Yeah, I bet he didn’t know the meaning of ‘xenophobia’, being as it has all those wacky letters — imagine the unfortunate aide who had to help him spell it out. This is the dumb Rep. (Steve “calves the size of cantaloupes”) King, out of Iowa, as opposed to the mean Rep. (Peter) King from Long Island (who knows better than to cross Senator Schumer, especially if it means getting between Schumer and the nearest microphone).
If Schumer doesn’t counter with some variant on “never getting into a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent”… well, then I don’t know Chuck Schumer.
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Apart from idiots being idiots, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Iowa Old Lady
I’m embarrassed that Steve King is from my state.
On a lighter note, I just got back from WisCon where the most fun panel I went to was a spirited discussion of whether “Sherlock” or “Elementary” is the better show.
Elmo
No GoT, which is a severe disappointment. No reason not to get roaring drunk now!
David Koch
History’s Greatest Monster
Ash Can
A “duel” with a microphone? That’s called a debate — you know, those things that Republicans are deathly afraid of when Democrats are involved.
Roger Moore
Sorry, but Steve King is at best runner up for dumbest man in Congress; Louie Gohmert has the title sewn up.
Keith P
Rap-off?
RAP-OFF!
Baud
I’m not that smart. Why haven’t I been elected to Congress?
OzarkHillbilly
Me being me, which according to my wife… Never mind.
Poopyman
“Good luck with your asparagus” sez the rotating tag. The reason for that one escapes me. Does anyone want to fill me in, so that I’m once again aware of all internet traditions?
Richard Bottoms
Hey guys, what can we do to eliminate the ads from Teabagger entities like Newsmax. I know it’s part of your revenue stream but there must be some way to create a progressive friendly entity to replace what you use now.
Even one penny going to Pajamas Media or Newsmax is one penny too much.
MikeJ
@Ash Can:
Or the dozens.
Baud
@Richard Bottoms:
How are they getting pennies from advertising here?
Baud
@Poopyman:
I think it has something to do with Goehmert.
Hungry Joe
@Anne Laurie: “Dumbest Man in Congress”? While Louie Gohmert lives and mouth breathes? You have insulted my … my … my perception of dumbosity.
Nellie in NZ
@Iowa Old Lady: So? Which is it? Elementary or Sherlock?
Josie
@Poopyman: It was a parting shot from AG Holder to Gohmert after they had a round during an “investigation.”
RSA
@Baud:
That’s genius. (Or I suppose the opposite, whatever that is. Made me laugh, anyway.)
Anne Laurie
@Poopyman: Quote from Eric Holder, who does not respect Rep. Gohmert’s authori-TAY!
MikeJ
@Baud: Related: wonkette.com/549170/newsmax-decides-giving-thousands-of-dollars-to-wonkette-not-a-great-use-of-dick-…
Ash Can
@MikeJ: Had to look that up. I learned something new — thanks!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Poopyman: When the dumbest rep in Congress, Louie Gohmert was pissed at AG Holder in a hearing last year, he told the AH that “the AG will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.” When they had another test exchange this year, Holder was visibly pissed and wished Mr. Gohmert a good crop.
Sorry, AL, but the Iowa Rep King is but a bridesmaid of dumb in Congress. Peter King of NY, is indeed the mean one, as well as much too smart to get between Schumer and a microphone for any reason.
satby
@efgoldman: well played!
Hill Dweller
Republicans benefit immensely from the Village’s affirmative action. No matter how stupid, demonstrably untrue, or crazy, the wingnuts will always be welcome on the TV circuit.
+8
raven
Finally got to the last episode of Call the Midwife for this season. What a great show.
Baud
@MikeJ:
No wonder Cole has been so happy lately. He’s rolling in Newsmax dough.
Ash Can
@Baud: I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand it’s swill, but on the other hand, who am I to say that Cole shouldn’t shake some RW idiots down for a little free scratch? If Newsmax wants to throw its advertising dollars away, I can’t say that’s a bad thing.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: Indeed, they’re paying Cole to be here…and they pay more if you click on them!
Go nuts! Click away! It’s only paying for Steve’s treats, and that is a good thing in and of itself!
Amir Khalid
I wonder, in what dictionary did Steve King find that definition of “xenophobia”? And how does a politician manage not to know the word “debate”?
