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Meg Whitman To Save California

Here’s former eBay CEO (and make-believe founder) Meg Whitman, the less terrible of John McCain’s two campaign CEO Henchwomen, announcing her run for California governor in 2010, on the YouTube! Ha she is so rich — she BOUGHT PRINCETON or something recently — so maybe she will win. But the choice of what appears to be a tank top — probably made of something expensive, of course… enriched uranium? — just reeks of New Money. Hey Meg, if you love the Internet so much, why don’t you go buy some sleeves. From a retail website. Yeah. (VOTE 4 GARY ‘N’ NORM “COLEMAN/COLEMAN” TICKET 2010$$) [YouTube]


11:59 AM on Tue February 10 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. ManchuCandidate says at 12:02 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Too bad Meg actually has to run for Gubbinator instead just using the BUY IT NOW button.

  2. She couldn’t afford some decent lighting and makeup with her eBay munnie$?

  3. Serolf Divad says at 12:06 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Anyone who can turn an obsession with PEZ dispensers into a billion dollar company has my vote. Of course, if thee story is completely fabricated bullshit then she can kiss my hairy ass.

    By the way: to anyone who hates Joe Scarborough as much as I do: Merry Christmas.

  4. Why the fuck would anyone want to be governor of California right now?

  5. WagTehGod says at 12:07 pm, February 10th, 2009

    I dunno about voting for her. What’s her feedback rating?

  6. Arnold could still take her in a pose down.

  7. Deepthroat says at 12:09 pm, February 10th, 2009

    It rubs the lotion on it’s skin, or else it gets the hose again?

    Best Song about Lotion Ever:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ToNZHG5KHw

  8. Dear Ms. Whitman:

    Thank you for asking for our comments. I believe a broad criminal amnesty for crimes over 35 years old would reduce prison expenses, put new skills into the economy, while selectively stimulating California’s journalism, music and mortuary science sectors. I appreciate your consideration.

    Charles Manson

    P.S. I have some great stuff for eBay.

  9. Clancy_Pants says at 12:09 pm, February 10th, 2009
  10. ManchuCandidate says at 12:10 pm, February 10th, 2009

    WagTehGod:
    Walnuts5planeAce sez:
    F- Won’t pay on time. No feedback. Poor Q. Never again.

  11. I really really want to see a catfight between Meg & Arnie.

  12. Deepthroat says at 12:18 pm, February 10th, 2009

    regarding the sleeveless shirt: She’s just having a Chico’s kind of day…

  13. nmmagayar says at 12:18 pm, February 10th, 2009

    collins and snowe just both voted aye - it’s gonna pass

  14. randomsausage says at 12:19 pm, February 10th, 2009

    she has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp

  15. Gorillionaire says at 12:20 pm, February 10th, 2009

    She’ll never win. After Paypal tabulates all the votes, those rip offs keep thousands for themselves.

  16. SayItWithWookies says at 12:20 pm, February 10th, 2009

    4tehlulz: Good question — California’s the prime example of why the people shouldn’t be allowed to vote on absolutely everything. Who would’ve thought that millions of barely-informed voters would hamstring the legislative process to the point where they might wreck their own economy? Maybe she wants to be the next in an endless succession of Herbert Hoovers.

  17. nmmagayar says at 12:22 pm, February 10th, 2009

    spector aye

  18. nmmagayar says at 12:24 pm, February 10th, 2009

    specter, that is

  19. tehbenton says at 12:24 pm, February 10th, 2009

    I always wondered what Marianne Faithfull looked like after just tumbling out of bed.

    You’re an insult to Marianne Faithfull impersonators everywhere, Meg! (Every single two of them.)

  20. nmmagayar says at 12:26 pm, February 10th, 2009

    61-37 - Waiver passed

  21. Who better to put in charge of California’s economy than a figurehead from the .com bubble? eBay’s fees (not to mention PayPal’s*) have consistently gone up while the user experience has been nothing but a downward spiral, and I say what she did for the site she can do for the state!

    *Remember kids: You don’t have to adhere to state and federal banking laws if you just shove your fingers in your ears and loudly shout “I’m not really a bank!” This is the kind of law-and-order, fiscally conservative Republican California really needs in this new depression!

  22. Dr Tobias Funke says at 12:31 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Buzz! Your Girlfriend.. WOOFFF!

  23. Deepthroat says at 12:34 pm, February 10th, 2009
  24. Theodorick Of York says at 12:37 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Why the picture of John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick?

  25. Hooray For Anything says at 12:37 pm, February 10th, 2009

    I hear she wants to implement an eBay style model to California government– she’ll just put a proposed plan out there and whomever has the highest bid wins.

    Oh wait….

  26. Hooray For Anything says at 12:39 pm, February 10th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: California is a total and complete ungovernable mess and it’s mainly because of ballot initiatives. So much so, I want to start a ballot initiative to ban ballot initiatives.

    Except for the one’s that allow us to smoke dope for “medical reasons.” I like that one.

  27. Larry Fine says at 12:40 pm, February 10th, 2009

    She may save CAlifornia, but who will save the American people from having to look at her puss?

  28. Come here a minute says at 12:41 pm, February 10th, 2009

    A+++++++++++++++++ Great eBAYer ..·::*::·.•Thank•*¨¨*•You•.·::*::·..

  29. NoWireHangers says at 12:41 pm, February 10th, 2009

    She’s gonna have to have that cyst lasered off her lower lip if she even thinks she has a chance of getting the Hollywood vote. Actually, maybe an acid peel of her whole face would be the best place to start.

  30. ScribblinPossum says at 12:43 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Her ears are really long - I mean abnormally creepy long.

    I couldn’t stay focused on what she was saying because I was so distracted by her longass ears - which she only makes worse by adding another inch to them with those ultra snazzy clip-on ear baubles.

    This factor alone prevents me from even considering her for governor of CA. I have no idea what she stands for but it doesn’t matter. She needs to get an ear job before I can even begin to entertain the possibility of listening to, let along voting for her.

    I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds those dangly, sag-ass deflated boob ears objectionable.

  31. nmmagayar says at 12:43 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Stimulus passed 61-37 - Truck-Nutz for all Americans!!!!!!!11!!!1!1! Also, more buttsecks, also

  32. Are we absolutely sure this isn’t John McCain in one of Cindy’s wigs?

  33. Chad San Marino says at 12:45 pm, February 10th, 2009

    “Ms. Whitman, what’s your position on unfunded federal mandates?”
    “Gobble, gobble, gobble.”

  34. V572625694 says at 12:46 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: Nice to see that douche put in his place. Nevertheless Brzezenski is even scarier than ever. Sort of a Democratic Kissinger. You have the feeling he’d like to be a war criminal, if only Jill St. John would boink him.

  35. Serolf Divad: Thanks for that. Instead of “stunningly superficial,” I think the proper phrase is “fucking retarded.”
    But that’s just me.

  36. V572625694 says at 12:50 pm, February 10th, 2009

    nmmagayar: So why are my pitiful mutual funds dropping like falling knives?

  37. space stout says at 12:52 pm, February 10th, 2009

    i believe she is wearing a kevlar jacket-vest thing. By Armani or Dolce y Gabbana, but still kevlar. I vote for turkey people. Also.

  38. Not_So_Much says at 12:52 pm, February 10th, 2009

    I realize its sexist to ever, ever comment on a female politician’s appearance, but what in the holy hell is going on with those ears? I wonder if she can hear the actual thoughts of we Californian voters?

  39. Is this country read for a wattled governor?

  40. The Lizard peepul are in California?

  41. Meg Whitman, candidate. A woman barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s prettiest governor. Meg Whitman will be that governor. Better than she was before. Firmer, perkier, bustier.

  42. edgydrifter says at 1:02 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Not_So_Much: No, it’s cool because she isn’t a she. It’s our former dark master D-Chen in a Ben Franklin wig. I guess spending the rest of his unnatural life with Lynne in a bunker somewhere near Minot, ND, didn’t strike his fancy.

  43. Okay, the kid from Mask gets a sex change, builds a company that chokes up my internet search results, and now wants to be Guvner of 80000 sq. miles of pavement? Kill it now!

  44. El Pinche says at 1:07 pm, February 10th, 2009

    I just thought of an invention. Neck Spackle.

  45. bopumofu says at 1:07 pm, February 10th, 2009

    I hate taxes! I hate politicians! There should be more gold in California!

  46. Sarah Palin (vp@whitehouse.gov) says at 1:08 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Looks like her tracheotomy is healing up nicely. Also.

    -SP

  47. Look, I know this is terribly sexist and Sara K. Smith will probably ban us all, but can’t older women in our country learn to dress and present themselves as older women, instead of college sophomores? Look at Maggie Thatcher as an example:

    http://www.peoplequiz.com/images/bios/margaret-thatcher.-2981.jpg

    No one had the balls to make fun of her wrinkles, because she looked so goddamn dignified.

  48. Red Zeppelin says at 1:14 pm, February 10th, 2009

    My gawd, get some plastic surgery already! Also!Fuckin PUMAs!

  49. El Pinche says at 1:20 pm, February 10th, 2009

    jagorev: Also Ann Richards. She’d had chunks of PUMAs in her shit.

  50. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:21 pm, February 10th, 2009

    She will lose to Gavin Newsom. She is probably the only Republican in California that could lose to Gavin, but it is written.

  51. And for our favorite eavesdropper, Dave Denby: Go fuck yourself and your Teddy Ruxpin!

  52. DoctorCulturae says at 1:23 pm, February 10th, 2009

    jagorev: win. I haz a sad for her.

