2012 Fever is on the rise in Iowa, where hollow-eyed pillhead Michele Bachmann easily took the footlong patriotic corndog of freedom and also won the Iowa “Ames Straw Poll.” This is great news for America’s Comedy Industry, and sad news for any liberals who hoped Barack Obama might have to move a little to the left of the Ghost of Reagan in order to win re-election. Thanks, Michele!
Here’s the official news from those employees of the political media industry relegated to Iowa in August:
Michele Bachmann narrowly won the Iowa straw poll of Republicans on Saturday in the first big test of the 2012 presidential campaign, as Texas Governor Rick Perry formally launched a White House bid that could reshape the race.
Bachmann, a representative from Minnesota, edged out Ron Paul ….
Okay, so Michele Bachmann, then Ron Paul … this explains why Rick Perry thinks he can win, despite not even being able to get GOD to stop smiting Texas, right? [Guardian/Reuters]
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Newt got 300-ish votes, the actual number of REAL twitter followers he has.
Well the power of Crisco is strong in Iowa.
Large white barrels of lard are familiar.
So many Paultards in Iowa? This explains Slipknot.
Seriously, they are like a bad case of acne,just when you think you got it beat, they keep popping up.
He bussed them in. From where? Your guess is as good as mine.
I'm pretty sure blowing corn dogs leads to blowing corn dogs.
Yes but how did she do in the running as Queen of the Corn? Did she beat out Orly Taitz?
You don't even want to know how she did in the running for Queen of the Cornhole.
Are you sure that's not fried butter on a stick? She could just be getting lubed.
BUTTER LIBEL!
TPC: Years ago we were walking the beach in Santa Cruz and there was a long, long trail of discarded corn dogs with one bite out of each one.
Santa Cruz? Probably veggie dogs…
Let the mud wrestling begin!
It appears that the corndog of freedom and pills (Rush?) is spewing from her mouth, rather than being sucked up by that orifice of insanity.
Or maybe that's just the 2012 nausea settling in. Rick Perry is now the new "serious candidate." The one who prayed to God for rain.
Do you wonder if Italy feels sorry for us? "We may have a completely amoral dictator running our country into the ground, but at least he's not one of the Americans."
He's actually far worse, and their economy is far worse off to boot. But, at least they have the millenia of history and lots or pretty buildings to make up for it, right?
He's a shameless horndog, and a shameless capitalist, and a shameless plutocrat, and he's shamelessly corrupt … but he's not delusionally religious.
I'd take him over any of these GOPtards, any day.
I'd let Murdoch himself have the nuclear codes before I'd let the nutters get anywere near.
Do the Italian trains run on time? No, they do not. Case closed.
Italy! I believe there isn't a country on this planet that doesn't feel sorry for us! "Look at those dumb fuckin' Americans, poor things, their leaders drag them around by the snouts and fuck them up the arse, too." You just know they're saying it wherever they know we exist.
I wish she spewed pills from her mouth. Then maybe she'd be good for something
Although the winner often does not get the final Rethug blessing, Pawlenty is so toast with his turd place finish. And guess who's image is on Tim's toast?
And, here I though Santorum's jelly would be on Tim's toast.
Santorum was aiming for (at?) the lips of every young Republican. Timmeh TeaPawz is a bit long in the tooth, no?
And he's out.
Which is good news. T-Paw was high on naive earnestness but low on teh crazee.
That was fast. He didn't even give the Sunday morning blabfests a chance to verbal diarrhea all over the "meaning" of the straw poll or the debate.
NTD: I have little faith in the famous Iowa Straw Poll. I think a better indicator is the Stick Poll.
However, the GNoP candidate is sure to be selected by the Brick Poll.
There should be a single-elimination lightning round of Pole Dancing for Jesus. Yeah, it would be ugly, alright.
T-Paw was high on
naive earnestnessself-deluding bullshit [...].FIFY, NNTT.
Aaargh! My eyes! My EYES!!!
You could warn a fella, you know. That has to be the nastiest-looking photo of that nasty, skanky bitch.
Good news for…Marcus Bachmann?
Yep. The longer Michele is on the campaign trail, the less chance of her walking in on his special gay "rehabilitation" sessions.
Until she calls his cell phone…
I heard he offers 1 on 1 counseling in the Bahamas, if you "carry the luggage".
This will make Marcus all the more popular with the closet Republitard gay boys. He' dancing around the hotel room as I write this, getting down with gay porn.
Speaking of Marcus, anyone hear about him getting in a "scuffle" with Don Lemon? lol The visual just makes me laugh.
That's Marcus' Gay Mafia name, "Don Lemon Party".
I was picturing Markie Marcus smacking Lemon about the chops with a dead fish, myself.
Michele is thinking about how long it's been since she's seen a penis this close — back at Oral U., probably.
She has plenty of experience with phallic objects. This is just the first one in a while that she hasn't had to strap around her waist.
If you look closely, she is closing her eyes, probably from years of practice submitting to the way "Marcus likes it."
That is the only way she hasn't seen a penis this close in years.
(Not that I don't feel his pain, who could come while being watched by those eyes?)
Someone photoshopped her eyes onto a photograph of Steve Buscemi.
Srsly. It's the true definition of "so wrong."
I sort of tend to doubt she's *ever* seen a penis close up. She reminds me of a woman I used to know who referred to her ladyparts as "down there." She thought oral sex was "disgusting" because "you pee with it." Needless to say, that was a, how shall I put it, unenduring relationship. Her idea of sex was to close her eyes and open her legs.
No wonder she looks so awkward doing this. They should have offered her a taco.
Noooo. She can't be seen as bowing to the alien interlopers.
Fine, oysters.
Clams. The bearded kind.
stay away from the geoduck kind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck
Curiously enough, one of her "closest friends" is an "ex-lesbian" named Janet Boynes, who apparently goes to various political meets with the Bachmanns. Michele might know more about the taco than meets the eye.
I don't know about the rest of you, but that Blingee should get a Nobel Peace Prize.
Yeah, a peace prize because it took 12 inches of meat to shut this crazy bitch up.
I think she talks during the whole hot dog in mouth thingy. "Isn't this good? Why, this is delicious. God has talked to me about delicious hot dogs and I think that the tax on delicious hot dogs is just……" SHUT UP!
ZOMFG, yes!
Yes, but she'll blame the stomach ache on Obama.
I'm sure Barry could help her out there, if he wanted to.
Or that home kit 3D movie treatment I saw on the ad that just interrupted SVU. (Even before this role, something about Christine Lahti just ruined a movie for me. She's a good actress and all, but something about her bothers me.)
