Wonkette
- MICHAEL DUKAKIS IS IN THE TANK TOO: McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, who is Karl Rove’s actual bald son, spent all morning yelling at all reporters about how they’re “in the tank” for Barack Obama. And then Politico dominatrix Ben Smith asked the campaign to back up some of the claims Schmidt was making. And then McCain spokesman Brian Rogers e-mailed Smith back, “You are in the tank.” Ha. So Ben Smith naturally wrote a mean piece about the McCain campaign, because he is in the tank. [Politico]
heh heh, you said “Dukakis”
They must have pissed Benny off. There was no need; anyone who’s read Ben’s blog knows he is still in deep mourning for Hillary & constantly defends Walnuts by saying crap like ‘in his defense’, ‘it’s been well documented that he’s contrite for Keating 5′, ‘Obama bad’. But once you lose a bloggist cum journalist like Benny, it’s not looking good.
That’s Ben Hussein Smith to you Wonkette.
Everyone who calls bullshit on WALNUTS is in the tank? Shit, it’s about to get crowded in here.
Maybe it is all a misunderstanding. When republicans say “you’re in the tank” they mean your either not a republican, or not gay.
But what kind of “tank”?
Ideally, something “sporty” like the Leopard II the Germans use, not some POS M-1A1 Abrams.
Either way, just make sure there is no helmet-wearing Democratic midget from Mass in the commander’s position.
I look forward to the day when Lee Atwater claws his way out of hell and cockslaps Steve Schmidt, because damn, this is just pathetic.
Texan Bulldoggette: He was totally in the tank for Hillary.
Neilist: i thought of it more like a hot-tub
The tank will be filled with 53% of the voting electorate come Nov. 4th. So Brian Rogers, you dim-witted child, fuck off.
And they’re gonna stay in that tank for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN! Seriously…remember back in June? When you couldn’t turn on the television without hearing Rev. Wright intoning “GOD BLESS AMERICA, NO! GOD DAMMMMMMMMMMMM AMERICA”. Yeah totally in the tank.
These idiots are retardo-Roves. They may have his proverbial “playbook”, but their hamfisted, clumsy interactions with the press show they don’t have his execution. Rove would make the press coo and giggle as he was assfucking them.
Sounds like someone hasn’t had his strained turnips today. Here comes the airplaaaaane…
HomoPolitico: I continue to insist that Rev. Wright was saying “God damn, America!” because he is so very proud of this country. But you lose that comma in the audio.
You never go wrong screaming about your press coverage, especially when you’re trying to nail down that crucial Skoal vote. Got an old, tottery candidate and a sorority president from Frostbite Falls on the ticket? Scream rape about your press coverage, how the media is always picking on you, how the press always falls for the “cool guy” and not the old guy with 7 houses and 13 cars, who was a POW for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, for chrissake, and who let himself get DP’d by Jerry Falwell AND Dr. Dobson just to get the fuggin’ nomination…. anyway, you get the drift.
“in the tank”
Say-what-to-the-who-now?
Septic Tank? Gas Tank?
Ew-gawd, I hope it’s not a Fish Tank, because I don’t want to hear that fucking Heart song again.
facehead: Like Senator Lindsey Graham.
i can’t post the SNL skit and somebody gonna get it up first.DAMMIT
Sadly, this is but a foretaste of Friday when WALNUTS! totally loses it and screams that the debate moderator and everybody else in the world “is in the tank” and then storms off stage after which Palin, her Witch Hunter and her heavily-armed Rapture-Ready brigade start that great tribulation war they’ve so been looking forward to.
El Bombastico:
Obama Campaign = Harlem Globetrotters
McCain Campaign = those other guys that fucked everything up all the time.
tanks a lot, Schmidt…you asshat.
be prepared for sour grapes snark if you post that franken SNL skit. you have been warned…..
Damn, those Repubs are clever.
Somebody accuses their campaign of lying.
So they call up to bitch them out, and lie some more.
Yeah, they’ll nevah get caught THAT way….
