, 2011 at 5:55 pm

Pfff, of course he flees behind the First Amendment like a grade-school kid declaring a tether-ball pole a safe zone in a game of tag. With more racism, of course.

actor212 November 18, 2011 at 5:06 pm

Reality bytes?

GeorgiaBurning November 18, 2011 at 5:06 pm

He said using an assumed name removes the risk that comments are dismissed for partisan reasons. Good luck with that one, Norm. Meanwhile the folks at Cheers want to talk about that $51,478 bar tab and some black guys want to tear you several new ones, literally.

Biel_ze_Bubba November 18, 2011 at 5:53 pm

Because an anonymous insane racist rant would never be dismissed for partisan reasons?

SayItWithWookies November 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Roche defended the comments as his free speech right and a necessity in the Internet era. He said using an assumed name removes the risk that comments are dismissed for partisan reasons.

Sure, you wouldn't want your opinion summarily dismissed because you were a politician — that's a real hazard when you're working with a constituency whose opinions you routinely dismiss because of their racial makeup.

GOPCrusher November 18, 2011 at 5:32 pm

And no one would mistake his racist diatribes as being somewhat right leaning.

ifthethunderdontgetya November 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Insane Anonymous Internet Racist Turns Out To Be Florida GOP Politician

Which one? "All of them, Katie."

P.S. For a tiny moment, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi sigh in relief.
~

Geminisunmars November 18, 2011 at 6:33 pm

Arizona is spitting with jealousy, however.

GeorgiaBurning November 18, 2011 at 8:06 pm

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is adding him as a "friend"

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 7:12 pm

Hey! You forgot Tennessee!

Hiya thunder-guy, how's it going?

DustBowlBlues November 18, 2011 at 7:15 pm

You left out the Dust Bowl. Some of us are sighing in relief. Mostly because I don't read the America's worst newspaper (Columbia Journalism Review rated) the "Oklahoman." The Gaylord's sold the oldest rag in the state and we all got excited for a split second until we found out the paper, teevee and radio were all sold to some billionaire asshole who is more conservative than the Gaylord's. So fuck Christie Gaylord and her dad Eddie and his father, the original asshole Gaylord.

Fuck Republitards. I think I'll adopt that as the signature on all my email.

DustBowlBlues November 18, 2011 at 11:51 pm

Sorry to all the English Majors Wonkeratti. I meant Gaylords in the latter case and Gaylords's in the former. I did get one thing right, however: fuck the Republitards.

CapnFatback November 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm

He said using an assumed name removes the risk that comments are dismissed for partisan reasons.

"By all means, mention that I'm a racist. But Good Lord, don't tell anyone that I'm a Republican!"

Geminisunmars November 18, 2011 at 6:34 pm

I'd try to hide that too.

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 7:13 pm

Un-possible. It's a tautology kinda thing.

Schmannnity November 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Norm Roche–go back to your Roach Motel.

LesBontemps November 18, 2011 at 5:08 pm

Nicely played, Florida. Your move, Arizona.

Bonzos_Bed_Time November 18, 2011 at 6:06 pm

Damn it, other than that whole Ft. Sumter thing, South Carolina is always getting left behind…

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 7:13 pm

They do have some nice beaches, though.

Negropolis November 19, 2011 at 2:30 am

No worries, stupid-ass Jan Brewer responded to the state supreme court smackdown of her removal of a redistrcting committee member for no apparent reason with the response that she might try it, again.

coolhandnuke November 18, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Is it just me, or is there some kind of geographic wingnutz hard wired short-ciruiting that occurs in panhandle states–Idaho, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Chile.

FlownOver November 18, 2011 at 5:16 pm

Don't be too restrictive. We have plenty of that here in Baja Nebraska, with not a panhandle in sight.

weejee November 18, 2011 at 5:24 pm

But isn't that from the now earthquake epicenter Oklahoma's heavy fracking that resulted in them BPeeing in the Ogallala Aquifer and contaminating yer water supply?

