• May 26, 2012

Someone Named ‘Mitch Daniels’ Gets 16 Stitches In Head

by Wonkette Jr.  

Talk to the hand. (Can I curse in these?)Nobody was too upset when Mitch Daniels announced yesterday that he wasn’t running for president, because who is Mitch Daniels even? Another old random Republican guy who was perhaps going to “throw his hat in the ring” or whatever they say on the Wolf Blitzer show. But there was some kind of entity very upset when Mitch Daniels refused to run for and then lose the campaign for the GOP nomination: a door. This door is Mitch Daniels’ biggest (and only) fan, so when Mitch said “No,” the door said, “BLAM-O.” (And does Mitch Daniels always do the “jackoff” motion with his hand, while giving speeches? It’s different, at least!)

This is what CBS News is reporting:

“Governor Mitch Daniels received 16 stitches to his forehead Friday afternoon after an accident at the National Institute for Fitness and Sport in Indianapolis,” the governor’s office said in a statement to CBS News. “As he concluded a workout at about 1:30 p.m., he was standing near a door. The door suddenly swung open and struck the governor in the forehead.”

Okay okay, CBS was not really reporting that so much as copy-and-pasting Mitch Daniels’ own press release. But we have learned some important things, namely that Mitch Daniels lives in Indiana, where he is apparently the governor there. Who knew? We wonder if he is “buddies” with the other famous Indiana people, such as … David Letterman? And the Indianapolis 500. Did you know he divorced and then remarried his wife/ex-wife? That must’ve been creepy.

When will that gas-wasting car race be canceled to help the environment? Maybe Mitch Daniels will get to work on this problem, once he recovers from being beat up by a door. [CBS News]

{ 216 comments }

Barb May 23, 2011 at 11:30 am

Yeah, now explain the bolts in his neck .

Biel_ze_Bubba May 23, 2011 at 12:37 pm

The GOP is going to keep attaching different heads to midwestern red-state governors, in an effort to assemble a viable candidate.

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm

The heads they've used so far are unsuitable, as they all have tiny fragments of brain matter lodged in them.

supernoun May 23, 2011 at 2:12 pm

Govenorr of Michigan, get ready… YOU'RE NEXT!

Negropolis May 24, 2011 at 2:12 am

Snyder is actually governor of a blue state. Well, at least a purple one.

102415 May 23, 2011 at 5:30 pm

Staples won't hold it on because they don't go deep enough and Duck tape is expensive in the long run?

Grief_Lessons May 23, 2011 at 11:32 am

Wonkette is dead! Long live Wonkette!

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 12:05 pm

And Wonkette Jr.

DustBowlBlues May 23, 2011 at 12:57 pm

Does Wonkette Jr. mean that Ken is paying neighborhood teenager fifty cents an hour to write for wonkette? If so, this kid's got real comedy potential.

Or maybe s/he is paying Ken, who wonkette was an automatic hall pass to being a writer for John Stewart and Stephen Colbert someday.

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 1:11 pm

I think I saw a tiny ad in a back ish of Poets & Writers magazine at my local library:

Uncle Ken's Mojave Writer's Workshop: Tuition $2000. See your work "published!"

DustBowlBlues May 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm

We'll know if it's a teenaged boy if the number the random number he chooses as hyperbole is always 69.

hagajim May 23, 2011 at 11:32 am

What really happened – Mitch wanted to run right up until his wife socked him across the nog with a frying pan and said – you ain't runnin' biyatch! The end.

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm

And then she left him to to go screw some fitness instructor in California.

memzilla May 23, 2011 at 11:32 am

The door is the most electable Republican candidate so far.

nounverb911 May 23, 2011 at 11:36 am

The door sure showed Bush who was boss .

ifthethunderdontgetya May 23, 2011 at 11:58 am

Link feexed!

We need all the laffs we can get.

P.S. Here is a picture, which well illustrates Wonkette Jr.'s point (link is to WorldOCrap).
~

V572..whatever May 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm

That picture is hilarious. Couldn't the get one of those adjustable lecterns for the wee chap?

elviouslyqueer May 23, 2011 at 12:24 pm

Bless Mitch's little heart. And if Pawlenty's presidential run goes completely off the rails, he and Daniels can always team up for a Fantasy Island reboot, with Mitch playing the Herve Villechaize role.

nounverb911 May 23, 2011 at 12:23 pm

Two for one, the bottom picture is Pawlenty's infrastructure handiwork.

Doktor Zoom May 23, 2011 at 11:47 am

I dunno, I kind of like the inanimate carbon rod.

