Don’t really know what Townhall’s angle is here in promoting this video, but the first minute or so is pretty amazing, watching this CNN anchor play out his own personal mini-Greek Tragedy. Well this should all go well and dandy for ol’ Chicago, he’s thinking. Let me just sit back here and relax for the official confirmation. Nope, nothin’ could go wrong for Chicago right now, nothin’ at al… wait… wait.. oh god… no… CHICAGO’S OUT? CHICAGO’S OUT? CHICAGO’S OUT??? No. No. No no no no no NO! NOOOOO! KILL ME RIGHT NOW! [YouTube]
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Well, as long as he wasn’t upset by the fact that unemployment went up to 9.8% in September and that we’ll probably be at national double-digit unemployment by Thanksgiving. Whew! Poor Tony dodged a bullet that time.
Elizabeth….Elizabeth…I’m coming to see you….
[re=426143]rafflesinc[/re]: Ya know, the whole word art thing didn’t work out so well for the last guy. Just sayin’
[re=426151]user-of-owls[/re]: Who? This guy?
http://www.getentertainmental.com/2009/10/02/colbert-joins-the-tony-harris-club/
[re=426146]blinky_twinkie[/re]: Exactly. And just for the record, fuck the Olympics.
RE: Townhall’s angle is here in promoting this video?
Um ….anchor Tony Harris is a darkie. Barack Hussein…darkie. This isn’t complicated stuff.
I live just south of Chicago and this afternoon in the grocery store, Walgreens and Dunkin’ Donuts I heard nobody talking about losing the Olympics. Sorry Mr. Mayor and Mr. President but I think a lot of people here didn’t even know we “wanted” the Olympics to come to Chicago.
[re=426146]blinky_twinkie[/re]: And the 9.8 percent is after the govt futzes with the numbers to make ‘em look a little less scary.
Here are some scarier unemployment numbers. Take a look at U6, the real unemployment rate. 17%…Yowza!
What is wrong with CNN. Carlos Watson is gone but they keep this guy and the one who sounds like a late-night radio DJ. And when any anchor on CNN tries to make small talk it’s as uncomfy as watching Al Gore kiss Tipper.
It’s Ok, we’ve still got Afghanistan.
[re=426153]rafflesinc[/re]: No, more like this guy.
http://wonkette.com/411323/411323#comments
Don’t want anyone to get hurt…you could put your eye out with that!
This was a valuable learning lesson for the undergraduates doing this show, and I’m sure it will make them better broadcasters when and if they go out into the real world.
You’d think that Chicago would have done a better job at greasing palms. Is it possible that Chicago is even less corrupt than Salt Lake City?
Not that I give a damn about the Olympics (where nationalism and consumer marketing collide), but I’m hoping for Rio. Let the South Americans have it for once. And make everybody learn Portuguese.
[re=426168]Oldskool[/re]: And Lou Dobbs still draws breath/wasts oxygen…
[re=426143]rafflesinc[/re]: Hey NaderPaulLincolnPinto is that you?
Did Wonkette get express written permission from the IOC and NBC to use the word “Olympic?”
I don’t like any of the CNN ass clowns – Tony Harris being their prince but I felt the same way. So, today we are all Tony Harris or Oprah.
[re=426166]hobospacejunkie[/re]: They need another catagory “Disillusioned workers: workers who’ve come to the conclusion that every company they’ve ever worked for is run by morons”
[re=426180]Dreamer[/re]: Well, Ms O should just pay out and have us our own damn Olympix™
[re=426173]Guppy06[/re]: Yea, the IOC’s got this thing and it’s fucking golden. They’re not just giving it up for fucking nothing.
this is just like 9/11
[re=426176]Guppy06[/re]: ha ha, at the household name giant corporation I used to work for (not an olympic ™ sponsor) we tried to DONATE some technology to the USOC for Salt Lake City – and we were told that we would have to become a licensee just to GIVE THEM SOMETHING FOR FREE.
