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This has to be the best reaction to the news that Spitzer’s hooker had been identified:

The low-hanging fruit would be a nude photo shoot, for which she would be paid a lot of money, but if she is smart she’ll think bigger. She is said to be an aspiring singer, so now she can probably get a record deal and a night club career. Or she can perhaps break into films if she is so inclined. But that’s not all: my guess is that she will be interviewed by journalists, and quoted as though she were a serious social critic.

If anyone knows something about low-hanging fruit, it is a Powerline front-pager.

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  2. 2.

    r€nato

    my guess is that she will be interviewed by journalists, and quoted as though she were a serious social critic.

    Goodness knows, only random right-wingers with a blog are qualified to be serious social critics. Heh, indeed!

  3. 3.

    Zifnab

    But that’s not all: my guess is that she will be interviewed by journalists, and quoted as though she were a serious social critic.

    Nothing says “I’m a giant whore” like consorting with the blasphemous and oh-so depraved MSM.

    That said, I was waiting for Powerline to suggest she should get into porn.

  4. 4.

    4tehlulz

    my guess is that she will be interviewed by journalists, and quoted as though she were a serious social critic.

    It worked for Ann Coulter.

  5. 5.

    PaulW

    That said, I was waiting for Powerline to suggest she should get into porn.

    She’d be perfect for Femalien 3!

    Actually, I think her smart move *is* to look at a singing career. If anything her first album and video would be novelties. Oh, if only Miami Vice were still on the air…

  6. 6.

    myiq2xu

    That said, I was waiting for Powerline to suggest she should get into porn.

    That would be more respectable than hanging out with the media.

  7. 7.

    Dennis - SGMM

    If anyone knows something about low-hanging fruit, it is a Powerline front-pager.

    They also know how to get the most out of whoring.

  8. 8.

    myiq2xu

    I guess Geraldine distracted us from this story:

    Another sign of the anger in Obamaland at the Clinton campaign: an email from a member of Obama’s LGBT leadership council, Maxim Thorne, to a couple of listservs:

    “We cannot tolerate her lies and stolen election,” Thorne wrote of Clinton, revisiting familiar themes:

    At 3am, Hillary said she and Bill were in bed and she knows of all the calls a President gets at different times of the day and night. Really? So much involvement – so much togetherness. Where was she when Monica was having sex with Bill? 35 years of experience? When he was intimidating Katherine Wiley and Paula Jones? Where was the judgment on the cattle futures and white water. Do we forget Mark and Denise Rich? This was an impeached President who lost his license to practice law. He committed perjury. They settled with Paula Jones for the full amount of her lawsuit. I haven’t forgotten and none of us should.

    “These comments have no place in this campaign,” said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor, who couldn’t immediately say whether Thorne would be leaving his position with the campaign.

    UPDATE: Vietor said Thorne is resigning from the leadership council, and that the campaign has accepted his resignation.

    My favorite part was this allegation:

    I remember the scandal when the Clintons’ bags were searched when they left the White House and they had to return historic artifacts and gifts.

  9. 9.

    TheFountainHead

    I guess Geraldine distracted us from this story:

    If you want to think Gerry was just a distraction, and I don’t think she was by any means, how about the distraction from the fact that pretty much every single piece of Foreign Policy experience Clinton has ever claimed has been wildly blown out of proportion if not a straight up lie. How about a distraction from the fact that they still haven’t released their tax returns. How about the fact that since her March 4th wins Obama has actually managed to increase his lead over her in EVERY measure of this contest? Maxim Thorne may have lashed out, and now he’s gone, but if good ‘ol Gerry was screening anything, it was Hillary.

  10. 10.

    grandpajohn

    4tehlulz Says:

    my guess is that she will be interviewed by journalists, and quoted as though she were a serious social critic.

    It worked for Ann Coulter.

    POTD

  11. 11.

    myiq2xu

    If you want to think Gerry was just a distraction, and I don’t think she was by any means, how about the distraction from the fact that pretty much every single piece of Foreign Policy experience Clinton has ever claimed has been wildly blown out of proportion if not a straight up lie.

    When I saw on the other thread that you don’t believe in global warming I finally understood your devotion to the MUP fairy tale.

    How about a distraction from the fact that they still haven’t released their tax returns.

    Ride that jackalope!

    What law has Hillary broken? Where does it say she has to release them at all?

    BTW – As a Senator she files finacial disclosure forms with the Senate (in addition to filing tax returns with the government) so what evidence do you have that she is “hiding” anything illegal or unethical?

    You just want to go fishing. Perhaps you would like to see the results from her last Pap smear too?

  12. 12.

