God help me I’m watching Hannity.
Woodward is walking back the “threat” quote – “I’m not using that kind of language.”
The Obama Administration “got caught” as the “father of the sequester”. He’s repeating the obvious point that the sequester is stupid – of course it’s stupid, that’s the fucking point. “It’s an old trick – make the conduct of the press the issue.”
I wonder how Woodward feels when a moron blowhard like Hannity commiserates with him about being a victim of the “liberal media”, i.e., Woodward’s employer and his peers.
Woodward isn’t here for himself, he’s here for the younger reporters who are getting “roughed up”. Daddy will make it all better.
Later on Hannity – just how black is Keith Ellison?
After Hannity gave Bob’s wrinkled old anus a careful tongue bath (“you don’t look a day over 50”), Bob is now validating Hannity’s journalistic credentials.
Well, that was mercifully brief. Now for some time with Ann Coulter, and did you know Keith Ellison is black and a Muslim?
Xboxershorts
You’re a better man than I.
Is Woodward trying to save face?
Suffern ACE
Yes. Let me know how it goes. Bob Woodward so rarely gives interviews and makes public appearances these days. He’s become so media shy. I hope he’s not suffering from an illness.
gbear
You’ll never get this hour back. Thanks for taking one for the team.
Baud
I hope Hannity gets Woodward to apologize for the whole Watergate thing.
Suffern ACE
Yeah. Sod off Doug J. The real commenting is going down on this thread. You’re going to regret staking that position above this one.
ChrisNYC
Gotta love Bob freaking Woodward holding forth about what “the people outside of Washington” think. Tremble tremble indeed.
dance around in your bones
I cannot imagine ever watching Hannity. Even the few seconds I see of him on Tweety or Rev. Al makes me nauseous.
I salute you, brother! Also, couldn’t care less what Woodward is walking back or not. It was a stupid manufactured ‘crisis’.
eta: Besides, tonight I am going to watch Woodstock (director’s cut) on DVR so Woodstock! over Woodward! Hahahaha!
Cacti
I also enjoy how the baggers assume that Woodward is some left wing icon, as if most us didn’t notice his role as court historian for the Dubya administration.
Ted & Hellen
Are mistermix and DougJ the same poster?
Chris
@dance around in your bones:
As with most of these public apologies, I question the value of an apology or “walking back” that’s only offered after enough of the public demands it from you, or invites it by laughing at how ridiculous you are.
And most of those apologies end up just saying “I am sorry that you people took offense.”
JPL
Did Hannity show him a doll and ask him to show where he was hurt?
kc
“the coded ‘you better watch out'”
Aw, no. He’s doubling down!
MikeJ
I don’t recall who said it, but a commenter at this very blog predicted that this morning. Somebody should take a bow.
More interesting than Woodward? A new track from the ‘Mats. They rock like murder.
dance around in your bones
@Chris:
Quoted for truth. Not that I give a flying fart. Just such a stupid nontroversy.
Anya
Young reporters like, his former research assistant (which means he basically did all the work) Jeff Himmelman Woodward, whom Woodward tied to bully and silence.
Redshirt
By not explicitly threatening Woodward, Obama is clearly biding his time until he does.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Shameful but not really surprising at this point. He and his world are fading, and he knows it
I was actually surprised to look him up and see he’s only seventy, he seems older, to me.
raven
@dance around in your bones: No Rain No Rain.
Also too, Alvin Lee kills it. Have you ever seen this Cavett with the Airplane and Crosby and Still the day after? They still have the mud on their boots!
And Joni
dance around in your bones
@MikeJ:
hey, thanks for the musical interlude – much more interesting than Woodward.
Scary fucking picture, though.
raven
This is better, it has all 5 parts.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@dance around in your bones:
I watched pieces and parts earlier and decided I need to get the Blu-ray for the really good sound.
Unexpected/forgotten bits that I had to watch: Richie Havens, “Freedom/Motherless Child,” CSN audio of “Find the Cost of Freedom” at the end over a crawl of deceased Woodstockers.
Suffern ACE
@kc: “you better watch out?” Really?
Anya
Bob Woodward should be ashamed of himself for minimizing the real intimidation, silencing and bullying reporters face on a daily basis in many parts of the world. He’s a contemptible douchebag who should DIAF.
kc
@Redshirt:
Yes. Not threatening someone is tantamount to a threat to threaten him later. It’s the worst kind of threat.
raven
@Steeplejack (tablet): The Blu Ray of The Last Waltz is outstanding as is Quadrophenia.
dance around in your bones
@raven:
I saw it back in the day, but fun to see it again – especially before watching Woodstock (once the gawdamn kids go the fuck to sleep).
eta:I was basically apolitical back then except for being totally against the Vietnam War because so many guys I knew were being sucked into the bloody maw. In spite of that I marched in many antiwar protests and even in that one where we marched all around the White House with candles and shit.
