Faced with criticism for his amateurish reaction to the mob attacks on diplomats in Libya and Egypt, Mitt Romney’s campaign has been quietly asking Republicans to pretty please say something nice about him if they’re asked, or at least maybe they could deflect the question by explaining that this is all Obama’s fault, duh. CNN obtained a copy of the Romney campaign’s suggested talking points, which include sample questions and answers like these gems:
“Did Governor Romney ‘jump the gun’ last night in releasing his statement?”
“No. It is never too soon to stand up for American values and interests.”
Unlike some of the early attacks on the President yesterday, the memo at least remembers to start off by mentioning “the four American patriots who lost their lives in yesterday’s attacks” and goes on to insist, despite the mixed messages being sent by Romney’s political interference in a developing foreign crisis, that “America cannot send mixed signals to either our allies or our enemies.”
The best bits (if by “best” you mean “most transparently attempting to shift the focus away from Romney’s colossal boneheadedness” — which we do) are to be found in the suggested Q & A replies:
Don’t you think it was appropriate for the embassy to condemn the controversial movie in question? Are you standing up for movies like this?
– Governor Romney rejects the reported message of the movie. There is no room for religious hatred or intolerance.
– But we will not apologize for our constitutional right to freedom of speech.
– Storming U.S. missions and committing acts of violence is never acceptable, no matter the reason. Any response that does not immediately and decisively make that clear conveys weakness.
– If pressed: Governor Romney repudiated this individual in 2010 when he attempted to mobilize a Quran-burning movement. He is firmly against any expression of religious hatred or intolerance.
Nice that the repudiation of religious intolerance is saved for a last-ditch answer there. Notice that the first part of the question is carefully sidestepped. Notice also that, despite the clearer picture we’re beginning to have of the people behind the film, the talking points address only Terry Jones, who it now turns out wasn’t directly involved in its production (Jones was trying to promote it in the US — and was thoroughly ignored here).
Reports indicate the embassy in Cairo released its initial statement before the invasion of the embassy commenced. Doesn’t this show they were trying to tamp down the protest and prevent what ultimately happened, not sympathize with the protesters?
– The Administration was wrong to stand by a statement sympathizing with those who had breached our embassy in Egypt instead of condemning their actions.
– Distancing themselves from the statement and saying it wasn’t ‘cleared by Washington’ reflects the mixed signals they are sending to the world.
– American leadership needs to be decisive and resolute when our interests are threatened or attacked. For the last four years, this has been lacking.
– We have seen a foreign policy of weakness, indecision, and a decline in American influence and respect – and yesterday we saw the consequences.
– If pressed: The Obama campaign is now attacking Governor Romney for being critical of the same statement the Administration itself disavowed. This is hypocritical.
They were wrong to stand by the statement AND to disavow it, and since they disavowed it, how dare THEY attack us for attacking THEM for apologizing for America! Got it: Obama needs to adopt the consistency and resolute refusal to change positions that has characterized Mitt Romney’s entire political career.
tl;dr version: “Dear Republicans: Here’s how to manage the idiotic thing I said. Don’t mention I was an idiot. Obama’s the idiot, and he’s weak. Enemies foreign and domestic. USA! USA! USA!”
Update: About that “wrong to stand by the statement” and “also wrong to disavow the statement” thing: See also the outstanding comment by James Michael Curley,* which points out that the only “distancing’ or “disavowal” of the Cairo Embassy statement appears to be a Politico story quoting an unnamed “administration official;” if there are any official statements stepping back from the Cairo Embassy statement, we haven’t seen them, and we’d note that the administration has repeatedly condemned attempts to incite anti-muslim sentiments.
*(1st page of comments, about 29 comments down, in reply to TheGyrus — in case the link is as screwy as links to individual comments often are).
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What a maroon.
IM-Bacile, you mean
All the best words for "dumbass" sound best in French.
Na-uh! The best phrase is "estupido comemierda"
"All the best words for "dumbass" sound best
in Frenchcoming out of Peter Lorre."http://myactionvideos.com/peter-lorres-outburstth…
Love that.
Also nice as channeled by Ren Hoek (caution: auto-play, but not loud)
The freaky thing about Peter Lorre was how he could make his hairline move back and forth. Weird!
IBM-icile
and Eskimo pie head.
Eskimo Pie Libel!
Strange, I can't help but think of (R)-Money as Beige….
A maroon Mormon.
mmmmm….. macaroon….
I've been trying for ages to figure out how to write that sound Homer Simpson makes when he throws back his head and drools.
As it turns out I'm not on the cast (or writing staff) of the Simpsons so how would I know?
Just making conversation, dude.
Maroon Libel!!!
I'm going to issue a ruling here to be objective and because I want to…all the best words for "dumbass" sound best when spoken by French or Italian women. Because when a French woman or an Italian woman calls you a "dumbass" it sounds much more sexy and erotic than insulting…which also plays into the ya know…idiotic American reputation. But to break the tie…that's my ruling.
Notice also that, despite the clearer picture we’re beginning to have of the people behind the film, the talking points address only Terry Jones, who it now turns out wasn’t directly involved in its production
I said it yesterday, and I'll say it again: I bet that when the dust settles, this "Bacile" person is found out to be a bundler for Romney or a SuperPAC
Or the guy who did Romeny's taxes.
That (Romney's disqualifying fuckup) isn't what the American people want to talk about. They want to talk about jobs, government regulation, how soon we can get rid of Obamacare, and why my son's still over in the sandbox dodging IEDs and RPGs fired by our putative allies.
No, wait, strike that last one. How'd that get on the list?
It appears that the film's promoter is an insurance agent by the name of Steve Klein according to an article on Yahoo:
The public face for the anti-Muslim film inflaming the Middle East is not the filmmaker, but an insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran whose unabashed and outspoken hatred of radical Muslims has drawn the attention of civil libertarians, who say he's a hate monger.
With the Coptic Christian filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in hiding, film promoter Steve Klein has taken center stage in the unfolding international drama. He's given a stream of interviews about the film and the man he says he knew only as Sam Bacile, and is using the attention to talk about his own political views.
Nakoula, who used Bacile spelled multiple ways as a pseudonym, contacted Klein months ago for advice about the limits of American free speech and asked for help vetting the movie's script, Klein said in an interview with The Associated Press. The filmmaker asked the 61-year-old grandfather if he would act as a spokesman if the film "caught on," and he agreed.
Could be his neighbor. The dood lives in So Cal.
check the car elevator!
Is it too much to hope that, if the Republicans had had the foresight to try to start WWIII with teh muzlins over a film, they would have prepared better statements? I mean, knowing that it was coming and all?
Sam Bacile = Imbecile. Am I the only one seeing this?
No-but Bacile is actually a variation on the perp's middle name, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
It's one of his aliases.
No. Unfortunately, it's not the correct conclusion. The fellow's middle name is Bassely. Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, to be exact.
GMTA.
Nakoula, rhymes w/ Dracula?
You called? (swirls cloak over arm)
Karl Rove. Too easy. Remember that bloody awful video that came out on the Thursday before the election in 2004 of some "islamic dude" ranting nonsensical threats right into a cheap video camera? Seriously, if we saw that video again today we would laugh our asses off, as I did in 2004 because it was such a fucking bad acting job and terrible video, but it scared the shit out people at the time….well, I do believe we found out later……Karl Rove was behind it.
Will Governor Romney uphold the first amendment?
No. And that's all you people are getting.
Only the 2nd Amendment counts!!1!
Is that the one that says you can make up any old shit if it might get you elected?
The memo did remind everyone to mention that Obama is a black Muslim from Kenya, right?
Oh, well, that's just plain accepted knowledge, now.
Top notch analysis, Doc. I love to watch Romney and his campaign team of clowns squirm under the weight of their hypermassive and idiotic ideology.
