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You are here: Home / ATTN: Crazy People.

ATTN: Crazy People.

by John Cole|  July 10, 20099:45 am| 92 Comments

This post is in: Wingnut Event Horizon

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Some crazy people have shown up in the Mark Steyn thread from yesterday:

I realize that in the age of those who actually think Rachel Maddow is a knockout (this, from the party of Bella Abzug..never mind…) and Keith Olbermann pissing in his pants all the time and thinking local dog-catcher type commentary from low level people in some states is hilarious (and worse—important to national politics) there is obviously going to be offense taken at lesbian jokes.

But the real joke, as always, is on the “success story”, so alleged, of this kind of research that will do something just about nothing for a society where government intervention deigns fathers all but irrelevent. Since gayness and polyamory are the rage in some circles, I thought it was spot on.

Having to explain it since PCism gets in the way of much humor these days—-not funny.

First off, Steyn was joking yesterday. That is why he was laughing while he made the remarks about lesbians running the world. It just wasn’t very funny.

Second, let me break this down for you. Just because when given the choice between sex with you and lesbian sex with laboratory sperm, the overwhelming majority of women would opt for the lesbian sex, that isn’t a commentary on the future of procreation or the species. Senator Ensign and Governor Sanford have assured us all that we will not be soon ruled by lesbian overlords.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

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  1. 1.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    July 10, 2009 at 9:51 am

    Shorter Wakefield Tolbert: I can see Governor Palin from my blog!

  2. 2.

    db

    July 10, 2009 at 9:54 am

    I am laughing even harder now.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Stuck

    July 10, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Some crazy people have shown up in the Mark Steyn thread from yesterday:

    Yes, but you have to admit Wakefied and Colonel Neville are some pretty cool false personas/

  4. 4.

    blogenfreude

    July 10, 2009 at 9:56 am

    I, for one, will welcome our new lesbian overlords.

  5. 5.

    SpotWeld

    July 10, 2009 at 9:57 am

    I was just waiting for someone to make a Futurama / “Death by Snoo-snoo” joke at some point.

  6. 6.

    Beeb

    July 10, 2009 at 10:01 am

    I’m pretty sure it’s possible to have non-lesbian sex with laboratory sperm, too. I could be wrong about that, of course, but I think it depends on the gender of the lab technician.

  7. 7.

    Punchy

    July 10, 2009 at 10:02 am

    OT:

    Anyone heard from Bob in Pacifica? Just wondering…….

  8. 8.

    truculentandunreliable

    July 10, 2009 at 10:03 am

    Since gayness and polyamory are the rage in some circles, I thought it was spot on.

    Those gays! Always ahead of the trends!

  9. 9.

    John PM

    July 10, 2009 at 10:05 am

    @Punchy: #7

    Looks like I will be putting off my business trip to San Francisco for a while.

  10. 10.

    4tehlulz

    July 10, 2009 at 10:05 am

    >>Shorter Wakefield Tolbert: Look at MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

    Fixed.

  11. 11.

    fastandsloppy

    July 10, 2009 at 10:09 am

    @blogenfreude:

    Damn you and your fast-draw Simpson quote. That quote was mine! Mine I tells ya!

  12. 12.

    4tehlulz

    July 10, 2009 at 10:10 am

    @Punchy: It’s good that MSNBC has hard hitting headlines like:

    “Forecast: Big quake likely in California
    Scientists predict almost certain risk of strong earthquake by 2037”

    You don’t say….

  13. 13.

    Joel

    July 10, 2009 at 10:10 am

    Man, I didn’t even notice this guy. Now you’ve generated n-number clickthroughs to his site. I don’t know if that makes him any money. I sure hope not.

  14. 14.

    jenniebee

    July 10, 2009 at 10:12 am

    “government intervention deigns fathers all but irrelevent”

    What does this even mean? How can government intervention “deign” anything? Unless this just means that the existence of government reduces men to no other function than that of hairy, walking sperm banks. Who, coincidentally, run the government.

    As a talking point, this is total wingnut fail.

  15. 15.

    Gus

    July 10, 2009 at 10:13 am

    Crazy or just very stupid. You decide.

  16. 16.

    Ned R.

    July 10, 2009 at 10:14 am

    @jenniebee: hairy, walking sperm banks

    Hmm. Are the benefits any good?

  17. 17.

    cleek

    July 10, 2009 at 10:18 am

    somebody get that troll to a remedial English composition teacher.

  18. 18.

    geg6

    July 10, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Personally, I loved his whole “Oh, noes! Islamo-British sokialistic health care makes it better to be bankrupt than dead schtick.” Especially since I just had a close friend who ended up dead so his wife wouldn’t have to go bankrupt due to the wonderful health insurance industry our friend, Wakefield, is so eager to suck off.

  19. 19.

    jenniebee

    July 10, 2009 at 10:20 am

    @Ned R.: well, we don’t do matching on the 401k any more, there’s no pension, for health insurance you’d better just hope for Public Option, but we can show you the finest R-rated movies Europe has to offer! Ooh-la-la!

  20. 20.

    Fulcanelli

    July 10, 2009 at 10:20 am

    More evidence that a couple of IQ points in the hands of a xenophobic right-wing turd polisher with the ususal five second attention span is a mildly amusing combination.

    You can almost see the confederate flag hanging on the wall behing his computer, right next to the display case filled with N a Z i memorabilia.

    Wonder how he feels about his Christian governor bangin’ his latina soul mate. Ay Caramba! South of the border, baby!

    Did somebody say ‘lesbians’?

  21. 21.

    Persia

    July 10, 2009 at 10:22 am

    I would rather have sex with Rachel Maddow than Mark Steyn, Senator Ensign and Governor Sanford. This is not because I’m a lesbian; I’m about the straightest woman who ever straighted. It’s because I have standards.

