Wonkette
Oh Tim, you are making everybody feel like a slacker today, when we were already feeling sad. Your last blog thing on MSNBC was posted at 9:50 a.m. Friday, a few hours before you collapsed while doing voiceovers for Sunday’s Meet the Press. You talked about Obama’s new anti-smear team on the Internet, and plugged your Sunday show, which was to feature Obama and McCain surrogates Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham debating each other, which would actually be pretty lame. But still …. [RUSSERT ON POLITICS]
I know this is meant to be about what a mensch Tim is (and he certainly is one), but if I can refer to the content of his blog post for a second:
Now I’m told there’s a counter organization with a very similar name that is going to be positioned and posted to spread the rumors, so that people that go to the Internet to get clarification will go to the wrong web site and get confused.
That’s fucked up.
ronaldpagan:
The most prevalent and frustrating and meaningless criticism of Barry that I get from people I talk to is some variation of “I just don’t trust him… we don’t know anything about him… I’m afraid that he’ll get into the White House and then the country will be in big trouble… “.
obfuscator: Yeah, I’d much rather go with the candidates who have been vetted and tested…the ones we KNOW are going to fuck us over! Less suspense.
But that criticism is still better than how he’s an elitist or unpatriotic or radical or Muslim or the countless other permutations of “uppity Negro.”
ronaldpagan:
That’s the thing. I’d almost rather they come at me with crazy pastor or secret Muzz than this “vaguely sinister” bullshit. Fuck, even “woman-hating Antichrist Arugula farmer” has some specifics to it.
ronaldpagan: I really don’t believe anyone who says they won’t vote for Obama because he’s “an unknown quality” or whatever. Maybe I’m just paranoid and epically sensitive about Hopes McGee, but it always come across as “I really don’t want to avoid for him because he’s black, but I know that’s socially unacceptable to admit except in West Virginia, so it’s time to whip out the code words”.
obfuscator: Magsbe: Good points. But I think there are times when “vaguely sinister” = inexperienced, and times when “vaguely sinister” = “dark-skinned.” You can usually tell by context. Inexperience is at least a somewhat valid concern.
A little off the topic here but does any one else’s GAYDAR go off every time they hear Lindsey Graham’s voice? I guess he could one of those mythical soft-spoken Southern unicorns I keep hearing about, but i find that hard to believe.
I’m taking odds on a geisecks scandal going down on him. Any takers?
ronaldpagan: I get this knee jerk reaction to “uppity negro.” I have to roll in shoe polish and get my Rufus on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9gO59ooAA8 Power to the people that goin’ to get up/stand up. It ain’t what you got, it’s what you do with what you got.
ronaldpagan: I’m sure the faux websites contain bullshit like this e-mail I received today from a bitter female friend of the family.
STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.
Pause a moment, reflect back. These event are actual events from history. They really happened! Do you remember?
1. 1968 Boby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 & 40.
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
3. In 1979, the U.S. Embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
4. During the 1980s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
8. In 1988, Pan Am flight 103 was bombed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
10. In 1998, the Us embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked, two were used as missles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
12.In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
13. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by, you guessed it–Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.
No, There really is no pattern here that would justify profiling, is there? I don’t see one do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatic Muslim male extremists, intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people…Absolutely No Profiling!!!
They must conduct random searches of 80 year old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper ID, secret service agent who are members of the President’s security detail, 85 year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss,…but leave those Muslim males between the ages of 17 & 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
According to the Book of Revelation (that’s in the Bible)…
The Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s of Muslim descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal…the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, he will destroy everything…AND NOW
For the award winning Act of Stupidity of all times;
The People of America want to elect, to the most powerful position on the face of the Planet — The Presidency of the United States of America:
A Muslim Male Extremist…between the ages of 17 & 40.
Have the American People completely lost their minds, or just their Power of Reason…?
I’m sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the “unknown” candidate bHussein Obama…!
As the writer of the award winning story “Forrest Gump” so aptly put it…
“STUPID is as STUPID DOES”…!!!
That’s right. Stupid is as stupid does. BARACK IS FUCKING 46 YEARS OLD, DUMBASS!
obfuscator: The vaguely sinister crap is very much in play on certain blogs, HuffPo comes to mind immediately. I think for a lot of people, he really is unknown. Clinton they know, McCain has been around since dirt got invented. Barack Obama? Is that some kind of air freshener from Japan? His mocha-ness may also make it harder for some to identify with him.
The GE is going to take care of a lot of this stuff, but Barry and his team are going to have to work hard. I think the odds are pretty good for Bear-bear nonetheless.
ronaldpagan:
You’re right, but I just wish that I’d hear the words “too inexperienced” more often than all that other nonsense.
