• February 14, 2012
TUESDAY FUN VIDEO

The Gay Iceberg Was Liberal, Anyway

by Jim Newell

3:52 pm August 25, 2009

In today’s long-awaited “Tuesday Fun Video,” Mexican CNN anchor Rick Sanchez plays Mexican music over footage of a massive iceberg collapsing into the ocean, near Greenland, just to put on a show for tourists. While you Science-pansies out there may whine, “Wah wah global warming wah wah wah,” just like that, your Wonkette sees an opportunity to flex its God-given capitalistic rights with a “tourist trap:” Watch the Earth DIE, live! [HuffPo]

{ 44 comments }

orange August 25, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Why was there a Mariachi band in the bkgrnd?

V572625694 August 25, 2009 at 3:58 pm

“Take all of Manhattan, multiply it 10 times, and then some, that’s how much Greenland has lost.” Sanchez would make a good math teacher.

The iceberg probably had socialized medicine.

Death Panel Wagon August 25, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Obama melted that iceberg because he is a nazi, duh. wake up sheeples, etc.

ManchuCandidate August 25, 2009 at 4:02 pm

No, the iceberg was tasered.

Darkness August 25, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Watch the Earth DIE, live!

Then watch it reform again. Welcome . . . to the restaurant at the end of the universe!

OzoneTom August 25, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Global warming makes the world safe for unsinkable ships!

One Yield Regular August 25, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Cover-up! There is no way that iceberg could have collapsed on its own like that. All the evidence points to strategically placed explosives.

dementor August 25, 2009 at 4:06 pm

That iceberg was drunk, is all.

HandsomePete August 25, 2009 at 4:06 pm

I have an important question: why is Rick Sanchez tilting himself at a 45-degree angle while talking to me?

AbstinenceOnly Ed August 25, 2009 at 4:09 pm

What a shame! He was such a mensch…
Oh, ICEberg, I thought you said WEISSberg.

Noonan August 25, 2009 at 4:10 pm

I would prefer los tacos del dia, followed by las margaritas del afternoono (tarde?) por favor.

KilgoreTrout_XL August 25, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Every time a glacier melts Lyndon LaRouche beats his gentials and then sends his poor cultists out to try to sell $5 pamphlets describing how it’s just another way the (seriously mentally challenged) government is conspiring against him.

Yeah, I saw a few LPAC cultists with very depressing 1000-yd stares on my way to get a sandwich at lunch. Very depressing.

[re=394617]orange[/re]: That’s a mexican-style rain dance, except that instead of making it rain it melts shit, like taco cheese, and glaciers.

Country Club Jihadi August 25, 2009 at 4:17 pm

That iceberg was God’s piñata.

hobospacejunkie August 25, 2009 at 4:18 pm

It’s a metaphor for health care reform. Pieces of it are being chipped off one by one until nothing meaningful is left. That’s when Obama will finally feel comfortable enough to sign it. He won’t offend anyone then, especially the least powerful yet loudest interest group — republicans.

Mapmonger August 25, 2009 at 4:18 pm

[re=394631]dementor[/re]: Excuse me? The teevee clearly states that the iceberg was TIPSY. No seriously, the huge floating block of melting ice was “totally just buzzed.”

Dear Diorama August 25, 2009 at 4:20 pm

If Nobama Care goes through, this is what’s going to happen to America! The iceberg was white, wake up and put on your colonial cosplay, people!

Uncertainty Vice-Principal August 25, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Iceberg? I didn’t see an iceberg.

“Polar ice caps”? Don’t be absurd, everyone knows that those are just a myth that liberals created. Never existed.

Oh they’ll show you “evidence” (John McCain-style Allosaurus-claw-like finger quotes used here) and “scientific records” and you know, “photographs” that show the ice caps there but those could be from any planet.

Min August 25, 2009 at 4:30 pm

It’s all a part of polar ice cap and trade.