David Koch
Francis just sent the usual suspect into a tissy
Hal
@Iowa Old Lady: my experience with this debate is usually someone who does not like Sherlock initiating in order to say elementary is better. I haven’t watched much of Elementary but they seem to be to very different takes on the Holmes mythology. Plus Sherlock is basically two or three mini-movies a year as opposed to a 20 + episode season. Whatever the case, that kind of debate is bottomless. I’m surprised you made it home.
rk
Chuck Schumer should whack him on the noggin with a microphone.
Villago Delenda Est
@Richard Bottoms: If you simply can’t stand to see them, you can use AdBlock or the Stylish addon to make them go away.
I still think you should click on them and then laugh the laugh of Josef Stalin as he enslaved Eastern Europe seeing as you’re enriching Cole.
J.D. Rhoades
WTF is this King person babbling about?
Iowa Old Lady
@Hal: @Nellie in NZ: There were a lot of Conan Doyle readers in the crowd and they liked the way “Sherlock” uses the original stories. The “Elementary” fans love Lucy Liu.
PS My posts aren’t posting. Am in the time out box?
Baud
@Ash Can:
Truth be told, I’m starting to find their ideas intriguing and am thinking of subscribing to their newsletter.
Baud
@David Koch:
Wait, Francis spray painted that?! I’m impressed.
Roger Moore
@Iowa Old Lady:
That’s certainly what I like about it. There’s enough of the original work there to recognize the stories, but they’re given a thoroughly modern twist, sometimes to the point that they’re barely recognizable. It’s a lot of fun to see how the writers find modern equivalents to the situations and technologies in the original.
gocart mozart
Just to be clear, this is the Steven King who likes to tell scary and creepy stories that scare little children and not the prolific author from Maine.
dww44
@Richard Bottoms: I agree and I dare not click on the link that says CNN’s King says Dems call Obama Incompetent? Some insider stuff that hasn’t been vetted? If that’s John King they are referring to, he’s never had any credibility in my book anyways.
Joel Hanes
Has Inhofe left the Congress? Virginia Foxx? Broun? Fahrenthold?
scav
team bbc here. fywp. for eating all my other comments.
srv
Wingnuts win in EU
Ken
@David Koch:
Too many choices, but I’ll guess our very own Avignon Pope, Bill Donohue.
dww44
@raven: Golly, was this on your GPB station? I went looking for it and it was nowhere to be found. That overdone Memorial Day concert was all that was on offer.
scav
seriously. All comments involving a dislike for she who must not be named got ated as spam, even while expressing a general fondness for JLM’s take once he could escape the writers and their garden variety pop psychology wounded human obsession. BBC is just cleverer. Holmes Boys dynamics generally fun in both, with same caveat.
David Koch
@dww44: That’s the same john king who said the suspects in Boston Marathon bombing were Blahs(!)
BBA
@srv: The European Parliament has limited control over the Eurocracy but they have some veto power. They’re in for a few years of temper tantrums and obstructionism…so Europe and America aren’t so different after all.
burnspbesq
Rangers win in OT. Five wins away from hoisting the Cup, 34 years too soon.
M. Bouffant
The AP lied about & neglected to quote Mr. Martinez, the father of the one of the (most recent) victims, directly.
This would be a good thing to disseminate on the iNternet over the boring remaining day of the wknd., because LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS!!!
NotMax
The thought of a flight from Miami to Puerto Rico having to traverse Canadian air space is … unexpected.
satby
@Roger Moore: @Iowa Old Lady: I’m an avid Conan Doyle reader and I really love both, though Lucy Liu does nothing for me. I like the modern reworking in Sherlock, and I also like the “what if” vibe of Elementary.
And I really like the Laurie R King expansion on Doyle’s stories with the Mary Russell series. Though the last one was the weakest.
SFAW
@Baud:
Why? He used to tag as “Lead 212” and “Uncle Rich” when he was doing his NYC (a/k/a “Sodom and Gomorrah on the Hudson”) service.
Looks like he lost some of his tagging skillz, frankly.
lamh36
Welp.
I’m at work on a rare 12 hr overnight shift. if I had a choice I’d never do them but as part of my new job duties I’ve got to cover the occasional overnight shift. this one is my first in over 3 years!!!!! I’m only half prepared but I’ve got my electronics (still trying to decide if I want my computer on employer wifi so I’m sticking to IPad for now) I’ve got my kindle to read and I’ve bought the big ole laptop along with some DVDs so I’m set I guess. Wish me luck, 11.5 more hours to go…le sigh.
I’m sticking with just DVD on the big laptop now.
