Republican hero worship was annoying when they fixated on Saint Ron, and puzzling when they chose George Bush’s least son from a batch that includes Neil. What passes for a shining white knight these days has reached the point that a true friend would stage an intervention. I will illustrate two vids in the news these days.
First, Samuel “Joe the figurehead” Wurzelbacher on reporting in war.
Second, Sarah Palin on what went wrong in November (short version: not her).
Please tell me how this sounds like the future of anything. If I knew this was the future of my next bus trip I would splurge on the train. Neither of these clips even rise to the coherence standards of a local TV man on the street montage. The average wingnut who thinks that America can’t be safe unless we sodomize some terrorist children outclasses both of them by an order of magnitude. There just isn’t any affirmative reason to let these guys represent the party.
The only possible motivation seems like a negative one. As Atrios points out Republicans love crazy people spouting horseshit as long as it pisses off liberals. ‘Reasonable’ rightwingers love to argue that clowns like Hannity and Ann Coulter represent an embarrassing sideshow, but if that’s true, the main act keeps itself awfully well hidden. George W’s administration will die without an heir and 50% of the John McCain movement is registered Connecticut for Lieberman. Setting aside Sarah Coulter Palin, the messiah bench is pretty thin for the charismatic GOP cult. The perverse instinct to piss off the people who hate them, which seemed like a sure bet when most of the country was terrified of burning a flag and pissing on the embers criticizing a Republican, won’t pay off as well now that everyone hates them.
It’s really kind of amazing. Even after Republicans decided that the media, edumificated ‘experts’ and wide majorities of the American people all hate them (they do), the GOP still thinks it can win by childishly spiting everyone on its enemies list. Maybe they’re the allegorical scorpion who knows that stabbing the frog won’t win any national elections; but, on the other hand…frog. Stab.
JGabriel
Hey, Tim, I noticed that this post is: Uncategorized.
Shouldn’t it be filed under Clown Shoes, instead?
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JGabriel
Seriously, though, I think Sarah and Joe make a perfect couple. What’s-his-face, Mr. Palin, better watch out.
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r€nato
Everybody else may be either losing their job or in danger of losing their job, but it looks like the GOP will keep comedy writers fully employed long after Bush has retired to his
ranchcushy Dallas suburb.Cards by 6. Also.
Joshua Norton
AKA Edward R. Moron
r€nato
Just now listening to Bush’s press conference. Holy shit. Pouty McBitterson in full effect.
r€nato
oh, believe me, they are going to be even MORE spiteful after being spurned by the voters.
JGabriel
r€nato:
Yeah, Bush is definitely in full pursed lip Tea Lady mode.
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pseudonymous in nc
"Trolling reality" seems to be a fairly good description of what the GOP is currently doing.
Joshua Norton
The perfect definition of Narcissistic rage, BTW
When the narcissist’s grandiose sense of self worth is perceptibly being attacked by another person, the narcissist’s natural reaction is to rage and pull-down the self worth of others.
You’ll always see it in the trolls who dump here every so often.
random asshole
I have to give Joe The Reporter some credit: he successfully used the word "asinine" in a sentence.
MattF
The Republican Party has a death wish– yes, seriously. And the American voters looked at it and said to themselves "Hey, wait a minute– is this really what we want?"
WereBear
What is the strange pattern forming before me?
Bald guys getting reporting jobs despite a lack of what we DFH refer to as "credentials" or "experience."
Where has that happened before?*
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It’s Jeff Gannon. Now I’m not saying that’s where his "plumbing" experience comes from…
JGabriel
r€nato:
This reminds me of how some wingnuts argue JFK/Daley stole Illinois and that Nixon could have beaten JFK in ’60 if Nixon had contested it.
It’s a crock of shit.
JFK would have still won without IL. Nixon would have had to contest both IL and and another huge state like TX.
And yet people still believe it. Hardly anyone ever bothers to look up the election results to see if it’s true.
This leads me to predict that future wingnuts will swear Obama stole the election, and that McCain could have won if only he’d taken the obvious vote rigging in FL, NC, NY and CA to the Supreme Court! Cause there’s no way McCain could have lost CA – it was right there on McCain’s state target map (remember that?).
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r€nato
I bet you think shooting fish in a barrel is great sport, too ;-)
Notorious P.A.T.
There was a time when stupid people wanted smart people to run the country. Today stupid people want other stupid people to run the country. I’m not entirely sure why.
Notorious P.A.T.