DustBowlBlues November 18, 2011 at 7:17 pm

No shit Ok is the earthquake epicenter. One of our plastic lawn chairs was knocked on its side. That's some serious shit, wonkers.

BaldarTFlagass November 18, 2011 at 5:33 pm

I dunno, I think if you ran a line from Gordon on US-20 south to the junction of IH-76 & IH-80, the whole area of Nebraska to the west of that could be considered a panhandle. Admittedly, a wide one.

flamingpdog November 18, 2011 at 6:18 pm

That's a wide stance you're taking there, pardner.

horsedreamer_1 November 20, 2011 at 11:41 am

Wide enough to run the option offense thru with ease.

Chichikovovich November 18, 2011 at 5:39 pm

Sarah! hated to leave Anchorage to spend time [at her job] in Juneau, which is in the Alaska panhandle. So they can't be all bad.

Biel_ze_Bubba November 18, 2011 at 5:55 pm

Colorado is home to more than their fair share of nutjobs … and the state's got no handles at all.

user-of-owls November 18, 2011 at 6:27 pm

Chile is less of a panhandle than an anorexic pencil.

Which is not to say they don't have their own special brand of racism. Just ask a Mapuche.

horsedreamer_1 November 18, 2011 at 8:25 pm

Anorexic Pencil? Stealing that for my next band.

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 7:15 pm

That's the ticket. Upper east hill country is the panhandle of Tennessee.

BigDumbRedDog November 18, 2011 at 5:09 pm

A republican lawmaker is a raging, ignorant racist? I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.

Lionel[redacted]Esq November 18, 2011 at 5:10 pm

FOX News to refer to him as "The Occupy Racist" in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

nounverb911 November 18, 2011 at 5:14 pm

"The Occupy Racist (D)".

–fixed.

Lascauxcaveman November 18, 2011 at 5:13 pm

"Whitey made my pants too big!"

DemmeFatale November 18, 2011 at 5:37 pm

At least WE know how to spell "whitey!"
Duh, Norm. It's not "whitie." (Gah!)

Lascauxcaveman November 18, 2011 at 7:13 pm

I think we're all in agreement: racists who can't spell are the very worst sort of racists. (Which covers about 99% of them).

snoopyfan2010 November 19, 2011 at 9:15 am

Uh, he was using the feminine version. "Y" for boys and "ie" for girls. Duh!

traceyswans November 18, 2011 at 5:16 pm

But claiming "free speech" means he's not accountable for what he said, right? Oh wait, it means the opposite of that.

NorthStarSpanx November 19, 2011 at 10:13 am

@SarahPalinUSA Pinellas County Commissioner Norm Roche:don't retreat, reload! B thankful 4 his voice America! Watch out for constitutional obstructionists!

BZ1 November 18, 2011 at 5:17 pm

Free speech rights, says chicken sh*t

memzilla November 18, 2011 at 5:19 pm

You do have to admire the skill of his tailor, making it so the sleeve of his sheet doesn't interfere with his mouse-clickin' hand. Also, making the eyeholes in the hood letterbox-size, instead of just 4:3 ratio.

BaldarTFlagass November 18, 2011 at 5:35 pm

I'd like to meet his tailor. Also, his hair was perfect.

SorosBot November 18, 2011 at 5:57 pm

Was he a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vick's?

ShaveTheWhales November 18, 2011 at 6:11 pm

Of course not. He was going to get a big dish of beef chow mein salted rat dicks.

flamingpdog November 18, 2011 at 6:21 pm

He saw Lon Dick Cheney walking with the Queen.

Herring_Burnit November 19, 2011 at 1:20 am

You forgot "lightly poisoned."

Joshua Norton November 18, 2011 at 5:20 pm

Roche defended the comments as his free speech right

Oh yes. And as as we all know, "free speech" also guarantees freedom from its consequences.

Oh wait……

No it doesn't.