[re=426185]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: This is worse than 9/11 – because it’s a Democrat who’s embarrased us so badly that we should just let Al Queda start flying every plane in the world into every building in Chicago and just destroy the place to cover our shame.
[re=426183]MGBYG[/re]: The Oprahlympics!
Maybe Chicago should look a few more years down the road. They’ve already got competition.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/haiti_makes_bid_for_2216_olympics
[re=426183]MGBYG[/re]: I thought the whole purpose of taking Oprah there was that she was going to give a car to every IOC official. WTF went wrong. I don’t mind Rio getting it but Chicago being the first to be illuminated is just not right. Those IOC fuckers don’t deserve Hopey.
NOBAMA FAILS ! CUOUNTRY FIRST!!!
Unrelated, but an update on a recent story:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/hardin_official_fights_outlandish_apf_rumors.php
The official’s statement on the bottom is hillarious, like “even women have guns in Montana and believe you me, they actually know how to pull the trigger without mussing their hair or blowing their heads off”
This is OT, but I just have to say that I love Rep Alan Grayson.
Carlos Watson is gone!?!? [Sadness.]
[re=426173]Guppy06[/re]: I think it’s only proof that Chicago is less corrupt than Mitt Romney. Then again, Salt Lake City is Romney’s Rome – so there you go.
Though, I have to say, even ol’ Mitt knows the Pugs are being dicks for whooping it up over Chicago losing their bid. Makes them all look like they live on fucking Planet Romper-Room – and even that smarmy, flip-flopping, butt-wipe Mitt Romney knows it.
[re=426198]El Pinche[/re]: A homo says what?
[re=426183]MGBYG[/re]: Yeah, just like the “World” Series.
[re=426192]DoctorCulturae[/re]: That sounds like a disease.
[re=426201]NJB[/re]: m-m-m-Mitten and the PugsSSSSSS. Sorry.
So this is the thread to take us into the weekend?
Bwahaha!
Madrid is still in? Fucking Madrid? What the fuck? Tokyo? Nononono. Get me more mikes, more mikes from the floor. No, mike the other guy up. <i.Madrid? Jesus Christ, the humanity!”
Hysterical.
Thanks to Jr. Bush, Dick Cheney and and the 8 years, the world still hates us.
BHO was headed to meet up with Army guy in charge of Afganistan anyway.
Chicago will survive.
The Retardlyicans won’t.
And you know what Mr Unbiased Shocked News Guy? Vancouver has Olympics too. Just winter ones, but still Olympics. In Vancouver, Canada of all places. Canada!
[re=426213]Nigerian Business Executive[/re]: 54 40′ or fight!
[re=426211]rocktonsammy[/re]: Don’t take it so hard. We hated you long before Shrub and friend came to power. I hope that makes you feel a little better.
[re=426185]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: huh? discuss
The GOP bribed the IOC to vote against the USA. But they’ll blame it on Rio.
Tony Harris ushers in another dark weekend
with his trademark stupefying absurdity
America spasms again in ironic orgasm
as the Winded City fogs up the glass
blowing itself on canned camera
auto-bukkake belonged to De-
troit but how Number 2
excretes you
Yikes.
IMHO this was such an obvious one — Seems like a lot of of Americans were deluded into thinking that hatred of the US by people who are not Americans simply vanished because we elected Obama. Twas a happy frenchman or 2 get to fling poo at Apple Pie
This wouldn’t have happened if Blagojevich was still governor! Outrage! Harrumph! Harrumph!
BTW, Tony Harris gives news robots a bad name. Deep, he ain’t.
Tokyo is still in?
Tokyo?!
Who the fuck’s ever heard of some podunk lil collection of mud huts called “Tokyo”?!
I don’t think that’s even a real city.
They just invented this “mystical magical kingdom of Tokyo” to knock the Real USAmerican City of Chi-Town outta the running for the 2016 Olympics.