LOL gold star for that one.
Comrade Dread
You sure he wasn’t just rating the Israeli Foreign minister’s bum?
Comrade Stuck
Sarah and Joe are the Flying Saucers hovering above Greater Wingnuttia. Believe it or not!
r€nato
actually the GOP story about how Obama won, is likely to be the one Ziegler is spinning – the damned liberal media gave Obama a big, sloppy blowjob the entire campaign, showed their extreme bias by not reporting on Rezko/Ayers/Rev. Wright 24/7, and committed hate crimes against Palin by asking hard kweschins like, "what publications do you read?"
McCain’s shitty campaign and voters connecting the dots between the financial meltdown and GOP economics had nothing to do with it, of course.
Notorious P.A.T.
Sometimes Joe looks like he has that meth-head look. If so I could see Sarah arranging a good ol’ fashioned marriage between him and her next daughter.
JGabriel
r€nato:
We’re mocking Republicans. On Balloon Juice.
I take it as a given that everyone here enjoys shooting fish in a barrel.
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r€nato
I can tell you haven’t seen Idiocracy.
"You talk like a fag!"
Luisa
I know that this comment is not related to the above but it’s a good scoop. We don’t hear much from Joe Lieberman these days. Well Joe the Plumber told me that he saw him last week masturbating in his living-room while watching Palestinians being killed by the Jews.
Comrade Dread
What’s truly sad is I would vote for President Camacho long before I voted for Sarah Palin.
Maus
Even worse, people want stupider people than themselves to run the country.
We really need a system more like the UK where the people get to have the Royal Family spout out all sorts of stupid garbage while the adults do politics. Sure, it doesn’t always work out that great there, but at least they fucking address the media and difficult questions.
AkaDad
You have just won 2 internet points.
JGabriel
Notorious P.A.T.:
Corrected for accuracy.
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Jennifer
I can tell you haven’t seen Idiocracy.
"You talk like a fag!"
My favorite line from that movie is the one that runs through most stupid people’s/rightwingers’ (big overlap there) minds whenever a Republican talks about taxes or economic policies:
"I like money."
Litlebritdifrnt
I was listening to Rush today (know thine enemy) and he is still on the line of reasoning that Hannity is spouting, the reason the voting populace has rejected the Republican brand is cause they are not Republican enough! His dissertation on the car industry was a priceless piece of point blindness that it stunned even me. He kept going on and on about the auto industry having to make eco-friendly cars cause the government is forcing them to as opposing to making vehicles that people want. (Clue – if they were producing vehicles that people want then they wouldn’t all be about 3 pay periods shy of bankruptcy don’t ya think Rush?) The only way I can put this into perspective is to compare it to a movie director who makes bomb after bomb and loses money for his studio film after film and the powers that be in the studio saying "hey the movies just aren’t bad enough, we need to make them worse". Incredible.
BombIranForChrist
Ya know, the Democrats are so politically incompetent that the Republicans have a good shot of coming back without changing one single thing about the way they win campaigns. Namely, by lying and acting like the common man.
So I dunno. Looking at how completely and thoroughly the Democratic "leadership" bungled the Burris Affair, I think Republicans have a good shot at coming back. Our country is led by two parties that are basically incompetent.
Faux News
I wish Brick Oven Bill would give us his valuable input on this.
JGabriel
Notorious P.A.T.:
I blame it all on Ayn Rand. And Marlo Thomas’s "Free To Be, You and Me" – because it told all children that they should have self-esteem, even the stupid ones.
If stupid people had less self-esteem, they wouldn’t vote stupid people into office.
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demkat620
They haven’t hit peak wingnut yet. Wait until Tuesday. I have the day off, a bottle of decent champagne, and a box of microwave popcorn.
I plan to sit on my couch and Savor. And yes, Peggy Noonan, I am looking at you.
Cork pops at noon.
JR
If there was a version of Yakov Smirnov in the USSR lampooning the US, I think it would have looked a hell of a lot like that first video…
Svensker
@Joshua Norton:
AKA Edward R. Moron
POTD.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
@Joshua Norton: Edward R. Moron
LOL!
slag
It’s a cry for attention. Like Britney, Paris, and Lindsey all rolled into one. If you give them some attention, they then want more. If you ignore them, they get to play victim, which gets them more attention. Really, if you’ve ever babysat a 4-year-old, the psychology behind the behavior is pretty similar.
r€nato
Littlebrit, SNL nailed it years ago.
