Not watching. It’s not fucking epistemic closure to get sick and tired of hearing the same lies told over and over again.
Looking like some Property Brothers, Restaurant Impossible, and maybe a Downton Abbey episode. That’s how I roll.
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fordpowers
Damn it.
Where can I find Season 2 of Downton Abbey to watch..
Its all I want.
Dream On
Best not to watch – the serious policy wonk Paul Ryan may try to hypnotize you with those creepy “pray at my fish fry” eyes.
D0n Camillo
Do you have Hulu Plus? If so, “Line of Duty” is looking pretty awesome so far.
JWL
I know what you’re talking about. Most everyone with a pulse that feeds their brain knows. I haven’t been able to stomach any of it since November 1980.
var
It’s not epistemic closure. Epistemic closure means you aren’t able to hear new facts or argument because you aren’t listening to those outside your circle. Republicans haven’t put forward any new facts or had new arguments in 30 odd years. Buncha zombies, z’all.
Mustang Bobby
I TiVo’d Seven Days in May from TCM last night. If I’m going to watch a story about a right-wing take-over of the country, it might as well have good actors (Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, and Fredric March) and a good script (Rod Serling) instead of those asshats in Tampa with a script written by Briebart’s ghostwriters.
Chris
Since we’re back to movies – sorry people, but I actually did enjoy Godfather 3 quite a bit. Not for the characters, though, chiefly for all the references to real world scandals (Propaganda Due, John Paul I, etc). And more generally the move up from regular organized crime into the “political criminal nexus,” something the first two movies only hinted at (the book was more explicit).
As for Ryan, word up. There’s nothing he has to say that’s either gonna be true or new. Why bother?
beltane
The various liveblogs are very funny, the actual convention not so much.
ruemara
WoW. All my toons need to be re-glyphed and I need to figure out how to be decent again. Way more reality in WoW than coming from Paul Ryan.
var
@fordpowers: Sorry, you have to download on iTunes. No free stuff w/o British IP address. Tried.
gogol's wife
@beltane:
Which would you recommend?
pseudonymous in nc
Watch the Paralympics opening ceremony. You’ll be able to fast-forward through the parade, and the actual ceremonial bits are spectacular, daring and memorable. The exact fucking opposite of the RNC.
NBC ain’t going to show a second of it.
Litlebritdifrnt
I have half heartedly been watching the coverage on MSNBC while watching episodes of Whitechapel on youtube. I have to admit that I get all sorts of tingly feelings while watching Rupert Penry Jones which is strange because I am not that into blondes.
mai naem
John McCain looks dangerously old. I don’t think he could win another term. Hope he retires. He’s getting that waxy kind of skin super old farts get.
And, oh yeah, this is excellent news for John McCain!
Chris
@Mustang Bobby:
Oh, that one’s a classic. Well chosen.
Paul W.
I can’t stand to watch Republican speeches to the base anymore, they’re so full of lies that you just want to tear your hair out.
Can someone explain the premise of Downtown Abbey to me? I keep seeing praises lobbed at it but know nothing else about it.
jo6pac
Watched last night it was a whole lot of hate and white people, amazing. I’ll pass on the rest I think I’ll watch an old Buffy and pretend she is staking the Bat-Shit-Crazy-Peoples-Party-Members.
Original Lee
My seventh-grader is required to watch 15 minutes of the convention tonight as homework. He is doing his other homework now, but as soon as he is done, we will turn on MSNBC, or possibly C-Span. I am not looking forward to this.
That said, he watched about half an hour of Tweety at the convention, followed by Al Sharpton on PoliticsNation, as he was surfing the TV listings for the proper channel for his required viewing. He told me approvingly later, “That was good. Lots of FACTS.” So I must be doing something right.
gbear
@beltane: Which liveblogs are you following? I’ve been checking in with LGF now and then but haven’t seen anyone else bothering with it.
gogol's wife
@Litlebritdifrnt:
He’s a good actor.
abo gato
Watching the movie “The Big Year” on HBO on demand. I read the book and have been wanting to see the movie. We like to say we are nerders, not birders.
gogol's wife
@Paul W.:
It’s another version of the concept of “Upstairs, Downstairs,” which was a popular series in the 1970s, where you get the story of the aristocrats upstairs but you also get involved in the lives of the servants downstairs. It’s set on a country estate starting in 1912 and moving through WWI (at least that’s as far as the second season got). It’s very high quality soap opera with impeccable acting and production values.
Lord Jesus Perm
Oh God, John McCan’t just tried to convince the crowd that we should invade like 18 Middle Eastern countries (ok, only 5 of them, guys).
Infinitely grateful that he wasn’t elected President.
Maude
This is a boring convention.
I hope the Dem convention is fun.
The Republican Party is splintered and that is showing up nicely.
We could see how many more voters they lose before it’s over.
Rudy 9/11 said that the election is between Mr. Cool and Mr. Competent. Who’s who?
The Ice Man is Romney and he doesn’t sound competent.
Romney is vague about what he would do as prez. Not one detailed example about how to get from point A to point B.
How does he get all those energy jobs into place?
How does he fix the economy.
Christie wants people to suffer because of what Wall Street did. Yeah, that’s a real winner.
var
@Paul W.: The premise is kind of like the modern Republican party – the rich are really cool and interesting and deserve their wealth, and the dirty little people can get by with very little and be happy. Still pretty good, though. Also, too Upstairs Downstairs.
? Martin
But Ryan will tell us that ‘He built this’. Referring to Romney, of course. In his basement. With a soldering iron.
JenJen
I can’t believe this day has finally come, but I do believe Sarah Palin has finally outlived her usefulness even to Fox News. She’s expired.
Fox News Responds To Sarah Palin’s Facebook Post On Cancelled Fox Appearances
Mark this day on your calendars. It’s historic!! Peak Palin has passed!
Dream On
@Original Lee: So if your kid is required to watch 15 minutes of the convention, I suppose that fulfills the 15 Minute Compulsory Propaganda-Watching requirement from his school. That kid will NEVER get those 15 minutes back. Damn you GOP!
Hill Dweller
The Democratic Party is by no means perfect, but the Republican Party is morally and intellectually bankrupt.
JPL
@gogol’s wife: Absolutely correct but it was also the start of the industrial age and the women’s movement.
beltane
@gbear: @gogol’s wife: I’m following the Wonkette liveblog. Their potty-mouthed commenters treat the RNC with all the dignity they are due.
Original Lee
@Dream On: He also has to watch 15 minutes of the Democratic Party convention later on. I have been informed by a full-metal wingnut parent at the school that the social studies teacher is in the tank for Obama, even though she tries to be impartial. I suppose equal time counts as dangerously liberal, although perhaps it’s the presidential candidate bobbleheads that really get this parent’s dander up.
Water balloon
I’m watching Santorum being interviewed on PBS right now. He’s basically saying he doesn’t think Mitt can win because he’s too awkward and unrelatable, comparing him to Gore and Dukakis. Also, he himself is unable to say anything particularly nice about Mitt.
