The Republican whinefest about Paul McCartney is one of the best things to happen politically in years. This, from some former Cheney flunky, is truly epic (I’m just copying in the whole thing so you don’t have to follow the link to ghastly Politico “Arena”):
As children, I’m sure we all remember how deflated we were when we finally realized that the Santa Claus in the shopping mall was fake. I got the same feeling when I heard about Sir Paul McCartney’s cheap shot at President George W. Bush this week following his performance in the White House. “And in fact, after the last eight years, it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is,” McCartney said, apparently drawing cheers and applause from the audience, which included Obama staffers and supporters.
The Beatles/McCartney music has been the soundtrack of my life from when I listened to “She Loves You” on a scratchy 45 rpm at age 4 or 5 in the mid-1960s to “Band on the Run” by McCartney’s second band Wings when I was a teenager in the mid-1970s. One of the biggest thrills of my life was seeing Paul play live in concert here in Washington D.C., first in the early 1990s, and then again in 2006, when I brought two of my youngest children to dance and sing to Beatles/McCartney classics like “Hey Jude” and “Please, Please Me” (a John song sung by Paul that night) to “Jet” and “My Love.”
I realize that McCartney’s politics, like most entertainers, lean to the Left. That doesn’t bother me because I’ve learned to separate the music from the performer. But to use the occasion of being recognized for his musical accomplishments by our current president to disparage the intelligence of our former president (in the White House, no less) is not only boorish and disappointing, but downright nasty. I’ll still listen to McCartney’s marvelous music, but his cheap shot against Bush will forever diminish him in the eyes of his legion of Republican fans like me. Santa does indeed wear a fake beard.
Paul McCartney should take this “sad song and make it better” by heeding the opening lyrics of his song “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” (“We’re so sorry, Uncle Albert. We’re so sorry if we caused you any pain”) and issue a public apology to President Bush and the American people.
For a bunch of torture-loving tough guys, they sure get their fee-fees hurt easily.
New Yorker
You know, this runs both ways. I can still enjoy watching “Lethal Weapon” even though Mel Gibson is a Jew-hating, sadomasochistic fascist lunatic.
Joey Maloney
Wingnut sycophant tears taste delicious.
ed
Those monsters!
jon
That will make it all better. And if President Bush gives a public apology to the American people, it could be a real cathartic moment for the millions of us who consider him a complete fuckup and the moral equivalent of a toad that eats its young.
Cacti
For all the wingnuts’ bluster and posturing, they’re really a bunch of pansies.
beltane
This is how I would feel about Ted Nugent if Ted Nugent was talented and wrote songs that most of the world loved. Luckily, I can’t think of any right-wing performer whose work I enjoy, so I have been spared this type of inner turmoil.
guy
sack up or ship out, wingers.
The Main Gauche of Mild Reason
Booring. This is just strikes me as more Breitbart-esque “the Democrats control the media and this is important because the media insidiously controls everything!” whining. They could at least try to talk about McCartney’s countertops or something.
Cliff
The Beatles/McCartney music has been the soundtrack of my life from when I listened to “She Loves You” on a scratchy 45 rpm at age 4 or 5 in the mid-1960s to “Band on the Run” by McCartney’s second band Wings when I was a teenager in the mid-1970s.
This is impossible. Everyone knows wingnuts only listen to the screams of small animals tortured in the garage.
Tonal Crow
This is definitely an impeachable offense.
JenJen
Awwwwww. My heart is just breaking for this guy. If you ask me, he should throw all his Beatles CDs away.
Does anyone remember this goes both ways when it comes to wingnuts? How DARE McCartney make a joke about the former President!! But… Dixie Chicks? Open season on them about 7 years ago now.
Tonal Crow
@jon: I’d like to see Bush apologize…as he’s being led to his cell in The Hague.
Adam Collyer
Did any conservative really believe that Paul McCartney, a British-born rock star, was anything but a liberal?
People who are shocked and dismayed that Paul McCartney has a negative opinion about President George W. Bush need to have their head examined. 70% of this country has a negative opinion of him, and 90% of the rest of the world does as well.
