Pat Buchanan makes a funny about drowning Levi Johnston and the cast of “Morning Joe” laughs.
I’m not saying it’s wrong to make jokes about the deaths of others (I do it myself sometimes), but remind me again why Wanda Sykes’ jokes about Rush Limbaugh offended everyone so much.
I also wonder: why not cut out the middle man and replace Joe and Mika with Sarah and Levi? I’m not kidding.
flukebucket
I might start watching it again if they did that.
DougJ
I’d watch it. I’m not ashamed to admit that.
gex
Man, it is a HOOT when crazy uncle Pat starts talkin bout offin someone!
JGabriel
DougJ @ Top:
Levi might actually be more tolerable than Scarborough, but I’ll take Mika over Sarah
anyevery day of the week.It’s not that Mika is so great, but that Sarah is So. Bloody. Awful. Palin’s grammar and incoherence drive me right up the fucking wall.
Please, spare us that.
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ironranger
I’d only watch if Uncle Pat is on with them. Maybe Noonan too.
Napoleon
Same as it ever was . . .
Water dissolving…and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
SGEW
Who cares! In his latest Human Events column, Buchanan lands this gem:
In a column that, as far as I can tell, supports the current Chinese crackdown of the Uighur population in Xinjiang, or, at the very least, is “concerned” about the U.S.’s commitment to preserving the “blood and soil” of the “American people” from the “savage” “tribalism” of “diversity,” and “multiethnic” “elites.” All the while decrying “ethnonationalism”! It is to cry. Really. Read the whole thing – it’s a keeper. Link here [Warning! Link leads to HumanEvents dot com! Click at your own peril.]
And they let this guy on television, and let him talk about the day’s events! It makes me quite upset.
[eta: Holy shit, the comments there are . . . remarkable. Truly.]
DougJ
I find her endlessly amusing.
JenJen
Uh-oh. Anyone checked on the whereabouts of G. Gordon Liddy?
Ash Can
Would they be allowed to bring firearms onto the set?
cleek
sounds to me like a classic case of…
It’s OK If You’re A Republican
(squints slightly, puts on sunglasses, turns into the sun)
YEAAAAAHHHHHHHARRRGGHH!
The Saff
@JGabriel:
You and me both. Her voice is worse than fingernails on a chalkboard. And the way she mangles the English language is beyond criminal.
I don’t have the teevee on when I get ready in the morning but I wouldn’t watch Morning Joe anyway based on the Balloon Juicers’ comments.
steve s
Yeah. And guns. That would be Must See TV.
GregB
MSNBC advocates murdering teenagers.
Stay classy.
-G
Jay B.
Because Wanda Sykes is a liberal black lesbian and Rush Limbaugh is a fat, white pedophile who whines about being a victim every day of his miserably lucrative life.
GregB
Let’s not forget that Buchanan spent most of the late 80’s and early 90’s defending an accused Nazi death camp guard.
You see, at least he was European.
-G
Just Some Fuckhead
Pat Buchanan kills me.
Mnemosyne
Because a black woman made a joke about a rich white man.
SASQ.
JGabriel
@Ash Can:
Win!
And I might watch if they are allowed.
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A Mom Anon
@JGabriel:
While drinking. Heavily. What’s more American than guns and booze?
gex
@A Mom Anon: They could move the set to a bar in Tennessee then. Might as well take place in Real America ™ after all.
ellaesther
@SGEW: I’ll say it again, not that Uncle Pat or anyone over on his extreme right side of the fence will listen to me, but:
We cannot be a Christian nation and be the United States of America. They will have to pick.
(Sadly, I can guess which they’d pick).
ricky
Together they are not host material. However it would fit Jerry Springer’s format. With Palin’s family, they could fill a whole week. “My murderous Ex-brother in law the cop,”
could be one episode. “Gramma’s drug dealing left my grandson a bastard” could be another. The week could end with “How I cast out the devil and became Governor.”
Violet
The train wreck factor would make Sarah hosting a morning show somewhat tempting to watch. But I can’t listen to that woman for more than about ten seconds without having to cover my ears. She makes my head hurt. Nails on chalkboard for sure.
