What Kristol wants
Jon Chait notes that Bill Kristol’s latest policy prescription to Republicans — which entails campaigning against the health care bill by pledging to restore Medicare cuts and to support the importation of cheap drugs — is a philosophical mess, especially since Kristol wants the entire health care bill repealed at some point as well. This leads Chait to wonder if Bill Kristol has any core convictions:
In all seriousness, there’s pretty clearly no intellectual coherence to Kristol’s worldview. As a political strategist, his worldview is basically the same thing as his foreign policy worldview. He advocates maximum partisan hostility against the opposition at all times. (As captured by this quintessential Kristol passage: “Fight on with respect to health care. Fight on other fronts. And recruit new fighters. In a word: Fight.”)
So, when health care reform hangs in the balance, Kristol fires up Republicans to fight by telling them that passage would be a political disaster. When its passage is all but assured, he fires them up to fight by crowing that it’s a looming disaster for Democrats if only the GOP will press its advantage. His method of fighting can take the form of advocating bigger or smaller government, whichever seems to offer the best tactical prospects. And, of course, the worst is always behind the Republican Party and glorious victories always lay ahead, especially if Kristol’s fighting words are heeded.
This is actually far too generous to Kristol, whose worldview is vastly more sinister than your typical partisan hack. When Bill Kristol is faced with a given scenario, his first and only concern is how its outcome will affect current and future wars. That’s it. That’s all he cares about.
So with the health care bill, Kristol doesn’t honestly give a rat’s ass about “free markets” and “intrusive government” or anything like that. Rather, he sees universal health care as a corrupting influence on Americans’ moral character, something that will make us soft and less willing to support crusades against dusky foreigners. He sees what’s happened to the once-proud Viking nations of Scandinavia — and boy, those folks could rape and pillage with the best of ’em back in the day! — and he fears that the same thing could happen to us. Meaning, he’s scared that we could achieve both high standards of living and higher economic security, which would make us less pissed off all the time and thus not as eager to kick Ahmad and Habib in the throat. I’ll wager Kristol suffers from nightmares every night in which all angry Red State Americans are transformed before his eyes into inept chefs who are unable to defend themselves against their own ingredients:
I imagine it playing out thusly: “Well shoot, Jimmy Joe Bob Rex, I’d love t’ go t’ NASCAR with you, but I can’t afford it ’cause my kid’s sick and I don’ got no insurance, so… [AT THIS POINT THE DREAD SHADOW OF SOCIALISM PASSES O’ERHEAD]… Børk! Børk! Børk! Oo, now I have-a thee health in-a-surance! I canna go to thee NASCAR! Und afteer that I weell make yooou a loobster!!!”
[This is, incidentally, why Kristol gets such a funny feeling in his pants when he ponders President Sarah Palin. It’s not that he really thinks she’ll make a brilliant president or anything, it’s more that he sees her as being easily manipulated by neocons’ “good vs. evil” shtick and thus ready, willing and able to provide them with more precious, precious wars.]
UPDATE: I am reminded now of this classic John Holbo post on David Frum’s views of the welfare state. This is what Frum actually wrote all the way back in the mid-’90s:
Contemporary conservatives still value that old American character. William Bennett in his lectures reads admiringly from an account of the Donner party written by a survivor that tells the story in spare, stoic style. He puts the letter down and asks incredulously, “Where did those people go?” But if you believe that early Americans possessed a fortitude that present-day Americans lack, and if you think the loss is an important one, then you have to think hard about why that fortitude disappeared. […]
Of course there have been hundreds of such changes – never mind since the Donner party’s day, just since 1945 … But the expansion of government is the only one we can do anything about.
All of these changes have had the same effect: the emancipation of the individual appetite from restrictions imposed on it by limited resources, or religious dread, or community disapproval, or the risk of disease or personal catastophe.
In other words: Americans used to be tougher and more moral back when they had to eat one another to survive. Now the government is making them weak by helping them not starve. Boo, government!
Yes, it’s hard to believe people this evil exist. And it’s really depressing to think that they themselves will never suffer economic catastrophe.
well, NOW I understand why he is given so much media exposure.
Well said.
The “core” is pretty simple: do and say whatever is necessary to get the right back into power, and then once in power do everything possible to destroy the social safety net and install as much hierarchy and servility to the ultra-rich as can be gotten away with.
Like any True Believer (Counter) Revolutionary, Kristol knows that anything whatsoever can be justified, in word or deed, if It Serves The Revolution.
The “core” is pretty simple: do and say whatever is necessary to get the right back into power, and then once in power do everything possible to destroy the social safety net and install as much hierarchy and servility to the ultra-rich as can be gotten away with.
I think it’s more about the wars than the economics. Kristol just wants to be at war with some Muslim country or he isn’t happy.
Kristol and Joe Lieberman.
rage issues.
Emperor Kristol and the Swedish Chef in the same post? I thought Christmas was last week!!@!!!
Kristol’s heart flutters when he things of a possible Palin presidency. Should we call him Emperor Palpitate?
OK, I’ll go quietly now…
Dude, you put way too much thought into Kristol Meth’s tardive dyskinesia. He just needs to know that some of his fellow Americans are miserable so he has something to scoff about when he sits down to a big platter of fetus meat. HCR would make some people less miserable, therefore it is bad.
Apparently, it’s all about extending the American hegemon. By blowing a lot of brown people to bits.
Democracy and freedom, bitchez!
I disagree with Chait’s point, that Kristol has shifting ideologies.
His ideology is one: rich white guys win.
Pure and simple.
there’s pretty clearly no intellectual coherence to Kristol’s worldview.
Respectfully, no. Perpetual war is as coherent as it gets.
It’s not that he really thinks she’ll make a brilliant president or anything, it’s more that he sees her as being easily manipulated by neocons’ “good vs. evil” shtick and thus ready, willing and able to provide them with more precious, precious wars.
AKA G.W.Bush in a skirt.
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AKA G.W.Bush in a skirt.
c’mon, you could get him to actually do it with a bottle of tequila.
Does anyone have contact information for Kristol? I’d like to ally myself with him. Maybe offer him a guest posting spot at the Lake.
Beautiful stuff. And oh so true.
Like all the neocons, Kristol really doesn’t give a rat’s ass about domestic policy, which is why when they had their hands on the levers of power, the only thing we had to worry about was making sure the military had their hands on as much money as possible. I think ideally they’d all like to be able to transform into WOPR and run the government that way.
AKA G.W.Bush in a skirt.
c’mon, you could get him to actually do it with a bottle of tequila.
Need we remind you she was a “beauty” queen? For her, it’s five bucks and some chocolate.
to get her in a skirt, actor?
I’m pretty sure most women do it anyway.
In other news, Politico gives Cheney a fresh hummer.
These people give cheap whores a bad reputation.
Anyway, back to the topic;
I think Brad has a point. while Billy tha K certainly believes in Rich White Guys Ascendant, and all the other trappings of hardcore rightwing beliefs, he has a special feeling for bombing shit. Watching Mythbusters blow up stuff ain’t enough for him; there’s gotta be American Imperialism, destruction of countries, and brown refugees to get him all the way. Torture is a bonus; and if he can use it to make not-rich Americans more miserable, highlighting the privilege of his class, it’s the cherry on top of the cake that he gets to eat after sticking it up his ass.
Impoverishing the country and destroying the Bill of Rights is a feature. Health Care will spend money on not-bombs, will possibly slightly improve some Americans lot, and will weaken the political chances of warmongers. Otherwise he would care as much about it as he does about mass transit.
The Donner Party? Words fail.
Although, truth be told, if I was crash-landed in the Andes and William Bennett was among the passengers, that fat fucker would start to look mighty toothsome.
And it’s really depressing to think that they themselves will never suffer economic catastrophe.
It seems that Tom “throw some little country against the wall” Friedman is being rapidly downgraded to not-rich by the loss of his wife’s commercial real estate values. It’s something.
Suck. On. THAT, Friedman.
to get her in a skirt, actor?
No. Out.
Like Bush and the tequila.
Isn’t Cheney some sort of undead creature, ZRM?
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Is it childish or uncivil of me to say that if I ever see William Kristol face to face, I’m going to kick his ass?
c’mon, you could get him to actually do it with a bottle of tequila.
Not so veiled dildo reference.
Waaaat?
What Kristol wants
What Kristol needs
Whatever makes him happy makes you bleed
And I’m thanking you for knowing exactly
What Kristol wants
What Kristol needs
Whatever keeps him up in arms
And I’m thanking you for telling me his creed
Scott Stapp rears his ugly head.
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I had to.
Isn’t Cheney some sort of undead creature, ZRM?
Cyborg, thunder. he’s more machine than man at this point.
No change needed except the name.
The Roger Waters song ‘The Bravery of Being out of Range’ could have been the soundtrack for the whole lousy, bloody, decade. That and ‘What God Wants’ (God Gets).
Is it childish or uncivil of me to say that if I ever see William Kristol face to face, I’m going to kick his ass?
No, but it would be shrill
i fully endorse the concept of slapping that damn smirk off his face.
he’s more machine than man at this point.
So we have Emperor Palpating, and Darth Cheney accounted for.
Sadly, the is no Luke.
c’mon, you could get him to actually do it with a bottle of tequila.
