The look on Harold Ford’s face as he listens to Iggy Pop cracked me up: “You’re telling me that I’m not the only guy who’s had it in the ear before?” (via TAP)
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The look on Harold Ford’s face as he listens to Iggy Pop cracked me up: “You’re telling me that I’m not the only guy who’s had it in the ear before?” (via TAP)
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Rathskeller
I wish I had heroin abs.
trollhattan
“Call me, Harold, I’m worth a million in prizes.”
Aaah, that’s all I’ve got.
Osprey
Harold has this “I’m about to call security-there is an unkempt, shirtless man who probably has poor hygiene invading my personal no-zone space” grimmace.
I have no idea who the lady sitting next to him is, but she has this “I could fuck Iggy right here” look on her face.
What event/where was this that they had…Iggy Pop performing? Looks like a fundraiser or a political convention.
WereBear
The Inexplicable meets the Indefinable.
jeffreyw
The old guy to the right of the woman is thinkin “I’d do him”.
The woman is thinkin “I’d do him”.
Harold is thinkin “I’m afraid he’d do me”.
Comrade Mary
Iggy Pop has negative body fat. Not zero — negative. Stand close enough to the guy and you’ll lose 5 pounds.
beltane
I didn’t know Iggy Pop was still alive and performing. He doesn’t look too bad, or not any worse than he did thirty years ago. The entire audience, not just Ford, look like the kind of rich douchebags that make me want to throw things.
beltane
@jeffreyw: That old guy is totally staring at Iggy’s crotch. He must be one of those evangelical Republicans.
And is that Howard Stern peeking out behind the old guy’s shoulder?
Osprey
@jeffreyw:
Lmao, that’s great.
The Grand Panjandrum
@jeffreyw: Win.
Tom Hilton
It’s like hypnotizing chickens.
mcc
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Comrade Mary
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mistermix
@Osprey: The woman is Harold’s wife.
Tonybrown74
“Um, ew! I hope he doesn’t come any closer …”
I know we should try for something funny, but that is the look on his face.
PeakVT
Harold is thinkin “I’m afraid he’d do me”.
Harold can be forgiven if Iggy was singing “Penetration”.
I really need to get the first two albums sometime soon.
Randy P
I don’t care if chest waxing is now considered to be sexy on males, I’m not joining that particular trend.
I think it was my daughter, then a teenager, who pointed out that the text of romance novels often described thick luxuriant chest hair on the hero, while depicting him on the cover looking like Iggy here.
Just Some Fuckhead
Stealing our white women, just like the Corker ads said. Jeez.
Osprey
@mistermix: Well then, that perfectly explains the “I’d do him” look me and Jeff picked up on :-)
R-Jud
@beltane:
Oh, I see him all the time– shilling Swiftcover car insurance on billboards, the sides of buses, and the TV.
Citizen_X
You’ll also test positive for every controlled substance known to man.
That’s why, looking at this picture, I can’t help but think of this scene, especially the end.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
Mike Kay
there is something just so wrong about everyone wearing jackets and ties at a rock and roll gig.
Mike Kay
Funny how ya never saw Harold’s wife on the campaign trail. What’s was he afraid of?
ellaesther
God damn, that whole picture cracks me up. The very idea of that picture cracks me up!
Tonybrown74
@Mike Kay:
“Call me!”
Osprey
@Mike Kay: It’s tough to have ‘meetings’ with your ‘executive assistants’ when the wife is hangin’ around.
Yes, you know what I mean.
DougJ
Harold is calculating how long it will take him to get to the helicopter.
Warren Terra
@Comrade Mary:
You mean I’m not the only one who sees it? But I miss the old one – as a member of the Balloon Juice commentariat (since 2007 or 2008, I forget), I liked being vicariously consistently wrong since 2002 (scarily, I can’t remember exactly how the old phrase went, and I must have seen it a couple thousand times).
Osprey
@DougJ: Meh, it has to be said:
“GET TO DA CHOPPA!!!!”
