There are some events tomorrow that may merit your attention:
- David Brooks will be on Book TV. Word ’round the campfire is he’ll be taking live calls. Noon to three is a little early for me to start drinking so I may need your help. I will call, I promise you that, but I welcome your help in formulating questions. (Thanks to reader T.)
- In happier news, James Wolcott and Tbogg will be discussing James Wolcott’s new book at 5pm EDT tomorrow. I love both of them.
JGabriel
Nobody puts Bobo in a corner.
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AA+ Bonds
If y’all hop over to FoxNews.com right now you will see a fairly blatant pro-Romney push on the front page that goes so far as to use the phrase “not-Romney vote” to describe support for Gingrich
srv
Maybe that was you trolling redstate, but how about: “After the lynching of Cain, where can blacks find a good political role model?”
If he doesn’t mention Obama, he’ll look like an out-of-touch old white guy. If he does, he’ll have to say something nice.
Mike in NC
It’s simply incomprehensible why this asshole draws any attention whatsoever. Is he considered the thinking man’s Glenn Beck?
AA+ Bonds
Also, here’s my favorite comment on the current FoxNews.com bury-Cain story, “Let’s Quit Bashing Women”:
Yeah, chew on that. Keep in mind Nate Silver’s piece on how conservative blogs overwhelmingly defended Cain on allegation after allegation, often by slut-shaming the women who came forward.
Steeplejack
@JGabriel:
Heh. Thread done and won.
Actually, that should be a tag.
schrodinger's cat
Bobo, the Uriah Heep of punditubbies.
eemom
well, ok…..but be sure to put on your biohazmat suit before you dive into that, ugh, “lake.”
Roger Moore
@AA+ Bonds:
So let me see if I get this right: the women who accused Cain were wrong to do so even if they were being honest, because accusing him is abusing their protections. That doesn’t even begin to make sense, unless you assume that it’s always wrong to accuse somebody important, even if the accusations are accurate. That’s just awful.
Paddy
Hahahahaha! Snort. Oh, fuck, the wingtards will believe it.
Video- Rick Perry Claims Executive Orders Can Repeal Laws Passed By Congress
JGabriel
Roger Moore:
You know the meaning of the word authoritarian, right?
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Lojasmo
Is bobo the applebees-salad bar guy?
I still vote for chunky Reese Witherspoon question.
What a cock knocker
ETA. How about whither spoon to use in the salad bar question? Maybe for the chunky blue cheese? Trifecta!
some guy
morons say what?
D-boy
However you formulate your question try to work “primal scent” into it
sfinny
I’m still trying to get my mind around the fact that settlements from years ago are a result of current liberal media attacks on Cain. Ow, my mind hurts.
Villago Delenda Est
@sfinny:
It’s necessary to jump to the left, then take a step to the right, and enter the time slip after a mind flip.
Then you’ll see how events in the past are the result of current MSM attacks on Cain.
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Omnes Omnibus
@sfinny: Time is relative. ‘Cuz libs are moral relativists or something, something, mumble. Speaking Wingnutian is harder than I thought.
sfinny
@Villago Delenda Est: Throws rice at the movie screen and raises an umbrella.
Omnes Omnibus
@sfinny: Damn, I am still adjusting the seams on my stockings.
Comrade Mary
@Omnes Omnibus: Pics or it isn’t happening.
Redshift
@Roger Moore: Come on, these are people who claim to revere liberty and the Constitution, but will tell you you’re “abusing” your freedom of speech if you use it to say the wrong things.
sfinny
@Omnes Omnibus: Well that brings a picture to mind. Probably wrong.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: Will this do?
Donut
Bobo is such a cancer on humanity (when I typed that I thought for second, “is that hyperbolic?”, but then I realized nah, not really) that it’s hard to come up with a funny/snarky/derisive question that will get his goat. I just can’t think of anything that would really get to him, since he is so humorless and smug. Second, any ‘serious’ question you ask him will be brushed aside, because if you challenge him, he likely just won’t accept your premise and will evade.
Not that I spent my evening on the subject, but it just depresses me that anyone even bothers with this simpleton.
I think I’m gonna have a bourbon on the rocks and think about going to sleep.
Yutsano
@Comrade Mary: Keep in mind: he is a fraternity member from a small midwest liberal arts college. It would indeed be irresponsible not to speculate.
(He’s gonna sooo kick me later.)
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: I also played rugby. And there are songs….
David Koch
@Paddy: Why is that funny? lefty bloggers say that all the time, as in “obama could have repealed DADT with an executive order”..
piratedan
maybe you should keep the BoBo questions simple like….
who did you blow to get this gig?
how much did you get for selling your soul?
do your pits smell when you get on a crowded elevator?
what’s your favorite Applebee’s entree?
do you have any friends outside your income bracket?
when is the last time you used something other than wikipedia to look something up?
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan:
Interns.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: i had no idea that he was Doctor Bobo ….. feel free to mix and match and devise better questions, like what type of countertops does he have
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: Not that kind of interns, silly. I meant the free kind.
Spaghetti Lee
When did you stop beating your wife, etc.
JGabriel
@Lojasmo:
Bobo is the Applebees Salad Bar guy. Douthat is the chunky Reese guy.
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AA+ Bonds
David Brooks should nevertheless be asked to comment on live TV regarding Douthat’s chunky Reese Witherspoon story and if you don’t think it can happen you haven’t seen CSPAN2
I suggest you tell him you’re about to give him a quote from Ross Douthat to comment on and then start reading that quote aloud until you’re cut off.
If they want high school you should give them high school
Chuck Butcher
I think I’d ask him two give 5 separate examples of “both sides do it” and how they’re equivelant using the available data to back it up. It took me quite awhile to come up with that…
Anne Laurie
“Now that Doubthat’s doing your identical gig but with extra Christofascism, do you wake up at 3am sweating at that thought that your target readers might be telling each other ‘Sure, Brooks is a reliable authoritarian knob-polisher, but Ross has the primal scent of a genuine Believer’?”
Lojasmo
@JGabriel:
Thanks. It’s so hard to keep the idiots sorted out.
Wormtown
That is great.
Ecks
@srv: No, he’d just attack your premise. Cain wasn’t attacked because he was black, he was attacked because he wasn’t as serious as godsent Mitt “sensible” Romney, blah blah blah.
Bobo may be a jackass, but he’s not such a political newbie as to be trapped by a few implicit assumptions slipped into a question like that.