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K-Lo’s Greatest Hits

by John Cole|  January 15, 20088:55 am| 32 Comments

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She has so many, but this, in response to a Mike Huckabee comment, has to be one of them:

Governor, I didn’t have silver spoons or boarding schools or a verb summer, but I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism. Is this the Republican primary of a John Edwards rally?

WTF does that even mean?

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  1. 1.

    Punchy

    January 15, 2008 at 8:58 am

    A verb summer is like an Indian summer, only with more action, and usually comes after an adverb spring and is often followed by the adjective fall.

    Dumbass.

  2. 2.

    4tehlulz

    January 15, 2008 at 8:59 am

    Verb. It’s what you do.

  3. 3.

    Gus

    January 15, 2008 at 9:01 am

    She fits right in at NRO. Bunch of fucking fools.

  4. 4.

    Jen

    January 15, 2008 at 9:02 am

    Good grief, if you’re only going to write a couple of dozen words and you are paid, for heaven knows what reason, to write those words, you’d think you could write “or” instead of “of”. Maybe she needed a verb summer after all…that’s a summer spent studying verbs, right?

    The R’s have always amazed me with their ability to pull the wool over the eyes of their supporters who are continously hurt by their policies. I don’t know if they’re going to get away with it this time. There’s only so many times you can rebuff any mention of the struggling working and middle classes with basically “OMG class warfare you commie”

  5. 5.

    Jon H

    January 15, 2008 at 9:03 am

    By “verb summer” Huckabee is referring to people who say things like “we summer in the Hamptons” or “we summer in Kennebunkport”.

  6. 6.

    Jeffro

    January 15, 2008 at 9:04 am

    “Summer as a verb”, you know, like “Oh, we summered in the Hamptons last year and we’re summering in the Adirondacks this year.”

    Shorter Huckabee: the economy isn’t doing so hot for the bottom 95%.

    Shorter K-Lo: quit showing them the robber barons behind the curtain, Huck!

  7. 7.

    Jon H

    January 15, 2008 at 9:07 am

    Huckabee:”for those of us who didn’t grow up with a silver spoon, who were lucky to have a spoon”

    Heh. My Mom says when she was little, in Poca, WV in the 30s, her toys were a spoon and a piece of red glass.

  8. 8.

    cleek

    January 15, 2008 at 9:12 am

    Governor, I didn’t have silver spoons or boarding schools or a verb summer,

    all the Google hits for “verb summer” are related to some kind of program that promotes fitness/exercise in tweens.

    but I know enough to thank God for the job creators

    when jobs start disappearing, do you blame God, or do you blame the Devil ? if the ultimate health of the economy is subject to the whims of an unknowable skygod, what’s the point in arguing about the things man can do to it? god can just snap his fingers (all 50 of them) and whatever system we have will either be good for us or bad for us.

  9. 9.

    Gus

    January 15, 2008 at 9:17 am

    As poorly as she stated it, I got the “verb summer” reference, but the last sentence is nonsensical.

  10. 10.

    John Cole

    January 15, 2008 at 9:20 am

    The whole thing is nonsensical. WTF does this mean:

    “I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.”

    Hunh?

  11. 11.

    Face

    January 15, 2008 at 9:27 am

    “I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.”

    Most likely translation:

    I am hopeless enough to think God gave me a job and 300+ bills of jiggle. Also, capitalism gives us jobs too, naturally, thanks to God, which is good, because it keeps my grocery store stocked, which, as you can tell, I utilize frequently, just like commas.

  12. 12.

    Jon H

    January 15, 2008 at 9:31 am

    “I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.”

    That means “Huckabee, you moron, that’s not piss, it’s a lovely spring rain. Come on in, the water’s fine!”

  13. 13.

    T. Scheisskopf

    January 15, 2008 at 9:31 am

    LAst time I read something like that, it was an example of a mental health consumer’s writing on an assessment of his schizophrenic condition.

    Except he made more sense and was better grounded in normative reality.

  14. 14.

    4tehlulz

    January 15, 2008 at 9:32 am

    “I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.”

    Shorter K-Lo: I suck Joel Osteen’s cock.

  15. 15.

    Wilfred

    January 15, 2008 at 9:49 am

    In the beginning, God looked out upon the earth and saw that it was good, only nobody was working. And He saw that Adam and Eve could procreate and fill the land with brown people willing to work for low wages and no benefits. And He sent them out to work, and it was good until the Devil made up Socialism.