Congratulations to Wonkette, Jr. for the Pulitzer he/she/it will win for that Blingee. Now I'm going to go huff some Scotchgard to get the sight of that mouth gaping for a footlong pilldog out of my head.
I say just plain congratulations to Wonkette, Jr. for posting on a Saturday, really.
Hell, Ken's lucky to empty his whiskey pitcher/bedpan on a Saturday. Hes got a strict rationing going on
She's done well with straw poles for years.
I think she likes her poles a little harder.
Probably should of used this fabulous one of Marcus too.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2...
Hah hah, the facial expression seems to say "Bite, Bite! . . Must . . .not . . . suck . . ."
i can't unsee that.
Ouch. Watch the teeth Marcus. But I can definitely see how that technique would turn people off to gay blow jobs though.
Gnaw away the gay!
Argh! (Reaches for brain bleach.)
Oh, Marcus. Your "ew" face is fooling no one.
They need to fire their PR person NOW.
She's practicing being submissive to her husband.
What? by being the "top"?
"Submitting from above" is the new "leading from behind".
It's called "topping from the bottom." No, wait, it's "bottoming from the top." Ah, fuck it, those two are shithouse-rat crazy and deserve each other. I wouldn't fuck either of them with a million other people's dicks.
Any amount of time spent dreaming up an appropriate term for Bachmann-on-Bachmann sex is ALTOGETHER TOO MUCH TIME
Talk me down Wonkettes, I have a feeling that it may soon be President Perry, all praise to Jesus.
President Perry of the United States or President Perry of Texas?
I thought it would be President Perry of Texico.
I just want Barry to get all up in their grille, can that happen soon, please?
Limey, I feel your pain. I felt it in 2008 when he ab-so-lute-ly WOULD NOT fucking attack the war hero and his sparkly pony.
And yet, he beat him flatter than a pancake.
Chill out, Lizzie. The election isn't for over fifteen months. This straw poll gets an inordinate amount of attention because August is a slow news month and the press is desperate for something to talk about. It's as much if not more about Iowa drawing attention to its state fair than it is about drawing attention to the candidates. Barry doesn't need to do anything right now except stay out of their way.
Allah knows he's got plenty of experience in staying out of the way of the House…
Especially since they're mostly taking wild shots at their own feet, right now.
Do his advisors simply refuse to listen to anyone in the Democratic party? Bill Maher speaks for us all these days. NotsoHopey is great in a campaign, but this time the people who went crazy for him are neither Bachman crazy nor regular madly in love with him crazy.
Hey, I just saw a headline on google news that says he "might" get more combative about the economy.
It's a definite maybe!
According to many Luntz/Rasmussen poles, any GeneRic Perry would beat Barry. I hope they aren't wilding and looting (or whatever those liberal by-product hooligans do) in Canada. British Columbia will look a lot better than any Perry/Bolton '12 bumper sticker in the not too distant future.
Sorry Limey, I'm not talking you down very well. A dimwit christofascist pretty boy from LBJ-land might be the answer, AGAIN, to a blowjob.
I would leave my husband and go back to the UK.
Do you have any idea how difficult it is for someone with a 45 year-old felony possession beef to even visit a Crown country, let alone emigrate there? I hate everybody.
i haz a sad for you.
How hard can it be to scale the northern border?
It would be alright, because I would go with you. Or perhaps we could go to Bali instead.
Let's make it Bali in the Winter.
The same Canada that can't scrub the Harper out of their government no matter how many times they try?
He and Perry can exchange hair care tips.
And, why in the world would you use any of those? Most reputable national polls for the last month or two have shown one thing 1. Romney tying the president 2. Obama beating every other polled candidate to a pulp, many times in double digits.
^^^^ This.
I put as much stock in the accuracy of a Lulz/Rasmussen poll as I do in the airworthiness of a Ron Paul Blimp.
What the polls have shown is a generic moderate Republican running even (typically in bad push polls, but still about all that's out there). Mitt was trying his best to be that generic candidate, but he can't get traction with the base that way – and he just revealed himself as an utter douche when he tries to talk to anyone.
Perry is nowhere near a moderate candidate, he doesn't poll outside of the GOP base, and he has a personality at least as offputting to normal people as Wasilla Grifter. I'm not scared of him unless he manages to make Mitt look mainstream, and even then I'm not quaking in my boots about Willard's chances against the President.
You wanna beat a sitting President, he better have no personality/charisma (GHWB) or get swamped by an amazing persona (Carter v Reagan). The GOP has neither, and the economy is doing its damndest to recover despite the TP. I'll worry if the President starts running under 40 percent in Rasmussen, but not until.
I bet if you polled a Mitt&Rick ticket vs. Hopey, the results would be terrifying.
The crazies don't want to take 2d banana this time – they still think McCain lost because he wasn't conservative enough. I really think if Bachmann or Perry doesn't get the nod and Mittens tries to stay sane you'll see a Perot esque effort by some nut – Paul, Perry, Bachmann, doesn't matter which. Look how pissed the TP types are over the debt ceiling deal – can you imagine what they'll do if the guy at the top of the ticket doesn't want to boil Dems in oil? If Mitt goes hard right (and he's trying, but he's a pretty well programmed robot) he will erode his own chances with moderates – who, as always, will really decide thi, and who generally like people who act like adults.
If Perry is serious about all that "chosen by Jesus" garbage, I think he will have a hard time selling being under the thumb of a Mormon to his snake-handling backers.
Is michael Bolton running? Fuck!
I already called this last week, Lizzie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz_SChZA9bM
"The coming of the Lord?" More like the coming of Lord Vader.
Looking at that photo, it's my opinion that not even Vader could get off.
I would give you ten thousand
cutsdownfists for that, but we don't have downfists no moar.Now I haz a sad.
Sorry, but I agree with you… He's the kind of guy you can sit down and have beer with – not that elitist Obama. Probably drinks wine! French wine!!!
Yeah, but he's also the guy who starts playing creepy grabass once he's had a few. You seen the clip of him playing with people's hair?
Sorry Lizzie, you won't get any solace from this corner. I predicted on this very same Website about three weeks ago that our crazy electorate would turn the Senate and the House back over to the Democrats, but put a Republican in the White House. I think Gov. Clairol is just what they have in mind. All those guns he waves around, all the schools he defunds, all the people he fries in the electric chair … that counts as executive experience.
wow you think so? that's some radical prognostication.
i don't like, dislike or disagree with. just wild.
how do dems get the house back?
