Unfortunately for Gabrielle Giffords’ 2010 midterm opponent, Teabagger Jesse Kelly, just as he was about to announce another run against her in the next election, Giffords was shot through the head at point-blank range when she was out serving her constituents. Fiddlesticks! What bad luck! Kelly canceled the announcement. But say Jesse Kelly had this friend, right? And this friend was wondering what would happen to Giffords’ seat in Congress. She’s not, uh, she’s not using it right now, right? Whoops: “Yesterday’s item about Jesse Kelly exploring a special election for the CD8 seat in the wake of Giffords’ shooting created waves in Tucson political circles.”
This is how Kelly canceled his campaign:
“Everything’s been cancelled. Everything’s on hold. We just don’t want to discuss politics at a time like this,” Kelly’s campaign spokesman, John Ellinwood, said.
And this is how he went about seeing, uh, a new, you know — if she can’t — what’s the, you know, uh:
Attorney Lee Miller, who serves as legal counsel for the Arizona Republican Party, told our reporter Kelly’s campaign contacted him earlier this week to find out how the seat would be filled if Giffords couldn’t serve.
Enough of this silly little tiptoeing. If a member of Congress gets shot during his or her term, the seat should go to the next-closest vote-getter from the previous election. This was Sharron Angle’s strategy, after all, and now she’s just sitting around at home in her sweats watching The Price Is Right and crappy 80′s movies all day. Let’s cheer her up. [Ben Smith]
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I'm not sure what stimulated me more about this article, the actual events discussed within it, or Jack's incredible stenography work.
Jesse Kelly is 100% pure asshole; round, red, and stained about the edges
If they had a special election to fill her seat, would he actually have the cajones to run for it, after his previous campaign hijinks?
He'd be gunning for that seat! He'd have it in his sights! He'd take his best shot, and blow the competition away! Anyone foolish enough to run against him would be cut down ruthlessly and left a bullet-riddled corpse, bleeding on the ground from thousands of…uh…votes.
oh yea….
I see another 'shoot the machine' gun fund raising event!
I'm shocked, shocked, that you failed to mention that after his humiliating defeat, he didn't retreat; he reloaded and is ready to exercise his second amendment rights to protect the whitest people in Arizona.
Are you kidding me? Talk around Tucson was, he fully expected to be appointed by the governor when he happily assumed Gabby wouldn't recover sufficiently to continue.
She won by fewer than 4,000 votes and he had a 3-to-1 lead in some of the suburbs. He didn't even concede until days after the election. And when he did, he thanked "the thousands of warriors who fought with me in this campaign" and declared his near-win to be a victory for America. Unlike Gabby he never campaigned on a platform of representing Tucson, but rather representing the tea party nationwide. Much like Miller in Alaska, the voters he was campaigning to represent were the last thing on his mind.
Jesse Kelly is an insufferable jerk, but many Tucsonans love their guns more than they love intelligence or job qualifications. They saw no hypocrisy in Kelly campaigning against Federal stimulus projects while his family business makes a fortune off them. Gabby better get well, or he has a good chance of taking her seat. His babbling about the Constitution, Second Amendment "rights," and hatred of our president is still a popular song around these parts.
ack, gacugh I am choking……..air, I need air!
water
smelling salts
shot of whiskey
god this is a fucked up place
I thought Brewer would just appoint him as Giffords' successor as well. By pushing the issue and contacting Miller, Kelly has shown himself to be even stupider than I thought (which is saying a lot).
My pet theory is that he lost because of his staggering lack of charisma. With a face and voice like his, anything is an uphill struggle. If the repugs can find a guy who doesn't sound and look like he got whacked hard and often in the back of the head as a baby, I think they'll win the next election here, no matter if Giffords recovers.
He looks like a giant baby.
I actually agree with the part about "his near-win" sorry but you lost douche being a victory for America.
Especially his wee facination with guns, or rather photos of himself with guns.
Red asshole, with white splatter, and a blue thrombosed hemorrhoid.
Sounds like the perfect candidate.
I believe the only seat Jesse Kelly is intellectually qualified to fill is a commode..
Looks like he's announcing his run in an Olive Garden. Bet he showed up at 3:30 so he could court the
early birdTea Party vote.I was thinking nursing home cafe.
