Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I was promised a recession.

“But what about the lurkers?”

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Come on, man.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

In my day, never was longer.

Bark louder, little dog.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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  6. 6.

    JGabriel

    John Cole:

    The part about tea partiers loving crazy more than they hate blacks made me laugh out loud.

    For weeks I’ve been trying in my mind, unsuccessfully, to reconcile the Tea Party race-baiting with the Cain-love.

    Now I finally get it: they love the crazy more than they hate the black. Thank you, Funny or Die for explaining it to me. And thank you, John, for drawing our attention to it.

    That’s been bugging me for months now.

    .

  11. 11.

    existential fish

    would be the funniest thing ever if this wasn’t someone who had been actually convicted of rape – ruined it for me.

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Their blacks = people who think things out.

    Our blacks = crazy motherfuckers, like us.

  14. 14.

    MJ

    @Svensker: Iron Mike’s got a great sense of humor that’s been getting sharper and sharper now that he’s finally kicked his drug habit.

    Check out the following spoof of the Bobby Brown classic “Every Little Step” video with Mike Tyson and Wayne Brady that makes me laugh out loud every time I watch it. http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/4oc1

    edit: Mike’s big moment starts at 1:19

  15. 15.

    Napoleon

    @JGabriel:

    Great question, but they actually have other Tyson videos at their site and in some of them Tyson has it. Did they cover it with makeup?

  17. 17.

    Peter J

    A convicted rapist as a candidate recently mostly referenced to as a sexual harasser. Hopefully they stay away from that subject if there are any more of these.

  18. 18.

    Roger Moore

    @JGabriel:

    Now I finally get it: they love the crazy more than they hate the black.

    I’m not sure that’s it. I think it’s also important that a lot of them apparently hate Mormon more than they hate black. Or maybe it’s that they hate sane, creepy, inconsistent Mormon more than they hate creepy, consistently crazy black.

  21. 21.

    Peggy

    Good to see Tyson’s comedy talent after all the damage he sustained in the ring. He’s in better shape than Ali; and more cogent.

  25. 25.

    PaulW

    There’s a Trope for this.

    Refuge In Audacity.

    There’s another Trope for this.

    Crowning Moment of G-dd-mn M-th-rf-ck-ng ROTGDFLMAO Funny.

  28. 28.

    Marc

    I separate art from artist. Brilliant performers can be bad people. Otherwise you end up throwing away an awful lot of compelling performances, books, and art.

  29. 29.

    MikeJ

    @Alison: Horrible people can make good entertainment. Often they make the best entertainment. Warren Zevon seems to be the local favorite example.

  32. 32.

    John Weiss

    I heard my wife cackling in her computer/laundry/junk room. (We call it the Orile Tates room after the brilliant multi-tasker). Funny stuff!

  34. 34.

    Alison

    @Shinobi: Okay, that’s valid. I can’t, and I have trouble comprehending how others can, is all I was saying. When a man can be convicted of committing heinous crimes against women, and people are still able to chuckle at his jokes, that’s sad to me.

  36. 36.

    existential fish

    I’m not opposed to finding Mike Tyson funny (And I don’t judge anyone for laughing – the material is pretty good!) – I thought his cameo in The Hangover was funny. I just didn’t find it to work here, mostly because the charges against Cain highlight that element in Tyson.

    At least Tyson did his time, though.

  42. 42.

    Rihilism

    This is also somewhat amusing. My favorite is the Bachmann’s, “Whenever you’re out of town I find everything I need on Craigslist…”

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    @existential fish:

    Not to mention this was filmed long before Hermie’s Roman hands and Russian fingers became an issue. But hey, maybe he did time too and just Cain’t remember?

  44. 44.

    aimai

    @existential fish:
    This. I would have laughed if I hadn’t been rendered extremely uncomfortable both by the rape thing and the fairly unpleasant racist overtones in choosing a rapist and a moron to parody Cain. Not enough distance, as well, between comedian and object of satire.

    aimai

  47. 47.

    the dude

    @Linda Featheringill:

    And I didn’t know that Tyson had a sense of humor. Maybe he should display it more.

    Well he was on the roast of Charlie Sheen, and in a little-known comedy called The Hangover.

  52. 52.

    Shinobi

    @Alison: I don’t actually think he wrote these jokes. I’m pretty sure he’s just the guy telling them. Which helps.

    I tend to have a harder time with people who commit crimes and then are NOT convicted. (cough*rapistberger*cough) Tyson has served his time, and found religion in the process. I hope that he learned something from it.

    (Edited for overthinking)

  53. 53.

    BGK

    @trollhattan:

    I think that’s a binocular case.

    Also – and give me a pass on how I know – that pathway behind him leads to the first aid room. Given Herman’s later..tendencies…I could see how his use of binoculars would pretty quickly require first aid.

