I really hope vichy liberals like Juan Williams one day start to realize that the right just hates them and only view them as useful idiots:
The pay must be pretty good, because I personally would rather starve than go on tv and have unhinged lunatics like Malkin scream random insults at me. And of course she is a “real” reporter. Who can forget all the excellent journamalism she conducted stalking a 12 year old boy?
Snowwy
Williams can go to hell and die.
He’s already sold his soul. Hell couldn’t possibly be much worse than life as he knows it now, anyway.
Stuck in the Funhouse
LOL, and you would be the expert on “vichy liberals” and “useful idiots”/ Good one
LGRooney
In other news, this.
I’m trying to think of something to do while they’re in my neighborhood.
Forum Transmitted Disease
I just think he wanted to cash in. He doesn’t strike me as being stupid. His new audience would rather see him swinging from the arm of a stout oak rather than speaking as an equal with whites on their TV screens and I’m pretty sure he knows that.
Just Some Fuckhead
Alan Colmes had enough self-awareness to kill himself.
Ronnie P
Well, i wouldn’t have a problem with Juan working for Fox if he consistently took progressive positions. And good for him for fighting with Malkin. More of that please.
me
@Forum Transmitted Disease: Yep, he knew exactly what he was getting into. Look at the piece of shit he works for.
the Conster
Nothing in this world would make me happier than seeing Malkin’s head shoved into Hannity’s face hole.
mk3872
Ha ha! Juan is getting exactly what he deserves. Love it!
Steve M.
Well, we know precisely what the pay is, and it is pretty good.
mai naem
Michelle Magalanadangdingdong absolutely drives me around the bend. Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham and most of the others are white chicks with relatively privileged upbringing. Malkin is an Asian and has got to know better. And the way her mouth and facial features move when shes talking about the left. Oy vey. She looks like the typical mean girl in high school. And then to top it off, her DemocRAT and Lame Stream Media stupid cliched crap ugh. Go away beeyotch.
slag
Poor Juan. On Faux News claiming to be a real reporter. Almost as sad as the thought of Pluto running around Disney World shouting about how he’s still a real planet.
Soonergrunt
Well, it’s not just African-American ‘Liberals’ getting shit at Faux News.
Gretchen Carlson ought to rethink her employment.
Turgidson
Wait, Juan Williams is a liberal? Huh.
muddy
@LGRooney: Get a bunch of wire coat hangers and put them outside the event. Paint them day-glo colors so they stand out. I don’t know what the site is like, but you could hang them from trees and sticking in amongst the flower bed way in the back so they are hard to remove.
Make a stencil of a wire coat hanger and spray it on the walkways and stairs the night before. The downward spraying bright orange kind would be easier to conceal. Attach the stencil to a cane or something, so you can pretend do be old and shuffling while decorating the area.
*Of course* this just came into my imagination and I don’t know about any legal issues, but I could just picture it, and their moue of distaste when they saw it.
TBogg
Real reporters do cheerleader videos.
Bubblegum Tate
For awhile there, Malkin had pretty much disappeared. Evidently she was turning herself into a Real Housewife of [wherever the hell she lives now] during that time. Yeesh.
Yutsano
@Soonergrunt: Yup. No war on women at all. Just a media stunt, nothing to see here, move along.
Bubblegum Tate
@mai naem:
That’s precisely how she makes her money.
DFH no.6
I don’t know about “getting what he deserves and getting it hard”.
I’d say more “laughing all the way to the bank”.
Forum Transmitted Disease
@mai naem: You’re kidding, right? The Asians I know are not exactly models of tolerance. On any subject.
The Red Pen
Sean Hannity is the hands-down winner of the “Biggest Idiot on Television Anywhere” award.
Villago Delenda Est
@TBogg:
Yes. This.
LGRooney
@muddy: I was thinking of a sign: If God cares so much for a woman’s uterus, why doesn’t he give a Holy Fuck?
Stooleo
Off Topic:
Texas Billionaire gets 110 year sentence.
Now if we could just prosecute some Wall St bankers.
BGinCHI
An Irish-American talk show host, an Asian-American former cheerleader, and an African American sellout go into a bar.