He was probably passing out coupons to curry favor.
No curry it's too spicy.
a Waffle House would have the just the Right ambiance
I love, love, love Waffle House when I'm in the South, and their ancient, pack-an-hour, gravely-voiced waitresses with their Southern Hospitality who compliment me on my Northern 'accent'. I also like that the kitchen is right there out in the open, so you can see if the overweight cook spits in your eggs. As a minority, the open kitchen is important to me.
Y'all come back now, ya' hear? Don't worry, Flo, I'll always be back. Always.
If we knew what Sarah thought would make this story funny.
Jesse, what you just did has probably made sure that you will never win an election in that district again.
One might even say that, with this move, Kelly has shot himself in the foot.
With an M-16, even.
Or Arizonians (is that even a word?) are as stupid as Oklahomans, who love the Teabag rhetoric which is very much like Timothy McVeigh's philosophy. They're stupid, and, as stupid people are, tone deaf to simple things like, well, like common human decency.
"Arizonan" is the preferred nomenclature, Dude.
The preferred-to-preferred-nomenclature is Teh Stupid. I don't want them moving north and east when they run out of water in 10 years, either. I vote they stay there.
Who's with me?!
Perhaps for Arizonans. (Arizonans? Really?)
But for the rest of us, I believe "Zonies" works pretty well.
Arizona wingnuts.
Not gonna let themselves be shown up by Texass or Alasska in the no-class department.
~
You can't spell crazy without AZ.
State motto
along with "it's a dry heat"
I hear Hell also has a very dry heat.
If only. It's wet heat, and everyone's wearing wool. Ask Roy Cohn.
I feel obligated to mention Oklahoma again, since any discussion of no-class states is lacking if we don't get one in there. By the way (I'm not sure you kids realized it, but that's what BTW means) what happened to that sweet okie who chimed in on, what was it, I believe the Flaming Lips and state rock song fiasco, claiming that there were lots of very good people in OK, and we aren't all as bad as the wonkeratti were saying and that everyone was being very unfair.
I replied that this person should just go ahead and admit that the vast majority of our population have had their heads so far up their asses for so long that their faces are pimply from lack of sunshine and quit defending the indefensible. Evidently, my common sense approach to the nonsensical didn't work so hot because that person seems to have disappeared, unless s/he/it cane back as meta-negative pees guy. Except I doubt you could get that funny that fast.
Whatever–Arizona might as well be in the Bible belt they're so stoopid, except they seem to have as many Catholics as they do evangelitards, and I don't know what that says about them. Other than lots of browns, of course.
Don't get too down Dusty, in beautiful North Idaho today the idiot neo-nazis were protesting the taco wagon across the street from my work, that is until a car sped by and splashed slush on them and they had to go home. Evidently protecting the white homeland can only be done with dry clothes.
Well, the neo nazis are actually in office here in Arizona! From Nazi flags to the state house!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqSSLj5C_C0
threatening judges as usual…..
Sharron Angle just "sitting around at home in her sweats watching The Price Is Right and crappy 80′s movies all day"? I don't think so! She's out on the pistol range sharpening up her 2nd Amendment skills. And with those big, big magazines, she spends a lot less time re-loading.
Since when does a vulture care that he looks like a vulture? Run, Jesse, run!
(asshole)
Shame on the lamestream media for portraying Kelly's legitimate concern for our Constitution as though it were just petty, ghoulish grabbiness. But while we're on the subject, does her office have a window, and is it reasonably close to the cafeteria?
Hope she has one of those Herman Miller Aeron Chairs. Please, let it be True Black.
True Black? Wouldn't that be a Herman Cain Chair?
Measure the drapes! Measure the drapes!
Make sure the air conditioning works. I hear that D.C. has this thing called "humidity" and it will stale your crackers before your eyes.
Again, if it's snark, use "lamestream", if not, then shame on you.
If they had to hold a special election, they would just have to hold another one the next day because Mr. Kelly is obviously brain dead.
Even with brain matter missing from her skull that now looks like puzzle pieces, and given that her mental and physical abilities are still to be determined – the Congresswoman is still preferable to this douche-bag.