  22. 22.

    Nathan

    July 10, 2009 at 10:22 am

    That’s what the Steyn-heads do – they swarm any blog that mocks their master (i.e. points out what a smug fool he is).

    It happened to me a few months ago. Was kind of fun, actually. Was like one of those martial arts movies where tough-looking but utterly incompetent thugs get knocked out one by one, all while yelling “get ‘im!”

  23. 23.

    Da Bomb

    July 10, 2009 at 10:25 am

    I went and read that thread. Yeah, I got a headache. Those two made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

    And try reading that Colonel Crackhead’s blog. It’s competely insane. I don’t how the Imitation of Life, Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, and black men raping white women corrolate but somehow he managed to connect the dots.

    My eyes just glazed over. Sigh…

  24. 24.

    jenniebee

    July 10, 2009 at 10:26 am

    @geg6: I know – like you even actually get the choice to go bankrupt instead of dying. The insurance companies take your cash until you’re sick, at which point they rescind your policy. Then the hospital tells you they’re kicking you out because you don’t have insurance; you can always offer them cash up front, but since insurance companies like to negotiate prices, hospitals tend to set their fees at a pretty high starting position. So if you’re getting health care a la carte, be prepared to pay through the nose, up front, in cash.

    Our system works – provided either you never get sick, or you consider $10,000 “walking around money.”

  25. 25.

    Paul L.

    July 10, 2009 at 10:35 am

    First off, Steyn was joking yesterday. That is why he was laughing while he made the remarks about lesbians running the world. It just wasn’t very funny.

    Funny that the progressives are outraged over Steyn’s joke are the same people who supported Letterman’s “It’s a joke. That’s all it’s suppose to be, That’s what this is” defense.

  26. 26.

    John Cole

    July 10, 2009 at 10:37 am

    @Paul L.: Really. What exactly did I say about the Letterman affair?

    Have you ever uttered one phrase that is even partially correct?

  27. 27.

    Bob In Pacifica

    July 10, 2009 at 10:38 am

    Punchy, no shaking yet this a.m. I worry more about the ocean rising with global warming. That too wacky for you? By 2037 I’ll probably be dead.

    For those postponing their trips to SF, you’re thinking in the wrong direction. Do it now, before everything’s knocked down.

  28. 28.

    Luthe

    July 10, 2009 at 10:41 am

    If lesbians are going to be running the world, can I be in charge of HUD?

  29. 29.

    anonevent

    July 10, 2009 at 10:45 am

    @Paul L.: I’m curious. I’ve missed the outrage part. I even went and looked at the previous thread. The biggest outrage was the Mark thought he was being funny but instead took up valuable radio time.

  30. 30.

    Bob In Pacifica

    July 10, 2009 at 10:45 am

    By the way, male fear of lesbians because they eliminate the purpose of males has always been around. You don’t need laboratories to eliminate the need of males for lesbians. But, of course, poor people around the world never will have access to artificial insemination. Poor lesbians in Afghanistan aren’t in danger of taking over Kabul.

    Crazy fear of lesbians is, well, crazy. It goes deep.

  31. 31.

    latts

    July 10, 2009 at 10:47 am

    @Persia:

    Word.

    I’m almost embarrassingly straight– not so much as a lesbian kissing dream that I can remember– and given the choice between Maddow and … well, now pretty much any Republican man, I’d be changing teams so fast we’d all be dizzy. Smart, funny, and decent beats anatomical preferences any day.

  32. 32.

    TTT

    July 10, 2009 at 10:56 am

    Though I don’t find Rachel Maddow “a knockout,” she is much more attractive than Palin, Coulter, Malkin, Ingraham, or any conservative female I’ve ever seen, regardless of sexual orientation. That whole ugly-on-the-inside thing.

    (And, Bella Abzug? REALLY? I’m not hip to your ’50s lingo, daddyo. 23-Skidoo. Tippecanoe and Tyler too.)

  33. 33.

    Socraticsilence

    July 10, 2009 at 10:57 am

    “this, from the party of Bella Abzug” – This phrasing is a straight lift from Ann Coulter (she uses it often), seriously even their plagarism is getting dated and tiresome.

  34. 34.

    Betsy

    July 10, 2009 at 10:57 am

    @Persia:
    I couldn’t have said it better myself.

  35. 35.

    Bob In Pacifica

    July 10, 2009 at 10:57 am

    One more thing about earthquakes, Punchy.

    When the 1989 earthquake hit I owned a house on Westline Drive in Daly City. The only thing that happened to us was that the water from the cat dish spilled and the power went out. If you’ve read Simon Winchester’s “A Crack In The Edge of the World” you’d know that the San Andreas Fault runs right under the street and into the ocean there. In fact, from the maps the fault ran right under the northeast corner of my tiny frontyard.

    A few years before we sold it half the houses on the street were condemned because the hill was sliding towards the ocean (due to another geologic fault!), and the lower part of the street was closed permanently. But from our house the view of the Pacific was even better with the houses gone, so it sold for twice what we’d bought it for. That was the joy and wonder of California real estate before the bubble burst.

  36. 36.

    Sarcastro

    July 10, 2009 at 10:57 am

    this, from the party of Bella Abzug..never mind…

    I’ve always enjoyed the mental gymnastics one must perform to insist that “the party of Hollywood” is chock full of ugly women.

  37. 37.

    Betsy

    July 10, 2009 at 10:58 am

    Though I have to say I kind of heart this particular crazy for name-checking Bella Abzug. Well done sir!

  38. 38.

    OriGuy

    July 10, 2009 at 11:00 am

    @Paul L.: Let’s see some outrage over the comments at Red State about Malia wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign. Those were nastier than anything Letterman ever did.