    Pressure to be teh hawtness is extraordinarily high for PUMAdom. It is tragic & pathetic they are caught competing with their daughters for social power. Even Hilbot was/is on the way to figuring this out.

  53. Meg Whitman looks like an old character actor in drag.

  54. rocktonsammy says at 1:24 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Its noon, I have been drinking even though I’m not drunk, I’d hit that.

    Maybe she can help me sell my baseball cards.

  55. Dr Tobias Funke says at 1:25 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Deepthroat: OMG Its her! Meg Whitman is Buzz’s GF! Wonder if that picture is on ebay somwhere, id like to buy it / get it signed

  56. Theodorick Of York says at 1:25 pm, February 10th, 2009

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YXHcbX36Ao

    I’ll buy
    John McCain’s old Hanoi PJs
    And a pic of
    Sarah Palin’s streched vajayjay
    Don’t know why I
    Bought Barack’s Black Panther beret
    I found ‘em on eBay

  57. Come now, barely cognizant zombies who feel they are entitled to positions of power because they earned a lot of money and because running a state is exactly like running a corporation are always successful. Especially when they’re in the exact same party as the guy bankrupting the state now. Swear her in now, this won’t be a complete waste of her own personal fortune.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

  58. Red Zeppelin says at 1:26 pm, February 10th, 2009

    shortsshortsshorts: You’re right. For all his failings, Gavin is hot in a sort of bisexual, SF party boy way. And one thing Californians care about is image.

  59. One Yield Regular says at 1:27 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Can’t you just FEEEEEEL the excitement???

  60. Palin/Sasqwatch 2012! Stupidity First!

  61. bitchincamaro says at 1:35 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Good idea, Meg, that “New California” slogan, cuz it totally does not remind voters that the “old California” was destroyed by your very own party. Good luck with that.

  62. Hooray For Anything says at 1:36 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Red Zeppelin: And his wife is kinda hot, played a hooker in “Mad Men” and does soft porn flicks. You could imagine the kind of campaign commercials Gavin could come up with.

  63. randomsausage says at 1:43 pm, February 10th, 2009

    I used to work for her. She’s nice in a patrician WASP Republican kinda way. A bit of a throwback to the country club conservative set, that was nice to the help. You know, the Republican part before the wing-nuts took over. So in short, she’ll get crushed in the primary by some right-wing frigtard.

  64. norbizness says at 1:58 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Did she play “Large Marge” in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure?

  65. edgydrifter says at 2:04 pm, February 10th, 2009

    randomsausage: In other words, she voted for Prop 8 becuase her neighborhood association covenants required it, but doesn’t actually hate “their kind.” You’re right, she’ll be devoured by frigtards.

  66. dennymcden says at 2:14 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Ugh. Just… Ugh. Also.

  67. Texan Bulldoggette says at 3:01 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Ummm…I recommend a turtle neck or a dickie. (Cheaper & less painful than visiting Dr. 90210.) Oh, and an acid or chemical peel on any exposed flesh. Also.

  68. Rodney Badger says at 3:13 pm, February 10th, 2009
  69. Lascauxcaveman says at 3:14 pm, February 10th, 2009

    It is eminently unfair that we require of our female candidates for public office that they have a modicum of do-able-ness, when no such standard applies to male candidates for public office.

    But there ya have it. Meg will not win in Cal without first having considerable work done.

  70. NoWireHangers says at 4:04 pm, February 10th, 2009

    jagorev: You’re forgetting Bill Richardson.

  71. I’m not biting.
    That’s obviously John Elway in drag.

  72. Bearbloke says at 4:18 pm, February 10th, 2009

    edgydrifter: Ahhh yes - it’s time to re-register to vote… Frigtard 2010!!

  73. In a state full of film professionals, she manages to put together something that looks like it was lit by a midget with a hand-held search light, and did her own makeup.

    FAIL

  74. Scarab: WIN!

  75. Bearbloke says at 4:24 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Red Zeppelin: Well, not quite, but after 10+ years of Governors who actually gave a crap about how good they looked (especially Ahhhhnold), Meg is gonna look like a pile of moldy pink shit next to our buffed and botoxed Beauty-queen/wannabe-models tv-news personalities…

  76. Georgia Burning says at 4:54 pm, February 10th, 2009

    Either this is Anne Coulter’s “before” pic on the female impersonator plastic surgery website or it’s true what they say about Silicon Valley execs aging fast. But overall, I’m very confident about her proven solution for the budget problem. Raise taxes as fast as ebay raises fees and we’ll get a budget surplus in nine minutes. Not to mention that “handling charge” of $29.95 each and every time you pay sales tax on something.

  77. randomsausage says at 5:38 pm, February 10th, 2009

    She’s got a forehead like the Tefal dude

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNwtBv3PI0

  78. Why is proto-commie Bush whacker Sen. Patrick Leahy wearing that godawful blond wig?

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