Apparently, believe it or not, there appears to be a standard at PJ Media after all:
Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) will not be working for a conservative online broadcaster but insists he was not fired from his position, Buzzfeed reported on Thursday.
Both West and PJ Media investor Aubrey Chernick released statements to staffers on Sept. 16 saying West would leave the company effective Oct. 1, each of them saying West’s departure was voluntary. West had been working for PJ Media as the director of programming for NextGeneration.TV while hosting his own show since January 2013.
“No I didn’t get fired,” West told Buzzfeed. “I’m leaving to pursue political aspirations. That’s it. There’ll be a statement that comes out and it’s effective in October.”
But when asked to comment on whether he told a female employee to “shut up” and called her a “Jewish American princess,” West told Buzzfeed, “There was an exchange, that’s all.”
In his memo to PJ Media staff, West said, “I will be giving up my position as director of programming at Next Generation.TV to get back on the front lines to expand the message of constitutional conservatism across our country.”
Everyone who comes into contact with West wants nothing to do with him- the military, his district, and now PJ Media. These tea party heroes sure are something, aren’t they?
Baud
Cruz/West 2016!
JPL
Why was PJ Media afraid of firing West?
shelly
Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket! Would you like to meet my wife…Morgan Fairchild!
Higgs Boson's Mate
Because nothing says “Next Generation” like a fifty-something-year-old failed politician. Now we know in part why PJ Media failed to become an internet colossus.
beltane
Maybe he’ll run for Florida gov now. Given the right set of circumstances (and voter suppression) he just might win.
Wapiti
I’m seriously impressed that the infamy of the Aroma of Tacoma has spread so far.
(I think the paper mill or whatever it was has been gone for 15-20 years now, it stunk much worse 30 years ago than the last time I drove through the place.)
Jennifer
What a coincidence – Roy was speculating in a post earlier that DoughBob Loadpants was still trying to get over that time on a NRO cruise where Allen West demonstrated to him how to kill a man with a dinner roll.
Violet
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Was thinking the same thing. Allen West is supposed to appeal to the “next generation?” I guess if you’re a 75 year old white guy, a 50-something black guy seems young and hip.
Ash Can
Now why would Allen West get fired and none of the other shit-spewers at PJ Media? That’s a real poser…
Elizabelle
These Tea Party idols are frequently people who don’t get along well with others, because they don’t see any point to achieving things together and genuinely discussing and negotiating.
They don’t seem to believe in the value of community, unless it’s a very small and heterogenous one.
They just tear down. They destroy.
MikeBoyScout
As a former Tacoma resident I ask you to revise and extend your remarks about the city of destiny.
Jewish Steel
Sorry, don’t mean to derail. Local auction. Some of the best typos I have ever seen. Scroll down and find the listing for the Zippo lighter. Trust me.
http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/photopanel.cgi?listingid=1879394&category=0&zip&kwd
WereBear
@Jewish Steel: I liked the JOHN WAYNE BELT BUCKETS
dmsilev
Tucker Carlson is probably hiring.
Ben Franklin
Why are we talking about West? Have we run out of human beings?
Is that the reason for the reference to garlic?
JPL
John, Please take dozens of pet pictures because the next month is gonna be stressful.
Thank you
jpl
Violet
@Jewish Steel: Don’t see that entry. But yeah, some of those typos are crazy bad.
Violet
@WereBear: I like the SPOONY PHONE.
JPL
@Violet: The salt and peeper set is pretty cool though.
Jewish Steel
@Violet: Keep looking. It’s kind of a puzzle.
@WereBear: If I put on any more weight…
@Violet: Oh there’s a whole TABLE OFN SPOODY
gnomedad
Violet
@JPL: And who wouldn’t want a TABLE OFN SPOODY.
gogol's wife
@Jewish Steel:
I want that Shirley Temple glass. That’s spelled right, though.
I can’t find the Zippo lighter. Now you’re driving me crazy. Just tell us already.
