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DIPSHIT MCGOO

Who Is Fred Thompson And Why Are We Posting This?

The Twitters broke for a while today, or yesterday, who gives a shit, but once things became operational again, fat retarded donkey Fred Thompson was ready with a one-liner. Did you know that Barack Obama now has his SS arresting everyone on the Internet? This is what the Republicans are saying, and we have no reason to doubt it. [Washington Independent]


1:56 PM on Thu August 6 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. V572625694 says at 2:00 pm, August 6th, 2009

    It’s not to late to resurrect “Dipshit McGoo” as a sobriquet for this fine national leader and admitted thespian.

  2. ManchuCandidate says at 2:00 pm, August 6th, 2009

    That’s pretty much the entire day’s work for Fred. Back to napping between his wife’s silicone enhanced rack.

  3. V572625694 says at 2:01 pm, August 6th, 2009

    And in looking at the top of the post I see you’ve already resurrected the Dipshit name. Oops. Don’t ban me!

  4. tehbenton says at 2:01 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Twitter was down? Why the hell didn’t anybody twat about it?

  5. Alex Trebeks Girl says at 2:03 pm, August 6th, 2009

    I can’t wait for him to run for president again and use screen shots like this in his ad wars to prove how anti-Obama he was.

  6. Fred is never as funny as he thinks he is. And he was a lazy-ass senator who courted the perks, but avoided the work.

  7. memzilla says at 2:04 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Perhaps Twitter shut down because the servers were finally overloaded by the sheer volume of inane tweetage from McCain, McCain, McCain, Thompson, Graham, Steele, Beck, and Palin.

    It was a DDoS attack — Distributed Deluge of Stupidity.

  8. They had their chance to launch “1984.” It’s Barack’s turn now.

  9. AnnieGetYourFun says at 2:07 pm, August 6th, 2009

    But… that doesn’t even make sense. And is not the funny.

  10. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:09 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Today is the day Fred earned his reputation as “Dipshit Magoo.”

  11. american mutt says at 2:09 pm, August 6th, 2009

    is #ftrs a hash tag for ” old farters” or just “farters”?

  12. Noodle Salad says at 2:09 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Why do these 20-something Republican ghost-twatters insist on using an ellipsis in every fucking post? Extemporaneous punctuation is egregiously stupid when you’re writing in a limited character medium.

  13. HolyCow says at 2:10 pm, August 6th, 2009

    I thought Frankenberry Thompson was dead.

  14. Bill E Pilgrim says at 2:10 pm, August 6th, 2009

    It’s so cute how these guys talk about “enemies” of any Democratic Administration and invent all these stories about “hit lists” and so on, while when their ideal Wingnut President was in office they went around making lists of enemies that they actually did kidnap, hog tie, and torture or gave them to some other goons to torture for them.

    Russkies don’t take a dump without makin a plan, son. So you just gotta torture everyone and let God sort em out.

  15. Bypartizoa says at 2:10 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Good lord, who let him near a computer?

    “fat retarded donkey”? Wonkette used to call him “Dipshit McGoo” or something like that. I’m prefer the McGoo moniker.

    Or maybe Jowly McPudfucker

  16. trickyrick says at 2:11 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Acting!!!1111!!

  17. magic titty says at 2:12 pm, August 6th, 2009

    I don’t understand one goddamned thing about the Twitter. What the hell does “#tcot #ftrs” even mean?

    Fuck this thing.

  18. rereridiculous says at 2:13 pm, August 6th, 2009

    White House enemies are tortured, reading twitter is torture. This Thompson guy might really be onto something.

  19. El Pinche says at 2:13 pm, August 6th, 2009

    I hope we’re peaked out on the wingnuts-go-crazy-because-their-president-is-black-for-real curve. I gotta feeling we’re just on an upward slope.

  20. AnnieGetYourFun says at 2:13 pm, August 6th, 2009

    GAH, that is terrible structure, even for a twat.

    I must have been drinking a lot and that may have been why I pass out on the sidwalk outside my house #tcoot #farters.

  21. norbizness says at 2:13 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Answers to the post title’s questions: (a) a B-movie actor and (b) who the fuck knows?

  22. finallyhappy says at 2:13 pm, August 6th, 2009

    I thought his note said Tweet Dreck. Hasn’t Twitter died yet?

  23. orange says at 2:14 pm, August 6th, 2009

    From “TweetDeck”?

    Too easy.

  24. nbawriter says at 2:15 pm, August 6th, 2009

    One day Obama should decide to do all the things the right-wing slapdicks claim he’s already doing. Just declare Socialism, paint his face like the joker, shut down Twitter, have an orgy with European leaders, change the official language to French and declare himself Chief Witch Doctor of Kenya.

