Continuing Erick Erickson week at Sadly, No!…
Erick’s interview with Howie Kurtz is a very special moment in American history:
KURTZ: Erick Erickson, welcome.
ERICKSON: Thanks for having me.
KURTZ: You have been getting hammered by liberal commentators since CNN decided to bring you on as a contributor to John King’s program, and it all revolves around the things that you have written. So let’s just go through some of them.
ERICKSON: Right.
KURTZ: On the administration’s health care spokeswoman, you wrote, “Linda Douglass is really the Joseph Goebbels of the health care shop.”
You’re comparing her to a notorious Nazi?
ERICKSON: Yes, to propaganda.
Now, I have no problem with calling everyone you dislike a Nazi. It may not be factually accurate all of the time but it does offer some sense of self-righteous emotional gratification at the end of a long day.
But then again, I’m also not being invited on CNN to be the voice of Real America like Erick is. I’m not sure I’m anymore in touch with the average Real American than Erickson is, but I doubt they spend their days thinking of new and creative ways to compare everyone they dislike to Hitler. You’d like to think that most Real Americans have social lives of some kind, after all.
KURTZ: The first lady, you wrote the following — the headline was, “Is Obama shagging hookers behind the media’s back?” And you write, “I assume not. I assume that Obama’s Marxist harpy wife would go Lorena Bobbit on him should he even think about it.”
Why would you describe Michelle Obama in those terms?
ERICKSON: Well, you know, back during the campaign trail in 2008, a lifetime ago, frankly, in blogging, I was very passionate, very aggressive in defending my side.
“Way, way back in the reckless days of my youth, a.k.a., a year and a half ago…”
ERICKSON: And at the time that I wrote that, the Eliot Spitzer story was breaking, and the point was — distracted by the language, obviously — that Barack Obama was as much a creature of the media as Eliot Spitzer was. Neither have been investigated.
This is simply glorious. I love the way Erickson turns the question back on the wicked liberal media: “Oh yeah? Well you guys have no evidence that Obama ISN’T shagging hookers! Why don’t you investigate it, huh?” If only some enterprising liberal smart-ass would use a similar construction when interviewed by Kurtz in the future for their thoughts on the Kaus for Senate campaign…
KURTZ: Well, let’s deal with the David Souter comment. When Justice Souter announced his retirement, you said, you wrote, “The nation loses the only goat (EXPLETIVE) child molester ever to serve on the Supreme Court.”
Do you regret writing that?
ERICKSON: Yes, absolutely. It was about the dumbest thing I’ve done.
No. No it wasn’t. The dumbest thing you did, for my money, was threatening to privatize your own city’s police force. For the life of me, I don’t understand how that didn’t earn you a lifetime’s supply of full-body cavity searches.
ERICKSON: You know, counterintuitively, I guess, some good came out of it.
There’s always an upside to calling someone a goat (EXPLETIVE) child molester.
ERICKSON: It was the very first time I realized, Howard, how what I do for a living affects my family as well. Having my 3-year-old heckled and booed in the front yard by a neighbor, having my wife be berated at her office, you know, being a blogger, up until that moment I always considered I was just a guy chatting with friends, even on Twitter.
In other words: “The upside made me realize how much of a victim I am.”
Now the kicker, from the beginning of the segment:
KURTZ: Erick Erickson made his debut this week as a CNN contributor. He is a Georgia lawyer, a church deacon…
I would say that Erick does a lot of repenting each week, but he probably thinks that smearing his enemies without restraint is all part of the Lord’s Plan. What a maroon.
ERICKSON: Thanks for having me.
Again with the euphemisms.
Anybody remember the stink that was made when Amanda Marcotte was named one of Edwards’ co-bloggers? Her comments about the Catholic Church?
Why does this guy have a job again?
Why does this guy have a job again?
It’s OK if you’re a Real American.
This is totally unfair, because it excludes calling everyone you like a Nazi too.
You’d like to think that most Real Americans have social lives of some kind, after all.
From the Red State Pennysaver:
This is totally unfair, because it excludes calling everyone you like a Nazi too.
That’s just what Hitler used to say.
This is totally unfair, because it excludes calling everyone you like a Nazi too.
A smart hater does that to keep in practice. It’s like target shooting, waiting for your house to be burgled.
If you libruls don’t stop making fun of Urk Urksum, he and his militia members in the 19th Battalion of the Fried Foods Liberation Front will mass — and that’s a lot of mass — on the steps of the Lincoln memorial and test the limits of their Depends Adult Undergarments. And then you’ll be sorry.
Finally somebody said it. They all laughed at Bachmann when she channeled McCarthy, but not this time. This is Serious contributor to a Serious reality TV show.
