Mudflats finds a real gem from the unspoofable Larry Johnson (via the possible spoof conservatives4palin):
Last night we hosted a Christmas Party at our house for the nurses who work for my wife. […] Among the more than 50 people crowded into our house were a small group of teenagers, boys and girls. … Three of the teenage boys were eager to play billiards and I obliged them.
[….]Yet, despite all of those options, the boys wanted to watch Sarah Palin’s show. Hell, I did not even realize it was on. These guys knew where and when the show was on. That tells me something about the Sarah phenomena. She is resonating with a segment of society I never imagined would have a clue about her.
One of the boys did confess that he found Sarah’s daughter, and I’m quoting here, “HOT.” I found that reassuring in that one would expect teenage boys to be thinking about girls.
Democrats beware. All of your attacks on Sarah Palin and your attempts to demonize her or demean her intellect are likely to backfire. You know Sarah is a genuine phenomena when you are confronted with the fact that three boys with a chance to watch anything on TV choose to watch Sarah.
thomas Levenson
“Democrats beware. All of your attacks on Sarah Palin and your attempts to demonize her or demean her intellect are likely to backfire.”
Because, of course, pubescent boys are the voting block of choice for victory in national elections.
Catsy
News flash: teenage boys would rather stare at a fuckable woman on the TV than play pool!
I eagerly await Larry’s thrilling expose on the tendency of flies to gravitate to honey.
Southern Beale
That tells me something about the Sarah phenomena. She is resonating with a segment of society I never imagined would have a clue about her.
OMFG. This is news. Teenage boys are interested in Sarah Palin. Gee I wonder why.
Is this guy being purposely obtuse or is he really that dumb?
Chyron HR
Water seeks its own level.
“And speaking of demonizing and demeaning one’s intellect, did you hear about that un-American welfare thug Obongo who’s so dumb he needs a teleprompter?”
Roberto
Creepy.
Sucks for humanity if the electorate included 15 year old boys. Thankfully, it doesn’t.
Mike
So true. It’s the exact reason that I keep my “funny but overrated” opinion on Eastbound and Down to myself.
I don’t want to be responsible for President Kenny Powers.
Linda Featheringill
Sarah Palin is very attractive and guys who have actually met her say that she is very, very sexy. Pheromones or something, I guess.
But yes, just because teenaged boys find her attractive does not mean that the rest of the country is going to vote for her.
amk
eggsacklee, larry. you moran.
You Don't Say
The republic stands or falls on the whims of horny teenage boys.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Catsy:
A fuckable half-crazy woman beating a giant fish to death. I’m guessing the boys got high before the watched it and giggled all the way through. I haven’t watched it ’cause her voice makes my skin crawl, but I’m guessing this show is prime stuff for Mystery Science Theatre style commentary.
More seriously, what is it about PUMAs for Palin? What could anyone who supported Hillary Clinton see in that mean-spirited half-wit?
Dave
Yeah, Larry…I think we’ll take our chances on ostracizing a bunch of teenagers who’d rather hang with you than do anything else.
Tom Hilton
As opposed to thinking about boys?
Homophobic much?
Catsy
@Linda Featheringill:
Oh, she’s totally hot until she starts speaking.
Afterwards, not so much. I keep imagining her voice to have the same effect in person as this scene.
theturtlemoves
@Linda Featheringill: I have to assume they found her sexy either before she opened her mouth or she just didn’t talk during those entire encounters because, if I might be a bit vulgar, that voice is kryptonite to boners…
edit: I see Catsy went the same direction I did… That voice. Dear lord, that voice.
debit
@Linda Featheringill: It must be a guy thing. I mean, I can see why a certain segment of the population would find the “naughty teacher/librarian” look a turn on, but how could any man in the world maintain his boner once she spoke?
@theturtlemoves: HAH!
DougJ
@Linda Featheringill:
I know people who have met her and they didn’t have that reaction at all. They found her frightening.
kindness
Do Democrats really want to be chasing after the votes of people who are blind deaf & dumb?
I thought we were letting the Rethugs keep the dumb.
cyntax
So just WTF is it about conservatard DNA that makes them constantly want to base all their arguments on some recycled version of “we’re more popular than you think we are”? Have they really not gotten over high school yet?