Buster
I thought they liked their politicians to scoff at that fancy book learnin’. It’s really a compliment that Bush doesn’t know what a library is.
J
The headline says ‘McCartney should apologize to Bush’. Say rather: ‘Bush should give away all his worldly goods, acknowledge that that nothing he can do in his life could ever make up for his crimes and, after taking a vow of poverty, devote the rest of his to working with lepers or something along those lines. If after two decades or so he’s stuck it out, just possibly the world might begin to think about forgiving him.’
licensed to kill time
@Cacti:
Melodramatic pansies, too.
srv
I understand that Paul did send an emailed apology to Dick & George, but it got lost in their email system.
Martin
@Cliff: You have that backward. They can’t tell the difference between the sound of small animals tortured in the garage and music. Remember, torturing suspects sounds like America the Beautiful to them.
joe from Lowell
I love the way the wingnuts still think they speak for, or even understand, the American people.
gnomedad
I feel for him, but he had to find out about W sooner or later.
StonyPillow
John Boehner and this WATB should apologize for insinuating Republicans aren’t proud of their malicious ignorance.
TR
Sweet Jesus. Sack up, Republicans.
GregB
Remember Ted Nugent waving around and M16 on stage calling Hillary a bitch and telling Obama to suck on this.
But that was just good fun. This McCartney stuff is evil and mean spirited.
Tonal Crow
@licensed to kill time: Drama queens. With wide stances.
.
Somebody better get this unamerican liberal elitist named Laura Bush to apologize too:
“I was the librarian who spent 12 hours a day in the library, yet somehow I met George.”
geg6
Good lord, whatta buncha WATBs. What the hell would they do if John Lennon was alive? Because you KNOW he’d be a hell of a lot less diplomatic and restrained than the Nice Beatle in his opinion of W. Jeebus, their fee fees are delicate flowers, aren’t they?
Joseph Nobles
Bush should thank McCartney for giving the wingnuts something with which to distract themselves after Bush’s frank admission of waterboarding KSM.
Cliff
@Martin:
Ah, of course. My mistake.
Shalimar
I admit I don’t understand the freak-out. Was McCartney’s joke any different from a thousand jokes that Letterman and Leno have told in their monologues night after night after night? Meanwhile, many of the same people freaking out have been calling Obama an evil muslim communist intentionally out to destroy the world and they don’t see anything there that they personally need to apologize for. These people aren’t rational.
scav
keep that whaa whaa pedal to the medal there guys.
Derek
@beltane:
I don’t think there are any good right-wing musicians!
Ruckus
@Cacti:
For all the wingnuts’ bluster and posturing, they’re really a bunch of pansies.
Most bullies and Walter Mitty wannabes actually are.
FlipYrWhig
Anything that exposes their still-smoldering fondness for the widely hated Gee Dubya is cool with me.
Citizen_X
I know it would be off by one Beatle, but shouldn’t it be “Epic Wah Waaaah?”
McCartney should reply with, “Yeah, right. Wake me up when Republicans apologize for trying to fucking ban John.”
JCT
@Shalimar:
Whoa guy, you need to get out more.
licensed to kill time
So I was searching for this quote:
And the top google link was:
which cracked me up.
QuaintIrene
*Gasp* Who knew there’d be Obama staffers at the Obama White House?
And Flunky? The Santas at all the malls and street corners are Santa’s helpers. Every kid knows that!
Tonal Crow
Yesterday, all the lib’rals seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay,
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly, I’m not half the “man” I used to be,
Blacks and ‘spanics just won’t vote for me,
Oh yesterday came suddenly.
Why they ain’t convinced I don’t know, it’s just their way,
They’ve done so much wrong: how I long for yesterday.
Yesterday, hate was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Why they insult me I don’t know, I’ll have to pray,
They hate ‘merica: how I long for yesterday.
Yesterday, hate was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh I believe in yesterday.
Michael
@Cacti:
This is the essence of conservatism – one must constantly celebrate their craven greed, their laziness, their racism, their xenophobia, their exclusionism, their religious bigotry, their crony coddling and their incompetence. Plus, if you’re not telling them what a great job they’re doing/did and how their motives are pure, you’re the worst person on earth.
