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You are here: Home / Politics / An Unexamined Scandal / The Curious Case of Ron Paul’s Eyebrow

The Curious Case of Ron Paul’s Eyebrow

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  October 13, 20119:11 pm| 114 Comments

This post is in: An Unexamined Scandal

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Can’t fault a man for putting on his game face.

 Apparently, Ron Paul was wearing fake eyebrows at the GOP debate on Tuesday.  As breathlessly reported by The New York Times:

For those of you not yet riveted by the Republican race, Mr. Paul, the dark-horse libertarian with equally dusky brows, was a victim of hot lights, faulty adhesive or merely a devilish optical illusion when his right eyebrow seemed to dip toward the stage at Dartmouth College.

Seen on television, Mr. Paul appeared to have a second, thinner brow under the one headed south, creating a delicate X over his right eye.

Jesse Benton, a campaign spokesman, insisted that Mr. Paul had been the victim of the elements, namely a heavy pollen season in New Hampshire, and called accusations that he’d been artificially enhancing “stupid” and “insulting.”

“Dr. Paul’s allergies acted up a touch,” Mr. Benton said in an explanation that might raise some, you know, questions.

I have no opinion about Ron Paul’s eyebrow, or the fakeness thereof. I’m trying to be A Better Person and not pick at a person’s appearance. Maybe he has alopecia. Maybe he’s undergoing radiation treatment. Maybe he just thought a pair of supersweet eyebrows would give him that extra somethin’-somethin’ needed to look his Republican co-candidates in the crazy eye.

I mean, who am I to judge? I pluck my eyebrows and when I do so overzealously, I draw them back in with a MAC brush and some eyeshadow.  Granted, I’ve never claimed that eyebrow migration was the result of “allergies” or “the elements.”  What does that mean, anyway? Was there a tiny tornado that swept across Ron Paul’s face while he was going head-to-head with Herman Cain?  We’ll never know.

Point is, I don’t give a rat’s ass.

As YAFB over at Rumproast notes, however, the curious case of Ron Paul’s eyebrow has created quite a stir:

Some have found this disturbance in Mr. Paul’s face field difficult to ignore. I decided to take a pseudo-random sample of opinions on the subject, and found that David Magee of the International Business Times was one:

The Republican debate on Bloomberg is underway at Dartmouth, and the focus is on something critical to America: The economy. But I’ve barely heard a word said in the first 18 minutes of the debate because I’m so concerned about Ron Paul’s fake eyebrow, which is falling off.

At first, I thought it must be a mistake—that maybe the Texas Congressman running for the GOP presidential nomination was being shown in a strange set let on the Bloomberg TV broadcast.

But as Paul kept talking in his first turn to answer a question at the roundtable-style debate, hosted by Charlie Rose and sponsored by Bloomberg and The Washington Post, it was clear that he was wearing fake eyebrows and that his right eyebrow—showing up on the left on TV, was falling off.

Some may take it as a commentary on the quality of the debate, or perhaps even the candidates, that this was the viewer’s primary focus. Some might even be a little abashed at drawing attention to it, lest it mask some health condition that would in retrospect render the incautious observer a cad for passing comment. Not Mr. Magee, who warms to his theme:

Ron Paul is wearing fake eyebrows, and I can never take the man serious again as a candidate for president. Paul is entertaining—especially tonight—and he’s got some interesting positions, like the one that the Federal Reserve is America’s anti-Christ. But we can’t have a man in the White House who wears fake eyebrows, and poor ones at that.

~snip~

But others are apparently more wishy-washy:

why the f*ck would they put fake eyebrows on RP??
..cut the gay crap altogether campaign. no douchebag man tans, no fake eyebrows, no BS ever..

I didn’t notice during the debates, but I just went back to check the Ron Paul highlight reel. I have to admit, it does look like his eyebrow is falling off. So yes, I now believe he was wearing fake eyebrows.

