This has to be the best reaction to the news that Spitzer’s hooker had been identified:
The low-hanging fruit would be a nude photo shoot, for which she would be paid a lot of money, but if she is smart she’ll think bigger. She is said to be an aspiring singer, so now she can probably get a record deal and a night club career. Or she can perhaps break into films if she is so inclined. But that’s not all: my guess is that she will be interviewed by journalists, and quoted as though she were a serious social critic.
If anyone knows something about low-hanging fruit, it is a Powerline front-pager.
myiq2xu
Singer? I thought her specialty was humming?
r€nato
Goodness knows, only random right-wingers with a blog are qualified to be serious social critics. Heh, indeed!
Zifnab
Nothing says “I’m a giant whore” like consorting with the blasphemous and oh-so depraved MSM.
That said, I was waiting for Powerline to suggest she should get into porn.
4tehlulz
It worked for Ann Coulter.
PaulW
She’d be perfect for Femalien 3!
Actually, I think her smart move *is* to look at a singing career. If anything her first album and video would be novelties. Oh, if only Miami Vice were still on the air…
myiq2xu
That would be more respectable than hanging out with the media.
Dennis - SGMM
They also know how to get the most out of whoring.
myiq2xu
I guess Geraldine distracted us from this story:
My favorite part was this allegation:
TheFountainHead
If you want to think Gerry was just a distraction, and I don’t think she was by any means, how about the distraction from the fact that pretty much every single piece of Foreign Policy experience Clinton has ever claimed has been wildly blown out of proportion if not a straight up lie. How about a distraction from the fact that they still haven’t released their tax returns. How about the fact that since her March 4th wins Obama has actually managed to increase his lead over her in EVERY measure of this contest? Maxim Thorne may have lashed out, and now he’s gone, but if good ‘ol Gerry was screening anything, it was Hillary.
grandpajohn
POTD
myiq2xu
When I saw on the other thread that you don’t believe in global warming I finally understood your devotion to the MUP fairy tale.
Ride that jackalope!
What law has Hillary broken? Where does it say she has to release them at all?
BTW – As a Senator she files finacial disclosure forms with the Senate (in addition to filing tax returns with the government) so what evidence do you have that she is “hiding” anything illegal or unethical?
You just want to go fishing. Perhaps you would like to see the results from her last Pap smear too?
Dug Jay
I see that lefty icon, Paul Krugman, has intimated on his blog that many of the liberal “progressives,” which I gather includes most of the Obama supporters here, are proving themselves to be “crazy” and downright shitty.
GO PAUL. Sock it to ’em.
Sasha
myiq2xu,
Why are you injecting irrelevant commentary about the Ferraro kerfuffle into this thread which has nothing to do with the Dem primary? It’s just silly.
John S.
So since she was doing the governor of New York, does this mean that she has political experience now? Maybe she should run for elected office.
It worked for Hillary!
/snark
John S.
Hey slick, remember when Hillary harrangued her opponent Rick Lazio about releasing his tax returns?
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.
DougJ
That was a pretty intelligent reaction for Powerline.
My own reaction: It must be very strange to be Kristen. A woman of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, she can’t get anyone to notice. She is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of her time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.
myiq2xu
Hypocrisy in politics?
Next you’ll be telling me that “Kristen” isn’t a virgin!
Zifnab
While that is a compelling case not to vote for Hillary Clinton, I fail to see your point, other than to note that yet another member of Obama’s campaign was sacked for speaking his mind.
Frankly, I don’t see why Ferraro or Thorne or the first woman should have left their posts. If that’s the type of people you associate with, then let’m stand tall. At the very least, the Obama camp seems interested in criticizing Hillary for her policies and her actions. Ferraro just seemed focused on the color of Obama’s skin.
J. Michael Neal
myiq, do you have a response to someone pointing out that Hillary’s claims to foreign policy experience are bogus? If it helps, I do believe in global warming.
Zifnab
Oh please. I might swallow a bunch of “experience” and “ready on day one” BS, but if you expect me to believe Bill and Hillary are actually sleeping together… ?
She runs around wearing a fully pressed pants suit at 3 o’clock in the morning. I question whether that woman even sleeps at all.
GSD
Raul Castro lifts ban on sales of computers and CD’s.
-GSD
Paul L.