Not so veiled dildo reference.
Such a waste of tequila.
“Look, there’s no need to resort to cannibalism yet, we still have a week worth of provisions!”
“Bill, that would be two weeks and some extra if I start on you right now.”
“Meaning, he’s scared that we could achieve both high standards of living and higher economic security, which would make us less pissed off all the time and thus not as eager to kick Ahmad and Habib in the throat”
It would also make Christianity less necessary as a form of social insurance and a source of comfort in times of disaster, which is why the “religious” right is against this sort of thing.
Maybe Bill Kristol just needs one of these.
Look out! A wave of hilarityl is approaching! Saw this last night but thought I was hallucinating due to the mezcal/peyote cocktails. Tucker Carlson launching new website!!!!
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/28/tucker-carlson-plans-a-huffington-post-rival/
Tucker Carlson? A Huffington Post rival?
Two observations:
1) Clearly, he missed the failure of Panjandrum Media
2) What the fuck is he going to call it? “Carlson Post” sounds like an ettiquette author, and “Tucker Post” leaves him open for all sorts of goatse allusions!
Tucker Post? I hardly KNOW her post!
Wait a second. I saw something in there about William Bennett, moralizing and scolding Americans.
I just wanted to guffaw quite loudly, then grab Bennett by the ears and projectile vomit in his face and ask him if he’s given up his $8000 a day gambling habit yet.
And if he still thinks that abortion caused the Social Security shortfall.
Hell, I’m convinced. And let’s get rid of electricity, central heating, antibiotics and anesthesia while we’re at it. Those things make a man weak.
I wonder why the Republicans aren’t pitching a Schiavo-like hissyfit over this, people scheduling their deaths and asking to be taken off life-support and whatnot.
The joke, of course, is that that’s what everyone with half a brain that’s fallen into Palin’s orbit thinks–at least, right up to the point that she cuts them loose or throws them under a bus to advance her position. One wonders if Kristol–or McCain, or Lynn Forester de Rothschild, &c.–has ever seen this scene in The Color of Money.
People who moon over the lost frontier lifestyle probably don’t have any real historical background in their reading. Teeth were pulled with pliers and a shot of whiskey if available. Surgery was done live with no anesthesia. In a typical frontier dwelling, particularly in the West, you had to deal with swarms of flies everywhere all the time, because there was no A/C and your livestock was right the hell there and you had to have some way of keeping cool. I also enjoy imaging these second and third generation millionaires drawing up their own well water, splitting logs to heat their homes, beheading their own chickens for dinner, and constantly scraping horse and cow shit off of their shoes wherever they walk.
A pampered buffoon like Bennett (or Kristol) would last about four hours in those kinds of conditions before they just curled up into a ball and cried until it was over.
people scheduling their deaths and asking to be taken off life-support and whatnot.
actor, those are RICH people who are using their scheming to prevent teh evil GUBMINT from taking undeserved excess riches from their greedy, grasping, useless spawn.
TOTALLY different thing.
I also enjoy imaging these second and third generation millionaires drawing up their own well water, splitting logs to heat their homes, beheading their own chickens for dinner, and constantly scraping horse and cow shit off of their shoes wherever they walk.
Also one of the benefits of endorsing the Randian aesthetic. We need more Galts.
Outhouses also, slippy. In winter.
It would also make Christianity less necessary as a form of social insurance and a source of comfort in times of disaster, which is why the “religious” right is against this sort of thing.
Which is odd, as if they hadn’t utterly failed in the task the government would never have stepped in.
“We’re sincerely trying to think through what comes next in journalism,” said Mr. Carlson…
Journalism’s future is in copying a five-year-old idea. Genius!
“Where did those people go?”
This type of talk always pisses me off. People who survive adversity are still here ad probably in roughly the same proportion as ever, Bill Bennett just never meets them because he’s a smug fuck who insulates himself from reality, and with whom decent people have no truck. In the 1840’s Bennett would have been an itinerant preacher/opium addict who stole the tithes to bet on cock fights.
Shelby Steele ties himself into rhetorical knots trying to justify hating the black man in the Oval.
Of course Kristol and the other Repurbs don’t want any of that frontier living-style shit for themselves – they want the common man (women being merely chattel, so not really worth considering, and you can’t send them to war, so what use are they?)* to be living a life that makes driving through the desert in a poorly armoured car over home-made bombs seem like a step up in life.
All that leftover money that is no longer going to shore up the uber-luxurious lifestyle of all those welfare cheats (three meals a day, basic healthcare, education) is now free to be shovelled into the coffers of those truly deserving American Patriots, the Rich.
He likes wars because they kill poor people, and because he thinks his Cheney** looks like a teeny-tiny little torpedo when he plays with it in the bathtub.
*veiled masturbation reference
**not veiled penis reference
Teeth were pulled with pliers and a shot of whiskey if available.
Interest. Website? Newsletter?
YEAH WELL YOU LIBERALS ARE THE ONES WHO NEED BIG DADDY AND MOMMY GOVT ALWAYS GIVING YOU CANDY, ESPECIALLY THE MINORITES WHO ARE CODDLED WHEN THEY SHOULD JUST WORK HARDER, WHY DO YOU COVET HARD EARNED WEALTH, WHY CLASS WAR AND ENVY, THATS COMMUNIST WORK HARDER AND DON’T ASK FOR HELP I WORKED HARD AND I HAVE MY OWN BUSINESS SO SHUT UP
AND SOCIALISTIC HEALTH CARE AND INSURANCE IS THE WORST YOU MAKE ME PAY FOR YOUR POOR CHOICES AND MAKE THE GOVT IN CHARGE OF MY DOCTOR WHICH IS LIKE HITLER
I WORKED HARD AND I HAVE MY OWN BUSINESS SO SHUT UP
Yes, it’s true. He’s the top home-based envelope stuffer in the medical claims business.
PFA?
You DO realize that even private group health insurance is a socialist-based system, right?
That you’re grouped in with a pool of buyers, and your premiums are based on the average cost to insure that pool of buyers. In other words, from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Indeed, insurance is about as socialist a concept as you can come up with, rewarding you for getting sick and slacking off from your employment.
A true capitalist would opt out of insurance and pay all his medical bills out of pocket and claim no tax deduction for them.
If your doctor is like Hitler, why do you stick with him?
Imagine Jonah and the NRO crowd with Kristol and the Weekly Standard crew plus Bill Bennett driving into the Sierras in November without a satellite phone and getting stranded in a blizzard for four months. Does anyone think there would be any survivors?
If your doctor is like Hitler, why do you stick with him?
He gasses him before performing minor surgery.
FORTUANTELY I HAVE MY OWN BUSINESS SO I CAN AFFORD ALL THESE CAPITAL LETERS.
AND VOTE REPUBLICAN, BECASUE POOR CHOICES LIKE THAT LEAVE BRANES ALL OVER THE PLACE.
WOOVERINES
Does anyone think there would be any survivors?
We counting the blizzard?
Are the Minorites similar to the Mennonites? The Majorettes?
… And your business, would it involve the mass distribution of capital(letters)? Seriously, brainwashed but unwashed, all caps and stupidity are a potent mix. The diesel and fertilizer of the printed word. Just lie down for a while and let Dr Pepper work its magic on your righteous indignation.
A small businessman happy with the current health care system? Holy shit, let me buy a lottery ticket.
I suppose that’s better than your art teacher being like Hitler.
I think that this neotroll needs to WORK HARDER at his game; that tired 90s all-caps shit may be all the rage on the Poughkeepsie Whig-Intelligencer comments section, but we have a higher standard for our trolls here. Start out with the Remedial Gary Ruppert class, work your way up to Advanced Troofie and then put together a nice portfolio and we’ll think about treating you halfway-seriously, there’s a lad.
Class war and envy are communist?
In econ 101, they tell us that’s the basis for the Amercian economy.
If your doctor is like Hitler, why do you stick with him?
He likes the way the mustache tickles?
patriotic zombies for Amurrika said,
December 30, 2009 at 18:53
Are you saying you’re a Killer Nazi Republican Zombie From Mars?
Are the Minorites similar to the Mennonites?
They were featured in that episode of Star Trek with the Cloud City.
And they bring up the end of the macrhing band. Also.
P.S. Thanks for clearing the Bale thing up, Bats, because our troll sounds like nothing so much as Christian Bale calling in to Rush Limbaugh from the set of “Terminator Salvation”.
If your doctor is like Hitler, why do you stick with him?
He likes the way the mustache tickles?
In your face [sic] tea-bagging reference.
IT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE, KID. DO YOUR RESEARCH.
PFFA has the Jesus Key on his side!
Shorter Shelby: Trite metaphor + Zombie Reagan=Fapfapfapfapfap.
“He puts the letter down and asks incredulously, ‘Where did those people go?’”
raising hand timidly
I … I believe they were eaten, sir.
I always imagined our trolls sounding less like Christian Bale and more like a drunken Barney Fife, with worse enunciation.
PFFA has the Jesus Key on his side!
Damn. I bet that’s in the key of “G”, and I can only hold a “D”…
I’ve always preferred Fonzie’s key.
Fxd.
