The Rush Limbaugh program is a very entertaining program, it’s true. This segment with a caller is funny enough when he’s explaining to her what an addiction is like, and how the liberals are all “addicted to power,” whereas he was merely addicted to a tasty opiate. But then, after an awkward few seconds of silence around the 4:00 mark, he asks, “Did you see the Lord of the Rings movies?” Amazing. “I don’t remember the name, the character we never saw, desperate to get his rings back? Zoron-Zoron, whatever his name was? He had an army, HE HAD AN ARMY… the guy was miserable, couldn’t get the rings back.” [Media Matters]
Limbaugh: I Was An Addict, And Democrats Are Like The Hobbits In That Movie
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He and Paula Abdul should form a support group about how to keep it together while you’re on the air.
Yes, the DEMONcrats are all Sauron’s minions. Are you surprised?
I’ve always suspected that Pelosi is an orc.
Fat fuck says “what”?
He. Did. NOT. Do. That. Did he? Compare himself to Sauron? Was he FUCKING high?
Hoo-boy, Rush. Do NOT eff with Sauron.
(I’m pretty sure he’s the guy who signs your paychecks.)
Botching Gollum’s name is permissible for non-nerds. But to confuse an all powerful unblinking red eye entity with a gangly royal we speaking cave dweller as the metaphor for “absolute power corrupts absolutely” is just plain embarassing.
Did this guy sit through the movie all strung out on……nevermind.
So is Rush likewise miserable? Not getting the message? Addiction is a cunning enemy of life. Get your ass over to a meeting.
We own the car companies and we’re still not happy. Gee, I really thought that was going to do it too.
First– this is the first time I have listened to this fat sack of shit for more than 20 seconds in 5 years (Thanks XM!!). Second, he’s still about as intellectually coherent as Miss South Carolina. E,g, Democrat Bloggers are powerless but their addiction to power is what keeps them going. Eh? Also. Third, who the fuck is he talking about in Lord of the Rings? The major ring addict is Gollum, and he’s addicted but he ain’t powerful. Fifth, Jesus, the call screeners only let through the stupidist boot-licking toady callers. Sixth, I bet he wishes he’d chosen another analogy instead of addiction.
If he says “Zoron-Zoron” too many times, he’s going to invoke Second-Life Helen Thomas and her halfling army, and then he will be sorry.
ME PRECIOUS!!
FAIL
Zorin was the villain, played by Christopher Walken, in the awful Bond flick A View to a Kill. He wanted Silicon Valley, which is actually already owned by the Dems, and seems to make them pretty happy.
That is the first time I have ever listened to Rush Limblob speak. I now think less of American society than I did 7 minutes ago. I gotta go hit the head so I don’t puke on my keyboard.
[re=317134]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Eh — Sauron’s just an entertainer.
Ha ha ha. We de-bwatched his culture. As if.
Making fun of an obese drug-addled insanatic is uncivil.
I am suing Wonkette for all of its pixie dust and unicorns for making me click to that, whatever it was.
I feel Newt’s pain now. Liberals have no empathy.
“Yet the lies that Limbaugh sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.”
In fairness, when Rush goes to a movie he is high as a kite, and usually spends most of the time gobbling knobs in the back row. So, it’s kinda hard to follow the plot and shit.
What really shocks me is the dreamy/screamy tiger-beat reverence in which Rush devotees K-Lo and Glenn Beck talk about the man’s accomplishments – hold that up against the dismal quality of any random ten-minute segment of his actual show. It’s clear from this one that he’s more familiar with the views of leprechauns and pink unicorns than the actual democrats he professes to be so expert on. If he were even a credibly-smooth BS artist, there might be some value in listening to him. If I just wanted to kill brain cells, gin would be a far better choice.
LOTR was a fairly long book, written by a philologist, who worked at a pretty fancy college. Interested conservatives can click the “images” link on google, type in “hobbit” and look at the pictures…
This guy’s making like how many hundreds of millions of dollars, right? And he’s complaining about the Democrats not being happy with having enough? Sounds like a perfectly reasonable argument to me. Logic that circular is great for hula-hooping.
Now Zoron will go crawling back to the Fat One to beg forgiveness. The Fat One admits in his screwy diatribe that he was an addict and addicts are irrational. He was on the air that whole time … and he was irrational. Still is.