The question then remains, how do I feel about that? It makes me disappointed with the campaign and his advisers. One of the biggest pluses of Ron Paul is that he is real, honest, and earnest. It’s a bit maddening that the campaign can’t realize a big draw of Ron Paul’s is that he is not a plastic man.

(read the rest)

So there you have it.  Looks like this is shaping up to be Ron Paul’s Achilles eyebrow heel.

You know — sort of like President Obama’s latent Kenyanism, or the fact that his birth name is Chip Hitler.

[via Rumproast]

[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]
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114Comments

  1. 1.

    Julia Grey

    October 13, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    Hilarious. Absolutely F-ing HILARIOUS.

    I’m screaming here.

  2. 2.

    Warren Terra

    October 13, 2011 at 9:21 pm

    the fact that his birth name is Chip Hitler.

    Sure is isn’t Hilter?

  3. 3.

    ant

    October 13, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    OMG.

    I think this is sooooo funny!!!

  4. 4.

    Brian S

    October 13, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    Chip Hitler de Rothschilde, if you please.

  5. 5.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    October 13, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    Was there a tiny tornado that swept across Ron Paul’s face while he was going head-to-head with Herman Cain?

    Awesome.

    Chip Hitler caused me to blow rice at the monitor.

  6. 6.

    gbear

    October 13, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    OH MY GOD! NOT HIS EYEBROWS!!

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 13, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    LOL! All the ads are for Makeup Academy and Bare Minerals.

    I love algorithms, I truly do.

  8. 8.

    Roger Moore

    October 13, 2011 at 9:26 pm

    And Google apparently thinks this topic deserves ads for eyeshadow. I, for one, welcome our new algorithmic overlords.

  9. 9.

    prufrock

    October 13, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    The people’s eyebrow is soooooo 2001.

  10. 10.

    General Stuck

    October 13, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    Bush had a fake brane in his head. Then Perry saw it and ran.

    She likened her husband’s decision to run to encountering a “burning bush,” a reference to the Biblical story of Moses receiving a sign from God.

    Fuckin’ A. These motherfuckers crazy or what?

  11. 11.

    TooManyJens

    October 13, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    ..cut the gay crap altogether campaign.

    Nice touch.

    So, ABL, when you say “Can’t fault a man for putting on his game face,” are you thinking “game face” as in Buffy the Vampire Slayer? ‘Cause now I am.

  12. 12.

    Emma

    October 13, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Lord God almighty. We live in a Monty Python movie.

  13. 13.

    RossInDetroit

    October 13, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Just gonna copy the FB post I put up when I spotted this little tempest in the Times:

    “False eyebrows? I mean, I’m accustomed to politicians basically being totally invented from scratch for the campaign, but false EYEBROWS?”

  14. 14.

    Ben Cisco (mobile)

    October 13, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    This is the funniest thing I have read in I don’t know when. Excuse me a sec – BWAHAAHAAHAA!
    __
    (Gasp)
    __
    BWAHAAHAAHAA!
    __
    (SNORT!)
    __
    (tinkle)
    __
    oops.

  15. 15.

    RossInDetroit

    October 13, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    This is the second eyebrow related news event recently. The last was about Madoff’s eyebrows, which are dark unlike his white hair.
    I think it was Slate, but someone felt it was necessary to look into it. They found that, yes, you can have white hair and dark eyebrows. They included a ‘gallery’ of men so colored, including IIRC Scorsese.
    I could have told them that. I’ve had white hair and black eyebrows for 20 years.

  16. 16.

    Garbo

    October 13, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    Was is a tiny tornado, or was it a hellacious Herman Hurri-Cain!

  17. 17.

    joeshabadoo

    October 13, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    “Point is, I don’t give a rat’s ass.”

    Then don’t make an entire post about it with it in the headline and a picture of it as well.

    It drives me crazy when people say they don’t care about something to try to make them seem above it only to dive into the mud immediately after. Just own up to talking abut something rididulous but shallow.

  18. 18.

    joeshabadoo

    October 13, 2011 at 9:36 pm

    “Point is, I don’t give a rat’s ass.”