    Blessed are the jobsmakers, the capitalists, for they shall see the bank balance of God.

  16. 16.

    KCinDC

    January 15, 2008 at 10:03 am

    Lots of people don’t understand the concept of putting quotes around words used as words (or using italics), so they produce difficult to parse sentences like that. She’s referring to a verb “summer”, not a verb summer.

  17. 17.

    Innocent Bystander

    January 15, 2008 at 10:13 am

    I believe, on the 9th day, God created wingnut welfare shills to make sure they kept thanking him for creating capitalism on the 8th day.

  18. 18.

    ThymeZone

    January 15, 2008 at 10:19 am

    I think it means that Huckabee sometimes sounds like a liberal (see the Edwards reference), and this frightens the conservatives.

    Huckabee seems to be running a campaign based on the idea of frightening all blocs at the same time.

    Or something.

  19. 19.

    Jim

    January 15, 2008 at 10:21 am

    She may not have a silver spoon, but somehow she gets a paycheck for being the most vacuous “serious” person ever found on the Internet’s tubes.

  20. 20.

    Rudi

    January 15, 2008 at 10:22 am

    Governor, I didn’t have silver spoons

    Governor, I didn’t have silver spoons shovels.
    Fixed, that thing could get that big eating with a spoon.

  21. 21.

    Rex

    January 15, 2008 at 10:47 am

    There are few things more ridiculous than a hack journalist trying to explain/extol the economics of the marketplace.

  22. 22.

    F. Frederson

    January 15, 2008 at 11:31 am

    I know enough to thank God Mammon for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, [and] capitalism.

    A day isn’t complete at the NRO until they live down to a few stereotypes.

  23. 23.

    Tom Hilton

    January 15, 2008 at 11:32 am

    It means somebody’s been reading way too much Ayn Rand.

  24. 24.

    Jake

    January 15, 2008 at 11:41 am

    Neither did she have teachers who noticed she was functionally illiterate.

    We need a No Conservative Left Behind program.

  25. 25.

    D-Chance.

    January 15, 2008 at 11:41 am

    WTF does that even mean?

    It means that K-Lo sees her man Mitt falling farther and farther behind the Huckster with each passing day…

    BTW, has she commented on the ‘Mitt and the unemployed single mom’ photo-op that turned out to be ‘Mitt meets his staffer’s family’?

  26. 26.

    PNitty

    January 15, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    regarding the second sentence of the K-Lo quote, it looks like a typo to me; i think she meant to say “or a John Edwards rally” instead of “of a John Edwards rally”. so instead of being stupid AND grammatically incoherent, she’s just stupid AND a bad typer.

  27. 27.

    Punchy

    January 15, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    she’s just stupid AND a bad typer.

    They don’t make keyboards large enough for those sausages to type on. I’m surprised her writing doesn’t look as bad as Birdzilla’s, considering the man-paws she’s typing with…

  28. 28.

    Jake

    January 15, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    so instead of being stupid AND grammatically incoherent, she’s just stupid AND a bad typer.

    1. She’s an editor. If she screwed up on the first pass she should have caught it on the proof.

    2. If you can stand it, go over there and sample some of her writing. It doesn’t get any better. She is stupid and incoherent and possibly a drunk.

  29. 29.

    Rick Massimo

    January 15, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    “I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.”

    Because that’s all our tycoons are – job creators, selflessly making things better for the rest of us. They don’t make money off this capitalism deal, really.

  30. 30.

    Gregory

    January 15, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    “I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.”

    I’d think K-Lo should rather thank God for artificial stimulators…

  31. 31.

    Bubblegum Tate

    January 15, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    “I know enough to thank God for the job creators, the natural economic stimulators, capitalism.”

    “The job creators” = the rich

    “Natural economic stimulators” = tax cuts for the rich

    “Capitalism” = capitalism, but only insofar as it includes tax cuts for the rich (less tax cuts for the rich = more socialism)

    The Huckenfreude just keeps coming. Yes, how dare he stick up for the poor? What an asshole! He should just admit that the economy is great (for “the job creators”) and otherwise shut his piehole!

  32. 32.

    PNitty

    January 15, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    If you can stand it, go over there and sample some of her writing.

    ugh…no need Jake, i’m already quite familiar with her particular brand of vapidity and idiocy; she’s bad even by NRO’s admittedly already low standards…can’t i just put on a hairshirt or step inside an iron maiden instead? :)

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