    Dug Jay

    I see that lefty icon, Paul Krugman, has intimated on his blog that many of the liberal “progressives,” which I gather includes most of the Obama supporters here, are proving themselves to be “crazy” and downright shitty.

    GO PAUL. Sock it to ’em.

  13. 13.

    Sasha

    myiq2xu,

    Why are you injecting irrelevant commentary about the Ferraro kerfuffle into this thread which has nothing to do with the Dem primary? It’s just silly.

  14. 14.

    John S.

    So since she was doing the governor of New York, does this mean that she has political experience now? Maybe she should run for elected office.

    It worked for Hillary!

    /snark

  15. 15.

    John S.

    What law has Hillary broken? Where does it say she has to release them at all?

    Hey slick, remember when Hillary harrangued her opponent Rick Lazio about releasing his tax returns?

    The Democrats have been sowing conspiracy theories of the what-is-Lazio-hiding variety, not to mention dispatching Uncle Sam to keep the issue in reporters’ faces. On Wednesday, Howard Wolfson, the chief spokesman for Mr. Lazio’s opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, even showed up at a Lazio event in Harlem to fan the flames.

    It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.

  16. 16.

    DougJ

    That was a pretty intelligent reaction for Powerline.

    My own reaction: It must be very strange to be Kristen. A woman of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, she can’t get anyone to notice. She is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of her time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

  17. 17.

    myiq2xu

    It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.

    Hypocrisy in politics?

    Next you’ll be telling me that “Kristen” isn’t a virgin!

  18. 18.

    Zifnab

    I guess Geraldine distracted us from this story:

    While that is a compelling case not to vote for Hillary Clinton, I fail to see your point, other than to note that yet another member of Obama’s campaign was sacked for speaking his mind.

    Frankly, I don’t see why Ferraro or Thorne or the first woman should have left their posts. If that’s the type of people you associate with, then let’m stand tall. At the very least, the Obama camp seems interested in criticizing Hillary for her policies and her actions. Ferraro just seemed focused on the color of Obama’s skin.

  19. 19.

    J. Michael Neal

    myiq, do you have a response to someone pointing out that Hillary’s claims to foreign policy experience are bogus? If it helps, I do believe in global warming.

  20. 20.

    Zifnab

    So since she was doing the governor of New York, does this mean that she has political experience now? Maybe she should run for elected office.

    It worked for Hillary!

    Oh please. I might swallow a bunch of “experience” and “ready on day one” BS, but if you expect me to believe Bill and Hillary are actually sleeping together… ?

    She runs around wearing a fully pressed pants suit at 3 o’clock in the morning. I question whether that woman even sleeps at all.

  22. 22.

    Paul L.

    4tehlulz Says:

    my guess is that she will be interviewed by journalists, and quoted as though she were a serious social critic.

    It worked for Ann Coulter.

    You are thinking of
    Ana Marie Cox. the first Wonkette

  23. 23.

    myiq2xu

    myiq, do you have a response to someone pointing out that Hillary’s claims to foreign policy experience are bogus?

    “The truth is out there.”

  24. 24.

    John S.

    Hypocrisy in politics?

    Nice deflection.

    I’ll take that as a tacit acknowledgement that your girl is entirely full of shit.

  25. 25.

    John S.

    To sum up, myiq2xu doesn’t care what Hillary does because:

    – The other kids are mean to her
    – Everyone else is doing it
    – Obama has cooties

    You’ve really elevated the level of discourse here.

  26. 26.

    Zifnab

    You are thinking of
    Ana Marie Cox. the first Wonkette

    You’d have done better playing the “Arianna Huffington” card – as she actually appears regularly on TV. But even then you’d be out of luck. Huffington isn’t a giant media joke.

  28. 28.

    myiq2xu

    Obama has cooties

    Not as far as I know.

    You’ve really elevated the level of discourse here.

    Yeah, discussions were stale and academic before I singlehandedly turned it into Jerry Springer’s Balloon Juice.

  29. 29.

    Jake

    Shorter Powerslime: We hope she’ll switch to a career where we get to look at her more! [Fap fap fap…]

    Saddest. Thing. Evar.

  31. 31.

    L Boom

    I think the Powerline guys are just giddy because it’s the first sex scandal in a while involving an actual woman.

  32. 32.

    myiq2xu

    I’ve heard that low-hanging fruit makes the gosh durned tastiest pie.

    The older I get, the lower my fruit hangs.

  34. 34.

    myiq2xu

    Okay. I guess you just don’t care that she’s lying.

    Why should I waste time on a long point-by-point refutation of your MUP meme when you won’t believe it anyway?

    Your mind is made up, you don’t want facts.

  38. 38.

    Davebo

    Here’s a question for Senator Reid.