Magsbe:
Totes. I don’t even think it’s always a conscious thing, but there’s definitely some level of awareness. “Whew, thank God he’s got a crazy pastor and doesn’t wear a flag pin… now I don’t have to tell anyone I won’t vote for a nigger.”
AudicityofHope:
Who’s Boby Kennedy?
You know Chuck Todd is going to miss Russert’s election night dry erase board the most.
ZombieRaegan: The unhealthy fascination with Reagan has seeped into the snark community. We’ve got: ronaldpagan, Ronald Reagan’s Hair, and now ZombieRaegan? My ReaDar in addition to my GAYDAR are hittin’ on all cylinders.
ZombieRaegan: I think I’d lose that bet. It’s the nasal/whiny quality to his voice. And his rabid homophobic policy positions, of course. Dead giveaway!
Anything on Russet’s blog about eating 3 McMuffins and a side of Chicken McNuggets that morning?
…To soon?
obfuscator: The “uppity nigger” voters are also in play, unfortunately. Of course, the KKK is supporting Barry because he’ll help start the race war they’ve been hoping for, so maybe it’ll be a wash. We’ll know if he wins WV by a landslide.
AudicityofHope: I’d write a wordy email totaling the number of Christian “extremists” killing boatloads of innocents in response, but fear that it’d take far longer than late November to finish it up.
Cicada: Oops, by “uppity nigger” voters, I meant people who think Barry is one, not actual black voters. That was horribly, horrible worded on my part. Sorry!
Cicada:
It’s my fault for not remembering recent history, but I was severely disappointed by the % of southern Dems who admitted in exit polls that race was a factor in their decisions.
1,2,3,4, I declare a race war! By that, I mean that President Bear Bear should use the DNC to find a few candidates in southern congressional districts who don’t hate black people and use them to unseat TruckNutz Dems in the 2010 primaries.
AudicityofHope: Oh my God, I’ve seen that before on some Hillary pages! Really hope it’s mostly Republican plants, because, in my fantasy world, the Democrats are at least more closeted with their racism. That is definitely the racist context of the “vaguely sinister” meme.
What do the people who shot Lincoln, JFK, and MLK have in common with the perpetrators of Watergate, the Columbine shooters, the Unabomber, the Oklahoma City bomber, Hitler, and Stalin? That’s right: they’re all white dudes. And now we want to make one president? WAKE UP, AMERICA!!
AudicityofHope:
My idea of ‘trickle down economics’ was always the cartoon image of the Monopoly guy drinking champagne and pissing down onto the faces of a bunch of Depression-era Commie hobos.
AudicityofHope: Ronald Ray-gun is a cute name that’s still up for grabs.
Cicada: And he’s gayer for McCain than Orrin Hatch and Joe Lieberman combined.
AudicityofHope: One would almost think that selectively edited, anecdotal evidence can be used to manipulate!
obfuscator: I love your coinage. “Muzz.” It reminds me of Muzzy, the lovable blue fellow who taught us all foreign languages.
And as for trickle-down economics, I might have to change my avatar. Do you think it would translate to the tiny icons?
obfuscator: Hey, Chuckie T. Forgive me if this sounds insensitive, but I think it’s really sexy when a man cries.
ronaldpagan:
A new Monopoly card:
“You’re the victim of Reaganomics! Drive your Welfare Queen Cadillac to the nearest debtor’s prison. Do not collect $200.”
AudicityofHope:
Quite the opposite, it sounds so sensitive.
/John Edworts
obfuscator: Speaking of deaths I celebrated… There could be an entire Reaganopoly. “You have AIDS; lose a turn.”
And to any trolls running around, after Ray-Ray died, I didn’t call up Nancy and be like, “Looks like your husband just said no…to breathing! Look forward to Mourning in America, bitch! AHAHAHAHAHAH!” (Because I have class, and because Nance no longer takes my calls.)
obfuscator: Oh gawd! That takes me back to my youth, when all of my conservative family members “knew someone who knew someone” who used their food stamps to buy steak and champagne.
The irony was that my family actually went on food stamps for awhile when my mom got laid off. I still remember standing in line at the grocery store and feeling embarrassed when we used them. Some checkers would be total judgmental dicks. And lord help you if you used some cash to buy cigarettes, because that just PROVED you didn’t need the food stamps.
Fuck Reaganomics.
obfuscator: I meant in the context of Russert dying and all. I also wanted to cuddle with my baby daddy, Keith “Puffy-Faced, Red-Nosed” Olbermann today.
Cicada:
See, if your mom had been an executive at an airline or a Wall Street investment bank, she wouldn’t have needed to leech money from hardworking taxpayers. Shame on her.
I also like the idea of a bunch of rich fuckers in the 80’s complaining about welfare mothers during a period of massive deregulation and tax cuts.
ronaldpagan: “Mourning in America” made me laugh out loud. Thanks!
