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Context: “From Joe Biden to Howard Dean, presidential candidates have made some pretty interesting remarks on their way to the White House. Rick Perry’s dirty-mouthed moment came back in 2005 and is set to haunt him by way of an upcoming book.
Ted Oberg, a reporter for ABC’s Houston affiliate, was covering education funding at the time and trying to find out Perry’s plans. After an unsuccessful interview, Oberg told Perry, “Try as I may, Governor, I guess I can’t win this one.”
With cameras still rolling, Perry turned to his spokesman, Robert Black, and gave his own interpretation of Oberg’s words.
“Try as I may, Governor, I’m not going to wait that long,” Perry chuckled. “Adios, mofo.”
abc news”
Someone is already thinking about making some money!
I have said before one big problem with FNC is it have many more talented women then men.
Why is this?
What do FNC’s men have in common?
With the exception of Shep and Hemmer, Doocy, Kilmeade, Clayton Morris, Dave Briggs, O’Reilly, Hannity, Cavuto, Varney, Greg Jarrett, Jon Scott, Eric Shawn and Eric Bolling ARE ALL ARROGANT!!!
Fox likes hiring arrogant guys, for some reason.
Guess they think it’s a strength.
I don’t.
Can someone get this memo to Roger Ailes? The Fox Puppets are acting like the President commissioned thing himself at great expense to the taxpayer, then outsourced it.
Ok, lemme get this straight. A Libertarian who doesn’t think the government should have diddly squat to do with our personal lives cares who Rick Perry has been schtupping?
Uh..you didn’t really think I was going to play it, did you? I know what Garofalo’s schtick is. She doesn’t get a pass because she’s on “my side”. I don’t listen.
I didn’t think I could bear to watch the video so I just read the transcript. But, I imagine there were plenty of “hmm”, “mmhmm”, “heh heh” and “hckhhms” in the background.
Is the full O’Donnell/Morgan video available? Apparently, before the g@y marriage question he was asking her if she still thought bastermation was wrong? I’m beginning to side with her. That is a little creepy.
Piers ran the whole gamut of her video history, including “witchcraft” on Politically Correct, and “Sex in the ’90s” on MTV. Like I said last night, it wasn’t a “nice” interview, but O’Donnell should have been prepared for it. She seemed completely blindsided, as though she actually believed the guest controls the content. That’s not how it works. Piers approached it from an understandable “I can’t believe you’re back; I can’t believe you wrote a book” POV. Apparently this was a surprise to her..
^ Thanks, I see. I don’t like it when interviewers do that, though. That stuff was from 15 years ago, let it go. Maddow is terrible about it or at least at ignoring the forest for the trees. O’Reilly used to be pretty bad about it but I haven’t noticed it as much lately. In the end, it creates an interview that isn’t the least bit newsworthy. The biggest policy issues right now are the debt & unemployment, but what everyone really wants to know is “what are your current thoughts on witchcraft, masterbation, and g@y marriage”? Awesome, thanks.
The only thing newsworthy about Christine O’Donnell is “OMG, she wrote a book? Why, is the rent due?” Piers does a mix of entertainment and news interviews. She thought she qualified for the latter category. He clearly disagreed.
Do we really have to go through the summer “I can’t believe the President would take his family on vacation!” broohaha every year? Listen up, people. I have a 24/7-type job. The type where even when I’m not actually there, I’m still thinking about it, worrying about it, and receiving correspondence therein.
It’s the type of job where 10 days away means 10 days of trying not to worry too much that the whole thing is going end-over-backwards while I was trying to have fun, all the while checking my phone for the dreaded “emergency update”. It’s not much of a vacation, and consequently, I don’t take many. So can we all get over ourselves about a vacation that will involve daily national security briefings? Besides, Congress is out for five weeks.
Republicans do it because Democrats did it, and Dems will do it because R’s did it. Other than the observation of what Jay Carney said about Bush, back when Carney was a member of the Totally Objective Media, it’s stupid.
I think the type of vacation and the location of the vacation is what’s generating most of the reaction. I understand that a POTUS is never really on vacation but the optics of going to Martha’s Vineyard, now, are pretty terrible.