Dennis SGMM
@Catsy:
I hereby award you the internet.
sherifffruitfly
@theturtlemoves:
“that voice is kryptonite to boners…”
There’s no such thing as boner kryptonite when you’re 15. Durr.
djheru
Oh! Well, if that’s the case, Palin/Snooki 2012!
srv
Hey, let’s put some youtube excerpts up and dub in some farting noises.
quaint irene
“Democrats beware.’ Oooooh. I love the finger wagging implicit in that remark.
Notice he didn’t mention if any adults were watching.
Loneoak
OT: This is some crazy shit.
tbogg
Because the hand that jerks the penis will one day pull the ballot box lever
biff diggerence
Did Daddy Larry provide them with tube socks for upstairs relief?
Crashman
Watching trainwreck TV is always fun. Why do you think people watch the Jersey Shore? Palin’s show is no different.
Kenneth
Chris Hedges says US Empire on the verge of collapse!
Paris
Democrats beware. All of your attacks on masturbation are likely to backfire. You know masturbation is a genuine phenomena when you are confronted with the fact that three boys with a chance to watch anything on TV choose to masturbate.
cleek
i like how he calls her “Sarah”. apparently he thinks he’s on a first name basis with her? a real Democrat, that one.
i will send a message to my district leaders to be very careful not to insult Palin’s intelligence when 13-year old boys are around. wouldn’t want to lose their votes!
Svensker
@theturtlemoves:
Vulgar perhaps, but elegantly said.
bryanD
Any self-respecting 15-year-old boy would have surely wheedled out of going to Mom’s office party, let alone a whole platoon of boys tagging along with their respective Moms.
I say these Boy Avatars/Larry’s Italianate Cherubs never existed.
Dennis SGMM
It’s obvious to me that our only hope in ’12 is to dump Biden and run Scarlett Johansson for VP.
Morbo
The Onion, November 11, 2010: Majority Of Male Voters Would Have Elected Naked Woman
Suck It Up!
Are they watching Sarah Palin or her daughter?
And enough with the ‘watch what you say’ crap. Her negatives keep going up despite the amount of criticism she gets from liberals.
Jewish Steel
1.His little tale smells fabricated.
2. If porn were on offer, what then?
Capri
Never has the phrase “the plural of anecdote is not data” been more appropriate.
Loneoak
@sherifffruitfly:
I dunno. Even to a 15-year-old me, watching Sarah Palin talk on Larry Johnson’s couch would have been pretty damn close to boner kryptonite.
mds
@Catsy:
Edited for a slightly more relevant parallel.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Is this a rhetorical question? Most people who supported Clinton don’t see anything worthwhile in that mean-spirited half-wit. The remainder are primarily pretend Clinton supporters, with a sprinkling of mean-spirited half-wits who therefore identify with Palin. (And no, the latter are not the same as firebaggers, who are not fans of the Grifter from the Frozen North.)
Nellcote
(CNN) – Sarah Palin is again taking aim at Michelle Obama over her anti-obesity campaign, taking the opportunity in Sunday’s “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” to land a diss against the first lady’s efforts to improve nutrition.
…
While making s’mores at one point during Sunday’s episode, the former Alaska governor proclaims the marshmallow and chocolate treat is “in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert.”
(snip)
…
Palin’s comments Sunday appear to be in reference to a speech Michelle Obama delivered in July, during which she described her own upbringing when it came to food and exercise.
…
“In the afternoon, there was no way we’d be allowed to lie around the house watching TV,” she told the NAACP in a Kansas City speech. “Our parents made us get up and play outside.”
…
“As I tell my kids, dessert is not a right,” she added.
dmsilev
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that these teenaged boys never actually existed, and this is just Larry Johnson projecting his starbursts.
dms
theturtlemoves
@sherifffruitfly: As a former fifteen year old boy, I must respectfully disagree. I guess maybe if I saw Palin for the first time, never knowing anything about her or the dark, swirling vortex of white trash evil that surrounds her, I might think she was mildly attractive in a hot mom sense, but I wouldn’t go out of my way as a 15 year old or a…slightly older… gentleman to watch her or her brood on TV. Perhaps my tastes just don’t trend in the Palin direction.
Kevin K.
If Larry Johnson is considered to be one of the best and brightest counterterrorism experts in the country, it’s pretty fucking amazing Al Qaeda wasn’t able to crash the USS Cole into the World Trade Center.
srv
Crap, missed his show last week. I’m thinking Caribou Barbie’s next show should be with Adam Carolla. That would be epic.
