Wonkette
- Rahm Emanuel wanted Obama’s Senate seat for himself — it is a fucking object of inestimable worth — and asked Blaggy to save it for him. Still, he didn’t offer Blaggy any famous nine-fingered handjobs in return. [TPMMuckraker]
- Howard Wolfson is taking his porn and his Bon Iver mixtapes and his dumb blog to New York, where he will be bringing some of the old Clinton Campaign Magic to Bloomberg’s now-doomed re-election team. [The Caucus]
- Here is Brit Hume’s farewell ode to Brit Hume; the former and latter will be starting his depressingly vague-sounding new job as Fox’s “Senior Political Analyst” in 2009. [Michael Calderone]
- How much does America know about this C. Hussein Kennedy? Literally nothing, but things seem Muslim, don’t they? [The Fix]
- Oh hey Merry Christmas: The unemployment rate is the highest its been in 26 years. [Daily Beast]
Wolfson listens to Bon Iver? What a bummer.
Hey, Juli, Happy Chanukah! Going to the MatzoBall? I hope that the Jewish community dances have gotten better than the creepfests when I was young and single and Jewish(I am still Jewish but that is the only one of the three)
Fox’s “Senior Political Analyst”
So basically he gets invited on the “B” list to all the Georgetown parties now, with no change in title or duties?
I mean, it’s not like he’s ever done any reporting…
Brit Who-mmm? Don’t know the name. Didn’t he used to work for ABC? I remember him griping about the grub on Air Force One when he was covering the Clinton WH. He got another job after that?
I always thought Britt Hume was a Senior Politician’s Anal Cyst, now Faux confirms it.
Please tell me that Hume will be replaced by Fox n’ Friends Steve Douchey and Brown-Haired-Guy-who’s-not-Steve-Douchey.
finallyhappy: We judeo-muslim-hindoos need to keep busy here so the wonkette comments can remain overwhelming and unreadable while the kris-chins pass through travel hell on the way to feast on ham with family members they can’t stand.
Now, shall it be Jackey’s, Chinatown Garden, Chinatown Express, or Eat First???
Rahm is too smart to do something dirty. Only the dumb ones like Blago, Cunningham and Ney get caught.
Also, Britt Hume is an uber-tool.
Kennedy will have to run against Guiliani for Hillary’s senate seat? mmmkay “run”
blowhard: I’m thinking Hollywood East in Wheaton -I’d go Indian but Jewish tradition requires Chinese on Christmas
blowhard: Ha, ha! This year we’re making the relatives we can’t stand go through travel hell to visit us to feast on ham, so we win! Ha, ha… um… wait… no, we don’t. Well, except for the ham part.
Shalom, boychik. Maybe I’ll sign up…
You don’t really expect me to watch an 8 minute tribute to Brit Hume do you? I am sad to learn that he’s not really going anywhere, however. When I read about his retirement I was hoping the world was rid of him forever. Now it seems he’s just changing his title so that he can forgo all pretense to objectivity (not that any pretense he may have displayed ’till now was in any way convincing anyhow).
yeah well, Hume’s used his wreaking ball on journalism for far too long now. Good riddance.
ATTENTION WONKETTE SLAVE-GIRL JULI: Your link to TPM is dead. How can you establish yourself as a serious faux journalistess if you post links to The file you are looking for has not been found?
Ha! The Daily Beast also mentions our War on Christmas:
“If you can get religion out,” Bill O’Reilly warned, “then you can pass secular progressive programs, like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage.”
You’re too late Bill! Hahahahahahahha!!!!!!!!
The Lucky Republican: Good riddance to Brit Hume? Oh, I don’t know. I kinda liked his continuous John Wayne impersonation.
Also, dumbest word of the day: sibblog.
SayItWithWookies:
I concur. Let’s be game changers and throw ’sibblog’ under the bus.
Brit Hume + Fox News = giant pool of vomit. Brit Hume got something stuck up his butt a few years ago and he couldn’t get it out, and now he kinda likes it.
