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You are here: Home / I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

by John Cole|  October 31, 201212:00 am| 93 Comments

This post is in: Assholes, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Our Failed Media Experiment

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And the dumbest person on the internet tonight is Rick Sanchez, stupid enough to be fired from CNN, but just stupid enough to be hired as a Fox News contributor:

Yes, I seriously hope these 80 families don’t become dependent on FEMA, after all, they have their neighbors:

A huge fire destroyed 80 to 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood Tuesday, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues and injuring three people.

More than 190 firefighters contained the blaze but were still putting out some pockets of fire more than nine hours after it erupted.

As daylight broke, neighbors walked around aimlessly through their smoke-filled Breezy Point neighborhood, which sits on the Rockaway peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Electrical wires dangled within feet of the street.

That’s right, Ricky. Right now, our chief concern is a culture of dependency on FEMA. Because, as you know, since once in several lifetime storms happen so frequently (like, once every several lifetimes), this is a major issue. Instead, we should cherish our reliance on our neighbors. Except for when all 80 of their houses burn down, too. But seriously. My neighbors have bulldozers, can fix downed power lines, replace damaged water mains, pump water out of subway tunnels. Who here doesn’t have neighbors like that?

I confronted him, and he is now babbling about how “Angel Flights” after Hurricane Andrew were the salvation.

Neighbors can help out, but they can’t replace FEMA or the massive might of the government. I find it so depressing that an alleged journalist would even try to equivocate the two, while using right wing frames about the culture of dependency (ON FEMA, OF ALL FUCKING THINGS. THE DAY AFTER THIS DISASTER.) that I just want to cry myself to sleep.

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  1. 1.

    amk

    October 31, 2012 at 12:03 am

    Jeebus, this nut works for pox news now ?

  2. 2.

    Gordon, the Big Express Engine

    October 31, 2012 at 12:04 am

    Frist

  3. 3.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    October 31, 2012 at 12:06 am

    Because, as you know, since once in several lifetime storms happen so frequently (like, once every several lifetimes), this is a major issue.

    Actually, they’re kinda the new normal.

    But indeed, this joker is a dickweed.

  4. 4.

    YellowJournalism

    October 31, 2012 at 12:07 am

    I’ve been more entertained and informed by this spat with Sanchez than I ever was while watching his show on CNN.

    You need to do this more often, John. Sure, it’s not really productive, but it’s pretty damn funny.

  5. 5.

    Chris T.

    October 31, 2012 at 12:09 am

    @Gordon, the Big Express Engine: What about Bill Frist? He’s been out of the Senate since 2006. Although apparently he and the (ex-)wife are divorcing…

  6. 6.

    sophronia

    October 31, 2012 at 12:09 am

    Yep. Not even one full day from when the storm hit, and our number one concern should be making sure that anyone who gets government help feels appropriately ashamed and disgusted about it.

  7. 7.

    Radon Chong

    October 31, 2012 at 12:10 am

    WHY DOES THE PRESS WANT PEOPLE TO SUFFER?

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    October 31, 2012 at 12:10 am

    No wait list to buy a Taser–I have one right here for li’l Ricky, on the outside chance it zaps the sense back into him.

    How long before we hear from Geraldo?

  9. 9.

    joes527

    October 31, 2012 at 12:11 am

    @Radon Chong: because suffering makes good copy.

  10. 10.

    PeakVT

    October 31, 2012 at 12:14 am

    Just ran across this video of the damage at Breezy Point a few minutes ago. It’s a little overwrought, but the footage is decent.

  11. 11.

    Arm The Homeless

    October 31, 2012 at 12:14 am

    Funny, I lived through Andrew, and I remember a lot of work that happened. But what I don’t remember are a bunch of dudes in Cessnas doing much of anything to pull the avocado tree off our house.

    Were there a bunch of people from Wisconsin bringing truckloads of ice? Because I remember FEMA bringing the ones that were in my neighborhood.

  12. 12.

    Thatgaljill

    October 31, 2012 at 12:14 am

    I love it when Cole tells it like it is….

  13. 13.

    lisawill

    October 31, 2012 at 12:14 am

    Does he not get that taxes are neighbors helping neighbors? I live in CA, but I’m pretty sure some of my taxes pay for FEMA. I’m sure that our collective resources are much more useful than what I could do individually for my fellow americans in a disaster of this magnitude.

