Not sure if you all bothered to watch Woodward on Hannity, but what happened there tonight was the journalistic equivalent of “Two Guys One Cup.” If Brent Bozell had any consistency, he’d be demanding the FCC fine Fox news for showing fellatio during primetime tv.
Oh, never mind. I see everyone else on the blog watched, too.
And yes, I am kidding.
eric
if one more FPer posts on this interview, you are going to regret it.
the Conster
All those drone strikes wasted in Af/Pak.
Bob
Jesus wept.
MikeBoyScout
LOL
Spaghetti Lee
I’m rewatching the Lord of the Rings. Just finished the scene where Grima gets thrown out of Rohan. Hmm….parallels?
General Stuck
Follow the funny
eric
@Bob: dude, Pilate is on Hannity tomorrow night….get it straight.
BGinCHI
I thought the Front Pagers all lived in the same house like on one of those MTV shows. No?
Well, now everything makes sense.
eric
@BGinCHI: which one has the drinking problem, which one is denying his gayness, and which one is sleeping with the skank?
MoeLarryAndJesus
It was more like synchronized felching.
IowaOldLady
@Spaghetti Lee:
I just this minute finished watching the extended edition of FOTR with the commentary from Jackson and the writers. It must be in the air.
Joseph F
The fact that Woodward reduced himself to appear on Hannity speaks volumes about the whole situation. One, there were no other outlets willing to allow Woodward to continue pushing his facile stupidity and two the enormous vanity of Woodward would not even prevent him from participating on the Sham Show, even though Bob has to know the credibility hit he would take by appearing on that program.
I dont feel sorry for Bob Woodward, but even he must be feeling totally irrelevant that noone would take his call but Sean Hannity. Sticking his finger up his own anus on live TV would have represented greater dignity than appearing on the Sean Hannity show; Bob knows this and STILL went forward.
It really is sad to see what narcissism can reduce people to
RobertDSC-eMac 1.25
@the Conster:
This. So fucking much.
Fuck the GOP.
BGinCHI
@eric: I think it’s obvious who has all three of those nailed down.
Bob
@eric: You’re telling me to “get it straight” after a post on M2M fellatio? Heh, indeed.
Johnnybuck
Well, damn Rachel just used the helicopter photo-op to tie pope ratz to tricky Dick.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
anybody else watching Rachel? How into her cheek was her tongue when she said that line about the old Pope still “getting his secretary at night”, while the handsome Father Georg continues to work as secretary to the new Pope during the day?
Spaghetti Lee
@BGinCHI:
Yeah, that Tom Levenson, what a hot mess.
Hal
I find Hannity difficult to look at and almost impossible to listen to for more than a few minutes, so I’ll pass.
amk
Paging AL. You don’t know whatchermissing.
Redshirt
LOUD NOISES!!!
Suffern ACE
@Joseph F: well let’s see. In the past 48 hours he’s been on msnbc, CNN and Fox News and was on mtp on Sunday. Yeah. He’s going to be out of our lives. There’s only CNBC, and two networks, before he’s reduced to regular appearances on RNN. Like how long did it take to get Buchanan (aka Uncle Pat) moved to obscure talk radio.
BGinCHI
@Spaghetti Lee: Absolutely.
And what’s with Cole pretending to have a new cat? It’s obviously a metaphor, right?
gogol's wife
I still don’t know what all this Woodward stuff is (local planning and zoning has me obsessed, and just watched The Graduate on TCM), but it does lead to funny threads. I guess it’s the new platinum coin.
arguingwithsignposts
I could so do a spoof of the front page of this blog, with a comment section to go with it. The most meta of meta.
BGinCHI
@Suffern ACE: Um, 40 years?
The fucked-up thing about Buchanan is that right now he’s mainstream in the GOP. They finally swung over to him.
Suffern ACE
@arguingwithsignposts: I wish I knew how to search this thing, but I believe we did that a few months ago with an 300 post thread on nothing.
BGinCHI
Catching up on Maddow’s report on the Pope.
He looks like Liberace in drag.
BGinCHI
@Suffern ACE: We did.
I want a thread calling for non sequiturs.
Anyone else secretly attracted to Barbara Stanwyk even when she was in The Big Valley?
gogol's wife
@BGinCHI:
I adore Barbara Stanwyck in anything, anything, anything. Check her out in anything pre-code. But she’s most beautiful of all in Ball of Fire.