"More cowbell!"
Please tell me Rush didn’t forget to blame the unions for the auto companies’ near-demise. You can’t have a proper right-wing rant without blaming the unions as well as the enviro-wackos, Al Gore and goddamned America-hating lie-bruhls.
JGabriel
@Litlebritdifrnt:
That would explain most of Renny Harlin’s career.
(Oddly enough, I’ve seen/heard Harlin in interviews where he comes across as a genuinely intelligent and likable guy – you can see why Geena Davis would hook up with him. But it makes many of his directorial choices even more perplexing…)
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Brachiator
Some conservatives still live in an alternate universe in which they think that politics is a game between "liberals" and "conservatives." They don’t seem to understand that voters — real people — have rejected their tired nonsense.
I don’t care about Joe the Plumber or Sarah Palin. Check with me again if they decide to run for something, if they survive a primary or even get on somebody’s ticket.
These people are less than empty suits. They aren’t even shadows.
r€nato
speaking of Bush’s parting press conference… he barely got a golf clap from the press when he said goodbye and left.
I have a pretty strong intuition that as Chimpy leaves the WH cocoon and comes to realize how much he is hated, he’s going to hit the bottle hard (if he isn’t already).
Everybody has to die of something, someday. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to hear that Bush died of cirrhosis of the liver. They’ll call it cancer which metastasized to his liver, I’m sure… but we’ll all know the truth.
JGabriel
Brachiator:
You seem to be forgetting that Sarah Palin is, in fact and as stated in the post’s title, a freaking Governor of one of our United States of America.
Mind-boggling, I know. Difficult to believe. But it does give one reason for concern, and reason to keep an eye on her.
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Litlebritdifrnt
@r€nato:
Oh he did his entire "global warming is a myth but the majority of the ignorant public have fallen for it so the poor car companies are forced to make eco-friendly cars but if the majority of the public were as smart as Rush they would WANT to buy gas guzzling tanks" thing. It was quite amusing.
JGabriel
r€nato:
This made me think, "Even better if he’d died before 2000." Sadly, I’m sure we all know what this means:
George Bush: Proof that a Time Machine will never be invented.
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Bubblegum Tate
Hey now! I fucking love that record, and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna let you drag its good name through the mud like that!
All the same, maybe you’re onto something.
r€nato
Litlebrit, I don’t know how you do it.
I listened to Rush a LOT in the late 80s and early 90s. Listened to a lot of right-wing talk radio actually. It was a novelty to me and I enjoyed having my beliefs challenged.
Gradually I came to realize Rush and our local AM radio gasbags were fucking liars, just pulling shit out of their asses half the time and twisting the truth the rest of the time.
Later on, I realized they were just spewing hatred for profit. It was around that time too that I came to realize the truth about most people who are in the radio business – it’s awfully hard to make a decent living in it, so they will say and do pretty much any goddamned thing if there is the perception that there’s an advantage to be had. Triply so for the air talent. Just look at "Dr." Laura’s career for chrissakes. That woman fucked and backstabbed her way to the top… or bottom as the case may be.
Anyway, my point is that sometime during Clinton’s first term I finally had my fill of right-wing hate radio. Ever since then, I am allergic to that shit and I can’t listen for even 10 seconds without feeling the need to throw shit at the radio.
Listen long enough, and some day you’ll feel the same way too.
Mike in NC
The Conventional Wisdom has it that soon after Katrina, Dubya started spending a lot more time with his good buddies Jack Daniels and Johnny Walker.
Notorious P.A.T.
Hmm, you may have something there. Although I was shown "Free to Be you and Me" in school and as I remember a lot of it was girls-are-good equality stuff. Also I think Mel Brooks was involved.
r€nato
yeah, well, anyone who takes ‘how to live your life’ advice from Rush deserves whatever they get.
This is the guy, after all, who takes vacations to the Dominican Republic so he can fuck little boys and/or little girls, had/has a major opiate habit, and three failed marriages. Oh yeah, and he sold his soul by spewing lies and hatred for riches. Little wonder that he self-medicated in order to silence his shrieking conscience. Cindy McCain did much the same thing.
The book on Rush is that off the air, he’s socially inept, shy and kind of a loner. Which would sort of explain his radio show as his ego’s expression of his repressed, bitter, resentful id.
By the way, today was Rush’s birthday. Happy birthday, you miserable lonely asshole. Go celebrate by chugging a handful of blue babies and wash them down with a bottle of vodka, you miserable oxygen thief.