Callyson November 18, 2011 at 5:21 pm

Among other things, Reality wrote that St. Petersburg was defined by "thug shootings" and "prostitutes beatings" and "social service recipients.''
Way to promote tourism to the area whose interests you are supposed to represent, buddy…

Barrelhse November 18, 2011 at 6:17 pm

He's in Russia?

flamingpdog November 18, 2011 at 6:23 pm

The first two are promoted tourist activities.

DustBowlBlues November 18, 2011 at 11:55 pm

In other words, a typical self-loathing modern conservative doing all he can to fuck someone else while he goes down with them.

chascates November 18, 2011 at 5:22 pm

This is called being a gutless coward.

ShaveTheWhales November 18, 2011 at 5:30 pm

This is called being a gutless coward GOP politician.

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 7:17 pm

They's a lotta that goin' around.

Rotundo_ November 18, 2011 at 5:27 pm

He will no doubt be re-elected in a landslide, knowing Floriduh. Of course the same thing would happen in most states it seems.

GregComlish November 18, 2011 at 5:28 pm

Whitie isn't responsible for Norm Roche

PhilippePetain November 18, 2011 at 5:30 pm

The thugs and their sagging!
The people who talk in other languages!!
GGRRR GAH!!!!

And this dude is what, 40? He was around when Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em came out! That's hard to imagine.

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 7:20 pm

I have a pet theory that one of the main problems with racial attitudes amongst the younger generation(s) is that, unlike with us rapidly aging Boomers, the youngsters today didn't have the advantage of growing up listening to sweet soul music. It changed everything.

PhilippePetain November 21, 2011 at 4:11 pm

But hiphop was so ubiquitous during the early 90s, it's hard for me to imagine a white kid that grew up, or was like 20, in that era being like "What's with these kids and their sagging of the pants and the boom chick boom bap its not even MUUUUsiiiic!!!!"

I just don't understand how some people turn completely into their grandparents when they hit 40. It's embarrassing.

And no disrespect but I wouldn't say the boomers are shining examples of the negation of racial animus…

neiltheblaze November 18, 2011 at 5:30 pm

"Oh Florida, never change"

As if they could!

Pop_Socket November 18, 2011 at 5:31 pm

Asshats like him give all us Pseudonym-Americans a bad name.

Lascauxcaveman November 18, 2011 at 6:49 pm

B-b-but, we thought Pop-Socket was your real name…

OccupytheDashboard November 19, 2011 at 8:44 am

Verily…he is not welcome on my dashboard.

SoBeach November 18, 2011 at 5:31 pm

"Oh Florida, never change."

Not to worry. We won't.

Schmannnity November 18, 2011 at 10:30 pm

You mean for the better. Have you considered the worse? We're living it.

teebob2000 November 18, 2011 at 5:32 pm

Fuckheadsayswhat?

Chichikovovich November 18, 2011 at 5:32 pm

"The only thing on the Internet more common than those annoying“FIVE SECRETS FOR A FLATTER TUMMY” ads."

Is one of those five secrets "Better broadband?"

Numbat_Dundee November 18, 2011 at 5:37 pm

Better broadband is one of the five secrets to am embarrasingly sticky tummy, especially if you use it to watch Kortney eat a zucchini.

Barrelhse November 18, 2011 at 6:19 pm

Dermatologists HATE her!

writechic November 18, 2011 at 7:08 pm

That better broadband ad placement is grating.

user-of-owls November 18, 2011 at 7:13 pm

So I'm gathering you weren't around back during the Attack of the 50-Foot Campbell Brown fiasco, eh?

writechic November 18, 2011 at 7:30 pm
user-of-owls November 18, 2011 at 11:04 pm

And that, children, is how you document your whereabouts!

Biel_ze_Bubba November 19, 2011 at 10:50 am

What is this ad of which you speak?
The problem with having ÅdBlock is that I'm missing my memes.