I realize this was just supposed to be a silly non sequitur, but I can’t resist singing Missy’s praises.
Bob
@BGinCHI:
???
Hill Dweller
Woodward thinks the media should ask Obama about Bill Ayers(Think Progress):
arguingwithsignposts
@Suffern ACE: I remember the thread. Very funny. I was thinking of a whole front page mock-up, though. A project for a rainy day, perhaps.
Has the site reboot happened already and I missed it?
eric
@gogol’s wife: there was a stanwyck thread not long ago addessing the best viewing options
Suffern ACE
@arguingwithsignposts: yep. Found it. https://balloon-juice.com/2012/10/03/snarky-post-title-that-some-will-laugh-at-but-will-offend-others/
Randy P
@BGinCHI: YES!!!
The Big Valley aired in afternoons when we were kids. I loved that show. And I didn’t know Barbara Stanwyck from a hole in the ground before seeing her in that.
“Double Indemnity” was probably the second thing I saw her in.
Redshirt
@Hill Dweller: Wow. I also heard Woodward’s got a lead on Obama’s secret smoking habit – how many butts a day, how many drags. He’s even changed brands – which one? Tune in at 10 to find out!
gogol's wife
@eric:
How the heck did I miss that?
Bruce s
I thought this was a joke – but given Woodward’s career trajectory and lack of self-awareness, it was probably inevitable. I can’t stand this douche – also if you listen to him on teevee it’s apparent he’s a dumb fuck.
gogol's wife
@Randy P:
Early in our marriage, my husband said, “I think Barbara Stanwyck made some movies before she was in The Big Valley.” I just looked at him in stunned disbelief before I whispered, “Yeah, about 150.”
Bruce s
I thought this was a joke – but given Woodward’s career trajectory and lack of self-awareness, it was probably inevitable. I can’t stand this douche – also if you listen to him on teevee it’s apparent he’s a dumb f*ck
BGinCHI
@Randy P: I loved that show. The only way it could have been better was if Steve McQueen had been in it.
eric
@gogol’s wife: it was an open thread and i thought it was you talking about the pre-code pics becase that phrase rang a bell…
gogol's wife
@eric:
Maybe a long time ago? I don’t remember it lately. Mnemosyne is the real expert on pre-code movies.
gogol's wife
@BGinCHI:
So what’s Lee Majors, chopped liver?
Suffern ACE
@Hill Dweller: really. Again with the notion that he’s being censored…that there are bleep out buttons. Someone should take up his cause. Ask the other tv shows he’s been on since last year about their censorship of this great man.
Anya
During this “interview” did Hannity call the president “the anoited one”? Did he talked about his favorite obsessions, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Benghazi and other Obama conspiracies?
I am really interested to know about how low did Woodward go?
eric
@gogol’s wife: my brain is so fried from work, i remember things in pieces…but not think it long ago
Steeplejack
@BGinCHI:
A classic beauty. Stanwyck was a Ziegfeld girl back in the day. (Mildly NSFW; photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston.)
beltane
Wow. At this rate Bob Woodward’s best hope will be to get his own reality show on the Discovery Channel, something like “Bob Woodward’s Alaska” perhaps.
Tom Levenson
@Spaghetti Lee: @BGinCHI:
Mrs. Levenson didn’t raise a son stupid enough to rise to that bait.
Nor to post on the homunculus formally known as Bob Woodward.
Wag
Might as well post this bit of Python here Hitler in England
beltane
Who will be the next odious Villager driven to display the unmistakable signs of raving insanity by our beloved Kenyan Muslimfascist president?
Yutsano
@Tom Levenson: We really need to talk about the Blenderella obsession then Tom…
Steeplejack
@gogol’s wife:
Some Stanwyckiana in this thread from December. Most recent I can remember.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Hill Dweller: He’ll be at CPAC this time next year.
I think I discovered Barbara Stanwyck as I was getting in to old movies with Double Indemnity, and there was the dad from My Three Sons as a villain. Who knew? I think my favorite Stanwyck movie is The Lady Eve. I love Preston Sturges, and in that he has two of my favorite character actor from the big studios. I can’t think of their names, but Stanwyck’s father, and most especially Jimmy Stewart’s. That first scene of his where he comes down the stairs singing, and then tries to get breakfast on the porch is one of my favorite comedy scenes.
Also, too, Uncle Charlie, so six degrees of Stanwyck, or something.
