Wonkette
- American celebrity/journalist Roxana Saberi arrived in Vienna following her release from Iranian prison. [Los Angeles Times]
- Republicans back the CIA in the case of “she said/they said” surrounding Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the spy agency, and torture. [AP]
- The question of where to put Guantanamo detainees makes simpering NIMBYs out of the staunchest Democrats. [Washington Post]
- The president again called for more regulation of the credit card industry, so now he has said those mean things and the credit card industry can get back to the hard work of fleecing consumers. [Washington Post]
- Pfizer is literally giving away drugs to the jobless. In San Francisco, this is called “the social safety net.” [Star-Ledger]
- Swine flu caused the shut down of three New York schools, and some gal brought a special case of New York commemorative swine flu back with her to Peru. [Bloomberg]
- Wonkette is “beneath contempt” for linking to a news report. [Gawker]
I don’t blame her, I’d rather party in Vienna than Tehrain.
Viagra is a Pfizer drug isn’t it? The jobless must get it on!
‘Pfizer is literally giving away drugs to the jobless.’
Giving boner pills to the chronically unemployed is not good news for the gene pool.
See, this is what comes of Obama’s spineless coddling of Iran. If Bush were president, she’d be locked in a dungeon, like all journalists deserve.
I want to go over Viagara Falls in a barrel. A barrel with John Boehner and Dick Armey strapped on the outside.
Cape Clod: I like money.
Lazy Media: Just because you want to be locked in a dungeon, doesn’t mean that all journalists deserve it. Sara, for example, deserves to be lightly tied to a comfortable bed, and she’s journalistical.
Ken Layne, I want your resignation on my desk STAT!
Cape Clod: The hope may be that as long as they are home, or in their cardboard boxes, enjoying the fruits of their boners, they wont be out on the streets waving pitchforks and torches.
A Gawker source corroborated?? Well, I guess that settles it…color me convinced!
Some of the Uighurs (Uyghurs?) can come stay with me for a while. I have paddocks that really need mucking out and no desire to do it myself.
Ironically, all Olbermann is doing is reminding everyone of Affleck’s pitch perfect parody speech–a ferocious denunciation of his co-op board for failing to make an exception to the rules for his cat, Miss Precious Perfect.
I’ve been Time’s Man of the Year 2006 and now the World’s worst person (or at least beneath contempt.) Mom was wrong, I’ve accomplished something in my life!
In related news, Alan Keyes has a Spongebob Squarepants pushy-stroller:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/05/15/us/15abortionA_xl.jpg
If Olbermann was so offended by Ben Asslick then why did he show clips from the SNL segment the following Monday? IF you mother died and you were a millionaire, why would you go to work every day? Also, why would you bother saying that your time off is because of your mother’s death. Some people may find it uncomfortable to constantly talk about their mother’s death for no good reason. Also, who gives a shit if he takes some time off for being pissed at his company? Unnamed Gawker Source… the only way that could be less convincing a source is if they said The ghost of Ben Franklin told them this meaningless gossip.
…I’ve got friends in low places
Where the whiskey drowns
And the beer chases my blues away
And I’ll be okay
Keith, luv ya, dude. I know you must be upset still over the loss of your mother, but you’re looking like an arse in this one. Let it drop and turn your attention back to Fixed News and Loofa Boy.
You must look. At the headlining NYT photo. Hopefully, it doesn’t change, ever.
It is currently Alan keys pushing a Spongebob stroller full of “bloody cabbage-patch dolls, surrounded by middle-aged white ladies also pushing strollers wearing T-shirts of fetus’ (feti?) with halos or crowns of thorns or something. Meanwhile, counterprotesters are wearing T-shirts that say something like “Obama - meh.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15abortion.html?_r=1&hp
iburl: If you love Keith Olbermann’s dead mother so much why don’t you marry her?
Hah, Ken Layne making ‘Worst Person in the World’ would be one of the best things that ever happened to Wonkette. FREE PUBLICITY! Rockin’. We are soooo vicious.
And maybe revenues will come in from the makers of TruckNutz.
Ah, Roxi-Bibi is a cutie. And Vienna’s a great place for an affair. I have fond memories, but never mind. :p
Consult a physician if you experience unemployment lasting for more than four hours.
According to my Nate Silvery calculations, if every lawyer who ever lived worked non-stop to come up with one reasonable argument for not sending Dick Cheney to jail for life they would use more energy than the infinite army of monkeys who are trying to transcribe Hamlet by randomly hitting keys on an infinite number of typewriters - which is more energy than exists in the universe - basic physics right? Can he go to jail now?
No, Virginia, housing terrorists in a prison in your state is not going to put you in danger. Indeed, prisons are kind of designed to keep people inside; the federal government kind of has experience in keeping mass-murdering terrorists worse than these guys locked up, and those guys hadn’t even been turned into quivering shells of human beings.
Hey, the unemployed need Boehners, too, you know.
Lazy Media: Go away! I’m batin’!
Mr Blifil: Damn you. Seriously though, that photo is a childrens’ treasury of awkward images.
Now let’s not be too harsh on our beloved Wonkette. After all, Jim had two sources for the Olberman report: CityFile and Gawker quoting CityFile.