Thank God. The traffic would have been backed up all the way to fucking Des Moines.
I still can’t believe Barry gave any credibility to this stupid endeavor.
EVERYONE, (even me),knows the IOC is totally corrupt!
What was he thinking?!!
RAHM!!!!!
[re=426213]Nigerian Business Executive[/re]: YOU HAVE TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME. CANADA? OH JESUS FUCK SAVE US ALL.
[re=426240]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I’m not afraid of Canada. I’ve got Minnesota in between. Michelle Bachmann is my meat shield.
This guy always makes me howl. He is SO over the top.
[re=426241]Evil Dr. Puma[/re]: We have poutine to stuff your gullet and Céline Dion to deafen you. Fear us.
[re=426160]shadowMark[/re]:
Good point. Instead of the crush of dollar-spending tourists coming to the Olympics, the residents [had they gave it a ponder] would clearly have chosen to invite the bustling poverty of Calcutta to Chicago. Logic.
In view of the above, what exactly were we thinking by wanting the Olympics for Chi-Town? No matter, we dodged that goddam socialist Nazi bullet.
Pity the money-grubbing people of Rio.
YO HOMIE… here it is Chi Town is out and….I know this is tough, maybe hollow, but the International Community, like everyone but you and your bros, is sick of the United States and its heavy handed diplomacy. Here’s the kicker, the gold toothed grin you been showin on CNN has made an impression on the IOC as has you math. If Jamal and LaQuida get pissed off at their sweet sixteen party list, cause the Crips and Bloods and 33′s and the Latin Lords can’t come up wit the right amount of crack to make it a parta, they shoot everyone in a sixty block radius. Now, who gone pay for that ammo, that’s what I’m sayin. The rest of the world knows…guess who’s payin now….
Entirely Barry’s fault. Had he only brought to Dane-place his long-form birth certificate in the original islamo-muslim-Indonesian and not another, fucking CIA copy.
The copy might have worked with the Electoral College, dickhead John Roberts, the penises at 60 Minutes, whatev and the Marxist communist abortionist UN, but now that’s getting so old.
Worst. Event. Ever.
[re=426185]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: you win the bronze medal for pith and the special olympics gold medal for insight.
INSIGHT!!!1!
It’s EXACTLY like the Hindenburg catching on fire and crashing. Well, except for the blimp, the fire, and the crispy passengers.
[re=426252]Uncle Bubba[/re]:
Por su información, the correct salutations are:
1. Yo, homes.
2. Cholo.
3. Tu mama.
4. Bang.
— Dick Cheney
We’ve got the analysis all wrong. The reason Chicago didn’t get the olympic games is that Chicago does not have enough crime! Think about it. The 2012 European (soccer) Cup Finals were given to Poland & Ukraine, hotbeds of human trafficking & general underworld crime (probly, I’m sure stats back me up.) The 2010 (soccer) World Cup was given to South Africa, murder capital of the world. The 2014 Winter Olympics were given to Sochi, favorite vacation site of the uber-evil Uncle Joe Stalin, after the KGB criminal spy Vlad the Impaler Putin threatened to freeze Europe by withholding supplies of natural gas unless the IOC complied. The 2014 World Cup was given to home of the great unwashed favelas, where the families of budding soccer stars are kidnapped for ransom. And now Rio, home of rampant nudity, favelas, kidnapping, murder &etc have been awarded the 2016 Olympic Games. Chicago was judged too clean, not threatening enough to international visitors, much like Tokyo & Madrid. Chicago has a great murderous & criminal past, but today it’s just too safe for the crime bosses at the IOC.
[re=426143]rafflesinc[/re]:
Playing
with
fire,
you
are.
