Blogging resumes Monday. Happy Labor Day Weekend…
Like this:
Like Loading...
This entry was posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:36 pm and is filed under Blog Announcements . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
August 30, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Back at you. Thanks for your labor on this blog.
August 30, 2012 at 6:36 pm
I’ll be working on Labor Day. Cuz irony.
August 30, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Did Ed Schultz just slam Clint Eastwood for his lack of family values? I know it’s the wrong movie, but does Ed have a death wish?
August 30, 2012 at 7:13 pm
He’s talking to a chair.
August 30, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Use your imagination. Pretend you’re an MSNBC host.
August 30, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Made my day.
August 30, 2012 at 7:20 pm
@anthropocon
It’s like Eastwood is imitating Jimmy Stewart doing a Bob Newhart routine. #RNC2012
August 30, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Is Mitt anti-the Afghanistan War?
August 30, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Hmm, choked up Mitt. Didn’t see that coming.
August 30, 2012 at 8:11 pm
I’m watching Mitt now, but without sound or captioning.
Man… he really does have fantastic hair.
August 30, 2012 at 8:12 pm
My kid says he looks like a Lego-figure. It’s..so true.
August 30, 2012 at 8:12 pm
American Americans for America!!
August 30, 2012 at 8:20 pm
He certainly overcame the Eastwood Improv, didn’t he?
August 30, 2012 at 8:23 pm
According to Ed “The skyrocketing cost of healthcare is helping seniors”.
Whatever you say, Ed!
August 30, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Grasping.
@julieroginsky
Why would you mock and joke about sea levels rising when there is a hurricane a few states over from you? Just tone deaf.
August 30, 2012 at 8:35 pm
And if you say Chicago, you’re a racist. Rumor is Al Capone was Italian.
August 30, 2012 at 8:41 pm
If you believe:
OBAMA COULD NOT FIX IT, MITT CAN FIX IT
then you vote for Romney.
This convention helped in that effort.
August 30, 2012 at 9:14 pm
A good speech by Romney standards, but still pretty flat and devoid of content. He’ll get a slight bump, then Obama will next week, then we’ll be in the same place on Election Day we’ve been all year: A country split right down the damn middle, with the selection of the Leader of the Free World in the hands of a few low-knowledge bumpkins. USA!
August 30, 2012 at 9:21 pm
I enjoyed Clint Eastwood much more than watching Jon Voight talk about how great it was. Can we finally, mercifully end this pitiful search for Republican celebrities?
August 30, 2012 at 9:24 pm
They’re still trotting Jon Voight out on FNC? Were Craig T. Nelson and Janine Turner busy?
August 30, 2012 at 9:26 pm
CNN. And what is this obsession with Craig Nelson?
August 30, 2012 at 9:35 pm
“I was on welfare and food stamps, and nobody helped me out!” C’mon, that’s a classic.
August 30, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Guess you follow him closer than I do.
August 30, 2012 at 9:43 pm
I thought Craig T. Nelson was a toy bear.
August 30, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Coach!
August 30, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Call Of Duty!
August 30, 2012 at 10:01 pm
Clint! Fox! Play it again!
August 30, 2012 at 10:03 pm
I could watch that all night. It syncs up perfectly with Dark Side of the Moon. (The kid will get that joke)
August 30, 2012 at 10:05 pm
I was indisposed, the first few minutes. It makes so much more sense, now..
August 30, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Perot used to say “You own the country”, if memory serves.
August 30, 2012 at 10:11 pm
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80483.html
David Koch is evil.
August 30, 2012 at 10:12 pm
His hair kinda looks like mine after I washed it with dish-soap.
August 30, 2012 at 10:18 pm
Clint’s much better the second time, when you know it’s going to end. #Phew
August 30, 2012 at 10:48 pm
Anyone who dreams of a regular gig on SNL next year will have Romney’s every word and gesture memorised by sunrise.
August 30, 2012 at 10:54 pm
I don’t know. I get the feeling that a Romney impersonator will be about as compelling as Armisen’s Obama.
August 30, 2012 at 11:02 pm
That’s because the current SNL cast idn’t very good. President GeoRGe HerbERT WALKER Bush never said “Nah gah daw it” but Dana Carvey sure did make it into a trademark line.
August 30, 2012 at 11:11 pm
Twue. It would have been difficult to imagine HW as the comedy legend that he became. Making prank calls to the Secret Service…which is more than a bit ironic, looking back.
August 31, 2012 at 5:22 am
American Americans for America!!
As opposed to Democratics Against America! Kenyans Pretending to be for America!