Boredw/Gravitas May 23, 2011 at 11:51 am

Those 16 stiches get my vote.

WunkRocker May 23, 2011 at 1:16 pm

Door 2012!

WhatTheHeck May 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm

It ain't the first time a republican candidate has been struck in the head by a knob.

[redacted]hse May 23, 2011 at 2:40 pm

Door/Barney Frank's Table 2012!!!

zhubajie May 24, 2011 at 6:02 am

Why don't they just have a lottery? It sort of worked for the Athenians.

nounverb911 May 23, 2011 at 11:33 am

Isn't Indiana a suburb of New Delhi?

Barb May 23, 2011 at 11:33 am

Speaking of people who "won't be running for Prez now" The Donald has done a flip flop and announced this morning that he may change his mind. Donnie, don't change your mind, just change your barber and go back to making sure that meatloaf gets his Thorazine on time.

donner_froh May 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

Someone in his entourage needs to slip Trump a note letting him know that the number of people who give a shit about him or his candidacy is zero.

SorosBot May 23, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Um, didn't the brass at NBC tell him they could replace him and would fire his ass if he kept up with the faux run? Not a smart move, big-mouth Donald.

SexySmurf May 23, 2011 at 11:33 am

Next time Mitch, let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

WordSaladNation May 23, 2011 at 11:33 am

I'm surprised FOX News hasn't started reporting that he was "hit in the head by a Negro."

gef05 May 23, 2011 at 11:46 am

"The door, imported from the middle east and painted black, bears the sign "Allah is great" according to an eye witness who spoke on condition of anonymity…"

ShaveTheWhales May 23, 2011 at 6:28 pm

And it has a backwards "B" carved into it.

horsedreamer_1 May 24, 2011 at 2:20 pm

Her name is Ashley Todd. Any relation to the Palins?

Doktor Zoom May 23, 2011 at 11:50 am

They are, however, running a photo of the door with the chyron reading "Gym Door (D-IN)."

user-of-owls May 23, 2011 at 12:58 pm

Probably still trying to interview the cow, dog and train.

chicken_thief May 23, 2011 at 2:08 pm

Surely they will connect the door to Sharia Law. I mean, it's OBVIOUS, sheepz! Why is the lamestream media trying to hide it?!!!

freakishlywrong May 23, 2011 at 11:34 am

There's a joke in there about being hit by the door in some part of the anatomy on the way out. I go with the crotch.
And Wonkette Jr., in answer to your alt-text. Yes, please do.

SorosBot May 23, 2011 at 11:34 am

I'd like Mitch Daniels and Tim Pawlenty to come over to my place tonight, because I often get bad insomnia and they are the cure.

Monsieur_Grumpe May 23, 2011 at 11:34 am

Sounds like Mitch did little too much glug, glug, glug in the afternoon if you know what I mean.

Doktor Zoom May 23, 2011 at 11:50 am

Water aerobics?

Biel_ze_Bubba May 23, 2011 at 12:32 pm

Waterboarding?

jaytingle May 23, 2011 at 1:12 pm

Water "sports"?

flamingpdog May 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm

W'at 're you doing there in that mens' room stall, feller?

BarryOPotter May 23, 2011 at 2:40 pm

Knob gobblin'?

Serolf_Divad May 23, 2011 at 11:35 am

16 stitches from a door? I call bullshit. What really happened was that Newt Gingrich's brain has been transplanted into Mitch Daniels body. What you get then is a craven, machiavellan philanderer's brain in the body of a guy whose wife left him for another man, while he waited patiently for her to return and forgave her.

Basically, the GOP is creating the perfect GOPFRANKENSTEIN!!!! When he changes his mind and throws hit hat back in the ring… well… Run, people, RUUUN FOR YOUR LIIIIVES!!!

Terry May 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

That was my thought, too. How was he standing? He had to be bent over somehow with his head leaning toward the door in order to get a solid enough whack for 16 stiches.

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Maybe one of those doors that opens down from the ceiling, suddenly and without warning? And with a sharp metal plate on the edge, just right for head-slicing?

I dunno how they do things in Indiana, maybe they're different out there?

Terry May 23, 2011 at 12:34 pm

I did overlook one option. Perhaps it was only a small cut, but he brought in a skilled plastic surgeon who used tiny stitches to protect his purdy purdy face.

BarryOPotter May 23, 2011 at 2:46 pm

… protect his purdy purdy face.