No, President Obama is not at fault here….beat that drum as you will…George W (fool) Bush owns this debacle, he’s a combat jet pilot ya know (he was flyin wing for Cpt. Epstein in the war of 1973….HaHaHahAHahA, the Cpt had no wing, he sent him home), what was George W Bush doing then, tootin coke and doing Karl Rove, me, I was recovering at Martin Army Hospital, Geworge was recovering at, well, who knows..
[re=426264]hobospacejunkie[/re]:
— We’ve got the analysis all wrong. The reason Chicago didn’t get the olympic games is that Chicago does not have enough crime! —
So soon we do truly forget.
(Ex-Governor Magic Puffy Hair) Blago’s domicile is in a Chicago ward.
As is his former Governitious office.
Drink deeply or never taste the Pierian spring.
[re=426173]Guppy06[/re]: “You’d think that Chicago would have done a better job at greasing palms”
They’re only good at greasing their own. Good, fuck Chicago getting the Olympics. I hope this puts Daley even further south in the polls.
OOOps…..Don’t miss….I wont….
Freedom is not subject to redemption………………..
Kanye West: Yo, Obama. Imma let you speak in a minute, but Brazil has some of the best bitches of all time.”
**drunkenly proceeds to take a dump on the dias right in front of IOC President Jacques Rogge and before the dozens of journalist present.”
Just repeat the catchy double edged sword….
Barack Hussein Obama, mmmm mmmm mmmm
Barack Hussein Obama, mmmm mmmm mmmm
Count Rogge was given a copy of The Devil in the White City, with highlighted sections on construction delays for the Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, obvs, by Lula.
I anticipate crushing import tariffs on lambics, chocolate, and decorative pomme frite holders (and instructional samba dvds)…In Bruges this, bitches!
[re=426269]S.Luggo[/re]: So Chicago didn’t get the Olympics because Blago is in jail? Well, maybe. Richard II is still in office, though, isn’t he?
[re=426197]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: If Sheriff Lawrence “Pete” Big Hair is a man who lives up to his name, he could have a big future in politics.
Rio, huh? They are holding the Summer Olympics in winter. It’s the southern hemisphere you IOC asshats!
this is a catastrophic tragedy of epochal proportions. the end of an era. the turning point in the obama presidency. the refusal of the ioc to award the olympics to the president’s (adopted) home town is the first in what will inevitably prove to be a series of defeats both domestically and abroad that will leave the obama administration crippled, its agenda in tatters. a presidential term that had opened less than a year ago on a note of uplifting hope now lies in ruins, its wreckage littering the political landscape.
(i haven’t finished breakfast and i can spew out gas like that without trying, yet i am not a paid journalist. there ain’t no justice in this world. i’m gonna write my congressman, or grab my trucknutz, or sumpin… still, when i close my eyes, i can see myself standing, microphone in hand, every strand of television hair in place, white house illuminated behind me, as i report the rumors to the world in my most self-important voice… oh, doctor, more medicine please… oh, the pain… the pain…)
We need another Eric Rudolph so getting the Olympics will be nil for 100 years.
[re=426300]schvitzatura[/re]: Best answer ever. Loved that book.
Meanwhile, Tony Harris is the #1 reason why I don’t watch CNN anymore. Just plain insufferable.
Of course, can you imagine what the reaction would have been had Don Lemon been on air?
Where’s Jimmy Carter when we need a boycott?
[re=426310]slappypaddy[/re]: Yeah, seriously. I mean did Iraqistan say no to dubya when he said they would play host to more than a hundred US American troops forever? Hell NO, they didn’t! Therefore, Chicago should just go ahead and build their own little Olympic Village® and charge outrageous admission and parking and let the Bulls and Sox put on a game nobody will ever forget. Baseketball rules!
Someone’s going to sum you up one day. You want to live your professional life in a way that they can write good things.
[re=426238]DemmeFatale[/re]: I, too, blame Rahm. R-A-H-M. Those four little letters are responsible for every hinky thing that goes on in the White House. I even hold him responsible for that dominatrix belt Michelle wears every day.