    Then don’t make an entire post about it with it in the headline and a picture of it as well.

    It drives me crazy when people say they don’t care about something to try to make them seem above it only to dive into the mud immediately after. Just own up to talking abut something ridiculous but shallow.

  19. 19.

    gbear

    October 13, 2011 at 9:36 pm

    Maybelline, why can’t you be true?

  20. 20.

    bvac

    October 13, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    Ron Pauls eyebrows are a false flag operation.

  21. 21.

    maven

    October 13, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    He may have Andy Rooney eyebrow envy……….

  22. 22.

    bloodstar

    October 13, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    Passive Aggressive post. Obviously the case of Obama’s changing hair color is equally important and deserved a full post from ABL as well, right?

    Your posts tend to be interesting, ABL, but this is an absolute miss and waste of time, yours and mine.

    (and to go meta, I’m wasting even more time writing this, but I’m watching Project Runway so in theory the time is wasted anyway ;)

  23. 23.

    tweez

    October 13, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    Chip Hitler is from “Werewolf” episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

    You’re welcome.

  24. 24.

    gbear

    October 13, 2011 at 9:45 pm

    Grey skies are going to clear up.
    Put on a happy face.

  25. 25.

    Steph

    October 13, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    So am I the only one who remembers Police Academy 3, where Mauser’s eyebrows gets ripped off, gets replaced by furry caterpillars, which twitch and fall off in subsequent scenes?

  26. 26.

    poco

    October 13, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    @joeshabadoo: STFU!

  27. 27.

    Brian S

    October 13, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    @joeshabadoo: @bloodstar: You know, you fuckers have this magical ability to not comment on, or even click on, any post you think its a waste of time. Honest you do. And it’s a lot more innerly satisfying than being a douche in a comment stream.

  28. 28.

    The Moar You Know

    October 13, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    Real Americans have Real Eyebrows.

    A fake independent spouting fake philosophy and fake economics, being pimped by a fake grassroots movement, but the thing that the Paultards can’t handle is that the guy has fake eyebrows.

    I swear, this country. Damn.

  29. 29.

    AA+ Bonds

    October 13, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    Are you fucking KIDDING me

    New York Times Bestselling Graphic Novel All-Star Superman, issue #5, “The Gospel According to Lex Luthor”,

    MUST SEE, CLICK HERE

  30. 30.

    RossInDetroit

    October 13, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    Does Obama even have a plan for eyebrows? If he does, we haven’t see it!

  31. 31.

    MacKenna

    October 13, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    Not sure what advantage fake eyebrows give a person but tell ya what, I’d love the Daily Show to interview Paul’s wacked out stylist. I’m betting it’s Rand (sideline).

  32. 32.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    October 13, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    The posts at 16 & 20 are interesting because I’m reading C. Mieville’s Kraken. When I read these two posts I became convinced there’s an international cult, the members of which have devoted themselves to squirting posts exactly like this throughout blog comments sections. When a certain number is achieved the Great MayneFrayme will slip the surly bonds of Earth and knock the moon out of orbit.

    Or something.

  33. 33.

    scav

    October 13, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    Anybody got historical info on whether a country is more likely to implode or explode from the sheer weight of insanity and/or stupidity? We should surely be near critical mass by now.

  34. 34.

    jwb

    October 13, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    @The Moar You Know: Everyone knows that the superficial fake things are an index to truth and sincerity.

  35. 35.

    Shade Tail

    October 13, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    @joeshabadoo:

    Are you somehow not able to recognize the *blindingly obvious difference* between a post about a topic, and a post about the media? This was about the media, and how they’re a bunch of dumbshits for obsessing over this.

    Jesus fucking Christ.

  36. 36.

    RossInDetroit

    October 13, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    Honestly, name one thing that Ron Paul has done in this primary campaign that’s more interesting than losing an eyebrow on live TV. I got nothin’.

  37. 37.

