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Tonight’s Word

by John Cole|  January 7, 200810:46 pm| 27 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Ian

    January 7, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    Where art thou, Stephen Colbert? Thy country hath need of thee.

  2. 2.

    tim serbo

    January 7, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    it’s the ever-popular victimization reflex. mere facts cannot dislodge anything so deep-seated in the wingnut medulla oblongata.

  3. 3.

    Michael D.

    January 7, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    Bah. Michelle Malkin is a professional victim. A professional victim who would victimize A-rabs by locking them up in internment camps – but a professional victim nonetheless.

  4. 4.

    Jake

    January 7, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    This decade’s phrase: Whiny Ass Titty Baby.

    Once someone works out a way to capture the energy that comes from the pouting and temper tantrums the energy crisis will end. Any five of those dipshits could provide the world’s electricity needs, and it would be cheap: All you’d have to do is show them a picture of the Clenis or the Clagina, play a tape of a checkout clerk saying “Happy Holidays,” mention MoveOn.org or any of the other 9 billion things that send them into a frenzy and we’d be good for weeks.

  5. 5.

    tim serbo

    January 7, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    no argument there, really. but her meal ticket is channeling the resentment of losers who blame the other for their lot and like to yelp about personal responsibility.

  6. 6.

    LiberalTarian

    January 7, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    Michelle Malkin: making sacks of hair everywhere look like [shear] genius.

  7. 7.

    myiq2xu

    January 7, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    Andrew Sullied Van is on Colbert.

    Dumbass

  8. 8.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    January 8, 2008 at 12:33 am

    That William Kristol Op-Ed piece garnered a lot of attention and much of it because of the MM mix up. James Fallows didn’t even bother to mention it, but he did take this shot at Kristol’s abilities:

    The other regulars on the Times op-ed page have their tics and strengths and weaknesses. But I have a hard time imagining any of them putting together this lazy a sequence of words.

    Read the entire post. It’s quite entertaining and gets to the heart of modern conservatisms biggest issue.

    Perhaps this is more proof of a cunning, leftist NYT master plot? Bringing in a conservative who will demonstrate that conservatives have little interesting to say?

    Ouch!

  9. 9.

    w vincentz

    January 8, 2008 at 1:08 am

    “I never usually appear….” ROFLMAO!

  10. 10.

    Cain

    January 8, 2008 at 2:43 am

    Tomorrow should be a fun day of seeing how well the candidates fare. Break out the popcorn and beer.

  11. 11.

    Jake

    January 8, 2008 at 7:49 am

    Did every reporter in NH clock out at 00:00 this morning?

  12. 12.

    cleek

    January 8, 2008 at 8:22 am

    Our Lady Of Perpetual Outrage is outraged? i heard the sun was going to rise in the east today, too. what amazing times we live in!

  13. 13.

    4tehlulz

    January 8, 2008 at 8:51 am

    I think I found the dumbest motherfuckers in NH (not named Mitt):

    SALEM, N.H. – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, “Iron my shirt!” during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary.

  14. 14.

    Pug

    January 8, 2008 at 8:56 am

    Just because they’ve never called her a fascist, or anything close to it, doesn’t mean they wouldn’t like to. That’s what she’s talking about.

  15. 15.

    Chris

    January 8, 2008 at 9:03 am

    I think I found the dumbest motherfuckers in NH (not named Mitt):

    SALEM, N.H. – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, “Iron my shirt!” during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary.

    Hey, they figured out what her future looks like… why not get a paying job?

    She’ll need one after Mark Penn embezzles all her bank accounts.

  16. 16.

    Jake

    January 8, 2008 at 9:05 am

    SALEM, N.H. – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, “Iron my shirt!” during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary.

    Cue the fRighties: Hitlery planted them in teh audience!

  17. 17.

    Dennis - SGMM

    January 8, 2008 at 9:32 am

    If Hillary is so much into change why didn’t she run in ’04? If she is so concerned about the country that she’s moved to tears why didn’t she try to save it four years ago?

  18. 18.