Amir Khalid
@Jewish Steel:
“VARIAS”? “WIND CHIMP”? “BOX FULL OF SURPRISE”? “SPOONY PHONE”? I confess, I was mystified by these item descriptions, but entertained.
Violet
@Jewish Steel: Not getting the puzzle. The SLIVER LIFGTER?
Violet
@gogol’s wife: Maybe it’s Buckeye Potty Macomel Ill?
Amir Khalid
@gogol’s wife:
It’s the photo captioned SLIVER LIFGTER.
ETA: I see you already found it.
gogol's wife
@Amir Khalid:
You mean SLIVER LIFGTER, of course.
fuckwit
HAHAHA +1 to Cole for the awesome Zappa reference.
gogol's wife
@Jewish Steel:
Is one of my students running this auction?
gogol's wife
@fuckwit:
That’s so funny. I saw the title, thought, “I wonder what the reference is,” then thought, “must be Zappa.”
Violet
What the hell is this thing? BETTY NBUBBLES. It’s seriously creepy.
WereBear
@JPL: You need a kitten pic!
gogol's wife
@fuckwit:
wow, that really is apropos. Kind of disgusting!
scav
Support our Pin wearing boys in the MILTERLY! In the ARNY too! (unless the item in question is a pregnant watermelon.) And O! for a Vitnage Mirrows to see myself.
Villago Delenda Est
Why, oh why, do I find it impossible to take these statements by West and Chernick at face value?
I can’t imagine why I can’t.
Violet
If you ever thought you wanted a picture of Nixon, check out GARFIELD 1881-COOLIDES 1929 ETC.
MikeJ
@MikeBoyScout:
If the Asarco smelter smell didn’t level Tacoma, nothing will. Except perhaps Rainier.
Villago Delenda Est
@MikeJ:
Seriously, Rainier is friggin’ dangerous. There are all those slurbs built right in the lahar paths.
Amir Khalid
I’d guess that these auction items are the personal effects of some recently deceased old lady, but for the apparently out-of-place bow and arrows. Or maybe she was Maid Marian.
muddy
Tweety is encouraging people to tweet him with questions to be answered on the air. He said, “People like it! Your turn to play hardball!”
scav
@Villago Delenda Est: IT’S CATCHING!!!!! Run for the HLLIS!
ETA, I’m rather expecting the sloshing of the Sound to take out more than the pyrotechnics. At least match it.
MikeJ
@Villago Delenda Est: The Puyallup river runs right into the Port of Tacoma after starting on the slopes of Rainier. I can’t imagine that would be good news in case of eruption.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Villago Delenda Est:
All you need is a SPOODY with which to dig yourself out. I laugh at lahars: “Lahar-hardy-har-har!”
Suffern ACE
@Violet: so does Coolides rhyme with slide or is that eedez? We had a Greek president and didn’t even celebrate it?
Villago Delenda Est
@Jewish Steel:
VITNAGE TELEPHONE for the win!
BillinGlendaleCA
@MikeJ: I think it was more the smelter, but the paper mills added an additional flavor. Back in the 60’s and 70’s you could smell Tacoma 15 to 20 miles before you got there.
@Villago Delenda Est: Yup, I’d really worry if I lived in the Claw.
I just saw some rep from TX, Culberson? Saying that if we breach the debt limit, Social Security will still go out, cause it’s automatic. MORON.
Chris
Of course there are standards at PJMedia. “A black man shall not speak with such disrespect to a white woman, nor even be accused of having spoken with such disrespect, certainly when it’s one of our women.”
It’s who he is, not what he said. Remember, when Herman Cain criticized Rick Perry for having a ranch called “Niggerhead,” Cain, not Perry, was the one blamed.
Violet
@Villago Delenda Est: Those slurbs are built right in the lahar paths. People on that auction site talk about it all the time.
JPL
@WereBear: You are definitely right. kittens are better that peeper shakers. (peeper shakers sounds kinda dirty)
Villago Delenda Est
@MikeJ:
If you look at a satellite image of the Seattle-Tacoma metro area, you can see the lahar paths.