Right now I’m watching The Lake House. I really do like this movie. You have my dim actor crush Keane Reeves, my fake best friend cause I think she’d be cool to hang out with, Sandy Bullock. And my Sound of Music crush, the Captain himself…Christopher Plummer.
If this movie was based on a book I may have to pick it up.
Villago Delenda Est
@burnspbesq: We’re less than a month from the Solstice, and they’re still playing hockey!
Villago Delenda Est
@SFAW: What you didn’t see was “Israel half off! Egypt deeply discounted to move!” to the right of “Free Palestine”
mdblanche
@BBA: Let’s see… besides just electing a pack of Tea Partiers, Putin fans, or worse, Europe had it’s own hate-fueled shooting rampage this weekend. Australia is debating a budget Paul Ryan could have written as we speak. And Canada elected a government whose energy policy is trying to shove Keystone XL into this country while Ontario is at least even money to elect its own tea party government next month despite the cautionary examples immediately to the south.
I think the white privilege issue is international. In a world that’s decentralizing away from Europe and its former settler colonies there’s nowhere to hide from it. And in the long run, the large non-white population will probably help North America weather this storm the best.
Villago Delenda Est
@M. Bouffant: The AP is not reporting. If it did, it would have quoted Mr. Martinez verbatim. It left out much of his message, and it falsified his exit from the stage.
In a just universe, heads would roll for such deception.
We don’t live in a just universe, I’m afraid. The utter scum of the AP will continue to distort reality at the behest of their foul paymasters.
David Koch
@M. Bouffant: The AP is utterly corrupt.
Gin & Tonic
@srv:
In the EU. In the meantime, in what one of the frequent commenters here assures us is a fascist coup-controlled country, the far right received a resounding Bronx cheer, with Svoboda and Right Sector *together* just managing to jump over the 2% line. The National Front in France got 25%.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
@burnspbesq:
No More 1940.
burnspbesq
@Villago Delenda Est:
FWIW, a former Army Ranger who served four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan is playing for an NCAA championship tomorrow.
insidelacrosse.com/article/duke-defenseman-former-army-ranger-casey-carroll-has-always-led-by-exampl…
SFAW
@Villago Delenda Est:
Not the Penguins, however.
Go Rangers!
SFAW
@burnspbesq:
??
mdblanche
@Gin & Tonic: Does Moscow Bob realize that most of the EU’s far-right parties have sided with Putin’s actions in Ukraine and/or praised him more generally?
scav
All in all though, if one is going to have a pox on all your parties tantrum protest vote, it’s handy to have a place like an EU to park them. Much more dangerous when the loons actually have the levers on actual budgets, armies, frontiers, etc. Still, basically, yuck. Why they couldn’t sublimate enough in the Eurovision vote or something similar . . .
pseudonymous in nc
Gohmert has dumb locked up.
Steve ‘Racist’ King is content with being top ten in dumb, but undisputedly the most racist person in Congress, having inherited the title from Tom ‘Racist’ Tancredo.
Gin & Tonic
@mdblanche: He does a formidable job of ignoring those facts which are inconvenient.
Villago Delenda Est
@mdblanche: No, Gospodin Romanov is convinced that Putin and the Russians are on the side of the anti-fascist angels despite metric shittons of fact to the contrary. He’s got his narrative, he’s sticking to it, for the sake of the Rodina.
SFAW
@burnspbesq:
Well, I’d rather see Hopkins or Drexel, and I have a tough time rooting for Duke (just on GP), but he’s from Baldwin, so I guess I can not be a curmudgeon for the day.
Let’s hope Monday’s game is as good as 1976.
Steeplejack
@Iowa Old Lady:
After a shaky start, Elementary has been getting steadily better. That last mini-season of Sherlock was mostly incomprehensible, self-indulgent bullshit, redeemed somewhat by Yasmine Akram as the spunky maid of honor Janine.
Good documentary on PBS right now, Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words. Look for a repeat later in the week.
YellowJournalism
Tonight’s mid-season finale episode of Mad Men hit all the right notes and mirrored moments that made the show great. Damn you, AMC, for splitting up this season!!
burnspbesq
@SFAW:
If the rangers win the cup more frequently than once every 54 years, a huge and irreparable rift in the fabric of space-time will open.
Steeplejack
@Hal:
I agree with this. My comment above was not to say one show is better than the other, just that their current trajectories are different. And I think some people downgrade Elementary because American network TV—yuck!
SFAW
@burnspbesq:
Ah, I see.