    Punchy

    January 8, 2008 at 9:35 am

    Great game last nite. Can’t possibly get enuff of OSUck losing again. Matt Damon at QB was genius for LSU. Went all Bourne on their asses.

    Is da NH primary today? anybody even care?

  19. 19.

    Jen

    January 8, 2008 at 9:41 am

    But just think of all the liberal bloggers that they have called fascists by referring to them as liberal. They might not have realized that they were doing it, but Jonah Goldberg has illuminated us.

    Punchy, have you apologized for thinking I’m a racist yet after misinterpreting my Iowa comments 180 degrees? :)

  20. 20.

    Zifnab

    January 8, 2008 at 9:51 am

    If Hillary is so much into change why didn’t she run in ‘04? If she is so concerned about the country that she’s moved to tears why didn’t she try to save it four years ago?

    Because she hadn’t built up enough political momentum, and Kerry was the establishment-elect heir-apparent that year?

  21. 21.

    The Other Steve

    January 8, 2008 at 9:51 am

    SALEM, N.H. – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, “Iron my shirt!” during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary.

    Huh? That makes no sense whatsoever.

    Everybody knows, you demand to have your shirt ironed, only after buying the lady a drink.

  22. 22.

    Punchy

    January 8, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Punchy, have you apologized for thinking I’m a racist yet after misinterpreting my Iowa comments 180 degrees?

    yes

    so….Rush Limbaugh is Man of the Year? Is it because his body imparts it’s own gravitational pull, because he’s so friendly to young male Dominincans, or because he’s made so many women happy, mearly due to the fact that he’s married about 7 diff chicks?

  23. 23.

    Face

    January 8, 2008 at 10:01 am

    Wow

    Whomever is writing this is a friggin comedian. Check out this take:

    And how nice of the LA Times to give Page One exposure to this hotel conference room full of angry, self-pitying gynophobes and their ghost zygotes.

    Participants — mostly counselors and clergy — heard two days of lectures on topics such as “Medicating the Pain of Lost Fatherhood” and “Forgiveness Therapy With Post-Abortion Men.”

    Followed by symposiums on “Investment Planning for Post-Abortive Men: The Best Ways to Save for Your Imaginary Child’s College Education,” and “Take Your Flushed Fetus to Work Day.”

    I applaud thee snarkier than I.

  24. 24.

    Z

    January 8, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Truthiness, indeed. And she can safely make these assertions, because her loyal readers think the NY Times is the devil and will never consider fact checking for fear of catching the liberal elitist contagion. Anyone who points out that, in fact, the NY Times has never called her a fascist is liberally biased.

  25. 25.

    Ed Drone

    January 8, 2008 at 11:34 am

    “Once someone works out a way to capture the energy that comes from the pouting and temper tantrums the energy crisis will end.”

    Unfortunately for us, the easiest means of accomplishing this requires that they be in the grave — a simple dynamo attached to it will capture the energy of their spinning, and voila! instant electricity, for practically free.

    Alas, this would mean that they actually be dead, and our honesty and humanity prevents us from wishing this upon their pointy heads.

    Sigh. It’s just not ‘the cowboy way’ (I mean, the ‘liberal way’) to point out the improvement to our environment that would result from the demise of our enemies.

    We just don’t do that, whatever the rightards think.

    Ed

  26. 26.

    Jake

    January 8, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Unfortunately for us, the easiest means of accomplishing this requires that they be in the grave—a simple dynamo attached to it will capture the energy of their spinning, and voila! instant electricity, for practically free.

    Au contraire. Otherwise we’d be able to stick a plug in T. Jefferson’s grave and launch FTL spacecraft with the energy produced. Besides, the sedentary, almost limpet like nature of the fRighty means s/he wouldn’t notice they were plugged in.

    So to speak.

  27. 27.

    IanY77

    January 8, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    Since I never usually appear on the New York Times op-ed page unless someone’s calling me a fascist, I was pleasantly surprised to see the quote.

    Just because they’ve never called her a fascist, or anything close to it, doesn’t mean they wouldn’t like to. That’s what she’s talking about.

    Swing and a miss.

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