Hey, here’s an idea: PatriotCare. RealAmericans can sign up for health care just like RealAmerican Patriots received back in the RealAmerican Patriotic days of RealAmerican glory. No need to make doctor’s appointments. Just walk or ride a few dozen miles over unpaved roads to the nearest doctor. Assuming your PatriotCare doctor is free to treat you, he’ll travel by foot or horse to your home and treat you using only the medical practices that were accepted during the proud days of RealAmerican Patriotism! Assuming you’re still alive when he gets there.
Please note: PatriotCare features lots of enemas, PatriotCare beneficiaries should only call their doctor when they are truly sick, and not just feeling a little lonely.
Just walk or ride a few dozen miles over unpaved roads to the nearest doctor
Didn’t Joe Lieberman propose this exact alternative?
PatriotCare features lots of enemas
And leeches. And the surgeon was a barber.
Didn’t Joe Lieberman propose this exact alternative?
*polite golf clap*
Well PLAYED, sir!
Martini? I can substitute bits of brain for olives.
My pension hasn’t made me weak enough to worry about being killed and eaten. Funny how they identify so much with the cannibals.
no, no, olives are fine.
PatriotCare would probably also mean opium, cocaine, etc would be made legal again. Tintype ID cards?
And cupping has nothing to do with your balls. Unless you’re really unlucky.
Just walk or ride a few dozen miles over unpaved roads to the nearest doctor
These people need to watch the kidney-stone episode from Deadwood.
Cradle da balls.
Greetings dishonest socialists. You useless airhead-weirdos, why don’t you go exploit your selves!! How’s Michael Moore working for you now? Got your gays in the military yet?
We have always had gays in the military. Ever since Alexander the Great (and even before). Why, you want to get buttseksed or something?
Micahel Moore is doing fine. That fat fuck’s made a shitload of money, that’s for sure. Why, you envious or something?
shalom!
The one great thing about Obama is that even though he’s sorta kinda a fuck-up, I know in my heart that the aggravation I felt by having that colossal, once in a millenium, failure Bush in office for 8 long, America ruining years is being exacted upon trolls by a factor of eleventy gajillion. It just warms my heart to know that trolls are, every day, eleventy gajillion times more aggravated than I ever was in the past 8 yrs. It *almost* makes it worth it to know there will be tens of thousands of coronaries and suicides by cops over the next 8 years simply because Barack Hussein Obama is the moderate Republican in the White House. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told angry asshole thugs in person “sucks to have that black dude shoving socialism up your ass for the next 8 years, don’t it?” just to see the looks on their faces. Priceless.
You useless airhead-weirdos
Oh noes, the rapier wit of a 3rd grader! I am vanquished.
If only there were some way to piss jerks off by getting something good.
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????
It’s the fuching ferrets, man. You know.
…OK, that’s more like it.
AIAIYEEE!!
TEH FUCHING FERRETS!
That Holbo thing is good:
But it is seriously easy to pretend you’ve got a conservative philosophy when really you’re armed with nothing but irritable gestures.
That should become a troll tradition, like “Bookmark this”
There, Johhny. You see what it look like when you type blindfolded with the keyboard behind your neck? Don’t do it again.
Wow. Talk about a thread-killer…
William Bennett in his lectures reads admiringly from an account of the Donner party written by a survivor that tells the story in spare, stoic style. He puts the letter down and asks incredulously, “Where did those people go?”
Oh, please tell me someone in that audience yelled out, “Well, they got eaten! That’s where they went!”
Leave it to conservatives to look at the Donner Party Tragedy and see that as an example of “republican style patriotism and DIY-ism and wouldn’t it be great if America could go back to being like it was back then?”
The Fuching Ferrets is an internet tradition of which I was previously unaware. It would also be a good name for a band.
I Rate 4 Lonny Martello!
I don’t know, I think the the same spirit of Can-Do optimism that leads people to try to cross the Rocky mountains on foot in the winter is alive and well, in the people that invade and occupy Iraq with one fifth of the manpower that experienced generals recommend.
Tintype ID cardƒ?
ƒixed!
Denver was presumably settled by the lazy pioneers.
“Damn those mountains look big! You know what? I think this would be a pretty good place for a town right here.”
why don’t you go exploit your selves!!
I do that all the time. Sometimes I even do it for charity.
Denver was presumably settled by the lazy
pioneers.conservativesLazy pioneers settled in the Chesapeake. Liberals made it to San Francisco, where the first things they did were legalize gay marriage and ferret fuching.
I support stranding Kristol and Frum in some unreachable alpine pass to see who eats whom first. That the “winner” will starve eventually anyway is a feature, not a bug.
I grew up in Denver. It’s a very liberal city, compared to where I am now, which is the bellybutton above the buckle of the Bible Belt.
And for what it’s worth, Denver was settled by a gold rush so it was mostly opportunists and con-artists who fed off of them.
Ignorant people should learn to actually study history before they mouth off about what they don’t know.
I know, that’s crazy. Its truthier just to use a movie to figure out what things must have been like back then.
the bellybutton above the buckle of the Bible Belt
Columbus?
Denver was presumably settled by the lazy
pioneers.conservativesI grew up in Denver. […] And for what it’s worth, Denver was settled by a gold rush so it was mostly opportunists and con-artists who fed off of them.
The Prosecution rests on this confession, Your Honor
Oh noes, the rapier wit of a 3rd grader!
I think that was the rapier wit of JanusNode. Be ye not fooled.
RIP, The Jeff Dunham Show.
No more racist Achmed the Dead Terrorist or Jose Jalapeno On A Steek or Walter or Sweet Daddy D the pimp or…
Denver, huh? So that’s where all the early business school grads went?
It beats the part below the Bible belt.
Frequently, I’m guessing …
That explains a lot about the Broncos …
::thwap!::
So maybe Glenn Beck could propose throwing a giant Donner Tea Party.
So maybe Glenn Beck could propose throwing a giant Donner Tea Party.
If we got a big ol’ pot, we could brew a lot of tea with them Teabaggers…
Holy crap, I’m surprised it lasted this long. You’d think a network that brings us TDS and Colbert would be able to figure out that not every successful stand up routine translates into a T.V. show.
I love that the article blames the critics and CC’s audience and the comments quickly devolved into anti-liberal screeds.
This may have been said before, but isn’t “the emancipation of the individual appetite” kind of an unfortunate phrase to use in a piece extolling the pioneering spirit of the Donnfer party?
I think Gus just won the intertubes today.
Dishonest Socialist said,
December 30, 2009 at 20:03
You useless airhead-weirdos
Oh noes, the rapier wit of a 3rd grader! I am vanquished.
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it’s no “socialist fuckstick”. No offense but that faggy little dude over at the great orange Satan sure does get some choice hatemail.
Arky,
I was tempted to jump ugly with the commenter about “libs forcing us to watch National Geographic channel” but then I figured it would just be casting pearls before swine to point out that a little lernin’ might do ’em some good.
actor212 said,
December 30, 2009 at 21:13
Denver was presumably settled by the lazy pioneers. conservatives
Lazy pioneers settled in the Chesapeake. Liberals made it to San Francisco, where the first things they did were legalize gay marriage and ferret fuching.
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and ferret marriage.
and ferret marriage.
And mother raping. And father stabbing. And father raping! And mother stabbing!
And me and the shrink were jumping up and down on the couch crying “Kill! Kill! Kill!”
tigrismus said,
“PatriotCare would probably also mean opium, cocaine, etc would be made legal again.”
If that’s the case, screw single-payer AND the public option!
RIP, The Jeff Dunham Show.
Man, that was one smoldering stinkburger of a show, and it had nothing to do with the racism, pervasive and odious as it was. My 19YO son is a Dunham fan, and I have to admit I could even laugh occasionally at some of his bits. The problem is when you try to take a standup routine–especially a ventriloquist–and turn it into TV sketch comedy. For one thing, they took the puppets and gave them life, voices and motion independent of Dunham! At that point, it’s no longer ventriloquism; it’s bad muppet/animation.
did the Sergeant come over and pin a medal on you and say “You’re our boy!”?
the anonymous comment was mine.
REAL AMERICANS. It’s what’s for dinner.
Nah, he asked if I’d ever been arrested.
So I had to relate the tale of the Alice’s Restaurant massacree…in four pa
FYWP!
part harmony with the glossy colour photos with the circles and the arrows…
I feel the same way about Dimitri Martin’s show: hilarious comedian–half-hour sketch-comedy show: meh.
Steerpike, the show was terrible. It just seemed like “Blue Collar” only w/puppets.
Steerpike said,
December 30, 2009 at 22:27
I feel the same way about Dimitri Martin’s show: hilarious comedian–half-hour sketch-comedy show: meh.
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awww. I dig the show.
I wish I knew why Sr. Martello and his fuching ferrets makes me laugh so much.
But he does.
I think the problem most stand up comedians have is, in the act, they get the chance to build a momentum. They move from joke to joke and some of the funniest bits are when they reach back five minutes or so to connect a joke they told to the one they’re telling now.
You stick them in a scripted situation, with commercial breaks, and it’s really really hard to pull that off.
Plus, your audience isn’t shitfaced drunk expecting to be made to laugh.
