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You Know You are a Pervert

by John Cole|  December 3, 20075:31 pm| 26 Comments

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When you are reading your email, and in the background you hear Wolf Blitzer say “Is Victoria’s Secret involved in sweatshop labor” and your head snaps to the television.

Consider this an open thread.

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  1. 1.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    December 3, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    Victoria’s Secret. Sweatshop labor.

    Wolf Blitzer.

    Yeah. Just stay where I can see you, Bubba.

  2. 2.

    teak111

    December 3, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    You know your a pervert when you set the TV alarm for the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader documentry, and your wife discovers it, for the second time.

  3. 3.

    canuckistani

    December 3, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    You must have *amazing* email if there’s any notion in your mind that you shouldn’t look at the stock footage of lingerie-clad models.
    But you might be a pervert if it’s Wolf Blitzer that you’re turning to see.

  4. 4.

    Tsulagi

    December 3, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    You have changed. Now if you were still Republican, or at least the typical one, you would have gotten whiplash if Wolf had said “Is Abercrombie and Fitch involved…”

  5. 5.

    Dreggas

    December 3, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    Victoria has no clothes! She’s been disrobed and exposed!

    Can’t ya see the headlines now?

    And no John, you are far from a pervert on that one.

  6. 6.

    jcricket

    December 3, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    And no John, you are far from a pervert on that one.

    I have it on good authority John skull fucks kittens for spite (not even gonna tell you what he does for fun).

  7. 7.

    Tsulagi

    December 3, 2007 at 6:34 pm

    In other perverted news, seems the prez candidates can all just go home now. All but one. God and Jesus thanks them all for coming, but they’ve chosen Huckabee.

    An excited Falwell does the reporting from Liberty U. Not only did Huckabee wow him with identifying the threat to America from “fanatic religious zealotry” (no, not the threat from our SoCon zealots), Huck dropped the news of the Big Guy in his corner…

    Mr. Huckabee also said that Divine providence was responsible for his recent surge in the polls in Iowa

    So to the rest of you, thanks for playing. God and Chuck Norris have chosen.

  8. 8.

    srv

    December 3, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    I just can’t stop laughing at this

    Idiots Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design

    And this guy is writing about Lebanon?

  9. 9.

    jcricket

    December 3, 2007 at 6:36 pm

    Via Sullivan, the doughy pantload drops another bomb:

    Speaking for myself, there is no policy that I think a Mormon would pursue that I find objectionable. I will not vote for a Mormon because they claim to be Christian, when they are not Christians. Electing, or even nominating, a Mormon continues to send the message to Americans that Mormons are fine and dandy, Christians like everyone else.
    […]
    I don’t think I’m a bigot.

    Wow – basically Jonah’s saying both that it’s not ok to elect (even nominate) non-Christians, Christianity don’t include Mormonism and that Mormons are bad people.

    With these people “supporting” the Republican party, who even needs opposition research?

  10. 10.

    RSA

    December 3, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    Via digby, in the Sunday Times:

    AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.

    A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

    . . .

    The American government has for the first time made it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington.

    WTF? This is American exceptionalism taken too far, because no one can seriously believe that this is a reciprocal agreement.

  11. 11.

    jake

    December 3, 2007 at 6:45 pm

    A pervert would have eagerly clicked on the link that accompanied this quote.

    An excited Falwell

    And speaking of perversions:

    A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

    So if another country’s highest court sanctions blowing up US embassies because they harbor trouble makers that will be just fine.

    Got it.

  12. 12.

    maxbaer (not the original)

    December 3, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    WTF? This is American exceptionalism taken too far, because no one can seriously believe that this is a reciprocal agreement.

    No chance of that because, who knows, the Brits might get the silly notion that Bush and Cheney et al committed war crimes.

  13. 13.

    DougJ

    December 3, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    You must have amazing email if there’s any notion in your mind that you shouldn’t look at the stock footage of lingerie-clad models.
    But you might be a pervert if it’s Wolf Blitzer that you’re turning to see.

    I’ve got to agree.

    And I’d like to add, you know you’re too into politics when the first thought that crosses your mind is “is it one of those sweatshops in the Marianas Islands that Abramoff and DeLay kept open?”

  14. 14.

    jcricket

    December 3, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    Wow, turns out the whole “statistics are a liberal plot to destroy conservatism” meme is spreading

    Yes, that’s right, Donald Luskin, contributing editor to NRO Financial, doesn’t believe in the validity of statistical sampling.

    (emphasis added). Note that the study Luskin refers to sampled 8,000 familes (well over the minimum threshold for statistical validity, which is something like 1,000 or so).

  15. 15.

    Jon H

    December 3, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    “When you are reading your email, and in the background you hear Wolf Blitzer say “Is Victoria’s Secret involved in sweatshop labor” and your head snaps to the television.”

    Only if it’s because you’re in the process of guiltily slipping into some frilly underthings from VS, and you’re a guy.

  16. 16.

    RSA

    December 3, 2007 at 7:52 pm

    No chance of that because, who knows, the Brits might get the silly notion that Bush and Cheney et al committed war crimes.

    Or, for another random example, the Germans might accuse Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes. Hmm. . .

  17. 17.

    grumpy realist

    December 3, 2007 at 8:24 pm

    As pointed out, awfully amusin’ considering that the 1812 war got started because the US got pissed off at the British Navy impressing Americans.

  18. 18.

    grumpy realist

    December 3, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    And thanks for giving me another reason to not buy Victoria’s Secret bras (aside from the fact that they don’t fit well, are made of extremely polyester material, and have the sex appeal of a dead cow)….Is there any clothing out there that I don’t run up on my own sewing machine that hasn’t been made by sweatshop labor?!

  19. 19.

    Cinderella Ferret

    December 3, 2007 at 8:36 pm

    … the Germans might accuse Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes.

    Indeed.

  20. 20.

    John Cole

    December 3, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    I deleted that link and “cleaned up” some of the comments. Please don’t post that garbage. Even I have limits.

  21. 21.

    Jess

    December 3, 2007 at 11:00 pm

    I deleted that link and “cleaned up” some of the comments. Please don’t post that garbage. Even I have limits.

    Now I’m wildly curious…

  22. 22.

    Jen

    December 3, 2007 at 11:43 pm

    No, Jess. No. Trust me.

  23. 23.

    jcricket

    December 4, 2007 at 12:12 am

    Now I’m wildly curious…

    Go search BoingBoing if you want to know more. But you don’t. You don’t.

  24. 24.

    Zifnab

    December 4, 2007 at 9:43 am

    God and Chuck Norris have chosen.

    You are repeating yourself.

  25. 25.

    Nannergrrl

    December 4, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Being attracted to gorgeous women in skimpy outfits does NOT make you pervert (were you raised Catholic?). However I would give you the sidelong glance of suspicion if your thoughts at that moment were “Mmmmm, Wolf Blitzer and lacy silk thongs, TASTY!”

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