Moe Lane, oblivious as ever, writing at the premier site for center-right thought:
I have had it reported to me – at third hand, which means that you can ignore the rest of this post forthwith with no complaints from me, if you like…
Shouldn’t that be the header of Red State at this point?
Another thought. Has anyone at The Next Right considered that it might be a tough sell considering the current right has sucked so hard?
And, in a shameless attempt to get Krista to “squee,” more pictures of Sam:
Comrade The Moar You Know
What part of RedHate is "center" anything?
SpotWeld
It should probably run across the bottom of the screen with any interview with Sara Palin at this point.
John Cole
@Comrade The Moar You Know: Click the “about” tag at Red State and read.
Funny stuff. That is how they bill themselves.
Capelza Gradenko
What the hell happened to Moe lane? Wasn’t he a founder of Ob Wings?
Now he’s the "BLAM!" king at Red State.
jake 4 that 1
What sort of sorry tvvat uses the word "forthwith"?
libarbarian
Wingnut-Circular-Firing-Squad Watch:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/friendly_fire.html
From the coments:
Wow. When conservatives are turning their backs on the WSJ opinion page ….. wow.
Notorious P.A.T.
What was Moe Lane writing about? On second thought, who cares?
Is that the half-Maltese, half-Yorkshire terrier dog you posted a picture of a couple months ago? Cute little doggie )
Brian J
Maybe it’s just the thought of a president intentionally as opposed to accidentally putting an informed, intelligent, capable person in a position of enormous importance that’s anathema to the right. Hey, instead of Summers, why not Don Luskin?
protected static
Forsooth, you cad! Thusly I shall use it forthwith and with unseemly haste revel in its archaic glory!
Or something twatlike like that :-)
SGEW
btw: squee
(not Krista, but still)
Ash Can
Unintentional (?) humor from the McCain’t campaign:
John McCain’s transition chief was a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein.
They aren’t even trying anymore, I swear…
demimondian
"Forthwith" is an escape for people who can’t deal with "forsooth".
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
People! I’m now having SCA flashbacks. Be kind and stop speaking forsoothly already.
#curtsies#
Aw, fuck.
Third Eye Open
The witches’ brew of activists, repressed desk-shoe wearers and crazy-uncle-in-the-attic types who make up the personalities there is a font of material for my hobby of being a method-technique street performer.
I hope they all live long lives.
demkat620
Shorter Moe Lane:
The voices in my head are talking to me again.
Svensker
I think Sam just winked at me. Maybe that could explain the sparkles ricocheting around my living room…?
And who you guys calling a twat? Twit is the word, you duckheads, TWIT.
Notorious P.A.T.
McCain has begun building a transition team?!?!? That is SO presumptuous! ! ! ! !
amorphous
STOP DRESSING YOUR DOGS IN PEOPLE CLOTHES. They don’t like clothes.
@demimondian:
And "forsooth" is only used by those who use "festooned" as in "Xmas* ornaments, with."
*The War on Xmas is creeping ever earlier. It’s not even Halloween, that Satanic-yet-still-pagan delicious candyfest.
J.
Can we just focus on the incredibly cute wittle doggie, people?! Sheesh. Have you all forgotten what’s really important?
More importantly, why is Sam wearing salmon and pink and not Barack Blue, Mr. Cole? And is that an Aqua Patio she is yachting on?
Mentis Fugit
jake 4 that 1:
I could handle that, but "forthwith with" is beyond the pale.
Svensker:
Svensker, a twat is an article of headgear worn by nuns, according to Robert Browning.
jake 4 that 1
@Ash Can: Man. And McPOW is promising to bring up the Obama – Ayers connection during the next debate, while Palin tells him to rein in his voter fraud pals.
If blood and teeth don’t come flying out of the TV during the debate I will be very surprised.
jake 4 that 1
Percy: Beshrew me, Edmund! You’re in good fooling this morning.
Edmund: Don’t say
beshrew me', Percy -- only stupid actors saybeshrew me’.Percy: Oh, how I would love to be an actor! I had a great talent for it in my youth – I was the man of a thousand faces.