Baud
@kc:
If Obama ever tells you to have a nice day, run!
Chris
@dance around in your bones:
I shouldn’t give a flying fart, all things being equal, except insofar as it’s yet another example of the media wasting everyone’s time on a complete nontroversy (in this case, manufacturing one out of thin air). We could be getting news about some shit that actually matters, but no, instead we’re going to hear about this delicate little flower’s personal issues.
raven
@dance around in your bones: I was out of the country and came home three weeks later but I did get to go to this bad puppy in November:
1969 Palm Beach Pop Festival
“This festival was one the most important ROCK FESTIVALS of the summer of ’69. It was the only festival appearance of The Rolling Stones, who were the closing act. This festival featured the Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter and Vanilla Fudge Jam. It also had the majority of the rock bands that played at Woodstock, including the first band to perform there, Sweetwater. This festival almost never happened; the combination of government opposition and extremely bad weather conditions was almost overwhelming.
All of this has been provided by Palm Beach International Raceway. We hope to see you out there,”
raven
@dance around in your bones: Don’t sound apolitical to me. Axe Little Feat
Apolitical Blues
I just don’t wanna talk
I just don’t wanna talk
I just don’t wanna talk
Bout it nowwwww.
kc
@ChrisNYC:
I have unfond memories of Tim Russert explaining what “the American people” really want.
Johnnybuck
@MikeJ: Man, they sound great!
rikyrah
Keith Ellison stomped Hannity’s azz on live tv. it was a thing of beauty
SatanicPanic
@Baud: If he doesn’t that means the drone has already found you
dance around in your bones
@Steeplejack (tablet): I remember the Richie Havens thing. That’s when he had no front teeth, right? Great song. But then, most of the songs were great.
@Chris: Well, of course, you are right again. The media making a big fuss out of nada.
@raven: Oh, Little Feat, man! Loved them then, love them now.
And I believe I have run out of links for this comment :)
dance around in your bones
@raven:
Hawt damn, that was good.
Off to watch the 1969 Palm Beach Festival thing now since the gawdamn kids are still in my room playing on their iPads and not fucking asleep.
Ok, it’s still only 7pm here on the communist coast.
dance around in your bones
@raven: Ok, this is hysterical.
“Sheriff warns of hard narcotics and addicts!”
“We expect an uncontrolled orgy!”
ROFL.
Steeplejack
@raven:
Good call on The Last Waltz. I never really got into Quadrophenia.
Steeplejack
@MikeJ:
Excellent! And an unexpected cover.
Shortstop
@Suffern ACE: funniest thing said in a week full of hilarious threads.
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack: Dunno if it’s on the DVD/BD, but I saw Last Waltz at the Zeigfeld Theater in NYC when the movie first came out, and there’s an instruction screen that goes up first, which says “This movie should be played loud“
Mike in NC
On the scale of wingnut scumbags, Hannity probably ranks slightly above Limbaugh and just below Savage.
dance around in your bones
@Gin & Tonic: Hahahaa! I agree!
So many great artists in The Last Waltz – though as an impressionable young grrrl I found Robbie Robertson rather….ummmm….hawt. I know he has come in for some criticism for his prominent role in the movie but…..:::fans self again:::
Whew!
Gin & Tonic
@dance around in your bones: Well the whole Robbie Robertson situation was, um, complicated. And as a straight dude I guess I wasn’t paying attention to the same things as you.
I still have the whole show (audio) on my iPod. It’s probably never coming off.
dance around in your bones
@Gin & Tonic: Yeah – complicated. But, Robbie!
Ok, kids are now finally going to hit the sack, so I might get to watch Woodstock!
However, just noticed The Last Waltz full album is on YouTube, so may have to keep that tab open in case I don’t get enough of a fix from Woodstock.
Prolly will get moderated for this, too.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@raven: Thanks for that. Cavett had some great shows with the San Francisco bands.
xian
@kc: that’s also Boehner’s tic, to blithely assert that “The American people” want or don’t want or agree that Washington has a spending problem or otherwise mouth GOP talking points, and fuck him sideways with a rusty rake for speaking an unending string of lies in our name.
xian
@Gin & Tonic: my favorite part of the movie is the “traveling booger matte” they had to apply frame-by-frame to cover the huge chunk of cocaine in Neil Young’s nostril.
fuckwit
As Frank Zappa famously said, “nobody looks good wearing The Brown Lipstick”.
Gus
I’m a year and a half from 50. I could start drinking now and not stop until my 50th birthday and still look better than Woodward. He looks great for 69, but that is some grade A fellatio on Hannity’s part.
West of the Rockies
I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but it strikes me that some of the postings here at BJ are really starting to resort to journalistic shorthand and code words. I’d welcome just a bit more development of ideas and not so many buzz-words and links.
West of the Rockies
Wow, this appears to be the second thread I’ve single-handedly killed today, a new personal best. Was it something I said? Do I need to change my deodorant?