Water balloon
Santorum is being weirdly honest, describing himself as being too angry and petulant, his words, during the primaries. Also apparently the convention is already becoming a failure and Mitt is running out of time to make a good impression.
Chris
@Maude:
It’s splintering but the fractures are more blurred this time, or is it just me?
In 2008 everyone had a niche; Huckabee had the religious right, Romney had big business, McCain had the moderates, Giuliani had the neocons, Tancredo had the anti-immigrants, Ron Paul had the libertarians…
In 2012 there was none of that, everyone just competed for the same deranged base, which didn’t even have anything coherent other than “we want the black Muslim gone.” I’m not sure what the factions in today’s GOP are.
maven
Kos liveblog was fun last night. Seemed many cocktails were consumed which caused Much Pithy Snark.
gbear
I just discovered that Maddow’s Blog is running a live feed of the convention. I watched 5 minuted of it and now I feel itchy all over.
gbear
I just discovered that Maddow’s Blog is running a live feed of the convention. I watched 5 minuted of it and now I feel itchy all over.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Water balloon: Santorum complaining someone else is “awkward” is funny as hell.
4jkb4ia
If you would have thought that the USTA would not want to put Maria Sharapova in an absolutely uncompetitive match up yet again, you would have thought wrong. Sharapova has just won, having lost all of one game. We could have seen Lepchenko tonight! (Although that wasn’t much of a match either)
I was too lazy to go to C-SPAN radio, but I am going to do it now. You know what the lies are but the question is how they are presented. Sully had an excellent line that Christie was describing a Republican Party that doesn’t exist.
Linda Featheringill
@Paul W.:
Downton Abbey:
Do you remember “Upstairs, Downstairs”? It’s sort of like that. A study of the class structure in England. Between the wars, I think.
Very well done, of course.
Steeplejack
@Paul W.:
Short version: it’s sort of like an updated/rebooted Upstairs, Downstairs.
ETA: It’s Downton Abbey, unless you think that other series is called Foley’s War, in which case carry on.
maya
@JenJen:
Even money has it that Palin is the Mystery guest speaker tomorrow night. Also even money on it being Clint Eastwood recreating his “do you feel lucky, punk?” line.
scav
@maya: Seriously, they’ll go for someone that might just out leg-tingle not just their candidate but mrs candidate and mr candidate brainy blue-eyed sidekick?
beltane
@maya: There was also a rumor that Rush Limbaugh will be the big surprise but I don’t think the FSM loves us enough for that.
JenJen
@maya: I’m still going with Clint Eastwood as the Mystery Date.
I like Clint, but I’m still not voting for Romney.
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
@JenJen: Peak Palin? Which of her kids is that one?
skippy
for mrs. skippy and me, it’s the second to last episode of the oringinal inspecot barnaby in midsomer murders. also of interest from the bbc: new tricks, about a squad of retired police trying to close cold cases. great humor.
tomorrow night: first episode of season 2 of boardwalk empire. and i’m halfway thru ep. one of homeland
netflix by mail is still the best bet formyour entertainment dollar.
Steeplejack
Tried to watch a little bit of the PBS coverage a while ago, saw Rick Santorum sitting next to David Brooks and said, “No, no, no, no, no.” I’ve got the pointless Buccaneers-Redskins game on in the background, thinking about what to have for a late dinner. Maybe whittle away at the gigantic DVR backlog later.
Oh, by the way . . .
DVR Alert!
Casablanca is on TCM at 10:00 p.m. EDT tonight.
They’ve been doing Ingrid Bergman today, and it will be followed by Joan of Arc (1948), Jean Renoir’s Elena and Her Men (1956) and Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata (1978).
General Stuck
I’m about done for watching this garbage myself. I might look a bit at Ryan with those wingnut baby blues telling us with feeling, that he really does not like selling us down the corporate river, and regulating the national uterus, but it has to be done to save the realm. He and Walker seem to be cut from the same sociopath cloth in that regard. They are doing you a favor sucking up to the Koch brothers, cause it will be those corndog fuckers along with baby jeevus, that brings back Cary Grant and white picket fences, so we can finally drive this progressive shit into the sea.
A note. Scanning the polls again today, and it is remarkable how little they move. No No it REALLY is remarkable, and it’s by and large been that way since Bush’s 5th year of misanthropy. Right after his whirlwind tour of Catfood part uno.
With Obama ahead just by a few points in enough states to win again. This is good and bad news, the bad news is we are gathering in tribal camps for gawd noes what comes next, but for now it is good news we are ahead. And handful of swing voters will decide our fate, munching cotton candy at the local Carnival, feeding empty calories to empty minds. It is a big reason elections are like Mr. Magoo meets Bugs Bunny on the field of cartoon battle.
MikeJ
I have seasons one, two, and three of Misfits sitting on a USB stick ready to be plugged into the tv.
I also have some scallops, angel hair pasta, pesto, and gin.
skippy
uh, that would be inspector barnaby…
trollhattan
@Water balloon:
What a snob.
If Santorum ever told a joke, I’d die of instartlement. What a bloodless fuck.
Dream On
And here I was, foolishly thinking the Mystery Guest Speaker tomorrow night would be Cthulu. Perhaps it will be something far far worse, a horror whose name cannot be spoke. Is Gallagher out of the hospital?
Since I am a lazybones and don’t like getting my mail stolen, Netflix streaming still works for me. It helps that I like BBC, foreign and documentary, as I admit their selection of Big movies (especially recent ones) is pretty lacking.
workworkwork
Ever since we cut the cable last week, we no longer have to deal with CNN, FoxNews, etc.
This week we’re making full use of our AppleTV – iTunes season passes (Homeland S1 just downloaded on Monday), Netflix and Hulu+, not to mention our collection of DVDs and BluRays.
My poor wife gets enough of this junk with daytime TV while I’m at work.
quannlace
What, no love for Top Chef Masters? They’re doing a thai competition tonight.
trollhattan
@beltane:
New drinking game: flask of Jager every time Rush calls somebody a slut. Two flasks when the slut is a dude.
SiubhanDuinne
@Paul W.:
All those drinking games are taking their toll.
Darkrose
Working late shift tonight, so I’ll be listening to the ballgame unless someone calls.
beltane
The GOS liveblog is actually very funny tonight. The convention sounds like a snoozefest punctuated by bouts of delusional rantings. The red parts of this country will need decades of deprogramming before they are capable of participating in a civil society.
JPL
I just watched episode 7 of Newsroom and although I still haven’t warmed up to the cast, that episode was great.
The news crew is called back to work on May 1, 2011 after much partying to await the Presidents announcement on OBL. At the end while credits were rolling, they replayed the first few minutes of the President’s speech and it still gives me goosebumps. I really hope they play the entire nine minutes of the speech at the Convention.
beltane
@trollhattan: Are you trying to kill us all? Before we vote for Obama in November?
trollhattan
@beltane:
Have to admit, it’s easier than a nickel per post like our resident paid trolls. :-)
Also, too, it’s TBogg’s fault. No human could survive participating in the AnnRomneybot(tm) drinking game.