By galvanizing the independents and other rational voters. The dems are going to have to pound the drums and scare the crap out of all those complacent idiots who sit on their asses during elections. If they see it's their savings, homes, jobs, and futures that are going up in flames, maybe they'll be motivated. Maybe.
You can do that AND still fight to keep the White House, as I have been saying consistently here for the last year. I have a hard time taking seriously a strategy of abandoning the White House for a Quixotic quest to take Congress.
Here's my theory: a lot of people who call themselves independents don't vote FOR anyone, they just vote AGAINST people they don't like (the same behavior is rampant among the poorly educated and some old people, too). Hence, Obama's victory. Many people who don't even have political opinions on a daily basis came to conclusion that W. was a detriment after years of watching his damaging policies. Things haven't gotten any better for them, though, so they will turn on Obama in favor of the next person they know nothing about. I think same is true for Congress. More Republicans are in the House elected by people who really don't know anything about them than there are Dems (many of whom are from urban areas and have held their offices for years). So I think more Republicans will be booted out of Congress than Dems, esp in suburban districts where there are hordes of those “independent” voters who are conservative but less radically so than in rural areas. They know what they DON'T like, much more readily than they could explain what they DO like (ex. healthcare). And they see no contradiction in voting simultaneously for a liberal and a conservative. When I lived in Pennsylvania, I knew tons of people who voted for Clinton and Santorum — in the SAME election — and saw nothing weird about that.—
I'm not worried yet…..Rick! seems to be the new Fred! I think he'll fizzle like a firecracker dud.
But I live in Georgia, so my two cents probably aren't worth confederate script.
Yeah. Here in the Heartland of Moran, what I think or do has nothing to do with anything, unless I can do something out of state. Like sending a few pennies to We Are Wisconsin.
The Georgia Democratic Party kids who come to our door soliciting donations are so so grateful for any kind word and they cry when we write a check.
But my state senator is Jimmy Carter's grandson, Jason, and my house rep is a lefty lawyer, so I sometimes I just pretend I live in Normalville…….✌
I had a comprehensive talk-down all typed in and then I pushed the wrong keys on the fucking laptop and committed it to oblivion. So let me sum up:
1. Yes, we (almost) elected W. Despite my continuing irritation with Ralph and the Naderites, the fundamental reason for this is that Al ran a terrible campaign. Example: he refused to use Slick Willie, who was only running a 65 or 70% favorable rating at the time.
2. Team O12 will not run a terrible campaign.
If he gets that far, hypothetical-Candidate Perry will be wearing at least a half dozen easy targets. And he's not –HENNNGH — a former POW, so I expect him to be fair game (aka dead meat).
While I know that many Wonkers regard the Clintons as being roughly equivalent to botulism, this opinion is not shared by significant numbers of main-stream Democrats. They delivered serious endorsement in 2008 (limited, IMO, by the O campaign's desire to finesse the connection), and I'm pretty sure O12 won't refuse to use them again.
Really, I think the Gore campaign made the sort of existential mistake of assuming that the American electorate would never vote for such as obvious doofus as W.
While I have become progressively (ha) more disappointed in Team Obama's negotiating skills, I have not seen any reason to doubt the killer instinct regarding campaigning. Perry would be well-coiffed toast.
You know, looking back, Al could have run a better campaign, no doubt. But I don't see how a virtual popular vote tie could be viewed as running a "horrible" campaign. 2000 was basically what most elections are in relatively evenly divided (or at least swingy) political jurisdictions for second terms: natural party turnover. That America wasn't even more incumbent administration-weary is actually more surprising than anything else.
My feeling for this upcoming election is that the real party movers-and-shakeres aren't so much trying to win the presidency as much as they are getting a high enough turnout to take the Senate. I'm usually pretty pessmistic myself given the wild swings we've had in this country, lately, but I don't see how the GOP can replicate what they did in 2010 just two years later. I honestly don't see how that wasn't the peak. The worst I think that can happen is that we get a few more rip currents that further erodes the Senate, but the president is on too high of ground to be swept out to see unless he willfully jumps over the cliff, which is completely prossible, but I don't think probable.
Horrible campaign: In November 2000, signs of the forthcoming dot-bomb were there, but largely invisible to almost everybody. The popular view of the economy was still up-up-up. Impeached-but-unconvicted Pres Clinton had something like a 60% approval rating (among ALL voters). There were (to my utter amazement) budget surpluses.
Al should have won in an electoral college landslide. That's what makes it a "horrible" campaign. BTW, a 553,000 popular vote difference (0.5%) is NOT a "virtual tie".
You wouldn't call less than a point difference a "virtual tie"? Really?
Coming in virtually tied with the likes of Dubya and Dick (Palpatine) Cheney is my idea of running a terrible campaign.
But, this is before Dubya was "dubya" and before anyone besides political junkies knew who the fuck Dick Cheney was. I remember Bush actually coming across as reasonable and mild. It was not the same Bush we came to know, that's for damned sure. Al Gore didn't lose to "Dubya & Dick", he lost to "George HW Bush's well-meaning son & some dude named Richard Cheney".
I love Al Gore, but his sense of strategy as revealed by that election sucked ass. Instead of trying for the popular vote, he should have done exactly what Obama did in the 2008 elections. Obama was a hella savvy campaigner. He looked at the electoral vote map and figured out exactly where he needed to put resources and what he needed to win, and he stuck to the plan.
Gore's decision was kind of a classic Democratic fuckup. Ignore the polls and let the Repulitards frame the issue. Run on their terms. Like going apeshit for the deficit when all people care about are fucking jobs. Or non fucking, for those who don't choose to be whores.
3. Al was thrown under the bus by running mate actual clump of human feces Joe Lieberman during the campaign – remember the military absentee ballot thing? All Biden has to do is shut the fuck up for about 7 months, or just try hard not to say anything stupid.
Damn. I'd forgotten that one. As long as Bamz doesn't replace Unca Joe with, say, Louis Gohmert, that's another plus.
BTW, that's another "horrible campaign" point. Joe Fucking Lieberman. Why?