  14. 14.

    pseudonymous in nc

    October 31, 2012 at 12:16 am

    Rick has a point: after sleeping on cots in emergency shelters or having the floodwater pumped out of their homes, people are just going to get into the habit of calling FEMA when they run out of sugar or need someone to feed the cat over the weekend.

  15. 15.

    dead existentialist

    October 31, 2012 at 12:17 am

    Rick Sanchez should self-deport to Assholandia.

  16. 16.

    Election Follower

    October 31, 2012 at 12:19 am

    MICHIGAN WITHIN MARGIN OF ERROR! MICHIGAN WITHIN TWO POINTS FOR ROMNEY!

    SHOCKING NEWS

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    October 31, 2012 at 12:20 am

    @Election Follower:

    MUST CREDIT DRUDGE! ! ! !

  18. 18.

    AT

    October 31, 2012 at 12:21 am

    If only my neighbours in New Orleans had shot the police I wouldn’t be dead besides a bridge

  19. 19.

    Spaghetti Lee

    October 31, 2012 at 12:23 am

    Right-wingers sure love their ‘culture-of-dependency’ bullshit. As if having your entire movement propped up by a cadre of sugar-daddy billionaires and objectivist freakazoids isn’t as ‘dependent’ as it gets. If it weren’t for Roger Ailes, half of Fox News would be unemployable.

  20. 20.

    Another Halocene Human

    October 31, 2012 at 12:23 am

    @AT: Close the thread.

  21. 21.

    SFAW

    October 31, 2012 at 12:23 am

    @Election Follower:

    Keep fucking that chicken, sweetums.

  22. 22.

    amk

    October 31, 2012 at 12:25 am

    @dead existentialist: he seems to have self-deported to foxistan already.

  23. 23.

    suzanne

    October 31, 2012 at 12:25 am

    @lisawill:

    I’m sure that our collective resources are much more useful than what I could do individually for my fellow americans in a disaster of this magnitude.

    This.
    Whenever my religious friends get on one of their government-is-tyranny tears, I love to remind them how we could abolish all those agencies and services if the church got off its ass and did its job.

  24. 24.

    Short Bus Bully

    October 31, 2012 at 12:26 am

    Kick his ass JC! You are my Twitter Warrior proxy, don’t let me down. ;)

  25. 25.

    Hill Dweller

    October 31, 2012 at 12:27 am

    That MI poll is from Glengariff Group, who make Gravis look credible. I’m betting they don’t release their cross tabs.

    This is another wingnut pollster trying to hide the stench coming off Willard’s campaign, and save down ticket races.

  26. 26.

    Redshift

    October 31, 2012 at 12:28 am

    You know why other relief efforts were more prominent during Andrew? Because FEMA screwed up, in part because Bush I (the one who wasn’t incompetent at everything) appointed a crony with no experience in disaster management to run it.

    Hiding behind Twitter is so wimpy. If only he’d gone to Florida and asked people if they wouldn’t rather go back to the Andrew-era FEMA so they wouldn’t become dependent! He probably would have been carried away by an angry mob and we’d never have to hear from him again.

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    October 31, 2012 at 12:29 am

    @lisawill

    It stems from the same bizarre, skewed mindset that Romney sports: disaster relief does not make a profit, thus is a drag on the economy and a waste of (government) resources.

  28. 28.

    Jeff Spender

    October 31, 2012 at 12:29 am

    @Hill Dweller:

    I live in Michigan. Right now I live in a part of Michigan that’s a lot like Alabama.

    But I can guarantee one thing: Michigan is not going to elect Mitt Romney.

    Bookmark it, EF.

  29. 29.

    piratedan

    October 31, 2012 at 12:29 am

    yes, by all means, because hurricanes are just like tornadoes which can capriciously jump from state to state, which is just like hopping over your house to destroy the one next to you…. or how I was absent from 7th grade social sciences when they taught us about the weather

  30. 30.

    Soonergrunt

    October 31, 2012 at 12:30 am

    So now Sanchez says, after several people have taken him to task, and he had to explain himself that he meant FEMA shouldn’t go away:

    Concretely, we shudn’t get to pt. where a neighbor w a pickup truck and a plow waits until he gets a check from FEMA to clear ur driveway.

