Via the Daily Kos, David Rice is a candidate for Senate against Inhofe in Oklahama. No big deal, but look at the picture of the candidate and his wife:
Notice anything in this picture?
HIS WIFE HAS BREASTS AND THEY SHOWED UP ON FILM!
Someone better get Ann Althouse a hockey-puck sized valium and a glass shitload of Cabernet.
Dreggas
She’s got my vote, willherhis campaign song be Thanks for the Mammaries?Zifnab
I hear Hillary Clinton grew breasts a few weeks back. It seems to me that the Democratic Party is more like the Democratic Party of Classless Whores.
Boobies have no place in American politics unless they’re hanging right below a 70-year-old man’s withered jowls. Where’s Denny Hastert when you need him?
Andrew
F1RST dRUNKSSSYT!! RED WHINE!!lololololosuxors.
ET
John – thanks for the laugh. I needed it.
capelza
How dare Democractic women show their breasts, I thought only Fox Newscaster women were allowed to do that.
That whole Hillary Clinton thing was beyond ridiculous.
Cassidy
It isn’t the breasts that’s the problem….it’s that tiny smidgen of cleavage right there…at the top…look closely…
caustics
One can clearly see the junction of this woman’s bosoms. Hopefully this strumpet’s ankles were demurely attired, lest our intrepid photographer swoon from shock.
Otto Man
I heard she even let the baby touch her breasts. Scandalous!
I can’t wait to see what Prof. Franzia has to say about this one!
Melissa McEwan
Thanks for the hot link!
By way of full disclosure, however, I should tell you I’ve got breasts.
Two of them even.
Davebo
I’m not at all sure those are real. And how can we really be sure that it’s really his wife? Or him for that matter?
Given that this comes from Kos, a site known to have some nasty comments posted from time to time, I’d say we need to get someone to OK to investigate.
Punchy
Keyboard….all sticky….now….dammit….
tBone
Someone’s been reading too much Blogs4Brownback.
Me either. I volunteer to check the fonts and kerning.
Dreggas
So do I, occasionally I take them out of the jar and play with them. :)
[ / snark ]
Dreggas
Now wait a minute,
It’s ok that this one has breasts after all I am sure she is doing as nature intended and breast feeding the baby in the picture. This is of course her duty as a good christian mother (or something). Now when the young lad grows to the table food or baby food stage I am sure she will do the right thing and have a mastechtomy.
Ed Willers
Damn it John I’m checking your site at work! From now on, if you need to show that kind of thing, please link to it at give us some sort of warning!
Jake
We really didn’t need to know that. Leave it to a moonbat to inform all and sundry about his onanistic tendencies. However, I note Rice’s alleged wife is wearing stripes in a clear attempt to further highlight her dirty pillows. Look! They’re casting a shadow over the rest of her family!
No wonder Punchy lost control.
david
Just let it go, boys. Just let it go.
Realize it or not, you’re giving Althouse too much respect.
caustics
Actually I’ve been reading Baptists For Brownback 2008. The nonpareil of Brownback for 2008 spoof sites.
Professional grade, competent spoof.
Tax Analyst
Well I, for one, vote a firm “YES” on Missus Rice’s Breasts. And further, I think it should be Mammoratory that henceforth ALL male political candidates must have similar pictures of their mates posted prominently so that we concerned and issue-oriented voter’s can properly evaluate the candidate’s “Family Values”. Hear, hear…
Yeah, I know that’s a totally and completely sexist comment…so what? We’re only talking about politician’s and their families, after all…it’s not like they are real people or anything.
Rusty Shackleford
Most reports indicate they travel in pairs.
(Remember that part in Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)? That was great. /farley)
Punchy
Wait, there’s a picture associated with this post?
Paul L.
I think you guys are missing something.
It is more humorous when the well-endowed woman is standing next to Bill Clinton.
ThymeZone
Nah, it’s more humorous when the well-endowed woman is standing next to useless 5-year-long war started on false pretenses and prolonged for political reasons.
Perry Como
Katherine Harris.
capelza
OMG I forgot Katherine Harris…
At another place I am frequently told that all Democratic women look like Andrea Dworkin, Rosie O’Donnell or Amy Carter.
Paul L.
Wow, Hit a sensitive spot to get you to launch into that Cindy Sheehan-like anti-war non-sequitur.
I’ll return the favor and launch a non-sequitur of my own.
So you would prefer Saddam Hussein was still in power and the corrupt oil for food program was still going strong?