If pressed, I always go straight to the "Oh yeah, well fuck you!" talking point.
I know you are, but what am I?
I'm rubber you're glue…
I'm rubber, you're glue …
That will pretty much be the complete text of any Romney foreign policy correspondence.
I prefer "The Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you"
What about the time-honored "So's your mom"?
I've been using that talking point throughout this election. Appropriate for so many situations…
….."and the horse you rode in on". Old west version.
Damn, beat by less than a minute…
the horse you DANCED in on
Or Rmoney could use the Prague Offensive: Kiss my ass.
I copy W and use Shock and Awe. he he he.
I'm always greeted as a liberator. he he he.
I had all but forgotten George III's snearing little shit giggle. Fuuuuck now it's in my head.
I was thinking this list had everything but 'Doodyhead' on it.
that's what she said.
And then give the ol' stick-out-your-tongue-and-cross-your-eyes.
Notice also, too, that the comments completely ignore the fact that the comments against which Mittens railed were stated BEFORE THE FUCKING ATTACK. And that they were NOT AUTHORIZED BY THE WHITE HOUSE.
Which means that Obama's first reaction to the attack was not to "apologize for America" as Mittens claims.
Which means that Mittens is a fucking liar.
Asshole.
What I find amazing is that these wingnuts seem to think that every statement ever issued by an embassy is proofread by the President first.
If Obama had only attended the daily briefings instead of playing golf 24/7, this never would have happened.
Ah, but you see, if the Embassy spoke without authorization, then that proves Obama is weak and not in control of foreign policy.
If Obama says they spoke without authorization, of course, he's failing to back up his diplomats.
MIXED MESSAGES!!!!!
Damned if you do, damned if you're black.
But mostly the latter.
This.
He is firmly against any expression of religious hatred or intolerance.
Unless you want to fire a really sensitive gay dude, then, by all means, for Missouri Jesus, do it.
Missouri Jesus. I'm stealing that. Good one!
Is Missouri Jesus more or less tolerant than Arizona Jesus?
Missouri Jesus is hella talented since he turned all the Native Americans into black people, (but still we had Indians?) so he's better at parties. Arizona Jesus…is worried about getting deported.
My favorite Jesus is Dashboard Jesus. But Concrete Lawn Mary in the Blue Bathtub is my favorite statuary.
If I google this, will I go straight to hell? I's ascared of a bathing Virgin.
Remember B-1 Bob and his grotto?
http://rackjite.com/web/conservanazis.htm
Good times… *sniff*
I thought Missouri Jesus turned the Native Americans into Jooz?
Actually, and I hate myself for knowing this, but it was Jews into Polynesians in to black people – mark of Cain and whatnot. I think this is right anyway, but who the hell knows what these people think?
Why are you injecting your personal views about sexuality like that? Typical "liberal tolerance."
Injected sexuality is my favorite kind.
Biting fucking lip.
Am I going to have to get out the garden hose I threatened to turn on SorosTaken?!
Ur doin it rite.
Duz UR body reject the injection like my friend Akin says?
I find your ideas fascinating, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Injected sexuality is the only thing available to me these days.
Just don't share the needle.
No no, it's available in pill form now. Lot cheaper if you aren't too fussy about off brand packaging from India.
That's what she said.
There; I did it. So Sue me. No, seriously, where in the hell is Sue?
Oh, boy. Missouri Jesus is a good one, Fakakta. He who cometh from Branson.
St. Louis and KC are like the gay pierced nipples on an otherwise pristine backwater Missouri Jesus.
Romney didn't mention God or prayer in his condemnation of religious intolerance. Or in his support for religious intolerance. He hates America. Also loves it. Mostly hate, it seems.
It's Benghazitown, Jake
He loves and hates America, as he loves and hates himself.
Honestly, I don't know what is causing this ringing in my ears. I want to blame it on my blood pressure and reading the statements of this asshole. I hope it goes away after the election. It is A. NOY. ING.
Have you been feeling any desire for someone to show you the way? A ringing in the ears is well known to precede the desire to have someone show you the way.
Well, not really. It is in the right ear so I just sort of turn right and run in a circle.
Well, there's your problem. You need to turn LEFT.
Always go left, or gaily forward. NEVER go right, or straight.
Jesus Fuck this is a Peter Frampton reference, can noone run with that so we can have fun with it?
I was raised to hate Peter Frampton and that mouth thing he has. It's stupid. Anyway, I was just waiting to do some other stuff, and had about oh, you know, about 15 minutes here, so I thought I would tell you, boooooo. It's better than "do you feel like I do?" on and on, but still, Gross. He was on the Bee Gee's Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band movie. (Steve Martin was too!) I watched that movie over and over and over when I was little, on cable. I loved Barry Gibb so much. So, I guess what I am saying is, don't let me give you any shit about Peter Frampton, even though I will try, but he still sucks.
So you're the one who saw that movie?? It got such notoriously bad reviews when it came out, I thought they burned all the prints! Although I hear Earth Wind & Fire showed everybody up on "Got To Get You Into My Life."
It was the presence of Elton John that just destroyed that movie for me. God he has become something of a treasured old queen now, just like the Queen, and Queen, for that matter, but back then, I was trained to hate Elton for I was into the Deep Purple too much.
Pardon me, I guess I'm butt dialing.
That's so 90's. Back when phones had buttons. I am always so annoyed when I have to launch the phone app and try and get ten digits out of a voicemail. I've been to lunches where we have to unlock and share phones to record contact data.
"I've been to lunches where we have to unlock and share phones to record contact data."
What kind of lunches do you go to, "for Pete's sake?"
Corporate. The IT department has a policy where any phone that connects to the networked must be locked via pin and remotely wipeable.
A new unit of measurement – one Romney: The energy required to take all possible positions on a given issue.
Predicted by String Theory, of course.
As in Stringing Along The Right Wing Nutz?
The Romney Boson.
The force-carrying particle of White Energy.
The Mitt Boson. The God-like Particle.
Also known as the Anti-Dog Particle. It is a quark with anti-charm and spin of both +ħ/2 and −ħ/2, or u↑↓. Decaying, it emits naively massless particles known as "statements" or "press conferences."
That would be like a Type VI on the Kardashev Scale.
Honestly, Romney is kinda like Schrodinger's cat… except if when you took the top off the box, instead of being either dead or alive, the cat somehow managed to continue being both dead and alive at the same time. With Romney, though, it's positions on issues.
Romney is adopting a strategy of principled uncertainty. The principle being, "I'll say whatever will get me elected."
He's more like Schroedinger's dead cat, trying to bounce
Sorry for tooting my own horn, but that's known as Romneypresence now.
And following that, Romneyvolent, which is to be so ignorant of everything that one is ignorant of one's own ignorance. See: "Corporations are people, my friend."
That just totally blew my mind, man. Like, that was all out there in the ether and some junk. Whooaaaa, dude….
More consequences are predictable through Special Relativity: as Romney starts to espouse every possible position on the issue, the contraction of his support base accelerates.
"American leadership needs to be decisive and resolute when our interests are threatened or attacked. For the last four years, this has been lacking."
Oh for fucks sake, just stop it. OBL, drones in Pakistan, etc., etc. Nothing decisive or resolute there.
In GOP-neocon-fantasyland, "decisive" and "resolute" mean spending billion$$$ waging war.
You know, real war — with troops, tanks, missiles, and thousands dying, villages leveled, and tough stuff like that. Not that sissy drones-on-wedding-parties stuff.
"Or indecisive and irresolute, if that's what you want me to say. Can I see those talking points again?"
Wow, they had a chance to reframe the second set of questions so that they looked like less than total douchebags, and they still failed?
You can't hide douchebaggery. Put a cherry on top and it's just douchebaggery with a cherry on top. Put in it a $1000 suit and it's just douchebaggery in a $1000 suit. Send it off on a fact-finding tour of Israel and it's still just douchebaggery on a fact-finding tour of Israel.
