Wonkette
Here’s another brilliant press conference with everyone’s favorite death monument of a U.S. Senator, Roland “Don’t Lynch Me” Burris, who’s talking to the media at an airport shortly before his flight to Washington. Because he’s coming! The reporters ask him questions for eight minutes and he tells them all to shut the hell up, for eight minutes.
The best part comes around 1:45 when a reporter asks Burris how he will be in both Springfield and Washington for meetings at the same time, on Wednesday, and Burris replies that he is “the magic man.” Oh… oh that is just naughty.
Other highlights include the opening questions about race, during which Burris claims he would never play Racial Politics. Then he mentions how great it is that he is one of a select few black Senators in American history. Very select few. Like, it’s really something that needs to happen for him.
Then he just yells at everyone — and deservedly so! Like many quote transcribers reporters, these folks are ungodly annoying.
Well, get on that plane already, Roland! Cuz tomorrow will be so awesome:
The aide familiar with Senate Democratic leaders’ plans said if Burris tries to enter the Senate chamber, the Senate doorkeeper will stop Burris. If Burris were to persist, either trying to force his way onto the Senate floor or refusing to leave and causing a scene, U.S. Capitol Police would stop him, said the aide.
Roland Burris Heads to Washington and an Uncertain Future [YouTube via Washington Monthly]
Oh, so Roland is the ‘Magic Negro’. Chippie Saltsman will be glad to get that all cleared up.
If Burris were to persist, either trying to force his way onto the Senate floor or refusing to leave and causing a scene, U.S. Capitol Police would stop him…
Look out Roland, in our post-9/11 world those capitol police just might shoot to kill.
Roland Burris needs to shove a pick axe handle the size of Roland Burris’s ego up Roland Burris’s miserable ass.
This is such a sad thing. He really thinks he’s the Senator. And none of them have the heart to tell him otherwise.
Maybe Franken can sneak in the side door when Burris is being ejected from the front.
BillyClubb: Who do they think he is? A Muslim family trying to fly to Florida?
No Drama Obama must be cringing over these shenanigans.
Dramatist: Whoa! Don’t be so quick to play the race card. We don’t do that around here…
Shouldn’t that be “Don’t lynch me, bro!”?
Oh god. It’s like KNOWING you’re going to get a root canal without anesthesia. Tomorrow. At 1:30. We’ll charge you a $50 late fee if you don’t show up.
My advice: Don’ fly! Drive a broken down wagon pulled by an arthritic mule-team all the way to D.C. Congresspeoples like that kind of theater.
Dude needs to carry a cane to knock upside someone’s head. Nothing beats a good caning in the US Senate.
Obama: “Tax cuts for the wealthy and big business!”
Burris: “Rod Blagojevich is the shit!”
Limbaugh: “Hell-o paycheck!”
Voters: “Duh… uh… duh…”
Wonketteers: “We are surrounded by idiots. Aim for their minds and we may get out alive.”
I wonder what Blago has on Burris to get him to do this ridiculous stunt. It’s like being an assistant to Sisyphus.
Roland Burris has balls of titanium and a taint of plutonium.
Why do so many politicians refer to themselves in the third person?
How can they not realize it makes them sound schizophrenic?
Wednesday- damn- I am going to be on the Hill tomorrow- I would even go early if I could see this.
I pity the foo!
Aw, c’mon. All he wants is a little office and a little staff for a couple of days so he can carve “U.S. Senator Extraordinaire” on his supercrypt. Is that asking too much?
Uncle Al: He’s just trying to remind all his relatives what to name their children.
Can the fine folks at Disney cobble together an AudioAnimatronic “Governor George Wallace” doll to stand in the doorway?
I mean, if George Herbert Walker Bush is unavailable?
Or is insufficiently life-like to convince observers that his head is not stuffed with sawdust?
Shit. I just realized that I hypenated “life-like.”
My bad.
Roland Burris is no Chuck Norris.
Why doesn’t everyone just relax? Senator George Jefferson is movin on up.
And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what happens when the Democrats are in charge. Blacks prevented from entering the Senate Chamber, D Govs allowed to sell appointments and a D President who isn’t sure what to do (and lets Bobby Rush handle the mess).
With all due respect to Sen. Reid, they need to let this guy in and stop worrying about who sent him. This is a stupid fight. Let him in and put him on crap committees and start shining up the top hats for Inauguration Day. If Blaggo gets impeached, tell the Lt Gov to send a letter saying Burris still serves. Then dump a whole lotta munnies on J Jackson Jr to win in ‘10. The end.
Oh shit. Does that mean if he tries to force his way, McKinney-like, past the Capitol police that it could be Giuliani time?
roland burris travels from midway.
nobody travels from midway.
but will he remember the face of his father?