I can’t decide who I am more tired of hearing about- Brett Favre or Sarah Palin.
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I can’t decide who I am more tired of hearing about- Brett Favre or Sarah Palin.
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Deborah
Roman Polanski.
mvr
Why choose?
smiley
I haven’t heard enough about Jon and Kate! For example, who the fuck are they and why the fuck should I give a shit? I really want Regis to answer that for me. Really.
freelancer
Whatever happened to Scott Baio?
Splitting Image
Favre.
Palin is still endlessly hilarious.
Corner Stone
You got some kind of problem with a QB throwin frozen ropes?
General Winfield Stuck
Favre didn’t inflict the national intercourse with Death Panels, so Palin is one up in my book for tired reference. Though Favre has forever tainted the great American institution of “retirement”. But both have used up all the extra center of attention.
asiangrrlMN
Fuckin’ Favre. Hate him. Want the Vikes to win, but Favre to get knocked out of the game (nothing too serious).
I haz lapful of two snoozin’ black cats, otherwise I would be even crankier about having Favre on the Vikes.
P.S. I am willfully ignoring Palin, so she doesn’t bother me as much. As a Vikings fan, I can’t really ignore Favre.
Eric U.
I sorta liked the ad where Farve is having trouble making up his mind about something or other. At least he was competent at something at some time in the past.
joe from Lowell
Definitely Palin.
At least I get to see Favre get sacked once in a while.
It’s a plot to privatize Social Security.
joe from Lowell
I’ve got Ryan Grant. My opponent has Bernard Berrian, Greg Jennings, Ryan Longwell, and the Packers’ D.
I’m not going to figure out what I’m supposed to be rooting for until halfway through the third quarter.
demkat620
@asiangrrlMN: You haz cats? I haz a smallish Jack Russell on my feet.
Believe it or not this dog is a champion cuddler and sleeper.
Corner Stone
@Eric U.: I’ve seen 3 different versions of that commercial and IMO, they are all really well done.
Zam
@joe from Lowell: wow, at first when I read you have grant and opp has berrian I thought you were my match for the week.
@asiangrrlMN: I hope he gets knocked out serious that traitorous bastard.
Incertus
Favre. I’ve gotten to the point where I want him to go out like Theismann, gruesome broken leg on MNF and all.
freelancer
To yet again, quote the late Bill Hicks:
“Anyone here in marketing or advertising, Kill Yourself.”
mai naem
I am bored. Sarah MooseJaw Palin is boring. Barack Hussein Obama is boring. John Casanova Ensign is boring. Brett Who Lefavre is boring. Peeyoush Jindal is booring. Roman Paedophile Polanski is pathetically boooring. Hell, even Joe Biden is boring. We,like, need a nice major meaty scandal, like right now. It has to involved Republicans, not BHO. I am not asking for Lewinsky 2.0.
Brian J
I actually haven’t heard much about Sarah Palin in the last week or so. What has she done now?
On completely unrelated notes, I have two very dissimilar questions:
1. I recently updated to the latest version of Firefox on my laptop, and for some reason, it decides it is going to go into offline mode at random points. Is there something I can do to fix this? I might have tried reinstalling the program, but I am not sure. It’s annoying because it is hard to get a good wireless signal back when this happens.
2. We’ve all heard the argument that stuff like changing the incentives for fee-for-service medicine and using comparative effectiveness research to lower health care costs. It’s easy to understand how this could make a difference as far as public health care programs go, since the government can theoretically do whatever it wants as far as the structure goes. But why would this necessarily bring down private costs? Is there really any other major reason than the possibility that the public programs will be more like testing grounds for new ideas and that if these new ideas hold, the private sector will copy them to save money? Or is there some other, more complicated process at work?
freelancer
@mai naem:
You say that like they’re not gonna fabricate it anyways.
SiubhanDuinne
I can’t decide who I am more tired of waiting to see pictures of — Tunch or Lily.
jl
Tunch! Why do we have to hear about old codgers like Fauvre, and crazy megalomaniacs like Palin. But fine upstanding examples for our nation like Tunch The Cat, are neglected? If this country had Lily and Tunch as examples, we would be a better people. Why does Balloon-Juice refuse to save the nation?