Minus the suit, though.
Put it in a lead lined box and drop it in the Marianas Trench and that motherfucker is hid. Speaking of which, where is my lead lined box…?
HAHAHAHA…The repubs are now slipping his memos to the lamestream media to embarass Mitt…How's the view from under the bus, Mr. Romney?
Exactly what just happened. They're already posturing for 2016!
Never hurts to have a Plan B.
~ Anonymous Dreamy Blue-eyed Rep from WI
But Republicans are against Plan B, and all other forms of
contraceptionabortion.Unless you're a woman.
Aren't Republicans opposed to Plan B?
Paul/Pawlenty 2016 ! That's Rand, of course. Ron will be Sec. of Treasury in the Paul administration.
Mudflaps from every direction.
"They hate us for our movies."
doesn't quite sound like the full story.
Oh, yeah? Have you seen 'Showgirls'?!
Excellent point. Nudity never looked so bad
"They hate us for our movies."
You realize, of course, that I have no choice but to steal that.
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.” -Picasso
Me, too.
I'm pretty sure that "Titanic", which is popular in every country EXCEPT the U.S.
Nobody liked "Ishtar". Still, this is taking it to an extreme…
And, they'd be morally right to do so. I mean, have you seen any of Adam Sandlers later movies?
"We are standing by what we said by coming up with a million things to say other than the thing we said."
/COURAGE
Is Romney going to make it to November?
Shit. He's only been running for about 10 yrs now. He'll make it to 2016 – and BEYOND!!!!
Word is, he'll retroactive retire from the race
Aw man, I was just starting to get used to this timeline, and now he has to go and retroactively fuck everything up again? I swear, if I wake up one day and the Sliders gang are staring me in the face, I'm going to be so pissed.
It doesn't look good for Rmoney making it to next Tuesday.
And when do we start to see calls for him t o step aside and let Santorum take his place?
It's really for the good of the party. Maybe we could persuade Megs McCain to weigh in on this.
One hates to think of what might replace rMoney were he to drop off the ticket.
Dig up Reagan. No one will know the difference.
Won't work: for some reason, lots of people liked Reagan and thought he was a great guy on a personal level. The difference between him and Mittens would be immediately apparent…
Hologram Reagan!
Sarah Palin is still waiting for her phone to ring.
"Sarah? It's Barack. My stick is too big for you…..please quit calling…."
Epic
I really don't think so.
That depends on how southerners interpret the Book of Revelation.
Some poor billionaire is going to drag his lifeless, battered campaign across the finish line.
Best possible answer; "Obama has been blaming poor ol' Preident Bush for over three years, and we believe it's only fair if we blame Obama now. Hey, Look over there, is that rude person saying mean things about Mr. Romney?". It's the kind of response that may have legs in certain parts of the country.
Memo to Romney:
Governor,
How does it feel to be on your own
with no direction home?
But…not a COMPLETE unknown!
"I hear wolves at night."
Once upon a time
he dressed so fine
built an auto elevator
in his home…
Except that no matter where Romney faces, he has at least one home in that direction.
A man with too many homes spends too much time on the campaign trail.
-not Confucius
I really love this. And I are an English major, so my opinion really counts.
And I am a bleeding heart liberal, so your opinion really counts even if you is an English major. : >)
Bestest.
"You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal ?"
Bolton?
The Siamese cat was Bolton's mustache.
Too funny.
You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know that BYU has rules about getting juiced in it
Nobody ever taught you how to go back to Wall Street,
But now you're gonna have to get used to it.
You used to be so confused
About Bernie Madoff and how he scammed the fools
But now you see he was a good capitalist cat
And all the time he was where it's at
After they've taken away all your magic drawers
This calls for a few choruses of Idiot Wind. It's a wonder he can breathe
I woke up in the Cayman's daydreaming about the interest I have earned
Visions of Ann's chestnut mare shoot through my head and are making me feel spurned
He knows there's something happening
But he don't know what it is.
Well, he's from Function…from Function Junction – where the Function Junction suction cups are made….
"Governor Romney." So, if you hold a position at some point in your life, you get to keep the title?
In keeping with this, I would like to ask you all to start addressing me as Machinery Repairman Second Class Petty Officer Flagass for the rest of eternity, to reflect my 30-years-ago patriotism and service to country. Thank you.
Yes sir!
*salute*
No "sir" is required; we enlisted swine did not rate that term…
Then I'll be Colonel Cleopatriot to you. Not that I was ever in the Armed Forces. I'm a Kentucky Colonel.
"When they make a sailor a CPO they take out all his brains,
An inject a gallon of vinegar and mustard in his veins."
Too much…..howzabout
MRSCPOF?
Mister Scope Off?
Actually, they abbreviate the rating (as you did) and then append the pay grade. So I was an MR2. Or as my shipmates called me, "Mister Two."
We will. Until you get a more prestigious gig. That's how it works.
— Honorary City Attorney SoBeach (thanks to that 6th grade essay contest I won)
While you may at times be Petty, I think it's safe to say you're really First Class. Please accept our gratitude and (fake) promotion. Plus, here's another 'p.'
Actually, I think that's actually true, at least for elective offices, though not for, say, parliamentary functions within an elective body. So "Congressman Gingrich' is appropriate, but "Mr. Speaker Lardball" is not.
http://www.formsofaddress.info/former.html
I sit corrected!
I shall have Mr. Drumknott send a missive to the Low King of the Dwarves informing him that he should immediately cease referring to Commander Sam Vimes as "Blackboard Monitor Vimes."
Then again, Dwarfish notions of words and their permanence/erasability may very well take precedence.
Now you made me cry and my cheap eyeshadow is burning my eyes.
I am madly in love with you now.
Former office holders go back to whatever they were before they were governor. In the saluation use:
Dear Mr./Ms./etc. (name):
Only a Governor in office is formally and officially addressed as Governor (name). The reason? There is only one Governor at at time, and it's not respectful of the current office holder to refer to former office holders as it they were still in office.
I know we hear newscasters referring to former governors as "Governor." But it is incorrect.
It's especially incorrect if the Governor in question never finished her first fucking term.
"Mr. Speaker Lardball" is on his birth certificate. I saw it. Longform.
Prove I didn't! Prove I didn't! Prove I didn't!
Tank Loader Corporal MosesInvests salutes you.
You may address me as "Prisoner 116/8, 9 after 6PM"
You are Number Six.
You may address me as Eighth Grade Salutatorian from here to eternity.
I was my high school senior class's Valetudinarian.
Yeah, but weren't you the only person in your graduating class? </alaskajoke>
GT[R]:
Look, Jackson, I didn't waste my seven years in high school!
USAF medical officer stuck for two years in the ass end of nowhere (Dante's tenth level of hell) treating gungho psychoticly suicidal B52 pilots who couldn't wait for the order to go drop 40 or 50 megatons of flaming death on the Russkies. "doc" SIR to all lower life forms. Not to mention the little known fact that the sign on the entrance to the AF base in Dr Stranelove was absolutely accurate – "Peace is Our Profession". You cannot make this stuff up.
In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364.
May you find comfort in the thoughts of others.
I dunno, at least in the 60's, SAC's motto would not have been all that unfamiliar.
Not that Kubrick didn't play the irony for all it was worth :)
You certain? When I was USAF, the (unofficial?) motto was "war is our profession. peace is our product."
Definitely more palatable.
Mayor, Governors, Legislators, Senators, Congressmen all seem to qualify – don't know if there are hard a fast rules on it.
In the Army at least it was only Field Grade Officers and Master Sergeants and above – but my memory is not that good and I didn't care when I was supposed to know it.
You don't have to call me Lieutenant, Rosie …
I never jest, and don't call me Shirley.
