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MSNBC Announces New Roles For Dan Abrams and Tucker Carlson

Furry Convention.
Your editors meet the delightful MSNBC mascots in downtown Denver.


1:39 PM on Wed August 27 2008
By Ken Layne
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  1. Serolf Divad says at 1:41 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Let me guess: they dressed the ass up as an elephant.

  2. Obviously, they aren’t paid enough to wear those things.

    Also, there’s a Furry conclave at the DNC? Who knew?

  3. AngryBlakGuy says at 1:43 pm, August 27th, 2008

    …how do I know which one is Tucker, it looks like both of them are wearing bow-ties!?

  4. NoWireHangers says at 1:44 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Good to know you guys finally found some dates.

  5. loudmouthredhead says at 1:44 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Well, Tucker has more experience being an ass, so that might narrow down who’s who.

  6. freakishlystrong says at 1:45 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Serolf Divad: It’s MSNBC, there would be at least a dozen elepants there if all the asses showed up, and that’s just the AM programming…

  7. freakishlystrong says at 1:45 pm, August 27th, 2008

    And very cute pic..!

  8. Poindextrous says at 1:45 pm, August 27th, 2008

    HA. I always assumed the crowds at the MSNBC broadcast spot were just a partial group of Olbermann’s drooling fan base…now we know they are expecting a little furry pr0n.

  9. ManchuCandidate says at 1:46 pm, August 27th, 2008

    The elephant seems pretty happy to see Sara.

  10. NoWireHangers says at 1:46 pm, August 27th, 2008

    I have an actor friend that was paid to dress up as a toilet bowl brush and hand out flyers that said “your job is better than mine.” True story, it was for Career Builder.

  11. soytrucknutz says at 1:47 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Jim Newell is a Ginger!

  12. greatgooglymoogly says at 1:47 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Nice legs, Sara. Who knew? (I’m assuming that’s Sara. Whoever you are, anyway.)

    What — just by the way — what is a fuzzy Republican icon doing at the Dem’s convention anyway? And is there a fuzzy terrorist/muslim/rapper giant human doll thingy somewhere? That would be HI-larious.

  13. Gopherit v2.0 says at 1:48 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Is Ken dead yet, or is he rallying?

  14. AngryBlakGuy says at 1:48 pm, August 27th, 2008

    …WoW, that elephants trunk is FULLY ERECT! He looks like he is about to trunk fukk that poor girl!!!

  15. AngryBlakGuy says at 1:52 pm, August 27th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: …oh its Sara, no wonder! Give her one for me Tucker!

  16. Is that Dr. Lisa Cuddy?

  17. NoWireHangers says at 1:55 pm, August 27th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Grossness! Take a bathroom break already. Sheesh!

  18. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:56 pm, August 27th, 2008

    I have just had the existential crisis of Sara K. Smith’s existence wash over me like wave.

  19. loudmouthredhead says at 1:58 pm, August 27th, 2008

    soytrucknutz: Ginger pride, brother!
    Is that you, Sara? Very cute.

    TGY: Oh yeah, you may not recognize them because they used to be known as the lesbian hippie P.A.C. “The Fuzzy Clams”.

  20. WonksRunAmuck says at 1:58 pm, August 27th, 2008

    The Ass comes in peace. Or would like 2 shots - and step on it!

  21. iwillsavethispatient says at 2:01 pm, August 27th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Yeah, but the elephant is a Republican, yeah? So, she can’t be the reason for the trunk…

  22. Who are the mascots and who are the editors? I’m confused.

  23. Bend them over an oil barrel (not you, Sara) and they will be identical.
    The elephant does seem to be very, very happy about something
    considering the angle his (or her?) trunk is at, and the fact that those
    hands are obscured by the signage.
    By the way, I wonder what the press would be writing at this time
    if Hillary had spoken in a blue dress with a white spot on it, instead
    of the roadside clean up minimum security detail orange jumpsuit?
    Just asking…….
    Jerry w
    http://www.boskolives.wordpress.com

  24. Godless Liberal * says at 2:08 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Jesus, the Curmudgeon was crushing enough, but now I find out that Newell is a filthy ginger as well? I’m going to have to find another site to frequent.