Does Rush normally sound this pathetic? I am being serious here as I have only heard clips of his show. He sounded like he was not sure if he should continue talking or waddle outside and empty a pistol into his brainpan.
Rush was being careful with his question about the caller’s history of addiction because he didn’t want to jeopardize her chances at getting reelected Governor of Alaska.
I’m wondering if it’s time to bring out that old Wonk-nerd favorite passtime, the who reminds you of what LOTR character game? Here’s mine: Cheney = Grima Wormtongue.
When-oh-when will the massive stroke happen? At this point I’d settle for the heart attack or the diabetic coma. Any of those will do.
BLARRRRRRRRGH!
The dim bulb on the other end of the line did not seem to be getting the point. I would be happy to grab her by her scraggly hair and shove her so far up Rush’s ass she can see everything the way he does.
[re=317164]WideStance[/re]: score.
[re=317165]Red Zeppelin[/re]:
Nononono, Cheney = This Guy
[re=317167]ZorinZorin[/re]: Man, Zorin, you need some Prep-H on that stuff!
[re=317167]ZorinZorin[/re]: What’s with the huge inflamed twat?
Limbaugh seems more like the ginormous (sp?) spider Shelob. I always suspected her of popping more pills than she should have.
oh any reference to the trilogy should include:
” Ash nazg durbatulúk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.”
I spoke about myself today
Addicted to pills
I focus on Gollum
The only thing that’s real
My logic tears a hole
The old familiar burn
Try to kill it all away
I blame Dems for anything
What have I become?
A drug addicted fiend
And the GOP I lead
Fails anyway in the end
I have had it all
My collection of pills
I will pop’em down
So I will be insane
I wear this crown of dumb
Upon my round bulbous head
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot make sense
Beneath the layer of fat
Then reality disappears
I am powerful
I am the GOP!
What have I become?
A drug addicted fiend
And the GOP I lead
Fails anyway in the end
I have had it all
My collection of pills
I will pop’em down
So I will be insane
If I could start again
A million pills ago
I still blame Libs
Now just a pipe dream
Spoken without a lick of irony. Damn, he’s good.
Is Rush saying Sauron is gay? And if so, how would he know? What are you hiding, Rush? (Hint: big fat buttsecks.)
What makes him think we’re not happier? We are happier, Rush! Whee! We are so fuckin’ happy we don’t even NEED drugs anymore. We are dancin’ with the unicorns on the South Lawn. We are scoring 1 gazillion on the Happymeter. We are sprinkling rainbows and sparkly stars all over the Capitol steps. In all the Democratic statehouses, at the end of the legislative day we are raising a glass of cheap domestic champagne (because although, unlike Republicans, we cannot afford Moet we DON’T FUCKIN’ CARE) and drinking toasts to how much happier we are. We are singing the Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s 9th symphony every morning in the shower.
And every time some dumbass nitwit Repuglican opens his or her mouth to say something incredibly ignorant, stupid, and bigoted on the record, which is about three times a day now, it makes us even happier. So thanks, Rush. Listening to you is giving me an endorphin high.
Inspector Rush has cracked the case:
politicians like power!!11!!
Get out the Drudge Siren!
From the size of him, Rush is addicted to greasy food, too.
[re=317180]MalS[/re]: Well, I’ve got a caffeine high that will soon morph into a martini buzz, but I know what you’re sayin.
At least when Bob Newhart stammered, it was funny. This was the sound of air escaping the balloon; of course, with a blimp like Rush, there is a lot to deflate.
[re=317181]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]: I DON’T BELIEVE YOU. THAT COULDN’T BE TRUE.
Have I been deceived this whole time?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!1!!11one!!1!!nar!11
I need somebody to walk me through this. We’re talking about personal addiction, then political power and the idea that things are fine the way they are. Lastly Rush brings up Sauron who was depicted as either (a)some kind of sick looking vagina or (b)painful mouth ulcer in the endlessly boring movie trilogy about fairies and elves. Was there a common thread to all this that I might have missed?
[re=317173]Custerwolf[/re]: IZ MY EYE, LOOKING FOR FAT ADDIXXX AND RINGSES!!!
Do you know what Rush talked about today? (I know because I was searching something else) He analyzed Obama’s address to the graduates of ASU. He takes 4 sound bytes and basically twists it as Obama said:
“America sucks, American exceptionalism (sic) is over, the American military is immoral, and you shouldn’t strive toward anything that involves improving yourself.”