    General Stuck

    October 13, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    @Brian S:

    It’s always something.
    It amazes me some of these jackasses show up to pan an ABL thread that in their liking is too serious, and like this one, whine that it isn’t serious enough. On a blog that once had a string of mega comment threads on the wonders of the Neti Pot, another on recommendations for the best socks from the blog owner. And the always popular 1000 comment threads on “cookies”.

    I suspect it’s something else got their goats, and they just can’t help project it onto us all under cloak of pedantry of the absurd.

    edit – then there is the major lame excuse of ‘I usually like your posts, ABL, but this one sucks”

  38. 38.

    ABL

    October 13, 2011 at 9:59 pm

    @bloodstar: I’m quite sure I’m capable of discerning how to spend my time. And if I found an amusing hook warranting a post about Obama’s grey hair, you can rest assured that I will spend the sum total of 15 minutes writing about it just as I can rest assured that you will spend precious minutes of your time bitching about it.

  39. 39.

    b-psycho

    October 13, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    Probably a poorly thought out attempt at trying to not look as old as he is.

  40. 40.

    Satanicpanic

    October 13, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    The most authentic politician in America

  41. 41.

    ABL

    October 13, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    @General Stuck: at least no one’s called me racist yet. small victories.

  42. 42.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    October 13, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    @b-psycho: He could just carry John McCain everywhere.

  43. 43.

    joeshabadoo

    October 13, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    @Brian S: I never said I didn’t like the post. I think a politician’s eyebrow falling off in the middle of a debate is hilarious.

    I just don’t like it when someone tries to pretend they are above something they revel in. ABL spends two paragraphs, a vast majority of her writing in this post, telling us she doesn’t give a shit. Its like someone telling us they are a vegetarian as they stuff a steak into their mouth.

  44. 44.

    scav

    October 13, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    @RossInDetroit: A mandatory authenticity check of round-robin eye-brow pulling could be added to their next debate. Would enliven it no end. I mean, they’ve tested them speaking while sitting down and standing and I think the chewing gum and walking test might be a bridge too far.

  45. 45.

    Jason

    October 13, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    Stupid as this is, this is the sort of thing that sinks candidacies in the media age. Post Dean Scream, we dismiss this at our peril. Not that Ron Paul was ever in with a shot anyway.

  46. 46.

    RossInDetroit

    October 13, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    I can’t wait to see what SNL does with this.

  47. 47.

    geg6

    October 13, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    I fucking lost it when I saw this earlier today and posted a link in an earlier thread. Too funny. Between dad, with his fake eyebrows, and sonny, with the worst rug I’ve ever seen (and that’s saying something), all Paulites should wear paper bags over their heads out of embarrassment for their worship of two of the biggest losers in all of loserdom. And that’s not even taking their idiotic and hypocritical political convictions into account. It’s like worshipping the geeks on The Big Bang Theory. What a joke.

  48. 48.

    gttim

    October 13, 2011 at 10:18 pm

    Not a fake eyebrow. Just long eyebrow hairs that older men get. I am 50 and mine grow like crazy now. And if you do not keep them trimmed, they can look like that- the inner half of many eyebrows have much more hair than the outer half.

  49. 49.

    MacKenna

    October 13, 2011 at 10:18 pm

    A come on people, no puns yet?

    You could certainly browbeat Paul over this!

    If Paul becomes President will the taxpayer be footing his brow bills?

  50. 50.

    RossInDetroit

    October 13, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    Maybe Dick Gephardt could have used some of that eyebrow enhancement. His were like the sad ghosts of superciliae that died too young.

  51. 51.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    October 13, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    @ABL: That goes without saying. Further analysis of this post will know doubt reveal your hatred of gays, Jewish people, women and puppies.

  52. 52.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    October 13, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    @MacKenna: The Ballooneratti don’t care for low brow humor.

  53. 53.

    Steve

    October 13, 2011 at 10:22 pm

    I found it funny. I had no idea such a thing as “eyebrow toupees” existed. Why anyone is bothering to debate the effect of this on a candidacy that had zero chance anyway, now that is beyond me.