YouBetcha November 18, 2011 at 5:34 pm

Plus, his penis is two sizes too small. Merry Christmas!

BaldarTFlagass November 18, 2011 at 5:37 pm

"Roche"? Isn't that, uh, FRENCH?!?!? Glass houses and all that shit, Norm.

north_of_moscow November 18, 2011 at 5:39 pm

"And the glory hole is important so nobody thinks I'm gay."

DemmeFatale November 18, 2011 at 5:40 pm

But how will this make my "TEETH WHITER?"

ManchuCandidate November 18, 2011 at 5:41 pm

Some of my best internet friends are anonymous.

arihaya November 18, 2011 at 5:41 pm

You know who else using pseudonym to bad mouth and write nasty racist stuffs about minorities ?

Fukui_sanYesOta November 18, 2011 at 6:04 pm

Yankee Jim?

SorosBot November 18, 2011 at 6:15 pm

Dimetrios "Jimmy the Greek" Synodinos?

Biel_ze_Bubba November 18, 2011 at 6:37 pm

About half of Yahoo users?

OccupytheDashboard November 19, 2011 at 8:34 am

Half? Wow…you're charitable today.

Biel_ze_Bubba November 19, 2011 at 10:53 am

Just a guess — you have to allow for the normals who don't post comments.

Jukesgrrl November 18, 2011 at 7:44 pm

Sue Larah?

poncho_pilot November 18, 2011 at 8:38 pm

Richard Wagner?

Herring_Burnit November 19, 2011 at 1:24 am

Hitler?

RadiosTyrone November 18, 2011 at 5:41 pm

What a chickenshit. Hiding behind a cloak of cyber-anonymity. Russ Limbaugh says shit worse than that every single day.

Come here a minute November 18, 2011 at 5:45 pm

Anonymous commenters are all such assholes.

Schmannnity November 18, 2011 at 5:52 pm

Wait a sec, I resemble that comment.

Generation[redacted] November 18, 2011 at 6:08 pm

Well gee I'm sorry — HEY!

fuflans November 18, 2011 at 7:09 pm

i see what you did there.

Dok-cupy Everything November 18, 2011 at 5:49 pm

In related news, New York singers Maggie and Terre and Suzzy Roche, in a press release, were careful to note that to the best of their knowledge, they are not related to this alleged human being.

They then added that everyone on the commuter train is miserable.

ShaveTheWhales November 18, 2011 at 6:13 pm

Roches FTW!

littlebigdaddy November 18, 2011 at 6:48 pm

Love those ladies!

RadiosTyrone November 18, 2011 at 7:40 pm

Distinctive harmony, indeed.

Gunner Asch November 18, 2011 at 8:08 pm

I was so head-in-the-sand that I was totally surprised when my wife and I were pretty nearly the only straight couple in the audience when we saw them at U Dub back when they first got famous. That was one estrogen-filled room.

OccupytheDashboard November 19, 2011 at 8:41 am

Try going to an Indigo Girls concert with your girlfriend sometime. The only other three dudes and me were getting some heavy glares that night.

Dok-cupy Everything November 18, 2011 at 5:53 pm

Try this weird old trick, discovered by a single mom, that will help end your career in politics–instantly!

MzNicky November 18, 2011 at 7:22 pm

But will it make my local dermatologist angry?

Katydid November 18, 2011 at 5:53 pm

Why do stories like this always turn out to have a Republican protagonist?

Dok-cupy Everything November 18, 2011 at 5:55 pm

Anthony Weiner.

That is all.

weejee November 18, 2011 at 6:57 pm

They're getting back at Abe for intruding on private property with his emancipation thing.

ThankYouJeebus November 18, 2011 at 11:20 pm

Surely you wouldn't expect a 'DEMONcrat' to be the good guy?

Lionel[redacted]Esq November 18, 2011 at 5:57 pm

Maybe it would be easier to start a list of Conservatives who aren't racist?