She's still smarter, too.
But he's a Republithug. Brain dead is an asset.
Seriously, I don't get why he thinks he would be more capable than she is. I mean, at least she once had a fully functioning brain.
Even the Az. Repubs must think this guy is a douchebag. If the legal counsel for the party lets this slip they must want to see him self-immolate.
douche bag –noun
1. The bag forming part of a douche (A small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas).
2. Slang a contemptible person. See Jesse Kelly.
Not so much an exit wound as an opportunity to explore candidacy viability going forward, right?
Exit Wound strategy?
When God closes a door, he opens an exit wound
You're in the PR biz, right? Well done.
Not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, will do.
A plague o' both thy legislative houses!
Great. English majors at it again.
Well, what else are their degrees good for?
And that iPad she's using–I bet it's government issue. I want it right now!
Will someone please write "TOO SOON?" on his forehead with a Sharpie?
Will someone please write "TOO SOON?" on his forehead with a
SharpieGlock.oh snap.
or whatever the sound a gun makes when the safety is clicked off
Too soon.
Perhaps a surveyor's mark on his forehead would be easier for him to understand. It would remind him of all the "voters" in Arizona.
Is that meant to be sarcasatic, or are you Sarah Palin?
Couldn't be the shrieking weasel. Multi-syllabic words and reasonable (earth-based) grammar. Second sentence logically follows first.
Correct punctuation, Also. (But not here, no.)
He puts the "special" in "special election."
and "special" education.
hey now, lumping him in with those special needs students is a downright insult to them.
Okay, okay, I'm now following you because you're window wouldn't go away.
PLUS–note to the no-profile wonkeratti–your profile was a funny one.
Is that why those windows won't go away? It means we should follow the window-won't -go-away person? Well, okay. I'm generally pretty docile. I can get on board with this.
Hey dude, it's worth a shot, right?
Oh no you didn't.
Trust me Jesse is gunning for Gabby.
Tough to make yourself look like the biggest Republican douche bag in a state that boasts John McCain and Ben Quayle in its congressional delegation. And Jon Kyl. And Jan Brewer in the governor's mansion. In fact, the more I type, the more I'm impressed by his taking the douche bag crown.
Even J.D. Hayworth has be seeing this and thinking "DAYUM!".
You gotta admit, as a state delegation, it's an impressive list of truly first class loonies. They're going for the Gold in that particular special olympics. Look out Kentucky.
"I thought I was the Douchebag King
But I just handed my Ass Hat crown to him!"
I hate Kyl with the heat of a thousand suns.
Which, ironically, is how hot Arizona feels on a normal day.
That's how I feel about our new guv, No-Neck Betty Boop Mattress Mary Fallin. Too bad those of us who live in states as retarded as ours can't have a special wonkette convention where we would hold a contest on who can come up with the most vitriolic epithets for our politicians.
As near as I can tell, every state has its moron quotient, some are just higher than others. California has douche nozzles like Duncan "let the Marines decide policy" Hunter, Darryl Issa and Dana Rohrabacher – not to mention being the spawning point for Ronnie Raygun's political career. Illinois has doofuses like Shimkus and now Kirk (last seen trying to claim he disarmed the shooter with his mind). Even NY has the dickhead Peter King. So we can all play.
Agreed every state has their quotient but look poor Dusty has really got it bad, Boren is about the only bright spot and that is cold comfort to say the least.
Oh, let's! One of those new-fangled virtual things! And, ooh, we can make it invitation only and password protected and all that stuff.
Every now and again, someone can step out to take a break from laughing so hard, and drive the teatards nuts when we shake our heads and tell them they just wouldn't get it, and then go back in.
Why, no, I've never been one of the party-going/having cool kids, why do you ask?
Can you give those of us who haven't been paying close enough attention a quick review of how come "Mattress Mary"? I'm old enough to comprehend Betty Boop.
Yeah I dunno, Brewer's got hoop dreams in terms of douchebaggery. She is the one who wants to cut state funding to 4,500 severe mental patients within a month of Gabby Giffords getting shot by a maniac. The timing alone of this decision along with her refusal to do anything to address Arizona's laughable gun laws to me..makes her the one asshole in the state…plus she loves the prison lobby longtime.