Racist? Nah. Stupid checked out old white boy? Definitely. Listen to me libs..I know it’s hard to believe, but some folks actually do think black men have an advantage over whites in American society because of social programs. Seriously. I’m not kidding.
Michelle Obama: “Barack, I’ve had three years of being told I hate my country and have a fat arse, and WE’RE GOING TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD.” Anybody who doesn’t understand the “optics” of the prez’s vacation has never been married..
Like I said, I don’t care much about it but Martha’s Vineyard? Was the biggest yacht in the world already out on rent? Bad, bad optics. There are plenty of fine, less elite places to go on vacay.
He implied that black men are big on the “dependency the government provides” because of all the awesome things it has done for them, which, A). presumes that government programs have made the devastatingly high unemployment rate of blacks a super awesome experience of “advantage”, and, B)., presents the stereotype of “blacks skating on the government dole”. It was an incredibly tone deaf thing to say from a generally pretty awesome Republican. I’m very surprised he did it.
Barack Obama: “What are the chances that I’ll get a break if I vacation somewhere else? Hawaii? No, still too nice. Chicago? Oh HELL no. Ah screw it, they’re gonna baste me anyway..Michelle wins.”
Do we really have to go through the summer “I can’t believe the President would take his family on vacation!” broohaha every year?
Only during summers where there’s no shark attacks or missing white teen girls. As you point out, Congress is gone, the government is all but shutdown, and there’s literally nothing else to talk about.
Of course, it would also help if the President in question didn’t include “I will not rest until…” in every single speech.
I get why it’s not good politics, but the only times when a president truly “stands down” is either when the 25th amendment is invoked or the moment after a successor takes the oath of office. Didn’t care about ’41′ going to Kennebunkport and didn’t care about ’43′ going to Crawford, so I don’t care about ’44′ going to Martha’s Vineyard.
I do, however, think ’44′ to be a clueless blow-hard who only knows to fall back on blaming Repubs for his own failures and his own stupidity in waiting nearly three years to come up with a “plan”. Why doesn’t he already have a workable, detailed one? And if he just now came up with the idea that having a plan would be a ‘good thing’ then you know it idn’t going to be a very good plan.
Americans losing their homes between now and Labor Day because they can’t get a job deserve better. He wanted this temp job and if he can’t handle it then the prima donna should quit.
Colburn said that OBAMA (personally) felt the benefits of such programs and that’s why he supports bigger government programs. And, Coburn understands why he feels that way but that he believes that such programs are not beneficial in the long run. There’s no reason to translate that into “Coburn thinks black people like to sit around and take government funds”. He was specific and thoughtful. You know, sometimes it is what it is. You don’t always have to look for secret meanings behind everything. Us conservatives don’t have a secret book with secret codes and secret phrases and secret handshakes so stop spending all your time trying to break nonexistent codes.
The problem is you’ve got two audiences: The one that gets the “government advantages” stereotype, and the one offended by it. It was a cheap shot from a man no where near stupid enough to not know what he was doing. I think he thought he was being clever, and didn’t expect it to travel far. It’s noted, but forgiven. Tom Coburn is a good guy who had a bad day.
Well, I’m against government picking winners & losers and I didn’t hear that from him. But, per usual, you prolly know more about me and those like me than we do.
HOWEVER, your side constantly depicts the group of people you are describing as rubes, simpletons…idiots, if you will; yet, they are bright enough to pick up all these subtle nuances and hidden meanings that the intelligentsia on the left are so adept at picking up. I think it goes something like this: “didya hear that guy and his refrenses to dem colured folk sittin in der chairs waitin’ on da guvmnt? Nah? Well, lemme tellya it wuz all right there.”
Not only that, we are Oscar caliber actors because when we say “WTF are you talking about”, it looks like we really don’t know.
Very perplexing. We are either simpleton bigots or masterful code talkers with a natural born talent for the theatre.
Eh, at this point, I just want learn the secret handshake.
Bachman has been caricatured as crazy so that’s what Newsweek did. When they do a cover on Perry, it’ll either be the cartoonish caricature that everyone drew of GWB as a little man with cowboy boots on or it’ll be an actual, but scary, picture of him holding a gun.