He sucks huge ass. We hates him! We hates him forever!!!
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051409/content/01125109.guest.html
[re=317180]MalS[/re]: Right? Who here is unhappy? You should have seen election night. I’m still happy. Satisfied is something different, but I’m generally satisfied that things are being handled much better. Should, by all rights, Bush and Rumsfeld be frogmarched through the country to be hissed at and have garbage thrown at them and then tossed in a cell for a couple years? Probably, but if it isn’t to be, we’re all still happy.
Tomorrow’s analogy Rush will talk about the mixed blessing of having an anal cyst. On the one hand their painful, on the other they keep you from getting your fat ass shot in Vietnam.
Tell me again what is wrong with enhanced interrogation. There must be ways to make him NOT speak.
Rush is obviously projecting again. While he says the Democrats are unhappy he is by far the fattest he’s ever been, is unable to string two thoughts together over the course of five minutes, speaks gibberish in public while sweating enough to provide water to a small African country (CPAC,) and is allowing Obama’s popularity to help him take the last few steps over the edge to insanity.
Surely someone out there has a Rush deathwatch, no? He surely can’t last even these first four years without something inside him exploding.
That scene where Yoda fights Duran-Duran in the volcano to get the ring, and then he’s all like “Yeah! I got it! Oh no, I’m falling down to the lava!” That totally portrays the DEMONcrat administration.
So Olbermann has declared WAR ON WONKETTE. He hacked out a gargantuan Daily Kos blog post whining about Layne.
Yes, Jane, I’m sure your husband turned to you and said, “What do the Democrats want? They already own the car industry, they don’t want us to go to college… what do they want?” That sounds exactly like the kind of thing that a conservative husband would say to his conservative wife while driving home from wherever you were driving home from. Totally plausible situation, really likely, as far as conversation starters go.
I can’t even get to the part where Limbaugh talks, because the caller herself is such a weirdo.
[re=317192]NYNYNY[/re]: I want the Bush Death Cult to be shipped to Den Haag… then I’ll be happy…
This shit is so funny… “Liberals you find blogging” are sooo addicted….TO POWAH!!
[re=317194]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: I’m thinking Rushbo enjoyed the hell out of that cyst
[re=317209]Cloudman[/re]: Linky?
I just did vodou in my head and gave that man cancer.
YEAH I KNOW. I emailed tips@wonkette.com that mystical/non-existent email account, that we are supposed to send TIPS to, with this info hours ago. Keith via Kos directed at Ken is DECLARING WAR!
WE ARE SENT TO DESTROY the leftist liberal islamopussies at DK.
Well, you know what I mean, WAR!
P.S. I really do feel bad for Mr Affleck, but fuck him, we got kids to feed.
WAR!
[re=317198]CockedAle[/re]: Packing tape,you will need a case of it. Oh, and a rag.
[re=317209]Cloudman[/re]: I mean the guy is hideously insufferable arse even when he is wrong – so, please, a dead mother? We should considered this 100 line screed the height of brevity.
THURSDAY! THURSDAY! THURSDAY!
WAR BLOGGIN’ NIGGAS
[re=317209]Cloudman[/re]: He did? Has he mistaken himself for Goldberg?
[re=317215]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/14/731439/-Turning-My-Mothers-Death-Into-Gossip
I need to rethink my hatred of Twitter…
[re=317209]Cloudman[/re]: [re=317215]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/14/731439/-Turning-My-Mothers-Death-Into-Gossip
It’s not primarily about Wonkette, but he does get a couple of jabs at Ken in there.
God, how many F’n candle gifs to these people have on the hard drive.
Keith,
My name is Robert Paulson. You will never meet me, but the knees on my jeans looked too clean and your dong looked a little cold, so I just put it in my mouth.
Love your show!
Thanks for all of hard work you do.
Robert Paulson
PS His name, was Robert Paulson
[re=317156]Lets Go Vertigo[/re]: My God, that’s God and so true! Yes, Limbaugh is like Sauron, whispering doubt, treachery and envy to men in the days of Numenor before the wave came. Back when Sauron was not hideous to look upon, although he was really fat.
[re=317211]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: “the caller herself is such a weirdo.”
You’re too kind. I’m betting this spinally-challenged brainless pecker receptacle is uglier than a monkey’s armpit.
