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KEN LAYNE REMEMBERS OBAMA’S NOMINATION SPEECH: “For two long, ridiculous years, I had covered this campaign — if by ‘covered’ you mean ‘wrote stupid jokes about these terrible people, every day, for a Web site.’ Now was not the time to give up and watch history on a cheap wall monitor over a concession booth.” [New York Times Sunday Magazine]
2:39 PM
on Mon November 24 2008
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Sara K. Smith
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“…if by ‘covered’ you mean ‘wrote stupid jokes about these terrible people, every day, for a Web site.’
Don’t beat yourself up Ken, that’s what most ‘journalists’ do, they just get paid more.
ken layne in the new york times???
last time a wonkette editor made it to the new york times was when a.m. cox crashed the staten island ferry by drinking on the job.
This brings me back to the historic moment I heard America would have its first African American woman as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
I was eating Corn Pops out of the box watching the announcement on MSNBC this morning, and thinking of my unborn kids. I wondered if they would love Kellogg’s Corn Pops as much as I do…
And now, a shift: he can write terrible jokes about stupid people.
problemwithcaring: That reminds me of the most recent time Sarah Palin made a complete ass of herself. Well, I haven’t watched it yet, but that’s mostly because I thought Juneau would be socked in until March, so I was rationing the clip of her speaking incoherently in front of an automated turkey massacre. But I’m sure it’ll be an archetypal moment in both politics and videorecording.
get out of the tank already!!!!
I was a little confused till I found the Ken Layne comment. I guess it’s the lack of sleep because I read the first snippet like this:
“As I watched, I suddenly remembered this part of being a Republican. Half the time they’re doing something incredibly bad — tying another kid (brown) to a pole with the belt from their school uniform or soliciting to suck cock in the alley. That’s what Republicans are famous for. But you forget the side of them that just lives for the moment of terror and who freaks out all afternoon and steals tax money the way no Demrat ever can and spends all day looking for the most original way to shout out: “I am here to fuck you over! I am me!””
According to the New York Times, you matter as much as Howard Wolfson.
Not sure if that’s a good thing….
My favourite moment from that day was when Barack decided to go for it on 4th and long, stole home and got a 3-pointer. I am in no way confused about American sports.
I wonder if getting Obama elected is like the moonshot of my generation. I imagine that once Neil Armstrong took that first step on the moon, more than a few NASA scientists realized that they would probably never work on something as momentous again. Or maybe they had their sights set on Mars. Maybe we should set our sights on getting the first Maoist elected president.
from an ancient Conan episode: “The Republicans, in calling this scandal “Whitewatergate” are essentially saying “this is so bad, it’s like something WE would do.”
ManchuCandidate:
I immediately thought, in no small confusion: “Ken Layne has a 14-year-old daughter?”
Serolf Divad: Atheist. Or a female lesbian. Or Rachel Maddow.
I think Ken did a good job communicating his contempt for all of humanity and most especially for all of us. They should have included a photo of him holding a shotgun while standing next to his desert compound for extra scariness.
Don’t worry, Ken. Maybe you can convince the NYT to boot Kristol and take you on as their lightening-rod misanthropist op-ed writer.
Anonymous Office Zombie:
I want a column co-written by Layne and Kristol. And the way I want it written is like one of those collaborative campfire ghost stories: first Kristol writes a sentence then Layne gets to write the followup sentence, then Kristol, etc.
I knew this was going to happen! In an epically brilliant response to the Econ. message that the wonkette editor conspiratoracy refused to show, I predicted that Ken, Sara and Jim would be going to work for NYT or WaPo any day now.
In my brilliant post, I asked the question: Will they be taking the wonkerrati with them?
We have our answer now. Damn, you wonkette staff. Will you be leaving us to make up our own stupid jokes?
DustBowlBlues: Worse yet, make up our own stupid grammar and spelling?
I read Ken’s entry. Made me teary-eyed. He never does that to me on wonkette.
tunamelt: can you imagine a president recently saying any of these John Adams quotes?:
“Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?”
“The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.”
“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.”
I liked Byrne’s vignette about Miley Cyrus killing the sick old lion with Piper’s saliva-drenched hammer.
Comedy first.
I politely muscled through the crowd and squeezed into a spot
And here I always thought your habit of walking around nude and well-oiled was just a fetish, not a job requirement. Well done, Ken!
…if by ‘covered’ you mean ‘wrote stupid jokes about these terrible people, every day, for a Web site.’
It’s worse than that, Ken. You’ve been doing it for a bunch of cynical, embittered Gen-Y slackers who (the “employed” ones, anyway) are collectively responsible for the per-capita productivity of the American worker now being lower than Togo’s and who make Beavis and Butthead look like comedic geniuses.
*sniff* You say the sweetest things, WadISay.
Serolf Divad:
Oh god, that would be fun. Ken could spend the whole time setting Kristol up for Wonkette inside jokes.
Serolf Divad: Oh, I thought that was how Kristol did it.
I was in Gitmo at the time, but yes, I’ve heard lovely things about that evening.