  39. 39.

    Paul L.

    July 10, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Missed a word
    “progressives [that] are outraged over Steyn”
    @John Cole:

    Really. What exactly did I say about the Letterman affair?

    I recall that you believed Letterman went over the line.
    I did get the impression that you were not outraged by Steyn’s joke just found that you found it unfunny.
    You are a progressive now? I thought you were a Bill Maher type Independent.
    I was referring to the kneejerk types like the folks at Crooks and Liars who got in full lather outrage when someone referred to Rachel Maddow as the Air America lesbian.

  40. 40.

    Bob In Pacifica

    July 10, 2009 at 11:09 am

    By the way, Bella Abzug was apparently heterosexual, was married, and made babies the old-fashioned way.

    Now maybe Steyn didn’t like the fact that she was a JEW, or a CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY who was taking cases in the South in the forties when many men were afraid to do so.

    Or maybe Steyn presumes that women who fight for equal rights and justice have to be lesbians.

    Or maybe “Bella Abzug” is just a funny name to write down when making fun of those clunky girls who won’t kiss him.

  41. 41.

    SGEW

    July 10, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Sex appeal, in politics – a Contrast:

    “Conservative”: Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Pamela Geller. Sean Hannity, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush.

    “Liberal”: Rachel Maddow, Susan Surandon, Michelle Obama. Keith Olbermann, Jim Webb, Barack Obama.

    Weird. For me, everyone on the second list is hawt, while the first list is filled with do not want. Do I find the liberal list sexy because I’m a liberal? Or am I a liberal because I find the liberal list sexy? Or, dare I say, self-servingly, liberals are just smarter, and therefore more attractive to other smart people?

    Gary Sinise is pretty good looking, tho’. So I don’t know.

    [insert standard de gustibus non est disputandum disclaimer here]

  42. 42.

    General Winfield Stuck

    July 10, 2009 at 11:10 am

    Whigopedia coming soon via Giant Lesbians.

  43. 43.

    John Cole

    July 10, 2009 at 11:18 am

    @Paul L.: If your beef is with reactions at Crooks and Liars, here is a thought- COMMENT ABOUT IT AT CROOKS AND LIARS.

    But nooooo, instead you come in here and commit assault with a deadly non sequitur.

  44. 44.

    General Winfield Stuck

    July 10, 2009 at 11:23 am

    @Paul L.:

    in full lather outrage when someone referred to Rachel Maddow as the Air America lesbian.

    And how would you like it if we referred to you as “Paul L, Balloon Juice Idiot Troll”? True though it is.

  45. 45.

    Comrade Dread

    July 10, 2009 at 11:23 am

    I, for one, will welcome our new lesbian overlords.

    Only if they’re hot and bisexual.

  46. 46.

    Cat G

    July 10, 2009 at 11:33 am

    @Paul L.: Actually, I thought his “joke” was funny because that’s one of Steyn’s views of hell and I got a big grin. Steyn is one of the vilest knuckle draggers on the planet.
    For example, in the midst of the enormous trauma of 9/11, written on that day, of all the things a person could reflect on, he wrote this:

    “Yesterday’s atrocities were a rude awakening from the indulgences of the last decade, with some awful stories to remind us of our illusions – disabled employees in wheelchairs, whom the Americans with Disabilities Act and the various lobby groups insist can do anything able-bodied people can, found themselves trapped on the 80th floor, unable to get downstairs, unable even to do as others did and hurl themselves from the windows rather than be burned alive.”

    ocregister.com/articles/war-one-most-2154111-world-west

    If you follow the link above to his reprint you’ll notice that he apologizes if people were offended and then badmouths ramps. I’m betting he grinds his teeth every time he says a disabled parking spot.
    His writings are an abattoir of his disgust for huge segments of humanity. He is utterly lacking in intellectual integrity. I, foolishly, once decided to attempt to fact check his book America Alone. He massively distorts the actual facts and circumstances of his examples and just makes shit up. Reading him will rot your soul, not to mention any critical thinking skills you might once have had.

    So you see, I kinda like the idea of him living in a world ruled by lesbians. That is worth a good laugh.

  47. 47.

    PhoenixRising

    July 10, 2009 at 11:40 am

    As a Gold Star Lesbian myself, I kind of like the idea that we will finally ascend to our rightful place as rulers of all we can see.

    However, I have a couple of exes who I want to see slotted into the less responsible jobs involved in ruling the world. Where do I email that list–Rachel Maddow’s office?

    In addition, I’m concerned about straight women asking to change teams for political reasons, as it is bound to lead to heartbreak. Perhaps we could create an honorary status of some kind for them.

  48. 48.

    John Hamilton Farr

    July 10, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    I for one would welcome lesbian overlords. They would probably at least give us REAL F*CKING HEALTH CARE! Unlike the utterly useless, stupid, screw-us-every-which-way, allegedly (mostly) heterosexual Democrats…

  49. 49.

    parksideq

    July 10, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    @OriGuy:

    Let’s see some outrage over the comments at Red State about Malia wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign.

    To be fair, it was that cesspool known as FreeRepublic, not RedState, where the comments about her came from. I hope those Freeper bastards all end up with daughters that marry black men, as karmic justice.

  50. 50.

    Paul L.

    July 10, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    @John Cole:

    here is a thought- COMMENT ABOUT IT AT CROOKS AND LIARS.

    Got banned for my constant criticism of David Neiwert.

  51. 51.

    Da Bomb

    July 10, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    @SGEW:

    Gary Sinise is pretty good looking, tho’. So I don’t know.

    Ewww, he kinda looks like a drunk leprechaun. Ok, now Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson isn’t a bad looking conservative, but I don’t know about having an intelligent conversation with him.