[re=426297]PoignancySelz[/re]: *sigh* It must suck being a shitball tangled in Limbaugh’s ass hairs.
[re=426335]Jukesgrrl[/re]: I’d love to know Barry’s safe word.
[re=426337]El Pinche[/re]: Geez, pinche, did you take a handful of Dr. Sonia’s Empathy Pills today? Why the soft touch on the pinhead? Try again. Maybe on Tio Blubber?
[re=426297]PoignancySelz[/re]: Oh, yeah, we love it when Rush gets all “minstrel.” He should try out for the stage revival of “The Color Purple.”
[re=426335]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Is that the 2″ wide leather belt Matt Drudge referred to as a ‘bondage belt”?
[re=426339]user-of-owls[/re]: The Rush retards don’t even bother paraphrasing Limpballs.
So, any of the wingnuts that showed up to troll in this thread care to explain to us why DeMint and friends are undermining the United States in Honduras? Is this part of that whole wanting America to fail nonsense, or just bonus treason?
Something tells me this thread is opening up.
Chi-ca-go is- NOT their kind of town
Frank Sinatra song
This is my kind of town, chicago is
My kind of town, chicago is
My kind of people too
No 2016 Olympics for you!!!
I have a theory….. the IOC just can’t get that horrible opening ceremony in Atlanta with circling pick up trucks.
Could Chicago & the US assure them there would not be pick up trucks and or something like LaToya’s tit/wardrobe failure?
The US had burned the bridge- plus they suck oil & keep having wars.
Shine on Rio!
[re=426310]slappypaddy[/re]:
As a certain senator from the FAILED state of South Carolinia is now humming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVGSKVkkyhc
Barry should have sent in his place Mark “International Man of Mystery” Sanford. He has a way with them foreigner wimmenz.
[re=426220]AbstinenceOnly Ed[/re]: I want to change my user name to “ironic orgasm.” Which one fo these damn little buttons do I push?
[re=426143]rafflesinc[/re]: I admire your determination. Couldn’t think of anything for that second R to stand for, but did you let that stop you? Fuck no, leave that shit in there. We’ve got to spell out “Harris” god dammit!
Maybe if we had our shit together and weren’t so self-loathing, then we would have had a chance. The rest of the world sees our country as #37 and filled with millions of fat old angry white people infatuated with Nazis. You’d think shitbags like Jonah Goldturd would love to brand the Olympics with Home Depot and Miley Cypress Hill. Instead Goldturd vomits racebaiting anti-American horseshit on his facebook or twitter or whatever.
Yeah, you go Rio. The USA needs to recover from a 8 year long nervous breakdown.
“DROP THE BALLOONS – DROP THE FUCKING BALLOONS” – Wait, Chicago is OUT?
[re=426350]Go Figure[/re]: My idea for the opening ceremony would be 10000 performers acting out the Lincoln Park Pirates by Steve Goodman…
In Chicago, where I live, there’s a…there’s an outfit that’d tow almost anything off the street. They deal mostly with automobiles and we call them the Lincoln Park Pirates…
The streetlamps are on in Chicago tonight
And lovers a’gazin’ at stars
The stores are all closin’, and Daley is dozin’
And the fat man is counting the cars
And there’s more cars than places to put ‘em, he said
But I’ve got room for them all
So ’round ‘em up boys, ’cause I want some more toys
In the lot by the grocery store
To me, way, hey, tow them away
The Lincoln Park Pirates are we
From Wilmette to Gary, there’s nothin’ so hairy
And we always collect our fee!
So it’s way, hey, tow ‘em away
We plunder the streets of your town
Be it Edsel or Chevy, there’s no car too heavy
And no one can make us shut down
We break into cars when we gotta
With pickaxe and hammer and saw
And they said this garage had no license
But little care I for the law!