    Leaving aside that a shithead like that isn’t going to get any support from his neighbors, FEMA isn’t going to hire Billy Bob with a snow plow on his Ford F250.

  31. 31.

    lamh35

    October 31, 2012 at 12:30 am

    ‏@Slate
    87 percent of registered Latino voters reported that they are likely to vote: http://slate.me/T1RwTU

  32. 32.

    dead existentialist

    October 31, 2012 at 12:31 am

    @amk: Oh, so that’s what the natives call it. Kinda like how Germans refer to their country as Deutschland.

  33. 33.

    ? Martin

    October 31, 2012 at 12:31 am

    @lisawill: The only reason these assholes are pining for days of neighbors helping neighbors is because their neighbors in their gated communities fucking hate them and will probably pull out beer and lawn chairs if Rick Sanchez’s house caught on fire.

  34. 34.

    Petorado

    October 31, 2012 at 12:32 am

    @lisawill: Exactly!

    “Neighbor helping neighbor” seems to be the new “states rights”: a seemingly innocuous statement that’s been weaponized by people who want to only help their own kind and dismiss others with a “you ain’t from around these parts, are you” retort.

  35. 35.

    Rafer Janders

    October 31, 2012 at 12:34 am

    Similarly, the US Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are vital, but we should guard against dependency — they shouldn’t replace neighbors helping neighbors to invade hostile lands, which after all is who we are as Americans.

  36. 36.

    dead existentialist

    October 31, 2012 at 12:37 am

    @Rafer Janders:

    neighbors helping neighbors to invade hostile lands

    You’re referring to the National Guard, amirite?

  37. 37.

    scav

    October 31, 2012 at 12:37 am

    well, I’m already getting my news from my neighbors here instead of developing a dependency on BIG MEDIA, so let’s strike a blow for freedom and eliminate Fux.

    (brought {brut?} to you by a shud shudder).

  38. 38.

    BGinCHI

    October 31, 2012 at 12:37 am

    Now neighborliness is the free market.

    OK, good to know.

    Fucking idiots.

  39. 39.

    cbear

    October 31, 2012 at 12:37 am

    @? Martin: …..and then call the police to report a suspicious-looking Mexican when he inspects the fire damage.

  40. 40.

    trollhattan

    October 31, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Note in passing: Nate Silver has Rmoney’s odds at 27% today. Something about that number….

  41. 41.

    YellowJournalism

    October 31, 2012 at 12:38 am

    @Soonergrunt: I think I despise him more for that hideous short version of “shouldn’t.”

  42. 42.

    Rafer Janders

    October 31, 2012 at 12:38 am

    @Soonergrunt:

    Concretely, we shudn’t get to pt. where a neighbor w a pickup truck and a plow waits until he gets a check from FEMA to clear ur driveway.

    I’m sorry, but is Sanchez saying that neighbor should do it for free? But that’s socialism!!!!

  43. 43.

    Jay C

    October 31, 2012 at 12:40 am

    I really have to wonder whether Rick Sanchez actually knows, personally, anybody at all who:

    1) was made homeless by Sandy
    2) suffered any personal injury or property damage by Sandy
    3) needed to call on FEMA for any reason whatever
    4) endured Superstorm Sandy from any other vantage point other than a safe distance – probably another state.

    My money would be on “not” for any combination of the above….

  44. 44.

    scav

    October 31, 2012 at 12:41 am

    @Rafer Janders:

    Concretely, we shudn’t get to pt. where a neighbor w a pickup truck and a plow waits until he gets a check from FEMA to clear ur driveway.

    Let alone the point where people wait until a campaign rally to contribute a can of SPAM.

  45. 45.

    trex

    October 31, 2012 at 12:42 am

    Health insurance is well and good, but it shouldn’t replace bake sales to help our struggling neighbors pay off tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills, which is who we are as Americans.

  46. 46.

    dead existentialist

    October 31, 2012 at 12:43 am

    @cbear: Zing!

  47. 47.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    October 31, 2012 at 12:43 am

    @YellowJournalism: Ha, the “shud” and “shudn’t” remind me of “Flowers for Algernon.” And better, of TBogg’s old Jonah Goldberg spoof based on it.

  48. 48.

