Wonkette
- Most Americans are in favor of healthcare reform, as long as nothing changes. [Washington Post]
- Iranian authorities may be able to crush dissent, but they cannot crush the mighty titan Twitter. [Los Angeles Times]
- President Obama ratcheted up his rhetoric on Iran, which will surely please such important Iranian luminaries as John McCain and Lindsey Graham. [Bloomberg]
- Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi doesn’t have to pay women for sex. Women pay him for sex. [Times Online]
- Dick Cheney sold his memoirs for $2 million to a Simon & Schuster imprint run by the eardrum-lacerating Fraggle Mary Matalin. [Reuters]
- Jon and Kate, everyone! They’re the new Levi and Bristol, chronicling the details of their breakup loudly and in public to the embarrassment of everyone except Larry King. [AP]
It’s so refreshing to finally have a president who will stand up to oppresive Middle-Eastern regimes.
Don Juan, Cassanova, Berlusconi…the Italian list never ceases…does it? oops…
Seems that Argentina has an extradition treaty with South Carolina. Who knew? http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Sanford-in-South-America2009-06-24T05-46-40
“Dick Cheney” and “sex addiction.” Two concepts that go about as well together as “teeth” and “penis.”
And Twitter really, really needs to stop being a leading news item. Also.
S.Luggo: Today is going to be the best day ever, as Sanford is eviscerated. I can’t wait!! The steak is good there, though, I don’t blame him.
Dickhead’s book should be in the pop-up format.
Has anyone ever seen Larry King embarrassed or is he just perpetually embarrassed by just being himself?
I predict “Argentina” as a new meme.
Well, Cheney DID give Matalin a job, so this is only fair play.
I thought Dick’s book would go into the “how to section” of your local bookseller.
I hope his book is as successful as Joe the Plumber’s and he is doomed to do small town speaking enagements propped up by the sales of 5-7 hardcover books each.
S.Luggo: Sanford said he wanted to do “something exotic,” which we all know means Brazilian tranny.
“With new allegations emerging daily, commentators have expressed concern that the scandal is threatening to undermine the Prime Minister’s ability to govern.”
The concern is that airing Mr. Berlusconi’s sex life could interfere with his duties even more than the sex itself has. Tough titties.
Cheney’s working title:
How I Got Mine & Why You Can Now Go Fuck Yourselves
Who knew the Appalachian trail stretched all the way to Argentina? Then again, it makes sense - what a perfect culmination to a naked hike! Joining the comparsas as they tango all night in Buenos Aires, then falling asleep in the loving arms of a goat herd name Paulo!
Buenos Aires: To me this says hot boys and paco. Careful there gov, this is addictive shit you are messing with.
CivicHoliday: Wonder if his wife is worried now.
Surely Dick Cheney will die sometime between receiving the advance and actually dictating lies to his ghostwriter, Carrie Prejean. One final big theft from the most corrupt man in US America history.
re: Sanford: I can’t wait to hear this bozo’s excuse for just up and running the fuck off because he was tired. I love the way he needed to leave his fucking family for 6 days without even telling them where he was, over Father’s Day weekend. Party of family values indeed.
We’re all fucking tired Sanford! Most of us don’t have the luxury to just up and leave our jobs for almost a week to go somewhere ‘exotic’ without telling anyone. (For those people even have jobs).
Silvio Berlusconi IS Chuck Norris.
Crapola: Perhaps, Governor Twilight Zone was taking tango lessons. Q: Did he lead or did he follow?
El Bombastico: I feel like I should prepare my boss for the fact that I am not going to do any work today. I’m sitting right here, reading wonkette, and waiting for funny Sanford stories. All day. If this is not backwards B-face entertaining I am going to be horribly disappointed.
bitchincamaro: Or, in homage to the “when you’re hammer, everything looks like…” meme, “When You’re A Dick, Everything Looks Like An Underaged Asshole.”
Hopey played it wrong. He should have thrown the Iran chip to McCain and Graham. Those two dickweasles could continue bloviating about evil, repressive Iran, thereby voicing American discontent with the regime, but unofficially. While, here at home, nobody takes them seriously, so what’s the diff?
Crapola: Sanford gets his travel advice from a former Southern governor
Sanford woke up one morning last week not knowing the series of strange events that would soon land him in a hotel room in Buenos Aires with a suitcase full of coke, a dead Argentine general, a plucky call girl and a gang of armed mobsters on his tail.
I can’t wait to read the book.
Does Dick Cheney’s book come with shotgun shells and directions on how the reader may shoot himself in the face at selected plot points?
To be fair to Gov. Sanford, Argentina is the only place he feels comfortable indulging in his Nazi war criminal fetish.
DIdn’t Mary Matalin used to be Cheney’s spokesperson? So if the right wing wurlitzer set her up at a vanity publishing house printing books that no person will actually read, isn’t Cheney just giving a big advance to himself?
I am looking forward to that book tour however.
If women pay Silvio Berlusconi for sex, doesn’t that just make him the whore?
Oh, wait, not a seismic role shift there.
Since the main reason the Silvio Berlusconi remains in office to keep himself from being prosecuted for more crimes than can be found in the entire Italian Criminal Code he better get busy again.
Dang. It’s gonna suck being the editor who has to explain to Big Dick that the title “Mein Kampf” has already been taken…
Manos: Hands of Fate: I’ll wait for the movie.
Jon and Kate on Wonkette? Really?
One favor to ask, Simon and Schuster. Don’t put his picture on the cover. There are yet unborn children whose mothers might be traumatized by a simple trip to the bookstore.
Mr Blifil: That the former Halliburton CEO who started a war on made-up pretexts to give Halliburton billions in no-bid contracts did this comes as a surprise? The only surprising thing is that nobody’s been tortured to death in a container truck in the desert for this book deal. Which means either Cheney’s gone soft or the FBI has.
The US has a real problem telling other countries what to do, since our “moral high ground” has gone to hell in a handbasket.
• Ensure your elections are verifiable (Diebold)
• Treat people with respect (Jackbooted thugs bashing heads in the streets of Minnesota, arresting members of the Press)
• Do not use strong arm tactics (Torture)
• Allow people to speak freely (Free speech cages @ National conventions, 8 blocks away from the venue)
• Do not use violence (Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, Bombing in Pakistan)
Although I am glad he did renounce violence, practicing what we preach would be a beautiful thing.