Generation[redacted] November 18, 2011 at 6:05 pm

Actually, it would be very difficult to start such a list. You would need at least one name.

ShitFilledExistence November 18, 2011 at 9:55 pm

None of them, Katie. *rimshot*

JustPixelz November 19, 2011 at 10:21 am

Of course, the Repubicans like to put their black faces out front. Ron Christie, for example. But I don't know if we can count them as non-racists, since they clearly don't like brown people, except the ones that speak Cuban.

glamourdammerung November 19, 2011 at 11:31 am

You mean "RINOs"?

Lionel[redacted]Esq November 18, 2011 at 5:57 pm

You know who else posted anonymous racist statements?

Come here a minute November 18, 2011 at 6:15 pm

The owners of Rick Perry's leased hunting camp?

flamingpdog November 18, 2011 at 6:28 pm

The Finney Company?

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you said anonymous erasist statements.

poncho_pilot November 18, 2011 at 8:40 pm

e-racist?

chicken_thief November 19, 2011 at 9:35 am

Anonymous?

TeaNuts November 18, 2011 at 5:57 pm

Tried "Reality" once, it's way over rated!

ShaveTheWhales November 18, 2011 at 6:14 pm

A crutch for those who can't handle drugs.

padremickey November 18, 2011 at 6:01 pm

I wonder who they'd discover if they investigated the commenters at the Washington Post! Fun fun!

Generation[redacted] November 18, 2011 at 6:06 pm

Let's hope they never discover the Yahoo news forums.

Barrelhse November 18, 2011 at 6:22 pm

They better not bring their flat feet sniffing around here.

berkeleyfarm November 18, 2011 at 10:56 pm

A lot of gummint IP addresses.

(Hi Padre!!)

Beowoof November 18, 2011 at 6:18 pm

I would have dismissed his comments not on partisianship, but on the fact that the words he has strung together give a strong indication that he is douche bag asshole.

DerrickWildcat November 18, 2011 at 6:19 pm

Off Topic!!!!
I just wanted to share with you that the movie, "The Green Slime" will be on TCM tonight at 2:30 a.m. (CST)
This is truly an, "I can't believe my fucking eyes" type of movie.
You will never forget seeing this movie.
Record it. You will laugh a lot and say WTF! a lot. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064393/

oh hey kids, I found the trailer on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79_ljVC5Wk

Barrelhse November 18, 2011 at 6:25 pm

It's got a 3.8 out of 10- it MUST be good if the public doesn't like it.

Dok-cupy Everything November 18, 2011 at 6:28 pm

I like the alternate title, After the Destruction of Space Station Gamma: Big Military Operation. But maybe that's too many spoilers.

If you like some bad movies, I hope you've seen Troll 2. Truly an epic, and coincidentally, it includes some slime that is green.

DerrickWildcat November 18, 2011 at 6:36 pm

"Frankenstein Conquers the World "
Is also pretty unexplainable and rather incoherent. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059205/

poncho_pilot November 18, 2011 at 8:43 pm

not the worst movie ever made–it does have something of a plot–but a definite classic. eye mints.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102293/

fuflans November 18, 2011 at 7:14 pm

made me think of melancholia.

glamourdammerung November 18, 2011 at 7:24 pm

This truly is one of the best films ever made.

Bluestatelibel November 18, 2011 at 6:30 pm

OT, but wanted to share this very special OWS youtube video showing NYPD battling OWS with light sabers last night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExP0BPf3gLI

Biel_ze_Bubba November 18, 2011 at 6:34 pm

"Roche defended the comments as his free speech right and a necessity in the Internet era."