    Why is Joe Lieberman, a man who is actively campaigning for the opposition presidential candidate, still head of the senate Oversight Committee and still retaining his seniority?

    Publius mentions it over at ObWi and I think it’s an excellent question.

  39. 39.

    myiq2xu

    Why is Joe Lieberman, a man who is actively campaigning for the opposition presidential candidate, still head of the senate Oversight Committee and still retaining his seniority?

    Because if they don’t kiss Holy Joe’s low-hanging fruit then he’ll turn control of the Senate to the GOPers and then all those Senate investigations and progressive legislation will be stopped.

  40. 40.

    J. Michael Neal

    Why should I waste time on a long point-by-point refutation of your MUP meme when you won’t believe it anyway?

    Well, I am disinclined to believe that someone was heavily involved in something when all of the other participants say that she wasn’t, and where none of the documentary evidence shows heavy involvement. I’m also disinclined to believe that talks today can influence someone to do something yesterday.

    Still, I’d like to at least know what the support for her claims is.

  41. 41.

    Dennis - SGMM

    Spitzer sure was a crusader all right – unless you happen to be a New York patient suing for medical malpractice.

    Seems that the New York Medical Society was trying to get medical malpractice awards capped and to get a state subsidy and/or a tax rebate for their malpractice insurance.

    So Spitzer, who’s brother is also a neurosurgeon, was an important ally of the physicians in trying to limit patient rights. Victimized patients will not be sorry to see him go if this was the issue that they held most dear to their hearts.

  42. 42.

    SpotWeld

    The way Powerline sells it, it’s as if aspiring to be on the next season of The Apprentice: Celebrity Edition is a good thing.

  43. 43.

    Singularity

    You know, when I read the breakout quote, I thought to myself, “I bet Hinderaker wrote that post”. Lo and behold, post by John.

    If it involves prostitutes, bikini models, or pageant contestants, Assmissile is the Powerline go-to guy. You’d think his wife would’ve noticed a pattern by now. But I guess she probably finds him as unreadable as everyone else.

  45. 45.

    b. hussein canuckistani

    I think she’s overqualified to write for Powerline given that she has a job.

  46. 46.

    Zuzu

    Listen, if people go on “Big Brother” and the like with the idea of making it into show biz, this is probably as good an entre as any.

  48. 48.

    John S.

    Your mind is made up, you don’t want facts.

    The projection is strong with you, young Paduwan.

  52. 52.

    tBone

    I think she’s overqualified to write for Powerline given that she has a job functional frontal cortex.

    Let’s not give the Powerline boys undue credit.

    The projection is strong with you, young Paduwan.

    If you guys are going to insist on using nerdy Star Wars references, at least spell them right: Padawan. Not “paduan” or “paduwan” or “padiwan”. And it’s “Kashyyyk” with two “y”s, damn it!

  53. 53.

    tBone

    I know this off topic, but I figure myiq and p.luk might want to tell us all exactly how Clinton isn’t utterly destroying whatever credibility she had left with this inteview on NPR this morning.

    “We’ll wait and see where the voters go,” Clinton says, when asked if she thinks the superdelegates should follow the lead of the popular vote. “I want to see what happens in Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico, Michigan and Florida.”

    Good on ya, Puerto Rico – you count!

  54. 54.

    jcricket

    If anyone knows something about low-hanging fruit, it is a Powerline front-pager.

    There’s some kind of joke, I can almost picture it, about low-hanging-fruit, Spitzer and the prostitute…

    If you guys are going to insist on using nerdy Star Wars references, at least spell them right: Padawan. Not “paduan” or “paduwan” or “padiwan”. And it’s “Kashyyyk” with two “y”s, damn it!

    Isn’t Jedi-speak like Hebrew? There’s no one translation for it? Yoda, Jyoda, Yowdah, etc.

  55. 55.

    borehole

    Andrei, I woke up to that. How depressing. The delegate stuff makes MEGO but she’s letting everyone run with the “If not me, McCain” thing, which is so not cool I can’t believe it’s not costing her more support. At least Pelosi’s hip to it–nice to see Pelosi get hip to, well, anything.

  58. 58.

    jcricket

    Star Wars references involving prequels are not Star Wars references.

    Yes, let’s nitpick the nitpicks.

  59. 59.

    John S.

    If you guys are going to insist on using nerdy Star Wars references, at least spell them right: Padawan.

    I find that misspelling fictional terms is a good way to reduce nerdiness.

  60. 60.

    Xenos

    Star Wars? I thought it was a Shakespeare reference (Yound people from Padua cropping up in a few plays) that I just did not get.

    I love science fiction, but let’s not get all Goldbergian around here.