AudicityofHope:
I’m sure that Chuck T. and the MSNBC crew will get weepy in November when the Russert Dry-Erase Electoral Math Board appears.
ronaldpagan: “You’re a schizophrenic and have just been deinstitutionalized. You’re now homeless. Give all your money to bank and stop playing. YOU LOSE!!”
obfuscator: When you say “appears” it sounds rather ominous. Will the board be flying in mid-air with the word “Redrum” written on it three times?
Cicada: When I was a teenie and working at a supermarket as a cashier, one of my coworkers was the biggest dick ever about foodstamps and WIC checks. She’d deliberately screw up processing them just so she could call the manager over and make him deal with the filthy Poors, because how dare they need her to do something that takes an extra two seconds out of her (paid) time?
I’m still pissed, almost a decade later, that she didn’t get her ass fired over doing that.
A Portentous Omen of a Secret Muzz Coup on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! Now back to the MSNBC studios with McCain surrogate Rudy Giuliani.
AudicityofHope: Perhaps the magic board will descend from the heavens, escorted by two tater-headed angels. Chuckie Todd the Numbers God will be bathed in a heavenly glow and an image of St. Russert’s face will appear on his left buttock. Thus we will all know that he is the anointed one.
Magsbe: That’s the sickest thing I’ve heard in a while. What a bitch. Don’t worry though. Satan will get her, give her a footstamp card, and make her wait for eternity in line while she looks at her food (which she is not allowed to touch) on a long conveyor belt.
Magsbe: She should have been chewed out by her manager for being an incompetent boob, preferably in front of the filthy Poors.
Cicada: I like that vision. Chuck will then take the proverbial reigns and moderate “Meet the Blessed”. He’ll ask his guests confusing number riddles and give them three attempts to answer them correctly. If they answer incorrectly, they will be sacrificed to the show’s killer bunny, Pat Buchanan. “Sure he looks soft and cuddly on the outside…”
Magsbe: Karma tends to be a bitch to people like that. Bet she’s using one of those brand-new WIC debit cards even as we speak.
@audicity of hope OMG, so many things wrong with that e-mail, so I’ll just point out my favorite: it could not possibly be in the bible that the anti-christ will be a muslim, because christianity predates islam, by several centuries.
Cicada: Is this supposed to be the entertainment portion of the program? I thought you had a problem with boring and unfunny? Here’s some hilarity, however unintentional. People feeling bad about Tim Russert came to Wonkette to mourn.
The best part is that Tweety was on vacation in Paris when it all went down. Wall to wall MSNBC “talent” for hour after hour and no Tweety in sight…. you know that has to burn him up. They finally got him to a satellite truck — hours after the CBS guy showed up at the same spot — for about 10 minutes. It was Commander Keith and Mrs. Greenspan all night. Poor, poor Tweety, even in death Russert screws him.
AudicityofHope: So the Book of Revelations talks about muzzies, a religion that didn’t exist when the bible was supposed to have been written. Someone’s fibbing here, but the bible is the word of god and that can’t be questioned. CAN’T!
Mr Blifil: Just proves that snarkers are people too.
Vanity Smurf: Keith O was masterful, and Mrs. G, as usual, dignified and articulate. Like them as a pair.
AudicityofHope: The TSA stops and searches former Governor Joe Foss???? You MUST be kidding me. This injustice MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!
The thing about Russert (IMHO) was that he was the only person on the tee-vee who struck me as not a lightweight “actor” (Brian Williams) or not a flat out ideologue (Keith, Chris, etc). And NBC/MSNBC resides at the top of the heap (perhaps my bias since I used to work for the company).
Very sad!
ZombieRaegan: Oh, I’ve always had Lindsay Graham, Larry Craig and Mitch McConnell on MY gaydar. One down, 2 to go.
AudicityofHope: Thus is Barry defeated by his black not cracking.
Does anybody else besides me find MSNBC’s wall-to-wall coverage of Russert’s demise a bit excessive? Influential? Sure. The boss of their Washington office? Sure. But it’s hard to imagine that Lil’ Russ himself would have approved of the graphics package, and the theme music and the uninterrupted musings on the life of an effing teevee host.
K-I-L-L-I-NG- ME.
Maybe I’m just pissed because I’ve now been forced to watch that Black Vulcan and the vaccous Hmong leg model over on the CNN…
Hopey McSlamdunk: What?! How disrespectful. You can’t be annoyed with anything about Russert’s death until after his body lies in state at the Capitol Rotunda for three days. Okay, wait, that’s still too soon. After his body is placed on a train and travels across the country. Wait — after his coffin is carried by twelve virgins to the top of Mt. McKinley and the fiery chariot comes to convey him to heaven accompanied by an angelic choir singing hosannas in the highest. After that — and maybe a respectful period of about a year or so — you’ll be able to say how much the coverage bugs you. And don’t worry, it’ll still be going on.