Besides, she can’t host a morning show. That would mean she’d have to Do Work, something she’s obviously allergic to. Unless it’s for staged photo ops, of course. But showing up day after day, making small talk with people deemed more important than she is? No way. She’d end up bolting – for the good of America, of course – after a few weeks.
clone12
@SGEW: Pat Buchanan apparently missed the part where Han Chinese are allowed to have 1-2 kids while ethnic minorities such as Uighurs are allowed to have 2-4 kids under PROC government policies.
Face
OT:
The DKos Yearly Yak-Fest is in Pittsburgh this year? Is Tim F. going? Can we get some pics of him muggin with Markos and his insane minions?
Ash
@cleek:
This is my favorite Horatio Caine cartoon.
Molly
@clone12: My favorite thing in the comments to Pat’s article?
Referring to the illusive “Liberal,” that most dastardly form of anti-American there is…
“It’s the group-think that gets me the most.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
asiangrrlMN
Fuck Pat Roberts–er, Pat Buchanan. I know some people find him amusing in a crotchety old uncle kinda way (yeah, Rachel, I’m looking at you), but to me, he is a loathsome toad who should not be allowed anywhere near a microphone or a keyboard. Asshole.
Molly, thank you for pointing that out. I can’t bear to read Buchanan, so it’s nice to see his hypocrisy in short doses.
Legalize
It’s ok because everyone knows that LIEbruls are the crazy people who hate their political opponents and often do crazy and violent things, as well as instigate violence in others to accomplish their political goals. This is why LIEbruls love Islamic terrorists – they share the identical ideology. See also, LIEbruls and “racists,” real.
Ash
Is anyone having trouble with the comments? WordPress said I submitted something twice and it never even posted my original one?
Trinity
@asiangrrlMN: Word.
ellaesther
@asiangrrlMN: Yeah, it’s one of my very few sore spots with Rachel. Honest to God people, racism and hate mongering (not to mention advocating the drowning deaths of people who did not ask to be in the circus to begin with) is not cute, I don’t care how charming you may be about it.
jibeaux
he says that like it’s a *bad* thing rather than a vastly improved environment for procuring a good tikka masala or pad thai.
Sarcastro
Oh noes! We’re being turned into one of the most powerful and enduring states in the history of mankind!
It was, in fact, Rome’s discarding its historical multi-culturalism that in large part contributed to its downfall. They didn’t turn Celts into a minority in Gaul, they turned Celts into Romans. Just as they’d done with the Iberians, the Berbers, the Greeks, the Etruscans, the Sabines,Samnites, Umbrians and Oscii before them. Their unwillingness to later do the same thing to the Germans, aided in no small part by the intolerance of Christians in regards to pagans, led directly to the fall of the western empire.
flukebucket
Just mute it when she starts talkin’ and you won’t have to deal with that.
jibeaux
@Sarcastro:
also, too. :)
I’m seeing things through hungry-colored glasses today, since I tried to pass off a bunch of fruit and veggies as lunch.
J.D. Rhoades
Once again, Wingnut Logic 101:
It’s okay for a wingnut to say something terrible, because some alleged liberal supposedly said something terrible about someone else. However, what the liberal said is not okay, and is, in fact, still terrible.
Case in point: it’s okay for the people at FreeRepublic to refer to the Obama children as “ghetto trash” because David Letterman made a lame joke about 18 year old Bristol Palin. But what Letterman said is still THE WORST THING EVER SAID ABOUT ANYONE EVER.
MTiffany
Is it just me or is Mika really an unbearable hack?
A Mom Anon
@asiangrrlMN:
To Rachel’s credit,Uncle Pat hasn’t been on her show in several months. She used to have the “It’s Pat” segment when she first started,but it’s been awhile since he’s been on.
Martin
Uncle Pat is pissed that we worked so very hard on that genocide project only to have it unravel in the end.
I do wish we would find extraterrestrials just to knock off some of this stupid nonsense. I’d much rather have Pat spend his time on TV ranting about the growing lizardmen menace than his issues with people that eat rice with every meal and roll their ‘r’s too much.