New Yorker
Being not that far removed from being a teenage boy myself, I can tell you that the hotness of the female members of the Palin family is ALL they cared about. It’s the same reason I used to watch teen melodramas with my sister. I wanted to see Katie Holmes because she was hot on Dawson’s Creek.
For whatever reason, this is making me think of that “Beavis and Butt-Head” episode where the Rush Limbaugh parody invites them onto his show, and then Beavis moons the audience. It’s not that different: witless wingnut thinks teenage boys are saying something more profound than “I wanna get laid!”
Dennis SGMM
So, there were teen age girls present and yet these boys wanted to play billiards? Even though I was a teenager in the late Cretaceous era I know what I would have been doing at a party when there were young women present and it wouldn’t have been playing billiards with some old fart. Pocket Pool maybe.
The Grand Panjandrum
Jesus Babbling Christ! Larry cough up the goddamned “Whitey Tape” or STFU. BTW as someone who was once a teenaged boy I can promise at that age we would fuck a snake if we could put handle bars on the damn thing. Its not like we actually had standards other than the object of our desire have a pulse and slow down enough to mount.
celticdragonchick
@You Don’t Say:
That sounds like the premise of a Jerry Pournelle glibitarian scifi novel from the late 70’s…
Robertdsc-iphone
Sarah is yummy. But only in pictures. Her voice & politics are both awful.
cyntax
@Dennis SGMM:
Thank you! I’ve been saying that since forever.
Jason
I had 97 18-yr olds pass through here last semester who watched, to a person, Jersey Shore – exclusively. So yeah Palin/Snooki 2012: “Their Going 2 Change America”
D.N. Nation
Did Super Secret Agent Larry ever pop in the “Whitey” tape for these non-existent boys?
Dennis SGMM
Is this the Larry Johnson of the “Whitey” tape? The same Larry Johnson who was nicknamed Agent Flobee back in ’08? Damn, how do these people stay alive?
Walker
They are plenty of pretty people on the TV. The Palins are attractive, but you can do much better at any given time of the day given enough cable channels. I refuse to believe that they choose that show over the others that were on at the same time solely because of the woman’s looks.
Odie Hugh Manatee
More than likely Creepy Larry separated the boys from the girls and invited them in to play with his balls when they ‘suddenly’ found something else to talk about.
Makes sense to me.
JCT
@Nellcote: She is so psychotic in her obsession with Michelle Obama. Poor former half-term governor just can’t deal with the fact that Michelle is everything that she is not.
I just can’t imagine *who* she thinks she is gaining traction with by her idiotic dessert rambling. It’s monumentally obtuse, but then again, that’s old Snowbilly Snooki for you.
And just for the record I ran the pool vs Palin show scenario past my 16-yr-old son when he came home for lunch and he called instant shenanigans. The actual quote was something like “No f-ing way and besides, she’s old. . Oh and he brought up her voice too…..
Mnemosyne
@New Yorker:
I think that’s what Larry (and some people here) are missing. The boys weren’t watching the show because they like Sarah Palin and think she’s hot. They think that her daughters are hot. I doubt they have much of a thought towards Palin other than “mom of hot girls.”
I can pretty much guarantee you that when those boys are old enough to vote, none of them will be thinking, “I should totally vote for Palin because her daughters are hot!”
At least, I hope not.
Dennis SGMM
@celticdragonchick:
The Bone in God’s Fly
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mds:
Pretty much. Mostly just reflecting on the fact that Larry Johnson is a) batshit nuts b) seems to lack even a shred of awareness about going public with (a).
@Jason:Snooki is firmly in the McCain camp. She’s tweet pals with Meghan and the old man. There tweets are very topic poignant.
theturtlemoves
And, “eager to play billiards”? Seriously? Were they also hoping for a “spot of tea” and after watching the show, did they “retire to the powder room to give themselves a hearty rodgering”? Who the hell talks like that? I imagine it was more like, “hey old guy whose house my parents dragged me to, can we play pool?”
James
Probably just my coastal elitism at work but the following comes to mind when ever i see the ubiquitous Sarah Palin: “You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes-You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you?”
Chyron HR
@theturtlemoves:
Well, pocket billiards. Hence the visual aid.
jacy
I wonder if these “teenage boys” ride the same bus as McMegan’s serendipitous acquaintance, the one who was so thrilled at her gentrification of his old neighborhood?