General Winfield Stuck
@mai naem:
Wingnut sex scandals are now so passe. Though better when mano a mano. Getting a health care reform bill passed with a good public auction ought to be exciting, watching tea baggers go nukular and the Senate blown up by GOP senators. Then the fun starts with southern states saying hell no we won’t go, and Beck, Bachmann, Limbaugh, Steve King get the band together for a mission from Gawd.
We are on the verge of excitement. So hold on a little longer.
Ben Richards
@joe from Lowell: Mason Crosby has to boot 9 field goals for me to lose, so not that worried.
Zam
This game is too much for me. I’m gonna have a fucking heart attack.
gnomedad
@freelancer:
Damn you, I was expecting to see Bill Hicks. We’re doomed.
General Winfield Stuck
@General Winfield Stuck:
Public Auction might work, but public option is better.
ChrisB
Never complained before but here’s something else I’m tired of: the gosh darned server. Just so you know, it’s been bad again today.
JGabriel
John Cole:
Who’s Brett Favre?
I guess that means I’m more sick of Palin. Though, likeDeborah, I’d have a tough choice between Palin and Polanski, though I expect Palin would win that round too. Polanski may be an adolescent rapist, but Palin has no redeeming qualities at all.
mai naem:
As sick as I am of Palin, I have to admit a Palin sex scandal would have beneficial consequences — like removing her from the stage of “serious” presidential contenders.
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asiangrrlMN
Tunch Tunch Tunch!
@Zam: Packer fan? Viking fan, here. Gah.
JGabriel, you’re kidding, right? If Palin had a sex scandal, it would probably enhance her status in the GOP. That’s why they love her.
I hate Chris Berman. That is all.
Corner Stone
@mai naem:
You know, even if the Republicans got caught in some version of the decadent scene from the Depp movie The Ninth Gate (see how I tied that in there?), the one where all the peeps are boning and rolling together all sensual and stuff in France or some other exotic locale – it wouldn’t fucking matter.
They are still the party of Family Values after all.
JackieBinAZ
@freelancer: I got out of it before I did.
freelancer
@gnomedad:
Though it may seem that we are doomed, I bring news that we are not doomed.
The Arrested Development Movie is officially GO.
The biggest hurdle is finding holes in the cast’s various schedules.
Linkmeister
I am emphatically not tired of Rosanne Cash. A link to a preview of her new CD can be found in this post.
“Motherless Children” is especially good.
Zam
@asiangrrlMN: Well this can’t end well
Sean
Favre: Baseball player, right?
(Damn my gay genes!)
-S
Corner Stone
@JGabriel:
Bah-fucking-zing!
The Other Steve
GO VIKES!
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
It’d be a toofer. The Lowry horny toad starburst crowd would cream their jeans, and Sarah would ask the lord for redemption and baby jesus would gurgle with delight and the money would roll in for Sarah Magdalena.
gbear
My hat is off to the crew that works at the Metrodome. Last night was the ‘last’ Twin’s game, so they had to spend last night cleaning up that party and today turning the dome into a football stadium. Tomorrow the Twins are playing the tiebreaker game so the crew has to put the baseball field back in place overnight.
Tonight Roseanne Cash was on Terry Gross’ show. That was better than football.
dan robinson
Did you hear about Michael Jackson?
He’s still dead.
But seriously, do either Brett F. or Sarah P. even matter. They are in the entertainment business and there aren’t any narratives that I can spin around them that are even remotely relevant.
Next.
Linkmeister
@gbear: There’s a link to that interview in the post at my place I linked to above.
Corner Stone
Steve Young – “I’ll make some calls.”
THAT. Is freakin hilarious.
Ben Richards
@Sean: Favre made a great cameo at the end of “There’s Something About Mary” as Cameron Diaz’s old flame.
Maybe you remember that.
gbear
@Linkmeister:
Thanks for that. I didn’t see your posting until after I’d written mine.
Corner Stone
@Linkmeister: I have always believed, and refuse to be disabused of the notion, that if NIN “Hurt” was not specifically written for Johnny Cash then he was the only person alive who could cover it and own it so perfectly.
Svensker
As a Jets fan, I will never forgive Mr. Favre for using my team for a cheap one night stand.
However, Sarah Palin is trying to ruin the entire country, so guess that’s worse.
Jay in Oregon
Evening all.
Hope arguingwithsignposts is doing well, I know he’s been traveling.