JGabriel
Lowest Scoring Family Feud ever: Palins Vs. Johnsons.
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Colette
@asiangrrlMN: No Kidding. Every time I tune in to a Buchanan broadcast, my blood pressure shoots up so high I pass out from sheer rage and wake up with fewer brain cells than I had before.
shelley matheis
Hoover: Ralph, A. Janey, A. And Lisa, for your, ahem, essay “Jebediah Springfield: Super Fraud”, F.
Lisa: But it’s all true.
Hoover: [scoffs] This is nothing but dead, white male-bashing from a PC thug. It’s women like you that keep the rest of us from landing a husband.
Fern
@Violet:
Her ego demands live audiences and constant applause. She would hate TV.
dmsilev
Obvious And Obligatory Python Reference: “All right… all right… but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order… what have the Romans done for us?”
-dms
Tim F.
@Face:
Sorry, Tim will not be there. It’s not a boycott or anything, it just doesn’t work for me this year.
Tsulagi
She’s a national treasure.
I’d hit that “donate” button on SarahPAC if I thought that’d guarantee Quitter Palin would be on the debate stage with Multiple Choice Mitt in ’12. Could just see her responding to a Mitt attack with “There you go talking out your magic underwear bottoms again” followed with a wink.
Cyrus
Why aren’t there any comments on the “Shadow Banking Q&A” post? I mean, it says “Comments off,” and there’s no place to type something. I don’t have anything to say about it, I haven’t even followed the link yet, but I was curious why they wouldn’t even be allowed.
Martin
Yeah, sort of defeats the purpose the place. It’s like a whorehouse with a ‘No Fucking’ sign on the front door.
Xenos
@Martin: You ought to check out John Ringo’s oeuvre, then. In one book the lizard men invade in Germany and the peace-loving pansy-ass German people get so desperate that they reconstitute the SS to save them. The SS gets to kill a lot of liberals before taking on the new enemy, too.
I think all the Germans end up getting eaten in the end, so it is a bit of a wash, but the pleasure the writers derive from these scenarios is more than a bit creepy.
kay
Levi’s my favorite Palin.
He was at home, minding his own goddamn business, when the massive campaign apparatus swooped in and put him at that horrible, hateful convention.
They marketed Levi, for a very specific and completely dishonest purpose, used him, and then expected him to quietly disappear.
Just sickening how they used him, but you know what? He’s the father of that baby, and they’re going to know him and see him weekly for the next 18 years.
No one gave any thought to the necesarily permanent nature of Levi, in that batshit insane household? Figures. Not big planners, the Palins.
Ash Can
@Tsulagi:
Mitt, hell. I want to see her win the nomination and go one-on-one with Obama. Can you imagine the drinking game? Take a belt every time Obama clears his throat to keep from cracking up, chug the bottle if he loses it and laughs out loud.
J.D. Rhoades
@Xenos:
Ringo writes a hell of an action scene, but there are times I wonder if he’s not batshit crazy.
The Saff
kay and Ash Can @ 51 and 52:
Excellent! I’m laughing out loud at your comments.
Laura W
It’s just you.
JenJen and I are co-presidents of the Juicers 4 Mika Fan Club.
SiubhanDuinne
This is slightly off-topic, but it would be OT in any of the current threads, so . . .
I was watching the President’s announcement this morning of his Surgeon General pick, a rural physician from Bayou La Batre, Alabama. I didn’t know much about her but from the bio info on CNN and from the Pres and Dr. Regina Benjamin herself, she sounds wildly well-qualified and a fantastic human being besides.
So I mentioned to a colleague who was watching the announcement with me, “How long do you think it will take before the wingnuts start twisting her story to suit their own purposes?” Didn’t have to wait long. According to Media Matters’ “Limbaugh Wire” Rush had a comment during his first hour today:
In the great scheme of wingnut misstatements, this is hardly the worst, but it shows how easy it is to give the facts just a little twitch and end up conveying an entirely different (false) message.
jake 4 that 1
@SGEW: Dear Pat, Just a friendly reminder that without us darkies doing the backstroke in the Great American Melting Pot, your Irish ass would be everybody’s favorite kickball.