Perry Como
Cross thread drift, is posting a link to that picture of Katherine Harris a personal insult to Katherine Harris?
bud
Since I had no idea that Althouse was anti-breast (especially considering that she has a couple, herself) I followed your link, John, to YAnutrootssite. Shakesville, ne: Sheakspears Sister (motto: rational thought takes a back seat – nay, gets completely off the bus – to snark). BUt I digress.
Evidently, Ann’s offhand comment about our former lecher-in-chief is enough to make you think that she has some problem with breasts or pictures of same, orrrr… it’s just another chance to take a swipe at her without actually having to address anything she actually, you know, said.
John Cole
I like pie.
capelza
bud, you are aware that Ann is the one who coined the term “breastblogging” right? Right?
The same Ann, while ragging on some girl blogger on the left said gems like ““Jessica should have worn a beret. Blue dress would have been good too”” and ” “Jessica looks like Paula Jones.”
So would you like to address what Ann said?
bud
American, no doubt.
edmund dantes
bud you might actually want to check into (or know what the hell you are talking about) the whole imbroglio with Althouse and the blogger that dared to show her breasts in a group photo with Clinton before you chastize John about this.
myiq2xu
My question is, how come that kid has super-blond hair but mom and dad are brunettes?
Jake
Nope, just you, me, everyone else and Walt Kelly.
rawshark
Please explain how our lives are better with Saddam dead and the oil for food program ended.
(unfortunately [very] nescessary diclaimer):
I’m not saying I wish he was still breathing, I didn’t say I was in love with Oil for Food. I’m asking YOU to explain the benefits of what we did. You won’t of course, but I’m asking anyway.
Tsulagi
Two things. No, not just the breasts, though they are very nice Ms. Rice.
The other is the absence of a wife in a photo looking like she’d rather be half a planet away as her husband says he’s going into rehab for buggering boys or that he wasn’t really prancing around in diapers for the hookers he hired. Just banging them.
So I’m guessing this Rice guy is the Democratic candidate?
capelza
Another Althouse classic….bud, care to address that? :)
myiq2xu, a towhead that turns quite dark isn’t that uncommon.
Punchy
Uh….WHAT?
John Cole
Woah. I missed that one. Got a link?
myiq2xu
I think we need to have Ken Starr look into it.
Jake
Either:
Mrs. Rice’s breasts snatched the poor tot from the arms of his real mother.
or
Both mom and dad have a recessive blond gene.
Take your pick.
capelza
John Cole..I have never mastered the linkage thing here..so I’m posting it as is and hopefully you won’t yell at me, but rather fix it.
It’s from Lawyer’s, Gun’s and $$$
david
Why does the kid have blond hair?
It’s very common with us Scots-Irish, at least, when we’re young. And probably other Anglo-Saxon children too.
bud
Capetza: yes, I do, but that term is an apt description of the blog she was discussing at the time – I went to look at it when she published the remark. What can I say; I’m a perv^H^H^H^Hguy. It’s pejorative in context, but to imply that Ann is some sort of bluenose because of that comment is pushing it pretty hard.
I didn’t see those remarks (beret/blue dress), but I think that the Jessica she’s sniping at is the author of the site I mentioned above.
Althouse hasn’t forgiven BillC for acting like the prototypical patriarchal tyrant vis-a-vis women of lesser status, and is especially pissed at his female defenders and enablers. This explains much of that whole incident.
It still doesn’t mean that Ann would have anything at all to say about that picture, much less get in a tizzy over it.
chopper
uh, hanging right below a 70-year-old woman’s withered breasts?
ThymeZone
Ask the Iraqis. Start with the two million or so that have fled their country.
Then ask the 2/3 of Americans who think the war “wasn’t worth it” and that we were misled.
Whatever those people say, I go along with them.
You? Think whatever you want, nobody cares.
mrmobi
YES.
Paul, are you so blinded by your loyalty to the administration that you can’t see that things are much, much worse in Iraq now than at any time under Saddam Hussein?
Let’s compare, shall we? So, Saddam tortured people, ummm… that’s right, we torture people.
What else, power was bad and there wasn’t enough water in Baghdad…. Jeez Paul, we’re worse than he was on that count.
Saddam spent a lot of money on “palaces” and we have spent a lot of money on new construction. You know, like a police headquarters so shabbily built that shit runs out of the light fixtures.
And let’s not forget Saddam’s destabilizing influence on the region. I mean things are so much better now, aren’t they, you dimwit? We’ve turned the whole fucking region into a tinderbox, and at the same time managed to put a whole lot of our brave soldiers into a country surrounded by other countries which hate us. Nice work, eh Paul?