You are thinking of
Ana Marie Cox. the first Wonkette
myiq2xu
“The truth is out there.”
John S.
Nice deflection.
I’ll take that as a tacit acknowledgement that your girl is entirely full of shit.
John S.
To sum up, myiq2xu doesn’t care what Hillary does because:
– The other kids are mean to her
– Everyone else is doing it
– Obama has cooties
You’ve really elevated the level of discourse here.
Zifnab
You’d have done better playing the “Arianna Huffington” card – as she actually appears regularly on TV. But even then you’d be out of luck. Huffington isn’t a giant media joke.
cleek
and the derailment is complete
myiq2xu
Not as far as I know.
Yeah, discussions were stale and academic before I singlehandedly turned it into Jerry Springer’s Balloon Juice.
Jake
Shorter Powerslime: We hope she’ll switch to a career where we get to look at her more! [Fap fap fap…]
Saddest. Thing. Evar.
caustics
I’ve heard that low-hanging fruit makes the gosh durned tastiest pie.
L Boom
I think the Powerline guys are just giddy because it’s the first sex scandal in a while involving an actual woman.
myiq2xu
The older I get, the lower my fruit hangs.
J. Michael Neal
Okay. I guess you just don’t care that she’s lying.
myiq2xu
Why should I waste time on a long point-by-point refutation of your MUP meme when you won’t believe it anyway?
Your mind is made up, you don’t want facts.
OniHanzo
Nobody cares, sport.
libarbarian
God is Love – and even he hates Clinton.
myiq2xu
You must care, because you’re nobody.
Davebo
Here’s a question for Senator Reid.
Why is Joe Lieberman, a man who is actively campaigning for the opposition presidential candidate, still head of the senate Oversight Committee and still retaining his seniority?
Publius mentions it over at ObWi and I think it’s an excellent question.
myiq2xu
Because if they don’t kiss Holy Joe’s low-hanging fruit then he’ll turn control of the Senate to the GOPers and then all those Senate investigations and progressive legislation will be stopped.
J. Michael Neal
Well, I am disinclined to believe that someone was heavily involved in something when all of the other participants say that she wasn’t, and where none of the documentary evidence shows heavy involvement. I’m also disinclined to believe that talks today can influence someone to do something yesterday.
Still, I’d like to at least know what the support for her claims is.
Dennis - SGMM
Spitzer sure was a crusader all right – unless you happen to be a New York patient suing for medical malpractice.
Seems that the New York Medical Society was trying to get medical malpractice awards capped and to get a state subsidy and/or a tax rebate for their malpractice insurance.
SpotWeld
The way Powerline sells it, it’s as if aspiring to be on the next season of The Apprentice: Celebrity Edition is a good thing.
Singularity
You know, when I read the breakout quote, I thought to myself, “I bet Hinderaker wrote that post”. Lo and behold, post by John.
If it involves prostitutes, bikini models, or pageant contestants, Assmissile is the Powerline go-to guy. You’d think his wife would’ve noticed a pattern by now. But I guess she probably finds him as unreadable as everyone else.
The Other Steve
One thing I gotta say about this Kristen.
She was ready on Day One!
b. hussein canuckistani
I think she’s overqualified to write for Powerline given that she has a job.
Zuzu
Listen, if people go on “Big Brother” and the like with the idea of making it into show biz, this is probably as good an entre as any.
ThymeZone
Ed McMahon: Kristen!
Carnack: Who do you really want answering the phone at 3 am?
John S.
The projection is strong with you, young Paduwan.
ThymeZone
Behold, the myiq2xu effect.
Dynamite in the distance. It works.
ThymeZone
Welcome to myiq2xu’s Open House.
The restroom is down the hall and to the right.
Andrei
I know this off topic, but I figure myiq and p.luk might want to tell us all exactly how Clinton isn’t utterly destroying whatever credibility she had left with this inteview on NPR this morning.
tBone
Let’s not give the Powerline boys undue credit.