In the way that cholera is a necessity in the age of modern medicine.

flamingpdog November 18, 2011 at 6:37 pm

Headline: Norm Roche's anonymous online snark strains city, county relations

Commissioner, I have served out much snark, I know snark, snark is a friend of mine. Commissioner, you're no snarkist!

littlebigdaddy November 18, 2011 at 6:47 pm

I do agree with him on the pants, though.

weejee November 18, 2011 at 6:59 pm

The makeup makes him feel sexy while he types

KBJ, are you sure that isn't Kathryn Lopez in the photog?

fuflans November 18, 2011 at 7:10 pm

roche, douche.

dennis1943 November 18, 2011 at 7:23 pm

He's "free"………….to use the door…………..

user-of-owls November 18, 2011 at 7:31 pm

I'm going to start posting long passages by Trotsky, Mao and Ahmadinejad on the St Pete Times site using the moniker "Reality." Thoughts?

imissopus November 18, 2011 at 9:33 pm

Man, Luciana Paluzzi had fantastic tits. Oh, you mean about your plan…

user-of-owls November 18, 2011 at 10:39 pm

He sure did, but Placida Dominga had a cuter smile.

unclejeems November 18, 2011 at 9:34 pm

. . . the complete speeches of Fidel Castro, annotated.

102415 November 18, 2011 at 10:03 pm

That will totally rock. I mean rocks.

Negropolis November 19, 2011 at 2:44 am

Or Hugo Chavez, the poor man's Castro.

OccupytheDashboard November 19, 2011 at 8:32 am

Mein Kampf

comrad_darkness November 18, 2011 at 7:44 pm

>Insane Anonymous Internet Racist Turns Out To Be Florida GOP Politician

Aren't they all?

Jukesgrrl November 18, 2011 at 7:47 pm

I'm sure the freedom of his speech is matched by the values of his family.

Walkinwiddaking November 18, 2011 at 8:21 pm

Why am I not surprised?

owhatever November 18, 2011 at 8:28 pm

When a Republican shows its own self to be racist, is that still news?

Needs better broadband.

horsedreamer_1 November 18, 2011 at 8:29 pm

Quick. AV Club. Get David Alan Grier as Maya Angelou to do dramatic recitations of this yob's comments.

Goonemeritus November 18, 2011 at 8:36 pm

I honestly believe that anonymity is at best an allusion Just because there is no convenient way to find out the identity of a commenter now doesn't mean it wont be an I-Phone click away next year or next week. When that happy day comes I look forward to allot of people doing allot of explaining.

102415 November 18, 2011 at 10:06 pm

Oh right. Babyhitler, he's looking at you.

El Pinche November 18, 2011 at 8:52 pm

"These pants are kinda tight….especially around the crotch!" – Rush Limbaugh (fat Violator clown)

richmosk November 18, 2011 at 9:15 pm

http://society6.com/RichardMoskovitz/Bright-City-...

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ShitFilledExistence November 18, 2011 at 9:17 pm

O/T: Dear Oprah, I am Jesus. No really, it's Jesus your gardener–can you please pay last month's bill?

undeterredbyreality November 18, 2011 at 9:23 pm

I'm personally offended.

/s/ UndeterredbyReality
(no relation)

imissopus November 18, 2011 at 9:47 pm

Ahhhh, it's stories like this that remind me why I hang around at Wonkette. And the buttsechs, but that goes without saying.

labman57 November 18, 2011 at 10:36 pm

The guy is a gutless bottom-feeder who lacks the courage of his convictions.

glamourdammerung November 19, 2011 at 2:24 am

They already pointed out he was Republican.

berkeleyfarm November 18, 2011 at 10:58 pm

Ha, ha. Extra bonus entitlement points if he did that on work time/from his work-provided computer/phone.

Negropolis November 19, 2011 at 2:13 am

Insane Anonymous Internet Racist Turns Out To Be Florida GOP Politician

OMG! Why I never. Shocked! Shocked! Color me shocked! Someone procure me some smelling salts and a suitable fainting couch.

Oh yeah, ICP libel!

Negropolis November 19, 2011 at 2:20 am

Honestly, when I hear people saying that anonymous internet comments are no big deal, I just remind folks that the people that people that litter the comments sections at news sites are someone's neighbor, co-worker, whatever. And, yes, many of them are apparently people that make decisions on our behalf and in our stead.