  52. 52.

    Dan

    July 10, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    @parksideq: Or sons.

  53. 53.

    Molly

    July 10, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    @PhoenixRising: We can be your breeders…ah, hell. Guess straight women just became irrelevant too. :)

  54. 54.

    rachel

    July 10, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    @Paul L.: Haaaaa-haaa! /Nelson Muntz

  55. 55.

    Sister Machine Gun of Mild Harmony

    July 10, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    Yes. I too am looking forward to world domination. Too long we have been told we were less capable, in between them expressing anxiety that we were more capable.

  56. 56.

    bago

    July 10, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    This thread disturbs me. There are some women you evaluate on a body-part-basis, especially if they are nude and have a third arm coming at you. That aside, it sounds like breast based version of “My dad is bigger than your Dad!” argument.

  57. 57.

    demimondian

    July 10, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    @Molly: Straight women will continue to serve the same role they do in the patriarchal modern world — breaking the hearts of innocent members of the ruling class. It’s just that your victims will now be female, and so won’t be able to explain it away as the gender gap.

  58. 58.

    MNPundit

    July 10, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Well Rachael Maddow is not a knockout but she’s not ugly either. That said, it is sadly true that the right has more hot women on it’s side in the media and political space.

    Of course of that comes necessarily at the cost of competence–that is if you have to be as smart as sarah palin to look like sarah palin–then I can live with the tradeoff.

  59. 59.

    JenJen

    July 10, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    @OriGuy: Oh my god.

    You know, there is little that comes out of the collective conservative mouth these days that can truly shock me, but that did the trick.

  60. 60.

    John Cole

    July 10, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    @MNPundit: I happen to think Rachel Maddow actually is very hot. I play for the wrong team, though.

  61. 61.

    Blue Raven

    July 10, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    As a polyamorous bisexual, I had no idea I was so far ahead of the trend curve. But once again I’d be shut out from the power structure, this time because no matter how much carpet I am happy to munch, I still have a thing for tubesteak. Oh, the irony. Always the toy, never the toymaker.

  62. 62.

    zoe kentucky

    July 10, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    Why does the right think that the left regards Rachel Maddow as the left’s pin-up girl? Just because they choose their shallow female leaders for their sex appeal and looks (Palin, Coulter) doesn’t mean that we do or have any interest in doing so– we actually care about brains, accomplishments and substance over some subjective standard of beauty. But they’re all about putting up beauty queens with sharp tongues so they can pretend that they view women as equal to men. The right still views women as objects, as pretty accessories, but not anything to be taken too seriously. They’re fucking old school sexist assholes and it shows.

    That being said, I do think Rachel is beautiful– cute as a box of buttons, smart, educated, funny and thoughtful AND doesn’t take herself too seriously. Palin and Coulter? Full of guile, bile and arrogance, I couldn’t fuck either one of them if my life depended on it. Not without a lot of vomiting and sobbing.

    I personally do wish that lesbians ran the world, it would be an awfully different world.

  63. 63.

    scarshapedstar

    July 10, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    I guess it’s time to put on my scientist hat and state that this won’t necessarily work out the way people think. For starters, there’s a (rather poorly understood) mechanism by which genes on the father’s side are selectively expressed to make a fetus grow larger, as this is in the father’s interest. Genes on the mother’s side, conversely, work to keep the size of the fetus more manageable.

    So, using this method will likely get you a bunch of undersized females. Hardly the Sappho-Amazon Army of Doom.

  64. 64.

    Bob In Pacifica

    July 10, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    What’s Jessica Alba’s political affiliation?

  65. 65.

    Wakefield The Non-Grammarian

    July 10, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    TTT, T3, or triple T, or whatever:

    Not to be rude at the party and congratulatory fest at missing Steyn’s point about the sour demographics of the West, with the quip about Lesbian overloard only partly the punchline, but Bella Abzug is–unfortunately–a real person. Or was, I should say.

    And, as an iconoclastic person of the Left, that IS a sad note.

    It might make those “I’m a lumberjack” types do a double take on the gay lifestyle after all. Or at least some good interior decor to match the drapes.

    _______________________

    Mr. Cole,

    It WAS funny, if only in a macabre way, and it was right on target in an age when the very term “father” is supplanted in some jurisdictions (granted, mostly overseas from the US) with Progenitor A and Progenitor B.

    Perhaps these new fangled technique will allows lesbians to play house, but probably will not have wide application to most anyone else.

    I know this is beyond your tight-knit circles of metrosexuality here and among those deeding property to their pet cats—but the joke as a dual component.

    ________________________________
    Overheard at coffee break at MSNBC:

    “Can I play Progenitor A tonight, you gorgeous piece of she-flesh!?”

  66. 66.

    Wakefield The Non-Grammarian

    July 10, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    TTT:

    Bella Abzug is, unfortunately, a real person. Or was (thanks for small favors from Father Time).

    I wish this were just hip terminology. Alas, the nation was not that lucky.

    And the fact this hideous human being walked the earth and was the darling of the Left and an icon is all the sadder.

    If ever there was a thin point of a mere wisp of advocacy for the “I’m a lumberjack” crowd shunning the axe and gettin’ down with the alternative lifestyle, the unfortunately blessed Abuzug was it.

    ______________

    Mr. Cole.

    Yes, the Steynpost WAS funny. If for no other reason than even some straight males are not so much judgmental about this kind of thing, but rather merely beg to watch.

    Sorry you didn’t like the duality of this joke, as most jokes have this dual nature.

    Else you just missed it. The commentary on the sour demographics coupled with the irony of a technique that is not likely to have wide application beyond helping, say, lesbians play house and push a tike around in a stroller?