J.D. Rhoades
This is one of the 10,000 reasons these Faux Conservatives are such awful people: not only do they think government should do nothing to help its citizens, they despise citizens who help other citizens. Remember Michelle Obama’s visit to a soup kitchen? It wasn’t just her who got the slings and arrows from the drooling yayhoos.
iluvsummr
@SiubhanDuinne: He was probably offended by the fact that she decided to use the proceeds from winning a MacArthur genius award to rebuild a clinic destroyed by Katrina. I mean what kind of doctor gives away “free money” to build a clinic for the poor?
JGabriel
kay:
I bet Bristol did. It would explain why she was so reluctant to marry him – in addition to all the other reasons. Boy, he looks an awful lot like her dad, doesn’t he?
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RSA
Hear that, neighbors-with-four-kids-who-never-shut-the-hell-up? I want to seen your application, in triplicate, before you do the dirty again. Thank God we’re getting that “assent” thing worked out.
Signed,
The Get-Off-My-Lawn Guy Next Door
General Winfield Stuck
I think Buchanan is referring to what could be termed an Extraordinary Pentecostal Rendition. whereas, when “the thrashing stops” the sinner is halfway across the Other Side and the Devil is hanging on to his feet a pullin’ down his britches, and the Lord is thwarting the sneaky sumbitch.
If it works, Levi sees the light. And if it didn’t, his ass is pitchforked for evah.
maya
@JGabriel:
Name something that’s found in Alaska that’s white and flaky and goes up your nose.
Molly
@kay:
Mine too. He’s got to be driving Sarah insane.
JGabriel
maya:
1. Meth!
2. Oxycontin!
3. Uh….
4. Aspirin?
5. Snow… wait, no, that’s never white up here, what with all the oil derricks and caribou shit.
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Xenos
@maya:
Pollock?
*Buzzzzzz*
General Winfield Stuck
@maya:
Hillbilly brain food. Meth
JGabriel
maya:
1. Meth!
2. Oxycontin!
3. Uh….
4. Aspirin?
5. Snow… wait, no, that’s never white up here, what with all the oil derricks and caribou shit.
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kth
Count me as one who was not moved by Media Matters’ pearl-clutching over this sound bite (and I’m usually a big fan of theirs). But if your plan to Take Back America is endangered because some 19-year-old Alaska redneck refuses to cooperate (I’m talking about Levi, not one of Palin’s kids), you probably need a different plan.
inkadu
Ha! Levi has a lot of motive for payback. This is better than my stories.
Ash Can
And in other MSNBC news, Marcy Wheeler says the word “blowjob” on air, MSNBC hosts get vapors.
SiubhanDuinne
@iluvsummr: I think he’s offended by the fact that she’s black and female.
maya
@General Winfield Stuck: Round two:
Name something that can be seen from Alaska.
Round three:
What would be a good excuse for quitting your job.
Tie breaker:
Name something you can do while practicing abstinence.
passerby
@gex:
Truly. Unca Pat doesn’t usually dip into the ugly bag to make his points. Guess he’s beginning to grasp how utterly bankrupt his party has become. He’s fresh out of eloquence.
@SGEW: That column is slap full of waah waah…..(sniff)…but…European…waahh.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ash Can: I thought MSNBC went out and bought themselves a magic 7-second delay machine after Morning Joe said a bad word a few months ago, for just such moments as this.
JK
Morning Joe is a super-sized, putrid, steaming pile of excrement and Joe and Mika are Tweedle Dumbass and Tweedle Bigger Dumbass. Pat Buchanan never met a Nazi war criminal that he didn’t like. Countdown and the Rachel Maddow Show aren’t enough to excuse MSNBC for garbage like Morning Joe and Hardball.
Dennis-SGMM
It is my duty on every thread having to do with Pat Buchanan to remind one and all that Pat wears a bag of cloves around his neck to cover up the old man smell.
