Wonkette
- Toyota will report an operating loss this quarter for the first time in 70 years, because American consumers have just gotten sick of their shitty, gas-guzzling cars. Wait, what? [New York Times]
- Barack Obama really is the Tiger Woods of politics! Yesterday he went golfing in Hawaii. [Honolulu Star-Bulletin]
- NATO will be looking for help from Afghan tribes in their fight against the Taliban. Didn’t they try this seven years ago? [Reuters]
- Egyptian mediators got a one-day extension on the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Regularly scheduled rocket fire will resume on Tuesday. [BBC News]
- India would like to see more global pressure on Pakistan to cooperate with inquiries into the Mumbai attacks. [AFP]
- The White House was not happy with the New York Times for writing that article about how George W. Bush killed the economy. [Politico]
Is there any story too stupid for the Politico?
Yet another American-made puppet government gone amok.
“Why do they hate us?”
Stark Co. plane crash: Who was Michael Connell?
Michael Connell was killed when the Piper Supercub he was piloting crashed three miles short of an Akron-Canton Airport runway. He leaves behind a wife and four children.
Connell, 45, of Bath Township, is considered to be one of the Republican Party’s top computer experts. He led the companies that designed websites for the GOP and a virtual who’s-who list of republican political leaders including President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, as well as national organizations. Connell developed a host of federal government software and data management systems. Connell is also said to be a close confidant of the Bush family.
Earlier this year Connell was subpoenaed to testify in an Ohio federal court regarding voter fraud just days before the November presidential election. His alleged intimate knowledge of White House and Capitol Hill email systems has been a hot topic of conversation for Washington insiders regarding the Karl Rove/White House email scandal.
Connell founded New Media Communications, based in Cleveland, is the CEO of GovTech Solutions, based in Akron, and is associated with several other successful IT, marketing and advertising enterprises. His companies have won numerous awards for the development of political websites, marketing campaigns, and use of technology. New Media Communications placed third on the prestigious Weatherhead 100, a list compiled by Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management that recognizes Northeast Ohio’s fastest growing companies.
http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.asp...
Awww poor W. The fucking NYT should get it through their heads that W is NEVER responsible for ANYTHING. Next they’ll blame the doubling of the national debt, global warming and the failing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on him.
meemers: If you spam these comments again I will ban you, fool.
Sara K. Smith: That gets me all hot Ms. Smith.
“The White House on Sunday issued a blistering 500-word response to a scathing 5,000-word article on the front page of Sunday’s New York Times.”
Underachievers to the very end.
“The Times’ ‘reporting’ in this story amounted to finding selected quotes to support a story the reporters fully intended to write from the onset, while disregarding anything that didn’t fit their point of view.” substitute “quotes” with “evidence of WMD” and “reporters” with “administration” and “write” with “go to war”
Eat a bag of it, W
Sara K. Smith: Hooray for Sara on a Monday!
Meanwhile, I wish Preznint Hopey would always go to Hawaii for vacation, rather than making Chicago the “western White House”. I think it’d be cool for him to have a news conference with the Pacific gently lapping in the background. Of course, he should also do it in native dress…
Great, now Mitch McConnell will be lobbying for a bailout for Toyota.
More pics from Hawaii, please!
smellyal8r: I presume you’re talking loincloth here?
bago: No. They are so afraid of their commenters, so they need to feed them something, no matter how retarded, to keep them eating them.
Sara K. Smith:
We love it when you talk dirty, SKS! Nice way to start a Monday.
Sara K. Smith: i love it when you talk all sweet like that.
Is Barry using a putter for his tee shots? He really is Teh Messiaz.
Sara K. Smith: On one hand, this makes me happy. On the other hand, I’m now a little unsure about posting my link to a Russian web site where you can get great disco_unt R_olex watche$!!!!
Barack Obama really is the Tiger Woods of politics. He thinks people will buy Buicks.
Man, I hate golf. Except miniature golf.
If I were president, I’d relax by gathering a bunch of my top aides over for a few rounds of canasta. I haven’t played canasta in years. It’s a much more enjoyable game.
We should get a president who likes to play Risk. I’d love to see the press go crazy trying to derive innuendo over the president saying we should invade Ukraine and pull our troops out of Japan.
The dastardly UAW has even hurt poor Toyota:
“It is just a matter of time before all major automakers are losing money,” an auto analyst in Tokyo for Credit Suisse Securities
Clearly the UAW must be stopped.
The dastardly UAW has even hurt poor Toyota:
“It is just a matter of time before all major automakers are losing money,” an auto analyst in Tokyo for Credit Suisse Securities
Clearly the UAW must be stopped.
OMG, Yglesias says the same!
>>We should get a president who likes to play Risk.
You haven’t been paying much attention for the last eight years, then.
“The Times’ ‘reporting’ in this story amounted to finding selected quotes to support a story the reporters fully intended to write from the onset, while disregarding anything that didn’t fit their point of view,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said in an e-mailed statement.
