• May 27, 2012

Mike Murphy On Slow Boat To China

by Sara K. Smith  11:15 am November 25, 2008

Avoid the uncooked meats!Once upon a time when people played poker and they came across somebody who lost very large and predictable amounts at the table, other players would say, “I’d like to get you on a slow boat to China,” so that this loser could continue to shed large amounts of cash for a long period of time. You see how this all relates to the prolonged and expensive death of the McCain campaign? Good.

Mike Murphy was the last sane human adviser to John McCain, so of course he did not work for him during WALNUTS!’s shameful general-election run. Now that the whole terrible sham is over, Murphy has stowed away in some kind of packing container and headed for Shanghai:

I’m sailing by container ship to Shanghai. The Hanjin Miami, see below. Good way to get away from politics under the new overlords and finish a script I owe. And I’ve always wanted to cross the Pacific ocean by ship.

With luck… maybe a pirate attack. I’m doing a TIME piece on the trip, so please, tell any pirates you might know to attack. I need something to happen.

He will return in six months, beset by pirates, and then he will be really sorry he did not eat more ribs with John McCain.

The four winds [Ben Smith]

{ 34 comments }

Monkey November 25, 2008 at 11:20 am

So this makes the 2nd post this morning about anal sex.

InsidiousTuna November 25, 2008 at 11:21 am

These fucking pirates are everywhere now.

AngryBlakGuy November 25, 2008 at 11:23 am

…I think we just got a sneak preview of the next episode of “Lost”.

BarthexDeRosa November 25, 2008 at 11:25 am

It’s all pirates and hobos these days…

ManchuCandidate November 25, 2008 at 11:25 am

Who does he think he is? Jim Hawkins?

Styrofoam Boots November 25, 2008 at 11:27 am

…And he will emerge as King of the Pirates (AKA Nobama’s army) to enslave the human race into hand-writing the entire Koran over and over in sweatshops all 36 hours of the day.

SayItWithWookies November 25, 2008 at 11:34 am

I’m giving him three days before the crew throws him overboard for playing that “Wildfire” song over and over again on the piano in the lounge.

MARCdMan November 25, 2008 at 11:38 am

[re=185470]Monkey[/re]: In other words, the old Wonkette is back.

lenorecutie November 25, 2008 at 11:38 am

[re=185480]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Does that make Walnuts the crazy drunken old man who gave Jim the map?

Or are we talking about the Muppet version. Cause then McCain would be the Fozzy Bear character who thought a little man was living in his thumb.

InsidiousTuna November 25, 2008 at 11:41 am

[re=185497]lenorecutie[/re]: And Sarah Palin is the Swedish Chef.

p-Sludge ofTheElves November 25, 2008 at 11:45 am

“With luck… maybe a pirate attack.”

Very right wing, isn’t it? “We need to be attacked – it will be fun! With any luck I’ll be able to sell the fictionalized account as history, leading to money & power for me and all my pals! There’ll be no real danger – with Jack Bauer on on side, and Dick Cheney on the other, we’ll smash the criminal foreigners and show ‘em who’s boss.”

magic titty November 25, 2008 at 11:46 am

He’d be better off getting attacked and killed by pirates on the way. I’ve heard from a credible source that Shanghai is a fucking awful city.

freakishlystrong November 25, 2008 at 11:48 am

Chow!

snideinplainsight November 25, 2008 at 11:50 am

stew November 25, 2008 at 11:50 am

Speaking of right wing creeps (another bad segue), Ann Coulter has had her jaw wired shut. Insert your own tasteless joke…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/ann-coulters-jaw-wired-sh_n_146248.html

MathewBrooks November 25, 2008 at 11:55 am

A container ship? TO SHANGHAI? Thats going to take at least 6 weeks. how long will it be before the crew resort to homosexuality? the only pirates hes going to run into are butt pirates.

obfuscator November 25, 2008 at 11:56 am

I’m envisioning a pirate attack like the one in The Life Aquatic, but with the addition of JetNutz!, with Murphy as the Steve Zissou.

Quacker November 25, 2008 at 11:56 am

[re=185491]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Tramp Steamers don’t have lounges. They have Merchant Marine semen.

freakishlystrong November 25, 2008 at 11:56 am

[re=185508]stew[/re]: I read that too, do you think it’s true? If so, it’s hideously ironic-and deserved.

4tehlulz November 25, 2008 at 11:56 am

Jesus, some people will do anything to get away from Joe Klein.

Anonymous Office Zombie November 25, 2008 at 11:59 am

[re=185508]stew[/re]:
I don’t think any segue at all is necessary for that kind of good news.

nutcracker November 25, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Since pirates are the ultimate venture capitalists, I’m sure they will be happy to know
exactly what ship Murphy is on, and seek his sage investment advice. Since the ship is going
to Shanghai, the only thing that will be on it will be bad mortgages. The real question is,
if pirates do take over the ship, who will pay any ransom to get that useless piece of shit
back?

jbd November 25, 2008 at 12:08 pm

[re=185495]MARCdMan[/re]: I’m getting all nostalgic and whatnot.

Miller November 25, 2008 at 12:20 pm

They’re shipping all the sane Republicans overseas for cryogenic storage. In a few decades when the GOP has finally realized that they want to appeal to people outside of fundamentalist circles, they’ll be unfrozen and allowed to speak without fear of accusations of Obama tank residence.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

shortsshortsshorts November 25, 2008 at 12:24 pm

We can only hope Mike get’s his wish. He probably thinks Johnny Depp will be his pirate vindicator.

I cannot BEGIN to understand Republican secks fantasies. They are a mystery, thankfully unsolved.

p-Sludge ofTheElves November 25, 2008 at 12:38 pm

The pirates, from China, will stop his boat, then sink him by unloading 10,000 unwanted copies of Axl Rose’s new CD.

problemwithcaring November 25, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Yea Mike, you all have such important work on that ship. So uh, how’s, uh, is That Script You’ve Been Working On?

TGY November 25, 2008 at 12:40 pm

Bah, in my day, if you didn’t get attacked by pirates you pretended you did and made it all up. Then you wrote a Pulitzer piece about it. These whippersnappers have no imagination.

donner_froh November 25, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Container ship TO Shanghai?

The cargo must be empty containers.

Hamster November 25, 2008 at 1:06 pm

[re=185508]stew[/re]: If it’s not about her windpipe being wired shut, I don’t want to read it. …is that bad?

TeddyS November 25, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Maybe the piraticals will hold him prisoner for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS!

Lascauxcaveman November 25, 2008 at 1:35 pm

[re=185497]lenorecutie[/re]: Heh. My all time favorite Tim Curry movie.

Lascauxcaveman November 25, 2008 at 1:40 pm

[re=185508]stew[/re]: [re=185612]Hamster[/re]: Without clicking that link about Coulter, I’m guessing the getting-the-jaw-wired-shut business is an extreme diet technique, because, lets face it, she’s been looking kinda porky lately.

trondant November 25, 2008 at 3:28 pm

[re=185659]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: I was thinking someone went after Bush’s junk with a tire iron.

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