I mostly agree with you. The part I mostly mostly agree with is the President's killer instinct. There seems to be some sort of Maureen-Dowdish insistence on seeing the Pres as a milquetoast because he won't rip people's heads off and shit down their necks. But he has, over and over again, demonstrated very real, very good instincts when taking on people. He goes for the jugular, he just does it with finesse and by the book insofar as is possible. The Republicans keep up this meme of "he's caved, he doesn't know how to negotiate, he just gave away the whole house," and people (because they're too lazy to read, or do the research?) believe it. But if you look at all the bills he has helped promulgate, all the discussions with the teabaggage, he has always brought home good, defensible, solid results. Working with such a bad team, he has always managed to produce the best. I don't know why people refuse to give him credit for his obvious wins. Now I hear defeatist talk, "Don't underestimate Bachmann. Don't underestimate Perry." OK. That's sound. How about "Don't underestimate Obama"?
I'm thinking he may have some early momentum simply because he *wasn't* one of the early idiots out there vigorously shooting themselves in the foot on the campaign trail. Now that all eyes have turned toward him, everyone gets to hear all about governor goodhair and all that that portends. Unless he has some really good stage managers he will step in it and large at some point. Dubya had Rove, Ed Gillespie and a host of people from Daddies team walking him through. I don't know if Ricky has that going for him, but unless they manage to keep the press out of the picture entirely, I'm thinking he will self destruct.
He's got a laser targeted pistol. His foot is toast.
FWIW, the Bushies hate him, and they have the money and connections in the Repub party. Perry is going with the godbag Jebustardz and teabagger votes. That's about 30% of the Republican party. Anybody who is looking at the numbers and not just swallowing his yawp wholesale will realize that this slick fucker is a snake oil salesman. He's not going to be the President, I don't care what anyone says.
i don't know, i'm with you in fear and fretting (my life story – fear and fretting) but i still think romney is the one to beat. i'm seriously hoping my boy is right and gov hangman is not ready for primetime.
we'll know soon for sure.
Rick Perry is a smugger, stupider W., and I don't see even idiotic U.S. Americans going for a rerun when his "base" wanted nothing to do with Bush in 2008. Perry is the new shiny for the sports columnists of the mainstream media, but a lot of shit is going to go down before November 2012.
But the most important thing is for us to be pre-demoralized and self-suppressive! Forget the White House — it will be much easier for us to take both houses of Congress, and then we can reason with Mittens!
You were doing so very well until that last hyperbolic, petty, self-serving paragraph. Got get them digs in, though, right? Some kind of quota per blog post, I guess. Honestly, you're just kind of trolling.
The last paragraph that Chet wrote is an actual theory being pushed by some of the people here and on other liberal blogs: Electing Mittens/Perry/Random Gooper will somehow usher in Dem control of Congress and a progressive paradise.
This exact same delusional bullshit was promoted by a lot of the Naderites in 2000. Go read some of Michael Moore's arguments for why it would be totally cool if W won, man. They're still on the internet.
So you can call it self-serving, but it's a real meme, just like Obama is a Kenyan soshalist usurper blah blah. It's just less fun for people here to make fun of because it comes from the left, I guess.
Mittens/Progressive Paradise 2012!
And despite all that meme's political fallacies (assumes Americans "choose" balanced government, assumes that Americans think that Congress is good for anything in the first place, etc etc), isn't there a temporal fallacy at work there, too? How can one election, occurring simultaneously with the other, "usher it in"? Will the electorate smile on Nov 5, having seen a Repub president elected and say "let's now go back and balance that with a Democratic Legislature"? I don't get how this meme is supposed to work.
Thank you.
Bull-fuckin'-shit, and I'll be damned if we keep letting you guys cast those kind of aspersions on this blog as if we're some resurrection of the PUMAs. This blog criticizes to no end the right 80% of the time, and the other 20% is legitimate speaking truth to power no matter the party or ideology. I'm sick of his petty, bitter posts and bullshit charges against the good people of this blog.
This meme you keep talking about isn't held by any legitimate regular member here, and you and Chet can quit the shit, already. You can go take your hate fefes that someone dare criticize the president of the United States, elsewhere. Lord knows I'm tired of this bullshit.
I would never trust our spineless, Blue-hind-leg-of-the-running-Dog Dems to stand up to a Republican President. Elect Democrats to both House and Senate, take back the Congress, and HOLD the WH!
If you can't stand the snark, get the fuck out of the kitchen.
Really, fuck off, troll. That's exactly the kind of bitchy post I'm talking about that you seem to deal in more often than not. If you spent half the time, here, criticizing anyone who criticizes the president criticizing the baggers, you'd be more productive than you are, here. People are going to criticize the president from the left. People are going to speak truth to power no matter who that power is, and the office of the presidency is the most visible symbol of American power and influence. The Barry is not your friend, or your girlfriend, and he's not your daddy, he's the fucking president, and will take the lumps every president should be honored to take. Deal with it.
Thank you. I want to tattoo your words on Perry's ginormous flabby white ass and tie him to an overpass so everyone can read 'em.
NO NEW TEXANS!
oh lizzie you started a fight and i bet it's not the first time.
I know and it's two of my favourite imaginary friends , as well!
Oh, no! Our Lizzie's on the ledge!
Relax, darlin'. Perry has so many scandals in his closet, I predict one-a-day for the next year, if he lasts that long. While the crazybaggers might vote for him, they still (fortunately) constitute no more than roughly one-third of the Republican electorate. And that Gallup poll bs? Dubious methodology, and a history of being off by 10 points or more (for Democrats ony) since 2008 indicate that it had best be taken with a pound or two of salt.
There's a year left, and more, and it's a glorious day in fucking Paradise (which is where you live, beautiful odalisque), so step carefully back into the room, there's a love.
Harlem is Paradise? Wow, I best inform the populace.
I haz been flamboozled. I thought you lived in Southern California (which is fucking paradise).Harlem, unfortunately, is not fucking paradise. Years ago when I lived in SoCal with a friend, she would rise every morning, look out at the beautiful weather (she was from Connecticut), and say “Another beautiful goddamned day in fucking Paradise.”Anyway. Now I haz a disappoint, Lizzie.
I am bi-coastal, is that a problem? I am currently in NYC but go back and forth between here and Hollywood.
Hey can anyone photoshop that big Mexican dick out of the picture and make it into a corndog?
In my part of the world growing up, we called them donkey dicks. I haz the satisfaction of seeing the irony of Crazy Michele eating a donkey dick.
I'm guessing it's not a Hebrew National.
Ah b'leev those are smaller and lighter.
Willard Romney finished seventh, behind Perry, who wasn't even on the ballot. I guess his people didn't bother to incorporate at the polls.
He should have registered as Willard John Deere. Tractors are people, too.
But you don't want Santorum accusing you of wanting to marry one. And mine's from Asia, came here to steal the farm labor jerb of a non-existent USAmerican-made tractor.