It’s not going to be good should Rainier get busy.
Villago Delenda Est
@BillinGlendaleCA:
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple Republicans. These are people of the land. The common clay of the Teabagger Nation. You know… morons.
fuckwit
@gogol’s wife: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZHsixrP-lk
Julia Grey
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Yeah. I thought for a fleeting moment that
was another example from the estate catalog.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Villago Delenda Est:
It’s not going to be good
shouldwhen Rainier gets busy.FTFY
I read somewhere that volcanoes are never extinct, just dormant.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid:
That’s pretty much how Tacoma used to smell.
fuckwit
@gogol’s wife: He caught a lot of shit for it being offensive, but, in typical Zappa fashion, defended it by saying his wife was a genuine Jewish Princess and didn’t find it offensive, and, according to Rabbinical law, this made his daughter also a Jewish Princess too. And, that he was documenting a phenomena which, unlike the unicorn, actually exists.
Wasn’t there a thread here a while back about why Zappa is dude music? Lyrics like these are why Zappa is dude music. Zappa gave exactly zero fucks about anyone, and offended all of them.
Yatsuno
Thanks North Carolina. No really. You shouldn’t have.
gogol's wife
@fuckwit:
Yes, there was, but I was one of the women voting for Zappa. He can’t seriously offend me. I rode in a VW bus through Eastern Europe singing along with “Dynamo Hum” in 1975.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yatsuno: When I saw he was from NC, I thought he might be Heath Shuler’s replacement. My thought was correct.
ETA: Didn’t think I needed to reference your comment twice.
JPL
Chris Hayes is really good tonight. You can stream it here.. link
Mike E
BREAKING: UN vote to formalized inspection&removal of chemical weapons in Syria passes.
MikeJ
@Mike E:
Dick swinging Nobel prize herp derp.
JPL
@Mike E: It was because of Bush’s leadership.
edit.. maybe Reagan’s.. I get so confused on their leaders..
Mnemosyne
@Mike E:
As I said in one of the earlier threads, if one of the results of all of the Syria dick-swinging is normalizing relations with Iran, I will personally travel the country to find every person who sneered at Obama’s Nobel Prize and punch each one of them in the throat. Obot vigilante, I.
bago
Man, when I was a teen, it was Everett that smelled to high heaven. Of course the wood plant was right next to I-5, so….
Mike E
Chris Hayes: I am sitting here beside myself, because I believed firebagger BS.
PhoenixRising
@Mnemosyne: Let me know if you need volunteers to join in the throat punching squad. I need a new long term goal right about now, and that sounds fun. You driving?
MikeJ
@bago: My M&P recently drove through my hometown of Memphis. There were told that since one of the really smelly polluting factories closed down, the city got rid of emissions inspections for cars.
Fucking morons.
JPL
@Mike E: Isn’t it amazing that today there were major accomplishments in foreign policy and fox news is shitting in their pants about Obama not caving into the repubs.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
I still like Nora Ephron’s line from Heartburn:
Mnemosyne
@PhoenixRising:
I have a new car to do it in, even!
Mike E
BREAKING: The GOP.
WereBear
I hope having a constitutional scholar as President will come in handy.
In a sane world, the Congressional lunatics would at least be removed for flouting their Oath of Office.
PhoenixRising
@Mnemosyne: Yeah, that was the joke. I got a new car, which is a Chevy with more computing power than NASA had in 1967, in March. Crazy. But 39 MPG.
trollhattan
@fuckwit:
I forget, which came first, that or “Catholic Girls”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMdhWRO4-dQ
Suffern ACE
@Mike E: you know, I was originally opposed to the idea of weekly government shutdown threats, but I’m opening up to the idea. Having a congress that needs to be voting all the time is a congress that doesn’t have the time to scramble off and meet with the nefarious plutocrat funders, or take junkets to Egypt to insult the masses, or send dick picks (since both sides do it).
