Chris Matthews is one of the worst talking heads on TV. No minutae is too little for him to obsess over, making breakfast beverages the equivalent of the Potsdam declaration and shooting pool like windsurfing polo on solid gold boards all to show how Obama (the current target) is out of step with everyday society. 'cause we all know that orange juice is a CLEAR sign of elitism...look at Florida, the state that has its own tag on Fark. Brendan Nyhan, a man of inifinte patience and an apparently unexplodable brain, keeps track of all Matthews's common man id's, showing them to be about as accurate as the ones seen at the local bar during 2 for 1 specials.
But...damn if Matthews didn't do good here. I'm sure Kevin James will portray this as exactly opposite of what happened, given that history is a glaring weak point for him.
But man. You just got made to look like an idiot by a man who feels that Obama can't order orange juice the right way. There may be more clearer signs of epic FAIL, but they usually end in actual death, not just the death of self-respect.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Trust Us
I almost don't want to post this one.
I mean, the regular people who can think will think this is yet another example of Bush's power grabs. The people who defend Bush against anything and everything will shrug or attack.
So why bother?
Because just because something bad is done over and over and over again does not mean it should be turned off like an According to Jim rerun. Yes, we're now numb to this. That doesn't mean it doesn't mean anything. Being cut while under anathesia doesn't make the injury go away.
And also, as a man who doesn't wear flag lapel pins I have to show my hatred for this country.
I mean, the regular people who can think will think this is yet another example of Bush's power grabs. The people who defend Bush against anything and everything will shrug or attack.
So why bother?
Because just because something bad is done over and over and over again does not mean it should be turned off like an According to Jim rerun. Yes, we're now numb to this. That doesn't mean it doesn't mean anything. Being cut while under anathesia doesn't make the injury go away.
And also, as a man who doesn't wear flag lapel pins I have to show my hatred for this country.
Maybe I Just Don't Get It
"Sweetie"? THIS gets people upset?
Apparently, yes.
I can only hope fervently Obama had his lapel pin on at the Rag-nickname-rok, or his campaign may well be over now. Damned by a diminutive, as it were.
Look, I can sorta kinda understand women saying it's demeaning and belittling to be called sweetie. Sorta kinda. I mean, if he had said 'ma'am' there would, Gods willing, be no uproar since 'ma'am' apparently only denotes sexuality, not...um...attitude? I don't get it but I can see women being offended at it. I guess if McCain or Bush calls a male reporter son, or butch, or stud, everyone will jump all over it.
But from this one fairly minimal time, some people have decided it makes him sexist and unprepared to be on the world stage - Ann Althouse wonders if he'd call Ahmadinejad that in a summit, the exact same way she wondered if Bush would attempt to rub Ahmadinejad down the way he did Angela Merkel. (Of course she didn't say this, but wouldn't it have been nice to see her batshiatness avalanche both ways?) The uproar and outrage on OTB's collection of reactions is just that you would have thought Obama called the reporter 'bitch', asked if she was on the rag or what, demanded she take off her shoes and get back in the kitchen, and attempted to impregnante her right then and there. I mean, there you've obviously got sexism. But 'sweetie'?
Some on the far left, always looking for a reason to be upset, never ones to shirk from perceived ills, must almost be schizophernic. A black man? Good! Who may have said something sexist? Bad! TILT TILT TILT TILT
Some of the right, a la "Non-sweetie" Althouse...well, I'll just say she's not almost schizophernic here.
Isn't it nice to see the right and the left marching in lockstep overreaction? Obama, truly a uniter.
Apparently, yes.
I can only hope fervently Obama had his lapel pin on at the Rag-nickname-rok, or his campaign may well be over now. Damned by a diminutive, as it were.
Look, I can sorta kinda understand women saying it's demeaning and belittling to be called sweetie. Sorta kinda. I mean, if he had said 'ma'am' there would, Gods willing, be no uproar since 'ma'am' apparently only denotes sexuality, not...um...attitude? I don't get it but I can see women being offended at it. I guess if McCain or Bush calls a male reporter son, or butch, or stud, everyone will jump all over it.
But from this one fairly minimal time, some people have decided it makes him sexist and unprepared to be on the world stage - Ann Althouse wonders if he'd call Ahmadinejad that in a summit, the exact same way she wondered if Bush would attempt to rub Ahmadinejad down the way he did Angela Merkel. (Of course she didn't say this, but wouldn't it have been nice to see her batshiatness avalanche both ways?) The uproar and outrage on OTB's collection of reactions is just that you would have thought Obama called the reporter 'bitch', asked if she was on the rag or what, demanded she take off her shoes and get back in the kitchen, and attempted to impregnante her right then and there. I mean, there you've obviously got sexism. But 'sweetie'?
Some on the far left, always looking for a reason to be upset, never ones to shirk from perceived ills, must almost be schizophernic. A black man? Good! Who may have said something sexist? Bad! TILT TILT TILT TILT
Some of the right, a la "Non-sweetie" Althouse...well, I'll just say she's not almost schizophernic here.
Isn't it nice to see the right and the left marching in lockstep overreaction? Obama, truly a uniter.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Oh, man, my sides hurt
From an AOL news story, Bush:
"Criticized the Democratic-led Congress, claiming it had dragged its feet on trade, on renewing surveillance powers and failing to respond appropriately to the housing crisis. "And so I would call them stalled. I would call them, so far, good at verbiage and not so good at results.""