I’m with Jeremiah Wright on the whole “God Bless America” thing – it was a strangely infantile song to go with at the time anyway. More fitting would have been “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, but I’m sure that wouldn’t have set well with the Anarcho-Confederates.
Ecks
I remember seeing Jon Voight on teevee at some Republican rally in the last election, and the intrepid journalist tried to ask him some sort of softball policy question, and he said words to the effect of “Oh I don’t know about that stuff, I’m not a politician, I’m just here supporting my side.”
Not that I would have expected detailed policy from him or anything, but that sounded like a surprisingly blunt admission that it was all basically tribal rather than rational. Politics is sport for the wingers, and it is my team right or wrong. Penalties called on our guys are outrageous, and anything that even looks like it maybe could have been perhaps called on the other team are clear examples of referee bias.
Svensker
@Shalimar:
This is pretty much the bottom line.
Egypt Steve
He’s still bigger than Jesus.
cleek
is it any surprise that the modern GOP still wants to fight the battles of the 60s ?
Tonal Crow
@Egypt Steve: I can hear the smitin’ machine bein’ wound up just right now, so you’d better ‘poligize you libtard, ‘cuz when the Baby Jeebus cries it’s like a levee done broke, and it’ll make Barack Hussein Obama’s oil spill look like a day at Applebee’s salad bar.
Cat Lady
I don’t need no waaaah waaaah.
Redhand
Shove it up your ass, Wingnut crybaby. The torture our unrepentant, dumb-as-a-box-of-hammers ex-President ordered was “downright nasty” too. Having his numb-nuts stupidly mocked in the current White House is the least he deserves. “We’re so sorry if we caused you any pain” indeed.
MTiffany
These people have soundtracks to their lives? WTF? Either they’re mentally ill, or they watch too much television and crappy movies. The too much tv/movies angle explains everything about their worldview and justifications for the use of force: the good guys always win, the only people that ever get hurt/maimed/killed (aside from the innocent martyrs in act 1, scene 1) are the bad guys at the climax (or people that ‘deserved it’ along the way), and it only ever takes forty-two, seventy-eight, or 104 minutes to achieve a nice, tidy plot resolution with the heroes riding off into the sunset with the girl.
No wonder they totally fucked up the world in less than eight years.
djork
So, the wingnuts have been babbling about this in the bowels of society known as Craigslist. However, someone left this beaut as a response.
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/rnr/1778252732.html
Hilarious.
Chuck Butcher
Considering the fodder available, the library joke was pretty mild and standard comedy fare. “I’m glad to have pleased you with my music rather than to have tortured you,” might have been a bit more scathing. But then I don’t write or tell jokes…
asiangrrlMN
@Tonal Crow: Love it! And, I say as soon As W. and his posse apologize for fucking up the country over the last eight years, then McCartney can apologize for his rather apt joke.
@licensed to kill time: Melodramatic pansies. That has to be worked into the rotating header as soon as possible. It’s so damn catchy.
Cole! Get right on that!
Zach
This is awesome that this happened. It means we get to relive the oh-so-believable anecdote about George Bush and Karl Rove’s race to read the most books!
Proper Gander
I love this. Really. Keep it in the news, and keep the whingenuts whinging about how much they’re upset that someone disrespects Bush.
OTOH, I’ve found that the quickest way to get them to change the subject (’cause they don’t shut up, ever, under any circumstances) is to ask them why they admire Bush so much. Why are they compulsively driven to defend a confessed war criminal, and one of the worst presidents of American history? I’m not going to write a treatise on that subject, but rather to dwell on its rhetorical implications: make them claim Bush, and all his baggage, by defending him. They must reach the point of exhaustion eventually, from rushing about to defend everything Bush. I think it was Frederick the Great who said something to the effect that only a foolish and inexperienced general attempts to defend every point; the successful defender knows which points must be defended, and which might be temporarily lost.