Which tragically burns down with them inside it.
Hmm.
I need to work on my punchlines.
slag
@DFH no.6: I can’t say from experience, but I strongly suspect that, when you get to a certain age (and a certain level of comfort in life), your priorities probably tilt more in favor of respectability. Juan made certain choices in his youth two years ago that he’s probably regretting now. Who hasn’t?
kth
The “bad guys” of professional wrestling don’t care if the audience hates them, why should Juan Williams?
kindness
I saw that earlier elsewhere today.
Malkin really comes off like all those horrible pictures about her. I won’t even touch Hannity because I just wouldn’t even with Sully’s dick.
How these people are held up as paragons of the right and the right likes I just don’t get.
@TBogg:
yea, bad ones.
Soonergrunt
@TBogg: Don’t you dare. That video of the gravity challenged anchor baby borders on torture.
The Thin Black Duke
@BGinCHI: I dunno.
Sounds pretty funny to me.
Soonergrunt
@BGinCHI:
There. That’s better.
Ash Can
Is that the same Juan Williams who says he misses the intelligence of the NPR audience? Boo-fucking-hoo, Juan.
Clark
From left to right they are: A cretin, a psychopath and a hack
ruemara
@BGinCHI: I laughed. Cruelly, but it was a laugh.
nitpicker
This is the worst thing about debating conservatives these days: You simply don’t have the time it would take to correct all the false assumptions and plain bullshit upon which their premises rest to get around to ever discussing the actual point.
BGinCHI
@Soonergrunt: Tragic for the bar, I meant.
(They took the bar! The whole freakin’ bar!)
Davis X. Machina
Cry me a river. You take the King’s shilling, you fight the King’s wars.
And I do mean ‘shilling’….
BGinCHI
@Davis X. Machina: Insert Kurt Schilling joke here.
Turgidson
@Soonergrunt:
I like it. I’d consider adding “mercifully” in its place. Too much?
I am also reminded of an ancient Onion article that made me laugh for about 2 straight minutes because I have a lowbrow sense of humor:
“Stunned nation mourns as French Stewart survives plane crash”
Put these three lollygaggers in that byline instead.
Brachiator
I could not watch the entire segment. Didn’t have the stomach for it. Maybe I will come back to it later.
Did anyone use the I word?
Seems to me pretty clear that Faux News and the Republicans are gearing up a little impeachment bait, an insurance policy should Obama win re-election. Holder is the bagman for a Chicago Criminal Syndicate in the White House headed up by Obama.
Pretty fucking despicable, but also very predictable.
gbear
I’ll take your word for it that Williams gets knocked around in that clip. I can’t watch any FOX news clip without wanting to crawl out of my own skin. Crooks and Liars seems to make it their mission to post every clip of ‘OMG someone said something stupid on FOX!!’ I’m not sure why they bother. FOX’s whole mission is to constantly spew stupid stuff. Every now and then Shep Smith and Chris Wallace will slide off message, but most of what happens on FOX is just so gratingly awful that I just don’t want to know (and I’m smarter for it). Juan Williams is an ass for staying there.
Turgidson
@nitpicker:
…and that’s by design.
Hypatia's Momma
@Soonergrunt:
“First they came for the outspoken feminists and I simpered and smirked ’cause I’m not one of those girls…”
Snowwy
@BGinCHI:
Funniest joke I’ve heard all week. You’re fine, mate.
Frank
“Who can forget all the excellent journamalism she conducted stalking a 12 year old boy?”
And if I remember correctly, she said liberals weren’t interested in “good-faith arguments.” And Ezra Klein took up her challenge, offering to debate her anyplace, anytime on S-Chip. And Michelle declined.
Egg Berry
@Clark:
At least two of those are interchangeable, IMHO.
Davis X. Machina
@Brachiator: Spooling up impeachment means there’s an expectation in the GOP that Romney has an actual chance.
Because it would be a joke. And it would fail.
You need to make impeachment a joke, a transparent tool of partisan harassment. That way, you can run out and do real impeachment-worthy stuff, and lo and behold, when the Republic actually needs to draw that sword, as an actual remedy, in the face of actual high crimes and misdemeanors, all the very serious people just roll their eyes and snicker.