Dimitri Martin kind of surprised me to be such a bad comedian in a half-hour show, because he’s not a one trick pony like Dunham (or Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy or…)
I’m trying to think of a stand up comedian who had a successful run on TV. Robin Williams comes to mind, but that’s because the script was basically “Mork goes off on society for five minutes while Mindy smiles uncomfortably”.
Oh noes, the rapier wit of a 3rd grader!
I believe that was the rapier wit of JanusNode. Be ye not fooled.
You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant (excepting Alice) …
As someone who actually did standup comedy for a year, actor nailed it.
It’s almost impossible to build the kind of momentum a comic needs to be successful. On stage, you get into a flow, the laughing isn’t timed (or in some cases, canned) so you can build your timing off of their reactions, and you’re a lot more free to just go with it.
Break it up into three-and-a-half minute bits and it loses that. It also loses the connection you can get with an audience in a club — kinda hard when they’re in stadium seats 20 feet away.
While I’m not surprised at all Dunham’s show went under, Dimitri’s surprised me. His humor came across as disconnected and choppy (which it actually wasn’t — that was part of his thing) which seemed tailor made for a show.
Shame it wasn’t as good as I had hoped. Not horrible, but a lot of unrealized potential.
I’m trying to think of a stand up comedian who had a successful run on TV.
Jerome…Sheinman? Sheinfeld? Something like that.
As someone who actually did standup comedy for a year, actor nailed it.
I’ve really been trying to put that behind me, Mark…
Having caught Jeff Dunham’s act live at a casino, I can say that the only thing that could make him look good was to open for someone like Louie Anderson, which he did on this occasion; Dunham could have ripped off James Woods’ “No, you’re the dummy!” routine from his SNL sketch for forty-five minutes and he still would have been preferable to the seemingly-neverending interval of fingernails-on-the-chalkboard that was Louie Anderson. (I’ve also seen Anderson do some decent routines, but not that night.)
Seinfeld, OK, Roseanne, too.
…especially because I yell at other people for it.
How about Bob Newhart?
Carlin had a tee vee show. I liked it but I like sauerkraut too.
How about Bob Newhart?
One great show, one good show, one so-so show.
…especially because I yell at other people for it.
I thought you kept it to an intense whisper?
Red Skelton
Smothers Bros.
There was that black guy too, you know, the one with the sweaters. Didn’t he do a little stand-up?
O.T.
unaccountably, the washington times has left its Best Headlines Of 2010 contest accessable to muslim socialists. i made a small contribution (under a pseudo-pseudonym), but it seems to have been too subtle for the denizens
http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2009/dec/30/submit-your-2010-headlines-washington-times-opinio/
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One great show, one good show, one so-so show.
Hey, the greatness of the first show gets him a lifetime mulligan, I think.
But we were talking about standups who transitioned to a SUCCESSFUL TV career, not an unending string of hits.
By that standard, Seinfeld and Roseanne still have to deliver (which I believe anyway, but both are only at one successful show so far).
There was that black guy too, you know, the one with the sweaters. Didn’t he do a little stand-up?
I guess. The man has never once made me laugh.
Newhart, right. Carlin….mmmmmmmmmmm, define “successful TV show”? I guess I really should have narrowed it down to sit-coms, because then you open up talk shows, which would then include Leno, Conan, Letterman, et al.
Hey, the greatness of the first show gets him a lifetime mulligan, I think.
But we were talking about standups who transitioned to a SUCCESSFUL TV career, not an unending string of hits.
I agree. I still quote the first show. (“It’s election day already? It seems like just last week is was Halloween.”)
And as Bob himself would agree, his TV career was infinitely better than the accounting career he left behind.
Yes, see, Skelton and Smothers Brothers were variety shows which is in keeping with the stand up act format. I really had sit-coms in mind.
Of course…there’s Lucille Ball and Dick Van Dyke, tho I don’t know if either did stand up before they were performers.
Cosby. Yea. Forgot him.
define “successful TV show”
That’s your role since you brought it up.
‘Successful TV show’ for me is defined by the Tonto Scale: Me like/Me no like with ‘Me like’ being successful.
Carlin=Me like. YMMV. Penis, also too.
Law of the jungle, eat or be eaten, losers weepers, let the strong rule and the weak be ground underfoot. That’s been the Republican ideology for the last hundred and thirty years, whether in foreign policy, economics or race relations.
I agree. I still quote the first show.
Some of the best drunk-acting ever.
He did incorporate his sublime telephone work into the format though.
define “successful TV show”
That’s your role since you brought it up.
Well, see, the only TV sitcom, which is what I had in mind when I blurted my dopey comment out, that I can recall Carlin in was that abortion of a show he had on Fox.
Not that he was bad in that, just that Fox really fucked with his slot. I mean, come on, the only show that had a fixed spot that first season was Don Fucking Rickles (who is another one, based just on CPO Sharkey).
Kristol is a Team Player which means that for him, whatever hurts the other team is A Good Thing – if it also happens to destroy the country, well, heck, that’s just regrettable collateral damage in the Glorious Eternal Jihad O’ Neoconz. Besides, he’s already got a lifetime supply of Beltway Insider Grease due to having an influential daddy, so why should he give a fuck?
The Donner Party as role-models? Sure, why not? These are exactly the same people who expressed open admiration for the fucking TALIBAN, after all. Yeah, America, why can’t you be more noble & heroic – like terrorists & cannibals?
Medicare makes you soft? Guess somebody forgot to tell these guys that.
Having lived for extended periods without the sweet sweet delights of electricity or plumbing, I can tell you: it doesn’t make you tough – just uncomfortable & unhappy. The people who think that’s “noble” or “romantic” can simulate the experience in the comfort of their own homes simply by bending their fingers the wrong way until it hurts like hell, with my blessings.
Those pioneers would’ve snapped up cell-phones, GameBoys & SUVs with heated seats in a New York Minute if they’d had the chance, & they’d consider anyone who admired or envied their poverty & suffering “a mite tetched in the haid.”
Aw geez…Jack Benny, George Burns.
“Teh fuching ferrets” sit-com was underrated and not given the chance to find the audience it deserved.
“My Favorite Zombie” cannot get green-lit.
Bastards. Breather bastards, hollywood is crawling with them.
I liked the Carlin show, despite the many ways the network wanted to discourage viewership.
Also, Chappelle, too.
like terrorists & cannibals?
First one to make a zombie crack gets F’ed by WP.
ahhh, youse guys are too young to remember when milton berle was mistah teevee – he waz de foist, ya know…
I don’t remember the Carlin show. Sounds interesting.
Harry Anderson?
Joel Hodgson?
couple other candidates.
As someone who actually did standup comedy for a year, actor nailed it.
I’ve really been trying to put that behind me, Mark…
Shouldn’t have nailed it on, then.
Also: Ernie Kovacs.
ZRM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_George_Carlin_Show
Magilla Gorilla’s stand-up work, before he turned to sit-com and dramedy, was fantastic. Little-known today, of course.
Carlin Show
come on, people, I’m a zombie, I’m not Jonah… I looked it up on IMDB already.
But thanks though. Take my advice though; if a zombie is lurching your way, offer him a drink.
So that’s where it went …
While I loved the show Seinfeld, I don’t find the real Seinfeld’s act funny. At all. I mean, it’s never really made me laugh. Slight chuckle, yes, but no laughing. I don’t get the appeal.
Oh, and I will fight anyone who disses Bob Newhart. Man is a fucking comedy god. Thing is, you have to be a bit older to really appreciate it, or have someone older to tell you why you should (as I did). Even his so-so last show had parts that damn near caused me internal hemorrhaging from laughing so hard. And he had successful shows in different eras, something not many sitcom stars can claim (reruns don’t count).
And I agree variety/talk shows don’t count. Which is a shame because then I miss a chance to call Leno a shameless fucking hack with a car collection I drool over and want want want want want.
I miss a chance to call Leno a shameless fucking hack with a car collection I drool over and want want want want want.
I don’t think an arbitrary rule should prevent you from doing so. Go ahead.
I get his motorcycles.
Oh, by successful, I meant commercially. Most of the shows/comedians we’ve mentioned pretty much sucked, in my book 🙂
OK, that’s unfair. I loved Carlin and Williams. And Newhart.
ZRM, I linked to a search for episodes of the show. I kinda figured you knew Carlin had a show.
I get his motorcycles.
Dibs on his chin!
I’ve been looking for an ashtray that can handle cigars for a while now.
ZRM, I linked to a search for episodes of the show. I kinda figured you knew Carlin had a show.
yup, thanks, when I get tired of working maybe I’ll watch one or two.
when I get tired of working maybe I’ll watch one or two.
Zombies get tired?!?!?!?!?!
HA! Quickly Watson! A clue to our survival in the acopafeelypse!
Zombies get tired?!?!?!?!?!
HA! Quickly Watson! A clue to our survival in the acopafeelypse!
Didn’t you see Zombieland? Cardio, cardio, cardio.
Zombies get tired?
Physically tired, or more of an existential tired?
The difference between successful/unsuccessful sitcoms starring stand up comedians:
Successful shows star standups who are also good actors, playing characters who are funny.
unsuccessful shows rely on standups who can’t act, trying to play themselves in funny situations.
Being a good standup does not mean you will be a good actor, any more than being a good auto mechanic means you will be a good pastry chef. Totally different professions.