    It would be the best calling out of dares ever.

  25. Atheist Nun says at 2:15 pm, August 6th, 2009

    I don’t think he understands.

    Obama is happy that you cavemen yap all day and night about stupid, racist, traitorous bullshit. It not only reaffirms that he is doing the right things, all the time, but your whining will help him get reelected in 2012, Dipshit McGoo. So, you know… keep it up, gramps.

  26. cynbot says at 2:15 pm, August 6th, 2009

    On the contrary, I think the Obama administration is secretly providing all the venture capital that’s currently allowing Twitter to operate. Precisely because they hate their enemies so much and wish them harm.

  27. Come here a minute says at 2:16 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Can you believe this guy was so close to being president of the United States?

  28. slappypaddy says at 2:16 pm, August 6th, 2009

    …!

  29. snideinplainsight says at 2:17 pm, August 6th, 2009

    What is he doing on his thumbnail there? Casting a spell on all his tw4t-followers? Getting ready to squeeze a fresh one? Preparing to pick his friend’s nose?

  30. Bill E Pilgrim says at 2:17 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Noodle Salad:

    insist on using an ellipsis

    Yeah I’ve decided that that …. habit is the same as the classic bad comedian doing that trailing off thing after telling a joke, you know the “And she was wearing a turnip twaddler! So anyway,” that serves as a rimshot or filler, presumably so it won’t leave the comic out there hanging in case no one realizes that they’re supposed to laugh. Or something. Just as annoying.

  31. edgydrifter says at 2:17 pm, August 6th, 2009

    As long as Brak keeps his filthy Ugandan despot claws off of my tentacle pr0n, we’re cool.

  32. Hooray For Anything says at 2:22 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Here’s the story about the Republicans claiming that Obama is compiling an “enemies list.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/republicans-claim-white-h_n_252721.html

    If you read the story, the only conclusion one could come up with is WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!?????

    (sorry for the all caps and rant– too much coffee)

  33. imissopus says at 2:23 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Min: So he was different from the other 99 senators how?

  34. TeddyS says at 2:24 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Fred Thompson is not important enough to be on anybody’s list of enemies, except maybe the one his wife keeps in the back corner of the upper dresser drawer beneath her white undies in the bedroom. On that he is Number Three.

  35. hiphophitler says at 2:25 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Now, now everybody, Grampa Fred was actually pretty good in the second Die Hard movie where he plays the airport chiefy guy and tells all the air traffic controllers to hold all flights at the outer marker and he gets to say the famous line, “Stack ‘em, pack ‘em, and rack ‘em.” Whatever that means. His downfall was that he accidentally ended up in the Senate ’cause somebody who could write put his name on the ballot and everybody in Tennessee really liked that movie. Just think how far Bruce Willis could have gone?

  36. bustydilettante says at 2:26 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Bill E Pilgrim: Foolish Fred and the rest of Nixon’s boys think EVERY administration has a White House Enemies List. They are the Princes of Projection.

  37. Joshua Norton says at 2:26 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Poor Fred. He really wanted to be Prez, but when he found out that he had to get off the couch to do it, he pretty much lost interest.

  38. hobospacejunkie says at 2:27 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Man, I hope Fred don’t sue you, because I’m pretty sure he’s not a donkey.

  39. imissopus says at 2:27 pm, August 6th, 2009

    AnnieGetYourFun: It’s a Nixon/Watergate reference and it would have made sense in 1973, so let’s give credit where credit is due. An “enemies list” reference then was the hip, kinda like making a Joker reference in 2009.

    I should not drink vodka tonics for breakfast because I swear that all makes sense in my head.

  40. whiskey tango foxtrot says at 2:27 pm, August 6th, 2009

    nbawriter: You are my God.

  41. Bearbloke says at 2:28 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Come here a minute: nah, even ReThuglicans (a majority of them, at any rate) were not that stoopid to vote for Dipshit McGoo… his candidacy crashed and burned 1 month into Primary Season, no?

  42. Jim89048 says at 2:30 pm, August 6th, 2009

    magic titty: tcot=top conservatives on twitter, which I suppose is necessary for us to know they aren’t bottoms?

  43. One Yield Regular says at 2:30 pm, August 6th, 2009

    He only wishes someone would pay him that much attention.

    You just *know* that if Fred had been testifying before HUAC back in the ’50’s he would have been 100 times more of a gelatinous cretin than Elia Kazan.