[re=317215]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/14/731439/-Turning-My-Mothers-Death-Into-Gossip
[re=317226]Cicada[/re]: Wow, I couldn’t even get a third of the way through that; it was so boring. I like Keith better when he is dressed in a nice suit and looks like my daddy when he’s angry. Well, like my dad would look if my dad were tall, and had a full head of silver hair.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Getting over addition…kicking the hobbit?
And in case anyone cares (and they shouldn’t)I also thought Wanda Sykes kidney joke was sheer comedy dumbfuckery. But that’s only because I think she is entirely unfunny anyway. Maybe I need a better translator.
[re=317233]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: You’re glad you didn’t make it to the end. He starts on Wanda Sykes and turns to the same “elevating the political discourse” bullshit arguments that people like Frum use to talk about both his and Rachel’s shows.
I don’t like reading about people’s dead mothers. I have a dead mother and I would rather read made-up lies about how someone is guilty of loving Ben Affleck too much. If that’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
Never turn on talk radio looking for logic, intelligent conversation or insight. Limby the Hutt actually got halfway there today, but he wasn’t honest enough to go the rest of the way.
If he had said, “It isn’t just Democrats. It’s politicians. No matter what they have, they want more. No matter how many times they’ve been elected, they’re looking to the next election,” well, he might have said something true.
As for me, I can’t believe I made it through an entire post without mentioning truck nutz, buttsecks or teh gay. I could almost say I wasn’t being snarky, except for Limby the Hutt.
[re=317236]Custerwolf[/re]: I’ve seen her live, and she was funny. But I would agree that the entire press dinner whatever routine was pretty stupid.
The next time I’m befuddled by the politics of our nation or need someone to supply me with a long-winded movie metaphor, I think I’ll give a jingle to an obese megalomanic talk show blowhard addicted to hillbilly heroin and the sound of his own voice.
This country needs more murder-suicides.
[re=317237]problemwithcaring[/re]: He’s going to say that we made fun of his dead mother, I assume. Because he can’t read. Ken called him self-important for saying we were “beneath contempt” for linking to a news report.
I find that people who rant about the evil of our jokes and gossip are the ones who do it most themselves.
[re=317211]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: I was driving two interns home (I’m a Bill Clinton fan) when one of them said to me: “X111E what does Rush Limpaugh want, deep down, what does he really want?”.
Rush seems to be in his ‘fat Elvis’ stage.
Soon to peter out on the crapper jerking off to a picture of himself.
[re=317243]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: It did not seem to be a good forum for her style.
but what has its got in its pocketses!!!!!
[re=317176]ManchuCandidate[/re]: NIN Zing!
[re=317246]Jim Newell[/re]: That’s fine, but I’m hoping you’ll still run the story about how Keith was caught fucking Jason Bateman at the basketball game in tomorrow’s edition.
[re=317236]Custerwolf[/re]: Rush is the probably the only comedian in the world I hate more than I hate Wanda Sykes. She is the worst thing about everything she is in – she even ruined Pootie Tang for me. How can you degrade the comedic value of fucking Pootie Tang?? She managed.
I remember vividly at the 03 or 04 Emmys, after all the controversy caused by Bill Cosby’s “Blame it All on the Ebonics Speaking Darkies” speech at Howard – and oh how I hated him! Wanda Sykes walked the aisles, hamming it up all the way. She loudlily cackled some annoying question at Bill about how he and other Black comics managed such success back in the day, you know, being Black and all.
Bill Cosby goes, “We spoke English.”
That shit was so funny, I forgot how to feel….
[re=317247]x111e7thst[/re]: and your answer…..?
[re=317231]Custerwolf[/re]: True, true. I actually felt bad for her, kinda. The way I feel bad for retarded people when you see them drooling on themselves.
Yeah, really, like Wanda Sykes is good for when you are really, really drunk, and so is she, and she rants about how drunk she is, and then swears a bit.
[re=317254]problemwithcaring[/re]: Now THAT’S funny.
[re=317247]x111e7thst[/re]: But that’s so easy! Small Dominican boys, right? Oh, god, was that O’Reilly? I can’t keep these assholes straight (heh) anymore.
[re=317173]Custerwolf[/re]: apparently he’s some kind of radio talk show host? Never heard of this limbagh guy myself.