In a related “From Beyond The Grave” story:
Benazir Bhutto governs Pakistan from Beyond The Grave!
Tim Russett’s exclusive interview . . . LIV . . . whoops! . . . DEAD on MSN.com!
AudicityofHope: What really annoys me about that list is that Sirhan Sirhan, the Arab who killed Bobby Kennedy, was actually a Christian. He was born in the Maronite church and later adopted some weird mix of Baptist and Seventh-Day Adventist Christianity after moving to America.
Johnny Zhivago: Especially outrageous because Joe Foss died in 2003, obviously at the hands of a male Muslim extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.
gurukalehuru: Yeah, I thought the anti-Christ was supposed to be a Jew, and that’s why all the esteemed Christianist leaders are saying Barry can’t be the anti-Christ (whew!). It’s so hard to keep up with this inerrable tract called the Bible. It’s almost like they’re making it up as they go along.
obfuscator: He needs to do a huge bio tour to counter this. Perhaps make a feature length made for TV movie about his life?
jagorev: I’m imagining that if Sirhan Sirhan were to let his weight go, and suddenly experience a major infarction and snuff it, there would be a train of commenters here lavishing him with encomiums.
Meanwhile I hear Larry Craig sent the family a SuperTuber.
ZombieRaegan: Lindsey Graham is gayer than Larry Sinclair. He’d be a good VP for McCrazy
AudicityofHope: Tell your bitter that Sirhan Sirhan was framed. There’s been new legal action in the case — http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080605/NEWS/806050363/-1/NEWS
Mr Blifil: Oh, go fuck yourself.
Meanwhile, at Drudge the headline is “Dies from a Big Heart”. He’s so adorable.
Mr Blifil: Your problem is the inability to cloak your offensive comments with humor. People here say unfunny stuff, but when it’s offensive AND unfunny it sucks. Take a cue from Neilist. He says horrible things but still makes me laugh 60% of the time.
In short: bite my TRUCK NUTZ, loser.
User-of-Owls Roth: “There was this kid I grew up with; she was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know… That kid’s name was Ana Marie [or for later arrivals, Meghan], and the blog she invented was Wonkette. This was a great woman, a woman of vision and guts, and panda porn [or sweater puppies]…Someone put a bullet through her job. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn’t angry; I knew Ana/Meg, I knew she was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when she turned up gone, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen; I didn’t ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!”
Let the culling begin anew.
Good morning, everyone! You’re still obnoxious, Mr. Blifil. Maybe there should be a thread about the massive Taliban prison break.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/world/asia/14kandahar.html?hp
And maybe Hillary should piss her pants in public so we can have some lighter news for a change.
Public pantsuit peeing would be nothing more than a transparent pander to 3 year olds, 83 year olds, and golden shower fetishists.
Mr Blifil: Yeah, get a fuckin’ clue. It’s encomia. (shakes head).
ronaldpagan: Or if we want a funnier one, what about Barry threatening to kill WALNUTS! with a gun:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/06/14/obama-if-they-bring-a-knife-to-the-fight-we-bring-a-gun/
Cicada: Queue the GBU Music! Rules for a gunfight, Rule 7: In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived. Rule 10: Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
Mr Blifil: Gee, since you brought it up:
Sirhan Sirhan, internationally known expert on the California criminal justice and correctional systems, died today of a massive heart attack. He was 64.
Sirhan, born in Jerusalem during the closing years of the British Mandate, was raised in the Maronite Church. Like many of his generation, Sirhan made several religious conversions during his adult life, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches, and even dabbling in the occult.
His family, which moved to the United States when Sirhan was 12, briefly lived in New York, and soon moved to California. He attended John Muir High School and Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California and was employed as a stable boy in 1965 at the Santa Anita Race Track in Arcadia, California.
In California, Sirhan’s interests moved to politics. In 1968, Sirhan achieved international recognition for his involvement in the abortive campaign of Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Kennedy, who won the privotal California primary, ultimately failed to achieve the nomination he sought. Many observers blamed Sirhan for the abrupt termination of the Kennedy campaign, and some held him responsible for the election of Republican Richard M. Nixon in the later 1968 Presidential election.
Sirhan always maintained that he had acted properly, “with 20 years of . . . []forethought.” The harsh words of his critics clearly stung, however: Sirhan later consistently claimed to have “no memory” of his involvement in the unsuccessful Kennedy campaign.
In later years, Sirhan left politics and devoted his life to experiential, “inside” study of the California criminal justice and correctional systems. Sirhan was directly involved in at least one highly publicized capital punishment appeal, which ended in the defendant’s death sentence being commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
A dedicated prisoners rights advocate to the end, Sirhan refused to view this living-saving effort as a unequivocal victory. Conjuring up the memory of the man who helped make him famous, Sirhan told a California parole board: “I sincerely believe that . . . Robert Kennedy . . . would not countenance singling [the defendant] out for this kind of treatment.”