As frustrating as this is to watch day after day, I have to give the man credit for staffing his entire campaign with Special Olympians. That is a brave and beautiful choice.
sadly this will probably work, on friday they’ll declare walnuts the winner of the debate to make it up to him, probably declare sarah the preemptive winner of the veep one too. the post debate analysis will consist of yelling different variations on “Obama is black!! he loses!” they’ll bring in kanye as an expert to confirm, and remind us that he only cares about black people, oh and all the white women he’s going to do sexy times with in the oval office.
Kev-O-Tron: The Washington Generals, I believe.
Serves ‘em right. I say no coverage of McCain by the elite media at all!
Power to the people!
Democrat by Design
http://www.democratbydesign.typepad.com
A few more Jack and Cokes and I’ll be in the tank, hopefully getting an ass bailout from McCain’s chief of staff, who Sarah Palin will cure, so get some while the gettins good.
It is so unfair of the Press to suddenly expect Republicans to tell the truth. Next thing you know, they will expect Sarah Palin to answer a question.
El Bombastico: No, it’s because Schmidt is from Jersey and Rove is from Texas. He can’t help it.
Boo_Boo_Hoff: I think there is something to that. We Southerners know how to hide our spitefulness behind a thin veneer of gentility and faux-humility.
The McCain camp is lying about lying. They’ve gone so meta Laurence Sterne is going to write their post-campaign “insider’s account” novel.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
And the mccain campaign doesn’t want you to forget….Obama is an uppity negro.
I posted this earlier today on the Peggy Noonen thread. I had bemoaned the lack of heat in Obama’s campaign in answering a question from my BFF “Civic Holdiay”
Lo and behold, Chris Hitchens publishes this on Slate. It is an extension of my thoughts.
http://www.slate.com/id/2200587/
In other news, I just want y’all to know that up here is Canuckistan we are running a Federal election, too. Shhhh, it’s kind of a secret. October 14th right after Canadian Thanksgiving (I beg of you, please don’t make me explain that). You’re all invited to my place for turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, pumpkin pie and blubber, by the way. Please lemme know by October 1.
Anyhoo, we have lost two local (British Columbia ) New Democratic candidates (they being more to the Left of the trad Liberal Party and further still from the ruling Conservatives), who have resigned because they have been caught smoking dope on tape (which was posted on YOUTUBE, bien sur).
Another of their candidates, who is running on Vancouver Island now has some ’splainin’ to do, too. He was caught out at an environmental thingy several years ago, which teens attended. He thought it was OK to skiiny dip with said teens. He apologised then and it has come up again now, and he has apologized for it again. Lack of judgement, harrumph, won’t happen again, can we all please go on? Well, wouldn’t you know. As Paul harvey says, “And here’s the REST of the story:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Election-Central/2008/09/22/NudeWest/
God Almighty, we are but a tiny sister nation to you, our corpulent brother, but Jeebus, we have more than enough whack jobs on a per capita basis here to give you a good run for your money (which is still trading at par, thanks).
I’m totally “in the tank” for Obama. The drunk tank.
ha HA… inebriated!
Kev-O-Tron: “Washington Generals” were the designated patsy for the Globetrotters. Kinda funny now.
is he too nice or a product of the chicago regime? somebody’s fip flopping.
IN THE TANK, ALAN! IN THE TANK!
Maybe this is the McCain campaign solution to high gas prices…? Vehicles that run on the mainstream media? You can fill your tank with people who like Obama…? Maybe…?
Canuckledragger: You might think they do not belong to the reality based community or something.
Do they like having their pants on fire all the time?
Bizzare Bill Clinton on Palin:
In one of the former president’s few extended comments to date on Palin’s surprise VP candidacy, Clinton also told reporters in New York Monday he knows why the Alaska governor is attracting massive crowds on the campaign trail.
“I come from Arkansas, I get why she’s hot out there,” Clinton told reporters in New York, according to the Associated Press. “Why she’s doing well.”