“Here’s something the staff put together about ME and I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s sure to showcase my unbearable awesomeness in a wonderful manner. Let’s all waste precious moments of our lives watching ME as I enjoy whatever is stuck up my butt.”
obfuscator: Consider it squashed.
And heyfinallyhappy: and other of the Chosen People — it wouldn’t be Christmas without this:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1373/saturday-night-live-christmas-for-the-jews-song
Aurelio:
John Wayne? I always thought he was trying to impersonate a sarcastic corpse.
Aurelio: How can you establish yourself as a serious faux journalistess if you post links to The file you are looking for has not been found?
I thought that was central to the point?
SayItWithWookies:
“On Moische! On Herschel! On Schlomo!”
Fuck everyone at Fox News and Merry Christmas to us all, dammit!
Aurelio: No, no. His impersonation doesn’t exist and neither does he . . . . Dun, dun, duuuuun!!!!!
Serolf Divad: Yeah man, an 8-minute encomium to how wonderful Brit Hume is/was. I wished it could’ve gone on forevah!
For your holiday amusement, a throw-snowballs-at-Palin game. Sponsored by Peta, but not as suck-y as expected (apparently no team play, boo hoo):
http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/1208/Palin_vs_PETA.html
Actual link to the Snowball-Palin game:
http://www.peta.org/feat/HolidaySnowballFight/index.aspx
Brit Hume is but the first casualty at competing networks as our Campbell Brown monster emerges from its lair and begins laying waste to talking heads everywhere.
Bruno:
When you finish the game, you get a picture of what looks to be either the bloody, decapitated head of Palin lying on a snowbank, or Palin buried in snow up to her neck, and bleeding profusely after having been savagely kicked in the face by reindeer.
obfuscator: I was just trying to find that clip! Unfortunately it appears I’ll be going without ol’ Harry this year, since NBC won’t allow their videos to play in furren cuntries. Bastards.
TeddyS: I saw that movie. Didn’t the American version feature Raymond Burr in inserts?
Brit Hume tribute? I’d rather watch Glenn Beck’s hemorroid removal in HD.
HuskyMescan:
Are you sure you could tell them apart if no one you the answer?
Remember, you cannot do analysis without anal.
Anonymous Office Zombie: You have a point. Brit somehow managed to talk without ever moving his lips, which is more like a corpse than like John Wayne (before he became a corpse). It’s Brit’s faux tough-guy steely brown-eyed stare I was thinking of.
Who cares about xmas anyways? I’ve been asking Santa for the same two things for the last 5 years or so. 1) Dick Cheney aortic rupture and 2) chimpeachment. Santa/Jesus hates us all.
Aurelio: I think that’s a function of his Neaderthal brow, tho.
Aurelio: Slave-girl Juli has established her faux journalistic bona fides not only by incorrectly linking to the article but also by misstating the facts — Rahm expressed a desire for a seat warmer for his own house seat, to be relinquished when he leaves the White House. This is not related to the conversation about how much it would cost to buy the vacant senate seat, which did not occur, maybe.
Come here a minute: Thank you for the correct link. I will reproduce the relevant section herewith:
Incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel discussed the possibility of keeping his congressional seat “warm” with embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagovevich, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Soon after accepting a post with Obama, Emanuel expressed interest in eventually returning to his elected position, the paper reported. (Chicago Sun-Times)
Apparently Rahm-bo DID have a little self-interested chat with Blaggy about Rahm’s political self-interested interests.
The nine fingered handjob would require a certain mimimum length requirement, no? If Bloggy could meet such a requirement, one would assume the toupee would be unnecessary…
HuskyMescan: Well, Allah sent us Obama so that’s gotta count for something
Drudge says there’s no Santa Claus.
Count me in on the “employmently challenged”, god, I love being one of those statistics you read about on teh internets. Well no work tommorrow , or the next day, guess its back to the booze’n + video games. How many days in a row should you go before you change into new pajamas?
Change? Why?
chascates: Bill just rattled off my Xmas list…how nice of him. I wonder if Santa heard?