Looks like there some folks up in the Midwest (Rust Belt) that could use a god-fearing lawyer who’s good with his mouth. Right up his alley, if you know what I mean, and I’m sure you do. Good argument would be along the lines of…”Well, if you had privatized the police force, you could have hired these here good folks and avoided all this confusion…”
You’re comparing her to a notorious Nazi?
ERICKSON: Yes, to propaganda.
That doesn’t even make any fucking sense. So, she’s propaganda? I’m confused.
Also, I was going to write something about being compared unfavorably to Goebbels, but I realized nobody would get it.
How did this Fattie McFucksickle Erickson manage to get this CNN gig?
YOU_HAVE_GOT_TO_BE_FUCKING_KIDDING
Putting the idea of that in my head is terrorism. You could be arrested.
Also, I was going to write something about being compared unfavorably to Goebbels, but I realized nobody would get it.
Well, if the person you intend to smear is propaganda, then go right ahead.
and it all revolves around the things that you have written
It does not revolve around the problem of EE being a total noddy?
I was misinformed.
How did this Fattie McFucksickle Erickson manage to get this CNN gig?
I don’t know. I’m beginning to think he blew John King or something.
Well, if the person you intend to smear is propaganda, then go right ahead.
Remember to use “retard” satirically. Also.
C’mon, T&UN share with the group….
I’m beginning to think he blew John King or something.
Oh man, there isn’t enough brain bleach on the planet…
That’s silly. I’m not an Arab or Muslim, so I couldn’t be a terrorist.
C’mon, T&UN share with the group….
Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you think that I had, like, a joke or anything. It was just a quote from a movie that nobody saw or thought was shitty (undeservedly, I think).
It was just a quote from a movie that nobody saw or thought was shitty
Inglorious Basterds?
Yea, it pretty much sucked. 🙂
Oh man, there isn’t enough brain bleach on the planet…
Sorry. Maybe his wife blew John King? Is that better?
ERICKSON: I was very passionate, very aggressive in defending my side.
baselessly smearing a politician and most especially his wife == defending “his side”
It is a great defense that, one I wish to see him use more and more. Even the morons will eventually have to realize what a twatnozzle he is.
A bit late, but decent: Bill Clinton admits that pushing so-called “free trade” on the blast radius known as Haiti was somewhat of an error:
I don’t see what the problem is — why couldn’t these broke Haitian peasant rice farmers just re-train themselves to work in fields like IT or high tech services or financial innovation? Has no one read
Adam SmithAtlas Shrugged to them? Or have they all just gone Galt?Oh, fuck you. I’m living in a completely different country than I was in 2008 and it doesn’t feel like a different lifetime. Man up and admit that you said it.
Maybe his wife blew John King? Is that better?
Irk is married?
Wow. I need more drugs…
That negro is getting all uppity again.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/desk.asp
Inglorious Basterds?
Yea, it pretty much sucked. 🙂
Inglorious Basterds is pretty much the only Quintin Tarantino movie I’ve ever *enjoyed*, unless you count from Dusk Til Dawn and that’s really only because of that scene with Selma Hayek and the snake.
I was talking about Death to Smoochy, which I think is pretty fucking funny despite Robin Williams’ douchery.
The rapid lowering of agricultural trade barriers in Haiti combined with misguided U.S. food aid policy allowed American agribusinesses to flood the country with cheap surplus rice and force tens of thousands of local farmers out of business.
That’s assuming the U.S. policy was “misguided” in the first place.
Not so from the viewpoint of agribuisness, which as we all know is run strictly for profit and not as a charity.
Who gives a shit if their lives and/or livelihoods were destroyed? It’s A NEW MARKET, DAMNIT.
unless you count from Dusk Til Dawn and that’s really only because of that scene with Selma Hayek and the snake
Shootin’ vampires does not ever have to be justified, as far as I’m concerned.
Well, if you read the article, you’ll see that Bill Clinton suffered greatly, by being bothered about watching how his policies made thousands and thousands of people lose their income and probably starve. There was too a victim here.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/desk.asp
I think I read somewhere where JFK used to do that so often he left little indentations in the desk, and Nixon had them sanded out so he wouldn’t be reminded of his defeat at JFKs hands in 1960.
I don’t see what the problem is — why couldn’t these broke Haitian peasant rice farmers just re-train themselves to work in fields like IT or high tech services or financial innovation?
I can’t believe that none of them have started a dirt-cake business!
These are the heroes who were trying to save America fight for Jesus in the upcoming Rapture war.
These are the heroes who were trying to save America fight for Jesus in the upcoming Rapture war.
Yup–pretty much like I imagined.
These are the heroes who were trying to save America fight for Jesus in the upcoming Rapture war.
Unpossible, there’s only one mullet. This must be a sleeper cell of a wider cornspiracy.
At least two of those people have to be on meth. I mean, really.