    All the funnier, even as the gays marry and opt for entitlements for rugrats as the straights increasingly disdain children, the net result being the West’s slide into oblivion.

    Well, make that “funny” in a macabre way, I’ll admit.

    The butts of jokes seldom laugh, I know. And keep in mind this joke is on ALL OF US, Mr. Cole. Not just Amazonians with spears and nitro-cooled sperm banks.

    But even here, in your tight-knit circle of pals who hail form metrosexuality and no doubt have some really good interior decor to brag about to bequeath their pet cats, you could find some mirth.

    And take time out for a Mr. Smiley, will ya? You guys are getting your way in most areas, no? Gone is the advocacy of the icky traditional family, so we’re told, and certainly for decades government and social services policy has made sure the very notion of “father” (as something other than sperm donor) is not important.

    This bias remains even as we hear about “marriage rights” from some corners. Though just not the straights, it seems.

    In some jurisdictions we no longer see the words “father” or “mother” on birth certificates. Just Progenitor A and Progenitor B.

    Progress, no doubt.

    Overheard at MSNBC at coffee break:

    “Can I play Progenitor A tonight, you gorgeous hunk of she-flesh??”

  67. 67.

    jenniebee

    July 10, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    @SGEW: yeah, I see your point, but it doesn’t diminish the fact that I have a tragic yearning for James Woods. Colin Powell is also yummy, but I’m not sure that he really counts as a conservative anymore.

  68. 68.

    gwangung

    July 10, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    Mr. Cole.
    Yes, the Steynpost WAS funny.

    Don’t give up your day job.

    From someone who DOES write comedy and gets paid for it.

  69. 69.

    Wakefield The Non-Grammarian

    July 10, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    From someone who DOES write comedy and gets paid for it.

    Is that you–or Mr. Cole?

    Yeah, you might have a point, “from someone who DOES write comedy and gets paid for it.”

    Thanks for the herbal tea advice, “gwangung”

  70. 70.

    jenniebee

    July 10, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    Shorter @Wakefield The Non-Grammarian:

    First, let me state my credentials: I am a funny guy. This is well known in certain circles, which is why, even back in elementary school, I was sometimes asked by the teacher to “say something funny” — as if the deed could be done on demand. This, anyway, is my standing for stating that Stephen Colbert was not funny at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner Steyn is too, funny if you take into account some other things that, within the context of his joke, would be rendered completely irrelevant. All the rest is commentary.

  71. 71.

    General Winfield Stuck

    July 10, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    @gwangung:

    Mr. Wakefield sounds like our BoB with an atomic cork up his ass. Too smart by many halves.

  72. 72.

    gwangung

    July 10, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Is that you—or Mr. Cole?
    Yeah, you might have a point, “from someone who DOES write comedy and gets paid for it.”

    Not very bright on top of that, too. *sigh*

  73. 73.

    gwangung

    July 10, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    Mr. Wakefield sounds like our BoB with an atomic cork up his ass.

    Now, now, I wouldn’t insult BoB with THAT….

  74. 74.

    Al Swearengen

    July 10, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    I like the guy, “Cock”, I mean “Doc”, who thinks that his number of currently-brainwashed ‘winger kids proves that rightards are going to win because they are going to out-breed us.

    Call it the “Idiocracy” gambit. Bold, yet stupid. Because kids always stay as carbon copies of their parents. Especially when said parents are loyal soldiers in an army of lunatics that are slightly more popular than genital warts among people under 30.

  75. 75.

    Jim Tourtelott

    July 10, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Wakefield, it was just wrong of those dirty liberals to take away your anti-psychotics.

    I realize you imagine that you are engaged in Menckenesque jeux d’esprits, but trust me, the correct name for it is “pressured speech.”

    On to more pleasant topics. Like John, I play for the wrong team so far as she is concerned, but I find Rachel Maddow as cute as a bug’s ear. Were she for some inexplicable reason to grace me with her favors, I would die happy. Beautiful, smart, funny, and humane beat snide, heartless, and half-witted every time.

    (Of course, my willingness to be commanded by Our Lesbian Overlords may be because I was tragically warped at an early age by the words of Dominic and Brendan Behan: “In the female prison/There are seventy-five women/And among them I wish I could dwell/As the auld triangle/Went jingle-jangle/All along the banks of the Royal Canal.”)

  76. 76.

    asiangrrlMN

    July 10, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    I wanna be in charge of foreign relations in the new lesbian overlordship. Yes, I am bi, but that’s a minor detail.

    Olbermann commented on Coulter who was griping about the ugliness of liberal women, including Rachel. He said, and he’s right, that Coulter does not want to be talking about the merits of attractiveness of women in politics.

    Rachel is way hotter than Palin and Coulter and Malkin and the rest of the ilk combined. Not only is she physically cute, but she is smart, engaging, funny, and compassionate.

    More to the point, we on the left usually place more of a premium on ability than looks. The right should try it sometimes.

    P.S. A joke is funny. That ‘joke’ was not.

  77. 77.

    geg6

    July 10, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Shit. Our BOB is fucking Shakespeare crossed with Hugh Hefner next to this asshole. He’s so obsessed with lesbians and their sex lives that I think it’s fairly obvious that obsessing is about the only sex life he has.

  78. 78.

    geg6

    July 10, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    @asiangrrlMN:

    More to the point, we on the left usually place more of a premium on ability than looks. The right should try it sometimes.

    That.

  79. 79.

    Fax Paladin

    July 10, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    @Nathan:

    Boot to the head. (wooosh-THUMP!)

  80. 80.

    Mr. Tolbert will put your ass to work

    July 10, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    More to the point, we on the left usually place more of a premium on ability than looks. The right should try it sometimes.