JenJen
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker: LMFAO
@JPL: I loved that episode of The Newsroom. I think I might have even teared up a little when they told the pilot and flight attendant. Excellent episode. And the fact that Will was high as a kite during the broadcast was a hilarious touch; some say they were eluding to CNN’s John King, who was also a little tanked that night!
Anoniminous
GOP convention is like watching paint dry while listening to Barry Manlow’s I Write the Songs That Make the Whole World
HurlSing on continuous repeat.scav
@JenJen: “eluding to CNN’s John King (etc etc)” Has time travel become that prevalent? Also, I’m assuming you need to shake your fix at auto-correct, because the meaning of that sentence technically escapes me.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
Her centennial in three years is going to be a joy.
Check out Roger Ebert’s Facebook feed. He posted an iconic closeup of her (a still from Casablanca) that 70 years later is still breathtakingly lovely.
Jeffro
I just realized, some significant part of the country is like, “Romney/Ryan couldn’t be all that bad, there ain’t that much left to destroy at this point”…
…and they are so, so wrong.
arguingwithsignposts
I’m sure someone mentioned that Obama did a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) today and spiked traffic so much it shut down the site. Why hasn’t that been front-paged?
SiubhanDuinne
@arguingwithsignposts:
I red a little of that. Loves me some President Obama!
Reasonable 4ce
As for me, I’m watching the Mets try to beat the Phillies. Then it’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo on TLC at 10:00. Then it’s softcore pr0n on Cinemax. Good times.
Linda Featheringill
For the cable TV free folks:
I offer for your consideration Watch Series Online:
watchseries.eu/
I found the setup a wee bit alien but they have tons of shows.
SiubhanDuinne
@arguingwithsignposts:
By the way, AWS, this is off topic but here you are. How is the lovely Lady Smudge, and when might we hope to see some recent photos of her?
pragmatism
@arguingwithsignposts: i liked gawker’s headline on Obama’s Reddit AMA: Obama Grants Interview to Racist Teen Nude Picture Website.
MikeJ
@arguingwithsignposts: Because reddit is a place for misogynist assholes to hang out? Second only to 4chan for “bitch, make me a sandwich” jokes, and it’s more forgivable (or at least ignorable) with btards. Seriously, fuck reddit.
Tom Q
@Mustang Bobby: By coincidence, that’s exactly the movie I watched on another grim, GOP-friendly night — Election Night 2010. Maybe you’ll find yourself having the same reaction I did — “I can’t believe we’re still fighting off these fools”
jgaugust
Oh god…Jan Brewer is on MSNBC…I actually want to throw up…
She said her state is in fear of dem il-legals and then when asked whether or not she would compromise with the Federal government on what to do about the border, went one some tangent about why Reagan was her hero (no joke).
I just…*sigh*…
Mr Stagger Lee
Watching The Tudors on Netflix, I like that actress playing Anne Boleyn(natalie Dormer) later Alphas On Demand.
arguingwithsignposts
Wow, such reddit hate. I don’t visit the site myself, but the president of the US did today.
Mary G
@jgaugust: I would rather be locked in a room full of people dragging their fingernails across blackboards than listen to that whiny woman’s voice. Ugh.
JPL
@Jeffro: Yup! When Dan Senor and John Bolton have your ear, you know nothing good can happen.
JenJen
@scav: Yeah, sorry. There isn’t enough bourbon in the world to help me through the RNC, so you’ll have to forgive my typo.
noodler
Dig the Downton Abbey. it’s on amazon prime,
Season 3 in airs in January.
JPL
@jgaugust: Is she sober?
Palli
I still think we should demand Ryan’s pay studs from McDonalds when he was the a teen!
Little Boots
they offer nothing at all.
but something like half the country thinks they do.
it’s a problem.
gogol's wife
@SiubhanDuinne:
She’s my favoritest, favoritest actress of all time.
ETA: Along with Irene Dunne.
jgaugust
@JPL: She didn’t sound that way. She was standing next to the side of the stage and was just rambling and slightly screaming at the reporter.
I actually wonder how she hasn’t gotten cancer yet given that her skin literally looks like well-worn leather.
smintheus
Shorter Paul Ryan: We face an existential crisis this election because of the deficit, and the only possible way to bring it down is to elect Mitt Romney.
But neither of those things is so critical critical that the rich should be asked to pay slightly higher taxes, or Mitt to release his taxes. That would be so much worse.
gogol's wife
@jgaugust:
Corinthian.
Omnes Omnibus
I would rather watch reruns of Gossip Girl than watch a minute of the convention.
El Cid
T-Paw: Barack Obama’s failed us, but that’s understandable — a lot of people fail at their 1st job.
HAW HAW HAW HAW
jgaugust
Anyone else here find it kinda odd how much the GOP has been going after Uncle Joe? I’m trying to figure out the strategy here, but can only come up with the idea that they know Obama is going to wipe the floor with MittBot and that they need to knock down the only guy who they think they can defeat. Seems really odd to me.
trollhattan
Jayzus, TPawl is “revving them up” trying to claim his dad’s work experience. “Dad was a
fudgemeatpacker.” Hands not discussed–must not have seen the memo.Little Boots
Tpaw is heard from? that’s just sad in itself.
Todd
@Mustang Bobby:
Damn. I paid to rent that off iTunes at 4 am Tuesday (couldn’t sleep after having to euthanize my sweet old dog the morning before). Had I known that, I’d have made another choice.
gogol's wife
It looks as if I’ll have to rescind my ban on reading Daily Kos for the election season. They have some funny commentary.
trollhattan
Willard is “smart, gracious and wise.”
And I’m tritium-powered.
trollhattan
God’s holy trousers, it’s Huck.
Lojasmo
Just did the front brake pads and rotors on my passat. Dirty, filthy job, but unlikely as bad as watching that hot mess of a convention.
dexwood
I’m here. Not watching anything else. Not good at this newfangled, multitasking thing. Sue me, it’s how I roll.
dance around in your bones
I was watching the RNC today and I started yelling at Cantor on the TV machine (I think he was blabbering about the ‘you didn’t build it BS) and my daughter said “Mom! Think of the neighbors!”
I have never even HEARD our neighbors except when 1) someone is practicing piano – they are VERY good… or 2) when their kid is playing his music on weekends. (I think he’s a college kid because his musical taste is pretty good).
So I said, “What the hell? If they hear me cursing at the TV, WTF, Over?”
Amirite?
Little Boots
who the hell is so sad they can be compelled to describe mittens as “gracious.”
scav
@JenJen: Nothing to forgive on my part, you’ll have to forgive me for not being able to resist the silly “meaning escapes me” comment. On the upside, it prompted me to go play with definitions and roots — I didn’t even know one could use illude as a verb, so technically, thanks for a whole new word to play with.