Mary Jane
@New Yorker: Thank you. You’re the only commenter who has pointed out that the boys think the daughter is HOT — it wasn’t Mama Grizzly getting a rise out of them. I imagine she reminds them too much of their own cackle-voiced, botoxed, phoney and bossy old mothers.
MattR
Not like anyone is taking this seriously, but there was just an ABC News/Wash Post poll that found 59% of Americans would not even consider Palin for President. (No link. Gotta hop on a conference call)
Mnemosyne
@JCT:
Like the fact that Michelle is much more popular, perhaps? I’m betting that that stings Palin every time.
cleek
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
this.
“hey boys, want me to teach you about hittin balls and handlin sticks?”
“umm… no. hey, i think that Sarah Palin show is on! yeah, let’s watch it!”
New Yorker
@Mnemosyne:
Exactly. In case my original post wasn’t clear enough, they’re watching Willow, not Sarah, because they’re horny for Willow. End of story.
NonyNony
@Mnemosyne:
I’m not willing to make that guarantee because I know people who have decided/justified their vote using the “hot daughter” metric. I also know people who have decided/justified their votes on bases even more trivial than that (the “which one would I rather have a beer with” metric comes to mind).
It’s why I have moved away from idealism as I’ve gotten older – I know many more voters these days and frankly I’ve become impressed over the years that American democracy has done as well as it has over the last couple of centuries.
Dennis SGMM
@cleek:
Heh! “Now just bend over and line up your shot. I’ll kind of put my arms around you and line up my shot.”
licensed to kill time
Ok, I’m thinking that it was Larry who took the guys downstairs to play pool and then said “Oh hey! Guess what’s on TV right now? Sarah! Wanna watch?” while all the kids sniggered and muttered about lame old dudes with their stealth boners.
Bnut
I bet his TV’s V-chip blocks everything but FoxNews, the Hitler Channel and TLC. Choices are limited for visitors. Reminds me of Ned Flanders.
Lolis
@Nellcote:
Yep. Shorter Palin: Eat unhealthy to get revenge on Michelle Obama.
But seriously, Palin’s bizarre obsession with Michelle Obama just proves how un-electable she is. She is a petty b!tch, no other words for it.
Suffern ACE
@dmsilev: I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the boys were not having a lot of fun playing pool with the creepy guy and knew they could distract him asking to watch TV if they mentioned Palin.
Joseph Nobles
So Palin is Tinkerbell for all the Lost Boys who want to hunt and fish and run with the dogs free from governmental restriction? Got it.
Catsy
@Walker:
That wasn’t what was being asserted. The choice wasn’t between the Palins and whatever else was on TV, the choice was between watching this or playing pool.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Lolis:
Just like the man who picked her for Veep.
Will
The best part of Johnson’s post is where he is shocked that the first thing the boys didn’t ask to watch on TV was porn.
monkeyboy
I vaguely recall Larry Johnson as being intelligent or reasonable about something when he first came on the scene.
To jar my memory I turned to Wikipedia, but it appears he has taken over the Larry C. Johnson page and turned it into a hagiography of himself.
Bubblegum Tate
@Robertdsc-iphone:
I seriously don’t understand this. “Yummy?” You’d have to be grading on a pretty severe curve for her to end up with that appellation.
dpar
which daughter did they think was hot, willow or slow ride?
mark f
Why does he keep saying “phenomena” when he means “phenomenon”?
AliceBlue
Catsy, theturtlemoves and debit: Todd must use earplugs.
Silver Owl
Larry Johnson might make his political observations based on the peters and hormones of young teenage boys towards other young girls but I myself prefer to avoid being that bat shit crazy and fucking stupid.
El Cid
You sure it wasn’t the curiosity to watch an on-air trainwreck?
joe from Lowell
Wingnuts have been pushing this wishful-thinking line since 2008. “You Democrats are panicking over Sarah Palin! You’re only pretending to think she’s a trainwreck! Really, you’re terribly afraid of her awesome political power!” I remember a couple of weeks in September when the hive-mind kept repeating the words “Panicked” and “Flat-footed.”
I hope they never change. You betcha.
Brachiator
@Morbo:
Thank God for the Internets.
Erik Vanderhoff
@Southern Beale: Obtuse or dumb? Yes.
joe from Lowell
@Mnemosyne: You mean, the most popular political figure in the country?
The same compulsion that forces Republicans to think that Sarah Palin is popular led them, in 2008, to think that Michelle was going to be a real political liability for Barack Obama.