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'….
So does that mean that everybody can call me "Idiot Who got the Half-ton Stuck Up to the Tits in Mud on A Hot Friday Afternoon Just Before Quitting Time Chichikovovich"?
'Cause I thought it was just the guys in my old pipeline crew who could call me that.
Christ, we can barely type out your nym as it is NOW.
I think that reflects your superiority over Governor Romney. I speak on behalf all whom Romney "governed."
Hey, we have a deal. I call him Governor and he calls me Admiral.
Oh, finally now someone can tell me: does Executive Director sound more prestigious than Grave Digger Toomush, 'cause I'm really not sure, anymore…..
I'll just call you Admiral. It's easier and is a tribute to Custer.
Boy Scout Second Class Foxtrot
Poor Mittens the more he talks the less Americans like him.Can't wait for the debates.
His defensive prickishness and smirking arrogance should be in full-bloom by then.
I'd love to have video as his debate handlers approach the prickly subject of his smarmy arrogance and smirkiness…
It does seem that the state of political discourse has become, in short, like our neighborhood homeless guy, Jonah, where you scream out your protestations while sprinkling GOD in every other empty space.
You would think that a guy who has been in constant crisis mode since the primaries would know by now how to deal with one.
BTW Mittens, a real crisis isn't just when the US gubbiment is closing down your foreign tax shelters.
Cayman Islands: the one place on earth that will not see an American landing.
And don't forget to smirk.
If pressed: Thank you. I need to be on the floor of the (House/Senate/hot housewife next door) for a (vote/quickie).
Foley managed to get both on the House floor at the same time!
If pressed: Wah wah wah. I'm a little girl.
He is firmly against any expression of religious hatred or intolerance.
Isn't this exactly what the message of the tweet in question was?
Yes. But it was said in the wrong context (with an angry mob outside). Conciliation is only allowed AFTER you've mowed down the heathen bastards with a General Electric GAU-17/A minigun.
Dillon Aero M134 libel!
Gen Elec also made the M134. GE's were the only ones I ever saw in Vietnam.
If I'm not mistaken, Dillon invented it. I've shot with one of the engineers.
But it's totally different when it's not coming from Romney! When Romney says it, it's an expression of tolerance. When someone connected to the current administration (or at least, the current administration's State Department) says it, it's a sign of weakness.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU LIBTARDS?!
He was against it before he was for it (and before he will be against it again, like he always was).
Yeah but FIRBST ABMENDBMENT!!1! Anti-Muslim hate speechers are the real heroes here.
I know. I am SO confused.
I wonder how Egg feels being married to the frying pan.
Bishop Romney used to take one position after another on a particular issue — I'm glad he's found a more efficient system by taking them all simultaneously now.
He can handle multifailing.
I love that picture. I'm just surprised he didn't make another black guy kneel so Willard could sit on HIM. Because I bet Mittens & Ann have human furniture in all their houses to go with their car elevators.
He doesn't really need a shoeshine. He's hoping eventually the shoeshine guy will tell him he saw Obama drown someone in the woods during a baptism. (I'm assuming here that Mitt has HBO.)
Bravo for your Boardwalk joke!
The trouble is that gentiles are soooo unattractive & hard to match up with the rest of the decor. And one can't justify using fellow Mormons as furniture when they ought to be out reproducing.
" Distancing themselves from the statement and saying it wasn’t ‘cleared by Washington’ reflects the mixed signals they are sending to the world."
He's not wrong about this. Distancing himself from the statement was pretty friggin' craven on Obama's part.
Here is the first statement issued by either Obama or Clinton at 10:44 9/11/12:
"I condemn in the strongest terms the attack on our mission in Benghazi today. As we work to secure our personnel and facilities, we have confirmed that one of our State Department officers was killed. We are heartbroken by this terrible loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and those who have suffered in this attack.
This evening, I called Libyan President Magariaf to coordinate additional support to protect Americans in Libya. President Magariaf expressed his condemnation and condolences and pledged his government’s full cooperation.
Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.
In light of the events of today, the United States government is working with partner countries around the world to protect our personnel, our missions, and American citizens worldwide."
This is the first statement issued by Obama's office or the State Department. The 'alleged' "[S]tatement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government," an administration official told POLITICO <a href="http://.http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/09/white-house-disavows-cairo-apology-135247.html?hp=t4_7” target=”_blank”>.http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/09/white-house-disavows-cairo-apology-135247.html?hp=t4_7 is curiously very shortly after Romney's “I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks,” subsequently at 10:25 PM Romney who had embargoed the statement until 12:00 AM to comply with the agreement that neither would make a political statement on 9/11 – releases the statement.
I strongly suspect the real culprit in this fuck up was Politico who may have conveyed a completely disjointed statement from some "Obama Administration" blow hard and gave it to Romney's campaign for comment. Then when Romney's campaign reviewed it they decided to make a political statement.
In other words – as false as any anonymous source can be – Romney was way out of line to represent "The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government," was a statement that was "the Obama administration's first response" NOW THAT's CRAVEN (Saturday Mornings 10:00 on Nickelodeon.)
thanks JMC. I was unaware of what the source of the "disavowing" claim was. That does rather change things doesn't it?
Great comment.
On MSNBC, Krystal Clear (who wears far too opaque clothing) said earlier that the Politico ‘source’ is single and never should have been used. The fact that Judith Miller never had to pay for her discretions seems to have made many in journalism very lax. I’m not in journalism but have had to talk to a few over the years and, years ago, a single source would never have been accepted for a policy statement if he wanted anonymity. At least two would have been required and only one if they were willing to go on the record.
Thanks! Main article updated!
Really appreciate the timeline and analysis. Thank you.
Special edition prepared for Fox News:
Q: Is it surprising that a President who hates America would have invited Islamic terrorists to murder our diplomats and then apologized to them when Americans tried to put up a fight?
And why if the Liberal Media criticizing Mitt Romney for pointing this out?
jz: There is a right wing nut over on Amazon (See "kait's" comments under "dukeno1's" review of "The Amateur" ) who is saying exactly that. And she believes it, because she whines when critisized for it.
They are all over the place. I'm thinking of dragging out programming tools I haven't used in five years to build an ActiveX addon which will automatically blank any 'comments' section from an online news article. Programming the addon isn't that hard but defining the variables is.
I expect to get rich.
Todd Akin is going with this, or course
Ugh. I think I'm going to have permanent nausea until November.
Although, I suppose I should, since I like to think of myself as an existentialist.
Gonna be a looooooong 54 days though.
It will go a lot faster then you expect. Barring another Florida in 2000 or Ohio in 2004 the day after is going to be a significant day of reckoning.
So find a place to start rolling that rock up that hill. It will be won in the ground game.
Also, my god, the "Romney Full Statement" needs a motherfucking editor. Who wrote that shit, Jennifer Rubin?
She may have been in the room, if by "may have been in the room," I mean "banging the back of her head on the bottom of the middle desk drawer."
Wow, it is truly mind-boggling that the campaign released that without even bothering to have anyone proofread it. I mean, even Rafalca could have written something with fewer glaring errors and a more sincere tone. If they can't even get out a legible statement, how the hell do they expect to deal professionally with matters of state?
Ah, but you forget… the Alpha and Omega of these "matters of state" under the Romney Administration would be signing the Infinite Tax Cut and subsequent War on the Poor into law. Everything – and everyone – else would be an afterthought.
That's not a statement. That's a leaked internal memo. Since it's meant to make them look bad, leaving the errors in helps.
Fair enough. I withdraw my criticism. But I sure hope someone deliberately put the errors in, rather than left them in, for even as a scribbled draft that would cause me to have concerns about my writers.
You don't need to proofread a bombing run.
Bomb first, aim later…
But Col. Cathcart insisted on practice runs on The Great Big Siege of Bologna.