    Yes, which one must assume then that this is exactly why we have the ringing defense of semi-cutie pies like Maddow and her inside scoop on the obscure practices of teabagging. Which renders it somewhat less of a point.

    And, no doubt also why–when the opportune time presents itself–we see The View nags and other outlets dissing the looks of those homely Republican females. In fairness, you’ve not noticed or got hot under the collar about his hypocrisy, since your memory is limited.

    If it’s limited on how government generally ends up wrecking economic progress and is more vice and virture, I doubt you have any good recommendations about people’s looks based on the same historical data banks.

    Then, in your effortless brilliance under the examination of economic historians, add a spritz of repackaged neo-marxian economics that get a free pass, now that the national deficit has gone from mostly tractible to a vapor trail of zeros on behalf of glop, slush, and we see the full monty of people not qualified to run a lemonade stand now commanding entire corporations.

    (and you thought the old Detroit lemons were sour)

    At least the historical Messiah was able to make good on His own Version 1.0 of the old Fish n’ Loaves trick.

    One of my detractors WAS correct about one thing, though.

    No, the stimulus has NOT all been spent yet, and the Wizard of Oz and his brainless, mapless, courage-free, and heartless acolytes no doubt have far more money to waste. True.

    Touche’.

  81. 81.

    Mr. Tolbert now facing Stalinist med packs

    July 10, 2009 at 9:32 pm

    it was just wrong of those dirty liberals to take away your anti-psychotics.

    Far more likely those will have to be doled out soon.

    Will Bambi care pay for that? Anyhow, we’ll need the advantage soon, as the first thing taken is freedom. Slavery sans chains and heat in the fields can be slavery nontheless.

    Yes, it’s always fun to witness the psychological projection of the mental state of neo-stalinists and milkwater Stalin Lite adcovates and allies advising others on such things as presumptions of some mental distress, This against the backdrop of socialism liquidating hundreds of millions of human beings to give us a….better world.

    What a charming, Orwellian strobe light show.

  82. 82.

    General Winfield Stuck

    July 10, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    @Mr. Tolbert now facing Stalinist med packs:

    Yes, it’s always fun to witness the psychological projection of the mental state of neo-stalinists and milkwater Stalin Lite adcovates and allies advising others on such things as presumptions of some mental distress,

    Soon your pain will fly away. No wingnut, no problem.

  83. 83.

    Batocchio

    July 11, 2009 at 6:01 am

    So, um, he said ‘your women are ugly,’ citing someone who died over ten years ago, and apparently he lifted that from Coulter. The rest was pretty incoherent. At least Krauthammer finishes his thoughts and sentences when he sneers.

  84. 84.

    Jim Tourtelott

    July 11, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Oh, yippie. I’m a “Stalinist med pack.” I’ve never been one of those before.

    Just to be clear, laddie–the point of that little crack wasn’t to associate myself with Djugashvilii, but to note a simple fact of which, in your limitless self-regard, you seem unaware. You are incapable of writing a coherent English sentence. This is a fact quite devoid of any necessary political implications. The New Jerusalem could be built in England’s green and pleasant lands, or Comrade Obama could send all of us dupes to Kolyma, or for that matter the extraterrestrial lizards could turn us all into Soylent Green. None of these eventualities would change the fact that you are incapable of producing anything but turgid babble, occasionally leavened by a “humor” so arch that there are gargoyles mounted on top of it.

    I would feel certain qualms about hurting your feelings by pointing out this simple fact, but I draw some comfort in knowing that you will pay me no mind, so absolute is your sense of your own superiority. Still, when a man is fouling his trousers in the public roadway, the fact that his excrement does not smell like rose petals needs to be brought to his attention.

  85. 85.

    Wakefield

    July 11, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    I looked up the references to Coulter, Mr. Pinnochio, spelled with a “B”.

    Liar liar. Naughty naughty. Or at least a very careless accusation YOU in turn borrowed from someone else here. More on that momentarily.

    It seems the other, non-Coulterian references to that nasty creature (who yelled at people with all the pleasant resonance of the Concord turbine in need of a lube job) did detail, in point of fact, that she was mostly described by her adoring party as brilliant, charming, witty, insightful, avante-guared, as well (from others) as given to the occasional bouts of the kind of severe body odor that we all thought were extinct since Woodstock hippies bequeated to America venereal disease, and eating out of trash cans. Sorry, but that’s actually common knowldge. Or should be.

    (On the point of the neo-hippies now continuing to pester civilization beyond just crapping in farmers’ field:
    Granted, some of them clipped their hair, shaved their armpits, learned about modern hygiene, and went on to work at CNN and MSNBC).

    More fool us, though, on thinking this age is gone.

    Winfield Stuck In The Mixing Vat shows that–regarding their intents at producing raw animism and a degeneration of what used to be called “Western Society”–this generation is still around, but rather than smoking pot and screwing your friend’s sister to Hendrix, enjoys the psychological projection of undergirding milkwater socialism, by pointing to his own countrymen languishing in their knickers by the roadside. No matter his, or my, or anyone else’s protests, it seems this kind of thing is par for the course in whatever wretched part of the planet he had the misfortune to be born too and then sold into slavery, and it is unlikely he’ll be dissauded from his advoacy of servitude. So we’ll move on.

    Meanwhile, back in civilization, and regarding Coulter, it seems after pouring over some snippets I found online, she merely affirmed what we all should know: The party over here that finds “charm” in the most hideous personas imaginable of people, who, thankfully are no longer with us.
    But, this party does take the rare opportunity (like winning the Powerball Lotto) to make damn sure everyone knows just how charming Michelle Obama is and how gorgeous, and is the next Jackie O for not completely looking like a halfback in high heels.

    And, of course, the natterheads on MSNBC and other outlets are fabulous when dressed to the nines and troweled with enough makeup paste to mortor bricks together.