? Martin
@jgaugust: I think it’s just a security measure to make nobody goes off TelePrompTer and drops an n-bomb..
jgaugust
“America was an experiment where all of us are considered equal” – Mike Huckabee, 1 minute ago.
HAVE YOU LOOKED AT YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM!?!!?
Eric Lindholm
Really, John? [expletive] epistemic closure? As in rejecting an alternate viewpoint, despite the evidence?
I also can’t believe the lies: claiming unemployment is at 8.3%, the national debt has topped $16 trillion, this is the worst “recovery” ever, record food stamps, and record gas prices?
Math is hard.
Maude
@gogol’s wife:
Irene Dunne, The Money Tree.
lamh35
that F*(&r Huckabee
livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/huckabee-debbie-wasserman-schultz-awful-noise
Hill Dweller
@Eric Lindholm: Private sector job recovery has been better than the previous two recessions. Unemployment is still high due primarily to austerity at the state level(mostly Republican controlled states). If public sector employment had mirrored the previous three Republican President’s respective first terms, we’d be at around 7% unemployment.
Baud
@Hill Dweller:
He can’t hear you.
Concerned Citizen
You’re missing a kick ass 3-3 tie in preseason overtime! Giants vs. Patriots!
Little Boots
@jgaugust:
“us” is very exact where southerners or christians are concerned.
Chyron HR
@Eric Lindholm:
If you don’t have anything better to do, why don’t you go find a black person to throw peanuts at? That’s how you guys feed “animals”, right?
rikyrah
@Paul W.:
The life and times of an uppercrust British Family that has an estate- Downton. The woman whose family it is only has daughters, so in order for them to keep it, they need a male heir. the life and times of the rich family, and their servants. I totally got hooked on it one weekend while watching season one on Netflix.
sorta joined Amazon Prime to get season 2 (there were other reasons, but I shall not lie, getting Downton Abbey was part of it.)
dance around in your bones
I’m switching over to Casablanca (on TMC) in about…..oh, ten minutes.
Possibly the last 2 episodes of MI-5 that I haven’t watched yet.
Jess Sane
@Eric Lindholm: You just gotta wonder about someone who describes themselves as a “pundit”, huh?
Omnes Omnibus
@Eric Lindholm: I can smell the flop sweat on you from here.
trollhattan
Huck cites Bono, but neglects to tell us what Bono’s father did for a living. Details man, we need details.
Mary G
The crowd at the convention doesn’t even seem that into it.
trollhattan
Who are the assholes singing Stevie? Bet Stevie doesn’t approve.
Yutsano
@Eric Lindholm: And yet…you’re still losing. What does that tell you about Willard?
Protip: HE. SUCKS.
trollhattan
Holy crap, introducing Condi with “Sweet Home Alabama”?
jgaugust
Condi took literally 10 words and invoked 9/11. Cannot. Make. This. Shit. Up.
trollhattan
No matter how hard I try, I can’t help but loathe her. And hey Condi, tell us WHY those planes hit those buildings? Who didn’t do their job that day?
Spectre
A noun+ a verb+ 9/11
Little Boots
it is not possible to like these people.
will obama run away with this thing?
remains to be seen, but if not, what is going on with this country?
Spectre
She’s visibly shaking. Must have forgotten to give her the customary scotch + beta blockers.
trollhattan
Ooh, Russia and China…where does America stand? New drinking game: one fifth of vodka for each plea to bomb Iran.
Spectre
“free peoples, and free markets”
But if there is ever a conflict, I think we know which comes first for these folks at the convention.
Corner Stone
Condi Rice: Worst Person in the World
jgaugust
So she’s been speaking for 5 minutes and I honestly don’t know what she is going on about or why this has anything to do with the GOP unless Paul Ryan is going to come out in 15 minutes and explain why on day 1, he and Mittens are going to take their serious thinking and invade another country…
Baud
@jgaugust:
If only someone would bring the mastermind behind 9/11 to justice…
Oh wait.
Brazilian Rascal
Chhecking over the live-blogging at the Dish is high comedy. It seems Sully is out of the fridge since he was bumped up from the ‘Blogs we Monitor and Mock’ section, but….wow.
50% of his posts are some form of “I really like Huckabee/Pawlenty/Christie, so I don’t get why they are being such irrational meanies now!”
The man is either addicted to bullies or fully in denial about his fixation on bullies. Or both.
Spectre
WAR IS PEACE.
Corner Stone
Your assistant came in and told you a plane hit the tower. Then a second one did. Then the pentagon. Then a PA crash.
I’ve never hit a woman.
trollhattan
I have a new metaphor for the Republican party.
sacbee.com/2012/08/29/4769582/8-hurt-when-car-crashes-into-crowd.html
Lawn, off of get, etc.
dance around in your bones
So, was Condi the Special Secret Speaker?
FAIL.
geg6
@quannlace:
THIS. Awesome chefs and Dita Von Tease or Paul Ryan? Decisions, decisions.
trollhattan
China. Booga-booga-booga.
Corner Stone
This is Condi-Tron 3000 on stage. She’s spastic. Like the tubes.
jgaugust
Yes, Condi, because when the time to make a tough decision came, the President “led from behind” by going into a sovereign nation for a precise strike to kill the world’s most wanted terrorist, even rejecting some of the advice of his generals. He got the job done and the strike was so well planned out that we didn’t lose a single life.
SHUT. UP. *bangs head on table repeatedly*
Corner Stone
@Spectre: STRENGTH THROUGH PEACE.
Todd
DVRing Casablanca in HD!!!
trollhattan
Here’s hoping the gheys throw her skinny ass out and she has to make a living playing piano at the Applebees lounge.
dance around in your bones
Ok, Casablanca it is.
At least I can shed a tear for a legitimate reason.
jgaugust
Wow. Condi actually said something truthful. Americans are “exceptional” because we have more monies. First actually honest thing I’ve heard at the convention. And how sickening too.
Corner Stone
This person speaking has no knowledge of American history.
Corner Stone
Long and hard, up and down.
Wait, is she imagining Bush as her hubby again?
trollhattan
Shit, did somebody just throw a peanut?
rikyrah
@Hill Dweller:
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then add in the 3 million that would be employed rebuilding our infrastructure in the Jobs Act….and the unemployment rate would probably be under 6%
Argive
@Eric Lindholm:
Lately, I haven’t heard much about how Romney’s some genius CEO who’ll get America moving because of his mad bidness skillz. I thought that that was going to be the centerpiece of Romney’s campaign, not some BS about welfare. What’s up with that?
trollhattan
She just lauded several liebrual tech cities. Yup, we need more of those.
Corner Stone
This is one crazy bitch.
There. I said it.
trollhattan
Okay, revving up to attack union thug teachers and extol vouchers.
Corner Stone
Holy shit! It’s Pinky the Chihuahua giving this speech!
Baud
@Argive:
It’s been put on the list of topics we can’t talk about except in quiet rooms.
Corner Stone
***gasps***
trollhattan
@Corner Stone: Well played, sir!
arguingwithsignposts
@Corner Stone: This entire 3-day lineup
speakinghas no knowledge of American history.FTFY
Corner Stone
follow on attack? You are fucking crazy.