Then it's a good thing he wasn't wearing the purdy one but instead had on the one he was wearing in the two pics above…

jqheywood May 23, 2011 at 1:09 pm

Well, a Spanish cyclist just died when his garage door fell on him yesterday as he was leaving home to go on a training ride, so maybe Daniels just got off lucky…..

gef05 May 23, 2011 at 11:49 am

FRANKENSTEIN WAS THE DOCTOR NOT THE MONSTER YES I'VE POSTED ABOUT THIS BEFORE

Terry May 23, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Would not a sentient creation take on the family name of his or her creator? Hmmmm? Sort of like Palin would have taken on the last name Krystol, if she had been sentient.

Serolf_Divad May 23, 2011 at 12:49 pm

Or maybe the doctor was the monster? Perhaps what you call "the monster" is, in fact, the one creature who embodies, sheleters and carries the burden of our own true humanity…we, imperfect, misshapen beasts, sewn together from pustulent flesh by an ambitious, morally blinded, egotistical creator! We, victims of an unfeeling God's thoughtless experiement in onanistic, existential self-aggrandizement!!!!!

…or not. Whatever.

gef05 May 23, 2011 at 1:47 pm

Yeah. Totally.

Steverino247 May 23, 2011 at 1:04 pm

So, what you're saying is that the Republican front-runner is "Abby Something?"

user-of-owls May 23, 2011 at 1:06 pm

The real reason he's not running is because he balked at the "Christie Stomach Transplant."

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 6:04 pm

"16 stitches from a door? I call bullshit. "

*snicker*

She must have been some door.

KeepFnThatChicken May 23, 2011 at 11:35 am

Four Dicks, Two Invisible.

bagofmice May 23, 2011 at 11:44 am

That was LEFT handed!

bigdupa May 23, 2011 at 11:35 am

Larry Craig was on the other side of the stall furiously tapping his toes. Gov. Daniels was going to celebrate NOT running for President with a Friday afternoon windy.

EatsBabyDingos May 23, 2011 at 11:37 am

Gloria Allred is representing the door.

ChurchofRealism May 23, 2011 at 11:53 am

Turns out the door had previously "banged" into five other Senators/Congressmen.

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 12:26 pm

That's a lot of political action for a door. There's plenty of capitol hill interns that don't get that much.

Goonemeritus May 23, 2011 at 11:37 am

As they say in the navy, only assholes and admirals stand in a companionway.

memzilla May 23, 2011 at 12:42 pm

And only dead men and angels sit on the cap rail.

Chet Kincaid May 23, 2011 at 1:58 pm

I heard there was a lot of "standing in a companionway" in the Navy on long voyages. Especially on submarines.

zhubajie May 24, 2011 at 6:04 am

That's why there are voids….

Radiotherapy May 23, 2011 at 11:37 am

Now he has time to grow a little Hitler mustache. No, and I don't mean "down there."

GuyClinch May 23, 2011 at 11:37 am

Man, with a forehead like that, I'm sure the emergency-room doctor said, "We're gonna need a bigger suture."

BaldarTFlagass May 23, 2011 at 11:42 am

Fivehead.

Doktor Zoom May 23, 2011 at 11:52 am

The GOP health reform plan: suture self.

GuyClinch May 23, 2011 at 11:59 am

Many upfists, good doctor.

x111e7thst May 23, 2011 at 11:37 am

Sixteen stitches. That sounds like ol' Mitch got overenthusiastic and threw his head in the ring.

102415 May 23, 2011 at 5:39 pm

That was funny. In poor taste perhaps but funny. +50

Texan_Bulldog May 23, 2011 at 11:38 am

Okay, I've tried for 5 minutes to come up with something funny about this…sorry, but it just isn't happening. Mitch & T-Paw will kill Wonkette before lack of advertisers.

HempDogbane May 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm

Pawlenty makes that same gesture to his wife. She says "Go fish, or play hockey, or pander… whatever."

mavenmaven May 23, 2011 at 11:38 am

He apparently isn't running because he doesn't want in-depth coverage of his wife running off with some other guy for a few years. I think we should do a sordid in-depth report on this issue just for fun.

AJW@[redacted] May 23, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Ya know, this is the one issue where I can identify with the poor schlub. My first great love ran off, got married, had a kid, broke up, came crawling back a few years later, and I took her back, until she did it again. 2nd time I wasn't so forgiving…

Troubledog May 23, 2011 at 11:39 am

Indiana still has churches with confederate flags in the back room.

A lot of them.

KeepFnThatChicken May 23, 2011 at 11:45 am

And that would make perfect sense if Indiana had been part of the Confederacy.