Bachmann has been caricatured as crazy because she is crazy, and Rick Perry is less crazy. I don’t think his eyes are creepy, but Perry needs to stay in Texas, the country isn’t ready (nor will it be anytime soon) him yet.
You’re going from “me” to “them” again. Time for you to rant into the ether..I waste way too much time trying to redirect you back to what I say.
I don’t have a generic “idiots” about the right. If I call someone a damn fool, I’m talking about that one damn fool, or possibly, that one small group of damn fools on that day at that time. Enjoy your “they alls”. I’m out.
Dr. Coburn, if you recall, is the senator who took an awful lot of heat and was called some not-very-nice names for holding up the 9/11 Responder’s Bill because he thought it both too expensive and not really designed to do what its title suggested it would.
In the end, it was a lone US Senator using the power afforded him by the rules of that body that forced a change in the language of the bill so the money would go mostly to those who truly needed it, and removed from the expenditure were the extra funds for things that private insurers were already supposed to be paying for but wouldn’t if teh change wasn’t made.
-Not-So-Secret Liberal Sign-
1. Hold right hand in front of you chest high, palm up.
2. Clench fist.
3. With thumb, index, fourth, and pinky fingers held firmly clenched, count to “1″:
You may have a point. I was at the Indycar test in Sonoma today, mingling with tiny little race car drivers with giant heads of hair. I tried not to let it get to me.
Was just watching Piers Morgan and he’s talking about the O’Donnell thing. I swear that I don’t really care about it…BUT, he said she complained that he was asking questions about sex, to which he replied he was just asking her about gay marriage. Then, he showed that clip. Did anyone see the interview? I didn’t. But, I read that he asked her about the alone time, happy ending thing from 20 years ago. If he did, then he just lied. Can someone clear this up for me?
Was just watching Piers Morgan and he’s talking about the O’Donnell thing…again. I swear that I don’t really care about it…BUT, he said she complained that he was asking questions about sex, to which he replied he was just asking her about g@y marriage. Then, he showed that clip. Did anyone see the interview? I didn’t. But, I read that he asked her about the alone time, happy ending thing from 20 years ago. If he did, then he just lied. Can someone clear this up for me?
Yes, he lied. He asked her about abstinence and m@sturbation and witchcraft, then launched into g@y marriage. It was obvious that she was agitated about the previous questions before he got to the last one.
I think she was silly to be put out by things she should have been prepared to laugh off as “when I was young”, but he’s equally silly to be BSing about the trainwreck he was trying to set her up for.
Whatever else you may think about Christine O’Donnell as a candidate, she’s a sweet woman, and Piers looks like a jackass downplaying the game he was playing.
August 18, 2011 at 7:57 am
http://tinyurl.com/44lrkwh
Context: “From Joe Biden to Howard Dean, presidential candidates have made some pretty interesting remarks on their way to the White House. Rick Perry’s dirty-mouthed moment came back in 2005 and is set to haunt him by way of an upcoming book.
Ted Oberg, a reporter for ABC’s Houston affiliate, was covering education funding at the time and trying to find out Perry’s plans. After an unsuccessful interview, Oberg told Perry, “Try as I may, Governor, I guess I can’t win this one.”
With cameras still rolling, Perry turned to his spokesman, Robert Black, and gave his own interpretation of Oberg’s words.
“Try as I may, Governor, I’m not going to wait that long,” Perry chuckled. “Adios, mofo.”
abc news”
Someone is already thinking about making some money!
http://tinyurl.com/3fs34sc
Rick Perry is not my guy but he sure is going to make this campaign more interesting!
August 18, 2011 at 8:01 am
I have said before one big problem with FNC is it have many more talented women then men.
Why is this?
What do FNC’s men have in common?
With the exception of Shep and Hemmer, Doocy, Kilmeade, Clayton Morris, Dave Briggs, O’Reilly, Hannity, Cavuto, Varney, Greg Jarrett, Jon Scott, Eric Shawn and Eric Bolling ARE ALL ARROGANT!!!
Fox likes hiring arrogant guys, for some reason.
Guess they think it’s a strength.
I don’t.