BillinGlendaleCA
Condi has a PhD? As Olberman used to say, I want to see some proof.
Corner Stone
I had no respect for Condi before tonight, so it’s a little weak for me to say. But she should be hounded mercilessly from the public discourse after this travesty tonight.
Little Boots
she’s got no DIGNITY, muriel.
Corner Stone
And a thousand crackers just said, “Say what now?”
jgaugust
Susana Martinez speaking in Spanish. Sadly, her party’s platform says she shouldn’t be allowed to do that at a political convention because English should be our national language.
BillinGlendaleCA
They must be running late, one speaker right after the other.
Corner Stone
I hate these people.
Little Boots
@BillinGlendaleCA:
and never one worth a damn.
Violet
Marc Ambinder tweets about Condi:
Does Condi really want to run for Pres?
1badbaba3
@jgaugust: Waaa waaa waaa why’d the Black guy kill him? Now we can’t scare everybody with our color codes and perpetual wargasm stiffies. Waaaa.
Jeez Louise, they really ought to see a doctor about that 9-11 boner they’ve got. It’s lasted way longer than four hours.
@Brazilian Rascal: If we’re getting into the psychology of Sully’s fascination with bully bears prepare for a 400+ comment thread.
Have at it you would-be Freuds.
Little Boots
@Violet:
she’s pro-choice, nuff said.
pragmatism
The 2012 version of a young John Cole from WV.
Make sure you light that cigar o’keefesquely with a $1 bill. Like a player.
andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/face-of-the-day-6.html
General Stuck
Four Legged Furry Rascal
Corner Stone
@Violet:
No. She does not.
arguingwithsignposts
@Violet: Marc Armbinder must be drunk or high or both. That column Anne Laurie quoted this morning made no sense, and now that tweet? Lay off the Ibogaine, douchebag.
Corner Stone
Your party hates and distrusts those little girls.
Stop speaking Spanish. They hate that.
gogol's wife
@General Stuck:
He should have his own TV show. I would watch it.
Paul Ryan hasn’t even started speaking yet? I have to go to bed. Big day tomorrow meeting freshmen. I guess I’m glad I don’t know about his “electrifying” speech. I’ll read about it in the Times tomorrow.
Corner Stone
Rock Star(tm) !!
Lancelot Link
Condi took literally 10 words and invoked 9/11.
Nobody could have predicted that.
Little Boots
sad, shown up by colin powell who sold most of his integrity a long time ago, but not all of it.
condi has no soul.
SiubhanDuinne
@gogol’s wife:
I know it’s not her best or best known film, but I adore Life With Father.
Baud
@gogol’s wife:
Another major fail. Most of the swing states are in the east.
BillinGlendaleCA
Went out to water the flowers and now Eddie Munster is on my TV.
Geoduck
Was looking for a list of speakers for the day, and found this:
gopconvention2012.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Wednesday1.pdf
(Warning, PDF file.}
Line 2: Speakers subject to change
Line 4: We Can Change It
hildebrand
My ‘fiscally conservative’ brother-in-law just stated on Facebook that he really wishes that Condi had been picked for the VP slot. Then again, he never did pay attention to foreign policy. Or anything else, it seems.
SatanicPanic
I can’t watch. Fuck Ryan. Fucking creepy sociopath.
jgaugust
I dont….what…Mitt is ethical and above attacks??????
Odie Hugh Manatee
Redstaters are fired up and ready to go!
I’m enjoying their disgust.
Corner Stone
@SatanicPanic: No! No. You have to see this. Steele yourself!
SatanicPanic
@Corner Stone: You are right, I will watch. gaaah, I’m trying. Oh I don’t know. I may give up.
General Stuck
Joe Biden is going to eat for lunch this pretty boy death dealer
Rita R.
I cannot believe people buy this phony smarminess of Ryan. This is their rock star?? Susanna Martinez was way better. If the GOP is smart, she should be their future, not this goober.
Corner Stone
Sheeeeeeesh. You fucking hack.
arguingwithsignposts
@Lancelot Link:
You know, if one were a consumate 911-was-an-inside-job-truther theorist, one would be able to surmise that 10 words plus 1 more word is 11. and 9/11 = 9+1+1 = 11.
The truth is out there.
Corner Stone
@Rita R.: Susanna Martinez? Did you watch the same disgusting garbage I did?
SatanicPanic
This is pathetic. Bush league. High school debate club level. What a dork.
Corner Stone
I am loving the way Ryan utters a little soft “hmph” after every one of his talking points.
SIA
I have the sound turned down and just saw out of the corner of my eye – was there a protester?
Corner Stone
AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!
jwb
@Corner Stone: She got hugs and kisses from Twitter tonight. Even the lefties begrudging said the speech was the only intelligent thing that has been on the convention schedule. Faint praise and all, and everyone seems to think she’s setting up 2016, but no one was slamming it as a travesty.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Was just getting on here to see if anyone noticed that. It’s like a little combo grunt-cough-hmmph. An awful mannerism.
And I agree with SatanicPanic that his speech would get bounced at the junior high “Leaders of Tomorrow” assembly.
amk
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Sweet sweet schadenfreude. The establishment hung a pretender around the collective necks of these morons.
Anoniminous
Biden is going to grind Ryan into itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie, doll shit in the VP debate.
SIA
OMG he looks like Alfalfa.
jwb
@Corner Stone: Ryan, on the contrary, is getting hacked to pieces on Twitter.
Bobby Thomson
@beltane:
They’ve already had since Reconstruction.
Mary G
Lying liars. I am going to go look under my couch cushions for more pennies to send to Obama’s campaign.
BillinGlendaleCA
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. What is it with republicans and their ‘special’ flag pins. Paulie’s has a big star over the stripes.
Why isn’t the American flag good enough for them?
Brachiator
@rikyrah:
And of course, the delicious background to this is that the current aristocrat who is the lord of Downton Abbey had to marry a rich American babe when he was a young man in order to keep his property. This is based on the true stories of the 19th century American oligarchs who pimped their daughters to posh Brits. The daughters got titles. The spendthrift Brit aristocrats got cash.
David Koch
@Violet:
So Ambinder concedes Mittens will lose.
HA!
Corner Stone
@jwb: Bullshit. They could not have actually watched her speech.
There is simply no way.
I would destroy her at any townhall she had the guts to show up to.
jgaugust
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME ON THE DOWNGRADING OF THE CREDIT RATING?! Holy fuck I can barely listen to you, you economic-hostage taking piece of shit.
Elie
Weird — I am so relieved! After two really good wind up speeches from Condi Rice and Susana Martinez – strong, effective and generally positive — we have the politics of resentment and anger modeled to effect last night. They will not capture the White House with this guy and definitely not with robo Romney.. Subprime — all resentment and taunt — no vision…
He undid the positive effect of the last two speeches in one minute…
General Stuck
Wanna know why our Triple A rating went – look in the mirror lying dipshit.
