Wonkette
- Obama will get to keep his precious BlackBerry after all, except he be using some weird fancy encrypted BlackBerry that Michelle will buy for him from J.Crew. [Marc Ambinder]
- The victims of yesterday’s tragic inconvenience, in which some earnest hippies were stuck underground for a bit and then later turned away from their Inauguration “seats”, have started a totally unexpected Facebook group. These people are the real heroes. [Ben Smith]
- National idiot Chris Wallace isn’t sure that this Barack Obama is technically even President, what his native Muslim tongue being unable to properly pronounce our American words in their decent, Christian order. [Crooks and Liars]
- People pretty much agree that the Benediction was way better than Warren’s Invocation because Warren would not shut up about Jesus [Christ] and Lowery was pleasingly vague. [AMERICAblog]
- The confirmation of Eric Holder was supposed to be a done deal today, but Republicans want to delay a bit so that he will not jail the entire government for all their dedicated years of torturing. [Politico]
Not only was Warren long winded, he also had a strangely zesty way of pronouncing the Obama girls’ names.
“…black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.” Yeah, that benediction was old school amazing. And a huge relief after Alexander’s long, wet fart of a poem.
Faux Newz’ Chris Wallace can haz a sad because Bush is gone.
Considering that Obama is a Constitutional scholar, it seems a bit odd that a fifth tier hack from Sux News brings up something as stupid as “I just don’ know if he’s preznit is all. Doh Duh Doh Doh.” Did he have a finger up his nose when he was opining his drivel?
Terry: It WAS weird the way he said their names. It sounded like he was looking forward to swallowing them whole right then and and there.
One wonders how the batshit crazy right would react if we started accusing Roberts of intentionally fucking up the oath to try and force this type of idiotic discourse!!!11
Iggy Plop: SASAHAAAAAAAAA
Terry: Yeah, he said it like the Shredder announcing his new henchman, or, like, something a lot creepier.
I didn’t know that Chris Wallace was the National Idiot. I thought that was Hannity’s job.
Only Obama’s secure Blackberry is the size of a Teletype machine and is always wheeled behind him by three seamen, one of them who reads and types messages, one who watches the oscilloscope and the other turns the knobs on the Crypto machine.
Warren sucked. Even his version of the Our Father was the Protestant version. It’s like he was like, how many religious groups can I piss off at once? What’s a good way to piss off even people who are Christian? Oh, I know!!
Iggy Plop:
Yep, I figured Warren was either trying to appear to embrace diversity or feeling like the girls might be a tasty snack.
Lowery was awesome, knocking white America for a loop with his masterful quoting from “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” and then delivering the roundhouse by paraphrasing Big Bill Broonzy’s immortal “Get Back Blues.”
I keep saying “When the red man can get ahead, man” and giggling to myself.
They should just cut to the chase and replace Chris Wallace with a bobble-head doll.
I liked the Warren invocation. Because it preceded President Obama’s swearing-in and speech, the inauguration went from smugly bombastic to thoughtful, inclusive and fact-based. As such it was a microcosm of what this whole transition means.
IceCreamEmpress: Nod. Pure awesome. I wouldn’t even mind a loop of the musical interlude, Lowery, and Cheney in a wheelchair scowling. Probably hours of fun there.
Lowrey kicked serious ass. I’d even go to church to listen to him, damn.
Chris Wallace’s autobiography tentatively titled!
Middling: The Banality of a Dim Shithead.
That bear-noggin freak Warren has had his 15 minutes, and he used most of it up pontificating his sickening honkey platitudes. I don’t think he’ll be invited back.
SayItWithWookies: Never looked at it that way. I’ll sober up now.
Yep, I figured Warren was either trying to appear to embrace diversity or feeling like the girls might be a tasty snack.
See, it sounded to me like he was advertising for his side business as a beauty pageant coach. Or auditioning for “Project Runway.”
Rick Warren’s a freak. We’ll probably hear a story about him standing over something or other with his big, pleated pants around his fat ankles.
I left home at 3:30 am- and I gave up a ticket(not a good one but a ticket nonetheless) to be a mall volunteer. I wish I could feel really sad for the people who had tickets but it got messed up. I guess the new presidency hasn’t personally changed me too much as I am not feeling bad for people with tickets. Instead of my pledge to work more with the homeless, I will work for those purple ticket holders-I will be making them sandwiches right now and getting them new clean socks.
As for Rick- Hey, I only sort of hate the gays- Warren, I know he tried to appeal to my people(doomed to Hell) - the Jews- by reciting the Shma in english. Warren, Leave us alone, please.
Terry: Iggy Plop: IMO, Warren was trying to be cutesy and demonstrate that he was “in” with the Obamas by pronouncing the two girls’ name with a certain “sass.” End result: less sass, more ass.
“Graham said Judiciary Committee Republicans were upset by the lack of “comity and witnesses” given them during the hearing.”
Lindsay Graham loves him some comity.
magic titty: “The Audacity of Fail”.
so that he will not jail the entire government for all their dedicated years of torturing
Hey! They were only following orders and it was probably somebody else doing it, anyway, herr Gruppenführer.
I’m no stickler, but that atlantic blog had a lot of confusing typos.
Mr Blifil: More re the new one-week delay in the Eric Holder confirmation for AG:
– Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is seeking more information from Holder on whether the Department of Justice will pursue criminal prosecutions of “intelligence personnel” involved in detainee interrogations. –
The first word appearing between the quotes puts Cornyn in the clear, so what the fuck is he so worried about?
BTW: Through out the hearing, Cornyn addressed Holder as, “Mister Tibbs”.
so when is wonkette going to have a mobile application so barry can keep apprise of political ongoings (and i can satisfy my wonk addiction on my iphone)?
sevenrepeat: That is a damned good question. I lamely approximate a real mobile webpage by using the google mobile converter thingie at http://www.google.com/gwt/n
You just know the whole time Warren was praying he was looking at his dick. Maybe his god is his dick?
Monsieur Grumpe: Or deus ex dickus in Latin Pythonicus.
So basically Michelle likes black berries in her palm. And then she sucks up the juice.
I’ve wondered if that might have happened, freakishlystrong. It sure didn’t take them very many seconds to start jumping on the “He’s not legitimately president” thing… and considering Obama voted against Roberts’s confirmation, there’s that whole “payback” thing.
As the saying is, I’ll stop paying attention to conspiracy theories when the bastiches stop conspiring against us.
magic titty: “How To Spin Your Father In His Grave Before He’s In It”
TGY: thanks for the tip….i’m gonna check it out! i luvs me wonks on the go!
GW06: yeah, the second he said, “…evil,” I held my breath for a second, to see which route he took. Ha!
I looked at Ben Smith’s post on the tunnel, and made the mistake of going through the comments. Between that and SKS’s post earlier today, I realize that I should never read comments on anything that goes to a mass audience. The point-missing political ramblings get to me a little, but the clearly stone-crazy rantings make me afraid to leave the house. (Of course, the people writing them probably don’t, either, so it’s all good.)