Troubledog May 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm

It's pretty fascinating. Indiana is pretty much the Mississippi of the Midwest. You'll be driving thru a cornfield (this happens everywhere in Indiana. unless it's soybeans.) and there will be a tiny sign set off the road, something like Yahweh's Sanctuary – Members Only or Host of the Redeemer or Church Of The Sacred Lamb or whatever. You see these quite often. They're basically drinking clubs, militia HQ, KKK outposts in the guise of a church. Kind of like one of those KFC / Taco Bell / A&W combination joints. All the redneck you can stand. In the back room they keep the guns and the radios and the emergency rations and the tracts on race war and mud people and the rest of the grand wizard shit. And,the one I went in did have a confederate flag up on the wall. Indiana is a very very racist place.

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 12:37 pm

Sounds like rural IN is a refuge for southerners who are allergic to humidity, kudzu, Cajun food, whatever.

V572..whatever May 23, 2011 at 1:42 pm

Plus fellow citizens w/a high melanin content in their skin.

zhubajie May 24, 2011 at 6:07 am

Settled by briar-hoppers (Kentuckians) who wanted to get away from slavery and from black people in general.

zhubajie May 23, 2011 at 7:11 pm

Up as far as Indi, it's southern, not midwestern. Indianapolis boasts of being the northernmost southern city. They compare themselves to Kentucky, not Illinois.

supernoun May 23, 2011 at 2:18 pm

Truth! I live there!

…honestly, it's terrifying.

102415 May 23, 2011 at 5:43 pm

Leave!

zhubajie May 23, 2011 at 7:13 pm

I lived in Bloomington, IN, for about 5 years. I've left, but it did have a couple advantages. The biggest: Indiana residents may use all Indiana University facilities, exactly like a student. Since IU-B'ton has one of the largest libraries in the US, that's great for an under-employed intellectual like me. But, otherwise, yes, it was pretty red-necked once you left the city limits.

zhubajie May 23, 2011 at 7:10 pm

A couple counties attempted to seceded in 1860 and never got around to re-joining. Everyone else ignores them.

zhubajie May 24, 2011 at 6:11 am

I remember when some wingnut (Linda Thompson? I forget) made a speech on the steps of the statehouse, calling for an armed march on Washington (DC) to get rid of Bill Clinton. Soon after, a series of weird assassination attempts began. Remember the drive-by shooting? The Cessna that tried to crash into the White House?

Sue4466 May 23, 2011 at 11:40 am

Having trouble with doors seems a qualification for president: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/03/struggles_wi...

Though when the door kicks your ass, probably best not to run.

BZ1 May 23, 2011 at 11:40 am

Door: 1, the Mitch: 0

V572..whatever May 23, 2011 at 12:41 pm

Mitch: 0
The bitch: 1

Dudleydidwrong May 23, 2011 at 11:41 am

Door: 1, Daniels: 0 I hope they go for a two-out-of-three match. I'll still bet on the door because of sturdiness and intellectual superiority.

In non-news Tim Pawlenty announced today that he was running. Not sure if he is talking about some political office or the effects of last night's Messican dinner.

4tehlulz_lite May 23, 2011 at 11:42 am

The door was an ACORN agent, obvs.

PsycWench May 23, 2011 at 11:42 am

The door suddenly swung open Were Mittens and T-Paw somehow behind the door? Or is this a metaphor for a type of closet arrangement?

JustPixelz May 23, 2011 at 11:42 am

Hit by a door, eh? A surprisingly common accident though usually the victim is a woman. Often accompanied by short-term memory loss requiring her tank-top-wearing boyfriend to help reconstruct the event: "You were hit by a door, right honey?" I hope Stitch Daniels knows it's not his fault.

ProgressiveInga May 23, 2011 at 11:46 am

My thoughts exactly. You KNOW she beats him. Violence is never the answer, Mrs. Ex-Mrs. Daniels!

PsycWench May 23, 2011 at 12:18 pm

It's not without precedent, though…remember when W almost choked on a "pretzel"?

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 1:41 pm

"remember when W almost choked on a "pretzel"? "

Secret Service: "Chew, Mr. President! You can do it! Chew, Sir!"

Negropolis May 24, 2011 at 2:41 am

He is probably one of the few people in the world for which I'd believe such a story.

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 1:41 pm

"her tank-top-wearing boyfriend"

Tank tops on men are optional unless the man in question has lots of nasty back hair all over his back shoulders; then they are mandatory.

DaSandman May 23, 2011 at 11:42 am

The down low is that they took his brain out when he was still flirting with running and the GOP put it back Friday when Mama said you run and I'm off like a prom dress.

Again.

Hence the crainal fun

El Pinche May 23, 2011 at 11:42 am

His jack-off hand motion does not compare to Clintons thumb-banger ( http://tinyurl.com/3f3due8 ) .