  25. policonoclast says at 2:09 pm, August 27th, 2008

    The Sarah K. Smith fan club just got another member.

  26. SayItWithWookies says at 2:09 pm, August 27th, 2008

    I won’t believe that elephant’s a real Republican until he falls off his Segway.

  27. freppish says at 2:10 pm, August 27th, 2008

    did you kick them, or throw a stink bomb in their mouths?

  28. Can Obama and McCain have Segway podiums during the debates? It would be fun to watch Barry literally run circles around his opponent.

  29. Wagamuffin says at 2:12 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Sara has been rendered weak in the knees by this magnificeant specimen of pachyderm manhood.

    Jim appears ready to assume the fetal position (Stage one: protective arm cross against Tucker Carlson plushie. But it’s those advances from the rear that you have to watch out for Jim!).

    I am also glad to see his semi-crisp American Apparel shirt is following the current rule of casual fashion: that it is OUTSIDE his pants, and not tucked in like some cheetos-eating-parents-basement-living-star-wars-collectale-action-figure-blogger.

    I am soooooooooooo jealous. Looks like too much fun…

  30. KevoTron says at 2:14 pm, August 27th, 2008

    What is that mysterious gang sign the brown, muslim, defeatist, terror apologist donkey displaying? Is that the infamous “terrorist attack signal”?

  31. KevoTron says at 2:17 pm, August 27th, 2008

    On second thought I think he’s offering Ken “two in the pink” if you knowhadimean.

  32. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:20 pm, August 27th, 2008

    NoWireHangers: …sorry about that, sometimes the hormones just take control of my keyboard. And by hormones I mean penis.

    iwillsavethispatient: …true, maybe the elephant is trying to cozy up to Sara just to get to Jim. That elephants want to beat it like a red headed stepchild(pardon the pun).

  33. bryan j says at 2:21 pm, August 27th, 2008

    That female editor is hot and presumably very sarcastic. You complete me, female editor. Unless you used to be a man and have had a sex change….in that case, we can be bros.

  34. Voyou Charmant says at 2:22 pm, August 27th, 2008

    I heard that the Donkey costume — but not the guy in it) is a Muslim.

  35. Doglessliberal says at 2:24 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Those signs look as if they have weird, creepy red/white/blue alien arms coming around the bottom of them. Or legs. So those are not really fuzzies, but aliens dressed as fuzzies. Watch your backs, Ken, Sara, and Jim. They might eat you.

  36. freppish says at 2:28 pm, August 27th, 2008

    bryan j: dude if shes post op who cares?

  37. Paradise says at 2:30 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Tucker as an ass? No! They’d never be able to stretch the hole big enough for him to fit through.

  38. Whiskeybaby says at 2:36 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Jim and Sara are adorable. The elephant does look as though it might be contemplating defiling the stars and stripes in a way that only a pervy republican who hates freedom can.

  39. bryan j says at 2:38 pm, August 27th, 2008

    freppish: That’s the difference between you and I. I would still kick it with her, because even if she is post op, other hot girls would still jump my bones just for hanging out with her.

  40. WhatTheHeck says at 2:44 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Only the elephant is patriotic enough to wear a patriotic hat.
    Damn donkey with his hopey peace sign. He couldn’t start a war even if he tried.

    Now I assume Ken took this picture. Must have been sober. No camera shake.

  41. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:45 pm, August 27th, 2008

    bryan j: freppish: …remember if she gives you the BJ, then TECHNICALLY you aren’t gay! Or so I heard.

  42. Canmon (the Inadequate) says at 2:46 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Why is the Democratic donkey not wearing a flag hat?

  43. Wagamuffin says at 2:48 pm, August 27th, 2008

    bryan j: I am always eager for further insight into the male mind. Thanks!

  44. S.Luggo says at 2:50 pm, August 27th, 2008

    This is how Denver disguises it’s transients. (I’m about the two in the costumes.) After the convention, they will have to go to dressing like a Pantomime Horse in order to make the tourists all happy-happy joy-joy.

  45. roundofapplause says at 2:50 pm, August 27th, 2008

    whats the matter ken? camera shy?

