# Bricker, You're a Jackass Extraordinaire **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734 "2012-05-12T23:13:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/1 "2012-05-12T23:13:01Z")
Seriously, just who in the bloody hell do you think you are? You prance around here with your holier-than-thou attitude as if you are _so_ above the fray, when in fact you are one of the dirtiest motherfuckers that I’ve ever encountered. > [@The Patient Protection Act Is About To Put $1.3 BILLION Back In Consumers' Pockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-patient-protection-act-is-about-to-put-1-3-billion-back-in-consumers-pockets/621665/23): > > Shayna, read the law itself, and not some “administration official” with a self-serving lie. I know it’s hard to read yourself away from the echo chamber of publications that reinforce your view, but it’s possible. I read the SDMB in large part because so many people here don’t share my viewpoint, and I’m willing to hazard a guess that you don’t do something similar. > > . Hey, SHIT-FOR-BRAINS, I SPELLED THE SOURCE OUT RIGHT THERE FOR YOUR TINY LITTLE PEA-NEURON TO SEE. Since the hell when did CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST MARK HALPERIN at The Page become a fucking “echo chamber that reinforces my view,” you cumwad? As for your guess-hazarding, _I_ guess that’s proof enough right there how fucking wrong you are about me and my reading habits. Besides the fact, the person you _should_ have been attacking was the fucking _source_ of the information if they in fact got it wrong. Excuse the fuck out of me for relying upon one of YOUR GUYS for truth and accuracy. You can bet your sweet ass I won’t be making _that_ mistake again! Jesus you make me sick. Asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/2 "2012-05-12T23:14:45Z")
**Bricker** being Pitted? Been three months already? ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/3 "2012-05-12T23:19:42Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > **Bricker** being Pitted? Been three months already? It’s a first for me and I couldn’t reply to him the way I wanted to in the GODDAMN GD THREAD THAT THE ASSHOLE GD MODERATORS CONSTANTLY LET PEOPLE PERSONALLY ATTACK ME IN. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/4 "2012-05-12T23:22:26Z")
Hrm. Have you reported those posts? They won’t do anything about them? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/5 "2012-05-12T23:25:18Z")
As long as friend **Bricker** did not break any laws, then what he did it perfectly fine. Did he break any laws? Did he violate any particular part of the constitution? Can you cite case law for his wrongdoing? Hmmmph. I thought not. If you cannot describe exactly what laws **Bricker** broke, then he is absolutely right and correct in everything he does. \ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/6 "2012-05-12T23:31:10Z")
Ah, you kids! You two should stab and make up. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/7 "2012-05-12T23:32:18Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > It’s a first for me and I couldn’t reply to him the way I wanted to in the GODDAMN GD THREAD THAT THE ASSHOLE GD MODERATORS CONSTANTLY LET PEOPLE PERSONALLY ATTACK ME IN. Easy there, lil’ lady. Allow me to cuss out the Mods for you. I think I know how to do it without getting in trouble. Ahem. Let’s just say the modding in that thread is twattily executed. In a twatty fashion. As if modded by twats. - Didn’t read the GD thread. Off to read it now. \*\*Nzinga, you know better than to imply someone is a twat or cunt or whatever, don’t do that again. \*\*\*Shayna forgot to link the thread. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/8 "2012-05-12T23:36:32Z")
Well, you say some guy is a huge dick, you’re not being as offensive as saying he’s a little prick. The anatomical definitions may be the same, but the nuances are different. Which is why we have the Luminous Ones. Nuances. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/9 "2012-05-12T23:41:01Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Hrm. Have you reported those posts? They won’t do anything about them? Every time. Every time I _have_ to report them because unless I do they go unmoderated. And every time the offending party is told rather gently, “Please be nice.” Fuckers. > [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Easy there, lil’ lady. Allow me to cuss out the Mods for you. I think I know how to do it without getting in trouble. Ahem. Let’s just say the modding in that thread is twattily executed. In a twatty fashion. As if modded by twats. > > - Didn’t read the GD thread. Off to read it now. > > \*\*Nzinga, you know better than to imply someone is a twat or cunt or whatever, don’t do that again. > > \*\*\*Shayna forgot to link the thread. I do quite like your version. Thank you. \*\*\*Pssst. The little blue arrow next to Bricker’s name in the offending quote in the OP takes you there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/10 "2012-05-12T23:43:05Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST MARK HALPERIN :dubious: Cite for Mark Halperin as a conservative? I’ve always understood him as a Clintonian center-left guy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/11 "2012-05-12T23:51:16Z")
