Dick Armey is on The Daily Show tonight, and he’s making absolutely no sense whatsoever.
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mr. whipple
Been rolling since you linked on Friday night. Thanks.
3.
Ash Can
A Spanish cavalier
Stood on a keg of beer
Smoking a two-cent cigar
The odor of his feet
Killed the cow across the street
And now he’s behind prison bars.
@Comrade Luke: He used up a bunch of his time with the hat and BS so he wouldn’t get the hard questions only a fake journalist (& maybe Maddow) would ask.
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El Cid
Right when the Dick Armey came under fire from Jon Stewart, the interview ended with an announcement that the rest would be online.
I watched Dr Laura (PhD in asshattery) on Larry King (I’m in a fucking hotel room in Gastonia NC and like so many hotels they carry Fox but not MSNBC). She was really playing that victim card, the vicious beyotch. She & Boehner should get married, they’re obviously from the same orange-skinned tribe. Good riddance. (I wonder if she was fired but they agreed to let her resign? Will read the article ElCid linked to)
I’m confused. The strap-on wearing divorcee jumped out the window? Or was it the person she was planning to use it on?
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MattR
@SIA: Based on El Cid’s article, she neither resigned nor was fired. She is merely allowing her contract to expire at the end of the year without renewing it. I think it is actually the best approach for her to take. Now she can return to the air in a year or so without any executives having to walk back the decision to fire her (or not renew her contract). That said, I don’t think her Obi-Won “if you destroy me, I will only become stronger” approach is gonna work.
Must respectfully disagree. “Godspell?” Eek. All wrong for the scene.
Bathroom door flies open. Strap-on wearing divorcee appears. Only two possible soundtracks. “Wedding Bell Blues” or “Hello, It’s Me.”
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Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Or the entirety of “Hairspray” simultaneously with Divine leading the charge the whole way.
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Mark S.
“I want my 1st Amendment rights back, which I can’t have on radio without the threat of attack on my advertisers and stations,” Schlessinger said.
Gee, I didn’t realize not patronizing Dr. Laura’s advertisers was taking away her 1st Amendment rights. I’m a horrible, horrible person.
Also, I was flipping around the radio a couple weeks ago and heard who I thought was Dr. Laura sounding very tolerant of gays. Has she changed her tune on this? (Or maybe she was never homophobic. Christ I really don’t care about this woman and have now spent like ten minutes writing a fucking comment about her.)
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Stillwater
Just thought I’d throw out some Iran-strike Propaganda Watch updates. In short, the ball is rolling. Goldberg gave it a significant nudge and Conor, Fallows and others encouraged us to take Jeff seriously. Bolton said we have 8 days to surgically strike Iran, after that it will get messy. And now a Saudi op-ed suggests that a Military Option May be Best Solution to Iranian Nuclear Crisis. Finally, Breitbart (I know, sigh) is reporting that the Iranians will introduce many new weapons in the near future: drones and long-range missiles and stuff.
Right now it’s just words, of course (which is how any good propaganda campaign begins). But notice how closely the lines of argument parallel the prop. in the run-up to Iraq: nuclear threat, long range missiles that can reach Israel, beefing up defense capabilities, non-compliance with the IAEA. And also that we really need to be cautious in dismissing vague or unreliable evidence, since if we’re wrong – ohboyholyshit!! Notice as well that none of these ‘serious’ analysts rebut any countervailing evidence. Better to just, you know, attack first and find the evidence later.
And to those people who think Obama is immune to pressure from the developing politics of the situation, I would only say that I am not nearly so confident.
ETA: the two links are from a Zero Hedge post which is also worth reading.
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Steve
@Stillwater: I grew numb to this particular variety of crying wolf sometime during the last administration. Every 2 weeks, another recommended GOS diary about how an attack on Iran is surely imminent. In short, if you’re into such things there’s always a reason to freak out about the drumbeats of war, but by the 58th such freakout ideally you’d start to realize it’s a futile game.
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Stillwater
@Steve: by the 58th such freakout ideally you’d start to realize it’s a futile game.
You misunderstand me. The comment concerned the evolution of a theme. It’s about propaganda, not Iran. Hence the phrase ‘Iran-strike Propaganda Watch’.
I told my husband that he reminded me of Peggy Hill, with his delusional attitude and renaming things after himself and chuckling about it. “Oh, Armey!”
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SiubhanDuinne
@burnspbesq #14:
I didn’t read Turow’s entire piece on the Blago verdict. He pissed off my inner proofreader, and I couldn’t continue:
Things did not go as Ms. Brandstetter hoped. The measure was never ratified by the Legislature, while her offer of $1,000 lead directly to her conviction for bribery in the Illinois courts.
No no no no no, Scott. The past tense of “lead” is not “lead,” it’s “led.”
I know it’s arbitrary and capricious and doesn’t work the same way “read” does. It’s still incorrect, and if Scott Turow himself doesn’t know that, the copy editors at the New York Times should have caug . . . .
Comrade Luke
Dick Armey is on The Daily Show tonight, and he’s making absolutely no sense whatsoever.
mr. whipple
Been rolling since you linked on Friday night. Thanks.
Ash Can
A Spanish cavalier
Stood on a keg of beer
Smoking a two-cent cigar
The odor of his feet
Killed the cow across the street
And now he’s behind prison bars.