Over and out.
asiangrrlMN
@A Mom Anon: This is true. I could never watch those segments. To borrow John’s phrase, I just want to punch him (Buchanan) in the neck.
@Ash Can: Wait, so saying blowjob causes teh vapors, but waterboarding and shit is just dandy? WTF?
AhabTRuler
Fixed for accuracy and entertainment purposes! ! !
JGabriel
@Ash Can:
Unfortunately, now the takeaway from that segment won’t be “Evil Cheney kept Assassination Squad” but “Liberal Bloggers: You Can’t Take Those Potty Mouths Anywhere”.
(And, no, I’m not condoning the vapors and the pearl-clutching, I’m just being realistic about how it’ll be portrayed.)
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passerby
@JK:
They’ll have to be enough, JK. There’s no where else to go for what they’re bringing. I agree with your characterization of Morning Ho and Harbah. Just use your remote, look away.
iluvsummr
@SiubhanDuinne: On the plus side, if her name was Condoleezza Rice he wouldn’t be as offended about her being black and female.
gnomedad
Well, yeah, she’s gonna drive down profits for everybody! Rush obviously feels that doctors need to unionize.
Wakefield Tolbert
but remind me again why Wanda Sykes’ jokes about Rush Limbaugh offended everyone so much.
Sure. Why not.
I’d say a good start would be to remind you of a magical word called “context”, and that the idiot woman said Rush wanted the NATION to fail. In reality, Rush indicated–not unfairly–that he wanted Obama’s POLICIES to fail. Not an especially unkind or unfair thing to say, considering it’s merely a stock conservative OPINION, bolstered by numerous economists, on this vapor trail of zeros that promises super deficits, uber taxation along Swedenic lines (at some point), and possible hyperinflation of the Argentine type. Coupled with this, the fact that this crap sandwhich is little more than a sop to 40-year-old punchlists of liberal social activism, company smashing labor contracts, and ACORN pestilence.
Such a rousing, thunderous ovation as it’s gotten, we now see trial balloons floated to test the toes in the water for Stimu-2.0–the latest possible download!
Naughty naughty. Play nice, kids.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Laura W:
Fuckhead hearts Mika.
(But only because I wanna fuck her dad.)
JR
Serious question: why is it that right-wing blowhards don’t treat Levi Johnson–a schlub who lucked into his notoriety by virtue of a very thin connection to the McCain-Palin campaign–with the same level of respect and deference afforded that other ignorant and irrelevant figure of the campaign, “Joe” the “Plumber”?
Really, what’s the qualitative difference between these two? Neither would have had any role in the actual administration of government had McCain’s ticket won, both were tangential figures thrust into the national spotlight, neither is particularly qualified to speak on national politics…but unlike ol’ Joe, at least Levi has some firsthand knowledge of the politician he likes to talk about. So why is Pat Buchanan joining Joe Scarborough in a jaunty larf about retaliatory murder for Levi, but the Big Bald Bullshitter is still making the rounds promoting his book, appearing at CPAC, and getting sent to Israel to cover a fucking war?
Wakefield Tolbert
Levi has some firsthand knowledge of the politician he likes to talk about…
Levi merely has–at best–carnal knowledge of someone closely related to Sarah Palin. That would be her eldest daughter.
You may not like Joe the Plumber, or Ricci the firefighter, but in the first case a serious question (since you like those) WAS in point of fact asked of someone who hitherto hid his (outwardly) his ideology and got forced to the mat on all this “spread the wealth” crappola that passes for highbrow policy these days. In the second case, Mr. Ricci turned out to have a case after all. One that might play at least a cameo role or larger in the impending confirmation hearings of Judge Sotomayer. Even if Ricci’s not tuned in to the ponderings of wise Latina female experience sense, so much as just common sense.
Levi’s notoriety and somewhat lingered 15 minutes in front of the curtain was due to humping the flesh and the pressing the flesh on TV with noodleheads like Tyra Banks, now claiming on the one hand Palin resigned due to wanting to hit the limelight, and then on the other hand resigning for money reasons. Glad he’s got his story straight.