A vote for Romney is a vote for World War 3.
This was the best that Luntz could come up with? Or did the genius that advised him to dive into this guns blazing line up all this comedy gold? It amazes me, (no easy task that) that this guy just walks into mine field after mine field without a clue as to why things keep getting blowed up. I had always credited the wealthy with a certain mental focus or acuity that got them where they were (or lack of ethics and possessing huge brass balls) and this guy totally disproves that. If Jethro Bodine were a little more articulate he would be Mittens on the campaign trail.
Romney didn't have to "get where he was," he simply had to stay where his Daddy left him, coasting on connections enough to get in with the most rapacious gang in town.
"Well fuck me runnin'. I guess the darkie's gonna git another term." – some Teabagger today, somewhere.
Mittbott's frustration chip is overheating because of human units that cannot simultaneously store all positions on all issues in their RAM.
Somebody really wrote some bad code into his software.
Some where, IBM's Watson is thrashing its "head" into a wall saying…."fuck this shit, I could run a better campaign than this asshole".
It's HAL 9000 all over again.
WMR 0000
The real victim here is of course Mitt Romney, not the dead people who were obviously killed by our own side.
Damn Liberal Media are the real terrorists.
face it GOP – he out-Palin'ed Palin as far as tactless stupidity!
No, Palin's 'he should grow a big stick' comment is so cheap, so breathtakingly trashy, that it raises the bar for tactless stupidity. The Thrilla from Wasilla remains the one true champ.
well that was just typically dumb of her – but to say the Prez is "sympathizing with the killers" right at the moment the horrible event happened, that's just unprecedentedly awful. That's like in 1941 saying FDR sympathizes with the Japanese & Hitler, or in 1861 saying Abe Lincoln sympathizes with the Confederate States of America etc. Or hell, right on 9/11/2001, a major political figure saying Bush was friends with the hijackers.
Are you saying Paul Ryan should have chosen a running mate more wisely?….
And in conclusion Mitt Romney would like to add, DERP!
And the clown car rolls on. Here is Pat Oliphant this morning.
Send in the dancing ponies!
"Shiver and say the word,
Of every position you've heard."
Send Mitt to the Prancing Pony! Oh wait, they serve "a beer so brown" there, so that's out.
If pressed: mittbot overflow, mittbot overflow, mittbot overflow, mittbot overflow, mittbot overflow,…
"Um, please excuse us, Governor Romney will be taking no more questions…"
Also: no more questions.
American leadership needs to be decisive and resolute when our interests are threatened or attacked. For the last four years, this has been lacking.
The original version of the talking point continued:
"Because the measure of resoluteness is the degree of empty bluster your shouted pronouncements contain. Remember that after 9-11, the President who had truly kept America safe made it clear to Bin Laden that the President wanted him "Dead or Alive". He made it clear that "We're gunna get 'im." You can be sure that this powerful message struck fear into Bin Laden. And for the past four years, the most recent occupant of the Oval Office has said nothing like that."
It's been at least a year since I've heard Obama say we ought to capture OBL. I guess he's just not as resolute as Bush was…
I am strangely comforted when I see others take notice of Bush's hugely phony cowboy posturing: "We're gunna get 'im."
The morning of 9/11, I was driving to work, when I heard him utter, "We're gunna get the folks that did this." FOLKS?! FOLKS!? (As if the terrorists were just your misguided aunt and uncle!)
Y'know, I sort of get this image of Romney campaign headquarters emptying out into choppers on the roof, a la the American embassy in Saigon some forty years ago…
From your lips to FSM's durum ears…
Paul RAyn is still running for his House seat in Wisconsin.
Dude may not be as dumb as he looks…
Why on earth would any of them do that? The checks are still cashing, the Koch money flowing, and the republican base is still a dumb as a sack of doorknobs. Yes, Mittens shot himself in the foot, repeatedly, but stupid and rich doesn't evaporate. That only happens when the money runs out. That won't happen unless and until Mitt really fucks up in one of the debates. Even then the checks will cash until the day after the election is called. All bets off afterwards.
Blood in the water.
The upshot of the Citizens United ruling = lobotomies for everyone.
Abortions for some, tiny American flags for others.
-If pressed, quote Tom Waits: I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
The Romney Camp can't have their croquembouche and eat it too.
I had some of that in Narbonne years ago. Don't remember how it tasted, but I'll never forget the delicious calvados that we washed it down with. Part of me is still hung over from that evening.
That sounds like a memorable evening! I chose it to honor Mittens since it is terribly French and looks terribly expensive.
Maybe Twit should start drinking coffee. It helps we humans substantially.
United Arab Emirates Save Las Cruces from Missile Attack by Gallup!!
http://www.elpasoinc.com/news/q_and_a/article_1e9…
Tucson was 'AWED', I guess. http://azstarnet.com/news/local/tucsonans-awed-by…
Others were either 'awed', or 'confused'. https://www.google.com/news?ncl=dIub7M3Z34FlPeM3O…
The more Mittens swings his nutsack and babbles, "'Merka doesn't 'pologize for nuthin!!111!" the more he fuels Middle Eastern anti-American protests. CNN is reporting anti-American protests today in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Sudan, Tunisia and Morocco. Apparently, Mitt the Twit doesn't realize what he says is being reported around the world. Mitt's first foreign policy accomplishment is to unite the Muslim world in protests against the U.S. Keep fuckin' that chicken Mitt!
Or, Keep fucking those chickens, Mittens.
In his "A Modest Proposal" Jonathan Swift makes mention of how the flesh of dead Irish children "will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen."
Well hold on a second, partner… If this Mitt feller is so hated by these Mooslims, maybe I should vote for the guy. I think he said he like NASCAR too!
Who would you rather have a beer with???
Nahh, Mitt's bloviations are probably irrelevant over there. They have plenty of their own loonies to stir up shit.
Some days I feel like John Cleese in the Dead Parrot sketch.
"You poked him."
"No I didn't."
"You did, you did!"
Or Mitt's campaign as the entirety of "Fawlty Towers"? Especially the one with the rat.
"Is not rat, is hamster!!"
It's beginning to look like Rmoney's campaign has slipped this mortal coil and joined the choir invisible.
The Administration was wrong to stand by a statement sympathizing with those
who had breached our embassy in Egyptwho were trying to save their lives from a crazed mob who were trying to kill them.Fixed.
The Romney domino theory is in effect. It cannot be stopped.
Is it too early to call the election a slam dunk?
Yes. Show up and vote anyhow. Bring friends, call relatives, anyone, this isn't over until it is officially called. Until that large stake is driven through (official results) don't take *anything* for granted.
Hey look! His pants are on fire!
With votes?
As well as his tuba. http://ardor.net/master/data/magrit/02.jpg
Siegfried is on in the background.
I always get a kick out of Siegfried taking off Brunnhilde's magic underwear and going WTF? This dude's all bumpy, I'm scared. I guess I'll have to kiss him. Then at the end they invent the tuba and set Brunnhilde on fire.
It's a shameless ploy to get the Burning Man vote.
And the "Wish You Were Here" fanbase.
Do you think he can tell?
That's cause he's a liar, liar.
I'll just leave this here for any Debbie Harry fans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DERZPGBIIO8
Romney Aide: Damnit! I told you we should have used that oil can, earlier
Holy hell, this is painful to watch and I can't even stand Romney. Is it possible that he is this idiotic? The answer is yes, yes it is. *face palm*
I count at least six violations of the PATRIOT Act in Mitt's statements.
Superposition.
This, from a Buzzfeed story about the Romney camp turning on the press in the last 24 hours, I found hysterically funny:
[A senior Romney adviser], granted anonymity to criticize a press corps the campaign still relies on every day, went on to blame a "green room, green zone kind of divide," saying the national press, most of whom live in New York or DC, "pockets of prosperity," are isolated from the realities of the harsh economy — and therefore, unable to grasp Romney's message.