If you guys are going to insist on using nerdy Star Wars references, at least spell them right: Padawan. Not “paduan” or “paduwan” or “padiwan”. And it’s “Kashyyyk” with two “y”s, damn it!
tBone
Good on ya, Puerto Rico – you count!
jcricket
There’s some kind of joke, I can almost picture it, about low-hanging-fruit, Spitzer and the prostitute…
Isn’t Jedi-speak like Hebrew? There’s no one translation for it? Yoda, Jyoda, Yowdah, etc.
borehole
Andrei, I woke up to that. How depressing. The delegate stuff makes MEGO but she’s letting everyone run with the “If not me, McCain” thing, which is so not cool I can’t believe it’s not costing her more support. At least Pelosi’s hip to it–nice to see Pelosi get hip to, well, anything.
Jen
hmmmmm….
borehole
Star Wars references involving prequels are not Star Wars references.
jcricket
Yes, let’s nitpick the nitpicks.
John S.
I find that misspelling fictional terms is a good way to reduce nerdiness.
Xenos
Star Wars? I thought it was a Shakespeare reference (Yound people from Padua cropping up in a few plays) that I just did not get.
I love science fiction, but let’s not get all Goldbergian around here.
jcricket
Anti-semite.
4tehlulz
JEDIS DID WTC
John S.
I like this Clintonian logic from her morning interview:
Of course, myiq2xu will post something from this justification from the sages over at Talk Left, who seemed to get the memo from the Hillary camapign on the matter. Because the Four State Pledge Letter didn’t explicitly refer to Michigan!
It only said:
Now, why the candidates remained on the Florida ballot after withdrawing from the Michigan ballot is a total fucking mystery to me. I have yet to see a plausible explanation of that. Anyone got something?
Dennis - SGMM
“An’ I freed Nelson Mandela, an’ I designed the tiles on the Space Shuttle, an’ I was held in a prison camp for five years, an’ I stopped the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, an’ I I I I I I I I I…
Xenos
OK. I will try again: pantloadian, doughy sub-type, let’s not get.
Singularity
In Obama’s case, I would guess it was the fact that after he removed his name from the ballot in the earlier Michigan primary, and Clinton did not, he preferred not being suckered twice. There’s an old saying in Florida — I know it’s in Michigan, probably in Florida — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again!
In Clinton’s case, I would guess that she never intended to abide by the rules to which she had previously agreed.
w vincentz
Sorry to bring the topic back to “low hanging fruit”, but it sure caught my eye (besides Geraldine’s or Hillary’s hangers). I have many years of experience with the nurturing of fruits, the lower hanging, the better.
Take, for example, tomatoes. So many varieties, so many lusious red, pink and yellow ripe beauties…
Ahh, I tremble just thinking of them.
I must confess, I view them as luscious objects of my desire. Yet, I put so much effort into bringing them to the fullness of their potential.
I like to start them early, but not too early. Their genetics are carefully selected.
I watch and wait after they are dampened, expecting the explosion of germination. Once they burst forth, I carefully insert the tenderness into a place where fertility is assured and the nitrogen can take its full effect.
And then, the gentle transfer to the bed, with holes opened wide, and their needs presupplied.
See…I fill the holes with plenty of horse manure. All the “low hanging fruit” I’ve ever cultivated just love SHIT. It hold great power!
It seems to me that the lovely “Kristen” has stepped in it!
Ahh, then again, perhaps she’s just another “low hanging fruit” in the tradition of Brittiny, or Paris, or Anna Nicole, or….something in my garden.
Gotta love the SHIT! It feeds.
jcricket
Fat-ist!
Anti-pant-loadian!
tBone
Yeah, all right, you caught me. I can haz massive fail.
ThymeZone
Nothing new there, but it’s shocking to see all that bullshit in one place at one time, coming directly out of her lying mouth.
I’d disqualify her for office on the basis of the Michigan claim by itself, or the Northern Ireland claim by itself, even if there were no other objections to her. Those two assertions by her put her into the same category of people in which I put a George W. Bush or a Dick Cheney, people who will tell any lie to get what they want.
Somebody stop this horrible woman from fucking up my party and my country …. please.
w vincentz
TZIn case ya missed it…^
“Gotta love the SHIT! It feeds.
Jamey
my1q1/2u:
If your posts get any lamer, John will give you a masthead spot just below Michael D.
ThymeZone
Ow, that is going to leave a mark.
Guckert
I hear Talon News (GOPUSA) could use a White House correspondent.
Badtux
Uhm, Guckert, you have to be a *male* prostitute to get that cushy gig. Surely you knew that!
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin