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Loveable Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has opened his fat trap yet again, this time on a hot mic, to celebrate the selection of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security. He tells a friend that she’ll do well because she’s a fucking unmarried childless loser: “Janet’s perfect for that job. Because for that job, you have to have no life. Janet has no family. Perfect. She can devote, literally, 19, 20 hours a day to it.” Because what the hell else does she have to do, cry all day like a baby, which, again, she’s never had? Does she even have one friend, anywhere?? Also: what is this “thing” that Campbell Brown is doing now, “Cutting Through The Bull.” CNN has no business Dobbsifying this nice lady. [YouTube, Philly Inquirer]
RACISM
Janet is Lebanese and thus doesn’t have kids and now can’t even go to Florida to adopt any.
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Seriously, CNN. Do not Dobbsify this nice looking lady. Or any woman with such patrician facial structure and such excellent enunciation.
Aw, she’s our Janet Reno!
He makes Homeland Security sound like it’s some soopersekritagent mission….
I bet Campbell Brown would be one hot date, what with her biological clock ticking and all.
Mommy, what’s “bull”?
Congrats Janet, your meaningless existence and barren womb make you the perfect candidate for this job!!
WadISay:
Sorry, already a bun in the oven.
WadISay: Nope, she’s a pseudo-cougar. Points for marrying someone three years younger than her; points subtracted for that person being a Bush appointee to Iraq and Fox News contributor.
The movement of her mouth is so… obscene…
But w/o a family she can’t possibly have any reason to want to keep us from being destroyed. Someone better give Napolitano some loving before she decides to ignore some stuff that she shouldn’t ignore.
I can’t make it much vaguer than that.
Does this mean Campbell Brown has a life?
ManchuCandidate: sex with a preggers is HOT!!!! Doggy-style is mandatory after the 8th month!
At least Rendell didn’t mention her Herman Munster hermaphrodite voice while the mic was hot. However, she may very well have a nice gym teacher waiting for her to get home every night.
We should have more people with no lives in public service. Having some teenage brat’s hormones going haywire and screaming is kind of distracting when you’re on the phone with foreign heads of state.
Hey, that Campbell Brown’s a real bullcutter. Oh, shit.
What Ed doesn’t know is that Janet’s free minute is devoted to hot Arizona monkey love, which can be much more exhausting and time-consuming than having a family.
Quacker: No, never. Not at all. Nope.
Campbell is trying to hard to find sexism where there isn’t any. People in Arizona have called Nappy and her staff workaholics for years. They’re all famous for working 80 hour weeks, whether male, female, straight, gay, married, single, bechilded or barren-wombed.
Janet is 10 times the man Ed Rendell is…..he’s just jealous.
even eddie rendell is trying to steal joey b’s thunder! the man just can’t get any respect, if he can’t be the one that gets to make the most offensive comments, what does he have left?
Rendell’s just like my favorite free-range yakker, Joe Biden, but without the essential niceness. (Remember that snowball fight Eddie started at Giants Stadium where somebody really got hurt?) If there’s one thing this country could do without, other than auto execs who pay themselves more than minimum wage, it’s a windbag with a nasty edge.
Guess who else won’t be having any more children, now that he’s pissed off every woman within cable-hearing distance?
Campbell’s shtick is getting kind of old. Why doesn’t she save some of that ire for her loser husband, Dan Senor, who helped totally fuck up Iraq as part of the Coalition Provisional Authority? And is now a Fox News mouthpiece because he’s an expert on …. ???
Also, no hard feelings against Eddie. That’s just his charming Pennsyltucky way of saying “she’s GAY!”
I luv my guv soooo much I voted for him thrice!!!!
“Cutting through the Bull”
I get it, Apocalypse Now, right?
Oh, I guess that was probably a water-buffalo …
Texan Bulldoggette: that is sort of what I was saying HERE: azw88
Wouldn’t this argument support not just gays in the military, but all-gay army? Big Gay Al could be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
shortsshortsshorts: get a room, shorts
Poor Arizona- the nation gains a way cool lesbo with Cruella de Ville hair for director of Homeland Security, and they get some far-right foaming fetus lover for their new Gov. Tough breaks.
WadISay: I think she was on the Daily Show and said she was preggers? Enquiring minds want to know
Gopherit: I think he’s disgruntled because when he put his hand on her ass she cleaned his obese, out-of-shape clock.
Just a guess, though.
God, What does Hillz have on this guy. He was so in control under her
OMG! I am 28 with no life, no babies, no real dating prospects to speak of - can I run FEMA? I mean, compared to my infertile loins and car-wreck of a romantic life, James De Witt is practically a Dugger. Haha! Am I right!?
I am lonely.
hedgehog: That would delegitimize the sanctity of white straight men telling us all what to do.
problemwithcaring: LEE! FUCK!
Whenever I hear her voice I want Chicken Noodle Soup.
Rachel Maddow needs a new set for her TV show.
So, why didn’t Condi prevent 9/11?
Forgive Rendell. When he said that, his blood sugar was low due to a thoughtless aide’s failure to fetch him his hourly corned beef, mustard, mayo, slaw, Russian dressing and Swiss cheese hoagie. And a Diet Coke.
In politics, such things are known to happen.
Campbell Brown won’t really be accepted into the CNN family, won’t really have “made it”, until she drives somebody to suicide.
S.Luggo: Plus, Eddie’s upset that he can’t go join the Administration. The PA Lt. Gov died a couple weeks ago and the new “second in command” is a Republican state senator, so if Ed leaves, game over. He’s stuck til his term expires in 2010. That’s why he’s such an angry man. Besides, what does he care about Homeland Security? Wait til they appoint Energy or Transportation. Then, he’ll be really chapped.
I hope pregnancy brings Campbell tits and lips.
Otherwise, whats the point to wearing tight sweaters?
rocktonsammy: +1
Rendell: -2
Nipalsuponhermouthinatahoe: -100 for hiding in the closet.
Every time I hear Janet Napolitano come up in the news, for just a second I think they’re talking about the lead singer for Concrete Blonde. Am I alone in this? I have to assume I am.
ivenson: I remember Concrete Blonde. They played the last Festival for the Animals in SF so you can never trust that Janet Napolitano. She’s probably ALF and everyone knows that people who ate fake turkey last week for T-day are all terrorists. For them T is for Terror!
Campbell brown sort of makes me think of Cyrstal Gayle - but the hook is
“Don’t it make my blue nose Brown?”
They say Tom Ridge had a life before he took the job and he hated being stuck with that job. Maybe Mr. Ed has a point.
Canmon (the Inadequate): WIN!
problemwithcaring:
Would you consider moving to Wisconsin?
smellyal8r:
Pa. Gov. Ed “The Incredible Bulk” Rendell and his recently deceased Lieutenant Gov. Mary “What day is it?” Baker Knowles weren’t exactly pals.
With a new Dem majority in the Pa. legislature, in Jan. 2009 Ed could escape to a federalista post like Janet Nepolitano has, or deal with his state’s deficit mess. With a few fortifying sub sandwiches and a large bag of BBQ Fritos, Ed should be up to the latter. His choice, but my memory.
great, thanks a lot jim. now every time i look at campbell brown, i’ll think “lou dobbs.” you might as well just go ahead and connect suzy kolber to chris berman and be done with it.
Chief Grinning Eagle: Johnette Napolitano is awe.some.
I interviewed her once in my music “journalism” days. She’s a visual artist, a community organizer (oh noes!) and an all-around good egg, as far as I could tell.
And I think Campbell Brown had a point. Having a family is never a consideration for men.
gradgrind: Just a clarification, but Ed participated in a snowball incident at the old Vet in Philadelphia when he was D.A. The fans pelted the Dallas Cowboys with snowballs and Ed reportedly was offering people $20 if they hit Jimmy Johnson.
And as far as Ed’s remarks, he’s said a lot worst, which is why we love him here in Pennsytucky.
Are they putting a pipe of frop in hre mouth?
It shows how warped I am that when you say “Dobbsifying”, I immediately thought of our living avatar of slack, J.R. “Bob” Dobbs…
Arg. This has nothing to do with sexism. This has to do with who Rendell thought he was talking to in the moment, trying to save face from the fact that Napolitano was smart to endorse Obama early and she is getting the job. Rendell opted for Hilz. Oops. This is one of those “yeah she’s perfect for the job because she isn’t like me” routines. He could just as easily have made up some other reason for the fact that she who was once a governor is now going to have a powerful, high-visibility job, unlike Rendell.
Her show is dead in the water. Goodbye Campbell.
Lascauxcaveman: Excelent enunciation? If she had any more nasal twang, she would speak out of her anus!
Ha ha! I love my neighbor Eddie! Ok, true story: When i used to work at the PA capitol, i had this overwhelming urge that i finally had to act on one day. So, finally, i sort of run in to Fast Eddie just cold strolling around the rotunda. As I pass by, i say (in my best Pip voice) “‘Allo Guv’na!” As i walk past, he just kinda pauses, yanks on my ponytail, and keeps going. He’s charming like that. I appreciate his lack of bullshit PCness though.
Also, please add Campbell Brown enrages me to the point that i can’t stand to look at her. Just because of her stupid stupid mouth and the sounds it produces.
This clip went on like 2 minutes 10 seconds too long. Then again Campbell’s show has gone on like 2 months too long so I’ll consider it a wash.
I’m shocked!
Isn’t this the same CNN who was questioning Sarah Palin’s
ability to be Vice-president while raising a disabled child?
Now Campbell Brown is defending women in public service with families.
Yeah Campbell Brown - cut through your own bull before cutting through someone else’s!!!
Campbell Brown is too awkward to pull this kind of crap off. She’ll stop within 6 months because she’s offputing. I’ll bet a billion dollars.