Chuck Butcher
you think the media’s not onto something? notice how we keep paying attention to them?
Litlebritdifrnt
Totally O/T (and for Laura’s eyes only – ok anyone else is interested) I finally got the GOS out of the bedroom last night (by tricking him, I felt awful, I put his food in the bathroom and then closed the door behind him). He spent the night under my crafting table and then apparently the day under the ottoman by the window, which due to the strange hissing under it the boxers ate. I coaxed him out this evening and he is now merrily sticking his butt into various other cats faces in an attempt to re-acquaint himself as well as curling around my legs every time I go into the kitchen. I think the boy is going to be okay.
Notorious P.A.T.
Don’t forget Rush’s dream job is to do sports broadcasting. One day the skies opened up and a gig on ESPN fell into his lap. What did he do? Flushed it down the shitter by spewing racist drivel about Donovan McNabb. What a shriveled little rat turd his soul must be.
r€nato
on the other hand, the book on Sean Hannity is that he’s every bit the asshole in real life as he is on the air.
So maybe I should cut Rush some slack. He’s only a part-time asshole.
(Daryn Kagan, WHAT were you thinking?)
r€nato
unlike politics, in sports broadcasting if you don’t know jack about the game you’re gonna fall on your face real quick and you can’t cover it up by bullshitting about, oh, I don’t know, maybe about how black folks are genetically incapable of playing at the QB position so the only way a black man can succeed at it is because of those damned liberals who own the NFL dictating affirmative action.
r€nato
P.A.T, I was thrilled that Rush got the ESPN gig. It gave the whole nation a first-hand opportunity to see for themselves what an ignorant pusbag he is.
kommrade reproductive vigor
The future of poli sci majors who’ll write about what killed the GOP.
The future of Operation EPIK FAI7.
The future of me laughing at these cobags.
Notorious P.A.T.
@r€nato:
Haha, good point ) I’ve often thought that sports journalism has much higher standards than political reporting.
I’ll never forget last summer I saw some talking head blabbing about John Edwards’s hair and saying "hey the campaign goes on for MONTHS, we can’t talk about substance ALL the time!". Then I switched over to a baseball game. Baseball season lasts slightly longer than campaign season yet they don’t fill airtime with pointless blather.
Notorious P.A.T.
Here’s a little update from the front lines of journalism:
huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/12/joe-the-plumber-fights-wi_n_157239.html
"You know, I liked back in World War I and World War II when you’d go to the theater and you’d see your troops on, you know, the screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for them. Now everyone’s got an opinion and wants to downer-and down soldiers. You know, American soldiers or Israeli soldiers."
Wow, I didn’t think Joe was old enough to remember World War II.
Brick Oven Bill
Hi Faux News. I’d argue that the attraction of Joe/Sarah is the sense that Joe/Sarah are not going to sell the worker out. This might come from a lack of polish.
You may not have noticed, but the power structure is engineering the electorate to weaken the proletariat. The power structure is very strong. Some well-meaning workers see democracy, and come to the conclusion that importing low-skill workers will give them a fairer shake with their bosses. I have a friend who is a stone mason (which is not a low-skill job, by the way) who thinks this. He makes $14/hr.
But he is wrong. The importation of low-skill laborers increases the supply of labor and, also by design, splits labor along ethnocentric lines, preventing any future European-style socialist movement. Wages in Central America are $3/day, wages in Pakistan are $2/day, and when do-gooder Americans try to take pictures of the Chinese employing slave labor in African mines, the African slaves try to kill the do-gooder Americans because slavery is how they feed their family. This is what labor is worth around the world.
This is why we should limit immigration to candidates with high-IQs, who are able to build businesses, and increase the demand for labor, raising wages and national wealth. This would be the policy position if the Democratic Party were true to the working class image. The Democratic Party in 2009 does not represent workers. They are setting up a hard shift to the right. The smart ones are surely in on it.
And this is why many people like Joe and Sarah. Personally, I like Joe because he talks about pizza, and I dig Sarah because she can handle a fully-automatic carbine.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Notorious P.A.T.:
And truth and reality = right wing talking points has been one and the same since when?
Laura W
@Litlebritdifrnt: Man, I had to read that part about hissing ottoman that boxers ate a few times to get it! Too funny, LilBrit! He sure took his time, no? Congrats on your amazing patience. I would’ve locked him out of the bedroom weeks ago and forced him to man cat up. (Of course, I talk tough while typing this on laptop perched precariously atop Annie’s back since she is on my stomach and we are supine on couch.)