Radiotherapy May 23, 2011 at 12:03 pm

The resemblance is uncanny.

102415 May 23, 2011 at 5:45 pm

You don't think they know each other do you?

PuckStopsHere May 23, 2011 at 11:43 am

This is the guy who was Chimpy's Budget Director, correct? His fucking BUDGET DIRECTOR. You know, the guy who took us from the biggest surplus in American history to the biggest deficit in American history. How is he not qualified to run teh country? Somebody tell me.

freakishlywrong May 23, 2011 at 11:59 am

They just say that all the debt and the financial crisis happened under the "tax and spend" Democrat. And repeat it over and over. And get no pushback from the media. Told ya!

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 1:44 pm

"the guy who took us from the biggest surplus in American history to the biggest deficit in American history. How is he not qualified to run teh country?"

By finishing what he started and taking the few remaining dollars that are not already in the pockets of the richest 1%?

BaldarTFlagass May 23, 2011 at 11:43 am

The Door of (no depth) Perception.

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 12:42 pm

"To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves, or to see that fucking door before it smacks you upside your melon."

Buzz Feedback May 23, 2011 at 11:43 am

The "National Institute for Fitness and Sport in Indianapolis" is a White Castle.

RedneckMuslin May 23, 2011 at 11:53 am

Being a Hoosier, I'd laugh if it wasn't so, so true.

BlueStateLibel May 23, 2011 at 11:44 am

Even inanimate objects are out to get would-be GOP candidates. Are they safe from no one?

prommie May 23, 2011 at 1:08 pm

Its well known that inanimate objects have a liberal bias.

Joey_brill May 23, 2011 at 11:46 am

Loosen the death grip, Mitch!

PS – that thumb can swirl around a bit.

PPS – now we're both sleepy

MissTaken May 23, 2011 at 11:46 am

Mitch Daniels demonstrates how to give a blow job. And he shows that using the left hand keeps the right free for playing with the lucky recipient's TruckNutz. Good technique!

SorosBot May 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm

Ew; thanks for that awful image.

freakishlywrong May 23, 2011 at 11:47 am

The door was Planned Parenthood. The door has won the day.

donner_froh May 23, 2011 at 11:48 am

The repubs are in such sorry shape that the big news is about a guy who can't get out of the way of a swinging door. They should just ritually disembowel themselves and get it over with.

EatsBabyDingos May 23, 2011 at 11:58 am

But only if they are using rusty treble hooks for said disembowling.

Texan_Bulldog May 23, 2011 at 11:49 am

No, I see them. I just meant any general financial issues based on the warning in Jack's farewell post that Ken will have news about the future of Wonkette.

I could do without seeing Snowbilly's face every time I come on the Wonkette, though!

KeepFnThatChicken May 23, 2011 at 11:59 am

No, no, no… I like seeing Emmanuel Goldstein and going through the Two Minutes Hate.

V572..whatever May 23, 2011 at 12:21 pm

Here's the Wonkette future: PAYWALL! How much will you pay to snark?

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Also, (too) w/o chasing away any casual eyeballs, Ken could add a 'donate' button, prominently displayed.

I'd hit that.

V572..whatever May 23, 2011 at 12:37 pm

Me too. The trolls wouldn’t, if that makes any difference. Maybe Ken could win more advertisers by doing a demographic analysis of the commentariat…

I like buttßechs (1) a lot (2) from time to time (3) when heavily sedated
Annual household income: (1) greater than $200K (2) $1-200K (3) You’d laugh
Preferred liquid mood alterer: (1) Sterno (2) tallboys (3) gin (4) 2008 Willamette Valley Pinots (5) all of them, Charlie.

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm

"Annual household income: (1) greater than $200K (2) $1-200K (3) You’d laugh"

Awhile back, I was doing data processing for a clinical study, and one of the participants filled in the income blank with, "Too high to estimate".

I'm thinking of giving that guy a call, you know, just to say hi.

MissTaken May 23, 2011 at 11:49 am

That door is just another example of the gotcha lamestream carpentry that plagues good honest Real Americans.

Negropolis May 24, 2011 at 2:43 am

WIN

It was probably made by some unionized craftsman thug. I hear doors tend to swing to the left.

OneDollarJuana May 23, 2011 at 11:49 am

Just illustrating what he was doing while his wife was "on vacation".