The “corrupt oil for food program” was chump change compared to the hundred of billions (1 trillion) the American people are being handed the tab for right now.
The only positive thing which has come out of the Iraq war is that the American public now knows that Republicans cannot find their own asses with both hands and a map.
ConservativelyLiberal
Boobs are sooooo Democratic. Can’t have that, RIGHT????
Maybe we can get the right to construct a giant bra. Like what was noted above, they travel in pairs. First the stop you with cream, then they drown you in milk.
bud
As to the whole “feministing” thing; I think that she was being just a bit too cute, and saying that was an example of verbal showing off (Hey- I know the word “portmanteau”!) that I’m sure she regrets saying now.
Thanks for the link capteza. When I read it it grated on me as well, but this was an off the cuff verbal comment. One of the nice things about the internet format is that we do get to correct* our misspellings, and (usually) catch our more outre’ remarks before they escape into the wild.
I’m not going to defend everything she says. Some of her views do not match mine. But John’s comment made her out to be something she isn’t – a prude – and I said so.
*Not always, though. For those of you wondering what the hell the HHH’s were in my previous post, I reverted to my roots, and used the old Usenet convention of indicating a strikethrough/backspace with a series of “control h”s – which showed up weirdly as the html rendered some of them as superscript. I’ll have to learn the html code for strikethrough, I guess,
John S.
What do you know…an Althouse defender. Now I’ve seen everything.
capelza
bud, I don’t think it shows her as a bluenose, but as one weird and petty broad who will never live down “boobiegate”.
Tim F.
Blond is recessive. NBD.
myiq2xu
Call the Matt Sludge – we may have found Clinton’s secret love child!
Formerly Wu
I guess you’re saying we should invade and occupy any state that oppresses its people and profits off corrupt international aid?
Of course you’re not. So explain, please, why you think Iraq was such a special case, and why the current situation is preferable to our international interests.
Joshua
I am shocked, shocked to find that there has been cleavage going on in this establishment!
rawshark
Of course not, because its not a picture of Hillary. The joke bud is that the issue ain’t about breasts, its about Hillary. No matter how banal the topic, if it involves Hillary, the right will become outraged. A womans breast are noticable in a picture. So what? Hillariy’s breast are noticable. OMG!!! Hillary, breasts, next president? OMG!!!!
Thanks for missing the joke and thereby making it real.
John is just settin’ ’em up and knockin’ ’em down lately.
bud
ThymeZone thinks we should ask the Iraqis if they’d like Saddam back.
Good idea:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4755706.stm
I can understand your confusion, since it isn’t until 14 paragraphs (of 15) full of “it was a bad idea” that we get to this one:
“Iraqis are the most convinced that the removal of Saddam Hussein was right, with 74% agreeing with the move.”
And as for you, mrmobi, your use of the old “moral equivalence” canard marks you as either a fool or a partisan of the worst ilk. The sheer numbers of Iraqis slain at the hands of Saddam, much less those indirectly killed by his misadventures into Iran and Kuwait places him so far above the line that your assertation is, frankly, disgraceful.
Tillman Fan
Those sure are nice breasts, but the record needs to be corrected. The guy’s name is Andrew Rice; he had a brother named David who was killed in the WTC attacks on September 11.
capelza
bud, just curious, do you have anything newer than 2/28/2006?
Wilfred
Ilk. Ah.
SPIIDERWEB™
I wasn’t concerned about her breasts. Most women have them, but I was surprised how politically naive Andrew Rice is because he puts himself in the shadow of his wife.
capelza
Was hunting around the webola for a more current poll of Iraqis.
Here’s an article about the polls of late March.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0320/p99s01-duts.html
There is another poll done in December of 2006, I believe that says 90% prefer life under Saddam. I think that one to be skewed (2000 Iraqis, but were they all Sunni’s, etc?), though if a poll were taken to today, 5 months after the last ones, I’d be quite curious what it would show.
ThymeZone
Really? How many of the refugees were polled, as I suggested?
If you don’t know, then your retort means nothing, doesn’t it?
myiq2xu
Yeah, them babies really block out the sun, don’t they?
Krista
Actually, I was a bit surprised by that photo too, not because her funbags are present and accounted for, but because she’s in the foreground and he’s in the background. Wouldn’t the one who is actually running for office be better off being the main focus of the pic? Or is this photo not his actual “official” one?
capelza
If it is official, the first I saw, anyway, was a family. The wife and kid, framing, telescoping in to the actual candidate.
Family values, all that stuff.
John S.
I sure hope not. Aside from being in the background, half his face is covered in shadow. If that’s an official photo, he needs to hire a new photographer ASAP.