Totally O/T and for LilBrit’s eyes only (and anyone else that can "stomach" a cat blog), here’s what else Annie’s been into lately, besides my stomach.
Shoot. Reminds me I forgot to watch DH’s band march. Meant to link to it twice when posted. Can you post here again so I don’t have to inconvenience Annie by scouring archives?
Litlebritdifrnt
BTW – did anyone see Morning Joe this morning, Scarborough was just railing about water boarding, about how useful it was and was getting pwnd by some female from (I think) The Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal. (I wasn’t paying attention to the names). Her bottom line was you cannot toss away hundreds of years of constitutional law because it suits you. Scarborough didn’t seem to get the point.
Mike
I’ve always considered Palin pretty astute politically, so I’m surprised she’s doesn’t know that there’s nothing attractive about whining.
Laura W
@r€nato:
I liked her so much in the olden CNN days. Where is she now? Is she working? Don’t tell me she is cleaning Rush’s house. Oh god, you don’t mean to imply she had anything to do with him on a personal/physical/sexual level, do you?
Litlebritdifrnt
Here ya go Laura, luckily Columbus County Schools still have it on the front page (I am surprised that they got it up so quick on Saturday, apparently the entire administration was so proud of DH’s band they went to work on Saturday:))
columbus.k12.nc.us/
What is it with cats and boxes? I posted a list of Cat Rules several years ago the first one was 1) See box get in it. They are obsessed with boxes. The nano second that I get my christmas tree out I can guarantee there will be three cats fighting over the opportunity to get in the box. There is a great LOLCAT today, two watermelons and a cat in a box. It is fun.
Notorious P.A.T.
Laura W, sit down.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryn_kagan#Personal_life
I know that might be hard to take. We’re here for you.
Faux News
Thanks Brick Oven Bill, I was hoping you would join this thread. I missed you in a previous thread about "Joe the Plumber" Here is the advice I gave you:
I hope this helps. You do have some potential as a BJ Troll and I want to help you achieve that goal.
Litlebritdifrnt
Heres the link to the Morning Joe piece
youtube.com/watch?v=GzK0Ykets3g&feature=related
Litlebritdifrnt
@Notorious P.A.T.:
Personally I can forgive anyone anything if they have adopted two three legged cats, particularly when they have a sense of humor and a heart big enough to name them "Tripod" and "I Lean" the fact that she was big hearted enough to try and adopt Limbaugh for a while should be among her many accomplishments. The fact that they eventually broke up should also be on her list of "I tried but you know the guy is a dick wad"
Laura W
@Notorious P.A.T.: There are no photos on that page of them together so I refuse to believe the scurrilous words.
She is an Aquarian, so I doubly refuse to believe the distasteful allegations.
Imagining Maher with Coulter is horrific enough. But my DARYN with Rush???
Christ. What’s the point of going on.
Notorious P.A.T.
Campbell Brown?
Mike in NC
There’s a passage in the 2006 novel "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War" by Max Brooks, where Maher/Coulter (indirectly identified — guy with political talk show and leatherly old blond) are observed ravishing one another as the zombies storm a fortress on Long Island. Scary stuff indeed!
Danko Ramone
I heard a snippet of the plumber on the radio today…I’m genuinely amazed that any media outlet, no matter how biased, would choose to keep that idiot in the spotlight.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
Laura, my dear, I hate to tell you this, but do you know who else is an Aquarian? (No, not her: her!)
gnomedad
@r€nato:
Really? It’s also HAL 9000’s birthday. Hal probably went nuts out of embarrassment.
gbear
Can we just start referring to PajamasTV as ‘Roto-Reuters’ now?
AnneLaurie
Andy Jackson waves his "Old Hickory, Man of the PEE-PUL!!!" sign in your general direction. And, to be truthful, most of notorious American-Smart-Genius-Person Thomas Jefferson’s presidential campaigns revolved around the "Vote against John Adams, that fancy-pants politician who prefers European royalty to the company of honest decent dirt-under-their-fingernails-and-crusted-in-their-undergarments Amurkins like you" meme, although in those halcyon days stealing enough votes to be proclaimed winner was a much more personal & intimate boutique trade. Spite voting against anyone not smart enough to fake a room-temperature IQ is an American tradition older than apple pie or baseball games.