Damn, that man can't open his mouth without sticking both feet in sideways!
Romney has basically said he's not even going to play in Iowa. Hunstman did the same thing. Neither was in Iowa, today, and both are putting money into the more favorable clime of New Hampshire. Saying all that, I think it's always a mistake to look like your abandoning any place so early in a contest, and it'll bite both of them in the ass down the road. I could see skipping South Carolina – hell, they'd be lucky to even get a passport that country – but they could have played in Iowa.
Yes, for example the Howard Dean 50-state strategy that Obama scorned even when it got him elected.
TPM's been saying for months that they just don't see a path that leads from NH to SC to the WH. It looks like the Mormon Twins aren't going to win this prize after all. Or does it?
Seeing that side by side with Kortney is special.
Great. So at least nine more months of Michele's crazy eyes staring at us through our computer screens. We will all be her slaves before this is over.
We'll be the ones rendered unable to function with migraines.
But just remember, that doesn't disqualify you from being Commander-in-Chief, so don't think there are any sick days involved.
No, no, no, we can't be her slaves. The Founding Fathers took care of that slavery thingie.
Don't you understand what it means to be submissive?
Quite right, we'll all just flock naturally to the Bachmann plantation and spend alls ours days 'n nights just cold respectin' the hell outta those fine people. Oh, and bringing in the crops too…respectfully.
I thought it meant being respected. No?
Wasn't it one of their kids who did that? Fight against slavery despite being, what, six months old? Amazing kid.
*You* might be. I just close my eyes until it passes.
Here's something that should, um, help with that.
We're one step closer to a Theocrazy.
Excellent! I'm stealing this to use it on my pastor tomorrow.
Word o' the Week! Deserves many, many upfists.
Word o' the Decade, I'd say. I'm jealous.
That image is very disturbing. I wish you’d have chosen something else. I realize that it’s a shameful part of American history that we should never forget, but it’s too much.
damn you for that.
Isn't that a photo of Michelle "respecting" a phallic object? I've heard Marcus is better at giving "respect."
I bet she can suck the chrome off of a hitch ball, or a golf ball through a garden hose.
Actually, I bet she can't. I bet she can't suck a tadpole through 3" drain pipe. I can already see her technique sucks due to visible toothage, which is fucking scary, especially in her case. She is most likely the most incompetent cocksucker in the nation. Michelle: work up a good bit of saliva, and wrap your lips over your teeth, please … baby steps
Straw poll is an apt expression for any election Michelle Bachmann can actually win, and brings to mind:
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with Michelle fucking Bachmann elected President.
Not with a bang but with Michelle fucking Bachmann elected President.
Two things:
Is that our worst miGRAIN headache with a strap-on doing Marcus?
or, p.s., t.s., if any of these pitiful wasteland of candidates actually beats Obama?
Aw, pinko!
Don't be sad.
Think of all the fun we're gonna have!
Bridges are falling from coast to coast
Grannys' rainy day fund is toast
But we still got reality teevee shows
As we pay a poll tax to buy Michelle a new nose.
To me the blingee looks like she's turbo-barfing, as if she actually stopped and thought about the implications of the nutbaggery she's advocating for.
She hasn't even stopped to think about the images she's creating, and superficiality is her strong point.
A fucking corn dog is a "local delicacy"? Jesus Fucking Christ, Iowa
CORN SUBSIDEEES!
Perhaps if is an actual dog stuffed with corn?
Didja hear about Michele's "roast beef sundaes"? Sweet jesus in a barf bag.
Hey! Isn't it supposed to be Obama that's always shoving things down our throats?
God instructed her to shove that down her throat. Or Marcus.
With that dreamy look in her eyes, you know she hasn't seen one of those in years
By a show of hands, who's drinking tonight?
By another show of hands, who started drinking after seeing the photo of Michele, deep throating the corn dog?
I know you can't see it but, BOTH hands are up!!
I tink I need a bigger glass.
This is one of those nights when I count the decades on my fingers and realize that, nah, I don't want to start over with AA birthday number one.
But that doesn't make it easy.
Is it Saturday? Is it Sunday? Is it Monday – Friday? If it's any of those, I'm drinking tonight.
Hell, baby, catch up. I'm drinkin' right now!
She's, uh, respecting that corndog.
I did a poll few weeks ago asking my passengers who would they bang between Michelle Bachmann and Sara Palin.
http://dccabbie.blogspot.com/2011/08/who-would-yo...
Madcabbie–
I'm surprised there weren't more write-in votes for suicide, given the choice.
I can think of lotz o' womyn that I'd bang between Michele and Sarah, as long as they were just watching. And I was blindfolded.
One thing I learned a LONG time ago: fucking crazy ladies can be fun for the moment. But gawd help you if they decide they want seconds. Even a solid gold pussy ain't worth that kinda grief.
This is also good news for Santorum, Rick and otherwise, as the namesake placed an astonishingly-respectable 4th (or would be astonishing, if this straw poll weren't overrun by loonies and actually augured anything in particular).
A frothy mixture of loonies and … ok, loonies.
Most hilarious campaign photo… ever.
Funny, just the other day I was commenting about the grifter in chief deepthroating and now look what happens…
$awas just doesn't want it bad enough.
I like the depraved crack-whore look on her face..
Baby, I'll suck your dick to win this thing! ..Or this corn dog.
Bachmann Tubesteak Overdrive
We have a winner! (wiener)
First out-loud laugh of this thread. WIN!
I know a girl, she works on the Hill.
She won't do anal but her husband will,
But in Iowa,
She do the tube steak boogie.
Well now boogie little baby,
Boogie woogie all night long.
CraZZy on TOP?
With a maraschino cherry.
Doesn't the tallest candidate ALWAYS win every election, along with the one with the LONGEST name. Also doesn't the rare left handed person always win. Isn't this more important than votes.
Who are you pretending to be tonight? The average voter aka "independent?" Because you're doing a fine job, sir, fine indeed.
Actually, the tallest does indeed win when we have a fair election. Al Gore and Bush were very close in height and then Bush put on those high heels and won.
is that a limbo contest?
The guy in the lower left corner of the pic is like '*snicker* *snicker*, it looks like she has a big brown dick in her mouth.. heh heh'.
So, um, just guessing that the EPA doesn't care what kind of brain-damaging insecticides they're spraying on the corn in Iowa these days. After looking at that picture I kinda feel like someone sprayed my brain with Raid.
Let's not forget:
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/7/2...