Sirhan is survived by an extended family, both in the United States and the Middle East, all of whom are Muslim males between the ages of 17 to 40. The family requests that, rather than flowers, donations be made to Accuracy in Media (”AIM”); and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (”FAIR”); and the Iver Johnson Revolver Collectors Association (”IJRCA”).
[Cicada: I make you laugh 60% of the time?!?
You Sick BASTARD!!!!!!
Shame!
SHAME!]
2Q: I found that list. So many rules! My personal favorite: 21. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
Neilist: You just bumped it up to 62%. I never claimed I wasn’t a sick bastard.
AudicityofHope: Actually, I’ve mostly retired RR’s Hair to avoid confusion. I had to create a buncha avatars to get back in this joint during The Dark Time. I will keep him in his box until the need for a freshly shellacked head of fabulous hair is needed in the future.
Cicada: Drat. I try so hard to appall everyone with whom I come into contact.
Sigh.
Oh, well.
But speaking of “Gun Rules,” the best one I ever heard — and the most accurate — was along the lines of:
“A pistol is what you use to fight your way back to the rifle or shotgun you should have had in the first place.”
But I amended it — based on personal experience, to read as follows”
“A pistol is what you use to fight your way back to the rifle or shotgun you should have had in the first place . . . so you can get back to your Jeep, drive back over the hill; call in the artillery or airstrike; and then go have a nice, cold beer at the NCO Club without having to get your BDUs all dirty.”
Cicada: Ya. Actually, the WSJ distorted this: “Mobster wisdom tells us never to bring a knife to a gun fight.” Rather then being “Mobster wisdom” this is saying commonly heard amoung those who practice self-defense. Interesting the WSJ choose “Mobster” to describe it, eh? A purposeful distortion I would imagine. In addition, this is also commonly heard from with experience in self-defense: “In a knife fight, everybody gets cut.”
Q: What I found hilarious was McCain’s response. They tried to turn it into the “scary black man is trying to mug me”, with a dash of “he hates your guns” for good measure. It was a frigging JOKE. A harmless little metaphor.
New WSJ Headline
Obama says “We aren’t going to let the GOP shank us in the yard. Our shivs are sharpened, and we’ve got the Crips on our side.”
Q: The line fell into general usage due to the film, “The Untouchables.” The Old Irish Harness Bull cop played by Sean Connery uses it: “Just like a wop: Bringing a gun to a knife fight.”
“Wop,” of course, being a Perfectly Acceptable Term of Endearment for our Brother Americans of Italian Descent.
As Foul And Inappropriate Ethnic Slurs such as Dago, Spaghetti Bender, Greaser, etc.
Neilist: I think you have that backwards from the movie. The wop had brought a knife to a gunfight. Won’t those wops ever learn?
Never heard “spaghetti bender”… gotta start using that one.
Neilist: Wop? I thought Wops were Spics. Or are Spics Puerto Ricans. So many cultures to deride. Too many slurs to remember. My Sometheimer’s disease is getting the better of me.
Neilist: Ah, so this was actually a thinly veiled threat aimed at Gerry Ferraro. I KNEW it!
Rove wrote an article in March titled “How To Win A Knife Fight: Bring A Gun”, this surely explains why McCain is lagging in the Eye-talian stronghold of New Jersey.
It’s all becoming clear now.
El Bombastico: El B: My apologies. You are quite correct.
Q: I don’t care what you call THOSE people:
“Olson Johnson: All right, we’ll give some land to the niggers and the chinks, but we DON’T WANT THE IRISH.”
Enough said.
For a an expresso shooting 4wheel driving secular insurgent leftist whore, I’m still really sad about loosing TIMMY! :[
The Sunday bobble head gathering will be nothing without him.
And NBC, you’ve got NO ONE to fill his shoes, so tell Williams to fuck off!
They plan a viking funeral. Go get ‘em, Punkin’ Head.
I see on Gawker that Cole is catching hell for his sentiments:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10623
He makes a certain amount of sense, and is of course being eviscerated for it.
El Bombastico: He definitely has a point. The problem is that people become psychologically attached to television personalities in a very real way. When one of them dies, people feel a loss. He is running into this grief.
If he had posted the same thing a week later, no one would have cared.
People thought of ol’ tater-head as their friendly uncle who visits them every Sunday morning. Creepy, but the truth.
If we wish to continue in the spirit of hope and unicorns, what we must bring to the knife fight are pillows. Big, fluffy pillows.
gurukalehuru: Big, fluffy pillows with newborn children’s names on them. That’s how Little Russ would have wanted it. I swear, if I hear one more thing about these damn pillows on NBC…
Cicada: Barry needs a fedora, a Typewriter, a better-tailored suit and a white scarf, STAT!