    Redshift

    October 31, 2012 at 12:44 am

    @Soonergrunt:

    FEMA isn’t going to hire Billy Bob with a snow plow on his Ford F250.

    It takes some serious mental gymnastics to apply the “welfare makes people lazy” mentality to come up with “if government money is coming in, people who would normally help their neighbors for free will sit around waiting for a check.”

    I don’t have a link to the article handy, but this is rather reminiscent of the Romney campaign aide in a news article I read today, who in an effort to back down on Romney’s “privatize FEMA” stance, described how they think FEMA should be organized, having the state and local authorities with local knowledge be first responders, and the feds providing support, money, etc. They are apparently unaware (which the article explicitly noted) that this is already the way FEMA functions.

    Conservatives are always conducting glorious battles against the straw man government programs that exist in their heads. In the uncommon situation where the real government program is highly visible, it always makes them look like clowns.

  49. 49.

    Some Loser

    October 31, 2012 at 12:45 am

    Life is depressing. Politics sucks. On days like these, I know there is only one truth: God fucked up when he created the Universe. Bad move on his part. He should’ve known better.

  50. 50.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    October 31, 2012 at 12:45 am

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    As if having your entire movement propped up by a cadre of sugar-daddy billionaires and objectivist freakazoids isn’t as ‘dependent’ as it gets.

    That’s a really good observation.

  51. 51.

    amk

    October 31, 2012 at 12:46 am

    @trollhattan: Nope, it’s 77.4 to 22.6. +9.3 to that kenyan ebil soshalist.

  52. 52.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    October 31, 2012 at 12:46 am

    @Xecky Gilchrist: …which doesn’t have “shud” in it like I remembered, but that is central to my point: Flowers for Goldberg

  53. 53.

    amk

    October 31, 2012 at 12:48 am

    @? Martin: Yup. Shouldn’t the fucker have asked his naybors that before he twitted himself ?

  54. 54.

    gwangung

    October 31, 2012 at 12:49 am

    It takes some serious mental gymnastics to apply the “welfare makes people lazy” mentality to come up with “if government money is coming in, people who would normally help their neighbors for free will sit around waiting for a check.”

    Particularly since the neighbors will almost certainly be IN THE EXACT SAME STATE.

    How does “neighbor helping neighbor” actually work in that circumstance???

  55. 55.

    Chris T.

    October 31, 2012 at 12:50 am

    @Spaghetti Lee: Again, it goes back to the essential Republican trait of projection….

  56. 56.

    Frankensteinbeck

    October 31, 2012 at 12:52 am

    @Petorado:
    Well said. It appeals to three types of thought, none of which are admirable: ‘I resent paying any money to help other people.’, ‘I don’t want outsiders interfering in my inbred, conformist, highly religious local community.’ and ‘Obama likes it? Then I hate it.’

  57. 57.

    Ken_L

    October 31, 2012 at 12:52 am

    It’s vital but you shouldn’t depend on it? Dude it can be the one thing or the other thing but surely even a Fox News moron can see that an undependable vital service is not really a good idea.

    BTW down here in Australia neighbours help neighbours too … also in other countries, so I’ve observed. I guess we are all Americans now.

  58. 58.

    trex

    October 31, 2012 at 12:55 am

    @gwangung:

    “Particularly since the neighbors will almost certainly be IN THE EXACT SAME STATE. How does “neighbor helping neighbor” actually work in that circumstance???”

    It goes like this: you have a bucket and Sally has some water and I have a freeze ray – and together we can make ice!

  59. 59.

    pseudonymous in nc

    October 31, 2012 at 12:56 am

    @amk:

    Nope, it’s 77.4 to 22.6. +9.3 to that kenyan ebil soshalist.

    Nate just posted the new run half an hour ago, so not fair. The two MI polls that came out yesterday are from orgs with very odd past results this cycle.

  60. 60.

    FlipYrWhig

    October 31, 2012 at 12:58 am

    Why prop up a culture of dependency? Instead of paying taxes for a police force to investigate crimes, like some soçialist society might do, use individual initiative to organize a posse or a lynch mob! You know, neighbors helping neighbors!

  61. 61.

    amk

    October 31, 2012 at 1:01 am

    @pseudonymous in nc: That feminine fucker.

  62. 62.