ProgressiveInga May 23, 2011 at 11:51 am

♫Don't ya love her madly
Don't ya need her badly
Don't ya love her ways
Tell me what you say
Don't ya love her madly
Wanna be her daddy
Don't ya love her face
Don't ya love her as she's walkin' out the door
Like she did one thousand times before
Don't ya love her ways
Tell me what you say
Don't ya love her as she's walkin' out the door♫

Couldn't resist.

donner_froh May 23, 2011 at 11:53 am

In some circles that jackoff hand motion, at least as shown, is a cocksucking indication.

freakishlywrong May 23, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Oh, and these assholes are sucking Koch.

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 1:49 pm

About damn TIME we had a post with the word "cocksucking" in it!
I know it's Monday morning, but come on, people!

notreelyhelping May 23, 2011 at 11:54 am

You know, he said he wasn't running because of concerns by his family. Isn't the "running into the door" thing what people say when a family member has kicked their ass? "Uh, I fell down the stairs, dumb me." Maybe this is a case for Politician Protective Services. Stay strong, Mitch. Friends are worried.

LiveToServeYa May 23, 2011 at 11:55 am

Thank you. Thank you, Mitch Daniels, for making us laugh at non-events happening to non-candidates, once again.

el_donaldo May 23, 2011 at 11:55 am

I see the jack-off hand motion, but does he also do the "dick at the side of the mouth" movement with his tongue? Because then I might see why the GOP elite are sooo taken with this guy.

TsunamiAli May 23, 2011 at 11:55 am

I think this is what happened, 4realz.

If that's all you need to be considered a viable candidate we really should rethink our policy about foreign-born kenyans not being allowed to run for prez.

EatsBabyDingos May 23, 2011 at 11:56 am

Obviously the Missus used an aluminum pan; cast iron would have been 30 stiches, minimum. You know, he calls his wife "Jim Morrison," so it's true when he says "one of the Doors hit me."

Maman May 23, 2011 at 11:58 am

What? No discussion about not having the "fire in the belly" to run? What will I do without that phrase being used over and over and over again. And how do you get that fire? Eat spicy food?

SorosBot May 23, 2011 at 12:25 pm

But it's fire in his belly, not fire in his ass.

V572..whatever May 23, 2011 at 12:43 pm

Sarah's got it! She said it!

A couple of Prilosec will put it out effectively. Plus there's a surgical thing they can do.

littlebigdaddy May 23, 2011 at 1:32 pm

I dunno, but drinking tequila the night before does it for me.

PabaBritannica May 23, 2011 at 11:58 am

But…I thought I was only supposed to seriously care about the serious seriousness of the serious proposals of the very serious Mitch Daniels? Seriously!

Gopherit May 23, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Man, when the neo-cons don't want you to run, they play hardball.

Dddintensified May 23, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Door coldcocks dour cuckold. Say that three times quickly!

Gopherit May 23, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Mitch Daniels would have made Ford look like a ballerina.

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 12:56 pm

Yeah. There goes Chevy Chase's last best hope for a comeback.

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 5:24 pm

Mitch Daniels makes *Henry* Ford look like a ballerina.

prommie May 23, 2011 at 12:04 pm

The Wonkette Jr. is a female, this is my prediction.

V572..whatever May 23, 2011 at 12:44 pm

Well they lobbed him/her a softball for the first post: nothing draws hits and responses like a Palin post. Ken must have said, "Be sure to mention stucco and flatscreens, though."

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 12:58 pm

I like to think of it as one Ken's darling little children, precociously literate and snarky beyond their years.

But I posting here would technically be child abuse. So I hope not.

102415 May 23, 2011 at 5:54 pm

That was my first thought too then I realized they just sign Ken Layne when they write his posts. "Hey! Everyone does chores around here. Do the dishes walk the dog write the blog. Your choice."

mereoblivion May 23, 2011 at 12:04 pm

Shucks, and he woulda got the sympathy vote, too. The stitches, and running as a single dad (again).

metamarcisf May 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm

The Door in question is John Densmore.

NadePaulKuciGravMcKi May 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

leave John alone

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 1:04 pm

He should be more careful how he swings those sticks.

(True story: I once got hit in the head by a stray flying drumstick at a Camper Van Beethoven show ca. 1989.)

metamarcisf May 23, 2011 at 1:11 pm

I got kicked in the face by a crowd-surfing skatepunk at a Meat Puppets concert in 1988.

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm

"I once got hit in the head by a stray flying drumstick at a Camper Van Beethoven show ca. 1989"

Lie.
It was General Pinochet's Cadillac.

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 6:16 pm

"Camper Van Beethoven"

Back in the olden days of mix tapes, I put "Eye of Fatima" on a tape, immediately followed by "No Good Trying" by Syd Barrett.

Slightly OT, but maybe worth a smile?