JPL
@Mike E: In ten days the President will cave. Maybe Boehner is planning on taking the tea party caucus in a room and locking them in. If not, there is no hope. He cannot control them and refuses to deal with democratic members.
Jennifer
Just curious, but has “stop being so BLACK!” been added to the list of ransom demands yet?
Mike E
@Mnemosyne: I’m gonna tell these ‘bomb Iran’ fucks that I cannot wait to visit Tehran, which I’ma gonna do right after visiting Havana.
Mnemosyne
@PhoenixRising:
But mine’s all-wheel drive, so we can pursue them up into Idaho! ;-)
Okay, I’ll go too far into potential offensiveness — this is California, where I think Subarus are legally required to have at least one lesbian in the car, but neither G nor I qualify. You’ll help keep us legal.
JPL
@Jennifer: Actually that came up but when Boehner refused, they wouldn’t give him the votes necessary to pass the bill. They wanted to include an amendment to SNAP also which said only blue eyed blonds can apply.
Jennifer
@WereBear: I wondered that myself here for the past few days. They have a constitutional responsibility to pay the bills. If they don’t pay them, can they be impeached? How, since they’d have to impeach themselves?
Mike E
@JPL: Ten days, 45 days, who knows. GOP TEA crack-heads are hard to keep track of, and we’re gonna watch a drunk try and corral those fuckers.
All I know is there is a tragic absence of popcorn in my house.
PhoenixRising
@Mnemosyne: Your ideas are both frightening and funny, but not offensive.
Though I should mention that I’m not into being a token. I’d expect to do my full share of the actual throat-punching.
Also: You bought a Subaru? Maybe we’ll need skateboards, to flee reliably…
Suffern ACE
@Mnemosyne: I traded in my Subaru imprezza in December. I miss him. I’m assuming you went with the STi because you need to get to work on time.
Mnemosyne
@PhoenixRising:
No tokens here. Except G — he can be the getaway driver. Besides, they would expect the 6-foot tall guy to punch them in the throat and be on their guard, but not against the 5-foot tall woman. We’ll take them by surprise that way.
Ben Franklin
@Mnemosyne:
You have a somewhat exalted opinion of yourself. Life isn’t a Hollywood movie, ya know.
Mnemosyne
@Suffern ACE:
Dude, I drove a 4-cylinder Toyota RAV-4 for 15 years. G keeps calling me “Leadfoot” because I forget how much faster the Impreza is in comparison (and it’s the regular one, not the STI or WRX). It’s plenty fast enough for me so far.
Mike E
@Ben Franklin: WATBen, is that you?!! Where you been dawg?
Mnemosyne
@Ben Franklin:
Lighten up, Francis. It’s a Friday night.
Ben Franklin
@Mike E:
Cole couldn’t come up with a rule that applied for banishment, so he made one up…..rampant douchebaggery.
PhoenixRising
@Mnemosyne: Are you sure you can expect to reach throats? Maybe we need to lower our…sights…a little. And by ‘we’ I mean ‘you’.
Another issue: I’m not sure I have the element of surprise on my side, having been to Idaho. All the men there seemed to think that I looked precisely like the kind of…woman…who came from somewhere in CA to punch them in the throat.
JPL
@Mike E: I’m going to invest in popcorn futures.. In fact I might set up my own fund.
Suffern ACE
Before y’all start punching folks, please note that negotiations have not started in the least. There was a phone call. It didn’t sound like we’re going to be making it legal to trade with Iran any time soon. Or appointing an ambassador.
PhoenixRising
@Suffern ACE: Fine. Be the voice of realism. I’ll be over here planning my snorkeling trip to Cuba.
Mnemosyne
@PhoenixRising:
I don’t want to give all of our vigilante secrets away just yet.
And don’t worry about disguises — I’m a 36D. They’ll be so intent on that that they’ll never see my knee coming.
Now, sadly, I must head home, where I’m still restricted to iPhone posting. :-(
Mike E
@JPL: I’m erecting solar arrays for mass poppage as we type.