Now, I have no problem with calling everyone you dislike a Nazi. It may not be factually accurate all of the time but it does offer some sense of self-righteous emotional gratification at the end of a long day.
Brad has missed out the bits of the interview where EE explains his reasons for going after Linda Douglass:
Did I just hear someone say John King picks his CNN contributors based on their oral sex skills?!?
He does not see his confusion-proneness as warranting an apology, or raising any doubts about his commentatorial competence.
CNN et al do not look for accuracy among their punditry, just the ability to speak loud, fast and angry.
Huh. I most appropriately (mis)read that as These are the herpes who were trying …
Did I just hear someone say John King picks his CNN contributors based on their oral sex skills?!?
That’s how I got my CNN gig…..I mean, what?!?
Also good value: the end of the interview, with the attack on David Frum, who shouldn’t be allowed to call himself a conservative any more because “it’s clear to me he has evolved”.
EVOLUTION IS EVIL.
Oh my. What did we do to ittdgy™® to make him do this?
heh indeed.
Mr. Steele spends GOP funds at bondage club? “It wasn’t me”, he says.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/29/852041/-Kinky-sex-from-the-party-of-family-values-Mr.-Steele-spends-GOP-funds-at-bondage-club.
Okay, my letter to CNN:
Sirs,
According to what I’m hearing today around the net, there are serious allegations that Mr. Eric Erickson, a new contributor to CNN, was chosen based on his ability to administer oral sex on John King.
This is against everything that the free press is supposed to stand for. What’s wrong with selecting contributors based on their ideas and ability to express themselves in clear and non-traitorous fashions? Mr. Erickson’s oral skills do not deserve to be showcased in this manner.
Would anyone be able to get a contributor position on your show in the same way? Please? Even if I bring some Altoids?
Someone tell me if they read that on-air — I don’t have a working TV right now…
Wasn’t us, it was the ORBS.
Scott, I commend you for being very passionate, very aggressive in defending your side.
I don’t see what the problem is — why couldn’t these broke Haitian peasant rice farmers just re-train themselves to work in fields like IT or high tech services or financial innovation?
Have them blog for Red State.
Or be contributors on CNN.
They won’t even need to learn English! (much)
(Anyone remember the episode of M.A.S.H. where Frank was trying to teach english? I envision a version of that, i.e. “Michael Moore is fat. Repeat!” “Mi-cae Mo fate” “Good!”)
John King picks his CNN contributors based on their oral sex skills?!?
Well, that’s what I heard, too, and it has not been investigated.
Chemtrails guy at the Conservative Woodstock.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/2010/03/showdown-in-searchlight-tea-partiers-rally-to-boot-harry-reid.php?img=6
The shorter Eritch is :
“I was/am an unevolved loudmouth and I don’t check stuff”
It us obvious that these skills are what got him the CNN job, did not Glenn Beck used to work there? The deep throating of persons that he may or may not have done to get the job is not grounds for complaint.
Soon Eldrich will get his own show and then the liebruls better watch out.
Please oh please give Eldrich a show, it would be like Christmas all the time.
Chemtrails guy at the Conservative Woodstock.
Nice flag.
Just noticed the story at TPM about young republicans (the Young Eagles) organising a fund-raising meeting at Blackwater headquarters. No mention of whether attendees will receive a commemorative colour-themed shirt.
and it all revolves around the things that you have written
It does not revolve around the problem of EE being a total noddy?
I was misinformed.
To be fair, they are related.
a lifetime ago, frankly, in blogging
Oh my God. I have no memory and yet I must blog! And on to CNN! No wonder we get no news analysis worth half a damn anymore, every day it’s brand new world.
Neither have been investigated.
Jesus H, Eliot Spitzer was investigated by the Feds, The Times reported the details, he resigned. This was not secret information.
Chemtrails guy at the Conservative Woodstock.
You know, I don’t think they could have chosen a location more hideous, yet more appropriate for this occasion.
Joseph Goebbels HATED brownshirts. Fact!
You know, I read over my old stuff all the time, and it makes me cringe. Some because it’s written badly, some because it’s not as funny as I remember, some because it uses some problematic tropes.
But it’s not like I’m working for CNN (or veiled penis referencing propaganda or John King), and I can fucking own up to my personal failings.
Mind you, if my writing was as bad as his, I’d be sorely tempted to change my name and move to another country (again).
Must have been Hitler’s pet name for Eva Braun, “Meine liebe Propagandawurst.”
Ah, the rhetorical bum-rush, where the person called on his regrettable comment tries to hurry you past the fact that they engaged in douchebaggery and on to the sanitized version of what they “really” meant, thus avoiding having to justify said douchebaggery.
I got her confused with one of the congressman who […] came out and referred to people as “brownshirts.”
He does not see his confusion-proneness as warranting an apology, or raising any doubts about his commentatorial competence.