  54. 54.

    AA+ Bonds

    October 13, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    Herman Cain front page story on FoxNews.com, getting successfully trolled to shit and back over last four hours at least, someone popped a chan on em

    Cain think a lot like I do, the rich should not pay anymore in percentages than the lower income people. Every person in this country if you are under the age of 65 should pay the same percentage. As for voting I think every person should start with 1 vote, for each $1,000. a person pays in taxes they should get an additional vote for each $1,000. Corporations should also get 1 vote for each $1000. in taxes they pay to the fed. This is the only fair way to spread the wealth around, spread the votes around as well.

  55. 55.

    lacp

    October 13, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    Hey, I’ve seen a few episodes of “V” – first it’s an eyebrow, then it’s some skin, and then the full lizard thing. Let’s face it: Ron Paul is an alien. Where is David Icke when you need him most?

  56. 56.

    Linda

    October 13, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    Thank you so much! This has been a rough week, and I needed a Laugh Hard Enough To Make Me Snort.

  57. 57.

    AA+ Bonds

    October 13, 2011 at 10:25 pm

    @Steve:

    Because Ron Paul is fuckin weird, dude

  58. 58.

    Mike in NC

    October 13, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    @Warren Terra:

    Chip Hitler

    I recall the TV show “Hill Street Blues” once featured a character called Nick Hitler, the narcoleptic comic.

  59. 59.

    jacy

    October 13, 2011 at 10:32 pm

    I think that eyebrow was trying to crawl off his face to mate with Bachmann’s eyelashes.

  60. 60.

    jl

    October 13, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    It didn’t fall in the soup, and there was no waiter. So there isn’t even a joke there.

    So, what is the fuss about?

    I’d never vote for Paul, but if the biggest problem we have with a President is fake eyebrows, then we will be lucky.

  61. 61.

    Jerry

    October 13, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    60 comments in and no reference to Stan Sitwell, the hairless man on Arrested Development with the fake eyebrows? Shame on you all.

  62. 62.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    October 13, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    I wonder if Sonny performed eye surgery on Daddy and accidentally slipped, removing his eyebrow. Naah, it’s just the mask falling off in the hot lights.

    Those reptiles need better cooling at their debates.

  63. 63.

    Boots Day

    October 13, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    I guarantee you that some pundit tomorrow will complain about liberals being so unserious that they’ve even started making fun of Ron Paul’s eyebrows.

    It’s 50/50 that that same pundit once mocked Al Gore for wearing earth tones.

  64. 64.

    maya

    October 13, 2011 at 10:56 pm

    That was rather plucky of Rand to don those carpets. So, does this make him a high brow or a low brow? Stay tuned for his next appearance.

    I believe Reagan got around that graying hair problem by the liberal use of red dye 2.

  65. 65.

    AA+ Bonds

    October 13, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    Conditions like seborrheic dermatitis or skin allergies can cause eyebrows to fall out temporarily due to “the elements” as Ron Paul well knows but he also knows that it doesn’t look like a perfectly fine narrow eyebrow when it’s done and I can guarantee he knows that at least a couple other people up there were probably wearing eyebrow toupees (you have to remember these people are incredibly rich and completely removed from real life)

  66. 66.

    MattMinus

    October 13, 2011 at 11:03 pm

    @Jerry:

    Beat me to it. That was exactly what I was thinking.

  67. 67.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 13, 2011 at 11:06 pm

    You know, this is just futher proof that their is absolutely NOTHING about the GOP that is authentic.

    Well, not totally true.

    They are authentically batshit crazy, every last one of them (to include Huntsman who has been pandering to the teatards).

  68. 68.

    Julia Grey

    October 13, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    Not a fake eyebrow. Just long eyebrow hairs that older men get. I am 50 and mine grow like crazy now. And if you do not keep them trimmed, they can look like that- the inner half of many eyebrows have much more hair than the outer half.