    YellowJournalism

    October 31, 2012 at 1:05 am

    @Xecky Gilchrist: And isn’t it sad that, even at his lowest point, poor Charlie had more common sense and empathy.

  63. 63.

    asiangrrlMN

    October 31, 2012 at 1:07 am

    You know, I could use some of that wingnut money. I am seriously considering switching sides so I can get on the Fox dole. Added bonus – I wouldn’t have to use my brain at all!

  64. 64.

    Hill Dweller

    October 31, 2012 at 1:09 am

    The new NYT/Quinnipiac poll coming out in the morning has Obama up 5 in OH. FL and VA “essentially tied”.

  65. 65.

    Tripod

    October 31, 2012 at 1:09 am

    All you need to know about the state of the race- RMoney is campaigning in Florida tomorrow.

  66. 66.

    Yutsano

    October 31, 2012 at 1:19 am

    @YellowJournalism: Will no one think of the shan’ts?

  67. 67.

    Rafer Janders

    October 31, 2012 at 1:22 am

    neighbors helping neighbors, which is who we are as americans.

    Yeah, because Canadians and Mexicans would just let their neighbors die….

  68. 68.

    Rafer Janders

    October 31, 2012 at 1:24 am

    The police and courts are vital, but we should guard against dependency — they shouldn’t replace vigilante mob justice, which after all is who we are as Americans.

  69. 69.

    cmorenc

    October 31, 2012 at 1:27 am

    @Some Loser:

    Life is depressing. Politics sucks. On days like these, I know there is only one truth: God fucked up when he created the Universe. Bad move on his part. He should’ve known better.

    There’s innumerable variations of planets scattered throughout the universe which have developed intelligent life forms, which God conveniently arranged to be scattered in extremely sparse fashion at forbiddingly remote distances from each other, so that the instances where the life forms fucked up each other and their home planet couldn’t also reach and contaminate the ones which were more successful. We’re probably a tiny part of a vast cosmological experiment by God in creating intelligent life forms over vast spans of time, and it’s an open question whether our current status is viewed by God as a probable success or else a usefully interesting but probably doomed to fail instance of intelligent life.

  70. 70.

    Mister Papercut

    October 31, 2012 at 2:02 am

    Good Lord, the sentiment is deeply and abidingly stupid enough, but the needless Twitterese is about to make me go full Jules-from-Pulp Fiction: “SAY ‘SHUD’ AGAIN!”

  71. 71.

    yopd1

    October 31, 2012 at 2:11 am

    I’d say Brit Hume was a close second, maybe even first for his genius.

    The big federal government some say is needed to deal with big problems like Sandy went home early in DC yesterday & is mostly closed today.

  72. 72.

    Narcissus

    October 31, 2012 at 2:17 am

    What sort of fucking driveway do you have that you need a truck with a snowplow to clear it

    I bet his driveway is like a hundred yards long

    Probably can’t even see the road, let alone his neighbors

  73. 73.

    slag

    October 31, 2012 at 2:27 am

    find it so depressing that an alleged journalist would even try to equivocate the two

    I suspect “equate” might be the word you are looking for.

  74. 74.

    slightly_peeved

    October 31, 2012 at 3:00 am

    @Narcissus:

    And I think the people who FEMA are really there to help have bigger problems than a heap of crap on their driveway.

  75. 75.

    B..Lehmann

    October 31, 2012 at 3:11 am

    My family had a beach house at Breezy Point. I was very young but I have such vivid and good memories of that place. It has been thirty years since I visited and I have hoped to return.

    My Grandma had five chihuahuas, a border collie and a fox terrier. She would pick me up from nursery school in Jackson Heights in her Cadillac Convertible and drive to to the beach house.

    I inherited my love of dogs from her. The destruction of Breezy Point is the landscape of my childhood. It is such a beautiful neighborhood.

  76. 76.

    halfcynic

    October 31, 2012 at 4:14 am

    @Xecky Gilchrist: Yep, the new normal. Storms from here on out will likely just keep getting freakier and more destructive. Kind of like Republicans.

  77. 77.

    fuckwit

    October 31, 2012 at 5:17 am

    OK, Sanchez, you dog-fucking whore:

    In a democracy, the government IS NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS.

    Sweet fucking christ, how stupid can you possibly be not to get this.

    In a democracy, WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. It’s not different from us, or separate from us, or oppressing us. We’re it.