Tom Levenson
@Yutsano: Hey! I’ve been good! I’m somewhere past four or so on the 12 stepper!
kindness
One of the things I appreciated over the whole la affair Woodward is that most of the rightwingers wrote Woodward off today. Not watching Fox to see the hold outs.
beltane
If Bob Woodward wasn’t a RW nutcase he would be regretting the past 48 hours.
dance around in your bones
@gogol’s wife: Oh gawd, I missed The Graduate on TCM??! Mrs. Robinson!
Just becuz I am wasting time on BJ reading 3 posts about the same fucking bullshit Woodward dude. On Hannity, no less.
Another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE1dz6_u2JI since I am in moderation for no apparent reason.
Yutsano
@Tom Levenson: Uh-huh. I’ve seen you flirting with going down that path. Then you take the diversion into BoBo bashing, which I always consider a worthy endeavour. It’s not as much fun now that she’s on a platform slowly twisting the drain.
catclub
Why no love here for the Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover.
I thought ABL would be all over that.
arguingwithsignposts
@Yutsano:
If a hack libertarian miscalculates in the Pink Himalayan Mountains and nobody’s there to read her, does her math still suck?
To each his/her own, but kicking McMegan will always be fun, even when she’s down. If only Bobo would join her in the failboat.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Getting back to Woodward, I seem to remember one of the central tenets of old school, shoe-leather journalism that I’m sure Booby thinks he practices is that the reporter should never become part of the story? And has anyone just simply called Woodward a liar?
gwangung
All this is first world journalism problems. Reporters in the 3rd world get face with some REAL intimidation–you know, bodily harm and death? Worst Woodward aces is being an angry pissed off old man in retirement.
Maude
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Woodward is a Star and don’t you ferget it.
beltane
@gwangung: Woodward’s defenders were claiming that Obama is just like Putin in the way he threatens journalists. These were, of course, the same people who like to complain that Obama is just like Hitler/Stalin/Mao so their knowledge of the world beyond their basements is somewhat limited.
Suffern ACE
@gwangung: read the email. It is clear that sperling raised his voice! This is exactly like the Maguindanao massacre.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Maude: and many Very Serious and Important People have known Bob Woodard for thirty, even forty years!
jamick6000
Oh how the tables have turned, Owe-bama and the LIEberal media are trying to destroy Bob Woodwerth’s credibility before he can complete his investigation of the Fast and the Furious program, this would certainly result in Obama’s impeachment.
He has brought down one administration, he could bring down these Chicago thugs with ease.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE, THESE SMEARS ARE A CLASSIC FALSE FLAG OPERATION.
JWL
I won’t watch FOX, but know the story. Wodoward’s is truly an epic crash and burn.
Felonius Monk
Looked to me like a classic “69”!
Punchy
Im at a Yonder Mountain show. Band is just tits live. If I could finger as good as the banjoist, I’d have a number of girlfriends.
P + 4
Ash Can
@jamick6000: Lulz! Throw a lIttle Benghazi, teh gayz, and shariah law Into that hot mess and you’re ready for the right-wing blogs.
arguingwithsignposts
Since we’ve beat this topic to death, anyone seen the new Adidas college basketball unis? Hideous.
beltane
@arguingwithsignposts: I don’t know. Looks kind of like The Wiggles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiggles
danielx
Love the commentary from Pierce’s followers…
Wag
@jamick6000:
Snark or troll?
MattR
@Wag: Yes.
Punchy
@Wag: snark. Too over-the-top with the caps and vitriol
danielx
@Punchy:
Don’t be too sure, from what I’ve seen those people don’t have a real firm grasp on the whole over-the-top concept.
LesGS
@BGinCHI: Lee was a pretty nice guy, as well as a snappy dresser. Don’t know about this Ratzy fella.
dance around in your bones
Ok, whoever linked to this BJ post is just killing me (from 2012 , for those who are not interested in old posts).
I have too many BJ tabs open to find original commenter but waiting with bated breath to see if I showed up in that thread.
P.S. Thanks, Soonergrunt, originator of said post :)
jamick6000
@Ash Can:
you forgot “a shitload of pain, to huff.”
xian
@Hal: He reminds me of “Dig ‘um” the Sugar Smacks bullfrog mascot.
xian
@Hill Dweller: next we’ll hear Woodward is a closet birther
Omnes Omnibus
@eric: Um, all of them.
jamick6000
re this woodward stuff — It’s revealing that the psychodramas of famous dullards have the power to transfix Washington, but no one there pays any attention to the millions of people who’ve been out of work for years.
xian
@Punchy: they do marvelous “Crazy Train” and “Only a Northern Song” covers
danielx
At the moment I’m truly missing the late and lamented website Media Whores Online. Motto: “We set out to bring the media to their knees, but found out that they were already there.”