August 18, 2011 at 8:20 am
Can someone get this memo to Roger Ailes? The Fox Puppets are acting like the President commissioned thing himself at great expense to the taxpayer, then outsourced it.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/17/news/la-pn-secret-service-defends-canadian-bus-20110817
August 18, 2011 at 8:48 am
“http://www.mediaite.com/print/ron-paul-supporter-runs-full-page-newspaper-ad-seeking-possible-rick-perry-mistresses/”
Is anybody surprised this came from a Ron Paul supporter? Those people are freaking crazy.
August 18, 2011 at 8:52 am
Ok, lemme get this straight. A Libertarian who doesn’t think the government should have diddly squat to do with our personal lives cares who Rick Perry has been schtupping?
August 18, 2011 at 8:57 am
^ I’m such an idiot, I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. Anyway, Ron Paul supporters are like gnats. You swat one away and 2 more return.
August 18, 2011 at 9:02 am
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/18/garofalo_herman_cain_being_paid_to_run_he_suffers_from_stockholm_syndrome.html
Incredible.
August 18, 2011 at 9:07 am
Garofalo? What, you couldn’t find Rosanne Barr? Kathy Griffin? Gallagher..?
August 18, 2011 at 9:09 am
I didn’t find it. It found me. C’mon you don’t find that shocking, even for her? I know she’s a nut but even that’s a little strong for her.
August 18, 2011 at 9:12 am
Wow, more of that Edward R Olbermann ‘journalism’ on display. Someone send a tape to the Pulitzer committee.
August 18, 2011 at 9:15 am
Uh..you didn’t really think I was going to play it, did you? I know what Garofalo’s schtick is. She doesn’t get a pass because she’s on “my side”. I don’t listen.
August 18, 2011 at 9:16 am
I didn’t think I could bear to watch the video so I just read the transcript. But, I imagine there were plenty of “hmm”, “mmhmm”, “heh heh” and “hckhhms” in the background.
August 18, 2011 at 9:42 am
Is the full O’Donnell/Morgan video available? Apparently, before the g@y marriage question he was asking her if she still thought bastermation was wrong? I’m beginning to side with her. That is a little creepy.
August 18, 2011 at 9:52 am
Piers ran the whole gamut of her video history, including “witchcraft” on Politically Correct, and “Sex in the ’90s” on MTV. Like I said last night, it wasn’t a “nice” interview, but O’Donnell should have been prepared for it. She seemed completely blindsided, as though she actually believed the guest controls the content. That’s not how it works. Piers approached it from an understandable “I can’t believe you’re back; I can’t believe you wrote a book” POV. Apparently this was a surprise to her..
August 18, 2011 at 9:58 am
^ Thanks, I see. I don’t like it when interviewers do that, though. That stuff was from 15 years ago, let it go. Maddow is terrible about it or at least at ignoring the forest for the trees. O’Reilly used to be pretty bad about it but I haven’t noticed it as much lately. In the end, it creates an interview that isn’t the least bit newsworthy. The biggest policy issues right now are the debt & unemployment, but what everyone really wants to know is “what are your current thoughts on witchcraft, masterbation, and g@y marriage”? Awesome, thanks.
August 18, 2011 at 10:02 am
The only thing newsworthy about Christine O’Donnell is “OMG, she wrote a book? Why, is the rent due?” Piers does a mix of entertainment and news interviews. She thought she qualified for the latter category. He clearly disagreed.
August 18, 2011 at 10:02 am
Awesome awesomeness.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/andy-levy-apologizes-to-chris-brown-after-twitter-feud-on-red-eye/
August 18, 2011 at 10:03 am
^Haha.
August 18, 2011 at 10:03 am
oops, was referring to your previous statement.
August 18, 2011 at 10:14 am
Add Greg Gutfeld to the arrogant list.
August 18, 2011 at 10:18 am
Gregg Jarrett has to be the biggest narcissist I’ve ever seen on cable news! I wonder what the ladies think of him?
August 18, 2011 at 11:31 am
As a Mom, this lady fails. I have little ones and I can’t imagine using them in this way. Why don’t you just ask him, lady?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/rick-perry-faces-kids-evolution-question-14333330
August 18, 2011 at 11:38 am
Just saw the Rick Perry video on MSNBC. Perry came off as the human there.
August 18, 2011 at 11:49 am
As him yourself, you intellectually-superior snot.