Check out some of the comments Hillary’s Army of Bitters are making over at Hillaryis44.com
rjk1957 Says:
June 13th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Admin, I will not be polite… Karma baby that is all I will say, first Kennedy and his brain tumor, then the flooding in Iowa and now Russert… Obamatrons beware the wrath of God, you could be next
Here’s another sick nugget of hatred:
dot48 Says:
June 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
After the way the whole team at NBC, MSNBC and Timmeh in particular treated Hillary .. I can’t be sorry.
Sorry, I just can’t.
I offer prayers for his son who will have to deal with the loss.
He sliced, diced, and stuck knitting needles in Hillary every GodDamnn Day.
Karma is a bitch.
Today is Friday the 13th and the COUNTDOWN for Olgermann and Tweety Bird is on…
AudicityofHope: Well, nice to know the McClintonites believe that God is acting out their wrath. Perhaps we can expect suicide bombers in Denver.
What reward do McClintonite jihadis get when they martyr themselves? 72 virgin pantsuits?
Cicada: Hahahahahahahaha! And then the Republican spokespeople responded with, “We have no sense of humor, nor do we understand metaphors.” Priceless!
AudicityofHope: That is fucking awesome, or terrifying, I can’t decide. Since the Young People all voted for Barry, I assume that the next thing is going to be a slaughter of anyone under 30. This is going to look like Children of Men, isn’ it?
jagorev: Iowa was flooded too, so maybe they’re on to something. We’ll know for sure if Judas Richardson kicks it.
God will strike Wonkette with a plague of Paultards, if they’re right.
These people are nuts. The Wrath of God is punishing people for not cowing to HRC? Hillaryis44 is a fraud. Hillary is not 44, and never will be. BTW, If God wanted Hillary to be 44, why would he have waited until it was a mathematical impossibility, before he started killing people on her behalf? Nut-jobs.
I hope all of their children get tatoos of our Bear-Bear.
jagorev: I loved that movie; then again, I like anything that stars Clive Owen.
Cicada: That plague has already begun!
Does anybody remember when Jerry Falwell said that 9-11 happened because gay people, like Mike Piazza, exist? Where were the Old Bitters on that one? All the mean things said about HRC are now being said by her supporters about other women. Yay for women! Conceited Nut-jobs.
AudicityofHope:
Sooo many comments like that on the pro-hillary blogs. Lots of them are like the one you pasted: Russert deserved to die because he was mean to Hillary, Matthews and Olbermann better watch out, what will Barry do without his biggest mainstream media cheerleader?
Pure class.
AudicityofHope: Have you read the PD James book? I recommend it.
I just got to my mom’s house so that I can take my dad out for Father’s Day (divorce!), and I’m pretty chuffed that there are, like, 2600 views on this post and that Audicity, Obfuscator, and the gang are holding down the fort.
loquaciousmusic:
I just got back here, actually.
Where are you going for Father’s Day? I recommend Applebee’s.
obfuscator: Eh, dad’s 72 and has Parkinson’s, so I’m actually taking him to a real restaurant. You know, somewhere elitist.
Tomorrow, I’m going to put on my Dockers khakis and my Brooks Bros. Oxford shirt, get in my Volkswagen with its Obama sticker and Matthew Sweet album in the CD player, and go pick him up. Can you get any more Obamariffic than that?
loquaciousmusic: Tomorrow, I will be spending Absent Father’s Day honoring and celebrating my mother. My dad dropped off the face of the earth 6 years ago and for all I know he could be dead. I sent him a Father’s Day card years ago with a cd I had burned with John Mayer’s “Daughters” on it. I received the card not but a week later with “return to sender” stamped on the front.
Now back to Tim and Hillary’s Klan of Bitters.
loquaciousmusic:
I drove to work today in my Prius while listening to Wilco via my iPod.
I am contemplating getting some TruckNutz for the Prius, though.
AudicityofHope:
I finally saw myself, Chuck Todd the Numbers God, on tv starting to get man-weepy while talking about the ironicalness off Li’l Russ expiring on Father’s Day Weekend.
obfuscator: Sexy and endearing, baby. I’ll be right here wit the Kleenex. Also, when the Army of Bitters start marching towarts MSNBC’s Washington Bureau, I and my boo Wolf Blitzer will come over to protect you and your fellow colleagues (except for Pat, Joe, Mika, and Tweety).
AudicityofHope:
No one should be forced to look at or listen to Pat Buchanan that early in the morning.
Sweet Healthy Jesus, ‘Morning Joe’ is tough to watch.