I’m in good spirits, though I have some touchy family business to deal with.
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck:
Hiya, Jay in Oregon! Glad to hear you’re in good spirits today. Good luck with the family stuff.
I love you for this. Wanna be my third fake-hubby?
asiangrrlMN
@Corner Stone: I love that cover, and I’m not usually one for covers.
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
Ok. But my heart belongs to Littel Libby.
getsmartin
Years ago I saw Favre in a local watering hole piss drunk, wearing a brassiere on his head (back during his MVP heyday). I live close to his hickoid origins, so Favre sightings are commonplace. He had a loathsome entourage, btw.
Corner Stone
The Pack seems to be self-destructing on penalties.
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: You don’t sound too enthusiastic. Maybe I’ll just admire you from afar. No way I can compete with Little Bitsy.
Corner Stone
Ahhh, Sage Rosenfels…welcome to backup QB hell once again you fucking hack.
Linkmeister
@Corner Stone: Cash covered a lot of material one wouldn’t expect him to on those last six or so albums (The American series). That one is exceptional, I agree.
Corner Stone
@asiangrrlMN: I enjoy covers when they are reinventive, and just about every string quartet cover of any modern tune – me likey.
I much, much prefer listening to the Cash version, so much so that I feel that NIN is covering his original when I hear it.
cokane
at least Favre is good at what he gets paid to do. Not a quitter either, obviously.
asiangrrlMN
@Linkmeister: Personal Jesus was really good, too.
TuiMel
@demkat620:
I can believe it. My “Jumbo Jack” – he is not smallish- also likes to cuddle and to sleep. He is a dear boy.
Linkmeister
@Corner Stone: That happened to Dylan, too. He heard Jimi Hendrix covering “All Along the Watchtower” and has played it in Hendrix’s style ever since.
Corner Stone
@getsmartin: Well, fuck. It was M-I-crooked-letter-crooked-letter-I-crooked-letter-crooked-letter-I-humpback-humpback-I.
I mean, amiright? What’d ya expect?
General Winfield Stuck
And then there’s the famous Favre dysfunctional family, which could explain a lot.
These events happened while I lived in southern MS, the sister was also involved in home invasions with her crew, and the railroad crossing crash of his brother happened about a mile from where i was living. A fairly wild bunch.
Corner Stone
@asiangrrlMN: Just don’t have the ears for it?
asiangrrlMN
@demkat620: I haz two beautiful black cats. They are no longer on my legs, thankfully. They can do that all day and all night during the winter. I think it’s their way of telling me I keep the house too cold.
IndyLib, how you feel about your Broncos now?
Corner Stone, or the soulful pleading eyes.
Jason Bylinowski
Palin – meh, I’m done with her.
Favre – we’ll see how he does, I think it’s gonna be brutal by the time the season’s over, but some people are just born to prove the expression, “you can’t go home again”. An apt metaphor, considering he’s playing against his own team tonight.
By the way, how did the game Dead Space slip under my radar until just now? I got a good deal on it, so I popped it in my PC this weekend and was immediately taken back to the days of System Shock 2. Scared as shit to play this game, but in a good way. If all games were as good as SS2, though, I swear to God nobody would ever see me, period.
TuiMel
@mai naem:
Seriously?
John Casanova Ensign not meaty enough?
Mark Appalachian Trail Sanford not enough?
Just what sort of “side o’ beef” scandal would end your enui?
Svensker
@cokane:
You obviously were stoned out of your mind during Favre’s tour of the Jets.
General Winfield Stuck
I should note that Favre’s sister has straightened out since and is a sportscaster somewhere.
Jay in Oregon
@asiangrrlMN:
Are you asking me or him?
I wouldn’t mind, I guess, if you don’t have a problem with damaged goods. :)
Svensker
Speaking of failures and quitters — John, what the HELL is up with your server?
Are you paying for that “service”? Get a refund, dude.
getsmartin
@ Corner Stone: ‘Zactly! That sort of display doesn’t get much of a reaction in the fine establishments ’round here.
Chicken Drop anyone?
