You know those “Kaplan special education” booklets or whatever that you buy for kids who aren’t doing too good with the book learnin’? Well, turns out that company also publishes a local newspaper, the Washington Post. The paper had recently fallen on very hard times, because its whole staff was basically made up of feeble old wingnuts who type their “opinions” about whatever brown people’s country needs to be nuked by Dick Cheney. Was it time for a change?
Like Kaplan itself, the WaPo has apparently decided Youth Is Our Future. So they hired famous Teabagger-beat Reporter David Weigel, who goes to all the scary/tragic Tea Party cosplay rallies and gun-nut festivals, and who is now the new Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein. [Washington Post]
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And the Post added Family Circus to the comics section so expect a huge uptick in readership.
Yeah, that’s about right.
Americans are animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.
I see the Post is really reaching out to the young people this time, naming the new blog after an eighteen-year-old Van Halen song. And a Sammy Hagar one, at that.
David Weigel = top of Charlie Sheen’s head + bottom of Griffin Dunne’s head
I like Weigel, but now he’s in the Maw… how long before his first pro-torture op-ed?
Fucker put on a suit now that he’s working for The Man? Is he still a Randian?
[re=549403]JMP[/re]: I woulda gone with “runnin with the devil”–or anything else pre sammy hagar.
Come on, Weigel is cool. Link to him, you bastard.
[re=549403]JMP[/re]: Eff you for now I have that damn song looping in my head.
So is he going undercover? Can we get a picture of him wearing a hat with a teabag hanging off of it, and red-faced and shouting, just for purposes of the pool?
I know that exposure to the Washington Post speeds up the aging process, but Jesus Christ that picture is like staring mortality in the face.
So revealing that he makes a distinction between “the conservative movement” and “the Republican Party.” They are asunder.
[re=549422]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]: yea, one wants to conserve everything in America for teh white peoples, the other wants to conserve all teh monies for the white corporations. so, they agree on ‘white’ anyway.
[re=549403]JMP[/re]: [re=549413]Downtheroadapiece[/re]: Hell–I not only have the song in my head, I have the Crystal Gravy commercial playing…
Props on the Van Halen v. 2 and/or Jesus Jones shout-out!
Weigeling around in excrement…
Right now, I depend on Wonkette for my cultural edumacation. Without Wonkette and its thoughtful commentataters, I would never have gone to My Wikipedia, and discovered the following knowledge. Thanks, Ken!
“Right Now” is a rock song written by the group Van Halen for their album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The song reflects on living for the moment and not being afraid of making a change. Vocalist Sammy Hagar has said that he was writing the lyrics to this song at the studio very late one night, and he heard Eddie Van Halen in an adjacent room working on a piano melody. Hagar said he suddenly realized that “we were writing the same song,” so he walked into the room and began singing his words over Van Halen’s music.
“Right Now” is a rock song written by the group Van Halen for their album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The song reflects on living for the moment and not being afraid of making a change. Vocalist Sammy Hagar has said that he was writing the lyrics to this song at the studio very late one night, and he heard Eddie Van Halen in an adjacent room working on a piano melody. Hagar said he suddenly realized that “we were writing the same song,” so he walked into the room and began singing his words over Van Halen’s music
Also –
The music video (directed by Mark Fenske) reflected on events that were occurring at the time, both within the band and social issues in the world around them.[1] It used big block letters to display sentences such as “right now, people are having unprotected sex” and “right now, someone is working too hard for minimum wage”, to describe the footage in the background. This concept was used previously in videos like Phil Collins’ “Another Day in Paradise”.
SMIRK ALERT!!!
[re=549413]Downtheroadapiece[/re]: Hey, it’s your tomorrow.
WOW! Check this shit out, man! Kinda blows yer mind!
The song is a message about living in the moment. It came at a time of worldwide political change, especially in Eastern Europe and The Soviet Union.
The first letters of the album title spell out a naughty word. This was intentional.
In 1993, this was used in commercials for Crystal Pepsi, a clear cola. The commercials were good, but the product was a huge flop as consumers decided they would rather not see through their soft drink. The group was criticized for “selling out” when the ads came out, but they did it because Pepsi was going to use the song with or without them. Pepsi got the rights to the song, and would have had a sound-alike group record it. Van Halen figured it was best to let them use their version and at least get paid for it.
See a photo and learn more about Crystal Pepsi in Song Images.
The writers of a song called “The Right Now Collection” sued the band, claiming the title was too similar to theirs.
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge was out for 8 months before this was released as a single. It did not chart well, but the album went to #1.
In 1993, Van Halen released their first live album. It was called Live: Right Here, Right Now.
The old phone number of a friend of the band was written on the album cover. It belonged to a family in Tulsa, who got besieged by phone calls and sued the band.
The video won for Best Video, Best Editing, and Best Direction at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
Carolyn Mayer Beug, who also worked with Rod Stewart and Dwight Yoakam, directed the video. She was on board flight 11, which was hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
During the 2008 presidential campaign this was played at a Republican Party rally following Sarah Palin’s introductory speech, after she’d been chosen as John McCain’s running mate. A statement was made regarding its use by an unnamed member of Van Halen’s management, which said: “Permission was not sought or granted nor would it have been given [to use the song].” However Sammy Hagar, who co-wrote and sang the song, was more positive. He said in a statement: “When I wrote the lyrics to ‘Right Now’ I intended them to inspire people to not sit around and wait for something they believed in but to go out and get it – to make a change however they needed to. Whether it was McCain who used the song or if Obama had chosen to use the song, with the current political climate, the lyrics still have the same meaning, and we all need to do something to make a difference, every action counts.”
Oh, man, Ken, are you psychic or what??????? I mean, my head is just kinda exploding RIGHT NOW! I mean, did you dig that shit about the chick who made the video WAS ON BOARD FLIGHT 11 WHICH WAS HIJACKED AND CRASHED INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001???????
I mean, you can’t make this shit up, man!
[re=549487]honkyman[/re]: Right now, someone isn’t working hard enough and there shouldn’t be a minimum wage anyhow.
Right now, the Palin kids are abstaining until they are married.
Right now, Michael Steele is considering a solo career.
Why is there a Nexium ad (those crooks) right next to this…. oh, wait, I get it. WaPo = Heartburn. Brilliant marketing strategy–nothing gets past those MBAs these days.
America will rejoice when teabagging goes back to meaning nothing more than ball gargling.
Lord Christopher Moncton should be right at home among the baggers/gaggers. Perhaps he can train them in the proper form to be taken when being teabagged by one of your betters, which position being the hoped for destination of all bagger/gaggers.
Why is Charlie Sheen’s photo on this post?
[re=549558]DangerousLiberal[/re]: Wrong. Nexium and the Wonkett are synergy personified in a web-friendly format. They know that we are all “blogging” naked with our laptops on Freedom Trays, with all available tray space not taken up by the laptop being assigned to bags of processed foods and bottles of corn syrup by-products. So it’s mostly dietary, but also stress from having to endure commenter after commenter say “FTW” to some jagoff who isn’t you.
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