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- COMICAL SUNDAY READING: The Independent landed a sit-down with former Hillary Clinton campaign chief strategist Mark “Bowser” Penn during one of his awful British speaking engagements and JESUS, the write-up reads as if Mark Penn had once sodomized and tortured and eaten every member of this reporter’s family! It’s titled “Mark Penn: The man who blew the presidency,” and along the way this reporter (
whose name we cannot locateCole Moreton!) calls him “fat,” “ugly,” and even — hide the children from this one — “indefatigable.” That is English for the American word “cuntmonger.” [Independent]
mark penn?
Is he related to known “liberal” Sean?
A proper English caning. Who is that girl to his right, she seems familiar?
I’m savoring his obvious total stunned disbelief that the interviewer is actually challenging his bullshit! “No, Mr Penn, ‘up’ is not the new ‘down’. Try again.”
Ha, also isn’t the title plagiarized from Monica Lewinsky’s biog?
It would be a whole lot of fun to let that journalist get his claws into Palin. I know we’re all sick of her (or I am, at least), but I would love to see her mistaking his British barbs for compliments.
Ha ha, they mention his “surprisingly high-pitched voice”. Does he squeak like Mike Tyson?
Isn’t indefatigable some kind of compliment, like the “unsinkable” Molly Brown (who is made of Cheerios, in a curious Limey double entendre)?
I love the no bullshit take of Brit Reporters.
I wonder if he cries at the mention of Caucus or Super Tuesday.
I resent Mark Penn being referred to as a “cuntmonger”. While he probably does have to buy his trim, he lacks the planning ability to be a “vagina reseller”.
British jounalism is truely that - jounalism. We need more of that and less of Noonans. If any of you know Jeremy Paxman, is the perfect attack dog against Snowbilly. I really don’t see why anyone would agree to interview with him, because you will be slaughtered.
Then we also need to get that guy who does Page 3 at The Sun to ‘interview’ her as well. Just the article would have to be released at the right time to maximise GOP party confusion (starbursts n’ all)
Is that reporter selling the bacon she carved from his hide?
Let’s cut the bull. Mark Penn did not lose the election for Hillary Clinton. BHO was simply the better candidate, and you know it. That’s why ya voted for him.
I’ve no doubt HRC did Barry a service by slinging mud at him early on. She aired the Bill Ayers crap long before McCain got round to it, for example. The Republicans were left with nothing. I may have been in a minority of one here on wonkette when I said that Hillary seemed insincere and false when she tried to criticize Barry on the stump, Like her heart was not really in it.
Even if ya doubt that, the fact remains that if Penn had not f*cked up her campaign in one way, he would have done it in another way. It was doomed to failure. She was the wrong candidate for the wrong time, and thank Space-Jesus she failed.
Penn is now a cut-rate Frank Luntz, if you can imagine that, pimping himself abroad because he’s a joke at home. He’s a spin doctor: I wish him every ill-will.
Cape Clod: No, that would require a cuntmonger’s license.
Borat: Which one is the one that shows the bare breasted models? That’s where Palin belongs. You betcha.
Very peculiar picture that. Seems to show Mr. Penn holding his shrivelled yet corpulent tool in both hands, and the legend under the picture says “Enlarge.”
the article is almost as awesome as the headline “killing spree leaves albinos living in fear” with which it shares a page. (don’t read the albino article, though, unless you really like being depressed.)
“What’s it like to be such an asshole?”
“Indefatigable” is NOT British for “American Cuntmonger.”
Jesus H (As in “His Britannic Majesty”) Christ, Jim: Didn’t you read any C.S. Forester as a lad?:
Wikipedia: HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent class of 64-gun ships of third rates designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy.
Edward Pellew, Captain, commanding, when Our Horny was aboard as a Middie.
In contrast, the U.S.S. Cuntmonger was the “jeep” (CVE) carrier accidently sunk by Ens. John McCain.
I hope that clears it up for you.
“I’ll take the sofa,” says Penn quickly, almost falling into its white leather then spreading himself wide.
This was the first clue that Mr. Moreton was going to have a good deal of fun being the picador to Penn’s hapless toro.
Wow, the journalist managed to call him fat & ugly. Somehow I doubt this article is going to be framed & hung on his wall. And, oh, the fact that he got 2(!!) women to sleep with his fat ass is really the most newsworthy part of this story.
Josh Fruhlinger: Only during the buttsecks
Penn’s probably got the jugs to appear on Page 3 of the Sun.
Will Bill fill us in on how exactly you “blow the presidency?” It will make us all better public servants and stuff.
Stiff double chin, and all that, quite.
Is it just me, or is the British press utterly smitten with Hillz? I tuned into the BBC.com and Guardian websites every day all throughout the primaries, and it was all Hillary-centric all the time till the bitter end.
Hillz should run for British queen or something.
The man gives nightmares to knitters everywhere.
Mark Penn? Is he the one with the pony tail or the one who acts mute?
I love the word “whoremonger.” I often fall asleep listening to that Hollywood ditty: “It’s Hard Out Here for a Whoremonger.”
Seems like the reporter wanted to rake Rove over the coals and this guy is all he could get instead.