Seanindc
goodnight internets…
In the great green room
there was a telephone
and a green balloon(s)
and a picture of…
The cow jumping over the moon
lojasmo
@Hal:
I had to stop the Keith Eillison interview.
Hannity is shameless.
“registered conservate”?
WTF/
Punchy
@xian: they just did a Beatles cover. Jeff Austin went to my HS. Amazing how HS introverts become great stage musicians….
gwangung
@beltane:
As someone with relatives in the PRC during the Cultural Revolution, I am….less than impressed.
#1stworldjournalismproblems.
AnotherBruce
@MoeLarryAndJesus: Was that the sport that replaced wrestling for the 2020 Olympics?
dance around in your bones
Ok, somehow my Woodstock DVR thingamabob didn’t work. I listen & watch Palladium all the time, but pinche DirectTV tells me “You are not subscribed to this channel” WTF?
So I am listening to The Last Waltz on YouTube instead. FYDirectTV.
Villago Delenda Est
@jamick6000:
Well, who ever gives a rat’s ass about the peasants until they arrive with pitchforks and tumbrels?
AnotherBruce
@BGinCHI: What does Liberace look like when he’s not in drag?
karen marie
@Steeplejack:
Barbara Stanwyck was a fan of Ayn Rand.
eemom
It’s been a very long week with about 10 hours of sleep so I’m not entirely sure about this — are there really THREE posts about fucking Hannity interviewing fucking Woodward?
Gimme a Paypal link where I can donate to this blog getting a life, plz. kthxbai.
gwangung
@eemom: I dunno, I think I’m getting my money’s worth watching the reactions to the FPers tripping all over themselves…
Steeplejack
@karen marie:
OMG. Let me hustle down to the vault and burn all her films.
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: Eww. Just…eww. Talk about Fighting Fashion Atrocities. Even the models are wincing.
TS
@arguingwithsignposts:
Some have obviously lost the right to bare arms.
Violet
@Maude:
Of course he is. He was played by Robert Redford in a movie. He’s never forgot that for a minute and you better not forget it either.
Amir Khalid
Right now, Bob Woodward is being mocked by his own co-worker at the Washington Post. So far, this has been a storm in a teacup. But Woodward’s identified with the Post’s biggest journalistic feat, he’s very senior, and as Post employees go he draws a very big salary; and he’s just gone and made a fool of himself in public. I could understand if the Post’s management isn’t really on his side in this. In fact, I wonder how much longer he’ll stay at the Post.
karen marie
@Steeplejack: You’re kidding, I hope. The movies are still good.
BGinCHI
@AnotherBruce: Barbara Streisand.
Mark S.
@Amir Khalid:
I see a move to Newsmax.
gwangung
@Yutsano: Gawd. THey’re determined to outdo Nike in the eye-puke arena….
Yutsano
@gwangung: That is just…I don’t even have the words.
Mandalay
@Amir Khalid:
Sounds to me like you are threatening Bob. I am notifying Sean Hannity.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Mark S.: More likely the Huffington Post, I think.
dance around in your bones
@eemom: Cripes, I know.
I love this place but THREE posts about Woodward and fucking Hannity? A break, give me!
Fucking Hannity isn’t worth a fly’s fart.
SatanicPanic
@Amir Khalid: Alexandra Petri! Not quite as good as that one time she caught DougJ trying to troll her
mouse tolliver
@Hill Dweller: The real telling part of this is that Woodward vouched for Hannity’s credibility as a journalist during that interview.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Joseph F: “Sticking his finger up his own anus on live TV would have represented greater dignity than appearing on the Sean Hannity show”
Oh, yeah, totes a no brainer. Hell, being offered a dab of lube would just be the gravy on top. Er, bottom. Wait, why again am I still up?
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
@Joseph F: “Sticking his finger up his own [bum] on live TV would have represented greater dignity than appearing on the Sean Hannity show”
Oh, yeah, totes a no brainer. Hell, being offered a dab of lube would just be the gravy on top. Er, bottom. Wait, why again am I still up?