I always thought Rush was the fat hobbit.
I can’t wait until the Velveeta hardens in the veins of this fat, cushion-sniffin’ cockaholic.
I actually interviewed Limbaugh’s late mother back in 1996, a few years before her death. A classy lady (and if you’re curious, not at all fat), I think she actually helped keep “Rusty” sane while she was alive.
Certainly not a stretch to argue that most of the megalomaniacal, Dominican boy-loving, drug-addicted crap happened to him after his mom died.
Probably the only woman who ever loved him, unless you count Mann Coulter.
“Must get the precious”
Get a brain Zoron!
[re=317255]Custerwolf[/re]: Having Hannity suck on his anal cyst.
[re=317263]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: With O’Reilly it was something about loofahs or falafels, maybe both. In the shower. When Limpy got buted with viagra he was indeed coming back from the DR but I always thought that looked a lot like a headfeint. Bringing viagra to the DR is about as necessary as bringing it to Bangkok. They got plenty on hand. Prescriptions not required.
Now now…mouth breathing ditto heads need heroes too. This is America, everybody gets the chance to speak.
I personally would wish the Leader and Guiding light of the Republican Party a long and productive career on that quaint wireless contraption he’s mastered.Well done Rushbo. I’m hoping to hear your words come out of Republican politicians mouths for at least the next couple of decades.
[re=317302]x111e7thst[/re]: Got busted with viagra – learn to spell.
[re=317296]x111e7thst[/re]: That sounds kinda hawt actually.
[re=317308]Custerwolf[/re]: Something less ugly/more interesting
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bHJsS0yY2Hk/SXRWDXx86dI/AAAAAAAAAoo/BqP3wim2jlw/s1600-h/working.jpg
[re=317309]x111e7thst[/re]: Wow. Where is it?
WHEN THE LIBERALS HAVE ALL THE POWER AND THEY’VE DESTROYED THE COUNTRY, WHAT WILL BE LEFT?
WELL HAVE YOU EVER SEEN LORD OF THE RINGS?
NO I AM AN IDEOLOGUE. JESUS TOLD ME NOT TOO.
I LIKE YOUR LOGIC.
YES YOUR’S TOO.
TELL ME MORE.
There’s something wrong here.
Northern VietNam somewhere between Diel Bien Phu and Sa Pa. Hill tribe. Black Thai or maybe Dao. I think she is so beautiful.
[re=317316]x111e7thst[/re]: Indeed. And I’ve heard VietNam is gorgeous.
He looks so much like a bloated version of my Dad that it’s painful to look at even a still photo of that waste of (a lot of) space.
I think he’ll marry Miss California and name their kids, Bristol, Trig and Tree
Stump, Syringe, Huggy Bear and Baretta.
[re=317322]prophet1195[/re]: Yogi Bear would be better. Sarah keeps being indicted for jacking various picnic baskets.
[re=317158]snideinplainsight[/re]: The last time I saw an issue of Tiger Beat Sajid Khan was on the cover.
Okay, so you know how I’m always saying that my boyfriend is borderline retarded? Well, just now he comes up to me and looks over my shoulder and goes, “Hmmm…..Wonkette…..Now, why TWO ‘t’s?” And I shrug “Shit, I don’t know – it’s WONKETTE. And then he goes, “Oh. So the second ‘t’ is silent.”
And now you see why he keeps me laughing constantly, yet he has only laughed at approximately six jokes that I have cracked over the course of the last 12 years.
Okay, back to talking about Rush OxyMoron.
[re=317322]prophet1195[/re]: You really think she’ll have teh secks with him six times?
I’m in non-gender-specific love with MalS.
Fuckitalltohell, my imaginary girlfriend is sitting across the table listening to that shit.
What a tool; no wonder he’s loved by the twenty-percenters.
and I think the caller is masturbating. Sick.
Oh my god I’m craving a few lines of Zoron right now.
[re=317209]Cloudman[/re]: I just saw Olbermann rip Wonkette a new one on his show. I love Wonkette, but they blew it on this one.
FAIL.
[re=317347]Blender[/re]: I got that same feeling.
[re=317349]RationalMan[/re]: And your lame opinion matters because you are who, now?
Fat lines of Zoron. Mmmmm.
[re=317353]Custerwolf[/re]: Wow. I think my opinion fares pretty well compared to your trenchant analysis.