August 31, 2012 at 5:43 am
For all the folks ripping Eastwood, here’s what they won’t tell you: Obama is exactly as thin-skinned as Eastwood described:
?tw_i=241392153148915712&tw_e=media&tw_p=tweetembed
August 31, 2012 at 5:49 am
And next, coming to a convention in a state that hates gay marriage in a center named after a bank, the just announced speaker list includes Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts; Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley; Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former White House Chief of Staff; and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat.
Earlier this week, convention organizers announced that Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Rep. Barbara Lee of California would participate in revealing the party’s platform.
Among the speakers announced Friday are House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
If that cast of characters doesn’t turn off independents, nothing will.
August 31, 2012 at 5:53 am
I just made a wonderful, informative comment that will warm the hearts of all adults and children, but let the word “g@y” slip in spelled correctly. Thus, it went the same place my socks go in the dryer.
August 31, 2012 at 6:48 am
Shows you pretty much how ticked off liberals are at Clint and how nasty they are when their surface is scratched:
http://elink.thedailybeast.com/4f3c22b7b92da761fea55e31m02t.11zj/UECsJagvf4QjTMBYB47e4
August 31, 2012 at 8:25 am
There are no liberals “ticked off” at Clint. It was bizarre, hilarious, and took all the wind out of Mitt’s big moment. If this was Etch-A-Sketch Guy’s brilliant idea, he FINALLY should be fired. #eastwooding #thechair
August 31, 2012 at 8:39 am
Suggest you read more, Joe. Nasty stuff out there by the likes of Michael Moore and Roger Ebert.
And speaking of nasty, MSNBC “talent” show they not only don’t belong on TV, they don’t deserve to live in this country:
#bigots
#liars
#aholes
August 31, 2012 at 8:42 am
YOU KIDS GET OUTTA MY COUNTRY! Take a pill, Larry.
August 31, 2012 at 8:45 am
Your take the damn pill, you watch those pricks and lap it up, douchbag.
How many facts would a fact checker fact-check if a fact checker could check facts?
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/083012-624188-so-called-fact-checks-disguise-media-liberal-agenda.htm?src=HPLNews
August 31, 2012 at 8:54 am
Eastwood’s speech (or whatever the heck you call it: performance art?) was a disaster.
That might have been okay the first night. Okay as in, well, he’s 82, whaddya expect? But on the main night?
So shoot me Clint.
But the jackals over at MSNBC have no standing to complain about disrepecting the President. That network is a cartoon now.
August 31, 2012 at 8:57 am
I haz sadface.
August 31, 2012 at 9:01 am
I, as you might suspect disagree, Erich. Watching CBS News this morning playing just sound bites from Clint’s speech he looked spectacular. An independnt bumping into him saying Obama should be fired might just say, “I agree”.
August 31, 2012 at 9:02 am
Why sadface?
August 31, 2012 at 9:07 am
Yeah, soundbites and parts of it were funny and interesting. The empty chair part was a little corny.
But the whole thing was just…well he didn’t come across too well.
Especially for the main night.
August 31, 2012 at 9:12 am
And please, stop this deification of Rachel Maddow. She’s a leftwing version of Hannity, whom nobody takes seriously.
Why she continues to receive a fawning press is a mystery.
Maddow has no crediblity except to ideologues.
And David Lettermann.
August 31, 2012 at 9:12 am
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chris-matthews-producer-msnbc-fight-republican-national-convention-367147
August 31, 2012 at 9:13 am
I guess I just fell in line with him and enjoyed the whole thing. Y’all way to young, but one of the funniest things I ever saw was the 1972 Academy Awards show in which host Charelton Heston got stuck in traffic, and Clint was asked to fill in without any notice.
August 31, 2012 at 9:16 am
The fawning press take Maddow seriously. She deserves to be shown to be the liar she is.
August 31, 2012 at 9:21 am
David Letterman, who’s still doing Rush/Oxycontin jokes, I might add.
We like to forget that our favorite actors don’t actually ‘say’ those words, the words are written for them. Then we see them speak off-the-cuff, and it’s slightly shocking. I definitely agree that Romney’s people were too starstruck to tell him what to do.
August 31, 2012 at 9:24 am
I can just hear someone saying “It’s Clint! What could go wrong?”.
August 31, 2012 at 9:33 am
Dude went on stage at the Republican Convention and bashed POTUS for not getting out of Afghanistan yesterday. A day after Neo-Con Let’s Invade Everything Day. I’ll bet they didn’t see THAT coming..