I see that he knows to stroke it at the base while taking it in his mouth. Remember to play with the balls, they aren't orphans, ya know.
O. M. F. G.
Did it make you cross your legs too?
Is it just me, or does Marcus look like he was actually trying to stick it up his nose, and just missed?
It's not just you.
Yeah douche, look like you're not enjoying it in front of you're wife. But, we ALL know that behind closed doors, with a man having a much larger cock, he'd have a cheshire cat smile, particularly, if the other end was coming (figurativly & literally) out of his butt.
Marcus for First lady!
You eat corn, you shit corn. And that is all I need to know about Iowa.
Ya shit corn right outta yer cornhole!
“I am the Great Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole!”
The poll, a fund-raiser for the state party, created a carnival atmosphere around Iowa State University's basketball arena. Any Iowa resident over 18 could show up and participate, with many allowing a candidate to buy their $30 ticket.
What? Does this mean it cost thirty dollars to get into the straw poll for the corndog sucking and that candidates were handing out tickets? This thing is even more strange than I thought.
Yes, yes, that is precisely what it means. A pay-to-vote, self-selected poll.
In fucking Iowa, in August, six months before the fucking primaries start.
The fucking wonders of democracy.
Damn. I wish the ODP (OK Democratic Party <if we had one>).
I want the Daily Show writing staff count how many times she said "Iowa" in her victory speech, because I swear it was nearly in every single sentence she uttered. It was like ringing a dinner bell and watching all the local 'baggers drool. And she's supposed to be one of the frontrunner?
It was shameless even by Shelly's shameless standards. What a tool (box).
I was in the bathroom , putting a new seat on the old crapper and had the TV on in the other room and I was just shrieking "Fukcing Iowa" every time she said it, it had to be 25 times.
I never watch Meet the Press, but for some reason I turned it on this morning. All Miche1e, all the time. Jesus.
In pro wrestling, that's what is known as a "cheap pop".
That Blingee is cringingly good. Thank you!
Honestly, if Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann are the candidates to beat, even Obama – who finds interesting and creative ways to lose things – would have a hard time finding a new way to lose. I always here the pessimists who pose as "realists" are warn that you shouldn't underestimate tea baggers, and that American can be crazy. Well, shit; America is crazy, but it ain't Michelle Bachmann crazy, let me tell you.
It's one thing to win a few dozen house districts on an group basis; it's entirely another to ask for Americans to vote for someone like her on the top of the ticket (or even on the bottom of it).
ZOMG, I was flipping through the stations, and the Male Cheerleader Gubner was on C-Span. Holy Fuck. One minute was all I needed. I never had heard him speak before. But Mark Twain has. We should all be scared. Limeylizzie said it best: President Perry. A cross between Chimpy, Joel Osteen, Toad Palin, the Clown Roundtable in iowa, and my recurring evil-guy nightmare.
Al Gore blew it. With the best economy in our lifetime. He couldn't beat the Rove Community Theater Group.
Now, Barry with every positive trait he has, quite formidable really, is saddled with an economy they created. And Perry, Bachmann and Bolton seem, to our Mencken underestimates at least, even credible.
I sincerely hope you're right, but I, and everyone whose ass I can haul to a polling place, will be showing up to vote for Barry anyhow. If they made Republican candidates that weren't absolutely get-out-the-straightjacket-fucking-nuts, perhaps I wouldn't feel this sense of urgency about the whole voting thing. But short of being dead, I and my peeps will be there on time with proper identification and previous confirmation of presence on the voting rolls. I can't control the flippin' machines but I can make damned sure everything else is in order.
No doubt. I'm not saying that people don't need to vote, because even in a very good year in 2008, the popular vote was still too close for my comfort given the choices, and it's not likely we'll see turnout that high for a very long time. But, if the GOP is dumb enough to put on someone like those two, I'm feeling better about the president's chances, for sure.
You go. We can't afford any of these bunghole bandits in power. I'm tired of bending over for them, and real butthurt about it too.
and certainly palin didn't help jammakin.
that being said (tho i tend to agree with you) 2010 was fucking scary. america will now – apparently – elect anything that creeps sideways as long as it's white and cuts taxes.
But, polls clearly show that Americans are afraid of the tea party, now. It literally took about half-a-year to see this. I can't think of another movement that imploded so quickly in popular opinion. They were never extremely popular to begin with, but popular enough to effect enough change on the House to flip it.
I just don't see how anyone can think that the tea party can score as high as it did in 2010. By virtue of winning like they did, they have a lot of seats to protect in districts they shouldn't have won, and they are decidedly less popular. This isn't to predict that the Dems take back the House, but I also don't see the probability of them toppling the president.
Seems to me the wrost case scenario is that they successfully defend most of the seats they won in the House, and gain the tiniest majority in the Senate, with Obama still winning. The best case scenario to me seems to me that the Dems win back a razor thin margin in the House, very narrowly hold the Senate (I really think the just looks plain bad for us given the particular seats that are up), and comfortably win the presidency, though, not near with anywhere near the majority as last time.
Good news for David Duke, looking like a centrist now.
What, David Duke the socialist loony?
Looking soft on race and class.
Ah, soft David Duke.
Isn't that shit-inducing scary? I've been having explosive diarrhoea just thinking about it.
David Duke; now that's one handsome woman. Seriously, though, talk about a case of botched plastc surgery. Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
Wow, so that makes Kucinich.. an actual alien?
Perry eats things like that every day, only he doesn't let anyone know.
Is there any way to unsee that picture?
Any way? At all?
'Cause that's just 28 flavors of wrong.
Marcus was asked about the "submissive wife" question and this was his reply:
"They need to focus on what's important in this country," Marcus Bachmann said, pointing to jobs and the economy as the topics that should take priority. "It's unfortunate that they focus on things that are not as important."
———————————-
1. His wife is focusing on only one job, hers as POTUS. She's not serving in the job she was elected for.
2. They are both hyper focused on homosexuals. Whom a person chooses to love is not only "not as important", it's none of their business.
Oh, Barb, expecting logical consistency from Marcus is like expecting lack-of-spewing-demon-worms from his "wife".
Ah that thing doesn't count for Michele. Hot dogs don't spit out a good progressive load.
And we would have to have multiple trials to extablish a mean load consumption average.
Marcus could sit in the corner in his ball gown , take pictures and beat off.
Michelle wins and Sarah stands on the sidelines seething with jealousy.
It's all part of the long con those 7 mountain bastages have in store for us. She's in on it.