Guys don't be so hard on him. I am sure if he got into her office he'd make a shrine of the jagged piece of skull they removed from Gabby's head so he could remember her sacrifice…daily.
He'd use it as a back scratcher.
he could remember her sacrifice…daily…
…with hand creme….and kleenex….
Hey, she's going to need that shard back, for sunblock purposes!
Fuck you, Jesse Kelly. By your definition of masculinity (not mine, because I'm not an insecure shit) Gabby Giffords is more of a man than you.
Hopefully Giffords recovers enough to run against this slob in the next election cycle. The cheap shots Jessie Kelly will be taking will surely be entertaining and disgusting.
I see a path for Republicans taking the Senate.
Isn't this why if a congressperson (of any party) cannot complete their term in office, someone from the same party should either be specially elected or appointed?
Otherwise we will indeed have "2nd amendment remedies" overturning elections. All that would be needed is a fanatic ready to sacrifice him/herself so that his/her party could get in.
And I am not suggesting that it would be Democrats trying this horsepucky.
Wouldn't we just be the kind of country we smugly read about in days of old where so-called "elections" were just for show, and the people with the guns actually decided who "won"?
Very serious for a Friday night. And a pretty grim scenario.
But please tell me I'm just being silly, right?
My Friday night has been an evening of stardust and magic; how else to describe running up the electric and water bills trying to thaw my frozen water pipes.
Happily, despite the best efforts of Libertarians to turn us into Somalia, we're nowhere near that far gone yet. But it would make a good hook for a paperback…
This Jesse "person" calls to mind some words Randy Newman put in God's mouth:
"I recoil in horror/at the foulness of thee"
"We're rednecks, we're rednecks,
Don't know our ass from a hole in the ground"
"We're rednecks, we're rednecks,
We're keepin' the NRGs down."
Well if you're singing Randy Newman I am sure jared is being serranaded with you have a friend in me, from Jesse Kelley.
If he doesn't have a friend in him yet he will soon.
Dude's really taking creepy past the Cheney/Yoo line and into the Gary Glitter/John Phillips zone.
Run, Bristol, Run!
no please, anything but that. she would probably win and then your life would suck TOO.
Nah, I have had it with the Peyton Place Hillbillies of Melrose Place and Housewives on the Jersey Shore.
I would have added Married with Children but Peggy and Al were about 50 bazillion times classier than ol' Ice Crusted HooHaw and her Tawwwdy.
"…ol' Ice Crusted HooHaw…" says it all.
Every time I think that the world o' politics has sunk to its lowest ebb, some enterprising guy like Jesse Kelly comes out of the woodwork (out from under the rocks?) and digs in a little deeper to prove that there isn't a depth too low for a politician to sink. While this pile of shit upholstered in skin seems like the current winner in the bottom feeder derby, we all know someone, somewhere, somehow will trump even this skeezy little act. More than likely with a (R) after their name when they win the race.
Jesse, please. Even with half-a-brain, Gabbie's got you beat by something like 75%. Sit the fuck down.
truer words were never spoken
"Sit the fuck down."
And shut up.
And I'm sure he would love for her to be removed from Congress so her medical bills won't fall under the Federal health plan anymore. I do believe bullet through brain = preexisting condition.
This guy is just looking to save some taxpayer $$.
Heartwarming, isn't he?
From the looks of him, I'm surprised he didn't sidle on over to Gifford's hospital room to see if he could score a little action.
"Whoa, brah, check your hostile–she's already in bed! I'm just giving her some comfort, is all."
"Nurse, that's five times I've found this jerk holding a mirror to my wife's nose."
Hmm, I'll bet someone could get good old Jesse a ride on the last shuttle flight…
"I must stay with my wife, so with no regrets I will step down from the shuttle flight. However, I have found a replacement for our external experiments on free-breathing in space."
If that were the case, then I would hope Gabby would give him some of that Kill Bill style action.
Time for The Sarah to upload the crosshairs map once again.
She has to wait for her dad to come over and point the gun for her.
There are many many slime molds with more character than Jesse Kelley.
Slime molds are beautiful, complex, and fascinating to look at and study (really). Bryology is but a step away from mycology.
