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Menacing Medical Equipment Looms In Shadowy Hallway At RNC

by Sara K. Smith  12:58 pm September 4, 2008

As we were leaving the convention last night, we were diverted down a sinister staircase to this creepy row of Republican Death-Litters. Every night these fill up a hundred times with the decrepit and infirm, and they are wheeled out and replaced with waxen robots chanting “ZERO! ZERO!” who dance to terrible country tunes until they run out of tobacco juice. [YouTube]

{ 42 comments }

Borat September 4, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Are you saying you were not arrested for taking a picture of this high-security operation for potential snarky terririst use? Please turn yourselves in at once.

columnv September 4, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Those stretchers are sexist.

Vanity Smurf September 4, 2008 at 1:03 pm

WALNUTZ! isn’t the only one in that hall that could stroke out at any minute. They must be prepared.

Strappo September 4, 2008 at 1:05 pm

Maybe they were hoping Sarah’s speech would lead dozens of people to faint in rapture. Beatlemania with diabolical influences.

Sean O September 4, 2008 at 1:06 pm

Damn liberals forcing their health care on America’s people.

shortsshortsshorts September 4, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Hey this is random but did anyone see any Latinos in the crowd last night?
Any more then three blacks?

SORRY THAT WAS SEXIST OF ME.

AngryBlakGuy September 4, 2008 at 1:07 pm

…the paramedics were there to resuscitate anyone who drowned from the flood of bull-shit coming out of Rudy 9ui11ian’s and Sarah Palins mouths!

Texan Bulldoggette September 4, 2008 at 1:08 pm

Guess they figured someone was probably going to be popping out a kid or having a stroke or heart attack. Good thing they were prepared.

CrunchyKnee September 4, 2008 at 1:09 pm

Shit, McCain went FIVE and ONE HALF YEARS without a stretcher!

NoWireHangers September 4, 2008 at 1:10 pm

I’m surprised they didn’t have more stretchers. What with the odds of any of the following happening:
-A righteous flood from Our Lord washing away the GOP
-Palin’s water breaks on a 6th child, washing away the GOP
-Rudy’s lisp-spit washing away the GOP
-WALNUTS! wets his diaper, washing away the GOP

Gopherit v2.0 September 4, 2008 at 1:11 pm

There were a credit card machines on those carts, right? No free rides, bitches! Pay your way like the McCains!

Miller September 4, 2008 at 1:11 pm

Those are just for show. McCain has taken to faking a heart attack whenever he gets asked about the vetting for Palin. He grabs his chest, falls down, the “paramedics” rush over and cart him away. It’s easier than answering.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

freakishlystrong September 4, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Y’all watch yer backs and get outta there, don’t let any of the stoopid get on you!

Gopherit v2.0 September 4, 2008 at 1:14 pm

[re=84085]NoWireHangers[/re]: The way the conventioneers reacted last night, if Palin broke water, they’d have treated the amniotic fluid like Water from Lourdes. By which, I mean they’d have sold it on E-bay. Chris Matthews would have bought some for his sad, bald cranium.

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 4, 2008 at 1:15 pm

Wait. They’re getting free medical care? I knew there was a reason they didn’t care about the rest of us!

Oh, and CindyLou’s dress/earrings/watch/shoe combo from her speech on Monday rings in at about $300K, says Vanity Fair:http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/09/cindy-mccains-300000-outfit.html Elitists.

Gopherit v2.0 September 4, 2008 at 1:15 pm

[re=84079]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I think I saw one. He was holding a sign that said “Hispanties 4 McCain”. He might have meant Hispanics, but it’s hard to say with GOPers.

DoctorCulturae September 4, 2008 at 1:16 pm

As I look at those stretchers and read the words in this blog I’m reminded of what an incredible woman Sarah Palin is, what an incredible speech she gave last night, and how impressed the entire universe is with her. She stands for everything I have ever thought. I have utterly transformed as a human being. She gave me the red meat I so richly deserve and reminded me to keep my attention on hating things with have no substance and over that which I have no control. She makes me feel so good about being different than anyone else who has ever lived on this planet! In particular I’m so much better than all those people on the angry left!

Gopherit v2.0 September 4, 2008 at 1:17 pm

[re=84096]DoctorCulturae[/re]: That wasn’t red meat….it was an anal penetrator. Easy to mistake, given the circumstances.