Todd
Watching Casablanca now. Bogart is supposed to be 38, but looks 55. I guess when your hobby is smoking 4 packs a day, you’ll put on a few years.
Rita R.
@Corner Stone:
Their policies are all bullshit, but she was likable and had a great backstory and presentation. Not surprised at the Twitter love.
Steeplejack
This whole evening has been awful. I have forced myself to watch the CBS coverage. Condi got rave reviews for her “soaring rhetoric”? Her speech was only marginally better than Ryan’s.
McCain was interviewed by Bob Schieffer–God, I can’t believe they have this superannuated ball-washer as their lead convention guy!–and managed to cram an unbelievable amount of bullshit and outright lies into a short amount of time. None of it questioned by Schieffer at all. And Schieffer keeps talking about how everyone in Washington loves Ryan, even the Democrats. WTF?!
MikeJ
@Steeplejack:
I’ve discovered that my gfriend hates it when there’s an Ingrid Bergman movie on and I say, “damn, I’d fuck the shit outta her.”
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: He keeps grunting like an elk or something.
amk
Is sully finally lurning ? Seems to be in the acceptance phase.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
Had it on mute all night (had better things to do) until Ryan came on.
I truly, truly hate this man.
What’s that German word for “a face that needs punching” again?
gogol's wife
@Todd:
Bogart in Casablanca is the sexiest man who has ever been or ever will be in the world.
pseudonymous in nc
@Violet:
She’s never run for elected office in her life. She’s never shown any inclination of wanting to run for elected office. 2016 is probably the year when Jebby Jeb JEB! gives it a shot, and perhaps the Outlaw Jersey Whale. In the meanwhile, she gets to do the professoring at Stanford and her high-dollar consulting biz. Na ga happen.
Corner Stone
You fucking voted against B-S Report you fucking hack bitch motherfucker!
1badbaba3
@SatanicPanic: “Bush league”, how very ironically appropriate.
Or maybe it’s unironic.
Inironic?
catclub
has there been mention here of the LGM presidential knife fight thread?
Much more appealing than Paul Ryan.
I may have missed due to Isaac related power outage earlier today.
SatanicPanic
@Elie: The debbie downer act is a loser. This is America (Fuck Yeah!), only a total dumbass wouldn’t know that.
Corner Stone
@MikeJ: They don’t seem to like that much. Funny, that.
SIA
He scrunches his lips up like La Palin. Must be a sign of lying.
jwb
@Corner Stone: Post-truth, man. What are we going to do about it? We gotta blow these fuckers out of the water this election or it’s going to be hell to pay for the next quarter century.
ChrisNYC
I like how he puts his chin up and looks approvingly into his imaginary mirror as he soaks up the cheers.
Elie
Obama and Biden are going to mop the floor with these guys.
After this low bar, we will get Mittastrophe tomorrow night — Guaranteed to satisy…
Losers. Losers down to the last inch of skin.
rikyrah
I can’t believe how many of you are actually watching the Zombie-Eyed Granny Killer
Corner Stone
@Rita R.: I’m feeling stabby tonight.
beltane
@Elie: Funny how the two best speeches of the night were given by minority women.
Rita R.
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:
Wolf Blitzer
pragmatism
why didn’t obama use the bully pulpit to circumvent congress to pass bowles-simpson unilaterally? i’m joining the firey teabag party. HAMSHER/NORQUIST 2013.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Fuck your story, Ryan. Don’t you know Romney doesn’t care about buses or bus drivers?
amk
pox news sez a big FU to tundra twit and dumps all her ‘interviews’ on the convention. Is her fucking 15-minutes fucking finally over?
AA+ Bonds
I suggest everyone open a tab/window and go to DailyPaul or Freep or RedState or something and make a Ron Paul account and start going off about how Ron Paul got shafted and all these fake socialist Republicans like Medicare and etc.
If you want to carpe diem your way to victory
mai naem
Ok, I got home and was listening to Condi on the radio. Talk about projection. Talk about giving credit to liberal policies. Talk about dissing conservative policies. She is a truly stoopid woman. She should have just gone to Boca Raton and shopped for more Jimmy Choos.
catclub
@MikeJ: There is a Rosanne episode with a beautiful young girl. Roseanne says: “Hell, she gives me wood.”
The phrase ‘Not in your league’ springs to mind when Ingrid Bergman is on screen.
arguingwithsignposts
From viewing the twitterphonisphere, it seems obvious all the fact checkers were working from Ryan’s prepared remarks and had their tweets lined up in advance of his actual speech. They’ve already rated stuff as he’s saying it.
Which is fine, but doesn’t mean jack shit when he’s going to keep saying it for the next two months.
MikeJ
@jwb:
The good news is that there are those that say that this is the last election in which a pure appeal to white racist voters might possibly work. Yes, they could do a lot of damage if they won this time, but this may be the last time they could be as bad as they want.
Little Boots
@Corner Stone:
use your hate.
AA+ Bonds
DailyPaul even has a chat room where I liked to go after every primary/caucus and spread rumors about anti-Ron-Paul conspiracies and how it would come out in the press tomorrow that Ron Paul actually won
Seriously, go to a Republican website, make an account, and start rippin all crazy nuts about YOU CANT CUT BACK ON RON PAUL YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
Chris
@Brachiator:
Yep. Hell of a thing, the quest for titles and status from people who already have all the money and power a man could possibly have.
Not unlike Ovenmitt’s desperate quest for the presidency.
Elie
@SatanicPanic:
Yeah… Their poll numbers are all “downer”
After Mittastrophe’s speech tomorrow, it will be even “downer”
These are some sad folks…
SatanicPanic
@1badbaba3: I didn’t even think of that. But Bush couldn’t have pulled off better than this clown.
Now he’s talking about optimism- has he shown any optimism in his speech? I don’t see it.
rikyrah
@gogol’s wife:
I don’t think this- my choice is Cary Grant- but I feel ya
rikyrah
@gogol’s wife:
I don’t think this- my choice is Cary Grant- but I feel ya
Little Boots
what a piece of shit.
no shame whatsoever.
social security saved him, but who cares? the Ayn must be served.
AA+ Bonds
@pragmatism:
^ don’t be like this loser
mai naem
@Steeplejack: Schieffer’s been in the tank for the Bushes and pretty much all Republicans for several years. His brother’s a lobbyist or something and had a job in the Bush admin. Every once in a while when the Repubs do something totally completely way out Schieffer will do his stern Ed Murrow impersonation.
General Stuck
Am I hearing things. What is that weird grunting Ryan does when he pauses his speech.
Anoniminous
Jesus Christ.
What a
ter-
ibble
speaker.
hur-ruck
(or however you spell that sound)
Elie
@beltane:
True dat. Light years and worlds better
(not saying that they didn’t lie and all — just the deliveries and smoothness were remarkable)
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
I rewound the DVR and watched the part of Condi’s speech that CBS played. That is a good speech only in comparison with the other dreck we’ve been seeing. And Condi’s delivery was as if she were addressing a high school meeting of the Future Sister-Wives of America.