Napoleon
@cleek:
I actually think it is more of something else. Anytime someone points out something that is perfectly obvious about the right, in this case that they push candidates that are noticeably anti-intellectual, they try to intimidate people into not pointing it out. They do this time and time again with a great deal of success. If the Dems would just relentless point out things like that they would be a lot more stressful then they are with public opinion.
licensed to kill time
@asiangrrlMN:
Perhaps it could be added to an existing one, a la:
Zach
@Cliff: God I really hope this person wasn’t involved in writing anything for Cheney. I’d go crazy reading through all of those grammatical errors. Commas, fool! Also, who the hell calls it a “45 rpm” … talk about letting your cover slip.
chuck
You don’t get it, they’re not demanding he apologize for insulting Bush. They’re defending *Obama’s* honor, because to them, “knowing what a library is” is really one of the worst insults you can level at a person!
asiangrrlMN
@licensed to kill time: Oh my god I can’t stop laughing. Cole! Make it so!
MikeBoyScout
@48 djork: Oh, that is so true and pee your pants funny. thanks for the link!
Ecks
@Tonal Crow: Clap clap clap.
When I was younger, with so much more power than today,
I could pick on anyone I liked in any way.
But now these days are gone, I’m not so self assured,
Now I find, they don’t care when, I slam their fingers in the door
Let me punch you now, I’m feeling down
And I do miss giving hippies their pounds
Help me, get my fee fees off the ground
Won’t you please, please let me punch you?
Tonal Crow
@Ecks: Hehehe. “I could pick on anyone I liked in any way” is especially nice.
cleek
from Conda’s bio:
look out people, this is a world-class intellect you’re dealing with!
asiangrrlMN
When I find myself with very hurt fee-fees,
Baby Jeebuz comes to me
Strapping heat he tells me,
Vent my spleen.
And when I start spewing nonsense
He smiles and claps his hands in glee
Strapping heat he tells me,
Vent my spleen.
Vent my spleen, vent my spleen, vent my spleen, vent my spleen.
Strapping heat he tells me, vent my spleen.
QuaintIrene
Maybe he was responsible for Romney’s concession speech. That rivaled Palin’s for incoherence.
birthmarker
Don’t apologize, Paul, DON’T DO IT!!
The spin meisters are just looking back to their Dixie Chicks heyday..
Ecks
@birthmarker:
“I would like to apologize for my joke about president Bush, when I suggested that he doesn’t know what a library is. It was both inaccurate and inappropriate to suggest that president Bush would not recognize an excellent stock of kindling when he saw one.”
birthmarker
Ha!! Ecks!
Paul, YOU were ALWAYS my favorite Beatle! I only love you more now!!
mortmorges
This is so ironic considering all the baseless insults they throw at Obama. Here’s a bunch of their crazy-talk nicely packaged in an awesome satirical music video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW2R0hELXks&fmt=22
Scott
Man, I don’t see any way Paul can avoid having to apologize for this. I mean, on one side, you’ve got a former president — granted, the most hated president in history, despised worldwide for wrecking the global economy, for starting two different wars for no reason, for abandoning human rights in favor of pointless torture — and his millions — nay, dozens of admirers who generally prefer not to say they thought he was a real Republican.
And on the other side, all you’ve got is some nobody who was in the Beatles.
Man, I feel sorry for Paul. He could come out of this more popular than ever. (shakes head sadly)
Bill E Pilgrim
Oh yeah, there’s a real villian for our times: Paul McCartney.
I knew those mop-tops were a threat to our way of life!
Good grief, Wingnuttia is really going retro. I don’t think anyone has burned Beatle records since 1966. They must have run out of things to get outraged about in our time.
Next we’re going to start hearing about the moral dangers of jalopies and raccoon coats.
Can we just designate the entire Republican party as a retirement community?
Tonal Crow
@Bill E Pilgrim: But what do you hear if you play a John Boner speech backwards?
Bill E Pilgrim
@Tonal Crow:
Him singing “We all live in an orange submarine?”
licensed to kill time
Is there anybody going to listen to my story
all about a Beatle who came to say
he was the kind of Prez we scorned so much
it made us sorry
still we all regret his every day
Ahh Bu uh uh ush
ahh Bu uh uh ush
he’s the kind of Prez who put us down when friends were there we feel a fool
when he said it was lookin’ good he acted as if ’twas understood
he was a Fo ool Foo ool Foo ool
Ahh Paul ah ah ahl
said it for all all all all
Sigh
bemused
@joe from Lowell:
Exactly. 25% = majority in wingnut math.