Jesse, not so much.
As I stated before, I thought that was the whole point of the shooting.
No no no. The point of the shooting was to score political points against the Right by trying to make them look bad for waving guns around and putting crosshairs on Congress people. And also to persecute Sarah Palin for drinking the blood of Christian babies.
Vultures in Arizona? Who knew?
Now we need a talented cartoonist to draw the circling Republican vultures…
Douchalicious!
Have you no fucking shame? Honestly.
He's a Republican. So, No.
This is why every U.S. Representative should be armed with a gay Mexican intern.
They aren't?
tool.
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know – morons.
Morons, eh? Is that the same as the Church of Latter Day Shmendricks?
I'm so tired*.
*Of these narcissistic cunts on the right thinking we all owe them a favor.
One might even say that, with this move, Kelly has shot himself in the foot.
With an M-16, even.
She's able to serve, I'm sure. I mean, if she can walk surely she can sit around doing balls all except symbolic shit that means nothing.
I don't supposed that it ever occurred to this colostomy pump that he could learn the state senator replacement procedure by reading the Arizona state constitution, wadya think?
Arizona constitution, Article 7, Section 17.
I just Googled it. Took less than 60 seconds.
On the other hand, I know how to read.
Well, ain't you just a reg'lar Charles Baker "Dill" Harris?
(Insert "bustin' up an old chiffarobe" joke here)
"On the other hand, I know how to read."
Fucking Wonkett elitist.
It does not give any time frame. So theres that!
WTF
I guess Brewer and her minions could make it anything they want.
If Jesse K. paid them enough cold hard cash under the table.
Hey, that is ALWAYS how AZ politics works.
Oh please. Invoking the constitution doesn't (obviously) have anything to do with reading it, much less comprehending it.
Leetist.
Hey, Jesse, why not schedule another teabagger campaign event where paunchy teabaggers shoot an assault rifle? Who can forget your pimp-release?
"Get on Target for Victory in November Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office Shot a fully automatic M15 with Jesse Kelly."
Which goes to show you don't know your weapons… or your spelling… or your punctuation.
How do I shot
webAR-15?Too soon?
OT – WSJ says Giuliani is eying 2012 iffin' Sarah Palin runs.
What this shit? Does he want someone else prone to wearing a dress up on the dais in Iowa? With Bachmann jumping in, will the GOP have a twitter twating hat trick with Alaskunt, Minnecunt, and 9-11cunt?
If it's to be a twitter contest i vote Grampa Cornpants early and often.
With the whole country rooting for Giffords heroic recovery, we have this teabagger/Republican showing exactly what he's made of. Stay classy GOP.
Well, he has tremendous political sense. I suppose he'll do another fund-raiser at the gun range so people can fire an M-15?
Fade away douchenozzle. Soon.
Predicted Talking Point: Well, after all, the minute she was released from the hospital in Tucson, Giffords abandoned her district to "go to rehab" in Texas, flying there on the government dime. Don't we want a representative who doesn't think he's too good for Arizona?
Anyone with a moral code and IQ above room temperature is too good for Arizona.
Jesse Kelly is just what the Tucson Teabaggers have been praying for.
No sweat. Gabby will vaporize him with her iPad.
Just hold a special election for someone to warm Giffords' seat "for the duration of the crisis."
Hold a special election for a Democrat to keep Gabby's seat warm for the duration of the crisis.
Missed it by that much.
Actually, by Republican standards, that was rather sweet.
No kiddin'. I'm surprised he didn't show up in front of his teevee to get sworn in by John Boehner and start serving the AZ-8.
This is just typical liberal bias. If the Democrats are looking into filling the seat, why can't Republicans do the same? Furthermore, to ensure absolute fairness, NASA should be required to consider a good conservative as a replacement for husband's mission this April.
Trig — your country needs you.
There you go again, raping St Sarah of the Snows precious tard with your mouth. Have you no shame sir/madam ?
It's hard to decide which conservative astronaut would be the best choice. Sarah "Ursa Minor" Palin, Michele "Overdrive" Bachmann, Glenn "Space Cadet" Beck, James "Flat Earth" Inhoff, Ann "AC180" Coulter. Oh hell, send 'em all up there. I'm sure they can figure out how to back on their own. If not … my bad.