Chuck Todd has only been mentioned twice in this thread, so I will deign to predict that the Ginger Goatee(TM) will inherit the throne, after a prolonged ease-in. If you can’t get enough of the Mclaughlin Group, you are gonna love the Brokaw/Matthews/Mitchell/Williams MTP forum! Keith Olbermann will feel dissed, but MSNBC will buy him off with some more pairs of Ashleigh Banfield’s glasses.
I would love to see beloved Norah get some MTP chairtime as well, but she’s not Samantha Bee–girl can’t be dragging that fetus into a hardball interview. What would happen when she had to interview McCain–he would disembowel Norah and eat the baby for life energy! And since Meet the Press isn’t on FOX, its a no-go.
I want to see Rachel Maddow host MTP.
But if they put a woman, any woman on MTP, won’t it have to be Hillary? Otherwise it’s sexist.
jagorev: Oooh… I would have to fire up the DVR for that shit. I adore that woman. She needs to tout the Ph.D. a bit more!!
I would love to see Hillary hosting meet the press, and when she drops dead, they can give her 3 straight days of coverage about what a great person she was. VP, not so much.
gurukalehuru: I think you’ve hit upon the perfect solution. Since the McClintonites have already decided that God is acting on behalf of their messiah, MTP could be their Sunday service. Plus it would give Hillary a chance to put the screws to all the boy’s club members that done her wrong. The catharsis might even turn her into a saintly Mother Theresa type, doing good works for starving African children.
Much better than VP.
Back to Mr. Russert — his death sounds like it was karoshi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi
…who the heck is this guy and why is the internet going nuts over him?
Sabre_Justice: Right, I never heard of him either. I can see why folks in journalism would mourn him to some extent, but what’s with all encomia from the politicians right up to the POTUS…wtf?
I guess it filled in a slow news week since 1000 prisoners escaping from Afghanistan ain’t much to worry about.
Darehead: Ooops. *from PRISON in Afghanistan.
Ken Layne,
Tim Russert will be missed. I personally have nothing against the guy. I was at the gym on Friday around Noon when it was the number one story across all the networks. MSNBC had two women and a man laughing their asses off for some time. (With the headline about Tim’s passing.) Usually there is Closed-captioning on news stations at the gym. There wasn’t on Friday and I couldn’t get the “joke” or how it could be funny at that particular point.
His colleagues (from other networks) gave him a nice send-off. I don’t watch NBC regularly, so, news for me died with the passing of Peter Jennings. (In my opinion, the last of the greats.) Sorry, premature death isn’t too damn funny to me. Well, OK, I guess it is about who it is that passed. In the world of the pundits run rampant, he served his purpose and…well, I guess that’s about it. Imagine being taken at 58 when Midge dates back to Biblical Times. It hardly seems fair.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Mr-Clark
Mr. Clark,
Hello again and thanks for your earlier message. You do have your distinctive style, sir.
I’m not familiar with the origin of the particular sobriquet you have chosen for McCain. If he is Midge, is Barry Barbie?
Sincerely and respectfully,
Darehead
So, is Wonkette still sitting shivah for Tim or what? Any new articles coming up anytime soon? We’ve already missed Obama sandbagging Quincy, Illinois…
Seriously, even MSNBC.MSN has changed their headline. I hate Wonkette on the weekends.
gurukalehuru: Yeah, but give dear Ken a fatherland break so he doesn’t end up like Russert. Soon, we will be led to the promised land of Wonkette 3.0, where there will be milk and honey and bannination for all.
Cicada: The “but what will he do” fear seems particularly high among Jewish libs, compared to other whitey Democrats. I think a lot of unspoken prejudice isn’t against the blackitude, it’s against the Hussein in his name. Anybody whose No. 1 fear is the Muzlim terrists is going to look at him fisheyed, because they’re afraid he’ll be soft on the Ay-rabs.
Tim Russert didn’t show up to work today. He’s a lazy gun-hating liberal.
You could call him a “bleeding heart liberal” because, you know, his heart exploded.
Mr-Clark: I’d love to smoke a cigarette with Peter Jennings.
AxmxZ: It’s Sunday. Go outside.
jagorev: I did too much of that yesterday. Today is for vegging with The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Shrek III, Shin-chan, box cabernet and Rittersport.
In other news not related to Tim Russert, Ron Paul is saying lots of nice things about Bob Barr.
Barrtards?
I have never thought of myself as a Stupid Is As Stupid Does 17&40 Muslim male extremeist but there it is in black and white, so it must be true.
Michelle always said I was as stupid ass, I had to agree with her after all I married her racist ass.
No one has to worry, I could never be the anti Christ, when you guys get to know me you will see that I haven’t a clue as what to do next.
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Tim Russert will be sadly missed.
Waaaaaaa! I miss Russert’s potatohead and crazy eyes.
Really.
We tried to reach him for comment, but he has failed to return our calls.
you’ll have to try the ethernet.
AudicityofHope: Did anyone try posting something to Hillaryis44? I’m not sure its real!