Tell them that' there's 'Two Americas', Mitt. That should work.
I think "Pockets of Prosperity" was a gyro shop on 2nd Avenue that closed in 2009. As did many, many other businesses in NYC.
I thought "pockets of prosperity" were always sewn into Romney's tailor-made suits.
I hate those pill-popping puny purple-peckered pricks from pockets of prosperity.
This reminds me of what happened when Hillary's primary campaign went into a tailspin, only this is a million times worse. Obama has the either the talent or simply it's just how he is, but he absolutely confounds his opponents. I've always been one to deride the 11-dimensional chess bull, but it doesnt' seem like bull when he's in campaign mode.
well since this is the wonkette i don't really know which part was supposed to be the funny – the indented part was pretty damn funny on its own, but the commentary too.. nobody can be that stupid all the time can they? how come he never got run over by a bus
That might be an excuse for this. Maybe he was run over by a bus. He is surely throwing himself under one now.
There, for awhile, I truly thought the indented part was Wonkette commentary.
Or his chauffeur.
Drivers of the short bus are trained to be especially careful about their passengers.
"When pressed, ask yourself who is the motherfucker doing the pressing and ask Roger Ailes if their pressing credentials can be revoked."
"Distancing themselves from the statement and saying it wasn’t ‘cleared by Washington’ reflects the mixed signals they are sending to the world."
Fair warning – if Mitt Romney is elected, no one is allowed to offer any opinion not cleared by Washington.
Willard Mitt Romney – fiercely battling straw men so that you don't have to.
But I like eating… I mean battling… straw men.
In life there are many things
Some of them are the same and some are opposites
About some of these things I do sing
A cactus is the opposite of a chair
In my house you can sit anywhere but there
especially if your ass is bare
A bird house is not the same as a bird home
one is much more comfortable for birds
These are sames and opposites my friends
which I determined
A musical is the same as a burlap sack
I would not want to be in either
A squirrel is the same as a can
when there's a BB gun in my hand
Can't you see that I am just a man?
With distinctions and comparisons
Spare change is the same as wedgies for me
I don't give it unless someone's really asking
Saying I apologize is the very same
as saying I'm sorry, they're the same
Unless you're at a funeral
To live is the same as to dream
If you do both long enough you'll see
But you have to work in between
Unless you have narcolepsy
(That was a boring solo)
Earrings are the same as sneezes
Two is okay but ten in a row is annoying
If you have two then God bless you
These are sames and opposites my friends
which I have determined
A secret admirer is the same as a stalker
With stationery
An ex-girlfriend is the same as an okay movie
I liked it at the time but I don't want to see it again
Especially if the movie was kind of a bitch
These are sames and opposites my friends
which I have determined
So far
I am both amazed and completely unimpressed.
Starting in early November, Mittens will have plenty of time to work on his movie "The Mountain Meadows Massacre; The Other Side of the Story."
It'll be his "Battlefield Earth!" I don't think he'll find enough Mormon actors to fill the roles.
Albums You Won't Find In Mitt's Record Collection #4: http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/0…
I got this, which given Mitt's processor errors, seems appropriate:
Error 404 – Not Found
Sorry 'bout that, though it works in Chrome. ;-)
Weird… That's what I use.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cLxnR3lIheA/SAlRtY8OUQI…
You know, Zoom, you have a knack for this stuff. Remember: There's big money to be made as a talking point writer for Romney! And you clearly have a gift.
You could have a whole front lawn full of rusted Chevy Impalas if you play your cards right.
The best talking points writer for Romney would have to have multiple personality disorder just to cover all of Romney's many, diverse, conflicting perspectives.
Six feet under in a Yorba Linda grave, Richard Nixon's skeleton is turning green with envy.
But…but… my front lawn is barely big enough for just the one already!
Mitten$ just lost the election.
Oh, my freaking lack of god. I wanted to snark, I really did, but words have failed me.
Face it leotards, you have no chance against Mitt's White-Shirted Door Knocking Monochromatic Mosaic Army!
http://lifeinlabels.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/m…
Just wait, we have our own atheist door knockers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U58wgn-9Y3c
LOL!
Brilliant! 5 minutes well spent
Mitt Romney, Flibbertigibbet.
Mitt's solution to the world's troubles: More Calico! http://i.huffpost.com/gen/452240/ROMNEY-CARD-1.jp…
GET THOSE POOR CHILDREN AWAY FROM THE ROBOTS!
Doesn't that photo say it all? Conformity, order, smugness, grandpa's wandering hands…
It scares me that it might NOT be 'shopped.
Makes me almost nostalgic for GHW Bush's "little brown ones." Almost, but not quite. Needz moar Mestizo.
Actually, gingham and polka-dots, but that is a horrifying picture.
Note to self: research gingham.
Okay I recognize 2 of the 3 adults out of uniform. Is the other woman a nanny or Ann's sister wife?
Someone should take this stupid movie and re-dub it again as the "Innocence of Jesus" and put it up on YouTube and see how Christians like having THEIR religion ridiculed.
Not sure if Mormon males are circumcised (pretty sure it's mandatory for the females, though), but Mitt has stepped on his dick so many times the job has been done by now.
Sooo…. one right and one wrong make a right?
There must be a moral lesson here somewhere.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
I can see why the Repubs miss Reagan so much- his Hollywood training enabled him to get the line right with one take.
The budgets of most of his movies couldn't afford the shooting of more than one take.
"But we will not apologize for our constitutional right to freedom of speech."
Better: "But we will not make craven, cowardly apologies to Muslins for our freedumb, as some – such as black Muslins from Kenya – would."
OT. This just in…
Wasilla studmuffin and latest conquest Sunny Oglesby brought Breeze Beretta Johnston into the world.
cripes, these people up there
Well, at least Sarah's youngest will have a playmate.
One of my sisters lived about an hour's drive down the road from Wasilla during the '80s, and loved it up there, but moved to Washington state when, in her words, "Alaska required drinking the real estate developers' Kool-aid."
Dok, you kind of buried an interesting story. The link to the atlanticwire.com is not about the people who produced the film, but about the Glenn-Beck-like character in Egypt who turned his gullible Arab viewers into an angry mob over that goddamned, stupid, piece-of-shit youtube.
You mean the guy who finally Copt to not being Jewish after all, or am I confusing him with another fraud? There's so many juggled oranges to keep track of with this lot.
Yes, I know– the story was too good to ignore, but also not something I'm able to snark on. And there is some stuff about the filmmakers, at least.
But yes, the link was a halfassed way of bringing the story to you guys' attention.
Talk about a sad, sad thing to be: The Glenn Beck of Radical Islam. (shudder)
I continue to be gobsmacked with anger over the manipulations behind all this, and that guy is making me even angrier.
I read the talking points. I just don't know how the GOP faithful can ever remember all those excuses for stupidity without eventually succumbing to terminal dementia. Wouldn't it just be easier to not lie and accept reality? Honesty, how does it work?
Mittens foreign policy will be based on bellicose rhetoric and cute catchphrases like "freedom fries".
I haven't read all the comments but the cspan prankster must have been right. The willardbot must have an enormous penis because be keeps stepping on it! Sorry. Dudes! I'm on a goddamned boat!
Why? (In ten words or less, please).
What. The penis thing ir the boat thing? I took a few days off. Have signal in the anchorage. Mr Stansbury handed me my phone to peruse my Wonkette. Instead of gazing at the milky way. Don't know why but here I am.
The penis thing was prank phone calls made to cspan that all ended up having to do with Mitt Romney's huge member. Funny stuff.
i am listening to random news and it seems appropriate to say here:
i am very glad hillz is in charge of our diplomats right now.