Where is the picture of Dr Marcus slurpin on that big beefy tube of goodness before passing his sloppy seconds on to his submissive Christian wife?
Is there some way to buy Comedy Central futures?
If you are Sumner Redstone, yes.
Viacom FTW
Paul was soooo close.
Accursed 11th hour Kortney-style foodlattio!
Yeah, I tried penis and dildo stamps in blingee…they no like .
It's a victory for light bulbs and submissive wives everywhere.
A victory for light bulbs driven by a bunch of dim bulbs.
Sarah Palin? Who?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/wires/live_wire/live...
I dunno. I kinda think Sarah really wants the VP job, not the POTUS job. A lot less responsibility and actual work, but she'll still have an avenue and find a way to get a lot more attention than most any other VP in history. She'd probably really get off on getting dressed up in her Sunday finest to attend the funerals of heads-of-state of countries the Prez doesn't give a rat's ass about, where she'd undoubtedly be the center of media attention.
What? She was already rejected for that job.
Nah, she was just a victim of McPlanecrash's rejection. It's never Sarah's fault.
There is no way she wants to play second fiddle, again. Been there, done that. The ego won't allow it. Sarah Palins has too needs that don't quite match up with one another. First, she wants to be president "just because." Second, she wants to keep making money and whoring for attention without actually having to work. It's why it's taking her so long to decide. I may be one of the few who believes her when she says she honestly doesn't know what she wants to do.
She's in politics for the fame, and entertainment tv for the money. The VP spot again doesn't really satisfy either of those two needs to the extent to which she wants them to.
I think her ego's too big for the Veep job. She wants to be the ganzermacher of the Republicans (who don't want her). She's not going to take kindly to being outshone by Bachmann Perry Overdingdongs. She'll think of something. Although her Iowa ploy not only fell on its face, it then stood up and fell over on its ass. Apparently she and Todd were accosted at the fair by a fellow-Alaskan, who called them "sellouts."
Chris Christie would have eaten the shit out of that State Fair.
While Marcus eats the corn out of the shit.
Hmmm, I wonder if any of Michele Bachmann's supporters were the Republicans who 3 years ago kept telling us how Obama wasn't qualifed to be president because he had no executive experience, or how he'd only been in Congress a short time but had no legislative accomplishments.
Hell, Michelle will probably STILL bring that up, once she wins the nomination. This is the woman who holds the two opinions "I wish the US would have defaulted" and "It's Obama's fault we nearly defaulted"
Michele Bachmann? Turn her over and drive us outta here!
Idiots Out Walking Around…
Never have they more deserved the sobriquet.
2012 Fever is on the rise in Iowa,
Blart blart blart Hitler, Stalin and Mao to Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Obama, soshalizm, blart blart.
No taxes for the richers, also, too.
Blart.
This ad was brought to you by Koch industries.
Don't these people think before they put something in their mouths with cameras rolling? Like the time George W. Caligula took a big bite out of that nice ear of corn (that was also in Iowa, right?) only to learn that it was raw. But, then again, that's just how all of these fuckwads can eat it as far as I'm concerned: raw.
Looks like Michele and Marcus hired Li'l Boots' PR person.
35 people voted for Thad McCotter. And you thought nobody in Iowa had a sense of humor? A DAbaDA, a DAbaDA, a DAbaDA, Thad's all, folks!
girlfriend has some nice bling there.
hating on soculizm while getting paid by the state for motherin skilz is $$$$.
Michele creamed Mittens.
No telling who Marcus creamed. Oh!
Well, to show you how much this straw poll means, Pawlenty also creamed Mittens, and the Les Paultards basically drew Bachmann to a statistical draw. So…yeah.
And then he quit.
Damn liberal lamestream media! Why didn't they cover this part of the Bachman corn dog eating incident?
Awe-inspiring video. Pink Capri pants w/a green and brown blouse: she was high a lot sooner than she thought.
She needed help, though.
Ya know, the non-blingified version of that pic is even more frightening. Those eyes–she looks like the cartoon version of Ayn Rand as drawn by Josh.
Michele Bachmann sucks. A footlong is President of Iowa.
/fixed
Look at this little gem…
http://www.stuffedsuits.com/news/national-politic...
Is that awful Texas-y woman his
wifebeard?"Political Herpes?" That would be a great name for a band.
"Bibleverse-spouting adulterer" etc, eh? No wonder he & Gov. Sanford have always been chums… they have a lot in common to wink/nudge about.
Ha ha: " Not paying enough attention back to Clinton's baggage in the 1990s didn't turn out very well, did it?" Yeah, those eight years of (relative) peace and prosperity were just awful.
I would love to take comfort in the ravings of that Paultard, but we will have to see if real journalists can find a tenth of what this guy is spouting. At the least, I think it's true that there is powerful stench of calculating, mendacious phoniness around the man.
Ass herpes, to be specific.
"I know this because I am a patron of Austin strip clubs."
This is a man you can trust.
I loved that line!
I've never been to Iowa. Now I know why.
Hey – why have an election at all? Why not let these sober, sensible, common sense voters from America's Heartland just choose Shelly as Leader of the Free World and make her Czarina of the Nukular Codes? And win/win! – we also get Marcus – the Brains Behind Ma – to set policy for four or eight years! Yee haw!!!
I heart Blingees !!!
I never felt sorry for a corn dog before.
Oh No! T-Paw is dropping out of the race!
Who?
Guess all that pandering to the insane wasn't the correct "strategery". Why would teatards vote for someone pretending to be a lunatic when they can vote for the real deal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQRfBAzSzo
Bat crazy girl, you make the corn-based world go round…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0&fe...
Well that marshmallow got toasted.
Now how about Stay Puftman and his wife Crisco?
Paying $30 to vote is just Good Old Fashioned Country Style Corruption…
Dolla dolla bill y'all…so…Herm's on the cnn saying Miche1e paid for the win in Iowa…and TPaw has pulled out because of all the Santorum, Miche1e says liberals are voting for her, SP blew off the Bachmaniacs' win because she's gonna be Rick's under card and I am now brain damaged from all this "knowledge."
ANY borderline competent campaign should be able to Mondale the fuck out of these people.
If this was any kind of normal marriage, Marcus would've gotten himself some poontang last night.
Oh shit, my eyes!
I'm thinking of making a commemorative montage (set to "Dust in the Wind") of all the memorable moments of Pawlenty's campaign. So far I have his announcement that he's running and his announcement that he's quitting; am I missing anything?