PeaceWithHonor May 23, 2011 at 12:10 pm

Nice audition, Jr.

ThundercatHo May 23, 2011 at 12:15 pm

Indiana is also home to the RV Hall of Fame and Museum. No Shit.

Slim_Pickins May 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Is his wife/ex-wife also his cousin?

flamingpdog May 23, 2011 at 1:50 pm

He'd probably be at 25 percent in the polls right now if she were.

V572..whatever May 23, 2011 at 12:19 pm

But is he courageous, like Paul Ryan? Have to say that having the courage not to run is the functionally identical to being a big pussy.

Biel_ze_Bubba May 23, 2011 at 12:25 pm

"National Institute for Fitness and Sport"???

That's got to be a liberal socialist thing right there. How come Daniels hasn't cut their budget?

genxr May 23, 2011 at 12:32 pm

It's a good deal, only $24.99 per month, and if you sign up during their promotional period, they'll waive the starting fee!

Nopantsmcgee May 23, 2011 at 12:31 pm

This is the first time I've ever read a "try-out" article.

"“jackoff” motion with his hand"

Put them on fulltime, Wonkette Media Overlords. For Patriotism.

Troubledog May 23, 2011 at 12:33 pm

I'd also exempt Bloomington, a wonderful college town and great place to live.

supernoun May 23, 2011 at 2:19 pm

Woo! B-town! LITTLE FIIIIIIVE

zhubajie May 24, 2011 at 6:06 am

A stronghold of Union sentiment, way back when. The neighboring county, Brown, had to be put under martial law for resisting the draft, etc.

SilverTsunami May 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm

You're not supposed to throw your head into the ring, just your hat.

DustBowlBlues May 23, 2011 at 1:15 pm

This is laugh out loud funny.

zappadoo76 May 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm

"I ran into a door." In competition for the most disbelieved words in the English language. Other entries: "It's just a standard form," "I won't cum in your mouth," "He just stepped out of the office," "We'll fix it in the mix," "I'll catch you if you fall."

prommie May 23, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Its only a cold sore.

chicken_thief May 23, 2011 at 2:24 pm

"We treat all our clients like individuals." "The check is in the mail." "You sure you aren't a model?" "They got WMD's!!!!"

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 5:31 pm

"Trust me", while it isn't exactly disbelieved, usually produces the opposite of its intended effect.

user-of-owls May 23, 2011 at 12:52 pm

No mystery as to the hands thing.

He's just paying tribute to Senor Wences' O face.

Lionel[redacted]Esq May 23, 2011 at 12:54 pm

Perhaps, when he decided not to run, they had to remove the chip that forces him to say "Tax Cuts," when asked any question?

user-of-owls May 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

That chip makes it awfully difficult to order in restaurants, play Jeopardy or respond when the judge says, "How do you plead?"

HobbesEvilTwin May 23, 2011 at 12:57 pm

Yay! Mitch Daniels/Gerald Ford 2012!

NadePaulKuciGravMcKi May 23, 2011 at 12:57 pm

Mitch Daniels is warming up to Dr Ron

Humble Pie – I Don't Need No Doctor – 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMmV6xXYFw

Buckminster May 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Better 16 stitches in the head than dropped on the head as a baby, which I suspect some of the Republican candidates have been.

axmxz May 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Door/Bachmann 2012!

lulzmonger May 23, 2011 at 1:02 pm

"A door" = "Several anonymous oldschool neocon motherfuckers emphatically suggesting that he cease making any further remarks about soft-pedalling their social-engineering-oriented Ming Teh Merciless Fan Club policies like policing uteruses, making everyone piss &/or bleed for random drug-testing, eliminating what's left of a crippled Bill Of Rights or reverting back away from that whole crazy evil Commie idea of separating church & state."

DustBowlBlues May 23, 2011 at 1:07 pm

Or maybe this happened: Daniels knew he didn't have a prayer at beating Hopey, no matter how many collective bargaining laws and Planned Parenthood funding he eliminated and didn't want to embarrass himself.

Mitch to wifey, "Look, bitch. I had to explain what menstruation is to four girls, by myself, all because you wanted to trip the light fandango with some trashy Lothario. And I actually took you back. So I'd say you owe. I'm not running, and I'm going to put all the blame on you, got it?"

(Argument ensues).

Mitch: "I don't care what Laura Bush told you. I can't win dragging your lazy slut ass with me. End of story."

Wife: "Fine with me, asshole. Leave the race before it's begun, and I hope the door hits you on the way out!"