    All the while telling us “looks don’t matter”, but “policy” and then proving that apparently neither one actually matter by having plain, sparkless people tell us about the wonders of government cheese styled socialism.

    We get told about the “no matter” part constantly, only to have paeans sung to Rachel Maddow on the BJ (for brevity, not giggles, kids) site by both male and female dogs sniffing her hindquarters online and panting like someone thrown into a sauna.

    It seems, so far, Coulter’s remarks about Abzug appear separated by an entire book from her remarks about Maddow. So for this to be a lift by your standards, one would say that the phrase “the” “cat” “is” “on” “the” “mat” is lifted, due to the fact that no doubt one can find 6 books that have all the above words and then claim that a lifting has happned.

    Kind of a rough standard, brother, with lawsuit notices popping up like mushrooms in the spring rain in editor mailboxes all over America.

    In reality, the commentary about the glorious avante-guarde queen of halitosis and high decebel yelling has been known for some time. I think a somewhat more attractive Ayn Rand got a hold of the first common mention of this mug before Coulter did.

    ________________________________________

    Having said all that, it IS interesting that certain people now FEEL labeled as being Stalinist med packs, though what I said was that his kind of mentality hands them out, not that an individual IS one. That’s what is to be faced. Not Mr. Stuck. That would be too droll. Rather, his masters are those we face–the type who stare at you from ACORN posters and get sung to by cute little kids from Marin county California in one of those wretched Obama videos. Or, alternately, it could just be a dry, deadpan British mumbling beer mutt like Jacqui Smith.

    Interesting. I’ve never really encountered the Stalin Lite crowd until now. I’d heard they’re still around.

    Guilt IDs itself so quickly….

  86. 86.

    Wakefield

    July 11, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    I looked up the references to Coulter, Mr. Pinnochio–spelled with a “B”.

    Liar liar. Naughty naughty, boy. Or at least a very careless accusation YOU in turn borrowed from someone else here. More on that momentarily. That’s the borrowing here, brother.

    It seems the other, non-Coulterian references to that nasty creature (who yelled at people with all the pleasant resonance of the Concord turbine in need of a lube job) did detail, in point of fact, that she was mostly described by her adoring party as brilliant, charming, witty, insightful, avante-guared, as well (from others) as given to the occasional bouts of the kind of severe body odor that we all thought were extinct since Woodstock hippies bequeated to America venereal disease, and eating out of trash cans. Sorry, but that’s actually common knowldge. Or should be.

    (On the point of the neo-hippies now continuing to pester civilization beyond just crapping in farmers’ field:
    Granted, some of them clipped their hair, shaved their armpits, learned about modern hygiene, and went on to work at CNN and MSNBC).

    More fool us, though, on thinking this age is gone.

  87. 87.

    Wakefield

    July 11, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    Winfield Stuck In The Mixing Vat shows that–regarding their intents at producing raw animism and a degeneration of what used to be called “Western Society”–this generation is still around, but rather than smoking pot and screwing your friend’s sister to the ambrosial sounds of Hendrix in the muggy morning heat, instead enjoys the psychological projection of undergirding milkwater socialism, by pointing to his own countrymen languishing in their knickers by the roadside. No matter his, or my, or anyone else’s protests, it seems this kind of thing is par for the course in whatever wretched part of the planet he had the misfortune to be born too and then sold into slavery, and it is unlikely he’ll be dissauded from his advoacy of servitude. So we’ll move on.

    Meanwhile, back in civilization, and regarding Coulter, it seems after pouring over some snippets I found online, she merely affirmed what we all should know: The party over here that finds “charm” in the most hideous personas imaginable of people, who, thankfully are no longer with us.
    But, this party does take the rare opportunity (like winning the Powerball Lotto) to make damn sure everyone knows just how charming Michelle Obama is and how gorgeous, and is the next Jackie O for not completely looking like a halfback in high heels.

    And, of course, the natterheads on MSNBC and other outlets are fabulous when dressed to the nines and troweled with enough makeup paste to mortor bricks together.

    All the while telling us “looks don’t matter”, but “policy” and then proving that apparently neither one actually matter by having plain, sparkless people tell us about the wonders of government cheese styled socialism.

    We get told about the “no matter” part constantly, only to have paeans sung to Rachel Maddow on the BJ (for brevity, not giggles, kids) site by both male and female dogs sniffing her hindquarters online and panting like someone thrown into a sauna.

    It seems, so far, Coulter’s remarks about Abzug appear separated by an entire book from her remarks about Maddow. So for this to be a lift by your standards, one would say that the phrase “the” “cat” “is” “on” “the” “mat” is “lifted”, due to the fact that no doubt one can find 6 books that have all the above words and then claim that a lifting has happned.

    Kind of a rough standard, brother, with lawsuit notices popping up like mushrooms in the spring rain in editor mailboxes all over America evertime someone pens “it was a dark and stormy night.”

    In reality, the commentary about the glorious avante-guarde queen of halitosis and high decebel yelling has been known for some time. I think a somewhat more attractive Ayn Rand got a hold of the first common mention of this mug before Coulter did.

  88. 88.

    Wakefield

    July 11, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    Having said all that, it IS interesting that certain people now FEEL labeled as being Stalinist med packs, though what I said was that his kind of mentality hands them out, not that an individual IS one. That’s what is to be faced. Not Mr. Stuck. That would be too droll. Rather, his masters are those we face–the type who stare at you from ACORN posters and get sung to by cute little kids from Marin county California in one of those wretched Obama videos. Or, alternately, it could just be a dry, deadpan British mumbling beer mutt like Jacqui Smith.

    Interesting. I’ve never really encountered the Stalin Lite crowd until now. I’d heard they’re still around.