Chuck Butcher
@Comrade Luke:
I watched about 2 minutes of it before turning away in disgust. He does think he’s clever…
QDC
This is just pure performance-art craziness right? I’m not missing some reference/context am I? Not that I’m not enjoying it.
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
i think that that’s pretty god damn sad, that they don’t recognize their own country as a third world, third rate, third class slum.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@QDC:
Dick Armey? It would explain a lot.
M. Bouffant
It’s the “purple” that’s most frightening.
LiberalTarian
I like this tweet better.
SIA
@Comrade Luke: He used up a bunch of his time with the hat and BS so he wouldn’t get the hard questions only a fake journalist (& maybe Maddow) would ask.
El Cid
Right when the Dick Armey came under fire from Jon Stewart, the interview ended with an announcement that the rest would be online.
El Cid
The commie racist ACORN libs have forced another patriot to leave for speaking the troof.
SIA
I watched Dr Laura (PhD in asshattery) on Larry King (I’m in a fucking hotel room in Gastonia NC and like so many hotels they carry Fox but not MSNBC). She was really playing that victim card, the vicious beyotch. She & Boehner should get married, they’re obviously from the same orange-skinned tribe. Good riddance. (I wonder if she was fired but they agreed to let her resign? Will read the article ElCid linked to)
burnspbesq
Not sure I fully agree, but Scott Turow’s take on the Blago verdict is interesting (recall that Turow was once an AUSA).
Morbo
Yes, but what about wise’s exploits?
burnspbesq
I’m confused. The strap-on wearing divorcee jumped out the window? Or was it the person she was planning to use it on?
MattR
@SIA: Based on El Cid’s article, she neither resigned nor was fired. She is merely allowing her contract to expire at the end of the year without renewing it. I think it is actually the best approach for her to take. Now she can return to the air in a year or so without any executives having to walk back the decision to fire her (or not renew her contract). That said, I don’t think her Obi-Won “if you destroy me, I will only become stronger” approach is gonna work.
burnspbesq
@M. Bouffant:
Must respectfully disagree. “Godspell?” Eek. All wrong for the scene.
Bathroom door flies open. Strap-on wearing divorcee appears. Only two possible soundtracks. “Wedding Bell Blues” or “Hello, It’s Me.”
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: Or the entirety of “Hairspray” simultaneously with Divine leading the charge the whole way.
Mark S.
Gee, I didn’t realize not patronizing Dr. Laura’s advertisers was taking away her 1st Amendment rights. I’m a horrible, horrible person.
Also, I was flipping around the radio a couple weeks ago and heard who I thought was Dr. Laura sounding very tolerant of gays. Has she changed her tune on this? (Or maybe she was never homophobic. Christ I really don’t care about this woman and have now spent like ten minutes writing a fucking comment about her.)
Stillwater
Just thought I’d throw out some Iran-strike Propaganda Watch updates. In short, the ball is rolling. Goldberg gave it a significant nudge and Conor, Fallows and others encouraged us to take Jeff seriously. Bolton said we have 8 days to surgically strike Iran, after that it will get messy. And now a Saudi op-ed suggests that a Military Option May be Best Solution to Iranian Nuclear Crisis. Finally, Breitbart (I know, sigh) is reporting that the Iranians will introduce many new weapons in the near future: drones and long-range missiles and stuff.
Right now it’s just words, of course (which is how any good propaganda campaign begins). But notice how closely the lines of argument parallel the prop. in the run-up to Iraq: nuclear threat, long range missiles that can reach Israel, beefing up defense capabilities, non-compliance with the IAEA. And also that we really need to be cautious in dismissing vague or unreliable evidence, since if we’re wrong – ohboyholyshit!! Notice as well that none of these ‘serious’ analysts rebut any countervailing evidence. Better to just, you know, attack first and find the evidence later.
And to those people who think Obama is immune to pressure from the developing politics of the situation, I would only say that I am not nearly so confident.
ETA: the two links are from a Zero Hedge post which is also worth reading.
Steve
@Stillwater: I grew numb to this particular variety of crying wolf sometime during the last administration. Every 2 weeks, another recommended GOS diary about how an attack on Iran is surely imminent. In short, if you’re into such things there’s always a reason to freak out about the drumbeats of war, but by the 58th such freakout ideally you’d start to realize it’s a futile game.
Stillwater
@Steve: by the 58th such freakout ideally you’d start to realize it’s a futile game.
You misunderstand me. The comment concerned the evolution of a theme. It’s about propaganda, not Iran. Hence the phrase ‘Iran-strike Propaganda Watch’.
YellowJournalism
@Chuck Butcher:
I told my husband that he reminded me of Peggy Hill, with his delusional attitude and renaming things after himself and chuckling about it. “Oh, Armey!”
SiubhanDuinne
@burnspbesq #14:
I didn’t read Turow’s entire piece on the Blago verdict. He pissed off my inner proofreader, and I couldn’t continue:
No no no no no, Scott. The past tense of “lead” is not “lead,” it’s “led.”
I know it’s arbitrary and capricious and doesn’t work the same way “read” does. It’s still incorrect, and if Scott Turow himself doesn’t know that, the copy editors at the New York Times should have caug . . . .
Oh. Never mind.
Steve M.
That’s a poem. That’s better than any poem I’ve ever read in The New Yorker.