All my drivers are friendly and courteous
Their good manners you always will get
‘Cause they all are recent graduates
Of the charm school in Joliet
To me, way, hey, tow them away
The Lincoln Park Pirates are we
From Wilmette to Gary, there’s nothin’ so hairy
And we always collect our fee!
To me, way, hey, tow ‘em away
We plunder the streets of your town
Be it Edsel or Chevy, there’s no car too heavy
And no one can make us shut down
And when all the cars are collected
And all of their fenders are ruined
Then I’ll tow every boat in Belmont Harbor
To the Lincoln Park Lagoon
And when I’ve collected the ransom
And sunk all the ones that won’t yield
I’ll tow all the planes that are blocking the runways
At Midway, O’Hare, and Meigs Field
To me, way, hey, tow them away
The Lincoln Park Pirates are we
From Wilmette to Gary, there’s nothin’ so hairy
We always collect our fee!
To me, way, hey, tow ‘em away
Now citizens, gather around
And I think it’s enough, and let’s call his bluff
Let’s tow the bum out of town!
The worst part of the wingnuts anymore is that with all the copy/paste going on, I can no longer tell if they are (somewhat) people or spambots.
[re=426337]El Pinche[/re]: Dude, Im on your side. I was nauseated when I heard that fathead, blowhard belch the tune. Then I thought about it, and it is a double edged sword/ catchy tune. Hell, it’s at least as funny/sad as skoalrebel.
I always wished somebody with wonkette wit could argue with that assnut in real time.
I’m sure the fact that the USA has not issued a new visitor visas since 09/11/2001 has nothing to do with it. But we didn’t really won’t all you foreigner islamic commie fascist euro trash types coming over here any way. Especially since they kicked NACAR out of the olympics!
[re=426362]PoignancySelz[/re]: sorry man, my satire detector died earlier this evening. But it’s fixed now! We need to speak real skoalrebel in odor to comunnikate wit him furst.
2020:
-Oakland: bring your own security detail.
-Detroit: ignore the U.S. marshals.
-Portland: arthritic hippies will clog the entrances to Starbucks with their damn HoverRounds.
-Salt Lake City: no one admitted w/o approved underwear, “one size fits all” snuggies available at the door.
-Columbia, South Carolina: event moved to Buenos Aires.
-Newark: check the nearest Federal maximum security prison for more details.
-Tampa: mucho albino pythons. Don’t take the family pet or small children or old people who aren’t quick on their crutches.
-Phoenix: be prepared to suck on a cactus for water.
-New Orleans: what fucking New Orleans? President Mitt ignores Katrina 2.
-Houston: oxygen tank required.
-San Antonio: Mexicans.
[re=426375]S.Luggo[/re]:
-Texas cities in general: Home Depot / Lowes Wars (eventually all Home Depot stores will be connected to create a giant Home Depot gated city. Likewise, all Lowes stores will be eventually connected to create Lowesland. Each community will have their own mutant race of home building materialist humanoids. There will be wars and bloodshed.)
[re=426374]El Pinche[/re]: Actually, I’m modestly proud I could sneak undetected satire amongst the wonkettes.
But I do have some good news. I was talking to a friend tonite who personally knows Grayson and he said he is sincere. Congressman Grayson knows he is dancing with the devil (read: he probably will only serve one term) but he is not bought off. Let’s hope he can play his cards right and actually make an impact.
Grayson/Taibbi in ’12
[re=426380]PoignancySelz[/re]: Grayson/Taibbi …..now that’s a dream ticket. Balls n Brains 2012
[re=426380]PoignancySelz[/re]: What one term? If he challenges Barry in the 2012 primary, I’m supporting him. Kick the fucking knuckle-draggers in the balls.
[re=426381]El Pinche[/re]: i hope that campaign logo is a moderately large set of testicles alongside a big huge empathetic rational brain.
[re=426387]obfuscator[/re]: would they have to put the obligatory lapel flag pin somewhere?