  78. 78.

    buckyblue

    October 31, 2012 at 5:45 am

    @Arm The Homeless: No, we sent the beer. Who wants rice when you can have beer.

  79. 79.

    prufrock

    October 31, 2012 at 6:07 am

    @Arm The Homeless:

    I remember half my battalion (8th Engineer Support Battalion) deploying to Homestead for hurricane relief after Andrew. Hope the folks down there didn’t become dependent on the USMC.

  80. 80.

    Citizen_X

    October 31, 2012 at 6:29 am

    Mock Sanchez all you want, but I clearly heard him invite anybody made homeless by Sandy to stay at his house, amirite?

    Or at least, that’s what people shud do.

  81. 81.

    different-church-lady

    October 31, 2012 at 7:01 am

    My god John, that retort overfloweth with win.

  82. 82.

    Unsympathetic

    October 31, 2012 at 7:23 am

    John, also: Romney implied that FEMA was 100% federally funded, which it is not. FEMA is funded 25% by the state receiving the aid, and 75% from DC.

  83. 83.

    Paul

    October 31, 2012 at 8:06 am

    Here’s a thought: if a huge storm like Sandy hits, we can do more than any other country in responding to it. If we want to.

    The problem is that people like Sanchez/tea baggers do not want us to. They instead want either the state or private business or in Sanchez case individual neighbors to step up. And with that approach, we would be as powerful as perhaps Uganda in responding to a big storm.

  84. 84.

    RedKitten

    October 31, 2012 at 8:18 am

    What an utter douchenozzle. Even the most self-reliant manly man is not going to have the gear or the experience to deal with a disaster of this magnitude. A bad snowfall, sure. Some downed limbs blocking your driveway? No problem.

    Your entire fucking community underwater? Um…

  85. 85.

    RedKitten

    October 31, 2012 at 8:19 am

    BTW: Has Punchy been around at all lately? I think he owes people a bit of an apology for his non-stop mockery of how worried people were about Sandy. Turns out those milquetoast New Englanders had a damned good reason to worry, huh?

  86. 86.

    bg

    October 31, 2012 at 8:50 am

    Rick Sanchez and his family got plenty of help from the federal government when they came here from Cuba. Apparently it is good for them but not good for anyone else? He seems to have forgotten that after Andrew it was the Army, Marines & National Guard who saved our asses down here and I can’t begin to tell you how glad we were to see them. sure, our neighbors (from across town) who had electricity brought us ice and let us do our laundry, but the rescue and cleanup job was too big for individual efforts — it really needed the federal government; our local government was pretty much overwhelmed.
    Sanchez was not a good neighbor to the victim of his hit and run drunk driving accident, either. Left the guy lying there, quadriplegic, died 5 years later at the age of 36.
    No surprise this selfish asshole wound up on Fox.

  87. 87.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 31, 2012 at 8:51 am

    @lisawill: Great point.

    I used to like Sanchez when he was on CNN. Didn’t know he was such a jerk. He’d fit in well with Fox News, but I’m not sure they would take him given the anti-Semitic comments that got him fired from CNN.

  88. 88.

    NonyNony

    October 31, 2012 at 9:12 am

    @Some Loser:

    Life is depressing. Politics sucks. On days like these, I know there is only one truth: God fucked up when he created the Universe. Bad move on his part. He should’ve known better.

    I prefer Douglas Adams’s rendition:

    The story so far:
    “In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” — Douglas Adams, “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”

  89. 89.

    Gracie

    October 31, 2012 at 9:50 am

    Awesome John. It had to be said and you said it well.

  90. 90.

    Gus

    October 31, 2012 at 11:40 am

    Cheez, it’s Rick Sanchez. He has shown himself to be really, really stupid on multiple occasions. Not worth crying yourself to sleep over.

  91. 91.

    JustRuss

    October 31, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    Well played, Se& ntilde;or Cole.

  92. 92.

    Don

    October 31, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    I was so disappointed when I heard CNN hired that backwater clown who I’d had the misfortune to see on local Miami news so long ago. In a just universe he’d have gone to jail for his drunken driving shenanigans and never been on TV again.

  93. 93.

    bootsy

    October 31, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    If it’s a Legitimate ‘Cane, the red-blooded American has a way of shutting that whole thing down.

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