I remember Niles Gardner on my teevee in the run up to the Iraq invasion. Pallid cheeked little chickenshit quasi fascist was my first impression, and remains so. Wingnuts here, and across the pond are scraping the barrel bottom for memes to wank, so as to get the Kenyan braniac out of the Oval Office, and a pig fucking dog torturer in it for the next round of stupid wars.
6.
RalfW
That POS otherwise known as The Hill headlined their story “Hillary Clinton swills beer in Colombia.”
I know no Romney Secretary of State would drink beer (because, pasta willing, there will be no Romney as President…), but for FSM’s sake, what the frunk is that headline? It would ever be used with a GOP SOS, nor even a Dem one who has a penis.
The Hillary-hatred, the misogyny, the bullshit oozes out of it like an evil, infected sore.
Having lived in that neck of the woods, I imagine the Colombians would have been outraged if she hadn’t danced.
11.
Dork
Phony conservs p.o.’d with a Dem having a good time. Man bites dog. Next up: Hannity outraged that libs use makeup and deodorant.
12.
KG
@PeakVT: ever is a long time and includes a rather impressive list; though how much of what made them impressive happened while SoS, is tough to say… Though I’d probably go with George Marshall and his plan
13.
TheMightyTrowel
My favourite comment off the Torygraph article (because it’s true dammit):
A British newspaper is attacking Clinton because she went out for a beer? Really?? Where is this writer from? What a joke of a column.
I will rarely miss an opportunity to make fun of the Clintons but don’t we basically pay the Secretary of State to go dancing, among other things, in other countries? I mean, it’s the international relations arm of the federal government
I imagine she has to drink a lot of wine too even if it is terrible
17.
Evolving Deep Southerner
I’ll tell you how cynical I’ve become. I looked at it and thought “Damn, that’s a helluva security risk. Good God, we don’t need to lose Hillary – or anybody – that way.”
Everyone’s talking about Mitt’s VP thinking. If the President wanted to change the game, he’d talk her out of this “at the end of this term, I’m done” thing and name her his running mate for 2012.
It’s weird how things work out. I’m not a huge fan at all of “dynastic” elements in our government, but damn if this one hasn’t worked out fortunately. Just a phenomenal woman who has a phenomenal life story and career if you stand back and look at it from a distance.
18.
Yutsano
@Martin: If you’re that desperate to make your deadline…miss your deadline. Pissing off your boss by embarrassing your paper is a much worse sin.
If the President wanted to change the game, he’d talk her out of this “at the end of this term, I’m done” thing and name her his running mate for 2012.
Eurgh that would be terrible to do for them, it would make it look like they thought there was a serious problem on their own ticket
If the President wanted to change the game, he’d talk her out of this “at the end of this term, I’m done” thing and name her his running mate for 2012.
Commenter needz moar evolving.
Lots moar.
21.
AA+ Bonds
Is it a scandal if you are halfway through a beer and are named Secretary of State but then you finish the beer
22.
AA+ Bonds
This could happen during a nuclear war
23.
dead existentialist
The Founding Fathers would be so embarrassed, especially Ben Franklin.
24.
suzanne
Good LORD. They get their panties in a wad about EVERYTHING. If I was guessing her crime based on the level of freak out, I would have guessed that Hillz was dropping it like it’s hot.
25.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Now I’m concerned that, if that 3am phone call comes, Hillary will be off cha-cha-ing, and not sitting by the phone waiting.
I’ve never been able to jump on the whole “how dare (politician I hate) smile/relax/crack jokes/dance/sing when there is SERIOUS PRESIDENTING to do” outragemobile. Not even when W played geetar during Katrina. I just don’t see how anybody could actually believe that putting on a somber face 24 hours a day until all problems are solved is going to help.
27.
burnspbesq
If you’d told me it was the gaddam Telegraph, I wouldn’t have wasted my time looking. The best sports section of any English newspaper, but its politics are wack, plain and simple. They still worship at the altar of Saint Maggie.
don’t we basically pay the Secretary of State to go dancing, among other things, in other countries?
No. Dire threats of imminent bombing, that’s what we pay her for.
And consider Kissinger, who actually was big on the dire threats etc etc: wasn’t he known for dating stars and such?
30.
Suffern ACE
In all, a pretty dismal meeting. I hope they don’t have any more of these regional meetings before the election. So far, all I can tell is that the Secret Service loves some prostitutes, Argentina wants help getting the Falklands, and everybody but the us and Canada wants Cuba back in this club. I favor the latter, but isn’t it like Hillary’s job to make certain that there is some guano treaty that everyone can agree to before the meeting takes place?