Edmund: How’d you come to choose the ugly mug you’ve got now, then? [He begins reading a note.]
Percy: Hah hah! Tush, My Lord.
Edmund: …and don’t say
tush', either! It's only a short step fromtush’ to `hey nonny nonny’; and then, I’m afraid, I’ll shall have to call the police.____
Forthwith gets you an hour in the stocks.
Zifnab
@jake 4 that 1: This campaign season really won’t be complete until we see McCain just go absolutely apeshit on national TV. All the rumor, all the innuendo… I want to see John McCain call someone an N-word c-word-bag cocks-word to his face.
If we can just watch J. Sidney finally lose it, in public, on camera, and for all the world to see, I will declare this the best political campaign season in the history of ever.
Evil Parallel Universe
If it’s puppy wars you want, puppy wars you shall get
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2882034437_329bfa6311_b.jpg – Perro Heroico. Yes, his name is Che, after THAT Che.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2628597016_96c2de3f51_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3279/2672844380_a9ea9840fe_b.jpg Bird Dog
Gratuitous puppy pic…awwwwww….. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2155/2292043790_690a2bc171_b.jpg
More gratuitous puppy pics…..double awwwww……… http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2293592611_83d911a1b0_b.jpg
Surrendor now!
Evil Parallel Universe
Surrendor = Surrender in your universe
nabalzbbfr
Here is a new potential Ayers-Obama blockbuster coming to light:
Obama’s missing Columbia years
Rock
I know it was mentioned in a previous thread, but is this what the McCain campaign is going to roll out in the last 10 days?
Confederate Yankee on Frank Marshall Davis
I have to say, it matches the "live boy or dead girl" description of what is needed rather well.
I don’t buy the molestation implication (what with 0 evidence and all) but, to be honest, just knowing that Obama and his family were associated with Davis makes me feel like not voting for him. Given that I should be reliable Democratic vote, that makes me slightly worried that this will be effective. Apologies if this sounds like concern trolling…
Tim (The Other One)
Screw "forthwith".
Check out Palin when she uses "as for" to string together her gibberish.
Throw in a coupla "what nots" and "what have you’s" and your Joe Six Packin’ it like a Mac Daddy !
Tim (The Other One)
That’s nothing. He was on Warner Brothers before Columbia ever signed him. Those LPs are the shit.
jake 4 that 1
Here, here. I feel the same way about the last 8 years if we get a full Bush Flame Out. That would make it all worth while.
However, tomorrow is my 40th, so I’m being very good and praying the Baby Jesus will look kindly on this newly over-the-hill old fart and cause McPOW to completely lose his shit while the cameras roll. If he takes a swing at Obama and winds up doing a face plant you’ll know the Holy Infant is smiling on me and bonking me on the head with his rattle. But I’ll settle for a verbal flip out complete with streamers of spittle.
Hmmm. Can I fit a Mass in between now and the debate? Maybe if I shove some cash in the box and light all the candles…
Comrade Stuck
OT
Reminder of PBS’s Frontline and their take on the Election is tonight.
The Other Steve
Why o why forthwith won’t you use my dog pic, forsooth?
Dennis - SGMM
Another new Obama blockbuster comes to light:
Most people know that even a young child can operate an AK47. Obama was once a young child. Connect the dots, people.
The Other Steve
I would just like to point out that Robert Lincoln was in known association with one Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth. Is it possible that Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was not because of anger over the civil war, but in fact an act of patricide encouraged and possibly paid for by his very own son!?
This is a very serious charge people, and must be investigated!
Dennis - SGMM
Shhhh. Ixnay on the Oothbay. Obama is saving the McCain/John Wilkes Booth connection for the last week of the election.
Tsulagi
Pretty much. Looks like Moe phoned that one in. Sorta along the lines of that Fox reporter who said something like “If Michelle Obama had used these words instead, shouldn’t we be outraged?” Classic.