  46. iwillsavethispatient: Your Brit flag has been noted, so you get a pass on this. But, if you get to Los Angeles some day I’ll set you up with a tour of West Hollywood, where such thoughts of sexual assignment will be smashed to the ground. In a nice way, of course.
    Jerry w
    http://www.boskolives.wordpress.com

  47. Doglessliberal says at 2:51 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Canmon (the Inadequate): it’s a Negroe Mooslim Terrist Donkey!

  48. S.Luggo says at 2:57 pm, August 27th, 2008

    WhatTheHeck: The elephant is patriot because it’s Eldon Smith in the costume. (As yet one more disguise. http://wonkette.com/402224/meet-eldon-smith )

  49. AnnieGetYourFun says at 2:59 pm, August 27th, 2008

    policonoclast: You, or the elephant’s trunk?

  50. freppish says at 3:00 pm, August 27th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: balls dont touch its not gay is the rule

  51. WadISay says at 3:01 pm, August 27th, 2008

    I am surprised they don’t also have a PUMA mascot. And shouldn’t there be one for the Paultards? I’m thinking gooney bird.

  52. Cogito Ergo Bibo says at 3:02 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Oooo. Donkey show! Kewl. So, naturally, I presume that Tucker will be bottom?

  53. JeffGoldblum says at 3:02 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Segways is 4 teH gaYz!!!!

  54. AngryBlakGuy says at 3:03 pm, August 27th, 2008

    freppish: …Oh really? I didn’t hear about that one, I really need to get a copy of the 2008 Republican handbook!

  55. KevoTron says at 3:03 pm, August 27th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: You mean I’m not gay? This is the happiest day of my life. I can’t wait to tell my parents I’m going back in the closet.

  56. AngryBlakGuy says at 3:07 pm, August 27th, 2008

    WadISay: …PUMA Mascot = A giant Ass with hat, Paultard Mascot = an Orc(level 20 or higher)

  57. iwillsavethispatient says at 3:09 pm, August 27th, 2008

    jerryw: I’m only using society’s constructs for comic effect, you don’t need to go to LA to learn that people can’t be pigeonholed.
    Anyway, it was meant to be a joke… in reference to the truth universally* acknowledged that a Senator in possession of a good wife, must be caught cheating on said wife with a woman, if Democratic, or a man, if Republican. Look back for last year’s “Cocktober” and “Blowvember”…
    (*) the Wonkette Universe

  58. Outstando says at 3:09 pm, August 27th, 2008

    I would have commented earlier, but I’ve been singing “Oh Sara” to the tune of Steve Perry’s “Oh Sherrie” up and down the halls of our office for the past hour. Once you get the demonstrative leg walk thing down, it’s kinda addictive.

  59. JadedDIssonance says at 3:10 pm, August 27th, 2008

    The elephant as a party symbol…this symbology is waay to pervy. I need lunch.

  60. AngryBlakGuy says at 3:10 pm, August 27th, 2008

    KevoTron: …congratulations, you are not gay! However unfortunately, now you are Republican!

  61. Outstando says at 3:11 pm, August 27th, 2008

    JadedDIssonance: How come that elephant doesn’t come with any rainbows?

  62. Kittenloss says at 3:13 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Did you just break the fourth wall by letting us know what you look like? I’m not sure how I feel about the editors being humanized (having nice legs or red hair, or shirts. Maybe we were all better off when they were just disembodied wacky voices chucking political insight out of the ether. Or something.

  63. SayItWithWookies says at 3:14 pm, August 27th, 2008

    No wonder MSNBC got that address — did anyone else notice that “Wewatta” is an anagram of Twat Awe?

  64. KevoTron says at 3:16 pm, August 27th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: I’m not sure which is more traumatic. All I can say is there is no fucking way I’m lobbying for a Republican right to marry. That shit’s sick and wrong.

  65. Wagamuffin says at 3:17 pm, August 27th, 2008

    SayItWithWookies: No sorry, I did not notice since I was writing a largely unread dissertion on Greek mythology and the DNC. But: WIN!

  66. Doglessliberal says at 3:18 pm, August 27th, 2008
  67. AngryBlakGuy says at 3:20 pm, August 27th, 2008

    KevoTron: …not to mention its an affront to Darwin’s theory of evolution!