Mnemosyne
@Suffern ACE:
No problem. Gives me more time to get in shape, maybe learn karate or krav maga or something rather than going free-form.
Jim
Who’d a thunk, PJM is politically correct?
JPL
@Suffern ACE: It’s been thirty four years, it’s a big deal.
Ben Franklin
@Mnemosyne:
You’re playing the heavy in this movie.
JPL
fywp
cathyx
I hate the smell of Garlic on a person’s breath.
JPL
@Jim: Try again.. My comment is in moderation.. PJ media did not fire him but allowed him to leave. It was a smart decision cuz West has been known to play Russian R..o.u.l.e.t……
Suffern ACE
@Mnemosyne: ok. Maybe a schedule. If we send envoys and they send envoys, and there is a meeting at a table, you can scheme so that folks stub their toes. If Pat Robertson hosts Ayatollah Khameni for a weekend comparative theology and fried chicken, you can give noogies. I don’t want the path to peace marred with too much violence.
Mike E
Rachel Maddow: ZOMG, IranSyriaRussia.
PhoenixRising
@Suffern ACE: Hold the phone, ace. She said there was to be punching in the neck, and that’s what I signed up for. Noogies are gross, except on your own toddler. Then they’re funny.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@efgoldman:
Makes sense to me: PJM has a media empire estimated to be worth thousands of cents.
Suffern ACE
@JPL: no it is a big deal. I recognize that. But we shouldn’t pretend that there are negotiations or normal relations either. But it is big. I only hope that we don’t mess up and elect someone with the express purpose of not talking.
Yatsuno
@Suffern ACE: It was a phone call. And a direct meeting with the Minister of State with Kerry. And loads and loads of lower-level negotiations that have been going on for months. A LOT of shit has been building towards that phone call. But even that phone call monumental after 30+ years of hostility is huge.
? Martin
Resolution to remove chemical weapons from Syria passed unanimously.
Worse than Bush!
Suffern ACE
@PhoenixRising: ok. No noogies. How bout that thing where you offer to shake hands and then pull back and say “burn!!!!”
Yatsuno
@Suffern ACE: Hand buzzers for everybody!!!
PhoenixRising
@Suffern ACE: Sounds good.
My fists won’t be nearly as worn out when we finish our vigilante tour if we try that idea.
+/-4 drinks ago I’d have made a clever joke about having just had my bone density tested so I’m good for several dozen full contact noogies, but it’s getting late in my day.
Suffern ACE
@JPL: yeah. I was once allowed to leave my job too. It was not the best feeling.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Ben Franklin: It’s Cole’s blog, he gets to do that.
JPL
@Suffern ACE: West thinks his reward is to run for Rubio’s seat if Rubio runs for President. Somehow, I don’t think that will work in FL.
fuckwit
@trollhattan: Catholic Girls was on Joe’s Garage, 1979. Jewish Princess was at a Halloween concert 1977, released on Zappa in New York. So they were contemporary. Dunno when Catholic Girls was actually written though, might have been earlier.
@gogol’s wife: Ah, Eastern Europe! Where Zappa was widely regarded as a hero by the youth fighting communism, and was a genuinely subversive and revered figure. It was awesome when Vaclav Havel invited Zappa to visit and to play at the ceremony celebrating the Velvet Revolution.
fuckwit
@Mnemosyne: Two words: PROXY and VPN. Use one or the other, or both.
fuckwit
@JPL: Obama is the best this country has ever had at negotiating with, psyops’ing, and terminating-with-extreme-prejudice’ing bomb-throwing terrorists and other radical psychopaths. Which includes Al Queda, Assad, Qadaffi, and the Teabaggers, among others.
If negotiating works, he negotiates, and in impressively good faith and honesty. If negotiating fails (or was never really feasible), he opens up a can of whoop ass. Iran has been getting some covert whoop-ass (ahem StuckNet, sanctions) but opted eventually for the negotiation, Al Queda got the whoop-ass. Syria was targeted for whoop-ass but thanks to Putin got to track over to negotiation instead. The Rethugs have had 5 years of negotiation, and now they are starting to feel the whoop-ass (registering voters as part of signup for ACA is fucking awesome). NB: the whoop-ass has only started.