Tybalt August 25, 2009 at 4:30 pm

[re=394617]orange[/re]: Everything that brown people do in the brown countries comes with a background of mariachi music.

Guppy06 August 25, 2009 at 4:32 pm

[re=394633]HandsomePete[/re]: “I shoulda used Preparation H!”

SayItWithWookies August 25, 2009 at 4:35 pm

[re=394666]Uncertainty Vice-Principal[/re]: The name Greenland clearly gives away their environmental bias. Why should we believe stooges who’ve drunk the Kool-Aid?

Uncertainty Vice-Principal August 25, 2009 at 4:38 pm

[re=394690]SayItWithWookies[/re]:

I think the name Finland makes them sound even more fishy, but I’ll go with yours.

trickyrick August 25, 2009 at 4:48 pm

see it before its gone folks!

Waco Bandito August 25, 2009 at 4:54 pm

Wow. I didn’t know Greenland even had any journalists. They must have a lot of bars to attract enough for live glacial coverage.

frailamerica August 25, 2009 at 5:11 pm

Greenland finally sank!? About damn time. And good riddance.

Dr. Zoidberg August 25, 2009 at 5:16 pm

I’d like to change my avatar name to ‘Liberal Gay Iceberg’, please.

Suds McKenzie August 25, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Obviously an EMP blast. It’s started …

rocktonsammy August 25, 2009 at 5:38 pm

Tipsy iceberg was my porno name back at Grand Valley State.

Tommmcatt August 25, 2009 at 5:40 pm

Isn’t that Kim Jong Il, holding up a microphones at 0:22? NICE SHADES DEAR LEADER BUT WE KNOW IT’S YOU!!!!

natteringnabomb August 25, 2009 at 6:20 pm

They will put em in an iceberg museum

Jim89048 August 25, 2009 at 6:24 pm

How many olds will fit on it NOW?

New Wave Phlebotomist August 25, 2009 at 6:31 pm

[re=394818]Tommmcatt[/re]: Yes, indeed it was. And a Taepodong-II launched from the beach took out an iceberg 50ft off shore.

friendlyskies August 25, 2009 at 7:20 pm

They should have played that Ice, Ice, Baby song in the background, instead.

user-of-owls August 25, 2009 at 7:27 pm

Calm down Whole Food boycotters. Obama is just replacing the iceberg with arugula.

widget09 August 25, 2009 at 7:36 pm

That must have been Lou Dobbs playing the background music, taco’s anyone?

lemprika August 25, 2009 at 7:52 pm

Just to be clear, Rick Sanchez is Cuban not Mexican. He cut his teeth as an anchor in Miami. Vive la Patria!

Downtheroadapiece August 25, 2009 at 8:35 pm

I was disappointed to see no post iceberg collapse wave coming ashore to wipe away the game field.

Uncle Glenny August 25, 2009 at 8:36 pm

So, right after that clip ended, did all those people get hit by a wave and drown?

the problem child August 25, 2009 at 10:06 pm

To be fair, I think that was a glacier calving, and the result is an iceberg. So birth, not death. Wherz itz calvin certifikut?

Guppy06 August 25, 2009 at 10:07 pm

[re=394897]lemprika[/re]: There’s a difference?

on2u August 25, 2009 at 11:20 pm

Wow – it’s like they just knew something was going to happen – why were they all there in the first place?

on2u August 25, 2009 at 11:39 pm

The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.

—Revelation 16:8-9

So it’s not my carbon footprint after all. Why do I have to pay environmental taxes when I’m not the one heating up the earth?

mardam422 August 26, 2009 at 8:17 am

It was like an Icarusberg. Flew too high as a glacier, and now it spends its remaining days bobbing helplessly in Jeebus’ cocktail glass. Also.

OzoneTom August 26, 2009 at 2:08 pm

The gay Muir snowfield in Glacier N.P. also melted earlier than usual this year.

What do you expect when you elect a Muslin president who pals around with terrorists and is approved by Fidel Castro?

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