  68. AfghanVet says at 3:21 pm, August 27th, 2008

    I am surprised that we are getting so much serious reporting instead of who is throwing the best parties…and by best I mean best drinks, drugs and wild sex. I mean, geez, everyone is so tense and serious. If it’s one thing those Clinton Bitters (TM) need it’s a good boinkin’ from some College Democrat high on Ecstasy and drunk enough not to look too close. Pictures damn it! Pictures!

  69. thefrontpage says at 3:25 pm, August 27th, 2008

    It’s time for MSNBC to pack it in, fold up shop, dissolve, retire and go away forever. NBC-Universal should change the station to 24-hour reruns of situation comedies. We’d get far more social insight from an old re-run of “The Beverly Hillbillies” than we’d get from anything running anywhere on MSNBC these days.

  70. thefrontpage says at 3:27 pm, August 27th, 2008

    If I dare: What the hell is a “ginger?”

    And is the cute girl in the picture Wonkette’s Sara?

  71. artful abortions says at 3:27 pm, August 27th, 2008

    The biggest clown in that picture is the ginger with the backpack. Go figure.

  72. MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend says at 3:31 pm, August 27th, 2008
  73. MARCdMan says at 3:33 pm, August 27th, 2008

    thefrontpage: Ginger = redhead.
    MARCdMan = Ginger (for the record)

  74. Neilist says at 3:38 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Both of those poor clowns are aspiring thespians.

    They spent 11 years at Actors Studio.

    The one in the elephant costume wanted to do Hamlet.

    The one in the donkey costume wanted to do Willie Loman in “Death of A Salesman.”

    Instead, this is the only gig they could get.

    They both will be coming suicide later today.

    No one will care . . . .

    Ah, politics!

  75. HIROHITO99 says at 3:41 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Where’s the Crying Eagle mascot?

  76. RuperttheBear says at 3:44 pm, August 27th, 2008

    thefrontpage: I’d go as far to say that Sara is racking, unless she’s really short, then it’s just a question of scale. Churlish to request her measurements?

    BAD BEAR

  77. WadISay says at 3:49 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Say, what is Wonkette’s “business plan”* for “coverage”* of the RNC? I picture Jim and Sara striding pridefully toward the X-Cel Center like the alien tripods in War of the Worlds, blasting beams of the snark at random people and objects, which then expode.

    *uncontrollable hoots of laughter

  78. AfghanVet says at 3:50 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Hey, if that is Sara then Sara = Cute.

  79. pondscum says at 3:52 pm, August 27th, 2008

    HIROHITO99: That’s next week in the Twin Cities.

  80. lumpenprole says at 3:56 pm, August 27th, 2008

    From now on, all Sara posts are tinged with intense hotness.

  81. NoWireHangers says at 3:57 pm, August 27th, 2008

    You guys need shifts for sleeping/eating/blogging or something. I can’t go 3 hours without any new posts during the workday. What do you expect me to do? Work? I thought this was America!

  82. masterdebater says at 3:58 pm, August 27th, 2008

    What’s Sara reaching for behind that podium? Some guys have all the luck.

  83. RuperttheBear says at 4:03 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Another pic of Sara with another infamous ginge. This picture looks cuter because she is drinking corn likker.

  84. jagorev says at 4:03 pm, August 27th, 2008

    I can barely make out Sara’s face in this picture. At least post something hi-rez.

  85. AnnieGetYourFun says at 4:04 pm, August 27th, 2008

    iwillsavethispatient: I, for one, got it, AND thought it was funny.

    AfghanVet: It is now well-established that Sara is a total hottie. How she ended up blogging is totally beyond me.

  86. liquiddaddy says at 4:05 pm, August 27th, 2008

    They look incredibly inflammable.

  87. masterdebater says at 4:07 pm, August 27th, 2008

    jagorev: Oh, yeah, her face. Good point. See, I was thinking smaller tighter dress, but I’m just kind of sick that way.

  88. RuperttheBear says at 4:09 pm, August 27th, 2008

    That pic link seems fukked. Is this the firefox 3 bug? Try it again.

    Here. Hope it works.

  89. iwillsavethispatient says at 4:10 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Can I request we quit the “OMG a gurl on teh interwebs!” posts, and get over it?