Christ, ya can’t count on anything these days! What in the hell is a fresh article doin’ up on Wonkette on the Sabbath? Did Newell really reckon it’s timely delivery is worth risking fire and brimstone, or is he simply on the wagon this weekend needing to walk off the jitters so to speak? Then, let’s just play along!
This self-aggrandizing limey doesn’t have a fuckin’ clue. Penn’s sharp enough to have known that Hillary wasn’t going to get the nomination even if she juggled eggs with her tits. And he knew the reason she wasn’t going to get the nomination was because we Dems WANTED TO WIN. He’s sharp enough to know how to run a loser and still get paid — write a few reassuring emails, pretend to have an ace up his sleeve. Fuck sake, the man’s brilliant!
Note to miserable limey sribe, Moreton: The sweat on Penn’s upper lip? He’s fat. Fat people sweat. You’re lucky he didn’t dribble your head.
“cunt” is used much more frequently in the UK than it is over here. So cuntmonger cannot be the American version, ya cunt.
Hard to remember now, but some people thought a black person could never be elected due to “the Bradley Effect” — we were all supposed to be closet bigots. Hopey shot that canard down once and for all. Or maybe he woulda won by 30 points if he had been a white guy. Doesn’t really matter now, and he can be presidential in the videos and magnanimous in victory and — it seems certain — vicious in a street fight when that’s what’s needed.
Remember how everybody was saying, “Oh, Barry, you gotta hit back harder! Go negative on Hillary (or Walnuts)! Otherwise you’re gonna lose!” Well, he didn’t, and now he’s going to be the preznident, and even the wingnuts are saying, “You mean Kucinich isn’t going to be SecDef?” And even they want him to succeed now. Which means that you can win and still maintain your decency and the respect of the people you defeated.
Unfortunately this is the worst possible news for sarcastic wise-acre blog commenters.
What is wrong with you people? Stop with the c**t rhetoric! Don’t you know there are wacky elecions going on in India even as we speak? http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/video/video_live.aspx?id=0
I’ve been addicted to watching live NDTV (New Dehli) since the Bombay killing spree. There’s a big shake up between the incumbent Congress and the BJP parties. Barkha Dutt is a great reporter - the kind this milk-toast-bunch-that-prances-around-as-the-press in this nation need to study. (except for Keith of course). I happened to catch 2 movies on TCM the other day: “The Thief of Baghdad”, and “The Drum”. Both star little Sabu who is sooooo adorable. “The Drum” was actually shot in the Nothwest Territory of Pakistan, known at the time as Chitral, a princely state with local leaders under the British. Fascinating, and it was in TECHNICOLOR, filmed in 1939. And that CRAZY “Thief of Baghdad” would put that smacked up Disney to shame…a live-action giant black genie flying over the Kush mountains with Sabu holding on for dear life to his long genie hair…. My concern about public reaction in India is that one day some demonstrator spoke up, “Where is our GEORGE BUSH? Our GIULIANI?????? Noooooooooooooo.
The BJP is more like the Republiecans, and at this point, the Congress party, are more like peacenik-Democrats.
Oh, and the commercials on NDTV are too fantastic - lots of Ballywood trailers and much more.
Hello Wookies and SSShorts! Sorry no snark.
Make that “elections”, and crap on my poor rambling late night construction. It’s that damn fuckin’ pneumonia again.
Hello. May I interrupt for five whole seconds to ask if we are going to chat about the human enemas challenging Obama’s citizenship? Because I like saying “human enemas”, to be honest. Thanks.
Link here for more info on Human Enemas:
http://mojopo.blogspot.com/2008/12/obamas-citizenship-challenged-by-fleet.html
shortsshortsshorts:“Will Bill fill us in on how exactly you “blow the presidency?”
Monica blew the President. Bubba blew the Presidency. See how that works?
BTW: “Cuntmonger” = John McCain, shoorly! [*hic*]
The pg-version is “runtmonger”, you melon farmers!
Burson-Marsteller is well known for representing foreign governments. The plutofuckocracy that funded Hillz and Barry are the regular clients of Mark Penn. Le plus ca change, le plus c’est la meme chose. Same deal, always. It’s just a fat ugly lying motherfucker getting the money this time. Same ugly fat lying motherfucker got the money last time. Questions?
Hillz, Barry, and Penn suck the Zbig one.
gjdodger: The Sun is one of the many fine page 3 bare breasted model publications.
“Indefatigable” is what George Galloway (the unrepentant-Stalinist tosser of an Scottish MP who the US Congress had brought in front of them for waterboarding) praised Saddam Hussein for being.
I read the article. Nice, but who is HRC and who blew her?
Meebe these ‘guys’.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/its-official-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex-1055688.html
My whole life when I dreamed of discovering an “indefatigable cuntmonger”, Mark Penn was NOT what came to mind. Thanks for ruining everything, Wonkette.
From the “Penn Portrait” section: 1954 Born in New York to a Lithuanian immigrant father who runs a kosher poultry plant.
He was born to his father; and apparently had no mother. Or his mother was a jackal. The Independent is unclear about that point.