You forget, Jan 'beheaded bodies Brewer is in charge.
Any fucking thing can happen.
Jesse has a much a bigger hole in his head, since birth, also.
But let's remember, people: liberals are horrible sacks of shit for in any way POLITICIZING this shooting.
9th level of hell for the 8th state district's boy who should have rested on the 7th day but instead hoped Giffords was near her 6th foot under then took the 5th after putting forth campaign literature and getting the 3rd degree for seeking a 2nd amendment remedy to being 1st runner up.
That is ironic, considering tonight's cancellation of "Countdown."
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
…all of this….has been my fault
Huh, is there a name for this genre? numeradiscourse or something?
WTF? Why didn't I know Keith O was leaving? Was this voluntary?
Are you gonna jump in my grave that fast?
OT but just read this
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Breaking News Alert: MSNBC, Olbermann parting ways
January 21, 2011 9:09:16 PM
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MSNBC announced Friday night that it and provocative liberal talk-show host Keith Olbermann "have ended their contract." Olbermann announced at the end of his "Countdown" that it would be his final appearance. No reason for the split was given by either party.
What the what? That was sudden… I guess he's not Comcastic enough.
Since you have a bee avatar and I keep bees (or watch them disappear, which happens more often than not) I'm following you. You're welcome.
My father was a beekeeper when I was a kid. Had a hive in my bedroomwith a glass face. I'll try not to disappoint.
They're leaning forward without him? Or did Keith do something arrogant and they just said no. I wonder what they'll do with his time slot–just bump up everyone and give 9:00 to the Nation? What bothers me the most is how gleefully that dickwad O'Reilly et. al. will gloat. On the bright side, maybe David Schuster has an audition tape ready to go.
This was truly sudden. I googled and couldn't find a damn thing except being cancelled in 2007. In that case, it makes this a very long, tortured process.
According to HuffPo, Lawrence O'Donnel will move to Shouty Keith's slot. Lawrence can do a pretty good slow boil, too.
Good point DBB, not only has the political discourse lurched farther Right, but I can only imagine the celebration over at Breitfart right now. Fucking, fuckin', fuck and fuck.
But I do like that Chris Hayes fellow.
David, "your welcome", Schuster ?
I know KO gets mixed reviews here lizzie, but there can be little good about this. He's the only one with any significant forum that stood up to the Alaskunt, Billo, Innanity, Limbnuts etc. The fucking country, and any reasonable, articulate discourse, just winched a little farther Right.
I am a fan of Keith, mainly for the reasons you stated, I think he is a necessary voice, but if they give it to O'Donnell I will be fine with that, but we will feel the loss. I wonder what he wil do.
I don't know. People tended to think Keith was overbearing, and he could be, but he did have a sense of humor when he wanted to. I can't find anything redeeming about Larry. He's ALWAYS in serious mode, and his whole brow-beating the base with such vitriol and arrogance that he had to apologize to a few of this guests, one time, did it for me during the tax cut debate in the lame-duck.
Gosh, thanks, Comcast.
Wait, I mean, fuck Comcast.
What happened to your avatar? Is this like fb, where you change your profile picture periodically?
Just a change for the New Year!
I love it, but am rather surprised you didn't go for Agent Rose, aka Andree Peel. More Gaulloisie than BBC-ie, as befits your underground identity, you subversive vamp.
The system is definitely Rigged.
Fuck comcast indeed. Was he is contract negotiations? He can get a little self-righteous, but we liberals need that once in a while. We're always trying to be so fair, always seeing the other side, always giving the Rs a second chance and meanwhile they're just waiting until we're down so they can kick us again.
Dems=Good
Republithugs=Bad
Keith got that.
So who takes his place as the supposed EXACT polar opposite of Hanniglenn O'Rushbeck?
Jesus
Forget it Keith
This is Kabletown
Middle of a Democratic Presidency
the biggest liberal voice gets shitcanned
only in cable news
As I said on my fb page just the other day, (in my continuing campaign to persuade any high school friends who mistakenly "friended" and are Republithugs to "unfriend me") Multinational corporations are the problem. They're the only real problem we've got. If not for them, the other problems would be easier to solve. I said that wrong. If not for the power they have to buy our politicians, then the other problems would be easier to solve.