But ok, if you insist: you’re a fucking idiot if you think Obama should replace Biden with Clinton.
34.
Martin
@Suffern ACE: Yeah, for an administration that’s has put few steps wrong at least on the basics, the GSA and the hooker thing in close proximity is cringeworthy. I suspect the Clinton photo never would have gotten attention without those other things softening the ground. Hopefully this little chapter is over with.
@burnspbesq: Someone has to clean that up. Well I know the alternative would be Bolton threatening to drop a bomb on anyone who offers him a cigar, while Romney gooses the president of Brazil in that way that endears Republicans to foreign leaders.
37.
David Koch
Digby racing to defend Hillary.
I’m shocked! I’m shocked!
Digby’s whole shtick is railing against Dems for not being liberal enough. Which is cool. Nothing wrong with that. But then she idolizes a centrist DLCer like Hillary.
@Steeplejack: And David Foster Wallace doesn’t. No fiction prize because the committee couldn’t manage a majority for any of the finalists. But HuffPo and Politckho get them. Dipweeds.
48.
arguingwithsignposts
@Steeplejack: As someone noted on the Twitter machine yesterday, the reporter on the HuffPo has a long history as a journalist at traditional outlets, and the series on returning vets is pretty solid, something that would have been just as much at home in the Times or the Post. Also, the Pollitiho award went to an editorial cartoonist, not any of their hack reporters.
Naturally, HuffPo and Politiho will crow about their Pulitzers, but it’s not like they were rewarded for their overall hackery.
The bigger, brighter story is the 24-year-old reporter from the Harrisburg PA paper who won for the Sandusky story.
I’m not sure which “Hillary Scandal” is a bigger deal – Rosen’s or Clinton’s – but surely these blockbusters, in tandem with Romney declaring stay-at-home moms “lacking the dignity of work”, will help Willard quickly close this gap among the majority of voters:
Relative to Romney, Obama is buoyed by strong support among women: 58 percent of women hold favorable views of the president; 36 percent unfavorable ones. By contrast, Romney is deeply underwater there, with about twice as many women expressing unfavorable as favorable views (52 to 27 percent).
27% favorables among women? Wow! And I thought he was the Mormon Don Draper.
As has been pointed out before: wingnuts evaluate a woman by her fuckability. Doesn’t matter if it’s some dumb broad from a frat house party, or Elena Kagan, they’re always getting up ins her business.
Sure, Hillary can get pretty liquored up with the girls and that’s OK-but a hard working Secret Service agent can’t get the kinks rubbed out of his neck by a comely Colombian girl.
Talk about a double standard. :-)
Here is the real question to ask that asshole Issa-did they both show up to work on time the next day? I think the answer is yes, and anything else, therefore, is just BS.
53.
Suffern ACE
@kd bart: Sadly it will be Hillary Duff. Bank on it.
54.
forked tongue
The New York Post went with a simple, elegant one-word headline: “SWILLARY”
gaz
Christ on Toast.
That is all.
Comrade Mary
I want to see Hillary and Our Sarah clubbing together.
rikyrah
the pics cracked me up.
I was like GO HILLARY
patroclus
Man, I was planning on voting for Obama and the Dems until Hilary Rosen opened her mouth. Now, Hillary Clinton is dancing – a voting issue for sure.
General Stuck
I remember Niles Gardner on my teevee in the run up to the Iraq invasion. Pallid cheeked little chickenshit quasi fascist was my first impression, and remains so. Wingnuts here, and across the pond are scraping the barrel bottom for memes to wank, so as to get the Kenyan braniac out of the Oval Office, and a pig fucking dog torturer in it for the next round of stupid wars.
RalfW
That POS otherwise known as The Hill headlined their story “Hillary Clinton swills beer in Colombia.”
I know no Romney Secretary of State would drink beer (because, pasta willing, there will be no Romney as President…), but for FSM’s sake, what the frunk is that headline? It would ever be used with a GOP SOS, nor even a Dem one who has a penis.
The Hillary-hatred, the misogyny, the bullshit oozes out of it like an evil, infected sore.
PeakVT
I don’t know if Hils is the best SoS ever [fn1], but she’s definitely the most awesome.
fn1: She’s pretty good, IMHO.
satanicpanic
Wingnuts- WOMAN HAVING FUN OH NO!
The rest of us- good for her!
Bruce S
Nile Gardiner at the UK Telegraph needs to take that cork out of his ass. Or whatever it is…
300baud
Having lived in that neck of the woods, I imagine the Colombians would have been outraged if she hadn’t danced.