Holy shit, CNN, what the fuck were you thinking?
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/28/palin-searchlight-rally/
“It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake,” Clinton said this month. “I had to live everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else.”
By the by, I see Bill’s learned the Conservative Way – lie, cheat, steal, fuck up THEN apologize and take responsibility… as long as, you know, nobody’s going to hold you acutally really accountable or make you suffer any penalty for your fuckup.
“I had to live everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else.”
Well, you and the starving rice farmers and their families.
On the other hand, a lot more people in haiti got cheaper rice. Such is life.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/28/palin-searchlight-rally/
Thank you, I would like to hear as little as possible about Palin’s “searchlights”.
Who am I, Rich Lowery?
Having my 3-year-old heckled and booed in the front yard by a neighbor
In the neighbor’s defense, the kid has gone Galt on the potty training.
Freedom from building codes and clean water also.
Never misunderestimate the density of morons. A black hole is like an angel-food cake compared to a high-grade moron.
It’s an
open secretexecrable rumor that just such oral aptitude is the one thing that gets FOX NEWS bimbettes national prime-time, er, exposure.Yes … Greta Van Sustern LITERALLY sucks.
“Having my 3-year-old heckled and booed in the front yard by a neighbor.”
I was going to feel sorry for the kid but then I heard that Erick has granite countertops so meh.
That should be twatnozzle party Americans. What is it with you libs and the sex slurs?
It’s pretty stupid to compare Linda Douglass to Goebbels when he could have compared her to Leni Riefenstahl, who was at least not a dude. I mean, if you’re going to be all “you know who else had a press secretary? HITLER, that’s who!” in the first place.
It was about the dumbest thing I’ve done.
How was I to know that saying vile libelous things about other people would make someone mad?
don’t see what the problem is — why couldn’t these broke Haitian peasant rice farmers just re-train themselves to work in fields like IT or high tech services or financial innovation?
They should have risen up in revolt against the Red Cross trying to provide medical services.
It was the very first time I realized, Howard, how what I do for a living affects my family as well.
No sh*t Sherlock.
What a dork.
John (Homer) King: “There’s a right way, a wrong way, and CNN way.”
Bart: “Isn’t the CNN way the wrong way?”
HomerKing: “Yes, only faster!”
“It was the very first time I realized, Howard, how what I do for a living affects my family as well. Having my 3-year-old heckled and booed in the front yard by a neighbor, having my wife be berated at her office, you know, being a blogger, up until that moment I always considered I was just a guy chatting with friends, even on Twitter.”
…and in the spirit of my party, I don’t stop and check myself, nope, I just forge on ahead and continue to prove what a hypocritical, self centered, ignorant ass I really am, even when that means my kid will grow up socially scarred and my wife will probably get fired from her job and maybe even divorce me.
But that John King cock is um-um-um good!
don’t see what the problem is — why couldn’t these broke Haitian peasant rice farmers just re-train themselves to work in fields like IT or high tech services or financial innovation?”
Absolutely, Haiti just proves the Bell Curve doesn’t it? Because enterprising white trust funders would have thrown a rave party on the beach or something and at least demanded better ATM fees.
don’t see what the problem is — why couldn’t these broke Haitian peasant rice farmers just re-train themselves to work in fields like IT or high tech services or financial innovation?”
Yeah! Why dont they bootstraps like america ns? there just more lazy blacks this is what free markets are about.
Sined, Erik
Hey! I came here hoping for links to the webcams in West Hollywood S&M dungeons, showing Michael Steele’s hands deep in his trousers, watching bored out-of-work actresses pretending to perform cunnilingus on each other. Where are they?
Or is this a case of the breaking news story being just too low-hanging a fruit to deal with … (veiled .. oh, pretty much everything … reference).
It was the very first time I realized, Howard,
how what I do for a livingbeing a shitty person affects my family as well.There we go. Defiltered for your reading pleasure.
aka fickst
These are the heroes who were trying to save America fight for Jesus in the upcoming Rapture war.
I hate Illinois Nazis.
John King picks his CNN contributors based on their oral sex skills?!?
Well, that’s what I heard, too, and it has not been investigated.
I’ve heard, from two sources now, that this is true. Ergo, it is a formal Internet tradition.
“It was the very first time I realized, Howard, how what I do for a living affects my family as well. Having my 3-year-old heckled and booed in the front yard by a neighbor, having my wife be berated at her office, you know, being a blogger, up until that moment I always considered I was just a guy chatting with friends, even on Twitter.”
Christ, Ewick, you’re posting to the fucking INTERNET and you had no idea this might affect you in real life? After, I dunno, SIX FUCKING BILLION news stories on people whose blogging impacted their meatspace* existence? After The Malkin and your bunch of twunts spent weeks slagging a six-year-old kid? After the numerous “ha! ho! ha! we iz found out who you are!” you and your tricycloids have done to liberal bloggers?