I think they’re suffering from postpartum Palin blues over there at RS, and in Greater Wingnuttia in general. Palin arrived, they got all excited and stiffened up, but now realize their little starburst generators went off prematurely. She’s not that hot, and there’s some bugs.
So now their little generators are dead once again no matter how hard they whack away to Ayers or ACORN while they cry to what could have been. Sad.
Krista
Squeeeeeee!
I. Want. That. Dog.
I want to kiss the top of her furry little head and ruffle her silky little ears.
And my husband now wants a set of earplugs after hearing me "OMIGODLOOKATTHECUTEDOGGIE!" at top volume.
double-plus-ungood
I miss the old ObiWi Moe Lane. He was a nice guy. He’s been replaced by some kind of pod creature.
The Other Steve
Oh no! Obama might have had an affair with a woman named Vera Baker.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/12/is-vera-baker-surfacing-as-a-potential-story-in-the-presidential-race/
Sadly Vera Baker denies it is true, which of course means it is most certainly true because why would you deny something if it was false.
Dennis - SGMM
A lifetime of having people inquire after Larry and Curly would embitter the best of us.
double-plus-ungood
And here are some cute doggie pics.
Did I say cute? I meant upside-down.
Comrade Stuck
This is why I love the intertubes. You learn something new every day and that’s enough to make anybody Squee!
Svensker
Nozzleboffer says:
With all that stretching you guys do to come up with this crap, you must be REALLY good at reacharounds.
Still, thanks for the laughs.
Perry Como
@Evil Parallel Universe:
The puppy wars have begun.
Evil Parallel Universe
Some first class illogic first:
"Duke" Cunningham was a pilot in Vietnan.
John McCain was a pilot in Vietnam.
"Duke" Cunning served in Congress as a repug.
John McCain serves in Congress as a repug.
Edith Bunker once said "He’d lay down his life for the Duke. For me no but for the Duke yes." (Season 2, Episode 2 – "Writing the President")
"Duke" Cunningham is a convicted felon.
Why would John McCain does hate America?
Evil Parallel Universe
Perry, Perry, Perry…
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/2776307608_eb124e884a_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2235/2245608674_3da7b7f440_o.jpg ~8 weeks old. Can’t get it to stand up straight though.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2297/2516842708_d5f43b7014_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2536290705_ec6b7ab65e_b.jpg Post-neutering, but still cute in that puppy war winning way.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2175/2434249557_2dc3c94966_b.jpg
I got more. Surrender.
protected static
@nabalzbbfr: you’re a busy little fucker today, aren’t you?
Evil Parallel Universe
Snark is killed by typos. My apologies. But the puppy wars were calling.
Perry Como
What’s the over/under on Moe Lane getting caught with two wetsuits and a dildo?
chopper
you wouldn’t say that if you ever saw a bulldog in a sweater.
Perry Como
@chopper: Ever seen a snake in a turtleneck?
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
This thread is way too full of puppies and perversions. You need some Heartland America values, like, pronto.
Click around the 2009 Oval Office.
carpeicthus
I remember when Moe Lane had a soul and John did not. There is clearly one soul they share between them. When do you have to give it back, John?
carpeicthus
Seriously, who else do you know went from centrist to wingnut around 2005? This isn’t LGF perpetually crapping its pants after 9/11, this is intentionally running toward a damaged brand. You almost have to respect a decline so downright weird.
Dennis - SGMM
This just out:
Obama leads McCain by 14 points: CBS/NYT poll
link
harlana pepper
Oh, so ‘squeeing’ is considered cool on BJ now? When did all you hard-asses turn so soft? Must be the pet pics melting you down.
Josh Huaco
@Perry Como: Sorry, I was circumcised at birth.
Seriously, has anyone received a letter from the "McCain-Palin Victory Fund" requesting a donation of up to $5K? There’s an enclosed pre-paid "Federal Express" envelope (swear to God, that’s what it says in the appeal). I received one of these last week and I smell a total scam. First of all, I haven’t voted Republican since 2000, and I had a different last name back then. Second of all, the letterhead does not have the McCain-Palin logo, but instead says "John McCain" in a font different than what the campaign uses. As much as I want to see McPalin lose, I’d hate to see anybody get ripped off by this.