WTF?! “disregarding anything that didn’t fit their point of view” has been Junior’s MO for eight years.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Killed_GOP_pilot_suspected_plane_had_1222.html
Not spam!
I was really hoping for a president who doesn’t play that stupid sport. WOAH! That is some serious bling in that bidz.com ad. Shiny things!
The cratering economy is NOT Bush’s fault. It’s the “Obama Recession”. Rush and Hannity told me so, so it must be true.
You people are anti-American, stupid-heads. Also.
Barry is not going to be able to use the old “my grandmother is dying” excuse to visit elitist Hawaii much longer.
4tehlulz: Touché.
Unfortunately, George W. Bush, the politician, will be remembered as the George W. Bush of golf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p9y_OEAdc
meemers: May Wonkette have mercy on your soul.
Will there be a Wonkette Inaugural Ball? Who will perform?
Has anyone seen Tiger Wood’s birth certificate? Do we know if he was really born in the USA where he claims his citizenship? He is also involved in a Golf and Housing complex in Dubai. Duabi is in the UAE which is a mooslem country and therefore terrist.
Tiger Osama Woods, is therefore an international terrorist financier.
meemers: The Republicans have IT Strategists? Do they exist? Oh that’s right, I forgot the brillance of RebuidthePary, thankyougeorgebush, Walnut’s commenter bribes campaign, and the GOP website itself.
Obama just lost a little respect in my eyes.
Golf?
What’s next, sir, a round of whist?
Wait, what?
Isn’t it obvious? America’s love affair with cars is over. By next spring, we will all be walking and riding bikes when the weather is nice and trains and buses when it’s ickier. Parking lots will soon be a thing of the past, and small, locally owned shops within easy reach will resurge, killing giant chainstores like Wal-Mart.
Also, I will poop butterflies and pee rainbows.
finallyhappy: I understand Styx isn’t doing much these days. Maybe they’re available. Or REO Speedwagon, perhaps.
Naked Bunny with a Whip: And America’s love affair with the rich is supposed to be over too, according to Thomas Frank, the WSJ’s token liberal. What will be left to adore?
Oh, I know…football, steroid mutants bashing into each other. What could be better than that?
Naked Bunny with a Whip:
But…but we can’t stuff our faces, put on make-up, or yak on the phone will riding a bicycle! That’s so un-American!
I want the sweaty gray shirt he wore at the gym. I will cut it into thousands of pieces, sell it on ebay and run for the senate in NY.
Bruno:
You left out the best one…
The “I am Joe The Plumber” lawn sign!
Have to go now…
I am launching,
The heat seeking moisture missle.
Dear Bi-curious George,
If you refuse to accept the responsibility and accountability of the big chair, why go through the trouble of stealing it?
Toyota and Honda, too. Seems like people worldwide, after losing their houses, jobs, and/or savings, aren’t too keen on buying ANY cars, even Japan’s fancy and more-expensive hybrids!
Did anyone read the comments over at think progress? They apparently have to debate if Matt was being snarky or not- wtf? are there that many “progressives” who hav had their humor gland surgically removed?
At Olomana Golf Links in Waimanalo yesterday, Obama wished several residents “Merry Christmas” and added, “Mele Kalikimaka,” Hawaiian for, “fetch, George, fetch”.
WadISay: Haha. I was playing golf with one of my college buddies a few years back and he was doing so badly that day that when we came to next short par 3, I ragged him, “I bet I could beat you on this hole using nothing but my putter.”
“Bullshit.”
I ended up hitting a 5 and he hit a 6. It’s surprising how straight and long you can drive off a tee with your putter. Sometimes I’d be better off if it was the only club in my bag.
“At the snack bar, Obama bought two hot dogs, two fried-egg Spam musubi, two passion-orange sodas, a Powerade and a Coke, for $17.75, according to pool reporter Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times.”
This is not a healthy lunch we can all believe in.
Also, what? No reporting on the color of his underwear? We would have got this if shortshortshorts had been doing the coverage…uh…so to speak.
All this reporting on Barry, and I STILL can’t forget about that douche Warren! Hey Wonkette, you promised!
WIDTAP: Spam is really a big item in Hawaii.
Hey, go easy on meemers. He may not be doing it right, unpolitely and all, and we must all hail the hawt goddess SKS, but this Connell guy kicking the bucket is serious shit. He knew where all the bodies were buried insofar as stealing Ohio in 2004 is concerned and other GOP awfulness. He was obviously murdered, like Paul Wellstone only Connell was an asshole.
meemers: A “Bush 2004″ pin was found jammed in his compass.
WIDTAP: Spam, isn’t that a (deep fried) Pork product?
Allah won’t be appreciating this Barry. This is a whole lota bad luck coming your way.
Bruno: isn’t that a (deep fried) Pork product?
It’s Spam. How could one prove whether it is a pork product or not?
So, George doesn’t like the New York Times daring to write about the enormous shite storm that he, Dicky and the rest of his motley crew have brought down upon the People- Maybe he should spare a thought for those who are actually getting caught in it.