Still puts them 1 up on you, doesn't it?
But then they haven't given up chocolate pudding at the cafeteria, or decided not to play Tetris or something like that, so obviously military families can't feel solidarity with them.
It must be nice to be so self-delusional. Sucks for America, though.
"Criticized the Democratic-led Congress, claiming it had dragged its feet on trade, on renewing surveillance powers and failing to respond appropriately to the housing crisis. "And so I would call them stalled. I would call them, so far, good at verbiage and not so good at results.""
Still puts them 1 up on you, doesn't it?
But then they haven't given up chocolate pudding at the cafeteria, or decided not to play Tetris or something like that, so obviously military families can't feel solidarity with them.
It must be nice to be so self-delusional. Sucks for America, though.
The President feels the pain
There are times when "what the fuck?" is simply not enough. I'd have to fill a whole page with "what the fucking fucked fuckity fucks fuckly fuckitive fuckness fuckavo fuque..." and even then I couldn't began express the brain freezing, heart skipping, car wreck in front of the eyes moment of THIS quote:
For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
DailyKos mixed with the Democratic Underground and seasoned with every 'Bush caused my prostrate gland to go bad' crowd on their most creatively acid tripping imaginative days couldn't have come up with a quote this bad. At least Marie Antionette was offering some sort of advice in her so-not-getting-it quote, this jerk feels that he's doing something by not chasing a small white ball in bad outfits and asking his Secret Service people for free drops. He feels in solidarity with greiving parents, widows, children and relatives by skipping the back nine.
And might I just add, this proves Tiger Woods is a jihadist.
Kerry was accused of saying stypd peeplz goes to IraK. Bush is proving him wrong by staying in Washington.
For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
DailyKos mixed with the Democratic Underground and seasoned with every 'Bush caused my prostrate gland to go bad' crowd on their most creatively acid tripping imaginative days couldn't have come up with a quote this bad. At least Marie Antionette was offering some sort of advice in her so-not-getting-it quote, this jerk feels that he's doing something by not chasing a small white ball in bad outfits and asking his Secret Service people for free drops. He feels in solidarity with greiving parents, widows, children and relatives by skipping the back nine.
And might I just add, this proves Tiger Woods is a jihadist.
Kerry was accused of saying stypd peeplz goes to IraK. Bush is proving him wrong by staying in Washington.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
God, I hate this guy
William Donohue heads the Catholic League, whose apparent mission is to find anti-Catholicism in everything that doesn't recite a Latin Ave Maria. He's protested TV shows, books, movies and probably cloud formations he didn't feel were appropriately deferential to the Catholic Church.
John McCain seeks and gets an endorsement from one 'religious' man, John Hagee by name. Mr. Hagee has called the Catholic Church the great whore, an apostate church, the anti-Christ and a false cult.
Given Mr. Donohue got a major case of the clutching pearls over a show that DARED to show a Catholic priests having doubts, surely this would send him into near-Victorian levels of outrage, offense and offal-spewing?
At first, yes. Fair enough - nutjob's at least consistent, eh?
Um...
A half-apology (comments the Catholic Church MAY have found hurtful? Is whore like 'mah niggah'?) and promises to be more balanced in his opinions of the church ('while the Catholic Church MAY have been responsible for homosexually sodomizing kittens while cross-dressed and pissing on the Bible, we don't know it for sure')is all Donohue needed to soothe his ruffled epistles?
I don't know who's more pathetic, this gibbering hypocrite or the mindless sheep that follow this spasmodic offense factory masquerading as religion.
PS - I stipulate right up front this add-on would earn Brendan Nyhan's swami graphic for attempted mind reading, but dammit, even swamis can call a right one once in a while.
If Pastor Wright had spouted off stuff like Hagee did, you think a false toothed form letter of an apology would have been accepted at all from Donohue, offendee-in-charge?
John McCain seeks and gets an endorsement from one 'religious' man, John Hagee by name. Mr. Hagee has called the Catholic Church the great whore, an apostate church, the anti-Christ and a false cult.
Given Mr. Donohue got a major case of the clutching pearls over a show that DARED to show a Catholic priests having doubts, surely this would send him into near-Victorian levels of outrage, offense and offal-spewing?
At first, yes. Fair enough - nutjob's at least consistent, eh?
Um...
A half-apology (comments the Catholic Church MAY have found hurtful? Is whore like 'mah niggah'?) and promises to be more balanced in his opinions of the church ('while the Catholic Church MAY have been responsible for homosexually sodomizing kittens while cross-dressed and pissing on the Bible, we don't know it for sure')is all Donohue needed to soothe his ruffled epistles?
I don't know who's more pathetic, this gibbering hypocrite or the mindless sheep that follow this spasmodic offense factory masquerading as religion.
PS - I stipulate right up front this add-on would earn Brendan Nyhan's swami graphic for attempted mind reading, but dammit, even swamis can call a right one once in a while.
If Pastor Wright had spouted off stuff like Hagee did, you think a false toothed form letter of an apology would have been accepted at all from Donohue, offendee-in-charge?
What's another name for a six-year emergency?
Bad planning.
Add this to the list of temporary things that will become permanent - NSL's, loosened 4th Amendment standards, military courts, war budgets, ad nauesem.
Add this to the list of temporary things that will become permanent - NSL's, loosened 4th Amendment standards, military courts, war budgets, ad nauesem.
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