Not calling for a witchhunt, but I do want people to realize that not all the people that populate these places are evil shut-ins or wearing Klan robes. These are people you see everyday who smile in your face.

BS4Dummies November 19, 2011 at 5:04 am

Roche served on the anti-discrimination committee.Hahahahaha, why am I not surprised?
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/local/norm-...

chicken_thief November 19, 2011 at 9:37 am

"….an elected Republican officeholder"

Does that make him a Koch Roche?

JustPixelz November 19, 2011 at 10:17 am

These types of reports are the only thing on the Internet more common than those annoying “FIVE SECRETS FOR A FLATTER TUMMY” ads everywhere, but okay, technically this is “newsworthy” because in addition to the bucketfuls of hateful slop that this Pinellas County Commissioner Norm Roche regularly dumped under his brilliant commenter handle “Reality,” he also went around anonymously insulting all the local officials in his county (which includes St. Petersburg) that he apparently just pretends to work with when he isn’t feverishly spewing bile at them online.

Longest. Second sentence. Ever.

sbj1964 November 19, 2011 at 10:31 am

Just another example of the white man trying to keep a brother Down ! Look at the game of pool,Last ball to drop the eight-ball,and it get's knocked into the hole by a white ball. How come green olives come in a jar;yet black olives come in a can?The can being a metaphor for the prison system. Why are Frosted Flakes Grreat ! yet Cocoa Puffs will make you go Koo-Koo ?

Preacher_Griz November 19, 2011 at 11:12 am

I am shocked! Shocked! I tell you

DahBoner November 19, 2011 at 11:24 am

I hear Banjo music…

ttommyunger November 19, 2011 at 12:33 pm

I can remember the days when an asshole was outed and he exhibited some shame. Now, its all Dick Cheney's "So?"…

rustypolymath November 21, 2011 at 6:48 pm

Question: when Bill Cosby took black parents to task for their children's behavior, was that "racist"? When Cosby, a Christian, opined that most black Muslims do a better job policing the behavior of their own than did most Christians, was that "racist"?

I have no use for the GOP. But when I worked at my dad's factory summers after school, most of the workers were blue-collar white guys. Most of them had illegitimate children and were not people I would let my daughter go within ten miles of. So given that poverty rates are much higher among blacks, is it really so hard to believe they would also have high illegitimacy rates and that this might have something to do with aggravating their woes?

Until we appreciate why it is important to keep black families intact and lower black illegitimacy rates, black children will continue to grow up in families that are not only poor but totally twisted and backwards and completely lacking in material to produce NORMAL moral and social functioning. No social aid program on Earth can improve their lot or that of anyone else even materially on any but the most superfluous of levels until that happens.

Come here a minute November 18, 2011 at 7:14 pm

He also likes the beef chow mein at Lee Ho Fook's. Fill your tummy long time!

102415 November 18, 2011 at 9:41 pm

Did you see the "blowjob" footage with him in the stupid teabagger hat?Talk about jumping the shark. <eye roll>.

Jukesgrrl November 19, 2011 at 2:22 am

I'm in Arizonny, land o' the lovely Jan Brewer. As you suggested, not too many liberal-socialist mindsets here.

glamourdammerung November 19, 2011 at 2:26 am

Better not comment too much about Breitbart's repressed homosexuality. He seems to think the military will rise up and kill you if you say it too often. And we all know it takes a real man to threaten to have someone else murder you for hurting their fragile widdle feelings.

Jukesgrrl November 19, 2011 at 4:32 pm

Now they don't have to carry them strapped to their waists. Concealed carry legal, even in bars.

horsedreamer_1 November 20, 2011 at 11:39 am

& a surveyor's mark will lead them.

BaldarTFlagass November 20, 2011 at 8:04 pm

Just ask Denard Robinson.

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