After reading how the guy is all for letting poor people die from lack of access to healthcare if doing something about it means less money for him, then defending such by blaming it on his god, not to mention his making excuses about how he isn’t obliged to support it as per his religion’s instructions because of Obama (go figure), despite claiming in the same thread that his is an “all or nothing” religion, I figure calling **Bricker** a jackass extraordinaire is being kind. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/12 "2012-05-12T23:53:13Z")
> [@furt](#): > > :dubious: Cite for Mark Halperin as a conservative? I’ve always understood him as a Clintonian center-left guy. Oh Fa-pucking-lease. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/13 "2012-05-13T00:05:13Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > …\*\*\*Pssst. The little blue arrow next to Bricker’s name in the offending quote in the OP takes you there. 🙂 Oh! I knew that. I forgot. Thanks. Found the thread in the meantime. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/14 "2012-05-13T00:06:42Z")
> [@furt](#): > > :dubious: Cite for Mark Halperin as a conservative? I’ve always understood him as a Clintonian center-left guy. Well, he was [suspended](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/58098.html) for calling Obama a “dick” so I don’t think he’s a big fan of the president. In 2008, he “decried the [Disgusting’ Pro-Obama Media Bias in Election Coverage](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/11/halperin-decrie/)” Does that sound “center-left” to you? He does not work for Fox News, so I guess in some people’s books that alone makes him a de facto raving pinko communist. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/15 "2012-05-13T01:33:10Z")
Calm down. The link your OP goes to an article by Jill Klausen in which she ridicules Republicans. That’s who **Bricker** was referring to. The link in your OP. He suggested you read the law itself, so I don’t see how a cite from and article by Halperin counts as having read the law. I can’t see anything in his resume that speaks to him being a conservative columnist, but that’s really besides the point. Are you perhaps confusing him with Mark Helprin? ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/16 "2012-05-13T01:37:43Z")
Eschaton did a pretty good job of [mocking Halperin](http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/04/wanker-of-decade-runner-up-4.html) as one of their Wankers of the Decade. Also Alex Pareene has named him the [#2 media hack in 2010](http://www.salon.com/2010/11/24/hack_list_2/), and [#1 in 2011](http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/1_mark_halperin/). From reading those, and the fact that he’s on Morning Joe, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to call him conservative, even if he’s probably trying to keep himself in the Beltway consensus center. Also, he seems to be wrong about everything, much like Republicans are. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/17 "2012-05-13T01:53:33Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Easy there, lil’ lady. Allow me to cuss out the Mods for you. I think I know how to do it without getting in trouble. Ahem. Let’s just say the modding in that thread is twattily executed. In a twatty fashion. As if modded by twats. > > - Didn’t read the GD thread. Off to read it now. > > \*\*Nzinga, you know better than to imply someone is a twat or cunt or whatever, don’t do that again. > > (snip) You totally just won my vote for the Doper of the year award. Thank you for that. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/18 "2012-05-13T01:55:10Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > As long as friend **Bricker** did not break any laws, then what he did it perfectly fine. Did he break any laws? Did he violate any particular part of the constitution? Can you cite case law for his wrongdoing? Hmmmph. I thought not. > > If you cannot describe exactly what laws **Bricker** broke, then he is absolutely right and correct in everything he does. But didn’t you know that only lawyers can read and comprehend all those things? They have magical powers, conferred on them by spending three mystical years in a wondrous place, not unlike Hogwarts. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/19 "2012-05-13T01:56:56Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > It’s a first for me and I couldn’t reply to him the way I wanted to in the GODDAMN GD THREAD THAT THE ASSHOLE GD MODERATORS CONSTANTLY LET PEOPLE PERSONALLY ATTACK ME IN. [Moderating] **Shayna** , if you have complaints about the moderation of the board, those complaints should go in ATMB. If you just want to cuss at moderators, well, there isn’t really a forum here where you can do that, but I understand there are more than a few other forums that exist more or less explicitly for that purpose. In the meantime, I have to ask you to put a hold on your vituperation of the moderation staff here. No warning issued. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/20 "2012-05-13T01:58:45Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > You prance around here with your holier-than-thou attitude as if you are _so_ above the fray, when in fact you are one of the dirtiest motherfuckers that I’ve ever encountered. [Moderating] Also, calling other posters “motherfuckers” is against the Pit’s language restrictions. Please avoid this language in the future. Still no warning issued. [/Moderating] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734.md?page=2)