Bill E Pilgrim
I was mistaken in my comments about President Bush. His intellect and industriousness was evident to us from the moment he took office. Yes, he spent a lot of time clearing brush at his ranch but that just helped him focus on the challenging tasks at hand, and it always warmed our hearts to see him at his ranch, or playing golf, or bicycling. I would in fact recommend him even now for any organization needing a leader. As we discovered after watching him for eight long years: If you can get George W Bush to work for you, you will be very lucky indeed.
anna missed
If you think about it, there’s a pretty big hole – in fact, a humongous gaping void of a hole – in the right wing “culture”, that has essentially left them without any (reasonably convincing) art of their own that expresses their world view. But then I suppose that’s to be expected when your world view is best characterized as being devoid of humanity, empathy, understanding, and knowledge. In a lot of ways it’s their version of alchemy, of continually trying to convert propaganda into culture through force.
You’d think they would learn, but like Sisyphus, they never do.
robertdsc
Instead of sucking it up, these morans should suck a tail pipe. GTFO, GOP.
r€nato
They’re upset over that joke? Srsly? That was rather restrained, don’t you think? Mr Wingnut protests too much; the truth hurts his feelings.
licensed to kill time
@Tonal Crow: Renob is dead.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
Paul McCartney did a pro-U.S. song right after 9/11 and performed it at prominent events. Any gratitude from the righties for that?
FlipYrWhig
The parodies are great, but you can pretty much drop in the lyrics of “Fool on the Hill” intact.
Allison W.
Don’t you guys see what they are doing? They are setting the meme for our new enemy – the british. Earlier this week, the GOP went after Obama’s nominee/appointee for the head of Medicare (or medicaid?) and they are claiming that we should fear this guy because he loves the british single payer health insurance system.
Sirkowski
Hippies don’t like george W. bush?
Slowpoke.jpg
SRW1
These guys don’t know how lucky they were that this was Sir Paul McCartney. If it would have been John Lennon the space-time continuum would have ruptured.
RSA
I’m heartbroken for Mr. Conda. I’d like to put together a mixtape (do kids still make mixtapes?) for him, Right-Wing Songs For A Former Domestic Policy Advisor To Vice President Cheney:
1. Cat Scratch Fever, by Ted Nugent.
2. Born in the USA, by Bruce Springsteen–no, wait, Reagan had no idea what that song meant.
2. I Won’t Back Down, by Tom Petty–nope, Petty took out an injunction against George Bush for using it in his campaign.
2. This Land Is Your Land, by Woodie Guthrie–oops, can’t have a socialist in the mix.
Jesus, I can’t get past 1.
KCinDC
@Zach: Remember his audience. He had to write “45 rpm” rather than just “45”; otherwise they’d think he was talking about a gun.
Brachiator
This bonehead is trying to take on Sir Paul, who is still and forever the “cute” Beatle?
They never learn.
This will be really good for President McCain.
arguingwithsignposts
Maybe the Bush apologists think Sir Paul should just stick to practicing his love with women.
The Truffle
@Adam Collyer: This is just too hilarious. From 2007 to about now, the wingers wanted to pretend GWB didn’t exist. They didn’t even have the guy at the GOP convention 2008. Now, they’re experiencing a rush of 2003 nostalgia, where making jokes about Bush is ANTI-AMERIKIN! Of course, McCartney is British.
Alex S.
I see….Mr. Pundit could separate the artist from the music….until the artist made a joke about Bush. Then it got personal.
Mike G
@Allison W.:
Anyone going to tell the fucktards that Medicare is a single-payer health insurance system?
arguingwithsignposts
OT, but I’m just watching This Week, and Jake Tapper really needed to tell Liz Cheney to STFU and stop talking over everyone else when they talk, deflecting criticism of her daddy. Unless it was George Will, then she was silent as a church mouse.
I also noticed that Huffington and Moulitsas actually held their tongues when the criminal rightists were talking.
