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Summers’ romance

by DougJ|  August 27, 20137:22 pm| 60 Comments

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Mon dieu (via):

Power coupling? Our spies in Cambridge, Mass., where Larry Summers reigns as president of Harvard University, encountered the recently separated second-term Clinton administration treasury secretary jogging Sunday morning with an attractive blonde looking suspiciously like arch-conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. We hear that Summers and Ingraham have been an item for a while now, and that the physically fit Ingraham has been instrumental in the 47-year-old economist’s new diet and fitness regimen that has already relieved him of 20 pounds.

This was ten years ago, but it’s permanently disqualifying in my book. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    August 27, 2013 at 7:25 pm

    Who in hell would ever describe Laura Ingraham as an attractive blonde?

  2. 2.

    MikeJ

    August 27, 2013 at 7:25 pm

    What if we just play a gunshot sound effect every time he speaks?

  3. 3.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    August 27, 2013 at 7:26 pm

    Summers Ingraham sounds like a porn title.

  4. 4.

    lamh36

    August 27, 2013 at 7:26 pm

    LOL. I’m not commenting on Summer’s for Fed bit, but I do have to laugh at this being disqualifying for anything…lol. Didn’t Bill Maher used to date Ann Coulter and yet people still like him…lol.

    Still, I don’t hate many people, but man I can’t stand Laura Ingraham. The trifecta of conserv women I can’t stand to see, stands at Da Grifat from Wasilia, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham/Hasselbach/usual blond-bot on Faux News.

  5. 5.

    taylormattd

    August 27, 2013 at 7:26 pm

    lol

  6. 6.

    Felonius Monk

    August 27, 2013 at 7:27 pm

    asshole + asshole = 2 assholes

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 27, 2013 at 7:28 pm

    I’m with Doug J fully on this one. Summery execution. No appeal.

    For both of them.

  8. 8.

    The Dangerman

    August 27, 2013 at 7:29 pm

    If Dude thought Laura Ingraham was attractive, maybe he envisions a threesome with Laura and Ann Coulter as Rapture…

  9. 9.

    PeakVT

    August 27, 2013 at 7:30 pm

    I don’t care who he fucks, but some of the quotes down at the bottom of the NSFW piece certainly entitle Summers to a good beating, if not execution.

  10. 10.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    August 27, 2013 at 7:30 pm

    @Felonius Monk:

    asshole + asshole = 2 assholes

    Between Summers and Ingraham I count four assholes. So multiply, don’t add.

  11. 11.

    ruemara

    August 27, 2013 at 7:33 pm

    I didn’t think you could expect a corporatist to have good taste in people.

  12. 12.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2013 at 7:35 pm

    The right wing economic blogs are all freaking out about Summers because he is not only a Keynesian who wants to facilitate higher deficits with his QE policies and virtually identical to Yellen policy wise, but he also prefers and advocates stimulus (big gubmint spending y’all!!) and has close ties with the DNC!!

    Wouldn’t it be great if we could get those guys to post here just to create a sort of anti Summers super collider?

  13. 13.

    Sad_Dem

    August 27, 2013 at 7:35 pm

    If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at who he gives it to.

  14. 14.

    EthylEster

    August 27, 2013 at 7:35 pm

    Soooo…i wonder how SHE feels about him being the new fed chairman?

  15. 15.

    Felonius Monk

    August 27, 2013 at 7:41 pm

    @MoeLarryAndJesus:

    So multiply, don’t add.

    How right you are. In my old age I am sometimes arithmetically challenged. Thank you for the correction. I did overlook the fact that with these 2 the crap comes out of both ends.

  16. 16.

    Desert Rat

    August 27, 2013 at 7:41 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader:

    Someone who

    A) Has a very odd sense of beauty.

    B) Someone who has never actually seen Laura Ingraham.

  17. 17.

    Citizen Alan

    August 27, 2013 at 7:42 pm

    Didn’t Bill Maher used to date Ann Coulter and yet people still like him

    I never liked Bill Maher. I thought he was a smug douchebag long before Politically Incorrect based solely on his standup and his “Murder She Wrote” appearances.

  18. 18.

    Bex

    August 27, 2013 at 7:44 pm

    Will she demand that he convert to Catholicism?