Not to mention the fact that if you REALLY meant to “just talk among friends” you don’t do it over a network accessible by the entire goddamn planet.
JESUS. What a twatnozzle.
IF Irksome’s child was bothered by anyone other than another 3-year-old(and considering the quality of Irk’s memory and his commitment to honesty I’ll need several witnesses and a stack of Bibles) that was TOTALLY out of line. But Christ on a crumhorn, his wife was “berated at her office?” She is a big girl now and can fucking deal with disagreements without him crying like a fat, ugly baby.
Yes … Greta Van Sustern LITERALLY sucks.
I’d rather this than actually having to look at her during sexual contact.
Having my 3-year-old heckled and booed in the front yard by a neighbor
Well, maybe if you hadn’t given your goddam three year old a megaphone and taught him how to shout “Kill the bill” endlessly…
Worth repeating from above — right wing blogs are rushing to defend the HUTAREE Talibangelical militia and condemn the Obama administration as Muslim-allied jackbooted thugs.
Including, but not limited to, Atlas’s Bugs, Amurkan Pawr, and The Cyber-Ass Lawyer of Tennessee…
…And last, but certainly least, Confederate Grill Beggar.
Because, you know, when right wing and anti-tax and Talibangelical nuts decide to kill government employees, ain’t like there’s nothin’ that wrong with it.
So… are you telling me that Erick Erickson has not been investigated for performing at private parties, for money, with his wife, children, parents, in-laws, siblings, and pets, a vaudeville act featuring incestuous sexuality, coprophilia, bestiality, sexual assault, and murder?
Seriously?
El Cid – oh, that’s lovely! Let’s hope the teabaggers pick up that ball and run with it, because if they do, Republican candidates will follow along.
And we’ll be treated to a campaign where Republicans argue that insurance companies should be allowed to continue to commit fraud through recissions and people should have the right to conspire to murder local law enforcement personnel. You know, the “heroes of 9/11.”
For the first time, I believe the Baby Jesus may actually exist. And furthermore, he loves me.
Last time I looked, wanting to start a civil war (insane as it is) was not a crime.
REALLY? Really, guys? That’s what you want to take away from this?
Seriously?
Okay, fine. I will remember to refer you to those words next time a Republican asswipe seizes power in this country.
‘Cause for fuck’s sake, we put up with eight goddamn years of “tee hee, this would be so much easier if it were a dictatorship! Prezidentin’ hard!” and never mentioned the idea of violent overthrow of the government. One fucking year of Obama and a health care bill and suddenly you assholes are all “WOLVERINES!!11” ‘N shit.
From El Cid’s link: “Last time I looked, wanting to start a civil war (insane as it is) was not a crime.”
JESUS CHRIST, it’s the only crime actually defined and outlawed in the fucking Constitution.
In retrospect, it’s actually quite obvious they would do such a thing as support some Manson family-esque end-times group, given the experiences of the Branch Davidians and that Ruby Ridge thing back in the 90s getting them all hot and bothered. It made good grist to the mill at the time, so supporting a bunch of whackjobs now should do the same, right?
Well, if you didn’t want police officers to be murdered by patriots, you shouldn’t have elected a Democrat as president.
Collateral damage, and such.
JESUS CHRIST, it’s the only crime actually defined and outlawed in the fucking Constitution.
And constantly quoting the Constitution as your source of authority is the only way to avoid reading it.
I think he meant to compare Linda Douglas to Propaghandhi, who wrote in their song Resist Tyrannical Government
Why don’t we all strap bombs to our chests and ride our bikes to the next
G-7 picnic?
It seems easier with every clock tick.
But whose will would that represent?
Mine? Yours? The rank-and-file’s?
Or better yet: the Government’s?
But I don’t want to catalyze or synthesize the second Final Solution.
I don’t want to be the Steve Smith of the Revolution.
Do you see the analogy?
We’re the Oilers. The World Bank- the Flames!
And just 2 minutes remain in the 7th game of the best of 7 series!
Yeah, Jesus saves! Gretzky scores! The workers slave.
The rich get more. One wrong move and we risk the cup.
So play The Man, not the puck.
Why don’t we plant a mechanic virus and erase the memory of the machines
that maintain this capitalist dynasty?
And yes, I recognize the irony that the very system I oppose affords me the
luxury of biting the hand that feeds.
But that’s exactly why priviledged fucks like me should feel obliged to whine
and kick and scream- until everyone has everything they need.
I suppose that now the New York Times will have to hire pro-armed-insurrection editorialists, in the interest of reporting “both sides” of the controversy.
PeeJ said,
March 29, 2010 at 23:15
Oh my. What did we do to ittdgy™® to make him do this?