    Guilt IDs itself so quickly….

    And besides, the Orwellian prescription for advanced meds has little to do with bad grammar in any case. My commentary on YOUR advocacy of it, which if you check your conscience on the matter is really about opinions, still stands.

  89. 89.

    Stacy

    July 11, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    I’d say that if laboratory sperm can actually bring heterosexual manhood to it’s knees, maybe we’d be better off with lesbian overlords, that don’t get the vapors and faint over such perceived overblown slights to their sexual identity.

    These guys that try to act manly by arguing that we must preserve manliness because manliness is a tiny frail butterfly that will shatter if a woman so much as looks at them funny aren’t really making a great case for manliness. They are just insulting men everywhere by projecting their own personal failures on them. Do these guys ever even stop to realize that their arguments that “Oh noes, if women get X, that means men can’t get obligatory pussy anymore!” say a lot more about them then it does women and lesbian overlords? If the majority of women don’t want to have sex with you without a desperate need for sperm, it’s probably not a flaw in the whole of the female gender – it’s probably just because you are personally kind of a douchebag. It really is that simple.

  90. 90.

    Colonel Robert Neville

    July 12, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    Er, riiight.

    So John, you kinda prove Steyn and Wakefield entirely correct with your gee, amazingly rude and auto-mean spirited online charm, of what appears to be golly, left liberal PC Marxist sodden logical fallacy cliches, don’t cha baby?

    YOU: “Just because when given the choice between sex with you and lesbian sex with laboratory sperm, the overwhelming majority of women would opt for the lesbian sex, that isn’t a commentary on the future of procreation or the species. Senator Ensign and Governor Sanford have assured us all that we will not be soon ruled by lesbian overlords.

    Not that there is anything wrong with that.”

    So Sandford/Ensigh are relevent statistically how? Oh right: Two men you know about cos you watch the MSM. Powerful stuff..Deep research.

    And lesbianism is appealing to you as what? Prurient porn? A useful and fatuous cipher for a fashionable, fake hip rebel and unoriginal nihilist wank? Excellent then.

    Maybe, but you mean the moral equivalence of what’s a man and a family anyhow, don’t cha? How progressive in that vacuum of values way. So you have no counter argument beyond wah hey, smug indignation and gee, moral vanity. Bravo then. I can appreciate the phony over authentic if it’s done well. You’re not though, eh?

    So Wakefield is unattractive because? You’ve met him? Know him? He’s not as handsome, appealing and inspiring as you? Oh wait, it was just a series of logical fallacy’s and ad hominem. Got it.

    I love the left liberal love of a “diversity” of THEIR opinion only. It’s so, ah, “inclusive”. Yes, tht’s it. SO authentic. Toodle ooh. You are dissected surgically here:

    zombietime com, thepeoplescube com, drsanity blogspot com, dissectleft blogspot com, bestobamafacts com, [Left] Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg and The Death of the Grown-Up by Diana West.

    Colonel Robert Neville blogspot com. Melbourne Australia.

  91. 91.

    Wakefield Tolbert

    July 13, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Oh I’m so sorry.

    Seems the worse maloderous air of mentions of gargoyles and garish here comes from Mr. Tourette, or Jim Tourtelott, or tortilini, or whatever.

    Not Mr. Stuck. My Stuck was just the unwitting sidekick to this tawdry production.

    When someone mentions fouling their trousers, I suppose that while I’m late on the draw here, maybe it’s best to ID that beautiful attempt at scoring points with one’s buds online….

    That WAS kinda funny. Mr. Stuck did not come up with that one, and apparantly could not have.

    As for the word “turgid”, Mr. Tortillina, “swollen” is better and I”m guessing somewhat more anglo-saxon, as is the general Orwellian recommendation. If you’re in a game of checkers I’m sure you don’t offer a replay by asking “Want to have another round of this fantastic “tessellation.”
    As to Stacy:

    I’d say that if laboratory sperm can actually bring heterosexual manhood to it’s knees, maybe we’d be better off with lesbian overlords, that don’t get the vapors and faint over such perceived overblown slights to their sexual identity.

    Let’s hope THAT was done with more than tongue planted firmly in cheek. Strike that. Never mind.

    Yes I’m sure this is THE salvation everyone is looking for when not having gays play house, to the effect that just what the doctor ordered for the continued existence of Western Society is….Rule by Gynocracy.

    Then we had another good one from above:

    I’ve always enjoyed the mental gymnastics one must perform to insist that “the party of Hollywood” is chock full of ugly women.

    Good call, except that I was speaking of politicians, you mollusk, not train wreck actresses and other pop culture icons whose only method of separation from the poor quotidian masses is to be one-half plastic, act one-half plastic, and spout opinions on everything from quantum mechanics to foreign policy.

    Many people are rich and powerful and look great these days, chico, so the full monty of setting yourself apart has to come from opinions on the side.

    However, along the plastic lines, Hollyweird’s take on things, granted looking smashing, is still about as plastic as the Beltway’s.

  92. 92.

    Wakefield

    July 14, 2009 at 12:15 am

    More evidence that a couple of IQ points in the hands of a xenophobic right-wing turd polisher with the ususal five second attention span is a mildly amusing combination.

    You can almost see the confederate flag hanging on the wall behing his computer, right next to the display case filled with N a Z i memorabilia.

    Yeah–a general disdain for the gory snuff films made by the liberals’ new compash group, the Sons of Allah, now means “xenophobia” is certainly on the rise, right next to NAZI memorabilia.

    Let me know at what point you people get beyond myopic navel de-fuzzing and get some fresh material.

    Cat G decided to whine about Steyn’s lack of facts and his supposed distortions, but I think I must have missed that amazing take down of the demographic trends…

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