Comrade Snark Based Reality
BOOYAH. Fucking owned by them "likely voters".
Old whitey getting OWNED by a Ni… Ni… Ni… ah fuck. I need to stop ODing on the schadenfreude.
Perry Como
@Comrade Snark Based Reality: The Knights Who Say…?
tripletee (formerly tBone)
@Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse:
So. Full. Of. Win. Although overly optimistic, I fear.
Blue Raven
I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt, Rock, and answer you legitimately instead of assuming you’re concern-trolling.
What evidence is there that the Obamas even knew the guy was into schoolgirls? Do you really think parents as devoted as Barack and Michelle would allow someone of that perversion that close to them and their children if they did know? If the answers to those questions are "none" and "no," breathe and mark your ballot wisely.
Dennis - SGMM
Obama leads McCain by 14 points
It’s sadly ironic that had McCain run an issue-oriented campaign, played the POW card 3842 times less, and chosen someone who could pass the High School Exit Exam as his VP, he might have had a shot.
Comrade Stuck
We’re like marshmellows wrapped in a Porcupine shell and dipped in Chocolate for Sqweeeeeetness!
Comrade Darkness
Was she worth 100 million? Was his wife recovering from an accident at the time? Did he leave his wife and marry her?
Hm, I’m afraid "no" to those questions means you cannot use that to bulk up Obama’s manly creds, McCain-style. Nice try, but still Fail.
Napoleon
OT, Did anyone see Ed Kilgore’s takedown of the recent Republican meme
as an attempt to make Obama illegitimate. It is very good.
mapaghimagsik
Can you donate .01 to McCain-Palin and make them eat more in credit card processing fees than they take in?
cain
Uh, I guess we aren’t talking about "All in the Family" huh? Archie Bunker I think was a democrat right? Loved the episode when Edith died.. that was touching. Just like how touching it will be when I see that sad, crestfallen face of Palin as her dreams get shot to hell and then she has to go back and face Alaska voters.
I want that house, and I want that float plane. That, some wine, cheese, and some doobies, and my life would rock.
cain
Napoleon
Whoops, I guess that wasn’t Ed Kilgore, but it is still good.
kay
"I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt, Rock, and answer you legitimately instead of assuming you’re concern-trolling.
What evidence is there that the Obamas even knew the guy was into schoolgirls? Do you really think parents as devoted as Barack and Michelle would allow someone of that perversion that close to them and their children if they did know? If the answers to those questions are "none" and "no," breathe and mark your ballot wisely."
I think you’re a little confused.
Barack was the child, according the link. He was 10 years old.
Krista
Bah. I’ve always been the softie on this blog, so I have no shame in squeeing.
Besides, it’s a nice respite from all the election stuff going on tonight. My projection: Conservative minority government, and the Conservative party decides that after three failed tries, Stephen Harper is never going to be able to deliver a majority government, and it’s time for a new face.
Litlebritdifrnt
This evening I took my mother (who is visiting from England remember) to Texas Steakhouse where the Daughter’s of the Confederacy local chapter were having a meeting and a speaker was giving a talk on "The etiquette of the fan" which seeing as my mum dresses up as Queen Victoria on a regular basis for local festivals and history classes at schools and such she thought it would be fun.