  44. gurukalehuru says at 2:31 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Well, of course he’s got an enemies list. Doesn’t everybody?

  45. rev_matt_y says at 2:33 pm, August 6th, 2009

    #tcot? Turncoat?

  46. imissopus: He never even pretended like he was interested in the actual work of being senator.

  47. slappypaddy says at 2:34 pm, August 6th, 2009

    it is frightfully humbling to consider what will pass for a United States Senator. truly no child left behind.

  48. Noodle Salad says at 2:35 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Bill E Pilgrim: OK, to paraphrase Joe Biden then: all you need for a Republican twatter is Obama, Socialism, a verb, and an ellipsis. Am I right? Rim shot……………..

  49. Come here a minute says at 2:37 pm, August 6th, 2009

    imissopus: I guess that maybe somehow makes it tied to Squeaky Fromme’s release from prison today, for trying to shoot Jerry Ford 34 years ago. #ManFam

  50. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 2:38 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Goddammit, Fred. Just when I had gotten all superior yesterday about Kentuckians being stoopider than Tennesseans…

  51. WadISay says at 2:43 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Noodle Salad: Bill E Pilgrim: “…” is Tennesseean for “also”. In Minnesota, we use the ablative, trailing “soooooo,” as in, “I think I’ll bring hot dish to the pot luck, soooooo.”

  52. 4tehlulz says at 2:44 pm, August 6th, 2009

    queeraselvis v 2.0: Well, Kentucky is stall represented by Jim Bunning, so there’s that to hold over them.

  53. Bill E Pilgrim says at 2:45 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Noodle Salad: Or:

    Q: How can you tell that Fred Thompson is lying?

    A: Because his ellipsis moving.

    So anyway….

  54. chascates says at 2:45 pm, August 6th, 2009

    You kids stay off Fred’s Twitter!

  55. The real question is, when will Andrew Sullivan bomb Twitter from space, for being down for like an hour or whatever?

  56. SayItWithWookies says at 2:51 pm, August 6th, 2009

    That’s not funny for an actual human — but for Fred, whose main acting talent was taking his glasses of resolutely, it’s the pinnacle of comedy.
    And don’t expect more — that twitter was about as much effort as he put into his presidential campaign, so he’s already bored and moving on to something else.

  57. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 2:54 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Zadig: Is he back? Or is the guy from Lolcatz still twatting in his stead?

  58. Bill E Pilgrim says at 2:54 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Bearbloke:
    his candidacy crashed and burned 1 month into Primary Season, no?

    No, he kept everyone guessing for months, entered long after everyone else already had, and he got far more attention by not announcing than he ever did once he announced.

    Everyone was all a twitter about whether he’d run, then once he did everyone said Oh. Him. Right.

    Funny to think that Twitter didn’t even really exist then, and here we are only a year later and I still don’t care that it does.

  59. gurukalehuru says at 2:55 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Fred, Fred, Fred. You’ve got a beautiful young wife. Why don’t you just find yourself a cozy little getaway in the woods, somewhere in your beautiful state, and let her fuck you to death. Everybody would be happy. Seriously, it’s the best possible thing you can do with the rest of your life.

    Sincerely, Gurukalehuru

  60. PlanetWingnuta says at 2:55 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Hooray For Anything: download paltalk (paltalk.com) and search for the name obama. and you’ll see all these anti obama rooms…and you’ll see they believe this enemies list. one told me after i asked him if he believed in the fema camps. He said yes he did and he didnt think he would live (cause he would be killed) to make it to the camps. I told him good bye and waved at him. of course they kicked me out the room once i talked about the birth certificate and that its hosted on a bipartiasan site. (bipatriasn means liberal) And they accused me of being someone else who also had a brain because he said the same thing I said.

    I thought it was real interesting when they said they have seen the fema birth camp pictures but when friends and I asked to see them they asked us to look for them and not do our work for us…meanwhile they were still bitching about not seeing the real birth certificate…I though hmmm ironic.

  61. #tcot = The Coot’s On Twitter

    #ftrs = Fred Thompson Really Sucks

  62. boinggg says at 2:58 pm, August 6th, 2009
  63. EdFlinstone says at 3:03 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Yeah right like Fred Thompson can actually text or tweet. Next you’ll being telling me his wife married him because she has a thing for bald headed, wrinkled grandpas.

  64. PlanetWingnuta says at 3:04 pm, August 6th, 2009

    I sent this note to Big John Cornwyn about his views on this matter

    “By requesting that citizens send “fishy” emails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House. You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program. As Congress debates health care reform and other critical policy matters, citizen engagement must not be chilled by fear of government monitoring the exercise of free speech rights.