MeDrewNotYou
@Sirkowski: Slowpoke? I see what you did there. ;)
OT but related, but I’m playing Soul Silver right now and it (with Heart Gold) is the best in the series. I’m once again addicted to Pokemon and I love it.
(No making fun of me for playing Pokemon, either. They’re damn fine games, even if I’m a older than the target demographic.)
Vico
What cheap shot?
licensed to kill time
@arguingwithsignposts:
__
Paul’s going to med school?
Hunh. I did not know that.
Dr. Loveless
Somewhere in Texas, the Dixie Chicks just busted out the world’s smallest violins.
Egypt Steve
In other news —
Elton John plays Rush Limpball’s fourth traditional wedding (kudos to Glenzilla for knowing, as usual, just how to put it).
As Beatle John asked: How can you sleep?
Kevin
I am really impressed by the wit and ingenuity of most of the comments here, but to throw my personal downer in the mix, I sorely miss Hunter S.Thomson, circa “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail” in these depressing times. I can’t begin to imagine what he would have to say about the hyper-lunacy all you sane Americans have been enduring, but knowing that he would have verbally castrated these wet-brains brings a smile to my face (along with the best of Paul’s tunes)…
MikeJ
@Egypt Steve: He’s getting as many wives as the Qur’an allows him?
Kryptik
God, I made the mistake of delving into things there. It’s amazing how much butthurt is over this, considering we had a fucking standing State Senator call our president a “Raghead”, and constant streams of right-wing celebs acting like anything left of Lieberman is total tyrannical soshulizms.
p.a.
A request for info from the audience. We just had an incident of antisemitic graffiti locally- swastika spray painted on a temple. It was backwards, as probably 75% of them are in these instances, to my recollection. My question: is the backwards swastika just another example of stupidity? (The culprits are, after all ignorant bigots). Or is there some symbolic Amero-Aryan meaning to the reverse orientation?
arguingwithsignposts
@licensed to kill time:
He probably already has an honorary doctorate from somewhere.
;)
fucen tarmal
i love that the boomers on the right, the ones who fulfilled the promise of the southern strategy, and became the driving force behind the turn to evangelical christianity are losing their religion over the beatles…
to me they were just like elvis and pat boone, to the conservatives i offer this, you may need this more than me.
elvis was a hero to some, but he never meant shit to me
same thing for the beatles, but i am enjoying this thouroughly.
cmorenc
McCartney was being polite. I’m sure what he wanted to say was something like: “it’s great to have a President who’s not a war criminal, and who is smart, mature, and honest, instead of one who’s an arrogant, foolish liar.
Kyle
@Bill E Pilgrim:
Stand by for long-pent-up Repig rants against Grover Cleveland, “those new-fangled gramophones” and “horseless carriages”.
Mike G
@p.a.:
I doubt they were trying to reference the ancient Indian-subcontinent origins of the leftward-hook swastika.
It’s like “Get a brain, Morans” or “Obama is a sekrit muslin” – don’t look for deeper meaning, it’s just prime stupid.
DPirate
He’s right. It is a cheap shot and it also shows a lack of respect for our country and the presidency, Obama included. I don’t care what McCartney thinks, but it’s very bad behavior to get snarky and insulting as a guest, let alone as a guest at a state function. Poor form, as the british might say…
lamh32
@Egypt Steve:
I just saw that. Is Elton hurting for money (reportedly, he got 1 mill), or is he back on that stuff?
Chuck Butcher
@DPirate: This in regard to the same assholes who called me a traitor for opposing the Iraq war?
MikeJ
@lamh32: Meh, it’s a gig. Anyone who ever played a frat party will say the same things. You don’t have to like the people. Take their money, drink their beer, flirt with their girls, have fun playing.
lamh32
@MikeJ:
Ah sorry Mike, as a AA, I would not be taking any money for any services from the KIan, who still believe that I am a second-class citizen. The things Limpballs say about gay people are pretty bad. Besides, it Elton, it’s not like he’s some lowly musician trying to make ends meet,
stuckinred
@MikeJ: That’s how REM and the B52’s started!
stuckinred
@Kevin: He’s say “bad craziness”.