Doktor Zoom– did you know that fundamentalists (or at least the funereal-sounding firm of Gary Grimm & Assoc.) have their own version of Bingo called (sans irony) Jingo? Aye, 'tis true, and here's "The First Lady" version, no doubt dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Grover Cleveland. (Note how President Obama is not shown in the game, though he's in his 4th year in office.) http://www.christianbook.com/presidents-first-lad…
Just wanted to say thanks for all your linkies. I'm really enjoying them!
Thanks, but not as much as I get a kick out of your comments and screen name!
Yipes! "The Presidential and First Lady Jingo is updated until our 43rd president, George W. Bush."
Huh. And it has not been updated past that, for some reason. What on earth are they going to do when the next President takes office? Just skip over the Kenyan Usurper altogether, with an asterisk on the box noting that historians like Joe Arpaio and Dr. Jerome Corsi, PhD have determined that he wasn't legally Preznit anyway?
They'll do what they've always done: buy low and sell high.
"White President Jingo" sounds like a character from a 1935 satirical opera, portrayed by Paul Robeson in whiteface. Let's get to work on it!
Or perhaps "White President Jingo" can be another nickname for "Lord High Hairgel."
Did you ever read Cannery Row? The main character had a millionaire friend who was always mooching off of him- the millionaire's name was Jingleballicks…
And the review… "Must buy for a Homeschooling family". Oookay.
Mittbots have dicks? I would think this would be left off for economy, like a floppy disk drive.
Folks, I am not surprised by Mitt meltdown. As I have mentioned I had the "opportunity" to work closely with another famous executive turned Republican loser, Carly Fiorina. Her public persona, speeches, grooming was always perfect – but when customers asked her questions she stumbled badly, made shit up as she went along and got us into terrible trouble by over committing or just plain stupid shit.
Some of it was frankly so shocking – ie. insulting CEO's of customers – I could hardly believe what I was seeing.
These people are told they are hot shit day after day by legions of go-fers, consultants, managers, etc and they BELIEVE IT!
Actually, Mittens, in this race, it's never too soon to start working on your concession speech.
"You don't have my Swiss banks accounts to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."
..or my horse, Ann.
Old Mormons never die, they just fade away into the Melchizedek Priesthood.
…or maybe they just smell that way.
Especially because aides are going to start leaking unauthorized concession speeches pretty soon.
Fer sure, I would not be surprised. This is the gang that couldn't smear straight.
Or swear straight. Last I heard, Mitt's swear jar contained $4,000,000 before being lugged off by underpaid and underfed interns to the Cayman Islands.
Shit! That's almost as much as mine holds, but then I toss in a Dime a swear-word; a quarter for Motherfucker.
Maybe Lou Sarah can loan him one of her several drafts.
Her most prominent draft whistles through the empty corridors between her ears.
Hey Wonketteers, I am back from the NYC meet and greet, how beautiful all of us are, met some lovely people and had 2 Coca-Colas and took lots of pics, I was sobre as a judge so they will not be sideways or fuzzy, will send to Becca and she can post them tomorrow, she is still at the bar as are many others, including NounVerb and Mrs. Verb, Actor212, Beelzebubba , MumblyJoe et al.
Good job LL , can't wait to see the pics, hope everyone had a good to
time. <3
We appreciate your diligence. Getting to 44th & 9th on a Thursday night can be an awesome experience dodging all the 'ladies' heading toward the Lincoln Tunnel. But, Dayum! some of those shorts are well packed.
We raised a glass to you James. You were missed.
Thankx I appreciate the thought. But could you consider changing your user ID? It’s the combination to my wall safe. :)
It's also the self destruct code for Mitt Romney.
I lost your address. Oh, wait….
Somewhere, in a dark curtained room overlooking the sea, the fat lady is loosening up her pipes….
As Thomas Jefferson so memorably said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the hocked loogies of coloratura sopranos."
And, she's also getting ready to sing.
**rimshot**
Yes, and the only effective treatment is a series of blows to the head.
Are you suggesting the NFL expand again?
Paging Dr. Boojum! Paging Dr. Boojum!
We call that "corrective phrenology" in my family.
Apparently, Romney is a follower of Nicolai Vasiliev. At least now we know what world he will be ruling in the afterlife – the World of Null-A.
Wonkette is so educational…
When I first saw the name I wondered if that was the guy they named vacillation after, but the spelling is off & the word precedes the man by a few centuries…
Vasiliev outlined an abstract about the article on the "logic of relatives"
Mormons are really big on relatives. I don't like many of mine, frankly.
S'cuse me.
As I must leave to go to Fox Nation and lay a few brain bombs.
I love the tarded reactions to my comments and being banned, again.
See you on the other side.
Why are we even talking about Obama and Romney when it's plain as day that Ron Paul is going to carry all five trillion electoral college electors?
Lie back, pop open an RC Cola and think of England.
Point taken, but: what the fuck-fuck-fuckety-fuck is the administration doing disavowing the Cairo embassy's twitterings? I am personally in favor of insulting religious feelings, and would have preferred them to say something like "this movie is a puerile piece of tripe made by people without two brain cells to rub together". However, with a bunch of angry people outside your door who would like to persuade to please go home to bed, I can understand issuing the sort of emollient rubbish that has become standard in dealing with religious nutters of all stripes. To look on the bright side, I suppose this new mood of 1st amendment absolutism means we can expect a spirited defense of P.Z. Myers's right to abuse crackers from Mr Frothy any day now.
See update, and the longer comment by James Michael Curley (linked in update).
And again, The Salon article points to the same Politico article which seems to be the only source of 'disavowing.' With the significance of such a 'disavowing' 48 hours later is more than enough time for at least one journalist to confirm the 'administration official' and at least one other source to come forward. When this went down, hours before Clinton's official statement, there must have been a dozen people in the briefing, each with half a dozen aides. Yet no-one confirms it.
Ah. Yes. Abashed newbie was about to apologize for missing the update when I saw your and Dr Zoom's replies. I still can't find your original comment (the link doesn't work for me, and your replies I see to Gyrus are about something else). The "disavowal" seems to have spread beyond Politico and Salon; it has, natch, got to Breitbart. I shall read Salon with a more jaundiced eye in the future. I'm sorry, and ashamed. I think I'll go back to lurking for awhile.
No newbie worries needed, even — your comment actually was posted while I was typing the update! (Also, the reply is to TheGyrus's second comment, about 2/3 of the way down the first page of comments…)
So what I'd really like to know is why Egypt has apparently been cursed with TWO Egyptian Glenn Becks? Is there something still unresolved from when Pharaoh took too long to release the Jews from bondage a gazillion Passovers ago?
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/09/egy… http://wonkette.com/475939/the-jon-stewart-of-egy…
Nice catch! I believe it is a snafu with the licensing of Glenn Beck's batshit formulation in the Middle Eastern territories. Beck's lawyers thought it safer to just let it ride than to go over there and straighten things out.
Charlie Rose's program is dealing with this tonight. Defending Mittens is David Brooks. Ugh.
When in doubt blame the media, which is funny considering the media is owned by multinational corporations who's boards of directors Mitt hosts for weekend orgies.
Silly world, stop being so burlesque!
Complaining about "librul media" feeds the idiots' persecution complex. It makes them aggressive and pliable. "America the Great Satan" is used the same way on a similar mob of morons in the Middle East.
Why hasn't Reince Prebus (or Whatever) been fired for this:
http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e…
Because he is in step with a significant portion of the Party? Including its candidate?
Mitt Romney: The kind of President you could see yourself having a glass of milk with.
Beer production preceded milk production by at least 500 years.
QED Obama.
OT: Kansas board "considering" removing Obama from the ballot.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09…
http://cjonline.com/news/2012-09-13/kansas-panel-…
Oh for fuck's sake.
Are they jealous of Florida, Arizona, Texas, etc.?