But he’s no more of a figure than John Wayne Bobbit. Merley his bobbing job was somewhat different, even if the claim to fame was for about the same quality reasoning.
Wakefield Tolbert
Oh yeah, almost forgot–Sotomayer’s ruling got the old heave-ho.
That could, yah know…be important as to her judicial philosophy when it comes time to get in front of the flashes and mics and those stern-looking senators.
Just sayin’….
mai naem
@gnomedad:
The only reason Rush is worried about Benjamin not going out there and being a money grubbing kind of doctor is because he won’t be able to go doctor shopping for his hillbilly heroin if all these doctors turn altruistic.
I cannot stand Mika Brzienski. She’s turned into some dingbat Elizabeth Hasselhoff type since she’s been hooked up with Morning Ho. She kept on going on and on this morning about some intel official she talked to about the intel program who supposedly told her that it wasn’t even implemented yet. And Ho was on Afterwords with Peggers Noonan yesterday. I wonder why CSPAN always has a conservative interview a conservative on Afterwords but a liberal is interviewed by a conservative. Example – Naomi Klein was interviewed by Viet Dinh who openly mocked her a few times during the interview.
Anne Laurie
Ah, someone else who remembers “Why the Irish Became White”! Of course, Patsy B. never stops bragging that his momma was German… back in his day, that was considered marrying up. No lie. The fact that PB still carries on about his parents’ success in the “interspecies breeding contest” (as his co-anchors would put it) is just one more indicator of what a pathetic little failure of a human being he is.
General Winfield Stuck
@Wakefield Tolbert:
She will have them pussified blowhards wrapped around her charming little finger till Lindsay Graham rolls over and squeals with delight.
General Winfield Stuck
@Wakefield Tolbert:
Nope. Just one too many wingnuts on the court is all. You know it isn’t about right and wrong, good case or bad anymore. It’s all about ideology and turning back the clock to Hoover days. All this hoi poloi about activist judges coming from the right was a ruse until they got the numbers to wipe out 80 years of progressive changes. Well, the battle is on and we shall see which way the worm turns.
HRA
From the first day Sarah Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate. Pat Buchanan absolutely drooled every time her name was mentioned. After the July 3rd Palin announcement, he had a perpetual frown and said very little about her. So what happened to have him protect her again?
BTW, anyone remember his “lock and load” phrase when he was running a campaign?
Nothing irks me more when someone starts spouting anti-immigration or anti-diversity for the US. We all have roots in different nations around the world as does everyone in the US. It’s even been theorized that the Native Americans came from elsewhere.
Wakefield Tolbert
I’m glad someone finally spilled the beans about ideology being the trump card over law, and that in the final analysis law does not matter.
Mr. Stuck opened the bag here.
That happens to be the opinion of the charming Sotomayer as well.
Good show.
80 years of “progress” to what, however, is also yet to be seen. Never has the world been more regulated and micromanaged at almost all levels, and yet it’s as nasty and dangerous as ever.
And thank you, HRA, and that delightful precis of history and immigration.
Neverminding the fact that some had ancestors who came here in the great migration over the Bering Strait, when no one was even around to wag fingers and sign you up for AFDC benefits at the border when you squeezed out some pups. Also, some of us had forebears who came here LEGALLY.
With all this FOCUS on the law, and the fact that immigration high jinx was at least partly responsible for the crushing and burning of nearly 3000 Americans on a certain day, I’m sure the Left will remain sanguine about our “progress” in this department as well. See Mr. Stuck for more info.
Wile E. Quixote
@Wakefield Tolbert
asiangrrlMN
@Wile E. Quixote: Ah, Wile E. Quixote, you are better than a pie filter for this particular nutjob. Thanks for the laugh, bro.
Wakefield Tolbert
…and NOW, we have Wile, who somehow got an advanced copy of one of the Smashin’ Latina’s legal briefs even before the media found it.
Amazing.
Well that was one for the ages, basement child.
Faulkner, eat thy aching heart out.
Now: Do we need to call the cops and have your parents, such as they are, stop feeding you cold oatmeal and unchain you from the water heater?