  19. 19.

    ruviana

    August 27, 2013 at 7:53 pm

    So was this the person who produced the twins that prompted Mr. Summers’s foray into gender studies? Or has he dumped THAT wife for yet another one?

  20. 20.

    cathyx

    August 27, 2013 at 7:53 pm

    Summers is only 47? That has to be a typo. He can’t be less than 57.

  21. 21.

    Roger Moore

    August 27, 2013 at 7:53 pm

    @PeakVT:

    I don’t care who he fucks

    … as long as it isn’t the American people.

  22. 22.

    hueyplong

    August 27, 2013 at 7:54 pm

    You all might be looking past a potential silver lining. Won’t she kill him and eat him after sex?

    Half a loaf beats none, amirite?

  23. 23.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 27, 2013 at 7:54 pm

    @Citizen Alan: Bill Maher. I thought he was a smug douchebag long before Politically Incorrect based solely on … his “Murder She Wrote” appearances.

    that’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen on this blog. I bet if he could he’d buy up every copy of those shows. Not quite as funny as David Letterman having been roped in to a musical number on a Mary Tyler Moore variety show

    and in case anyone missed this:

    Conservative radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham attacked the speakers at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, at one point using the sound of a gunshot to cut off a sound bite of civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) — a man whose skull was infamously fractured by a state trooper on “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, AL, in 1965. Ingraham used the speech’s anniversary to race-bait about black-on-white crime statistics and hosted Pat Buchanan to bemoan the idea that minorities face any higher level of adversity in America 50 years later

    from Media matters

  24. 24.

    BruinKid

    August 27, 2013 at 7:55 pm

    Ah, I believe Keith Olbermann used to date Ingraham, actually.

  25. 25.

    cathyx

    August 27, 2013 at 7:55 pm

    Ok, I just looked it up. He’s 58.

  26. 26.

    Keith P

    August 27, 2013 at 7:57 pm

    @BruinKid: I was horrified by the list of people who dated Ann Coulter.

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    August 27, 2013 at 7:57 pm

    Vaguely remember Ingraham got in trouble for putting a garden hose through the mail slot of an ex-boyfriend’s door. There’s maturity for you.

    If she wanted to do that to Larry Summers, I would not object.

  28. 28.

    MomSense

    August 27, 2013 at 7:57 pm

    @BruinKid:

    Oh my gosh you are right. I had forgotten about that. Now that I think about it, she has a bit of a type. They are similar in appearance.

  29. 29.

    cathyx

    August 27, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    But Obama loves Summers too. So he must be a good guy.

  30. 30.

    MikeJ

    August 27, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    @cathyx: He’s in favor of Keynesian stimulus in general and continuing QE in particular. That’s what I’m looking for in a Fed chair.

  31. 31.

    Bruce Lawton

    August 27, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    @MoeLarryAndJesus: 2 assholes and 2 pieholes that are used as assholes because shit comes there too so 4 total is correct.

  32. 32.

    cathyx

    August 27, 2013 at 8:02 pm

    @MikeJ: So the fact that he’s going to work for his Wall Street masters is a plus for you?

  33. 33.

    shelly

    August 27, 2013 at 8:06 pm

    For a while she was engaged to Dinesh D’Souza. yowza!

  34. 34.

    SectarianSofa

    August 27, 2013 at 8:08 pm

    @cathyx:
    I think Obama has a soft spot for people with a high level of some kind of intelligence. Unfortunately, Summers is a savant idiot.

  35. 35.

    schrodinger's cat

    August 27, 2013 at 8:09 pm

    My Agenda for the rest of the week.

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 27, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    @cathyx: Are you saying that you are against Keynesian stimulus?

  37. 37.

    SectarianSofa

    August 27, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Heh.

  38. 38.

    taylormattd

    August 27, 2013 at 8:10 pm

    I may never eat again.

  39. 39.

    cathyx

    August 27, 2013 at 8:11 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m saying that I don’t think he’ll make any policy that will help the 99%. He’s all for the 1%. What’s wrong with Yellen?

  40. 40.

    SectarianSofa

    August 27, 2013 at 8:14 pm

    @cathyx:

    What’s wrong with Yellen?

    Did she date Ingraham, too?

  41. 41.

    GregB

    August 27, 2013 at 8:15 pm

    If wingnut pop psychology is right, Laura Ingrham is destroying America.