Anyhoo. As I waited for her (I had no interest in the talk) I sat at the bar with a glass of wine and a ciggie and chatted with the barmaid. At some point a young Marine got into the conversation (about politics) whereupon he told me about how much he LOVES McCain/Palin. Eventually we got around to policy etc., whereupon he told me that "anyone who cannot afford health care or who does not have health insurance should just die" I asked him "why is it that the american people are not entitled to the health care that you enjoy" he reminded me that he is serving his country and he deserves his healthcare. I then asked him if the american people are not entitled to enjoy the same healthcare that congress enjoy, seeing as congress are serving the people. He had no answers. He then told me that in "countries I have visited they don’t take care of their disabled people they just leave them to die" I told him that America was a moral and civilized country and that should not be allowed. He then told me "why should the rest of us have to take care of them" I said to him "you are obviously not a Christian" he said "yes actually I am a Christian" I said "well why do you not follow Christ’s teachings in that society should take care of the least of us" he had no answer. I swear it was a frightening look inside the soul of a McCain/Palin supporter. I asked him if he was a career Marine? He said "hell no" I ended with, "get back to me when you are out of the Marine corps, with no job, with no health insurance and no hope". I could go on but I would just depress you all as to the entire line of tripe this poor young man spouted (word for word from the McCain campaign and/or smear e-mails). Sad.
Jon H
Reading the proposed Obama scandals, I can come up with only one conclusion.
Clearly, Obama’s adolescent exposure to an adult with Communist sympathies and an eye for underage girls led him to be a potentially unfaithful hetero sex machine with a strong marriage.
Damaging.
Conservatively Liberal
I was watching Hardball and Tweety did a segment about Palin on cRush Limpbough where she essentially said that she can say whatever she wants as she has nothing to lose.
Tweety asked the wingnut congressman on his show if he thought Palin was ready, that is he thought she could handle a crisis like the financial one we face. The wingnut blathered on , eventually saying ‘yes’ but them making a reference to ‘a funny feeling going up his leg’ because he could tell that Matthews was getting sick of his shit.
You could tell Matthews was incredulous that this moron was supporting Palin and thought she was ready to lead.
Christopher Buckley was on Hardball too, and he was pretty funny as he talked about the Republican party as it now exists. I find it funny that he is part owner of NR and yet they accepted his resignation. Boy does he sound like his dad at times…lol!
The wingnuts that attack the old style conservatives are not doing themselves any favors. When this is over and Obama wins, there is going to be a feeding frenzy on the right as fingers assigning blame are pointed everywhere. The people who walked rather than voting for Palin are all going to be pointing in one direction, but the lunatics in control of the Republican asylum aren’t going to be listening.
They will be too busy eating each other.
jcricket
Look – if Obama hasn’t had an affair it proves he’s probably gay. If he didn’t leave his wife for a younger campaign staffer, it proves he’s not really an American. And, since Limbaugh took trips to the Dominican Republic for the purposes of sex tourism, Obama’s failure to do same proves, once again, he’s a communist.
jcricket
I will be happy if Republicans, again, take as a lesson that they weren’t wingnutty enough. And the reason Americans (most of whom don’t even know blogs exist, let alone read the Great Orange Satan) chose Obama and other Dems is due to a vast conspiracy.
I think the wingnuts will find diminishing returns in their efforts to scare people into voting Republican. They’ll still excite the base, and they’ll find something to convince the "vulnerable" (low-information) voters to vote their fears now and then – but I think the era of Democrats just sitting there and taking it is over.
Or at least I hope it is. Because otherwise this is a one-time gain.
ellie
I like when people dress their dogs in clothes. I try and try to get my Shar Pei into his Burberry coat and he looks at me like I am crazy. He’s the crazy one for not wanting to wear a coat!
blogreeder
Does anyone know how to get rid of the black screen of death? I was having a lively chat on the open thread and can’t get back. :(
Krista
@ blogreeder: I have no idea — I haven’t had the black screen of death as of yet (knock on wood).
But I’m sure you can get back into the open thread…you just have to work hard enough.
demimondian
You do know that we have it specially tuned to keep losers like you out after a while, don’t you?
We consider it to be the best "Darrell defense" available.
kommrade jakevich
@Krista: You’re either using IE or you’ve got some serious Canadian voodoo going on. When
Queen JadisPresident Palin is in charge it won’t work because she’ll have made us all witch-proof. Ha!Seriously John, Mozilla is stomping your blog like a Tokyo taxicab.
Gus
Wow, I surrender!
jbarntt
I’ll be voting for McCain, but Lawrence Summers as Sec. of the Treas. in an Obama admin. would be a good choice.