August 18, 2011 at 11:55 am
That should read “ask him yourself”. And while I’m at it, can’t you just hear her telling that kid “Ask your father why he’s home so late. Ask him!“?
August 18, 2011 at 12:07 pm
That lady is a big black cloud hanging over her sons growth.
August 18, 2011 at 12:17 pm
He’ll become a Republican, and she’ll never understand why.
August 18, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Geez, I just saw the “mom” video. What a jerk.
August 18, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Why do some “parents” feel the need to use their children as political gambits? Very disturbing.
August 18, 2011 at 3:24 pm
“Ask him this, ask him that.” Uh, he’s right there in front of your son, you blithering idiot.
August 18, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Mediaite
by CapehartJ
Rep. Maxine Waters To Chris Matthews: Rep. Allen West Sent Unemployed Brother To Me For Help (VIDEO) http://t.co/sqmOpnu JN
I’d love to hear the rest of that story.
August 18, 2011 at 3:51 pm
NEWSFLASH: TV news people are arrogant. Get over it.
August 18, 2011 at 3:58 pm
“Rep. Maxine Waters To Chris Matthews: Rep. Allen West Sent Unemployed Brother To Me For Help”
I heard something about it earlier on Tamron’s show. Wasn’t it a job fair?
August 18, 2011 at 4:02 pm
As for Rep. Allen West, the guy is all kinds of awesome.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/from-the-desk-of-allen-west/
August 18, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Microcosm:
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0811/call_uncle_sam_5c130fdd-0e34-4b04-99e1-3d923ea3919e.html
August 18, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Oh, don’t be silly, Lonestar. You know that those things don’t really happen, they’re just made-up by conservative media.
August 18, 2011 at 4:59 pm
^ Deja vu all over again. I really wish it wasn’t illegal to share similar communications I’ve had with the FDA and HHS. UGH!
August 18, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Sorry Laura, you’re correct. As you can see I found it on RushLimbaugh.com. That man controls my mind!
August 18, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Do we really have to go through the summer “I can’t believe the President would take his family on vacation!” broohaha every year? Listen up, people. I have a 24/7-type job. The type where even when I’m not actually there, I’m still thinking about it, worrying about it, and receiving correspondence therein.
It’s the type of job where 10 days away means 10 days of trying not to worry too much that the whole thing is going end-over-backwards while I was trying to have fun, all the while checking my phone for the dreaded “emergency update”. It’s not much of a vacation, and consequently, I don’t take many. So can we all get over ourselves about a vacation that will involve daily national security briefings? Besides, Congress is out for five weeks.
August 18, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Republicans do it because Democrats did it, and Dems will do it because R’s did it. Other than the observation of what Jay Carney said about Bush, back when Carney was a member of the Totally Objective Media, it’s stupid.
August 18, 2011 at 6:11 pm
I think the type of vacation and the location of the vacation is what’s generating most of the reaction. I understand that a POTUS is never really on vacation but the optics of going to Martha’s Vineyard, now, are pretty terrible.
August 18, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Lord, it’s gonna be a loooong year.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/08/18/matthews-falsely-accuses-sen-coburn-making-racist-remark-about-obama
Knock, knock
who’s there
Repu
YOU’RE A RACIST!
August 18, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Racist? Nah. Stupid checked out old white boy? Definitely. Listen to me libs..I know it’s hard to believe, but some folks actually do think black men have an advantage over whites in American society because of social programs. Seriously. I’m not kidding.
August 18, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Michelle Obama: “Barack, I’ve had three years of being told I hate my country and have a fat arse, and WE’RE GOING TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD.” Anybody who doesn’t understand the “optics” of the prez’s vacation has never been married..
August 18, 2011 at 6:22 pm
^ you’re free to think that but Coburn didn’t say or imply that.
August 18, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Like I said, I don’t care much about it but Martha’s Vineyard? Was the biggest yacht in the world already out on rent? Bad, bad optics. There are plenty of fine, less elite places to go on vacay.
August 18, 2011 at 6:28 pm
He implied that black men are big on the “dependency the government provides” because of all the awesome things it has done for them, which, A). presumes that government programs have made the devastatingly high unemployment rate of blacks a super awesome experience of “advantage”, and, B)., presents the stereotype of “blacks skating on the government dole”. It was an incredibly tone deaf thing to say from a generally pretty awesome Republican. I’m very surprised he did it.