“People look at her, and they say, ‘All those kids. Something that happens in everybody’s family I’m glad she loves her daughter and she’s not ashamed of her. Glad that girl’s going around with her boyfriend. Glad they’re going to get married,’” he said.
Referencing Palin’s 5-month old child who has Down Syndrome, Clinton also said voters will think, “I like that little Down syndrome kid — one of them lives down the street, they’re wonderful children.”
Wagamuffin: Hurrah, Canadian Politicians in Non-Boring Scandal Shock! “On a number of occasions, throughout the weekend, I removed my clothing in the presence of minors. Beyond that nothing inappropriate occurred”, added the disgraced candidate. This is one to be proud of, surely. Take a bow, Canadia.
Someone missed the e-mail from 1988.
Poor panzar-Dukakis; losing the popular vote by 7 FUCKING MILLION people.
Texan Bulldoggette: “cum journalist”? Heheh. Is this a Latin preposition or does Benny specialize in “money shot” reviews?
Everytime I turn on the TV there’s a McCain advisor or spokesperson yelling with a pulsating neck vein. I say, FUckaz, we’re all in the tank for a not-so-fucked-up country.
lilblackcorvette: Your post has merit, but perhaps you could elaborate a bit more on your chosen subject, and try to be more specific.
Wagamuffin: Thanks for your update on Canuckistani politics. I had no idea there was so much preversion going on up there in our national suburb.
Johnny Zhivago: Oh my God. Thank you for making my day. Bill Clinton = political mastermind.
I’m in the tank for more inflation, my company going under and me losing my job.
Less taxes and more war.
McCain-Palin.
Jesus! Is Bush STILL president?!? I’m missing something.
I wish you could see what I see.
I go to check out the drudge report, and, of course, there’s a bunch of stuff about
how bad and gay the financial crisis is… blah, etc..
At the top of the page is an advert saying “Mortgage Prices are falling! Click here to refinance!”
Wagamuffin: Smoking dope on tape?
Is that even on teh live boy/dead girl scale anymore?
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Aurelio: I wouldn’t put it past him!
Neilist: I’m hoping for fish tank. A grrrrreat big one, like at Sea World!
Each generation of Republican smear artists get a little dimmer.
Atwater > Rove > Schmidt
It’s like Multiplicity except with lying sack of shit morons instead of Michael Keaton.
Wagamuffin: Skinny dipping? Summer camp? Body painting? Is this an election or a Bill Murray movie?
winning hearts and minds in the media is the LAST thing a successful candidate would want to do. I mean, come on.
wheelie: It’s the sight of his erection that had the kiddies “vomiting” that really makes me proud.
Aurelio: When we move up to wife-swapping, you’ll be the first to know!
ifthethunderdontgetya: When they post the videos themselves, I guess it is…Pop Socket: It’s Meat Balls II, baby!
PoliTacky: It’s an oil-torture tank. They pour oil on nonbelievers ala ‘Three Kings’. (can’t believe I used that as a reference)..
Fill that tank with whipped cream and maple syrup
everybody come on down
it’s gonna be a tank-o-rama
move your body round and round
’cause we’re in the tank for Obama
I’m not sure about the rhythm or meter or anything - get the Obama girl on it.
Neilist: Keep in mind that these guys are all chickenhawks and wouldn’t recognise a Leopard II if it ran over them (hey, a guy can dream). Thus, they are thinking about this kind of tank:
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05/blainerecordAP_450×506.jpg
Smoke Filled Roommate: Well, whatever it means, it’s limp and this new RepubliMeme™ must die a swift and painful death by mocking.
(whimper) iiiiiiiin theeeeeeee taaaaaaaaaaaaaank! (whine)
Oh, and ‘Three Kings’ had at least one thing going for it: Straight outta Compton, crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube
El Bombastico: That is a very good point - the new Rovoids are rank amateurs. It can’t just be that we’re more hip to it now… they’re really bad at this! Couldn’t Rove stick around for two weeks and passed along a couple of pointers before he left?