Michael Goldfarb likes to say swear words, and he was John McCain’s chief blogger for a while. Like every former campaign staffer, he believes “mistakes were made” during McCain’s 2008 presidential run, but can’t name any except the one where the candidate refused to talk about Reverend Wright for fear of looking like a racist. That’s why Goldfarb couldn’t call Wright an anti-Semite in that embarrassing interview with Rick Sanchez! “I thought from the beginning that we would lose,” he says. That’s the spirit! [Columbia Journalism Review]
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Plus it was something I was good at. I was a cudgel. I pissed off the media.
“I did it MY way!” is playing in the background.
Also, if he was so good at it, why the fuck did he have NO impact, at all, over anything, ever. Also.
I found it hypocritical that Goldfarb blamed McCain’s low charisma and weak constitution for costing him the presidency.
“I thought from the beginning we were useless douchebags with no ideas and our only hope of winning was to fan this nation’s simmering racism.” You are, for once, are correct Mr. Goldfart.
He’s very fuckable.
I find his modesty refreshing. He opted for making America better and electing Walnuts rather than staying in Hollywood and extending the “Touched by a Goldfarb” franchise.
Quite the potty-mouth on this jowly piss-pants whining fuckstick. Shame on you, sir.
When you have The New Yorker write a story about how Sarah Palin was selected… well, that was like Jane Goodall going in and writing about fucking apes mating in the jungle—they don’t know what’s going on.
Haha, what other kind of apes mate in the jungle?
All I got from this interview is that Mikey Goldfarb remains a clueless pair of TruckNutZ.
I know what “The Mistake: was: One Word: Also
His last name just makes me want to watch Requiem For A Dream. For the millionth time.
[re=230906]WadISay[/re]: I don’t understand that quote. Jane Goodall seems like a reliable source on fucking apes fucking in the fucking jungles. Fuck?
I’m glad that most of the McCain people, other than McCain, have elected to remain in the dimming spotlight. I was worried that the hate might go away, but no.
Is that Rick “dirty” Sanchez?
[re=230920]Rodney Badger[/re]: Plus it was something I was good at. I was a cudgel. I pissed off the media, also.
[re=230901]magic titty[/re]: “Fuckable”
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
[re=230923]orbit222[/re]: Dammit. Beat me to it. Also.
McCain had a blogger? The fact that nobody knew this at the time is testament to the power of his message.
I’d like to think that no one would hire this fucknut ever again, but I always seem to overestimate Republicans’ ethics.
“I thought from the beginning that we would lose.”
If you say that about McCain staffer, you’re a realist. If you say that about our piss-poor Iraq war planning, you hate the troops and are a traitor.
“But when I walked back into the communications room (after the Sanchez interview) I got a round of applause.”
The fact that McCain’s people thought he did a good job on the Sanchez interview begs the question: How the fuck did that guy get 45% of the vote?
[re=230925]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Yeah, because when you work in the communications office of a candidate, it’s your job to piss off the people whom you want to communicate your message.
i’d hit it
Think you’d ever go back to a campaign?
MG: It was brutal work, but it’s hard to say no to a presidential campaign. Plus it was something I was good at. I pissed off the media.
This walking back-fat has no idea that the world is laughing at him. He really is the poster child for the Republican Party.
[re=230939]shanemacgowan[/re]:
See listings for Plumber, Joe The and Palin, Sarah.
But day to day, in terms of picking lines of attack, I was giving a great deal of latitude.
Or to look at it another way, the campaign thought his contribution as Blogger-in-Chief was so trivial that they didn’t even bother to give him direction.
“McCain Blogger Still Sore At Media”
Yeah, well, our asses are still sore from the McCain campaign, so I guess we’re even.
[re=230920]Rodney Badger[/re]: I know! That was my thought too. Is he that big of an idiot or am I missing something?
[re=230945]problemwithcaring[/re]:
Or proof that incompetent people are also incompetent at judging their own competence.
Ah, yes. I remember him. He’s filed under my mental folder labeled ‘Dumbasses to Forget’. Wait, no, I already forgot him.
What did you do in the war, Daddy?
I pissed off the media.
Oooooh! Did you fuck with them too?
Yes, son, it was a long hard slog but I carried a big cudgel and I fucked with them too.