    Nice try, but he fixed it over the break at the hour mark, and it started falling off again 30 minutes later.

  69. 69.

    gogol's wife

    October 13, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    @AA+ Bonds:

    What is wrong with small eyebrows on a man? I thought it was the big bushy ones that were unsightly and had to be plucked. Is he trying to look more like Andy Rooney or something?

  70. 70.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 13, 2011 at 11:09 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    He’s trying to establish his credentials as a True Scotsman, I believe…

  71. 71.

    ant

    October 13, 2011 at 11:10 pm

    @joeshabadoo:

    Its like someone telling us they are a vegetarian as they stuff a steak into their mouth.

    I’d have to admit, I rather a fan of the concern troll type blogging.

    Steve Benen is quite good at it. The other day I had a chuckle when he used the same “quite a stir” terminology found in this same post.

    ah yes, here it is….

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_10/did_jeffress_do_romney_a_favor032715.php

    The whole thing, concern trolling, pretending to be serious.

    Some folks need to get a life.

  72. 72.

    AA+ Bonds

    October 13, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    It’s TV magic, it makes him look like something or other that people told him it makes him look like while applying shag to his face with glue

  73. 73.

    Ash Can

    October 13, 2011 at 11:22 pm

    @jl:

    if the biggest problem we have with a President is fake eyebrows, then we will be lucky.

    Couldn’t agree more. Having said that, though, this whole thread has cracked my shit right up.

    @AA+ Bonds: That blockquote made a piece of my head fall off.

  74. 74.

    eyelessgame

    October 13, 2011 at 11:29 pm

    Atlas’s Eyebrow Fell Off

  75. 75.

    Joey Maloney

    October 13, 2011 at 11:39 pm

    Ron Paul is this guy.

  76. 76.

    brewmn

    October 13, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    Anyone who complains about this post is a Paul-worshiping cultist who’s fee-fees are all hurt because their man finally looks as ridiculous as his platform and history.

    Because to anyone not in thrall to Ron Paul, this is gut-bustingly funny.

  77. 77.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    October 13, 2011 at 11:43 pm

    That was rather plucky of Rand to don those carpets.

    Blort, snort. Hahahahaha!

    @AA+ Bonds: I checked some of the other comments and in context the one you pulled isn’t all that extreme. I mean, they’ve firmly established that people who don’t have enough money suck and corporations need to be sucked.

  78. 78.

    brettvk

    October 14, 2011 at 12:07 am

    @Steve: “eyebrow toupees”

    Nah. Eyebrow merkins.

  79. 79.

    Joey Maloney

    October 14, 2011 at 12:43 am

    So why isn’t Ron Paul proud to be a-merkin?

  80. 80.

    J. Michael Neal

    October 14, 2011 at 12:53 am

    @joeshabadoo: Yep, you caught ABL all right. I suppose that she’ll now have to admit, and face the music for, “Point is, I don’t give a rat’s ass,” being a paraphrase for, “Point is, I don’t give a rat’s ass, except insofar as it’s really fucking funny.”

    Consider your blow for literalism to have been delivered. Except that it isn’t *really* a blow and wasn’t any *actual* delivery. Can’t be too careful.

  81. 81.

    Sly

    October 14, 2011 at 12:59 am

    The question then remains, how do I feel about that? It makes me disappointed with the campaign and his advisers. One of the biggest pluses of Ron Paul is that he is real, honest, and earnest. It’s a bit maddening that the campaign can’t realize a big draw of Ron Paul’s is that he is not a plastic man.

    Whenever I wonder what drew me to the conclusion that libertarians should never be put in charge of anything, a libertarian is always ready at hand to remind me.

  82. 82.

    anthrosciguy

    October 14, 2011 at 1:13 am

    As usual, imagine if this were a Democratic candidate. We’d be hearing about this, not in blog posts, but on cable news roundtables for the next two decades.

  83. 83.