Cogito Ergo Bibo September 4, 2008 at 1:18 pm

Dang it! Need a space to make an active link. Cindy drops $300K to look purty during Monday’s speech:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/09/cindy-mccains-300000-outfit.html

Norbert September 4, 2008 at 1:19 pm

I assumed it was some kind of organ harvesting operation:

http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/312/802/61/Coma_(1978).jpg

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez September 4, 2008 at 1:20 pm

If WALNUTS! kicked the bucket today, would Nanookie automatically become the candidate?

jerryw September 4, 2008 at 1:20 pm

[re=84079]shortsshortsshorts[/re]:

Well there was one guy that sorta looked like a messican,
but then I slapped my tv and he turned out to be white.

Is that what you were asking about?

Vanity Smurf September 4, 2008 at 1:23 pm

[re=84100]Cogito Ergo Bibo[/re]: And she still looked like a gussied up banana.

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 1:26 pm

[re=84115]Vanity Smurf[/re]: What’s the difference between a Stepford wife and an avalanche?
Lipstick.

StripesAndPlaids September 4, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Stretcher? I don’t even KNOW her. I am so sexist.

StripesAndPlaids September 4, 2008 at 1:31 pm

[re=84115]Vanity Smurf[/re]: Mmmmm….. banannas and walnuts. Light it on fire for your very own Publican Banannas Foster.

Anonymous Office Zombie September 4, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Ze-ro!, ze-ro!, ze-ro!, ze-ro!, zeig heil!, ze-ro!, ze-ro!… oh, sorry. I was having a flashback of last night’s hate fest.

shortsshortsshorts September 4, 2008 at 1:31 pm

[re=84108]jerryw[/re]: I think that pretty much sums up the convention. Good luck with those hispanic votes, Walnuts.

Oh wait we are a retarded country.
DAMN!

voyetra8 September 4, 2008 at 1:33 pm

The stretchers are there to carry away the snake handlers, silly.

“They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

Botswana Meat Commission FC September 4, 2008 at 1:35 pm

The gurney is for when John Dickerson faints in ecstasy during Palin’s speech.

Mr. Herpes September 4, 2008 at 1:37 pm

That’s not a medical stretcher, you dumbshits. If Sarah had failed to “click” with the crowd, they were going to drag a Texas death row inmate on stage and do him right there on national TV to “draw a line in the sand” with those liberal lefties in the DNC. Fortunately for Joe Bob Ratchett, Sarah got the Dentugrip delegates on their feet and howling for Obama’s skin. Literally.

user-of-owls September 4, 2008 at 1:38 pm

[re=84075]Strappo[/re]: phony beatlemania has bitten the dust

Tybalt September 4, 2008 at 1:42 pm

If elected, I pledge to you that our nation’s zombie robots will NEVER run out of tobacco juice. We will drill, drill, drill inside the skull of every Nashville singer and every minor league baseball coach until our nation’s tobacco juice supply is assured for this generation and for generations to come.

jodyleek September 4, 2008 at 1:43 pm

[re=84100]Cogito Ergo Bibo[/re]: That c*nt looked like a trollop.

tsunami September 4, 2008 at 1:44 pm

[re=84130]Mr. Herpes[/re]:

well, maybe…but not in the original color.

sanantonerose September 4, 2008 at 1:45 pm

I need one of those stretchers.

Fishpaw September 4, 2008 at 2:05 pm

This does explain those audio-animatronics and that coyboy-hat-on/coyboy-hat-off routine they do so well.

V572625694 September 4, 2008 at 2:19 pm

[re=84128]Botswana Meat Commission FC[/re]: Dickerson is the most boring writer at Slate–a singular distinction!

Monsieur Grumpe September 4, 2008 at 2:32 pm

Verbal lobotomy recovery stretchers.

Makeithurt September 4, 2008 at 3:40 pm

They were hoping that Walnuts’ cheek would finally give birth and have a little cheek baby to show off and pass around tonight so that Meaghan could lick her hand and stroke its wittle node-ums.

Jukesgrrl September 4, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Oh, you silly people. They aren’t awaiting WALNUTS! stroke. Those stretchers are for Cindy, in case she “breaks” another arm or faints from her anorexia. One for her and one for her jewelry.

Lascauxcaveman September 4, 2008 at 4:51 pm

[re=84134]user-of-owls[/re]: Who’s calling?

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