Mike Kay
@Tonybrown74: @Osprey:
You would think Harold would have brought her along on his listening tours and on his tee vee appearances. You know, the same way Dennis Kucinich never fails to feature his lovely wive.
but no. I wonder why?
Tom Hilton
I guess today is the official Make Jane Hamsher Cry Day:
But at least those 3% have the absolute certainty that they’re absolutely right.
Mike Kay
@Tom Hilton:
3%
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hahahhahahahahhahahhahahhhahhahhahahhahahhhahahahah
hahahahhahahhhahhahhahahhhahahhahhahahahahhahahhaha
Thoughcrime
Iggy was sent by Obama to make the final argument for HCR.
With a bottle of aspirin
A sack full of jokes
I wish I could go home
With all the big folks!
Midnight Marauder
I don’t know when the switch was made, but I am loving how the top of the site now says “How Has Obama Failed You Today?”
Fucking awesome.
But nowhere near as awesome as that.
beltane
@Tom Hilton: But that 3% is the base of the party. It’s the other 97% of us who are dispensable corporate sellouts and Obama cultists. How dare you suggest that the 3% of true progressives be thrown under the bus just to force this shit sandwich on the sheeple of this great big veal pen called the United States of America.
Bootlegger
Iggy Pop picks New Mexico State to win the NCAA tournament, Harold Ford picks East Tennessee State University. How about you? Join the Balloon Juice NCAA tourney pool. You’ll need the group ID# in the group label below.
Don’t forget the “seed bonuses” when you make your picks.
Mike Kay
@beltane: This!
carlos the dwarf
This whole thread is a massive stack of win.
Colette
@beltane: I think the people in that photo are the sheeple in the veal pen. Let’s sic the radical anarcho-vegans on them.
GReynoldsCT00
@Comrade Mary:
ROFLMAO!! Good catch! That’s beautiful
flukebucket
I like the lady in the striped shirt who is obviously still soaking the last of the bread in the oil and vinegar.
And man that is one mighty white crowd ain’t it?
Hard to believe that Iggy is 63 years old.
beltane
@Colette: I think the people in that article represent the 3% of liberals who are against the HCR bill. And reading about anarcho-vegans gave me a craving for a big, juicy hamburger.
maus
@12 mcc- JUST THIS ONCE.
KRK
@Bootlegger:
Thanks, bootlegger, for getting this rolling and for your hilariously topical reminders.
Violet
@R-Jud:
Saw this when in the UK last year. Hilarious. As is the Johnny Rotten butter commercial.
Love the new tagline!
@beltane:
Bwahahahhaha.
schrodinger's cat
Who is Iggy?
chopper
the fact that iggy isn’t bleeding from multiple self-inflicted wounds during that performance just goes to show how soft he’s gotten.
goblue72
I really hope he’s singing I Wanna Be Your Dog to Mrs. Ford.
The Populist
There was a time Iggy would whip it out and play with his penis on stage. That would have been an AWESOME site had he pulled that in front of the self righteous Mr. Ford.
PanAmerican
A street walking Cheetah with a heart full of Napalm.
licensed to kill time
Jeebus, just got here and looked at the topics; thought “Iggy!” that looks fun! and read the first comment @Rathskeller:
and am falling about laughing so hard I’ll have to recover for a bit before I venture on…
Nellcote
@Comrade Mary:
I know it’s snark but it gives me a sad for some reason.
R-Jud
@Comrade Mary:
It’s full of win, but “Show Me On The Doll Where Rahm Touched You” would’ve been even winnier.
Fergus Wooster
@chopper:
Win.
Jon H
@Osprey: “What event/where was this that they had…Iggy Pop performing? Looks like a fundraiser or a political convention.”
I believe that’s the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.
Rock is dead.
Legalize
I have nothing to contribute.
Da Bomb
@Jon H: Please tell me that you are joking?
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony? Really?
Maybe Ford has a stank face because he’s pissed that Iggy is cooler than he is and has a black girlfriend.