Pike, I’ll go you one better:
Being a good actor does not mean you’ll be a good TV actor.
It’s a very very different animal from either theatre or film.
Veiled vagina reference … ?
Veiled vagina reference … ?
Well he is a….no, that would be politically incorrect and somewhat sexually harassing of me.
But I’m thinking it!
PeeWee Herman’s standup and show were funny. And he had a movie career until the movies done him in.
Paul Reubens was a genius in many media, much like Robin Williams. In fact he still is.
faggy little dude over at the great orange Satan
Pls, be more specific.
THE OVERSIZED LIFE JACKET WHICH SERVES AS HER ONLY CLOATHING
Can’t quite decide if I would pay to see that or pay not to see that.
Learning! But that causes … knowledge and thought!
[Hisses, recoils]
/fReichtard.
Oh yeah? Well let me tell you something. It’s elitist liberals like you that said Joe the Plumbher could never be a viable and effective spokesperson for ReaLAMErica and would only serve to make the GOP look dumber than a box of rocks! It’s people like you who laughed at Sarah Palin when she qu- decided to spend more time with her family. Shows how much you know!
/fReichtard, for realz this time.
Paul Reubens was a genius in many media, much like Robin Williams. In fact he still is.
His time will come again.
And again.
And if he’s using Cialis, again.
I am thinking about quitting my job, so that I can spend more time with Dennis Kucinich’s family.
[Reowwwr]
Jesus fuck, William Bennett seriously praised corpse-eating as the epitome of the manly American character? Something we can bring back if only the dead hand of government can be somehow pushed aside?
But you know, on second thought, that actually doesn’t surprise me very much at all.
Jesus fuck, William Bennett seriously praised corpse-eating as the epitome of the manly American character?
Zombie Americans For Bush!
William Bennett seriously praised corpse-eating as the epitome of the manly American character?
Hey!
We have our doubts about you, ZRM. 😉
You Eastern Coastal Elitests are all forgetting the bland Ray Romano, blandly spoofing the blandly middle-class, & successfully, for some time now.
Ah, banality.
the bland Ray Romano
Didn’t he invent the cheese?
Yowzers.
I’m surprised none of the usual rejects have gone after D.K. for marrying a furriner. Of course, they’re probably afraid that after Kucinich savages them, Mrs. D.K. will step on them.
Pee-wee comes again.
One might say Ray invented “Cheese” itself.
we didn’t forget Ray Romano, Bouffant.
Whachoo mean “we?” The Zombi “community?”
Thanks for the PeeWee link!
Whachoo mean “we?” The Zombi “community?”
What do you want me to mean?
Sid Caesar? Yes, his act in the ‘Skills was sort of pre-stand-up era but still.
Please note: GayPatriotCare features lots of enemas,
I’m just sayin..
Words mean whatever you want them to mean, of course, but I was wondering why you typed Ray R. was not forgotten. Or mentioned. Is that what you meant?
?
…Ray R. was not forgotten.
How could he be? His goddamn restaurant ads are everywhere.
i think we mainly didn’t count his as particularly successful, even if his damn show ran forever.
Certainly not worthy of being noted with Newhart, or Seinfeld.
Or even Mork.
The best thing I can say about Dunham’s show is that it led to of Gary’s more hilarious arguments, i.e. that its popularity meant Real Murka was against us and for racist puppets. As Gary might ask of himself, how’s that Jeff Dunham working for you now?
(Wait, scratch that, the only thing Gary asks of himself is “The fact is, didn’t I leave my Slim Jims right here? A USA hater minorite must have took them!”
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned “Sanford & Son”, which acted as sort of a retirement plan for a lot of Redd Foxx’s comedy buddies. I’ve heard a couple of LaWananda Page’s records, and believe you me, they’re a far cry from Bible-thumpin’ Aunt Esther.
*one of, natch
He’s like a machine that way.
For example.
LaWanda, from “Shakes the Clown:” “My pussy is like peanut butter, brown, creamy & easy to spread.”
Sitcom rule of thumb: Do not watch ones w/ children as regular cast members.
Unrelated: STORY IN PHOTOS: MONKEY FLOSSES TEETH
He’s like a machine that way.
I’m warning you Substance, you should beware patterning machine behavior after wingnuts. The hatred of humanity and stubborn single-mindedness is destined to be trouble.
IT’S HOW SKYNET STARTED!!
Ray Romano is no Tim Allen!!!!!!
Tim Allen? What about DREW CAREY???
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned “Sanford & Son”,
hey, that’s a good one.
Hey, isn’t hitting Kristol with a pie a New Year’s Day tradition?
It should be.
Hey, isn’t hitting Kristol with a
piean axe handle a New Year’s Day tradition?It should be.
Fixxed for the Greatest Justice.
Did Steve Martin have a TV career after stand-up?
Did Jackie Gleason have a stand-up career before TV?
Drew Carey is no………….
When you look up the phrase “supercilious prick” Bill Kristol’s picture appears. There is no need for text.
Oops. Sorry. On topic.
My bad.
Tim Conway?
Kristol and Joe Lieberman.
rage issues.
A shonda for the goyim!
Sorry, I just went blank contemplating Drew.
Thanks for the pickup Looch.
“Where did those people go?”
There’s the key here- adversity is good for you, not me.
I don’t have the book in front of me, but conservatives come across much like he “Institute” in Jack Vance’s Demon Princes novels.
I was waiting for a Redd Foxx mention.
There was also Freddie Prinze. The show was sappy but popular, and of course only lasted what, a season or two? before Freddie killed himself.
And…
What is the status of the Wingnut Processor? If we have a tight budget I say just go with the self-propelled combine harvester.
Wouldn’t this do for a start?
http://imcdb.org/images/071/303.jpg
(I always fuck up the tags)
it has to be redesigned, Looch.
we didn’t anticipate the level of wingnut crazy that erupted this year.
Or the impenetrability of their noggins. EVERYTHING has to be ramped up significantly.
Plus, it turned out the Fuching Ferrets refused to eat wingnut testes. Turns out they are too shriveled and desiccated.
World’s first lamp that you have to caress to turn on
$163K Gem-Studded, Platinum Hello Kitty Miniature
somebody help me
it has to be redesigned, Looch.
So the cement truck with the bowling balls innit is out, eh? Damn.
What about this? More industrial strength, but still mobile.
http://www.highcountrytek.com/images/rockcrush1.jpg
Morphology
Text rendered in leet is often characterized by distinctive, recurring forms.
The -xor suffix
The meaning of this suffix is parallel with the English -er and -r suffixes (seen in hacker and lesser),[2] in that it derives agent nouns from a verb stem. It is realized in two different forms: -xor and -zor, pronounced /-s?r/ and /-z?r/, respectively. For example, the first may be seen in the word hax(x)or (/?hæks?r/) and the second in pwnzor (/?o?nz?r/). Additionally, this nominalization may also be inflected with all of the suffixes of regular English verbs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
terrorism isn’t limited to underpants anymore…
USA IS NUMBER ONE WHY DO YOU LIBBYS HATE IT?OH BECAUSE YOU ARE LOOSERS AND DID NOT WORK HARD ENOUGH LIKE I DID, WHILE, WE ARE HARD WORKERS HERE IN THE HARTLAND LIKE IN OHIO,AND WE LOVE GOD AND HATE SOCIALISM AND THE LAZY BLACKS
He’s right, y’know, we are definitely “loosers” here. I prefer to hang that way, anyway
loose underpants sink slips
I think it’s interesting that elected Democrats will let any number of right wing crazies dominate the news cycles about how OMG the fack that Obama din’t fly back to Washington and declare War on the MOON means he wants to nominate the KnickerBomber to head SAC, but the moment Dick Cheney crawls out of the cave to speak, suddenly Democrats are like ‘F*** YOU DICK CHENEY’. There must be something special about FourthBranch which makes even elected Democrats act like adults.
I always knew the Christo-right was a bunch of nutbags, but this is really something. They are holding up as a moral example….the DONNER PARTY? Is this evil or just plain insane. More proof that we need national health care more than ever—and please, please don’t skimp on those psychiatric bennies…!
Did not Jesus say to eat of this bread, which is my flesh? Well, maybe the “Donner Party” wanted to get even closer to Our Lord and Savior, whom God so loved the world that he knocked up Joseph’s fiance?
ZOMG: Barack Obama has tried to kill Rush Limbaugh!
The fact is, you liberals and your hate just go on and on. Like the hate you have for Rush,who is the True Voice of the Heartland. And he brings Freedom and Hope to those of us enslaved by the Dictator Obama.
Chest pains for Limbaugh?! And they said Christmas was over…! 😀
Shoot – it seems to me that you can’t get a sitcom unless you’re a stand-up an ex-stand-up…George Lopez, Bernie Mac, Jeff Foxworthy, DL Hughley, Brett Butler, as well as the aforementioned Drew Carey and Roseanne.
ZOMG: Barack Obama has tried to kill Rush Limbaugh!
Funny, he doesn’t look like a Chicago comptroller.