    TLR

    October 14, 2011 at 1:14 am

    You can’t judge a man by his eyebrows, lol. I don’t care if Ron Paul’s eyebrows are left, right, up, down, inside out, or diagonal. He still has my vote. It’s his genius mind and free heart that counts. He’s always had the coolest eyebrows in politics.

  84. 84.

    kathy

    October 14, 2011 at 1:14 am

    listen, you all clearly do not understand how difficult it is to pull off the false eyebrow. cut a brother some slack!

  85. 85.

    Yutsano

    October 14, 2011 at 1:14 am

    @J. Michael Neal: I prefer to just regard the haters as whiny little bitches and mostly ignore them. I appreciate your epic takedown though.

    BTW keep an eye on the IRS. The hiring freeze is starting to affect our ability to operate and I think there’s about to be some severe union pushback.

  86. 86.

    AA+ Bonds

    October 14, 2011 at 1:15 am

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:

    The one I pulled is by a pro-am 94-post troll account on foxnews

  87. 87.

    AA+ Bonds

    October 14, 2011 at 1:17 am

    @TLR:

    HAHAHAH that fucking link in your name

  88. 88.

    Lysana

    October 14, 2011 at 1:24 am

    @joeshabadoo:

    I just don’t like it when someone tries to pretend they are above something they revel in. ABL spends two paragraphs, a vast majority of her writing in this post, telling us she doesn’t give a shit. Its like someone telling us they are a vegetarian as they stuff a steak into their mouth.

    The fact she’s commenting on the stir it caused instead of how Paul wears fake eyebrows went right over your head. Twice. Bra-VO.

  89. 89.

    eemom

    October 14, 2011 at 1:41 am

    shit, Iz totally confuzzlerated now.

    First I was told that it is not only uncool, but anti-liberal, to comment on anyone’s personal appearance ever for any reason. Fuck, for all you know this poor man could be suffering from a rare eyebrow disease.

    But then I was told that it is ONLY uncool if people with the physical characteristic in question are not part of the physical characteristic majority. Thus, nothing you could ever say about a standard average weight white man with no actual physical disability would be out of bounds, cuz nobody ever discriminates against standard average weight white men with no actual physical disability.

    So. I guess the eyebrows are fair game. Carry on.

  90. 90.

    bonkers

    October 14, 2011 at 1:49 am

    Don’t taze me, brow!

  91. 91.

    amk

    October 14, 2011 at 1:50 am

    With libtards & teabaggers (is there any difference between the two), it’s always someone else’s fault, even fucking nature’s.

  92. 92.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    October 14, 2011 at 3:21 am

    @Lysana: Think of it as doubling down.

  93. 93.

    bjacques

    October 14, 2011 at 3:25 am

    Amanda Palmer can fix that little problem…

  94. 94.

    Singular

    October 14, 2011 at 3:27 am

    ABL, I’ve disagreed with a fair few things you’ve written, but generally find your posts interesting and funny – and this was hilarious.

    But have you no shame?

    You’ve made eemom transcend ridiculous. When he fractures the fabric of space-time and we all get sucked into a farce-hole, it’s on you :)

  95. 95.

    eemom

    October 14, 2011 at 3:38 am

    @Singular:

    not to worry. No farce-hole with any self respect would suck in anything stupid enough to think an eemom was a he.

  96. 96.

    THE

    October 14, 2011 at 4:49 am

    Theory 96:
    It’s his pet caterpillar.
    It was trying to get away from the bright lights.

  97. 97.

    Xenos

    October 14, 2011 at 5:04 am

    @eemom: The eyebrows are fair game because they reveal something the media has hesitated to talk about: Ron Paul was born in 1935. He is older than John McCain!

    That means that should he be elected, he would be 77.5 years old, and would be 80 years old at the end of a first term, and 84.5 years old at the end of a second term.

    Ronald Reagan turned 70 in his first term, and that sets the record.

  98. 98.