Maybe an explanation of who you're commemorating …
Was there video of him (a) explaining about the difficulties of getting his wife to have sex with him, and/or (b) his quasi-homoerotic description of watching on-line videos of hockey fights?
"I closed my eyes
Only for a moment but that…"
End of video. Fade to black.
The Blingee is awesome!
"Local delicacy"? Ain't nothin' delicate about that thing.
Mr. Bachmann will make a fine first lady.
Not sure he could handle Air Force One. No public restrooms during stopovers.
The Paw-T's over. I haz a sad.
Who?
I can't believe the dream of a T-Paw presidency is over!
Pix Caption: "Oh, my goodness, this is so much bigger and harder than that little Vienna Sausage I'm used to at home, I'm not sure I can accommodate it!"
I've got nothing useful to say, so just consider this a REALLY hilarious comment.
Reading WONKETTE's comments on all this bs is the only thing that makes it all even slightly bearable.
Blingee needs moar scratch-&-sniff.
Guys that cannot be bachmann in that photo.
It's just Pete Burns looking a bit distressed.
Her husband is so jealous of that picture, even if it is because he wishes he was cramming a 12 incher down his throat.
with rick perry getting in the race, bachmann and cain are going to have to work even harder for the valuable knights templar endorsement, the key to victory in iowa in January.
In addition she's welcome to suck my dick. Also.
Someone else decided to join in…
http://www.politicususa.com/wp-content/uploads/Sc...
Marcus: "Oh, this tickles me! I remember one time I had a Blatino cock, but this one's actually edible!!
Also, what the fuck is with the Sharpie? Is she going to sign it? Did she sign it to discourage him and that's why he's sniffing it?
Congratulations Iowa! You've proven you need more medication that Bachmann and Limbaugh combined!
the US version of Sharia law, Repub style…
Shortly after this photo was taken, Marcus grabbed the corn dog and said, "Now let the master show you how it's done!"
Gosh, I've never seen anyone who could just take horrible picture after horrible picture after horrible picture! She's really on the slide downward, isn't she?
"Do you enjoy your fried corn dogs as much as Michele?"
This shocking video will make you "crave" them.
Why isn't anyone pointing out that the cozy dunt didn't even get 30% of the voters at the Straw Poll, despite feeding them "roast beef sundaes"? Or that most of the other eejits who have won said poll did not win the nomination?
Sometimes I truly hate the news with a bitter and enduring hate.
Me so corny!
I know, I could volunteer to complete the dang fence, and close the gate behind me!
Oh for fuck's sake. I don't have hurt fefes about anyone criticizing Obama. The meme is one that I've run across because I read a lot of liberal blogs. I can think of at least two commenters here who have posted it more than once. And yes I think it's stupid, but not because it criticizes the POTUS, but because it has no basis in reality.
I don't know what the hell you mean by "legitimate" regular members. All I know is that I've seen the Mittens/Progressive Paradise idea posted here more than once by more than one commenter. You can say it's bullshit, but I'm not making that up.
I've been commenting on Wonkette for about five years now, and I remember a time when this blog was about poking fun at stupid political shit, no matter where it came from.
*sigh*
And now I'm done.
The Xtian wackos are out to "infiltrate" the government. They'll be happy to take the veep office if it means their man is line for the presidency — and I think that's Perry's actual plan.
In any event, the problem is that the general public won't be aware of any of this shit, and they'll throw votes blindly at the two gentlemen with good hair. They can just repeat Mitt's "I'm better than Obama" mantra until election day.
And furthermore, since when does anyone around here get to appoint himself arbiter of who is or isn't a "legitimate regular member?" For that matter, since when are people who post shit on a public blog called members? It's not a country club.
Chet's pushing back, as he so often does, on the defeatist ZOMG OBAMA IS MULATTO REAGAN hysterical griping that takes the place of constructive engagement much of the time in our discourse. It's a legitimate criticism, and he is not a troll just because he disagrees with you. You don't like the posts, then don't read 'em.
We speak truth to power here? I thought we made dick jokes. What is this, a Weathermen chat room?
Hey, if Chet wants to be Sarah Palin-level-petty and bitchy with his "jokes" (jokes my ass), he's going to get called on it, 'casuse it's getting damned tired, already. I'm glad your done. I hope you're all done. I've been as nice as I can be, but this was one stupid bullshit post, too-cute-by-a-half post from him and if you want to use yourselves as human shields, so be it.
BTW, not surprised that neither of you could figure out what I meant by legitimate. I meant legitimate as opposed to the those people who navigate over here specfically to troll. The ones from IntenseDatabases conservative blogs that used to come over to downfist. Those aren't legitimate members. The point seems to be lost on you that there is no sizeable movement on to vote against the president, and people are going to resent that shit when you make such scurrilous, unfounded charges. Go smear the character of some other blog.
Eh, I was done arguing last night. I hate losing my temper, and I was getting dangerously close to that. I'm hardly done with Wonkette. Sorry to let you down.
Chet has been commenting here for a long time and comments on lots of different topics. He's not a troll. There are plenty of commenters here who regularly say stuff I disagree with or make snippy, repetitive comments about their personal hobbyhorse/outrage. That doesn't make them trolls. I just scroll past them in most cases.
It might be a good idea to take this all a little more lightly. You seem to have confused a difference of opinion with "smearing the character" of Wonkette (is that even possible?) You're taking umbrage on behalf of what, exactly? The hurt feelings of our esteemed editors? The "legitimate" commenters who have been grievously wounded by Chet making a comment? Back when Wonkette was still part of Gawker, there was a much larger diversity of opinion on the boards. People got into it all the time, and everyone survived. Well there was that one guy whose head exploded…but I digress.
If people are offended or have their feelings hurt, there's nothing stopping them from commenting. And it's hardly as though Chet's opinion is the majority around here. I'm pretty sure the community can handle a little dissent now and then.
Well, most of the community, obviously. I for one can't believe we even are having this conversation. But for perhaps the only time in my life I will point to up-thumb numbers as indicative of which way the community is leaning.
Chet's snark was "scurrilous?" Good God. Lighten up, Francis.
That was a bit lol-worthy. I'm assuming alcohol or sleep deprivation might have been involved, given the hour.
I've been guilty of a hyperbolic drunk-post in the wee hours of the morning before.
Brilliant idea. See y'all later, I … uh, got sump'n to do.
It's a date, beautiful.
Oh, hell, no. Bicoastal women are twice as sexy.
True. I grovel in the gravel. I shall now go and initiate some sexaytime with a willing, if somewhat strange, victim. Something's gotta take that corndog taste outa my mouth.
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