On the other hand, if they DO win the Cup, the space-time fabric rift could probably be mended if the Cubs or Mets win the World Series. So I guess we’re well and truly fucked, in that regard.
On the plus side: Tufts beat Salisbury State for the D3 crown. On the negative side, Post lost to Limestone.
I do take some solace in Bryant beating ‘Cuse.
Anne Laurie
@Iowa Old Lady:
No, I think you may have just added those spaces to your ‘nym — even such a minor change would convince FYWP that you were a new, untested, possibly spam-botting commentor.
Even commenting from a different device is enough to make FYWP suspicious!
Steeplejack
To the video at the top: Rep. Steve King is a colossal dumb-ass. He still doesn’t understand the meaning of xenophobia even after his trip to the dictionary. He says it is “being afraid of something that you don’t know,” then proceeds to ignore even that definition as he lists the people he is not afraid of even though they “are not like me.”
It’s true that one of the definitions of xenophobia is the fear of “anything that is strange or foreign,” but the primary definition—especially in the context of a debate on immigration reform—is the fear of foreigners. What a maroon.
Gretchen
@lamh36: @lamh36: when I work overnight shifts, which is all the time, i have to do actual work. So getting to sit around watching videos of my choice sounds like a pretty
sweet deal.
ruemara
@Anne Laurie: pretty sure it’s Gohmert for “peen”.
I will be finishing enjoying? Blood Lake. And then I will indulge in some poetry reading in bed and nice sleep. Tomorrow is the fine relaxation of a full workout and then I get to relax by working on work some more.
lamh36
@Gretchen: I work in a lab, particularly a hospital microbiology laboratory. There is literally nothing for me to do until someone sends down a specimen or calls with a question. So if not for other things, I’d literally be sitting here watching the clock and as you can imagine, that could drive you stir crazy
Steeplejack
I had an early dinner with a friend, then went to Trader Joe’s to get the instant coffee that I forgot to get when I was at the other Trader Joe’s on Friday. It was mercifully not packed, although the parking lot was still a madhouse, for some reason. Then I went to Target to get a couple of things, and, because I hadn’t been there in quite a while and it was also mercifully not packed, I ended up looking at every single item in the store (except women’s underwear—restraining order), which is an OCD thing that happens to me sometimes, usually in Home Depot. I ended up getting a few pieces of minor kitchenware and a couple of my signature polos from the Targét pour Homme collection. Stylin’.
Came home and spent a quiet evening with the housecat. Looking forward to a cup of that tasty Trader Joe’s instant coffee in the morning—with heavy cream! Good times.
Roger Moore
@Steeplejack:
It’s part of the Trader Joe’s experience. It just wouldn’t be a trip to TJs if it didn’t involve spending more time looking for a parking place than shopping.
Lynn Dee
@Hungry Joe:
Exactly what I was thinking. Steve King’s stupid. But stupider than Louie Gohmert? Come on now!
TriassicSands
@Roger Moore:
Agreed. They would have to invent a new IQ scale (imaginary numbers?) to quantify Gohmert’s IQ.
On the other hand, to appreciate Modern Republicans one needs a corresponding evilness or perversity quotient to measure just what lousy human beings they are. It’s not enough to be merely stupid and ignorant, you have to be a genuinely terrible human being to be in the front rank of the Modern Republican Party. Both King and Gohmert qualify easily.
debbie
@Iowa Old Lady:
Well, if you’re going to be all traditional, then I’d think this Sherlock pales in comparison to Jeremy Brett’s…
I love Elementary, and Lucy Liu has nothing to do with it. Johnny Lee Miller is the whole show and his non-stop intensity seems to match the original vision of Sherlock.
S. cerevisiae
@burnspbesq: I wouldn’t worry too much this year because I don’t think anyone can stop the Kings.
Wally Ballou
What. Thee. Fuck. (Via TPM)
Richard Bottoms
@Wally Ballou: They. Are. Insane.
Don’t you all get that?
So the next person to mention they are “tired” of Hillary gets punched in the crotch, seriously.
Ruthless determination to win is what we need, solidarity as Democrats is what we need. Beating these assholes once and for all is what we need.
mclaren
Surely everyone knows that the word “xenophobia” means someone who hates the TV show Xena: Warrior Princess.
Gretchen
lamh36: I’m just jealous. They keep us chronically understaffed and then complain that things don’t get done fast enough – the MBA jerk in charge has an excel chart that says we don’t need overtime. But I admit the time goes faster when I’m running.