Dork
Phony conservs p.o.’d with a Dem having a good time. Man bites dog. Next up: Hannity outraged that libs use makeup and deodorant.
KG
@PeakVT: ever is a long time and includes a rather impressive list; though how much of what made them impressive happened while SoS, is tough to say… Though I’d probably go with George Marshall and his plan
TheMightyTrowel
My favourite comment off the Torygraph article (because it’s true dammit):
A British newspaper is attacking Clinton because she went out for a beer? Really?? Where is this writer from? What a joke of a column.
freelancer
They are trying to make this moment into Condi Rice’s buying obscenely expensive shoes in Manhattan as NOLA drowns.
Both sides do it, but Democrats hate America.
Martin
‘cervezagate’ earned a LOL from me.
AA+ Bonds
I will rarely miss an opportunity to make fun of the Clintons but don’t we basically pay the Secretary of State to go dancing, among other things, in other countries? I mean, it’s the international relations arm of the federal government
I imagine she has to drink a lot of wine too even if it is terrible
Evolving Deep Southerner
I’ll tell you how cynical I’ve become. I looked at it and thought “Damn, that’s a helluva security risk. Good God, we don’t need to lose Hillary – or anybody – that way.”
Everyone’s talking about Mitt’s VP thinking. If the President wanted to change the game, he’d talk her out of this “at the end of this term, I’m done” thing and name her his running mate for 2012.
It’s weird how things work out. I’m not a huge fan at all of “dynastic” elements in our government, but damn if this one hasn’t worked out fortunately. Just a phenomenal woman who has a phenomenal life story and career if you stand back and look at it from a distance.
Yutsano
@Martin: If you’re that desperate to make your deadline…miss your deadline. Pissing off your boss by embarrassing your paper is a much worse sin.
AA+ Bonds
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
Eurgh that would be terrible to do for them, it would make it look like they thought there was a serious problem on their own ticket
eemom
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
Commenter needz moar evolving.
Lots moar.
AA+ Bonds
Is it a scandal if you are halfway through a beer and are named Secretary of State but then you finish the beer
AA+ Bonds
This could happen during a nuclear war
dead existentialist
The Founding Fathers would be so embarrassed, especially Ben Franklin.
suzanne
Good LORD. They get their panties in a wad about EVERYTHING. If I was guessing her crime based on the level of freak out, I would have guessed that Hillz was dropping it like it’s hot.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Now I’m concerned that, if that 3am phone call comes, Hillary will be off cha-cha-ing, and not sitting by the phone waiting.
Cris (without an H)
I’ve never been able to jump on the whole “how dare (politician I hate) smile/relax/crack jokes/dance/sing when there is SERIOUS PRESIDENTING to do” outragemobile. Not even when W played geetar during Katrina. I just don’t see how anybody could actually believe that putting on a somber face 24 hours a day until all problems are solved is going to help.
burnspbesq
If you’d told me it was the gaddam Telegraph, I wouldn’t have wasted my time looking. The best sports section of any English newspaper, but its politics are wack, plain and simple. They still worship at the altar of Saint Maggie.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@AA+ Bonds:
How so? She’s the Secretary of State, for God’s sake. She’s done well. How the hell would it do anything but be a net gain for the President?
Joe Biden’s done fine, all “gaffe” shit aside. The guy’s not said anything crazy/evil. Obama will win this one in a walk doing nothing different.
But, Hillary, now, if you wanted to suck the oxygen out of the political room …
Oh, and eemom, suck it, you sour bitch.
Citizen_X
@AA+ Bonds:
No. Dire threats of imminent bombing, that’s what we pay her for.
And consider Kissinger, who actually was big on the dire threats etc etc: wasn’t he known for dating stars and such?
Suffern ACE
In all, a pretty dismal meeting. I hope they don’t have any more of these regional meetings before the election. So far, all I can tell is that the Secret Service loves some prostitutes, Argentina wants help getting the Falklands, and everybody but the us and Canada wants Cuba back in this club. I favor the latter, but isn’t it like Hillary’s job to make certain that there is some guano treaty that everyone can agree to before the meeting takes place?
burnspbesq
@Suffern ACE:
At least she wasn’t bitching at Ecuador about trying to make Chevron bear the costs of cleaning up the environmental Armageddon it created there.
burnspbesq
@General Stuck:
Which makes him a bog-standard Tory.
eemom
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
Why I was trying to be nice there, lil redneck.
But ok, if you insist: you’re a fucking idiot if you think Obama should replace Biden with Clinton.
