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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Excellent Links / Official Owen Ellickson appreciation thread

Official Owen Ellickson appreciation thread

by Tim F|  October 8, 20168:59 pm| 43 Comments

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HEIDI: You burned your bridges. You can't unendorse now.
CRUZ: I don't understand! I'm brilliant! How did this happen?
HEIDI: (harsh laugh)

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) October 8, 2016

GIULIANI: Sexual assault talk respahnse video, take 1!
TRUMP: "Look, people… relax, OK?"
GIULIANI: We nailed it!
CONWAY: Try again

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) October 8, 2016

GIULIANI: Sexual assault talk respahnse video, take 2!
TRUMP: "Bill Clinton talks about felching. Look it up."
GIULIANI: Poifect!
CONWAY: No

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) October 8, 2016

GIULIANI: Sexual assault talk respahnse video, take 8!
TRUMP: "How gross is Billy Bush? Not an apology, but while we're here–"
CONWAY: STOP

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) October 8, 2016

CONWAY: New defections: Thune, Hewitt.
TRUMP: Hewitt's out? Eeeuuuggh.
(match strike)
TRUMP: Two Kools at once?
CONWAY: It stops talking now

— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) October 8, 2016

In real life, Rudy Giuliani will replace Reince Preibus on Face the Nation and Kellyanne Conway on FOX News Sunday. Why not, it’s their party. If the bench gets too thin they could always send in Roger Ailes.

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  1. 1.

    redshirt

    October 8, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    Gosh, I think McTireSwing might even sit out this round of Sunday talk shows.

  2. 2.

    frosty

    October 8, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    I don’t do twitter, but I had to bookmark this guy. I love his voice for Hillary.

  3. 3.

    jl

    October 8, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    Rudy has turned into an unhinged old codger, perhaps no longer in his right mind, liable at any moment to start chewing on the furniture to make his point. I think he will do well tomorrow.

  4. 4.

    Sandia Blanca

    October 8, 2016 at 9:04 pm

    Owen Ellickson has become one of the best parts of this circusy meltdown. Love these overheard conversations!

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    October 8, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    @redshirt:

    Apparently Guiliani will be making the rounds to defend Trump.

    Let us savor.

  6. 6.

    TaMara (HFG)

    October 8, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    Kellyanne Conway’s career is toast. As it should be.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    October 8, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    So many heroes. One month. Let’s do this thing.

  8. 8.

    Major Major Major Major

    October 8, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    I went to follow him but his recent tweets made no damn sense at all. Good thing he links to three Storifys on his pinned tweet!

  9. 9.

    Greg Gabrielse

    October 8, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    Pence: marriage is sacred between a man and a woman.
    Trump: I tried to sleep with a married woman.
    Pence: ummmm.

  10. 10.

    hellslittlestangel

    October 8, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    Leave Donald Trump alooooooooone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Seriously, my biggest worry now is that he drops out of the race. I’ve been looking forward all year to seeing him humiliated on 11/8.

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    October 8, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    I just don’t think most of his schtick is all that funny. Sorry, not sorry.

  12. 12.

    Mnemosyne

    October 8, 2016 at 9:09 pm

    @frosty:

    I texted this one to my husband:

    Owen Ellickson ‏@ onlxn 1h1 hour ago
    HILLARY: Paul fuckin’ Ryan. Boy, did you shit the bed.
    RYAN: I already condemned his comments.
    HILLARY: Oh, well, I’ll mail you a lollipop

  13. 13.

    Corner Stone

    October 8, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    The whole voodoo magic by Ann Coulter to raise the ghost of zombie Reagan while the insiders were trying to decide what to do about dumping Trump? Not all that great.

  14. 14.

    Mark B

    October 8, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): She got a pretty sweetheart deal, I doubt she needs to work again after the election is over.

  15. 15.

    frosty

    October 8, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    One of my faves too.

  16. 16.

    bluehill

    October 8, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Sure if someone cares about integrity. On the hand,she’ll have a long career working for tyrants and despots all over the world. That or some oil company will hire her to do PR.

  17. 17.

    lgerard

    October 8, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    @Mark B:

    No
    She has an actual business with real clients that focuses on helping them appeal to women. She has to be done with trump at this point.

  18. 18.

    Corner Stone

    October 8, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    @lgerard:

    She has an actual business with real clients that focuses on helping them appeal to women.

    Exemplar!

  19. 19.

    lamh36

    October 8, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    Free HBO/Cinemax weekend just watched Jurassic World. Just watched #JurassicWorld for the first time…well, I missed the first 45min, but caught the rest of it. 1st/Last thought…kitten heels?

    Now watching Trainwreck…and I’m already bored…it’s supposed to be funny right?

    The John Cena sex talk scene was kinda funny…lol.

    “There’s no I in TEAM”…REALLY.