August 31, 2012 at 9:37 am
A little something I found on Twitter. Maybe Larry remembers it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25887219/vp/26561824#26561824
August 31, 2012 at 9:39 am
Why she continues to receive a fawning press is a mystery.
Think about it for 2 seconds and the answer should come to you. The reason she gets fawning press is because the press, by and large, agrees with every chowderheaded thing that comes out of her wordhole.
August 31, 2012 at 9:48 am
Ah yes, listened in ’48 on our old Philco. Didn’t have TV at our home yet. Joe Biden has a better memory though. He watched FDR’s firesid chats on TV he says. Joe watched lots of things on TV in the 1930′s. Too bad Clint was so hard on him.
August 31, 2012 at 9:52 am
Listen to the truckers who call into Sirius NASCAR Radio. They say they “watched the race on the radio last Sunday”. That’s how people “saw” FDR. It’s not a slip.
August 31, 2012 at 9:55 am
The fawning press take Maddow seriously. She deserves to be shown to be the liar she is.
She wears glasses and refuses to make herself look attractive, so she must be a serious newzladee!
August 31, 2012 at 10:00 am
Just announced: since the Republican Convention was filled with so many Wisconsin people (Ryan, Preibus, Walker) I guess the democrats had to find a Wisconsinite to speak at their convention. Congresswoman Gwen Moore from Milwaukee. Here she is in all her glory!
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/06/01/493725/congresswoman-breaks-into-song-hit-the-road-scott-and-dont-you-come-back-no-more/?mobile=nc
(This of course was just before the recall and the guest of honor at this event was Bill Clinton!)
August 31, 2012 at 10:10 am
Sounds as if that Convention will just be revisiting all kinds of failure.
August 31, 2012 at 10:11 am
As is all too often these days MR.-KNOW-IT-ALL is up to his ears in WRONG.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=biden%20fdr%20tv&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDcQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0Jf17Yo7hBM&ei=Xu9AUJutJ4qzigKox4DwAg&usg=AFQjCNGtUZ6kI2vIb-PbxJg1zRdJs0kKRQ
August 31, 2012 at 10:18 am
Liberal creed:
bigotry in defense of Obama is no vice
truth in the face of facts is no virtue.
August 31, 2012 at 10:28 am
Somebody needs to sedate Larry.
Who wants to put the needle in his fanny?
NTTAWWT*
* not that there’s anything wrong with that….
August 31, 2012 at 11:25 am
From the “Glass Houses” Dept.: Michael Moore didn’t like Eastwood’s skit. http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2012/08/michael_moore_calls_fellow_dir.html
… uh … Mike?
August 31, 2012 at 11:27 am
I can’t believe the really nasty things young Hollywood “stars” (whom I’ve never even heard of) have tweeted about Eastwood. If Eastwood had done the same thing at the Dem convention, they would be cheering (and, yes, FOX would be going ballistic). But Clint did the unforgiveable in Hollywood – he dared to criticize Obama. Clint said what many of us are thinking – when someone is not doing the job, we should get rid of him.
August 31, 2012 at 11:43 am
They’re going to treat this like a problem until it truly becomes one. They need to laugh it off and move on. It was the first spontaneous moment at a Convention in about 40 years, and we need to leave it for the “Oops” that it is.
August 31, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Mitt Romney is in New Orleans to tour the damage from Hurricane Isaac. President Obama will be going on Monday. Hmm…shouldn’t it be vice-versa?
August 31, 2012 at 12:38 pm
If Obama goes early, he gums up the works and gets bashed for “politicising” the event. If he goes later he gets it for being “too late”. As long as he’s not telling some incompetent fool he’s doing a heckuva job, I don’t care when he goes.
Eastwood was funny, bizarre, and his scheduling screwed up the (apparently very well done) Romney video being broadcast on network television. I have no complaints.
August 31, 2012 at 12:44 pm
I always thought that the hoo hah about visiting the storm area was BS, and still do. I know “But then..”
August 31, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Aside from whatever else went wrong for George Bush during Katrina, he got a raw deal with the Air Force One pic. They did exactly the same shot when he flew over the ruins of the World Trade Center, and it was unanimously considered a poignant image of a sad Commander-in-Chief. I’m quite sure they had no idea the Katrina pic would be perceived so differently.
August 31, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Oh, and nobody paid any attention to a very good speech by Marco Rubio immediately following Eastwood. A very strange end to an already erratic RNC.
August 31, 2012 at 1:02 pm
^ Exactly. I watched the repeat, but that’s not exactly common.