Well, maybe that’s true among “real Americans.” It’s just not really true among Americans.
PS
Um, “phenomena” is not singular. What could this doofus have been thinking of? The phenomena on the front of this lady’s chest? If so, they may be genuine but they are definitely plural. And a gentleman, of course, would not mention them, but that leaves him out.
lacp
I believe the three teenage boys are the sons of one of Tom Friedman’s taxi drivers.
maus
@celticdragonchick: I always picture the teabaggers as Goreans.
@Bubblegum Tate: You should really see them stare at their me-maw’s gams when she’s tarted up in a miniskirt.
Erik Vanderhoff
@djheru:
Well, if that’s the case, Palin/Snooki 2012!
I think my penis just permanently retracted into my body, you fuck!
Drouse
@monkeyboy: He just up and lost it during the 04 primaries. He just couldn’t accept that Hillary might lose. A strange sort of transference?
electricgrendel
And in a breathless companion piece I am sure he will go on about how after the airing of The Beverly Snowbillies all of the bathrooms were occupied by teenage boys and then all of the vaseline and toilet paper was gone….
Linda Featheringill
@James:
Rich white trash.
I also think that old Joe Kennedy was rich white trash.
Mike in NC
They say Pee Wee Herman is making a comeback, also too!
Sly
The man was an analyst for the CIA before becoming a deputy director at the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism.
Let that shit keep you up at night.
lacp
@James: Paging Dr. Lecter……
Gravenstone
@maus: Now that’s just mean. Funny as all hell, though.
FlipYrWhig
People watch the Real Housewives too.
chopper
@Kenneth:
oh noes!
jonas
Let me get this straight. Johnson acknowledges that teenage boys have only one thing on their mind. These particular boys think Palin (though it appears they have their eyes mostly on her daughter) is hawt. This, however, is somehow a sign that her antics are connecting with young people.
He does realize that they just watch it to fill their heads for a wankfest later, right? And that this is not the same as giving a shit about her politics, right?
I think the take away is that Larry Johnson doesn’t know the difference between political support and masturbatory fantasy. Which explains quite a lot, actually.
Kenneth
@chopper:
Did you even read the link? McClaren first brought it up, btw.
Sly
@Kenneth:
Again? Meh. The last time The Empire collapsed it was so disappointing. I took off from work and brought popcorn and everything.
You Don't Say
@Linda Featheringill: She looks like a female impersonator to me. It’s all the makeup, I think.
Steve M.
Did Larry drive all these boys home after the party, or were they driven home by one of Tom Friedman’s aphorism-spouting cabdrivers?
Kenneth
@Sly:
You won’t be laughing when the combination of Peak Oil, the collapse of the healthcare sector thanks to Obama, and the PermaWars bankrupting us sends the economy into a hammering the likes of which has never been seen.
Is there ANYONE besides McClaren on here who gets it?
different church-lady
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next president of the United States*, MEGAN FOX!!!!!!
(*According to the logical conclusion of a certain conservative pundit.)
Michael
The word I would use to describe such boys would be this one:
And not in a good way. Back when I was in my teens, I’d have bullied, pantsed, beaten on, berated and mocked such chubby, pasty, zitty douchey douchefaces.
Hell, I’d do the same thing to them now.
Chyron HR
@Kenneth:
That name does not carry the cachet you seem to think it does.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Kenneth: Yep, you know, all of those countries with healthcare are collapsing under their own weight. Also, all of those countries that support unions are just struggling to survive.
I will agree that the Empire is collapsing, and a lot of it has to do with our refusal to truthfully look at ourselves and what we are doing, such as the wars we are incurring. But truthfully, the reason we will collapse is that the American people’s answer to the collapse will be to reelect the people that caused it.
Michael
@Catsy:
I’ve a sizeable amount of pity for whomever has to listen to her when she goes off on a tear. Can you imagine what she shrieks to Todd when he forgets to take out the trash?
Frank
Has anyone read the comments on the actual link? Perhaps my sarcasm register is on the fritz today, but it seems like the vast majority of the comments all run along the lines of, “How great! Those young fellahs just see what we all see in Sarah. Oh, aren’t those snobby, snooty liberals such nasty creatures who value intellect overy good ol’ flag waving!”