Tim
@asiangrrlMN: Amen, sister. You, too, SiubhanDuinne. I miss seeing pictures of curmudgeonly, lovable Tunch. Especially in Steelers season, we should be seeing lots of Tunch. (We could use a Tunch on the offensive line. Yeah, yeah, they were better against the Chargers, but they still need to improve.)
asiangrrlMN
@Jay in Oregon: Sorry. That was for the General. I got my editing all messed up. You don’t sound very enthusiastic, either! I think I’ll stick to my two fake-hubbies for now.
Svensker
And, may I point out, that Little Bitsy is suffering from these shit-for-brains servers as well? She has only 543 votes today, folks. Go vote for Little Bitsy!
Hawes
Palin=Always quitting.
Favre=Never quitting.
If Palin really retires to the Wingnut Welfare Circuit and Dinner Theater, then Favre wins as most annoying. But the minute Palin returns….. Also.
Brachiator
@gbear:
Yep. Am listening to it now in Southern Cal (she ends it with a cut from her new CD, the song “Motherless Children”).
Cash talks about the background to her CD, called, “The List.” When she was a teen (and a huge Beatles fan), she toured with her father. He discovered that she knew little about country and American music, and wrote out a list of 100 essential American songs she should know.
The interview can be found here.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113496614
getsmartin
@ General Winfield Stuck:
Former coastian? I’m in Long Beach.
The watering hole I referred to was Mallini’s. The train crossing accident you referred to happened a quarter mile away.
arguingwithsignposts
@Jay in Oregon:
Hey, Jay. Just checking in now. BJ has been doing the FYWP dance most of the day, so I’ve stayed away. Got home late last night and went into work this morning. Travel is tiring.
How are things on your end? Hope things are manageable.
Hey everyone else!
Corner Stone
So…if you’re a semi-well known American actor. With a very popular TV series under your belt, and a few other things that were very well received. And your agent comes to you and says, “Ok, get stoked! Just got you the voiceover for the Applebee’s spots!”
Are you ok with that? Or do you cry a little at night after you cash the checks?
arguingwithsignposts
@Corner Stone:
Shout out to the man in black for that cover. I have grown to like the live NIN version, though.
PanAmerican
Speaking of retirement, they shoulda rolled Madden out to fellate Favre for old times sake.
arguingwithsignposts
Damn, I think someone needs to put out an APB for the Packers offensive line, because they don’t seem to be in the building tonight.
Svensker
@Hawes:
.
Srsly?
Did he not quit the Packers? And a year later quit the Jets?
Amnesia, folks.
asiangrrlMN
@arguingwithsignposts: Good to see you. Hope you’re doing OK.
@Corner Stone: No clue, but who is it? I mute commercials.
@PanAmerican: I so did not need that image in my mind. Now, I have to wash my brains out with lye.
freelancer
@Corner Stone:
When you’re hitting Bo Derek, I imagine you’re doing very little crying at night.
Ash Can
Favre’s moving heaven and earth to beat his old Pack, all right. What do you want to bet next week he’ll throw three interceptions in a row and get knocked out of the game before the end of the first quarter?
@asiangrrlMN: “I hate Chris Berman. That is all.”
Chris Berman is too loud even when the TV’s on mute.
Robertdsc-iphone
I’ve tuned out Favre. He sucks.
Palin, on the other hand, still has some appeal to me.
The server was really bad today, though I was able to get on long enough to read the Palin Apocalypse thread. Good times.
IndyLib
@asiangrrlMN:
I posted last night on the football thread. I ate a small portion of crow. I still think Orton is a mediocre quarterback and I’d take Cutler back in a heartbeat. On the other hand the Broncs defense is smokin’ hot. If the team can hold it together through the season and make the playoffs I’ll eat a bigger piece of crow pie in honor of McDaniels.
I’m kinda where you are with Favre. I’d like to see the team win, but I’d like to see McDaniels go down. I just don’t like him.
Skepticat
@Brian J: If you find the FF solution, please post it. I’ve had the same trouble–only when I’m at the edge of the reach of my router, though.
And I’m most tired of hearing about Glen Bleck.
Corner Stone
@asiangrrlMN: John Corbett from “Northern Exposure” & “Sex in the City”
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0179173/
Corner Stone
@freelancer: FSM bless you. 100% exactly right.
Even if she is a wingnut.
AhabTRuler
@asiangrrlMN:
You’re with me, Leather!