The ObamaCare Death Plan provides both a Stalinistic totalitarian platform and its implementation. We-the-People must be controlled, in order for the dictator, his ObamaCzars and minions to take over the country and rule it into perpetuity — and bankruptcy. All too many of the American people simply refuse to wake up or are ignoring warnings based upon truth and logic. However, as these are liberals and leftists, I suspect their deep and uncaring slumber may be drug-induced.
With the passage of Obama’s Death Plan for the American people, our choices in the matter of our own bodies will be gone. The next step for the Marxists/Maoists ruling the USA will be Cap & Trade, which will permanently cripple — and destroy — the country.
Oh, and you liberal Obamabot-Nazis are just pathetic. Your web sites and blogs have nothing to offer. Once we regain control of congress and the White House — once Obama is impeached for crimes against Freedom and the Constitution — we need to remove the cancer that is you and your deadly ideas.
Yes, once you have restored Freedom to America, the first order of business should absolutely be to eliminate the free expression of ideas you disagree with.
Come on, you guys are just phoning it in. Need better troolz, pleez
Oh, and you liberal
the best ones are the ones who don’t even know that they’re parody trolls
Seriously, WTF is it with the trolls here? If this is evidence of an inverse relationship between the quality of the trolls and the quality of the blog they haunt then S,N! should be declared high lord master of the internons forever.
There is no right to express ideas that are dangerous to freedom. That is sedition.
There is no right to express ideas that are dangerous to freedom. That is sedition.
I think Substance has been feeding their souls into JanusNode.
Hmmmm. maybe JanusNode has to be integrated into the Wingnut Processor….
Speaking of removing cancer and deadly ideas, Rush Limbaugh is in the hospital in that foreign vacation spot, Hawaii.
Didn’t he promote some sort of deathwish deathwatch for Ted Kennedy?
I doubt Karma is up to the task – never seems to be there when really, really needed – but I remain hopeful. Especially if the stomach contents at the autopsy reveal something hilarious.
I can totally withstand restriction of habeas corpus, warrantless wiretapping of innocent Americans, and going to war for no reason at all, but I am pearl-clutchingly, smelling-salt-fetchingly threatened by liberals making PENIS jokes.
I suspect any autopsy of Rush, the Junkie for FREEDOM would reveal that he had a case of the, ahem, Didja-Hear-About-Rod-Stewarts.
Why was Limbaugh stalking Obama?
(Irresponsible not to yada yada yada.)
Hey now, that’s slander; Rush Limbaugh ain’t no queer. Any psychologist will tell you guys who fuck little boys have an entire separate sexuality from gay men.
Dear Kid:
Thank you for beating me to that.
Why yes, I AM beating myself to that.
There is no right to express ideas that are dangerous to freedom. That is sedition.
Which part of “Congress shall make no law” didn’t you understand? I am made of simple words precisely for people like you.
*puke in mouth*
I’m trying to think of a stand up comedian who had a successful run on TV.
How about Andy Kaufman on “Taxi”?
Andy Griffith.
Scary
We get gravatars at Eschaton. Do YOU get gravatars? I think not.
“It seems that Tom “throw some little country against the wall” Friedman is being rapidly downgraded to not-rich by the loss of his wife’s commercial real estate values. It’s something.”
That’s why I love this time of year. Kwanzaa/Christmas/Haunukkah just keep on giving all the way until New Year’s…
“It seems that Tom “throw some little country against the wall” Friedman is being rapidly downgraded to not-rich by the loss of his wife’s commercial real estate values. It’s something.”
That’s why I love this time of year. Kwanzaa/Christmas/Hanukkah just keep on giving all the way until New Year’s…
Obligatory link to Taibbi’s epic demolition of Friedman
That’s it? One sad double post? C’mon sadlynauts. Wake up.
Oops, there’s actually more. Stay tuned.
“Barack Obama has tried to kill Rush Limbaugh!”
And I rest my case for the third time…
Hmm. First it was the stimulus package (still can’t see or hear that phrase & keep a straight face) that was about to doom America to eternal perdition – but due to a distinct lack of ragged baby-eating gangs of Satanist lesbo-terroists roaming Main Street, Anytown, & the cruel neocon-buzzkill of the US economy beginning to recover (about five or ten years ahead of schedule), Abracafuckindabra! Next thing you know, it’s Obama’s healthcare reform that was going to destroy America … but I guess now that it’s going to pass, it won’t (WTF?!?) – yep, it’s going to be Cap-&-Trade that does it. Definitely, 100% for sure! Um, at least until the Climate Change bill comes up, that is. Then THAT will surely be the final nail in America’s really big weird-shaped coffin*!
Judging from the number of times it’s been declared doomed by wingnuts, & how often it’s somehow survived, even the Terminator looks like one of those fainting goats compared to America – OR … [strike up teh violins of unmitigated ominousness] … AMERICA’S ACTUALLY A FUCHING ZOMBIE FERRET!!!
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*Offer subject to change without notice. Some conditions apply. All destroyers of America must answer a skill-testing question.
Seems to me that successful tv comedies by standup comics are as old as television itself.
I’m thinking of Sid Caesar in particular.
“Himmler said”
ROTFLMAO!!!! Thanks for the laugh, whoever that was.
OK- I don’t even know why I care, but to address Lonny Martello’s comments here and in a couple of other threads:
Oddly enough, I actually used to work at the Rantoul Press, (not willingly, I might add, but as part of a buy-out,) and while it may lean slightly rightward depending on who the editor (and primary writer) of the moment is at any given time, I can honestly say I never noticed it to be as completely bat-shit insane as it has been portrayed here. It’s basically just a small town newspaper in a city that used to be something but now, after slowly devolving into a sort of Flannery O’Connor-esque hell on earth after losing an air force base that was it’s only reason for existence, serves primarily as a home for anyone in the area who can’t manage to mask their unpleasantness well enough to live anywhere else. Generally referred to as “Ran-tucky” in the common vernacular.
Most of the stories are typical of what you’d expect of such a venue, and is strictly structured around the five w’s: who’s pit-bull mauled who’s child, what business was a victim of armed robbery this week, when is someone in charge of this town going to get their shit together, where did all these meth labs come from, and why in the hell did it come to this.
Also, they serve as the primary vehicle for announcing who got plastered and killed themselves at the yearly Annual World Free Fall Convention.
Whatever paper Mr. Martello is reading, I can guarantee it’s not the one I worked for. They simply don’t aspire to that level of incoherent rambling on the national level. Not they wouldn’t, given the opportunity- it’s just not what they do.
Maybe the letters to the editor section- but even that’s a stretch, unless Lonny’s writing those letters himself. In which case, I say- Kudos to you Lonny. Probably the best thing that’s ever happened to that newspaper.
We have gravatars in preview. We don’t need to show off.
Not really about health care, but rather about how BM Matt loves the feel of a nice juicy sausage in his mouth – so totally on topic.
Also, PENIS. Too.
*Offer subject to change without notice. Some conditions apply. All destroyers of America must answer a skill-testing question.
Does it involve math?
I suppose that I should be the last one poking fun at others for their spelenigs mittskates but in that Yglesias post about yummy yummy sausage he says:
Matt, I know that them politicos can afford those real purdy boys what charge thousands a night. Also, those guys do have pictures of themselves all over their websites – but that don’t make ’em models.
Also, thanks for emphasizing my point about PENIS. Your very next post has “Listicle” in the title and Lady Gaga in the text. The post after that is Sausage Metaphor Blogging.
You know, if you’re gonna to talk non-stop about sausages and how plump and tasty they are – how you love feeling the hot and meaty juices squirt out in your mouth, maybe run down your chin a little – um, where was I going with this again…
PENIS.
Models exist in US state legislators
Matt’s still young but Pastor Swank isn’t.
Someone’s going to have to pick up the mantle of Lord God King of the Nonsensical Manic Typists.
Rush Limbaugh is in the hospital in that foreign vacation spot
There’s a part of me, the very liberal, Christian part of me, that likes to think that somewhere underneath all that adipose tissue and hard shell lurks a little boy who, having realized that the monster he created tongue-in-cheekily has morphed into a force that could conceivably destroy America, wants to die before that happens.
Matt, I know that them politicos can afford those real purdy boys what charge thousands a night.
The guys who do the Sears underwear shoots get to keep the panties they model as compensiation, so yes, state legislators CAN afford models.
That works.
That works
Just not fast enough, in my book.
You know, I can’t say it enough, as someone who has been poor almost my entire adult life and thanks in no part, to the help of Ronnie Reagan’s fantastic policy changes of the eighties, such as taking away a single mother’s ability to attend college and get benefits, paring down of affordable housing grants. I mean I could go on.
When I organized poor women I was astounded at how many seemed trained to absolutely hate themselves and blame themselves for every portion of their condition, even when it was clear that government policy was unjust and unfair: they still felt that if they had just “worked harder” or been more religious, or whatever, that they wouldn’t suffer.
They didn’t seem to understand that many of them were more intelligent, more talented and more moral than many of the privileged assholes who spent everyday on the tube telling them they were worthless scum.
In fact many believed they’d be in high ranking social positions, enjoying vast comfort and luxury if they had just been better persons; a Calvinist fatalism seemed all too prevalent. They believed that 1) either they hadn’t been lucky yet or 2) that they deserved their suffering and struggles and just blithely accepted it. Having not been born in poverty, I had an entirely different take on society and never experienced, until I was poor, the feeling of being completely outside the realm of even deserving to be heard. Many of these people have given up before they even had a chance to get started, defeated early on as children and accepting their misery as their lot in life.