In the words of the snotty waiter in Ferris Bueler’s Day Off, “I weep for the future….”
jake the snake
@Dennis SGMM:
FTFW
lacp
Uh, sorry, Larry……
http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/2010/11/us_teens_much_more_favorable_towards_obama_than_palin.php
Michael
@theturtlemoves:
Nah, it was more like “hey, boys, would you like me to show you my stick and balls?”
The rest went from there.
Michael
@Bubblegum Tate:
I’d hit it, only if she promised not to talk.
geg6
@JCT:
Some time ago, during the ’08 campaign, this meme was going around that young men (or men, in general) would totally vote for Caribou Barbie because of the starburst factor. So I took an informal survey, along with one of the sociology professors, in our dining hall one day, using pictures of famous women and having them rate them on an attractiveness scale. Rihanna and Angelina Jolie rated very high on the hotness scale. Sarah Palin came in just a couple of votes ahead of Hilary Clinton, with the comments about both being along the lines of “old” and with Palin in particular “a voice that sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard.”
So these losers who’d rather watch Palin than talk to real live girls while playing pool seem like an outlier to me. But perhaps Larry would like to do a nationwide survey of adolescent boys to bolster his predictions of doom for Democrats and prove me wrong.
GregB
Did all of those typical American lads then ask Agent Johnson to whip out his Michelle Obama “whitey tape” from his undisclosed location so they could cap off their night with a hate boner?
Svensker
@Kenneth:
Nope. Well, except for you, obviously.
And those of us who are part of the secret cabal to which you and he were not invited.Oops, wasn’t supposed to mention that. Forget it quick, or we’ll have to kill you.Edited for accuracy.
kd bart
So there’s a chance for President Scarlett Johannson?
mds
@Dennis SGMM:
Well, that would explain why the sequel was called The Gripping Hand.
Nutella
@Kenneth:
But the helicopters will be laughing!
debit
@Nutella: After you fax them your credenzas.
burnspbesq
@Linda Featheringill:
“Sarah Palin is very attractive”
No accounting for taste, I guess. I wouldn’t do Sarah Palin if she were the last woman on earth. Kirsten Gillibrand, now, that’s a whole other story.
eemom
ok, so it IS possible to say something stupider than “You know Sarah is a genuine phenomena when three teenagers want to watch her on TV.”
Crusty Dem
Sorry, I have a disorder and I can’t allow any post on Larry Johnson to NOT include this link.
Why he was every allowed onto TPM or to even converse with otherwise rational human beings on any level is completely beyond me.
You Don't Say
@burnspbesq: I saw Gillibrand on TV the other night and the thought just popped into my head: she’s going to be the first female president.
Jules
Larry is a bit of an idiot or he has no sons.
Teenage boys think with their “little man” a lot of the time…
My teenager has turned it on a few times for the mockability of the Palins, he watches Beck for the same reason…he finds idiot funny.
BTW, Sarah needs to shut her bitch mouth up.
I’m sick to death of reading about her dissing the First Lady.
Has a potential Presidential candidate ever been so snotty about the FLOTUS?
BDeevDad
@Nellcote: You left out the best quote from there.
Shalimar
@DougJ: Which are basically the two possible reactions when you meet a beautiful narcissist. You’re either drawn in or you’re repelled. There is rarely indifference. However, I suspect teenage boys are watching for the daughters, not the old woman.
Dennis SGMM
@mds:
Touche!
I doff my hat.
Shalimar
Also, I’m not surprised to read that Larry Johnson likes foursomes with teenage boys. Way to come out of the closet, Larry!
Robertdsc-iphone
@Bubblegum Tate:
She’s short, wears glasses, has dark hair & a great smile, & looks good in a skirt. As a “bonus”, she’s had kids. Oftentimes women who’ve had children have a different “look” to them. At least I think so.
eemom
semi-serious question: why do so many otherwise reasonable men assume that anybody gives a shit whether they would or would not want to fuck Sarah Palin?
Alwhite
I am reminded for the line from “Jay” in Dogma. When asked why he hung around the health clinic he explained that its where women went for an abortion so he already KNEW they put out!
That is the brain of a 15 YO right there folks. My guess is they are hoping to get Tracktor (or whatever the hell her name is) phone number.
dogwood
@You Don’t Say:
I agree. The first time I saw Gillibrand speak on the Senate floor, I figured she was credible White House material. Same feeling I got from Obama when he appeared on all the Sunday talkers a few days before his 2004 keynote.