The original Lord of the Rings was a movie by Ralph Bakshi. J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a novelization of it, and tacked on a happy ending. (The original story ended ambiguously, right after the Battle of Helm’s Deep, with the Sauron subplot left unresolved.). Peter Jackson made a trilogy of movies based on Tolkien’s novelization.
Bakshi also did a Saturday morning cartoon, “The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse”, which was canceled after Rev. Donald Wildmon complained about the episode where Mighty Mouse snorts cocaine. (See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161170/ for a quick summary.) This was probably the event that lead to Mr. Limbaugh discovering the Lord of the Rings.
“Fritz the Cat”, another Bakshi movie, is probably the first instance of furry porn in popular culture.
[re=317335]Custerwolf[/re]: Well, for someone learning the language that’s not necessarily an illogical assumption. Spelling in English is sooooo conservative. Rarely changes, so many silent letters or weirdly pronounced combinations of letters, you know, GHOTI and all that.
[re=317367]RationalMan[/re]: “trenchant analysis??” WTF is THAT?
Are you saying my mind’s in the gutter?
I wouldn’t know I don’t keep track of it.
[re=317369]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Wait – so you’re saying he may not be retarded?
[re=317349]RationalMan[/re]: How exactly did Wonkette ‘blow it’ on this one? Your presumed analysis does not take into account any facts of the situation apart from KO’s side of things. I hate repeating myself so I’ll simply direct you over here & here so you’ll understand why Wonkette most certainly did not ‘blow it’ on this one.
[re=317371]Custerwolf[/re]: Well…let’s say his intelligence may reside in other areas if he’s still discovering some of the more elementary aspects of our difficult native language.
[re=317374]hobospacejunkie[/re]: So you’re saying he’s DEFINITELY retarded, then?
[re=317376]Custerwolf[/re]: I think I’ve said too much already!
Now that we’ve devolved into neener-neener talk, can we just put this topic to bed by saying (all together now),
WONKETTE IS WORSE THAN HIIIIIIIIIIIIIITLER!
You’re welcome.
p.s. is it illegal to place wagers on which wingnut congresscritter is going to draft the Articles Of Impeachment for that torturing torturer Nancy Pelosi?
[re=317372]hobospacejunkie[/re]: KO is not perfect, but he’s legendary at calling out hypocrisy. I wasn’t aware there is virtually no attempt to verify information before reposting on Wonkette. Knowing that reduces the value of the site. I agree that KO’s spokesperson should not have included the “beneath contempt” part in the rebuttal, but that doesn’t justify continuing to ridicule him after being informed he was tending to his mother’s passing. Wonkette’s reputation has been irreverent snark, but basically fun. Now it seems dark and unnecessarily cruel.
[re=317393]RationalMan[/re]: Are you telling us how to do our job?
[re=317393]RationalMan[/re]: Do you know how many blogs post links to news stories which appear in all manner of newsgathering publications? Are you suggesting that each & every blogger independently verify, i.e., write the story all over again, before posting the link? Have you thought about this at all other than in an emotional context?
And just who is continuing to ridicule him after being informed he was tending to his mother’s passing? Commenters here? Probably. That’s their right. Ken Layne didn’t. Ken responded to the denial issued by MSNBC and specifically to the ‘beneath contempt’ remark, which, as I have pointed out elsewhere and above, implies that all blogs should independently verify every story they link to. If that is your position, if you believe blogs should actually do that, you are living in a fantasy land or else have little knowledge of the time & effort necessary to produce factual news stories.
KO could’ve kept private moments private by simply issuing a denial and ignoring the rest. Why he didn’t choose this route I have no idea.
[re=317413]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Just because you disagree with me doesn’t mean I’m emotional. Verifying a story does not require rewriting it. If you’re reposting from unreliable sites, you could send an email asking the subject. KO was being smeared while tending to his mother’s death, and for some reason, Wonkette thought it was funny to pile on, even after learning of KO’s situation. It wasn’t funny.
[re=317423]RationalMan[/re]: So you know that CityFile is an unreliable site and so Wonkette should know that also? Can you tell by looking at the website if it’s reliable? And how exactly did Wonkette pile on? By publishing MSNBC’s denial in full? That’s piling on? Printing a denial of allegations from a previous post is piling on?