Try something that looks like their normal mentality:
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Maybe they don’t like my name and I’ve been banned
AudicityofHope: Did anyone try posting something to Hillaryis44? I’m not sure its real!
Try something that looks like their normal mentality:
“i luv hillary and i don’t know what to do. everyone else is a bunch of secret liars and can’t be trusting. HILLARY NOW AND FOREVER ‘08!!!!!!!!! PS THIS WWW HOMEPAGE IS THE BEST LUVYOU ALL
:-)”
Maybe they don’t like my name and I’ve been banned
Borat: AudicityofHope: I don’t think it’s real either. It’s a one-way site, and those running the show are hiding who they are. I wouldn’t sweat it. Besides, don’t these women have shirts to iron?
Borat: I suppose you could send them a “confidential tip” if you really wanted to…
graceless: I started to do that then thought it would kind of like looking street corner fire & brimstone preacher in the eye. They’ll be following me forever and now claiming they have 18,000,001 votes
graceless: whois reveals that the registrant is DomainsByProxy, which indicates they want to hide…
Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
Now for hillaryis44:
The 100,000 posts were written by 310 users. That is NOT a typo. Three hundred and ten users wrote all 100,000 posts. The most prolific user posted 7170 times. The top 20 users have posted 45% off all posts and 24 users have posted half of all posts. 171 users are “regulars”, where regulars are defined as having posted 20+ times, the regulars have posted more than 99% of all posts.
I don’t know if it is correct, but have a a read of this…
http://hyerstandard.com/braking-down-those-hillary-supporters-who-claim-to-hate-obama/
Ben Smith has something to say also…
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/A_campaign_mystery_solved_HillaryIs44.html
And this…is bizarre…
http://knowwherenow.blogspot.com/search?q=hillaryis44
Q: Nice research Q on the hillaryis44 site. It’s far more interesting than any of the weekend news.
I ended up posting my ravings on what appears to be a site with the same content that hillaryis44 denouces as hackers trying to illegally steal your money: http://hcfpinoh.blogspot.com/
(gosh, haven’t heard the word “denouce” in like a week…this campaign is getting boring)
SayItWithWookies: I am justly served with my own trechery.
Cicada: Well here we have the essence of the dichotomy don’t we? You too want to sound off like a potty mouth because you view it as the house style, but you also want strict observance of decorum in matters of the deaths of public figures of questionable importance. So which is it?
I’m very much looking forward to you amplifying your views on this subject. This time you might want to flash your credentials a little bit, so the rest of us sad sacks will be able to discern why your particular brand of schoolmarming should be regarded as determinative.
SayItWithWookies: Mr Blifil: You both suck. The word is “dithyrambs.”
Darehead: If so somebody should definitely check the manufacture on the microphone he was using. Word to the wise, never select a song whose lyrics you have to strain to read.
Q: Borat: WOW! I guess there’s just no telling…310 people, way more than the 350 million other Americans, wait, no. Ah, nevermind.
Mr Blifil: Dasterdly trap >> Ready to pounce?
Mr Blifil: Bwah hah hah. It’s like a Stoppard play adapted for the internets.
Mr Blifil: *sigh* The comment that seems to have ticked you off so badly was an attempt, through teasing, to make you realize why so many commenters were jumping down your throat. Apparently you not only lack a sense of humor, but you have an incredibly thin skin too.
I personally don’t give two shits about tater-head dying, but other folks here do. I was opting to not poke a stick in their eye, which I suppose makes me a schoolmarm. It seems like you are one of those people who believe being right is more important than treating your fellow humans with respect.
Rock on you crazy rebel you. Whoop-di-doo.
I was serious about the humor making a difference, BTW. It wasn’t just to fuck with you. Neilist is a perfect example of how to do it right. That bastard had me laughing while he was making fun of Teddy Kennedy’s brain tumor, and I love Teddy Kennedy.
If you must go around picking fights with people, have at it. It isn’t much fun to read, and it’s even less fun to respond to, so I’ll be opting out from now on.
Hello? Hello? I’m starting to fear this may have been Ken Layne’s
last blog post.
Cicada: Mr Blifil: Bring on the the make-up sex, dudes!
echo…echo…echo…
Darehead: Does that mean I get to be a sexy schoolmarm? HOTT!!!!
I AM JOHN MCCAIN I TURN YOU INTO FROG WITH FINGER!!!!!!!1!
Cicada:
Praise makes me nervous. I keep checking the off hand for the knife. I feel safer being hated.
Must be the Celtic blood.
Like Teddy “Waterwings” Kennedy.
Hic!
Is it too soon to stop talking about Tim and to note how much of a hottie Luke Russert is? Thank jeebus for Maureen Orth’s genes.
Neilist: You bastard. Fuck off!
That better?