We all know Ford is allergic to blackness.
Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle
@Mike Kay: Ford wasn’t married at the time he was running against Corker.
Mike Kay
@Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle: no he was single.
Jon H
@Da Bomb: “Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony? Really?”
I’m guessing, but it was this week, the Stooges were inducted, and I read that at one point Iggy took his shirt off and went off the stage.
So, I believe this collection of wealthy white senior citizens gumming their chicken is, in fact, the audience of the HOF induction.
Cliff Weathers
What a stuffed shirt! Ford looks decidedly distressed by the pansexual implications of being serenaded by a sweaty, shirtless, 63-year-old gym rat.
http://www.lefthudson.com/2010/03/iggy-pop-croons-for-harold-ford-jr.html
Osprey
@Jon H: You have got to be shitting me.
You’ve got Harold Ford, his smokin’ wife, and the ghost of Bob Barker in the front row…at the Rock & Roll HOF? There’s no way in hell….
Then again, after NY told him to take a big step back and fuck his own face, he might be applying for a job at their board of trustees or something. He’s now going to claim to be a Rock & Roll connoisseur.
He reminds me of the pre-arranged marriage woman they got for Eddie Murphy in Coming to America:
“What kind of music do you like?”
‘Whatever kind of music you like.’
Bill In OH
@PeakVT:
Be sure to get the remastered ones. Much better. For example, “Ann” doesn’t fade out right at the good part, i.e. right when the Ron Ashton righteous fuzz guitar solo kicks in.
@PanAmerican:
FTW!
Mnemosyne
@Jon H:
I hate to remind people, but Iggy himself is a mere 2 years away from being an official senior citizen (born 1947). Many of the other inductees are already senior citizens. So it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that those old farts in suits are actual fans.
Da Bomb
@Mnemosyne:
.
I know but they are still very tired looking.
I guess I had an image in my head of what the Rock and Roll HOF induction would look like and this just didn’t match my illusion at all.
L’Sigh…
Chinn Romney
beltrane, it’s hard to say for sure but I believe that’s Peter Wolf not Stern, looking over the old dude’s shoulder.
CS Lewis Jr.
That is the worst excuse for a rock and roll audience I have ever seen.
HOF confirmed.
asiangrrlMN
@Bootlegger: I joined! Now I just have to pick using my super-secret formula. It’s guaranteed to lead me to victory! Or at least, give you guys some laughs. When you say noon tomorrow, which time zone?
That’s Ford’s wife? She’s fine. As for Iggy, he looks really good for a man who should be a walking corpse.
@CS Lewis Jr.: Waldorf Astoria? Yes, because NOTHING says rock and roll like the Waldorf Astoria!
jayjaybear
@flukebucket: It’s hard to believe Iggy MADE IT to 63…
Dr. Morpheus
@flukebucket:
I saw Iggy at a very small club about five or so years ago. My friend and I were walking up to the entrance on one side of the club when Iggy steps off his bus, shirtless, with two gorgeous babes in each arm.
The guy is RIPPED, honestly I think he could serious damage to anyone who pissed him off.
BTW, that was the loudest concert I’ve every had the pleasure of attending. Iggy was crowd surfing and giving it his all. And because the club used their own incompetent security I got to see most of it standing on stage just behind the curtains stage left.
And I got so cross-eyed drunk I had the pleasure of peeing on his bus.
No, I mean actually peeing onto the bus. I think he would have approved.
JGabriel
@chopper:
The fact that Iggy is that close to that many people in black tie and suits and THEY are not bleeding goes to show how soft he’s gotten.
.
Sly
Harold Ford, left, has no lust for life.
Nice thread title, btw.
theylivebynight
Amusing to me-I’m pretty sure this was when The Stooges were singing I wanna Be Your Dog.
Emma
@Osprey: The woman sitting next to Harold is his wife Emily Threlkeld Ford.
Odessa Follett
lol, Eddie is so funny! I love him.