    Xenos

    October 14, 2011 at 5:08 am

    Note: Cain is 66 years old (1945), Mittens is 64 (1947), Perry is 61 (1950). Obama is at least 10 years younger than any possible GOP nominee.

  99. 99.

    Death Panel Truck

    October 14, 2011 at 5:30 am

    @maya:

    I believe Reagan got around that graying hair problem by the liberal use of red dye 2.

    Grecian Formula 16.

  100. 100.

    Ecks

    October 14, 2011 at 5:46 am

    ‘@Brian S:

    Chip Hitler de Rothschilde, if you please.

    Actually Chipawungmungo Megakenya Hitler de Rothschilde. A man with one Omigod Do We really know who he is complicated identity.

  101. 101.

    harlana

    October 14, 2011 at 6:56 am

    At least Bachmann’s fake eyelashes stayed intact, but I’m guessing she has a lot more practice with making sure those babies are fused on!

  102. 102.

    Singular

    October 14, 2011 at 6:57 am

    @eemom:

    Oops sorry. I’m a Brit so “mom” doesn’t always automatically scan as “mum” for me, especially when combined with other letters.

    Anyway, thanks for clarifying your gender for me. I guess I just had a mental picture of a teenage boy, hunched over his laptop, filled with rage, poised to jump into an ABL thread and vomit out some bullshit false equivalence…

    If you’re intent on warring with her, you could at least choose your battlegrounds more wisely. This smacks of desperation – and obsession.

  103. 103.

    Xenos

    October 14, 2011 at 7:09 am

    @Death Panel Truck: Do you know that the active component in Grecian formula is lead? Explains a few things…

  104. 104.

    THE

    October 14, 2011 at 7:51 am

    @Xenos:

    Ron Paul was born in 1935. He is older than John McCain!

    I’ll bet his eyebrows are even older.
    Maybe one of them died from old age.

  105. 105.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    October 14, 2011 at 9:00 am

    @Mike in NC: Oh, THANK YOU! I’ve been trying like hell to remember where I saw that!

    eta: Oh, okay, it was “Vic Hitler” on Hill Street Blues… still frickin’ funny

  106. 106.

    gogol's wife

    October 14, 2011 at 9:32 am

    @eemom:

    This comment would be valid if people were laughing at his teeny little eyebrows. But that is not the case. They’re laughing at the vanity that led him to wear false eyebrows, and the ineptness of his staff or the staff of the TV outlet that didn’t know how to apply them so they wouldn’t melt off.

  107. 107.

    gogol's wife

    October 14, 2011 at 9:39 am

    @gogol’s wife:

    Also too, they’re laughing at the disingenuousness of his spokesman, who blamed “allergies” for the appearance of a drooping false eyebrow on his face.

  108. 108.

    eemom

    October 14, 2011 at 10:18 am

    @Singular:

    I am not and have never been “at war” with ABL. My comment was snarking about some earlier episodes here that are like, way over your head.

    Either you don’t read this blog much or you’re just an idiot. Either way, fuck off.

  109. 109.

    Amir Khalid

    October 14, 2011 at 10:58 am

    @scav:

    A mandatory authenticity check of round-robin eye-brow pulling could be added to their next debate.

    Brilliant suggestion. I take my (figurative) hat off to you.

    Let it be so.

  110. 110.

    taylormattd

    October 14, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    @joeshabadoo: Go find something else about which to troll, killjoy.

  111. 111.

    LittlePig

    October 14, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    “Mr. President, we cannot have an eyebrow gap!”

  112. 112.

    Linda Diane McMillan

    October 14, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    It’s Dr. Paul, not Mr.

  113. 113.

    lovable liberal

    October 14, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    Price of everything, value of nothing. He bought the cheap eyebrows – the free market at work.

  114. 114.

    Singular

    October 14, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    @eemom

    I’ve been following BJ for a couple of years now, humbly lurking. Which means, although you win the Longstandingtroll Award, I’ve read many a ~400 comment thread. And several were speckled with your intermittent drivel.

    Fill yer boots.

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