They came for Keith today. Will it be "our" the wonket tomorrow? And to think: I've never worked up the courage to use buttsecks on the wonket. Oops, I did it. Guess they can take us down now.
ed note: I only check fb once a week, in an attempt to keep up with my much-traveled daughter the union organizer. And I have been zealous in never, ever, buying anything nor even linking to anything advertised on fb. The mind games they play trying to sell me shit really piss me off.
Your daughter's a union organizer? That is fantastic! I try to use facebook to put up pictures of the grandkids, and to keep track of what far-flung friends and family are up to, but every time I try, I have to hide whatever the latest 50 games are everyone's playing.
Sure explains the last couple 30 Rock episodes.
I don't trust motherfuckers with two first names.
Where did Bristol move to, again…?
Anderson Cooper is already spinning conspiracy theories. To paraphrase: "Zucker AND KO out in the same week the Comcast/NBC deal is approved? Things that make you go 'Hmmmm'."
Perhaps Jesse is trying to make She Who Will Remain Nameless look better by comparison.
Tara Faleen?
Fill Holes! Not Seats!
Cheer up Jesse, you're the new frontrunner for the 8 PM slot on MSNBC.
I wonder if there will be any liberal outrage at this or if we'll all just go on about our business and thinking how nice it is that Republithugs and Democrats are going to mix and mingle at the SOTU.
A note before I said nitey: Bill Maher was good tonight, except for having that shouty dickwad Steve Moore on it. But next week he has two conservatives, at least, by my count and his show is never funny when he tries for "balance" because, as we all know, they're not as smart as we are and only smart people are actually funny. Conservatards are either too earnest or too angry or too shouty or a combination of the three. But never, ever funny. The closest they come is mean, like Ann Coulter. Maybe that's why Huckabee seems human from time to time, because he can laugh, at least somewhat.
That shouty turd ruined the show for me. Go ahead and have the opposition on for some great, challenging discussion but he did nothing but yap moronic bumperstickers.
His "facts" all sounded as though his idea of research is carefully collecting, collating, distilling, cutting, pasting, and puking back every whitehair teatard chain email that's been circulating since the Kenyan usurper stole the election.
I'd call him the worst person in the world if I weren't so bummed about Olbermann getting fired tonight. That phrase has lost its luster.
I would be very surprised if Keith gets successfully muzzled.
In the meanwhile, Sister Rachel will be keeping the faith. She's like Keith with more finesse and leaner prose.
True enough but I kind of liked Keith's H.V. Kaltenborn (Google it, Youngs!) stentorian style, which he would do with some self-mocking sense of how phony it was. Won't miss the Thurber readings, though.
Yes, Keith and muzzle aren't two words you would expect to see in the same sentence.
I want him to show up at CNN and turn that arrogant bitch upside down, but I suspect he'll do a Conan and go all basic cable on our asses. Either way, he's not gone for long.
Wonderful idea, and he could take Joe Miller, the Alaskan crab queen, and anyone else wearing guns, cowboy boots and hats that would run screaming from an actual horsie with him. Fuck y'all and the horsies you ran from.
Country First!
Help me out here. Is this a case of buzzards circling potential carrion in the desert, or is it vultures?
Jesse just got confused, carry on and carrion. Then again, I bet he is confused a lot of the time.
You can lead a teabagger to water, but you cannot make him think.
Everyone should relax. All he said was "I'd like to fill her seat." Gosh,
Remember the MSNBC suspension?
On October 28, 2010, days before the 2010 U.S. elections, Keith Olbermann donated $2,400 each to three Democratic candidates for Congress.
One of them was Gabrielle Giffords.
In the annals (anals?) of douchebaggery, this one is right up there.
The mirror refuses to reflect him.
Your response showed up in my inbox. I glanced at the subject line, since I'd commented on more than one story. Our back and forth regarding children and grandchildren came under the heading, "AZ Shooting Opens 8 D For Some Dude" or something like that. Only on the wonket.
Go to one of the menu thingies and block anyone who sends you game shit. (ON fb, that is).
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