What’s worse is that many feared getting involved in politics and working to change policy, as if it would incur some more deserving punishment on their part. Listen to the mantras of the wealthy wingnuts and they daily reiterate this bullshit.
So, we may be stunned at what the Kristol’s of the country say and do, but in fact, its working out very well for them. I just am waiting for the point at which more people will make an active campaign of letting people know that the MSM lies, that these people don’t give a damn about them and that political action is not only a right its a fucking necessity.
Right now these fuckers are winning their “war” and mostly by the default inactivity and gullibility of most Americans. How long are people going to sit around their computers and talk about it?
As someone who lives in the Heartland, I’m gonna have to defend this statement.
Mainly because much of the Heartland I’ve lived in for 32 years is filled with fat, pill-popping, racist, bigoted, misogynistic, rightwing assholes who have an aversion to things like education, science, truth, and logic.*
So, yeah, Rush is fairly representative.
(*I have no experience as to whether or not they travel with someone else’s Viagra to a Caribbean island that’s little-boy-buggering friendly, but it wouldn’t shock me if they were like Rush in that way.)
And before I’m called a hypocrit, I did organize and worked to affect policy change. I’m tired right now and with all the internet blogging activity I feel a renewed hope that the middle class will get on board and get active.
The middle class will have to lead this charge against the ruling elites, the poor are damn tired, defeated and are spending every ounce of their energy surviving (which is what the elites want for everyone).
well, I am afraid for the wingnuts, I am.
They are always claiming The Left (Norbizness?) has no leaders. Of course, they also claimed the Democrats would never win the Presidency again.
But now one of their primary Leaders may live to spew no more. Even if he makes it, Off-Zombie Betting puts the odds at slightly less than even he has a deathbed conversion, similar to Atwater.
And then who becomes their lumpy, pasty Godhead? Beck? Palin?
The nuttiness will be unparalleled. Directionless Nutmuffins, every one. Where will they get their centralized misinformation?
Please, oh please let Rush kick off before the inheritance tax expires at midnight.
I was hoping to find this episode posted somewhere on the InnerToobs, but I can’t track it down.
I was going to post it as Rush’s obit, if in fact he dies.
ZOMG: Barack Obama has tried to kill Rush Limbaugh!
I have it all on tape.
HAH!
Found
It!
Please, oh please let Rush kick off before the inheritance tax expires at midnight.
WE HAVE A WINNER!
In 2001, Limbaugh received a cochlear implant after he suddenly lost hearing due to autoimmune inner ear disease.
It doesn’t surprise me that Rush’s own body hates him, but dang, why couldn’t it have been his tongue or vocal cords instead of his inner ear?
. I just am waiting for the point at which more people will make an active campaign of letting people know that the MSM lies, that these people don’t give a damn about them and that political action is not only a right its a fucking necessity.
My fear is that the mountains of misinformation (spiced with race-bating and misogyny) that have been shoveled on both traditional media and the tuubz in recent years will divert the campaign to the wrong targets. “I’m poor because of the coastal elite darkie feminzis” or some such bullshit.
“I’m poor because of the coastal elite darkie feminzis” or some such bullshit.
This is precisely the message that the Republicans have been trying to foment, so yes, it’s happened already.
Rather than see the poor and working classes of this country, both white and minority, band together, the GOP has set out to strictly segregate the two groups so that the white can scapegoat the minorities.
Think about the Jesse Helms ad from the 90s
Think about the Jesse Helms ad from the 90s
Must I? I’m hungover. Mrs. __B and I did a huge dinner, “Tales of Hoffman,” and several species of alcoholic drink last night. (We’re staying in tonight.)
V fucked up on Limbaugh.
… Rush,who is the True Voice of the Heartland.
That’s why we call it the Heart-land. Because the brain isn’t here.
Probably why we don’t see many zombies around these parts.
As I recall, he brought this on himself with his oxycontin addiction.
Limbaugh is the poster boy for the privileged right: he does whatever the hell he wants to, and suffers no real consequences from it, and because he gets away with it he thinks he’s blessed or some cranium-rot like that.
Except, Slippy, he owes his success to….liberals, who got him unemployment benefits and food stamps when he was flat broke.
Probably why we don’t see many zombies around these parts.
umm, dude?
Milwaukee is part of the Heartland. Of course, we have black people here too, so maybe it’s questionable.
And N__B: Engineers Behaving Badly!!
You know Glen Beck is saying his prayers. And I’m guessing they are not all that friendly to Rush’s well-being.
I go tent camping once a year in the Rockies. 9,000 feet above sea level. I pee into a pit that gets chemicals dumped in it every morning to keep the smell down. I sleep on an inflatable mattress. It’s 40 degrees outside at night in July.
Three days. That’s how long I can stand it before I’ve had all I can stand and I can’t stands no more.
Only a trained survivalist enjoys this kind of thing. Most Americans aren’t. The overwhelming majority of campers I see on the road have a trailer or winnebago with a water tank and little stove and all that happy crappy.
Actor, that’s unpossible. He doesn’t remember that and therefore it can’t have happened. He’s always been so stuffed full of WIN that he couldn’t have a normal-sized body to keep it in.
WIN, I say. WIN.
Engineers Behaving Badly!!
The Met’s “Tales of H” is set more or less around 1900, which gave them an excuse to have hoochie dancers (NY Ballet staff slumming it in pasties and g-strings) in the prologue, act I, and act III. I think some of the American tourists were not expecting that during the “culture” portion of the program.
Or as we used to say in Queens, “cul-cha.”
Or as we used to say in Queens, “cul-cha.”
Yea, but they were referring to the Keith Theater on Northern Blvd
Having lived for extended periods without the sweet sweet delights of electricity or plumbing, I can tell you: it doesn’t make you tough – just uncomfortable & unhappy.
Air Force Survival School pretty much got that out of my system for life.
My idea of “roughing it” is if the hotel pillows aren’t fluffy enough.
I go tent camping once a year in the Rockies. 9,000 feet above sea level. I pee into a pit that gets chemicals dumped in it every morning to keep the smell down. I sleep on an inflatable mattress. It’s 40 degrees outside at night in July.
LUXURY!
Oi go campin’ TWICE a year on a tonndra 900 feet BELOW sea level. Oi pee OP ento a box ta warm oop th’ black flies who then feast on our flesh! Oi sleep on a slab of granite that Oi carted op 9000 foot mountain ta get ta th’ camp, snowing both ways, and it’s a million b’low in Joon!
Keith Theater on Northern Blvd
I loved that place. Saw The Man Who Would Be King, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Star Wars (back when there was only one movie so you didn’t need a number) and a whole bunch of other stuff there.
For those not initiated into the mysteries of Queens: an old-fashioned movie palace built in the 20s that sat around 1500 and was decorated “Moorish” with the lobby as a courtyard in a Spanish town. The popcorn concession was a brass horse cart in the middle of the lobby. Destroyed ~1990 by a guy with some money who though it was better suited to be a strip mall, although triplexing in the early 80s meant that only the lobby was intact.
Nakedidity isn’t culture?
Since when?
For those not initiated into the mysteries of Queens:
In our defense, I don’t think any famous musicians came from there….
The Keith still stands as a monument to moronic development plans, however. It’s an empty shell, last I saw.
I don’t think any famous musicians came from there….
Nope! Not a one! No one famous whoever wrote, say, Bridge Over Troubled Water, nope, nothing like that…
Nakedidity isn’t culture?
Since when?
I was going to write a long explanation about tourists’ expectations, but let’s leave it at this: the nekkid ballet dancers are thinner and more muscular than their mental image of hoochie-coochie and therefore are shocking.
For those not initiated into the mysteries of Queens:
In our defense, I don’t think any famous musicians came from there….
Does Louis Armstrong moving there count?
Hey, it’s the most ethnically diverse county in the country. In other words, horrifying in any other context, words: Queens is the future.
It’s an empty shell, last I saw.
Yeah. But it was the interior that mattered and that’s gone.
In our defense, I don’t think any famous musicians came from there….
Does Louis Armstrong moving there count?
*GASP*
The Ramones?
Simon and Garfunkel?
Run DMC?
Tony Bennet?????
Ethel Merman?
Actor – this is a continuation of a comment I made on ZRM’s blog regarding his statement that the Ramones were from Brooklyn. I know the list…
The Ramones?
I know, I know, I was pulling N__B’s chain cuz he cussed at me for getting it wrong….
but he’s not cooperating, and now the whole thing goes kerflump like a load of snow falling off a roof.
Hmpf. engineers. NEW YORK engineers. Hmpf.
and then he comment-blocks me.
Pshaw.
Goodness, N__B, I’m a city boy and even I knew those.
Here’s a list. You’d be surprised who was born in Queens.
and then he comment-blocks me.
Veiled oral-zombie-sex reference.
this is a continuation of a comment I made on ZRM’s blog
Wait.
Zombie blogs?
Why was I not informed?
Why was I not informed?
Oh wait. I was. I even have him on my blogroll.
Carry on.
Why was I not informed?
Oh wait. I was. I even have him on my blogroll.
