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by Tim F|  June 28, 20078:24 am| 28 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

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Torture victims in the news:

* Jose Padilla.

* Mitt Romney’s dog.

* Me and anyone else who read this %*(^$%& article. Thank god for Mika Brzezinski.

Chat about whatever.

***Update***

The Brzezinski link now goes where intended. Sorry for the confusion.

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  1. 1.

    LITBMueller

    June 28, 2007 at 8:38 am

    I dared to click on the “this %*(^$%& article” link. Fortunately, my computer is really slow, and the title appeared on the top of Explorer. I screamed “Arrrrrghhhhh!!” and quickly hit the back button.

    Meanwhile, the big article on CNN.com? Yep: Paris.

    The entire world stops of Paris Hilton. That’s power!

  2. 2.

    ThymeZone

    June 28, 2007 at 9:27 am

    Okay, Paris. Blah blah blah. But what strikes me about the linked article is the idea that Paris is responsible for the attention we pay to her.

    She isn’t. We are. She’s just Paris, a sort of sad figure really. But if the mob didn’t click and didn’t tune in and didn’t buy the magazines at the grocery checkout, nobody would know who she is.

    I find mob behavior fascinating and infuriating. And disturbing. At the risk of going all meta, this thread could go Paris, or it could go examination of mob behavior. If I were more energetic, maybe I’d start a pool.

    And the Mitt-dog thing? My jaw was on the floor when I read it yesterday. I don’t know which is harder to fathom, the idea that a man would strap a dog to the top of a car and drive down the highway, while his family did not have him declarred mentally incompetant …. or that this man is now considered seriously to be a candidate for president of this country.

    I can’t process it. My brain isn’t up to it.

  3. 3.

    Zifnab

    June 28, 2007 at 9:57 am

    After Paris had prattled on about reading the Bible in jail, King busted her with this penetrating query: “What is your favorite Bible passage?”

    Painful silence. “Um, I don’t have a favorite.” Suuure.

    My god, you can’t make this shit up. Brilliant!

  4. 4.

    Jake

    June 28, 2007 at 10:15 am

    At the risk of going all meta, this thread could go Paris, or it could go examination of mob behavior.

    Well, if the link about PH touches off a bunch of responses you could at least study a modified form of mob behaviour. From there we could get into a discussion of why humans engage in mob behaviour… First one to snark about anti-evolution hominids wins!

  5. 5.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    June 28, 2007 at 10:17 am

    MitWit is supposed to be a family man? I read the story and my first thought was that he could care less about his dog, and his kids were cared for just slightly more. The only stops on his trip was when he needed gas or his wife needs to hit the can? Otherwise the kids bladders can blow up for all he cares?

    I go on regular road trips with the wife and kids several times a year, and I make a point of stopping regularly to give everyone a break and to stretch the legs/see the sights of where we are. It make for a smoother trip and everyone has a lot more fun.

    What I read is a description of a man who cares little for the lesser among us, be it kids or animals. And since he feels that his wife married a person beneath her, he worships her. So that means that he worships those who have power or are to be admired as better than himself.

    Pulling over and hosing the car and dog off, and then strapping the dog back to the roof of the car? And this was an irish setter?!

    What a fucking nutjob…

  6. 6.

    Paul L.

    June 28, 2007 at 10:26 am

    I think the link for Mika Brzezinski is wrong. It goes to the Mitt Romney’s dog story.

    Here is a video of that wonderful woman.
    Mika Brzezinski Is Five Parts Hot, Seventeen Parts Awesome

  7. 7.

    Punchy

    June 28, 2007 at 10:32 am

    After Paris had prattled on about reading the Bible in jail

    That trollop can read?

  8. 8.

    Dulcie

    June 28, 2007 at 10:40 am

    That trollop can read?

    She just looked at the pictures.

  9. 9.

    Paul L.

    June 28, 2007 at 10:46 am

    I am surprised there are no posts here or at Pandagon about this as a metanarrative of the Religious Right or RedStaters.

    Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his 7-year-old son and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself with the pulley of a weightlifting machine, authorities said Tuesday.

  10. 10.

    Punchy

    June 28, 2007 at 10:56 am

    Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his 7-year-old son and placed a Bible next to their bodies

    Those religous people–especially those with dust-free Bibles in their homes–are always the most caring, God-fearing, nice, and friendly people. I totally understand why social conservatives want to force us to be just like them.

  11. 11.

    Rome Again

    June 28, 2007 at 10:58 am

    I am surprised there are no posts here or at Pandagon about this as a metanarrative of the Religious Right or RedStaters.

    Why? It makes perfect sense, of course.

    The man gets paid to beat people up, and knew he was going to Hell. He didn’t want his wife and child to go to Hell to for profiting from the living of a professional thug, so, he killed them so they would be innocent, naturally! He asked God to forgive him before he hung himself and they’re all in heaven enjoying a big homecoming party now.

    Unfortunately, this parody I just wrote about might not be too far off from the truth, sad to say. Religion is a brainwashing drug.

  12. 12.

    Jake

    June 28, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Pulling over and hosing the car and dog off, and then strapping the dog back to the roof of the car? And this was an irish setter?!

    I think we’re supposed to admire his physical strength. Mitt lifted a full grown, sorry, “hulking” setter onto the roof of a car, twice! Imagine … those run-way sized shoulders heaving about … that brick like jaw set in determination … [swoon].

    Of course, the story also contains Mitt hosing down a dog. I’m not sure what we’re supposed to get out of that, other than an urge to alert PETA and Rick Sanctum Santorum before washing our hands a few times.

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    June 28, 2007 at 11:01 am

    Hilton’s most disingenuous answer–this from a woman who spends every waking minute seeking publicity, from her sex video to her reality show to her underwearless party-going

    Am I on Viagra, or are they mistaking Brittney with Paris? Did P-Hizzle also Fly the Magic Carpet on a bender, too?

  14. 14.

    ThymeZone

    June 28, 2007 at 11:22 am

    Pulling over and hosing the car and dog off, and then strapping the dog back to the roof of the car?

    Yeah, but John Edwards combs his hair in public.

    So they’re all the same.

  15. 15.

    Seamus

    June 28, 2007 at 11:24 am

    Please don’t be mean to my Daddy. He wants to double Guantanamo, and he also said that he wants to double our family vacation… oops, I just pooped again.

  16. 16.

    Seamus

    June 28, 2007 at 11:24 am

    Please don’t be mean to my Daddy. He wants to double Guantanamo, and he also said that he wants to double our family vacation… oops, I just pooped again.

  17. 17.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    June 28, 2007 at 11:31 am

    Benoit may have been injecting his son with growth hormones or the like. When I heard about the needle tracks in his kids arms, I thought ‘this was one sick, twisted dude’. The whole story is twisted.

    Injecting his child with stuff! From what I heard, his son worshipped him. Damn it, kids are supposed to trust that their parents will protect them. At least that is what I was brought up to do.

    I could never harm my wife and kids, ever. I would guard their lives with my own, without reservation, without hesitation. They count on me, and I would never let them down. Our lives and home are all about love and caring for each other. I know Benoit was having marital problems (with steroid use, he probably had the temper of a mad dog and a schlong like a cocktail weenie), but that is not a reason to kill! It seems like it was a ‘well, if I can’t have you then nobody will’ thing. The ultimate in control freak…

    We are a very non-religious family. We all believe in God, just not the way man tries to instruct us to. Live life right, walk a good path in life and help those that you can in life. If that is not good enough for God, then he/she can take a long walk off of a short pier.

    What a mix; takes place in the South, involves steriods and growth hormones, the Bible and murder/suicide…

    Religion will be the downfall of this world. How can something that professes to be all about good end up being a cloak that darkness, death and violence hide behind? The sick part is that these nuts think that only they hold the truth to everlasting life. I can almost hear the bible thumpers saying things like ‘at least they are in Heaven now and are not feeling pain’ or other lame platitudes like that.