General Winfield Stuck
@getsmartin:
That’s right, it did happen there, in Long Beach. I lived up the road some just past Gulfport, on the Biloxi side. So I was further away than a mile. There are so many of those crossings that had accidents, most without lights, that it was hard to remember which one. But I used to drive over to LB, it’s the best of the little towns along the MGC imo. I worked at the old Broadwater Hotel, that I guess they abandoned after I left.
freelancer
@Corner Stone:
She’s a wingnut? Now, I’m crying at night. Where the fuck is my check from Applebees?!
Incertus
@Svensker: I’ve long wondered how much of Favre’s “love of the game” that kept him in there with the fucked up arm was the love of his consecutive game streak. Maybe he honestly thought that him with 2/3 of an arm was better than the backup completely healthy–or maybe he just didn’t give a crap.
asiangrrlMN
@AhabTRuler: WTF? i have no idea what you are saying. New pics of Henri?
Incertus, love of the game, my flat ass!
matoko_chan
Well….Muse telling Beck to retract his recommendation and that they would sue for copyright infringement if he used Uprising on his radio show brought back the 80s Hairbands universal rejection of Palin.
I think she got rejected by Bon Jovi, Survivor, Heart, Van Halen, Foo Fighters (not 80s), Jackson Brown…anyone else ?
Van Halen had to leave a leave a mark….she named Track Van Palin after them.
Conservatives are tone deaf and they can’t dance.
Incertus
@Corner Stone: Ask Sigourney Weaver how she feels about her voiceover checks. I mute commercials and still seem to hear her all the time.
mai naem
I was doing some online shopping this evening. There was an item that I clicked on, that said the country of origin was “Taiwan, Province of China” Is that really what Taiwan is labeled or is that something new? I don’t remember ever seeing Taiwan being referred to as Province of China before.
MikeJ
I’ve never done a national spot, but I’ve done vo work for local applebee’s spots. I never cried, but I did freak out the first time I was stopped at a red light and heard my voice coming from someone else’s radio.
Jay in Oregon
@arguingwithsignposts:
Things are good. I’m feeling a lot better than I have in a while. Can almost get through a night of sleep, too.
The unpleasant family business I was referring to was my sister — she’s coming down to visit and her boyfriend is coming with her. They want to have dinner with me so I can meet him (they are apparently pretty serious) but the catch is, my sister doesn’t want my wife to come.
She wants this to be a positive first meeting, and she thinks that our marital problems will overshadow that. I tried to explain that things have been progressing, albeit slowly, but in the end I respected my sister’s feelings and told my wife. She wasn’t terribly surprised.
mai naem
@matoko_chan:
Ugh, I don’t want to discuss Caribou Barbie but ,seriously, I thought Track was named after the track that Todd and her used to run on?
IndyLib
@Skepticat:
Hear fucking Hear. I’m more sick of Beck than I am of Caribou Barbie and even Favre, which is saying a lot since I live in Wisconsin.
I’m glad I’m not out on the road tonight. There are going to be some dangerous Packers fans driving home tonight from the 9 gazillion taverns we have scattered all to hell and back out here.
Jay in Oregon
@asiangrrlMN:
Heh, no worries. :) Like I said, I’d be damaged goods right now anyway.
freelancer
@Incertus:
You must watch Planet Earth frequently.
and as an aside, I don’t have cable, so I haven’t seen commercials in months, so it’s really alien to me now, when having dinner at a friends or spending a rainy day at the folks’ house when I see just a string of commercials back to back to back subtly turning you and facing you the same direction. It’s just really weird once you’re acclimated toward not seeing them.
Jack
Favre is at least talented.
Palin is at least entertaining, in an ultra/uber/maximum crazy way.
I’ll take either over the following.
(I have to second) Jon and Kate Whomever.
The gods be damned Kardashians.
Lady Gaga.
Madonna.
Brad Pitt.
Angelina Jolie.
Roman Polanski, that raping pedophile pig (that’s really unfair to the porcine family).
John Mayer.
Hugh Heffner. The interchangeable blonde fembots who’ve single handedly redefined “commodity fetishism.”
Michelle Obama’s clothing.
Sunday morning talk show hosts.
Village sycophants.