Cacti
@Water balloon:
Mitt has this unique ability to make everyone around him hate his fucking guts.
gogol's wife
@rikyrah:
Okay, Cary is the only one who can give him a run for his money. And I don’t think that about Bogart in every film. But Casablanca, yes.
SIA
@Rita R.: haha! Yes!
MikeJ
@catclub:
If the league wasn’t so small I might take offense. Software, no matter how widely used, ain’t Open City.
AA+ Bonds
Jesus Christ are you folks actually watching/listening to this, just read the transcripts tomorrow
Elie
@General Stuck:
Its a self congratulations grunt. (Cheer – “Oh Yeah — I am so damned Grunt – Great!)
General Stuck
Nice red baiting. “central planners” . He left out the “central committee” for a little more ummph
SatanicPanic
MAAAAAAAAM it’s not fair! Obama’s being mean to me!
Who is going to vote for this whiner?
AA+ Bonds
I mean shit you will achieve your goals a thousandfold if you turn off the speech and then absorb an hour or so of Republican talk radio tomorrow, or just catch the top 3 FoxNews.com stories about the convention
Politicians’ speeches esp. at the Romney convention are absolutely zero information; everything important about the right wing point of view here will emerge in their media tomorrow
mainmati
@quannlace: Yeah, that’s what I’m watching. Also, Restaurant Impossible before that. I peeped quickly a couple of times at RNC but it was like peeping into a radioactive facility; my brow started burning.
SatanicPanic
@Elie: Obama is up in the popular vote right now. They may not even get a convention bounce.
Corner Stone
Ok, the iPod bit was at least a little funny.
Scott Alloway
Video time. Watched Terry Pratchett’s “Hogfather” via Youtube (about 3 hours). Now picked up the old Hogfather paperback to compare notes. Already read it three times but the video piqued my interest in some details. More reality in “Hogfather” than in the GOP.
Little Boots
useless fanatic. will be destroyed.
Corner Stone
@AA+ Bonds: Shut up.
1badbaba3
@catclub: Yeah, him and about 7 billion other poor saps.
Elie
@AA+ Bonds:
As I said above — I am RELIEVED. He is tracking to type and the type is a big big problem for the Repubs. Yeah — I want them to let American get steeped in their resentful negatism… their snarky excess and their outright LIES…
I am relieved. Not complacent but relieved that they did not have any kind of vision or exortation to a higher vision — beyond their christofacism that is…
SIA
Hate & Jeebus. Just wow.
AA+ Bonds
How can you people take hour after hour of lukewarm TV pablum from these dorks and you can’t listen to Ben Ferguson a couple times a week, which will allow you to predict Balloon Juice’s headlines in the week that follows
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
BTW, My pet theory that Ayn Rand was a KGB mole sent by Stalin to propagandize the US into collapse is looking less and less absurd right about now.
Just took longer than they thought…
Corner Stone
@Cacti: Santorum clearly hates Romney. That has been obvious for some time but last night it was starkly clear.
pragmatism
@AA+ Bonds: Summer, Donna.
Elie
@SatanicPanic:
I know. I HOPE!!!
And I suspect that Team O has special magic for these creatures…
AA+ Bonds
@Elie:
Yeah but like, nothing he says here matters and you heard it before; the only thing that matters is what AM talk radio and Fox Nation do with it
It’s not like he’s going to fuck up and call the President a darkie
Little Boots
@AA+ Bonds:
ohhhhh. okay.
Rita R.
Two nights in a row now where the initial women speakers in the 10 o’clock hour — Ann Romney, Susanna Martinez, Condi Rice (although her not as much) — did well, only to be stepped on by bad speechs from male GOP heroes. After they lose in November, maybe Ryan can P90X or whatever it is Christie into shape for his 2016 run to glory.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: She shook like she was coming down off a meth high and needed a fix or she had a real nervous system issue.
Her content was God awful, her presence was hateful and her delivery was brutal.
Steeplejack
@General Stuck:
As Corner Stone pointed out, he’s bugling like an elk under his breath. It attracts the dominant bucks to his blind.
Quinn
I am going to have a heart attack. Everything Ryan has said is the exact opposite of reality and he will get a pass and half the country will reward them.
Violet
Holy crap. I just glanced at my TV. Did Ryan only just finish now? That’s crazy.
Elie
@mainmati:
LOL! Yes — I built up my resistance from starting to listen earlier. The gals gave me a little ice to the forehead before facing the furnace again.
AA+ Bonds
@Little Boots:
Exactly, thanks for backing me up. Liberals want the Two Minutes’ Hate and they can’t even pay attention to the right program
SatanicPanic
Aaaand look at all the old white people!
Little Boots
@Quinn:
almost half. slightly less than half.
we’re not there yet.
Gravenstone
WGN showed about 30 seconds of Ryan’s bullshit live. I was immediately screaming at my TV, full volume, blood pressure soaring to match the roar. Shit like this is why I’m not subjecting myself to it voluntarily. I swear to BOB, if I ever meet that fucker in person I’ll punch him square in the neck, secret service protection be damned.
gogol's wife
@Gravenstone:
It’s amazing that they found someone even more enraging than Palin.
mai naem
Uh, oh, those cutaways from the crowd kinda looked like they were having second thoughts about this veep selection.
He looks way too young. He looks like he just arrived in the army and is going to get the buzzcut.
AA+ Bonds
I guess I should give up and just let liberals do whatever cable news tells NPR to tell their favorite bloggers to tell them to do but you know, that wouldn’t be right
Cacti
@Corner Stone:
Even in 2008, Mitt managed to unite the other candidates in the common thought that he was a prick who needed to be taken down a peg.
Elie
@Steeplejack:
And oh boy, would I like to see one of the BIG BLACK BUCKS stick his horn —
Well, oh well —
AA+ Bonds
Anyway enjoy your Burma Shave Polka Hour, I’m off to pour more blood in the Ron Pauler shark tanks
1badbaba3
@SIA: Same as it ever was. They’re the Classics because they work.
Now if they could only get those lazy blah people to do the same. Work, I say, work, that is.
GxB
@Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God: I know the Irish word is “O’Keefe”
Little Boots
@AA+ Bonds:
thank you … for these words of comfort.
Cacti
@mai naem:
Ryan is Eddie Haskell in his 40s.
Mitt is Eddie Haskell in his 60s.
Shawn in ShowMe
If the GOP insists that women can only be first officers and their rising stars, Christie and Ryan, have shown they are only pretenders, where do they go from here? And remember, outsourcing the Presidency is not an option.
Steeplejack
@AA+ Bonds:
Yes, that sounds like a much more productive use of your time.
Cris (without an H)
Okay seriously, WTF. Ryan just said, and I paraphrase: “Our rights come from nature and God, not from government. The founders secured those rights…”. Doesn’t sentence two directly contradict sentence one?