August 31, 2012 at 1:19 pm
I watched Rubio. Why would no one watch him after Eastwood?
August 31, 2012 at 1:20 pm
I will voice one serious issue I had with that spectacle: Clint portrayed the President as cussing and yelling “Shut up!” That is not Obama’s personality, and it was beneath the decorum of a national political convention to talk like that about the President of the United States
In the long run it doesn’t matter because Eastwood did more harm to his own party than the other, but I hope the DNC will refrain from anything like that.
August 31, 2012 at 1:22 pm
I watched Rubio. Why would no one watch him after Eastwood?
It’s not that people didn’t watch, but that – as SE Cupp said today – they were still stunned by the bizarre spectacle they had just witnessed, which took the light off Rubio. No one is talking today about what should have been a major coming out for him last night. It was the best speech of the convention.
August 31, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Joe, I’ve often wondered if W was being sarcastic when he said, “Heck of a job, Brownie.” At the time he sounded a little less than sincere to me.
August 31, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Carol, that’d be awesome if true. “Heckuva job, Brownie (you’re fired.”
August 31, 2012 at 1:45 pm
There was a Republican woman on Martin Bashir’s show trying to spin that “the American people are talking about the fact that Clint Eastwood supports Mitt Romney.” A. No they’re not. B. Who cares who Clint eastwood is voting for?
August 31, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Mr. Know-It- All knows who the American people are talking about and what they care about. And he has had such a good track record lately.
August 31, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Hey Kelly, why don’t you take it down a notch, eh? I’ve told you a hundred times my comments are my opinions. In my opinion, you’re being a jackass.
August 31, 2012 at 1:55 pm
It is hilarious that Romney goes to New Orleans, and reactively Obama’s handlers cancel his trip to Cleveland (like we haven’t seen enough of his skinny a$$ lately) to get Barack there ASAP.
August 31, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Maybe you ought to quit talking as though your opinions were facts, because you have been wrong way too frequently. You have a right to your opinions, not to make stuff up.
August 31, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Some guy on CNN said “Democrats won’t do that, because Dems know what celebrities are REALLY like”. Egg zactly. Republicans are so jealous of ‘liberal celebrities’ that we pant after ones of our own…having spent years saying “Who cares what celebrities think?”. Just maybe, we’ll get over it.
August 31, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Romney’s goal is to convince the public – who clearly are willing to look at another guy – that he’s a serious, competent alternative to Obama.
I don’t know how Eastwood’s speech/performance helped in that regard. As I said, that might have been a good speech for the first or second day. A little red meat, a little jabbing at the opposing candidate is always good. People expect it and I see nothing wrong with it (within reason).
But to give that presentation on the day that the candidate gives his address was, frankly, not smart.
Yeah, that sounds like a League of Women’s Voters type comment but, hey, that’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
Well, unless someone comes up with a better post.
August 31, 2012 at 2:41 pm
You’re right. If it had been any other night but last, it would have had time to digest before the big speakers. As it is, he sucked the oxygen out of Rubio, at the very least. The man canNOT be happy about that.
August 31, 2012 at 2:44 pm
And I watch the tweets from people on my side who say how GREAT it was, while people who actually report the news say it was a disaster. Guess who wins in that scenario?
August 31, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Expect the backfire.
The Eastwood bashing may be reasonable… to a point. But expect the backfire, when the left-wing celebrities and speakers take things too far.
There is a big political battle over older folks. If/When/As we have already seen… the left is willing to use the, “Stupid old man” attack on Eastwood, think about how that plays with older Americans. The battle over Medicare, and the scare tactics within, could swing as a result of unrestrained aggression and group think. This could wind up hurting the left more than they now realize.
August 31, 2012 at 2:54 pm
I think it was a “disaster” as in terms of missed opportunity. Two weeks from now, hell two days, something else will come up and we’ll forget about it.
Let’s face it, do any of us remember anything about the conventions last time? It’s all a fog.
As they say in tennis, an unforced error.
Still, I guess Romney will get a bit of a bounce: +5/7 points? It’ll fade but he’ll get what he wanted for the short term.
August 31, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I watched Eastword and just really enjoyed him. Maybe if I were following while on Twitter I might have been pushed to reconsider. That’s one of the reasons I stopped doing that a year or so ago. Avoid the group think. Eastwood’s complete takedown of Obama and Biden was such a threat the Left came at him with all knives available from Lipton to Obama himself. Perhaps the most cutting was the slamn that after the last few commercials, maybe Obama wasn’t even a nice guy. Cannot afford to let that idea fester in the wild. The only thing left in the hope and change magic show is the “but they like him personally” trick.