August 18, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Barack Obama: “What are the chances that I’ll get a break if I vacation somewhere else? Hawaii? No, still too nice. Chicago? Oh HELL no. Ah screw it, they’re gonna baste me anyway..Michelle wins.”
August 18, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Note I ignored RushLimbaugh.com, and only commented on Coburn because you brought it up. I’m trying here..
Hey, remember Christine O’Donnell? It seems almost as long ago as The Day Michele Bachmann Was The Frontrunner.
August 18, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Do we really have to go through the summer “I can’t believe the President would take his family on vacation!” broohaha every year?
Only during summers where there’s no shark attacks or missing white teen girls. As you point out, Congress is gone, the government is all but shutdown, and there’s literally nothing else to talk about.
Of course, it would also help if the President in question didn’t include “I will not rest until…” in every single speech.
August 18, 2011 at 7:22 pm
-Martha’s Vineyard-
I get why it’s not good politics, but the only times when a president truly “stands down” is either when the 25th amendment is invoked or the moment after a successor takes the oath of office. Didn’t care about ’41′ going to Kennebunkport and didn’t care about ’43′ going to Crawford, so I don’t care about ’44′ going to Martha’s Vineyard.
I do, however, think ’44′ to be a clueless blow-hard who only knows to fall back on blaming Repubs for his own failures and his own stupidity in waiting nearly three years to come up with a “plan”. Why doesn’t he already have a workable, detailed one? And if he just now came up with the idea that having a plan would be a ‘good thing’ then you know it idn’t going to be a very good plan.
Americans losing their homes between now and Labor Day because they can’t get a job deserve better. He wanted this temp job and if he can’t handle it then the prima donna should quit.
August 18, 2011 at 7:41 pm
What Al said. Sorry, Barack, just ’cause I’m a liberal doesn’t mean you don’t suck.
August 18, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Every damn time he talks about jobs, I feel like a teen’s parent saying “What the hell happened to the last trillion dollars I gave you??”
August 18, 2011 at 7:57 pm
^Haha, good one.
August 18, 2011 at 8:03 pm
^ Seconded.
August 18, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Uh oh. “President” hair, thinks Newsweek’s “crazy eyes” cover was a-ok. Pay attention, Bachmann..
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sarah-palin-dismisses-gloria-steinems-brand-of-feminism-its-very-passe/
August 18, 2011 at 8:16 pm
^I don’t think they are as good of friends (if friends at all) as they like to say so much.
August 18, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Colburn said that OBAMA (personally) felt the benefits of such programs and that’s why he supports bigger government programs. And, Coburn understands why he feels that way but that he believes that such programs are not beneficial in the long run. There’s no reason to translate that into “Coburn thinks black people like to sit around and take government funds”. He was specific and thoughtful. You know, sometimes it is what it is. You don’t always have to look for secret meanings behind everything. Us conservatives don’t have a secret book with secret codes and secret phrases and secret handshakes so stop spending all your time trying to break nonexistent codes.
August 18, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Cover – I don’t think it was sexist, I just think Newsweek hates conservative woman…because they’re conservative, not cuz they’re women.
I like Bachmann but I hope she’s out of the race soon.
August 18, 2011 at 8:35 pm
The problem is you’ve got two audiences: The one that gets the “government advantages” stereotype, and the one offended by it. It was a cheap shot from a man no where near stupid enough to not know what he was doing. I think he thought he was being clever, and didn’t expect it to travel far. It’s noted, but forgiven. Tom Coburn is a good guy who had a bad day.
August 18, 2011 at 8:50 pm
That’s a good point about the cover. Tina would’ve run a “crazy eyes” for Perry, too..and probably will. Btw, his eyes are creepy. Just sayin.
August 18, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Well, I’m against government picking winners & losers and I didn’t hear that from him. But, per usual, you prolly know more about me and those like me than we do.
HOWEVER, your side constantly depicts the group of people you are describing as rubes, simpletons…idiots, if you will; yet, they are bright enough to pick up all these subtle nuances and hidden meanings that the intelligentsia on the left are so adept at picking up. I think it goes something like this: “didya hear that guy and his refrenses to dem colured folk sittin in der chairs waitin’ on da guvmnt? Nah? Well, lemme tellya it wuz all right there.”