That’s exactly what happened with Clinton. That impeachment was supposed to be a farce. That’s why the GOP senate caucus walked away from their own House on the issue.
Bush comes in, and does actual impeachable stuff, and — surprise! — the VSP’s eyes were all pre-rolled, their snickers pre-recorded.
Snowwy
@Egg Berry:
And in at least one case, all three conditions apply.
Chris
@nitpicker:
This.
Amen.
QFT.
EXACTLY.
You speak the truth.
And other expressions of support.
El Tiburon
Juan Williams is the Donna Pescow character from Saturday Night Fever. He just trolls around hoping to get fucked by Sean Hannity in the back of a Plymouth.
DFH no.6
@slag:
I get what you’re saying, and I think there’s a lot of truth there (I’m not so cynical as to think that a good payday takes the place of self-respect).
I only know Juan Williams from the little I’ve seen him on TV (and a little more from when he was on NPR) so of course I don’t know how he really feels about what most of us here see as his “selling out”, but my guess is that he justifies what he does as a good thing, and not selling out at all.
Maybe incidents like this cause some self-doubt about that – only Mr. Williams knows whether or not that’s so.
But the pay really is quite good, and he gets to be a (relatively) famous guy on TV, so my bet is that he mostly feels pretty comfortable with his choices, all things considered.
SatanicPanic
Ship Malkin off to Manzanar
ET
When Williams moved to Fox he just wanted a big paycheck and to stay on TV. One one hand I guess he had some idea of his role on that channel but I bet he still has had a lot of personal pep talks to convince himself it was a good idea. he probably thinks like Dorothy, if he says it often enough it will happen.
Turgidson
@Davis X. Machina:
I think that was part of it – what they learned from Nixon was to poison the well so badly that they can get away with anything.
But I also think that since Bill Clinton was admittedly a pretty massive sleazeball in his personal affairs, they thought maybe they really could find enough dirt to drive him from office. And if so, great. If not, the well is poisoned for their next criminal undertaking when they have the office. Also great.
As with many other examples, the right wingers were willing to look like fools in the short term in order to create a more favorable environment for their atrocities later.
Chris
@Davis X. Machina:
Was it really? I was in middle school back then, but I thought the Clinton impeachment was simply Gingrich’s attempt at revenge for having been shown up in the government shutdown of 1995. Equal parts “tie him up in procedure so he won’t have a chance to actually govern,” “teach the son of a bitch that there’s a price for making me look like a fool,” and “who knows? It’s a long shot but maybe it’ll work.”
I’m sure Republicans were delighted that it turned the practice of impeachment into such a farce, but I don’t think Gingrich or the others who originally dreamed it up thought of it as a joke.
JPL
@ET: I want to see him in his red slippers.
James E Powell
@Soonergrunt:
Hit the link, read it, watched it. Was there a joke there? I didn’t hear any joke.
Soonergrunt
@Turgidson: The best Onion death thing I’ve ever seen was “Victim in Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck”
El Tiburon
@Soonergrunt:
Don’t know if she is qualified to be assistant to a crack-ho. What else could she possibly be qualified to do?
And I don’t think she was offended by Kilmeade, I think she sat on one of her nuts.
jl
@slag:
” the thought of Pluto running around Disney World shouting about how he’s still a real planet.”
That actually makes sense to me. Which is probably a sign I better lay off the political news for awhile.
SatanicPanic
@Chris: What Newt Gingrich thinks of as a serious undertaking often resembles farce.
Brachiator
@Davis X. Machina:
The Clinton impeachment farce distracted Clinton and the Democrats from the business of running the government, weakened Democrats and helped make a case for electing Dubya.
The GOP are trying to do the same thing with Obama.
jl
@SatanicPanic:
Which reminds me, if Malkin is a real reporter, has she ever responded to the released archival material that demonstrated that many officials in the FDR administration knew that the desire to steal Japanese-American farmers’ land in Pacific Coast states played a large role in agitation for internment?
Or not?
4tehlulz
lol the Countertop Warrior is having Tweetbeefs with senators now.
