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Pre Game Entertainment

by @heymistermix.com|  October 3, 20128:29 pm| 51 Comments

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Also, too: Some Mormons have a sense of humor.

Big night for Romney tomorrow! (He has never met a black man before.)

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) October 2, 2012

(via Paul Constant and Dan Savage)

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    October 3, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    Blacks v. immigrants ad on MSNBC.

    Going to be a long month.

  2. 2.

    PsiFighter37

    October 3, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    Ken Jennings made a funny. That’s pretty awesome.

    I know people may bitch at me for jinxing, but I honestly think Obama is going to absolutely crush Romney. It will be because Romney will step on his dick until it turns purple from the abuse, but it will be a crushing nonetheless.

    I can’t wait. Let the self-dick-stomping commence, ETA 29 minutes…

  3. 3.

    gogol's wife

    October 3, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    тфу, тфу, тфу, не сглазить

    I just took care of the evil eye you just called forth.

  4. 4.

    Southern Beale

    October 3, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    I was up all night last night with a stomach virus. I am exhausted. I can only hope I will be able to stay awake through the whole thing.

  5. 5.

    TheMightyTrowel

    October 3, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    Also funny: Atlas Shrugged II is advertising during MSNBC’s pre-debate coverage.

    Are these ads playing anywhere else? I’m live-streaming from Australia. I thought it was gonna be a Todd Akin ad or something – it had the low production values of a local congressional campaign.

    Made me laugh!

  6. 6.

    Schlemizel

    October 3, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    @TheMightyTrowel:
    Yeah I saw that before I turned off Game Night In America!1!1! on MSNBC

    Looked like a Sci-Fi movie if I didn’t know the story

  7. 7.

    Fuck ALL the chickens! (né Studly Pantload, t.e.u.u.)

    October 3, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    Zingers, bitchez!

  8. 8.

    TheMightyTrowel

    October 3, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    @Schlemizel: It’s a sunny thursday morning here – i can’t think of anything better to do while I write lectures than shout at my computer.

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    October 3, 2012 at 8:39 pm

    @Fuck ALL the chickens! (né Studly Pantload, t.e.u.u.): What’s the over/under on the number of times when we’ll hear Romney say something bizarre and all turn to each other and say “was that a zinger? I think that was supposed to be a zinger.”

    I’ll take ten.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    October 3, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    Will Tunch and the pooches be watching?

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    October 3, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    Will Tunch and the pooches be watching?

  12. 12.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 3, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    The Romneys are playing Jenga.

  13. 13.

    Schlemizel

    October 3, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I assume he’ll get all smirky like Boy Blunder so you know he thinks he just got one off. So I’ll go under

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 3, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    The Romneys are playing Jenga.

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    October 3, 2012 at 8:43 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Gesundheit. :)

  16. 16.

    beltane

    October 3, 2012 at 8:43 pm

    @dmsilev: Maybe we’ll all be too drunk to tell. We need a designated driver to tell us if what we think might have been a zinger was really a zinger or just an imaginary zinger.

  17. 17.

    Schlemizel

    October 3, 2012 at 8:43 pm

    @dmsilev:

    I assume he’ll get all smirky like Boy Blunder so you know he thinks he just got one off. So I’ll go under

  18. 18.

    tofubo

    October 3, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    would like to see obama walk out eating a chocolate zinger and give the mittens a box of vanilla zingers, saying he heard he needed some

  19. 19.

    Maude

    October 3, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    @NotMax:
    They’ll be sleeping.
    I wonder if Romney will make a fool of himself.

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 3, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    @beltane: I am guessing they will all be imaginary.

  21. 21.

    Schlemizel

    October 3, 2012 at 8:46 pm

    Well, whatever they tried to fix the comments failed badly. It timed out & now tells me my comment is a duplicate even though I don’t see it up there

    ETA: Oh – now its up there

  22. 22.

    The Dangerman

    October 3, 2012 at 8:47 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    Ken Jennings made a funny.

    “I’ll take Candidates That Are Up Shit Creek for $2000, Alex”

  23. 23.

    beltane

    October 3, 2012 at 8:48 pm

    Is it true that the real reason Mitt Romney didn’t sleep well last night is that a group of Planned Parenthood supporters held a loud, all-night protest outside his hotel window? wonkette.com/485804/zingfest-2012-is-almost-upon-us#IDComment454878005

    So full of win if true.