  90. HIROHITO99 says at 4:10 pm, August 27th, 2008

    NoWireHangers: Yeah, what gives? This is a Democratic National Convention! There should be something happening about every half a minute that could easily be ridiculed and laughed about. I mean, sure… the republican convention will probably be even more stupid and more inane but this is your only chance to make fun of politics and politicians without being reminded that John McCain was a prisoner of war for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS everywhere you go.

  91. bryan j says at 4:12 pm, August 27th, 2008

    AfghanVet: How do we know that she actually blogs? Maybe it’s a symbolic position, I mean, this is Wonkette. It is required that the editor be hot. I bet theres some tool of an intern running the whole operation, he probably got fired from the Harvard Lampoon for being ugly or something.

  92. iwillsavethispatient: Note that I have refrained from saying how cute Sara is. This is because I have willpower and stuff. Plus, Liz G. owns my soul, so there you go.

  93. jagorev says at 4:21 pm, August 27th, 2008

    bryan j: I bet the real Wonkette looks hideous like this: http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/33930/original.jpg

  94. I can’t believe the elephant’s interested in Sara. He’s Republican, she’s female. It doesn’t add up.

  95. KevoTron says at 4:29 pm, August 27th, 2008

    iwillsavethispatient: yes, thank you.

  96. grendel says at 4:32 pm, August 27th, 2008

    bup: That’s how you know he’s not Republican… he just plays one on a Segway.

  97. iwillsavethispatient says at 4:39 pm, August 27th, 2008

    KevoTron: Yeah… when I posted that, I hadn’t realised we were going to move on to Olbermann-Tweetie action…. Thanks for that.

    AnnieGetYourFun: Thanks, you’re a sick individual indeed.

  98. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 4:43 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Newell was the captain/star quarterback of the football team in high school. I JUST KNOW IT!!!!!!!

  99. Outstando says at 4:44 pm, August 27th, 2008

    iwillsavethispatient: What’s with the decent manners?

  100. Outstando says at 4:47 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Botswana Meat Commission FC: He makes holes in defensive lines the size of bomb craters. Force equals mass times acceleration. Plus don’t forget the heat.

  101. Oscar Folsom Cleveland says at 5:00 pm, August 27th, 2008

    soooooo sad…..the Clintons will do anything to make new friends.

  102. rocktonsammy says at 5:01 pm, August 27th, 2008

    guessing the Ginger fella hangs around Tuck and Abes all day telling how talented they are, even in the costumes they totally rock and that bitch Mika couldn’t hold their jock strap in her Uncle Sam mascot suit.

  103. S.Luggo says at 5:02 pm, August 27th, 2008

    RuperttheBear: Well, someone will soon be playing soccer with her bizzoobs.

  104. S.Luggo says at 5:05 pm, August 27th, 2008

    thefrontpage: The word is pronounced “GING-er” and it refers to a callow youth who enjoys playing catcher in prison.

  105. Oscar Folsom Cleveland says at 5:06 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Cogito Ergo Bibo: “Make [Titania] render up her page to me.”

    Look out, Jim!!!

  106. loganmo says at 5:11 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Is this start of a new “open caption” feature for wonkette? its totes fun on gawker

  107. Oscar Folsom Cleveland says at 5:12 pm, August 27th, 2008

    WadISay: Harold Ickes was busy at the CNN bar, couldn’t make it as PUMA mascot. And Carly Fiorina is helping Cindy pack for her Georgia expedition.

  108. I saw Tucker Carlson stomping on rats in the basement of the Pepsi Center. Abrams might have been the guy in the hazmat suit picking up the crushed little creatures and placing them in a bag, but I didn’t get a good look. Tucker said he gets a buck a rat, so it looks like he’s making out pretty good in his MSNBC hosting career.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

  109. Condiments-Only Diet says at 5:33 pm, August 27th, 2008

    Wait, are they are Segway Personal Transporters?

  110. RuperttheBear says at 5:49 pm, August 27th, 2008

    iwillsavethispatient: TITS OR GTFO

  111. sanantonerose says at 5:57 pm, August 27th, 2008

    I’ll take ass over trunk any day of the week.

  112. Dan Abrams must be the donkey. Tucker dressed up like a jackass would just be redundant.

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