Cain
@r€nato:
I was going to say something, but I decided to strike it.
cain
Bubblegum Tate
He was. That was my favorite bit on the whole record. I still have most of it memorized.
TheAssInTheHatOnMyCat(Formerly Comrade Tax Analyst)
Cats LUV to see what’s "on the other side", no matter what that happens to be…if you are someone who lets the cat go outdoors you know what I mean…you let the cat out because he/she is pawing on the inside of the front door…10 minutes later you have to let it back in. You have a closed door – the cat MUST be allowed in…and then shortly thereafter, allowed out, etc. They will do this continually as long as you are willing to play the part of their servant. Me? Yeah, of course, because to bow humbly in the service of me precious cat was the noble-istis thing I could ever conceive of doing, at least for several months or so. Novelties wore off after a while, but we continued to co-exist rather well for 8 or 9 more years.
A box is even a greater cat-lure than a door, and I think that is because, unlike real walls and doors, they can really go nuts and just bounce off the inside walls of it without doing any damage whatsoever to their heads and bodies. Actually, I can see the point.
Garrigus Carraig
@Joshua Norton:
Fixt.
Garrigus Carraig
@gbear: LULZ
Mart
I took a deep breath and went over to Malkin’s site earlier today. Every comment cheered Sam er I mean Joe on for taking it to them educated know nothing journalists. About time they saw what a real journalist was about. And my favorite Joe/Sarah 2012. (Maybe a bit sexist since it was not Sarah/Joe, but the sentiment is still sweet.)
jim
Irony dead, my ass.
Palin as victim?
Wurzelbacher as journalist?
Salvador Dali would approve.
NR
The PUMAs loved Joe and Sarah both.
That right there should tell you everything you need to know about them.
OriGuy
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
–H. L. Mencken
The Republican Party is trying to prove Mencken wrong.
Zzyzx
I listened to Rush yesterday too. He told people who were laid off that they should see it as an opportunity and they shouldn’t complain about it at all. Because, you know, finding your dream job is very easy to do when companies have across the board hiring freezes. I have expected him to tell people, "Well you have a few million dollars in the bank, right? Just live off of that for now."
rachel
@Zzyzx: I wonder if statements like that will make a dent in Rush’s audience.
harlana pepper
I think JGabriel IS onto something! heh
btw, Malkin lurves the "Regular Joes" so much, she must hang out with them socially, right? Grill-outs at the double-wide and such.
Zzyzx
Half expected, not have expected…
kommrade reproductive vigor
If he keeps making comments like that, he’ll get a chance to practice what he belches. Of course, we Flush isn’t saying what his listeners want to hear. Right now he’s saying what he thinks will keep his listeners from chasing fat, rich assholes down the street with baseball bats.
Keep talking Flush!
Laura W
@Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse: Until and unless I see the birth certificate and astrological chart I will not allow such blasphemous notions to sully my fine, Aquarian mind, Ms. Mary Minion. Nor should you. Or Krista.
(If I were you two I would start making a strong case about Jan v. Feb AQs. I will have to wage this Feb. battle on my own, it appears.)
Best,
Self-hating Aquarian
low-tech cyclist
There’s this rumor going around that Sarah Palin is actually the Governor of Alaska.
Given that she was a full-time campaigner from the end of August to the beginning of November, and has seemed to fill up every waking moment of her time since with assorted media appearances, I can only conclude that either this is false, or Alaska doesn’t exactly need a full-time governor.
Jamey
I’d be a real asshole if I pointed out that Trig was the least retarded thing to come out of Palin in 2008.
I mean, IF I said that. Hypothetically.
Joshua Norton
As far as I could tell, the McCain campaign lawyers and PR hacks ran the state for her while she was away.
BigHank53
Look, Alaska has a smaller population than Prince George’s county in Maryland. As states go, it’s a bumper-car.
Davis X. Machina
That’s the difference between a republic and a democracy.
Notorious P.A.T.
Haha )
*If* you said that, I would agree. But we won’t have to worry about that.
Sue
OMG, here we go again. Connecticut for Lieberman has been mentioned in Crooks and Liars, the Wall Street Journal, many recommended diaries in Daily Kos, and various other places in the universe.
It has been my duty, as former CFL Secretary to uphold what our party stands for.
From one of our meetings:
dailykos.com/story/2008/3/1/101019/7603/11/466802
raholco
I can see it now:
They can call it: "Palin/Wurzelbacher 2012"
We can call it: "The Fool and the Tool."