    I mean, isn’t that what they say about single mothers?

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 27, 2013 at 8:16 pm

    @cathyx: I didn’t say anything was wrong with Yellen. I simply asked if you were against Keynesian stimulus. Summers’ support for it was mentioned as one of his good points. You were dismissive. It brought the question to my mind.

  43. 43.

    Yatsuno

    August 27, 2013 at 8:19 pm

    @MikeJ: I’d like O-man to make some history here with Yellin, since there’s about a dime’s worth of difference between her and Summers. Him being a general douchenozzle isn’t zesty either.

  44. 44.

    Hill Dweller

    August 27, 2013 at 8:21 pm

    @cathyx:

    So the fact that he’s going to work for his Wall Street masters is a plus for you?

    From everything I’ve read, Wall Street prefers Yellen.

  45. 45.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    August 27, 2013 at 8:26 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    From everything I’ve read, Wall Street prefers Yellen.

    Makes sense since she’s vice chairman.

  46. 46.

    ruviana

    August 27, 2013 at 8:28 pm

    @SectarianSofa: I wish to date this comment. Maybe Larry and Laura and the comment and I could double-date.

  47. 47.

    Redshirt

    August 27, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    And so begins a week or so of Summers-Hate 13, or, “How Obama has failed us yet again”.

    Be sure to stay home next November y’all – nothing changes anyways, right?

  48. 48.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    August 27, 2013 at 8:33 pm

    @Redshirt: Does Obot haz a sad?

  49. 49.

    burnspbesq

    August 27, 2013 at 8:34 pm

    Y’know, the real answer to why Summers and Ingraham may be as simple as “neither of them could do any better.”

    Not that I care. I had plenty of reasons to not want Summers as Fed chair before a school of red herring swam into the picture.

  50. 50.

    cathyx

    August 27, 2013 at 8:34 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I agreed with Scalia that it’s against the 4th amendment to take your DNA if you aren’t guilty of anything. But that doesn’t mean I think that Scalia should be a supreme court justice. Same goes for Summers.

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 27, 2013 at 8:35 pm

    @cathyx: Fair enough.

  52. 52.

    Redshirt

    August 27, 2013 at 8:38 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: Predictability makes me sad.

  53. 53.

    PurpleGirl

    August 27, 2013 at 8:43 pm

    @cathyx: That extract was from 10 years ago, so he is now 57. Doug mentions the 10 years ago in his first sentence after the extract.

  54. 54.

    PurpleGirl

    August 27, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Have fun.

  55. 55.

    schrodinger's cat

    August 27, 2013 at 8:54 pm

    @PurpleGirl: Thanks!

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 27, 2013 at 9:04 pm

    @cathyx: Uh-huh, you are correct:

    T

    his was ten years ago, but it’s permanently disqualifying in my book. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.

  57. 57.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    August 27, 2013 at 9:12 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: Who in hell would ever describe Laura Ingraham as an attractive blonde?

    Maybe this guy: http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/4268.html – “Ann Coulter is a Goddess and I worship Laura Ingraham and Michele Malkin .”

  58. 58.

    Comrade Jake

    August 27, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    I’m not a fan of Summers or his taste in shrews, but what I find comical is the notion that Yellen would represent something radically different from Summers policy-wise. Mostly it seems to me that people like Yellen because they can’t stand Summers.

  59. 59.

    slag

    August 27, 2013 at 11:35 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Conservative radio host and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham attacked the speakers at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, at one point using the sound of a gunshot to cut off a sound bite of civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)…

    Jesus Christ! WTH? It appalls me that anyone takes these disgusting people even remotely seriously.

  60. 60.

    AnnieB

    August 28, 2013 at 12:09 am

    Seriously you guys? I’m no Larry Summers fan, I’ve had a personal unpleasant interaction with him, and I have my fingers crossed that he will not be appointed to the Fed. In my opinion, he epitomizes someone who has been failing upward for quite some time. That being said, why the heck are you talking about him and Laura Ingraham in 2013? Since 2005, he’s been in a second marriage with an English professor. You’ve never dated someone you later (deeply) regreted? This conversation is ancient history and reminds me of the kind of scuttlebut that Tea Partiers apparently like to indulge in. Please return to something more interesting/important/meaningful/ or generally entertaining (e.g., how is Steve the cat doing today?)

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