Also too: “We all depend on each other, we all must help one another… and so we must stop big government!” Does this speechwriter even remember what he wrote from one sentence to the next? Holy fucking word salad.
Corner Stone
Oh skinny Al Sharpton. What are we to do with you?
4jkb4ia
Wow, was that slick. After about 5 minutes I was understanding how much sense there was in John’s attitude.
I also decided that it is not just how they present themselves–if they know the American people wouldn’t vote for them if they saw anything about how they acted the last 2 years. Ryan’s speech was “principled” enough that even the Ron Paul people would eat it up. It is about whether these folks can give the Democrats anything that they have to think how to rebut next week. Ryan was trying to throw down the gauntlet–we have a mountain of debt now [at historically low interest rates, but who’s counting?]. We have terrible unemployment now. Don’t listen to trying to blame the mean Republicans for everything when you see the Democrats on your TV next week. Listen to whether the Democrats have learned anything and whether it will work or just make them feel better. Even if we need a millionaire’s tax, that will not cut the deficit all by itself. Ryan is using his reputation as an idea person to challenge the Democrats to have an idea that they didn’t have four years ago.
muddy
@Corner Stone: Did you see when Newty went on his show, and interrupted Al’s greeting in order to congratulate Al on his weight loss, and especially the fact that it stayed off.
I think he imagined Al would blush and be all, Oh Shucks, kind sir. Sorry Newty, he’s not one of the idiot wingnut women you chat up.
Spectre
Matthews is ready to vote for Rice in 2016.
trollhattan
Aaaand, the BBC feed halts with “This broadcast has now ended.” to which I can only add “Amen!”
Don’t know what the significance of the “Eight Days a Week” outro might be. I hope Paul gouges the shit out of them on royalties.
SIA
@1badbaba3: Yep, but it seems a little more hatey & jeebusy now. Or my tolerance has decreased :)
trollhattan
@Cacti:
“Good afternoon Mrs. Romney and a tip of the hat to the spouse. My, those are lovely pearls you’re wearing…is Willard about?”
Corner Stone
@Spectre: No shit. I hate it when Tweety does this shit.
She wasn’t bold, she wasn’t honest, she wasn’t talking to “all America”.
She just didn’t call the current president a racial epithet. That’s all she didn’t do.
Everything else she did suspended reality and stuck a shiv in the current reality we face due to her fake hubby and coterie.
SIA
@Spectre: He’s done pretty well lately, but he’s always ready to be swept off his feet.
Chris
“How can you close me down? On what charge?”
“I’m shocked, shocked that gambling is going on in there!”
“Your winnings, monsieur.”
“Oh, thank you. Out! Everyone out!”
Still gets me every time.
Corner Stone
I would gut Condi face to face in a debate or open forum. Or even if I just got to crazily shout at her as the guards dragged me away from the event.
I pray, please FSM, please let that scum sucking succubus run for public office.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@GxB:
Win!
4jkb4ia
@trollhattan:
Jaw drops. Although “Now Watergate does not bother me, does your conscience bother you?” would be very apt, including for Rice.
1badbaba3
@AA+ Bonds: Wait a sec, the President is a ni-, er, um colored?
catclub
@trollhattan: I guess ‘Brown Sugar’ would be too much?
Ralph Spoilsport
BROWKAW JUST SAID ‘PRESIDENT’ ROMNEY??? 11.33EDT
the fix is in…
Lancelot Link
@Cacti:
Ryan is Eddie Haskell in his 40s.
Mitt is Eddie Haskell in his 60s.
Not so much Eddie Haskell as Ted Bundy
(honestly, look at a picture of Bundy next to a picture of Young Mitt. The resemblance is scary)
Jay in Oregon
@Cris (without an H):
You’d think so.
SatanicPanic
@Cris (without an H): Yes, this is nonsense.
dance around in your bones
@Anoniminous:
I’d like to see Biden squash Ryan into an itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny yellow polka dot bikini, just for the LULZ.
TenguPhule
The Romney Campaign in a nutshell has always been
“A Lie, A Noun and No Tax Returns”
TenguPhule
No, that’s what justifies the NRA “GUNS FOEVAH” cash cow.
God gave em, Guns keep em, G-O-P
TenguPhule
Do you mean figurately or literally? Because I can get you good deal on deep water fish hooks….
amk
@TenguPhule: tweeting that.
Corner Stone
For all those people here who kept citing Lawrence O’Donnell as some kind of political savant?
Fuck you. Fuck you right up your stupid asses.
RadioOne
You should watch tomorrow, even if you hate it. US political conventions are like the Summer Olympics. They only happen once every four years,and even if you’re not interested in bullshit GOP talking points/water polo, it’s your duty to watch history being made. Especially if you’re really interested in politics.
dance around in your bones
Finally catching up on this thread after watching Casablanca for the 8th millionth time (had to keep pausing it and explaining the best lines to the various grandkids that wandered in and out, as well as playing WAR! with the oldest grandkid and then reading a book to the middle kid about Telling The Truth – something he is not famous for..)
but – anyway!! sounds like I didn’t miss much re: the RNC. I always get the best info and commentary here, anyway.
Also, I’d rather poke an icepick into my temple than listen to Ann Romney or Condi the Quaverer any ol’ night of the week.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Howard Fineman has jizzed his pants several times since Ryan finished his speech. All these fucking idiots on MSNBC now are wasted.
GxB
@Cris (without an H): Such is the marvel of the wingularity. The very fabric of space-time, reason and logic are bent into seeming contradiction. It’s like non-euclidean geometry. I believe the topography we’re dealing with here most closely resembles a cross between a mobius strip and a pretzel.
Chris
@TenguPhule:
Yep! Just God and guns! That’s why Somalis never have to fear for their rights!
Thatgaljill
I want my freakin’ NPR back… oh and I’d like someone on the ever so hallowed PBS News Hour to put on their big girl panties and call the surrogates on the thoroughly debunked lies. Oh, wait, we need Aaron Sorkin for that (facepalm)
Ripley
Marmalard/Haskell 2012:
We’re Running For Office, For Pete’s Sake.
TenguPhule
No its not, let the Watcher on the Moon take care of that.
TenguPhule
The right to avoid taxes and collect ransoms shall not be infringed on….
4jkb4ia
Jeebus, Sully is telling me that Portman said that Obama signed no free trade agreements. I suppose this is a positive sign that there has been no loud sound of jobs going to South Korea or Panama.
If “the founders secured those rights” contradicts that rights come from God, the Declaration of Independence has the same contradiction–“they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights….to secure these rights, Governments are instituted”. Governments are instituted to secure the rights but don’t create them. Our Bill of Rights was instituted to ensure that the government had to respect rights that the citizens already believed were essential.
Ben Franklin
@JenJen:
Eastwood was my pick until the RNC said it would be someone who will embarrass Obama.
Colin Powell has been trashing Romney. I dunno.
Ben Franklin
@JenJen:
Eastwood was my pick until the RNC said it would be someone who will embarrass Obama.
Colin Powell has been trashing Romney. I dunno.