Virginians are inherently against law and order. That’s why they object to the prospect of sentencing terrorists to prison or keeping them in jail before their trial.
[i] some gal brought a special case of New York commemorative swine flu back with her to Peru [/i]
Is that 24 or 30?
“Beneath contempt” for this? Please. We’ve done much worse.
On the other hand, it does give us all a goal to strive for.
I, for one, welcome a pseudo-feud with Keith-O. A little more web 2.0 never hurt anybody.
Granted he likely didn’t read everything, but he also hinted there are some msnbc moles aiding to spread this inanity. And having a spat with your boss? What a surprise. And he’s resistant to pressure? Also obvious. It follows he’d want to quash this stuff ballistically, strafing anybody connected to it. My fantasy is he knew there were rumors in house, saw them turn-up in language like “liar” & “jackassery,” and decided to blanket all concerned.
Grief is powerful stuff, doesn’t go away quickly, and tends to pull the rug out from under all of us at one time or another. He’s most likely ticked because his work ethic was challenged in the context of his mom’s death, which you might guess, was formed greatly through her influence. Does this make him a pussy? Far from it in my book. A jackass? Sure, he’d probably admit to it in most circumstances. Anyone who has the titanium pair he exhibited to help bring down the house that Dub built will tend to act self-importantly. This is Paul Harvey… Good DAY!
Lazy Media: i can’t believe we both like money.
And Viagra is the new hobobean!
Just what unemployed people need to do. Spend more time making babies. After all, they are free and don’t cost anything to maintain. Just ask Octomom. They could probably pop out 3 or 4 by the time one of the parents went back to work. Also.
David Denby warned us. All this snark would hurt people like Keith Olbermann’s dead mother.
And why don’t I believe David Cross ever atteneded a Mets game? Whereas also.
WIDTAP: Let’s not forget the guy he overheard talking about in the restroom at McDonald’s.
Have you heard Viagra’s new promo for the big blue pill giveaway?
“Hard times for hard times.”
Beautiful and straight to the point.
Boojum: Your subtlety is noted. Unfortunately I don’t have edit permissions…
Uighurs don’t get enough media attention, so with the help of K-Fed and Vanilla Ice, I’ve started “Wiggers for Uighers” in the hopes of better cross-cultural understanding of my Chinese peeps.
the lady MS.Sheila Dixon: I like money.
Custerwolf:
Damn You! You made me spit up a half-eaten Centrum orange vitamin tablet and it’s currently running down my monitor having sex with all of this snarky posts.
I thought KO pointed the finger at Dan Abrams, who perhaps not coincidentally was the big loser w/r/t all the recent changes in MSNBC’s evening line-up.
Noonan: HTML fail
Custerwolf: We’ll stiff you when you’ve been stiffed. Too predictable? What do I know, being high on free Tylenol and all.
The Viagra thing’s good, but I wanna know who’s giving pro bono blowjobs these days?
This isn’t about Olbermann’s mother dying. She did; that’s sad; and Olbermann has every right to mourn, and be private about the details regarding how he mourns. But this story is more about the fact that Olbermann may have thrown another hissy fit. Maybe he didn’t, and the timing of his mother’s death clouds the issue. But I don’t think there is anything wrong with the original intent of this story, which was try to report on yet another incident that suggests Olbermann is an incredibly narcissistic, whiny child. Olbermann makes some decent points from time to time, and he seems at least reasonably intelligent. His emotional quotient, however, appears to be extremely low. He doesn’t seem to get that smugness is not an attractive quality. Let’s face it, his show is simply entertainment, and it’s entertaining to see him get all worked up and almost lose it simply because a blogger wrote something unflattering about him. The next in his series of implosions may be on the horizon, and people are going to keep poking at him to see if they can produce the final deflating puncture.
Boojum: You could dump them off the ferry to Cialais, also.
Also, isn’t “beneath contempt” Wonkette’s target demographic.
Red Zeppelin: You mean ‘pro boner’, to quote Bart Simpson.
Custerwolf: Really now, if you are unemployed where are you going to find a woman to have sex with.
bosco: Yeah, I don’t know why KO didn’t just issue a denial & ignore the rest. No one would be talking about it now, which you imagine is what he’d want.
answerbird: Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy.
Custerwolf: Reminds me of when I was a callow young lad and the things I would say to other callow young lads when we were discussing the outcomes of our latest adventures in dating:
“She set me straight.”
“She gave me a hard time.”
“She has hands-on experience.”
etc…
hobospacejunkie: Exactly.
Sara doesn’t date enough older gentlemen to know how to spell Viagra — probably a good thing!
Paco: Ha whoops! FIXED.
Custerwolf: How about “Just because you’re down doesn’t mean you can’t get down?”
Paco: Makes sense. Sometimes those guys excuse themselves to the bathroom and are gone for as long as four hours.
Yikes! I first read it as “Free All-You-Can-Eat VAGINA For The Unemployed”. That’s a lot of vagina.
ouanquette: I think there’d be more than the 1000+ views so far on this page if All You Can Eat Vagina was the headline. That would be a pretty sweet deal, though, at least for about, what, 60% of the population?