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TUESDAY FUN VIDEO

The Gay Iceberg Was Liberal, Anyway

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]


3:52 PM on Tue August 25 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. Why was there a Mariachi band in the bkgrnd?

  2. V572625694 says at 3:58 pm, August 25th, 2009

    “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.

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

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

  4. ManchuCandidate says at 4:02 pm, August 25th, 2009

    No, the iceberg was tasered.

  5. Darkness says at 4:03 pm, August 25th, 2009

    Watch the Earth DIE, live!

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

  6. OzoneTom says at 4:04 pm, August 25th, 2009

    Global warming makes the world safe for unsinkable ships!

  7. One Yield Regular says at 4:05 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  8. dementor says at 4:06 pm, August 25th, 2009

    That iceberg was drunk, is all.

  9. HandsomePete says at 4:06 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  10. AbstinenceOnly Ed says at 4:09 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

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

  12. KilgoreTrout_XL says at 4:12 pm, August 25th, 2009

    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.

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

  13. Country Club Jihadi says at 4:17 pm, August 25th, 2009

    That iceberg was God’s piñata.

  14. hobospacejunkie says at 4:18 pm, August 25th, 2009

    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.

  15. Mapmonger says at 4:18 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  16. Dear Diorama says at 4:20 pm, August 25th, 2009

    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!

  17. Uncertainty Vice-Principal says at 4:24 pm, August 25th, 2009

    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.

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

  19. orange: Everything that brown people do in the brown countries comes with a background of mariachi music.

  20. Guppy06 says at 4:32 pm, August 25th, 2009

    HandsomePete: “I shoulda used Preparation H!”

  21. SayItWithWookies says at 4:35 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  22. Uncertainty Vice-Principal says at 4:38 pm, August 25th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies:

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

  23. trickyrick says at 4:48 pm, August 25th, 2009

    see it before its gone folks!

  24. Waco Bandito says at 4:54 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  25. frailamerica says at 5:11 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

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

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

  27. Suds McKenzie says at 5:21 pm, August 25th, 2009

    Obviously an EMP blast. It’s started …

  28. rocktonsammy says at 5:38 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  29. Tommmcatt says at 5:40 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  30. natteringnabomb says at 6:20 pm, August 25th, 2009

    They will put em in an iceberg museum

  31. Jim89048 says at 6:24 pm, August 25th, 2009

    How many olds will fit on it NOW?

  32. New Wave Phlebotomist says at 6:31 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  33. friendlyskies says at 7:20 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  34. user-of-owls says at 7:27 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  35. widget09 says at 7:36 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  36. lemprika says at 7:52 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  37. Downtheroadapiece says at 8:35 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  38. Uncle Glenny says at 8:36 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  39. the problem child says at 10:06 pm, August 25th, 2009

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

  40. lemprika: There’s a difference?

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

  42. 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?

  43. mardam422 says at 8:17 am, August 26th, 2009

    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.

  44. OzoneTom says at 2:08 pm, August 26th, 2009

    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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