August 31, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Actually, Rubio’s speech was much discussed on MJ this morning – it was almost unanimous: it was a disaster. Except for Tom Brokaw, who liked the speech, everyone else thought Rubio spent too much time on Rubio. I liked the speech and I thought he was a very good speaker. I don’t know if this is going to be a commercial, but last night (?) there was a video of elected Hispanic Republican leaders that was very effective. There seems to be a great many Hispanics elected to office on the Republican ticket, yet the party just can’t seem to get many Hispanic votes in a presidential election.
August 31, 2012 at 3:26 pm
I’m not saying that it’s over, he’s gonna lose. I envision this going down in history as the most poorly run campaign where the candidate actually won. Perhaps you reach a point of gaffe overload, and it resets like an odometer. Or it becomes endearing. Who the hell knows? I do know that Democrats have absolutely nothing that’s uplifting to say, next week, and no speakers to whom you would as inspirations to your children. “Ooh, look Jimmy! She wants free stuff from the government!!”
August 31, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Clint portrayed the President as cussing and yelling “Shut up!” That is not Obama’s personality
Oh heavens to murgatroid: break out the fainting salts. I believe I got myself a case of the vapors!!!
While almost every politcian by job description is vain and shallow to a certain extent, Obama takes it to a new level (as his tweet last night proved.) And sweet, litle ol’ innocent Obama has the most DARLING personality … unless he’s you know, pretending to wipe his forehead as he secretly gives someone the finger. Plus, would a man as chaste as you’re describing Obama really choose to spend his time with … Rahm Emmanuel?!?
and it was beneath the decorum of a national political convention to talk like that about the President of the United States
Joe must be new here on planet Earth. He must have missed the entire Democratic schtick from 2000 till, well, till today. Let’s welcome Joe to the planet and show him the sights.
August 31, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Well, it’s been almost 24 hours. Have we concluded now that the Eastwood bit was four shades of awesomeness, but that dang media ruined it for everybody? That didn’t take long.
August 31, 2012 at 4:03 pm
TRIED to ruin it for everybody
August 31, 2012 at 4:04 pm
media just can’t pull it off like they used to
August 31, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Farris, Eastwood had POTUS saying “fck” at a presidential nominating convention minutes before the nominee was to deliver the speech of his life. I’m sure parents all over the country encouraging their children to show an interest in the political process were thrilled. It wasn’t acceptable.
August 31, 2012 at 4:11 pm
A House panel is calling on the U.S. Department of Labor to turn over all records involving a half-million dollar contract funded through President Obama’s $831 billion stimulus program that paid for more than 100 commercials on MSNBC touting a “green jobs” initiative.
The contract with McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations LLC in 2009 resulted in more than 100 commercials on cable shows hosted by Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman to raise awareness about the Job Corps program’s training in environmentally-friendly career areas.
But spending reports showed that no jobs were created through the contract. The Washington Times first reported on the contract earlier this month, quoting one taxpayer watchdog who questioned not only the lack of jobs but why the commercials aired only on MSNBC, considered the most liberal of the major cable news outlets.
Read more: House panel probing stimulus cash for MSNBC ads – Washington Times
August 31, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Let’s face it, do any of us remember anything about the conventions last time? It’s all a fog.
Everybody remembers Obama’s ’04 speech. It catapulted him into big book sales, then the presidency. Rubio gave a career-making speech last night, and no one remembers it NOW. Because of an empty chair.
August 31, 2012 at 4:32 pm
I don’t remember Obama’s speech for ’04. Maybe I just didn’t watch it, but I remember seeing a replay in ’08 when he started running for President. Then I heard it over and over as a variant of every other speech he was making. Too bad he didn’t mean any of the lofty stuff. Good speech though.
August 31, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Give us one line from Obama’s speech in ’04?
I don’t remember anything about it, his delivering it, a line, anything.
Only that it was “great.”
August 31, 2012 at 4:41 pm
It was the press what did it.
Romney’s people dumped the obligatory introduction video out of prime time so some actor could…do whatever the hell he wanted. It was weird, slightly vulgar, completely obliterated Rubio’s speech, and did a fair job on Romney’s, too. And Ann was pissed. That’s a story, I don’t care who you are.
August 31, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Obama ’04
Red states, blue states. I can’t quote the line, but it’s great line.