DougJ
@eemom:
That’s a very good question that I’ve wondered about too. I don’t understand thinking about political leaders as people you might want to sleep with. It’s something that doesn’t occur to me.
Turgidson
@monkeyboy:
He’s ex-CIA I believe, and he said a lot of strong words against the Bush admin about the outing of Valerie Plame early on, which made him a legend at the GOS for a while…until he started with the unhinged rants against Obama and exiled himself and a few fellow nutjobs to No Quarter.
Alex S.
@You Don’t Say:
Yes, yes, yes… I’ve been having that feeling for a while now.
DougJ
@Frank:
The comments were awesome. I may have to do another post about them, they had me in stitches.
Tony J
@eemom:
Semi-serious answer: because if you take politics off the table, her only other selling point is “You want starbursts with that?”.
It’s like, I wouldn’t buy a McDonalds cheeseburger, but if I were hungry and someone offered me one, then yeah, I’d eat it.
SlyFox
Ok, hold up. Were supposed to beware because some teenage boys wanna wack off to Sarah Palin’s daughters. Because thats what we want in a President, don’t we people. Presidents, whos daughters we would like to fuck. Lovely, isn’t it?
trollhattan
If Sarah!(tm) wants to really [cough] nail down the teenage boy vote I recommend she get the Farah haircut. It can work for a new generation!
Also, too, we luv her because she drives Libruls crazy.
SiubhanDuinne
@lacp:
Internets, winner of, we have.
burnspbesq
@You Don’t Say:
” I saw Gillibrand on TV the other night and the thought just popped into my head: she’s going to be the first female president.”
We could do worse.
burnspbesq
@eemom:
C’mon, e, that’s silly. When the topic is whether Palin’s supposed attractiveness is a political asset, that’s a subject matter waiver of “don’t be pigs, fellas.”
maus
@jonas:
You do realize that’s Palin’s appeal with grown men, right?
The mute button’s probably worn out on the remotes in “real Amerikuh”.
maus
@burnspbesq:
“Boys will be boys” factors strongly into “conservative feminism”.
eemom
@burnspbesq:
respectfully disagree, counsel. Besides, the “sure, I’d fuck her”‘s are generally rampant in ANY discussion about Sarah.
Maybe that’s because there can BE no discussion about Sarah separate from the question of her supposed attractiveness being a political asset — because, hello, it is her ONLY fucking political asset.
I still don’t see why every man in the room feels the need to inform us whether he personally would favor her with his own personal peenee.
eemom
I have just learned that editing a comment to remove a trigger word does not remove it from moderation. Grumpf.
Mustang Bobby
Well, at least we know the Beavis and Butthead vote is locked up. What’s next, Ren and Stimpi?
asiangrrlMN
I don’t get anyone finding Sarah Palin remotely attractive, but to each his own.
@Dennis SGMM: I agree with your question. There were girls at this party. Actual girls. That wins out over ‘billiards’ with LJ any day of the week.
To me, this is similar to, “I’d have a beer with him” as a reason to vote for W. I don’t understand this line of thinking at all. At any rate, the whole story is a fabrication, so whatever.
Redshift
@Crusty Dem: Johnson came out strongly on the right side of the Valerie Plame case, while being politically on the opposite end of the spectrum from most people who cared about it. That’s the only reason anyone ever paid attention to him. Confirmation bias is the only reason anyone still does.
celticdragonchick
@Dennis SGMM:
LMAO!
Well done, Sir!
SRW1
What, he had not been clued in about the MiIf thing (or in this case the GiIf version) and how it rages among the male population most at the mercy of hormonal thunderstorms?
He must be living a very sheltered life. This awful abomination will probably destroy his view of the world.
SRW1
That tells me something about the Sarah phenomena. She is resonating with a segment of society I never imagined would have a clue about her.
It’s probably my dirty fantasy that makes me think there might be some intentional double entendre in the use of ‘resonating’ here.
SRW1
@asiangrrlMN:
I don’t get anyone finding Sarah Palin remotely attractive, but to each his own.
Attention, Pauline Kael territory.
priscianusjr
@Suck It Up!:
maus
@SRW1:
it’s the brain-oscillation caused by her squawk played at a high volume.
water balloon
The PUMA blogs really are the biggest sewers on the internet. NoQuarter is the king of course, but hillbuzz isn’t far behind.
AAA Bonds
This reads as autistic.
Because I’m pretty sure most people alive were born during a time when “hot” meant what it means now.