Lisa K.
@New Yorker:
Yes, but you know, even though I don’t like country music I became a big fan of the Dixie Chicks after they publicly spit on George Bush, knowing it would probably alienate their natural fanbase.
fucen tarmal
@lamh32:
can you think of a bigger collection of wide stancers than at a limbaugh party? elton has needs, and he can relate to people who only “come out” of sorts, later in life.
LD50
@DPirate:
Ho ho ho. The same people who’ve spent 2 years calling Obama a Muslim Terrorist Marxist born in Kenya are NOW Deeply Concerned About Respect For The Presidency. Blow me.
MikeJ
@lamh32: I view it as the same as John Cole getting paid by idiot right wingers for ads here. They wind up with less money and the good guys wind up with more.
@stuckinred: Pylon and Love Tractor too.
NobodySpecial
Considering what he cost the country, nothing about shots at Bush are cheap.
scav
ahhhh, but sometimes allegedly poor form is simply excellent design. I also missed the part of the constitution, let alone narrative, where formerly reigning politicos were adopted into the pantheon of the sacrosanct (while current ones are legitimate targets).
Lisa K.
@scav:
I’m pretty sure Bill Clinton would like to know where that part is, too.
LD50
@Lisa K.:
Someone should let “Dhimmi Carter” know, too.
Lesley
his cheap shot against Bush will forever diminish him in the eyes of his legion of Republican fans like me.
I’m sure “Paul” would be thrilled.
dan
Hey, can we all (Digby, Kos, etc.) please stop using “fee-fees?”
I imagine that it is supposed to resemble baby-talk, but I’ve never heard a kid/toddler/baby use that phrase, and, also, too, do we have to attribute baby-talk to the wingnuts to make them seem even more pathetic than the clearly show themselves to be?
scav
I just had a vision. OK, maybe an auditory hallucination. Sir Paul fronting the Jon Stewart fuck-you choir, doing a full-on cover of their existing hit morphing into “Just. Joke. ing!” à la Jake Knotts.
Lesley
Hey, I bet this guy trashed John when he made that quip about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus.
kdaug
Sorry if this has been mentioned somewhere else upthread, but where exactly did this “Tough-guy Republican” meme get started?
I mean, look at Karl Rove. Do you think in school this guy was a bully? Or the one being bullied? How about Glen Beck? Hell, GWB was a frakin’ CHEERLEADER! Do you think he was held up as the epitome of virility and masculinity by his peers? Or did they snigger behind his back, but never confront his idiocy since his dad was head of the CIA and his last name was Bush?
Seems to me the right is being distilled into the cowardly, the closeted, and the abused. And they’re overcompensating.
It’s sad.
lamh32
@MikeJ:
A little ole school hip hop for ya’ll.
Someone sent this to me, and I’m gonna dedicate it to Elton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dqm3WNB4b4.
kdaug
@p.a.: Maybe the vandals were Hindi?
henqiguai
@p.a.(#102): Isn’t the Nazi swastika a reversed Buddhist symbol ? So maybe it’s a roving band of radical Buddhists roaming the landscape trying to drum up followers…
henqiguai
@dan (#125):
Really ? I have been assuming it was, at best disdain; but more generally simple contempt. Someone’s over analyzing, and (given that to do so would take effort) it ain’t me.
russell
Suddenly I’m hearing Paul Anka singing “Good morning, yesterday…”.
I think it was the teenage years listening to “Band On The Run” that pushed Conda over to the dark side.
More to the point, McCartney has more money than God, he’s a freaking knight of the British realm, and fifty years after starting his career he can still sell out a good-sized arena.
He does not give a single solitary crap what American conservative Republicans think. About anything.
russell
Apparently Rove’s political allegiance was sealed in his childhood, when he was beaten up by a Democratic girl.
I kid you not.
Some comedies write themselves.
Citizen_X
@DPirate:
Snarky and insulting to whom? To the host, Obama? Or to the party that Obama beat in ’08 like a rented mule?
Go faint elsewhere, pal. We’re out of smelling salts.