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    October 3, 2012 at 8:48 pm

    The debate-watching party I’m going to will be dry. (That’s what I get for having friends who are in recovery.) But I will have some sweet, sweet hard cider waiting for me when I get home to ease the stabbing pain.

  25. 25.

    Mnemosyne

    October 3, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I zoomed in and, yes, that’s a bottle of caffeine-free Diet Coke sitting on the table.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 3, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Yes, it is.

  27. 27.

    Maude

    October 3, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    @Schlemizel:
    I hit submit and get off the site.
    Come back and comment is there.

    Can’t type or spell

  28. 28.

    General Stuck

    October 3, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    But I will have some sweet, sweet hard cider waiting for me when I get home to ease the stabbing pain.

    Grape Nehi works better.

  29. 29.

    Punchy

    October 3, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    Not watchin. Lemmie know just how decisively Rmoney schtomps O’s ass. Or so I expect to b tokd…..

  30. 30.

    PsiFighter37

    October 3, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    Ann Romney looks like she’s in a bitchy mood (at least from the MSNBC shots of her).

    I will be almost as happy to be rid of her as I will be to be rid of Mittens come November 7th.

  31. 31.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 3, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    @tbogg: I see Ann Romney has her “All you people smell like onions and poverty” look on her face again.

  32. 32.

    22over7

    October 3, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    Rachael Maddow sounds positively giddy…

  33. 33.

    Spaghetti Lee

    October 3, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    I just rewatched Wall-E. I’d hate to spoil the good feeling.

  34. 34.

    PsiFighter37

    October 3, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: That is a fantastic way of putting it. No wonder Tbogg wins the Internets so often.

  35. 35.

    Violet

    October 3, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    Will they start on time?

  36. 36.

    dmsilev

    October 3, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    @PsiFighter37: Ann Romney always looks like she’s just been chewing on a lemon or something.

  37. 37.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    October 3, 2012 at 8:57 pm

    @Schlemizel:
    ETA: Oh – now its up there
    ETA: Oh – now its up there
    ETA: Oh – now its up there
    ETA: Oh – now its up there
    ETA: Oh – now its up there
    ETA: Oh – now its up there
    FYWP

    BSoSR +2

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    October 3, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    @Violet: Usually pretty close to on time; the network TV gods must be appeased.

  39. 39.

    PsiFighter37

    October 3, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    I predict the people who have instant reaction dials will turn their dials negative as soon as R-Money starts stammering through his first lie.

  40. 40.

    Poopyman

    October 3, 2012 at 9:01 pm

    @dmsilev: That stick up her ass is splintery.

    Anybody just hear Chris Matthews? “Kick ’em in the balls.”

    Love live TV.

  41. 41.

    PsiFighter37

    October 3, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    Here we go. Let’s crush it, Mr. President!!

  42. 42.

    dmsilev

    October 3, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    “Domestic issues”

    Romney: “It’s so hard finding reliable butlers these days”

  43. 43.

    Poopyman

    October 3, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    FYWP is starting to sputter and smoke …

  44. 44.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    October 3, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    I see they’ve discontinued the Swimsuit Competition. No respect for tradition these days.

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 3, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    Okay, I opened a 2004 Alexander Valley Cab.

    It should be gone soon.

  46. 46.

    YellowJournalism

    October 3, 2012 at 9:06 pm

    @PsiFighter37: I get Jennings’ Twitter feed. He has a really fucked up sense of humor sometimes. He’d fit right in here.

  47. 47.

    Mary G

    October 3, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    Energy independence, I thought so.

  48. 48.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 3, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    Mitt looks constipated

  49. 49.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    October 3, 2012 at 9:13 pm

    Clean Coal.

    Drink.

  50. 50.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    October 3, 2012 at 9:21 pm

    FYWP

  51. 51.

    JGabriel

    October 4, 2012 at 1:40 am

    __
    __
    A bit belated, but I just watched the video, and … Damn, now I wish I was Paul Ryan!

    .

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