In a state still burning witches, this won't be a big loss for the president. lol This will disenfranchize the two, whole Obama voters in Kanas.
I know, I know, Wichita/Kansas City libel!
…"there is substantial evidence showing that much of Mr. Obama's alleged birth certificates have been forged or doctored, and have not been confirmed as legally valid, true and accurate."
What IS the matter with Kansas?
I know Romney is rich, but according to the photograph above, he has bought Pink Floyd…? Wish you weren't here, Mitt.
Another prick in the Wall.
Mittens: I CAN HAZ TURD POLISHING?
Romney's Theorem: The stench of a turd decreases in direct proportion to how much tinsel is sprinkled on it.
Remember, voters: BUY 9 & THE 10TH ONE IS FREE!
(REUTERS) Republican candidate Mitt Romney continues to insist that the violence in Libya and Egypt was caused by President Obama's lack of interest in the recent passing of Hal David, lyricist of Romney's favorite song, "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head."
Romney's top foreign affairs advisor John Bolton is demanding that the State Department dispatch David's longtime partner Burt Bacharach immediately to Tripoli by camel caravan, "preferably with a full orchestra, but without that commie dupe Dionne Warwick."
You know, I created my Bacharch Pandora channel a good few years ago. One of the first ones I think. Also, too, I do not know the way to San Jose, but I might just drive up there some weekend when I'm bored, and listening to Pandora.
A 13 year old pal o' mine is really into the Henry Mancini channel on Pandora, for which I salute him. Have you seen the BBC history of easy listening documentary? Good stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmCw3fcZxg
Since I ain't got no TV, I'm watching that now. Of course If I end up driving up to San Jose, I'll have to swing thru Bakersfield and eat a chicken fried steak at Buck Owens old joint because I got plenty of that Bakersfield country on the Pandora.
Buck Owens rules
Talk about weakness. Raindrops Keep Falling In Over My Head
It isn't just weak, it's wet.
It seems like Mitt has a coward's idea of how a brave person would act and is trying to emulate that erroneous concept.
if the ONLY thing you're capable of doing is raising money, you should probably stay in venture capitalism and avoid politics.
Mitt should trying buying a president and not the presidency.
This whole brouhaha could still be solved if Mitt would just admit he is a Reptiloid from the Asteroid Belt. I will accept Ryan's silence to serve as his confirmation as well.
So this is what it looks like when an evil robot loses his shit. All we have to do is stay clear of its blast radius when it inevitably self-destructs to try and take us all down with it. Sarah Connor FTW.
Foolish liberals, don't you understand? Obama is apologizing to Muslims, who are evil, because Obama is evil and a Muslim and evilly hates America where all his stuff is. Stop trying to explain why he's not an evil Muslim evil person. I'm a conservative, dagnabbit! I don't want to be informed, I just want to be angry!
"That's the trouble with the liberal lamestream media: always paying attention to what we said, instead of what we say we said."
Breaking News: Seeing crashing poll numbers, and hoping to disassociate himself from his current failed branding, Mitt Romney has left the Republican Party, and will now run on the ballot line of the newly-minted "The Trees Are Too Damn High!" party.
This is probably too late in the thread to get the number of upfists it deserves.
lol! Yeah, it came too late.
Jimmy libel! http://gothamist.com/2012/09/14/jimmy_mcmillan_wi…
I'll drink to that!
There ain't enough lipstick in the world to put on this pig.
“No. It is never too soon to stand up for American values and interests.”
Which is why Jesus began doing so over two thousand years ago.
Enough! This is just research for Mitt's new book: The Kama Sutra of Political Posturing…it'll be out November 9th….
"Look! Over there! It's a Black man!" — Mitch Romney, Sideshow Barker, Snake Faire
Our Editrix is still asleep on my couch, so not sure when there will be a new Wonkette post, but it was a delightful time last night , I became slightly obsessed with getting a good photo of Wonketteer lurker "Jessica" who was this really attractive, smart and funny woman but I couldn't get a good shot of her, but finally managed, so sorry if I was a bit weird, Jessica, but it was for your own good!
I know. She just had such a fantastic face, really open and friendly, and I couldn't get a shot that showed her awesomeness.
It's never too soon to stand up for America, and there is never a bad time to get a shoeshine.
Lemme find one for you; http://www.monstermarketplace.com/lawn-ornaments-…
Everywhere that Italian people go, they bring these with them, and plant them on their front lawn, along with a grapevine and some tomatoes.
Jesus Christ, those things are expensive! I DO know people who have these though. Nice.
I was afraid to blink when I was looking at the angel statues.
Saint Francis- someone across a few streets has a really big one of him-it always seemed strange to me around here. When I lived in South Philly, it was expected to have religious stuff on your lawn. Also people have dinosaurs and bulls on their lawns(but they are homemade art) near me
See, its not really a bathtub, but it looks like a bathtub with the inside painted blue, so we say that for the Lulz. They are nearly mandatory in New Jersey. Its time you learned.
I suppose so. She looks like whatsername in the clam shell. Aphrodite? Whoever.
Where I grew up, it really was a bathtub. Buried halfway into the earth.
And the're off …
In the first turn it's Bathtub Virgin leading with Sacred Heart Jesus close and St. Francis running third.
around the clubhouse turn its Bathtub Virgin and Sacred Heart neck and neck with St. Francis pulling up on the outside.
It's a three way photo finish!
Hold on to your tickets as the Stewards review the films.
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In Silicon Valley, we dispense with the clam.
PayGun! YouR gOing to HeLl!111!11!
Botticelli Libel! He was reading Lucretius I think so Venus.
Can I just sit and listen to you two? I promise to be quiet.
Bet you really regret keeping that strobe light from the '70's.
+1 Sally Sparrow
You win.
We had them mounted on the side of everything except for the medevacs and the slicks. There was talks that a gunner and crew chief version, station mounted in the side bays for H models was coming soon but I never saw it. Also left a lot of that there and did not want to think about it again.1969, the year I went there, was a pivotal year in the deployment of new theories of war as prosecuted with helicopters. Changes seemed to happen every day. I recall seeing a night run by the DC-3 often referred to Puff the Magic Dragon and it was awesome. By the time I left I recall seeing the same run being done by a staggered line of three early Cobras and it basically made Puff obsolete.I did many drop offs and pickups and medevac and after the LZ was properly prepped you could find your way to it by seeing the glint off the brass laying on the ground.
I just looked it up on Wikipedia, really.
They haven't been around lately. What could they be up to? Hengh.
Where is Neilist when we need him?
Interesting. I guess the guy we shot with (who was in his mid-80s) worked on the M134D.Sent from my iPad
I'm imagining a car full of shrieking queers, trying to navigate. :)
You must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
It would look just like NASCAR. Always turning left.
Maybe they still have a hangover from the Philly Wonkette meet – up.
I think you mean what could they have gotten to be up.
Duh, that because you're cool, ttommy.
Poly Nesians? You mean there's more of 'em?!
Naw, I just learned from the very best: our Military's NCO Professionals.Sent from my iPhone
Since we're doing tangents, let's not forget that a young Bob Dornan "starred" in the boringest movie ever put on celluloid, The Starfighters
Don't crap in your hand,
crap in your Poopy Suit!
Damn straight, chum.
I miss The Count :(
She's half American and half Polynesian. She's Amnesian.
In a hypothetical sense, of course?
Are you implying that her pregnancies were not all full-term?
We have always been at war with Amnesia…where is Amnesia?
I forget.
Not full term if you go by the Right wing Christian Fundy definition."Life begins at Erection".
I was afraid of the Aerosmith part. But, NOW, of course Come Together is one of my very favorite songs.
Touche'
Take a right at the light, head on straight until night and then, boy, you’re on your own.
Also pass to the tight end in the flats with a pulling guard.
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