Napoleon
@russell:
46 years ago he wouldn’t have given a flying fuck what American conservatives thought, after all he was with the first white group who refused to play to segregated audiences.
McCartney specifically went on record with his disapproval, and this was right when they were breaking onto the American music scene.
There is not even a one in a million chance he will ever apologize to those clowns.
Zipperupus
Governor Romney
has an advisor who thinks Paul McCartney is mean
What does he see?
All the bloated wingnuts
where do they all belong?
All the bloated wingnuts
where do they all come from?
JITC
Really? This guys is JUST NOW realizing that Paul McCartney is a lefty, vegetarian, long-haired (ok formerly on that one) hippie? Really?
Michael Bersin
@Ecks:
Yeah, and we all know which side Mr. Phelps was on:
That about sums up the republican world view.
dan
@henqiguai: I agree, you took no effort.
Gus
@SRW1: No, silly. Lennon would have turned into a conservative.
The Fool
Nobody could have known that one of the hippies who was primarily responsible for blowing the complacent 50’s to smithereens, who helped spread the psychedelic gospel of acid and the summer of love (its all you need), who wanted to do it in the road and helped usher in the sexual revolution, and who disrespected the Queen, is a lefty and is turned off by an extreme winger, like George W. Bush. No one could have ever guessed. What a surprise!
JL
Boner wasn’t just popping off to a couple of his asshole friends after a couple of beers.
He is the House minority leader.
He was speaking on behalf of the entire Republican Party.
Indulge me. I’m about to repeat myself.
He was speaking on behalf of the entire Republican Party.
Have any of America’s intrepid journalists had the presence of mind to ask other prominent GOP leaders if they endorse his demand?
And if not, why not?
AxelFoley
@arguingwithsignposts:
Sad, since both usually criticize Obama on how he deals with the wingnuts. They have the Spawn of Dick in front of them and won’t shut her down? I don’t wanna hear them say shit anymore about how Obama deal with Repubs.
zoej
I want the d@mn republicans to quit demanding that people apologize to me, as I am an “American People”. I am a big kid and can handle people saying negative things about both people I like and people I dislike. I am capable of looking at the source and evaluating the comment on my own. It is called being a grown-up.
MTiffany
@zoej: ‘Yeah, but if you were a *real* ‘Murican, you’d be offended by what that limey fag said ’bout perznit Bush, when he was playing for that Kenyan raghead illegitimate usurper, no less.’
Joseph Nobles
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Dunk him down, baby, now! (dunk him down, baby)
Shock and awe! (shock and awe)
Why don’t you shock him in the testes now? (shock him in the testes)
Come on, he’s outside the law! (outside the law)
Come on, he’s outside the law, now, honey (outside the law)
You know you torture so good (torture so good)
You got to torture them terrists, babe (torture them terrists)
So strap him down to the wood (down to the wood)
You know we all down in Cuba, babe (all down in Cuba)
Geneva don’t mean a thing (don’t mean a thing)
You know he don’t wear no un’form, baby (don’t wear a un’form)
So hang his thumbs by a string (thumbs by a string)
Now slap him, kick him, beat him, baby, now (beat him now, baby)
You know you torture so fine (torture so fine)
Come on, Bush built us this Gitmo, babe (built us this Gitmo)
Can’t hear them liberals whine (liberals whine)
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Niques
@Ecks: Wow. You have succinctly said what I’ve thought for a very long time. Thank you.
Pangloss
Maybe he wrote Mitt Romney’s hep-cat unscripted banter with African American kids: “Who let the dogs out?”
DPirate
@Chuck Butcher: I don’t understand what you mean. McCartney called you a traitor, or the people faulting him for what he said called you a traitor? How does it matter?
@Citizen_X: To all of us. It’s called manners and courtesy. Heard of them?
@LD50: Fuck you and go blow your dog. You, I can see, have NOT heard of manners and courtesy.
@NobodySpecial: I suppose that is true enough, but like a retarded uncle that burned the garage down, it’s nobody’s business but ours, in our house.
Anyhow, I hope some of you (the three above) applaud when the next republican president has Elton John over and he says “It’s nice to be able to sit at the front of the bus with someone”. That would at least show some consistency.