Not to worry, I’m east of the river.
~
On the one hand, you have a violent militia fringe which takes the extreme position that right wing armed groups should be able to kill government employees in the service of anti-government rebellion.
On the other hand, you have citizens and politicians and government officials who take the other extreme position that groups should not kill government employees in the service of anti-government rebellion.
Clearly we need to find a moderate position away from these 2 dangerous extremes, a positive compromise, in which armed right wing groups only threaten to kill government employees, or maybe just wound them, or perhaps can kill them but not in the service of anti-government rebellion.
Thomas Friedman’s column about the radical center middle moderates of the militia debate comes pre-written.
I suppose that now the New York Times will have to hire pro-armed-insurrection editorialists, in the interest of reporting “both sides” of the controversy.
Because when our Founding Fathers came together to bring forth a new nation, the obvious next step was to destroy that nation.
“That’s assuming the U.S. policy was “misguided” in the first place.”
Bingo. When something goes badly wrong as a result of U.S. foreign policy, politicians will usually fall back on stories of well-meaning attempts to do good which failed because they got something wrong, or didn’t understand the locals, or whatever –
I call bullshit. Money’s been a distorting influence in our foreign policy for at least the last hundred and forty years, to some extent even all the way before that. Democrats are usually better than Republicans, but they’re not immune to this either. I suspect benefiting “these farmers in Arkansas” is exactly what Clinton had in mind at the time.
“Okay, fine. I will remember to refer you to those words next time a Republican asswipe seizes power in this country.”
Yeah. I remember when the guys marching against the war were being called “lousy stinking commies” trying to “wage a war on American values” by the right wing blogosphere back in 2003 – fact is, though, that no matter how despised George W. Bush was, his presidency never led to an upswing in left wing terrorism (or black nationalist terrorism, or whatever) in the U.S.
Contrast this with the upswing in death threats, gun purchases and incidents like this by right wing militia groups under Clinton and Obama. It really is as simply as “we should rule and we don’t recognize the legitimacy of any president we didn’t vote for.”
This guy is basically a male, pudgy, non-blonde version of Ann Coulter. It’s right out of her playbook:
1) Come up with the most outrageous, vile slander you can think of.
2) When called on it, whine about being a victim.
O no! Another Obama Czar is ready to RAM A HUGE PACKAGE DOWN INSURANCE COMPANIES’ & REPUBLICAN’S UNWILLING THROATS:
OMG! This is impossible! ALL AMERICA HATES OBAMA FOR SHOVING HIS HUUUUGE HEALTH CARE REFORM LAW DOWN AMERICA’S THROATS:
THIS IS ALL UN-CONSTUSHULL!!!
Who should review Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Thinking…
and nary a fuck all
Delish!
C
Yeah. I remember when the guys marching against the war were being called “lousy stinking commies” trying to “wage a war on American values” by the right wing blogosphere back in 2003 – fact is, though, that no matter how despised George W. Bush was, his presidency never led to an upswing in left wing terrorism (or black nationalist terrorism, or whatever) in the U.S.
Contrast this with the upswing in death threats, gun purchases and incidents like this by right wing militia groups under Clinton and Obama. It really is as simply as “we should rule and we don’t recognize the legitimacy of any president we didn’t vote for.”
I heard a bit of the “On Point” radio program this evening and Republican David Winston was in full spin mode about how liberals “ratcheted up” what was considered acceptable protest. Really, as if Clinton never existed. I guess a shitty memory is a hard requirement to be one of these assholes.
How liberals “ratcheted up” what was considered acceptable protest during the Bush Jr. administration, I mean.
“Has no one read
Adam Smith Atlas ShruggedThomas Freidman to them?”You’re welcome…
Blast. Make that “Friedman.” I picked the wrong day to quit drinking iced tea, I guess…
I’m a much better corporatist Republican than this Erickson chump. Why didn’t they offer me the job? And why didn’t they give me the job that Persian chick is getting on ABC? I heard she hates Israel plus she’s got wrinkles. Check out my face. Nothing but sexy youthful vigor. What’s this conspiracy to keep E$ out of the limelight? And what about Fox Red Eye? That dude with the floppy hair? I could replace him in a heartbeat. C’mon, I’m too big for this blog/columnist/PBS type bullshit. If I wanted to live on low six figures I’d just kick back and rely on the family trust and a professorial sinecure somewhere in NoCal.
Oh shit almost forgot GO OBAMA! YOU STILL THE MAN, DAWG!@
““Obama’s approval rating changed the most among Americans who make less than $25,000 a year – the group that is most likely to benefit from the new health care law.”
Now, what would happen if Obama signed into law full funding for daycare up those making say, $80,000?
Will they? Won’t they?
No, this too shall pass with no real change in the Demeecrap party.