The meteor can’t come soon enough.
Linda Featheringill
The kill list:
I haven’t seen anyone anywhere state that every head of state in the world has a kill list. This has been true for at least a hundred years.
That doesn’t make it right, of course.
SatanicPanic
@jl: I am sure she will live up to the high standards set by her colleagues Jonah Goldberg and Bill O’Reilly.
hitchhiker
Remember when Williams used to host Talk of the Nation? He was all about Whitewater, all about having stooges on to try to figure out how serious it really was, all about believing the worst wrt to anybody named Clinton.
Putz.
Linda Featheringill
I watched the video and Jeez! I thought I had to put up with some shit in order to put food on the table but man oh man! I’m just lucky I don’t work for Fox News.
On the other hand, maybe I should work for Fox. I would undoubtedly descend into violence shortly and have a well-publicized trial about the definition of “justifiable homicide” and be found guilty anyway and spend the rest of my life in prison.
How’s that for a retirement plan?
Mnemosyne
@Linda Featheringill:
At least you’d get three square meals a day.
Raven
@SatanicPanic: Fuckin Con Son Tiger cages is more like it.
kindness
@Linda Featheringill: No…if you went to work for Fox use what Aristocrats have used for multiple millenia….poison.
Raven
@Linda Featheringill: Three hots and a cot.
LAC
Poor stoopid Juan Williams. It is like standing outside on ole massa’s plantation porch on a cold rainy day while Titticaca Malkin giggles from inside.
Somewhere a fluffer is raising her head between takes and feeling good about herself in comparison.
ruemara
@Linda Featheringill: Say you feel threatened over and over again. Calmly point out that they were driving you to madness with the lies so you stood your ground and unloaded a mag from your perfectly legal kalish into their heads. Plus, praise jebus!
Hungry Joe
Come on, now, SOME of us would surely be willing to, as Cole puts it, “go on tv and have unhinged lunatics like Malkin scream random insults at [us].” He says he’d rather starve to death; I’m thinking, “Hmmm … two million dollars … hmmm … Can I quit after a year?”
maven
That was hysterical. I envision Michelle wearing tight leather boots and fish nets under that prom dress. She probably makes Sean get into a diaper during commercials. People would pay for her dominance. In fact-I guess they do!
slag
@jl: Too late. You can never go back now. Like Juan, we are going to be stuck in the mouse house forever. The end.
Ben Cisco
Juan got what he had coming.
He’s not bone-stupid like Brooks and the boys; he KNOWS that the tripe he’s spouting is serving his massas. And while he may not want to admit it, deep down, in that dark place he doesn’t want to look at, he KNOWS they’re using him as their personal – well, there’s no other word for it – servant.
Sure, the checks cash. But I wonder if HE wonders sometimes if it’s worth it…
tomvox1
The phrase “House Negro” is thrown around a lot these days…
Bubblegum Tate
@kth:
I have believed for a while now that pro wrestling is the best lens through which to view American politics. They kayfabe, the heel heat, the soap opera-ness of it…it all translates quite readily.
Ben Cisco
@tomvox1: He serves who he serves – I didn’t use the term.
dead existentialist
@BGinCHI: I dunno. It made me smile.
The Populist
Hey Michelle, I am smarter than you, I own a real business that makes real money. Wanna try stalking me? I’ll sue you into oblivion…oh yes, I can’t sue, they changed the laws and make it harder to sue idiots like her for posting people’s information.
/rant off
LAC
@tomvox1: He is what he is.
Patricia Kayden
@gbear: You’re like me. I refuse to watch anything on Fox News — including videos on liberal blogs. The only time I force myself to watch clips is when they’re featured on primetime MSNBC shows.
Since I could care less about Juan Williams (he hates President Obama for some reason), if the Righties beat him to shreds, that’s alright with me. He deserves anything he gets from his conservative peers. He can take comfort in the fact that they’re not those scary Muslims with whom he doesn’t want to ride in a plane.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@SatanicPanic: Visiting the Manzanar site is one of the most depressing things I have ever done.
kc
Don’t wanna watch. Could someone summarize, pls?
rikyrah
Juan Williams is a slave catcher.