Cain
We know what you meant to say.
cain
jake
I see someone has been conducting ungodly experiments and released the resulting Saddamalope into this thread.
ConservativelyLiberal
Why do left boobs hate our troops and want us to lose the war?
If someone is needed to conduct a poll of the left boobs, I humbly volunteer my services. Free!
—
Roger on the Saddamalope, but this one is pretty weak. You would figure that he would have some fresh talking points for us.
Damn you Scott Thomas Beaucamp!
Redleg
Nice ones, too.
mrmobi
Well fuck you very much, bud, and let me explain to you what’s disgraceful.
Trumping up a war on lies.
Trying to make a “friendly fire” death into something it wasn’t.
Trying to make a “rescue” of a female soldier into something it wasn’t.
Telling Americans that “we don’t torture” and then torturing and killing captives on the basis of no evidence, with no accountability, for nothing.
Disgraceful, huh, Bud? How about gaming the electoral system, removing eligible voters from the rolls because they are likely to vote Democratic, and getting elected by the Supreme Court.
The modern-day GOP owns disgraceful.
As to how many people Saddam murdered, no one knows, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar. He was a bad man, ok? Can I have my 3,500 lives, 27,000 injured and 1 trillion dollars back now? The Citizens of Iraq who can afford to are leaving by the millions, that should tell you all you need to know about how successful our effort has been.
You mentioned Saddam’s “misadventure” into Iran. Do you mean the war we helped finance, before we decided he was a monster? Is talking out of both sides of your mouth painful?
This is a war we didn’t have to start, and won’t be able to finish, because Mr. McFlightsuit understands that if he asks the American people to make real sacrifices to keep pursuing this deadly, futile conflict, the answer is going to be a resounding, “No!”
Those of us who supported this worst President in our history when he wanted to invade Iraq are understandably upset that we were sold a pack of lies by someone who is supposed to have our best interests at heart. He failed at that, along with just about everything else he’s tried, and he’s the last Republican I’ll ever give the benefit of the doubt to. You guys are dead to me. With luck, it’ll take you a couple of decades to get the millstone of this war from around your deceitful necks, and the country will still be paying for it then.
You and your “ilk” are a disgrace to the party of Lincoln.
jake
Wait! I see it all now.
This may well be the cleverest campaign photo in a long time. Call it the Beer Commercial Ploy. Beer commercials frequently feature breasts. Why? Because everyone appreciates breasts. We can’t help it, it comes with being mammals.
But the brewers don’t want you to buy breasts (because they haven’t found away to sell them). They want you to see the breasts and think of their beer. When you see the beer on the shelves you think of breasts, so when you reach out for the six pack, somewhere in your mind you think you’re reaching for breasts.
The same will go for Rice. People will vote for him but they’ll really be voting Yes! for breasts.
Unless Rice is a Republican. In which case its just a wholesome family picture that just happens to feature his wife who just happens to have a nice wholesome pair of baby feeding protuberances.
And a kid with a stare that would make Damien back away.
Yikes.
ConservativelyLiberal
Fixed.
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Jake, Frank Zappa said it best… “Titties and Beer”
“Its time for the wet T-shirt contest!”
Aaron
“So you would prefer Saddam Hussein was still in power and the corrupt oil for food program was still going strong?”
Yes.
Saddam in power= fewer Iraqi’s dying every year. Not that the man wasnt a war criminal and brutal dictator, but there are things worse then that. Like Iraq today.
And of course theres the big bonus where Iraq wasnt a recruiting poster and training ground for AQ.
corrupt oil for food program= a corrupt dictator lining his own pockets at the expense of his people? Oh my god, thats only like half our allies. And of course the beneficieries of that corruption? america and american companies 49%.
And my favorite: Clinton’s ‘dual containment’ strategy whereby he managed to contain Iran and Iraq.
Punchy
I’m using that the next time I get busted talking the bust of a well-busted woman.
tBone
I think Mrs. Rice could probably use some advice on a dual containment strategy. Bada-bing!
fecapult
Did someone say full disclosure of breasts? Yessssssss! This site is gettin good!
Dreggas
Fixed. Admit it, if titties were beer factories you’d never leave the house…
Ray
A little dodge and burn in the darkroom (or PhotoShop) would have helped a lot. I believe it’s the adult male entity that’s running for office and it’s possible to diddle (with the exposure values) when you make the print.
Redhand
No one will probably notice, now, but Ann Althouse’s site presently features a photo of her revealing considerable cleavage. If you can’t beat em, join em, I guess.