Beej
Sam is seriously adorable. But don’t you think a more casual style really suits her best? Velvet just isn’t her best fabric. Too, too outre’
Anne Laurie
Depends on the dog. Some don’t care for clothes, many will go along with whatever their favorite human thinks is appropriate/funny, and some dogs really ADORE dressing up. And I’m not just talking about twitchy little pillow-weights, either. One year at our obedience club’s annual Halloween party, Cleo the elegant Standard Poodle sulked all evening because she’d been asked to wear a top hat, while Mac the Scotty — a dog usually so dour and snappy that dogs twice his size would make a wide circle around him — paraded around in an angel costume, wiggling his butt & demanding center stage. It was like watching Gene Hackman’s turn at the end of ‘The Bird Cage’. Inside that coarse exterior was the soul of a dramatic artiste!
Catsy
I wish to hell I knew. Back in his ObWi and Tacitus days, I really liked Moe. He was a sharp, witty sci-fi geek and frankly one of the saner conservative voices at the time. He seemed to have a genuine respect for truth and respect in the realm of politics, and I recall him taking stands on matters of principle that deviated pretty hard from the party line.
He was a Republican, but one of the good ones.
Near as I can tell, he got completely fed up with the pile-ons from the growing left-leaning population at ObWi. I can’t say as I blame him; the pile-ons there can get pretty serious, although frankly if you’re getting piled on it’s usually because you’re trying to sell a load of horseshit as air freshener. Moe wasn’t habitually dishonest with the posts he wrote the way Charles Bird was, but he was still arguing the Iraq War from the perspective of a Bush Republican, which meant that a certain amount of horseshit was inevitable anyway.
Since migrating full-time over to Redstate and taking on moderator duties there, he’s pretty much been assimilated into the Collective. I don’t know if his personality changed or if he was just putting on a facade at ObWi, but now he’s pretty much turned into Karl Rove with geek cred. He has the twitchiest trigger finger of any Redstate moderator, and he’s developed this undeservedly smug manner of dealing with everyone who isn’t on board with the party line–snide, self-important, and boasting an overinflated sense of his own power, to the point where he’d get his ass stomped into the ground if he tried to talk that way to any human being to their face.
I’ve tried to reach him a few times by appealing to his sense of decency and what common ground we have, but I’m pretty much at the point where I consider him a lost cause. Unfortunately, this seems to be by design–his way of washing his hands of ObWi seems to include trying very hard to be the polar opposite of the reputation for integrity that he had, apparently in the hopes that he’ll so embitter anyone on the left that he knew that they’ll stop trying to engage him in any way. Put simply, he’s burned his bridges.
I guess the reason it bugs me more than most is because I genuinely liked Moe and considered him a friend. We weren’t close or anything, I never met him, but he was a conservative I could relate to and respect, and a fellow member of a community I valued. Seeing him wholeheartedly embrace Republican anti-intellectualism, swallow talking points that are a complete insult to his intelligence, and stand behind lies that he knows damn well are lies makes me wonder how well any of us ever knew him at all.
Catsy
And John. Seriously. For the love of all that’s holy, PLEASE get rid of this excuse for a text editor that has been inflicted upon your blog. Whatever you paid for it, get a refund if you can; you got ripped off.
If nothing else, please give us the option to edit using raw HTML instead of allowing this piece of shit to enforce its interpretation of how we want to format our posts. Having no built-in formatting options at all is preferable to breaking our intended formatting with its haphazard parsing of fake HTML tags.
blogreeder
I hope I don’t jinx ya. I was able to continue on the open thread but I had to use IE 7 and it is a pain.
double-plus-ungood
Ditto, Catsy. Back when ObiWi was a tiny corner of the bloggoverse, Moe was one of those conservatives that helped me remember that there were integrity, honesty, and intelligence on both sides of the political fence. Mr. Cole does that too (even though he pretends to be a liberal now, which he ain’t :)
Your take on what happened to Moe sounds about as right as any I’ve heard. It’s sad.