Et cetera ad nauseum* ad infinitum…
* (- forgive bad Latin, if it is, please)
Corner Stone
@MikeJ: Hey, nothing wrong with that and I endorse your work ear unheard. My friend’s wife does all kinds of work like that along with instructional videos for large corporations (HP, Dell, etc), and I’m down with all that action. She also went on tour with Mary Lou Retton on a PBS thingie.
But that’s not the level I was gigging on. John Corbett has to have made major fat cash in his career.
Know what? Either way, I’m going to retract my snark. More power to anybody who’s working and making a living nowadays.
asiangrrlMN
@mai naem: Are you serious? I haz a sad now. I will have to ask my parents about it.
Sigh.
Crap, crap, crap. Pack just scored a touchdown with 3:40 left to go. 30 – 20 and going for two.
AhabTRuler
@asiangrrlMN: Wikipedia is your friend.
And of course, there are new pictures of Henri.
Corner Stone
@Incertus: I’m not going to ask her anything since we’d be way too busy mugging the fuck down.
arguingwithsignposts
@Jay in Oregon:
Sorry to hear that. Hard enough to manage relationships without the family throwing wrenches in things, eh?
Corner Stone
@freelancer: Dood. She is the original “Hottie Hollywood Conservative”.
But still just draw dropping hot. At least to me.
asiangrrlMN
@AhabTRuler: Damn it, Janet! Of course I could have looked it up.
Oooh, Henri. What an absolute cutie he is. Where do you live again?
@Jay in Oregon: Besides, you got enough on your plate with your real life!
burnspbesq
@arguingwithsignposts:
Hey yourself. How was SF? Did you make it to any part of HSB?
Corner Stone
@Jay in Oregon: God dammit Jay.
Mike D.
He keeps playing like this, you’ll have to stop watching football to stop hearing about him.
P.S. The hate in here makes you all look tiny. Tiny.
arguingwithsignposts
@burnspbesq:
SF was good, but didn’t get to HSB. I want to go sometime when I can spend the whole weekend at the fest. as it was, I’d have only been able to catch a couple of hours. Beautiful weather, though. Hotel was infested with USC students.
freelancer
@Corner Stone:
HA! Begrudgingly seconded, but WTF do I know?
burnspbesq
Damn. That woman’s voice still does things to me, 28 years after I first heard “Right or Wrong.”
Corner Stone
@arguingwithsignposts: Dood. Tenderloin. Porkloin. Otherloin.
I loved downtown San Fran. Bums sleeping 3 deep on the plaza sidewalk in the middle of the fucking day. Walked to the corner and watched a guy in a wheelchair busting some dude’s ass for working his corner.
Walked two blocks too far downhill and saw a guy slumped against a chainlink fence selling drugs to at least 7 people around him.
Needless to say, I turned around and went back to the gay-but-no-drugs-being-sold block.
Common Sense
Obama refuses to meet with Dalai Lama this weekin an attempt to curry Chinese favor.
This doesn’t sound good on the surface at all. I’m taking the article with a grain of salt (being Brit Press and all). Another troubling sign is that the headline contradicts the article itself. The meeting isn’t canceled, but postponed. I will however oppose the decision if Obama really does end up refusing to meet with him because China demanded it. There’s concessions/compromise and there’s abandoning human rights. What China is doing in Tibet is horrific and deserves to be universally denounced, not swept under the rug.
It is not a good sign that Obama is postponing the meeting. Whatever his political motivations, I have no problem with Bush’s public embrace of the Dalai Lama — a departure from previous Administrations’ private discussions. If Obama meets with him in private, I’ll probably grumble a bit but deal with it. If he refuses outright I’m gonna be ticked. I’m not to the level of the Beastie Boys or anything, but China’s treatment of Tibet is disgusting.
Brian J
@Corner Stone:
Since detecting celebrity voiceovers happens to be one of my talents, I am probably one of the few people who really remembers when a celebrity does something like this. A lot of celebrities, if not all of them, have a lot of failures on their resumes, but nobody seems to care, primarily because even with an image attached to the sound of a voice, nobody remembers. It may or may not be embarrassing for John Corbett to do commercials for Applebee’s–but then he’s not Gene Hackman doing spots for Oppenheimer Funds or Stockard Channing lending her voice for AIG–but I don’t think it matters, because in a few years, few will associate him with that. And while he may have more going for him that I realize, it’s probably not a bad idea for someone like him–a B-list celebrity–to stockpile the cash.