Not only that, we are Oscar caliber actors because when we say “WTF are you talking about”, it looks like we really don’t know.
Very perplexing. We are either simpleton bigots or masterful code talkers with a natural born talent for the theatre.
Eh, at this point, I just want learn the secret handshake.
August 18, 2011 at 9:04 pm
“his eyes are creepy”
You’re jealous of his hair.
Bachman has been caricatured as crazy so that’s what Newsweek did. When they do a cover on Perry, it’ll either be the cartoonish caricature that everyone drew of GWB as a little man with cowboy boots on or it’ll be an actual, but scary, picture of him holding a gun.
August 18, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Bachmann has been caricatured as crazy because she is crazy, and Rick Perry is less crazy. I don’t think his eyes are creepy, but Perry needs to stay in Texas, the country isn’t ready (nor will it be anytime soon) him yet.
August 18, 2011 at 9:10 pm
“for him yet” I mean.
August 18, 2011 at 9:14 pm
You’re going from “me” to “them” again. Time for you to rant into the ether..I waste way too much time trying to redirect you back to what I say.
I don’t have a generic “idiots” about the right. If I call someone a damn fool, I’m talking about that one damn fool, or possibly, that one small group of damn fools on that day at that time. Enjoy your “they alls”. I’m out.
August 18, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Dr. Coburn, if you recall, is the senator who took an awful lot of heat and was called some not-very-nice names for holding up the 9/11 Responder’s Bill because he thought it both too expensive and not really designed to do what its title suggested it would.
In the end, it was a lone US Senator using the power afforded him by the rules of that body that forced a change in the language of the bill so the money would go mostly to those who truly needed it, and removed from the expenditure were the extra funds for things that private insurers were already supposed to be paying for but wouldn’t if teh change wasn’t made.
-Not-So-Secret Liberal Sign-
1. Hold right hand in front of you chest high, palm up.
2. Clench fist.
3. With thumb, index, fourth, and pinky fingers held firmly clenched, count to “1″:
August 18, 2011 at 9:28 pm
You’re jealous of his hair.
You may have a point. I was at the Indycar test in Sonoma today, mingling with tiny little race car drivers with giant heads of hair. I tried not to let it get to me.
August 18, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Was just watching Piers Morgan and he’s talking about the O’Donnell thing. I swear that I don’t really care about it…BUT, he said she complained that he was asking questions about sex, to which he replied he was just asking her about gay marriage. Then, he showed that clip. Did anyone see the interview? I didn’t. But, I read that he asked her about the alone time, happy ending thing from 20 years ago. If he did, then he just lied. Can someone clear this up for me?
August 18, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Yea for moderation.
Was just watching Piers Morgan and he’s talking about the O’Donnell thing…again. I swear that I don’t really care about it…BUT, he said she complained that he was asking questions about sex, to which he replied he was just asking her about g@y marriage. Then, he showed that clip. Did anyone see the interview? I didn’t. But, I read that he asked her about the alone time, happy ending thing from 20 years ago. If he did, then he just lied. Can someone clear this up for me?
August 18, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Yes, he lied. He asked her about abstinence and m@sturbation and witchcraft, then launched into g@y marriage. It was obvious that she was agitated about the previous questions before he got to the last one.
I think she was silly to be put out by things she should have been prepared to laugh off as “when I was young”, but he’s equally silly to be BSing about the trainwreck he was trying to set her up for.
Whatever else you may think about Christine O’Donnell as a candidate, she’s a sweet woman, and Piers looks like a jackass downplaying the game he was playing.
August 18, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Abstinence, wanking, witchcraft, and The Thing That Shall Not Be Named. Ya think he might’ve been looking for trouble?
August 18, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Those British sound all innocent with their funny sounding talk but I will be fooled no longer.
August 18, 2011 at 10:25 pm
^Ah, go sing in the loo and hear how funny you sound.
August 18, 2011 at 10:28 pm
He worked for British tabloids. She clearly didn’t get the memo.
October 20, 2011 at 6:27 am
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