Right-wing propaganda may be hazardous to your love life. Kelsey Grammer’s ex-wife Camille (said to myself in a Bill Cosby voice):
“I love cuddling,” she added. “We didn’t even do that. He was too busy watching FOX News. He didn’t want to cuddle.”
(h/t Southern Beale)
4tehlulz
Surprising, considering she looks like Coulter.
Dave
That’ll scare the younger generation straight…
Bobby Thomson
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Bill Murray
Were I to watch Fox News, I too would not want to cuddle. Cuddling and nausea should not mix
Turgidson
@4tehlulz:
I was about to say: “not to defend Kelsey Grammar’s devotion to Fox News, but I wouldn’t want to cuddle with that synthetic approximation of a woman either.”
But yours is better. More succinct.
freelancer
Bad Company is a guilty pleasure of mine. I blame my Dad.
Ella in New Mexico
Yes, but knowing some of these types personally, I would posit that loss of sex drive, virility and generalized impotence came first, closely connected to internalized rage and feelings of hopelessness, which were THEN demonstrated by obsessive right-wing victim news program devotion and inability to function in the real world.
moe99
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3o71KV80jh8
Carnacki
Ewww…did we need that mental image?
Martin
Thank God for Fox news. That divorce will likely get me a new TV.
El Cid
He might have found Hannity more attractive.
Mark S.
Maybe if she looked more like Sean Hannity. . .
Wow, it’s hardly news that Richard Cohen is an idiot, but he’s usually a middle of the road idiot. Today, he goes full Mark Levin wingnut on Egypt. He doesn’t hedge his bets at all: “The dream of a democratic Egypt is sure to produce a nightmare.”
This is a smart move on Cohen’s part. Kaplan is soon to realize that letting Hiatt pay five dozen ex-Bush administration officials six figures a year is not very profitable, and will soon be making the necessary cuts. This is an excellent opportunity to begin auditioning for Townhall.
Mark S.
@El Cid:
Synchronicity!
Amir_Khalid
@freelancer: Bad Company is not a musical pleasure to feel guilty about. Paul Rodgers is one of the greatest rock vocalists EVER. Your dad has great taste.
Andre
@4tehlulz:
Yeah, but the Pam Gellar mask he made her wear totally killed the mood every time.
Ash Can
The Dear Abby rule of divorce decisions comes into play here: she’s obviously better off without him.
quaint irene
So, Kelsey’s new squeeze. Does this make number four?
Midnight Marauder
I think we can put the Jon Huntsman 2012/2016 presidential campaigns to bed now:
cleek
@freelancer:
there’s no shame in that. i love BadCo’s first record.
suzanne
“Watching Fox News” must be what the kids call “Having a non-functioning Johnson”.
trollhattan
@freelancer:
Was Dad in a frat? The only BC fans I knew were frat boys, who put them on equal footing with “Free Bird!” Not my cup of…Miller.
For more tolerable Paul Rogers material I recommend Free.
As to Grammer not “cuddling” with
thoseher, well, the less I know the better.MikeJ
@quaint irene: At least he’s respecting the sanctity of marriage.
Bobby Thomson
@Midnight Marauder: Is he planning on primarying Obama?
The Pale Scot
another closeted wingnut? When do hear about the dildos and rubber suits?
eemom
my revulsion with the erstwhile Dr. Frasier is now complete.
It was pretty close to there anyway after he backed the Ghoul in 2008.
Warren Terra
@Midnight Marauder:
As someone who will never vote for a Republican but feels we need a sane other party in our first-past-the-post ingrained two-party system, Huntsman is just about the only active Republican left for whose sanity I retain some hope (Chuck Hagel having retired and the Maine twins lacking almost all courage; Scott Brown might qualify, as he seems to have realized after his vapid Tea Party-esque election win that he needs to appeal to the whole state of Massachusetts more than he needs to remain the masturbatory fantasy of the Camille Grammers of the world). I was impressed by Huntsman’s decision to go to China – get the hell out of the US for a couple of years of Teh Crazy, do a highly responsible and a patriotic job, stay out of the partisan warfare and establish some bipartisan and some foreign-relations cred – and I thought Obama was setting Huntsman up to be his possible successor in 2016. So I wasn’t pleased to hear Huntsman was returning home in early 2010 with possible 2012 presidential ambitions. Glad to hear he’s refusing to bow down to the Palin crowd.
cleek
@The Pale Scot:
nothing closeted about Grammar. he started this nonsense.
i like how their mascot is a guy hiding behind a flag (at the bottoms of the pages)
freelancer
@Amir_Khalid:
@cleek:
Time spend in the garage with Pop was always scored with the radio tuned in to the local Classic Rock station. In this, I fall heavy victim to the trope of “Stuff White People Like”.
trollhattan
@eemom:
Funny how his “Simpsons” and “Toy Story” characters are perhaps the closest to his actual personality. He and Cliff Clavin must have kept one another company on the “Cheers” set as the two resident wingnuts.
Purgatory with Lilith might be a proper fate.
cleek
@freelancer:
in my case it was: time spent in bars waiting for my mom to go home and cook me some fucking dinner.
and now… i’m a classic rock lover. there, i said it.
Midnight Marauder
@Bobby Thomson:
As Huntsman is a Republican, such a situation is not a realistic thing that can happen. But yes, he is in the midst of gearing up for a run at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Poor chap. Poor sane, rational, anachronistic chap.