    What a sad state the human condition is in at this time in history. We may advance in many ways, but far too many are willing to hang on to a part of the dark ages.

  18. 18.

    Zifnab

    June 28, 2007 at 11:45 am

    The Benoit murders didn’t involve enough blond girls and colored holagins for this story to maintain traction for long.

  19. 19.

    Jake

    June 28, 2007 at 12:00 pm

    Religion People will be the downfall of this world.

    Theory is harmless. People will fuck you up for a nickle.

    If we were all eaten by nuclear jackalopes tomorrow the Bibles and Torahs and Qurans and Blood Soaked Tomes of Cthulu would just sit there, doing no harm and perhaps serving as a snack for the silverfish.

    The moral of this story: Don’t look to crazy people for meaning. The guy was out of his damn skull. He left a Bible by his victims’ bodies. It could have been a rose or a hubcap or Barbie Doll with one leg missing.

  20. 20.

    ThymeZone

    June 28, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    It could have been a rose or a hubcap or Barbie Doll with one leg missing.

    I think Eydie Gorme had it right: Blame in on the Bossa Nova.

  21. 21.

    Tony J

    June 28, 2007 at 12:42 pm

    This quote from El Residente… what can you say?

    “Somehow our relationship has been seen as Bush saying to Blair ‘Jump’ and Blair saying, ‘How high?’ But that’s just not the way it works. It’s a relationship where we say we’re both going to jump together.”

    So… we’re talking suicide-pact here then?

  22. 22.

    Andrew

    June 28, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    Reading any Howie Kurtz story is a bit of light torture.

  23. 23.

    Tsulagi

    June 28, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    Loved that heartwarming family values story in the life of Guantanamo-squared Mitt. Nothing says vacation time to the beloved family pet like being strapped to the top of a station wagon like a wind vane blasting up the interstate.

    Then if you literally have an “oh shit” moment, your Commander Guy coolly pulls over to hose you down before blow drying your poor-bastard ass back out on the highway.

    Vote Mitt Romney! If he’d scare the shit out of his own family dog, just think what he’d do to the terraists he doesn’t know.

  24. 24.

    YellowJournalism

    June 28, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    Ugh. Mitt Romney deserves to be tied to the roof of a car and driven through ten car washes with the hot wax setting on.

  25. 25.

    Tax Analyst

    June 28, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    And the Mitt-dog thing? My jaw was on the floor when I read it yesterday. I don’t know which is harder to fathom, the idea that a man would strap a dog to the top of a car and drive down the highway, while his family did not have him declarred mentally incompetant …. or that this man is now considered seriously to be a candidate for president of this country.

    Shit, that mutt got off lightly. If Mitt hadn’t had the Family with him he would’ve Double-Gitmo, water-boarded the nasty beast for shitting on the top of his car. That dog should have been able to hold that crap back for at least 12 more hours – standing…if you let your dog get away with crapping on the top of your car the Terrier-ists win.

  26. 26.

    OniHanzo

    June 28, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    My money’s on Mika Brzezinski losing her job by the end of the week for not shoveling the advertiser-approved “safe news” like she’s supposed to.

    They look like they’re ready to fire her on the spot.

  27. 27.

    Tulkinghorn

    June 28, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    I knew Mika in college. Very decent person, even though all the lads had crushes on her and were not very discrete about it. She went into journalism at the bottom, for WFCR in Hartford as a location reporter, and worked her way up. She has never traded on her name, although it was obvious she was cut out for greatness.

    The most un-Bushlike person one could ever meet.

    Ok, maybe I have not completely gotten over my schoolboy crush. Time to get the old Billy Bragg albums out…

  28. 28.

    jake

    June 28, 2007 at 9:37 pm

    So… we’re talking suicide-pact here then?

    Nah, just the fact that Cheney is the one who says “Jump.”

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