No protest was considered acceptable during His Highness Commander Guy’s reign, so, having any protest was a horrible dedication to violence and destroying our unified nation.
up those making..
up to…I meant. I don’t want no daycare up any of those, unless its up trustfunders, then I’m all for it.
OT: but this is important.
A bill to eliminate hiring practices that use credit reporting/credit scores has been stalled in the senate finance committee for a year now. It needs to be pushed through, Barney Frank has been sitting on it with his very large bank financed ass.
Call/write/email him and tell him to stop sucking corporate bank dick and stop this practice of discriminating against anyone who has any debt –even medical debt.
See link please: http://hr3149.blogspot.com/2010/03/democracy-and-money-why-hr3149-is.html
Thank you, we now return to our regularly scheduled program.
Sarah Palin would denounce Obama’s plan to kidnap our children and train them into Shari’a law for gay abortions, and TeaTards would fling themselves at schools dressed as Patrick Henry because a neighbor had told them that’s where the Russo-Haitian troop vehicles were going to steal all their white babies and replace them with Folger’s crystals.
Mr. T&U just asked me if I had ever heard of Kathryn Lopez. I just laughed.
Mr. T&U just asked me if I had ever heard of Kathryn Lopez. I just laughed.
Ladies: Is your husband developing strange new interests? Have you found inexplicable forms of pronography on his hard or soft drives? Does he ask you to dress in disturbing costumes – fat suits, perhaps? For only $49.95, you can own “Wingnut B Gone” the only right-wing repellent guaranteed to work.
K-Lo brings the funny:
Ladies: Is your husband developing strange new interests? Have you found inexplicable forms of pronography on his hard or soft drives? Does he ask you to dress in disturbing costumes – fat suits, perhaps?
Sheeyit. I don’t have many “If you ever do this, I’m leaving you” lines to cross, but that would definitely be one of them.
Sheeyit. I don’t have many “If you ever do this, I’m leaving you” lines to cross, but that would definitely be one of them.
See, the only one Mrs. __B has told me is that I must remain naturally non-bald forever.
or to even watch the recent health-care debate is to realize that women do, in fact, have power in the Catholic Church. I’d argue the Church understands the beauty and power of the feminine more than most, these days
Buh?
Someone care to translate?
Slightly OT but noticed it while following El Cid’s links – I like atlas jugs take on the US UK special relationship: she reckons it’s over because of Obama, nothing to do with the possibility that the UK might finally be waking up to the fact that the US got over it many many years ago….
Someone care to translate?
There are naked marble boobs in the Vatican.
This sounds like a job for John Ashcroft! Soaring Eagles, AWAY!
I must remain naturally non-bald forever.
I’m sure that BBBB will join me in pointing out that the only way of ensuring this is castration.
There’s a reason why the satyrs in Greek art art always portrayed with male pattern baldness.
she reckons it’s over because of Obama
The Brits say it’s because following the Bush administration around like a poodle turned the UK into a laughing-stock, but what do they know about it?
See, the only one Mrs. __B has told me is that I must remain naturally non-bald forever.
Oh, I don’t even have to worry about that with Mr. T&U. His hair is HUGE. Although he was unnaturally bald when we met…
I’m sure that BBBB will join me in pointing out that the only way of ensuring this is castration.
As long as you don’t point it out to Mrs. __B, no problem.
I have nothing amusing to say on this subject. The elevation of a poisonous mule testicle like Erickson to any role beyond that of autoblogmaster is a crashing self-indictment by the mainstream media — and proof that they have the dignity of a seventy-year-old scat whore, the principles of a Nazi dentist, and so little interest in the material they produce they might as well be airbrushing the veins on dildos in a Chinese novelty factory.
Thank you.
I yelled at him because he’s an asshole, not because you’re an asshole . . . asshole!
Interest. Poosletter.
autoblogmaster
This word is genius on so many levels. Well done. I can almost forgive you for the 70-year-old scat whore thing. Almost.
I gave her an extra twenty. Just don’t want anybody thinking I’m a misogynist.
misogynist
Someone who does a back-flip into Japanese soup?
Here’s a good take on the U.S. U.K. special relationship from a slightly less retarded source;
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1976102,00.html?xid=yahoo-feat
The article admits that Obama is a factor, but only in small part; the biggest factor is the wave of sheer fury that came from the British public when Blair goose-stepped to an immoral, illegal and unnecessary war because Bush was doing it too. American conservatives, still lost in their delusions of Anglo-Saxon brotherhood-through-world-domination, really don’t appreciate the depth and strength of that resentment.
For the rest, it’s mostly a (correct) perception that the “special relationship” has become little more than “Britain gives, America takes, America is happy.” Nice to see them finally growing some fucking balls.
The article admits that Obama is a factor, but only in small part; the biggest factor is the wave of sheer fury that came from the British public when Blair goose-stepped to an immoral, illegal and unnecessary war because Bush was doing it too.