  20. 20.

    geg6

    October 8, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    @lgerard:

    Yeah. She’s great at it, too. She’s the one they brought in to teach them how not to talk about rape. Say what you will, but they have done what she asked. They certainly changed how they talk about sexual assault.

  21. 21.

    TaMara (HFG)

    October 8, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    @lamh36: I rooted for the dinosaurs on that one.

    ETA: And I really like Chris Pine, but was so glad I didn’t shell out $15 for the big screen

  22. 22.

    RaflW

    October 8, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    It seems that Bob Dole is still supporting Trump. He is of course a complete non-entity in any measurable way in 2016 politics. But it makes me very glad Bill Clinton and Ross Perot teamed up to hand him his ass in ’96.

  23. 23.

    lgerard

    October 8, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    @geg6:

    difficult to teach pigs to fly

  24. 24.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 8, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): I don’t think anyone’s career is toast just because of Trump. Conway will return to the same place in the wing nut/media world that she was before, maybe even move up to C-list.

  25. 25.

    sigaba

    October 8, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    @RaflW: “It seems that Bob Dole is still supporting Trump. ”

    In other news the Roscoe Conkling machine has pulled all of its Trump ward heelers.

  26. 26.

    RedDirtGirl

    October 8, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    @RaflW: I thought Dole was a never-trump.

  27. 27.

    RepubAnon

    October 8, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    My hope is that they bring out Roger Ailes to say that this type of talk is quite common when the Republican Boy’s Club (no girls allowed) get together, so what’s the concern?

    (I don’t think there’s enough popcorn in the world to keep us supplied in that scenario…)

  28. 28.

    RepubAnon

    October 8, 2016 at 9:24 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I can see her elevator pitch now: “If I was able to tell such whopping lies for Trump with a straight face, imagine what I can do for you!)

  29. 29.

    gf120581

    October 8, 2016 at 9:26 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I expect she’ll be well taken care of by the GOP establishment. She actually kept Trump corralled for weeks, she deserves something.

  30. 30.

    Jeffro

    October 8, 2016 at 9:28 pm

    Love me some Owen Ellickson…his takes on Giuliani and Christie (“Hole”) are priceless! Cruz is a close third.

  31. 31.

    redshirt

    October 8, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    @RedDirtGirl: For reasons I cannot comprehend, Dole has been an out front Trump supporter.

  32. 32.

    Corner Stone

    October 8, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    @lgerard:

    difficult to teach pigs to fly

    They fly just fine. It’s sticking the landing that’s the problem.

  33. 33.

    Joel

    October 8, 2016 at 9:49 pm

    @redshirt: dole is probably pissed that the party pulled the rug from under him in 1996.

  34. 34.

    Blue Galangal

    October 8, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    @redshirt: possibly he’s senile. I didn’t even know he was still around, and I consider myself moderately well informed about politics. Otoh I have avoided the right wing fever swamps for 9 years now.

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    October 8, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    God dammit.

  36. 36.

    Gertrude the Duck

    October 8, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    @shomi:

    I’m with you on that. Don’t get the fawning over this guy.

  37. 37.

    tallmutha

    October 8, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    @redshirt: ::cough::cough::senile old bastard::cough::

  38. 38.

    lahke

    October 8, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    What’s going on in the right-wing space. Anyone brave enough to go look?

    Man, it’s hard ty[ping around a cat==he likes to lie in the pencil drawer.

  39. 39.

    SFAW

    October 8, 2016 at 11:05 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    And I really like Chris Pine,

    Chris Pratt?

  40. 40.

    Ella in New Mexico

    October 8, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    I went back and read Owen Ellickson for like an hour today and could not stop laughing. The images in my head of these conversations just knocked me outta my chair.

    But still trying to figure out who some of his characters are, like Milo or Guggo.

  41. 41.

    Fitzwili

    October 8, 2016 at 11:39 pm

    @Ella in New Mexico: @Ella in New Mexico:

    Milo is a real person; he is the alt right figure Milo Yiannopoulos. The clowns Guggo etc are fictive characters based on all the scary clown sightings happening recently, mixed with a little Lovecraft.

  42. 42.

    redshirt

    October 8, 2016 at 11:47 pm

    @Blue Galangal: Maybe. Sad if so. But he’s got advisers, family members, right? He was not too long ago completely humiliated in the Senate by the Republican members, who voted down the UN treaty. Which he showed up for in his wheelchair on the Senate floor.

  43. 43.

    Spider-Dan

    October 9, 2016 at 5:05 pm

    @redshirt: Dole was #NeverCruz (like, “Lucifer in the flesh”-level) and was on board with whoever could take Cruz out. He really, really doesn’t like Cruz.

    In fact, during the primary Dole said that he would vote for any Republican candidate over Hillary… but that he might oversleep that day if Cruz were the candidate.

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