    I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward emails critical of his policies to the White House. I suspect that you would have been leading the charge in condemning such a program–and I would have been at your side denouncing such heavy-handed government action.” - John Cornyn

    Dear Senator Cornyn

    You know Mr. Cornyn I wanted a pic of you to masturbate all over but after hearing about you saying that the President has a hit list and going with the extreme nutcases in our party well I think I’ll have to find somene else to enjoy myself over.

    Sincerely

    Tom

    I hope I broke his heart.

  65. iantenna says at 3:04 pm, August 6th, 2009

    american mutt: fat tired republican shitbirds

  66. PlanetWingnuta says at 3:09 pm, August 6th, 2009

    boinggg: now that’s a real actor. I don’t even think he’s republican in real life.

  67. Capitol Hillbilly says at 3:15 pm, August 6th, 2009

    FUnny coincidence - when Nixon invented the enemies list way back when, Fred Thompson was working as a Jew-counter on the Judicial committee. Yeah, it’s true!

  68. AnnieGetYourFun says at 3:21 pm, August 6th, 2009

    imissopus: Ah, another “before my time” thing. Between this and Ginsberg, and I’m not even technically YOUNG anymore. You people, and your arthritis meds….

  69. problemwithcaring says at 3:30 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Noodle Salad: A useless ellipsis is fine; it allows people who find periods too threatening to finish their sentences in the vague and inconclusive way they like to live their modern, digital lives.

    And by “people” I mean “me.”

    However, using an ellipsis *after* an exclamation point is fucking deranged.

  70. thefrontpage says at 3:44 pm, August 6th, 2009

    “Fred? Hey, Freddie, it’s your agent, Swifty Goldman here. Hey, that new show, “Law and Order: Winguts” called, and they offered you that part, at 700,000 grand a year, babe! I know it’s TV, and the movies pay you double that, but this is a promising show, and you can always do two films in the off-season! Let me know, babe! Oh,and Fred, STAY OFF THE DAMN TWITTER THING PLEASE. Thanks!”

  71. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 3:47 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Yes, if it wasn’t for Twitter, no one would know that Fred Thompson is opposed to the President.

  72. gurukalehuru: One reason that won’t happen: There’s not enough Cialis in the world to get Fred “ready for that special moment.”

  73. imissopus says at 4:03 pm, August 6th, 2009

    AnnieGetYourFun: Well, I’m guessing based on what I know about Watergate. I was born a week and a half before Nixon resigned, so my memories of it are fuzzy for reasons other than all the vodka tonics.

  74. Human-Animal Hybrid says at 4:13 pm, August 6th, 2009

    Bearbloke: It could be worse - he could be 9iu11iani. Flushed away $50 million of OPM for a single delegate.

  75. lawrenceofthedesert says at 4:15 pm, August 6th, 2009

    What was Fred Thompson’s motivation for this scene?

  76. BlueStateLibtard says at 7:08 pm, August 6th, 2009

    I bet he thinks Twitter is some really difficult thing to master, that only “smart” people know how to use it, and that people can’t wait to read what “words of wisdom” he has to give.

  77. nader paul kucinich gravel says at 3:01 am, August 8th, 2009

    Single payer
    Premium free
    Medicare for all
    Big Pharma on diet
    Zero insurance profit
    No deductible & no co-pay
    Off the table? Just like Impeachment was?!

    Left and rights of passage, black and whites of youth.
    Who can face the knowledge that the truth is not the truth?
    Obsolete absolute.

    Anthrax Intimidation.
    JFK RFK MLK Malcolm.
    Israel-first dual-nationals.
    InfoWars on a PrisonPlanet?
    A very RawStory on PressTV.
    Whistle-Blower leaks multiply.
    Beware the divide and conquer.
    Both parties are corrupt to the core.
    Honesty compassion conscience guts.
    Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil?
    Elite Ruling Class Greed or “public servants”?
    Independents agree on more than we disagree.
    AIPAC 9/11 Bankers Extortion Blackmail Bribery.
    Wall Street Bailout Bill: Bush McCain Obama et al.
    Poodles, Puppets, Sham debates, & Scam elections.
    Has the Government & Propaganda Media lied to you?
    Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
    Chronic lying as career path, intellectual prostitution for paycheck.
    DNC & RNC have both sold out the country in order to enrich themselves.
    Future of a Nation that can not trust the Government & Propaganda Media?

    Realignment of American Politics:
    Anderson Baldwin Carter Choate Clemente Gonzalez Gravel Kaptur Kucinich McKinney Nader Paul Perot Sheehan Ventura

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