August 31, 2012 at 4:44 pm
From the Wiki:
“The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into red states and blue states – red states for Republicans, and blue states for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states. We coach Little League in the blue states and have gay friends in the red states. … We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”
August 31, 2012 at 4:45 pm
From the Wiki:
“The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into red states and blue states – red states for Republicans, and blue states for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states. We coach Little League in the blue states and have g@y friends in the red states. … We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”
August 31, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Everybody remembers Obama’s ’04 speech.
People remember that he gave a speech, but not what he said, Joey!
August 31, 2012 at 5:06 pm
The point (yeah, there was one in there somewhere) was that Eastwood’s speech will be overtaken by other events (I think Israel will hit Iran soon; hope I’m wrong but I think not).
Romney’s campaign has this tendency to let these side matters overtake his larger goal and purpose. He can’t afford to continue to do this.
Recall Obama in 2008? Laser focus, stayed on message, didn’t get distracted and when side events came up he quickly got them out of the way.
Of course, once the financial markets locked up it was all over anyway.
August 31, 2012 at 5:16 pm
How many times did Obama mention John Kerry in his 2004 speech?
August 31, 2012 at 5:25 pm
From my memory, “there are no red states, there are no blue states… there is just the UNITED STATES”.
Nice thought, but in a month after his election when the Republicans wanted to voice some stimulus ideas, he sent them marching down Capital Hill with their tales between their legs. “Don’t forget, I WON”, he said, and he went off with Pelosi and a blank check for 800 billion dollars. That set the combative tone for the rest of his term.
What he really meant to say was, “there are no red states, there are no blue states… there is just MY STATES! Winner take all!”
August 31, 2012 at 5:30 pm
My memory had the sentiment, but not the wording. Can’t say that about JFK or FDR. Got them fellows down cold.
August 31, 2012 at 5:34 pm
FNC had a great convention. As was the case during the first two nights of the RNC, Fox News Channel was the most watched TV news outlet, besting the broadcast networks from 10-11PM. Last night, however, the gap between FNC and its competitors was even wider, as it topped the next two networks, NBC and ABC, combined in total viewers. Every outlet except NBC improved on its Tuesday night ratings in both total viewers and the adults 25-54 demo.
August 31, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Reminds me of my high school yearbook. “There are red ships and blue ships, but there is no ship like friendship”. Sorry, I’m laughing like hell..
August 31, 2012 at 5:38 pm
I recorded The Cycle and just watched it. SE Cupp said that when there were rumors that Eastwood would be the mystery speaker she was upset. The last thing, she said, that Republicans needed was another old white guy on stage. Clint Eastwood, American cultural icon, is just “another old white guy”? Is she serious? I think a lot of people over 45/50 (like me) liked his speech/skit, even if Ann Romney didn’t. He’s the only one who mentioned Afghanistan, Gitmo, the stupidity of trying terrorists in downtown Manhattan, politicians being employees of we the people, etc. And did SE miss the incredible diversity of speakers at this convention? I’ll take Eastwood over Charlie Crist and Sandra Fluke any day.
August 31, 2012 at 7:10 pm
These signs are springing up all over my county here in Ohio.
http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o604/larryleekelly/60fdffba2d09d829d9c0b17c840505e3.jpg
Obama may be the first Democrat to lose Monroe County in a Presidential race… ever.
September 1, 2012 at 9:15 am
Obama uses DOJ to harass perceived enemies:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/09/01/sheriff-arpaio-cleared-of-wrongdoing.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet
September 1, 2012 at 9:19 am
The REAL war on women:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/former-dem-hill-staffer-and-obama-admin-official-accused-sexual-assault_651409.html
September 1, 2012 at 9:25 am
Bill Mahrer saw what I saw:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/09/bill-maher-eastwood-killed-it-134038.html?hp=r1
Though of course, I appreciated the Obama zings where he did not. Bill impossible to keep in line… by anyone or anything.
September 1, 2012 at 2:28 pm
The REAL war on women is in the RNC platform.
September 1, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Troll.
September 1, 2012 at 4:02 pm
He’s not a troll. He’s just given up thinking for himself.
September 1, 2012 at 4:08 pm
No, he’s a troll. Larry was boring me to tears so I took a shot. Bazinga!
September 1, 2012 at 4:10 pm
He’s trying to wake us from our holiday hammocks. Nice try, Troll Boy.
September 1, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Don’t trolls collect tolls at bridges?
throw in your nickels and dimes
September 1, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Hey Larry, knock the “http” off your video links before you post. The Spudster doesn’t want videos on his site.
September 1, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Much obliged, Joe.
September 1, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Every once in a while, Joe is actually useful! Who knew?