Corner Stone
@freelancer: He’s just fucked.
Sorry.
freelancer
@Corner Stone:
Landsman would say:
“Well then, you my friend, are double-fucked!”
Corner Stone
@Brian J: That’s your talent?
I agree with the funniness of the other scoundrels, but I have to say – if the damn dirty bankers are given absolution, aren’t the damn dirty voiceover artists?
And Stockard Channing I would put in the vague category of Corbett, but anything Hackman (what a fucking nom de Tunch that is) does, I’d say is first class, at least in the States.
And I’m really only singling out Applebee’s because it’s a fav of Bobo Brooks et al. Plus, it absolutely sucks food wise.
Martin
Protocol. You meet with the head of state before you meet residents of the nation that are critical of the state.
We expect pretty much the same treatment. And the US has always worked hard to keep up with the Brits in the diplomatic protocol category.
Obama will meet with him, but expect the wingnuts to declare Obama a failure over this. Don’t feed them.
Corner Stone
@freelancer: Yeah, but he’s a fat bastard. And no one pays attention to fat guys.
freelancer
@Mike D.:
I hate you! Look how tiny I iz!
Now run off and make another Beastie Boys album.
General Winfield Stuck
And if he had meet with the Dalai Lama, before, and offended said protocol and the Chinese, Special Ed would riff out several Hot Air posts about our dufus presnit screws up again.
I think Obama needs to just build a giant middle finger in the WH front lawn and point it toward Greater Wingnuttia.
General Winfield Stuck
New pics of me one true love, Here and here.
freelancer
@General Winfield Stuck:
Stuck, you have the cutest fucking dog.
Common Sense
I’m not guaranteeing he won’t meet with him, or trumpeting the article’s validity. If I didn’t express enough skepticism in my original post, believe me it’s there. I also can’t think of a single foreign policy decision that I disagree with Obama on thus far (let’s not get into the domestic stuff), so it’s not like this is another sign of his weakness to me or anything. I really don’t have a problem with him postponing it — I will be annoyed if it continues to be postponed forever. It’s troubling. And while I said before that I don’t disagree with Bush’s public meetings, I will say that it certainly doesn’t make up for his dismal performance elsewhere, and I preemptively retract my future grumbling even if the meetings are in private. I can see the need to display some reserve when negotiating with other countries. They need to take place, however.
Martin
@General Winfield Stuck:
Yep. I almost wonder if the wingnuts aren’t broken up into special teams for opportunities like this – the blogs are tasked with declaring Obama a failure if he goes and Chicago wins the Olympics, the radio guys declaring him a failure if he goes and Chicago loses. Fox News declaring him a failure if he doesn’t go.
General Winfield Stuck
@freelancer:
It’s not mine, but a flickr friend. Wish Libby twer mine.
Martin
No, it’s really quite normal. And it wasn’t a postponement since there was no meeting scheduled, and Obama didn’t invite the Dalai Lama to D.C.
Consider that heads of state come to the UN all the time, but Obama doesn’t meet with all of them. I don’t remember any articles complaining that Obama postponed meetings with them.
This is a manufactured story.
General Winfield Stuck
Frau Bachmann is at it again with the violent metaphors.
Somebody needs to slip in an earmark authorizing mental health help for this whack job.
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: Oh, you said Libby, not Betsy. Even worse for me! Le sigh. Libby is way too dang cute
.@freelancer: I hate him moar, so I iz ebun tinier!
Common Sense
@Martin:
Why were they arguing against delaying it if there was never a meeting scheduled?
Common Sense
I don’t mean that question in a demeaning sense, by the way. I’m perfectly willing to accept that the article was incorrect and that no meeting was ever scheduled. It’ll take more than you saying so in a comment thread though — no offense but links r nice.
Morbo
OK, whoever is in charge of the Washington Independent’s web page formatting needs to be maced in the junk. It’s practically unreadable…
Martin
Because there wasn’t. A meeting was requested, the WH wants to meet but won’t meet until after the China trip. The Dalai Lama comes anyway to make a point. It’s his right to make the point – the Dalai Lama plays politics very well. It’s the WH’s obligation to do this in the right order.
I mean, we really can’t criticize DeMint for going to Honduras because of the message it sends and then ask Obama to break a different set of rules of protocol.
drillfork
As a Vikings fan, I like Favre now. I know, I’m such a whore.