@Warren Terra:
I agree fully with your sentiments about a future sane Republican Party and people like Huntsman. The thing to note about his quote on the Stimulus, however, is that it came two years ago. The reason it is starting to bounce around now is that opposition researchers and news orgs are getting active in seeing what they can stick on the “sane Republican” to incite a reaction that gets him to double down on sanity (which is a surefire bet for losing) or renounce his moderate ways and embrace Greater Wingnuttia (another surefire bet to lose). Thus, we get outlets like Politico churning out quotes from his old interviews with them, like his remarks on the Stimulus and other sane, normal human sentiments like this:
Dude has no chance. In 2012 or 2016.
Alwhite
Wife’s brother is a dittohead. His wife was commenting one time that he had gone a couple of weeks without listening to the anal cyst and that this had made a big difference in his behavior towards her. In addition to being more help around the house it seemed he was a more attentive lover when he was not high on hate.
Amir_Khalid
@freelancer: I’m old enough that Bad Company was part of what I heard on the radio in my teens. (At least until disco came along. Blech.) But I don’t really consider Bad Co “Stuff White People Like” since I’m not a white people myself. :)
rob!
Its amazing to me Grammer is such a conservative, since A)he worked with a gay man for many years, which tends to soften the whole “I hate teh gays!” thing, and B)he has lived a completely non-conservative-approved personal life, with its drug use, line of stripper/porn star girlfriends, etc.
I know, I know, that sounds like The David Vitter Story, but in theory that’s not the sort of stuff conservatives are supposed to be okay with. No one has benefited more from Hollywood’s liberal views on marriage and personal conduct than Kelsey Grammer.
Alwhite
I heard Kelsey on some show one time complaining how he couldn’t get work after “Cheers” because of his political beliefs.
Of course the interviewer was kind enough not to ask how he was getting by since he never had work after “Cheers”!
Nope, no more TV sit-coms or movies after, that were there. And you with the big coke & hooker habit and those nasty single car crashes – however did you get by?
Paula
@Midnight Marauder:
I dunno. Obama sounded like the center-left equivalent of Huntsman now and he won, despite many people’s dire predictions.
Mark S.
@Alwhite:
Man, Kelsey must have been really partying hard if he forgot the, what, fifteen years he was on “Frasier.”
Dr. Squid
So now it can be said… Fox News is for immoral fucks that turn in their trophy wives for a younger model every few years.
Wallis Lane
@Ella in New Mexico:
No, first came the loss of essence due to fluoridation sapping and impurifying his precious bodily fluids. Then the impotence, then the devotion to Fox News.
Kelsey should have just stuck to rainwater and pure grain alcohol.
SpotWeld
She should know better than to “Tease the panther”
Midnight Marauder
@Paula:
Probably because Obama ran as a member of the Democratic Party, and as such, had a realistic shot at being elected as a center-left politician.
Are you claiming that a moderate politician of any kind has a realistic chance any time in the immediate future at being elected president by running as a Republican?
J. Michael Neal
@Warren Terra:
Put me in the camp that thinks that Jon Huntsman has no intention of winning the GOP primaries next year. He’s struck me for a while as a guy with a pretty clear-eyed view of reality, which would mean that he knows damned well he can’t run and hide from all of his comments, such as that about the stimulus.
His only hope is for the GOP electorate to come to its senses. That may never happen, but that’s the event he’s making sure he’s ready for. But to take advantage of it, he’s going to need more name recognition than he has now. Running now is a way of throwing his hat into the ring for the future, whether that’s in 2016 or later.
Then again, he could just be an egomaniac that accidentally made a smart choice in becoming ambassador.
salacious crumb
he didnt wanna cuddle because he was too busy imagining doing Rupert Murdoch in the ass
Stefan
I heard Kelsey on some show one time complaining how he couldn’t get work after “Cheers” because of his political beliefs.
??? He was on “Cheers” and then on “Frasier” from 1985 to 2004 — a nineteen year run! He’s probably had more screen time than any other actor of his age.
Mako
The picture in that link made my sex organs shrivel.
Norm was always the sexiest guy from Cheers.
Mako
@Stefan:
How quickly we forget Bill Bixby.
Bobby Thomson
@Midnight Marauder: I should have your snark detector fixed by next week.
Paula
@Midnight Marauder:
I’m saying I wouldn’t be surprised about Obama losing in 2012, given various (entirely possible) factors like unemployment still being pretty high or the ME self-destructing or Fox News being allowed to keep on being crazy.
Midnight Marauder
@Bobby Thomson:
Yeah, it is definitely on the fritz this week.
Le sigh…
Tehanu
Friend of mine hates ol’ Kelsey because he was best buds with her ex-husband back in the day and encouraged ex-h. to go drinking and cheat on her. Admittedly, ex-h. was already a jerk with women, so a lot of the blame belongs solely to him. Nonetheless, I do wonder how a guy with no morals justifies supporting the Holier-Than-Thou (formerly Greedy Old Poops) Party.
4jkb4ia
Now, Romeo and Juliet,
Samson and Delilah,
Baby, you can bet,
Their love they didn’t deny
(Runs away in shame)
4jkb4ia
@freelancer:
I blame KSHE.