September 2, 2012 at 4:44 am
Melissa Harris-Perry: wow.
Who exactly does she think pays for precious safety net?
September 2, 2012 at 6:11 am
Liberals think because Govenment prints the money, it makes it.
September 2, 2012 at 6:13 am
Like when you get your income tax refund, that’s a generous Government paying your yearly bonus.
September 2, 2012 at 6:40 am
So while the very wealthy MHP complains that her house was damaged… she also complains that wealthy folks have no risks.
I wonder if she realizes she’s talking about herself. Doubtful.
September 2, 2012 at 7:07 am
Could it be the damn hyphen that screws them up? Wasserman-Schultz = dolts. It is afterall a minus sign.
September 2, 2012 at 8:45 am
This is a test, only a test, but you may click on it anyway to again see the most damning video of MSNBC since Joe Scarbough sold his soul for a show on the once cable news network:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuZjVX_3PKA
September 2, 2012 at 9:36 am
“Every once in a while, Joe is actually useful! Who knew?”
and without Joe, us idiots-morons just might forget our place in life.
September 2, 2012 at 9:58 am
Here’s why we can’t seem to build anything anymore. Or why it seems to take forever at exorbitant costs when we do (it’s an opinion piece but I think it’s mostly spot on):
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-26/u-s-taxpayers-are-gouged-on-mass-transit-costs.html
Admittedly, a lot of this has to do with state and local laws and roadblocks and fiefdoms. But this is why, in part, I voted for Obama. I thought he would change this nonsense.
But he didn’t. Actually, he didn’t even try. It’s a gravy train for some core Democratic groups and he didn’t want to challenge them.
September 2, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Even the Irish love Italian:
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/la-festa-italiana-opens-to-large-crowds-1.1367250
September 2, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Translation: When your hot shot Mr. Fix-It Business Man proves he can’t even coordinate the lead-in to the speech of his life..keep smiling.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/02/obama-clint-eastwood-huge-fan_n_1850429.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment
September 2, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Should have read “..Business Man opponent proves..”
September 2, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Or “Be nice to the old man”. Even Bill Maher managed that.
September 2, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Exactly. Old people have feelings too.
September 2, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Not that snide liberal snark sharks would care.
September 2, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Still grouchy, eh Larry?
September 2, 2012 at 5:01 pm
His cook has the weekend off.
September 2, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Nah, I just felt like saying “snark shark”.
September 2, 2012 at 5:26 pm
I’m a very good cook. Engineers often are. If found ceramic engineers the best. Running porcelain through a kiln similar art to running pie through an oven.
September 2, 2012 at 5:39 pm
NYT review of new Navy Seal Team Six book: “The worst it has to say about President Obama is that none of the fighters who caught bin Laden wanted to help re-elect him, and that he never followed through on a promise to invite them to the White House for a beer.”
Say what you want about Bush, the troups loved him.
September 2, 2012 at 7:07 pm
The troops always tend to favor the Republican prez. This isn’t new, or news.
September 2, 2012 at 7:18 pm
And why would that be?
September 2, 2012 at 7:32 pm
^ Because Republican Commanders-in-Chief suck less than Democratic ones.
September 2, 2012 at 7:38 pm
THAT’s what they should have shouted at the RNC hecklers: We Suck Less! We Suck Less!
September 2, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Snark Shark
I’m gonna have t-shirts made.
September 2, 2012 at 8:31 pm
@InsideCableNews
NYT BREAKING NEWS: @brianstelter’s birthday is tomorrow. Allessandra Stanley reviews Stelter’s birthday on Page 1A…gets date wrong…
In other Spud news, the router has landed.
September 2, 2012 at 8:34 pm
He has a replacement router for the “weak” one? Still think he should have hired th Geek Squad.
September 3, 2012 at 5:58 am
The troops always tend to favor the Republican prez.
Because those who volunteer to serve in the military tend to be patriotic, and therefore support patriots, not mushy wimps who’d rather outsource our defense to the UN.
September 3, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Your assumption that you have to be conservative to be a patriot is bullsh!t.
September 3, 2012 at 1:48 pm
speaking of that fine word:
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/phil-griffin-msnbc-had-the-smartest-most-thought-provoking-and-energetic-coverage-anywhere-on-cable_b143990
About as smart as North Korean short wave radio.
September 3, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Two speperate shootings over the weekend within a couple blocks of Obama’s Chicago home. Have to introduce a white guy to have anyone care. Or just a white looking guy? Or just Skittles? Or not have tough gun laws?