I just wish Brett would go after Glenn Beck. Favre owns the manly choking up routine…
BDeevDad
Where do these guys come from:
Peter Schiff:
Yup, same fucking thing.
Peter Schiff moves his family to Washington to sit at a desk and debate policy.
WWII soldiers leave their homes and families to go to Iwo Jima and Omaha Beach.
Robertdsc-iphone
@BDeevDad:
That’s a Hokestroika (see Lexicon) if there ever was one. What a maroon.
Batocchio
Hey, after his next retirement, Favre will equal Michael Jordan. As for Favre versus Palin – well, I’m sick of chatter over him, but he hasn’t sought the limelight the way she has, and he’s actually good at what he does.
As a lifelong Packers fan, I was really disappointed with Favre’s retirement dancing the past few years, but the guy clearly loves the game – last week’s comeback win really showed that. I’m still rooting for the Packers (tough game tonight), but I wish the guy well otherwise.
JGabriel
@TuiMel:
When I first read this, I scanned “Jumbo Jack” as a synonym for “p3nis”.
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JGabriel
@freelancer:
Until she starts talking about how Obama wasn’t born in this country, defending torture, and pining for the return of Dick Cheney.
Bo Derek’s a GOPer.
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Surly Duff
Can I ask where the fuck everyone got the idea that Green Bay said that Favre couldn’t play football anymore? Why is this getting repeated as if it actually occurred?
From what I remember, in 2007, Favre decided he was just joking about his earlier retirement, and said, hey I’m ready to be the starting QB again. Green Bay basically told Brett, look we love you, but we have to consider the long-term future of this franchise, and we have to look to starting Aaron Rogers because he has one year left on his contract and we want to know whether he is a long-term solution at QB that we need to sign. Plus, we are tired of you killing us with your dumbass INTs in big moments, like when you singlehandedly lost the NFC championship game at the end of the year, you are reaching 40 years old, and you have thrown the most INTs in the history of the NFL, a trend that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. How about we try to find a solution that works for you and the franchise?
And Favre basically said, fuck you, I want you to release me so I can go to whatever team I want, possibly Minnesota, and not allow the franchise to get anything in return. Rather than cowtow to a spoiled brat, GB refused, Brett faked yet another tearful retirement, GB traded him to the Jets who then regretted that decision after he threw for 8 INT in the final 5 games and the Jets missed the playoffs. After believeing that the Jets failed Brett, because Brett couldn’t have failed the Jets – Brett Favre is like Conservatism! – he retired only so the Jets would release him. Amazingly, he returned to the Vikings, after skipping the entire postseason and training schedule, only because he believed they had a good shot at winning it all.
I am so sick of all this bullshit surrounding Favre. He doesn’t love the game, he loves himself. He doesn’t care about taking responsibility for his issues or training like a professional, he wants to just sling it around as he prefers. And when he starts to bomb in Minnesota, or when his body starts to wear down at the end of the season and the mistakes start piling up, he will look to deflect any criticism of his play and the reporters won’t call him on it. Favre would make a great politician.
matoko_chan
Mai naem, his middle name is Van.
Corner Stone
@PanAmerican:
I missed this one last night but it’s solid gold. Gold I tells ya!
Svensker
@Surly Duff:
Yes yes and yes.
bedtimeforbonzo
“Speaking of retirement, they shoulda rolled Madden out to fellate Favre for old times sake.”
I thought Gruden more than made up for Madden.
I am surprised at what a cheerleader Gruden is. Haven’t really heard him offer any analysis.
Still, it would be ignoring the obvious to not see that Favre is playing at an impressively high level right now.
Since Green Bay had been grooming a succcessor in Rodgers, I think they were ready to move on without Favre. Look at my hometown team, the Eagles: They showed no loyalty to Brian Dawkins. NFL teams discard players the same way big companies discard employees, heartlessly. His spotlight-seeking can be offputting, but if I’m being objective, I can’t fault Favre for taking care of Favre. (I think the Jets used him as much as he used them. Also.)
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It was refreshing to hear Rodney Harrison on Sunday’s NBC telecast say that Tom Brady needs to put a dress on. The quarterbacks need to be protected but not at the expense of making aggressive, physical defense moot.