Wonkette
- This weekend the Bush administration proposed measures to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from collapsing. They involve loans ‘n stuff. [New York Times, Los Angeles Times]
- Joe Lieberman is so ronery. [New York Times]
- Meet like 50 of Barack Obama’s closest friends and advisers! They are all from Chicago. Also, Rahm Emanuel told him once that if he wanted to be left alone when he boards his campaign plane he should put in his iPod ear buddies. [Washington Post]
- Want to reduce your gas consumption? Drive like an old lady. [Wall Street Journal]
- The newest issue of the New Yorker features a satirical cover that will be hailed as God’s honest truth by a nation of paranoid Bitters who, thankfully, don’t read the New Yorker anyway. [Politico]
- Dick Lugar would like to see more troops in Afghanistan. [The Hill]
DAILY BRIEFING
You know, the cynic within me almost wonders if the whole credit meltdown was engineered by the Republican party, sensing a Democrat takeover, and timed to really hit its stride just as Democrats are taking control of key pieces of government.
Surely they’re not that smart, but still, one wonders.
Obama’s wife is toting an AK-47. The Bitters love guns. You’d think this cover would endear Hopey to them…
I love how the New York Times characterizes Lieberman as in the “middle.” Of what? The biggest ego in politics? He’s a “middle” figure like, say, Jesus between God and the Holy Spirit. Or my middle finger between all my other fingers.
Was the fight the smears website address on the cover too?
Middle way?
If there is only one good thing coming out of Gore’s electoral “loss” in 2000 is that there is no VP Lieberman or say Joe Lie in 08! It could have been a lot worse.
The best thing about Democrats picking up a few Senate seats will be watching Lieberman bubble, ooze and seep into irrelevancy.
If NPR’s report that BHO was pissed about that cover on TNYer, nextprez should grow some thicker skin and embrace the satire. I’m still voting for him, but now he’s really starting to piss me off.
Oh, an in honor of the Wall Street Journal’s pointless Sammy Hagar reference…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfNATuw1DRs
Joe obviously needs a body pillow to keep him company during those uncomfortable moments in the Senate.
So ronery….;_;
The good thing about the 55 mph speed limit is at least you can drink a little more.
RuperttheBear: He’s a bottom.
bitchincamaro: So he’s taking it in the middle of his buttcheeks. . . yes, it is clear now. Thanks.
4tehlulz: Poor writtle him…
bitchincamaro: well, yeah, but…
on the cover of MAD, funny…because even the dopes will know it’s
a joke…i think.
cover of effete, candy-ass new yawker…not so much.
just sayin’
I’ve changed my commuting route to a nice country back road and average about 45 mph. It made a HUGE difference in my Outback’s fuel consumption.
Reduce my gas consumption, Hell! What I need is a Federal study focused on how to reduce my gas production!
the germans and their autobahn probably save more gas than the average american. i dont buy it
tsunami: Funny we didn’t hear any complaining when the cover cartoon depicted Barry and Hillz in bed together going for the phone at 3 a.m. Just sayin’.
Just back from “vacation” at the in-laws in Florida. Since he’s a doctor, I’m not sure they qualify as bitterz but damn it’s amazing how many excuses these usually loyal dems can come up with not to vote for Barry (not counting the true but unspoken one, duh). Course they are over 70 and Jewish so it’s probably a lost cause. MIL actually believed the loving WSJ Jesse Helms obits, argued with me whether he was really racist. Oy.
Godless Liberal *: They are *so* not that smart. I’m not even sure that’s a smart thing for them to do.
Well, hell, I don’t usually drive that fast, anyway. I’m old! Get the fuck outta the way of my walker, though. It’s got spikes on it.
HA! I love that cover and with Michelle all Angela Davis and stuff. The bitters’ worst political nightmare probably hasn’t changed at all from the 60s - it’s still a gun-totin’ afro-sportin’ black feminist communist. That’s some sweeeeeeet bad-assssss, that Michelle Obama.
bitchincamaro: I complain about every New Yorker cover ever made because it is an elitist magazine with cartoons I don’t think are funny.
Garfield, now that’s a cartoon. See, he’s not getting out of bed BECAUSE IT’S MONDAY!
They could always just post lower speed limits for SUVs, like some states (or Ohio, at least) do for 18-wheelers.
I crack myself up sometimes.
oh, and “ronery”? is spell check not getting that one cuz it almost looks like a real word? it’s like being old and cranky but not because you’re a mean old cuss but because you’re a goofy out-of-touch old shit that would probably be walking around the senate floor without pants if he didn’t have aides (i mean, look at that photo in the NYT article - if that’s not the face of Alzheimer’s …).
HA HA HA!
Miss Texas/Amer’ca falls on her keyster as Miss Venezuela takes the worlds crown.
Doctors report finding high levels of sulphur in her blood, “which explains the limited brain functions”, said the medical report.
RuperttheBear: He is the personification of the middle of his butt cheeks.
bitchincamaro: well, that wasn’t a real rumor out there. This image is, and we really don’t need it even more cemetented into the cortexes of voters. I get satire, but this is pretty stupid. And not very funny or witty or making a new point, which is its main problem, really.
Doglessliberal: (it helps my argument if I spell “cemented” correctly.)
So, like, what if inside the middle of his buttcheeks was the middle of some alternative universe Lieberman’s buttcheeks?
Jeebus, I am so high.
That picture of the Obamas makes me very ronery!
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Joe Lieberpimp, our next ambassador to Sheol.
The Incomparable Tiny Valdez: oh, but I am sure they value our feedback and comments.
Thanks for looking at the bright side people! Just look how fast your president jumped in to rescue the economy, that you ruined, by proposing that congress do something about it. Don’t you feel just a little ashamed? I know I do.
I drew a satirical image of Obama in minstrel garb with big lips and nappy hair shaking a tamborine and singing “Camp Town Races,” which I thought was very funny in sending up right wing sensibilities about a black president. Nobody laughed. Maybe a drawing of him and Michele picking cotton would be funnier?
According to the NYT photo, Lieberman is actually taller than McCain. I know it is stupid, but come the debates don’t they get all funny about candidates having boxes to stand on so things even out? How big has McCain’s box got to be?
liquiddaddy:
Caption: Masah wone likes you runnin foe presdents an such!
Yea, that might hve legs. Especially on Fox, or in the Wall Street Journal.
I went to The New Yorker broken and reported as broken their letter to the editor link (”service unavailable”) and TA DA they sent me this email:.
Thank you for writing. We appreciate your comments and, if you have a question, we’ll do our best to respond. However, owing to the volume of correspondence, we cannot reply to every e-mail individually.
About this week’s issue: Our cover, “The Politics of Fear,” combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are. The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall— all of them echo one attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that’s the spirit of this cover. In this same issue you will also see that there are two very serious articles on Barack Obama inside—Hendrik Hertzberg’s Comment, (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/07/21/080721taco_talk_hertzberg) and Ryan Lizza’s 15,000-word reporting piece on the candidate’s political education and rise in Chicago (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza).
So the Obamas are obvious distortions.
RuperttheBear: Dear New Yorker editorial staff, but it is NOT FUNNY. You might want to look into “Satire for Dummies” and note that “humor” is a large component of satire.
Doglessliberal: Yeah, and when it said “fantastical images” I went back to look at the cover, fully expecting something along the lines of, say, Ariel’s costume in “Little Mermaid on Ice” (you know, fantastical). Nope. Got nothing.
Doglessliberal: Its funny to the New Yorker staff, clearly the only racially transcendental people in media, obvs.