Martin
@Suffern ACE: Yeah, for an administration that’s has put few steps wrong at least on the basics, the GSA and the hooker thing in close proximity is cringeworthy. I suspect the Clinton photo never would have gotten attention without those other things softening the ground. Hopefully this little chapter is over with.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@burnspbesq:
Pretty much.
Suffern ACE
@burnspbesq: Someone has to clean that up. Well I know the alternative would be Bolton threatening to drop a bomb on anyone who offers him a cigar, while Romney gooses the president of Brazil in that way that endears Republicans to foreign leaders.
David Koch
Digby racing to defend Hillary.
I’m shocked! I’m shocked!
Digby’s whole shtick is railing against Dems for not being liberal enough. Which is cool. Nothing wrong with that. But then she idolizes a centrist DLCer like Hillary.
Calouste
@burnspbesq:
To really be a bog-standard Tory, he needs a little sex scandal. Although he doesn’t have to go as far as this guy.
Spaghetti Lee
If I had her job I’d take every opportunity I could to loosen up a bit.
Arclite
Yo, Hil-bear aint the ONLY one gettin’ jiggy wid it.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
“Getting jiggy with it”? Dang, Cole, you old. May as well have posted that she was cutting a rug, Lindy hop style.
boss bitch
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
Its a dumb idea. Very dumb. No need to change Joe Biden.
Patricia Kayden
Another bout of faux outrage.
kay
I think it’s probably good. Clinton is well-liked. She (actually) polls really well.
If they say one word we should all immediately start screaming that they hate women.
It’s what they would do.
kd bart
These things come in three. I wonder what Hillary Swank is up to?
Steeplejack
Post title: “The Newest Outrage.”
Here’s the new newest outrage: HuffPo and Politico win Pulitzers. WTF?!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Steeplejack: And David Foster Wallace doesn’t. No fiction prize because the committee couldn’t manage a majority for any of the finalists. But HuffPo and Politckho get them. Dipweeds.
arguingwithsignposts
@Steeplejack: As someone noted on the Twitter machine yesterday, the reporter on the HuffPo has a long history as a journalist at traditional outlets, and the series on returning vets is pretty solid, something that would have been just as much at home in the Times or the Post. Also, the Pollitiho award went to an editorial cartoonist, not any of their hack reporters.
Naturally, HuffPo and Politiho will crow about their Pulitzers, but it’s not like they were rewarded for their overall hackery.
The bigger, brighter story is the 24-year-old reporter from the Harrisburg PA paper who won for the Sandusky story.
Bruce S
I’m not sure which “Hillary Scandal” is a bigger deal – Rosen’s or Clinton’s – but surely these blockbusters, in tandem with Romney declaring stay-at-home moms “lacking the dignity of work”, will help Willard quickly close this gap among the majority of voters:
27% favorables among women? Wow! And I thought he was the Mormon Don Draper.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/poll-romney-rallies-gop-faces-big-popularity-deficit-for-general-election/2012/04/16/gIQANuYBMT_blog.html
deep
As has been pointed out before: wingnuts evaluate a woman by her fuckability. Doesn’t matter if it’s some dumb broad from a frat house party, or Elena Kagan, they’re always getting up ins her business.
Steeplejack
@arguingwithsignposts:
Yes, the specific awards are not bad, but there will be the inevitable–and insufferable–crowing about “the Pulitzer Prize-winning Politico,” etc. Ugh.
Skippy-san
Sure, Hillary can get pretty liquored up with the girls and that’s OK-but a hard working Secret Service agent can’t get the kinks rubbed out of his neck by a comely Colombian girl.
Talk about a double standard. :-)
Here is the real question to ask that asshole Issa-did they both show up to work on time the next day? I think the answer is yes, and anything else, therefore, is just BS.
Suffern ACE
@kd bart: Sadly it will be Hillary Duff. Bank on it.
forked tongue
The New York Post went with a simple, elegant one-word headline: “SWILLARY”
Tone In DC
@suzanne:
Hillacious partying like it’s 1999.
Kewl.
Tone In DC
@Martin:
If this is as scandalous as this Administration gets, there’s nothing to worry about.
The Secret Service guys are grown men. They made their collective bed, let them lie in it.
Villago Delenda Est
Pretty obvious that the tumbrel parade needs to be international.
Villago Delenda Est
@Citizen_X:
Yup, none other than Bond Girl Jill St. John.
gwangung
@Villago Delenda Est:
And that was a problem?
Paul in KY
I think you’re supposed to spell ‘with’ as ‘wit’.
Other than that, I say: ‘Go on with your bad self, madam secretary!’.
Michael
Let the eagle soar! Like she’s never soared before!