Beckya57
I live in Tacoma, and would like to inform you that the odor problem was solved years ago, and it’s now a very pleasant place to live. I’d appreciate you not promoting outdated stereotypes of my adopted home.
Beckya57
@Wapiti: See my comment.
Woodrowfan
@Mnemosyne: please film this and put them on Youtube. i’ll subscribe..
LeftCoastTom
I’ll just leave this here as evidence of the kind of garlic aroma that can level cities (and to truly appreciate it, Gilroy is in one of the hotter parts of the Bay Area – think 90 degree weather with garlic used as a vegetable).
trollhattan
@Beckya57:
Having growed up in Seattle, I reserve the right to make fun of Tacoma at all times, the rest of mah lafh.
Y’all will never be able to clean up Commencement Bay, for starters. Although, props to Stadium High.
trollhattan
@fuckwit:
Thanks. Couldn’t recall, other than whichever was second was “contrition” for the first. As if Frank ever did contrition. Today’s young’ns can’t appreciate Frank v. Tipper Gore.
johnny aquitard
@Villago Delenda Est: Yeah, they were warned for years. And when Rainier blows, who’s gonna be laharing then? Or, he who lahars last lahars best. Or, larhar while you can monkeyboy. Or..
Ok, I’ll stop.
gogol's wife
@fuckwit:
Yes, when I heard that on the radio, I said, “I’m so proud to be an almost-Czech” (I’m Slovak).
PLH in NYC
Thank you John for being one of the few bloggers who quote FZ!
Jebediah, RBG
@Jewish Steel:
I feel like reading those has given me a stroke.
Hey, don’t we have several commenters who have been in the “milterly?”
LadyG
Rip General Stuck
I am his sister. Just found you and I LUV YOU! I am not a blogger/tweeter. But, please feel free to contact me. All of your comments about Steve were very comforting. You are very special. Best to get me by email: [email protected]
Jebediah, RBG
@Mnemosyne:
ƒor ƒucking serious?
LadyG
Rip General Stuck I am his sister. Just found you guys. You are very dear and special. Feel free to contact. Not a blogger/tweeter, so best to email me at: [email protected]. All of your comments were so comforting. I plan to sit down and share them with our ailing father tomorrow.
LadyG
The Lodger
@Jewish Steel: Hey, don’t forget the addiz. (but If you actually operate it upside down, that could be kinda dangerous.)
The Lodger
@Jewish Steel: Not to mention the CARNIAL LIGHTER. That just sounds painful.
LeftCoastTom
@LadyG: Your brother is, and will be, missed.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@LadyG: We do miss the General terribly.
opiejeanne
@JPL: I saw a moron yesterday who said the ACA was started by W.
opiejeanne
@PhoenixRising: You could start with the idiot who lives next door to us. I’ve got a guest room.
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: IN Washington almost everyone drives them. We bought one last December.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Ben Franklin:
If traveling the country to punch firebaggers and teabaggers in the neck is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@LadyG:
We miss your brother very much around here — he had a kind heart and a very low tolerance for bullshit, both of which were always appreciated.
LeftCoastTom
@efgoldman: The festival is in late July, what you experienced is just the normal garlicness. Forgot to mention…think of 100,000 people baking in that ‘festival’.
Origuy
Garlic isn’t as big a crop in Gilroy as it used to be, there was a nematode infestation. Most of the garlic in California is grown further south and brought to Gilroy for processing. The Christopher Farms plant is just off the freeway, next to the outlet stores. What you smell is the mincing, crushing, and drying.
Villago Delenda Est
If you want serious garlic overload, the Seoul subway is for you.
trollhattan
@LadyG:
Massive hugs to you and yours!
Arclite
He’d still be there if he was white.
SRW1
@JPL:
That West dude is known to be a bit fickle with guns. Maybe they didn’t want to provoke a workplace shooting.