“The Ghostwriter” has an amusing explanation for Blair’s actions. Almost certainly not true, but amusing.
Truculent, thank you. If I don’t rub a neologism out at least once a week, it’s a little like dying.
And I’m sorry I called you a whore.
The hardworking men and women of Local 563 resent the implication that the painstaking quality of our penile vein-painting should in any way be compared to decisions made by CNN management.
I just looked it up — CNN is the third-largest single institutional purchaser of Chinese dildos, right after Fox News and the Vatican.
Your information is only partly correct.
It is true that the Vatican has long made regular bulk purchases of a wide assortment of our fine products. Fox and CNN, however, only buy small amounts, usually from the widely respected Triple-Ribbed DuraFuk line. It’s well known that Fox and CNN make most of their large rubber novelty purchases from the Mongolian Buttplug Works in Ulan Bator
Goddammit, now I have to cross Poisonous Mule Testicle off the list of names for my next band.
You kids, get outta my head!
There’s always Mongolian Buttplug Works.
Pere Ubu said,
March 30, 2010 at 4:29
or to even watch the recent health-care debate is to realize that women do, in fact, have power in the Catholic Church. I’d argue the Church understands the beauty and power of the feminine more than most, these days
Buh?
Someone care to translate?
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They only rape little boys.
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We’ll always have Mongolian Buttplug Works.
More Rick Blaine:
Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of cheap Chinese dildos in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.
“Someone care to translate?”
I’ve heard somewhere that in the face of the USCCB’s unwillingness to support their own principles (health care bill), a group of nuns basically said “Fuck you, Your Eminences” and went ahead and endorsed it on their own – maybe that’s what’s being referred to.
There’s often some tension between Catholic institutions and their envoys “on the ground” so to speak (e.g. Catholic priests in Latin America sometimes push for political action on social justice in ways that make the old people in the Vatican distinctly uncomfortable). This sounds like another example of that.
Yes, milling about in cages marked “Free Speech Zones” was a terrible threat to national security.
I don’t mind a Chinese dildo. I object to a cut-rate one.
“a group of nuns basically said “Fuck you, Your Eminences” and went ahead and endorsed it on their own – maybe that’s what’s being referred to.”
So you are saying that K-Lo is championing some radicalized nuns?
I kinda doubt it.
Well there are certain sections of Erickson’s colon, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.
or to even watch the recent health-care debate is to realize that women do, in fact, have power in the Catholic Church. I’d argue the Church understands the beauty and power of the feminine more than most, these days
Buh?
Someone care to translate?
women were a lot better off in the dark ages, when we were kept indoors and raped every 9 months for child bearing purposes….
oh oh, why had Johan not called back….
Jonah….
and FYWP
Unless there’s roving bands of radicalized nuns ominously swinging their rosaries as they ride their chromed Popemobiles through the streets of the Vatican, I don’t think that’s what K-Lo meant.
I’m going for the “there’s marble tits ergo the church values women” hypothesis.
CNN and King want Erickson because he draws this crowd who are much more likely to buy this shit than your typical Maddow consumer.
CNN’s is hiring Erickson cuz they know a Bottom Feeder Leader when they see one.
apropos of douthat:
For Rwandans, the pope’s apology must be unbearable
If sexual abuse in Ireland warrants his contrition, what contempt is shown by the Vatican’s silence over its role in genocide
Martin Kimani, The Guardian, Monday 29 March 2010
If you are an Irish Catholic, and have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a priest, you were recently read a letter from Pope Benedict that tells you: “You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.”
For any practising Catholic in Rwanda, this letter must be unbearable. For it tells you how little you mean to the Vatican. Fifteen years ago, tens of thousands of Catholics were hacked to death inside churches. Sometimes priests and nuns led the slaughter.
roving bands of radicalized nuns ominously swinging their rosaries as they ride their chromed Popemobiles through the streets of the Vatican,
I would watch that movie.
Erickson: Having my 3-year-old heckled and booed in the front yard by a neighbor
You do understand, of course, that Erickson’s neighbor never, ever, “heckled and booed” Erickson’s three-year-old kid. That’s an obvious, outright lie.
Erickson lies like he breathes.
Hey, he said it:
“…counterintuitively…”
That about sums up Erickson’s approach to life.
“Did I just hear someone say John King picks his CNN contributors based on their oral sex skills?!?”
Better fellate than fenever.
And I’m sorry I called you a whore.
You should be, sonny. The term is “sex worker.”
Unless there’s roving bands of radicalized nuns ominously swinging their rosaries as they ride their chromed Popemobiles through the streets of the Vatican
cf
“he’s a church deacon…”
Quelle surprise! A right-wing asshole who’s also a church official. Proof again that nothing good comes from religion.