  63. 63.

    John S.

    I like this Clintonian logic from her morning interview:

    Hillary Clinton says the results of Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary should count, even if Barack Obama’s name did not appear on the ballot.

    “That was his choice,” she says in an interview with Steve Inskeep. “There was no rule or requirement that he take his name off the ballot. His supporters ran a very aggressive campaign to try to get people to vote uncommitted.”

    Of course, myiq2xu will post something from this justification from the sages over at Talk Left, who seemed to get the memo from the Hillary camapign on the matter. Because the Four State Pledge Letter didn’t explicitly refer to Michigan!

    It only said:

    THEREFORE, I _______________, Democratic Candidate for President, pledge I shall not campaign or participate in any state which schedules a presidential election primary or caucus before Feb. 5, 2008, except for the states of Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina, as “campaigning” is defined by rules and regulations of the DNC.

    Now, why the candidates remained on the Florida ballot after withdrawing from the Michigan ballot is a total fucking mystery to me. I have yet to see a plausible explanation of that. Anyone got something?

  64. 64.

    Dennis - SGMM

    On the campaign trail, Clinton has touted her foreign policy experience and told NPR that she has represented the U.S. government in more than 80 countries, including working in Northern Ireland.

    She explains that she went there with State Department officials, as a part of the team that included principal negotiators who were under the authority of her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

    “I wasn’t sitting at the negotiating table, but the role I played was instrumental,” she tells Inskeep.

    “An’ I freed Nelson Mandela, an’ I designed the tiles on the Space Shuttle, an’ I was held in a prison camp for five years, an’ I stopped the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, an’ I I I I I I I I I…

  66. 66.

    Singularity

    Now, why the candidates remained on the Florida ballot after withdrawing from the Michigan ballot is a total fucking mystery to me.

    In Obama’s case, I would guess it was the fact that after he removed his name from the ballot in the earlier Michigan primary, and Clinton did not, he preferred not being suckered twice. There’s an old saying in Florida — I know it’s in Michigan, probably in Florida — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again!

    In Clinton’s case, I would guess that she never intended to abide by the rules to which she had previously agreed.

  67. 67.

    w vincentz

    Sorry to bring the topic back to “low hanging fruit”, but it sure caught my eye (besides Geraldine’s or Hillary’s hangers). I have many years of experience with the nurturing of fruits, the lower hanging, the better.
    Take, for example, tomatoes. So many varieties, so many lusious red, pink and yellow ripe beauties…
    Ahh, I tremble just thinking of them.
    I must confess, I view them as luscious objects of my desire. Yet, I put so much effort into bringing them to the fullness of their potential.
    I like to start them early, but not too early. Their genetics are carefully selected.
    I watch and wait after they are dampened, expecting the explosion of germination. Once they burst forth, I carefully insert the tenderness into a place where fertility is assured and the nitrogen can take its full effect.
    And then, the gentle transfer to the bed, with holes opened wide, and their needs presupplied.
    See…I fill the holes with plenty of horse manure. All the “low hanging fruit” I’ve ever cultivated just love SHIT. It hold great power!
    It seems to me that the lovely “Kristen” has stepped in it!
    Ahh, then again, perhaps she’s just another “low hanging fruit” in the tradition of Brittiny, or Paris, or Anna Nicole, or….something in my garden.
    Gotta love the SHIT! It feeds.

  68. 68.

    jcricket

    OK. I will try again: pantloadian, doughy sub-type, let’s not get.

    Fat-ist!

    Anti-pant-loadian!

  69. 69.

    tBone

    Kashyyyk” with two “y”s

    hmmmmm….

    Yeah, all right, you caught me. I can haz massive fail.

  70. 70.

    ThymeZone

    Clinton isn’t utterly destroying whatever credibility she had left with this inteview on NPR this morning.

    Nothing new there, but it’s shocking to see all that bullshit in one place at one time, coming directly out of her lying mouth.

    I’d disqualify her for office on the basis of the Michigan claim by itself, or the Northern Ireland claim by itself, even if there were no other objections to her. Those two assertions by her put her into the same category of people in which I put a George W. Bush or a Dick Cheney, people who will tell any lie to get what they want.

    Somebody stop this horrible woman from fucking up my party and my country …. please.

  72. 72.

    Jamey

    myiq2xu Says:

    Nobody cares, sport.

    You must care, because you’re nobody.

    my1q1/2u:

    If your posts get any lamer, John will give you a masthead spot just below Michael D.

  75. 75.

    Badtux

    Uhm, Guckert, you have to be a *male* prostitute to get that cushy gig. Surely you knew that!

    – Badtux the Snarky Penguin

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