[re=426388]PoignancySelz[/re]: only if they love america enough to hate americans. grayson, make this happen!
[re=426388]PoignancySelz[/re]: more to the point: flag pin would be worn on the testes-oblongata at tom harkin’s steak fry. put your hypothalamusnuts on your heart during the star spangled banner. if you don’t, you’ll lose the iowa caucus to some asshole chris dodd precinct captain.
Crime, gangs, drugs, corruption — what’s not to like?
HEY GUYZ! DID YOU HEAR? THE REPUBLICANS LOST THE 2008 ELECTION, AND ARE STILL TOTALLY BITTER ABOUT IT!
*yawn*
Wake me up when they have an idea they didn’t crib from a 6 year old.
[re=426309]spymoose[/re]: Why not? They did it in Sydney.
So let me get this straight: the olymbics are coming to Afghanistan and NOT Chicago? Where’s the justice??
Does anybody really watch the Olympics anymore?
I love America etc etc, but would there be a worse place in the US to hold the Olympics? The already bottle-necked traffic, the creepily hot summers, the nothing-to-do, the you-will-not-make-it-out ghetto that encompasses and dwarfs the clevelandesque downtown.
[re=426400]Servo[/re]: Jesus said something like For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them and I think if He were alive today He’d say something like “Whenever one of those Olympic beach volleyball girls bends down to receive serve I am there watching and sometimes coming together with the volleyball.”
Either DC is a happening town or you just sleep all weekend.
[re=426359]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Good God, you brought the funny! Bravo!
[re=426401]NYNYNY[/re]: I just can’t believe anyone in a potential host American city actually wants the disruption that comes with hosting. They might enjoy hearing they’ve won the bid, but when the high point of the whole 7-year process is the day you’re awarded the games then something’s wrong. OT: I recommend some semi-mindless entertainment in the form of the N. Cage movie called Knowing. It’s a little bit Nostradamusy, with creepy, possibly bad guys with black eyeballs who don’t talk, lots of well-done gore, including an excellent plane crash, plus a dramatic ending. Rent or illegally download today!
I am still upset about Olympic tetherball not being a real sport.
[re=426387]obfuscator[/re]: we can make TRUKNUTTZ(tm) campaign memorabilia!!!1
Maybe Chicago can get the Special Olympics instead.
[re=426413]loquaciousmusic[/re]:
Or the Laff-O-Lympics.
2020 Olympics: Hardin, Montana!
Yeah Limbblah might gloat now, but at least we won’t have to deal with that he/she/it from South Africa.
Everyone who’d rather go to Chicago than Rio for a summer please raise your hands.
Exactly! Thank you!
If it makes some of you feel better, Tokyo probably lost for about the same reason.
[re=426426]Georgia Burning[/re]: Everyone who’s ever attended or plans to attend an Olympic Games raise your hands. Not counting if it’s in your hometown or very close. It’s stupidly expensive, hard to get tickets for the best events and so most of the crowd is annoying rich people, probably. Not to mention the traffic or public transport which may or may not work efficiently. London promises to be fun in that regard in 2012.
I’m interested in thing that Hannity and Beck are competing for the title of second nut to Limbaugh. There’s some article about it on Huff Post. I guess O’Reilly doesn’t count because he dissed the birthers? I can’t pick a side between Hannity and Beck; I’ve hated Hannity for a long time, but Beck has those mad “morning zoo crew” eyes. I looked at the wikipedia pages, Sean is a dropout from Adelphi and NYU (+) is from NY State and has been a bartender (+), his head measures 62″ around. Beck refers to himself as a libertarian and ‘clown’ (+), is from Washington State, got into Yale (WTF) with a recommendation from Sen Lieberman (WTF) and almost immediately dropped out (WTF) and is a Mormon (-) and dry drunk. His head measures 64.5″ around. Both were raised Catholic as if that were any excuse. Mm. Hannity.
[re=426358]hellabelle[/re]: hahahahaha — my favorite youtube video evah!