September 3, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Who lies about how long they took to finish a marathon? There is a very big difference between 3 and 4 hours. That’s bizarre.
September 3, 2012 at 2:24 pm
So I’ve been reading that Betty White will be the mystery guest speaker at this week’s DNC. Good idea?
September 3, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Having Betty White – or any celeb – as a mystery speaker at the Democratics’ convention will look like they’re copying the GOP.
September 3, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Who lies about taking twitter pics of his salami? There is a very big difference between your cat and your salami. That’s for what the word “bizarre” is reserved.
September 3, 2012 at 2:41 pm
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/09/chris-matthews-crashes-msnbc-daytime-again-134219.html
Chris Matthews is getting so unstable he may be not be able to go a single day without some incident.
September 3, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Nice deflection, Larry. Paul Ryan has a problem telling the truth. He told Wolf “I don’t run marathons anymore because of my back.” He ran one marathon. I’ve ridden one hundred-mile Century bike ride. I don’t tell people “I’ve ridden Centuries”. And I don’t knock an hour off my time to make myself sound cooler.
September 3, 2012 at 4:14 pm
He ran one marathon 20 years ago and didn’t remember the time right. His brother who is a frequent runner made fun of him. If that’s the only point you have to offer, Joe, you might check for another on top of your head.
September 3, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Thinking back to my fishing trip twenty years ago, I bet I caught a hundred fish. And the girl I picked up at the bar… could have been a movie star as I recall.
September 3, 2012 at 4:18 pm
RIP Michael Clarke Duncan.
September 3, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Now that I think about it, the girl might have been Betty White. Yeah, coming back to me.
September 3, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Yeah, I forgot how many centuries I rode, too. Let’s see, what else did Paul Ryan lie about? Oh yeah, he said “I believe the RNC platform is silent on exceptions for rape, incest, and the health of the mother.” He knows damn well what’s in that platform, and blatantly lied about it anyway.
I didn’t think Mitt Romney could be matched for Alternate Reality Syndrome, but Wonder Boy is giving him a run for his money.
September 3, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Yeah, and we’re all better off than we were 4 years ago. About to hit the 16 trillion $ in debt. GDP only a hair above another recession. Any source of stimulus $ have been spent. New jobs not keeping up with population growth. 23 million people out of work. Gas prices highest in history on a Labor Day. We are about to fall off another cliff and Obama has sold the cow for a handfull of magic beans. Now Obama and his toadies spinning how much better off we are since he took office. Worst Recovery in History. Obama’s exagerations.
September 3, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Yeah, I look forward to when Romney finishes eliminating taxes for his buddies, and wages for the rest of us. Yay conservatism!
September 3, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Buddies like businesses taking in $250K a year get to keep their current income tax rates, and buddies like me who have some income in dividends and capital gains from stock sales. And the 50% that pay no income tax, well, you just can get any better than that.
September 3, 2012 at 6:48 pm
^ Conservative playbook: The poor need to contribute more. Right.
September 3, 2012 at 6:51 pm
50% of the workforce is hardly “the poor”.
September 3, 2012 at 6:53 pm
50% of the workforce would like to have a little chat with you about what being at that income level is like.
September 3, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Romney proposes keeping income tax rates THE SAME as they are now. Only other indicated changes would involve eliminating loopholes to increase revenue. Obama is a boat anchor on the economy. Cut him lose and it will thrive.
September 3, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Geez, Romney with the boat again. And he called the press pool to make sure they filmed it. At what point do we start asking if this is performance art, in which a filthy rich man who does not care about you tries to prove he can flip off the country and still become president?
September 3, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Median household income in 2011 was $52,000.
September 3, 2012 at 7:03 pm
What kind of fool would claim half the country was “the poor”.
September 3, 2012 at 7:08 pm
What kind of fool thinks $52,000 a year to raise an average family is easy?
September 3, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Didn’t say it was easy, but “poor” they are not.
September 3, 2012 at 8:49 pm
No, but you’ll go on whining about regular folks who get a tax break, while complaining that rich people deserve a bigger one. ‘Cause that makes perfect sense.
September 4, 2012 at 4:45 am
And there goes Joey with his straw man. Perhaps that’s the only one who doesn’t talk down to him.
September 4, 2012 at 5:03 am
Obama and his minions running campaign of envy and division. That wasn’t the core of the American Revolution. That was the core of the French Revolution.
September 4, 2012 at 5:35 am
To answer Erich’s question from earlier (as well as Rachel Maddows), this is why we can’t build nice things anymore.