• May 26, 2012

david paterson

Remember when Barack Obama was heckled at a fundraiser for not loving the gays enough? Obama responded to that mean heckler by explaining that everyone should be shouting and screaming at the Senate Republicans for preventing the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” But now no one has to heckle anyone about anything ever again, [...]

Is Arnold flying across Alaska, or is he so enormous and Austrian that he can just “be over” Anchorage, and look down on it as he searches for Russia? It’s almost impossible to know, even if you inspect the accompanying “twitpic” very carefully, which we did. Point is: Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to get his ass [...]

David Paterson has blown the timeout whistle on all the constructive dialogue about the 9/11 Mosk. You have one week to eat orange slices and drink Gatorade and spray paint new hilariously misspelled signs, and then the “debate” resumes! The governor, fed up with the constant mosque chatter (which is showing no signs of letting [...]

Why did David Paterson try to force Native American peoples to pay lots of extra taxes just for selling delicious cigarettes to the white man? Sounds sort of racist and illegal! federal judge temporarily blocked Governor Paterson’s plans to drum up an additional $200 million in state revenue by forcing Native American tribes to pay [...]

Barack Obama was cold shoppin’ for seafood and minding his own Martha’s-Vineyard-business when a reporter ambushed him for no reason with insensitive questions about Iraq. Obama responded with the old “We’re Buying [Popcorn] Shrimp, Guys. Come On.” [Daily Intel] OH NO: In Philadelphia you need a $300 license to blog and/or write lists for eHow. [...]

Do you need to know anything about today’s announcement of the results of the Obama administration’s “change your state education laws to appease Teach for America hipsters” plan? No, you don’t. You just need to know that David Paterson called it “Race To the Cock.” And really, isn’t that a perfect metaphor for what states [...]

The U.S. has convinced its hotheaded friend Israel that it would take Iran a whole year to make a final push for a nuclear weapon, and that everyone would know about it a few weeks into that process; Obama’s top advisor on nuke stuff says “A year is a very long period of time.” Really, [...]

This is the best that friend-to-nice-ladies David Paterson could come up with, explaining why he decided to exit the New York governor’s race: “It has become increasingly clear to me in the last few days that I cannot run for office and try to manage the state’s business at the same time.” He has a [...]

Haha, we almost put “Officially Quits Race” in the headline, but how can a civil rights leader and symbol of hope/change such as David Paterson quit his own race? Anyway, so much for the dream, the dream of America’s first blind black governor. Just 11 months ago, America gathered around its communal browser and held [...]

by Jim Newell  10:19 am February 26, 2010

DAVID PATERSON MAY PROBABLY MOST LIKELY DEFINITELY WON’T RUN FOR RE-ELECTION: New York’s yellow journalism tabloids are all claiming that David Paterson won’t run for re-election in November, now that voters are learning about his penchant for telephoning abused ladies and telling them to shut up. Farewell, blind black Eliot Spitzer person! [NYDN]

by Jim Newell  3:26 pm February 25, 2010

DAVID PATERSON’S FRIENDS ARE LEAVING! Did you hear that the New York Times finally got around to writing something vaguely damning about David Paterson? One of his aides beat up a nice lady, on Halloween, and David Paterson later called her and asked her not to make a hot mess of it, because of politics. [...]

As if the amazing revelations that New York Governor David Paterson has a pal who sucks weren’t enough, now the New York Times has an even sexier sex-related scandal to report! It seems that when it comes to actual governing, Paterson is kind of “meh” and would prefer to hang out in the Hamptons with [...]

For weeks now, several hundred people who follow New York state politics have been very excited about a possible BOMBSHELL related to David Paterson, the wacky blind governor who used to do so much blow and bang all these gals at an uptown motel. Paterson only ended up as governor by mistake — Eliot Spitzer’s [...]

Weekly Standard Blog “The Blog” renounces liberal Hollywood romcom thriller The Wolfman, because it’s soft on terrorism and probably advocates for werewolf amnesty or what have you. [Weekly Standard] Oh bother, “The Wi-Fi” has destroyed school bus etiquette forever! [AMERICAblog] If the Nazi’s secret V2 stem cell research program had succeeded…well…who can say for sure [...]

The New York Times is supposedly typey-typing its story that we already know will force David Paterson to resign before having any idea what’s in it. Why won’t David Paterson save the Times the trouble and just resign right now, for whatever?