AND YOU PEOPLE MAKE THE POINT— this is STILL worse than 9/11.
[re=426188]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Yeah, but wasn’t Mittens in charge of that one?
To the wingnuts who claim Chicago is such a violent city:
http://www.joao-pina.com/features/violencerio/
One of the most violent cities in the world, an average of 18 people a day are killed by gunfire in Rio. This year 34 teens were killed in Chicago (that’s thru May; a total of 27 & 31 were from the previous 2 years).
I only hope that Bill Kristol treats the entire Weekly Standard staff to a fun-filled week in Rio to enjoy the fireworks there, as it were.
[re=426433]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: It’s just like HITLER!
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[re=426438]chascates[/re]: Or another way of looking at is,
http://chicago.everyblock.com/crime/by-primary-type/homicide/by-date/2009-01-01,2009-10-05/?page=11
There have been 313 murders in Chicago thru to Sept. 25 .
The important non-compiled statistic is how many of those murders Rio/Chicago are out-of-towners.
http://www.traveltowork.net/2009/04/list-of-10-most-dangerous-countries-for-tourists/
[re=426412]GreatOldOnesParty[/re]: we’ll get mark penn to apply his MAKRO-TRENDZ theory to our direct mail strategy. we can’t lose.
off topic: hugh hewitt won’t buy a gm car because gm is now a “federalized” company. well, quit driving your toyota(!) on the federally-funded ike eisenhower highway system, you funny-faced romney-pimping assmonkey.
Brazil, eh? They could have Olympics the old fashion way … no swimming pools or gyms. Imagine the swim meets across the Amazon River … in full of the beauty of natural surroundings on an ancient waterway. A contest of stamina as swimmers make it from one side to the other without being dragged under and crushed by an anaconda, or losing a limb to a crock, or ingesting some water parasite which eats their liver … that’s chock full o fun.
Jungle Triathlon. Yes! The test of ultimate endurance. Swim a leg of the ancient Amazon River (see above), bike from Rio through the favelas on the rustic and enchanting hillsides [duck when appropriate], run under the welcoming canopy of the Western Hemisphere’s largest rain forest enjoying the marvels of MaCaws, parakeets, poisonous tarantulas, sneaky getcha bitems, the occasional drug lab, coffee plantations, denube fever, and a myriad of other exotic wonders in the ancient and mysterious which await the enduring runners.
Kinda like a Super Mario Bros jungle adventure but with real Olympians. Fuckin’ kewl!
[re=426444]obfuscator[/re]: Haha..I forgot all about that idiot Hugh Hewitt. In my blingee library, I found this:
http://image.blingee.com/images15/content/output/000/000/000/44a/289198861_1592524.gif
I don’t remember the context around it, but I’m pretty sure it had to do with hypocrisy.
[re=426409]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Forget the Opus Dei crap, I caught a trailer for some “2012″ movie last night that scared the living shit out of me. Three solid minutes of California eating itself. Finally special effects have caught up with 9-11 and blown straight past. That’s some fucked-up Revelation of St. John the Divine shit right there. I might be forced to pay for an opening weekend ticket and sit still for two hours behind that shit.
N.B. Flying debris gets sucked into a jet engine, the plane blows up and everyone dies. I guess I’ll never get over that little bit of trivia. Still scary, though.
[re=426401]NYNYNY[/re]: Foreign journalists called SLC “Atlanta with snow.” I think we’ve crapped our pants for the Olympics for a couple decades. Just as well. How about spending some fucking money on New Orleans?
Has anyone noticed that the overall quality of reporting on CNN in recent years has gone so far downhill, to the very real point of embarrassment, that it’s reached laughingstock level? It’s really pathetic. The station used to have good reporting, but not anymore.
[re=426359]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Soon as I heard Chicago, I had an image of Ferris’ midday downtown Chicago parade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNPp6x7j9I8
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