  55. 55.

    Svensker

    @aimai:

    the fairly unpleasant racist overtones in choosing a rapist and a moron to parody Cain.

    I don’t think the sexual harassment charges had come up yet, so that didn’t figure. Is Tyson a moron? He certainly acted like one when he was young, dumb and famous and on drugs. But I have no idea how smart the man actually is. He seems smart enough to capture Cain’s moves and looks, which is what the producers were probably going for. No dog whistles involved.

  57. 57.

    Tony J

    Note perfect comedy gold, though yes, the “Wait a minute, aren’t you a convicted rapist?” realisation spoiled it a bit. Everyone’s mileage varies.

    OTOH, now I want Cain to stay in the race long enough for Shatner to do a mocupiece of Kirk screaming “CAAAIIIIINNNNNN!” into the camera.

  59. 59.

    Tonybrown74

    @Peter J:

    A convicted rapist as a candidate recently mostly referenced to as a sexual harasser. Hopefully they stay away from that subject if there are any more of these.

    And here we thought Irony was dead. S/He rises like the Phoenix to Pimp=Slap us all!

  60. 60.

    aimai

    @Svensker:

    I don’t know. I knew I would get in trouble for calling the spot quasi racist because, after all, technically it can’t be racist to have a black man parodied by a black man. At least it wasn’t a white comedian in blackface.

    But the whole thing just felt creepily wrong to me–I would have felt more comfortable (oddly enough) with the Tracey Jordan character from Thirty Rock playing Cain. Although in real life Tracey Jordan isn’t such a prize either. But because I’m used to watching him “play” a character he seems more fictitious to me than real. As for Tyson, the lisp and his near total inability to deliver his lines incline me towards the “genuinely not too bright” thing. And Cain, for all his horrors, is probably a pretty bright guy.

    Up until the sexual harrassment things Cain was sucessfully playing the tea party for complete fools and successfully selling his book. The Tyson thing seems to imply he’s basically an idiot, a modern day stepin fetchit. I don’t think he’s that at all–I think he’s a pretty good con man. And that makes the con even funnier. But Tyson played it for real. And that struck me as in linewith a long tradition of treating black men as fools. Cain isn’t a total fool–he’s in control (or was in control) of a pretty good con.

    aimai

  62. 62.

    Tonybrown74

    @aimai:

    The Tyson thing seems to imply he’s basically an idiot, a modern day stepin fetchit.

    Actually, while I won’t call him an idiot, he does feel like a stepin fetchit to me. Which is the same way Michael Steele felt to me.

    Doesn’t mean that both weren’t/aren’t conning republicans into giving them money.

  64. 64.

    Svensker

    @aimai:

    I understand what you’re saying but not sure I agree with it. I don’t see the “Cain is stupid” thing here, only that the producer’s going for “Cain is playing crazy” since that’s what the TP likes. To me, it seems more like your feelings about Tyson are coloring your response to the ad, than the actual dynamics of the ad itself. But, not for the first time, I could be wrong.

    Incidentally, since when does a lisp convey stupidity? That struck me as odd.

    Also, you’re not “in trouble” :), at least with me. I may not always agree with you (although mostly I do), but I always find you to be a thoughtful and interesting commenter.

  66. 66.

    FormerSwingVoter

    @JGabriel:

    Where’s the ‘stache??!?!?

    Damn. Now I can see why the American Mustache Institute rescinded their endorsement.

  67. 67.

    Death Panel Truck

    @aimai: Wow. So much for paying your debt to society. I’m not going to minimize what he did, but it’s not like the man wasn’t tried, convicted and incarcerated for it. Because of that, I’m inclined to cut him some slack. I’m kind of liberal that way.

    Oh, and my father-in-law speaks with a lisp. He can’t help it. Try telling him he’s “not too bright.”

  69. 69.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @trollhattan:

    Take a good look at Callista Gingrich in that photo. Forget the helmet hair and the death’s-rictus smile, just look at the eyes. I know not everyone’s face is perfectly symmetrical (in fact, I think asymmetry is probably what makes faces interesting), but there is something just really off about CG’s eyes — they are sending completely different messages (one of which is “OMG FFS FSM GET ME OUT OF HERE!”)

    I almost feel sorry for her.

  71. 71.

    Sasha

    I think the video is funny and I’ve always thought the rape charges against Mike Tyson were bogus and that he never would have been convicted had he not been black. The supposed victim lied on the stand and ended up with quite the payday, as I recall.

  73. 73.

    jwalden91lx

    @JGabriel:
    I was thinking A Dingo Ate My Baby!
    But i’m not sure if it’s actually a tag, or just one of the Cole-isms that rotate at the top of the page.

  74. 74.

    Can't Be Bothered

    liberal scolding about comedy is probably more insufferable than christian scolding. This was pure fucking gold.

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