“I think the people [McCain insiders] who did that [leaked trash talk about Palin] are going to pay a real steep price…”
Ooooooooo, Mikey mad. They so ‘fraid.
Sometimes you look at a person and you just know that this person is into weird sex. Michael Goldfarb likes to be pissed on.
“McCain Blogger” – it is news to me that anyone associated with McCain knew how to use a computer.
This guy cusses like he’s being interviewed by Rolling Stone. Do I smell a reunion tour?
McCain/Palin 2012 – “We’re Only In It For The Stimulus”
A cudgel by def is “short, thick stick,” and Goldfarb’s claim seems accurate. He’s short of brains, which makes him thick, and he definitely was brought in by the McCain camp to hit people, then reined in. His opinion of Palin, “an attractive candidate,” means “I could get work from her in the future.” Lives somewhere between Toxic and Shameless.
Proof that even teh jooze are douchesacks sometimes
[re=230968]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]:
“Lives somewhere between Toxic and Shameless” = Asshole
Rick, take your teeth back to K-Mart and get your money back.
[re=230899]Rodney Badger[/re]: No, that’s pretty accurate. McCain’s saving throws can’t be all that high.
[re=230974]bhosp[/re]: Clearly his THAC0 was all out of joint too. Also.
[re=230943]nmmagayar[/re]: With a fucking 2×4, presumably.
[re=230940]Cape Clod[/re]: He’s just keeping with the “Maverick” strategy. I hope the GOP continues with it. IZ WURKING.
I thought Meghan was the McCain blogger? You mean there were two of them? No wonder this guy is pissed. He was trying to do serious blogging business and we were all busy reading the enthralling tales of Meghan’s shoes or whatever the fuck it was she wrote about.
[re=230939]shanemacgowan[/re]: “The fact that McCain’s people thought he did a good job on the Sanchez interview begs the question: How the fuck did that guy get 45% of the vote?”
The fact that he got even 45% makes me weep for the future of this country. Fortunately, I live safely up in the frozen Northern Nation of legal drugs and gay marriage for everyone, hundreds of miles from the voters of the Real America. So, good luck!
Then again, considering the PM we elected up here, uh, forget I said anything…
[re=230959]heroinmule[/re]: He looks like he could go for a Cleveland Steamer.
I think it’s racist to assume that all loud, angry, black men are anti-semitic. What about black jews!? Huh!?
[re=230948]wheelie[/re]: or lack of any leadership given he could go off in any direction like a drugged up Cindy.
He’s also a poster boy for why GOPerz are so hot for tax cuts: It costs money to hire people like Goldwad without a clue about what they do or whether they’re any good at it, and usually a lot more money (pace Merrill Lynch) to make them go away. And if you’re going to have enough left over after all that to tip your caddy and the valet parking guy, well, TAX CUTS are the answer.
Watch — after 20 million more Americans are out of work, Rush-licking fear merchant will hire this talking lichen to piss off another round of people, to save us from Obama’s nefarious plot to make us France.
Also.
“I thought from the beginning that we would lose”
So this means you were losing WORSE in your previous job?
(No matter how much shorts^3 calls Blagos lawyer a wimp for quitting on his client, the guy’s at least protecting his batting average. Why take a case you know you’re going to lose, do you want to lose your reputation?)
[re=230927]peachgirl[/re]: Inconceivable!
[re=230931]SayItWithWookies[/re]: “McCain had a blogger”
Exactly. I never heared of this dood until today. That is testament to the mighty power of his blogging skillz. Which in mathematical terms = He Don’t Have None.
[re=231219]gradgrind[/re]: “talking lichen”
Ha!
“Like they were going to throw The New York Times off the plane…” So sayeth the Goldfarb.
Hmm, maybe if they’d thrown the Witch of Wasilla off the plane, closely followed by WALNUTS! then they might have had a chance… Oh, hang on; then they’d have been stuck with Roaring Rudy (who didn’t even meow); Mittens or teh Huckabee (neither of whom would have had a ghost of a chance of capturing the canine vote); then there was Alan Keyes (there’s always Alan Keyes)…
Chin up Goldy, old boy, you did get one thing right- You were pretty much screwed from the start.
Oh, and come to think of it, you did help to turn Joe the Plumber loose on an unsuspecting world (a booby prize if ever there was one). Just for that, I take back my ‘chin up’- Rot in Hell, Asshat!
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