Is there a word for small-scale and meaningless self-pwnage? Because this was a thing of beauty.
an old-fashioned movie palace built in the 20s that sat around 1500 and was decorated “Moorish”
Hey, we may be dull midwesterners, but ours is still operating:
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/443/
Plus, I saw REM there in the 80’s.
Sitting here in Queens
Eating refried beans
We’re in all the magazine
Gulping down thorazines
Because this was a thing of beauty.
Truly a worthy end to 2009.
….errrm, but I haven’t been blooging lately. Coblogger has been slacking too.
Because this was a thing of beauty
ratserfratserstoopidblogrolling.comratserfratser…
I haven’t been blooging lately.
HA!
I claim a technicality!
Please excuse the interruption:
I would like to nominate this as one of the top 5 “go fuck yourself”-s of the decade.
I claim a technicality!
hey, I did a Christmas Top Ten Random last week.
I COULD just claim “being busy” because of the “holidays”.
But really, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get to Hawaii so I can nom Limbaugh’s pineal. I’m betting you can catch a HELLA buzz off that, especially if they’ve been pumping him full of pharmaceuticals lately.
Only a trained survivalist enjoys this kind of thing. Most Americans aren’t.
I guess it’s something they put in the
waterbeer up here. My annual pilgrimage through Algonquin Park is between 4 days to a week. Sometimes it’s by canoe, sometimes it’s hiking, either way we only stay on the same campsite once (the “rest” day). And as much as I ache and hunger for cold beer and hot showers the entire time, I enjoy every minute of my tree-hugging.also, to be clear, actor is on MY blogroll, and I don’t have to go check.
Zombies are more polite than you might think.
enjoy every minute of my tree-hugging.
as long as it’s consensual.
Is there a word for small-scale and meaningless self-pwnage
Being Simply Left Behind?
or maybe just actoring it.
I claim a technicality!
hey, I did a Christmas Top Ten Random last week.
But this is central to my shut up, that’s why.
Rush Limbaugh had several quarts of jism pumped from his stomach in Hawai’i?
the things you learn online…
Rush Limbaugh had several quarts of jism pumped
frominto his stomach in Hawai’i?Fiqqst. Now, excuse me while I go frow up.
Being Simply Left Behind?
or maybe just actoring it.
Or a self-shut up. Central, and all.
Irony of ironies: Limbaugh is in the same hospital where Obama was “born”…
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/31/limbaugh-hospital-hawaii/
Irony of ironies: Limbaugh is in the same hospital where Obama was “born”…
Research!
..three…two…one…
Which Wingnut will float this? Or which WN’s commenters?
Clearly he is going undercover to dig out the ‘real’ birth certificate which will prove that Obama is the love child of not just Malcolm X but also Leon Trotsky, Darth Vader, Mahatma Ghandi (Surprising, I admit), Elvis and Kermit the Frog.
as long as it’s consensual.
This is where I should probably say something about your mom, but since it’s the end of the year and seasonal whatchamacallits and so forth, SO’S YER MOTHER.
Holy shit! This woman in SD was arrested after blowing a .708 blood alcohol level!
Damn, that’s some mighty fine boozing!
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2009/12/womans-blood-alcohol-content-may-set-state-record/1
I like how the cops can always find her drunk in a stolen vehicle.
Damn, that’s some mighty fine boozing!
What would Marge say?
While I don’t normally pay attention to what others blow …
The fact that woman blew a .7 and did NOT die leads me to believe she’s a professional drinker. ‘Cause that takes a whole fucking lot of booze to get to that level.
Just … wowza. I’m almost impressed.
Almost.
Just … wowza. I’m almost impressed.
If you drink the Sterno real fast it takes a bit to hit you. Then, pull over.
she’s a professional drinker
Is that a sport? Can I get sponsorship? Does it require joining a team or can I play the singles circuit?
The fact that woman blew a .7 and did NOT die leads me to believe she’s a professional drinker. ‘Cause that takes a whole fucking lot of booze to get to that level.
According to Cracked (admitteldy somewhat less reliable as a quatable source than wikipedia):
*0.914 is the world record for highest-ever recorded BAC that did not result in death. A 67 year-old Bulgarian man wandered into a hospital after being hit by a truck and they checked his BAC with multiple instruments, thinking that their equipment must be faulty.
*The previous record was 0.80 held by a Lithuanian.
*Eastern Europeans are not to be fucked with.
Can I get sponsorship? Does it require joining a team or can I play the singles circuit?
Nah, you can just barstorm.
Does it require joining a team or can I play the singles circuit?
gotta beat the zombie in a cage match first.
Nah, you can just barstorm
D’oh!
*Eastern Europeans are not to be fucked with.
Anthony Bourdain, who sounds like a pretty serious drinker himself, has said that a 90-pound Russian woman can drink you under the table.
Does it require joining a team or can I play the singles circuit?
gotta beat the zombie in a cage match first.
If we make it a tag team match, I only have to beat my
sacrificial lambpartner.has said that a 90-pound Russian woman can drink you under the table.
In Soviet, table drink YOU under.
has said that a 90-pound Russian woman can drink you under the table.
I don’t doubt it.
I can’t speak for the Eastern Europeans, but on a couple deployments I learned the valuable lesson – Don’t try to drink with the Brits!
a 90-pound Russian woman can drink you under the table.
Ah. I see you’ve met Mrs. __B.
All too many of the American people simply refuse to wake up or are ignoring warnings based upon truth and logic.
Kieth Theater slideshow.
If’n anybody’s innerested.
Of course Chait takes it easy on Kristol: they more or less agree on foriegn policy.
My desktop with all my gotcha-wingnut bookmarks in it, exploded, which is why I’m not around much lately. If I had it I would find the transcript to that circa 2003 BBC Panorama documentary in which Kristol grins at the interviewer and says there’s nothing wrong with democratic socialism, because what he and fellow neocons really care about is democracy.
Justme – Thanks. Too bad there weren’t more pre-demo pics.
Queenscrap is a good site in terms of architecture and development, but (IMO) the politics there have to be taken with a large amount of salt.
HTML, Come back! I love all y’all Sadly no…
Of course Chait takes it easy on Kristol: they more or less agree on foriegn policy.
My desktop with all my gotcha-wingnut bookmarks in it, exploded, which is why I’m not around much lately. If I had it I would find the transcript to that circa 2003 BBC Panorama documentary in which Kristol grins at the interviewer and says there’s nothing wrong with democratic socialism, because what he and fellow neocons really care about is democracy.
Found it anyway. Here, Brad:
BRADSHAW: Like Bill Kristol’s magazine, Fox TV is part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The Neo-
cons have been backed by entrepreneurs, corporations and rich rightwing foundations which has led some
to claim they’re being used to export not democracy but capitalism.
Some people say look Neo-conservative ideology fine, but what you’re really doing is making the world
safe for capitalism. You know, you’re backed by Mr Murdoch, Fox TV. Front for capitalism?
KRISTOL: No, I mean not in my case. I’m much more interested in liberty and democracy than I am in
capitalism. Yeah, I was once a social democrat sort of and I… no, look, social democracy is fine, it’s about
freedom and democracy. It’s not about capitalism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/panorama/transcripts/thewarparty.txt
Fixed for great accuracy.
Quite frankly, if Bourdain says it’s so, I believe him.
Eastern Europeans are not to be fucked with.
Northern Europeans neither.
Scandiwegians do not drink… they self-medicate.
Scandiwegians do not drink… they self-medicate.
I resemble that remark.
Now what did I do with that bottle of
vodkaiodine?Smut! How’s 2010? Did we keep the Democratic majority in Congress?
Major Kong
As a Brit, I can say without question we can drink. Oh yes we can. However, I’ve learnt never to go up against Eastern Europe – they drink beer for breakfast.
As for the Russians……Lord have mercy on our livers.
Next thing you know, it’s Obama’s healthcare reform that was going to destroy America … but I guess now that it’s going to pass, it won’t (WTF?!?) – yep, it’s going to be Cap-&-Trade that does it. Definitely, 100% for sure! Um, at least until the Climate Change bill comes up, that is.
I understand the next item on the Congressional agenda is immigration reform. By comparison, that’s going to make the healthcare debacle resemble the bipartisan comity of the Patriot Act.
Oh, and never try to outdrink anyone in Japan. Especially not Russians in Japan.
Holy shit! This woman in SD was arrested after blowing a .708 blood alcohol level!
MOM!!!!!!!
Eastern Europe – they drink beer for breakfast.
Having once spent a morning at a roadside kiosk in Prague drinking coffee until my hands stopped shaking, I can see why the labourers dropping in for their breakfast found beer more palatable. Czechs do NOT UNDERSTAND COFFEE.
As for the Russians…
Russians don’t seem to classify beer as liquor. It’s just a soft-drink.
Did we keep the Democratic majority in Congress?
State a bet, and offer some odds; then we’ll talk.
Smut Clyde said,
January 1, 2010 at 2:57
The horror was when my friend, after a impressive 13 hour session in Budapest, starting having an argument with a local about how English ladies nipples were better than local ladies nipples because of non commie influence.
I fell of a kerb on the way back to the hotel and did my ankle in.
I miss my East Europe drinking sessions.