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What does this have to do with politics? Everything. “All of my blog posts are political blog posts,” Bob Dylan once said, and this is true. All of the WSJ’s punny wordsmithery is political punny wordsmithery: “Hip-hop luminaries with the cash to keep it real are appalled. Bling aficionados fret that the art of ‘ice’ is being watered down.” NOOOOO! [WSJ]


2:55 PM on Tue May 26 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. mollymcgwire says at 3:02 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I see that Michael “Hip-Hop” Steele now writes headlines for the WSJ.

  2. Chad San Marino says at 3:02 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Little known fact: The WSJ is the most widely-read publication in hip-hop. Dr. Dre strongly considered taking a position as a columnist there. True story. Also.

  3. samsuncle says at 3:04 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I knew this would happen so I sank all my extra cash into Obama commemorative plates.

  4. SayItWithWookies says at 3:05 pm, May 26th, 2009

    The Wazzle Strizzle Jizzle — all the nizzle that’s fizzle to prizzle.

  5. freakishlystrong says at 3:07 pm, May 26th, 2009

    But we can still haz Blingee’s right?
    SayItWithWookies: Fo Shizzle, my dizzle…

  6. DC Hates Me says at 3:08 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Everything Rupert Murdoch touches ends up looking like a myspace page.

  7. magic titty says at 3:08 pm, May 26th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: Everyone else loses to this fine entry.

  8. Sussemilch says at 3:10 pm, May 26th, 2009

    It’s hard to rhyme with cubic zirconia.

  9. 19kevin8 says at 3:12 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Bling doesn’t exactly “clang”, it makes more of a clank, really.

  10. hobospacejunkie says at 3:13 pm, May 26th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: What is this strange language you speak, Wookieman? Your furry ways frighten me. Can I get a Pat Boone version of this?

  11. wickedmessenger says at 3:14 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Does it clang or does it melt?

  12. chascates says at 3:15 pm, May 26th, 2009

    And people wonder why papers are dying.

  13. Larry McAwful says at 3:23 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I guess that’s why they call it the Wall [i]Street[/i] Journal.

  14. shortsshortsshorts says at 3:24 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tomorrow’s headline:

    ________________________.

  15. bitchincamaro says at 3:27 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Henceforth, all tats will be “jailhouse” from now on, fashioned with Bic pens and old transistors.

  16. DemmeFatale says at 3:27 pm, May 26th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: Oh Wooks, you’re a scream. (One of my dogs is very concerned about my reaction to your comment.)

  17. SayItWithWookies says at 3:33 pm, May 26th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: It’s a play on the NYT motto, “all the news that’s fit to print.” Just updated for those cool cats at the WSJ.

  18. SayItWithWookies says at 3:33 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Sussemilch:
    You’re a fine lady
    I wanna put my bone in ya
    So don’t be lookin’ askance
    At my cubic zirconia.

  19. WadISay says at 3:34 pm, May 26th, 2009

    This spells the end of plans for an Ebonics edition of OpinionJournal.

  20. joezoo says at 3:44 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Makes sense. The average WSJ reader’s interest in politics, like so many other things, is predicated upon a general fear of black people.

  21. OReillysVibrator says at 3:45 pm, May 26th, 2009

    When will the misogynistic, anti-education (which is the main theme of Kanye’s first two albums), anti-gay, gun-loving, materialistic egoists that dominate rap go Republican?

  22. choom gangster says at 3:49 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I knew the recession was real when Ghostface Killah melted down his solid gold arm eagle!

  23. A Better American Than YOU says at 3:50 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I now comprehend what Prodigy meant when he observed: “It’s like fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of a jealous ass punk.” And the negative criticism directed at Michael Steel! Mase said it best: “Young, black, and famous, with money hanging out the anus.”

  24. Monsieur Grumpe says at 3:50 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Well, I still like their pictures.

  25. Mr Blifil says at 3:51 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Won’t be quite so uppity now, will they?

  26. proudgrampa says at 4:10 pm, May 26th, 2009

    19kevin8: Actually, I think it’s more like “plink.”

  27. Country Club Jihadi says at 4:18 pm, May 26th, 2009

    I just threw up in my grill a little.

  28. agitpropster says at 4:24 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Bling? Bling? Y’all bizzles feel a need for bling? I’ll show you some real bling.

    Have you seen those God-botherers speaking in tongues and holdin’ fervent prayer meetin’s at Forward Fire Bases, yo?

    While you elitist cry-babies have been busy whining about our patriotic enhanced interrogation techniques for their evil fundamentalist fuckheads and fawning over Teh Black Arab Muslin, our evil fundamentalist fuckheads have been hard at work over in Eyerack - recruitin’ our Army for their Army - er. His Army. That way our young grunts can do His work and continue protecting the precious essential ‘Merican values upon which our great nation was built…you know, like separation of church and state. The Crusader-In-Chief may have shuffled off to Highland Park, but by Gawd the Christ-tards are keeping his memory alive.

    Progress is a wonderful thing, isn’t it?

  29. Mapmonger says at 4:24 pm, May 26th, 2009

    So as I understand it, emcees ain’t got the Benjamins for bling, so anybody looks like they flossing, they fronting. Aight?

  30. Bruno says at 4:34 pm, May 26th, 2009

    And I thought ‘Ice’ was one of those strange new drugs I didn’t understand. If it is, how do you take it?

  31. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 5:17 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Finally, Murdoch is getting the Journal to look like a real news paper. I can’t wait until he puts naked pictures of the FBN money bunnies on page 3.

  32. totoro says at 5:45 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Funny how these guys either have big roman numerals after their “government names” or have some kind of Merchant-Ivory middle name. Is that what drives one to the heights of gansta success? The fear of being called Trey?

  33. Tommmcatt says at 6:07 pm, May 26th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies:

    Rappers use the word askance?

  34. SayItWithWookies says at 8:14 pm, May 26th, 2009

    Tommmcatt: At least this one does. I’m sure there are more, but I’ll be damned if I’m sifting through rap lyrics.

  35. decora says at 10:57 pm, May 26th, 2009

    but didnt dylan kick phil ochs out of his car for being too politicsy

  36. proudgrampa says at 12:04 am, May 27th, 2009

    agitpropster: THAT shit is freakin’ scary…

  37. Scandinavian Fetus says at 10:21 am, May 27th, 2009

    And I thought 9/11 changed life as we knew it.

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