[re=317371]Custerwolf[/re]: I’ve met retarded kids. I’ve played with, laughed with, and never once been appalled by retarded kids. Rush, sir, is no retard.
RationalMan: Olbermann, stop sock puppeting on Wonkette. It makes you look like a petty turd.
[re=317451]electrasteph[/re]: please don’t have him doing a speech on this shit. I can’t stand another reporter reporting on himself. These people think they are news instead of reporting the news. I don’t give a fuck about the personal life of these navel gazing nerds outside of political snark. I am curious about Rachel’s life tho. She’s hawt. Also.
[re=317393]RationalMan[/re]: “I wasn’t aware that there is virtually no attempt to verify information before reposting it on Wonkette.” I am shocked. SHOCKED.
Well, I just read the article, and KO (and by extension, Rational Man), may have a bit of a point. In any event, I can see why Keith was upset. It can get a bit rough over here at Wonkette.
And Ken Layne can, as everyone knows, be an asshole.
So, is everybody happy now? Big hug. Smiles all around.
Can we still be assholes?
It’s hard to listen to two people who simply agree with each other without saying anything of import, but what’s with the “Democrats don’t want us to go to college” bit? I hadn’t heard that tidbit of propaganda before. Seems like many Democrats would ENCOURAGE anyone, especially Republicans, to get a bit of education.
Those who read know the difference between Sauron and Gollum, and Vader and Cheney.
[re=317423]RationalMan[/re]: “…being smeared while tending to his mother’s death.”
A beautiful line of bullshit if I’ve ever seen one.
[re=317535]groove[/re]: An asshole doesn’t need permission.
[re=317563]Custerwolf[/re]:”mole hill, meet mount olberman.” i was hoping he’d let this slide or make some small mention of the “controversy” instead he affirmed my worst suspicions, that he has become greatly impressed with himself and all that issues from his pie-hole. he was good when he was the only one calling the bush admin. on their lies, but in retrospect it seems he was being a journalist who had recently seen the edward r. murrow movie. he became a spit projecting caricature of himself long ago. too bad.
Democrats are addicted to power?
Damn, did the entire Republican party have a collective black-out of their embarassing behavior over the past EIGHT YEARS?
[re=317230]BlueStateLibtard[/re]: Damn. I wanted to make the first Silmarillion reference. Rush is one of the Maia, servant of the Valar Melchor, called Morgoth, who is Dick Cheney, emanation of the thought of Illuvatar who is Ronald Reagan. Elrond the half elf played guitar for Queensryche, etc, blah…
God help us.
C’mon liver failure!
RationalMan, I’m still not seeing how Wonkette “blew it on this one,” even after reading Olbmermann’s diatribe.
Olbermann acknowledges that his emotional meltdown (allegedly a belated reaction to his mother’s death three weeks earlier) occurred “more or less contemporaneously” with the Affleck scheduling issue. He also admits that he was upset about the double scheduling, which he says was due to “really shoddy work by a fill-in publicist.”
Olbermann says that while preparing to do a show at his workplace, he suddenly hit an “emotional wall” and left the building, supposedly due to his mother’s death. He did not do his next three shows; instead of going to work, he mourned his mother by attending several Major League Baseball games. To be diplomatic, this explanation is difficult to believe.
Olbermann deserves a lot of credit; he took some courageous stands when it was scary to speak out against the Bush administration. Nowadays, to me he comes across as pompous and his anger seems contrived. Personally I’d rather watch Shepard Smith, especially when he’s been drinking.
[re=317637]engulfedinflames[/re]: Agreed. But then who can say we wouldn’t do the same ourselves given the opportunity. I’m just an egomaniac like the rest of us.
[re=317693]Custerwolf[/re]: well put. i guess i have high expectations, and you know where that gets you. i too am an egomaniac but i’m a selfish egomaniac. i can think of few worse fates than fame.
I could try to sift out a few actual points from all the unhinged responses, but it’s not worth it because attempting to respond will be futile anyway.
[re=317710]RationalMan[/re]: Why don’t you give your fingers a rest and just think these things quietly to yourself.
[re=317535]groove[/re]: How could we not?
[re=317188]ZorinZorin[/re]: I liked flaming twat better.
[re=317757]Custerwolf[/re]: Oh yeah?
Well, I’m going to think these things LOUDLY to myself.
How do like that, dickhead?
[re=318078]RationalMan[/re]: I like you better already.
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