Steverino247 May 23, 2011 at 1:08 pm

Sixteen stitches put him right and his wife said
'don't say I didn't warn yer'.
Daniels endorsed a snowbilly grifter
he met in California

flamingpdog May 23, 2011 at 11:25 pm

WHO?

Tundra Grifter May 23, 2011 at 1:10 pm

I think he's turning Japanese.

freakishlywrong May 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Gee Marion, I haven't seen on any other site about ole' Mitch there getting hit by a door clobbered by his wife; Wonkette Jr. has won the internets with that one. Lighten up, also.

mrblifil May 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Sounds like the old "pretzel choke" to me…

unclejeems May 23, 2011 at 1:22 pm

Mitch is Indiana's governor–Indiana, the middle finger of the South.

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 1:29 pm

Invizzabibble blojob.

littlebigdaddy May 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm

I guess he's from, like, Newark, Indiana? Or just likes The Sopranos?

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 5:37 pm

If that were the case, wouldn't he be gesturing with the back of his hand under his chin?

Or are you referring to the old adage, "Snitches get stitches"?

ganmerlad May 23, 2011 at 1:32 pm

Neither picture on the post shows the wound, only that the devil's price for being a politician is premature aging. I assume those photos are only 3 months apart?

samsuncle May 23, 2011 at 1:48 pm

Was it a closet door and was Lindsey Graham comming out of it?

Chet Kincaid May 23, 2011 at 2:09 pm

This is normal for Mitch, as his marriage is apparently a revolving door.

supernoun May 23, 2011 at 2:10 pm

Mitch Daniels is a douchebag, even doors hate him. No news.

ALSO, AND ALSO, Kurt Vonnegut and Michael Jackson were both from Indiana, so MIDWEST PRIDE! We aren't all cocksucking cheese-mongers you know. Some of us do things, "accomplish" them, even.

chicken_thief May 23, 2011 at 2:28 pm

Red Skelton, David Letterman, Larry Bird, and Oscar Robertson. Also. Too.

WriteyWriterton May 23, 2011 at 3:08 pm

To Norm Coleman, it's "Al Frankenstein."

WriteyWriterton May 23, 2011 at 3:18 pm

"Dat's a nice little forehead ya got dere, governor. It'd be a shame if somethin' happened to it, ya know?"

Mondo_Cane May 23, 2011 at 4:49 pm

'Lord Shorty' is how he is known among his peasants …. err….Privileged Elites

GortRay May 23, 2011 at 5:06 pm

That hand gesture is the official GOP sign for "Yes, I will take the corporate manmeat all the way and I will like it." It's in their handbook.

deanbooth May 23, 2011 at 5:12 pm

Do you know who else divorced and then remarried?

Hints:
* Engaged in 1776
* Married in 1789
* Divorced in 1860
* Remarried in 1865
* Both have regretted it ever since

102415 May 23, 2011 at 6:08 pm

Rachel Jackson and somebody else I give up.

lochnessmonster May 23, 2011 at 5:18 pm

Wish I could get paid to workout while I should be working…probably free membership as well.

Negropolis May 24, 2011 at 2:09 am

The door suddenly swung open and struck the governor in the forehead.

At least, this is the story his wife offered to the media standing beside a trembling, cowed Mitch Daniels. You know, because doors just "suddenly" swing open at the drop of a hat. It's alright, Mitch. You can tell us the truth. This is a safe place.

No, but really, a Hoosier running into a door? TOTALLY believable.

zhubajie May 24, 2011 at 6:01 am

Jesus was going to Rapture him, then changed his mind and dropped him!

ttommyunger May 24, 2011 at 9:37 am

This poor shmuck is fighting a subliminal death wish. I'm not sure I blame him. He's got more baggage than Delta's Lost & Found; from his toady days with Dubya to his "cunt as big as a horse-collar wife". He's just looking for that sweet release, but he lacks the guts to suck off a .357.

KeepFnThatChicken May 23, 2011 at 2:55 pm

Did they have a "Poor as Hell" box? I check that one.

Lascauxcaveman May 23, 2011 at 3:02 pm

Teenaged boy or former Wonkette commenter?

Grief_Lessons May 23, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Why not both? The line between Wonkette commenter and Beavis is probably thinner than we'd care to admit.

tessiee May 23, 2011 at 6:13 pm

I'm guessing that you're being somewhat facetious, but yes, one of the study groups did measure health care in households below the poverty level.

KeepFnThatChicken May 24, 2011 at 12:05 am

I am uneducated. Though it isn't scandalous, you would probably be surprised at how few thousand I rank above the FPL. And I am grateful to have medical with my employer, but I still buy discount cheese.

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